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To someone not hearing the term before, coffee cake could mean a cake using coffee in the ingredients. But then it would usually contain chocolate as well and be called a mocha cake. Or the thought could be that someone forgot to put "and" between the word cake and coffee, making it an American form of the English custom of afternoon tea.
But it is neither.
A coffee cake is a heavier, sweetened batter, with a streusel mixture of cinnamon, brown sugar and nuts either sprinkled on top of the batter before baking or putting half of the batter in the baking pan, sprinkling on the sugar mixture and topping it with the remainder of batter before baking. Either way, it is delicious and is wonderful served warm for a breakfast or brunch.
The Betty Crocker Cookbook defines the coffee cake as a quick bread, a descendant of the crude hearth cakes of long ago. Some such breads are like the bannocks o' barley that Robert Burns wrote about. They are classified as quick because they are made with quick-acting leavening, such as baking powder or baking soda and sour milk combined.
The quick breads can be made at the last minute - no waiting for yeast to rise as in other types of doughs. They can be mixed, baked and served piping hot from the oven in just a short matter of time.
Here are some recipes for the versatile coffee cake. It can be made using fruit in the batter or in the filling and usually has a flavorful cinnamon-sugar streusel included.
This cinnamon coffee cake is spicy, fragrant and delicious, so the recipe states. It was brought from the Isle Royal by Esther Scarborough of Minneapolis, and is from the Betty Crocker Cookbook.
Prize Cinnamon Coffee Cake
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup soft shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
Heat oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugar, shortening and egg. Stir in milk. Sift or stir together the flour, baking powder and salt. (Few cooks have sifters any more-this cookbook is from the 1950s.) Mix until combined. Spread batter in a greased and floured 9-inch square pan. Sprinkle with streusel topping. Bake 25 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick thrust into the center of the coffee cake comes out clean. Serve warm, fresh from the oven. Makes nine 3-inch squares.
Blueberry Coffee Cake
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup shortening
1 egg
1/2 cup milk
2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups well drained frozen blueberries or fresh blueberries
Set oven to 375 degrees. Mix sugar and shortening together, add egg and combine. Stir in milk. Slowly stir in flour that has been combined with baking powder and salt. After the batter is mixed well, carefully add the blueberries, folding into the batter.
Sprinkle the top with the following crumb mixture:
1/2 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup soft butter
Mix together until crumbly and sprinkle on top. Bake at 375 degrees for 45 to 50 minutes. Serve warm sprinkled with confectioners' sugar. Serves nine.
This coffee cake is from the book where I entered an Ohio Cook Book Contest in 2002. This is not my recipe for coffee cake, but I have several recipes included in the book, including my apple raspberry streusel pie.
This coffee cake calls for yellow cake mix and sour cream, and although I have yet to try it, it looks easy and delicious.
Apple Crumb Coffee Cake
18.25-ounce box yellow cake mix
3/4 cup vegetable oil
1/4 cup sugar
4 eggs
8-ounce carton low-fat sour cream
2 cups chopped cooking apples
1 cup well-packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
2 cups powdered sugar
4 tablespoons milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 tablespoons butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a mixing bowl, combine cake mix, oil, sugar, eggs and sour cream and mix well. Fold in apples. Pour half of cake mixture batter into a 13-by-9-inch cake pan that has been sprayed with cooking spray. In another bowl, combine brown sugar, cinnamon and nuts; sprinkle half of mixture over cake.
Swirl sugar-nut mixture throughout the cake with a small knife. Pour remaining batter into pan and sprinkle with remaining sugar-nut mixture. Swirl the topping lightly into the top layer. Bake for 50 to 60 minutes.
To prepare glaze: In a small bowl, combine powdered sugar, milk, vanilla and melted butter and mix well. When cake is removed from oven, pierce holes in top with toothpicks or tines of a fork.
Pour glaze over coffee cake while still warm. Allow to cool for 1 hour before serving.
Note: I don't think I would swirl the sugar-nut mixture on top of the cake. It would look better if it were just sprinkled on.
This a coffee cake that contains healthy ingredient of oats and also bananas. It is moist and flavorful.
Banana-Oatmeal Coffee Cake
1 cup flour
1 1/4 cups oats, uncooked
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup oil
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup well-packed brown sugar
2 eggs
2 bananas, mashed
1/3 cup sugar
1/3 cup flour
3 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup cut-up nuts
Heat oven to 400 degrees. In a bowl, combine flour, oats, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; stir well. In another bowl, combine oil, sugar, brown sugar, eggs and mashed bananas. Mix well. Add dry mixture and stir well.
Make streusel by rubbing the flour and sugar between the fingers with the butter. Add the cinnamon and nuts. Pour into a greased and floured 9-inch square cake pan. Sprinkle with cinnamon-sugar mixture.
Bake at 400 degrees for 20 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Serves nine to 12.
This is a scone recipe, but it is baked in a 9-inch circle that is cut in wedges and sprinkled with sugar and is either served warm for breakfast or for an afternoon tea. It is from the Ohio Cook Book.
Orange Scones with American Clotted Cream
2 cups flour
1/3 cup sugar
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
3 tablespoons butter, chilled and cut into small pieces
8-ounce carton lemon or vanilla yogurt
1/4 cup orange juice
1 tablespoon grated orange peel
1 tablespoon sugar
Heat oven to 400 degrees. Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles a coarse meal. Add yogurt, orange juice and orange peel. Stir just until moistened; dough will be sticky.
With floured hands, place dough on a greased baking sheet and pat into a 9-inch circle. Score dough into 10 wedges and sprinkle with sugar. Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
Serve with American Clotted Cream and a favorite jam or jelly.
American Clotted Cream
8-ounce package cream cheese, softened
3 tablespoons sugar
1/2 cup whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
In a bowl, whip cream cheese. Then add sugar and whipping cream. Beat in vanilla. Continue beating until semi-thick and smooth. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.


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A little bit of a back story about my project: We just returned from visiting family in Utah. It takes 7 hours to get there and we drove. (Ugh!) Needless to say we weren't looking forward to the 7 hour drive home. Lucky for us though, my awesome sister in-law packed us a goodie bag for the drive home. That bag of love was just what we needed to help pass the time.
The actual bag was just a simple bag, like something you'd get from trade shows and such. She got hers from her work. It's a good sized tote, has plenty of uses and life still in it. I knew it could be re-used I just wasn't too jazzed about the logo so I needed a way to cover it up and make the bag a little cuter.
Here's the bag in it's original form
I actually like the last line of the logo, "Imagination at work". That's pretty cool so I wanted to keep that but I wanted to cover up the rest.
I decided that some fabric rosettes would work great to cover the logo. These rosettes are all over blogland. They are super easy to make and look cute on hair barrettes and accessories clips. If you haven't seen them before, just do a search and you'll find lots of tutorials and styles.
So next, I made three rosettes in slightly different sizes and starting with one of the medium ones, I placed it on the logo. You could sew it in place, I was lazy though and just used hot glue.
Then I added the second rosette and slightly overlapped it on top of the first.
And then I added the third, which was the largest of the three.
I was so happy with how it turned out that I decided to make a few more rosettes and place them on the back side of the bag. Here's what the back side looked like:
And here is the front and the back together - such an easy project and now i have a cute new bag to carry all my stuff to church in.
Look around your house, chances are good you've probably got a bag or two just like these that are just waiting for a lovely rosette or two.

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Watch the video to learn how to apply cream blush with a blush brush for an airbrushed effect, certainly one of my favorite tricks for blush application. Staying on-trend with dewy skin, cream blushes are perfect as they dye the skin, creating a luminous, bold cheek.
I am certainly partial to a pink blush as I always feel that it makes a face smile, but you can achieve the same airbrushed look with any color: coral, berry, red, peach, etc.
Products Used:
MAC Cremeblend Blush in So Sweet, So Easy
Senna Cosmetics Angle Blush 506 (I love an angle brush)
Senna Cosmetics Deluxe Powder 610
*Sadly, Senna doesn't seem to make the dual-sided brush any longer, but I have listed the two brushes used on each side above. You now can purchase them separately.


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Peter & Peep by With Thy Needle and Thread
Stitched on 40 ct. St. Valentine's Blend by R&R with called for over-dyed threads.
And then this one, which has been in my stash forever and a day...
Praise God by La D Da
Stitched on 40 ct. " Who Knows What, It's Been In the Stash Too Long To Remember" with GA Sampler and WDW threads.
And about the edits....I couldn't leave my posts about the finisher up any longer. Just don't want to look at it anymore. I will not apologize for what was said, as it was/is the truth, and I'll never understand this person or her actions, but it's all history now and I'm done with it.
Here's something far more important...
Heart shaped beards on pugs :-)


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(CNN) - Dr. Ben Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon enjoying recent popularity in the conservative movement, compared the federal health care law to "slavery" during a speech Friday at the Values Voter Summit, an annual conservative gathering in Washington.
"Obamacare is really, I think, the worst thing that has happened in this nation since slavery. And it is – in a way, it is slavery, in a way," he said. "Because it is making all of us subservient to the government."
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At the heart of his criticism is the law's requirement, beginning next year, for individuals to obtain health insurance or else face a penalty.
A longtime critic of the Affordable Care Act, Carson rose to fame earlier this year when he bashed Democratic policies on taxes and health care as he gave the keynote address at the National Prayer Breakfast. President Obama was sitting just feet away while he openly chided some of Obama's positions.
He argued Friday that the president's signature law "was never about health care."
"It was about control," he continued. "That's why when this administration took office it didn't matter that the country was going off the cliff economically. All forces were directed toward getting this legislation passed."
He said the Obama administration was 'neglecting' the Constitution and imposing "their own will" by picking and choosing which provisions of the health care law to enforce.
"When they give businesses exemptions but the common people they say, 'No, you have to do it, you know, that's not America," he said. "That's Russia. That's someplace else. How did we allow that to happen in this nation?"
He was referring to the administration's decision to delay for a year the employer mandate for businesses with more than 50 full-time employees. The individual mandate, however, is still scheduled to take effect in 2014.
As Carson gained more attention for his political views this year, some speculated he could run for public office–an option he hasn't ruled out.
Top conservatives rally at summit in Washington
But he sparked strong backlash in March when he equated homosexuality with pedophilia and bestiality during a television interview centered on same-sex marriage. Facing loud opposition, he apologized and withdrew from speaking gigs at Johns Hopkins medical school and an event for the American Academy of Physicians Assistants.
Dr. Carson's common sense approach to issues of the day is refreshing and unvarnished. He has a knack for deconstructing complex issues and asking the right questions.
The name for it is the Democrat Plantation.... Any black person like Carson that strays off of it is hunted down and hounded by the Democrat Masters. He will learn that life off the Democrat Plantation is one of constant attack.
American Citizen – Are you for real?
Think about the park, they've stopped providing revenues. Think about the tourists and all the money that they won't be spending in hitels, shops, fast food or restaurants and the likes (who would travel to the Grand Canyon if you can't see it?). Think about all the licenses and permits that those federal workers cannot provide (and are mandatory in some cases) and while you are thinkning about them, remember that they are not supposed (unless they're all shopaholic spendrifts) to be spending money as if they had a guaranteed paycheck.
That's the basic.
I'd like to see anyone one of our nut jobs in Washington debate Dr. Ben Carson on Obamacare. I've read all of this mans books and he is a genius. He actually uses logic and not a sensationalized perspective that is backed by a political party. I suggest all you sensitive soicalists read his books too before you begin bashing him. You might learn something.


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'The Estate is recognised as one of the most important nature conservation landscapes in the British Isles: over 40% of the estate is covered by national and international nature conservation designations.'
Occupies nearly 7% of the Cairngorms National Park, covers some of the most remote and scenic wild land in Scotland, including four of the five highest mountains in the UK. Within its boundaries are fine examples of classic features of a Highland landscape: remnants of the ancient Caledonian pine forest, heather moorland, juniper scrub and a part of the high Cairngorm plateau. Fifteen of the Trust's 46 Munros can be found in the Cairngorms around Mar Lodge.'


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As a whole, Saturday's line-up fairs much better. So eager to make full use of their twenty minute slot are Saturday's Carling Stage openers, The Race, that when finishing their set two minutes early, they play half a song to take them up to their allotted limit. They had this time left over despite singer Dan Buchanan's scaffold-climbing action. They go a long way to showing the organisers that Reading deserved an unsigned stage just as much as Leeds.
|Aiden: flatulent
With similar enthusiasm, Aiden, the horror goth sandwich filling of this weekend, opened up the Main Stage. The uninitiated have had fear for the overweight emo squealing and hollering over a barking backdrop of his uncontrollable flatulence but the sad truth is that this is the next big thing. But talking of arse…
It's official, Annie Hardy is a dirty bitch. Under normal circumstances, you'd have to pay to hear this kind of stuff, but as we're watching Giant Drag do their excellent, post-grunge thing on the Radio 1 Stage we get her lewd stage banter for free. Hymens? Anal hymens?! We sincerely hope there's no kids in here.
The baby-faced Orlando Weeks played Leeds yesterday, apparently; but this doesn't stop The Maccabees from sounding as fresh as he looks. Songs are dispensed with a smile and enthusiasm neatly at odds with the Englishness of a stand-out set. Really, the sheer charm and chemistry of it all.
It's a shame the same cannot be said for Serena Maneesh, who disappear in the midst of their own snowstorm; the dizzy swagger of their self-titled album lost to the thickness of a muddy PA. Robbed of the subtlety afforded to them by warm studio walls their noise-rock is, as one acquaintance puts it, "just ridiculously stupid".
Having been told by all and sundry that they're just a poor man's Led Zep, which doesn't suggest they're that bad, when you think about it, we were beginning to doubt Wolfmother. How foolish. What they do might not be original but my god it rocks. Their worn-in brand of heavy metal on is ideal afternoon Main Stage fodder.
Most surreal experience of the festival? Scaramanga Six's closing number which sees four auxiliary sticksmen pounding the life out of makeshift drums at the side of the stage? Not that the rest of their set is normal: think Queen covering Metallica, if you can.
|The Bled: yelpy
The Bled are tight enough as a band but those yelpy hardcore vocals can, will and indeed does get awfully annoying but I guess most of the kids in the Lockup Stage are used to everything either sounding the same or being thoroughly annoyed by an emo. Someone call the Daily Mail.
Another who that newspaper might not fully appreciate is Plan B. His 'so true' acoustic raps are widely valued in the packed Tiscali Tent as he mulls over the dangers of Harvey Nicks and the problems with the kids of today using stark imagery and gentle riffs that are already all too familiar.
Though their last couple of singles have been murdered by big-money no-clues production, we're delighted to find that Milburn still know how to put on a live show. Lots of energy, lots of tunes and an army of smiling, sweaty devotees remind us they're not just riding the Monkeys' coattails.
The Futureheads: tight
as a gnat's arse
After The Cribs are completely swallowed by the enormity of the Main Stage, The Futureheads dazzle the crowds with cuts largely from their trailblazing debut album. One man was caught proudly noting several times that the four-piece were "tighter than a gnat's arse". It's true.
Jet are also a tight band. Sadly they're also shit. Because the Tiscali Sessions were being filmed you could only leave between songs. That means when one slightly traumatised DiS reviewer decided he wanted out after 15 seconds he had to endure another three minutes. Some scars will never heal.
be your own PET, truth be told, only have a handful of really memorable songs and here, they don't match up to their recorded counterparts, even if their wickedly brattish holler is louder when they strut it in front of you.
Goodbooks are really bloody good. They have an immediately very likeable sound, a fashion of very punchy bass, complementary keys and a very high, clean vocal. Enhanced by their polished manner and fantastic melodies these are the sort of songs that upon a second hearing you would just know that you've heard them somewhere before.
|Dirty, Pretty, Broken Things
Dirty Pretty Things' attempt to strut their stuff fails as Carl Barat's injury leaves The Paddingtons' Josh Hubbard filling in his guitar parts, but their fifty minute set is cut cruelly short after just thirty-five when they seem to run out of decent material and walk off. A large question mark still hangs above the quality of the songs though. It will remain unanswered if rumours of The Libertines reforming are as true as everyone hopes.
How often does this happen? You look forward to seeing a band for bloody ages, tell all your mates about how great they are and when it comes to the crunch... they let you down. The Spinto Band are good, but this isn't the immaculate Carling Stage performance we were hoping for.
Alexisonfire: get a
bucket of sand
A surprise festival highlight is brought in the form of Napoleon IIIrd. Enhanced by a ten-piece backing band a crowd of fifty grows more than tenfold as Napoleon entices those milling around the Unsigned stage with their catchy mix of pop, folk and ska. Saccharine chant-along euphoria with balls of brass.
Time for some, well needed, therapy-style word association:
Turgid emo shit? Alexisonfire.
Pre-pubescent musical cancer? Alexisonfire.
Horrible, overrated crap with a horrible aftertaste? Carling. I mean, Alexisonfire.
Like anyone with self-respect, DiS stayed well away from Hawthorne Heights' forty minute set. However, somewhere in the distance the sound of thousands of 14-year-old girls' hymens ripping could be heard as, too young to realise what was wrong, they were unknowingly fucked over.
Sometimes it seems people take comedy a little too seriously. After a Canadian Bill Hicks clone receives a standing ovation, Rob Deering plays to a silence only broken by a single "fuck you". Sure he may not be the edgiest comedian, but his light-hearted mocking of music and religion is so cringeworthingly bad its actually superb.
Mike Skinner:
not for grebos
It's a depressing site; a half-full venue witnessing one of todays most thrilling live acts after one of the most overhyped (The View) pack it to the brim, but TV On The Radio show no signs of disappointment, launching the biting disco-rock of 'Wolf Like Me'. Everyone's dreams need to be this fuzzed up with the hiss of feedback swirling atop bourbon-soul like some kinda Sonic Youth with afro-beards. 'Staring at the Sun' should have been your anthem for your roadtrip back to your bedroom bohemia.
"Do you trust me Reading? I need you to trust me! Go Low! Go Low!" What reason has anyone got to trust Mike Skinner? Especially if you're a teenage grebo who's only here because Muse are on later? One friend of mine defies Skinner and is promptly pelted with 'food' and other detritus before he is cowed into joining in with what Skinner reckons is a 'beautiful thing'. The Streets go rock! No.
Arctic Monkeys:
It's Arctic Monkeys' last gig of the year and in Leeds its something of a homecoming, making this an even bigger pull than the headliners. Winning over the main stage was never going to be difficult though and their hit-packed set sees not just the largest crowd of the weekend but also the most vocal. Where can they go from here? Give it six months and nobody will care about the unflashiest flash in the pan we've ever seen.
DiS is persuaded to see Anti-Flag and is immediately back in 2002 when 'Die For Your Government' soundtracked a riotous weekend. AF close with this song as punters stage-dive from the central pillar, before security reclaim said pillar and are bottled by mohawked bombardiers. Cue bald Glaswegian scumbags failing to see the funny side.
High octane versions of album tracks kick things off before an inspired crop of covers brings the house down. The Raconteurs are as tight as we'd hoped, as good as we expected, and a far more exciting live proposition than the 'Stripes.
Not many bands can turn a gumbo of eastern-influenced acid folk, electronica and tribal chanting into a sing-along, but Animal Collective aren't many bands. They're Animal Collective, and in 'Purple Bottle', amongst others, somewhere under the bucketloads of bass and transmogrifying time-changes the (collective) brain of a genius is frying.
Matt Bellamy sure does
love his rock poses
Elsewhere... "This isn't Animal Collective," is the first thought that springs to one DiS writer's disoriented mind after they sit their weary selves down at the back of what they believe to be the Carling Stage. Before too long, they realise two more things: 1) they're definitely in the wrong tent; 2) Archie Bronson Outfit are rocking so hard they don't want to move.
So they don't. When the kitten got the milk they were never meant to get a white russian sprinkled with nutmeg but in 'TNGIAM' we're treated to a piece of rock history. Once again Youthmovies with their heavier-than-Slayer stop-starts and Turkish Delight-filled moments in the Cabaret Tent proves a highlight and an abyssful escape from the overcrowding and meh-tal.
You'd have thought Muse would make the stage on time. Perhaps an ultra-dull Feeder set sent them into a coma. There may not have been a lightning storm when the Devonshire trio finally take to the stage fifteen minutes late but instead they blow Reading apart with their space-prog super-rock. Mad professor Matt Bellamy fills the stage by simply being there and loving his drop-D riffs and rock star poses more than his own mother.
During a set perfectly balanced between songs old and new, the set's highlight is the jelly-legging, ear-fucking of 'Showbiz' which hits like a beautiful heart attack of a cake that just keeps on rising. For many, this is merely the start of the weekend.
For Friday's review click HERE
For Sunday's review click HERE
Photos courtesy of Chris Harris, Ben Jones and Gary Wolstenholme.


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Last night on South Park, Stan got sucked into the day-glo virtual world of Facebook, which looked just like the digitized Tron world. Except instead of light cycle races, guys in unitards want to show you pictures of their dog.
Don't get us wrong — we're addicted to Facebook as much as the next program, but we are glad that someone finally made fun of the friend-guilt one faces from a non-friend In Real Life.
Thanks for the tip, Tetracycloide!


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What happened to the Catholic Blog Awards?
As Catholics we recognize that technology changes everyday - that includes the methods we use to evangelize others. The Catholic Blog Awards were created to recognize those who were using technology to further the cause of Jesus Christ. With this in mind it only seemed natural to progress to not only recognize blogs but podcasts and other forms of new media as well!
Nominating will take place the entire month of May and voting will take place the entire Month of June.


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I'm learning C as my first programming language. I'm confused on how do loops work in real-life. In programming every function has a reason.
example - if/else statements are used if we have conditions. Nesting if/else statements are used if we have conditions inside a condition(more condition).
I am going to try my best answering this using a real-life problem. I tend to understand better using Facebook as an example.
Let's say a user is signing up for Facebook. We don't want users signing up of age less than 13 years old. If users age is less than 13, it should terminate the sign up page and give a reason saying "Sorry, you're too young". Do we use if/else statement behind situation? Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Now, Loops are used for shortening up the program/application. What's the real-life analogy behind this? Using Facebook as an example.
Can 'News Feed' be a strong example of using Loops?


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These fabrics are the choices available for the OUTSIDE of the bag. These are not lining fabrics - I have a variety of fabrics specifically for linings and will choose one that compliments your choice.
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The Hunger Games Helped Archery Become Most Popular Olympic Sport So Far
During a conference call with reporters this morning, NBC execs said archery was the hottest sport of the London Games so far, surpassing all other Olympic events in viewership.
The AP reports that an average of 1.5 million people watched the archery competitions when they were on the air. That's more people than tuned in to watch basketball.
NBC Research President Alan Wurtzel called archery "the new curling," and said The Hunger Games phenomenon may have played a significant role in the sport's popularity. "We're going to keep an eye on that," he said.
Entertainment Weekly's Inside TV blog notes that an Olympic archer, Khatuna Lorig, trained Jennifer Lawrence for her part as Katniss Everdeen in the film adaptation of the bestselling book series.
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Google Chrome development lifecycle is like a fast paced car race. The builds are incremented every few months to mark major releases in the development and stable builds.
Google has just released Google Chrome 9 as the stable build to users, however, Chrome 9 which has already been in the beta channel for a while is going to be rolled out to users starting today.
Along with that, Google Chrome 11 is now available in the Canary build and will shortly make it to the development channel. This push will mean that Chrome 10 will make it to the beta channel.
Google Chrome 9 supports features such as cloud printing and background apps manager. This will allow Google to push their Cloud printing feature to a large number of users which has been rolled out to Gmail mobile recently.
Chrome 9 should be available as an update to regular users starting today. If you want to update your browser, head over to Settings -> About Google Chrome and let it check for updates.


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At first glance, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about the robbery Thursday of a restaurant in suburban Atlanta.
An armed man made off with the cash register, scuffled with employees and sped off down the road. Police are still looking for him.
Did we mention he was armed? Because he was armed.
With a pitchfork.
Did we mention this was Georgia?
It all started around 5 p.m. ET Thursday at a Waffle House in Norcross, a northeastern suburb of Atlanta, when a portly man wearing overalls and a blue ski mask walked in.
(For the uninitiated, Waffle Houses are 24-hour diners that are ubiquitous across the Southeast. Finding separate Waffle Houses at all four ramps onto or off the same interstate exit isn't unusual — that's the sign you're not in Kansas anymore.)
"The suspect was armed with a pitchfork," Norcross Police Chief Warren Summers said matter-of-factly Friday. Security camera video confirms that, indeed, the robber was armed with a pitchfork — a wood-handled pitchfork with three metal prongs.
The man "herded the employees into the stockroom with the pitchfork" and tried to open the cash register, Summers said, but he wasn't able to crack it open, "so he picked up the cash register and left with it."
A police statement briskly relates what happened next, beginning with the two employees who ran out of the stockroom to follow the man.
Once outside, the man tripped and dropped the pitchfork. One of the employees picked it up and chased him first into a drugstore and then back outside to where he'd parked a white getaway van.
Thereupon ensued a fight, during which "the suspect was struck with the pitchfork by one of the employees," according to the statement. He made it into the van, and as he was driving away, "the rear window was broken out by one of the employees."
But Pitchfork Bubba wasn't out of the woods yet.
As he sped away, a police officer saw the van make a U-turn on Jimmy Carter Boulevard. That kicked off a pursuit, during which the robber drove off the roadway and got away. The van was found abandoned on a nearby street, with its back window blown out and glass shards littering the driver's seat.
Summers said Friday that Jeffery Willard Wooten, 50, was being sought on an armed robbery warrant. He's described as a white male, 5 feet, 9 inches tall, with a brown buzz cut and mustache, a scraggly beard and hazel eyes.
Summers said Wooten would likely be easy to spot: He'll have unusual injuries to his face and the back of his head.


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The second week of summer Caleb and his 2 cousins, Christopher and McKinsey went to EFY down in St. George. They seem to have had a great time. I wish I could get more info out of Caleb...it will come in time. He just isn't a man of many words. I totally forgot to send Caleb with a camera so I stole some of McKinsey's photos. (Thanks Kins!)
Each night I either texted or talked with Caleb, it was fun to see how on Monday he was still worried about what was going on at home and as the week went by he asked less about his baseball team (who played 2 games that week) and wanted to tell me what had happened that day.
Neither Craig or I went to EFY but when the opportunity came for Caleb to go we sort of made him. I don't know that he was thrilled about it but I think it was a great experience and to be able to go with his 2 great cousins made it that much better. He got to know many new people who were from neighboring states.
One night he called and told me they had a dance and he said it was fun. A girl had asked him to dance and in his words, "it was fine, until she told me she was 17!" I just started laughing. I knew people would assume he was older. That had to boost the ego a bit!
He had fun and learned lots. I guess the 3 of them are trying to figure out where they want to go next year. Which makes me happy!
Check out some of the photos of his week...
Caleb and McKinsey
Caleb in class (he looks so excited, doesn't he!)
Who knows...Caleb and Christopher jumping.
This one caught me off gaurd, but made me laugh at the same time. The caption on facebook was written by this girl (ella) it said,
"Me and Caleb.. In case you didnt know.. we were secretly in love!!"
What? I need to get to the bottom of this one! But what makes me laugh about this photo is...notice he isn't even touching her! That's my boy!
The caption on this one was I actually got him to smile! Maybe he was a grumpy gus all week long!
Caleb and more girls...cute!
Caleb making blankets for a service project. I asked him how that went and he said, "I sort of messed it up!" That sounds like him, when it comes to crafty things.
Chris and Caleb they must be tired, or hot, or both.
Cute cousins, I love these guys
This was on the drive down to St. George early Monday morning.
While packing, I think I stressed Caleb out a little bit, I made him worry about making sure he matched and not to wear certain shirts with certain shorts. I know, my son is 14 but I didn't want him walking around looking a mess. So he finally asked me to label everything. I hope I don't have to do this when we pack for his mission! :0)!
Of course we had to send snacks of all kinds! Funny thing, he came home with almost half of them untouched. He told me it was because they weren't in their hotel room enough.


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>It May Be Genetic: Is Lover Boy a Louse?
Researchers in Sweden recently announced what makes men good "husband material." The key, they say, lies not in his religion, his morals, or even how much he loves his potential spouse—it's how much he has in common with rodents.
A team at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm studied "552 pairs of male twins enrolled in Sweden's ongoing Twin and Offspring Study." The subjects "were currently in a relationship that had lasted at least five years." Researchers then used tests, and interviewed the subjects' spouses where possible, to assess the subjects' ability to "bond and commit."
The subjects were also tested for variants in what is known as the "vasopressin 1a gene." Vasopressin is a peptide hormone thought to be "associated with species-typical patterns of social behavior" in many mammals.
Their "main finding," published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, was that there was an association between a particular gene variant and the ability to form "strong bonds" with their partners. They found that men carrying a variant called "334" scored "especially low" on a test called the "Partner Bonding Scale." Translation: They find it harder to be faithful.
Not only that—women married to men with this variant scored "lower . . . on levels of marital quality" than women married to men without it.
What prompted the researcher to look for a correlation between the variant and fidelity? The behavior and neurochemistry of rodents—specifically voles, better known to Discovery Channel fans as "owl chow."
According to lead researcher Hasse Walum, "studies in voles have shown that the hormone vasopressin is released in the brain of males during mating." Voles with higher levels of vasopressin are more likely to "stick around and mingle with the female after" a sexual encounter.
As Dave Barry might write, I'm not making this up.
Walum said that the gene variant cannot "with any real accuracy be used to predict how someone will behave in a future relationship." And Dr. John Lucas of Cornell told the Washington Post, it was "unlikely to be a single gene [at work]" in male bonding. Instead, it was "likely to be multiple genes that are expressed incompletely and interact with the environment . . ."
Genes, environment—what's missing from the list? That's right—religion, morality, virtue, culture. It's difficult to imagine a better example of what's known as "biological determinism." It's the idea behind Lucas telling the Post that "genes help drive much of human behavior" and that "the individual palette of emotions and behaviors" is "probably 'hard-wired' by our genetics."
While he and others acknowledge a role for training, it's too little, too late. In a culture that believes biology is destiny, telling people that something like fidelity is genetically driven is tantamount to calling it "optional."
But the apostle Paul, with his "thorn in the flesh," knew that what was good had little to do what came "naturally."
It was a lesson that Christianity helped teach the West—that is, until the West decided that men were little more than animals—in this case, owl chow.
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E.J. Mundell, "'Bonding Gene' Could Help Men Stay Married," U.S. News, 1 September 2008.
"Is Lover Boy a Louse? It May Be Genetic," Wired, 3 September 2008.
"'Monogamy Gene' Can't Predict Behavior, Experts Say," MSNBC, 3 September 2008.
"Reinventing Man: Biotechnology and the Human Future," BreakPoint Commentary, 19 August 2008.
"The Divorce Generation: Finding Redemption," BreakPoint Commentary, 12 May 2008.


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A Refreshing Testimony from a Childhood TV Personality
My reaction to Bill O'Reilly's comments on race problem on America Live
I can't believe I am agreeing with President Obama and Bill O'Reilly on the same blog but in this situation they both said something I agree with.
For the record, while I don't agree with many of President Obama's policies, such as his support of rabid Planned Parenthood, I do agree that it is past time for the "racism conversation." On the other hand, although I also don't always agree with everything that Mr. O'Reilly says, I do agree that we need to strengthen the American family which also includes the African American family.
Of course the conversation regarding racism needs to include dialogue that we are all one race, one human race, created of one blood. (see Acts 17:26) My famous uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said "we must learn to live together as brothers (and sisters) or perish as fools." If we are one race with varying ethnic distinctions, then we can stop fighting and exercise brotherly and sisterly, "humanly" love.
We also need to understand that racism stems from hatred, not love. Racism is evil personified. We must work hard to overcome evil with good. God is love and God is good, so we can overcome racism with agape love. We must pray now for transformation of human hearts and replace the hatred with the love of Christ. Again, God is Love.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 1 John 4:8 (NIV)
So, we need to bring people closer to God if we are to minimize racism.
As for strengthening the African American family and indeed the human family, we as parents, yes parents, plural, need to teach our children and grandchildren how to live moral, righteous lives. Of course parents, men and women, mothers and fathers are created equal but are assigned different life roles. So as parents, each has a role to play in the raising of our children. Statistics have shown that children raised in single-parent households have a higher poverty rate, more criminal behavior, higher unemployment, higher school dropout rate. This is why the sanctity of life and the sanctity of natural marriage are both so very important and interrelated.
Each parent, the mother or father, has different things to teach their children. Things that are important for the well-being of the children.
Does that mean that there aren't times when single-parent households will occur? No, sometimes they occur due to death, or spousal abuse, or lack of moral instruction or understanding, or a number of other reasons. Yet they should not occur so frequently that they become the norm.
"Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous." ESV 2001
Please allow me to share a story from Naturally Moi of a child star who has shared an inspiring testimony that can serve as a roadmap for our young women.
In the midst of all of the controversy regarding Trayvon Martin, the Texas sanctity of life battle, and so many other boiler point issues, it is so very refreshing to hear this testimony from one of my favorite television childhood personalities.
Tamera Mowry-Housley who once starred in the popular Sister Sister TV series with her twin sister Tia but recently surprised her co-stars and fans by revealing she has only had sex with one person in her life.
Mowry recently told her The Real panel members that she didn't lose her virginity six years ago when she was 29-years-old.
"I don't know how to explain this. I'm religious, so I waited until I was 29 to lose my virginity," she insisted.
She also explained that she regretted losing her virginity before marriage so much that she decided to wait until she married three years later to engage in sexual intercourse again.
"You may not understand this but I did it (had sex). Then I became celibate until I got married."
In 2011, Tamera married Fox News Correspondent Adam Housley after they had dated for almost six years.
Before Housley, the Sister Sister star dated Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane.
Last November, Mowry and Adam had their first son, Aden.
While Tamera considers herself to be religious and conservative, she says that she's "far from boring in the bedroom."
Tamera's perspective is one that far too many young people are missing these days, saving exciting sex for the marriage bed. Such a plan could lead to far less heartbreak, STDS and abortions.


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Camping is a lot of fun, lets you spend time in this country's Great Outdoors, and can save you a lot of money compared to travelling and staying in hotels. There are a number of features you should consider when choosing a campground.
Typically if you are tenting, you want a grassy or sandy area underneath your tent but a paved or gravel place to park your vehicle. If you are RVing or camping in a tent-trailer, you prefer a paved pad for both your camper and vehicle. You may also need to consider the size of campground to ensure adequate room for your RV and secondary (towed in transit) vehicle.
You can choose a campground based on the degree of rustic-ness or level of civilization. At the "rustic" level the range goes from campgrounds with no roads you have to hike to (leave your RV behind!), to those with unfinished or very rough surfaces for tent, camper and RV. In the adequate level campgrounds can range from those with minimal services (showers and pit toilets), to those with electricity & running water. The full-featured campgrounds provide campsites with electricity, water and sewage (even telephone and internet) right at the campsite, and have pull-through/drive-through sites, sewage dumpsite and propane tank refill stations.
Another criteria for campground selection is the recreation. Some campgrounds are located near major attractions, while others provide a number of recreational features for their guests. Some campgrounds have beaches or pools for swimming, river or lake access for boating, and some even provide boats and other equipment (some for free and some for rent). Those traveling with children may want to choose campgrounds with playgrounds, shuffleboard, sports fields, and indoor arcade/playrooms for rainy days. Some campgrounds in nature settings have ready access to hiking trails. Some campground brands (KOA and Flintstones come to mind) have set standards for on-campground recreational facilities.
Some people may choose their campground based on location. Some campgrounds are close to town, some are even accessible to public transit. Other campgrounds are close to major highways, making them both easy to find and minimize your total travel time if you are camping enroute to a final destination. Other campgrounds are chosen for their proximity to other attractions, recreational features, or bodies of water.
Lastly, some campgrounds allow or disallow certain things, which may impact whether or not you wish to stay there. Some grounds welcome pets, while others prohibit them, and some may allow them based on criteria (how big, how loud, or how well trained). Some campgrounds prohibit either radios (particularly in nature/wilderness settings) and others are alcohol free (to keep away the rowdy partying set). Today, several campgrounds have made all of their facilities, including bathrooms, showers and recreational facilities handicapped accessible. Some campgrounds on lakes or rivers may have a motor-free policy for boating. We have noted any special constraints or features to help with campground selection.


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I spent the week in various European Union institutions in Brussels, Belgium this week, reporting, giving a speech and attending a conference.
Everywhere, I kept hearing a talking point from European officials that was chillingly familiar for a Californian: we have no Plan B.
The context here was Europe's sovereign debt crisis. Greece, and perhaps other countries, may default on their debt without assistance from their European neighbors.
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As the price of such assistance, Europe is demanding austerity measures, which the Greek public understandably doesn't want.
European officials I encountered kept delivering to Greece the same message Jerry Brown kept delivering to the legislature the first five and a half months of this year: we're going forward with our fiscal plan, and that means pain for you.
And we're not entertaining a Plan B.
Of course, Brown surrendered and agreed to a budget this week, but that document didn't amount to a Plan B.
It instead was largely fictional, relying on rosy assumptions about new revenues and other gimmicks. The Europeans, for all their tough talk, are about to stage a similar surrender, providing a bailout to Greece that's based on rosy assumptions about that country's ability to dig itself out of budget hole.
Brown and the Europeans punted for the same two reasons -- a weak stomach for deeper cuts in public services, and the structural limitations of the governing system under which they operate.
In Brown's case, his original plan didn't work because California's system of two-thirds supermajorities and extensive fiscal rules gives the legislative minorities and other interest groups veto power over new revenues and big budget changes.
Unable to raise revenues and unwilling to make even deeper cuts, Brown went for gimmicks.
In Europe's case, the convoluted and weak structure of European governance -- and the widespread feeling that the EU is not sufficiently democratic -- make it difficult to get all the various parties, from governments to banks, to agree on an effective rescue plan for Greece.
And so the EU will bailout the Greeks, because the alternative could be a debt default that would put the European and global economies at risk.
Both California and Europe are stuck in a crisis from which there are no easy ways out.
And both California and Europe need a real Plan B – systemic reform so that each can escape from the constant crisis.
The context and political institutions are different in each place, but the solutions are similar.
Each place needs systems that don't make it quite so easy to delay reckoning with problems, and that voters and the public to pay more if they want more government services. And each place needs to redesign its democracy so that voters can hold its policymakers accountable.
In an odd way, it was a relief for a Californian to spend a week in the heart of the crisis -- in much the same way it's to visit someone else's nightmare, even if it only is a temporary escape from your own bad dream.


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Beyonce's bringing the "naughty girl" to the conservative country of Malaysia.
Two years after canceling a show in the country, Beyonce said Saturday she'll go back to perform there in October despite the nation's covered-up dress code that goes against Beyonce's sexy image.
Knowles' first plan to go to Malaysia in 2007 was foiled when Malaysia's opposition Islamic party threatened and protested her show with complaints she was defiling the buttoned-up feminine image in the region.
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This time, youth protestors still said they'd fight against Beyonce's performance.
"We are not against entertainment as long as it is within the framework of our culture and our religion," said Sabki Yusof, youth vice head of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party.
"We are against Western sexy performances. We don't think our people need that," Yusof said.
Islamic law forbids the consumption of alcohol and requires female performances to cover up from their shoulders to knees -- with no cleavage showing.
Beyonce will perform in capital city Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 25 as part of her "1 a.m. World Tour."


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The moon passes by three planets in the week ahead, the first tomorrow morning.
A thin crescent moon appears close to the ringed planet Saturn prior to sunrise tomorrow morning. The two are only a few degrees apart, and will be an impressive sight. Both are in the zodiacal constellation Leo.
On Monday morning, the moon appears next to the brilliant planet Venus. Look an hour prior to sunrise. The two are in the zodiacal constellation Virgo.
On Wednesday morning, the moon is even closer to the horizon and in proximity to Mercury, the most elusive of visible planets. Mercury is always tough to spot, for it is near the glare of the rising sun or at other times the setting sun. Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. The planet's orbit around the sun takes only 88 days, so the chance to view this planet before it drops below the horizon is fleeting. Mercury is visible the first couple of days this month.
Only those with a clear view of the eastern sky will spot Mercury to the left of the moon. Mercury is also close to the bright star Spica, the principal star in Virgo. All three are in the zodiacal constellation Virgo.
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Expanding on the first Social Media Week held last year in New York, network-based communicators are staging events in San Francisco, Toronto, London, Berlin and Sao Paolo over the next several days to spotlight the new tools and techniques that let companies, organizations and individuals disseminate messages and build communities.
Bay Area organizer Chris Heuer said the schedule of local events includes an array of free and relatively inexpensive gatherings. Programs are aimed mainly at professionals in public relations, advertising and marketing but are drawing more community organizers from social, cultural and public policy realms.
Local activities culminate with a Friday night fundraiser to benefit NetSquared, a non-profit effort based in San Francisco to bring the new communications tools to grassroots groups. Heuer said tickets run $20 in advance, $30 at the door, come with two drink tickets and pay $10 per ticket to NetSquared, creating a fun venue in which online communicators can contribute to a good cause.


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Warren Buffett can relax.
The $1 billion prize for a perfect NCAA bracket that his Berkshire Hathaway was backing will go unclaimed.
None of the fans who signed up for the perfect bracket challenge sponsored by Quicken Loans and Yahoo Sports made it out of the first round of 32 games played Thursday and Friday without at least one mistake. The two firms would not say how many fans entered the free contest.
Buffett sold an insurance policy to Quicken Loans and Yahoo which would have compensated them if they had to pay out the 10-figure sum.
One estimate puts the odds of picking a perfect bracket at 9.2 quintillion to one — an awkward, rarely-used number that can also be thought of as 9.2 billion-billion. Those odds are longer than the likelihood of winning Powerball and Mega Millions in the same weekend.
But the 9.2 quintillion estimate assumes each team has a 50% chance of winning every game, which is probably not the case. Others have put the odds at a marginally better 7.4 billion to 1. That's 42 times worse than your chance of winning Powerball.
"There is no perfect math…There are no true odds, no one really knows," Buffett told CNN in January when the challenge was announced.
The odds became even longer with upsets this week. In Thursday's opener, 84% of fans picked Ohio State to win, only to see the University of Dayton upset its rival. Then on Friday upstart Mercer University knocked off perennial powerhouse Duke, which was the choice of 98% of fans with Yahoo brackets.
The tournament is so popular partly because of the history of first-round upsets that play havoc with fans' brackets.
CBS Sports, which runs one of the bigger bracket challenges, says that in the past two years its final perfect brackets were eliminated in the 22nd and 23rd games of the tournament, or about two-thirds of the way through the first round.
ESPN reports that of the roughly 30 million entrants it's had over the 13 years, no one has come close to a perfect bracket, and that only one person has had a perfect first round in the last seven years.
"I don't want to say it's impossible, but it's basically impossible," said John Diver, director of product development for ESPN Fantasy.
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One Michigan product is good, but a second Wolverine is great.
And don't be fooled by the following picture from that same Cardinal's Web site. It's of tight end Ben Patrick of Delware who was the Cardinals' seventh round pick.
But Branch and Breaston weren't the only two Wolverines selected in the draft. They had plenty of company. Leon Hall was Cincinnati's first round pick. Lamar Woodley was a second round selection for Pittsburgh. David Harris also went in the second round to the Jets. Prescott Burgess was taken in the sixth round by Baltimore. And Tyler Ecker was a seventh round pick for Washington.
The seven players selected was among the most for any school. Now where are all those people that claimed a year ago that Michigan wasn't developing NFL-type talent when Michigan had only four players taken, and all of those late-round picks? Yes, can't wait to hear


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I'm sure you've heard about molecular gastronomy. You've probably even seen some of it in practice on Top Chef – remember Marcel from season 2? Marcel might not be the expert, but he definitely brought MG into many a living room.
The expert, many would say is Ferran Adrià of elBulli restaurant outside Barcelona. And since I'm living here in Cambridge, how could I resist mentioning Adrià's recent visit to that small liberal arts college down the road (and my alma mater) to explore the connections between science and food and to participate in an interchange of ideas, some academic but largely applied. He had lessons for Haaaahvaaaahd professors and students, sitting in on classes across various science and engineering disciplines and even marketing and innovation classes in the B-school (there was even an HBS case written about his restaurant). And apparently he came across the Atlantic with the intention of bringing some lessons back home as well as to sign an agreement for an ongoing collaboration with Harvard scientists.
Here is an interesting clip of a lecture where he demonstrated some of his techniques, speaking in his native Catalan. It's just beautiful to watch! Not just the food preparation (melon caviar) and results, but a comment that Adrià makes before the first demonstration, translated by Professor Roberto Kolter — "'The whole world gives him adjectives, but he wants to be a cook. He wants to be happy with what he does, and he wants to make people happy."
I predict that Adrià will receive an honorary PhD from Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences this year, or better yet, from HBS (take that Clayton Christensen… the Innovator's Recipe?).
Now, if you're thinking, "I keep kosher. I won't be able to partake in all of these foams and caviars that seem to personify today's molecular gastronomy" — fear not. Even though many of the experimental techniques use less traditional and some non-kosher ingredients, MG is largely about scientific process, experimentation, and understanding food. And a week and a half ago ago, Canela in Jerusalem held a special Sunday evening feast featuring many of these avant-garde techniques, as reported in the Jerusalem Post, apparently the second such meal in Israel. Of course, let's see when it comes to NY…
Additional (selected) press coverage on Adrià's visit to Cambridge:
– Harvard Magazine – December 19, 2008; February 18, 2009; March – April, 2009


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Tacoma Receives Some Changes For 201
The front end of the 2012 Toyota Tacoma has been redesigned, with a new grille, foglamps, headlights, and bumpers. Two tow hooks are now standard on all models, and there are two new colors -- Spruce Mica and Nautical Blue Metallic. The TRD Sport package is now offered with side mirrors that have integrated turn signal lamps, plus optional 18-inch chrome five-spoke wheels.
Big changes happen on the inside, too: The updated interior includes a redesigned instrument panel with a new gauge cluster; redesigned center stack with updated heat/vent/air-conditioning controls; and new steering wheel on some models. New options include heavy-duty all-weather flooring on Access Cab and Double Cab models, waterproof fabric on some trucks, new standard and optional stereos, and navigation and Entune infotainment system offered with the Double Cab V-6. Toyota hasn't announced any powertrain changes, but we'd anticipate something like that may soon follow this styling update.


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Spain's famous piquillo peppers add a sweet-spicy edge to the aioli. Idiazábal, a smoky sheep's-milk cheese from the Basque region, is great with the portobellos. If you can't find Idiazábal, substitute smoked Gouda.
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- Makes 6
- Aioli:
- 1/2 cup chopped drained piquillo peppers or roasted red peppers from jar
- 1 tablespoon Sherry wine vinegar
- 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh thyme
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/2 cup purchased mayonnaise
- Cayenne pepper
- Mushrooms:
- 6 large portobello mushrooms, stemmed, dark gills scraped out
- 1 sweet onion (such as Vidalia or Walla Walla), cut into 1/3-inch-thick slices
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- 2 teaspoons chopped fresh thyme
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 8 ounces Idiazábal or smoked Gouda cheese, rind trimmed, thinly sliced
- 6 sourdough rolls (each about 4 inches in diameter), halved horizontally
- 1 bunch watercress, stems trimmed
- For aioli:
- Puree first 4 ingredients in mini processor. Transfer to small bowl. Whisk in mayonnaise; season with salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. DO AHEAD: Can be made 3 days ahead. Cover; chill.
- For mushrooms:
- Arrange mushroom caps and onion slices on baking sheet; brush both sides with oil, then sprinkle with salt, pepper, and thyme. Turn mushrooms, gill side up, and sprinkle with garlic. Let stand at least 30 minutes and up to 2 hours.
- Prepare barbecue (medium-high heat). Place mushrooms, gill side up, and onion slices on rack. Cook until grill marks appear, about 4 minutes. Turn vegetables over, transferring to cooler part of grill. Cover and cook until mushrooms are very tender and onion slices still retain some texture, about 8 minutes. Turn mushrooms, gill side up; top with cheese. Arrange rolls, cut side down, on grill. Cover; cook until cheese on mushrooms melts and cut sides of rolls are golden, about 1 minute longer.
- Arrange roll bottoms on plates; spread with aioli. Top each with mushroom, onion slice, and watercress. Spread cut side of roll tops with aioli; press onto watercress.


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Dynamo defender Bobby Boswell took some time after practice on Thursday to answer a few questions from HoustonDynamo.com about his life, on and off the field.
HD: In your soccer career, you have played with D.C. United and with Houston. How would you compare the two cities?
BB: I don't think you can really compare the two; they are very different. D.C. was great for all the monuments and the history that was there. I lived on Capitol Hill, and I got to see the monuments every day. Houston has more of the Texas culture; it's almost like its own country. The people are great, and I really enjoy the rodeo. It's definitely a better city to be single in.
HD: Did you have a favorite monument to visit when you lived in D.C.?
BB: I lived exactly a mile from the Capitol, so I was at Union Station a lot. It's something you take for granted while you are there, and when you move away you realize how awesome the city is.
HD: What is your favorite prank you have played on an unsuspecting teammate?
BB: I used to have some wars with some guys. I've gotten guys in both Houston and D.C., but I think my favorite prank was actually one that was done to me. I had planned to get [D.C. United midfielder] Santino Quaranta and a couple guys on a preseason road trip, but instead they had broken into my room and took out all the furniture. I mean EVERYTHING was gone when I got back to the room. It was pretty interesting. I had to sleep in a different room that night, because they never told me where my bed was. I'm pretty sure the hotel staff hated us, but it was an interesting prank.
HD: What is your most memorable MLS experience?
BB: There are so many. I remember almost everything. I remember goals we've scored and goals we've given up. People will say the Chelsea game my rookie year -- I scored a goal against them. I think being a part of the All-Star team [in 2006] when we beat Chelsea and Dwayne [De Rosario] scored. To be a part of a great group of guys like that, it was a lot of fun.
HD: Who is a soccer player you admired growing up?
BB: I really liked Zinedine Zidane. It's kind of an easy answer, because he was so great, but he was so much fun to watch. He was very smooth, and even though you knew what he was going to do, he still did it.
HD: What are some things you like to do in your free time away from the field?
BB: I hang out with the guys. I love music and go to more concerts than most people aside from maybe music critics. I like The Killers live, even though they are big dorks. Kings of Leon are great too, as well as Chris Cornell's 3.5-hour set he did in Houston. I do that and go to the movies a lot. Most of the time I'm doing something active with my friends.
HD: When can we expect to see the return of BobbyBoswell.com?
BB: I would like to start it up. It's just tough to have something like that when the team isn't doing well and people look at it as a distraction. It's something I had fun doing. I think it will be different than it was before, but it's something we are going to try and bring back.


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MONTERREY, Mexico – Gunmen killed a town mayor near the drug-plagued industrial city of Monterrey, authorities said Friday, the fourth mayor in northern Mexico to be murdered in little more than a month.
Prisciliano Rodriguez Salinas was gunned down late Thursday along with one of his personal employees in the town of Doctor Gonzalez, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Monterrey, the Nuevo Leon state Attorney General's Office said.
Eliseo Lopez Riojas was killed as he was picking up equipment from the mayor's house, and a white car waiting outside started firing. Investigators found 19 shells from two different weapons at the scene.
Drug gangs warring for territory and smuggling routes in northern Mexico have increasingly targeted political figures in the region, though the attorney general said there were aspects of the crime uncharacteristic of gangs.
"The act, in terms of waiting for the mayor outside his house … is not a very common tactic for organized crime," state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza. "So we're not ruling out any line of investigation."
Garza Y Garza said he was unaware of any threats against the mayor.
Two police officers had been taken in for questioning about the killings, though Garza y Garza said they were not under arrest.
In a short press conference Friday, Nuevo Leon Gov. Rodrigo Medina said soldiers stationed in his state had achieved some successes combating organized crime.
"We will not give up this fight," Medina said.
President Felipe Calderon condemned the attack and sent his condolences to the family as his government reiterated its commitment to the security of all Mexicans. The government has attributed the spike in violence in the border states of Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas to a breakup between the Gulf Cartel and the Zetas.
Monterrey-area mayor Edelmiro Cavazos was kidnapped in August and his body dumped three days later. Seven police officers who authorities said were paid monthly salaries by the Zetas gang were arrested in connection with that killing.
Hooded gunmen shot to death Mayor Alexander Lopez Garcia in the town of El Naranjo in San Luis Potosi state on Sept. 8. The methods used in all three slayings were similar to those used by Mexico's drug cartels.
In June, gunmen killed the leading gubernatorial candidate in Tamaulipas state.
More than 28,000 people have been killed by drug-related violence since Calderon launched his attack on drug cartels in late 2006.
Nuevo Leon, Mexico: 8 Hours, 13 Executed, 6 Kidnapped from Hotels, and 18 Injured
Cartel Shootout Leaves 7 Dead in Acapulco
Guerrero state investigative police director Fernando Monreal says gunmen used grenades and automatic rifles to attack a house in a residential area of Acapulco on Thursday.
The state of Guerrero, where Acapulco is located, has become a drug cartel battleground.
Authorities on Wednesday found the decapitated bodies of two men inside a car abandoned in the community of Kilometro 30, near Acapulco.
Nationwide, more than 28,000 people have died in drug violence since December 2006, when President Felipe Calderon launched a crackdown against drug traffickers.
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The Legal Genealogist reminds us today that it's the 222nd anniversary of the adoption of the first U.S. patent law. I grew up knowing of two family members who (supposedly) held patents, and another popped up when I was doing some searching a few years back.
I'd heard in my childhood that my grandpa Warnke's brother Clem (1897-1971) had invented a bean-puller, and one of my uncles told me that it hadn't been a big commercial success in the U. S. but had found some popularity in Africa for harvesting peanuts. Somewhere buried deep in my family files is a newspaper clipping with a captioned photo of my mom's younger brother posing with a piece of Warnke farm equipment. I'm not sure if the item in the photo is a bean-puller, or if Clem also sold other machinery with his company name; hunting down that clipping is on my long to-do list! The photo was in the newspaper sometime in the early 1970s, and I think the occasion was the closing of the company.
Clem's invention quickly pops up if you search Google Patents, patent number 2240970, filed in 1939 and issued in 1941. While my memory is that it was called a "bean puller," the machine is actually described as a "vine lifter ... for lifting vines having pods attached thereto... so that the pods are not cut [by the cutter blades of a mowing machine]." I don't know what eventually superseded it, or whether his ideas contributed to the continuing improvement of harvesting machinery, but it looks very clever to non-mechanical me.
My uncle Paul Michutka was talented in drawing and story-telling, and was something of a character; we sometimes weren't sure how much of his stories to believe . He claimed to have filed for some patents, and I remember my Aunt Pearl (his sister-in-law) telling me that one of his patents had actually been bought out because some aspect of it resembled something that someone else was filing for. I haven't been able to verify this yet; not all patents filed before 1976 are searchable online simply by surname, and I haven't done any further digging. It would be interesting to see just what Paul had come up with!
You will get results by entering "Michutka" in a patents search, but it won't be Paul. Paul's brother John and some other men filed for a new design of a "Dairy Bar building" in 1953, and had patent number D174520 issued in 1955. Judging from the sketches in the application, I'd guess that this was something like a Dairy Queen or other ice cream place; perhaps a cousin will know more.


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How To: Plant Blooming Bulbs for Spring
There's nothing like a show of tulips, hyacinths or daffodils in the spring to get your blood flowing and your customers calling with kudos for a job well done. Whether you're planting in a residential or commercial setting, there are a few things to keep in mind and a few tricks you may want to try.
Some spring bulbs are true perennials, while others with unreliable bloom for the second and successive years are treated as annuals. How the garden is to be used after the spring show will help determine from which bulbs you'll select. The presence of deer, squirrels, ground squirrels and other rodents may also affect your decision. Tulips and crocus are favorite foods for these critters. Wildlife do not like daffodils, and fritillaria and hyacinths are not often their first food choice.
When planning your display, keep in mind that you need a lot of each type of bulb to make a show. It's tempting to cut back when you look at the cost of an individual bulb, but the payback for spending a few more dollars goes beyond your investment. Tulips can make a great show planted on 4- to 6-inch centers, depending on the type of tulip chosen. Sounds like a lot, but looks terrific. Tulips planted on 12-inch centers make a poor showing and can reduce your stature with your clients. Many suppliers have already calculated the number of bulbs per square feet for you.
Soil preparation is essential for vigorous root growth. Till the area 12 inches deep. Most bulbs will not be planted this deeply, but you need to leave some room below for root development. Apply a balanced fertilizer such as 13-13-13 or 10-10-10. This will provide the phosphorus and potassium needed to produce beautiful flowers and foliage. If you are planning on using a high-phosphorus product, choose superphosphate (0-18-0) or triple superphosphate (0-48-0) as your source of phosphorus. The often-promoted bone meal is very attractive to rodents, who then get bulbs for dessert.
To plant, place the bulbs on the prepared soil using your trowel for spacing. Most sturdy trowels measure 12 inches long with the handle at 6 inches and the blade at 6 inches. I have some strong trowels that also have gradations marked along the blade — money well spent. The trowel is also handy for measuring planting depth. Depth depends on the bulb and is measured from the base (bottom) of the bulb to the soil surface — your supplier should be able to provide this information if it is not on the tag. Once the bulbs are laid out, you need only to insert the trowel to the desired depth, pull back on the soil and deposit the bulb (pointy side up) into the hole and lightly firm the soil around the bulb. If the bulbs have to absolutely be planted at the same depth to provide a formal, uniform display, you may want to dig out the soil to the planting depth, stockpiling the soil on a tarp and level out the bottom. Lay out the bulbs in the bottom of the bed at the proper spacing. Carefully replace the soil over the bulbs. Water in.
To ensure a return on your investment, provide your bulbs with proper moisture over the winter. Irrigate every 3 to 4 weeks if there is no precipitation. Water the bulbs, encourage the roots and discourage the rodents.
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Okay, okay so you might be saying "Uhhhh, that ginger looks a lot more like apples than ginger." And you are right… well, sorta. Technically, I made Apple Ginger Tea but I just threw the apples in because my kids didn't eat the other half of the Fuji apple I cut for them. It works with or without apple slices!
The main reason I wanted to make my ginger tea in the crockpot was because I kept having to babysit it on the stovetop, I had several boil-overs on accident, and I was losing all of the water because it kept reducing! So, I figured, give it a go in the crock pot! It keeps all the water in there, and I can even leave while it "cooks". It worked out great! I'm trying to have a cup of ginger tea every day for a month to see if it helps with the inflammation in my hip.
Ginger Tea In The Crockpot
- 4 cups/1 Liter water, heated to boiling
- 2 "knobs" of ginger (see the pic below)
- optional 1/2 Fuji apple, sliced with peels ON
- optional 1-2 teaspoons honey, to taste
- optional 1-2 teaspoons lime juice, to taste
- While you work, heat water to boiling.
- Peel the ginger and then "peel-shred" it into the crock pot. (I just use the vegetable peeler and make thin slices of the ginger to get more bang for my buck.)
- Add in the apples if you want and then pour in the boiling water.
- Cook on HIGH for 3-4 hours.
- Pour through a sieve (or, like me, just ladel it into your teavana tea maker to strain it) and then add in honey and lime juice.
Okay, since I could never figure out in recipes what a "knob" of ginger was supposed to be (is it just part of it or the whole thing?) I decided to take a picture of the ginger I used next to a quarter so that you could see exactly what I used. Use more for a stronger tea if you'd like!


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Fight Malaria by Helping Mosquitoes
[The following is an exact transcript of this podcast.]
People get malaria from Anopheles mosquitoes that themselves are infected with a protozoan parasite called Plasmodium. The mosquitoes do have immune systems. But the parasite has figured out how to get past the mosquito's defenses. So researchers at Johns Hopkins University Malaria Research Institute are trying to help people—by pumping up the mosquitoes' immunity.
When a mosquito takes some blood from a human, she may also ingest Plasmodium. The parasite ends up in the insect's gut. The mosquito immune system jumps into action as the parasites try to push through the gut wall. Most parasites do get killed, but some manage to survive that gut migration. Then they replicate and move to the salivary glands, ready to infect the next person the mosquito bites.
Researchers are tinkering with specific mosquito genes to see how they affect the development of the parasite. Their goal is to develop a genetically modified mosquito with a strengthened immune system that kills all the parasites. They say next they'd need to get the gene into enough wild mosquitoes that they would breed and pass that gene on. No simple effort. But if it works, it could be a big victory in the war against malaria.
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And so, the guilt set in. And with that guilt, came a lot of frantic wheel-spinning on my part to make our home life one great, big, perpetual fun fest. Basically, I became Mini-SGCC's number one playmate. We played Barbies. We played dress-up. We did art projects. We set up a teepee in the middle of the living room and "camped out". Sometimes, we just ran round the house, dancing and shrieking like banshees, because we could. It was great! I got to relive my childhood all over again, only this time, I made the rules. I got to do all of the things I was never allowed to do the first time around! Occasionally, Mr. SGCC would join in, but usually he'd just roll his eyes, grab the remote and hide out in the other room.
One of the fun things we would do, usually on a weekend, is have "Theme Night". We would pick a theme, decorate the kitchen and have a whole meal dedicated to it. Usually our themes would be based upon a particular movie that we were going to watch that night. On one particular night, we chose Disney's Lilo and Stitch as our theme. You remember that one. It's about a lonely little Hawaiian girl who adopts an ugly stray "dog" that she names Stitch. The dog turns out to actually be a genetic experiment who has escaped from an alien planet and crash-landed on Earth. Pandemonium ensues, until Lilo tames Stitch by teaching him the true meaning of love and family. Awww! Anyway, Lilo and Stitch led to the discovery of a recipe that has become one of our all time favorite dishes here in SGCC-land - Pacific Rim Burgers with Ginger Mayonaise.
Holy Moly! WHAT THE HELL WAS I WAITING FOR!?!?!
Pacific Rim Burgers start with a base of ground chicken, to which you add some spicy good stuff. They are glazed with a honey-teriyaki mixture and either grilled or seared in a pan. Then, the burgers are smothered with an utterly magical ginger-based mayo, topped with crunchy, fresh cucumbers and served on toasted sesame seed buns. These burgers are so moist, flavorful and delicious that you will forget you're eating ground chicken. Honest! I swear! You'll never miss the beef!
By the way, my daughter is fourteen now, and we still enjoy having "Theme Night". The movies we choose now are a little more sophisticated, but we still have the same silly, goofy fun. Oh, and Mini-SGCC has finally realized that being an only child has its advantages. You get lots more stuff and you don't have to share!
Pacific Rim Burgers with Ginger Mayonnaise
Adapted from Kristine Snyder and The Food Network
(Printable Version)
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 green onions, thinly sliced
3 tablespoons chopped cilantro leaves, plus extra for garnish
1 clove garlic, minced (I use 2 cloves.)
1 teaspoon Asian hot chili sauce (I use Sambal Oelek and add 2 teasoons!)
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup bottled teriyaki glaze
4 teaspoons honey (I use 3 tablespoons)
1 tablespoon vegetable oil, plus extra for hands
4 sesame buns, split and toasted
1 seedless cucumber, peeled and sliced very thinly
Ginger Mayonnaise (recipe follows)
In a large bowl, mix together the chicken, panko, egg, green onions, chopped cilantro, garlic, chili sauce, and salt. With oiled hands, form mixture into 4 patties.
Ginger Mayonnaise
2 teaspoons minced fresh ginger
2 teaspoons lime juice
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 teaspoon salt
In a small bowl, mix together all ingredients. Refrigerate until ready to use.
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A Rapper Who Loves David Foster Wallace (Song Premiere)
There's not a lot of crossover between hip-hop and postmodern novelists like David Foster Wallace, but Minneapolis MC Dessa found a connection: she's cited Wallace and Dave Eggers as favorite authors for the way they emphasize literary voice over theme and even meaning.
It's a practice that carries into her music on "Call Off Your Ghost," which Speakeasy premieres today. The song, from her forthcoming third album "Parts of Speech," draws from real life. Dessa wrote the tune after running into an ex-boyfriend at a mutual friend's wedding.
"We saw each other, all dressed up in our Sunday finest, and we did our best to behave like graceful adults, shaking hands with each other's dates," she said. "A hard breakup can conjure a storm of competing emotions — bitterness, love, jealousy, tenderness, self-pity, velociraptor-crazy fits of rage. 'Call Off Your Ghost' is about trying to fall out of a love that has outlasted its relationship. In a larger way, it's about the struggle to be your best self, even when a lot of lesser, petty feelings compete for expression."
Dessa delivers her lyrics over a beat produced by Doomtree Records labelmate Paper Tiger. "It seemed to balance the right kind of urgency, muscle, and bittersweetness to score of the subject at hand," Dessa said. "Of all the songs on 'Parts of Speech,' this is one of the tracks that I'm proudest to have written."
"Parts of Speech" is due June 25, and Dessa will be on tour starting in late June. Listen to "Call Off Your Ghost" and see her full tour itinerary after the jump.