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Okay – that is just awesome! And I want one!!!!
I would put it in my front lawn – until ultimately a neighbor would complain and I would have to remove it .. But I am sure all the neighborhood kids walking to school would love it!
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I read today on the Huffington Post about this fabulous father-son project that was sold this week on Craigslist for a church fundraiser.
Sadly, this TIE Fighter is now spoken for. Few details are available about the lucky buyer or how much was paid for it. But it got us GeekMoms wondering…
What would YOU do with a TIE Fighter of your very own?
Leave us a comment and let us know! I know what I would do…
I'd be "flying" it in every parade I can — we'd be the hit of every Mardi Gras parade on the Gulf Coast! Doesn't it look like it'd be perfect mounted on a parade float??? Or we take it to the park and let kids sit in it and take their pictures. None of this for money, by the way, just to share the love of Star Wars.
(A GeekMom can dream, can't she?)
Patricia Vollmer is a geeky meteorologist mother of two emerging geek sons, ages 9 & 11. She is currently teaching mathematics at the United States Air Force Academy. Patricia blogs about her family's military life at Ground Control to Major Mom. Home is always where the Air Force sends her family, which for now is in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Hobbies include running, playing her violin, needlecrafts and exploring the world with her boys.
Okay – that is just awesome! And I want one!!!!
Christmas decoration for sure. I'd have Santa with a light saber, Yoda dressed as an elf and a few strings of flashing red lights rigged up to look like laser beams being fired.

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It has been one of, if not THE most talked about issue in the first round playoff series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Memphis Grizzlies – how mightily Kevin Durant has struggled.
The "darling" of the NBA throughout a stellar regular season (one that should see him named the MVP), many have been quick to go on the attack and to criticize his performances so far in the series. The Thunder trail the Memphis Grizzlies 3-2 and face a sudden death game at the Grindhouse and all eyes will be firmly on Durant as they try to stave off elimination. When the Thunder are losing, the fingers get pointed – a lot. Normally, the heat lands on Russell Westbrook or Scott Brooks, sometimes even Kendrick Perkins or the reserves – but rarely does it land at the feet of the franchise star.
It has this time, and those who rode his coattails and lauded his performances throughout 81 games in the regular season, the 25+ point games, the 30+ point games, the comparison to Michael Jordan etc have now gone silent, or worse, jumped off the bandwagon and onto the attack.
Durant averaged 32ppg, 7.4rpg, 5.5apg and shot the ball at 50% from the floor during the regular season on his way to another scoring title, and as mentioned, a likely Most Valuable Player trophy. In the playoffs though, Durant has been faced with a ferocious defensive focus from one of the leagues best defensive groups and specifically Tony Allen, one of the games strongest and best defenders. Playoff life hasn't been easy, and KD has seen those regular season numbers dip. Throughout the first 5 games of this playoff series, Durant is averaging "just" 28ppg (on 40% shooting), 9.8rpg and 4apg.
A great deal of focus is on Durant because the Thunder find themselves trailing in the series. For a player who was transcendent throughout the regular season, the fans clearly expect more – and not wrongfully so. However, while Durant has struggled from the field, he is not the sole reason for the Thunder being behind heading in to a Game 6. Credit needs to be given to Tony Allen and the Grizzlies for the determination and dedication to slowing one of the best players in the game. The Thunder also have to take some blame because they are not knocking down shots or providing much support to their superstar. The slow starts, the missed jump shots, the continued long range bombing – it is all just lazy basketball and won't win you games or playoff series'.
With the eyes of the world all furiously burning a hole in the back of the Thunder's #35, Kevin Durant needs to step up and hit this one out of the park. He has been tormented, manhandled and bullied into tough shots all series long, but he still has a chance to make things right. With a huge Game 6 performance, he can bring the Thunder back from the brink of elimination, take them back home to Chesapeake Arena and once again become loved and adored by the "fair weather" fans.
Kevin Durant needs a solid game. The Thunder need it from him. No-one wants to be the #2 seed that goes home early and the Thunder are no exception. For Durant, he will also be wanting to break free of the criticism he has faced – something that would be irking him and a situation he has really yet to experience throughout his career. He will want to tie this series up, head home and get ready to close it out.
In order to do that though, Durant has to change his mindset. He needs that "KD is not nice" attitude. The snarl, the glare. He needs that chip on his shoulder.
Durant has made a living at the foul line, but in this series, he has attempted more three point shots than free throws. This is an alarming figure as is means the Grizzlies have taken Durant out of his natural game – and that KD is letting them. Durant is almost unstoppable when on his game, but he hasn't been in that space in this series. Game 6 could change all that.
Kevin Durant will be laying it all bare in the Thunder's Game 6 showdown against the Grizzlies in Memphis. Tune in. You can't keep champion players down for long – and this might just be the occasion needed to get the champ up off the canvas.


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In the early years of their franchise, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays were infamous for drafting horribly, selecting a slew of overvalued players who would save them money and crippling themselves for years and years in the process. In the 1999 offseason, they only made matters worse by signing free agents Mo Vaughn, Vinny Castilla, and Juan Guzman, costing themselves their second round through fourth round picks in the 2000 MLB Draft in the process. In that 2000 draft, the D-Rays made one of their typical mistake picks, selecting Rocco Baldelli 6th overall. Baldelli became a fan favorite during his time with the Rays, but signs of the injuries that would end his career prematurely were visible as early as his high school career as he missed much of the year with an oblique injury and the D-Rays completely ignored them. Baldelli had been considered more of a late first round talent because of the severe questions to his durability, but D-Rays selected him nevertheless. The rest of the D-Rays' draft proceeded as usual- badly. Other than Baldelli, just one of the Devil Rays' other picks in the first 15 rounds of the draft made the big leagues: lefty Mark Malaska, who made just 22 relief appearances with the team. The D-Rays also failed to sign six players who would later make the big leagues with other teams, most notably Luke Scott and Nick Blackburn. So what did the Rays get out of the 2000 MLB Draft? Three good years from Baldelli, Malaska's modest contribution to the team, and 64 games from 24th round pick Shawn Riggins as a backup catcher. But we're leaving out one player that changed the course of Rays history forever. Down in the 16th round, the Devil Rays selected a high school right-handed pitcher named James Shields.
In 2000 at Hart High School in Newhall, California, Shields was a well-regarded prospect, leading his team to a California Division II championship in his junior year while showing a good pitcher's frame, a fastball that topped out at 91 MPH, a good curveball, and a feel for a changeup. However, Shields performance dipped his senior year as he dealt with a shoulder injury, and adding in a commitment to LSU, Shields looked like a very tough sign. However, the Devil Rays took a chance on him down in the 16th round of the 2000 MLB Draft and persistently negotiated with him until they convinced him to sign, finally getting him to agree to terms on August 17th, 2000. Shields came with plenty of risk, but down in the 16th round, he was a pitcher with nice upside and the Rays could afford to take the chance. Good thing they did.
Shields made the Devil Rays look like geniuses immediately by selecting him, blowing by Short Season-A and Low-A as a 19 year old as he managed a 2.55 ERA and an 85-15 strikeout to walk ratio in 15 starts and 98.2 IP between the two levels. Shields hit a speed bump the next year when he had to undergo shoulder surgery, but since then he has proven to be everything the Rays dreamed he could become and more, blossoming into the leader of the Rays pitching staff as he helped them to their magical season in 2008, dominated in a remarkable 2011, and became a key contributor to their outstanding run of the last five years. Since the first time he stepped on a diamond at Short Season-A Hudson Valley, Shields has been a revelation for the Rays organization and he did everything he possibly could do to lead the Rays into contention during his time in Tampa Bay. After everything Shields has given the Rays since the start, seeing him in a Royals uniform next season will be awfully tough.
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Bob Costas Mistakenly Thinks America Cares About His Views
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Bob Costas is a sports journalism icon and he has been broadcasting for NBC in some form since 1980 (according to Wikipedia.) He's covered every major sport including the Olympics and has been the voice of some of America's greatest sports moments.
He also has been known to stick his size 6.5 foot in his mouth when it comes to mixing sports and politics, and he did it again at the beginning of the second half of Sunday night's Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys game.
During the intermission NBC aired a story that highlighted the Kansas City Chiefs victory today and the responses, individually and as a whole, to the tragic events that occurred yesterday when Jovan Belcher took the life of 22 year old girlfriend Kassandra Perkins then turned the gun on himself at the Chiefs' complex. NBC highlighted the extraordinary responses Romeo Crennel and Brady Quinn and left it on an uplifting note. Enter Costas.
In his weekly Mr. Rogers moment before the second half kickoff, Costas decided to use his soapbox to give us his viewpoints on gun control, implicitly stating that had Jovan Belcher not had access to and possession of a handgun that he and the mother of his 10 week old daughter, Zoey, would still be among the living.
Costas decided to give us a lesson on what "perspective" really is, although he himself has never had to worry about where his next meal was coming from. Unable to sustain his own voice, Costas used Kansas City's Jason Whitlock's latest article as a shield to his comments, but echoing the sentiment that gun control laws should be stricter in this country and travesties like this would be prevented.
Saying as much is akin to blaming McDonald's, or forks for that matter, for the obesity problem in the United States. The second amendment is sacred among those who have defended the constitution like myself and often disregarded by those like Costas. As I learned in my nearly six years in the Marine Corps, the bad guys never play by the rules anyways. His former colleague, O.J. Simpson, didn't need a gun, did he?
Costas is a sportscaster and should have avoided the subject altogether. Many people tune in to football games for the very same reason the game went on in Kansas City, to forget about life's real problems for a moment and enjoy the game for what it is.
Nobody wins when the narrator capitalizes on a horrible crime that left two people dead and an orphaned child to thrust his political views onto his audience.
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Being a girl is biological. Why would something like wearing a dress creep you out? It's just an item of clothing. Society tells us that it is intended for females but it has nothing to do with biology. It's just tradition. There's no logic or intelligent reason for it. Going against tradition isn't creepy, it is unrestrained. We should all be that way.
Since gender identity disorder is actual quite common it is about 40% likely that they were born a woman in the first place, but yes it can be a bit much
I am really not found of cross dressers either.

You can dress up like a woman all you like, but when it comes right down to it there is a visual test that is quite accurate.
they make great shopping buddies (:
Are you scared that you might be attracted to one?

There is too many men on this planet already, we could do with a few more women. The more the merrier I say!
We have this idea of how a man ought to act, and a guy who acts like a girl is not acting like the norm, therefore, it is only natural to find guys who act like girls creepy.
I dont mix in that circle so I wouldn't really know !
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With J.J. Abrams heading off to a galaxy far, far away for Star Wars: Episode VII, the crew of the Starship Enterprise are in need of a new leader at the helm. Well, according to Deadline, Paramount may have a front runner for the captain's chair.
To stop with the Star Trek metaphors, it seems as though Attack the Block director Joe Cornish is in line for the role of director for the as of yet untitled Star Trek 3.
Cornish has been making quite the name for himself in Hollywood circles with not only the impressive work on Attack the Block but also the co-writing credits he's had with Edgar Wright on The Adventures of Tintin and the first movie of Marvel's Phase Three, Ant-Man. According to Deadline he's already working with Paramount on a big screen adaptation of Snow Crash so it would seem likely they'd be having talks with the former 6Music radio presenter.
If Cornish is to take the job, it would likely he wouldn't have any writing credits due to the script already being in the works by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
Expect to hear some news soon as Paramount is reportedly keen to get started on Star Trek 3 in early 2014.


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What your best Rugelach Recipe? welcome all tried & tru + any filling variations
Rugelach! (IMHO) The pefect coffee companion.
This time of year, I'll double situp reps just to eat as many of these flaky delights as I can. My great grandmothers recipe is a keeper but I would love to expand on filling variations and any tried & true dough tips.
Here's mine:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup unsalted butter
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/3 cup sour cream
1/2 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1/2 cup rough chopped raisins
Cut cold butter or margarine and cream cheese into bits. In food processor pulse flour, salt, butter or margarine, cream cheese and sour cream until crumbly.
Shape crumbly mixture into four equal disks...wrap each disk and chill 2 hours.
Combine sugar, cinnamon, chopped walnuts, and finely chopped raisins.
Roll each disk into a 9 inch round.
Sprinkle each round with sugar/nut mixture. Press lightly into dough. With a knife or pizza cutter, cut each round into 12 wedges. Roll wedges from wide to narrow, you will end up with point on outside of cookie. Place on ungreased baking sheets and chill rugelach 20 minutes before baking.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
After rugelach are chilled, bake them in the center rack of your oven 22 minutes until lightly golden.
Should make about 50 cookies.
re: twodales
Thanks, I welcome the recipe :)
re: twodales
Yes! Their recipe is fantastic. As for variations, I've always meant to try a Nutella filling.
re: Mmmonica
I do this recipe as well and do a nutella-heath bar version that's a huge hit. I spread the nutella -soften it a bit in microwave first as it's very thick - and then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture (you need it as nutella is actually not very sweet and, as you know, the dough has no sugar)and then press in heath bits (they sell them in the bag in the baking section. I use the ones that are just the brittle. Then roll as usual. They come out great.
re: twodales
Here is the para-phrased Cook's Illustrated recipe. You can of course look up the 2 page article via their web site or the library to get the always thorough low-down. (I highly recommend their Danish recipe too!)
These are apricot/walnut (my favorite, but you can easily sub chopped dried fruit: prunes, cherries, cranberries, currants, raspberry preserves and chocolate etc.
Here is the original name in case you want to find the article. The author is Lisa Yockelson.
Crescent-Shaped Rugelach w/Raisin-Walnut Filling
2 1/2 cups (12 1/2) ounces unbleached all-purpose flour
1 1/2 T sugar
1/4 t salt
2 sticks (8 oz) cold unsalted butter, cut into 1/4 " pieces
8 oz cold cream cheese, cut into 1/2" chunks
2 T sour cream
1 cup (7 oz) sugar
1 T cinnamon
2/3 cup apricot preserves (process if necessary to break up big chunks)
1 cup golden (or other) raisins
2 1/4 cup (9 oz) walnuts, chopped fine
2 large egg yolks
2 T milk
Combine flour, sugar and salt in food processor and pulse to mix. Add butter, cream cheese and sour cream, process until dough comes together in small uneven, cottage cheese-like curds. About 15 pulses.
For Crescent-shaped: Turn mixture out and press into a 9" x6" log. Divide into 4 equal portions. Press into a 4 1/2" disk. Between 2 sheets of plastic wrap, roll into an 8 1/2" circle. Stack dough on a plate and "freeze" for 30 minutes (or in freezer bags for up to a month for future baking).
For "Roulades": Roll into four 7" x 11" rectangles.
Stack dough on a plate and "freeze" for 15 minutes (or in freezer bags for up to a month for future baking).
Filling: Mix cinnamon and sugar, set aside. Line 2 heavy rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Working with one circle or roulade at a time, remove dough from freezer and spread 2 1/2 T preserves, 1/4 cup raisins, 2 T cinnamon-sugar, and 1/2 cup walnuts over dough. Pat gently with your fingers.
Crescent-shaped:Cut dough into 8 wedges and roll up from wide to the narrow pointed end. Place 2" apart on prepared sheets and freeze for 15 minutes.
Traditional-shaped (from rolled-up dough[roulade]): Starting from long-side, roll dough tightly into a long cylinder. Try to keep the filling in the dough as much as possible. Trim each end of cylinder to get a nice clean edge. Cut into 1" pieces. Place 2" apart on sheet. Place seam side down on baking sheets and freeze for 15 minutes.
Pre-heat oven to 375F. Whisk egg yolks and milk together and brush this over the tops and sides of "frozen" rugelach. Bake in middle (upper-middle and lower-middle racks) for 21-23 minutes until pale gold and slightly puffy. Rotate baking sheets if necessary as in front-to-back and/or shelf-to-shelf halfway through baking time.
Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon-sugar mixture immediately upon leaving the oven. Carefully transfer to wire rack for cooling. Store for 4 days OR freeze.
These were so, so tasty. What can be bad with butter, cream cheese, sour cream and apricots?
re: twodales
I get why you freeze the dough prior to shaping, but why the shaped cookies before baking?
re: toodie jane
freezing (or refrigerating, which is what I do) cuts down on spread . . . you've worked that dough a bit and it's come up to room temp, most likely - chilling it will yield a nicer-looking, plumper cookie. This is making me hungry!!
re: gansu girl
of course!
re: Atlantis
Costco rugelach remind me of mini danish but I remember tasting the raspberry vers. and liking it. If I remember correctly, they offer a variety pack, yes?
re: HillJ
When they first appeared, they weren't all that great, except for the raspberry, which was very, very good (you have a fine memory!). But, over the years, they've gotten so good, it's almost illegal. My experience with Costco bakeries, though, is that they're top-notch.
I don't think they come in anything except a variety pack. Otherwise, I'd just buy the raspberry.
re: Atlantis
Really? I'll have to tag along on my mother's next trip to costco. The ones at Sam's club are bland, tasteless, foul excuses for calories that leave a thick paste of pastry shortening in your mouth. I love good rugelach. Love. LOVE, I tell you. I'd be very excited if I could buy anything good here in the southwest.
But I guess as a litmus test I should ask--do you actually like Costco bakery cake? That airy chemical-laden stuff that passes for cake covered in buckets of Rich's Bettercreme (definitely not buttercream)? If that's what you like, then more power (and inexpensive cake) to you, but our taste preferences probably aren't a match.
re: modthyrth
I bought them earlier this year - the "variety" is chocolate and raspberry. I found the chocolate to be bitter. The raspberry was better but I would have preferred if the varieties were brown sugar and apricot. Also, I prefer the shell of sugar that you get if the cookies are sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and the Costco ones aren't.
re: Kelli2006
Kelli, question: when you use apples how do you prepare the apple mixture (fresh tiny chopped pieces, sweetened in a cinnamon sauce). Please explain :)
re: Kelli2006
Thank you very much for both tips!
re: Kelli2006
The last time I made them, I couldn't find my rolling pin, so I used a large stoneware bottle of beer that happened to be in my fridge, and covered the dough with a sheet of waxed paper while rolling to prevent sticking. Working with a cold "rolling pin" made the process easier.
re: Kelli2006
I have had great success with the traditional apricot jelly + poppyseeds, chocolate chips, fig jam, walnuts, and once in an attempt to use up leftovers I tried putting apricot jelly with chocolate chips, and it was really delicious and surprising.
I love Lora Brody's recipe, included in RLB's book:
It's almost identical to the Barefoot Contessa recipe.
I kept a bunch in the freezer to bake as desired.
re: Anya L
Anya L..do you freeze the cookies prep'd for baking or freeze just the dough?
re: Anya L
Def. doubling the batch for futuring baking. Thanks for the tips!
re: OnceUponABite
Good to know, thanks OUB!
re: Anya L
Yes indeed! Those are my favorites as well. I freeze them ready for baking but without the milk/sugar glaze. Just bake, right from the freezer, an additional couple of minutes. Really, truly, the best rugelach I've ever had.
re: Anya L
Exactly my suggestion. Any Lora Brody recipe or cookbook is the way to go. Idiot proof instructions, exactly what you can and can't get away with, and what to expect. Mine all went after Katrina, but it's good to see this recipe turn up.
Here's my recipe for Rugelach. It's gotten lots of raves -- it was one of two recipes that my mom always asked me to make for her (a supreme compliment -- she was a great cook.)
1 cup Butter, softened
6 ounces Cream cheese, room temp
3 cups All-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/2 cup Sugar
2 teaspoons Cinnamon
1/2 cup Zante currants or seedless raisins
1/2 cup Chopped walnuts
3/4 cup Jam (apricot, strawberry or raspberry)
1 Egg, mixed with
1 tablespoon Water
1/4 cup sugar, NOT superfine
Combine the butter and cream cheese and beat until well mixed. Add the flour and salt, and mix until completely blended. The dough will be easier to handle if you wrap and chill it for about an hour. I divide the dough into 6 balls and them press them into disks and wrap each in plastic wrap and then chill.
Stir together 1/2 cup sugar and the cinnamon. Add the raisins and nuts, and toss to coat all the pieces.
Preheat the oven to 375 F, and get out some cookie sheets. Keep chilled any dough you are not working on.
Roll 1 of the disks into an 8-inch circle. Spread with 2 tablespoons jam and sprinkle with 2 tablespoons of the sugar-raisin-nut mixture. Cut into 8 pie-shaped wedges (I use a pizza cutter.) Beginning at the wide end, roll toward the point, forming a crescent shape. Repeat with the other disks.
Place the cookies point sides down, about 1" apart on the ungreased cookie sheets that are lined with silicone baking liners.
Mix together the egg and water and brush over the top of each cookie. Sprinkle each cookie with a little of the remaining 1/4 cup sugar or just dip into the sugar to coat.
Bake for about 20-22 minutes, or until lightly golden.
Makes 48 Rugelach.
adapted from a recipe by Marion Cunningham in The Fanny Farmer Baking Book
re: Nancy Berry
Could I make a wanna be rugelach using a brioche dough and spreading on mascarpone or cream cheese, then filling? It is rich in eggs and butter. I've been bitten by the "Artisan Bread in 5 MInutes A Day" bug, and have some brioche dough to use up!
re: toodie jane
There's an absolutely gorgeous brioche cream cheese tart in Baking with Julia that would use that dough up very nicely indeed!
re: buttertart
thanks--I made a coffee ring this am with blueberries, orange marmalade and ricotta. The cheese (I had no cream cheese) was too wet with all the juice from the HUGE blueberries, and the dough spread quite a bit. Still tasty, but I think it was past its prime (dough was over 7 days old)
I'll check out the Julia recipe! here is a variation using choc ganache instead of custard: http://cafefernando.com/the-brioche-t...
Funny - am just sitting down now after an all-day bake-a-thon, including the Barefoot Contessa's rugelach recipe. This was my first attempt at baking rugelach myself - they turned out well, I think (although I'm on sugar-overload from all my taste-testing all day). The family heartily approves of them, for what it's worth. I did 1/2 w/apricot jam and 1/2 w/raspberry. I like raspberry more.
I will also give props to the Costco rugelach - although they're a different breed from my and most homemade rugelach I've tasted - Costco's are more pastry-ish, as another poster said, and they're richer. They do come in a combo-package and raspberry are my favorite there, too.
I've made the following recipe (handed down through two generations although I think the original source was a local newspaper) for years also to rave reviews. Like Nancy Berry, I also use a pizza cutter to divide the dough; but when I'm lazy, I roll the dough into a rectagular shape instead of a circle, and just cut straight strips to roll up as they roll up much faster and oftentimes much neater than when you do it the correct way (crescent shapes). These freeze very well and come to room temperature quite quickly so that they are a good treat to always keep on hand for surprise company or just a nice treat for yourself.
In mixing bowl, combine 2 cups sifted all purpose flour, 1 cup (1⁄2 lb) unsalted butter, 8 oz. Cream cheese. Mix well. Form into 4 balls of pastry. Wrap in wax paper. Refrigerate at least two hours (pref longer). On floured surface, roll each piece into a 1/4 inch thick round approx. 10-12 inch in diameter.
In small mix bowl, mix together, 1/3 cup granulated sugar, 1 tblsp cinnamon, 1⁄2 cup raisins, and 1⁄2 cups chopped walnuts.
Sprinkle mixture onto dough.
Cut into wedges. Roll into crescents.
Spread on greased cookie sheet. Bake in preheated oven at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes.. Makes about 4 dozen.
re: zook
My mother's rugelach recipe is the only recipe I have that I will not, under any circumstances, share. It is, however, pretty similar to zook's.
A few tips and/or suggestions:
Don't waste your time on parve rugelach. If you can't do dairy, bake something else.
Cream cheese is the key.
A cool day and a marble or granite countertop really help in rolling out the dough.
A pizza wheel makes cutting a breeze.
A pie divider, available at restaurant supply stores, make cutting your dough into equal sized triangle fool-proof (for those of us who are geometricly challenged).
Distribute the filling around the outer half of the dough so that when you roll the dough the filling is pushed toward the center, not out onto your board.
Make a double batch. One batch is never enough.
re: rockycat
Thanks Rockycat, I appreciate the tips!
re: rockycat
Brilliant tips, especially that outer half one! Thank you! :-)
re: Aloo0628
My recipe is nearly identical as well. My version variations: 1) the flour needs only to be stirred before measuring and doesn't need to be sifted; 2) use a wooden spoon to completely blend the butter and cream cheese (not creaming it) before gradually blending in the flour; 3) a little less cinnamon; 4) GOLDEN raisins only; 5) they take 20-25 minutes
It's a very easy dough to work with. In fact, other than the rolling of the crescents, they're really pretty easy to make. Just labor intensive, but as zook wrote, they freeze beautifully (and even taste great right from the freezer if you don't have the patience to let them thaw). Always flaky and light. And I completely agree with rockycat that parve rugalech are a complete waste. People who don't think they like rugalach discover they do when they try this recipe! The only comparable ones I know of were from Stern's in Brooklyn.
Tips: A pasty cutter makes for pretty edges.
Place on the baking sheet with the pointed side down so they don't unroll.
re: sugarbuzz
oh my...if we only had smell-o-vision! those variations sounds wonderful.
re: sugarbuzz
sb..your variations are right up my alley. very creative ideas. anything that involves a pistachio gets my attention. thanks.
re: sugarbuzz
Did it work?
re: alybrown
After 2 tries I got it to work. I used cream cheese instead..it was more stable. I took 8 oz cream cheese, 1 egg , zest of 1 lemon & 1 tbl of lemon juice & creamed it. With the rehydrated figs & the pistachioes they were pretty good.
I had totally forgotten to post pics. I just started a new job about 2 days after my last post & just got too busy.
re: sugarbuzz
Good! Sounds like you work. But, what's up with the egg? I see snail recipes that use egg instead of jam and I am confused because I think the egg would make the cookies spoil more quicky.
Are figs and pistachio a yummy filling?
I treid my hand at making it this year and nervouly took it to our Interfaith Hanukkah party. When I advised that I had made the rugalach, I was then asked: what Jewish grandmother taught you how to make these? They are wonderful!
The recipe I used does not have the sour cream that I see in most recipes, but my double batch disappeared quickly.
I used the Cranberry-Pecan recipe from the December 2004 issue of Southern Living.
It's that time of year (again) Rugelach baking! Some of the new variations my partner and I have been road testing include:
crystalized ginger
green tea
caramel and sea salt
caramel dipped
savory herb and goat cheese
red velvet cake (red dough, cream cheese & pecan filled)
We'd welcome a few ideas from Ch's.
re: midtownDiner123
midtown, this is the chocolate rugelach recipe we've used with great success. I would enjoy other versions that use chocolate provided by fellow chowhounds as well.
Also, chocolate dipped apricot rugelach are also very delicious.
re: petitgateau
thx. i made two batches this weekend and had a lot of trouble with the dough. ina garten and brody's recipe are the same - for the dough portion - except that brody calls for more chilling of the dough after it's mixed and asks you to sift the flour. she also provides the ingredients in grams. i approximated 125oz per cup of flour when i was making ina's recipe. i also rolled them on a well-floured surface, increasing the dough. the cookies were not very flakey but they held the shape well. however, i when i did brody's recipe only 114g per cup of flour, i found that the pastries were very delicate (lovely lovely crust!) but barely held shape in the oven. i even chilled 1 batch overnight in the fridge after they had been filled and before baking. those held up to some extent, but not as much as i would have liked (i had to turn them on their sides)
has anyone else had trouble with brody's dough being too sticky? do you increase the flour or mix the dough longer? any tips?? could it also be my cream cheese brands causing a difference in the dough quality? how about the temperature of the cream cheese and butter going into the dough making?
with brody's dough i can roll it into a ball for wrapping into plastic wrapping and chilling but i have to add at least 1oz of flour to roll and shape the dough for the filling. i also definitely need to freeze the dough after it's shaped to hold it's shape.
Suggestions please!
re: midtownDiner123
I've just tried Lora Brody's recipe for the first time, and definitely found the dough difficult to work with. I measured all the ingredients by weight.
I followed advice from one of the comments on Epicurious and rolled the dough out between wax paper (with just a tiny bit of flour on each side) before chilling for the first time. I then let it chill until the next day (unplanned) and took out one wrapped disk of dough at a time, pulled off wax paper from both sides but replaced it onto one of the pieces of wax paper while topping, cutting, and rolling up. A few times, when it got very warm and sticky, I put the dough topped with the filling back into the fridge for a bit before continuing to roll it up. They definitely are not super-pretty, though! No question they are home-baked, not bakery-baked, because they are a bit messy looking. It took me a LONG time to do this, especially since I was making a double batch.
I'm not expert enough of a baker to know whether it makes a difference to the final texture or taste to roll them out into disks before chilling versus after, but the rolling task was very easy this way.
I put most of them in the freezer and will bake them off as I need them over the next few weeks. I left the ones I was baking immediately in the fridge for about an hour after rolling them up before topping them w/milk and cinn-sugar and baking them. I left them in the oven for something more like 22 minutes, instead of 18-20, and they still were barely browned, and are quite soft when cool. I'm interested to see how they "age" since despite the recipe claiming they're best right out of the oven, many Epicurious commentators like them better after they've sat. Very tasty, though! I love the heavy cream cheese flavor. I wish I had thought to vary the filling rather than doing all 8 dozen with apricot-raisin-walnut since I personally would probably prefer some other combos.
ETA: my biggest problem in rolling them up was where they were very thin, and therefore stretched and cracked and made a mess. I'll definitely err on the side of too thick rather than too thin when rolling out the dough if I make these again. I don't know if I'll do this much work again - I LOVE rugelach, but I can get some pretty good bakery versions in the NY area! OH - and just to be clear that by "rolling out" I meant rolling out with a rolling pin the ball of dough and by "rolling up" I meant making the crescents once the dough has the filling on top of it.
This links to the Martha Stewart show recipe for rolled rugelach, sliced 1/4" thick and tossed in cinnamon sugar before baking, so they have a crisp exterior.
I made double the CI Family Baking Book recipe yesterday (first attempt at rugelach, neighbor loves them and had asked me for a recipe). I rolled out the chilled dough between sheets of plastic wrap and chilled them again while preparing the filling (jam, finely chopped walnuts, golden raisins, cinnamon sugar). The directions say to roll out each piece to an 11" circle at which point the dough should be 1/4 inch thick - it was getting thinner than that at 9" so stopped at that point. The dough got very soft very fast (my kitchen is warm) and was a bit difficult to roll up - I used the plastic wrap to assist in getting them going. Cut the first round into 16 triangles which were small and a pain to roll up, the rest into 12 triangles, more manageable. They baked through in 20-22 mins at 375 deg F. (Had mixed jam of several flavors from little Bonne Maman jars swiped from breakfast buffet on holiday - used this for the first 3 circles, the last I used Bonne Maman bitter orange marmalade and walnuts/cinnamon sugar only - this was our favorite of the lot.) A bit fiddly to make, better than any "boughten" ones I've had, but the effort seems somewhat disproportionate to the end product.
re: buttertart
buttertart, I remember road testing rugelach for a good while before I got the knack. Practice did make perfect. Your filling sounds delicious.
Now that I can bake off a solid recipe, I can't imagine buying rugelach. But if you're not planning on making these cookies often, I understand the disproportionate comment.
re: HillJ
It did seem like something you would have to do more than once to get right - and I am not fond of rolling things out. I would chill the dough like mad in order to avoid having to scrape it up off the plastic wrap (using the wrap to get the roll started also helped). The bitter orange/walnut combo is my husband's idea of a next-to-perfect flavor so I see more attempts in my future in any case!
and this caramel rugelach recipe is really good too from the CHOW recipe file.
re: HillJ
Revising this thread for an outstanding savory rugelach recipe worth sharing. Made these earlier today and they are just so delicious:
re: buttertart
buttertart, I adore pumpkin but you know butternut squash or sweet potato would be even better. The recipe recommends all three....so more baking ahead.
re: opinionatedchef
No I haven't, but you're right I should!
Pulling out my older thread to share this recipe. I made a batch this morning and just tried them with a cup of tea. Amazing! The use of red bean paste amused me..an ingredient I have never used IN a recipe and the flavors were terrific.
tomorrow I'm baking a batch from Sarabeth's recipe book. The inclusion of cocoa added to the traditional nut & cinnamon filling is one my son enjoys.
Happy holiday baking!
re: rockycat
Great idea, rockycat!


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McKinley Base Camp
This flight leads right into the heart of the Alaska Range. A pilot favorite, the extra 15 minutes allows you to see:
- All the features of the South Face tour as well as the East and West Faces of Mt. McKinley
- Kahiltna Glacier, the longest in Denali National Park, stretching 45 miles with stunning ridges of earth and ice
- The major glaciers that blanket the southside of the Alaska Range: "The Southside Seven Glaciers": (Kahiltna, Ruth, Tokositna, Eldridge, Kanakula, Buckskin, Coffee)
- Base Camp - where climbers begin their three week journey on Mt. McKinley
- Denali's massive sister peaks: Mt. Hunter at 14,500ft and Mt. Foraker at 17,400ft


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Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) shares reached a new 52-week high on Tuesday , AnalystRatings.NET reports. The stock traded as high as $61.97 and last traded at $61.89, with a volume of 490,453 shares traded. The stock had previously closed at $60.97.
A number of analysts have recently weighed in on RHT shares. Analysts at Wells Fargo & Co. downgraded shares of Red Hat to a "buy" rating in a research note on Friday, August 1st. Separately, analysts at RBC Capital raised their price target on shares of Red Hat from $64.00 to $70.00 in a research note on Friday, August 1st. Finally, analysts at Susquehanna upgraded shares of Red Hat from a "neutral" rating to a "positive" rating in a research note on Friday, August 1st. They now have a $70.00 price target on the stock, up previously from $57.00. Three equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eighteen have issued a buy rating to the company's stock. Red Hat has an average rating of "Buy" and an average price target of $63.50.
The stock's 50-day moving average is $56.8 and its 200-day moving average is $54.42. The company has a market cap of $11.826 billion and a price-to-earnings ratio of 66.27.
Red Hat (NYSE:RHT) last announced its earnings results on Wednesday, June 18th. The company reported $0.34 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $0.33 by $0.01. The company had revenue of $423.80 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $413.97 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $0.32 earnings per share. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 16.7% on a year-over-year basis. Analysts expect that Red Hat will post $1.54 EPS for the current fiscal year.
In other Red Hat news, CFO Charles E. Peters, Jr. unloaded 35,309 shares of the stock on the open market in a transaction dated Friday, August 15th. The shares were sold at an average price of $60.00, for a total value of $2,118,540.00. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's "unemotional and level-headed" approach in tackling the debt crisis is an asset, Volkswagen AG (VOW) Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
Foreign observers "fully admire" the role played by Germany in diffusing the crisis while they are also concerned about the country showing at times a "tendency toward megalomania," Winterkorn is cited as saying in the interview that's scheduled to be published tomorrow.
Most countries want to learn from German labor-market policy, including "how we have managed to make our cars built by such well-trained people," Winterkorn said, according to an advanced copy of the article.
Winterkorn said that developments in Greece remain a source of concern. Doubts whether the country can fulfill conditions set for a financial bailout and whether it can get its economy on its feet "are growing," he said.
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Expert Brackets: What Not to Pick
3/14/07 in NCAABB | CriticalFanatic | respect
However, looking at the expert picks does provide free entertainment. Some were very predictable ... others might not have been sure this was the Men's bracket. Unfortunately the World Wide Leader in sports is becoming the world wide leader in hiding their expert brackets but I do have Bill Simmons and Vitale. (speaking of predictable)
Here's a rundown of the experts final four and bold predictions (aka - what not to pick. Champion in all caps). Check them all out on the Bracket Challenge Leaderboard.
Gregg Doyel (Sportsline)
Final Four - FLORIDA, Kansas, North Carolina, Memphis
What? - Speaking of hate mail. Doyel pretty much mailed in his picks with the choice of Memphis as the runner-up. Not.Going.To.Happen. One of the many experts picking VCU over Duke, and also has Winthrop into the Sweet 16.
Bill Simmons (ESPN)
Final Four - Florida, KANSAS, Georgetown, Texas A&M
Big Ten vs Durant? I'm unsure whether the Sports Guy bashed the big ten or stroked Durant more during this week. No surprise the he also has Holy Cross moving on. Can't blame him, you have to stick with your alma mater when they're only it once every so often (yep, I picked Miami). Picked Long Beach St into the Sweet 16 because of the snoop dog effect.
Dennis Dodd (Sportsline)
Final Four - Florida, Ucla, GEORGETOWN, Virginia
What? You read that right ... UVA in the final four. This isn't lacrosse Dodd, college basketball here.
Dan Shanoff
Final Four - FLORIDA, Ucla, Georgetown, Texas A&M
"IT" Team - no doubt who that is this year, and Shanoff went one step further with Georgia Tech. Elite 8. At least he's acknowledged their inconsistency and prepared for the worst. Outside of GT, I actually have a similar bracket -- Albany over Virginia and Creighton over Memphis. Hope you're right Dan!
Dick Vitale (Duke Network)
Final Four - Florida, Ucla, NORTH CAROLINA, Ohio State
Guess how far he has the Dukies? - Ok, it's not that bad. Majerus was worse. Just beating Pitt and into the Final Four. Pretty much all chalk for Vitale which shouldn't be much of a surprise.
Michael Wilbon (ESPN/Wash Post)
Final Four - Florida, So Ill, GEORGETOWN, Texas A&M
Credit Wilbon for taking more upsets than any other expert. With that said, I think I know he covers the NBA. He has So Ill in the final four, UNLV and VCU into the Elite Eight.
Seth Davis (SI)
Final Four - Florida, KANSAS, Georgetown, Texas A&M
What? - ND into the Elite Eight (which I also have), Nevada over Memphis and was one of the few who went with Oral Roberts.
Also, just thought I'd point out every expert and their mother have picked Wisconsin to lose in the second round. Go ahead and count on the Badgers moving on. VCU is also the popular choice.
So there it is ... use these picks at your discretion. I think we might have to order more of these t-shirts.


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Senate Bill (S) 2
Authored by: Sen. James Banks, Sen. Ron Alting, Sen. Carlin Yoder
Co-Authors: Sen. James Arnold, Sen. Lonnie Randolph
Sponsors: Rep. Edward Clere
Microbreweries and artisan distilleries. Requires that, for a brewery to qualify as a microbrewery, the entire brewing process of the beer must occur in Indiana. Allows a small brewer to sell the brewer's beer to consumers for carryout at a farmers' market that is operated on a nonprofit basis, in a quantity of not more than 576 ounces per consumer at any one time. Allows a microbrewery, with the approval of the alcohol and tobacco commission, to participate in a trade show or an exposition for not more than 45 days in a calendar year. Allows the holder of an artisan distiller's permit that ... also holds a microbrewery permit to hold a retailer permit for a restaurant. Makes an exception to a provision that prohibits the holder of an artisan distiller's, a distiller's, or a rectifier's permit to own, acquire, possess, or cause to be transferred to the holder shares of stock of a corporation that holds an Indiana permit to sell alcoholic beverages at retail, or in a permit to sell at retail in Indiana, or to own or acquire an interest in the business being conducted under the permit, or in or to shares of stock in a corporation that owns a permit to sell at retail.
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Bruins trail Red Wings, 2-1, after first period
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The Red Wings jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first 3:10 Friday, but David Krecji's first goal in 21 games has the B's down by just one entering the second.
The Wings got on the board just 1:10 into the game when Todd Bertuzzi beat Tuukka Rask on Detroit's first shot of the game. Henrik Zetterberg got a secondary assist on the play, giving him 42 helpers on the season.
Detroit's second shot also yielded a goal, as Jiri Hudler hit Daniel Clearly in front of the net, with the right winger picking up his 17th goal of the season.
With the Bruins on the power play, Red Wings netminder Jimmy Howard came out of his net slightly to tend to Milan Lucic on a Zdeno Chara shot. Lucic gained possession of the puck and def it to Krecji, who sent it into the unoccupied net for an easy goal.
The Red Wings outshot the Bruins, 12-7.
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Austerity, capitalism, and suicide statistics (so, trigger warning)
First off: if you're finding things hard generally, feel depressed (link to an excellent blog explaining this is "something that is deeper than sadness. It's stronger and stranger than any sadness you can imagine") or find this piece brings up pain, negative thoughts, or mental health issues, please take a look at:
Counselling for Social Change: "Affordable counselling for all. Support for carers, campaigners and activists"
Activist Trauma Support, and/or the Icarus Project ("navigating the space between brilliance and madness").
You might also want to consider talking to your GP (who should be able to point you to local, affordable counseling of some kind), or the Samaritans. In my experience the latter two, while far from perfect, were ultimately helpful. I have no real experience of the former three organisations, but have read worthwhile things on their websites and they look like the beginnings of a network we desperately need.
Why is such a network necessary? In short, because
UNDER CAPITALISM IT IS EASIER TO GET A LAMB BIRYANI AND THREE TPYES OF DIP TO COME TO YOUR HOUSE THAN A MENTAL HEALTH WORKER— smelly kant (@sadkant)
At greater length, and as the substance of this article: because capitalism and its current favoured euphemistic policy imposition 'austerity' leads to misery and death on a grand scale. And we can do better:
The Body Economic is a book a David Stuckler, MPH, PhD (a Senior Research Leader at Oxford University and Honorary Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine) and Sanjay Basu, MD, PhD. While I haven't read the book (yet, I intend to), I have read extensive reviews. These often describe the central message of the book as being roughly as the article linked in the previous sentence does:
"cutbacks have already had a devastating effect across Europe and North America. Pointing to soaring suicide rates, rising HIV infections and even a malaria outbreak, researchers argue that governments' austerity drives are costing lives"
This is basically common sense. If you:
1. take away the bare minimum safety nets people have (from benefits to access to health and social care free at the point of need),
2. accuse those dependent on such safety nets of being responsible for societies ills ('scroungers'; the 'unaffordable' welfare state, etc),
3. insist people behave only in accordance with your weird capitalist-religious Protestant-work-ethic-related moralistic view of acceptable lifestyles,
4. make survival dependent on well-paid employment in an economic system that relies on low-wage employment and high unemployment to ensure people don't get too uppity about the low-wages,
5. force people to work for no wages in order to continue to access the diminishing provision of a shrinking social safety net, including when they are already suffering mental health issues (fuck Asda) so that corporations can increase profits and the unemployed don't have time to get uppity,
6. rain down batons, tasers, dogs or even the simple indignity of a few hours 'containment' or a night (or longer) in the cells, for those who get uppity, and
7. frequently give those you can't (and probably never thought you would) convict a few months of anxiety waiting for court dates
Who would have guessed? - the effect on health and mental health in particular isn't great.
Recently, there's newspapers have begun to hint that some particular statistical evidence regarding all this in the UK is emerging (there's already too much anecdotal evidence: 1, 2, 3,). That the BBC feel it is necessary to refer to this as a 'mystery rise' is just the latest example of the lengths regime broadcasters will go to to defend established power (and/or what happens when media organisations are chaired by people who have previously engineered election victories for a party of the incumbent government).
Then came this report: "Death rates reports scrapped - puzzling Labour because the latest figures revealed a worrying spike". Puzzling Labour because they don't understand statistics and want to do some half-arsed electioneering, more like, because:
Public Health England will continue to publish mortality rates in its weekly and annual flu reports, which also record deaths from all other causes and use internationally recognised methodologies to record death rates, a PHE spokesman said
Nevertheless, the idea that the government is going to cease to collect and/or publish data on causes of death has got into the heads of a few people who have raised it with me on twitter or in person.
Now, I'm probably not the person who should trawl through Office of National Statistics (ONS) reports*, but someone needs to. ONS data on cause of deaths for England and Wales are available to everyone with access to a half-decent computer and an internet connection. Unfortunately, you'll need a little perseverance / statistical training to do much with the data, however.
In ONS lexicography, codes X60-X84 refer to death due to "intentional self harm". You can read more on the particular variations if you so desire here (direct link to pdf document).
What have I learned from exploring this data for a half-hour?
That in 2012 the total number of people reported as dying because of intentional self-harm was 2,921 Males and 750 Females (the ONS put you in one of those two categories when you're dead, whether you like it or not, it seems). Of those, 348 were aged 24 or under, 269 were aged 75 and over.
The total figure is 3,671, which compares with a figure of 3,633 in 2011. Horrible as an additional 38 deaths are (and I'm sure each of those 38 people was as innately valuable as any of the rest of us) I don't think that increase would be statistically significant - especially if you were to calculate the relative suicide rate (per person in the population, I mean) as opposed to the absolute number of suicides. This is not to say that the data from 2010 and further back would not reveal a recent increase (I will look and update this blog when I can), nor that the data for 2013 could not display a significant increase.
It is worth adding that the BBC report linked above notes that "About 10,000 people die a week normally, but last year's figures were about 5% higher than average", in other words, 500 additional deaths per week. The number of suicides, or deaths by intentional self-harm, is too high - virtually any number for those under 75 is too high**, in my estimation. My point here, however, is that suicide rates would have to have increased very dramatically, for 500 additional deaths per week to be explained by suicide alone, or in large part. That's 26,000 people a year, and would reflect a seven-fold increase. This is plausible given the April benefit cuts, and the fact they come on the back of at least three years of similar cuts and at least five of declining real wages for the vast majority, but I suspect there are other causes.
My suspicion, as someone who has focused on campaigning around the NHS, and energy justice (from fuel poverty to fossil fuel divestment via the transition movement and forms of direct action at one time based around camping) in recent years, is that the 'mystery rise', 'worrying spike' (or 'terrifying reality', in my view) has been caused by high fuel prices, a long cold winter, low interest rates on savings, a low state-pension and large numbers of people with no access to additional pensions, and cuts to the health and social care budget. The population is rising, and need for healthcare is rising - keeping a budget flat (or rising fractions of percentage points for PR purposes) is the definition of vicious in this context. Please don't listen to that "NHS budget 'ringfenced'" nonsense, because the social care budget has been axed and the NHS has to pick up the tab.
NHS cuts and privatisation are restricing the forms of treatment available to people for free at the point of need (see this further detail) are increasing waiting times, and are playing with your lives inside, and on the way to, the hospital. And we're paying when it goes wrong: once again, the privatisation of profit and the socialisation of losses. Workfare and prison labour are making 'the labour market' a farce - we are heading back toward a feudal/slave economic system fast. The difference being this one is/will be structured around the needs/abilities of state-capitalism, rather than those of aristocrats and racist merchants.
An obvious reaction would be to ask why the political class is allowing this to happen?
Why is there no outrage blaring out across broadsheets?
Why is the commentariat focused on abusive tweets rather than the results of abusive policies and rhetoric spouted by members of all three parties and ministers of the current and past government?
There are three answers in my view:
1) They are, a bit. But only in so much as the information can be turned to their advantage, be it with regard to electoral or careerist hopes
2) They are unaware, and don't care sufficiently when presented with the information - these people are deeply cynical, having been hardened by decades of bad news and/or demands to 'toe the party/editorial line', and they are often far removed from the realities of everyday life as lived by most people
3) This is the really nasty one, but increasingly the one I believe: there is a policy of acquiescense to involuntary euthanasia.
There is a "eugenics movement Britain wants to forget". And there is capitalism: an economic system that does not see human beings, but merely monetary values. Capitalism is a system that requires labour input, and treats it is functionally similar to the other inputs to production of raw materials and capital ('dead labour' - stuff produced by labour in the past, from raw materials).
Think of the results of production based on the profit motive on the sources for raw materials (the environment) if you need a visual metaphor. Or at Sebastião Salgado's photographs of workers and their environments (which capture the dignity people keep despite, not because of, their work). Think of the way in which the threat of unemployment has been used for decades to discipline those in work and act as a downward pressure on wages.
Then think of what happens when paying (un)employment benefits*** (social security) becomes 'too expensive' in a country with 'no money left' (both convenient myths, of course).
Given the advances of automation and the inability of people on social security to partake in significant consumption such as might be necessary in to keep capitalist businesses going, I am beginning to feel that the solution is to allow a reduction in the number of people to occur. In the past, a war provided this function - as well as the Keynesian stimulus to productive capacity, and the destruction of existing capital necessary for a new boom to emerge. A further war is far from impossible (all it takes is a tiny Franz Ferdinand-esque mistake/escalation, and Syria brought us perilously close to global conflagration this year), but the interconnectedness of the global economy, and the reliance of capitalists everywhere upon this perhaps makes it unlikely.
Thus, instead, capitalism trundles on, and the race between its first and second contradictions continues:
I used to think the second contradiction - that capitalism would exhaust or otherwise despoil the productive base upon which it feeds, i.e. the environment - to the point where it could no longer function - was winning the race.
Now it seems to first contradiction - that economic and social exploitation will trend to become too high and lead to economic crisis of over-production or social crises of realisation is closing in as we reach the final straight.
What should we do? Why, the same thing we try to do every night, pinky, try to take over the world - and make it one with a social system of mutual aid and solidarity and no economic system beyond helping each other. How do we move towards such as world? By acting in the spirit of mutual aid and solidarity, using all the tools at our disposal (I mean, the internet, but not exclusively the internet, here), and teaching other people how to do the same. And if a certain kind of person (women, the working class, people of colour, people with disabilities, or whatever) isn't present at your meetings - go to them, don't wring your hands. In fact, go to them anyway. Some people complain that there is a lack of vision regarding utopias/tactics, but in my view it really is this simple. Further details is helpful, but not necessary for action.
By way of example: I was personally involved in organising a meeting with my local anti-cuts group recently. For me, one of the motivations was to let people know there are people out there who want to support them, and to offer a space where people could talk about what is happening. It is important such talk leads at some point to action, but for me, the priority at the moment is to enable people to complain, and direct the hatred and anger provoked by current policy to those responsible - hopefully this can help prevent it being turned inwards.****
What won't help is Labour Shadows, and this truly is what current opposition ministers are, backtracking over speeches they haven't yet made in an effort to court UKIP voters, hang onto their core vote, and not alienate their corporate donors all at once (because they are incapable of comprehending or acting on the obvious nature of capitalism and 'the labour market' to exploit all workers (all humans, all life, all it touches…), regardless of whether they are 'British' or 'immigrant'. In other words: fuck Chris Bryant MP.
Finally, again: if you're finding things hard generally, or found this piece brought up pain, negative thoughts, or mental health issues, please take a look at Counselling for Social Change: "Affordable counselling for all. Support for carers, campaigners and activists", Activist Trauma Support, the Icarus Project ("navigating the space between brilliance and madness"). You might also want to consider talking to your GP (who should be able to point you to local, affordable counselling of some kind), or the Samaritans. In my experience the latter two, while far from perfect, were ultimately helpful. I have no real experience of the former organisations, but have read worthwhile things on their websites and they look the beginnings of a network we desperately need.
With love,
Peter Pannier
p.s Here are so pieces you might find interesting on mental (ill)health, all via Michael Richmond (follow on twitter):
1. "Would We Have Drugged Up Einstein? How Anti-Authoritarianism Is Deemed a Mental Health Problem: We are increasingly marketing drugs that essentially "cure" anti-authoritarians."
2. "Pharmaco-centric capitalism: a reply to Will Self."
3."Living in America will drive you insane — literally. Data suggests the US is experiencing an epidemic of crippling mental illness. We may have only ourselves to blame"
p.p.s This post was written by a mental patient. Here I am in my mental patient costume:
* Dear Journalists, please do some basic investigative work so that the rest of us can get on with other priorities. I understand it's hard, but if they won't let you, join or form a union or collective organisation of workers in some form and fight - including using strikes - for better pay, and terms and conditions. Good terms and conditions should include the right and paid time not to have to print press releases verbatim, and to employ new staff rather than up management salaries. Or become a blogger and get a following before old-media gives up the ghost, which is what will happen if you carry on being so useless.
** I can believe that for some people suicide is a freely taken and informed choice, and reflects a belief that personal quality of life is so poor that no life at all would be preferable. However, in an ideal - or even a half-decent - society, rather than this shitty one, I believe the numbers of all but the very elderly who made such a choice would be very small. Certainly far smaller then current numbers.
*** 9/10 Housing Benefit claimants are in employment, but earn too little to make the extortionate rents charges, and 64% of UK families (or half the total population) receive some form of social security. Everyone should be entitled to a roof over their heads for free as far as I'm concerned.
**** I do not believe banging on about a 'General Strike' that may never come (or, for that matter, a 'new workers' party of the left') is helpful for people who haven't been in a union, let alone on strike, in some time. To be clear: I would support participation in such a strike, if it does materialise, and am happy for existing political organisations to lobby for one as part of their activities, but they need to be careful about when and to whom they make this message their sole demand.


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Tim Burton's Bizarre Hansel & Gretel That Disney Only Aired Once
Before Willy Wonka, before Edward Scissorhands, before The Nightmare Before Christmas, and before Beetlejuice, Tim Burton worked at Disney. That doesn't mean his movies were any less bizarre, though. Case and point: his version of Hansel and Gretel. »


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September 18, 2012
The Rockford College Performing Arts Department presents "Side by Side by Sondheim" Oct. 4-7, in Maddox Theatre, Clark Arts Center, 5050 E State Street, Rockford. Show times are Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m.
This dazzling array of some of Sondheim's best-known songs features numbers from landmark shows that revolutionized musical theatre with their masterful craft and astounding creativity: Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Anyone Can Whistle and Pacific Overtures, not to mention the classics written with musical theatre giants Leonard Bernstein, Jule Styne and Richard Rodgers: West Side Story, Gypsy, and Do I Hear a Waltz? Also included are delectable rarities from the television musical Evening Primrose, the film The Seven Percent Solution and the hit revue The Mad Show.
Tickets are $10 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. Contact the Rockford College Box Office at 815.226.4100 for more information and tickets.
Pictured from left to right: Rockford College students Christina Lewis, Dakota Bryant and Erin Farste.
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The University of Chicago
924 E. 57th St., R222
Chicago, IL 60637
Email: jabeeler [at] uchicago.edu My non-academic blog about video game design: synaptogaming.com
I am interested in behavioral flexibility and motivation with a focus on dopamine mechanisms in the basal ganglia. I use mouse genetic, viral and pharmacological tools to dissect the neural substrates mediating behavior, placing an emphasis on behavioral paradigms that allow for the examination of behavioral complexity. I have recently begun doing research with human subjects in parallel with animal studies. Through collaboration, I incorporate computational modeling and electrophysiological into my investigations. I currently am developing two extended hypotheses. (1) Aberrant learning: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a movement disorder arising from the progressive degeneration of dopamine cells. A cardinal feature of PD is bradykinesia, where movement becomes slow and difficult to initiate. Dopamine replacement therapy with L-DOPA improves this symptom, sometimes dramatically. The immediate improvement with administration of L-DOPA shows that the loss of dopamine directly impairs motor performance, an effect believed to arise from dopamine's direct actions on activity in the striatum. However, dopamine also regulates plasticity at corticostriatal synapses. Although evidence suggests that the loss of dopamine induces abnormal plasticity, the role this may play in the symptoms and progression of PD is unknown. In an on-going series of studies, I am pursuing the hypothesis that the loss of dopamine not only directly impairs performance but also inverts normal plasticity [PDF]. This inversion essentially turns learning against the person. While normal learning is designed to improve performance by optimizing processing through the basal ganglia, under conditions of aberrant learning the exact opposite happens: learning degrades performance through anti-optimization. What is critical is that this aberrant learning becomes 'hard-coded' into synapses. In essence, in PD people to 'learn' not to move. The hope is that this work will provide insight into the progression of PD symptoms and offer new avenues for the development of therapeutics. (2) Dopamine regulation of thrift: Implicated in motivation and reward, the midbrain dopamine system and its projections to the striatum are often seen as a key mechanism underlying compulsive behavior, such as addiction and, more recently, obesity. Based on a series of mouse homecage studies over the last three years, I propose that primary function of dopamine is to adapt energy expenditure to prevailing energy environment in which the organism finds itself. In this view [PDF], dopamine is not maximizing reward or driving reward behavior but, instead, is regulating the degree to which an animal needs to be thrifty in its pursuit of reward and goals. This provides a different window onto dopamine function. Instead of thinking of it as 'pushing' reward and driving compulsive behaviors, this view suggests that dopamine can actually facilitate exploration and new learning-- a sort of energetic generosity. Conversely, diminished dopamine induces energy conservation and increases the degree to which prior reward experience determines behavioral choice.
I work with Xiaoxi Zhuang, an associate professor in Neurobiology. Aside from hosting my work, Xiaoxi's lab has a number of interesting projects and investigations [lab website]. Linan Chen has been developing mouse models for understanding dopamine cell degeneration in Parkinson's disease. More recently, Wanhao Chi has established genetic screening and behavioral studies using Drosophila. I am currently working with Jessica Koranda, a graduate student that is investigating the role of nicotinic signaling in aberrant learning and behavioral flexibility. With assistance from Mitch Roitman at UIC, Jessica has set up voltammetry in our lab and is about to publish her first paper looking at the role of beta2 nicotinic receptors in modulating dopamine in an in-vivo preparation. Shana Augustin, also a graduate student, has been using electrophysiology to further develop work initially started in the lab by a talented (then) graduate student Mazen Kheirbek, now at Columbia. Shana has completed a thorough, systematic parametric study of corticostriatal plasticity in the indirect pathway and is currently writing up her results. Rudy Faust has been developing viral-mediated genetic tools that will contribute to numerous projects in the lab while his own work focuses on the role of D2 in behavioral inhibition. Finally, I am fortunate to have many collaborators, including Nathaniel Daw at NYU, Michael Frank at Brown, Mitch Roitman and Jamie McCutcheon at UIC, Dan McGehee and John McDaid here at the University of Chicago, and Paul Reber and Cindy Zadikoff at Northwestern University. I enjoy collaborating and hope the list will continue to grow.
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