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2015 was a pretty good year for comics, but not so good it couldn't be improved. That's why, for our end of year competition, we asked y'all to gild that lily like motherfuckers.
It seemed like a good idea at the time: you'd pitch us comics, we'd talk about our favourites, and we'd send one of you the real, actual comics we liked the most from 2015. We figured it would be easy; we'd get about five submissions, right?
Ha ha. Nope.
Boom. 101 hot steaming pitches.
Clarrie "The Clarrie we talk about when we talk about Clarrie" Maguire
Title: Catching Gnats Genre: Comedy Drama Length: ongoing Pitch: Bored teens work in Torquay during the summer holidays to pay for their surfing dreams and/or cider and weed.
Title: The Lady With The Braid Genre: Black Comedy Length: ongoing Pitch: 1980. Two newly qualified Northern Irish nurses share a London flat. After an eventful weekend involving an abusive boyfriend and an unrelated home invasion, they become serial killers.
Title: Hillside Genre: Teen horror Length: miniseries Pitch: It's in the woods, and it *will* fuck you.
Title: Vanilla Extract Genre: heist romp Length: ongoing Pitch: Lesbian crimers in the 24th century! Neon colours! Feminist ideals! The comic for ladies to read after Bitch Planet in order that they not kill themselves!
Title: Breaking Free Genre: non-fiction Length: graphic novel Pitch: Non-fiction exploration/history of left wing activism in eighties and early nineties UK, both in reality and pop culture. Interspersed with chapters from that mental Tintin bootleg 'Breaking Free' that used to be passed out where Tintin and Captain Haddock end up leading a people's revolution.
Title: Dinosaur Planet Genre: sf adventure comedy Length: graphic novel Pitch: All ages licensed comic of MJ Hibbett's concept album 'Dinosaur Planet'. Bright colours. Mad art.
Title: Jakey Work Genre: supernatural light drama Length: ? Pitch: A low key supernatural drama about an ageing Cunning Man in rural England between the wars.
Title: A Book Of Days Genre: fantasy/magical realism Length: graphic novel Pitch: During a year with the worst harvest in living memory a widowed farmer in eighteenth century England cares for, and eventually marries, an amnesiac stranger who has been rescued from near drowning in a pond on his land. (SPOILER: she gives birth to summer in the end and dies because she was mythological all along, that was why there wasn't really a summer the year before - when she had no memory - and the harvest was so bad FUCK YOU THIS IS SOME LYRICAL BITTERSWEET SHIT)
Title: Batter bread, orange shit, and sweet potato cock Genre: diary comic (fictionalised memoir?) Length: graphic novel Pitch: Cooking, self worth and women's relationship with the media are explored in this story of a fat woman from an eighteen year old with an eating disorder to a thirty year old HAES activist who will fucking cut you.
Title: 5pm - 10pm inclusive Genre: horror Length: one shot Pitch: A kind of rotting Ewok looking monster kills a dude. No dialogue. Told entirely through full page panels of the back of his house, including three windows, as viewed through the back door of the house opposite.
Title: Daisy Dick Lew Genre: fantasy Length: ongoing Pitch: A kid moves to a village in rural Wales. All manner of mythic shennanegoats are going down. The weird old dude running the corner shop post-office and his housebound altzeimery mum are Mordred and Morgause/Morgan,trapped together by obligation and immortality. Two of the dickheadiest kids in his year at school might be Arthur and Merlin reborn. His mum is being an arse, and frankly puberty was already quite stressful.
Title: Night Visitor Genre: horror Length: one shot Pitch: An increasingly housebound pensioner who has lived their life under the shadow of a draining supernatural entity discovers that they have a terminal illness and resolves to take a final revenge on it.
Title: Dogwet Genre: fantasy Length: graphic novel Pitch: in a fantasy world inhabited by huge, unknowing, lovecraftian creatures, a derelict fisherman and a mute child scrape out survival in a cave in a cliff-face.
Title: But I'm All Right Now Genre: non-fiction Length: graphic novel Pitch: at last, a non-shit biography of Hattie Jacques.
Title: The Alphabet Game Genre: mystery Length: ongoing Pitch: Lesley Mison solves crime while managing schizophrenia.
Title: Take A Penny Genre: memoir Length: graphic novel Pitch: A comic about the years I worked full time in a Bristol corner shop under a manager who wrote Buddhist poetry about giving 110% and got dumped by his girlfriend on Mount Fuji after proposing.
Title: Information Dance Genre: drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: An action adventure comic from the point of view of a bee.
Title: Nearer and nearer crept the ghastly thing Genre: fantasy horror Length: series arc in an ongoing Pitch: London 1954. Reality fractured in 1944. In 1947, the effects were contained within a slowly expanding but largely stable area in central London and all sentient supernatural creatures were given automatic amnesty and citizenship. Patricia Dartnell works as a home visitor for the recently overhauled welfare system, children have started to go missing and she wants to know why.
Title: Sheep, Sheep, Crocodile Genre: horror Length: ongoing Pitch: It's the sixties, and everyone's involved in drugs and cults and psychedelic esoterica. But is this druggy cult about to go really bad? Well, you read the genre description.
Title: Mrs Locke Genre: crime Length: ongoing Pitch: 1920: The young 'widow' Locke - formerly one of the first female detective constables in England* - has a gift for private investigation, and a complicated series of mutual debts to the government that requires her silence regarding the famous, and still living, father of her in fact entirely illegitimate child.
Title: Ghost-Fuck Genre: porn Length: ongoing Pitch: People fuck, or are fucked by, ghosts.
Title: Young Fibonacci Genre: adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: Tesla and Lovecraft better look out! In this exciting steam punk adventure, it's Fibonacci who's reimagined as a rough and tumble adventurer fighting largely spiral based crime in twelfth century Italy.
Title: Sonic OC Genre: drama Length: ongoing Pitch: Dave Sonic, an unemployed bricklayer from Chorlton, inherits a house in glamorous Orange County California. With wacky results.
Title: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. Genre: drama Length: miniseries Pitch: Dave Arise is an inner city cop in a far future New York where anything can happen! Also there are mech suits.
Title: Cakes And Ale Genre: drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: Samantha's grandfather, Dave Cakes, is about to lose his beloved pub and she must step in to help. Also, she is a teenage girl who is coming to terms with her bittersweet lesbian crush over the course of a summer so rogger loves it and says that I am the best and I have won and gives me all the prizes.
Title: Deadpan Genre: crime Length: ongoing Pitch: A meek criminal autopsy specialist tries to solve crime and keep their sanity while living with their abusive grandmother and developmentally disabled brother. Gripping if depressing.
Title: The Winter Gardens Genre: drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: A former cook, butler and maid in a disbanded wealthy household run a guest house in an English seaside town in the immediate aftermath of the first world war.
Title: Run, Lizzie Biscuit, Run Right Now Genre: adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: Lizzie Biscuit has a problem. She doesn't know what it is, but the people pursuing her certainly seem to have a grasp on it.
Title: Hog Genre: non-fiction Length: graphic novel Pitch: biography of Sequoyah the inventor of the Cherokee syllabary.
Title: Chicken, Two Ways. Genre: comedy Length: graphic novel Pitch: A broad adaption of La Cage Aux Folles set in Hastings. Laurence 'Larry' Bald is trying to arrange a meal between his fiancee's Tory politician parents and his adoptive parents Rob and Andy Moriarty-Bald, who are about to retire from running their bar restaurant The Bird In Hand. Unknown to Laurence, before his birth the bar catered to a *very* different scene and was central to a messy political sex scandal. A docu-drama of which is being filmed there this very weekend. LAFFS AND IMPORTANT LESSONS ABOUT FAMILY/PARENTING ENSUE.
Title: Bleed Genre: drama, suspense Length: graphic novel Pitch: Following a messy divorce and back in the town where he went to university, Chris White hooks back up with the remains of his old gaming group. But is one of them really a killer? Or are his suspicions a reaction to being back in a social circle that insularity and geek social fallacies has stagnated into something unhealthy over the last twenty years?
Title: Yan Tan Tethera Genre: folklore, history, anthology Length: ongoing but composed of one shots and mini-series Pitch: Folk tales and weird history from the North of England. 'we're flittin', the Barghest, 'my own sel', Jinny Greenteeth, the Pendle witches etc.
Title: Ii Genre: drama, light supernatural adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: There is a secret society of thousands, perpetuated by intermarriage and careful training. Dedicated to the protection and assistance of The Chosen One. Last month, she told them to get fucked. What happens when your messiah resigns? When your life, the lives of your ancestors for a thousand years, no longer has purpose? Ii explores this. "Imagine Buffy, I Claudius and Anthony Burgess had a baby" said Pretend Comics Forum.
Title: This Truth Came Borne Genre: horror Length: graphic novel Pitch: An elderly couple are trapped in their house by silent creatures made of bone.
Title: Maputo Genre: SF Length: ongoing Pitch: A woman and her granddaughter travel post-industrial flooded future Medway by boat, trading and interacting with the inhabitants. Maputo is the name of the boat.
Title: Basjo Pangles Genre: all ages adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: Basjo Pangles is a brightly coloured cartoon bear. Davies is a highly strung owl who owns a pneumatic drill. They are highwaymen in an adventure filled green wood.
Title: Nightbus Genre: light comedy drama Length: series of one shots in an ongoing. Pitch: In a pub in a village, Karen and the rest of the regulars drink with her best friend Nightbus. They do a meat raffle, have a band in, raise money for charity, go on a booze cruise, one regular buys a motorbike. That kind of thing. Basically kind of a low key English 'Cheers' but one of the characters (Nightbus) is a storybook giant and they never acknowledge this. Watercolour art. THIS IS NOT ONE OF THE JOKE ENTRIES. I HAVE WRTTEN SO MANY SCRIPTS FOR THIS.
Title: Kancho Genre: supernatural Length: graphic novel Pitch: 1948. A young Japanese widow prepares to remarry and move to the US, with her young son. He begins to act out, but is it the normal stresses of a small child adjusting to change or is it spirit possession?
Title: It Turns Out That I Can Only Write Folk Horror? Genre: Folk Horror Length: ongoing Pitch: A woman decides to combine a fun writing exercise with some mild cyber-bullying only to discover that about ninety percent of her ideas are some variation of the kind of 'Children Of The Stones' stuff that ITV used to do a lot of in the late seventies.
Title: Batman Genre: Batman Length: ongoing Pitch: Batman.
Title: Heartbeat, But With Vampires. Genre: Adventure, Horror, Scenic Views Of The North York Moors, Manga Length: ongoing Pitch: Oh no! Wicksy has got bitten by Dracula, and now it's up to Mr Derek and Alkie Selwyn Froggitt to stop him from spreading his corruption through the Yorkshire countryside of 1965-ish like an unstoppable late Victorian metaphor for venereal disease.
Title: Ultimate Call The Midwife Genre: action adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: The characters from popular BBC program for nans 'Call the midwife' are given a updated, continuity free, reboot in this accessible jumping on point for new readers.
Title: The Saga Of The Victors Genre: horror Length: mini-series Pitch: Literally just a photocopy of Skywald 's 'The Saga Of The Victims' with Richard Wilson's head stuck over all the faces.
Title: Mabigdogian Genre: fantasy Length: ongoing Pitch: The Mabinogion, but with big dogs.
Title: Sail Away, my darling doll. Genre: poem, drama, Length: short Pitch: Drawn in the style of willow pattern plate. The women of a small sailing village in C18 live their everyday lives in the absence of men.
Title: Captain Space Genre: sf low key adventure light drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: Captain Space, an Ovaltine era style intergalactic adventurer secretly crash lands in the woods behind a realistically written Essex council estate in 1991 and moves into an empty house. He has an alien dog, and a robot butler and robot aunt. He also almost certainly has some degree of combat based PTSD, a possibility which he is unaware/unwilling to entertain. Drawn in the style of Herge.
Title: Riddles Wisely Expounded Genre: myth, fantasy, folklore, anthology Length: one shots and mini-series within an ongoing Pitch: Adaptions of stories from the Child Ballads.
Title: Gandaberunda Genre: drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: A wealthy Bengali tea farming family in Northern India struggle with the differences between the UK influenced culture of the elder generation and the US focussed aspirations of the young. Both seeing the other as polluted by colonialism and themselves as the 'real' India.
Title: Skull Balloon Genre: anthology Length: short Pitch: One page dialogue free stories in a six by six grid.
Title: You'll Never Believe Number 14 Genre: disaster, sf Length: graphic novel Pitch: End of the world narrative shown through clickbait listicles.
Title: Withered Heart Genre: horror Length: graphic novel Pitch: A loose adaption of 'The Residence at Whitminster' by M.R. James. Dr Oldys and his young wife move into a house with a dark past and a fly infestation.
Title: Uranium Rock Genre: comedy drama Length: ongoing Pitch: In the mid-fifties, with the sexual revolution still a glimmer in society's eye and the threat of nuclear war seeming very real indeed, a group of teens cope with life by planning and executing flying saucer hoaxes in the New Mexico desert and doing some half-hearted prospecting.
Title: Tired Genre: tired Length: ongoing Pitch: so fucking tired
Title: Excerpt from A Teenage Opera Genre: comedy drama Length: ongoing Pitch: Join Dave Opera as he starts at a new school in a new town. Where his mum is the headteacher!
Title: Steam Genre: superhero Length: ongoing Pitch: A young thief in a youth detention centre discovers that he can transform into a cloud of vapour at will and decides to use his powers to become a hero.
Title: Home Virtues Genre: non-fiction, porn, comedy Length: graphic novel Pitch: History of that weird period in the 1860s where the letters page of 'Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine' (of Mrs Beeton fame) was almost exclusively a hang out for hairy palmed BDSM enthusiasts.
Title: Dr Orangutang Genre: children's Length: graphic novel Pitch: Victorian London. Dr Orangutang is a medical doctor, who is an orangutang. He's got a little top hat and mutton chops and that. It's very adorable.
Title: The Kitten's Tea And Croquet Party Genre: non-fiction Length: graphic novel Pitch: Biography of Walter Potter, and history of the Walter Potter museum.
Title: Mulch Genre: superhero Length: ongoing Pitch: When Kayleigh Tenson was eleven, she was a bystander during a battle between magical superheroes and supervillians. She was killed, which was sad. But she got better, which was rad. Nine years later she finds out that if she can magically rot things, and furthermore if she doesn't do it every day she'll die again. Which is very much a mixed bag.
Title: Hammer And Sickle Genre: action adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: Lenin hunts vampires.
Title: Adam Genre: supernatural drama Length: graphic novel Pitch: A young boy living with his mentally ill mother in the fens during the late forties begins to worry that he may be the antichrist.
Title: Kit Kat Ate A Rat Genre: crime, adventure Length: ongoing Pitch: Two bored dancing girls in twenties London become an unlikely crimefighting duo after foiling a blackmailer who threatened their peers.
Title: Hunter's Chicken Genre: folktale, Length: graphic novel Pitch: Art is photos of Fuzzy Felt collages. A motherless boy whose father has gone to market prevents various supernatural creatures from invading the house and doing him various harms.
Title: Cold Cream Genre: comedy drama, horror Length: graphic novel Pitch: The adventures of Montague Ince, Victorian actor and necrophilliac.
'The Boy With The Arachnid Heart'. It's the heart-warming tale of a young lad, Keith, who discovers that he has poisonous spiders instead of blood. Whenever he is hurt small but ferocious spiders rush from the wound and attack everything in his immediate vicinity. Death is not certain from their bite but profound suffering is. Keith is profoundly arachnophobic. A sinister government agency wants to turn him into an assassin but Keith is more concerned with whether or not girls will be repulsed by his gruesome, spidery blood and the worry that his semen might actually just be spiders eggs as well.
'Death and Other Small Disappointments'. A woman's organs become self-aware and have to solve the mystery of why they all feel so awful all the time. It turn's out that their host is drinking herself to death. Her organs must decide whether or not they want to try and save her because if they do they themselves will cease to be self-aware and effectively die. Do they want to live in the crumbling body of a dying woman or die in the body of a woman who might just live.
'The Lear Effect'. The world is falling apart because God has become senile and divided his creation up among the archangels Gabriel and Michael, and the devil Lucifer. As they vie for control reality itself begins to fall apart causing people to be confronted by the gods of alien races on the other side of the universe. A scientist and a priest must team up to try and stop the world ending by creating the world's first laboratory grown deity.
Innesbrook and Outen An off-beat supernatural detective story. A husband and wife team solve crimes with the help of their unusual psychic powers. Innesbrook can psychometrically get information about objects used in crimes but only by cramming them into his anus. Outen meanwhile can gather information about a victim's past but only by defecating in the cadaver's mouth. They fight against both the forces of crime and the outraged relatives of murder victims.
Title: Nic Cage is Superman! Main Character: Nic Cage. Pitch: Nic Cage *actually is* Superman.
Dave will love it.
Title: Flavious the baer! Main Character: Flavious. Pitch: It writes itself.
Fool House A depressing, refusing-to-come-of-age story about a manchild who won some comics in a populer and intelligent podcast bingo competition and the half-arsed depths he will sink to in order to win again. Self published via photocopying on the office printer when no-one's watching.
Warren Ellis' Ian Fleming's James Bond 007 in KRAMPUSSY Uncle Warren downs a bottle of cooking sherry and pens this IP crossover when Her Majesty's Secret Service sends their foulest agent up against the sinister foreign seasonal avatar who threatens the UK's peace of mind. Bond triumphs in a 300 page long sequence of lovemaking techniques that are legally not allowed to be depicted in the UK.
Rogger's Laminated Typography Manual this isn't actually a comic but the kerning is amazing and it's wipe clean.
Shatner Portly ageing emoter William Shatner is losing his faculties and believes he's character's he's played in the past. Hilarity ensues, but tinged by the sadness of seeing someone succumb to dementia. So it's not all that fun then.
Goat-goat A goat with the power to transform into a goat. Slitty eyed arsehole.
Hungover-girl Perplexed by the world, a woman wanders through town, diligently using pedestrian crossings even though the road is closed to cars.
Alpaca a reflective, existential comic. An Alpaca stands in a field, chewing
Daily Mail Man Runs around with his pants on his head, shouting racist epithets at the gays, leering at twelve year old girls.
Corbyn a genial Bernard Cribbens impersonator becomes leader of the Oppposition. Hijinks ensue!
Tony philanthropic millionaire keeps getting mistaken for a blood thirsty warmomgering grasping arsehole
Toto small dog from Kansas starts wildly successful soft rock band fond of terrible metaphors
Rogger: [censored]
"I'm Dave": Like "I'm Dave Gorman", except Dave (any) goes round finding people called Dave. There are many.
Piano Man: A gin-based accident sees Billy Joel combined with his piano. He fights crime
Title: Hester! Main character: Hester! Pitch: It's about Hester.
Walking Styx On or about December 1910, whatever might have once passed for a god or meaningful cosmology of any kind went out for a smoke, hasn't been seen since. While this was undeniably important, and a good many people, both living and dead cared a great deal, Alfred Wainwright and Nikolaus Pevsner thought it sounded like a nice chance to get out in the fresh air. Now they lead a series of coach and walking tours around a derelict afterlife. Like Dante's Inferno via One Foot In the Grave, and with a good deal more bickering about Edmund Burke than you'd expect from either.
Bloomsbury Jam London, 1938. The Bloomsbury Set play roller derby against the Mitford Sisters and chums. It's violent, lurid, a wee bit dykey, and historically spurious at best, but is their end of season grudge match just a toff dust-up on wheels, or is something more sinister being decided about the future of the British political establishment?
Dreadnaught In 1910 a bunch of posh pricks in just *incredibly* racist fancy dress managed to trick their way aboard the HMS Dreadnaught, pride of the Royal Navy. This much is established historical fact. Less well known is the fact that they promptly nicked it and took to the high seas. So what exactly did happen? And just what might you get up to if your crew included a shapeshifting socialite, an ambiguously psychic Freudian analyst, a painter/philosopher/incompetent wizard, an author haunted by spectral raves who sing perfect songs of the future in deeply imperfect ancient greek, and an annoying little man possessed by the budget-trickster-god genius loci of a minor public school.
Hungry like the Woolf No, don't worry - even I have standards.
It's a Sad Comic that alternates between scenes of the bittersweet childhood and comic-yet-melancholy old age of a sarcastic former caped vigilante from the British midlands, where it gradually becomes clear that it's taking place in a virtual reality sustained by malfunctioning supercomputers on a dying Earth billions of years in the future.
The plot is, I don't know, some sort of ironic time loop probably.
I think that covers about everything.
Title: Being Kieron Gillen Genre: Kieron Gillen Length: 3x6 Pitch: Kieron Gillen writes a comic about a comic book writer who is a thinly disguised avatar for Kieron Gillen who is writing a comic about a comic book writer who writes really really terrible puns. (just kidding Kieron, love you really)
Title: Rob Liefeld's Feet Genre: Body horror Length: Ongoing Pitch: All the feet Rob Liefeld has obscured/hidden/just plain failed to draw in every comic he's ever done since, like, 1980-whatever.
Title: Captain DC Genre: Superhero or something I guess Length: Too long Pitch: Like Captain Marvel but with totally tone deaf gender politics, maybe she gets her superpowers whenever she's on her period or something? That would be totally empowering for women, right? Also tits.
Title: The Disruptive Adventures of Valley Techbro Boy Genre: Hacker News Length: Until this fucking bubble bursts; with any luck some time early next year Pitch: It's Like Uber But For Comics. Uber the horrible company, I know Uber is already a comic.
Title: Sexy Smiley's People: The Comic Book Genre: Espionage, Ben Whishaw Length: About 4 minutes and then Rogger loses interest and feels a bit dirty Pitch: That TV series as a comic book. Special wipe-clean print-stock.
Title: Being Chip Zdarsky Genre(s): Sex, Horror, Horrible sex, Canada Length: Too long Pitch: No oh god no oh Christ please just make it stop
Title: Netflix and Kill Genre: Slasher, revenge fantasy Length: 6 issues Pitch: Jobless millenials run out of things to watch on Netflix and go on a killing spree, murdering the baby-boomers who fucked everything up for them. Published on Tumblr or Snapchat or something I guess.
Title: Netflix and Quill Genre: Media commentary Length: 6 issues Pitch: Everyone's favourite Elizabethan playwright Billy Shakesbro offers his views and hot-takes on the latest shows on the streaming internet video service
Title: Netflix and Gil Genre: Crime/detective procedural Length: 6 issues Pitch: The revolution will not be televised, but it will be streamed right to your front room when Gil Scott-Heron and his trusty sidekick Netflix get on the streets to... look, this seemed like a good idea when I started ok
Title: Netflix and Krill Genre: Fish somehow Length: 6 issues Pitch: It's about some tiny sea creatures who watch things on a streaming video service maybe? I'll be honest I haven't thought this one through
Title: Grant Morrison's Adventure Time Genre: Fucked-up acid trip Length: 1 issue, or the whole of time and space Pitch: Honestly not that different from a normal issue of Adventure Time tbh except maybe with more murder and drugs and fucking
Title: Warren Ellis and the Mysterious Neurological Event Genre: Autobio Length: Ongoing Pitch: In which everything is FINE and NOTHING BAD HAPPENS and Weird Uncle Warren gets to write more comics and not die or anything, OKAY?


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February 11, 2005
Food and Commercial Workers Name Michael J. Wilson Legislative & Political Affairs Director
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) announced the appointment of Mr. Michael J. Wilson as Legislative & Political Affairs Director for the 1.4 million members of the UFCW.
Wilson has served as Chief Lobbyist for the UFCW since 1999 where he developed and implemented a legislative program to advance and protect the interests of UFCW members, their jobs, families and their communities.
Wilson came to the union after a long career of shaping legislative efforts to serve working people. Wilson served as the Chief of Staff for the Assistant Secretary of Labor of the Employment Standards Administration (ESA) of the U.S. Department of Labor. He also served as a Senior Legislative Officer in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor.
Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Mr. Wilson spent five years as the Legislative Representative for the Legislative and Political Department of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Mr. Wilson also served as legislative and press assistant for the Honorable Charles Hayes of Illinois, a former UFCW International Vice President, during his tenure as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joe Hansen, UFCW International President, said, "Michael brings a wealth of experience and a solid commitment to working families to his new position. We look forward to his leadership on behalf of UFCW members, and all working people, in the legislative and political arenas."
January 6, 2005
Sisters of Mercy Health Care Facilities Targeted for Anti-Nurse Agenda
Sisters of Mercy medical facilities throughout the United States will be the target of handbilling by the United Food & Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) in response to the unfair anti-nurse position the Sisters of Mercy have taken in St. Louis, Region 5 Director Al Vincent, Jr. announced today.
Handbilling has begun at nine Sisters of Mercy facilities in eight cities in four states, and will progressively be expanded to more than 200 medical facilities owned and operated by the Sisters of Mercy.
Registered nurses at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, members of UFCW Local 655, have been on strike since December 15, 2004. At issue are the hospital's demands to silence nurses' collective voices about vital patient care issues such as adequate staffing and safe patient assignments.
Recently, St. John's Mercy Hospital in Washington, Mo., took retribution against a nurse who worked there and at the Medical Center in St. Louis simply because she refused to cross the nurses' picket line. Charges have been filed against the hospital with the National Labor Relations Board for the illegal retaliation against the Washington nurse. The Washington hospital is 50 miles from St. Louis.
"St. John's and all the Sisters of Mercy health care facilities have a reputation of providing high quality care for patients. Now, we've been forced onto the picket line for standing up for those exact principles," said Colleen Schmitz, RN, a long-time St. John's nurse and negotiating committee member.
Beginning on January 3, 2005, Sisters of Mercy facilities targeted for handbilling are:
• In Missouri: Springfield, and Joplin;
• In Oklahoma: Ardmore and two medical facilities in Oklahoma City;
• In Arkansas: Fort Smith and Hot Springs;
• In Kansas: Fort Scott and Independence.
On January 3, 2005, UFCW Local 655 notified the Federal Mediation Service (FMCS) that it intends to begin picketing in Washington on January 13. The union's handbilling will launch organizing efforts at each of the facilities and detail the anti-nurse agenda the Sisters of Mercy are showing in St. Louis.
"The hospital wants to silence the nurses' fundamental right to a voice at work — gained under and guaranteed by federal law. This effort to silence its dedicated and professional nurse staff would undermine professional standards. And diminishing professional standards can only lead to compromised patient care," said UFCW Region 5 Director Al Vincent.
St. John's registered nurses are members of the Professional Division of UFCW Local 655. Throughout the United States, the UFCW's Professional Division represents more than 100,000 health care workers in hospitals, nursing homes, medical centers, doctor's offices and health care systems. UFCW Local 655 is the largest union in the State of Missouri.
December 15, 2004
Food and Commercial Workers Union Supports Mike Johanns' Nomination for Secretary of Agriculture
Today, the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) expressed its support for the nomination of Nebraska Governor Mike Johanns to take the helm at the Secretary of Agriculture.
In a letter addressed to the bipartisan leadership of the United States Senate, UFCW International President Joe Hansen stated that Governor Johanns "has all of the necessary attributes and experience to lead our nation's Agriculture Department"".
"His innovative and compassionate leadership so impressed our locals in his state that he was endorsed by our union for reelection in his last campaign. He earned this achievement with his efforts at outreach, inclusion, and understanding of workers—especially those in the agricultural industry," Hansen added.
The UFCW, which represents workers in multiple areas of food production including meat, fish, poultry, dairy, and vegetables, has many interests at the U.S. Department of Agriculture regarding food safety, meat and poultry inspection, international trade, contract agriculture and many others.
The UFCW stated its confidence that Governor Johanns will make decisions fairly balancing all perspectives. "That has been his history as Governor, and we look forward to working with him as Secretary of Agriculture," declared Hansen.
"Governor Johanns has been a true leader for Nebraskans working in the meat packing and food processing industries. He showed his commitment to fairness and equality for all workers by issuing the state's first Worker Bill of Rights. We were proud to work with him on that program and look forward to his leadership at the Department of Agriculture," said Donna McDonald, President of the Omaha, Nebraska-based UFCW Local 271.
December 15, 2004
On the Unveiling of a Public Display Marking the Body Count of U.S. Losses in Iraq in the Heart of Washington, D.C.
Today, the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) unveils a massive display in the heart of the nation's capital marking the daily body count of Americans killed and wounded in Iraq. These are the sons and daughters of working America who are making the sacrifice at the call of their government. The UFCW— a voice for working America— will never forget the sacrifice of our service men and women, their courage and commitment, and the grief of their families.
For the families of those who have fallen, we mourn your loss. For those who have been crippled and maimed in the service of their country, we honor your heroism and support you in your struggle.
We have placed a display here at the corner of K St. NW and 18th St. NW in Washington D.C. Every day we will update the count of American losses in Iraq so that corporate lobbyists and the foreign policy think tanks that dominate the canyons of K St. NW as well as the leaders around the corner at the White House and up the hill in Congress will always remember the impact of the policies that they advocate and the decisions that they make.
In Washington, the war in Iraq may be a matter of policy and politics. In working America, the war in Iraq is a matter of life and death, human sacrifice and suffering.
The UFCW will never forget. We want to make sure that those in power never forget either.
(Approximately 40 UFCW members have been killed in Iraq. Untold hundreds of immediate family members and relatives of UFCW members have been killed or wounded in Iraq.)
The UFCW represents 1.4 million workers at neighborhood grocery stores, department stores, food processing plants, nursing homes and hospitals, and chemical and other manufacturing facilities.
December 15, 2004
Sobre la develaci
El día de hoy, la Unión Internacional, de 1.4 millones de miembros, Trabajadores Comerciales y de Alimentos Unidos (UFCW por sus siglas en inglés) develó en memorial gigantesco en el corazón de nuestra capital que lleva la cuenta de estadounidenses muertos y heridos en Irak. Ellos son los hijos e hijas de los trabajadores de América que se sacrifican ante el llamado de su gobierno. UFCW – la voz de los trabajadores – nunca olvidará el sacrificio de nuestros hombres y mujeres en las fuerzas armadas, su valor y compromiso, ni su dolor y el de sus familias.
Para las familias de aquellos que han caído, sentimos su pérdida. Para aquellos que han sido lisiados y mutilados en el servicio a su país, hacemos honor a su heroísmo y les apoyamos en su lucha.
Hemos puesto un recordatorio aquí en la esquina de K St. NW y 18th St. NW en Washington, D.C. Cada día actualizaremos la cuenta de pérdidas humanas estadounidenses en Irak para que los cabilderos corporativos y los eruditos de la política exterior que dominan las cañadas de K St. NW, así como los líderes a la vuelta de la esquina en la Casa Blanca y allá en el Congreso recuerden siempre el impacto de las políticas que defienden y de las decisiones que toman.
Para Washington, la guerra en Irak podrá ser un asunto de política y políticas. Para los trabajadores de América, la guerra es un asunto de vida o muerte, de sacrificio humano y de sufrimiento.
La UFCW nunca olvidará. Queremos asegurarnos que aquellos que ostentan el poder tampoco olviden.
(Aproximadamente 40 miembros de UFCW han muerto en Irak. Cientos de familiares inmediatos de miembros de UFCW han sido heridos o muerto en Irak.)
December 8, 2004
Nurses at St. John
Over 1,500 registered nurses at St. John's Mercy Medical Center are set to strike on December 15 after giving their hospital the required 10-day notice, according to information released to the public at UFCW Local 655's press conference on Sunday. Union President Jim Dougherty said that after six months of negotiations, the hospital has worked hard to frustrate nurses to the point of forcing them to take this drastic action.
|An RN speaks out against St. John's Mercy Medical Center at the press conference.
"The nurses at St. John's are willing to go back to the bargaining table immediately to resolve this before December 15," Dougherty said, "but the hospital has to be willing to enter into realistic negotiations." He also remarked that the hospital's last proposal was "worse than the one rejected by the nurses by a 95 percent margin" on November 10.
The main issues involved in negotiations are centered on the nurses having a voice in the quality of care available to their patients. For example, the hospital wants to eliminate the Professional Nurse Practice Committee, which meets monthly to discuss patient care issues, safety concerns, staffing, equipment and RN educational needs. As an alternative proposal to the elimination, the hospital wants to control the entire committee by appointing all its members. Currently, the union selects eight RNs to the committee while the hospital selects eight of its own members.
"(The hospital) wants to prevent independent voices from being on the committee. Our patients deserve to have union nurses on this committee, nurses willing to stand up for their patients," said Kathy Schleef, an RN who has worked at St. John's for 23 years.
Dougherty said the hospital is intentionally provoking this confrontation because they don't belive the RNs will strike. "This is a serious miscalculation on their part. While no one wants this strike, the RNs feel strongly that they must take a stand that allows them to be an active voice for their patients."
Another concern of the RNs is that keeping qualified nurses at St. John's is a crucial patient care issue. Colleen Schmitz, a 30-year veteran at St. John's, said the hospital's economic and other proposals could force "a majority exodus of qualified nurses."
Other proposals the hospital made:
• The hospital would give a three percent raise to some nurses, while others would get nothing for three years. An alternative proposal is a two percent raise with the possibility of a four percent "merit" raise controlled entirely by the hospital.
• The hospital would have the freedom to eliminate or modify health and welfare benefits–and other benefits–as they saw fit.
The Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service was involved in negotiations, but broke off December 1 after the hospital offered a package worse than the one rejected in November. The contract has been extended since it expired on October 22, though negotiations have been going on since early July.
"We're trying to resolve this without a strike, and have been since July 8 when talks first started," Dougherty added. "The hospital could avoid this strike, if they want to. We'll see how much they want to on December 15."
December 6, 2004
St. John's Nurses Standing Up To Employer Attack on Patient Care Standards
Negotiations Between Registered Nurses and Hospital Break Off
Registered Nurses Prepare to Mobilize Supporters in St. Louis and
Throughout the Region
More than 1,700 registered nurses at St. John's in St. Louis, Mo. are preparing for the fight of their lives – at a time when they would rather be helping patients fight for theirs. Negotiations between nurses and St. John's administrators broke off today as hospital administration continues their attack on professional nursing standards. RNs are preparing to mobilize support from local unions in St. Louis and throughout the region whose members spend millions of health care dollars at St. John's and other Sisters of Mercy Health System facilities.
The St. John's RNs organized for a voice on the job with the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 655 in 1999 so that caregivers would have a say over important patient care issues. Key to nurses' contract was the establishment of the Professional Nurse Practice Committee. Through this committee, caregivers are able to sit down with management to discuss and solve any worksite issues that negatively affects the quality of care nurses are able to provide. Nurses are also fighting to maintain professional compensation standards as key to maintaining high-quality care and a low-turnover workforce.
Now, St. John's management is making severe demands at the bargaining table that would severely curtail the RN's ability to continue the high quality care their patients deserve. The hospital's most recent proposal includes demands to:
· Eliminate the Professional Nurse Practice Committee where equal numbers of RNs and management can discuss patient care issues.
· Provide minimal wage increases, coupled with reductions in benefits and seniority protections.
Taken together, these demands would significantly threaten professional care standards and lead to turnover which would compromise patient care.
The St. John's nurses are proud to provide some of the highest quality care in the St. Louis region. Their work sustains this thriving Level 1 Trauma center that is the hub of the local medical community.
The nurses are working hard to avoid a work action like the one they were forced to take in 2001 when picket lines went up at the hospital for 72 hours. UFCW Local 655 is preparing, if needed, to reach out to labor unions in St. Louis, across the state of Missouri and in communities throughout the region to ask for their help. St. John's is part of the Sisters of Mercy Health System which operates health care facilities in Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. Union members in towns served by a Sisters of Mercy facility would be asked to contact their local hospital to put pressure on the health network to do the right thing in St. Louis.
"My job is taking care of patients and I take great pride in the work that I do. But if my employer continues to undermine my work and silences my voice over the quality of care we can provide, I'll have no choice but to take action," said a long-time nurse at St. Johns. "It broke my heart to carry a picket sign outside this hospital in 2001 because I never thought my employer would force me to take such drastic action. But I'm ready to do it again if I have to. Our patients are that important to me."
Negotiations between the hospital and UFCW Local 655 bargaining team have broken off and no further dates are scheduled.
"We are willing to meet with St. John's whenever the hospital is ready to move away from its draconian demands," said Jim Dougherty, President of UFCW Local 655. "We are working with our nurses to determine when to give St. John's the ten-day notice our contract requires that would end our extension and signal the beginning of a work action."
UFCW Local 655 will be holding a mass meeting in John's Mercy Medical Center. RN's should contact their union representatives or their local union for more information.
November 18, 2004
Food and Commercial Workers' President Takes Action to Protect Colorado Supermarket Workers
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is taking action today to prevent three supermarket giants from forcing employees to give up their health benefit plan. The loss of affordable health benefits could leave UFCW members and their families on the brink of economic crisis. UFCW International President Joe Hansen announced today that he has permanently blocked the company proposals presented on November 1, 2004, from Safeway, King Soopers and Albertsons. Hansen also issued an immediate call for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Services to bring the parties back to negotiations and work toward the best possible contract for Colorado supermarket workers.
"We are in a new era of national bargaining with the three supermarket giants — Safeway, Kroger and Albertsons. Our actions today are focused on one clear goal: protecting health benefits and securing the best possible contract for supermarket workers. We are moving to put the collective bargaining process back on track to resolve this situation without sacrificing affordable health care," said Hansen.
In a letter to UFCW Local 7 and the three supermarket companies, Hansen wrote: "I have now completed my review… and find that the proposals to end the jointly administered health and welfare plan…and the failure to cover additional stores…under the contract…could be injurious to our members."
The companies' proposal to move employees to a company-controlled health insurance plan would threaten affordable health care for tens of thousands of workers.
- Under the employer proposed company insurance, new hires would see drastic cuts in coverage and current hourly supermarket workers would face escalating premiums that would make quality family health coverage unaffordable.
- Historically, jointly-administered union and management health benefit trust funds have provided higher quality coverage for lower costs than if the employers purchased insurance on the open market.
- The employer demands would force workers to abandon any sense of security or voice over their health benefits and puts all control over cost and coverage into the hands of the supermarket companies.
- Employee pension coverage also risks serious cuts under the employers' proposal.
"UFCW members have proven that we have the strength and determination to hold the line against employer attacks on health benefits and we will do so again if we must. But, it is my obligation to make sure we have exhausted every possible option at the bargaining table and elsewhere before asking UFCW members to sacrifice on the picket line in order to protect affordable health care," continued Hansen.
Further, the supermarkets' demands to deny union representation to workers at new or expanded stores could leave hundreds of new supermarket employees in our communities without job security, workplace protections or a voice on the job.
Through the federal mediation and conciliation process, the UFCW International Union has been able to reach settlements across the country including ending the four and a half month long strike in Southern California.
The 1.4 million-member UFCW is America's neighborhood union representing workers in neighborhood grocery stores across the country. UFCW puts dinner on the table for America's families with members working in meatpacking and food processing. UFCW gives a voice to care with representation for nurses, medical technicians and nursing home workers.
November 9, 2004
Colorado Supermarket Contract Voting Halted
| UFCW International President
Joe Hansen
Joseph Hansen, International President of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), exercised his authority under Article 23(A) of the International Constitution to halt voting on the offer presented on November 1, 2004, from Safeway, King Soopers and Alberstons to more than 13,000 UFCW members represented by Wheat Ridge, Co., Local 7.
Article 23 (A) of the International Constitution gives the International President the right to review any proposed contracts prior to any membership action on the proposal. The purpose of Friday's action is to give the International President the opportunity to assess the potential impact of proposed contract provisions on other UFCW members across the country and to see if they meet the established objectives relating to wages, benefits and working conditions. Following the International President's review, he could either opt to restart or suspend (cancel) Colorado member voting on the existing proposal. In the event that voting is restarted, ballots cast prior to Friday's action would be counted.
"The supermarket chains bargaining with Local 7 in Colorado are large national corporations. Consequently, their proposals have national ramifications for our members," said International President Joe Hansen. "I owe an obligation to all UFCW members working in the grocery industry to fully review the current proposal to determine whether or not it would be injurious to them."
The UFCW International Union remains hopeful that ultimately an equitable solution can be reached between the parties.
November 4, 2004
Working America Turns Out For Change
Working America turned out in unprecedented numbers to support an agenda of change. Working families are demanding a different direction for the next four years, regardless of the final vote count. From better jobs to affordable family health care, a program for the economic rebuilding of working America— a working America that has suffered massive job loss, declining wages and the rapid erosion of affordable health insurance—now has the informed, mobilized and determined grassroots base to force its way onto the political agenda for the next four years.
""We turned out on election day, and we will not be turned around. We activated an army of working families for this election, and we are now mobilized to fight for a program to rebuild working America,"" said Joe Hansen, president of the 1.4 million member United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
Hansen congratulated the hundreds of UFCW local unions for their tireless and relentless work to register and turnout hundreds of thousands of union members, many of whom were first time voters. The UFCW is one of the largest unions overall, and one of the largest unions of working women, in most of the battleground states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. The UFCW, the largest union of workers under age 25, also collaborated with Rock the Vote and other youth-oriented programs to help generate a record turnout of young voters.
The efforts of the UFCW and the labor movement produced results. According to early reports, union members made up a record-shattering percentage of the electorate and provided a solid foundation of voters for change. The turnout numbers indicate a growing demand among working families for government action to restore the economic standing of the working middle class.
Despite a growing economy and increased productivity, workers have seen the steady outsourcing of good jobs, the steady decline of real wages, and a steady increase in health care costs and the number of uninsured working families. The Bush Administration launched an unrelenting assault on workers from its first days in office with the repeal of the ergonomic standard in early 2001 to proposing to take away overtime pay for millions of workers in 2004. More and more workers slid into poverty over the past four years threatening the future of a working middle class America.
Hansen declared, ""Implementing a program to rebuild working America is fight for the heart and soul of our country—will we continue to be a nation were hard work brings dignity, respect and a decent standard of living; or, will we be a nation where the wealth concentrates at the top while the many who do the work fall farther and farther behind?""
The first agenda item in a program to rebuild working America, according to the UFCW leader, is health care reform. ""There is no greater threat to family economic and personal security than the loss of health insurance. Without decent health insurance, most working families are only illness away from an economic crisis that could shatter the family and dim its hopes for the future. Affordable, accessible, comprehensive health care for all working families is the foundation of restoring the working middle class.""
A rebuild working America program would, according to Hansen, also focus government investment to generate job growth, raise the minimum wage and restore workplace rights.
""We don't want big government, we want effective government that acts to raise living standards and provide economic opportunity for working Americans,"" Hansen said.


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My 1 year old puppy had a weird black growth appear on his forehead. I picked it off at first due to a friend telling me too. I believed I got it all off. He bled for a hour or so but it didn't seem to harm him.
About a week later the black spot grew back. It is pretty elevated from the head and rough feeling. Some parts are look more grey color like a scab then others. I did some research and it seems as though it is a wart. I purchased a product called wart off that seems to be helping it to scan faster because it has caster oil in it.
I was wondering what you believed this to be.
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Remembering Today
Ok! Things are moving along with my next full-length, "Remembering Today," which will be released this fall in Japan on P-Vine/Blues Interactions. I just sent the final cd off to Tokyo to be mastered and the artwork will be finalized in late June by Doug Bowden, who has done work with Ninja Tune and others: www.pandayoghurt.co.uk
The album- for me, anyway- is more a collection of works than a proper "new album," and for those of you that are really up on my music, you will recognize certain songs:
"They'll Make A Video Game Out of Killing People Like You," a song originally made as an interlude for Diverse's album 1 AM, was an mp3 offered on Datura Records' Online Compilation, DATLOAD 3 (www.daturarecords.com)
"Summer On Cassette" is a song I have been passing around for a couple of years. Seven at Chocolate Industries asked me to remix Souls of Mischeif's song "Spark" from the Urban Renewal Program- originally produced by RJD2- and of course I flipped it completely differently. Well, I suppose- fearing that it wasn't Hip-Hop enough (thank God!)- it was scrapped and he got Edan to remix it for the 12″. Meanwhile, I had been rocking it in my live sets -vocals and all- and passing it around to friends. I had kind of forgotten about the track otherwise, but then Carlos Nino got in touch with me and asked for the instrumental. Well, he played it in a mix he did for the Gilles Peterson show in the UK where it was called "Spark Remix," and it found its way onto United Airlines radio programming. Plans for its release as a 7″ on Chocolate Industries were made and then abandoned, so it's finally going to see the light of day this year…
"Insect Headphones" is a remix I did for some guy named John whom I haven't talked to since 2000. All I remember is that it was one of those stories where someone gets a lot of people to remix their stuff and then never puts it out (this has happened to me three fucking times!). Honestly, I was not feeling the shit whatsoever, so I wound up skipping through the cd and based the song on that: varying the pitch of me skipping through his song and layering it all with subs and other sounds. John, wherever you are: if you read this, please don't take offense! I'm only being honest.
Suicide 7″
AND, as a segue, a song called "Suicide" on the record will be released as a 7″ by Chicago's Consumers Research & Development Label. It's an exclusive 7″ for the label and has two (!!) other songs on it. One of them is a piece made from a damaged Moody Blues CD that I took out from the library, entitled "The Plain Silvery Side of this Disc Is the Side Involved in Sound Reproduction. Be Careful Not to Scratch or Mistreat the Plain Silvery Side of the Disc." This is the helpful information the library gives you on stickers glued to the jewel cases which are almost always completely busted to begin with. The other song is called "Krylon Psychology," and was done in 2000 along with "For Earsnot (NYC)" (from my album "Stars On My Ceiling") for a class at NYU. The 7″ is getting mastered next week in Milwaukee by Trevor @ Mastermind, so it's going to sound BURNING. This guy's set-up is bananas.


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Singer/songwriter Ian Franklin is proud to announce the release of his debut album, "Breaking Grounds". This new full length album is being released on the heels of his successful "Step By Step" EP which was released in May of 2011. This release, for the Santa Rosa native, comes as a career high at the end of a near-decade of non-stop, whirlwind and frenetic coast-to-coast musical endeavors and evolution that have both educated and matured the young artist into a multi-faceted musical road warriorepreneur.
The epic journey, from graduating the Berklee College of Music with Bachelor Degrees in both Music Therapy and Songwriting; forming, recording and performing with the lauded Boston-based jazz-funk/groove-rock band Infinite Frequency; touring the United States and California several times over and then establishing his San Francisco-based Music Therapy practice, "Breaking Grounds" is truly Ian's masterpiece. "Breaking Grounds" features a cast of talented San Francisco musicians, and in true Bay Area spirit, there is no shying away from letting loose and jamming. The album takes the listener on a trip through psychedelic wailing guitar solos, horns pops (Adam Theis and Mike Olmos of Jazz Mafia, and Mark Growden), keyboard odysseys (Eric Levy of Garaj Mahal and Night Ranger), and more. The highly melodic and tight rhythmic interplay on this recording will harken the listener back to a time when musicianship, not just style, played an essential role in rock & roll. This album was produced by Ian Franklin and Ben Bernstein, who has produced many well-known projects, and played in a few different well known bands including New Monsoon.
The diversity of "Breaking Grounds" carries over from Ian's previous project, winners of the Boston Regional Global Battle Of The Bands; Infinite Frequency. Infinite Frequency, who went on to compete in the national Global Battle of the Bands Finals at the Key Club in Los Angeles, was described by WhisperinandHollerin.com as "fusing modern rock with jazz, funk, and '70s soul" while displaying "melodicism and top-notch playing… (that) will have people having flashbacks when musicianship, not just style, played an essential ingredient in rock & roll." And regarding lead singer Ian Franklin himself, he "owns a solid voice of his own, high and filled with life".
The Santa Barbara News-Press recently described Ian as, "… a rare petal - his group songs rock, led by guitar riffs that show the influence of both the Police and Tool. And his high voice can be reminiscent of Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze".
High praise indeed and with "Breaking Grounds", Ian hopes to generate much more of the same enthusiasm. Franklin's songs pull from his creative imagination, are often fueled by personal experiences and promote awareness about issues that he believes deserve attention or they simply provide joy and help relieve the stress of daily life. Promising diversely-inspired tunes influenced by a fusion of roots-rock, funk, jazz, blues and folk into a new genre he refers to as "Eclectic Pop-Rock," 'Breaking Grounds' is the clear and defining next chapter in the musical growth and maturity of this exceptionally gifted singer/songwriter.
"Breaking Grounds" was recorded by Ben Bernstein at Spliggityfidge Studios, Emeryville, and Petting Zoo Studio, Oakland with final mixing being completed at Petting Zoo Studio in early 2012. Petting Zoo Records out of Oakland, CA will release Franklin's new album June of 2012.
Throughout the 90's, Ian performed with many award-winning Sonoma County-based bands, honing his skills in the fusion rock-funk/hip-hop; Gollum, the Zappa-meets-Faith No More-infused; Cory's Slug, and the instrumental ambient/tribal-rock outfit; Wish. His first-ever recorded solo project was in 2001 when Ian teamed up Frank 'Side-Burns' Sanders to record his live acoustic EP, Finley Swims.
Constantly performing and creating, Ian, being the son of a Reichian therapist, and coming from a family of healers, is a private practice Board-Certified Music Therapist and Music Teacher who specializes in Geriatrics, Special Needs, Mental Health and Pediatrics. He maintains offices in Santa Rosa, San Francisco, the East Bay, and he works with clients throughout the Bay Area, as far south as San Jose.
About his passion for being a Music Therapist, Ian stated in the Santa Barbara News-Press, "It takes music to a whole new level… it's selfless. Usually music is all about your art, but in music therapy, it's all to do with the client. All my expectations go out the window".
Ian Franklin and Infinite Frequency "Breaking Grounds" CD/Digital release - June 5, 2012
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Mercury in any form is poisonous.
The phrase "Mad as a hatter" was coined in the late 1800s for hat makers who developed slurred speech, tremors, stumbling, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations from long-term exposure to mercury products used in the hat-making trade.
Mercury's toxicity was first noted in 1889 by Jean-Martin Charcot in his "Clinical Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System." In his classic textbook of neurology published in 1940, S.A. Kinnier Wilson concurred with Charcot's attribution of tremors to mercury poisoning and attributed other cognitive impairments such as inattention, excitement and hallucinosis to mercury exposure.
Yet even today, half of all dentists – and 4 out of 5 dental specialists — still use mercury amalgam to fill teeth. They'll never tell you this because the American Dental Association put a gag order on dentists not to talk about the fact that they're still using the half-silver-half-mercury fillings. The dental filling material is 50 percent mercury by weight.
I hope none of you are still letting your dentist put mercury in your tooth fillings. Some dentists – the half who still use mercury amalgams – will swear by them and will do flips when you say that you don't want mercury fillings.
Pay no attention. Because if there has ever been a health hazard, it is mercury.
I got onto the risk of mercury when I asked my dentist how he handled mercury in his office. He took every precaution by the book when handling it, yet he couldn't see the serious danger of leaving the mercury in folks' mouths every day.
And when they take them out, there's less material there than when the filling went in. The mercury, being soluble in fat, can get into every cell in your body, including your brain.
Some dentists are waking up, though more out of personal concern than concern for patients. According to a survey by "The Wealthy Dentist" published at International Academy of Oral Medicine & Toxicology, a Missouri dentists wrote, "We all seem to be concerned about the welfare of the patient, but I worry about the long-term effect of exposure to mercury to dentists and staff. For the last ten years, I have been conducting a research study on this very topic. I have discovered that all dentists and staff who either place or remove mercury fillings have extremely high levels of mercury in their systems. Some of the offices, like mine, do not place mercury fillings; they only remove them." A Texas dentist agreed, saying, "I have high levels of mercury in my system based on testing with my doctor."
Another rejected the survey as biased. "When we were in dental school we were taught they were 'Silver Amalgam' fillings. 'Mercury Amalgam' is a term invented by the media," he said.
Incredibly, despite knowing the dangers of mercury and knowing that dental amalgams release low levels of mercury vapor that can be inhaled and absorbed into the lungs and knowing that mercury vapor exposure is associated with adverse effects on the brain and kidneys, the FDA still recommends its use and against having mercury fillings removed.
Somehow, the system we live under causes doublethink. We think double when we try to have two opposing thoughts at the same time. This is also called cognitive dissonance.
In October, the University of Georgia's College of Public Health published a study in which they analyzed data from 15,000 individuals and determined that mercury fillings "significantly contribute to prolonged mercury levels in the body."
From the study, which the researchers involved claim is the "first to demonstrate a relationship between dental fillings and mercury exposure in a nationally representative population":
"Tooth decay is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases," said Lei Yin, PhD, MD, MS, a scientist in the department of environmental health science and the study's lead author. "I think a majority of people have experienced dental fillings, but the kind of materials the dentist uses isn't something that's really discussed."
"This study is trying to provide the most accurate levels of exposure, which will form the scientific basis to make future risk assessment," said Xiaozhong "John" Yu, PhD, MD, MS, assistant professor of environmental health science and coauthor of the study, noting that the work also is the first to control for age, education, ethnicity, race, gender, smoking, and seafood consumption.
The researchers further analyzed exposure by specific types of mercury and found a significant increase in methyl mercury, the most toxic form of mercury, related to dental fillings. Yu said this result suggests the human gut microbiota may transform different types of mercury.
Dental amalgam has been used as a filling material for more than 150 years because it is affordable and durable. Half of the compound contains mercury, though, a heavy metal known to be toxic at high levels, causing brain, heart, kidney, lung, and immune system damage. New research suggests methyl mercury may cause damage even at low levels.
"As toxicologists, we know that mercury is poison, but it all depends on the dose," said Yu. "So if you have one dental filling, maybe it's okay. But if you have more than 8 dental fillings, the potential risk for adverse effect is higher."
People with numerous dental fillings who are also exposed to mercury from other sources such as seafood or work environments are most at risk. People with more than 8 fillings had about 150% more mercury in their blood than those with none. The average American has 3 fillings, while 25% have 11 or more fillings.
The researchers also examined other composite resins in use and found that they release small amounts of bisphenol A (BPA), which is known to cause developmental and reproductive damage along with obesity and other endocrinal disorders.
I had my mercury fillings replaced years ago, though now I worry about the BPA that has been found in them. But it can't be worse than mercury dangers.
On his blog, Dr. David Brownstein writes that mercury fillings should be banned and ADA sued:
I have tested thousands of patients for their heavy metal levels and I can assure you that mercury toxicity is, unfortunately, all-too-common. I would estimate that about 80% of the patients I have tested have high mercury levels. Most of these patients were mercury toxic due, in large part, to their mercury fillings.
The most common sources of mercury come from eating fish and dental fillings.
The ADA should be sued for defending the use of mercury fillings and for continuing to claim that mercury fillings are a safe dental materiel.
Care must be taken in extracting mercury amalgams. They must be carefully rotated out or an overload of mercury is released. To find a dentist near you who can safely take them out, refer to the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology website.


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Hi. I'm Karen. Thanks for stopping by today.
Currently based in Little Rock, Arkansas, I have degree in journalism with a photojournalism emphasis. I began my professional photography career at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette where I was a staff photographer for more than 15 years.
When I'm not shooting, you can probably find me in my garden, on my yoga mat or hiking something -- somewhere.
I love collaborating with my clients and getting to know them. I do whatever it takes to put my clients at ease by making photography fun, creative and enjoyable. I work closely with my clients to take their project from concept to completion. My photo projects have taken me across the street and around the globe. Working under pressure or in a fast-paced environment comes second nature to me.
After being on assignment in Baghdad, there's little that I cannot handle.
While on staff with Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, I spent two months embedded in Iraq with Arkansas' 39th Infantry Brigade as part of their peace keeping efforts to help rebuild the war-torn country after the second Gulf War invasion.
When your next project needs commercial video production, I can help with that too. Along with my husband, I own BackFocus Productions - a full service production company specializing in local and national commercials.
Clients: Google, Entergy Arkansas, Martin-Wilbourn Partners, The Design Group, Ogilvy, EXIT Marketing, ODEA, Big River Steel, Arkansas Business Publishing Group, Steele +, CJRW, The City of Little Rock, Little Rock Technology Park, Evo Business Environments, Arkansas Economic Development Commission, Stamp out Smoking, The Savory Pantry, Superior Bathhouse Brewery, Lindsey Binz Home Company, Lookout Point Lakeside Inn, Delta Dental of Arkansas, Arkansas Children's Hospital, e.Republic | Smart Media for Public Sector Innovation, Reuters, Clinton National Airport, Greenpeace, Associated Press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The (UK) Independent, Magnet Media, Root Publishing, Food Network, P. Allen Smith, Stephens, Inc., Bonnie Plants, BackFocus Productions, Milken Family Foundation, Manifest, Episcopal Collegiate School, Quest Middle School of Pine Bluff, Arkansas Bar Association, Rubber & Gasket Company of America, The University of Arkansas, The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Arkansas Fay Jones School of Architecture, John Brown University, The University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Hiring Our Heroes, Southern Governor's Association, Saveur magazine, Soiree' magazine, Cooking with Paula Deen magazine, At Home in Arkansas magazine, Arkansas Life Magazine, Pace Communications, Parthenon Publishing, Consumer Reports magazine, VancoreJones Communications, Southern Bancorp, Eagle Bank, Evraz North America, Lexicon, Inc., Infineum USA L.P., and The Winthrop Rockefeller Institute.
I've been at this for a while so I know that no two projects are alike so let's talk.
Any questions: Call me: 501-607-0090, Contact me or e-mail me.
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And yes...that's me under there. It was -15 when this was taken and yes, I am as cold as I look.
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I'd love to have an image here, but I can't find a decent non-copyrighted one. If you'd like to see the machine described, plug "Vendo 81" into your favorite search engine's image search.
This is a sentence fragment from a short story I'm working on; the protagonist is seeing ghosts of vending machines past. The one that's being described here was an old machine in the 1970s when I was a little kid and I ran into one or two of them at older country stores in Wisconsin. Older ones were round-topped, 'newer' ones made in the 1950s and early 60s were square-topped; they displayed soda in bottles behind a rectangular glass door, with the necks of the bottles pointing the bottlecaps straight at you from round holes.
If you haven't seen one, it's a little hard to imagine, maybe. Give "Vendo 81" a search and you'll see.
Here's the phrase that tickled me when I wrote it:
"…a dime for a small glass bottle; for a moment the little bottles are solid reality, lined up vertically behind a rectangular glass door, their necks sticking out of their holes like Coca-gophers."
Sure I could go for a cold Coca-gopher right now. Couldn't you?


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What I like about this is the hearty dimension of the teak, and it's low-slung relaxed appearance. Restoration Hardware teak actually weathers pretty nicely, taking on a silvery grey patina. This particular sofa is a small, compact dimension, making it a great choice for an urban backyard or rooftop, and and the style neutral, so it's very versatile.
Dimensions: L52 x 36W x28H
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Small Houses
Jeremy Quentin is the man behind US based project "Small Houses". His characteristically poetic lyricism and soft vocals are set to the tune of simple fingerstyle guitar. Quentin's voice is gravelly and worn; it tells the story of insight beyond his years. He's in a state of constant movement. Traversing from city to city bringing his belongings in the back of a car is the perfect incubator for dense storytelling.
Jeremy tours mostly alone, but his new record "Still Talk: Second City" honors the connections he's made in the lone expeditions. It features over 10 additional players to bolster his autobiographical songwriting. Quentin was born and raised in Flint, MI but has called many cities across the nation his intermittent home.
Session Tracklist
1. Revel
2. The Last Night of Summer
3. Staggers and Rise
4. South, Southern
5. Old Habits
6. Oh, Hiding Out (Download Exclusive)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Band Members
Jeremy Quentin – Guitar and Vocals
Visit the band's website
For our friends who live in countries where YouTube is blocked, watch the session on Vimeo.


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Learn to create mouth-watering food illustrations!
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We're all a little bit obsessed with food! And because we love it so much, food makes the perfect subject for a fun and easy illustration project. My new food illustration class at skillshare.com will help you create an illustrated poster of your favourite food … Continued


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Sol Invictus—Installation Views
For the past few years I have been altering satellite images appropriated from scientific and mapping applications, first with Google Earth, stitching hundreds of images and altering them to be printed in platinum/palladium, and now compositing images of the sun from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite.
With these new large-scale photo-based installations I manipulate appropriated images of the sun and print on clear film backed with gold leaf. The series stems from origins in ancient sun worship and its evolution to the worship of gold and to what could now be seen as the worship of technology. Dependence on technology, and the potentially devastating effect this year's solar storms could have on it, caused me to look more closely to the sun, and reexamine that original idea of the Invincible Sun.
The nature of the gold leaf makes photographing them difficult, and I am working on scanning some of the larger ones, and will update my website with more from the series soon. Until then, here are a few installation views from the August show at Philadelphia's 3rd Street Gallery.


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Chemical terrorist attack 'huge concern' says London fire chief
Britain's most senior fire chief has warned that the potential for a terrorist chemical attack in the country is a "huge concern".
Dany Cotton, recently appointed first female commissioner of London Fire Brigade, said she would be increasing the number of chemical attack practice drills carried out by her crews.
She also suggested the public needed more education about what to do in the event of an attack.
Her comments came just days after the security minister warned Islamic State in Iraq and Levant (Isil) terrorists wanted to use chemical weapons in a mass casualty attack against Britain.
Ben Wallace said: "They have no moral objection to using chemical weapons against populations and if they could, they would in this country."
Isil fighters have been accused of repeatedly using chemical weapons on the front line in Iraq and Syria and one leading expert in the field said they were becoming "the norm" for the group.
Ms Cotton told the BBC: "I think the chemical attack is a really big threat because its an unseen one, it's something you do with a relatively small amount of chemical if you can find the means to disperse it."
She said in the event of such an attack, the public would need to make sure they did not inadvertently spread deadly chemicals.
She said: "The natural reaction would be if something happens to run away and go somewhere else. But that just spreads it, which is what the terrorist wants. It's very important that people stay contained and allow the emergency services to help them and out and to deal with the situation."
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a former Army officer and chemical warfare expert, said such an attack may not kill many people, but would have a huge psychological impact. He said an attack need not use military grade chemical weapons, but could involve industrially available gases such as chlorine.
He said: "One of the challenges for Isil in this country is that actually doing an active shooter attack like in Paris is very difficult because they can't get guns.
"For Isil that's the preferred modus operandi and it's not going to happen in this country. That's why why they are keen to focus on asymmetric attacks, like chemical attacks."


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Metabones lens adapters are some of our most popular rentals. Pretty much every time someone rents a Sony FS100 or FS700 from us they also want a Metabones adapter to go with it so they can use Canon glass instead of Sony's less popular lenses.
This makes us very happy to announce that we now have the brand new Metabones Speedbooster for rent. It has the same main functionality as the original Metabones adapter allowing you to attach Canon glass to Sony cameras, but has the added benefits of making your lenses both wider and faster.
The Speed Booster increases aperture by one full stop and also makes the lens .71x wider. This means that if you are shooting with a 50mm f/1.2 lens, this adapter essential makes it a 35mm f/0.9 lens. The added light can definitely make a use difference when in a low-light situation.
If you're interested in renting the Metabones Speed Booster adapter you can see more about it here on our website.
The Metabones Speedbooster is also available for purchase at B&H.


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Food: Seared Tuna and Noodles
So one of my favorite things to do is go to this Asian market called H-Mart and spend hours there trying new food, buying spices and oils that are not at my local grocer, and checking out the fresh fish and veggies section which is always amazing. I don't usually have a plan for what I am buying (I probably should) but it is really an adventure. So this week I purchases a random mix of goodies:
Daiei Undon (noodles)
Toasted Sesame oil
Nori (seaweed wrappers)
Goya coconut milk
Thai red curry paste
Fresh Vegetable chips (actually veggies sliced and crispy fried like zucchini, carrot, sweet potato so good)
Crystallized sea salt
2 fresh tuna steaks
Homemade seaweed salad
I felt like a contestant on that show Chopped and I wanted to find a cool way to use all the ingredients plus a few more to make a great dinner. So this is what I called East meets East because two different styles of Asian cuisine on the same plate: Seared Tuna with Red curry Undon noodles. Enjoy!
Red Curry Undon:
1 tablespoon of sesame oil
1 can of coconut milk
1 tablespoon of red curry paste
2.5 servings of Undon noodles
Heat your wok up with the sesame oil on the bottom, shake your can of coconut milk and then pour into the wok, then add your curry paste and wisk till all the ingredients have married. Get a good boil on it and then let simmer. In a separate pot get some water boiling for your noodles, let cook for 3minutes and then strain and rinse with cold water. Add the noodles to the curry broth.
Tuna spice rub:
Nori (seaweed wrapper)
Vegatable Chips
1/3 tablespoon of salt
1/2 tablespoon of pepper
½ table spoon of thyme
½ tablespoon of garlic powder
Mix all of these in the food processor or blender till they are finely mixed together and set aside. Next take a frying pan and put a tablespoon of sesame oil in it, place over the fire and let the pan get really hot. Now take your Tuna steaks and dip each side into the seaweed mixture and place in the hot pan for 45secs on each side.
Asian Aioli sauce:
2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
¾ tablespoon of sesame oil
A splash of white wine (loosen up the mixture)
1 tablespoon of the remaining seaweed rub from the tuna
Wisk all of these ingredients together and drizzle this deliciousness lol over the sliced tuna.
Take your noodles and tuna and plate, add your seaweed salad and choose a nice pair of chop stick and grab someone you like and enjoy!


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Free Webinar: The Ecology of Breast Cancer with Ted Schettler, MD, MPH
Breast Cancer Action hosted a free webinar discussion with Ted Schettler, science director of the Science & Environmental Health Network. Dr. Schettler discussed his new (free) book The Ecology of Breast Cancer: The Promise of Prevention and the Hope for Healing. Dr. Schettler's book examines the breast cancer epidemic through an eco-social framework, recognizing the ways that family, community and societal experiences shape the health of individuals and populations. To hear a recording of the webinar and learn more about other webinars, please click here.


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Steelers running back Jonathan Dwyer showed up for training camp as a lean, mean, fighting machine. It wasn't enough to get him a spot on the 53-man roster.
Cut after signing a one-year, $1.323 million tender offer as a restricted free agent, Dwyer is lining up workouts this week, according to Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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The Water Tank Project is an awareness campaign that hopes to make people more conscious about the amount of water they use in their daily lives and the importance of having clean drinking water.
Starting in the spring of 2013, water towers all across New York City will be decked out in artwork that all relates to the theme of water. The artwork will be created by established artists, street artists and even New York City art students.
So if you happen to be walking through New York City somewhere down the road, you might just look up to see some installments of the The Water Tank Project. Hopefully, the beautiful creations will inspire you to turn off that drizzling sink and not waste water.
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Gifts in Memory
A gift in memory is a wonderful way to remember someone you have lost. Choosing to honour a friend, relative or a beloved pet with a gift in memory can mean a great deal at a time of sadness and through supporting the work of MADRA you can be assured you are doing something in their name that will make a real difference.
By giving a gift in memory you will be helping us continue to carry out the vital work we do rescuing and re-homing hundreds of dogs in need of our help each year. A gift in memory at your time of loss could mean hope and a lifeline for one of the many unwanted dogs coming into our care.
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Gift in a Will
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My friend Judy was at it again with another brilliant idea. (I should really make a "tag" for her so you can see all of the artwork we've collaborated on.) Her husband's birthday was coming up and she wanted to give him a custom piece featuring Jeremiah 17:7-8 with a tree of some sort and maybe a river running across it somehow. I'm not sure if this is what she had in mind originally but I ended up creating the artwork on barnwood with a typography mixture of my handlettering with a clean, sans serif font. I fell in LOVE with it and I'm hoping they did too!
As always, I'm deeply encouraged by the scripture I have the blessing of working with. There is beautiful hope and pure Truth in these verses. Oh, I just love it.


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Later, I took matters into my own hands. I decided I would learn biblical Hebrew. Then I met Shannon, who mercifully took matters out of my hands and said, "Biblical Hebrew is the least marketable thing on the planet, behind even the ability to operate carnival rides. I won't marry you if you learn biblical Hebrew. Or become a carnie." So I had to study Arabic so that Shannon would marry me.
|"Why can't you even say 'hola' right?" Grace and Violet at El Boqueron, 2015.
I remember studying Arabic in Syria, where I would figuratively bash my head against the workbooks, trying to stuff words and grammatical rules into my brain. Meanwhile, my roommate would watch James Bond movies with Arabic subtitles out in the living room. The next day in class when it came my turn to answer questions, I'd scrunch my eyes closed, searching the folds of my grey matter for words I'd learned only hours before, but which had either vanished or been replaced by Paul Simon lyrics I'd been subconsciously reviewing during my walk to class. Meanwhile, my roommate would effortlessly insert new vocabulary words into his Arabic sentences, words that he'd seen only once -- never heard -- in one of the subtitles during one of the action sequences on Live and Let Die. By the time I arrived home from Damascus nine months after arriving, I could order a shwarma with extra garlic, tell a microbus driver to stop and let me off the bus, count to 20 with minimal stumbling, and tell people I didn't like Hizbullah.
Now, years later, I'm learning Spanish for my job. I'm allegedly proficient. I figured Spanish would be pretty easy after Arabic. And that's been true to some extent. But Spanish being easier than Arabic doesn't eliminate the fact that I blow at Spanish. Spanish and English having so many cognates actually kind of messes me up, because I can never remember if I'm supposed to add an "-o" or an "-ado" or an "-iente" or a "-mente," or if it's a straight up cognate, like "recomendable" or a not-quite-cognate, like "expectativa." Interestingly -- and somewhat masterfully -- whenver I have a 50/50 guess to make, I get it wrong 100% of the time.
Moreover, even though I pretty much blow at Arabic too, even after more than a decade of studying and using it, I keep on throwing Arabic into my Spanish sentences, especially when I'm trying to speak quickly. For instance, I say "yanni" all the time when I'm stuck in a Spanish sentence, "yanni" being an Arabic word that simultaneously means nothing and everything and that you say and linger on when you're stuck in an Arabic sentence.
But best of all is when my brain corrupts the simplest of Spanish words and then my mouth hurls them at my confused listeners. "Holo!" I greeted somebody last week. I learned how to say "Hola" in like first grade, and now, after 30 years of saying it correctly, I suddenly forgot how to say it, now that they're paying me to say it. Or, during an attempt to formulate the second most basic Spanish word, "gracias," I somehow managed to tell the waiter, "Greesa!" Sounds like a vaguely tasty Mediterranean dish. Or what an Italian pyro would say upon creating a grease fire?