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By Two for the Bar The Bartender's List October 22, 2015
The Bartender's List- Alex Day
Back in June I had the good fortune of interviewing Alex Day when he was in town for a cocktail competition. To say that this post is long overdue is an understatement. Do not take my tardiness, however, as any indication of my feelings about what is to follow because Alex is quite honestly one of the most interesting bartenders I've had the opportunity to meet.
His story arc follows a similar pattern to many talented bartenders I've spoken with over the past year. I can't help but draw parallels. A career in bartending that began out of necessity rather than choice. A post-secondary education with plans to capitalize on said degree in some professional capacity. A realization that this happy accident of working behind the bar to make a little extra cash while finishing up school, is not such an accident after all. And then necessity quite fortuitously transcends to choice.
Alex landed behind the bar when he was attending NYU and fell in love with the world of cocktails at the hands of Joaquín Simó and Death and Co. An early customer turned bartender, Alex quickly honed his skills and proved indispensable as he became business partners with Dave Kaplan in Proprietors LLC. Having stepped out from behind the bar in a regular capacity to take on more consulting projects, Alex reflects on his time at Death and Co, his move to LA, and why NYU is pumping out a ridiculous number of high caliber bartenders.
I wanted to be an architect. I guess I'd like to say that as a child I was obsessed with legos but I still have a fond affection for legos. The idea of putting things together with your hands and building things appealed to me. The fact that you could draw something on paper and then see it come to fruition in a physical form was so exciting.
Was there a specific conversation, moment or experience that made you decide you wanted to pursue a career in bartending?
My career in hospitality started as a necessity really. My first real go at it was in highschool. I was cooking on a catering crew. That was amazing. I got to learn how to cook for the first time. In my family there was plenty of cooking going on but it was my mom cooking and my dad barbecuing and there was never much ritual or excitement about the process. Then I got this job and needed to make some money as a teenager does. They had me prepping some stuff out. Later in day we're serving that food and seeing people's reactions. And I just thought "Oh. That's cool. That's like legos." You're assembling these things together into a form that people enjoy.
I then moved to New York and went to college. Similarly, I needed to pay some bills and got a job bar backing by a connection through my brother. It was cool but I didn't really think this is it, this is everything. I was more into school and academia. Maybe law school. Maybe grad school. That's where I was headed. It wasn't until after school when I realized that grad school was not a good idea for me and academia was not going to be a pursuit that would make me fulfilled. I turned around and looked at what I was doing and realized that I love this thing. I love serving people. I love the act of hospitality. I love that environment of bars and in all honesty it was Death and Co's opening around the corner from me that changed everything. I was running a bar on the lower east side at the time and I heard about Death and Co. I went in and sat at the bar in front of Joaquín Simó and that first cocktail….my mind lit up. I was like "Holy shit, this is crazy. I can't believe this is what bartending can be. Look at these professionals. Look at this product they're making. This is exciting." And that sort of started me down the rabbit hole of being obsessed. I'm very obsessive. If I'm into something that becomes my world. I'm in it.
If the Aviation was your gateway drug into this world, what would you recommend to a customer that generally sticks to beer or wine but would be interested in exploring cocktails?
If you would have asked this question every year back until the start of my career, I would have had a different answer. Right now my answer is so based upon where we're at in cocktail culture. We've been embracing low alcohol cocktails, fortified wines. We have this arsenal of cocktails right now that are either beer based or wine based that are still cocktails and an unbelievable bridge between the two worlds. I grew up in a house that never drank cocktails at all. My dad loves wine, my mom loves wine. I have taken your question to test with my parents to show them what I do and what I'm after with it all.
What is it about NYU that is turning out great bartenders? You went to NYU, Sean Hoard went to NYU, Yael went to NYU. Is this just because of New York?
The list of academically proficient humans that are in the hospitality industry…maybe this has been the case for a long time but I'm willing to bet that there's never been a time when there have been more educated people choosing- and that's the important and crucial point here is choosing- this career as opposed to choosing something else. NYU is in the village. It's dead centre of the cocktail renaissance in America. Some people may argue with that and say that it was also occurring in other places and while that's true, the vibrancy that was the early cocktail boom post- Pegu Club opening (which was established 2 blocks away from NYU mind you) established this point in time in which everyone else expanded. So proximity really has a lot to do with it. It's a massive school. There's every walk of life that goes there but there's a certain population of the student body that went to NYU for the education but just as much they went to live in New York. And that was my motivation for going there. It's an incubator for a lot of amazing things but drinking in New York was definitely one of them.
I heard you wrote your thesis on Russian Organized Crime. Who was the most interesting historical figure you researched and what would you make them if they sat down at your bar?
I'll say that my thesis and my education was a glorified excuse to study a lot of things that I was interested in but ultimately I was excited about learning how to research, learning how to write, learning how to think critically. And an excuse to travel, let's be honest. Through that process, my degree was purposely designed to allow me to study a lot of things be it politics or Russian organized crime which is just an allegory for 1989 and the fall of the Soviet Empire. But I was really interested in Soviet history in general and early Russian history. I think the biggest revelation to me throughout that process was reading early Soviet literature.
So my answer should be The Velvet Revolution but my real answer is to be able to make a drink for Mikhail Bulgakov who wrote The Master of Margarita which is my favourite book. There was this beautiful moment in the 1920's after the Bolshevik Revolution and Lenin and all the Bolsheviks were working towards this utopian society and there was this incredible freedom in Russia to do whatever you wanted. Homosexulaity was allowed for the most part and this is in the 1920's. This is crazy. Art, literature, theatre, music. There was this incredible avante-garde movement that was in parallel to Bauhaus. But it got squashed pretty quickly when things turned a bit. It was this point of the tension between extreme freedom and then it being ramped down and the consolidation of power by Stalin and the people that made that whole train wreck happen that sent Soviet history down its path. But because of that tension, things started to turn into metaphor. All the openess started to be hidden in metpahor and story and all this beautiful narrative. You know 1984? It was based on this Zamyatin booked called We. There's a number of versions of Western literature that is based on material coming out at this time that's absolutely incredible.
So Master of Margarita was this incredible book by Mikhail Bulgakov who is this amazing playwright. I'd just love to talk to him and make him a drink. I would have to make him something sort of French. Old Russian society was very French in it's thinking and even the Bolsheviks who tried to shed all that baggage were still in. There's a lot of tonality of that culture that was still very European. So maybe a Champs-Elysees which is cocgnac and green chartreuse and lemon juice and a dash of bitters. And really good conversation, but conversation that's masked by metaphor and is deeply nuanced.
What was the hardest part about stepping out from behind the bar and moving to LA?
Identity crisis which continues to this day. I'm a bartender by trade and to begin to not have the majority of my contribution to our work be because I'm behind the bar or from that perspective alone was really challenging to me. I chose this career. It wasn't as though I did't have another option. I had other options. I still have other options. That's such a Millenial thing to say. But I do believe there are things that I can do out there that have nothing to do with this. Would they make me as fulfilled? Probably not. But that constant struggle after leaving New York and moving to Los Angeles and Dave and I pursuing this growth that we're now seeing some of the result of was very scary. The moment you are not behind the bar actively, you don't have those skills anymore. You simply do not. You can speak about them and you can reminisce about them and you can try to keep those skills up but you will never be as sharp as a bartender as you are when you are doing consistent shifts and that's the reality.
So if my authority in this industry is because I'm a bartender then the moment I'm not doing that, I lose my authority. And yes, you can find ways around this but to me it's inauthentic and it drives me fucking mad. So I gotta bartend more.
What's been the most rewarding part of the move?
Finding balance in life. That was the reason why I moved to Los Angeles. Life and building some semblance of sanity, having a hobby. In New York I couldn't find that balance. I know in New York I have plenty of colleagues and friends that have found the balance but it's very easy to justify another drink at the end of your shift at 4am and wake up late and drink a pot of coffee and repeat. It can be a really challenging cycle to be in. I needed distance from that.
I know you guys have embraced a more molecular approach to your cocktails. Have there been any techniques that you were really excited about that didn't work or horribly backfired?
I'll say every single technique that we use and every tool that we use that I was excited about almost without fail backfired on me immediately. In retrospect, I know that's because I didn't know enough about it. I didn't have enough awareness of the process because I just wanted to dig in and learn and go and try it. With every single one I've had a moment where I can't believe I bought this thing. It was thousands and thousands of dollars and it's sitting here and I don't know what to do with it. And then a spark of inspiration comes and you try something and you refine and then you can't live without it and it becomes this unbelievable tool in your arsenal.
You've said that Death and Co opening around the corner from your house changed the trajectory of your career and the book dedicates a lot of space to the regulars of the bar. Is there a method to creating a third space where your guests feel a sense of connection to the bar? Or are there barriers to it?
I think, for emotional safety reasons, there might always need to be some level of barrier which is kind of a strange thing to say and probably not a subject that's often talked about. A hot topic within bartending now is hospitality- a reminder that we're here to take care of people. At this point it's almost old hat. It's been said for a number of years and now people preach about it. And I'm like awesome. Great. Don't forget that it's not just liquid in the glass. It's an experience and it's making people comfortable. How do you cultivate that though is the ongoing challenge. It's what we strive to do everyday in both our brick and mortars and our consulting work, our education.
How do you define something that's abstract? Which is to say comfort. Using the liquid in the glass as a catalyst for how to speak about it in a bigger term, the micro is everyone has different preferences for drinks. Everyone has different preferences for acidicity levels or sweetness levels or strength or certain flavours. And that's so true of environment. My and our goal as a collection of people is to somehow tap nostalgia, to somehow tap this unquantifiable memory or an association with a time in your past when you're at our bar so you feel a level of comfort. Cause that's really what nostalgia is. Even if the nostalgia is bad, there's still comfort in the memories. If we're able to do that, then we can make people feel great and be more comfortable, and more comfortable around each other so that they can have better conversations, to open up with one another.
I kinda struggle with the fact that when I sit down, even in one of our bars, when I can turn off the switch I just enjoy. I dig in and get comfortable and make sure everyone around me is comfortable in that little nucleaus that is our table or our bar seats. Dave has a very different mind. Dave will get up and make sure everyone has what they need, he'll adjust the lights and the music level. Whereas I'm like, no! We're here. We're talking. It's interesting how different brains work. You need to build places that appeal to as many brains as possible. Brains and hearts and souls.
You've said that before you saw bartending as your future you intended to be an academic. Has there been anything that you've seen or experienced behind the bar that you have thought someone could write a great paper about?
Sure! And a gentleman did. He's a regular at the bar and he wrote his PhD dissertation largely in the East Village about cocktail bars. He finished his dissertation, got his doctorate and came in and got wasted. It was awesome. He was a great regular but it was also part of a sociological observation for him to watch cocktail culture building up around him in New York.
Craft cocktails have a heritage element to them and yet in order for the field to advance people, more and more, are using new and innovative techniques. How do you balance the two and does it matter?
It does matter. For example in our training programs, our approach to mentorship when we're teaching people, there's an important foundation to be set by classics which is not even remotely revolutionary. If you talk to a chef that's really good at what they do- take Grant Achatz for example. That man's brain does incredible things. He worked at The French Laundry. He knows his way around classical french technique. We don't really have a system within bars to establish that structure. So it's up to us if we think it's important- and I think it's very important. I think paying attention to simple details and executing them well is the prerequisite towards innovation in any circumstance because then you have a certain level of respect for the balance that it creates and also that appeal to other people. In that respect it's crucial.
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Posted on November 26, 2020 by Matt
My father died in October of 1989. I was thirteen years old. He died on a Sunday late morning, It was a beautiful nearly perfect autumn day. The leaves were orange and red against a deep blue cloudless sky. The weather had been perfect for days beforehand. My sister, brother and I were driven to a hospital in St. Paul after a worried shaky voiced call from my mother. We knew something was wrong, very wrong. But I thought it would be fine. Dad was young, healthy. It would be fine.
At the hospital we were led to a small brown room off the lobby where my mother sat with a doctor and a nurse and others. We sat down on small chairs. Mom looked all of a sudden 10 years older. Hunched over. Shaking.
Typing the words out that she said next has always been hard for me. They have been in my head for decades now. Swirling around like a swarm of biting flies. They are there when I am out on walks. They are there when I am cooking dinner. They are there when I am lying awake at night, staring at the ceiling. For 30 years they have been my constant companion. The most loyal and trusted friend I've ever had.
"Kids, your father had a massive heart attack … and died."
For years now, ever since I was like 25 or so, I have said — to myself, and on this blog, but never really to other people out loud — that I have lived my entire life in that ellipses. In that space between when I thought my father was alive, and when I knew he wasn't. I thought it sounded poetic. It allowed me to write about things like cricket and spaces it creates in time, and how it allows us to wallow in those spaces, and dream, and remember other days, and fall backward and forward in time as we so desire, before the game, or life, calls us back.
But in life there are no pauses. There are moments when our lives split into two parts, but there is never a pause. There is just a before and an after. This is where cricket lies to us. The game moves and slithers and ebbs and flows, and through it all there are breaks between deliveries, between overs, after wickets, lunch, tea, drinks, moments when everyone — fans, announcers, players — are allowed to breath, reflect, plan, look ahead and look behind. There are no such pauses in life. There is only before, and after. We cannot live in the pauses. We can only live on either side.
I told my wife I was leaving her at around two in the morning on May 5, 2018. The words tumbled from my mouth and spilled onto the floor and flooded all the space between us. I remember saying those words to her. I remember each word individually, but I was not able to rest in the spaces between syllables. I wasn't then, and I am not now. I can only live in the space before I said them — in dreams, in regrets, in thankfulness, in pain, in sadness, in joy — and the space after I said them, which is the space I yearn to spend the majority of my time in, an endeavor I fail at over and over and over again.
When I was riding in the car to the hospital on the day my father died, I was in the backseat looking out of the window and thinking to myself: everything I see reminds of my father — the movie theater, the Mexican restaurant, the big box value store — and if he dies all of it will make me sad. I was not far off in this estimation. He died 31 years ago this autumn and my afternoons are still colored by all of the drab gray days that we never got to share. And so I cannot help but time travel back to sadness and a future never had whenever I see something that reminds me of him, of that time. And I cannot help but think back on the words I told my now ex-wife and how they continue to paint broad strokes on the future even though they were intended as a break from the past and the present, toward new, brighter days.
There are no pauses. There is a before, and an after. But the before never real goes away, nor does the after that same before once promised but now cannot deliver on. Because of one sentence uttered in grief and exhaustion on a random morning on a day that should have been just another day.
The cricket match that I think about when I think about this is the 2015 World Cup final, and the moment that broke the game that came so early, the bowling of McCullum by Mitchel Starc. Only a handful of deliveries into the game and Starc cleaved the game into two halves: before the McCullum wicket and after the McCullum wicket. The game after that felt like it was already over, a coronation of Australia rather than a competition between the two teams. And the before bled effortlessly and endlessly into the after, and the promise of the final seeped away into the night.
Every game of cricket has one of these, it seems. And these moments exist in all sports, though in cricket they do feel more pronounced than in other games. Rarely, in baseball, does one pitch or one swing alter the course of the game. It happens, just not as often, nor is it ever as obvious. Football, soccer, basketball, none of them have games that can so consistently be tracked back to a single moment in time. Cricket in so many ways has the illusion of a slow build over hours and days, but in reality so often it feels like one single play is the deciding factor. One decision to leave instead of block, and the before writes a new after.
In some ways, this illusion of the slow build can disguise the moment that broke the dam and flooded the valley, making it seem as though the game is one long unbroken march toward stumps; an illusion one also finds in reality, outside of cricket. It is healthy for our minds to see our lives as one long series of days with events that shape future days, but for so many of us there are moments — single moments, matters of just seconds — that break our lives into two pieces. Perhaps mine are more pronounced than others, but we all have them. And this is where the notion of the pause, the space, does enter the conversation. Does the McCullum wicket fall into the before, or the after, or does it stand alone, a fourth moment differing in structure and meaning from past, future and even the present?
The moment in the little room in the hospital 31 years ago exists in the past. But it also resonates in the present and in the future. It sits almost outside of time itself. Did McCullum's mind step outside of the relentless dictatorship of minutes and hours and cease to exist as Starc's delivery came bouncing in? Did everything stop for him? Does he remember a moment that exists not before the wicket nor after it? A space where he lives now, in his quieter moments, a comfortable groove in his brain where he sits and stares into a sea of impossible futures where the delivery harmlessly sailed back unimpeded to the waiting gloves of Brad Haddin? I think he probably does, just like I do. These pauses may only exist within us, but where they live is ultimately meaningless. We create the pause that doesn't in reality happen because that is a safe space to move into when our minds move too quickly to keep up, when life and the world is just too sad. That space where our father was neither alive nor dead, where my marriage both did and didn't exist, where Brendon McCullum was just calmly awaiting Mitchel Starc to finish his run up to the opposite end.
One remembers that in A Christmas Carol, Mr. Scrooge is not visited by just three ghosts, but rather by a fourth, his old partner Jacob Marley. Marley represents not the past, the present or the future, but rather a fourth moment, a deciding moment, that exists outside of everything, except for Scrooge's mind, where it rules with both authority and rage and empathy.
I don't desire to return to a life that existed when my father was still alive. Nor do I desire to return to a time when I was still married. But I still visit the false space between when those events were real and when they were just imagined. That's the space that creates magic, because it could have broken the other way so easily, and we would not have the gray day now when the whole world feels sad, but rather a different world altogether; a world that never existed nor can ever exist, and therefore feels not almost magical but truly like magic. It is in these false pauses when we last had the chance to change everything. The split second before time broke us in half. And if there is magic in this world, that is where it sits, waiting for us, outside of everything, in a house we built for it inside ourselves, a house that cannot stand empty. On dark nights when we cannot sleep we visit that house and try to bring magic back into the world. Closing our eyes, listening to our mother's voice, suddenly old; Starc's delivery drifting harmlessly into the void.
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Adolphe Valette, Figures by a Fence, 1922. Photograph: Photography North West.
A musing on Art by Danny Morrell: Mr Monsieur in Manchester
"Those who can, do, those who can't, teach." A damning statement if ever there was one and one so often untrue. Pierre Adolphe Valette (1876 – 1942) is often labelled with the faint praise of being "Lowry's teacher." He was far more than that. He could do, and did. As the very best of teachers do, he passed on his knowledge and skill with enthusiasm to his pupils, he inspired. They loved him for it, but there too is one of the curses of teaching, the best of teachers are not selfish as some great artists are. In caring for his pupils; in encouraging them, in earning a living, the time to promote himself became a lesser concern.
The fact that Valette became an art teacher, and in Manchester, is in itself a remarkable circumstance. It reveals a young man of sterling character determinedly overcoming considerable challenge. Born in Saint Étienne, France in 1876, his parents, though by no means poor, were never quite in a position to financially support their son's ambitions. His father Ferdinand was an armourer, working in the manufacture of military equipment. Metal working processes were dominant in the industrial town of Saint Étienne indeed the workshops for the armaments firm of Claude Brondel were right next door to the town hall. Is there art in armoury? At the high end yes and perhaps young Valette saw some examples of elegant patterns and designs engraved in the polished metal of gunstocks and barrels at the factory where his father worked, or the local Palais des Arts.
Mastering the engraving process gave young Valette a means not just to express his creativity, but to justify it in commercial terms too. His skilful draughtsmanship is so apparent in the engraving "Dog surprising a partridge", this, a typical hunting subject, is enlivened by the animation of the partridge and the sharp fixed stare of the dog and all of course executed on a small scale. The startling thing is that it is accurately dated 1890, when Valette was only 13 years of age. His artistic ambition is already well established and his ability to work hard in employment to further that ambition is clearly his means.
Adolphe Valette, Dog surprising a Partridge, 1890. Engraving 10.5 x 16.5cm. Private collection.
Engraving provided Valette with an independent income, one that he used to further his artistic education, but there was recognition too. When enrolled at the School of Art in Bordeaux in 1900 he was partially funded by a scholarship from the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce. Bordeaux was a prestigious academy and through his tutors and occasional trips to Paris Valette became aware of the wider French art scene. By 1900 the Impressionists were publically recognised as an important art movement and their ideas and methods would have had a powerful effect on students. Valette was particularly intrigued by the influence Japanese prints and oriental art were having on his artistic contemporaries. In 1903 he was recommended by his tutors for the Poirson scholarship and he determined to use the travelling scholarship of 400 francs to travel to the Far East. Sadly he was not successful, the judges felt , "he already had income from his skills,"1 and of course as we are already aware, those who can, do. For the first time Valette's strong work ethic had worked against him.
Perhaps the disappointment of missing out heightened his desire to travel. If though this was to be by his own means there would have to be compromise and so his sights turned to a less distant land. There is precedence for Valette coming to England. Several Impressionist artists had already made the trip, drawn by Turners use of light or more prosaically to escape the effects of the Franco–Prussian war. Intriguingly there was a more liberal approach to art teaching in England. In France a presidential decree in 1899 had suppressed the use of nude models in life classes, replacing them with rubber mannequins.2 That would have so frustrated Valette and gives impetus to the brilliant life drawings he was to produce here. I wonder too if he saw Claude Monet's "Houses of Parliament" series, painted, to begin with, in London from around 1900? In these paintings the Palace of Westminster is shrouded in fog. Monet softens the gothic façade into a dreamlike blur of colour, blues and pinks when the fog is at its thickest or tinged with gold as the sun sets. Monet found a way of turning what many considered to be London's blight, the smog, into something of beauty. The very thing Valette does to Manchester a few years later?
Valette was of necessity a practical man, a hard worker who had to pay his own way. Though he enrolled at Birkbeck College in 1904, London would have been an expensive place to live and a competitive place for a young artist, particularly one not fluent in English, to find work. Manchester at the turn of the century was a centre of industry, dominated by the cotton trade, but engineering and manufacturing were strong too. Perhaps there Valette with his commercial engraving and drawing skills might find work. Winters in the early 1900s were harsh 'up North' though, so Valette's first taste of the city would have been a chilly one, a dirty one too. Combine the cold and damp with the smoke of industry and you can see why John Ruskin described Manchester as the spiritual home of pollution.3 From the haze of uncertainty Valette did indeed get his chance in Manchester. He was offered a job with printing company Norbury, Natzio and Co. Ltd of Trafford Park.
Norbury, Natzio and Co. Ltd of Trafford Park.
Logo from Grace's Guide to British Industrial History
www.gracesguide.co.uk/Norbury_Natzio_and_co
An ideal job for an artist fluent in impressionist stylings too as it turns out, drawing and painting young ladies to be printed on sales tickets for textiles. Manchester of course exported textiles to the world and examples of his promotional work have echoes of Toulouse Lautrec, proof that Valette was already bringing a French touch to the city. As his employment prospects look up, he raises his eyes to his new home, but he doesn't see the filth of pollution or the all pervading grime, he sees shimmering blues and violets, indistinct shapes and twinkling lights in high windows, he sees hustle and bustle, smoke and steam, he sees something mystical. He must hone his skills though to capture this murky magic, he needed a place and the means to paint.
So it was that he enrolled in Manchester Municipal School of Art studying life drawing and engraving. To his fellow students he was an exotic presence. The epitome of an artist, with his short beard and piercing eyes and most of all that French accent, he must have cut an elegant dash.4 Ah that Frenchness. Here was a man who came from across the Channel where all that exciting Impressionism and Post impressionism was happening, of course his fellow students wanted to know more. Suddenly his lack of English was a positive advantage it added to his mystique. His drawing skill impressed the school hierarchy too. It was Headmaster Richard Glazier who encouraged him to apply for the position of Master of Painting and Drawing, an appointment that garnered an annual salary of £2255. A fascinating aside to his acceptance of this role, and perhaps acknowledging the language barrier he still faced, is that Valette declared a proviso to his contract saying that he should "teach the pupils by actually painting with them."6 This may not seem unusual today, but in 1906 it was an extraordinary teaching revolution, one that was greatly appreciated by his students. One such, Sam Rabin said, "One Valette drawing was worth three hours of talking."7 rapid advancement from pupil to teacher in the space of a couple of years is not just a mark of his artistic skill, but also that drive to become accepted by his Mancunian contemporaries, he had found his niche. Perhaps a much better epithet for "can do" Valette is, "If you want to learn, teach," for in teaching drawing and painting he truly becomes a master of pencil, charcoal, pastels, watercolour and oils and that mastery enables him to work quickly, demonstrating to his students how to rapidly capture a figure, landscape or still life.
Only a teacher who was striving himself to master his art would have the confidence to wander amongst his students, as Valette did, suggesting improvements or making corrections. His French accent must have undermined his authority a little though, the students called him "Mr Monsieur", but his enthusiasm and sheer dexterity with all mediums easily overcame this. Cécilia Lyon in the definitive book on Valette relates the following lovely story. "His rather approximate English and inaccurate pronunciation sometimes gave rise to plays on words and some surreal situations. For example if he asked a student to "re-paint" something, his bad pronunciation would suggest that he was asking the student to "repent" for his painting."8 The affection his students had for him is clear in so many favourable testimonies that reveal Valette not just as teacher, but also as fellow artist and friend.
Valette encouraged his students to paint "en plein air". Painting outside was very much an Impressionist cornerstone and Valette himself painted many quick small studies in preparation for his large Manchester canvases. These small boards are glances into the past, you can feel the vitality in the brushstrokes, the sense of urgency to record a moment or atmospheric affect, or indeed to demonstrate an effective composition. Valette led painting trips into Manchester and the surrounding countryside. A former student described watching him painting," Mr Valette loved the misty and foggy atmosphere of Manchester and would stand sketching with his paintbox supported by a strap round his neck, holding a small canvas or board in the lid … it was like watching a display of fireworks."9 It is therefore entirely appropriate that a teaching institution like the University of Salford should hold examples of such work. It is documented that Valette took students to Dunham Park, Alderley Edge, Prestbury and Didsbury. So it is quite possible to add to that list Romiley, near Stockport.
Adolphe Valette, Open Air Art Class, June 1906. Oil on linen on board. 26.3 x 37.1cm. Private Collection.
There is a small Valette painting called, Open Air Art Class, June 1906. It shows four people out sketching in the woods. Two men and two women sit amongst the foliage, the ladies white blouses and gentlemen's white collars picked out in the dappled sunlight. They sit elevated, on foldable stools maybe, and all are working on small rectangular boards approximately 30 x 40cm. In June 1906 Valette would have only been teaching at the Municipal School of Art for a few months so this must have already been an established practice, but one that has caught his attention. He sees the potential the immediacy of working outside provides, and we see how his students can be his inspiration too. It is quite possible that the lively little oil sketches in the University collection were painted in this way.
Adolphe Valette, Romiley, 1916. University of Salford Art Collection. Photograph: Photography North West.
In viewing the University of Salford pieces today one gets a sense of looking over Valette's shoulder. You can almost hear that entrancing French accent as he describes the painting process. I like to imagine him saying… "See the red brick building draws the eye this bright October day. It is placed off centre, so can be included the little barn on the right. There, the light in the white curtained windows. There again it catches madams shoulder as she looks toward us. A flash of red used to portray her long skirt. Now see the muted colours in distant trees as the leaves turn, but bold be with the small trees in the foreground to give the depth." Mr Monsieur is teaching us still.
Danny Morrell. July 2017.
Adolphe Valette, Cécilia Lyon. Phillimore and Co Ltd 2006. Pages 14-15.
Adolphe Valette, Cécilia Lyon. Phillimore and Co Ltd 2006. Page 10.
The Chimney of the World: Smog in Manchester through the Ages. Manchester Evening News 3rd April, 2014.
James Fitton RA, a fellow student of Valette's described Valette thus, "He looked like all the Impressionists rolled into one with a little black beard, black hair and a black cloak." L S Lowry: a biography, Shelley Rohde. Lowry Press 1999 Ed.
Equivalent to approx £25,000 today.
Adolphe Valette, Cécilia Lyon. Phillimore and Co Ltd 2006. Pages 36 – 37.
Adolphe Valette A French Impressionist in Manchester, Sandra Martin. Scala 2007.


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Jessica Barden
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Lynden International Logistics Co. opens new facility in Milton, Ontario
Posted on Thu, Apr 30, 2015
TORONTO – Lynden International Logistics Co., a leading provider of third party logistics (3PL) services for the healthcare manufacturing industry, announces its expansion in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) with the opening of a second facility in Milton, Ontario.
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Lynden Logistics, a full-service freight forwarding and logistics company, opened a new service center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on January 1st. The new location adds a strategic link to Lynden's North American and Canadian network and will meet the increasing demand for transportation and logistics services for Canada's oil and gas industry.
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Lynden Logistics launches enhanced ocean service to Puerto Rico
Posted on Thu, Aug 02, 2012
Lynden Logistics, a full-service freight forwarding and logistics company, is offering an enhanced ocean product to support customers in Puerto Rico and in other retail markets. Lynden has served customers on the island since 1977 by consolidating freight in the U.S., then shipping, receiving and warehousing goods at its San Juan office.
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As part of the enhanced ocean service, Lynden's online shipping and tracking tool, EZ Commerce, was also improved. When booking shipments through EZ Commerce, customers are now offered a domestic ocean option to move freight to a domestic port in Puerto Rico or Hawaii. This gives customers more flexibility when choosing a shipping mode and allows them to ship both priority and deferred using existing EZ Commerce draft and address book functions. The enhancements are a direct result of the growth in ocean shipping and Lynden's commitment to streamline the process for customers.
"One of our fastest growing products is ocean less-than-container-load and full-container-load (LCL/FCL) services," Cruz says. "This increase allows us to go to our ocean carriers and negotiate more competitive rates which can then be passed on to our customers." Lynden's facility in Carolina, Puerto Rico features a 35,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art warehouse with nine dock doors to receive customers' freight for warehouse management or 3PL business opportunities. In addition to warehousing, Lynden offers reliable and affordable air and ocean services, customs brokerage and delivery throughout the island. Lynden's fleet of four tractor-trailers and smaller trucks offer customers complete delivery coverage inside and outside the metro area. Lynden also provides retailers with white glove service for delivery of furniture and electronics including unwrapping, assembling and setting up merchandize inside customers' homes.
Lynden Logistics is one of the Lynden family of companies whose combined capabilities include: worldwide air and ocean forwarding, international shipping, freight shipping and logistics, trade show shipping, truckload and less-than-truckload transportation, scheduled and charter barges, intermodal bulk chemical hauls, scheduled and chartered Hercules L-382 cargo aircraft and multi-modal logistics. Lynden Logistics was voted top forwarder in the 2011 Quest for Quality Awards presented by Logistics Management magazine.
Tags: Lynden, Freight Forwarding, Puerto Rico, Lynden Logistics, Multi-Modal, Ocean, 3PL
Lynden Logistics opens new office in San Francisco
Posted on Tue, Jul 10, 2012
Lynden Logistics, a full-service freight forwarding and logistics company, opened a new service center in San Francisco in June. The new office is managed by District Manager Chuck Paterson and adds a key Northern California location to Lynden's domestic network.
"We have served the California market for many years, and we are excited to offer San Francisco customers the benefits and capabilities of Lynden's worldwide forwarding and logistics network," says Mike Nagle, Lynden Logistics Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
"Our new office is in a great location," notes Paterson. "It is only three miles from the San Francisco International Airport and offers warehouse space for customers. We will focus on San Francisco's IT, biotech and pharmaceutical industries as well as other businesses in the area."
Paterson is a 28-year veteran of the transportation industry. Prior to joining Lynden, he held key positions with DB Schenker and BAX Global. Lynden Logistics' office is located at 268 Lawrence Avenue in South San Francisco.
Tags: Freight Forwarding, Lynden Logistics, United States, 3PL
Lynden carefully orchestrates Dublin move for high school band
Posted on Wed, Jun 13, 2012
The Shorecrest High School Marching Band made its fifth trip to Ireland last March to play in Dublin's St. Patrick's Day Parade, and Lynden Logistics played a supporting role by making sure that 76 instruments and 15 boxes of uniforms made it to Dublin with the students. The band includes 100 musicians accompanied by bagpipers and dancers and keeping track of all the musical "baggage" was a big job, according to Senior Account Manager Kevin Adderson.
"We were very aware that this was a special trip for the students, staff and parents," he says. "They raised over $40,000 to go on the trip and the band was invited to play by the City of Dublin. Our Seattle team personally bought into the success of the project and knew it was a one-time shot. If we failed to get the instruments to Dublin on time, it would be a disaster for the school, the band, the parents and for the parade organizers."
Kevin started working on the move last fall when he received a call from Jim Zatloukal with the Washington Cultural Exchange. He says the biggest challenge was advance planning and then keeping the instruments together for shipping. "We had trumpets, bagpipes and a lot of odd-sized freight. We had to pick up the instruments at the school and get everything neatly boxed up and palletized to prevent damage while keeping costs down for the school. Our warehouse crew in Seattle and Dublin did a great job." Lynden also set up a special "carnet," or merchandise passport, to simplify the international customs process and eliminate duty tax on the 101 pieces traveling from the U.S. to Ireland and back.
Approximately 101 pieces flew from Seattle to Prestwick Airport on a cargo plane and were then trucked from Prestwick Airport to Dublin Airport where they were processed and released to the band members. After the parade performance, the students stayed on in Dublin while the instruments and other pieces were repackaged by Lynden for the return flight.
"The uniforms and band equipment all arrived back at the high school ahead of schedule and in great shape," says Marc McCartney of Shoreline Schools. Shorecrest's bagpipe band makes it unique among American high schools. Marc reports that the group won three awards during their Ireland stay including Best International Band.
Tags: Lynden Logistics, Air, International, 3PL
Lynden establishes niche marketing for hotel industry
Lynden Logistics is quickly establishing a niche market of helping hotels prepare for grand openings as well as assisting with upgrades and renovations. As it did for the Aava Whistler Hotel in British Columbia, Lynden has provided transportation and logistics services to several resorts and hotels over the past year.
"From chandeliers and carpet to lamps and chairs, we can move just about everything you might find in a hotel -- the whole shooting match," explains Jim Taef, Lynden's District Manager in Los Angeles.
For one customer, Lynden brought air shipments into its Los Angeles station from Turkey and China and arranged full truckload transport to a 100,000-square-foot warehouse near the building site. It also handled ground domestic shipments from Georgia, New York and New Jersey – all destined for the warehouse and later staging in the hotel.
The challenges included securing 20-foot pallet positions on aircraft for carpet manufactured in China, and coordinating shipments of raw materials from Italy and Mexico to China for manufacturing. The finished products were then shipped from China to Los Angeles. The global nature of the project kept Lynden's customs crew and in-house brokers busy.
Taef traveled from Los Angeles to the hotel site every few weeks to oversee shipments coming into the warehouse and to troubleshoot any problems during construction. "We really can do it all for our hotel customers," he says. "From international shipping, warehousing and delivery to the hotel site, we provide a variety of value-added services." This complete package provides hotel management and construction teams with everything needed without the headache of dealing with multiple contractors and vendors.
Tags: Freight Forwarding, Lynden Logistics, Truckload, Air, International, 3PL
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Minister Morrison has admitted that the Productivity Commission's recommendation to cap childcare subsidies at between $72 and $74 is too low and will make early learning and care too expensive for most families!
Under the Commission's proposal, families would no longer receive a rebate calculated as a percentage of the fee they actually pay. Rather, they would receive only a percentage of a 'benchmark fee', which the Commission proposed as $72-$74 a day.
The level of government help the Minister offers needs to reflect the real cost of childcare for a family — no matter where they live or how many children they have or what their ages are!
The Productivity Commission has released it's report in to Childcare and Early Learning
As Catherine Fox, freelance journalist adequately summarises -"recommendations from the report by the Productivity Commission's inquiry into childcare are rather like band aids for nasty wounds.
The report recommends watering down quality standards to save money and leaves thousands of parents paying more for childcare with some working mothers ending up with no support at all.
Key recommendations from the report:
- Current childcare payments be combined into a single payment, paid directly to childcare centres, called "the Early Care and Learning Subsidy".
- The Subsidy would be based on a "benchmark" figure determined by the government, not on the actual fees parents pay. So if your childcare centre charges above the benchmark, you would likely see a greater increase in your out-of-pocket costs.
- The subsidy rate would be means tested on household income with a sliding scale at 85% for families with incomes at or below $60,000 and 20% for families earning $250,000 or above. Families with a household income of $160,000 would see a cut in the rebate they currently receive.
- Payments would be provided up to 100 hours of care per fortnight for children 13 years and under, who have parents that work or study at least 24 hours a fortnight. This would leave 16.4% of working mothers who currently work one to two days a week with NO support for childcare costs.
Last week, the Prime Minister declared his Paid Parental Leave (PPL) scheme was gone with the funds instead to be used on making childcare more affordable for families.
However, a decision on whether the 1.5% levy on big business, that was due to help fund the PPL, would be redirected to childcare remains unclear.
Since this announcement, the Prime Minister has hinted that the 1.5% levy on business may be kept. But big business is lobbying hard to have the levy dropped.
The government had estimated that the levy could generate about $2 billion in additional funds - imagine the difference that could make to the delivery of affordable high quality early learning and care?
The 1.5% levy has got to stay!
This is about all the beneficiaries of childcare helping to pay the way – government, big business, and mums & dads all have a role to play.
Mr Abbott & Mr Morrison don't back down on the 1.5% levy – it's got to stay!
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Q: Why a well-calibrated model has worse brier score loss? I already referred this post.Don't mark this as duplicate.
I am working on a binary classification problem using algos like random forest, extra trees and logistic regression. dataset shape is 977, 6. class ratio is 77:23
In terms of our metric of interest f1, random forest seemed to do better followed by extra trees and then last is logistic regression
However, in terms of calibration, I see that logistic regression is well-calibrated (not surprised), followed by extra-trees and last is random forest.
But my question, why does logistic regression have higher brier score loss when compared to random forest (which doesn't have inherent calibration capability as log reg)?
Shouldn't the logistic regression brier score loss be the smallest, followed by extra trees and last is random forest?
Please find the graphs below

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Industrial relations bill will allow pay deals that leave Australian workers worse off
ACTU secretary Sally McManus says one in four workers could face wage cuts if better-off-overall test is suspended
The ACTU secretary Sally McManus says it would be 'outrageous' if the new industrial relations bill allowed deals that left workers worse off. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP
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Workers could face pay cuts under a move by the government to suspend the better-off-overall test for two years, unions have warned.
Sections of the Coalition's industrial relations bill, seen by Guardian Australia ahead of its scheduled release on Wednesday, propose allowing the industrial umpire to register pay deals "where appropriate" in all the circumstances – even if they leave workers worse off.
The secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Sally McManus, said it would be "absolutely outrageous" if the government attempted to suspend the better-off-overall test (Boot) and one in four Australian workers could face wage cuts.
The Boot is meant to ensure workers can't be disadvantaged under an enterprise agreement compared to the relevant award.
Under the government's proposal, employers would have two years to apply to the Fair Work Commission for a pay deal without the safeguard that workers must be better off.
Labor backs plan to let super-unions break up, paving way for change at CFMMEU
But because enterprise agreements can last for four years and can continue to regulate work after their nominal expiry date if not replaced, unions are concerned the provision will cut pay and conditions for many years to come.
A spokesman for the industrial relations minister, Christian Porter, said that "what you've described is not correct" – an apparent contradiction of the union's interpretation of the effect of the provision – but did not respond to follow-up questions about whether the section was in the bill.
A Liberal MP told Guardian Australia that Porter had briefed the party room on Tuesday that the Fair Work Commission could ignore the better-off-overall test where a Covid-19 exception applied.
McManus said the idea was not raised in industrial relations roundtables.
"Clearly extreme employer groups went around the process and lobbied for things they weren't prepared to put to us – it's unconscionable," she said. "All workers have been affected by Covid-19 and need a strong safety net. It's outrageous the government would want to allow wage cuts – this will not help businesses [and] workers will have less money to spend and this will damage the recovery."
McManus said that although WorkChoices had been law for just 18 months under the Howard government, workers were still stuck on pay agreements pushed through in that period 13 years later, demonstrating the long-lasting effects of cutting conditions.
The Fair Work Act already contains a provision for the commission to register pay deals that do not meet the better-off-overall test – but only in "exceptional circumstances".
Under the new test, the commission would need to be satisfied only that it is "appropriate" and "not contrary to the public interest" to do so.
The commission would be required to consider the views and circumstances of employees and employers, and the impact of Covid-19 on the business. Agreements would also still require majority approval from the workforce to be registered.
McManus said employers would be able to "drive a truck" through the new test – as every employer would be able to claim an impact from Covid-19, and good bosses would be pushed to compete with employers who wanted to cut wages.
McManus warned with further changes yet to be announced to speed up approvals, there could be "a lot of other changes to get through dodgy agreements".
Coalition proposes retrospectively stripping misclassified casuals of up to $39bn in claims
"Once you marry all these things together – it will be easier to impose bad agreements on workers."
McManus said there was "no question" MPs should oppose measures that cut pay and conditions.
She listed the suspension of the better-off-overall test, removing rights from casual workers and changes to increase the flexibility of part-time work as elements of the industrial relations omnibus bill announced so far that had the potential to do so.
As Guardian Australia reported on Friday, greenfields agreements for new worksites will be extended to eight years duration for projects worth $500m or more, or $250m or more if the project is deemed in the national interest. The suspension of the better-off-overall test will not apply to these agreements.
McManus said the bill "allows wages to be cut through bargaining" by "attacking blue collar workers by taking away their right to bargain".
Porter will introduce the omnibus bill on Wednesday, proposing legislative fixes generated in employer-union roundtables on casuals, award simplification, workplace pay deal making, deals for new worksites and compliance.
Sally McManus
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50 Cent and SNOOP DOGG have united to form a rap supergroup.
The duo have united their respective crews G-Unit and [/a] to record an album's worth of material as DPG-Unit.
The idea came about while members of both crews were out on the Rock The Mic hip-hop tour in the US earlier this year.
There are no definite plans as yet for the tracks to be released, although [a]'s G-Unit Recordings is the most likely home for any DPG-Unit releases.


Welcome to the all-new Mattson Academy "Virtual" Dojo | The Mattson Academy of Uechi-ryu Karate "Virtual Dojo"
We have been working on this site for a number of years and after many attempts to design a website that reflected the unique nature of the virtual dojo program, we finally came up with what I consider to be a site that compliments the innovative and original coaching school called the Mattson Academy.
In 1958, when I moved my dojo from the Boston YMCA to its first dedicated karate space on Boylston Street, I named the site "The Mattson Academy of Karate". After a long run in Boston and semi-retirement now in Florida, I've once again created a new Mattson Academy, and a new way to supplement and/or learn the fascinating art and science of Uechi-ryu Karate.
Take a tour of the site (which is still being fine-tuned) and be sure to take advantage of my offer to personally give you a tour of the on-line dojo and my unique training program.


When the Alberta government released its provincial budget in March, it was met with mixed emotions by those in the agriculture sector.
While the budget contained an increase of one per cent in overall agricultural spending, it prompted questions about the level of funding for certain key areas in the sector.
One of the biggest concerns of many producers was a lack of commitment to adequately fund agricultural research in the province, including an absence of funding for the Alberta Crop Industry Development Fund beyond 2018.
Those concerns have only increased since, as the Alberta government has begun a review of provincial services including the province's agricultural research program. While the results of this review aren't expected until next April, some fear it could result in a significant cut to provincial funding for agricultural research.
"In my mind, it's very likely that cuts will come," says Ross McKenzie, a retired research scientist who worked for Alberta Agriculture and Forestry for 38 years.
McKenzie says one of the challenges for researchers is that the value of their work often isn't appreciated until many years down the road. He cites the example of soil research with phosphate fertilizer and phosphorus soil testing that was conducted in the province in the 1990s; it cost nearly $400,000 at the time, but has provided millions of dollars in benefits to growers each year.
This is hardly the first time concerns have been raised about the fate of agricultural research in the province. In 2001, a research review resulted in about half of Alberta ag researchers either being cut or shifted to other departments, and extension work was curtailed – a huge loss for Alberta farmers. More recently, in 2014, the provincial government eliminated the Agriculture and Food Innovation Endowment Fund.
Jason Lenz, chair of Alberta Barley, says one of his concerns is that any potential cuts to provincial funding for research will place pressure on producer groups like his to help fill the void.
Terry Young, chair of the Alberta Wheat Commission's research committee, says the cost of agricultural research can be extremely high and that makes it prohibitive for producer groups to go it alone. He says it's vital that groups can leverage government funds to get the biggest bang for their research buck.
One of Young's biggest concerns about potential cuts to ag research funding is that it could slow research into new technologies which could then have a trickle-down effect on farms.
"What I can see is that some of the newer technology may not get accepted or adopted as readily. It would take a longer time for the research to happen and for the technology to become part of best management practices," he says.
Young uses the example of recent research on Fusarium head blight in cereal crops as an example of how producer groups working with the province has benefitted growers.
Ward Toma, general manager of the Alberta Canola Producers Commission, says it would be virtually impossible for producer groups to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to fighting disease and adopting new technologies without government research dollars. He cites past work done to develop blackleg resistance by University of Alberta researchers as an example, as well as the ongoing fight against clubroot.
"Some of the estimates are that [the cost] is in the tens of millions of dollars. Growers can't afford that. We don't even have the money to survey and monitor to see if clubroot exists across the province or not. We just wait for it to show up in our fields," he says.
Caroline Sekulic, vice-chair of the Alberta Pulse Growers Commission, says while cuts to agricultural research might not be noticed immediately, they could have long-lasting consequences. She fears reduced government funding could result in more scattered results for regional variety trials and prompt some of the province's best researchers to go elsewhere.
"If we can't provide opportunities and research for them in this province… we could lose them," says Sekulic, who is also a seed grower with Prestville Farms in Rycroft.
Sekulic says she and other pulse growers have benefitted enormously from working in partnership with the province. Two recent research projects – an investigation into agronomic practices to remove barriers for growing faba beans, and improved resistance to sclerotium disease in edible dry beans – might not have been possible without government support, she adds.
While some have suggested turning over this type of investigation to applied research associations could resolve any cash crunch, McKenzie suggests doing so isn't without risk. He says one of the greatest concerns with research associations is they tend to work in isolation – they often don't work together to conduct research projects on a province-wide basis. And, he adds, research associations don't have their results posted on Alberta Agriculture's website, so it's difficult to find out who is doing research and what their results are showing.
The challenge for many producer groups at the moment is they have already begun planning how to spend research dollars in 2018 but likely won't know until spring what, if any, provincial government funding will be available.
Ed. note: Alberta Agriculture and Forestry declined to comment for the story.


The Alki Homestead, at first glance, might seem a little out of place. Seattle is known as one of the most techno-savvy places in the US.
But this is why the few holdouts that have resisted the wave of technology are so revered and the Homestead in West Seattle is one of these places. Housed in a 100 year old Douglas fir cabin right in the middle of one of Seattle's trendiest neighborhoods, this unique restaurnat serves up good ol' traditional American food, that's sure to please even the pickiest eater.
What makes this restaurant feel like such a blast from the past? The first thing is the loving attention that is given to every detail. As you walk through the manicured yard and into the rustic cabin you see dining rooms with crisp pink table cloths and lace napkins. Antique lamps are on the end tables and china hutches display delicate dishes.
This kind of thoughtful consideration is the stuff of days gone by, rarely found in these 60-miles-an-hour-on-the-highway days.
And just as the décor is old-fashioned, so is the menu. The fare to be found at the Alki Homestead will remind you of the days when fat grams and calories went uncounted.
The Alki Homestead is most famous for its fried chicken – make sure someone in your party orders it. Food is served family style, so you can always share. Fried chicken isn't the only part of the menu that will remind you of days gone by. Before the main course you're served with biscuits (with jam and butter, of course,) a salad (not delicate baby greens, straight-up iceberg with carrots, or even Jello salad!), and warm, comforting soup.
The best thing about the Homestead restaurant is that there you'll find food that your kids will actually eat! Who of us hasn't had the experience of going out and treating the family to dinner, only to find that the little finicky eater doesn't like anything on the menu? The meat-and-potatoes menu is the comfort food that everyone likes.
You can eat here fairly affordably. Entrees will cost between $8 and $12 and portions are substantial. There is no bar, though they do serve cocktails, beer and wine.
They're open for dinner Wednesday through Sunday, and for brunch Saturday and Sunday. They're closed Monday and Tuesday. It's location just a block away from Alki beach at 2717 61st Ave. SW, and it's a great way to end a nice day at the beach.
Be ready to spend some time, though, the pace of life was slower back in the day, and you'll want to savor the time you spend at the Alki Homestead. It's not a quick in and out kind of place.
Everything about the Alki Homestead will remind you of Grandma's house – which is a real treat, especially for those of us whose grandmothers aren't the indulgent, home-cooking type.
Back from the Alki Homestead.


Three classic Zendoodle Color By Number titles in one set! Sea Life, Spring Awakening and Stained Glass.
Color By Number - Spring Awakening - The beauty of a fresh spring will reveal itself on these pages as readers color them to life with the help of tiny numbers that correspond to a robust color key. The novice and the experienced colorist will both rejoice in the beauty of the foliage as it pops off the page in vivid hues. Designed for ravenous colorists eager to try the next challenge, Color by Number: Spring Awakening offers an escape to a world of inspiration and artistic fulfillment.
Color By Number - Sea Life - Dive into vast oceans of color with Zendoodle Color by Number: Sea Life! This beautifully illustrated book allows you to explore the mysterious depths of the ocean and the exotic sea creatures that inhabit it. With more than 60 unique illustrations printed on durable, tear-out pages, you'll enjoy creating beautifully vibrant works of art to display or share with your family and friends. Easy-to- follow color-coding guarantees that you add the perfect touch of color to each design so that each finished piece is a masterpiece.


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Q: Getting wrong location latitude and longitude based on address in php Finding the location latitude and longitude based on street, city, state, zip using Google map. I'm taking the address from Google map and trying to find latitude and longitude. But my code always gives wrong place location.
Code:-
<?php

$con = mysql_connect("localhost","location","password");
if (!$con) {
  die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error());
}

$street =$_REQUEST[street];
$city   =$_REQUEST[city];
$state  =$_REQUEST[state];
$zip    =$_REQUEST[zip];
$result=null;

mysql_select_db("map", $con);

$address = $street . ',  ' . $city . ',  ' . $state. ',  ' . $zip; // Google HQ
$prepAddr = str_replace(' ','+',$address);

$geocode=file_get_contents('http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address='.$prepAddr.'&sensor=false');

$output= json_decode($geocode);

$lat  = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lat;
$long = $output->results[0]->geometry->location->lng;

if($lat==0.0000 && $long==0.0000){
$result="ERROR";
}else{

$sql="INSERT INTO markers (name, address, lat, lng) VALUES ('".$street."', '".$city.", " .$state ."', '".$lat."', '".$long."')";
$result="SUCCESS";
}

if (!mysql_query($sql,$con)) {
  echo $result;
} else {
  echo $result;
}

A: Please try replacing these lines
$address = $street . ',  ' . $city . ',  ' . $state. ',  ' . $zip; // Google HQ
$prepAddr = str_replace(' ','+',$address);

Replace
$address = $street . '+' . $city . '+' . $state. '+' . $zip;
$prepAddr = urlencode($address);


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