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The fonds consists of a copy of a speech delivered by Albert Breton at the 1986 University of Manitoba convocation ceremonies titled "Quel libre - echange pour le Canada?". The speech is in French.
Breton, Albert
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The fonds consists of a copy of a speech delivered by Albert Breton at the 1986 University of Manitoba convocation ceremonies titled "Quel libre - echange pour le Canada?". The speech is in French.
Breton, Albert
The A02-41 accession of the Albert D. Cohen fonds consists of 4 series: International Distinguished Entrepreneur Award 1983-2002, Books 1985, 2002, Photograph Collection (PC 160) 1987-2000, and Electronic Records (EL 2), 1985-1990. The first serie...
Cohen, Albert D. (Albert Diamond)
The 2005 accession consists of biographical information, correspondence, research material from the Vatican, Viennese, Czech, and Hungarian Archives (photocopies), research material on Carpatho-Ukraine (Subcarpathia) region, material on his course...
Baran, Alexander
His fonds consists of teacher's certificates; contracts; yearbooks; course papers; correspondence; and articles.
Ewanchuk, Alexander
The fonds consists of twelve series. The first, biographical, consists of miscellaneous personal papers that Imich has collected over the years, papers and writings of his wife, Wela, and personal journals dating back to 1946. In addition to thi...
Imich, Alexander
Algonquian Conference/Actes du Congrès des Algonquinistes fonds
The Algonquian Conference is an annual conference that has now been held for more than 30 years. It is scheduled for the last weekend of October and attracts a large audience, since both academics and non-academics interested in the subject can co...
Wolfart, H. Christoph
The fonds consists of journals, correspondence, original manuscripts, published works, poetry, plays, short stories, novels, memoirs, certificates, newspaper clippings, personal documents, and photographs.
Brown, Alice Cameron
The fonds consists of correspondence between Alice Millidge and several Canadian soldiers who were serving overseas during the First World War.
Alison (Campbell) Hermon fonds
The fonds contains textual, photographic and digital records. The textual records include handwritten and typewritten correspondence relating to séances and spirit communication between family members. The photographs are black and white and color...
Hermon, Alison
The collection consists of a booklet titled Wandering in Wattsview, Wattsview History 1879-1967. The book contains maps, biographical information, general history of the community, family histories and photographs. It was put together and publishe...
Drysdale, Allan
The fonds is separated into eleven series. They include biographical material, feature films, mini-series, television shows, scripts & screenplays, background/research material, conventions, photograph collection (PC 204), audio recordings (TC...
Eastman, Allan
The records of this fonds have been arranged in their original form, retaining the file/binder inscriptions as file titles in the finding aid. The fonds consists of the scrapbooks (central records) comprise the first series in the collection. Reco...
Alpha Omega Women's Alumnae
This collection consists of issues of the University of Manitoba Faculty of Agriculture publication "The Hay Baler," from 1947 and 1948; and a number of photographs of Faculty of Agriculture people and events.Photograph: Dean MacEwan, Faculty of A...
University of Manitoba
American Association of University Professors / University of Manitoba Chapter fonds
The fonds consists of one minute book from 1949-1950, including membership lists, correspondence, minutes, and committee rosters.
American Association of University Professors / University of Manitoba Chapter
The fonds consists of a photograph of a Rummely threshing machine owned by four families in the Neepawa area during the 1930s. The fonds also contains a clipping featuring a poem written by Frank Dudenhoffer in 1948 that was printed for the Centen...
Arnold, Amy
The fonds consists primarily of the poetry and correspondence of Andrew Suknaski. The poetry is in original manuscript format showing multiple progressive versions. Bits of poetry and notes are found on the margins of newspaper articles and the ba...
Suknaski, Andrew
The fonds consists of three series covering Davis' professional life. The first series is Correspondence. This includes correspondence with colleagues and publishers regarding research and publication. The correspondence spans the years 1983 ...
Davis, Angela E.
Accessions A.04-36, A.04-07, A.04-115 consist primarily of photo albums and scrapbooks that document the artistic work of Angus Shortt. In addition, the accessions include journals of birds observed by Shortt from 1931 to 1996. Both accessions ha...
Shortt, Angus
The fonds contains an original music score, several unpublished stories, a play, and poetry. There are copies of her published work in Voxair.
Carson, Ann Elizabeth
The accrual consists of letters from Margaret Avison to Anne Corkett as well as miscellaneous religious material.
Corkett, Anne
The fonds consists of biographical information, correspndence and documents from her involvement with various organizations including Altrusa Club of Winnipeg and Altrusa International, Inc., Alpha Omega Alumnae, and the Council of Women of Winnipeg.
Smigel, Anne
The fonds consists of Anton and Patty's biographical information, awards, philanthrophy, correspondence and information re: HMCS Uganda Cruiser.
Kirk, Patty
The content of the fonds consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes photographs, postcards, and a Royal Canadian Air Force service and paybook.
Polson, Archibald John
Archives & Special Collections fonds
The fonds consists of recordings of addresses given at the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Discovery Hour Series, as well as the University Publications Collection which was accumulated by the Archives.
University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections
The Collection is organized into fifteen series:1. Biographical material2. Professional associations3. Speeches and addresses4. Publications5. Personal correspondence6. Professional correspondence7. Research material8. Chrono files9. Consulting10....
Naimark, Arnold
Although the provenance of this collection is Arnold O. Brigden, the bulk of the manuscript collection consists of incoming letters from Arnold's family in England and Toronto. These letters contain more information about Arnold's family...
Brigden, Arnold O.
The fonds consists of letters from Arthur Stoughton and his wife, Florence Elise Stoughton, to Dr. Elinor F.E. (Frances Elizabeth) Black. The letters pertain to everyday occurrences as well as significant events, such as Black's travels, the ...
Stoughton, Arthur


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(CNN) — Picture this scene: You're just digging into your restaurant meal, the wine is flowing and the ambiance is perfect — and then, bam! Your dining companion swats away your hand, scolding you for touching the appetizer before she could take a photo.
Sound familiar? The trend of photographing one's food, brought about in large part by apps like Instagram, can seem obnoxious on many levels. But Mark Hill, director of photography at Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc., says it's all about preserving memories.
"Meals are special times for people … the picture of the food is a representation of that moment," he said. "Food is very fleeting in our lives. It's on our plate and 20 minutes later it's gone and we have an empty dish."
Those meals become even more special when they are being enjoyed while traveling. Looking back on a photo of a meal eaten overseas can conjure up the sights, sounds, scents and tastes of the trip.
This spring, chef and author Anthony Bourdain will take his adventure-seeking appetite — and CNN viewers — along on a journey of cultures and cuisine from around the world on his new show, "Parts Unknown."
Bourdain's tasty excursions may not be something we can all do for a living, but from the coastal piers of New Jersey to the mountainous terrains of Northern Africa, you've experienced amazing off-the-beaten-track meals, too. Here are some of your favorite food photos and the stories behind them.
Getting the local fixings
It was early January of this year when Caroline Cheung and her fiance decided to escape the grind of their Torrance, California, lives and head down to the Galapagos.
While traveling through Tortuga Beach, they were greeted with sunshine, warm waters and the faint sound of salsa music playing in the background. The music caught Cheung's attention, but it was the incredible aroma of food that drew her closer.
"We watched three ladies prepare and cook fresh fish in a makeshift kitchen with a portable stove and mini-fridge," she said.
"It was not really a restaurant, but more like an outdoor public space by the pier with a few plastic tables and chairs, and many local people standing by, waiting for their turn to have a seat," she said.
Intrigued, she decided to stand in line, where she learned the place offered one dish. "It was a whole fish that was previously marinated, then dipped in a batter and deep-fried to crispy perfection," she said. "It was served with pickled, spicy onions, fried plantains and rice."
To her surprise, she says the fish, served on a simple Styrofoam plate, was one of the best dishes she tried during her trip.
"It was such a simple dish, served without fanfare, yet a real delight."
Eating with the city
A low-key dinner can sometimes be the most appetizing; at least Gary Ashley thinks so.
After days of hiking through the Grand Atlas Mountains, Ashley and his travel partner, John, decided to take a much-needed rest at their riad in Marrakech, Morocco. A riad is akin to a Western-style bed and breakfast.
They could have gone to an upscale restaurant to celebrate their trip and John's birthday, but instead they decided to dine on the rooftop of their riad, which overlooks the city.
They ordered the Marrakech chicken, which is widely served across the country. The dish consists of chicken slow-cooked as a stew in a tagine — a traditional Moroccan cooking vessel — and flavored with whole green olives, preserved lemons and Moroccan spices. It was served on a fluffy bed of couscous.
"It was exceptionally tender and moist and flaked from the bone. The spices were quintessentially Moroccan, and the preserved lemon is something not commonly used here in the West," he said.
But it wasn't just the dish that he says was the best part of the meal. It was the ambiance of their dinner as well.
"The Riad Siwan had a beautiful rooftop dining area from which we could see most of the city," he said.
"The sun was setting and evening calls to prayer were coming from the minarets of the nearby mosques. It was John's birthday and the food, the atmosphere were perfect. Photographs were in order."
Crossing state lines for a tasty getaway
For Pennsylvania resident Cherie Capostagno, there are no mountains to cross to find a delicious dish. In fact, her favorite food is just across state lines.
The drive to Belmar, New Jersey, always brings feelings of nostalgia and hunger for her and her husband, Vince. They slip away from home — and work — to escape the occasional stresses that build up from their jobs.
A few times a year, they make their way to the New Jersey coast to visit their favorite restaurant, Klein's, which she says is known for its delicious lobster dishes. But besides the tender lobster meat steaming fresh out of the shell, she says the seafood joint is simply inviting.
"The restaurant has a fish market in the front and you can watch the guys shuck fresh oysters or you can buy fish at the market if you'd like," she said. If the market isn't your ideal setting, you can walk onto the restaurant's deck, overlooking Shark River Inlet.
"We like to sit on the deck and watch the gates open to let the boats go through or watch people paddle-board by," she said. But it's the little gems that bring delight to their meals, like seeing swans, like Sammy, swim up to the restaurant.
"Sammy the swan adopted the place as his home and the staff goes down to the dock to play with him," she said. "He swims right up to the tables and at first you aren't sure, but then you realize that Sammy is a regular."
Finding a homemade meal in a new place
Whether it's trekking through the mainland of China or swimming in the waters of Tonga, traveling is a way of life for Natalie Montanaro, who works for the Peace Corps Reserve. So that means she is always trying new dishes.
But the South Carolinian said her favorite dish is nothing luxurious. Instead, it's a fresh fish salad called 'Ota 'ika.
'Ota 'ika is a Polynesian dish made with raw fish that is marinated in lemon juice for several hours before it is smothered in a rich coconut milk and mixed with an array of veggies. Montanaro heard people raving about it while she worked as a teacher in Tongatapu, Tonga.
"At first I was skeptical since I'd never eaten any raw fish other than in sushi," she said. "But the seafood here is top rate and it's so fresh you almost want to eat it right out of the water."
The tropical climate and fresh fish was enough of a reason for her to muster up her courage and give the Polynesian dish a try. "I was completely won over by the lovely taste and texture," she said. She adored the dish so much she even learned how to make it.
"But it will never be the same without the local fish and coconuts along with the Tongan company and atmosphere, of course."

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Measuring the Secchi depth transparency in an ice-covered lake. A measure of water clarity is obtained by lowering the disk into the lake until it is no longer visible. Note the more sophisticated radiometer next to the ice hole. The radiometer provides a more precise measure of how transparent a lake is.
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The Super Bowl ad that made everyone stop and stare last night was the Chrysler ad for its Dodge Ram truck brand, titled "Farmers." It utilized the Paul Harvey poem "So God Made A Farmer."
But Slate points out that the idea for the ad appears to have been copied from a 2011 ad made by Farms.com, an agricultural news site.
As the Ram trucks web site points out, it was an act of homage, not plagiarism. The company borrowed the idea with Farms.com's permission. " It's not a rip, it's keeping the idea alive," a company exec tweeted.
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This exhibition brings together a wide variety of sexual images from Roman art and archaeology and investigates what they meant to those who made and used them. It begins by looking at how Victorian attitudes have affected the way we have collected, displayed and studied these objects including the centrepiece of this exhibition, The Warren Cup.
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Weston Gallery, Nottingham, England


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Health messages can sometimes fall on deaf ears. But when an artist sends the message, it can add some serious bump to it and makes a better impression on an audience. At a recent event at The Park on Fourteenth, Grammy-nominated R&B artist Luke James performed songs about love. The event was a fundraiser for the Reed For Hope Foundation, a non-profit organization that raises funds for HIV/AIDS awareness. RFHF teamed up with OraSure Technologies to present selected events that spotlight the importance of knowing your HIV status and getting tested. When it was time to host an event in DC, RFHF founder and CEO Robi Reed tapped Mr. James to come perform some of his hits. After his performance, Luke humbly answered questions about health and HIV among young people in an exclusive interview.
How did you get involved with Robi Reed and the Reed For Hope Foundation?
My first time meeting Ms. Robi Reed was at an audition. I got familiar with her after a performance for BET Honors. She's great people. She's always been great to me so I'd do anything for her.
What health issues concern you personally?
Cancer. I have a lot of women around me from my mom to my friends. I think about things that could harm them. HIV is important to me too since people are active. I hope that all of my friends are being safe. I know I am.
Since HIV affects so many people in many walks of life, do you think that artists have an obligation to talk to their audiences about safe sex practices or do you feel like that is a more private matter?
I think that it can be talked about. I think we [artists] are like messengers so we do have some obligation to speak on certain issues that are going on in the world. Safe sex can be hard to talk about sometimes. I hope that my audience is doing the right thing.
What is your message to young "invincibles" like yourself who are sexually active?
Don't be selfish. Protect the ones you love. Protect yourself. Think about the people that love you and want to see you live a long life. Stay away from people and things that can harm you like HIV. Most of all just love yourself.
Check out more about Luke James, his music and his events at www.whoislukejames.com. For more information about The Reed For Hope Foundation, click here. For more information about OraSure Technologies and the first ever In-Home HIV test kit, click here.


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Fun with milling and sifting
I have been doing multiple bakes with home-milled sifted flour and it's nothing if not a learning experience. My initial attempt at tempering was a fiasco. All I could think of when I heard the word tempering was that somehow the wheat berries must be heated to very high temperatures to strengthen them. Only a few seconds of thought though, is all it takes to realize that that is ridiculous. But I was still surprised to learn that tempering when it comes to wheat means letting it absorb enough water to achieve a small measure of malting, and reach a desirable level of moisture.
Easier said than done. I tried heating a sample of berries at low temperature for several hours to see what their moisture content was. See the strategy described by Michael here. Then I added the requisite amount of water to the berries I intended to bake with and stored in a closed container for 2 days while the berries absorbed the moisture, shaking the container whenever I passed by. I knew that I needed to be careful not to use overly moist berries in my Komo mill. Fortunately the owners manual gives a handy rule of thumb. Smash a berry with a spoon on the counter. If it cracks with a nice snap, it's dry enough. If it just kind of smashes, it's too wet. Unfortunately after it seemed that the berries were dry, they smashed. I had to dry them out for a whole day to get them to crack again. When they got back into a crackable state, they had lost all the water weight that I'd put into them. Furthermore the bread I made with these tempered and redried berries was flavorless.
So presumably my berries are moist enough as it is, and don't need water added. This still leaves the question of whether I'll get good enough bran separation during milling without going through the tempering step. But for now at least I've put tempering on hold.
For my next few bakes, I tried a milling and sifting approach as follows. Mill berries coarsely. Sift. (I used a roughly #24 strainer - that is 24 holes per inch.) Remill what is caught by the sifter at medium coarse, and sift again. Remill the leavings again at medium fine and sift again. Remill the leavings again at fine and sift again. Stop. The flour and bran in the picture above resulted from this approach. While the bread I baked with this approach was a lot tastier than the one with the mis-tempered flour, I still felt that a lot was left to be desired.
Today, I went out and got more sifting ammunition. A roughly #30 strainer, and a roughly #40 splatter screen. I also changed my approach to milling and sifting. In addition to remilling the leavings and resifting, I decided to progressively sift the flour. So I milled the berries at medium, then sifted in the #24 strainer and set aside the leavings. Then sifted the flour in the #30 strainer and set aside the leavings. Then sifted the flour in the #40 strainer and mixed all the leavings from the three sifts together and remilled at medium. Then went through the 3 siftings again of the remilled material and added to the flour.
The flour I got from this process was lighter and silkier than the other approach. The bad news is that I started with 350g of berries and got only 170g of flour, a less than 50% extraction rate. That meant that to get a full bake, I had to add a lot of other flour, which I did. So the flour from the Upinngil wheat berries ended up at a quarter of total flour. To throw yet another wild card into the bake, I hadn't prepared starter in advance, but I had some leftover rye starter from a bake a few days ago in the refrigerator, and I decided to use as is. However, not knowing how potent it was I threw in some instant yeast.
Of course any bread I got out of this was just in the interests of science (aka hacking around with milling and sifting.) And here is what I got. Mild and pleasant, but just another step along the way toward something or other.
Whole Rye
Sifted Upinngil
KA Bread Flour
Grind 350g hard red wheat berries at medium
Sift in #24 sifter. Sift resulting flour in #30 sifter.
Sift resulting flour in #40 sifter.
Regrind all the leavings at medium.
Redo the three part sift. This left me with 170g silky
golden brown flour.
Mix all ingredients in mixer. When all ingredients incorporated mix at speed 2 for 20 minutes.
BF 1.5 hours until dough is double.
Cut and preshape. Rest 15 minutes.
Shape into batards. Proof 1 hour. Coat with bran/semolina mix.
Slash and bake at 450 F with steam for 20 minutes, without for 25 minutes
Addendum: Andy's recent post about bolted wheat flour from an operating watermill, led me straight to google to look up bolting. Well bolting is sifting, but it has an interesting history as I found in this article - http://www.angelfire.com/journal/millbuilder/boulting.html There is a lot of interesting stuff in this article but one of the things that struck me is that much of sifting has been done with cloth rather than a wire mesh. Which leads me to wonder if that would be a good strategy for the home miller. Would a nylon or silk stocking work? Has anyone tried it?


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by Lou Mancinelli
Whenever Germantown artist Jonathan Eckel is tempted to paint in a representational, naturalistic, traditional way with recognizable objects, he turns the canvas upside down and searches for something deeper, underneath the surface, in the intuitive element of life and put that feeling on the canvas.
Naturalistic figures started to disappear from his work about a year into the fortuitous arrangement Eckel had been offered by a local gallery in 2008, which afforded a monthly stipend for two years. He was then 28 years old and is now 33.
Over the last five years Eckel has continued to paint in a more abstract vein. Twenty-two abstract expressionist-like pieces created in the last nine months by Eckel are now being exhibited in a solo show at Imperfect Gallery in Germantown through May 24. Eckel is a 2003 Tyler School of Art painting and art education graduate who later completed a residency at the Vermont Studio Center and whose work has been exhibited at Woodmere Art Museum.
His paintings are worked, reworked, painted over and repainted. Eckel created them without sketches and without plans. The work is visceral. It may remind you of walking down a packed city street while focusing on a few passing shapes and faces.
According to Eckel, "Like a religion, I have faith that the paint will perform a miracle, making those who look upon it believers. This can be a very frustrating ordeal, and almost every painting comes to a point somewhere along the process where I consider burying it and never telling anyone where. In this grave is where that life force of creation lies.
"When one moment you could give up entirely, the next minute you are awakened to the imagery and its purpose. You know what it must be, and what was once a mistake is now the lungs with which the painting breathes … I want to use visual imagery as a symbolic language that is not literal but definitely powerful and emotionally understandable. I believe that creating art is a mystical endeavor and not to be taken lightly."
Eckel cites 20th century masters like Picasso, abstract expressionist Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky as influences. "I don't even know what I'm trying to say sometimes, but they [the viewers] are getting it," said Eckel. "That's when you know it's real."
His first show was in 2003. After art school Eckel, who was raised in Glenside and graduated from Abington High School in 1998, moved to Boulder, CO, for two years. When he returned home, he took a job teaching third grade at Plymouth Meeting Friends School (PMFS).
While working as a teacher, he met local artists like the renowned Chuck Connelly. More than a handful of them made a living off their art, which inspired Eckel to walk out on the high wire. "It made me feel like, you know, hey, I gotta try this now. I thought if all else fails, I could always teach."
When he finished teaching the 2008 school year, he decided he would not return the following autumn. He spent the summer painting. By the end of the summer, he became connected with the local Knapp Gallery, which provided him with the aforementioned stipend. It was enough to cover his rent, living and work expenses with some extra spending money. "It was very affirming," Eckel said. "It was like, OK, I just made the right choice."
In 2010, after Knapp Gallery was forced to close, Eckel enrolled in the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international artists' and writers' residency program in the U.S. After the residency he returned home and purchased a space in the Greene Street Artists Cooperative, a live/work artists' space in a renovated, historic Germantown warehouse.
When he returned from Vermont, Eckel also contacted Woodmere Art Museum. He exhibited his work at Woodmere in 2011 and has also exhibited his work at the Main Line Art Center and other local galleries, as well as in New York City.
Now Eckel usually paints about eight hours a day, Monday through Wednesday. He waits tables two days a week to pay the bills. His vision of success is evolving. The romanticism that inspired him as a youth has developed into an awareness that there is also a business to being an artist.
For more information, visit www.jonathaneckel.com. Imperfect Gallery is located at 5601 Greene St. More information at www.imperfectgallery.com or 215-869-1001.


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The Wire Salon: Crystal Voyagers: A Journey Through The New Age
Off an overgrown path towards the back of a Hampstead churchyard lies a stone slab decorated with a large nine-fold geometric symbol, the enneagram, and a statement that ends:
"...we ever cease to be hereafter
The unreal has no being
The real never ceases to be"
The grave belongs to AR Orage, a pioneering populariser of the early 20th century mystics George Guirdjieff and Peter Ouspensky, and editor from 1907 to 1924 of the weekly progressive journal, The New Age.
At the dawn of the modernist era, Orage's journal both defined and named a burgeoning global movement that, over the next century, sought to expand minds and change the world via a potent combination of mysticism, self-discovery, humanitarian politics, environmental concerns, and the embrace of technology.
Ideas that flourished in fin de siècle and early 20th Europe gained a new potency in postwar America, particularly on its coasts, where cutting edge science and ancient mystical ideas effortlessly overlapped, in political and military circles as much as in creative cultural salons.
The themes and ideas emerging from this foment, including mind-to-mind and mind-to-machine communication, the exploration of inner and outer space by human and non-human intelligences, an increasing awareness of the Earth's fragile ecosystems, and our relationship to the animal and plant kingdoms, also inspired, and continue to inspire, legions of musicians, from John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Alvin Lucier and David Tudor to Barry Manilow, The Carpenters and Stevie Wonder.
For this edition of The Wire Salon author and Strange Attractor founder Mark Pilkington presents an illustrated history of the key themes, ideas and influences that have shaped New Age music, from George Gurdjieff to James Ferraro, AR Orage to Genesis P Orridge.
Along the way we'll meet Ascended Masters on Himalayan peaks, vibrate to the sounds of the universe within, dive ketamine oceans with cetacean choirs, tune in to the Harmonic Convergence, communicate with Higher Intelligences across Time and Space, and all the while experience the unboundaried bliss of the infinite YOU.
The talk will be accompanied by a special New Age audio-visual mix by The Wire's Nathan Budzinski.
To get ready for Mark's New Age history, click here to watch a cosmos of New Age music playlist.
London Cafe Oto, 6 December 2012, 8pm, £4 on the door only.


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Collection: The leaves and flowering stalks should be gathered just at blossoming time, which is between July and September.
Part Used: Leaves or root.
Indications: Mugwort can be used wherever a digestive stimulant is called for. It will aid the digestion through the bitter stimulation of the juices whilst also providing a carminative oil. It has a mildly nervine action in aiding depression and easing tension, which appears to be due to the volatile oil, so it is essential that this is not lost in preparation. Mugwort may also be used as an emmenagogue in the aiding of normal menstrual flow.
Combinations: May be used widely where a bitter action is needed.
Preparations & Dosage: Infusion: pour a cup of boiling water onto l-2 teaspoonfuls of the dried herb and leave to infuse for l0-l5 minutes in a covered container. This should be drunk three times a day. Mugwort is used as a flavoring in a number of aperitif drinks; a pleasant way to take it! Tincture: take l-4ml of the tincture three times a day.


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Arch Finance is a non bank lender providing first mortgage loans of up to $5 million against established commercial properties. It is also an arranger of commercial first mortgage finance for larger loan requirements and for construction finance facilities.
Arch Finance differentiates by providing loan solutions specific to your needs. We offer a very high level of service with experienced lenders and decision makers working in the business. So, whether you need an approval quickly or a lender who will take the time to understand and deliver a loan specific to your needs rather than a product that your bank thinks you should have then you may find a conversation with one our team worthwhile. Read more


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About PWGN
The purpose of this website is to give commercial wine growers in Pennsylvania and the non-western wine states access to current and relevant viticulture news, information, and events that will enable them to grow high quality wine grapes. It will be a source of locally produced materials but also a portal to the amazing wealth of viticulture information available on the internet. The resources that reside on this site are carefully selected by the viticulture educator. It is central to our extension mission to discover and transfer practical research-based knowledge to the grape growing industry, but we also seek the best new ideas and technologies from innovative grower/practitioners. We hope you will find it useful and we welcome your comments and feedback. Thank you for visiting and please return often for more news and information.
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NOTE: under the HOME tab are listed CONTACT US, DIRECTIONS and a PA Photo Gallery!
These organizations have generously funded the PA Wine Grape Network:
- The Pennsylvania State University College of Agricultural Sciences
- The Pennsylvania Wine Marketing and Research Program
Dominic Strohlein, Sarah Troxell, Alain Razungles, Denise Gardner and Mark Chien at the PQA wine making workshop
Changes at PWGN: The author and editor of the Pennsylvania Wine Grape Network is leaving Penn State, effective May 9, 2014 to begin work at the Oregon Wine Research Institute as their program director, starting on May 28, 2014. PWGN will remain active until a decision is made by a new viticulture extension educator about future of on-line viticulture extension resources. Users should continue to rely on the Information Resources list, new grape grower information, the regional events calendar, and other useful materials found in PWGN. Thank you for your use and support of PWGN over the years. Hopefully it will continue to be a valuable regional resource for viticulture news, information and events. Have a very fine vintage in 2014!
Grape Disease Information: Dr. Mizuho Nita, grape pathologist at Virginia Tech, recently gave two excellent presentations at a grower meeting in Chester County sponsored by Little Britain Ag Supply: Back to Basics - Phomopsis, Downy Mildew and Botrytis Bunch Rot, and Fungicide Trial Updates - Powdery Mildew, Downy Mildew, Botrytis and Late Season Rots. Given the disease challenges of 2013, this would be a good time to review vineyard IPM programs, and consider new products and practices that are available. Viewing these two talks would be an excellent start to drafting an IPM plan for 2014.
Growing Fine Red Wine in the Eastern U.S. for those who have tried it know what a challenge it can be. Two great minds in viticulture, Dr. Alan Lakso at Cornell and Dr. Kees van Leeuwen at ISVV/Universitie Bordeaux engaged in a discussion about getting Cabernet Franc ripe in the Finger Lakes, which I tried to extrapolate to red wines across the region. The process requires some deconstruction of terroir in which two critical elements, soil moisture and nitrogen, affect vine behavior. It's a fascinating discussion for the curious and intellectual wine grower, and affects every vineyard for better or worse. Please read Is There a Formula for Fine Red Wine Production.
Articles about terroir explanation and analysis by Dr. Kees van Leeuwen: The Concept of Terroir in Viticulture, Journal of Wine Research, 2006; Influence of Climate, Soil and Cultivar on Terroir, Am J for Enol and Vitic, 55:3, 2004
E-Newsletter: Read about a new viticulture and terroir short course being offered in Bordeaux and upcoming meetings around the region in the most recent (1.9.14) viticulture e-newsletter Wine Grape Information for Pennsylvania and the Region.
Quick Resources
- Penn State Viticulture Information Resources List: A-Z of books, web resources, consultants, education, associations and more for the serious wine grape grower.
- Information for beginner and prospective wine grape growers: 2013 new grape grower workshop presentations, commercial wine vineyard development guide and much more!
- 2013 NY-PA Pest Management Guidelines for Grapes: this is the bible for Eastern US grape integrated pest management (2014 guide will arrive in April)
- 2013 Wayne Wilcox Cornell Grape Diseases Update(3.4MB): the annual supplement to the pest management guide (the 2014 update will arrive in the spring)
- e-Viticulture (national online viticulture resources)
- Penn State Extension Enology: Denise Gardner offers resources for wine makers.
Mark L. Chien, Viticulture Educator, Penn State Cooperative Extension
Upcoming Events! Click on the EVENTS tab above to find a list of regional viticulture and enology events in 2014, then mark your calendars and watch for program and registration information.
What I'm Reading: I went to graduate school at UC-Davis and even then he was scary smart to the rest of us. Clark has made a name for himself as a technologist in the cellar, but it would be wrong and unfair to assign any simple label to him, especially given his vast experience and talent. At the moment, the romanticists (wine writers, sommeliers, retailers, etc) have captured popular opinion about the virtues of natural wines, be they organic, biodynamic or whatever the latest fad may be. Clark brings some balance and reality back to the world of wine, and that we are, after all, the wine "industry" and as growers and wine makers, should not be ashamed of what we do, or how we do it. I have found Postmodern Winemaking to be an fascinating and educational book, most of it is above my basic enological skill level, but I would highly recommend it to all commercial wine professionals, on both sides of the production and retail fence!
All wine regions have colorful histories and Eastern N. America is no different. Pioneers such as Philip Wagner and Konstantin Frank helped to build a wine industry from scratch after prohibition ended. For the past four decades Hudson Cattell has documented the growth of the wine industry, mainly through his Wine East magazine, which was essential reading for anyone growing and making wine. He is really the only person who could writeWines of Eastern North America: from Prohibition to the Present and a History and Desk Reference. This is the definitive guide to the evolution of the modern day wine industry and filled with interesting fact and stories that only Hudson would know. It is published by Cornell University Press and advance copies can be ordered at a discounted price.
If there is one book that can be called the foundation of a wine library it would be The World Atlas of Wine. The seventh edition by Hugh Johnson and Jancis Robinson has just been released and is well worth adding to or update a library.
Featured Article(s): If you want to start a rumble among viticulture nerds, just mention the words vine density in their company, and debates of epic proportion will ensue, often quite passionate! This something we just can't seem to agree upon, though it has been studied and tested exhaustively. Some new wine growers seeking fine wines have opened this can of worms again, which led me back to a seminal research article by Cesare Intireri and Ilaria Filippetti called Planting Density and Physiological Balance: "Comparing Approaches to European Viticulture in the 21st Century" from the Proceedings of the American Society for Enology and Viticulutre 50th Anniversary Meeting in June, 2000. It will undoubtedly stir up conversation, but the science and rational is so sound, even the strongest proponent of 20,000 vines per hectare may develop some doubts. In the end, the authors seek vine balance, not at the expense of density dogma.
Featured Web Sites and Webinars: TheNorthern Grapes Project, a regional USDA Specialty Crop Research Iniative project directed by Dr. Tim Martinson at Cornell University has put together a series of practical grape growing and wine making webinars. Topics include grape ripening, managing healthy fermentations, and impact of crop load and trellis system.
The National Grape Registry is THE source of information about grape varieties, clones and rootstocks, and it tells growers which nurseries produce these materials. As a companion to Wine Grapes (Robinson, Harding, Vouillamoz) these are the definitive reference resources for the wine industry.
Previous featured websites: University of California Integrated Viticulture, Northern Grape Projects, Ontario Grape IPM, Virginia Vineyards Association Resources, Linden Vineyards (see vintage summaries and article archives), Texas Winegrape Network, Cornell Research, VinoVic.
Featured Extension Educator(s): Coming soon!
Previous articles (listed by topic):
Viticulture and Vineyards
- 2013 Vintage Summary
- Notes on Making Fine Red Wines in the Mid-Atlantic: visits to Black Ankle and RdV and notes from Eric Boissenot
- Growing Cold Hardy Hybrid Grapes: a visit with John Thull from Univ of MN
- Effects of rootstocks on vine balance: an amazing presentation by Dr. Jim Wolpert
- 12 Things Growers Hate to Do but Should Do(Chien, 7/13, .ppt, 1.5MB)
- Vineyard Site Selection in Vermont (Chien, 7/13, .ppt, 4MB)
- Growing Fine Wine in the East: more questions than answers(Chien, 7/13)
- Eichhorn-Lorenz phenological growth stages: the 47 steps from bud break to leaf drop
- Finding my Terroir: Jim Law of Linden Vineyards talks about 30 years of farming the same site
- Vine size, vigor,capacity, balance and crop level: a presention by Dr. Alan Lakso, Cornell Univ.
- Galen Glen Defies the Odds: a review of Galen Glen Winery in the Lehigh Valley
- Xavier Chone and Jim Law Terroir Workshopat Blair Vineyard (Lancaster Farming article)
- Predicting Harvest Yield in Juice and Wine Grape Vineyards(5.2MB). Sabbatini and Howell
- Viticulture Notes by Tony Wolf: a summary of vine density and balance (see pg 7 vineyard design)
- James Stamp Seminar Notes: starting a vineyard with healthy plant materials
- Wine Grapes by Jancis Robinson, a definitive guide to over 3000 varieties
excerpted key portions from John Gladstone's Wine, Terroir and Climate Change
- Vine Size and Balance: this relationship may be the key to fine wines
- John Gladstones Wine Terroir and Climate Change Review: viticulture and the environment
- What's in Your Soil: vineyard soil and nutrition from Jodi Creasap-Gee at Cornell
- Vineyard labor: Amish workers in the vineyard
- Here We Go Again 2012: tips for the new vintage
- Early Bud Break: a summary of bud break and using oil to delay it
- Crop Estimation: how to properly estimate and manage the grape crop
- Post Harvest Checklist: what to do after harvest is over
- Bon Courage: 2011 vintage review by Jim Law at Linden Vineyards (call Mark Chien for a copy)
- Short Season Viticulture in Cool to Cold Climates: how to grow grapes in a cool to cold place
- Tents and Tunnels: protecting the grapes from frost, rain, freeze and getting them ripe
- Plastic Viticulture: a novel ideal to protect vines from the elements
- Daniel Roberts: one of California's premier viticulture and soil consultants
- Rhone Rangers in NYC: a look and tasting of Rhone wines
- Grape Diversity is the Spice of Life: there's a grape for every taste
- Cabernet Franc: a collection of articles about Cabernet Franc
- The Problem with Pinot: why is Pinot Noir so hard to grow well
- Pinot Noir in Eastern N. America: a regional view of the grape and wines
Diseases, Insects and Pests
- 2013 Grape IPM Workshop Presentations
- Insects and mites 2012: update from Greg Loeb, Cornell entomology
- Spotted Wing Drosophila: What we Learned in 2011: an update from Kathy Demchak
- Bird Management
- Vineyard Problems: Grapevine Yellows and Crown Gall-problems in eastern vineyards
Reports from the Field
- Cold Climate Hybrid Viticulture and Wines in Vermont(Chien, 7/13)
- Steep Terrain Workshop in Virginia (Chien, 7/13)
- Erie: a viticulture tour of the Lake Erie region(Chien, 7/13)
- Update from Oregon: vineyard visits and Oregon Low Input Viticulture and Enology (4/13)
- Virginia Governor's Wine Summit: the state of Virginia wine
- Napa Notes: a visit to Napa in August, 2012
- A Viticultural Tour to the Santa Cruz Mtns and Santa Rita Hills(2012)
- The Long Road to an Identity: Blair Vineyard in the Lehigh Valley
- The Vineyard at Grandview: A Developing Success Story: starting a new vineyard just right
- The Wines of Southwest Pennsylvania: a viticulture and wine making tour of SW PA
- Finger Lakes Notes: great white wines, and some fine reds in a cool region
- Notes from Long Island: great wines and people on the north and south forks
- A Long Island Odyssey: viticulture and wine notes from a visit to Long Island
- Ontario vines and wines: notes about the wine industry in Ontario
- Notes from Canada: viticulture notes from Atlantic Canada
- Notes from British Columbia: wine growing on Vancouver Island and the inland desert
- A Morning with Daren Miller: wine growing and making in Bordeaux
- American Society for Enology and Viticulture Eastern Section 2013 conference summary
- Fifteen Years of Vine Growth Studies in Concords: Lakso and Eissenstat
- Bibiana Guerra Viticulture Research Abstracts: current viticulture research translated for easy use
- Wolpert and Yuste Viticulture Seminar: Jim Wolpert from UC Davis and Jesus Yuste from Spain
- Selection of 2011 ASEV-ES Abstracts: eastern viticulture research for growers
- Collateral Damage: the loss of USDA Viticulture Consortium is a major blow to regional research
- Wine Glasses and Benchmark Wines: the importance of using a good glass
- A Wine Recovered: Brad Knapp saves a wine at Pinnacle Ridge Vineyard
- Biodynamic wines: notes from the Return to Terroir tasting in NYC
- Remington Norman Notes: Viticulture notes from his new book about Burgundy
- The Making of a Chef: learing to cook and much more at the CIA
- How to Love Wine: A Memoir and Manifesto: NY Times wine writer Eric Asimov talks and reminisces about wine
Other Topics
- Beginning of Viniculture in France: Pat McGovern explains how wine arrived in France


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Twelsiek, Arendt Show Madison What They're Made Of
German Maik Twelsiek claims his second title; American Jackie Arendt wins her hometown race at IRONMAN Wisconsin.
by Roger Hospedales
Twelsiek rides to his second title in Madison
With grey skies overhead and a brisk wind from the east, South Africa's Kent Horner led the way out of Lake Monona in 52:34. Just a few seconds behind were France's Romain Guillaume (52:37) and Germany's Maik Twelsiek (52:38). A second group contained Australian Josh Rix (52:54), German Stephan Vuckovic (52:56), and American Daniel Bretscher (53:00). Guillaume made quick work in transition and was headed off on the bike first, determined to set the pace for the rest of the day.
On the bike, Guillaume did exactly that, along with the 2007 IRONMAN Wisconsin Champion Twelsiek. The two worked together out front and led for the majority of the ride, never more than a few seconds from each other. Guillaume tried to shake free of Twelsiek several times but the German wouldn't have it. At the 80-mile mark, Twelsiek opened up a gap of 1:10, and sensing the Frenchman's fatigued, cranked up the pace even more in the last 12 miles, finished the 112-mile unrelenting course in 4:34:58 and setting the new course record (previously set by 2012 IRONMAN Wisconsin Champion Ben Hoffman). Guillaume came into transition next down 11:30, followed by American Daniel Bretscher who was 14:42 behind.
On the marathon, Twelsiek's double-digit lead allowed him to run a solid 3:06:09 to claim his second IRONMAN Wisconsin title in 8:40:15. Bretscher ran 2:57:26 to pass Guillaume for second (8:46:00), and Canadian Elliot Holtham moved up one spot during the run to finish third in 8:50:45.
"Awesome. The community here put on a great event and its great to win. I had a bad season last year and it's nice to see it getting better and better again," Twelsiek said after the race.
"The swim was pretty hard here, I had some flashbacks to St. George 2012, the stretch back was pretty choppy," said Twelsiek, who was happy to win after struggling last year. "I did not know too much about my lead (in the beginning). You have to run you own race."
Arendt's patience leads to first IRONMAN title
As expected, 2008 IRONMAN Wisconsin Champion Hillary Biscay led the women up the Helix at the Monona Terrace. Her 55:31 swim put her ahead of fellow Americans Malaika Homo (56:41), Jackie Arendt (57:00), and Suzanne Serpico (4:22).
Once on the bike, Homo quickly took control of the lead by mile 10. She posted a 5:23:03 ride, and American Kendra Lee followed just 12 seconds later (but had to immediately drop out of the race due to an injured foot). This vaulted Arendt into second, with American Beth Shutt in third.
Heading out of T2 behind by 4:54, Arendt was patient, steadily chewing into Homo's lead. Shutt was down by 11:04 but she too was running strong and making up ground. At the 15-mile mark, Arendt finally tracked Homo down and passed her. With seven miles to go, Arendt's lead was 4:57 over Homo. Shutt made her move one mile earlier and took possession of second. Feeling the pressure from behind, Arendt closed with a 3:16:03 marathon to win her first career IRONMAN title in her hometown in 9:47:07. Shutt ran 3:15:50 to finish second in 9:53:42, and Homo held on for third (9:58:49).
"I had a bit more confidence than usual about my fitness," Arendt said at the finish line. "I feel like there are a lot of girls who are the same as me and I just had a good day." Arendt's grandmother placed the medal around her neck at the finish line. "She (Shutt) just looked amazing. I was running scared. It was good because it kept the pressure on. I run better when I'm running scared."
Top 5 Men
1. 8:40:15 Twelsiek, Maik GER
2. 8:46:00 Bretscher, Daniel USA
3. 8:50:45 Holtham, Elliot CAN
4. 8:52:51 Rix, Josh AUS
5. 8:55:17 Guillaume, Romain FRA
Top 5 Women
1. 9:47:07 Arendt, Jackie USA
2. 9:53:42 Shutt, Beth USA
3. 9:58:49 Homo, Malaika USA
4. 9:59:56 Walsh, Beth USA
5. 10:04:51 Castro, Saleta ESP


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No team is better at making the final score look better than it really was than the New York Knicks.
This could have been a 40 point blowout, but of course the Knicks shot the ball well enough in garbage time to make it look like a semi-competitive game. It wasn't. Without Tyson Chandler and Jared Jeffries, the Knicks defense looked like a bunch of children separated from their mothers at the street fair. They were lost and confused all night which resulted in San Antonio scoring at will. Tony Parker destroyed the Knicks "defense" all night and finished with 32 points. Melo had 27 but it didn't matter because the Knicks couldn't stop anyone. A lot of his points came as the Knicks tried, but failed, to make a monumental comeback.
Here are my notes from the game:
- Tim Duncan was on vacation all night. With Chandler and Jeffries out, the Knicks had two options when it came to guarding future hall of fame power forward Tim Duncan. Guard him with Josh Harrellson or guard him with Amar'e Stoudemire. Guard him with a rookie or a laughably bad defender. Either way, the Knicks would have failed. I felt sorry for Jorts tonight. He was totally overwhelmed by Duncan but he really had no choice but to play hard. Duncan was a cool 6/11 as the Spurs offensive took a collective poop all over the Knick defense. The Knicks were obliterated in the post as they allowed the Spurs to out-rebound them 47-37 and score 60 points in the paint. Tonights game showed just how important Tyson Chandler is to this Knicks team. The defense was a rumbling, stumbling circus show of comedies tonight without him and the Knicks stood no chance tonight. Lets hope Chandler is good to go on Friday…
- Baron Davis is shooting a cool 29% on the season. He was pretty bad tonight. Davis recorded his second 0/7 shooting game in 5 games and he failed to spark the second team. I was listening to some WFAN after the game and I was shocked by what I heard. Some guy called in and suggested that Davis should replace Lin as the starting point guard on Friday. DAVIS WAS 0/7. What on earth would possibly compel somebody to think that Davis deserves a starting spot. The guy is shooting 29% on the year. I wasn't going to rag Baron, mainly because I still have a small fan-crush on him after his performance with the Warriors in 07-08, but after hearing that fan's egregious suggestion, I thought I had to do it. I hope none of you share this ridiculous sentiment. Lin didn't play well and I'll get to him in a second but Davis was far worse tonight and has not been good so far as the Knicks backup point guard.
- Thanks for showing up, JR. Rather than score points during games in which the Knicks actually needed him to, i.e. Boston and Dallas, Smith decided to break out of his slump in the fourth quarter tonight. The Knicks were down by 20. Thanks to JR's performance, the Knicks were able to make the game look like it was semi-competitive. I'm happy he started to hit 3's, he was 4/7, but now he needs to do this in close games against good teams. Sorry JR, scoring 18 points in a hopeless game is not good enough.
- Landry Fields looked comfortable coming off the bench. He hasn't been doing well as of late so it was refreshing to see Fields play well off the bench tonight. He scored 8 points on 4/8 shooting but more importantly, he looked comfortable. I think this bench role is going to help Landry in the long run. I do not believe he played any minutes at the 3 tonight but I look for him to begin to do so in future games.
- Amar'e Stoudemire gave himself a new nickname tonight. SAANCAD. Standing Around And Not Caring About Defense. Clyde always uses the mantra "Matador defense" as a description of the Knicks defense when the play poorly. Stoudemire actually played "Matador defense" tonight. I counted at least 3 times tonight in which he would stand there and watch a pick and roll go right by him. HE WAS THE CENTER TONIGHT. Stoudemire's defense and rebounding was disgustingly bad tonight. Somehow he ended up with 11 rebounds but he also gave up at least 25. He may have had 20 rebounds but he was too busy getting out of the way so DaJuan Blair could get them. Stoudemire was 6/12 for 18 points but those points were irrelevant as he gave up at least 45 points defensively tonight.
- Carmelo Anthony was better tonight. Given the fact that he was 2/12, it would have been hard for Melo to have been worse than he was in last night's game. He finished tonights game 12/24 with 27 points. 8 of his 27 came in the 4th when the game was out of hand. I wasn't overly impressed with Melo tonight. He looked off and then he would hit some shots and then he would fall off a gain. I still think that Jeremy Lin needs to work to get Melo in more post up situations, where he is a dominant player. Tonight wasn't Melo's fault that the Knicks lost. He could have scored 40 and it wouldn't have made a difference. I was encouraged to see him play better after his debacle in Dallas last night.
- Jeremy Lin looked pretty bad tonight. Granted he went up Tony Parker who is pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good but Lin should have played better. He finished with a nice stat line, 20 points on 7/15 shooting with 4 assists and only 1 turnover, but he did not play a good game. Many of his points came in the final minutes of regulation when the Spurs had already stopped playing. Right now, the offense is a total mess. Lin looks totally uncomfortable with Melo on the court. He doesn't know when to shoot and when to defer to Anthony. He struggled to get the pick and roll going tonight with Stoudemire and he failed to help the offense get into a rhythm. I don't blame Melo but his presence is definitely making an impact on the Knicks young point guard. Right now, Lin has absolutely no idea of how to play with Melo. You can tell that he is unsure whether to drive hard to the paint or dish it off to Melo for an isolation play. I think this problem can be ironed out with time but the Knicks cannot afford to wait for Lin to come around. Their schedule is brutal in the coming weeks and they need to start winning some games or else they'll be in huge trouble.


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Godric wrote:count2infinity wrote:i like the idea of a random roster
Random doesn't always mean more fair
The web site says random roster does create the teams more even.
I like that idea, so its a crap shoot who gets Sid or Geno or other players in high demand. ANd it up to you to build your team not just be given a starting roster of Vancouver or the Pens, to the 15 year old kid who knows the game inside out and can score with his eyes closed. Its up the the Gm to build the team and play the games to their ability with a roster concisting of good players and ones you are unfamialar with that you have to learn their ability.
I wonder if the Commisioner has the ability to change the sliders int he game to make it more realistic. I hate seasons with players scoring 200 points or getting 100 goals.


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When GOOD food editor, Nicola Twilley, called upon various bloggers to discuss food writing, it forced me to stop and think more about the things I choose to write about. Usually it's as simple as finding interesting materials in my day-to-day job as a librarian and wanting to share those stories and objects with others. But on deeper reflection, the books and documents I work with often tap into different way of seeing social history and material culture. For example:
Let's say you want to try a new restaurant in New York City. There are many ways to find one to your liking.
Perhaps you've read about some promising places on a few restaurant blogs, and maybe you scan the Sifty Fifty iPhone application for recommendations from Sam Sifton, the New York Times restaurant critic. Yelp provides helpful user recommendations, Menu Pages allows you to look over the menu in advance, and Open Table is there to put in your reservation.
Isn't it funny then, that when you finally sit down at the restaurant of your choosing, you're given a piece of paper.
In a world where one could very easily go through a day reading only off a screen, the restaurant menu may well be one of the few documents regularly and preferably distributed in print. In fact, one could argue that the menu, rather quaintly, is one of the last hold-outs of a thriving print culture. Sure, you can look up the menu online, but most still expect a physical document upon seating.
Menus are ephemeral. They are used to convey information and when that information is no longer relevant, the item is often disposed of. The asparagus appetizer in April may not be available in August. The chocolate mousse from October 1st is not offered on October 31st.
However, like many pieces of ephemera, a menu's informational value rarely stems from its original, intended use. And that, for me, is where things get interesting.
At their most basic, menus tell us about a place or event and what was served. But dig a little deeper, and one can often find out how much a dish cost, on what date the meal was served, and who was in attendance.
Dig a little deeper still -- perhaps with the help of old newspapers or a biography -- and wider contexts and connections are made. For example, the 1908 menu below celebrates the accomplishments of Harvey Washington Wiley, the chief chemist for the Department of Agriculture, a crusader for pure food, and the "Father of the Pure Food and Drug Act" of 1906. And while on first glance, the menu resembles many other "testimonial" dinner menus, further study show annotations explaining the chemical make-up of many of the dishes, a clever way of demonstrating the very labeling Wiley campaigned for.
Or that the menu of Restaurant Florent, which resided in what was once a gritty New York neighborhood, advertised a separate children's menu, a gesture hinting at a fast-changing neighborhood and the need to cater to that new clientele.
Or that when President McKinley was assassinated in 1901, his fellow Ohioans at the Gifford House demonstrated their grief by printing a daily bill of fare on black paper.
Or that a popular, "see-and-be-seen" restaurant in New York's West Village has, at its roots, tuna fish salad with a side of potato chips.
For historians, graphic designers, food enthusiasts, and chefs, menus are a sometimes overlooked source for inspiration and information, and can provide researchers with valuable insight into our social history in a way few other texts can do. I write about the food and menus and restaurants as a way of seeing the small details of history and celebrating the rich print culture they inhabit. On a very practical level, I am fortunate to have a job which not only allows but encourages exploration and research. The only thing more rewarding than that, is the charge to keep it up and share what I learn.
So, the next time you're sitting at a restaurant -- any restaurant -- look for the potential informational value in the menu. And then order some food. You must hungry by now.
Food for Thinkers is a is a week-long, distributed, online conversation looking at food-writing from as wide and unusual a variety of perspectives as possible. Check it out.


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soul19 wrote:What is the status of the 4G Judge kite?
I had that proto in Corpus Christi for testing last week, it is going to Greece tomorrow.Geronimo79 wrote:When I stayed at Dimitris house there was a new prototype Judge there.
I've seen pictures here from this kite as well.
It is a bridled 9 Meter...not the tiny front line connection arrangement on the stock Judge kites.
So it is something more like a Blade Prime...or Ozone C4, Core GTS2, Cabrinha Chaos, Nobile 50Fifty, Switch Element 2, Naish Park, SS RPM.
Dimitri has not said that Judges are getting bridles, he is just trying things like always.
Kind of funny, the first comment when I pumped it up, was that it was a great looking kite.
I explained that it was just a simple proto graphic design, but the guy said it was good the way it is.
My observations:
Direct feel, with a nice quick no hesitation turn, does not feel sle-ish.
Generates power through the turns like a C kite should.
Backs up properly when you ride towards it.
Don't know about boost, as I was on a strapless surfboard.
More sheeting range than the stock Judge has, for sure...more useable range.
Airframe feels really solid in the air, like the stock Judge.
Feels like more bottom end than a 9M C kite normally has.
It was baddass...typical Epic kite!


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NEW YORK (AP) - There was a glamorous whiff of scandal - make that "Scandal" - at "Project Runway" on Friday, with Emmy-nominated actress Kerry Washington making an appearance as guest judge for the reality show's season finale at New York Fashion Week.
NEW YORK (AP) � There was a glamorous whiff of scandal � make that "Scandal" � at "Project Runway" on Friday, with Emmy-nominated actress Kerry Washington making an appearance as guest judge for the reality show's season finale at New York Fashion Week.
Washington, who plays a wily political strategist in her red-hot series, is a fast-growing fashion luminary as well � a development she described as an "occupational hazard," though a happy one.
"I've had to learn about fashion because as an actor, it's such a huge part of the marketing," Washington said in a pre-show interview, dressed in a flouncy floral Stella McCartney dress. "I'm the daughter of a professor, and an A student, and I approach it as a student. I do my research. I stay informed. I communicate with the designers."
Washington joined regular judges Heidi Klum, Nina Garcia and Zac Posen at the Lincoln Center tents to watch eight final contestants display their wares. But actually, there remain only three finalists. Their names will remain a secret to the rest of us as the show catches up when the finale airs Oct. 17.
Garcia, fashion director at Marie Claire, was not giving up any secrets, but said the three finalists were clearly the most deserving. "They definitely had the best collections," she said.
As for Klum, she said the quality this year was so good, it's a real toss-up who will emerge victorious.
"This year it's gonna be very tough," she said. "They could all win. The quality is great."
Klum insisted she's still not bored after 12 seasons. "What keeps it alive for me are the people," she said. "They are not actors. They are real people with real stories. When you see people who are not in this industry who are hungry for it ... that makes me excited. Show what you got! I love it."
"Runway" is nominated for five Emmys this year, and Klum, who's nominated along with co-host Tim Gunn, said she was thrilled about the upcoming awards � for which she's already picked out a gown. Versace, in case you were wondering.
"Every year when they're nominating, I'm sweating the day before that we get nominated again," she said. "Because we are a show that's been around for 12 seasons now, and some of the biggest shows all of a sudden don't get nominated anymore. So you just never know! Obviously if we would win, we would even be more happy," she added with a grin.
As for designer Posen, it's his second season as a judge, and he said the biggest challenge for him is time management. Only a day earlier he had launched his secondary line, Zac Zac Posen. "And I'm missing some fittings today, which kills me," he said.
But Posen values the chance to work with up-and-coming designers on the show, and sometimes give them some needed "tough love" � as he got from his own mentors.
"Sometimes you need that wake up," he said of the occasionally harsh criticism on the show. But it's all in the name of better fashion, he said.
"I've had great teachers," he said. "So I've just tried to take the best from the different mentors I've had, and tried to channel that. I've tried to get the best out of these creators possible. And I think creativity should be generous in that way. We should be able to help each other and to promote a new generation of creators and designers."
Washington, for her part, said she'd been very nervous about having to criticize others.
"I told my girlfriends this morning, 'I'm going to have to be judgmental all day, and I'm not very good at that!'" she said. "But they told me I can be critical without being judgmental."
Still, she said, she won't be the Simon Cowell on the panel.
"I leans more towards Paula (Abdul), or Jennifer Lopez," she quipped.
Nicole Evatt in New York contributed to this report.


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Step 1: Gather your ingredients....pretzel rods and various colored candy melts. (These are Wilton brand vanilla flavored and you can find them at craft stores like Michaels or Joann's if they aren't at your grocery store).
Step 3: Dump wafers into small pot - these were looking a little "old" and starting to get that white coating, but once they started melting they were fine.
Step 5: Once melted, coat the pretzel about 3/4 of the way down. I spooned the melted wafers on, and then shook the pretzel rod to remove the excess.
Step 10: Enjoy!!
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Many of us in the Genea-Blogging community were very saddened to hear of the passing of William Terrance "Terry" Thornton on August 9, 2010. Founder of the Graveyard Rabbits, outstanding writer, and source of encouragement to many – we will miss you, Terry.
(There are many wonderful tributes to Terry this week, and I suggest you read them all, and especially that you read Terry's discussion of "The Graveyard Rabbit" at, where else, The Graveyard Rabbit.)
This Week
Genealogy and science fiction – what a great combination! Karen Packard Rhodes at Karen About Genealogy has written about "My Favorite Star Trek Episode," which happens to be one about genealogy. It's one I missed, so I'll have to keep my eye out for that one…. "Fascinating, Captain." Oops, wrong version of Star Trek….
Jennifer at Rainy Day Genealogy Readings does some very astute categorizing in "Anatomy of an Internet Genealogist." Just FYI, Jennifer, I almost never swear. Except when someone forgets to use his turn signal. Just sayin'….
And a second outstanding article at the same blog is Jennifer's post "In Defense of Google Books," which is a response to Martin Hollick's criticism of same at The Slovak Yankee, "Why Google Books Still Stinks."
Sharon at Genealogy contrasts fiction with fact in "Endearing Family Stories – Fun Even if They're not True."
I always love a good story. And a simple and touching story, artfully told, is best of all: the author of Sharing Our Family's Memories writes about the time when her mother felt "Like a Kid in a Candy Store."
At Moultrie Creek Gazette, Denise Olson describes how to "Build a Table of Contents for Your Blog."
What is your channel noise? An interesting question, one covered by James Tanner at Genealogy's Star in "Is technology really a help or just more noise in the channel?"
Hmmm, intriguing question. In my case, not too much TV watching – I agree with those who say most of it is abysmal (and most of the good stuff is reruns). I mainly watch when I am too tired to do anything else, or when I just want to be near my family for awhile (if they are actually watching TV), but then I almost always have my laptop open (as do they). But, hey, at least we talk about what we are watching or reading. (We're an "It's OK to read at the table" family, provided it does not keep you in your own little cloud.)
Computer would be the big distraction – e-mail mostly, plus blog reading and commenting.
Other than those two things, the main "noise in the channel" is real life, and of course when our priorities are properly ordered, "real life" comes first (= taking care of family, home, and work).
Lynn Palermo at The Armchair Genealogist wrote on a very thought-provoking theme: "If I Was Starting All Over Again – My Best Advice for a Beginner Genealogist." Lynn asks, "What's the best advice you would give a beginner family historian?" She inspired me to write my own suggestions.
Astrid continues to narrate her adventures visiting Norway, one of the countries of her ancestors in "Norway, Day 4 and 5" at Of Trolls and Lemons. Check out the pictures of the beautifully set coffee and dinner tables!
Cooperative genealogy at its best: "Amanuensis Monday – A Letter to John Owen Dominis" at Heather Rojo's Nutfield Genealogy and "Amanuensis Monday: Essie's Step-Daughter" at Leah's The Internet Genealogist (in a regular feature establish by a third genealogy blogger, John Newmark at TransylvanianDutch).
Words to make a translator's heart beat faster: "…these people were our ancestors and somehow their culture was one of the ancestors of our own. So we get lulled into a false sense of security and believe we understand them. Then there is a danger that though we might understand the words they wrote, we won't understand what they actually meant." This is from "Geneanthropology" at Daniel Hubbard's Personal Past Meditations – A Genealogical Blog. An art museum plays a role, and the subject is how not understanding the culture leads us to mistakes.
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For more suggested genealogy blog reading, check out John Newmark's "Weekly Genealogy Picks" at TransylvanianDutch and Randy Seaver's Best of the Genea-Blogs at Genea-Musings.
Happy 2nd Blogoversary to Sheri Fenley at The Educated Genealogist!
Happy 1st Blogoversary to GreatGreats!
This week I started following these blogs:
Blogging from the Branches
Deb's Delvings in Genealogy
Digging Down East
Memory Hook (and added it to the Texas Team)
My Webb Family
Tiff's Genealogy Adventure
Friday, August 13, 2010
Follow Friday: 13 August 2010
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You always do such a great job compiling you 'follow friday' posts. I always find something new to venture to when I read them.
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Thanks for mentioning my blog post collaboration with Leah. Just last night I transcribed another letter from Hawaii and found more connections with her family. Stay tuned for another update on our mutual blogs!ReplyDelete
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Rare Book & Manuscript Library: Image Collections
The Holy Land Digital Image Collections and the Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
The Lenkin Family Collection comprises over 5,000 original photographs, primarily of Jerusalem and Palestine taken from 1850 to 1937, which serve as primary source materials for teaching and research across a broad spectrum of disciplines, including the history of photography, architecture, regional planning, religious studies, history, and political science. The collection also includes 813 additional photo-reproductions, a reference library of nearly 100 secondary sources, and an extensive archive of notes and documents.
Edward Lenkin, C'71, PAR'12; Dror Wahrman, Dean of the Faculty of the Humanities and Vigevani Professor of European Studies at the Hebrew University; Oren Weinberg, Director General of the National Library of Israel; Louise Strauss, C'82
National Library of Israel
|Lenkin Family Collection of Photography
Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England to Edward IV
Known as UPenn Ms. Roll 1066, this scroll was likely produced in London in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. It comprises thirteen vellum membranes, sewn together for a length of nearly thirty-seven feet, and chronicles the lineage of Yorkist king Edward IV, beginning with Adam and Eve and ending with Edward IV (born 1461). The work contains a complex illustrative schema, comprising 174 bust-length portraits in color, five mandorlas with tinted full-length portraits, and eighty roundels containing crowns as well as several classic chronicle-type scenes including the Temptation of Adam, Noah after the Flood, and the city of Jerusalem. The site offers a full transcription of the text as well as an index to the images.
|Genealogical Chronicle of the Kings of England
Philadelphia General Hospital Photo Collection
The photo collection of the Alumnae Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing totals over 1500 images spanning the years 1880 to the 1970s. The collection features not only the School of Nursing, but also the wards and campus of the Philadelphia Almshouse and the Philadelphia General Hospital. The uniqueness of this photo collection lies in its impressive portrayal of life in a tax supported municipal institution as it transitioned from an almshouse to a fully fledged hospital.
|Philadelphia General Hospital Photo Collection
OLAC: Open Language Archives Community
This catalog, developed by the Open Language Archives Community (OLAC), provides access to a wealth of information about thousands of languages, including details of text collections, audio recordings, dictionaries, and software, sourced from dozens of digital and traditional archives.
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PACSCL Finding Aids
This Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) site provides access to finding aids for manuscript and archival collections held by its members, a group of 35 libraries and archives, whose collections offer primary resources on national, regional, and local history; the natural and social sciences; world history; literature; religion; art and architecture; business and industry; and the performing arts.
|PACSCL Finding Aids
Print at Penn: Selected Printed Works
Print at Penn is the online repository for digitized facsimiles of print materials held by Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Penn holds enormous print resources dating from the fifteenth through the twenty-first centuries, and their digitization is an ongoing project.
Nearing completion is the Print at Penn presentation of the Fairman Rogers Collection. This collection from the personal library of Fairman Rogers (1833-1900), comprises 1,054 rare volumes on horses and horsemanship. Primarily published in the 19th century, with some imprints dating to the 16th century, these materials serve as a foundation for scholarly study of the role of the horse in the technical, scientific, and social evolution of 19th-century European and North American history.
|Print at Penn: Selected Printed Works
South Asia Image Collection
Penn has been involved in the study of South Asia for over a century and a half. Its rich collection of materials relating to South Asia is not limited to books and journals - it includes a sizable collection of Sanskrit manuscripts, as well as large numbers of images from a variety of sources. To date, the site includes the Wheeler Image Collection and images of Buddhist architecture from the American Institute of Indian Studies.
|South Asia Image Collection
The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts
The Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) makes available data on medieval manuscript books of five or more folios produced before 1600. Drawn from over 12,000 auction and sales catalogues, inventories, catalogues from institutional and private collections, and other sources that document sales and locations of manuscript books, the SDBM assists in locating and identifying particular manuscripts, establishing provenance, and aggregating descriptive information about specific classes or types of manuscripts.
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Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens boast an exceptional location: east of the Opera House and overlooking the Harbour Bridge. The gardens offer a beautiful nature setting. Nearby you will also find Farm Cove, the first farm on Australian soil. This is a wonderful spot for a relaxing outing and to learn more about Australian flora.
The gardens are the oldest scientific institute on this continent. Founded in 1816, the gardens house a great collection of wonderful biodiversity. Two centuries ago, settlers planted Australia's first European vegetable garden at this very location. In the early days, the gardens played an important role in acclimatising new plants that were brought to this continent. Today, visitors can enjoy a collection with more than a million varieties, some even dating back to the period of the first settlers.


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The provincial government of Ontario is pushing for new legislation that would protect consumers from otherwise strict penalties when canceling cellular service early—before the end of a contract.
The Wireless Services Agreement Act, which is being tabled by Ontario's Liberal government, would require contracts to be easier to understand, require expressed consent for renewals or changes, and provide a reduction in cancellation fees for those planning to leave a contract early.
A member of the provincial parliament, David Orazietti, said the bill "contains measures that will reduce costs, cap cancellation fees, prevent automatic renewal and make cellphone contracts considerably more fair and transparent," according to a report by The Globe and Mail. How the government would enforce and implement these measures is thus far unclear.
In Canada, other provinces—including Manitoba and Newfoundland and Labrador—are close to introducing similar legislation.
Unlike the United States, where a typical cellular contact lasts for two years, Canadians are expected to commit to three years in order to purchase a comparably subsidized phone. If a user wishes to leave their contract early, carriers such as Rogers and Telus will divide the device discount—the subsidized amount—by the total number of months in a contract, and require this amount to be paid for every month remaining in the contract. This is in addition to a contract termination or service deactivation fee that varies between carriers.
But American users are no strangers to potentially exorbitant early termination fees (ETF) either. As reported by Ars two years ago, AT&T users currently face an ETF of $325, less $10 for each remaining month. Verizon's ETF, a $350 fee, works in a similar manner.