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Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum received quite a bit of criticism for calling President Obama a "snob" for suggesting people should go to college.
As reported by The Washington Post, Santorum, a conservative who has played up his working-class upbringing, said during a campaign stop in Troy, Mich.: "Not all folks are gifted in the same way. Some people have incredible gifts with their hands .... President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob."
The Post's Sandhya Somashekhar and David Nakamura wrote, "To some critics, this latest attack goes beyond his typical anti-elite rhetoric and flies in the face of what has long been drilled into American families: that a college education is the most certain path to a brighter future for students as well as the country."
In the president's defense, Obama said his higher education agenda includes helping people who do not attend traditional universities, the Post article said.
In an address Monday to the National Governors Association, Obama responded indirectly to Santorum with: "I'm not only talking about four-year degrees. I'm also talking about going to community college to get a degree for a manufacturing job where you have to walk through the door to handle a million-dollar piece of equipment."
Personally, I've been called a snob -- although that exact word wasn't used -- for going to college. While I was getting my degree at the University of Maryland, one relative said to me, "You think you so much better than us because you're in college." That hurt. There was no provocation for the comment. I hadn't bragged about getting a college degree nor looked down on that relative for her lack of a degree.
But I wonder whether by touting college as the only way to achieve success we aren't diminishing people who don't go to college?
I think Santorum was out of line for calling Obama a snob, but there is some truth in his trash-talking. There are folks right now looking for jobs who have years of excellent on-the-job training who can't get employment because they don't have a college degree. They are competing for those jobs with holders of college degrees, even though the former have more experience. It's as if all their work or training doesn't count for anything without a degree. For example, I know several people who worked for government contractors who started out in administrative positions and eventually moved up to management jobs before being laid off. Now they are having trouble finding a management position without a college degree.
When I suggest that students save money by attending a community college first and then transferring to a four-year, some people look at me funny. They seem to be implying that community colleges aren't good enough. They are being snobs. Just like with four-year schools, there are good and bad community colleges.
As the cost of college keeps rising, we need to explore ways for people to get affordable employment training so they can get good-paying jobs that allow them to raise a family, buy a home and save for retirement. For many, that may mean a college education. For others, it may not.
That's what I think. What about you? The Color of Money Question of the Week: Are we pushing college on people – who could wind up stuck with decades of debt -- because we think it's the only answer to the high life? Send your responses to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include your full name, city and state. Put "Are You a Snob?" in the subject line.
Extreme Job Interviewing
There were extreme home makeover shows and extreme weight loss programs, and now companies are putting job applicants through extreme job interviewing.
"No longer satisfied with sorting through résumés and screening applicants the traditional way, some companies are using offbeat interview techniques to test the mettle of job seekers," reports Tiffany Hsu in the Los Angeles Times.
For example, one company asked candidates for its internship program to apply via a series of 13 Twitter messages, which are limited to 140 characters per tweet.
As Hsu points out, with millions of people looking for work, employers have a lot of applicants to consider. "That gives the screening process heightened importance — firms have loads of qualified people to choose from, but a bad hire could hang around for years. Two candidates who look identical on paper and handle traditional interviews well may perform quite differently when pushed out of their comfort zone with extreme interviewing tactics."
I've got another question for you. Have you experienced extreme interviewing techniques recently? Send your responses to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include your full name, city and state. Put "Extreme Job Interviewing" in the subject line.
He Said, "I Don't" to a Bridezilla
In a recent online chat, Slate.com advice columnist Emily Yoffe responded to a reader who wanted to end his engagement. They guy said his fiancée had become an over-the-top diva or, in his words, "selfish, temperamental and materialistic," since they had begun planning their wedding.
He wrote: "My fiancée has turned into another woman. She expects her parents, who are approaching retirement, to bankroll most of the wedding, and she continually demands items that are beyond their means. She becomes very angry with me when we disagree on major decisions (like location, menu, the band) because this is her special day and she has been planning her dream wedding since childhood. She never behaved like this before our engagement, and a number of people have assured me it's the pressure of planning the wedding that's making her act this way. I don't think there's any excuse for her behavior and have decided to break our engagement."
Yoffe's response: "We so rarely hear what the groom ends up thinking when he watches his betrothed turn into a termagant. I love the excuses that get offered for this behavior. If the pressure of planning a party destroys one's equanimity and perspective, real life is going to be completely disabling."
Yoffe told the guy that he should put off the wedding planning and get some counseling. "If she simply freaks out, then the kindest thing to say is the simplest: 'Courtney, I love you, but I don't love what's happening between us. We need to stop wedding planning, because the wedding is off.'"
That's spot-on advice. If something like this comes up while you're preparing for your wedding, don't ignore it. Planning a wedding shouldn't turn you into a shrew.
The Wealthy Want More
A survey by psychologists at the University of California at Berkeley found that people who consider themselves financially better off are more likely to lie and cheat compared with those who are not, reports Amanda Gardner of Health.com.
"Elevated wealth status seems to make you want even more, and that increased want leads you to bend the rules or break the rules to serve your self-interest," said Paul Piff, the lead author of the study and a doctoral candidate in psychology at the university.
The findings, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, were drawn from seven separate experiments that together included more than 1,000 people.
"We're not saying you should distrust the rich, or the rich are corrupt," said Piff. "Instead, this highlights the disparities in social environments -- that different positions occupied give rise to almost natural tendencies and divergent social values."
However, Robert Gore, an associate professor of psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco, pointed out in the article that class, status and ethics are all slippery concepts that are difficult to pin down in experiments. Gore said: "This study really shows that people who identify as in a higher social class are more likely to admit unethical behavior. It's not clear whether they actually behave worse or just claim to."
Responses to "Charging for Detention"
Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago charges students for detention. The Associated Press reported that students at the network's 10 high schools pay $5 every time they are sent to detention for infractions that even include chewing gum and having untied shoelaces.
For last week's Color of Money Question, I asked: "Do you think it's a good policy to charge students for detention?"
Michael Bader of Denver thought the detention tax was a great idea. "I find it interesting that rather than see to it that their kids tie their shoes or button their clothing, the people would rather use the 'class card' when in reality these are the kids that most need to understand how to live in society."
Most others who responded disagreed.
"The charging for detention rule is absolutely appalling," wrote Allison Schentrup of San Francisco. "First, let's address the fact that an 8-year-old does not make any money, so the $5 fee they are forced to pay is right out of their parent's pocket (hence arguably more of a punishment for the parent than the student). Second, the model may follow parking tickets, but not much else in the way of 'real life' circumstances, which means the students are not being adequately prepared for adulthood."
Tiffany L. of Alexandria, La., wrote: "This policy teaches children that their parents can 'pay' their way out of trouble. What kind of message is that for a child?"
"I thought that detention itself served that purpose," said Chris Oberlin of Bethesda. "The fact that the Noble Network of Charter Schools collected almost $190,000 in fees at its 10 high schools suggests the possibility that this has less to do with turning kids into upstanding citizens and more to do with being an additional revenue stream."
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One raw, foggy evening, early in the
following December, the house at Newlands presented
an unusually animated scene. On the gravel of
the carriage-sweep, without, grooms walked breathed
and sweating horses the steam from whose
bodies and nostrils showed white in the chill dusk slowly
up and down. In the hall, within, a number of
gentlemen, more or less mud-bespattered, regaled themselves
with cheerful conversation, with strong waters of
unexceptionable quality, and with their host, Mr.
Cathcart's very excellent cigars. They moved
stiffly and stood in attitudes more professional than
elegant. The long, clear-coloured drawing-room
beyond offered a perspective of much amiable comfort.
The glazed surfaces of its flowery-patterned chintzes
gave back the brightness of candles and shaded lamps,
while drawn curtains shut out the somewhat mournful
prospect of sodden garden, bare trees, and gray, enshrouding
mist. At the tea-table, large, mild, reposeful,
clothed in wealth of black silk and black lace, was
Mrs. Cathcart. Lord Fallowfeild, his handsome,
infantile countenance beaming with good-nature and
good-health above his blue-and-white, bird's-eye
stock and scarlet hunting-coat, sat by her discoursing
with great affability and at great length. Mary
Ormiston stood near them, an expression of kindly
diversion upon her face. Her figure had grown
somewhat matronly in these days, and there were lines
in her forehead and about the corners of her rather
large mouth, but her crisp hair was still untouched
by gray, her bright, gipsy-like complexion had retained
its freshness, she possessed the same effect of wholesomeness
and good sense as of old, while her honest, brown
eyes were soft with satisfied mother-love as they
met those of the slender, black-headed boy at her
side. Godfrey Ormiston was in his second
term at Eton, and had come to Newlands to-day for
his exeat. The little party was completed
by Lord Shotover, who stood before the fire warming
that part of his person which by the lay mind, unversed
in such mysteries, might have been judged to be already
more than sufficiently warmed by the saddle, his feet
planted far apart and a long glass of brandy and soda
in his hand. For this last he had offered good-tempered
"I know I've no business
to bring it in here, Mrs. Cathcart," he said,
"and make your drawing-room smell like a pot-house.
But, you see, there was a positive stampede for the
hearth-rug in the hall. A modest man, such as
myself, hadn't a chance. There's a
regular rampart, half the county in fact, before that
fire. So I thought I'd just slope in here,
don't you know? It looked awfully warm and
inviting. And then I wanted to pay my respects
to Mrs. Ormiston too, and talk to this young chap
about Eton in peace."
Whereat Godfrey flushed up to the
roots of his hair, being very sensibly exalted.
Since what young male creature who knew anything really
worth knowing that was Godfrey's way
of putting it at least did not know that
Lord Shotover had been a mighty sportsman from his
youth up, and upon a certain famous occasion had won
the Grand National on his own horse?
"Only tea for me, Mrs. Cathcart,"
Lord Fallowfeild was saying. "Capital thing
tea. Never touch spirits in the daytime and never
have. No reflection upon other men's habits." He
turned an admiring, fatherly glance upon the tall,
well-made Shotover. "Other men know
their own business best. Always have been a great
advocate for believing every man knows his own business
best. Still stick to my own habits. Like
to be consistent. Very steadying, sobering thing
to be consistent, very strengthening to the character.
Always have told all my children that. As you
begin, so you shall go on. Always have tried to
begin as I was going on. Haven't always
succeeded, but have made an honest effort. And
it is something, you know, to make an honest effort.
Try to bear that in mind, you young gentleman," this,
genially, to Godfrey Ormiston. "Not half
a bad rule to start in life with, to go on as you begin,
you know."
"Always provided you start right,
you know, my dear fellow," Shotover observed,
patting the boy's shoulder with his disengaged
hand, and looking at the boy's mother with a
humorous suggestion of self-depreciation. Now,
as formerly, he entertained the very friendliest sentiments
towards all good women, yet maintained an expensively
extensive acquaintance with women to whom that adjective
is not generically applicable.
But Lord Fallowfeild was fairly under
weigh. Words flowed from him, careless of comment
or of interruption. He was innocently and conspicuously
happy. He had enjoyed a fine day's sport
in company with his favourite son, whose financial
embarrassments were not, it may be added, just now
in a critical condition. And then, access of material
prosperity had recently come to Lord Fallowfeild in
the shape of a considerable coal-producing property
in the North of Midlandshire. The income derived
from this amounting to from ten to twelve
thousand a year was payable to him during
his lifetime, with remainder, on trust, in equal shares
to all his children. There were good horses in
the Whitney stables now, and no question of making
shift to let the house in Belgrave Square for the
season, while the amiable nobleman's banking-account
showed a far from despicable balance. And consciousness
of this last fact formed an agreeable undercurrent
to his every thought. Therefore was he even more
than usually garrulous according to his own kindly
and innocent fashion.
"Very hospitable and friendly
of you and Cathcart, to be sure," he continued,
"to throw open your house in this way. Kindness
alike to man and beast, man and beast, for which my
son and I are naturally very grateful."
Lord Shotover looked at Mary again,
smiling. "Little mixed that statement,
isn't it," he said, "unless we take
for granted that I'm the beast?"
"I was a good deal perplexed,
I own, Mrs. Cathcart, as to how we should get home
without giving the horses a rest and having them gruelled.
Fourteen miles "
"A precious long fourteen too," put in
"So it is," his father
agreed, "a long fourteen. And my horse was
pumped, regularly pumped. I can't bear to
see a horse as done as that. It distresses me,
downright distresses me. Hate to over-press a
horse. Hate to over-press anything that can't
stand up to you and take its revenge on you.
Always feel ashamed of myself if I've over-pressed
a horse. But I hadn't reckoned on the distance."
"'The pace was too hot to inquire,'"
quoted Shotover.
"So it was. Meeting at
Grimshott, you see, we very rarely kill so far on
this side of the country."
"Breaking just where he did,
I'd have bet on that fox doubling back under
Talepenny wood and making across the vale for the earths
in the big Brockhurst warren," Lord Shotover
"Would you, though?" said
his father. "Very reasonable forecast, very
reasonable, indeed. Quite the likeliest thing
for him to do, only he didn't do it. Don't
believe that fox belonged to this side of the country
at all. Don't understand his tactics.
If it had been in my poor friend Denier's time,
I might have suspected him of being a bagman."
Lord Fallowfeild chuckled a little.
"Ran too straight for a bagman,"
Shotover remarked. "Well, he gave us a
rattling good spin whose-ever fox he was."
"Didn't he, though?"
said Lord Fallowfeild genially. He turned
sideways in his chair, threw one shapely leg across
the other, and addressed himself more exclusively
to his hostess. "Haven't had such
a day for years," he continued. "And
a very pleasant thing to have such a day just when
my son's down with me very pleasant,
indeed. It reminds me of my poor, dear friend
Henniker's time. Good fellow, Henniker.
I liked Henniker. Never had a better master than
Tom Henniker, very tactful, nice-feeling man, and
had such an excellent manner with the farmers
Ah! here's Cathcart and Knott.
How d'ye do, Knott? Always glad to see
you. Very pleasant meeting such a number
of friends. Very pleasant ending to a pleasant
day, eh, Shotover? Mrs. Cathcart and I were just
speaking of poor Tom Henniker. You used to hunt
then, Cathcart. Do you remember a run, just about
this time of year? It may have been a little
earlier. I tell you why. It was the second
time the hounds met after my poor friend Aldborough's
"Lord Aldborough died on the
twenty-seventh of October," John Knott said.
The doctor limped in walking. He suffered a sharp
twinge of sciatica and his face lent itself to astonishing
"Plain man, Knott," Lord
Fallowfeild commented inwardly. "Monstrously
able fellow, but uncommonly plain. So's
Cathcart for that matter. Well-dressed man and
very well-preserved as to figure, but remarkably like
an ourang-outang now his eyes are sunk and his eyebrows
have grown so tufty." Then he glanced
anxiously at Lord Shotover to assure himself of the
entire absence of simian approximations in the case
of his own family. "Oh! ah! yes,"
he remarked aloud, and somewhat vaguely. "Quite
right, Knott. Then of course it was earlier.
Record run for that season. Seldom had a better.
We found a fox in the Grimshott gorse and ran to Water
End without a check."
"And Lemuel Image got into the
Tilney brook," Mary Ormiston said, laughing
a little.
"So he did though!" Lord
Fallowfeild rejoined, beaming. And then suddenly
his complacency suffered eclipse. For, looking
at the speaker, he became disagreeably aware of having,
on some occasion, said something highly inconvenient
concerning this lady to one of her near relations.
He rushed into speech again: "Loud-voiced,
blustering kind of fellow, Image. I never have
liked Image. Extraordinary marriage that of his
with a connection of poor Aldborough's.
Never have understood how her people could allow it."
"Oh! money'll buy pretty
well everything in this world except brains and a
sound liver," Dr. Knott said, as he lowered himself
cautiously on to the seat of the highest chair available.
"Or a good conscience,"
Mrs. Cathcart observed, with mild dogmatism.
"I am not altogether so sure
about that," the doctor answered. "I
have known the doubling of a few charitable subscriptions
work extensive cures under that head. Depend
upon it there's an immense deal more conscience-money
paid every year than ever finds its way into the coffers
of the Chancellor of the Exchequer."
"So there is though!"
said Lord Fallowfeild, with an air of regretful conviction.
"Never put it as clearly as that myself, Knott,
but must own I am afraid there is."
Mr. Cathcart, who had joined Lord
Shotover upon the hearth-rug, here intervened.
He had a tendency to air local grievances, especially
in the presence of his existing noble guest, whom
he regarded, not wholly without reason, as somewhat
lukewarm and dilatory in questions of reform.
"I own to sharing your dislike
of Image," he remarked. "He behaved
in an anything but straightforward manner about the
site for the new cottage hospital at Parson's
"Did he, though?" said Lord Fallowfeild.
"Yes. I supposed it had been brought
to your notice."
Lord Fallowfeild fidgeted a little. "Rather
too downright, Cathcart," he said to himself.
"Gets you into a corner and fixes you. Not
fair, not at all fair in general society. Oh!
ah! cottage hospital, yes," he added
aloud. "Very tiresome, vexatious business
about that hospital. I felt it very much at the
"It was a regular job," Mr. Cathcart continued.
"No, not a job, not a job, my
dear fellow. Unpleasant word job. Nothing
approaching a job, only an oversight, at most an unfortunate
error of judgment," Lord Fallowfeild protested. He
glanced at his son inviting support, but that gentleman
was engaged in kindly conversation with bright-eyed,
little Godfrey Ormiston. He glanced at Mary remembered
suddenly that his unfortunate remark regarding that
lady had been connected with her resemblance to her
father, and the latter's striking defect of
personal beauty. He glanced at the doctor.
But John Knott sat all hunched together, watching
him with an expression rather sardonic than sympathetic.
"There was culpable negligence
somewhere, in any case," his persecutor, Mr.
Cathcart, went on. "It was obvious Image
pressed that bit of land at Waters End on the committee
simply because no one would buy it for building purposes.
His affectation of generosity as to price was a piece
of transparent hypocrisy."
"I suppose it was," Lord Fallowfeild agreed
"A certain anonymous donor had
promised a second five hundred pounds, if the hospital
was built on high ground with a subsoil of gravel."
"It is on gravel," put
in Lord Fallowfeild anxiously. "Saw it
myself distinctly remember seeing gravel
when the heather had been pared before digging the
foundations bright yellow gravel."
"Yes, and with a ten-foot bed
of blue clay underneath. Most dangerous soil
going," this from Dr. Knott, grimly.
"Is it, though?" Lord
Fallowfeild inquired, with an amiable effort to welcome
unpalatable, geological information.
"Not a doubt of it. The
surface water and generally the sewage for
we are very far yet from having discovered a drain-pipe
which is impeccable in respect of leakage soak
through the porous cap down to the clay and lie there to
rise again not at the Last Day by any means, but on
the evening of the very first one that's been
hot enough to cause evaporation."
"Do they, though?" said
Lord Fallowfeild. He was greatly impressed. "Capable
fellow, Knott, wonderful thing science," he
commented inwardly and with praiseworthy humility.
But Mr. Cathcart returned to the charge.
"The hospital was disastrously
the loser, in any case," he remarked. "As
a matter of course, the conditions having been disregarded,
Lady Calmady withdrew her promise of a second donation."
"Oh! ah! Lady Calmady,
really!" the simple-minded nobleman exclaimed.
"Very interesting piece of news and very generous
intention, no doubt, on the part of Lady Calmady.
But give you my word Cathcart that until this moment
I had no notion that the anonymous donor of whom we
heard so much from one or two members of the committee heard
too much, I thought, for I dislike mysteries foolish,
unprofitable things mysteries always turn
out to be nothing at all in the finish oh!
ah! yes well, that the anonymous donor
was Lady Calmady!"
And thereupon he shifted his position
with as much assumption of hauteur as his inherent
amiability permitted. He turned his chair sideways,
presenting an excellently flat, if somewhat broad,
scarlet-clad back to his persecutor upon the hearth-rug. "Sorry
to set a man down in his own house," he said
to himself, "but Cathcart's a little wanting
in taste sometimes. He presses a subject home
too closely. And, if I was bamboozled by Image,
it really isn't Cathcart's place to remind
me of it."
He turned a worried and puckered countenance
upon his hostess, upon Dr. Knott, upon the drawing-room
door. In the hall beyond one or two guests still
lingered. A lady had just joined them, notably
straight and tall, and lazily graceful of movement.
Lord Fallowfeild knew her, but could not remember
her name.
"Oh! ah! Shotover,"
he said, over his shoulder, "I don't want
to hurry you, my dear boy, but perhaps it would be
as well if you'd just go round to the stables
and take a look at the horses."
Then, as the gentleman addressed moved
away, escorted by his host and followed in admiring
silence by Godfrey Ormiston, he repeated, almost querulously: "Foolish
things mysteries. Nothing in them, as a rule,
when you thrash them out. Mares' nests generally.
And that reminds me, I hear young" Lord
Fallowfeild's air of worry became accentuated "young
Calmady's got home again at last."
"Yes," Mrs. Cathcart said,
"Richard and his mother have been at Brockhurst
nearly a month."
"Have they, though?" exclaimed
Lord Fallowfeild. He fidgeted. "It's
a painful subject to refer to, but I should be glad
to know the truth of these nasty, uncomfortable rumours
about young Calmady. You see there was that question
of his and my youngest daughter's marriage.
I never approved. Shotover backed me up in it.
He didn't approve either. And in the end
Calmady behaved in a very high-minded, straightforward
manner. Came to me himself and exhibited very
good sense and very proper feeling, did Calmady.
Admitted his own disabilities with extraordinary frankness,
too much frankness, I was inclined to think at the
time. It struck me as a trifle callous, don't
you know. But afterwards, when he left home in
that singular manner and went abroad, and we all lost
sight of him, and heard how reckless he had become
and all that, it weighed on me. I give you my
word, Mrs. Cathcart, it weighed very much on me.
I've seldom been more upset by anything in my
life than I was by the whole affair of that wedding."
"I am afraid it was a great
mistake throughout," Mrs. Cathcart said.
She folded her plump, white hands upon her ample lap
and sighed gently.
"Wasn't it, though?
So I told everybody from the start you know,"
commented Lord Fallowfeild.
"It caused a great deal of unhappiness."
"So it did, so it did,"
the good man said, quite humbly. He looked crestfallen,
his kindly and well-favoured countenance being overspread
by an expression of disarmingly innocent penitence. "It
weighed on me. I should be glad to be able to
forget it, but now it's all cropping up again.
You see there are these rumours that poor, young Calmady's
gone under very much one way and another, that his
health's broken up altogether, and that he is
shut up in two rooms at Brockhurst because it's
a terribly distressing thing to mention, but that's
the common talk, you know because he's
a little touched here" the speaker
tapped his smooth and very candid forehead "a
little wrong here! Horrible thing insanity,"
he repeated.
At this point Dr. Knott, who had been
watching first one person present and then another
from under his shaggy eyebrows with an air of somewhat
harsh amusement, roused himself.
"Pardon me, all a pack of lies,
my lord," he said, "and stupid ones into
the bargain. Sir Richard Calmady's as sane
as you are yourself."
"Is he, though?" the other
exclaimed, brightening sensibly. "Thank
you, Knott. It is a very great relief to me to
hear that."
"Only a man with a remarkably
sound constitution could have pulled round. I
quite own he's been very hard hit, and no wonder.
Typhoid and complications "
"Ah! complications?" inquired
Lord Fallowfeild, who rarely let slip an opportunity
of acquiring information of a pathological description.
"Yes, complications. Of
the sort that are most difficult to deal with, emotional
and moral beginning with his engagement
to Lady Constance "
"Oh, dear me!" this,
piteously, from that lady's father.
"And ending his Satanic
Majesty knows where! I don't. It's
no concern of mine, nor of any one else's in
my opinion. He has paid his footing every
man has to pay it, sooner or later to life
and experience, and personal acquaintance with the
thou shalt not which, for cause unknown, goes
for so almighty much in this very queer business of
human existence. He has had a rough time, never
doubt that, with his high-strung, arrogant, sensitive
nature and the dirty trick played on him by that heartless
jade, Dame Fortune, before his birth. For the
time, this illness had knocked the wind out of him.
If he sulks for a bit, small blame to him. But
he'll come round. He is coming round day
by day."
As he finished speaking the doctor
got on to his feet somewhat awkwardly. His subject
had affected him more deeply than he quite cared either
to own to himself or to have others see.
"That plaguy sciatic nerve again!" he
Lord Fallowfeild had risen also. "Capable
man, Knott, but rather rough at times, rather too
didactic," he said to himself, as he turned to
greet Miss St. Quentin. She had strolled in from
the hall. Her charming face was full of merriment.
There was something altogether gallant in the carriage
of her small head.
"I was so awfully glad to see
Lord Shotover!" she said, as she gave her hand
to that gentleman's father. "It's
an age since he and I have met."
"Very pleasant hearing, my dear
young lady, for Shotover, if he was here to hear it!
Lucky fellow, Shotover." The kindly
nobleman beamed upon her. He was nothing if not
chivalrous. Mentally, all the same, he was much
perplexed. "Of course, I remember who she
is. But I understood it was Ludovic," he
said to himself. "Made sure it was Ludovic.
Uncommonly attractive, high-bred woman. Very striking
looking pair, she and Shotover. Can't fancy
Shotover settled though. Say she's a lot
of money. Wonder whether it is Shotover? Uncommonly
fine run, best run we've had for years,"
he added aloud. "Pity you weren't
out, Miss St. Quentin. Well, good-bye,
Mrs. Cathcart. I must be going. I am extremely
grateful for all your kindness and hospitality.
It is seldom I have the chance of meeting so many
friends this side of the country. Good-day
to you, Knott goodbye, Miss St. Quentin. Wonder
if I'd better ask her to Whitney," he
thought, "on the chance of its being Shotover?
Better sound him first though. Never let a man
in for a woman unless you've very good reason
to suppose he wants her."
Honoria, meanwhile, thrusting her
hands into the pockets of her long, fur-lined, tan,
cloth, driving-coat sat down on the arm of Mary Ormiston's
flowery-patterned, chintz-covered chair.
"I left you all in a state of
holy peace and quiet," she said, smiling, "and
a fine show you've got on hand by the time I
come back."
"They ran across the ten-acre
field and killed in the shrubbery," Mrs. Ormiston
put in.
John Knott limped forward. He
stood with his hands behind him looking down at the
two ladies. Some months had elapsed since he and
Miss St. Quentin had met. He was very fond of
the young lady. It interested him to meet her
again. Honoria glanced up at him smiling.
"Have you been out too?" she asked.
"Not a bit of it. I'm
too busy mending other people's brittle anatomy
to have time to risk breaking any part of my own.
I'm ugly enough already. No need to make
me uglier. I came here for the express purpose
of calling on you."
"You saw Katherine?" Mary asked.
"Oh yes! I saw Cousin Katherine."
"How is she?"
"An embodiment of faith, hope,
and charity, as usual, but with just that pinch of
malice thrown in which gives the compound a flavour.
In short, she is enchanting. And then she looks
so admirably well."
"That six months at sea was a great restorative,"
Mary remarked.
"Yet it really is rather wonderful
when you consider the state she was in before we went
to you at Ormiston, and how frightened we were at her
undertaking the journey to Naples."
"Her affections are satisfied,"
Dr. Knott said, and his loose lips worked into a smile,
half sneering, half tender. "I am an old
man, and I have had a good lot to do with women at
second hand. Feed their hearts, and the rest
of the mechanism runs easy enough. Anything short
of organic disease can be cured by that sort of nourishment.
Even organic disease can be arrested by it. And
what's more, I have known disease develop in
an apparently perfectly healthy subject simply because
the heart was starved. Oh! I tell you, you're
marvelous beings."
"And yet you know I feel so
abominably sold," Honoria declared, "when
I consider the way in which we all Roger,
Mr. Quayle, and I acted bodyguard, attended
Cousin Katherine to Naples, wrapped her in cotton
wool, dear thing, sternly determined to protect her
at all costs and all hazards from well,
I am ashamed to say I had no name bad enough at that
time for Richard Calmady! And then this very person,
whom we regarded as her probable destruction, proves
to be her absolute salvation, while she proceeds to
turn the tables upon us in the smartest fashion imaginable.
She showed us the door and entreated us, in the most
beguiling manner, to return whence we came and leave
her wholly at the mercy of the enemy. I was furious" Miss
St. Quentin laughed "downright furious!
And Roger's temper, for all his high-mightiness,
was a thing to swear at, rather than swear by, the
morning he and I left Naples. With the greatest
difficulty we persuaded her even to keep Clara.
She had a rage, dear thing, for getting rid of the
lot of us. Oh! we had a royal skirmish and no
"So Roger told me."
Honoria stretched herself a little,
lolled against the back of the chair, steadying herself
by laying one hand affectionately on the other woman's
shoulder. And John Knott, observing her, noted
not only her nonchalant and almost boyish grace, but
a swift change in her humour from light-hearted laughter
to a certain, and as he fancied, half-unwilling enthusiasm.
"But to-day," she went
on, "when Cousin Katherine told me about it,
I confess the whole situation laid hold of me.
I could not help seeing it must have been finely romantic
to go off like that those two alone caring
as she cares, and after the long separation. It
sounds like a thing in some Elizabethan ballad.
There's a rhythm in it all which stirs one's
blood. She says the yacht's crew were delightful
to her, and treated her as a queen. One can fancy
that the stately, lovely queen-mother,
and that strange only son! They called in
at the North African ports, and at Gib and Madeira,
and the Cape de Verds, and then ran straight for Rio.
Then they steamed up the coast to Pernambuco, and
on to the West Indies. Richard never went ashore,
Cousin Katherine only once or twice. But they
squattered about in the everlasting summer of tropic
harbours, fringed with palms and low, dim, red-roofed,
tropic houses just sampled it all, the colour,
and light, and beauty, and far awayness of it and
then, when the fancy took them, got up steam and slipped
out again to sea. And the name of the yacht is
the Reprieve. That's in the picture,
isn't it?"
Honoria paused. She leaned forward,
her chin in her hands, her elbows on her knees.
She looked up at John Knott, and there was a singular
expression in her clear and serious eyes.
"I used to pity Cousin Katherine,"
she said. "I used to break my heart over
her. And now now, upon my word, I believe
I envy her. And see here, Dr. Knott, she
has asked me to go on to Brockhurst from here.
It seems that though Richard refuses to see any one,
except you of course, and Julius March, he fusses
at his mother being so much alone. What ought
I to do? I feel rather uncertain. I have
fought him, I own I have. We have never been
friends, he and I. He doesn't like me. He's
no reason to like me anything but!
What do you say? Shall I refuse or shall I go?"
And the doctor reflected a little,
drawing his great, square hand down over his mouth
and heavy, bristly chin.
"Yes, go," he answered.
"Go and chance it. Your being at Brockhurst
may work out in more of good than we now know."


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Later this month, BC Place will be host to the 2012 CONCACAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. For many players on the team, this won't be the first time playing in front of fans in Vancouver, as the squad includes 14 former members of Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Over the next two weeks, whitecapsfc.com will be profiling each of these players as we get set to support our fantastic Canadian women!
In recent months, sports fans have been in awe of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow. It's hard not to be impressed by his integrity, positive attitude, contributions to the community and no-nonsense approach off the field, and his determination and dedication on it – especially in today's sports world.
Tebow, however, isn't the only University of Florida alumnus to possess these humble qualities.
For the past decade, Melanie Booth has quietly been among the most consistent performers on the Canadian women's national team. You're excused if you haven't noticed; Booth tends not to make a big deal of things, that's just not her style.
Take 2007, for example, when Booth – an All-American defender – returned to her University of Florida Gators squad after missing the first part of the season to play with Canada at the FIFA Women's World Cup. As she entered the team bus and saw her teammates for the first time since the World Cup, the whole team began chanting her name.
"I didn't want to walk on the bus," Booth told the Gainesville Sun. "I get embarrassed by things like [that]."
"She was just like, 'Come on guys, I'm not that big a deal'," added former teammate KeLeigh Hudson. "But it was for us."
Booth met Tebow during her collegiate days at Florida. She says that his nice-guy image is no ploy, what you see is what you get. That genuine spirit has helped Tebow bring the best out of his teammates.
The same can be said for Booth.
"[It's] not only the fact that she's an amazing player, but it's her attitude," said former Gators teammate Daniela Sanchez. "The atmosphere just feels a lot better with her [around]."
Her attitude has helped bring great success to the teams that she's played on. In 2002, she played every minute for the Canadian team that made the final of the inaugural FIFA U-19 Women's World Championship here in Canada. And in 2010, she was a key contributor to the Whitecaps FC squad that made the W-League championship game, scoring a goal in the semi-finals.
So as you watch Canada take the field in quest for an Olympic berth, it should not be hard to cheer for Melanie Booth.
Just try not to embarrass her too much.
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Or, you know, the jeans.
What got me thinking today was word of a new study suggesting that one of the reasons we birds of a feather flock together could be more than a common interest in flying south. It turns out, there's often genetic similarity in the folks we choose as friends. As in: we may be genetically predisposed to like the stuff we like — and choose our friends accordingly — a phenomenon that keeps us trapped in our own private "us group".
Clearly, this can't always end well.
In the study, published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors addressed the fact that people disposed to alcoholism befriend folks who like to drink. Not a surprise: you like to throw down a few cocktails, you tend to hang out with those who like them, too. But here's the interesting thing. Apart from the social behavior, when the researchers analyzed genetic traits, they found that long before the future drinkers even began to raid their parent's liquor cabinet, they tended to choose friends who shared the same genetic predisposition:
For example, a person with a genotype that makes her susceptible to alcoholism may be directly influenced to drink. However, she may also be indirectly influenced to drink because she chooses friends with the same genotype (homophily)who are more likely to make alcohol available to her.
Okay, words like genotype and homophily make us want to reach for the Pinot. So let's go over to Time.com, which referred to the phenomenon as "Friends with (Genetic) Benefits." In that post, James Fowler, one of the study's authors, told Time that we might choose our friends not only because we share the same interests — but because we might have some similar DNA:
The [genetic link to alcoholism] makes sense, says Fowler, since it's true that "if I'm more impulsive, I might choose to be with friends with others who are more impulsive." Another way that such a gene might affect friendship is that impulsive people might be drawn to the same types of environments—for example, amusement parks— and tend to make friends with others they find there. Not surprisingly, a kid who sneaks beer and cigarettes in the high school parking lot and drag races on weekends is unlikely to befriend the guy who spends all his time with the chess club.
Not surprising, right? But, says Fowler:
"There can be a feedback effect. We know that [this gene] shows an association with alcoholism. Now the evidence here is that if you have this gene, your friends are more likely to have it. You're not only susceptible biologically to this behavior, you're also more likely to be surrounded by people who are susceptible to this behavior."
And there you go. You're destined to drink too much, you gravitate towards those eventually who will, too. Next thing you know, Leaving Las Vegas. But let's leave the lab (and the bar) behind and extrapolate a little, about what happens when we're stuck in bubbles of our own making. Genomes notwithstanding, unless we watch out, do we still surround ourselves with those who like what we like, drink what we drink, and dress like we do? You get the picture. Skinny jeans, anyone? Yes, please.
In a way, this bubble business smacks of the tyranny of the echo chamber, which can be its own kind of trap. We wrote about this before, riffing on a piece in Marie Claire by Lori Gottlieb (of "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough" fame) that suggested that girlfriends often serve as one another's "yes women". Our point was this: When we surround ourselves with people like us, such as those likely to tell us what we want to hear, can we ever really figure out for ourselves what we want to do with our lives (or for that matter, even what to wear to class?) As we wrote last summer:
We know we all do it: seek out certain company for certain dilemmas. Beau's pissing you off? Call your resplendently single pal or the one who never liked him. Uncertain over whether to wed? Call in the smug marrieds. Want to quit your job even though you have no prospects? Call the pal who's done it. You get the point: We can't get past the temptation to surround ourselves with those willing to preach to our own private choir.
As we wrote before, where it all gets dicey is when our bubble, like the echo chamber, becomes the norm. When we are surrounded by folks who are just like us, who think like us, who dress like us, and who tell us what we want to hear, how hard is it to make a decision that doesn't follow what's predesigned, that doesn't conform — and to be happy with that decision if we do? Are we ever able to trust our gut? Break from the pack?
Which leads us back to that genome study. I'm not sure that I buy this stuff about our friendships — and our behavior — being completely predetermined by our DNA. But I do know this. When we're stuck in a bubble, of our own making or not, it's pretty hard to figure out for ourselves who we really are, what we want to do with our lives (we wrote a whole book about this) or even what we wear. Yep, most days you'll find me in my skinny jeans. But what I really like are my flares.


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(CNN) -- The saga of Lance Armstrong raises a lot of unsettling questions about the culture of sports. A recent report garnered nearly 5,000 comments.
"Our favorite sport is 'rush to judgment,' " wrote reader JCDavis, echoing the sentiments of many who said they didn't feel confident that the International Cycling Union had proper evidence to strip Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles.
But others, such as LarryRollins, say they are no longer interested in watching the competition because "they are all cheating" and "we might as well be watching robots pedal up mountains in France."
The 41-year-old cyclist's cancer fight helped focus attention on his Livestrong cancer charity and its iconic yellow bracelets, bringing even more dimension to the story.
Allegations of doping have long dogged Armstrong, who has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
Here's a look at some of the questions readers brought up:
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Now that you've read what readers think, let us know your views in the comments area below or put yourself on video via CNN iReport. How do you feel about sporting culture right now?


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Samardzija and Kovacevic
Dejan Kovacevic, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's beat writer who blogs with the diligence of a full-timer, sent me, in the wake of the Morgan-Milledge trade, an email with a fascinating question.
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If I were a Pirates fan I'd find a way to have management/ownership arrested for treason. Jeez…
It is not easy being a Pirates fan.
"He appears last night in the 9th inning, Cubs down 3-0 to Colorado."
Poor Buccos don't even get credit on one of the rare nights they beat the Cubbies!
Wow. Olbermann is as adept at reporting baseball as he is at "reporting" the news on that opinion show he has. Just as accurate. It was the Pirates, not Colorado. Why the need to mis-report this, Keith? I'm sure you can find a way to blame former President Bush for his error.
hey dbagnash, this is a BASEBALL blog. Do you bring your trash to the ballpark too?
Hey nik, um, bag (No shock you went straight to name calling), you are correct, it is a BASEBALL blog. Is it too much to expect for the blogger to know that the hell he's writing about? You know, BASEBALL. At least get the fkn teams right.
Hey, like you've never made a mistake, Dag. Geez. But, I understand dirtyape's feelings; during the mid 70's to mid 80's the Twins couldn't buy their way into a box score.


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Kris Allen next week will make his first appearance on "American Idol" since winning the show last year, to help raise money for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
As part of the Fox TV show's "Idol Gives Back" charity effort, Allen will travel to Haiti with the United Nations Foundation. He'll share video from his visit and sing on the Thursday, Feb. 25, episode of "American Idol."
Fox said Wednesday that viewers will be asked to make donations online or by text-messaging, with the money going to the Idol Gives Back Foundation to help support the U.N. Foundation's work in Haiti.
"Idol Gives Back" takes place on the April 21 episode of "American Idol," raising money for five charities, including Feeding America and Malaria No More.
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Is there anything sadder than a reality star leaving their reality show? The answer is yes, there are a billion things sadder, but that doesn't change the fact that Alexis Bellino is leaving the "Real Housewives" franchise.
Bellino will not be appearing on the upcoming season of Bravo's "Real Housewives of Orange County" after three seasons, E! News has confirmed.
"She wasn't invited back," a source tells us. "The crew was tired of her complaining and diva ways. They were also tired of her fame-seeking husband."
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Loves the Housewives franchise? Then you'll love our recaps!
Bellino, a stay-at-home mom, joined "Real Housewives of Orange County" in season five, with quotes like "God is my savior, my husband is my king, and my body is sinful" and "I thank God every day for my life, and you would too" as her opening credits introduction. The cameras followed her life with her husband, entrepreneur Jim Bellino, and three children, James, Melania and Mackenna.
A rep for Bravo tells us: "We have not yet made any announcements of a season 8 pickup or casting."
Will you watch the new season without Alexis?
(E! and Bravo are both part of the NBCUniversal family.)


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Any girl who says barfights are anything but a) hilarious or b) hilariously awesome is a) a liar, or b) not someone I want to be friends with. We're not waving our hands and yelling "STOOOOOOPPIT BOYS" to affect the action; it's kind of a war cry and mating call. We're declaring that THAT IS OUR MAN OUT THERE BY GOD LOOK AT HIM GO. This is all by way of saying: Nothing gets me hot and bothered like a football rival getting his ass leveled. Expect a lot of material about jacked-up guys in tight pants getting (sorry) jacked up once the season really gets underway. To whet your appetite, here's the greatest hits of seasons past, via the incomparable (and handsome!) Sunday Morning Quarterback:
13 thoughts on "Hot Hot Hits"
I…I think I have caught the bloodlust from this.
ooh that video is giving me the rickets
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Plugged-in Fleets: A guide to deploying electric vehicles (EVs) in fleets, was published in collaboration with Energy Saving Trust and Cenex, with support from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, TFL and TNT's Planet Medivision.
The report states that EVs can be commercially viable in business fleets, identifying a number of practical tools that fleet decision makers need to assess the benefits EVs can deliver:
- The complete range of financial and operational incentives for fleet EV uptake
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Put into action, these innovative fleet solutions will help accelerate a Clean Revolution: the massive upscale of smart technologies, policy and business practices that will ensure that the 9 billion people on the planet by 2050 will not only subsist – but thrive.
Although the market is already rapidly transforming, it can be both a technical and a leadership challenge for businesses to steer their fleets towards a sustainable future, but this report provides businesses with the tools to not just adapt, but to prosper.


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I just came across a bounty added to an old question on SO. That question has hundreds of upvotes and stars, nearly 100K views and an accepted answer with a score of over 1K.
Why would someone put a bounty on such a question? It's highly unlikely that anyone, save the person who posted the bounty, will even scroll down enough to see any new answers, never mind upvote them after having read the accepted answer (which has had tons of edits and is a real gem, as you probably won't be surprised to hear).
Is there something I 'm missing here?


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Greetings All!
Aviametrix is pleased and proud to announce a new iOS app for pilots!
The new App is Crosswind-Live!
This app pulls current official aviation weather from an
Internet connection and draws the wind arrows over a runway
map of the closest airport and also calculates the crosswind
components. If you like, the app will draw the current conditions
at any other airport! It also gives you the airport info, comm freqs,
and the full METAR.
Crosswind-Live! contains a database of over 55,000 runways at
over 45,000 airports worldwide, including airports, glider ports,
sea bases, heliports, and many closed airports.
This is a great app for student pilots, taildraggers, and anyone who
likes to plan their takeoffs and landings.
Crosswind-Live joins the other three Apps for Pilots developed by
Aviametrix and yours truly!
AvAltimeter - an actual, working sensitive altimeter with a Kollsman
Window adjustment. Smart features like Oxygen alarm, TAS, and
takeoff performance.
Twilight Calculator - A self contained app which calculates Civil
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At your current GPS location, or anywhere in the world, for today, or a
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Just open the App and it shows you the closest METARs. You can sort the
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You can find FAQs and documentation for these apps on the support
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Our last Halloween party some years ago was the kind of party that makes us call the police now. Seventy-five or so people overflowing from our apartment into the hall and onto the fire escape out back. About two in the morning, I started turning the music down out of some semblance of courtesy to our neighbors. I turned it down three or four times, in fact. But at 4:30, when the last guests left and I turned it off, it was still impossibly loud.
Still, we have fond if blurry memories of that party – and a soft spot for Halloween in general. In many ways, it is the perfect holiday. It appeals to all ages and doesn't involve the potential emotional landmines of exchanging gifts. And it's scary, but in a fun way, not in an Earth Day way.
As our Halloween celebrations have gotten a little quieter, our ideas for Halloween treats have become a little more refined. (Not that we're opposed to nabbing a few fun-sized candy bars when they come our way, mind you.) The two recipes here are perfect examples. The first takes advantage of the seasonal appearance of baby pumpkins, elevating them from mere table decorations to charming savory starters that will surprise and delight guests right up through Thanksgiving.
The second recipe can be called candy, I suppose, but it's candy all dressed up for the grown-up table, a sophisticated sweet/salty/fruity treat worthy of serving as the perfect end to a company dinner. Candied orange peel gives it a splash of Halloween color, but it too can live well beyond the spooky holiday.
Roasted baby pumpkins with mushrooms
Serves 4 as a first course
4 baby pumpkins
Olive oil
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 cups roughly chopped mushrooms (I used baby bellas)
1 cup sliced shallots (or yellow onion)
1 clove garlic, minced
1 teaspoon herbes de Provence
Freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup brandy
grated fresh Gruyere cheese
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. with rack in middle position. Rinse baby pumpkins and dry with a dish towel. Carefully slice the tops from the pumpkins (see photo above). Using a spoon, scoop out the seeds and pulp. Brush/rub pumpkins inside and out with olive oil and arrange them on a nonstick baking sheet with tops in place. Place in the oven and roast for 30 to 45 minutes, until tender when pierced with a sharp knife.
Meanwhile, heat a large nonstick skillet over a medium flame. Add one tablespoon of olive oil and tablespoon of butter, swirling pan to mix oil and butter as it melts. Add mushrooms to pan and toss to coat with oil and butter. The mushrooms will probably soak up much of the fat in the pan; if so, drizzle in a little more oil, then add the shallots and toss to mix. Cook until tender, 7 to 10 minutes, stirring occasionally to prevent burning (lower heat if necessary).
Stir garlic and herbes de Provence into mushroom mixture and cook until fragrant, about 45 seconds. Season with salt and pepper and add brandy to pan. Cook, stirring, until brandy is absorbed/evaporated, about a minute or two. Remove from heat.
Remove pumpkins from the oven, leaving them on the baking sheet. Stir a generous 1/4 cup of grated Gruyere into the mushroom mixture. Set pumpkin caps aside and spoon mixture into the pumpkins, mounding it slightly. Sprinkle a heaping teaspoon of of grated Gruyere on top of the mixture in each pumpkin and return the baking sheet to the oven. Heat pumpkins until cheese is melted, 1 to 2 minutes.
Place pumpkins on serving plates, adding tops leaning against them. Serve.
Marion created this delicious sweet/salty dessert. I'll let her tell you about it:
Besides a dinner dessert, this is an awesome party treat and something excellent to take to your office. It's not so good to drop into the bags of trick or treaters.
White chocolate with candied orange peel, pecans and reduced maple syrup
Makes about 20 3-inch candies
18 ounces good-quality white chocolate
3/4 cup maple syrup
Black lava sea salt
Salt-roasted pecans (about 1/4 pound or so depending on your lavishness—see recipe below)
1/2 cup candied orange peel, cut into very fine bits (store bought or see recipe below)
Cover two baking sheets or pizza pans with parchment paper. Have at hand the diced orange peels, the pecans and the sea salt.
Break the white chocolate chunks into the top of a double boiler, or into a small heavy bottomed saucepan.
Prepare the maple syrup – pour the 3/4 cup into a small heavy saucepan and simmer it to reduce it by about a third. Don't let it foam up and boil like crazy – work carefully so it does not crystallize.
Meanwhile, turn on the heat beneath the bottom of the double boiler, or a separate large saucepan, with about an inch of water in the bottom. When the water starts to simmer, melt the white chocolate, stirring with a silicon or rubber spatula. Melt it over gently simmering water, stirring with a silicon or rubber spatula. Don't let the pot with the chocolate in it touch the simmering water. And keep an eye on the maple syrup – you want it to reduce so it is thicker, but not so much that it turns into maple sugar (see Kitchen Notes).
When the white chocolate is entirely melted, begin creating the individual candies. Form the base by spooning about two tablespoons of white chocolate onto the parchment paper and spreading it with the back of the spoon into a roundish shape about 3 inches across. It should be about 1/3 inch thick. When all the chocolate is parceled out, working quickly, add pecans to each coin. Five or six should do, but you can jam in more if you wish. I chose not to crowd them in because of all the other things I wanted to add. Next, dot each piece with bits of orange peel, then sprinkle on the black salt. Finally, drizzle with the reduced maple syrup, making streaks in places and allowing it to make little pools here and there.
When it's all on there, admire your work for a moment. Then slide the sheets into the refrigerator for half an hour or so to set up. When the candy is set, lift it up from the parchment paper, peeling off the paper. At this point, store it in an airtight container in the fridge.
Salt-roasted Pecans
In the great culinary tradition of taking something already fatty and adding fat to it, these are crazy good on their own – for instance, as a cocktail party snack.
1 pound raw pecan halves
1 tablespoon unsalted butter
2 teaspoons salt (For this, we like La Baleine fine sea salt, but any fine-grained salt works)
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Pour the raw pecan halves into a bowl. Melt the butter and pour it all over the pecan halves. Gently fold and stir until the pecans are coated with the melted butter. Sprinkle the salt all over.
Pour the pecans onto a baking sheet with a low rim. They should be in a single layer. Bake for 12 to 16 minutes – at the 12-minute mark, start checking and tasting (cautiously!). Don't let them get dark because they continue to roast after they have been removed from the oven. Before using for the candy, cool them completely.
Candied Orange Peel
Candied orange peel is widely available – for instance, you can even buy it through Amazon – but it is gratifying to learn how to make it yourself from something you'd otherwise toss out. Make this at least a day ahead to allow it to dry. When it is dry, put it in an airtight container. It may be stored at room temperature for a month or so, or in the freezer for six months.
3 navel oranges – choose unblemished, plump oranges, organic if you can find them, with peel that feels soft and moist (not dry and like it is separating from the fruit within)
2-1/4 cups sugar
3/4 cup water plus lots more water
Cut the ends off the orange and discard (i.e., put in your compost pile). Incise four cuts longitudinally on the orange – don't cut into the fruit if you can avoid it. Remove the peel from the fruit. Set aside the fruit for another use. (For instance, you can cut it into chunks and add it to Terry's Endive Salad with Blue Cheese and Walnuts.) Scrape the pith off the peel (I used a grapefruit spoon to do this) and add the pith to your compost pile. Cut the peel into long, very skinny strips and put them into a heavy saucepan. Cover with cold water, bring to a boil, and pour off the water. Do this twice more.
Put the peel into a bowl and wash out the saucepan. Then put the pan back on the stove and pour in the sugar and the 3/4 cup water. Bring to a gentle boil, stirring with a whisk when the water starts to warm to mix everything together. Simmer this gently about 8 to 10 minutes, then add the peel. You are going to simmer the peel for about 45 minutes or so, until it is very tender. You don't have to hover over the stove, but I do recommend checking frequently to make sure the syrup isn't boiling too fast or that you are not burning the peel. Also, do not stir the peel – if you are worried about the way it is distributed, shake the pot gently; if something is protruding above the fray, poke it back in with the end of a spoon. No stirring! Or you may cause sugar crystals to form. When you get to the 45-minute mark, take out a strip of peel, let it cool for a moment, and then taste to check for appropriate tenderness.
One thing to do while you are passing the time waiting for the peel to be done is to line a pan – a cookie sheet or a pizza pan – with foil. Another is to eat the orange segments you saved earlier. We did.
When the orange peel is ready, turn off the heat. (At this point, some people like to put the peel in a bowl and toss it with more sugar. I don't care for this, so I skip it. ) Using chopsticks or tongs, set out the orange peel onto the foil-lined surface and allow it to dry for at least a day.
Kitchen notes
Maple syrup vs. maple sugar. If you overboil the maple syrup and it starts to crystallize into sugar, add a dash of water and stir gently over low heat – it should dissolve into syrup again.
This is a palette – feel free to experiment. You can add other toppings depending on your supplies and the season. There are versions of this candy around that call for Halloween extras like candy corn and factory-baked cookies. People, please. Some of the ingredients I am aiming to try include dried cherries cut into bits, candied grapefruit or lemon peel, coarse ground pepper and, whenever summer gets back, marigold petals and very finely minced rosemary.
One or many? You can also make this as a bark. Pour the white chocolate all at once onto a papered cookie sheet, spread it with an angled spatula and then add the toppings. After it sets, break it into chunks.
Terry Boyd blogs at Blue Kitchen.
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