![]() The experience is hosted by Eric Gower, one of the foremost matcha experts in the country, who will guide your team through the world of matcha, including its history, how it's grown, fertilized, harvested, processed, and prepared (and marketed, if that's of interest). To read an interview with Eric Gower on the Asia Blog, please click here.įor more on Eric Gower, Matcha, and Breakaway Matcha, click here.Breakaway Matcha will pop up at your office to give your team an exclusive tasting of their highest-quality matcha green tea from Japan, served both as coldbrew and as a warm, frothed drink. Keeping Matcha cold prior to use is absolutely essential to fostering the tea’s taste, color, umami content, and health properties.Īudio: Listen to Eric Gower's Asia Society Northern California talk (1 hr., 14 min.) The enemies of Matcha are heat, light, and air, Matcha must be kept cold in the refrigerator or even the freezer for longer term storage. Click here to view a video that will teach you how to make a perfect cup of Matcha!Įric also shared some of his favorite Matcha kitchen tips that include adding Matcha powder into melted butter or salt to season chicken and infusing the Matcha in sweets that contain dairy or chocolate.Ĭlick here for Eric's blog on cooking with Matcha, including a recipe for Matcha truffles. For a hot brew, he advises pouring hot but not boiling water into the powder to prevent scorching of the leaves. The traditional method of making Matcha with a bamboo whisk and shallow bowl can produce delicious Matcha with some practice, but Eric finds that creamier Matcha can be made with a small ceramic creamer and a handheld electric frother.įor cold brew, Eric suggests shaking up one gram of Matcha powder with 8 ounces of cold water and ice and then straining the liquid into a jar which can be chilled. Matcha is rich in antioxidants, which act as anti-inflammatory and antiviral agents in the body. In terms of health benefits, Matcha is known to relieve stress, boost immunity, improve metabolism, and fight cancer. ![]() ![]() The passion for Matcha extends to Japanese tea farmers who, according to Eric, “are obsessed with creating this crazy tea.” The labor-intensive process of manually cultivating the tea leaves gives Matcha its distinguishing features: a savory umami taste that accompanies its vibrant hue, its ability to produce frothiness and creamy texture, and the finely ground leaves like cocoa powder that allow for full consumption of the leaves.įilled with antioxidants and amino acids, Matcha serves as a healthier alternative to coffee by delivering a sustained sense of focus and calmness while combating fatigue. Today, Matcha is widely enjoyed by people of all cultures, not just as a tea, but a contemporary ingredient for cooking. The culture of Matcha evolved into an ornate art form as it was incorporated into elaborate tea ceremonies and rituals of Japanese aristocracy. ![]() Eric educated guests on the plethora of culinary uses, distinctive characteristics, health benefits, and preparation of Matcha and offered a tasting of his artisanal cold brew tea and carrot cookies with Matcha crème.Įlectric green and powerfully tasty, Matcha has invoked a deep fascination in the culture of this brew, which can be traced back to ancient monks in China and Japan who consumed Matcha to stay awake during meditation. On July 30, ASNC and Mechanics’ Institute welcomed chef, writer, and tea connoisseur Eric Gower, founder of Breakaway Matcha, to share his passion for and expertise about the art and culture of enjoying Matcha tea. There is a lot of education that has to be done.”
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![]() Bravo.His first few albums might not have created ripples, but the 1977 release, “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”, which featured “Margaritaville”, changed everything. With Mac McAnally as his cowriter, Buffett embraces the beyond with “cats having nine lives and eons to play,” “cosmic clocks” ticking and tock-ing and the need to “grab one last cheap thrill… Sing karaoke and sip some rosé” before it’s all gone. “Live, Like It’s Your Last Day” (2020)īy the time of “Life on the Flip Side,” his 30th studio album, Buffett had not given up the ghost of poetically-driven good times and silly, spaced-out rumination. A curiosity indeed, but worth noting for Buffett’s desire for diverse collaboration so late in the game. So, along with the aforementioned Glenn Frey co-write, the latter-day Buffett hooked up with R&B vocalist and composer Bill Withers for this decidedly politically-incorrect track touched by an upbeat Cujunto arrangement and plucky rhythms. After it bombed, famously, in 1997 during its Miami preview run, Buffett turned the show into an album in 1998, and brought his heightened reality-driven lyrics to new heights on brash tracks such as “A Thousand Steps to Nowhere.” If this vividly picturesque track of Buffett’s is any indication, Broadway producers should look to a revival, pronto.Īdvertisement “Simply Complicated” (2004)įor a friendly guy, Buffett was often an island unto himself when it came to celebrity playmates. Writing a Broadway-style musical should have been a no-brainer for Buffett, especially as he based 1994′s “Don’t Stop the Carnival” on battle novelist Herman Wouk’s 1965 book of the same name, and hired Wouk to write its book. Humorous in the vein of “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” Buffett gave his “Gypsies” a soulful rocking edge, a lively tonic to his usual chill tunesmithing. ![]() ![]() Written with in-demand ‘80s songwriter Will Jennings and the Eagles’ Glenn Frey (who lends his vocals to the track as well), Buffett tells the story of two sneaky self-made entrepreneurs (one named “Snake”) who make a beer-bonging mess of a rock star’s home while he is on the road, only to find that they left it in better shape than he did when he gets home. “One Particular Harbour” (1983)Ĭo-produced by Buffett (a first) and co-penned by Bobby Holcomb, “One Particular Harbour” takes the singer-author’s island tropes and ticks to another, more energetic and anthemic level - something decidedly un-laid back. It works so well, you wish that Buffett would have tried naked sincerity more often. While 1979′s “Volcano” album seemed to stretch at the seams of his boozy, woozy, self-defined screwup persona, “Survive” - co-written by Buffett and longtime Coral Reefer Mike Utley - is an emotional ballad that touches on his usual topics (smoking, joking, long distance love, maddening crowds) with his usual humor, but adds one more poignant element to the mix: earnestness. Taken from his “A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean” (a goofy, shrimpy riff on Marty Robbins’ “Pink Carnation”) album and recorded at Tompall Glaser’s studio in Nashville, Buffett pushes the talents of his Coral Reefer Band’s Greg “Fingers” Taylor and Michael Utley’s yawning pedal steel predilections, writing poetically of the struggles of a man settling for a life where “some of it’s magic, and some of it’s tragic.” But, together with songs such as “Truckstop Salvation” and “Captain America,” Buffett’s feel for Nashvillian melody was in full flower on “A Mile High in Denver.” Soon to be his signature, Buffett’s “Mile High” presents his take on restless character-driven lyrics and funny twists on familiar tropes that pair warm stoner soliloquies with his vision of a Colorado mountain range’s naked trees topped by frost. Buffett’s first album on Andy Williams’ Barnaby Records label may not have been his favorite recording, or one that sold very many copies upon initial release. If you have no captions in the area to be removed, just create one long caption in that area, and then Ctrl-drag the end of that caption left as discussed. And even if you drag past the caption to the left, all that happens is the caption you are dragging is deleted, and the captions to the right ripple left - by that small amount. Except that it only changes up to the beginning of that caption. This works the same dragging to the left. If you had Ctrl down, the caption extends to the release point, and the captions to the right ripple adjust. When you release the click, if you did NOT have Ctrl pressed down, the caption stops at the next caption. Once you get to another caption, the caption stops adjusting, but the little line continues. (Cannot get a screenshot!) When you press Ctrl down, the red bracket arrow turns to white. When you drag the end of a caption (with or without Ctrl), you see a little line in the timecode ruler area, and you see the caption adjusting as you drag. When you hover over the end of the caption, you see the red "bracket and arrow" drag symbol. If you press Ctrl after you click, it operates as if Ctrl was not down. (That caption gets grey.) You must hold the Ctrl (Cmd) key down before clicking on the end of the caption to drag. My method: Select the caption stream in the timeline. But reducing has a different set of problems I'll discuss below. And when I tested (for the first time) REDUCING the caption stream, it also works. I did not know that!ĮXTENDING the caption stream, which is what was discussed in this thread, is working in 2020.2.0. If you drag it to the left, it ignores the CTI, so you can place it as you wish. ![]() I think the chat person is wrong about what the history panel calls "Ripple Update Caption." The snap to CTI is interesting: if you drag the end of a caption to the right (make it longer), and you get close to the CTI, the end snaps.
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Serving as a bizarre ego project after his group disbanded a decade earlier, Snider lays his heart bare on a blood-soaked silver screen. He is also the screenwriter for STRANGELAND, as well as its villain. If the name Dee Snider sounds familiar, he’s the musician best known as TWISTED SISTER’s frontman. Every frame of John Pipelow’s film conjures a grimy time capsule of a bygone era. It plays during violent nightclub raves, or alongside delightfully dated user interfaces adorning clunky white desktops. The soundtrack, featuring MEGADETH, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, ANTHRAX, MARILYN MANSON, and other heavy hitters, is absolutely relentless. If there’s a film that exemplifies late-90s internet and alternative culture, this is it. A mostly forgotten 1998 cyber-slasher, this picture details the exploits of “Captain Howdy,” a sadist obsessed with body modification and inflicting pain on others. The genre always reflects the cultural fears of the moment, and the internet was an intimidating beast.Įnter Dee Snider’s STRANGELAND. Monster movies of the 1950s wrestled with the potential fallout of nuclear war, while the hardened sentiments of cynicism surrounding the conflict in Vietnam bled into every fiber of 70s filmmaking. More realistically, HORRORVISION and PULSE explored how virtual worlds allow us to disconnect from reality. THE THIRTEENTH FLOOR and THE NET showed naive audiences what could happen if they used the internet without being aware of the risks. Several films in this time period attempted to show the dangerous side of what was then a new and exciting invention. These activities could form exciting relationships, or have deadly consequences. In the early days of the internet, users would log onto web pages about topics they were interested in, and peruse chat rooms to meet new friends. Connectivity is easier than ever, yet it’s important to stay diligent when it’s just as easy to find kindhearted people as it is to encounter the worst of the worst. Even considering all of this, it’s still one of our greatest assets. An endless stream of widely accessible information has mutated, in some corners, into a hive of bigotry home to everyone everywhere. Studies on how the internet affects our brains will be conducted until our dying days. The online world has taken much from the living. ![]() The owner has added some options to make your vacation more comfortable (including a washer/dryer). Shop By Category: Travel Trailers Forest River Vibe 28RL Brochure Vibe 28RL Travel Trailer by Forest River RV Highlights: Front Bedroom. 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Further threads arise from the stories of other settlements – one led by Clark and the female actor (Elizabeth, played by Caitlin FitzGerald, who ended up marrying Arthur after an affair they began while he was with Miranda) – and begin to be woven together. Villainry arrives (via the most frightening performance I’ve ever seen, from Daniel Zovatto as the stranger who insists on joining the Traveling Symphony “otherwise your friends are going to start to disappear”), along with the secret community known as the Museum of Civilisation. “You seem to get reborn almost every time you leave the house,” says Arthur’s best friend, Clark (David Wilmot, another mesmerising turn), after listening to a California female actor be an excessively California female actor over dinner for too long. ![]() Lighter moments leaven the darkness, particularly when the irreducibly charismatic and off-kilter Lori Petty, as the troupe’s composer Sarah, is on screen, or when we flash back to pre-pandemic times. Backstories are filled in – notably of Miranda (Danielle Deadwyler), Arthur’s lover and the author of the graphic novel (called Station Eleven, but don’t let the meta-ness put you off) that has been Kirsten’s lifeline over her 20 years of post-apocalyptic wandering. Having established its Serious Credentials, it gains confidence and begins to move away from the elegiac tone that threatens to overwhelm it. If you can stick with it, you will be rewarded. The first few episodes look beautiful but move at a stately pace. Now I am more so, but beyond the practical, the questions posed by the book and the show about how much of a refuge art can provide, what we should work to preserve, what makes a civilisation and what, ultimately, makes life worth living, remain interesting ones. Even in 2014, I was sceptical that there would be such an appetite. The second timeline takes us 20 years in the future, when Kirsten (now played by Mackenzie Davis) is part of a troupe of actors known as the Traveling Symphony, who tour the midwest putting on Shakespeare plays – Hamlet, when we meet them – to the scattered plague survivors. In the very early days, for example, Jeevan and Kirsten go round a supermarket that is full of produce but empty of people. It is almost more discomfiting, however, to be able to point now to moments the creators get wrong. People die alone, with their loved ones unable to be with them, and people grieve alone. Though “their” plague is much more devastating than ours (it has a 99% fatality rate), it is still quite something to see people coughing in enclosed spaces while those nearby bristle, and others wonder about masks or gather supplies so they can hunker in apartments until the virus has burned itself out. Different episodes concentrate on the experiences of different characters, but the through line is young Kirsten (an absolutely extraordinary performance from 13-year-old Matilda Lawler in her first substantial role), a child actor who is abandoned by her chaperone when a stage performance of King Lear is chaotically truncated by the death of the lead, Arthur (Gael García Bernal).Īudience member Jeevan (Himesh Patel) tries to take her home, but they are overtaken by the collapse of civilisation and begin their new life navigating the disaster together. The first concerns the early days and years of the pandemic. There are – as is starting to feel mandatory with small-screen dramas – two timelines. Now the television adaptation by Patrick Somerville (known for Maniac and The Leftovers) for HBO, streaming in the UK on Starzplay, is here and … resonating. I read Emily St John Mandel’s bestselling Station Eleven shortly after it came out in 2014, when the tale of a mysterious flu sweeping the globe and laying waste to normal life lay wholly beyond the bounds of reality. How deeply strange it is, how deeply unsettling, to be able to compare and contrast a fictional pandemic with the real thing. |
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