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Everybody's talking about home cooking and its connection to sustainable, local food — so, here's some inspiration to help you get cooking with conviction!
Economics 101
Home cooking beats all of the competition hands down when it comes to saving money. Whether you're considering dining out or bringing home prepared food, you're paying for someone else to do something you can do yourself — and, with a little practice, probably do better. At a restaurant, you're spending money on the cost of running somebody's business, including rent and payroll. By the same token, purchasing prepared food from the grocer's freezer involves paying for the processing, packaging, and advertising of that product — none of which adds value to the food itself. So, when you cook, you are saving money, and when you cook sustainably, you're taking those savings to the next level. You're using locally raised and produced food so you're not footing the bill for transporting ingredients across the country or around the globe. You learn to "use the whole thing." The bones from tonight's chicken and the trimmings from fresh vegetables can be transformed into a rich stock, the perfect starting point for a pot of delicious and nutritious homemade soup. If you compost and do any gardening, some of your dinner waste can be repurposed as free fertilizer.
Do's and Don'ts
Think about what you DON'T want to find in tonight's dinner — sickening bacteria, toxic pesticides. When you cook, you have more control over what goes into your body. By buying organic, sustainably raised or minimally treated meat, dairy and produce, you can dramatically reduce your consumption of food contaminated by chemical fertilizers, hormones, or antibiotics. Once you're in the kitchen, chances are you won't choose a recipe calling for artificial color, artificial flavor, texturizers, preservatives, or packaging. (That's right. Packaging is considered a food additive by the FDA and does, in many cases, add undesirable ingredients to the food inside.) You can avoid ingesting all of these ingredients by shopping at a market that sells real food, not a chemical supply house.
Now think about what you DO want to find in tonight's dinner. You have control over the nutritional value of the foods you prepare. Locally grown food is fresher by definition, which also means it's more nutritious. Cooking methods also count. For example, roasting a vegetable will preserve vitamins that are wasted by boiling it; retaining the peel on many fruits and vegetables provides additional vitamins. Watching your salt or sugar intake? Keeping an eye on fats or carbohydrates? You're in control of all these when you cook.
It just tastes better!
We're losing our palates to our industrialized food system. Not so long ago, herbs and spices and sugar were used to enhance the flavor in our food. But in recent decades our taste buds have been corrupted through the use of cheap chemicals and corn syrup to fill that role. We've forgotten how wonderfully delicious fresh food tastes as we've become acclimated to food that's polluted with preservatives. The more you cook, the more you'll learn that sustainable, local ingredients just taste better. Let the food do some of the work for you. Take back your palate so you can take back your plate!
When you're doing your own cooking, you can customize the flavor to suit your own (or your family's or friends') preferences. Want more spice in your spice cookies? Want to put a new spin on your spinach salad? The world is your oyster! Once you get the hang of it, experimentation is the name of the game. And as you learn to cook sustainably, you'll begin to find the intersection of which tastes you like and which foods are especially healthy for you.
Involve Your Family and Friends
If the good food movement is to succeed, it will be through our children. Invite them to participate in cooking. Kids love to "play" in the kitchen and there are dozens of ways they can be involved — from reading a recipe to washing produce to mixing ingredients to decorating cookies. Take kids shopping at farmers' markets so they can see where those ingredients come from that they'll be preparing later on. Even better, take them to a farm so they can follow the trail from the beginning! They will learn by example and in a generation, healthy, sustainable home cooking will once again be the norm and not the exception.
Invite friends to participate in a sustainable dinner party. It's a perfect opportunity to build community and spread the word about sustainable local food. Whether it's a potluck or you're pulling out all the stops yourself, folks are guaranteed to get into the spirit. Get everything you need to know when you download our Sustainable Dinner Party Kit. And remember that sharing a meal together with family or friends reinforces a precious bond. You'll discover how the simple act of engaging in face-to-face conversation over a repast you've created yourself can become a meaningful part of your lives.
Learning to cook sustainably is an opportunity to vote with your frying pan while you lobby with your fork; make it your own special way of furthering values you believe in — stewardship, responsibility, independence, love — by taking control of what goes onto your plate, and taking away some of the bloated power of industrialized agribusiness.


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NH housing market trending upward in salesBy DAVE SOLOMON
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 24. 2013 10:39PM
A steady thaw in the housing market began in 2012, with every indication that 2013 could be the beginning of a full-scale real estate recovery in New Hampshire and across the country.
It will still be several years before prices return to pre-recession levels, experts warn, but for the first time since 2006, sales trends are headed in the right direction.
The New Hampshire residential real estate market ended 2012 with the most unit sales since 2006 and the highest sales volume in dollars since 2007. The last five months of the year saw a trend toward improving median price, according to data released on Tuesday by the New Hampshire Association of Realtors.
The median sales price by the end of the year was $202,000, essentially unchanged from $201,700 in 2011. But according to Dave Cummings, NHAR director of communications, prices have been moving in a positive direction since the middle of last year.
"The trend in 2011 for the first six or seven months in prices was down, down, down," he said. "But in the last part of the year the trend is showing month-to-month increases in price." The median sales price at the end of 2010 was $215,000.
The sales increase in New Hampshire has been dramatic, with 12,961 single family residential properties sold in 2012, compared to 10,714 in 2011, a 21-percent increase. The number of foreclosure sales in the state has remained stubbornly high, between 3,300 and 3,500 every year since 2008, according to the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority, but distressed sales are shrinking as a percentage of the overall sales numbers.
With many property owners unable to sell due to negative equity, very little new construction in the past five years and an increase in sales activity, the inventory of properties available to qualified buyers who want to take advantage of historically low interest rates is rapidly declining.
"What's helping move the price needle, ultimately, is inventory," Cummings said. An increase in sales will typically mean lower inventory, and lower inventory begins to give the leverage to sellers, driving prices upward.
"When you begin to see that sort of consistent upward movement in sales, in a healthy market you would expect that to lead to a decrease in inventory and ultimately an increase in price, and that's just what we've seen," said NHAR President Bill Weidacher, managing broker at Keller Williams Metropolitan Realty in Bedford. "Even so, we don't want to give the impression that we are expecting dramatic price gains any time soon. Slow and steady are the watchwords."
Compared to the national averages for the year, New Hampshire is beating the nation when it comes to increases in sales, but lags behind in prices.
New Hampshire's 21-percent increase in sales compares to a national average of 6 percent, according to the year-end analysis of housing by CoreLogic. The CoreLogic Home Price Index, based on repeat sales, increased by 6.3 percent in 2012, the largest increase since 2006, while New Hampshire prices remained flat.
Foreclosure numbers are consistent in New Hampshire, but they are declining nationally, with distressed sales down 35 percent in 2012 from the previous year.
Trade-up buyers are stuck
Aside from limited inventory, conditions couldn't be better for first-time buyers with good jobs and good credit. But they make up a relatively small portion of the market. Analysts say trade-up buyers will need to enter the market in greater numbers before we see significant gains in prices.
"Many trade-up borrowers have been locked out of the market because their outstanding loan balance is greater than the market value of their home," according to the CoreLogic report. "Current owners need to sell at prices high enough to extinguish their debt and provide equity for the next home purchase."
Small appreciation in prices is expected to help some of those trade-up buyers, but for people like Tim and Rachel Russell, prices can't rise fast enough. The young couple saved up their first down payment and bought a townhouse in a newly built eight-unit co-op at the site of a former apartment complex on Silver Street in Manchester.
They paid $169,000 for the attractive three-level condo with a garage and deck in January 2007, hoping to eventually sell or rent the property so they could begin to build their family. Now, it is six years later and they feel stuck - victims of a housing collapse they did not create, and frustrated by the fact that programs exist to help everyone except people who have played by the rules.
With one foreclosure and two bankruptcies in their building, identical units are selling for $103,000 to $97,000. The couple can't refinance to take advantage of lower rates, given their outstanding principal balance of $140,000, and the bank won't accept a short sale, since they are not in arrears on their payments. They can't rent the unit and move, because mortgage lenders, once satisfied with a signed lease, now require two years of rental history to accept rental income.
The irony, says Tim Russell, is that if he and his wife were willing to wreck their credit and further destabilize the housing market by going into foreclosure, then they would get some help.
"I called the bank and said, 'I'm in a situation where I could either get refinanced or they could foreclose, which would you rather do?' " he said. "I got transferred to nine people in an hour and a half on the phone, and no one would answer that question."
Until people like the Russells can move, improvement in prices may be incremental at best. But incremental growth is better than none at all.
"After seven years of navigating an unprecedented market downturn, we finally saw stabilization and recovery in 2012," said Stuart Miller, chief executive officer of Lennar Corp., a large homebuilder, during a Jan. 15 earnings call with Bloomberg news service.
"While there have been and still are economic and political uncertainties ahead, we feel that this housing recovery is fundamentally based and driven by a long-term demographic need for housing. We believe 2012 is just the beginning."

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It's a glorious three-day weekend here in UK — I've always wanted to experience a Bank Holiday after reading about them for years and years — and I decided to play tourist. Then quickly realized that I did not, in fact, have enough money to be a tourist.
Things started quietly. I spent Friday at the library being a good little researcher, then headed off to Bloomsbury for a talk at the London Review Bookshop. I love the LRB — love getting it in the mail, love leafing through it, love it even when I don't read it — and I can't quite say why. Part of me is sure it's only nostalgia; part of me really does enjoy the articles.
In any case, I was on my way to see John Berger. And what should have been a rather straightforward walk turned into something of an odyssey of wrong turns down wrong streets, but eventually I made it — and in good time. Enough to wander around looking at books with John Berger. It was a bit odd. The talk was very full and very, very good.
I'm thinking of spending more of my lunch breaks there.
Then, on Saturday, I took a very long bus ride out to see Kensington Palace. The weather was not ideal; neither was all the renovation work. Ah, well.
A friend recommended that I try tea at the Orangery. It was packed — but pretty delicious. And probably the most expensive meal of my trip.
Today was the final stop on my tourist adventure — out to Spitalfields Market. This was a pretty comical effort, since any chance I had, I took a wrong turn. My sense of direction is unerring in its complete wrongness. Needless to say, the journey took quite a bit longer than planned. But I arrived and spent a good bit of time wandering through the stalls.
I also found my birthday bag — it's a very spacious, compact little satchel with all kinds of flaps and pockets, just like I wanted. It's perfect. As is my new scarf from TopShop.
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Waking Up the Half-Dead
A strange thing happened last October after the ceremony to announce the winner of Britain's most coveted fiction prize, the Man Booker. A stock photograph of the nominees, posed in front of the sponsor's logo, holding their books and wearing the forced smile of solitary authors obliged to sparkle like movie stars at a premiere, went viral on the Internet. Five of the authors, including the eventual winner Hilary Mantel, are dutifully standing in a line, with the covers of their novels delicately poised in front of their chests, just as the publishers' publicists have, no doubt, instructed. Looming behind them, however, is the immensely tall Will Self. Not content to tower physically above his rivals, he is holding his novel, Umbrella, at the end of his fully extended right arm, so that it hovers way above their heads. In contrast to the strained cheeriness of the other novelists, Self's long face wears the sepulchral expression of a dead-eyed zombie.
Self's comic pose is at once a cheeky parody of outrageous self-promotion and a sweetly defensive gesture. He places himself both above and outside the competition, preempting the forthcoming disappointment of Umbrella's failure to win a prize that many critics thought it deserved. As well as being very funny, this little tableau also captures Self's uneasy place in contemporary English literature. As his wife Deborah Orr wrote in The Guardian, "Umbrella winning the Booker would have been weird, a category error, like a goat winning Best Sheep."
Self has indeed been a goat among the sheep of contemporary English fiction, a puckish trickster self-consciously at odds with its middle-class politeness. His disdain for many of his contemporaries is summed up in his declared admiration for J.G. Ballard's decision to "reject…the English image of the writer as a superior craftsman who wears a tweed jacket with leather arm patches and who stands up after a day's work and says 'There's another good coffee table I have sanded down today.'" Like the Anglo-Chinese Ballard and the part-Irish Anthony Burgess, whose work is another obvious influence, Self is English in a complicated way—while his father was an English professor of political science, his mother was a Jewish New Yorker, and his wit owes more to Woody Allen than to P.G. Wodehouse. His fame as a shibboleth-shaking journalist and dyspeptic TV commentator has gone hand-in-hand with a position as a literary outsider.
This status owes as much to his own efforts as to any conspiracy to exclude him from the ranks of respectable novelists. In coping with a long, now happily concluded history of substance abuse (he has written about "my own past on-off membership in twelve-step programmes such as Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, and my residence at a Minnesota Method treatment centre for four months in the mid-eighties"), he invented "Will Self" as a…
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1.5 year old rescue adoptee is nipping at 3 y/o unprovoked - what to do?
I feel terrible about this. After months of considering it we finally went ahead and adopted loveable lab mix from the local Humane Society. He is unimaginably sweet with me and my husband, very affectionate and cuddle and so loyal.
However, with my 3 year old, he nips at her. He has yet to actually bite her, but i'm worried that it is in the future.
Originally I thought she was doing something to him to encourage his behaviour, since she's 3, but the last couple times she was with me and petting him int he same manner as I was and he suddenly head turned and nipped at her. He nipped enough to take the nail polish of her nail, but not enough to leave a mark.
It has gotten that my 3 year old is increasingly apprehensive of him and will only pet him from an extended far away distance and only when I am.
We got the dog to add to our family and provide a companion and friend for our daughter and I'm at a loss as to what to do.
I've contacted to human society for advice, we've only had him for 2 weeks. 1 week of fostering and 1 week since adoption was finalized.
Any advice or guidance is appreciated. This little guy has been abandoned once already, we love him, but want him to be a safe and happy addition to our family.
First and foremost, a match for you and hubby might not be a match for your 3 yr old.
Having said that, you have lots of work to do. This dog might not have been raised with children and has shown that he is willing to go to 'teeth' to keep her at bay. Often dogs who are not raised with kids think they are little aliens and make the dog very nervous. Children move erratically, fall unpredictably, make loud noises, have lots of energy, and look different from adults. It might well be that your child petted too intensely, or squealed a bit, or moved too quickly or got too close. Your dog did what made him feel safe in the moment. NOT excusing it, just trying to understand it.
Never leave your child alone with this dog - do not even turn your back. Only because 3 yr old kids are impulsive and could make a mistake, or the dog could simply make a mistake without much provocation.
This is an opportunity to teach your child how to behave with a dog, NO kisses, NO grabbing, NO Squealing, NO jumping into the dogs space, NO taking toys/bones from dogs, NO pulling on hair, NO hugging. Only calm energy, and lots of space between them unless you are present to take charge.
Find a great trainer to help you teach your dog boundaries, skills and manners. If your dog feels that you are keeping the child at bay then he won't feel the need to step up. If he can do a long down stay in the family room while you all play in the room then he can be part of the family without being in the center of the commotion - which can help him desensitize to the energy of a child. A well trained 'leave it' can help him to learn to back away before he even thinks about getting nervous.
Most importantly, if you step up and teach this dog how to behave then he will begin to look to you for advise when he is insecure/nervous, and if you are ready with the answer/guidance then things can smooth out quickly. The more a dog understands the more confident and calm he should become.
Love Them & Lead Them,
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Betts' Slam Helps Red Sox Roll Over Rays
The anticipated face off between the Red Sox and Rays starter Chris Archer went horribly wrong for the Tampa Bay right-hander, as the Sox rolled their way to an 8-4 victory on Friday at Tropicana Field.
Mookie Betts' first career grand slam in the top of the second made it 8-0 before the Rays starter could even record six outs.
Archer, who publicly criticized David Ortiz the last time these two played at the Trop, lasted just four innings, allowing eight runs, seven of them earned, on nine hits with two walks and three strikeouts.
Rookie Anthony Ranaudo improved to a perfect 3-for-3 in major league starts, going six innings and giving up three runs on five hits with three walks and four strikeouts.
Yoenis Cespedes knocked in the first run of the night on a single to right in the top of the first that scored Brock Holt from second and moved Dustin Pedroia to third. Daniel Nava later plated Pedroia from third to put the Sox up by a pair.
The Rays couldn't get out of the inning without allowing any more damage, as Mookie Betts reached on an error by Archer to load the bases and Will Middlebrooks hit a ball off of Archer's glove. Ben Zobrist collected the ricochet, but threw a one-hopper to first that James Loney couldn't pick as Cespedes came across with the third run of the frame.
Cespedes was at it again in the second, as Ortiz reached and advanced to second after an errant throw by Yunel Escobar and scored on a double to the gap in right by Cespedes to make it 4-0.
After Betts' grand slam made it 8-0, the Rays tried to claw their way back, scoring a run in the bottom of the second, two more on a Brandon Guyer homer in the fifth, and one more in the ninth. But it was not enough to fuel a comeback for the Rays as the Sox won their third game in the past four.
MVP: Mookie Betts
The rookie who came into the game with three career RBIs went 2-for-5 with four RBIs, all recorded on his grand slam in the top of the second that put the Red Sox up 8-0. He also made an impressive catch in the fifth, robbing Tampa Bay's Kevin Kiermaier of an extra base hit.
GOAT: Chris Archer
Archer was highly critical of David Ortiz after the last time these two played in St. Petersburg, piggybacking on David Price's sentiments. The Sox tattooed the Rays starter in Friday's game, as the right-hander was lucky to make it through four innings, allowing eight runs on nine hits with two walks and three K's
ICYMI: With two outs in the top of the second and the Red Sox up 4-0, Mookie Betts launched the first grand slam of his professional career to double their lead and all but put this game away.
The last time Anthony Ranaudo lost a game, Xander Bogaerts was hitting .296/.389/.427 and the Red Sox had won seventh straight. Ahh, June 1.
— Tim Britton (@TimBritton) August 30, 2014
NUMBERS TO KNOW: Mookie Betts (21 years old) became the youngest Red Sox player to hit a grand slam since Tony Conigliaro did it as a 20-year-old on Aug. 24, 1965…Yoenis Cespedes' RBI single in the top of the first and RBI double in the top of the second represented the 21st and 22d RBIs the outfielder has recorded since being traded from the Oakland A's…His 22 RBIs in the month of August rank him fifth in the American League, seven behind league-leader Chris Carter of the Astros…Cespedes is hitting .286 in that span, having recorded a hit in all but five of the 25 games he has played with the Sox…Anthony Ranaudo improved to 3-0 in his MLB career…All three wins have come this season in starts for the Red Sox, as he also won his MLB debut on Aug. 1 against the Yankees and his start on Aug. 13 against the Reds…The Red Sox batted around in both the first and second innings of a game for the first time since doing so on Aug. 14, 1962 in Anaheim…Daniel Nava's three-hit night was the fourth multi-hit game he's put together this month; Nava is hitting .293 since Aug. 1.
WHAT IT MEANS: The Red Sox improved to 59-75 on the season, having gone 3-1 over the first four games of their 10-game road trip. They sit 18.5 games behind the Orioles for first place in the AL East, while they are 5.5 behind the Rays to get out of last place in the division.
The Sox are 14 games behind the Seattle Mariners and Detroit Tigers for the second AL Wild Card spot, tied with the Minnesota Twins. Only the Houston Astros (57-78) and the Texas Rangers (52-81) have worse records in the AL than the Sox.
LOOKING AHEAD: Allen Webster is scheduled to get the ball for the Red Sox in the second game of this four-game series; he's 3-2 with a 5.81 ERA in six starts for the Sox this year. He went 4 1/3 innings and allowed six earned runs to the Mariners in his last start on Sunday.
Jake Odorizzi will start for the Rays, sitting at 9-11 with a 4.23 ERA in 26 starts this year; he's 0-1 with a 5.79 ERA in two starts against the Red Sox this season. In his last outing on Monday against the Orioles, Odorizzi went four innings, giving up eight runs on 11 hits as the O's beat the Rays 9-1.


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Alamo Drafthouse Admits Women-Only 'Wonder Woman' Screening Was Illegal
By Josh Grega
August 11, 2017
When Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Texas, advertised women-only screenings of "Wonder Woman," it unsurprisingly received polarized reactions.
Feminists on Twitter were over the moon about it, while others decried the screening as sexist.
The theater seemed to side with the former, going forward with the showings and making light of the negative Facebook comments.
On Twitter, one detractor's tweet denounced the women-only screening as "discrimination based on sex" and said, "I hope someone sues."
The user's wish came true when the city received two legal complaints against the theater chain filed by Albany Law School professor Steven Clarke and an anonymous man.
In an interview with the Austin American-Statesman, Clarke said, "I'm a specialist in anti-discrimination law, so I was fairly certain that this was not lawful." Clarke, a gay man, added, "If they were trying to do a gay-only 'Brokeback Mountain,' I would feel the same way."
Austin's city code forbids discrimination in public accommodations with regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disability. On July 18, Alamo Drafthouse admitted in a letter to the city of Austin that it "did not realize that advertising a 'women-only' screening was a violation of discrimination laws."
The letter also contained a settlement offer that included free "Wonder Woman" DVDs to the plaintiffs and assurance that Alamo Drafthouse would update its discrimination policy. However, the theater refused to forfeit its earnings from the screenings, some of which was donated to the League of Women's Voters.


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Copyright issues seem to be cropping up with increasing frequency in the quilting world and I for one would like to try to stem this flow, or at least open your eyes, to the very real threat looming for our craft.
What is this threat? Where is it coming from?
It is coming from within our own ranks. Quilters with a certain penchant for copyright and legal wrangling are turning our open, creative craft into a mine field of rules, regulations, licensing, attribution, and copyright lockdown that it's enough to make anyone set down their rotary cutter and sell their sewing machine.
And these particular Copyright Nazis (I really can't think of a better name for them) are not just vocal, they are flexing their arm powerfully enough to include copyright notices within quilt shows.
Just recently I was contacted by AQS asking if it was okay if a quilter used my designs in a quilt entered into one of their shows.
At first blush, that seems like a good thing. I'm excited to know the designs from this project are being used and seen in shows. Of course you have permission! Run with it!
But then I started thinking - they were referring to a QUILTING DESIGN. A squiggly line drawn in thread by a machine on a quilt, like any one of these:
Do you see how ridiculous this is? How the questions and implications start, but they very rarely end. You can set a precedent once by your reaction to a situation and it will just roll from there.
Here's a simple case in point:
This is a spiral design. I call this Basic Spiral and it was published on Day 5 of the project and published in From Daisy to Paisley.
First off, I don't even WANT to claim ownership of these designs. I don't feel like this is my property simply because I stitched it on a 4 inch square, named it, and published it online and in a book. See my full copyright policy here.
I feel this way because spirals have been around since the dawn of time. A spiral is a spiral is a spiral and stitching it out in a quilt doesn't make it a special, different design from the spirals drawn on walls or sand thousands of years ago.
But what about the designs that aren't spirals? What about the designs that I'm sure are 100% new and have never been stitched on a quilt before?
First off, how I can I be sure, 100% sure, that a design has never been stitched on a quilt before? Have I seen every quilt in existence since the dawn of man? No!
I have a human brain, and have seen an ordinary creative person's usual quantity of inspiring images, places, and things that have led to new designs. I do have a unique talent for creating new designs, but I'm not so conceited to think that I'm the ONLY person who has ever though to create a design like Desert Sand.
My point is: All art is derivative.
As scary as this question is, at the beginning of the Free Motion Quilting Project, way back when it was called 365 Days of Free Motion Quilting Filler Designs, some of the first questions I received were from quilters concerned with copyright.
Mostly the questions came from longarm quilters who need to be able to use designs in quilts for service. Technically this is a commercial activity and most copyright policies get very sticky when business / money gets involved.
These longarm quilters were so gun shy of using the designs from this project that many would ask, then ask again for further clarification that it was REALLY OKAY to use these designs in the quilts they quilted for service.
They were scared. Very scared. And that makes me so sad.
Because if you're in business to make a living, the very last thing you should be scared of is doing the thing that makes you money!
Why in the world should they have to ask for permission in the first place? It's a quilting design! It's the design in thread that's stitched on the surface of a quilt and I don't care how exactly you follow my instructions, every quilter will quilt the design slightly differently.
But these quilters had more experience than I did at the time. Early in the project I published a design that looked too similar to another design by another quilter. It didn't matter that I'd thought of the design while eating sushi, the level of negativity, name calling, and awfulness this generated was so overwhelming I took the design down.
Despite the fact that I seriously doubt these designs can or should be copyrighted, I backed down. So I've been on the receiving end of a Copyright Nazi and her cohorts and I know what that feels like. It sucks.
My question is this: is this the world we want to create?
Is this the industry we want to build, where quilters who quilt for a living must live in fear that they will be sued for the designs they use? That a blogger trying to teach and spread the love of free motion quilting can be threatened for using the wrong design? That quilters who quilt for show must credit every designer involved in their quilt, down to the fabric and thread manufacturer?
Because as I said before, once the questions start, the don't stop.
Recently there's been a very public example of this with Kate Spain, C&T Publishing, and an author Emily Cier.
I've read many posts directly from those involved and have a basic understanding of what happened. Of course, situations like this are so fraught with drama and finger pointing and blatant lies that it's often hard to know what is true and what isn't.
The basic story goes like this: Emily Cier wrote a book called Scrap Republic for C&T Publishing. Moda, a fabric manufacturer sent her lots of fabric for free to create the quilts in this book.
Now this doesn't seem like a big deal at first sight, but Emily was designing quilts that used only a specific line of designer fabric. Out of a line of fabric, you might have 10 - 20 prints that all coordinate together so you can make matchy matchy quilts.
Of course, when you make a quilt out of only one line of fabric, it's pretty obvious. The fabrics are designed to match, so they do actually match!
Just to see what all the fuss was about, I purchased Scrap Republic this past weekend and flipped through it. I'm not a fabric designer and I don't even use prints that often, but I instantly recognized several fabric lines popular in 2011.
Yes, the fabrics were large enough and obvious enough that you could easily tell not only the particular print, but the entire fabric line being used. I'm sure someone more into prints could easily recognize all the lines in the book.
I also found while flipping through the book that while Emily Cier was given credit as the creator of the quilt, neither the fabric line, nor the photographer were given credit for their contribution to the book.
And this is a sticky point because I actually like the fabric in two of the quilts and would really like to know who designed it!
Sometimes providing credit (attribution) is a good thing and has nothing to do with copyright. In this case, it'd be nice to know the fabric line so any quilter reading could search for the right fabric and make that exact quilt on page 39.
So that's enough about the book, which had some clear flaws. It's one thing if you take a line of fabric and chop it down into 1" squares and mix it with 100 other prints. It's quite another thing to leave the fabric in large pieces where the design is very obvious.
Some attribution should have been given, not because of copyright, but because it would have made the book a better resource.
Now the story gets sticky because C&T Publishing randomly flipped through the book and picked a photo of one of the quilts, enlarged the image and printed it on the front of an eco tote bag.
Keep in mind, the fabric used in the quilts were obvious. The pieces they were cut into were large, making it very clear which line of fabric each quilt is created from.
The quilt used for the eco tote just happened to have been created using Kate Spain's Fandango fabric. Kate saw the bags and decided they violated her copyright of her fabric line.
Kate Spain then initiated a lawsuit against C&T Publishing and Emily Cier and demanded both the eco totes AND the books be destroyed.
Now things get murky because on her blog, Kate Spain denies starting a lawsuit, but it's obvious on both C&T's and Emily Cier's blog that a real, big, scary lawsuit was initiated. C&T Publishing ended up taking the blame and came to some accord with Kate Spain.
I'm thinking a lot of $$$ changed hands because everyone is friends again and Kate wants to design quilts with Emily. Personally after a lawsuit threat I'd tell her to shove her fabric where...you get the idea.
You can find all this information in various forms on Emily Cier's Blog, C&T's Blog, and Kate Spain's blog. Keep in mind that everyone has their own spin on the truth. (Note: Blog posts were removed at some point in time on the last two blogs mentioned above.)
I'm not saying Emily Ceir was the bad guy, or Kate Spain, or C&T. I think they all made mistakes in this situation and no one is the winner. Personally I'm the most cheesed off at Kate Spain simply because if she is this quick to sue and get cash for it, how many other fabric designers will start doing the same thing. Will I one day be sued for the print fabrics I used in Power of Now?
As I said before, this situation only creates questions, questions, and more questions.
Let's work backwards: the tote bag was printed with a PHOTOGRAPH which was taken by a photographer for the book. Whoever that person was, they aren't credited in the book.
The QUILT was designed and created by Emily Cier.
The FABRIC used in the quilt was designed by Kate Spain.
Who really own the copyright?
Is the quilt actually Emily's or should she pay licensing fees to Kate just to sleep under it? And if Kate is really wanting everyone to use her fabric for any reason, why does she print "for personal use only" on the selvage of her fabric? That statement implies a limitation and a rule of what can and can't be done with it!
(Updated: Fandango did not have this printed on the selvage)
Unfortunately this entire situation sets a precedence. C&T Publishing took the blame and settled, which means the real question of who owns the copyright in this situation will never be battled out in front of a judge who would give us the legal guidance we need to know what is right and wrong in this situation.
Even better would be to get a judge who knows copyright law and understands the public domain nature of utilitarian industries. Personally I think copyright has gotten way out of hand in the quilting world, which is only one step shy of the fashion industry.
And guess what the fashion industry is?
Open, public domain.
I have a favorite jacket that I love wearing in the winter, but it's getting worn out. I could take that jacket and make an exact copy of it. An EXACT COPY. I could even turn that copy into a pattern and sell it.
I would not be doing anything wrong. I would not be violating any copyright. Clothing is completely open because a long time ago the US government realized it would be ridiculous to try to copyright clothing - a utilitarian commodity.
Imagine if a company could copyright a zipper - we'd all have to pay licensing fees just to use it. Or the collar of a shirt. Or the way your elastic pants fit.
I can feel you nodding your head in agreement. You wouldn't want to pay $50 extra for your socks just because the manufacturer had to pay an expensive licensing agreement with the copyright holder of sock design.
But how is this any different from a quilt design? We use basic geometric shapes: squares, triangles, circles, hexagons, diamonds that have been around for hundreds of years, yet quilt designers are increasingly demanding that this is THEIR quilt pattern, or THEIR exclusive technique.
To understand this better, take a minute to watch this awesome lecture on the fashion industry. The details, especially the comparison of revenue and net worth of this open industry in comparison to copyright rich industries like the music or film industry is extremely eye opening.
I love this video because it perfectly illustrates all the reasons why copyright can be detrimental to an industry. If you lock everything down, slap rules and limitations on your work, you essentially slam the door on your potential.
And that's not just your potential to make cash, though money certainly flows more freely into open systems. It's also the potential to create new designs, come up with new ideas, continuously innovating and expanding into new realms of design.
Current copyright idealist say that without copyright, the creator won't want to create because they're constantly being copied and ripped off all the time.
The current mentality is that being ripped off, an example being those eco totes with Emily's quilt and Kate's Fabric, is the worst thing in the world because the designer isn't getting paid for their work. Kate even wrote on her blog that if she didn't protect her copyright, she wouldn't be able to make a living.
WTF?! How much did sending your lawyers after C&T an Emily Cier cost?
And this brings us back to the core question - did Kate even have copyright over the image of the quilt in question? Was it not Emily's quilt because she cut the fabric up and turned it into a quilt? Or wasn't it the photographers copyright because it was his / her photo?
The idea that an eco tote being sold with a photo of Emily's/ Kate's quilt on the surface would suddenly beggar Kate Spain puts me into a rage. It is such utter nonsense.
The fact is, if Kate had simply requested that her name and Fandango line was mentioned somewhere on the tote, she would have had a wonderful advertisement for her fabric being sold all over the world. She would likely have sold even more fabric, and gained loyal customers for future lines too.
The idea that without copyright all designers will be broke and stop designing is simply not true.
The reverse is the truth! How much innovation comes out of the fashion industry each year? They innovate constantly because as soon as a new shirt is released, it's copied quickly, but the buyers loyal to the brand want the original, real product from the real brand.
So in order to have a business, big designers are always changing the look, cut, and feel of clothing so they remain unique and authentic and their loyal customers keep buying.
They continuously innovate, not in spite of, but BECAUSE they are being copied all the time!
I probably wouldn't have created all 365 designs if I hadn't posted them online and seen quilters start to use them. The excitement of seeing these designs in all sorts of quilts just made me feel so excited, I couldn't wait to make more.
I could never fathom telling you where or how you could use these designs. I can't even imagine requiring you to give me credit. I certainly appreciate it, but did I actually quilt YOUR quilt? No! YOU DID! I just taught you a cool design, but you were the one with the skill and talent to use it.
I know for a fact, if you lock everything down, all you will focus on is keeping everything locked down. You will spend countless hours NOT quilting, designing, or being creative because you'll be busy talking to lawyers, reading copyright laws, and studying ways to make your work "safer."
When in reality all you're doing is make people feel uncomfortable and scared. I don't know about you, but I'm extremely uncomfortable about using not just Kate Spain's fabric, but any designer print thanks to this situation.
Already I knew better than to use any fabric printed with "for personal use only" or "for home use only" on the selvage but now I feel far more constrained in my choices. And constraint of any sort makes me want to punch my fist through a wall. I hate feeling like I can't use something or do something because someone might wag a finger and threaten to sue me.
Should I only create with hand dyed fabric? What if the dye manufacturer comes out with a special, exclusive, copyrighted color and demands attribution for using their color of purple?
I'm all for sharing great products, and I love telling you all about the tools and materials I'm using. It's when it becomes a REQUIREMENT to tell you every tool, every material that went into a quilt, that makes me very uncomfortable.
But this is the world that's being built every day by situations like I described above.
If you want a quilting world where we all work in secret, creating in a void of new ideas and innovations just so your work can be "yours" to slap a copyright on, you can be guaranteed of one thing: failure.
Because no one wants to deal with this. No one wants the headache, the complication, the fear, or the negativity that this kind of attitude will bring. The more you shut down and lock up the quilting world, the fewer people will want to have anything to do with it.
I've met a few quilters with this close minded mentality. One in particular came to teach at my local guild. She was unbelievable in her desire to copyright and control every aspect of her quilts, right down to trademarking the name of her "exclusive" technique.
After a conversion about teaching, she emailed me to say that I should never use a term - TWO WORDS - we had both come up with to describe a new way to sell patterns. I deleted her email and will never speak to her again. No one has the right to tell me what words I can and can't use. I have no time or energy for Copyright Nazi's or the lies and fear they try to spread.
On the flip side I've met wonderful quilters who seem to understand the reality and implications of excessive copyright. If we lock up this industry, we will lose something powerful, something essential, something that brought me to quilting in the first place: freedom.
Freedom to play with fabric. Freedom to experiment with different shapes and layouts. Freedom to play with new techniques and materials. We can lose the freedom to create.
Because if you have to check with 5 different fabric designers and the quilt pattern designer AND the free motion quilting designer in order to make your quilt, how likely are you to do it? Even the idea of asking, even words like "licensing," are enough to send many people packing. Off to find another hobby the lawyers haven't ruined yet.
Many quilters understand the growing impact of situations like the recent tote bag fiasco. I for one want to see an end to excessive copyright, particularly on blogs.
If you post something: an idea, a technique, a pretty picture, whatever, man up and give it away for free.
REALLY free. As in copyright free - as in anyone can use whatever you post for ANY reason.
What's the worst that can happen? Someone might teach your technique or idea. More people will learn it and enjoy it than you could ever reach alone. Is that such a terrible thing?
Spend some time thinking about copyright today and what world you're helping to create with quilting.
A world where we share ideas, techniques, fabric, and tools as freely as our grandmothers around a quilt frame.
Or it could be a world locked tight by fear, lawsuits, negativity, selfishness, and egotism.
The choice is yours.
I'm off to quilt now and create something beautiful to share with you later this weekend.
Leah Day
I've never received so many responses to a single post before, and I plan to keep the comments open so everyone has a chance to air their opinion on this matter.
Kate Spain even shared the following comment which clarifies some points, including a mistake I made about about her fabric:
Hi Leah,Sincerest apologies for my mistake about your fabric, but my core issue with this entire situation remains.
Thanks for your thoughtful post and great questions about copyright and the extent to which it is influencing the quilting community. Lots of people think I'm trying to control the ways in which my fabric is used, but that is untrue. As far as making things (quilts or otherwise), please answer these four questions about your fabric use:
- Is it just you sitting at your sewing machine making stuff to give to friends/family or to sell?
- Are you shipping fabric overseas and having any manufacturing done in a factory?
- Are you copying or otherwise reproducing recognizable designs from fabric and printing them onto another material like laminate or plastic and then manufacturing a new product like a tote bag? Or shower curtain?
- is your distribution through mass market channels?
If you answered Yes, No, No, No, then you really have nothing to worry about! Whatever you are doing with my fabric is fine!
Also just wanted to clarify that the selvages on my fabric do NOT have a "for personal use only" stipulation. If you spend your hard-earned dollars on it you should be able to use it however you like! I've written more on my blog to clarify the resolution of this situation and an FAQ: http://katespaindesigns.blogspot.com/2012/03/moving-forward.html
I completely agree with you that an absence of attribution is a missed opportunity for both promotion as well as resource material.
One last and important thing to know is that I did not make ONE dollar on this, and donated the recalled tote bags to several local charities.
Keep up the great discussion!
With Kindest Regards,
Kate Spain
If I have to stop and ask myself 4 questions before I cut fabric, I simply won't cut it.
Because here's something I know about the quilting / crafting world, Ms Spain - it is very rarely black and white or as simple as a "Yes" or "No" when it comes to question #1.
The question was: Is it just you sitting at your sewing machine making stuff to give to friends/family or to sell?
First off, if I answer "yes" to this question, is that yes to making stuff for family / friends, or is it yes to potentially selling it? Already things are getting confused!
If I plan to sell what I make - what does that mean? Can I make something to sell: a quilt, a handbag, a tote, a belt, a skirt, pants, machine cover, etc, etc, etc or not?
I've been making some form of income from sewing since middle school. Back then I would slice up the leg of jeans and insert funky fabrics into the leg to create homemade bell bottoms. These caught on so well, I began making them for other girls in class.
So it's safe to say that EVERY item I've ever sewn since the age of 12 has been for personal AND / OR business use.
I know I'm not an anomaly with this. I've posted about business before and been surprised by just how many quilters (around 80% I'd guess) make SOME form of money from this craft. It doesn't matter whether you make $50 or $50,000 a year with this, money is money, sales are sales.
Which is why this issue is so very important.
We want the freedom to make whatever we want for whatever reason.
I shouldn't have to ask myself 4 questions! I shouldn't have to question my right to cut up fabric and use it!
Because the questions never stop.
What if I made a quilt for myself and photographed it. That photograph ended up in my online quilt gallery and one day, years down the road, I decided to make a picture book of all my quilts, which was then sold all over the world and through mass market channels.
Technically that would fall within the big no-no you've just outlined, but at the time of cutting the fabric, I would have no idea of the potential of that quilt, made with that fabric, to end up sold in that way.
We never know what the end use of a quilt will be.
We never know how long it will last or who it will be given to, or who will photograph it, or what those photographs will be used for. We just don't know. It's impossible to know.
All the questions this raises will just keep getting bigger and bigger, more complex and more technical, and our feelings of frustration, anxiety, and fear will build until all desire to create is obliterated.
It's far easier not to cut that fabric and not to have to ask those questions.
I've edited the above post to reflect my mistake about Kate Spain's fabric. Her fabric does not have "for personal use" stamped on the selvage.
Thank you,
Leah Day


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When Men Lose Their Jobs
Could they be doing more around the house?
If you've been laid out and laid off by the downturn and your spouse is still working, how much do you rearrange your family life? Do you assume the hit you've taken is temporary and leave all the old roles in place? Or do you concede semipermanence and take on more household duties, never mind what went before or what it all means?
That's a question more couples are facing because the layoffs, so far, are largely affecting men. I put out a call a couple of weeks ago asking for their stories. I wanted to know, specifically, how couples handling a husband or wife's unemployment are also handling what's called the second shift—the work we do at either end of the day to keep our kids and our homes running. The responses suggest that, possibly, the interplay between this recession and "who does what" in the house may be more complex than past data about the behavior of unemployed men suggest.
This is all anecdotal, so it's way too early to know for sure. But what I've heard matches the instincts of Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at Evergreen State College and author of books on marriage and relationships. She is one of my favorite family experts, because she likes to question the premises that everyone else takes for granted. This time, it's the assumption—based, in all fairness, on time-use studies from the 1990s—that men who lose their jobs do no more and often less housework and child care than they did before, while women in that position do significantly more.
Coontz is skeptical that the old numbers apply to the new downturn because they're old and because they don't distinguish between men who are chronically unemployed and those who lose their jobs for a spell. She is sifting through the data to look for overlooked patterns that might relate more directly to our current collective state. I'll report back on what she finds. In the meantime, she says that her hunch is that a "sizable minority" of laid-off men are pitching in at home far more than they did before.
That's the kind of story I heard from Penny, a registered nurse who lives in Seattle. She says that she and her husband both used to have "flexible jobs—mine part-time, his full-time—and split the child care/house duties accordingly." Sometimes Penny felt as if she was doing more than her share, and she said so, "mostly because I HATE HATE housework," she writes. Her husband lost his job in October. Penny was pregnant with their second child. They had a "reality check talk," she says, about how "there's no chance for him to get another job in his field." Instead, she would go to work full-time, and her husband would be a stay-at-home dad. In other words, they decided to treat his layoff as semipermanent and plan accordingly. They could weather the change financially because Penny is the higher earner.
And at home? Penny was worried about her husband's state of mind. But so far, so good. "I've spent some sleepless mornings (I work night shift) thinking, what if he's not happy? What if he misses his job (which he loved)? When I've asked how he feels about it, he says that it's been a paradigm shift and taken some getting used to, but so far he likes it." Penny says her husband hasn't quite picked up the cooking and housework. "But he's figuring it out, and I'm sitting back and letting him."
Parity, flexibility—who says the unemployed man of 2009 can't put the old couch-bum rap to rest? Robert, who lives in North Dallas, says recession-era partnership is all about planning. He and his wife saw a layoff for him coming last fall, and though she had been home since their kids were born (they are 3 and 1, with another on the way), she went to work in November. In the end, Robert didn't lose his job. For a few months, he and his wife both worked full-time. But "I was looking forward to spending more time with my kids anyway," he says, and so he scaled back to part-time. When I caught him by phone, he'd just picked the kids up from school. He juggled giving them a snack with talking to me. And, yes, they got fed.
Robert says he and his wife are now dividing the chores "pretty evenly." He does the day-to-day "maintenance around the house, like dishes and picking up. She still does all the grocery shopping, and she usually does the laundry." They still have a twice-a-week housekeeper—a boon to domestic peace if you can afford it. Robert's wife still cooks. But he's learning. And, he says, "starting next month my primary project will be potty training my oldest." I like the "primary project" phrasing, which treats toilet training as the serious mission that it is.
Lest you think that all the responses I got were about men who are better adjusted than the ones you know, a woman named Jesse wrote in despair about her boyfriend. They've been together four years. He calls her "The Stuff-Doer," and when they were both working, she says, "most of the second shift naturally fell to me." It still does. Just more so. Jesse's boyfriend lost his job at the end of September, and now "he wakes up at 1 or 2 p.m., plays computer games, generally doesn't eat anything until I come home, [then] he resumes playing his game, I work out, go to bed, and he finally comes to bed around 4 or 5 a.m." She does the shopping, the cooking, the laundry, and all the bills, "even those in his name." She thinks that even if he finds another job, her boyfriend isn't going to kick in more help. And because he's had past episodes of depression, "I'm very hesitant about asking him to do his share fearing it will just add to the burden and push him back into the terrible state where he doesn't even make eye contact with me for days." But she's getting resentful. "I suppose I need to frame it as me asking for his support and being careful not to shame him, but even that makes me angry." That sounds like settling into a new reality—but miserably.
Other women similarly report not wanting to further undermine their men's shaky out-of-work identity. The phrase "fragile male ego" comes up a lot in these conversations. One woman wrote in from Minneapolis, where her husband lost his job as a conservative rabbi. (Who knew clergy were on the recession chopping block?) She hadn't worked full-time in 10 years—she was writing a novel and taking care of their kids, ages 13, 8, and 5. Now she and her husband have switched. She's at work, and he's mostly at home. And she is still the grocery shopper, the haircut-getter, and the maestro conducting the household orchestra. When it came time to re-enroll the kids in school, her husband filled out the forms, but only after she told him to. They are both deliberately holding onto their past roles. "You're right, we don't want to shift things completely," she said when I probed a bit over the phone. "When he first lost his job, he was so uncomfortable about being home in the middle of the day, and my friend said to me, 'Don't make him into a house husband. Don't reinforce his upset that he's not working.' So I'm not."
That strategy is about having faith that this, too, shall pass. It means treating the unwelcome entry of employment as temporary—momentary, even. You'll go back to work soon; in the meantime, I'll stay in charge of the grocery list. You can see through the surface tasks to the deep reason behind this method of coping: One identity-shattering shift at a time, please. But it also made me think about an insight from a reader named Dave, who sees stay-at-home fatherhood in his future because his wife has more education and higher earning potential. "Men pay a high price for tying their identity too closely to work," he says. To be closely identified with one's career ambitions used to be a good thing. It meant commitment, follow through, work ethic. Women used to look for all of that in a mate. Some men did, too. Now, it seems dangerously rigid.
My next question for readers: If you're in your 20s, how is the downturn affecting you? Is it making you think differently about work, relationships, maybe your parents? If you're just graduating from college or graduate school, what's next? And has the frozen job market reframed your choices? Send me your stories, at firstname.lastname@example.com. E-mail may be quoted in Slate unless the writer stipulates otherwise. If you want to be quoted anonymously, please let me know.


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Near the end of the third inning, he said he started dragging. By the time the fifth inning began with a walk to the opposing pitcher, Johnny Cueto, he was past tired.
"To walk him, obviously, made everything kind of spiral," Worley said.
The result was not Worley's best effort, but still decent enough. In five innings, he allowed six hits, walked four and surrendered three runs. He said he was unable to "locate really anything."
There were innings where he looked capable, like the third and fourth when he needed just 15 and 7 pitches, respectively, to retire the side. But trouble locating the fastball caught up to him.
Worley said the lack of stamina was an issue. He made two relief appearances with the Phillies after his last start May 4, and made one start with triple-A Lehigh Valley on May 17 that lasted three innings. He threw two bullpens before Tuesday's start.
"It's been a while," Worley said. "I came out of the bullpen for a week. Go down to triple A, threw three innings down there and try to get stretched out. Then I throw two more bullpens, that's not really stretching anything out. Then, 'Hey, go pitch!' I think another bullpen and having the five innings today, I'll be a little better for Monday."
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Sriram Lab:Publications
Recent publications
Sriram G (ed). (in production) Plant Metabolism: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology, Vol. 1083, 300 pp. Humana Press, New York, NY. ISBN: 978-1-62703-660-3 View at publisher
Misra A, Conway MF, Johnnie J, Qureshi TM, Derrick AM, Agbo EC, Sriram G. (in press) Metabolic analyses elucidate nontrivial gene targets for amplifying dihydroartemisinic acid production in yeast. Frontiers in Microbiology, 4: 200. View at publisher (OPEN ACCESS)
Nargund S, Joffe ME, Tran D, Tugarinov V, Sriram G (2013) Nuclear magnetic resonance methods for metabolic fluxomics. In: Alper HS (ed), Systems Metabolic Engineering. Methods in Molecular Biology, 985: 335–351, Humana Press, New York, NY. View at publisher
Nargund S, Sriram G (2013) Designer labels for plant metabolism: Statistical design of isotope labeling experiments for improved quantification of flux in complex plant metabolic networks. Molecular BioSystems 9: 99-112. DOI: 10.1039/C2MB25253H. View at publisher
Zheng Y, Sriram G (2010) Mathematical modeling: bridging the gap between concept and realization in synthetic biology. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (now BioMed Research International) article ID 541609, 16 pages. View at publisher (OPEN ACCESS)
Alper HS, Cirino PC, Nevoigt E, Sriram G (2010) Applications of synthetic biology in microbial biotechnology. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (now BioMed Research International), article ID 918391, 2 pages. Guest editorial (invited but not peer-reviewed). View at publisher (OPEN ACCESS)
Sriram G, Rahib L, Parr LS, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2010) Moonlighting function of glycerol kinase causes systems-level changes in rat hepatoma cells. Metabolic Engineering 12:332-340. View at publisher View at PMC (OPEN ACCESS)
Rahib L, Sriram G, Harada MK, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2009) Transcriptomic and network component analysis of glycerol kinase in skeletal muscle using a mouse model of glycerol kinase deficiency. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 96:106-112. View at publisher View at PMC (OPEN ACCESS)
Iyer VV, Sriram G, Fulton DB, Zhou R, Westgate ME, Shanks JV (2008) Metabolic flux maps: An effective tool for studying the effect of temperature on protein and oil biosynthesis in developing soybean cotyledons. Plant, Cell, and Environment 31:506-517. View at publisher (OPEN ACCESS)
Sriram G, Rahib L, He J-S, Campos AE, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2008) Global metabolic changes due to glycerol kinase overexpression in rat liver cells. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism 93:145-159. View at publisher View at PMC (OPEN ACCESS)
Sriram G, Iyer VV, Fulton DB, Shanks JV (2007) Identification of hexose hydrolysis products in metabolic flux analytes: A case study of levulinic acid in plant protein hydrolysate. Metabolic Engineering 9: 442-451. (Cover article)View at publisher
Sriram G, Fulton DB, Shanks JV (2007) Flux quantification in central carbon metabolism of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots by 13C labeling and comprehensive bondomer balancing. Phytochemistry 68: 2243-2257. View at publisher
§Sriram G, §González-Rivera O, Shanks JV (2006) Determination of biomass composition of Catharanthus roseus hairy roots for metabolic flux analysis. Biotechnology Progress 22: 1659-1663. (§Contributed equally) View at publisher
Sriram G, Martinez JA, McCabe ERB, Liao JC, Dipple KM (2005) Single-gene disorders: What role could moonlighting enzymes play? American Journal of Human Genetics 76: 911-924. View at publisher View at PMC (OPEN ACCESS)
Sriram G, Fulton DB, Iyer VV, Peterson JM, Zhou R, Westgate ME, Spalding MH, Shanks JV (2004) Quantification of compartmented metabolic fluxes in developing soybean embryos by employing biosynthetically directed fractional 13C labeling, two-dimensional [13C, 1H] nuclear magnetic resonance, and comprehensive isotopomer balancing. Plant Physiology 136: 3043-3057. View at publisher (OPEN ACCESS) Featured in Faculty of 1000 Biology
Sriram G, Shanks JV (2004) Improvements in metabolic flux analysis using carbon bond labeling experiments: bondomer balancing and Boolean function mapping. Metabolic Engineering 6: 116-132. View at publisher


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Good things never happen in stories that begin at gas stations on the New Jersey interstate, so when John Haskell's new novel American Purgatorio opens on the Palisades Parkway, you sort of know something is up. Sure enough, as soon as our hero Jack exits the filling station office, snacks in hand, he realizes that his car—and his wife, who was in it—are both gone. Most men would fly into a rage of confusion, but Jack simply sits down and decides to wait it out. "Something had happened," he says, confident of his powers to simply reason his way out of panic. "That much I could translate."
Thus begins one of the strangest road trips in American fiction. Indeed, Jack Kerouac meets Dante in this tale of a man meandering across country in search of his missing wife. After morning melts into afternoon, and no leads turn up at home, Jack buys a used Nissan Pulsar and hits the road, heading from Kentucky to Colorado, then onward to California, following a map he found in his wife's effects. Along the way he encounters people who seem as curiously ethereal as he—ex-hippies and burnouts living in yurts, spiritual healers and Hopi Indians. It's almost as if the interstate is a portal back in time.
Or perhaps into another dimension. One of the great pleasures of reading American Purgatorio, which proceeds in sections named after the Latin names of the seven deadly sins, is figuring out what the hell is going on. Is all this unfolding in Jack's head? Is he dead? Or is he a man on one hell of an LSD trip? As with all fiction that has a chance at lasting, there's wiggle room in the interpretation.
It's a startling change from Haskell's last book, I am Not Jackson Pollock, a collection of stories paralyzed by Haskell's desire to remind us he was aware of storytelling's falsities. In American Purgatorio, Haskell finally relaxes into his gifts. He has sandblasted his prose to an otherworldly smoothness. Try to grasp any of his beautiful sentences and they slip gently away from you, just like his sad, lonely and possibly deceased protagonist.


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TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors on Tuesday wrapped up a corruption case against the mayor of New Jersey's capital city who is accused of a scheme to accept bribes linked to the development of a parking garage on city property.
Trenton Mayor Tony Mack faces bribery and extortion charges after becoming ensnared in a 2010 sting operation with would-be developers who were actually government informants.
Under the scheme, the developers would buy city property for the garage for $100,000 less than the land was worth, and the Democratic mayor would receive money in exchange, prosecutors say.
The mayor's brother Ralphiel is accused of acting as a bag man to pick up the bribe money, prosecutors said. The informants offered a bribe of $119,000, about $54,000 of which changed hands, prosecutors said.
Mack, 48, who remains in office, his brother and another go-between, Joseph Giorgianni, used code words to discuss their plans, Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Moran said in his closing statement to the jury in U.S. District Court in Trenton.
The words "Uncle Remus" were code for cash that was destined as a bribe for the mayor, he said.
Stopping for pizza at a steak house run by Giorgianni was code for picking up the bribe money, Moran told the jury. The code words were picked up in telephone conversations secretly recorded by law enforcement, he said.
"Tony Mack did not ask any questions," Moran said. "He understood just what they meant. He knew just what they were talking about - bribery."
Mack, who was arrested in September 2012, has been accused by critics of nepotism and mismanagement since taking office in 2010 in the crime-plagued, economically depressed city of 85,000 people. He was reportedly deeply in debt at the time of his arrest.
The prosecutor said in April 2012 that the mayor received a bribe payment, citing as evidence that the mayor promptly went to a local tax office to pay an overdue bill.
Mack and his brother are charged with extortion, accepting bribes and scheming to defraud. Giorgianni pleaded guilty in December and awaits sentencing.
Defense attorneys for the brothers were slated to present closing arguments on Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON, DC – May 25, 2011 – (Motor Sports Newswire) – "Run For the Wall" riders from as far away as California and Texas will again join fellow riders on Sunday, May 29th for the Rolling Thunder XXIV Ride Through Washington.. an event that draws more than 300,000 to the streets of DC.
Rolling Thunder — the largest annual event in Washington D.C. — is a First Amendment demonstration run that takes place during Memorial Day weekend for POW/MIA awareness. Here are some of the activities planned for the weekend.
Friday, May 27th – 9pm Candlelight Vigil at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Saturday, May 28th – 9am Thunder Alley opens at 22nd St & Constitution Ave
11 am – US Navy Memorial Wreath Laying, Navy Plaza, 701 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
11 am – 3 pm – Saluting our Troops…speakers/musical tributes located on state between Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial.
Sunday, May 29th – 7 am – Reveille – bikers rally in North Pentagon Parking lot.
12 noon – Rolling Thunder XXIV starts…bikers depart the North Pentagon parking lot.
1:30 pm – Rolling Thunder Speaker Program – speakers on stage between Reflecting Pool and Lincoln Memorial.
Memorial Day, May 30 – 3 pm drawing for Rolling Thunder XXIV Raffle Bike 2011 at Thunder Alley, 22nd & Constitution Ave. NW. (Tickets 3@ $10 available at event)
This year, there is also a free 4-day event, "Stars, Stripes & Spokes" at RFK stadium, two miles east of the Capitol.
"We ride for those who can't" is the motto of the organization, Run For The Wall.
Click the flyer below to learn more about the RFTW mission to bring veterans on a cross-country journey to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall & Rolling Thunder Ride.
By: Jennifer Jensen Walker
Thunder in the streets,
Tears in the eye,
As our love and honor
…Go to the ones that die.
We remember them,
We always hold them dear,
As they serve their country
Through their blood and fear.
Some families still wonder
Where their brothers may be hid,
But all we can do is honor them
For the service that they did.
So raise the flag up high!
Keep it ever from the dirt!
Help the soldiers in your life to see
We never want them hurt!
We pray that hearts will mend!
We cry for you, we ride for you,
Our vigil will not end!
Run for the wall!