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Time For The High Lineby: Abdullah Saeed
It's a nice day for an elevated stroll. Open today is the first section of High Line, a park built on out of commission elevated rail that JoshSpear.com has been following since the earliest stages its conception. Running from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 20thth Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues. Upon completion it will stretch all the way out to 34th, making it a mile and a half long. The design by James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro will include some interesting seating, lighting, and other fixtures. Details of the design are on the High Line website, along with a schedule of events including the benefit going on there on June 15th. Getting a table will help fund the maintennance and overall upkeep of this ridiculously awesome urban park. It's just $15k per table, who is in with me?
Black Landlordby: Abdullah Saeed
Philadelphia often spits out something unconventional and intriguing. Bahamadia the whispering lady rapper, G-Love the hipster-ahead-of-his-time, and a band like no other called Black Landlord. I started hearing their name around town a few months back from a few heads gushing about their killer live shows and now there's a full album to be had. The nine-piece band includes everything but the didgeridoo and gives an instrumental style like a funked out Soil & Pimp, with vocals laid down by founder Maxx Stoyaoff-Williams. Clever, funny, and inherently heavy, Addicted to Distraction kills it in every respect. In regard to album cover, I preferred the pimped out Redd Foxx on their myspace page, but I can see why they went another way with it.
Savath & Savalasby: Abdullah Saeed
Before the melding of organic hip hop with glitchy processing in Prefuse 73, Guillermo Scott Herren messed with ambient jazz and the chillest nooks of latin music. Many forget that Savath and Savalas brought Herren to Warp Records, leaving many of his records under this alias overlooked. Well, if you haven't heard it before, now is the time to warm up to it, as we find ourselves smack in the middle of two releases. Stones Throw put out La Llama two weeks ago, living up to the expectations with an array of soundscapes and vocalists. Out in exactly two weeks is Golden Pollen, coming out on Anti, will showcase Herren's own voice and instrument talents.
Still not convinced? Listen to a track on YouTube.
Fink's Ninja Tuneby: Abdullah Saeed
A lone singer/songwriter on a label that prides itself on producers, Fink landed with Ninja Tune in the late nineties with a pair of EPs, followed by 2001′s downtempo mix Fresh Produce. It wasn't until five years later that he showed his melodic side on Biscuits for Breakfast, the first record that defines his current style. Since then, he seems to be back on track with his releases. Distance and Time dropped in 2007, and now we've got another mellow collection entitled Sort of Revolution. The LP features John Legend on a couple of tracks, as well as a cover of 'Walking in the Sun'. Another solid Ninja Tune release.
Major Lazerby: Abdullah Saeed
We can thank Diplo and Switch for boldly auto tuning Andy Milonakis toasting, but there's a lot more to Major Lazer than a comedy gimmick. The tracks heard so far are killer, notably the collaboration with Santogold. This summer their tweaked out brand of dancefloor crack is on the road and there are free and discounted tickets up for grabs (I know the Philadelphia show at Electric Factory is free). Hit 'tour dates' on the Bacardi Live website and pick your city. Depending on which show you catch, you might see A-Trak as well.
Smak Parlour Philadelphiaby: Abdullah Saeed
Amidst the dead-til-friday strip of bars in Philadelphia's Old City, one store front boosts its allure with searing pink. Smak Parlour is the brainchild of Abby and Katie, two Philly girls whose aptitude for design brought to life their vision of girliness. The duo claims they found inspiration from the old school Barbie wardrobe; not hard to believe when you walk into Smak Parlour. In a domain of pink, a pallet of gaudy flare is harnessed to create designs that embody the Abby and Katie's expertise, self-professed as all things vintage-inspired, girly, fun and flirty. Smak Parlour is at 2nd and Market Streets in Philly.
DJ Shadow: The 4-Track Era Bundleby: Abdullah Saeed
To most of us, DJ Shadow is a mind without a past. Everything he touched became a timeless piece, the demonstration of his powers beginning with 1996′s Endtroducing, an album that quickly became the soundtrack to the lives of many. While we often consider it his first full excursion into sampling production (in fact, it was the world's first album composed entirely of samples), there was once a young Shadow; one who idolized influences and struggled with his own expressions just like any other artist. Over the past couple of years, we've had glimpses into this tape-deck past through The 4-Track Era series of radio mixes. Today we get the entire musical youth of DJ Shadow packaged in box-set entitled The 4-Track Era Bundle, featuring early noise through a now defunct medium that we all still love deep down. Pre-order now!
Diane Birch: Bible Beltby: Abdullah Saeed
Anyone who can turn that crappy dance jam 'What is Love' into an alluring tune of just voice and Wurlitzer is onto something. Diane Birch, an American singer/songwriter whose preacher dad led her around the world during her childhood, has collected enough insight from her travels to make her expressions all the more interesting. It's not the ethnic influence that shines through, but rather a maturity that is rare to find in a young artist. Her debut Bible Belt is out today.
Django Reinhardt: Airwavesby: Abdullah Saeed
Often while I'm scouring various lists for new releases, I pass over a whole lot of reissues. Sometimes you can get excited about some previously unreleased studio sessions, but it's almost never the case. However, today there's an exception: Django Reinhardt, a musician who died over half a century ago, has a handful of recordings up his white-lapelled suit sleeve. Airwaves is one of dozens of compilations that have been released over the past few decades, but this one has several gems that haven't gone through the whitewashing of modern remastery. The warmth is still there, the clips and pops left on the tracks like little scars, reviving the character that good music in Django's era carried without question.
The Crystal Method: Divided By Nightby: Abdullah Saeed
The Crystal Method were one of the most ostensible bands of the 90s producer boom. They made densely layered electronic music palatable to the masses, so much so that their old songs are seen today as caricatures of the genre. If that's what Grammy nominations get musicians, then it's worth waiting five years to hear a new record from them; one that proves modern sugary production to be over-simple. Everything on Divided By Night is miles away from 'Trip Like I Do', and it never dispenses with the big beat rhythms that drove the band's lesser known contemporaries like Meat Beat Manifesto.


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World of Warcraft has never really jumped in on that idea, however. Obviously, there are plenty of collecting quests, but usually they're for killing mobs. And there are plenty of things to collect in the game -- noncombat pets, tabards, and mounts, and so on -- but none of them really give you a reward when you find a certain number of them, or give you bonuses based on how many you've picked up.
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? For me, hiding some fun, optional collectibles (and giving small rewards based on just finding them) in a world as lush as Azeroth would make exploring an already great environment better. But I'm sure some would see it as a cheap tactic to make people hunt for widgets. What do you think?

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The more I photograph beautiful women, the more I realize that everyone has some skin challenges. Perhaps the only perfect skin on the planet belongs to kids before hormones hit—and by definition, these kids are not glamour models. Also in my experience, glamour models don't always lead the healthiest of lifestyles. This inevitably impacts skin condition. It may not show in publicity photos that have been retouched, but it certainly shows when you look at original captures in Photoshop. Having good make-up helps a great deal, but cosmetics can be overdone and look artificial. When make-up is used to cover poor skin, it can look like a cover-up is in process—as is indeed true. In any case, I always plan to spend some time "improving" skin on models I shoot.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- Dwyane Wade was being dared to drive to his
left, so that's exactly what he did -- with flair.
Wade dribbled the ball between his legs three times before
darting around Stephon Marbury and making a layup, easily the
prettiest play of overtime in the Miami Heat's 116-110 victory over
the New York Knicks on Wednesday night.
"He tried to force me to go to the big man, so I attacked the
big man," Wade said. "I think I scored on that play."
Indeed he did, giving the Heat a 105-99 lead that the Knicks
never recovered from.
Wade tied a franchise record by scoring 10 points in overtime,
finishing with 30 points, six assists and six rebounds. Damon Jones
added a season-high 24 points and Shaquille O'Neal had 16 points
and 13 rebounds as Miami won its fourth straight.
"Nice to know on the road we don't need (O'Neal) and Dwyane to
be magnificent," Heat coach Stan Van Gundy said.
Marbury led a fourth-quarter comeback and scored 36 points for
the Knicks, who lost for the 17th time in their past 20 games.
Displaying the one quality -- a refusal to quit -- that team
president Isiah Thomas considered praiseworthy after a 1-5 road
trip, the Knicks rallied behind Marbury with a 13-2 run in the
final 3:53 of regulation.
But New York had a bad possession in the final seconds of the
fourth quarter and never led in overtime.
"We just haven't been doing it," Marbury said. "There's no
explanation for it. You have to do it."
Prior to the game, Thomas held a 20-minute news conference in
which he reiterated that he isn't interested in coaching the
Knicks, saying his job is to lead the organization as the team
He also said he was flattered by Phil Jackson expressing
interest in possibly becoming the Knicks' head coach but cautioned
that the task of turning the franchise around will be a "long,
slow, tedious process."
Miami made five 3-pointers in the first quarter and led 53-47 at
halftime despite O'Neal scoring just six points. Miami's lead
fluctuated between 15 and four in the third quarter, and the Heat
stayed ahead until Tim Thomas hit a 3-pointer for a 92-92 tie with
1:57 remaining.
It was 95-95 when Kurt Thomas grabbed an offensive rebound with
25 seconds left. The Knicks let the clock run down but could not
manage a decent attempt, with Kurt Thomas' 22-footer failing to hit
the rim.
That left Miami with 2.2 seconds to get off a final shot, but
Eddie Jones missed a 17-footer to send the game to overtime.
"A lot of times in this league you can give up the lead like
that and just die, and we didn't do that," Van Gundy said.
Miami improved the Eastern Conference's best record to 37-14.
"We're a little bit ahead of schedule," O'Neal said. "It's
still a little to early to have that feeling. I don't know if we're
going to be a prime contender or not."
Isiah Thomas, just back from a scouting trip to Spain and Italy,
watched tapes of several of the Knicks' games from their six-game
road trip.
"I'm definitely disappointed with our record, but I'm not
disappointed with our effort or with the fight in our guys. There
was a competitive spirit that I was very pleasantly surprised to
Isiah Thomas even tried to put a positive spin on the Knicks'
chemistry issues, including a recent heated argument on the bench
between Marbury and Kurt Thomas, along with a scuffle at practice
between Kurt Thomas and Bruno Sundov.
"Those are positive things, because our guys are getting sick
and tired of losing, and frustration is setting in," Isiah Thomas
said. "At some point in time, those 12 men in the locker room have
to bond."
Game notes
New York C Nazr Mohammed limped off with a strained right
groin with 1:19 left in overtime. "I'm hoping that with a day of
treatment and working on it I'll be all right for Friday," he
said. ... Knicks coach Herb Williams did not sound hopeful that G
Jamal Crawford, out with a sprained left ankle, would be ready
Friday night at Boston. ... Courtside celebrities included rapper
Ja Rule, heiress Paris Hilton and hockey player Mark Messier. The
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A Tale of Two Budgets
Paul Ryan draws the contrast Republicans will need this fall.
Apr 2, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 28 • By YUVAL LEVIN
The most profound transformations of the welfare state in the Ryan budget, however, are directed to the federal programs most responsible for our current fiscal straits and for our coming debt disaster: our health care entitlement programs. Conservatives are in the habit of seeing reductions in domestic discretionary spending as the gold standard of reining in government, but in fact health-entitlement spending is the essence of the problem to be solved, and to a degree that few Americans appreciate. In 1971, federal health spending accounted for 1 percent of GDP, and all other government spending combined (excluding interest on the debt) accounted for 17.1 percent of GDP, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Forty years later, in 2011, health spending accounted for 5.6 percent of GDP and all other spending combined (excluding interest) accounted for 17.1 percent of GDP—exactly the same portion of the economy as it had four decades earlier (having fluctuated rather little over that time). In essence, the net growth in government as a percentage of the economy in these 40 years has been entirely a function of federal health spending.
And without meaningful reform, this problem will only grow worse. In its latest long-term projections, the Congressional Budget Office forecasted that, between now and 2050, spending on the federal health care entitlements (especially Medicare and Medicaid) will more than double as a percentage of the economy, while all other federal spending combined will actually decline as a share of the economy. The health care entitlements are, in essence, responsible for our disastrous long-term debt problem.
In his budget, President Obama proposes to see this trend continue unabated. Under Obamacare, 16 million more Americans would be shoved into an unreformed Medicaid program that is already failing to provide ready access to quality care. Millions more would enter a whole new poorly designed federal health entitlement created to subsidize coverage in new state exchanges. And the most powerful driver of American health care costs—the fee-for-service design of the Medicare system—would be left essentially untouched, with a board of price controllers expected to finally make it efficient but not empowered to actually change it.
It is on this front—health care, where he claims to have marked his greatest achievement—that President Obama has in fact failed most decisively. And it is on this front that Republicans have an opportunity to offer the starkest contrast with that failure of leadership. The Ryan budget goes a long way toward doing that, though it does not go all the way.
Ryan proposes a much-needed reform of Medicaid—ending the open-ended federal/state funding structure that creates an enormous incentive for overspending and transforming the program into a federal block grant that would allow states the flexibility to pursue greater efficiency and provide more options to the poor. And most important, he proposes to transform Medicare into a premium-support program—and in a way that draws an even more effective contrast with Obama's approach than last year's Republican budget did.
As with last year's plan, none of Ryan's proposed changes would apply to current seniors and people who are now over 55. For people who retire more than 10 years from now, Medicare would become a system in which the government would provide a fixed amount per recipient each year to pay for insurance that each senior would choose from a menu of comprehensive options. Unlike last year's proposal, however, the private insurance options would be joined by one government-run fee-for-service option resembling the current Medicare system, and the level of the premium-support benefit each year would be set by competitive bidding among insurers, rather than just by a predetermined formula fixed to inflation.
Both of these new elements would tend to make the transition to the new system more gradual and orderly, and to complicate Democratic efforts to scare voters about it. The fee-for-service option would have a version of "Medicare as we know it" compete for consumers in the new system on something like a level playing field with private insurers, while the competitive bidding system would combine the best elements of defined-benefit and defined-contribution coverage.
A defined-benefit system, like today's Medicare system, is one in which the government commits to provide a certain set of benefits and then pays whatever they cost. This assures recipients of a guaranteed benefit but encourages cost inflation, since providers of care have a huge incentive to perform more services and thus earn more fees. A defined-contribution system, like the one Ryan proposed last year, would have the government provide a predetermined amount to individuals to spend on insurance. They would choose the coverage they wanted; if it cost more than the preset amount they would pay the difference, and if it cost less they would keep the difference. This would make consumers more cost conscious, driving providers to seek ways to offer quality care at lower prices, but it risks leaving beneficiaries with more out-of-pocket expenses if health costs still grow faster than the premium-support benefit.
Ryan's new proposal is a bit of both: The government would define the minimum insurance benefit to be provided to all covered seniors, based on the level of coverage Medicare now provides, and then there would be a process each year in which competing insurers would offer bids proposing to provide that (or a greater) benefit at the lowest cost they could. The level of the premium-support payment given to seniors would be set at the level of the second-lowest of the bids; poorer and sicker seniors would get additional help, while the wealthiest would get less. Thus, there would be a defined benefit, but payments to providers would not be open-ended. And there would be a defined contribution (with providers competing to win over consumers), but its value would be automatically set to a level that makes premiums affordable, since at least one option would always cost less than the government subsidy.
Because CBO refuses to score the effects of market competition, and a budget resolution has to be scored by CBO, Ryan had to back up his competitive bidding process with a blunt cap on Medicare's overall growth (CBO then simply scores the proposal as meeting the cap). To sharpen the contrast with Obama, he chose to just give CBO the same cap Obama proposes for the IPAB—keeping the annual growth of costs below GDP growth plus 0.5 percent. Both caps are of course just scoring conventions; they are goals, not reforms. They raise the question of how costs would be kept below the cap, and the differing answers to that question clarify once again the choice before voters this year.
On one hand are Obama's 15 numinous know-it-alls, charged with setting prices, rationing care, and finding just the right balance between quality and access from Washington, and without the power to change Medicare's payment system. And on the other hand is a system that seeks efficiency by having 50 million consumers in search of the quality they want at the lowest price they can find pressuring 15 million insurance and health care providers to find innovative ways to meet their demands and make a good living. One involves sheer faith in expert managers, and the other involves using real economics to lift the burden of the oppressive fee-for-service system and enable a new era of innovation, efficiency, and quality in American health care. It is hard to imagine a clearer contrast for voters than that between the two visions of government, and of American life, at the heart of these two proposals—and indeed, at the heart of these two budgets.
The Ryan budget could certainly have taken a further step on health care and offered a specific alternative to Obamacare beyond its Medicaid and Medicare components. It could also have launched its Medicare reform sooner than a decade from now, especially since the two new elements in this year's proposal would make the transition significantly easier for new beneficiaries. And it could have taken a more aggressive approach to cutting domestic discretionary spending in its first year. While such spending is not the driver of our fiscal problems, it has grown vastly in recent years, and trimming it back would make the larger task of fiscal responsibility a little easier. By not being quite as aggressive as it might have been, the Ryan budget has earned some critics on the right—some of whom are no doubt also unhappy with its move to avert steep defense cuts.
But seen in the context of the Ryan budget as a whole, and of the demands of this election year, such criticism seems to lack proportion. There is, of course, no chance that the House Republican budget will be adopted by the Democratic Senate this year, and no chance that President Obama will adopt it. Its purpose, rather, is to put before the public an agenda and a vision—to contrast Republican priorities with those of the president on the most important economic issues before the country. Its purpose is to remind voters that, as things now stand, we are headed toward a perfectly predictable yet thoroughly avertable calamity, that the president prefers to do nothing to prevent it, and that Republicans have a plausible, coherent plan to address it.
President Obama has successfully turned voters' attention away from our most significant problems in recent months, and he surely hopes to keep them distracted through the election. But just as they did last year, House Republicans have the opportunity to recapture the agenda—not by distracting voters from our problems but by offering real solutions and daring the Democrats to offer their own. We can only hope that the Republican presidential candidate has the good sense to follow their lead.
Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs.
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Yarmouth boys' lax holds off Cape, 8-4, keeps home win streak alive
YARMOUTH—They call it the "elephant in the room" and for at least another night, it stayed out of sight.
The "it" in this case is awareness of the fact that the powerhouse Yarmouth boys' lacrosse team hasn't lost a game on its turf field since 2002, something the current players are all too aware of.
If that's not pressure enough, consider that the program hasn't dropped a contest anywhere in nearly two years.
On Monday night, however, the Clippers got a stern test from longtime fierce rival Cape Elizabeth.
Yarmouth led 6-2 early in the third quarter and appeared on its way to another easy win, but the proud Capers, demonstrating enormous improvement from the start of the season, pulled within 6-4 midway through the period. They would get no closer. A dazzling individual performance by senior David Dietz led to a tide-turning goal and senior Colby Shields added another to help Yarmouth survive, 8-4, and improve to 4-0 on the season.
The Clippers have now won 67 straight games at home and 24 in a row overall.
"We don't like to talk about it, but you don't lose here," said Dietz, who conjured up the elephant in the room analogy. "You just don't. We have a lot to live up to, but we have serious potential to match any team we've had."
Marquee matchup
With the exception of North Yarmouth Academy's state titles in 2001 and 2007, Cape Elizabeth and Yarmouth have been on the top every season for two decades.
The rivals have met in five of the past seven state finals, with the Capers prevailing by a goal in 2003 (in OT) and 2005 and the Clippers winning with relative ease in 2004, 2008 and last year (12-9). Yarmouth has eclipsed Cape Elizabeth as the premier program in the state and is hoping to make it three in a row this year. The Clippers had no trouble in their first two outings, cruising 11-4 at home over NYA and 17-3 at York. Friday, however, Yarmouth got pushed by new power Falmouth before holding on for a 7-4 triumph.
The Capers, meanwhile, began the year with a stunningly decisive 11-4 home loss to the Yachtsmen. Wins at Freeport (10-7) and at home versus NYA (12-2) followed.
Yarmouth's last home loss was May 14, 2002, a 16-6 drubbing at the hands of the Capers. Since then, prior to Monday, the Clippers had gone 68-0-1 on their turf (tying Kennebunk, 9-9, on May 20, 2002).
Monday, Cape Elizabeth came close to beating Yarmouth for the first time since April 28, 2007 (a span of six games), but down the stretch, once again, the Clippers did what they had to do.
Early on, the Capers had their way, winning all four first period faceoffs and having an edge in ground balls and shots in the first 12 minutes.
With 6:41 to play in the opening stanza, the visitors got on the board first when senior Harper Nelson scored unassisted. Cape Elizabeth almost made it 2-0 at the 3:27 mark, but junior Timmy Takach's bid hit the post. Yarmouth drew even with 2:36 to go on a goal from senior Steven Petrovek (set up by junior Mike McCormack), but 30 seconds later, Nelson fed junior Teddy Smith for a score and a 2-1 advantage.
The hosts then turned up the intensity in the second quarter and got some separation.
Just 18 seconds in, Petrovek tied the score with a man-up, unassisted strike. With 8:55 remaining before halftime, Petrovek did it again unassisted and the Clippers were ahead to stay. Goals from McCormack (on a rebound of a Petrovek shot that Capers junior goal Jack Roos saved) and Petrovek (set up by Shields) gave Yarmouth a 5-2 lead at the break.
Six clutch saves from Roos prevented the Clippers from breaking it open.
Yarmouth appeared primed to do just that, however, when Petrovek set up senior Evan Henry for a man-up goal 57 seconds into the third quarter, but the Clippers wouldn't score again until midway through the fourth.
Cape Elizabeth crept back in it as Smith (from Nelson, man-up) and Smith (unassisted) scored to make it a 6-4 game heading for the fourth.
For several minutes in the final period, neither team could generate any offense and turnovers were plentiful. The hosts finally got the spark they needed with 6:34 to play, when Dietz got the ball on the defensive end of the field, found a higher gear and sped through five defenders. He raced into the attacking zone, passed to Henry and Henry found Petrovek for a goal which snapped a 16 minute, 29 second drought, making it 7-4 Clippers.
"Fast breaks happen," Dietz said. "You just kind of get going and passes get made. We got lucky there and got a nice goal."
"That was gorgeous," added Yarmouth coach Craig Curry. "We work hard at generating transition opportunities because everyone plays good settled defense."
Shields added an unassisted strike with 3:29 to go and Yarmouth went on to the 8-4 victory.
"We always expect that Cape will be a great game," Dietz said. "I think we have growing pains every year trying to replace all the shooters we have. We knew we'd have to play hard defense against these guys and move the ball."
"It was definitely a fun game to play in," said Shields. "I thought both ends really stepped up tonight and played their hearts out. The midfield dogged it out the entire game. We fought for every ground ball, played tough defense and played smooth offense. We took advantage of a couple man-up opportunities and put the ball in the net when we needed to. Close games are fun. It makes us better. We're a deep team. That paid off in the end. We kept running fresh guys."
"It was a great game," Curry added. "I knew they were a better team than scores might have indicated. Falmouth will find out when they play them again that if poke a hornet's nest, you'll get the bees. Both teams kind of settled in defensively in the second half. We'll live and die by transition and defense."
Petrovek led all scorers with five goals and two assists. Henry, McCormack and Shields all had one goal and one assist. Senior goalie Cam Woodworth only needed to make three saves. The Clippers had a 37-19 edge in shots on goal (including a 20-7 difference in the second half). Yarmouth forced 33 turnovers (committing 28) and grabbed 40 ground balls (senior A.J. Oliver had a team high six) to 38 for Cape Elizabeth.
The Capers were paced by Smith's three goals. Nelson scored once and added three assists. Roos made 14 saves. Senior Ben Brewster won the majority of faceoffs and also picked up 11 ground balls.
"We definitely played better tonight than we did against Falmouth," Cape Elizabeth coach Ben Raymond said. "I've watched the tape of that game a couple times. Almost all their goals came from us missing a ground ball. We had a couple young kids playing defense who were still learning the slide package and didn't rotate all the way through. I expect a lot of the young guys early because they're great athletes. We were much more prepared tonight.
"We made some mistakes. They made some mistakes. It wasn't a typical clean game you're used to seeing when it's us against them. It was 6-4 for a long time. We spent a lot of time in the penalty box. It hurt us because we didn't have the ball. That's another piece that wasn't consistent. We didn't make good decisions.
"(Ben and Jack) played really well. Teddy Smith played really well. The midfielders in general did a very good job possessing the ball. We don't have to be perfect today."
The Capers are back in action Saturday at longtime rival Kennebunk.
Yarmouth, meanwhile, feels its recent close competition is nothing but a positive and that it's still a work in progress.
"This keeps us motivated," Curry said. "We understand that we haven't separated ourselves. It's going to continue to be a dogfight."
"We can improve on making the right decisions, especially shot selection," Shields added. "We have to keep turnovers low."
Best of all, the homefield remains protected.
"We enjoy playing on turf," Curry said. "We practice on it a lot so we're more comfortable with it, but we also play well on grass."
The Clippers are also idle until Saturday when they host Brunswick, a squad they haven't faced since downing the Dragons, 17-3, in the 2005 East Region semifinals.
"It will be nice to see Brunswick," Curry said. "We haven't seen them in a couple of years."
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Author Notes: Ireland meets Italy in this tasty beer cocktail. With the addition of these Italian liqueurs, this drink takes on a delicious nutty flavor with a surprising hint of cherry. The cream soda takes the place of Irish Cream liqueur so as to avoid a curdled mess. Perfect with a meal or on its own, the Irish Godfather will put a hit on you! —Pete
Serves one
- 6 ounces Irish Stout (Guinness), chilled
- 2 shots Cream Soda, chilled
- 1 shot Hazelnut liqueur (Frangelico)
- 1 shot Amaretto liqueur (Disaronno)
- Ice, cubed
- Pour the beer and shots into a pilsner glass and stir.
- Top off with a few ice cubes and fuggeddaboutit!
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Sue attends the opening night for a restored "Lady and the Tramp" at the El Capitan Theater. Could there be a renewed spirit in the air? Discuss it all here!
Sue attends the opening night for a restored "Lady and the Tramp" at the El Capitan Theater. Could there be a renewed spirit in the air? Discuss it all here!
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Thanks for the report, Sue. I would especially love to see this film in a theater once again.
Having used the Cinemascope process it really demands to be seen projected on a very large screen to appreciate the full beauty of it. Just as the only way to get the full experience of Sleeping Beauty is to see it in 70mm.
I would've loved to have seen how the Beaver did the whistle voice. One of my favorite parts of the movie is how they always gave the Beaver the most "S" words that could fit into a sentence...much like what modern Hollywood writers do with Sean Connery.
"Sixty-six percent"...CLASSIC!
Well I really enjoyed that panel discussion. It was a wonderful event. For the most part, the panel speakers really knew how to talk on a panel, which often times is not the case.
As for the question "Could there be a renewed spirit in the air?". Well the panel sure radiated it. But the real answer I got the night before when taking to someone in the animation department over at disney... They are really really excited about the changes. The answer is absolutely yes, there is a renewed spirit over there.
I thought the whole event was wonderful last night. I arrived later than I would have liked to due to work and LA traffic, but made it there just in time to hear the last of the organ songs. That is one of my favorite things about the atmosphere at the El Capitan and make an effort to get there early to listen to the Disney songs. The panel was excellent. Andreas had wonderful drawings, that I could have sworn he said he found some at an auction! I couldn't believe it. You'd think most of these would be in the Disney archives. I just wish there had been a question and answer period. I would love to have known if Andreas has moved over to computer animation, since the hand drawn animation that he was so involved in is now defunct. Sounds like he's still employed by Disney, but I'd like to know more about what he's working on these days.
It's always great to see Richard Sherman. We saw him last year at the Hollywood Bowl and then shortly there after on our Disney Cruise we took to Mexico. We even saw him and his wife leaving Hollywood and Highland as we were headed back to our car in the structure.
The movie looked beautiful on the big screen. Wide screen, gorgeous colors, masterfully cleaned up. Hearing about the Cinemascope process was very interesting. Definitely worth a trip to Hollywood. The spaghetti and sundae next down were just perfect. The ice cream shoppe/store manager was on duty last night checking in with everyone, especially on how we liked the new sundae, as it was it's premiere night too and only available for two weeks.
Overall, what a treat! I'd never been to one of the panel night screenings at the El Capitan, and even though it's tough to get there on a week night, I would definitely make an effort to do it again.
I believe the answer to Sue's question is "Dinah."
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe...
Nope, sorry Morrigoon. Dinah is not the name of Pluto's girlfriend.Originally Posted by Morrigoon
>>Nope, sorry Morrigoon. Dinah is not the name of Pluto's girlfriend.<<
Pluto did indeed have a dacshund girlfriend named Dinah in later color cartoons.
However, Pluto's cocker spaniel girlfriend in the black and white and early color classics was named Fifi.
To quote the March Hare: "Who's Dinah?"
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Yes! Fifi is the name I was looking for, she is Pluto's girlfriend in "Puppy Love"
I have video of Mr. Freberg reciting his lines with the whistle from the panel if you are interested. It can be found here...Originally Posted by Athlonacon
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Thank you so much for the article. I was able to go and purchase tickets, and we went and saw the Saturday noon showing. (My first time going to the El Capitan, too.) It was fantastic, and the restoration is absolutely gorgeous!


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Passions on both sides of the birth control debate were inflamed Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that some businesses can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraception for women.
But one University of South Carolina law professor called the Hobby Lobby ruling "not a huge surprise."
"It could have gone different ways, but the court has, in recent years, been very pro-corporation," said health care attorney and professor Jacqueline Fox.
The justices' 5-4 decision is the first time that the high court has ruled that profit-seeking businesses can hold religious views under federal law.
Two years ago, Chief Justice John Roberts cast the pivotal vote that saved the Affordable Care Act in the midst of Presidenet Barack Obama's campaign for re-election.
On Monday, dealing with a small sliver of the law that requires health plans to cover a range of preventative services - including conception - at no extra charge, Roberts sided with the four justices who would have struck down the law in its entirety in 2012.
The court stressed that its ruling applies only to corporations that are under the control of just a few people in which there is no essential difference between the business and its owners.
Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the majority opinion for this case, said the decision is limited to contraceptives under the health care law. "Our decision should not be understood to hold that an insurance-coverage mandate must necessarily fall if it conflicts with an employer's religious beliefs," Alito said.
The court's four liberal justices dissented.
While Fox contends that the scope of the ruling is narrow and that relatively few women will be affected by it, local groups on both sides of the issue offered swift and more dramatic reaction to the decision on Monday.
"Ninety-nine percent of women use birth control at some point in their lives, and in South Carolina alone we have over 530,000 women in need of contraceptive services and supplies. Clearly birth control is basic health care," said Eme Crawford, manager of online mobilization for Tell Them, a nonprofit group that supports sex education and access to reproductive health counseling in South Carolina.
"For five men on the Supreme Court to decide that a woman's boss has the power to take away basic health care is deeply troubling," she said.
Melissa Reed, a spokeswoman for the regional Planned Parenthood Health Systems office in Raleigh, found it "unbelievable" that women are still fighting for access to birth control in 2014.
"We know firsthand that access to birth control is both a health care and economic concern for women, and we will work to make sure that this benefit remains in place for the millions of women who rely on it - and to make sure that women have access to basic, preventive care no matter where they live, who they work for, or how much money they make," Reed said.
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, the South Carolina Republican Party, the Palmetto Family Council and the Catholic Diocese of Charleston each released statements in favor of the high court's decision.
"People do not give up their religious freedom when they open a family business," said Maria Aselage, a spokeswoman for the diocese. "They should not have to check their values and religious convictions at the door when they enter the marketplace."
Scott, R-S.C., called the ruling an "important decision that advances religious freedom."
"This decision is also another example of the Supreme Court's rebuke of the Obama Administration's continued quest to overstep their power while trampling religious freedom in our country," he said.
A spokeswoman for the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce said she had no information from the group for this story.
The contraceptives at issue before the court were the emergency contraceptives Plan B and ella, and two intrauterine devices, or IUDs, which can cost up to $1,000.
Nearly 50 businesses have sued over covering contraceptives. Some, such as those involved in the Supreme Court case, are willing to cover most methods of contraception, as long as they can exclude drugs or devices that the government says may work after an egg has been fertilized. Other companies object to paying for any form of birth control.
There are separate lawsuits challenging the contraception provision from religiously affiliated hospitals, colleges and charities.
A survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found 85 percent of large American employers already had offered such coverage before the health care law required it.
It is unclear how many women potentially are affected by the high court ruling. The Hobby Lobby chain of arts and crafts stores is by far the largest employer of any company that has gone to court to fight the birth control provision.
The Oklahoma City-based company, owned by an evangelistic Christian family, has more than 15,000 full-time employees in more than 600 crafts stores in 41 states, including one store in Mount Pleasant.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. Reach Lauren Sausser at 937-5598.
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Poyet replaced Paolo Di Canio as manager at the Stadium of Light in September and the club will be bottom of the table on Christmas Day.
But Catttermole believes there were enough signs of encouragement from Saturday's 0-0 draw at West Ham to offer hope for the rest of the season.
"All we can do is take confidence from the game," he said.
"The manager said it is the best performance he has seen from his Sunderland side - we controlled the game throughout.
"The message from the manager is that if we play like that for the rest of the season we will have no worries.
"We have got a good squad of players. Obviously we are bottom of the league but there is a lot of quality. The gaffer has rotated quite a bit and I think he is just trying to find his best XI.
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marir89, she could be 43 now or still 42. We don't know when her birthday is.
de2, Newark Avenue goes west more past Tonnele until it meets up with Routes 1&9. That's where the new cameras are going (though there are cameras at Newark and Tonnele, too).
Fixed the link. Thanks!
We were just waiting info from the city, mrskramden. Here's a new story about incidents at Lepre-Con:
Good catch, left! Consider it changed.
We'll have a copy of the new map after it becomes final, on Tuesday night.
I plan to call the diocese tomorrow. Today was a holiday, and there didn't appear to be anyone in their offices. Stay tuned!
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Great question, ChristieRocks. I posed it myself to the city, which said that a driver who turns right on red without stopping and a driver who drives straight through a red light are both issued the same ticket: failure to stop. So they couldn't provide a number of tickets given for coasting through a right turn. We may be able to figure out a way to get that number, though, so stay tuned.
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There is a big concern about the correct postage on your ballots. It seems like the Lyons ballots take $.49, whereas the Larimer County ballots take $.70. However, some say they had to put on $.70 be sure. We want them all counted.
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A little ocean breeze wouldn't have hurt the first "End of Summer Beach Blast" car show Aug. 31 in Walterboro.
Temperatures hit the mid 90s on a mostly sunny day. Yet the event, held on Labor Day weekend between home openers for the state's two, top 10-ranked college teams, attracted 50 cars and trucks including a 1950s era Studebaker and a 1,000 horsepower, souped up '65 Chevy El Camino.
"It was a success," said Gar Linder, local car enthusiast and event organizer. The show urged drivers to dress in beach garb or decorate their cars in beach themes, which some did.
Even though the Beach Blast celebrated the end of summer, " Nobody expected it to be this hot this day," he said. Still, last Saturday's sizzler didn't totally drain the show-goers.
"We had some kind of dancing," Linder said.
During the afternoon show, cars filled a corner of the parking lot next to sponsor Aaron's lease-to-own furniture, electronics and appliance center. Neighboring stores also took part in backing the show.
"We had participation from all the businesses," said Linder, sporting a straw hat and Hawaiian shirt.
Robbie Sumersett and son Arlen drove from Summerville in a 1965 Ford Falcon station wagon, hauling surfboards on the roof rack. Not just any surfboards, either: "1965 surfboards," Robbie Sumersett said. "It was a nice show."
Kevin Crum won a trophy for the best presentation, surrounding his 2004 Shadow motorcycle with sand and beach toys. He plans on trading in the bike on a new model. Why? "I'm getting bigger," he said.
Chris Burke took a top prize for his El Camino, a reward for "six years, and over 3,000 hours, of work."
Proceeds from the show will go to Johnnie R. Lee to help with her medical expenses. She is on dialysis and is in need of a kidney transplant, Linder said. To learn more, call Lee at 843-782-4442 or Darlene Ford at 843-599-9390.
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Eleanor Bennett won for her blue-green 1957 Chevrolet coupe. The model was one of about 50 cars at the End of Summer Beach Blast in Walterboro Aug. 31 (Jim Parker/Staff 8-31-2013).×
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Sound Off: Thursday November 15, 2012
True American hate
I wish I might have stated so elegantly that which Ms. Faraguna had in her letter to the editor. To her point, I recall a question being posed to Ron Paul during one of those circus-like debates my Republican party made me suffer through. He was asked what was to be done with an injured man who had no insurance. Mr. Paul shrugged his shoulders, suggesting, as Mrs. Faraguna lamented, that the uninsured just die in the streets. What's become of America? The bitterness? The hate?
Serve again
Marines listen up: We see your corps license plates on your vehicles and the corps flags on your homes, but we truly need you to come join us in providing the second greatest honor to our deceased veterans. We need you to become Marines again. Please come and listen to what we do and what we have to offer. Second Wednesday of every month at the Kulpmont Legion at 1900 hours.
Jobs for elephants
What do the Republicans want to do to this country? Their egotistical political principles object to raising taxes for the rich. They never did help the middle class or give them anything. Well, with their help we can look forward to depression, and maybe the next election, they can all go looking for a job.
Scare tactics
There is no such thing as a fiscal cliff. The United States will not fall off a fiscal cliff by Jan. 1. It is a term utilized by Republicans in Congress to scare people.
I cannot fathom how Obama was re-elected. It seems so surreal. He is destroying this country, and he can continue to do that for four more years.
War on war
I am the guy who called in about four more years of peace and prosperity. I have a full-time job and I have been working since I was 13 years old. We are still at war because the previous administration sent us there and last I checked the economy is on the rebound, although I will admit it could, and I suspect will, get better. Now the Republicans can concentrate on business instead of obstructing this administration. Frog's take: Regardless who got us into it, we are still at war.
I read that a voting machine in Perry County switched a vote from Obama over to Romney. Evidently, the machine had more intelligence than the voter.
Getting ahead
The City of Shamokin gets a little bit ahead, then they want to start giving out big raises to people. Then they have the guts to ask for a 5-mil raise down at the courthouse. Boy, does that take nerve to ask city people to pay higher taxes.
Off a cliff
Call, write or email your Republican representatives and tell them to settle this fiscal cliff. Common sense will tell you that tax hikes in January will spike a recession. Is this their campaign to destroy America? How can they hold America hostage like this?
Facts of life
Go figure. The Benghazi debacle has now turned into a sex scandal. How is that for hiding the facts?
By your side
Yes, it looks like Greg Maresca will be whining and venting for the next four years. I will be right there with him. We have just reelected the worst president in our history and he will destroy this country in the next four years. It will never be the same.
Excuse me
Excuse me, I am a Republican, but I am not greedy or rich. My husband is a military retiree. He fought for our country for the freedom we are now losing. Half of Americans also spoke, but what are you going to do when almost half of the country is getting free stuff?
Great interest
I read with great interest on the crackdown on landlords. Did anybody ever think of how tenants destroy and don't pay their bills for months on end or more than a year? This landlord keeps his building up to date, no ordinances are bad. He has to work overtime at his regular job just to pay the bills because the tenants aren't paying him. Why isn't there an ordinance to make the tenants pay him instead of taking legal action?
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel, under international pressure, is considering a 48-hour halt to its punishing four-day air campaign on Hamas targets in Gaza to see if Palestinian militants will stop their rocket attacks on southern Israel, Israeli officials said Tuesday.Any offer would be coupled with a threat to send in ground troops if the rocket fire continues. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert discussed the proposal - floated by France's foreign minister - and other possible next steps with his foreign and defense ministers, Israeli officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not supposed to make the information public. European Union foreign ministers met Tuesday evening in Paris for urgent talks on the crisis, with France and Germany both seeking a cease-fire. President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called leaders in the Middle East to press for a durable solution beyond any immediate truce. And members of the Quartet of world powers trying to promote Mideast peace concluded a conference call with an appeal for an immediate cease-fire. The Quartet powers are the United States, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia. In its Tuesday night meeting, Israel's leadership trio stepped up preparations for a ground offensive, conducting a telephone survey among Cabinet ministers on a plan to call up an additional 2,500 reserve soldiers, if required. Earlier this week, the Cabinet authorized a callup of 6,700 soldiers. And even amid talk of a truce, Israeli warplanes continued to unload bombs on targets in Gaza. Powerful airstrikes caused Gaza City's high-rise apartment buildings to sway and showered streets with broken glass and pulverized concrete. Israel's ground forces on Gaza's border also used artillery for the first time. Hamas kept up its rocket barrages, which have killed four Israelis since the weekend, and sent many more in running for bomb shelters - some of them in cities under threat of attack for the first time, as the range of the rockets grows. A medium-range rocket hit the city of Beersheba for the first time ever, zooming 28 miles deep into Israel and slamming into an empty kindergarten. A second rocket landed in an open area near the desert city, Israel's fifth-largest. The military said later it successfully struck the group that launched those rockets. A pattern of daytime lulls and nighttime spikes in rocket fire appeared to be emerging as militants found safer launch cover in darkness. Four days into a campaign that has killed 374 Palestinians and prompted Arab and international condemnation, a diplomatic push to end the fighting gathered pace.
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GREENFIELD - A 27-year-old Saratoga County man is accused of murdering his mother.
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The UK Supreme Court has urged the secretary of state to urgently review the case of Lindsay Sandiford, a British grandmother arrested for drug smuggling in Indonesia, reports the BBC.
A 57-year-old grandmother, Lindsay Sandiford was caught smuggling a vast quantity of cocaine into Bali when she landed on a flight from Bangkok, Thailand, in May 2012. The value of the drugs she was carrying was estimated to be an astonishing £1.6 million.
Facing the maximum penalty for her crime, Mrs Sandiford has been issued with the death penalty and will be killed by a firing squad unless the British Government manages to intervene by providing her with a lawyer to present her appeal case to the local courts.
In her defence, Mrs Sandiford professes that she was under duress. She claims that the safety of her children was threatened, driving her to obey the orders and carry out the crime.
Following government policy not to fund the legal fees of British nationals who commit crimes abroad, the High Court and the Court of Appeal rejected Mrs Sandiford's case and the Supreme Court respected and upheld this ruling. However, the five judges of the Supreme Court did find the case to be of great cause for concern given the Indonesian courts' disregard for certain factors in Mrs Sandiford's case and have urged the secretary of state to review the policy on her behalf.
Not only are there significant disparities between Mrs Sandiford's sentence and those of the people she was working with, but she also had a number of mitigating circumstances including no previous criminal record.
The secretary of state is restricted by an incredibly tight deadline as papers to reopen her case in Indonesia must be filed by 29 August. According to the Supreme Court, Sandiford "now requires a substantial sum to pay for the legal assistant [to begin a] clemency petition to the President of Indonesia," reports the BBC.


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Del. Jim LeMunyon (R-Dist. 67), like all of us, surely has his faults, but failing to communicate with his constituents is not one of them. However, as a constituent, I can fault him for failing to make a cogent argument for his opposition to Medicaid expansion, a program that would benefit the working poor in Virginia and cover 38,670 in his district — a statistic he either did not know, but should have, or purposely omitted. How can anyone be comfortable with so many (38,670 locally and 400,000 statewide) being uninsured?
In addition to the thousands in his district and all of Northern Virginia who will not enjoy health care coverage if Medicaid is not expanded, our INOVA hospital system that serves us in Northern Virginia will forgo about $100 million a year if Medicaid is not expanded. Those of us with coverage and able to pay the bills from hospitals, physicians, lab and x-ray facilities will end up paying a "hidden tax" for all the unreimbursed hospital and medical expenses resulting from services provided the uninsured — we can all count on the hospital and medical vendors making up for their losses at our expense. LeMunyon makes note of this subsidizing by all of us with coverage and financial resources, and he does not deny the validity of this argument by proponents of expansion, because it is true.
Several weeks ago, the Washington Post editorial board, with their March 6 editorial, "Virginia Republicans' stand against Medicaid funding defies the facts," refuted much of what Delegate LeMunyon had to say before he said it.
A few of the major points made by the Washington Post editorial board, relying on the research by the independent Commonwealth Institute, were these:
• Virginia has forfeited $330 million in federal funds — funds already paid to Uncle Sam by taxpayers — as a result of its delay in expanding Medicaid to cover up to 400,000 lower-income and uninsured Virginians.
• With each passing day, the state leaves another $5 million in federal funds unclaimed. It has also passed up another $32 million so far this year in lost savings, as well as tax revenues that would be generated by the creation of some 20,000 health-care jobs.
• Republicans in the House of Delegates, who have dug in their heels to block Medicaid expansion, do not dispute these figures, which were calculated by the Commonwealth Institute... They offer no real rebuttal to business groups that argue unlocking the federal funds would boost Virginia's economy.
• GOP lawmakers insist that the feds, strapped by entitlement programs, will renege on their statutory commitment to cover 90 percent of the cost of expansion come 2021. That's possible. But if Washington does renege, Virginia would have the option of dropping coverage and trimming its Medicaid rolls, as it has done in the past.
• They (the Republicans in the House) have proposed dealing with Medicaid expansion in a special legislative session, thereby decoupling it from the state budget. But Mr. Howell (the Speaker of the House) and his colleagues have proposed no alternative to consider in a special session.
Also with respect to "decoupling it from the state budget," the independent Commonwealth Institute, referenced above, notes that "despite what opponents of closing the health care coverage gap lead you to believe, extending health insurance to more Virginians has been a budget issue for the last three years."
The Post characterizes all this bluster from the opposition as a "a glorious crusade to deny health insurance to poor people and deny Virginians the benefit of the hard-earned taxes they have already paid." I could not agree more, and I believe the public good, unfortunately, is not being served well by Mr. LeMunyon and his colleagues opposing Medicaid expansion in the Virginia House of Delegates.
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I listed lots on your facebook post – but I'll put a few up here, RubyJu, Purple Pug and Pizzazzerie & Bird crafts, some of my current faves. I've also just discovered The Party Wall and Leoni at Just Call me Martha. Mostly I love my own blog – it's my happy place! BUT as for recipe blogs you MUST check out http://domesticgoddessadventures.blogspot.com/ There is sooooo much talent out there – a great place to see it all is Catch My Party. Jane:)
I love http://www.ablissfulnest.blogspot.com she's one of my greatest friends and I love how her blog has both party info and home decorating inspiration. Plus she always inspires me to improve my own work. I have her blog and my other good friend http://www.gwynnwassondesigns.com both on my personal blog sidebar so I never miss their posts.
I also love the smaller blogs. I love finding little unread diamonds out there.
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Fig & honey Christmas cake
By James Martin
Cooking timePrep: 30 mins Cook: 3 hrs, 30 mins
Skill levelModerately easy
ServingsServes 8 - 10
This traditional Christmas cake is the perfect combination of fruit, nuts and spices
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
- kcalories
- 782
- protein
- 10g
- carbs
- 121g
- fat
- 30g
- saturates
- 14g
- fibre
- 5g
- sugar
- 98g
- salt
- 0.64g
- 750g mixed dried fruits
- 100g blanched whole almonds, roughly chopped
- 100g chopped peel
- 200g dried figs, roughly chopped
- 100g glacé cherries, well rinsed and quartered
- 300g plain flour
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 tsp grated nutmeg
- zest 1 lemon
- 250g lightly salted butter
- 250g light muscovado sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp clear honey
- 1 tbsp black treacle
- 4 large eggs
- ½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tbsp milk
- 3 tbsp brandy, plus extra to feed
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- Heat oven to 140C/120C fan/gas 1. Line the base and sides of a 20cm cake tin first with a double layer of brown paper, then with a double layer of baking parchment. In a large bowl, mix the fruit, almonds, peel, figs and cherries. Turn well and add the flour, spices and lemon zest. In a separate bowl, cream the butter and sugar thoroughly, then add the vanilla extract, honey and treacle. Still beating, incorporate the eggs, then stir in the fruit and flour mixture. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in the milk and stir in thoroughly. Add the brandy by the spoonful, until you have a soft dropping consistency.
- Turn the batter into the cake tin and make a dip in the middle using the back of a spoon. Bake for 3½ hrs, then insert a skewer – if it comes out clean, it's ready. If there is any cake mix on the skewer, give it 10 mins more and test again. When it's done, remove the cake from the oven and leave to cool in its tin. The next day, remove from the tin, wrap in fresh greaseproof paper, then put it into an airtight tin or wrap tightly in foil. The usual thing is to keep the cake for at least a month before icing it, and to unwrap and sprinkle it occasionally with more brandy.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2009
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i made this on the 17th dec and had to remake it again on the 23rd!! i did have friends round and i gave some to my sister, but this is soooo moist and fab, i used a bigger cake tin, and the cooking time was nearer, only an extra 15 mins, and i topped it with brazil nuts, flaked and whole blanced almonds. cherries, pecans, and hazelnuts, mixed together with syrup to stick . it looks fantastic,no one is allowed any till xmas!! i just cant wait till tomorrow to have a slice!!
started eating this the day after it was made DELICIOUS!! i added cranberries,fresh figs,ground almond and hazelnuts, just to use stuff up, and no booze as it was a very wet mix, still tasted amazing, i will be surprised if it lasts till christmas! did rise very high so make sure your paper is tall enough, will make again as husband and friends loved it, but i may use a bigger cake tin so its a large lower cake, as the slices were so large i was cutting them in half to serve, and then the slice seemed mean!!
Made this yesterday and it was quite straightforward . I creamed the butter and sugar in my Kenwood food mixer and stirred the rest of the ingredients in, The bowl was only just big enough! I think I got a bit overenthusiastic with the brandy as my cake sunk just a little bit but once I've turned it upside down and covered it with home made marzipan no one will know !
I baked this cake twice last year and three times this year. My cake guzzling husband rates it 5*s. After marzipan/icing them, I donate one cake each year to the local Riding for the Disabled Group for a "Guess the Weight" type raffle and it makes loads of £££ every time. Recipient is always delighted. Husband's one is half finished already !
Just made this cake and it's turned out beautifully. It was very easy to make - I chose to soak all the fruit for 3 hours before and substituted dried apricots for mixed peel as all the family hate mixed peel. One hint - don't forget to add the nuts as the recipe instructions doesn't actually tell you to add the nuts at any time and so I forgot!! Still turned out beautifully though.
Whilst I was putting all these ingredients into my trolley at the supermarket I wondered exactly what have I got myself into. Promising not only my family but myself that I was going to make my first EVER Christmas cake his year I certainly couldn't back out now :-)
WOW was my first word when this wonderous cake came out of my oven. The perfect looking cake and I had so much fun making it. Very simple directions so straightforward.
Bring on Christmas I just hope that it tastes as good as it smells and looks.
x*** Merry Christmas ***x
Hi Matt - I don't think so. I always make my Christmas cake in October. Looking at this recipe (which I plan to make this year) I can't see that it differs that much from most Christmas cake recipes. The chefs on TV recommend making your cake in Oct to allow plenty of time for the cake to mature, especially if you are going to feed it with brandy.
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It's good to have non-wired friends
One of my good high-school friends signed up for Facebook last week.
Yes, the same Facebook that, had you listened to the digerati, has jumped the shark.
But Facebook hasn't jumped the shark. It's still becoming more popular and adding more features. Facebook may have jumped the shark for the kinds of people who have to try every social networking service in its alpha-invite-only stage, but it certainly hasn't for everyday people.
It's great to have friends who are pushing the envelope, and to be with people who are willing to try new things. I love my digerati friends. But we cannot lose sight of what the average person is doing.
When I say non-wired, I don't mean someone without a mobile phone, computer or the Internet. But I mean people who don't live and breathe Web 2.0. In fact, they probably don't read Wired magazine, and isn't that the ultimate barometer of one's wiredness?
Let's look at Twitter as a good example. If you just listened to bloggers and the digerati you would think that Twitter is the hottest thing going today on the Web. Oh wait, it's jumped the shark because of frequent outages recently.
In reality, Twitter has less than 2 million users in the world. In many ways, Twitter isn't even mainstream, let alone clones like Pownce. In comparison, Facebook has more than 70 million active users.
My friend is like the majority of Americans — high school diploma, has a computer with Internet, uses a mobile phone but doesn't have a blog, probably doesn't know what the hell Web 2.0 is supposed to mean (does anyone, really?) and probably has no interest in joining Twitter.
Ultimately, we have to build products that not only interest people on the cutting edge, but that also provide functionality that average person can and will want to use everyday.
For my friend, the time was right to join Facebook because its functionality made sense for him. I don't think he'll be joining Twitter (or FriendFeed) anytime soon.
Twitter can drive traffic, part 2
The No. 4 source of traffic to the JI is Twitter.
And yet, I've only been a serious user of Twitter for a few months. The traffic this blog gets from Traffic seems to grow by the week. Anyone in the content business needs to realize what a traffic boon Twitter can be.
But, as I've said before, the best way to get meaningful traffic from Twitter is to engage in a two-way conversation. Pushing headlines onto Twitter is a really poor use of the technology, and much worse than an RSS feed. I have Google Reader for the RSS feeds I want to subscribe to.
Twitterholic has the top 100 Twitter users by followers. Very few Mainstream Media members are represented, and yet many individual bloggers and new media mavens have managed to attract thousands of followers. Twitter is a fantastic brand-building experience for those Twitter users.
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Journalists that Twitter personally about their professional lives know first hand, as do many bloggers, that Twitter is all about conversation. The potential is huge for driving noticeable traffic to websites by actively Twittering about what you're writing about.
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Twitter can drive traffic
If you're on the fence about signing up for Twitter, know this: Twitter can drive traffic to your site.
This blog is less than a year old. I'm 23 years old — hardly an established brand or identity. That's why I only have a little more than 100 people following me on Twitter.
But Twitter drives traffic to my blog every day, and on some days it is the top non-search engine referrer to my site. Even if you don't have a lot of followers, Twitter is very viral.
Let's say I make a new tweet on Twitter about a new blog post. People read it and like it, and then they post that they are reading it on Twitter as well.
Some of their friends find my post through their tweets and then decide that they are going to tweet about my blog post too. And it continues. Suddenly, people who have never read my blog or knew I was even on Twitter are coming to my blog.
All with little work on my part. Now if Twitter drives traffic to my blog, imagine what Twitter could do for a large, established brand.
The secret to getting Twitter to drive traffic is to be interesting. Most news organizations have missed this point. Most news organizations use Twitter accounts to just list their most recent headlines.
Boring. Twitter is not a repurposing tool. It's a conversation.
The most popular people on Twitter have a brand that people want to know more about. The New York Times Twitter account has about 2,400 followers. Not bad, but blogger Robert Scoble has more than 14,000 followers.
CNN has about 2,100 followers, while venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki has more than 6,500 followers. The major mistake that both the Times and CNN make is that they simply use Twitter as a headline feed. But Twitter is about conversations, not one-way pronouncements.
Before I make a Twitter post, I often talk about what I am writing about, why I am writing it and just give my general thoughts. People can then ask me questions or make comments. It's a public conversation.
In fact, many times you'll see me working through my thought process on Twitter before making a blog post. But it gets more people interested in my content. In fact, Twitter is a fantastic brand-building tool.
The Times probably doesn't see a big traffic bump from 2,400 followers, but an individual like Scoble probably sees a lot of traffic originating from Twitter. Scoble is much more popular on Twitter than the Times or CNN because he uses Twitter as it was meant to be used.
So, how can news organizations use Twitter to generate traffic? First, news organization could begin using Twitter to have conversations about stories they are covering. Imagine a public page 1 meeting, where people can ask questions.
A page 1 concept could be very popular with users. Anyone at the Times who writes a blog or column should have a Twitter account where they share opinions 140 characters at a time. Employees must also be willing to interact with people on Twitter too.
Twitter is also a great way to cover live events in new ways. Many events are not broadcast, and those are good events to Twitter. Heck a reporter could even use Twitter to cover a local government meeting, and then use the tweets to write a full-fledged story.
I've done this before, and Twitter works pretty well as a note-taking tool. Plus, it gets people more involved in the process. All without any extra work on my part.
If you use Twitter as merely another one-way conversation tool, it will be nothing more than a really poor version of RSS. But if you use Twitter as the two-way communication tool that it is, not only will you be able to drive traffic, but you'll most likely be able to discover new readers and users.