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FIELD STUDIES IN WRITING SOUTHWEST: BLOG POST FROM SUSAN BRIANTE
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WRITING IN RELATION: THE SOUTHWEST FIELD STUDIES IN WRITING PROGRAM
By Susan Briante
In an article published in Esquire magazine in 1974 poet Muriel Rukeyser recounts her experiences as witness to the dawn of the Spanish Civil War. Towards the article's conclusion she remembers a conversation she had on a ship fleeing Barcelona. A passenger asks her, "And in all this—where is the place for poetry?" Rukeyser responds, "I know some of it now, but it will take me a lifetime to find it." Across a lifetime of countless poems and essays—even a posthumously published novel—Rukeyser proved that literature could incorporate testimony and document, could correct the historical record and be a place to advocate for a better future.
Rukeyser's words and example were very much with me over this summer when I served as faculty liaison and educational facilitator for the inaugural Southwest Field Studies in Writing program sponsored by the Agnese Nelms Haury Program. This initiative sent three graduate students in creative writing from the University of Arizona, Abby Dockter, Gabe Dozal and Raquel Gutiérrez, to Patagonia, AZ, to work with local environment and social justice groups on writing projects that reflected the issues unique to the border region.
Over the course of a 10-day residency, these writers became researchers and witnesses. In the offices of the Kino Border Initiative, a bi-national migrant advocacy organization, they listened to anecdotes, statistics and testimony that described an immigration and deportation crisis. In and around Patagonia, they collected stories from southern Arizona ranchers, scientists and activists. In a migrant woman's shelter in Nogales, they heard agonizing accounts of death threats and economic imperatives from a quartet of women in the process of considering asylum, migration, or a return to their place of origin. On an eight-hour drive through the desert near Arivaca to replenish water stations left for migrants with volunteers from Humane Borders, they came face to face with the deadly conditions migrants face on their arduous journey north.
The inaugural participants in the Southwest Field Studies program produced writing that clarified, contextualized, and imagined new possibilities from what they witnessed.
Dockter, a recent graduate in creative nonfiction, gave voice to ranchers who want to monitor their bottom line as well as broad environmental and social concerns. Dozal, a poet from El Paso, found a metaphor for a hybrid border identity in the vinegaroon, an arachnid that looks like a cross between a tarantula and a scorpion with pincers and whip-like tail. Gutiérrez, a poet, essayist and editor, contemplated the dramatic and deadly consequences of changing immigration policies comparing her parents own migration history to the conditions faced by contemporary migrants.
In addition to their own writing and research, Dockter, Dozal, and Gutiérrez spent four days over the course of their residency with the Borderlands Earth Care Youth Institute. This program, sponsored by the Borderlands Habitat Network, engages marginalized youth in hands-on restoration work of the local ecosystem while providing leadership and educational opportunities. With the high school students, Dozal, Dockter and Gutiérrez worked on land restoration projects: planting trees one day and making adobe bricks another. Then, they used creative writing to give the students an opportunity to reflect on their labor. The high school students presented their written reflections as part of the BECY graduation ceremony in front of their families and the Patagonia community. "I am way stronger than I thought," student Eden Lattanzio explained standing before a photograph of herself welding a chainsaw.
Creative writing offers a place to reflect on who we are and how we exist in relation to others and to the world we share. In the remote stretches of desert near Arivaca, a series of simply painted crosses, erected by the artist Alvaro Enciso, stand as monuments to migrants who died on their journey. Writing about Enciso's crosses, Gutiérrez provided an apt description of the power of creative writing, a description that would have made Rukeyser proud: "It is these kinds of artistic representations that operate as both homage and reminder that we need each other to get by," Gutiérrez writes. "We need each other to remember. We need each other to witness."
Susan Briante is the author of three books of poetry, The Market Wonders (AhsahtaPress 2016, Utopia Minus (2011), and Pioneers in the Study of Motion (2007). She is Associate Professor on Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
FIELD STUDIES IN WRITING SOUTHWEST
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GUEST POST BY ABBY DOCKTER
The Thirty-Thousand-Foot View
When I interviewed Richard Collins, retired Southern Arizona rancher, he asked the first question: "What have you read?"
Specifically, he wanted to know if I was a Sand County Almanac fan or a Monkey Wrench Gang member, and where I fell on the Aldo-Leopold-to-Edward-Abbey scale of ideas about wilderness preservation. "I lean much more towards Leopold and people like Wendell Berry," he said. "Abbey just wanted it all to himself." Collins, like the writers he admires, believes there is a way for humans to eat and drink and take up space without wrecking too much. He operated a ranching business for three decades in the Canelo Valley, working first for the Sibold family, then buying some acreage along with grazing permits for surrounding state and federal lands. His background was in epidemiology, which, he said, is the ecology of tiny, disease-causing organisms, so he had a handle on ecological principles. Disease is perhaps the prime example of how humans are part of a broader ecology.
Then an endangered species of fish, the Gila Topminnow, appeared in Collins' grazing lot. The Fish and Wildlife Service wanted all grazing in the Red Rock Canyon watershed to stop, which would have made Collins' business a no-go. In many ways, it was a classic conflict between a federal agency and private ranches. But this experience with federal regulation prompted Collins to wonder if there was a way to run his business that also addressed ecological concerns. He and his neighbors formed the Canelo Hills Coalition to see if they could insure the health of the watershed just by adjusting their grazing practices. They brought in George Ruyle, UA's sustainable rangeland management expert, who set up vegetation surveys. They monitored conditions and put up new fencing and water sources to control where cattle could go in each season. And they were considered successful, says Collins, "by the people who evaluate these things. The federal agencies and the university and my peers in the ranching industry." Not to say the fish.
Collins reminded me of some of my own family. Retired, but habitually dressed for outdoor work. A busy brain and sturdy opinions. Even his sense of humor and turn of phrase, and the way he pronounced a long period without water "drouth." But what I liked most about Collins, and so many other people from the Patagonia area that I met during Southwest Field Studies in Writing, was their blend of practicality and idealism. Agriculture is an undertaking with a pretty clear rock bottom. But people around Patagonia think there must be a better way of doing things, and are willing to take a chance to find out.
One evening I wound my way along the Santa Cruz River to talk to Dean Fish, manager at the Santa Fe Ranch Foundation. He situated me immediately: "We're located about six miles north of the US-Mexico Border, northeast of Nogales, Arizona. The Santa Cruz River bisects the ranch, and so we have what we call uplands on both sides and semi-riparian river valley in the middle. The main ranch is approximately 25 hundred acres of private grazing rangeland and about 65 acres of that is irrigated to provide forage for livestock and wildlife." He spoke loudly over the hollering goats, and ignored the light rain falling as we sat in front of an adobe wall with peeling whitewash.
Fish is a good communicator, knowledgeable, generous, and extraordinarily nerdy about cattle. Exactly the kind of person you might want at the helm of a foundation that provides not only beef, but also education, a model for management, and even an animal therapy program to the surrounding community. The Santa Fe Ranch Foundation employs people through the Santa Cruz Training Program, which connects developmentally disabled people to opportunities in the county. This ranch is a private business with its own bottom line, but it is operated by people who know how their business fits into something larger. When I asked Fish what principles guide his decisions around here, he talked about "the 30,000-foot view." From 30,000 feet, this ranch is part of a landscape, these cattle are not the only ones who need the river water, and people who live nearby will always be part of the picture.
I asked Collins and Fish a few of the same questions, and some they answered alike. When asked how they know what to do day-to-day as managers, they both answered, essentially: Go look. Get to know how water moves, how grass responds, how the animals look, and how weather impacts everything. Both Collins and Fish maintained long-term vegetation monitoring programs to make sure they had accurate information for their decision-making. Collins believes "fiction writers and bad movies and songs and all that kind of stuff" that romanticize agricultural life have done real harm to people's understanding of where their food comes from. But I still find something romantic about this eminently practical, deeply observant experience of a place.
I asked both men what it means for land to be healthy. I am interested in this question both practically and idealistically—the principles that guide decisions, and the practices that create them. I am interested in the 30,000-foot view and the view at the end of a microscope.
Fish said his overarching priority is always to leave the land better than he found it. But he also offered specifics, his picture of ideal rangeland: "I think that healthy land is land that has seen minimal erosion, that has good ground cover and a diversity of plant species on it. And that supports multiple uses: wildlife habitat, livestock grazing, recreation, hunting or camping."
Collins took longer to answer. He rubbed the back of his neck thoughtfully. "You're talking about health, and it's a hard term to get my hands around because it's so broad and ambiguous."
"Intentionally so," I said.
He nodded. "But it does convey the sense that like human health, you have to have all your systems working. At my age they're beginning to break down a little bit, so I understand. Things fall apart. It has that same sense. But how you evaluate it and describe it is difficult.
"I guess in a nutshell, if you want to summarize my view of land health: It's got to work for the rancher, got to be able to make a profit. It's got to work for the health and integrity of the watershed, and that means the plants, the water cycle, and the other animals that are using it, including obviously endangered species. And you've got to work very hard to do it. It's not an easy thing to do."
"Multiple uses" has a dubious history in the U.S., and there is no hard-and-fast line between use and exploitation. But listening to Collins and Fish, I was imagining an ag industry with these priorities. Imagine for a moment that the economy exists to serve quality of life, and not the other way around.
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GUEST POST FROM GABRIEL DOZAL
"Patagonia Simulator: A Blog Post"
There's a border arachnid called a vinegaroon. It looks like a Tarantula mixed with a Scorpion. I asked the students from BECY (Borderlands Earth Care Youth) if they had seen any vinegaroons while doing their work around different Patagonian farms. They said they found four at the community center. And they gave them Disco names: Earth, Wind, Fire, and Donna Summer.
One of my favorite borderland/Tejano singers is Freddy Fender. His voice sounds like a trapped furry animal. But his songs, a mix of Mexican Country and American Country, represent a lot about the people in Patagonia, as well as in Nogales, El Paso, and other border communities.
As Kate Tirion from Deep Dirt Ranch said: "whether you're from Mexico or the U.S., country people are country people."
When are you past versions of yourself?
Today we broke rocks with students from Patagonia, AZ
We also received a chainsaw usage and cleaning tutorial
Later at the Wagon Wheel, while Freddy Fender sang
"Te deseo lo mas bueno pa' los dos",
Me and Abby spoke to Paco
about our PC radar and when we go back
to our hometowns (El Paso, Prescott, Farmington)
the country folk are the people we grew up with
And the negotiations of this feeling of hats
we put on: the academic snapback/the folksy sombrero
(Are) There (are) hats we can never take off
When should you meet someone where they ( )?
When ( ) you future versions of yourself?
La frontera es un rancho
And these were border people
On our second day working in the fields with BECY I met a man from Nogales, Sonora by way of Oaxaca, named Primi, short for Primitivo. Summer, the owner of the farm, would go pick up Primi in Nogales and bring him to her farm to work as a hand. I talked to Primi about his family in Nogales. He has three kids, and one just graduated from college in Nogales. This was the story I've heard over and over and one that I'm a part of: A family coming from Mexico/Central America to work harder than most humans, so that their kids could have a better life. Primi had braces, good for him.
Si, I came to Patagonia with a project in mind
called the Border Simulator and the poemy/prose/instruction manual
I'm working on for the border simulator describes what it does, what it sees
How this connects to my time in in Patagonia?
I'm thinking about how my time here in Patagonia
rides the line between reality and simulation
Even now, as you're reading this, you're simulating
what my time was like in southern Arizona
near the border of the twin Nogales
Today was the 4th of July and we watched a simulated parade
A parade that simulated water fights
A parade that simulated water fights by not having any
A 4th of July that simulated a parade
Karaoke was a big part of our saturday
at Southwest Field Studies
It was something we had looked forward to
I sang Okie From Muskogee and Rocky Racoon
I'm not Merle Haggard or Paul McCartney
Raquel sang Proud Mary and Lovin Touchin Squeezin
Raquel is not Tina Turner or Steve Perry
but here we were simulating these voices
their songs flowing out of us
The project I'm currently working on is about simulations on the U.S.-Mexico border.
I'm trying to define what a border simulator does/would do, and what kinds of questions a border simulator can answer. Here's a poem I wrote toward that project during my time in Patagonia:
nationalism in the border simulator
In the border simulator you spend all day
with the Salvadorans who've crossed/made it past talk
about how hormones in pollo make gueros jotos
In the simulator dialect/intuition are immigrant
As you crossed the border you were slimmer and
with debt you think in an accent
and with death you think in accent
My work has been about the border for a long time now. When I started writing poetry I didn't want to explicitly write about El Paso/Juarez, where I was from. I felt that other writers used stories about the border as a crutch, while at the same time I felt that my border community wasn't progressive enough. I don't feel that way anymore, but I still keep a discerning ear for stories that complicate standard narratives of the border. Being from there, I knew I could offer perspectives about the life and language of the borderlands because I know these people deeply, I am that community, that multiplicity of selves. I am rural person and a city person. I am a type of Freddy Fender and a Vinegaroon.
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FIELD STUDIES SOUTHWEST
The University of Arizona Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the pilot project for its Field Studies in Writing Southwest Program made possible with support from the Agnese Nelms Haury Program Environment and Social Justice and under the leadership of Alison Hawthorne Deming, Haury Chair and Regents' Professor. Like our Field Studies Grand Manan project, yhis initiative is intended explore how the literary arts can create humane responses to climate change, environmental, social justice and border issues.
The new southwest project will be coordinated by recent MFA alum Paco Cantú; Associate Professor Susan Briante will serve as faculty facilitator. Ethnobotanist and Patagonia resident Gary Paul Nabhan also serves as consultant. Participants will spend two weeks in southern Arizona, working in collaboration with the Borderlands Earth Care Youth Institute. This program, sponsored by the Borderlands Habitat Network, engages marginalized youth in hands-on restoration work of the local ecosystem while providing leadership and educational opportunities. In March two MFA participants joined with graduate students from the Wake Forest University School of Theology, under the leadership of Fred Bahnson, author of Soil and Sacrament: A Spiritual Memoir of Food and Faith, to visit the Native Seeds/ Search farm in Patagonia and the Kino Border Initiative in preparation for the summer program.
2017 FIELD STUDIES SOUTHWEST AWARDEES
Abby Dockter is an MFA candidate in Creative Nonfiction from Farmington, New Mexico. She spent a few years following field and lab science jobs up and down the Rockies, and has written as a science communicator for UA's Institute of the Environment. Her most irresistible interests are (pre)history and ethnobotany, how we change our surroundings and how they in turn change us. She enjoys long, dry archaeological reports, and usually hikes with poetry.
Gabriel Dozal is an MFA Candidate in Poetry at the University of Arizona from El Paso TX. He is concerned with defining the extreme code-switching, camouflage, and chameleon nature of the culture of the borderlands.
Raquel Gutiérrez is a bilingual poet and essayist pursuing an MFA degree in poetry at the University of Arizona. Born and raised in Los Angeles, she writes about language, history, space and institutionality and publishes chapbooks by queers of color with the tiny press Econo Textual Objects, established in 2014. Her work has found homes in Huizache, The Portland Review, Los Angeles Weekly, GLQ: Gay and Lesbian Quarterly and Entropy.
GUEST POST FROM RAQUEL GUTIERREZ
I Pledge Allegiance To *THIS* Flag: Arivaca Riding with Humane Borders
by Raquel Gutierrez
I have been living in Tucson for a year now. Friends, acquaintances, and strangers from near and far tell me they love the images they see on my various social media feeds of this mysterious moonscape-like desert surrounding Tucson. Many of "my followers" live along both coasts so of course it is gives me great pleasure to be able to ignite an awe for the uncontainable beauty of the Sonoran Desert even if it is from afar. For me being in this desert on any given morning or early evening means being given over to the expanse of possibility the landscape offers. It has been the way to get new perspectives when stuck on a writing project—to step out into any number of trails and parks that surround Tucson and take it all in. Whether it's the way the light moves across the shallow valleys of Gates Pass before sunset or the way the temperature surprisingly drops ten degrees when your trail takes you into the shadowy parts that sit below Pima Canyon, the infinity of surprise that lives here is hard to deny.
But as the temperatures increase, as they have this summer with every indication of the 110-117 degrees pointing to a climate change that may not be reversible in years to come, there is another thing one cannot deny—any slight carelessness on your part and the desert will kill you. And that fact made itself clear on a recent ride-along outing with Guillermo and Stephen, two volunteer truck drivers for the Southern Arizona organization Humane Borders/Fronteras Compasivas. As soon as we—Abby Dockter, Gabriel Dozal and myself, a trio of Creative Writing grad students from the University of Arizona currently engaging in a Southwestern Field Studies program sponsored by UA's Agnese Nelms Haury Program—climbed into the water replenishment truck we were told that if we broke down in Arivaca, an hour and fifteen minutes south of Tucson, we would be exposed to the same conditions as the Latinx migrants we were trying to help. I looked at both my comrades and shook off any doubt that we would not be okay. We were the lucky ones after all traveling with over 100 gallons of water into the harshest topographies in the Southwest. At the worst, we would be sweaty and uncomfortable, changing the imaginary flat tire in my mind's wandering to worry—but we wouldn't die. That's how I made contact and peace with the privilege I carried into different parts of the valley that blanketed the infamous border town of Arivaca. If there was anything to do with the privilege it was to risk it.
According to their website, Humane Borders maintains a system of water stations in the Sonoran Desert on routes used by migrants making the perilous journey to the North mostly by foot. Getting into the truck at Green Valley, we were promptly driven to the first water station situated behind a pecan orchard. The orchard looked strangely out of place and time with its trees lined up tightly towering above a few acres covered by bright green grass, an indication of the obscene amounts of water it must have consumed on a daily basis for it to look that way. But I was thankful nonetheless for its existence and hoped it was there to offer some shady respite to the men, women, and children who made the orchard a part of their journey.
As soon as we got to the water station my heart swelled with a convergence of emotions. I may have quietly gasped at sight of concrete blocks, a quartet of 2×4 wood planks, and a 55-gallon plastic blue barrel sitting stoutly but bravely above the dried out arroyo behind it where I imagined weary travelers would emerge. In the distance, I continued imagining that I could hear a chorus of sighs of relief at the sight of a purple flag whose color had been made dull by the daily solar pounding it takes while waving intrepidly in the hot summer wind.
After surveying the water station for cleanliness, potability, visibility, and instances of possible tampering, we moved on to the next water station destination in Arivaca proper, Elephant Head. But before heading out of the pecan orchard Stephen asked Guillermo, who was driving, to stop by a peripheral section of the orchard where he spotted empty water bottles and a spectrum of detritus of migrants past. Plastic bottles that were empty but still intact signaled recent passage. However, there were old, discarded backpacks that like the life they carried inside them looked as desiccated as any living creature that succumbs to the harsh conditions of a merciless desert. It was those bits of human evidence that made the area seem anachronistic—to travel by foot in a time saturated by every imaginable technology is maddening, if you think about it for too long.
Over the course of the next nine hours I would be mad and quite maddened. It is this affective drive that impels volunteers like Guillermo and Stephen to make this trip every 2-3 weeks for the last two years. When we arrived at Elephant Head I noticed something that wasn't on the first blue container.
La Virgen de Guadalupe. I should clarify that it was just a glossy sticker with her likeness.
All of my twelve-years'-worth of nostalgic Catholic School hackles went up at the sight of the feminine deity that made her debut on a hill in Tepeyac, Mexico. An apparition that only an indigenous man re-christened Juan Diego could witness. Stephen noticed me noticing her and said it's hopefully a way migrants can understand that the water station is there to help. I nodded approvingly, but behind my sunglasses and smile I bit my lip and pinched the muffin top peeking over my belt loop to keep from crying.
Time seemed to be marked by how close or far we were to the curious mountain peak known as Baboquivari, a sacred place for the Tohono O'odham nation as the home of the creator, I'itoi resides in a cave at the base of the mountain peak. For the Tohono O'odham Baboquivari is where it all begins. Throughout our ride-along Guillermo would stop for all of us to take in the scenery, snap photos and stretch our legs. It felt like Baboquivari was looking out for us as we
did our best looking out for others. Gabe asked what would we do if we encountered a migrant to which Stephen quickly replied we'd give them food, first aid, and water.
As the morning progressed and the sun's rays intensified, I felt the sweat pooling in and around my body's various concaves and then disappear. The desert was taking its rightful tithe of moisture from me. We snacked on sweet baby peppers and threw the ends out the window to which Guillermo would say it would be a few hours tops before the desert consumed our biodegradable trash. We could all be untraceable. It would be so easy here traversing Arivaca's desert veins and arteries.
I started thinking about the ways in which the untraceable is made evident. Or how the migrant's journey has been represented to me throughout my life as both reader and writer as well as the 1980s child of Latinx immigrants from El Salvador and Mexico and the one in the here and now—the adult child. In prose we have writers like Rubén Martínez and Reyna Grande rendering the experience of crossing over, their portraits of others or selves desperate to reunite with family in the North, all of whom in various pursuits of better economic stability. As a reader, these literary voices have meant to me finding the language to illustrate the ways these migratory traumas continue to haunt families both constituted by and torn apart by inhumane border policies. But my parents' migration took place in the late 1960s and early 1970s—they were essentially crossing an imaginary wall with nary an agent policing those boundaries. Dare I say they came to the North in the innocent hey-day of border crossing on par with episodes of The Brady Bunch? Or the golden age of border law breaking when detention centers meant nothing more than a bus ride to Ciudad Júarez or Tijuana while Los Tigres del Norte sang earnestly about contraband and betrayal in a drug deal between lovers gone wrong.
But here in the desert the migrant's journey is represented to itself and to strangers like me who witness that representation, making the experience of being here that much more urgent. Take the work of Alvaro Enciso's monuments to fallen migrants for example. These are colorful crosses affixed to coordinates that mark where a migrant lost their life during the journey through Arivaca and other parts of Southern Arizona. Seeing these crucifixes made unique in color and metal details in complimentary colors in their intended habitat allows the spectator—whether another migrant, a border agent, or someone engaged in humanitarian aid—a profound empathic encounter that enables a communing with the recently deceased while bringing to the mind's fore the realistic circumstance of future migrants dying in the desert nearby.
It is these kinds of artistic representations that operate as both homage and reminder that we need each other to get by. We need each other to remember. We need each other to witness.
Being out in Arivaca—as we traveled at 3mph towards the water stations at Rocky Road, Cemetery Hill, Soberanes, and the last station closest to the Mexican border at Martinez Well—as the mesquite trees like night sky constellations took every shape possible in each of the landings where we stopped, I kept thinking of the work by Salvadoran poet Javier Zamora. Javier's poetry focuses on his own experiences as a child who bears witness in his poetry to what it means to endure passage in the desert and what it means to be one of the lucky ones. As we checked for the frayed flags and water levels at each stop, I thought about the young man named Chino remembered and made flesh again in Zamora's poem "Second Attempt Crossing."
For Chino
In the middle of that desert that didn't look like sand
and sand only,
in the middle of those acacias, whiptails, and coyotes, someone yelled
"¡La Migra!" and everyone ran.
In that dried creek where 40 of us slept, we turned to each other
and you flew from my side in the dirt.
Black-throated sparrows and dawn
hitting the tops of mesquites,
beautifully. Against the herd of legs,
you sprinted back toward me,
I jumped on your shoulders,
and we ran from the white trucks. It was then the gun
ready to press its index.
I said, "freeze, Chino, ¡pará por favor!"
So I wouldn't touch their legs that kicked you,
you pushed me under your chest,
and I've never thanked you.
Beautiful Chino —
the only name I know to call you by —
farewell your tattooed chest:
the M, the S, the 13. Farewell
the phone number you gave me
when you went east to Virginia,
and I went west to San Francisco.
You called twice a month,
then your cousin said the gang you ran from
in San Salvador
found you in Alexandria. Farewell
your brown arms that shielded me then,
that shield me now, from La Migra.
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Sweezy ist der Familienname folgender Personen:

 J. R. Sweezy (* 1989), US-amerikanischer American-Football-Spieler
 Nancy Sweezy (1921–2010), US-amerikanische Künstlerin und Autorin
 Paul Sweezy (1910–2004), US-amerikanischer Nationalökonom, marxistischer Autor, Herausgeber der Monthly Review

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The members of the FSV are determined by the university elections. At its constituent meeting it sends three FSV students to the Convention.
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NERD NITE: PI TIME
It's going to be an IRRATIONALLY good time at Nerd Nite 69.
In celebration of Pi day 3/14 (3.14) it's PI TIME!
We'll be making math puns, raffling pie, and we'll be learning about Mathematician Emilie du Chatelet with Dr. Cynthia Huffman and the chemistry and science of Pie with Meghan Heriford from Ladybird Diner!
Pi Day DOUBLE FEATURE
7:30 PM – Free State Brewery – Science on Tap presents Terry Soo with the KU Department of Mathematics explores the mathematical ideas behind secure communication systems and cryptocurrencies.
8:30 PM (door at 7:30) – Maceli's – Nerd Nite 69: PI TIME – Can math, science, an irrational number, and a delectable dough cased filling prepared in a pastry pan co-exist in one night of learning, friendship, and math puns?
FREE STATE BREWERY – 636 Massachusetts MACELIS – 1031 New Hampshire
NERD NITE Itenerary
On 3/14, bring us 1 dollar and we'll bring you two outstanding and very special guest presenters!
PLUS (see what we did there +) a short talk on Pi by a mystery guest.
It's π Time!
Dr. Cynthia Huffman –
"Mathematical Passion – A Look at Emilie du Chatelet"
Émilie du Châtelet lived in France in the 18th century and wrote on the "new" invention of calculus. The mistress of Voltaire, she had love affairs and experienced intrigue, gambling, and even sword fights. In this presentation, we will take a look at the life and mathematical contributions of this passionate woman.
Meghan Heriford –
"The Secret Life of Pie"
Meghan talks about her journey to creating the perfect pie, tips learned along the way, the hits and misses, and a little bit about the chemistry of crust.
Meghan Heriford – Mother of four and owner/operator/head pie lady at Ladybird Diner. Honorary Texan and natural blonde.
Dr. Cynthia Huffman is a University Professor of Mathematics at Pittsburg State University. She is interested in sharing the beauty of mathematics with others, especially through the use of the history of math. She has also been a Research Fellow at the Linda Hall Library, studying mathematics books in the LHL History of Science Collection.
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NERD NITE 60: H U M A N S
This month we've got presentations on the inner workings of the brain, the inner workings of the body, and the ways in which we learn about and construct identity. Mind, body, self – sounds like humans to us! Come learn all about what makes humans so gosh darn fascinating. As ever, doors are at 7 and we will begin at 8. One US dollar is the price of admission.
Wednesday MAY 10 at 8 PM Doors open at 7 PM
Maceli's Banquet Hall & Catering
1031 New Hampshire St, Lawrence, Kansas 66044
"Neural Networks" by Jon Lane
One of the biggest challenges for AI has been mimicking the way the human brain learns. Everyday that gap seems to shrink. From learning how to beat experts at complex games to diagnosing cancer, neural networks are being used to model the human brain and use powerful computing processing to solve complex problems.
"The Biochemistry of Love and Herbal Aphrodisiacs" by Shannon Ryan
Part of the human experience involves feelings of love, lust, romance, arousal, orgasm, connection, trust, and bonding. What is going on chemically in our brains during these various human experiences? And how can we enhance it with herbal medicine?
"Culture Vulture" by Sydney Pursel
Sydney will discuss Culture Vulture, a one night only, performative event that occurred at TeePee Junction in Lawrence, Kansas on Earth Day, April 22, 2017. Culture Vulture mirrored Buffalo Bill's Wild West and explored personal identity and factors, which contribute to identity construction including history, geography, biology, collective memory and personal fantasy.
Our speakers:
Jon Lane has a degree in Mathematics from KU and teaches high school math and computer science. He has 3 cats and can hold his breath for 45 seconds.
Shannon L. Ryan holds a Master's Degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine and has extensive training in Western and Chinese Herbalism. Her passion is bridging the gap between Eastern and Western approaches to mind-body medicine.
Sydney Jane Brooke Campbell Maybrier Pursel is an interdisciplinary artist specializing in socially engaged, activist, performance, video and new media arts. Through art she explores contemporary Indigenous issues and personal identity. Her work has been shown at public parks, universities and alternative spaces in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Lawrence, Kansas City, Columbia, MO and White Cloud, KS. She is an enrolled member of the Iowa Tribe of Kansas & Nebraska.
NERD NITE 59: BEST LAID PLANS
This month's theme emphasizes design and planning – what makes a design successful and what happens when a good plan has unexpected negative consequences. Nerd Nite is here again – we've built it. Will you come? Doors open at 7 and presentations begin at 8. Dollar cover. Tool belts and hard hats optional
Wednesday APRIL 12 at 8 PM Doors open at 7 PM
The presentations:
"Medieval Heraldry and Good Signage Design," by Larry Brow
In medieval warfare people needed to be able to identify each other through visual symbols and the field of heraldry was developed to create and regulate those symbols. Coats of arms had to be very distinctive visually so that only the enemy archers would shoot at you. The same rules inform good sign design today, whether for a business sign or a protest march sign. Come learn how to design a good sign.
"Asbestos: A Better Building Material," by Allison Puderbaugh
A look at what makes/made asbestiform great for building materials, rules and regulations surrounding using it, and some pesky health concerns.
"Meet Me Downtown: Why Downtown Lawrence is a Place You Like to Be," by Pat Trouba
We all love Downtown Lawrence, but why? This presentation talks about the urban forms that keep Downtown relevant in the age of suburbia.
The presenters:
Larry Brow is a graduate of Lawrence High School, Grinnell College, the University of Iowa, and KU, with degrees in History, Ceramics, and Museum Studies. He is a lifelong member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and a former Lawrence Arts Center Ceramics Instructor. He currently works at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at KU and is a Certified Archivist.
Allison Puderbaugh is a licensed asbestos inspector and supervisor. She is one of the final OG members of PBR Book Club to do a 20-minute presentation, because while she claims to speak in paragraphs in reality it is more like 140 characters. You may recognize this speaker from the internet under the nom de guerre Classy Moonshine.
Pat Trouba is a grad student at KU working toward a Masters of Urban Planning degree. He's also a Nerd Nite veteran who has presented on flags and U.S. dollar coins. He enjoys swing dancing, beer, and always finding a spot to park his bike when he's downtown.
Nerd Nite 57: In the Time of Read Across Lawrence
This month we're partnering with Lawrence Public Library for NEA Big Read/Read Across Lawrence. Our book this year is "In the Time of Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez. On February 8th, we offer you three presentations related to the book that will hopefully inspire you to get reading! We'll open the doors at 7 so you can get a drink and make a friend. Presentations will begin at 8. $1 cover. No hundies.
Wednesday FEB 8 at 8 PM Doors open at 7 PM
"Hispaniola: Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Complex Neighbors" by Cécile Accilien
This talk will briefly highlight the complex history of Hispaniola, the island occupies by two countries, Haiti (in the western one third) and the Dominican Republic (in the eastern two thirds). It will provide an overview of the colonial history (Spanish and French) and how it continues to affect current relations between the two countries.
"Women Revolutionaries in the Caribbean" by Jennifer Abercrombie Foster
This presentation will provide you with a brief overview of the evolving role of women revolutionaries in the Latin American Left from mid 20th century. Focusing primarily on Cuban women's experiences, we will talk about how women had to negotiate traditional gendered norms (whether by breaking with or conforming to those norms) in order to participate in overthrowing an intolerable status quo.
Our third presentation will be from Monarch Watch, a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migration. Spoiler alert: "In the Time of Butterflies" is not literally about butterflies. But this presentation will be!
Cécile Accilien is Associate professor in the Department of African and African-American Studies. She is also director of the Institute of Haitian Studies and Associate Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her primary areas of interest are French-speaking Caribbean and Africa, Film Studies and Women's Studies. She is originally from Haiti and grew up in Newark, New Jersey.
While traveling abroad, Jennifer Abercrombie Foster tells people that she is from Lawrence, KS. After 7 years of graduate school, she now has a diploma that says she's a doctor of philosophy, which sounds a wee bit silly, but she's okay with that. She first got involved in Latin American culture when she moved to Honduras to live for one year as a volunteer among 500 kids. Since then, her research, travels, and interests have taken her to exciting places like the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Des Moines and she is thrilled to get to participate in Lawrence's Nerd Nite!
Nerd Nite 56: Coups, Canoes, and Pooches
It's a new year and everything is changing. Here's one thing you can count on: Nerd Nite. We're still here, still nerdy, and still cost one wee dollar. See you soon. Doors at 7. Presentations start at 8.
Wednesday JAN 11 at 8 PM Doors open at 7 PM
"The 1933-34 Plot to Oust FDR and Install a Fascist Dictator" by Earl Schweppe
In 1933-34, General Smedley Butler was involved in an attempted fascist putsch known as the 'Business Plot', which he went along with to collect evidence and then exposed to the press and a congressional commitee. The group of wealthy financiers and industrialists were planning a military coup to overthrow Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler selected to lead a march of veterans to become a dictator, similar to other fascist regimes at that time. The individuals involved all denied the existence of a plot and some related media also ridiculed the allegations. A final report by a special House of Representatives Committee confirmed Butler's testimony and the plot failed.
"Change Your Life While Sitting On Your Butt and Going Backwards. (AKA the Sport of Rowing)" by Heather Moore.
A brief introduction to the sport of rowing – a quick history, features of the modern sport, terminology and a how-to demonstration on a rowing machine.
"Baby, I Was Born To Run…and Sleep" by Erin Schramm.
One of the original dog breeds and the only one mentioned in the Bible, greyhounds have long been revered for their speed, grace, loyal companionship, and lovable personalities by both royalty and commoners alike. Hear about the history of this extremely unique animal and their incredible speed, what makes them so different from most other breeds of dogs, and why they are such amazing companions. Also, get ready to have one of the biggest myths about greyhounds dispelled (hint: there's a reason they make good apartment dogs).
Heather Moore: Nineteen years ago, Heather Moore happened to be walking by the Scioto River in Columbus, Ohio, as a rowing regatta was being held. Intrigued, she soon joined her local rowing club and not only learned to row, but also raced competitively and eventually coached juniors teams in Ohio and Texas. When she's not on the river rowing, Heather can often be found walking alongside it with her three beagles.
Erin Schramm: Erin Schramm has been a lifelong bibliophile, pickle fiend, and dog lover. She currently works as the school librarian at Prairie Park Elementary School, where her favorite thing is cracking up her elementary school kids. Erin has a soft spot in her heart for rescue/shelter dogs, which led her to adopting her retired racing greyhound Atticus in 2015. When not competing with Atticus for the title of Best Napper, Erin enjoys reading (of course), playing Settlers of Catan, seeing tons of movies, and trying to find the best pickle in LFK (right now it's between Limestone and Merchants).
Earl Schweppe:
At 12 Vacuum Tubes, Radio, and Morris Code
At 14 Started taking math courses by mail
At 16 Graduated HS to MO Valley College
At 17 Joined the Navy V5 Program. In 16 mo
At 20 Earned BS in Math. Wed Mary Woolston.
At 21 Was Plumbing and Heating Salesman
At 22 To Illinois for Math + much on computers.
Joined USNR Security Group (NSA)
At 26 Programmed Illiac during last graduate year
At 27 PhD in Math. Taught Math 10 years total
At > MVC, Illinois, Nebraska, ISU, Maryland
At 31 In charge of Programming ISU Cyclone
At 33 Moved to Maryland to work at NSA
At 35 To U. MD to discern what Computer Science would be
At 40 To KU to create CS Department
At 60 Retired USNR. 18 with Security Group
At 73 Retired from KU EECS after 32 years.
*At 89 Became oldest presenter in Nerd Nite Lawrence history!
Lost wife in 2013. One daughter and two sons.
Three grandsons.
(*editors note)
Nerd Nite 53: Nerdier Things
October is here, fall is upon us, and our theme for the month is appropriately sinister. Join us for murder, horror, tricks, and treats. It may not be the Upside Down but it will absolutely be Nerdy. Dollar cover. Doors at 7.
"The Bloody Benders" by Rachel McCarthy James
The Benders made murder a family affair. The German family had at least eleven victims who had the misfortune of stopping through their inn during the 1870s in Labette County, KS. This presentation will cover the context and culture of southeastern Kansas (more exciting than it sounds), the psychic powers of the young Kate Bender, the Benders' seat of honor and what befell all who sat upon it, and their escape.
Rachel McCarthy James has written for Broadly, Bitch Magazine, LitHub, The New Inquiry, and Robot Butt. Her first book, titled The Man from the Train, is due out in August 2017 from Scribner. It is about the serial killer behind the Villisca axe murders of 1912.
"Rasputin?! Damn near killed him!" by Courtney Shipley
How the grizzly murder of a Russian priest affects every movie you've ever seen.
Courtney Shipley is a Nerd Nite alum. She is a part of the Death Positive movement and a proponent of home funerals. She also has the largest collection of Garbage Pail Kids that she knows of.
"'Stop, Hammer Time': A History of Hammer Studios" by Abby Olcese, and "Trick or Treat, Smell my Feet" by Amy Schweppe
Two Nerd Nite co-bosses will regale us with insights about horror movies and Halloween.
Nerd Nite 52
Fall comes to Lawrence.
Change is in the air.
The leaves will soon turn.
The ground shakes.
Nerd Nite Lawrence returns.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 Maceli's 1031 New Hampshire St.
Door at 7:00 pm Presentations at 8:00 pm $1.00 Cover
With drinks and nerdy mini-menu.
NN52:
Semi Semiotics
Ahh, semiotics, the study of signs and symbols. This month we'll do that, basically. We will have presentations on Chinese characters and their efficacy as tattoos, the mysterious symbols employed by secret societies, and art that takes the form of a postage stamp. C U in September! Dollar cover. Doors at 7.
Chinese for Tattoos
by Kevin Liu
If you're going to ink something permanent, don't you want to make sure it a) looks good, b) looks right, and c) makes sense? This is not as simple as a heart and MOM, but it can be. Learn what makes up a Chinese character, including how they're categorized, how a well-written character looks, and some basic translations you can put permanently on your body.
Perforate Strangers: Postage stamps as art
by Andrea Repinsky and Boog Highberger
An international community of artists is linked by their mailboxes as they create and share postage stamps as art. Large enjoyment comes from tiny stamps via self-expression, juxtaposition, personal relationships, microphilia, and mailbox hijinks.
'Does this apron make my junk look big?' Secret Society Symbols
by Meredith Moore
Explore and decode the mysterious symbols utilized by groups such as the Masons, the Fabian Society, and the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
Presenter bios:
Kevin Liu is the Associate Director of the Confucius Institute of KU where he works with Chinese language programming. He was an educator in an earlier lifetime and now helps train Chinese language teachers. Kevin grew up listening to the Cantonese dialect of Chinese but is now learning Mandarin with a horrible Spanish accent. Kevin first attended NNLFK #42 and was hooked by the passion to learn and share. When he's not at Nerd Nite or work, he's running, creating either ceramics or crochet, and spending time with his family and pet menagerie.
Andrea Repinsky lives in the Brook Creek neighborhood with two chickens, a perforator, and a few skinks. Andrea is an urban planner and prairie enthusiast, serving as President of Grassland Heritage Foundation. She makes a lot of maps, stamps, squirrel habitat, and giant tacos on wheels.
Boog Highberger has lived in Lawrence since Jimmy Carter was president. He has served as mayor and city commissioner in Lawrence and is currently represents the east side of Lawrence in the Kansas House of Representatives. Boog is an occasional maker of artistamps and has what must be one of the world's largest collections of rubber stamp lips.
Meredith Moore runs Wonder Fair, the awesomest lil' gallery/shoppe in LFK. She got married on a roller coaster, owns a video store's stock of Bollywood movies on VHS, and has organized her own secret society.
Nerd Nite 47: Abra Macabre
Maceli's 1031 New Hampshire St.
Door: 7:00 pm Presentations start at 8:00 pm
$1.00 Cover
Drinks and a mini-menu available.
In March we are back at our regular location Maceli's and humbly present to you, dear audience, a night of mortific magnificence. Our shuddersome theme for the evening is Death, or more precisely our topics will take a look at where our social norms come from concerning funeral rites, dress and exequies . Never fear, sweet friends, this night will be more anthropological than ghoulish. So put pallid hand in hand and take a grim walk with us to Marble Town.
Abra Macabre
"Dead Man's Party"
by Krys Arkeketa
"Grieving, the Right Way (?)"
by Abby Young
"The Mourning After: Death and Victorian Dress"
by Annette Becker
The Deathly Details:
Death is inevitable; every single one of us will die one day. Are you prepared? Fear not if you are unsure! We will be exploring the taboo topic of death and what your options are. Topics that will be covered are:
1. A brief history of embalming and American death culture.
2. What are my options besides burial?
3. "Why can't I have a viking funeral?" and other myths about death.
Krys Arkeketa is a mortuary student from the Lawrence, KS area. She began her mortuary journey in 2013 when she realized nursing school was not for her. Involved in oddities and rarities sale and trade, she preserves fetal animals, organs and wet specimens as her hobby and felt becoming a mortician was the next big step. She is Native American and her goal is to specialize in Native American funerals and post-mortem ceremonies.
Societal treatment of grief is often one-size-fits all; sometimes conjuring feelings of shame in the bereaved where sympathy is intended. In this talk, we'll be exploring the notion of what it means to grieve "normally" in the western world and the pressures society can put on us: "Shouldn't I be over it?" "Why am I still sad they died?" Often the pressure "to get over it" can become overwhelming. With these questions in mind, we will look to see if there truly is a "right" way to grieve. Some of the research will surprise you.
Abby Young found herself working as a photojournalist in her 20s to only discover that therapy was her main calling. Abby received her masters of social work from the University of Kansas and opened her own practice, Tillery Time Counseling, in Lawrence. She has done work with people in many walks of life including those impacted by cancer, grieving, and surviving domestic violence to mention a few. She brings in an understanding of the mind, brain and body connection in working with people.
Are you from the nineteenth century? Has your spouse, second cousin, employer, or a beloved politician passed away recently? Well, look no further! Together we'll explore a century of mourning etiquette and dress and the impact of those traditions on twenty-first century culture.
Annette Becker is a fashion historian who specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century British and American dress. She has lectured and published on clothing's relationship to the body, political and health reform dress, and first lady fashion. She has worked at Historic Deerfield, the Speed Art Museum, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Texas Fashion Collection, and is currently at the Spencer Museum of Art. The highlight of her career thus far has been touching George Bernard Shaw's woolen underwear a few weeks ago.
Doors open at 7:00 PM. Presentations begin at 8:00. $1 Cover.
Nerd Nite 46: Mars and Other Curiosities | Location: The Cider Gallery
The Cider Gallery (810 Pennsylvania St)
Doors at 7:00 PM, presentations at 8:00 PM
Drinks will be available for purchase
Wilma's food truck will be on-site
Please join us for a very special edition of Nerd Nite as we partner with the Lawrence Public Library and KU Libraries to bring you "Mars and Other Curiosities."
We are presenting three Mars related talks in in conjunction with the Read Across Lawrence selection for 2016, Andy Weir's book, "The Martian".
Please note the location for this month will be the Cider Gallery!
Mars and Other Curiosities
"The Spiders on Mars and Other Space Oddities"
by Alison Olcott Marshall
"Autonomous Mobile Robots"
by Arvin Agah
"An Explorer's Guide to Mars (Fiction)"
by the LPL book squad
About the Topics:
On July 15, 1965, Mariner IV provided the world with the first close-up view of Mars. Just fifty years later an amazing array of flybys, orbiters, landers and rovers has provided us with enough images of the red planet that it is now possible to leisurely tour the planet on Google Mars. These images are not only beautiful and (quite literally!) otherworldly, but they have allowed us to learn so much about our nearest neighbor, a planet that is so similar to and yet so different from Earth. In this talk we will explore what we know about Mars, how we know it, and indulge in some speculation about what we could still learn.
Alison Olcott Marshall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology, where she uses chemistry to explore fossils of all types, sizes, and ages and tries to apply those lessons to the search for life on other planets. She has a 2 year old and a 4 year old, so she has forgotten what "free time" is, but she is pretty sure she used to enjoy doing things in it.
The only known Martians at this point in time are Curiosity and Opportunity, two Mars rovers by NASA. Mars rovers, Drones, driverless cars, and robotic vacuum cleaners are a few examples of autonomous mobile robots—robots that move on their own. This presentation will cover the history, applications, competitions, trends, and challenges (technical and philosophical) of autonomous mobile robots.
Dr. Arvin Agah is Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Programs in the School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Kansas, which he joined in 1997, after spending two years in Japan as a researcher in the Bio-Robotics Division of Mechanical Engineering Laboratory. He has edited two books and published over 170 refereed articles in the areas of robotics and artificial intelligence. He has degrees from University of Texas at Austin (Computer Science BA), Purdue University (Computer Science MS), and University of Southern California (Biomedical Engineering MS and Computer Science PhD).
by the Lawrence Public Library book squad
This short, spoiler free presentation will cover everything you need to know about Mars related fiction.
Nerd Nite 45: "Bugs"!
Wednesday, January 13
Maceli's (1031 New Hampshire)
Doors at 7:30 PM, presentations at 8:00 PM $1.00 Cover
BUGS!
Bees. There's more to them than you might think. It's complicated. And what's the most common infection in the world? Here's a hint: it lives inside the cells of half the known insect species of the world. Then, carmine dye is derived from the cochineal insect and is commonly used as a coloring for food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics. Learn how this small insect played a big role in history and was at one point Mexico's second most sought-after export after silver.
Join us in January as we explore the tiny world of insects and three examples of their significant impact on global events.
Cochineal, Colonialism, and Cartels -one little bug, one big commodity. by Kristin Soper
The Most Common Infection in the World by Chris Hamm
Beyond Honeybees: The Unseen World of Wild Bees by Daphne Mayes
"Cochineal, Colonialism, and Cartels"
by Kristin Soper
One little bug, one big commodity.
Kristin is a librarian at Lawrence Public Library and loves stories, art, and history. She came across the story of cochineal and the history of red dye at the folk art museum in Santa Fe. She mostly retweets things about feminism and libraries, but, if you'd like to, you can follow her @soperific
The Most Common Infection in the World
by Chris Hamm
The bacterium Wolbachia lives inside the cells of half of all insect species and many parasitic worms, making it the most common infection in the world. Wolbachia is often considered a reproductive parasite that can manipulate its host's reproduction to promote the growth of more Wolbachia. This bacterium has been living with insects and worms for millions of years, and scientists are now using this bacterium to combat diseases from heartworm to Dengue fever and Malaria. I will talk about the biology of this bacterium, some of the fascinating things it can do, and what researchers around the world are doing to trick bacteria into helping humans.
Biologist, Insufferable geek, way too into butterflies, Dodgers, lover of delicious beer and pizza.
Beyond Honeybees: The Unseen World of Wild Bees
by Daphne Mayes
Native bees make important contributions to our environment and the economy via their role in pollination. Concerns regarding the status of many bee species have urged greater attention and awareness. This presentation aims to open your eyes to the world of our wild bees—a remarkable unseen world.
Daphne Mayes is a doctoral student at the University of Kansas, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology department and is studying how changes in land use impact wild bee communities. She earned a M.S. degree in Natural Resources from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, where she studied as a Master's International Student in the U.S. Peace Corps in Zambia, Africa from 2009-2011. She earned her B.S. in Biology from Emporia State University.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. – Charleston Southern women's basketball hosts Tennessee Tech and Jacksonville this weekend as part of the 2018 Buccaneer Classic. Old Dominion from Conference-USA rounds out the field.
The Bucs opened their season 1-1 inside the Buc Dome and fell in their road opener to regional foe South Carolina State.
CSU's depth has been on full display through three contests thus far with 10 athletes playing 10-plus minutes in the opener and nine athletes playing at least 10 minutes against Davidson. The Bucs have also seen scoring contributions from around the floor with two different leading scorers in Ke'Asia Jackson and Jasmine Blackmon.
Tennessee Tech is off to a 3-1 start under third-year head coach Kim Rosamond and a perfect 3-0 at home. Their lone loss came at Big East power Xavier by a 70-60 tally.
The Golden Eagles are led by four players who average double figures - Jordan Brock (13.0), Lacy Cantrell (12.8), Akia Harris (10.3) and Kesha Brady (10.0).
Cantrell also leads the Eagle offense with a .767 shooting percentage while the team is shooting .438 overall.
The 60-point effort at Xavier - their lone loss - was the lowest scoring output of the season and have scored at least 68 in each of their three wins.
Give CSU a 2-1 record inside the Buc Dome, matching last season's mark through three home contests.
Bring the Bucs back to .500 after suffering back-to-back losses to Davidson and South Carolina State.
Be the 25th all-time opponent CSU would be perfect against. CSU is at least 1-0 against 24 programs in school history led by a 9-0 mark versus Southern Wesleyan.
Jacksonville enters the Buccaneer Classic fresh off a win over Savannah State and sits at 2-2 despite a nonconference slate that includes SEC foe Texas A&M and ACC and National Power Florida State.
In their two wins, the Dolphins have scored 68 and 73 points and have averaged 49 points in their matchups with Texas A&M and Florida State.
Jasmyn Brown and Khadijah Brown lead Jacksonville's offense with 13.0 and 10.7 points per game while Kiara Meeks sits third at 9.3 per contest.
Both Meeks and K. Brown are shooting above 50% as the Dolphins as a whole are shooting .380.
Give CSU a 5-2 record all-time against Jacksonville and 7-4 record against Atlantic-Sun institutions.
Snap a two-game skid against the Dolphins after a 4-0 start in series history.
Be the second win over an A-Sun foe in the past three seasons after knocking off Lipscomb in the 2016-17 campaign.


dsipaint is loseing mebers and chats pretty lonely and i had contacted hull... no reply is it going down eventualy?
It's up to hull if he wants to keep paying to keep it up. It's already been pretty empty around here for a while, I'm sure he is well aware of that. Relistically, the site will probably shut down someday.


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Tobacco Tale of Two Nations: New Report Shows 13 States Have Higher Smoking Rates and Greater Health Consequences Than Rest of U.S.
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Truth Initiative® today released "Tobacco Nation: An Ongoing Crisis – Examining the Health and Policy Disparities of U.S. States with the Highest Smoking Rates." The report underscores a tale of two nations when it comes to tobacco use - one of dramatic declines in smoking rates, and one where a huge swath of the U.S. has been left behind due to systemic disparities and tobacco industry interference. This report updates the findings in the first edition of "Tobacco Nation" released in 2017 that identified 12 contiguous states that consistently exceeded the national adult smoking rates, and adds South Carolina to the list.
Today, Tobacco Nation is home to more than 71 million Americans, or roughly 22% of the U.S. population. The 13 states studied for the report include Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. In these states, 21% of adults smoke, compared with just 15% of adults in the rest of the nation and consistently ranked in the top 25% of U.S. adult smoking since 2011.
While there has been a dramatic decline in overall U.S. smoking rates, the new report finds these 13 states have made little to no progress in reducing tobacco use and provides an updated look at the health, policy and extensive tobacco use disparities within the U.S. In Tobacco Nation, residents smoke more, live shorter lives, are more likely to get and die from cancer, and are at a serious disadvantage in terms of access to health care, policy progress, and income. Tobacco Nation residents live with 5% fewer physicians in their area, a major deficit of smoke-free laws in public places, and cheaper tobacco products — making tobacco more accessible than in other parts of the country.
"Many people think cigarettes are a thing of the past, but more than 34 million Americans still smoke and tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death, killing more than 540,000 Americans each year," said Robin Koval, CEO and president of Truth Initiative. "Tobacco is not an equal opportunity killer with glaring disparities in who still smokes and why. Tobacco Nation's high smoking rates, relatively poor health outcomes and lack of access to care make it a disadvantaged country within a country. The U.S. can and should do better."
The new report also finds:
Individuals living in Tobacco Nation earn nearly 25% less per year than the typical resident within the rest of the U.S.
Not only do Tobacco Nation's youth and adults smoke at higher rates, its residents also smoke many more cigarettes per capita annually (59.2 packs) than those in the rest of the U.S. (32.1 packs).
On average, Tobacco Nation residents live shorter lives and face a higher risk of dying than other Americans. Average life expectancy in Tobacco Nation is 76.3 years, compared with 79.3 years in the rest of the U.S.
Tobacco Nation as a whole fares poorly in mental and physical markers of well-being, compared with the rest of the nation. Tobacco Nation residents report more than 20% more "poor" physical and mental health days than the average American.
Cigarette packs on average are 19% cheaper in Tobacco Nation.
Only two states in Tobacco Nation, Michigan and Ohio, have laws forbidding smoking in workplaces, restaurants and bars.
In a 2018 study of support for tobacco control policies, residents of Tobacco Nation supported policies at almost exactly the same level as their other American counterparts. Support for policies, including requiring tobacco products to be kept out of view in stores where youth shop and requiring stores that sell tobacco to purchase licenses from state or local government, was actually higher in Tobacco Nation than in remaining states. This finding demonstrates that disparities are not the result of a lack of public will but rather the result of systemic disparities and tobacco industry influence that make it difficult for the residents of Tobacco Nation to get the protections more readily available elsewhere in the U.S.
The disparities in Tobacco Nation are due to their deficiency of proven tobacco prevention measures, including higher taxes, comprehensive smoke-free laws, effective tobacco-prevention policies, public education efforts, access to quit smoking resources and laws like raising the legal sale age for tobacco products to 21. One factor clearly suppressing the adoption of tobacco control policies is opposition by the tobacco industry. For example, Altria (the maker of #1 brand Marlboro) and British American Tobacco (the maker of #2 brand Newport) continue to aggressively oppose policies, legislation and regulations that are proven to decrease cigarette demand such as higher taxes, flavor bans, graphic warning labels and clean indoor air laws. More specifically, in 2018, Altria spent nearly $380,000 lobbying the Kentucky legislature to pass a paltry 50-cent cigarette tax increase—significantly lower than tobacco control advocates had been seeking. The result, cigarettes remain cheaper in Kentucky than in 35 other states.
The challenges shared by the Tobacco Nation states make this portion of the United States similar in many regards to less-developed countries around the world – a very disturbing reality for the richest nation in the world. When compared to countries with a fraction of the financial, scientific and healthcare resources available in the U.S., Tobacco Nation had the fifth-highest rate of tobacco use by youth in the world, behind Indonesia, Ukraine, Mexico and the Philippines. Tobacco Nation ranks sixth in the world for adult smoking prevalence rates, behind countries like Indonesia, China and Ukraine.
Along with the updated report, researchers developed "Tobacco Nation: A Geographic Perspective," an innovative, web-based mapping tool which presents a geographic look at the region, along with detailed, county-level smoking, demographic and policy data.
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The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) has ordered all broadcasting stations in Nigeria to suspend the use of the popular microblogging platform, Twitter.
This was contained in a statement issued by its Director General, Armstrong Idachaba, on Monday morning.
Mr Idachaba said television and radio stations are advised to de-install twitter handles and "desist from using twitter as a source (UGC) of information gathering for News and programmes presentation especially Phone-in." This is coming after the federal government's ban on Twitter activities in Nigeria.


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While jug bands were first recorded in Louisville, like Clifford Hayes' Old Southern Jug Band in 1923, and in Memphis, like Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1927, jug bands were forming as far north as Chicago by the 1940s and by 1958, the year Lyrichord Discs issued the New York-based Orange Blossom Jug Five's Skiffle in Stereo album, a full-on jug-music revival was underway.
And among that revival's premiere purveyors was a group assembled amidst the maple-lined streets of Cambridge, Massachusetts, hundreds of miles from the tulip trees of Kentucky and the dogwoods of Tennessee but rooted in exactly the same soil: fabulously unfettered fun and acoustical abandon that defied all geographical borders and was as far removed from the political protestations of '60s folk-revival icons like Bob Dylan and Joan Baez as Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" was from Wagner's Ring Cycle. With four studio albums, countless live performances and an irrepressibly irreverent musical mélange of hillbilly, country, jazz, ragtime and blues, Jim Kweskin & The Jug Band reminded folkies that music need not be topically tethered to be artistically relevant and creatively cutting edge.
Born July 18, 1940, in Stamford, Connecticut, guitarist-banjoist Kweskin's original musical passion was jazz, fueled by his father's collection of 78s. "My father had a collection of old records," he said in a 2016 interview with The Arts Fuse. "Most of it was early jazz like Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet, Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, Bessie Smith, a few Lead Bellys thrown in there, and I loved that music. I just loved it."
By the time he enrolled at Boston University in 1959, Kweskin was also listening to folk, especially Pete Seeger, The Weavers, Burl Ives and Josh White, but it never occurred to him to mix jazz and folk until early 1962 when he saw a later-to-be legend of the genre playing at the very club where he himself would be discovered just one year later. "I heard Eric von Schmidt playing the guitar and singing a Jelly Roll Morton song ["Buddy Bolden's Blues," at Club Mount Auburn 47]," he said in the 2016 interview. "And I thought, 'This is fantastic!' So that's what I started to do, and that turns out to be what jug-band music is anyway. It's really just old-time blues and jazz played on folk-music instruments instead of horns."
The experience led Kweskin to start developing a ragtime-blues fingerpicking style – inspired by that of Blind Boy Fuller, Mississippi John Hurt, Pink Anderson and others – while spending countless hours researching old-timey recordings from the '20s and '30s in Boston-area libraries and traveling around the US in search of the earliest pressings he could find.
In early 1963, when The Rooftoppers' rendition of Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers' "Walk Right In" (first recorded in 1929) spent two weeks at #1 in the Billboard Hot 100, Kweskin and some other local musicians began gigging together at popular folk spots like Club 47, where Vanguard Records co-founder Maynard Solomon caught the informal ensemble's show and offered to record them but Kweskin refused for the time being, saying he needed a couple months to put together a proper band. "[Solomon] said, 'How would you like to make a record with those guys?' And I said, 'Well, those aren't 'my' guys, but I'd love to make a record,'" Kweskin said in 2016. "So, basically, I had a record deal before I had the band."
By the end of February 1963, he'd assembled the first incarnation of the group he'd lead for the next five years – guitarist-vocalist Geoff Muldaur, vocalist-harmonicist-banjoist Bruno Wolf and two members of The Charles River Valley Boys, steel guitarist-banjoist-mandolinist Bob Siggins and washtub bassist-jug player Fritz Richmond – and signed a deal with Vanguard.
The immediate result was Unblushing Brassiness, a 14-track collection released in March 1963 that critic Ronnie D. Lankford Jr. has called "a quantum leap for folk music," combining the pretty, pop-folk of The Kingston Trio with the gritty, tradition-centric songs of Dave Van Ronk. And that summation seems perfectly in line with Kweskin's own take on the group since, as he told music historian Nat Hentoff, he never considered the band to be "revivalists" but rather a blend of varied elements. "We not only have no one 'tradition' to try to be faithful to," he said, "but for much of what we play, we don't know if we even have tradition to be concerned with. We can do almost anything we want."
In September 1963, after Mel Lyman replaced Siggins and the group had made multiple appearances in and around Boston/Cambridge, Kweskin and The Jug Band made their New York debut at The Bitter End – which received a glowing review from The New York Times' Robert Shelton under the headline "Kweskin Quintet at Bitter End Puts Polish in the Ragtime Jug" – before being part of the Hootenanny at Carnegie Hall later that month with Pete Seeger, Phil Ochs, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others. In November, they debuted at Symphony Hall in Boston (with opener Jackie Washington), followed in 1964 by regular shows at Club 47, The Unicorn Coffee House and King's Rook in Ipswich (renamed Stonehenge Club in 1969), live appearances on The Steve Allen Show and The Tonight Show – with host Johnny Carson sitting in on kazoo – and their debut the Newport Folk Festival, where they also appeared in '65, '66 and '67.
By 1965, the band had grown into a septet with the additions of vocalist-fiddler Maria D'Amato (later Muldaur), previously of the New York-based Even Dozen Jug Band, and five-string banjoist Bill Keith, a Bostonian who'd spent two years with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. Vanguard released their second LP, Jug Band Music, featuring future crowd favorites "Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me" and "Rag Mama" along with D'Amato's ripping rendition of the Leiber/Stoller-penned "I'm a Woman" and covers of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" and – as the LP's title indicates – Will Shade's Memphis Jug Band's "Jug Band Music."
In 1966, after Vanguard issued Kweskin's solo album Relax Your Mind (recorded at Club 47 with Lyman and Richmond), the label released the band's third album, See Reverse Side for Title, which received mixed reviews. After touring nationwide for much of the year and returning to Symphony Hall in December, The Jug Band added fiddle player Richard Greene, previously of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, and left Vanguard for Reprise to make their fourth and final album, Garden of Joy, released in 1967 and featuring 11 songs as broadly varied as Lead Belly's "When I Was a Cowboy" and a jugged-up rendition of the Ellington-Bigard-Mills jazz classic "Mood Indigo."
Throughout 1967, the group played mostly at Club 47 and Café au Go-Go in New and after a six-night stand at the Go-Go in March 1968, the band made only a few more appearances together before breaking up. Their material has been included on a number of compilations including three from Vanguard, Greatest Hits! (1970), Acoustic Swing & Jug (1998) and Jim Kweskin: Vanguard Visionaries (2007).
Since the band's split, Kweskin has recorded 13 albums including 2015's Penny's Farm with Geoff Muldaur and 2020's I Just Want To Be Horizontal with Samoa Wilson. Geoff Muldaur has recorded 12 solo albums, his most recent being 2009's Texas Sheiks, and Maria Muldaur – whose "Midnight at the Oasis" reached #6 in 1973 – has recorded 38 albums since 1974, her most recent being 2021's Let's Get Happy Together. Richard Greene joined Seatrain and Muleskinner, formed The Greene String Trio and has been a session player since the late '60s, working on dozens of LPs with artists as diverse as James Taylor, Rod Stewart and Herbie Hancock. Bob Siggins became a neuroscientist while continuing to perform and continues to play gigs regularly with the San Diego-based bands Cheeky Monkey and Bonehead.
Richmond became a successful session musician and recording engineer until he passed away in 2005 at age 66 and Keith played with Jonathan Edwards, Jim Rooney and a long list of others before his death in 2015 at age 75, three weeks after his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame. Lyman ran the Fort Hill Community in Roxbury until his death in 1978 at age 40.
At a 2005 memorial concert for Richmond, Muldaur talked about his decades-long partnership with Kweskin. "There's this wonderful old music – traditional folk music, mostly American – that we want to keep alive," he said. "We want to pass it on to future generations so that it keeps going. That's what we were doing back when we were young, and we're still doing it."
Asked whether he thinks future generations will continue passing traditional music along, 79-year old Muldaur said he's doubtful because he doesn't see many young faces in his audiences these days. "I play for old people," he laughed. "And their parents."
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In its two-yearly health assessment of the global financial system, the IMF said that "growing anxiety" about a breakdown in negotiations between Britain and the EU could lead to uncertainty in the UK and elsewhere.Should such pressures hit one of the world's largest economies it could trigger a "sharp tightening of global financial conditions", the report says.
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The President today declared a major disaster exists in the State of Maine and ordered Federal aid to supplement State and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms and inland and coastal flooding beginning on April 15, 2007, and continuing.
Federal funding is available to State and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the severe storms and inland and coastal flooding in the counties of Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kennebec, Knox, Oxford, and York.
R. David Paulison, Administrator, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Department of Homeland Security, named Albert L. Lewis as the Federal Coordinating Officer for Federal recovery operations in the affected area.
FEMA said that damage surveys are continuing in other areas, and more counties and additional forms of assistance may be designated after the assessments are completed.


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International Men of Mundanity
No hobbies. No quirks. Turns out the super-rich are also super-boring
By James Marriott
According to a recent edition of the Financial Times's How to Spend It supplement, $179,900 will buy you the "ultimate" Steinway self-playing grand piano. This ultimate piano is distinguished from the inferior non-ultimate models by its proficiency at reproducing not just the notes a famous performer played but the precise pressure with which he or she touched them. It will appeal, the FT suggests, to "the high proportion of buyers who can't actually play the piano".
Isn't this weird? Buying this piano draws attention to a hobby you don't have. Look at me, the expensive robotic piano says, my owner is slightly more boring than you might have supposed. My theory is that this is partly the point. The instrument signals that you can afford a big piano but are too busy and important to find the time to play it.
What's happened, I think, is that in the hardworking, competitive modern world, the ability to sublimate your personality, your eccentricities, your creative fantasies to your work is rewarded. The boring succeed and so being boring has become a kind of status symbol.
If this sounds tendentious observe the almost flamboyant displays of dullness performed by the chief executives of tech companies. Mark Zuckerberg boasts that he wears a gray T-shirt every day because "I feel like I'm not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous." Jeff Bezos has identified Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day as his favorite novel on the unimpeachably inane grounds that it helped him develop his "regret minimization framework".
The instrument signals that you can afford a big piano but are too busy and important to find the time to play it.
Once, the rich flaunted their leisure as a status symbol — hence the cabinets of porcelain, taxidermic animals, dead butterflies and rare books that fill most country houses. Today's chief executives are inspired by the values of the university-educated professional middle class, from whose ranks they are mostly drawn.
And, for a few decades now, the punishing, all-consuming rituals of meritocracy — the battles for exam results, university places, internships, prestigious jobs and promotions — have been transforming our middle class into perhaps the most boring and cultureless in history. If you want to get on, you must streamline yourself by chipping away as many of the interesting bits of your character as you can. The suffocating tyranny of the dull perhaps explains the political success of eccentrics like Trump, Corbyn and Johnson.
I recall in my final year of university an elderly lecturer smiling out at the hall of English literature students in front of him and remarking that we must all be writing poetry at our age. Awkward shaking of heads. We weren't writing poetry, we were applying for internships.
My university cohort was another bleak instalment in the collapse of the casually creative middle class. When I worked in a bookshop (a job I landed in part due to my failure to do any internships), I spent endless afternoons cataloging the various efflorescences of amateur Victorian creativity: album after bulging album of watercolors, pressed flowers, dried seaweed, poetry, bits of fern.
Now the great singing, piano-playing, poetry-writing, amateur-dramatics-performing bourgeois tradition is dead. Work, education and the battle for a share of the diminishing financial rewards and expensive properties have taken over our lives. Even hobbies such as stamp collecting, embroidery, model-building and DIY are in decline. Before the pandemic, museum and gallery attendance had dropped for three years in a row.
The suffocating tyranny of the dull perhaps explains the political success of eccentrics like Trump, Corbyn and Johnson.
It's not only casual creativity that is threatened. Those rising house prices make it harder to be an artist. London's brutal rents mean that the city has lost its ancient bohemian class of failed actors, painters, drunks and half-starved literary critics for the first time in its history.
Modern society offers its citizens a remarkably homogeneous life experience. Half of young people go to university where they're all forced through systems of exams that tend to reward a very specific, specialized and often unquestioning kind of intelligence. Then, thanks to computers, the jobs available after university are increasingly indistinguishable. Our work culture rewards one principal attribute: the ability to bend your intelligence to unnatural extremes of concentration by sitting in front of a screen for hours every day. To do this we wear the increasingly ubiquitous uniform of jeans (or chinos) and a smart shirt, which is just as much a symbol of conformity as the bowler hats and briefcases of our ancestors.
Social media encourages us all to justify our lives in public, to promote images of ourselves doing the virtuous, sane, normal things that will make sense to our co-workers, our boss, our distant aunts and whoever else follows us. Often, the most successful members of these sites find success by scolding those who don't conform to the rules by saying and doing the right things. On the Internet eccentricity is dangerous.
The cost of not conforming is higher than ever, financially and personally. Some doctors suggest that the overdiagnosis of ADHD and similar disorders is linked to the discomfort experienced by people who want a label to explain why they don't have the personal characteristics demanded by our society's narrow vision of success.
Meanwhile, the hobbyless, the dull, the impeccably CV-ed, the workaholic chino-wearers march ahead. One day the best of them will be rich enough to buy a piano that draws attention to the fact they are so hardworking and successful they have outsourced the pursuit of artistic pleasure to a robot.
James Marriott is the deputy books editor for The Times of London
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Stumbling on Happiness by Dan Gilbert
Daniel Gilbert is the Harvard College Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. His research with Tim Wilson on "affective forecasting" investigates how and how well people can make predictions about the emotional impact of future events.Dan has won numerous awards for his teaching and research—from the Guggenheim Fellowship to the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution to Psychology. However, he says that his greatest accomplishment is that he appears just before Dizzie Gillespie on the list of Most Famous High School Dropouts!Dan's research has been covered by The New York Times Magazine, Forbes, Money, CNN, U.S. News & World Report, The New Yorker, Scientific American, Oprah Magazine, Psychology Today, and many others.Most of us spend our lives steering ourselves toward the best of all possible futures, only to find that tomorrow rarely turns out as we had presumed. Why? As Daniel Gilbert explains, when people try to imagine what the future will hold, they make some basic and consistent mistakes. Just as memory plays tricks on us when we try to look backward in time, so does imagination play tricks when we try to look forward.Using cutting-edge research, much of it original, Gilbert shakes, cajoles, persuades, tricks, and jokes us into accepting the fact that happiness is not really what or where we thought it was.Smart, witty, accessible, and laugh-out-loud funny, Stumbling on Happiness brilliantly describes all that science has to tell us about the uniquely human endeavor to envision the future, and how likely we are to enjoy it when we get there.


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Shares of Ameren Corp. AEE sank 0.29% to $79.07 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 1.62% to 3,635.41 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 1.54% to 30,046.24. The stock's fall snapped a two-day winning streak. Ameren Corp. closed $8.59 below its 52-week high ($87.66), which the company achieved on March 4th.
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The Artusi Prize 2019 goes to Lidia Bastianich
by Editorial Staff 12/03/19
"It was thanks to the Artusi Manual that I became acquainted with Italian regional cuisine and its products, which I am now telling 50 million Americans.
"It's my first time in Forlimpopoli and I'm really happy to be here to receive an award dedicated to Artusi. His Manual has been a point of reference for me, it has introduced me to the Italian cuisine of the various regions. In all my rooms there is a copy of the translated book". To say it is Lidia Bastianich on the occasion of the award of the Artusi Prize, Monday 2 December in Forlimpopoli in a crowded Church of the Servants at Casa Artusi. Author of best sellers with twelve cookery publications, successful businesswoman with numerous restaurants, Lidia Bastianich in the USA is a real ambassador of Italian cuisine who tells in the Lidia's Kitchen program on Pbs, followed by 50 million Americans.
Italian food is number one in the United States," she continued. "Americans love Italy and have seen my personal history as an Italian as a point of reference. Every year I come to your country at least 5 or 6 times, I travel around the peninsula in search of local cuisines and its products and then tell everything in my programs. On television I present the domestic kitchen, the simple one, the seasonal products, the right condiments, the one that you can make even from home.
The influence of her grandmother, who is still alive today, is fundamental to Lidia's career, she is 98 years old. "I grew up with her in the countryside of Pula, in the midst of animals and products of the land. When I emigrated to the United States in 1958, it was the food that reminded me of my childhood, the scents of the past, the products: cooking made me feel good because it brought me back to that time gone. I can say that even today I am still chewing my childhood".
Gradually he told about Italian cuisine in America. The first restaurant dates back to 1971, Buona Vita nel Queens, where Lidia worked with an Italian-American chef for 10 years. "That experience made me understand that in America there was a lack of Italian raw materials to make real Italian cuisine. From there, I started to travel around Italy to learn about territories and products, which I continue to do every year". The turning point came a few years later with Felidia, a local in Manhattan that received everyone's attention. "A famous journalist intrigued by our Italian regional proposals gave us a very positive review, and so came the spotlight. Felidia was so successful that Julia Child came to dinner at the restaurant with James Beard, one of the most famous American critics. They eat my risotto, she asks me to teach Americans on television how to do it. Let's make two episodes, the first dedicated to the risotto, the second to the auricles. That's how my TV presentation was born, which has been going on for 20 years".
Lidia feels like a lucky person: "I feel like the meeting of two great cultures: the Italian culture of beauty and good eating, that of curiosity and American marketing".
The award ceremony, coordinated by the Councillor for Culture of the City of Forlimpopoli Paolo Rambelli, saw the greeting of the Mayor of Forlimpopoli Milena Garavini and the President of Casa Artusi Laila Tentoni. Following the speeches of entrepreneurs Renata Buli for Flamigni and Maria Grazia Silvestrini for Corte San Ruffillo, while Piero Meldini, member of the Scientific Committee of Casa Artusi and famous writer and scholar of gastronomy spoke with Lidia Bastianich. The Artusi Prize, an artistic bust depicting the famous gastronome created by the artist Pasquale Manzelli, was presented by the regional councillor Paolo Zoffoli.
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