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Need fruitcake/Christmas stollen recipe......please fellow chow hounds!!!
i'm searching for good fruitcake or stollen recipe. Ate a great one a couple years ago and can't get it out of my mind!!!
This is the one we do (although, in truth, most years we buy a rich fruit cake for Christmas)
Here's my MIL's recipe for fruitcake. It weighs about 7 lbs when it comes out of the oven.
1 lb. butter
3 cups sugar
10 eggs
2 tsp. vanilla
4 cups flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp. mace
1 tsp. salt
1/2 lb each of red candied cherries, green candied cherries, red candied pineapple, green candied pineapple, all cut
1 lb. golden raisins
1 qt. pecans
1 qt. walnuts
Cream butter and sugar together, Add eggs and vanilla, beat well. Sift dry ingredients together, add to creamed mixture and beat well. Stir in fruits and nuts. Pour into large tube pan that has been greased and lined with heavy paper. Bake at 275 for 2 to 2 1/2 hours or until tests done. Drizzle with apple brandy. Cool. Wrap in plastic wrap and store in cool place in airtight container to "ripen". About 1/2 hours before cake is done, brush the top with light corn syrup. Decorate with fruits and nuts. Return to oven for final baking. This is a light-colored fruit cake.
re: vafarmwife
Looks good and if I decide to make this recipe I'd like excellent not run of the mill candied fruit but excellent. So my question is who sells real fresh candied fruit?
re: scunge
Dutch Valley
I just started to buy my ingredients to bake some.
Edited to add - there is Fruitcake and there is Stollen. They are two very different "animals".
My recipe is very close to Dresdner Marzipan Stollen.
Ingredients for 1 large or 2 medium size Stollen
500g Raisins I usually mix dark and golden Raisins
125g Currants (if not available, substitute dried Cranberries or different brands of Raisins)
100g diced candied lemon peel (Citronat)
100g diced candied Orange peel (Orangeat)
250g peeled slivered or sliced Almond
1/4 liter Milk
175 g Sugar ( I use Sugar and Honey 1:1 ratio)
500 g unsalted Butter
120 g fresh yeast (2 cakes) or 6-9 packs of dry yeast
3 eggs
1.5 kg all purpose flour (bread flour is best) have more flour on hand, depending on size of eggs, temperature etc., this will vary upwards.
about 250 g Almond paste
about a cup of Rum
(grated lemon peel)
about 200g slightly browned unsalted butter to pour over the still hot loaves
lots of powdered sugar for sifting on top of buttered loaves ( resembling snow layered on
firewood) One can add a touch of Vanilla sugar here
The evening before soak fruits and Almonds in Rum. (Place into bowl, pour slowly Rum over the mixed ingredients. Mix well every so often.
Baking day
Have all ingredients at room temperature
In a large bowl place the lukewarm milk and crumble in yeast. Add a touch of sugar and flour and mix. Let yeast dissolve and rise a bit. It should be foamy. Then add slowly eggs, flour, butter, sugar/honey, lemon peel. If the dough gets firm enough to handle, turn onto kneading board. Flour the fruits and Almonds separately a bit and add to the dough. Add the Almond paste in small pieces. While kneading, adjust the amount of flour, do this until the dough is firm and smooth and doesn't stick anymore. Let it rest for an hour or so, punching it down once in a while. Then shape dough into thick oval slice and fold lengthwise. Make a cuff from aluminum foil (take long piece and fold twice lengthwise) and place around the oval loaf. Use a pin to hold it together. This will give the Christstollen its traditional form.
Let rise in the pan again (ca. 20 min.) and bake at 335 for about 60 - 80 minutes on middle rack. Adjust this according to your individual oven.
Remove the Alu-cuff and pour the very hot gently browned butter over the hot Stollen. Then, using a spoon, grind the confectioners Sugar through a sieve, layer-on the sugar to about 1 cm thickness. Add vanilla sugar if you like.
Wrap tightly when cooled down in aluminum foil. Next day find a cool spot to store them.
Prepared like this, these Stollen will last for months.
re: RUK
Fruitcake and stollen share candied fruits/nuts in them, but are very different. As you see from the posted recipes, Stollen is a yeast based, light-crumbed bread, while fruitcakes are flour/leavener/egg risen.
I am a dark fruitcake girl.. will look for my recipe for you, but the above one is pretty good. As you say, a lot of the quality comes from the good candied fruits. I get mine at a place in Seattle called Big John's PFI. Fine imported angelica, pineapple, golden raisins, etc.
I marinate my fruits in a combo of brandy & rum for a week before baking. Then, after baking I wrap each loaf (I use small disposable loaf pans so I get a number of loaves from a recipe so I can give them away. A small loaf goes a long way as you slice thinly and it is RICH!) in cheescloth, and brush with brandy. The loaves then go in a big popcorn tin to ripen. This is the stage that makes them awesome; let age for at least a month, brushing the cheescloth weekly with more rum/brandy. They can be aged for several months. I like to make now, and keep for at least 6 weeks of aging before starting to gift them.
Sometimes, when I am readyto unwrap them and prepare to gift/serve, I have rolled out marzipan to cover the loaves, and decorated them like wrapped gifts with marzipan ribbon and little marzipan leaves. So pretty! Or just wrap in nice cellophane and ribbon.
re: RUK
RUK, I'm going to try baking Christmas Stollen for the first time. My impression is that it gets better w/a little time, like fruitcake - am I wrong about that? Anyway, I'm always late.. (was late for my own wedding, probably will be late for my funeral, too, hahaha). This is a combo of all things I love: almonds, citrus peels & dried fruits soaked in booze - in fact, I have some cranberries I have had soaking for a long time (was going to use them for my biscotti). Guess I'll throw those in, too.
Thanks for sharing - will tell you how it turns out!
This is the recipe from my mother (who is German). This is a Christmas tradition with her and she gives away stollen to friends and neighbors every year.
Go to store.
Buy some Bahlsen Stollens (with the marzipan filling)
Take them home.
Remove shrinkwrap.
Rewrap in aluminum foil.
Give to neighbors and tell them they are homebaked.
Omit the fact that the "home" in which they were baked was actually a factory.
re: nofunlatte
I'm with nofunlatte's mother on the stollen - not sure if it's the exact brand, but we get a German stollen here in Bermuda that is all lush and marzipanny deliciousness.
Fruitcake, however, I make, and like Harter's it's an English recipe - Jane Grigson's country Christmas cake - except it's Bermudian to soak all the fruit in black rum starting next weekend. That late, great Laurie Colwin describes it as:
"Country Christmas Cake has a rich deep taste, as complicated as a brocade or tapestry, and makes a person think of those magnificent aged Sauternes....Hands down, it is the best I have ever made--and also the best I have ever eaten."
It is light on candied orange peel and glace cherries - and heavy currants, sultanas, raisins, preserved ginger, apples cooked down to mush, dark marmalade...it's serious fruitcake
re: nofunlatte
Love it, nofunlatte.
re: nofunlatte
hahaha - too funny about your mother's 'recipe'!!
I had an dear aunt who passed away quite a while ago. I'm Italian on my mom's side, but my Aunt Lucy did not like to cook at all. Well, my mom giver her some of her own homemade manicotti & she knew that Aunt Lucy served them to guests, telling them she made them herself.
I miss my aunts - and my mom - all the more around the holidays... we had some awesome Christmas celebrations at her house when I was a kid. Now that my own are close to starting their own families, I hope to be the one with some awesome celebrations. :D
I really like this tropical fruit fruitcake recipe, but then I love tropical flavored anything. It's just your basic fruitcake recipe with tropical substitutions:
2 c. dried tropical fruit mix (pineapple, mango, and papaya)
2 c. dried dates, chopped
1 1/2 c. pecans
1 c. raisins
1/2 c. red marachino cherries
1/2 c. green marachino cherries
1/2 c. shredded coconut
1 c. flour
1 c. sugar
3/4 t. baking powder
3/4 t. salt
1 1/2 t. vanilla
4 eggs
Heat oven to 300° F. Line large loaf pan (9 x 5 x 3) with aluminum foil; grease foil with shortening.
Mix all ingredients. Spread in pan.
Bake about 1 hour 45 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. If necessary, cover with aluminum foil during the last 30 minutes of baking to prevent excessive browning.
Remove fruitcake from pan, in the foil, to a cooling rack. For a glossy top, immediately brush top with light corn syrup. Allow loaf to cool completely and become completely firm before cutting, usually about 24 hours. Wrap tightly and store in refrigerator for up to two months
Family recipe, my third cousin once removed's wife Clara's (a lovely lady and a fantastic baker, cook, and gardener, sadly long gone). From a recipe card in my mother's hand, signed Love, Mom/1975.
CHRISTMAS CAKE (Clara's) - the rest of the (...) are my emendations (Canadians tend to call fruitcake Christmas cake)
2 lb bleached (golden) raisins
1 lb red & green (candied) cherries
2 lbs mixed (candied) fruit
3 rings pineapple (I use dried from Kam Man, haven't seen candied pineapple for sale recently)
almonds and pecans (the almonds always home-blanched, the amount of nuts up to you)
2/3 lb butter
2 c sugar
5 eggs
3/4 c milk
3 c flour sifted before measuring (I don't, i measure a bit light)
Prepare fruit (dump into your biggest bowl and stir together). Mix with 1 c flour. Cream butter, sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Add milk alternately with flour. Stir in fruit (I put the cake mixture into the bowl with the fruit and squish it all together with my hands). Allow to stand overnight (raw eggs be damned). Bake in covered tins (I cover them with foil - mom) at 275 deg F for about 3 hours. Remove foil for last hour.
This makes enough for 3 5x9 in pans. I coat them with Crisco and line them with parchment, then grease that - my mom used brown paper bags.
No booze in this but you can do whatever you normally do with it, my mom didn't like liquor very much and did not like it in baked goods at all.
This makes a medium fruitcake(as opposed to light or dark) - almost all fruit.
I wing the fruit as long as I have the same weight.
Let me tell you!
I am a lucky,lucky girl to have a friend who makes and gives Christmas stollen every year. A few years ago she switched to the Rockenwagner stollen recipe after a story appeared in the NYT. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/din...
This thing is soooooooo delicious that even if you're a person who's not into dried fruit you will love, love, love it. I had to beg her to stop sending it to me because I couldn't keep myself away from it.
re: rainey
Thanks for this, I'm definitely making it this year. Sounds truly irresistible!
re: buttertart
It really is brilliant. It has lovely flavor and texture and the slightest satisfying crunch when you bite through the sugar crust.
I haven't had it for 3 years and the memory is still rich in my imagination.
Rockenwagner doesn't do it with marzipan but it would be so easy to roll out a ribbon of it and enclose it in the fold.
re: rainey
I am THERE! MIL and family love Stollen.
re: rainey
Better to knead the marzipan into the dough, I think it works better.
( see my recipe above)
re: rainey
I made this recipe for Christmas and it was soooo good!! My aunt actually took half of it home with her to give out to all of our relatives there. I have since been inundated with requests to make more. I used marzipan in one of the loaves and just folded the dough over the marzipan. It came out very good as well. Oh and I could not find citrus peel here so instead I just used about 1/4 cup of fresh orange zest in place of the peel and it worked out very well. This will now be my Christmas treat contribution every year;)
re: Redstickchef
So glad you enjoyed it. It does have sensational flavor, doesn't it? I like that it's built on a flavorful dough that doesn't rely on the fruit for it's appeal.
I have found candied citrus peel very hard to find as well but it's not all that difficult to make. I do orange peels just after Thanksgiving and I have them for stollen and to dip in chocolate as gifts for Christmas. In addition, both the syrup that you eventually boil them in and the sugar that you roll the candied peels in are bonuses. I use the syrup for pancakes and to sweeten iced tea and the orange scented sugar for cake.
I love that this stollen has primarily naturally dried fruit like cherries and raisins but the candied orange peel adds a lot.
I use James Beard's recipe as a base (American Cooking, something like that), but change it up by using about half whole wheat flour (or more, using Wheat Montana Prairie Gold), and I hate some of the candied fruit, so use dried fruit as well as candied cherries, lemons, oranges. I hate the green things, citron? I also use a mixture of different nuts. I brush either amaretto or gran marnier over it, sometimes making a glaze with some jelly/jam.
Hmmmm.... I may need to go get the stuff today, it sounds great! I like to make mini loaves.
This white fruitcake is very elegant
4 cups flour sifted
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup shortening
2 cups white sugar
1/2 tsp almond extract
1 cup pineapple juice
8 egg whites, beaten stiff
1 lb. golden raisins
1/2 lb green candied pineapple, diced
1/2 lb. red candied cherries, halved
1 lb blanched almonds, chopped
1 1/2 cups shredd coconut
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together. Cream shortening and sugar until fluffy, add almond extract. Add dry ingredients alternately with juice. Fold in egg whites. Mix batter gently with fruits and nuts and coconut. Pour into large tube pan that has been lined with greased heavy paper. Bake at 275 for 2 hours or until tests done. Brush with light rum. Cool and store in airtight container.
The English Tea cake recipe in Nick Malgieri's "A Baker's Tour" (a book every baker should have) is brilliant. Light fruitcake with a layer of almond paste baked into it.
Hmm, perhaps the OP was affected by the recent snowstorm in the North East USA, losing power....?
I have been using this recipe for the last few year and been very happy with the results( and so have our customers http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipe...
I make a couple of changes.
Bitter almond essence instead of the extract
Some lemon and orange zest
re: chefj
I should probably mention that I grew up in the former East Germany, so when it comes to Stollen, I am more geared to the old traditional recipes of that region and I am baking them myself for over 40 years.
Now I have never known a homemade Stollen to contain Bitter Almond essence or extract, on the other hand it is commonly added to store bought Stollen.( available here in the USA) I think we look for that nice "almondy" flavor too but rather add a good quality Almond paste instead.
I can taste the difference between store bought and home made simply by the addition/omission of Almond essence or extract and it doesn't hit me in a good way, since many years ago high quality ingredients were not always on hand, so a baker had to use essence instead of the real ingredient. So there is the mental association of a perhaps lesser product. I am not saying that this is so, it is just perceived that way.
Also, we would never add Cardamom and we never add candied Cherries, since Cherries usually go into fruitcake, not into Stollen. Now fruitcake is a typical American cake/bread.
Btw I didn't mention it in my recipe - my Mil used Lard and sometimes even collected Chicken and Duck fat instead of or mixed with the Butter. Using a 50:50 mix of clean Lard and Butter makes for a better texture than just using Butter.
Sorry for just seeing your question just now, I didn't check back on this thread. But I am happy you asked.
re: RUK
Thank you for posting your family recipe but as you must know there are many variations with in Germany depending on where and when the recipe came to be. Some of which do include the ingredients that I mentioned.
I find that the recipes that use marzipan or almond paste tend to be heavier which I do not like personally.
I have an awesome family recipe for a very dark, nut and fruit laden Christmas Cake which weighs like a TON when it comes out of the oven. The batter is mostly there to hold the nuts and fruit together, that's how packed full of goodness it is. It issimilar to a number of ones posted here, except that it also uses pineapple juice in the mix, along with molasses as a sweetner. My hubby hates fruitcake, but love love LOVES this one. I can post it if required, but IMHO the thing that makes the difference is that I age my cake at least a year in our pantry fridge. I baste it regularly and liberally with spiced rum, and flip it over every 3 months. This is the key to a great Christmas cake.
Every year I make a cake, but put it in the fridge to age for a year. There is always one in my pantry aging. :)
My fruitcake ritual: http://acookinglife.typepad.com/a_coo...
I've converted many a fruitcake hater over the years, and currently have to carefully pick and choose who gets to pay $35/each for the few that get sold.
re: GG Mora
Wow, GG.. this recipe is better than mine! I just may have to try yours this year. This is the week for fruitcake baking planning.
I love some of the different ingredients. Burn't sugar essence, cocoa powder. I am in agreement with you about candied fruit, and also use dried apricots, pears, etc. in leiu of those.
re: gingershelley
If you can get ahold of a really good Italian import store, it might be an idea to replace the North American version of candied fruit with the Italian version. I've tried both and let me tell you, the Italian candied fruits are out of this world! I used it when making Pannetone the traditional way in Florence Italy a few years ago. i've never seen these candied fruits where I live, but I imagine a bit of Google research would do wonders? :)
re: GG Mora
Note to GG- on the fruitcake thread, no less! I still make your special grilled cheese sandwich, which you or Mr. Mora came up with as you were getting your season ready for Christmas fruitcake (posts back to 2002 or 2004!!) I just finished a delicious grilled cheese sandwich a few minutes ago, with cranberry sauce, laced with dried fruitcake fruit. Many thanks and good wishes, these years later,
Florida Hound
For a light fruitcake, I love this golden fruitcake from Bon Appetit: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/foo...
I use dried cranberries instead of dates, pecans instead of pine nuts, and cut the marzipan smaller. I've done it in 8 of the mini paper loaf pans for gift giving.
The Delia recipe referred to in the first reply is a bit of an English institution, and the one I make every year for Christmas. If you are after a slightly lighter fruit cake which is perfect without icing (of course you don't have to ice the Delia one, but it would be a bit naked without it!) try a Dundee cake. I make a few of these every Christmas and give them to my neighbours. Here's the Saint Delia recipe:

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I haven't made this yet, but my grandfather is from Hungary, and this is one of our favortie dishes. I just wanted to add that the real traditional way to make this, is an all day project. and the traditional way it is served with is homeade dumplings. that are scrapped throught a dumpling maker then boiled. YUM!! ill have to compare the 2 and see which is better.
Chicken Paprikash
Photo: John Kernick
Yield: Makes 4 servings
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Other: 25 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 811
- Calories from fat: 67%
- Fat: 60g
- Saturated fat: 20g
- Cholesterol: 258mg
- Sodium: 1,040mg
- Carbohydrate: 14g
- Fiber: 3g
- Sugars: 9g
- Protein: 4g
- 1 3 1/2- to 4-pound chicken, cut into pieces
- 1 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced into rings
- 1 red bell pepper, thinly sliced
- 1 cup low-sodium chicken broth
- 1 14.5-ounce can diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 tablespoon paprika
- 1 cucumber, thinly sliced (optional)
- 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar (optional)
- 1 cup sour cream
- Heat oven to 400° F.
Season the chicken with 3/4 teaspoon of the salt and the black pepper.
Heat the oil in a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Working in batches, add the chicken, skin-side down. Cook, without turning, until golden brown, 4 to 5 minutes. Turn and cook for 3 minutes more. Transfer the chicken to a plate.
Spoon off and discard all but 1 tablespoon of the fat. Add the onion and bell pepper and cook for 2 minutes. Add the broth and cook, stirring, for 1 minute. Add the tomatoes and their juices, the paprika, and the remaining salt. Bring to a simmer.
Return the chicken to pot. Transfer to oven. Bake until the chicken is cooked through, about 30 minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the cucumber and vinegar (if desired).
Divide the chicken among plates and serve with a dollop of the sour cream and the cucumbers (if serving).
Tip: This hearty Hungarian dish is traditionally served with flat egg noodles. You can also spoon it over white rice or instant polenta.
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Why is it so easy to throw things away?
Recycling really doesn't take much effort.
Recently a tenant moved out of the apartment building I manage. During the final walk-through I saw that she'd left behind a wall-mounted spice rack, a shelf-and-cabinet unit in the bathroom and a wheeled kitchen cart. She told me her fiancé had all the household items they needed. If no one wanted those things, they could just be thrown away.
I love my new kitchen cart.
It's about 3 feet tall with two stainless steel shelves, four hooks, and a wooden work surface on top. Right now I'm storing a few stealth stock-up items on the shelves, and come December it will be another flat place on which to cool the Christmas cookies that I bake and give as gifts.
This tenant had already thrown out a bunch of stuff, including pillows, a small stereo system, a three-drawer plastic storage unit and a vacuum cleaner. Some of these items quickly disappeared, apparently fished out by Dumpster divers.
young woman is hardworking, and not from a wealthy background. Why was
it so easy for her to get rid of things for which she'd paid good
money? And just over a mile away is a charity thrift shop that would
gladly have taken those items, so why not donate them, or put them on Freecycle?
Maybe she was too frazzled by major life changes -- new job plus wedding plans -- to deal with items from her previous existence. But certainly our throwaway culture helped her walk away with a clear conscience. "Reduce/reuse/recycle" simply can't compete with the consumerist mantra of "buy/toss/upgrade."
This habit starts young
The real bonanza for Dumpster divers, I'm told, happens at the end of the school year on college campuses. Many students don't want to drag home TVs, microwave ovens, beanbag chairs and all the other things they just had to have last September. At least some schools are now organizing rummage sales or making sure the items get donated.
One teacher told me he has friends who "shop" a university's Dumpsters each June. I said it surprised me that someone would throw away even a microwave oven.
"Try a big-screen TV," he said.
Surely that's an urban legend, I protested.
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Part of me is appalled. Part of me wants to prowl the Dumpsters along Greek Row.
Why is this kind of waste acceptable? If you have enough items -- say, a whole fraternity's worth -- some charities might even send over a truck. At the very least, why not rack up some karma points via Freecycle?
Yes, I know that the last couple of weeks before finals are stressful. I'm there right now myself, particularly as regards my Psych 357 class. But students are clogging the waste stream with all those sleeping bags and bookcases and coffee makers -- and come September, they'll go shopping once more.
Then again, they're simply modeling the values they see all around them. When they get their own apartments, they'll know the drill: buy, toss, upgrade.
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The kitchen cart isn't the first item I've inherited from tenants. Sometimes it's because I have to do post-move-out cleanings and sometimes it's because other tenants, like this young lady, dump a lot of ballast when they leave.
Among other things, I've obtained a halogen floor lamp, bath towels, candles, picture frames, a reusable shopping bag, cleaning supplies, a wheeled wooden storage cube, books, a Seattle-themed Monopoly game, gourmet vinegar, mugs, canned goods and a decorative bottle of European sea salt.
Some of those items were sold when my daughter rented a table at a community flea market. Some I'm gratefully using: That lamp provides the illumination I need to study, and the extra bath towels help me to go a little longer between laundry days. (Yes, I washed and bleached them before my initial use. With all the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus floating around out there, it doesn't hurt to be cautious.)
The throwaways that really spooked me were one resident's framed family photos. I couldn't bring myself to take them out of the Dumpster; somehow it would feel like kidnapping. But it disturbed me to see images of the tenant and her daughter smiling up at me from the trash.
If people can walk away from memories like those, I guess it's no wonder that they're willing to dump kitchen carts.
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text: SALISBURY, Md. - A local police force is working to cut down thefts from businesses. Salisbury Police say they are hoping by publicizing the arrests they make for shoplifting, they will, in turn, reduce incidents of the crime.They say that shop-lifters contribute to retailers having to raise costs to cover those stolen items. US retailers report $35 million in stolen merchandise, every day.From September 16th through 23rd, Salisbury Police say they made six shoplifting arrests.Charles-Unique Lomax, 19, of Princess Anne, MDAkia Lloyd, 19, of Salisbury, MDKristy Wallace, 29, of Salisbury, MDLisa Smith, 48, of Willards, MDBrittany Hancock, 19, of Fredicksburg, VADerrick McManama, 28, of Fredicksburg, VAPatricia Dilworth, 56, of Salisbury, MDBobbi Lewis, 35, of Pocomoke, MDMireida Bustos-Magadan, 25, of Salisbury, MDJamar Goings, 29, of Delmar, DEand a juvenile male of Salisbury, MDAll eleven people were charged with theft.


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During a speech at the annual Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund conference this week, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell announced that the U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Criminal Division "recently...more
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It's impossible to understate the importance of strict adherence to procedure when initiating a qui tam action under the False Claims Act. Unfortunately under our legal system, otherwise meritorious claims can often be...more
The U.S. Attorney General recently intervened in a qui tam case brought by a current employee of California-based computer software giant Symantec Corporation, alleging violations of the federal, California, Florida and New...more
On June 25, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had settled with Omnicare Inc. in two matters alleging that kickbacks resulted from below-cost discounts offered to skilled nursing homes as an inducement to select...more
The federal False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the government's primary weapons in combating fraud by federal contractors, federal grantees and recipients of federal benefits. Since 1986, when the FCA was restructured into its...more
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The winner of the Kentucky Derby is owned by the son of a key figure in the corruption trial of former U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Mine That Bird was bought by Mark Allen and a partner for $400,000. The newspaper says the money came from the sale of the now-defunct oil field services business VECO Corp., founded by Allen's father, Bill Allen.
Mark Allen's Double Eagle Ranch of Roswell, N.M., also keeps So Long Birdie, a horse once partly owned by Stevens.
Bill Allen pleaded guilty in 2007 to bribing Alaska politicians, but in a plea deal, won immunity for Mark Allen and other family members. Bill Allen has not been sentenced.
In the Stevens trial last year, the elder Allen testified Mark had paid off an unidentified legislator.
Stevens was convicted last year on charges he failed to disclose gifts and renovations at his Alaska home from Bill Allen, but a federal judge voided the conviction in April, citing prosecutorial misconduct for withholding evidence from both the defense and the judge.
Information from: Anchorage Daily News, http://www.adn.com
(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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After months of accusations and court appearances, all charges have been dropped against Halstad Mayor Steve Sortland. The Norman County Court Administrator's office tells Valley News Live that County Attorney James Brue filed a dismissal on Friday, December 20.
In June, Sortland plead not guilty to two counts of criminal sexual conduct. His former girlfriend accused him of rape after she refused to do sexual acts.
Sortland filed a restraining order against her after he said the woman was confronting his kids and telling them details of the alleged rape.
Sortland is currently on a leave of absence, but has requested for that leave to be canceled. He will be back to his mayoral duties after the next city council meeting.
UPDATED: JUNE 12 5:45 p.m.
Halstad Mayor Steve Sortland made his second appearance in court Wednesday morning, two days after presenting a letter to the city council saying he was taking a leave of absence.
Sortland is accused of pushing alleged victim Kari Robertson to do sexual acts after she refused.
After meeting with his attorney, Sortland walked quietly into the courtroom Wednesday. Once his hearing started, his attorney said Sortland pleaded "not guilty" to all charges.
A few other details were also discussed.
Under the conditions of Sortland's release, he is not allowed to leave Minnesota. But because his attorney's office is in Grand Forks, he has a son receiving specialized medical care in Fargo and most of his family lives in Valley City, the judge permitted him to travel to North Dakota as well.
Next, while on bond, Sortland is not supposed to have alcohol or drugs and is subject to random testing. He is also not supposed to be allowed in places where alcohol is being served, but because he is unemployed and has a job opportunity at a place that serves alcohol, the judge said it would be okay.
The judge also granted a harassment restraining order. Once Valley News Live received a copy of the restraining order, we found out that Sortland filed it against Robertson.
In his petition, he said that Robertson had been confronting his children and had been discussing the sexual acts that took place during the alleged rape.
The restraining order is good for two years. It says Robertson is not allowed within a hundred feet of two of Sortland's residences, and she must stay away from his children's schools.
We tried to talk to Sortland outside the courthouse, but he had no comment. Robertson, not appearing in court, also had no other statements to make even though she came forward to Valley News Live to tell her side of the story after Sortland's first court appearance.
There will be a telephone conference in late July to set up further court appearances.
As for any other alleged victims involved, the Norman County Sheriff says there is still an on-going investigation.
The mayor of Halstad, Minnesota, is taking a leave of absence after being accused of rape. Steve Sortland says he's doing it to protect the good name of the city.
He also says he will resume his role as mayor as soon as his legal issue is completed.
Sortland is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault.
A small Minnesota town's mayor is sitting behind bars. Halstad's mayor Steve Sortland was arrested Monday afternoon after the Norman County Sheriff's Office received complaints of terroristic threats and criminal sexual conduct, both of which are felonies.
Long-time council member Renea Horning says this came out of nowhere. She says Sortland is in his second term as mayor, and, as far as she is concerned, he's done a great job and people in town like him.
The Norman County Sheriff says the first complaint of criminal sexual conduct came in on May 23rd. Then on May 26th the complaint of terroristic threats came in. But they waited until yesterday afternoon to make the arrest because they say Sortland was out of town for the holiday weekend. An officer waited on the edge of town and pulled him over before he made it home.
Meanwhile, council members are sticking up for him.
Council Member, Renea Horning, says, "I'm hoping that all the allegations against Steve can be dropped or come to an agreement because this is a bad deal for Steve and for our city."
Halstad's vice mayor is Shane Carlson, who will have to call a special council meeting to discuss where the city goes from here. That meeting is expected to happen sometime this week.
Sortland is scheduled to appear in Norman County court at 9 A.M. Wednesday morning.


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On his second trip through high school, former C-student Alex Salinas got a lot of A's. He was 22, however, and an undercover narcotics officer going by the name Johnny Ramirez.
Eight months later, the ruse was up, and Exeter, a bucolic citrus-growing community in California's Central Valley, was turned on its ear after a school-day police sweep ended with a dozen Exeter High students in custody on drug charges.
[…] "A lot of jaws dropped when they saw me," Salinas said. "They knew me as that kid at school that they hung around with, and then the next thing they're in handcuffs and I'm in a uniform."
The sting got more attention from the media than a drug bust of 12 students normally would because of something the chief now laments: It happened the same week as the debut of the Hollywood comedy "21 Jump Street," which features — you got it — undercover cops fighting crime at a high school.
[…] There had been no major complaints about drug dealing at the 1,000-student school that sits within sight of the police station, but Bush said he had been thinking for years about doing an undercover sting to send a message.
[…] In the end, large quantities of drugs were not confiscated and none of the arrests involved trafficking significant quantities, though many purchases were for amounts that exceeded "personal use," Salinas said.
"Turns out they were just tiny amounts, but if you've got just one kid dealing drugs at school, that's too many."


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WASHINGTON -- A divided Supreme Court on Monday extended religious-freedom protections to certain for-profit corporations, exempting them from providing birth-control services that are required under the 2010 healthcare law.
In a groundbreaking 5-4 decision, the court concluded that closely held corporations may claim religious rights similar to those enjoyed by individuals. The decision expands exemptions from the so-called contraceptive mandate imposed by the Affordable Care Act. It doesn't affect other insurance provisions in the law, such as blood transfusions or vaccinations.
"Protecting the free-exercise rights of closely held corporations thus protects the religious liberty of the humans who own and control them," Justice Samuel Alito said, writing for the majority.
While the ruling struck a blow to the Affordable Care Act, it explicitly says the decision can't be used as a "cloak" to mask "illegal discrimination as a religious practice."
In her dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg called the decision one of "startling breadth" and stressed the targeted implications of the ruling on women.
"The exemption sought by Hobby Lobby and Conestoga would override significant interests of the corporations' employees and covered dependents," Ginsburg wrote. "It would deny legions of women who do not hold their employers' beliefs access to contraceptive coverage that [the healthcare law] would otherwise secure."
In Florida, there are 26 Hobby Lobby stores — including one in Davie — with seven more planned throughout the state by the end of 2014. There are no Hobby Lobby stores in Miami, but one is scheduled to open in Kendale Lakes Plaza on July 18.
At least one Florida company filed suit in a case similar to Hobby Lobby's, challenging the federal government's plan to cover after-the-fact contraception costs like the morning after pill.
Tom Beckwith, the CEO and owner of Largo-based Beckwith Electric Co., said he filed the lawsuit because he was "not going to stab Jesus in the back."
"I don't believe in murder," Beckwith said. "I'm a Christian and this is one of the big 10 [commandments]," he said.
While employees at his company — there are more than 100 — might disagree with his decision, he said that they understand that the lawsuit was filed for moral and not financial reasons.
Ave Marie University, a Catholic University in Southwest Florida, and the Archdiocese of Miami had also filed suit against the government's regulation of contraception.
Though Monday's decision related to for-profit companies, local religious non-profits were delighted by the ruling. Jim Towey, Ave Maria University's president, said he was "not even slightly surprised" by today's decision, calling the requirement that religious organizations provide contraception a "head-scratcher from the beginning."
In December 2013, Ave Maria's case challenging the government's contraception policy was temporarily suspended awaiting the outcome of the Hobby Lobby case. The university will now reopen its lawsuit following Monday's decision, Towey said.
Likewise, the Archdiocese of Miami released a statement that it is "grateful" for the Supreme Court's decision, and will continue to fight its own case against providing contraception to employees.
"People do not give up their religious freedom when they open a family business," said Archbishop Thomas Wenski in the statement. "They should not have to check their values and religious convictions at the door when they enter the marketplace."
The state of Florida was one of 20 states that filed an amicus brief in support of Hobby Lobby.
Hobby Lobby, the Oklahoma City-based chain of arts and crafts stores, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, a Pennsylvania furniture maker, brought the legal challenge to the Supreme Court.
The owners of Hobby Lobby, who employ 13,000 people in more than 500 stores nationwide, claimed that the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate violated their rights under the First Amendment and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. The latter law, created in 1993, says the government "shall not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion" unless the action is the least restrictive means to serve a compelling purpose.
The court ruled that providing contraceptives without cost is not the "least restrictive" means to achieve its goal, thus violating the religious freedom law.
Employees from corporations with religious exemptions aren't barred from seeking other insurance for contraceptives. The government, for one, could cover the free medications guaranteed under the contraceptive mandate.
"If the government wants to, on its own, go around providing people with benefits, that's not something most of the plaintiffs object to," Hobby Lobby lead counsel Mark Rienzi, of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, a nonprofit public-interest law firm, said during a conference call afterward.
The response to the decision was immediate and appeared to fall largely along partisan lines. Democrats and liberal social groups criticized the decision as a step backward in protecting women's health; Republicans and conservative social groups said it championed the protection of religious freedoms.
The highly anticipated ruling marks the first time the high court has taken up the Affordable Care Act since it upheld in June 2012 the law's important mandate that most people have health insurance.
Miami Herald Staff Writer Monica Disare contributed to this report.


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South Cocoon Drape Cardi
The ideal transitional cover up, this cocoon drape cardi by South is the perfect addition to your casual closet.
As summer merges into autumn a lightweight cover up is on the top of our wish lists. This cute cardi features a worn open design for an effortless, laid back look. In classic black or grey this is a neutral go-with-everything piece, while the bold red option adds fiery flare to your style. With its longline length this cardi is perfect for popping on over trousers and dresses for off-duty chic.
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Savoir Supersoft Crew Neck Cardigan
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South Crew Neck Jumper
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South Supersoft Crew Neck Jumper
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Savoir Crochet Shrug
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Gina's Sangria Margaritas
Recipe courtesy of Patrick and Gina Neely
Recipe courtesy The Neelys
- Down Home with the Neelys
- Total Time:
- 10 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings
- Level:
- Easy
- Sangria Swirl:
- 2 cups Spanish red wine
- 1 cup mango nectar
- 2 shots (about 3-ounces) blackberry brandy
- Margarita:
- 1/4 cup lime juice, fresh or store-bought
- 1/4 cup superfine sugar
- 1 cup white tequila
- 1/2 cup Triple Sec
- About 3 cups ice
- Salt, for garnish
In a 4-cup measure, add the red wine, mango nectar, and brandy. Stir to combine.
Blend the lime juice, superfine sugar, tequila, Triple Sec, and ice together in a blender until smooth. You may need to add more ice to make is slushy. Moisten the rim of a glass and coat with salt, then pour in the frozen margarita. Pour Sangria into the center of the margarita glass and swirl. Repeat with remaining ingredients and glasses.
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7 important benefits of using a full service digital agency
Whether you are using a digital marketing agency based overseas or a London digital agency, there are seven major benefits from employing the services of online design and marketing professionals.
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Everyone is a specialist in their own field but the internet has made us all believe that we can be specialists online too, which is simply not the case. When you hire the services of a UK digital agency, you will be paying for expertise in an area of marketing quicksilver that is impossible to fully comprehend unless it is your job to do so. A London web agency faces fresh challenges everyday when it comes to marketing their clients' products and services online. The internet is a world that is as big as the Pacific Ocean; in other words, it is beautiful when lapping palm-fringed shores with blindingly white sand but hides online monsters such as Great White Sharks and can turn a ripple into a mighty wave that can overwhelm the shrewdest of business people.
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More parents and doctors are on the alert for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) – often simply called autism. They know its symptoms: social problems, communication troubles, and repetitive behavior. This greater awareness may be behind rising rates of ASD, particularly in children ages 6 to 17.
With more children displaying ASD symptoms, scientists are working hard to uncover the causes of the condition. They already know genetics plays a pivotal part. So, too, do other factors. The latest science below helps decipher the origins of ASD.
Some parents have expressed concern about a possible link between too many childhood vaccines and autism. Evidence from a recent study in the Journal of Pediatrics should ease such worries. Researchers compared the vaccine records of more than 250 autistic children with a similar group of children who did not have ASD. They found no connection between vaccines and autism. What's more, it didn't matter what kind or how many vaccines a child received.
We're already aware of the perils of air pollution. It can worsen symptoms of asthma and may even promote heart disease. New research suggests it may also contribute to autism. In the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, investigators looked at historical air quality reports. They matched them with the health records of children with and without ASD. Children born in areas with more air pollution were more likely to develop autism. The leading contaminant of risk: diesel. Living close to busy traffic ways may expose pregnant mothers to high levels of the pollutant.
Studies from around the world have tied autism with older parents. The latest study to investigate this connection used data from the Caribbean country of Aruba. Scientists analyzed the medical charts of autistic children born over a 13-year period. They then compared them with a similar group of non-autistic children. Children born with older fathers – those in their 30s and 40s – were twice as likely to be diagnosed with ASD. A past study based in California found a similar link with older fathers and mothers.
Doctors encourage mothers-to-be to take folic acid. This type of vitamin B helps protect the baby from serious birth defects – and now possibly even autism. According to a recent study, not enough folic acid in early pregnancy may raise a child's risk for ASD. Researchers tracked the health of more than 85,000 children over an average of six years. They asked the children's mothers about folic acid intake while pregnant. Those who took the recommended amount of folic acid daily – 400 micrograms – within the first eight weeks of pregnancy were less likely to have a child with ASD.
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A Vision of a Peaceful World Wins Wander Films IFC's Media Lab Award for Short Films, Airs Sunday Sept. 24
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Most design teams only dream about the recognition and confirmation of their creativity and talent being seen by others. Wander Graphicsâ and Wander Filmsâ creative team of Joshua Clark and Aaron Weber can watch their award-winning film along with hundreds of thousands of viewers at 10:45 pm EST, Sunday, September 24, 2006 on the IFC, Independent Film Channel, when their short, Wander, airs to a national audience.
No stranger to awards, Wander, the short, winner of the Ivy Film Festival for best experiential short film, tells the story of a young boy as he navigates the hard and dangerous streets of the inner city. On his journey he discovers a glass jar with a magic light that leads him into a better world, where anger is transformed into love. Directed by Joshua Clark and produced by Aaron Weber, both graduates of the School of Visual Arts bring these creative skills to their work in Wander Graphics, www.wandergraphics.com
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For a short film, Wander, has garnered a lot of attention and has been selected for numerous national and international film festivals including, Chicago, Rhode Island, Atlanta, and most recently, the Australian Film Festival. The film is also available for viewing at Wander Films, www.wanderfilms.com and on the Media Lab website at www.ifc.com/medialab The firm transfers the directorâs eye and producerâs vision to all facets of their work, especially photography:
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If Montreal Alouettes fans are researching their team's new head coach Dan Hawkins, one of the first things they'll learn is he's a man with a big personality.
"If you get to know me I can be pretty emotional," Hawkins told TSN's Michael Landsberg on Off The Record.
"I've been very gregarious. I'm a passionate guy. I have a zest for life and all things outside the box."
Hawkins said he has no plans to rein in his personality as Alouettes head coach, the fourth head coaching opportunity of his career and first outside of American college football.
"I think you have to be yourself. I wear my heart on my sleeve and usually, if I'm upset (the players) know it; if I'm happy they know it. Most of the time, I'm happy; I'm a very positive person and I think that's the environment that we want."
Hawkins' first head coaching job was with NAIA Division II Willamette before also making stops with Boise State and Colorado of the NCAA. This is Hawkins' first coaching stint north of the border, and the veteran bench boss knows he'll have his hands full learning the nuances of the Canadian game.
"There's no question it's a steep learning curve. We've got to be able to catch up to that, practice those situations and try to get on board as fast as we can. That's part of the appeal for me, learning a whole new way of doing things."
Hawkins also added that Montreal is a good situation for a first time CFL coach to come in to because of the experience and support system already in place.
"We're fortunate because obviously Jim Popp has been a coach. We have a bunch of guys on our staff, we've already reached out to different guys and we'll continue to reach out."
It's common practice for a new head coach to reach out to the team's veteran leaders shortly after being hired and Hawkins did just that, getting in touch with Alouettes' leader and future Hall of Famer Anthony Calvillo even before his hiring was made official.
"I told AC, 'Look, if it goes down and I am the coach, just so you know here's what I'm thinking.' I just wanted to give him a precursor to what might happen."
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:21 AM
Chris Heppding takes to the air in his adaptive Sno-X race, held during the Winter X-Games in Colorado at the end of January.
Chatfield native Chris Heppding and his family enjoyed their time together at the X-Games. Joining Chris are his wife, Colleen, and his two children DJ, 6, and Danica, 4.
The 2013 Winter X-Games in Aspen, Colo., will go be remembered as the weekend when freestyle snowmobile competitor Caleb Moore suffered a tragic accident and died as a result of his injuries.
Chatfield native and adaptive Sno-X racer Chris Heppding, who participated at this year's Winter X-Games, said, "It affects everybody."
Heppding was racing in his second X-Games and shared his thoughts on the tragedy. "The whole snowmobile community is very tight knit. If you follow it, you know everybody that's in it," he explained.
Moore died on Jan. 31 from complications of injuries he sustained in an accident during the Snowmobile Freestyle Finals event on Jan 24. The death was the first one that had occurred from injuries in an X-Games event.
Heppding shared, "It put a gray cloud over the entire event. It's definitely not what you want to take away from the experience."
However, for Heppding, his second X-Games experience was much more memorable and positive than his first in 2011.
Having flown down to Aspen in time for the beginning of the competitions on Jan. 24, Heppding, his wife, Colleen, and his two children, DJ, 6, and Danica, 4, were able to spend all the time they wanted around the extreme winter sports world.
"They always enjoy it," stated Heppding. "My son DJ understands more of what is going on, so he loved it."
One of the scarier moments Heppding was a part of, took place during the Snowmobile Best Trick competition. Competitor Jackson Strong's best trick attempt went wrong; he jumped from the sled, which then raced away toward a crowd of people, of which Heppding was a part.
He was able to dive away under a truck to escape the sled and nobody was seriously hurt by the runaway sled, but the event, along with Moore's accident, highlighted the danger in extreme sports.
"There is an inherent risk," stated Heppding. "Humans make mistakes and eventually something is going to go wrong."
He mentioned he thought freestyle snowmobile events will quiet down for a little while, but will still remain popular.
Even with the heart pounding events of the weekend, Heppding still raced. With the expertise of the Arctic Cat factory team behind him, his snowmobile was "top-notch" and his practice runs went well. He and his fellow adaptive racers pulled up to the starting line at 2:15 in the afternoon and according to Heppding, "Everybody brought their A-game."
"The riding was far better than two years ago," Heppding recalled. "The first couple laps were a fight."
Off the course, he said that all the guys are really cool and everybody gets along pretty well, but once the race starts, they are out to win.
The five-lap race for Heppding started off pretty well, with him running in a consistent fourth place for the first three laps. Then, he started to experience something called arm pump. This condition happens when the muscles prevent blood from leaving the arm, which lowers oxygen levels and increases lactic acid buildup.
"I got extremely winded," shared Heppding. "I couldn't brake the entire last lap and my arm was so dead I couldn't take my helmet off when I finished."
The sensation faded and he regained use of his arm, but it taught Heppding a couple lessons. "I need to work on my training for higher elevation."
Heppding isn't sure if this is his last time competing in adaptive Sno-X. "I think my Sno-X days are winding down. Other thing are taking priority," he shared. "I might go back again if they have it again at the X-Games, because this year's experience was phenomenal."
Until next season, Heppding will be spending his time with his family on camping trips in the summer. He plans on going to the motocross tracks as well.
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An Urbana man is facing a reckless homicide charge for last month's death of a University of Illinois student who died when she was hit by a truck as she walked on campus.
The (Champaign) News-Gazette reports Willie Craft Sr. is also charged with aggravated driving under the influence for the Oct. 9 crash that killed Mimi Liu of Chicago.
The junior was studying in the school's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Another student was also injured.
The 58-year-old was cited at the time for driving without insurance and improper lane usage.
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