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Made this for Thanksgiving 2011 and it was a huge hit! This is an excellent compromise for the marshmallow loving yam eaters and those who prefer a more sophisticated less kitschy dish. I added chopped pecans and a bit of vanilla. Also, I had no apple cider vinegar on hand so I used red wine vinegar and the juice of half an orange. I did not have maple sugar, just used a bit of maple syrup in the streusel topping. I will definitely make this again next year!!! Read More http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/notes/Garnet-Yams-with-Blis-Maple-Syrup-and-Maple-Sugar-Streusel-350428#ixzz1emPmeo3d
I thought I hated yam dishes because the only yam dish I'd been exposed to was yams with horrid melted marshmallow on top, which to me was ridiculously too sweet. But, I was hosting Thanksgiving this year and had to do a yam dish (or else there might be rioting) so I made this one and I loved it! I reduced the total sugar in the streusel by 1/3 cup, and I thought it was totally delicious and the perfect sweetness and crunch complement to the yams. I think other people liked it too but, there fans of the marshmallow version who perhaps it wasn't sweet enough for.
This has become a staple at our large family Thanksgiving meal. In fact everyone just expects us to bring this dish! I added one personal touch that absolutely sets this apart. I make a vanilla-maple sugar meringue to pipe on top in a lattice. Simply amazing!!!
The texture of the streusel does not work with the yams. It's mealy and clumpy. And, it is far too sweet. Of the many dishes on last night's table, this one yielded by far the most leftovers.
Made this recipe for Thanksgiving. Prepared 1- 1/2 recipe as we had 13 for dinner. Only changes: I did not have Maple sugar so I used Muscavado sugar that I had on hand and added chopped Pecans to the streusel as well as a pinch of nutmeg and cloves. Based on others reviews that it was better the next day and the streusel crisped up, I prepared the night before and covered the dish tightly in foil and baked. Removed foil, let cool then recovered with foil and refrigerated. Baked again the next day to warm up and kept foil on during this time. Was absolutely a huge hit and I loved it. It's a keeper.
OMFG! i never liked yams before i had these, they were the star of our thankgsiving table this year, everyone was raving about them! I did have maple sugar so i just substituted with brown sugar.
My family and I never cared for sweet potatos until I decided to find a new recipe. This is it. This will be my third year making these. Eveyone loves them including my two young kids and my brother-in-law who is kind of a food snob (gormet chef). Instead of the maple surgar I use a mix of turbano surgar and dark brown surgar.
Wonderful recipe that I've used the last couple years, and will this year as well. The topping is crunchy and not-too-sweet, and the potato mixture becomes molten and decadent underneath.
I can't stop making this dish! I love yams and I love this recipe. I made it for a Christmas party and could've made two it disappeared so fast. The men were commenting to their wives how good it was and the next morning I had 2 email requests for the recipe. I don't have the Blis syrup so one time I added a bit of bourbon just for fun and depth. I finally ordered some maple sugar - I had been winging it like other reviewers, using white, brown sugars w/maple syrup for the topping, but tonight I'm using the real thing, though it's hard to imagine liking it more than I already do. I've always preferred my yams baked simply in butter/brown sugar but here I am making this for the 4th time since T'giving!
This was good but not as fabulous as I expected. Several dishes at our early Christmas dinner yesterday were demolished. Half of this remained. I do like the garnet yams -- have never had them before -- but I wasn't crazy about the sugary topping. It was better after microwaving leftovers today. The topping softened, melded with the potatoes and seemed less sweet.


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The one big difference between these soon-to-default Euro Sovereign debtors & Dubai's national debt, is that Dubai still has an extremely wealthy, strong & stable safety-net, in Big Bro Abu Dhabi, to come to her rescue, whereas Europe has no one to fall back on.
So where are the Euro defaulters going to wind up, when they start to default, one after the other?
IMF to the rescue - or should I say: IMF's deadly stranglehold??
The EURO cannot take all the blame for the mis-evaluation and mis-pricing of credit risks within the Eurozone. Being in a single currency may make it more difficult to differiate among borrowers, but it does not ensure the convergence of credit risk ratings and pricings, especially when the national authorities follow strongly divergent fiscal and credit policies.
A veteran of the Latin American Debt Crises of the 1980s might recall that commercial bank creditors were carefully identfied and forced to the renegotiating table to share some of the pain of the necessary debt reduction by extending maturities at low interest rates, etc. Faceless bondholders, on the other hand, were at first excused from taking their fair share of the pain.
Nowadays, overleveraging of fragile borrowers was done with commercial loans, with bearer bonds, but also with opaque instruments like the "loan in the Trojan Swap", where it's difficult to identify the credit much less the creditor.
Unlike the LDC of earlier crises, the current overleveraged borrowers can count on little help from their "partners in debt", who were in it only long enough to collect their fat fees. Instead dealing with responsable creditors, they are now facing mere "counterparties" who are busy clamouring for retroactive guarantees from third-party guarantors, which will do more to rescue the creditors than to re-float the debtors.
Expect more taxpayer resistance to being the (retroactive) guarantor-of-last-resort to bail-out speculative or misguided investors who took on more risk than they could afford to loose.
The covert problem with the Euro is very simple: predicating a currency system on such disparate economies and fiscal disparities, means simply the wealthier and more successful economies will always be expected to either bail out the basket cases or will be economically handicapped by their membership of a flawed mechanism.Germany is already suffering fiscally from the ingestion of East Germany and the state's adoption of a raft of fiscal and financial obligations: worse, Germany is the locomotive economy of the Eurozone, with vast global earnings from industrial export driven activity.The Euro was allowed by the ECB to become over-hard: thus handicapping German manufacturing exporters yet further. The premise was a hard Euro represented success: whereas the flight to Euro-denominated security was a reaction to exchange risk exposure in failing reserve currency, mainly the US Dollar: thus the effective cross-value of the Euro was predictated on external drivers, not intended policy or true fiat valuation.The Sovereign Loan area is already under the global capital market's microscope as increasingly unstable: the bond market is fragile as never before.Waiting in the wings are Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and potentially, Slovakia and Slovenia: where all are over-leveraged and all have been spending and borrowing far too much.Thus this is a systemic Sovereign Risk problem endemic to the Eurozone. It is not just A Grecian hiccup.How long will major successful state's manufacturing exporters and voters be prepared to accept being penalised for other's profligate fiscal incompetence? Not long I suggest, as such does not play well come election day! Here is what I wrote on this back in 2001.
Presently, the Great and the Good are assuring us exactly why the Euro cannot fail: I would cynically comment the same applied right up to the collapse of the Dot Com Bubble; the Wall Street Crash and the ERM back in 1992.
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There needs to be a paradigm shift in the manner the public policy is crafted in these nations. While the EU member nations have to walk the tight rope of keeping thier monetary policies synchronous with other members; a strong impetus is required to manage thier deficits and surpluses as per the tasks on the local table. This should not be confused with protectionism but synchronising the monetary meter of the nation with the EU zone keeping in view the national spending, credit priorities and credit creation with other macroeconomic variables
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Meanwhile, Republican congressional hopefuls and Mitt Romney have hitched their election bids to climate change skepticism, siding with Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe who calls global warming "the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
The American people however are now personally seeing that the hoax may all be on the climate change denier side. According to in-depth research by Yale and George Mason universities, by a margin of over 2 to 1 (52 percent vs. 22 percent), they say that U.S. weather – including heat waves, droughts and severe rainstorms – has been getting worse, rather than better, in recent years.
More importantly, Americans say extreme weather is adding to local hardships, including harm to crops (46%), damage from floods (39%), and problems with air quality (38%), forest fires (34%), water quality (31%), and transportation (23%), says the study.
This year's weather trends could further erode voter patience with the GOP. This March, the nation shattered over 15,000 heat records in a single month. And more scorchers are likely on the way, with above normal temperatures predicted across most of the nation through November, says the U.S. Climate Prediction Center. Worse, nearly two thirds of the country – 39 states – is already experiencing drought this spring (usually a wet time), as we head into the dry dog days of summer, says the U.S. Drought Monitor.
These trends, if continued, could lead to an extreme summertime heat and drought emergency, making Republican candidates sweat out their electoral bids as they try to defend their belligerent climate change denial records.
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Police call off search for missing man - ABC Sydney - Australian Broadcasting Corporation Seems they sailed out of Sydney Harbour for Broken Bay - 17nms north of Sydney. Sunday was damn near perfect conditions for motor boats. Not much wind at all but they might have picked up a puff offshore. Wife goes below for a nap and wakes off Collaroy to find hubby has left the building. Collaroy is only 6nms north of Sydney and she needs a nap ? Its a weird one and yes I am probably not giving it the gravitas it deserves but it really seems strange. He's presumably decied to have a quick slash over the side and whoopsy doodle. No body even now but there are plenty of rocky outcrops for a body to get wedged into off Collaroy which also happens to be a very happy hunting ground for sharks. So kiddies, remember ... if you leave the cockpit at sea ... strap yourself in. |
Don't know the number of times that I've tried to raise the level of the tide. But I've always hung on to the rail, shroud or stancion, pending on the vessel, for safety sake. And sometimes my hand was white knuckled while hanging on.
It's said a high percentage of drowned sailors were found with their flies open.. and yet we all still do it...
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Insurance companies will not usually pay out if only one of a couple comes back reporting a MOB.
Not murder; fraud. Remember the guy who disappeared in the Irish Sea (I think) and turned up in Panama afetr his wife made a few trips there. |
I do not pee overboard. On a delivery to St Barths, the fresh water system started leaking on a boat with fresh water heads. We peed in a bottle and dumped overboard or were tethered if we went direct. |
I don't like having a slash over the side and that cos on almost every occasion that I have nearly gone over I to would have been found with flies askew.
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This was my first year wintersowing, and doesn't it figure we get an unusual winter. I have had some things sprout, but probably just less than half of what I ws'd. How did the rest of you fare? Was this winter just too cold? Is there a flaw in my technique? Is it too early to tell if I succeeded or not? I'd love to hear about other's experiences.
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- Posted by kellycomposter 8 (My Page) on Tue, Apr 7, 09 at 0:15
This is my first year as well. So far, it's been going great. I think the recent nice weather has helped as I've been getting more containers sprouting everyday. Some still haven't sprouted but am told to remain patient and they will most likely pop up. Am waiting on most of my hollyhocks, pestemen, lavender, lambs ears, alpine strawberries, and a few others that haven't sprouted. Poppies have sprouted so have blackeyed susans, mexican hat, lettuce, spinach, lupine, garlic chives, painted daisies, soapwort, brussel sprouts, broccoli, parsley and broccoli rabi. What did you winter sow? Kelly |
I've been wintersowing for several years and things seem a bit slower to sprout this year. About 1/3 of mine have sprouted but with this warm sunshine I'm getting more every day. I think we may just have to be patient - the hard winter slowed everything down. |
My first year veggy gardening and I decided to try the gammut of methods, including early sowing, and call it a 'learning experience'. Spinach, arugula, chard, green onions and mesclun are up. |
- Posted by aphroditelaughs Puget Sound (My Page) on Tue, Apr 7, 09 at 12:11
Thanks, all. I feel a bit better. Another question: did you cover your flats with a lid, or leave them open to the elements? I have seen both methods advised and wonder what works best for our climate. |
I use the milk jugs as suggested in the Wintersowing Forum and I leave the tops on (not the lids) until they sprout. I sow some in the under-the-bed plastic containers and I put the lids on those until they sprout. I don't use flats, but would probably cover those, too. |
- Posted by clc70 8 Wa. (email@example.com) on Tue, Apr 7, 09 at 17:07
Am still sowing my annuals. Have about 200 milk jugs sown, and approximatly 50 jugs have sprouts. this is my second year, and I'm not worried. |
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After his postseason meltdowns against Oakland and the Yankees, the Detroit Tigers didn't even offer him a contract at the end of last season. Flame-throwing prospect Bruce Rondon looked set to be the new closer.
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There comes a moment late in "The West Side Waltz," which opened last evening at the Barrymore, when Katharine Hepburn, chin tilted up and eyes shining, fantasizes about a waltzing, carriage-driven Viennese society, so unlike the grubby life outside her West Side flat. At this moment, she is once more Tracy Lord and Alice Adams and all the other radiant young women in her past. The moment reveals how much her rare talent is wasted, or circumscribed, in this second play about the elderly by Ernest Thompson, whose "On Golden Pond" (the movie, with Hepburn and Henry Fonda, is due Dec. 4) was vastly more amusing and trenchant.
Playing an increasingly disabled widow living in a roomy and obviously rent-controlled apartment (the play's six scenes span almost two years), she is limited to portraying a sharp-tongued, fiercely independent woman, qualities that scarcely test her capabilities. The play mostly has to do with Margaret Mary Ellerdice's (Hepburn's) gradual acceptance of her spinster neighbor, Cara Varnum, appealingly played by Dorothy Loudon. What the two have in common is music: Hepburn plays an ornately-painted grand, and Loudon the violin (some fancy finger-synching here to recorded music), and both have a fondness for waltzes.
Mingling with their lives is the building's super, a stock comedy Roumanian done ably enough by David Margulies, and a waiflike Brooklyn divorcee who calls herself Robin Bird and whom Hepburn takes in as a companion. As set forth by Regina Baff with a curious speech pattern, Robin sounds as much like a Brooklynite as Indira Gandhi.
The afternoons and evenings drag along so similarly that, having seen the septuagenarian heroine get about with one cane in the first scene and two in the second, our chief interest lies in what she'll be using in the next scene and whether she'll last out the play.
Hepburn gets off her retorts with polished ease, and Loudon's "Takes" are managed with familiar skill. The next-to-closing scene introduces a new character, or caricature, a young lawyer (Don Howard). Noel Willman has directed this sprung-sofa of a comedy tidily in a setting by Ben Edwards that reeks of seedy middle-class splendor. The Hepburn fascination remains intact, but Thompson should have done much better by the lady. "The West Side Waltz" is a play that undoubtedly would sell out if every day were Wednesday and every performance a ladies' matinee.
Presumably most people can grow old gracefully - it takes little more than a matter of grateful acceptance and thoughtful contemplation of the alternative. But to grow old gloriously, with all guns firing while churning along at full speed ahead, that is something different. It is a difference made manifest by Katharine Hepburn.
Miss Hepburn, and her enchanting co-star, Dorothy Loudon, opened last night at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in Ernest Thompson's The Waltz Side Waltz. But let me talk first about Miss Hepburn rather than the play - for it is Miss Hepburn that audiences are coming to see, and Miss Hepburn, not to mention Miss Loudon, that you want to read about. And so you shall.
She is playing a retired concert pianist living in a decaying, but grand apartment house on W. 72d St. The play, such as it is - for it is a vehicle more than a monument, or at least it would be if it ever moved - is spread over two years and reveals Miss Hepburn increasingly beleaguered in health, but consistently triumphant in spirit.
Personally I am never quite sure how good an actress the 72-year-old Miss Hepburn is, or, for that matter, was. It scarcely matters. It is certainly not relevant. She has created for herself a most remarkable ever-fascinating persona - and we have actually seen it grow up before our eyes, and we can still see the process in her old movies.
In West Side Waltz her smile is as radiant as ever - it still swoops over her face like a rainbow - her hair remains attractively frizzy, her voice retains that characteristic rasp that seems to suggest the outdoor life of dogs, horses and boats; while her personality, that sweet and sour sauce, continues to maintain its contrasted balance between innocence and the ornery. And, wonder of wonders, she is as girlish as ever.
The playwright Thompson appears to be fascinated by the geriatric life. His first success a couple of seasons ago was the mellow and beautiful On Golden Pond. It must be admitted that The West Side Waltz is a more flimsy structure and does not have the earlier play's homespun virtues. Yet Thompson does have a special knack for recognizable caricatures and for reality thickly disguised as fiction.
It must be admitted that not a great deal actually happens in The West Side Waltz. Yet it is no danse macabre and for the most part the characters, even Miss Hepburn succumbing first to a walker and then a wheelchair, remain pretty perky, and while revelations are not made, people are quite neatly sketched in a Norman Rockwell sort of fashion.
Thompson's major contention seems to be that the individual needs independence. Miss Hepburn demonstrates this when she rejects the offers of help and permanent companionship from the somewhat psychopathic Miss Loudon. The young and emotionally bruised woman (an agreeably tough performance from Regina Baff) that Miss Hepburn acquires from an advertisement to share her home, equally demonstrates it when she refuses to let the older woman manipulate her life.
Yet the play is here playing second fiddle to the acting, and in addition to the shining Miss Hepburn, and the no-nonsense modernity of Miss Baff, we also have Miss Loudon, vulgar and lovable, either stridently bright or with a pitiably crumpled face on the point of a Niagara of tears. Miss Loudon's shocking vulnerability appears all the more poignant against the patrician invincibility of Miss Hepburn and the wary canniness of Miss Baff.
There are two other attractive performances to fill out if not precisely flesh out the play. David Margulies makes a sort of macho ditherer out of a Rumanian-born superintendent and is very funny, and Don Howard is also good value as the daffy sociable lawyer who woos and wins Miss Buff.
And how do you direct Miss Hepburn? Carefully, I imagine. In any event Noel William has staged the play - not that it needed very much staging - with an entirely appropriate sense of claustrophobia, Ben Edwards's setting winningly conveys the seedy grandeur of an apartment that has known better years, and Jane Greenwood's costumes are, as is usual with this designer, uncommonly apt.
But the play is not the thing. In West Side Waltz it is the singers not the song that counts. And it is an unalloyed pleasure to cheer Miss Hepburn and Miss Loudon back to Broadway. Wouldn't they be wonderful in a musical version of Arsenic and Old Lace?
Ernest Thompson has written a tired play in ''The West Side Waltz,'' which opened at the Barrymore last night, but be assured that his star goes ahead and puts on her own vital show without him. Katharine Hepburn is at hand here, and Katharine Hepburn, in all her wonder, is what you'll get.
The actress ostensibly plays Margaret Mary Elderdice, an aging, widowed pianist who lives in a dreary Upper West Side apartment and wears dowdy cardigans that fall below her knees. While the playwright maintains that Margaret Mary is originally from Iowa, don't worry: Miss Hepburn's pronunciation - just hear the word ''pooper-scooper'' - remains the apotheosis of Yankee. It's also suggested that the heroine's health is failing - it's Mr. Thompson's wont to give her a new orthopedic appliance in nearly each scene - but don't believe that, either. Miss Hepburn, to say the least, is still yare.
Just how yare is first apparent not only in her robust face - gleaming eyes and those unmatchable cheekbones, all framed by a halo of graying curls - but also in her comic timing. When an overprotective neighbor tells her that it's too cold to walk in Central Park, Miss Hepburn waits one half-beat and announces, ''I'll run!'' The sheer finality of her delivery makes a so-what line very funny - and our laughter is capped by hers, which is contagious and open-mouthed and more-than-halfway aimed at herself. A little later, Margaret Mary is told of a man who is ''gay,'' and at first Miss Hepburn pretends not to know the current usage of that word. But the light soon dawns - brighter than any sunrise. ''Oh, ga-aa-aay,'' she says - and we see the same triumphant smile of mischief she gave James Stewart in ''The Philadelphia Story'' as she feigned not to know the location of his hometown of South Bend.
Then come the passion, the stubbornness, the vulnerability. Mary Margaret's best friend has killed herself, and someone asks why. ''Because she's a fool!'' cries Miss Hepburn, flying into a contained rage, complete with small fists. Then she adds, ''I won't forgive her for that,'' and her low, vehement voice quiets any fears that she might have softened her stand against spiritual weakness. Yet, as always, she's not really sanctimonious - she can fall off her pedestal, too. When a young woman doesn't immediately accept Margaret Mary's offer of a job, the actress's face drains of color in morbid fear of rejection. It's a glimpse of her Mary Tyrone, trying to retrieve lost love in the long shadows of a New London night.
Beautiful moments, all - and all Katharine Hepburn. Let's be grateful that Mr. Thompson feeds her lines and stays out of her way. Be grateful, too, that ''The West Side Waltz'' improves on the season's previous star vehicle, Claudette Colbert's ''A Talent for Murder,'' by placing its heroine in a wheelchair for only a scene or two instead of the entire evening.
But ''The West Side Waltz'' is otherwise a tedious retread of Mr. Thompson's previous effort, ''On Golden Pond.'' Once again this writer gives us an elderly protagonist, isolated and a bit embittered by old age, who learns to live again after a young companion (Regina Baff, as a would-be actress) moves in for an extended stay. And once again Mr. Thompson stands up boldly for the old verities. ''Human beings are not meant to be alone.'' ''If you want something in life, you have to go out and get it!'' ''Don't sell yourself short.''
It's Mr. Thompson who sells people short. Rather than create characters, he gives us types (two here have burlesque accents), walks them through contrived situations and then steps in to resolve their lives with divinely ordained happy endings. ''The West Side Waltz'' wants to be warm and poignant, but it's so coolly calculating it might have been written by computer. Margaret Mary's one flaw, selfishness, must be corrected by the final curtain - and, ipso facto, it is. Her companion must gain her self-confidence - and so she does. The other major character, a prim, virginal violinist played by Dorothy Loudon, is a prig for two hours, then kicks up her heels just before we go home.
These transformations aren't credible because they aren't dramatized. They either take place magically between scenes or are announced as faits accompli. The play's only real conflict - a fight between Margaret Mary and her companion - springs up out of nowhere and blows over about 10 minutes later. In a similarly arbitrary manner, Mr. Thompson suddenly bestows a lover on one character in Act II; his heroine's money problems, much discussed early on, simply fade away. Life is always neat and easy here: all six scenes end with Miss Hepburn playing a waltz at her piano and saying the same curtain line (''Now we're cooking.''). Such television-style tidiness cries out for commercial breaks.
The jokes are cheap and often compromise the characters, such as they are. (Would Miss Loudon's blue-nosed spinster really boast, ''I've never even had my period''?) Mr. Thompson's comic shtick, here as before, is to have elderly characters say - or overhear - expletives or sexual innuendos. This time he's also added some Neil Simon gags about such New York indignities as cockroaches and underheated apartments. Most of these are recited by a Rumanian - and inevitably malaprop-prone - superintendent.
Although Miss Loudon doesn't subside into broadness until Act II and David Margulies somewhat redeems the super with sweetness, the acting of the supporting cast is generally as mannered and thin as the writing. Noel Willman's direction contains no surprises: you just keep waiting for him to move his characters to the piano so each scene can end. But the star does keep you guessing about which part of her persona she'll reveal next - and there are more parts to her than most mere mortals around. While ''The West Side Waltz'' never gives us cause to look away from Katharine Hepburn, you might not be able to take your eyes off her even if it did.


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The train has already stopped in 17 cities and towns across South Africa [8] to raise awareness about the importance of reducing our carbon footprint – just in time for the 17th climate change conference currently underway in Durban. Throughout its journey, the train's on board educators have opened dialogue with everyone from individuals to community groups, churches, schools, and even businesses. After the conference, it will continue on and eventually return to Cape Town [9].
Indalo Yethu's CEO, June Joseph-Langa told South Africa's SABC news [10] that the train is designed to reach people who lack access to information, and stressed the importance that everyone understand how they will be affected by climate change. We love this unconventional approach, particularly since it's on rails, thereby promoting public transportation [11] at the same time.
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Denny's chain expands its specialty coffee line
The Denny's restaurant chain has further expanded its coffee lineup. In January, it introduced introduced three new coffee blends — Signature Diner Roast, Dark Diner Roast and Signature Decaf Roast. Now, it as added two warm-weather iced coffee choices. Frosty Roast frozen coffee is made with vanilla, coffee and ice, the company said n a […]
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New coffeehouse 'official' at Troy's City Station
TROY — The latest increment in the creation and expansion of the City Station complex officially took place today. A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held this morning for the new Stir It Up Coffeehouse in the Sixth Avenue complex. It originally had been targeted for a November 2012 opening, but construction delays put that off until […]
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Burger King adding 10 coffee drinks to its menu
The Burger King fast-food chain is making major changes in its line of coffee drinks, blended by Seattle's Best Coffee. The 100% Latin American Arabica bean custom blend now will be used in an extensive line of 10 new beverages for hot or iced coffee in a variety of flavors such as vanilla, mocha, and […]
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Coffee shop transformation moving along
Tierra coffee art ALBANY — The change in ownership that transformed the Ultraviolet Cafe into Tierra Coffee Roasters has blossomed into more than simply a name change. The cafe, located at 292 Delaware Avenue next to the Spectrum Theaters, is managed by Ron Grieco. It is intended to become both a moviegoers' stop as well […]
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Melville's Mug to re-open under new operator
The Clinton Square location. ALBANY — Melville's Mug has a new face. Sort of. The coffee shop, located next to McGeary's pub, is scheduled to reopen next month under the ownership of attorney Gregory Harris, who owns the building at 5 Clinton Square that also houses his law office. That is a return engagement for […]
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'Barista Albany' part of Wine & Dine festival
ALBANY — Who is the city's top barista? That question will be answered next Saturday (January 19) when "Barista Albany" is held as part of the multi-day Albany Wine and Dine for the Arts Festival. What is being billed as "a classic throw-down for the mantle of Albany's best barista" will begin at 11 a.m. […]
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Tierra Coffee Roasters goes to the movies
VALATIE — Earlier this week, I posted a report on the sale of the Ultraviolet Cafe to Tierra Coffee Roasters. What I didn't mention was that this is the Columbia County company's second Albany coffee shop and eatery. Its first Albany spot, opened in 2010, is located at 1038 Madison Avenue, near the Madison Theater. […]
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NYers winners in food/beverage program
SAN FRANCISCO — New York State food and drink makers picked up some honors in the Good Food Awards event just concluded over the weekend. The Good Food Awards were created through a collaboration of food producers, farmers, food journalists and independent grocers organized by Seedling Projects. That team nominated judges from across the country […]
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Starbucks Corp. says it is raising menu prices for a number of its drinks. But only in some places, like New York State. In fact, customers in all of the Northeast plus some Sunbelt locations will be paying more under the price changes. The West Coast, Midwest, etc., no. The average hike is 1%, so […]
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Wanted to get a little something in here for Eurasia and Biden's visit.
Feel free to tweak the hell out of it or rewrite it entirely.
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Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 14:33:51 -0500
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New Guidance
1. Bahrain: We need to be focused on the unrest here. Are the protests
reaching the point where the military and security forces may crack down
violently or, most importantly, where the regime may be endangered?
Unrest here may not reach that point, but we need to be watching for any
indication of escalation or deterioration of the stability.
2. Saudi Arabia: Riyadh is watching events in Bahrain particularly
closely as it attempts to crush any unrest amongst its own Shiite
minority along the Persian Gulf coast. As with Bahrain, we need to be on
the lookout for a major crackdown as well as the swelling of the
protests to a size that might prove destabilizing for the regime. There
are reports in the Iranian press that President Mahmoud Amadinejad may
visit Saudi Arabia soon. We need to look to verify these reports and get
a sense of his itinerary and objectives.
3. Iran: In both cases, and across the region, we need to be looking
closely for any indication of the nature and extent of Iranian
involvement. Tehran has an enormous opportunity to take advantage of
unrest across the region by manipulating protests for its own purposes.
Last week's guidance on Iran stands: we need to understand Tehran's
larger thinking and strategy moving forward. Iran began the year in a
strong position. How far does Tehran want to push things, and how
quickly and aggressively does it want to maneuver?
4. Russia: The visit of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden to Moscow this
week comes at a time of some rapprochement between Moscow and
Washington, most recently cooperation in Kyrgyzstan. Does progress there
herald cooperation in other areas? Will there be emphasis on shared
interests or areas of competition and disagreement? From Moscow, Biden
heads to Moldova, a country of some significance to Moscow.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Moscow this week at a time
when no one is sure where US-Russians relations stand. Following the 2009
"reset" of relations, much cooperation has been struck between the two
sides. However, all the previous disagreements and conflict-points still
loom in the background. Where is the point that these disagreements will
break the reset? Or is a new understanding of overall Washington-Moscow
relations on the horizon?
Existing Guidance
1. Libya: What does a post-Gadhafi Libya look like? What factions are
emerging within the opposition? We need to look at key individuals as
well as groups. How much power does the newly formed "national council"
actually have? What indicators do we need to watch for as potential
signs of deterioration of the situation into a civil war?
2. Iraq: We need to understand what protests in Iraq mean for the
stability of the country moving forward. In Iraq, the Iranian question
is even more critical. What hand did Iraq's eastern neighbor play in
these protests, and what is Iran trying to achieve in Iraq right now?
How does the recent return of Muqtada al-Sadr fit in? We also need to
look at what the Iraqi government is doing to manage the unrest. Why
have intellectuals been rounded up and arrested? Is ethnosectarian
rivalry playing a significant role? We need to investigate the nuance
and subtlety of the motivations and dissatisfaction driving the key
actors behind these protests.
3. Yemen: What is the status of talks between the government of Ali
Abdullah Saleh and the opposition? Is the example of the rest of the
region, and particularly of resurgent tribal loyalties in Libya, having
a meaningful impact on how Yemeni tribes and other factions see their
options? We need to look for any signs of changes that could upset the
fragile balance in Yemen, including the loyalty of the military and
security forces to Saleh.
4. China: Though there has been no "Jasmine Revolution," the protest
movement in China remains potentially significant. What lies behind
these gatherings, and do they have staying power? What is the control
group behind the gatherings, and is it unified? Is the movement gaining
momentum? What can we learn from the National People's Congress?
5. Pakistan: Relations with the United States have deteriorated, and we
need to take a close look at the status of the American-Pakistani
relationship and the potential implications for Afghanistan and the
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Thoughts? Is it worth it?
It is a great time, lots of fun good interaction. The food was good but it was your basic picnic fare, hamburger, hotdogs, beans etc.... nothing special. I am glad I did it and I would do it again!!
Why don't they do this in Feb?
We LOVED it! Had such a good time dancing with the Characters. DD got lots of attention from Minnie Mouse because she was dressed in Minnie's costume. Got lots of great pictures, food was good, and unlimited mickey head bars! What more could you ask for?
2) But, if you want it, get there soon. 3) It is going to be canceled, permanently due to the new construction. Our Ratings of Mickey's BBQ: (rev 1/5/12) . . . food price value: D . . . food quality: C . . . food quantity per serving: A . . . food prep speed: B . . . food selection: C . . . seating quantity: C . . . seating comfort: D . . . eatery atmosphere: C . . . eatery convenience: C . . . staff friendliness: B . . . staff attentiveness: B . . . character interaction: C NOTE: Tables are long picnic tables of about 40 people per table, so you sit with other families. No reserved seating, so the "mad dash" for seats can be interesting. There is no front row", just the end of the picnic tables. Folks start lining up about 1-hr prior to the 5:30pm seating. Also, characters are there for dancing and front interaction, and *usually* do not go thru tables, so sometimes there is a long line trying to get to the charcters. It should also be noted that the sides are open to the weather. They put up some plastic wind diverters, but it does get hot or cold. |
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