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How to Change the Beer World and Have a Whole Lot of Fun
Inevitably, it seems, what is good and what is fun can be most accurately represented by those little cartoon angels and devils that perch on our shoulders and whisper conflicting suggestions into our befuddled ears. Who would have guessed that the simple—or complicated, as deep-enders like myself practice it—act of homebrewing could join together good and fun in one sparkling amber liquid.
Okay, it isn't saving-babies-in-Africa good, but American homebrewers have profoundly changed the beer scene for the better. We've made it pretty easy to get a palatable beer just about anywhere, and we've resuscitated a number of dead or dying beer styles. What we've accomplished in addition to that, is nothing less than preventing beer, a 10,000-year cultural treasure of humanity, from slipping into a coma of faceless industrial anonymity.
If you are a homebrewer, stick your arm up in the air, bend your elbow, turn your hand around and give yourself a few hearty whacks on the back. You've earned it. Through a passion and dedication driven by a sheer love of the beverage and its lore, homebrewers have experimented, evangelized, prophesied, and given up jobs their moms were perfectly proud of to put on rubber boots and brew beer in brewpubs and micros, bringing all their happy baggage with them.
It is a supreme accomplishment to have made some of the largest and most powerful corporations that are the industrial brewers do a bunch of things they'd really rather not have done. Remember, at the first frenzied peak of craft brew activity, that all the big fish started thrashing around, making stouts, buying micros, and generally acting as if their world just might be coming to an end. For a hundred years, Big Beer set the direction—paler, lighter, weaker and less bitter—with a profound sense of inevitability. And then, horrors! Geeks in their basements had taken the helm.
It is probably for the best that the 45 percent annual growth of craft brewing didn't continue, as it might have gotten large enough for the product to be worthwhile for industrial brewers. But (whew!) the pressure's off, and they can get back to cannibalizing their core brands with the latest licensed alcopop fad of the day and doing whatever it is they do in those cubicles.
The changes we've wrought on the industry remain. Craft beer has solidly established itself and isn't going to fade away. Even in Europe, American-style craft brewing is serving as a model for the future of specialty beer.
A Worty Woodstock
So that's good. Really good. But does all this saintly do-gooding leave any time to kick back and enjoy the rewards? You better believe it.
Put two homebrewers and a few well-crafted beers together, and you've got a rocking party. Put 1,500 of them in a park in southern California for three days in May, doing what homebrewers do, and it's a sublime state of bliss, a sort of worty Woodstock. The Southern California Homebrew Festival, with ever more elaborate serving displays, and ever more beer, topped off with lectures, barbecue, and even a homebrewed band, is the largest gathering of homebrewers on the planet.
The Gulf Coast Region seems to produce very competitive-minded clubs. A series of homebrew competitions that double as mini conferences in Dallas, Orlando and Houston occupy much of the year for brewers down South. These events are run with much passion and good humor. At Houston's Dixie Cup, homebrew legend Fred Eckhardt has been cast as an alien, a bandito, a dominatrix, and this year, as a ghoul in the "Night of the Living Fred." The boundaries get pushed with special competition categories like "The Beer That Burns Twice" (chili beers). This year, it's "Monster Mash," big beers made with the addition of your choice of Halloween candy to the brew.
Hundreds of homebrew competitions take place at the local, regional and national levels. The Beer Judge Certification Program qualifies and tracks judges as well as sanctions competitions. Many local competitions tie together to offer regional "best of" awards; the Gulf Coast is one such circuit. The MCAB (Master's Championship of Amateur Brewing) awards points to individuals at sanctioned competitions, then brings the best of the best together for a final gun down. Beer and Sweat, the world's largest keg-only homebrew competition, rocks Cincinnati in August with about 130 entries.
The American Homebrew Association National Competition is the biggest of all—3,000 beers, fed into a number of regional first-round sites, and culminating in June at the AHA National Conference where the finalists are chosen and crowned.
Competitions are the surest way to hone your brewing skills. The ruthless honesty of a blind judging gives you feedback that your pals never will. You improve or else.
Homebrewers do more than homebrew; they're in the vanguard of promoting interest in quality commercial beer. The most active Washington, DC-area club, the Brewers United for Real Potables (BURP), hosts a specialized beer conference called "The Spirit of Belgium" on a roughly every other year basis. My own club, the Chicago Beer Society—a beer appreciation club run mostly by homebrewers—helps Ray Daniels put on Real Ale Fest, the largest gathering of real ales outside of Britain, and hosts five or six other commercial beer events a year. A favorite is the Brewpub Shootout, where local brewpubs compete fiercely for best beer, best food, and best pairing.
National Recognition
There are genuinely nationwide events as well. The American Homebrew Association coordinates a project called "Big Brew," on National Homebrew Day (surprise!), the first Saturday in May. The idea is to get lots of people brewing at sites across the country at the same time. Sites are typically backyards, but Chuck Skypeck of Bosco's brewpub in Memphis hosts the local club in his parking lot, and goes so far as to provide participants with brewery-fresh wort for their beers. This year, 196 registered sites across five continents brewed 5,235 gallons of homebrew.
Next June, Chicagoland brewers will proudly host the 25th annual National Homebrew Conference, sponsored by the American Homebrew Association, but for the last few years run mostly by local homebrew clubs. "Sweet HomeBrew Chicago" will feature a dazzling array of speakers, programs, and good, clean homebrew goofiness. Prizes will be awarded for the best booth at Club Night, and for the club that brings the most beer to the conference. The repertoire on Saturday will expand to include foods, especially those, like cheese, that have a traditional association with beer. Courses in appreciation as well as preparation will precede a lavish "Real Beer, Real Food" tasting event. Check the website, chibeer.org/aha03, to see how things are coming along, or better, to get involved.
Randy Mosher
Randy Mosher is a freelance art and creative director, lecturer, and author of numerous books and articles on beer and brewing.


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The Chronicle gathered information about large donations made by individuals to organizations with charity or foundation status under section 501(c)3. To make this year's Philanthropy 50 list, a donor had to give at least $37.5 million. Donors came from a number of industries, including insurance, real estate, finance, healthcare, and technology.
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Penny Lewis profiles the next generation of female architects
It has become fashionable in recent years to replace the word equality with diversity.
The assumption is that women must be accommodated in the profession because they bring 'different' qualities to the process of making buildings and places.
Samir Pandya from the RIBA Equality Forum talked recently about how, 'alternative perspectives and contextual understanding can both enrich our cities and alter the terms on which we judge them'. The idea that a diverse profession made up of 'different' genders and ethnic backgrounds gives rise to a rich culture of architecture is debatable.
Certainly young female architects are challenging conventional practice, but not because they are driven by an ideological commitment to assert their gender difference or identity. The impetus seems to be coming from a desire to address the practical question of how they can operate creatively throughout their career on an equal footing with their male peers.
Of the young female architects featured here, it's clear they don't think of themselves as 'different'. Miya Ushida works for Ushida Findlay Architects, a practice set up by her mother and father in the 1980s. 'The fact that I am female makes no difference in the practice at all,' she says.
Ushida also recognises that in the current climate, 'you have to work hard to win commissions and sometimes that means late evenings and weekends. I don't have children so I can only imagine how hard it would be to juggle professional and family life. I think my generation accept that you can't have it all.' This sentiment is echoed by other interviewees, whose architectural work is driven by passions unconnected to their gender. Where their practice is unconventional, it springs from the aspiration for more creative and personal freedom.
There are two ways to think about the contemporary question of women in architecture. One deals with intellectual concerns relating to the nature and boundaries of the profession, the other with practical questions of employment and child-rearing. While on the surface these two areas of concern may look as if they are completely divorced from each other, in practice they are what could be described as dialectical.
Take for example the practice of Nicola Read. Read founded the 815 Agency in 2010 and the agency's name deliberately flouts the tradition of taking the name of the individual founders (not a new idea) but goes a step further into the anonymous and ordinary by taking the time of the train she used to take to Nottingham for a previous teaching job. Read studied at the University of Cambridge and London Met, and worked for Hopkins Architects, DRDH and Florian Beigel's ARU and now teaches undergraduates at Kingston University.
815 Agency does not 'build buildings' but through 'provocations' seeks to 'explore and delight in architecture, playfulness and the city'. Read's work, undertaken for public clients as part of teaching and as personal speculative projects, explore themes such as 'abandoned spaces, urban infrastructures, narrative, ritual, spectacle, collectivity and play'.
Read's work can be understood within a tradition established by Liza Fior at Muf (a predominately female practice) in the mid-90s. Muf describes its practice as 'driven by an ambition to realise the potential pleasures that exist at the intersection between the lived and the built'. For Muf, the creative process is underpinned by a capacity to establish effective client and broader user relationships, hence the emphasis on consultation.
This theme has had a significant influence on British architectural thinking over the past decade. But Read's approach can equally be seen to work within another strand of thinking that incorporates the philosophy of both Cedric Price and Florian Beigel, who looked beyond the building as a single autonomous object to the creation of architectural infrastructure.
Read's approach to client relations, public space and the profession is echoed in the work of Fran Balaam of Pie Architecture. Balaam trained at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, University of East London and London Metropolitan then worked in practice in London and New York. On Pie's website, buildings carry the same status as urban design, research and teaching. Clearly a significant amount of creative energy is invested in the relationship with the client throughout the briefing, design and development process.
Since Balaam set up Pie with her business partner Michael Corr, they have both become more sensitive to clients' attitudes to young female architects. Often clients are sceptical about the abilities of young women to manage complex situations. 'I don't think it's different because I am a young woman, but at times it can seem unfair. One of the benefits is that I have to work harder to build relationships with clients and they are then strong relationships,' says Balaam.
Like many of her peers, having seen working mothers struggle to play anything beyond a perfunctory role in traditional offices, she understands that this kind of freedom may be important to her in the future. The key factor in which these twenty-somethings are different is not their gender, identity or cultural upbringing, but the fact that they will be confronted with difficult choices in the next few years. They will have to decide if they want to have a family and maintain their position in a profession in which wages barely cover childcare costs. As a result, it's likely that they will adopt a more flexible interpretation of what it means 'to practice'.
Anna Gibb is currently working towards her Part 3. Gibb studied in Aberdeen in Alan Dunlop's hand-drawing master's unit and has picked up a number of drawing prizes since she graduated. She is currently working for Glasgow's MAST Architects, getting valuable site and project management experience during the day while continuing her drawing projects at night. 'I just love drawing. I envision something in my head and I have to draw it. I'm learning a lot during the day – but I am following the designs of others.
I want the freedom to be creative and drawing provides that. I have thought about setting up a practice with friends, but I think it will be in 10 years' time when I have more experience.' In a decade, Anna will be 38 and the point at which she hopes to launch her own practice will coincide with the period when she might be expected to be bringing up a young family. 'I'm happy not thinking about that. I am sure that I am going to be an architect, but I don't have the same control over what happens in my personal life.'
It's easier to plan for the future if you run your own practice. After studying and working in Australia and London, Elena Tsolakis became a founding partner with her father in Kyriakos Tsolakis Architects. She thinks women architects are slightly better represented in Cyprus than they are in the UK, which may be because Cyprus has a larger proportion of small private practices that are set up on the basis of a modest commission from a relative and then sustained because they allow women the flexibility to bring up children and practice. 'I have chosen to be self-employed because it gives me more control over what I do and when I do it. One day when I decide to have children, I will have more time and more flexibility.'
Penny Lewis is a lecturer at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and edited the Scottish architecture magazine Urban Realm (formerly Prospect), 2003-2008
Nicola Read (29)
815 Agency, London
The Chip Factory, Tate Britain
The 815 Agency was commissioned by Home Live Art to create a 'mini landscape' for the Tate Local at Tate Britain in September 2011. The Tate Local programme aims to enhance people's relationships to the places where they live, work and play by connecting communities and celebrating creativity and innovation.
The Chip Factory was designed to be playful and engage the broadest section of the public with the origins of the humble chip. Members of the public were invited to dig their own potato from the bed, wash, peel, rinse and chop it, before it was fried and returned to them as a cone of chips.
Fran Balaam (30)
Pie Architecture, London
The London, Whitechapel
The London seeks to recognise the importance of the Royal London Hospital to Whitechapel and the wider city. Behind the remnants of the original Royal London Hospital buildings, a new hospital has been growing.
Pie has been awarded a High Street 2012 grant to develop and implement its project to record the disappearing story of the hospital. As the relationship of the hospital with the urban fabric of Whitechapel changes, the project aims to encourage a dialogue about the future of the area. The project, which is both permanent and ephemeral, includes the installation of physical pieces to mark out and record local history and the revival and creation of customs and events.
Miya Ushida (28)
Ushida Findlay, London
York Art Gallery
This project involves the renovation and extension to the existing Grade II-listed York Art Gallery, which will bring it up to international standards. York is a city that is rich in history and it has been an interesting part of the process to merge a traditional structure with new ideas.
One of the most exciting elements is the 'secret gallery', a Victorian arched roof space that has been closed off to the public for many years, which Ushida Findlay open up and connect with the rest of the gallery space, as well as the city.
Anna Gibb (28)
MAST Architects, Glasgow
Heaven and Hell
Anna enjoys working in an office environment but finds drawing allows her complete freedom. After graduating and working in Australia, she returned to Scotland and now works for MAST Architects on social housing projects while continuing to draw.
Heaven and Hell is inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy and is a personal reflection on the seven best and worst things about the profession. Hell is: money (recession), housebuilders, regulations, time (lack thereof), so-called 'icons', clients (some of) and architectural waffle. Heaven is: the office environment, clients (can be great), money, grid-iron city plans, medieval towers, a heart (the love of it) and the Pantheon (awe-inspiring).
Elena Tsolakis (30)
Kyriakos Tsolakis, Nicosia and London
Women's Refuge Nicosia, Cyprus
The Association for the Prevention and Handling of Violence in the Family (SPAVO)'s new centre in Nicosia is the first purpose-built women's shelter in Cyprus.
This new €1.1 million shelter will house accommodation, space for counselling and the charity's offices. The four-storey building will have two separate entrances for the shelter and offices. The character of the shared spaces and bedrooms will respond to the needs of the women and their children. Built on a corner site, the shelter organises rooms around a central courtyard so as to connect the guests with the consoling rhythm of the seasons.
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Rebels earn eighth consecutive Section 7AA crown
The undefeated Moose Lake/Willow River Rebels played nearly perfect football on a cold and misty Halloween to stun the Mesabi East Giants. The final score was 62-6. The game was played at Duluth Public Schools Stadium and the Rebels claimed their eighth consecutive Section 7AA championship crown.
The Rebels had only one penalty on each side of the ball plus one for an on-side kick that failed to travel the required 10 yards. They dominated throughout the game, spreading the ball around on offense and racing for long touchdown runs while getting the Giants to cough up the ball on numerous turnovers. The Rebels hands and gloves were like gorilla glue, committing no fumbles. Moose Lake/Willow River (ML/WR) never had to punt and the reserves turned the ball over just once on downs after they were moved back from the redzone with a holding penalty.
Jon Evenson and Josh Petterson each had two rushing scores while David Moonen, Dylan Lovegreen and Bryceton Butkiewicz each scored. On the defensive side of the ball, it was JJ Saylor, Lovegreen, Hunter Halverson and Kody Gerard each notching a fumble recovery with Gerard scooping up his second scampering for a score of the season. Jeremiah Chavez and Alex Kenemore each recorded a pass interception and Ezra Szczyrbak increased his number of quarterback sacks.
The Giants kicked off to the Rebels and Lovegreen returned to the 41. Lovegreen had two middle to midfield and Moonen went middle right for a first down. Pettersen went right for five and Moonen ran the left middle for another first down. Petterson gained nothing, but followed for four on the middle left to the 29. It was Evenson on a counter for a 29-yard touchdown run. Moonen took a right pitch for the two-point conversion and ML/WR was up 8-0 at 7:40.
On the ensuing kick, it was Gerard scooping up a loose ball on one bounce and scampering 40 yards for the stunning score. Pettersen got the extra points for 16-0 at just 7:26.
Mesabi East was able to move the ball with surprising success as they recorded three first downs to the 11, but an illegal procedure hurt and no gain followed. On a weak pass, where it appeared the quarterback may have been hit, it was Chavez picking the duck clean for a turnover at 2:25.
Lovegreen ran for two and Moonen ran for a first down. A pass out to Moonen from Brad Fossum was good for six on the right side. Pettersen hit the middle left for three and Evenson ran for a first down to close out the quarter with the Rebels riding a 16-0 spread in the increasing rain.
It did not take long for the Rebels to cash in and increase the lead. From the 39, it was Evenson sprinting 61 yards and Moonen making the conversion look easy on the right side for 24-0 at only 11:47.
Charlie Adamczak made a good high kick to the 10 and Halverson was on the tackle. A run right found Kenemore there and a run middle was met by Ike Pederson and Chavez. A scramble was chased down by Adamczak. The snap was high, but the punter was able to get off a short, high one to the 41 at 9:57.
Moonen hit the middle for six and Pettersen went left for a first down. It was Moonen wasting little time to put more points on the board as he popped free on the right side and ran for a 36-yard touchdown. The two points were added on by a dive by Kenemore for 32-0 at 8:53.
Butkiewicz's kick was returned to the 31. A run right was only three against Milan Dragicevich, but a middle was a first down before Evenson stopped. A left run went nowhere against Dragicevich and Evenson and a right run was tackled by Josh Leonard. Sczcyrbak roared around and sacked the quarterback. A high, short punt rolled to the 42.
Kenemore was tripped up from behind for no gain. Lovegreen rumbled for eight yards. A pass along the right side was good to Pederson for a first down. The Giants jumped offside to hand the Rebels five yards. Moonen had a good run to the 11. It was Pettersen for the touchdown and Moonen for the conversion for 40-0 at 3:39.
Adamczak's kick was a knee down at the 21. A run right got two and another run right was a first down, but a fumble ensued and the Rebels recovered on the 33 at 2:29.
A run left by Pettersen was good for five yards and a pitch to Moonen was a first down. Pettersen went left, broke one tackle and scooted up the left sideline for a 22-yard touchdown. Lovegreen trotted in for two-points and MLWR ballooned the 48-0 at 1:26.
A run right was handled by Kenemore, but the next run was a first down with Kenemore again up. The Giants called time out and tried a fake reverse. One more time out came and Dragicevich stopped as time ran out with the Rebels taking a huge 48-0 lead to the locker room.
The Rebels kicked and the Giants immediately lost the ball on a fumble with JJ Saylor recovering on the 25.
Pettersen ran left for five and Lovegreen blasted the middle for a long first down. A Pettersen run got aided to the four. Lovegreen waltzed in for the touchdown and Moonen went right for the two and the score was 56-0 at 11:01.
Butkiewicz kicked to the 15 with a return to the 32. A middle left run was smoked by Chavez, but next was a first down as Pederson had to come up. However, on the very next attempt the ball came loose and it was yet another turnover by the Giants on the 46 at 9:45.
Pettersen carried for three left and Kenemore ran for two up the middle. Dragicevich got a first down to the 41. Adarius Hopkins hit the middle for five. Zach Schwarzbauer ran the middle for 32 and Kenemore carried for a first down to the seven. Dragicevich took it to the three. Butkiewicz got the call and made good with his short touchdown romp. The kick by Adamczak missed wide left but the Rebels had now reached a score of 62-0 at 5:28.
Butkiewicz kicked to the 10. A middle-left run was handled by Blaise and a run right was into Halverson. A middle run was a first down and a middle run was eight against the reserves. Two middle runs were tackled by Schwarzbauer. A fumble ensued and Halverson came out of the pile on the 23 at 1:27.
On the very first play from scrimmage it appeared Hopkins would go the distance, but he was caught from behind after a very long run. Butkiewicz ran left for eight and the Giants called time at :51.5. Hopkins ran for a first down on a right pitch, but Thomas Hansen got very little on a counter as the quarter closed at 62-0, with the Rebels still threatening to score more with the reserves.
With running time ticking away fast, Hopkins ran for a first down to the 22 yard line and Schwarzbauer gutted it out for six. Butkiewicz took a pitch for good yard to the 11 and a first down. Hopkins tried a pitch left, but was driven back and down plus a flag was thrown for a hold. The Rebels ended up turning it over on downs and it stayed 62-0.
Schwarzbauer covered on a pitch and the Giants had to cover a fumbled snap. A Mesabi East player escaped and made a long run all the way to the 10. Josh Butterfield stopped a run, but from 14 yards out the Giants were able to score on a pass to Ronnie Swenson from Collin Luke, but the run for two more was stopped and it stayed 62-6 with about two minutes to play.
The kick was returned by Tanner Ramirez. At 1:27 Butkiewicz ran for one first down and Schwarzbauer went up the gut for six. The Rebels kneed it out as the clock ran out.
With their eighth consecutive championship trophy lifted high in the mist with a very well-played 62-6 victory, the 10-0 Rebels advanced to play 11-0 Minneota at Chisago Lakes High School in Lindstrom at 7 p.m. Friday, November 8.


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Some things are worth waking up early for, like ridiculous, Mario Kart-esque crashes involving Ferraris on one of the world's best race tracks. That's what happened at the Ferrari Challenge at Circuit of the Americas this weekend.
Reader Wilson thought this would happen and was proven right when it did. Here's his hilarious-but-also-sad analysis of the race:
I dragged my family to the race earlier than they wanted, just because I knew the Ferrari Challenge race was going to be like this. I promised mayhem and the semi-skilled rich men delivered. It was clear from the Friday practice I saw that most of these guys think they know it all. They would make the same obvious mistakes lap after lap, not doing anything to fix their technique.
Trying to overtake in turn 1 at COTA is very difficult. Trying it in a pack is moronic. Taking an inside line there will always lead to problems like this. On top of that there are drivers who think they can keep braking hard as the road crests and every time they would go light and slide straight off track, vainly turning the wheels left.
There's a reason that the F1 drivers were very reluctant to deviate from the line on that corner, but the guys in the 458s felt they knew better.
That said, once the caution was lifted there was some standout driving from a few of the cars. It's a shame that was the exception and not the rule.
You can't buy skill, or even common sense.
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- Finding freshmen with talent is difficult enough. Finding two that can make an immediate impact on your team is bordering on the impossible.
As the Lipscomb Lady Bisons volleyball team prepares for Thursday's NCAA Tournament first round match here against host Texas A & M coach Brandon Rosenthal will be counting on a pair of freshmen, outside hitter Lauren Ford and middle blocker Jewell Dobson, to make an impact.
Rosenthal is not surprised that the duo has stepped up so quickly. Due to injuries he had no choice but to give them ample playing time and the team was rewarded due to Rosenthal making the gamble.
"We knew Lauren was very capable of not only making a difference on our team but make a difference in the conference," Rosenthal said. "When we saw her play on the first day of practice there was a little bit of a sigh of relief. We could tell. how powerful she was."
Rosenthal also knew Dobson was talented, but that playing middle blocker was a more difficult challenge than Ford faced on the outside.
"We knew that Jewell hit the slide extremely well, but we really weren't sure about her," Rosenthal said. "It was matter of whether she could pick up the other things. We were pleasantly surprised at how fast Jewell has picked up the nuances of the game."
"Jewell started making her move a little bit later than Lauren, and rightfully so. Not to take away from the outside position, but middle blocker is a little bit more dynamic. There is so much more movement in the middle."
Rosenthal has watched Dobson become one of the most athletic players on the team.
"We discovered her natural athletic ability to play the game...not just her position," Rosenthal said. "We have tried to empower her to understand it is not just the middle blocker position, but the game of volleyball. She is really good."
Ford, who played on a national championship club team, has shown a strong aggressiveness in matches that began with her college debut.
"I've always been coached since I started out in volleyball to go after everything as hard as you can," Ford said. "When you don't necessarily have the best spot you can power through people to make the play."
Rosenthal knew Ford was an aggressive player, but he possibly been more impressed with her work ethic.
"Throughout the year she has been the first one in the gym and the last to leave," Rosenthal said. "She is always asking for more reps.
"She is a starter. She has earned her position. I want her to go for it on the court."
Ford wasn't sure how she would fit into the team. She has been a part of a strong quartet at the top of the team's kill stats along with Dobson, Kaycee Green and Katie Rose.
"In July when I came to school I didn't expect to be a standout player. But we have multiple good players that have sent the stats really high. That is why we are a good team."
Dobson really stepped up when Atlantic Sun Conference play began. She found that the speed of the game was much faster on the college level.
"I didn't know that I would be making such a big contribution but I am glad that I am," Dobson said. "I have learned a lot and become a stronger player.
"It is a much faster game. I have felt myself becoming faster with each game. I am making quicker decisions on short notice. It has become more of a matter of instinct."
Rosenthal recruited Ford and Dobson because of their talent but after three weeks of the season he realized they could be something special.
Rosenthal has five freshmen making their debuts in the NCAA Tournament. This is the program's third straight appearance in the NCAA Tournament and the fourth in five years. He has not dwelled on the issue with any of his players.
"I think it is just more exciting," Ford said. "Of course, being a freshman, I am maybe a little bit nervous. But we work so well together. I'm excited to see what we can do."
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Before Maddie emailed on Monday with questions about substituting ingredients in a donut recipe, she sent me a link to a Craig's List posting for a ride share.
Maddie has used this method of transportation as she makes her way down the coast from Seattle to Santa Barbara by way of Portland and San Francisco (with a short jaunt somewhere in there to Vancouver).
I had suggested she look for cheap one-way flights (so much safer in so many ways) to get from Seattle to Portland and Portland to San Francisco rather than car rides from potential murderers with unknown driving skills, but she had already made her plans and was sticking to them.
Her email said, "You wanted me to fly..." and when I opened the link my heart leaped right out of my mouth and bounced down the street.
"Airplane rideshare offered to/from LA, SFV, & SB Friday afternoon/eve" was at the top of the listing and that was enough to send me. I didn't need to know the pilot of a rented single engine Cessna was so generous: "I'd be happy to (informally) teach whoever sits in the front a few flying skills.…"
So, when she emailed about altering the donut recipe, it was such a relief. Domesticity! She's in a kitchen somewhere and she wants to bake things! She's not learning to fly from some potential nutcase who rents planes to get around.
"Can you substitute olive oil for vegetable oil in things like baked cider donuts? And if it wants baking powder and soda, do you have to use soda if you don't have it? And if it wants apple butter can I use apple sauce and butter or something?"
These are the kind of emails I live for! Questions I can pretend to answer with some authority! Content that lets me know nothing bad is going to happen—she isn't going to be raped, robbed or pillaged! The oven isn't going to blow up, she isn't going to choke on freshly made donuts. Life is calm, life is safe, I can cease my worrying. That level of excitement is just my speed.
I can do without emails like, "I don't know if I'll have service and I'm sure my phone will die so just don't worry unless you don't hear from me by Monday."
Maddie sent that before embarking on a weekend camping/hiking trip with Dan and Chris to find Boris in a cabin somewhere in Yosemite.
Yeah, that email put my heart at ease. I don't know any of these guys, so I spend the whole weekend worrying. Too bad I missed the email that explained, "They were all geology people and all have worked at camp. I don't know Chris but I met Boris at Camp Davis this summer. He's living in Yosemite right now. You can just pretend that I'm at camp and not worry because it's about the same thing." I didn't see it until afterward.
For weeks now, I bet my mother has been having a really good laugh up there in heaven. Back in the days before cell phones, email, Skype and such, I put her through hell worrying about me as I traveled with guys she didn't know to places she feared danger would befall me.
I'm sure she was thrilled when I settled down in Morenci and the chance of losing me to the Moonies or Hare Krishnas was reduced to zero. I know I don't worry as much about Ben and Rosie since they married...except for the bit about them both living in hurricane territory.
Life with them is pretty mundane compared to "Adventures with Maddie." Sarah emails asking for a split pea soup recipe to make for Ben; Rosie and I chat on gmail when I'm on hold with Blue Cross. Simple stuff–nothing that will cause a heart attack.
"I'm home taking care of insurance bills," I write Rosie. "Gotta eat cake and get back to the library."
Instead of asking what's the problem with insurance, Rosie asks, "What kind of cake?"
"An adaptation out of Chinaberry," I tell her, referring to the Chinaberry cookbook we both own.
She must be hungry; she peppers me with questions.
"What's it like?" she asks.
"Excellent," I tell her, if I don't say so myself.
"What kind of cake is it?" she asks again.
Raspberry Cream Cheese Coffee Cake—I used yogurt instead of sour cream, and strawberry jam and pecans instead of raspberries and almonds, I tell her. And only one stick of butter instead of the one and a half it calls for, and baked in a 9 x 13 pan because I don't have a springform pan.
"Do you often deviate from recipes like I did with the cake and Maddie with the donut recipe?" I ask.
"Yeah....remember the first time I made that Chinaberry Chicken Parmesan recipe? Haha, I don't think I've ever done that much deviating."
"I only vaguely remember that, but I think I wrote about it," I said. "Remind me."
"I don't remember exact stuff, but I pretty much changed every single ingredient but the chicken," she said.
There's a lesson in here somewhere—Don't be a chicken in the kitchen? Don't be a chicken in life?


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Installing a car antenna
Through accident or otherwise, you may need to replace your car's AM/FM radio antenna. But take heart — it's not as tough a job as you might think.
Installing an antenna
Fender mount antennas
If your vehicle has no antenna, but does have a factory antenna hole, feed the antenna cable through the hole. To run the cable to the receiver, you'll have to find the route the car's designers intended. Look for a plugged hole near the base of the antenna. If we have a MasterSheet™ for your car, it may tell you where to find the hole. Don't use the same hole that other electrical wiring runs through — interference from those wires will likely be picked up by the antenna cable and transmitted to the receiver.
Here's what to do if your vehicle has a factory antenna: After unplugging the old antenna, attach a length of thin wire to the end of the cable. As you pull the cable out of the car, this wire snakes through the cable's path. Once you've pulled the cable all the way out, attach the wire to the end of the new antenna's cable. Then have someone feed the new cable through as you pull the wire back into the car.
Front or rear, the antenna is held in place from underneath by a base that swivels to become flush with the hole, and from the top by a nut that tightens against the top of the fender.
Pillar-mount antennas
For antennas mounted on the front pillar (the post between the windshield and the front door) or on the roof above the pillar, there are typically two screws securing the antenna/base assembly. Removing these screws will free up the antenna and cable, which travels down the pillar, exiting somewhere in the kick panel area.
Have a friend jiggle the cable until you can find it (you may have to remove the kick panel trim). A short piece of coat hanger with a hook on the end is helpful here. Now attach a wire to the end of the cable as done above for a fender-mount antenna.
Drilling a hole for a new antenna
If your car has no existing antenna hole, you'll need to drill one. Your first step is to note where other cars of the same model have their antennas. Once you've decided on the location and checked the clearance below the mounting surface, use a center punch to mark the location. Next, drill a small pilot hole (a 1/16" bit works well), using a low speed until the hole is started.
On sloping surfaces, apply duct tape around the area to keep the drill from slipping, and to prevent scratching if it does slip. Finish by using a larger bit to open the hole to the required size. If the hole needs to be bigger than your largest bit, use a reamer.
A case study — my new antenna
It happens to many innocent people every day, maybe accidentally, say at the car wash, or as a random act of vandalism. In my case, it was while sweeping a world-stopping eight inches of snow off of the car. All it took was one ill-placed push of the broom and — SNAP! — no more FM reception!
I opted to get a satellite radio system instead, so there was no need to bother replacing the old antenna — triumph! I really didn't miss FM radio anyway, except maybe for the local college station's acoustic music morning show.
The thrill of satellite radio distracted me for almost a year. But now, with the coming of spring, the season of new life and re-birth, I felt compelled to make things right — to restore the karmic balance between me and my car. So I set aside an entire morning to install a new antenna, and borrowed a photographer buddy to capture the experience, sure that I would be able to record my mishaps along the way in an effort to warn future adventurers who might tread this path.
I gathered everything I felt necessary for the job: replacement antenna, toolbox, vehicle-specific instructions for replacing the antenna (a Crutchfield MasterSheet™), and of course, a witness.
Under the dash
The first step was finding the antenna cable under the dash. Normally, you have to remove the stereo from your dash in order to unplug the antenna cable from the rear of the stereo. I was able to skip this step because I use an FM modulator to connect the aforementioned satellite radio system to my car stereo, and the FM antenna was plugged into the modulator. Fortunately, I could get to the modulator (and thus the antenna cable) without touching the radio, enabling me to bypass a major part of the antenna installation process. Nice!
This diagram of an FM modulated CD changer system illustrates how the radio antenna connects to the FM modulator, which in turn feeds the radio and CD changer signals to the receiver (black box on the far right).
After unplugging the cable from the FM modulator, I also had to remove two pieces of housing: the driver's side kick panel and a shroud covering the under side of the steering column area — a simple operation that gave me access to the antenna cable, which was held in place by several retaining clips.
Once the cable was free, I tied a string around the end, so that when I pulled out the old antenna, the string would be pulled along the cable's path inside the car body. This is probably the most important step in the replacement process, as you'll see on the next page.
Next we moved to the exterior of the car. I quickly realized how convenient it was having the antenna located over one of the front window pillars (the posts holding up the roof of the car). This placement made for the most simple and direct cable path. After removing two screws, it was easy to pull the antenna cable out of the pillar. The cable is attached to the old antenna housing, so it pulls right out. And along with the antenna cable came my fancy string.
Old antenna out, new antenna in
Once the old antenna was out of the car, I happily cut the string and discarded the antenna housing and cable. I then tied the string around the connector on the new antenna cable, and fed the cable through the opening in the car's roof.
It sure helped to have someone else on hand during this step. My cameraman guided the new antenna mast and housing into the car from above, while I used the string to pull the cable into the car's interior, down through the pillar and into the kick panel. That's where the string was a vital component of the installation, allowing me to guide the cable end toward the access hole inside the car. I then had to use my fingers to dig the cable end out of the car body.
Once I had the connector in my hand, I gently pulled the length of the cable through the opening and into the floorboard. From there, after removing the string, it was a simple matter to route the cable along the underside of the dash to the FM modulator. I pushed the cable into the retaining clips to secure it and plugged the end into the FM modulator.
Finally, inside the car, I replaced the kick panel and under-dash shroud. Outside, I inserted the screws through the new antenna's mount to secure it to the car. But does it work?
Tightening the final screw.
The final analysis
A "professional" installer would've tested the antenna before completing those last two steps, but I was on a roll and had no time for quality assurance! After everything was back in place, I turned on the radio. Ah! The local rock station came on over the long-unused preset. I pushed each preset button in turn, remembering the corresponding station almost instinctively, like a bird navigating its way home in the spring. I now have a functional FM radio again.
Total elapsed installation time: about 20 minutes.
Overall, replacing my radio antenna was a simple, pain-free process. Looking back, I had several things working in my favor:
- Since I'd already re-routed the antenna connector to an easily-accessed FM modulator, I didn't have to remove the stereo.
- My antenna is located over a front pillar, minimizing the cable run through the car.
Had either of these things been different, the installation would've taken longer and been more difficult. The radio in my car is difficult to remove, due to a securing screw located on the back of the stereo that's very hard to reach. And if the antenna had been on a fender (especially on a rear fender), then I would have had a longer cable run to deal with.
If you divide the antenna replacement into sections, it's easier to comprehend and organize the job:
- remove the stereo;
- trace and pull old antenna cable out;
- pull new cable in;
- put it all back together.
Final word on antenna replecement: it's all about the string. Without that little ball of string, snaking the antenna cable through the car body would be hit or miss. With lots of miss. And now, I'm off to catch a band showdown on the local independent radio station. The lineup is the White Stripes vs. the Wiggles — I'm not joking.
Erick from ILPosted on 8/26/2018
If drilling, don't forget about sun roof drain hoses. Don't want to hit themKen Nail from Crutchfield on 8/27/2018Great tip! Thanks for pointing that out.
John Milton from Concord, NHPosted on 8/11/2018
Does one FM station come in better on the way to (work) than returning (home)? - car FM antennas (31" whips or stubbies) w/their base near glass don't have a nice metal ground plane - meaning bad reception in the direction of the glass - the top center of the roof gives the best reception in all directions - bike, kayak...? - OK, run 1 to 4 36" wires (or thin rods) from the electrical ground (or car body scraped clean to the metal) outward from below the base of antenna - get creative (and keep the look of your car) - wires can go down rear window (inside or outside) or a springy rod(s) can go forward from above your front window or pillar - just keep the ends of the wires or rods away from metal - skeptical? - try a magnetic mount 31" or so antenna with 50 or 75 Ohm cable (short as possible) near the center of your roof connected to radio and see if there is a significant difference (the capacitance will shunt out AM a lot) - bypass the pre-amp in a satellite/AM/FM system with a stubby antenna - if you get no improvement then maybe this fix is not for you - if you get formerly poor stations much better then you may benefit. Next project is how to mount a half wave (62") antenna - it doesn't need a ground plane.Ken Nail from Crutchfield on 8/13/2018Hey John, Thanks for sharing that info for anyone who may be interested!


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I can't find a good way to play my guitar along with music on my iOS device. The problem with GarageBand is that I can't adjust the guitar and the music separately, because I want loud guitar and quiet music. Also the music gets a nasty echo effect.
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