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Statement on release of Official Information Act documents
26 February, 2013
Statement to accompany the release of Official Information Act documents
WingNut Films welcomes the release of documents pertaining to the industrial action that was initiated by the Australian based trade union, the MEAA, against the film production of The Hobbit in 2010.
Whilst we would not personally seek to re-litigate this issue, it is our hope that these documents will lead to a better understanding of the events as they unfolded.
We also hope the release of these documents will put to rest the unfounded conspiracy theories that sought to characterize these events as a Hollywood studio dictating terms to a sovereign government - a charge that is as spurious now as it was then.
These papers reflect the intense stress we, as filmmakers, were under finding the future of our films suddenly under threat by unjustified industrial action - a crisis that quickly lead to the very real possibility that Warner Bros would have no choice but to pull The Hobbit out of New Zealand.
Historically terms and conditions of employment in the NZ film industry have been set by discussion between unions, guilds and producers groups around a conference table. In this case, the MEAA deliberately singled out The Hobbit production in advance, demanding that we enter into an illegal collective bargaining arrangement.
We have no issue with collective bargaining, nor did we set the precedent of the vast majority of New Zealand actors being employed as independent contractors. This status has come about, in part, from New Zealand actors own desire to take advantage of various tax exemptions - including being able to off-set the 10% agents fee many of them have to pay. This status, which was not forced upon actors, does however mean they are subject to the New Zealand employment law which states that they cannot enter into a collective bargaining agreement. Put simply, we were being asked to agree to an illegal demand – patently putting us in an impossible position.
The Memo of Sept 28th, entitled "Background
Information" has a detailed account of the many issues
The Basic Situation
Most films are managed by short term companies set up to deal with a particular film. In the case of The Hobbit, the company is 3 Foot 7 Ltd. Most film industry workers, whether actors, or crew are engaged for short periods of time as Independent Contractors. It's simply not practical for these short term film production companies to take on the burden of treating its actors and crew as "Employees", most of who work for only weeks or months. Nobody disagrees with this, within the film industry or government, and frankly it would be impossible for the New Zealand film industry to function under any other terms.
And yet the Australian based MEAA had quietly arranged a world-wide blacklist of The Hobbit. This was done well in advance of its first communication with 3Foot7 Ltd in August 2010. The lifting of this "blacklist" required 3Foot7 Ltd to agree to enter into a Collective Bargaining agreement, to be negotiated by the MEAA. Why were they so confident of success?
The "Bryson Case"
A Lord of the Rings crew member, who was hired as an independent contractor, took 3Foot6 Ltd (the Lord of the Rings production company) to court, to argue that he was an "Employee". After a long legal fight, he won that case however the judge who ruled in Bryson's favour, Justice Shaw, acknowledged in her ruling that this decision would create uncertainty within the film industry and suggested that it was something SPADA (the Producers Guild) needed to address. It would require greater clarity in the employment laws relating to contractors and employees. The MEAA made their demands upon The Hobbit before the ramifications of the Bryson ruling could be properly addressed between the industry and government.
It was clear to us that the studio was not
going to be able to make The Hobbit in New Zealand.
We were facing a situation where a trade union - who had
already shown themselves ready to act unilaterally without
any consultation within the broader industry and without
engaging in genuine negotiations before instituting a
world-wide blacklist - could potentially exploit the Bryson
ruling. This would then throw into doubt the employment
status of the many thousands of people 3Foot7 Ltd were about
to begin hiring. It was an impossible situation for both the
producers of the film and the
The "Law Change"
There has been a lot of rhetoric from the MEAA and its supporters, about Warner Bros forcing the NZ government to "change the law".
Warner Brothers found themselves in a situation they did not create or foresee. They had already spent millions down here in New Zealand. They were facing huge financial risks in continuing to operate in such an uncertain employment environment.
The studio needed certainty that people hired as independent contractors would not be retrospectively deemed to be employees, as had happened with the Bryson Decision.
The New Zealand Government acted to protect its film industry by clarifying the legal status of all independent contractors working in film. What this so called "change to the law" actually meant in practice was the status of actors and crew hired within the film industry remained exactly the same as the already established practice.
In Conclusion
As a result of the MEAA's industrial action, we found ourselves in the surreal situation of being asked by hundreds of actors and crew within the New Zealand film industry, to defend them from the destructive actions of trade union officials, the very people who were supposed to be on their side.
The situation we found ourselves in would have been ludicrous to the point of being absurd but for the fact that thousands of NZ jobs were on the line and hundreds of millions of dollars of income for our country was going to be lost.
The e-mails contained in this release represent a very upsetting time in our professional careers. We could have made the Hobbit in Europe, or New South Wales (who offered Warner Brothers a huge tax rebate for the film), and earned the same fee for ourselves with a lot less stress. But we fought to keep the film here and work with the actors and crew we love.
We think this was worth fighting for and we'd do it again.
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Mike Eubank, BMA Valmont Bike Park Committee
Paul Bousquet, city of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department
Local cyclist funds children's cycling education at Valmont City Park
BOULDER, CO: Teaching kids to ride a bike will soon get a little easier in Boulder, thanks to a $50,000 grant from the Dalbey Foundation. The grant will be used to add educational features to the bike park slated for construction at Valmont City Park later this year. "This donation benefits Valmont Bike Park by enhancing facilities to help children and families learn how to ride safely and experience the rush of singletrack biking, dirt jumping, and cyclocross racing. So far over 400 members of the community have donated $115,000 in a new model for cooperation between the City of Boulder and its citizens. The Boulder Mountainbike Alliance is energized by the community's outpouring of volunteerism and financial support for the Bike Park," said Christopher "Botsy" Phillips, President of the Boulder Mountainbike Alliance.
Founded in 2005 by local entrepreneur and former competitive cyclist, Russ Dalbey, the Dalbey Foundation is the charitable arm of Dalbey Education, Dalbey's successful business headquartered in Westminster, CO. The Dalbey Foundation's mission is to support efforts in the community that provide people of all ages with the tools and education to improve their lives, their emotional, physical and spiritual health, and in turn improve the overall lives of others. To find out more about The Dalbey Foundation, a 501(c)(3), visit DalbeyFoundation.org.
According to Dalbey Foundation spokesperson Susannah Christy, "The opportunity to invest in Valmont Bike Park was a natural fit for the Dalbey family. The project promotes everything they care about – families and children, education, health and fitness – in this case, promoting health and fitness through cycling. We are so excited to be part of this project and the opportunity to collaborate with the city of Boulder."
The Valmont Bike Park Committee, a volunteer-led committee of local advocacy organization Boulder MountainBike Alliance, secured the grant. Fundraising efforts for the park have been led by volunteer and local cycling enthusiast Bobby Noyes, owner of Rocky Mounts. "Reaching out to Russ and inviting him to share in the development of this project seemed like such a natural fit," says Noyes. "He's passionate about the sport and finding ways to encourage kids to take up cycling."
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Researchers mention 4 ancient Greek personalities named Pythagoras (among them a "sportsman"). The most famous one -- the "mathematician", seemingly born on the Greek island of Samos, lived between circa 580 and 500 B.C.. During a short journey to Egypt, when being a young man of 22, Thales (the reknown Greek philosopher) suggested him to study in Egypt to enlarge his knowledge. On his return to Greece, he prepared himself to travel to Tyre in Lebanon, apparently because of a commercial connection of his father. There, he was initiated for the first time into the "Ancient Mysteries" of the Phoenicians and studied for about 3 years in the temples of Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos. From there, he navigated to Egypt, the source of the "Ancient Mysteries". On the road, he lingered for a while in the gulf of Haifa at a temple on Mount Carmel, Israel (after the destruction of the First Jewish Temple of Jerusalem). In Egypt, he was initiated and studied for about 22 years. Apparently, he studied for another 13 years in Babylon as well, while he was captured on his way back from Egypt to Greece.
In fact, the "Ancient Mysteries' Magi" specialized in "science" as it was perceived in those days, with the considerable influence of their "specialization" in paganism. The sparse knowledge of the Magi and the surrounding society caused the secrecy and mysticism.
In his way back to Samos, when 56 years old, Pythagoras found that the island was subdued under the tyrannical yoke of Polycrates. Failing to establish there a school, he decided to leave and traveled to Magna-Grecia in southern Italy. He settled in Crotona and founded there the famous Pythagorean school of philosophy, mathematics, and natural sciences. People from different classes came to his school to hear his lectures. Among them, women, even though the law in those days forbade them to participate in public meetings. He gathered the more talented disciples and established a brotherhood preaching the simple life, modesty, austerity, patience, and self-control. They consumed vegetarian dried and condensed food and unleavened bread (as matzos, used by the Biblical Jewish priestly class and used today in Passover). Researchers support that Pythagoras' famous hecatomb (public sacrifice of 100 oxen) was in fact substituted by a symbolic offering, not involving animal slaughter. It is also mentioned that they did not cut their hair, beard, and nails. The members of the brotherhood, called "Pythagoreans", lived in complete partnership, undertook to set up every new scientific discovery to the name of Pythagoras and swore to keep secret every new idea. Pythagoras and his friends in the brotherhood did not leave after them any manuscript, thus our knowledge on their theories comes from different sources.
The Pythagoreans attributed special mystic and sacred qualities to numbers and geometric forms. The mysticism and the secrecy that surrounded the Pythagorean community awakened the suspicion of the government which finally ordered its dispersion. In fact, the school continued to subsist till the revolution of the democratic party at southern Italy. Their members were against the aristocratic tendency of the school and destroyed their buildings. Pythagoras himself, apparently escaped and later was murdered by his opposers. Two hundred years later, the Senate erected him a statue at Rome to give honor "to the greatest Greek philosopher". His most famous pupils, disciples, and followers were Socrates, Democritus, Philolaos, Hippocrates, Archytas, Plato, Menaechmus, and Aristotle. The famous Plato visited Egypt, southern Italy, and Sicily, where the Pythagorean theory was most widespread. There he came into contact with them and learned from them. His physical philosophy is based on Pythagorean principles and the mysticism of mathematics interested him most. After him, the new research methods are called "neo-Pythagorean" and "neo-Platonic".
At this period, special instructors called "Sophists" (scholars) were brought from Sicily. Opposed to the first and original Pythagoreans, the Sophists taught for pay and somehow abandoned the secrecy and mysticism. Hippocrates, a Pythagorean, was the principal combatant against the secrecy and published for the first time a book entitled "Principles".
Subsequently, a very famous school was founded in Alexandria, Egypt, under Pythagorean influence. The most famous scholars were Euclid, Ptolemy, Menelaus, and Nicomachus, who revived the original Pythagorean theory.
After the year A.D. 415, these theories did not continue to develop in Alexandria and the principal subject for research and study was theology, while the paganism passed away with the art of science. In the year A.D. 529, all the schools in Athens were closed according to an order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, thus ending one of the most brilliant periods in the development of mathematics and science.
The philosophy and many theories on the Pythagorean way of life, transmitted orally by Pythagoras, were considerably influenced by the way of life of Judaism and the Bible, which was the only source explicitely prescribing the order. King Solomon lived about 400 years before Pythagoras. After the destruction of the First Temple of Jerusalem (586 B.C., before Pythagoras was born), under foreign and hostile rule, Jews gathered in regional schools. The five-pointed star (not six!) refered in Judaism "Solomon's Seal" and by the Greeks "pentagrama", was, in addition to the triangle, one of the symbols of the Pythagoreans. As known, the most ancient source of the pentagrama found by archeologists is Jewish. There is even a presumption that it was the symbol of the Jews before the six-pointed star "Shield of David".
After the destruction of the Second Temple of Jerusalem (332 B.C.), many Jews chased from their land escaped to Egypt and became involved in the instructional material and methods of the Pythagoreans, and especially of the "Alexandrian Pythagoreans". Jewish leaders and intellectuals as Artapanos, Philon the Alexandrian, Josephus Flavius, the Hasmoneans, Johanan Hurcanus, Alexander Jannean, Hanoch, Hillel, Johanan ben-Zakkai - the founder of the famous school at Yavneh, and others were central figures of this "spiritual-scientific" development. The esoteric Jewish theosophy (religious mystic philosophy) started to develop at about this time. In the absence of a central spiritual leadership under foreign and hostile rule, some regional Jewish schools developed into kinds of sects as the Essenes, Nazarenes, Pharisees, and Sadducees.
The Jewish theosophy (Cabala) reached its peak about the 12th and 13th centuries causing the awakening in the development of science and mysticism. Indeed, in the 11th and 12th centuries, the greatest contribution to science was made by the Jewish scholars, especially in Spain. Names known from religious sources as "Rabbis" and "Cabalists", are known in history books of mathematics and science as outstanding inventors and developers.
Rabbi Abraham bar-Chiya (known in science books as Savasorda) of Barcelona, who wrote and published in Hebrew the encyclopedia entitled "Source of Intelligence and Tower of Belief" and the book entitled "Liber Embadorum" treating about geometry and arithmetic theories. His books were translated into Latin and German and used as a source for other mathematicians.
Rabbi Abraham ben-Ezra of Toledo published his famous mathematic books in Hebrew "Book of Unity", "Book of Number", and "Stratagem". In his books he refers to two Jewish researchers who published books in the 10th century: A judge named Hazan from an unknown source and a physicist named Yehuda ben-Rakufial.
Maimonides of Cordoba, the reknown philosopher, physicist, astronomer, and physician, is the greatest Jewish religious author (Rabenu Moshe bar-Maimon -- RaMBaM) since Moses. Other contributors are Johannes Hispalensis of Seville; Samuel ben-Abbas; an unknown English Jew who wrote a book entitled "Mathematum Rudimenta Quaedam"; Moses ben-Tibbon and Jacob ben-Machir, members of the celebrated Tibbon family of Toledo, while the latter published continuation work to Euclid and Menelaus; Jehuda ben-Salomon Kohen of Toledo that developed Euclid's work; and Isaac ben-Sid of Toledo.
The leading Jewish mathematician of the 14th century was Rabbi Levi ben-Gerson (RaLBaG) of Catalonia, but more commonly known in science books as Master Leo de Balneolis. His book "Work of the Computer" in Hebrew was translated into Latin under the title "De Numeris Harmonicis". Isaac ben-Joseph Israeli, a mathematician and astronomer, wrote in Hebrew the book "Fundamentum Mundi" that was translated into Latin and German; Joseph ben-Wakkar of Seville, Jacob Poel of Perpignan, Imanuel Bonfils, Jacob Carsono of Seville, Isaac Zaddik; Calonymos ben-Calonymos of Arles, known as Master Calo, whose works include a paraphrase of Nicomachus; Jacob Caphanton of Castile, a physician with his book on arithmetics; Jehuda Verga, Levinus Hulsius, and Cornelius de Judeis of Nuernberg.
At this stage, this precious scientific work was stopped by the Inquisition, who saw dealing with science as mystic and as witchcraft, and expelled the Jews from Spain in 1492.
Among the Jews who emigrated to the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, appointed Rabbi Moses Kapsali as Chief Rabbi (Haham-Bashi) over all the Empire. His successor in office Elia Misrachi wrote books on mathematics which were translated into German in Basle. He seems to have been the first to treat of finding the sum of the cubes of the first n natural numbers and to claim that the fundamental arithmetic operations are three: Addition, subtraction, and division, while he includes multiplication into addition. Their study was based on a work by Rabbi Abraham ben-Ezra, Euclid, and Ptolemy.
As a conclusion, the Pythagorean brotherhood was one of the world's earliest unpriestly cooperative scientific societies, if not the first, and that its members invented the "Multiplication Table" and raised important scientific problems which were solved only 1500 years later. On the tombs of some of them, one could find carved geometric tools as quadrant, square, cubit, and level.
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Friends question killing of boy who had fake rifle
A 13-year-old boy walks near his home with a toy rifle. Two sheriff's deputies roll up behind him in a squad car, spot the authentic-looking gun and confront him. As the boy turns, one of the officers fires several rounds, killing the boy.
The scenario unfolded in a quiet Sonoma County neighborhood near Santa Rosa, and it set off a storm of grief and anger Wednesday.
The boy's friends and relatives saw a needless killing by jumpy cops, while police investigating the incident sought to show how a gun that shot plastic pellets had been - in the heat of the moment - indistinguishable from a genuine AK-47 assault rifle.
The boy shot Tuesday afternoon was identified as Andy Lopez Cruz, who liked to play basketball and the trumpet. He died on Moorland Avenue, just west of Highway 101, one-third of a mile from his home.
At a news conference, Santa Rosa police officers involved in the investigation held up Andy's pellet gun alongside a real AK-47 assault rifle. Lt. Paul Henry said that after deputies pulled in behind the boy, one shouted for him to put the gun down, then fired several shots.
"One of the deputies described that as the subject was turning toward him the barrel of the assault rifle was rising up and turning in his direction," he said. "The deputy feared for his safety, the safety of his partner and the safety of the community members in the area."
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Friends and family members of the boy, though, said he would have simply put the gun down if given a chance.
The replica firearm belonged to a friend, they said, and Andy liked to join others in playing games with low-power air guns. They said the deputies should have recognized they were confronting a teenager - and that the gun wasn't real.
"It was tragic, what they did. I don't think it was fair. He was a good kid," said cousin Luis Lopez, 17.
Andy was walking home from school when he was shot, friends said. He had been an eighth-grader at Cook Middle School in Santa Rosa until this week, when he transferred to an alternative program at Lewis Opportunity School.
"He was a great boy, and I treated him like he was my son," family friend Alma Galvan said through tears after visiting Andy's family. "Why couldn't the police just shoot him in the hand or at least in the leg? Why did they have to kill him?"
Aubrey Martin, whose children knew Andy, wondered if the deputies were "trigger-happy." Her son, Gabriel Roque, said, "There's a difference between a cold-hearted killer walking down the street with a gun and a little kid walking down the street with a BB gun. There's something wrong."
Tributes to Andy grew at his former school and at the spot where he was shot. There, a memorial included stuffed animals, candles, flowers and a toy gun wrapped in a red bow.
Socorro Shiels, Santa Rosa schools superintendent, said of Andy: "His administrators and teachers will remember him as kind, intelligent and capable."
In his statement Wednesday, Sheriff Steve Freitas said that as the "father of two boys about this age, I can't begin to imagine the grief this family is going through. This is a tragedy on many levels."
Freitas added, "The public expects that the investigation will be thorough and transparent. As sheriff, I will do all in my power to see that expectation is satisfied. My hope is that we can work with the community to help prevent a similar tragedy from happening in the future."
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Santa Rosa and Petaluma police are investigating the shooting, as is the county district attorney's office.
According to the account from Henry, the Santa Rosa lieutenant, the incident began about 3 p.m. when two deputies pulled behind Andy, who wore a blue hoodie and shorts and walked with a rifle in his left hand that had the same brown and black parts as a real AK-47.
Federal law requires replica guns to have an orange tip, but Andy's toy rifle didn't have one.
Witnesses heard a siren briefly, Henry said, as both deputies got out of the car and took cover behind open doors. Henry said witnesses heard a deputy shout twice, "Put the gun down," before Andy turned around and was shot.
Henry would not say how many times the deputy fired or how many times Andy was hit. The deputies handcuffed the boy, he said, and began "life-saving measures," but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
The boy also had a plastic handgun in his waistband - this one translucent with an orange tip, Henry said.
The deputies were placed on routine paid leave, pending the investigation. Their names were not released.
An expert on police shootings said the incident underscores the challenges officers face when confronting people with guns that turn out to be fake. Geoffrey Alpert, a criminologist at the University of South Carolina, said officers often don't have time to determine whether a gun is real.
"As long as an armed person appears to be a threat, you don't have time to look to see if it's a toy," Alpert said. "If it looks real, you've got to believe it's real. A perceived threat trumps age; it trumps mental abilities."
Some legislators have sought to impose restrictions on replica guns in an effort to make sure police don't mistake them for real ones. California law requires "imitation weapons" to look like playthings by being brightly colored or transparent.
But a state senator's proposal in 2011 to extend that requirement to air guns failed after manufacturers and retailers opposed it. The proposal stemmed from an officer's shooting of a 13-year-old boy in Los Angeles who turned out to be carrying a pellet gun.
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When we arrived on site, we cut the top and flap off the carton and put frilly tooth picks in each egg for easy serving. Now that's the way to travel with deviled eggs! Yay!!!
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"We believe that cloud is an important trend that we will support. We have two objectives. The first is to ensure that cloud computing is fully enterprise grade, meaning high performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security and standards-based for portability and interoperability. Second, we will support both public and private cloud computing in order to give customers choice," says Richard Sarwal, SVP Product Development for Oracle Enterprise Manager - and upcoming Keynote Speaker at SYS-CON's 5th International Cloud Computing Expo - in this Exclusive Q&A with Cloud Computing Expo Conference Chair Jeremy Geelan.
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Cloud Computing Journal: Oracle played a pioneering role in making Grid Computing relevant to enterprises - I'm thinking of Oracle Real Applications Clusters (RAC), Automatic Storage Management (ASM), and Storage Grid, products like that. How are your infrastructure offerings being extended to embrace the Cloud?
Richard Sarwal: Oracle pioneered Grid Computing more than five years ago with RAC, ASM and Enterprise Manager Grid Control. We continue to enhance and refine those products, and they are still differentiated in the market today. Over the last few years, we've greatly expanded our grid offerings with Application Grid in the middleware layer (WebLogic, Coherence, Tuxedo and JRockit), Oracle VM for server virtualization, and Exadata smart storage server. So today, we've got the full stack of grid products from storage and infrastructure up through databases and middleware, all managed in an integrated fashion by Oracle Enterprise Manager.
Oracle named exclusive Diamond Sponsor of Cloud Expo 2010 which will take place April 19-21, 2010 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City
Grid Computing combines server virtualization and clustering across the stack to provide the dynamic, shared infrastructure that forms the basis of Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing shares many of the characteristics and technology requirements Grid Computing. Oracle's emphasis on Grid Computing capabilities such as dynamic resource provisioning, dynamic resource scheduling and highly automated management of clusters and virtual machines map directly to the requirements of Cloud Computing. Oracle's highly automated management of server clustering (RAC and WebLogic) and server virtualization provides the elastic scalability and fault tolerance required for enterprise class clouds. Policy-based automation enables management of virtualized resources, and metering resource consumption enables pay-per-use billing and chargeback. So our Grid Computing products provide the key building blocks for Cloud Computing.
Cloud Computing Journal: Are the chief advantages of Cloud Computing in your view most readily applicable to the large enterprise user, or to SMBs, or both?
Sarwal: There are compelling reasons for both large and medium-sized enterprises to be interested in cloud computing. For medium-sized companies, the top reason they are looking at cloud computing is that it's so much faster and cheaper to get started. Medium-sized companies may not have sophisticated IT departments nor the money to invest in upfront capital expenses, so using a public cloud provider may be very attractive.
For larger companies, using an external cloud vendor may enable small teams or departments to get a new application or a development/test environment running in minutes instead of months. The self-service aspect of public clouds means that small teams can avoid a long wait for IT departments to approve project requests, procure servers, find room for them in the data center, install software, configure software, etc.
Also, some applications have a limited lifespan of a few weeks or months, perhaps for a marketing campaign, event or special project. Pay-for-use and being able to return IT resources to the pool is perfect for these situations.
Some enterprises, especially larger ones with economies of scale, are implementing "private clouds" for their own exclusive use. Large enterprises are interested in building their own private cloud to get the agility, efficiency and quality of service advantages of cloud computing, while mitigating concerns about public clouds, such as security, compliance, performance, reliability, vendor lock-in and long-term costs.
Cloud Computing Journal: I know that you have partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to offer various products and services: can you update us on those?
Sarwal: Yes, in September 2008 we announced that customers can license Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Enterprise Manager on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). They can use their existing Oracle licenses on EC2 and move them between EC2 and their own data center if they wish. We also provided a number of Amazon Machine Images for Oracle products to help customers get up and running on EC2 in a matter of minutes. We've seen a lot of interest in this, particularly from developers who don't want to wait for IT to set up servers for development and testing.
Cloud Computing Journal: And will these offerings be extended to other Cloud platforms in the future?
Sarwal: Yes, we are working with several other cloud service provider partners right now, and will outline these in future announcements.
Cloud Computing Journal: So "Databases in the Cloud" are already a reality today - how about security, need enterprises have any concerns there?
Sarwal: Yes, security is often one of the top concerns and barriers to adoption. Actually, there are many different things that people mean when they say security in the cloud, including data privacy and protection, identity and access, compliance and eDiscovery, business continuity and disaster recovery. Some people say cloud computing is already secure enough to be used by enterprises, and that some public clouds might even have better security practices than some companies have internally.
Oracle is committed to improving cloud security and lowering this barrier to adoption of cloud computing. Security has always been a key focus area for us, and we have been building some very innovative security solutions over the years, such as Oracle Database Vault and Transparent Data Encryption. While these features are great for some of our most security-conscious customers, they are much more important, actually essential, for running in public clouds. So, our products bring industry-leading security functionality, and this plays a big role in making the cloud environment secure for enterprises.
Cloud Computing Journal: And how about "middleware in the cloud" what's the story there?
Sarwal: Oracle Fusion Middleware is an important part of Oracle's total cloud offering. Middleware provides the necessary application infrastructure for developing, deploying and managing cloud-based applications. Oracle Fusion Middleware includes the industry-leading application server, SOA, BPM and integration and identity management technology, and others. In a cloud context, this middleware has to provide functions such as elastic, horizontal scalability; resource sharing with multi-tenancy; access and role management for self-service and billing and chargeback.
Oracle's application grid includes the WebLogic application server, Coherence In-Memory Data Grid, Tuxedo TP monitor and JRockit JVM. WebLogic, Coherence and Tuxedo support clustering which enables resource sharing and scale-out, so Oracle application grid has what's needed for elastic cloud deployments.
Oracle SOA Suite provides shared services and integration, Oracle Identity Management provides user access and role management, and Oracle WebCenter provides the basis for a self-service portal. All of these are important for public and private cloud computing.
Just as for database, Oracle Fusion Middleware can run in public clouds like Amazon EC2, and Amazon Machine Images exist for rapid setup. And just like database, our middleware provides important building blocks for enterprises building private clouds as well as service providers building public clouds.
Cloud Computing Journal: Does Oracle's on-demand approach to cloud computing offer pay-per-use pricing?
Sarwal: Yes, Oracle offers a growing number of SaaS applications on a subscription basis, including Oracle CRM On Demand, Oracle Beehive On Demand (collaboration), and Oracle Argus On Demand (drug safety). In addition, other SaaS service providers can now purchase license and maintenance for components of the Oracle Platform for SaaS on monthly basis. These components include Oracle Database and options like Real Application Clusters, Oracle WebLogic and Oracle Application Server, and Oracle Enterprise Manager packs for database.
Cloud Computing Journal: Backing up for a moment and looking at the Big Picture, do you agree with those who contend that the Cloud in general is pushing up the operational excellence curve?
Sarwal: The growing popularity of public clouds is beginning to put pressure on enterprise IT departments to rethink longstanding data center practices in order to provide better service and flexibility at a lower cost. There is some concern in IT departments that end users may bypass their IT departments for the immediacy of deploying to a public cloud environment, thereby introducing unknown variables into the IT equation, especially in terms of security and compliance. That's why some IT departments are now looking at building private clouds as the means to becoming a better service provider to the lines of business.
If IT can provide rapid provisioning via self-service, pay-per-use chargeback, while also providing greater control over security, quality of service and compliance, and being lower cost over the long term, then these private clouds will have the advantages of public clouds while mitigating the disadvantages of public clouds.
Enterprises are looking to vendors like us to enable them to help transform their current infrastructure to make it more cloud-like, more agile, flexible and efficient. Providing customers with a ready-to-use private cloud solution is therefore a priority area for us. We want to provide customer a complete solution that enables them deliver cloud like services within their data center - including self-service provisioning, chargeback, policy based QoS management, etc.
Cloud Computing Journal: Oracle recently purchased Virtual Iron - was that based on a vision of a future where cloud computing dominates the enterprise IT scene?
Sarwal: Oracle is uniquely positioned to provide customers with integrated clustering, virtualization and management solutions for deploying a complete application stack either in a physical or a virtual environment, including clouds. Only Oracle combines the benefits of server clustering and server virtualization technologies to deliver a complete Grid Computing infrastructure.
Virtual Iron is a strategic addition to Oracle's virtualization portfolio. Our intent is to quickly and seamlessly combine that technology with Oracle VM to deliver a product that is unique in the industry both in breadth of functionality, and also depth of features specifically designed to make the full application stack easier to deploy, manage, and support in a virtual environment.
Virtual Iron helps us provide better management of both virtualized and clustered environments. Virtual Iron complements Oracle VM by providing dynamic resource management to optimize server capacity and power consumption. Customers will get faster application deployment, streamlined VM configuration, improved visibility and control across Oracle's enterprise software stack, and improved ability to meet service levels for virtual environments.
Cloud Computing Journal: What is Oracle's view of cloud computing and what is Oracle's cloud computing strategy?
Sarwal: We are still in the early days of cloud computing. Adoption will happen gradually, and many enterprises will eventually adopt a mix of public and private cloud computing, and some systems will remain on static, dedicated infrastructure as well. A large enterprise typically has thousands of applications. Some portion of those will move to a cloud, while others are fine as-is.
We believe that cloud is an important trend that we will support. We have two objectives. The first is to ensure that cloud computing is fully enterprise grade, meaning high performance, scalability, reliability, availability, security and standards-based for portability and interoperability. Second, we will support both public and private cloud computing in order to give customers choice.
To accomplish these objectives, we have a three pronged strategy. First, we offer customers a growing number of SaaS applications, so Oracle itself is a SaaS cloud provider. Second, we provide our enterprise grade software platform to other cloud providers to enable them to build, deploy and manage their cloud offerings. Third, we give customers the choice of deploying Oracle technologies in either private clouds or public clouds such as Amazon. One of our big areas of focus is to help enterprises build private clouds using the rich capabilities of the full Oracle stack.
Cloud Computing Journal: At a previous recent SYS-CON conference, Oracle has championed the notion of Rich Enterprise Applications; can REAs be deployed in the Cloud?
Sarwal: Yes, Rich Enterprise Applications, which are based on Oracle ADF Faces and Oracle WebCenter, can be deployed in the cloud. As a matter of fact, Oracle's REA microsite runs on Amazon EC2. So even Oracle, which runs a large private cloud internally, finds it useful to use a public cloud like EC2 at times.
Cloud Computing Journal: How about your own upcoming keynote at our Cloud Computing Conference & Expo at the Santa Clara Convention Center; what will you be looking to achieve, in terms of getting Oracle's "Cloud Vision" out there?
Sarwal: I'm going to be talking about "separating the hype from reality." Oracle has tried to be as pragmatic as possible about our public statements about - and R&D investment in - grid and cloud computing. We've seen in the past that imagination, vision and hype usually runs way ahead of what technology companies can actually deliver. I'm going to talk about how we see enterprises evolving toward a dynamic shared infrastructure, public and private clouds, and hybrid clouds. We do have a strategy and a vision for helping enterprises take advantage of cloud computing for better agility, efficiency and quality of service. But the question is, what can customers do today that will enable them be in a position to reap the benefits of cloud computing?
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text: Packing It Packing It PACKING the Care Package back Let's face it packing a care package is as crucial, if not more so, than choosing what to put in it! So before you start let's think about what we are going to need. Obviously a container... But what size? and where do you get it? Some cushioning material. Tape. First things first. The container. What size is needed? The answer is obviously predicated upon how much you are sending. Since 9/11 the post office has instituted a rule that essentially says "if the box has printed markings - that is what it contains!". So the old adage of use what is available is out of the question since most of the boxes always seem to have printed advertisements on them. There are a couple of ways around this... If you don't care if the package looks like brown Gernsey cow - take a BIG thick black magic marker and go to work blackening out the words on the box. If neatness counts - get a roll of heavy brown wrapping paper and wrap the box like you would a Christmas package. HOWEVER - use packing tape to seal it instead of scotch tape. You can find both at nearly any hardware store and surprise surprise they are usually together. Now, if you are really into this you can also visit the online store at the US Postal service site and guess what? Your taxes actually are doing something for you. The boxes they have for Priority mail are FREE!!! All you need do is order them. You can even order the custom forms so you have them too. And there is also packing tape. BUT please note that they are Priority Mail boxes which means you MUST send it priority mail. Who cares right? You want your package to get there as fast as possible so use the FREE boxes and tape!!! To make it a tad easier to decide which boxes to order here is breakdown of the boxes, by the USPS number and their sizes. #O-BOX4 7" x 7" x 6" #O-BOX7 12" x 12" x 8" #O-1092 12.125" x 13.375" x 2.75" #O-1095 12.5" x 15.5" x 3" #0-1096 S 8.625" x 5.375" x 1.625" #0-1096 L 9.25" x 6.25" x 2" #O-1097 11.25" x 14" x 2.25" LABEL 106-A Tape Form 2976-A Customs Declaration and Dispatch Note Form 2976 Customs Packing / Cushioning material This can be an interesting proposition. Nearly anything could be used BUT you need to think about what it is you are protecting. Kinko's, and nearly every other shipping store offers bubble wrap. You could use those packing peanuts you been wondering how to get rid of. How about that shredded paper from the home/office paper shredder. And of course there is the old standby - homemade popcorn. Don't laugh! If you use ziplock bags not only is it absolutely GREAT for packing material but it is an added goodie for your loved one to devour. Once you have everything together, place it in the box, aand seal the box! Great you're done. A word of caution and something to think about - if you chose to wrap the box, make absolutely certain that you address the box before you wrap it. This is done in the event that the paper becomes torn, and the outside address gets ripped off. Just something to consider. Prev Next


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We have compiled some careers that are commonly sought out after completing an African American Studies degree.
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What post-graduate Opportunities are there in the field of AFAM Studies?
Currently, there is no graduate program here at WKU, but here are some graduate schools for continuing an African American, Africana, or African Diaspora Studies Degree.
Ph D's can be earned at the following institutions:
Temple, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Harvard, Yale, California at Berkeley, Michigan State, Northwestern, Columbia, and Indiana
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Boston University, Clark Atlanta, Columbia, Cornell, Florida International, NYU, Ohio State, Syracuse, SUNY Albany, UCLA, University of Chicago, Iowa, Louisville, South Carolina, South Florida, Texas at Austin, Wisconsin at Madison, and Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
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Official Press Release
Liquid Comics and POW! Entertainment announced today that legendary creator, Stan Lee, co-creator of some of the world's leading superhero characters (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Thor, etc.), will be launching an original superhero for the Indian market.
Lee, will develop the new superhero with a team of Indian artists working at Liquid Comics, a leading creator of Indian character franchises. It will initially launch as a series of downloadable web & mobile comics distributed throughout India on Liquid's recently announced 'Graphic India' platform and www.graphicindia.com website.
Created by Lee, "Chakra - The Invincible," will be the first Indian superhero created by Lee in collaboration with local Indian artists and writers. Chakra tells the story of the young Indian teenager, Raju Rai, a technology genius living in Mumbai. Determined to use science to unlock the secrets of human potential, Raju develops a technically-enhanced suit that activates the mystical Chakras of the body, unleashing newfound abilities and powers.
"Wow!  I'm incredibly excited to be collaborating with my friends at Liquid Comics and their best-in-class team of artists as we launch a great new, thrill-a-minute superhero saga named Chakra - The Invincible," said Stan Lee, brimming with enthusiasm as he added, "Against the spectacular backdrop of the great Indian metropolis of Mumbai, we tell the incredible saga of Chakra, our daring and dangerous teenage hero."
Stan Lee is one of the most prolific storytellers in the world today, having created iconic characters that have generated billions of dollars at the box office and are known by nearly every man, woman and child on earth," added Liquid's Co-Founder & CEO, Sharad Devarajan. "The opportunity to bring Stan's unparalleled experience of the superhero genre to India and enable him to collaborate with local talents to create a new Indian character is the culmination of a lifelong dream."
"What better way to conceive of a new generation of Indian superheroes than in collaboration with the Godfather of the genre? Watching Stan mingle in the pantheon of great Indian Gods and Goddesses will go down as one of the most coolest times of my life,"Â added Liquid Co-Founder, Gotham Chopra.
Gill Champion, president/CEO of POW! Entertainment said "As we continue our international expansion with focus of launching new entertainment properties in India for 2012, we are thrilled to be partnering with Liquid Comics who are an unrivaled name in the field of digital entertainment and franchise partnerships. Graphic India is certainly a premier platform, and we are thrilled at the prospect of further growing our brand and business opportunities in this market."             Â
Lee's first digital comic book story on Chakra will be released for free in April 2012, exclusively on GraphicIndia.com.
An exclusive preview of concept art from the series is available online now at:Â www.graphicindia.com
Liquid Comics is a digital entertainment company focused on creating cinematic and mythic graphic novel stories with filmmakers, creators and storytellers. The company was founded by entrepreneurs, Sharad Devarajan, Gotham Chopra and Suresh Seetharaman and uses the medium of digital graphic novel publishing to develop properties for theatrical live-action films, animation and video games. Liquid has created and is creating original graphic novels with acclaimed filmmakers and talents including John Woo, Guy Ritchie, Grant Morrison, Shekhar Kapur, Deepak Chopra, Dave Stewart, Marc Guggenheim, Marcus Nispel, Jonathan Mostow, Edward Burns, Nicolas Cage, John Moore, Wes Craven, Barry Sonnenfeld, Stan Lee and others. The Company currently has a number of film and television projects in development based on their properties.
Graphic India is India's premiere graphic novel platform and community. Launched by Liquid Comics in 2011 the platform showcases Liquid's large library of high quality content created by Indian creators, while also aggressively commissioning and showcasing numerous original stories by India's greatest new visionaries.
POW! Entertainment, Inc., a multi-media and entertainment company, was founded by noted comic book and entertainment figure Stan Lee, together with award-winning producer Gill Champion and intellectual property specialist Arthur Lieberman. POW!'s principals have extensive backgrounds in the entertainment industry encompassing the creation, production and licensing of original intellectual properties, including some of the most successful entertainment franchises of all time. POW! is capitalizing on this combined expertise to create and develop both the legacy and digital media components of the entertainment industry. This includes animation and live-action feature films, plus television, DVDs, multi-media, merchandising and related ancillary markets. POW! has established partnerships across the entertainment industry, including studios and networks, for the creation, licensing and distribution of new POW! character franchises. For further information visit www.powentertainment.com


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In the classic Three Stooges episode, Slowly I Turned, first Mo – then Larry – smashes, hits, punches, and tears poor Curly's clothing before knocking him to the ground, all for reminding him of his confrontation with Larry (then vice versa) in Niagra Falls over a woman. After Curly innocently utters the offending city's name, triggering the attacks, Mo and Larry's refrain goes, "Niagra Falls! Slowly I turned, and step by step, inch by Inch…" (Of course, all men can recite Stooges episodes by heart. Women think they are dumb. Men agree, but then remind them, "stupidity is the point. It's purposeful stupidity, a whole different animal than the unintentional kind most often voiced by candidates running for President).
Well, Galen Rupp might not wear his hair in a bowler like Mo or a frizzed out 'fro like Larry, but step by step, inch by inch the 25 year-old from Portland, Oregon is proving the American distance running equivalent the Stooges' classic set piece.
Yes, I questioned the London 2012 Olympic medal chances of Mr. Rupp upon his seventh place finish in Daegu at the World Championships 5000 meters (RUPP'S DILEMMA), but today at the final Samsung Diamond League meeting of the year in Brussels Rupp took another stride in his step-by-step, inch-by-inch approach to the London Olympic podium in the 10,000 meters. Continue reading


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HOT is an automated higher-order theorem prover based on HTE, an extensional higher-order tableaux calculus (Kohlhase 95). The first part of the paper introduces a variant of the calculus which closely corresponds to the proof procedure implemented in HOT. The second part discusses HOT's design that can be characterized as a concurrent Blackboard architecture. We show the usefulness of the implementation by including benchmark results for over one hundred solved problems from logic and set theory.


text: Guest **DONOTDELETE** Posted March 18, 2000 Hello - New to the board and new to the love of fine spirit's - A little help please. My grandfather had the forethought to place a couple of bottles of bourbon, whisky, and scotch in storage for his son to enjoy - Well, my dad never took to alcohol - In fact he only had one drink in his life - My JACKPOT - I have several bottles each of inexpensive as well as fine spirits left to me from the early 50's - They are Exquisite!! Even the cheaper brands (Ancient Age ect.), are smooth and full-bodied My Question is… what is the proper way for me to start aging some of the bottles I buy today? The bottles my grandfather bought all had cork to seal them like wine. But even the finer bottles today are sealed with plastic tops with cork inserts. I'm hooked on these older aged spirits, they're so smooth - I want to start putting some back for myself and my grandchildren in years to come - Even the 21,23, & 25 year vintages that I've sampled recently have a distinct "bite", which is absent in my stock - I've purchaced them anyway hoping they can mellow with a few more years under their belt - But I've read that once bottled, if it can not breath, such as wine, no aging will occur - Makes sense - Is this true? And any Suggestions?!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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(CNN) -- Seven states and two organizations have sued the Bush administration in an attempt to block a federal regulation that would further protect health care workers who refuse to perform abortions or other medical procedures because of religious or moral reasons.
A rule protecting the rights of health care providers who refuse to participate in certain procedures is under fire.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed a lawsuit Thursday on behalf of his state, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Oregon and Rhode Island.
Blumenthal said the regulation would put women's health care at risk and would undercut state contraception laws.
"On its way out, the Bush administration has left a ticking legal time bomb set to explode literally the day of the inaugural and blow apart vital constitutional rights and women's health care," Blumenthal said in a statement. "Women's health may be endangered -- needlessly and unlawfully -- if this rule is allowed to stand."
He said the regulation "intentionally shrouds" abortion in "new and unnecessary ambiguity," encouraging individuals to define it and to "deny virtually all forms of contraceptions, even emergency contraception to rape victims."
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America and American Civil Liberties Union, which was acting on behalf of the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association, also filed separate suits Thursday.
The Department of Health and Human Services said the regulation would allow the federal government to withhold federal funds for state and local governments, health plans and health care facilities that do not follow existing federal laws that ban discrimination against doctors and other health workers who refuse to participate in procedures such as sterilizations or abortions or to make referrals for such procedures.
"We have not had an opportunity to review the lawsuits and we will respond to the court on any pending litigation," department spokeswoman Rebecca Ayers said in an e-mail. "The department followed appropriate procedures to put the regulation in place and the regulation is fully supported by law."
The department promulgated the rule last month.
"Doctors and other health care providers should not be forced to choose between good professional standing and violating their conscience," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said in a statement then. "This rule protects the right of medical providers to care for their patients in accord with their conscience."
The department has said that it believes the public and health care providers are unaware of the federal anti-discrimination laws.
"Many health care providers routinely face pressure to change their medical practice -- often in direct opposition to their personal convictions," said the department's assistant secretary of health, Adm. Joxel Garcia, in a statement in December.
"During my practice as an OB-GYN, I witnessed this firsthand. Health care providers shouldn't have to check their consciences at the hospital door. Fortunately, Congress enacted several laws to that end, but too many are unaware these protections exist."
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Bryanna Clark Grogan's Vegan Feast Kitchen/ 21st Century Table: The kitchen journal of a vegan food writer.. I'm on Facebook and Twitter (see links in sidebar at right).
Friday, May 30, 2008
Okara "Parmesan"
What is okara? It's the pulp, or residue, leftover from making soymilk (see this blog post and this page on my website). If you make soymilk frequently you will have lots of it! Many people make interesting recipes with it, but, I must confess, I usually simply compost it!
Does it have any nutrition left? Yes, it does! It's full of fiber-- both soluble and non-soluble-- for one thing. It also contains some protein, calcium, iron and B vitamins. If you want to save it to use later, you can freeze it or dehydrate it (see the Tips in the recipe below).
The justhungry blog has some great ideas for using okara that I hadn't thought of (though not all vegetarian)! For instance, she mentions that you can rehydrate dried okara by simmering it in water or soymilk until soft, and then draining it. One great idea is to use fresh okara in polenta.
I never liked using fresh okara in breads, as it seems to sometimes "weigh them down". But justhungry suggest using dried okara in quick breads, etc., for a lighter texture-- sounds promising!
I just remembered that Dori from the Bakehouse blog (who has lots of okara recipes!)!) recommended using okara in my nut-based parmesan substitute recipe, but I never tried it. The other day I did, and it's good! Thanks, Dori! We can't get the Galaxy Foods Vegan Soy Parmesan up here anymore, so this is something I will definitely use often!
I'll post a few more okara recipes soon!
PS: for a new and improved version see this blog post!
BRYANNA'S OKARA PARMESAN SUBSTITUTE (Hat Tip to Dori from the Bakehouse blog!)
This is derived from my recipe for "Almonzano" (from my book "Nonna's Italian Kitchen"), but Dori from the bakehouse blog suggested using okara in it instead of almonds. The measurement for the okara is mine. This really looks like grated cheese and tastes "cheesey" (the miso adds a bit of fermented flavor). It shakes out easily, too. You can easily double, triple or quadruple the recipe and keep it refrigerated or frozen. IT'S ONLY 12 CALORIES A TABLESPOON!!
PS: By "squeezed", I mean okara that comes after squeezing and twisting the soymilk out of a cloth or cloth bag, or pressing through a fine filter. The okara left in the filter of a soymilk maker is much wetter and you would need to squeeze that further.
1 1/3 cups dried okara (2 cups fresh, squeezed) (see Cooking Tips below for how to dry and store)
4 tablespoons nutritional yeast flakes
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons light miso
Process the okara, yeast and salt in a DRY blender until as fine as possible. Add the miso in tiny bits. Process again so that there are no lumps. Place in a covered container or shaker and keep refrigerated. (Make sure that the container is tightly closed so that no moisture gets in while in the refrigerator.)
Yield: 1 1/2 cups
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per tablespoon): 12.7 calories; 18% calories from fat; 0.3g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 58.3mg sodium; 49.3mg potassium; 1.8g carbohydrates; 0.4g fiber; 0.0g sugar; 1.5g net carbs; 1.0g protein; 0.2 points.
Cooking Tips
If you have a large amount of okara, you can use a food dehydrator, or spread it on cookie sheets and set it in the oven at its lowest temperature, with the oven door cracked open a little to let out moisture, until dry, stirring now and then.
To dry a small amount in a microwave oven:
Get a microwave-safe plate, or use the carousel in your microwave. Line it with two sheets of paper toweling (this will absorb the moisture), and top that with a piece of cooking parchment cut to fit (this will keep the okara from sticking as it dries). Spread the okara evenly on that, breaking up clumps as much as possible. Leave a space in the center empty (it burns easily in the center of the plate).
Here's my set-up for microwave-drying small amounts:
Microwave at half power (#5) in 5 minute increments, stirring after each one, until dried. I took away the paper toweling after the first 5 minutes because it was quite wet, and replaced it with new paper toweling.
Let it cool thoroughly before using or storing (in zip-lock bags).
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 12:16 PM 7 comments
Labels: okara, soy parmesan, vegan parmesan
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
UPDATE: See this post about straining the milk; and this one; and this thread on my forum about getting really silky, non-pulpy soymilk!
If you are looking for a soymilk maker, I would urge you to consider the new filterless Soyquick machine, the SoyQuick Premier Milk Maker 930P. This machine has no messy filter to clean and it can make a thicker soymilk, with more beans, with NO burning!
Here's my new machine at work:
I have revised my recipe for soymilk using this machine. Because you can use a larger amount of beans without burning the milk, you can make ultra-creamy soymilk with this new Soyquick machine! (And, no, I don't sell them, or get any commission for promoting them!) Even with the extra beans (organic), it's still costs UNDER 50 cents a quart!
I developed a new soymilk recipe that makes non-beany soymilk (using ordinary soybeans) that is creamy and sillky and tastes great! DH, who previously did not really like homemade soymilk as a beverage, is now converted!
For each batch, use 2 of the little measuring cups (you get one with the machine) full of dried soybeans (6 oz., or about 165 g of dried soybeans), soaked thoroughly (I soak them overnight in plenty of water) and skins removed (see information below-- this is an easy but important step to improve the flavor of the finished product), PLUS 3 tablespoons of rolled oats.
To flavor each batch, use 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1-2 tablespoons organic sugar or other sweetener.
Soymilk is naturally very low in sodium and sugars, which is why they are added to commercial soymilk. Dairy milk is naturally high in both—a taste most of us are used to, so most people prefer a little flavoring. Some people like to add vanilla, but I don't like the flavor of vanilla in my tea and cereal, etc..
NOTE: You don't have to follow the intructions in the following paragraph if you use Laura soybeans, which are supposed to have a less beany flavor. This is what I have been told-- haven't tried tem myslef because I can't get them in Canada. To order Laura Soybeans (USA) (non-GMO)-- they are a pretty good price.
BEFORE MAKING THE SOYMILK, most of the skins need to be rubbed off of the soybeans-- this is what gets rid of the beany taste. ( The skins contain some of the bitter flavours and also some inhibiting enzymes, so removing the skins can positively affect the taste, while some "gas forming" or "digestion inhibiting" compounds may be reduced or eliminated.) This procedure isn't as arduous as it sounds and only takes about 3 minutes. Place the drained, soaked soybeans in a deep bowl in the sink. Cover with boiling water and let sit until it cools off to just warm. This helps loosen the skins. Remove the skins (or husks) by rubbing the soaked soybeans between your hands with a back and forth motion. Add lots of water from the tap. Stir the beans in a circular motion, then run off the water into the sink, leaving the beans behind. The skins float to the top and you can float them away while you drain off the water. You need to do this a few times until most of the skins have come off (leaving a few behind is okay). (PS: you can drain the soaking water into another bowl and reuse it if you are conserving water.) The skins are great for your compost, BTW!
PS: Info about the storage jars pictured here on this post.
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 4:46 PM 50 comments
Friday, May 23, 2008
Downtown Princeton, NJ, near where we stayed on our trip
I'm finally getting down to blogging about my trip back east! My sister Karin and I traveled to New Jersey in mid-May to visit an old friend of our father's near Princeton. On 3 of the 5 days we were there we traveled by train (an hour's ride) into New York City to see a few sights and sample some of the vegan restaurants I had researched ahead of time!
Our host is a Professor Emeritus at Princeton and he took us for a tour of the University on our first day. The weather was lovely, and the campus was lush and green, in contrast with the largely Gothic architecture! We had some pretty good vegan sushi at the student cafeteria for lunch. That evening our hosts took us to the Sunny Garden Chinese restaurant for a lovely meal of Shanghai Garlic Greens, steamed vegetarian dumplings, Sizzling Tofu and Vegetables, and brown rice.
After that, aside from breakfast and one lovely salad dinner on the deck of our hosts' home in the country, we ate the majority of our meals in New York, which is what this blog will be about. For three days of our visit, we took the train from Princeton Junction to the New York Penn Station each morning (an hour's ride), and then back home again in the evening. During our 3 days in New York we took just about every mode of transportation going except a ferry (I'm used to those, anyway!). We took the train, the subway, the municipal bus, a taxi, and even rode in a private hired car (a black Lincoln) on one occasion!
We took "hop-on, hop-off" bus tours on two of our city days, in addition to LOTS of walking downtown, and in the theater and financial districts. I felt a little foolish doing the "tourist" trip, but it was a good way to see the city in a hurry, and the guides were informative, kind, and very entertaining.
On our first day in the city we "hopped-off" near Washington Square in Greenwich Village and had lunch at The Red Bamboo Soul Cafe.
The interior of the Red Bamboo-- that's Karin at the desk.
I have to explain that, though my sister is a vegan, and likes to eat well, she is not a "foodie". She has more strict eating habits than I do, which I guess is why she is skinny and I'm not! So, you will see a contrast between her choices and mine!
For this first meal in New York, she chose the edamame starter, which she repeated in almost every restaurant we visited. It was a hard choice (check out the menu here!), but I decided to go all-out with the soul food theme and ordered Cajun Fried Shrimp ("Deep fried vegetarian shrimp seasoned with paprika, thyme and sage seared with a southern BBQ sauce").
This was good-- four big "shrimp" and the sauce was not sweet. (However, I prefer the vegetarian "shrimp" we get in Vancouver, BC at West Best Vegetarian [4934 Victoria Dr.], a small storefront that supplies Buddhist vegetarian restaurants and also sells Chinese "mock meats" to the public. Their product is firmer than the one I had at The Red Bamboo.)
For the main dish, Karin ordered The House salad, but with the addition of tofu slices and Balsamic Vinaigrette:
I struggled to make a decision from the many tempting choices and finally settled on Butterfly Soy Chops ("Lightly breaded soy pork chips served with a fresh apple-raisin sauce, sauteed collard greens with veggie ham and sweet corn mashed potatoes"):
This was ALOT of food! There were three crunchy panko-covered chops under all that apple! I couldn't eat it all, and ended up taking half of the chops home with us, which I added to my salad on the night we ate at our hosts' home.
I liked the addition of corn to the mashed potatoes, and the collards with veggie "ham" were delicious. I found the "chops" a little lacking in taste (though the crunchy coating and the apples kind of made up for that) compared to my homemade ones-- sorry if that sounds like I'm blowing my own horn, but it's true!
It would have been nice to be in a group, so that I could have tasted more of the offerings! We had no room left to sample desserts, unfortunately, so we missed out on:
Chocolate covered Strawberry Shortcake
Peanut Butter Tandy Heaven
Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Cake
Brownie Bottom Cheesecake
Oreo Cookie Cheesecake
Darn it! Next time!
We worked up an appetite sight-seeing and walking for the rest of the day, and, at dinnertime, found ourselves in close proximity to one of the restaurants on my list, Franchia Teahouse & Restaurant, an extention of the award winning Korean vegetarian restaurant, Hangawi. It is a lovely, peaceful place with charming Asian decor. Here's a shot of the ceiling over our heads:
They have a nice sushi menu, so I ordered Crispy Tofu Skin Roll, and Karin ordered the Chicken Teriyaki Roll:
I didn't taste Karin's, but she said it was delicious. As for my sushi, I plan to try this at home myself! It was simple, just ordinary sushi rice rolled around crispy fried yuba and the nori seaweed, but it was a great contrast biting into the crisp yuba-- very pleasant and unexpected!
Only "light meals" are served at Franchia, but there is a great selection of dishes, and, once again , it was hard to make a decision! Since we had eaten a large lunch (at least, I had!), we ordered from the Appetizer menu. I ordered a plate of Assorted Dumplings (steamed, not fried), and Karin ordered the Summer Rolls with Mango Citron Sauce, and we shared. The dumplings were great! There were Soy and Grain 'Meat' Dumplings, Green Tea Vegetable Dumplings, Spicy Kimchi Dumplings, and Mixed Vegetable Dumplings, with a light soy sauce dip. I really can't decide which I preferred!
The "Summer Rolls" (above) were not quite what we expected, but they were light and tasty.
Again, we unfortunately couldn't manage dessert, tempting though they sounded, and had a Soy Chai Latte instead!
I would definitely recommend a visit to this charming teahouse if you are in the vicinity of 12 Park Ave.!
On our second day in New York, we chose Zenith, which is a regular Japanese restaurant on one side, and an Asian-fusion vegetarian restaurant on the other! The menu is extensive, and maybe we didn't choose wisely, but this was my least-favorite meal in New York. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't memorable, and it was a very small portion for the bucks!
Karin had edamame, of course,
and vegetables and tofu braised in a black bean sauce with tomatoes, with brown rice:
It was tasty, but unremarkable. Here's my lunch, Mushroom-Stuffed Ravioli topped with vegetarian seafood and vegetable in a white sauce:
The ravioli did not seem homemade to me, and I think I got about 6 small squares. The sauce was just a very light cornstarch-based Chinese-style sauce with no discernible herbs or other flavoring. For $15, it was not a bargain! I was hungry an hour later! But, that's okay-- I made up for it the next day!
This was the night we ate back in Princeton, when our hostess set a lovely table on the deck overlooking the garden and served wholegrain toast with a romaine lettuce and tomato salad with roasted nuts and other goodies in it. Our hosts had sliced chicken in their salad and I sliced up my leftover "soy chops" from the Red Bamboo in mine, while Karin added browned, crumbled veggie burger to hers. (Our hostess confessed that she was "terrified" when she found out we were vegan, and surprised that we were so "easy" to please!)
Our last day in New York was our best eating day, in my opinion (I can't speak for Karin!). I had spoken to my friend, vegan pastry chef Fran Costigan, whom we were to meet later for dinner, and she recommended Candle 79 over its parent restaurant, Candle Cafe. We were planning to visit the Metropolitan Museum that day, and Candle 79 is located conveniently nearby, so that's where we headed for lunch!
It is an elegant restaurant and the lunch menu is small, but varied. (That makes it easier for me!) Karin chose the Hydrogarden Farm Edamame with Celtic Sea Salt, Chili, and Lemon for her starter, and the Fava Bean Vegetable Soup for her entree:
(Pardon the lackluster photos-- the lighting was poor!)
She was enthusiastic about the additions to the edamame, and I can attest that her soup was delicious!
I chose the BBQ Seitan Sandwich with avocado, caramelized onions, polenta fries, and mixed lettuces, partly because I wanted to taste their seitan, also because I love polenta! The sandwich was large, and the bread was a sort of focaccia, I think:
I'm sure the ketchup was homemade. The seitan was fantastic-- the sauce not too sweet, and you could have sworn you were eating "pulled pork" if you didn't know better! Nicely satisfying, delicious-- the best meal I had in New York!
We decided to have dessert, but the photo just did not turn out. We shared the House Made Sorbet & Ice Cream Sampler (chef's daily selection), which was vanilla-chocolate chip, blueberry, and banana. The vanilla was creamy and wonderful; the blueberry was a little flat-- not enough berries for my taste; and the banana was smooth and surprisingly good-- I say that because I usually hate banana ice cream. But it is often made with phony flavoring, and this was made with real bananas, no mistake!
For our last New York restaurant meal (which was my favorite second only to Candle 79!), we met up with Fran at Zabar's and had a quick look-round (it was rush hour and dinnertime, and the lines were long!), then bought some bagels for our breakfast the next morning at H&H Bagels, before heading for a favorite Turkish restaurant of Fran's, Turkuaz. I was looking forward to this-- I was missing this type of cuisine!
There was no bellydancer that night (I love seeing good bellydancing!), but the restaurant was charming and we sat at a low table on lounges decked with colorful pillows. Fran and I tried not to bore Karin too much with "foodie" talk, but I don't know how well we succeeded!
The menu is omni, but there are plenty of vegan options in Turkish cuisine! Fran and I decided to chose several dishes from the salad and appetizer menus and share them. The waitress kept baskets of Turkish flatbread coming, to dip into the light-spiced olive oil on the table. We chose Piyaz (White Bean Salad--Boiled white beans, tomato, red onion, red and green bell pepper parsley mixed in olive oil and vinegar); Patlıcan Salatası (Eggplant Salad--Char-grilled eggplant puree, red and green bell pepper, dill, freshly squeezed lemon juice and extra virgin olive oil); Imam Bayıldı (Imam Fainted-- Baby eggplant stuffed with onion, red and green pepper, currants, pine nuts and garlic); Zeytinyağlı Yaprak Dolması ( Stuffed Grape Leaves-- Grape leaves stuffed with rice, pine nuts, currants, and herbs); and Acılı Ezme (Spicy Mashed Vegetables-- A mixture of hot and spicy finely chopped vegetables, which also contained walnuts and reminded me of Muhamarra, the walnut, red pepper, pomegranate molasses and breadcrumb spread).
We were talking so much that I forgot to take pictures until we had already eaten most of our meal! I assembled what was left on one plate and took this picture (lighting was bad here, too):
Everything was absolutely scrumptious!
Karin chose the Türlü (Vegetable Casserole) with rice-- I forgot to take a picture of this before she ate it!
We had a quick visit with Fran at her apartment before we had to head to Lincoln Center to meet our hosts, who were attending the opera that night. We participated in the "scrum" at the curb, as everyone tried to find their hired cars, and went home to Princeton in style in the big black Lincoln, courtesy of our hosts!
So that was the end of our New York eating-- the less said about airport food (when you could find anything!), the better. It was a bit of a nightmare trip home, due to some delays and storms over the Great Lakes, but we made it home in one piece!
I was really glad to get home. It was a great visit, and I was so glad to have visited with my father's old friend and his wife, both very engaging, and to see Fran, even briefly. New York is exciting and we only scratched the surface! The Metropolitan Museum was amazing! And it is NOT true that New Yorkers are rude or unfriendly! We encountered helpful people everywhere! However, even though I was raised in San Francisco, and lived in Vancouver for 11 years, I am not a city girl anymore! It was too busy, noisy, and crazy for me! So here I am on my little island again, and grateful for the privilege of living in such a paradise!
To show you how lovely it is here, here are some pictures I took on the ferry as we were leaving Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver, heading for Vancouver Island (I was so wiped that I was too lazy to go outside to take these, so there is some glare):
All the best!
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 3:13 PM 8 comments
Labels: Candle 79, Franchia, New York City, Red Bamboo, Turkuaz, vegan restaurants, Zenith
Friday, May 9, 2008
LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NON-PLASTIC IN WHICH TO STORE YOUR HOMEMADE SOYMILK? These are 1 qt./L Frigoverre glass storage jugs (made in Italy), and they were $4.99 each (Cnd) at London Drugs (UPDATE 2012-- they are now $5.99 and the make is Bormioli Rocco, but it's the same thing). Tight lid and easy to store; sturdy glass. UPDATE 2014: These jugs are also available under the name "Amici" or "Quadro" (talk about confusing!). Here's a 2 qt. jug from Canadian Tire.
Online sources for various kinds of glass storage jugs/pitchers in the US:
A set of two 1 L jugs similar to the ones above, but with colorful lids at amazon.com, and also the single one with a white lid, but, oddly, they are more expensive than the Canadian ones above.
Here's a yummy, no-fat soup we had for lunch the other day:
The combination of black beans and sweet potatoes is always enticing, but especially so in this soup with Caribbean flavors.
3 cups cooked or canned (2/ 15 ounce cans) black beans, rinsed and drained
3 cup low-sodium vegetarian broth (don't use more-- trust me!) (I like Better Than Bouillon No-Chicken Vegan Broth Base)
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1/2 tablespoon red wine vinegar
1/2 tablespoon low-sodium soy sauce
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon garlic granules OR 2 2 cloves garlic, crushed
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1 bay leaf
1/2 pkg. (60 g) Yves Veggie Pizza Pepperoni (or any spicy vegan "sausage" or "deli slice"), cut into slivers
4 green onions, chopped
12-14 ounces sweet potato, peeled and diced
Mix together the beans, broth, tomato paste, vinegar, soy sauce, salt, garlic granules, allspice, and thyme in a blender or food processor. Puree coarsely. Pour into a medium-sized soup pot. (You can also do this right in the soup pot with an immersion/stick blender.)
Add the bay leaf, veggie pepperoni slivers, green onions, and sweet potato. Bring to a boil, stirring now and then. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer for 30 minutes. Serve hot.
Servings: 4
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per serving): 273.1 calories; 2% calories from fat; 0.9g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 513.8mg sodium; 842.1mg potassium; 50.6g carbohydrates; 14.1g fiber; 4.2g sugar; 36.5g net carbs; 17.5g protein; 4.7 points.
Chocolate panini.... some high-quality white bread, Ricemellow Creme (or you can use my homemade "Marshie Fluff", ; vegan, organic, fair trade chocolate; and low-sugar apricot jam. Yum!!
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 4:39 PM 12 comments
Labels: black bean soup, black beans, chocolate panini, glass refrigerator storage pitchers, soup, sweet potato
Sunday, May 4, 2008
I should be blogging a little more regularly from now on (except for being away for the week of May 12th). Due to some family obligations, I decided to stop publishing my quarterly vegan cooking newsletter, the Vegan Feast, after five years. I'm kinda sad, because it was a great experience, I met some wonderful people, learned alot, and ate really well, but something had to go!
Last night we took dinner over to a friend's house and I made a dessert I had been thinking about doing for a week. The brownies are a veganized, whole grain version of one I saw in a magazine, with a few other changes. I have made a number of other desserts with chai spices, and this sounded intriguing. I was a little worried that the brownies would be too dry (they were dryer than my other brownies, but not overly-so), so I decided to pair them with a really gingery version of my vegan gelato. It worked! All of the diners gave the dessert a thumbs-up! Give it a try!
Printable Recipe
BRYANNA'S VEGAN ALMOND-CHAI BROWNIES (WHOLE GRAIN, SF, can be GF)
These were inspired by a recipe in Cooking Light magazine. They aren't dark brownies-- if they were too chocolate-y, the chai spices would get lost in the chocolate! They are delicious served with the Ginger Gelato (recipe below).
GLUTEN-FREE NOTE: I think this recipe would work well, maybe even better, with a gluten-free flour mix.
1/4 cup plant-based milk
2 chai tea bags (I used rooibos chai teabags-- see photo below)
1/4 cup (1 1/2 oz.) organic, dairy-free semisweet chocolate chips or chopped chocolate (Fairtrade, if possible)
1/4 cup vegan butter (see my palm oil-free Buttah) or 3 tablespoons oil
1/2 cup water
2 tablespoons flaxseeds
Dry Mix:
1 tablespoon Ener-G or Orgran egg replacer powder
1 1/2 cups whole wheat pastry flour or GF flour mix
1 cup organic unbleached sugar
1/2 cup unsweetened organic cocoa (I use fair trade Camino brand)
1/3 cup packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup lightly toasted slivered almonds
Preheat oven to 350°F. Oil or spray a 9-inch square baking pan and line the bottom with baking parchment cut to fit.
Heat the milk in a very small saucepan (like a little butter melter) OR microwave in a heat-proof measuring cup at 50% power just to boiling.
Remove from heat. Add the tea bags, pressing down into the milk. Cover and let stand 15 minutes. Strain milk mixture through a tea-strainer into a measuring cup, pressing the teabags with the back of a spoon. If it doesn't measure 1/4 cup, add more milk until it does.
Pour into a medium microwave-safe bowl. Add the chocolate and Earth Balance or oil to milk/chai mixture. Microwave at high power for 20 seconds or until the chocolate is melted. Stir or whisk until smooth. Cool slightly.
In a blender, combine the water and flaxseeds at high speed until the mixture is "gloppy" like egg whites and you can only see flecks of flaxseed. Add the egg replacer powder and blend until it thickens a bit. Scoop this into the chocolate mixture with a spatula. Fold it into the chocolate mixture until it is well-mixed, but fluffy.
Combine the Dry Mix ingredients together with a whisk in a medium bowl. Add the Dry Mix to the chocolate/flaxseed mixture, along with the toasted almonds, stirring just until combined. It will be thick.
Spread evenly into the prepared pan-- I had to use wet fingers to spread it out. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool 10 minutes in the pan on a rack. Cut into 20 pieces, and loosen the edges. Cool before eating. Remove from the pan to a serving plate. Keep covered after they cool.
Servings: 20
Yield: 20 brownies
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per brownie): 140.1 calories; 29% calories from fat; 4.9g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 76.7mg sodium; 134.0mg potassium; 24.1g carbohydrates; 2.5g fiber; 13.8g sugar; 21.5g net carbs; 2.5g protein; 2.7 points.
The gelato in my little Donvier hand-crank ice cream maker ("No salt or ice needed; freezer bowl and paddle do the work"). UPDATE: Now I also have a Cuisinart Pure Indulgence 2 qt. Automatic ice cream machine.
Printable Recipe
BRYANNA'S VEGAN DOUBLE GINGER GELATO WITH AGAVE (Can be Soy-Free)
Servings: 8
Yield: 1 quart
Adapted from a recipe in my book "Nonna's Italian Kitchen". Tapioca starch makes this gelato smooth and custardy without the mouth-feel of a "frozen pudding".
This is a very ginger-y gelato. If you want to tone it down a bit (but, why?), omit the candied ginger.
NOTE ABOUT NUT ALLERGY: if allergic to nuts, use coconut milk beverage, or soy, hemp or rice milk, and omit the cashews and add 1/4 cup more milk of choice and 1/4 cup oil.
1 cup water
1/4 cup grated peeled fresh ginger
1/2 cup light agave nectar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups creamy original-style plant-based milk
1/2 cup raw cashew pieces
1/2 cup unbleached organic granulated sugar
1 tablespoon tapioca starch (don't substitute other starches! See Cooking Tips below)
1/4 teaspoon salt
ADDITIONAL: (you can omit this if you want a milder ginger flavor)
1/2 cup chopped organic candied ginger
Mixture #1:
To make the Ginger-Water, simmer the water and ginger in a small saucepan, uncovered, for 5 minutes. Strain through a sieve. Measure. You should have 3/4 cup. If you have more, simmer again to reduce it to 3/4 cup. If you don't have enough, add water to make 3/4 cup. Pour it into a small mixing bowl.
Whisk in the agave nectar and vanilla. Set aside in the refrigerator.
Mixture #2:
Blend all of the Mixture #2 ingredients in the blender until VERY smooth and frothy (make sure that it doesn't feel grainy). Place this mixture in a heavy-bottomed medium saucepan and stir over medium-high heat until thickened.
OR (MICROWAVE OPTION) place the mixture in a large microwave-proof bowl and microwave on high power for 2 minutes; whisk; cook 2 minutes more; whisk; and cook 1 minute more.
Whisk Mixture #1 into cooked Mixture #2. Chill the gelato mixture thoroughly, and then freeze according to directions for your ice cream machine.
When the mixture is about 3/4 of the way frozen, add the candied ginger.
When the gelato is frozen, scoop it into a quart container, cover and freeze for several hours before serving.
Nutrition Facts
Nutrition (per 1/2 cup serving): 201.2 calories; 19% calories from fat; 4.5g total fat; 0.0mg cholesterol; 91.3mg sodium; 105.7mg potassium; 42.5g carbohydrates; 0.5g fiber; 29.5g sugar; 42.0g net carbs; 1.8g protein; 4.3 points.
Cooking Tips
Easy to find in natural food stores, Asian grocery stores or the Asian section of large supermarkets.
Also available at http://www.bulkfoods.com/, amazon.com & .ca and many online Asian food purveyors.
Posted by Bryanna Clark Grogan at 3:36 PM 5 comments
Labels: almond, almond milk, brownies, chai, chai brownies, ginger, ginger gelato, vegan brownies, vegan gelato
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