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I'm trying to write an RSpec helper for testing cached actions: https://github.com/avit/rspec-rails-caching/ How it works is visible in lib/rspec-rails-caching.rb, but to outline the setup process: 1. Define the global RAILS_CACHE constant (i.e. Rails.cache) to a CacheStore object that handles recording. 2. Turn on perform_caching which is normally false in the test environment. 3. Reload the described controller. Reloading the controller class is necessary because the cache callbacks (after process_action) are metaprogrammed into the class, and they don't get added when the class is loaded while ActionController::Base.perform_caching is false. (These are the numbered methods that look like WidgetsController#_callback_after_2961) This helper seems to be mostly working. By "mostly" I mean my spec will pass/fail correctly based on the expectations when I run individual examples INSIDE my caching block. The problem is that if I run the whole spec file with examples that are OUTSIDE my caching block too, then the controller's caching callbacks don't get triggered. I've stepped through process_action in the debugger and I can't figure out what is the difference between the two scenarios. I've confirmed that both have: 1. perform_caching is true 2. The cache_store is my TestStore object 2. The _callback_after_2961 metaprogrammed caching method is defined on the controller class 3. The callback method shows up in the _process_action_callbacks chain Still, there seems to be some difference whether the class is first loaded inside or outside the caching example group. How can I force the class to reload "cleanly" to ensure the caching callbacks get run? Or is there a better solution?
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You've seen the exhibition, and now you can see the man … well, versions of the man played by various actors. We're holding a Gauguin film festival during the week between Christmas and New Year's Day with three films based on Gauguin's life.
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The Population Health Alliance (PHA) announced today that it will lend membership support and expertise to the efforts of the Senate Health Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee during a full committee hearing scheduled for Thursday, January 29, 2015, at 10 a.m., ET. The title of the hearing is Employer Wellness Programs: Better Health Outcomes and Lower Costs and it will be streamed live on the HELP Committee's website at: http://www.help.senate.gov/.
PHA and its member organizations have been concerned that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has yet to issue detailed guidelines regarding what it considers acceptable for employer sponsored wellness and prevention programs and, in the last few months of 2014, the Commission filed lawsuits against companies offering workplace wellness programs to their employees and dependents. These lawsuits allege that the incentives, biometric screenings, and health risk assessments included in these programs were in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondisclosure Act (GINA). The lack of detail regarding how the various federal statues (ACA, HIPAA, ADA, GINA) are being enforced creates a challenge for PHA members, the health management industry, and consumers. Thus, this hearing is an important first step in seeking clarity for the industry.
"Workplace wellness programs and their components are an important element of population health management and the PHA supports members in their efforts to deploy programs that are ethical, effective, and in compliance with federal and state regulations," said Fred Goldstein, executive director, PHA. "We have a long history of advocacy in wellness and incentives and we were very involved in providing comments and thought leadership around the relevant passages of legislation and regulations that impact the population health field, and the interests of our member organizations."
The PHA proactively works to advance the principles of population health management in order to improve health outcomes across populations through individually-targeted, evidence-guided solutions and support, implemented across an evolving spectrum of community, care, and employer settings, operating approaches, and payment models.
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5 Things We Can't Wait for at MarketingProfs B2B Forum
Marketers associate October with two things: the beginning of Halloween themed content and MarketingProfs B2B Forum. While a ghost and ghoul themed webinar might be enticing, but nothing says "October" more than spending 3 days in historic Boston with more than 500 marketers! Whether this is your first or fifth time attending, there's a lot to look forward to at MarketingProfs.
We're sharing the top five things we can wait to see at the #MPB2B – we think you'll agree!
- Connect with new (and old!) marketing friends in the Hub: We like to talk about marketing and data, a lot. At #MPB2B, we're looking forward to talk to others. Those improvised conversations that take place between sessions and on the exhibit hall floor are some of the most valuable things you'll walk away with once the show is over.
- The chance to party like a rock star: The shenanigans at this year's B2B Forum are the best around, ranging from the opening reception, MarketingProfs' Fiesta of Marketing Awesome, beer tastings, and more! Didn't think it could get any better? Think again! To close out the show, you'll want to put on your dancing shoes because B2B After Dark is headed to the House of Blues. Since we're co-sponsoring this dance-a-thon, you'll get a free deck of "Marketing Against Humanity" playing cards in addition to some snacks and drinks to enjoy!
- And the award goes to… The 2015 Bright Bulb Awards celebrate the excellence, innovation, and brilliance of today's B2B marketers, agencies, brands, and marketing campaigns. It's essentially the Oscars of Marketing (with shorter speeches). We're particularly excited to cheer on our Maribeth Ross, Aberdeen Group's Chief Content Officer, who's a finalist for B2B Marketer of the Year.
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Gold Lake Trail is a 3.1 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Berry Creek, California that features a lake and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use this trail but must be kept on leash.
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Directions from Quincy: Travel wet on Bucks Lake Road for 9.2 miles, then through Meadow Valley. Turn right on graveled road (24N29X.) Note Silver Lake sign and proceed 6.4 miles to campground and lake.
Great place
Beautiful little lake at the bend of the loop, beautiful views all around
Nice trail and lots to see. Not too bad of a hike and well worth the trip. The access road to Silver Lake could definitely use some maintenance. Lots of ruts and rocks. No ok for small cars with no clearance. When you reach Gold lake I advise to camp around the east side of the lake as you won't be bothered by day hikers coming up from the car campgrounds at Silver Lake. All in all a good trip
It was beautiful! Lots to see but no fish! The trail is marked as easy but I think it should marked as moderate! Glad I wore my hiking boots. Lots of rocks and uneven ground!
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Beautiful once you get there; there is about a 6 mile dirt road to this trail from the Silver Lake Road. Additionally, there were lots of downed trees and it made following the trail a little difficult in some areas.
Awesome hike from Silver Lake Trailhead. Well maintained trail, perfect destination at Gold Lake. We were treated to an abundance of wildflowers in mid-June. Note: this is rated as an easy hike, so I wore all-terrain cross trainers, not boots. The terrain is very Rocky, so ankle support is highly recommended.
great campsite keep driving down to the 4x4 camp. beautiful! there are little more difficult trails past this campground
We camped at Gold Lake. It was a lot of fun. Activities included: hiking, ATV riding, kayaking, and fishing. We went the weekend after 4th of July and it was packed! We got one of the last sites. The fishing was okay. In two days we only caught three. We were able to hike to Summit lake, from there we hiked along the Pacific Crest Trail to Deer Lake. It was beautiful! Overall, great weekend.
revised. if you go up to Silver lake there's a trail head to gold lake, rock lake and the PCT. this trail is clear and clearly marked. enjoy
make sure to bring your GPS unit for this trek. there's no trail marker to start and you will need to blaze your own trail. good luck!
One of my favorite hikes! Been coming here for about 35 years. Not difficult but a few steep areas to traverse. However, the listed location shows Berry Creek which is close to Oroville, no where near, this Gold lake trail. The Gold Lake trail is actually located near Meadow Valley just west of Quincy. Extremely beautiful and rugged area. Not usually accessible until after June or July due to snow pack still in shaded areas of access road, which can be quite deep at times. (Seen more than one vehicle get stuck in a snow bank up there.) Well worth the drive and effort, don't think you can find a much more relaxing and beautiful atmosphere than the Gold / Silver lake area.
This is an easy hike, suitable for younger children (5-6 and up). The trail doesnt have much elevation untill you get to eht end and decend into Gold Lake itself. There is many areas to hang out and fish for the day. Fishing, camping, picnics, whatever your style its a nice day. Snow may be an issue up till July, and sometimes the manzanita starts getting grabby.


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President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to name more key members of his government today [June 1], sources close to the president have revealed. This follows the appointment of Femi Adeshina and Mallam Garba Shehu as special adviser and senior special assistant on media and publicity respectively.
One of the sources, who is a member of the defunct transition committee set up by the President, revealed this to Daily Trust. The source said since today marks the first weekday since President Buhari assumed office, it is in order for him to name key members of his government today.
"The President is expected to name at least key officials of his government which include the Secretary to the Government of the Federation and his Principal Private Secretary," he said.
He said it was the understanding of party leaders that the government which was inaugurated on Friday, May 29, could not continue to function with only the President and Vice President hence the expectation that barring unforeseen challenges that the announcements would be made today.
"We expect him to make this appointment today so that the officials will help him run the government as we await further developments, but he definitely has to put these ones in place before any other thing", the source further stated.
There are indications however that the All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders are in suspense over those to be appointed into these positions as President Buhari is said to be keeping the decisions close to his chest. One of the APC stalwarts who asked not to be named said most of them were not sure who would eventually get the president's nod but that they had been able to get very few names because the President made certain enquiries about certain individuals.
"Some of the names you are hearing came about because the President asked one or two things about them, but nobody can tell you with certainty in what regard the enquiries were made and whether such persons would eventually get the positions," he said.
President Buhari and Vice President Yemi Osibanjo were sworn in on Friday.


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With a gutsy effort, the Lloydminster Bobcats dropped the Fort McMurray Oil Barons - the top seeded team in the Viterrra AJHL North Division - by a score of 4-3 at the Centennial Civic Centre Friday night.
Austin McGrath turned aside 49 saves on 52 shots, while Rob Johnson, Zach Webb, Zach Kaiser, and Brady Barclay provided the scoring the Bobcats who continue to press for a playoff spot with a week left in the season.
After two periods, the Bobcats found themselves knotted at 3-3 despite being outshot heavily by the visiting Oil Barons. Early in the third, Brady Barclay pounced on a turnover in front of the Fort McMurray net and beat a scrambling Eric Szudor to put home the eventual game winner for the Bobcats.
. @LloydBobcats goal! 🚨 @BBarclay98 from Kaiser! 4-3 Cats in the third @FountainTire #defendtheden pic.twitter.com/axlYGhSeAB— Bobcats Replay (@bobcatsreplay) February 25, 2017
McGrath shut the door the rest of the way to preserve his eleventh win of the season, stopping 49 of 52 pucks on the night.
Johnson got the Bobcats on the board first in this one, converting a 3-on-1 with Zach Webb and Chasetan Braid to put the Bobcats ahead 1-0 just 4:27 into the game.
. @LloydBobcats goal! 🚨 Rob Johnson 🍎 @Chasetanbraid @FarmLinkCanada 1-0 midway thru the 1st. #defendtheden pic.twitter.com/lFMMI0ksS5— Bobcats Replay (@bobcatsreplay) February 25, 2017
Fort McMurray struck back later on in the period as Hayden Ursulak buried his ninth of the year with assists to Brett Edwards and Jackson McKinstry, but the Bobcats were able to pull ahead once again just moments later. Picking up a stretch pass in neutral ice from Evan Wood, Webb bore down on Szudor and fended off a pair of Oil Barons defenders to put it home and give the Bobcats a 2-1 lead.
. @LloydBobcats goal! 🚨@zach_webb8 🚨 2-2 at the end the first vs FM Oil Barons @FountainTire pic.twitter.com/zQwglqgxtw— Bobcats Replay (@bobcatsreplay) February 25, 2017
The Oil Barons knotted up the game before the end of the period on a delayed penalty as JC Thivierge stepped into a puck at teh top of the circle and hammered it past McGrath, making it 2-2 after one period. In the second, Fort McMurray controlled the play and carried a 3-2 lead after a power play goal from Curtis Roach, but Kaiser tied the game up yet again in the final minute of the middle frame, setting the stage for Barclay's third period game winner.
. @LloydBobcats GOAL! 3-3 to tie it 24 sec left in the 2nd - 🚨 Kaiser from @kobewalker21_ @FountainTire pic.twitter.com/fcb3H9LXtI— Bobcats Replay (@bobcatsreplay) February 25, 2017
With the win, the Bobcats now sit one point back of both the Grande Prairie Storm and the Drayton Valley Thunder for the final playoff spot in the North Division, with the Thunder holding two games in hand on the other two.
The loss snapped a seven-game winning streak for Fort McMurray, and was their first regulation time defeat since late December.
Lloydminster and Fort McMurray will face off for the final time this season Saturday night at the Civic Centre at 7:30PM.
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Voters in the Philippines are preparing to go to the polls Monday to elect a president, legislators, and local leaders. Security forces have been placed on high alert because of fears of electoral violence and terrorist attacks.
The campaign period officially ended Saturday when many candidates held their final rallies. On Sunday, the five presidential candidates attended church together and prayed for a peaceful and orderly vote.
The service, which former presidents Corey Aquino and Fidel Ramos also attended, occurred amid rumors of plans to rig Monday's vote, a coup plot and threats of terrorist attacks. Security officials have denied the various reports and have mobilized thousands of additional police to counter violence.
The chairman of the national election commission, Benjamin Abalos, on Friday said preparations were complete and sought to counter widespread criticism of the commission.
"The commission is an independent commission and it is not a commission for any person or for any party, but a commission of the people," he said.
The chairman later was hospitalized due to a stress-related illness.
Forty three million eligible voters are to cast ballots Monday for a president and vice president, legislative representatives and local mayors and council members.
It is the third national election in the Philippines since the end of decades of authoritarian rule under the late Ferdinand Marcos.
Political scientist Jose Abueva of Kalayaan College says that nearly 20 years after the fall of Mr. Marcos, voters are increasingly disillusioned with politics.
"There is a decreasing number of citizens who are satisfied with the way democracy works, although they are very strongly in favor of democracy as an ideal political system," he said.
Professor Abueva notes that the Philippine constitution centralizes power around the president. But he says its political system does not provide the president with strong party backing or dependable political support in the legislature. As a result, he says, recent leaders have made little progress in addressing major problems like poverty, corruption and lawlessness.
Final public opinion polls show that President Gloria Arroyo is leading by a half dozen percentage points over her nearest rival, movie star Fernando Poe Junior. But the polls also say that 10 percent of the voters are still undecided.


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Spice Girls stars Melanie Chisholm and Emma Bunton have reunited in the recording studio for a new song.
Chisholm recruited her former bandmate Bunton to collaborate with her on a rendition of I Know Him So Well for her upcoming album Stages, and she is delighted with their offering.
In a series of posts on her Twitter.com page, she writes, "I am very proud to announce my beautiful friend Emma Bunton has duetted with me for me (sic) new album Stages... Me and Emma Bunton and have recorded the fantastic, 'I know him so well'... Singing together again is amazing and emotional. Love you baby!"
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Details and photos of a new phablet challenger from LG have surfaced on the internet, as we count down to the gadget expo that may mark its debut.
Pictured in promotional material sourced by Phone Arena, the LG Optimus G Pro's spec sheet takes in a 5.5-inch full-HD IPS-LCD screen and a 1.7GHz quad-core Snapdragon chipset and a 13-megapixel camera with 1080p video recording.
A two-megapixel front-facing camera is also on board to handle video calls and self-portraits, as is a 3,140 mAh battery, 32GB of internal storage and the option to boost this by up to 64GB by adding a microSD card.
It's thought that the phone, the look and feel of which suggests that LG's design team have been closely studying recent efforts from Samsung, could make an appearance at Mobile World Congress (MWC) this month.
MWC is also expected to see the launch of an eight-inch tablet addition to Samsung's Note range and new additions to Nokia's Lumia line of Windows Phone handsets.


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How will the reworked Rengar work?
From all the reworked assassins, Rengar feels the most similiar to how he was back in Season 6. All of his abilities received some minor changes.
Bone Tooth necklace is still basilne and passive, but now only skills up to five. Like Kindred, Rengar has now his own unique HuD that displays the enemy champions. Each time Rengar kills a unique target, he gains a trophy and the enemy champions icon is blurried out. Each stack gives him an additional percentage of AD.
His passive ferocity now only stacks to four and is lost entirely when he leaves combat.
Savagery, Rengar's Q is the most different, then it used to be. Instead of taking his knive and deal an additional AD Damage, he now slashes forward with his claws and then stabs foward with his knife. Ferocity still just gives you more damage. You need to get used to it, since now the mechanics for this skill has changed, but it feels a lot better then the old ability.
Battle Roar, Rengar's W, now heals Renger on a similiar health system to Tahm Kench. Allowing teammates to know how much health Rengar will get back after acitvating his W. It will heal im based on the damage he has taken. When it gets casted with full Ferocity, Rengar cleanse himself from all CC.
Rengars Ultimate, Thrill of the Hunt, also got some upgrades. It now lasts longer then before, but he can only see the nearest champion. He gains some movement speed and also a guaranteed crit when he attacks.


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Here are a few of the questions that Greg asks our guest in this program: What is Classical Conversations? Why should parents use it? Why not just use a prepackaged curriculum? How does it actually work? Is there a cost involved? What are the "practicum" that parents can attend? And much more! Listen today for the answers and stay tuned for part 2 next week.


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Two cinema machines sit on opposite sides of a picture frame on a table. Like mirror images of each other, the two machines echo each other's actions, projecting similar gestures to one another, but with a slight twist.
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Duquesne University's School of Education would like to continue in the tradition of providing valuable opportunities that are worthwhile for the surrounding community. Our Pittsburgh Emerging Leaders Academy (PELA) & Courageous Conversations are examples of how Duquesne University has made successful strides forward working with the Pittsburgh Public School Community. The Tomorrow's Urban Teacher's Program is a new Initiative at Duquesne University that works with urban community schools.
What is the Sizemore Pipeline Initiative – Tomorrow's Urban Teachers Program (TUT)?
Barbara A. Sizemore was a pioneering educator who worked diligently to bring equal access and educational opportunities to African American and under-served students of all ethnicities. The Sizemore Pipeline Initiative: Tomorrow's Urban Teachers Program supports the school community at large by creating a Mentoring Partnership with the urban school community to facilitate high academic achievement and to help students envision future careers in teaching.
Where are the Tomorrow's Urban Programs (TUT) located?
Tomorrow's Urban Teacher Program does research on the demographics and achievement of the urban school populations. Schools chosen to partner with the program have diverse student enrollment and academic achievement lower than the national average. TUT has chosen to pilot its first program at Pittsburgh Langley High School. Pittsburgh Langley High School is an ideal location because of its active Teaching Academy. The TUT program will compliment and supplement the teachers curriculum with an emphasis on students becoming Pittsburgh PROMISE Ready.
What kinds of services does the Tomorrow's Urban Teacher Program (TUT) offer?
The Tomorrow's Urban Teacher's Program provides a multifaceted approach to getting students excited about excelling in their studies and realizing their career potential for becoming excellent classroom teachers. The TUT Program has two (2) components: In-School and Out-of-School. Both components of the TUT program have the benefits of sharing the expertise of educators and teacher candidates in training from Duquesne University, as well as support from business leaders from the corporate community.
During the high school years, the In-School Component of TUT will provide a series of monthly activities, including speakers that will cover topics ranging from teacher career development to leadership development, professionalism and study skills for increased academic achievement. Participating students will build confidence in their ability to excel, knowing that they have a support system in place and an ultimate career goal, which is TEACHING.
In the summer months the Out–of-School Component will give students an opportunity to visit the Duquesne University campus. During this campus visit, students may:
- shadow a teacher or a University teaching candidate,
- attend professional career development workshops,
- have exposure to the Urban Initiative College Course Offerings,
- network with Duquesne University School of Education College mentors,
- obtain information on college financial aid to supplement Pittsburgh Promise dollars,
- learn about support programs on campus for new students,
- accompany Sizemore Fellow Scholars and make a presentation at the Sizemore Summer Mini-Conference.
What skills & abilities will a student develop while in the TUT Program?
Students will participate in activities to develop a number of competencies, ranging from cultural literacies to social responsibility and professionalism and specific competencies such as communication, information gathering, decision making and evaluation techniques. These skills are essential for students who want to pursue higher education after high school.
How can students participate in the Tomorrow's Urban Teacher's Program?
Students must be enrolled as a 9th or 10th grader in a partnering TUT School & maintain 2.5 grade point average.
Participants should have a career interest in becoming an urban teacher & Sizemore Pipeline Program, Growing Our Own Next Generation of Urban Teachers.
Pipeline participants will take advantage of the following activities:
- Mentoring/Tutoring/Scholarship/Partnership with a nearby urban Middle School to facilitate high academic achievement and vision for a future career as an urban school teacher.
- Focus: Preparing Jr. High School students as the next generation of excellent urban teachers. We will grow our own future candidates for our urban teacher education program, who will return to the community as practicing teachers.
- Youth Leadership Program & Cross-Age Tutoring program.


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Cricket and LG have launched the LG HELiX, a flip phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera, a large keypad and font size, voice dialing, and talk, text, and picture messaging.
It features access to the Web with a built-in WAP browser, Bluetooth for using a hands-free headset, and comes in silver and pink. The handset also comes with preloaded MyPerks and MyBackup applications. Other features include a 2-inch, 176-by-220-pixel internal TFT screen and a 96-64 external TFT screen.
The HELiX's speakerphone is also accessible with a single button press. (You wouldn't believe how many phones get that wrong.) Both models will be available Thursday, October 29 in Cricket retail stores, dealers, and online for $139.99.


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Boston University advances to second national title game in program history
MINNEAPOLIS -- Boston University advanced to its second national title game in program history with a 4-1 victory against Mercyhurst on Friday at Ridder Arena.
BU (28-5-3) won its program-record 28th game of the season and will face top-ranked and undefeated Minnesota (40-0-0) on Sunday for the national championship. The Golden Gophers defeated Boston College 3-2 in overtime of the first semifinal.
Four different Terriers lit the lamp, including seniors Jenelle Kohanchuk, Isabel Menard and Kathryn Miller. Junior co-captain Marie-Philip Poulin added a goal as well and Kohanchuk also got an assist for a two-point evening. Junior goaltender Kerrin Sperry stopped 26 shots for her 24th win of the season and fourth NCAA tournament victory of her career.
This is the second time BU has bested Mercyhurst (29-7-1) in the NCAA tournament; the Terriers topped the Lakers 4-2 in the 2011 NCAA quarterfinals en route to the program's first national championship game appearance.
It was a dream start for the Terriers thanks to Kohanchuk's goal just 13 seconds into the contest. After BU controlled the opening draw, Poulin sent a great pass to Kohanchuk, who carried the puck into the Mercyhurst zone and fired a shot from the left circle that took a deflection and flew over Laker goaltender Stephanie Ciampa's (29 saves) shoulder for Kohanchuk's 24th goal of the season.
The Terriers nearly had a 2-0 lead at the 6:03 mark of the first frame on their first power-play opportunity of the game. Junior Kaleigh Fratkin's shot from the top of the zone caromed off the end board and onto freshman Sarah Lefort's stick in front of the net. Lefort's chance was stopped and senior Kathryn Miller knocked home the rebound, but the officials immediately waved off the goal and confirmed the call with video replay, as Miller played the puck with a high stick.
Sperry came up with a solid save as BU killed off its first penalty of the game. Emily Janiga appeared to have a sure goal right in front of the net, but Sperry extended her left leg to rob the Lakers' third-leading scorer and keep the Terriers ahead.
The second stanza began much like the first for BU, as Menard made it 2-0 just 1:00 into the proceedings. After a clear attempt from the BU zone bounced off a Laker at the Terriers' blue line, Warren collected the puck and passed it off the boards to Menard on the right wing. She and Warren created a 2-on-1 rush and Menard finished with her 16th strike of the season.
Once again Mercyhurst had a golden chance to get a goal, but Sperry was equal to the task with about 12:30 to play in the second period. Christie Cicero had a backhand chance between the hash marks, but Sperry did well to get in position to make the save.
Miller made it a 3-0 game just 3:02 into the third period thanks to a nifty pass from Kohanchuk. She evaded a defender after entering the offensive end, and with her back to the net, she backhanded a pass over a defender's stick and onto the tape of Miller. She calmly finished the play for her second goal of the season.
Poulin extended the lead to 4-0 when she converted a breakaway chance thanks to a great move in close on Ciampa with 10:03 remaining in regulation. The Terriers continued to control the game from that point, despite a late Laker goal with just 1:53 to play.
Sperry's final great save of the night once again came off the stick of Janiga. She had the puck at the right edge of the crease, but Sperry reached over and gave Janiga nothing to shoot at for one of her nine third-period saves.


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Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Acoustic?
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The day is winding down and of course I'm rocking the stumbleupon. Ran across a neat "remix" of the Fresh Prince of Bel Air theme song by Kay Pettigrew.
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Such chaos! Such mayhem!
Okay, that's all I've got. There's a caricature in here somewhere, but I'd have to do a little research to figure it out. Unfortunately, I don't have the time...
Once again, I need to take an extended coffee break, aka temporary blog hiatus. I knew I was having a minor problem when I kept starting posts with no time to finish them.
- The introduction of chocolate into 17th England? A fascinating tale of politics and intrigue, but one that will have to wait.
- The real story of St. Patrick...Happy St. Palladius Day anyone? Yup, I wanted to tell that tale too, but ran out of time. I'll tell it next year.
So I'll be finishing gallons of coffee in my attempt to balance work, teaching and writing...all while doing publicity stuff for A Murder at Rosamund's Gate...did I mention that it's coming out April 23? :-) But I'll be back soon!
In the meantime, I'll leave you with the above image as a writing prompt. What's going on here? What schemes are afoot? Or most simply of all, Who let the dog in? Happy writing!
I just had to research the meaning behind this image (despite being on my self-imposed blog hiatus). In doing so, I came across this interesting work by Joseph Grego, who wrote extensively about Rowlandson in 1922. He offers an interesting explanation of the painting that gets at the shifting economic concerns at the time.
In his own inimitable words, Grego writes:
"March 20, 1809. The advent of a nondescript animal, … assumed to be a ferocious mad dog, has produced the utmost terror and confusion amongst the grave frequenters of a mercantile coffee-house… All the city brokers, and pillars of change found therein are seared out of their sober senses; some…are paralyzed with fear; others are trying to creep under the tables; a few are seeking escape by the door which they are effectually blocking; and groups of affrighted fugitives are endeavoring to gain the refuge of the staircase….Comfortable citizens are thrown on their backs, like turtles, and trodden on, while the pressure of viler bodies above is expressing a stream of specie from the well-filled pockets of the overthrown…."
So what does all this mean?
Essentially, something seemingly innocuous has pervaded the economy, and it will cause mayhem. The explanation for this mayhem apparently can be found on the advertisment (notice) stuck on the back wall, which offers an important piece of shipping intelligence.
The notice warns 'lay off Barking Creek," the location of a large fishing fleet in London.
Barking Creek...rabid dog, get it?
(but now back to writing!)


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Is this scientific proof to follow the trend and it's strength? (pt 2)
I'm cautious to make more additions to this. I think at this point I want to be veryy critical and precise with improving at the core components. I'm kind of viewing this as "gen 1" of 1 part of a system of x number of components if we're speaking about the SB metabrain style of trading.
The picture is pretty self explanatory given one is aware of what h values are. What's interesting is the difference in strength between the low and high extreme h values.
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Mr. Martin Salter (Reading, West): I should like to thank the Opposition for giving us the opportunity to debate public services. It is hardly their strongest suit, but they get to choose the subjects for Opposition day debates.
I shall concentrate on three themes. I want to highlight what has been achieved in my constituency, to give my personal and very unspun account of my experience with public service issues, and to examine the Conservative party's lamentable failures, both in terms of performance and in terms of winning the political and ideological arguments.
By way of introduction, it is worth saying that public services are a new concept for most Thatcherite Members of Parliament, whereas most Labour Members have practical experience of them. We have either worked in or delivered public services, as exemplified by the excellent contribution from my hon. Friend the Member for Dartford (Dr. Stoate). He spoke with authority, and commanded the House's attention.
My record is more humble. I spent two years as the co-ordinator at the Reading centre for the unemployed. That centre, funded by Berkshire county council until it was axed by the Conservatives, provided welfare rights, advice and education, and training opportunities for unemployed people in my town.
I spent nine years as a regional manager for a tenant-controlled housing association that delivered affordable homes and empowered tenants with a genuine say over the delivery of their housing. That is hardly a leftist, centralising agenda. In fact, I remind hon.
Chris Grayling: Will the hon. Gentleman give way?
Mr. Salter: No Conservative Member would give way to me, and I fully intend to return the compliment until a later point in my speechwhich, I assure the hon. Gentleman, will be considerably shorter than the 35 minutes of tedium to which we have had to listen from some Opposition Members.
I also spent 12 years on Reading borough council, nine of them as deputy leader. I am proud that, even in the dark days of Thatcherism, we in Reading always put public services first. We have never been frightened to say to people that they cannot get owt for nowt. We have made it clear that people must pay and that, if they want a top-quality service, it will cost.
As the right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) will know, council tax levels in Reading are substantially higher than in neighbouring authorities. However, it is worth looking at the Labour council's electoral record. The right hon. Gentleman can only envy the record of the Labour party in comparison with his, in our respective bastions of power.
Since 1983, Reading Labour party has not lost a single council seat. It took control of the council against the swing in 1987, and has won seat after seat since. A solid Conservative authority that had swept to power on a promise that it would cut rates was swept out of power after it cut public services. The Conservative rump now consists of three councillors, who are in opposition to 36 Labour councillors.
My first message to my Front-Bench colleagues is to be bold and to stand up for public services. They must be honest with the public, as people will pay if they think that they are getting value for money and that the council or the public service provider is in touch with them and their aspirations.
David Taylor: Will my hon. Friend give way?
Mr. Salter: I shall take one intervention from a Labour Member, and I am more than happy to give way to my hon. Friend.
David Taylor: I thank my hon. Friend for giving way, but does he not think that the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden (Mr. Lilley) was right in one respect at least? He has suggested that there is no automatic link between inputs and outputs, and that we should decouple resources from quality. Newspaper articles earlier this week showed that, despite the extra investment and costs associated with private education, the results achieved represented especially poor value for money. Is not that something that we should bear in mind?
Mr. Salter: I thank my hon. Friend, but I remind him that I have been present for the whole debate. By the time the right hon. Member for Hitchin and Harpenden reached
I turn now to public services in my constituency and in Reading as a whole. As I have said, standing up for public services is nothing new for us in Reading. However, it will not hurt to take a quick look at the state of public services in my constituency, especially in connection with health, education, crime and transport.
Berkshire health authority has been allocated £528 million in the current financial year. That compares with a funding settlement in 199697, the final year of the previous Government, of just £278 million. There have been radical improvements in health service funding. Waiting lists now stand at 14,435, as against 17,452 in March 1998.
I agree that that does not tell the whole story, and that there is a debate to be had about waiting lists versus waiting times, but those are measurable improvements. I am perhaps more proud that despite the high cost of living in Berkshire, the health authority has 60 more qualified nurses than it had in 1997.
We are spending an extra £540 per pupil, compared with 19961997. The number of five, six and seven-year-olds in Reading, West in classes numbering more than 30 pupils fell from 636 in 1998 to 62 by January 2001. Eleven-year-olds have achieved record primary school results. Conservative Members did not seek to condemn the Government's education achievements. The feeling that I get on the streets and in my constituency surgery is that although there may be a long way to go in health and transport, the public recognise and appreciate the tangible improvements in the delivery of education policy.
Chris Grayling: Will the hon. Gentleman give way now?
Mr. Salter: No, not yet. The hon. Gentleman must be patient. His time will come.
There has been a fall in recorded crime in the Thames Valley, although a worrying increase in violent crime. At long last, we have started to turn the corner on police numbers. I will return to defects in current Government thinking on crime.
Reading has seen the opening of the long-awaited A33 relief roada capital project that stalled for years under successive Governments of different political persuasions. We are proud of providing free pensioner bus passes, which sets Reading apart from other authorities in the area. There has been record investment in road maintenance and the introduction of a popular night bus service. Real improvements have been made in my constituency and it would be wrong to contribute to a public services debate without highlighting them.
Since 1997, there have been significant increases in major capital programmes. I noticed the exchange between my hon. Friend the Member for Worcester (Mr. Foster) and the former Chancellor of the Exchequer about the future of a Worcester hospital. The right hon. Member for Wokingham (Mr. Redwood) will remember the incessant delays in refurbishing the Royal Berkshire hospital. That project was on hold for nine years. One of the first decisions by my right hon. Friend the Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson) on becoming
Private finance has workedin particular for greenfield sites. While some of us are ambivalent about the wonders of the private sectorI wish that my right hon. the Secretary of State for Health would not smirk at meI give my full support and backing to the PFI when it delivers a new psychiatric hospital on a greenfield site in my constituency, replacing the disgraceful, crumbling, Victorian facilities at the Fairmile asylum on the outskirts of Reading. If PFI works, more power to its elbowbut where it does not, direct public funding must be delivered.
I am pleased to see in his place the Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, my hon Friend the Member for Southampton, Test (Dr. Whitehead). As he is my office mate, that makes it easier to say that Reading needs funding for a third Thames bridge. I am sick and tired of operating in a town in which people wanting to travel from north to south to join the M4 have to drive through the centre of the capital of the Thames Valley. If someone wants to drive from Oxford to join the M4, they have to go through our town centre or rat-run through the picturesque village of Sonning to cross a single-track bridgepurely because we have been unable to break the deadlock between Berkshire and Oxfordshire councils. I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister is making copious notes and that a third Thames bridge will be a shopping list priority in the comprehensive spending review.
We have won election after election in my town using the slogan, "You're better off with Labour". With economic prosperity, record low levels of unemployment, high wages, fantastic job opportunities and quality public services, that slogan has some resonance.
I am not attempting to be consensual but in the spirit of the contributions by the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) and others, I intend to be frank. I spent some instructive time on the parliamentary police scheme, which I commend to other right hon. and hon. Members. It taught me that the police service is in urgent need of radical reform. It must be the last public service in the country that still uses carbon-paper forms. I cannot believe that police officers work in an environment that can take them out of circulation for five hours to process a simple arrest. In these days of laptop computers and Psion organisers, police officers should be able to make an arrest, file the information down the line electronically and move on to the next job. Police reform is vital.
Every Home Secretary in recent times has the scars on his back. Conservative Home Secretaries will remember the problems of trying to implement Sheehy and ending up implementing the worst parts of that report. At long last, we have a Home Secretary who is prepared to take on vested interests. I am confident that he will get support from all parts of the House.
In my region, the cost of a two-up, two-down terraced house built for a railway worker or a factory hand at Huntley and Palmer costs between £120,000 and £140,000£50,000 or £60,000 beyond the reach of a newly qualified police officer. A cost-of-living allowance
I was disappointed at police reaction to the wholly sensible notion of street wardens. The Police Federationperhaps the last redoubt of unreconstructed trade unionism, and I know a little about thatdescribed street wardens as policing on the cheap. What absolute nonsense. How many police officers object to performing functions for which they are ill equipped by their training and which could easily be undertaken by active citizens? If street wardens are policing on the cheap, cannot the same be said of the neighbourhood watch CID? The police cannot have it all ways. I sense a mood change, with progressive elements coming to the fore in the police service. My message to my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and other Front-Bench colleagues is that they should keep up the battle against the forces of conservatism because until they are defeated, public services can never be reformed.
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When were you diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes?
I was diagnosed at the age of 23. I had been feeling really tired and had a thirst that could never be quenched! I put this down to the fact that I had just started work as a professional freelance musician and was driving all over the country, keeping long hours and did not have the greatest eating plan!
I was also losing weight rapidly but decided to ignore that symptom as I was happy to be slim with no effort! I was finally referred to the hospital by my GP because of a cyst that would not heal. I remember the nurse looking at my blood test results and chastising me for not keeping my diabetes under control! After telling her that I did not have the condition, I found myself whisked off to the diabetes department and my life changed forever.
After the initial shock of diagnosis, I held on to the fact that this is a condition that can be treated, it was not the end of my life but the start of a new, healthier one. I read every book I could find, started to exercise and learned about nutrition.
My partner was wonderfully supportive and tolerated all sorts of strange diets as I found what worked for me. It was a long time before I really discussed it with family and friends as it was not something I wanted to talk about until I knew how to live with it and I needed to avoid the classic "Diabetes? Oh yes my neighbour's cat died from that" conversation!
Why did you choose an Animas® insulin pump?
In the early days, I took twice daily injections of mixed insulin. This was very restrictive as I had to eat a set amount of carbohydrate at the same time each day, not convenient with my lifestyle at all! I moved to multiple daily injections of fast and slow acting insulin which was much more flexible but still did not allow me to cope with my growing love of endurance sports.
When I decided to tackle my first Ironman® triathlon event in 2009, I realised I needed a pump!
The Animas® 2020 pump was the perfect choice for me as it was waterproof, easy to read and tough! The Animas® Vibe® Insulin Pump is even better with the CGM taking the stress of diabetes and the threat of hypos out of my sporting challenges.
How did your Animas® insulin pump change your life?
The pump has finally allowed me to fit my diabetes around my life, rather than the reverse! The biggest joy was the freedom to eat and exercise when I wanted to. The absence of long-acting insulin means that I can be much more spontaneous, whether it's taking a bike ride or walking the dog.
I can also use the combo bolus feature to eat out in restaurants, without worrying about guessing carbohydrates and portion sizes, which means I can enjoy socialising with my friends without fear of hypos. Diabetes can lead to restrictions and dull routine, the pump allows me to be flexible in everything that I do, which is how I like to live my life.
What sport do you practice, and how has the Animas® Vibe® Insulin Pump had an impact on exercise for you?
My biggest love is endurance sport. Before I had an insulin pump I was constantly finishing training sessions with blood sugars of 2 or 20! I now realise that this was mostly due to the inaccurate doses of insulin that I was getting from insulin pens and the inflexibility of long-acting insulins.
I started to lose my hypo warning signs due to stubbornly training through low blood sugars and it was only when I had cycled through central London with a BG of 1.9 I realised that things had to change! I first started on an Animas insulin pump to allow me to tackle the Ironman triathlon, an event that covers a 2.4 mile swim, 112 mile bike
and 26.2 mile run. Once I was used to my pump, I had the fine control necessary and finished this 16 hour event with a BG of 5.6, very happy!
Injury has made running difficult for me and so my time now is taken mostly with cycling. Recently, I have completed two 24 hour bike races and am aiming to do two more this year. The joy of the pump is that I can adjust my insulin during the event.
Appetite and energy levels can vary a lot over 24 hours and so I will adjust my insulin levels as necessary, helped by the constant guidance from my CGM.
I have also realised that each sport I take part in needs a different adjustment, for example, I used to play hockey which needed a different adjustment to when I was training for the channel swim! I often use the temporary basal function to allow me to correct for the stress and adrenalin of race day which can be very different to training conditions.
Distance racing is hugely about fuelling your body, whether you have diabetes or not. I use the pump to allow me to adjust my insulin to match my appetite and environment, so that I can take on fuel and keep hypos at bay!
What are your main day-to-day challenges with Type 1 diabetes and how do you cope with them?
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What would you say to someone who has heard your story, also lives with Type 1 diabetes and now wants a challenge of their own?
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I'm pie-crust challenged too, Sheila! Love Grace Paley's poem...(wish I could write a poem in the same amount of time as it takes to make a pie!) Thanks for sharing the recipe and poem. :)ReplyDelete
Your posts are always so much fun, Sheila. Love the poem and I am sure to love the pie. I think the principle would also apply to pages written.ReplyDelete
Sheila, I love that poem!ReplyDelete
I have a pie crust recipe from my father that involves flour, salt, milk and vegetable oil. then you roll it out between sheets of waxed paper. so easy it's criminal....
Sheila, I especially like the dried fruit in this pie. Except for raisins, it never occurs to me to add dried fruit to pies. And I love the poem!ReplyDelete
~ Krista
Sweet poem! So wise...and, of course...ReplyDelete
"Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness." -- Jane Austen
Nice poem. Oh I wish I liked pies because they all look scrumptious.ReplyDelete
Love pies, love poem - want pie now. I cannot imagine not liking pies! (This to Dru:) This recipe looks especially tasty. My Grandma Hilda made the best pie crust. For apple pie she'd swipe the top crust with milk and sprinkle a bit of granulated sugar over it. With a wedge of cheddar cheese, out of this world.ReplyDelete


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Most newspaper journalists are content to glide along to the rhythms of professional life, churning out prose within the acceptable boundaries of style and structure. Tom Wolfe tried his level best to be a workaday deadline grunt early into his writing career, but he was constitutionally incapable of doing so.
As a young reporter for the New York Herald Tribune, Wolfe chafed at the straightforward nature of the job. Newspapers in general, he thought, "teach a kind of preciseness that really makes for a terrible writer."
When he wrote about the 1962 capture of small-time bank robber Albert Nussbaum, Wolfe stressed that the poor sap was "thin, hungry, seedy-haired and down to his last $2.25" when the Feds nabbed him. A throwaway story about a new state driver's test became a study in frustration: "One of them turns the question sheet over as if there has to be a brighter side to it somewhere. Another is twisting her forelocks into a sheepshank knot."
From the start of his writing career, Wolfe had figured out an important tenet of his work: Facts don't reveal everything. Behavior is just as important. That rule of thumb has served him well across his forty-eight-year career as a journalist, social critic, provocateur, and novelist. Looking back on his enormous and richly varied body of work, we can piece together the cultural history of postwar America through the mores of its creative and jittery youth, its captains of capitalism and down-and-out underclassmen, its artists and artist-manqués, its political cause-mongers and haute (and low) fashion arbiters. In short, the "mad, hulking carnival" of American life in the age of television and rock and roll. No one brought all of that sprawling chaos into sharper focus than Wolfe, and there was a good reason for it: By side-stepping conventional reporting and embracing prose that zinged and zoomed with the same gale force of the movements he was covering, Wolfe's work embodied the dynamism of the culture itself. He has been our most eloquent tour guide to the most fascinating era of the past half-century, and always ahead of the curve.
There's a Jeffersonian sense of optimism at work in Wolfe's writing. All of the great American virtues--for self-invention and self-reliance, for maximizing human potential to its fullest, for creating sustainable communities from whole cloth--find expression in Wolfe's protagonists. He, more than any other writer of his generation, is attuned to the ways in which Americans can constantly change the angle of their vision and enrich the world in the process.
But Wolfe has never just been a pom-pom Pollyanna. He's always possessed a Mencken-like penchant for sniffing out pomposity, pretension, and hypocrisy in American culture. Witness his frontal attacks on modern art and architecture in The Painted Word (1975) and From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), or his exquisitely cutting evisceration of slumming liberal activism in his seminal 1970 New York magazine article, "Radical Chic."
Sherman McCoy, the protagonist of his debut novel The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), stands in for the benighted class of nouveau riche Wall Street vipers that came of age in the eighties. Insulated by newly acquired wealth and its accoutrements, "Master of The Universe" McCoy loses his sure footing when he collides head-on (literally and metaphorically) with the mad clash of civilizations that painfully coexists in his beloved city. Here, Wolfe laid bare the class striations that never reconcile themselves in a polyglot society that pays lip service to racial equality, especially in the provincial and self-regarding precincts of Manhattan. Twenty years before the movie Crash won the Academy Award for supposedly cracking the issue of race and class wide open, Tom Wolfe said it all better in Bonfire, but with a far lighter touch.
He was born into a cultivated family of readers in Richmond, Virginia, on March 2, 1931. His mother Helen was a landscape designer; Tom Wolfe Sr. directed a farmer's cooperative and taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Wolfe's father also edited and wrote articles for The Southern Planter, a farming magazine. Wolfe loved to watch his father draft his pieces in longhand on yellow legal pads. "A couple of weeks later, there would be this nice, sparkling print in the magazine," he recalled. "I just thought that was great."
There was no question in Wolfe's mind that writing was his destiny, and that The Great American Novel was well within his grasp. Spying Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel on his parents' bookshelf, he was convinced that his family was kin to the great novelist of the 1930s. At Washington and Lee University in Lexington, under the literary spell of John Dos Passos and James T. Farrell, he pounded out short stories and pitched for the baseball team.
At Yale, Wolfe received his Ph.D. in American Studies, a discipline that folded elements of artistic, cultural, and sociological history into a kind of unified theory of American history. That interdisciplinary approach would serve Wolfe well when he embarked on his writing career. It expanded his purview and gave him tools to approach stories from unconventional angles. But the big novel would have to wait; after a short apprenticeship hauling furniture in order to gather material for his social realist fiction, Wolfe realized he was better off looking for salaried writing work.
It only seems fitting that Wolfe should come of age as a writer during an era that was perfectly suited to his sensibilities, in a city that gave him a wealth of fascinating stories to explore and make his own. When Wolfe arrived in New York in 1961 to start his Herald Tribune job after a short stint at the Washington Post, the energy of Manhattan turned him on like a tungsten coil. "I couldn't believe the scene I saw spread out before me," Wolfe wrote in 1973. "New York was pandemonium with a big grin on."
What turned Wolfe on were the different ways in which people with money were carving out new ways of living--novel approaches to leisure time, new choices in music, fashion and film, and most important, new approaches to flaunting status. For Wolfe, New York was one big collection of "statuspheres," each with its own rules of engagement and hierarchies based on fame, style and imagination, rather than archaic notions of an established social order. "When great fame--the certification of status--is available without great property," Wolfe wrote in the introduction to The Pump House Gang, his 1965 anthology, "it is very bad news for the old idea of a class structure. In New York . . . it is done for, but no one has bothered to announce its death."
This new social order was self-evident to Wolfe--it was the most exciting and important story out there--and the young reporter was amazed that every other writer in the city hadn't picked up on it. Fortunately Clay Felker and Jim Bellows, Wolfe's two main editors at the Herald Tribune, gave him his head, and allowed him to dig deep into this new stratum, far deeper than the eight-hundred-word general assignment stories he had been writing for the paper.
Wolfe turned out a series of dazzling set-pieces that have become modern-day classics of cultural reportage, stories that probed the social rituals of the art-gallery crawlers along Madison Avenue ("The Saturday Route"), the eccentric genius of pop record producer Phil Spector ("The First Tycoon of Teen"), the faddish fabulousness of downtown ingenue Baby Jane Holzer ("The Girl of The Year"), among other things, all of which were featured in his first book, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine Flake Streamline Baby (1965).
It was the baby boomer generation that most intrigued Wolfe, because it seemed so blithely removed from the encrusted rituals of New York's ruling classes. Instead of conforming to the fusty noblesse oblige of the older generation, the boomers simply made up their own art, lifestyle choices, language--just about everything was new. And it wasn't only happening in New York. When Wolfe was assigned by the Herald Tribune to cover the New York Automobile Show in 1965, he had an epiphany about the car as the apotheosis of youth culture's dynamism and artistic self-expression. The cars, many of which were tricked out with exposed engines and loud paint jobs by West Coast customizers like Big Daddy Roth and George Barris, were the perfect metaphor for youth culture's exuberant "outsider-ness." Writing about the cars in his seminal Esquire story "There Goes That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Around the Bend," Wolfe wrote that the cars were "freedom, sex, power, motion, color--everything is right there." He even had the nerve to call the cars capital-A art. "My definition of art is anything that you can take out of its natural environment and regard as something that's beautiful and significant unto itself," said Wolfe. "Customized cars were art, with those exposed motors and shiny chrome parts."
A New York writer championing the vanguard of West Coast pop culture was a direct challenge to East Coast provincialism, but Wolfe, in typically prescient fashion, knew that New Yorkers and the rest of the world had better come to terms with it or else risk being plowed under and rendered irrelevant.
Wolfe's uncanny ability to zoom in on insurgent cultural currents continued in his next collection, The Pump House Gang. In the title piece, Wolfe rescued L.A. surfers from the countless clichés of bad Frankie Avalon movies. This, Wolfe surmised, was an almost mystical brotherhood of amateur athletes who existed in a closed society with their own fashion, movies, and music. Cut off from the roiling strife of a racially fractious city, they rode a knife-edge of physical danger like it was an amusement park ride. "They are not exactly off in a world of their own, they are and they aren't," he wrote. "What it is, they float right through the real world, but it can't touch them."
As Wolfe continued to burrow into youth culture, his writing style--already unloosed from the moorings of conventional journalism--became sui generis. The idea was to make the words scan like real speech, the way it was heard on the street. He broke up sentences with ellipses to replicate the halting nature of thought and speech. Other sentences were distended and packed full of descriptive detail. Using these tools, Wolfe could channel the patios of whomever he was writing about--the "like, ya know" slang of the Pump House Gang, or the metaphysical cosmic rants of Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters in his first book-length narrative, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968). His prose, like his ice-cream suit, is an instantly recognizable trademark.
It's important to note that Wolfe is one of the great reporters. It is his empathic skill as a researcher and interviewer that enables him to write the last word about whatever he chooses to write about. When I interviewed some of the Merry Pranksters a few years ago for a book I was researching about Wolfe and other journalists of the sixties, they were all still amazed some forty years later by the fact that Wolfe managed to capture the essence of their story without resorting to the immersive tactics of an interactive writer like Hunter Thompson. Without participating in a single acid test or changing out of his suit, Wolfe wrote the definitive account of sixties counterculture.
Wolfe's goal for The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test was to capture the druggy metaphysical reality of Kesey and The Pranksters, and he succeeded brilliantly. "The ceiling is moving," he wrote as he recounted one of Kesey's earliest acid trips,
"Not in a crazed swirl but along its own planes its own planes of light and shadow and surface not nearly so nice and smoother as plasterer Super Plaster Man intended with infallible carpenter level bubble sliding in dim honey Karo syrup tube not so foolproof as you thought, bub, little limps and ridges up there, bub, and lines, lines like spines on crests of waves of white desert movie sand each one with MGM shadow longshot of the ominous A-rab coming up over the next crest for only the sister Saracen can see the road and you didn't know how many subplots you left up there, Plaster Man, trying to smooth it all out, all of it, with your bubble in a honey tube carpenters level."
Wolfe has always been intent on bridging the cognitive gap between the public's perception of a phenomenon and the reality of the situation. That guiding principle was present in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, in which Wolfe broke down the mainstream press's hippie stereotypes to fashion a story about a diverse community of free-thinkers led by a brilliant charismatic shaman. It also served him well in The Right Stuff, his 1979 book about NASA and the early years of the space program.
It took the writer six years to research his story of the Mercury space program, which had been "settled myth" for so long that the story had begun to take on the facile parameters of a children's fable. The true identities of the Mercury Seven Astronauts--symbols of Cold War triumphalism, superheroes for Generation Kennedy kids--had been obfuscated by years of media spin and a willful distancing from any coverage that might plant their personas on terra firma.
Wolfe would have none of it. The Right Stuff, which was expanded from four articles Wolfe wrote for Rolling Stone, depicted the Mercury astronauts as pawns in NASA's space race with the Russians, ready-made media stars for the "ever-seemly Victorian Gent" that was the American press, who saw the astronauts as "seven slices of the same pie." But Wolfe, in his book, reclaimed them as real men. They were working stiffs, after all, earning paltry salaries and married to fretful wives who worried whether the next test flight might be the last. Working stiffs, granted, with a rare and unusual skill set that gave them the goods to become astronauts.
But there was something more, some ineffable quality that these pilots possessed. "It obviously involved bravery," Wolfe wrote,
"But it was not bravery in the simple sense of being willing to risk your life . . . any fool could do that . . . No, the idea . . . seemed to be that a man should have the ability to go up in a hurtling piece of machinery and put his hide on the line and then have the moxie, the reflexes, the experience, the coolness, to pull it back in the last yawning moments - and then to go up again the next day, and the next day, and every next day . . ."
Wolfe spotted in the Mercury astronauts that unquenchable optimism, the recurrent strain of courage and ambition that seemed to be encoded in the collective consciousness of the country. It was the same impulse that had driven the car customizers and the Pump House surfers, but this time on the grandest scale, out on the new frontier of space. After years of searching, Wolfe had found the Americans who existed at the very top of the statusphere pyramid.


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