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Hey its almost the holiday baking season!!! Im trying to narrow down my 3 main cookie bakes for my cookie exchange. I do like to do a more fancy cookie but most of all taste is the utmost importance. I do like the cookie the be eye pleaseing too! Last years big hits were a rum creme filled cookie that was dipped in chocolate and rolled in chopped pistachio and the ther was a chcolate thumbprint rolled in pecan with a caramel center drizzeled with chocolate! HELP I need to top last years...please share!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Here are a few that usually make it on to my cookie platters at Christmas. Ann Home Cookin 4.9 Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table Shortbreads This is my favourite Shortbread cookie. One of those recipes that I have been making for over 25 years. It was a recipe given to my friend Patty by her Grandmother. She remembers it from her childhood. Cream butter and fruit sugar. Add flour mixture and mix well. Pat firmly into round cake pan. Use tines of fork to make a decorate edge Remove from oven and sprinkle with fine sugar. Let sit 5 minutes and then Note: This recipe can be doubled and baked in a rectangle pan, and cut into Home Cookin 4.9 Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table Peanut butter and chocolate cookie Tarts 3/4 cup butter Chocolate filling 4 oz semisweet chocolate Bake in preheated 350°F oven for 15 minutes or until ouside is baked but Filling Combine chocolate, cocoa, milk and butter in small saucepan. Melt over low Note: YOu can spoon the filling in to the centre, but it looks nicer when Cream Cheese Brandy Cherry Balls. 1/2 Cup marshino cherries, quartered Home Cookin 4.9 Chapter: Recipes From Thibeault's Table Crisp Chocolate Truffles These are really good. Here is a picture of them from the Magazine. ======================== 1 jar 7 oz marshmallow cream 2 T butter 1 C semi sweet chocolate chips 2 C Rice Krispies 14 oz bittersweet chocolate white chocolate chips. In heavy saucepan combine marshmallow creme, butter and chocolate chips. Stir rice Krispies into hot mixture, mixing until thoroughly combined. Drop Melt bittersweet chocolate with shortening and dip each chocolate ball in Place in small candy paper cups. |
- Posted by Ginger_St_Thomas (My Page) on Tue, Oct 14, 03 at 19:37
How about Marlen's Chubby Hubby Cookies? Chubby Hubby Cookies 2 cups butter or margarine, softened Preheat oven to 350* degrees. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt. Blend into creamed mixture. Stir in chocolate and peanut butter chips, peanuts and pretzels. Drop by heaping tablespoons about 2 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. bake 10-13 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned and centers are still soft. Do not overbake. Cool one minute on cookie sheet. Cool completely on wire racks. Store tightly in covered container. These are pretty on a tray: Preheat oven to 250° (NOT 350°). Lightly grease 2 or more baking sheets. Usin a mixer, beat the whites in a medium bowl until foamy. Add the salt & cream of tartar & continue beating until soft peaks form. Add the sugar, 1 TBL at a time, beating well after each addition. Continue beating until the meringue is stiff. Fold in the vanilla, chocolate chips, nuts & candy. KIEFLIES (about 6 dozen) Filling: For Cookies: Mix the flour & salt together. Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender or 2 knives until completely blended. In a separate bowl, mix the yolks, sour cream & vanilla. Add to the flour/butter mixture. Blend & knead until the mixture is the consistency of pie dough. Form into small walnut sized balls. Refrigerate. FUDGE ECSTASIES (about 36) In a medium sauceapn, heat 1 cup of the chocolate chips, the unsweetened chocolate & the butter until melted, stirring constantly. Pour into the large bowl & set aside to cool slightly. |
I like to make many different cookies at Christmas time but the one cookie that always looks great at that time of year is: Spumoni Cookies 1 cup butter; softened Mix butter, sugar, vanilla and egg. Stir in flour and salt. Divide dough into 3 equal parts. Mix nuts and food color into 1 part. Mix chocolate into 1 part. Mix cherries into remaining part. Line bottom and ends of a loaf pan (9X5X3-inch) with foil allowing ends of foil to extend 5-inches over each end of pan. Press nut dough evenly in bottom of pan (cover with plastic wrap and press and smooth dough). Press chocolate dough on nut dough and press cherry dough on chocolate dough. Cover dough with extended ends of foil and refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight. Heat oven to 375°. Remove dough from pan and remove foil. Cut dough crosswise into Ľ-inch slices and cut each slice crosswise into halves. Place about 1-inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet and bake until set, about 10 minutes. You may have to reshape cookies with your spatula while they are hot and still on the cookie sheet. And Swedish Teacakes (Mexican Wedding Cakes) are always a hit, arranged on your best red, glass platter. 1 cup butter, softened In mixing bowl; cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Beat in salt, nuts and flour until dough holds together. Shape into 1-inch balls. Place 1-inch apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Bake at 325° for 15 to 20 minutes until set but not brown. Cool slightly, roll in powdered sugar. Cool completely; roll again in powdered sugar. Must use butter in this recipe. Nuts are required also. Makes about 4˝ dozen. 2 measuring teaspoons leveled for each cookie makes the perfect size Marilyn |
Ann, I may try the shortbreads this year. Couple questions ... fruit sugar is fructose and the fine sugar is granulated? |
Cindy, Fruit sugar is very finely ground granulated sugar. If I remember correctly it is sometimes called Berry Sugar in the US. If you can't find it, just process some regular granulated sugar in the processor. It should be fine, but not powdered. You can use either the Fruit/Berry Sugar or regular Granulated sugar to sprinkle on top. Ann |
Ann, I'm glad I asked! I did a search at Cook's Thesaurus and Epicuious and would've been looking for fructose. I process granulated sugar in the blender when I make Anzac Biscuits, so I'll do the same for the shortbread. Thanks! |
I do believe that "fruit sugar" here in the US is fructose. I use it all the time and it is readily available in health food stores. It is a finer grain than regular sugar. RL` |
The main difference between the two is the degree of sweetness. Fructose is supposedly twice as sweet as granulated. So which should it be? |
I don't know what AT uses but yes, fructose is sweeter than sugar. Fructose also browns more than regular sugar but since you would only be baking it in a 300° it would be okay. On the other hand, if you don't want to go buy it, whirl the granulated sugar in the blender and go with that. RL` |
Cindy, as I mentioned, the fruit sugar that I buy is just very fine granulated sugar. If you can't find it either called fruit sugar or Berry Sugar then just process some granulated and make your own. By the way, Shortbreads are not suppose to brown. They stay a very light Blonde colour. Ann |
Cindy, Check out this link. |
Or, do a Google search for Fructose. RL` |
Cindy, Having lived in both Canada and the United States I know that the sugar called for in this recipe is available in both countries. The sugar labeled "Fruit Sugar" that is sold in Canada for baking is a very fine granulated sugar. It is either called berry sugar or Caster/Castor sugar or super fine sugar in the US. I can't remember. I do know that I made Shortbreads when I lived in the US so you should be able to find it. Again, if you can't then just process some granulated sugar until it is a bit finer. I have done this in a pinch and believe me you won't notice a difference. I know that you will not be disappointed if you make these shortbreads. Ann |
Ann, I'm sure your cookies are good and that CM will enjoy them regardless of what sugar she chooses to use. RL` |
Ok y'all ... I wasn't trying to start something, just looking for clarification. But you can bet I'll be spending a little extra time in the sugar aisle next market visit. I'm curious to see what is offered around here. |
- Posted by browntoestoo (My Page) on Sun, Oct 19, 03 at 15:57
Cindy, The is a big difference in how fructose and cane sugar act in baking. Here is a link that explains the difference in nomenclature between Canada and the US: Castor Sugar Type of sugar sold in parts of Europe and Australia C&H makes a product called "Baker's Sugar." It is an ultrafine granulated cane sugar. I have seen it at my local Safeway. This website lists places to buy it. |
Ok, so if this had been a recipe from the U.S. calling for fruit sugar I'd be shopping fructose (according to Cook's Thesaurus and Epicurious). Since it's Canadian I'm shopping super fine, or processing regular granulated in a blender to make superfine ... like I had planned to do in the first place. ;) |
- Posted by Virginia7074 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 19, 03 at 21:09
I just finished a box of Bartender's sugar that I'd had for a long, long time. It's superfine granulated sugar that I used only for making sangria - that's why I'd had it forever. it sounds like that may be what's called fruit sugar in Canada. I think you find it in the baking section with the rest of the sugars, but the food processor should do fine. I do that with granulated sugar & vanilla bean seeds, for Vanilla Crescents with Pistachio Filling, which I'll post. |
- Posted by Virginia7074 (My Page) on Sun, Oct 19, 03 at 21:19
This looks long, but it's really not. Use a food processor for everything. These are my DH's favorite - pretty for Christmas & St. Patrick's Day, too. Vanilla Crescents with Pistachio Filling Vanilla Sugar: Filling: Dough: Vanilla Sugar: Glaze: Filling: Blanch pistachios 10 seconds. Drain. Refrigerate 3 hours. Peel skin. Sieve vanilla sugar. Mix filling ingredients with 2 tablespoons sugar. Process to a smooth paste. (Can be prepared 2 days ahead.) Dough: Cut butter into flour in processor. Add sour cream and egg yolk. To assemble: Preheat oven to 375. Line pans with foil & grease. (I use parchment paper.) Divide dough in half. Roll with 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar and sprinkle top and bottom with 2 more tablespoons vanilla sugar. Roll to a 12" circle and cut into 12 triangles. Put filling at base and roll up to form crescents. Bake 10-15 min. Remove & brush on glaze. Return to oven and bake 5 min. longer. |
- Posted by eileen_launonen (My Page) on Tue, Oct 21, 03 at 8:27
Wow all recipes look good I may try a few but I will make the Spumoni Cookies as that is my husbands favorite he always gets some when were in Brooklyn (Spumoni Gardens) |
Marilyn - If you check back in to this thread - for the Spumoni Cookie recipe, does the almond extract go in the cherry dough? Teri |
These are excellent and quite pretty on a plate. Alexa *********************************************************** Holly Berry Cookies Ingredients: Directions: |
Virginia Where do you get raw pistachios? I've only seen them roasted in the shell. Thanks |
Alexa, I order raw pistachios from Eagle Ranch in New Mexico. |
Here is a link that might be useful: pistachios
- Posted by Virginia7074 (My Page) on Wed, Nov 12, 03 at 19:45
Indian grocery stores usually carry them. They're "pista" & used in Indian sweets, like pista burfi, which is fudge-like or pista kulfi, which is a very rich ice cream. |
Thansk Virginia and Cindy_Mac. I will be on the lookout for them the next time I am in the city. Alexa |
- Posted by eileen_launonen (My Page) on Mon, Dec 1, 03 at 10:28
Marilyn are you out there? |
Since the holidays are getting closer, I thought I would bump this thread for anyone who is starting to plan cookie menus. Alexa |
- Posted by Readinglady (My Page) on Tue, Oct 19, 04 at 19:38
I know this thread has been bumped but for anyone interested in the Vanilla Crescents with Pistachio Filling, Trader Joe's carries raw pistachios very reasonably priced (if you're lucky enough to have a T.J.'s in your area). I can't wait to try this great-sounding recipe. Carol |
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About two weeks ago SSFN posted an item on the threat to independent toymakers of a new law passed by Congress in response to the lead-paint-on-Chinese-toys panic. A day or two later the Washington Post covered the issue and the story has been spreading to other media. Maybe the next Congress, though not exactly business-friendly in many other ways, will act before any general wipeout of the economy's handcrafted-toy sector.
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The craft world and some of the wood groups are buzzing about this.
The general concensus seems to be that the law is so broad, so badly written, and done with such a lack of forethought that many are saying that they will simply ignore the regulation.
It has put people who genuinely care about kids in the difficult position of either ceasing their buisiness, or working and never making a profit.
Because many of the items these people make are "one offs," each individual piece would have to be tested. That's nuts. We cannot certify the paint or sealer "en masse," but rather we have to prove that each piece is "safe."
(For example, I carve Christmas ornaments. I have called the Consumer Protection agency and have been told because the ornaments are attractive to children, they would fall under the new law. In that many of my ornaments are made to customer's specifications as to style, color, etc, I now have to certify each piece. I can't certify a stack of wood, or all of the paints I use. I would have to submit for testing the only one off piece. The prices for testing apparently range greatly, but even paying $100 for each and every piece that I sell for $20 – $50 is crazy.)
It is sad when the government makes a regulation that is so onerous that it turns many previously law abiding citizens into criminals with the turn of a clock hand.
As for me, they can come pry my carving chisels from my cold dead hands.
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The lead business drives me up the wall. Paint adhears strongly to plastic on toys. There is no way in the world that any child or adult could suffer from the lead in the paint on the plastic toys from China. We are a nation of idiots!
I learned that it would cost $350 million to paint the Polaski Skyway because of foolish concern about lead paint. The bridge is mostly over water and only a few near the ends live within 100 yards of it. This is crazy, absolutely crazy!
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The 2010 Fletcher Jones art prize was awarded to Tim McMonagle for his work, The happy song (2009). McMonagle's work was inspired by the languid demeanour of a homeless woman observed by the artist while on a residency in New York in 2008-09, McMonagle's painting depicts a dishevelled, barefoot figure reclining on a vast and bulbous mound representing her worldly possessions. Discarded high heel shoes and a plastic drinking cup are positioned in the foreground: symbols of the consumer culture from which she is seemingly displaced.
Reminiscent of the social satire of 18th and early-19th century British artists such as William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray, McMonagle's 'dream-like' composition offers a contemporary parallel to the social commentaries of these earlier artists.
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As his entry, the young middle schooler wrote a four-page essay highlighting 104 black inventors.
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He added, "Ashton's work is to be commended."
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and libraries are unemployment offices."
Or so this article seems to say when it reported that the University of Illinois is attempting to merge the Graduate School of Library and Information Science with the College of Media, the School of Labor and Employment Relations, and the School of Social Work.
But librarians have been saying the same for years, that we've become babysitters, video stores and time-wasting centers for the unemployed and the unemployable.
So why shouldn't college reflect the true nature of the work?
The most important factor I can see in favor of the merger is that a report concluded that combining the schools would create "intellectual synergies."
Oh. My. God. Haven't we all been saying this? That we need greater opportunities for intellectual synergy? I have it tattooed right here on my left butt cheek. Oh, crap, the tattoo guy spelled synergy wrong. It looks like it says, Syndy. That's what you get when you go to a guy who tattoos strippers all day.
What amazes me most about this story is that the Illinois law school has 735 students and the library school has 713 students enrolled in the current class. It just surprises me that the classes are about the same size. But of course, the law students are willing to pay out about 3 times more money for their education, so the university prizes them more. -- Read More
I probably haven't said it enough to bother me hearing it (although most other people would disagree), but the.effing.librarian has books.
I keep saying that all the librarian bloggers should compile their blog posts and publish them, but no one seems to want to do it. But I did it. And I'll say it again, it cost me almost nothing. I had to pay for the proof ($10), but that was all. Except for the 12,000 copies I purchased to try to influence their populariy on Amazon's bestsellers list. But other than that, it was pretty much free.
I used CreateSpace, an Amazon company. They supplied the bar code and the ISBN. And now what's cool is that when the book appears on Amazon, it also includes the Look Inside! feature.
I always like to look inside a book before I put it in my Cart then get busy and forget to Checkout and never remember to buy it. I forget to buy tons of books. And now you can do the same with all the books in the effing librarian's huge library (of two books -- how many books make a library anyway?).
So I feel like an author now. An author who no one knows and who sells no books... but not one of those bestselling, dime a dozen, authors you find in all the libraries. A special, secret author.
Due to underwhelming demand, I have repriced Fame and Fortune and Other F Words at $1,000.
Yes, that's one THOUSAND dollars.
Am I crazy? What do you think. Since it's POD, I'm waiting for the government to tax me on all unsold copies, which is an infinite amount... so I guess I'll be going to federal tax prison.
I've been listening to A Short History of Nearly Everything in my car and I find it amazing that every task took so long to complete in the early days of science. It was common for one single experiment to take a year or more. I'm guessing scientists spent much of that time dressing and fastening buttons.
But yet the research produced the most amazing discoveries. It must be that slow processes produce deep thoughts.
I guess to be really aligned with the purpose of the book, I should call this Work Like an Eighteenth Century Librarian Day, but that century just seems so messy.
So for "Work Like a Nineteenth Century Librarian" Day, I propose that we take our time and do things slowly and seek timeless or even philosophical results. We should ask "Why?" of our patrons, and "Why?" of the question or of questioning itself. Seek timeless understanding. But mostly, take it slow.
Library patron: "I would like to see everything you have on Fratercula arctica."
Nineteenth Century Librarian: "Please record your request upon this document, and I shall begin the research at the first available opportunity."
Library patron: "May I inquire as to the length of time it may take to fill?"
Nineteenth Century Librarian: "I shall endeavor to satisfy your request within six weeks."
Library patron: "Only six weeks? Miraculous!"


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Hell's Shelves: Adam Nevill on LAST DAYS
[Alan Kelly checks in with a new installment of his horror fiction column Hell's Shelves.]
Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry's true-crime collaboration Helter Skelter, the definitive book on Charles Manson and "the Family," was the first piece of research that lit Adam Nevill's fuse and impelled him to write his latest novel Last Days. The British horror master's fourth novel sees him in top form with intelligent storytelling, an authentic, authoritative voice, and myth-building akin to Clive Barker at his most ambitious.
Last Days is the story of Kyle Freeman, a gifted but desperate filmmaker who is commissioned by the wealthy and eccentric Maximillian Solomon to make a documentary about an infamous cult called The Temple of the Last Days and its murderous figurehead, Sister Katherine. Little does Kyle realise that accepting the offer is tantamount to a Faustian bargain. With strict instructions to focus on the paranormal angle, Kyle unwittingly becomes not only a framing device for the cult's brutal legacy, but an unwilling participant in the supernatural horror that unfolds.
Nevill has been dubbed "The Literary Bogeyman" by genre magazine SFX, and deservingly so. Last Days, which cunningly retools the "found footage" concept for a literary narrative, is a blood-curdling, no-holds-barred rollercoaster ride into the very depths of human and occult depravity. It's a novel that can be read on many levels. It's a meditation on collective fanaticism and how our culture mythologizes psychopaths, and a love letter to both classic and contemporary horror films. It's even a cautionary tale for young artists: Always read the small print before signing a contract, no matter how fat the cheque is….
Rue Morgue: In the acknowledgements, you cite Helter Skelter as one of the books that first inspired Last Days. Have you any personal experience with cults, or characters like Sister Katherine?
Adam Nevill: No personal experience of cults, besides the odd attempt by what I consider to be cults trying to shake me down for money, or membership, in the street or on my doorstep. But I have had experiences with sociopaths in both personal and professional situations.
Am I an analyst? No. So how can I diagnose anyone as being a compulsive or a malignant narcissist? Officially, I can't. But I have known too many individuals who were motivated purely by their own self-interest, no matter how unethical or unscrupulous their behaviour was. They were all individuals either with severely impaired consciences or no conscience at all, and they were incapable of remorse. Each could veer from loquacious and charming to unstable and violent at frightening speeds, but everything they did was calculated, and a tactic in pursuit of self-advancement.
So I've gathered a lot of material after being exposed to the psychopathic. What's most worrying about them is they cannot be cured and there is no legitimate defence against them besides removing yourself completely from their reach, which isn't always easy. So Sister Katherine is not based on any one individual, but a composite of men and women I have encountered and read about. In different circumstances I could honestly see these people becoming seedy Manson figures, or ambitious desk murderers in Stalinist Russia or Hitler's Germany.
What is alarming is how modern society constantly mistakes sociopaths for "the talent." I don't think they are hard to spot. We can only be grateful that they are ultimately self-destructive. Once the perfect victims thin out, or their appetites exceed their self-restraint, they melt down. Which is something I tried to conjure through Sister Katherine's reign of terror, with that pattern of behaviour mirrored through history. As Maximillian Solomon says, one of mankind's tragedies is being in thrall to the sociopath throughout history. When we witness the obscene violence and injustice and vulpine greed in the world, there is often a direct connection from these events to one of these solipsistic creatures.
RM: In Last Days, Kyle, the documentary filmmaker, is both the protagonist and a framing device. It's an interesting way of exploiting the found footage concept for a literary narrative. What films or documentaries inspired you to take this direction, and why?
AN: REC, Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity were primary influences in DIY filmmaking on a shoestring by enthusiastic filmmakers outside of the system, as well as many of the [BBC] Storyville documentaries I've watched. The whole concept of found footage is a perfect vehicle for, and accompaniment to, supernatural horror because it adds authenticity to the bending of natural law, and is a great medium for the suggestiveness vital to good horror. A glimpse of something on footage, or an unpleasant but inexplicable sound caught on a microphone, amplifies terror by appearing as physical evidence, a tangibility, of the unnatural. You would think that electronic surveillance and digital technology would scientifically disprove the presence of the uncanny, but they don't. They seem to attest to it beyond human reportage, which cannot be trusted.
Originally I conceived Last Days as a fake, '70s-style true crime book about a cult, and one that was to have an index and plate section, but my publisher wanted a straight novel, which was fair enough as that is what they commissioned. But I still based the story on a fictional true crime book, and the interviews followed the pattern of an investigative report. I believe everything Kyle and Dan record in the novel is actually feasible on the equipment they use, though I had to rewrite whole scenes whenever I discovered something was not physically possible with their equipment, i.e., you cannot light a scene with the light on a camera, nor record sound through a camera's built-in microphone, at broadcast quality. So there were whole scenes that Kyle and Dan would never have attempted because the footage would have been unusable without proper sound and lighting. They were unconventional, but still pros.
I'd also say writing about a film is considered one of the taboos of fiction. Some say it should not be attempted, because film shoots are repetitive, long, exhausting and technical affairs that do not make for good dramatic fiction. I realised I was risking a great deal by choosing filmmakers as the protagonists of the story. Not to mention that interviews, by their very nature, are usually static affairs. So the stories within the interviews had to carry their own dramatic force anecdotally, and the actual shoots and shoot preparation all had to become part of the story development. The momentum could not stop, but the actual shoots also had to carry a sense of authenticity as if this was a real documentary being shot. But the "making of" approach ultimately aided the story in ways I hadn't anticipated, because the incremental additions by various witnesses and things caught on audio tracks built tension smoothly toward the complete picture forming. It felt like I was writing a crime novel at times, and it was also the first time I'd attempted police procedural. But I always kept in mind what John Gardner wrote about the continuous dream of fiction, and that anything that breaks a reader from it must be avoided or revised. So far, no one has claimed it hasn't worked (but give it time).
RM: Another characteristic of this style of filmmaking is reflected in Sister Katherine's presence in the story. Readers are drip-fed information about her through reportage, anecdotes and collective rumour. Was that always the plan – to have Sister Katherine lurk at the periphery of the story?
AN: Yes, Sister Katherine is in nearly every scene as a presence without being in the novel. And I wanted a story with different levels: the forensic and criminologist's version, the mystical version made up of rumours and hearsay, and the actual true story that only a handful of people would ever understand (the one the reader is rewarded with). In the second chapter, Max tells Kyle exactly what happened officially. The whodunnit and whydunnit are actually in place in the first few pages. But they are wrong. Plot led this book far more than the others I've written.
Although Katherine was dead before the action of the novel began, I wanted her to remain as an enigmatic and mysterious figure that had passed into popular apocryphal cult stories. Look at the famous photo of Manson's face; I wanted that vibe for her. I wanted The Temple of the Last Days to feel as vivid, but as dated as Jim Jones and Manson's Family, and as low tech. The cult and its leader had to be from the late '60s and early '70s, and another cause of the great youth revolution dying. I'm not so interested in modern cults – it had to be that era.
People who were in their prime in that decade rarely let us forget how great and interesting the '60s and '70s were, mainly because the commissioners and controllers of the media so often belong to that generation. I get a bit tired of the punk story over and over again too. It's like nothing mattered after "their day," so I guess there is some revenge mixed in at a subconscious level. It could be argued that what was also swept away by greater liberalism was in place for a reason – to stem the flow of human shittiness upwards, which really began to rise again through those decades like a river, but much closer to home, until it became normalised, and it still hasn't lost momentum. I'm not against liberalism at all, but when you consider the drug culture that has blighted large parts of the west, and the empowering of organised crime that came through narcotics, the destruction of the nuclear family, the erosion of at least a sense of the useful Christian values, the '60s seemed to get the ball rolling unintentionally, or naively. For all of the emancipation and culture, it also let loose the hounds.
RM: Why do you think society and the media mythologize and glorify "celebrity" psychopaths like Charles Manson?
AN: For many reasons. He was a charismatic criminal who'd learned his trade in prison and was tutored in Scientology, an up-to-date messiah. The misfits and bored conservative teenagers he met at a time when youth was reinventing itself, and the world, after decades of stifling conformity, were perfect victims. But how he managed to charm, then control, then manipulate young men and women, often from good backgrounds, into killing strangers was unprecedented in the modern age. The susceptibility of people to his influence was frightening. His association with Neil Young, the Beach Boys, Hollywood, that whole LA scene, his philosophy partly inspired and derived from a Beatles album, the fact that some of his victims were famous, the circus of his trial with his followers outside with shaven heads – it is all so very strange and preposterous in an America that was still largely conservative. And it's too easy for him to be reinterpreted as an anti-establishment antihero for those unaware of the true horror of both his personality and the crimes he was responsible for.
Various bands, that I like, have toyed with his dangerous enigma to make it rock and roll, but if you read the words of his victim's families, there is nothing cool about him. I don't like the trendy notoriety of criminals, which is often fostered by sensational, true crime culture. There were also lots of mysterious loose ends and weird connections between The Family and other cults and deaths – even one in a hotel in Hammersmith, London, that I walked past every day on my way to work without knowing about the link – but they have been pretty much explained in Coming Down Fast, which is a perfect accompaniment to Helter Skelter.
[Manson] was also a chilling forewarning, like the Hells Angels (who Hunter S. Thompson claimed destroyed the peace and love movement by introducing hard drugs), of new antisocial subcultures, and of homicidal misfits, excluded by mainstream society but determined to have their day. He wanted to be the son of God, but was closer to an antichrist figure, and they will always have an allure because they will not be governed by the same laws as the rest of us, or are ungovernable.
RM: The mythology you've created in Last Days is wonderfully grotesque and akin to the world/myth-building of Clive Barker. "The Book of 100 Hundred Chapters," "The Saints of Filth" triptych, "The Father of Lies" Konrad Lorche and the Blood Friends – did you draw from real-life sources for these creations?
AN: It's all inspired by and partly based on actual cults from the medieval period onwards. The Anabaptists and Taborites took over whole cities in Europe. Non-conformist religious sects were constantly proclaiming themselves as chosen people, as prophets, led by messiahs, even starting crusades. History is much stranger than fiction in this area. Cunning, manipulative people from humble backgrounds have been cultivating large followings with con-artist routines for centuries, millennia even, for their own aggrandisement and sociopathic hunger for power and wealth. Manson is nothing new, nor was Jim Jones. What happened over hundreds of years in Europe to the 17th century makes modern cults look like clownish anomalies. Communism and fascism were big cults, as are the current religious fundamentalists. There actually was a Sister Catherine and a Book of One Hundred Chapters in the Anabaptist movement, and a sect called The Blood Friends too. But for a supernatural horror author it was too tempting to not pose the proposition: what if there actually was an aberrant spiritual presence behind it all?
RM: Apartment 16, Banquet for the Damned, The Ritual and Last Days are all standalone novels. Would you ever consider writing a crossover novel in the future, with characters and scenarios from previous novels overlapping? If so, what shape do you think a story like that could take?
AN: I am actually slowly developing a mythos through each of my novels. Eliot Coldwell from Banquet for the Damned crops up in Apartment 16, and he is mentioned in my new novel, as is Felix Hessen from Apartment 16. Kyle from Last Days made a film about missing British hikers near the Arctic Circle, in connection with the black metal band, Blood Frenzy, which is all from The Ritual. Would I make it more obvious? No plans to, but I'm not saying never, either. If I thought it was banal or trite, I'd stop doing it.
RM: Last Days is such a complex book. What was the most challenging thing about writing it, in comparison to your previous novels?
AN: [Having multiple international locations] was one. There are scenes in places I have never visited, like Seattle, Denver and Arizona. In previous novels I stuck to places and situations I knew intimately, or was at least very familiar with. But the biggest challenge was making that big plot reveal plausible. The whole story was hinged upon that part of the back-story being acceptable. I took a real risk with the book being thrown against the wall. I find when I write a novel, the safety catch comes off in the second half and doesn't click back on.
RM: Have any of your novels been optioned? Who would be your ideal director(s)?
AN: Yes, two. The Ritual, and Apartment 16 last week. I reckon Rob Zombie could do a great version of The Ritual, but so could Werner Herzog. I'd like to see a Larry Fessenden version too. Lars Von Trier would make an interesting Apartment 16, as would Hideo Nakata and Guillermo del Toro. Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza would also be fantastic. I can dream, but would genuinely be just as intrigued by what a new director could bring to an adaptation with either of the books as a first feature film. I have no fear of new names.
RM: Finally, can you name one real-life (or fictional) cult-member you'd never want to meet?
AN: Charles Manson, because he's still alive and would probably take issue with Last Days.
Alan Kelly is the author of the pulp fiction novel Let Me Die a Woman and the European Liaison for the Viscera Film Festival. A horror and alt.cult fanatic, he has worked for many print and online magazines, including GCN (Gay Community News), This is Horror, Planet Fury, Film Ireland, Butcher Queers, and Bookslut. He lives in Wicklow, Ireland and is hard at work on his second book.


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How to Answer Aptitude and Personality Assessment Tests {Twitter Tuesday Recap}.
Employers and recruiters alike have over the years incorporated several means to assess and pick out right talents for their open roles, and aptitude tests prove very useful in the screening process. Most job applicants who are required to write aptitude tests as part of a hiring procedure usually have so many hurdles to cross and passing aptitude tests seem a herculean task for most jobseekers.
We hosted Dragnet Nigeria - a recruiting solutions team, in our last Twitter session to share insights on how candidates should answer aptitude tests. If you are new to this, Twitter Tuesday is a 2-hour session where jobseekers, employers and career professionals alike all convene to share ideas, ask questions, build professional networks and open up their world to new insights and opportunities. Twitter Tuesday has hosted professionals like Tosyn Bucknor, Tolu Ogunlesi and Oluyemi Oloyede; going by the name, it happens on Twitter every Tuesday between 2pm and 4pm.
See excerpts below:
Weizzy'hills (participant): What is expected of me in answering personality assessment?
Dragnet Solutions: It totally depends on you. If there is a time in between sections of the test, you can use that to compose yourself. Answering as your self as honestly as you can.
Oluwasegun (participant): What do employers look for in our responses to personality questions?
Dragnet Solutions: Expectations vary with each role.They expect your personality traits to match those required for the role.
Adigun (participant): What skills do you test for in graduate trainee position which you carried out for Cadbury?
Dragnet Solutions: For the personality tests, the traits being assessed include discipline, influence among others.
Wasemi (participant): What kind of questions do you expect in an IT-related job aptitude test, especially for Web Design and Content Management jobs?
Dragnet Solutions: Tests on problem-solving are a good place to start. Detail and fault checking tests as well.
MagicLady (participant): How will unsuccessful candidates know they did not make it to the next stage?
Dragnet Solutions: Communicating success or otherwise to candidates is usually based on directives from the employers.
Anne Ebinum (participant): I always answer honestly, but I never make it through. Despite series of advice not to be contradictory, I strongly feel employers are not really particular about you being sincere with your answers.
Dragnet Solutions: We would still advise you to be as honest as you can be when answering personality assessment questions. Asides selecting candidates who can do the job, employers also try to find the right fit for their culture – this is where personality tests come in.
Excerpt edited and condensed for reader suitability. Read full interview here
Dragnet Solutions is a dynamic Information Technology company that specializes in the design, development and implementation of innovative people screening solutions. Incorporated in 2007, Dragnet has since been at the forefront of creating and recreating objective recruitment and application management processes to meet international standards. Follow Dragnet on Twitter @DragnetNigeria
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There is something new about the story telling and packaging which makes it interesting along with a power packed performance by Karthi, who carries the film to its winning point. It is perfect team work of Suseenthiran, Karthi, promising set of newcomers, dialogue writer Baskar Sakthi, Yuvan, Rajeevan and Anal Arasu, which makes the film engrossing and racy.
The director has neatly worked out the script, as first half is for characterisation and the second half the audience roots for the hero, which makes the climax believable. The film begins with four pot smoking college students, molesting and murdering a girl on a lonely beach.
Cut to hero introduction scene, as Jeeva (Karthi) is shown celebrating wildly New Year with his friends. He is a nice guy who will do anything for his friends and family consisting of his father (Jayaprakash) a call taxi driver, mother (Lakshmi) and a sister. He has a way with neighbours, kids and people in the low income colony where he lives, and they all adore him.
One day at a friend's wedding he meets a girl Priya (Kajal Aggarwal), with whom he strikes an instant rapport which develops into love. Jeeva being a straightforward, no nonsense guy barges into her house and asks her father, a criminal lawyer for her hand, which leads to trouble. Meanwhile Jeeva's life gets more complicated as his father gets murdered, by the same gang seen in the beginning of the film. Life changes for Jeeva, as he goes in search of his father's killers, leading to a stunning climax on a lonely beach.
What an impact Karthi makes in his fourth film. He nails the character to perfection and does everything a super hero does in Tamil films without making it look larger-than-life on screen. He is one good reason to see the film. Jayaprakash is growing in stature in character roles, and here as father he is simply too good, the bonding scenes between him and Karthi are fantastic.
Kajal Aggarwal and Karthi's on screen chemistry crackles and she is charming though her role is limited. The casting of unknown newcomers especially the four mean and diabolic guys who knows no fear and the chap who plays the Royapuram dada is apt. The film has no separate comedy track or comedians. Still Karthi brings the house down with some good comedy especially the scenes in which he turns as a bill collection agent and the scene where Priya's father invites him to a bar to actually give him a warning.
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City of Poway unanimously approves proposal for new shooting range and gun shop
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The city of Poway on Tuesday night unanimously approved a proposal for a new gun shop and shooting range.
The range is proposed for an empty 13,400-square-foot warehouse at a quiet corner in a Poway business park.
The proposed range would occupy the existing building at the corner of Flint Place and Gregg Street, which is two blocks west of Costco.
Poway Range Partners LLC did not want to be interviewed before the vote Tuesday night.
A 39-page report to the city of Poway showed plans to have a 17-lane shooting range and use 1,500 square feet for sales.
A neighboring business in Poway told 10News that the now vacant warehouse used to be a candy shop.
"As long as they get the proper permits, no problem," said Robert Cook, who is with Network Printing across the street from the proposed site.
Henry Cook, who runs Network Printing with his brother, added, "It doesn't concern me. I don't feel threatened by it and I might even use it."
In a letter to the city of Poway obtained by 10News, one investment company which owns six nearby buildings asked the city to deny the conditional use permit, citing zoning and parking concerns.
10News went to the American Shooting Center in Kearny Mesa to see what an indoor range looks and sounds like.
There were thick soundproof walls, metal ceiling tiles to protect bullets from leaving the building and the bullet-resistant glass.
Similar indoor modifications will be made in Poway if the plan is approved.
"If the Poway community approves it, I will be the first one there to shake his hand and tell him to do it, and do it right," said Marc Halcon, who is with the American Shooting Center.
10News called the city of Poway to get their response to the prospective business.
"The specific plan allows for indoor recreational use. A marksmanship range is an example in the city code," said Bob Manis, the director of development services for the city of Poway. "The city staff is recommending its approval."


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Dr. Rattan told me in an interview, "Normal cells, as they divide and age, go through a progressive accumulation of changes that are irreversible until they reach a stage where they finally die. The in vitro form of creating cellular aging is called the Hayflick Phenomenon, named after the researcher who discovered this method of studying cellular aging in a laboratory setting." He went on to state that "a young cell is plump, round, smooth. As the cells age, they become irregular, flattened, and large, full of debris.… When you grow normal cells in the lab they have a limited number of times they multiply and divide—termed a cell's replicative life span. But when I added N6-furfuryladenine to these cultures the cells did not age as fast, the process slowed down dramatically…" On the flip side, Dr. Rattan mentioned, "We are curious about negative effects.... In cell cultures when a concentration of, say, 250 micromolars of N6-furfuryladenine was used, we got good results, but when we used 500 micromolars of N6-furfuryladenine the cells started dying." The quotes above are from my original phone interview with Dr. Rattan prior to my first reviews of products containing kinetin. He has since told me we can no longer have discussions about this ingredient, not a shock given that "loose lips often sink ships."
You may be wondering if, years later, there is any new research that finally shows kinetin to be a worthwhile ingredient to add to your "anti-aging" skin-care regimen. One published study examined the effect of applying a low dose of kinetin to the skin of hairless dogs. The applications lasted 100 days, and gradual skin texture, wrinkle, and depigmentation (skin lightening) improvement was observed in all subjects. However, the study was not done double-blind, it wasn't compared to a placebo, and dogs don't wrinkle or age the way we do. So it's really a stretch to suggest that the results on dog skin somehow translate to results on human skin (Source: Rejuvenation Research, Spring 2004, pages 32–39). Further and more recent research on kinetin hasn't proven it to be an antiwrinkle luminary or even a dim light (Source: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, May 2006, pages 332–342).
Using kinetin on skin remains as much of an unknown as it was when we first wrote about it. There are also conflicting results from studies trying to answer such questions as: How much kinetin is needed to have an effect? Can you use too much? How do you control the amount of skin cell differentiation? Can it exert antioxidant activity? The bottom line is that even if kinetin could be used by skin cells, there probably isn't enough kinetin in any product to have a negative or positive impact. However, that is only a guess; no one knows for sure, and so using products with kinetin remains potentially effective but still questionable. Besides, you have to ask yourself: If kinetin is such a miraculous ingredient, why aren't other companies using it in their products? Thus far, the licensing rights to kinetin haven't been setting the industry afire, and it's doubtful much more than a spark will be generated because everyone is always looking for the next buzz ingredient.
(Sources for the above: Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, June 1994, pages 665–672, November 1999, pages 499–502, and October 2000, pages 1265–1270; Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, May 2002, pages 1581–1586; and Dermatologic Clinics, October 2000, pages 609–615.)
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