"Light Cream Pasteurized."

(missing since 2002)

If you have any information that may lead to the recovery of San Francisco, or it's soul please call Anthony Bennett at 1-800-ART-LESS

Side of milk carton: Homogenized Pasteurized

Note that Anthony Bennett is a reference to I Left My Heart in San Francisco singer Tony Bennett. There was another nearby wheatpaste with a picture of Bennett and the words "I Left...San Francisco."

The 800 number goes to a cruise line offer, so no point in calling it.

Could the hearts as the 0s in 800 be a reference to sticker street artist Adam Infanticide?

Wheatpasted to pole. Mural in background is at building site of new lofts on Hayes Street.

Imitation Cheese

If it fits in a tub or a tube, it is imitation cheese. I had a guy nearly screaming that his collection of his favorite food of all time - Philadelphia Creme Cheese - was NOT IMITATION, and each of the label flavors in his collection was "real". I told him to look up the history of KRAFT corp. and Velveta, another 'pourable cheese' and the entire company is formed into processed milk containers, I said, licking the knife clean of Miracle Whip - hold the Mayo....

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Ingredients: pasteurized nonfat milk and milk fat, whey, protein concentrate, cheese culture, salt, whey, stabilizers (xanthan and/or carob bean and/or guar gum ), sorbic acid as a preservative, vitamin A palmitate.

Contains: milk..

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Kraft foods global, incorporated.

Northfield, Illinois 60093-2753 USA.

Copyright Kraft foods.

Best when used by date stamped..

For best quality, do not freeze. Keep refrigerated.

creamcheese.com 1.800.634.1984

dsc00020, Imitation Cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, regular

Local Accession Number: 06_11_002050

Title: Pasteurizer in a creamery

Genre: Stereographs; Photographic prints

Created/Published: Meadville, Pa. ; New York, N.Y. ; Portland, Oregon ; London, Eng. ; Sydney, Aus. : Keystone View Company

Copyright date: 1906

Physical description: 1 photographic print on a curved stereo card : stereograph ; 9 x 18 cm.

General notes: Image caption: Pasteurizer in a Creamery, East Aurora, N.Y., U.S.A.; No. 6662; Title from printed caption on verso

Subjects: Dairying; Butter; Agricultural facilities

Collection: Stereographs

Location: Boston Public Library, Print Department

Shelf locator: New York

Rights: No known copyright restrictions.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

The Hospital for Sick Children, corporately branded as SickKids, is a major pediatric teaching hospital located on University Avenue in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is affiliated with the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto.

The hospital's Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning is believed to be the largest pediatric research tower in the world at 69677.28 square metres. Founded in 1875, the hospital was inspired by the example of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

The hospital is located in the Discovery District of Downtown Toronto on University Avenue, adjacent to the Toronto General Hospital and across from Mount Sinai Hospital and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre—collectively forming a complex known as Hospital Row, each connected by underground tunnels and bridges. The hospital is known for its advertisement campaigns and the largest amounts of donations received for any Canadian hospital.

Medical treatments at the hospital are covered by publicly funded health insurance, as is the case in most other Canadian hospitals. Philanthropy is a critical source of funding for SickKids Hospital that is separate and distinct from government and granting agencies. In 2006/07, financial support from SickKids Foundation to the hospital totalled $72.1 million. The support went towards infrastructure and support for physicians, researchers and scientists who compete for national and international research grants. Next to government, SickKids Foundation is the largest funding agency in child health research, education and care in Canada. The Foundation maintains a fund, called the Herbie Fund, for patients not covered by Canadian health insurance. The fund was established in 1979 to provide for the treatment of Herbie Quiñones, a seven-month-old patient from Brooklyn, New York.

The hospital was an early leader in the fields of food safety and nutrition. In 1908 a pasteurization facility for milk was established at the hospital, the first in Toronto, and 30 years before milk pasteurization became mandatory. Researchers at the hospital invented the infant cereal, Pablum. The research that led to the discovery of insulin took place nearby at the University of Toronto and was soon applied at the hospital. Doctor Frederick Banting, one of the researchers, had served his internship at SickKids Hospital and went on to become an attending physician there. In 1963 William Thornton Mustard developed the Mustard surgical procedure used to help correct heart problems in blue baby syndrome. In 1989, a team of researchers at the hospital discovered the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis.

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Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring was very upset when we got home this afternoon. In fact Aggie Ring cried out, “I’m nothing more than a common criminal now. I’m going to go to jail. Do you have any idea what they’d do to a handsome shiny Aggie Ring in prison? Do you? It won’t be good for me.”

You see, in New Jersey, it’s illegal to buy or sell raw unpasteurized dairy products. If you’ve ever used raw milk or cream to make butter, cream cheese, crème fraîche, cheese, etc… then you know that the pasteurized stuff you buy at the grocery store isn’t really much good other than for putting it in your coffee or tea.

Texas Aggie Ring laughed his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” this morning and told me, “Lets take a drive over to Pennsylvania. I want to pick up a couple of things.

In PA, where it IS legal to buy and sell raw dairy, Aggie Ring picked up a half gallon of raw milk and raw heavy cream. Aggie Ring had me put the two bottles in the trunk. He didn’t want to be stopped at the New Jersey border and caught bringing raw dairy into the state. “They’re not taking this Aggie Ring alive!” he cried as we reentered the Garden State. “Even if you go down with me.”

Although the Aggie Ring was sweating the whole time we were driving back, we made it home without incident. As soon as we walked through the door Aggie Ring said to me, “I want to make fresh raw butter, Now!”

Now I’m sure everyone reading this has made fresh butter and churned their own homemade ice cream. Aggie Ring has certainly done it plenty of times and he’s not even a Dairy Science Aggie Ring. These are just plain life skills that everyone needs to know.

Aggie Ring didn’t want to clean all his kitchen tools twice, so he decided to use the entire half gallon of raw heavy cream. He did two batches because his food processor can’t handle the entire half gallon at one time.

It took about 4 or 5 minutes for each batch of raw heavy cream on low for the yellow butter to form and leave the liquid liquid buttermilk. (Which, by the way is totally different than what comes in a box. We don’t even like buttermilk but we can drink or put the fresh buttermilk on our cereal all day.)

The butter solids were put through a strainer to drain and to prevent them from falling into the fresh buttermilk.

Aggie Ring put both batches of the butter into a large bowl and kneeded it time after time to force the remaining white buttermilk out of the solids. The more of the proteins from the buttermilk you can remove from the butter, the longer it will stay fresh. Once liquid had stopped coming out of the butter, Aggie Ring filled the bowl up with ice water and continued to kneed it to wash it. He did this about four times until the ice water stayed clear. He added a dash or two of sea salt and worked that in

We rolled the butter into a large “butter ball” and pressed it down into a sealable container so it can ripen in the refrigerator for a day or two. Afterwards, Aggie Ring plans to make garlic butter and perhaps cinnamon sugar butter with some of it. We will clarify any that remains so we can have clarified butter for up to 6 months.

The half-gallon of raw heavy cream made a quart of buttermilk and a little over a pound and a half of fresh raw butter.

At the end of the buttery experience, Aggie Ring was covered in a lot of fresh butter and called out, “Who want’s to lick the butter off me?” Then he let out his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” and said, “Just kidding. No one can lick this Aggie Ring!”

#AggieRing

This Bulgarian yogurt made from raw A2 Guernsey milk and heirloom cultures is awesome. It’s still fermenting a bit so you have to “burp” the container from time to time to allow the CO2 to escape. Yoghurts, cheeses, etc made from good, fresh, clean raw milk makes pasteurized (dead milk) taste like gas station sushi.

Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring and I made four pounds of delicious Maple Syrup/Jack Daniels Bacon Jerky last night. There was so much of it I couldn’t even fit it into the “big ass” container.

I used a three-part maple syrup to one-part Jack Daniel’s mix for the marinade. Then Aggie Ring had me dust the lean bacon with butcher-style course ground black pepper before we put it into the new “big ass” dehydrator for “the long sleep.” I had marinade left over, so Aggie Ring told me to do some shots with it. I haven’t done shots since high school.

Additionally, Aggie Ring and I did one tray of a “test batch” of bacon jerky. We fire roasted some jalapeños, took out the seeds and ran them in the food processor with sweet, sweet maple syrup and Jack Daniel’s. Next week, the entire batch we make is going to be using this style of marinade.

All the Aggie Ring and I have to do now is find a way to get rid of all of this bacon jerky. It’s too dangerous to leave around the house. Normally, I’d give it to the Jersey Shore college band boy who fetches me my coffee and plays the trombone (with F-Attachment). He and his band buddies could take it all to the band house where they smoke the “Texas Tea.” But, like his identical twin who plays drums, he has kidney stones and those sort of weak people can’t take the black pepper.

I’ll probably give a load of it to the twins’ boss, a retired Army Medical Service NCO. He’s about the only one I can trust to keep it out of the wrong hands.

The rest of the delicious maple/Jack bacon jerky will probably get taken up to the brewery down the street tonight for the beer girls who work there. They really loved the last batch.

Does anyone think that maple/Jack bacon jerky would pair well with a freshly brewed, non-pasteurized, high ABV stout? Many of them.

My second cousin, Lester Halsey, who is older than my mother and thus older than old dirt, came in to the restaurant (well, it's kind of a rustic inn type affair, with creaking wood floors, all-you-can-eat, country ham, sausage, bacon (they used to give you pork sidemeat but they cut that out) grits, stewed apples, eggs scrambled from cracked eggs (most hotel eggs are pasteurized and homogenized), pancakes, biscuits, sausage gravy and redeye gravy---anyway, it's not the food we're supposed to be talking about but this photograph. Lester had him a paper grocery sack with a bunch of photographs in it that he had gotten from his first cousin after her husband had died. They were family photos, but not of her immediate family. She might have known who some of the people were, but not others. Anyway, Lester said anyone could have any of the photos that they wanted. Another one of my relatives took one of the photos of another brother (my grandfather had seven brothers and one sister).

This photograph was the second one I saw. French was my grandfather's younger (I think) brother. A lot of people who looked at this photo thought this was Worth, but when I showed it to my mother, she said "French" immediately. I guess that's a sailor's uniform, but I don't know the history. I think French's daughter lives in Raleigh, so I'm going to use this photo as an excuse to go see her. I'm not sure I've ever met her. Maybe she can give me some more history.

www.kraftrecipes.com/recipes/velveeta-down-home-macaroni-...

What You Need

1/4 cup butter or margarine, divided

1/4 cup flour

1 cup milk

1/2 lb. (8 oz.) VELVEETA Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product, cut into 1/2-inch cubes

2 cups elbow macaroni, cooked

1/2 cup KRAFT Shredded Cheddar Cheese

6 RITZ Crackers, crushed (about 1/4 cup)

Make It

HEAT oven to 350°F.

MELT 3 Tbsp. butter in medium saucepan on medium heat. Whisk in flour; cook 2 min., stirring constantly. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to boil; cook and stir 3 to 5 min. or until thickened. Add VELVEETA; cook 3 min. or until melted, stirring frequently. Stir in macaroni.

SPOON into 2-qt. casserole sprayed with cooking spray; sprinkle with Cheddar. Melt remaining butter; toss with cracker crumbs. Sprinkle over casserole.

BAKE 20 min. or until heated through.

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The Granary is an establishment dedicated to serving the best quality food prepared using smoke and live fire. We pride ourselves in sourcing humanely raised, no hormone/antibiotic, quality meat, and emphasizing seasonal vegetables when possible. We make as much product from “scratch” and in house as possible. By making our bread, pickles, pies, etc. in house we deliver superior flavor, texture, and enjoyment to each and every guest. Most cultures have some sort of barbecue tradition, and our aim is to showcase the traditional barbecue ingredients in a modern, relevant and approachable way. While Central Texas barbecue is the backbone, The Granary provides a diverse look at various cultures worldwide that have their own unique barbecue styles providing the opportunity for the diner to experience new and interesting flavors.

At The Granary we strive to make fresh, handcrafted, honest beers that can be enjoyed by all. All of our beer is made within the four walls of our restaurant, which means that when it hits your glass it is the freshest beer you can get. Our beers are never filtered or pasteurized and are always full of character and flavor. We brew styles from American and Belgian to anything in between. We typically brew our beers with four ingredients: malt, hops, yeast and San Antonio water. However we have been known to add things like coffee, fruit, spices, and anything else that might catch our fancy.

At The Granary we love beer as beer helps to enrich our lives. We take our beer and food seriously and we hope to politely challenge people’s perspective of how beer can be paired with food. We believe that every meal that is served can be made better when paired with the right style of beer. This is not your grandma’s beer.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

A well-bred person knows that coughing in another person’s face is poor etiquette and poor hygiene. ….avoid those people! Use a handkerchief. Testing dairy cows for bovine tuberculosis is a safety precaution. Pasteurization is even more important in the battle against TB. Since 1900 the death rate from TB in the US has been cut in half (as of 1937). Surely we may hope for another big reduction with the next generation! Illustrator J.G.

“Cleanliness and Health”

By C.E. Turner and Georgie B. Collins

1937, Most illustrations by J.G. and some by H.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

LEFT: Clear bottle with lug top closure embossed:

"Pasteurized Citrate of Magnesia"

"In cases of severe and constant pain in the lower abdomen, do not use laxatives but consult a physician."

"Dose - Adults: One half to one bottle as desired. Children in proportion to age."

Circa 1910.

RIGHT: Mini clear patent medicine. Embossed: "The J.R. Watkins Co." Circa 1890.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Birthday of Don Mattingly

Birthday of Prophet Muhammad

Birthday of Aldolph Hitler

Columbine Shooting Anniversary

Apollo 16 lands on the moon

Wrigly Field opening

Radium is first isolated

Pasteurization invented

Ludlow massacre occurs

Robert E. Lee reigns from U.S. Army

Wisconsin territory is created

French Revolutionary War begins

Gulf Oil Rig explodes worse than still being reported.

then toxic corexit is sprayed all over.

Check the 19th's history too..

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Plastic wrapped Stringin It. Hey, I think this is how you pasteurize light! If you missed my description, it's here: flickr.com/photos/jahdakinebrah/138758552/

Of course it must be viewed large...

Ira Jones and a New American Country

When Ira was born, a new economy was beginning in the northern states, intertwined with the slave labor economy of the southern states. Americans began to build a system of national transportation using roads and rivers which allowed them to expand vigorously and often violently westward towards the Mississippi River (illegal assumption of land played a major role of expansion).

Ira saw his world transformed from buckboards and stagecoaches to canal systems and railroads. What once took weeks to travel could now be counted in days and hours. People used this greater mobility to financially advance themselves. People did not stay in place for long if they could envision greener pastures elsewhere. "People", a noun which is the equivalent of "white male", were not bound to a class or an aristocracy holding them in their service, they grasped their own destiny.

Successive waves of religious enthusiasm, known as the "Second Great Awakening" emerged. The people built their own brand of "spiritual Protestant reform" without federal help, willfully reaching for a very separate choice (and change) of religion without government. In 1833, Massachusetts is the last state to end state supported churches.

The self-made Protestants who created "the tent revival" was a concept embraced by Andrew Jackson. Jackson used this new method of gaining an audience and developed a political campaign gaining a populist vote to get elected.

Ira was born into John Adams presidency. Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, and John Quincy Adams followed until 1829. Andrew Jackson followed J.Q. Adams into the White House. Andrew Jackson's presidency is revered or reviled; depending on how one maintains their political and humanitarian viewpoints. These men are owed a great respect and deep gratitude for their dedication to form the United States of America. As the 11th President (1845-1849), James Polk aggressively and deceptively finagled his way to create the United States as we recognize the lower 48 today.

Americans lives continued to be constrained by weather and the seasons. Night time was intensely dark. Most housing was small and poorly lit; heat and cold could not be kept inside or outside. Americans were usually dirty and insect-ridden. Smells from the barnyard, tannery and tavern, privy and chamber pot was pungent and profuse. Food was heavy and coarse, heavily salted and the taste was harsh. Hard physical labor was ordinary and endured. Disease and bodily discomfort was not to be cured and often, death, was an early visitor.

Many Americans chose to reshape their future of everyday life at the dawn of the 19th century. People changed their patterns of childbearing, methods of childbirth, marriage, and death. These "institutions of life" were previously influenced by the agricultural cycles and seasons. New attitudes towards drinking (temperance) and social gatherings gave way to new manners of self-control in public and private. Ordinary people defied the old signs of deference and took up objects and customs that had been exclusive to the wealthy. A new personal interest in hygiene led to even more washing and bathing.

How time was spent changed. Instead of weaving one's own flax for clothing, fabrics could now be affordably purchased. More time could be spent on cleanliness and other attention given to the condition of the home. Items such as brooms became more common in the household. The presence of a well kept household was quickly becoming important.

Ideas flourished through new inventions like lithography and stereotyping. These new printing methods gave birth to an entirely new industry: magazines, dime novels, brochures, leaflets, newspapers and anything else wished to be shared with great freedoms of the press. Printed materials were absorbed by all classes of people. An "age of association" was born in sewing circles to lyceums to Masonic Lodges. Many organizations have come, and gone, which were created to celebrate a systematic bond of brotherhood or sisterhood.

What originally started as "Sunday School" (basic reading, writing and arithmetic taught at churches); flourished into a growing want and need for public education. Horace Mann spearheaded the effort to standardize education, starting in 1837.

Americans grasped their own identity and shed the conventions which Europe had handed down for centuries. A poor man did not have to kneel before the wealthy. They could commiserate and speak as equals (white men, for that matter; women were unleashing a new agenda that no one could see coming!).

"Cotton is King!" was growled by James Henry Howard towards the northern states. Slavery, with northern complicity, as a secure institution for boundless profiteering -- the complexity of what slavery is still grapples the socio-economic makeup of who America is today.

1799 Ira Jones is born

1799 George Washing ton dies on December 14th at 67 years old

1799 Allessandro Volta developed the first electrical battery, known as the Voltaic Cell

1799 Louis Robert invents the Fourdrinier Machine for paper making

1800 The federal government moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC

1801 Thomas Jefferson takes the presidential office

1803 Marbury v. Madison - establishes the principal of "judicial review"

1803 The Louisiana Purchase is "purchased"

1804 Burr and Hamilton duel on July 11

1804 Richard Trevithick developed the first steam-powered locomotive

1808 Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin's "Report on the Subject of Public Roads and Canals" suggested that the federal government should fund the construction of interstate turnpikes and canals

1808 Congress outlaws international slave trade – a heavily circumvented law

1809 Ira Jones is 10 years old

1809 James Madison is elected president

1810 Peter Durand invents the tin can

1811 The Battle of Tippecanoe

1813 The Fort Mims massacre

1815 The National Road began in Cumberland, Maryland

1816 American Colonization Society formed to send slaves to Liberia

1817 James Monroe is president

1819 Ira Jones is 20 years old

1819 René Laënnec invents the stethoscope

1820 The Missouri Compromise passed – for each slave state added, a free state is added

1822 Denmark Vesey slave uprising is thwarted

1823 The Merrimack Mfg. Co. began operating in Lowell, MA -- ushering in the modern industrial based town

1824 Michael Faraday invents the balloon

1825 John Quincy Adams is president

1825 The Erie Canal opened

1825 William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet

1827 John Walker invents modern matches

1829 Andrew Jackson is president

1830 The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad officially opens

1831 Cyrus McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper

1831 Nat Turner leads a slave revolt

1831 William Lloyd Garrsion publishes “The Liberator”; abolition takes a radical and religious turn for immediate emancipation

1833 The Compromise Tariff of 1833 ends the Nullification Crisis

1835 Henry Talbot invents calotype photography

1835 Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller

1835 Texas fought for independence

1836 The McGuffey Reader appeared

1836 Samuel Colt invents the revolver

1837 Martin Van Buren is president

1837 Michigan gains statehood

1838-1839 The Trail of Tears killed about 4,000 people that winter

1839 Ira Jones is 40 years old

1839 Charles Goodyear invents rubber vulcanization

1841 William Henry Harrison is briefly president

1841 John Tyler takes office after president Harrison dies

1842 Joseph Dart builds the first grain elevator

1844 Samuel Morse sends the first telegraph message, “What hath God wrought?”

1845 Elias Howe invents a sewing machine

1845 James K. Polk is president

1846 The U.S. launched a war with Mexico

1846 Dr. William Morton is the first to use anesthesia for tooth extraction

1849 Walter Hunt invents the safety pin

1849 Zachary Taylor is president

1850 Millard Fillmore is president after president Taylor falls ill

1850 The Comprimise of 1850 passed

1852 Harriett Beacher Stowe publishes “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

1853 Franklin Pierce is president

1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act passed – allowed settlers within new land decide their own fate with slavery

1856 Louis Pasteur invents pasteurization

1857 James Buchanan is president

1857 The Dred Scott ruling – slaves are not citizens

1858 Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine

1859 Ira Jones is 60 years old

1859 Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species is published

1859 The French overtake Saigon

1859 The first successful oil well in the United States is drilled, in northern Pennsylvania

1859 British scientist John Tyndall describes carbon dioxide (CO2) and water vapor trapping heat in the atmosphere; and he suggests that change in the concentration of gases could bring climate change

1860 The first Westbound Pony Express trip left St. Joseph, MO on April 3, 1860 and arrived ten days later in San Francisco, California on April 14.

1860 President Lincoln was elected. 81.2% of the voting population turned out at the polls. The polls were not easy to get to.

1861 The Secessionist South Carolinians attack Federal land -- Fort Sumter; The Civil War begins. An Alexandria hotel witnesses the first death -- which appears like cold blooded murder.

1862 Richard Gatling patents the machine gun

1862 The Homestead Act encourages naturalization by granting citizens title to 160 acres

1865 General Lee surrenders to the Union Army; The Civil War is over

1865 President Lincoln is assassinated

1865 Andrew Johnson assumes the presidential office

1866 Alfred Nobel invents dynamite

1866 The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is founded

1867 Dating trees by their annual rings begins

1868 George Westinghouse invents air brake

1869 Ulysses S. Grant is president

1869 The Central Pacific RR meets the Union Pacific RR in Promontary, Utah--a continent is bridged

1869 Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association

1870 The 15th Amendment passes--black men can vote

1871 The Chicago fire kills 300 and leaves 90,000 homeless; but not the largest fire of 1871. On the same day the Peshtigo Fire fanned its flames; taking between 1,200 and 2,400 lives in WI and MI.

1872 A.M. Ward issues the first mail order catalog

1876 Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone

1876 Rutherford B. Hayes beat Samuel Tilden in the presidential election. Voter turnout was 81.8%. The highest in U.S. history.

1876 The Battle of Little Bighorn; an aggressive push to eliminate indigenous people begins

1877 Edward Muybridge invents moving pictures

1877 The Republican Party ends Reconstruction – The Compromise of 1877 – the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan

1878 Louis Pasteur publishes his paper on “pasteurization”

1879 Ira Jones passes 11 days shy of 80 years old

a roll of film shot on August 14th of 2010.

O’Neil’s Dairy was first established in 1914 at 115 Kellogg Avenue by brothers Clem J. and P. Henry O’Neil. In 1922, it moved into the building that was formerly the National Guard Armory (today a parking lot across Fifth Street from the Tribune Building). They operated the first commercial milk pasteurizer in Ames. Their specialty was premium ice cream with a high butterfat content, as high as 6 to 7%, marketed as “Velvet” ice cream. It melted in your mouth and clung to your lips.They remained in business for fifty-seven years, closing in 1971.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

speaking of grassmilk i have long thought i should start a recipe series for "things that pair well with a Big Glass of Grassmilk". i guess now is as good a time as any :-)

make a chocolate mayonnaise cake and top with whipped cream frosting ( you could use something other than organic valley heavy whipping cream, but really, why? ). grab a glass of the cream on top grassmilk.

enjoy the perfect pairing. very much odin approved.

it's the middle of october which means you should start seeing organic valley eggnog on the shelves soon. and while i'm admittedly biased, it's better than ever this year. if you've never tried our eggnog, go ahead and treat yourself and let me know what you think ( really! ).

try mixing 2 parts eggnog to 1 part orange juice. seriously. no, seriously! you'll be surprised. in a good way. seriously!

feel free to share your favorite eggnog concoction. i'll try them and post my favorites :-)

Steps :

1. Find any picture you want.

2. From picture right click then open with to adobe Photoshop.

3. Duplicate layer (Ctrl + j) 3 more times and rename it.

1st layer – pallete knife

2nd layer – dry brush

3rd layer – smart blur

4. To not working in layer smart blur and dry brush close the eyes or invisible two of these layer, then go 1st layer then go filter >> artistic >> pallete knife.

5. Then, adjust with stroke size to 6, stroke detail to 3 and softness to 0 then click OK.

6. Still under 1st layer, go image >> adjustment >> hue/saturation – under Hue remain to 0, saturation change to 70, and lightness at 5. Then OK.

7. To makes the color makes more, go to filter >> blur >> Gaussian Blur >> radius change to 4 pixel >> OK.

8. Next, go to 2nd layer and visible image (Dry brush) then go to filter >> artistic >> dry brush then change the brush size to 2, brush detail to 8 and texture to 1 then OK.

9. On the final layer (smart blur) visible first the icon, then go to filter >> blur >> smart blur>> change radius to 15, threshold to 51, and change mode to edge only then ok.

10. To change the outline form black fill to white go image >> adjustment >> invert (Ctrl + i).

11. Then go to filter >> artistic >> poster edges, then change the edges thickness to 2, edges intensity to 1, and pasteurization to 2.

12. under the 3rd layer (smart blur) change the layer from normal to soft light (looks like watercolor).

13. Highlight all layer then merge to the one layer (Ctrl +e) now your picture looks like watercolor effect.

14. Lastly, save as jpeg.

#MPT1483, #UTM and #Activity8

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring was very upset when we got home this afternoon. In fact Aggie Ring cried out, “I’m nothing more than a common criminal now. I’m going to go to jail. Do you have any idea what they’d do to a handsome shiny Aggie Ring in prison? Do you? It won’t be good for me.”

You see, in New Jersey, it’s illegal to buy or sell raw unpasteurized dairy products. If you’ve ever used raw milk or cream to make butter, cream cheese, crème fraîche, cheese, etc… then you know that the pasteurized stuff you buy at the grocery store isn’t really much good other than for putting it in your coffee or tea.

Texas Aggie Ring laughed his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” this morning and told me, “Lets take a drive over to Pennsylvania. I want to pick up a couple of things.

In PA, where it IS legal to buy and sell raw dairy, Aggie Ring picked up a half gallon of raw milk and raw heavy cream. Aggie Ring had me put the two bottles in the trunk. He didn’t want to be stopped at the New Jersey border and caught bringing raw dairy into the state. “They’re not taking this Aggie Ring alive!” he cried as we reentered the Garden State. “Even if you go down with me.”

Although the Aggie Ring was sweating the whole time we were driving back, we made it home without incident. As soon as we walked through the door Aggie Ring said to me, “I want to make fresh raw butter, Now!”

Now I’m sure everyone reading this has made fresh butter and churned their own homemade ice cream. Aggie Ring has certainly done it plenty of times and he’s not even a Dairy Science Aggie Ring. These are just plain life skills that everyone needs to know.

Aggie Ring didn’t want to clean all his kitchen tools twice, so he decided to use the entire half gallon of raw heavy cream. He did two batches because his food processor can’t handle the entire half gallon at one time.

It took about 4 or 5 minutes for each batch of raw heavy cream on low for the yellow butter to form and leave the liquid liquid buttermilk. (Which, by the way is totally different than what comes in a box. We don’t even like buttermilk but we can drink or put the fresh buttermilk on our cereal all day.)

The butter solids were put through a strainer to drain and to prevent them from falling into the fresh buttermilk.

Aggie Ring put both batches of the butter into a large bowl and kneeded it time after time to force the remaining white buttermilk out of the solids. The more of the proteins from the buttermilk you can remove from the butter, the longer it will stay fresh. Once liquid had stopped coming out of the butter, Aggie Ring filled the bowl up with ice water and continued to kneed it to wash it. He did this about four times until the ice water stayed clear. He added a dash or two of sea salt and worked that in

We rolled the butter into a large “butter ball” and pressed it down into a sealable container so it can ripen in the refrigerator for a day or two. Afterwards, Aggie Ring plans to make garlic butter and perhaps cinnamon sugar butter with some of it. We will clarify any that remains so we can have clarified butter for up to 6 months.

The half-gallon of raw heavy cream made a quart of buttermilk and a little over a pound and a half of fresh raw butter.

At the end of the buttery experience, Aggie Ring was covered in a lot of fresh butter and called out, “Who want’s to lick the butter off me?” Then he let out his trademark “Evil Aggie Ring Laugh™” and said, “Just kidding. No one can lick this Aggie Ring!”

#AggieRing

I started with these directions for Neufchatel cheese, which I have unsuccessfully tried before, and ended up modifying them slightly.

I used a half gallon of Organic Valley non-homogenized milk. This is NOT ultra pasteurized, and I've heard it recommended by several cheese makers. (Next time I plan to skim off the cream and make butter from it, as I think this is what medieval cheese makers would have done.)

To this I added 2 tablespoons of cultured buttermilk. I heated these together to 70 degrees.

Meanwhile, I dissolved 1/4 tablet of rennet in a little bit of warm water. I can never get the tablets to dissolve all the way, so I settle for a flocculent solution with fine particles.

When the milk was warmed, I turned off the heat and stirred in the rennet.

I let this sit totally undisturbed for about 18 hours in the same periodically barely warmed up oven that I was letting my bread rise in. This morning there was great separation of the curd from the whey, and a good clean break. I cut the curd and poured off the whey. Now this is sitting in my refrigerator with more whey draining off. If this ends up hard enough, I'll probably press it into a ball using the cheese cloth.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Jersey Shore Fightin’ Texas Aggie Ring and I made four pounds of delicious Maple Syrup/Jack Daniels Bacon Jerky last night. There was so much of it I couldn’t even fit it into the “big ass” container.

I used a three-part maple syrup to one-part Jack Daniel’s mix for the marinade. Then Aggie Ring had me dust the lean bacon with butcher-style course ground black pepper before we put it into the new “big ass” dehydrator for “the long sleep.” I had marinade left over, so Aggie Ring told me to do some shots with it. I haven’t done shots since high school.

Additionally, Aggie Ring and I did one tray of a “test batch” of bacon jerky. We fire roasted some jalapeños, took out the seeds and ran them in the food processor with sweet, sweet maple syrup and Jack Daniel’s. Next week, the entire batch we make is going to be using this style of marinade.

All the Aggie Ring and I have to do now is find a way to get rid of all of this bacon jerky. It’s too dangerous to leave around the house. Normally, I’d give it to the Jersey Shore college band boy who fetches me my coffee and plays the trombone (with F-Attachment). He and his band buddies could take it all to the band house where they smoke the “Texas Tea.” But, like his identical twin who plays drums, he has kidney stones and those sort of weak people can’t take the black pepper.

I’ll probably give a load of it to the twins’ boss, a retired Army Medical Service NCO. He’s about the only one I can trust to keep it out of the wrong hands.

The rest of the delicious maple/Jack bacon jerky will probably get taken up to the brewery down the street tonight for the beer girls who work there. They really loved the last batch.

Does anyone think that maple/Jack bacon jerky would pair well with a freshly brewed, non-pasteurized, high ABV stout? Many of them.

Sidral Mundet – ¡Destapa La Manzana!

Made with natural sugar and no artificial flavors or colors, Sidral Mundet boasts a unique and delicious taste. Started by Don Arturo Mundet in 1902 Sidral Mundet still remains the 100% Mexican soft drink with a flavor that really does come from real apples!

Sidral Mundet esta hecho a base de jugo de manzana natural, con azúcar 100% natural y sin colorantes, lo que origina su sabor único. Desde 1902 Mundet es el refresco de manzana 100% Mexicano y con auténtico sabor a manzana porque su sabor “SI proviene de la manzana”.

Made by the most delightful, Inktea.

Imitation Cheese

If it fits in a tub or a tube, it is imitation cheese. I had a guy nearly screaming that his collection of his favorite food of all time - Philadelphia Creme Cheese - was NOT IMITATION, and each of the label flavors in his collection was "real". I told him to look up the history of KRAFT corp. and Velveta, another 'pourable cheese' and the entire company is formed into processed milk containers, I said, licking the knife clean of Miracle Whip - hold the Mayo....

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Ingredients: pasteurized nonfat milk and milk fat, whey, protein concentrate, cheese culture, salt, whey, stabilizers (xanthan and/or carob bean and/or guar gum ), sorbic acid as a preservative, vitamin A palmitate.

Contains: milk..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraft_foods

Kraft foods global, incorporated.

Northfield, Illinois 60093-2753 USA.

Copyright Kraft foods.

Best when used by date stamped..

For best quality, do not freeze. Keep refrigerated.

creamcheese.com 1.800.634.1984

dsc00019, Imitation Cheese, Philadelphia Cream Cheese, regular

Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Singles

0g Trans Fat Food Substitute

Shoppers Value

Cholesterol free

16 singles Net wt. 10 2/3 oz. (302 g)

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Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Singles

16 singles Net wt. 10 2/3 oz. (302 g)

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Ingredients: Water, Modified food starch, Soybean oil, Maltodextrin, Whey, Gelatin, Salt, Enzyme-modified cheese* (Cultured miilk, water, salt, sodium phosphate, cream, sodium citrate, enzymes, sorbic acid [preservative], artificial color), Sodium hexametaphosphate, Guar gum, Sorbic acid (preservative), Arificial color, Natural flavor. *Adds a trivial amount of cholesterol.

Contains: Milk and Soy

Distributed By SUPERVALU INC.

Eden Prairie, MN 55344 USA Packed in USA

Refrigerate after purchasing.

Also see: Sodium hexametaphosphate

Shoppers Value - Imitation Pasteurized Process Cheese Food Singles, montage with text, dsc00152

AVCD project handed over bulk milk chilling and pasteurizing plants to cooperative societies of Kericho, Homa Bay, Kisumu and Makueni counties of Kenya in mid January and March 2019 in the presence of members of the dairy cooperative societies, county government representatives and AVCD staff members. (Photo credit: ILRI/Meron Mulatu)

HELT DIVERSIFIED, LLC

3rd generation dairy and beef operation

Raising all heifer and bull calves from dairy herd

27’ x 216’ calf barn

70 to 100 calves in 4 groups up to 25 each

1 CalfMom Paula master-unit connecting 4 drinking stations

Feeding pasteurized whole milk with protein-mineral balancer mixed in

Weaning at 50 days, calve-in at 24 months

INSTALLED BY AMS-GALAXY-USA URBAN DEALER: TRICOUNTY DAIRY SUPPLY

“We chose the Urban CalfMom because it is more efficient, and we like the ease in the way it feeds and washes much better than other automatic feeders on the market,” says Willy Michels, the dairy’s general manager for 32 years.

“The CalfMom is user-friendly and does everything itself,” adds Ashley. “We feed whole milk and appreciate how well the automatic rinse every four hours and the twice-a-week complete wash are working. It really does a good job cleaning.”

Gwatkin Yarlington Mill cider, pulled from a cask, at ...

Churchkey

Washington, D.C., USA

18 March 2010.

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▶ Tart, with a tannic bite like an apple skin. Background hints of barnyard funk and smoky phenolics. 7.5% alcohol by volume. (I remember last year's cask to have a bit of a cinnamon character --possibly from choice of wood-aging?-- and to be of a darker reddish color. )

▶ Gwatkin is the 2009 Cider Maker of the Year in the UK. Yarlington Mill is the specific apple variety.

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▶ Cheese plate (left to right):

☞ Meadow Creek Grayson (Virginia, USA)

Raw cow's milk, washed rind (that means STINKY...in a good way)!

☞ Tête de Moine (Switzerland)

Raw cow's milk; a mild washed-rind.

☞ Monte Enebro (Spain)

Pasteurized cow's milk; slightly tangy. Beautiful 'bloom' presentation. Its slight tang 'paired' beautifully with the cider.

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Bain News Service,, publisher.

Milk 1 cent - City Hall Park, N.Y.

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

Notes:

Title from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo probably shows milk depot (opened in 1894) at City Hall Park run by Nathan Straus which sold pasteurized milk for one cent per glass. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

Format: Glass negatives.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.13385

Call Number: LC-B2- 2738-3

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.

Mary Turner is the cheese maker at Celebrity Dairy.

Participants learned to make and operate their own divining rods and then used them to help us create a speculative water source map of Chinatown in Los Angeles, CA.

WETLAB is an ongoing multi-initiative project investigating the growing concern of peak water through intervention, praxis, coalition, and activism. The various participatory initiatives engage audiences with critical water issues exploring politics, power, science, consumption, access, sustainability, and innovation. WETLAB was established in 2009.

Selected WETLAB Initiatives

The Greywater Garden – Workshop participants are introduced to the ABC's of domestic greywater technology and practice. They also learn to plant and maintain a small personal xeric garden using drought tolerant plants. Participants are asked to maintain their garden at home and are challenged to use only greywater - wastewater generated from domestic activities such as dish washing, laundry and bathing. Participants are asked to regularly share the progress of their gardens on a blog created for the project.

Tactical Water Sensor – Create a DIY moisture-sensitive gizmo from readily available electronic components that broadcasts water conservation messages when exposed to water. Gizmos should be deployed in public and private sites where water is used in excess.

Pimp Your Divining Rod- Learn the ABC's of water witching and build your own customized divining rod. Let people know that you are searching for water in style.

Department of Water and Power - Learn to be less dependant on the grid and build an inexpensive self-contained water collection and solar power unit for home and garden use.

WAPI Factory - Water Pasteurization Indicator – Help build a WAPI, a simple re-usable device that helps end-users determine when water has reached safe pasteurization temperatures for consumption. They will be distributed in areas where access to clean water is a primary concern.

+ We make every attempt to use local grey-water in these projects.

+ WETLAB was curated by Marshall Astor and sponsored in part by the Artist in Residence Program at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro, CA.