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Driven: 2013 Subaru BRZ
We will admit that we never thought of Subaru as a sports-car maker. Yes, Subaru has made sporty, high-performance cars -- the WRX and STI, of course. But they were not sports car. Neither was the SVX, although it was cool in its own way, and the XT coupe before it, which was sort-of cool in a very weird way, was no sports car, either.
The Subaru BRZ, however, is very much a sports car, and it's the kind we don't see much anymore: light, lithe, fun, and affordable. That's an unusual formula in this age of overpriced, overpowered image machines, but it's not as strange as the circumstances that created it to begin with.
The Odd Couple
As you no doubt know, the BRZ was a joint effort between Toyota and Subaru, with both companies sharing the resulting sports car. The Toyota version will be sold as the Scion FR-S in the U.S. market, and as a Toyota elsewhere.
What set the stage for this joint product development was Toyota's purchase of a small stake in Fuji Heavy Industries, Subaru's parent company, back in 2005 (later increased in 2008). With Toyota guiding the product planning, it was decided that the two companies would collaborate to build a rear-wheel-drive sports car, the hope evidently being that having both brands selling it would increase sales for the inherently low-volume product. Toyota was responsible for the design, which is why the car looks more like a Toyota than a Subaru. The idea from the get-go was that the two firms would build a single sports car -- not two cars -- so visually differentiating them was not a priority. The very minor differences we do see, chiefly in the front end, were done late in the car's development. In the interest of keeping the car's cost down, precious few development dollars (well, yen) were spent to create different looks for Toyota (Scion in the USA) and Subaru. Subaru did the engineering on the car, although the company had to meet Toyota engineering targets as well as their own. Subaru also will assemble the coupes.
Let's Get Low
At a time when we so often hear about raised rooflines, higher beltlines, and the "command seating position," it is unusual for an automaker to talk about the virtues of getting low. And yet that was an overriding factor driving the development of the BRZ. Going with a Subaru horizontally opposed four-cylinder, rather than one of Toyota's many conventional in-line fours, got things off to a low start, as the flat four meant a much more squat engine, which was the first step to achieving a low center of gravity. This is an all-new boxer engine, and features such as a slimmer oil pan and uniquely designed intake and exhaust help make it more than 3 inches shorter than Subaru's existing boxer four. That allowed a lower hood, a feature that is itself unusual, what with Europe's pedestrian protection regulations necessitating additional space between the hood and the top of the engine. (Subaru's workaround is a hood that is designed to absorb energy.) A low hood necessitated a forward-canted radiator and created the need for shorter front strut towers, which were redesigned accordingly. Even so, the vaguely Corvette-like fender swells are there to clear them and allow the rest of the front bodywork to sit lower. Speaking of sitting lower, in order for the driver to sit low in the car -- and afford decent headroom under the low (50.6-inch) roofline -- Subaru had to design special frame rails for the front seats.
Have a Seat
You do indeed sit low in this car -- the H-point is nearly 5 inches lower than an Impreza's -- in seats that are firm, with prominent side bolsters. The dash, and the whole interior, is blessedly free of gimmicks -- save perhaps the keyless pushbutton ignition in the higher-trim model. Switchgear couldn't be simpler. The blunt instrument panel is faced with aluminum trim, and that's the biggest concession to style, although cheap materials have largely been avoided. A touch-screen navigation system will be standard in U.S. cars but it was not in the Euro-spec version we drove. The driving position is excellent, with fairly upright glass and modest pillars that afford a good view. The longish hood is framed by those two fender swells. The gauge cluster borrows from Porsche -- a round, central tachometer with a digital speedometer dominates, flanked on the left by the analog speedometer and on the right by gauges for fuel level and coolant temperature. The small, well-shaped steering wheel features red stitching. Headroom is surprisingly plentiful -- the roof incorporates a "double bubble" design -- so wearing a helmet on track day should be no problem. There is no sunroof, however. The car is a 2+2, but the rear seats are strictly theoretical. Headroom in back is extremely limited, and a taller-than-average driver is going to have his seat so far back that rear-seat riders will be hard-pressed to wedge a foot between the front seatback and their seat cushion. The rear seatback does fold down, however, exposing a wide pass-through to the 6.9-cubic-foot trunk.
On the road
We had previously driven the BRZ on a track, but we traveled to Cannes, in the south of France, for our first on-road drive, at an event for the European and the American press. The French Riviera might not seem like a natural environment for a Subaru -- and, indeed, there weren't many Imprezas and Outbacks on the streets -- but it would soon become apparent why the roads here were perfect for this car.
First, though, we had to head out of town. The good visibility was welcome as we threaded our way through the traffic-choked streets. The BRZ is a shade smaller than a Nissan 370Z (half an inch shorter and some 2.5 inches narrower), but in European cities that makes it a medium-sized car.
The manual gearbox and clutch were easy to work; the transmission has short, positive throws, and the clutch travel and take-up are very natural. The ride over the surprisingly bumpy pavement was pretty stiff but we did not wish for a softer suspension setting.
Out of Town
Leaving the city behind, we climbed up into the Maritime Alps, the road scratched into the sheer rock hillsides. Here, the BRZ was totally in its element as the low center of gravity, the light weight (2762 to 2822 pounds depending on trim), and the effort to keep as much mass as possible in the center of the car all paid off. Turn-in is immediate, and with the road folded like an accordion, we turned in again and again. Instead of front-end push, there's a great sense of balance almost like that of a mid-engine car. The stability control system offers an intermediate, sport mode, and also can be switched off altogether; still, you have to be trying to break this car loose. The Michelin Primacy rubber isn't ultra-wide (the size is 215/45R17), but it gripped tenaciously, which was a good thing, given the steep drop-offs and rock walls that lined either side of the road. Lending a high degree of confidence is the BRZ's steering, with effort levels that are spot-on for a sports car like this. It's electrically assisted so feel is a little lacking but we loved the fast ratio (13:1) and predictable response.
Into the Great Wide Open
Eventually the climbing and the curves relented and we found ourselves in a high plateau. With barely another car in sight, we were really able to open up the 2.0-liter four. This engine shares nothing with the version in the Impreza and is the better for it, making considerably more power: 200 hp compared to 148 hp. The BRZ's 151 pound-feet of torque doesn't sound like a lot but nearly all of it is available across a broad rev band, from about 2500 rpm to 6500. Although you don't have to rev the snot out of it, if you do, you find that this engine is much more free revving than the Impreza's boxer four. Subaru estimates the 0-to-60-mph time at just under 7 seconds with the manual transmission. With a so-called Sound Creator channeling intake noise, keeping the engine on a boil in the 5000 to 6000 rpm range fills the cabin with the gritty engine note, which is definitely different than the Beetle-like sound of other Subaru engines.
In all, the BRZ offers a world of usable, accessible performance with a straightforward purity that's rare today. And the car itself should be accessible to a broad swath of enthusiast drivers; Subaru hasn't yet announced pricing, but we expect the base version to come in around $25,000. For about $2000 more, the Limited model adds leather-and-Alcantara upholstery, keyless ignition, heated seats, and a few lesser items. For either version, the only option is a six-speed automatic transmission with shift paddles.
More to come?
As intriguing as it is, the BRZ coupe has the potential for more. Although they cotton to no plans, Subaru engineers acknowledge that the new 2.0-liter four could work in other vehicles, and that there's room in the BRZ to add a turbocharger. Additionally, they confirm that the BRZ was engineered for the possible eventuality of a convertible body style, so this sports coupe could potentially be a roadster as well. We wouldn't expect anything to materialize until mid-cycle time -- say three years. Still, it's good to know that this delectable coupe has the potential to be more than a one-shot wonder -- and a wonder it is.
2013 Subaru BRZ
On sale: April 2012
Base price: $25,000 (estimated)
Fuel economy:
22/30 mpg (manual)
25/34 mpg (automatic)
Horsepower: 200 hp @ 7000 rpm
Torque: 151 lb-ft @ 6400 rpm
6-speed manual, 6-speed automatic
Curb weight: 2762-2822 lb
17 x 7-inch wheels
215/45 R17 tires


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...This raises the critically important question of how Buddhism can hope to play a constructive, let alone compassionate, role in contemporary society if it cannot confront and overcome this understanding of karma? (Ven. Daizen Brian Victoria, "The Reactionary Use of Karma in Twentieth Century Japan")
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The best way to accept Troom Troom, the YouTube approach adherent to camp DIY tutorials, "hacks," and "funny pranks," is to absorb assorted hours watching it until your academician turns into sprinkle-covered neon fungus that can somehow additionally be acclimated as lip gloss.
Because this is absolutely the array of affair that Troom Troom traffics in: do-it-yourself how-tos that no actuality could or should anytime replicate. The best accepted videos currently on the approach are tips on how to bastard aliment and architecture into chic in laughably backbreaking ways: One suggests removing the cement from a cement stick and inserting a block of adamantine cheese into the container, while addition recommends acid an angel in half, application an Exact-O knife to abolish the center, and again capacity an eyeshadow palette inside. Of the apple!
Troom Troom is aloof one of abounding agreeable factories of abstruse all-embracing agent that accept gamed YouTube's algorithm with bright, clickbait-y thumbnails and SEO keywords like "DIY," "hack," and "prank wars." And to angle out from the bags of added channels peddling the exact aforementioned service, they've angry to drifter and drifter content.
That's how you end up with a video that afresh went viral on Twitter, featuring a woman acid off a (very long) fiber of her hair, emphasis it bottomward to beneath than bisected an inch, and adhering it to the end of a pencil to actualize an eyeshadow brush. This, produced by the appropriately agrarian YouTube approach 5-Minute Crafts, is allegedly an easier way to administer eyeshadow than application one's fingers.
And yet it's working. 5-Minute Crafts currently has the fifth best subscribers of any YouTube channel, about 40 million. According to Amusing Blade, its absolute of added than 10 billion video angle translates to anywhere amid $2 actor and $34 actor in anniversary balance (the alterity actuality is from the capricious possibilities of amount per impression). It's estimated that Troom Troom, which currently boasts about 10 actor subscribers and about 3 billion absolute angle of its surreal, pastel-plastered videos, pulls in amid about $500,000 and $8 actor anniversary year.
Not alone are Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts berserk accustomed in their own right, but they're additionally allotment of the growing arrangement of acknowledgment videos to cringe-inducing agreeable on the site, creating a aeon that generates millions of angle for the YouTubers who appoint with it.
But creators I batten to additionally bidding apropos about these types of channels, alignment from their clickbait-y strategies to appropriation to manipulating children's internet behavior. The DIY YouTube amplitude may not be all rainbows and unicorns, alike if its thumbnails are abounding of them.
Troom Troom's capital aberancy doesn't aloof arise from its how-tos actuality absurdly useless. They're awe-inspiring because they are anecdotal by a voiceover extra with a absolute American emphasis speaking a affectionate of English that sounds like it's been run through about three layers of Google Translate. They're awe-inspiring because they affection a alternating casting of absolute attenuate white women who are referred to by nicknames like "the Blue-Eyed Girl," "Redhead," "Mrs. Smith," or "Dolly," and weirder still because those identities sometimes about-face amid them. They're awe-inspiring because it's cool to acquaint whether the accomplished affair is banter or if it's allotment of a awful Russian cyberattack targeting the YouTube-obsessed accouchement of the apple (but added on that later).
Besides actuality odd in its agreeable and tone, Troom Troom is additionally abundantly elusive. No one can accede on who makes the videos, who owns the company, area it's based, and who is authoritative money off it. But that elusiveness invites speculation, and internet detectives accept managed to addle out a few key pieces: first, that the website is registered beneath the name Eugene Miroshnykov, and second, that abounding of the videos are acceptable filmed in Odessa, Ukraine, anticipation by the Ukrainian Cyrillic calligraphy on abounding of the articles acclimated and the locations tagged on Troom Troom's Instagram.
The identities of the actresses, too, accept been abundantly apparent via their Instagram accounts. Best of them say they alive in Odessa and are models and artists. The approach launched in 2015, and it's bright from watching its ancient videos that Troom Troom began with accepted DIY and didn't ability its abounding aberancy — and bigger angle — until about a year ago.
But there are still the requisite cabal theories: that Troom Troom is absolutely run by a millennial woman in San Francisco, or that the Troom Troom girls are actuality captivated adjoin their will, affected to accomplish awe-inspiring DIY videos for ransom. Two media outlets that arise belief on Troom Troom additionally bootless to acquisition out abundant else.
Which is why I was afraid aback the email I beatific to the abode listed on Troom Troom's YouTube folio absolutely garnered a response. The sender's name was absolutely listed as Eugene Miroshnykov, acknowledging what I'd apparent on Reddit, but afterwards one back-and-forth, the name had been changed. To assure his anonymity — he bidding apropos about sleuths award his buzz cardinal or added claimed advice — I agreed to accredit to him by the appellation Zeon.
Zeon told me that Troom Troom was absolutely started by a aggregate of able artists "that capital to do article fun." Zeon is not amid these founders — he says he was assassin aback the approach already had a actor subscribers and declared his job as a "salesperson." Writers and admiral are based in Europe and the US and begin video account via Skype, and again assassinate them aural their own team. He declared the aggregation anatomy as agnate to a "holacracy," in which there is no top-down administration and the agreeable is instead "the aftereffect of the aggregate mind."
"We got afflatus from [the apple of] DIY argument and account tutorials," he wrote. "Most of our aggregation [is fabricated up of] able artists, so they begin usually all the tutorials in argument form, but not in the videos. We approved to break that issue. Firstly, it was added educational and austere videos that [were] fun. Currently, we try to mix brawl with DIY value. We begin that any video should absorb if you appetence to accomplish an appulse on the admirers and not aloof to get them bored."
This explains the abundant appropriation that account and artifice serve in the boilerplate Troom Troom video — a "funny pranks" video is never aloof a account of pranks; it's a adventure about how, say, "Dolly" sticks a artificial cadger into "Samantha's" toothpaste and again replaces the central of a auto with a tennis ball. Later, Samantha gets aback at Dolly by acid out a aperture in an iPhone case and agreement it over a book so that it looks like Dolly's buzz absolutely austere through. The back-and-forth pranking alone gets added complicated from there (I am not kidding).
Zeon says Troom Troom is apart owned, does not accept any alfresco funding, and is profitable. "[It] has affairs to grow, but the administration is currently confidential," he adds. Zeon beneath to affix me with the founders, nor did he accommodate any added capacity about his accomplishments or those of his co-workers, but I was calmly able to acquisition abundant Facebook and LinkedIn accounts that akin the name on his afterwards emails, which leads me to accept that Zeon is, indeed, a absolute person.
The origins of 5-Minute Crafts are, for what it's worth, far beneath mysterious. 5-Minute Crafts is endemic by TheSoul Publishing, which says it produces an absolutely agrarian 1,500 videos a month, has 550 employees, and operates 40 Facebook pages in 10 languages. It owns mega-popular YouTube channels like Ablaze Ancillary (animated videos that are a mix of riddles, facts, and "hacks") and the 8 million-strong Facebook folio You're Gorgeous (your accepted Facebook agreeable acreage content). Neither 5-Minute Crafts nor TheSoul Publishing responded to requests for an interview.
Notably, TheSoul Publishing is additionally based in Eastern Europe. According to a 2017 Forbes piece, the aggregation was founded by the Russia-based Pavel Radaev and Marat Mukhametov, both of whom accept backgrounds in amusing media content. To acknowledgment the absolute question, clashing abounding viral Facebook posts that came out of Russia over the accomplished few years, TheSoul Publishing's agreeable does not arise to be candidly political.
5-Minute Crafts has four times as abounding subscribers as Troom Troom, but it's accurate by a 550-employee business. This raises the still-unanswered question: How abounding bodies assignment for Troom Troom? The approach is able to broadcast a 10- to 15-minute video every day, which requires a almost ample team, not to acknowledgment lots of money. For the best part, how they're able to cull it off charcoal unclear.
To accept the acceleration of appropriate DIY videos, you accept to accept the blow of YouTube. Videos on the belvedere accomplish abundantly based on how able-bodied they baby to accepted SEO keywords, and if they actualize a faculty of coercion in the appellation (which generally agency application all caps and a ton of assertion points), and use a visually arresting thumbnail angel — that's why you'll see a lot of aerial aperture bitter into a aberrant object.
"I started acquainted these absolutely distinct, super-saturated, photoshopped thumbnails assuming up in my recommended videos augment aftermost year," says Cristine Rotenberg, the 30-year-old YouTuber abaft the attach art approach Simply Nailogical, which has 6 actor subscribers. "It's absolutely strange. It's like a lot of channels accomplished about the aforementioned time that photoshopped pictures of putting things abreast mouths get a lot of clicks."
Bizarre projects with bait-y thumbnails is a action that affluence of channels accept embraced, but that added accustomed crafting players accept rejected. Nifty, the home vertical endemic by BuzzFeed, has invested in projects that its admirers requests and is absorbed in absolutely attempting (unlike, say, an abundantly complicated DIY to accomplish a mini box of Altoids as a prank, as one Troom Troom video offers). On these "normal" crafting channels, for abridgement of a bigger term, you'll acquisition how-tos for things like abatement balustrade decor, headboard making, and attic abstraction with thumbnails that acknowledge the absolute product.
Erin Phraner, the authoritative ambassador of Nifty, accustomed the burden that YouTube crafting channels face to bold the algorithm and await on bait-y titles. Nifty has additionally had its projects baseborn by added ability channels. "It's the absoluteness of arena in that space," Phraner says.
"Those types of thumbnails and titles and crazy drudge projects absolutely skew against clickbait-y," she adds. "But I anticipate for us, our activity is that you ability see that pop up in the augment and bang to watch it already because it seems affectionate of outlandish, but our accomplished business is we're aggravating to body assurance and actualize things that bodies absolutely appetence to accompany into their home."
For its part, YouTube says it's already done the assignment of active clickbait on the site. According to Youtube, back 2012, the algorithm has adored best watch times over video clicks. So for instance, if users watch a video for a few seconds, apprehend it isn't what they were expecting, and bang out, that video wouldn't appearance up in users' feeds as generally as one area admirers ashore around.
Plus, the appellation "clickbait" ability not alike administer aback the absolute tutorials on Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts are as agrarian as they are. Zeon explained that Troom Troom's action is the adverse of Nifty's — the videos are about entertainment, not service. And it's their bizarro brawl amount that makes them altogether ill-fitted to the accepted altitude of blench on YouTube, and annotation about that cringe.
"There's so abundant accidental amusement in Troom Troom videos," says Rotenberg of Simply Nailogical. "I could accomplish Troom Troom parodies every anniversary and beam for the blow of my life."
So far, she's alone fabricated a few. In one, she attempts Troom Troom's "20 assistant hacks," which accommodate authoritative a "banana holster" out of acquainted and painting a smile on a assistant peel; in another, she tries some back-to-school pranks, such as putting hay in somebody's backpack.
Rotenberg's videos are but a baby sliver of the cottage industry that is the Troom Troom acknowledgment video. Added accepted creators like Danny Gonzalez, Cody Ko, and Jarvis Johnson accept anniversary garnered millions of angle by satirizing Troom Troom and 5-Minute Crafts, application the accepted YouTube acknowledgment video architecture in which the host talks to the camera and reacts to clips from added videos.
It's a aeon that's advantageous for both the reactionaries and their targets. Johnson, who's 26 and additionally has a full-time job alive for Patreon in San Francisco, says that a acknowledgment video he fabricated about 5-Minute Crafts was a "huge catalyst" for growing his YouTube channel, which now has about bisected a actor subscribers. Back then, he's arise a mini analysis on Troom Troom, as able-bodied as a video about the "dark ancillary of Ablaze Side," the sister approach to 5-Minute Crafts.
He says that while on the apparent these sorts of channels are appealing innocuous, he does allotment apropos about clickbait, plagiarism, and their ample admirers of children. But ultimately, his acknowledgment videos started as a antic — or rather, an exercise in cogent jokes. "I anticipation annotation videos were a ablaze barge for comedic autograph that additionally fit in with what YouTube's algorithm promotes," he explains. "I happened aloft a 5-Minute Crafts video alleged '20 Tips If You Absorb Your Activity in Front of Computer.' At the time, I acquainted like I'd addled internet gold because I didn't see anyone abroad talking about their cool hacks."
Because that's the thing: Troom Troom videos are abundantly accomplished for parody. The joy in watching them is abundantly based on their accessible applesauce — the astonishing narration, the knockoff–Disney Approach set design, the aberration of the projects.
Troom Troom videos are arguably allotment of Blench YouTube, the ever-expanding arrangement of afflictive and ardent videos that encompasses TikTok compilations, Instagram comedians, and above Vine bodies with awful hair, amid others. It's difficult to point to a YouTube video that isn't a little cringey in its own way, but aural Blench YouTube, it isn't aloof the aboriginal videos that get angle — it's the amaranthine aeon of reactions and commentary. PewDiePie, the most-subscribed YouTube approach of all time, for example, has congenital a career on authoritative fun of added YouTubers' attempts at earnestness.
On why the cast is so accepted appropriate now, Johnson guesses it's because of "mystery, community, and the accomplished 'so bad it's good' thing. If addition sees article cool cool and can allotment that with addition else, there's a ablution there."
He additionally compares Troom Troom to a cine berserk advised to be one of the best accidentally amusing films of all time. "As addition who is a die-hard fan of the Tommy Wiseau cine The Room, I see A LOT of similarities amid The Room and Troom Troom," he adds. "I feel like I should alpha a cabal approach about how Troom Troom is abbreviate for 'The Room The Room.'"
And abundant like The Room, the catechism about Troom Troom, 5-Minute Crafts, and anyone who has anytime fabricated a bonkers video for the internet will consistently be the same: Are they in on the joke?
In the case of Troom Troom, it seems like the creators embrace the absurdity, alike if it isn't carefully ironic. Zeon is acquainted of the intense, aberrant allure with the brand, and said that often, the "story creates the crafts," acceptation that at atomic some Troom Troom videos were not absolutely produced with the absorbed of teaching bodies how to accomplish a affair — they're aloof for fun.
But is awe-inspiring DIY YouTube an exercise in satire? Probably not. And while there may not be an appetence for glue-stick cheese, there's absolutely an appetence for attractive at it.
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American, 20th century, male.
Born 15 May 1930, in Allendale (South Carolina) or Augusta (Georgia).
Painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker, mixed media, costume and set designer, illustrator. Encaustic.
Neo-Dadaism, Pop Art.
Jasper Johns grew up in South Carolina. He attended courses in art and painting at the University of South Carolina and, in 1948, enrolled in a commercial art school for two semesters in New York City. He served in the US Army for two years during the Korean War but was able to resume his studies at City College in New York in 1953, thanks to the GI Bill. It was at this time that he met his lifelong friend Robert Rauschenberg, the composer John Cage, and the dancer Merce Cunningham. He acted as artistic adviser for Cage and Cunningham's dance company until 1972, collaborating with painters such as Robert Morris, Frank Stella, Bruce Nauman, and Andy Warhol. He lives and works in New York State and St Martin in the French West Indies. He has been a member of the New York Academy of Arts and Letters since 1988....


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Cashel Blue and Toasted Pecan Terrine with Frisée and Apple Jam From 'My Irish Table'
At Cathal Armstrong's flagship Restaurant Eve, they always serve a composed platter of Irish cheeses. One of Armstrong's favorites is Cashel Blue, a creamy and salty sheep's milk blue. In his new cookbook, My Irish Table, Armstrong shares his restaurant's recipe for a simple terrine made from this cheese and toasted chopped pecans. He pairs the cheese with a simple tangy apple jam and barely dressed frisée salad. It's a great example of how a restaurant-style dish can elevate an ordinary party platter—each component on the plate is something I'd put out with cheese, but I normally wouldn't take the extra steps to refine the dish.
Why I picked this recipe: I wanted to sample a recipe from Restaurant Eve without committing myself to days of extra cooking.
What worked: On their own, each of these components are a little dull, but combined into one bite, each begins to sing—the blue cheese's funky bite is brought in check by the tangy-sweet jam and the crunchy bitterness of the frisée prevents a sugar rush.
What didn't: I needed to cook the jam for another five minutes in order for it to turn jammy. I also thought the pecans could have benefitted from a finer chop; as written, their larger pieces cause the terrine to crumble when sliced.
Suggested tweaks: If you can't find Cashel Blue cheese, you can substitute another sheep's milk blue cheese like Roquefort or else English Stilton. You can mold the terrine in just about any shape you'd like—I used a medium-sized bowl.
Reprinted with permission from My Irish Table: Recipes from the Homeland and Restaurant Eve by Cathal Armstrong and David Hagedom. Copyright 2014. Published by Ten Speed Press, a division of Random House. All rights reserved. Available wherever books are sold.
- Yield:Serves 12
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:40 minutes, plus an overnight rest for the terrine
- Terrine
- 1 cup coarsely chopped pecans
- 1 pound Cashel Blue cheese, crumbled
- Jam
- 2 small apples, such as Bramley, Ida Red, Granny Smith, or Pink Lady, peeled, cored, and coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup honey
- 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- Salad
- 6 ounces (about 8 cups) frisée
- 2 tablespoons finely minced shallot
- 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Toast the pecans: Preheat the oven to 300°F. Line a 9-inch loaf pan with plastic wrap, leaving a generous overlap. Spread the pecans on a pie pan and lightly toast them in the oven for 10 minutes, then
allow them to cool.
Make the terrine: Combine the cheese and pecans in a large bowl and pack the mixture firmly into the loaf pan. Fold the overlapping plastic wrap over to cover completely and refrigerate overnight or for up to 3 days.
Make the jam: Combine the apples, sugar, honey, and lemon juice in a saucepan and cook over medium-high heat until the apples are syrupy, about 5 minutes. Lower the heat to medium and continue cooking for another 10 minutes, stirring often, until the apples are completely soft and caramelized. Remove from the heat and mash the apples into jam with the back of a fork. Let cool.
Present the dish: Unmold the terrine and cut it into 12 half-inch slices. Gently separate the frisée leaves and put them in a small bowl. Add the shallot, olive oil, and salt and toss to mix. For each serving, center a slice of terrine on a dinner plate and place a small mound of salad and a dollop of apple jam next to it.
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Four College Issues Forum to Kick Off with Lovins
Amory Lovins, author of Winning the Oil Endgame and CEO of the Rocky Mountain Institute, will speak at the first annual Four College Issues Forum—a forum founded by Bennington College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Southern Vermont College, and Williams College "to bring significant discussion of national and global issues to the region and to their campuses."
The location of the symposium will rotate between the four campuses, alternating between a Massachusetts and a Vermont college annually. The inaugural symposium will be held Wednesday, April 30, at 8:00 pm, in the Hunter Center at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), in North Adams. The event is free and open to the public. Tickets will be available at the door.
Lovins, trained as a physicist, is perhaps best known for his environmental pragmatism. "I don't do problems," he says, "I do solutions." Lovins' problem-solving approach is evident in Winning the Oil Endgame. In it, he proposes a national strategy for eliminating U.S. oil usage, driven by economic incentives and business profits.
Elizabeth Kolbert, writing in The New Yorker, reports that Lovins "maintains that the U.S. can eliminate its use of oil by 2050, even while reducing its coal and natural-gas consumption, enjoying economic prosperity, and preserving the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
One of the founders of the Rocky Mountain Institute of Snowmass, CO, Lovins' has worked to promote energy efficiency and innovative, economically motivated energy policy solutions. He was one of the developers of the Hypercar, a hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle designed to get hundreds of miles to the gallon. His work focuses on transforming the hydrocarbon, automobile, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other sectors toward advanced resource productivity and the success of his projects rests on design ideas that enhance one another.
Lovins' vision of a "soft-energy path" came to the fore following the 1973 oil crisis, when the journal Foreign Affairspublished his 10,000 word essay "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" In it, Lovins "redefined the energy problem from 'how to supply more energy' to how to provide just the amount, type, and scale of energy that would do each task in the cheapest way." This approach developed into Lovins' soft-energy path, developed in contrast to the hard-energy path, focused on finding cheaper and newer ways to extract and develop traditional fossil fuel energy.
Educated at Harvard and Magdalen College, Oxford, Lovins has received countless awards, honors, and fellowships. He holds nine honorary doctorates; a MacArthur Fellowship; the Heinz, Lindbergh, Right Livelihood, World Technology, and Time magazine Hero for the Planet awards; the Benamin Franklin and Happold Medals; and the Nissan, Shingo, Mitchell, and Onassis Prizes. He is the author 29 books and several hundred papers.


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It had been three years since the Green Bay Packers had last won a NFL title as they faced the defending-champion Cleveland Browns in the league Championship game on January 2, 1966. Head Coach Vince Lombardi's team was a blend of solid veterans who had been a part of title-winning teams in 1961 and '62 and rising young players. They had battled the Colts to a tie atop the Western Conference with 10-3-1 records that necessitated a playoff that Green Bay won in overtime. However, a cause for concern was that many of the team's veterans were hampered by injuries, including QB Bart Starr, HB Paul Hornung, and FB Jim Taylor (pictured at right).
The Browns, coached by Blanton Collier, had won a stunning shutout victory over Baltimore in the previous year's title game and again topped the Eastern Conference at 11-3. They were without split end Paul Warfield, one of the stars of the '64 team as a rookie, for most of the season due to injury but still had the incomparable FB Jim Brown, who won his eighth league rushing title with 1544 yards and scored 21 touchdowns. QB Frank Ryan and flanker Gary Collins were also keys to the offense.
Snow arrived in the morning, but it had changed to freezing drizzle by game time. There were 50,852 fans present at wet and muddy Lambeau Field. The Packers took the opening kickoff and drove 77 yards in seven plays that culminated in Starr passing to flanker Carroll Dale for a 47-yard touchdown.
The Browns came right back by going 66 yards in just three plays. Ryan threw to Jim Brown for a 30-yard gain, connected with Paul Warfield for 19, and then passed to flanker Gary Collins for a 17-yard touchdown. However, the extra point attempt failed due to a bad snap from center that had PK Lou Groza trying to pass to his holder rather than kick and the Packers maintained a one-point lead.
Late in the first quarter, and following a Green Bay punt from its own end zone, Lou Groza kicked a 24-yard field goal to put the Browns in front by 9-7. The Packers responded by driving to a score. Paul Hornung ran for a 34-yard gain to the Cleveland 39. Following a Starr pass to split end Boyd Dowler for 11 yards, the combination of Taylor and Hornung advanced the ball to the three. The Browns held but Don Chandler kicked a 15-yard field goal early in the second quarter and Green Bay was back in front.
Chandler's second field goal was set up by an interception by FS Willie Wood, who returned it 15 yards to the Cleveland 10. However, a motion penalty set the Packers back and Starr threw three incomplete passes. Chandler was again successful with a three-point try from 23 yards out that made it 13-9.
With less than three minutes remaining in the first half, the Browns punted and the 50-yard kick by Collins went out at the Green Bay four. Advancing to the 11, a third down pass by Starr was picked off by CB Walter Beach at the 30. Ryan immediately tried to go for the touchdown, throwing a pass into the end zone that was intended for Collins but it was broken up by SS Tom Brown and CB Bob Jeter. The series ended with Groza kicking a 28-yard field goal with 48 seconds remaining on the clock. The Packers carried a slender lead of 13-12 into halftime.
A light snow was falling as the game moved into the third quarter. The Packers put together an 11-play, 90-yard drive in the third quarter that was highlighted by Hornung gaining 20 yards on one run and scoring on a power sweep from 13 yards out. The series consumed nearly seven minutes.
WR Walter Roberts returned the ensuing kickoff 33 yards. Ryan scrambled for eight yards and a facemask penalty added another 15 to advance the ball into Green Bay territory. The drive finally stalled at the 28. Cleveland came up short when Groza's 37-yard field goal attempt in the third quarter was partially blocked by DT Henry Jordan and was unsuccessful.
The Packers put together another long drive, going from their 20 to the Cleveland 21 with only two passes along the way as Taylor and Hornung again ran effectively. Chandler kicked a 29-yard field goal with 9:28 remaining in the game.
Cleveland again was forced to punt but it was another good one by Collins and pinned the Packers down at their seven. Starr was nearly tackled for a safety by DE Bill Glass but managed to get out to the two before being brought down. Following a five-yard carry by Taylor, Chandler punted from his end zone but any advantage for the Browns was nullified when TE Ralph Smith barreled into the kicker and drew a roughing penalty.
The Packers didn't score again but also didn't relinquish the ball until there were only about two minutes remaining. The Browns only reached Green Bay territory one more time during the second half, and after making it to the 47 Ryan was sacked by DE Willie Davis to push them back to their 48. A last-gasp long pass intended for Collins was intercepted by CB Herb Adderley, who made a leaping grab to extinguish the threat and nail down the 23-12 win for Green Bay.
The Packers significantly outgained Cleveland (332 yards to 161), ran 69 plays to Cleveland's 39, and also dominated in first downs (21 to 8). They had a huge edge in rushing yardage (204 to 64) and also turned the ball over only once, to two by the Browns. Green Bay's defense took control and completely shut the defending champs down in the second half.
Paul Hornung (pictured at left) gained 105 yards on 18 carries that included a touchdown and workhorse Jim Taylor added 96 yards on 27 attempts and added 20 more yards on two pass receptions. Bart Starr completed 10 of 18 passes for 147 yards with a TD and an interception. Boyd Dowler caught 5 passes for 59 yards and, with the long early scoring reception, Carroll Dale gained 60 yards on his two catches.
For the Browns, Jim Brown was held to 50 yards on 12 carries and led the club with 44 yards on three receptions out of the backfield. Frank Ryan was successful on just 8 of 18 throws for 115 yards and a TD with two picked off. Gary Collins, like Brown, caught three passes, for 41 yards and a score.
"The snow and mud were our allies," said Vince Lombardi. "When you have conditions like these, it's best to be basic, not fancy. And we're the most basic offensive team there is."
"We're a fine team – better than we showed today – and I'm proud of them," said Blanton Collier on behalf of the Browns. "But we just made too many mistakes."
While the win over the Browns was the first of three straight NFL titles for Green Bay, it also was something of a last hurrah for the backfield combination of Jim Taylor and Paul Hornung, who had played such a major role in the team's rise but were showing signs of wear by 1965. Both were back in '66, but at reduced effectiveness. Taylor rushed for 705 yards while averaging 3.5 yards per carry. Hornung ran the ball only 76 times for 200 yards in an injury-plagued year. They were gone by the time the team won its third title in '67.
While no one knew it at the time, the 1965 title game was also the end of the line for Jim Brown (pictured below) in a Cleveland uniform (he played once more in the Pro Bowl). The great fullback announced his retirement during the summer of '66 while on movie location in London. He left as the all-time leading rusher in NFL history with 12,312 yards, a record that lasted until 1984, while leading the league eight times in nine seasons and averaging 104.3 yards per game and 5.2 per carry. His record of 126 touchdowns scored lasted until 1994.


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Gary Lucas has been described as "The Thinking Man's Guitar Hero" by The New Yorker, a "Guitarist of 1000 Ideas" by The New York Times, and a "legendary leftfield guitarist" by The Guardian (UK). He first gained acclaim for his work with Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet), appearing on Beefheart's 1980 album Doc at the Radar Station and 1982's Ice Cream for Crow. Lucas was also Van Vliet's manager during this time. He has since released solo albums – the first being 1990's Skeleton at the Feast featuring effect-heavy interstellar guitar instrumentals – and albums with his band Gods and Monsters, whose ranks once included Jeff Buckley. He has worked with many other artists, and was nominated for a Grammy for co-writing Joan Osborne's song "Spider Web".
The Gary Lucas & Gods and Monsters album The Ordeal of Civility will be released on Knitting Factory Records on May 10, 2011. This album is not just for fans of avant guitar – definitely worth checking out!
This interview was conducted by email, with responses received March 1, 2011. Lucas responded from La Habana, Cuba.


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The hybrid paladin entry lacks any reference to divine sanction (but then again, as printed in PHB1, so does the regular paladin).
Powers that apply the sanction to the paladin's enemies seem to be worded: "... subject to your divine sanction ..." (as compared to other effects such as "...you mark the target...") which implies that the character needs to have a divine sanction to subject.
p82 of Divine Power reads "Many new paladin powers and some of the new feats in this book subject a target to your divine sanction. Being subject to it means the target is marked by you for a duration specified in the description of the power or feat."
So can a hybrid paladin (or a multi classed paladin with power swap feats) subject a target to a normal paladin's divine sanction?


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there's a swarm of bees meandering the streets of san francisco. there's women in homicidal heels and men in nothing too special. everyone's got their hoods up and their eyes high and it's making me sad that no one seems to have the time to look around. this city is on fire, desperate for attention. it's beautiful. these buildings have scars all over them and they're the good kind of scars, but everyone is just pushing the stroller. everyone is just carrying the bag. everyone looks too damn preoccupied with the inside of their heads to realize that there is a living thing surrounding them. clockwork. there's hipster girls and gay boys in pairs. there's peacoats and taxis and bars filled to the brim with chewing faces, beautiful asian women, beards and yeah, a few too many pairs of judgmental eyes. lights everywhere.
and i miss denver. this city makes denver look like a bad comedian but god, i miss denver. i miss my friends. i miss my family. i miss denver's crooked smile and her warm heart and the barcade and sixteen street and the mountains.
i've got the golden gate bridge and the bay and the city and the hills and the smell of sea salt in the air and all i want is to lay down in my mediocre bed with denver. i want to sit in my basement apartment and talk until three in the morning with my friends and i want to listen to the beatles on my record player.
"i bet it's snowing in denver," says francis, facetiously and i say,
"i hope so. i love the snow. i love my city that doesn't have a barney's and doesn't have an apple store the size of steve job's ego and i love that we were almost the ones who travelled to the end of the world, but stopped because we remembered that sometimes being land-locked just means you've got four walls around you. sometimes living in a square state means you know your boundaries. you know when to call it a night and just lay down in front of a fire with the door cracked open.
don't get me wrong, francis, you're great. really, you are. you're by far the curviest girl i've ever met. you've got a way better personality than los angeles and you have beautiful buildings flowing through your veins. and yeah, you're really god damn progressive. you've got your shit together. but you're the dream, and i want the reality. i want to settle down. you're kind of an indie marilyn and i'm looking for a jackie-o. that's all.


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The TrendLabs 2012 Annual Security Roundup showed that the past year ushered in the post-PC era as cybercriminals embraced mobile malware use. Mobile malware remained a big problem for users this quarter though the main concern went beyond their sheer number. The discovery of OBAD malware and the "master key" vulnerability highlighted cybercriminals' ability to find ways to exploit flaws in the Android™ ecosystem. We noted that these incidents were designed to bypass security measures and serve as other means for cybercriminals to gain control over devices.
More online banking threats were seen in different countries this quarter, specifically in Brazil, South Korea, and Japan. These highlighted the need for increased awareness of online banking security. Cybercriminals also came up with more diverse attacks that used various social engineering lures, single sign-on (SSO) and multiprotocol services, and blogging platforms for their malicious schemes. Vulnerability disclosure also became a hot topic this quarter in response to the flurry of zero-day incidents at the beginning of the year.
Enterprises continued to battle targeted attacks. The Naikon campaign was primarily seen in Asia/Pacific while our research on the Safe campaign revealed victim IP addresses spread throughout 100 countries worldwide. These stress the importance of strengthening enterprise defense against targeted attacks while coming up with proactive solutions to protect corporate networks.
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Mobile threats took the fast lane this quarter and bypassed security. Mobile vulnerabilities raised risks with the emergence of the master key vulnerability and the OBAD malware.
The master key vulnerability can be exploited to replace legitimate apps with malicious versions while OBAD steals data and spies on mobile activities using improved stealth routines.
The lag in the Android™ update process doesn't help either. It causes a fragmentation issue that leaves devices unpatched and unprotected.
Multicomponent and web-based threats now plague the mobile threat landscape. They victimize users with fake banking apps and FAKEAV distributed through social engineering schemes.
Mobile and web users need to scrutinize their computing habits, no matter what device they use. When dealing with mobile threats, look into vulnerability patching and extending mobile protection to include more than just app scanning.
Almost all Android devices were put at risk by the discovery of the master key vulnerability, which can be exploited to replace legitimate apps with malicious copies even without the original developer's signing key.
The OBAD malware, meanwhile, exploits a critical Android device administration flaw to avoid detection and removal. It incessantly asks for administrator privileges before running on stealth mode and spreading via Bluetooth®.
The existing Android update process delays the deployment of software updates and patches. It doesn't help that these still need to go through manufacturers and service providers before reaching users.
Mobile threats combined different malicious routines to infect more devices. PC threats also crossed over to the mobile front in the form of ads and Android application package files (APKs) that lead to compromised web pages or perform malignant tasks.
This quarter's notable multicomponent mobile threats steal information and breach user privacy:
There's a thriving underground market for stolen mobile information. One million mobile numbers sell for US$70 while 1,000 numbers with personally identifiable information (PII) sell for US$35.
The number of malicious and high-risk Android apps hit 718,000 in the second quarter from 509,000 in the first quarter of this year. In just six months, the number of Android malware surged by another 350,000. It originally took three years for Android malware to reach this mass.
Most malicious apps still arrived as Trojanized versions of legitimate ones. And while the ranking of mobile threat types remained consistent with the past quarter, an increase in the data stealer volume was seen. This showed the continued evolution and sophistication of Android threats.
The online banking threat count rose from 113,000 in the first quarter of this year to 146,000 this quarter. The United States topped the list of countries with the most number of online banking victims and over 40,000 infections (28%). It was followed by Brazil with 22%, Australia with 5%, France with 5%, and Japan with 4%.
Countries with fast Internet access and large online banking communities battled new and more sophisticated threats designed for their regions.
Users from Internet connectivity leader, South Korea, were redirected to fake sites. Brazil's active online banking users fell victim to "homemade browsers" and data-stealing malware hosted on compromised government sites. In Japan, online Trojans also went after banks.
Toolkits used for malicious activities are now being hawked in the cybercriminal underground at cheap prices, given away for free, or come bundled with other services or products.
In Brazil, SpyEye came free with a purchase of other known malware kits. The source code for CARBERP, the botnet creation kit, was also released online.
Traditional threats have come back; this time, with improved evasion and deployment techniques.
One of the top 10 malicious domains users visited this quarter was connected to the Blackhole Exploit Kit. We saw related spam use non-English-character domains and download FAREIT, which is known for stealing File Transfer Protocol (FTP) credentials.
Botnets like PUSHDO managed to stay afloat and resist command-and-control (C&C) server takedowns with the use of malware that employ Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA). This algorithm allows malware to generate and access more than 1,000 domains on a daily basis.
Cybercriminals sought and compromised hosts. Popular code repository, SourceForge, for instance, was used to host malicious GAMARUE files.
The continued discovery of targeted attack campaigns inside computer networks should invoke organizations to remain vigilant. According to an ISACA survey, 53.4% still consider advanced persistent threats (APTs) conventional threats.
Campaigns like Safe, which TrendLabsSM documented this quarter, used small C&C clusters and new malware to attack government ministries, technology companies, media outlets, academic research institutions, and nongovernment organizations. Nearly 12,000 unique IP addresses, spread over more than 100 countries, were connected to Safe via two sets of C&C infrastructure.
This quarter, a zero-day exploit for Internet Explorer® 8 and attacks targeting server-side applications—Plesk, Ruby on Rails, and ColdFusion®—were reported.
During discussions on vulnerability disclosure policies, Google engineers suggested that vendors release information on zero-day exploits in seven days.
Trend Micro CTO, Raimund Genes, deemed this unreasonable. He instead called for discourse among developers, governments, and researchers to work out solutions for security vulnerabilities in the future.
Social engineering threats diversified, trickling into multiple account access services like instant-message (IM) aggregator, Digsby, and multiservice access ID, Apple ID. They also spilled onto platforms like Tumblr, WordPress, and Blogger to host fake streaming pages, and used technologies like URL shorteners.
Threats also took advantage of professionals and individuals looking to gain popularity on social networks. An Instagram scam, for instance, offered to increase their follower count.
The Boston marathon topped this quarter's list of social engineering lures. Others include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) shooting, the Texas fertilizer plant explosion, Iron Man 3, and the tax season.
Collaboration with Internet security experts is important in developing well-rounded decrees and stronger infrastructure against cybercrime. This is especially true since lax cybersecurity laws and insufficient technical knowledge impede various countries from beating cybercriminals.
A major highlight this quarter was the partnership between Trend Micro and INTERPOL for threat mitigation and cybersecurity training.


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I took Pershing down to Arlington Boulevard (the intersection is currently a mess. Also, when are they extending/building anew the trail around there? ) and then Fairfax Drive and then over the Meade Street bridge (there were these meetings to make suggestions to make that connection better), over to the now impenetrable Wright gate and then down the hill to the trail that half-loops over to the Memorial Bridge. A motorist stopped her car to allow me to cross the busy Washington Boulevard (I didn't know what the road leading to the bridge is called, but I looked it up and it's called Washington Boulevard. Creative.) and continue my way over the bridge.
It's picturesque and if you like looking at the back of the Lincoln Memorial while traversing a river, I highly recommend it.
At the stop light at 23rd and Independence, I made some small talk with a fellow cyclist.
Him: MorningI'm quite a conversationalist. Almost as good as I am a photographer. Look:
Me: Morning
Him: Going to see the Cherry Blossoms.
Me: Yeah, me too.
Him: I forgot my camera. But I guess I already have pictures from last year.
Me: Yeah, I think if you live here long enough, you have pictures from every year.
Him: Yeah.
Me: Have fun.
|Are there even cherry blossoms in this picture?
|Climbing uphill or just didn't hold the camera right?
I took these while biking along Ohio Drive. No time to stop- I'm on my way to work! Free enterprise! Atlas Shrugged!
Then I decided to actually stop and take some more:
|Faintly visible Washington Monument
|I think the Jefferson is back there somewhere
|If someone steals my bike, I'll totally have a picture of them doing it.
I don't know of too many drivers who take these kinds of diversions on their way to work.
I saw a mild car crash along the Monodirectional During Rush Hours Four Lane Highway through a Park (a driver hit the back of someone else's car when they were both pulling away from a stop sign. Whoops) and that inspired me to stay along the Rock Creek Trail rather than go down K and get on the CCT. I like the Rock Creek Trail and I barely ever ride on it because it's a) not especially close and b) wildly inconvenient on the weekends when it's full of joggers. There were a few bike commuters heading in the opposite direction (I swear I'm the only person who bikes uptown for work) and, in general, the pastoral tortuousness was pleasant. That is until I got to the exit from the park at Calvert Street. About half way up a rather unpleasant hill, there's a sign that reads "Move Right- Steep Grade" or something like that. I was like "no shit, why didn't you say something at the bottom?," but it's not as if cursing at the sign would have made any difference- I still had to go up. From the exit of the park, I went Calvert to Cleveland (more hill, riding in the space between parked cars and the right lane dashed lines) and over to Garfield (more hill, bike lane) to Massachusetts (downhill, then uphill a little) to work.
The whole trip took about an extra hour from my normal ride. Is there a point of this story, aside from America Rules and that the government needs to stop curtailing my freedom (but still pay for old peoples' unlimited socialized medical care)? Not really. It's just nice to know that you can leave home a little earlier than usual and get to work a little bit later and in the mean time take advantage of nice weather to see something that a lot of people pay thousands of dollars to only get to see from behind the windows of a tour bus, or maybe during a 15 minute break from riding around in that bus. So, yeah, consider that an endorsement of visiting the Cherry Blossoms by bike.


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A woman named Linda leaves her family to pursue her dream of being a rock star. And she hasn't achieved the notoriety she hoped for. ...
Country: USA
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The Milk Chocolate Coins were quite tasty, made from the same drool worthy milk chocolate used in the Fairtrade Milk Chocolate Advent Calendar—Advent came early this year. The coins attracted insects even before I opened the foil. Unless it was me, I reeked of the bean.
I still have some grubby pieces of dark chocolate nestled in mangled foil on my desk. I keep telling myself it's there as air freshener. That's how strong the smell of the 70% Dark Chocolate is, and it's surprisingly fresh and silky on the tooth after two weeks of abuse.
The Mint Dark Chocolate, 70%, is probably the same as the basic dark with peppermint crisp, but didn't make the same impression as the basic dark bar.
Interestingly enough, the Dark Chocolate has significantly more fiber and less calcium than the lackluster 27% Hazelnut Milk Chocolate. Maybe it's only interesting to me because I don't know much about chocolate.
If you want an informed opinion, Cybele is also writing about Divine Chocolate. My knowledge of chocolate is a lot like my knowledge of money: I can't tell you how to make it, but go through it quickly.
I pulled an Üter and ate most of the After Dinner Mints before the photo below was taken, then devoured all but the chocolate parts which touched surfaces. I was so stuffed with chocolate all I could do was sit there and read labels.
The After Dinner Mints, 58% cocoa, were one of my favs, and quite addictive. They were the first to be released from their holding cell in the fridge, and tasted even better warm and disgusting. Did I ask for 80º weather in September? No, I didn't, but I'm asking for it now—pleassseeee.
The White Chocolate With Strawberries contains no fiber or cocoa mass, but has real strawberries in the crisp. I found it too sweet, as white chocolate tends to be, and a little sexy.
I liked the Crunchy Milk Chocolate, 27% cocoa, best of all, and not being able to control my Caligulian appetite, barely took time to breathe as I scarfed it like a dog.
A dog I tell you.
I liked the Hazelnut Milk Chocolate, 27% cocoa, least of all, finding it dull and full of hazelnuts. But the calcium in this bar had a 10% daily value. Makes you reconsider your breakfast choices. (I wasn't kidding about not being able to do anything but read labels after feasting on the flesh of chocolate.)
A Ghanan cooperative is responsible for the aromatic and savory cocoa. The Divine story and more fairtrade information is on their Web site and inside their wrappers, do your own research. I've got bits of chocolate to lick off my desk.


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- I am not making fun of my translator or her skills.
- I am not making fun of the church or its name.
- I am most definitely not equating genealogy with a religious experience, nor am I into ancestor-worship.
Saturday, January 22, 2011
What's with the weird blog name?
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Welcome to the blogging world Julie. What an interesting story. Be sure to check out geneabloggers.com and submit your blog. JenniferReplyDelete
With Jessica, I say, "Love it!" I have to say that the name caught my attention on the new blogs list on geneabloggers. I especially like that you gave an explanation for choosing the name. You didn't say which language was being translated.... I'm still trying to figure some rootwords that put "upheaval" and "triumph" together. I'll probably have to work on it for a while.... Great blog. I'm a follower! Welcome to geneabloggers.ReplyDelete
I'm guessing this was somewhere in Eastern Europe? "Upheaval" for "triumph" (or "exaltation," воздвижение?) is a bit of a surprise, but I have seen Russian Orthodox churches in the US called "Saint Savior" (= Holy Savior). So I knew something was up when I spotted the wonderful blog title. Welcome to the genealogy bloggers - it's a great group!ReplyDelete
Okay, now I've got the logic: exaltation = rising up = uprising = upheaval.ReplyDelete
Thank you for your comments! I've had problems (I'm new to blogspot) posting replies to your comments, so I'm a little behind.ReplyDelete
Indeed, Greta and Nancy, another English version of the name of the feast day is "Exaltation of the Holy Cross." To exalt something is to raise it up. And that, I think, is the connection between "upheaval" and "triumph." To raise up, to heave up... similar, very similar! The church was in Slovakia, I think the name was Povysenia svata Kriza (ok, now where are the diacritics on this browser...?)
That's a great name for a blog, and the story makes it better. I look forward to reading more.ReplyDelete


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There are so many schools of thought when it comes to roasting chicken. Keep it basted, keep it dry, roast it at a low temperature, roast it at a high temperature, let it rest afterwards or not... I've tried the low and dry method, and the chicken was fine, but not amazing.
Funny how when you start researching chicken recipes you find hundreds, if not thousands, swearing to be the last recipe you'll ever need, but how could so many different techniques yield equally delicious results?
So for dinner the other night, I decided to just do it the way it made sense to me. And I will tell you, I will not be roasting whole chickens any other way than this from now on. And I know that now I'm joining the ranks in claiming to have the last recipe you'll ever need, and I won't argue if you have a technique that makes what you consider to be a perfect roast chicken. Food is so much about individual taste, after all.
But this was that fantastic. The meat was succulent, flavorful and juicy, even the breast meat, and the golden brown, crispy skin crackled when I took the chicken out of the oven. That's the moment where you can't help but sneak a little piece. Tasting the first crackly bite is the cook's privilege.
I always make homemade stock whenever we cook anything on the bone, and our freezer is full of portions of ham, fish, lamb, beef and chicken stock. So when you pull out the insides of the chicken, don't toss them in the trash; just drop them into your stock pot and set them aside until after dinner. They'll add wonderful flavor to your homemade stock. Even the leftover corn cobs went into the stock pot.
After rinsing the chicken, it's important to pat it nice and dry; this will help that golden brown, crispy crust to form on the skin. Then after stuffing the chicken with lemon, onion and garlic and trussing the legs (I'm not an expert trusser, I just sort of tie it up so that everything is snug and tight), then I rubbed it all over with a mixture of melted butter, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme and lemon zest.
When Jamie took his first bite, his eyes widened, he looked at me and asked, "How did you make this?" I like those moments.
Roast Chicken with Lemon, Rosemary and Thyme
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- whole chicken (4-5 pounds)
- 2 lemons, zested and then quartered
- 5 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed
- 1/2 sweet yellow onion, cut into chunks
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons coarse Kosher salt
- 1 teaspoon coarse black pepper
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- 2 cups water
Preheat the oven to 450. Set a wire rack in a roasting pan so that the chicken is not sitting directly in the pan..
Remove the insides of the chicken and discard, or reserve for making stock (I save everything for stock, even corn cobs). Rinse the chicken well, then drain and pat completely dry with paper towels.
Stuff the lemon quarters (reserving the zest), garlic and onion in the cavity of the chicken. Use kitchen twine to truss the chicken so that the legs are snug against the chicken. Place the chicken on the rack.
In a small bowl, combine the melted butter, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme and reserved lemon zest. Rub the mixture all over the chicken, making sure every part is coated. Position the chicken on the rack, breast side up.
Insert an instant read thermometer into the chicken so that it is not touching bone; near the thigh is a good spot. Set the thermometer to 165 F.
Place the pan in the middle rack of the oven and roast the chicken until the internal temperature reads 165 F; this may take about 1 1/2 hours, depending on the size of the chicken. The meat, even the breast meat, will be succulent and juicy, and the skin will be golden brown and crisp.
About halfway through, you will notice that the butter dripping off the chicken onto the pan is starting to smoke - this is because butter has a very low smoke point and will start to smoke as it burns against the bottom of the pan. This is what the water is for. When the butter starts to smoke on the pan, just pour the water into the bottom of the pan which will stop the smoking, as well as create some steam which will moisturize the chicken, without softening the crispy brown skin.
After an hour of roasting the chicken, you can start some potatoes or other vegetables, and they'll be done by the time the chicken is ready.
Yields about 4 servings.
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"Whats your Revenue Model?". It sounds like such an informed question to ask an entrepreneur. I have been asked this question not only by the people who really matter, but even by people who are far from gathering even 5% of the courage required to start up. Its a glamorous question to ask, and its so much fun to show contempt when one doesn't get a convincing answer, or when one hears that "advertisements" are going to be the revenue generator.
That brings me to think: How relevant is this question for an early stage start-up venturing into Consumer Internet. I have the following reasons to think it is not a very relevant question:
1. In consumer internet, the user never pays. If we look at start-ups outside India, in their initial days, they concentrate on creating value by getting a large number of users, engaging them deeply, and making a lot of them return to their service. They hardly ever concentrate on monetizing very early, and that, probably is behind the success of many start-ups.
2. When the user does not pay, but is engaged by the service provided by the start-up, then it makes Advertisements not only the only, but also the most lucrative way to earn money. Various innovative ways of Advertising and Promoting on web apps have evolved, and if one looks at the top 30 internet startups in the world today, a very large number of them are banking on Ad revenues as their primary revenue stream.
3. In my opinion, the raison-de-etre (The Reason to BE) for a consumer internet start-up is to create value by deeply engaging a very very large number of users. This is probably the only value that a consumer internet start-up can create today. Very few of them really succeed in doing this, probably just 1-2%. For those who are confident of doing this, it is a good thing to bank on a buyout by an established company which really knows how to monetize this huge user base.
This, I think, is the rationale that consumer internet start-ups abroad have followed.
Would love to know what you guys think about this. Whether it is, and is going to be any different in India? Why, and How?
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WVPT Kids' Book Festival Celebrates its 5th Anniversary
The WVPT Kids' Book Festival will be held Saturday, September 25, from 1 - 5pm at the Charlottesville Pavilion in downtown Charlottesville.
An estimated 5,000 people attended last year and organizers are expecting another large turnout for the literacy event being held for the first time at the Charlottesville Pavilion.
"This is our 5th anniversary and we're very excited about it being located in downtown Charlottesville," said Barbara Roadcap, Outreach Coordinator for WVPT. "The WVPT Kids' Book Festival has really grown here but its important mission remains the same: to promote reading and literacy among kids and families."
Over the years, WVPT has given away more than 50,000 books to area children, and this year, more than 5,000 books will be available for each child under 10 years old.
Each child will be allowed one new, and one "gently read" book. There will be four categories of books for different reading levels including Board Books for toddlers, Story Books, Chapter Books and Books in Spanish.
In addition to the book give-away, there will be music, activities and games for the whole family.
Special guests at the festival include McKenzie Vanover, a story teller from Winchester, Kevin Munroe of the Charlottesville Drum Corp and Brian Bence, a local magician. Clifford, the Big Red Dog and Cubby, the WVPT Bear, will also make an appearance.


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A director we met on our London Arts Discovery tour labeled our group "cultural activists." Sounds a little too "art lovers at the parapets" for my liking, but what are you going to do? Theater directors are, by definition, "theatrical." That's their style – flamboyantly flattering. Which is appropriate when the guy has been paid to meet with us, and, meeting at "tea", we were supplying him with free scones.
Okay, back to the theater…
One Man, Two Guvnors (based on The Servant of Two Masters, by Goldoni)
An extremely broad farce, which, as a comedy genre, is not my favorite. The barely decipherable working class accents and the cascade of specifically English references defeat my ability to understand what's funny. And yet, the show's cleverly-conceived conceptualization, its breakneck pace and the sublime quality of a number of the performances, highlighted by substantial chunks of improvisation hilariously executed by the lead actor, overpower my resistance, and I surrender to its silliness, both verbal and physical.
Example: Stanley Stubbers, laying low at a pub called "The Cricketers Arms" is currently in conversation with Francis, a dim bulb Stanley has recently taken on as his servant.
STANLEY: (READING FROM A "LETTER OF AUTHORIZATION") To whom it may concern, the bearer is an authorized agent of Stanley Stubbers.
FRANCIS: Who's Stanley Stubbers?
STANLEY: Shhh!
FRANCIS: Who's Stanley Stubbers?
STANLEY: (Whisper) Me. But don't call me Stanley Stubbers. I'm going to have to make up a new name for the pub.
FRANCIS: What's wrong with 'The Cricketers Arms?'
(NOTE TO COMEDY WRITERS: The joke's set-up line -"I'm going to have to make up a new name for the pub" – could not have been better. It makes logical sense on its own. And it's exquisitely structured to be misunderstood if the listener, like, in this case, Francis, is an idiot.)
Next up…
Juno and the Paycock (an Irish classic by Sean O'Casey)
'Tis a gud t'ing we rad de play ahedo toim, or we wuddn' 'ave onderstuhd a ward dey war sayin'.
The final play included on the tour was
Despite a toweringly memorable lead performance a a veritable Niagara of cascading language, I found Jerusalem less deep and resonating than the playwright might have preferred.
Our weeklong program ended with an English National Ballet performance called Strictly Gershwin. Okay, this is me, and it's just what it is. I have no point of access into presentations, as skillful as they may be, where nobody talks. They're dancing, it's nice, the music is wonderful. And I'm sitting there thinking, "Why aren't they saying anything?"
Reflecting my wavering interest, I spent the entire intermission, scribbling notes for an impassioned disquisition on the subject of why the cucumber sandwich should not be considered a sandwich.
(When the tour ended, we saw one other play, Three Days In May, set in 1940, depicting Churchill's efforts to rally his cabinet to fight Hitler, rather than suing for peace. This is a monumental turning point. Unfortunately, the actors were not up to the history.)
To complete my survey of the tour's itinerary, let me briefly mention two art exhibits, one a little less briefly than the other:
Gerhard Richter
At the Tate Modern Gallery, I spent over an hour listening to an accompanying audiotape, as I wandered from room to room, intensely examining five decades of paintings in this extremely impressive exhibit. However, when I checked out the post cards featuring reproductions of many of Richter's most famous works in the Gift Shop, I was perplexed to discover that I did not recognize any of them.
Okay, six out of twenty-four. Does that make me sound any better?
(Notice posted by the elevator (lift) at the Tate Modern: "Celebrate your ability to use the stairs, and please give priority to those who need to use the lift.")
Now, here's the real treat. For me.
We were bused to a nearby town, now more of a London suburb, called Dulwich (pronounced Dul'ich), where we attended an exhibit at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. And who was the currently featured artist?
Tom Thomson!
Who's Tom Thomson, you ask? What are you, not Canadian? Tom Thomson is one of Canada's most famous landscape artists, who specialized in evocative outdoor paintings of places where I personally went on canoe trips!
Aside from his internationally appreciated renderings of the Canadian wilderness – we were told that people were flocking to this exhibit – Thomson's story comes with a mystery – his still unexplained death while on a painting excursion in Algonquin Park. When I was a kid, I did not realize Thomson's body had been recovered; I thought he was still missing. So when I paddled over Canoe Lake – the last place Thomson was seen – I would peer into the crystal-clear water, trying to spot a body below the surface holding a paintbrush.
After seeing the Thomson exhibit, we were escorted to an arranged lunch at a nearby Dulwich restaurant, where the scheduled main courses were a choice between crab and venison. That was a tough one – a non-kosher scaly thing. Or Bambi. I ate Bambi.
Prompting my hyper-confused stomach to exclaim:
"Who's up there!"


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- I cannot believe my little Raven turned 18 last month. Where did all that time go?? She graduated high school and is now enrolling in college, sniff, sniff. I know, I know this is what is supposed to happen but gosh it is hard on a mom and dad! Raven has so many dreams and I do hope life gives her what she has given to life! Raven is a giver and I love that about her! This cake is my Ding Dong cake and it is what Raven picked for her birthday cake this year. This cake is so rich and decadent that a small piece will go far. Give this a try the next time chocolate is calling your name! This is What's Cookin on Beaty's Creek!
- 2 boxes Duncan Hines Devils Food cake mix( I learned years ago in a Wilton Class to only buy Duncan Hines boxed mixes
Bake cake according to directions on the box. Saddens me to say but you know just DO IT! I cooked mine in 4 round cake pans. Bake according to directions also.... Now go on to the next step so I don't feel like a complete loser! Cool completely and remove from pans.
White Filling
4 cups whole milk
2 cups butter-softened
2 cups shortening
2 cups sugar
2 vanilla beans-scraped
2 cups sugar
2 vanilla beans-scraped
- 16 T flour
- Mix together milk and flour. Cook until thick, then cool COMPLETELY. Mix butter and shortening until well incorporated in your Kitchen Aid mixer. Now add in sugar and vanilla beans and mix until mixture is light and fluffy. Now add in flour mixture and beat until smooth and yummy.
- Now pick out a pretty plate and plop out your first first cake layer. Spread the filling over cake all the way to the edge. Make sure it is very even too. Repeat with each layer of cake until you reach layer 4. You will not it with filling. Wrap cake completely with plastic wrap and place in freezer for 1 hour.
- Icing
- 2 t vanilla
- 4 sticks butter-softened
- 6 T whole milk
- 4 T cocoa
- I use a whole bag of powered sugar when I make this icing. Sometimes I need a cup more, I think it depends on the humidity in your area.
- Mix butter, vanilla, and cocoa together. Now add in your powdered sugar a cup at a time. In between sugar add in a T of milk. Once all of your sugar is mixed in you might need to add a little more milk or sugar. Just depends if your icing is too runny or too thick. You want it to be easily spreadable. Now take your cake out of the freezer and ice it completely!! You want about 1/4 of icing all over the cake. Place iced cake in fridge until ready to serve.


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For the most part, White Box seeks to emulate the play style of the 3LBBs without material from the supplements. However, the progression of XP awards for killing monsters (1 HD = 15 XP, 2 HD = 30 XP, 3 HD = 60 XP, etc.) is based on the progression in Supplement I: Greyhawk, rather than the strictly arithmetic progression implied in Men & Magic, where a slain troll is worth 700 XP because it's a 7th-level monster. (Yes, I know The Underworld & Wilderness Adventures says a troll is a 5th-level monster; let's not get distracted!)
My question is this: Does everyone here award XP for monsters by the book? Or does anyone give (HD x 100) XP, as Men & Magic seemed to suggest, though Gygax later described that notion as ridiculous. Or do you have some other formula? Or just hand-wave XP altogether?
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Dates to Remember
Apr 13th: Easter celebration.
Apr 14th: Good Friday. Center closed.
Parent Reminders
Check child's cubbies to make sure they have extra clothes and diapers/wipes
Please sign your child in/out every day in both Procare and classroom books
Remember fees are due no later than Monday.
Children's Garden of LaBelle News
We are continuing with our study of Spring with an investigation of colors and color mixing.
Parents can support these activities at home by talking about the colors of things around them. There is a color mixing game on PBS kids that you can use to see what mixing different colors together creates. Allowing the children to actually mix paints and different colored things together to see what happens is always a fun hands on way for them to see how different colors are made.
This is the link to the color mixing game:
On April 13th, we will have our Annual Easter Celebration and Egg Hunt.
Room 1 and Room 3: 9:30am - 10:00am
Room 2 and Room 4: 10:00am - 10:30am
Celebrations will be after nap, around 2:30pm. We have sign-up sheets for each classroom that parents can sign up to bring in an item for the celebrations.
Parents are welcome to attend both activities this day. Bring your camera!
April 16th is Easter Day. Here are some Easter Traditions for Families that you can start:
Step 1. Slice your apples about 3/4" thick. Use a knife, corer, or pastry tip to make a hole in the center. Step 2. Color you cream cheese if you'd like. We just added a drop of neon food coloring to get these bright colors. Add sprinkles.
That's pretty much it! Enjoy this healthier "donut" for kids that makes a yummy and adorable snack.
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The evolution began slowly, first with the acquisition of a wristwatch-style GPS that gave me immediate feedback on time, speed and pace -- which, at that point, was a slow, slow, slow 11-, 12- or (yikes!) even 13-minute mile.
Hmmm, I thought: Now that I had the means to gauge just how fast (or slow) I was running, I should push myself a little harder. And to my amazement, my time began to fall.
In the meantime, to try to restore a little vitality to my workout ethic, I began to work with a knowledgeable trainer. I mentioned that I had developed a minor running ache, and she referred me to a sports therapist who had helped her from time to time. It took only a couple of visits, including having my gait analyzed, to learn that the hip discomfort was caused by swinging my arms laterally when the proper movement should be limited to front and back -- no sideways movement at all. The problem with swinging arms is that shoulders follow the arms, and hips follow the shoulders, and that motion causes twisting that can put undue stress on the hips. The therapist also referred me back to my trainer for advice on minor stretching and to a running store for the right shoe.
The third step in my evolution came from another acquisition: the iPod. Music while running! No longer was I confined to journeying into the interior reaches of my mind. Old songs, new songs -- bring it on! My runs became longer as I took pleasure in reveling in runner-rousing music, and my previously boring three-mile runs turned into four-, five-, six- and, eventually, seven-mile runs that I actually looked forward to.
The more I ran, the leaner I became, and my times continued to improve into the nine-minute range. And that's when it all came together. I had become the perfect running machine, all ease, gliding through the air, every cylinder firing in unison, the mind and body working together. Running became as easy as walking. That's where my runner's high comes from -- experiencing the perfection and strength of the human body in motion.
Even running up hills (albeit small ones) is so easy it's like having springs in my legs. At times like this, it feels as if it's not even my own body anymore.
But the most important thing I've learned is that when the body is healthy and strong, that is reflected in the mind. Thank goodness for running. And anti-blister socks.
Price, who lives in Oxnard, has a master's in art history and works in the family business. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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