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Day of Reckoning, Fandango's One Word Challenge, Uncategorized
Chapter 6: Introductions
Posted by lisaannhardy65 on May 4, 2020 May 4, 2020
(Recap: Amy is at the mercy of a psychopath. She has been kidnapped and is isolated in an old cabin hidden away in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Her wife Sky and dog Rudy are lost in a snowy forest, fighting the elements searching for Amy. Chapter 6 opens one year before the capture and depicts how Amy met Sky.)
(One Year Ago)
Amy looked around the room and for the tenth time wished the floor would open and swallow her. Being an introvert, she hated parties. She always felt awkward because she never knew what to say. After the basic niceties of, "Hello…How are you, and How about this weather," she usually drew a blank, and stood looking like a deer in headlights.
"Ugh, why had she come?!" Amy was miserable.
But Amy knew why she had come. She had promised Rose, and she didn't want to let her best friend down. Rose, also a fellow colleague from the University, had worked hard to set up this party. In fact, for the last two months while on their morning runs, most all their conversations were consumed with this party.
Amy smiled at the memory…There they were jogging in place at the first stop light, and Amy heard all about the chicken salad and pimento cheese finger sandwiches. Oh, and of course the platter would rest upon the daffodil table cloth that had once belonged to her now deceased grandmother. Then the light turned green and they would run quietly until stopped at the second light, at which point Rose picked up the conversation where she had left it at the previous light… "…and of course, there will be crystal vases with fresh cut daffodils upon every table, and the silverware…". The light turned and off they'd go again.
Amy looked around the large room, and saw the visual image of what she had imagined for the last two months. She knew it well and felt she could navigate the room blind without a seeing-eye-dog.
The thought of a dog caused her to smile. She liked dogs. In fact, most of the time she liked them better than humans. They were loyal and you can always be yourself around them. They never told you, "You stink," even if it'd been a while since your last shower. However, people were not that cool. They were happy to say, "You need a shower." In that case, Amy supposed it a good thing for all those down wind." She giggled.
In her 32 years, Amy had also found people to be far less accepting…she thought of her own family. But Rose had been different. She had listened to Amy's story without judging and for that Amy was eternally grateful. Outside of family, Rose had been the first person she told her heartbreaking, coming-out story. Rose had sat with her, and cried with her, and accepted her unconditionally no strings attached.
"Amy! You made it!"
Amy looked up from her reverie, and saw her best friend coming towards her with a gigantic smile, and her arms open wide. In an instant Amy was glad she had come.
Amy returned the smile and barely had time to say Rose's name before she was engulfed within her warm embrace. Rose always gave the best hugs. She held you tight like she'd not seen you for years, and Amy could feel Rose's heart quicken, so there was no doubt in her mind of her friend's happiness to see her. Amy felt blessed to have Rose in her life.
The two loosened their embrace, but still clung to one another. Rose surveyed Amy, and Amy surveyed Rose. Rose's red hair, usually in a pony-tail, hung loose around her pale shoulders. The freckles splashed across her nose were practically invisible because of the powder she wore, but Amy knew they were there. It was only yesterday the two had run four miles under a bright sun, and the baseball cap on Rose's head had helped to protect her delicate skin, but the freckles on her nose were angry and protesting the suns hot rays.
Rose always hid her freckles with makeup while teaching at the University, but by the end of the day the powder she had bathed them with, faded, making them visible for all to enjoy. Amy loved Rose's freckles and welcomed their appearance each day, after all, they so aptly fit her green eyes, and bubbly personality.
"I'm so glad you came," Rose whispered and kissed Amy on the cheek.
"Me too…" was Amy's half-truth.
"C'mon I've got someone I want you to meet."
Rose took her hand and led her deeper into the crowed room. Amy inwardly groaned for she knew the real torture was about to begin.
Almost everyone called out to Rose as they passed… "Great party Rose…Hey Rose, you need to see this…Rose, who catered…Rose, who's the DJ, damn he's cute…".
Rose smiled at each and held up the pointer finger of her right hand which everyone knew to mean, hold on a minute, an so they all returned to whatever it was they were doing happy to patiently wait their turn.
Amy and Rose stopped abruptly just before the bar to see a rather loud raucous between a big burly man and a slender blonde. The crowd that had gathered was cheering the two who sat at the bar holding a filled shot glass in the air.
The bartender slapped the bar and said, "Go!"
The woman downed hers first, and grabbed for one of the four glasses set before her. She finished the second as the man was turning his first shot glass upside down. The woman wasted no time downing the third one and paused only a second to burp. After the burp she threw down the contents of the last glass and slammed it down hard upon the bar. By the time the woman yelled, "Done!" the man was just reaching for his fourth glass. He cursed and set the filled glass back on the bar spilling some of its contents. Disgusted, he walked away. The woman smiled and reached for the abandoned booze and wasted no time tossing it down her throat. She burped and then asked, "Who's next?"
Amy was stunned by the outplay she had just witnessed, and she couldn't take her eyes off the brash woman at the bar. Her athletic build was clothed in a white Oxford shirt, faded jeans, and black leather boots. The tanned arms escaping the rolled-up sleeves were lean and well defined. Amy noticed her blonde hair was short and spiky… not as in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo kind of way, but rather a more toned down Mad-Max kind of way. Amy almost giggled at the analogy. She noticed the woman smiled and laughed easily and her blue eyes sparkled, and not a bit dulled by all the booze she had downed.
Staring at the woman, Amy whispered, "Who the hell is that?"
"That is who I want you to meet." Rose said with a straight face.
As if she overheard, the woman at the bar turned to catch Amy and Rose staring. She smiled at Amy and Amy felt her tummy do a little flip-flop. They held to one another's stare a tad too long, and then the woman stood, and walked towards Amy and Rose.
"Rosie!" The woman pulled Rose close for a hug and a quick kiss on the lips. Still holding Rose close the woman added, "How the hell are you? It's been too damn long!"
"And who's damn fault is that?" Rose shot back.
The woman stepped back, tilted her head, and replied, "I've been on the road for the last 4 months." The woman offered a sheepish smile and added, "…but I guess I could've returned your calls. It's been a crazy season…um…but that's not a good enough excuse to not call a friend… I'm sorry Rosie." The woman tilted her head again and asked, "Still friends…"
Rose pursed her lips as if she were trying to decide.
"Pleeeeeeese…" the woman begged with a million-dollar smile spread across her face.
Rose let forth the laughter she had been trying to hide. "Sky…Damn you! How the hell can I stay mad at that face!" She paused for a second and added, "…and that hair…"
Amy thought it impossible, but the woman's smile grew more radiant, and then they both laughed and gave each other another hug.
"The hair?" She patted her spikes and whispered, "You know me…gotta keep people guessing…"
Amy stood watching, feeling a bit like a third wheel. As if Rose had read Amy's mind, she turned to Amy, put an arm around her, and pulled her close.
"Sky, I'd like you to meet a very dear friend of mine."
Sky looked at Amy and then back to Rose.
"I thought I'd already met all your friends…?"
Rose bantered back, "A lot of things can happen in four months!"
Sky looked chagrined but only for a moment. She stepped closer to Amy and gently took her hands. "Forgive me…I'm Skyler Blue…most people just call me Sky. And you are…?"
The question hung in the air as Amy stared into Sky Blue's blue eyes. No words came to mind…so she just stood there…another deer in the headlights moment.
After a few seconds of awkwardness, Rose came to Amy's rescue.
"Sky, this is Amy Bennett! We've only known each other a couple of months, but I feel as if I've known her all my life. She's an artist extraordinaire, and a damn good running partner!"
Amy flushed, and heard her beating heart echo through her body. It was so loud, she wondered if they could hear it as well.
Still holding Amy's hands, Sky smiled into the large brown eyes staring back at her.
After another long awkward pause Amy finally found her voice, "Hi…I'm Amelia, and I teach at the University with Rose."
The dark figure watched the transaction between the three women. He sat in an inconspicuous corner with the cover of a well-placed, and rather large yucca plant. The makeup he applied earlier was hot upon his face, and he knew he would have to leave soon, but he wanted to stay long enough to get an idea about the people in Amy's life.
Amy was new to the city and didn't have many acquaintances which always made for easy prey. Getting to know his prey's inner circle was paramount for a successful outcome. The object of the game at this point was to make Amy as isolated as possible, and to do that he needed to know how to drive a wedge between her and her friends.
He surmised that Amy was pretty close to her red-haired colleague from the University. He had watched them every day this week as they met up on the corner of 5th and East Main for their morning run. After waiting a safe following distance, he fell in behind them and jogged just like the many others devoted to their exercise regime.
This new lady, though…he knew nothing about. This night would indeed be an educational event. He sat tight, smiled, and continued to watch the introductions unfold.
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A color palette in computing terms is a lookup of colors that a display system can use. This can either refer to the complete color set it can use, or just the color set it can use at a time, or in a certain area on the screen. Modern computers have a palette in the billions of colors, but in the early days of computing, color palettes were far more limited.
1 True Color, 24-bit 16,777,216 Colors
2 High Color, 16-bit 65,536 Colors
3 Indexed Palettes
3.1 VGA Palette
4 Single-Byte Palettes
4.1 R1-G1-B1, 3-bit, 8 Colors
4.2 R4-G4-B4, 6-bit, 64 Colors
4.3 R6-G6-B6, 8-bit, 216 Colors
True Color, 24-bit 16,777,216 Colors
256 - Red, 256 - Green, 256 - Blue.
So-called "true color" is a 24-bit RGB color system which uses a full byte (8-bits) for each red, green, and blue intensity resulting in 16,777,216 possible colors. Here is an example of a photo utilizing 24-bit color.
High Color, 16-bit 65,536 Colors
32 - Red, 64 - Green, 32 - Blue.
So-called "high color" is a 16-bit RGB color system which uses 2 bytes to describe each color in the palette, yielding 65,536 unique colors. This is usually setup using 5 bits for red intensity, 6 for green intensity, and 5 for blue intensity, or 32 shades of red and blue, but 64 shades of green. Some systems use 5 for each intensity for simplicity sake, and are technically only 15-bit.
Few graphic formats support 16-bit color, but it was a very large step up from 8-bit palettes because it results in enough colors to display photographs of decent quality while still being one full byte smaller in size per pixel than 24-bit color. Notice how the example below looks nearly identical to the 24-bit color original. It's only when you zoom in that you begin to see the quality loss.
Indexed Palettes
Indexed palettes are those which have a predefined set of colors. These became especially popular during the VGA era of digital art.
VGA Palette
Default VGA palette.
The default Video Graphics Array color palette uses 256 color indexes. It was designed to be backward-compatible with both the CGA and EGA palettes, so the first 16 colors match the CGA/EGA standard. After that, there are 16 shades of gray, and then a 24-index color spectrum beginning with blue and rotating toward red, yellow, green, and back to blue. The spectrum is repeated two more times with each subsequent copy having a lower saturation than the previous. Those 72 colors are repeated two more times with each subsequent copy having a lower intensity. There are also 8 indexes at the end left black, I'm presuming because it would take nine indexes to accommodate another color using this scheme, though I don't know why they didn't just pad out the gray scale with the unused values or provide eight more unique colors.
Although this is the default color set, the entire palette could be customized. Each index can be made up of red, green, and blue intensities ranging from 0-63. It was common for games developed for the VGA platform to have palette files among their resources which would be exactly 768 bytes in size, enough bytes to define an RGB intensity for each index. Because of this, it's common for game editors to assume a 768-byte file is a palette lookup.
Single-Byte Palettes
A single-byte palette is one that can be defined using eight or fewer bits rather than a lookup table. Single byte color palettes were popular in the early days of computing when memory was at a premium and palette lookup tables were memory intensive. There are many different algorithms used to encode an entire color palette into a single byte and quickly get the results.
R1-G1-B1, 3-bit, 8 Colors
1 - Red, 1 - Green, 1 - Blue.
RGB 3-bit uses one bit for each red, green, and blue value which allows for two intensities per value yielding eight colors total. To get each RGB value simply multiply its bit by 255. This is the smallest possible palette that can include red, green, and blue simultaneously.
This palette was mostly ignored in the USA, but it was used by the European ZX Spectrum and several early Japanese home computers like the Sharp X-1 and PC-88 series. Graphic displays which use binary LEDs use a system similar to this where a series of red, green, and blue LED are placed next to each other in tandem, and are turned on or off to simulate other colors when viewed at a distance, though they do not have separate values for composites like cyan, yellow, magenta, and white.
Such a limited color palette produces especially grainy results with real-life photos.
R4-G4-B4, 6-bit, 64 Colors
RGB 6-bit uses two bits for each red, green, and blue value which allows for four intensities per value yielding 64 colors total. The Enhanced Graphics Adapter uses this system to represent all of the possible colors of which it can use 16 at a time. In computer systems with 8-bit bytes, this color system isn't very compact because it leaves two unused bits per byte, although, the unused bits could be used to store additional information. On a computer architecture which uses 12-bit bytes, two colors can be stored in a single byte. With 8-times the number of colors compared to 3-bit color, the output photo is much nicer looking.
R6-G6-B6, 8-bit, 216 Colors
Because RGB color has three unique values, it can't be stored into single 8-bit byte evenly while also using all the indexes. This has led to various algorithms being devised to get an optimal palette. The 6-6-6 method yields the largest number of colors possible while still having an equal number of intensities for each value. This layout uses all 8-bits, but the red, green, and blue values are determined with the following algorithm: (36×R)+(6×G)+B. This allows for six intensities per value yielding 216 colors total. The remaining 40 indexes are left unused and could be filled from a color table. While this makes it slightly more CPU intensive to extract a color from the palette, it does have the advantage of being perfectly uniform across each value. In fact, this color system was used by early Web browsers as their "Web-safe" color set. Naturally, the added colors make the end result more attractive.
Because the human eye is better at resolving green than red or blue, one of the more optimal palette generation algorithms is add emphasis to green. This 6-7-6 algorithm also uses all eight bits, but adds an extra intensity level for green with the algorithm (42×R)+(6×G)+B. This allows for seven intensities of green and two of red and blue yielding 252 colors total. Like 6-6-6, this is more CPU intensive, but by adding an additional 36 colors, it results in a better output.
This configuration is made because the human eye is actually a lot better at resolving green than blue, but it's also better at resolving red. So, this 6-8-5 gives one intensity level of blue to green. The algorithm uses all eight bits and can be represented at (40×R)+(5×G)+B. This allows for six intensities of red, eight of green, and only five of blue, yielding 240 colors total. Like 6-6-6, it's also more CPU intensive, but by putting more emphasis on green at the cost of blue, it can actually yield better results for a human viewer, despite the lost colors.
This 8-bit configuration uses three bits for each red and green value, but only two bits for blue. This allows for eight intensities for red and green, and four for blue, yielding 256 colors. This layout is good for human viewing and yields the maximum amount of colors. While the palette might not be as versatile as a 6-7-6 or 6-8-5, it is far less CPU intensive because each value is stored in its own bit space. A palette of this type was used by early Namco arcade games like Pac-Man.
To give you an idea of why green is the focus in all of the non-homogeneous palettes above, here is an algorithm similar to 8-8-4, but with the least emphasis on green. This system uses three bits for red and blue, and only two for green. This results in eight levels of intensity for red and blue, but only four for green, yielding 256 colors. Despite having four times the colors, the output isn't much better than the 64-color 3-3-3 output from above. Green is extremely important.
This is like the 8-8-4, but with emphasis added to blue and green over red. This system uses two bits for red, and three for green and blue. This results in four levels of intensity for red, but eight for green and blue, yielding 256 colors. Notice how the output paradoxically looks more red despite having less red intensity. The warmer tone comes from the loss of nuance in red.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_palettes - Wikipedia (List of software palettes).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_color_palettes - Wikipedia (List of color palettes).
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Slain in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, 15 March III 3019
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Banner-bearer to King Théoden of Rohan
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Banner-bearer to Théoden
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The banner-bearer of King Théoden of Rohan. He rode to the relief of Minas Tirith with his Lord in the War of the Ring, and there fought in the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, where he was slain.
The u sound in Guthláf's name is not accented to indicate a long vowel sound, so the first syllable of his name might be taken to be pronounced simply as 'guth', with a short u. That syllable derives, however, from Old English gūþ, 'battle', which does have a long u sound, and we presume here that the original 'gooth' pronunciation should be preserved.
The literal interpretation of Guthláf's name comes from Old English gūþ lāf 'battle leaving'; that is, one left alive at the end of a battle. He perhaps earned his name from some earlier battle, but it brings with it a certain irony, because Guthláf is listed among those who did not survive the Battle of the Pelennor Fields.
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Use the `concourse plugins` command to manage plugins.

## Installation

You can install plugins using a local plugin `.zip` package or by downloading from the the [marketplace](https://marketplace.cinchapi.com).

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### Install a plugin from the marketplace
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### Installing multiple plugins

#### Install all local plugin packages within a directory
If one of the arguments given to the `concourse plugin install` command is a directory, all the plugin packages in that directory will be installed.
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concourse plugin install </path/to/directory>
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#### Install multiple local plugin packages
You can specify multiple local plugin packages as arguments to the `concourse plugin install` command.
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concourse plugin install </path/to/plugin1> </path/to/plugin2> ... </path/to/plguinN>
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#### Install multiple plugins from the marketplace
You can specify multiple marketplace plugin names as arguments to the `concourse plugin install` command.
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## Invoking plugin methods

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El Virus Cafetería roenbergensis, también conocido como Cafeteria roenbergensis virus (CroV), es un virus nucleocitoplasmáticos de ADN de gran tamaño que infecta específicamente al zooplancton marino Cafetería roenbergensis''. CroV tiene un genoma el cual consta de ~ 730.000 pares de bases de ADN de doble cadena. Entre sus 544 predicen genes que codifican proteínas que son varios normalmente se limitan a los organismos celulares, tales como la traducción de los factores y enzimas de la reparación del ADN y la síntesis de los hidratos de carbono.

CroV está lejanamente emparentada con el Mimivirus a pesar de su tamaño y pertenece a un grupo de virus conocido como grandes virus de ADN nucleocitoplasmaticos. Incluso el  CroV  es parasitada por un virófago llamado "Mavirus".

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Enlaces externos

 Biodiversidad: más complicadas de lo que piensas. Un nuevo virus, el gigante está confundiendo las viejas certezas, The Economist, 28 de octubre de 2010

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The Double Standard of Modern Feminism
Image Credits: Hillary Clinton / Youtube
"To young girls and women across the country, I say: do not let others define you. Do not listen to anyone who says you have to vote a certain way or for a certain candidate because you're a woman. That is not feminism. Feminism doesn't shut down conversations or threaten women. It is not about ideology. It is not a weapon to wield against your political opponent. A feminist is a woman who lives the life she chooses and uses all her God-given gifts. And always remember that a leader is not born, but made. Choose leadership." – Carly Fiorina
During the 2016 presidential election, I received a lot of backlash for being a conservative. I was a student on arguably one of the most liberal college campuses in the country. Yet, the worst of it came from the so-called modern feminists who attacked not only myself, but other conservative women because we refused to support Hillary Clinton.
I was told I was "against my gender." Supposedly I was on "on the wrong side of history." These are among other things that I cannot type out due to their offensive nature. From the group that supposedly supported all women and said they wanted to work together with all women to continue to fight for women, I found it ironic that I was being attacked by this very group. Despite what feminism says in the dictionary, I found this group refused to allow strong women to lead, have their own ideas, and to be themselves, instead of fitting a mold of a modern feminist who would rather spend time tearing down others instead of promoting what they are about.
After the most recent special election in Georgia, when Karen Handel became the first Republican woman to hold a congressional seat in that state, I tweeted, calling out the hypocrisy of the modern feminist movement. I was met with backlash, interestingly enough, having people who said that they shouldn't be excited about a women being elected solely because she was a women, but because they would rather agree with her politically.
That's funny.
That was my response when I would defend myself when I was called "against my gender" – when I was told that it as ridiculous that I wouldn't vote for Hillary Clinton because she was woman. Apparently, for a conservative woman to not vote based on identity politics is absurd, but it is fine for liberals.
To be honest, if politics are removed from the situation, it is truly an achievement for the women to have a woman be the nominee for a major political party in the United States. But add in the fact she covered up the sexual assaults accusations for her husband, lied about Benghazi, and many more scandals, it slowly becomes less of an achievement and more a negative image placed on the fight for women's advancement politically.
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When honest, hardworking, and intelligent women win, so does the women's movement. This double standard and hypocrisy of the modern feminist movement is removing all the good that came from the feminists of the first wave. The women who braved marched for the 19th amendment, the women who were trailblazers in business, politics, and in military service. The one's who embrace their femininity while also proving that women have a place at the table. Women who have knowingly done what Hillary Clinton has should not be champions of a movement for the empowerment and advancement of women.
If the true definition of feminism were true in the movement today, I would be able to call myself a feminist without any hesitation. Due to the tarnishing nature that the modern feminist movement has placed on it, I can't. For the sake of the women in my life, both present and future, I hope that we may be able to remove the double standard. I hope we can remove the hypocrisy, and finally come back to the movement that changed the course of women's lives in the United States forever.
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Bailey is a senior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who enjoys writing, traveling, and coffee. When she isn't working, you can find her with her nose in a book or planning her next adventure.
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The Gawker Removal Story Isn't About Church and State
By Gini Dietrich July 21, 2015
Nearly five years ago I wrote a blog post that, to this day, I regret writing.
You see, I forgot about the vision of Spin Sucks, which is to change the perception that most people have of the PR industry.
It is to provide the tips, tools, thoughts, ideas, and techniques to help our peers stay ahead of the ever-changing trends, and to do so ethically and with the long goal in mind.
I've also been a very strong proponent of attacking an idea, but not the person. I know what it's like to be attacked personally because of something I stand for and I never want another human being to feel the way that makes you feel.
I got wrapped up in wanting to belong to the popular crowd. I got wrapped up in the social media dissent surrounding the ideas of another human being. I got wrapped up in using this very blog to bring another person down, just to make a point.
And I was wrong. Terribly, terribly wrong.
Yes, the idea of this person was wrong—and I still believe that today—but the way I handled my criticism was equally wrong.
Robots We Are Not
I am reminded of this every time I see an organization trip over their feet or make a mistake that could have been avoided.
We all are human (which is unfortunate because I'd really like to be a robot!) and we all make mistakes. But we also all have the chance to think things alllllll the way through before making a decision.
I didn't think through my blog post all those years ago and Gawker didn't think through an article they posted last week.
I won't go into detail about the article that outed a high-ranking executive at one of the largest media conglomerates in the world—you can read it here if you like—but we will discuss our obligation as content creators—"real" journalists or not.
Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch is famous for saying:
Getting it right is expensive, getting it first is cheap.
And this is the premise of every start-up, insolent blog in the world that has focused—since 2002 or 2003—on generating clicks from the mass consumer, no matter what it takes.
Gawker Can No Longer Be Insolent
Gawker is known for it's slogan: "We put truths on the Internet." And, in the early days of the web, that would have been enough.
It's why TechCrunch and Buzzfeed and Mashable and Gawker exist.
But one day after this particular tabloid story ran, that outed a man who is married and has three children in the name of "putting truths on the Internet," the managing partnership of Gawker Media voted—four to two—to remove the story.
They did so because of the outrage of its readers…and because advertisers, such as Discover and BFGoodrich, reportedly said they would pull their advertising if the story remained.
Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker, wrote about the removed post:
The story involves extortion, illegality and reckless behavior, sufficient justification at least in tabloid news terms. The account was true and well-reported. It concerns a senior business executive at one of the most powerful media companies on the planet.
The media environment has changed, our readers have changed, and I have changed. Not only is criticism of yesterday's piece from readers intense, but much of what they've said has resonated. Some of our own writers, proud to work at one of the only independent media companies, are equally appalled.
I believe this public mood reflects a growing recognition that we all have secrets, and they are not all equally worthy of exposure.
And the story was removed from the site (what I linked to above is a web archive, which just goes to show nothing can ever be removed from the Interwebz).
Church and State Exist if a Story Deserves to Be Told
Yesterday, Tommy Craggs, executive editor, and Max Read, editor-in-chief, resigned from Gawker, stating a difference in opinion about the removal of the story.
The resignation letter to the staff from Craggs stated the reason he is resigning is because:
…the responsibility Nick (Denton) had vested in the executive editor is in fact meaningless, that true power over editorial resides in the whims of the four cringing members of the managing partnership's Fear and Money Caucus.
It's the old church and state argument. The advertisers—and fear of losing them—is making the decision of whether to remove a story for something other than "factual error or legal settlement."
But, here's the thing: They ran a story that was extortion at its finest. It is juicy because of who the extorted is—and his relationship to a person in power—but that's it.
It provides no news value. It provides no "truths on the Internet." It provides nothing more than click bait.
In Denton's own words, "The media environment has changed, our readers have changed, and I have changed."
Remember Who You Are and What You Stand For
It's important to remember why you are blogging. It's important to remember why you create content. It's important to remember who you write for every day.
Your readers are the most important part of this whole Internet thing.
As my mom always says, "Remember who you are and what you stand for."
If you do that, you'll have success and never have to apologize for a mistake that could have easily been avoided.


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Mills and Al Moran, the brothers who are partners in the Los Angeles gallery Moran Bondaroff, have provided ARTnews with a statement in the wake of the resignation of their third partner, Aaron Bondaroff, who stepped down yesterday amid claims of sexual misconduct.
We are deeply troubled by the accusations levied against Aaron Bondaroff and appreciate his immediate resignation from the gallery. Such behavior goes completely against our personal values and the spirit of community and respect that drew us to the art world a decade ago. Today, we reaffirmed these values to our staff, our artists and our clientele.
To the women who have come forward, and to any who might have similar stories, please know we hear you, and we take your claims very seriously. We have a zero-tolerance policy for sexual harassment in any form.
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Question about stakeholders in the Naga conflict still needs a satisfactory answer
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for his keen eye for political optics, wore a Tangkhul Naga shawl to the signing ceremony of the Framework Agreement... The fundamental question about who all the stakeholders in the Naga conflict are, still needs a satisfactory answer, one that is based on an in-depth mapping of the conflict.
September 2, 2020 - 4:30pm
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In August 2014 when the then newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi had named Ravindra Narayan Ravi as the government's new interlocutor to the Naga talks, a number of groups, most significantly, the NSCN-IM — the government's main negotiating partner — raised objections. The appointment as interlocutor of a person "well known for his antagonistic approach to the Naga issue", said the NSCN-IM, casts doubts on the government's sincerity towards the talks. It required the intervention of the Nagaland governor of that time, P B Acharya, to clear the air on the appointment. Acharya assured critics that the newspaper articles that Ravi authored, and were the source of the NSCN-IM's ire, were written before the new government came into office, and that as interlocutor he will implement the prime minister's vision and take the peace process forward.
In a statement issued a few days ago, the NSCN-IM blamed Ravi for destroying the momentum of the talks. It accused him of trying to turn the clock back by reframing the conflict as a law and order issue, and not a political dispute. In retrospect, those writings could have foretold the differences that have now hamstrung the negotiations.
Ravi, who has also been the Governor of Nagaland for the past year, was not a public figure until his retirement from the Indian Police Service in 2012. A 1976 batch officer, he served in the Intelligence Bureau, where he developed expertise on Northeast Indian affairs. He wrote his now famous articles on the Naga conflict during the brief time between his retirement and his assumption of post-retirement official positions.
Also Read: Last mile in Naga peace process requires political finesse
In the articles published in 2012 and 2013 Ravi was scathing in his criticism of the peace process and of the role of two of his predecessors in the position of interlocutor: K Padmanabhaiah and R S Pandey. He called them "rent-seekers" — a term usually reserved for those seeking personal benefits from public office. By dealing with the Nagas "as if it were a homogenous collective with common aspirations", they set the Naga talks on "a perverse trajectory". He accused them of acting as no more than the NSCN-IM's "marketing agents" and "selling its larger-than-life profile to Delhi".
Ravi's main grouse appears to be that the Manmohan Singh government was then negotiating with only the NSCN-IM — "quintessentially an entity of Tangkhul tribes of Manipur, having little resonance with other Nagas notwithstanding its pan-Naga rhetoric". Drawing on his knowledge as an Intelligence Bureau official, he waxed eloquent on "the intricacies of the Naga polity — comprising over 25 tribes, each a proud owner and inheritor of a distinct culture, language, tradition and geography, espousing a distinct world view, falling within the broad rubric of the Naga family". There is, however, ample evidence that many Nagas aspire to Naga unity, and they view those tribal loyalties as residues of a premodern past and an obstacle to Naga solidarity.
Narratives of Naga nationalism have long been imbued with the idea of a Naga homeland that includes contiguous areas in a number of Northeastern states, and even parts of Myanmar. The belief that the conflict cannot be resolved without addressing the issue of integrating the Naga-inhabited areas is widely shared among Nagas, though non-Nagas living in those areas do not generally share this goal.
"The Indian government acknowledges the unique history of the Nagas and their situation." NSCN-IM leaders have repeated this claim with remarkable frequency over the many years of the peace process. No one can claim that the meaning of the phrase "unique history" is self-explanatory. It has the kind of ambiguity associated with diplomatic language: Formulations that conflicting parties find acceptable only because they are open to more than one interpretation. But it also embodies a commitment to pursue agreement: To work together and find a common language that all sides find acceptable, which can be achieved only by resolving the conflict.
The source of the phrase can be traced back to a joint communiqué that NSCN-IM General Secretary Thuingaleng Muivah and former Home Secretary K Padmanabhaiah signed in Amsterdam on July 11, 2002. However, it became etched in Naga public memory only after Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's visit to the state in October of 2003. In his speech at the civic reception held in his honour in Kohima, Vajpayee said: "It is true that, of all the states in India, Nagaland has a unique history. We are sensitive to this historical fact".
The carefully crafted phrase serves as a reminder of the painstaking efforts of countless civil servants, and political leaders — across the party divide — as well as of leaders of various Naga organisations, to build bridges over contested narratives and create the conditions for negotiations to end India's oldest armed conflict.
Also Read: Historical Perspectives of Naga Political Struggle
Policymakers in the 1990s appear to have concluded that the impasse in the conflict called for a shift in strategy. It was becoming more and more obvious that the NSCN-IM, the faction that declared the Shillong Accord of 1975 a sellout, and a betrayal of the Naga cause, had emerged as a serious political force precisely because it stood for Naga unity. Seen in this context, arguments that identities centred on tribes are somehow more "real" than the Naga identity are reminiscent of colonial era intelligence reports that referred to nationalist politicians in terms of their caste status: Nehru was a "Kashmiri Brahmin", Jinnah a "Khoja Muslim", Malaviya a "Malwa Brahmin" etc.
One can speculate that by signing on to the idea of Nagas having a "unique history", officials and political leaders intended to signal acknowledgement that (a) the characterisations long favoured by security bureaucrats of the Naga political struggle as a separatist insurgency or a terrorist movement that makes false claims to Naga unity, are inaccurate and (b) rejecting those epithets is a necessary condition for negotiations based on mutual respect. Those are significant achievements that should not be allowed to wither away.
In August 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, known for his keen eye for political optics, wore a Tangkhul Naga shawl to the signing ceremony of the Framework Agreement. Notwithstanding Ravi's gripe about the NSCN-IM's appeal being limited to the "Tangkhul tribes of Manipur", the "unique history" formulation — with its bow to the territorial imaginary of the Naga nation — evidently was still the guidepost anchoring Indian policy.
The ground realities could not have changed so dramatically in the past five years to require the rejection of the unique history formulation. While the talk of returning to the jungle by NSCN-IM militants may be more bombast than a genuine threat, the risks of Nagaland and adjacent areas going back to a downward spiral of violence and counter-violence should not be underestimated.
At the same time, Ravi's diatribe against the peace process was not without some empirical basis in ground realities. There were legitimate questions to be asked about the wisdom of a policy of negotiating only with the NSCN-IM, treating it as primus inter pares among Naga factions with a veto power on key issues. That a more nuanced negotiating strategy is now emerging is a positive development. But the fundamental question about who all the stakeholders in the Naga conflict are, still needs a satisfactory answer, one that is based on an in-depth mapping of the conflict. Only then can we expect peaceful dialogue and patient negotiations to end the conflict and bring about a durable peace.
Sanjib Baruah
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A couple of months ago, we disconnected our landline.
When my hubby first suggested it, I did a little bit o' freakin' out: What? No landline? But, there's been a phone cord in a wall my whole life. That's just way too out there for us. We're conservatives. We're REPUBLICAN, for Pete's sake.
But, we realized we were throwing money down ye olde drain every month because we never used it. We determined that the only calls we got on it were from solicitors or the doctor's office. Everyone we know personally called us on our cell phones.
So, we disconnected our landline. *Gasp* And, being the disorganized disaster that I am, I forgot to email our friends and family and let them know. I alerted the doctor's office and Jack's school. And, that was it.
And, you know what? No one has asked us about it. No one cared about our poor little landline. We cast it aside like an old holey sock, and no one missed it.
But, we don't miss it either. I do have to make sure I keep my cell phone charged and handy, but since we disconnected the landline, I'm much more aware of where it is at all times and no longer let Lincoln use it for teething or the older boys dissect it with Jason's tools.
Have you disconnected your landline? If so, why did you do it and do you miss it? If you still have a landline, have you considered getting rid of it or is there no way on God's green earth? What are your main reasons for keeping it?
These are the things that go through my mind at 2am. I have issues. I know.
still have a landline. My hubby refuses to carry a cell phone, hence he doesn't have one. *gasp* It drives me crazy that he won't get one.
We ditched our landline three or four years ago when we got cable internet. Or maybe it was five years ago. We don't miss it at all. The only time we notice it is once in a blue moon when we have to fax something, but you can fax at Meijer or a million other places.
We still have our landline. We have cell phones, but use them when we are away from home. One reason I hate to get rid of the landline is that I hate not being able to find peoples phone numbers in the book. I must be old!
we thought about it, but the kids are getting to the age that they like talking on the phone with the cousins, gparents, and friends and I can't imagine them walking around my house with my cell phone. We may consider it when they are old enough to have their own cell phones....but, for now it wouldnt work for us.
we still have our landline - we debated getting rid of it but i just didn't feel comfortable not having a landline in the house for the times when we have a sitter or now that morgan is getting old enough to be home for short periods of time alone i wanted to have a phone if she needed me or there was an emergency. the other main reason is i really really really dislike talking on cell phones. i am horrible about taking it with me and even answering it. so there is my long answer as to why we have a landline and i don't see us parting with it anytime soon.
e got rid of ours about a year ago. We don;t miss it at all, since we both carry our cell phones on us and I figure we're saving at least $40 a month, more since we kept forgetting to pay it and kept getting late fees on top of the regular fees.
I still have my landline. Why? Because I've had my cell phone hacked in to before, and some one made a whole lot of unauthorized calls overseas.
Oh, I've been contemplating this for several months now. And I'm getting closer to just doing it! We have to get another source for our internet when we do, but I'm already thinking about the money we'll save!
I would get rid of my landline if I could get the same phone number on several cell phones. We tried not having a landline for a while, and the cell phone run was horrendous. I would be upstairs and the phone would ring all the way downstairs and I was running to get it. It was quite annoying.
We still have a landline. There have been times during storms and such where I couldn't make a call using our cell phones but the landline had no problems. Plus I'm pretty sure that the day we had it disconnected Honey and I would both lose or somehow destroy our cell phones.
We got rid of our landline 3 years ago before Izzy was born. We haven't looked back! We couldn't justify the expense- we mainly had it for internet anyway- but once we needed to upgrade to faster speeds, the landline just didn't make sense. If we ever had/needed a babysitter that didn't have a cell- we talked about purchasing like a $15 prepaid phone from target for emergencies.
We still have it - but have been seriously considering getting rid of it. We need to save money monthly and we both have cell phones. But - hubby is horrible at remembering to charge his phone and keep it with him. He does have a work phone, but isn't supposed to talk on it much.
My biggest concern is mainly when we have a babysitter at home and hubby and I aren't together to be able to leave one phone home, and not having a central number for school, etc. to reach us at. I guess it's something I'll have to get past though if it'll really save a lot of money.
We had been without a landline for 2 years.. then we moved. The area we moved to does NOT have cable internet. *gasp* We had to put the landline back in so we could get DSL. I can't wait to get rid of the landline again in the future. The only calls we've gotten are people who can't pronounce my last name and are selling something. The phone is coming down.. I hate the inturrruptions. It won't be missed when it goes away again.
Yes! and no we did for a while but our new house has an alarm system that requires the phone for monitoring, However our "landline" is through the internet not the phone company.
I have not had one for 4 years. I made the change trying to save money.
We got rid of ours 2 years ago and its been fine. I've honestly never had a babysitter that didn't have their own cell phone, so that's never been an issue. I was hesitant at first because I don't love talking on cell phones, but I'm totally used to it now!
I still have my landline for the simple reason that I'm too cheap to pay for cable internet and cell phone service. I have DSL, which packaged with my landline, costs less than cable internet and a cell phone together would cost. It's all about the money for me!
We disconnected our landline, but I FORGOT to notify the school. Not quite as organized as you.
I'm with you though- we don't miss it at all!
Thanks for entering my give-away, too!
Adam and I have never had a landline our entire marriage. It was weird after living in my parent's house becuase we, also being republicans, always had a landline. But we just never took the plunge after getting married and we haven't missed it at all. I'm thinking maybe later in life we'll get on when the kids start chatting on the phone more. But I currently appreciate not having one. We don't have a ton of cell minutes between the two of, which makes me very aware of how much time I'm spending on the phone. And I like that, because I'm not a phone person anyway.
We keep our landline. I think my dad would faint if I told him we got rid of it. I guess the whole weather thing plays a part, even though my cell has never been unreliable in bad weather.
with little ones, a landline, or at least a hardline over the cable or internet, is important over a cell because that is the only way 911 gets your address. they cannot from a cell unless you speak it to them. that's the ONLY reason we have one.
So what do you think you will do when your boys are old enough to start getting phone calls from friends? I don't want my kids friends calling my cell phone all the time so I doubt we would even consider dripping our land line until they are all out of the house.
Deb - We have yet to have a babysitter who didn't have a cell phone. Even our 14 year-old next door has one. But, I understand your concern there if a babysitter didn't have one.
Amy - both my and my husband's phone's have GPS. The police can locate us via where we are at any time due to the GPS system. I'm guessing GPS will be standard on all phones soon.
I still think it's so funny that no one knew -- including us! We still have one, but we use it quite often since not all our family is on the same cell carrier.
Since we've been married we've never had a landline...I forget what it's even like. When I go to my mom and dad's it seems strange that a phone just rings in the house :)It does get frustrating when I can't find my cell phone though, but it's not worth the money each month. Although, I will say that verizon's new 'hub' phone looks interesting.


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Slash planning solo album
Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash has plans to release his first solo album in 2009. Recording is expected to begin early next year for the album which will feature different vocalist for each track.
The album could be delayed once Velvet Revolver selects a new front-man to replace Scott Weiland who left the band in April 2008.
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The Best Bars for Foodies in Cincinnati
The city of Cincinnati, known as the "Pearl of the West" and the "Queen City," lies in a gorgeous location on the north bank of the Ohio River. Surrounded by hills, it is a largely industrial city in the state of Ohio with a wide range of cultural and recreational facilities and beautiful neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and Mount Airy. Check out a Cincinnati Reds game at the Great American Ball Park, visit the Cincinnati Art Museum or wander around magnolia gardens in lovely Eden Park. It's a booming metropolis of sports, entertainment, cultural, historical and outdoor opportunities - and a rapidly growing culinary and nightlife scene! Foodies have an abundance of options to choose from, including vegan joints, haute-cuisine, and trendy bars. If you're looking for a place to enjoy a great cocktail or craft beer with your meal, check out our Tastemaker list of the best bars in Cincinnati.
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Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant - Centerville
Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant is a fantastic place to go for award-winning wines, flavorful food and a cool, Napa-style tasting room. Located in Liberty Center, shoppers can head here for a brea...
Notable Wine List in Cincinnati / Dayton
Jag's Steak & Seafood
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Jag's Steak and Seafood, centrally located between Cincinnati and Dayton, is a perfect spot for impressing a client, dancing the night away or relaxing with a date. It's definitely one of the best bar...
Steakhouse in Cincinnati / Dayton
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Located in Dayton's historic Oregon District, Salar features World fusion cuisine with strong French and Peruvian influences along with hand-crafted cocktails. It's a reasonably priced, upscale yet ca...
Best Overall in Dayton
Galla Park Gastro - Cincinnati
Bar Seating
Galla Park is an upscale, locally-owned restaurant located at The Banks on the corner of Second Street and Joe Nuxhall Way. The restaurant doubles as an entertainment venue and is perfect for game day...
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Orchids at Palm Court
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Located inside the Hilton Cincinnati Netherland Plaza, Orchids at Palm Court feels like it's from a different era, with Frech art decor and creative cuisines prepared by top chefs. It's a fine dining ...
Arnold's Bar and Grill
With over 150 years of history, Arnold's Bar and Grill is Cincinnati's oldest continuously operated tavern! Located on 8th Street in Cincinnati, it is a legendary downtown destination with a reputatio...
Hot Spot in Cincinnati / Dayton
Branch & Night Drop
Located inside former East Walnut Hills Central Trust Bank, Brand and Night Drop is a popular restaurant and bar combo from the Littlefield Group. Branch is a casual niche restaurant on the building's...
Nicholson's Tavern & Pub
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Located in downtown Cincinnati across from the Aronoff Center, Nicholson's is a restaurant and bar serving fine food and drink in a genuine Scottish tavern setting. The bar takes inspiration from the ...
Vibrant Bar Scene in Cincinnati / Dayton
Bakersfield - OTR
Over the Rhine
Located on Vine Street in the Gateway Quarter, Bakersfield OTR is a tacos, tequila and whiskey bar owned by Joe Lanni. Many locals consider it one of the best bars in Cincinnati and you can choose fro...
Coppin's - Hotel Covington
The Hotel Covington Cincinnati Riverfront occupies the iconic 1910 Coppin's Department Store building. The space is approachable, intimate and comfortable without giving up a strong sense of style and...
Grandview Tavern
Quiet Conversation
Located just outside Cincinnati proper in Fort Mitchell, Grandview Tavern is a popular bar and restaurant with lively energy and friendly service. It is the newest addition to Northern Kentucky's prem...
Carlo & Johnny
Good for Anniversaries
Carlo & Johnny is Jeff Ruby's 1930s Chicago style steakhouse and supper club. They offer the same great Ruby steaks as his other restaurants, but with an Italian accent! They strive for excellence in ...
Best Overall in Cincinnati / Dayton
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse - Cincinnati
$$$$·Steak·
Jeff Ruby's Steakhouse, located on Walnut Street in the Central Business District, Jeff Ruby's is a 1940s art deco style steakhouse. It features dry aged-on-premise steaks and fresh seafood along with...
Best Ambiance in Cincinnati / Dayton
Tony's of Cincinnati
Tony's of Cincinnati is a modern steakhouse located on Montgomery Road in the northeastern suburbs. The menu combines the classic American steakhouse with fresh, modern fare, an expansive and diverse ...
Romantic in Cincinnati / Dayton
Tano Bistro - Hamilton
Tano Bistro, located on Riverfront Plaza in Hamilton, sits directly across from the beautiful Marcum Park. The restaurant offers a fresh dining experience in a contemporary dining space. It's a classy...
Healthy in Cincinnati / Dayton
Moerlein Lager House
The Christian Moerlein Lager House is a world-class restaurant and brewery focused on the heritage of Cincinnati's storied brewing history. Prominently situated in the dynamic Smale Riverfront Park, t...
Krueger's Tavern
Krueger's Tavern is from the same group that brought you Bakersfield and The Eagle. It's a stylish, seasonal New American kitchen with a menu of small and large plates and a rooftop patio. The goal he...
Zula Bistro & Wine Bar
$$$$·Tapas / Small Plates·
Zula Bistro and Wine Bar, located on Race Street in the historic Over the Rhine neighborhood, is a tapas-style restaurant and bar. The menu features a variety of mussel dishes, cold and hot tapas, and...
Best Food in Cincinnati / Dayton
The Mercer OTR
Another restaurant and bar by the OTR restaurant group, The Mercer offers European-inspired New American cuisine with a taste of something for everyone. Located on Vine Street in the historic Over the...
Matt the Miller's Tavern- West Chester
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Matt the Miller's, located on Civic Centre Boulevard, offers an upscale tavern experience that's hard to beat. It features a chef-driven menu of tavern favorites with a unique twist. They offer Origin...
Great for Lunch in Cincinnati / Dayton
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You Can Get Any Food You Want in America—Except This
Meet the chef trying to revive his ancestors' delicious and healthy vittles.
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Ask anyone to name a Native American food, and chances are, they'll say "frybread." The crisp, oily, disk-shaped doughnut has come to represent Indian culture all over the United States. It originated with the Southwest's Navajo Indians, and South Dakota also proudly named it its state bread in 2005.
Chef Sean Sherman Courtesy the Sioux Chef
But the pastry's origins are less savory: In 1864, the US government forced the Navajos and Mescolero Apaches off their land in Arizona and onto a reservation in remote New Mexico, dragging them on what was soon known as "the Long Walk." Stranded on inhospitable desert, the tribes couldn't farm, and were sent canned goods and rations of white flour, sugar, and lard to eat. Frybread emerged as a survival food. As Native American writer and activist Suzan Shown Harjo once put it, "Frybread was a gift of Western Civilization from the days when Native people were removed from buffalo, elk, deer, salmon, turkey, corn, beans, squash, acorns, wild rice, and other real food."
It's those original sources of sustenance, rather than frybread, that motivate Oglala Lakota chef Sean Sherman. Sherman, our guest on this week's episode of Bite, is on a mission to revive the pre-Reservation cuisine of Indian tribes—food that's largely gone missing from the American diet.
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Sherman grew up on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, one of the country's poorest places. As he explains, "a lot of the food systems had been pretty much wiped away" in favor of commodity ingredients from the feds—"canned salmon, chipped beef, government corn flakes, and government cheese." Sherman's family supplemented with hunted game, which "wasn't typical for the Native families around the area."
After working in kitchens throughout his teens, in 2014, Sherman decided to open his own catering and consulting company called The Sioux Chef in the Twin Cities. He gravitated toward the foraged foods, local game, and indigenous plants of his ancestors. Little Earth of United Tribes, a Native American community organization in Minneapolis, soon asked him to help develop the menu for what's become a popular food truck, the Tatanka Truck. The projects became his way of rebelling against the very commodities that symbolized government oppression in his childhood.
To uncover original Native American cuisine, Sherman had to take "this giant broken pot that was shattered all over the place and piece it back together."
To construct this "un-modernist cuisine," as he calls it, he delved into historical documents, cookbooks, foraging manuals, first-person accounts, and even archeological texts. The process was like trying to take "this giant broken pot that was shattered all over the place and piece it back together."
Sherman concocts dishes like corn and sumac-seared Walleye and duck and wild rice pemmican (see recipe below), focusing on "building plates that speak of a certain region, almost like a walk around a lake." Indeed, trees, shrubs, and buds you've probably never imagined were edible turn up in his meals. He even has a culinary ethnobotanist on staff to help him identify wild plants that he can use.
Cooking this way doesn't just pay homage to Sherman's culture: He also sees this cuisine as much healthier than the typical American diet. Frybread has 700 calories and 25 grams of fat, one of the many reasons that modern Native Americans struggle with diabetes and obesity. Traditional Native American cooking, on the other hand, is "dairy-free, gluten-free, soy-free, [processed] sugar-free—super diet-friendly," Sherman says.
Sherman uses dried juniper berries to give his food a "peppery, earthy bite." The Sioux Chef
With critical acclaim and attention from the New York Times and NPR, Sherman has set his sights on expanding his reach. He teaches workshops on his techniques and supports Native American-owned businesses in hopes of cultivating more of a community around indigenous foods. After launching an online fundraising campaign for a restaurant in the works, the Sioux Chef became the most backed eatery on Kickstarter ever.
The 42-year-old chef doesn't want to stop there. Dine out in any major American city, and you'll notice plenty of restaurants paying tribute to immigrant cuisine: Mexican taco stands, Ethiopian joints, Jewish delis, Vietnamese cafés. "There should be restaurants all over the country showcasing Native American foods," Sherman says. "America should be identified by the culture behind it."
Don't miss the full interview, which also includes Sherman talking about his connection to the ongoing Dakota Access Pipeline protest. And check out this recipe from the Sioux Chef's forthcoming cookbook.
Duck and wild rice pemmican The Sioux Chef
Duck and Wild Rice Pemmican
From Sean Sherman
Note: Inspired by the ancient practice of drying meat for preservation, this duck appetizer is rich, satisfying, and surprisingly easy. While it takes a little time and patience for the duck to dry in either a dehydrator or a very low oven, the recipe comes together in a snap. Serve as finger food or on a bed of greens for a starter or light meal.
• 2 duck breasts, skin on
• 4 tablespoons maple sugar*
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1/2 cup dried blueberries
• 1/3 cup wild rice**
Carefully remove all of the skin and the fat from the duck breasts, cutting close to, but avoiding the meat. Once the fat and skin are removed, cut into 1-inch size chunks. Place the skin, with its fat, into a heavy-bottomed skillet or Dutch oven. Set the pan over low heat and slowly cook, stirring occasionally, until the skin has crisped and released its fat to liquid oil, about 45 minutes. With a slotted spoon, remove the crisped skin (cracklings) and drain them in a bowl lined with paper toweling. Allow the liquid fat to cool to room temperature then strain through a fine mesh sieve lined with cheesecloth into a bowl or clean glass jar.
In a small bowl, mix together the sugar and salt.
Slice the duck breast into thin, long strips along the grain. Rub both sides of the duck strips with the salt/sugar mix. If you have a food dehydrator, follow the instructions for making jerky; or to dry the duck in the oven, preheat the oven to the lowest setting (130 to 150 degrees). Lay the strips on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet and put this in the oven. Leave the meat until it is dried out but still pliable, about 6 to 8 hours.
In a medium skillet, heat the duck oil over low and add the wild rice. Shake the pan until the rice begins to "pop" and "puff." Spread the rice out on a paper towel. Reserve 1 tablespoon of the puffed rice for garnish.
Put the cracklings, dried duck, puffed wild rice (except for the reserved amount), dried blueberries, and any leftover duck oil into a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse to chop fine. Put the mixture in a bowl and using 2 tablespoons or 1/8th measuring cup, form the mixture into small bites. Serve garnished with the puffed wild rice.
* Maple sugar can be found in the baking section of most co-ops and grocery stores and sometimes in bulk. If it's not available, substitute light brown sugar.
** We recommend using real, hand-harvested wild rice (not the paddy rice). The real wild rice pops easily while the paddy rice takes more time and is less consistent.
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The quality of the bids received at the close of the tender for a 99-year leasehold residential site at Prince Charles Crescent reflects general optimism in the market. The site received a top bid of $516.3 million, or $960.28 per square foot per plot ratio (psf ppr).
The top bid was submitted by a tie-up between Wing Tai's Wingstar Investment, Metro Australia Holdings, and UE E&C's unit Maxdin. It trumped consultants' expectations in July, when the site was triggered, that it could fetch between $760-$850 psf ppr.
This represents a 13 per cent premium over the top end of market expectations, and beat the top bid put up for the Jervois Road parcel in February ($881 psf ppr).
The second highest bid for the plot, which has a site area of about 2.38 hectares, came in at $946.55 psf ppr, in a joint effort by Hong Leong Group's Intrepid Investments, City Developments's unit Verwood Holdings, and Hong Realty.
The site also attracted bids from Keppel Land's Sherwood Development ($980 psf ppr), Wheelock Properties's Pinehill Investments ($890.27 psf ppr), and Bay Front Land ($871.65 psf ppr), whose shareholders comprise World Class Land and Fragrance Group.
The lowest bid was submitted by Plan Achieve, at $805.69 psf ppr.
The Development Control guideline on the maximum allowable number of dwelling units which was announced earlier this month is applicable to this site if the planning permission for the proposed development is received on or after Nov 4, said URA. If the application is submitted before Nov 4, URA may impose requirements where necessary.


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Initiative signatures are the new greenbacks
As of Wednesday, June 6, petitions for four statewide initiatives were getting circulated.
by Jerry Cornfield
The signature of a registered voter will be one of the most sought after political commodities in Washington in the next few weeks.
Those seeking to gather thousands of them for initiatives are going to pay a handsome sum to acquire them.
And, in one instance, even send someone to Europe for a four-country "trip of a lifetime."
A chance to win such an excursion is an incentive reportedly offered to those getting people to sign petitions for a referendum on Seattle's new job tax. At least 17,632 signatures of valid Seattle voters must be turned in by June 17 to get it on the November ballot.
A communique reputedly sent around in recent days declares one can earn $6 per referendum signature. And a person who collects at least 75 signatures a day — and turns them in each day — will receive a ticket in the drawing for the European trip.
Too good to be true? Or legal? Maybe. Even if it does cross the line, it is revealing of the demanding and competitive nature of the initiative and referendum season now peaking in Washington.
Sponsors of three proposals —the ones to impose a new fee on carbon emissions, to ban local taxes on soda and to make collective bargaining negotiations public — have until July 6 to turn in roughly 260,000 signatures of registered voters to qualify. The Secretary of State's Office recommends filing at least 350,000 signatures to account for invalid ones.
The fourth — a $30 car tab measure pushed by Tim Eyman of Mukilteo — doesn't face an immediate deadline as it is aiming for the 2019 ballot.
For the campaigns behind the carbon tax and the ban on soda taxes, money is not much of a concern. Each has in excess of $1.5 million available, which puts them in a position to pay good money per signature in the coming weeks.
On Thursday, the situation gets a little more intense.
That's when signature-gathering for another initiative is expected to begin. This one would impose new restrictions on firearm purchases and storage including raising the legal age to purchase a semiautomatic rifle from 18 to 21.
Backers will have just 30 days to get 350,000 voters to sign their petitions, or 11,666 per day.
"Together, we will make history by completing the shortest signature-gathering drive in Washington State history AND passing one of the most comprehensive statewide gun safety measures in the country," sponsors of the initiative wrote in a June 4 email to supporters.
With $2.5 million contributed or pledged to the campaign, sponsors will be able to pay top dollar for each coveted signature.
You can only imagine how many professional signature-gatherers around the country are making plans to spend the next month in Washington — if they aren't already here.
Depending on how many initiative petitions they carry at one time, they could make $10 to $20 for each signature of a registered voter they obtain in the coming weeks.
At that haul, they won't need to win a European vacation because they can afford it on their own.
Jerry Cornfield: 360-352-8623; jcornfield@herald net.com. Twitter: @dospueblos
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There's been never ending love for 'horror comedy' flicks in Bollywood. The latest film with such a genre is 'Bhoot Police'. The film which is directed by Pavan Kripalani of 'Phobia' fame, stars Saif Ali Khan, Fathima Sana and Ali Fazal in the lead roles. The first look poster of the movie was shared by the 'Dangal' actress through her Instagram account. The actress captioned, "Ghost hunting is hilariously spooky business! Presenting the cast of Bhoot Police."
The poster has Saif Ali Khan and Ali Fazal dressed in black with a serious yet naughty look, meanwhile the natural beauty is seen in an off-shoulder tee shirt. Following Fathima Sana's post, her co star Ali Fazal tweeted, 'The team that hunts ghosts together, sticks together. Meet the cast of India's spookiest comedy!!"
'Bhoot Police', helmed by Pavan Kripalani will feature Saif Ali Khan and Ali Fazal would be seen as ghost hunters whereas Fathima Sana would play the role of an ' enchanting woman'. Like audience, we are also impatiently waiting for the film to hit the bigscreens.


"We'll keep promoting beautiful football like Barca's, where I played and learned a lot, because the DNAs of Atlas and Barcelona are similar.
"I want to have a competitive team where the results are consistently positive, where we can maintain a balance for a long time and obviously compete for that longed-for title."
Marquez will be given full control over the sporting side of the institution, said club president Gustavo Guzman, and takes over a team with just one point from its first three Liga MX games in the 2018 Apertura and which hasn't won a league title since 1951.
"It'd be easy to have been an analyst to criticize or point out [things], but I'm working again in football, trying to improve our Mexican game starting with Atlas," said Marquez. "I'm rolling up my sleeves to get to work. I took time to reflect on this proposal, but today I'm committed to Mexican football and my country and trying to help it. That's why I accepted this challenge."
Marquez said he wants Atlas to imitate the formula the club had under Ricardo La Volpe, in which the institution reached the final of the 1999 Verano tournament with largely a young side.
"Today they still talk about that team, which reached a final and even though we didn't win defined an era," said Marquez. "That's what I'm banking on, trying to produce players, which is this club's philosophy, and trying to make them better each day so they can make the first team."
Marquez's name was included on a list of 22 people sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department almost exactly one year ago, but a report this week in El Financiero suggested that the former Monaco player has had his bank accounts in Mexico unfrozen and can go about his business as normal in Mexico.


Back in June of 2017, PRIDE legend Wanderlei Silva came up short in his long-awaited Bellator debut, losing a decision to his nemesis Chael Sonnen. Since then, Silva fans have been wondering what – if anything – will come next for the aging legend.
While nothing is certain just yet, it seems Silva himself is considering a rematch with the ostensibly retired Chuck Liddell, who he lost a close decision to back in the year 2007. Silva hinted at this possible rematch in a Tuesday post to Instagram.
"Again?" Silva queried simply in the caption for a photo of himself and Liddell squaring off.
There has been buzz about a possible Chuck Liddell comeback for the better part of a year, yet every time it sounds as though it might actually happen, it all falls apart.
Shortly after a few meetings with the retired legend, for example, Bellator president Scott Coker stomped out the possibility altogether.
Despite these comments from Coker, however, Silva still seems interested in a do-over with Liddell.
Would you be interested in seeing Wanderlei Silva and Chuck Liddell fight once again in the Bellator MMA cage, or is this rivalry better kept in the volumes of history? Join the debate in the comments section!
This article first appeared on BJPenn.com on 1/16/2018.