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Wealthy SoCal folks not vaccinating their children. Will they grow up to be healthier? One could find out.
And college professors wonder why our students won't spell correctly.
Not so much can't as won't. Even when we tell them repeatedly. Even when we take off points for it. They've all survived Lower Education in America, and they've gotten the message.
The first job candidate of the week . . .
The first job candidate of the week made it in last night – we'll see if he can fly out on schedule tomorrow evening. The problem with flying out of Rochester or Syracuse in the winter time isn't ROC or SYR – they know how to deal with winter up here. It's getting the equipment out of, say, Philadelphia, NYC, or Chicago during a big winter event. I'm so used to de-icing now that the extra 20 minutes on the ground after we pull away from the gate doesn't even surprise me.
My walk to school this morning – Winter Storm Linus
The first normal weekend of the year
This was the first normal weekend of the semester. Last weekend was "first weekend," so there wasn't anything to grade. This weekend I graded most of a pile of homework, which doesn't have to be returned until 1:55 tomorrow. The semester has well and truly begun.
Coffee time
My sister et al. gave me a new Cuisinart coffee machine for Christmas. Since the previous machine died early in the summer, I've been using a free-standing burr grinder and a french press. All in all (including parts washing) they take about the same amount of time from start to first cup – but the cuisinart does make more! Yay for that!
Oh look – it's going to get up to freezing on Wednesday!
Praise Steve for Find this iPhone
Praise Steve for Find this iPhone and Play a Tone. But how did my iPhone get in the paper recycling bin?
Once again in the thick of the job season – but this time is it a mistake?
The second of four candidates for a tenure track studio position is here today, and a lot of other departments are going through the same procedure (I walked past a restaurant the other night and saw two tables of colleagues with candidates).
I worry about this year's hires – and about the due date next week for position requests for NEXT year's searches.
See – we're in the middle of a curriculum revision. But the HIRING procedure is pretending that nothing will change. Maybe nothing will – this has not been an inspiring process and there doesn't seem to be much passion in the discussions. Still, it's a mistake to recruit a couple of entering classes purely into departmental major and minor curricula and not use at least a year's worth of hires to provide some ooomph for the next thing.
If I were provost I might have declared this a Two Year Position Only year and put a hold on next year's requests, promising a round of position requests over the summer to meet whatever new needs show up in the curriculum we vote on in March.
But I'm not provost!
OMG – just came across a video I've been missing.
I kept looking for this – and suddenly, here it is! 1984, Rickie Lee Jones, The Real End. It's not quite how I remember it, but it's still marvelous.
I was remembering it as a single long shot – I didn't remember how many cuts there are. Still a great example of a moving-down-the-street video. And what a voice! I saw Jones once live in Atlanta – was it at Chastain? Sounds likely!
further: I think she was partnered with Lyle Lovett the first time I saw him? The Large Band tour was without anyone else, I think.
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First day
This was a rare TUESDAY start – and my classes are MWF. So today I mainly fiddled with syllabus decisions and getting all of my first year students into a fourth class (don't let the perfect schedule be the enemy of the good!).
ARTH 101 tomorrow at 9:05!
UVa begins to deal with the legal (and financial) blowback
I told a lawyer friend the other day he ought to get ahead of the curve and put hangtag fliers on the doors of all the fraternities. There's going to be big money in this. I just hope the inevitable lawsuits don't shut these Colleges down – we're not really rich.
Theseus Ring on display
Interesting Minoan/Mycenaean ring on display. I need to read more about this (how did they authenticate it?), but the image is certainly neat – go look!

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Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy has proven to be a highly successful risk-taker this season.
But as the Packers botched fake field goal showed last Sunday against Jacksonville, every run of good luck will eventually end. It also begs the question: how much gambling is too much, and did McCarthy cross the line last week?
In an NFL world overloaded with conservative head coaches that are gripped by paranoia and fear for their jobs, McCarthy to his credit isnt afraid to step outside the box. His willingness to catch an opponent by surprise adds a breath of fresh air to a typically stodgy environment.
McCarthys gutsy tendencies in the first half of the season produced a fake field goal for a touchdown in Week 2 against Chicago, a fake punt for a first down in Week 4 against New Orleans that led to a touchdown, and a recovery of an onside kick at St. Louis in Week 7 that resulted in a field goal. Coincidentally or not, the Packers won each of those games.
But like the gambler with a hot hand in Las Vegas, is McCarthy willing to push his luck too far and set aside good judgment?
The Packers are averaging one gadget play every other game, which seems a tad excessive.
Usually teams with inferior talent find it necessary to resort to trickery to level the playing field, but that profile doesnt fit the Packers, who have one of the most loaded rosters in the NFL.
McCarthy presumably is compensating for the Packers long list of injuries this season, which has contributed to a sluggish offense at times. Last week, for example, the Packers top two receivers and No. 1 running back didnt play.
In past years when the Packers offense was humming along, there was no need to resort to sneak attacks. This year the offense is ranked No. 21 in the NFL and McCarthy has been searching for other ways to give his team a spark.
Packers special teams coach Shawn Slocum admitted as much earlier this week in explaining the teams high number of special teams trick plays.
We were rolling offensively (in past years) and really racking up some points, and we didnt feel the need to do that, Slocum said. I think weve strategically done those at times this year, injected some energy and some production for our team.
But in the quest to provide his team with some juice, McCarthy must be careful not to leave the Packers vulnerable.
The fake field goal last week could have easily blown up in his face. On fourth and 6 from the Jaguars 37 in the third quarter, holder/punter Tim Masthay threw an ill-advised pass that wasnt even close to intended receiver D.J. Williams. The Packers are lucky the wounded duck wasnt picked off by the Jaguars, who only trailed 14-12 at the time.
In defending the play call, the Packers say Masthay had Ryan Taylor open for a first down on the other side of the field and simply needed to make a better decision.
(Masthay) could have recognized they went to a two deep shell, and then right there we had really a short route that was at the first down marker with Ryan Taylor, said Slocum.
But that thinking is flawed because the plan took Masthay out of his area of specialty. Since when is a punter supposed to be an expert at reading defenses?
Tim is a very good punter, said Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers on his radio show this past week. He punts. That is what he gets paid to do. He doesnt get paid to read out a defense when theyre playing Tampa 2.
Rodgers was able to take a light-hearted approach to Masthays bungled pass because the Packers won the game. It was awful, Rodgers said. But no one would have been laughing if it had contributed to a loss.
In going for it on fourth down, the Packers took the ball out of the hands of the NFLs reigning MVP and placed their fortunes on the quarterbacking ability of a punter.
Thats the kind of irrational decision an out-of-control bettor would make. The Packers can be thankful the high-risk move only cost them some embarrassment, and not the game.
It sounds as if McCarthy took something from the experience. We will not be running that play again this year, he said on the day after the game.
The lesson to be learned isnt that a team should never take a chance. Theres a benefit to occasionally springing an unexpected attack on the opponent.
But the key is to know when to fold your cards and walk away from the table. When you push your good fortune too far, bad things are bound to happen.
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I was lucky enough to catch a tweet on Twitter from Kami Watson Huyse of the Communication Overtones blog, which led me to an interesting piece on the Trustworthy blog written by Kirk Skodis.
"The Undo Button" showed a Twitter conversation between a restaurant owner and a woman who had visited their establishment.
This blog post intrigued me to look further at both @BrasseriePavil and @BloomMaternity and see how they're utilizing Twitter.
These accounts are active with their followers and have a decent base of active followers. Both actively hold real conversations (meaning they tweet out messages, reply to tweets, and retweet things they find interesting). It wasn't just a broadcast of what the specials of the day are at Brasserie Pavil, or a tweetstream of links to the latest clothes on sale at Bloom Maternity's shop.
When I look at this highlighted conversation and what transpired, all companies can learn a few lessons from their interactions. This example demonstrates a few things about conversations in social media that any marketer can integrate into their strategy for entering the social media space.
- Monitoring Pays Off: The establishment Brasserie Pavil was clearly monitoring their name in the social media space. If they weren't monitoring their Twitter account and actively engaged in conversations with their audience, then they would've missed out on Bloom Maternity sharing her experiences with their establishment.
- Engaging Conversations: Looking at the Brasserie Pavil Twitter account reveals that this restaurant is clearly engaged in conversations with its audience by tweeting, retweeting, and replying to its followers. Also note their ratio of followers to being followed. They aren't using Twitter to broadcast what's on their menu -- they're speaking to patrons about their experiences, letting their audience know about events, and so on. Actual conversations are going on.
- Understanding the Power Community Members Hold: Brasserie Pavil recognized the power of the tweet that came from Bloom Maternity and what power the sharing of her experience at their establishment would have on her followers. By quickly recognizing Bloom Maternity's influence and addressing her experience in a way that respected her opinion, Brasserie Pavil turned a negative experience into a positive situation.
- Being Humble: Brasserie Pavil didn't argue, nor take offense to Bloom Maternity's tweet. They embraced it as an opportunity to make a bad situation better. Being humble, accepting the bad, and saying "I'm sorry" when bad things happen to your customers are some of the best actions companies can take when dealing with potentially negative situations in social media.
- Creating Fans/Evangelists: By being honest, forthright, and genuinely caring about Bloom Maternity's experience and demonstrating that care with engaging conversation, Brasserie Pavil has likely created at least an avid fan in Bloom Maternity, who will relate this experience in a positive manner to her audience. Rather than continuing down the path of "this place was a disappointment," now her experience is "even though my first experience there wasn't the greatest, they cared enough to ask what went wrong so they could fix the situation that caused my disappointment."
Investing in social media conversations is resource-intensive. However, conversing with the audience in a genuine manner, not with predefined marketing messages, can have great rewards.
There are no written rules or guidebooks when it comes to participating in social media. Several industry experts say it's a lot like the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." While that's a great rule of thumb about how to act and participate in social media, it's a lot more about "giving without expectations."
Companies need to give without expectations when entering into conversations in this space. It's no longer about who's controlling the messaging and marketing in any particular space. The most important thing that is forgotten when it comes to social media marketing: it's a learning process.
While most companies think the ROI might need to be monetary, companies now need to take into account that ROI on conversations is a treasure trove of both insight and knowledge brought to them by their own communities. That can be very difficult to put a price tag on.
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Monday, April 06, 2009
How to stay out of debt
In our consumeristic age (now compounded with a growing "government bailout" mentality) the idea that a person should live within his means seems rather quaint. Even Christians are often influenced more by the prevailing cultural attitudes on debt than biblical teaching. Yet, as Proverbs 22:7 summarizes, "the borrower is the slave of the lender."
I ran the following clip in 2007. It is still funny. And it still communicates the kind of practical wisdom that the Bible commends and that is far from common in our day.
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- Jerry Brewer said...
That will preach! Unfortunately, it was better received by the audience of SNL than the same Truth from the Word of God would be by many in the church. Thanks for the video.
- 10:41 AM, April 08, 2009
- David McCrory said...
I still appreciate the old saying my father taught me. Here's Economics 101 -
"When your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall!"
- 11:17 AM, April 08, 2009
- jigawatt said...
Great video, Tom. Unfortunately it characterizes way too many people in the US today.
Ok anyone who's a wizard with economics, help me out here. The idea put forth by the video and by all the Dave Ramsey's of the world is to save money and buy as little on credit as possible. But when I listen to the news, they act like our economy is utterly dependant on people taking out loans to buy stuff. So if everyone saved their money and had next-to-no debt, what would happen?
- 1:59 PM, April 08, 2009
- Tim Faulted said...
Jigawatt, Our current US economy is based on the idea of credit spending. So the pundits are right, saving rather than buying will currently hurt our economy. But this model is flawed, that why its going down the tubes.
If everyone saved their money, eventually there would be no need for credit, and we could develop a stabilized economy again.
- 8:57 PM, April 08, 2009
- pregador27 said...
My wife and I are going through the Dave Ramsey courses (Financial Peace University). We have changed our spending habits in a major way. We have a way to go, but debt-free is where I have always wanted to be. I wish we would have learned these things when we were first married!
As for the economy- it's ruined no matter what (for now). Until politicians learn to quit spending money we do not really have our nation will dig a deeper financial hole. More people saving and becoming debt-free would force their hand a bit.
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The Cleveland Indians outscored the Cleveland Browns on Saturday and the 6 points the Browns had in the 27-6 loss to the Colts weren't (as usual) from Phil Dawson but from new kicker Shayne Graham.
We are used to now-former kicker Dawson putting lots (or most) of our points on the board but that ship has sailed and we need a new plan.
I am not happy that the Browns lost but at least we don't have a mess like the Jets and Patriots do. More on that in a minute.
It's a race for the wild card for the Indians so it is more important for them to win than a win in the Browns' preseason game, since the Browns are still a work-in-progress and they are 2-1 now in games that don't really count.
Just remember that the Browns beat the the Rams and Lions by a combined 51-25 score in the first two preseason games.
Cleveland is a sports town, as it has shown through decades of winning and losing teams in various sports. This is the time of year that football and baseball collide and I hope that the Indians have much success.
College football gets underway this week as well and the Browns face another short turnaround before the next game on Thursday in Chicago against the Bears.
That being said, at least the Browns didn't have the havoc on the field that the Jets did.
Remember that the Jets cut back-up QB Tim Tebow and he is fighting -- and apparently failing -- to win a spot on Bill Belichick's Patriots. Tebow rode the bench in the Patriots' 40-9 loss to the Lions last Thursday.
Adding to that, the Patriots had already cut QB Brian Hoyer -- a Lakewood native and St. Ignatius grad -- and Hoyer is now with the Browns behind Brandon Weeden and Jason Campbell. But I digress.
So Saturday night, the Jets played rookie Geno Smith and, unfortunately, proved he really wasn't ready to take the job. He threw three interceptions and stepped out of the end zone in a panic for a safety.
The Jets' Rex Ryan -- in a move even I couldn't imagine -- put QB Mark Sanchez back in against the New York Giants in the fourth quarter and he was hurt. What was Ryan thinking? The game really means nothing and now you send in your best quarterback? So you beat the Giants in a meaningless game and lose a QB?
We don't know how bad Sanchez's injury is but now Smith is a front-runner for the spot...by default, apparently.
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Wish i could Paint but can not! I was at Kinsey for 4 hrs yesterday giving a tour to a man,woman and her son. They were amazed at the size of the place. I also got her to take a couple of pictures inside the big grain silo as I could not crawl through without getting Poison Ivy but she could so she took some great shots inside I will post tonight.
Her Husband knows alot about stainless and told me the two big Tanks in the middle of the Plant are 40 feet hight he could tell by the number of sections put together and He knew how big each section was.
The Tanks were built by Chicago Tank, Bridge & Iron Company in 1960 so the steel Plate states on each one. Can any one who lives out that way tell me are they still in Bussiness?
We also found looking around what each of the two tanks capacity was and they each held 499,022 Gals 78 gal. short of Half a million of spirits each for storage meaning that when the broshure spoke of storing from 2,000 to 1 Million it meant just one thing Item and that did not count the two big tanks out back or the many tanks outside and inside the Bottle House or the many tanks in warehouse's P & I which have several 2,000 Gal tanks. So I am guessing that all tanks filled including the two tanks that used to be in the woods which in the borshure are also giant that we had close to 2 million gals of tank storeage there.
Here again is a picture of one of the two stainless tanks. I never really relised how much spirits could be stored there till I went back on these walks through. We had unlimitted capacity I am going to have to look through my Papers for out put in the Big Bottle house. I also got another 80 to 100 year old light bulb from the Old bottle House the ladys son was very tall and was able to reach up and get me one and I showed hiom how to get the explosion proof cover off so he could get a bulb to they were the last two old ones there from the 1930's Edison style.
I took them down to the Old Kinsey House near the river it is sad how it going down and the top of the barn fell in and we discovered the Barn had a slate roof on it.
We spent 4 great hours walking and studing things I also took some shots one up through an old hollow wood piller that came from the grian bin above in the Grain finishing building and insside the worm trough that went out to the #12 still. I will post them tonight also.
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Hi guys, I've been playing with ST plugins today. I made a small plugin that shows you the actual styles that affect the source under the cursor so you can change it and see the effect immediately. Give it a try if you are interested. The plugin is not extensively tested and not in the package control yet. More info and screenshots: https://github.com/bobef/ColorSchemeEditor
To install the plugin manually just click the "ZIP" button in the link and extract to where your other ST packages are.
Update 14-02-2013: Now if more than one style affects the source element you can switch between the styles with Ctl+Alt+(Right|Left)
Update 17-11-2013: Tested with Sublime Text 3 beta 3054, seems to work fine without changes.
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Emergency crews respond to a fatal accident on Interstate 15 near Exit 4.
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ST. GEORGE - The driver of Hyundai Tucson died after it collided head on with a Dodge pickup on Interstate 15, according to Utah Highway Patrol.
UHP Trooper Cameron Roden said the fatal accident happened at approximately 4:45 p.m. when the Hyundai Tucson traveling southbound on I-15 just prior to milepost four driven by a male driver left the freeway for unknown reasons and drove to the left, crossing into the northbound lanes.


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i can't figuree out why these terrorists keep cropping up!!
we've dropped bombs on half of the countries in the world! why do they hate our freedom! maybe if we bomb some more villages they'll learn to love our freedom!
oh there's a busy crowded market let's drop some mortar shells on it, yeah some kids died but that's their own fault for hanging around a battlefield booya. now their fathers and older brothers are taking up arms against the united states? wow they must REALLY hate Freedom.
I can't figure this out. we dropped a bomb on every village we suspected having a jihadi in it, but all that happened is more people turned up radicalized and hating America.
i just can't figure out why these people hate us, it must be their religion!Originally Posted by Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations
In Memory Of My Friend 1st Sgt. Tim Millsap A Co, 70th Eng. Bn. 3rd Bde 1st AD...K.I.A. 25 April 2005
Liberalism Is The Philosophy Of The Stupid
To Achieve Ordered Liberty You Must Have Moral Order As Well
The libs/dems of today are the Quislings of former years. The cowards who would vote a fraud into office in exchange for handouts from the devil.
In terms of their religion, I don't know why you would dismiss that outright. When Muhammad died, violence inside the religion started breaking out almost immediately (leading to the Sunni and Shi'ite factions). The foundation of the Middle East countries afterwards was through conquests. Many Muslim empires came about until around the 20th Century.
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Unlike conventional dog foods, where most of the nutrients are lost during the cooking and manufacturing process, EasyRaw is gently created in small batches. All of the meat is freeze-dried and the vegetables are dehydrated, allowing all of the ingredients to retain their highest nutritional values – and provide your dog with the healthiest diet possible. In fact:
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Beef & Sweet Potato
Ingredients - Beef, Sweet Potato, Carrots, Whole Egg, Broccoli, Cranberries, Celery, Yellow Split Pea, Flax Seeds, Apples, Almond Bran, Tricalcium Phosphate, Alfalfa, Basil, Dried Kelp, Ginger Root, Spinach, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Reduced Iron, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12
Caloric Content (ME calculated, as fed) - 3707 kcal/kg; 363 kcal/cup
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 22.0%Crude Fat (min) 14.0%Crude Fiber (max) 8.3%Moisture (max) 10.0%
Nutritional ContentCalcium 1.27%Phosphorus 1.27%Magnesium 0.13%Potassium 1.24%Sodium 0.36%Iron (ppm) 165.03 mg/kgZinc (ppm) 219.94 mg/kgCopper (ppm) 24.96 mg/kgManganese (ppm) 22.87 mg/kgChloride Ion 0.49%Selenium (ppm) 0.51%Vitamin A 13667.60 IU/kgVitamin D 6200.86 IU/kgVitamin E 413.33 IU/kgIodine (ppm) 4.99 mg/kgCholine (ppm) 2952.27 mg/kgFolic Acid (ppm) 1.29 mg/kgNiacin (ppm) 55.88 mg/kgPantothenic Acid (ppm) 27.87 mg/kgThiamine (ppm) 2.57 mg/kgRiboflavin (ppm) 3.41 mg/kgPyridoxine (ppm) 9.49 mg/kgB12 (ppm) 0.14 mg/kgArginine 1.33%Histidine 0.50%Isoleucine 0.91%Leucine 1.58%Lysine 1.34%Methionine-cystine 0.85%Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.65%Threonine 0.91%Tryptophan 0.23%Valine 1.18%
Chicken & Oats
Ingredients - Chicken, Oats, Carrots, Whole Egg, Rye Flakes, Barley Flakes, Flax Seeds, Yellow Split Pea, Celery, Broccoli, Cranberries, Tricalcium Phosphate, Basil, Alfalfa, Dried Kelp, Ginger Root, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Reduced Iron, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12
Caloric Content (ME calculated, as fed) - 3430 kcal/kg; 359 kcal per cup
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 22.0%Crude Fat (min) 11.0%Crude Fiber (max) 5.3%Moisture (max) 10.0%
Nutritional ContentCalcium 1.11%Phosphorus 1.09%Magnesium 0.14%Potassium 1.67%Sodium 0.42%Iron (ppm) 168.15 mg/kgZinc (ppm) 178.73 mg/kgCopper (ppm) 13.88 mg/kgManganese (ppm) 26.82 mg/kgChloride Ion 0.66%Selenium (ppm) 0.54%Vitamin A 5455.38 IU/kgVitamin D 2993.96 IU/kgVitamin E 318.17 IU/kgIodine (ppm) 4.43 mg/kgCholine (ppm) 3108.24 mg/kgFolic Acid (ppm) 1.27 mg/kgNiacin (ppm) 65.93 mg/kgPantothenic Acid (ppm) 33.21 mg/kgThiamine (ppm) 3.23 mg/kgRiboflavin (ppm) 3.77 mg/kgB12 (ppm) 0.02 mg/kgArginine 1.44%Histidine 0.52%Isoleucine 0.97%Leucine 1.67%Lysine 1.35%Methionine-cystine 0.96%Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.79%Threonine 0.94%Tryptophan 0.26%Valine 1.26%
Lamb & Sweet Potato
Ingredients - Lamb, Sweet Potato, Carrots, Whole Egg, Broccoli, Cranberries, Celery, Yellow Split Pea, Flax Seeds, Apples, Almond Bran, Tricalcium Phosphate, Alfalfa, Basil, Dried Kelp, Ginger Root, Spinach, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Reduced Iron, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12
Caloric Content (ME calculated, as fed) - 3800 kcal/kg; 372 kcal/cup
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 22%Crude Fat (min) 16%Crude Fiber (max) 5%Moisture (max) 8%
Nutritional ContentCalcium 1.31%Phosphorus 1.30%Magnesium 0.13%Potassium 1.21%Sodium 0.34%Iron (ppm) 169.47 mg/kgZinc (ppm) 228.81 mg/kgCopper (ppm) 24.01 mg/kgManganese (ppm) 22.87 mg/kgChloride Ion 0.47%Selenium (ppm) 0.52%Vitamin A 11339.20 IU/kgVitamin D 3149.65 IU/kgVitamin E 420.99 IU/kgIodine (ppm) 4.88 mg/kgCholine (ppm) 3046.58 mg/kgFolic Acid (ppm) 1.35 mg/kgNiacin (ppm) 63.08 mg/kgPantothenic Acid (ppm) 28.29 mg/kgThiamine (ppm) 3.34 mg/kgRiboflavin (ppm) 4.14 mg/kgPyridoxine (ppm) 9.39 mg/kgB12 (ppm) 0.13 mg/kgArginine 1.30%Histidine 0.50%Isoleucine 0.89%Leucine 1.57%Lysine 1.31%Methionine-cystine 0.83%Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.65%Threonine 0.90%Tryptophan 0.23%Valine 1.18%
Turkey & Sweet Potato
Ingredients - Turkey, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Whole Egg, Broccoli, Cranberries, Celery, Yellow Split Pea, Flax Seeds, Apples, Almond Bran, Tricalcium Phosphate, Alfalfa, Basil, Dried Kelp, Ginger Root, Spinach, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Vitamin E Supplement, Reduced Iron, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin B12
Caloric Content (ME calculated, as fed) - 3450 kcal/kg; 338 kcal/cup
Guaranteed AnalysisCrude Protein (min) 24.0%Crude Fat (min) 8.0%Crude Fiber (max) 7.3%Moisture (max) 10.0%
Nutritional ContentCalcium 1.433%Phosphorus 1.43%Magnesium 0.14%Potassium 1.35%Sodium 0.38%Iron (ppm) 187.03 mg/kgZinc (ppm) 257.67 mg/kgCopper (ppm) 17.42 mg/kgManganese (ppm) 24.71 mg/kgChloride Ion 0.53%Selenium (ppm) 0.58%Vitamin A 6447.63 IU/kgVitamin D 1556.84 IU/kgVitamin E 445.44 IU/kgIodine (ppm) 5.26 mg/kgCholine (ppm) 3120.15 mg/kgFolic Acid (ppm) 1.46 mg/kgNiacin (ppm) 78.67 mg/kgPantothenic Acid (ppm) 36.41 mg/kgThiamine (ppm) 2.86 mg/kgRiboflavin (ppm) 3.50 mg/kgPyridoxine (ppm) 10.86 mg/kgB12 (ppm) 0.11 mg/kgArginine 1.49%Histidine 0.56%Isoleucine 1.05%Leucine 1.78%Lysine 1.54%Methionine-cystine 0.97%Phenylalanine-Tyrosine 1.86%Threonine 1.02%Tryptophan 0.26%Valine 1.30%
Feeding Guide
Mix food with water, let soak at least 10 minutes. We suggest mixing up a batch in the evening and soaking overnight in the refrigerator for feeding the next day. You may mix up to four days of food at a time and store it in the refrigerator in a sealed container. Allowing the food to soak overnight will allow for optimal rehydration. It may still have a stew-like consistency with some broth present, but that is by design as it helps your dog stay properly hydrated (unlike dry kibble).
These daily amounts are guidelines, and your dog's requirements may vary depending on activity and overall health. Store in a cool, dry place and shake the bag occasionally to keep the ingredients mixed evenly. Amounts shown are total per day, and should be divided into at least two meals.
Please Note: Due to the nature of this product we suggest inverting or shaking the bag prior to mixing & serving.
It is important to introduce new food into your dog's diet gradually. We recommend starting with 10% of the new food to 90% of the old food on the first day, increasing the new and decreasing the old by 10% each day over the first 10 days.
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By Steph
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About Me Long-time Pet Owner
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My dog loves it!!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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By Barbara Quarry
from Baltimore, MARYLAND
I serve it for dinner, with a little water and canned meat mixed in beforehand.. I have reduced the quantity of canned food over time, because the nutritional value of the lamb and vegetables is so much higher. My Norfolk terrier is also enthusiastic about it, and I feel good about the vegetables mixed in with the lamb.
Breakfast special!
By Pepper
I let the food soak in hot water per instructions for at least 10 minutes. The dog eats it like a vacuum! That's his morning food. A great aid too for post dental surgery when dry food is not advised. Very portable too for when you are not home.
It's Shrinking!
By 30 yr vet tech
from Illinois
I've been feeding this food for a couple of years. My dogs like it however I just noticed that the new bags are 7 lbs while the old bags are 8 lbs. Of course, there is no matching price decrease. Frankly, I would have felt better about a price increase.
Not too Shabby!
By furryman
from Colorado
Great food, Used the lamb recipe. Loved the idea of the raw diet without the raw, but my dogs digestive system wasnt a huge fan. Wasnt digesting the orange bits of carrots and sweet potatoes i guess. could see chunks in his poop. Otherwise he seemed to love the food and made him more active than ever.
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By RO COOK
from GRAVETTE, AR
Lucky loves this food in all the flavors. He has it for breakfast. Just add hot water to it like oatmeal letting it soak for at least 5-7 minutes better at 15. Your dog will love you more than ever!
Noticeable benefits
By Wylie's dad
from Renton, WA
Our 9 year-old retriever mix was pretty healthy already, but we switched to EasyRaw several months ago for the health benefits of a raw food diet. We know first-hand what a difference a diet can make. Our previous dog kicked cancer with a raw foods diet, much to the surprise of his vet who watched him live another 5 healthy years after having given him just months to live upon initial diagnosis. We give a raw foods diet 100% of the credit for that! Anyway, this form of raw food is much easier than having huge bags of chicken necks filling up our freezer, and the benefits to our current K9 have been just as dramatic. After just a few months he has trimmed down to beautiful lean form, his eyes are clear and his coat is soft and shiny. He has plenty of energy and loves the taste of EasyRaw. We re-hydrate about a week's supply into a large food storage container. It stays in the fridge and we reheat each meal-sized portion just enough to take the chill off. This is really a great product that is not much more expensive than premium dry food, and I would recommend it to any dog owner!
Love The Product - Not Happy With The Changes
By JPM
from Oxnard, CA
I have been using this product for years and love that there is a quality raw dehydrated product for my dog. I use to feed my dog raw protein and I prepared fresh vegetables with each meal. This product contains both the protein and vegetables and simplifies the food preparation and feeding. A giant plus with a great quality product.. There were recent changes to the product and packaging, reducing the volume of food by 1 pound. I was told this was due to the improvement of the product by adding more protein. The packaging indicates that 7 pounds of dehydrated food will make 40 pounds of hydrated food. From my experience I get about 21-24 pounds of hydrated food per bag. Adding more water than I do, will make more of a slush product not to my liking. With that said, I am still purchasing and using this product as I always have because of it's convenience and quality.
Awsome and convenient!
By Fawn
from Edgartown, MA
About Me Professional Pet Trainer
I got this food for my now 5 month old Amstaff puppy. She had soft stools before starting this food (she was on another brand of dry kibble) and her skin was a bit flakey. Now that she gets this with her high quality kibble (half and half combo) her skin is silky and shiney, and her stools are firm, dark and not as stinky. I love that i can make up a few days worth and just throw it in the fridge for when i need it! I bought the 8lb bag more than a month ago and i still have half of the bag to get through, so this stuff lasts quite a while. Love the food, and my puppy licks her bowl clean.
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By popular demand, the Phase III tuners are now available for sale.
By popular demand, the Phase III tuners are now available for sale.
Oh wow, this has been begged and pleaded for since their introduction!
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Nice. Will the buttons be available as well at some point? Would love to see nickel or black as an option.
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Ebony buttons for Phase III's in the near future. Count me in!
Glad to hear it! Now, all you guys with wing tuners should replace them immediately with Phase III's, send 'em to me and I will make sure they are disposed of properly.
I just noticed Phase III's have two screws. Will the spacing fit the screw holes left from vintage tuners found on a McCarty model? Really hoping so.
Plank Owner
Do these fit the Phase IIs? If so, I'll be buying!
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PRS Guitars - PS #4343 DC245, PS #5330 DC245, Floyd Custom 24, P245 Semi-Hollow, S2 Vela
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I"ll flip my DGT Standard over and stare at the Phase IIIs - I love them! They work perfectly and look so cool!
I really like the Phase III's on my guitars. Just for clarification, the Phase III tuner is not a direct replacement for Phase II tuners?
Don't get me wrong, the Phase II's are great as well, I just like the Phase III's better


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New Books by Faculty
William Summerhill has just published Inglorious Revolution: Political Institutions, Sovereign Debt, and Financial Underdevelopment in Imperial Brazil (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015)Government debt crises are a fact of political and economic life. The costs of government default are often severe. Nowhere has this been more clearly demonstrated than in Latin America. By the middle of the 19th century most Latin American states had become what modern scholars have labeled "serial defaulters."
William Summerhill shows that Imperial Brazil (1822-1889) was an exception. Much as they did in Britain more than a century before, the political institutions of constitutional monarchy provided an effective penalty for default in Brazil, which in turn credibly committed the government to repay its debts. Beginning in the 1820s bankers in London structured Brazil's loans in sterling, and merchants and slave traders in Rio de Janeiro were willing to lend in local currency. The parliament always budgeted funds to service its loans. The result was continuous access to capital markets. While most Spanish American governments repeatedly defaulted, Brazil's bondholders on both sides of the Atlantic always received their interest payments. This achievement constituted nothing less than a revolution in public finance.
Given Imperial Brazil's enviable record of government borrowing, it should have also experienced a broad-based revolution in private finance. Summerhill shows that it did not. Restrictive and arbitrary controls over incorporation, and regulatory barriers to entry by banks, created financial underdevelopment. The same political institutions that fostered credible public finance stymied innovation in private capital markets. In terms of its consequences for financial development, Brazil's rupture with absolutist government at independence was an inglorious revolution.
Brenda Stevenson has just published What is Slavery (New York: Wiley, 2015)
What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nation's agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly shaped its political and cultural landscapes, even until today.
What Is Slavery? focuses on the experience of enslaved black people in the United States from its early colonial period to the dawn of that destructive war that was as much about slavery as anything else. The book begins with a survey of slavery across time and place, from the ancient world to the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade and then describes the commerce in black laborers that ushered in market globalization and brought more than 12 million Africans to the Americas, before finally examining slavery in law and practice.
Robin Kelley has just published The Other Special Relationship: Race, Rights and Riots in Britain and the United States," (New York: Palgrave, 2015)The close diplomatic, economic, and military ties that comprising the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain have received plenty of attention from historians over the years. Less frequently noted are the countries' shared experiences of empire, white supremacy, racial inequality, and neoliberalism - and the attendant struggles for civil rights and political reform that have marked their recent history. This state-of-the-field collection traces the contours of this other "special relationship," exploring its implications for our understanding of the development of an internationally interconnected civil rights movement. Here, scholars from a range of research fields contribute essays on a wide variety of themes, from solidarity protests to calypso culture to white supremacy.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has just published Leçons Indiennes: Itinéraires d'un historien, Delhi, Lisbonne, Paris, Los Angeles (Paris: Alma, 2015)Born in New Delhi in 1961 in a family of civil servants and intellectuals – his father was an influential specialist of strategic studies and defence – Sanjay Subrahmanyam received his university degrees there, first teaching economics before becoming well known for his work on the history of India between the 16th and the 18th centuries. It was from an Indian point of departure that he went on to the develop, in Europe and the US, an "early modern global history" – the title of his Chair at the Collège de France – of which he remains the most brilliant representative. In this book, Subrahmanyam brings together some twenty essays written between 1995 and 2012, intended for a larger public and not merely specialists. In these popular essays, one sees the historian as an observer of political and cultural life, always concerned not to propose a "universal" approach but to produce a multipolar set of perceptions. The reader is taken from the past to the present and back, whether in a discussion of France and its regions, or Salman Rushdie, or V.S. Naipaul. Alma has already published two of Subrahmanyam's major books: Vasco de Gama (2012) et Comment être un étranger (2013).
Lynn Hunt has just published Writing History in the Global Era. (W.W. Norton & Company, 2014)Leading historian Lynn Hunt rethinks why history matters in today's global world and how it should be written. George Orwell wrote that "history is written by the winners." Even if that seems a bit too cut-and-dried, we can say that history is always written from a viewpoint but that viewpoints change, sometimes radically. The history of workers, women, and minorities challenged the once-unquestioned dominance of the tales of great leaders and military victories. Then, cultural studies—including feminism and queer studies—brought fresh perspectives, but those too have run their course.
With globalization emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force, Lynn Hunt examines whether it can reinvigorate the telling of history. She hopes that scholars from East and West can collaborate in new ways and write wider-ranging works. At the same time, Hunt argues that we could better understand the effects of globalization in the past if we knew more about how individuals felt about the changes they were experiencing. She proposes a sweeping reevaluation of individuals' active role and their place in society as the keys to understanding the way people and ideas interact. She also reveals how surprising new perspectives on society and the self—from environmental history, the history of human-animal interactions, and even neuroscience—offer promising new ways of thinking about the meaning and purpose of history in our time.
Kinship, Community, and Self: Essays in Honor of David Warren Sabean (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association) (Berghahn Books, 2014) has been published.David Warren Sabean was a pioneer in the historical-anthropological study of kinship, community, and selfhood in early modern and modern Europe. His career has helped shape the discipline of history through his supervision of dozens of graduate students and his influence on countless other scholars. This book collects wide-ranging essays demonstrating the impact of Sabean's work has on scholars of diverse time periods and regions, all revolving around the prominent issues that have framed his career: kinship, community, and self. The significance of David Warren Sabean's scholarship is reflected in original research contributed by former students and essays written by his contemporaries, demonstrating Sabean's impact on the discipline of history.
Sarah Stein has just published Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. (Stanford University Press, 2014)This ground-breaking documentary history contains over 150 primary sources originally written in 15 languages by or about Sephardi Jews—descendants of Jews who fled medieval Spain and Portugal settling in the western portions of the Ottoman Empire, including the Balkans, Anatolia, and Palestine. Reflecting Sephardi history in all its diversity, from the courtyard to the courthouse, spheres intimate, political, commercial, familial, and religious, these documents show life within these distinctive Jewish communities as well as between Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
Sephardi Lives offer readers an intimate view of how Sephardim experienced the major regional and world events of the modern era—natural disasters, violence and wars, the transition from empire to nation-states, and the Holocaust. This collection also provides a vivid exploration of the day-to-day lives of Sephardi women, men, boys, and girls in the Judeo-Spanish heartland of the Ottoman Balkans and Middle East, as well as the émigré centers Sephardim settled throughout the twentieth century, including North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The selections are of a vast range, including private letters from family collections, rabbinical writings, documents of state, memoirs and diaries, court records, selections from the popular press, and scholarship.
Peter Baldwin has just published The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. (Princeton University Press, 2014)Today's copyright wars can seem unprecedented. Sparked by the digital revolution that has made copyright—and its violation—a part of everyday life, fights over intellectual property have pitted creators, Hollywood, and governments against consumers, pirates, Silicon Valley, and open-access advocates. But while the digital generation can be forgiven for thinking the dispute between, for example, the publishing industry and Google is completely new, the copyright wars in fact stretch back three centuries—and their history is essential to understanding today's battles. The Copyright Wars—the first major trans-Atlantic history of copyright from its origins to today—tells this important story.
Peter Baldwin explains why the copyright wars have always been driven by a fundamental tension. Should copyright assure authors and rights holders lasting claims, much like conventional property rights, as in Continental Europe? Or should copyright be primarily concerned with giving consumers cheap and easy access to a shared culture, as in Britain and America? The Copyright Wars describes how the Continental approach triumphed, dramatically increasing the claims of rights holders. The book also tells the widely forgotten story of how America went from being a leading copyright opponent and pirate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to become the world's intellectual property policeman in the late twentieth. As it became a net cultural exporter and its content industries saw their advantage in the Continental ideology of strong authors' rights, the United States reversed position on copyright, weakening its commitment to the ideal of universal enlightenment—a history that reveals that today's open-access advocates are heirs of a venerable American tradition.
Robin Derby has just published The Dominican Republic Reader: History, Culture, Politics. (Duke University Press, 2014)Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony. Some may know that the country produces talented baseball players and musicians; others that it is a prime destination for beach vacations. Little else about the Dominican Republic is common knowledge outside its borders. This Reader seeks to change that. It provides an introduction to the history, politics, and culture of the country, from precolonial times into the early twenty-first century. Among the volume's 118 selections are essays, speeches, journalism, songs, poems, legal documents, testimonials, and short stories, as well as several interviews conducted especially for this Reader.
Eric Avila has just published The Folklore of the Freeway - Race and Revolt in the Modernist City. (University of Minnesota Press, 2014)When the interstate highway program connected America's cities, it also divided them, cutting through and devastating countless communities—many of them minority urban neighborhoods lacking the political and economic power to resist the construction. Within the context of the 1960s and 1970s, Eric Avila maps the creative strategies devised by urban communities to document and protest the damage that highways wrought.
Juan Gómez-Quiñones has just published Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977." (University of New Mexico Press, 2014)This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities united in their quest for basic equities for Mexican Americans in U.S. society. Within this matrix of agendas, objectives, strategies, approaches, ideologies, and identities, numerous electrifying moments stitched together the struggle for civil and human rights. Gómez-Quiñones and Irene Vásquez show how these convergences underscored tensions among diverse individuals and organizations at every level. Their narrative offers an assessment of U.S. society and the Mexican American community at a critical time, offering a unique understanding of its civic progress toward a more equitable social order.
Valerie Matsumoto has just published City Girls - The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950. (Oxford University Press, 2014)Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways from their peers. These young women found rapport in ethnocultural youth organizations, a forgotten world of female friendship and camaraderie that Valerie J. Matsumoto recovers in this book.
Sarah Stein has just published Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)The history of Algerian Jews has thus far been viewed from the perspective of communities on the northern coast, who became, to some extent, beneficiaries of colonialism. But to the south, in the Sahara, Jews faced a harsher colonial treatment. In Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria, Sarah Abrevaya Stein asks why the Jews of Algeria's south were marginalized by French authorities, how they negotiated the sometimes brutal results, and what the reverberations have been in the postcolonial era.
Drawing on materials from thirty archives across six countries, Stein tells the story of colonial imposition on a desert community that had lived and traveled in the Sahara for centuries. She paints an intriguing historical picture—of an ancient community, trans-Saharan commerce, desert labor camps during World War II, anthropologist spies, battles over oil, and the struggle for Algerian sovereignty. Writing colonialism and decolonization into Jewish history and Jews into the French Saharan one, Saharan Jews and the Fate of French Algeria is a fascinating exploration not of Jewish exceptionalism but of colonial power and its religious and cultural differentiations, which have indelibly shaped the modern world.
Mary Terrall has just published Catching Nature in the Act. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people—diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because natural history was pursued by such a variety of people around the globe, with practitioners sharing neither methods nor training, it has been characterized as a science of straightforward description, devoted to amassing observations as the raw material for classification and thus fundamentally distinct from experimental physical science. In Catching Nature in the Act, Mary Terrall revises this picture, revealing how eighteenth-century natural historians incorporated various experimental techniques and strategies into their practice.
Katsuya Hirano has just published The Politics of Dialogic Imagination. (The University of Chicago Press, 2014)In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to regulate the ostensibly unimportant popular culture of Edo (present-day Tokyo)—including fashion, leisure activities, prints, and theater. He does so by examining the works of writers and artists who depicted and celebrated the culture of play and pleasure associated with Edo's street entertainers, vagrants, actors, and prostitutes, whom Tokugawa authorities condemned to be detrimental to public mores, social order, and political economy.
Hirano uncovers a logic of politics within Edo's cultural works that was extremely potent in exposing contradictions between the formal structure of the Tokugawa world and its rapidly changing realities. He goes on to look at the effects of this logic, examining policies enacted during the next era—the Meiji period—that mark a drastic reconfiguration of power and a new politics toward ordinary people under modernizing Japan. Deftly navigating Japan's history and culture, The Politics of Dialogic Imagination provides a sophisticated account of a country in the process of radical transformation—and of the intensely creative culture that came out of it.
Margaret Jacob has just published The First Knowledge Economy: Human Capital and the European Economy, 1750-1850. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)Ever since the Industrial Revolution, debate has raged about the sources of the new, sustained Western prosperity. Margaret Jacob here argues persuasively for the critical importance of knowledge in Europe's economic transformation during the period from 1750 to 1850, first in Britain and then in selected parts of Northern and Western Europe. This is a new history of economic development in which minds, books, lectures, and education become central. She shows how, armed with knowledge and know-how and inspired by the desire to get rich, entrepreneurs emerged within an industrial culture wedded to scientific knowledge and technology. She charts how, across a series of industries and nations, innovative engineers and entrepreneurs sought to make sense and a profit out of the world around them. Skilled hands matched minds steeped in the knowledge systems new to the eighteenth century to transform the economic destiny of Western Europe.
Margaret Jacob and Catherine Secretan have just edited In Praise of Ordinary People: Early Modern Britain and the Dutch Republic. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013)The discipline of social history has for many decades focused on the lives of so-called "ordinary" people. Less studied, however, has been the ways in which the perceptions and roles of these individuals changed over time - both in historical theory and practice. In particular, in Europe beginning in the sixteenth century, they were no longer simply ignored, feared, or denigrated by elites: they came to be seen, however cautiously, as having value through their skills and crafts, or in their ability to reason, or even in their contributions to anchoring the stability of the state. It is not accidental that these sorts of practices on the part of ordinary people became valorized more visibly in the English and Dutch contexts. After 1550 the Dutch Revolt cast ordinary people, particularly in urban settings, as participants on either the Catholic Spanish side or among the Dutch rebels and their reformed churches. Meanwhile, the English civil wars of the 1640s did something similar, and also produced a body of theoretical literature on the capacities of ordinary men and even women that became central to Western democratic thinking. In the fascinating array of studies gathered here, we see how the study of these participants' social identities imparts historical texture and enables us to understand early modernity with greater clarity.
Edward Alpers has just published The Indian Ocean in World History. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography.
The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including migrations of traders, indentured laborers, civil servants, sailors, and slaves throughout the entire basin. Persians and Arabs from the Gulf came to eastern Africa and Madagascar as traders and settlers, while Hadramis dispersed from south Yemen as traders and Muslim teachers to the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, South India, and Indonesia. Southeast Asians migrated to Madagascar, and Chinese dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Mascarene Islands to South Africa.
Alpers also explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. For example, architectural and decorative styles in eastern Africa, the Red Sea, the Hadramaut, the Persian Gulf, and western India reflect cultural interchanges in multiple directions. Similarly, the popular musical form of taarab in Zanzibar and coastal East Africa incorporates elements of Arab, Indian, and African musical traditions, while the characteristic frame drum (ravanne) of séga, the widespread Afro-Creole dance of the Mascarene and Seychelles Islands, probably owes its ultimate origins to Arabia by way of Mozambique.
The Indian Ocean in World History also discusses issues of trade and production that show the long history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion and religious conversion, focusing mainly on Islam, but also mentioning Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at issues including the new configuration of colonial territorial boundaries after World War I, and the search for oil reserves.
Joyce Appleby has just published Shores of Knowledge. (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
An engrossing history of the voyages of exploration that ignited curiosity about nature and gave birth to modern science.
When Columbus first returned to Spain from the Caribbean, he dazzled King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella with exotic parrots, tropical flowers, and bits of gold. Inspired by the promise of riches, countless seafarers poured out of the Iberian Peninsula and wider Europe in search of spices, treasure, and land. Many returned with strange tales of the New World.
Curiosity began to percolate through Europe as the New World's people, animals, and plants ruptured prior assumptions about the biblical description of creation. The Church, long fearful of challenges to its authority, could no longer suppress the mantra "Dare to know!"
Noblemen began collecting cabinets of curiosities; soon others went from collecting to examining natural objects with fresh eyes. Observation led to experiments; competing conclusions triggered debates. The foundations for the natural sciences were laid as questions became more multifaceted and answers became more complex. Carl Linneaus developed a classification system and sent students around the globe looking for specimens. Museums, botanical gardens, and philosophical societies turned their attention to nature. National governments undertook explorations of the Pacific.
Historian Joyce Appleby vividly recounts the explorers' triumphs and mishaps, including Magellan's violent death in the Philippines; the miserable trek of the "new Argonauts" across the Andes on their mission to determine the true shape of the earth; and how two brilliant scientists, Alexander Humboldt and Charles Darwin, traveled to the Americas for evidence to confirm their hypotheses about the earth and its inhabitants. Drawing on detailed eyewitness accounts, Appleby also tells of the turmoil created in the all societies touched by the explorations.
This sweeping, global story imbues the Age of Discovery with fresh meaning, elegantly charting its stimulation of the natural sciences, which ultimately propelled Western Europe toward modernity.
J. Arch Getty has just published Practicing Stalinism: Bolsheviks, Boyars, and the Persistence of Tradition. (Yale University Press, 2013)
In old Russia, patron/client relations, "clan" politics, and a variety of other informal practices spanned the centuries. Government was understood to be patrimonial and personal rather than legal, and office holding was far less important than proximity to patrons. Working from heretofore unused documents from the Communist archives, J. Arch Getty shows how these political practices and traditions from old Russia have persisted throughout the twentieth-century Soviet Union and down to the present day.
Getty examines a number of case studies of political practices in the Stalin era and after. These include cults of personality, the transformation of Old Bolsheviks into noble grandees, the Communist Party's personnel selection system, and the rise of political clans ("family circles") after the 1917 Revolutions. Stalin's conflicts with these clans, and his eventual destruction of them, were key elements of the Great Purges of the 1930s. But although Stalin could destroy the competing clans, he could not destroy the historically embedded patron-client relationship, as a final chapter on political practice under Putin shows.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: Making and Unmaking the City; Politics, Culture, and Life Forms (Oxford University Press, 2013)
The city of modern India is a web of identities, interests, and institutions. Perhaps the city everywhere gives the impression of being unfinished, as people come and go, talking of this and that, but in India the sense of a place on the make is overwhelming. Our colonial cities—Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras—helped redefine our very understanding of Indian culture; the villagers trooping into the city have further reshaped it in their image.
For all the beauty a city may hold, its character flows more from its street life and the intricate patterning of social networks. Some people claim the city as their own, and live as if they own it; some disown the city, and yet others are disowned by it. Violence appears to be present at every corner, and yet the city is the nexus of art, culture, and conviviality. The city is always full of surprises, having multiple selves, varying by day and by night. Together with its companion volume, The City in its Plenitude, this anthology— a collection of writings from across the genres of poetry, short stories, essays, and social commentaries drawn from English as well as the rich literature in Indian languages—is a tribute to the modern Indian city.
Vinay Lal has just published The Oxford Anthology of the Modern Indian City: The City in its Plenitude (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Banaras, Bangalore, Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi, Lucknow . . . cities all, sharing certain characteristics, and yet so unlike each other. Cities are like the people they hold—loved and unloved, likely to attract some and repel others. Each has a character of its own: some are laidback, others more vibrant; a few have witnessed and endured a lot, others appear to have had a relatively mundane existence.
The city has a long history in India—from the urban civilization of the Indus Valley in 2500 bce to the megalopolis found in contemporary India. Taking the reader through an alluring maze of streets, lanes, memories, and much more, the writings in this volume allow her to gaze at the mosaic and imaginary of the city, look back at the city in colonial India, and reflect on the city and its streets as a work of architecture. Together with its companion volume, Making and Unmaking the City: Politics, Culture, and Life Forms, this collection pays tribute to the modern Indian city.
Brenda Stevenson has just published The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins (Oxford University Press, 2013)
Helicopters thwopped low over the city, filming blocks of burning cars and buildings, mobs breaking into storefronts, and the vicious beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. For a week in April 1992, Los Angeles transformed into a cityscape of rage, purportedly due to the exoneration of four policemen who had beaten Rodney King. It should be no surprise that such intense anger erupted from something deeper than a single incident.
In The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins, Brenda Stevenson tells the dramatic story of an earlier trial, a turning point on the road to the 1992 riot. On March 16, 1991, fifteen-year-old Latasha Harlins, an African American who lived locally, entered the Empire Liquor Market at 9172 South Figueroa Street in South Central Los Angeles. Behind the counter was a Korean woman named Soon Ja Du. Latasha walked to the refrigerator cases in the back, took a bottle of orange juice, put it in her backpack, and approached the cash register with two dollar bills in her hand-the price of the juice. Moments later she was face-down on the floor with a bullet hole in the back of her head, shot dead by Du. Joyce Karlin, a Jewish Superior Court judge appointed by Republican Governor Pete Wilson, presided over the resulting manslaughter trial. A jury convicted Du, but Karlin sentenced her only to probation, community service, and a $500 fine. The author meticulously reconstructs these events and their aftermath, showing how they set the stage for the explosion in 1992.
An accomplished historian at UCLA, Stevenson explores the lives of each of these three women-Harlins, Du, and Karlin-and their very different worlds in rich detail. Through the three women, she not only reveals the human reality and social repercussions of this triangular collision, she also provides a deep history of immigration, ethnicity, and gender in modern America. Massively researched, deftly written, The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins will reshape our understanding of race, ethnicity, gender, and-above all-justice in modern America.
Published by Oxford University Press: http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-contested-murder-of-latasha-harlins-9780199944576
Professor Saul Friedlander's stimulating book investigates some of the sources of Franz Kafka's personal anguish and its complex reflections in his imaginary world. In his query, Saul Friedländer probes major aspects of Kafka's life (family, Judaism, love and sex, writing, illness, and despair) that until now have been skewed by posthumous censorship. Contrary to Kafka's dying request that all his papers be burned, Max Brod, Kafka's closest friend and literary executor, edited and published the author's novels and other works soon after his death in 1924. Friedländer shows that, when reinserted in Kafka's letters and diaries, deleted segments lift the mask of "sainthood" frequently attached to the writer and thus restore previously hidden aspects of his individuality.
Published by Yale University press: http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300136616
Sanjay Subrahmanyam has just published Is Indian Civilization a Myth: Fictions and Histories? (Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2013).
In the title essay of this enthralling collection, Sanjay Subrahmanyam sets a provocative ball rolling: At the heart of the matter , he says, is the notion that at some distant point in the past, say about AD 500, the concept of Indian civilization had already been perfected. Everything of any importance was in place: social structure, philosophy, the major literary works ... The central idea here is of India-as-civilization, and it very soon becomes the same as a notion of closed India. Demolishing some of the myths which sustain the notion of the wonder that was India , he shows us a region that was always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for concepts, cultures, and worldviews. Subrahmanyam s book is itself a meeting point for a dazzling variety of ideas. It provides the cosmopolitan perspective of a multilingual world scholar who, having begun life in New Delhi, has gone on to live in several thought-provoking cities, including Paris, Lisbon, and Oxford. He is witty, debunking, iconoclastic, and polemically entertaining in all that he anatomizes here Indian history and fiction, South Asian cultural forms, imperialism and imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, travel writing, and the central conceits in Hemingway, Rushdie, Naipaul, and Marquez.
William Marotti has just published Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Revolution in 1960s Japan (Duke University Press, 2013)
During the 1960s a group of young artists in Japan challenged official forms of politics and daily life through interventionist art practices. William Marotti situates this phenomenon in the historical and political contexts of Japan after the Second World War and the international activism of the 1960s. The Japanese government renewed its Cold War partnership with the United States in 1960, defeating protests against a new security treaty through parliamentary action and the use of riot police. Afterward, the government promoted a depoliticized everyday world of high growth and consumption, creating a sanitized national image to present in the Tokyo Olympics of 1964. Artists were first to challenge this new political mythology. Marotti examines their political art, and the state's aggressive response to it. He reveals the challenge mounted in projects such as Akasegawa Genpei's 1,000-yen prints, a group performance on the busy Yamanote train line, and a plan for a giant guillotine in the Imperial Plaza. Focusing on the annual Yomiuri Indépendant exhibition, he demonstrates how artists came together in a playful but powerful critical art, triggering judicial and police response. Money, Trains, and Guillotines expands our understanding of the role of art in the international 1960s, and of the dynamics of art and policing in Japan.
Ivan Berend has just published An Economic History of Nineteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge, 2013)
Why did some countries and regions of Europe reach high levels of economic advancement in the nineteenth century, while others were left behind? This new transnational survey of the continent's economic development highlights the role of regional differences in shaping each country's economic path and outcome. Presenting a clear and cogent explanation of the historical causes of advancement and backwardness, Ivan Berend integrates social, political, institutional and cultural factors as well as engaging in debates about the relative roles of knowledge, the state and institutions. Featuring boxed essays on key personalities including Adam Smith, Friedrich List, Gustave Eiffel and the Krupp family, as well as brief histories of innovations such as the steam engine, vaccinations and the co-operative system, the book helps to explain the theories and macro-economic trends that dominated the century and their impact on the subsequent development of the European economy right up to the present day.


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Music, maestro, please.
With a little judicious planning, you can pack the coming week with live performances in musical genres ranging from country, jazz and rock to Broadway show tunes and classical piano works.
For country fans, there's musical firebrand Miranda Lambert's "Locked & Reloaded Tour" at JQH Arena. ...


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Riverdale senior Alexa Middleton, a Tennessee commitment, works on a drill with Riverdale girls basketball coach Cory Barrett during Monday's practice. Monday was the first day high school basketball and wrestling teams could practice in Tennessee.
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Alexa Middleton arrived at Riverdale earlier than normal Monday morning.
The adrenaline of tipping off the high school basketball season sped up her morning process.
Riverdale - the two-time defending Class AAA state champions as well as defending MaxPreps and ESPN national champions - joined the rest of the state in returning to the hardwood for the first day of practice for high school basketball teams. ...


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I'm against the hunting of cranes in Tennessee. Sandhill cranes that visit Tennessee each year are amazing creatures - one of the oldest bird species, going back 14 million years.
Cranes were on the verge of extinction due to over-hunting and loss of habitat. Through extreme human effort and the cranes' own determination, that they are now coming back.
If Tennessee decides to start hunting these creatures, this heroic and compassionate partnership will be broken with decimating consequences.
There is no reason for a hunt. Hunting permits will bring only a little money to state coffers. This is an opportunity for Tennessee to show its wisdom by saying "no" to a crane hunt.


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December 09, 2009
Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. Granted Permit to Operate in Indiana
Southern Now Active in 29 States and Licensed in 32 States
MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. (Southern), the nations leading wine and spirits distributor and control states broker with a tradition of service excellence since 1968 today announced the Companys Indiana subsidiary, Southern Wine & Spirits of Indiana, Inc., had obtained a wholesalers permit to operate in Indiana. This follows the approval of Southerns application by the Indiana Alcoholic & Tobacco Commission (IATC).
We look forward to serving Indianas licensees as well as all of the future supplier partners who will join us there.
Wayne E. Chaplin, President and Chief Operating Officer of Southern Wine & Spirits of America, Inc. said, Having gained this approval, our expectation is that Southern Wine & Spirits of Indiana once established, will begin to bring the highest levels of sales, service and distribution excellence to the state of Indiana.
We are extremely pleased about the prospect of establishing operations in Indiana, where we see many opportunities to extend our industry-leading sales and market capabilities and operational efficiencies, commented Harvey R. Chaplin, Chairman and CEO of Southern. We look forward to serving Indianas licensees as well as all of the future supplier partners who will join us there.
Mr. Chaplin added, We are thankful the (IATC) granted us our license which now gives us the ability to explore our various options. Our operations in Indiana will certainly take into account the sales, marketing, personnel and operational needs of both our suppliers and retail partners alike. We will also, of course, seek to advantage our ramp-up in Indiana by leveraging know-how from our industry-leading sales, marketing and operations capabilities resident across the rest of the Southern footprint. Once started in Indiana, we expect to make an immediate, meaningful impact.
Referring to the licensing process, Harvey Chaplin said, We are grateful that the IATC officials recognized Southerns qualifications, and we look forward to working closely with them as we establish operations in Indiana.


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Hospitals are promoting more breastfeeding and less formula for babies.
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Less than half of mothers of newborns at Saint Thomas Midtown Hospital exclusively breastfed their babies a year ago, but now 83 percent are nursing the infants without supplementing with formula.
The Nashville hospital is one of only two in Tennessee participating in Best Fed Beginnings, a national effort to significantly improve breastfeeding rates. It embraced that program simultaneously with joining the Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care, which also promotes breastfeeding.
From June 2012 to May 2013, the hospital's ...