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Merry go-round: New bagels, and <I>you</I> bake'mmm!
What's better than a bun in your oven? How 'bout a bagel?
Janet Dob, "mother" of Bake'mmm Bagels, took the traditional New York bagel a few steps farther when she opened her Verona bakery, Agnes' Very Very. Not only are her patented bagels made from USDA-certified organic ingredients, but you bake them in your own oven, so they're always fresh when you want them.
Did we say patented?
Yup, and according to Dob, receiving that patent was no small feat. In fact, it took four and a half years and whole lot of paperwork to prove that her product was truly unique.
The difference in Bake'mmm Bagels is all in the boiling. While many bagel bakers boil their dough, it's only for a minute or two to put "a skin" on the outside; the bagels still require immediate baking in order to stay fresh. Dob's bagels are boiled until fully cooked, so they can sit on the shelf or stay frozen– until someone's ready to dig in. Then, a mere 10-15 minutes in the oven is all that's required for a hot, fresh bagel.
As always, necessity is the mother of invention. In Dob's case, the idea came to her while she was working in a Colorado bakery nearly 15 years ago. Rising at 2am got stale pretty quick, Dob says, so she decided to find away to enjoy a few more zzzzz's. And find a way she did.
Now Dob's bagels can be found in a variety of local coffeeshops, including the Mudhouse on the Downtown Mall and C'ville Coffee in the Allied Business Park. They're also in health food stores up and down the East Coast, from Virginia to New Jersey.
The one downside? These bagels aren't cheap. In fact, at nearly a dollar per bagel, they're more than twice the price of one from Bodo's.
If you'd like to check the product out before investing in a $4 frozen four-pack from Rebecca's, Dob says your best bet is the Charlottesville City Market on Saturday mornings. There Dob doles out bagels baked on site by the dozen, and she adds a gourmet twist: homemade "schmears," fancified cream cheese spreads. Favorites include Belgian chocolate with toasted pecans and a hint of coffee, and an artichoke and green onion spread.
If it all sounds waist-expanding, think again. Dob says her bagels have fewer calories– 240 for her plain and whole wheat versions– than other similar products. And she knows first hand.
"I lost 50 pounds eating three or four bagels a day," she says.
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Crab bites dust
The Sheriff's sale advertised for Monday, July 28 at 10am looks good for anyone hoping to start a restaurant. But it's not so hot for one particular restaurant: The Crab. The seafoodery located at 12 Elliewood Avenue opened in August of 2002, closed for a three-month winter break, reopened in late February and then shut its doors again in May or Junethis time, apparently, for good. The website, thecrab.net, is still scuttling along.
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If you hear the distinct sound of Beatles music ringing down Water Street to Main, it might just be Oxo serenading Station during the lunch hour. The tune? "Hello, Goodbye."
That's right– although Station has given up on serving lunch, Oxo's just jumped into the mid-day mix.
"We're still going to have cloth napkins and tablecloths," says Oxo owner Alice Kim, "but it's going to be affordable."
Lunch selections include sandwiches, salads, and some pasta dishes, and run from $7 for lighter fare, such as salad of tomato, mozzarella, and grilled asparagus with basil pesto– up to $12 for grilled flank steak with Lyonnaise potatoes, sautéed spinach, and red chile tapenade.
The patio will also be open, and Kim says there'll be plenty of room for private lunch meetings.

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Friday's ping-pong of published reports regarding whether an arrest warrant for Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez has, or hasn't, been issued has culminated in a report from FOX 25 that, indeed, a warrant has been issued.
According to the report, it's a "paper" warrant on the charge of obstruction of justice. The warrant has not yet been entered into the law-enforcement computer system, which prevents police from acting on it.
"It may be that this is a squeeze tactic," FOX 25 legal analyst Brad Bailey said. "It may be telling Mr. Hernandez that we have a warrant, a warrant for a crime that has a potential maximum penalty of seven years in prison, is a tactic to get him to come to the table, start talking and start cooperating. And that's where the lawyers may be saying, OK, we got it. You got our attention. We're willing to respond."
The charge most likely has been fueled by reports that police believe Hernandez destroyed his cell phone and home-surveillance system. The goal, apparently, is to cajole someone into telling authorities precisely what happened on the night 27-year-old Odin Lloyd was shot, according to the Boston Globe, multiple times.
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Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Ewe's Curd Cheesecake Mousse, Butterscotch Apple Sauce, Cobnut Crumb & Spiced Shortbread
In actual fact it's three recipes combined, stolen from three different chefs; Gordon Ramsay, Tom Kitchin and Jason Atherton. Between them they hold a multitude of Michelin stars but it took our culinary genius to slap the three elements all together in one bowl. So a massive 'in your face' Michelin starred chefs!
Ok first up, the ewe's curd cheesecake mousse. This is an awesome recipe from Tom Kitchin. He uses Crowdie, which is a Scottish cream cheese. We used Homewood ewe's curd instead, which is produced locally in Somerset by Tim & Angela Homewood, and is absolutely fantastic.
Cheesecake Mousse
Serves 4
450g Ewe's Curd
125g Sugar
1 ½ Tbs Flour
1 Tbs Vanilla Extract
Zest of 1 Lemon
1 Egg
1 Egg Yolk
Preheat the oven to 150C. Mix the cheese, sugar, flour, vanilla and lemon zest in a blender until smooth. In a separate jug, mix the egg and egg yolk together, then pour into the blender with the cheese mixture and blend until smooth.
Pour into a 23cm baking dish and cover with foil. Bake for 35-40 minutes until set. (We cooked a much bigger volume, so it took quite a bit longer to set). Allow to cool and then transfer the mixture to a blender, and blitz until smooth. Leave to set in the fridge for at least 1 hour.
The butterscotch apple sauce is a Gordon Ramsay recipe, in fact, a component part of another dessert. It's incredibly sweet but tastes amazing partnered with the slightly sour cheesecake mousse.
Butterscotch Apple Sauce
Serves 4
1 Large Granny Smith Apple, peeled cored and chopped.
1 Vanilla Pod
100g Caster Sugar, plus 2 Tbsp
100g Unsalted Butter
100ml Double Cream
Put the chopped apple in a small pan and sprinkle over 2 Tbs of water. Slit the vanilla pod and scrape out the seeds, adding them to the pan with 2 Tbs of caster sugar. Stir into the apple and heat until sizzling. Then cover and cook for 5-7 minutes, stirring occasionally, until soft and pulpy. Cool then crush to a chunky puree with a fork.
In another saucepan, gently heat the 100g of sugar with a splash of water until melted. Stir occasionally. When clear, raise the heat, stir in the butter and cook to a light caramel. Do not stir at this point or it will become fudge.
Remove from the heat, and cool for 5 minutes before mixing in the cream. Cool to room temperature, before stirring in the apple puree. Refrigerate.
The third component is a Jason Atherton recipe for Spiced Shortbread. We've found it works really well, is incredibly simple to make and the spices give it a bit more of an interesting flavour.
Spiced Shortbread
225g Unsalted Butter, cubed and softened. Plus extra to grease tin.
250g Plain Flour
80g Rice Flour
¼ Tsp Salt
½ Tsp Ground Star Anise
¼ Tsp Ground Cinnamon
100g Golden Caster Sugar
Cinnamon Sugar Topping
1 Tsp Ground Cinnamon
1 Tbsp Golden Caster Sugar
Preheat the oven to 150C. Grease a 23cm square baking tin with butter and line it with buttered greaseproof paper, allowing plenty of overhang on opposite sides to act as handles.
Sift the flours, salt, star anise and cinnamon together into a large bowl; set aside. Using a mixer, beat the butter until soft and fluffy. Tip in the sugar and beat for 2 minutes on high speed until creamy. (You can do all this by hand, but it's hard work!) Add the creamed mixture to the flour and knead together by hand until uniform in texture.
Press evenly into the prepared tin and bake for 1 hour until golden. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes.
For the topping, mix together the cinnamon and the 1 tbsp of sugar in a small bowl.
Carefully lift the shortbread out of the tin (it's extremely fragile at this stage), using the overhanging paper as handles and place on a board. Cut it in half, and then into 1.5cm fingers. Sprinkle with the cinnamon-sugar mix (We also added a bit of leftover ground star anise to this). Place on a baking sheet, spaced apart and bake for another 10 mins to dry out. Transfer to a wire rack to cool and store in an airtight container.
Cobnut Crumbs
We sprinkled the final dish with cobnut crumbs. Basically roasted cobnuts which if you don't know are like hazelnuts and smell absolutely incredible. Discard the outer husks, use a nutcracker to remove the shell and bake the nuts in a 150C oven for up to an hour, until hard and browned. Cool and then blitz to a crumb texture.
All that's left to serve is a bit of assembly.
If you're dexterous and suave, shape the cheesecake mousse into a quenelle and place delicately on the plate. Or if you're me, dollop some on like a bricklayer shovelling cement. Next to this, add a generous portion of the butterscotch apple sauce. In an extremely cheffy asymmetric style, smugly place your spiced shortbread across the other two components. If you have a moustache, as this stage, you must twiddle it, if not, arch one eyebrow. Slice some apple and fan it out in a pleasingly pretentious fashion. Finally, sprinkle some cobnut crumb over everything.
Bon appétit. Your work here is done.
14 comments:
- Ailbhe said...
O yes, this was so fab. Need to practice raising eyebrow in a pleasing and yet sinister way. Thanks for this : )
- 11 October 2011 at 14:51
- Dan said...
Ailbhe - Thank you very much. The pleased/sinister arched eyebrow is tres essential. Once mastered, it takes any cooking to the next level.
- 11 October 2011 at 14:58
- Food Urchin said...
Dan, this pud was the creme de la creme, the tres formidable, the piece de resistance and absolute highlight of your supper club at The Coach and Horses.
PS everything else was lush too but this, my friend, was really good
- 11 October 2011 at 15:47
- Dan said...
Food Urchin - Thanks very much mate. Myself and 'E' were extremely pleased with how it turned out. Your praise is most welcome dude.
- 11 October 2011 at 16:42
- Rose said...
Sounds amazing! I can already do the "one eyebrow arch" so just need to practise and perfect the recipes now! Hope to get to one of your supper clubs some time soon.
- 11 October 2011 at 21:39
Wow, amazing recipe! I love the idea of butterscotch apple sauce with the spiced shortbread, crumbs and creamy mousse. It looks like a labour of love, but one I'm prepared to try so I can have a taste :)
- 11 October 2011 at 21:41
- PDH said...
This was great fella! Will have to give it a go at home now we have the recipe :^)
- 12 October 2011 at 08:45
Thank you, thank you!!!!!
- 12 October 2011 at 13:37
- Sharmila said...
Everything was gorg, when I attended, but this and the faggots were my proper favourite things. I could have definitely scoffed seconds.
- 12 October 2011 at 15:01
- Dan said...
Rose - We'd love to see you at The Montpelier Basement at some point. You can do the one eyebrow arch, then you're pretty much a culinary genuis already. It's all that's needed really.
TheLittleLoaf - It looks like a hell of a lot more work written down than it seemed to actually make it! If you give it a go, let me know what you think.
Pavel - Fantastic to finally meet you mate, albeit very briefly. Really glad you enjoyed it.
Dani - No problemo :)
Sharmilla - Lovely to finally meet you. Thanks very much, I'm really flattered that you liked it.
- 12 October 2011 at 20:23
- Shu Han said...
that looks really really good! I'm always a little scared of doing recipes which involve so many parts, so hats off to you!
- 15 October 2011 at 06:19
- rej said...
Joe and I were completely blown away by the quality of food at your supperclub and this was definitely one of the highlights - can't wait for the cookbook ;-)
- 17 October 2011 at 08:48
- Dan said...
Shu Han - Thanks very much. Honestly, it seems like a pain, but actually it isn't that bad. Though perhaps it's more dinner party than weeknight fodder.
Rej - Thanks a lot Rej. It was really lovely to see you both and we're both extremely flattered that you enjoyed it. x
- 21 October 2011 at 12:15
- Naomi Knill said...
What Food urchin said (although I'm surprised he can remember what was for pud...). A wonderful evening with amazing food. I'm so happy you managed to find a little space for me!
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Torrey Mountain Climber's Log
firstname.lastname@example.com - May 8, 2020 12:02 pm Date Climbed: Sep 29, 2018Hike from Birch Creek
Camped out and got an early start. Went up the East ridge to the summit. Awesome hike. Total stats were about 10.86 miles and 4,000 gain.
Peaker - Jun 28, 2015 9:50 pm Date Climbed: Jun 28, 2015Birch Creek
Came up from Birch Creek below the small 10000 saddle halfway up the east ridge. Gaining the ridge proved to be a bit of a slog but aside from that it was an excellent hike.
MTfred19 - Mar 13, 2012 6:37 pm Date Climbed: Mar 10, 2012SE ridge from Birch Creek
MtnEar and I started skinning out from the bridge about a mile and a half before the Dinner Station campground around noon. We climbed the east ridge and dropped our packs at a flat spot around 8500 feet. Originally we were going to camp and then summit in the morning, but worries about weather the next day caused us to continue to the summit that night. We arrived at the top to witness a beautiful winter sunset!(And some fiercely cold wind!) We then took our time enjoying the descent back to our camp on the ridge with headlamps on and bright stars shining overhead. I had to sit down for a while before going below treeline just to soak it all in. A great trip on a great mountain! (I only wish I had brought snowshoes instead of skis for this trip- the skiing conditions were horrible!)
ianc82 - Jul 5, 2011 1:20 am Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2011east ridge from deerhead lake
An amazing day and a great early season scramble. My dog and i started from birch creek TH at 8 and reached the summit at noon. Still a fair amount of snow. Bushwhacking was pretty straightforward.
bruceg - Sep 17, 2008 3:37 pm Date Climbed: Jul 4, 1985First Montana peak
Climbed the east ridge solo. Saw no one else that day.
alpine climber - Sep 1, 2008 8:58 pm Date Climbed: Aug 31, 2008Labor Day surprise
Double summited Tweedy and Torrey from Torrey Lake. Great day for my first time in the Pioneers. Storm moved in and we woke up to six inches of snow on Labor Day!
Rocker Paully - Mar 21, 2008 8:19 pm Date Climbed: Mar 21, 2008Winter solo
snowshoed it alone from the bridge (about a mile before Dinner Station). Got going at 6:45, followed Birch creek road past the "primitive road" sign for about 1.5 miles and cut straight up the hill. Summited in blizzard conditions at 11:45, weather got worse after about 10 minutes on summit, had to come down in total whiteouts, it was pretty fun, loved my nice white view from the top.
bakcast - Mar 14, 2008 1:07 pm Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2007From Torrey Lake
Climbed from Tweedy Lake via east ridge on beautiful July Day. Getting to east ridge was class 2-3 and fairly simplebut BOY are the rocks loose on the north side of that ridge! Helmets and careful footing for groups!
ATV's on the trail up to the lake were a pain in the ass!
Rocker Paully - Jun 14, 2006 11:47 pmRoute: Deerhead Lake
I have climbed this one 2 times. The second time my sister and I were almost stuck by lightening! Our hair was standing on end. Talk about feeling helpless.
montanaboy - Oct 8, 2005 11:37 pmRoute Climbed: Deerhead Lake Date Climbed: July 30, 2005
An excellent day. Kept it on the down low and really enjoyed the ascent. As with most peaks, the views just kept getting better and better on the ascent. Spotted three others on Tweedy's summit and some campers at Torrey Lake.


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Bellaviarest necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 30 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Bella Via
Five years ago, when Sal Polito, the chef and an owner of Bella Via, stood admiring the view of the Manhattan skyline from the street outside his brand new Long Island City restaurant. Suddenly, he had the perfect name for his new venture: Bella Via, or "beautiful way."
Bella Via is known for its coal-fired brick oven pizza. What sets this pizza apart from many others is the crisp crusts – and that everything is super-fresh. "All our pizza is cooked in a brick oven, and nothing is mass-produced. We make our dough every day. The cheese is hand sliced with a knife, the old fashioned way. Everything is fresh done to order so people may have to wait a bit to have their pie."
Since it tastes so good, no one's complaining about the wait. Patrons call it the "best brick oven pizza in New York!" It's a sentiment echoed by the legions of fans who come here from all points of the city to order Polito's perfect pies.
long island city and Manhattan residents
Bella Via is looking for a new logo/brand identity to be used on its new website (in development) and print materials. The logo should communicate the restaurant's old-world attention to cooking detail and quality, its hand-made/fresh ingredients, and its city landscape. Bella Via is located in Long Island City, just across the water from NYC. Pictures of the restaurant are provided and the new brand identify should pair well with the restaurants current look & feel and outside signage.
The project deliverables are:
1) new logo
2) business card design
3) pizza box design (12" wide x 12" high, max 3 colors)
The business card and pizza box should highlight ONLINE ORDERING at http://bellaviarestaurant.com
please contact me with any questions.
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After reading about this salad challenge and realizing that I had missed the sign up date, I decided to make up my own, gluten-free salad challenge! I love salads and eat them almost daily. I do get in a rut, though, and this is just the thing to pull me out of that rut! 🙂 So, here is my challenge:
To eat at least 1 salad/day for 2 weeks. Each salad has to contain the following:
~ At least 1 cup of salad greens (spinach, arugula, kale, mixed greens, etc)
~ At least 1 serving of another vegetable of a different color (tomatoes, carrots, red peppers, radishes, etc)
~ A source of protein (cheese…lots of choices, meat/meat sub., beans, nuts, eggs)
~ Dressing is optional, but I usually use at the very least EVOO & balsamic)
~ Bonus: Max. 1 handful or one serving of something else that I may not normally put in a salad or in the particular salad that I made. I have been known to use Fritos as GF croutons! So, things along those lines. Maybe I'll give cereal a try? LOL!
I am going to commit to this for 2 full weeks, starting on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 (tax day, what better day?). Anyone else up for the Gluten-Free Salad Challenge? Just post here or shoot me an email. I'll put together a little raffle for those who play along and enter your names into a contest and send out a GF Goody Bag! 🙂 For those who do play along for the GF Goody bag, make sure to document your salads. 😉
Woohoo!! I am excited! I love challenges & goals and I love salads. This will certainly inspire me to be more creative!
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I'm sure some of you already follow Dan Curtis - Professional Personal Historian - I have mentioned his posts a number of times. He is both a professional and a personal historian so some of you may say: "Why should I be interested in what he posts?" and you may be right, for you.
However, some of us are also folks that have been doing our own family history and genealogy work for a time, perhaps keep up a blog, and/or enjoy writing about what we do. Among that group, from time-to-time, there are a few of us who think about doing some work for pay, but don't know how to get started.
Dan's latest post, "Worried About Paying the Bills Between Major Project?" has a list of small projects that you may think about using to help you get started. Even just doing one of these for a friend or acquaintance, even a relative, might get you some word-of-mouth buzz or publicity that could get you going in a new direction. For what it is worth! ;-)
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Former Fed Chairman Volcker Says He Hasn't been to elite meeting for 15 years, yet was pictured at 2010 gathering
Steve Watson
Aug 9, 2012
Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve under presidents Carter and Reagan, and current Chair of President Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Paul Volcker, feigned ignorance when asked recently about his regular attendance at the elite annual Bilderberg meeting.
Volcker was attending a public event when Infowars journalist Luke Rudkowski, founder of the activist group We Are Change, asked the economic guru about his presence at recent Bilderberg shindigs.
"What Bilderberg meeting?" Volcker replied when Rudkowski asked him what discussions had taken place.
"I do not think I have been at a Bilderberg meeting for twenty years." Volcker added.
"You're name is on the attendees list and this is the institution that sets American policy." Rudkowski fired back.
"My name may be on an attendees list, but I do not remember the last time I have been there." Volcker replied.
Though Rudkowski cites 1997 as the last time Volcker attended, his name, in fact, appeared on both the 2009 and 2010 attendees lists. Volcker is even listed on the official Bilderberg steering committee website as having attended in 2010, the first year the attendees list had ever been officially released by the group itself.
Volcker was even pictured (below) at the 2010 meeting in Sitges, Spain. The photograph was published on the London Guardian website.
Continuing his line of questioning, Rudkowski noted "many key players say that this is the institution that engineered this economic crisis.."
"Maybe that's why I havn't gone there for ten years." Volcker replied, suddenly halving his previous estimate of how long he has not attended the meeting for.
As he was leaving the event, Rudkowski was again able to speak to Volcker. During the exchange the former Fed head said "I've been so insulted that they (Bilderberg) have not invited me there for fifteen years," again altering the year count.
As he entered the elevator to depart and Rudkowski continued his questions, Volcker said "I'm a member of the Trilateral commission, that is correct. I am a member of the Federal Reserve, which is the most insidious one."
Watch the exchange below:
We Are Change previously confronted Volcker in 2009 over his Bilderberg attendance.
In that video, Volcker not only acknowledged that he attended their meeting that year, and two or three times previously, he also acknowledged the authority of the Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized U.S. citizens from negotiating with foreign governments, punishable under federal law with imprisonment up to three years.
Volcker implied that because the Federal Reserve is a non-governmental private institution, it's officials are not beholden to the Logan Act. However, given that Volcker is also part of Obama's economic advisory, team that point is moot in his case, and he would be liable for punishment.
Watch the 2009 exchange with Volcker below:
Why can't Paul Volcker remember that he was at the Bilderberg meeting twice in the last three years? Is Volcker senile? If so what is he doing heading up Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory and sitting on the board of the Fed? Or is he just a liar? What do you think?
Detractors argue that Bilderberg does not set US economic policy, and may point out that Volcker is no longer head of the Federal Reserve and only acts in an advisory capacity. That argument falls flat on its face when you consider video shot by protesters of the current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke leaving the meeting in 2008, weeks before the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the sparking point for the current economic crisis. Bernanke later refused to talk about his attendance at the meeting when directly questioned.
Before the crisis hit in September 2008, a mole inside Bilderberg warned that as part of the 2008 meeting, the Bilderberg group agreed that certain key institutions should be allowed to fail, while others should not.
In 2006, sources inside Bilderberg leaked information that indicated the group was fully aware of an impending housing bubble, and the catastrophic effects it would have. Even mainstream media and cultural sources have concluded that the housing bubble was created, for the most part, artificially and deliberately by elite manipulation of Federal Reserve and investment banking policy. Essentially, the economy was crashed deliberately as part of a program of consolidation of wealth by the extremely rich and powerful.
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UBerserker wrote:What are these "copyright infringement" issues people are constantly bringing up in this thread? Haave you all forgot that several Unreal mappacks in the past used content from other games and nobody ever said anything?
AlCapowned wrote:Not to mention thousands of voicepacks, mutators, and whatnot that use sounds from other media. And the link hasn't been taken down, so I don't see how Jazz is "dealing" with copyright infringement problems when it doesn't look like any company has even noticed anything.That this pack is being singled out is so weird to me.
Xezr wrote:There were a few parts in the level designs that really stood out to me nostalgia-wise. Without spoling too much, two maps in particular appear to be direct recreations from levels seen in Half-life: Opposing Force and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. If they were indeed studied closely and then recreated in Unreal, then holy shit. Well done. The latter even had the mission music from RtCW. If they are supposed to be easter eggs or homages, amazing job.But until I know for sure about the exact legal rules that apply to the amount of borrowing that's going in in this mappack I sit on the edge of the fence whether or not I can truly recommend it. There's textures, sounds and music taken from a large number of games in here and although used well it feels a bit strange for them to be included so frequently.
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UBerserker wrote:[UDHQ]Jackrabbit wrote:I had assumed that he had disappeared suddenly from the scene for this reason, but that might be a bit of a stretch. He didn't really, barring aside his RL job he also worked his ass off to re-do Xenome without all the ripped-off brushes from custom Unreal levels. Custom Unreal levels is the emphasis there, that was the sole big issue.Now because the ghost of the mappack's old reputation is somehow still around, people are suddenly bringing up the same argument for stuff related to other games, like if many other custom mappacks before Xenome haven't been guilty of the same thing. No one gave a damn that Xidia/7B used Silent Hill tracks, no one gave a damn that Zephon used the robot mesh from Deus Ex, no one gave a damn about EXU2 using the Doom glyph and various sounds. I hope this is the last definitive post pertaining to this matter. We've got finally one big release and this is instead what we are talking about, it's frustrating.
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[UDHQ]Jackrabbit wrote:I thought I recognized the terrain from a map in Deja Vu... I think the second to last map in Deja Vu in the valley, but that may jut be a coincidence.
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Mister_Prophet wrote:Don't take this the wrong way UB, but that's something that's not really up to you I'm afraid.
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An Obama-style Educational Experiment Gets an 'F'
By David Paulin
How do you motivate failing students at a troubled high school, one plagued by abysmal test scores and soaring dropout rates? Leave it to guilty white liberals to throw money at the problem – all while failing to understand or admit why many Hispanics and blacks are failing.
Ten months ago, liberal educators and do-gooders in Austin, Tex., got a reality check after launching an Obama-style program at a troubled high school, one composed overwhelmingly of low-income Hispanics and blacks. The program proposed to pay failing students $6-per-hour to get free after-school tutoring. Not surprisingly, the cash-for-tutoring program was derided by the handful of conservatives living in Austin, a bastion of ultra-liberal politics.
So how did the good-hearted educational experiment turn out? Recently, Austin's school district issued a detailed report on the program that offered math tutoring at troubled Eastside Memorial High School. And as conservative skeptics had pointed out from the start, it underscored that money alone cannot solve some complex social problems.
This is not to say the program did not benefit some students: It did. However, its failure to meet expectations -- with only a handful of students even electing to participate in it -- underscored an old complaint among conservatives: Cultural and behavioral problems are the real reasons that so many black and Hispanic students are poor academic performers. In Texas, their dropout rate is about three times higher than for white and Asian students, and this reflects national trends.
Yet liberals invariably blame this dysfunction on their favorite social ills -- discrimination, racism, and poverty. And presumably this also explains out-of-wedlock pregnancies and discipline problems at some Austin schools where most students are low-income Hispanics and blacks.
Lots of kids have trouble with math, of course. And many middle-class parents are all too familiar with the burden of arranging for expensive tutors and seeing to it that their kids do their homework and go to summer school. Doing anything less would mean their children have a slimmer chance of getting into a decent college.
Accordingly, you'd think students and parents at Eastside High School would form long lines to get into the cash-for-tutoring program. Yet teachers were unable to even fill the program's 20 available spots.
Apathetic Students
Consider some of the hitches that quickly developed in the tutoring program that provided one-on-one instruction in Algebra 1. The thrice-weekly classes were provided by teachers from a local community college who earned $12 per hour.
Referring to the "challenges" of recruiting students, the school district's report noted that teachers "personally invited and provided program information to 75 students, 83 percent of all eligible students." Yet they encountered a shocking level of apathy -- just 16 students ended up completing the enrollment process. And before long, seven had dropped out.
In the end, only nine students finished the program.
Elaborating on the frustrations associated with launching cash-for-tutoring, the report noted: "Eleven other students completed the program enrollment process; however, those students either did not show up to participate or only participated in one or two sessions."
Fortunately, private donations funded the program for the spring semester. The final tab: $18,569.
Why did so few students end up enrolling? Some said they had "after-school commitments." Others were disqualified due to truancy or other "discipline" problems that cropped up before the program started. And some who had expressed an interest in the program failed to enroll due to a "lack of follow-through."
Interestingly, the school district's report failed to mention the race or ethnicity of the nine students who completed cash-for-tutoring.
Until recently, Eastside High School was known as Johnston High School. But after failing for five straight years to meet state standards for minimum dropout rates and academic standards (mandated by George Bush's No Child Left Behind Act) Johnston was closed by the state. The new name, Eastside Memorial, was part of a reorganization that sought to boost academic performance. Among other things, 50 percent of the school's students (about 80 percent Hispanic and 18 percent black) were transferred to other schools.
However, conservative critic doubted this would reverse the school's low scholastic performance -- not with one half of the same students from Johnston attending Eastside. And many derided the school district's policy of moving failing students into better-performing schools, calling it a cynical effort to keep schools from failing by spreading around underachieving blacks and Hispanics among schools with more whites and Asians.
That cash-for-tutoring failed to interest most students and parents should have surprised no one. Austin's school district had already provided free tutoring to underperforming students thanks to No Child Left Behind. Yet only a handful of eligible students – less than 2 percent -- took advantage of the free tutoring that cost $1,000 per student.
Twenty years ago, the majority of Johnston's students were white. But when Johnston closed, it was overwhelmingly Hispanic and had been for years. The school's 1,000 students had an 83 percent attendance rate. Dropout rates were 20.3 percent for blacks; 16 percent for Hispanics; and 3.7 percent for the school's handful of white students. Only 68 percent of Johnston's students graduated.
Culture of Failure
The soaring dropout rates for Hispanic youngsters at Johnston and other Austin high schools are interesting given that many Hispanic students are either the children, grandchildren, or great grandchildren of Mexican immigrants who flooded into Texas over the past few decades.
Most of those immigrants, legal and illegal, were high school dropouts. According to experts on immigration, the dropout rates persists into the fourth generation. So much for the notion that lower-class Mexican immigrants eventually absorb American middle-class values – values that were, conversely, quickly absorbed or already embraced by European immigrants.
Austin's liberal political class nevertheless regards "diversity" and "multiculturalism" as bedrock virtues that have made their open-borders city a better place to live than it was a couple of decades ago. Back then, lily-white "Anglos" comprised Austin's biggest majority, and its biggest minority was comprised of Mexican-Americans whose Texas roots went back for generations.
When Austin's liberals put forth cash-for-tutoring, they defended it as a way to attract poor Hispanic and black students who supposedly worked after-school jobs to help support their families. They believed these poor yet hard-working youths would quit their jobs and jump at the chance to earn $6-per-hour to improve their math skills.
However, conservative critics pointed out that few if any students lived in abject poverty. Many parents dropped them off in nice SUVs and pick-ups sporting fancy hubcaps. And many kids wore designer clothes and carried cell phones or I-Pods. Interestingly, groups of Hispanic and black youngsters waiting around town for school buses (at least the boys) seldom seem to carry school books.
What did the nine students who completed the cash-for-tutoring program think about it? According to the school district's report, they "reported they would participate in another tutoring program paying incentive money. However, only 61.6 percent of the respondents reported they would participate in a tutoring program that did not pay incentive money."
The "poverty" found in some parts of Austin, the state's capital, is ultimately a poor excuse for educational failure or student apathy. Liberals may scoff at the notion that culture and values are to blame. But how do you explain what's taking place inside ramshackle schools in developing countries like India and China? There, bright-eyed students are eager to learn. Nobody pays them to show up and apply themselves.
Millions of Europeans in the 19th and early 20th Centuries made sure their kids graduated from high school, and they hoped they'd go to college. And like many Asian and Indian immigrants are doing today, some immigrants from Europe distinguished themselves as overachievers: European Jews may have lived in low-income parts of New York City, but they managed to have enough money to have book in their homes. And they prospered in spite of the anti-Semitism that kept many from attending America's top universities.
Many middle-class Cubans who fled Castro's communism also distinguished themselves in America. The glittery skyline of Miami – the so-called capital of Latin America -- is a monument to the accomplishments of Cuba's business and professional classes who fled to Florida.
Many immigrants from the Caribbean and Africa are doing well too, thereby defying the liberal critique that they ought to be performing as badly as low-income African Americans and Hispanics.
Putting a positive spin on the cash-for-tutoring program, a story in the Austin American-Statesman declared: "Eastside cash-to-learn program shows some promise."
Yet even that politically correct newspaper could not ignore the fact that so few students had expressed an interest in the program. The man behind cash-for-tutoring, former Austin Mayor Bruce Todd, told the daily paper: "It was the first time it was done, and you know if you do something in high school that's not cool yet, that can be difficult."
It was an interesting choice of words -- the program was "not cool." Yet Todd remained upbeat: "We learned a lot and I expect we'll have much better participation next semester."
Thanks to exploding Hispanic birthrates and illegal immigration from Mexico, Texas is now among several states in which "white Anglos" are now a minority, comprising just under 50 percent of the population. Not surprisingly, the booming Hispanic population has coincided with the soaring dropout rate over the years.
Regarding those dropout rates, the Texas Education Agency noted: "In 2007-08, the Grade 9-12 dropout rate for African American students (5 percent) was more than three times as high as that for White students (1.5 percent), and the rate for Hispanic students (4.4 percent) was almost three times as high."
The state agency explained: "An array of complex, interrelated factors contribute to dropping out. Family and personal background, academic history, and characteristics of the school all may influence the decision of a student to stay in school."
It was a diplomatic way of putting it -- the words no doubt calibrated to avoid antagonizing state's ethnic and racial lobbies.
Last year, eleven of Austin's public schools received the state's lowest rating due to poor academic performance. And despite Eastside's new name and other changes, its students are still performing poorly, as are those at several other high schools.
What do do? Besides cash-for-tutoring, Austin recently hired a new school superintendent with one qualification that liberal elites found attractive: She was black. (At least that's how Meria Carstarphen describes herself, even though she looks white.)
Austin's education leaders had been obsessed with hiring a superintendent who was Hispanic -- to please the city's ethnic lobbies -- and that upset the private search firm the city hired: Its president accused officials of engaging in "racial politics."
Yet no matter because Carstarphen – as Austin's first black and female school superintendent -- can still confront messy problems that Austin's guilty white liberals are reluctant to face head-on. And if black and Hispanic students keep failing, well, the fact that it happened on Carstarphen's watch lets Austin's liberal political class off the hook.
Carstarphen, 39, is earning $275,000 annually, and if she improves Austin's troubled schools she'll get a bonus of up to $25,000.
Interestingly, the Texas Declaration of Independence of 1836 stated that one reason for severing ties with Mexico was its failure "to establish any public system of education, although possessed of almost boundless resources."
Today, boundless resources may not be enough to undo the culture of failure persisting among low-income Hispanic and black students. To earn her $25,000 bonus, Superintendent Carstarphen clearly has much work to do.
This was originally published at The American Thinker and later at FrontPage Magazine.
Posted by David Paulin at 8/12/2009 02:39:00 AM
Labels: Bruce Todd, Eastside Memorial High School, failing high school students, former Austin Mayor Bruce Todd, high school dropouts, Meria Carstarphen
This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, and Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. I am also covering COVID in my attempt to get the right information into the right hands.
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An Obama-style Educational Experiment Gets an 'F'
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NEW YORK — It is unlikely anyone could have predicted what would happen in the last months of 2012 — and how it would shape the civic conversation among New Yorkers.
In late October, Superstorm Sandy devastated coastal communities in New York and New Jersey, stoking the public debate over the need to rethink housing, hospitals and other critical infrastructure — with some people even raising the possibility of rolling back waterfront development. And, days before Christmas, there was the mass killing of children and staff at an elementary school in Newton, Conn., that, while not in New York, was expected to galvanize support for gun control in Albany.
But these were just the most recent, sharpest events of a year that was marked by policy debates over the police department's "stop, question and frisk" tactics, paid sick leave, the size of sugary drinks, ethics in Albany and the role of money in elections.
What is ahead in 2013? In large part, the public conversation in New York City will be defined by the response to Sandy and the elections that will bring to office the first new mayor in over a decade as well as a new roster of lawmakers to the City Council and other elected offices. There will also be much talk about gun control, at least early in the year, with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other state lawmakers promising a new push on stricter laws in January's session.
As usual, we reached out to elected officials and thought leaders to get their forecasts on the coming year. Besides city elections and Sandy recovery, our aspiring soothsayers made bold predictions about state politics, the transit system and campaign finance reform — as well as the prospects of the Buffalo Bills and the New York Knicks.
But, before we get to the 2013 predictions, here's a quick look at the scorecard for last year.
Colin Campbell of Politicker was among the winners, getting one big prediction right when he said, "All hope for independent redistricting will turn out to be mere naive wishfulness — redistricting will be just as partisan next year as it's always been."
State redistricting was just as partisan as any year — we even saw the addition of a Senate seat in upstate New York that is at the center of a still contested race weeks after the general election: Only 30-something votes separate Democratic candidate Cecilia Tkaczyk and Republican Assemblyman George Amedore. A judge has certified the race for Amedore, but Democrats have appealed.
The New York Public Interest Group's Bill Mahoney and Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign also got some predictions right.
Mahoney predicted that the much-ballyhooed Joint Commission On Public Ethics would miss a deadline for setting rules for independent expenditures, which it did. Meanwhile, Russianoff not only predicted the return of poetry to subway cars but also the fare hike that came as an unwanted Christmas gift to millions of New Yorkers.
"Sadly, the fare will go up at the end of 2012," Mahoney said last year. "That's the MTA plan." And so it went: It was announced that the base fare would go from $2.25 to $2.50, the 7-day MetroCard $1 to $30 and the 30-day MetroCard $8 to $112.
Others did not do not score so well. Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez predicted a "huge surge" of activity from the Occupy Wall Street movement once the weather got warm and that state Sen. Adriano Espaillat would win elections to the U.S. House of Representatives — neither of which came true.
Instead, OWS mobilized for hurricane relief as Occupy Sandy, becoming one of the most high-profile (and some would say effective) groups to respond to and provide on-the-ground help to traumatized communities (to be fair to Rodriguez, he wasn't the only one to predict a rejuvenated OWS — John Petro of the Drum Major Institute said Occupy "mass protests" in 2012 would "dwarf" the previous autumn's.)
Meanwhile, Espaillat lost a tough race to incumbent Congressman Charlie Rangel, after a protracted battle over the tallying of votes by the city's Board of Elections. Espaillat instead won re-election to the state Senate.
Perhaps because of the very tenuous nature of predictions, some elected officials and policymakers declined requests to comment. While some people who were contacted agreed to be interviewed in the late weeks of December, others provided statements. Those statements have been edited only for style and clarification. — David Howard King and Cristian Salazar
2013 Predictions
Council Speaker Christine Quinn
1. Council hearings on city response to Sandy results in improved storm preparedness.
2. Volunteers participating in the Council's Clinic Protection Project help to increase New Yorkers' access to healthcare.
3. Council passes law that rejects quick fixes and holds landlords accountable for repairing underlying conditions, leads to real improvements for tenants.
4. New York Jets announce the release of Sanchez and Tebow in favor of rookie quarterback sensation Jimmy Oddo of Staten Island.
Bill Thompson, 2013 mayoral candidate
Thompson said that rebuilding after the hurricane is "going to be a big part of next year's discussion," especially "how we rebuild."
He also said that the storm emphasized the need for a serious discussion of fairness and equity in the city.
"I think that one thing you are going to hear about a lot in the mayoral election … [is] about the need to be one city," Thompson said in a recent interview. "I think a number of communities after the hurricane, and also last year in the snowstorm, felt that they were abandoned."
Turning to sports, Thompson said "it would be nice to see the Mets in the playoffs this year." But his most ambitious prediction was for the Knicks: "We could be hoisting a championship banner in the Garden ... If they blend everything together, the Knicks could be awesome."
New York City Comptroller John Liu
•New York City will become the most financially transparent municipality in the country when Checkbook 2.0 is unveiled.
•We will continue to strive to recoup the millions in fraudulent billing on the 911 call center upgrade.
•The Economic Development Corp. will finally have some sense of accountability as a result of new contract provisions negotiated by our office.
•The city's own "fiscal cliff" will continue to loom because of the mayor's failure to negotiate in good faith with labor.
•The pension funds will help finance the rebuilding of our city in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
•The mayor will realize that city taxis should be accessible to all New Yorkers.
•As a dad, I will be negotiating the NYC public high school admission process for my son.
•As if my schedule isn't hectic enough, I predict it will be even busier in 2013.
Kathryn Wylde, Partnership for New York City
In 2013, many important players in the city's leading export industries — financial services, media, professional services, fashion and design — will decide whether to recommit to New York or relocate significant numbers of jobs and even headquarters to more business-friendly locations. Decisions will be based on both local and global factors. Of critical importance will be the election of a mayor who is prepared to work with the business community, maintain a healthy economy, and hire great people to manage the city. A clear plan for insulating the city's power, transportation and communications infrastructure against weather and other causes of failure will also impact decisions. Finally, the actions of Gov. Cuomo's recently appointed tax commission will signal whether New York will be a more competitive place from which to run a business, or not.
Decisions made in Washington are equally important, starting with a satisfactory solution to the country's fiscal and debt crisis that does not terribly disadvantage New York taxpayers. Similarly, employers will be watching for reform of U.S. immigration policies so that they can recruit and retain global talent.
My prediction is that, regardless of campaign rhetoric, no New York City mayor will want to preside over an exodus of jobs and industry leaders. On Nov. 7, we are likely to see whomever is elected reach out for managerial expertise and policy input from business, and I am confident that the city's business community will be willing to help. On the other hand, when it comes to Washington D.C., it is harder to predict a good outcome. On every critical issue, New Yorkers better be prepared for a fight!
Michael McKee, Tenants Political Action Committee
Gov. Andrew Cuomo will recognize that the transactional deal that he has made with the State Senate Republicans and the Kleiniacs has positioned him too far to the right. The governor will give an interview to Fred Dicker in which he will admit that he was wrong to allow the Senate Republicans to draw their own district lines, he was wrong not to endorse Democrats running on a genuine progressive agenda such as Cecilia Tkaczyk, Justin Wagner, and Ted O'Brien (especially as their opponents were, to put it kindly, extreme right wingers), and that he was wrong to refuse to use his talents and power to unify the Senate Democratic conference following the November 6 election. The next day's headline in the Daily News: "A bad case of buyer's remorse."
Constantly demonstrating dignity and integrity, Andrea Stewart-Cousins will become a statewide media star as impatient reporters and editors increasingly seek to cut through the spin normally produced in the state capitol.
Jeff Klein will give back all the real estate campaign contributions he has collected, and will finally become a sponsor of Sen. Stewart-Cousins' bill to repeal vacancy destabilization.
During 2013, the irreverent Albany press corps will invent four new coinages similar to "the Kleiniacs" and "Skleinos" to describe the ever-shifting landscape on Planet Albany.
Andrew Cuomo will see the handwriting on the wall and will become co-chair of the "Draft Hillary in 2016" committee.
Karen Scharf, Citizen Action
The November election results are proof positive that New Yorkers are no longer willing to accept elections dominated by CEO campaign contributors. New Yorkers elected new legislators who ran on the need to reform our broken campaign finance system and for publicly financed fair elections. I expect before the end of the legislative session, these new Senators and Governor Cuomo will succeed in getting the Senate to join the Assembly in passing publicly funded Fair Elections.
Gene Russianoff, NYPIRG's Straphangers Campaign
1. The next MTA Chairman will resign after four days, setting a record for the shortest time in that post. When interviewed about her short tenure, she said, "Whoops, I had no idea how unpopular you'd be."
2. The City Council will pass legislation mandating that employers offer their workers the option of having transit costs excluded from their income. Both employers and employees will save significantly.
3. The candidates for mayor will all pledge to expand Select Bus Service around the city. SBS — now in operation on four routes — speeds buses by 20 percent or more through such features as paying your fare in advance at the bus stop, a painted exclusive lane and camera enforcement of the lane.
4. The number of stations with "countdown" clocks will increase substantially in 2013.
Linda Sarsour, executive director, Arab American Association of New York
Sarsour predicted that mayoral hopefuls will need to make police reform a part of their platform. She emphasized that the Community Safety Act, a package of legislation currently before the City Council, has immense support from communities of color. Among other changes, the Act would mandate a police inspector general to oversee the department.
"Every candidate better have something to say about police reform ... Particularly so communities of color feel safe. And if it is not something you are talking about or prioritizing–you won't get our [Arab-American] vote," she said.
Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh
Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh said he predicts that a package of legislation on gun control will be signed by Gov. Cuomo in January because after the shootings in Connecticut the issue for stronger gun laws has become even more urgent and hopefully state senators have reached a consensus that it is "time to act."
"In light of yet another tragedy we are prepared to get these bills passed. We think we have a new coalition and a Governor who is really working with the Senate to pass these bills to make stronger gun laws," he said adding, "We will make it priority to get these bills to the floor of both houses of the Legislature, and get it to the Governor to be signed by January."
Bill Mahoney of NYPIRG
New Yorkers will finally see the realization of two long-sought goals: Campaign finance reform will pass both houses of the Legislature and the Buffalo Bills will make the playoffs.
State Sen. Jose Serrano
1. I predict that Senate Democrats will unite in Albany to pass a progressive agenda that reflects the will of the voters — an agenda which includes increasing the minimum wage, real campaign finance reform, and most importantly, gun control.
2. I also predict this will be a banner year for tourism in New York State with the arts and parks leading the way. This will be done thanks in part to Gov. Cuomo, who continues to invest in parks which provide a five-to-one return on investment, and the state Legislature, which actually passes my "pennies for parks" legislation to help our environment and expand our wonderful parks system.
State Sen. Mike Gianaris
I can tell you what we hope to get accomplished — whether we do relies on people other than us. But we're looking forward to getting the economy back on track, getting people more jobs, increasing the minimum wage so those jobs are good paying jobs, enacting the progressive agenda that we got elected on, campaign finance reform, protection of reproductive health rights, protections for women in the workplace and, of course, sensible gun laws that are needed to make our streets safer and our schools safer. So, its an ambitious agenda, but we've got a governor who is on board with it and we are looking forward to making it happen.
Billy Easton, executive director, Alliance for Quality Education
1. The New York City mayoral election will prove to be a referendum on the Bloomberg school reform agenda. Weary of continuous school closings, divisive rhetoric bashing teachers and dismissing parents and students, voters will provide a clear mandate for a change of direction. This will be welcome news for students and families because after 12 years of this agenda only one in four students, and 13 percent of black and Latino students, are college-ready.
2. Statewide there will be a big fight over the relationship between the state education budget and the quality of education as parents, students, teachers and administrators from all parts of the state simply can no longer tolerate the continuous cuts to effective educational programs that are the result of inadequate state school aid. While such fights have traditionally been focused on large urban communities primarily represented by Democrats, small cities and rural areas represented by Republicans will play an increasing role in demanding fair and adequate school aid. This will result in greater pressure on upstate Republican Senators. Ironically, the new coalition between the Independent Democrats and the Republicans in the Senate will create an atmosphere where it becomes increasingly difficult for school aid debates to be strictly partisan affairs as pressure mounts for senators to work across party lines for the benefit of high need schools in all regions of the state.
Additional reporting by Kamelia Kilawan.


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/ Saturday, September 17, 2011 / 14 Comments / Pasta and Noodles , Seafood , Spanish
Espaguetis Con Almejas (or Spaghetti and Clams In A Skillet) is a Spanish-Mediterranean pasta paella. I like the simplicity of this fantastic recipe from Ferran Adria, the super chef from Spain. The noodles are lightly toasted in olive oil before the rest of the fresh ingredients are added. This method gives the noodles a smokey and flavorful aroma. If Fideo noodles are not available, then you can consider using thin spaghetti or traditional German egg pasta. The other substitute you can consider is to use chicken or even vegetables instead, if clams or fresh shell fishes are not your cup of tea. It will taste just as good. Try it!
Recipe adapted from The New Spanish Table by Anya Von Bremzen
Espaguetis Con Almejas~ Spaghetti and Clams In A Skillet
3 Tbsp Extra-Virgin Olive Oil
12-oz/350 g Fideo Noodles or thin Spaghetti, broken into large pieces
4 Medium-Size Garlic, minced
1 Medium-Size Pinch of Crushed Red Pepper Flakes, or more to taste
3 Cups Bottled Clam Juice, diluted with 1 Cup Water
Sea Salt
3 Dozen Littleneck Clams or Manila Clams, scrubbed
¼ Cup Finely Chopped Fresh Flat-Leaf Parley
Heat the olive oil in a large deep skillet with tight fitting lid over medium heat. Add the noodles and cook, stirring constantly, until golden brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
Add the garlic and red pepper flakes and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute.
Add diluted clam juice and bring to a boil. Season with salt to taste, cover the skillet, and cook until the pasta is barely al dente, about 8 minutes. Add the clams, nestling them into the pasta, cover the skillet, and cook until the pasta is al dente and the clams have opened, 4 to 7 minutes longer, adding a few tablespoons of water if the pasta looks dry. Discard any clams that haven't opened, stir in the parsley, and serve at once.
Serves 4
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Some things sound and look so good you just want to eat them immediately even if you just finished lunch (which I just did). This is one of them.ReplyDelete
That's very tempting and it's making me hungry.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 17, 2011 at 10:17 PM
I want to dive right in, what a beautiful set up too, I love the contrast in colors as well.ReplyDelete
This looks sooo delicious! Sadly we do not have fresh clams where I am so maybe I will do as you said and try switching it for chicken or vegetables. Beautiful photos!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Pasta con almejas es mi forma favorita de comerla, pero nunca he hecho esta receta. Pero la voy a guardar por que me encanta Ferran Adria. Se ve deliciosa.ReplyDelete
Maria @ A Platter of Figs
I can just picture sitting on some fabulous sunny coast with a big bowl of this. Delish!ReplyDelete
I love this preparation :) Lovely and I bet it must be delicious too with those mouth watering clams mmmm I am hungry already just looking at it and lunch is still a long time more ! :)ReplyDelete
Looks awesome. Thanks for the exciting recipe!!ReplyDelete
Just got to thinking: what language is the name of this dish in? Pardon my ignorance.ReplyDelete
@StephenC: Spanish.ReplyDelete
What a great dish. And nice decoration, also :)ReplyDelete
What a gorgeous looking dish and I don't mind some myself.ReplyDelete
ooh, that looks divine!ReplyDelete


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The 62nd FIFA Congress has concluded in Budapest, with all of it streamed live on FIFA.com. Our users have followed the events from the opening ceremony to the press conferences, with other highlights including the debates on the second day.
The Congress kicked off at 17.00 on Thursday with an opening ceremonywhich featured a festival of music and colour. In particular, the traditional parade of the flags representing the organisation's 208 member associations struck a unique note this year, with the FIFA anthem played by local virtuoso Felix Lajko and his band. There were also performances by world-renowned pianist Balazs Havasi, rock singer Endi and opera singer Erika Miklosa.
The entire show is available to rewatch as it happened by accessing the video on the right hand side.
Then, the following day at 09.30, the Congress meeting itself got under way, with issues such as FIFA reform on the agenda. Next up was a press conference at 17.00 CET, when FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter answered questions from journalists in Budapest. Like the rest of the Congress, you are invited to relive this conference on FIFA.com.


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Lzzy Hale To Sing On Upcoming All That Remains Album?
Halestorm's Lzzy Hale is no stranger to providing guest vocals in the rock world having collaborated with both Shinedown and Black Stone Cherry in the past. She most recently lent her voice to Adrenaline Mob's latest disc 'Omerta' for a cover of Duran Duran's 'Come Undone,' and now, it's rumored that she may get to add the new All That Remains disc to her resume.
All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte recently took to his personal Facebook page posting, "Rumor has it Lzzy Hale is gonna sing a song with me on our new disc. Coming soon!"
All That Remains are currently working on their new disc, the follow up to their 2010 release 'For We Are Many.' Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam D is once again producing it and it's due out later this year.
All That Remains is gearing up to headline Saturday night of the upcoming 14th annual New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in their home state of Massachusetts on April 20-22.
Halestorm recently kicked off the Mass Chaos tour with Staind and Godsmack, check out all the dates here.


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From Golf Magazine (March, 2011)
Callaway Golf RAZR Hawk
Category: Game-Improvement Drivers
We Tested: 9.5° Draw, 9.5° Neutral, 10.5° Draw, 10.5° Neutral, 11.5° Draw with Aldila RIP graphite shaft
Key Technologies: Forged composite, a cutting-edge material (forging carbon fiber) co-developed with Lamborghini, allows Callaway engineers the freedom to precisely control wall thickness. As a result, specific body parts are made thinner (lighter) or thicker (heavier) as desired.
OUR TESTERS SAY: Among the top-rated models in the test. RAZR Hawk packs a big punch.
DISTANCE: Several testers hit this 46-inch club longer than their current club — as much as 20 yards farther; very consistent results, misses get plenty of help distance-wise.
ACCURACY/FORGIVENESS: Useful directional correction; heel or toe hits are quite playable.
FEEL: Improved feel over previous Callaway composite drivers; very stable, head-heavy feel throughout swing; shots jump off springy face with a softer, lower-pitched crack.
PLAYABILITY: Testers hit all sorts of shots with ease; repeatable, hot flight.
LOOK: Pleasing head shape with black coloring; shaft has red arrow alignment aid.
The curved seam on the crown can be off-putting; impact is too muffled for a few testers.
RAZR Hawk Tour Driver
Category: Tour Drivers
We Tested: 9.5°, 10.5° with Aldila RIP graphite shaft
Key Technologies: "Forged composite" is lighter and stronger than titanium. Using "forged composite" in the sole and crown enable the design team to precisely control wall thickness. The result is a lighter head with high MOI. The aerodynamic design ("streamlined surface technology") reduces drag during the downswing for increased head speed and distance.
OUR TESTERS SAY: Delivers very good performance with above average distance.
DISTANCE: A few testers boom it while many others achieve acceptable distance.
ACCURACY/FORGIVENESS: Testers praise directional consistency on mis-hits all over the face; minimal distance loss on heel and toe shots.
FEEL: Solid feel without a loud sound; mis-hits can be detected but are subtle; light but stable sensation throughout the swing.
PLAYABILITY: Consistent, straight shots are the norm; subtle draws and fades occur with some effort; very good trajectory control.
LOOK: No nonsense all-black color scheme with unobtrusive sight lines and square setup.
Some testers can't shape shots as easily as with other models; feel on good and bad shots isn't always significantly different.
From The Shop Blog (January 3, 2010)
When it comes to tee shots, golfers tend to fall into one of two categories: players who simply want to crush the ball, and those who are willing to give up a few yards if they can shape their shots.
If you're all about distance, Callaway has the Diablo Octane driver. But if you like to draw the ball around a corner or fade it into the short grass, the company now offers the RAZR Hawk and RAZR Hawk Tour drivers.
Like the Diablo Octane, the RAZR Hawk and RAZR Hawk Tour are made with Forged Composite, a super-lightweight material Callaway developed in conjunction with Lamborghini. To create it, millions of ultra-thin carbon fibers are heated and pressed between two halves of a metal tool. The fibers melt in the heat and pressure of the tool and ooze into the exact shape Callaway desires. The final product is very strong, and very light.
Forged Composite was used in the crown of the Diablo Octane, but it's used to make the crown and body of the RAZR Hawk drivers, although none of the material is visible at address.
Some of the saved weight has been redistributed to a nickel weight in the rear of the club. This lowers the club's center of gravity and should help produce higher-flying drives. In the Draw version, the weight is slightly more to the toe side of the head.
Even with that weight, the RAZR Hawk drivers are still light enough for Callaway to pair them with 46-inch shafts, which should help golfers generate faster swings. Couple that with improved aerodynamics (the company says drag has been reduced by 43% compared to last season's FT-9), and Callaway says that the 460cc RAZK Hawk driver is more than 6 yards longer off the tee than the FT-9.
Like the FT-9 Tour, the RAZR Hawk Tour has a slightly smaller head (445cc), a slightly-higher CG and will come standard with a 45.5-inch shaft.
Both the standard and Tour versions of the RAZR Hawk have a cast titanium cup face that is chemically milled to be slightly thicker in the center and thinner near the edges to help golfers maintain ball speed on off-center hits. Along the bottom of both drivers, Callaway has also placed an aluminum skid plate for added durability.
In addition to the drivers, Callaway is releasing matching RAZR Hawk fairway woods. Unlike the drivers, the fairway woods are made with a Carbon Composite crown but a stainless steel body and face.
While the RAZR Hawk fairway woods come with standard-length shafts, they feature the same variable face thickness (VFT) found in the drivers for added pop.
You'll start to see all of these clubs in your local pro shops in the middle of February. Callaway's RAZR Hawk driver will be available in 9.5°, 10.5°, 11.5° and 13° versions while the RAZR Hawk Tour will be available in 8.5°, 9.5° and 10.5° models. Both models will cost about $399.
More Drivers on Golf.com:
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Game-Improvement Drivers
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With a 22 percent improvement in sales last month, and despite the six-month, $4.3-billion loss it announced last week, General Motors is likely to have its strongest spring and summer in years. Plus, the automaker had critically acclaimed new products at the recent New York Auto Show and the much-anticipated Chevrolet Volt is due out this fall.
Year-over-year sales of GM's Cadillac division alone are up almost 76 percent; sales in the Buick, Chevrolet and GMC divisions were each up more than 40 percent for March. The industry as a whole was up 24.3 percent.
Unfortunately just because GM's cars are selling well now doesn't mean they're the best bet for durability or value — yet. It'll take awhile before GM's new direction shows up in tangible new products at the dealership.
Four of the seven vehicles on our list of the worst-made cars on the road come from GM brands. And all of the cars on the list — including Chrysler's Dodge Nitro and Jeep Wrangler — are made by Detroit's Big Three. Only one car on the list is made by Ford Motor.
To determine our list of the worst-made cars on the road, we started with the lowest-rated vehicles from four reliability and performance studies conducted this year. Those studies are all from Consumer Reports: The Most Reliable Cars Report; Best and Worst Values Report; Best and Worst Safety Performance Survey; and the CR overall scores for 2010 vehicles.
We then added to the list any vehicles that received fewer than three out of five power circles in this year's Vehicle Dependability Study from J.D. Power and Associates. Any car, truck or SUV named among the worst in at least three of those five total studies made the final cut to be on the "Worst-Made" list.
The biggest surprise on the list, given recent automotive news: It includes no Toyota-made vehicles. In fact, Toyota reported a 40.7 percent gain in sales last month over March 2009; its Lexus division was up 42 percent. (Generous buyer incentives greatly contributed to those numbers.) And although Consumer Reports has removed its "recommended pick" distinction from Toyota vehicles involved in the current recall, many analysts are standing by their previous assessments of Toyota's well-made products.
"Toyota and Lexus both were fairly steady on their quality" in the dependability report released last month, says Dave Sargent, J.D. Power's vice president of global vehicle research. "Toyota has both good quality and a high consumer perception of their quality — so Toyota is very much in line."
GM's Chevrolet hasn't fared as well. Overall sales at Chevrolet are up, but sales of the $16,985 Chevrolet Colorado were down 21.9 percent year-over-year. Sales of the truck are down 32.2 percent for the year to date.
The $11,965 Chevrolet Aveo made our list too — but probably won't in the very near future. When the 2012 Aveo comes out next year, it'll feature styling improvements (large vents in the front, 19'' wheels, circular headlights) and performance upgrades (likely a 1.4-liter, four-cylinder turbo-boosted engine with 138 horsepower and a six-speed manual transmission). Early photos and speculation from experts like Jake Fisher, the senior automotive engineer at Consumer Reports, indicate it'll hold its own against Nissan's Versa and Honda's Fit — two reliable, affordable, strong sellers.
Aside from the Aveo, though, most of the worst-made cars on our list aren't cars at all — they're trucks and SUVs. Besides the Colorado, GMC's $16,985 Canyon and Ford's $28,020 F-250 received some of the lowest scores of any vehicles we considered. The Canyon SLE, for instance, was listed by Consumer Reports as one of the worst values of any 2010 vehicle and as one of the least reliable new vehicles on the market this year. It received just two out of five power circles on J.D. Power's overall dependability rating.
The F-250 Lariat earned both the "worst value" and "worst safety performance" distinctions from Consumer Reports this year. It received an overall score of just 37 out of 100 points for predicted reliability, fuel economy, depreciation, ride, owner costs, accident avoidance, front-seat comfort, acceleration and owner satisfaction.
Trucks aren't inherently less dependable or worse-made vehicles, analysts say. Dan Hall, vice president of automotive consulting firm Auto Pacific, says they rate no differently in consumer satisfaction surveys than cars.
But in the past they have fallen behind in engineering upgrades and safety improvements, because automakers focus on improving "family-oriented" vehicles first, says Russ Rader, a director at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. "They're just being updated at a slower rate."
Jamie Hresko, the vice president of global quality for General Motors, says that's not the case anymore — and consumers can expect to see tangible changes as soon as they get in the car.
© 2012 Forbes.com


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We love you, spiders
I think it would be a horrible idea to replace the spider lamps. [May 27: "Squash the spiders: Consultants want new Mall lamps"]
The are a part of downtown atmosphere. You don't see them trying to update the style of benches for the mall, now do you?
I understand that these new lamps may provide more light and things of that nature, but why not just give the existing lamps a slight reworking? They are a part of downtown and should not be taken away or replaced, especially with the horrible looking one pictured in the bottom right hand corner of the picture
On a lighter note I think putting more benches on the Downtown Mall is a great idea. I find myself having to try and sit on those planting pots due to the lack of alternative seating.
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Yeah, any of the smaller birds like that. We don't have them critters around here. The wife uses different feathers when she makes dream catchers every now and then. Other than that, you can fan them out like a turkey and mount them. They're pretty cool looking and not something that very many people have.
In all seriousness, the Marlin is a great rifle, too. I own a Model 60, one of the best rifles ever made.
Brownings are nice, but in terms of quality AND accuarcy AND ruggedness, it's hard to beat the Marlin.
California sucks that's it.
Turkeys are just like Indians, they all look alike to me. I don't know what species we have here for sure, even given the excellent map you posted. It looks like we have two, Eastern and Gould's. Is there much noticable difference between the two?
Even with the pictures they all look the same ...Cept the last one he's odd. Jen come on up you could fit right in.!
Lot of bling on that last one!


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Shaft: Cleveland Launcher Silver Graphite Regular Flex, Length: + 1/4 in
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The Cleveland Launcher 460 Ti moved 15% of its weight from the top crown and redistributed it into lower and deeper locations around its perimeter. This helps the 460cc head produce a higher launch angle for longer drives. The Launcher Ti 460 has a huge sweet spot and a high resistance to twisting for maximum forgiveness and distance. The Cleveland Launcher 460 Ti made the 2006 Golf Digest Hot List.


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Evan Bayh Not Running For Re-Election
Sen. Evan Bayh's office confirmed to the Huffington Post on Monday that the two-term Indiana Democrat will not be running for re-election in 2010, citing a overly-partisan climate in Washington.
The departure of Bayh, who has never lost an election either on the state or local level, leaves a gaping hole for national Democrats to fill. A top operative in the party told the Huffington Post that the decision was "last minute" and "personal," seemingly not driven by prospects of defeat.
"They polled last week and were way ahead of [Republican candidate Dan] Coats," the operative said. A recent Research 2000 poll had Bayh lead over Coats at a quite comfortable 20 points.
A name floated by the operative as a possible replacement for the Democratic seat is that of Rep. Brad Ellsworth (D-Ind.) a blue dog from Evansville who came to office in 2006 riding an anti-Republican wave. Ellsworth, however, lacks the statewide name recognition of Bayh, whose father served in the Senate before him. Moreover, he will have to move remarkably fast in order to get his name on the ballot. The deadline to file is this Friday but candidates have to have 500 valid signatures from citizens in Indiana's nine Congressional Districts to properly certify his or her candidacy.
And while the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been working overtime to define Coats as a creature of Washington with a toxic past as a lobbyist the electoral deficit it now faces is more daunting. Bayh's office confirmed that the Senator will host a news conference about his decision in Indianapolis this afternoon.
In the Indianapolis Star story reporting the retirement news, Bayh explained his decision:
•"After all these years, my passion for service to my fellow citizens is undiminished, but my desire to do so in Congress has waned," he said.
•"My decision was not motivated by political concern," he added. "Even in the current challenging environment, I am confident in my prospects for re-election."
•"But running for the sake of winning an election, just to remain in public office, is not good enough," Bayh said. "And it has never been what motivates me. At this time I simply believe I can best contribute to society in another way: creating jobs by helping grow a business, helping guide an institution of higher learning or helping run a worthy charitable endeavor."
•"Two weeks ago, the Senate voted down a bipartisan commission to deal with one of the greatest threats facing our nation: our exploding deficits and debt. The measure would have passed, but seven members who had endorsed the idea instead voted 'no' for short-term political reasons," he said. "Just last week, a major piece of legislation to create jobs -- the public's top priority -- fell apart amid complaints from both the left and right. All of this and much more has led me to believe that there are better ways to serve my fellow citizens, my beloved state4 and our nation than continued service in Congress."
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