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This is one part of a two-part interview with Matt Lambert, Executive Chef and Co-Owner of The Musket Room about earning a Michelin Star and introducing New Zealands cuisine to NYC. Read the second part, where he curates NYCs top 6 restaurants.
Oceanic cuisine is unmistakably trending in New York City right now. In the last year, the media has shone a flattering spotlight on the multitude of cleanly designed, produce-led restaurants and cafes that are beginning to inhabit many of the citys streets. And The Musket Room, arguably New York Citys first foray into the finer side of modern New Zealand Cuisine has been lapping up its fair share of attention after having acquired a Michelin Star within only 4 months of opening.
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Matt Lambert, a proud New Zealander and executive chef of The Musket Room, started his restaurant career as a 14 year old dishwasher before finding his passion at Merediths, one of New Zealands most critically acclaimed restaurants. A move to NYC to perfect his art at some of NYCs highly lauded eateries including Saxon + Parole and Public was his biggest step towards a lifetime goal of earning a Michelin Star. Then, it took a passion for his countrymans cuisine, a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds for The Musket Room and an aligning of the Michelin stars to make his restaurant dream the reality it is today.
Up ahead is a conversation with Matt where he sheds some light on NZ cuisine and The Musket Rooms sophisticated take on it. He also shares his point of view on what the quintessential elements of NZ food are; how it felt the moment he garnered that coveted Michelin Star and his top 6 NYC restaurants.
Matt Lambert Executive Chef and Co-Owner of The Musket Room NYC
JENNY NGUYEN-BARRON: How would you describe modern NZ cuisine?
MATT LAMBERT: Modern New Zealand cuisine is really fresh and honest as opposed to years ago. Traditional Kiwi cooking takes after the classic British Isles style that settlers brought when they came to New Zealand, incorporating fresh ingredients available locally. I like to take what New Zealand dishes were and work on making them what they can be.
NGUYEN-BARRON: You received a Michelin Star just 4 months after opening Congratulations that mustve been a wonderful surprise! Can you tell me about the moment you found out?
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Theres a three-car crash on the Williamsburg bridge and emergency medical technicians are immediately deployed to the scene. They get on their radios to prepare emergency room nurses at the nearest hospital for the slew of wounded patients who are about to come in. The problem is, the sound quality is grainy: Should they expect three or four patients? Was that cut to the head or to the neck?
"Think of the static-heavy noisy environments these EMTs are in, says Crystal Law, a former EMT and CEO of Twiage. In addition to being limited to words alone--rather than pictures--half the time, the emergency rooms cant even understand the words that are being said.
Last year, Law decided to tackle this problem head on. At the Disrupting Medicine Hackathon sponsored by Brigham and Womens hospital, Law met Yi Ding Yu, a doctor who had similar frustrations with emergency communication, and John Rodley, a developer eager to use technology to solve medical problems. The outcome: Twiage, a platform that allows first responders to send tweet-like messages and pictures from their smartphones straight to the emergency room. Users live-update Twitter with a news event using videos, pictures, and words, says Yu. Why cant that same story be told for patient care by physicians and first responders? (While Twiage is inspired by Twitter, it is not affiliated with Twitter in any way.)
Twiage has already rolled out in beta at Cape Cod Hospital and it is expanding into five other Massachusetts hospital this year. In these early test cases, it has proven effective in streamlining communication and reducing misunderstandings, according to Yu. This system seems to work best when conveying straightforward, limited information, rather than complex patient dynamics. Paramedics have a standardized way of communicating patient details, says Yu. They explain the vital signs and they ask for what they need. Thats the most important part of a triage. She explains that this platform helps to communicate critical information quickly; first responders can explain more nuanced details in person later.
Twiage is web-based, so hospitals can just log in to see the streams of incoming triage information; EMTs, on their end, take pictures and send messages via the Twiage smartphone app. They are now rolling out a Google Glass version of Twiage smartphone app, with the added benefit of being hands-free. While you are trying to stabilize a patient, your hands are probably not free to operate a smartphone, says Yu. Google Glass allows you to voice-activate taking the pictures and sending messages.
No other triage platforms currently use photos; Rhode Island has a text messaging system and several telemedicine platforms offer video technologies, but Yu says not all cases need to be live-streamed to the emergency room doctor. Twiage allows paramedics to take short videos of relevant details, rather than steaming the entire episode. For instance, stroke victims sometimes have fleeting symptoms that later change; Twiage allows a first responder to capture a short episode so that the attending neurologist can make better decision treatments.
The Twiage team is now exploring other emergency scenarios where this technology could be useful. Twiage was designed to be incredibly lightweight and agile: were completely web and cloud-based, with no significant software installment, says Yu. Were just starting in emergency medicine, but we could expand to any other first responders, like those in fire departments, who could alert home base about how many alarms they should call.
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TORONTO -- Minor hockey players in Ontario are now able to choose a dressing room based on whether they see themselves as male or female following settlement of a human rights complaint against Hockey Canada.
The agreement, which also includes an educational component, is aimed at protecting young transgender players from discrimination and harassment.
Jesse Thompson, 17, of Oshawa, Ont., who filed the complaint in August last year, said he was pleased with the result.
"I just hope that kids can see this and know that they don't have to hide any more," Thompson told The Canadian Press.
"They can come out and play their sport that they love, and they don't have to stop playing it just because of how they are or who they are."
The new policy, which applies to all minor players in Ontario under the auspices of Hockey Canada, also calls for the organization to educate its trainers and coaches on discrimination and harassment as well as on gender identity and expression.
In addition, players are entitled to be addressed by their preferred name, as well as by the pronoun that corresponds to their self-identified gender.
For Thompson, an avid hockey player now in Grade 12, the issue became acute about four or five years ago when he hit puberty.
"I'm just a boy. I'm just like any other kid out there growing up. I'm just a teenager," he said.
"(But) once you get to a certain age, you are forced off into a different room, or basically a closet -- sometimes they didn't even have change rooms for girls."
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Ankeny, Iowa Rock Creek Elementary school in Ankeny is the districts newest addition. Roughly 600 students, pre kindergarten through 5th grade attend the districts 10th elementary school.
The school is located on the northwest side of town and is named after the nearby Rock Creek tributary where a one room school house sat in the late 1800s.
The district has come a long way since one room school houses. School leaders built the elementary school large enough to allow room for growth but they say that might not be enough.
We do have a lot of students but we have a little room to grow over the next few years before the school district starts thinking about their 11th elementary school as well, says Rock Creek Principal, Al Neppl.
The district anticipates building the 11th elementary school within the next two years.
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Sections of the Goergen Athletic Center (GAC) are closed this month for renovations to the upstairs weight room. The Fitness Center Improvement Project is scheduled to take place from Sept. 8 to Sept. 22 and will involve UR Facilities workers installing a new floor in the Bloch Fitness Center.
It became necessary to repair cracks in the concrete underneath the Fitness Center in the fall of 2013. A flyer available at the GAC front desk states that the damage was caused by a combination of an 80-year-old ceiling with large aggregate in the concrete, steam from the showers, and wear and tear from usage above the locker room ceilings, i.e. people dropping weights. The mens and womens locker rooms in the GAC are located directly beneath the Fitness Center.
GAC Associate Director Kristine Shanley said that the damage had become more obvious last fall when large pieces of concrete started falling from the locker room ceiling. A light fixture previously anchored in the ceiling had also fallen down. As a result, repairs to the concrete were made this past spring. Shanley said of the repairs, [UR Facilities] tapped out all of the loose pieces, patched it, and painted it overnight so we didnt have to close the locker rooms.
This falls renovations have been in the planning stages since last November. When asked why the gym couldnt have been renovated over the summer, Shanley explained that it took a long time to plan the project, design the new layout, organize the necessary funds, and have the new composite floor sections manufactured.
A new, thicker composite floor is being installed on top of the old one. Assistant Director of Facilities Operations Barry McHugh said that this will help pad the concrete under the weight room, an important consideration in a second-story gym. McHugh stated that the new floor weighs 36,000 pounds in total, so it will have to be installed in sections, but that he hopes to be finished before the projected completion date of Sept 22.
In the meantime, the gym closure has displaced some student athletes. Sophomore softball player and GAC employee Ix Chel Mendieta de la Torre said, For practice, we cant do lift, which is a part of our schedule. Mendieta de la Torre explained that she and the other members of the softball team have had to change their workout schedule while the gym is closed, focusing on cardio and body weight exercises instead of weight lifting.
Other teams who use the weight rooms will be affected as well, even those who use the adjacent varsity weight room instead of the Fitness Center. Although no renovations are being made to the varsity weight room, it will be rendered inaccessible by the closure of the Fitness Center.
This is a disruption, no doubt about it, Shanley said, but added that she has tried to help athletes work around the gyms hiatus. One of the things I tried to do was get out and talk to students whom I know [...] get out to our coaches and [...] explain what was happening.
Mendieta de la Torre said that as a student employee of the GAC, she has encountered some negative feedback about the project from gym patrons. Most are upset that the weight room will be closed, she said, but [she thinks] theyll be happy once its renovated.
The layout of the Fitness Center was changed once before, in November 2013, to alleviate the damage caused by dropping weights. Those changes included the addition of a core and stretching area, as well as the removal of some of the dumbbells and barbell racks. When the renovations are completed later this month, those items will be returned to the weight room, in addition to some new equipment.
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Another craft brewery tasting room opens in Torrance as The Dudes Brewing unveils a 13-tap bar with a weekend-long celebration.
The Dudes Brewing opened in 2013 and pint cans of the pungent Double Trunk Imperial IPA and nutty Grandmas Pecan brown ale rolled off the automated canning line and into major retailers across the Southland. But until now, the brewerys fans have had no place to belly-up to sample all of The Dudes brews in one spot. The self-professed "slackers" are "finally getting their act together" with the grand opening of the on-site tasting room Friday at 3 p.m.
In addition to the widespread canned offerings (Kolschtal Eddy is the third canned beer to be released by the brewery) and the draft-only brews, such as the Juicebox series of seasonal beers and the Southbay Session pale ale, the tasting room will feature one-off and experimental brews made on the brewerys pilot brewhouse. The grand opening will also serve as the premiere of a new IPA from the brewers known for their flavorful (and often high-test) beers.
The South Bay has grown into a hotbed of craft brewing in Los Angeles, and the opening of The Dudes tasting room is another stop on an already lengthy South Bay craft brew crawl that includes Smog City Brewery, Monkish Brewing, King Harbor Brewery and nearby Timeless Pints all providing craft ales to thirsty fans across L.A.
The opening weekend celebration runs through 10 p.m. Friday and from noon until 10 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and the brewery will offer cans and growlers to take home.
1840 W. 208th St., Torrance, (805) 660-5600,www.thedudesbrew.com.
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