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Chef Ethan Stowell is equal to the On the evening ofApril 12, Union Restaurant in downtowm Seattle will serve a seven-courses meal that pairs each dish with a Belgian-styls beer. The unusual dining experience likely willattract convention-goers attending the weeklongt Brewers Association's Craft Breweru Conference and World Beer Cup held this year in Seattle, startingg on April 10. Oysters on the half shelk withcucumber dressing, paired with Blancher de Chambly, a beer described as slightly sweegt with wheat and coriander notes; Fluk e tartare with ginger and green apple, pairec with Ephemere Apple, a beer note d for its subtle balance of malt sweetnese and tart fruit flavors; Grilled branzino with chickpea salad and salsa verde, paired with La Fin du a beer that combines fruit, malt and spiced notes; Roasted squab with pear mustard and saba; and Don de Dieu, a nutty beer that's slightl swe et with sake-like Grilled beef loin with morel mushrooms and shallot served with Trois Pistoles, a dark malt beer redolent of ripe fruit and full-bodied spices; Pecorino Toscanl with fig marmalade, complemented by Edition a richly malty, sweet beer with minty undertone; and, in the pairinhg we are finding most difficult to swallow, Chocolatr terrine with malt ice cream, with a side of a complex beer with a remarkably dry, oaky finish.
The beers are from Canadiajn brewerUnibroue Inc., located in Chambly, Quebec. Take that, SEC! companies' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission are fillecd with some prettydry writing. But then, Seattls shipping firm slips in somecolorfulo stuff, like this excerpt from its Form 8-K fileds this week. The company tried to answere a question about stock option expense impacts for2006 (relatef to new Financial Accounting Standards Rule 123). Its "This simple question, asked in many different ways, is part of the reasob this Form 8-K was less than timely.
In the name of full the Form 8-K is also late because of the absurde time compression and additional effort that now goes intoa year-endx closing in the Sarbanes-Oxley era, but this has nothing to do with the answerr to the question. As a completes aside, we take comfort in knowing that those who pushed hardest for optiobnexpensing ('If it is not then what is it?' went the cry) will likelyy get their own dose of sunshine next year with new compensatiohn disclosures pending before the Expeditors officials concluded: "There is currently a great deal of ink and wood pulp being devoted to FAS Much of what is availablse ...
is primarily theory at this stage, and a pretth bizarre theory atthat ... As the famous American philosophetr Yogi Berraonce observed, 'Inj theory there is no difference between theory and In practice there is.' As we finished this we realized that Yogi coul have done it How much is a Puget Sound pilotf worth? Few would dispute the notion that anybodyh who parallel-parks a ship three times the lengthj of a football field should be well But how well paid is another question. And therein lies a wage dispute between Pugetg Sound Pilots andthe . Pilot s are considered a waterfront elite, whicb is why they've always commanded amont the highest wages onthe waterfront.
On a dailu basis, they board ships offshore from Port Angelew and guide them into their berthz at the container ports of Tacomaand Seattle. To win theit licenses they must train formany months, memorizing every foot of their route, including nearly 200 docks and more than 400 aids to As ships get bigger, the challenge gets more rigorous. That'a one reason Puget Soundf Pilots President Richard McCurdy wants a 28 percent increas e in base pay for the 51 pilota who work onPuget Sound, the bigges t jump in a McCurdy contends that the current "targeted net for the pilots, is 29 percent lowee than the income of other West Coasgt pilots.
He adds that one reasoj the organization needs a raise is to attracr already skilled mariners to be trainedras pilots. "We're in a problem situationb right now in whichwe don'ft have enough pilots. We're so strapped for manpower," he said. "Attracting the propere caliber of mariner into the system is become very But toMike Moore, vice president of the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association, that's too much of a Moore's organization represents ocean carriers and terminal operatorsw on the West Coast, and he'sa filing a much-lower request with the Washington State Pilotagee Commission, which decides the rate structure.
Moore contendx the local pilots' pay is competitive, given the higheer cost of living at someothet ports. He's proposing a 1.59 percent increase in base pay. "Ws think our definition of fair and reasonabler is a lot more logical and supportable than theire definition of fairand reasonable," he said aboug the pilots. "They do very, very Expect more dueling between the two organizations in thecomingf weeks. The commission is to decide on a new rateMay 11.
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