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The Number One Book On My Summer Reading List
Dan Barry is not a sportswriter. He is a Pulitzer prize-winning columnist for the New York Times who has tackled subjects like Hurricane Katrina and the World Trade Center attacks.
But for the last two and a half years, he's been working on a book about baseball. More specifically, a book about the longest game in baseball history played in Pawtucket 30 years ago. His soon-to-be-released book is titled, "Bottom of the 33rd: Hope, Redemption, and Baseball's Longest Game."
"First of all, it's a great story and I'm drawn to great stories," Barry told me. "Secondly, I worked at the Providence Journal for several years and for four of those years, I lived in Pawtucket where I could hear the cheers of the fans at McCoy Stadium. So it's a part of my DNA.
"A few years ago, I was at a friend's house in Providence and he had a copy of Steve Krasner's children's book about the longest game that came out about 20 years ago. It's a basic and charming book about the game, but it didn't really get into the players and who they were and where they were going. It just dawned on me that this was an amazing story, and what drives the story is all of these men who took the field on that cold April night with almost nobody watching. They came from all over the country and all of them want to make it to the major leagues. Some will, but many won't."
25 of the 41 participants earned at least a brief stint in the big leagues and two players made it to the Hall of Fame: Wade Boggs for Pawtucket (4-for-12) and Cal Ripken Jr. for Rochester (2-for-13).
"We know those names so well now, but back in 1981, Boggs wasn't really thought highly of by the Boston organization," Barry said. "He was considered a punch-and-judy hitter when people thought that third base should be a power position. There were people that didn't think he would go very far which seems funny now. Ripken was 20 years old and considered an up-and-comer in the Baltimore organization, but you never know in Triple-A. Ripken had a temper that he had to deal with and it flared that night, but as we all know, he certainly got his act together and became a legend. But I was more drawn to the others – the guys that were trying to get there and how there is honor in that too."
One such player was Pawtucket's Dave Koza who singled in Marty Barrett with the game-winning run in the bottom of the 33rd inning.
"Dave Koza still lives in Pawtucket and couldn't have been more generous in remembering what it was like," Barry said. "He was a power hitter and a very gifted first baseman, but when he was playing in the Red Sox organization, Boston had four first baseman so he faced a very tough challenge to get to the major leagues. Unfortunately, he never made it and he was very giving in telling me what that was like – how hard it is to become a major league baseball player. You have to be extremely gifted just to play at the Triple-A level and sometimes you're just not good enough.
"I've thought about what does it mean to be a hero? Are you a hero because you drove in the winning run in the longest game in baseball history, or are you a hero because you work hard, you deal with some of your own demons, and you become the best father that you can be? I think that's as heroic as any feat on the baseball field."
In my first year as a PawSox broadcaster, the team celebrated the 25th anniversary of the longest game and I had the opportunity to interview many of the participants at the reunion. But in researching his book, Barry went beyond the players and coaches and even talked to many of the fans who stayed until the game was postponed after 32 innings at 4:07 in the morning.
"There were about 20 fans and I was lucky because the Pawtucket Red Sox back in 1981 recognized instantly that this was historic and collected the names of all of the people that were in the stands and I was able to track them down," Barry said. "One of them was a 9-year-old boy named Danny Card who stayed until the bitter end that night freezing next to his father. It became a transformative moment in his childhood that he remembers to this day. His father has passed away but he has that moment that lasts forever, and he's imparted his father's love of the gave to his own son now."
Nobody would have been more excited about the publication of Barry's new book than legendary PawSox' owner Ben Mondor who passed away last October.
"He was ecstatic about the book and it was as though he knew all along that this was a story worth sharing nationally," Barry said. "Before he passed away, he was able to read much of the book in manuscript form, and I take great comfort in knowing that he knew what the story would be.
"The people of Pawtucket rallied around the team and McCoy once Ben Mondor took over the franchise in 1977 and showed that we could really turn this into something. Ben came in and said, 'We can provide baseball games at a decent price for families.' It sounds like such a simple marketing idea, but that's what he did and it's become a gem in the crown of Rhode Island."
I get quite a bit of reading done during the summer on the PawSox' late night bus trips. I don't know about Oprah, but Dan Barry's book is at the top of my must-read list.
"It comes out on April 12th," Barry said. "You can order it on Amazon and it comes out in all sorts of stores. I have a reading in Concord, Massachusetts on Wednesday, April 13th, and there's another reading at Books on the Square in Providence on the 14th. Then on April 17th, I'll be at McCoy Stadium where it all took place to sign books if anyone wants a signed copy."
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The Wrong Man For the Job
We've been told countless times that Afghanistan is the one true success story in our War on Terror and that President Hamid Karzai is the shining example of what a moderate Muslim leader should be. Too bad neither is turning out to be true
There are no flowers in the Flower Room of the presidential palace in Kabul. Still, when Hamid Karzai strides into the room—"It's too formal in my office!" he says; "I like the light here!"—and pumps his visitor's hand, then assumes a leaning crouch in his chair and proceeds to lay out, with unquenchable optimism, the blossoming of Afghanistan, well, you want to believe that what you see tangled against the windows is not halfdead ivy, that what you smell isn't a waft of cheap air freshener, but instead…owers!
"Today was a busy day," Karzai says. He's neatly bearded, robed in white, wearing a brown vest and a karakulwool hat. His voice is proud, almost gleeful. "It was cabinet day. For the first time, we discussed preparations for the future. For example, we can now project how much food we produce, which we never knew before. We discussed strategic food reserves for the country. Unimaginable that we would ever discuss that!" He smiles, thrusts a finger into the air. "Interestingly, we also received an account of how much poppy fields were turned into food fields. Now the poppy farmers are starting to grow grapes. Apples, pomegranates, watermelons. Honeydew!"
Heroin into honeydew—he lets the image linger. He wants it to sink in. "I don't think it's so much our government programs. I think it's the people themselves. They simply feel that life is secure, that they have a future. Any family that wants to have a good name in the village, rise higher, and be somebody—they can't do that with poppies! They can't do that with poppies! Poppies are just for today; everybody knows it's bad. They want to be back with their beautiful orchards. Go picnicking!"
Just outside the door, several babyfaced guards stand in loose formation, cradling Kalashnikovs. Beyond the guards lie other government palaces, most of them empty and in various stages of bombedout ruin. Beyond the palaces, twentyfoothigh walls. Beyond the walls, the battered capital city of Kabul.
There's no picnicking for Karzai beyond those walls. Twice he's nearly been killed after leaving the compound. Three members of his cabinet have narrowly escaped assassination attempts; three others weren't so lucky. Yes, it's bad for Karzai in Kabul, but it's worse still in the provinces—which remain, his sunny depiction notwithstanding, throttled by the world's largest opium trade, by warlords who have carved up the countryside into lawless fiefdoms, and by Taliban insurgents who never got Operation Enduring Freedom's message. It's bad for Karzai, but it's far worse for his people, 70 percent of whom are illiterate and 25 percent of whom are jobless.
So he stays behind his walls and holds meetings—as he did on March 1 with President Bush, who had been secretly airlifted into the compound and who scattered words like impressed and enthralled and inspiring while military aircraft roared overhead.
That same day, American newspapers reported a U.S. intelligence official's testimony before the Senate that "insurgents now represent a greater threat to the expansion of Afghan government authority than at any point since late 2001." Nothing about picnics or honeydews in this testimony. Instead: an "almost fourfold" increase over the previous year in suicide attacks. "Increasingly used beheadings." A "thriving narcotics trade." Among the senators who heard the gory details was Susan Collins. "It worries me greatly," she says. "I so want Afghanistan to succeed. Both times I went there, I also went to Iraq, and the contrast was so great. Maybe that's why I still have hope. And I'm so impressed with Karzai. I personally find him so dynamic—dashing, even. But I have wondered if that's just an American reaction."
Collins is smart to wonder. For we've bought into Hamid Karzai. He's been sold as the dapper caretaker of our one feelgood story in the war on terror. We greeted him with thunderous applause at the 2002 State of the Union address, when Bush introduced him as "the distinguished interim leader of a liberated Afghanistan." Four years later, we're still applauding—and why not Osama bin Laden's protectors, the Taliban, now live in caves. Girls can go to school again. Women don't get beaten or stoned for refusing to wear burkas. Afghans can vote, and do. Our misadventures elsewhere notwithstanding, we've still got Afghanistan to point to, and Hamid Karzai—"their George Washington," gushes Senator Lindsey Graham—as the emblem of what a Muslim leader should be.
This is our feelgood story. It would be nice if it were Afghanistan's, too.
But it's not. "The security environment has deteriorated there in a very significant way," says terrorism expert Peter Bergen. "The official stand by NATO is that Kabul is 'tense and unstable.' That's a sea change from two to three years ago, when you could walk around anywhere."
"Regardless of how wonderful Bush said everything is in Afghanistan, we're losing ground there," says a top Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer. "And we're going to lose even more ground when we replace our troops with NATO, which isn't up to the task of counterinsurgency." Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell's former chief of staff at the State Department, agrees: "We're trying to do Afghanistan on the cheap. And it's costing us."
What has happened is not an inexorable slide into defeat—not yet, anyway. But the surge in violence throughout Afghanistan would probably not be taking place if the country were otherwise better cared for—if its roads were paved, if its poppy farmers knew of an easier way to make money, if its people felt like picnicking rather than running for cover. The real disgrace is that four years later, the Afghan collective will remains up for grabs. "We should've been concentrating on building their economy," says William Milam, former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan. "These Taliban guys, if they start breaking people's rice bowls, they'll run into popular resistance—they'll fail. But because we've just approached Afghanistan in military terms, we've allowed the Taliban to bounce back."
Bombings, social discontent, a halfassed reconstruction… Sound familiar Still, no one equates Afghanistan with Iraq. Not at this point. For one thing, Afghans still appear to be glad we're there; in fact, "they're worried shitless we'll leave," says one Senate Armed Services Committee aide. "They think that NATO coming in means the U.S. washes its hands—and they could be right."
For another, they've got Hamid Karzai. They're just not sure that's a good thing.
Karzai is the president of a country that barely knows him. To his countrymen, he wasn't the obvious choice in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion. To the international community, however, he was "clearly the natural candidate," says James Dobbins, the U.S. envoy to the conference in Bonn, Germany, where Karzai was selected by an Afghan council in December 2001. "He had traveled abroad, speaks languages well, has a winning personality." The Afghans at Bonn sensed this. "He emerged only after the Bonn conference, not before," says Dr. Abdullah, Karzai's foreign minister, who, like many Afghans, uses only one name. Or as one of the Bonn attendees, Seyyed Mustafa Kazemi, puts it, "After 9/11, a wave came, and Karzai rode the wave."
Given the chance, Afghans would probably have elected a renowned warrior like Ahmed Shah Massoud or Abdul Haq. (But both men had recently been killed by the Taliban.) Instead they got a wealthy tribal leader's Westernized son who had attended college in India during the Soviet takeover of Afghanistan in 1979 and had taken refuge in Pakistan during the Taliban years. Four years later, his adversaries still scoff at his credentials—and his courage. Insists one political opponent, "His biography was written for him."
By any ordinary standard, however, Hamid Karzai is a committed patriot. His father was assassinated by the Taliban in 1999, and Karzai spent the next two years lobbying other nations on behalf of his beleaguered country. Through his international meeting and greeting, Karzai became a player, albeit an impotent one. "I never knew him not to be frustrated with the Western world," says Professor Thomas Gouttierre of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, an Afghanaffairs expert and longtime friend of Karzai's. "His argument was that by abandoning Afghanistan, we were putting our own interests at great risk. No one paid attention to him."
One day in October 2001, Karzai let bravery cloud his judgment and sneaked across the border into Afghanistan with a small group of friends, determined to stir up a revolution or die trying. But Karzai had no experience in combat. When the Taliban cornered him, he didn't fight—he allegedly radioed the Pentagon for help and was ferried off in an army helicopter. (Fearing that this paints Karzai as cowardly, his aides to this day deny that he was ever airlifted to safety. But former envoy James Dobbins remembers being in General Tommy Franks's office and being told by Franks, "We've just rescued Hamid Karzai. He was in a firefight, and we were afraid he was going to get overwhelmed, so we picked him up.") He later returned to battle, which is where he was when the call came from Bonn on December 5, 2001, asking him to be the new leader of Afghanistan.
That day, Karzai issued his first edict—namely, that the Taliban who killed his father and tried to kill him and tormented his country would be pardoned. "I have declared general amnesty to all," he said. "Let there be no revenge and no vendetta."
A Taliban spokesman later said that Karzai would let Mullah Mohammed Omar stay in Kandahar and "live in dignity." To which Donald Rumsfeld reacted by threatening "to work with other people" if Karzai made any deals with Omar. And so Hamid Karzai did what he does best: He accommodated.
He's been accommodating ever since. In 2003, Karzai came to America to meet with Bush and testify before Congress. But because, according to one congressional staffer who dealt with Karzai's aides during the trip, "he was told by Zal [Zalmay Khalilzad, then the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan] not to embarrass Bush by being too critical," Karzai painted such an upbeat picture of his country's situation that Republican senator Chuck Hagel openly questioned his credibility. In 2004, Karzai asked the West to let Afghanistan eradicate opium production on its own, only to turn around and watch as planes—flying over U.S.controlled airspace but belonging to the British, according to one top Karzai aide—pelted the poppy fields of Nangarhar Province with herbicides. In 2005 he went to Washington and asked Bush for greater control over military activity there so as to avoid the home invasions so offensive to Muslims. Bush replied that while "our relationship is one of cooperate and consult… our troops will respond to U.S. commanders." Then, this past February at the London Conference on Afghanistan, Karzai put on his most grateful face as Condoleezza Rice announced that the United States was flatlining its annual aid to Afghanistan at $1.1 billion—leaving him well short of the $4 billion he said he'd need to fight narcotrafficking.
The job of appeasing both his splintered country and its fickle Western benefactors would sap lesser politicians. But Karzai's zeal is limitless. He does not take a day off and expects the same of his staff. Most weekdays he's visited by tribal elders who lecture him about his hapless cabinet and the greedy nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, and he promises to look into it. It's his only physical contact with the public.
"In terms of travel to the provinces, I wish I could do more," Karzai says. "But it causes a tremendous hazard to the people. I want to do more, but security won't let me."
So he stays behind the palace walls. Or he leaves Afghanistan altogether—bedazzling Westerners with his cape and hat and tales of Afghan girls going to school. Afghans are less mesmerized. Every Friday morning, Karzai submits to a fifteenminute callin show on Radio Afghanistan. During one program in June, a caller told Karzai that he was a highway cop who had not been paid his salary for five months. "I will be very unhappy if this is true," Karzai said. The next caller complained about the inadequacy of the roads, and Karzai replied, rather pathetically, "I hope the companies doing this work will do it honestly, because we are a poor nation and cannot provide money again and again for road building."
"How much of the lack of progress can you blame on Karzai" says one former U.S. diplomat. "Some of it. I worry that he may not have enough steel in his soul." Karzai's greatest achievement may be something that has not happened—namely, civil war. On the other hand, his solution—to welcome the wouldbe enemies into his government—has ensured rampant corruption in his administration.
"He has buddied up with warlords who should instead be on trial," says the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffer. "And that permits the narcoeconomy to continue. There are only two sources of income in Afghanistan: Western charity and drugs. Karzai's kept them both flowing. In fairness to him, he has had some very frank meetings here in America, some of which I attended. And he's said, 'Look, I'd like to go after the warlords, but as long as Rumsfeld doesn't help by supplying troops, forget it.' "
Dealt a feeble hand, Karzai has had little choice but to "reintegrate" Afghanistan's bad actors by awarding them government jobs. "What is the cost of not doing that" asks Zalmay Khalilzad. "You might not be getting the best minister available, but if you don't do it, then you may end up in conflict, which may have even more negative consequences. There will be fighting, people will die, and that may undermine the confidence of the international community and its desire to invest. You could say he's been prudent in doing this."
Prudence, of course, is timeconsuming. The question is, how much time does Afghanistan have before the checks stop coming and the country is left to fend for itself Says former ambassador Milam, "I happen to agree with the general outlook of the Afghanis that this is a window of opportunity for them. If they don't get started down the right path now, they never will."
The looming specter of a missed opportunity is what worries Hamid Karzai's countrymen (and in turn stokes the morale of the newly resurgent Taliban). Here is Noor Aqa Roeen, a professor who spent a decade in prison under the Communist and Taliban regimes: "Karzai's weak. He's never been suited to lead a country in so critical a situation. Half the public doesn't trust him." Here is Professor Faizullah Jalal, whose wife serves as Karzai's minister of women's affairs: "Karzai is a failure. If the U.S. didn't want him, he wouldn't have gotten ten votes this past election." Here is Dr. Abdullah, Karzai's minister of foreign affairs, on his boss's leadership skills: "I think the future will judge it."
Desperate to find someone with something charitable or optimistic to say about Afghanistan's first democratically elected leader and the direction in which he's taking the country, I telephone his brother Qayum, a Baltimore restaurateur who spent years laboring with Hamid on Afghan causes and who represents Kandahar in the Parliament. When I ask Qayum to assess the state of his country, his voice wells with sadness.
"The people are frustrated," he says.
"The people don't know where Afghanistan will be ten years from now. The insurgency is still active. There's still corruption. No one knows what happened to the reconstruction process. And all of this is because change hasn't happened quickly. When a society emerges from a nightmare such as ours has, there are two possibilities. Either it ends up in the hands of a leader like Mandela or Gandhi—a visionary who pushes things forward—or you surrender to daily politics. That's what you see now. Hamid was not able to get out from the daily politics. He went into that swamp. I don't think he'll agree with me, but that's my view.
"Hamid is the most decent human being I know. I wish I was like him. But for the salvation of the country, he must change. He must change from being a politician to a leadership role. He must come up with a vision. The people of Afghanistan can't do things on their own. Until the people can stand on their own two feet, they need the help of the government."
But surely you can pick up the phone and tell your brother these things. Qayum Karzai sighs. "The same thing is happening to me as is happening to the rest of Afghanistan," he says. "You cry, you complain, you pick up the phone. And after a while, you realize there's no point. You just let it go."
"It's great that the Afghan people want more," Hamid Karzai says. "That they expect their government to do more—that's participation! You should be afraid of the day when they say, 'We don't care.' "
True, so far as it goes. But what if the government continues to fail How long will it be before the West tires of throwing billions into a corrupt sinkhole How long will it take for all that Afghan idealism to erode into cynicism or worse How long before the country descends again into terror and chaos
A few hours before arriving at the presidential palace, I had met a young woman from the dangerous eastern border province of Paktika. She told me that she was running for Parliament but that her chances of winning were poor, given that the men in Paktika were confiscating the women's voting cards. She was campaigning chiefly for children, she told me. "We were supposed to have a school for girls built in our province, but the plan has never been implemented. I told President Karzai all of this three years ago. He told me he'd look into it. He seemed very enthusiastic at the time. But he's forgetting us. I don't think he's paying attention anymore."
Karzai nods and squints at me as I recount this story for him. "Look," he says, "if a woman from Paktika"—he glances around the room at his aides, who bob their heads at the mention of this backward province—"can run for Parliament…you don't know what that means. It means massive progress. Massive progress! That's good news. There are lots of schools that have opened. All over the country. And there's a very good governor over there, so I'm sure he's working on it."
Several months later, the girls' school has yet to open in Paktika, where the illiteracy rate stands at 99 percent. What has happened in Paktika during this timespan is as follows: A proKarzai cleric was killed when a bomb detonated in his mosque. Other bombs killed or wounded twentysix U.S. and Afghan soldiers from August through November. The British embassy issued a warning that the province was not safe to visit. A female candidate for Parliament withdrew after receiving death threats. And just before Bush's visit to Afghanistan, the Tenth Mountain Division of the U.S. Army landed in Paktika, with its commander remarking that "there might be an increase in terrorist attacks and we have to gear up for this."
To be fair, two other things happened during these months in Paktika: Coalition and Afghan officials opened the province's first women's vocational training center and finished its first paved road. The U.S. Army was there at both ribbon cuttings to commemorate the progress—or massive progress, as Karzai might have said if he had been there. But of course, he was in Kabul, behind his palace walls.
Robert Draper is a GQ correspondent.
**EXCLUSIVE GQ.COM INTERVIEW**Said Hyder Akbar is a student at Yale and author of the 2005 memoir Come Back to Afghanistan: A California Teenager's Story. Oh, and his dad is good buddies with Hamid Karzai. Akbar talks about the state of Afghanistan in this exclusive GQ.com interview
GQ, May 2006

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Friday, April 06, 2007
Old Fashioned Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Today, I want you to talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic: coffee cake—discuss.
Finished? Good. Here's my take: I wouldn't bother with most coffee cakes. Give me a scone, a muffin, even a doughnut over coffee cake any day. My husband likes coffee cake and orders it occasionally at Starbucks. I never had the urge to make it myself until about two years ago. We had just moved into our condo, and a neighbor brought us a lovely, homemade, mini coffee cake. That was a good cake; nothing fancy, just moist, plain cake with a sugary crumb on top.
I was in no rush to duplicate the neighbor's cake, but the seed was planted. In a baking mood, I batted around ideas yesterday to Mike. Rhubarb pudding cake? Italian Cream Cake? No dice. When I threw out coffee cake, Mike's eyes lit up and the discussion was over.
I knew we wanted a plain, very moist cake with sour cream, topped with some kind of streusel or crumb. This is just the kind of recipe I knew I would find in my King Arthur Baker's Companion book. The sweet recipes in this book can be a little heavy and rich, but they always turn out perfectly.
This cake may be even better than the neighbor's. The batter is very thick, not pourable like a regular sheet cake. When baked, however, it is not too heavy, just incredibly moist and a little tangy due to the sour cream. I slightly cut the amount of flour and sugar in the crumb topping, and still had more than enough for a very sweet, crumbly cake. I also make this cake at night for breakfast today, and I think it does benefit from having ample time to cool and sit. So, it is the perfect sweet breakfast treat to make in advance. Easter brunch, perhaps?
So, now I am on the coffee cake bandwagon. Due to the intense sugar rush, I may not eat it as often as my beloved scones, but it is definitely a nice addition to my repertoire of breakfast treats.
Bloggers love coffee cake; there way too many great ones out there...
Alpineberry's Mini Cherry Walnut Streusel Coffee Cakes have a lovely pink tint.
Seriously Good's Apple-Ricotta Coffee Cake must be as good as it looks since it uses ricotta, an ingredient that's always in my fridge for spreading on toast.
Go take a gander at the gorgeous Apricot-Almond Coffee Cake at Cream Puffs in Venice.
The Dried Cranberry Coffee Cake from Tartelette is quick and simple and uses a secret ingredient--homemade eggnog!
In the archives of Baking Sheet (now Baking Bites) I found another old-fashioned sour cream coffee cake
I wish I had some fresh blueberries to make this Coffee Cake from Chocolate & Zucchini.
This apple coffee cake from Simply Recipes is easy and looks wonderful.
Old Fashioned Sour Cream Coffee Cake
Adapted from the King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion
I changed this recipe by using half whole wheat pastry flour in both the crumb and the cake. It works perfectly and is undetectable to the untrained eye. Use only all-purpose flour if you want. I suspect it would also be good with only whole wheat pastry flour. I would not use regular whole wheat flour which would change the flavor, texture and color too much for this tender, sweet cake.
Makes two 9-inch rounds or one 9 x 13-inch cake
Crumb Topping:
1 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. whole wheat pastry flour
1 c. granulated sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 ½ tsp. cinnamon
14 tbs. unsalted butter (7 ounces)
1 tsp. vanilla extract
¾ tsp. almond extract
8 tbs. (4 oz.) unsalted butter, at room temperature
1 c. granulated sugar
2 large eggs
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 c. sour cream (I used lowfat)
1 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. whole wheat pastry flour
½ tsp. baking soda
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking powder
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two 9-inch round pans or one 9 x13 pan.
Make the crumb: In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, salt and cinnamon. Melt the butter in the microwave and stir in the vanilla and almond extracts. Pour the butter over the flour mixture and stir to combine until the flour is uniformly moistened and you have a sandy, moist crumb. Set aside.
Make the cake batter: In a large bowl, cream the butter and sugar with an electric mixer on high speed until light and fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating after each addition. Beat in the vanilla and sour cream, scraping down the sides of the bowl with a spatula as needed. In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, salt and baking powder. Add flour mixture to the sour cream mixture and beat on low to medium or stir with a large spoon until evenly combined.
Pour the cake batter into the prepared pan(s). Sprinkle the crumb mixture over the batter with your fingers, covering the batter completely. Bake for 20-25 minutes for 9-inch rounds or 30-35 minutes for a 9 x 13 pan. Cake is done when a toothpick or cake tester comes out clean and the sides are light gold and slightly pulling away from the edge of the pan. Cool cakes in their pan(s) on a wire rack.
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14 comments:
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
I am always substituting some flour with whole wheat or ww pastry. A once in a while coffee cake is a good thing. This one looks excellent. I haven't got a sour cream one in my routine.
I've also had excellent results with King Arthur Baker's Companion.
- Helene said...
Another recipe for me to try, thank you! I love having a coffee cake around because for some reason, there is always somebody dropping by around when my car is in the driveway...! Looks so comforting!
- Peabody said...
It's a good bandwagon to be on.
- Julie said...
Tanna: I love how I can't even tell the difference when I use ww pastry flour. I think the sour cream really adds a unique flavor in this cake...I hope you try it.
Helene: Yes, this is the kind of cake you can serve at any time of day.
Peabody: It sure is. I can't get enough of this cake. I guess I probably never had a coffee cake before that wasn't store bought, so I didn't know what I was missing.
- Jeena said...
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I was searching for a recipe for starbuck's classic coffee cake and your cake looked exactly like it.
Can i bake this cake in one 9 3/8 * 4 inch angel food cake pan, or will the cake bater be to heavy for a single pan and refuse to rise?
- Julie said...
Hi Rhea,
I don't think it's necessarily the rising that would be the problem. I think the outside of the cake might burn before the inside is done. Of course, I assume this is a tube pan, so that may help. I honestly can't say, but because this is such a dense cake, I would recommend using a standard cake pan. If you have a 9x13 pan, that would be a much closer approximation to the 2 round ones--the baking time may be slightly shorter. If you only have one round pan, you could halve the recipe. I hope that helps!
Hi julie,
thank you very much for your comments.
I live in california and the local trader joes grocers does not carry king arthurs pastry flour. do you order it online.
I did try out the sour cream coffee cake without the pastry flour(in a tube pan). came out very well, like you said the outside of the cake browned more than the inside , but delicious.
- Julie said...
Rhea, glad your cake turned out! The whole wheat pastry flour I use is actually made by Bob's Red Mill, and I buy it at my local Whole Food's Market. If there's a Whole Food's near you, they have tons of interesting flours. I use King Arthur mainly for my other flours, and you can order their products online, which I often do. The original recipe for this cake only calls for AP flour, so that's no problem at all! Using WW pastry is something I often do in baked goods to add more fiber and nutrition and because I can't really tell any difference in the flavor when I substitute it for some of the AP flour.
Hi Julie,
Thanks a lot for your comments.
Finally, I baked this cake with king Arthur's AP flour and pastry flour. Fantastic foolproof recipe!
- Julie said...
Hi! I'm so glad this cake has worked out for you. It's been too long since I've made it, and I really need to do it soon. Thanks for sharing your experience with the recipe. i love to hear how others fare--good or bad--and it's a big help to other people who are thinking about trying the recipe too!
Thanks again for reading the blog!
- chic cyclist said...
Thank you for this recipe. Like you I never "got" coffee cake, but my husband LOVES it. Hopefully this will be something we will both enjoy. Thank you for sharing this!
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Cyclist: I'm so glad you guys like it! Thanks for your comment.
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40. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.SteveG(AudioMasters) Apr 14, 2012 8:16 AM (in response to Kost7)
Rewire perhaps - but not MIDI.
41. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.Paul_Ferguson Apr 14, 2012 8:56 AM (in response to SteveG(AudioMasters))
I know about your opposition to the MIDI idea (I respect it, even though I don't share it), but I'm curious about why you'd say 'maybe' to Rewire.
42. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.SteveG(AudioMasters) Apr 14, 2012 10:37 AM (in response to Paul_Ferguson)
Rewire only inasmuch as it can run an external MIDI sequencer - no need for it to go any further than that, and even that's too far really.
43. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.richlepage Apr 14, 2012 10:58 AM (in response to _durin_)
As I posted over at Audio Masters, this looks great -- and thx so much for advising it will still run on XP,
since we run AA on multiple systems and all are currently XP SP3. Do keep us posted as to when
we can get it and cost for the upgrade from CS5.5 - will def. do that
The template feature also seems it will get a lot of use at our studios. For a long time, we have done sort of the
same thing via several workarounds to make various often-used templates (sort-of-templates at least)
with default assignments, busses and sometimes plugs loaded (UA, Izotope, Waves, "AA native" and others)
and set to often used starting settings. We also use many diff workspace templates all the time for
various tasks.
Recall and repeatability are big things for a lot of what we do. It's very often essential with many
projects to be able to go back - even years later -- and get everything back exactly
as it was to then add or re-version something to/from those sessions/projects.
Sometimes clients want to add new material or make changes even inside bits of existing stuff.
And thx for putting back stems exporting (sep files) - a key feature for us - also for Colin's explanation (at Audio
Masters) of enhancements to it -- ditto grouping and several others we really missed in 5.5.
One other thought for possible inclusion later.:
A split and append feature for SESX files, so that you can split a long m/track project into two
(or more) sub-projects (as sometimes dense projects grow even denser as they progress!)
You would designate a split point on the timeline and AA would ask you to provide a new name for
each resulting "sub project".
Everything to left of split point becomes new project 1 and everything to right new project 2, and
perhaps the command provides default names which user can override and enter their own pref.
And then an append feature would simply let you append another SESX project to an existing
one at the end of the existing SESX, or perhaps again at a point on the timeline you select, and
in that case it would insert the other project you specify into the project you are appending it to.
With some of the more recent projects we've been doing using only CS5.5 being more than
4 hours long, this feature would come in quite handy.
A very old hardware/software system we still sometimes use for making CD masters provides that feature and
we've often made good use if it.
Hoping too that maybe we'll be again able to use the Frontier Alphatrack with the new version,
though maybe that will need some work by the Frontier Design Group folks first.
I don't think Alphatrack is fully Mackie protocol compliant, but I'm not sure. It does work pretty well
with AA3- though some features are not implemented. (their AA2 files on their website for
Alphatrack work with AA3) www.frontierdesign.com
Frontier's answer on unimplemented stuff was always that because Audition did not expose those
parameters to ext control, they couldn't implement them at their end -- but since
the architecture changed greatly when AA moved to CS5.5 perhaps that's no longer the
Maybe the Adobe folks could dialog with the Frontier people on that to see what they need?
Anyhow, bravo on this and will look fwd to being able to use the new stuff when it becomes
available -- and to having the old stuff back too.
44. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.nahravka Apr 14, 2012 9:59 PM (in response to richlepage)
Is there 64-bit version ?
Is it possible to hide TABS (to make my small monitor BIGGER) ?
45. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.SteveG(AudioMasters) Apr 15, 2012 4:26 AM (in response to nahravka)
nahravka wrote:
Is there 64-bit version ?
Is it possible to hide TABS (to make my small monitor BIGGER) ?
No 64-bit version this time. No you can't hide tabs either - that would be pointless! A new monitor will cost you less than Audition will these days...
46. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.C.R.Helmrich Apr 15, 2012 5:34 AM (in response to SteveG(AudioMasters))
Hi Steve,
since Adobe doesn't seem to want to answer my GUI related questions, and you seem to be a beta (or even alpha) tester, can you help out please and tell me whether the following issues have been addressed in CS6?
1. earlier in this thread (I posted this 3 days ago):
"For CS 5.5 I had reported two Edit-view related display bugs (spectral display "dB range" value not saved properly, spectral drawing hick-ups when switching between files). Also, compared to Audition 1.x I noticed a slower live-update of the Frequency Analysis window (i.e. less updates per second) when playing a file. Does this mean all three issues have been solved in the course of implementing the above 3 bullet points?"
2. What I am missing... (I posted this 11 months ago):
"I already submitted two bug reports, and in addition I'd like to mention that the Preferences check box 'Synchronize selection, zoom level, and CTI across files in the Waveform Editor' doesn't cover the vertical zoom level (neither in time nor in spectral view), which it did in version 3. Is there a special reason why this IMHO very useful feature was omitted? Did you just forget about it?"
3. Zooming in Spectral Frequency Display (I also posted this 11 months ago):
"vertical zoom states of waveform and spectrogram in Edit view are not saved when switching to a different file. You have to manually define the zoom state for each file, which makes it very difficult and time consuming to e.g. directly compare two files at user-defined vertical zoom levels (by switching back and forth).
Windows XP SP3, x86. Is this a bug or a feature? It used to work in AA 3 (and 2 IIRC). The horizontal zoom state is kept when switching between files (assuming the corresponding option in the Preferences is checked)."
Maybe I should clarify: at work (and at home) I use Audition to compare waveforms and spectrograms of different files by switching back and forth. I am an audio codec developer at Fraunhofer IIS. So fixing the above 3 issues directly translates into me saving time at work.
Thanks in advance,
47. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details._colin_ Apr 15, 2012 7:56 AM (in response to C.R.Helmrich)
Hi Chris, likely we just missed your post above, we're not trying to avoid it certainly ;-)
I would like to have someone validate against our work history this cycle and see if indeed resolved any of these and respond. I'm not in a spot where I can do the research, so have to rely on someone who can.
RE: using AGM (your post above) is around to improvements draw performance for static items (fonts, lines, etc) and likely does not improve specifically feq analysis panel, but that does not mean there wasn't an improvement there that I'm not aware of.
48. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.Admiral Cook Apr 15, 2012 8:58 AM (in response to _durin_)
WMA read/write supported on CS6?
49. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details._durin_ Apr 15, 2012 9:56 AM (in response to C.R.Helmrich)
Hi C.R.,
1. The dB scale preference is properly retained when closing Audition. This bug was resolved and I've verified it again this morning. I don't have any specific data on the Frequency Panel frame rate, but if I recall correctly from performance testing, the panel usually achieves at least 30fps in most circumstances. I'll investigate a bit further when I'm in the office Monday and see what I can find.
2 & 3. Horizontal Zoom level and Time/Marquee selections are maintained between files for both Waveform and Spectral view when switching between files with the "Synchronize" preference enabled. Waveform vertical zoom is not. Again, let me double-check the feature description and check-in notes when I'm back in the office to verify.
50. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details._durin_ Apr 15, 2012 10:01 AM (in response to Admiral Cook)
Admiral Cook,
WMA import is supported on all platforms. WMA export is unsupported at this time, though Creative Suite users can write native Windows Media formats with Adobe Media Encoder. Proper WMA support remains in our feature backlog and will be prioritized as planning begins.
51. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.Charles VW Apr 15, 2012 10:10 AM (in response to _durin_)
re: WMA
(follow-up to what Durin mentioned)
On mac, you'll need Flip4Mac just like in Au CS5.5. On Windows, import of WMA is supported without third-party components, but you'll need to turn on DLMS in the Preferences panel.
52. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.SteveG(AudioMasters) Apr 15, 2012 1:42 PM (in response to C.R.Helmrich)
C.R.Helmrich wrote:
Hi Steve,
since Adobe doesn't seem to want to answer my GUI related questions, and you seem to be a beta (or even alpha) tester, can you help out please and tell me whether the following issues have been addressed in CS6? (et seq...)
Only just seen this, but from memory also (unless I go and turn on another machine and play around for a while), I think Durin's nailed it. I don't think that waveform vertical zoom has ever done what you want it to - in order to do that, I believe that the display would have to be re-established at that zoom level every time you went back to the file, and you wouldn't actually save any time at all. What appears to be optimised is the establishment of a basic spectral display. If I wanted to do what you seem to be attempting to do, I'd open-append both files into one display, and put markers at the points I wanted to compare - it's relatively easy to hit those quickly, and under these circumstances the zoom level will remain the same.
53. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.C.R.Helmrich Apr 15, 2012 5:00 PM (in response to SteveG(AudioMasters))
Thanks, Colin and Durin, for double-checking. Looking forward to your reports.
And thanks, Steve! The open-append approach you describe sounds like a good work-around. But this must be done manually, right? i.e. I cannot open-append via drag-drop of files onto files already open in Audition, or can I? Regarding
"I don't think that waveform vertical zoom has ever done what you want it to":
You're probably right. So, Durin, Charles, et al: how about adding synchronized vertical waveform zoom to the feature list? (if it's not on the list already, of course.) I know that Audition 2.x (and 3.x IIRC) sync'ed the vertical (frequency) zoom in spectral view, and I hope this feature is re-established in CS6 (is that what you're indicating, Steve?) Because otherwise I have to manually zoom in on each file in the same way (or have to manually open-append, as suggested), which is precisely where I lose time.
54. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.ryclark Apr 16, 2012 3:15 AM (in response to C.R.Helmrich)
If you Open Append to New then you can select all the files you want to compare to open at once.
55. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.Admiral Cook Apr 16, 2012 8:47 AM (in response to _durin_)
Thanks for your answers, Durin and Charles.
I hope you'll update it soon to read/write WMAs like version 3.
56. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details._durin_ Apr 17, 2012 1:29 PM (in response to _durin_)
New post on the blog about the enhancements and changes to Audition CS6 effects workflow:
http://blogs.adobe.com/insidesound/2012/04/adobe-audition-cs6-effects-vst3-side-chains-and -more.html
57. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.Eric S 1 Apr 17, 2012 3:51 PM (in response to _durin_)
It is welcome news that the developers have worked to clean up the VST sorting. I have plug-ins that would not work in CS5.5 because of their perceived channel count but worked in all other versions of Audition.
58. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details.drjee2012 Apr 23, 2012 3:13 AM (in response to _durin_)
reading through the list of added features I suppose the following is still missing:
- find beats
- beat, CD track, CD index, and BWF-J markers
- rejoining split clips
- loop recording of multiple punch-in takes
- video thumbnails in multitrack sessions
or am I wrong?
59. Re: CS6 Production Premium revealed. Audition CS6 Details._durin_ May 7, 2012 8:51 AM (in response to _durin_)
Hi everyone!
Adobe has gone live with all of the CS6 applications, including Audition! Grab the 30-day trial from http://adobe.ly/IrXfBa and dig into it. There has already been a great response over twitter since launch, but I'd love to get feedback from our forum crew as well. Feature Comparison matrix is available at http://www.adobe.com/products/audition/buying-guide-version-comparison .html


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In an earlier post, I argued that the biggest beneficiary of Huckabee dropping out was Mitt Romney. This argument was based not on my assessment of the popularity of Romney's increasingly contradictory policy positions with Republican voters. Rather, my argument is that in most of their competitive nomination races since WWII, the Republicans have nominated the guy who's turn it is. That is, they have a strong tendency to nominate someone who has run before and usually someone who was the first runner up in the previous nomination round.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
More On Romney and the GOP
Posted by Raised By Republicans at 12:03 PM
12 comments:
- Dr. Strangelove said...
Just a quick note... If I read this correctly, new Republican rules should make the IA, NH, and NV contests award delegates proportionally, for the first time.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Yes, you read that source correctly. I read another source (which on further inspection is less direct in its wording) to say the opposite. In the end, though the Republican party can't even enforce the dates let alone the delegate selection methods of these contests so if the Iowa Republicans want to have winner-take-all, they can. It would just tick off the national party.
In any event, that one feature is hardly fatal to my overall assessment.
- Dr. Strangelove said...
RbR, my apologies--my message was rather too pithy. I didn't mean to imply that the rules change (if true) would have any significant bearing on your analysis. It makes good sense to me. Moreover, Romney has a lot more campaign experience and has his own money to put into the race, if he wants it.
I still think though, that Palin will take the nomination if she chooses to toss her hat into the ring. I confess don't have any analysis here... It's mostly gut. I just feel strongly that she is the only Republican candidate with any excitement factor. She can claim to represent the Tea Party faction too, and having Bachmann in the race helps because she is so out there she makes Palin look reasonable. Her lack of experience on the federal level will be much less of an issue since (except for Bachmann) none of the other candidates have experience on that level either. Most importantly, none have served in the military or can credibly boast of any serious foreign policy credentials. Finally, her dreadful performance with the press last time can really help her... Expectations are so low that all she has to do is put in a credible performance in the first debate, and the pundits will fall all over themselves talking about how great she is.
Oh yes, she has huge negatives, and I feel fairly confident that Obama would trounce her in the general election. But Obama has a good chance of winning no matter what--which is precisely why so few big names are bothering to run. And that leaves the window open for Palin. My two cents :-)
- Dr. Strangelove said...
Oops, I forgot about Huntsman. He does have some reasonable foreign policy experience. But as for the rest of his candidacy, perhaps the fact I forgot about him speaks for itself...
- Raised By Republicans said...
Dr. S. I didn't think your comment was anything but helpful.
RE: Palin. She's in the polls I reference and by in large is not even in striking distance of Romney (unlike Huckabee and, briefly, Trump - both of whom have dropped out). And given her constant media attention, it's hard to argue that her lagging position in those polls is because people aren't fully considering her possible candidacy or don't know who she is or what she is about. It's also worth noting that when Huckabee (the highest profile social conservative) dropped out, it was Romney's numbers that spiked, not Palin's. That leads me to think that Palin is just stalled at about 10% support in a crowded field and might get up into the teens if someone like Bachman dropped out. But really, I think Sarah jumped the shark when she walked away from the Governorship in Alaska.
Which brings me to Bachman. Bachman's participation in a real problem for Palin. Bachman is from rural Minnesota and is very well known to Iowa's Republican activists. Iowa would otherwise be Palin's best place to shine. I've even heard from reasonably well informed political scientists from Minnesota that Bachman is smarter than she lets on. Basically, they think the crazy outbursts are Bachman's play at imitating Palin (a weird twist on Palin imitating a Minnesota accent).
I think you're right about Romney being boring. But both parties pick the boring guy quite often.
- Dr. Strangelove said...
The latest national Gallup poll has Romney at 17% and Palin at 15%, with nearly a quarter of the voters undecided.
Among Republicans, Romney leads in terms of cutting government spending--the issue that Republican voters consistently have listed most commonly as their highest priority. Palin leads on social issues, and they are essentially tied on the others (economy, national security).
- Dr. Strangelove said...
Here's the correct link to the main poll results (the other was a link to deeper analysis).
Gallup attributes the apparent lead of Romney and Palin to their high name recognition among Republicans--and little else at this point. They note that Huckabee and Trump were leading last month, for the same reason.
- Raised By Republicans said...
This would qualify as being in the "a lot can happen between now and February" column.
Palin being within in striking distance of Romney is a new development - perhaps a lagged response to Huckabee dropping out?
The bad news in that poll for Palin is that her support is concentrated among non-college graduates. That type of voter is far less likely to vote in a primary than are the college graduates - who support Romney at twice the rate they support Palin.
Romney's lead holds among self described conservatives and among self identified Republican partisans (a result that is consistent with the older polls from Iowa that I reported).
It's perhaps counter intuitive that Romney's lead over Palin is slightly bigger among weekly church goers. The conventional wisdom is that Palin is the champion of the religious conservatives and that this same group will be negatively disposed towards Romney because he is Mormon. Romney really surges among Catholics.
If I were a Palinista, I'd be cautious about assuming this surge by Palin represented anything substantive. I think Dr. S is right about how this is being driven largely by name recognition. At this point, only the nerdiest political junkies or the most committed political activists are following this race. Also, I'm starting to see a pattern where we see a series of people assume the role of the "Not Romney" candidate and surge for a while only to fade away leaving Romney to wait for the next one. Palin is one inappropriate statement away from collapsing.
Also, I think Palin would be made mincemeat of if she actually had to face a real challenge from a motivated opponent. Imagine a debate between Sarah Palin and someone stage full of smarter, more experienced Republicans highly motivated to take her down. If she has the guts to actually run (a big question in my mind since she walked away from the governorship), I think she'll start to fade after the first televised debate.
- The Law Talking Guy said...
Romney wins NV because of its mormon vote. NH for propinquity to MA. SC is his acid test.
- Raised By Republicans said...
He's ahead in Iowa too. But yes, NV and NH are relatively friendly ground for him I'm sure.
- Dr. Strangelove said...
Another poll, the first from its organization after Huckabee and Trump departed, has Romney and Palin tied at 16%, consistent with the Gallup survey.
The coalitions are clear however: Romney's strength is in the more moderate voters, Palin does well in the very conservative wing. It looks to me that Romney has a lot more room to grow. The question to me is whether he has enough charisma to turn out the less ardent conservatives in sufficient numbers to overcome an energized conservative base, which one could expect a Palin candidacy would have a fair chance of delivering.
- Raised By Republicans said...
Those numbers are a real problem for the GOP. They don't have anyone who, like GW Bush, could appeal to the base and independents. Palin works for the base but she "scares the normals."
In any case, Romney has the inside track to get the nomination and his problem is that the base looks at him and yawns.
I think Palin won't actually run. She's already getting what she wants (money and attention) without subjecting herself to annoying things like interviews, debates and investigative journalism. But if she does run, I think the other Republicans will eat her alive in a debate.


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Halloween Pennant cooling off.Nikon D700 with Sigma 150-500 and Sigma 1.4 teleconverter. Shot handheld at 1/160 sec at 500mm...that optical stabilization stuff is magic.
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Beautiful shots Jack,What macro setup are you using?Dave
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CHICOPEE, Mass. – On the strength of a balanced attack, the nationally-ranked No. 13 MIT men's volleyball team defeated Elms College, 25-15, 25-8, 25-18, on Thursday night. With the win, the Engineers improved to 3-3 on the year while the Blazers suffered their first loss of the season which lowered their ledger to 4-1.
Junior Ken Siebert (St. Louis, Mo.) tallied eight kills, a .412 hitting percentage, four aces, and four digs while senior Matt Hohenberger (St. Louis, Mo.) posted seven kills, four digs, and two blocks for MIT. Senior Patrick Vatterott (St. Louis, Mo.) registered five kills and two aces as freshman Tavish Smith (Oceanside, Calif.) connected on four of his five hitting attempts and added three blocks. Junior Paul Syta (Fairport, N.Y.) compiled 26 assists, five digs, four kills, and four blocks while sophomore Chris Omahan (Mount Vernon, Ohio) tacked on two aces. Freshman Brendan Chang (Laytonsville, Md.) powered the defense with a match-high 12 digs.
Elms built a 4-1 lead to open the night but the Engineers generated a 14-3 run courtesy of Siebert's strong serving. MIT maintained a comfortable cushion throughout the set as the Blazers trimmed the deficit to seven on five occasions, the last at 21-14. The Cardinal and Gray picked up the next three points as a Siebert ace resulted in set point. A hitting error extended the frame but Vatterott replied with a kill to give the visitors the win.
The Engineers carried the momentum into the second stanza as they recorded the first nine points, capped by a Vatterott ace. An Elms kill ended the run and led to an exchange of points that moved the score to 15-5. MIT went on to record 13 of the final 16 points as it clinched the set on a strike from Omahan.
The early stages of the third set were closely played as it featured five ties before kills from Syta and Hohenberger along with a Vatterott ace put the Engineers in front, 10-7. The Blazers picked up the next two points but this was as close as they would get as Hohenberger and sophomore Andrew Busse (Mount Prospect, Ill.) helped ignite an 11-3 run that established a 21-12 lead. The rally began with a four-point spurt that saw Hohenberger earn a pair of kills as Busse added one of his own while the duo collaborated for a block.
Despite the deficit, Elms continued to attack and narrowed the gap to five (22-17). Freshman Andrew Hochstadt (Roselle, Ill.) and Hohenberger thwarted the comeback attempt by registering a block as a hitting miscue by the Blazers resulted in match point. A serving error kept Elms alive but an errant attack by the hosts gave the Engineers the victory.
MIT returns to tournament action this weekend when it travels to Nazareth College for the Golden Flyer Invitational. The Engineers will face No. 11 Medaille College and Elmira College on Saturday, Feb. 2 before taking on Southern Vermont College and host No. 5 Nazareth the next day.


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HIV-infected persons who have peer educators are more likely to adhere to their medical treatment plans, according to researcher Maithe Enriquez, associate professor at the University of Missouri Sinclair School of Nursing. Adhering to medication regimens allows HIV-infected individuals to live long, healthy lives, but previous studies indicated that only half get medical care or follow their treatment plans.
"Being 'peered' is different from being doctored, nursed or counseled," Enriquez said. "The peer educators in the intervention also have HIV, which gives them insider perspectives. Perhaps, the belief that only those living with HIV can truly understand what it's like to live with the disease contributes to the meaningful connections between the educators and the patients struggling to adhere to treatment."
Enriquez evaluated 15 peer educators' insights into their roles in patients' treatment progress. She found that peer educators felt they provided patients with more than just education about medical adherence; they also acted as role models, motivators, and advocates. Peer educators worked with the patients to recognize and overcome barriers that prevent them from taking medicines and going to medical appointments. The peers and patients set goals and develop strategies to help the patients defeat their challenges.
Enriquez believes peer-led interventions potentially can enhance HIV care and HIV-related health outcomes. "The encouraging thing about HIV care is that patients can remain healthy if they are engaged in their care, and their viral loads decrease, which makes them less likely to spread the virus to others," Enriquez said. "Adherence to care and engagement in care go hand in hand. Having HIV is not a death sentence if patients follow their treatment plans."
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Below is a link to download the US Department of Education's (ED) 2003 Activities Inventory. The inventory was prepared in accordance with the FAIR Act, OMB Circular A-76, its March 1996 Revised Supplemental Handbook, and other OMB guidance. This year's inventory includes the number of ED Full-time Equivalent (FTE) employees performing functions that could be considered commercial in nature as well as functions that are inherently governmental. After review by OMB, the Department is hereby making the inventory available to the public.
Several years ago, the Department undertook an aggressive effort to contract out its major activities. Contractors now perform the following activities:
- information technology support, computer center, network and telecommunications operations;
- debt collection;
- training and development of ED staff;
- student financial assistance services;
- grant proposal review;
- parking and shuttle bus services;
- library services;
- copy center services;
- warehouse and publication distribution;
- call centers, hotlines and public inquiry services;
- mail room services, and
- research and special studies.
As a result of its effort to outsource, ED's FTE staff dropped from approximately 7,500 in 1980 to its current level of around 4,620. ED is the smallest Federal department.
2003 Activities Inventory
The 2003 inventory file contains the following information:
|Activity Inventory
|List of Commercial and Inherently Governmental FTE by Office and by Activity
|Responsible Official Information
|Principal Operating Component Descriptions
|Regional Office Locations
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The inventory is available in MS Excel format.
2003FAIR.xls (212K) - US Department of Education 2003 Activities Inventory in MS Excel format.
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Under Section 3 of the FAIR Act, ED's decision to include or exclude a particular activity on or from the Commercial Activities Inventory is subject to administrative challenge and appeal by "interested parties." Section 3(b) of the FAIR Act defines an "interested party" as:
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IDS12: Toronto's Interior Design Show
Now that the holidays are over, we're getting excited for Canada's largest Interior Design Show, IDS12, at the end of January. Last year we loved the exhibition "Sibling Revelry," which showcased four living spaces constructed by Canadian sibling design teams. Another favorite was "Studio North," a show within a show of new works by independent Canadian designers and ateliers.
"Studio North" returns for its 10th appearance at IDS. This year brings the special exhibit "How Do You Live," a cutaway two-storey building with six rooms each designed by a different Toronto design firm. The exhibit highlights the international condominium development trend from the perspective of Toronto's designers.
Shown in the images are some of my favorites from last year's IDS11. Are you planning to attend IDS12? The show will run from January 26 to 29, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, located at 255 Front Street West.
• IDS12 website
• IDS11: Sibling Design Celebrities & Canadian Premiers
• My Favorites from IDS11
• New Northern Lighting Designs
Images: Rachael Grad


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Did You Know?
Congenital heart defects are America's and every country's #1 birth defect.
CHF logo designed by Amanda Haley
CHF logo designed by Amanda Haley
The Children's Heart Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that funds the most promising research to advance the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of congenital heart defects.
The information in ChildrensHeartFoundation.org is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help or advice but is to be used only as an aid in understanding congenital heart disease.
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Staples overwhelms McMahon
WESTPORT -- Brien McMahon running back Trevon Forney said after Friday night's game against Staples that the Senators knew they had to have positive plays from the beginning to keep up with the high-scoring Wreckers.
Down 7-0, the Senators got exactly what they hoped for as Forney -- a speed threat who scored three touchdowns of more than 79 yards two games ago -- ran the team's first play for 64 yards to the Staples' 20.
But the run was called back for holding. A subsequent delay of game penalty made it 1st-and-26 for the Senators, a foreshadowing of the steep uphill climb that soon awaited them as Staples burst out to a 49-0 lead at halftime before winning 55-14 in a soggy setting at Staples Stadium.
"We needed positives from the beginning of the game," Forney said. "The fact we had a long run and then it was taken back, I just think that messed up the whole momentum of the team."
On Staples' second drive, running back Nick Kelly ran it in for 17 yards, his first of three touchdowns of the half. McMahon fumbled the ensuing kickoff, setting up Staples at the McMahon 15-yard line. After a 14-yard pass from Staples quarterback Jack Massie to wide receiver James Frusciante, Kelly punched it in again and the Wreckers were off, ahead 21-0 with 6:21 left in the first quarter.
Staples scored on all seven of its first-half possessions. The Wreckers had five plays of more than 20 yards, and also plays of 18 and 19 yards, respectively.
"The O-line played fantastic and the defense really came together, so it was awesome," Kelly said.
Staples had 479 offensive yards at the half, McMahon only 20.
"I don't know that we can play any better than we did tonight," Staples head coach Marce Petroccio said. "Our kids came out and we were hitting on all cylinders on both sides of the ball. The fact that their first long run got called back I think took the wind out of their sails. But I don't think anyone was going to stop us tonight."
The Wreckers had no trouble spreading the success around. In addition to Kelly's three first-half touchdowns, Staples got rushing touchdowns from Massie, Joey Zelkowitz, Patrick Lesch and Zack Speranza.
"It unraveled very, very quickly," McMahon head coach AJ Albano said. "We had a couple turnovers, a couple penalties. We talked about playing perfect football and we played far from perfect. Sometimes a game takes a life of its own, and this one just ran away and we couldn't catch up."
Down 49-0 at the half Albano challenged the Senators to play with character.
"I told them, `It's easy to be a good leader and it's easy to be a good teammate when you're up 41-14. Your character is measured by how you respond in times of adversity.' Obviously being down 49-0 at halftime is as close as you can get to adversity. So we talked about having 24 minutes left and how your character would be measured. So we did an OK job and kept up the fight. But that is a really good football team. They're not ranked in the Top 3 in the state for no reason. Obviously we have a long way to go to compete at that level."
If Staples had won by more than 50 points, Petroccio would have been subject to a one-game suspension under CIAC rules. He admits it crossed his mind. He took out his starters, but he urged the backups to play hard.
"I don't want to make a mockery of the game," Petroccio said. "I like coach Albano, we have a good relationship. I put the JV in and said, `If you have a chance to score, don't fall down, score.' But I think we were doing all the right things. It's always a concern, but at the end of the day I don't want to embarrass anyone. And I think that taking a knee and falling down is a heck of a lot more embarrassing than just playing. So we played and everything worked out fine."
Staples 55, BRIEN McMahon 14
S--Joey Zelkowitz, 4 run (Liam Gilmore kick)
S--Nick Kelly, 17 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Kelly, 1 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Massie, 18 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Patrick Lesch, 48 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Kelly, 9 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Zack Speranza, 25 run (Gilmore kick)
S--Tyler Tsang, 7 run (Knee taken on conversion)
M--Kyle Jordan, 1 run (Henry Limon kick)
M--Trevon Forney, 45 yard run (Limon kick)
Records: McMahon 2-1; Staples 3-0.


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Beefeater London Dry Gin
Review: Beefeater London Dry Gin (78.5/100)
a review by Chip Dykstra (Aka Arctic Wolf)
Originally published in July, 2011
(Revisited May, 2014)
Beefeater London Dry Gin is currently produced in Kennington, a district of South East London, in the United Kingdom. The company has roots stretching back to 1820 when the Chelsea Distillery was constructed on Cale Street and served as the first home for Beefeater Gin. The founder of the company, James Burrough, was not born until 1835, and it was not until about 1876 that the Beefeater brand was created from gin produced at the Chelsea Distillery. Over time the brand has changed locations twice, first in 1908 to Hutton Road, and then in 1958 to its present location in Kennington.
The Beefeater Gin website lists nine ingredients which are used to flavour the gin: juniper from the hills of Italy, Siberia and Macedonia, Seville orange peel, bitter almonds, ground orris root, coriander seeds, angelica (seeds and root), licorice and lemon peel. The list of ingredients is a pretty good list for a flavourful gin, and it will be interesting as I sample the gin to see which of the botanicals shine through the gin and which remain undiscovered by my nose and palate.
In the Bottle 4/5
I have seen Beefeater sold in two styles of bottle in my locale, a 375 ml rectangular flask style bottle (pictured to the left), and the more traditional tall bar room style bottle (pictured below). The label is eye-catching and displays the English tradition of the spirit very well. As usual, I am not pleased with the metallic pressed on screw cap but this quibble is minor in nature especially as the price of Beefeater Gin is not a large burden on the wallet. The economical nature of this gin means I will not be harsh in my judgment.
(I should note that the Beefeater Gin sold in Canada is a 40 % abv spirit. All of the reviews I have seen online for this spirit indicate a 47 % abv spirit. I believe this difference has major consequences for the gin which are discussed in the review.)
In the Glass 8/10
I poured a small amount of gin into my glass and saw that it imparted long slender legs that fell rather quickly back into the glass. The gin is clear to the eye, and everything is as I expect it to be for a quality gin.
As I sniff the glass I get the impression that I am going to find the Beefeater Gin to be a very laid back and gentle spirit. Soft piny notes of juniper arise beside predominant scents of orange and lemon citrus. Because I know what other botanicals are used in the gin's construction, I am able to discern some notes of coriander and very faints wisps of licorice. I am not sure I would have discovered these scents in a blind examination.
As I said earlier, the nose is gentle and laid back, but I find myself wishing for just a little more of an alpine scent than what is present.
In the Mouth 47/60
The gentleness that the Beefeater Gin displays continues into the mouth with a flavour that is so laid back that I find myself disappointed. Although I normally do not want my gin to be extremely aggressive with the piny juniper flavour, I do want something more than I am receiving on my palate. The gin is laid back to the point of being boring. A light bitterness flows through the gin; but, it does not carry much rich juniper flavour with it.
Do not get me wrong, I do taste juniper, citrus peel, and vague ghosts of other flavours, but for me there is no 'pop' to this expression of London Dry Gin, and I have downgraded the score accordingly. I wish that the 47 % abv spirit was available in Canada. This higher alcohol level would cause more concentrated flavour and aroma which this spirit desperately needs.
As is my normal course of action I constructed a few cocktails to assess the gin in its more familiar form. My go-to gin cocktail is my own Key Lime Gimlet. The result was a cocktail which tasted good, but I would be exaggerating if I said the gin shone through the cocktail.
In the Throat 12/15
The exit is smooth and laid back with no additional energy or thrust from the spirit. In fact the Beefeater Gin is, in the finish, much the same as it was when I inspected the aroma and the flavour. It is laid back to the point of being uninteresting. I want more flavour, and I want more 'kick' if I am to give a high score.
The Afterburn 7.5/10
I was really looking forward to sampling and tasting the Beefeater Gin, as I had read so many good things about its flavour and mixability. I can only say that rather than finding a robust gin which pleased me, I found a rather limp spirit full of mediocrity. I continue to wonder about that 47 % abv, I have read about in other reviews. My bottle clearly says 40 % abv, and I believe that is at the crux my disappointment. You have to add about 18 % more water to bring a spirit down from 47 % abv to 40 %. That added water dilutes the flavour and the aroma, and in my case I am sure, it diluted my enjoyment.
You may read some of my other Gin Reviews (click the link) if you wish to have some comparative reviews.
Suggested Recipes
Heaven's Staircase
2 oz Beefeater Gin
3/4 oz fresh squeezed Grapefruit Juice
1/4 oz Grenadine (splash)
fresh Mint
Add the Gin, the Grapefruit Juice, a fresh Mint Leaf, and splash of Grenadine into a Metal Shaker
Shake until the sides of the shaker turn to frost
Strain into the rinsed cocktail glass
Garnish with a fresh Mint Leaf
Please consume this cocktail responsibly!
Beefeater and Tonic
1 3/4 oz Dry Gin
1/2 oz Fresh Lime Juice
3/8 oz Sugar Syrup (or to taste)
2 oz Q-Tonic
Cucumber Chunk
Add the first three ingredients into a rocks glass
Stir and add ice
Fill with Q-Tonic
Garnish with cucumber
Enjoy Responsibly!
Note: If you are interested in more of my original cocktail recipes, please click this link (Cocktails and Recipes) for more of my mixed drink recipes!
My Final Score is out of 100 and you may (loosely) interpret that score as follows:
0-25 A spirit with a rating this low would actually kill you.
26-49 Depending upon your fortitude you might actually survive this.
50 -59 You are safe to drink this…but you shouldn't.
60-69 Substandard swill which you may offer to people you do not want to see again.
70-74 Now we have a fair mixing spirit. Accept this but make sure it is mixed into a cocktail.
75-79 You may begin to serve this to friends, again probably still cocktail territory.
80-84 We begin to enjoy this spirit neat or on the rocks. (I will still primarily mix cocktails)
85-89 Excellent for sipping or for mixing!
90-94 Definitely a primary sipping spirit, in fact you may want to hoard this for yourself.
95-97.5 The Cream of the Crop
98+ I haven't met this bottle yet…but I want to.
Very loosely we may put my scores into terms that you may be familiar with on a Gold, Silver, and Bronze medal scale as follows:
70 – 79.5 Bronze Medal (Recommended only as a mixer)
80 – 89.5 Silver Medal (Recommended for sipping and or a high quality mixer)
90 – 95 Gold Medal (Highly recommended for sipping and for sublime cocktails.)
95.5+ Platinum Award (Highest Recommendation)
2 Responses to "Beefeater London Dry Gin"
March 25, 2013 at 4:28 pm
Dear Arctic Wolf,
I very rarely (if at all) make comments on websites. However, reading your article I thought you might be interested in my own personal observations:
40% ABV – your description of the 40% is accurate, the aroma and taste is muted, no doubt due to greater dilution with water. I spent the first 4 decades of my life in the UK and this is what I had come to expect of Beefeater. The 40% ABV is the most prevalent strength provided by Beefeater around the world.
47% ABV – now I reside in the USA, the Beefeater here has a difference. The strength of aroma and taste bursts out, making it a classic Gin for the real Gin lover. However, there is a small price to pay – the higher alcohol reduces the smoothness. Do not mistake this in saying it is rough, for this is not the case, it just isn't quite as smooth as you might find in other Gins. The 47% ABV strength is only provided to a few markets, USA and Japan in particular.
Distillery Location – apologies for this pedantic comment but I thought you might like to check a mistake, a mistake which is easy to make given the close spelling. The distillery is in Kennington, a district of South East London – I perhaps have relatively unique insight into this, I spent several decades living only a few miles away from this business.
I trust this helps, perhaps with the exception of getting your hands on a 47% ABV bottle!
Kind regards, David.
The Complete Gentleman


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The Messy Paint and Play Playtime at Hello Little Artisan
Suitable for Children Age 1-5
Cost: $160.88 (parent/carer is included in the price along with administration fees.)
Sessions Available: Thursday 10:45am-11:45am & Friday 10:45am-11:45am
At Hello Little Artisan we understand the importance of children engaging in sensory and creative play. Each session is set up with stations that will inspire children to use their curiosity and creativity to explore different textures and materials. Each child will benefit from the opportunity to make their own choices regarding the art and craft equipment by either painting, mixing, cutting, gluing, constructing, moulding and experiencing a variety of sensory materials.
Each child will begin to make their thoughts visible through their own creative explorations. They will develop gross motor and fine motor skills and gain greater vocabulary through the conversations with their parents/carers and teacher.
Hello Little Artisan is a place where we focus on the process of making and creating, not the final product. This is a place where it's ok to be messy!
What is provided:
* All art, craft and sensory materials
* Smocks for children and aprons for adults
* Out door area for messy play
* Garden Studio for quieter activities
* Toilet and clean up facilities.
* Plenty of space for prams.
* Breast feeding friendly
* Age appropriate activities
* A qualified teacher (Bach. Ed) with a passion for art and craft
What you might like to bring:
* Clothes that can get messy
* A curiosity for messy play and the desire to make and create.
PLEASE NOTE: Parents/Carers must remain with their child on the premise at all times. Street parking is available. When you arrive please enter through the side gate and you will see the studio.
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A ketubah is part of any traditional Jewish wedding ceremony. It is an official document in which the future husband declares his vows and responsibilities for his new wife. The ketubah is signed in the presence of a rabbi and witnesses on the wedding day.
The ketubah is usually decorated with traditional Jewish symbols and love and union symbols, making a paper made ketubah a lovely piece to frame and hang at home.
Here, you will find lovely ketubot, with colorful illustrations and agreement in both Hebrew and English printed side by side. You can gift any of the ketubot as a wedding day gift to friends and family.


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This is a good one. My kids even love it.
I use the Wide jar with my Blendtec for the recipe and it makes 2 XL glasses and 3 mini ones for the kids. Feeds the whole fam! :)
Stuff blender with LOTS and LOTS of greens. All the way full! I buy bags at Costco and put them in the freezer so they don't go bad.
This part is key...it hides the taste of the greens and there is awesome health benefits to eating ginger and lemon.
Add a few cups of water
Juice of 1 lemon
1-2 T. fresh ginger
1 dropper of stevia
BLEND very well!
Frozen Banana
Frozen Strawberries
Frozen Pineapple
Substitute banana with half a can of coconut milk
Substitute pineapple with an orange


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There is always some nervous tension when someone starts a new job. Am I going to like it? Am I going to be any good at it?
There is always some nervous tension when someone starts a new job. Am I going to like it? Am I going to be any good at it?
And, if that person's leaving a job, especially one he likes, that makes it even tougher. If he doesn't like the new job, will he regret leaving the perfectly good job behind?
Mark Holcomb faced that dilemma seven years ago. He had an opportunity, after coaching North Davidson football for four years, to take a pay raise and, possibly, a lifestyle raise and accept an assistant principal position at North. It was a natural transition; growing up in Arcadia and graduating from North, Holcomb bleeds black and orange.
But it didn't take long for him to figure out administration wasn't for him. A lot of coaches say, when they move up to administration, they're hoping to see their children more, spend more time with their families. But that doesn't appear to be the case, by much anyway.
Whereas coaches usually have an offseason — if you only coach football, the winter and spring should be much more relaxed — there is no offseason for administrators. No matter what the function is at the school, the administrative staff has to be there to make sure nothing crazy happens. Every football, soccer, tennis, wrestling, track, baseball and every other kind of game that's played, an administrator has to be there.
Another tough part about moving to administration is the required shift in loyalty. Seeing Jonathan Brown at North Davidson for two years, and now at Ledford, is odd. Brown graduated from Central Davidson and spent his entire adult life working at the school, until he went into administration. That nudged him to North, and now he's the main man at Ledford.
That's like seeing Jerry Walser head somewhere other than West Davidson, or Matt Griffin leave Welcome for another school. It just wouldn't seem right.
For Holcomb, he knew his heart was in Welcome. Being in administration taught him that his heart was on the football field in Welcome. After a two-year stint with Tasker Fleming as head coach ended, North tapped Holcomb, who jumped at the chance to return to coaching.
Whether he came back with a renewed energy, whether he learned something from watching for a couple of years or whatever, Holcomb came back better than ever. The Knights started winning those Central Piedmont Conference games they could never win before.
They figured out how to beat Davie County, and West Forsyth, and Mount Tabor. But they couldn't figure out how to win in November.
Until now. Holcomb, for the first time in his career, will have to cut his Thanksgiving meal short Thursday. He'll have to head to work, getting his team ready for the 4-A state semifinals. North hosts Porter Ridge in what should be a tasty treat at 7:30 Friday night.
Holcomb's just glad, this time he'll be on the sidelines, not at the top of the hill near the concession stand, making sure everything is running smoothly in the parking lot and the stands. This time, all of his attention will be on the field.
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