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Published Friday, February 29, 2008 12:32PM EST
Despite repeated requests, Barack Obama's campaign is still neither verifying nor denying a CTV report that a senior member of the team made contact with the Canadian government -- via the Chicago consulate general -- regarding comments Obama made about NAFTA.
Allegations of double talk on the North American Free Trade Agreement from both the Obama and Clinton campaigns dominated the U.S. political landscape on Thursday.
On Wednesday, CTV reported that a senior member of Obama's campaign called the Canadian government within the last month -- saying that when Senator Obama talks about opting out of the free trade deal, the Canadian government shouldn't worry. The operative said it was just campaign rhetoric not to be taken seriously.
The Obama campaign told CTV late Thursday night that no message was passed to the Canadian government that suggests that Obama does not mean what he says about opting out of NAFTA if it is not renegotiated.
However, the Obama camp did not respond to repeated questions from CTV on reports that a conversation on this matter was held between Obama's senior economic adviser -- Austan Goolsbee -- and the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago.
Earlier Thursday, the Obama campaign insisted that no conversations have taken place with any of its senior ranks and representatives of the Canadian government on the NAFTA issue. On Thursday night, CTV spoke with Goolsbee, but he refused to say whether he had such a conversation with the Canadian government office in Chicago. He also said he has been told to direct any questions to the campaign headquarters.
During a candidates' debate Tuesday, both Democratic party leadership contenders -- Obama and Hillary Clinton -- suggested they would opt out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if core labour and environmental standards weren't renegotiated.
The CTV exclusive also reported that sources said the Clinton campaign has made indirect contact with the Canadian government, trying to reassure Ottawa of their support despite Clinton's words. The Clinton camp denied the claim. The story caught the attention of Republican front-runner John McCain on Thursday.
"I don't think it's appropriate to go to Ohio and tell people one thing while your aide is calling the Canadian ambassador and telling him something else," McCain said, referring to Obama. "I certainly don't think that's straight talk."
On Thursday, the Canadian embassy in Washington issued a complete denial.
"At no time has any member of a presidential campaign called the Canadian ambassador or any official at the embassy to discuss NAFTA," it said in a statement.
But on Wednesday, one of the primary sources of the story, a high-ranking member of the Canadian embassy, gave CTV more details of the call. He even provided a timeline. He has since suggested it was perhaps a miscommunication.
The denial from the embassy was followed by a denial from Senator Obama.
"The Canadian government put out a statement saying that this was just not true, so I don't know who the sources were," said Obama.
Sources at the highest levels of the Canadian government -- who first told CTV that a call was made from the Obama camp -- have reconfirmed their position.
NDP Leader Jack Layton said in question period Thursday that Canada should take advantage of any openings to renegotiate NAFTA.
"Why won't the prime minister take the lead here, exercise some sovereignty and bring about some change here that would be good for workers?" he asked.
However, Harper had a warning to anyone contemplating renegotiation of the trade deal.
"If a future president actually did want to open up NAFTA, which I highly doubt, then Canada would obviously have some things we would want to discuss," Harper said.
But Harper also noted that assertions made in the heat of political campaigns should be taken with a grain of salt. During the federal election in 1993, former prime minister Jean Chretien threatened to back out of NAFTA's precursor -- the Free Trade Agreement, which was signed by the Tories in the 1980s.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – UMBC sophomore Corinna Darelius (Rye, N.Y./Rye) completed her sweep of the diving events and freshman Emily Escobedo (New Rochelle, N.Y./Maria Regina) broke a school record for the second time in two days as the Retriever women's swimming and diving team competed on the second day of the 2014 America East Swimming and Diving Championships, Saturday at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
After day two, New Hampshire continues to lead with 576 points while UMBC sits second with 491 points. Vermont (458 pts.), Binghamton (327 pts.), and Maine (321 pts.) complete the standings.
Darelius, who captured the 1-meter event last night, led the field in the morning qualifying session of the 3-meter board with a score of 234.95. She then collected her second gold medal in as many days by scoring 261.70 in the event finals.
After snapping the school mark in the 200-yd. IM last night, Escobedo captured the UMBC record for the 100-yd. breaststroke during the morning prelims with a time 1:02.22. At night, Escobedo outdid herself to win her first career individual gold medal with an NCAA "B" cut time and pool record of 1:01.58. Senior Talor Tadena (Orangevale, Calif./Bella Vista) won a bronze medal in the event (1:03.24) and junior Lexi Coon (Camden, Del./Milford) placed fifth (1:04.55).
Earlier in the night, Tadena garnered a silver medal in the 100-yd. butterfly by touching the wall at 56.11. Freshman Hannah Sutherland (Kingston, Ontario/Holy Cross Secondary) also competed in the event finals, placing fifth (56.84).
In the first event of the night-time finals sessions, the UMBC squad of senior Klara Pavelkova (Prague, Czech Republic, Gymnasium Pripotocni), Escobedo, Tadena, and senior Erika Ronning (Western Springs, Ill./Lyons Township) slipped past the field for the gold medal and the UMBC school record. The quartet combined for a time of 1:42.68 to clip the previous mark of 1:42.70 set last year.
In the final individual swimming event of the night, Pavelkova captured the gold medal in the 100 back for the third straight year. The senior outdid the field by touching the wall at 55.65 while Sutherland won a bronze with a time of 57.35, to jump to seventh in the UMBC record book. Freshman Lauren Day (Kingwood, Texas/Kingwood) tied for seventh in the event finals with a time of 57.84.
In the 400 IM, freshman Kayla Lilly (Natick, Mass./Medfield) led a trio of Retrievers in the finals, placing third. Lilly touched in at 4:28.19, the seventh-fastest time in UMBC history, while senior Patty Hallberg (Severna Park, Md./Broadneck) placed fifth (4:31.05), and sophomore Carly Deeter (Langhorne, Pa./Pennington School) finished eighth (4:36.93).
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Next economic crisis looms: Commercial real estate defaults
WASHINGTON — Two years after fissures in the residential housing market gave way to a national collapse of home prices and sales, experts warn the next shoe to drop is the commercial real-estate market, bringing more woes to the battered economy.
Thousands of commercial mortgages valued at hundreds of billions of dollars are approaching a renewal date. By some estimates, two out of every three will no longer meet the original loan conditions and won't be able to refinance. And with prices for commercial properties expected to plunge, a vicious cycle may unfold much as it has in the nation's housing market.
"It's the next wave to hit. It's the next round of bad news," said Scott Talbott, the senior vice president of government affairs for the Financial Services Roundtable, a trade group for big banks and other financial institutions who are collectively concerned about the coming problems.
A commercial mortgage meltdown is likely to prolong the nation's economic recovery. The falling prices in commercial real estate will lead to additional bank losses at a time when banks are sapped by home mortgage defaults and soaring credit card defaults. This could lead to future additional taxpayer assistance for the banks.
The reality is already on display. On April 16, the nation's second largest mall developer, General Growth Properties, filed for bankruptcy protection. The Chicago-based company owns more than 200 malls across the U.S., and was unable to renegotiate its debts as they came due.
Six days later, a 40-story office tower on New York's Avenue of the Americas was seized by its creditor, a Canadian-owned pension fund. The tower's owner, Macklowe Properties, couldn't meet loan terms.
"On the street, the rumor is it is coming and it's going to come fast and furious. Some people are predicting September," said Paul Waters, a New York-based executive vice president of brokerage operations in North America for NAI Global, a top-five commercial real estate brokerage with operations across the globe.
Just like the housing meltdown, the commercial real estate crunch is likely to begin as a slow bleed that gains momentum. The coming commercial real-estate crunch is likely to be spread evenly across the nation, in large part because of an outgoing economic tide that's spared few companies anywhere.
"There's going to be a lot of trouble on Main Street with some of these commercial and industrial buildings. The biggest impact will be on some of the smaller owners," Waters said. "The smaller local regional players that are stretched thin may have some great difficulties with their mortgages."
How bad it gets will depend on speed of economic recovery. Office space and multifamily apartments, two huge components of commercial real estate, are highly dependent on employment. Even if the economy begins growing again late this year as forecast, the number of unemployed is expected to keep rising well into next year.
"The translation is that office vacancy rates would continue to rise until mid-to late-2010," said Christopher Cornell, an economist specializing in commercial real estate for Moody's Economy.com, adding that "it's a drag on the recovery" well into next year.
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"If you take a look between 2005 and 2007, the underwriting standards on both the consumer side and the commercial side were spinning out of control," said Kevin Blakely, the president of the Risk Management Association, a Philadelphia-based trade group for financial risk managers. "I think it is a bigger issue than we like to admit."
In housing, many of the loans with poor underwriting went bad within two years, when adjustable-rate mortgages were due to reset to higher interest rates and raise monthly payment costs for homeowners.
However, commercial properties carry mortgages with lives of five years or 10 years. And these loans issued from 1999 to 2007 are coming up for a rollover — refinancing under similar terms. Today's economic downturn and credit crunch makes that unlikely, however, as credit standards have tightened.
As in housing, many commercial properties have mortgages that were bundled together in pools, sliced and diced and instead of being held by banks were sold to investors as bonds and securities. Thousands of these commercial mortgage-backed securities, or CMBS, are reaching their maturity dates over the next three years. Ten-year mortgages issued in 1999 and 2000 start coming due late this year, and five-year loans issued from 2005 to 2007 come due early next year.
"If you stop and think about what is coming up for maturity over the next couple of years, either on the banks' books or CMBS, there is going to be a day of reckoning as those loans mature and they have to be rebalanced and reset to today's underwriting standards," said Blakely, who worked 17 years as a bank regulator followed by 17 years as a bank executive and risk officer.
A March study by the Wall Street arm of Deutsche Bank, Germany's largest financial institution, points to this day of reckoning. It found that the number of U.S. commercial loans that hadn't refinanced within a month of their end date had tripled.
Refinancing usually happens months ahead of the end date. Since October, commercial refinancing has dropped from a pace of more than 400 mortgages a month to fewer than 100 a month, the bank said.
The report, entitled "Commercial Real Estate at the Precipice," said that under lenient underwriting standards, 56.8 percent of existing commercial mortgages wouldn't qualify for refinancing. Using conservative standards, two thirds won't make the grade.
That suggests that lenders will have to extend loans, much like they've tried to freeze adjustable-rate residential mortgages at their original lower rate to avoid a foreclosure. Even if the commercial loans are simply extended for a year or two, however, commercial real-estate prices are forecast to keep dropping so the time bomb will be delayed not defused, the report concluded.
"In our view, much of these losses are unavoidable, even in a mass (loan) extension environment," wrote Richard Parkus, the report's author.
Forecaster Moody's Economy.com expects $375 billion in losses on the $3.5 trillion in commercial mortgage loans and securities outstanding. That a loss rate of about 11 percent, nearly twice the rate of home mortgage foreclosures, and the forecaster thinks that about $200 billion of those commercial losses are still ahead.
"This is significant, but small compared to the over $1.1 trillion losses ultimately expected on residential mortgage loans and securities. Commercial mortgage losses will be a significant problem for many mid-sized and small banks," said Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody's Economy.com. "In fact, most of the banking failures that occur in the next several years will be due to losses on commercial mortgage loans."
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Ahh, evil winning, but at least they've played a striker, so I'm not that bothered for once.
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Should have headed that. Don't seem to get many diving headers these days.
Spain look more lively since bringing a striker on, who would have thought it
Italy's defence looking surprisingly rubbish at times.
Yerp, comfortably the best game so far as well imo.
England games are never for enjoying tbf.
Thought that was a fair result on the whole, fairly even game really.
Not a fan of the no striker tactic though. Think if you're going to do that you still need one of your players to have the primary role of "goalscorer", which Spain didn't seem to. Result was lots of nice passing and reasonable movement but Silva/Fabregas/Iniesta were just running all over the place with no main focal point of attack to play off. If Torres was actually still good these days he'd have wrapped it up for them, looked much more threatening once he came on.
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Wonder if by the end of the night you'll end up feeling monumentally pissed off tbh. Wouldn't rule it out.
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Q My dog was diagnosed with a cruciate ligament tear in her knee. I was told that there are two ways to fix this. One was described as a strap using "fishing leader line."
Then I was told about a new repair that involves cutting the bone, reshaping the joint, and then putting in a metal plate to stabilize all that. I am confused.
The first repair seems almost primitive, while the second seems very involved and technically complicated. But it still seems unclear which is better and why.
Why can't they just replace the ligament? What repair do you recommend?
A: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) rupture is the most common cause of hind-limb lameness in dogs. The ACL repair is, arguably, the most researched, discussed, debated and performed procedures in veterinary surgery.
Although our knowledge of the causes of ACL has improved, a complete understanding of biomechanical, genetic and environmental influences remains incomplete.
Likewise, the array of surgical techniques that are still employed indicates that we are far from the magic bullet.
The ACL is a highly specialized component of the joint. It serves to counter a defined set of forces to which the knee is subjected, and is designed to effect even distribution of forces throughout the range of motion.
Once torn, this ligament cannot be reconstructed, and we have yet to design a replacement that functions exactly as the original.
In humans, the ACL tear is most commonly the result of trauma. Presumably, absent a traumatic event, the ligament would have remained normal indefinitely.
Not so in the dog. We have come to understand that it's the dogs individual anatomy that contributes to accelerated degeneration of the ACL. So, it's typically something as uneventful as trotting through the yard that immediately precedes a rupture.
This is further supported by the fact that certain breeds are more commonly affected by ACL tears than others.
Labrador retrievers are one of the most commonly represented breeds, while greyhounds are virtually never seen with spontaneously occurring ACL tears.
A particular angle in the knee of the greyhound is significantly smaller than the same angle in the Labrador retriever. Physics dictate that the greater this angle, the more strain is placed on the ACL Furthermore, it appears that once a dog had demonstrated the propensity to tear one ACL, the odds of the other side going are vastly increased.
In fact, if a Lab tears one ligament, the odds are 50 percent that it will tear the other side within five months.
Even though this is the same ligament with basically the same function in humans and dogs, the repairs differ because the causes differ.
Humans tear their ACL because of an abnormal stress application. For this reason, even if the replacement structure is not as strong as the original, it will likely hold up to normal every day stresses.
In dogs, its cumulative daily stress that destroys the original ligament. So, unless we can replace it with something far stronger than the original, a direct replacement, such as a graft, is likely to quickly fail as well.
Therefore, veterinary surgeons rely on indirect means of stabilizing the knee.
The "fishing line" approach, and others like it, places a suture material in an orientation similar to the ACL to counter the major forces it originally served to restrain. The suture lies outside of the joint and away from the original ligament's location.
The procedures that involve cutting bone are also known as dynamic procedures. The premise with these is to change the geometry of the joint in order to alter the physics of motion. Basically, the goal here is to eliminate the forces that the ACL was originally meant to oppose. The goal is not to replace the ligament but to render it unnecessary.
So, in veterinary surgery today, the repairs are of two major categories. The "fishing line" type is known as static repairs. The "bone cutting" variety is termed dynamic repairs.
Overall it appears that the dynamic repairs slightly out perform the statics in terms of long-term function and joint degeneration.
Additional benefits of the dynamic repairs are shortened recovery times and faster resolution of post-surgical pain. Most will walk on the leg two to three days after surgery. The biggest hurdle to choosing these repairs is cost. They are typically about 50 percent higher than the statics.
The static repairs provide a fairly predictable outcome. Most will achieve approximately 80 percent to 85 percent of normal function. These repairs are less expensive than dynamics. The downside is that recovery times are double that of dynamic repairs, and post-op pain is significantly worse and lasts longer.
Generally, dogs over 15 pounds will benefit from ACL surgery of either kind over doing nothing.
But all dogs will get arthritis, no matter which way you go, because the techniques are not perfect.
So, if its in the budget, I would choose the dynamic repair, which has the best outcome, the least pain and the fastest healing.
If it's a major financial stretch, static repairs, in the right hands, offer an appropriate, economical alternative.
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Defense attorney Murrio Ducille accused Travolta's attorney, Michael McDermott, of entrapment in the case against two individuals who allegedly threatened to sell stories to the media suggesting the actor was at fault in the January death of his 16-year-old son Jett unless they were paid $25 million, according to the New York Daily News.
"I suggest, Mr. McDermott, that you sought to give birth to an extortion plot but it was stillborn," Ducille said in Bahamas Supreme Court.
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(CNN) — I can be as casual as the next guy. I'm from Indiana, so I don't have much choice. The only known Hoosier engaged in high snobbery was Bill Blass, otherwise no one ever got beyond "local boy done good" status — even James Dean.
I have ripped this joint and raised some hell. I've been to enduros and hydroplane races and at least one tractor pull. I drank my first PBR at age five and I still have a t-shirt with the sleeves cut off.
But I also know the tragedy that is a grown-up wearing shorts in public. I know the difference between the ballpark and the opera house, between a dive bar and The French Laundry.
As the maitre d' at Daniel I get to work in one of the finest fine dining establishments in the world. The restaurant exudes charm and flair, a hybrid of modern French-American style be it on the plate or in the service, a place that requires jackets and frowns on jeans.
That being said, it is a balancing act. We defend a standard of dining in a time where a chef can earn three Michelin stars while eschewing silver, crystal and a jacket policy. Upholding a standard is ever more critical as you try to justify separating people from their money on a nightly basis.
Herein, a dollop of wisdom on why fine dining still matters.
1. Forget the special occasion
Everyone wants to celebrate at a fancy restaurant: graduation, engagements, promotions, divorces, mergers, recording deals, sneaker contracts. As far as I am concerned, every morning when I shuffle across the street in my jammies to free-base Americanos, pick up the New York Times and not see my name in the obituaries is a reason to celebrate. Why wait for an occasion? Life is an occasion.
Sometimes it is worth living like there is no tomorrow, because when you get right down to it, there isn't. Work hard, play harder, have passion; you deserve a glass of Krug and a perfect foie gras terrine for dinner. It should be welcome to have someone take care of you for a change.
2. Fine dining is affordable luxury
Yes, when you start looking at check averages that hover above $200 per person before tax and tip, you start doing math in your head. But when you place yourself in an environment that is at once tactile and serene, where you have one staff member for every two diners, where there is a small army capable of occupying Paris tending to a rare and elegant product, the actual cost is truly not exorbitant.
Break it down per hour: if you hit $250 per person you will most likely be dining for three-plus hours, roughly $80 per hour. You cannot get a spa treatment for that, nor a lawyer, nor a Ferrari, nor a weekend in St. Bart's.
3. Fine dining has more than one entry point
You can come to the lounge at Daniel and have a bespoke cocktail, perfect canapés, maybe try a few artisanal cheeses. The few restaurants that fall into our category have an entry-priced prix fixe menu, bars and lounges, à la carte options, wines by the glass, dessert tastings. You can dip a toe without taking the plunge.
When it comes to comparable luxury items, it is nearly impossible. There are no starter-priced $400,000 sports cars or villas next door to Mick Jagger on Mustique. Most of us will never touch a private jet or buy a Patek-Philippe watch, but we can pop in for a tasting of white truffle risotto for comparatively little money.
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Anyone can go to a beer garden wearing retro-high tops. Anyone can follow a burger trend. But no matter the blend of luxury ingredients or the rarity of the kicks, the fact remains that it is still a hamburger or a sneaker.
Over a career dating back now over 20 years I have served any number of unique clients who embraced a few stolen moments of pampering at a high-end restaurant. I've walked legendary musician Lou Reed through a multi-course tasting menu, opened Dom Perignon Rosé for Metallica's Lars Ulrich, guided actor Jason Biggs through an entire white truffle and called my mother when I realized Roger Waters from Pink Floyd knew my name.
The common thread throughout is that everyone got dressed, donned a sexy jacket with a high-collared shirt and became willing participants in on ongoing stage show called Haute Cuisine.
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A Walkman, an old Honda, my Rachael Ray cookbooks – the world is full of my cast-off objects. The allure of the material is fleeting and instant. The allure of cuisine endures.
I carry distinct memories of first tastes, such as oysters at Acme in New Orleans, 1928 Cheval Blanc in the studio kitchen at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago and Laurent Gras' lacquered pork belly at the Fifth Floor in San Francisco. My mind reels at the list of special meals: white truffles in December, Brillat-Savarin cheese in summer, a surreptitious taste of foie gras while I was running up the service stairs some twenty years ago.
We come together at a table for many reasons — to celebrate, to laugh, to declare war. The material fades but the tastes and aromas linger, direct links to our most primal instincts and the only true sensual pleasure we share in a room full of strangers.
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Sometime during the first year of my marriage, I visited my mother-in-law in her kitchen. There she was, listening to the radio, whistling (she is a formidable whistler), and rolling cream-cheese dough around raisins and nuts to form the crescent-shaped cookies known as rugelach. I was spellbound — I'd had no idea that rugelach could be made at home. As far as I knew, rugelach, like ketchup or ships-in-bottles, were made only in laboratories. But here was my mother-in-law shaping the cookies with ease. And a short time later, there I was, eating them with ease. These cookies weren't like the rugelach my mother bought every week at the local German bakery — they were much better. I was so excited I asked for the recipe.
My mother-in-law wrote it out in her precise hand on a 3-by-5 index card. And, as she wrote, she told me that this recipe was not exactly the same as the one her mother used, that it had come from Mrs. Strauss, her next-door neighbor, and that she was sure I'd have no problem making the cookies as long as I didn't overmix the dough. She was right. I was a newcomer to the world of baking, but I had no problem with the dough, the only potentially tricky part of the process.
Since then, I've made rugelach countless times, but nowadays my dough is even more foolproof because I make it in a food processor. I've also made a few other changes to the recipe. While my mother-in-law's rugelach were filled with cinnamon-sugared nuts, mine also include a slick of jam, some currants, and a handful of chopped chocolate. This is a very old recipe, and I have no doubt that everyone who has made it has added or subtracted a little bit to make it her own — and my mom-in-law, Mrs. Strauss, and I expect you to do the same.–Dorie Greenspan
Dorie Greenspan's Rugelach
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- Makes 32 cookies
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- For the dough
- 4 ounces cold cream cheese, cut into 4 pieces
- 8 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 4 pieces
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- For the filling
- 2/3 cup raspberry jam, apricot jam, or marmalade
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2/3 cup chopped nuts (I prefer pecans, but you can use walnuts or almonds)
- 1/4 cup plump, moist dried currants
- 4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, finely chopped, or 2/3 cup store-bought mini chocolate chips
- For the glaze
- 1 large egg
- 1 teaspoon cold water
- 2 tablespoons sugar, preferably decorating (coarse) sugar
- Make the dough
- 1. Let the cream cheese and butter rest on the counter for 10 minutes — you want them to be slightly softened but still cool. Put the flour and salt in a food processor, scatter over the chunks of cream cheese and butter, and pulse the machine 6 to 10 times. Then process, scraping down the sides of the bowl often, just until the dough forms large curds — don't work it so long that it forms a ball on the blade.
- 2. Turn the dough out, gather it into a ball, and divide it in half. Shape each half into a disk, wrap the disks in plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 2 hours, or up to 1 day. (Wrapped airtight, the dough can be frozen for up to 2 months.)
- Make the filling
- 3. Heat the jam in a saucepan over low heat, or do this in a microwave, until it liquefies. Mix the sugar and cinnamon together.
- 4. Line two baking sheets with parchment or silicone mats. (Silicone baking mats are great for rugelach.)
- Make the cookies
- 5. Pull one packet of dough from the refrigerator. If it is too firm to roll easily, either leave it on the counter for about 10 minutes or give it a few bashes with your rolling pin.
- 6. On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough into an 11-to-12-inch circle. Spoon (or brush) a thin gloss of jam over the dough and sprinkle with half of the cinnamon sugar. Scatter half of the nuts, half of the currants, and half of the chopped chocolate over the dough. Cover the filling with a piece of wax paper and gently press the filling into the dough, then remove the paper and save it for the next batch.
- 7. Using a pizza wheel or a sharp knife, cut the dough into 16 wedges, or triangles. (The easiest way to do this is to cut the dough into quarters, then to cut each quarter into 4 triangles.) Starting at the base of each triangle, roll the dough up so that each cookie becomes a little crescent. Arrange the roll-ups on one baking sheet, making sure the points are tucked under the cookies, and refrigerate. Repeat with the second packet of dough, and refrigerate the cookies for at least 30 minutes before baking. (The cookies can be covered and refrigerated overnight or frozen for up to 2 months; don't defrost before baking, just add a couple of minutes to the baking time.)
- 8. Position the racks to divide the oven into thirds and preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Make the glaze
- 9. Stir the egg and water together, and brush a bit of this glaze over each rugelach. Sprinkle the cookies with the sugar.
- 10. Bake the cookies for 20 to 25 minutes, rotating the sheets from top to bottom and front to back at the midway point, until they are puffed and golden. Transfer the cookies to racks to cool to just warm or to room temperature.
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Have you ever tried a Dorie Greenspan recipe that wasn't delicious? The dough was super easy to work with and her suggestions on what to fill the rugelach with allowed a lot of flexibility. I tended to veer away from her suggested jams (I used apple butter) and fillings (I used raisins), based on what I had in my cupboard. The results were yummy, to say the least.
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AS A SENIOR IN 2010: One of three Triton players to finish the year in the 20 goals-20 assists-20 steals club, finishing the season with 27 goals, 20 assists and 26 steals... Drew 15 ejections and added seven field blocks... Tallied four goals, three assists and two steals in a 14-4 win over Cal Lutheran on September 10... Scored a season-high six goals and added three assists with four steals in a 20-10 win over Chapman on September 23... Recorded two-goal performances in the Tritons' final three matches of the regular season against Claremont, UC Irvine and Pomona Pitzer.
AS A JUNIOR IN 2009: Madsen finished second on the team with 37 goals scored and added 20 assists... 37 goals is the highest amongst returning players in 2010... Scored three goals in an exciting 14-13 OT win over Redlands in the first-round of the WWPA Championship tournament... Scored two goals in an 8-7 upset win over Concordia at the Northern California tournament.
AS A SOPHOMORE IN 2008: Scored two goals in limited action during his first season at UC San Diego.
HIGH SCHOOL: A 2006 graduate of Marina High School in Huntington Beach... Water polo team won the Sunset League Championship in 2002... CIF Semifinalists in 2002 and 2003 and CIF Quarterfinalists in 2005.
PERSONAL: Born June 13, 1988... Parents are Geoffrey and Jody Madsen... Has three siblings named Briton, Travis and Taylor... A Mechanical Engineering major in Revelle College... Hobbies include surfing, golfing and snowboarding.


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Leave it to a few intrepid aviation dreamers and a team of financiers to usher in a new era in space exploration.
Tomorrow, they will make the first private attempt to launch a man into space in what they hope will be the seminal first step towards mass space travel.
The action will start early tomorrow from a dusty airstrip in the barren Mojave desert in southeastern California, where Burt Rutan, a legendary but maverick aviation designer will roll out SpaceShipOne for a flight that could change aviation history.
The bulbous rocket will first be carried aloft aboard a spindly white jet plane to a height of some 16km. The pair, described by technology magazine Wired as "resembling a dragonfly mating with a winged bratwurst" will then separate, and the rocketship's pilot will ignite its engine for an 80-second burn.
That will shoot SpaceShipOne to three times the speed of sound, sending it 100km above the Earth's surface. For a few seconds the unnamed pilot will feel the silence, blackness and weightlessness of space.
Then the rocket will re-enter our planet's atmosphere, diving back down to earth, before its wings move, coaxing the ship to a gentle glide back to earth, according to the team's plan.
The men behind the project are designer Rutan, who is without doubt the closest thing that avionics has to a celebrity. His designs include the "Voyager," the first plane ever to fly around the world nonstop without refuelling.
The project has been funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen to the tune of US$20 million. He may get some of it back if SpaceShipOne follows up Monday's flight by winning the US$10 million Ansari X prize. This will be given to the first team to successfully launch a manned spaceship carrying the weight of three people into space, twice within a period of two weeks.
But the ultimate prize is much bigger than that. Developing a successful private space vehicle would allow them to lead the way in developing space tourism, where flights would be sold to wealthy individuals for more than US$100,000 a pop.
Even more significantly is that success would place them in a prime position for new government contracts that are at the heart of plans to reform the US space agency NASA by granting a much greater role to private enterprise.
NASA has held a complete monopoly over space exploration for the last 40 years. But as the Economist magazine noted in a recent issue, the "agency has done so in a spectacularly expensive fashion, wasting hundreds of billions on projects that fail to live up to their billing."
The space shuttle is hugely expensive, fatally unreliable, and like the International Space Station that it is meant to service, thought to be largely superfluous to the scientific reasons for space travel.
NASA's bureaucracy is notorious, and when it does hand out some of its US$15 billion budget to private firms, the work mostly goes to just two giant aerospace firms, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
This means that creative entrepreneurs have had virtually no impact on advancing the space frontier.
Now, if all goes as planned at 6:30 tomorrow morning, a small team of designers, engineers and yes, space visionaries, are about to launch a man out of the earth's atmosphere at a price that would probably not cover the NASA coffee budget.
Rutan is renowned for coming up with brilliant and cost effective engineering solutions. In the case of SpaceshipOne his plans called for cobbling together existing technologies for a project that will become far more than just the sum of its parts.


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Edited by David Gilmore, Honor and Shame and the Unity of the Mediterranean is available at the AAA online store at a discounted member rate.
Gilmore provides new, comparable data on Peristiany's paradigm, "honor and shame." He reexamines fundamental assumptions about Mediterranean unity made on the basis of the original honor/shame model.
This volume is thus especially significant and timely, and should be recognized as generally important for anthropologists, regardless of their particular ethnographic concerns. Saunders~Anthropological Quarterly 1988.
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On October 30, 1938, just after 8:00 p.m. on the east coast, the millions of Americans tuned to CBS Radio were treated to an unusual dramatization of H.G. Wells's classic The War of the Worlds, performed by 23-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater on the Air. Although most listeners understood that the program was a radio drama, the next day's headlines reported that thousands of others — perhaps a million or more — were plunged into panic, convinced that America was under a deadly Martian attack.
Featuring interviews with film director and cinema historian Peter Bogdanovich, Welles's daughter Chris Welles Feder, and other authors and experts, as well as dramatizations of some of the thousands of letters sent to Welles by an alternately admiring and furious public, War of the Worldsexplores how Welles's ingenious use of the new medium of radio struck fear into an already anxious nation. "In an era when the public can still be fooled or misled by what is read online, in print, or seen on TV, War of the Worlds is a timely reminder of the power of mass media," said American Experience Executive Producer Mark Samels.
It took place on the night before Halloween, long known as Mischief Night. It began like any other ordinary Sunday evening, with millions of Americans tuned to their radios. But beneath the outward calm was a nation tense with worry and fear; the Great Depression refused to let up, and the threat of war in Europe loomed larger every day. Then, at 8:15 p.m., the voice of a panicked announcer broke into the dance music with a news bulletin reporting that strange explosions were taking place on the planet Mars, followed minutes later by a report that Martians had landed in the tiny town of Grover's Mill, New Jersey.
Almost instantly, frantic listeners responded to the shocking news. Chicago newspapers were flooded with calls; in St. Louis, people gathered outside to discuss what to do about the "invaders"; in San Francisco, many feared that New Jersey had been laid to waste and that the Martians were heading west. Callers pleaded with the power company in Providence to shut off the lights so that the city would not be seen by the invaders. Similar reports of panicked reactions came from Baltimore, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Memphis, Minneapolis, and Salt Lake. At the epicenter of the event, New Jersey national guardsmen flooded armories with calls asking where to report. And in cities and towns across the country, people stopped a moment to pray — then grabbed their loved ones and fled into the night.
Seventy-five years later, War of the Worlds explores this legendary but misunderstood event. With the CBS radio broadcast serving as its narrative spine, the film examines the elements that came together to create one of the most notorious media events in U.S. history: our longtime fascination with life on Mars; the emergence of radio as a powerful, pervasive medium; the eagerness of newspapers to disparage their radio rivals; the shocking Hindenburg explosion of 1937, the first disaster to broadcast live; and the brilliant enfant terrible Orson Welles, the director of the drama and mischief maker supreme.
Public reaction, forever immortalized in thousands of letters written following the broadcast, is dramatized in on-camera interviews, bringing to life the people who listened that night and thought it was a rip-roaring entertainment — or the end of the world. Saved by Mercury Theater member Richard Wilson, most of these letters had not been read since 1938. Donated to the University of Michigan in 2007 by Wilson's estate, they were re-discovered by A. Brad Schwartz, a University of Michigan student who was writing his thesis on the broadcast. "The 'panic' caused by the broadcast has become legendary," said producer Cathleen O'Connell. "Using these newly discovered letters was a wonderful way to personalize the story. These rarely heard first-hand accounts, juxtaposed with the print media coverage of the day, help demonstrate the true impact of Welles's radio drama."


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How Rick Scott's noncitizen voter purge started small and then blew up
Florida's latest elections controversy began in the smallest of ways: a five-minute chat a year ago between Gov. Rick Scott and his top election official.
At the time, about February 2011, the newly elected governor was touring the office run by then-Secretary of State Kurt Browning, who put on a presentation about Florida's voting rolls and elections issues for the political newcomer.
That's when Scott — a Republican who campaigned as an immigration hardliner — asked a simple question: How do we know everyone on the rolls is a U.S. citizen?
"I said it was an honor system," Browning recalls. "That's how it's always been done."
"People don't always tell the truth," Browning recalled Scott saying.
So Browning decided to find out how many noncitizens were actually on the rolls.
Now, more than a year later, the effort that stemmed from that chat has produced three federal lawsuits, widespread suspicion and bitter partisanship, echoing the recriminations of Florida's controversial 2000 elections that still haunt the state today.
The latest suit was filed Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Justice, which claims Florida's purge program violates two federal voting laws. Florida denies the charges.
To those on the political left, the voter purge looks like a concerted effort by Republicans to get an edge at the ballot box. But in the words and deeds of Browning, Scott and elections officials in Florida, the purge looks like a poorly managed program that became unexpectedly controversial to an administration filled with political newcomers.
Browning was one of the few seasoned Florida officials on Scott's leadership team. He served for 26 years as Pasco County's elections supervisor. He then became Florida's secretary of state and oversaw two major elections in 2006 and 2008 without much controversy — a rarity in Florida — before Scott called him back to Tallahassee.
In Washington, President Obama's administration was suspicious of Scott's effort to spot noncitizens and remove them from the rolls. The request came around the same time Scott signed a law cracking down on voter-registration drives and eliminating early voting on the Sunday before Election Day. Some liberals are suspicious of Browning because, in 2010, he was the public face of an unsuccessful conservative push -- funded partly by a front group linked to the billionaire Koch brothers -- to stop two Florida anti-gerrymandering constitutional amendments. Browning said he didn't know they contributed.
As part of its noncitizen program, Florida wanted the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to give the state access to a mammoth immigration database called SAVE. DHS has refused since October 2011.
Browning's elections division then relied on another state agency, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, which had limited and often-outdated citizenship information that carried a high risk of making lawful voters look like noncitizens.
The first list came back: 182,000 potential noncitizens on the voter rolls.
After more work and reshaping, the elections division produced a second list of nearly 25,000 potential voters.
The numbers were high. Too high for Browning.
Browning knew the programmatic, political and legal pitfalls of the noncitizen voter-purge program. He knew the voter rolls — like any massive database — has errors. And comparing the rolls to another database can compound those errors.
So if the state sent elections supervisors a list that wasn't vetted enough, it would cause an uproar. Democrats and liberal elections groups and civil-rights groups, long aligned with the U.S. Department of Justice, would pounce, hold press conferences, gin up the news media and sue. And, because the noncitizen effort by definition targeted immigrants, it would disproportionately hit Hispanics and Haitians. Indeed, about 87 percent of those on the 2,700-person list are minorities.
Lastly, the frontline officials in charge of each county's voting rolls — the 67 election supervisors, the overwhelming majority of them elected — would balk.
Browning refused to release the list.
"I consciously decided not to get them in the loop," Browning said. "I didn't feel comfortable rolling this initiative out. Something was telling me this isn't going to fly. We didn't have our I's dotted and T's crossed when I was there."
Browning called it his "Spidey sense," and said he was not just concerned with the numbers, but how they were obtained. His agency wasn't doing the checking. Instead, it shipped names to highway safety, which performed the checks.
"We were not getting first-hand data," he said. "I wanted to make we are 99.9 percent certain. I wanted to make sure the data was good if it went out under my name."
Browning said there's a good chance the names would never have been released. It wasn't a "front-burner issue. Rick Scott didn't order me to do this."
All of that appeared to change by coincidence in February.
Browning was leaving office. At the same time, a local television reporter at NBC2 in Fort Myers decided to match Lee County voter rolls with a list of people who were excused from jury service after they said they were noncitizens. NBC2 reported finding nearly 100 noncitizens on the rolls. The local elections supervisor has found more than 40.
Republicans, long concerned that phony voters were on the rolls, started wondering what the state was doing about noncitizen voters. Scott and Browning's successor, Secretary of State Ken Detzner, felt pressured to release the list, which the state did in April, Browning said.
"I would not have sent the list to the counties," Browning said, adding he "cannot second-guess Secretary Detzner because I wasn't up there. I don't know what the discussions were."
Still, Browning said he would have "given a great deal of pushback about sending any list out."
The Scott administration figured that legitimate citizens listed as potential noncitizens weren't really in danger of having their voting rights removed. After all, they would have up to 60 days to prove their citizenship and remain on the rolls. And even if they were removed, they could be reinstated rather easily or even cast provisional ballots on Election Day in worst-case scenarios.
So in April, after checking and rechecking its list, the state sent the supervisors a batch of nearly 2,700 names.
It was filled with the high level of false positives that Browning feared. One potential noncitizen, Bill Internicola, was anything but. The Broward resident is a U.S. born World War II veteran who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He held a press conference with Democratic Rep. Ted Deutch to bash the purge.
So far, more than 500 people on the list have been identified as actual citizens. More than 140 have been identified as noncitizens and about 50 may have unlawfully cast a ballot, Scott said on Monday.
When asked about Browning's recollection of events and why the state decided to release the list when it did, Scott didn't answer.
"What I'm focused on is making sure that no U.S. citizen — no Florida citizen's — vote is diluted by noncitizens," Scott said Tuesday.
"The debate is over about whether people are out there that are non U.S. citizens who registered to vote. They have," Scott said. "There's no debate about whether they've voted. They have. There's no debate that they can impact elections. They can."
Scott went on to say his administration had to sue Homeland Security the day before because it "stonewalled" the state's request for the citizenship database.
But the Justice Department said that Florida didn't meet the requirements to use the database. And it accused Florida in its new lawsuit of violating the Voting Rights Act and the National Voter Registration Act, which prohibits purges within 90 days of a federal election. The American Civil Liberties sued Florida on Friday.
"Rick Scott's intent has been mischaracterized. He wants to do the right thing," Browning said. "For every ineligible voter on the rolls, it cheapens the vote of those legally on the rolls."
What about eligible voters who could get kicked off the rolls?
"It's injustice," Browning replied. "The intent of the state is not to take people off the rolls."


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The Parcells era
The Patriots believe the Jets tampered to get coach Bill Parcells, who resigned from New England after Super Bowl XXXI. The Jets forfeited multiple draft picks in 1997, 1998 and 1999 as compensation. Parcells would take the Jets to the 1998 AFC Championship Game. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Poison pill
The Jets present an offer sheet to Patriots running back Curtis Martin to switch teams after the 1997 season. In the contract was a "poison pill" that called for the Patriots to give Martin unrestricted free agency the following year if the Patriots matched the offer. Martin finished his Hall of Fame career with New York. (AP Photo/Greg Trott)
Thanks, but no thanks
Bill Belichick agreed to take over the Jets after Parcells resigned after the 1999 season. But Belichick's welcome press conference to the Jets turned into a bizarre resignation as he instead chose to go with the Patriots. This time, it was the Patriots who had to give up compensation for the coach. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
Blame the Jets
The Jets knock Drew Bledsoe out during the team's Week 2 meeting. The Patriots then turn things over to second-year quarterback Tom Brady. We all know how this ends, right? (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
Why doesn't my key work?
When the Jets hire Patriots assistant Eric Mangini, the former defensive coordinator is locked out of Gillette Stadium. I wonder if Mangini would hold a grudge for this? (AP Photo/Robert E. Klein)
Mangini accuses the Patriots of using a camera on the sidelines to tape defensive signals. Belichick was fined $500K and the Patriots had to pay $250K. The Patriots also had to forfeit draft picks, too. And let's just say handshakes between the teacher and former pupil were a little awkward after that. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Should have made an offer he couldn't refuse
Rex Ryan immediately makes a name for himself when he became coach of the Jets in 2009. Most notably, Ryan said he wasn't there to "kiss the rings" of coach Belichick. (AP Photo/Mike Derer)
Sticking his foot in his mouth
Wes Welker is grounded by coach Belichick when he poked fun at Ryan during a press conference in the lead up to the two teams' 2010 playoff matchup. Welker just recently opened up about playing under the Belichick regime. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)
Tom Brady is a (expletive)
Conversely, cornerback Antonio Cromartie was not disciplined by Ryan when he referred to Tom Brady as an (expletive). The Jets won, 28-21, and proceeded to celebrate on the field like they had just won the Super Bowl. For most Jets fans, this was about as close as the team has come to the Super Bowl in a while, so it makes sense. (Associated Press)
Boston Tebow party
The Patriots signed former Jets QB Tim Tebow. Coach Belichick has a long history with former University of Florida coach, Urban Meyer and offensive coordinator, Josh McDaniels, who drafted Tebow in Denver. Unfortunately, the relationship didn't last. Tebow was cut before the season. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz)
Revis Island relocates
You might want to avert your eyes on this one, Jets fans. The next time Revis makes an interception during a Jets/Patriots game, he's going to be wearing the red, white and blue of New England. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
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Jimmy Fallon + Julia Roberts Play Face Balls: 'The Comedy Version of Fifty Shades of Grey' [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
During her visit to 'The Tonight Show' last night, Julia Roberts was up for a game of Face Balls with Jimmy Fallon, in which the actress and host hurl beach balls at each other's faces, because of course.
Dubbing the game "the comedy version of 'Fifty Shades of Grey,'" Roberts was just a little reluctant to smack the host in the face with a ball — but she was even more freaked out about getting hit with one, having to build up all her nerves for the terrifying moment.
While watching Roberts and Fallon throw balls at each other's faces was pretty hilarious in itself, the best part of the segment was when they replayed the whole thing in slow motion, so we could see every excruciating (and ridiculous) detail of being hit in the face with a ball. Not only was the audience roaring with laughter, so were Fallon and Roberts, who could barely keep it together. LOL!
Watch Julia Roberts and Jimmy Fallon play a round of Face Balls in the video above!


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As some of you already know, we've been getting the occasional spam postings in the forum the past month or so. I've been deleting them as I come accross them. Yesterday, I deleted one but people were able to reply to the deleted post; strange but there you have it. So, I went ahead and deleted it as per the requests in the thread. I couldn't remove the entire thread so I had to remove them one at a time.
If you see anymore spam, please feel free to pm me. There is no need to tell me where the message is or the link to it, when I logon, the system shows me all the unread messages so I'll just start there; chances are they've hit more than once.
Thanks so much.