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Announcing Zoom Player v8.5 Release Candidate 1
I am very happy to announce Zoom Player v8.5 Release Candidate 1.
In version 8.5, we worked diligently to improve the user experience by:
Click here to download v8.5 Release Candidate 1.
Change list from v8.1.6:
Legend : "*" = New "+" = Change "-" = Fix New : * The Onyx (default) skin has undergone a modernization process, making the icons clearer, sharper and everything a little more intuitive. * Introducing the 'Alba HD' skin. A clean elegant white design for higher resolution screens, Alba HD is 25% higher resolution than Default while retaining all the functionality. Alba HD replaces the Fusion skin, still available for download through the Zoom Player Skin Gallery: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/skins/ * Confirmation dialogs are now skinned by default with new skin script parameters that control their appearance. * Under Windows 7 (or newer), the Taskbar thumbnail, which appears when hovering with the mouse cursor over the Zoom Player task bar button now features 4 functions: 1. Mute 2. Previous Chapter/Track 3. Play / Pause 4. Next Chapter/Track * The Install center can now install language packs. * The Install Center now remembers the 'Silent Installer' and 'Automatic Configuration' checkbox values after restarting. * The Play History cache (used to store last media position and display the play history) has been rewritten from scratch, performance has been greatly improved. * New Short,Medium,Long seeking buttons option on the Control Bar when using the default skin. * New Settings "Adv. Options / Playback / Audio / Visualizations" that control whether visualization displays when playing audio or video media. * New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" used to override the Play History cache file save path. By specifying a shared network path, media can be pause on one computer and playback resumed on a second computer. * New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / History" to automatically save the play history cache on pause. * New Setting "Adv. Options / Playback / Paths & Files" that controls whether archive files are automatically extracted and played when opening an entire drive or folder. In previous versions, opening and playing of archive files was always on and could cause stability or accidentally unforseen consequences (long extraction times). * New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings" that when enabled, add a 'Randomly Play all files in this directory' entry to the Media Library and File Browsing navigation interfaces. When used, the function adds all the files in the current directory to the play list and then sorts the playlist randomly before beginning playback, making it very useful when playing music. * New Setting "Adv. Options / Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings" that overrides the "Open File" dialog, accessible through the main user interface, the right-click context menu and by pressing the "O" key with the fullscreen file navigation interface. * New "Very Long Seek" Backward and Forward functions using the Ctrl+Shift+"," and Ctrl+Shift+"." keyboard macros. By default the seek action is 10 minutes. This value is adjustable through the Advanced Options dialog under the [Playback / Controls] sub-menu. * New Function "fnMainContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu used by the main user interface. * New Function "fnPLContextMenu" that opens the right-click context menu used by the playlist editor user interface. * New Function "fnResetBalance" that resets the Audio Left/Right balance to the center. * New function "fnResetPlayRate" that resets the Play Rate to normal speed. * The Playlist editor's scroll bar background is now skinnable. For more information, visit the skinning tutorial: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml * The Playlist editor's search-box font and background are now skinnable. For more information, visit the skinning tutorial: http://inmatrix.com/zplayer/highlights/skintutorial.shtml * The Playlist editor's scroll bar widget is now skinnable with an Alpha (translucency) bitmap, as used by the modernized default onyx skin. * The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has been enhanced to support a disabled button state image. * The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds finer button animation smoothness control. * The Skin Script 'CreateExButton' function has a new parameter that adds auto-repeat capabilities with a custom repeat rate value. * When running "Zoom Player FREE" with a Zoom Player PRO or MAX activation key installed, a notification dialog asking you to install the version matching the key now appears. Changes : + The Playlist editor's scroll widget now moves smoothly. + The Auto-Update feature no longer notifies you of new components on the Install Center if the new components are not automatically enabled. In the previous version, an update to a language pack would display a 'new component' notification window. + If you previously used a Zoom Player trial version and the evaluation period ended, Installation the latest version lets you re-evaluate Zoom Player for another 30 days. + The Extended menu fullscreen navigation interface has been cleaned, removing functionality that exists in other navigation interfaces and adding better structuring to the stream selection options. + The 'Opening a drive or directory includes opening image files' setting is now disabled by default (applies to old and new installations). You can re-enable the feature in the options dialog. + The Equalizer preset editor has been redesigned. + The Red error message dialogs are now skinned with an improved layout. + Auto-Update notification now issues a notification that a new final version has been released if you are currently running a beta version. + The Playlist editor's search box now uses the Advanced Playlist Control's search method ('starting with' or 'containing' text). Previously, all searches were based on 'starting with' text. + The default change value for the volume up/down functions is now "4%", replacing the previous "5%" default. + Changing the play rate using the play rate bar now pops an OSD listing the play speed. + Smoother Audio Track folder image updates when using the 'PgUp/PgDn' keyboard macros to play the 'previous/next' audio track in a directory. + Right-clicking the fixed clock display now hides it. + Version display is now more consistent with web (8.1.x vs. 8.1x). API version structure remains the same for backward compatibility. + The keyboard editor no longer shows scan code character value for MultiMedia keys (since multimedia keys are not mapped to characters). + A few optimizations to the skin parsing code. + With the new Play History caching optimizations, the Advanced Options [Interface / Fullscreen Navigation / Settings - Highlight previously viewed files] is now fast enough to work with large (1000's of files) directories on modern hardware. Fixes : - When using Windows 7 with a non-default Font DPI value (125%/150%), Windows incorrectly scaled the user interfaces, causing the interfaces to appear blurred and preventing Zoom Player from covering the windows task bar in fullscreen mode. - The Random Play feature wasn't as random as it should have been. Zoom Player now tries not to repeat the same track until at least 50% the number of items in the playlist have played. - The playlist editor's items were not vertically centered inside their box, this was especially evident when using large playlist fonts. - The wrong folder image was used when playing audio media. The first image in the folder was used instead of the 'Background image search mask' value specified in the adv. options. - The 'Open Drive' and 'Add Directory' functions would accidentally add non-media files if their file extension was a sub-set of a proper media file extension. - Fixed a bug introduced in v8.1.5 that listed all file sizes as "0 bytes" in the play history. - The 'Open Drive' dialog did not allow you to select the first drive in the list. - Opening a folder from the playlist editor ignored the setting that controlled whether image files are loaded and always included images. - The Scene Cut 'Mute Audio' feature is now more accurate, especially when seeking into an area marked as muted. - Fixed a skin color-tinting bug in skins that did not contain fully skinned dialogs (Playlist, Equalizer, etc). - Fixed several crashes that occurred when playing an audio file while in fullscreen and then resizing the folder image down to a postage stamp size. - Fixed a crash in the Chapter editor when playing a media file with embedded chapters containing a negative time frame. - The Play History databases will no longer corrupt if you see a message saying 'Zoom Player has failed integrity check'. - When the "Pause playback when minimizing the player window while playing video content" was enabled, playback didn't pause if the Zoom Player task-bar button was hidden. - Certain ripped DVDs with a modified VIDEO_TS.IFO file would play and stop in an infinite loop. - Fixed a small crash that caused a 'ding' sound to be heard just as Zoom Player was closing when 'On Playlist Complete' was set to 'Close Player'. - The user interface maximized window state was lost when minimizing with Zoom Player only showing in the System Tray. - Pressing Alt+Enter after clicking an item in the playlist editor caused that item to play instead of going fullscreen. - The Smart Play profile for the 'VP7' video format accidentally included an ffdshow entry (ffdshow doesn't decode VP7 video). - When a text formatting error occurs due to a translation error in a language pack, it is now caught instead of displaying an unclear message and a possible crash. - Trying to use the '/config', '/datapath', '/multinst' and '/winname' command line parameters in Zoom Player FREE or PRO would crash the player instead of showing a notification screen that these command lines require Zoom Player MAX. - When opening a media file from a network path, hovering with the mouse cursor over the task bar button or system tray icon would show the file name with full network path when only the file name should have displayed. - A few text elements in the Open Directory and Open Drive dialogs were not translatable. - Setting a custom mouse/keyboard function that opened the Volume Bar would crash with an 'out of system resources' error. - The 'Disabled' subtitle track was not initially selected when no subtitles were visible by default. - When maximizing the player window and then minimizing the player window to the taskbar, the maximized window state and the previous window size were lost. - The "Fix window movement glitches" setting that was used to work-around a window glitch that caused the player window to jump when trying to move the player window by clicking on the video area is now disabled by default (even for users who previously had this feature enabled). An alternative fix is now in place that should hopefully resolve the jumping window issue without having to enable this setting. - The Options dialog search function results prevented certain buttons from being accessible while the search results were visible. - The Options dialog search function now supports unicode text. - The options dialog's Help button's context menu now supports unicode text. - A Zoom Player tab would briefly appear on the desktop when running Zoom Player with a windows shell other than 'explorer.exe'. - The #1601 API message returning the number of audio tracks for the playing media returned the wrong number at times. - Under certain conditions, the 'filter properties' sub-menu would list filters with a '#2' suffix even though there was only one instance of the filter in the graph.
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Whitney Southerland hit back-to-back 3-pointers midway through the second half to spark an 18-3 run for the Bears. The Eagles (9-15, 5-6) fought back to within seven but never regained the lead.
Kyra Coleman paced Coppin State with 22 points.
Navy 60, Lafayette 52: The Mids (14-9, 7-1 Patriot League) overcame a slow start to beat the Leopards (10-13, 3-5) on the road in overtime.
Lafayette's Maddie Peabody tied the game with a layup with 9.2 seconds left, but Navy seized a five-point lead in overtime and hit three free throws to seal the victory.
Jade Geif led the Mids with 19 points in the win, their fifth straight.
UMBC 71, Vermont 55: The Retrievers (8-16, 4-7 America East) hit a conference-season-high 28 free throws to beat the visiting Catamounts (7-16, 4-6).
UMBC went on a 10-0 run midway through the second half and shot 22-for-23 from the free-throw line in the period.
Canisius 48, Loyola 39: Despite a game-high 13 points by senior Katie Sheahin, the visiting Greyhounds (9-13, 4-8 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) fell to the Golden Griffins (9-13, 6-6).
Alyssa Sutherland added 12 points for the Greyhounds, while Tiffany Padgett had eight points and 14 rebounds.
Saint Francis (Pa.) 83, Mount St. Mary's 59: The Mount (9-13, 5-6 Northeast Conference) was on the wrong end of a 13-2 first-half run and lost to the host Red Flash (13-9, 8-3).
Jacqueline Brewer paced Mount St. Mary's with 16 points.
Howard 59, UMES 30: The Hawks (6-13, 2-6 MEAC) converted just one field goal in a 12-minute stretch in the second half and fell to the host Bison (13-9, 7-3).
Jameelah Pickard led UMES with six points.
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Habitats: the CJEU's judgment in Sweetman
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Sweetman v. An Bord Pleanala, CJEU, 11 April 2013, read judgment
I posted back in November 2012 on Advocate-General Sharpston's opinion in this important case concerning the Habitats Directive.
John Jolliffe from 1COR will be covering the judgment of the CJEU soon, but in the interim it may be worth setting out key passages from the judgment. As will be seen from them, the Court broadly followed the approach taken by the AG – though any first-time student of this area of law would do better to start with the AG's opinion, rather than with the rather bland text of the judgment.


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Designed by Dr. Jim Levine of the Mayo clinic, the Gruve is a wearable device that measures calories burned throughout the day. If you have been sedentary too long, it lets you know it.
By keeping track of all your daily movements / calories burned and comparing those numbers to a predetermined goal, the user should be able to keep their metabolism running like a well-oiled machine. The fact that it vibrates and lights up red when you are being lazy also adds a bit of incentive.
I'm not sure if Gruve will ever become a real-world product, but it is definitely a good idea. Even if you are already fit, this could prove extremely useful. Personally, I would use something like this in the gym to keep the appropriate pace and level of intensity during a circuit program. [Worrell via Core77 via DVICE]


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Following a long-standing tradition of simple bacon sarnie on New Year's Day. May it be a Happy One!
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After a delightful brunch at Koslow's Sqirl restaurant in Los Angeles, I've decided to attempt to cook through her cookbook. I'll post my results here.
Please follow along and join in, if you're so inclined. Her food is wonderful, but I will surmise that her true deliciousness comes from using the best and freshest ingredients. I'll do my best to recreate the magic I felt at Sqirl.
Here's the link to her book at Eat Your Books.
By Lisa Shock
I developed this recipe for a friend who wound up with many cans of Solo brand apricot filling and was wondering what to make with them. I adapted this recipe from Rose Levy Beranbaum's Sour Cream Coffee Cake, found on page 90 of the Cake Bible. The apricot filling works it way down through the cake and winds up near the bottom of the pan, making an attractive top later when the cake is inverted. Please use some sort of ring pan that holds at least 9 cups. You may substitute butter for the toasted almond oil, but remember that the oil adds flavor. I specifically developed this recipe with the home cook in mind, regular salted butter, and AP flour work well here. To reduce the sodium, use unsalted butter.
113 grams (1 stick) salted butter
26 grams toasted almond oil
200 grams sugar
6 grams vanilla extract
4 egg yolks
160 grams regular sour cream (do not use low fat or fat free)
50 grams almond meal
175 grams all-purpose flour
2 1/2 grams baking powder
2 1/2 grams baking soda
12 ounces (1 can) Solo Apricot Filling
12 Servings
Preheat the oven to 350°
Spray a 9+ cup tube or Bundt pan with non-stick spray or grease with an oil & soy lecithin blend.
Lightly toast the almond meal in a frying pan on the stove top until it has a light beige color and has a mild fragrance. Allow to cool.
Cream together the butter, oil, and sugar. Add the vanilla and egg yolks, mix until the mixture is even and creamy. Add the sour cream and mix well. Add the cooled almond flour and mix well.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add the dry ingredients to the liquid mixture and mix until it everything is evenly incorporated. Do not overmix the batter.
Place 2/3 of the batter evenly in the prepared pan. Place the apricot filling in an even layer on top, keeping a small space between the filling and the pan's edges. Place the remaining batter on top and smooth to create a relatively even surface.
Bake for approximately 50 minutes at 350° or until the top is dark brown and springs back to a light touch.
Allow to cool for 15 minutes. Invert the pan onto a serving plate. Cool and serve. Be cautious about serving this hot, as the apricot filling can cause serious burns. When fully cooled, cover or wrap in plastic wrap to store. Will keep for several days in a cool, dry place.
Nutrition (thanks MasterCook!)
324 calories, 15g fat, (7g sat fat, 6g mono-unsat fat, 1g ploy-unsat fat), 5g protein, 43g carbohydrates, 175mg sodium, 101mg potassium, 58g calcium
42% calories from fat, 52% calories from carbohydrates, 6% calories from protein
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by David Ross
"Your crab was dry," Mike says as I walk into his shop, Williams Seafood Market and Wines in the Spokane Valley. He tells me the crab cakes I made on TV back in December looked delicious . . . but the giant Dungeness Crab that he donated for the on-camera display "looked dry and the shell wasn't shiny enough."
Mike's brutal critique doesn't shake my resolve to do another seafood dish. I tell him I'm at the store to purchase the shellfish that I need for the dish I'll be doing on Sunday: "Grilled Shrimp Stuffed with Crab."
But thanks for the constructive criticism, anyway. I guess I should count myself lucky. My small fan base includes a wisecracking fishmonger. Such is the life of a cook on local television.
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Today I'm preparing for my 34th show on "Sunday Morning Northwest" on KXLY-ABC 4.
During the week, the program is called "Good Morning Northwest." The show focuses on news and weather, and serves as the lead-in to "Good Morning America," on ABC.
On Sunday, the show takes a different turn-much like the local programs that first aired on television back in the early days. The laid-back, carefree attitude and spontaneity of live, local television, lives on at "Sunday Morning Northwest."
The first half-hour of the show always includes a reading of the newspaper headlines from the small, rural, farming towns that surround Spokane. If a moose decided to take a dip in the community pool in Omak, you can be sure it will make the headlines of the Okanagan County Chronicle -- and it will certainly by noted live on "Sunday Morning Northwest." The weather is usually done from a live remote at a local community event.
Of course, the Sunday show is never complete without a cooking segment featuring a local Chef or nervous home cook.
We've seen everything from "Roasted Loin of Elk with Huckleberry Demi-Glace" presented by the Chef of a fancy resort in Northern Idaho to the Woman who won the Spam cook-off at the Interstate Fair.
It's all done in the spirit of promoting local Chefs and restaurants while having fun with food and cooking. (And as fate often demonstrates on live TV -- the viewers have a few laughs at wacky cooks who muster-up enough courage to come on live television and make some sort of horrendous tuna casserole).
We try to make the recipe simple enough that it can be done in a reasonable amount of time, but we don't restrict ourselves to doing recipes in 30 minutes or less.
If you have to chill the custard base of the ice cream overnight, that's what we tell the viewers. While we may use short-cuts on-camera to demonstrate the steps of the recipe, short cuts in the actual recipe aren't allowed for the sake of convenience.
If crab cakes taste better when they're sautéed in clarified butter, so be it. We don't forsake flavor at the cost of cutting fat and calories. We present the most flavorful dish possible.
I e-mail the producer about three weeks before the show with a general idea of the dish I'm planning. Then about three or four days before the show, I send the recipe of the final dish. This allows KXLY to do promos up to two days in advance of the show: "Coming up on KXLY Sunday Morning Northwest, our favorite local chef, David Ross, will be preparing a delicious dish using fresh Dungeness Crab and Shrimp from Williams Seafood in the Valley."
The recipe we post on the station's website is usually written to serve 6-8 people. But, when you cook on local television, there is a very, very important consideration that you must factor into your shopping list-enough food to feed the crew.
That means a recipe written for the public to serve precisely one "Shrimp Stuffed with Crab" to each of 8 guests, is a much different, and much larger recipe, behind the scenes. It's more than just a matter of prepping 8 stuffed shrimp. It's a matter of stuffing 30, maybe even 40 shrimp.
I triple or quadruple the quantities called for in a recipe so that I can feed the cameramen, the floor director, the producer, the hosts, the sports guy, the weather lady, the DJ's in the adjacent AM radio station booth-every person working in the studio on Sunday morning will have at least one of these delectable stuffed shrimp. (It's vital to send the crew home sated; they are the ultimate taste-test panel. If they like your food, the viewers will like it too.)
After the recipe for the dish I put together an "Invoice," a shopping list of ingredients that lists the cost of the products I'll be buying for the recipe. This serves as my contract, if you will, for KXLY.
The final piece of the written paperwork for each show is the "script" that I write for myself.
This isn't the same type of "script" that might be rehearsed by the actors on "The Bold and The Beautiful." The only person that reads this script is me. (And maybe the co-host who glances at the script tucked under the plate displayed on the set). When you cook on local television you don't rehearse with other actors. If you choose to rehearse you do it at home ahead of time.
Remember, this is live TV. We don't have room for errors. We don't do re-takes or re-shoot scenes. We're LIVE! For my own piece of mind, I need a script as a sort of crutch to lean on. (Hey, Martha always has a cheat sheet on the counter).
The script is my guide to all the points of the dish that I want to convey. This Sunday, I want to mention Williams Seafood and the array of products that Mike offers. I'll talk about using wild American shrimp because they have a sweeter taste than farm-raised, and I'll demonstrate how the prosciutto serves as a natural wrapper to hold the crab stuffing in the shrimp.
The script helps me with my timing when I'm on-camera -- and timing is critical when you cook on television. I rehearse the script over and over and over in my living room, while a little white kitchen timer ticks away.
I can't tell you how many professional chefs and amateur cooks I've seen on television who didn't rehearse their bit-and the results on live television were disastrous.
(Like the chef who -- at the moment of presenting his dessert -- realized that he left the ice cream in his car. In the sun. He literally ran out of the studio, on live TV, to go get the ice cream.)
The only small measure of direction I get from the Floor Director on the set is when I'm told to "look into the camera" seconds before the red light comes on.
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I'll need two of Mike's best crabs for Sunday's show -- one for the meat in the crab stuffing, and another one for the display of ingredients on the set.
This morning Mike takes literally 20 minutes to scrub and wash the shell of the prized "display crab." As he toils away, I vow to honor his crab by insuring that the shell will be kept wet and shiny during its appearance -- or I won't be able to show my face in Mike's shop again.
I'll be making a crab cake mixture to stuff the shrimp. I'm wondering if Mike can top himself after the wondrous crabs he's already given me, but he doesn't disappoint today -- his fresh Wild American Shrimp fished out of the Gulf of Florida are just the right size to hold my savory crab cake stuffing.
In the case of Sunday's dish of Stuffed Shrimp, the recipe calls for grilling the shrimp on the outdoor barbecue. But we won't be barbecuing the shrimp on camera this Sunday. I'll grill the shrimp at home and then we'll go through the motions of the cooking process during our live segment.
I try to have all of my prep work done by late Saturday afternoon so I all I have to do on Sunday morning is pack the coolers and drive to the studio. There won't be a Hummer limousine at my doorstep on Sunday morning waiting to whisk me in comfort to KXLY. I'll be driving myself to the studio in a Dodge pickup.
My home office serves as the "staging" area for packing the coolers. Make note of the supplies on the floor next to the cooler-dishes, toothpicks, silverware, tongs, spatulas and kitchen towels.
And yes, I am following the direct instructions of Mike the fish guy -- I bought a spray bottle at the "Dollar Store" so that I can keep our precious "display crab" wet on camera.
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I've never cooked on the "Today Show" on NBC in New York. I've heard that cooks who appear on "Today" are escorted into what is called a "Green Room," catered with lush displays of fresh fruit, vegetable and cheese trays, pastries and a never-ending assortment of beverages to await their few moments of fame. We don't have a "Green Room" at KXLY. What we have is a room used by the weekday news staff to script out the flow of the news programs.
Not having a Green Room is a blessing in disguise. The atmosphere in the studio is very casual and I don't have to sit in a cold, lonely room waiting for a perky intern to escort me to the studio. I wait in the studio.
You learn to be patient and immodest around the crew -- these are the people who watch you unzip your pants in the studio. You pull out your shirt so they can thread a small microphone from your waist, underneath your shirt, up to your neck and then clip the little mouthpiece to your collar.
The only style advice I ever got was from my co-host, Teresa Lukens, who cautioned me not to wear a striped or checked shirt on-camera-something about the pattern of my shirt being a distraction to the viewers. (And I thought the girth of my waist was more of a distraction to the viewers than the pattern of my shirt).
I don't wear a Chef's coat, because I don't consider myself a Chef. I'm a cook and I want the viewers to relate to my story and my personality with ease and comfort. I want them to feel comfortable going into their kitchens at home and creating the types of dishes they might have at a restaurant. I don't want to scare them by thinking only a guy in a chef's coat can cook good food.
Our kitchen at KXLY comprises an electric, flat-top stove inserted into a formica cabinet on wheels, held in place with sandbags. We don't have an oven, refrigerator, freezer or running water. We make do with what we have-and that's why I bring my own spatulas, spoons and water bottle to spray the crab.
After the "Pet for Adoption" segment, I'm allowed on the set to get ready. I usually have about 15 minutes to unpack the coolers, put the ingredients on display and get the stove-top heated.
We begin our cooking segment with a 30-second lead-in, usually after the local sports report. Teresa introduces the dish we'll be doing and then we break to another commercial. I don't have a lot of time to grill shrimp when we go live on KLXY -- only four minutes total for cooking time and discussion of the dish with my co-host. I'm lucky to have Teresa as my host. She knows food and cooking. She knows that prosciutto is cured Italian ham and she knows it's thin and slightly salty. She knows to ask if smaller prawns will work for the recipe. And without prompting, she'll ask why I'm using fresh Dungeness crab instead of canned lump crab meat. At the end of the segment we cut to one last commercial.
As we come back live, Rick and Teresa are their normally gracious selves, tasting the stuffed shrimp and declaring it delicious. The show is a wrap.
One more taste-test lies ahead before we can bring this journey to an end. What will the crew say about my "Shrimp Stuffed with Crab?"
They tell me the stuffed shrimp were delicious. But you know what they really liked? What impressed them the most? The radishes.
About a week after Sunday's show, I went back to Williams Seafood to get some photos of the shop for this story.
I find Mike behind the counter cutting fresh tuna steaks.
"At least it looked fresh this time," he says.
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Shortly after I finished this piece, I began working with KXLY on our next cooking segment, which was scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 16.
The plan was to cook some unique side dishes that the home cook could easily do to accompany the holiday turkey or prime rib. At least that was the plan until I picked up the local newspaper on November 2.
When I turned to the business section, I saw the ominous news: "KXLY cancels weekend news program." I immediately contacted the producer.
I had been cancelled -- a victim of the horrible state of the economy. I felt like I had been kicked in the gut. Cancelled after seven years and dozens of live cooking segments. Cancelled.
Because "Sunday Morning Northwest" wasn't the lead-in program to "Good Morning America," on the weekdays, it relied heavily on local advertising for its survival. ABC wouldn't (and KXLY couldn't) carry the burden of producing a local show that didn't feed into network programming.
With so many local businesses filing for bankruptcy and others literally closing the doors, one of the first budget items to go was television advertising -- advertising revenue that paid to produce "Sunday Morning Northwest."
I wasn't the only on-air "personality" to get the pink slip. The weekend weather "person" also got her walking papers. Rick and Teresa Lukens returned to the security of the KXLY-AM 920 radio booth and continue with their weekday morning drive-time show.
And I have taken an unwanted leave of absence from local television. At least for a few months.
Loyalty is not a word that is highly regarded in the television business. If ABC cancels you, you talk to NBC and so I've shifted my ambitions to KHQ -- the local NBC affiliate.
KHQ airs a local morning program seven days a week. So if the culinary Gods are praying for me, someday soon I'll begin doing a live cooking segment on the "KHQ Morning News."
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David Ross lives in Spokane, but works a one-hour plane ride away. When he's not tending to his day job -- or commuting -- he writes about food, reviews restaurants and -- obviously -- does food presentation. He is on the eGullet Society hosting team for the Culinary Culture and Kitchen forums.
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Yankees reportedly sign left-hander Thornton
The Yankees continued their already busy offseason on Tuesday, signing veteran left-handed reliever Matt Thornton to a two-year contract, according to Jack Curry of the YES Network. The deal is worth $7 million, which will be distributed evenly over the two seasons. The club did not confirm the deal.
A 10-year veteran and former All-Star, Thornton will seemingly be called on to fill the void left by fellow southpaw Boone Logan. Logan recently departed the Yankees to sign a three-year deal with the Rockies.
The 37-year-old Thornton joins the Yankees after spending the stretch run last year with the rival Red Sox. Thornton was acquired by Boston from the White Sox in a mid-July trade, though the lefty did not pitch in the postseason during Boston's run to the World Series title.
Thornton finished this past season with a 3.74 ERA over 60 combined appearances between Boston and Chicago. The 6-foot-6 southpaw has limited left-handed hitters to a .233 average over his career, including a .235 mark this past season.
After spending the first two seasons of his career with the Mariners, Thornton had spent the past eight years with the White Sox prior to the July trade. Over those eight seasons, he went 31-35 with a 3.28 ERA while making 512 appearances. That stretch in the Windy City also included three consecutive seasons from 2008-10 in which he posted a sub-3.00 ERA, capped off by his lone All-Star appearance in '10.
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We sat down with Jose Luis Blondet, associate curator of special initiatives in the Education Department, to ask him about A is for Zebra, the latest LACMA-curated exhibition at the Charles White Elementary School Gallery, on view through March 30.
Where did you get the inspiration for A is for Zebra?
The site was very important in forming the idea for the show. The gallery is in an elementary school—an environment where students are learning to crack the code of reading and writing. Most students at this school are bilingual, speaking both English and Spanish. We wanted to create an experience where children, parents, the Charles White Elementary School community, and the broader community can see that art is a kind of language. Using the alphabet as an entry point, visitors to the exhibition will crack the code for learning to read works of art.
What does "A is for Zebra" mean?
A is the first letter of the alphabet and is typically associated with "A is for animal." Z, being the last letter of the alphabet, is most commonly associated with "zebra." So, in this case we are turning the idea upside down. "A is for Zebra" is playful. It is funny. Also, zebras are black and white like printed text—black ink on white paper.
How did the students at the school work with some of the artists in the show?
They became a part of the exhibition with their voices. Stephanie Taylor's work includes a song that doesn't make sense in any language. The kids learned, sang, and recorded the song with Stephanie. Artist Kirsten Mosher has these gumhead characters that are funny, cute, and gross. Gum lives in your mouth, just like language, but the gumhead characters live outside of the mouth and they talk! The students worked with Kirsten to mix their voices into her video work. It was really fun to work with the kids, and it made sense to include them because the exhibition is, after all, in their school.
You describe the exhibition as being about alphabets making sense and nonsense.
The exhibition invites visitors to engage with art and language in a playful way. The works of art have humor in them; the artists intended for them to be funny. There are prints by Francisco Goya of donkeys learning how to read and write, a video by John Baldessari teaching a plant to read, a book of photographs featuring a dancer posing as different letters of the alphabet. The labels and didactics are impossible to read without 3-D glasses. Videos and projections are installed in surprising places. The installation is full of nonsense.
What will people be most surprised by?
The gallery has a pet! There are more secrets, but I will not tell them to you. You'll have to visit.
A is for Zebra is on view at Charles White Elementary School, 2401 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057. The gallery is free and open to the public weekdays, 2:30–6 pm. Enter through the school entrance on Carondelet Street between Wilshire Boulevard and Sixth Street. Gallery educators lead art making and other activities in response to the playful and nonsensical works on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. For more information or to arrange a special visit, contact Sarah Jesse at email@example.com.
Karen Weeks Satzman, Director of Youth and Family Programs


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I am back at my parents place since a couple of days and it feels really special ...
a bit like I moved back as all my stuff is now here and packed into shelves, closets or brought up to the attic...but also very much like I do things and see people the last time for a long time...It can be a weird feeling being in a farewell mood for a few weeks, sad because of goodbye hugs and chats but also really exciting when I think about everything which is waiting..
I am so glad that I could spend time with the people I care about so much...
and also do things at home I quiet like to do....
#1 enjoyed the fresh taste of a bread with butter and cucumber
#2 The wheat field right next to my parents house
#3 our neighbour is selling all sorts of berries and I love their blueberries. One day I couldn't help myself and ate one pound of them and also one pound of raspberries..Oh Summer!
#4/5/6 In my grandmothers garden...which is full of memories
#7 Our dog who likes to relax on the bench
#8/9 Some great green tea and a chat on a Summer evening
#10/11 In my auntie's garden
#12 My sister turned 17 today. We baked cakes for an afternoon tea this morning. There were some raspberries and blueberries involved : )
.....Next time when you read from me I will be in Sydney...
Take care
// Maria
I can't ever come back, If I never go
I don't ever explain, if I never know
I won't ever take it, if I never give
and if I never live, if I never live, if I never live...
I don't ever explain, if I never know
I won't ever take it, if I never give
and if I never live, if I never live, if I never live...


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Addendum 2014: A revised version of this post appeared in my book released in September 2013.
People come to Paris for many reasons: art, food, fashion. I'm here for the chocolat chaud, or hot chocolate. Served in almost all cafés, it ranges from the exalted to the divine. Paris is the mothership of all hot chocolates, and I've come to pay worship to it, my favorite drink.
On the flight over, I cull all the research that I've amassed on where to partake of this holy grail of liquid, complete with maps and directions. By the time the plane lands, I'm ready to set off for a sip of magnificence. I'm a chocolate-hound hot on the trail of the ultimate hot chocolate experience.
Lest you think otherwise, French hot chocolate is not some insipid drink of milk whisked with cocoa powder. What it is is melted chocolate – chocolate of the best kind – beaten with cream or milk or both. Cubes of sugar are served alongside, sometimes with a little bowl of crème, and a pitcher of cold carafe d'eau (water), an acknowledgment that the chocolat chaud is so thick it needs a chaser to follow it down.
Founded by the godfather of French pastry, Gaston Lenôtre, this remarkable temple of gastronomy on Champs-Élysées is a pastry school, a retail store, and a café that simultaneously blends snoot and haute cuisine. Its poshy address coupled with its lineage can only equal service by the snobbiest and lest we forget, expensive, pay-through-the-nose service.
The server we are unfortunate enough to be assigned to recoils at my request that the quiche Lorraine, the macaroons, and the chocolat chaud that I've ordered be served all together. "Non, meal first and then dessert," she says firmly, her head bobbing once, as if for emphasis. I'm stunned into silence and the fear that overwhelms a tourist – why, have I done anything wrong? Might I have offended her, perhaps? – washes over me, but my sister, who lives in Paris, comes to my rescue. In French, she tells the server that yes, we'd like all the food to be served together, s'il vous plait. The waitress grumbles off and from then on we are served by a dramatically less uptight m'sieur. I tell you now that service in France borders on the cold and impersonal, so don't take it personally, it's just how it is.
As we are seated outside on the terrasse, Lenôtre's chocolat chaud glistens in the sunlight. It's hot and milky, its surface immediately forming a skin in the cold air. I drop two sugar cubes into the liquid which slowly gurgle down into the chocolate-y depths, leaving behind only a spew of soft bubbles. Somehow, this hot chocolate reminds me of the one served at Dulcinea, although it's not as thick. Served in a white ceramic pitcher, it's good enough for a cup and a half.
As for the food, perhaps my initial impression of French service dampens my enthusiasm for it. The quiche Lorraine, while sizable enough, is quite ordinary, though I'm all praises for its flaky crust. The macaroons are good, each one sandwiching different Lenôtre's own brand of soft scoop sorbets.
Café de Flore
Saint-Germain-des-Prés is my absolute favorite area of Paris. Once the hub of the city's intellectual life, it's become a most lively place where different personalities mix, all coming together in the celebrated bars and cafés. This area could be considered Paris' hot chocolate central, with most Parisians in agreement as to its temple: Café de Flore.
It's here where the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Picasso would come and sit to imbibe the ambience and their espressos. The dining room of the Flore is smoky, its Deco lighting casting various illuminations on the buff-colored walls that alternate with the warm woodwork. Customers sit on red moleskin banquettes and upstairs, the conference room is still reserved for ever-so-intellectual musings of the day.
But on this beautiful day, I'm outside amidst the throng of Parisians sitting at the tables facing out onto the street. It's very sunny, a reprieve from the autumn cold. A waiter appears in the classic black vest and pants into which is tucked a crisp white shirt topped off with a perky black bow tie. Spotless, long white aprons tied neatly at the servers' back only serve to emphasize the grandeur and importance of this café. I feel like I should have dressed up in more than just my jeans and sweater.
The chocolat chaud is highlighted at the very top of the menu, the few words boxed in by a rectangle. I feel truly special when it comes all set up with its accoutrements on a silver tray: cup, saucer, napkin, sachet of sugar, pitcher, and glass all bearing the name 'Café de Flore' in cursive. Little tufts of steam are rising up from the cup, emitting wondrous aromas.
I take a sip. The liquid is a notch below searing but I like all my hot drinks that way. As it courses through my tongue and down my throat, I start to tingle all over, the one sure sign that this may be THE hot chocolate I've been waiting all my life to drink. It's not too thick – this is a beverage after all, not pudding – and it has the complexity and evolution of mouth-feel and flavor, ranging from the smoky to the fruity. There are various pronouncements being made in this cup but the overall flavor is a deep heart of chocolate caressed by milk and a touch of caramel. God bless, take me now.
You must understand that when imbibing a truly magnificent cup of chocolat chaud, time stops still for me. Time is only measured by the beats of my heart, alternately excited and then relaxed with every sip. Savoring this drink is of the essence, and later, as I pay my bill and walk away, the flavor of the best hot chocolate in the world still lingers with me.
Every discussion of hot chocolate in Paris begins and ends with Angelina. It's the first place people mention when the sacred subject of chocolat chaud is brought up, sending most hot chocophiles into a state of poetic frenzy. The café/tea room is considered a grand dame, having been opened way back in 1903 by a certain Antoine Rumpelmayer who named the café after his daughter-in-law. Stories abound of tourists who have waited in line for hours just for a sip of the café's trademark beverage, only to be put off by the staff's uppity demeanor. So it's with that knowledge that I go to Angelina with some trepidation, along with my sister, Charley, and my Bin. It's 11 am, and there is neither a line nor waitresses any snootier than I'm already used to. The place is in fact, quite empty and we are served almost immediately.
I catch sight of some wondrous-looking bowls of pasta and there are some marvelous pastries up front but the star is the Chocolat Africain, which gets its name from the origin of its cacao beans — the Cote d'Ivoire, or Ivory Coast, a former French protectorate. I can only describe the potent brew being poured into my porcelain cup as deliquescent: bits of half-melted chocolate are suspended in the thick liquid; it possesses a wild and sexy bitterness with aromatic undertones of flowers and smoke. I can feel my eyes roll into the back of my head — Charley, my Bin and I, hush into a silence wherein we each have our own individual moment to savor, our senses stroked, our palates pleased.
There is a white chocolate version of the Chocolat Africain, served alongside a ramekin piped high with whipped cream that's been gently kissed with chocolate. It too, is ineffably divine, an elegant mélange of vanilla, caramel, sugar, and cream.
This high-class pastry store and salon de thé was founded in 1862. It's listed in every Paris guidebook, which may partly explain why it's always so full at every hour of the day. Its display windows are elaborate, intricate works of art usually involving macaroons, of which Ladurée is renowned. The Champs Élysées branch is a regal two-storey structure with Victorian décor and ornamented ceilings. It's exactly the way I always thought a tea room would look like – hushed and elegant.
My sister, Charley, gushes about the pastries here: "They're the BEST I've ever tried in the world, Lor," she says. I believe her, since she's almost as dessert-obsessed as I am. (See, it runs in the family). Of particular mention here are the millefeuilles, a "thousand sheets" of pastry that shatter resoundingly upon first bite, thereby oozing fresh cream and caramel into one's mouth. It's as sensual as a French kiss, if you can believe that.
I have something called the plaisirs sucrés: layers of almond meringue flirting with crushed hazelnuts and praline, mingling with thin chocolate leaves, embraced by chantilly cream, and milk chocolate. It tastes like one big Ferrero Rocher, but the effect is outstanding: layers of crunchy, smooth, and sweet taking me on a taste trip that goes round and round and then levels off in one big, swooping arc. I'm spent.
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