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|View Poll Results: K-On! - Total Series Rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
|Voters: 237. You may not vote on this poll
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|2009-07-05, 23:05
|Link #21
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 33
Well, giving my overview of the anime series.
In short, there are many areas which left me scratching my head and go,"Something feels empty here." The execution of the plot was rather weak, and there are times where I stuck around just for the songs.
Score: 6/10 from me. This series comes with a lot of caveats, and I find myself shaking my head with every new manga chapter that rolls in. Too soon, Kyo Ani. Too soon.
|2009-07-05, 23:14
|Link #22
On a sabbatical
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Wellington, NZ
Age: 38
Last edited by ZephyrLeanne; 2009-07-05 at 23:37.
|2009-07-06, 01:34
|Link #23
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
Age: 30
I think 6 is a little too harsh, no?
OK, people who know me know I have different barometers for different genres.
Since this is slice-of-life, I'll use the lax barometer.
Animation Quality: 8.
To repeat what Shimathekat said, yes the quality dropped a little from CLANNAD. But not by MUCH, so it's OK.
Voice Actors: 8
They were rookies? I didn't know.
Script/Editing: NA
Since this is a slice-of-life, this is moot and thus not applicable.
Soundtrack: 10
The strength of this series.
Enjoyment: 8
Less than Haruhi, but still deserving.
Emotional Involvement: NA
Again, SOL isn't something I'd mention together with emotional, so I'll let this slide.
Total: 8.5
|2009-07-06, 03:11
|Link #24
Junior Member
Join Date: Apr 2007
Animation Quality: 7
It didn't blow me away visually, and there were a couple segments that caught my attention as odd, but for the most part I don't expect more then what was given from a show of this genre (which I consider to be slice of life).
Voice Actors: 10
I have zero complains here.
Script: 7
This seems to be the big "omg" section for some people but to me it's really not. I came to this anime to have a good time. The "story", such as it was, provided that and thus I'm happy with it. Perhaps one could say "It could have been more." but taken for what it is, a light bit of entertainment, it's just fine.
Soundtrack: 8
Nothing much to say here. I liked both the opening and ending enough that I still look forward to them when I start each episode (dispite the sheer number of times I've heard them now). The music in between didn't amaze but also left me with no complains.
Editing: NA
I'm not nearly a big enough animation buff to be able to judge a topic like this.
Enjoyment: 10
I did indeed enjoy it. I've watched each episode many times and will gladly do so again given the time. This really is the key section and one that basicly determins the anime's overall "grade" for me. A show can be deep and thoughtful, or a masterpiece artisticly, but if I'm not enjoying watching it then that really doesn't mean anything. K-On let me sit back for 20 minutes and smile. Plenty of other anime don't get that distinction.
Emotional Involvement: 7
It's hard to say because the show really wasn't trying to grab your heart and wring tears out of it. I liked the characters well enough that I was happy for them when they were happy and sad for them when they were sad. Again, I'm not asking for more from the show then that so I got what I wanted.
Overall: 9
An enjoyable way to spend 20 minutes of your time. It's not perfect but then again nothing is (or at least I've not been lucky enough to have seen it).
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|2009-07-06, 15:29
|Link #25
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ok! Here it goes my impressions:
Animation Quality: 9
I didn't like the animation style at first, but as long as I continued watching I noticed that it fits perfectly in this type of series!
Voice Actors: 10
The best thing in K-ON! The voice acting was perfect!
Script: 8
Nothing much to say about the script. I liked the jokes, the situations and all of the moe stuff, but I really miss some character development.
Soundtrack: 9
The OP and the ED are great! The musics in the concerts not as great but satisfying. The rest of the OST works fine. So, 9/10.
Enjoyment: 10
Every episode made me smile. A 100% enjoyable series.
Emotional Involvement: 7
This is the weak point of K-ON. Because it don't have a good character development during the series, you don't make a clear relation between you and the characters. But you still love all of them.
Overall: 8,5
Oh, BTW, second season? Yes, please!
|2009-07-06, 18:48
|Link #26
Hina is my goddess
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Dec 2005
I dont see how people can criticize this show for having a weak plot or a messed plot while praising Haruhi. At least, as average as it was, K-On was understandable, and the characters didn't make me want to stab myself in the eye.
|2009-07-07, 01:54
|Link #27
I desire Tomorrow!
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: As far away from reality as possible
Age: 36
|2009-07-07, 13:41
|Link #28
Le fou, c'est moi
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Las Vegas, NV, USA
Age: 29
^Is the new Haruhi really that bad?
*Rhetorical question, no need to answer; I'm avoiding all hype and buzz and rants and raves and fuming mouths and burning effigies until it finishes, just like I did with, well, K-On!*
Well, personally I find this show a pleasant ride. Unfortunately, it also stops at simply pleasant. There's nothing groundbreaking and I did not laugh myself until my stomach could take no more like, say, Fumoffu! or Minami-ke, but this is not a show that offends; unless you're offended at all things moe of course. Most of the moe jokes didn't really do it for me, but I wasn't facepalming. The music wasn't that spectacular either, but at least there's an excuse that they're still beginners, and they're doing practically bubblegum pop (courtesy of Mio XD).
However, the characters are nice, nobody makes me hate them -- unlike how I despised Tomo and Yukari-sensei in AzuDai -- as even the lazy characters have redeeming points. Mio nicely surprised me most of all since all the avatars floating around make her out as some kind of moeblob -- which turns out to be only half of her.
What's nicest though is that when it's actually in the "slice of life" mood rather than the "gag" one, it works wonderfully. Episode 13 with its subdued, winter mood gave me a sweet flashback to a very similar episode in Haruhi, which I believe is intentional on the part of KyoAni. There weren't too many attempted moe jokes or sitcom plots and it made the characters felt warm and real compared to their usual roles as standard all-girl cast characters, and also revealed that I did at some point connect to these characters to an extent.
TL; DR: this is not a or or kind of anime for me, but it is at least a nice warm .
|2009-07-09, 07:47
|Link #31
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
|2009-07-09, 07:54
|Link #32
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Location: As far away from reality as possible
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|2009-07-09, 11:22
|Link #33
Vampyre Rabbit
Join Date: Jul 2009
Animation Quality: 8
For the most part the animation quality was good, however at points it slipped, and at point I plain and simple didn't like it, however it was by no means bad - the level of detail was good, overall I thought the animation quality was pleasing.
Voice Actors: 7
They were rookies, and you can't expect rookies to be great, however it wasn't bad, I've heard professional voice actors slip up much more. On the flip side the characters were very exaggerated in their nature, it wasn't the most difficult thing to voice act.
Script: 4
And this is where the series really failed, the script was just annoying. None of the episodic plots were above average, some of the writing was plain clumsy, and the characters were repetitive and rather boring - generally the script was awful - it certainly didn't keep me interested. On the flip side there were some good jokes and funny moments.
Soundtrack: 6
I thought all the music was rather average, nothing really jumped out as WOW, but nothing really made me want to press mute.
Enjoyment: 5
It had potential, I must admit it had potential, but to me it ended up as another heavily cliched anime that just didn't do much for me - it caused a bit of hype, caused some anticipation, then left me feeling completely indifferent, there were some good moments, but they were out weighed by the bad ones.
Emotional Involvement: 4
Well nothing particularly melodramatic or interesting happened, there was no emotional involvement, just minor involvement in a few of the sub plots.
Final score: 6 - animation was good, as were the technical aspects in general, but the main body simply wasn't up to it.
|2009-07-09, 14:55
|Link #34
デゲソ!! ( ・_・)ノ
Join Date: Oct 2008
Age: 28
Cross posted from my blog.
First off, I want to say that's a strange roller coaster of a ride with K-ON! Yes, it's a Kyoani show, but it's also nothing more than a light and fluffy SOL anime that shouldn't have had riled up this much conflict in my heart. It's kind of embarrassing now that I think about it, but there was a lot more thought and discussion put into this than say something like Eden of the East. Regardless, here's hoping this final analysis puts all that to an end, and I can finally move on with my life.
Animation Quality
For a show that's labeled as SOL, the amount of animation and detail given to it was definitely one of the highlights of the show. Sure, it's not mind-blowing... it's not even on the same level as CLANNAD or anything; however, the easy-going and laid back style fit well with the series in my opinion. There's lots of little details which Kyoani took into account that deserve brownie points: the natural movement and interactions between the characters, the hands, the feet, the hair, etc. My only two complaints are that they didn't spend as much moolah animating them actually playing their instruments (the panning to still frames annoys me, but it's understandable), and at the beginning I was excepting at least one sequence on the same level as that infamous Haruhi performance. What they did do though, they did really well, especially in the opening and ending. The other issue I had is a minor one, but the child/chibi version of the characters look rally weird and deformed, most notably Yui and Ui at the start of the Christmas episode. Apart from that, animation was as solid as it can be.
Voice Actors
Another one of the things I absolutely adored in this series... the voice acting. Of course, most of it has to do with the fact that the VAs for the four main characters are relatively scrubs in the voice acting business. On that note, the fact that they were able to hit their respective characters personalities spot on without ever faltering or sounding too grating... well I can do nothing but hope that the popularity of this show takes their career to new heights and great places. Special props go to Yōko Hikasa, as she was my favorite performance throughout the entire series. Not only was she able to quickly ascertain the right tones for the many moods of Mio, she pulls them off really well. When Mio is frightened, shy, or nervous... Yōko makes sure that we can feel those feelings she is feeling in her voice. Not only that, but she really shines when she sings too! Aki Toyosaki also gets special mention, because pulling off something like Yui's voice isn't easy, and in my opinion, it was just the right amount of high-pitched cuteness... never got annoying to me. There's also the fact that she managed to keep up with that raspy voice and the end of episode 5 and all of episode 6... AND sing with it as well. She's not as good of a singer as Yōko is, but she's still damn talented and I still love her. All in all, the whole cast was great, and both Mio and Yui were beyond great.
Here's where things start going stale. Yes, the anime is pretty much an adaption of a 4Koma, and the problem with that is usually a chapter of a 4Koma isn't exactly brimming with enough material to fill up a full episode. The main problem with this is, the source material itself isn't all that good, as it doesn't utilize the fact that they're a music club as much as I would have wanted them to. The first two episodes were good hooks, as they drew me in to the series and really made me think this could be something different compared to the other SOL slithering out around there. Thing is, for most of the series, they tend to forget that they're a Light Music club, and thus resort to repeated jokes and gags that have been seen a million times before. I have to give it more credit than I have in the past, as I did enjoy these jokes and found them cute, enough to make me watch the next episode; however, that itching feeling in the back of my head that they could have made this much more enjoyable than it already was will always be there. One thing I can say I didn't like with confidence though is using Mio's "moe" as a pillar for their humor and basically being what makes up the first half of the show. I like moe as much as the next person, but even I know there's a line that's obviously been crossed, and the amount of moe they milked out of Mio at the start really annoyed me, so I'm glad that died down during the second half. I've said this numerous times, but episodes like Sawako's introduction and the first live performance for the Freshman are the best examples of this show taking advantage of its setting and using it to be unique and humorous. It's few and far between, even for something that's supposed to be a light and fluffy show about nothing.
Another thing that requires attention is the original material that Kyoani had no choice but to implement into the show, and that led into some unnecessary and forced drama. I'll go ahead and say that I did like the drama, if only because it shook things up a bit and brought some life into the series, but could it not have come out of nowhere and done way better? You damn well bet it could have. Really, if Kyoani only implemented little chunks and hints of the drama and built it up to say the climax of episode 11, then it would have a been a lot better and much more believable in my eyes. The only "forced drama" bit that I really took in was the situation with Azusa joining the band. She was a relatively new character and I felt that they really did build up the tension and frustration along with the viewer up to the climax and Azusa breaking down. Kyoani knew what they were getting themselves into, they could have planned ahead, and fit both the source material and build up to something more... and it would have been a much better and more enjoyable script in my eyes. For what it is now though, I have to call it below average, even from a "show about nothing" standard.
For characters individually, I find it funny that that same problematic root etched deep with their bands structure can be said about the characters and their relationship. Azusa put it best at the end of episode 9 when she started critiquing them playing their individual instruments, but they sound so good when they get together and perform... that's exactly my view on the characters. Individually, the characters are your generic personality characters with little to no depth or even non-existent (hi Mugi). What covers that up though, is how well they play off of each other. United they stand, divided they fall. Yui is the best catalyst out of all of them, as her relationship with Ritsu, Ui, and Nodoka made for some cute and interesting moments in the show. Besides that, there is an okay amount of development for the characters, but maybe I'm just expecting too much out of a slice of life show again. It just feels so inconsistent, having one-dimensional characters at the start, then have them develop out of nowhere ten episodes later. There was a path they did follow, but it was a shaky one I would have liked straightened out.
Speaking of inconsistencies, my the character I have the biggest issue with to this day has to be the club adviser Sawako. When she was introduced, she was shown to have a crazy and unpredictable heavy metal personality, which was one of the reasons episode 5 was such a good episode. After that episode though, her personality changes to hat of a cosplay fanatic who likes dressing the girls up. What? I'm all for characters having more than one hobby, but her heavy metal persona just vanished, and instead they replaced that interesting and funny character with a not so funny costume of the week provider. Thanks K-ON, she was shaping up to be one of my favorite characters too, but now she's just as forgettable as Mugi.
Mixed bag on this one. One one side, saying that the actual OST is forgettable? Quite the understatement, because there are really only one or two tracks that stand out in my mind, and even then not by much. Sure, it's SOL, so I wasn't really expecting anything beautifully composed and stuff, but that doesn't stop me from docking points on something it didn't do well in. What it did do well in, and what saves this section from getting a far worse score than it has now, is the vocal tracks of the show. It was supposed to be the main selling point of the show to begin with, and they didn't disappoint once the girls got up on stage and started performing. Not only do the songs have... unique titles, but they're to the point where I've listened to the songs on numerous occasions outside of watching the anime. Some people complain there weren't enough songs, but with the OP and ED + the insert songs, I think 5 is a good number for a 13 episode series. I'm not the only one who thinks these songs are great too, as the single CDs have been selling like hotcakes all over Japan. So yes, the greatness of their vocal tracks is the highest peak this show has managed to elevate to, while their OST is one of the lowest of the lows.
Enjoyment/Emotional Involvement
Yes I enjoyed the series. Did I like it more than Haruhi? Yes. Did I like it more than Lucky Star? No. Did I like it as a stand alone SOL series? Yes. Compared to other SOL series? Would have been a lot better if they used the musical aspect of the show as a catalyst for their gags and jokes more often, but I say it's one of the better SOL I've seen.
As for emotional involvement, there really two situations in which I felt anything for the characters. I've already the first one earlier, that being the situation with Azusa during episode 9. I felt sorry and understood Azusa's desire to join the band and play, only to find out that they do nothing but loaf around. The frustration building up in Azusa built up along the same time as mine, and the climax made me understand Azusa better as a character and made me want to slap the other members of the cast minus Mio. The other moment where I felt a connection to a character emotionally was the final sequence with Yui during episode 12. I have to give this part a lot more credit than I probably should be, as I'll once again admit it gave me goosebumps. It made me understand what the show was about, Yui's development as a character (no matter how little people consider it), and the bond with her friends. Repeating myself again, that flashback run would have meant a lot more to people if there were more drops of development throughout the show, but I understand what they were trying to do, and I can understand Yui's fear of growing up without doing nothing and finding a place that accepts her for who she is.
So with all the hype, anti-hype and Kyoani pain train long gone, I can say with confidence that I enjoyed this series in it's purest form. Yes, I have a lot of problems with it, but it makes up for it in other categories, and it's something that I probably will end up remembering down the road. As you can see, I probably put too much thought and time into a show as simple as this, but this is something you should just enjoy on a whim. It's light and fluffy, and taking it as anything more than that would probably ruin the entertainment for you, as it did for me. It's nothing special, it's nothing different or unique (though it could have been), but I enjoyed the ride, and will probably end up getting in line at least one more time.
|2009-07-10, 05:18
|Link #36
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
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|2009-07-10, 10:51
|Link #37
Orthodox Haruhiist
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Making metal ... for fish
Age: 38
Having come into this as someone who normally doesn't watch anime until it turns up on R1 DVDs, this was an interesting experience. Now, I admit, I started watching this series during the ramp-up to the recursive loop that's described Haruhi 2009, but I kept coming back to it through its whole run. So, without further ado:
Animation Quality - 7/10
Overall, the animation is good. Didn't blow me away, sure, but it was easy on the eyes otherwise.
Voice Actors - 9/10
I admit, I usually watch dubs. I'm a bit out of my element here, but I actually find myself being afraid of what's going to happen when/if this show gets licensed in R1. I felt the voices really fit the characters. I read on the forums that the cast of K-ON! are rookies, but I couldn't really tell.
Script - 5/10
The script . . . pure fluff. Light comedy and dropped balls . . . so many promising threads they could've followed up on and fleshed-out better. The characters, mostly cutesy cardboard cutouts. If you're looking for high art, K-ON! ain't it. If you're looking for something soft and fluffy to lift you up when you're feeling blue, then this series is for you.
Soundtrack - 8/10
There's a lot of repeat-worthy material here. I liked it. Can't say much more than that.
Enjoyment - 7/10
I enjoyed this series. Didn't really fall in love with it, and at times, I felt a lot like Azu-nyan did at first. But overall, it was fun to watch.
Emotional Involvement - 5/10
The fluffy plot, the somewhat two-dimensional characters, and some of the directorial choices made it difficult to care deeply about the characters and their plight (or near lack thereof.) I admit, I nearly cried manly tears when Yui was running back to school with her guitar and trying not to let her friends down. Amazing, given how the show didn't really pull me into her climb from shiftless slacker to shiftless slacker in a band who happens to have perfect pitch.
But, for the fuwa fuwa time this show is apparently supposed to be, this is actually about the right amount of emotional involvement. Just enough to get you to keep watching, but not enough to make it stop being fun.
Conclusion - 6.5/10
Fuwa Fuwa Time describes this series perfectly. This show's about as deep as your typical kiddie pool. If I only had slice of life and moe series to compare it to, it'd get a 9 out of 10, easy. But I have to compare it to everything else I've ever watched, and by that standard, it's only above-average
|2009-07-14, 21:10
|Link #40
Shocking Pink
Join Date: Dec 2007
Age: 23
Animation Quality: 8
It wasn't as beautifully animated as the likes of Haruhi or Clannad, but it suited the series. I wish they would've stuck more to the original manga-ka's style rather than a Lucky Star/Haruhi mix.
Voice Actors: 10
I'm not picky about voice actors, so I had no problems. I especially loved it when Yui's VA would speak in her "sumo" voice.
Script: 6
It was average. I think the funny moments were more visually-based, rather than dependent on the script.
Soundtrack: 7
I loved the songs. My favorite was Cagayake! Girls. But the background music was pretty forgettable.
Editing: N/A
Enjoyment: 6
At first, I loved K-ON!. My enjoyment gradually decreased, and I wasn't excited to watch it anymore. The overexposure of Moe!Mio has a correlation with this, methinks. lol Luckily, Mio went back to a tolerable amount of moe later on in the series. The bonus episode is an exception though; it was my favorite episode in the series. (and after that episode 2)
Emotional Involvement: 9
I'll admit it. I can rant on K-On! characters and certain characters' popularity for years. I guess you can consider that emotional involvement.
Overall Rating: 8/10
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Connect with English "Celebrations/Breaking The News" Kevin graduates from high school, and Rebecca, after several rejections, is accepted into the San Francisco College of Music.G
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Connect with English "Saying Goodbye/Leaving Home" Rebecca gives her final music lesson, while her father secretly goes shopping for a car to give her. The show concludes with a review and a brief discussion about the drama.G
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Unfinished Nation "The Collapse of Peace" The aftermath of World War II and the origins of the Cold War. Soviet-American tensions during WWI and Yalta Conference. Truman succeeds Roosevelt as president. Failure of Potsdam and China problems. The Containment Doctrine; the Marshall Plan. Mobilization at home and creation of NATO. American society and politics after the War.G
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Unfinished Nation "Fallout" Election of 1948. Fair Deal revised. The Korean War. The crusade against subversion: Alger Hiss, the Rosenberg Case, McCarthyism.G
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Biography of America, A "Growth and Empire" Benjamin Franklin and Franklin's Philadelphia take center stage in this program. As the merchant class grows in the North, the economies of southern colonies are built on the shoulders of the slave trade. Professor Miller brings the American story to 1763 with the Peace of Paris and English dominance in America. D
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Biography of America, A "Coming of Independence" Professor Maier tells the story of how the English-loving colonist transforms into the freedom-loving American rebel. The luminaries of the early days of the Republic -- Washington, Jefferson, Adams -- are featured in this program as they craft the Declaration of -- and wage the War for -- Independence. D
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Curiosity Quest "Movie Animatronics" Join Joel on this life-like quest as he tours the Garner Holt Productions facility where movie animatronics are made. Get a sneak-peak into all the hard-work that goes into making creatures come to life. D
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Biz Kid$ "What Is A Biz Kid?" You'll learn that anybody can be a Biz Kid with effort and the right attitude. Biz Kids identify a need, make a plan, and take action. Join us and you'll meet a skateboard designer, a rap music producer, a boy who started a rock-a-thon to raise money for hospital rocking chairs, and more. D
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The Electric Company "Revenge of the Zeros" Upset about their score of zero points in the banana sculpture contest, Danny and Annie decide to ruin Paul the Gorilla's banana festival party that is being held at The Electric Diner. The Electric Company catches on, and does everything they can to stop the pranksters and save the party and preserve Paul's sanity. D
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Cyberchase "Cool It" The kids discover the importance of a standard unit of measure, while trying to save Motherboard.G
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Lidia's Italy In America "New York City and New Jersey: An Italian-American Picnic in NYC" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "St. Louis Cooking" Bridget uncovers the secrets to the ultimate St. Louis Pizza. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of sliced pepperoni. D
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Uncorked: Wine Made Simple "Uncorked: Sonoma" Heading north over San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge we head up the coast to Sonoma. We learn how an eccentric Hungarian immigrant helped launch fine wine production in California. We meet Merry Edwards, one of California's first women wine makers who has a passion for the finicky pinot noir grape - in fact - she's the self-appointed queen of pinot. D
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This Old House "Cambridge Project, Part 2 of 15" The crew removes a central chimney brick-by-brick so the bricks can be re-used on another job, host Kevin O'Connor visits an "eco" resale store, and landscape contractor Roger Cook removes a sick Norway maple with the help of an arborist. D
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Rick Steves' Europe Classics "Egypt" Rick climbs the Giza Pyramid. In Luxor, he rambles with Ramses through the temple of Karnac and the Valley of the Kings, and bicycles into today's village Egypt.G
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Travelscope "Germany's Holiday Markets" Travelscope celebrates the season with Joseph's explorations through Northern Germany's Christmas markets where there's more than baubles and trinkets to the joy of Christmas. D
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Lidia's Italy In America "New York City and New Jersey: An Italian-American Picnic in NYC" NULL
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Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "St. Louis Cooking" Bridget uncovers the secrets to the ultimate St. Louis Pizza. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of sliced pepperoni. D
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Simply Ming "Chinese Rock Candy & Cranberries Script" Guest Chef: John Besh. Today's master pair balances the East and the West and creates that beloved flavor combo loved in cuisines the world over-sweet and sour. Ming will be using Chinese rock candy and cranberries to make our own version of that wonderful taste sensation with his Braised Pork Shoulder with Cranberry-Corn Dumplings and fair favorite Crispy Fried Turkey Legs with Cranberry Glaze. D
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Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "France: The Ursulines" Chef Folse explores the contributions of Louisiana's unlikely pioneers: the missionaries, priests and nuns. Sister Joan Marie Aycock introduces us to a bit of Louisiana's early "morality" and the contributions of the Ursuline nuns. Chef Folse visits with Tommy Adkins as he demonstrates French bread making on the Louisiana frontier. D
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Rick Steves' Europe Classics "Egypt" Rick climbs the Giza Pyramid. In Luxor, he rambles with Ramses through the temple of Karnac and the Valley of the Kings, and bicycles into today's village Egypt.G


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Today I gathered the first flower bouquet of the year from our gardens. No more flowers from Shaw's until frost! That means more time moseying, gathering, and arranging. It is so easy with flowers from your garden, because they all look good together. I love, love, love homegrown flower displays.
The new gardens are still a work in progress. At this time we are waiting for several more plant groups (Eupatorium 'Little Joe', some asters, and perovskia). I also have to fill in the vegetable section. All in all, it is coming along very well. Many, many thanks again to Equinox Valley Nursery (www.equinoxvalleynursery.com) for searching for, gathering, and delivering plants on my list, even though it is their busiest time of the year. They are some of the best people you could ever meet. I hope you stop in on your next visit to the inn.
Here are a few photos Yoshio took last week of the labyrinth and new gardens.
If you are not interested in gardens, please excuse me. After almost two years at Ormsby Hill, my true nature has finally found its way home. Indulging my passion will help me honor myself, the inn, and you too.


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He not busy being born is busy dying, or so I hear, including in technology, where the rule is innovate or fail. Contrast four flavors of business intelligence/data-warehousing market transformation at segment leaders Microsoft, MicroStrategy, Teradata and Actuate.
Call the varieties "Keep up with the Joneses" (business platform leader Microsoft), "Bet the Farm" (BI-indepedent MicroStrategy), "Steady as She Goes" (enterprise data warehousing kingpin Teradata), and "Who Am I?" (BI reporting specialist and open-source leader Actuate).
Microsoft Parallel Data Warehouse
How is it that 30-plus years on, Microsoft can't shake the image among the cognoscenti of technology laggard? Never first to market, and never technically best (so far as I can tell), yet able to maintain its position by a combination of good-enough-and-sometimes-eventually-great software, strong platform integration (including with Microsoft PowerPivot), market muscle, aggressive pricing, and tenacity.
Microsoft bought DATAllegro in July 2008 with the goal of adding parallel processing to the SQL data-warehousing platform... within 18-24 months. Well, the Parallel Data Warehouse is finally here in a SQL Server 2008 Release 2 edition, announced last week at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference, slated to ship next month. "The delay in release may reflect Microsoft's caution with a rather complex product," says Kurt Mackie, writing at RedmondMag.com.
I see here essentially no technical innovation beyond platform integration in the 28 months since Microsoft's DATAllegro acquisition. What's in the forthcoming release? As expected, Microsoft replaced DATAllegro's Ingres open-source DBMS with SQL Server and ported from Linux to Windows.
PDW is a massively parallel processing (MPP) data-warehousing appliance and will initially be available on HP hardware. DATAllegro ran on Dell; PDW will eventually come out on Dell, Bull, and IBM hardware. Frankly, I find the notion of an "appliance" with five different hardware options quite curious. The need to bring along five hardware vendors may slow development.
Columnar storage -- pioneered by Sybase IQ like 20 years ago, now available in Vertica, ParAccel, the Infobright MySQL engine, EMC Greenplum, Aster Data's nCluster, and other analytical database systems -- will have to wait for the Denali SQL Server release, annouced last week at PASS for possible late 2011 availability.
Column-oriented stores can accelerate many analytical queries, dramatically reduce disk I/O, and slash storage requirement via aggressive compression. But Microsoft was either unwilling or unable to include it in the initial PDW edition.
SQL Server 2008 Release 2 PDW also lacks in-database analytics, the ability to embed analytical computations in the DBMS, which reduces data movement, enhances security, and simplifies application development.
Most of Microsoft's analytical DBMS competitors now support in-database analytics, including ParAccel, which is set to announce in-database capabilities in its forthcoming PADB 3.0 release.
Teradata and its Analytics Ecosystem
Teradata has a strong embedded analytics play (which I explored in Frequently Asked Questions about In-Database Analytics, sponsored by Teradata, earlier this year; Teradata also paid my expenses to attend the recent Partners conference). Like PDW, Teradata has yet to implement a column store. Otherwise, the company seems to be doing just fine as evidenced by the company's 2010 Q3 results.
Teradata's transformation has two facets: solidifying its core enterprise data warehousing platform, including further development of a lower-end appliance line, and building out its partner ecosystem, which includes diverse BI, analytics, data-integration, and services providers. This latter step hardly makes Teradata unique among analytical DBMS vendors, but it does make Teradata notable in that, unlike most others, it has the cash and capacity to buy rather than partner.
Rather than lose focus by acquiring, for instance, companies in the text-analytics, BI visualization, reporting, or location intelligence platforms, Teradata strives to provide smaller and/or specialized partners with an ideal, high-performance analytics back-end and an entrée to enterprise accounts.
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MicroStrategy Goes Mobile
MicroStrategy has dashboards, reporting, and dimensional analysis (a.k.a. Relational OLAP) down cold. And now the company has, from all appearances, gone mobile mad. MicroStrategy is in good shape as one of the two major BI independents (the other is Information Builders) and has bet big in a bold move to vault into a dominant mobile-BI position.
What kind of bet? (I assume payoff for company co-founder and principal owner Michael Saylor will be a bigger boat.) MicroStrategy is not only refacing its products -- check out the videos and demos -- and creating a device-suited user experience with appropriate touch and gesture interface methods. MicroStrategy is also transforming itself.
According to a September Computerworld story, MicroStrategy "has deployed 1,100 Apple iPads to executives and sales personnel to conduct critical job-related tasks. The company said it expects 700 more iPads to be deployed soon." So every one of MicroStrategy's 1,800 employees will get an iPad.
A leading BI industry analyst told me a few weeks back that MicroStrategy salespeople were told to pursue only opportunities that involve mobile, leading to grumbling that they had lost half their sales pipeline. I'm betting that most lost prospects will be back.


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As loved ones grieve the loss of four Marines killed in a training exercise at Camp Pendleton, new information emerged Thursday night about who those service members were and how they lost their lives in what a base official called a "tragic accident."
The victims were identified as:
- Staff Sgt. Mathew R. Marsh, 28, of Long Beach, Calif.;
- Gunnery Sgt. Gregory J. Mullins, 31, of Bayou L'Ourse, La.;
- Sgt. Miguel Ortiz, 27, of Vista, Calif.;
- Staff Sgt. Eric W. Summers, 32, of Poplar Bluff, Mo.
The four men were killed in an explosion about 11 a.m. Wednesday as they were clearing unexploded ordnance from a sprawling range, known as the Zulu impact area, a base official said Thursday night.
Marines Killed in Training Had "No Room for Error"
That area is used for firing explosive munitions and for bomb-dropping exercises. Live-fire training was not being conducted in the Zulu area when the explosion went off, the military base said in a statement.
Two other Marines and a Navy Hospital Corpsman were injured in the explosion. They were treated at the scene.
"Explosive Ordnance Disposal is a small and tight-knit community, not just in the Marine Corps, but in the entire US military. Our focus now is on ensuring these families receive the help and support they need," Brig. Gen. John W. Bullard, Commanding General, Marine Corps Installations West - Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, said in a statement Thursday night.
Two of the victims hailed from Southern California.
Staff Sgt. Mathew R. Marsh, 28, was an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton.
He joined the Marines in 2003. The Long Beach native was deployed twice to Iraq and twice to Afghanistan, where he served his last tour in 2012.
Sgt. Miguel Ortiz, 27, of Vista, worked with Marsh as an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician at Camp Pendleton.
Pictured at right, Ortiz joined the Marines in 2006 and was served a tour each in Iraq, the Western Pacific and Afghanistan.
He is survived by three children, ages 3, 6 and 9.
A retired chief warrant officer who had job similar to the slain Marines' in the Navy said every branch of the military trains at the same joint-training center.
"A lot of our lessons are in blood, both life and limb. It's why we take this so seriously," said Mark Fleming, a retired explosive ordinance disposal technician.
Fleming worked 30 years in the Navy and said the job he performed for most of those years – the same task the slain Marines were performing – requires nerves of steel and a mind for knowledge. There's no margin for error, he said.
"They train with live explosives," Fleming said, speaking generally of the training exercises
Called a "tragic accident," this week's incident comes eight months after seven Marines were killed and eight more were injured when a mortar exploded at a training site in Nevada.
A military investigation concluded that deadly training incident was the result of human error.
An investigation is underway to determine what led to Wednesday's accident.
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Cardinals Hall of Famer Musial dies at 92
ST. LOUIS — Stan Musial, the St. Louis Cardinals star with the corkscrew stance and too many batting records to fit on his Hall of Fame plaque, died Saturday. He was 92.
Stan the Man was so revered in St. Louis that he has two statues outside Busch Stadium — one just wouldn't do him justice. He was one of baseball's greatest hitters, shining in the mold of Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio even without the bright lights of the big city.
Musial won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s.
The Cardinals announced Musial's death in a news release. They said he died Saturday evening at his home in Ladue surrounded by family. The team said Musial's son-in-law, Dave Edmonds, informed the club of Musial's death.
"We have lost the most beloved member of the Cardinals family," team chairman William DeWitt Jr. said. "Stan Musial was the greatest player in Cardinals history and one of the best players in the history of baseball."
Musial was the second baseball Hall of Famer who died Saturday. Longtime Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver also passed away, at age 82.
Musial spent his entire 22-year career with the Cardinals and made the All-Star team 24 times — baseball held two All-Star games each summer for a few seasons.
A pitcher in the low minors until he injured his arm, Musial turned to playing the outfield and first base. It was a stroke of luck for him, as he went on to hit .331 with 475 home runs before retiring in 1963.
Widely considered the greatest Cardinals player ever, the outfielder and first baseman was the first person in team history to have his number retired. Ol' 6 probably was the most popular, too, especially after Albert Pujols skipped town.
At the suggestion of a pal, actor John Wayne, he carried around autographed cards of himself to give away. He enjoyed doing magic tricks for kids and was fond of pulling out a harmonica to entertain crowds with a favorite, "The Wabash Cannonball."
Humble, scandal-free, and eager to play every day, Musial struck a chord with fans throughout the Midwest and beyond. For much of his career, St. Louis was the most western outpost in the majors, and the Cardinals' vast radio network spread word about him in all directions.
Farmers in the field and families on the porch would tune in, as did a future president — Bill Clinton recalled doing his homework listening to Musial's exploits.
Musial's public appearances dwindled in recent years, though he took part in the pregame festivities at Busch during the 2011 postseason as the Cardinals won the World Series. And he was at the White House in February 2011 when President Barack Obama presented him with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America's highest civilian honor for contributions to society.
At the ceremony, President Obama said: "Stan remains to this day an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate."
He certainly delivered at the plate.
Musial never struck out 50 times in a season. He led the NL in most every hitting category for at least one year, except homers. He hit a career-high 39 home runs in 1948, falling one short of winning the Triple Crown.
In all, Musial held 55 records when he retired in 1963. Fittingly, the accolades on his his bronze Hall plaque start off with this fact, rather than flowery prose: "Holds many National League records ..."
He played nearly until 43rd birthday, adding to his totals. He got a hit with his final swing, sending an RBI single past Cincinnati's rookie second baseman — that was Pete Rose, who would break Musial's league hit record of 3,630 some 18 years later.
Of those hits, Musial got exactly 1,815 at home and exactly 1,815 on the road. He also finished with 1,951 RBIs and scored 1,949 runs.
All that balance despite a most unorthodox left-handed stance. Legs and knees close together, he would cock the bat near his ear and twist his body away from the pitcher. When the ball came, he uncoiled.
Unusual, that aspect of Musial.
Asked to describe the habits that kept him in baseball for so long, Musial once said: "Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day. If you must smoke, try light cigars. They cut down on inhaling."
One last thing, he said: "Make it a point to bat .300."
As for how he did that, Musial offered a secret.
"I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider," he said. "Then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first 30 feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it has crossed the plate."
It worked pretty well, considering Musial began his baseball career as a pitcher in the low minors. And by his account, as he said during his induction speech in Cooperstown, an injury had left him as a "dead, left-handed pitcher just out of Class D."
Hoping to still reach the majors, he turned toward another position. It was just what he needed.
Musial made his major league debut late in 1941, the season that Williams batted .406 for the Boston Red Sox and DiMaggio hit in a record 56 straight games for the New York Yankees.
Musial never expressed regret or remorse that he didn't attract more attention than the cool DiMaggio or prickly Williams. Fact is, Musial was plenty familiar in every place he played.
Few could bring themselves to boo baseball's nicest superstar, not even the Brooklyn Dodgers crowds that helped give him his nickname, a sign of weary respect for his .359 batting average at Ebbets Field.
Many, many years before any sports fans yelled "You're the man!" at their favorite athletes, Stan was indeed the Man.
Dodgers pitcher Preacher Roe once joked about how to handle Musial: "I throw him four wide ones and then I try to pick him off first base."
Brooklynites had another reason to think well of Musial: Unlike Enos Slaughter and other Cardinal teammates, he was supportive when the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947. Bob Gibson, who started out with the Cardinals in the late 1950s, would recall how Musial had helped established a warm atmosphere between blacks and whites on the team.
Like DiMaggio and Williams, Musial embodied a time when the greats stayed with one team. He joined the Cardinals during the last remnants of the Gas House Gang and stayed in St. Louis until Gibson and Curt Flood ushered in a new era of greatness.


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Salad Recipes
Avocado Tomatillo Salsa Recipe
I made a hearty soup for dinner and I thought it would be enough to fill everyone's tummies. But by the end of the evening, my husband Lulu's stomach started growling. I made a little snack for him that consisted of smoked gouda cheese, honey wheat crackers and avocado tomatillo salsa.
I thought of naming the salsa "avocadillo" or "tomaticado" salsa, but I could hear the collective sighs and groans of the internet in my head. No matter how you call this simple combination of tomatillos, avocado, garlic and cilantro, it's a smart and healthy way to add more servings of fresh vegetables to your diet.
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Vegetarian Matzo Ball Soup Recipe
My husband Lulu's has always fond memories of his childhood friend, Scott. He's told me about Scott's mom's delicious matzo ball soup. Back then in the days, Lulu wasn't a vegetarian but now he asked me to come up with a vegetarian version. I attempted it today for the first time and I'm very happy with how it turned out.
I kept the dish fairly simple; I made a vegetable broth and boiled the matzo balls for 30 minutes in salt water. Way back when I was a kid in France, I remember my friend Emma's grandmother would say her secret for making the matzo balls extra fluffy was to store them. I use a similar trick in my madeleine recipe and it's worked well in both cases.
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Eggplant Marinara Recipe
This is a healthier version of eggplant Parmesan, but just as tasty. I used a limited amount of cheese in this dish, and filled grilled eggplant with white beans. The white beans have a soft texture and add a bunch of protein to the dish, making it a viable main course option for vegetarians.
I still had a leftover jar of marinara sauce from last summer and the sauce tasted amazingly good. Everyone loved this dish and the best part is that no one felt guilty having the decadent dessert I made afterwards!
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Vegetarian Chili Verde Recipe
Comfort food is usually synonymous with a high calorie count, but that doesn't always have to be the case. I've served vegetarian bean chili several times in the past for my husband Lulu and he loves this dish. Our family jokingly calls it "chili non carne." Even an avowed carnivore like me must admit it's pretty satisfying.
For a little change, instead of using regular red tomatoes, I prepared the chili with fresh tomatillos (also known as husk tomatoes). I mixed tomatillos with Anaheim and Serrano chiles, green bell peppers, lime, garlic, store-bought soy chorizo and fresh pineapple. This recipe couldn't be easier!
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Fermented Black Bean Crab Recipe
We had a giant seafood feast last weekend, and believe it or not, we cooked 12 whole crabs. The main flavoring of this dish was fermented black beans, which are very common in Asian cooking. I also added fresh green chiles and a lot of Thai basil leaves.
The crabs are prepared in two steps. First, they're fried, and then to finish them off, they are stir-fried with the fermented bean sauce and a bit of cooking wine. It gets a bit messy around the stove, but the result is worth the effort!
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Raspberry coulis, blackberry coulis---I could drink with a straw. Something about that tangy, not too sweet taste that makes me crave a small glass of it with a touch of tonic water. The uses of coulis are endless: ice cream, cakes, muffins, sorbets, gelato, and crumb cakes. Normally I crave coulis every other day in the summertime; lately I've been craving it in the cold winter months. Might be my lack of vitamin C? Who knows. Good raspberries, blackberries are hard to come by in my neck of the woods, but luckily at a not too far away Whole Foods, I eyed some precious, beautiful looking blackberries. Knowing I had a long overdue request from hubby to make a "kicked up" crumb cake, these blackberries fit the bill. I doubled up the batched of blackberries to make extra coulis for drinking and baking.
If the thought of this crumb cake looks good to you but the thought of all the steps is changing your mind, please don't let it. The coulis can be made days ahead and kept in the fridge. Really the coulis is the only time-consuming part, as well as the most important, as it really adds a nice, tangy burst to the crumb cake. But the best part of this crumb cake is that the longer it sits, the more flavor-full it gets. All those fabulous different flavors only get more intense as a couple days goes by.
blackberry-cream cheese crumb cake
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¼ cup canola oil, plus more for pan
½ stick unsalted butter, melted
2 TB sour cream
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
½ cup + 2 TB granulated white sugar
1 ts baking powder
½ ts coarse salt
1 large egg
½ cup + 2 TB half & half
2 ts pure vanilla extract
crumb topping:
1 cups flour
1 cups packed light brown sugar
¾ ts coarse salt
½ TB ground cinnamon
1 stick unsalted butter, melted & cooled
Cook notes: the batter is very thin. It rises a bit when baking. This crumb cake bakes very fast! So please make sure to check it at the 25 minute mark. It will be hard to see if it's done with all the layers on there, so use a cake tester to check cake layer. The coulis can be made a couple days ahead of time and stored in fridge until ready to use. It is optional, but wonderful to add in a couple tablespoons of the coulis into your cream cheese mixture. I doubled my ingredients for the blackberry coulis as I wanted a little bit more on the cake and for future use.
blackberry coulis:
1 pint fresh blackberries
2 TB granulated sugar, or to taste
1 TB fresh lemon juice, or to taste
For the coulis:
Put all the ingredients in medium sauce pan and cook over medium (not high!) heat until fruit is mostly dissolved and mixture has reduced a bit as well as thickened up; about 30 minutes or more. Strain through a fine mesh sieve, pushing down on the solids. You might have to let this sit for a while to finish draining—it takes a while. Don't forget to scrape off the bottom side of the sieve for all the juicy, thickened pulp. Discard the seeds. Taste and add more sugar or lemon juice if needed; it shouldn't need anything. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.
For the crumb topping:
In a medium bowl, combine all dry ingredients, pour melted butter over mixture, and toss with a rubber spatula until large crumbs form. Set aside
cream cheese mixture
8 ounces cream cheese, room temp.
1 large egg yolk
3 TB white sugar
1 TB fresh lemon zest
2 TB or more of the blackberry coulis (optional, but wonderful)
For the cream cheese mixture:
Mix all in a bowl (really well) until ready to use.
For cake:
Place rack in center of oven, and heat oven to 350°.
Lightly butter a 9 x 13 baking pan and dust with flour, and tap to remove excess. (I've also used the Pam with Flour and it worked just fine). Set aside. In a medium bowl, sift together 2 ¼ cups flour, add in the granulated sugar, baking powder, and salt; set aside. In a second bowl, whisk together egg, butter, half & half, canola oil, sour cream, and vanilla.
Using a rubber spatula, fold dry ingredients into wet mixture.
Spread batter evenly into prepared pan, and set aside. (to keep batter from sticking to your hand or spoon, just wet or oil your fingers or a spoon and spread evenly throughout pan).
The batter should be about half an inch high. It will cook/rise to an inch thick. (Don't worry if the batter is very thin and hard to get into the corners, it does spread out as it's cooking). Use wet fingers to push batter into corners.
Next put on the cream cheese mixture either in one single layer, clumps or vertical lines. You can make swirls if you want too, I did not.
Next add on the crumbs. Then drizzle on the coulis (if it helps put the coulis in a pastry bag and draw lines).
Then transfer pan to oven, and bake for 14 minutes, rotate pan. Then cook another 10 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean. Check cake at 25 minute mark for sure. Let cake cool and set up before slicing.
Using a serrated knife or bench scraper, cut into 3-inch squares. Store in an airtight container for up to 2-4 days.
blackberry-cream cheese crumb cake
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This looks so wonderful. Wow. I could use a huge slice of this with a big cup of coffee right now. I love blackberries, big time. And of course...crumb cakes!ReplyDelete
I love crumb cakes, especially ones with berries.ReplyDelete
Whoa, that looks amazing, Dawn!ReplyDelete
god i love crumbs.ReplyDelete
Yes! The coulis is great, but what really gets me is the cream cheese. Love it!ReplyDelete
That violet cream cheese mixture looks so tempting, and I'm just beginning to see imported blackberries in the store. Great recipe!ReplyDelete
One of my favorite desserts!! Your weekend sounds awesome to me-not boring at all!!ReplyDelete
I picked my own blackberries this past summer which is not an inexpensive thing to do here in the sam desert of the Okanagan, but I do have some left in the freezer!ReplyDelete
You hit my weak spot. I love cream cheese crumb cakes and your pictures are sending me over the edge.ReplyDelete
Oh honey - I could not be trusted around this creation. It totally ROCKS!!ReplyDelete
My roommate used to make a strawberry coulis and then put it over applesauce. APPLESAUCE. total waste. Especially when compared to this cake!ReplyDelete
Il est @ croquerReplyDelete
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Oh boy, does this baby look good. I'd be a goner if left alone with this cake. Too tempting!ReplyDelete
Love love love that there is cream cheese in this,.ReplyDelete
I am in serious drool mode over that crumb topping!ReplyDelete
love doing things like this in steps (like prep'ing the coulis ahead of time). i'd also like to drink that coulis through a straw... but i'll take it on this coffee cake too :) crumb it up!!ReplyDelete
This looks so good! Blackberries + cream cheese= love!ReplyDelete
I am a confirmed chocoholic but I really do love a big fat crumb bar. We get loads and loads of blackberries in the summer - they grow everywhere around here. I'm bookmarking this for August!ReplyDelete
OMG, that crumb cake looks terrific! Such treats are irresistible.ReplyDelete
Waw! I love these bars! So deliciosuly looking too! :)ReplyDelete
I also love your step by step ingredients & to make list! realy helpful! ;)
mmm that looks absolutely beautiful and delicious!ReplyDelete
Would love a peice of this right now - only two weeks to go. . .ReplyDelete
Seriously - I am in love with every single part of these. I want!!ReplyDelete
this might be the lengthiest recipe i've ever seen you post, but it's worth the space! that coulis on top is a great touch, and who isn't drawn to crumbs? :)ReplyDelete
mmm...yummy! What vanilla extract would you recommend?ReplyDelete
Now this I could dive into and be oh so happy.ReplyDelete
Love everything about this cake!ReplyDelete
This looks so delicious! I am going to try it with black currants.ReplyDelete
I could really go for a slice of this for breakfast right now!ReplyDelete
These tasted good but my crumb topping was greasy. I used the exact amounts. Maybe my melted butter was too warm?ReplyDelete
oh no brenda! that's awful.ReplyDelete
i've never had greasy crumbs before, and i've made this crumb mixture aat least 20 times in the last few years. maybe your butter was old or the flour was old? and maybe the butter didn't cool down enough.
so odd; never heard of that before.
Not only is it gorgeous...it looks incredibly moist and delicious!ReplyDelete


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NEW YORK As citizens across the United States anxiously awaited the results of the election last night, NBC once again hosted Democracy Plaza at Rockefeller Center, a free interactive, election-focused exhibit and promotion for the public that also served as the hub of election-night coverage from NBC News, Telemundo, CNBC, MSNBC, and NBC 4 New York.
Originally scheduled to open Tuesday, October 30, the outdoor setup saw its kickoff delayed until Friday, November 2, due to Hurricane Sandy. This is the second time NBC has turned its Rockefeller Center headquarters into Democracy Plaza—the last time was in 2004; in 2008, the broadcasting company created a scaled-down version called Election Plaza.
Thousands gathered to watch live coverage of results on large screens in the Midtown site, which was doused in red, white, and blue hues. Underneath the surface of the iconic ice rink was the outline of a U.S. map that had individual states filling in red or blue as NBC News officially called them for Obama or Romney. The crowds also watched and cheered as red and blue banners representing the number of electoral votes gained by each party rose up the front of the General Electric building toward the key 270 mark. Two elevated temporary studios overlooked the rink, one for NBC News and one for MSNBC. Just off to the side of the rink was another temporary studio where Today national correspondent Tamron Hall was based.
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The Whispering of Ghosts: Trauma and Resilience
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An eminent psychiatrist shows how we find the strength to rise above childhood trauma. One out of every two people will experience trauma, says psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnik, and one in ten will remain a prisoner of that suffering. Why are some children permanently damaged by difficult childhoods, while others grow up into secure, creative, loving adults? This book, based on Dr. Cyrulnik's broad experience with victims of childhood distress, offers a message of hope for everyone concerned about the impact of deprivation and such traumatic events as separation, emotional or sexual abuse, and violence in the environment. The ghosts of the past keep on whispering to the child within the adult. Through dozens of moving, vivid examples, Dr. Cyrulnik describes the ingredients of resilience, the ability to heal the wounded self and move on, to make sense of what happened back then and form new emotional and social ties. Affection is such a vital need, he writes, that those who were deprived of it will attach themselves intensely to anything that rekindles a spark of life, whatever the cost. From the earliest parent-child bonding to the sexual turbulence of the teenage years, this book shows what makes for success or failure in the struggle to gain freedom from early pain.
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The entrance to the port of Muscat is framed by 2 impressive forts: Al-Jalali Fort to the east and Al-Mirani fort to the west. Perched high on the rocks, the forts look out over the sparkling blue waters of the Gulf of Oman. In the past, these forts guarded the port of Muscat.
In the early 15th century, Muscat was no more than a small port but by the beginning of the 16th century it had grown into an important trading centre. The Portuguese had been keeping an eye on it and decided to colonise Oman to increase their influence on the most important trade routes in the region. After several attacks by Ottoman warriors, the Portuguese built 2 forts: first Al-Mirani in 1550 and later Al-Jalali in 1587.
Because of its rocky coastline Muscat was not an easy place to conquer, and the 'twin forts' made it nearly impossible. Yet there is a legend that describes how the Al-Mirani fort played an important role in expelling the Portuguese in the mid-17th century. According to the story, one of the Portuguese commanders fell in love with the daughter of a merchant who forbade them to marry based on religious grounds. When the commander threatened to ruin him, the merchant supposedly agreed and spent an entire year pretending to prepare for the wedding. He had managed to convince the commander that the fort's supplies of grain and ammunition had to be replaced. However, what he actually did was slowly clear the fort of all ammunition. When all the supplies were removed, he gave his ruler Sultan bin Saif a sign so he could easily conquer the defenceless fort. The Portuguese left Muscat shortly afterwards. Unfortunately, the Al-Mirani fort can only be admired from the outside and is not open to visitors.
The Al-Jalali fort is also known as the Ash Sharqiya fort. The name Al-Jalali seems to be derived from 'al jalal', which means 'great beauty', but others argue that the fort is named after Persian leader Jalal Shah. The fort consists of 2 towers that are connected to each other by a wall and accessible only via a steep staircase from the port side. Its isolated location made the fort a perfect prison, which is exactly what it was used as until the 1970s. In 1983, the fort was restored and turned into a private museum on the history of Oman. Unfortunately, it is only open for special guests such as royal families and heads of state.


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The London Design Festival is in full swing, and Inhabitat has been on the scene to give you the scoop on the dazzling examples of sustainable design presented at this year's event. Read on for our favorite products and innovations that we spotted this year.
Sonumbra by textile architects Loop.ph, was designed with the needs of the developing world in mind. The tree-like web captures sunlight during the day, while providing shade from the sun. Then at night, it converts the solar energy into power to light up in beautiful patterns.
Fragile Future (pictured above) by Drift, is partly made from printed circuit boards and Dandelions with LED lights inside. The 156 LED light use 12watts in total, providing a light source lifespan of 20,000 hours.
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Goldsmiths MA Design Critical Practice graduate Dina Papathanasiou's Oikological hut project proposes a series of slotted building blocks, made from recycled and reused construction materials, to create a structural system which can filter rain water to be used by building inhabitants.
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Total Training for Young Champions provides coaches, instructors, teachers, and parents of potential future sports stars the best conditioning advice and programs for establishing an overall fitness base and maximizing the athletic development of young people ages 6 to 18. Specifically, the book outlines how to increase a young athlete's coordination, flexibility, speed, endurance, and strength, thereby enabling them to excel in sports.
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Tudor Bompa is recognized worldwide as the foremost expert on periodization training-conditioning programs that balance the loads, lengths, and intensities of workouts for maximum performance. He first developed the concept of "periodization of strength" in Romania in 1963, as he helped the eastern bloc countries rise to dominance in the athletic world. Since then, Bompa has used his system to train 11 Olympic Games medalists, and periodization training has become a standard method for conditioning champion athletes.
A full professor at York University in Toronto, Bompa has authored several important books on physical conditioning, including Serious Strength Training (Human Kinetics, 1998); Periodization: Theory and Methodology of Training (Human Kinetics, 1999); Periodization Training for Sports (Human Kinetics, 1999); and Power Training for Sport: Plyometrics for Maximum Power Development; as well as numerous articles on the subject. His work has been translated into nine languages, and he has made presentations on training theories, planning, and periodization in more than 30 countries. His publications, conferences, and ideas are highly regarded and enthusiastically sought after by many top professional athletes and training specialists. Bompa lives in Sharon, Ontario.
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University Compares Pro-Life Students to White Supremacists
The Student Government Association at Johns Hopkins University compared pro-life students to white supremacists and denied them official club status at the school.
"They were denied status because the students on the student council felt being pro-life violates their harassment policy," said Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life of America.
Hawkins told Fox News the student group, called Voice for Life, is searching for an attorney and they plan on fighting the ban.
The SGA at Johns Hopkins voted March 12 to deny Voice for Life the right to become an official student club. That vote was affirmed on March 24 by the SGA's senate.
SGA representatives did not return calls seeking comment.
"We were pretty shocked when the students showed their bias toward the pro-life students," Hawkins said.
According to emails obtained by Fox News, members of the SGA compared the pro-life students to white supremacists.
"And this is why we don't approve groups like Voice for Life," one SGA member wrote, linking to an article about a white supremacist group at Towson University.
Hawkins said the comparison was particularly offensive to African-American members of the pro-life group.
"To compare pro-lifers with white supremacists – it's unreal," she said.
Another SGA member said they objected to pro-life displays at Johns Hopkins, saying she "felt personally violated, targeted and attacked at a place where we previously felt safe and free to live our lives."
An SGA senator said, "we have the right to protect our students from things that are uncomfortable. Why should people have to defend their beliefs on their way to class?"
Andrew Guernsey, a student at Johns Hopkins and president of Voice for Life, said they simply want to exercise their right to free speech and association.
"It is inconsistent with the JHU's motto 'The Truth Will Set You Free' for the SGA to try to hide its students – many future doctors and nurses – from the truth about abortion and how it hurts women, families and most of all, innocent preborn babies," he said.
And that's the problem, according to another private email from an SGA senator.
"If their sole and fundamental purpose is to stop students from having abortions, that's not what we need," the senator wrote. "I understand people's right to freedom of speech, but this is a private university, and as such, we have the right to protect our students from things that are uncomfortable."
Hawkins said the emails are proof that the senators violated their own constitution.
"They strive to create free speech and free expression on campus and they've openly violated it," she told Fox News. "
Hawkins conceded that on private university campuses – free speech is not necessarily free.
"Sadly, this happens time and time again on private university campuses," she said. "They feel like they don't have to uphold freedom of speech."
Ironically, she said, on the same day their group was denied status, the student lawmakers approved status for a pro-Palestinian group.
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