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Written by the author, Yasmina Platt.
Reprint from July 7, 2014, from AOPA's Views From the Region (VFR) blog: https://blog.aopa.org/vfr/?p=1537
It is probably no surprise to many of you that my husband and I attended a fly-in while on vacation recently. In previous blogs, I have mentioned how we always try to link our vacation with a little bit of aviation and flying to learn how general aviation (GA) works and is treated in other parts of the country and world. And, yes, we also enjoy seeing places and landscapes from a 3D perspective. Who doesn't, right?
This time… we headed to my home country of Spain for 10 days to visit family, eat some good food, enjoy a little R&R, and experience traditional festivities during Soria's fire walking festival (paso del fuego) in San Pedro de Manrique and annual festivities, calledFiestas de San Juan.
The map below shows you where Soria is located within Spain. It is about a 2 1/2 hr drive from Madrid (in the center of the country) to Soria.
Map of Spain with Soria's aerodrome
On Saturday, June 21st, Soria's aerodrome/airport in Garray (only 7 or so km north of Soria) held a fly-in to introduce the newly re-opened and improved airport to the locals (called sorianos) and pilots. While the airport was opened in the early 20th century, the airport has not always been successful. The airport is owned by the province and managed by a private entity. A new management company, Airpull Aviation, took over the management and control of the airport on December 18th, 2013 for the next 10 years. Their goal is to make the airport attractive to pilots and the local community while ensuring its economic viability. My family had been updating me on the improvements made to the airport since the beginning of the year (resurfacing of the main and existing runway, a new runway, a bigger ramp, a restaurant, a fuel farm, a new roadway leading to the airport, etc.) so the fly-in was the perfect opportunity for me to see it for myself.
To be honest…. I was excited about it, but I truly expected a small event with a low turnout. To my pleasant surprise… the fly-in actually reminded me of a lot of fly-ins I attend here on behalf on AOPA and it was one of my highlights of the trip.
One side of the ramp, with a good mixture of aircraft
The airport has a restaurant/coffee shop (restaurante/cafeteria) inside the terminal with a couple of patios outside, where several locals where eating and talking while enjoying the sights of aircraft flying.
Airport terminal in Garray
Locals and pilots talking and watching airplanes
The airport also has a flight school that provides training, rental aircraft, skydiving, etc. The prices seem pretty competitive with other parts of Spain and Europe but, not suprisingly, not with those here in the States. To give you an idea… a 1979 Cessna C172 Skyhawk or a 1985 Piper Warrior II goes for 205 euros an hour wet with taxes (with or without a CFI – the charge is the same!). At the current exchange rate of about 1 € = $1.36, that would be $279/hr. Flying club members can get them discounted at 160 €/hr ($218/hr). Yes, then you have to pay user fees/landing fees separately.
I introduced myself to the guy who looked to be in charge of the event since he was carrying a portable handheld radio and was giving takeoff/landing/low flying permissions/clearances to the pilots flying. He immediately asked if I had any interest in flying. What do you think I said? "Of course! No need to ask! Thank you!" A few minutes later… my High School friend Lorena (who came to visit us from Zaragoza – 2 hrs drive time east of Soria) and I were in a Piper Warrior with CFI Eduardo at the controls heading out to the runway. I took the back seat and let my friend Lorena sit up front. It was her first flight in a small GA aircraft and I wanted her to experience it first hand. We had a fabulous flight and Lorena left the aircraft (and airport) wanting more and thinking about obtaining a private pilot license (or PPL as they call it in Europe). Mission accomplished!
Lorena, a happy flyer during her first GA flight
Departing the airport
Garray airport in the distance
Low level pass with a C172
Passing the C172 as we do the low pass over the airport
Aerial of the airport
Town of Garray
CFI Eduardo with Lorena and I in front of the Piper Warrior
It's funny how all the people who took "first time rides" left with a big grin on their face and nothing but complementary comments. "Amazing!, Wow!, Fantastic!, How fun!" are some of the things I overheard them say. Ahhhh the joys of flying general aviation aircraft…..
While there, I also spoke with Santi Marti, the airport's general manager, to thank him for the event, his work with the airport, and get a summary of the day's and year's (to date) success. Approximately 500 people and 45 aircraft (airplanes, gyrocopters, ultralights, LSAs, etc) attended from around the country (Valencia, Bilbao, Barcelona, Madrid, Valladolid, Navarra, Soria, Toledo…) as well as four from France and one from Germany. Among the aircraft was an Antonov AN II from 1947.
Antonov AN II
Mr. Martin also gave me some great news. Their goal was to have at least 500 aircraft operations in 2014 but they have already exceeded that in only the first few months of service and that's with Spain's current recession. Soria's airport does have a good future ahead… The province and the local media have provided a lot of support to the airport and I hope it continues that way.
The airport is located in a great area (centrally located, with beautiful scenery as you saw from my pictures above, and away from busy airspace), making it ideal for GA operations, to include gliding. Glider pilots say it may be the best area in Spain given its thermals, geology, and meteorological conditions.
Based helicopters, mostly used for firefighting
But, if that wasn't enough, the icing on the cake was to meet Victor Gaspar, an AOPA member who flew in from Bilbao, in northern Spain, in the RANS Coyote II he built seven years ago. He is also currently building a second aircraft, this time an RV-10, and he briefly explained to me some of the issues he is running into with the Agencia Española de Seguridad Aérea (AESA), the "Spanish FAA" and a sub-agency of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), as he chooses an engine for his new aircraft. They don't allow it to have the engine that the kit aircraft is designed for because it has too many horsepower according to current Spanish regulation.
A past Air Venture attendee, he expressed his gratitude towards AOPA and EAA. Without AOPA, general aviation wouldn't be what it is, he said.
With my husband Jared and Victor Gaspar, proudly wearing his AOPA hat
Did I get you excited about flying to Europe or within Europe? If so, here is a website the airport recommends to obtain weather, notams, flight planning info, etc:http://flyingineurope.be/
The airport in Tudela, Navarra is now on my list to visit during my next trip to Spain. =)

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BAKER � Being approached by a lumbering 650-pound porker can be unsettling, until the hog proves he's just eager to make a new friend who'll rub his jowls and ears.
BAKER � Being approached by a lumbering 650-pound porker can be unsettling, until the hog proves he's just eager to make a new friend who'll rub his jowls and ears.
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This particular pig is Peter, the breed hog on Grundel Hilltop Farm, and he has plenty of reasons to wear a big grin, including the hearty rubbing he gets from farmer Dr. Don Grundel.
Peter and his mates, Pansy and Peaches, are Gloucestershire Old Spot pigs, and thanks to a handful of pig farmers such as Grundel, their breed was rescued from the brink of extinction.
Today there are about 200 registered breeding Gloucestershire sows in the United States, and only one breeder in Florida, Grundel said. Between 300 and 500 of the pigs remain in their native England.
Almost 1,000 of the pigs in the U.S., including Peter and his family, aren't registered, Grundel said.
"They've got a great temperament," Grundel said as he rubbed Peter's snout, evoking a chorus of grunts and snorts. "Any other breed hog of this size, you'd never be able to get close to."
Gloucestershire Old Spots are pasture pigs; they prefer to forage in fields that he has planted with peas, okra, squash and, soon, rape (also known as colza), rather than being confined to a sty waiting for food.
Grundel feeds Peter and his family, including several 4-month-olds, pig chow to supplement the vegetation.
A local tradition
Though the breed is new to north Okaloosa County, raising pigs is a tradition that dates back to the region's earliest settlers.
Older residents recall the excitement of hog butchering day, when the whole family would pitch in to help produce sausages, hang meat in the smokehouse, render lard and make cracklin's.
"At the turn of the century, the pig was the No. 1 meat source around here," Grundel said. "For black residents, 90 percent of the meat they ate was pork."
George Washington Carver's first published article at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute Experiment Station instructed pig owners to harvest autumn acorns as pig feed, Grundel said.
"The pigs are acorn vacuums," Grundel said. "They love 'em. Forage pigs raised on acorns make great lard."
Very little of a slaughtered Hilltop Farm pig goes to waste. Meat is sold to a waiting list of customers, and fat is rendered into lard for cooking and soap making.
Soap making
Grundel makes scented soaps in a large cast-iron Dutch oven in the family's kitchen. As lard combines with lye and water, it produces soap and glycerol, which Grundel leaves in the soap.
"It has a moisturizing effect," he said.
Saturday morning, Grundel produced several dozen bars of lavender soap in less than an hour. As the mixture in the pot reached the right thickness, it was immediately ladled into molds.
"Sometimes it thickens so fast that he's yelling, "Bonnie, come help!'" his wife said.
After setting up overnight, the filled molds were moved to a cabinet to cure for two weeks. The couple sells the soap at festivals and fairs, including the annual Baker Heritage Festival in November.
Hilltop Farm is a hobby rather than a vocation for Don, an Eglin Air Force Base engineer, and Bonnie, a local physician assistant. They also raise a few Big Black and Berkshire pigs, horses and chickens.
"Pig farming doesn't pay the bills," he said, adding his daytime job "pays for the pigs."
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The Terrorism Industrial Complex a.k.a. "Top Secret America" may sound like tin foil hat conspiracy to some, but many of you will remember it as the name of an extensive investigation by the Washington Post, whose editors' intro says: "[This] is a project nearly two years in the making that describes the huge national security buildup in the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks… When it comes to national security, all too often no expense is spared and few questions are asked – with the result an enterprise so massive that nobody in government has a full understanding of it. It is, as Dana Priest and William M. Arkin have found, ubiquitous, often inefficient and mostly invisible to the people it is meant to protect and who fund it."
Short of storming the Beltway, the American people may never learn just how much of their money has been pillaged, plundered and simply wasted in the name of "national security" since 9/11, but our research suggests it could easily be an amount that exceeds not only the billions in bailout bucks given to the Banksters since 2008 but the trillions paid to the War Profiteers since 2001. In fact, just as the money being squandered on militarily useless F-22 and F-35 fighter jets will probably exceed our $1.3 trillion federal deficit (see our previous reports), the often untraceable trillions poured into the post-9/11 "too big to fail", "war on terrorism", "homeland security" and "black ops" troughs by our corporate-owned politicians and well-lobbied bureaucrats might easily approximate our $15 trillion national debt.
One of the hundreds of "security contractors" feeding at those troughs is SAIC – formerly Science Applications International Corporation. Headquartered in McLean VA, SAIC is "a Fortune 500 scientific, engineering, and technology applications company working in national security, energy and the environment, critical infrastructure, and health". The company's 46,000+ employees serve the Department of Defense (DoD), the intelligence community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other federal government agencies. SAIC had revenue of $11.1 billion for its fiscal year 2010.
Since 1995 SAIC has contributed over $3.8 million to political campaigns, split evenly between Democrats and Republicans, with Barack Obama and John McCain being the top recipients. That amount is eclipsed by the more than $24 million they've invested in lobbying since 1997. And over that same period, SAIC's penalties for federal contractor misconduct have far exceeded their pay-to-play payola: SAIC paid a $24.9 million settlement for rigging bids on General Services Administration (GSA) contracts, $5 million to the Air Force for false claims and defective pricing, and all told over $32 million for a dozen different instances of government fraud, ethics and other violations. Of course, all their penalties and payola combined is chump change compared to the more than $63 billion in defense, security and other federal contracts SAIC has bagged over the past ten years.
Apparently its all forgive and forget at the GSA, because just last week they awarded SAIC a $5 billion telecom systems contract – forgiving their history of bid-rigging, and forgetting that the City of New York recently demanded a $600 million refund on the botched and corruption-riddled "CityTime" system that SAIC installed for them.
SAIC will also be getting at least a $90 million bite out of the $4 billion or so that's been budgeted to relocate the Department of Homeland Security to what was once St. Elizabeths Hospital, an insane asylum. Conceived in the Mad Hatter days of Bush-Cheney, the megabucks DHS relocation boondoggle is yet another fiscal insanity that has continued unaffected by any imagined wave of "Change" in 2008. SAIC's piece is to implement a "secure and scalable" IT infrastructure.
Why SAIC would be trusted to provide DHS with a "secure" anything for their new 4.5 million square foot Ministry of Truth facility is a mystery to me. After all, it was only a few weeks ago that they acknowledged the theft of tapes containing the confidential personal information of 4.9 million Tricare military beneficiaries that were allegedly sitting in the car of one of their employees.
Anyway… False flag op or not, there can be no debate that since 11 September 2001 trillions of taxpayer dollars have been spent to beat the boogeymen, real or contrived. Has it been worth it? Do you think Americans are "safer" today than we were ten years ago? If so, has any security gained been worth the cost, and the personal privacy and freedoms lost?
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Maybe it is a product of our day where people live longer, but Aliza is fortunate to have 3 of her great grandparents living at this time. For family history purposes, I thought I might post these pictures of Aliza with her great grandparents. Further, I thought I would post a picture or two that Amanda and I have with our great grandparents.
Here is a picture of Aliza with Amanda's paternal grandfather, DeLece ("D") Hemsley. This picture was taken at a party in Kaysville, Utah for Amanda's brother, Derek, upon coming home from his two-year mission in July. We took the opportunity for a couple of photos with family.
This is Amanda's paternal grandmother, Shanna Thompson. This photo was also at Derek's party.
Lastly, here is my paternal grandfather, Milo Ross. We took these pictures, the day after at Derek's homecoming party, at Grandpa's house in Plain City, Utah. I will post three pictures because I think they are good photos. This first one shows a great smile on Grandpa, Aliza, and Amanda. I also like the profile of Grandpa.
I like this one because Aliza looks as cute as she always does. For being 90, Grandpa can sure pick her up and throw her in the air with ease.
Here is one we took of the four generations with my sister, Andra, and her son, Daniel. Grandpa has two of his great grandchildren in this picture (and Dad has two of his grandchildren).
Fortunately, Aliza has now had her photo taken with all of her living Great Grandparents. Amanda was also fortunate to have such a photograph with all of her living Grandparents and Great Grandparents. Even more, ALL great grandparents and grandparents are in the same photo! Here is that photo from the day of her baby blessing in Kaysville. LeRoy, D, Shanna, and Clara are all Amanda's Grandparents. Belle is D's mother. Walter and June are Shanna's father and step-mother.
I had three Great Grandparents who were alive when I was born. Unfortunately, I do not seem to have a photo in my possession with my Andra Great Grandparents despite the fact that I was 10 and 11 years old when they passed. Oddly, I have pictures of my Great Grandpa and Grandma Andra that I was present when the photo was taken, like the one below. This is my mother's maternal grandparents about 1989.
This is my mother's paternal grandmother and some of the rest of the family at her sister's funeral, Edna Coley Neilson. My Great Grandma Lillian Bowcutt (remarried in 1953 after her husband Joseph Jonas died in 1932) is in the center of this photo and is the mother to the two ladies beside her and the four men in front. I am more of a footnote in the photo, but at least I have one with Great Grandma Bowcutt in the same picture.


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Brand New Music Video: Eli Young Band 'Dust'
Mike and the guys' last video Drunk Last Night is up for CMT Group Music Video of the Year (apparently they do group, female and male categories now). In support of that nomination the guys would love for you to drunk dial them, click here for their phone number.
But today the Eli Young Band released the video for their current single, Dust. The song can be found on their new album 10,000 Towns, which, oh by the way, debuted at No. 1 it's first week out. Dust is currently Top 10 in Texas and sitting at No. 26, nationally.


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Webstock 2012: design and craft
By Courtney in Other on February 22, 2012
My single favourite quote of Webstock 2012 came courtesy of Scott Hanselman:
So many people who had great blogs now have mediocre tweets.
Given the immense volume of tweets and the beauty of shared notetaking, I now try to stay offline as much as possible at Webstock, so I can focus on the speaker and my pencilled notes. But over the last few days I've tried to boil down some of the themes I heard emerging to share here, in two posts. Today: design and craft. Tomorrow: find your happy place, strategic creativity, and One Big Idea.
Working with design/ers
One of the greatest revelations to me since coming to work at Boost has been working with designers. As someone who works primarily through words, I don't think I'll ever get sick of watching designers do their thing.
It's also been humbling to find out how accidentally moronic I sometimes was as a client. Here's a reenactment of a series of comments I once gave to a poor designer:
I really like what you've done – but could we maybe see it in blue instead of brown?
Oh, okay. Hmmmm. How about green?
Oh. Sure. Right. Look, I'm really sorry to keep doing this – but perhaps we could see it in pink?
It's still not quite right – could you show me the brown version again?
Hey – the brown version's great! Let's go with that.
Yeah. I was that person. Now, of course, I realise that (a) designers will always be better at design than I am and (b) almost every variation of colour, placement and size has already been trialled before the best version is shown to the client – and if it wasn't trialled, it's probably because it was a bad idea.
So I was delighted by all the speakers who touched on how we can work better with design and the good folks who craft it.
Adam Lisagor hit so many buttons for me on this topic. Here are some of the things I scribbled down (more here in the shared notes):
- 'Thank you for knowing what you wanted' – the compliment for a dream client.
- There's a difference between opinions (just saying stuff because you've been invited to a meeting and hey – you get to share your opinion!) and people who are identify problems and want to find answers.
- If you're the spokesperson for a committee, speak with one voice: either distill the many voices to one piece of feedback, or at least take the names out.
- As a designer, you have been chosen for your demonstrated taste. Sometimes, your client is paying you to correct them.
- The phrase 'treat me nicely, with trust and respect' works for both sides.
Michael B Johnson from Pixar also had some doozies. Here he is on Giving Good Note (aka feedback):
- Point out the problem
- Offer a solution (to show you've thought this problem through) (not because you expect this solution to be used)
- Give this at the time when it can still be used.
Johnson also invoked the rule of 'Yes, And' rather than 'No, but', and noted that great teams have great morale, which is needed in the face of constant criticism. I love that at Pixar, criticism takes the form of 'plussing' – it's part of the company's culture, and it's essential to the way they create things.
Finally, Jared Spool made a million interesting points, outlining five different breeds of design (Unintentional design, Self design, Genius design, Activity focused design, Experience focused design). The points that really stood out to me came out towards the end:
- Every style has a purpose
- Great designers know which style they're using
- Great designers use the same style throughout a project
- Great teams ensure everyone uses the same style (and everyone understands that they're doing this)
- The more advanced the style, the more expensive this will be
- The more advanced the style, the better the design.
Crafting experiences
Webstock 2012 opened with a clarion call for making experiences from returning speaker Kathy Sierra. She gave the idea of "building engagement with users through social media" a robust bollocking, arguing that no matter how awesome your brand or product is, it's the awesomeness your users feel about themselves that counts. I was interested in her ideas about aligning business goals with user goals, but found myself wanting more actual examples of where she sees this awesomeness happening.
I wasn't in content strategist Erin Kissane's presentation, but it sounds like adopting an attitude of craftsmanship (and allowing time for it) were big themes of her presentation. It seems Erin was asking how to bring the values of craft (mastery, human scale, excellence, satisfaction) to large scale system. I'm looking forward to watching her talk when it's up on the Webstock site.
One of my favourite ever Webstock talks was Cal Henderson at Webstock 2008. I've always enjoyed the presenters who take you on a deep dive into the work they've done, while teaching you more general lessons along the way. This spot for me was filled this year by responsive design guru Ethan Marcotte, talking about the Boston Globe redesign (if you're too impatient for the video to go up, check out his blog post on this).
Ethan ran us through the opportunities and challenges of reshaping the bulging content of a newspaper into the slim lines of various desktop and mobile devices, and the ways that designers and developers might be able to change their usual working patterns to meet these (it sounded a lot like what I see in our teams that are using Scrum).
Craft took centre stage in Jennifer Brook's presentation about publishing and the iPad, where I was more captivated of her stories of teaching herself to bind her own books than I was by her story of working on the New York Times iPad app. I've squirreled away her recommendation of Designing Calm Technology for later reading.
Those were my first two themes. Tomorrow I'll cover off finding your happy place, strategic creativity and One Big Idea.


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My Hat is Off to the Piranhas
I have a great deal of compassion for the Detroit Tigers and their fans this morning after last night's thrilling tie-breaker loss in Minnesota. As a White Sox fan, I've seen this movie before.The Twins play the right way (especially in the Dome), make very few mistakes, hit in the clutch and just nibble at you until they've done enough to win. Ozzie Guillen said it best, they're a bunch of piranhas.
As a division rival I hate them. As a baseball fan I admire them. Many are predicting a Yankee sweep in the ALDS and it very well could happen. But the Twins, a tired bunch without playoff-caliber pitching and an injured Justin Morneau, will compete and certainly won't embarrass themselves.
My prediction: Yankees in 4. The Twins will find a way to win a game, but the Yanks' lineup is as strong and balanced as any in baseball and the pitching staff should be able to handle the Minny hitters, who are at a major disadvantage without Morneau.
My other predictions:
Angels over Red Sox in 5
Cardinals over Dodgers in 5
Rockies over Phillies in 5
Sox News: Freddy Garcia and Matt Thornton had their respective options picked up and will both be back with the Sox in 2010.


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12 Years A Slave impresses critics
The movie received an overwhelming reception at the Toronto Film Festival.
TORONTO - Judging by some early reviews, Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave will sweep the Oscars, Golden Globes and perhaps even win an honorary Olympic medal, but the film is one of just many that has impressed critics at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
And while films that generate Oscar buzz in September often fade by the time the awards are given out in February, Toronto-screened movies like 12 Years, Gravity, Dallas Buyers Club and August: Osage County look like solid bets for awards consideration.
Toronto, along with recently wrapped festivals in Venice and Telluride, Colorado, traditionally launches movie awards season and industry pros gather here to build buzz for their films.
Some of the big titles usually disappoint, such as the unwieldy Cloud Atlas last year.
But judging by the critical reception at the midpoint of this year's festival, the competition for both awards and box office success over the next few months could be tight.
"I would say it's been very good overall," said Pete Hammond, columnist for website Deadline Hollywood.
Critics have been nearly falling over each other to praise 12 Years a Slave, based on an 1853 memoir of a free black man sold into slavery.
Adam B. Vary of Buzzfeed called it "the most emotionally powerful film I have seen in a decade" and predicted multiple Academy Award wins, while Kyle Buchanan, reviewer at New York Magazine's vulture.com platform, suggested the academy "notify the engraver."
The Guardian's Paul MacInnes was more circumspect, resisting award predictions, but giving the film five stars out of five and calling it "not just a great film but a necessary one."
Hammond said the movie was one of many that stood out not just for the finished product, but for its performances, including lead actor Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender in the role of a slave owner.
But he said the level of hype the film is receiving can end up hampering both its box office success and Oscar hopes.
If the film does lose momentum, however, there appear to be plenty of others to take its place.
Also seen as a good bet for one of 10 best picture Oscar nominations is Alfonso Cuaron's astronaut thriller Gravity which had its world premiere in Venice, but has continued to build momentum in Toronto.
The star-laden August: Osage County appears to be living up to the considerable hype that preceded its Toronto debut, with Meryl Streep bidding to extend her record 17 Oscar nominations for her role as an acid-tongued southern matriarch.
Less-hyped films that have surprised include Dallas Buyers Club, which stars Matthew McConaughey as an AIDS-afflicted homophobic Texas rodeo cowboy.
Prisoners, starring Hugh Jackman as the aggrieved father of a kidnapped daughter and Jake Gyllenhaal as the cop trying to solve her disappearance, has been welcomed as a breakout effort for French-Canadian director Denis Villeneuve.
Two of the few big films to receive lukewarm reviews are WikiLeaks drama The Fifth Estate, and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom, which the Guardian said "sags beneath the weight of responsibility" despite a "respectful" portrayal of the South African leader by Idris Elba.
Among documentaries, critics point to Jehane Noujaim's The Square, which follows activists in Cairo's Tahrir Square in the wake of the 2011 overthrow of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
The film, shot over a 30-month period, already won an award at the Sundance Film Festival for an unfinished cut of the film, and seems a strong bet for consideration for more awards.


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Editor's note: This entry originally launched the Chef Smackdown series in the fall of 2011.
MONTREAL - Welcome to a new monthly column where we pit chef vs. chef to make a dish according to a theme. We pick the dish, and the chefs cook up their versions in their restaurant kitchens. I taste both and choose a winner. Competing chefs will supply recipes so you can recreate their dishes at home and test for yourself. If you try both recipes and prefer the one that didn't win, feel free to question the verdict! Let us know at firstname.lastname@example.com
The dish
Chili. Baby it's cold out there.
The competitors
Nick Hodge, chef-owner of restaurant Kitchenette, and the soon-to-open casual restaurant Icehouse
Chuck Hughes, chef-owner of restaurant Garde-Manger and host of Food TV's Chuck's Day Off
The buzz
Hodge is acclaimed for his upscale Southern fare, ranging from tacos to fried chicken po' boys and barbecued octopus on a black bean puree. Hughes is famous for his rock 'n' roll comfort foods like lobster rolls, crab-stuffed baked potatoes, Montreal-style ribs, and hanger steak/frites.
The advantage
Hodge, a Texas native, grew up eating more chili than any chef in this city. But Hodge's bean-free chili isn't what we Canadian chili aficionados are used to, so Hughes has the homeboy advantage.
Taste test
Though very different, these chilies had two thing in common: quality cuts of meat and gentle spicing. Both chefs used a combination of spices and dried peppers to create layers of flavour instead of one-dimensional blistering heat. They both encourage home cooks to experiment with the spicing, adding different spices to the mix and seeking out unusual chilies sold at stores like Salvador Latino, 143 Belanger St., Les Douceurs du Marche at the Atwater Market, and Olives & Epices at the Jean Talon Market.
Hodge: Hodge's classic Texan chili, served on a bed of homemade Frito-style corn chips, reminded me more of a meat stew than chili because it contains no beans. The spice was perfect, the meat was succulent, the taste was great, finishing with a gentle burn. I also liked Hodge's homemade Tabasco sauce and classic yellow mustard served alongside with sour cream. My one problem was with the texture, which was thick. Eating that thick chili atop the chips made for a filling portion. If it had been saucier, the chips would have softened up a bit. But thick is authentic with Texas chili. Says Hodge: "Normally the chili should be so thick that a spoon can stand up in it."
Hughes: Hughes's chili had a great soup-meets-stew texture that spread out onto the serving plate like a proper risotto. It was also topped with cubes of deep-fried aged cheddar cheese. Whoa. The first bites offered multi-layers of flavour and I gotta say, those cheese cubes put it right over the top taste-wise. Though his recipe contains bison and duck, I can't say I could really make out either of those pricey meats, but the flavour was superb. My one complaint: If you're going to put beans in your stew put in more of them. Says Hughes: "At first I suggested serving my chili with ricotta to try and be cool. But I ended up using sour cream."
The verdict
Based more on texture than taste, the chili challenge goes to Chuck Hughes. But this one was close.
The recipes
Chuck's Chilly Chili
Serves 6-8
Hughes says this recipe isn't written in stone and he added two chopped jalapeno peppers along with the other peppers at the last minute. To make things easier, Hughes said it's fine to use canned beans in place of the dried.
3 tablespoons (45 mL) olive oil
1 lb. (500 g) ground duck breast
1 lb. (500 g) ground bison meat (or beef chuck)
4 Italian sausages, removed from casings
2 ounces (60 mL) of Kentucky Bourbon
1/2 cup (125 mL) of ketchup
2 medium white onions, finely diced
3 heads' worth of garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 tablespoon (7 mL) Ancho chili powder
1/2 tablespoon (7 mL) Pasilla chili powder
1 teaspoon (5 mL) hot smoked paprika
1 Chipotle pepper
1 dried Poblano chili
1 dried Pulla chili, seeded
1 tablespoon (15 mL) celery salt
1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground coriander
1 teaspoon (5 mL) ground mustard seed
1 teaspoon (5 mL) Kosher salt
1/2 cup (125 mL) apple cider vinegar
1 cup (250 mL) cilantro, chopped
1 cup (250 mL) parsley, chopped
1 cup (250 mL) dried red kidney beans, soaked overnight
1 cup (250 mL) dried pinto beans, soaked overnight
1 cup (250 mL) dried black turtle beans, soaked overnight 4 x 400g cans of whole tomatoes, preferably San Marzano
2 cups (500 mL) Italian ricotta or sour cream
1/2 cup (125 mL) celery leaves, roughly torn
Cheddar cubes, deep-fried (count about 6 per portion)
Coat the bottom of a large casserole or Dutch oven with the olive oil over medium heat. Add the ground duck, bison and sausage meat torn into walnut-sized pieces. Brown the meat for about five minutes then stir in the Bourbon. Let it evaporate, then add the ketchup. Stir and let the ketchup caramelize until it's thick and sticky. Add onions and garlic, chili powders, paprika, chipotle, dried chilies, celery salt, ground coriander, mustard seeds and salt. Stir well, then add the apple cider vinegar, cilantro and parsley. Cook for another few minutes. Drain the soaked beans, then add them to the mix along with the canned tomatoes. Sir again. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and let simmer -covered -for an hour. Season with salt and pepper to taste.
To serve, ladle into bowls and garnish with a dollop of ricotta (or sour cream) and torn celery leaves. For an added bit of indulgence, deep-fry the cheddar cubes and add right before serving.
Nick Hodge's Texas-style Chili
Serves 8-10
Hodge served this chili atop a bed of homemade Frito-style corn chips, but he also suggest serving it with white rice, corn bread, french fries, fried nachos, burritos, or even on a cheeseburger. Some of the chili powders listed will be tough to find, says Hodge, who receives obscure chili powders from his mother in Texas, so feel free to eliminate them.
2 ancho chilies, seeds and stems removed
2 pasilla chilies, seeds and stems removed 2 bottles lager beer
3 tablespoons (45 mL) dried epazote or oregano
4 tablespoons (60 mL) bacon fat
3 pounds chuck roast, cut into ¼" cubes
2 full cups (500 mL) finely diced Spanish onions
1/2 cup (125 mL) finely diced poblano peppers, seeds and ribs removed
2 finely diced jalapenos, seeds removed for less spice
1/4 cup (50 mL) carrots, diced fine
1/4 cup (50 mL) minced garlic
1/4 cup (50 mL) masa harina
1 tablespoon (15 mL) bird's eye chili powder (optional)
3 heaping tablespoons (45 mL) good quality chili powder
3 tablespoons (45 mL) green chili powder (optional)
3 tablespoons (45 mL) mild California chili powder (optional)
1 teaspoon (5 mL) cayenne
2 tablespoons (30 mL) ground cumin
22 turns on your pepper mill
2 cups (500 mL) crushed canned tomatoes
4 cups (1 L) veal or beef stock Salt to taste
In an iron skillet over high heat, toast ancho and pasilla chilies until charred, about 5 minutes total, then set aside. Warm 1 bottle of beer until very hot, and place the chilies and dried epazote or oregano in to steep. Once cooled to room temperature, pass mixture through a food processor, and set aside.
In a large heavy bottomed pot on medium high heat, melt 1 tablespoon of bacon fat, and add approximately one pound chuck, stirring until coated with the bacon fat. Continue cooking until meat is browned on all sides, removing the juices as they form. Reserve meat, and repeat this process with remaining beef and fat.
Return all meat to the pot and add onions, poblanos, jalapenos, carrots and garlic and stir. Cook at medium high heat until the vegetables works up a sweat and the onions are transparent.
Add masa harina, chili powders, cayenne, cumin and ground pepper, then stir to get uniform coating on meat mixture. Cook together for 5 minutes.
Deglaze pot with beer/chili mixture and the second beer, and bring to the boil. Then add tomatoes and veal stock, and lower heat to low setting. Continue cooking for about 11/2 to 2 hours until meat is falling apart tender. Adjust salt to taste.
If chili is too thick, add cold water ... if it's too thin, keep cooking!


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Tuesday Tailgate: Ranking some of the most questionable calls
In the wake of Saturday's mind-boggling finish in Tempe, we compiled a list of some of the most questionable officiating in the history of college football.
Depending on who you root for, you'll find the sheer negligence of the officiating crews to be utterly infuriating or absolutely hilarious.
8. Utah at USC, Sept. 10, 2011
This one didn't impact the outcome of the game, rather retroactively changed the final score. Trailing 17-14, Utah had a game-tying field goal attempt blocked as time expired. USC scooped it up and returned it for a touchdown, but the bench was called for unsportsmanlike conduct, coming onto the field as the touchdown was unfolding. A new rule meant that a touchdown could be nullified for such a penalty. The game ended 17-14. Hours later, the Pac-12 deemed that the touchdown did in fact count because a penalty assessed to the bench was a dead ball foul. It stands in the record books as a 23-14 USC win.
7. BYU at Washington, Sept. 6, 2008
Trailing by seven, Washington quarterback Jake Locker scrambled for a touchdown with two seconds remaining. After diving into the end zone, he tossed the ball up in the air and hugged his teammates. Officials immediately slapped him with a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for excessive celebration. The penalty was assessed on the extra point attempt, which BYU blocked, to prevent Washington from tying the game. Referee Larry Farina said after the game that the penalty was "a celebration rule that we are required to call. It was not a judgment call." It may have technically been the correct call, but Locker's toss was spontaneous and out of pure ecstasy, not ill will and easily could have been overlooked.
6. Toledo at Syracuse, Sept. 24, 2011
After a touchdown that gave the Orange a 29-27 lead, Syracuse's kicker put the extra point attempt wide. Except, officials ruled that it was good. Even after review, the PAT that was clearly wide left was upheld, stretching Syracuse's lead to 30-27 with just over two minutes to play. Toledo drove the field and managed to kick a game-tying field goal, which would have won the game if not for the blown call. Syracuse went on to win in overtime. The Big East later admitted the blown call.
5. Wisconsin at Arizona State, Sept. 14, 2013
In range for a game-winning field goal with 18 seconds left, Wisconsin quarterback Mike Stave took the snap and tried to kneel down in the center of the field. After initial uncertainty, Arizona State players didn't think Stave had took a knee and went after what they thought was a live ball. As the clock continued to run down, the officials displayed no urgency whatsoever in setting the ball so Wisconsin could get a play off. Time expired before the Badgers could. You can blame Wisconsin's players for not realizing the clock was still running, but it was ultimately on the referees for losing control of the game in the waning moments.
4. Alabama at Penn State, Oct. 8, 1983
The Crimson Tide trailed 34-7 entering the fourth quarter but rallied to cut the lead to 34-28. Alabama drove to Penn State's 4-yard line with the chance to win the game with a touchdown and an extra point. On fourth and goal, quarterback Walter Lewis evaded pressure and found tight end Preston Gothard open in the back of the end zone. Gothard clearly came down with the ball in the end zone but the back judge, just feet away, ruled him out of bounds, depriving Alabama of one of the all-time great comebacks.
3. Michigan vs. USC, 1979 Rose Bowl
Leading 7-3 in the second quarter with the ball on Michigan's 3-yard line, USC running back Charles White dove for the goal line and fumbled before he made it into the end zone. The official on top of the play immediately called it a fumble recovered by Michigan, but the line judge came running in raising his arms for a touchdown. The play has been deemed the "phantom touchdown" as White never made it into the end zone with the ball. USC would win 17-10, and White won the Heisman Trophy the following season.
2. Oklahoma at Oregon, Sept. 16, 2006
After the Ducks scored a touchdown to cut Oklahoma's lead to 33-27 with 1:12 to play, they lined up for an onside kick. What ensued was pandemonium. An Oregon player touched the ball before it traveled the required 10 yards and Oklahoma recovered the football. Somehow, officials didn't pick up on either of those things, awarding the ball to Oregon. It even went to instant replay to determine whether an Oregon player touched the ball before it went 10 yards, and the replay official deemed that there wasn't conclusive evidence. Oregon would go on to score a touchdown and win the game. The Pac-10 later acknowledged what everybody already knew: the kick was touched by an Oregon player and that Oklahoma actually recovered it. The conference suspended the officials for one game.
1. Colorado at Missouri, Oct. 6, 1990
With less than 30 seconds to play, trailing 31-27, Colorado had the ball inside Missouri's 5-yard line. On first down, the Buffaloes spiked the ball. On second down, a run was stopped short of the goal line and Colorado took its final timeout. During the stoppage, officials failed to switch the down marker from second to third. On the next play, what should have been third down, Colorado was again stopped on a run. Immediately afterward, Colorado spiked the ball with two seconds left, thinking it was third down when in reality it was fourth. On the following play, the "fifth down," Colorado quarterback Charles Johnson scored a touchdown to win the game. Referee J.C. Louderback and his Big Eight crew were suspended in the aftermath. Colorado would go on to claim a share of the national championship.
Think we're missing any bad ones? Let us know on Twitter@JesseYomtov and @DanUthman
UPDATE: The fans have spoken via Twitter. They suggest this:
... And this:
... And this:
— Paul Myerberg examined how a new coach can result in a major first-year bump in recruiting.
— Yesterday, Deadspin posted audio from 2011 of Nebraska coach Bo Pelini spewing profanities about the team's beat writers and fans. Pelini issued an apology but may be in hot water as Nebraska's chancellor and athletics director are discussing the matter.
— Myerberg's weekly 1-125 re-rank had Texas A&M move up a spot, even with Saturday's loss to Alabama.
— Rachel Bachman of The Wall Street Journalexamines the "other" quarterback in Saturday's game, the one with two national championship rings.
— It's never too early to speculate about the BCS (that's one of the points of this site), and ESPN's Mel Kiper and Todd McShay identified some quiet contenders for it on Monday (Insider).
— Finally, Paul Myerberg updated his AQ conference power rankings. A league out West made a move this week.