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I've been thrilled to see the boom in craft brewing and distilling the last few years that put New York State back on the map for serious drinkers. As a native of New York, it's fantastic to have a wide range of locally-produced drinks I can be excited to imbibe. However I had long felt like the wines produced here- and were produced long before the return of brewing and distilling to the state- had stalled a bit. My opinion was there are a lot of just OK wines, with very few excellent wines (Channing Daughters on Long Island being one notable excellent exception). For the fairly large Finger Lakes wine region upstate, my experience had been a couple of good wines with a lot of wines I didn't care to drink. Certainly nothing to get excited about. Until my recent trip opened my eyes.
Up until a couple of years ago, the only winery I would say without qualification I liked from the Finger Lakes was Hermann J. Wiemer. As one of the larger and older wineries in the area, their German-style whites have been good for quite a while. And it was long the winery against which I judged others in the area- if you made Riesling or Gewürztraminer and it wasn't as good as Wiemer, I wasn't interested. Most interesting for me to taste at the winery were their Rieslings made from single vineyards. My favorite expressed a lot more minerality than I expect from Wiemer, while another brought much more under-ripe peach to the palate. It was so much fun to taste variety from a winery renowned for consistency. However while I enjoyed my tasting, this wasn't one of the 4 stops that really excited me.
The excitement started at Billsboro Winery. I was exposed to their wines when they hit New York City through their distributor VOS Selections, and it was the first Finger Lakes winery that made me take interest. Owner Vinny Aliperti had worked for bigger wineries in the area (starting at Wiemer) and while he makes his own wines he also makes wines for a bigger winery nearby. For his own Billsboro line, he was one of the first I was aware of in the region to embrace vintage variety and work to dial back on manipulation of both the growing and wine making processes. His Rieslings have a lot of depth & age well, although his reds have more oak to them than I like. On this trip I had my first taste of their 2015 Mousseux, a sparkling Riesling which is dry and has a nice balance of acidity with a kiss of peach. I enjoyed it so much I grabbed a bottle for pre-dinner sipping later.
Next on the list was a visit with Nathan Kendall of N. Kendall Wines.This is a newer label and Nathan is much younger than most of the head winemakers in the area. While he doesn't yet have his own winery or vineyards, he borrows space from bigger players who allow him to manage his own vines & produce his wines his own way. He's working towards "natural" winemaking, but he's realistic about what he has to do to grow grapes and make wine enough that he's not completely abandoning other practices. Until now he produced only as much as few hundred cases combined each year, but he plans to expand to around 700 total for his next releases. With no formal tasting room, he generously agreed to have me over to his warehouse to taste and chat at length. He aspires to have 10 vintages of each of his wines available to taste once he's more established, and he poured at least 2 vintages of each wine I tasted. The difference between his 2013 and 2014 Rieslings was stunning, with the older showing acidity along with a strong minerality that I loved enough to purchase a bottle, and the younger presenting more fruit and much more mellowness. I have do doubt both will hold up well over time. His Pinot Noir was by far my favorite I've ever tasted from the region: 2013 tasted great but I felt needs time, 2012 is terrific right now and could still age well (I had to grab a 2012 to take home, too). Finally he snuck a taste of Chardonnay from a mostly neutral cask he had sitting nearby, telling me it was the first taste since it went in. It was not quite ready to bottle but showed so much promise that I can't wait to have some once it's bottled. And if you don't want to take my word for how good his wines are, he's on the list at legendary French restaurant Daniel, and Gabriel Kreuther purchased all of the first Pinot Noir Nathan released.
The third winery that far exceeded my expectations was Bloomer Creek Vineyard. They've gotten a lot of well-deserved press recently but this was my first taste. They're known to be natural winemakers, and partner Kim Engle told me they moved that way after a friend brought him a bunch of natural wines to try, mostly from Burgundy and the Loire Valley, which impressed him so much he couldn't wait to try these old-become-new-again techniques. Once again they had beautifully expressive versions of the grapes the Finger Lakes are famous for: Riesling and Gewürztraminer. Growing mostly in shale with high limestone content off the west coast of Cayuga Lake (while the others written about here were all from the west side of Seneca Lake) these whites were beautifully different from other versions I've had from the region. More intense and complex with less fruit up front. Their reds included a couple of interesting blends, one featuring unusual grape varietals from Cornell University's Viticulture and Enology program (Noiret and Corot Noir), the other a Bordeaux-inspired blend of Cabernet Franc and Merlot. For me the favorite was a steel-fermented Chardonnay that was bottled but not yet labeled. It tasted outright Burgundian and I was lucky enough to buy a bottle to take with me.
My final eye-opening stop was Blackduck Cidery. A small family-run operation making naturally-fermented ciders from fruit entirely grown by the same family. They even grow the hops for their hopped cider. The whole line-up was very good, including a brightly fruity Perry which I was surprised to see and a slightly tart Sidra which was split between Basque and Asturias styles (owner John told me he hopes to move more towards the traditional Basque intense tartness in the future). Once again I had to make a purchase to take home, this time the Sidra found its way into my bag.
If you told me a year ago that I would taste at 3 Finger Lakes wineries and a cidery that would impress me enough to purchase bottles and rave about, I would never had believed you. If you told me I would love 2 different Chardonnays from there I would have said you were crazy. Today I tell you that it's already gotten really good up there, and I'm eager to taste what the future holds.
Vermouth is quietly making a big comeback. There are quite a few small producers making gorgeously complex and flavorful vermouths, both in its ancestral European homelands and in the Americas, reminiscent of days long gone. My hometown of New York City alone has Uncouth and Atsby which are two of my favorites. But I have a problem with this movement: they're too closely tied to cocktails!
Before the modern cocktail movement vermouths were prized for sipping on their own (or on the rocks) as aperitifs or digestifs. In fact the primary botanicals that flavor these fortified wines were medicinal herbs, barks and roots that were specifically aimed at settling upset stomachs making them a natural digestion aid. Bust most importantly, these excellent new vermouths are so bold and delicious that they deserve to have the glass all to themselves.
I'm all for cocktails with vermouth as an ingredient and there are a handful of brands that have long been the choice for many great mixologists, simpler subtler vermouths specifically designed for blending with spirits in tins and shakers. And I know for marketing purposes the best way to sell anything tied with spirits is to tell people to make cocktails with it. But to really get the full benefit of great vermouth, pour a short wine pour into your favorite stemware and try slowly sipping it straight. It's my drink of choice for lazy summer afternoons.
Just don't forget that vermouth is not a spirit: it's a fortified wine and it behaves much more like wine. This means that it will deteriorate after opening and should be kept chilled, preferably with the air removed from the bottle with a vacuum pump, to ensure that it retains as much of it's flavor with a minimum of spoilage.
The spirits world is buzzing over the announcement from Lost Spirits and resident agitator Bryan Davis that they have created a chemical reactor that can duplicate the aging process of up to 20 years in oak barrels in less than a week. I've been a fan of their spirits for a while, starting with their whiskeys for which they would never tell the age (only saying "less than 1 year") and more recently their potent and complex rums. What I never knew is that I had been drinking the test runs of this reactor process. And enjoying them immensely.
I had scheduled a trip to San Francisco, which is not far from the distillery, and started chatting with Bryan's partner Joanne about visiting while I was there. She was a bit cryptic about not being able to promise to accommodate me, but she said she'd try. Then two weeks before I got there the announcement came out so I thought there was no chance. Until I got a call from her early on a Sunday afternoon asking if I could run down in a few hours. How could I say no?
Their distillery and small house/office are surrounded by artichoke fields in a rural area. The still is outdoors and made up of a few artfully crafted components famously including a steam vent in the shape of an ornate dragon's head. The kiln where they smoked their whiskey malts over peat fires is nearby under a pagoda. From the outside it looks more like the classic eccentric suburban neighbor's place than anything else. Inside the house there is a beautiful tiny bar next to the seemingly unused kitchen and living room set up for discussion and demonstration. Through an unmarked door is their secret laboratory. Or so I guessed. Frankly I have no clue and there was no evidence of the kind of B-movie foundry I was expecting to see.
I have to say that Bryan and Joanne are two of the most genuinely friendly people I've ever met. With virtually no sleep for weeks and insane demands on their time that will only get crazier, they were terrific hosts. Truly enthusiastic to chat, show off their creations and take care of us. I've never felt more welcome visiting a distillery and they made more time for the occasion than I would have expected even if they hadn't just shocked the distilling community.
After a quick tour of the still outside, we went in to the bar where Bryan poured generous glasses of their Colonial Style Rum which is the only one of their commercially produced rums I hadn't tasted yet. It is magnificent, and it's sadly nearly impossible to find (even their own tiny stock is already committed to a conference). Then we took our drinks to the living room where Bryan gave us the presentation he delivered to announce his invention. Not many people can make molecular science entertaining, but Bryan can. The rum helped. And afterwards they encouraged us to taste the other three rums and hang out for a bit. I was far too polite to refuse.
While the presentation was fascinating and the science seemed sound to my untrained mind, the important thing is the results. I thought their series of whiskeys were all amazing, but often more interesting than delicious (although a few of the releases were both). The four rums are all fantastic, with the Colonial Style my favorite by far. They share a depth of flavor that I would have sworn could only come from patient aging in large barrels if I hadn't been told in detail how they all undergo this short, intense process instead.
So what does the future hold for them and their reactor? They already have a long waiting list of small distilleries hoping to purchase reactors. Bigger distilling corporations are already sniffing around. No doubt there will be attempts to knock them off, and/or set up legal hurdles, and/or buy them out. But if they persevere and can reliably produce reactors and train people to use them they might have created the first real innovation in aging spirits since they were first put into wooden barrels. I can't wait to see what's next for them and I'll be rooting for them to succeed.
"To make a barrel, it's not very difficult, but it's so many steps. If you make one mistake, at the end, it's not a barrel. It's a box."
-Francis Durand, Master Cooper for Tonnellerie Radoux
2014 has been a rough year for Bourbon. First we hear that there is an impending Bourbon shortage. Then we hear that the shortage is in large part due to the fact that the vast majority of all Bourbon brands are actually made by very few distilleries and are simply fancy labels on other people's whiskey. All this amid rumblings of American oak barrels disappearing faster than they can be made and a worldwide surge in demand has collectors hoarding their favorite bottles.
These revelations weren't surprising to those of us who work in the industry. And most of us don't necessarily agree with much of the overreaction to them. But it does make me eager to point something out: there are small distilleries popping up all over the USA making good Bourbon from scratch, and as the biggest producers run dry these little guys will be getting better. I've been a big fan of Watershed Bourbon since part-owner Dave Rigo came to New York to help introduce it to this new market. Oola's Waitsburg Bourbon is another new-to-NYC whiskey that I'm thrilled to have in the catalog I oversee. RoughStock's Montana Bourbon is third excellent riff on this classic. None of these brands have the big buzz yet, but they're all excellent and the lack of hype makes them all great value buys. For now…
So it's the perfect time to get out of your brand comfort zone and start exploring the new wave of Bourbons. Find your new favorite while you ween off your old stand-by and you'll weather the storm until the next "crisis".
In light of New York Cider Week which just passed, it's time for me to discuss cider. Not only was it the original everyman's drink of the new world (long forgotten thanks in part to immigration, industrialization and prohibition) but it was also a crucial component of early American exportation trade. And today, it's one of the most misunderstood drinks around. So many people look at hard cider as solely a beer substitute, all too often suggested to women with the demeaning thought that girls can't handle beer. But in truth it's much closer to apple wine than apple beer, especially when made in one of the many traditional styles from around the world. The Basque version is nearly still and has so little residual sugar that it's sharply tart. In Normandy the cider is sparkling like Champagne and has a beautiful sweetness balanced by yeast like the sparkling wine, too. And farmhouses from rural England through their colonies in the New World produced gorgeous ciders from a wide variety of apples which produced a range of flavors and textures that very much suggest the range of wine styles.
In the last several years- and in conjunction with the movements to go back to traditional farming techniques and to revive heirloom produce- cideries have been popping up all over the USA to rekindle the drink that was such an important part of American history. Some have carefully cultivated nearly-extinct varietals to faithfully recreate old recipes. Others have taken to foraging forests and abandoned homesteads to find forgotten fruit that has been allowed to propagate naturally and creates wild flavors once fermented. And like wine, some take a "natural" approach favoring minimal manipulation and native yeasts while others use specific yeast strains and occasional additions of fresh juice to control the texture, carbonation and residual sugar content. With cider lists popping up on menus all over New York City, it's a great time to learn to love this perfect expression of the apple which was at one time even more American than apple pie.
It's always been a thrill for me to "discover" a new drink that blows my mind. Especially when it's in a category that isn't already super saturated with choices. So I have a couple of new obsessions I'm giddy over:
1) Don Ciccio & Figli Finocchietto- Francesco Amodeo (who grew up on the Amalfi Coast of Italy but makes his liqueurs in Washington, DC) makes an entire line of traditional liqueurs. His family made these same liqueurs for well over 100 years and he has the old recipe book (which he couldn't get until the family considered him serious enough). I'm specifically crazy about the Finocchietto, neutral spirits infused with hand-picked wild fennel, fennel seeds, aniseeds, and dill with just enough sugar to raise the viscosity. It has an amazing fennel flavor, closer to the grassy fresh bulbs than the more licorice-like seeds. But fans of anything on the anise scale should love this.
2) Lost Spirits Distillery Navy Strength Rum- Bryan Alexander Davis and Joanne Haruta made some spectacular tiny run whiskeys until a mishap caused them to bulldoze their outdoor still and start over from scratch. Now their focus is rum and this one is a stunner. 68% alcohol by volume and hugely flavorful, but so tasty you can (almost) sip it straight. He takes a page out of ancient rum distilling and uses dunder to start fermentation which creates serious esters that add unusual depth of flavor. I'll sip mine on the rocks but it's a fantastic option for any cocktail calling for dark rum.
Yes I'm selling them at Mouth, but this isn't a sales pitch. It's a nod to a couple of the inspiring new spirits that are suddenly propagating all over the country. Getting to be among the first in New York to taste spirits like these makes me realize how lucky I am to do what I do.
It's been a while since I've posted here thanks to the amount of work I've put into my new job. So it's with great excitement that I announce that the Mouth Indie Spirits + Wine Gallery is open at 192 Water Street in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn, and you can find our selection of spirits & wine on our website at Mouth.com. We have a terrific range of spirits from small American craft distilleries, plus a small but fun group of wines featuring some amazing natural winemakers and a couple of great versions of more standard wines. I think you'll see that the world of independent production in the United States has reached a point where the quality & flavors are fantastic, while the inventiveness of some of the more maverick producers will entertain as well as delight. And all signs point to more and better things to come.
While the focus of the project I'm working on for Mouth is definitely spirits, we are putting together a terrific small wine selection. And it's been a great excuse for me to focus on American wineries that are pushing the envelope with techniques and flavors rather than playing it safe and making the kinds of wines that make me turn to the old world all too often.
Yountville Sémillon made by Dirty & Rowdy Family Winery is a perfect example. Sémillon is rarely grown in the US. And this one was fermented both on it's skins for 2 weeks before splitting into a steel tank and into a mix of American and French oak casks, and without the skins in a "concrete egg". The wines are blended just before bottling to produce a cloudy and bone-dry white wine with an earthy acidity. It's crisp but fascinating and an amazing display of the kind of wine making going on in select pockets of California today.
Dave Herman is a Certified Specialist of Spirits and avid fan of all things fermented and distilled. He teaches classes on alcoholic beverages and the foods that pair well with them, and has consulted on beverage programs for bars, restaurants and nationally acclaimed retail stores.


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Larsen & Toubro Limited (L&T) is one of the leading engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) players in the refinery and power sectors in Asia. The Technology and Innovation Centre of L&T at Baroda has been using CFX TASCflow extensively for flow and combustion applications to evaluate the reliability of in-house-designed equipment as well as critical out-sourced equipment.
The software has played an important role in understanding, designing and troubleshooting of equipment. Recently, CFX-TASCflow was used to troubleshoot a centrifugal fan used in a coal-dust environment. The fan was accumulating dust unevenly on the impeller vanes, causing severe vibration problems and leading to frequent shutdowns. On visual inspection, it was found that dust was collecting near the tip of the fan vanes, which might be due to the sticky nature of the dust and the high curvature of the vanes near the tip.
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We've been beating the drum for waterprof gadgets for some time now. (That our fearless leader Joe Brown is a fly fisherman may have a little bit to do with this.) Well, they're finally starting to arrive in promising numbers.
While you can't exactly say that it's overwhelming, they're here, sprinkled throughout the show floor with regularity. We've spotted phones, cameras, camcorders, even a tablet. At one booth, we found a company that uses nanomaterials technology to add a waterproof layer to your exiting phone. I'm in love with that idea.
For the most part, these are from companies you don't know (TechFaith, anyone?) with Samsung and Fujitsu being notable exceptions. And while it's not a trend (yet) there are enough out there that I think it's safe to say you're going to see a bundle of waterproofed electronics. It's safe to go back in the water again.


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Anne-Mette Toftegaard, CEO, LB Group (Denmark), said better use of technology is allowing insurers to better identify risks and prevent claims, moving them from a focus on products to a future in which services play larger roles.
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EverGreen Recreational Vehicles LLC has expanded its ultra-light Ascend travel trailer lineup for 2014, offering seven floorplans ranging in length from 17 to 23 feet.
According to a press release, the Ascend targets entry-level families as well as seasoned empty nesters. All Ascend trailers can be towed by smaller SUVs, crossovers, light trucks, minivans or large sedans and are engineered to be lightweight without compromising key appliances and essential equipment.
The Ascend is set off by the trailer's distinctive curved front that makes it aerodynamic, but also offers weather-resistant qualities. Composed of a single piece of fiberglass material, the front seamlessly covers the entire roof of the travel trailer as well, allowing water to run right off rather than pooling and creating leaks.
The fiberglass roof, as well as the rest of the exterior walls of the coach, is vacuum laminated over the lightweight DuraLite Double Welded Aluminum Structure. Welded rather than screwed, with full framing around all door and window openings, the frame is built to be tough, flexible and durable. Another weight-saving feature is the Ascend's ComposiTek construction in the inner sidewalls. Composites are lighter than wood but four times stronger, and resist mold, mildew, and rot that can eventually destroy travel trailers made entirely of wood. The underside of the Ascend floor is also vacuum laminated with ComposiTek, creating an additional barrier from road grime and unwanted pests.
Available in bunkhouse, rear lounge, and rear bath configurations, the Ascend's interior is spacious and offers several residential features, including cabinets that are screwed and glued, not stapled, with raised panels in the upper storage areas. Drawers are fitted with smooth ball bearing drawer guides that won't warp or stick under the weight of a full drawer.
There's plenty of light inside the Ascend due to integrated skylights in the living area and large, frameless bonded and tinted windows with pleated shades. Energy efficient LED lighting keeps the Ascend bright inside at night without depleting power sources. The floor is made of a comfortable padded vinyl that is warrantied against cold cracking.
If campers are looking for entertainment, there's a TV hookup with antenna, and the Ascend travel trailer is wired for a CD/ DVD player with interior speakers and the option of having an entertainment system that is compatible with USB powered music players like i-Pods and smart phones. The roof is wired for an air conditioner (optional 13,500 or 15,000 Btu) and a handy tank monitor system makes tracking all of these utilities a snap.
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How to Jailbreak iPad 2 iPad 3 on iOS 5.1.1
Finally! Absinthe 2.0.4 has been released and you can now jailbreak your iPad 2 running iOS 5.1.1. Not only the iPad 2, you can also jailbreak all other iOs devices on 5.1.1 but in this tutorial I will be using my iPad 2. You can use this tutorial to jailbreak other devices running 5.1.1 as well.
Before doing anything, make a backup of our device using iTunes. Connect your device with computer and run iTunes. Right click on your devices' name on the left and choose 'Backup'. So lets move on to the tutorial. Your iPad 2 or any other device you are using must be running iOs 5.1.1. If you haven't updated it already, simply go to Settings >> General >> Software Update.
How to Jailbreak iPad 2 iPad 3 on iOS 5.1.1
You can also update your device to 5.1.1 using iTunes. Just connect it with computer and run iTunes. You will be automatically notified that a new iOS version 5.1.1 is available for your device. Hit Download and Update.
Moreover, you can also download iOS 5.1.1 IPSW file for your iPad 2 and restore it manually using iTunes. As by now, all models of iPad 2 are supported except iPad2,4. But support for it will be added later on, said chronic dev team.
If you are already on iOS 5.1.1 and have a lot of data inside your device, it may take much longer to jailbreak your device so it is suggested that you go to Settings >> General >> Reset >> Reset all content and settings. Make sure you backup your device before doing this.
All set? Let's do it.
Download Absinthe 2.0.4 for your preferred platform. I will be using Windows in this tutorial. After downloading Absinthe, extract it somewhere on your hard drive and run it. Make sure you run absinthe.exe by right clicking on it and choose 'Run as Administrator'.
Make sure your device is connected, simply click on Jailbreak button and leave the rest to Absinthe. It will jailbreak your device in 2-3 minutes depending on how much data you have on your device. During the process, do not interact with your device until you see 'Done, enjoy!'
That's all folks. If you are experiencing any problems, let me know in the comments section below.
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Authors and Artists :: Douglas Pagels
As the author and editor of numerous books, Douglas Pagels has been a favorite Blue Mountain Arts´ writer for many years. His books have sold over 3 million copies, and his work has been translated into a number of foreign languages and enjoyed the world over. Many worthy causes and charitable organizations have featured his writings, and people of all ages turn to his thoughtful words, sharing them with family and friends.
"A friend is one of the nicest things you can have and one of the best things you can be."- Douglas Pagels
One of the trademarks of Doug's work is that it is so accessible. It gives the reader the feeling of simply listening in on a conversation that comes from the heart and touches other hearts in many different ways. The more one reads his words and shares in his insights, the easier it is to understand his enormously popular appeal. His outlook on life is inspiring, and his optimism is contagious. Even when he is dealing with the tough times of life and trying to make sense of it all, readers everywhere have the same response: "Your feelings are so much like my own; I feel as though you understand exactly what I'm going through and what I'd love to be able to say."
Doug's inspiration comes from many sources, including his enduring friendships and close-knit family. It comes from cherishing his thirty-year relationship with his wife, from the devotion of being a father to two college-aged children, and from the many experiences he has had in his lifetime. While growing up, he lived in places as diverse as England, Indiana, and northern Montana before his family settled down for an extended stay in a large house in Colorado. Soon after, circumstances dictated that his grandparents move in with them. Then his great-grandmother moved in as well, and conversations around the dinner table became a four-generation affair, with ages ranging from eight to eighty-nine. It's easy to see that when Doug writes about the meaning of family, he really knows what he's talking about.
But other aspects of his background added insights that went beyond family and into a broader view of people — and life — in general. In his younger days, while trying to earn enough to help put himself through college, Doug worked various jobs — fourteen in all. They included working in stores and an auto body shop, along with jobs as a janitor, a groundskeeper, a forklift operator, a delivery man, and a variety of restaurant positions. Time spent with his fellow workers, both on and off the job, helped to foster a deeper understanding of — and compassion for — a wide segment of society.
In the midst of all this activity, Doug managed to get a degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Several years later, he decided it was time to move on, and a series of plans were put into motion. He quit his job at the student bookstore, sublet his apartment, and was just days away from leaving town and moving to New Hampshire to find construction work there. He had just one problem to overcome: he didn't have enough money to make the drive across country.
When a friend called and offered Doug a few days worth of work as a proofreader at Blue Mountain Arts, the offer couldn't have come at a better time. Having been an English major, he figured he was up to the task and, when all was said and done, he would climb back in his Volkswagen bug, travel funds in hand, and head for New England.
Those "few days" turned into, at last count, thirty-two remarkable years. Proofreading soon turned into copywriting for things like catalogs and advertisements, and before long, editing and creative writing were added to the mix. The new job was exciting. Blue Mountain Arts´ founders, Susan Polis Schutz and Stephen Schutz, were wonderful people to work with, and it didn't take long for Doug to feel that he had found his calling. Soon some of his writings began to appear in the company's fast-growing greeting card line, and eventually other opportunities opened up, too. He began traveling extensively in search of inspiring and significant writings by authors from around the globe, and many of those quotes have found their way into a variety of best-selling anthologies. And finally, he began authoring his own books in his own unique voice, and the reception to those books has been extraordinary.
If Doug has a keen insight into human nature, he credits it to his early and ongoing interaction with people from all walks of life, all types of jobs, and a variety of settings. From those relationships, he has developed an awareness of what makes people tick, how important their hopes and dreams are, how their entire universe can revolve around their loved ones, and, unfortunately, what a struggle their daily lives can sometimes be. His intuitive understanding of people cuts across social strata and leaves categories of age, economics, and nationality behind. There's no substitute for real world experience, and Doug readily acknowledges the enormous influence his experiences have had on the content of his work.
Though he now does all his work outside of the office, Doug still maintains his long-standing association with Blue Mountain Arts. In recent years, in addition to writing, editing, and raising a family, he has managed to find the time for plenty of other interests. Doug has spent a great deal of time as an advocate for local environmental issues, and in years past, he could be found volunteering in classrooms, coaching basketball, and building a cabin in the Colorado mountains. He and his wife are frequent travelers, and his family has been the host family for many visiting college students from around the world.
It has been said of Doug's writings that no one is better at touching on so many subjects that are deeply personal and truly universal at the same time. And while Doug would tell you in complete sincerity that there's nothing special about him, in reality, the common bond that he shares with others combined with his caring voice, which has such honesty and understanding, are exactly what make him the unique writer that he is. His words mirror those of our own innermost feelings and — in the end — it is our own special reflections that he helps us see.
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This Saturday, stand-up comic Rachel Fogletto brings Comedy-Gasm back to The Irish Pol for another round of comedy from "the city's edgiest and unashamed performers and comedians." Read on for more about Rachel and the show.
WitOut: How long have you been doing stand-up? What got you started?
Rachel Fogletto: I've been doing stand-up for about 7-8 months. I had been doing other forms of open mics like spoken word and storytelling for some time, and I had recently been branching out to other types of performance and was in a Fringe show. I had numerous people tell me that I made them laugh when I would tell sex stories that were often uncomfortable and emotional situations. One woman I worked with in a show said, "You remind me of a comedian." I thought that was funny for some reason, and I had always wanted to do stand-up but never really felt that I had the balls. So I finally tried it and realized that I had it all wrong. It took balls to get up there, yes, but I had actually had to grow a dick to stay up there, and keep coming back.
Stand-up was the most challenging form of performance I had ever done, and I feel like anything you do that you love should challenge you. Once I started I knew I couldn't stop.
WO: When and how did you decide to start Comedy-gasm?
RF: I started to notice that as with anything else in life, there seemed to be a "majority" voice even within comedy, which always seemed to me, to typically be an art form of struggle. There are not a lot of women, most obviously. But I also wanted to see more comedy that was pushing boundaries from other perspectives. Not to get all affirmative-action, but I wanted to see more comedy from females, or people of color or from a queer perspective or even from a place that was not typical or already "acceptable edgy" comedy, like porn or jerk-off jokes. Not that I don't love a good dick joke. I love a good dick…………joke.
WO: Can you explain the theme for the show? What do you mean when you describe it as comedy "by the unashamed, for the unashamed"?
RF: Following up on my last answer, I noticed there were actually a good amount of comedians that had a generally rogue sense of humor, or who were coming from a totally different walk of life that weren't as present at the more crowded open mics. Different perspectives allow for different voices, different authenticity and ultimately, jokes no one has heard before. I felt myself gravitating toward comics who tended to make themselves vulnerable onstage even if their jokes were risky. I feel like the best art comes from the ability to be unapologetic even if it riles people. And of course, it has to be good. It has to be especially good when you're ruffling feathers.
WO: How do you choose the line-up for these shows? Are you looking for a specific type of comic, or a comic with a certain type of material?
RF: Thank you for asking! Everyone's biggest question is "Do all the jokes have to be about sex" Um, definitely not. The format thus far has been one "non-intentional" comedian, which is someone outside of stand-up performance but still is 90% comedic. Then follows 4 stand-up comedians. For the show's debut, this created exactly what I wanted, which was a cross audience from different scenes like The Erotic Literary Salon, so the performers were able to actually tell jokes to a fresh audience. I also arrange the lineup according to joke style and tempo, rather than experience to create a cohesive "set of sets" I guess you could call it. It could be in my head, but it seemed to work well the last time. Everyone had a blast.
Because I personally tell a lot of sex jokes, I have a way of looking at the world through sex. I think that art and comedy and the relationship between the performer and the audience is a power struggle, like sex. We go up…we try to make people laugh. We do this in different ways. Sometimes we get emotional, sometimes we try to relate, sometimes we just try to entertain. Everyone is turned on by different things. But after a while, crowds, like people, get used to the same type of "foreplay" …they are desensitized to things that used to make them aroused, surprised, offended….and most importantly, impressed. I think that when you can craft a joke, especially a risky joke, in an unconventional way and make people piss themselves laughing, it's like you gave them an orgasm. Ta-da!
WO: If you had to narrow it down to one thing, what would you say is the funniest thing about sex?
RF: I feel like I'm supposed to make a joke here. Sex is always funny…if you can't laugh at yourself as a sexual being, you're doing it wrong. I work out a lot of my sex life on stage, because I owe it to people to talk about something that means a lot to me.
The funniest thing? Colored condoms.
The next 'Comedy-Gasm' is this Saturday, May 18th at The Irish Pol (45 S. 3rd Street). Admission is $5.
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Ex-Chadian ruler could face war crimes charges
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DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Preliminary evidence collected against former Chad President Hissene Habre could lead to charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and torture, according to the prosecutor at a special court established more than 20 years after Habre fell from power.
Judges will decide on Tuesday whether to formally charge Habre or to extend his provisional detention by 48 hours, prosecutor Mbacke Fall said at a press briefing Monday.
Habre ruled Chad from 1982 to 1990. Human rights and victims groups say that soon after coming to power, he promoted members of his Gorane ethnic group to head a ruthless torture and killing apparatus targeting members of other ethnic groups that threatened his rule.
He was removed from office in 1990 in a military coup, fleeing to Senegal. Over the next 20 years, as Senegalese authorities resisted attempts to try him, Habre became a symbol of impunity and an uncomfortable reminder of Africa's unwillingness to hold its leaders accountable.
The Extraordinary African Chambers court was finally inaugurated earlier this year, paving the way for Habre's prosecution, which could occur as early as 2014 if an indictment is formalized.
In May 1992, a 10-member Chadian truth commission formed by then-new President Idriss Deby reported that Habre's government was responsible for an estimated 40,000 deaths.
The commission placed particular blame against the Directorate of Documentation and Security, Habre's political police force, which "distinguished itself by its cruelty and its contempt for human life," employing torture methods that included whippings, beatings, burning and the extraction of fingernails. One technique involved forcing a victim to put his mouth around the exhaust pipe of a running vehicle, causing severe burns when the motor was accelerated.
Fall said Monday that the court's investigation had turned up considerable evidence involving the DDS. "This oppressive mechanism had a mission to secure the country against espionage and exterior attacks. But it was completely transformed into an element of terror," he said.
Habre's Senegalese lawyer El Hadji Diouf has disputed the allegations against his client. Standing outside the Extraordinary African Chambers on Monday, he said all of Fall's evidence was incorrect.
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That's what the Olympics teach us about life and journalism
I'd blame it on Olympic fever, had not the urge to stretch our comfort zones begun before the Games of the XXX Olympiad opened on July 27.
Certainly, aspiration is fed by the spectacle of human beings attempting superhuman feats of strength, agility, grace, speed and endurance. By back-stories recounting achievement by sweaty, disciplined years-in-and-out perseverance. By slips and falls and rededication as much as by success.
By the sight of Olympians of years past, caught in black and white in their height or revisited in their antiquity.
In myths, Olympians are gods. But these men, women and near-children are humans. As we sit on our couches to watch them, our cushy comfort zones can seem as cloying as marshmallows, as indulgent as a potato chip habit, as sticky as the La Brea tar pits.
If these Olympians don't push you to stretch your comfort zone, what will?
Some inner force, if we're lucky, or some outer force, like your editor.
Bay Weekly's Stretching Your Comfort Zone began with an intern, one of a class called to live, for weeks or months, in the zone of elasticity.
Jesse Furgurson had endured weeks of stretching; by his definition, he was way out of his comfort zone, "going what I perceived as too fast turned out to be edifying."
By my standards, he was close to escape without ever going out into the real world. So I told him he could choose between Ishtar's Belly Dance Workshop and Self-Defense Against Zombies.
He chose to the Jing Ying Institute of Kung Fu and Tai Chi's zombie workshop.
That, he admitted, "wasn't as far out of my wheelhouse as you may have liked," for he'd studied martial arts and, as he wrote in his Aug. 2 feature, "logged enough hours watching zombie movies as a kid that I could have received a PhD in zombiology from the George A. Romero School for the Aaaaaarghts."
But I decided to give the kid a break. Sentences like that one in a story that was both well reported and full of creepy facts were my rewards. And I hope yours, for if you haven't read Workshop of the Dead, find it at http://bayweekly.com/articles/humor/article/workshop-dead.
Now, in the Olympic spirit, we're finding all sorts of occasions to stretch our comfort zones. We've kept new staff writer Ashley Brotherton so busy doing extreme reporting that we haven't given her time to write her results.
This week's Stretched Comfort Zone takes a mental stretch rather than a physical one as Chesapeake Country historian Donald Shomette writes about his turn to lyric-writing to share the stories of the War of 1812.
As this occasional feature took shape, I considered titling it Stepping Out of Your Comfort Zone. No, I concluded, the connotation wasn't right. Stepping out allows — indeed implies — the possibility of stepping right back in. Like dipping your toe to test the water, it's a transient state. Stretching implies expansion of your zone, and that's what I hope we do with Bay Weekly.
Making the zone in which we operate a bit bigger and more fully detailed is expansive and enlightening, but it isn't always, well, comfortable. A couple of recent expansions of my own comfort zone have me empathizing with Jesse. All summer long, I've had the opportunity of water aerobics at my pool. For the first month I resisted, imagining it as old-lady exercise way below me who, in my self-image, is a Bruce Springsteen kind of old lady.
Having now dipped my toe into that pool, I've discovered that you need to be fit like Springsteen to stay above water. This stretch of my comfort zone leaves some new muscles aching. As Shomette admits of himself in this week's story, I'm struggling. It's harder than I thought, and I may be — no, am — the least coordinated stretcher in the class. But my elasticity thrills me.
"I'm grateful for your efforts to push me out of my comfort zone," Jesse wrote after he'd escaped me, and I feel the same after each new stretch.
This summer, I'm grateful to the Olympians for showing me the range of possibility. We haven't seen the full range yet, because records continue to be set and broken. Each day brings us the possibility of a new personal best. And with each Bay Weekly, that's where we try to go.
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More Fun With Mall Flash Mobs
Who could have foreseen that a hip-hop boy band's appearance at a Chicago mall would occasion rioting and looting? More:
The band's autograph signing drew approximately 1,000 parents and children, primarily mothers and girls between the ages of 6 and 13, Sarama said.
About 45 minutes after the band left, the chaos began, Sarama said.
"A group of older youths came into the mall with the intent of causing havoc and chaos and were running through the mall, screaming, yelling and so forth," he said.
Security staff contacted the police department, and mall officials closed the mall about 5 p.m., Sarama said.
The mall did not sustain any property damage apart from a single broken planter, and it will reopen at 11 a.m. Sunday as usual, Sarama said.
In the meantime, mall officials are at a loss as they try to understand what happened.
"Ford City is a family-oriented mall," he said. "We have not had an incident like this [in the past], and I'm still in a little bit of a state of shock actually.
"What would make these youths come here to try and cause this kind of commotion and trouble?" he continued. "I don't know. But they did have a plan in mind."
"More than 100 people, mostly teenagers, started rioting and looting. They were throwing food, breaking things… more than 50 squad cars responded. They had the mall on lock down and then they gradually evacuated the mall with help of mall security," WGN 9 reported.
Even after the mall was evacuated, rioting continued, with some teens jumping on cars and smashing a windshield on one woman's car.
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Maroon 5 and the rapper Wiz Khalifa will headline this year's Preakness Infield May 19 at Pimlico Race Track, the Maryland Jockey Club announced Friday morning.
It's the fourth year the Infield has hosted marquee performers as part of the InfieldFEST, an alternative to the bring-your-own-beer mayhem of the past that combines music, bikini contests, volleyball games and other events.
The selection of the five-piece band Maroon 5, known for its brand of highly polished commercial pop, is in line with the family-friendly acts that headlined last year — the R&B singer Bruno Mars, and the adult contemporary big shots, Train.
But Khalifa, one of hip-hop's best known marijuana advocates, contradicts the carefully balanced image the Jockey Club has cultivated for the Infield in recent years.
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"I know his music is a little edgy," Chuckas said. "But I can't play Lawrence Welk. I need to play music [young people] will come and listen to."
The Jockey Club lost the Infield's young attendees in 2009 when it ended its longtime BYOB policy, bringing attendance to a historic low of nearly 78,000. And while it won some of them back the next year with the Mug Club, which gives fans a bottomless beer mug for $20 over admission, and the racy "Get Your Preak On" ad campaign, some of the race's more traditional attendees were offended by what they saw as pandering.
Chuckas said attendance last year increased to approximately 107,000 thanks to several factors, but especially a dual marketing strategy, one that appealed to older, conservative fans, and one, headed by the half-man, half-centaur Kegasus, that catered to young people. Peak attendance occurred in 2008, with around 112,000 people. Chuckas said early ticket sales are up from last year, and that he hopes attendance will reach at least 110,000.
The entertainment at the InfieldFEST, booked by concert promoter I.M.P., has also shifted over the years, getting progressively more relevant: ZZ Top and Buckcherry in 2009, O.A.R. and Zac Brown Band the year after that.
Maroon 5, which already has three Grammys, had a successful 2011 thanks to "Moves Like Jagger," a huge single that has sold more than 4 million digital copies, and is up for a Grammy this year. The song was 2011's 9th highest-selling single, according to Billboard.
Khalifa is up for two Grammy awards for "Black & Yellow" from the album "Rolling Papers," which has sold more than 500,000 copies.
There will be a second stage with three acts again this year — Puddle of Mudd and Phil Vassar performed last year — but Mike Gathagan, spokesman for the Jockey Club, said two of the acts have not been secured yet. The club hopes to announce the Jagermeister stage's acts — which he said will include at least one local group — before the end of the month.
For the first time in three years, Infield tickets and Mug Club prices have increased by $10, due to the "elevated" music acts, Chuckas said. The Jockey Club is offering a limited-time discount this weekend: Infield tickets are discounted to $40 until Monday 7:30 a.m., and $50 after that until May 12. The Mug Club is again $20 above the price of admission; it's also $10-off for the weekend.
Marketing for this year's Preakness Stakes has yet to be finalized. Chuckas joked that Kegasus disappeared after last year's festivities. There is no word on if the divisive mascot will return this year.
For a review of last year's Infield entertainment, click
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giving understanding to the simple.
"The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure buried in a field,
which a person finds and hides again,
and out of joy goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant
searching for fine pearls.
When he finds a pearl of great price,
he goes and sells all that he has and buys it.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
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Rewriting Copyright History, The Elitist Way: Compare File Sharers To 9/11 Terrorists
from the stunning deptWhen we first debunked Hank Williams' problematic attack on Mike Arrington for suggesting, reasonably, that copyright law had reached the point that it needed a serious rethink, someone told me that Hank Williams is trying to become "the next Andrew Keen." Keen, of course, wrote a book last year about how the internet is somehow destroying culture, with the basic thesis being that "culture" is defined only as professionally produced content. Effectively, his argument was that non-professionally produced content simply can't be good, so by competing with professionally produced content, all that amateur content was somehow damaging professional content. The logical errors in this thesis are pretty easy to spot, but we'll just mention the obvious one: if professional content is so much better than amateur content, what does it have to fear from amateur content? In fact, Keen's whole thesis is so ridiculous, and the book praising the reliability and accuracy of "professional" media is so riddled with errors, distorted truths and outright falsehoods, that some have suggested (credibly) that Keen is merely satire. Everything that Keen claims is bad about amateur media, he does -- repeatedly.
Either way, it appears that he's a bit jealous of Hank Williams taking up his role in these debates, as he's finally chimed in on Arrington's original piece, just a few weeks late. Keen's take is so filled with errors that it definitely seems to support the "satire" theory -- and for now we're going to go with that theory, and assume it's the case. But, for a few howlers in the piece, try these on for size:
"Arrington's stance, of course, epitomizes the permissive attitude about intellectual property that has already destroyed the music business and is now threatening to kill the holy trinity that includes Hollywood, the television industry, and the book trade."This would be the music industry that is seeing every single aspect of its business on the upswing (other than the sale of plastic discs)? This would be Hollywood that had its best year ever in 2007? Ah, right. Destroyed, huh? This is "professional" content at work.
In 1999, when Napster first assaulted the recorded music industry with its peer-to-peer technology, we heard similarly open-minded nonsense from Web 1.0 moguls like MP3.com founder Michael Robertson and Public Enemy's Chuck D. Almost 10 years later, the catastrophic consequences of Napster's mass piracy are all too tragically evident. In 1997, global recorded music sales were $45 billion. By next year, it is estimated that they will have fallen to around $23 billion -- an almost 50 percent drop in sales in a little more than a single decade.This is classic Keen. Total misdirection in how you define the market and selective quoting of facts. You see, markets for obsolete products shrink, but the overall market is not shrinking. It's like the analyst reports that whined about the market for "PDAs" shrinking just as smartphones were taking over. Did we say that smartphones destroyed the market for PDAs or did we just recognize that the market evolved? Keen leaves out the fact that concert revenue is at record highs. He leaves out the fact that more people today are making music than ever before in history, and more people are able to listen to more music than ever before in history. By any real measure, it would appear the music industry is thriving, even if the obsolete part (selling recordings) is fading.
And, then, there's Keen's coup de grace, comparing those who want to listen to music to the 9/11 terrorists in a sentence riddled with errors:
"The truth, of course, is that the theft of digital content is no more "natural" than holding up little old ladies on street-corners or crashing civilian airliners into tall buildings. And it's the responsibility of thought-leaders like Arrington to use their privileged positions to educate the innocent about the evils of digital thievery."
- Error 1: Calling infringement "theft."
- Error 2: Saying that it's irresponsible for someone who notices that the majority of the population is breaking a law to suggest that perhaps it's time to rethink that law.
- Error 3: Suggesting actions done by the majority of the population is the equivalent of the 9/11 hijackers.
- Error 4: Saying that any "thought-leader" has a "responsibility" to take a particular stand
- Error 5: Saying that infringement is a problem of "innocents" run wild.
- Error 6: Putting a moral angle ("evil") on an issue that is merely one of business models
We'll finish it off one more howler:
By stating his opposition to criminalizing "natural behavior," Arrington is not only legitimizing online theft, but he is also undermining the credibility of entertainment companies, such as Hulu or Blinkbox that have invested major resources into building entirely legal Web businesses. Defending YouTube's flagrant disregard for intellectual property laws is tantamount to justifying criminal behavior....Ah, you see, in Keen's satirical world, companies like Hulu and Blinkbox that offer up professionally produced content deserve to have their business models protected by the government and criminal laws. But those that support amateur content are criminal enterprises. The fact that Keen seems unable to grasp the difference between a service provider and a user in terms of criminal liability is the least of the problems here. The fact that Keen seems unable to grasp the fact that these are merely different business models for distributing content -- and the one he dislikes is winning in the market -- suggests an unwillingness to actually understand what's happening here.
What it comes down to is that folks like Keen and Williams have decided that there's a certain class of content that "counts," and that's "professional" content. All other content is a problem -- especially if it interferes with an obsolete business model. Basically, they've decided that they like one particular (poor and increasingly obsolete) business model for a particular group of companies, and decided that interference with that business model must be a crime -- even if the end result is exactly the opposite of what they predict (i.e., there's more content being produced today than ever before -- it's just that it's happening using a very different model than the one they like). Luckily, we live in a world where business models adapt and change, and the companies and pundits unwilling to do so will simply fade away.
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The intricate gears and mechanisms of a watch with a complicated movement are usually hidden inside a metal housing. But not with Richard Mille's latest creation, the RM65, which features a housing carved from a single block of sapphire crystal.
So if you were wondering how they justified that $US1.65 million price tag, there's your answer. Besides providing an intimate view of the watch's inner workings, the use of sapphire crystal also has some distinct pros and cons.
It's typically used for the glass dome covering a watch's face since it's very scratch-resistant — meaning the entire M65 should stand up well to wear and tear. But because it's still crystal, it's not indestructible. So an unfortunate drop could leave one of the five lucky owners (it's one of those super-limited-edition deals) of this timepiece with over one and a half million dollars worth of broken watch on their floor. [Richard Mille via Born Rich]


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CINCINNATI, OH - Tristate roadways have been at a standstill of late as panicked drivers anticipate the inevitable snowstorm that will surely hit the area in December. Highways and side roads from Mason to Florence have been slowed to a crawl, leading to commutes lasting hours longer than usual.
Interstate 75 has been backed up from the northern suburbs through Richwood, KY while Cincinnati motorists have inched along and gripped tightly to their steering wheels, anticipating the flurries. "There is no sense in being a hero," said Kathy Cartwright from Mason. "You've got to take it slow and steady. I would not be on the roads at all right now, but I need to get to Kroger so I can stock up on tuna and bottled water. I have a feeling this December storm is going to be a rough one."
Reports of an actual snowflake last week only served to heighten the panic. Many drivers took the news of the snowflake so seriously that they pulled off to the side of the road, and have refused to move their cars again until spring. "It's not me I'm worried about," said an overwrought David Henley as he abandoned his car and began walking from the Norwood lateral to his West Chester home. "It's all these other crazies."
The panic was helped on by the Cincinnati media. WKRC-TV meteorologist Tim Hedrick spent the majority of his weather report describing the dangers of black ice and low visibility. Hedrick's continued effort spent warning drivers of potential winter storm automotive death has resulted in a lifetime achievement award for Excellence in Winter Storm Hyperbole.
"The Cincinnati area is a special place when it comes to winter driving," explains psychologist Dr. David Humphries. "Perhaps the drivers are more apt to react because of the varying elevations and the many winding, curvy roads. Or, more likely, it is because much of the population suffers from depleted brain cells as a result of heavily polluted air and water. Either way, it is fun to watch."
Whatever the reason, driver Kevin Haas promises to continue being cautious as the threat of snow lingers in the air. "Back in '05, I had to get home to Milford after working all day in Mt. Lookout," he explains. "I finally made it back in the spring of '08. So I hope everyone can understand why this potential storm has me all sweaty. Well, I'm also sweaty because it's in the high 60's today, but mostly, it's the threat of snow."
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