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![Did you know the man on every KFC sign nearly died a penniless failure? Here’s the Daily’s story of how sheer stubbornness and a great recipe made Colonel Sanders an instantly recognizable chicken icon.
In 1955, at the age of 65, with no education, no connections, an aching body, a family to support, [Harland Sanders] had nothing except a burning need to start again — and only his $105 Social Security check to do it on.
And start again he did. A few indispensable assets had survived the loss of the Sanders Court and Café in Corbin, Ky., and they were put into play with all the brio he could muster. He had a beat-up pressure cooker; some bags of seasoned flour; an old car with his face painted on the side; and some paper goods with the same image. He had a ready line of patter, polished by his decades of desperate hustling, and he had his colonelcy as a powerful prop. The latter — an honorary title bestowed by Kentucky Gov. Ruby Laffoon in 1936 — was no great distinction. Laffoon could, and did, give it to anyone he wanted, for any reason. It was, in fact, just an oversize proclamation in ceremonial script. But the Colonel played his pseudomilitary role to the hilt, even going so far as to have his beard dyed white and wearing a preposterous planter’s suit to fit the image of a real Kentucky gentleman-soldier.
And — most important — he had a recipe for a kind of fried chicken that was both better and easier to make than any kind then known.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4qyxmwj6K1qf5y35o1_500.jpg)
Did you know the man on every KFC sign nearly died a penniless failure? Here’s the Daily’s story of how sheer stubbornness and a great recipe made Colonel Sanders an instantly recognizable chicken icon.
In 1955, at the age of 65, with no education, no connections, an aching body, a family to support, [Harland Sanders] had nothing except a burning need to start again — and only his $105 Social Security check to do it on.
And start again he did. A few indispensable assets had survived the loss of the Sanders Court and Café in Corbin, Ky., and they were put into play with all the brio he could muster. He had a beat-up pressure cooker; some bags of seasoned flour; an old car with his face painted on the side; and some paper goods with the same image. He had a ready line of patter, polished by his decades of desperate hustling, and he had his colonelcy as a powerful prop. The latter — an honorary title bestowed by Kentucky Gov. Ruby Laffoon in 1936 — was no great distinction. Laffoon could, and did, give it to anyone he wanted, for any reason. It was, in fact, just an oversize proclamation in ceremonial script. But the Colonel played his pseudomilitary role to the hilt, even going so far as to have his beard dyed white and wearing a preposterous planter’s suit to fit the image of a real Kentucky gentleman-soldier.
And — most important — he had a recipe for a kind of fried chicken that was both better and easier to make than any kind then known.
(via thedailyfeed)
Zuma in the nude… The Goodman Gallery in Johannesburg and the City Press newspaper displayed a Brett Murray painting of South African President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed, which has upset Zuma’s party, the African National Congress (ANC), and has divided public opinion in the country. Mr Zuma said he was “shocked, and felt personally offended and violated”. The painting triggered a defamation lawsuit by the ANC, and was vandalized on 22 May 2012.
Mr Zuma has often been the center of scandal and ridicule, due to his openly polygamous lifestyle with many wives and girlfriends, as well as the comments he made during his rape trial, which indicated a belief that taking a shower was sufficient protection against HIV after sex with a potentially infected woman. His lifestyle has made him the target of well-known cartoonist Zapiro, who frequently depicts Zuma wearing a shower-head, ridiculing the statements he made during his trial. Zapiro was also sued for defamation by the ANC, with a hearing expected in October 2012. These public perceptions of Zuma provided part of the basis for Brett Murray’s painting. Zapiro added fuel to the fire by doing his own version of the painting, replacing the genitals with a showerhead.
Live back in May!
Pictures from Back to the Future, a great project by Argentinian photographer Irina Werning.
I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… Two years ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future..
My closed Tesco supermarket has been closed until further notice because….
“of a serious live infestation of mice througout the premises, because of poor maintenance of routine cleaning, because of inadequate proofing against mice and DIRECT contamination of food items”,
as the city of Westminister puts it in this strong-worded warning at the door. Delicous and just what you expect when you enter a store of a supposedly reputable British supermarket chain in London’s posh Covent Garden district. Yet, Tesco has a record. But at least the animals in this Tesco branch are living and not as dead as the bird a Tesco customer found it his salad last November.
Renegade soldiers said they seized power in Mali on Thursday and ordered its borders closed, threatening to reignite instability in a Saharan region shaken by the conflict in Libya.
The overnight coup bid was led by low-ranking soldiers angry at the government’s failure to stamp out a two-month-old separatist rebellion in the north of the west African state.
Heavy weapons fire rang out throughout the night as the presidential palace came under attack. The whereabouts of President Amadou Toumani Toure, who oversaw a decade of relative stability, are unknown.
Mali’s neighbors, the United Nations and world powers from Paris to Washington called for a return to constitutional rule.
The 7,000-strong army has for weeks sought better weapons to fight northern Tuareg rebels bolstered by heavily armed ethnic allies who fled Libya after fighting for ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi.
What is it like to report for a Middle East-based news channel from America? Al Jazeera and the US? Indeed, those two don’t seem to go together all too well. Zeina Awad, co-host of Al Jazeera’s current affairs programme Fault Lines, came to the LSE to talk about her work as a critical journalist and the perception of her station in the United States of America. Listen to my report for POLIS/ News & Grooves here.
Picture: Flickr/Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
Thursday’s Show with a report on Al Jazeera in America and former Dragon’s Den James Caan. And great spring musique!
(via newsandgrooves)
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There is another state in the region that is embroiled in a crisis of democratic becoming. This is the State of Israel. For decades, its citizens—its Jewish ones, at least—have justifiably described their country as the only democracy in the Middle East. Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generation of David Ben-Gurion was never intended to be a replica of the Anglo-American model—its political culture, even now, is closer to that of the European social democracies—its structures of governance are points of pride. And yet, as an experiment in Jewish power, unique after two millennia of persecution and exile, Israel has reached an impasse. An intensifying conflict of values has put its democratic nature under tremendous stress. When the government speaks daily about the existential threat from Iran, and urges an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, it ignores the existential threat that looms within. Reactionary elements lurk in many democracies. Ask the Dutch, the British, the Austrians, the French. The Republican Party has flirted with several in this election cycle. But in Israel the threat is especially acute. And the concern comes not only from its most persistent critics. The former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert have both warned of a descent into apartheid, xenophobia, and isolation.
Biosphere - Poa Alpina
Biosphere - Poe Alpina
Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962 in Tromsø, Norway), a musician who has released a notable catalog of ambient electronic music. He is well known for his “ambient house” then “arctic ambient” styles, and his use of music loops and peculiar samples from sci-fi sources. His track “Novelty Waves” was used for the 1995 Levi’s ad campaign. His 1997 album Substrata is generally seen as one of the all-time classic ambient albums. Before launching Biosphere, Jenssen was a member of the Norwegian dream pop band Bel Canto. Bel Canto released records on the Belgium-based label Crammed Discs.
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