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6 TV Shows You Won't Believe Saved People's Lives
#3. SpongeBob SquarePants
Do you know what's fun about playing in the lake? Being a five-year-old kid and wandering out until the water is over your head. And by fun, we mean "crap-pantsingly horrifying." If the kid who does the wandering is your son, and you're not so good in the water yourself, it can be fun for the whole family. Which was exactly what happened to one New Jersey mom. One minute her son Andrew was sculpting the sandcastle Grayskull, the next minute he was out in the deep end struggling to stay afloat. She tried to go help him out, but panicked when she lost her own footing in the six-foot-deep water.
Fortunately for Andrew and mother, their 8-year-old neighbor Reese had the guts and swimming skills that a grown-ass woman did not, plus a repository of SpongeBob SquarePants episodes under his belt.
More evidence that television raises kids better than we can.
What Did a TV Show Have to Do With This?
In the episode titled "SpongeGuard on Duty," a lobster named Larry saves the life of the titular sponge when he begins to drown at the beach (Yes, the sponge who lives underwater starts to drown.)
Also, lifeguards are muscley sex-magnets and not high school students working to pay for their cough syrup habits.
In the episode, SpongeBob admires Larry the lifeguard lobster, so he applies to become a lifeguard himself. If your suspension of disbelief isn't already hovering near the ceiling, get ready. Not only does SpongeBob inexplicably get the job despite his inability to swim, he also tries to keep all the swimmers out of the water with promises of free ice cream. Naturally, SpongeBob finds himself drowning in the water, and Larry the Lobster has to go out to save him.
Apparently Reese paid attention to this episode because when he saw his buddy drowning, he went into Larry the Lifeguard mode and mimicked the lobster's strokes, expertly adjusting for his lack of giant claws. He made it out to Andrew and put his arm around him just as he had seen Larry the lobster lifeguard do with SpongeBob, and began the one-armed paddling trek back to shore.
No word on whether he wore his official SpongeBob thong bathing suit.
So kids, let this be a lesson to you: If your mom tells you to quit watching SpongeBob and get ready for school...she's trying to KILL you.
#2. The Simpsons
We may be going way out on a limb here, but we're guessing that if you're reading an article on Cracked.com, you're well aware of a show called The Simpsons. No recap necessary. The Simpsons: You know them.
They're like an obnoxious, senile relative. Not much fun to be around, but you don't quite want them dead. Yet.
Fortunately, so did an English kid named Aiden Bateman. Aiden was at school, minding his own business, when his 10-year-old buddy started choking on a ham sandwich. The lunch ladies tried to dislodge the sandwich with pats on the back, presumably because more dramatic life saving gestures are considered impolite in England. Just as the choking boy's face began to turn purple, Aiden strode over like some kind of lunchroom savior and performed the Heimlich maneuver on his oxygen-challenged friend. Out popped the sandwich and everyone went back to their crumpets and Beckham worshipping.
What Did a TV Show Have to Do With This?
It turns out that 100 percent of Aiden's Heimlich maneuver knowledge came from The Simpsons season 3 episode called "Homer at the Bat." In it, Homer starts choking on half a box of donuts before standing directly in front of the poster seen below:
Notice that the maneuver wasn't actually performed in the episode, and the poster was only featured for about two seconds, if that. Yet, the image miraculously burned itself into Aiden's consciousness and sprung to the top of his mind when it was time to perform that move on a choking friend.
Which makes us wonder: What other obscure Simpsons-related tidbits are sitting in our subconscious minds, just waiting to save (or take) a life?
"You know what? I'm not going to jump that gorge."
#1. Mythbusters
Here's an idea: If you are a person who suffers from a medical condition that causes blackouts, don't make your living as a car carrier. Unfortunately, this infallible piece of common-sense logic never occurred to one 40-year-old California man who failed at both parts of the previous sentence. Which was probably why he woke up to find himself and his truck submerged in the San Diego Bay in December 2007.
"Next career: commercial airline pilot!"
While most people in this situation would pee their pants and cry for their mothers, this driver coolly thought about how he could escape from this sinking tomb.
What Did a TV Show Have to Do With This?
It was then that he remembered an episode of MythBusters that dealt with the very same issue. Except for the part about being a guy who randomly blacks out but also drives heavy machinery for a living. They didn't deal with that issue.
As he had seen in the episode, the driver waited for the cab to fill up with water before he rolled down the window and swam out. Had he attempted to escape immediately, water would have flooded in very quickly, knocking him about and possibly rendering him unconscious. The driver was rescued from the bay and taken to a hospital, where they deemed his condition to be not just stable, but healthy. Other than that pesky blacking-out problem.
"I'm as strong as a horse!"
In another instance, a 54-year-old man fainted at a train station, falling off the platform and onto the tracks below. To make matters worse, moments later a freight train rounded the corner and began bearing down on him. Thankfully, a 14-year-old boy came to the man's rescue, bravely jumping down and pulling the man underneath the station platform. But all wasn't fine just yet. As the train went by, the vacuum created by the passing train began to pull the man up towards certain death.
But the 14-year-old was ready for this, having learned of this effect from an episode of MythBusters. He braced himself and held the man back until the train had completely passed and danger was averted. The 54-year-old thanked the boy, and was admitted to a hospital for treatment of his injuries. The 14-year-old wrote a song about it for his punk-rock band.
Do we smell a sitcom deal?
Simon Bower is an Australian writer and two-time winner of the Nobel Prize for Sex. You can read his blog, follow him on Twitter, or e-mail him.
For less heartwarming stories of TV and the real world mixing it up, check out 6 Beloved TV Shows (That Traumatized Cast Members For Life) and 6 Studies That Prove Reality TV Is Causing the Apocalypse.


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I would like to monitor how many queries are utilizing the indexes. Is there any program that can show me live query performance and index utilization?
Note: I am already aware of slow log file and its usage.
Instead of using the slow log (which are queries that have finished and logged), you may want to poll mysql for long running queries while they are still running.
You may need to try using mk-query-digest or pt-query-digest and poll the processlist.
I learned how to use mk-query-digest from this youtube video as a replacement for the slow log: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXwg1fiUF68&feature=colike
Here is the script I wrote to run the query digest program
Make sure
The output produces a file with the 20 worst running queries based on the number of times the query was called X avg sec per query.
Here is the sample output of the query profiling summary of mk-query-digest
Above this output are histograms of these 20 top worst-performing queries
Example of the first entry's histogram
Give it a Try !!!
MySQL Administrator will do the job. Use the Health section and add your own charts to it. Here are some formulas.
Rows read via indexes:
Rows read via full table scans:
The number of times the first entry in an index was read. If this value is high, it suggests that the server is doing a lot of full index scans.:
Ratio of rows read via full table scans:
Slow queries:
Rows inserted:
Rows updated:
Rows deleted:
Rows read per query:
Note: Keep in mind that queries are executed for measuring the performance and will show up in the charts.

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The Sequester: Cuts And Consequences
As Deep Cuts Loom, Continued Appeals For A Deal, Finger-Pointing
With less than a week before the across-the-board-spending cuts go into effect, Republicans and Democrats are sounding off about the sequestration.
"There's easy ways [sic] to cut this money that the American people will never feel," Rep. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., said on Fox News Sunday. "What you hear is an outrage because nobody wants to cut spending ... and it will be somewhat painful, but not cutting spending is going to be disastrous for our country."
But Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood warned of the consequences of the cuts as a result of sequestration.
"We're not making this up to put pain on the American people," he said on NBC's Meet the Press. "We are required to cut a billion dollars and we're going to do that unless congress gets together and works together."
The nation's governors, meeting in Washington, called for a last-minute deal to stave off the cuts.
"There can't be any question. This is something that nobody wants," said Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. "It's not a balanced, thoughtful compromise or a set of choices."
Pat McCrory, North Carolina's Republican governor, said President Obama and Congress must work together to fix the budget.
"We want Washington to fix its problem and right now I want to ask the president, along with congressional leaders, to get in a room and do what governors are doing across this nation and start reading their budgets and making the tough decisions as opposed to across-the-board cuts," he said.
The cuts could have far-reaching effects. As NPR's Tom Bowman reported last week, Pentagon officials have notified Congress that they will furlough some 800,000 civilian defense contractors for one day per week should sequestration kick in on March 1.
Speaking on CNN's State of the Union, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said across-the-board cuts "are the worst and most cowardly way to approach this situation."
He added: "Republican leaders should be saying to the president along with Democratic leaders, let's sit down and work this out. That's the way we've avoided crises in the past."
News of the sequester is also dominating the newspapers. The Washington Post has a timeline on its website that details the sequester's origins. And The New York Times is reporting on the blame game both sides are playing for bringing the country to this point.
Correction Feb. 25, 2013
The original story inaccurately said tax hikes also were set to begin as part of the sequester.
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I was about to say this in another discussion somewhere else, and wondered: do we know that? As in "it's mentioned or at least hinted at in $book $chapter:$verse"?
Or is it just a very likely conjecture?
I was about to say this in another discussion somewhere else, and wondered: do we know that? As in "it's mentioned or at least hinted at in $book $chapter:$verse"?
Or is it just a very likely conjecture?
A discussion here talks about the various possibilities. To quote a small part that summarizes well:
This page from the same site offers additional explanation for the stonemason theory:
The above quoted site is provided by That the World May Know Ministries, and offers a DVD series entitled Faith Lessons, featuring the founder Ray Vander Laan which offers documentary-style on-location Bible studies suitable for small groups. I believe the one that addresses this issue is Life and Ministry of the Messiah, or possibly Walk as Jesus Walked. It has been several years since I've watched these, and I don't have access to them now to confirm.
We know that Joseph was a τέκτων (tekton)- traditionally a carpenter but literally, any craftsman who worked with his hands, from Matthew 13:55 (Is this not the carpenter's son?). Traditionally, boys would follow in their father's occupation, hence the tradition that Jesus was a carpenter.
Additionally in Mark 6:3, we get the same word describing Jesus himself. (Is this not the carpenter?). Mark is probably the older source ( the Farrer hypothesis ) from which Matthew is drawing. With Matthew's desire to portray Jesus as king, it makes sense that he would prefer to move such a menial task to the dad and let people just assume that Jesus would have been trained up in the family trade.
Yes, Jesus is called a carpenter in Mark 6:3 NIV1984:
Update: based on comments below, some explanation of the word carpenter. First, that is the word used in various translations, e.g. Amplified, Good News, New American Standard Bible and King James. Secondly, it is true that the meaning has been questioned in some commentaries, where it has been suggested that the word could also mean, craftsman. So, we cannot be 100% sure, but since the church has historically considered Jesus to have been a carpenter, and most or all translations use that, it seems probable.
The evidence is mixed.
Mark's Gospel clearly states that Jesus was a carpenter (Mark 6:3: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.).
However, Mark is the only gospel that tells us that Jesus was a carpenter. Matthew's Gospel, in the corresponding passage, only says that Jesus was the son of a carpenter (Matthew 13:55: Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?). In copying from Mark, it should have been easier to retain Mark's words, unless the author of Matthew's Gospel had a reason not to say that Jesus had been a carpenter. The later gospels, Luke and John, make no mention of Jesus being a carpenter or even the son of a carpenter.
One theory was put forward by Dennis R. MacDonald in his book, The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark. MacDonald compares Mark's story about Jesus with the Greek epics of Homer, finding many parallels between the portrayal of Jesus and that of Odysseus. Both Odysseus and Jesus were known as carpenters. MacDonald notes that Homer sometimes calls Odysseus 'divine' and 'son of Zeus', labels comparable to those given to Jesus. If MacDonald is correct, Mark's description of Jesus as a carpenter was a literary creation that the later evangelists refused to accept. Perhaps when the first gospel was being written, the author had so little information about Jesus as a person that he felt obliged to fill in some of the gaps.
Because of Mark it is more than just a very likely conjecture that Jesus was a carpenter, but because of Matthew, Luke and John it is no more than a conjecture. Then, because of MacDonald's research, it could even be that this was simply a literary mechanism employed in just one of the gospels.
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The Great Steamboat Race Party, the Mudd Sisters' seventh annual benefit for Alzheimer's, was held May 2 at Kingfish Restaurant.
Guests enjoyed a cash bar and hors d'oeuvres, as well as a performance by The Louisville Crashers and music from DJ Glenn Smith.
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December 10, 2012
Comedy in Cape Town: Your fix of laughter in the Mother City
People in Cape Town are hilarious – and I don't mean accidentally because they look funny.
Some of them purposely step onto a stage and try make locals and tourists laugh at them. This isn't some form of sick sadomasochism – this is the Cape Town comedy scene, and it's better than ever!
It wasn't always the case that Cape Town could offer several comedy shows a week from a variety of performers. A few years back there was but one venue. If you couldn't get in there, you would have to resort to telling jokes to yourself, and pretending you didn't already know the punchline.
Today, however, things have changed. Comedian Brendan Murray has watched the scene grow over the past few years, and says that now there is a vibrant scene. "There's a lot of comedy going on," he says. "There's a gig almost every night of the week – you just have to know where to look."
His colleagues share the sentiment. Rob van Vuuren – whose alter ego is Twakkie from The Most Amazing Show – says that Cape Town comedy "is experiencing a resurgence, a renaissance". He puts it down, in part, to new interest in pursuing comedy as a career. "As the amount of comics grow, so interest from audiences grows."
There are loads of local comedy spots around Cape Town now, and most stand-up evenings are organised by professional comics themselves. Venues include the likes of The Chilli Bar, Republic Lounge and Sinsation. Van Vuuren also notes: "There are festivals throughout the year now, and [television channel] Comedy Central is getting involved."
According to Murray, Cape Town audiences can be difficult to crack because they spend a lot of their time relaxing on the beach and not being too fussed about anything.
"This is a leisure town. In summer the sun sets at 9pm. People aren't exactly desperate for a laugh," he says. The logic here says that high stress necessitates a sense of humour, a theory that Donald Trump has singlehandedly proved false.
However, Murray also notes that Cape Town audiences are more willing to laugh at themselves. "For example, hipsters would laugh hardest at a joke about hipsters," which is handy because hipsters do spend a lot of time being laughed at. Van Vuuren agrees: "We live in an incredibly diverse country. Comedy is a way to deconstruct ourselves and each other, and examine how things work."
With its reputation for leisure tourism, it's no surprise that comedy audiences have a healthy mix of locals and foreigners. "You're never sure how a joke will go down," says Murray, "but it adds to the focus of the comedy. You have audiences who are very aware of broad issues in terms of geography, politics and human rights issues."
If you're looking for your fix, here are some dates for the month of December 2012:
4/11/18 December
Republic of Comedy at Republic Lounge (8.30pm)
Tickle me Tuesday at Sinsation, Camps Bay (8.00pm)
5/12/19/26 December
Zula comedy nights at Zula Bar (8.30pm)
6/13/20/27 December
Jou Ma se Comedy Club at Riverclub Golf Course, Observatory (8.00pm)
Chillibar Comedy Nights (9.00pm)
9/16/23/30 December
Comedy Sundays at the Armchair (9:00pm)


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February 01, 2012
The magic of The Nutcracker on Ice at the Artscape Theatre Centre
The enchanting Imperial Ice Stars production, The Nutcracker on Ice, is currently running at the Artscape Theatre Centre in Cape Town.
It is an enticing mix of ice-skating, acrobatics and Tchaikovsky's famous ballet. From the phenomenal set designs, which were computer-generated before construction, to the unbelievable transformation of the Artscape Opera House stage into a large ice rink and the world-renowned cast, this charming tale transports you to a magical world.
The Nutcracker ballet was first staged in Russia in 1892 and is a well loved and familiar tale, now transformed by ice skating element. Anastasia Ignatyeva plays the lead, Maria and enchants audiences with her lithe frame and seemingly effortless dancing. She is perfectly matched by the impossibly handsome and athletic Nutcracker Prince, Bogdan Berezenko.
The sleight of hand mastery of Maria's godfather Drosselmeyer, played by Vadim Yarkov, adds to the surrealism of the performance while the special effects will please even the most cynical audience member.
The ensemble cast is as alluring as the leads with the Arabian dancers being a particular crowd pleaser.
At the heart of this exquisite tale, of course, is the unfolding love story between Marie and her Prince. As they twirl and whirl their way on the ice and away from the nefarious Mouse King and his minions, and hold court with the Sugar Plum Fairy, this amazing production reinforces the classic fairytale lesson we adore: the magic of true love can solve any problem.
Fall in love with this modern twist on a timeless tale. Event has been closed. Was brought to you by Pieter Toerien, which runs until February 12, 2012, at Computicket.


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Catholic Social Teaching
Ways to learn about Catholic social teaching and how to implement it at home, in the classroom, and in everyday life.
Moral Priorities #1 Protecting Human Life
By Sr. Joan Hart SSDN
For the past several months, readers of this web page have been considering the seven central themes of Catholic social teaching. Now comes the task of translating the theory into action on issues of the day. The U.S. bishops have given us some direction in their recent statement on Faithful Citizenship. As voting citizens, we are called to examine a whole gamut of issues in their relationship to our faith. No single issue should determine how we vote. No single candidate agrees with us on all the issues.
Protecting Human Life
In their section on "Moral Priorities for Public Life" the bishops choose Protecting Human Life as their first of these moral priorities, saying, "we have a duty to defend human life from conception until natural death and in every condition." We would expect to see abortion, euthanasia, and assisted suicide as issues under this priority, and they are surely there. In addition, two new issues are cloning and human experimentation through biotechnology. Several other issues concern warfare. The bishops include opposition to intentional targeting of civilians in war or terrorist attacks, and call us to work to avoid war itself, especially the preemptive use of force. For the danger that weapons of mass destruction pose to human life, the bishops oppose nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and anti-personnel landmines. They point to the global arms trade as contributing to violent conflicts all over the world. They cite health care coverage as essential to the protection of human life. Finally, the bishops oppose the death penalty, calling instead for solutions to violent crime that would "reflect the dignity of the human person."
Perhaps no other religious body in our nation would put together such a list which includes both highly controversial issues and an admirable consistency. Once we have said that the human person is made in the image and likeness of God, then it is our duty to protect human life wherever and however it is threatened. It is our opportunity to raise these issues in the national debate so that we may know where candidates stand.
Being willing to say that we are committed to protecting human life has a price tag. It is not merely a theoretical statement but one with carefully thought out implications and applications. This is where "the rubber hits the road" for our faith. Assenting to all of it can involve struggle, but did anyone ever say discipleship would be easy?
From Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility, © October 10, 2003 by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.


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We will spend a day in Helsinki in the beginning of December. (As we do most years cruising from Stockholm.) What temporary exhibitions are available in Helsinki's museum or elsewhere at that time?
A couple of pointers:
Tennispalatsi (Helsinki Art Museum)
There will be two ongoing exhibitions in December:
Tip: free entrace to Tennispalatsi on Fridays :)
If you're after something decidedly Finnish, you should probably check out the Gallen-Kallela one.
Kiasma (modern art)
See their calendar
Ateneum (Finnish National Gallery)
They'll have (among others) these temporary exhibitions:
...plus permanent collections.
All of the above are in located in the heart of the city. If you're willing to venture out to the suburbs, there's e.g. EMMA (Espoo Museum of Modern Art) ~half hour bus trip away, with exhibitions like:
Of course, there are lots of other places too. For example, you'll find info on smaller, City of Helsinki owned museums here. I was actually going to mention, as one example, the same exhibition as Mark did: Out to Sea – 150 Years of Sailing in Helsinki at Hakasalmi Villa, next to Finlandia Hall.
Helsinki City Museum has the 'Out to Sea' exhibit until January, which celebrates 150 years of Sailing in Helsinki:


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Crazy on You (Mass Market Paperbound)
Return to Lovett, Texas, the setting of Daisy's Back in Town, in this smart and sexy new story from Rachel Gibson, the New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Me and the Seattle Chinooks books.
Lily Darlington's been called crazy in her day and, yeah, driving her car into her ex-husband's living room probably wasn't the smartest move ever made but the louse deserved it. Now Lily is happily single, and she's turned it all around. She knows she's a good mom, a homeowner, and a businesswoman, all wrapped up in one good-looking package.
A package that police officer Tucker Matthews is dying to unwrap. This ex-military man sure doesn't need another woman in his life. His last girlfriend left him with nothing but memories and a cat named Pinky But living next door to Lily has been driving him nuts. He dreams about her long blonde hair and even longer legs. And maybe it's time to go a little crazy . . . and fall in love.
About the Author
With the publication of "New York Times" bestselling author Rachel Gibson's first book, readers discovered one of contemporary romance's freshest voices. Four of her novels were named among the Top Ten Favorite Books of the Year by Romance Writers of America. She has won numerous awards, including Borders Bestselling Romantic Comedy, National Reader's Choice, and two RITA(R) Awards for the Best Single Contemporary Romance Title of the Year.


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April 8, 2013
New York University will participate in the 43rd annual Earth Day festivities with a week-long celebration of eco-friendly events including a sprout growing workshop, a food festival, film & lectures, green projects, and an environmentally friendly clothing swap. All events are free and open to the public. Some events require a RSVP. For the complete schedule of Earth Day/Week related events, please see Sustainability at NYU.
Media Inquiries Only: For information on events, or for story queries, please contact Christopher James at 212.998.6876 or firstname.lastname@example.com
NYU's residence hall energy reduction challenge, NYUnplugged, is taking place in conjunction with NYU's celebration of "Earth Week 2013." This spring's NYUnplugged competition will focus on educating the NYU community about "vampire power," also known as stand-by power or "phantom load." This refers to the electricity that is used by home electronics and appliances when they seem "off" or in standby mode.
Conscious Information Station 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM Kimmel Lobby
Earthmatters! Club at NYU in partnership with Teens Turning Green will be hosting a Conscious Information Station in the Kimmel Lobby to provide helpful information about the transition from conventional to conscious living as well as free organic food and samples!
Environmental Town Hall Meeting 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Kimmel Center, Room 802
Teens Turning Green is launching the Conscious College Road Tour at 15 campuses nationwide with the goal of informing students about conscious living, smart consumption, and the collective impact of individual actions. Stop by Shorin for dinner, an Eco-Speaker, and to discuss implementing a guide for incoming students which specifies the right products to bring to school for a sustainable lifestyle.
New York Times Drilling Down Series with Ian Urbina 7:30 PM, Kimmel Center, 4th Floor, Eisner and Lubin Auditorium
Oxfam America at NYU presents award-winning investigative correspondent for The New York Times, Ian Urbina. Mr. Urbina is credited with making the issue of hydraulic fracturing accessible through his New York Times Drilling Down Series, the groundbreaking, data-driven series on fracking. On April 17th, Mr. Urbina will discuss how he used investigative journalism as a means to address controversial topics such as fracking. RSVP required.
Food Inc. Screening, 7:00 PM, Kimmel Center, 802
Come join the Environmental Studies Club for their screening of Food, Inc., in which filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment.
Food, Inc. reveals surprising—and often shocking truths—about what we eat, how it's produced, who we have become as a nation and where we are going from here.
Local Governance and Food Systems 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM, Furman Hall 216; New York University Law School, 245 Sullivan Street
As enthusiasm for building sustainable local food systems continues to grow, the discussion is shifting from a focus on entrepreneurship and enlightened consumerism to the need for civic engagement. A growing number of municipalities have become actively engaged in food systems planning--and New York is at the forefront of this movement.
NRDC's Mark Izeman and NYC's Food Policy Coordinator Kim Kessler will be joining some of the other city's leading figures in food policy and planning to discuss the role of local governance in building sustainable food systems. Brought to you by NYU Food Law, Wagner Food Policy Alliance, the Green Rabbits, and the NYU Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. RSVP required.
Sprout Growing Workshop 6:30 PM, Green Dorm Lounge
Everything you've always wanted: a sprout growing workshop! Community Agriculture Club will be hosting a workshop on how to grow sprouts in a dorm room! They may even plant a few for people to take home. Microwave fritattas and mug cakes, which everyone will get to eat.
Affordable Food, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, 35 W. 4th St at the 10th Floor Kitchen
Having trouble eating on a budget? Learn how to make good cheap eats at Club E.A.T.'s Spring Cooking Lesson! Our very own Lauren Coull will help lead a workshop on how to make a healthy, frugal 3-course meal all on a budget! We will be working in the kitchen to make food for everyone involved. RSVP and questions at firstname.lastname@example.com! Come E.A.T. with us!
Garden Groundbreaking! 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Bronfman Center, 1st Floor & Space Outside
Do The Math is the documentary about the rising movement to change the terrifying math of the climate crisis and challenge the fossil fuel industry. Please join members of 350.org, NYU Divest, and the local community for a free screening of this important film. The evening includes a live-streamed panel with climate leaders and post-panel discussion on the future of climate justice in the NYC community. View the trailer featuring Bill McKibben of 350.org. Free admission: RSVP here.
Ocean Elevator Installation, 7 East 12th Street, M-Sat, 8am to 9pm
Come see an engaging elevator installation at the NYU SCPS building, 7 East 12th Street (Between University Place and 5th Avenue) that will raise awareness about ocean pollution among the NYU population and the effects of plastic water bottles in our oceans. From April 21st – April 27th, visit and ride the elevators, and prepare to be enlightened.
Earth Day Sustainability Fair. 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, Vanderbilt Courtyard
Come join the Environmental Law Society, The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, and Food Law in a celebration of sustainable food this coming Earth Day! We will be basking in the glorious outdoors in the Vanderbilt Courtyard, while munching on free vegan, sustainable food. The event will feature several local farmers and artisans giving out free samples, and will be fully catered by a local green business. As if free food wasn't enough, the Earth Day Fair will also feature games, contests, prizes, and plenty of opportunities to learn what NYU Law is doing to make our campus a greener, more sustainable place.
Clothing Swap 6:00 PM-10:00 PM, Kimmel Center, Room 914
Celebrate Earth Day by bringing in a bag of your old clothes and swapping for some new treasures! Then join a DIY workshop and learn how to re-accessorize your new finds. Can't part with your clothes? Then feel free to drop off shoes, accessories, or anything else you'd like to share.
Food Festival 7:30-9:30 PM, Kimmel Center, Room 802
NYU's first campus wide-food festival. Over a dozen cultural, spiritual, greek, and environmental organizations have come together to share their favorite dishes with you. All food is free, vegetarian, and deeelicious. So come fill your evening with a wholesome meal and a friendly crowd. Presented by Oxfam @ NYU.
Food Justice in New York City 6:00 PM-8:00 PM, Jerry H. Labowitz Theatre for the Performing Arts, Gallatin School
The food justice movement vies for a food system that is environmentally sound, economically viable, and socially just. This panel discussion will bring together some of the most innovative advocates and practitioners from New York City's food justice community, such as Brooklyn Grange President Ben Flanner and EcoStation: NY'S Director of Farms & Education, Maggie Cheney.
As pioneers in this movement, the speakers will discuss their own work and the challenges that remain towards promoting a strong local food system, just access to healthy food, self-reliant communities, and a healthy environment in New York City. Organized by the Gallatin Greening Committee.
Pickle-Making and Earth-Lovin' Jam Party, 6:30 PM, Kimmel 912
Come join Yovel: The Green Zionist Alliance @ NYU to make your own pickles and chill out with tea, friends, and guitars while enjoying organic and vegetarian pizza! It's going to be a great time. RSVP here.
Pony Power Farm Visit, 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Join CHEFs for Schools on our 5th Annual Farm Trip during Earth Week, for a day of planting, weeding, building, mentoring and learning! This year we will be visiting Pony Power Farm in Mahwah, NJ, whose garden is operated by Farm to Live, a program of the Mahwah Environmental Volunteer Organization Inc (MEVO). NYU student volunteers will be paired with environmental studies students from Stuyvesant High School for this day of service.
Pony Power Farm supports our eco-friendly goals and strives to teach children and adults about sustainable, local, and fresh foods. The event is equally enriching for NYU student volunteers, many of whom have never visited a farm before joining our annual farm trips.
The trip is free but we are going to require a $5 deposit that will be returned on the day of the trip. Participants will also have to submit a travel and photo release with CSALS in Kimmel (room 704). Details on how to do this will be explained via the confirmation and an email. RSVP here.
NYU's Celebration of Earth Week is sponsored in part by the Earth Week Planning Committee, as well as the NYU Sustainability Task Force, Earth Matters!, the Environmental Studies Department, NYU Program Board, NYU Animal Studies Initiative, NYU Food Studies, and the Environmental Studies Club.
NYU's Sustainability Task Force is an advisory body composed of students, faculty, administrators, and staff, who develop recommendations for new policies and practices that advance NYU's long-term future as a sustainable university. For more information on the Sustainability Task Force, go to http://www.nyu.edu/sustainability
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It's tourist season in Paradise, Massachusetts. With it comes a baffling and violent crime wave that has residents on edge. It's also brought a mysterious figure who's stirring up troubling memories for Chief of Police Jesse Stone—especially when it appears the stranger is out for revenge.
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Max Wedge Engine Sixteen Pack Cross Ram ManifoldWritten by on March 10, 2010 The Mythical Max Wedge "Sixteen Pack" Cross-Ram
If you're like us, nothing fascinates you more than factory prototype cars and parts, especially stuff that never reached the production stage. These dead ends offer the teasing allure of what might have been and are just too much to handle for major league car freaks. So when we first saw the grainy photos of what appears to be a four-carb Max Wedge induction system, we assumed the thing was some type of doomsday device hatched by Chrysler engineers in case the early '60s factory Super Stock wars went nuclear. But first appearances can be deceiving.
Today we all know the production Max Wedge of 1962 - 1964 was only offered with dual Carter AFB four-barrel carburetors arranged in a cross-ram layout. With 15-inch tapered passages and generous plenum volumes, the cross-ram manifold was tuned to take advantage of naturally occurring resonating pulses within the intake tract to deliver a slight supercharging effect above 5,500 rpm-all the while remaining compact enough to fit under stock first generation B-Body sheetmetal.
The '62 413 and '63 Stage II 426 Max Wedges (Dodge Ramcharger and Plymouth Super Stock) featured dual Carter 3447 carbs rated at 525 cfm, along with special solid-lifter cams, high-speed valvesprings, adjustable rocker arms, big port heads, and streamlined iron exhaust manifolds. They were highly effective in combating the Pontiac 421s, Chevy 409s and Ford 406s and 427s in the other lane. But just for good measure, the Stage III 426-introduced in late 1963-upped the ante with a pair of huge Carter 3705s rated at a whopping 750 cfm each.
Think about that. The Stage III 426's dual 750s were capable of supplying a combined 1,500 cfm at WOT. Straddling a 426 cube Wedge, that should be plenty to feed the fires even at crankshaft speeds in excess of 7,000 rpm, which brings us to the crazy induction setup under discussion here. With a total of four Carter AFB four-barrel carburetors, it's got sixteen throttle plates. Lets whimsically call it the Max Wedge Sixteen Pack from here on-even if it predates the actual '691/2 Six Pack by several years.
When accomplished NHRA Stock and Super Stock racer Bob Mazzolini mentioned he owned a complete four carburetor cross-ram a decade ago and has photos to prove it, we jumped on the chance for a look. As you'll see in the following photos, the thing looks exactly like a Chrysler item. It has the same shapes, contours, core plugs, and general characteristics as any standard Max Wedge cross-ram-except for those extra carbs.
Mazzolini tells us he bought it from a seller in California around 1989 as part of a Max Wedge parts stash. It arrived exactly as we see it in these photos, complete with four unmolested Carter 3447 Max Wedge carburetors that still had their choke plates intact. Bob says he resisted the urge to scavenge the rare carburetors-a super hot commodity among class drag racers and restorers alike.
Though he had no immediate use for it, he marveled at its potential and even brought it along to numerous NHRA national events and points meets as a conversation piece. Observers agreed that it appeared to be a Chrysler item but many eyebrows were raised at the sighting of the integrally cast Navarro logo almost hidden between the carburetors on each bank. After a few years of blowing minds, Mazzolini sold it to a collector in Michigan and that was the last we've seen of it.
Or have we? When it comes to Mopar mysteries, clues have a way of popping up in the most unexpected places. During a trip to H&H Flatheads in LaCrescenta, California, to shoot a S.C.o.T. supercharged Ford flathead buildup story (for another magazine . . . obviously), proprietor Mike Herman showed us an unusual aluminum tooling pattern with two four-barrel carburetor mounts positioned close together.
Usually this wouldn't be noteworthy until you realize that H&H Flatheads is the sole proprietor of the Navarro speed equipment dynasty. When Barney Navarro (a legendary California hot rodder since day one) passed in 2007, Mike sealed a deal to keep much of the vintage Navarro parts in production. While most of it is centered on Ford flathead stuff, Mike wasn't sure what to make of the dual quad tooling pattern. But we sure did!
Borrowing a stock Max Wedge cross-ram from Max Wedge fanatic Bob Mosher, we placed the pattern atop the manifold and the mystery of the four carb cross-ram was solved.
It turns out that Barney Navarro cast an unknown number of these wild four carburetor Max Wedge intake manifolds in the early '60s. Most likely they were made for land speed and marine use. But that's about all we know at this point. Check out the photos and captions and see how the story unfolds.
Best of all, we ran the pictures by Rick Allison at A&A Transmission (makers of reproduction Max Wedge and Race Hemi cross-ram intake manifolds) and he says if there is enough demand, he'll collaborate with H&H Flatheads on a run of reproductions! Can you imagine popping the hood and seeing four carburetors perched atop any 413-440 wedge? Let's make it happen!
It's Not One of Ours: Chrysler Guys Speak Out
To see if anybody at Chrysler knew of a clandestine collaboration between the factory and Navarro on the quad-carburetor cross-ram, we showed several high ranking ex-Chrysler engineers photos and asked them for their input. These guys weren't only Max Wedge racers, they designed the Max Wedge. Here's what they had to say:
Bill Shope, former Ram Chargers member (1958) and Chrysler ram tuning engineer: "That's an interesting design! It reminds me of the fabricated manifold Barnes Daniels used on his E/Gasser. His was more akin to the Weber designs, but he used 8 Carter side draft carburetors. To sum up, it's an interesting design, but no, I don't think the unit shown in the pictures came from within Chrysler."
Barnes Daniels, former Ram Chargers member (1958-1963) and Chrysler engineer: "I've never seen anything like it. Not sure how a four carburetor cross-ram like the Navarro unit would work, but we sure didn't make it."
Bill Weertman, former Chrysler Assistant Chief Engineer- Engines: "That quartet of four-barrel carburetors is certainly an impressive top end for any engine. No shortage of inlet air capacity-at least not through the carbs. Some dyno work would be needed to see if those extra throats can actually translate to a difference at the flywheel. The photos were the first time I have ever seen or even heard about the setup so I can't help with any additional information. Perhaps Tom Hoover has some knowledge about it".
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Mazzoilin says, "I placed the induction setup on a '64 Dodge B-Body, and the throttle shaft of the passenger side rear carburetor (shown here) hit the firewall. If I was serious about installing it and running it, a small amount of hammer work would have provided needed clearance." Based on Bob's photos and observations, we can conclude that this was definitely an aftermarket item produced by Navarro-not some top secret factory wonder weapon.We can thank Bob Mazzolini for snapping many of the photographs shown here. Bob says: "My big rivals in NHRA A/Stock and B/Stock ran 427 Camaros. They'd freak out when they saw the four carburetor cross-ram induction displayed on the work bench in my trailer. Of course, it wasn't class legal but they didn't know that."This grainy close-up is the only shot of the swivel couplers linking the carburetors together. They appear to be adapted from 1/4-inch socket wrench swivels and activate the primary throttle shafts/blades of both carbs simultaneously. Secondary operation is via the usual mechanical linkage and weighted air valve used on regular AFB carburetors.Though solid evidence is evasive, clues indicate the Navarro four carb cross-ram was made for guys like Norm Thatcher. At the age of 70, Thatcher set a series of land speed records in Dodge and Plymouth products during the early Sixties. Thatcher (on right) owned a repair shop in Van Nuys, California, and was a regular contestant at Bonneville and Muroc. If anybody can shed more light on the mysterious Navarro four carb cross ram, we're all ears.The Navarro pattern's primary throttle bores measure 1.44 inch and the secondary bores measure 1.69 inch-just like a Stage I/Stage II Chrysler manifold. Clearly Navarro intended the manifold to accept 1962-1963 Carter 3447 spread bore Max Wedge carburetors. Late 1963-1964 Stage III 3705 Max Wedge Carters have larger 111/16 primary and secondary throttle bores, which would not have fit this manifold without enlarging the throttle bores-a simple machining operation.Placing the H&H/Navarro dual-carb tooling insert atop a standard cross-ram (thanks to Bob Mosher for the loan) offers a glimpse of what the few Navarro quad carb castings looked like. We're still wondering about the rest of the manifold casting. The similarity with Chrysler castings suggests some level of collaboration between Navarro and Chrysler. But first hand accounts from ex-Chrysler engineers nix the theory (see sidebar).If a four carburetor Max Wedge isn't strange enough, how about a four door Max Wedge race car? Though few were ordered, Max Wedge power was factory optional in station wagons, convertibles, and yes, four door sedans. This is the Palmer Dodge sponsored '62 Dart four door in action at Muncie, IN. Interestingly, Palmer Dodge also co-sponsored the ill-fated Dodge Challenger Indianapolis Pace Car program of 1971 in which Eldon Palmer accidentally drove the pace car into a scaffolding supporting several race photographers.


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The press conference at the Medical Center at Franklin held an air of excitement. For the past four years, they have attempted to get accreditation, and now their hard work has paid off.
Clara Sumner is the CEO of the Medical Center at Franklin. She says, "Our policies and procedures changed to get our education aligned with our staff. We were successful November 18 and 19 with the survey process."
So successful, in fact, that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations made no recommendation to change anything.
Sumner says, "With no recommendations, which is usually unheard of. The staff is extremely excited, and it just furthers our commitment to the community."
Accreditation is awarded for three years. To gain accreditation, Joint Commissions visit health care organizations and conduct surveys. During the survey, select patients are randomly chosen to evaluate standards of compliance.
Sumner says, "They would actually select a patient and go through every process of that patients stay. So it takes them into every department of the facility to see that we're operating effectively and safely."
The hospital's director of nursing and patient care services, Eric Hagan, says it is not only and honor for the hospital, but it could draw more industry to Franklin.
Eric Hagan says, "I think it's good for the community because hopefully it will help their recruitment efforts in getting more industries here. Knowing that we have an accredited hospital that is similar meets the same standards as more renowned hospitals."


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Vermouth is quietly making a big comeback. There are quite a few small producers making gorgeously complex and flavorful vermouths, both in its ancestral European homelands and in the Americas, reminiscent of days long gone. My hometown of New York City alone has Uncouth and Atsby which are two of my favorites. But I have a problem with this movement: they're too closely tied to cocktails!
Before the modern cocktail movement vermouths were prized for sipping on their own (or on the rocks) as aperitifs or digestifs. In fact the primary botanicals that flavor these fortified wines were medicinal herbs, barks and roots that were specifically aimed at settling upset stomachs making them a natural digestion aid. Bust most importantly, these excellent new vermouths are so bold and delicious that they deserve to have the glass all to themselves.
I'm all for cocktails with vermouth as an ingredient and there are a handful of brands that have long been the choice for many great mixologists, simpler subtler vermouths specifically designed for blending with spirits in tins and shakers. And I know for marketing purposes the best way to sell anything tied with spirits is to tell people to make cocktails with it. But to really get the full benefit of great vermouth, pour a short wine pour into your favorite stemware and try slowly sipping it straight. It's my drink of choice for lazy summer afternoons.
Just don't forget that vermouth is not a spirit: it's a fortified wine and it behaves much more like wine. This means that it will deteriorate after opening and should be kept chilled, preferably with the air removed from the bottle with a vacuum pump, to ensure that it retains as much of it's flavor with a minimum of spoilage.
The spirits world is buzzing over the announcement from Lost Spirits and resident agitator Bryan Davis that they have created a chemical reactor that can duplicate the aging process of up to 20 years in oak barrels in less than a week. I've been a fan of their spirits for a while, starting with their whiskeys for which they would never tell the age (only saying "less than 1 year") and more recently their potent and complex rums. What I never knew is that I had been drinking the test runs of this reactor process. And enjoying them immensely.
I had scheduled a trip to San Francisco, which is not far from the distillery, and started chatting with Bryan's partner Joanne about visiting while I was there. She was a bit cryptic about not being able to promise to accommodate me, but she said she'd try. Then two weeks before I got there the announcement came out so I thought there was no chance. Until I got a call from her early on a Sunday afternoon asking if I could run down in a few hours. How could I say no?
Their distillery and small house/office are surrounded by artichoke fields in a rural area. The still is outdoors and made up of a few artfully crafted components famously including a steam vent in the shape of an ornate dragon's head. The kiln where they smoked their whiskey malts over peat fires is nearby under a pagoda. From the outside it looks more like the classic eccentric suburban neighbor's place than anything else. Inside the house there is a beautiful tiny bar next to the seemingly unused kitchen and living room set up for discussion and demonstration. Through an unmarked door is their secret laboratory. Or so I guessed. Frankly I have no clue and there was no evidence of the kind of B-movie foundry I was expecting to see.
I have to say that Bryan and Joanne are two of the most genuinely friendly people I've ever met. With virtually no sleep for weeks and insane demands on their time that will only get crazier, they were terrific hosts. Truly enthusiastic to chat, show off their creations and take care of us. I've never felt more welcome visiting a distillery and they made more time for the occasion than I would have expected even if they hadn't just shocked the distilling community.
After a quick tour of the still outside, we went in to the bar where Bryan poured generous glasses of their Colonial Style Rum which is the only one of their commercially produced rums I hadn't tasted yet. It is magnificent, and it's sadly nearly impossible to find (even their own tiny stock is already committed to a conference). Then we took our drinks to the living room where Bryan gave us the presentation he delivered to announce his invention. Not many people can make molecular science entertaining, but Bryan can. The rum helped. And afterwards they encouraged us to taste the other three rums and hang out for a bit. I was far too polite to refuse.
While the presentation was fascinating and the science seemed sound to my untrained mind, the important thing is the results. I thought their series of whiskeys were all amazing, but often more interesting than delicious (although a few of the releases were both). The four rums are all fantastic, with the Colonial Style my favorite by far. They share a depth of flavor that I would have sworn could only come from patient aging in large barrels if I hadn't been told in detail how they all undergo this short, intense process instead.
So what does the future hold for them and their reactor? They already have a long waiting list of small distilleries hoping to purchase reactors. Bigger distilling corporations are already sniffing around. No doubt there will be attempts to knock them off, and/or set up legal hurdles, and/or buy them out. But if they persevere and can reliably produce reactors and train people to use them they might have created the first real innovation in aging spirits since they were first put into wooden barrels. I can't wait to see what's next for them and I'll be rooting for them to succeed.
"To make a barrel, it's not very difficult, but it's so many steps. If you make one mistake, at the end, it's not a barrel. It's a box."
-Francis Durand, Master Cooper for Tonnellerie Radoux
2014 has been a rough year for Bourbon. First we hear that there is an impending Bourbon shortage. Then we hear that the shortage is in large part due to the fact that the vast majority of all Bourbon brands are actually made by very few distilleries and are simply fancy labels on other people's whiskey. All this amid rumblings of American oak barrels disappearing faster than they can be made and a worldwide surge in demand has collectors hoarding their favorite bottles.
These revelations weren't surprising to those of us who work in the industry. And most of us don't necessarily agree with much of the overreaction to them. But it does make me eager to point something out: there are small distilleries popping up all over the USA making good Bourbon from scratch, and as the biggest producers run dry these little guys will be getting better. I've been a big fan of Watershed Bourbon since part-owner Dave Rigo came to New York to help introduce it to this new market. Oola's Waitsburg Bourbon is another new-to-NYC whiskey that I'm thrilled to have in the catalog I oversee. RoughStock's Montana Bourbon is third excellent riff on this classic. None of these brands have the big buzz yet, but they're all excellent and the lack of hype makes them all great value buys. For now…
So it's the perfect time to get out of your brand comfort zone and start exploring the new wave of Bourbons. Find your new favorite while you ween off your old stand-by and you'll weather the storm until the next "crisis".
In light of New York Cider Week which just passed, it's time for me to discuss cider. Not only was it the original everyman's drink of the new world (long forgotten thanks in part to immigration, industrialization and prohibition) but it was also a crucial component of early American exportation trade. And today, it's one of the most misunderstood drinks around. So many people look at hard cider as solely a beer substitute, all too often suggested to women with the demeaning thought that girls can't handle beer. But in truth it's much closer to apple wine than apple beer, especially when made in one of the many traditional styles from around the world. The Basque version is nearly still and has so little residual sugar that it's sharply tart. In Normandy the cider is sparkling like Champagne and has a beautiful sweetness balanced by yeast like the sparkling wine, too. And farmhouses from rural England through their colonies in the New World produced gorgeous ciders from a wide variety of apples which produced a range of flavors and textures that very much suggest the range of wine styles.
In the last several years- and in conjunction with the movements to go back to traditional farming techniques and to revive heirloom produce- cideries have been popping up all over the USA to rekindle the drink that was such an important part of American history. Some have carefully cultivated nearly-extinct varietals to faithfully recreate old recipes. Others have taken to foraging forests and abandoned homesteads to find forgotten fruit that has been allowed to propagate naturally and creates wild flavors once fermented. And like wine, some take a "natural" approach favoring minimal manipulation and native yeasts while others use specific yeast strains and occasional additions of fresh juice to control the texture, carbonation and residual sugar content. With cider lists popping up on menus all over New York City, it's a great time to learn to love this perfect expression of the apple which was at one time even more American than apple pie.
It's always been a thrill for me to "discover" a new drink that blows my mind. Especially when it's in a category that isn't already super saturated with choices. So I have a couple of new obsessions I'm giddy over:
1) Don Ciccio & Figli Finocchietto- Francesco Amodeo (who grew up on the Amalfi Coast of Italy but makes his liqueurs in Washington, DC) makes an entire line of traditional liqueurs. His family made these same liqueurs for well over 100 years and he has the old recipe book (which he couldn't get until the family considered him serious enough). I'm specifically crazy about the Finocchietto, neutral spirits infused with hand-picked wild fennel, fennel seeds, aniseeds, and dill with just enough sugar to raise the viscosity. It has an amazing fennel flavor, closer to the grassy fresh bulbs than the more licorice-like seeds. But fans of anything on the anise scale should love this.
2) Lost Spirits Distillery Navy Strength Rum- Bryan Alexander Davis and Joanne Haruta made some spectacular tiny run whiskeys until a mishap caused them to bulldoze their outdoor still and start over from scratch. Now their focus is rum and this one is a stunner. 68% alcohol by volume and hugely flavorful, but so tasty you can (almost) sip it straight. He takes a page out of ancient rum distilling and uses dunder to start fermentation which creates serious esters that add unusual depth of flavor. I'll sip mine on the rocks but it's a fantastic option for any cocktail calling for dark rum.
Yes I'm selling them at Mouth, but this isn't a sales pitch. It's a nod to a couple of the inspiring new spirits that are suddenly propagating all over the country. Getting to be among the first in New York to taste spirits like these makes me realize how lucky I am to do what I do.
It's been a while since I've posted here thanks to the amount of work I've put into my new job. So it's with great excitement that I announce that the Mouth Indie Spirits + Wine Gallery is open at 192 Water Street in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, and you can find our selection of spirits & wine on our website at Mouth.com. We have a terrific range of spirits from small American craft distilleries, plus a small but fun group of wines featuring some amazing natural winemakers and a couple of great versions of more standard wines. I think you'll see that the world of independent production in the United States has reached a point where the quality & flavors are fantastic, while the inventiveness of some of the more maverick producers will entertain as well as delight. And all signs point to more and better things to come.
While the focus of the project I'm working on for Mouth is definitely spirits, we are putting together a terrific small wine selection. And it's been a great excuse for me to focus on American wineries that are pushing the envelope with techniques and flavors rather than playing it safe and making the kinds of wines that make me turn to the old world all too often.
Yountville Sémillon made by Dirty & Rowdy Family Winery is a perfect example. Sémillon is rarely grown in the US. And this one was fermented both on it's skins for 2 weeks before splitting into a steel tank and into a mix of American and French oak casks, and without the skins in a "concrete egg". The wines are blended just before bottling to produce a cloudy and bone-dry white wine with an earthy acidity. It's crisp but fascinating and an amazing display of the kind of wine making going on in select pockets of California today.
While I am the first to admit that the conglomeration of brands into huge distilling corporations hasn't been as disastrous as some people say, I still love when an independent distiller makes a name for itself in the middle of a traditional distilling hub that has all been bought out. For example Town Branch Bourbon from the folks at Kentucky Ales in Lexington, KY. They're the only independent distillery on the famous Kentucky Bourbon Trail & their Bourbon is classically fantastic without being painfully expensive. A very neat trick to pull off in an era when whiskey is going extreme in both flavor & price. I have a feeling I'll be recommending this bottle a lot once Mouth Spirits is fully-operational.
Dave Herman is a Certified Specialist of Spirits and avid fan of all things fermented and distilled. He teaches classes on alcoholic beverages and the foods that pair well with them, and has consulted on beverage programs for bars, restaurants and nationally acclaimed retail stores.


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You can check the installer logs and dates at:
A quick way to find the date through the command line would be by running:
If you use ext2/ext3/ext4 and formatted the disk when you installed you can do this nifty trick.
You might have to change the
Relaying on the date of files, even the "creation time" (mtime) can give errors since upgrading packages might have replaced the file and made a new "creation time".
Similar tools and info might be available on other file systems as well, but I don't know of them.
I also don't know of a specific command or file. I'm using some heuristics to find the installation date:
This small script looks for files in
This assumes that after an installation are left unchanged. This is in most cases (according to my observation) true, but in special cases it can also give wrong results.
the only command that worked for me is -
sudo ls -alct /|tail -1|awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'
If the installation is recent, look at the oldest entries under
Another thing to look at is the oldest ctime of a file on the root filesystem; but if the whole installation has been copied (e.g. rescued off a failing disk) at the directory tree level, this gives you the date of the copy.
If a heuristic is good enough, look at the date (mtime) of a file that was created during the installation and is unlikely to have been modified since. A good candidate is
I don't think there is.
On Red Hat / CentOS there is the install.log files that is generated when you install the system, but this doesn't exist on Ubuntu.
Assuming your logs go back far enough ( mine do ) you can determine the date the base installation was done in /var/log/dpkg.log*
For example on my system the first two lines of my oldest dpkg.log file (dpkg.log.4.gz) are
So I installed this system on 19/04/2010 at 11:40:55. That is correct for this system.
There was also a brainstorm idea to add this born date.
would it be simple (i may be wrong) just to check software centre, while in there click on 'history' and scroll down to the bottom of your installed updates. Mine shows april 23 2012 first installation. Which is about right when I started using ubuntu?
I would check the creation date of the
Edit: I found out recently that Linux dos not remember creation date. Only Access, Change and Modify. And my new solution:
I would check the change date of /boot/memtest86+.bin as it is not usually changed after install:
stat /boot/memtest86+.bin
The command
Give this a shot:
Should work pretty reliably except if you've updated every package that was installed stock on Ubuntu :)
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should do the same thing and is shorter.


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Steubenville teen trial to stay in open court
January 30, 2013
STEUBENVILLE - The trial of two 16-year-olds charged with raping an underage girl after end-of-summer parties five months ago will be held in open court, visiting Juvenile Judge Thomas Lipps......
This is good that the trial will be open to the public, then the full truth can be exposed.
To the young victim: We hope you can stay strong. you know your truth and we hope you know that thousands who have been raped and molested are standing with you in spirit.
It is time that victims, of sex crimes, voice's are heard.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, USA, 636-433-2511. snapjudy@gmail****, "SNAP (The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) is the world's oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. SNAP was founded in 1988 and has more than 12,000 members. Despite the word priest in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, teachers, Protestant ministers and increasingly, victims who were assaulted in a wide range of institutional settings like orphanages, summer camps, athletic programs, Boy Scouts, etc."
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Sorry it will be dirty no one will be punished. The big red coach threatened a reporter and his family . He played the rapist and kicked the boys off the team who testified. Why is the media kepping this quiet. He should be fired.
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good call...they didn't worry about any one seeing that poor girl being drug around, urinated on and laying naked in front of the public. I also agree on the open trial. If it isn't open then people will say it was dirty.
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Has anyone tried fluxbb forum script? If yes can they share their experience. On the official site it saysAs of now they don't have the conversion script from other software as well and so this is something that can work against them.
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7 Modern Conveniences That Are Way Older Than You Think
#3. The Ancient Inuit Had Sunglasses
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Quick, if you had to guess which era these glasses belonged to, what would you say? We'd go with, oh, the 24th century or so.
Via Royal Ontario Museum
That's some Duck Dodgers shit right there.
That looks like something Griff Tannen's henchmen would be wearing. Well, our estimate is slightly off: These "snow-goggles" were invented around 2,000 years ago by the ancestors of the Inuit at the Old Bering Sea. They're called that because the small slits are designed to allow people to look at the tundra on a bright day without having their retinas explode from all the sunlight reflecting off the snow. They're made from ivory, so they would have been completely white back when they were first made, making them look even more futuristic. The Inuit still use them today, because why wouldn't they?
Via Ic.sunysb.edu
Other than the fact that it makes them look like they want to kill The Flash.
Somehow, the sunglasses fad must have found its way to Europe, because shortly after the snow-goggles were invented the Roman Emperor Nero is said to have used gemstones to look at gladiators killing each other in the arena -- apparently these emerald-green stones Nero probably had lying around his bathroom somewhat cut down on the glare.
About 1,200 years later in China, some judges wore opaque, quartz-like shaded glasses over their eyes, not to block the sun or look cool, but to block their reactions to evidence being heard in court (and keep the accused's sphincter clenched during the entire proceedings). Whether or not the glasses helped judges sleep through trial without being noticed isn't in the historical record, but would be awesome.
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You pretty much know they're guilty in the first 30 seconds anyway.
#2. Vikings Had Arrest Warrants, Child Support, and Welfare
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In the popular imagination Vikings are less "enlightened lawmakers" and more "hairy guys jumping around with axes shouting RAAAAR." And yet, not only did they have progressive rape laws, as we've mentioned before -- they had a whole legal code to ensure every Viking was treated fairly.
Don't believe us? Here's a section of a real Viking saga where, at the point where you'd think they'd start chopping people's limbs off, one of the Vikings literally stops to ask for a warrant:
Via Amazon
"I have your warrant right here!" said Thorbjorn, unleashing his sword. There was a legal document at the tip.
Another long Icelandic saga follows the exploits of Njall Zorgeirsson, a ruthless pirate who begins by attacking the coast of -- just kidding, he's a lawyer. In fact, if you sit down and read Viking sagas, you'll find that a lot of them are one-third "savage Norsemen getting angry and killing each other" and two-thirds "arguing about it later in court." The Vikings even had regular public law gatherings, called Things, in which crimes were prosecuted using a complex system of fines and settlements for death and wrongful injury.
Often people who had nothing to do with either party would prosecute a case because of the fame and admiration it brought. We're talking about people whose everyday clothing was half metal, half animals they skinned themselves, and they still thought defending someone in a court of law was the coolest thing ever.
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It's how you earned your horn helmet and beard.
But these savage warriors didn't just think of themselves when making their laws, they also had plenty of compassion for the weak. The Gragas (the 12th century Icelandic legal code based on the Vikings' oral rules) outlined a tax system guaranteeing care of the poor if their own families or local communities could not provide for them, even if the recipients did not permanently reside in Iceland, and stipulated a system of child support after divorce, in which both spouses were expected to contribute to the children's upbringing according to their wealth and their ability to work.
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And that's how goths were born.
#1. Neanderthals Used Plants as Medication
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Picture a Neanderthal holding some herbs. What would you say he's about to do with them? If you said "give himself rectal hives by wiping with poison ivy," then you're ... absolutely right, but that's not all they'd use plants for: They'd also eat very specific ones to cure specific ailments -- Neanderthals officially knew more about medicine than half of us.
How do we know? It's all thanks to a group of intrepid scientists brave enough to probe cavemen teeth under a very strong microscope. Zooming in on the plaque, they spotted tiny particles imbedded in these prehistoric choppers. Karen Hardy from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Stephen Buckley from the University of York pored over the data and found remnants of chamomile and yarrow. And here's the thing: These plants had no nutritional value and, more importantly, many of them would taste like shit. Yes, even to a Neanderthal.
Girly bubble bath technology hadn't been invented yet.
According to the study, these giant-jawed morons supplemented their diets with chamomile because it aids digestive problems, and yarrow because it's an antiseptic. These substances also alleviated stress (they had to deal with wives and little green spacemen, after all) and helped battle the symptoms of a cold or fever. Chamomile is actually a potent anti-inflammatory agent and would have served as the equivalent of a few doses of ibuprofen.
Also, some of the plants had been roasted or smoked, suggesting there were different ways to administer each one. Considering that our current knowledge of nutrition has only been significantly advanced over the past hundred years or so, it's all the more impressive that cavemen could self-medicate almost 50,000 years ago and not end up tripping balls at the bottom of a canyon.
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Related Reading: For a primer in technology that existed WAY earlier than you'd expect, >click here. You'll be surprised to learn just how long batteries have been around. To go in the opposite direction, read about simple things invented super recently. Freaking time zones weren't invented until 1880! Last, wind down and learn about modern inventions predicted by science fiction.


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9 Normal Things That Look Trippy Under a Microscope
The world is full of magic, it's just that a lot of it isn't visible without special tools. Fortunately, microscopes exist. Because when you take normal, everyday things and magnify them by a factor of about a bajillion, it's like you're suddenly in a whole new world where the rivers run with LSD and every crop is magic mushrooms.
Don't believe us? Just take an (extremely close-up) look at ...
#9. Sand
Also known as the most boring freaking landscape possible. But throw a few grains under a microscope and ...
Via A Grain of Sand, Dr. Gary Greenberg
That's right, your beach thong is encrusted with valuable gems.
Holy shit. Just look at that translucent little guy in the center, with its perfect little swirl. And the one at the bottom with its microscopic tiger stripes, never to be beheld except maybe by some unappreciative dick of a sand crab.
See, that's the thing about sand -- it's not just a bunch of tiny little rocks, it's a bunch of tiny little everything. In that picture, you're seeing little bits that have scraped off of the shells of sea creatures, some dried up plankton, coral, bits of minerals and who knows what else. Here's some sand from a lake in Minnesota:
Via A Grain of Sand, Dr. Gary Greenberg
And here's what you'll have stuck between your toes if you walked around a beach in Namibia (the pink and red stuff is garnet):
Via A Grain of Sand, Dr. Gary Greenberg
Sandcastles are much more desirable real estate than we expected.
Maybe you'll be a little more appreciative the next time you get some of this stuff stuck in your ass crack.
#8. Aspirin
Aspirin takes care of your headaches, but it certainly doesn't do it by soothing the areas of your brain responsible for aesthetic appreciation. Even as close up as the above image, aspirin is still just a bunch of boring white pills. But zoom in ...
Via Annie Cavanagh and David McCarthy
Anybody got some aspirin? We need a few after staring at this for a while. It looks like a crystalline flower straight out of Avatar. We have a sudden urge to grow a ponytail, jack it into that thing and download some brain apps from our ancestors (or some bullshit like that).
Seriously, anybody got some aspirin?
#7. Asbestos
Via Wikipedia
It looks so innocent for a substance that has caused so much trouble. Asbestos was once thought to be a wonder material in the construction of buildings, but now is infamous for causing cancer and other illnesses in millions of people who breathed the particles. How can something that looks like a coughed up hairball actually damage our lungs?
Well, if you get closer, it actually does look like something that could shred your insides:
Via Serc.carleton.edu
Man, now we feel bad for daring the intern to eat a handful of this stuff.
No, that's not a macro shot of the crystal caves that we've covered before, or Superman's Fortress of Solitude after a weekend bender (and on a completely unrelated note -- just how much alcohol would it take to send the Man of Steel on a bender?). Those are the jagged microscopic fibers that leap down your trachea and cancer-punch your lungs the second you mess with this stuff.
#6. Alcohol
Everyone's favorite drug is often conveniently blamed for doing weird things to one's vision when hunting for random sexual partners in a crowded nightclub. But when you take your drink of choice and zoom way the hell in, that's when things really start to get trippy. Take a pina colada, for example, and see what it looks like on a microscope slide ...
Via Daily Mail
This must be what it looks like when Jimmy Buffett closes his eyes.
Whoa. So deep down, every pina colada is like staring at peacock feathers after dropping, like, all the acid. We're surprised we've never pissed out Joseph's Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat after overindulging on these.
You might think there's some computerized color enhancement at play here, but that's actually a photograph taken by BevShots, which achieved the effect by allowing the drink to dry on a microscope slide, shining some natural light onto it and taking an extreme close-up with a plain old 35 mm camera.
Let's look at a few more. Say you're not into the froufrou drinks, regarding yourself as more of a good old-fashioned beer man. Well, even a good old Irish stout gets a lot less manly when you get up close and personal enough:
Via Bevshots.com
Faith and Begorra!
What, not artsy enough for you? We've got you covered, because magnifying The Dude's favorite drink, a white Russian, looks like this:
Via Daily Mail
And while that looks like some kind of experimental artwork from the '70s, a margarita ...
Via Telegraph
... is channeling Georgia O'Keeffe.
We're honestly surprised by how beautiful all of these are. Knowing science, we were really expecting something creepy to pop in its freaky head, like maybe a drink that looks like a group of soulless eyes boring their way right past your eyeballs and straight on through the back of your skull or something. Hey, what's a vodka tonic look like?
Via Daily Mail
It's the only drink that judges you while you sip.
Goddammit, science. Well, shit, if alcohol looks like this, what do we find if we zoom in on ...
#5. Illicit Drugs
For something that has had such widespread effects on our society, including inspiring the invention of Coca-Cola and indirectly causing thousands of men to wear white jackets and no socks in the '80s, drugs sure don't look like much. But when they put them under the microscope ...
Via FSU.edu
Now that's more like what we'd expect heroin to look like. Zoom in enough and you've just recreated about half the covers of every techno album ever made.
But not all drugs look quite so bland in their normal, non-magnified state, right? Let's reach right into Breaking Bad and snatch out a rock of crystal meth. (It's important to note that, for any Cracked readers who happen to work in law enforcement, we're talking strictly figuratively here.)
Via Wikipedia
"I (Psychonaught) created this work entirely by myself." -- possibly the least surprising attribution on Wikipedia.
Huh. Yeah, it's actually kind of pretty. Give it a nice cut, polish it up and pop it into a ring setting, and you've got the perfect gift for your supermodel-thin, dentally challenged bride-to-be. But pop it under that same microscope as the heroin ...
Via FSU.edu
... and you've just covered the other half of all the techno albums.
But don't let us mislead you into thinking that only mind-altering substances are trippy when viewed close up. Here's some vitamin C, for instance:
Via FSU.edu
Now we can party and fight scurvy at the same time.


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Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen, meanwhile, said Wednesday his office sent a letter to the company seeking more detailed information about the data breach.
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Once again, it's been a loooooong time since a new issue of Crazy Luigi has appeared. This episode was inspired by Mega-Ridley-Knight-Man's new comic series, "Crazy Yoshi". When I read his comic, this idea instantly popped into my head, and I just HAD to get it down before I lost interest. So, here it is! I personally think that it's my best yet (runner up being episode 3). Tell me what you think, and enjoy!
Previous Episodes:
Episode 1
This is a rather old, but famous joke. Well at least, I think it is! This is the first thing that came to mind when I was thinking up of a spoof, and I think it worked rather well. Throwing in Toad as the secondary character was extra fun, considering it's a "shroom" as well!
Episode 2
Here is episode two of my series! This episode is an idea that I thought of while going to sleep. I imagined it a little differently in my head, but I think it turned out close enough to what I was thinking of.
Episode 3
Hehe, this is just a funny idea in general I think. Have any of you ever been harassed by that annoying sun? Yeah, "**** YES!!", right? Seems like Luigi has had enough! Enjoy!
Episode 4
Finally episode four of Crazy Luigi is out! I know, I know, all of that delay for such a short episode? Well, let me tell you, that Wribbler was one hard little ******* to draw! Also I'm trying a slightly different style in the way I draw Luigi, probably not going to stick with it, but it's always good to test. Anyways, enjoy!


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Because there were various editions of the newspaper and no formal "obituary column", some names may have been omitted during indexing; however every attempt has been made to include all names.
To obtain a copy of the obituary, come in to the Main Library and view the microfilm or to obtain by mail print and send your request (all information from the index) with a self-addressed stamped envelope and $5.00 per obituary to:
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