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If you are feeling cold and glum – after all, this was supposedly the most depressing week in the calendar – then a warming, hearty Burns Night supper could be just the thing to raise the spirits again.
Contrary to popular belief, the annual knees-up marking Robert Burns's birthday today is not off limits for those with a horror of haggis, according to Jeremy Lee, the Scottish head chef at the Blueprint Café in Shad Thames, London, who devised these recipes.
"I personally think haggis is wonderful – but not everyone does," he says. "It's traditionally served to a big crowd in quite a small dish, so everyone gets a 'taste' rather than eating it as the main course – that's where the lovely big pots of gutsy fare such as Scotch broth, baked mutton and fantastic puddings come in. They warm the heart, fill the house with scent and agitate the appetite wonderfully."
Uncomplicated Scottish-style cuisine is "coming back with gusto", Lee believes.
"For a long time this ilk of cooking had an awful association with blandness and school dinners. In reality, traditional Scottish cooking is about lovely fresh, earthy ingredients, carefully cooked – essentially 'granny's cooking'. This feast really is the place for the tradition that people now crave.
"These dishes are rich and comforting but not at all heavy," he explains, "and they're very simple. All this broth requires as an accompaniment is plenty of crusty bread and butter. Scottish mutton has a fantastic flavour that's even better combined with fresh vegetables, and treacle dumpling to finish is just magic. Bring them all to the table and let people help themselves. Whatever you do, don't plough through the food; savour it, enjoy it – and graze to your heart's content."
- Blueprint Café (020 7378 7031; www.blueprintcafe.co.uk )
Where to buy
Atholl Glens, a farming co-operative on the Atholl Estates in Highland Perthshire, delivers its organic meat, including new mutton from Scottish Blackface ewes (renowned for their tenderness and flavour) throughout mainland Britain (01796 481482; www.athollglens.co.uk ) Alternatively, go to www.muttonrenaissance.org.uk to find farms and retailers near you.
Goodness Direct has 3kg (6.6lb) packs of pearl barley (right) for £3.92 (0871 871 6611; www.goodnessdirect.co.uk ) It is also stocked in Waitrose, Sainsbury's and Marks and Spencer.
Ardross Farm Shop in Elie, Fife, delivers its freshly picked vegetables – including savoy cabbage, curly kale and carrots – throughout the UK (01333 330415; www.ardrossfarm.co.uk ) All the fresh vegetables for these recipes can be found at branches of Sainsbury's and Waitrose.
Burns Night is not complete without a ''Toast to the Lassies''. M&S has a new whisky blend – Deanston, a 12-year-old single malt (£25.99, 75cl) made in a reclaimed 18th-century cotton mill in Deanston, Perthshire, in the heart of the Scottish highlands. (0845 609 0200; www.marksandspencer.com )


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Doomed is an upcoming prequel/spin-off to the movie Fantastic Four Reborn. It takes place afterVictor Von Doom was expelled from college and before he fights the Fantastic Four. It will be released by Marvel Studios. The film stars Clive Owen repriing his role as Dr. Doom. It is set to be released on June 24, 2016.
- Clive Owen a Victor Von Doom
- Fred Tatasciore as the voice of Mephisto
- Cher as Cynthia Von Doom
Film opens with a flashback to when Victor Von Doom was a child. His mother, Cinthia Von Doom, is making a deal with Mephitso to give her the power to stop a man terozing her village in Latveria. At first, she is successful, but her powers rage out of control and she accidentally destroys the village. Mephisto then claims her soul. Cut to several years later, after Doom is expelled from college. Doom is putting on an armor, including mask to cover his scarred face. He is studying magic, swearing revenge on Mephisto to claim his mother's soul. On Midsummer's Eve, Doom tries to reclaim her mtoher's soul. He fails. He tries again one year later. He fails. The following year, he is taken into Mephisto Realm and fights Mephisto. Mephisto wins, but Doom fights him again the following year. This time, Doom has several new weapons. Mephisto still wins, and this time, Mephisto swaers Doom will die if he comes again. Doom spends several years, planning a battle plan against Mephisto. After 8 years, he fights Mephisto one more time, but Mephisto still wins. After that, Doom is cut off from Mephisto's Realm. He becomes King of Latveria, but still isn't satisfied. He realizes he could of won back his mother's soul if it wasn't for Reed Richards. After that, Doom swears revenge on Reed Richards.
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Monday, April 6, 2015
I Have Nothing To Say But I Wanted To Post A Picture Of A Girl In Knee High Socks
I mean, I guess there is shit to talk about. Are they gonna play Bennett? Why won't they play player X over player Y? Why did no one in Ricco's Roughnecks shoot the alien bug creature behind Diz even though they clearly should have been prepared to shoot the bug alien because they had just shot 50,000 thousand of them?
Oh, and there is some stadium, or something, they are going to build? And this little playoff run, I guess.
So I mean, yes, there is shit to talk about. And actually, lots of shit to talk about. Content, content, content.
But, I don't know. The season is too long and it's snowing, and my cousin was in all weekend so I had to fake being a human being and...I'm just not in the mood right now.
Anyway, Playboy has a gallery of girls in glasses.
They are wearing clothes and shit. The world aignt what it used to be, lemme tell yeah. I miss Reagan's America: Transformers cartoons that didn't suck, and Freedom.
Anyway, the picture I like is below the fold.
I took my cousin out shooting on Saturday. He had never been.
I own one of those machines that throws the clay dove for you, but I never use it. I always use the hand thing.
Now, I always throw out as opposed to across. IE: I throw the clay so it flies away from the shooter, not across the shooters line of site.
So I'm standing next to the shooter as I'm throwing clays. This is a big no no. You are supposed to stand behind the shooter off to the side.
Vets can figure out what happens next.
I throw the clay, it doesn't release when it should, and I fling it right smack into my cousins head.
Furthermore, I think Peter Lounardias should be fired.
It's the yellow glasses but also the knee socks. Really, she's just missing the septum piercing.
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On May 14, the House Ways and Means Committee demanded the IRS turn over documents and answer questions related to the targeting of conservative groups. The letter was signed by the Chairman David Camp and ranking member Sander Levin of the Committee.
The deadline for compliance was May 21. According to House Ways and Means Spokeswoman Sarah Swinehart, "The Committee has not received a response to the Camp-Levin letter."
"Chairman Camp expects the IRS to comply and provide full and complete responses to the letter since many of these questions were asked, but went unanswered, in Friday's hearing," said Swinehart.
The irony is breathtaking: the IRS is not nearly as "flexible" with the deadlines they impose on tax-payers.
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When I got the book "The Lost Quilter" by Jennifer Chiaverini from a friend, I was thinking that I would love to share it with other quilters – and with some fun way. I made a plan, I asked my friend's opinion and if she likes to join this journey. So when I had read the book, I made something inspired by the book. Then I sent the book and the mini quilt I hade made, to the first stop of this journey.
1) GREECE – Book and the Mini quilt started their journey from 'Nero's Post and Patch' in autumn 2013. Read the beginning post HERE.
2) IRELAND – Book and the mini quilt flew to Judith at 'Just Jude'. She received the book HERE and sent it HERE.
Judith made this beautiful bag:
3) ENGLAND – Book and the bag flew to Kirstie at 'Miranda and Lu'. She received the book HERE
Unfortunately looks like this book has stucked some where on the trip…


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Western society prides itself on its unique history of democracy, from Ancient Athens through Magna Carta to the American Declaration of Independence. Yet looked at from a different perspective, much of Western history appears more like a story of anti-democratic thought and action from society's elites. It is a tale of those with power – from the oligarchs of the ancient world through the aristocrats of yore to the more liberal elitists of the modern era – seeking to restrict the spread of democracy and contain the aspirations of the masses.
Democracy was in peril from the moment of its birth in Ancient Greece. The D-word was first commonly used in Athens as an insult to those accused of encouraging mob rule, a dirty word to strike fear into the hearts of the propertied and powerful oligarchy. For 2,000 years after the fall of democratic Athens, the only reason democracy was not under threat was that no semblance of it existed. Until a couple of centuries ago the idea of democracy was not merely forgotten but unimaginable.
Even in modern Britain, which prides itself as the home of the 'Mother of Parliaments', formal democracy was only introduced in a piecemeal and begrudging fashion. A century ago, millions were sent to fight and die in the First World War for a British state that still denied the vote to 40 per cent of adult men and all women. The 1918 reform act finally extended the vote to most males aged 21 – but only to propertied women aged at least 30. It would not be until 1928 that British women got the same right to vote as men. So universal suffrage in the UK is still younger than many older voters.
A glance at history can remind us that there is nothing inevitable about democracy; that it should never be taken for granted; that it has had to be fought for and defended through modern times; and that even today, when every leading voice in the West is nominally a democrat, the real meaning of democracy for the masses remains unresolved.
Every time there has been some apparent advance towards democracy that movement has been met with powerful attempts to contain it. Far from lasting for 800 years, for example, the original Magna Carta of June 1215 barely lasted 10 weeks before it was declared null and void by Pope Innocent III, outraged at the idea that any man could try to limit the power of a king anointed by God. When the 1848 revolution in France established the Second Republic, it lasted barely two years before the horrified forces of conservatism overturned universal male suffrage, soon followed by a coup d'état and the establishment of the Second French Empire under Napoleon III.
To start at the beginning. Democracy is widely considered the watchword of classical Athenian civilisation. Yet as the historian Paul Cartledge discusses elsewhere in the spiked review, Western political thought began in Ancient Greece with the express aim of criticising and curtailing Athenian democracy.
The Athenian system was based on the principle of full-blooded direct democracy, not the comparatively pallid representative system we are familiar with today. Male citizens (no women, no slaves) had a direct say and vote on their city-state's rules and laws, through the assembly and the people's juries.
A glance at history can remind us that there is nothing inevitable about democracy; that it should never be taken for granted
The rich elite of the Athenian oligarchy were never comfortable with such a system of dynamic democratic power. Plato, an intellectual authoritarian, describes the master philosopher Socrates (who never wrote anything down himself) branding the most respected political leaders as little better than pastry chefs, pandering to the base appetites of the drooling masses. Why, in a true democracy, scoffs Plato's Socrates, even the donkeys would assume airs! Rather than the democratic tyranny of the bestial masses, Plato favoured the rule of the few – preferably a few wise Platonic philosophers.
The anti-democratic philosophers denounced the political leaders of their age as 'demagogues', an insult which has come down the ages, meaning rabblerousers who lead the gullible mob astray. Yet in the original Greek, 'demagogas' meant merely 'leader of the demos', the people. We have apparently accepted the oligarchs' bigoted view of that as an inherently dangerous role.
When the popular system of Athenian democracy was finally overthrown – not by the oligarchs within, but by Philip II of Macedon in 338 BC – it was quickly all-but erased from history. Not only was the system forgotten in the long centuries of empire, monarchy and caliphate, but the D-word itself effectively disappeared from the languages of the West.
It would take 2,000 years before democracy could mean something again. The European age of Renaissance and Enlightenment brought ideas of autonomy, liberty and equality to life, as people sought more of a say in the dawning modern age. The growing belief in the autonomy of the individual, freed from the bonds of feudalism, was accompanied by fresh ideas and demands for a greater say in the shaping of society.


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Federal anti-drug czar William Bennett doesn't have anything against Gov. William Donald Schaefer. In fact, he says, Maryland has a good reputation when it comes to fighting drugs.
But, being a loyal Republican, Bennett yesterday endorsed Schaefer's Republican opponent, William S. Shepard.
Bennett helped raise about $10,000 at a $125-a-head breakfast on the fogged-in 16th floor of the USF&G building, which probably qualified the event as the most successful fund-raiser of Shepard's financially strapped campaign.
"There's a lot going on in Maryland that's right [regarding the battle against drugs]," Bennett said. "But, I think more needs to be done."


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The scene is fairly common: sirens whirl and lights flash as a rescue vehicle speeds on its way to fight a fire or rescue a person injured in an accident.
Residents of Palm Beach County have come to expect the almost instanteous availability of fire-rescue service. But fire-rescue protection in all areas of the county does not come from the same source.
Twenty-four villages, towns and cities in the county fund their own fire departments. The remaining 13 municipalities, many with budgets too small to support their own departments, look to the Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue Department for protection, as do the unincorporated areas.
For years, most of those 13 municipalities have received fire protection from the county, and officials said they have no complaints about the quality of service provided. But an October 1984 change in the county fire department, aimed at providing standardized protection throughout the vast area the department serves, has sent costs escalating for many of the municipalities.
``They provide excellent service. We have absolutely no complaints whatsoever about that,`` said Highland Beach Town Manager Hugh Williams. ``But it`s like a Cadillac Seville -- first-class and expensive.``
The 13 municipalities -- Atlantis, Cloud Lake, Glen Ridge, the Village of Golf, Golfview, Haverhill, Highland Beach, Hypoluxo, Juno Beach, Jupiter, Jupiter Inlet Colony, Lake Clarke Shores and Tequesta -- comprise three districts which contract with the county Fire-Rescue Department.
The individual contract fees are based on a standard formula that takes into account the current year`s operating budget of the department, the contracting municipality`s tax rate and its property value.
Until October, when the county consolidated 10 separate fire districts into one countywide department, individual homeowners were taxed for fire-rescue protection provided by their individual districts. Once the county consolidated its department, however, the 13 municipalities were required to contract with the county and the taxing burden fell on them.


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According to research firm Gartner, hosted Exchange e-mail will grow to make up more than half of the total e-mail users within the enterprise in the next 10 years. As Resellers work to provide the best service solutions for their customers, they are increasingly looking to providers like Thoughtbus to deliver hosted email and collaboration solutions in a flexible and service-rich package.
With these needs in mind, the Thoughtbus Reseller and Referral program delivers three levels of flexibility depending on the Reseller's needs. Each tier of the program is designed to be used with all Thoughtbus services, including Hosted Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, Lync, Hosted CRM and more.
The new programs deliver competitive commissions on monthly recurring charges. The white-label Reseller program enables Resellers to maintain ownership of the customer and the seamless continuity of their service and brand, while being able to offer the full breadth of Thoughtbus services. With the Advisor program, VARs and IT consultants rely on Thoughtbus to provide billing and 24x7 US-based technical support to their customers, while the Advisor manages the sales process, provides additional support, services and Thoughtbus order and subscription assistance. The Referral program is designed for any user or Reseller to be able to recommend Thoughtbus and benefit from a commission when the referred organization signs up.
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At the core of the Thoughtbus service is hosted Microsoft Exchange 2010, Lync Server 2010 and hosted platforms Sharepoint 2010 and CRM 2011, all wrapped with a robust suite of services that include mobile support and virus/spam protection. As a hosting provider, Thoughtbus is able to present a compelling discount and commission structure to Resellers and Referrers respectively – along with outstanding services and support – which help to make Thoughtbus the solution of choice for thousands of IT professionals and customer organizations worldwide.
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Need For Speed: The Run Announced, Available November 15 [TRAILER]
This info actually leaked a few days ago but EA quickly turned around and officially announced Need For Speed: The Run yesterday. The hottest blockbuster this holiday is a game that takes players on a heart-pounding cross-country race from San Francisco to New York. Launching on November 15, Need for Speed The Run lures players into an underground world of illicit, high-stakes racing. The heat is on – and it isn't just the fuzz who are after you. Entering the race is just the beginning as you blow across borders, weave through dense urban traffic, rocket down icy mountain passes and navigate narrow canyons at breakneck speeds. The cars are hot, the racing is intense and the story will have you at the edge of your seat… all the way from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Empire State building. I'm glad to see EA really recommiting the Need For Speed franchise but they are releasing them so often now that I think they are losing their luster again and they still haven't given me a follow-up to my favorite NFS title Need For Speed Underground.
Using the groundbreaking Frostbite 2 engine, Need for Speed The Run will set the bar with unparalleled visual quality and enhanced physics. Developed by Black Box , a studio of Electronic Arts , Need for Speed The Run will be available November 15, 2011 in North America and November 17, 2011 in Europe for the PS3, Xbox 360, PC, Wii and Nintendo 3DS.


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Jaundice Definition By: Mykal Bailey Porter Yellow discolouration of skin and whites of eyes. Causes too much bilirubin, so liver cant process
associated with other diseases Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E
liver cirrhosis
liver cancer
Hemolytic anemia
Gilberts syndrome
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Rotors syndrome
Bilitary atrsia
autimmune hepatitis
Malaria Types of Jaundice newborn jaundice
pathologic jaundice Treatment Yes jaundice can be cured, but you have to treat the underlying cause/ the other disease that has cause jaundice to form. Complications of Jaundice If jaundice and underlying cause go untreated it can effect other parts of the body. As an examle in newborns untreated jaundice can cause Kemicterus. Kemicterus is used to describe both the neuropathology of bilirubin-induced brain injury and its associated clinical findings, is a complex syndrome. Symptoms discolouration of the skin and whites of eyes
dark urine
unusually light coloured stools
fatigue/ feeling of ill health
nausea and vomitting
poor appetite
Transmission Jaundice is not contagious. Diagnosis blood tests
CT scan
ultrasound scan, endoscope
tissue sample Prognosis no treatment high risk of cancer
will be treated/ cured depending on underlying cause Risk Babies who siblings had jaundice have higher risk (hereditary). Breast-fed babies have a high risk aswell as premature babies. Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E
liver cirrhosis
liver cancer
Hemolytic anemia
Gilberts syndrome
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Rotors syndrome
Bilitary atrsia
autimmune hepatitis
Malaria An example of one of these diseases are Hepatitis A
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What with the continuing developments regarding a possible settlement agreement of the latest postal rate case (see cover story), the ongoing postal reclassification project has escaped attention. But if the reclass, dubbed Product Redesign, continues according to plan, by 2004 mailers could be rewarded with new discounts for handling more of the premailing processing.
The U.S. Postal Service and mailing industry experts embarked on Product Redesign this past May. It is tentatively scheduled to lead to a February 2003 rate case filing with the Postal Rate Commission (PRC). Don O'Hara, executive director of Product Redesign at the USPS's Rosslyn, VA, offices, says the project has five key goals:
- to develop a flexible cost-based presort preparation and mail entry system;
- to define additional work-sharing opportunities particularly for mailers of flats and parcels, both of which were largely overlooked in the previous rate reclassification, implemented in 1995;
- to drive costs out of the postal system through incentive-based options;
- to have postage reflect actual costs more accurately; and
- to simplify rates, preparation, and acceptance of smaller mailings.
For instance, reclassification could offer incentives to catalogers that process their books in containers or pallets, "which isn't the same structure as the existing bundle or packaging structure," O'Hara says. "Once we figure out the best technique, we'll want to change the preparation requirements to either encourage or require that flats be prepared on pallets."
O'Hara is also hoping to develop a new product category for packages. "We have packages in nearly every class of mail, so there may be quite a bit of things we could do to make it simpler for mailers," he says. "We might try to draw into a [small packages] category parcels from standard mail, lightweight Priority Mail, and Parcel Post." This could allow mailers more drop-shipping opportunities.
'Fatally flawed'?
As ambitious as Product Redesign is, at least one observer believes the project is "fatally flawed. There have been some proposals made, but no signal that the Postal Service has the stomach to undertake them," says Gene Del Polito, president of the Arlington, VA-based Association for Postal Commerce. "It needs to be much more aggressively rethought."
Del Polito contends that mail should be priced in reverse by starting with a final delivery charge and adding on surcharges for work-sharing not performed by the mailer. "That would signal to mailers to do everything they can to reduce postal costs," he says, "or otherwise be prepared to pay the price."
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Everything is coming up roses for Miami-based artist Ana Mendez. Primarily known for her performances, Mendez recently opened a solo exhibition at Bas Fisher Invitational in downtown Miami and will be debuting a new performance work at the Miami Here & Now performance series.
While Mendez is a trained dancer and choreographer and often labeled a performance artist, she says her strength is in "creating mood." Her works combine elements of dance, music, lighting and set design to create ephemeral, atmospheric installations that are wordless yet teeming with meaning. Her work often dwells on the rituals of native cultures and the relationship between the body and the spirit.
"I feel that my work in general is about creating sacred space and having shamanic experiences, whether it is for the performer or for the audience," Mendez said.
Mendez's star has been on the rise for several years with a number of commissions from the likes of the former Miami Art Museum and the de la Cruz Collection. But this year has inadvertently become her breakthrough year after these projects, which have been gestating for a while, all ended up coming to fruition in the same year.
The bulk of the work Mendez is showcasing in 2014 was inspired by her residency with the Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE) program last year. During her month living in the Everglades as part of the program, she was fascinated by how removed tourists were from the natural habitats and began to dwell on how humans are no longer participants in nature but spectators to it.
Because of the timing of the various projects, she was able to create a thematic arc surrounding them. Her new works imagine a futuristic culture that has adapted to become more closely connected with nature and the spiritual realm.
Possibly the most distinctive of the works she is showing this year is Fortress, a stand-alone sculptural installation on display at Bas Fisher Invitational in downtown Miami. The piece is an igloo-like structure made out of tree branches and metallic materials. Upon entering the structure, you will find a mirrored floor covered with an animal pelt while recorded sounds of nature and ambient lighting help transport visitors to Mendez's vision of the future.
The installation is extraordinarily important for the artist, as it is the first time the artist has created a standalone object. The need to create a physical work was partly out of necessity (as whatever work Mendez created needed to activate the space for two months) but also to create something that felt true to her vision.
"I wanted to create something I wanted to see. I wanted to create a fort or a compound where people come together to collaborate and not like in an artistic sense, but in all senses. The way we all collaborate every day but in a more sacred way, coming together to share."
As a part of her exhibition at BFI, Mendez was commissioned to create a Weird Miami bus tour; in the past, the tours typically have the artist hosting exhibitions provided guided tours around the city with stops at places that inspire them. For her bus tour, the artist shuttled a group of art-lovers to a long-defunct zoo at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne. There she, along with two other performers, guided the spectators to various locations throughout the park while wearing futuristic, industrial outfits with long blonde wigs shielding their faces.
While typical Weird Miami bus tours have been primarily guided tours, Mendez's was entirely performative. As her futuristic figures wandered Crandon Park, she stopped at several stations to perform ritual dances, build makeshift shelters and interact with the natural landscapes and man made structures throughout the site.
Naomi Fisher, a local artist who also helps run BFI, was impressed by the eagerness of the artist to push her craft into new directions.
"I loved how when we arrived at the zoo she was waiting for the bus like an apparition from the future. The participants instinctually followed her into the zoo and we were led throughout the gardens to experience each chapter in the performance. People started following, even cyclists put down their bikes and joined the performance like she was the Pied Piper, bringing the general public into deeper engagement with art."
In connection with her showcase at BFI, Mendez will also be premiering Portal, a new performance work that will be debuting at Here & Now 2014, a yearly showcase of emerging performance and multi-media based artists from Miami.
The piece would be the second she has been commissioned to create for the festival. Her first Here & Now commission was inspired by the mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of artist Ana Mendieta, whose life was cut short after she fell from 34th floor of a New York City apartment building. Her work featured 10 performers, some female and some male, who acted out what Mendez believes Mendieta may have felt during her fall.
Although Mendez prefers to reveal as little as possible about her performances prior to their staging, she says that her new work Portal was inspired by shamanism, a practice that involves using rituals to go on metaphysical journeys to reach portals to the spiritual world.
While the BFI show reflects on a future where humans are closely connected with nature, Portal depicts an even more distant future where humans have obtained the ability to transcend the physical world and enter the spiritual realm.
While many artists would be daunted with the amount of work and pressure that it takes to create several major commissions in such a short time, Mendez has taken the challenge in stride.
"I feel a freedom right that I didn't feel before and I feel like there's a lot of support coming from everywhere for me to pursue different kinds of art and to explore."


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Shirish Navlekar, Joint Managing Director and CFO, Mytrah Energy
An engineer by training with a Masters' in Management from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Shirish Navlekar is one of India's most canny CFOs, specialising, as he says himself, in infrastructure as a sector and in project financing as a core skill. Over three and a half decades of experience largely in India's infrastructure sector places Shirish among those most experienced in the field, one who has had the privilege of various vantage points from which to view this high potential sector.
Those vantage points include stints as Founder of a fund targeted at the infrastructure sector and crucially, as head of project finance at GMR and then as CFO of DIAL. Shirish's nine-year stint with GMR saw him build a massive pipeline of funding that saw the rise of private airport infrastructure in the country apart from roads and conventional power sector. It saw him, together with the rest of the senior team at GMR, build internal policies and give structure and form to private enterprise in India's infrastructure sector. Concession and state-support agreements for the Hyderabad green-field airport were all developed from scratch, funding attempted at that scale again, for the first time in modern history. This gave him a chance to contribute to the reality of world-class infrastructure as a categorical possibility in India. Any of us who have travelled through the Hyderabad and Delhi airports will bear testimony to the quality of the end product.
Six years ago, Shirish joined Mytrah, one of India's leading players in the renewable energy space. Predominant in wind energy and now in solar, Mytrah has a total capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW) today including operational and under construction projects, spread across 17-18 projects in 9 states. In many ways, Shirish's engagement with Mytrah, where he now serves as Joint Managing Director and CFO, is yet another unique experience in Shirish's arsenal.
As a youngster, Shirish was always curious about the ability of sunlight to create power and energy. Today, six years into his journey at Mytrah, the overwhelming sense is one of achievement, despite intense, and continuing, challenge as this sunrise sector makes its way to maturity. Although present in India for over two decades prior, the era of renewable energy in India dawned around the time that Shirish joined Mytrah, because the economics of renewables had begun to make sense. The current government's thrust into renewables is laudable - and it is necessary. From all perspectives, it is unlikely that the government's target of 175 GW of renewable energy (a 100 of which will come from solar, 60 from wind and 15 from other sources such as biomass and hydro) by 2022 will be achieved. We stand at 55 GW today. But the very fact that renewable energy is now viable per se and is a part of the mix speaks for itself. It speaks to the power of a government at the Centre who is committed – UDAY, that seeks to overhaul the financial health of India's State Electricity Boards, is itself testament of that intent – and it speaks to the power of an industry that has through innovation and design been able to create technologies that bring down cost of production. There are complexities no doubt and dealing with massive imports is one of them but for players like Mytrah, the opportunity remains significant.
Shirish's personal journey at Mytrah started when he met with the firm's founders by associates in the financial sector. Unique business model with scalability options, several rounds of discussions and meetings fructified into Shirish's involvement with Mytrah then as CFO. Shirish's focus was dual, and razor-sharp: to provide growth capital and to diversify risk.
On the count of the latter, the Mytrah team worked under Shirish's guidance to diversify risk, both by expanding customers to ensure the group was geographically diverse (that matters a lot in renewables like wind and solar as placement is, quite literally, everything, most of all in wind) as also by enabling the resultant fact of numerous counter parties. Over the course of the first few years, Mytrah diversified into 7-8 states, the most recent being Punjab and Madhya Pradesh. It was tempting, Shirish admits, to continue to concentrate only on one-two states like Maharashtra and Gujarat, which were encouraging investment in generation capacities and were also well suited geographically for quality of wind.
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However, the mark of a mature CFO is the fact that he/she can recognise how quickly things can change, as they did in Maharashtra. Mytrah spread out projects in Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Telangana and Punjab as well, also mitigating counter-party risks. Late payments, a reality in this sector for a number of states, are now offset by other states where the firm has a presence and who have a strong track record of timely payments. Rajasthan proved to be a great bet, given how dramatically payment terms are responded to post UDAY.
The greatest need for a sector like this is for capital to first set up projects. Viability subsequently is a function of three elements – the plant load factor, capital cost and tariffs. Shirish's inherent skill in capital raising was brought to the fore through multiple tranches of mezzanine financing that he has enabled as well as project level debt. The route forward will lead to raising equity, the eventual means to the end, but for now, Mytrah, for reasons of timing and availability, has concentrated on mezzanine financing. He has just refinanced Rs 1,800 crores of debt from the Piramal Group, a complex transaction that saw Shirish's ability to engage investors stretched to the maximum. Mezzanine financing in specific demands the need to continually engage with investors as indeed, continue to identify how to move forward through refinancing. Eventual viability will lie in Mytrah's ability to ensure a lower cost of capital and expand plant load factor by using improved technologies. Mytrah's wind turbines – and the supplier base too was expanded as a way to reduce risk and adoption to new generation wind of turbines having a hub height of 120 metres as compared to 70-80 metres earlier. The blades are bigger in diameter and lighter in weight leading to improvement in turbine technology and efficiency driving the cost of production to new lows.
Viability will also lie in the ability of regulators and industry to work together with transparency and lack of bias. Tariffs and fairness of tariffs is core, and both regulators and industry will need to be more responsible in the level at which bids are placed and accepted. Current euphoria and irrational bidding especially in solar can become far damaging if economic fundamentals are ignored. Eventually, India's renewable sector and its success will depend on the commitment of India's state governments to truly desire this sustainable source of energy as a key part of their mix. Those states will then gain in many ways, including in quality of living. That will then demand much clearer playing field to access global capital. India's renewable sector capital requirements are massive, going to 5 lac crores by some estimates. Clearly Indian banking system is not geared to meet this demand, and foreign lenders will not take big bets. That will need regulators such as the RBI and SEBI to work together to allow newer source of capital to participate in the funding, just as it will need regulatory oversight on state governments for the private sector in renewable energy to get, quite literally, its place in the sun. Domestic insurance and pension sector have to provided with enabling framework which currently is too rigid for anyone's comfort. Domestic debt capital market development is essential and unlike ample liquidity in the international debt markets, domestic borrowers greatly suffer for lack of easy access. This obviously leads to a ripple effect on over dependence of banks and also the vicious cycle of banks NPA books rubbing the wrong way on genuine projects and borrowers.
In the meantime, crusaders like Shirish will continue to create value, will continue to engage with regulators, investors and customers in a bid to create a renewable energy sector in India that is truly mainstream. For Shirish, the journey continues, and it has been one of value creation, of seeing a larger vision, and of honouring the power of persistence, and of belief.


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Salute Your Shorts was the other half of Nickelodeon's daily double, if ya will, of summer comedies in the early 90's (Hey Dude was previously reviewed).
The series is set at a summer camp, and if I'm not mistaken, this might be inspired by the 1965 primetime series, Camp Runamuck, which aired for a time on Nick as well. Anyway, the series didn't last very long, but remained in reruns, usually just during the summer months (of course) until 1999. Today, it lies in Nick's vaults.
Danny Cooksey (ex-Diff'rent Strokes) was one of the stars, in one of his last series gigs in live-action before turning to voice work. Speaking of voice actors, Christine Cavanaugh, whose toon credits include Nick's Rugrats, as well as Darkwing Duck and Dexter's Laboratory, appears on this show as well.
Edit: 11/17/17: Had to change the video. We have the 2nd season opener now, and it appears as if Christine Cavanagh will not be part of this one.
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|High Dose Intermittent Sorafenib Shows Improved Efficacy Over Conventional Continuous Dose in Renal Cell Carcinoma
Bhasin, Manoj; Brown, Victoria; Wang, Xiaoen; Zhang, Liang; Goldberg, S. Nahum; Alsop, David C.; Signoretti, Sabina; Mier, James W.; Atkins, Michael B.; Bhatt, Rupal Satish
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|Wang, Xiaoen, Liang Zhang, S Nahum Goldberg, Manoj Bhasin, Victoria Brown, David C Alsop, Sabina Signoretti, James W Mier, Michael B Atkins, and Rupal S Bhatt. 2011. High dose intermittent sorafenib shows improved efficacy over conventional continuous dose in renal cell carcinoma. Journal of Translational Medicine 9: 220.
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|Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) responds to agents that inhibit vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) pathway. Sorafenib, a multikinase inhibitor of VEGF receptor, is effective at producing tumor responses and delaying median progression free survival in patients with cytokine refractory RCC. However, resistance to therapy develops at a median of 5 months. In an effort to increase efficacy, we studied the effects of increased sorafenib dose and intermittent scheduling in a murine RCC xenograft model. Methods: Mice bearing xenografts derived from the 786-O RCC cell line were treated with sorafenib according to multiple doses and schedules: 1) Conventional dose (CD) continuous therapy; 2) high dose (HD) intermittent therapy, 3) CD intermittent therapy and 4) HD continuous therapy. Tumor diameter was measured daily. Microvessel density was assessed after 3 days to determine the early effects of therapy, and tumor perfusion was assessed serially by arterial spin labeled (ASL) MRI at day 0, 3, 7 and 10. Results: Tumors that were treated with HD sorafenib exhibited slowed tumor growth as compared to CD using either schedule. HD intermittent therapy was superior to CD continous therapy, even though the total dose of sorafenib was essentially equivalent, and not significantly different than HD continuous therapy. The tumors exposed to HD sorafenib had lower microvessel density than the untreated or the CD groups. ASL MRI showed that tumor perfusion was reduced to a greater extent with the HD sorafenib at day 3 and at all time points thereafter relative to CD therapy. Further the intermittent schedule appeared to maintain RCC sensitivity to sorafenib as determined by changes in tumor perfusion. Conclusions: A modification of the sorafenib dosing schedule involving higher dose intermittent treatment appeared to improve its efficacy in this xenograft model relative to conventional dosing. MRI perfusion imaging and histologic analysis suggest that this benefit is related to enhanced and protracted antiangiogenic activity. Thus, better understanding of dosing and schedule issues may lead to improved therapeutic effectiveness of VEGF directed therapy in RCC and possibly other tumors.
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Dr. Oz has recently unveiled a "new diet" to his viewers. Some people think all weight loss diets presented by Dr.Oz are "scams" and none of them really work. On the other hand, some other people swear his diets are the only way to lose weight. So, what is the final verdict? The best answer might be: it depends on the diet and the person.
Some of Dr.Oz's diets may help people to drop off a few pounds but remember: diet is just one element of a good weight loss program. Exercise, sleep and motivation play a role as equally important as what you are eating during your diet.
Back to Dr.Oz, the latest diet is a combination of three natural ingredients: apple pectin, grape seed extract, and forskolin. This "new diet" comes out a few months after Dr.Oz presented a revolutionarily fat buster combination of Konjac root fiber, raspberry ketone, white kidney bean extract, and L-Carnitine.
Apple pectin may be most important element in this diet as it can promote desired intestinal health without the use of chemicals, in other words, it promotes a healthy body detox. Supplementation of apple pectin can regulate the digestive system and improve bowel movement, both important factors for any weight loss program.
Forskolin is actually making its second run in Dr Oz's program. Part of the Flat Belly Diet, forskolin is believed to help to mobilize fat right outside of the cell. Since fat cells have fat within them, when you take Forskolin on a regular basis, the fat gets mobilized and blows the fat particles out of the cells, consequently resulting in weight loss.
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On Monday, April 15 I got a text in the midst of trying to write what felt like dozens of reports on baseball, softball and track. I was also distracted by the events in Boston like everyone else in the country that day.
The text was from a former colleague. It said, "I may have a pretty good human interest story for you if you get the time to call this week."
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Think back to math class in school. The teacher tries to explain such topics as absolute value, mutually prime integers or Venn diagrams, while students struggle not to tumble out of their desks, asleep.
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Sir John Soane, architect for the Bank of England made several improvements to Albury Park including the striking and prominent cantilevered staircase, which imparts an awe-inspiring sense of arrival to three of the new apartments.
Augustus Pugin, designer of the Houses of Parliament, also left his mark by giving Albury Park its unmistakable Gothic Tudor appearance and crowning glory: 63 individual candlestick chimneys. In more recent history, Algernon Percy, 6th Duke of Northumberland, became the new owner of Albury Park and ownership of much of the estate has been retained by the Northumberlands.
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Director Sukumar has completed the scripting work of Ramcharan's next project to be produced by Mythri Movie Makers.
Sukumar along with his family left to Paris to take a break before he starts the project. He will be back soon and the film will begin.
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If you're looking for fresh ideas for your vacation planning, think farmers' markets. When local growers, farmers, creatives, and artisans come together in parks, town centers, and other places, the result is much more than just a chance to shop for the freshest local goods. It's a cultural and social event, and a ton of fun.
| Berries at Creston Valley Farmers' Market
British Columbia is the heart of fresh produce for the entire country, so if you'd rather avoid the tourist trap and eat like a local, hit the farmers' markets! If you travel at all you've already noticed how much more you're spending on meals while you're on the road. You can get plenty of amazing food prepared for you right there at a fraction of what you'd pay in a higher-end restaurant, and you can also stock up on foods to prepare yourself. You'll do all of these things at a fraction of the cost of eating out in tourist spots constantly, and you'll live like a local as you do it. It's a one-of-a-kind way to get connected to the community and really experience each place you visit.
| Baked Goods at the South Cariboo Farmers' Market
The Quesnel Farmers' Market has been around for almost 30 years and is the source of not only great foods but also many wonderful special events, including Artists at the Market and the Flavours of Quesnel; take advantage of its summer and winter hours. The South Cariboo Farmers' Market offers homemade baked goods, cut flowers, farm-fresh produce, eggs, honey, meat, hot food, plants and perennials, and the work of local craftspeople including clothing, jewelry, soap, and woodworking. Although this market only runs during the summer, it offers the added bonus of live music and entertainment.
The Mission City Farmers Market has offered a charming small town outdoor ambiance for 20 years. Situated among shady trees and the soothing sounds of Lane Creek, you'll find a variety of seasonal produce along with the work of talented local entertainers and artisans at this market all year long. The Agassiz Farm Fresh Market is a newer market which is reflected in its mission of fostering sustainability in the community as well as supporting the local community.
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In the Kootenay Rockies region farmers' markets become even more plentiful, with at least 20 markets running during the summer months. The Creston Farmers' Market runs from early April all the way through December and provides a unique mix of growers and vendors with fresh quality organic vegetables and fruits along with delectable home-baked treats, arts and crafts, and fresh cut flowers. The Invermere Farmers' Market is large and varied enough to take up a few closed streets in the downtown area; everything on offer at the market is either grown or handcrafted. Bonus: the market is close to the beach.
The UBC Farm Market is a fantastic stop as it is actually situated on a working farm on Saturdays from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm; you can take the free, guided tour of the farm at 11:00 am which I definitely recommend if you have kids. If you're longing for a relaxing morning sipping coffee and nibbling some of the best pastries around, visit the West End Farmers Market for a stunning variety of both. Bonus: the historic Mole Hill neighbourhood and Nelson Park are nearby.
The Bulkley Valley Farmers Market is a lively market that stays open all year by having an indoor season and an outdoor season; it is near downtown Smithers and features around 50 vendors including several beekeepers and a cheese-maker at the height of the summer season. Skeena Valley Farmers Market Terrace runs during the summer alone, primarily because it is located as far north as fruit trees can grow in BC. 70 vendors sell their wares here, and everything is homemade, homegrown, hand-crafted, or home-baked.
| Squamish Farmers' Market
The Squamish Farmers' Market has been in operation for more than 10 years, and runs all year long. Take advantage of your visit to this market by seeking out some of the interesting array of ethnic foods and superior quality fish. The Whistler Farmers' Market offers wonderful local goods and features fun events like live cooking demos and face painting. Watch for their long weekend events which take on a street fair feel.
The Powell River Open Air Farmers' Market has a countrified, old-fashioned feel with a modern sensibility; there you can enjoy old-school products like woodcrafts, bedding plants, soap, and home-baking while shopping for produce that is all organic, herbicide and pesticide free, GMO free, and sustainably grown. Bonus: come on Sunday when kids are invited to bring their own wares for sale. Visit Sechelt Farmers' and Artisans' Market for tons of juried vendors who together make up the Sunshine Coast's largest outdoor market; look out for First Nations art items, stained glass, and photography in particular.
| Penticton Farmers' Market
Vancouver/Gulf Islands aside, this region is home to the lion's share of farmers' markets in BC-more than two dozen, and the largest among them. Even smaller towns in the area feature multiple markets and some (like Vernon) offer farmers' markets on more than half of the seven days of the week. For the sake of brevity, I'll list just a few here.
The Kelowna Farmers' and Crafters' Market is one of the largest in the province, offering a tremendous variety of organic produce, concessions, entertainment, farm products, baked goods, body products, ethnic foods, flowers, jams, meats, plants, soaps, and even festivals. The Penticton Farmers' Market is one of the largest, oldest, and best in BC, hands down. During the summer season peak weeks you won't believe how much is at this market, and the party atmosphere that's here is also a welcome surprise.
The Vernon Farmers' Market is one of the best in the region and part of the local scene's web of offerings that make farm-to-table a reality for residents four out of seven days each week in season. This is a fun market with lots of live entertainers and a very helpful, hands-on attitude almost universally shared by all vendors.
| Gabriola Farmers' Market
This area has so many farmers' markets that you couldn't hit them all on a two-week vacation without making a major effort. Here I'll just highlight a couple with some very unique features, but almost all of them are excellent. Gabriola Farmers' Market is the place for the artists of Gabriola Island to show their wares to the world. Known for being an artists' island, Gabriola's market is the place to find amazing crafts and art objects along with the creatives who make them. The Colwood Farmers' Market offers a classic market with an urban feel in a less common evening setting. You'll also note the palpable feeling of commitment to the sustainable Go Local lifestyle at this market.
As you tour your way through BC, consider winding your route to accommodate farmers' markets along the way. Whether you're a diehard camper or just a weekend warrior tourist, a farmers' market tour of BC can offer you a fun, delicious, and lower cost alternative for your next vacation.
Author: Karla Lant is an experienced freelance writer, author, journalist and editor, and an adjunct professor. She is also an avid cook and baker and a homeschooling parent of a child who loves to run wild in the great outdoors. In her spare time she loves to create new recipes, explore new hobbies, and visit new places with her daughter.
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Americans work more than anyone in the industrialized world.
More than the English, more than the French, way more than the Germans or Norwegians. Even, recently, more than the Japanese.
And Americans take less vacation, work longer days, and retire later, too.
That much most people agree on. What's harder to pin down is exactly how much Americans are working. It may be more than our industrialized competitors, but is it more than we have ever worked before?
The short answer, according to the government, is that it is only slightly more and not so much that most people should really notice.
Numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show a very gradually rising trend through the 1990s that has only just recently tapered off, hovering somewhere just north of 40 hours weekly.
A Month More a Year?
The long answer is, of course, more complicated. It depends who you ask, and about whom you're asking.
Author Juliet Schor, who wrote the best-selling book The Overworked American in 1992, concluded that in 1990 Americans worked an average of nearly one month more per year than in 1970.
There are also volumes of surveys that ask people if they're working more than they used to. Generally, people say yes, of course they are. And they also estimate almost 10 more hours a week than the government does.
A Bunch of Whiners?
Critics pooh-pooh such studies, saying self-estimators are exaggerators, although most of those studies echo the same general trend as governmental figures — a bit of a rise through the '90s with a slight dip recently.
Dissenters to overworked-American theories say it's better to base studies on employers' reports of worker hours, which is what the government does, but that leaves out overtime hours worked by salaried employees.
Critics also point to what they say is a growing number of part-time jobs. How can people be working more if they are not working full-time?
Here's where you have to ask which workers we're really talking about.
Measuring Past the Punch Clock
That's what Schor's book tries to do, as well as two recent releases: The White-Collar Sweatshop by Jill Andresky Fraser, and The Working Life by Joanne B. Ciulla.
All those books have been embraced by a large part of the public that apparently feels harassed by the pressures of the workplace.
The authors all find evidence that many Americans are overstressed and overworked in trends that are not necessarily measured with a punch clock; trends such as road rage, workplace shootings, the rising number of children in day care and increasing demands for after-school activities to occupy children whose parents are too busy or still at work.
They aren't the only ones finding long hours in at least certain parts of the workforce. According to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released last year, more than 25 million Americans — 20.5 percent of the total workforce — reported they worked at least 49 hours a week in 1999. Eleven million of those said they worked more than 59 hours a week.
Sweat Under the White Collar
Who are these people? Fraser, after four years of interviews, concludes they are white-collar workers, who do not punch a clock and whose hours therefore are the most difficult to track.
The other evidence often pointed to that people are not really working as much as they say is the increasing number of part-time jobs. How can people be working more if more people are not working full-time?
But the anecdotal evidence presented by Fraser, Schor and Ciulla — and met by millions of people everyday — is that many Americans feel they are working more than ever.
An ABCNEWS.com poll released Monday found only 26 percent of Americans feel they work too hard. Although far more feel the opposite, that's still a lot of people and it's twice as many as the 13 percent who told a Harris Poll in 1960 that they felt overworked. And the percentage rises to about a third of people with kids, or people between 35 and 54 years old.
What Happened to 'The Little Woman'?
Even for people who are not actually working longer hours than they used to, there's an explanation for why some of them might feel over-burdened anyway, particularly men.
Experts who accept some of the arguments of both sides of the working-longer debate often focus less on individuals' hours worked, instead looking at household hours on the job.
In Overworked and Underemployed, a study in The American Prospect, Barry Bluestone and Stephen Rose argue that to really understand the situation Americans face, you need to look beyond individuals and numbers.
The overall figures for how many hours a week the average American works have been held down by the increasing number of part-time service and retail jobs in the economy. But since many of the part-time jobs have been filled by the increasing number of women in the workforce, and many of these women had previously been housewives, there are fewer hours when anyone is taking care of household chores.
Instead of coming home to find the refrigerator and cupboards stocked, dinner ready, the table set, the clothes washed, the house clean and the children entertained, men are coming home and finding they have to chip in, because their wives aren't "the little woman," anymore. They are now sharing duties as breadwinner, which means men have to share household chores. The situation is exaggerated when both spouses work full-time — particularly if they don't earn enough to hire help.
If people aren't spending quite as many more hours at work as they think they are, the fact that they aren't allowed as much leisure time once they're off work might account for the apparent illusion.
Authors like Fraser, Schor and Ciullo, though, argue that there is no illusion, and the case made by the harried Americans who fill their books — and fill commuter trains and highways — is hard to discount.
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Alton Brown Says Pumpkin Spice Has Ruined Pumpkins
Yesterday, Alton Brown destroyed our office.
But to be fair, we gave him a ragtag crew of cornerstore ingredients (including a plastic-wrapped apple) and office supplies (at Food52, that includes a blowtorch), and asked him to make lunch.
And he did a stand-out job. (You can watch what transpired below.)
Ever the entertainer, Brown kept us intellectually engaged the entire time. We learned that you can rehydrate beef jerky with some hot water, but also so much about Brown (and his philosophy) that we never knew before, like...
- The one question he hasn't been asked that he would like to be asked: "Where can I mail your million-dollar check?"
- Pumpkin spice—while he can understand why it became popular (Norman Rockwell-esque homey-ness)—has ruined the pumpkin. "Pumpkin is over now," he said. And, "Well, America, pumpkin spice is the spice you deserve."
- Northerners can't make biscuits like Southerners.
- He has many recipes that call for breakfast cereal—including breakfast cereal bread pudding—that are still unpublished.
- He doesn't read any press that's been written about him because "if you read the bad stuff, you'll start to believe it, and if you read the good stuff, you'll start to believe it."
- "Cooking together is a better activity for families than eating together."
- He has narrowed his collection of 4000 cookbooks down to 3000. And in those thousands of cookbooks, he has The Food Lover's Companion, Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, and six copies of The Food Chronology. He also tries to have three essentials of each market-defined category. After those three books no one can argue with, like Marcella Hazan's Essentials of Italian Cooking, he has five or so riskier outliers.
- He keeps M.F.K. Fisher and John Thorne (author of Outlaw Cook) on hand not for recipe reference but for philosophy and opinion.
- He's going to be working on a project in the next year aimed specifically at college kids.
- The one food he won't eat: beef liver. ("Because it tastes like beef liver.")
- The one cooking tool he can't live without: the human brain. You can't do anything without a brain!
- But the one device: spring-loaded tongs. "You can't do anything without tongs. When I get into a kitchen, I usually look for where the tongs are first."
- "There's nothing more fun that pit-roasting a whole hog. But on a day-to-day basis, I'm always amazed by scrambled eggs. The entire world of food science unfolds before you. Whenever I get tired of food, I go and scramble eggs and it's like the world's all new again."
- He keeps one nonstick pan around for eggs. But he does 99% of his cooking in stainless steel or in cast-iron: "I understand and feel for its thermal responsiveness." It's slow to heat but it holds heat well.
- His first cup of coffee from the day is usually from an Aeropress.
- Don't marinate in bourbon. Just drink it.
Brown's out with Everyday Cook, his first book in five years (and one that's brimming with smartly strange tips). You can get a copy here.


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