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Tensions between Vietnam and China over disputed claims to the resource-rich Spratly Islands in the South China Sea are threatening peace in the region.
China sent its largest patrol ship Thursday on what it claimed was a routine trip through the area, but the deployment comes after a spate of other moves, including Vietnam's staging of a live-fire exercise in the area and China's denouncement of it.
Neither country is likely to back down easily, and if they did, neither population would see it in a favorable light. Because of this, some worry tensions could escalate to the point of exchange of fire.
"At the moment, Vietnam is trying to show that it is not going to take [challenges to its claim in the sea] lying down," says Minxin Pei, a China expert at the Claremount McKenna College. "Rationally, China should cool it a bit. Having a fight with Hanoi is not a good idea. But if Vietnam sends back survey ships China may have no choice but to respond."
Since the latest spat in the South China Sea, known locally as the East Sea – Vietnam accused Chinese vessels of cutting cables to their survey ships in May – China has been a hot topic among Vietnamese. Both nations' media has been full of sabre rattling, accusations, and avowal of rights to the area.
Protests in Vietnam
The escalating tension has fueled anti-Chinese sentiment across Vietnam, with hundreds taking to the streets in rare protests in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
Last Thursday, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called Vietnamese sovereignty "incontestable."
The same day, Dung also announced a new military draft clarification, apparently the first announced since the 1979 border war between Vietnam and China, which China lost. And a big show was made of announcing the "routine" live fire drills in local media.
"Vietnam's live fire drills were something of an anticlimax ... no anti-ship missiles were test fired. And they were conducted so close to land there was no possibility of any Chinese ships being involved," says Vietnam expert Professor Carl Thayer, at the Australian Defense Force Academy.
Complicated relationship
Although Vietnamese acknowledge that relations with China will be increasingly important – and economically beneficial – as time goes on, they find China's perceived naval bullying hard to stomach.
"They have better products and the people have better knowledge [than Vietnam]. Maybe in the future they'll have better capacity than the United States," says "Khon," a student who wouldn't give her full name, on Sunday. "Though of course, we do not agree with their actions. People cannot live in peace [if China continues its actions]."
"Not only Vietnamese people, but people worldwide think that China's intention is for conflict in Southeast Asia," says her friend Hoang Ton, also a student.
China has also had territorial spats recently with the Philippines – another claimant of the Spratly Islands area, along with Taiwan, Malaysia, and Brunei – and in 2009 also came into conflict with a US ship in the area.
As well as being resource-rich (an important factor for energy-hungry Vietnam and China) it is also home to important shipping lanes.
Last year, the US said maintaining stability in the area was in its "national interests," something Beijing reacted ambivalently to, but Hanoi may welcome now.


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Author Notes: I have quite a few Moroccan Jewish friends, so it's no surprise that one of the first Jewish dishes I learned to cook is Moroccan Lemon Chicken. The Jewish version of this dish is almost identical to what might be considered traditional Moroccan Lemon Chicken, but it omits an ingredient called smen—Moroccan preserved butter. Butter and meat don't mix in a kosher diet, so olive oil is generally used by Moroccan Jewish cooks to replace the smen. This is typical of many regional Jewish dishes; creative substitutions and "tweaks" are made in order to make these types of dishes kosher. The kosher aspect of this dish also lightens it considerably-- olive oil is a much healthier cooking fat then butter.
Traditionally this dish is made in a tagine, which is a ceramic Moroccan cooking dish. Since most of us don't have a tagine lying around I'm giving instructions for cooking it in a deep skillet or sauté pan. Make sure your pan has high sides to contain the liquid broth. If you have a tagine, use it!
Also traditional to this dish is an ingredient called preserved lemons, which are simply lemons that have been preserved in a brine made from salt and their own juice. Preserved lemons are really easy to make at home; there are many websites online that will walk you through the steps. Local gourmet markets sometimes stock them, too. If you can't find preserved lemons and don't want to go through the process of making them yourself, feel free to use fresh lemon peel; the flavor won't be as complex, and you will need to season with a bit more salt to compensate for the saltiness in the preserved lemons. But don't worry, even with fresh lemon peels this is still a very tasty dish.
If you do use preserved lemons, know that they have a lot of salt in them which will naturally flavor the sauce in this dish. If you're watching your salt intake, use a low-sodium chicken broth and don't add any additional salt; the preserved lemons and olives will give the dish all the saltiness it needs.
Choose firm, good quality green olives for the sauce. You can usually find better quality olives at the deli counter, rather than jarred or canned. It can be tough to find quality green olives that are pre-pitted, so I suggest buying whole olives and pitting them yourself.
Serve chicken with sauce on a bed of couscous, basmati rice or mashed potatoes topped with fresh cilantro. It's absolutely delicious and not so difficult to prepare. For this recipe, you will need a spice mortar and pestle, as well as a large, deep skillet or sauté pan with high walls (or a tagine).
Gluten Free Note: This dish can easily be made gluten free. Just make sure your chicken stock is GF, and that your preserved lemons are from a GF source. Pair with a GF starch like mashed potatoes or rice. - theshiksa
Food52 Review: I enjoyed this recipe. I love cooking with whole chickens, they are very economical and while I prefer the dark meat, others in my family prefer light so everyone is happy! I cut a whole chicken into quarters and proceeded with the recipe. I did not have preserved lemons on hand and so used lemon peels. It wasn't a good substitution, I do think the dish suffered a bit because of this—it did not get right citrus punch. Despite this I loved the authentic Moroccan flavor of the saffron, turmeric and olive combination. Couscous was the perfect accompaniment for this dish; it soaked up some of the fabulous sauce that was created during cooking. —epickles
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teaspoon saffron threads
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teaspoons cumin
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teaspoons paprika
teaspoon turmeric
teaspoon ground ginger
pinch cayenne pepper
pinch cinnamon
cup extra virgin olive oil
large onion, finely chopped
garlic cloves, crushed
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preserved lemons (or sub fresh lemons)
cup pitted green olives
cup fresh chopped cilantro, for garnish
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- Choose your favorite cut of meat for the chicken pieces. You can use a whole chicken cut into pieces, or buy specific cuts that you like. I usually use whole leg/thigh pieces because I find the dark meat more flavorful.
- Remove skin from chicken pieces (freeze the skin for stock or use it to make schmaltz!), then rinse and dry them. Grind the saffron threads into powder using a spice mortar and pestle. Mix saffron powder, cumin, paprika, turmeric, ginger, cayenne pepper and cinnamon together in a small bowl. Rub the spice mixture evenly onto the chicken pieces.
- Heat olive oil in deep skillet or sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the onion in the oil till it turns translucent. Add the garlic and continue to sauté till lightly browned. Arrange the chicken pieces snugly inside the skillet. Pour chicken stock over the pieces; they should be almost covered with stock. You probably won't need the entire quart depending on the size of your pan. Remove pulp from the 2 lemons. With preserved lemon this is easy, the pulp will be softened and you can just scoop it out. For fresh lemon, I find it's easier to slice the peel off of the lemon (if a little pulp clings to the peel it's no big deal). Slice lemon peels into long, thin strips. Arrange the strips evenly in the pan.
- Bring stock to a boil, then reduce heat to a low simmer and cover the skillet. Let the chicken simmer for 60-75 minutes, periodically ladling the seasoned stock over the chicken pieces, until the meat is fork-tender. I usually cook it closer to 75 minutes because I like the meat very tender.
- Remove chicken pieces from the broth using tongs or a slotted spoon; arrange the pieces on a serving dish. If you prefer to present the meat off the bone, pick the tender meat in pieces from the bone and reserve the meat with the lemon pieces.
- Add olives to the sauce in the skillet. Bring sauce in the skillet to a boil and let it reduce and thicken for a few minutes. Remove skillet from heat and taste the sauce. Season with more salt and pepper, if desired.
- Serve on a bed of couscous, basmati rice or mashed potatoes; pour the sauce over the chicken and the starch. Garnish with fresh chopped cilantro. Can also be served with flatbread or pita bread to dip in the sauce. Serve warm.
- This recipe is a Community Pick!
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Consumers may have paid a little more for their holiday meals this Christmas, but it's unlikely farmers should have to shoulder the blame for the higher prices, farm organizations say.
The American Farm Bureau Federation says the traditional holiday meal might cost $4 more this year, but a look at the facts shows it's more likely energy prices — including the price at the pump — not ethanol prices that are fueling the rise at the grocery store.
Heated discussions on food prices and supplies have stridden in lockstep with debate of the energy bill Congress recently passed and President Bush signed just before Christmas. The bill sets a quota for 36 billion gallons of biofuels and 15 billion gallons from corn-based ethanol by 2022.
But those newspaper reports and TV broadcasts linking food and gasoline prices to ethanol use are flawed, according to the leaders at the AFBF and the National Corn Growers Association.
• It's true that holiday dinner for 10 was about $4 higher this year, but the real dollar price adjusted for inflation has actually dropped by about 9 percent in the past 20 years, according to Farm Bureau economists.
• Americans spend about 10 percent of their disposable income on food. Households in India often spend 50 percent; many European countries spend double what Americans do.
• Farmers work hard to ensure the food supply is not only safe and secure, but plentiful enough to meet all demands and retain affordable food prices consumers have come to expect. Corn producers are harvesting the largest crop on record — more than 13 billion bushels. Of that, nearly 2 billion will remain for use next year.
• Farmers contribute to national energy security and no shortage of corn will result because of increased ethanol production.
• Ethanol production is projected to use 17 percent to 18 percent of corn yields with roughly 30 percent being returned to the feed system as distiller grains, which have higher unit protein content than the original corn.
• New technologies are resulting in continuing increases in per acre corn yield, making unlikely any shortages for food or fuel, even for global supplies.
• Corn growers are part of the solution to high energy prices. They are helping to create a more secure energy future for Americans by producing corn for cleaner-burning renewable ethanol, and not at the expense of providing food.
"Collectively, America's farmers have harvested the largest corn crop in history this year," says Ken McCauley, farmer and chairman of the National Corn Growers Association. "With increasingly demanding food, feed and fuel needs to meet, they have worked hard to ensure our food supply is not only safe and secure, but plentiful enough to meet all demands and retain the affordable food prices consumers have come to expect."
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Compared to its electric contemporaries, Chevrolet's range-extended Volt is currently proving the most popular plug-in, posting its best-ever sales figures during August.
It's out-punching the Leaf consistently, and other electric cars aren't even getting a look-in. It's even outselling Toyota's Plug-In Prius.
But overall, Chevy is still a long way from meeting its projected 45,000 target for this year, with year-to-date figures around the 13,500 mark.
And, says Reuters, GM could be losing as much as $49,000 on every Volt it makes.
Packed with technology, the Volt is an expensive car to make, and GM isn't making a great deal of money back on each one, despite the $39,995 base price. With some lease deals allowing customers to drive around in a Volt for as little as $5,050 over two years, GM's return looks insignificant.
High production costs, low sales
Some industry analysts predict that each Volt costs at least $75,000 to manufacture, though some suggest this figure could be as high as $88,000.
The numbers are compiled by industry experts like Michigan-based Automotive Consulting Group and Munro & Associates, and factor in the Volt's total development and tooling costs to date, divided among the 21,500 Volts sold to date.
So far, it puts average costs at just shy of $56,000 per car–though it's worth remembering that this figure will go down with every Volt sold, and unit production cost can only truly be calculated over the course of a full production run.
On top of the current unit cost, it's estimated that manufacturing cost for each car is between $20,000-$32,000 per vehicle, resulting in the final figures.
By contrast, the standard gasoline Chevrolet Cruze is estimated to cost between $12,000-$15,000 to build. To bring the Volt down to around $10,000 per car to build, GM would have to sell around 120,000 per year–but in an effort to push up sales, the low-cost lease deals are part of the problem while volumes remain low.
Another part of the problem is thought to be the Volt's relatively low production volumes, resulting in some parts suppliers pushing up component costs. A high quantity of unique parts over other cars on GM's Delta II platform–such as batteries, the electric motor and power electronics–also pushes up the unit cost.
GM's Doug Parks confirms that GM isn't yet making money on the Volt, but declined to comment to Reuters on any specific costs.
Other benefits
GM isn't yet fazed by the loss-making Volt–at least outwardly–citing other benefits to the Volt project.
Firstly, the Voltec system will attract greater economies of scale when it sees further service in other GM vehicles down the line, such as the 2014 Cadillac ELR luxury coupe.
GM is also learning technological lessons from the Volt project, some of which can be used even on vehicles that don't use the Voltec drivetrain.
"It wasn't conceived as a way to make tons of money. It was a big dip in the technology pool for GM. We've learned a boatload of stuff that we're deploying on other models," explains Parks.
A similar strategy has paid dividents for Toyota, whose multi-million selling Prius line now consists of four models, despite being a slow initial seller. And the Volt is attracting the same sort of customers as Toyota's hybrid–dealers say the Prius is the number one trade-in for Volt customers.
It isn't hard to imagine Volt sales steadily increasing just as the Prius did–though this does hinge on how many GM will sell when incentives end–but while the competitive lease deals are making the Volt fantastic value for consumers, it could be a long while before the car makes any money for GM.
This story originally appeared at Green Car Reports.


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The Self Injury Foundation describes this type of behavoir as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI), and defines it as the deliberate harming of one's body resulting in injury. Besides cutting, other forms of self-injury include scratching, burning, hitting or biting oneself, hair pulling, and deliberately interfering with the healing of wounds.
It is important to distinguish between NSSI and suicidal self-injury. Most people who engage in NSSI are not attempting suicide, but are instead using self-injury as a coping strategy to deal with their problems. However, in some cases the injuries can be life-threatening. And since most self-injurers consider their behavior a shameful secret, many cut or self-injure in private and go to great lengths to hide their wounds.
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Maximum Rock'N'Roll is one of the most widely distributed zines in the world. It's a monthly fanzine dedicated to supporting and reporting on the underground punk rock scene.
Maximum Rock'N'Roll began as a radio show in 1977 on San Francisco's public radio station KPFA. It was a punk rock show hosted by DJs Tim Yohannan and Jeff Bale. Besides playing music, Yohannan and Bale invited punk musicians and fans into the studio, regulars on the show included Ruth Schwartz (owner of Mordam distribution) and Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys).
Maximum Rock'N'Roll zine first appeared in 1982 as the newsprint booklet included in the "Not So Quiet on the Western Front" compilation LP, released on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles. The format of MRR was modeled to some extent after Tim Tonooka's Ripper zine. The zine included band interviews, columns, reviews, and scene reports from around the U.S. With Yohannan at the helm as editor/zine coordinator, MRR blossomed into a thick monthly newsprint zine with wide distribution (due in no small part because of it's distribution through Mordam, which Yohannan and MRR supported in early its years). Throughout the 1980s and until the internet took off in the 1990s, MRR was the essential networking, gossip, and news zine for punk musicians, fans, zine publishers, bookers, promoters, and independent labels. As publisher, Yohannan espoused DIY ethics and radical politics and used the zine to promote not only underground music, but his personal philosophy.
Yohannan died of cancer in 1998. Jeff Bale, whose right-wing political turn was at odds with the long-time politics of the magazine, left to start Hit List with a few other writers. Jen Angel (Clamor and Fucktooth) took over as coordinator after being hand-picked by Yohannan while he was ill. Through the years that followed, a number of different people served as zine coordinator, including Arwen Curry (Ration), Mark Murrmann (Sty Zine), Andrew Scott, Mike Thorn, Paul Curran, Golnar Nikpour, and Chris Hubbard.
Today MRR has published over 285 issues. While not "the punk bible" it once was (the punk community now has countless zines and Web resources), MRR is still one of the foremost zines in the punk scene and still features a wealth of punk band interviews, articles, news, music and zine reviews, columns, and scene reports each month. Current columnists include Mykel Board, Slug & Lettuce editor Chris Boarts, musician George Tabb, Mattilda aka Matt Bernstein Sycamore, Al Quint (Suburban Voice), Arwen Curry, Bill Florio, Lefty Hooligan, Ted Rall, Golnar Nikpour, Bruce Roehrs, and hardcore singer Felix Von Havoc.
Notable zinesters who have written for Maximum Rock 'N' Roll
Jen Angel (Fucktooth), Anonymous Boy (Homopunk World), Jeff Bale, Mike BS (Bullshit Monthly), Aaron Cometbus, Eugene Chadbourne, Gordonzola, John Marr (Murder Can Be Fun),Sam McPheeters, Sean Sullivan, Mike Taylor (Scenery), Matt Wobensmith (Outpunk), Al Quint, and Ben Weasel (Panic Button).
Notable writers and artists for Maximum Rock 'N' Roll
Jennifer Blowdryer, Lily Burana, Mel Cheplowitz, Fly, Mike LaVella, Larry Livermore, Reverend Norb, Ted Rall, Bruce Roehrs, and George Tabb.
External Links
- MRR's Official Website
- MRR Archive - read old issues online


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Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches
Great Firewall of UK Blocks Game Patch Because of Substring Matches – January 22, 2014 at 10:06PM
Sockatume writes "Remember the fun of spurious substring matches, AKA the Scunthorpe problem? The UK's advanced 'intelligent' internet filters do. Supposedly the country's great new filtering regime has been blocking a patch for League of Legends because some of the filenames within it include the substring 'sex.' Add one to the list of embarrassing failures for the nation's new mosaic of opt-out censorship systems, which have proven themselves incapable of distinguishing between abusive sites and sites for abuse victims, or sites for pornography versus sites for sexual and gender minorities."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Word of advice to Activision: Closing the forum thread with leaked information about the next game in your most popular game series doesn't mean that information is going to disappear from the Web. If only it were so.
A detailed description of Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 was posted in the official Call of Duty: Black Ops forum earlier this week. While Activision quickly removed the information, MP1st noted that the thread's cache is still out there with all the succulent morsels of information still tucked safely inside.
According to the post, the Treyarch-developed Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 will be out on Nov. 6. A new game mode called "Escort" will be introduced wherein a player will have to be guided safely by others to two or three different areas on various maps. Escort matches will be broken into rounds and the round is over if the escorted player dies. While Kill Confirmed and Drop Zone modes will be back in Black Ops 2, Team Defender and Infected will be left out this time around.
Black Ops 2 will also release alongside Call of Duty Elite 2.0. The upgraded version of Activision's membership service will rename the combat statistic tracking record as "Elite Stats," and a new lobby will be established for clan matches. Clan Tournaments can also be set up in Elite in version 2.0.
There is also a large number of details on competitive multiplayer tweaks in the post as well, including changes made to the Pointstreak system (Black Ops 2 will follow Modern Warfare 3's system) and Prestiges (there will be 15 prestige levels as in the first Black Ops.) The game will also institute a new version of the Perk Pro system. An improved combat training mode will be added to help players acclimate to the rigors of competitive play without getting constantly shot down by human beings. The aggressiveness of AI opponents in the training mode will no longer be dictated based on how long it takes for them to start shooting.
Full details can be read in the cache of the original post.
Given how mundane many of the details are, it's very possible that these details are legitimate. The nearly ten-year cycle of annual Call of Duty entries means that, like other video game perennials, improvements to the games are becoming more and more incremental. Activision certainly lent authenticity to the leak but rushing to remove it as well.


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WAYNESBORO — Don't expect batting practice pitches today.
While players had a field day hitting long balls out of the Clayton South field with its own version of the Green Monster, it won't be like that today as the 2013 Cal Ripken 12/60 Middle Atlantic Regional Tournament gets underway.
"There's going to be some tremendous pitching this weekend," said tournament director Scott Shaffer, who along with numerous other individuals helped put the pieces together for the regional event that includes eight teams from Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. "It's going to be an exciting tournament."
Emmitsburg's Brett Weatherly highlighted the night by winning the home run derby with eight long balls in the final round. Weatherly outslugged Northern New Jersey's Joshua Rosado and Wyalusing's Luke Shultz to win the competition.
Medford (N.J.) won the Around the Horn throwing competition and Wyalusing won the baserunning competition that is run similar to a relay race with four runners from each team taking turns running the bases.
Teams came to southcentral Pennsylvania from as far away as West Elmira and the Bronx and as close as Emmitsburg, Md. just 16 miles to the east. In fact, host Waynesboro takes on Emmitsburg at 1:30 p.m. today in the first game of pool play for the two teams. The two New York teams, Kingsbridge (Metro New York) and West Elmira (Western New York), open the tournament with a 1 p.m. game on the Clayton North field.
"It's been a hectic couple of days," said Waynesboro manager Troy Witte. "We're ready to play."
Players from each team were introduced by public address announcer Ben Dennis, who also interjected music from a personalized song list throughout the evening's festivities.
Curtis Mummert of Buchanan Auto Park threw out the first pitch, and players, coaches and spectators honored America with the playing of the national anthem by staring up at a giant American flag hoisted on a Grove crane in the stone parking lot adjacent to the Clayton South field.
After a brief introduction of players followed by the throwing of the first pitch and the playing of the Star Spangled Banner, the skills competition took place.
Perry County set the early standard in the baserunning competition with a time of 49.84 seconds. West Elmira came close, finishing in 49.86 seconds. Wyalusing, one of the last teams to run the bases, won with a time of 49.31 with runners Will Kiner, Jacob Doyle, Brian Lewis and Luke Shultz representing their team in the event.
Then, it was Medford's turn to shine in the Around the Horn throwing event. Starting with a toss from the pitcher to the catcher, players at each position took turns throwing the ball with the throw from second base to home plate completing the competition. Timmy Schmidlin, Daniel Frake, Timmy Heslin, Sal Cusumano, J.C. Dobis, Dom Forte, John Capone, Jack Cobb and Luke Mather all earned medals for winning the event.
The night culminated in the Home Run Derby with plenty of baseballs landing over tall trees and into neighboring backyards. So many children were chasing the balls that an announcement was made prohibiting children from running into yards and retrieving balls.
Two players from each team competed. The top eight after the first round, during which hitters received 10 outs, advanced to the second round. Rosado and Waynesboro's Cole Reed each had seven home runs after the first round. West Elmira's Ben Cook had six, followed by Luke Shultz of Wyalusing, Harry Vargas of Kingsbridge and Tobiah Walizer of Waynesboro with five and Weatherly and Luke Newman of Medford with four.
Shultz had the hot bat in the second round as he launched eight homers as each player got eight outs. He, along with Rosado and Weatherly — who each hit five — made it to the third and final round. It was all Weatherly, who smashed eight homers in the five-out round. Rosado had three and Shultz had two.
YOUTH BASEBALL: Cal RIpken 12/60 Middle Atlantic Regional kicks off with opening ceremony
WAYNESBORO — Don't expect batting practice pitches today.


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All over the world, countries have put in place fiscal stimulus packages as a response to the global crisis. In the US and UK, despite the large fiscal stimuli, the economies are stalling and unemployment rates are still high. Now, Paul Krugman is advocating a second $800+ billion stimulus as he is worried of a Third Depression (i.e. 1873-4, 1929-30 and now) or at best a low job creation and low GDP growth for the short to medium term. According to Krugman, low growth and high unemployment are shorter term problems that have to be resolved before fiscal austerity and debt reduction (which are longer term issues as bond financiers are still buying US securities). Others of conservative leanings, such as John Taylor and Gary Becker, are of the opinion that the Bush tax relief of 2008 did not work and that the Obama stimulus may not work because of small "fiscal spending multiplier", and as the package is badly designed.
Carmen Reinhart and Rogoff document eight centuries of financial crisis and come to the conclusion that almost all the time it ends in tears with "deficits, debts and defaults." Reflecting this view, leaders at the recent G-20 meetings pledged for fiscal austerity as the fiscal stimulus packages are quite unpopular in the western world.
Keynes' reasoning was that increased government spending during a recession employs idle labor and capital and this boosts employment and output. In turn, additional income of such utilized labor and capital will be spent on goods and services, and this will help multiply the benefits to society, and so it continues. In reality, things don't work so smoothly or so instantaneously. There are long delays between legislation and spending. For example, no more than fifty percent of US stimulus was spent during the first 12 months. The stimulus was spent not on construction or infrastructure but on public servants' salaries, healthcare, school teachers, police, alternative energy sources, all of which are important for society, but did not create enough new jobs. Consumer confidence is still low, which means that consumers are not ready to spend. Moreover, despite regaining strength, the commercial banks are not allowing free flow of credit and are highly selective (a lesson they learnt from the recent housing bubble burst and financial crisis of 2008-9). Further, with a near zero federal funds rate, there is no scope for easy monetary policy. At least for now, the industrial policy of bailing out GM seems to have saved auto jobs temporarily as the new GM appears to be doing well while the old GM is still saddled with unpayable legacy costs in the form of benefit plans to ex-employees.
Keynes reasoning was within a closed economy where 'leakages' were possible only if the households and firms increased their savings rate. We now live in a globalized world where spending on imports is another leakage of the stimulus. Debt levels were not a concern for Keynes either. But, US and UK households, businesses and governments are fully lefiveraged and debt-ridden. The world has changed since Keynes and economies have become more complex with confidence about economy among consumers and businesses driving spending decisions.
What now? The US can hope that the remaining government spending will get the job done. These are troubling times but hope and inaction will condemn the US and UK to follow Japan which muddled through for 15+ years in 'fits and starts' coinciding with low growth and high unemployment. The US has a couple of policy options but this is the last chance: (1) Have a seven to ten year fiscal framework that shows a trajectory and target to fiscal balance over time through a policy of fiscal consolidation and spending cuts in the medium term while it quickly implements –another– medium sized fiscal stimulus that is targeted at construction and infrastructure; and (2) at the same time, commercial banks should be encouraged to lend prudentially to small and medium enterprises (moral persuasion). However, politicians don't seem to have an appetite for more government spending. How will all this end?


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The Economist presents these charts for the following reason:
In the spring of 2011 the Pew Global Attitudes Survey asked thousands of people worldwide which country they thought was the leading economic power. Half of the Chinese polled reckoned that America remains number one, twice as many as said "China". Americans are no longer sure: 43% of US respondents answered "China"; only 38% thought America was still the top dog. The answer depends on which measure you pick. (emphasis added)
The reason I like these charts is that they remind me of how many security practitioners think about "being secure." Managers likely often ask security staff "Are we secure?" The truth is there is no single number, so anyone selling you a "risk" number is wasting your time (and probably your money). However, it would be much more useful to display a chart like that created by the Economist. The security staff could choose a dozen or more simple metrics to paint a picture, and let the viewer interpret the answer using his or her own emphasis and bias.
Another reason I like the Economist chart is that the magazine built it using specified assumptions of future activity, listed in the article. If you disagree with these assumptions you can visit the second link I posted to devise your own charts. Although not shown here, what would be even more useful is showing these charts as a time series, with snapshots for January, then February, and so on. This "small multiples" approach (promoted by Tufte) capitalizes on the skill of the human eye and brain to observe and observe differences in similar objects.
If you had to pick a dozen or so indicators of security for a chart, what would you depict? The two I consider non-negotiable are 1) incidents per unit time and 2) time to containment for incidents.


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Broadly-speaking, I don't really put recipes on here that don't work because I don't think there's any point. Why do you want to know about something that you aren't going to make? But I think there is some relevance in including recipes here that don't work if I think you are in danger of coming across them and making them and getting yourself into a pickle - hence the Jamie griddle waffles of the previous post.
This is another recipe that isn't that great, although it's not from Jamie. It's a chocolate sponge pudding that you make in the microwave from a book called My Daddy Cooks and if you had the book and came across it and like chocolate you'd definitely be in danger of having a crack at it.
I really don't want to give the wrong impression about this book, as it's generally good-looking and inspiring and I very much recommend it, especially but not exclusively if you've got children. On reflection, I've been a bit unfair, maybe, cooking this - it could never be that terrific. I think it's the lack of eggs that does it, you end up with quite a dry thing. Although it's perfectly amusing to make a cake in the microwave, I wouldn't make it again.
Microwave chocolate sponge
Makes a huge amount - for 4 starving adults or 6 starving children
55g butter
200g self-raising flour
170g caster sugar
55g cocoa powder
180ml milk
a few drops vanilla essence
110g soft brown sugar
1 In a large non-metallic bowl melt the butter for about 30-40 secs (depending on how warm it was when you started).
2 Sift in the flour, add teh caster sugar, half the cocoa powder, the milk and the vanilla extract and stir it all together well until you get a cake batter
3 Mix the brown sugar and the rest of the cocoa powder together and sprinkle over the top
4 Pour over 275ml boiling water but don't mix in. It will look an utterly mad and disgusting mess by now, which is normal
5 Put it in the microwave for 7 minutes. Leave to cool for a bit but then eat straightaway because on cooling completely this will collapse and turn into rubber.


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Rimmel (which to be honest I don't use) have launched in Japan, using the startled Ayumi Hamasaki as their spokesperson:
How do they manage to open the eyes so much with cosmetic surgery? Isn't it risky? Anyway, the range Rimmel have released in Japan look way nicer than what we have here…Eyeshadows:
Even tips on how to decorate the nails:
I would try out Rimmel Japan products for sure to see if they are any good! How about you? Better or worse than what we have here?


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LONGVIEW, Wash. (KATU) - A shopper's disgusting and surprising act at a Longview, Washington, store was caught on camera Tuesday, and the store is hoping to identify the person responsible.
Staff at Prospector Liquidation Store on Third Avenue said a woman walked into their store about noon, paid cash for rubber gloves and (ironically) baby wipes, and took off -- leaving behind a "No. 2" on aisle one.
Under Longview's municipal code, it's illegal to relieve yourself where such an act could be observed by any member of the public, and it is considered a misdemeanor crime.
"We had customers in here, so it wasn't private. Customers knew what was going on. It was terrible," said cashier Jen Young.
Longview police told the store that authorities couldn't do much unless they could identify the woman. Store owners are also worried this may not be her first time, and it may not be her last.
"I saw her come in. She said, 'Hi.' Went off shopping. And then I really didn't see her again until she came up to check out," said Young. "I went over by the tarps and you couldn't miss it. It was what she thought it was. Very obvious. Then it was like, 'What do we do? How do we clean this up?'"
They cleaned up the mess, and then decided to get to the bottom of what happened.
Surveillance video shows the woman, apparently wearing a medical scrub uniform, making her way between stacked goods, when she squats down and does her "doody."
Video shows the same woman return to the scene with a shopping cart, throw a wad of tissue paper that workers say she took from another aisle, and then head for the checkout stand.
What's really strange, Young says, is that the woman walked right by a bathroom key set aside for customers when she entered the store. Workers say the woman never even asked for a bathroom.
After the fact, employees noticed that the woman had either hidden or removed an ID tag on her way out of the store, which was showing when she first walked in.


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Xerox 914 Plain Paper Copier
Xerox 914 Plain Paper Copier
- Description
- Introduced in 1959, the Xerox 914 plain paper copier revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical. One of the most successful Xerox products ever, a 914 model could make 100,000 copies per month. In 1985, the Smithsonian received this machine, number 517 off the assembly line. It weighs 648 pounds and measures 42" high x 46" wide x 45" deep.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Date made
- 1960
- maker
- Haloid Xerox Corporation
- Measurements
- average spatial: 79 cm x 17 cm x 14.5 cm; 31 1/8 in x 6 11/16 in x 5 11/16 in
- overall: 42 in x 46 in x 45 in; 106.68 cm x 116.84 cm x 114.3 cm
- overall: 54 in x 69 in x 60 in; 137.16 cm x 175.26 cm x 152.4 cm
- ID Number
- 1985.0669.01
- catalog number
- 1985.0669.01
- accession number
- 1985.0669
- catalog number
- 85.669.01
- Credit Line
- Xerox Corporation
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- Culture and the Arts: Photographic History
- Computers & Business Machines
- Photography
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
I have the first never used cleaning brush for the 914. Its all black and made with real rabbit fur before Xerox made them with a white bristle cleaning brush.
Mon, 2017-09-25 10:42
First copier I was trained on when I joined Rank Xerox (Xerox distributor in Commonwealth countries.) The 1000 used quartz lamp fusing instead of oven fusing. ( Same with the 660 from the earlier 813 desktop.) The product life was long. The 1000/720/914 lasted well into the 70s. Used 5 lbs of developer (silica beads) in a cascading developer tank. Partial replacement on a PM was 3.6lbs. Had a dipstick to measure level of toner in the toner hopper. 914 was actually the size of paper it could use (9"x14"). Similiarly 813 refers to 8"x13". Later it became 330 and 660 as copies per hour as the model number.
Tue, 2017-05-23 09:45
I started servicing the Xerox 914 in early 1971. It was a work horse and had very little problems if well maintained and used properly stored paper. If the customer allowed the paper to get damp or curl, then, as others have mention, if could rollup and catch in the fuser assembly and turn to char and smoke. The machine met the copy demands of some exacting engineering firms that had to have exact size for size copies - and would measure afterward down to faction of a millimeter. Several years later, a faster version was released called the 720 and a year after that the model 1000 - all based on the 914.
Tue, 2017-04-25 10:05
"I was the designated 'unjammer' at Cone Automatic Machine in the middle '60s. I recall it's propensity for catching fire, but not the warning (which I probably ignored anyway) not to open the doors for 30 minutes–or the fire extinguisher!"
Mon, 2015-10-12 08:22
"I would like to see the historical TV ad that introduced this machine -- it showed a little monkey sitting on the machine and making a photocopy to show us how easy it was. The minds of America were boggled -- we had never seen such a machine, but the monkey taught us not to be afraid!"
Thu, 2013-07-18 15:57
Very interested to see this machine as my first job in 1972 age 15 I was ent on a training course at Xerox in Euston Lodon to operate it in our general ofice. Ours was a Xerox 720 that was almost identical to the one shown. I do rember how slow it was and the fact we were told that if you get a paper jam leave the doors closed for 30 minutes otherwise the paper will catch fire insdie. I also remember it came with a fire extingusher. Ours was replaced in about 1974 by the xerox 7000 that had 5 redcution modes but was still the size of a fridge freezer!
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Freshman forward Malcolm Smith was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team, the conference office announced Monday.
The Clarksville, Tenn., native averages 9.9 points and 4.4 rebounds in 30 games. He started seven of the final eight games on the season.
"Malcolm has been relentless this season playing a lot against bigger five-men," said Lipscomb coach Scott Sanderson. "He's a hard worker and very deserving of this honor."
Smith scored in double digits 14 times this season and had at least 20 points three times. He posted a high of 22 points against Mercer on Dec. 1 as he went 6-of-9 from the field and 10-of-10 from the free throw line.
Smith shoots 47.1 percent from the field and 62.1 percent (105-169) from the free throw line.
USC Upstate earned three of the league's top four awards. Torrey Craig was named Player of the Year, Ty Greene was selected as Freshman of the Year, and Eddie Payne was tabbed as Coach of the Year. Belmont's Ian Clark was named Defensive Player of the Year.
Lipscomb opens the 2012 Atlantic Sun Championship as the No. 7 seed against No. 2 seed Mercer Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. central in Macon, Ga. The game will be carried on ESPN3 and 102.5 The Game.


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UPDATE: The following comments have been randomly selected as winners of this giveaway: 30, 57, 78, 89, and 95. Congratulations Lisa, Melody, Deb, Andrea P. and Hannah – an email has been sent your way.
16 miracles.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about the heavy responsibility of helping to provide for these beautiful young moms of Mercy House. It's an honor. It's also scary. When I was in Kenya this summer, the girls came to me, one-by-one, asking, "When I leave here, how will I provide for my baby?" I didn't have all the answers, but I promised we would do everything we could to help.
While Maureen and I work diligently on a tailored long-term plan for each of our girls, they work hard on their studies, take care of their babies, and learn skills. Each girl can cook, clean, sew, make jewelry and a host of other items. They will soon be choosing either a higher education academic or vocational tract to help them develop interests and talents.
Our girls spend a couple of hours a day making beautiful items we export to America and sell at The Mercy Shop.
Today we are celebrating reopening our Shop by introducing new items! We are having a big sale and putting some of last year's items on clearance. This is a tangible way to bring a bit of Africa to your home and life and also help provide for our young families. It's a great because when you purchase an item to give or keep, you bless twice.
Check out some of our new items:
Beautiful bangle bracelets made from recycled magazines and wood. $12 each:
Beautiful and unique Love Mercy Sari Bags (in partnership with Freeset): $22 each (4 designs)
Our super cool Heart& Wings new women's fit, v-neck comfy tee, $20:
"Mercy Made This Happen" Unisex shirt (made by Freeset): $20
Handcrafted Greeting Cards (sets of 3) $10:
Plus, many more items on sale and clearance!
100% of the proceeds from the Mercy Shop are returned to Kenya. We put the money towards paying the (high) monthly rent on our property and house, as well as set aside a portion of every sale in an account for each of our girl's future.
Today, FIVE lucky readers will win their choice of t-shirt and Sari bag.
To be entered, please share this post on Facebook, tweet it on Twitter, Pin or email it to a friend. We are trying to get the word out about Mercy Shop reopening! Leave a comment with how you shared it to be entered.
Plus, for a short period, use this code: REGRAND to get 20% off your order!
This giveaway ends on Friday.
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My kinks seem to be lingering. I had a calf cramp that i thought would be better by now. I'm playing in the doubles leagues which i thought wouldn't be so bad on it, but i keep re-agravating it.
I'll be in touch when i've mended.
thanks, Peter
cool. good luck with the calf and the game.
Hey I am in Toronto now for anyone who would like to hit. Please inbox a phone number as I dont have one quite yet. I will call to set something up.
Hey got yours and Peter's contact info. I am outside the city today but I will give you guys a call when I come back to arrange some hitting times!
Could you play earlier in the morning?
Hi there, I am interested in playing with you, preferably tomorrow afternoon around 6pm at downtown near dunda and pembroke. I am a 4.5/5.0 player. Let me know. Thanks.
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Naropa University's nationally-recognized graduate studies Art Therapy program's Naropa Community Art Studio-International has received a three-year grant from The Jenzabar Foundation, which was presented to the University during Jenzabar's annual Student Leadership Awards ceremony in Dallas, Texas on May 30, 2012. The Jenzabar Foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities for students, as well as higher education organizations and non-profits, to encourage fellow students to be engaged citizens of the world.
The Naropa Community Arts Studio received specific attention from the Jenzabar Foundation for its service learning trip to Cambodia to aid and train survivors of sex trafficking. In May 2012, the group of art therapy graduate students and Naropa faculty member Sue Wallingford traveled to Cambodia to learn more about the ways art therapy can be integrated into providing shelter for girl survivors that have been victims of the sex trade. The trip is the culmination of dedicated effort to increase awareness for the mission of the Naropa Community Arts Studio and to raise funds to bring the team of Naropa Art Therapy students and faculty to Cambodia.
"We found Naropa University's Community Art Studio International program to be very unique in its approach to addressing the needs of those who have suffered from the ills caused by human trafficking," said John Beahm, The Jenzabar Foundation's Executive Director. "The Jenzabar Foundation is proud to support the Studio's application of art therapy to promote social justice, and we look forward to a partnership that will help the program grow to serve other communities with similar needs in the coming years."
Todd Kilburn, Chief Administrative Officer and Interim Vice President for Business Affairs, who accepted the award, said of receiving this important support, "Naropa University is honored to receive this grant from the Jenzabar Foundation in support of the amazing work our students have done under the direction of their professor, Sue Wallingford. Their commitment to human rights and their willingness to invest themselves in making a difference makes this a significant partnership with the Jenzabar Foundation, which seeks to encourage such social entrepreneurship. I express gratitude to Jenzabar's CEO, Robert A. Maginn, and the Executive Director of the Jenzabar Foundation, John Beahm, for their personal support and encouragement of the Naropa Community Arts Studio – International and the work being done in Cambodia."
Naropa faculty Sue Wallingford spoke about the enormity of the work the art therapy students have taken on. "I am reminded of the words of one of my students who spoke to me of the outpouring of support we felt from the community at every turn. 'This is so much bigger than we are.' There is a force holding the potential that perhaps we can make a difference in the lives of the people we work with, and in our own lives too. We are very grateful for The Jenzabar Foundation's support."
The NCAS-I initiative reflects The Jenzabar Foundation's mission of efforts by students to better the world outside of their college and university communities. Through the help of the three-year Jenzabar Foundation grant, this project will offer art therapy and training to survivors of sex trafficking in Cambodia.
"The NCAS-I initiative and Cambodia trip is one of a number of student-driven service learning initiatives at Naropa University, and reflective of Naropa's educational mission, which provides the opportunities for our students to explore, cultivate, and 'test' their knowledge and skills in relationship and in vital and challenging work in the international community," says John Whitehouse Cobb, President of Naropa University. "We are very proud of the transformational work Sue Wallingford and her students are undergoing and providing for a much needed issue. We are honored and grateful that The Jenzabar Foundation is committing this level of support so that this work may continue.
The Naropa Art Therapy degree concentration, part of the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology program, is approved by the American Art Therapy Association and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Schools and Colleges. The NCAS-I initiative was developed to enhance the experience of art therapist as action-oriented and acutely aware of the socio-cultural concerns of society. NCAS-I and Transitions Global have determined meaningful and practical ways that art therapy practices can be implemented as trainings, interventions, and workshops with Transitions Global staff and participants.
Founded by Jenzabar, Inc., The Jenzabar Foundation issues grants to institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations with similarly aligned missions, and helps promote the activities of grant recipients within their communities and on a global level. For more information about The Jenzabar Foundation, visit www.thejenzabarfoundation.org.
Naropa University is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and a member of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Naropa University is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian liberal arts institution dedicated to advancing contemplative education. This approach to learning integrates the best of Eastern and Western educational traditions, helping students know themselves more deeply and engage constructively with others. The university comprises a four-year undergraduate college and graduate programs in the arts, education, environmental leadership, psychology and religious studies.
To learn more, please visit naropa.edu.
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'John Lennon,' 'Kurt Cobain' Appear in New Beer Commercial
John Lennon, Elvis Presley and Kurt Cobain are among the dead celebrities whose likenesses make appearances in a questionable new beer commercial.
Bavaria Radler haven't gone to the extent of reconstructing the stars' iconic images with technology the way recent ads have done with the likes of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, but their use of models resembling famous dead people to sell adult beverages does tread on a slippery slope.
The setting is a lovely, private beach getaway that is, apparently, inhabited by dead celebrities. And they're all getting tanked! We see "Elvis" hanging out on the beach checking out the waitress who brings him a bottle, while it appears that "Marilyn Monroe" is rubbing suntan lotion on "Tupac Shakur." Meanwhile, someone pretty clearly resembling Lennon is ordering drinks for he and his pal "Cobain."
We get the concept — supposedly dead stars attempting to preserve their anonymous lives — and it's clearly a play on all the myths and conspiracy theories about Elvis and Tupac still being alive. But even ignoring any general moral questions about using dead celebrities to endorse any given product, when you realize that one of these stars died on the toilet, one overdosed on pills, and the other three were shot dead — one in a suicide — it only makes the whole thing even weirder. This note's for you, indeed.


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As important as your body's physical barriers are, they can't repel all invaders. Minor cuts in your skin open a brief, tantalizing entryway to your body's nutrient-rich interior. Tiny germs can eventually make their way through the thickest mucous coating. And while the acid in your stomach is strong enough to pickle steel, crafty microbes can survive or slip through it to your much more hospitable intestines. (For example, H. pylori, the culprit behind most heartburn-causing stomach ulcers, secretes an acid-neutralizing enzyme that protects the microbe until it gets a chance to worm its way into your stomach walls.)
When a pathogen breaches your body's first line of defense, the lowly foot soldiers of your immune system meet it within minutes. One of your best defenders is the macrophage (which translates as "big eater"), a swollen blob of a cell that sucks in almost any foreign particle that crosses its path, including dead cells, debris, and pathogens. Once enveloped, a battery of powerful chemicals attacks the foreign particle, destroying it in minutes. A typical macrophage may swallow some hundred bacteria before it dies, finally done in by its own toxic chemicals.
A macrophage is a type of white blood cell. All white blood cells are immune system soldiers—they simply use different tactics.
For its first strike to be successful, your body needs to respond quickly and with overwhelming force. It's not enough to wait until wandering macrophages stumble across new invaders. Your body needs to summon its defensive forces in a hurry.
Its trick is the inflammation response, your immune system's call to arms. Your body triggers inflammation when it detects damaged tissue, intense heat, dangerous chemicals, or potential attackers. The first effect of the inflammation response is increased blood flow—your blood vessels dilate and gaps open in your cell walls so the blood can pour into the surrounding tissue. As the blood rushes in, you feel the resulting swelling, as well as pain (because the swollen tissues press on nearby nerves that carry pain signals) and heat (because of the influx of heated blood).
The main goal of the inflammation response is to stock the affected area with your body's immune system soldiers. In addition, the added blood increases the heat, which spurs your macrophages to work harder and can alter the delicate balance of chemical reactions in the invading pathogens, throwing them off balance. (Your body uses a fever—a sudden spike in body temperature—with much the same effect when battling more stubborn enemies.)
The only time you see your white blood cells is when pus oozes from a wound. This creamy, yellow substance contains the detritus of biological warfare—brokendown tissue cells, living and dead pathogens, and scores of dead white blood cells.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Social Security recipients won't be getting big benefit increases next year, but the small raises they will get are playing an important role in helping seniors grow their incomes. This comes as younger workers lose ground.
Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1 and 2 percent, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975. Monthly benefits for retired workers average $1,237, meaning the typical retiree can expect an extra $12 to $24 a month.
The size of the cost-of-living adjustment will be made official Tuesday, when the government releases inflation figures for September.
How important is that adjustment? From 2001 to 2011, household incomes in the U.S. dropped for every age group except one: those 65 and older.
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Author Notes: My Italian grandparents had the most impressive fruit and vegetable garden, and on their property were the most amazingly luscious fig trees. I used to think it was very old school Italian to have a fig tree, but now as an adult, I really want one and I always look for new and inventive ways to cook and bake with figs. So, this spicy, rich dessert is a tribute to my Gram and Gramps. With a modest budget, they still managed to make life "spicy and rich" and I feel fortunate to carry on their legacy of the fig. This tart is thick and silky smooth with just the right amount of salty-sweet crunch from the crust. You will fall in love with this tart at first bite! - Cathi Iannone —Cathi Iannone
Food52 Review: A playful mingling of sweet, spicy, and savory best describes this rich dessert. When crafting this rustic tart, I adjusted the amounts of spice and espresso, as I found the smaller amounts provided enough complexity to the depth of the fresh fig puree -- so taste it as you go. What worked best about this dish was the texture and saltiness of the walnut pretzel crust, which provided a light enough foundation to contrast the heaviness of the filling. The chocolate and cream smoothes out the texture while adding a lovely, dark, deep canvas against which the fig firmly stands. This dessert plates very elegantly and would make an impressive, unexpected dessert for guests. —goldenblind221
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cup whipping cream
cup whole milk
ounces bittersweet chocolate bits
mission figs (stems removed and pulsed in food processor to form a thick paste)
large eggs (beaten, room temperature)
tablespoon of espresso (finely ground)
teaspoon ground cinnamon
teaspoon extra-fine sea salt
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cup Almonds(pulsed to large crumbs in food processor)
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teaspoon ground cinnamon
tablespoons unsalted butter (melted)
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Pulse pretzels and Almonds in a food processor and transfer to a medium bowl.
- Melt 5 tablespoons of unsalted butter in microwave and add the melted butter along with the sugar to the pretzel-almonds crumbs, and stir with a fork to incorporate.
- Press the pretzel-almond crumb mixture into either a 9 inch tart tin or 6 small individual tart dishes. You can use the bottom of a glass to press the crumbs firmly to the bottom and a half inch up the sides.
- Bake the crust for 10-12 minutes and remove from the oven to cool while you make your filling.
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- In a medium saucepan, heat the heavy cream and the milk until it simmers.
- Once it simmers, remove from heat and stir in the chocolate bits, along with the coffee granules, cinnamon, and salt.
- Stir to incorporate and until the chocolate mixture is smooth.
- Stir in the fig paste and continue to stir until the fig has loosened up and is fully incorporated with little or, no lumps.
- Add the beaten eggs to the mixture and stir to fully incorporate.
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Senior Connor Beasley tied the school record for wins by a pitcher, and junior Levi Maxey hit a grand slam last Thursday to lead St. Elmo past Beecher City, 8-2.
Beasley struck out 15 batters over six innings of work to record the 30th win of his career, tying the school standard set by Logan Mahon.
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DIXON – The check is in the mail, quite literally.
Dixon expected to receive a $9.2 million check in the mail Friday, said Mayor Jim Burke. The check, traveling standard mail, according to Burke, is for the city's share of the proceeds from the sale of former Comptroller Rita Crundwell's property.
The U.S. Marshals Service moved that $9.2 million one step closer to Dixon's bank account when it transferred the money to the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois on Dec. 13, the agency said in a news release Thursday.
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The clerk of court for the Northern District of Illinois then issued the restitution payment to the city.
The sale of five properties, a luxury motorhome, more than 400 quarter horses, a jewelry collection, and other personal assets brought in a total of $12.2 million.
After court-ordered claims and expenses, the city will receive $9.2 million in restitution, the release said.
Crundwell's property was sold in December 2012. In addition to the proceeds from the auction, the city was awarded $40 million in an out-of-court settlement in September with its former auditors and Fifth Third Bank.
The city has already received all its settlement money, Burke said, and the $9.2 million check will be immediately put into an interest bearing account. Burke received a tracking number for the check when it was mailed, he said.
After paying its lawyers $10 million for the settlement, the city received $39.2 million as partial restitution for the nearly $54 million Crundwell stole from the city during two decades.
Crundwell is serving a sentence of 19 years, 7 months in a federal prison in Waseca, Minn. In November, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago unanimously affirmed the sentence after it was appealed by her lawyers.
She will be at least 77 when she walks out of prison.
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Olaudah Equiano (1745 1797) was an 18th century African writer and anti-slavery campaigner. From an early age, Olaudah Equiano experienced the horrors of slavery first hand. But, after gaining his freedom, he gained British citizenship and wrote about his experiences. His autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano played a pivotal role in turning public opinion in Britain against slavery. His accounts of slavery and its human suffering were a factor in the enactment of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.
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Before her untimely death at the age of 54 on the day after Christmas 2010, Teena Marie, known as Lady Tee, the Ivory Queen of Soul, wrote, produced, arranged and sang on 13 albums that have sold 2.5 million copies in the soundscan era. Starting with her 1979, Rick James-produced debut, Wild and Peaceful , Teena Maries many soul and R&B hits include Square Biz, Behind the Groove, I Need Your Lovin, Fire and Desire, Lovergirl and Ooo La La La, a song famously sampled by the Fugees.
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Members of Congress Call for an End to Voter Suppression
Nine members of Congress, their staff and 200 activists packed the hearing room of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to standing room only on April 21 to demand an end to mass voter suppression and the manipulation of U.S. elections.
In 2016 – the first presidential election since the US Supreme Court's gutting of the Voting Rights Act – a slew of new malicious laws and tactics are disenfranchising millions of Americans, even as the private control of US vote-counting technology has come under renewed scrutiny in a primary season marked by allegations of fraud and election rigging.
This high-stakes, emotionally charged election cycle has seen widespread closure of polling locations, unprecedented voter roll purges, voting machine failures and extreme waiting lines that cause countless voters to turn away without having cast a ballot. Many have been given "provisional" ballots that are simply not counted. Irregularities in Arizona, North Carolina, Wisconsin and New York have engendered intraparty accusations and lawsuits, exposing a dysfunctional and often undemocratic election process.
The nine members of Congress who spoke, all from predominantly minority districts, loudly condemned the "new Jim Crow" laws that have been forced on over half the states in the US, and which the lawmakers believe were designed to deliberately suppress voters in their districts, particularly people of color, the poor, the elderly and students.
Representatives included the dean of the House and ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, John Conyers, and longtime civil rights champion Elijah Cummings. Others who made passionate and sometimes angry statements included Representatives G. K. Butterfield (co-chair of the Congressional Black Caucus), Sheila Jackson Lee, Terri Sewell, Maxine Waters, Marc Veasey, Alma Adams and Hank Johnson.
The briefing's sponsors, the National Election Defense Coalition and the Transformative Justice Coalition, support the urgent call for a new legislative agenda and political fusion movement to protect democracy, restore voting rights and ensure that every ballot cast is also counted in a secure, public, transparent process. …
As the Brennan Center for Justice recently reported, the United States' current voting systems are falling apart over a decade after they were bought with $3.9 billion in funds allocated by Congress in the Help America Vote Act. "How many of you believe that we should be using a touch-screen voting machine that is 10 years old, operating on year 2000 technology and software, with no security upgrades available for more than a decade?" asked Johnson.
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The Chestnut Hill Academy/Springside School crew acquired a gold medal through two of its youngest members at the 2011 City Championships last Sunday, and there were a number of other medalists for the Blue Devils, Lions, and the Quakers of Penn Charter. In addition, Germantown Friends, with just three active rowers, managed to come away with a silver and a bronze medallion.
CHA freshmen Peter Anthony (stroke) and James Meadows clicked right away when they climbed in a double together at the start of the 2011 season. They continued to dominate their category at City's, posting the first-place time in the qualifying head race (the six fastest boats in the qualifiers advanced to the finals in each category of the regatta), and then winning the final by almost four seconds over runner-up Roman Catholic.
More surprising were the results produced in this same category by GFS, a school with little rowing tradition. The Tigers' tandem of Ethan Genyk (stroke) and Greg Goldstein were the second qualifiers and wound up with a bronze medal in the final. The only other GFS entry, sophomore Andrew Bair, was fourth in the head racing, then moved up to secure the silver medal in the finals of the JV single.
In addition to the gold in the freshman double, CHA won bronze medals in the varsity double (Laddy St. George (stroke), Zach Baron) and in the JV quad (John Olson (stroke), Drew Adubato, Mike Calistri, Carl Delacato). St. George and Baron raced one of three varsity doubles entered by Chestnut Hill, but they were the only qualifiers, ranking fifth. The JV quad had logged the third-best time in its head race.
Two novice singles for the Blue Devils both qualified, Will Elliott with the fourth time, and Jaime MacEachern sixth. The two changed positions in the final, MacEachern finishing just out of the medals in fourth place, and Elliott in the sixth spot.
The day did not begin well for the Springside Lions. Their first four entries were unable to qualify for the finals, with three of them missing the cut by just one place. The mood brightened when the varsity double turned in a sixth-place qualifying time for the Lions, who had two other boats go straight through to the finals due to a low number of entries in their events.
In the double, Victoria Iannarone (stroke) and Becca Chasar came in fifth in their final race, and Springside's novice quad and varsity quad each earned a silver medal. The novice quartet (Amanda Price (stroke), Sanna Johnson, Maddie Canning, Mariel Soto-Reyes) came in behind Conestoga High School, a traditional sculling rival of Springside's.
The varsity (Verity Walsh, Taylor Apostolico, Jen Sager, Anna Valciukas) beat out Conestoga for the silver medal, but could not quite catch another familiar foe, fellow Girls Inter-Ac League member Episcopal Academy. The week before in the Inter-Ac quad race, Springside ran into a glitch and dropped off the pace set by EA.
This time, the Lions almost pulled even alongside Peter's Island late in the race, but the Churchwomen countered and were able to win by two seconds. Springside keeps getting closer to Episcopal, and will try to get over the hump either at the Stotesbury Cup Regatta or the scholastic nationals.
Penn Charter's crew program, only a few years old in its current form, broke through to win a bronze medal last weekend. Moving straight into the finals without a qualifier, the girls novice quad (Hannah Kramer (stroke), Julia Mammone, Liza Gendler, Celina McCall) came in third, one spot behind Springside.
Three other crews for the Quakers made it through a head race round. The boys' novice double (Erich Riedlmeier (stroke), Stanton Young) ranked third in the qualifiers, and finished fifth in the finals, while the girls' junior double (Heidi Zisselman (stroke) and Maria Georgiou) placed fifth in both their head race and the finals.
The boys' JV double for PC (Spencer Grant (stroke), Kevin Kelly) were the fourth-fastest qualifiers in their event, and they ended up sixth in the finals.