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A refreshingly unique look at this extraordinary man, this biography chronologically reconstructs both Lewis's professional and daily lives in astonishing detail, from his childhood in Northern Ireland and his participation in World War I to friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien at Oxford and his professorship at Cambridge. More than 100 sidebars offer little-known trivia tidbits on the more personal side of Lewis, and cover such topics as the contents of his home library, 10 things he believed about cats, his favorite beers and pubs, and the women and friends in his life. On the professional side, working titles of his books, lectures he gave at Oxford and Cambridge, and his ideas on atheism and idealism are discussed. Essential information on his most popular work, "The Chronicles of Narnia," is also addressed, including the meaning of names, the hierarchy, and the kings, queens, animals, and battles in Narnia.
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Buckwheat pancakes are not found on every Shrove Tuesday menu.
But at Zion United Methodist, the yeasty cakes are a mainstay.
"We had a couple requests for it," said Barbara Bollinger, as she mixed flour and sugar in preparation for the annual feast last week. "Pastor Rick [Shamer, since retired] was the first to ask. You have to keep your pastor happy."
Bollinger, who will add the yeast and eggs to the mixture on Tuesday, estimates she and a kitchen crew of seven others make more than 500 pancakes for the annual Tuesday meal, which also offers scrambled eggs, fried potatoes, sausage, gravy, stewed apples, pudding and hominy.
Everything is made from scratch. "When we first started, they all thought it was going to be out of a box," Bollinger said, shaking her head. "No, no, no, no. It's a special recipe. It's my recipe. This is homemade."
Always held the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, Shrove Tuesday is a time for Christians to empty their pantries in preparation for the Lenten season, the 40 days before Easter, according to Steve Hildenbrand, a member of the men's group at Deer Park United Methodist Church in Westminster.
"Christians were to traditionally give up something during Lent," Hildenbrand said. "They were encouraged to use up the rich foods; sugar, eggs, and milk. You can use these up in a hurry and make pancakes."
Deer Park's men's club and the community's Lions Club have been hosting the Shrove Tuesday dinner together for approximately 10 years, Hildenbrand said.
"Our group helps set up, serve and clean up," Hildenbrand said. "The Lions Club runs the kitchen."
Thelma Carr has been in charge of making both the sausage gravy and the stewed apples at Zion's dinner.
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"I don't like to have them sit long," Carr said of the apples. "People like them hot, not mushy.
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All the burners on the kitchen's two big stoves will have a job, with Carr watching over her apples and sausage gravy on one side, while potatoes are cooked in the middle and the scrambled eggs on the other side all closely monitored by other volunteers.
"It's a lot of work to get one on but it's not hard," Bollinger said of the supper. "We got this down to a science."
At Wesley Freedom United Methodist Church in Eldersburg, the cooking for a Shrove Tuesday supper is done by teenagers.
"It started off kind of as a youth outreach to the community and church," said Bob Jacoby, youth pastor, of the dinner that is in its 20th year. "The youth club runs the show. Everything is cooked and served by teenagers supervised by adults."
The menu includes pancakes, sausage and ice cream.
"It's just something we added in just for fun," Jacoby said, of the ice cream. "We have a lot of families come. Seniors, too."
Wesley also serves gluten-free pancakes and sugar-free syrup.
"We do everything we can to please everyone," Jacoby said.
Church of the Ascension in Westminster has been hosting a Shrove Tuesday dinner "forever" according to Donna Bair, a volunteer for the last 43 years.
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Where to find a pancake supper on March 4
The Church of the Ascension, 23 N. Court St., Westminster, 5:30–7 p.m. Menu: pancakes, sausage, applesauce and beverage Cost is $6; $3 for ages 4 to 11; free for children 3 and under. Proceeds benefit church members engaged in religious studies as well as community groups like the Salvation Army and Food Sunday, 410-848-3251.
Deer Park United Methodist Church, 2205 Sykesville Road, Westminster, 4-7 p.m. Menu: pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, apple cobbler. Adults $6; Ages 4 to 12, $3. Proceeds benefit ministries of the church and community projects of the Lions Club. 410-848-2313.
Ebenezer United Methodist Church, 4901 Woodbine Road, Winfield, 5-7 p.m. Menu: pancakes, sausage, applesauce and beverage. Free will offering to benefit Camp Hope's Youth Mission team. 410-795-7528
Jerusalem Lutheran Church, 1372 Bachman Valley Road, Westminster, 6-8 p.m. Menu: pancakes, sausage, applesauce and beverages. Free-will offering. 410-848-4290.
Wesley Freedom United Methodist Church, 961 Johnsville Road, Sykesville, 5-6:30 p.m. Menu: pancakes, gluten-free pancakes, sausage, ice cream. Cost is $6 for ages 13 and older; $4 for ages 4 to 12. Proceeds benefit youth missions. 410-795-2777
Zion United Methodist Church, 2716 Old Washington Road, Westminster, 4-7 p.m. Menu: buttermilk and buckwheat pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, fried potatoes, sausage gravy, stewed apples, pudding and hominy. Coffee, tea and orange juice. Cost is $7; $3 for ages 6 to 12; under 6, free. All proceeds benefit the church. 410-848-2988.


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This summer, my kids were invited to film a segment of Hands On Crafts for Kids, a fun show that airs on PBS. I almost skipped the opportunity, since it was just 6 weeks after having my 4th baby. But then my husband and I decided it was such a neat opportunity for the kids, so I packed them up and headed out for a little road trip. We had such a blast!
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February 18, 2012
war on suggestible crazy peopleI hate to be skeptical of our Federal Bureau of Investigation (mostly for "The X-Files", I guess), but I'm wondering exactly what I need to see before the FBI's various terrorism busts (most recent coming yesterday) stop seeming like a concerted and persistent effort to dig up lunatics and entrap them in fake-terrorism plots.
I'm for law enforcement, and I'm for robust anti-terrorism efforts (surveillance! informants!), but none of the arrests of home-grown terrorists, cuffed after they tried to set off the fake bomb given to them by the FBI, rise above at least the appearance of entrapment. As in FBI informant tells crazy guy, "Hey, wanna be a terrorist?" and crazy guy says, "Maybe," and then Fed says, "It's really cool!" and then crazy guy says, "Okay!"
And the argument can be made that crazy people easily tricked into wanting to be terrorists are as bad as terrorists themselves. (It's not one I'd go with, but I'd at least entertain the notion.) But I'm not certain that that's the most useful allocation of the FBI's resources.
Posted by mrbrent at 9:29 AM
February 17, 2012
a dumb-money economyFurther to Chris Lehmann's post last week (and you can add Taibbi to the list of people stepping up for batting practice), I did find one passage in Gabriel Sherman's derided NY Magazine feature about whining Wall Street bigs that is worth repeating in a good way and not a bad way:
"We used to rely on the public making dumb investing decisions," one well-known Manhattan hedge-fund manager told me. "but with the advent of the public leaving the market, it's just hedge funds trading against hedge funds. At the end of the day, it's a zero-sum game." Based on these numbers—too many funds with fewer dollars chasing too few trades—many have predicted a hedge-fund shakeout, and it seems to have started. Over 1,000 funds have closed in the past year and a half.
Here's what I take from that: financial services is an industry like any other, with a sober profit margin but a profit margin nonetheless. Except for the fact that, in the past thirty years, the profit margins are no longer sober, because the financiers are no longer playing with smart money. What happened was they found a way to play with dumb money — both by convincing people not conventionally wealthy enough to put their money in the market, and by creating a succession of bubbles which creates fake equity that is siphoned off by financial services, leaving the reckoning to be borne by the institutional investors and the rest of the dumb money.
Remember in the second W. Bush administration, when his primary goal was to save social security by privatizing it? That was nothing more (and remains so) than a ploy to add another two of three trillion dollars of dumb money into the market for the financial services to predate on.
So, to the "well-known Manhattan hedge-fund manager" quoted above, Wall Street running under the conditions that existed 40 years ago, which produced all sorts of millionaires and billionaires, is a zero-sum game. To him, running a hedge fund without marks to fleece is like skeet shooting without some fellow throwing the skeet up there when you yell, "Pull!"
From Taibbi's piece linked above:
The financial services industry went from having a 19 percent share of America's corporate profits decades ago to having a 41 percent share in recent years. That doesn't mean bankers ever represented anywhere near 41 percent of America's labor value. It just means they've managed to make themselves horrifically overpaid relative to their counterparts in the rest of the economy.
I think a useful national conversation to have would be to try to answer the question, "How on earth are the financial services industries, the 'efficient allocation of captial,' worth 41% of the value of the American economy?"
Posted by mrbrent at 12:26 PM
the inexplicable redemption of agent gHere's a thing you should do: go see The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G at the Beckett Theater in the Theater Row complex on NYC's 42nd Street.
I know, it's a play, and why would you want to do that? Well, it's a production of Vampire Cowboys, which usually puts up stuff that is in the sci-fi/comic book vein — they call it Geek Theater. And Geek Theater is great, and VC certainly has a claim to putting it on the map, but "Agent G" is not entirely Geek Theater. Or more accurately, it is Geek Theater, but takes on a concept more serious than their usual themes of mayhem and fun.
Not to give too much away, playwright Qui Nguyen has been trying to tell an old family story for years, about his cousin and the circumstances under which he left Vietnam. And "Agent G" is his last chance.
This is a remount, and when I saw the first version last year, I was a bit lukewarm on it. It had all the bombast (stage combat, puppets, rap battles) that makes a show fun, but I felt the conceit, the telling of the family story, was a bit problematic, or a bit of a gimmick.
But "Agent G" has been tweaked and partly recast and restaged, and now everything runs smoothly, including the conceit. It is also now powerful and moving.
I'm Qui's friend (and friends with the rest of the gang, and I sit on the board too, now that I think of it), but this is in no way an obligatory pimping of an arbitrary bit of theater. I went on Tuesday in that half-grudging "might as well get this over with" sort of way, and left with the taste smacked out of my mouth.
If it sounds like your sort of thing (and if you live in the area, natch), you should go see it.
Posted by mrbrent at 9:57 AM
February 15, 2012
mitt romney: this is personalIn case your Wednesday is feeling like more of a Monday (workweek/job satisfaction contingent, of course), this should cheer your stuff up: Mitt Romney's rolling out a new TV ad in Michigan! Funny, what, having to run an ad in a state that is the birthplace of the Romney dynasty, if you can call it that. Well, you probably can't, but his pop was governor there and he lived there when he was a little kid, and so the fact that he's about to get creamed by a man he lost his most recent election in 2006 by nineteen points is causing him some alarm.
Since I probably wouldn't post the ad even if I ever posted video on this site, here's a description of the relevant portion
"How in the world did an industry and its leaders and its unions get in such a fix that they lost jobs, that they lost their future? President Obama did all these things that liberals have wanted to do for years," Romney says as he drives around the city in a Chrysler. "I want to make Michigan stronger and better. Michigan has been my home, and this is personal."
(Emphasis mine, as if it needs to be emphasized.)
There's some head-scratching in the establishment as to why the Romney campaign is withering so, as it's his turn, and he generally has nice teeth and will ultimately do whatever Grover Norquist tells him to do. But he's not connecting with the base. This may have something to do with the general derangement of the base, or it could have to do something with the blandness of Mitt Romney, but whatever it is, it's leading him to ridiculous decisions like appearing in an ad making a bitter vow to stand for the honor of a state he lived in forty years ago. Though maybe one of his houses is there? The steely stare of Mitt Romney is not so much presidential as it is bright-light-shining-in-his-eyes.
Additionally! It's apparently derivative of a prior Romney ad for New Hampshire, Which is to say, either the campaign is pretty sure that voters have short memories, or they plan on Mitt having a Clint-Eastwood moment in each state of the union.
Posted by mrbrent at 9:37 AM
February 14, 2012
russia!I'm not sure what Alessandra Stanley did that merited her being sent to Russua by the NYTimes, but her series looking at the state of Russian TV is interesting, if not illuminating. (Though would the same apply to sending the TV critic to review the programming of anywhere that's not here? Probably.)
Amid the cultural idiosyncrasies and parochial interests that drive the programs that are described (many of which could pass as a parody of what one would imagine Russian TV to be like), there's an apt little peek in ">today's installment into the last vestiges of Pravda-style propaganda being employed to buoy the fading chances of the once-and-future president Vladimir Putin:
A typical five-minute, two-act segment on Channel One in late January presented him tending to the vast hole in the ground outside the Kremlin where the hulking Hotel Rossiya once loomed as a giant monument to boxy Soviet architecture and bad service.
In the first frame the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, sat meekly across a desk from Mr. Putin and described proposals for high-rise complexes to replace the hotel, which was razed a few years ago. The prime minister looked skeptical and suggested they go take a look. In the next scene Mr. Putin, in a parka but hatless in the Russian winter, strode masterfully across snow-covered rubble, the mayor at his side.
"You know, I've just come up with an idea," Mr. Putin said, as if a light bulb had suddenly gone on over his head. "A park," he proposed, a Kremlin green zone that would bring light and air to Moscow's congested, smoggy center.
"That would be great," the mayor replied, wonderstruck. "It's a very good decision, I think." (And actually it is a good idea, especially in an election year.)
There's not much to say to that but, "HA!" And that can't possibly work, right? Are there still electorates on the planet so naive as to fall for such obviously fabricated narrative, such deliberately manipulative nonsense?
I mean, except for the United States, of course. But anywhere other than here?
Posted by mrbrent at 9:59 AM
February 13, 2012
krugman on the promethean fate of the gopI think I figured Paul Krugman out, or at least part of his appeal: what Paul Krugman does that elicits the fervent approval of so many is that he finds something that is demonstrably true but not widely spoken and then widely speaks it.
Like today, for instance, in which he gives another couple hundred words to the current state of conservatism:
For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.
Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control.
You and I know this, but I wouldn't yet call it accepted wisdom. But the current conservative zeal for government can be distilled into cut taxes (and bust unions and cut social services — that sort of thing), and what is thought of as the Republican base is a frothing mob of sociopaths waiting to be told who next to blame, a Frankenstein created by Karl Rove and not pretty much uncontrollable. (Er, they're favoring Rick Santorum as a candidate right now. If that's not the definition of uncontrollable I don't know what is.
And Krugman lays it down succinctly and almost blithely, like maybe he's playing bridge while writing it. But it's good, and its sentiments should be repeated.
Now, the economist part of Krugman, I haven't figured that out at all.
Posted by mrbrent at 9:59 AM
February 12, 2012
peter straubI don't know if this is a regret or not, but I'm a pretty dedicated rereader. I kind of always have been, but it's been getting worse the older I get. And it's not very focused: sometimes I'll reread the book I just read, sometimes I'll reread for the third or fourth time the book I've had since I was in high school, and sometimes I'll hunt down copies of books that I read decades ago just for the sole purpose of rereading.
The regret aspect of this is that there are so many books out there in the world that I either want to or should read that I feel like every time I reread that means one more book that I'll never get around to reading for the first time before I eat it. Like, a friend lent me a copy of "The Art of Fielding" months ago, and instead of starting, I've slipped two rereads ahead of it in the queue. Sorry, friend/Chad.
And the deep nostalgia rereads, the searching/finding of the book you remember loving are the hardest, at least for me, because four times out of five it's a deep disappointment, and therefore a case in which the modern version of yourself passes harsh judgment on the younger version of yourself, which younger version genuinely loved the now-terrible book. I won't name names, because backlists still exist and any novelist making a living, even the shitty ones, is a good thing for my universe.
But I'm jotting this down because I'm in the middle of one of those one time out of five experiences.— My enthusiasm for Peter Straub is no secret. Dude was crushing it back before my parents were my age. And his work has never exactly let me down in the sense of the reread, but sometimes it did not do more than ratify my teen-hood opinion. But I'm finally around to rereading "Floating Dragon," which is one of the Straubs that I've only read once. And this one is not just ratifying my long-held opinion, it's opening like a flower in ways that I was not sophisticated enough to understand at the time.
It's a standard 70s/80s horror novel, back when mild psychic powers of protagonists were par for the course, but Straub's obsession with both locality and the introduction of the unexpected narrator are in high form. The plot's coming back to me the deeper I get into it, but the facility with which Straub dances in and out the history of a specific place and the power of the evolving narrator are blowing the roof clean off my house. I am deeply in lurve, all over again, and for once not embarrassed by youthful enthusiasms.
So yes, I probably will never read the tiger mom memoir since I'm rereading this paperback that made Straub a nice pile of cash thirty years ago, but it's a good smart book, and it's nice to find out that the long-ago me was not a total idiot w/r/t literary taste.
Posted by mrbrent at 4:13 PM
birth control?The interesting thing about the GOP brinkmanship over birth control is that they were handed an issue of legitimate controversy — Catholic doctrine will not allow for church money going to birth control in our lifetimes — and they're overreaching. To frame this as a religious freedom issue and stand with the Holy See is a no-brainer. But to dig in the heels and conflate this into some sort of war against birth control is just tone deaf.
I understand the instinct: an issue turns out to be political gold, so you double down on it. But to come out and turn this into an implied crusade against birth control, which is not only an accepted element of preventative care but also about as controversial as elementary school, is just D-U-M dumb.
I'm against this, of course, but I really just expect more in the way of insidious political maneuvering from the Republican leadership. Like the flag-burning thing twelve years ago, or the gay marriage wedge in 2004? That shit worked. But on this, I feel like there's going to be a bunch of right-leaning moderates who will vociferously agree with the GOP caucus and then a day later wonder to themselves what exactly they're opposing. "This whole thing is over condoms and the pill? Err..."
I mean, go for it, dudes, and it's nice of them to give Santorum an issue that he can really get behind. But Mitch McConnell and John Boehner might want to check their emails for a Wait/Stop/Don't email from Karl Rove.
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MOSCOW -- Russian Federation leader Boris N. Yeltsin said yesterday that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's plan to take control of the government along with republican representatives will not solve the country's problems and could deepen its political crisis.
"The president's proposals are aimed at strengthening the center," Mr. Yeltsin said, according to the Interfax news service. "It appears that he can get along without consulting the sovereign republics -- but that is already impossible. Russia, at least, will not accept it."
Mr. Yeltsin made his remarks in Kiev, where he and his Ukrainian counterpart, Leonid Kravchuk, signed a 10-year economic and political agreement between the two largest Soviet republics that bypassed the Kremlin and underscored Mr. Gorbachev's increasing isolation.


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With February being National Black History Month, five more-than-century-old cookbooks by African-Americans from The Feeding America Project of Michigan State University Libraries will be featured. This week features two books, Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide; By Tunis Gulic Campbell, 1848; and The Ideal Bartender; By Tom Bullock; 1917.
The books are from the Feeding America Project http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html
Quoted information is from the Feeding America Project with essays by Jan Longone, Curator of American Culinary History, Clements Library, University of Michigan.
"Feeding America project is an online collection of some of the most important and influential American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The digital archive includes page images of 76 cookbooks from the MSU Library's collection as well as searchable full-text transcriptions. This site also features a glossary of cookery terms and multidimensional images of antique cooking implements from the collections of the MSU Museum."
Longone on Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide - "This is truly a rare work; this copy is one of the few known. It is the second major Black-authored culinary work in America. It is also … more than a cookbook. It is one of the earliest manuals written by any American on the supervision and management of first-class restaurants and hotel dining rooms.
"Campbell's book is evocative of a military manual. For example, detailed, exacting instructions for the dining table service brigade are given and illustrated in a series of ten plates. It begins with the admonition to "select men of good appearance, as near of a height as possible" and ends with the suggestion that "waiting-men should be drilled every day, except Saturday and Sunday. Saturday should be used as a general cleaning day; and Sunday we should, if possible, go to church."
"The author is as careful to instruct his waiters on their responsibility as he is equally voluble in telling the employers that they also have a responsibility to treat their help with respect and dignity. This book is a vital part of a study of America's history of race relations… This book deserves to be better known."
Selected recipes from Hotel Keepers, Head Waiters, and Housekeepers' Guide:
To stew Brisket of Beef. – Having rubbed the brisket with common salt and saltpetre,* let it lie four days. Then lard the skin with fat bacon, and put it into a stew-pan with a quart of water, a pint of red wine or strong beer, half a pound of butter, a bunch of sweet herbs, three or four shallots, some pepper, and half a nutmeg grated. Cover the pan very close. Then fry some square pieces of boiled turnips very brown. Strain the liquor the beef was stewed in, thicken it with burnt butter, and having mixed the turnips with it, pour all together over the beef in a large dish. Serve it up hot, and garnish with lemon sliced. An ox cheek, or a leg of beef, may be served up in the same manner. [*or use Morton Tender Quick(r)]
To stew Red Cabbage. – Take a red cabbage, lay it in cold water for an hour, cut it into thin slices across, and then into little pieces. Put it into a stew-pan, with a pound of sausages, a pint of gravy, a little bit of ham or lean bacon; cover it close, and let it stew half an hour; then take the pan off the fire and skim away the fat, shake in a little flour, and set it on again. Let it stew two or three minutes, then lay the sausages in the dish and pour the rest all over. You may, before you take it up, put in half a spoonful of vinegar.
To make a good Pea Soup. – Take a quart of split peas, put them into a gallon of soft water, with a bunch of herbs, some whole Jamaica and black pepper, two or three onions, a pound of lean beef, a pound of mutton, and a pound of the belly-piece of fat pork; boil all together, till your meat is thoroughly tender, and your soup strong; then strain it through a sieve, and pour it into a clean sauce-pan; cut and wash three or four large heads of celery, some spinach, and a little dried mint, rubbed fine; boil it till your celery is tender, then serve it up with bread cut in dice and fried brown.
To make a Craw-Fish Soup. – Cleanse them, and boil them in water, salt and spice; pull off their feet and tails and fry them; break the rest of them in a stone mortar, season them with savory spice, and an onion, a hard egg, grated bread, and sweet herbs boiled in good table beer; strain it, and put to it scalded chopped parsley, and French rolls; then put in the fried craw-fish, with a few mushrooms. Garnish the dish with sliced lemon, and the feet and tail of a craw-fish.
To make Brown Celery Sauce. – Stew the celery in little thin bits, then add mace, nutmeg, pepper, salt, a piece of butter rolled in flour, with a glass of red wine, a spoonful of catchup, and half a pint of good gravy; boil all these together, and pour into the dish. Garnish with lemon.
To make good Fritters. – Mix half a pint of good cream very thick with flour, beat six eggs, leaving out four whites; add six spoonfuls of sack, and strain them into the cream; put in a little grated nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon, and salt; then put in another half pint of cream, and beat the batter near an hour; pare and slice your apples thin, dip every piece in the batter, and throw them into a pan with boiling lard.
To make a Chicken Pie. – Take six small chickens, roll a piece of butter in sweet herbs, season and lay them into a cover, with the marrow of two bones rolled up in the batter of eggs, a dozen of yolks of eggs boiled hard, and two dozen of savory balls; when you serve it up, pour in a quart of good gravy.
To make a Rice Pudding. – Beat half a pound of rice to powder. Set it with three pints of new milk upon the fire, let it boil well, and when it grows almost cold, put to it eight eggs well beaten, and half a pound of suet or butter, half a pound of sugar, and a sufficient quantity of cinnamon, nutmeg, and mace. Half an hour will bake it. You may add a few currants, candied lemon, citron-peel, or other sweetmeats; and lay a puff-paste first all over the sides and rim of the dish.
To make a Baked Apple Pudding. – Scald three or four codlings, and bruise them through a sieve. Add a quarter of a pound of biscuit, a little nutmeg, a pint of cream, and ten eggs, but only half the whites. Sweeten to your taste, and bake it.
To make Apple Dumplings. – Pare and core as many codlings as you intend to make dumplings. Make a little cold butter paste. Roll it to the thickness of one's finger, and wrap it round every apple singly; and if they be bound singly in pieces of cloth, so much the better. Put them into boiling water, and they will be done in half an hour. Serve them up with melted butter and white wine; and garnish with grated sugar about the dish.
Longone on The Ideal Bartender; By Tom Bullock; 1917 — "This volume represents another view of the African American as a food professional. It also is meant to represent the beverage aspect of food studies and the hundreds of books on that subject.
"America has a long history of interest in a great variety of beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic. The cocktail is considered by many to be one of the major American contributions to this genre.
"This book offers recipes for about 175 classic cocktails from Abricontine Pousse Cafe and Absinthe to Tom Tom and Whiskey Scotch Hot. It also conveys the flavor of the role of the bartender in American society.
"The author proudly offers a brief history of his professional life and contacts. He is remembered today and is a respected figure in St. Louis popular lore."
Fill large Bar glass 2/3 full Shaved Ice.
2 teaspoonfuls Powdered Sugar.
1 Lemon's Juice.
Fill up with Apollinaris; stir; strain into Lemonade glass; dress with Fruit and serve.
Fill large Bar glass 3/4 full Shaved Ice.
3 dashes Gum Syrup.
3 dashes Raspberry Syrup.
1 1/4 jiggers Applejack.
Shake; strain into Cocktail glass and serve with piece of Lemon Peel twisted on top.
Into large Bar glass squeeze Juice of 1 Lemon.
1 teaspoonful Bar Sugar.
1 bottle Ginger Ale off the ice.
Stir; decorate with Fruit and Berries. Serve.
Use a large Mixing glass with Lump Ice.
2 jiggers of Cream.
1 bottle Sarsaparilla.
Stir well and serve with Straws.
Into a large Bar glass put:
2 teaspoonfuls Bar Sugar.
2 dashes Lemon Juice.
1 dash Lime Juice.
Fill up with Shaved Ice and add:
1 pony Brandy.
1 jigger Santa Cruz Rum.
Stir; dress with Fruit and serve with Straws.
BOMBAY PUNCH (2 1/2-gallon mixture for 40 people)
Bruise the skins of 6 Lemons in 1 lb. of Bar sugar and put the Sugar in a Punch bowl and add:
1 box Strawberries.
2 Lemons, sliced.
6 Oranges, sliced.
1 Pineapple, cut into small pieces.
1 quart Brandy.
1 quart Sherry Wine.
1 quart Madeira Wine.
Stir well; empty into another bowl in which a block of Clear Ice has been placed and add:
4 quarts of Champagne.
2 quarts Carbonated Water.
1 Lemon Rind in large Bar glass.
3 lumps Ice.
1 bottle Ginger Ale.
1 bottle Sarsaparilla.
LEMONADE APOLLINARIS (or Carbonated Water)
Fill large Mixing glass 2/3 full fine Ice.
1 tablespoonful Bar Sugar.
Juice of 1 Lemon.
Fill up with Apollinaris or suitable Carbonated Water.
Stir; strain into Lemonade glass; dress with Fruit and serve.
PINEAPPLE JULEP (for a party of 6—Use a small punch bowl)
1 quart of Sparkling Moselle.
1 jigger Cusenier Grenadine.
1 jigger Maraschino.
1 jigger Sir Robert Burnette's Old Tom Gin.
1 jigger Lemon Juice.
1 jigger Orange Bitters.
1 jigger Angostura Bitters.
4 Oranges, sliced.
2 Lemons, sliced.
1 ripe Pineapple, sliced and quartered.
4 tablespoonfuls Sugar.
1 bottle Apollinaris Water.
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Monster Energy Pro Circuit Kawasaki Broc Tickle's unanticipated transition to the 450 Class had its ups and downs early in 2012. But Tickle really began to hit his stride outdoors and finished off a remarkable 450 rookie campaign fifth in points. We talked with Broc about his season and his plans for 2013.
Racer X: Congratulations on another podium finish. How would you sum up your rookie season in the 450 Class?
Broc Tickle: I can't complain about the whole year. There's been progress, I think, throughout the whole year and obviously it motivates me. I'm looking forward to a good off-season, stay healthy and see some progress in training and running and what not, and come to Anaheim 100 percent prepared and just keep moving forward. I think that's the main thing. I've seen progress and I'm hungrier now to make even more.
Earlier in the season we talked and your goal was to be a top five guy. Now you're fifth in the points standings.
Yeah, it was a goal and I accomplished that. So that's another thing that's good. I got some podiums along with it. It's been a good season. I never have gotten an outdoor podium, so I thought it was out of the question. I'm just happy to be up here and happy to be healthy. I couldn't have done it without everybody that's behind me. Mitch and my mechanic and my wife, everybody that's been a part of this, a lot of credit goes to them. I've put in my hard work and I think it's been showing.
Tickle finished his rookie 450 season fifth in points.
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How do you feel for next season? Can you tell us anything about your plans?
I can't say anything as of yet, but I'm looking forward to it. I think there'll be a press release here around October 1, so it's gonna be a good change even though I couldn't stay where I was at. It's going to be good and I'm looking forward to it and, hopefully, I can end here and take my momentum with me and get everything going in the right direction again. Then when we start riding supercross, just take it slow and build from there.
I know that during supercross, you were down. How hard was it to keep pushing and be mentally tough to get all the way to where you are now?
It was like six races in, I was really frustrated. It just wasn't happening on race day. We sat back for a couple of days and looked at everything and looked at what I was doing and decided I really wasn't having much fun. So the main focus from that point on was to go out and have fun. That's why we do this. We love to do it. My focus was to get my work in, but have fun while doing it. Like I said, I made progress. It's awesome to see my goals right now. I wanted to be healthy all year, and I did that, and to make progress. I never thought I would honestly get a podium before the end of the year, but now that I'm here, it's been a good outdoor season. I'm looking forward to the off-season and getting everything going and I'll hopefully be 100 percent ready for Anaheim 1 and do this again.
You mentioned on one of the podiums that you live pretty close to here. Do you think that knowing California in general – knowing the soil, the terrain – might have helped a little bit?
Yeah, you know, it was weird. I woke up this morning and I just knew I was going to do good today. I don't know, it's weird. It took me five minutes to get here and it's cool to do that. We don't do that anywhere else. We'd have to fly. I got to sleep in my own bed, obviously. It was good. I think this place will get better each year. I, honestly, liked it. It is what it is and I think I ride this good, that's why I like it. I think you just have to be patient here. When they put water on this, it's slippery. It's like ice skating. I think today was all about being patient as well as being aggressive. I didn't get very good starts today, but I made a lot of passes the first couple of laps and got myself into third and just rode my own race kind of.
Tickle already has his plans set for 2013... but we'll have to wait a few more weeks to find out where he is going.
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You mentioned that it was kind of like ice skating at points. First moto, there were parts that were super hard and dry and others that were mushy. Was the track any better second moto?
Second moto the track was a lot better. They quit the water, at least. It didn't really get that rough, but it was hard to ride. I thought, during the first moto, I got pretty tired. Derek didn't know I was struggling, but I had a big enough gap to where I could relax and take the last couple of laps to take it all in, seeing as I knew there was still the second moto. But the main thing that bothered me today was my hands just because the ground's so hard and there's straight-edge bumps. I'm pretty happy with my day here today.
That first moto was almost back east hot.
Yeah, you know, it's weird, I don't even know what the hardest race we had was, but I honestly felt more tired here than I did at any of those other races this year. It was hot, for sure. I wanted to get my clothes off as soon as I got back to the truck and get regrouped. I'm kind of glad the women were racing today so I got a little more time. But, like I said, I'm happy with how the whole year went. I can't thank Mitch and my mechanic, Dave, everybody that's helping me and making me better, I think that's why I'm up here today.


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We always wondered why Nadine Coyle didn't do better as a solo artist. She's clearly the best singer in Girls Aloud, and yet it was Cheryl Cole's career that skyrocketed when the girls went off and did their own thing. Hell, even Kimberley Walsh managed a top 20 album (and after THAT NTAs performance, too), whilst Nadine's solo album Insatiable barely scraped into the top 50.
And then we had a listen to her version of Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend, which leaked online today, and we remembered - the girl just records God-awful songs.
In the leaked recording, the Girls Aloud star puts a modern pop spin on the song made famous by Marilyn Monroe in the film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Prepare your ears, then listen to Nadine's leaked track below...
The start of the track sees her talking over a Robbie Williams' Candy-esque beat, saying: "Ooh, for me? Oh you shouldn't have! Oh, flowers? Chocolates? You really shouldn't have."
And from that awful starting point, it just gets worse.
The track was recorded last year, and we don't yet know whether it is a one-off, or part of a cruel plot to unleash a follow up to Insatiable on us.
Nadine is currently touring the country with the rest of Girls Aloud on the band's Ten tour, which kicked off in Newcastle last week.
The opening night saw the girls get very sweaty and then a little emotional as they hit the stage together, with Cheryl showing off her massive new back tatt-eww.
The set list included the classics Something New, Jump and Something Kind Of Ooh, and the girls finished off the performance with an emotional rendition of The Promise in gorgeous matching red sequin dresses.
"There's nowhere in the world I'd rather be right now," said Cheryl. "It's been an emotional evening but I wouldn't have wanted to share it with anyone else, so thank you."
See the girls in all their sweaty, spangley glory on the first night of their tour below...


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Sharon Osbourne met the press Sunday at the Television Critics Assoc. press tour in Hollywood to tout her upcoming syndicated talk show, but reporters were more interested in asking why the heck she agreed to do another season of MTV's The Osbournes. "It's about squeezing out every moment that I possibly can in my life," said Ozzy's better half, who confirmed that she is currently cancer-free. "When somebody says to you, 'You've got a 33 percent [chance] of survival,' you rethink your life." Sharon also conceded that The Osbournes was partially to blame for son Jack's drug problems, because he "had money... and he had people around him that wanted to be near him because he was on a TV show." For my minute-by-minute account of press tour, click here.


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The 2nd Amendment : For Muskets Only?!
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BATON ROUGE – LSU Professor of Physics & Astronomy Bradley E. Schaefer has been invited to attend the Nobel Prize Award ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden, in recognition of his contribution to this year's Nobel Prize winning research in physics. The research has led to the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe due to an unknown form of energy embedded in the fabric of space. This energy, known as "dark energy," has been described as one of the greatest enigmas in physics today.
"We are extremely excited about Bradley's contribution to the Nobel Prize-winning research in physics," said Kevin Carman, dean, LSU College of Science. "This is a wonderful and richly deserved recognition; it also reflects well on the quality of our faculty and students and epitomizes the quality of research in the College of Science."
In January 1999, two independent teams of researchers, the Supernova Cosmology Project, led by Saul Perlmutter from Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the University of California, and The High-z Supernova Search Team, led by Brian Schmidt and Adam Riess with the Australian National University and Johns Hopkins University, respectively, published the same surprising discovery that the well-known expansion of the universe was speeding up.
Schaefer, a member of Perlmutter's Supernova Cosmology Project team, served as the observer on the WIYN telescope, located on Kitt Peak in Arizona, where he measured the brightness of all the supernovas.
Schaefer also co-authored one of the papers that documented the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the universe, a result that was not anticipated.
"Saul Perlmutter very much deserves the Nobel Prize," said Schaefer. "He was the one person with the vision to realize that the project was important, he is the one who realized how to do it, and he is the one who organized and ran the whole Supernova Cosmology Project team."
The original observations of the Supernova Cosmology Project concluded that the peak brightness of very distant supernovas, called type Ia supernovas, appear to be fainter than expected. These supernovas can be used as "mile markers" to measure the expansion history of the universe. According to Schaefer, the startling result was that the expansion of the universe is accelerating as if something is "pushing" it.
Scientists have known for nearly a century that the universe has been expanding as a result of the Big Bang that occurred about 14 billion years ago. However, the finding that this expansion is accelerating and will continue to accelerate is astonishing. The researchers suggest that the acceleration is driven by dark energy. Though the researchers are still unsure as to what dark energy is, they have determined that this energy makes up more than 70 percent of the universe.
This ground-breaking research also offers some scientific predictions of how the earth will end. According to the researchers, a consequence of this acceleration is that the universe will continue expanding forever, becoming colder and emptier as time goes on.
In 1999, the two research teams came to the same result, confirming the acceleration of the universe and that roughly three-quarters of the mass energy of the universe is made up of dark energy. In 2003, a highly-sensitive map of the sky in microwave light with the Wilkerson Microwave Anistropy Probe provided confirmation of the existence of dark energy. The fact that the two independent teams came to the same conclusion provided the scientific evidence needed to support a Nobel Prize in Physics.
"The astrophysics community has known for about five years that Perlmutter, Schmidt and Riess would win the Novel Prize, so the only question was which year they would receive the award," said Schaefer.
The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to the leaders of the two research teams with one-half of the award to Perlmutter and the other half jointly awarded to Schmidt and Riess. Schaefer, along with all of the members of the Supernova Cosmology Project team, were also recipients of the 2007 Gruber Prize for Cosmology, a $500,000 award.
Nobel Week in Stockholm is held Dec. 7 - 13. The week's activities include a series of press conferences, Nobel lectures, receptions, concerts and balls. The Nobel Prize award ceremony will take place Dec. 10 in the Stockholm Concert Hall.
For a complete schedule of events, go to http://www.nobelprize.org/index.html.
Ashley Berthelot
LSU Research Communications
Dawn Jenkins
LSU College of Science
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Below are select films that will give you an idea of my style, combining both photography and motion in an edited cinematic movie.
"Having James document the birth of our third child was such a blessing. From the moment we first met him, there was an instant bond that connected our family to him and only grew as we went along this journey together. While filming, he is very quiet, calm and professional. His presence goes mostly unnoticed unless you address him directly. The final product was beyond our expectations and brought my entire family to tears. We are forever grateful to him for capturing this event for us to cherish for years to come."
"James' birthdoc video of our son Luca's birth is the best thing we could have done for our family. The video heightened and lifted the birthing experience (which is already a miraculous event) to another level. He captured the most intimate, humorous and special moments while being very professional and thoughtful of the needs of the mother to be (me), father to be, baby, and anyone else in the room. It's as if James is not in the room except when you want him to be there. We feel very special to work with him at this point of his ascending directing and photographer career especially since no one else is doing videos like this! Not in the artistic, profound and fun way he is doing it! Also, James is just a great person all around. He has become part of our family in many ways."
"James documented the birth of our son 14 months ago. As a full-time graduate student with three children under 10 years old (and another on the way) I haven't had time to write the review he deserves. That said, I'd like to write something about James, even if it's not as perfect as I'd rehearsed in my head a million times. James was kind, supportive, present and helpful before the baby came. He checked in with me often and his texting presence helped lift me up through that last week, (which as you moms know is very uncomfortable). He arrived promptly when I went into labor and put together the most beautiful film of the delivery of our son. We watched it again last night and both started weeping like babies. If you're on the fence about documenting the birth, do it. I didn't do it for my first two children and will never have those first few precious moments back. I wish I had filmed their births, because what James put together for #3 is nothing short of a sensational masterpiece. Thank you James."
"Our precious princess Victoria turns 6 months today. And it is also exactly six months ago today that James brought such a joyous and special day in our lives to forever be captured through the eyes of a professional cinematographer. James is no ordinary photographer or videographer. He is an artist that tells a story of the birth of your child. My wife and I put a lot of thought into this and are so glad we did. James by far is in a league of his own. He is one creative gentleman that has a knack for capturing the human spirit and the emotion of such huge life events. For us it was a seven year journey to welcome Victoria. So it was a big deal for us to capture the essence of one of the happiest days of our lives for us to share with friends and family. Especially as a keepsake for our child to one day relive the day she made us parents. We highly recommend James if you are considering having both a photographer and video for the birth of your child. If you'd like more detail, feel free to reach out. As a master editor, he pieced together the footage into one very powerful story to be told of our journey. We just can't say enough about him. He is genuinely caring and was with us from the start. When the time was here for Victoria to come, his commitment is always to be there regardless of day or hour. His accessibility, punctuality, and professionalism was impeccable. Trust us, this is an investment you will never regret. We can't wait to have Jim back to capture Victoria's first Happy Meal!"
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"My husband and I had the most amazing experience using James Carroll to capture the birth of our daughter. He documented the delivery with professionalism, discretion, sensitivity and talent. And, as a result, we have an exquisite short film we can share with, not only family, but with friends and colleagues. With our first 2 children, my husband attempted to video the birth himself. Unfortunately, that resulted in him stuck behind a camera getting footage we would never want to share, and, most importantly, he was distracted at a very important time. Having James shoot the delivery was the best part of our birth plan. He moved around the room quietly capturing all the important moments. I almost forgot he was there. But more than that, he is so talented. The imagery, the music and the editing all came together in a modern, sophisticated and beautiful way. My husband and I both work in television, so creatively, we're very particular about the look and feel of video and photography. We were blown away with the end result. I can not say enough good things about our time with James. Only to say thank you for making the experience so effortless and the video something we will cherish for years to come. He not only captured the birth of our daughter in an amazing way, he allowed us both to forget about cameras and enjoy the special experience together."
– Hollis
Childbirth Photographer . Home birth . Hospital birth . Water birth
The day will be captured with the best quality camera/lens combination in the world.
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We are completely booked for 2017
Option one: labor & delivery only . still photography . all images color corrected – $10k
Option two: labor & delivery only . still + motion photography . edited cinematic movie – $15k
Option three: home + labor + delivery + first meeting . two day shoot . edited cinematic movie – $20k
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Re: Timeline of Nolan's trilogy.
I mean, when you have both sides making valid points that conflict, you can either believe the story told through dialogue or the dates made by pd. I know which one I'd believe over the other, but once again would argue that the dates are trivial and would not add to the films either way.
Also, when both dates Alex talks about happen to coincide with the years of release of each film, making it more likely that pd didn't check the specificity of the stories' dates since 99% of people won't see it.
The dialogue, however, is king to storytelling, and does seem to make it clear that the mob had been ineffective for about a year, most likely coinciding with the initial rise of the batman. What other evidence is there to account for the extra two years that you, Alex, claim to have passed other than a date on a paper?
Like I said, ultimately I'd like you to be right, because it would like him to be batman for more than a year, but I just don't see it. Would love to see more evidence to the contrary if you've got it, because a date on a prop that could easily be born out of inattentiveness is not proof of anything. If we're using that, I'd say the 'real' timeline should be around bb 2005, Tdk 2006, tdkr 2014.
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No. 5 Tennessee Advances Into Second Round With Win Over ETSU
May 8, 2009
Courtesy of Tennessee Athletics
Knoxville, Tenn. - The No. 5 Tennessee Volunteers received a tough test in their first round NCAA Men's Tournament matchup against the No. 61 East Tennessee State Buccaneers, but executed down the stretch for a 4-0 win.
Tennessee (22-6) faces the No. 23 Duke Blue Devils (16-8) in the second round Saturday at 3 p.m. ET. The winner advances to the Round of 16 at NCAA Men's Tennis Championships at the George P. Mitchell Tennis Center on the campus of Texas A&M, in College Station, Texas, May 14-19.
The Vols suffered first set losses in the two singles matches but stormed back to win the second set in both as Matt Brewer scored the clinching point at No. 6 with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, win over Alex Ahlgren. Brewer led 4-3 in the first but Ahlgren used a solid return game to win the final three points. Brewer then jumped out to a 5-1 lead in the second and built a 4-2 lead in the third en route to his win.
Matteo Fago was in the same boat as Brewer at No. 3, falling 6-4 in the first set to Grega Teraz before winning 6-3, and leading 5-1 in the third when the match was halted. Fago controlled both the second and third sets from the start, taking a 5-2 lead in the second before rolling in the third.
"The key to me is we had a couple of guys lose first sets and came back and won second sets and one of those guys clinched coming from a set behind," said head coach Sam Winterbotham. "If he had been two points slower we had another that was one point from clinching. We know we are going to win some matches. We need to turn around the matches we are losing. We did a fantastic job of that today.
"This first round was a tough match. ETSU fights. They are well coached. They are one of the toughest four seeds in the country. We knew it was going to be a tough match. Duke is going to be as tough as a second round as we'll face."
Tennessee captured the doubles point behind a gutty effort from the No. 2 and 42nd-ranked tandem of Boris Conkic and Fago. The pair were tied 3-3 following ETSU's victory at No. 3 and UT's win at No. 1. Holding a 6-5 lead, the pair broke the serve of Grega Teraz and Charles Bottoni to lead 7-5 and went on for the 8-5 win.
The No. 3 duo of John-Patrick Smith and Davey Sandgren also faced some stiff competition from ETSU's No. 62 Ahlgren and Enrique Olivares at the No. 1 spot. After spotting ETSU a 3-1 lead Smith and Sandren reeled off three straight points to take a 4-3 lead. The Bucs would tie at 4-4 before UT's pair ran off another three points to lead 7-4 and Smith closed it out with an ace at 8-5.
Robin Akser and Daniel Isaza gave ETSU a quick lead in doubles with an 8-2 win over Brewer and Bryan Swartz at No. 3. Tennessee grabbed a 1-0 lead before Asker and Isaza took the next seven points.
"They got up on us in doubles. To our credit we weathered the storm and turned it around," said Winterbotham. "In singles again, it was a battle. I'm proud of our guys for sticking with it."
Sandgren secured a straight set win over Isaza, 6-2, 6-2, at No. 4. Sandgren bolted out to a 4-1 lead in both sets en route to giving Tennessee a 2-0 lead.
The fifth-ranked Smith dominated a top-20 matchup against the No. 28 Olivares, 6-2, 6-1. Smith and Olivares traded the first four points in the first set before Smith closed strong by winning the last four. Olivares then took a 1-0 lead in the second before Smith shut the door again to put the Vols up 3-0.
Another tough match was at No. 2 where Conkic and Sander Gille went back and forth in the first set with six ties and five lead changes before being settled in a 7-4 tiebreaker. Conkic was leading 3-2 when the match ended.
Christian Hansen's No. 5 7-6, 2-2, singles match against Akser mirrored Conkics as he won a first set tiebreaker 7-0 after surviving six ties and five lead changes.


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Assistant Coaches Announced For Women's Rowing
Sept. 20, 2001
Los Angeles- UCLA is pleased to announce Jaime Goodrich and Guillermo Lemus as Assistant Coaches for Women's Rowing. Goodrich and Lemus, under Head Coach Amy Fuller, will guide the UCLA rowing team during its inaugural season as an NCAA sport.
Coach Goodrich, daughter of UCLA Basketball's Gail Goodrich, joins the UCLA Athletics staff after serving as Administrative Director for a non-profit youth basketball organization, Hoopmasters. Goodrich, a UC Berkeley alumna, discovered rowing during her freshman year. She rowed the next three years with Cal's Varsity program and won over 80% of her collegiate races. Goodrich also consistently medalled at the PAC 10's and took sixth place in the first NCAA's in 1997.
Coach Lemus, former Head Coach of the UCLA Women's Rowing Club, first came to UCLA in 1996 with over 12 years or rowing experience. He first learned to row at the age of 12 and competed for the Guatemalan Junior's National Team. During his two-year tenure as the women's varsity rowing coach, Lemus improved his UCLA club team to medal contention. From a sixth place finish in the Varsity Eight at the Newport Autumn Rowing Festival in 1999, the team progressed to capture two medals at the Pacific Coast Visitors Cup, a Silver in the Lightweight Varsity Eight and a Gold in the Novice Eight.
'I think Jaime and Guillermo complement each other very well,' stated Head Coach Amy Fuller. 'Guillermo has a lot of experience in rowing, and at the boathouse, rigging the boats. Jaime is a great rower and has experienced some of the best coaching in West. I'm really looking forward to the season, and I'm very pleased with my coaching staff.'
The UCLA Athletics staff cordially welcomes Jaime Goodrich and Guillermo Lemus. UCLA announced on Feb. 9, 2001 that it would add rowing as an intercollegiate sport for the 20001-02 season. With the addition of Goodrich and Lemus, as well as the 25 returning club rowers, the UCLA Women's Rowing team can now build from a solid foundation.
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