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Review: 'Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit' Brings Bland Familiarity to Series
by Jeremy Kirk
January 17, 2014
There is a wealth of story in the collection of Tom Clancy novels featuring his number one lead, Jack Ryan. Some of film's best espionage stories star the CIA analyst-turned-field-agent. Yet, the output these novels have given the film world has just as many misses as hits, and those misses are getting wider off the mark. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is Hollywood's latest attempt at turning the character into a franchise name, and its tame, formulaic, and dulled results mark the weakest Jack Ryan adventure the character has seen to date. At least it's loud and fast, which may fool some into thinking there's some substance. Read on!
Oh, yeah. The substance here is that this is an origin story for Ryan, the fourth actor to take on the part being any new franchise's go-to guy, Chris Pine. Screenwriters Adam Cozad and David Koepp have managed to cobble together all the little factoids and background information on the fictional character. Their version of the character's beginnings in international espionage breezes by like scenes from a "previously on" TV show segment. Their Jack Ryan becomes inspired by the tragic events of 9-11, becomes horribly injured during a helicopter accident in Afghanistan, and falls in love with the doctor who teaches him how to walk again. That's close enough. Care and detail in the many nuances of a character's life are quickly swept aside in favor of some Soviet ass-kicking. Or ass-grazing as the case may be.
It's surprising that, as brushed over as it is, the Jack Ryan backstory is really the most interesting Shadow Recruit gets. Once the action sets in, the blandness the screenwriters and director Kenneth Branagh have brought to the table is resoundingly clear. It's not new that the villains are Russian, led by the aforementioned and thick-accented Branagh. It's not interesting that they're big plot involves collapsing the American dollar. The script quickly bounces Ryan into Mother Russia where the film can just as quickly adjust to its Jason Bourne-ness. Or James Bond-ness. Or Ethan Hunt-ness. The style of action and Euro-aesthetic have now made these four franchises interchangeable. Thank God the people behind Bond and Mission: Impossible still give a damn about creativity.
Shadow Recruit has a smattering of decent-sized action set pieces, those sets being the most impressive element to the whole film. Unfortunately, as was the case when he took on directing duties for Thor, Branagh does not have a gifted eye when it comes to action. Extreme closeups during fist fights and car chases alike are only a few aspects that drive excitement away from the film. I should say "a fist fight" and "a car chase", as that's all the action Cozad and Koepp's story can muster. The days of submarines launching themselves out of the water and high-speed boat chases are a thing of the past. Now we're left with the staleness that comes with elaborate schemes to break into someone's office or bombs with giant clocks on them. Shadow Recruit settles for both.
Ryan's wife in Clancy's novels, Cathy Muller, has always had a presence in the films. While it was a brief cameo in The Hunt for Red October - played by Gates McFadden - the character had larger parts when Harrison Ford and Ben Affleck took over the Ryan role, Anne Archer and Bridget Moynahan taking on the part, respectively. However, even in those films the character wasn't used as she is in Shadow Recruit, a key plot device to distract the bad guy while our heroes are doing that office break-in thing. It's almost as tired as the "I'm with the CIA" conversation Ryan has with her, which is almsot as tired as the jokes that come from it. "This is geopolitics, not couples therapy," says Ryan's CIA handler Thomas Harper, played by Kevin Costner, getting in some misplaced levity. It's cutesy, Hollywood joke-making that adds to the triteness this character and franchise have now taken on.
Keira Knightley takes on the Muller role this time around, and the actress turns in a capable performance. The same can be said for Costner and Branagh, neither of which stepping up their game to give us anything remotely resembling powerhouse. It's a shame, too, as all three actors are fully capable of just that. The film simply never allows them to break from their one-dimensional characters.
Ryan isn't as one-dimensional, but that doesn't mean Pine delivers anything spectacular. He's not even on solid ground here, relying on natural charm rather than pushing the performance. His blue eyes are strong supporting players here, the assist on that more than likely going to Branagh and whatever color correction is working in post to make those eyes pierce even stronger. At this point, though, Pine appears to be playing the same part in most of these vehicles he's stepping into. When Costner's Harper comes to talk the reluctant hero into joining the CIA, it may as well be Captain Pike talking him into joining Starfleet or Denzel Washington talking him into trying to stop an unstoppable train. You can't blame Pine for that familiar ground on which Shadow Recruit is playing, but he doesn't bring anything new to the game, either.
Nobody does here, really. Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is just like every, bland, espionage thriller that comes down the turnpike. Neither adding any freshness to the character nor even capturing the spirit that made the character so beloved in the first place, it passes by with a wholly forgettable nod. Given those involved, it's not shocking that Shadow Recruit doesn't deliver on exciting action nor unexpected plot turns. That whole "Trust No One" tagline the movie is using is never fulfilled, spoiler alert. It is unfortunate, though, that the dozens of Jack Ryan novels - Not to mention how many thousands of pages - Tom Clancy has given us have had a difficult time recently in spawning decent cinema. Here's hoping the next time they try to reboot this franchise, some of Clancy's detail works its way in. For now, though, let's disavow the fact that Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit even existed.
Jeremy's Rating: 4 out of 10
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Part 1 and part 3 were previously posted
This is the second in a three-part discussion between Prof Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig.
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Part 1 and part 3 were previously posted
This is the second in a three-part discussion between Prof Lawrence Krauss and Dr William Lane Craig.
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Something is better than nothing. Lots of ways to say this. Basically, we exist. If we didn't, something else would. Nature abhors a vacuum. Existentially, it means you like to dance. Mytho-poetically: the great mother, the void, was lonely. Her loneliness created a potential from which the universe sprang into existence. The universe expands and contracts, making love to the nothingness. Clearly, I am a pulsating universe fan. I am really having trouble getting behind the current open universe / dark energy stuff.
Can't the creationists come up with someone less slimy than Lane Craig? It is like watching a mechanical monkey bang some cymbals together. You get to know the routine.
In reply to #2 by Roedy:
Can't the creationists come up with someone less slimy than Lane Craig? It is like watching a mechanical monkey bang some cymbals together. You get to know the routine.
You can choose Craig, or Ken Ham or Ray Comfort.
There are plenty of refutations of WLC out on the web, just do a Google search. It's easy to refute him but tedious, because he keeps saying the same discredited things, anyway.
WLC is such a tool. "How can anything exist at all?" well Leibniz……….. God………
That somebody says there is god is no proof at all. That we exist or not is no proof at all. That the universe had a beginning is no proof at all.
His discussion on 'nothing' is puerile particularly when he says " I saw no one in the ……today". As a philosopher he must be aware of (and ignoring) the phenomenological position on existence and our awareness of the absence of things.
When thinking of Ken Ham ,Ray Comfort and the rest of the Believer Brigade and contrasting them to the likes of Steven Weinberg,Bertrand Russell and other great intellectuals the following quote from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam comes to mind:
"And do you think that unto such as you
A maggot-minded,starved, fanatic crew
God gave a secret, and denied it me?
Well,well– what matters it?Believe that, too! reply to #3 by ArloNo:*
In reply to #2 by Roedy:
Can't the creationists come up with someone less slimy than Lane Craig? It is like watching a mechanical monkey bang some cymbals together. You get to know the routine.
You can choose Craig, or Ken Ham or Ray Comfort.
I simply cannot listen to any more Blind Faithers' tripe.
They can never concede a single point because as they probably know in their heart of hearts that as it says in their holy book there house is veritably "builded upon sand.".
I admire Laurence but I think that he's on a hiding to nothing.
It seems to me that the only way out of this religious morass is to protect children from its childish ramblings and wait for its ramblers to die out, only then will a link in its chain of bondage be broken.
What was that that just flew past my window? A pink object with a wiggly little tail!
Did the moderator really say "Without further adieu"?
Krauss is quite brilliant here. He will not let WLC off the hook on any point, however spurious.
I managed to stay awake while Dr Craig rehearsed Leibniz's argument for the divine creation of the universe. It rests on the assumption that what exists must do so either from its own nature (necessarily) or from a cause external to itself (contingently). That is an exercise in logic. The question remains whether it adequately covers the beginning of the universe, where the order found within the universe after its beginning cannot be taken for granted. So, although the insertion of God in the second premise follows from the first, the argument fails to establish the existence of God in the first place. We are still left wondering whether there is in fact a necessarily existing being other than the weird quantum absence of anything in particular out of which the universe seems to have emerged. Leibniz did very well for someone who had no knowledge of the theories of relativity, quantum physics and so on, but Prof. Krauss was right to say that the terms in which Leibniz argued are no longer relevant to the question as it confronts us today.
I was surprised to hear Dr Craig use the word 'science' in its mediaeval sense, which ceased to be its usual sense by the end of the seventeenth century, that is to mean 'knowledge' (Latin 'scientia'); and to do so without mentioning that he was doing so, until Prof Krauss questioned him on it. Once the modern method of scientific enquiry had been sorted out by the end of the seventeenth century, the term 'science' came to mean knowledge that has been established by this method, the so-called scientific method. Essential to this method is the gathering of empirical data and the forming and testing of hypotheses based on these data and so on. Theology makes no use of empirical data; that is to say it eschews the scientific method and therefore cannot be classified as a science in the modern sense of the term. One could also argue that theology is not even a body of knowledge, certainly not about the real world, but that is another topic.
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WLC is such a tool. "How can anything exist at all?" well Leibniz……….. God………
That somebody says there is god is no proof at all. That we exist or not is no proof at all. That the universe had a beginning is no proof at all.
His discussion on 'nothing' is puerile particularly when…
WLC isn't a philosopher, he just claims to be one. Claiming WLC's "thoughts" amount to philosophy is like claiming paint by numbers is art
I would like to extend my thoughts and that is I hear quite often that the belief in evolution and|or the big bang is believed by most utilizing faith rather than a deep understanding on the given subject. I do have to admit I am not completely studied in either subject. I also am not the most intelligent tool in the shop. However, given what I have read it makes more sense that the big bang had occurred and that it is abundantly obvious that living things change over time. I find it odd that in these discussions the very idea that a god appeared prior to anything else is never brought up. Why isn't this brought up more? I would like to know what these religious folks would say if asked; when their god was created? Before or after atoms came into existence. I have to admit, I am one to state that there was never a god nor is there presently. As it is obvious, at least to me, that the very idea of a god(s) comes from the imagination of humankind. Surely we would have discovered this entity in some form or another while investigating space and within the confounds of our own planet. It is clear that throughout history what these god(s) are to those with whom believe in them change from century to century and never hold one utter glimpse of evidence to provide us non-believers. Ironically, with every religion, one needs to first harness faith in the given god before one can believe in said god. That alone encourages one to go on his/her way, actually to run very fast from this absolute nonsense. Anyway, these are my thoughts on this subject.
Here is part of a review I wrote about these debates that addresses the main argument by WLC:
… Then came Dr. Craig. WLC wants to restrict the definition of "nothing" to be the metaphysical nothing as used by Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz. Leibniz had a tremendous mental capability of a bent that one, today, would associate with the fields of computer science and/or analytic philosophy and/or mathematics. As with other great thinkers of the past, I would very much like to know how Leibniz would alter his philosophical writings if he could come back and read (in his case) Darwin, Einstein and Turing. He guessed the foundations for so much that would be developed after his time, but was stuck with the clockwork model of classical physics and the theological objections to naturalism arising from the big "gap" of human origin that would not be plugged until Darwin. There is no doubt that quantum mechanics would have completely fascinated Leibniz, as it dashes the "clockwork" to tiny pieces that appear and disappear and knock together to make anything possible for short enough times and at small enough scales.
But all of this is of no concern to WLC because the subject of the evening has been stated in terms of the question asked by Leibniz of the metaphysical nothing that was understood in the 17th century. WLC defends this by stating that such a "nothing" is not in itself a "thing," but rather, the universal negation of all things. This is one of those tricky assumptions that has to be used carefully in logical arguments. If I have a set of things, I can take the complement of the set an talk about the things that are not in the set. This is metaphysical when applied to reality, because we do not know all the properties of the set of all things and need some justification to take the complement of that set (universal negation) and thus tie physical nothing to the notion of a null set of "things." What has been demonstrated in the laboratory is that no amount of taking things away gets to a "nothing from which nothing comes." Thus, the very existence of the metaphysical nothing of Leibniz (outside of just an abstract concept) has not been shown as possible, in itself.
WLC goes on to put up his bullet points for the argument from contingency attributed to Leibniz:
1) Every existing thing has an explanation of its existence (either in the necessity of its own existence or in an external cause).
2) If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God.
3) The universe exists.
4) Therefore, the universe has an explanation of its existence (from 1 and 3).
5) Therefore, the explanation of the universe's existence is God (from 2 and 4).
WLC then asserts that to escape the "air tight" logic of the argument, the "atheist" must show that one of the premises is false. Here comes WLC's most common rhetorical trick, burden shifting. No, the atheist does not have to show any of the premises to be false, WLC has the burden to show that they are each necessarily true. Not just maybe true, but demonstrably true in order to use them in a forcing argument. WLC can't show that (1) and (2) are true, so he resorts to "more plausibly true." However, that is exactly the trick of using something you have not show to be true to force the acceptance of a proposition as true that you can't directly show to be true.
The justifications for (1) presented by WLC are full of the usual holes. We don't know of any actual thing with "necessary" existence. Abstract concepts are not "things" with the kind of existence we notice in the rock that has just caused us to stub our toe. Mathematical objects are tautological consequences of chosen axioms, and did not exist even as ideas before there where human minds to explore those consequences. We also have quantum events that are neither necessary nor contingent. WLC then proceeds to the fallacy of composition by asserting that a property that we hold independent of size would necessarily apply to the Universe itself (the biggest thing). However, we judge a property to be independent of size by comparing things of different size to see if it still holds, but you can't get outside the Universe and compare it to anything else, so that test no longer makes the property necessarily true. (It is amusing to hear WLC try to make a joke about someone stating existence of a ball as a brute fact without explanation, all the while that is exactly what he is asserting about his deity.)
Premise (2) is even more flim flam. There may be any number of explanations for the existence of our Universe. Nothing says we have evolved enough brains to understand those explanations, or have ways to put them to the test. There may be an explanation, there may be multiple explanations, but untestable, or their may be no explanation. Pulling out a deity for the job is the ultimate God-of-the-Gaps that WLC keeps (falsely) claiming that he does not do. His claim that atheists generally agree with (2) is completely bogus, and the next few minutes are devoted to a straw man completely made of his imagination. (Note: "atheism" is not a proposition that can be true or false, it is a position of lack of faith.)
Oh Lawrence! Please don't give WLC any credibility; his arguments are classic logical fallacies and long-winded to confuse and obfuscate. Leave the clown to stew in his delusions!
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In reply to #5 by Vorlund:
WLC is such a tool. "How can anything exist at all?" well Leibniz……….. God………
That somebody says there is god is no proof at all. That we exist or not is no proof at all. That the universe had a beginning is no proof at all.
His discussion on 'nothing' i…
Except painting by numbers is art, if someone thinks it is. The label of art is applied by the viewer not the creator, if there even is a creator.
I strongly suspect WLC does not believe his own arguments. Maybe at some point he did, but not any more. A man of his intelligence – let's face it, he is not a stupid man – cannot still believe arguments that bad. His arguments and "logical proof" have been shown to be invalid or extremely implausible so many times that I simply cannot believe he doesn't understand it. Sometimes smart people err, and that's OK, but smart people also understand their mistakes when they are pointed out to them. How could it be that WLC does not understand his mistakes?
I'm more in favour of the second explanation for why he still peddles his tired ramblings: pride and the Concorde fallacy. He has been doing his thing for such a long time, and he has such a high standing in certain circles, that he feels he cannot at this point admit to being wrong. I guess this is very human, but at the same time one would think he would like to be included in the large intellectual community that disagrees with his views. All it would take for him to be included among serious philosophers would be to admit that he knows his arguments are full of holes. That would alienate many of his current supporters, but he would surely gain much more by finally being taken seriously. It's just so sad to see him trying to wrestle with his thoughts and being shown to be wrong over and over again. There is no way he hasn't figured out yet that he is juggling fallacies.
OK started watching this. Absolutely, nothing means no thing, but rationally nothing simply means not determined by any thing, ie random.
All Lame Craig has convinced me of so far is that the the universe, so far, admits of no explanation.
In reply to #11 by N_Ellis:
In reply to #5 by Vorlund:
WLC is such a tool. "How can anything exist at all?" well Leibniz……….. God………
I stand corrected on the philosophy accusation will you however accept my statement that he is a tool?
Quote from Laurence Krauss: "All that does is express a limitation in your thinking!"
Immortality is not infinite? Well then fuck immortality!
Did anyone else find the moderator to be very annoying? I could see Laurence getting very frustrated with her not letting the conversion flow.
Scientia is not knowledge of God.
Not being able to understand science is not an excuse for not being able to understand science.
So Lame Craig's Damascus moment was instigated by a hot chick. How predictable.
For those interested, the Secular Web has a page of links to debunking of WLC that cover over two decades of bogus arguments and debates. If you search here at RichardDawkins.net you will find many threads (such as this one) from the past that do so as well.
I have a problem with people who talk over others.
This was a debate?
In reply to #19 by Vorlund:
In reply to #11 by N_Ellis:
In reply to #5 by Vorlund:
WLC is such a tool. "How can anything exist at all?" well Leibniz……….. God………
I stand corrected on the philosophy accusation will you however accept my statement that he is a tool?
That's such an obvious point that I didn't think there was any need to say I agreed with it
On the other hand, I don't like to sink to petty name-calling, I prefer to either refute arguments or at the very least point out their inadequacies rather than make ad hominem attacks
In reply to #28 by Free Speech:
This was a debate?
No it was a scientist using a creationist for bayonette practice
OMG (goodness) did anyone catch the very last line of the 2nd debate by WLC?
As they start to wrap up (around 1:42:15), discussing what can be considered a source of knowledge, at Craig's behest Krauss widens his scope of the definition of science to include empirical investigations and rational thought of the type that even a literary critic might undertake. Fair enough. Then just under the wire (1:44:45) Bill slips in "OK then theology will be a science under that definition."
EXACTLY. He just gave the game away, and placed theology squarely in the domain of FICTION, from a scientific perspective. Yes, for understanding of the human condition, even the study of Aesop's Fables can provide valuable insight, especially for children. (Although I would argue most biblical lessons are of considerably lesser value than most Peanuts cartoons.) In his books and interviews, Professor Dawkins himself recalls with honest respect some of the biblical literature and music that was taught to him in his formative years (and can himself still recite quite a few verses and hymns to boot!).
I'm just saying that it was nice to hear Craig finally admit that theology amounts to nothing more than science fiction!
WLC admits that his evidence is the "evidence of introspection"! In other words he thinks his version of events must be correct because he thinks it is so! He needs to learn a thing or two about what constitutes evidence.
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Three groups, the Buffalo Children's Center, CASA of the Bighorns, and the Boys' and Girls' Club of the Bighorns all came before the Johnson County Commissioners at their meeting this week to d=seek backing for them to pursue funding through the State's TANF, or Temporary Assistant For Needy Families Grant.
Kim Pope, Director of the Buffalo Children's Center, gave a short presentation explaining why they are applying for TANF funds. The funds are just a part of the grants they go after every year. The services they provide that are not the traditional 9 to 5 childcare services, often having children dropped off at 6am and having parents pick up their kids later than 5pm. The grant helps fund those non-traditional hours services.
The request for this year was $41,074.
Susan Carr, with CASA of the Bighorns, also gave a presentation, saying the $15,500 request would enable them to reinstate a full-time position in Johnson County. This particular request was for the Johnson County program itself, more grant applications will follow for the Sheridan County Program.
Finally, Lisa Mueller from the Boys' and Girls' Club of the Bighorns gave her presentation for the grant funding, saying physical activity is important to teach the students and their request of $18,000 will go a long way toward helping those families.
The Commissioners chose to back all three programs in their grant applications to the State.


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You can help by supporting HIV/AIDS charity AVERT in the run up to World AIDS Day - one hour can really make a difference.
HIV/AIDS is far from a problem of the past.
Across the world, the latest figures show that 2.7m people were newly infected with HIV and 1.8m men, women and children died from AIDS-related causes. Some 34m people are now living with HIV.
AVERT exists to do something about this, we are a Sussex-based HIV/AIDS charity. We work to avert HIV and AIDS, through education, treatment and care.
How you can help? We're not asking for donations, just for an hour or two of your time to get out there with some friends and help us spread awareness, hand out red ribbons and hopefully have a lot of fun in the process!
We are holding street collections in the Brighton, Hove and Horsham areas in the week up to and including World AIDS Day.
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Of course the time that is given is completely up to you, you can pop down with some colleagues for an hour or two, or just within your lunch break, any time at all that can be spared would be extremely useful!
All money raised will go to support the work we do to educate people about HIV and AIDS, to keep HIV and AIDS in the limelight and ensure that we can prevent further infection as much as possible.
This World AIDS Day, take the opportunity to get together, try something new, raise awareness and have some fun with AVERT!
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KIM Dotcom has apologised to users of his new website, Mega, for the "poor service quality".
The new "legal" cloud storage website went live in New Zealand at 6.48am local time on Sunday and Dotcom threw a huge launch party at his Coatesville mansion, north of Auckland, to celebrate.
However, Dotcom took to Twitter on Tuesday to say sorry to Mega users who have experienced problems with the website.
"The massive global PR around the #Mega launch is simply to big to handle for our start-up. I apologize for poor service quality," he tweeted.
"We are working 24/7 and expect normal operations within 48 hours. Lesson learned... No fancy launch event for Megabox ;-)."
Dotcom hopes to launch Megabox, a music service, in about six months' time.
But Dotcom was coy about just how many people have registered as Mega users.
"If I would tell you how many signups we had since the launch you wouldn't believe it. I can't believe it. So, I won't tell you," he also tweeted.
At the Mega launch and press conference on Sunday, Dotcom told media and invited guests more than one million people had visited Mega within 14 hours of the site's launch and about 500,000 had registered as users.
"What we are offering is a smarter, faster and more secure way of cloud storage and we are fully assured by our legal team that we are in compliance with the law," he said.
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USGBC gives Award of Excellence to several local chapters
December 16, 2009
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently selected seven local chapters to receive an Award of Excellence in the categories of: Advocacy & Influence; Community; Education; and Organizational Excellence, according to the Mother Nature Network.
The Cincinnati Regional Chapter received recognition from the USGBC in the Advocacy & Influence category for the strong ties they have created with Cincinnati Mayor Mark Mallory, including joining the Mayor''s Alliance for Green Schools and working with state legislators to mandate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for any building project that receives state funding, the story stated.
Two chapters were chosen to receive this year''s Award of Excellence in the Community category: The Chicago Chapter for its work in the East Garfield Park area; and the the Vermont Green Building Network for its work on a website for the Vermont Green Home Alliance, the story noted.
According to the story, two chapters were also chosen to receive Awards of Excellence in the Education category: The James River Green Building Council for its work on several community education projects, including green spaces and eco-building tours; and the South Carolina Chapter for its community education projects.
The Award of Excellence in the Organizational Excellence category, which is reserved for chapters that have shown an exemplary leadership record, was given to the Delaware Valley Green Building Council and the Georgia Chapter, the story added.
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Nice tarte!
This is off the topic of food, but a good friend of mine--and an enormous fan of Randy Newman--had the pleasure of meeting the man himself in New Orleans. Obviously concerned about making a good impression, he was a bit nervous as they were introduced. What's the first thing he says to Randy? "I constantly find myself having to explain why I'm such a huge fan of your music." An awkward moment of silence followed. A gracious response from Randy Newman, an awkward attempt to explain, you get the picture.
Thanks for such a thorough recipe, it looks amazing, and I'll be trying it this weekend.
We saw Randy Newman in concert here in Paris a couple of years ago and he was great - wish I could have met him in person! He is a difficult person to pigeonhole, though. Most people know him either for "Short People" or his Pixar soundtracks, and we devotees love him for all the stuff in between!
Good luck with the tart, KM - let me know how it turns out! (Now I'm nervous that I may have gotten some of the measurements wrong or forgotten an essential piece of advice!!)
Mmmm, tarte Tatin!
In the gizmo department, I would probably use my apple corer - less work.
I also found it quite useful for taking the tops off tomatoes for roasting when I made the roast tomato soup you did last fall.


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My only challenge is what do I want to paint on what day. I paint because I am free to do so; not to become famous. I am grateful for this blessing; I have the ability to make marks that people want.
Janet Echelman is an artist who works mainly with commissioned pieces. She approaches her work as a challenge or problem to be solved and only accepts an invitation to create work that betters herself and the community it interacts with.
Current – Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art gallery presents an exhibition featuring figurative paintings. The opening reception, with artists in attendance, is March 2, 6-8 p.m.
Closing March 2 – This exhibition serves as an undergraduate thesis exhibition that reflects each artist's development in the past months in terms of artistic practice with a focus on sculptural works. Attention to materials, spatial relationships as well as ideas of escape serve as a common conceptual thread between both artists' work.
March 2 – Beatrice del Perugia – "My offbeat way of seeing things makes me laugh. I hope it makes you wonder and smile."
March 3 – Helen Romeike-Wisniewski's roots on Anna Maria Island run deep. Her parents, German immigrants, built the 1950s island home where she currently resides and still spends time creating. Her life, much like her canvas, is rich in experiences.


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1. Subway ads to hang near anti-jihad ads.
Striking back against an anti-jihad advertisement in the subways widely perceived as anti-Muslim, two religious groups — one Jewish, one Christian — are taking out subway ads of their own to urge tolerance. Rabbis for Human Rights – North America and the group Sojourners, led by the Christian author and social-justice advocate Jim Wallis, are unveiling their campaigns on Monday.
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2. U.S. jobless rate falls to 7.8 pct.
The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent last month, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in nearly four years and giving President Barack Obama a potential boost with the election a month away.
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3. Campaign gains a new intensity in debate's wake.
President Obama and Mitt Romney confronted what one feared and the other hoped was an altered campaign on Thursday, pounding new urgency into what was shaping up as a wide-open final sprint to Election Day.
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4. Free birth control cut abortions.
An experimental project that gave free birth control to more than 9,000 teen girls and women in one metropolitan area resulted in a dramatic decrease in abortions and teen pregnancies, a new study shows.
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5. L.A. police chief proposes leniency for some arrested illegal immigrants.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on Thursday unveiled plans to refrain from handing over illegal immigrants arrested for low-level offenses to federal authorities for potential deportation.
6. Turkey-Syria clash showcases dangers of spillover.
Retaliatory Turkish artillery strikes deep into Syria have showed the speed with which the bloody civil war can entangle its neighbors and destabilize an already volatile region.
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7. Jordan protests despite new poll.
Thousands of Jordanians have attended a protest demanding political reforms in Amman, hours after King Abdullah called early parliamentary elections.
8. As Iran's currency keeps tumbling, anxiety is rising.
After a week in which the Iranian currency, the rial, fell by a shocking 40 percent and protests began to rumble through the capital, no one is making light of the mounting costs of confrontation.
(New York Times)
9. Sudan accused of dragging feet over humanitarian aid access.
The president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir, has been accused of continuing to deny UN organizations access to a quarter of a million increasingly desperate people, despite pledges to allow humanitarian aid into rebel-held areas.
10. South Africa strikes deepen, hitting economy.
Two months of labor unrest has spread from mines to other parts of Africa's biggest economy, causing political problems for President Jacob Zuma and his ruling African National Congress (ANC), the veteran liberation movement long closely tied to unions.
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These requests will be considered by the 19-member Board of Approval (BoA), Chaired by Commerce Secretary S R Rao, at its meeting on August 30.
Those who have asked for more time to execute their projects include GMR Hyderabad International Airport, DLF Info Parks, Parsvnath Infra and Ansal Colours Engineering.
The BoA has granted formal approval to GMR Hyderabad International Airport Ltd to set up a zone for multi services with international financial services centre at GMR Hyderabad International Airport (GHIAL), Shamshabad, Hyderabad.
"The SEZ is yet to be notified. The developer has already been granted three extensions. The validity of the last extension is up to 24th June 2013.
"The developer has requested for further extension of the validity period by one year on the grounds of time lack in seeking GHIAL lenders clearance on the land earmarked for SEZ, lack of demand, etc," the BoA agenda said.
DLF Info Parks has asked for more time for its IT zone in Pune. The validity of its approval was expired on June 26.
Similarly, Parsvnath Infra Ltd has sought one more year for its IT SEZ in Ernakulam. "The developer has requested for further extension of the validity period by 1 year," it said.
Besides Uttam Galva Steel and Suncity Haryana SEZ Developers, others that have applied to denotify their zones include Orient Craft Infrastructure and Vatika Jaipur SEZ.
While Uttam Galva has proposed to set two IT/ITeS zones in Maharashtra, Suncity Haryana has planned its IT SEZ in Haryana. Orient Craft Infrastructure Ltd wants to surrender its two zone - textile and IT - in Haryana.
The reason which the developers have cited to surrender their projects include changed economic scenario, imposition of MAT and DTC, global economic and market uncertainties.
SEZs, which were once looked upon as major vehicles for investment and export promotion, started losing sheen after the global meltdown and imposition of minimum alternate tax.
On April 18, meanwhile, the government announced a package of reforms, including easing of land requirement norms and an exit policy, to rekindle investor interest in SEZs.
An industry expert said the government should withdraw MAT to revive investor's interest in these zones.
"Imposition of MAT is one of the main reason to dwindling interest in SEZs besides overall decline in manufacturing and exports. The falling rupee is also not helping SEZ exporters. The government should look at MAT issue," Director in Raheja Developers Ltd Manoj Goyal said. The firm operates an IT/ITeS SEZ in Gurgaon.
As many as 58 SEZ developers have surrendered projects due to various reasons till 31 July. Exports from SEZs grew by about 31 per cent to Rs 4.76 lakh crore during 2012-13.


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Im going to revisit some of this technological re-alignment later in this column, but Id like to begin with an even larger thought: integrating the network operations center (NOC) into a broader operations and ultimately business service vision.
Now, to be clear, I realize this suggests one of two things: either viewing network operations as an organization used to evangelize and bring IT processes into the mainstream; and/or leveraging the existing capabilities in some NOCs to manage across network/system/application interdependencies to integrate other more siloed IT organizations from the data center.
For instance, while ITIL best practices typically dont begin with the NOC, but more often with the service desk and then the data center. In fact, the trend can sometimes be the reverse. I would say that while in most organizations the NOC is the last group on board with configuration management database (CMDB) system implementations, in probably 25% of the cases Ive worked with its the first group to implement an early phase CMDB; typically oriented at service impact management. And Ive often heard NOC directors complain about the lack of network support for many CMDB system offerings todayproving that the NOC is ahead not behind market.
The reasons for this somewhat schizophrenic role vis-à-vis more holistic management shouldnt be too much of a surprise. On the one hand, the NOC, and network engineers in particular, are famous for being stubborn, independent and misunderstood. By image, at least, they are on the high end of fitting in with being classically non-communicative Dilberts.
On the other hand, many network operations organizations are already established in managing across interdependencies so that problems can be diagnosed across the network, or isolated to the application, or the server, or the database. In accordance with this, many good network management solutions are capable of identifying application design issues, such as chatty applications, or informing on server performance.
As a result, in many IT organizations, its the network team, particularly the network engineers, who are best prepared to coordinate troubleshooting across silos, or plan for overarching requirements in infrastructure optimization, or manage remote locations including systems and application access/ responsiveness.
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Recent data shows that an astonishing 51% of purchases involving network change and configuration management solutions were made in conjunction with a CMDB initiative. Standalone management purchases came in a distant second at about 16%. Purchases made in conjunction with systems management configuration and other software came in next at 13%, beating out purchases of network device hardware needing configuration tools at 12%.
This data is radically different from what we would have seen five or even three years ago. Its one indicator that planning network management strategies is becoming a much more holistic endeavor. Another striking data point is that 64% of our respondents from Q4 2006 indicated that their organization had done, or was about to make, some organizational change to facilitate better collaboration between the NOC and the data center.
So, investing in management solutions is no longer just about buying siloed tools to manage just the network. And much of the push and shove in the network management market is consciously or not driven by this very fact. Vendors selling network management solutions know they have to change their business model to support a broader set of roles; from engineering to operations to service assurance across all domains.


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While no place on Earth could match his native rural Virginia, Thomas Jefferson adored nature in all of its complexity and fluidity. He was also famous for his architectural talents, as well as his choice of settings – for instance, Monticello, the home he designed for himself in Charlottesville, Va.
I just wish he were here today to help articulate our good real
estate fortune, bestowed upon us by the Storrs brothers in 1881. In particular, our nation's third president understood the relationships among pastoral America, democracy, and intellectual life.
As the historian Garry Wills wrote in his very fine book, Mr. Jefferson's University:
"Though Jefferson's university [the University of Virginia] was original in many ways, it was also the fulfillment of a dream long cherished on this continent – the hope for a university fitted to the distinctive American experience, one that would negotiate a new relationship with nature in the New World. European universities had been urban, dotted about in the interstices of a great city like Paris, or monastic, sealed up on gated quadrangles like those at Oxford and Cambridge. American schools, from the beginning, were open to the countryside, looking out on lawns or greens or yards or 'areas' – on the long village mall stretching out before the Wren Building in Williamsburg, or on 'the field' (Latin campus) before Nassau Hall at the College of New Jersey (later Princeton). Princeton's word for its 'campus' would at last be adopted by colleges to indicate their entire plat, but its original meaning shows that our first colleges wanted to address and respond to open space."
Our own campus, here in Storrs, Conn., remains a reflection of that early American dream for a university.
Surrounded by a picturesque landscape that resonates with these ideals of openness, of nature untouched, we are blessed with the splendor of Horsebarn Hill, historic stone walls, as well as acres of peaceful forest, scenic hiking trails, and a state park, all nearby. Consider, too, the impressive collection of trees across our main campus; while some are notable for their size, others for their rarity, many of them are actively used for classroom instruction. They serve as dignified teachers in this outdoor classroom of ours, inviting us to remarkably beautiful spots where we can pause and reflect.
Ensuring that we maintain this natural beauty around us, even as our campus evolves, is essential. From improving signage to preserving spaces for pedestrians to finding ways to integrate learning opportunities into future plans for the campus grounds, our own Campus Appearance Committee has taken on the task of enhancing even our highest-traffic areas to complement the broader landscape.
At the same time, our University remains dedicated to building an ever-greener campus. Over the past year, UConn has been named one of the greenest schools in the nation as well as one of the world's most eco-friendly campuses. We have also recently expanded our Climate Action Plan, a plan designed to reduce UConn's carbon footprint. With more energy-efficient facilities, increased biodiesel production to fuel our fleet of buses, and a new fuel cell power plant installed this past April on our Depot campus, our Storrs campus intends to be carbon-neutral by 2050.
Being good stewards of the environment and doing all that we can to bring out the best in our campuses are endeavors crucial to any great University. Yet conservation and aesthetics are still only a part of the bigger picture.
Putting the time and energy into enhancing our grounds speaks volumes about the
University. Such efforts signify a community that has pride in itself and its programs, while rewarding us with a vibrant natural landscape that fosters inspiration and intellectual growth.
The Storrs brothers themselves would have undoubtedly appreciated this connection between nature and learning. After all, the very foundation of our University is rooted in agriculture. The Storrs Agricultural School evolved out of the Morrill Act of 1862, which first established America's land-grant system of education. With this year marking the 150th anniverary of that historic legislation, perhaps we have all the more reason to keep in mind the value of enhancing the scenic spaces that serve us today and that will surely benefit many future members of the UConn community in the years to come.
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" Genre: Crime / Thriller / Author: Jo Bannister / Hardcover / 202 Pages / Book is published 2006-09 by Severn House Publishers Ltd "
I have read several books in the past by Jo Bannister and I have general enjoyed her style of suspense/mysteries. So when I was in my local library I noticed this one, so as I hadn't read it I thought I must try it.
===About the author:===
Jo Bannister was born in England in 1951, she has been successfully writing novels for many years. Before she became an author she was a journalist before turning to her first love of writing. She has written over 30 novels; probably her most famous series are the Brodie Farrell, where the star is a Private Investigator.
===About the book:===
When Cassie Schofield was 15 she without any explanation or known reason just disappeared. It was on the eve of an important music exam that she never made it too. Despite a Police investigation and search nothing of her was ever seen or heard of her. No body was discovered and no one had seen anything.
Her Birmingham based family never gave up hoping that one day she would call or just turn up at their door without warning, but she never did. Six years later a film of the young homeless in London showed briefly a girl who looked like her in the background. Her Dad Lawrence still haunted by her disappearance decides he must go to London and try and find if it is her.
After liasing with the filmmakers, he travels down South to where the film was set. A no-go area called the Tinderbox. This is a dangerous area where the homeless live in derelict buildings in a kind of alternative society run by several gangs. He blusters in and is saved from one of the most violent gangs by a streetwise teenage boy. Who agrees to help him discover if his daughter is indeed in the Tinderbox.
===My thoughts on the book:===
This was a very enjoyable and interesting book in my opinion. I have read many novels by this talented author and she never fails to impress me with the quality of her work, the effort she puts into her plots and the way she gets into the minds of the characters she creates.
I have found her writing style to be easy to follow and she is great at reeling you into her story and making it compelling reading. This I found with this book and I was sad when the story was concluded. I still wanted to know what would happen in the future to these well-organised gangs from the Tinderbox.
The tragedy of people living on the streets is such a sad one, but in this novel the author offered a perspective that I had not ever considered. One in which people co-existed together in a society bound by rules and a friendship that developed from their situation. That meant they took pleasure in the little they had and shared it amongst themselves.
On discovering this book, I immediately intrigued by the title, I had no idea what the author meant by this, but it opened up a lot of possibilities in my mind. So I had to read the summary of the book on the inside cover, this although short made the book sound very interesting and was hooked on this girl's disappearance and her father's attempt to find if she was dead or alive in London.
I do not for one moment think this is a unique story. I have read similar ideas in the past even, but what the author did in my view excellently was introduce the idea that these homeless people were organised in communities. Which Lawrence the girl's father must somehow infiltrate to see if his daughter was amongst them.
The story was very well written and once I picked up the book I found it impossible to put back down. I would attribute this not only to the excellent story but the ability of the author to create believable characters, which you could have empathy with.
I thought it was wonderful the way this successful man needed the help of a streetwise teenager to survive his mission. And the intimacy that the two shared and the story that Jonah told him about how he had ended up on the street and how the gangs were keen for him to join them.
The story moved at a good pace throughout becoming quicker as the story developed. It was full of surprises, excitement and ultimately danger as Jonah and Schofield moved into the gang's territory in an effort to find his daughter. I think in my mind this was a realistic written and demonstrated the power and influence these gangs had within the Tinderbox.
The conclusion for the novel was very exciting and tense and certainly not what I was expecting. Which is always a good thing, to be surprised by what happens as it keeps you engrossed so that you are never really sure what will happen next.
What disappointed me about the book was the one unanswered question that I wanted to know the whole way through and thought at the end I would find the answer. Why did she run away in the first place? I would have loved to know. Maybe the author wanted the reader to believe that sometimes there are no reasons why we do what we do, or maybe she just wanted us to make up out own reasoning.
The main character of the book was Lawrence Schofield. He was well described but to my mind he was quite a dull character with a limited personality. I did admire his drive and determination to bring his daughter back especially in the light that his wife wasn't keen for him to try and do it.
Instead I preferred the support character namely Jonah. A lad of sixteen, who was finding his own solitary way in the Tinderbox. He was well written and described and I found her was an engaging character full of surprises, guts and common sense, brought about by his experiences on the streets.
There were other scenes involving the activities of the two main gangs. These were always interesting and showed both the ruthlessness and the compassion that existed within them. These were well described and gave you the feeling you were in them, experiencing life as they did.
I like novels that make you think and look at something you know or think you know in a totally different light. For me this book did that on a number of levels and it made me consider things differently. I had never considered a community based on respect and rules that could exist for them, my impression was they would be disorganised and anarchy being the order of the day.
The book to my disappointment was comparatively short, but in that time a well-constructed story was shared with the reader. I would have liked an epilogue but sometimes in a good book it's nice to make up for yourself what happened to them all in the future.
This is another book from the pen of Jo Bannister that I would totally recommend. I enjoyed it from start to finish as it was written intelligently and contained a subject that was very interesting and provided for me a totally different slant on it. It was exciting and written in a way you never knew what was around the next corner which added to the suspense. For me not only a great story but a thought provoking one as well.
Pages: 202
Price: £7.99
Publisher: Seven House
Year: 2006
About the author: www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/b/jo-bannister
This review is written on both Ciao and Dooyoo under my user name.
Thank you for reading as always
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This is the diagnosis I just received this past Friday from my recent pap and now I am freaking out. I got referred to a specialist which was suppose to be for tomorrow but i started my period and had to re-schedule it for next Tues
I am so scared because now the waiting is just making me read and think and read and put one foot in the grave. I have read so much stuff some of which suggest that this diagnosis is always related to cancer and some that say there is a 1%-10% chance of having invasive cancer to some that say it is a better diagnosis then AUGUS and now I am just confused and scared and in need of some friends who have had similar diagnosis or stories of hope. I wanted to ask the doctor but it says the office is closed
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Good luck! Are they sending you to a gynecologist?
First things first. If this was from a pap smear, you will then go thru a colposcopy and a biopsy at the gyno. A pap smear is NOT diagnostic. A pap smear is to see if there are cell changes. Which they have found.
It all feels so scary, I understand. But this is not a death sentence, I promise.
Have you had a bad pap smear before?
Please make a list of ALL of your questions to ask the gyno when you go in. Its easy to think you'll remember, but once you get there, there is so much going on in your head - the questions you really want answered are forgotten.
After the biopsy, depending on what it says, you may have a LEEP. Which is easier to deal with than the biopsy and it will remove any and all of the bad cells.
Usually it takes years and years of not getting pap smears for cervical cancer to develop. Cervical cancer is the easiest cancer to be rid of. A LEEP or cryo and it is gone.
Good luck! And keep us updated.
FYI: googling symptoms and things can be reassuring if you find solid information. But I've found it doesn't always help ease the fear - there is a lot of plain JUNK on the internet.
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Back in January of 2009 I had pap smears come back with mild dysplasia and inflammation. By the time I went back for my 6 month follow up, I was pregnant. I had my 6 week post pardum check up on April 2010 and found atypical glandular cells. He did a coloscopy and found nothing. I had a follow up pap in September and they found atypical glandular cells / endocervical adeneocarcinoma canât be ruled out. My doctor decided to do a D&C and a LEEP. The results of where he scraped my uterus and cervix came back negative. The piece of cervix he removed came back High Grade Squamous Cells with clear margins. Pathology sent my results for a second and third opinion because they canât find where the atypical glandular cells are coming from. The third result has not come back yet. My doctor seems puzzled. He said that I should come back for a follow up pap in four months. Where could they be coming from and should I be worried that I have two different abnormal cells showing up?
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My ideal New Year's Eve is spent at home with friends, enjoying a meal that doesn't take two days to prepare. Themed dinners are always fun, and I think New Year's offers a festive excuse. This easy menu is Spanish-themed and both the salad and the dessert can be made ahead of time. Paella is the perfect dish for entertaining; it's prepared last minute, but you can have it all prepped and cook it once your friends arrive. When you add in the seafood, serve the salad, as the paella needs to cook a little longer and then sit for 10 minutes. Start the evening off with a few tapas or some Spanish cheese.
A Spanish-style salad made with crisp fennel and slightly piquant sheep's milk Manchego cheese. If Serrano, a dry-cured Spanish ham, is not available, use prosciutto.
¼ cup olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
¼ cup chopped chives
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 head fennel, cut in half
1 bunch radishes, thinly sliced
6 slices Serrano ham, cut in thick julienne strips
Radish sprouts (if available)
1 cup shaved Manchego cheese
Whisk together oil and lemon juice in a small bowl. Stir in chives and season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.
Remove tough core of fennel bulb and discard. Thinly slice fennel and immerse in a bowl of ice water for 10 minutes. Drain and pat dry.
Combine fennel, radishes, ham and radish sprouts in a large bowl and place in the refrigerator until ready to serve.
Drizzle salad with dressing and toss well to combine. Top with shaved Manchego. Serve immediately. Serves 6 to 8.
Years ago on my first visit to Spain, I tasted a paella made on a wood-burning grill that became my standard for paellas ever since. I've experimented over the years but it was always missing something - it must have been the wood they used, the warm night and my new relationship. Last week, I tossed caution to the winds; instead of sourcing hard-to-find Spanish ingredients, I used what I had. Somehow this time it worked magically. A finished paella should still have some liquid on the top and ideally, a bit of a brown crust on the bottom of the pan. I used a large skillet.
1 pound (500 grams) jumbo scampi or large shrimps
1 teaspoon saffron threads
1 teaspoon hot smoked Spanish paprika or chili flakes
4 cups homemade or low-sodium chicken stock
⅓ cup olive oil
1 cup thickly sliced Spanish dried chorizo sausage
1 cup diced onions
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
4 medium squid, sliced
1 cup fresh or canned tomatoes chopped
2 cups short-grain rice, either sushi rice, Spanish Valencia or Arborio
1 pound (500 grams) fresh clams
1 pound (500 grams) fresh mussels
1 cup lima beans or green peas, defrosted
¼ cup chopped parsley
3 green onions, cut into long pieces
Use kitchen shears to cut through scampi shell on the leg side (the shell stays on). If using shrimp, shell and reserve shells.
Combine shrimp shells (if using), saffron, stock and paprika and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Discard any shell and reserve.
Heat oil in paella pan or large skillet. Add chorizo and sauté for one minute. Add onion and sauté for two minutes or until softened. Add garlic and cook another minute. Add scampi or shrimp and sauté for two minutes or until partly cooked. Remove scampi or shrimp from skillet.
Add squid and sauté in oil for two minutes or until white. Add tomatoes and sauté one minute or until just limp.
Stir in rice, then pour in flavoured stock and bring to boil. Turn heat down to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes or until rice is nearly cooked through. Stir occasionally. Add in clams and mussels, cover pan and cook five minutes or until shells begin to open. Add scampi or shrimp and peas and cook another five minutes or until seafood is cooked through. Taste for seasoning. Sprinkle with parsley and green onions. Serves 6 to 8.
Although similar to crème caramel, this is a firmer-textured custard. The recipe works like a charm - if you've ever been worried about turning out these caramel-coated moulds, don't worry, it always works.
2 cups milk
1 cup whipping cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar
8 large eggs
1 tablespoon vanilla
2 teaspoons grated orange rind
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 tablespoons orange juice
1 tablespoon corn syrup
Combine milk, cream and sugar in a large pot over medium-high heat and bring to boil. Remove from heat, cool to tepid and whisk in eggs and vanilla, and orange rind. Pour through a sieve into a bowl and reserve.
Preheat oven to 325 F.
Combine sugar, orange juice and corn syrup in a heavy pan over medium heat and stir to dissolve. Raise heat and bring to boil. Boil for eight minutes or until pale gold. Remove from heat. Immediately swirl into a round 6-cup ovenproof baking dish.
Pour in reserved custard and place dish in a large baking pan. Pour hot water into the baking pan until it comes half way up the outside of the baking dish. Cover dish with a sheet of parchment paper and bake for 40 minutes or until custard is set but has a slight wiggle in centre. Chill. Unmould onto a rimmed serving plate. Serve with Almond Cookies. Serves 6 to 8.
You can prepare the dough ahead of time, wrap the sheets in plastic and bake them up to one week later.
⅓ cup unsalted butter, softened
1 cup icing sugar
½ teaspoon grated lemon rind
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour (spooned into measuring cups and levelled off)
1 1/4 cups ground almonds
½ teaspoon kosher salt
15 slivered almonds
1/3 cup Seville orange marmalade
Combine butter and icing sugar in a mixing bowl and use an electric mixer to beat until light and fluffy. Add lemon rind and vanilla and beat to combine. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between additions. Add flour, ground almonds and salt, and beat just until incorporated. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Place dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out to about ¼-inch thick. Use a 2-inch round cutter to cut out cookies and place about one inch apart on parchment-lined baking sheets. Repeat, gathering and re-rolling scraps until you have used up all the dough. Press a slivered almond into half of the rounds. Chill cut-out cookies for 20 minutes or until they are firm.
Preheat oven to 325 F.
Remove one baking sheet at a time from fridge and bake cookies for 13 to 15 minutes or until lightly golden at the edges. Transfer to a rack to cool fully.
Spread one teaspoon marmalade onto rounds that do not have almonds and place an almond-topped cookie on top. Makes approximately 20 cookies.
Wine pairings
A crisp, lean white is best for the first two courses, such as a Rueda from Spain or verdicchio from Italy. The paella also would be splendid with a dry rosé, preferably from Spain or southern France. As an aperitif, consider cava, a dry sparkling wine from Spain. The dessert would pair well with a muscat de beaumes de venise from southern France.
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Imagine swapping your daily 9 to 5 routine for the chance to spend your day in a heated pool swimming with man's best friend.
It might sound a bit barking... but for 21-year-old Leanne Owen, that's exactly what happened after she decided to set up her dog hydrotherapy centre.
A life-long animal lover, she got the idea after her own dog, Rio, was diagnosed with a debilitating condition that left him struggling to walk.
After seeing how hydrotherapy changed his life, Leanne decided to retrain, leave her office job behind and set up her own facility on Tudor Place, South Shore, Blackpool.
She said: "When my cocker spaniel was about six or seven months old we noticed he had trouble walking.
"He had really bad hip dysplasia and the vet said the only thing you can do is take him swimming. He went from being hardly able to walk to being able to run around with the other dogs."
But after having to travel to Leyland for his treatment, Leanne spotted a gap in the market in Blackpool – and decided to set up the first such facility in the area.
The former National Savings and Investments worker got her qualifications in Lincoln and then went into business with her mum, Lorna Owen.
She added: "My boyfriend and dad basically built the whole thing so it's a real family-run business.
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The Fylde Coast Canine Hydrotherapy centre opened for the first time on Saturday and was booked up all day, with eight dogs coming for treatment.
Leanne added: "We've had quite a lot of interest so far and we're building gradually."
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