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I found one of these earlier this year, and after playing for a few minutes I made a compulsive purchase. I really love the raw sounds, and it has just enough modification to keep things interesting.
However, I've had no luck finding anything out about this semi-rare string-like synth. Does it compare to the Solina String Ensemble? How rare is this thing? My searches always come up with other Korgs that are close, but not the actual model I have.

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The head of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey defended his agency ahead of a $400 million lawsuit it could face from Jersey City, which seeks to have the bistate entity pay higher taxes for a host of properties it owns around the city.
Port Authority Chairman David Samson told NJBIZ: "We usually do not comment on threatened or pending litigation, but I can tell you the Port Authority is in compliance with its legal and contractual obligations."
Earlier this week, Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop said he planned to sue the agency for $400 million, citing "economic damages caused by the Port Authority's unfair and outdated tax agreements with the city."
Fulop said agreements for scores of properties have cost the city hundreds of millions of dollars in lost tax revenue over several decades, and that agency officials have been "completely unresponsive" to his outreach efforts since he took office in July.
All told, the city alleges the Port Authority pays $2.2 million annually for properties whose current assessments should generate more than $18 million in taxes.
Officials from the authority, whose board met this week, have declined to respond ahead of pending litigation. Meantime, some state lawmakers came out in defense of the agency, including Sen. Michael Doherty, who said the threat of the lawsuit was "hypocrisy" considering state tax exemptions enjoyed by the city.


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Baby Carriers
Until your child is too heavy, a carrier is a terrific way to travel with your baby both near and far. However, the number of choices is overwhelming - slings, wraps, front carriers, back carriers, hip carriers, and all kinds of combinations in between. All the babies in the product photos look pretty darn happy as do their doting parents - so how do you choose? We've rounded up ten carriers to get you started with your research.
Last summer, doula and baby wearing educator Megan Davidson gave us some great advice about different types of carriers and you can find that post here. Another great source of information is the website The Baby Wearer.We also recommend asking lots of other parents what they have and how they like it. If you're friendly with them, ask to give theirs a test drive. If you're shopping for a carrier before your child is born, many bricks and mortar stores will let you try different carriers on. Finally, what you like may not be what your baby or child likes so be prepared to resell, trade or hand yours down to a friend and try something else.
Top Row:
1 Boba Organic 2G (starting at $118, 6 colors, front and back carry, made in U.S.A., for 15 lbs. and up, pre-order, ships by mid-August)
2 ERGO Baby (performance, sport or organic, $105-135, about a dozen color, front or back carry,
3 BABYBJÖRN Carriers (original, air, synergy, comfort, and active, $60-190, front carry, baby can face forward or in, min. weight 8 lbs.)
4 beco Butterfly 2 ($140 , front and back carry, variety of patterns/colors)
5 Sakura Bloom ($, ring sling, hip carry, washable silk or linen, starting at $88 (linen) or $180 (silk))
Bottom Row:
6 MOBY wrap ($40-50, infant to 35 lbs., front or back carry, 11 solid colors, 2 prints, 2 offer UV protection)
7 BabyHawk Carriers ($80-140, Mei Tei style carriers, front or back carry, option to design your own from 300 fabrics, newborn to toddler, )
8 Little Hipster Slings ($75, ring sling, organic cotton, with concealed, zippered pocket)
9 líllébaby EveryWear carrier ($100-120, 5 carry positions)
10 Baby K'tan ($60-70, 10+ wearing positions, less fabric than a wrap)
A bonus carrier to check out: the Kokopax frame carrier which we looked at last year.
What's your favorite carrier and why?


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It is so beautiful to wear a short skirt with no underwear! When there is no panties. Then you can just sit down an piss once you want to pee. There is even no need to hide your moves. And it is so pleasant to feel how the hot stream flows out! It tickles the pussy with so exciting feeling... Kseniya thought about all this looking on the growing pool right between her legs.


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About 2 million jobless Americans fear they'll lose their extended unemployment benefits, which are slated to end next month unless Congress votes to renew them.
Their concerns make a new finding all the more puzzling: Many people eligible for unemployment don't even bother to collect it.
In the depths of the recession in 2008 and 2009, only half of those who qualified for benefits applied, a study by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank shows.


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Bank ratings are not yet showing the impact of either the slowdown in emerging economies or the more sustained recovery in developed countries.
That said, Europe still leads the Global Finance list of the world's safest banks.
Some banking market instability seems to be moving from the West to certain countries in the East, and companies are keeping a close eye on the solidity and reliability of their counterparts worldwide.
Rankings from previous years:
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Blues unveil upgraded defense against Hossa, Blackhawks
The St. Louis Blues' new-look blue line will face a big challenge right off the bat on Thursday night when the playoff hopefuls take aim at their first road victory over the Chicago Blackhawks in over three years.
Tied for ninth place with the Nashville Predators in the Western Conference with 38 points, one point back of eighth place, the Blues added defensemen Jay Bouwmeester and Jordan Leopold in separate deals in the days leading up to the yesterday's trade deadline.
Leopold made his debut for the Blues in Monday's 4-1 victory over the Minnesota Wild and St. Louis announced during the game that it had acquired Bouwmeester from the Calgary Flames for defenseman Mark Cundari, the rights to goaltender Reto Berra and a conditional first-round pick.
Bouwmeester, 29, is a two-time All-Star who has scored six goals to go along with nine assists in 33 games this year and has logged 71 goals, 229 assists and 463 penalty minutes in 750 career games. He has played in 621 consecutive games, a streak he is set to extend tonight.
The Blues are likely to pair Bouwmeester on the top defensive unit with Alex Pietrangelo and was a player long coveted by general manager Doug Armstrong.
"It's taken the better part of 10 months to find the piece," Armstrong told the Blues' website. "It goes back through when we were looking to add a player (last offseason). Jay was one of those type of players that when you look at someone in our age group, someone that could log a lot of minutes, he's an iron man obviously playing 600-plus games. He's a workhorse, he's everything that we had hoped to find."
With the added depth, the Blues dealt 35-year-old defender Wade Redden to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday for a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2014. Redden had five points in 23 games with St. Louis this season.
The Blues will try to earn a rare victory in Chicago tonight. They have lost eight in a row there since a victory on Feb. 3, 2010.
St. Louis has lost four straight and eight of its past 10 in this series overall, including the first two of five meetings this regular season.
Though they added Bouwmeester, the Blues did lose goaltender Jaroslav Halak to a groin injury in Monday's win and he is out indefinitely. He made five saves before suffering his ailment in the final seconds of the first period and Brian Elliott made 19 saves on 20 shots faced in relief.
"It's part of the job description, you have to be ready to go all the time," said Elliott. "You never want to see a guy go down, but I just wanted to be able to help the team as much as I could."
Jaden Schwartz and Andy McDonald each had a goal and an assist, while Barret Jackman and Kevin Shattenkirk also lit as the Blues snapped a three-game slide.
St. Louis will be going up against a Chicago club that leads the Western Conference with 57 points, two ahead of the Anaheim Ducks with two games in hand, and is also expected to have sniping forward Marian Hossa back in the lineup tonight.
Hossa has missed the past six games with an upper body injury and the Blackhawks went 3-3-0 in that span.
"He means a lot. He enhances your team game, you can use him in special teams situations," said Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville. "He's a player that you like the way he plays in all areas of the ice."
Fellow forward Patrick Sharp, though, will miss his 12th straight game due to a shoulder injury and Patrick Kane did not practice on Wednesday due to illness but is likely to play tonight.
Kane and Brandon Saad scored in Monday's 3-2 shootout victory over the Nashville Predators, with defenseman Michal Rozsival putting home the game- winner in the tiebreaker with a backhander.
"It's the only move I have so I wanted to make it count," said Rozsival, who has not scored a goal in 20 games this season and had just one in 54 contests last season with the Phoenix Coyotes.
Corey Crawford stopped 25 shots in the win, Chicago's second in a row. The club was coming off a 7-1 rout in Detroit the previous day.
Thursday should also mark the first game for center Michal Handzus since being acquired from the San Jose Sharks on Monday in exchange for Chicago's fourth- round pick in 2013.
Handzus had a goal and an assist over 28 games with the Sharks this season.


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Tonight's Guests: Stephen Silha, Shamey Cramer, Jessica Grams, Nhia Vang, Keith Pederson
Photo: James Broughton in 1940's, subject of doc BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON. Photographer: Bob Lopez, Courtesy of Broughton Archive at Kent State University
Stephen Silha, Filmmaker, Executive Producer, Co-Director
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton (2013, DCP, 82 minutes)
A chronicle of the iconoclastic life of gay poet, filmmaker, and spiritual visionary James Broughton, one of the defining voices of the sexual revolution, whose groundbreaking artistic celebrations of sexuality and the body influenced generations of the 1960's and 70's to profoundly embrace life and "follow your own weird". Co-directed with, Eric Slade and Dawn Logsdon.
Stephen Silha is a freelance writer, filmmaker, facilitator, and futurist. Born in Minneapolis, he currently lives in the Puget Sound bioregion of Washington. Stephen joined the Radical Faerie movement in 1985, and has focused on aspects of tantra, gay spirituality, and LGBT cultural history as a journalist and storyteller. Silha met James Broughton at a gathering in 1989. They became fast friends, and Broughton mentored Silha for many joyful communicative years.
"Big Joy" screens at the Walker Art Center, August 22 at 7:30 pm, Free. Co-director Stephen Silha will introduce the film at this event, preceded by a new print of Broughton's The Bed (1968, 16mm, 20 minutes)
Shamey Cramer, Officer, Ceremonies, Federation of Gay Games
Shamey will talk about the 2014 Gay Games and and the current situation of LGBT discrimination in Russia concerning the Olympics. Built upon the principles of Participation, Inclusion, and Personal Best™, since 1982, the Gay Games have empowered tens of thousands of LGBT artists and athletes through fellowship and friendly competition. The 2014 Gay Games presented by the Cleveland Foundation will be held in Cleveland + Akron, OH, USA, August 9-16, 2014.
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"Consider the Lilies" by Stuart Fail is a dysfunctional mix of co-dependence and genuine love between Paul, an aging alcoholic painter and David, his agent. Set in Paris and New York, the play delves into the lives of these two men and their struggle to find meaning in their personal lives and the fickle world of art.
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Nhia Vang, Shades of Yellow Leadership Team
SOY Stories is a monthly series where Asian Pacific Islander LGBTQ people share stories, good food, lots of laughs, and great company! Shades of Yellow, also known as SOY, is a Hmong LGBTQ nonprofit organization that works to provide support, education, advocacy, and leadership development to Hmong LGBTQ and allies. Based in St. Paul, MN, SOY is unique in that it is the only Hmong LGBTQ organization in the world.
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Scream Factory Double Feature (US - BD RA)
Gabe revisits director Kevin Tenney's first two movies on Blu-ray disc...
It's called an Ouija Board and it's been used for thousands of years to communicate with the souls of the afterworld. For beautiful Linda Brewster (Tawny Kitaen), it brings the playful ghost of a dead ten-year-old boy. But, when the friendly spirit develops a sudden taste for violent murder and demonic possession, Linda's boyfriend (Todd Allen) and her former lover (Stephen Nichols) must race to destroy the ferocious portal of the damned. (From Scream Factory's official synopsis)
Writer/director Kevin S. Tenney made his feature debut, Witchboard, during the 'golden era' of straight-to-video horror. The home video revolution had slowly undone the genre's major role in the grindhouse and drive-in scenes. Teenagers were more likely to experience the joys of sex & violence from the safety of their own homes. In 1986, many of these films were still given teeny tiny theatrical releases that somehow 'justified' their production, yet the filmmakers involved hadn't necessarily given up on larger success. It was a Petri dish made to cull the talents of a guy like Tenney. However, Tenney never quite fit the moulds set by his contemporaries. His output was far from excessive (14 movies in 22 years) and he didn't make any noticeable effort to create an STV mini-empire, like Charles Band or Lloyd Kaufman (the head honchos of Full Moon and Troma, respectfully). He wasn't a savvy technician trapped in a thankless role, like Anthony Hickox ( Waxwork, Sundown: the Vampire in Retreat), nor was he a talentless amateur, hacking his way through the process – he was swaddled right in the middle of the pack, which might actually be the worst place to be when it comes to cult filmmaking.
Tenney makes an impression for a first-time filmmaker working on a small budget by including complex tracking shots, swirling booms, fisheye lenses, and even a couple of crane shots. His screenplay does have some decent, naturalistic dialogue and the performances are markedly better than most STV counterparts. This creates an unusual situation where the characters are unusually engaging, despite their story being run-of-the-mill haunted house-type fodder. Unfortunately, the character drama sets the tone of the film and a whole lot of time is spent on 'Lifetime Original'-levels of love story angst, instead of ghost child mayhem. Tenney sets up a tantalizing situation where David, the 10-year-old from the Ouija board, starts poltergeisting a building site that is brimming with deadly construction materials – then kills someone by dropping scrap plywood on him. It is only the first of many missed opportunities for gory pandemonium, which is especially disappointing, considering that creative violence became a cornerstone of Tenney's later work. In the end, Witchboard is too well made to qualify as a so-bad-it's-good experience and too uneventful and unscary to work as a 'real' horror movie.
Witchboard was followed by only one official sequel, Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway (1993); though before that Tenney also made Witchtrap (1989), a similar, Ouija-less version of the material and shot on a smaller budget. Witchtrap, which actually bore a warning in its credits stating that it was not a sequel to Witchboard, is most notable for a scene where a haunted showerhead detaches and buries itself in Linnea Quigley's neck. Peter Svatek's Witchboard III: The Possession is often considered an unrelated offshoot (false sequels have always been an important part of the STV market), but was co-written by Tenney and features a possessed Ouija board, so I'm not sure why.
Witchboard was released in the US and UK on anamorphic DVD via Anchor Bay, but this Scream Factory disc represents its first availability on Blu-ray and in HD (as far as I know…). You'd be forgiven for assuming the worst, based on the material, but this is a solid 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer. Details are crisp with only minor distortions along the finest lines, most of it the result of fine film grain. The darker interior close-ups are a little rough, but cinematographer Roy H. Wagner ( A Nightmare on Elm 3: The Dream Warriors) ensures that wider-angle images have plenty of depth. Colours are strong and vibrant. The daylight images include vivid blues, lush greens, and natural skin tones, while the moodier dark shots include nicely separated, warm highlights. The palette skews a bit orange when surrounded by too much heavy black, but, even with the constant film grain, the shadows are relatively clean. I only noticed a handful of print damage artefacts, mostly quick little scratches/tracking lines. The uncompressed, DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono soundtrack is also pretty strong, though limited by the source material. Dialogue and incidental effects are clear, if not a bit inconsistent in terms of total volume levels. Some of the whispered discussions are difficult to discern. Dennis Michael Tenney's keyboard score (some of it performed by Steel Breeze) is definitely one of the film's highlights. The music is given the biggest boost on the uncompressed track, including some deep bass and unhindered, warm high end.
The extras include:
- An all-new commentary with Tenney and actors Stephen Nichols, James W. Quinn, and Kathleen Wilhoite.
- Anchor Bay's older DVD commentary with Tenney, executive producer Walter Josten, and producer Jeff Geoffrey.
- Progressive Entrapment (45:40, HD) – A new, full-bodied retrospective featurette/interview collection with Tenney, producers Walter Johnson & Jeff Geoffrey, FX artist Tassilo Baur, cinematographer Roy Wagner, and actors Todd Allen, Stephen Nichols, Tawny Kitaen, Kathleen Wilhoite, Kenny Rhodes, James Quinn, and J.P. Luebsen. Subject matter includes anecdotal and historical tales of Ouiji boards, along with the basics of the production process.
- The Making of Witchboard (6:50, SD) – A retro, behind-the-scenes EPK.
- Vintage, on-set cast interviews with Tawny Kitaen, J.P. Luebsen, and James Quinn (20:50, SD).
- On Set with Todd Allen and Steven Nichols (20:00, SD) -– More actors interviews.
- On Set with the Makers of Witchboard (20:00, SD) – More behind-the-scenes-footage.
- Life on the Set (20:10, SD) – Yet more behind-the-scenes footage.
- Constructing the World of Witchboard (21:10, SD) – Additional footage of set construction.
- Outtakes (6:20, SD)
- Behind-the-scenes and promotional still galleries
- Theatrical trailer
Night of the Demons
It's Halloween night and Angela is throwing a party…but this is no ordinary Halloween party. Everybody's headed to Hull House, a deserted funeral home, and formerly the home of a mass murderer. But, when the partygoers decide to have a séance, they awaken something evil...and these party crashers have a thirst for blood. Now it's a battle for who can survive the night in Hull House. (From Scream Factory's official synopsis)
Night of the Demons was, without a doubt, Tenney's finest hour. It got a bigger theatrical run than any other movie in his collection (I'm not sure any of his post- Night of the Demons had any theatrical release stateside) and it garnered a decent cult reputation. Tonally, it has very little in common with Witchboard (it opens with a delightfully comic book-inspired animated title sequence), which is the byproduct of Tenney being brought on as a director for hire, not involved with the script as he was with his first movie (the original director had left at the last-minute). The screenplay was written by Joe Augustyn, whose only other credits include a seedy succubus tale entitled Night Angel (1990), Night of the Demons 2, and an early draft of the Night of the Demons remake. Augustyn's script is more teen and trope-friendly than Tenney's soapy, melodramatic Witchboard script. This means the nominal challenge of complex characters is pushed aside in favour of gross-out scares and special effects, which is probably a better arena for the director's Sam Raimi-inspired camera work (though, sadly, Witchboard is still the better directed film). The performances are broad, the dialogue is laughable, the T&A is in your face, and Steven Johnson's elaborate special effects are appropriately goopy. The grotesque facial transformations and murders are pretty fantastic, but the film's memorable highlight is a surrealistic scene where a possessed Linnea Quigley shoves a tube of lipstick into her nipple.
If you were a horror fan in the VHS era, Night of the Demons was readily available, but not as coveted as Lamberto Bava's Demons (1985), which was produced by Dario Argento and released the year before Tenney's film and covered a similar outbreak of demonism. Bava's film and its sequel, Demons 2 (1986), were gore and heavy metal-driven Euro-horror, a nice counterpoint to Night of the Demons' pop Americana. It was also something of a rarity when it was released in both R-rated and unrated versions on home video. It might even be the first release to use the distinction as a selling point ( Re-Animator was perhaps the first to be available in both formats, but it was only by reading the back of the box that consumers would know the difference). This Blu-ray contains, naturally, the longer, gorier, unrated version. Night of the Demons was followed by two sequels ( Night of the Demons 2 was directed by Tarantino Ozploitation favorite Brian Trenchard-Smith) and a 2009 remake.
Anchor Bay had anamorphic DVD releases of Night of the Demons in both the US and the UK, but this Scream Factory disc is the film's first and only Blu-ray release. The 1080p, 1.85:1 transfer is similar to the Witchboard release in that it looks better than expected. Generally speaking, this is not a crisp movie. Tenney and cinematographer David Lewis (who shot both Witchboard 2 and Night of the Demons 2) use quite a bit of foggy soft focus to create their bubblegum horror mood, leading to some gritty, grainy moments and plush edges. Still, details are cleaner and sharper than any DVD version, especially stuff like facial close-ups. The darker wide-angle images show minor wear and edge enhancement, but clarity remains consistent throughout. The eclectic, neon and pastel '80s palette is vivid and well-separated, despite the softer focus and deep darkness. Black levels are consistent without appearing crushed or flat.
So far, Scream Factory has been content to release their films with uncompressed original audio tracks (kind of like Criterion), but Night of the Demons includes a 5.1 remix of the original 2.0 stereo sound. This appears to have been mixed specifically for this release, not taken from another release, like their John Carpenter releases. This release also includes two different DTS-HD MA 2.0 tracks, one based on the original Ultra Stereo mix and the other, seemingly based on the 5.1 remix. Comparing the tracks, I think that the remix is probably the strongest of the three, mostly because it thoroughly centers the dialogue and incidental effects. Otherwise, the difference between the tracks is negligible and all three feature the same minor inconsistencies in vocal volume. There's very little in terms of immersive sound design, aside from some atmospheric frog/cricket noises and the most aggressive demon sounds. Dennis Michael Tenney returns to do the music; this time on a more epic scale with a poppier, more rock-infused score. The opening title number is quite possibly the best thing about the entire film. The 5.1 mix has a musical advantage due to the LFE bump, though the punk/rock/new wave additions are still generally tinny.
The extras include:
- An all-new commentary with Tenney, FX artist Steve Johnson, and actors Cathy Podewell, Hal Havins, and Billy Gallo.
- Anchor Bay's older DVD commentary with Tenney, and producers Walter Johnson & Jeff Geoffrey.
- You're Invited (1:11:30, HD) – An new collection of interviews with Tenney, producers Johnson & Geoffrey, producer/writer Joe Augustyn, animators Kevin Kurchaver & Kathy Zielinski, FX artist Steve Johnson, stuntman/coordinator John Stewart, and actors Linnea Quigley, Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis, Allison Barron, Donnie Jeffcoat, Billy Gallo, James Quinn, Amelia Kinkade, Hal Havins, and Donnie Jeffcoat. The subject matter, once again, covers more or less the entirety of production. There's quite a bit of overlap with the two commentaries, but this piece is info-packed enough to work as the disc's only extra – everything else is just gravy.
- Amelia Kinkade, Protean (22:30, HD) – A secondary interview segment with the actress (including even more overlap) that covers her work on Night of the Demons and its sequels.
- Allison Barron's Demon Memories (4:00, HD) – A chance for the actress to show us her personal photo gallery with narration.
- Promo reel (4:10, SD)
- Video trailer
- Theatrical trailer
- TV and radio spots
- Behind-the-scenes, special effects/make-up, photo, poster, and storyboard galleries.
* Note: The above images are taken from the Blu-ray and have been resized for the page. Full-resolution captures are available by clicking the individual images, but due to .jpg compression, they are not necessarily representative of the quality of the transfer.
Review by Gabriel Powers
djblack1313 Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: United States Posts: 529
i love WITCHBOARD. i saw it in theaters when it was originally released. even though i'm gay i had (and still kinda do!) THE biggest crush on Tawny Kitaen (how gorgeous she was in those Whitesnake videos!). lol. Kathleen Wilhoite as the psychic/medium steals the show but this was a overall good little flick.
the bonus features are great on this BR! definite day one pick up for me.
the bonus features are great on this BR! definite day one pick up for me.
Gabe Powers Editor Join Date: September 2004 Location: United States Posts: 4,721
I've actually known a couple of gay men with crushes on Tawny Kitaen. She's just got pan-sexual appeal, I guess.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 4th February 2014
Discs: 4
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English (Night of the Demons only), DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
Subtitles: English
Extras: Cast and Crew Commentaries, Progressive Entrapment, The Making of Witchboard, Vintage On-Set Interviews, Outtakes, You're Invited, Amelia Kinkade, Protean, Allison Barron's Demon Memories, Trailers, TV Spots, Image Galleries, DVD Copies
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Kevin Tenney
Cast: Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, Todd Allen, Kathleen Wilhoite, William Gallo, Hal Havins, Amelia Kinkade, Cathy Podewell, Linnea Quigley
Genre: Comedy, Drama and Horror
Length: 0 minutes
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Sweet watermelon rind pickles warmly spiced with cinnamon and star anise. They taste like Christmas.
Pickling watermelon rind is a 2 to 3 day process that is mostly wait time not hands on time for which you will be richly rewarded. To start the rind soaks in a salt brine for a few hours or overnight then is slowly cooked for 10 minutes until fork tender. The cooked rind goes into a honey and spice syrup for another overnight soaking. The last step is to simmer the rind and syrup together at which point the bitter rind you began with is hardly recognizable.
The rind turns soft but not mushy with the texture of an apple or pear. Plus it has real depth of flavor instead of tasting of sugary sweetness mostly due to using honey instead of white sugar along with cinnamon, star anise and lemon. If you don't like star anise you can use cloves, a little of both or leave them out altogether and just use honey and cinnamon.
This makes a small batch meant to be eaten within a few weeks. It's possible to have a taste of summer all year-long if you're up to canning a large batch.
Once you taste these sweet watermelon pickles you will never again throw away your watermelon rind. That would feel too much like wasting perfectly good food!
Sweet watermelon rind pickles warmly spiced with cinnamon and star anise.
- Trim most of the the pink flesh and all of the outer green skin from the rind. Cut into 1-inch pieces. To make the brine: in a large glass or stainless steel mixing bowl combine the salt and water, stirring to dissolve some of the salt. Add watermelon and ice cubes; let stand 3-4 hours or overnight.
- Drain the watermelon rind in a large colander and rinse with cold water. Add to a large saucepan with enough water to cover them; bring to a simmer and cook about 10 minutes until fork tender but not mushy. Drain.
- Make the syrup by combining the honey, vinegar, water, and spices. Boil 5 minutes and pour over the watermelon; add lemon slices. Let stand overnight in the refrigerator.
- Heat watermelon in syrup to boiling then lower heat and simmer very slowly 25-30 minutes. Allow to cool then store in a large glass jar in the refrigerator 2-3 weeks.
Adapted from National Center for Home Food Preservation where you will find a large batch recipe with canning instructions.


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My heart was racing Tuesday night.
My heart was racing Tuesday night.
I normally don't root for NBA teams, but I have to admit, I wanted to see San Antonio win this championship against the Miami Heat.
And then something weird happened late in the third quarter of Game 6, I flip-flopped who I was rooting for.
How does that happen? How does one go into a game rooting for one team and then switch in mid-game?
Easy. I didn't want the series to end.
Game 6 of the Heat and Spurs was so good, I didn't want it to end. So, with Miami needing a victory in Game 6 to keep the series alive, I found myself rooting for the Heat.
As the Spurs built a double-digit lead in the third quarter, I'm tweeting, "Spurs smell blood," but I'm starting to pull for Miami.
I'm a traitor. I'm a fake. I'm in the middle of a nervous breakdown for no good reason. The team I was rooting for was winning, and now I want them to lose just so I can watch a Game 7.
I may not have been alone because the game drew 20.6 million viewers, second most for a Game 6.
I was never a LeBron James fan (even though I respect his incredible abilities), and when he bolted Cleveland for Miami to join up with Dwyane Wade three years ago, I really couldn't root for the guy.
In my eyes, he took the easy road out and crushed the hearts of fans in his home state. Who does that?
So I'm left rooting for the Spurs going into this NBA Final. Prior to Game 6, just about every analyst I heard said the Heat were going to punish the Spurs. They couldn't be stopped at home.
They couldn't?
So I went into Game 6 thinking the Spurs could pull off the upset. And they were doing it with a double-digit third quarter lead, until ... James woke up in the fourth quarter (despite Heat fans heading to the exits early), Miami forced overtime and won 103-100 to force a Game 7.
I felt for veteran forward Tim Duncan and the Spurs. Duncan must be one of the most underrated players in NBA history. Maybe a fifth championship will put him into the conversation of the all-time great players, but that's another story.
For selfish reasons, this part-time NBA fan got just what he was looking for, a Game 7 which is sure to have fireworks tonight.
This time I'm rooting for the Spurs from start to finish, I promise.


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The woman called police after a man posing as a lawyer sought bail money for a relative, police said.
HINGHAM – An scam attempt on a South Hingham woman was foiled after she called police.
Hingham police Sgt. Steven Dearth said the 75-year-old woman received a call Thursday morning from a man claiming to be a lawyer for her grandson.
"He said the grandson needed bail money," Dearth said. "The woman said she needed to check on something and the man said he would call her back."
Dearth said the woman's grandchildren are too young to be away or arrested. She called police.
The man called back twice more, Dearth said.
"For the third call, an officer who had arrived took the phone and identified himself. The caller hung up," Dearth said.
"The caller ID showed a blocked call," he said.
"These scams continue everywhere but the best way to protect our elderly continues to be making them aware," Dearth said.
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SOURCE: ShopHQ
March 14, 2014 08:03 ET
MINNEAPOLIS, MN--(Marketwired - Mar 14, 2014) - ValueVision Media, Inc. (NASDAQ: VVTV) ("ValueVision"), a multichannel electronic retailer via TV, Internet and mobile, today announced the appointment of Landel C. Hobbs and Lowell W. Robinson to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. With the appointment of Messrs. Hobbs and Robinson, the ValueVision Board now consists of eight directors, seven of whom are independent.
"We are very pleased to welcome two extremely accomplished and independent directors to ValueVision's Board," said Randy Ronning, ValueVision's Chairman. "Both Landel and Lowell are dynamic, change-oriented individuals with excellent track records of performance in fields that are highly relevant to our business. Landel's deep operating and management experience in cable and Lowell's broad based marketing and strategic background, as well as his vast public company Board experience, will complement our existing Board's skills and further support our successful execution of ValueVision's strategy. On behalf of the Board, we look forward to working closely with Landel and Lowell as we continue to build value for our shareholders."
Landel C. Hobbs brings 18 years of experience in the media and telecommunications sectors, including financial, strategic and operational leadership roles. Most recently, Mr. Hobbs was Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner Cable, where he led a major operational reorganization. While at Time Warner, Mr. Hobbs relaunched the company's commercial line of business in 2009, and was responsible for Time Warner Cable's rebranding efforts and its creation of proprietary customer segmentation, pricing architecture and yield management. Mr. Hobbs will serve on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Lowell W. Robinson brings extensive public company experience and a deep understanding of the Internet, media, consumer and retail industries. In his career, Mr. Robinson has held senior global financial leadership positions at Citigroup Inc. and Kraft Foods, and has been Chief Financial Officer of several public companies including ADVO, HotJobs.com and MIVA, and has provided transformational management at both board and operational levels. He has also served on a variety of public company boards, including The Jones Group, International Wire Group, Inc., and Edison Schools Inc. In his capacity as a public company director, he has served as chair of compensation and audit committees. Mr. Robinson is also a member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and the Board of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Mr. Robinson will serve on the Finance Committee and the Human Resources and Compensation Committee.
Messrs. Hobbs and Robinson are expected to stand for re-election at ValueVision's 2014 Annual Meeting.
About Landel C. Hobbs
Mr. Hobbs is currently Chief Executive Officer of LCH Enterprises LLC, a consulting firm that operates in the broader telecommunications and media space. Mr. Hobbs previously served as Chief Operating Officer of Time Warner Cable ("TWC") from 2005 until the end of 2010 and was Chief Financial Officer of TWC from 2001 until 2005. He served as Vice President of Financial Analysis and Operations Support for all divisions of AOL Time Warner from September 2000 until October 2001. Mr. Hobbs also served in various positions, including Senior Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer, of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. from 1993 until 2000. Before joining Turner in 1993, he served as Senior Vice President and Audit Director of Banc One Illinois Corporation and Senior Manager with KPMG Peat Marwick. He is Lead Director of Allconnect and a current Trustee of the National 4H Council and The Dyslexia Resource Trust. He was previously Chair and a Director of CSPAN, a Trustee of Women in Cable Television (WICT), and a Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Member. Mr. Hobbs earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Angelo State University.
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Mr. Robinson served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of MIVA, Inc., an online advertising network, from August 2007 through March 2009. He joined MIVA in 2006 as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer. He had previously served as the President of LWR Advisors from 2002 to 2006 and as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at HotJobs.com from 2000 to 2002. He previously held senior financial positions at Advo, Inc., Citigroup Inc. and Kraft Foods, Inc. Mr. Robinson also serves as a director of The Jones Group and has served on the Board of Directors of Local.com Corporation from 2011 to 2012, the Board of Advisors for the University of Wisconsin School of Business from 2006 to 2010, the Board of Directors of International Wire Group, Inc., from 2003 to 2009, and the Board of Directors of Independent Wireless One, Diversified Investment Advisors and Edison Schools Inc. He is a member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and the Board of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Mr. Robinson earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Wisconsin and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
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ValueVision Media, Inc. is a multichannel retailer, operating as ShopHQ, that enables customers to shop and interact via TV, phone, Internet and mobile in the merchandise categories of Home & Consumer Electronics, Beauty, Health & Fitness, Fashion & Accessories, and Jewelry & Watches. ValueVision's television network reaches over 86 million cable and satellite homes and is also available nationwide via live streaming at www.shophq.com. Please visit www.shophq.com/ir for more investor information.
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Do these pictures make anyone else feel like a big old clumsy old heffalump?
How do they do that?? I know that they're dancers, but still.
The other day we were in the park and I overheard the following conversation happening between a man and his two small children who were sitting on a bench outside the museum;
Small boy (aged about 3 waving his arm around as if a trunk): Phroarhhhh, I'm a heffalump! I'm a heffalump! You're a heffalump
Grumpy Father: We're not heffalumps.
Small girl (aged about 5 and terribly terribly serious); But daddy, mummy really is a heavy lump because she's sooooo big.
I laughed. And then pretended I was coughing as Grumpy Father glared at me. People without a sense of humour should not be allowed to have children.
Photos of Naomi from Rockstar Diaries and her equally elegant dancer friend taken by Candice Stringham.


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Sunny Dress
Added Jan 26, 2008
by ceregana
Berlin, Germany
This is a summer dress i made last summer. I made the pattern myself – it is really not complicated, since it is a jersey fabric. For it being elastic one don't have to bother with darts and so on… I am a bit of a jersey addict – it is just so comfortable. I like the flower print a lot even if i am not a big yellow fan. And for the photos there was some sun – it is incredible since one doesn't get it this often in German winters!
Material Notes
flower print jersey
this time is only myself…
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Dec 9, 2010, 09.35 AMby summerishere
What a beautiful dress! Would you consider sharing the pattern? :)
Jun 22, 2008, 04.50 PMby tattooedkitty
Love this one! I'm a knit & jersey addict as well … I may have to try & copy this! :-) Thanks for the inspiration, you're very talented!
Jun 21, 2008, 06.41 AMby lukastoka
amazing i told you you are so talanted have fun
May 1, 2008, 12.30 PMby ashtre
i absolutely love this dress. very flattering, and the material is perfect!
Apr 1, 2008, 05.04 PMby reneebeth
both the front and back necklines are so feminine and pretty! I also love jersey.
Feb 11, 2008, 07.57 PMby rachelalfreda
Such a cute dress! You should definitely upload the pattern!!!
Jan 27, 2008, 01.00 PMby lunatepetal
looooooove ittttttttttt!
Jan 27, 2008, 04.34 AMby fashion1
hot and beautiful! great job on the pattern.
Jan 26, 2008, 11.13 PMby zahra
HOT!!! pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee upload its patternn!!!!
Jan 26, 2008, 11.02 PMby lilo
looks hot ;) i like your pattern, i would have made the band at the lower end a bit looser though.
Jan 26, 2008, 10.55 PMby meadow
Hot little dress! Amazing job with your pattern. The bust pleating is excellent and I love the way you attached the sleeves to the bodice. I too am a Jersey addict…
Jan 26, 2008, 07.19 PMby sewlikecarolyn
that's beautiful! I love the way it fits throught the top and… I LOVE THE FABRIC!
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I recently attended a presentation of the Romanian architect Constantin Petcou of the collective platform AAA (Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, or, Studio for Self-managed Architecture), based in Paris, France. AAA transforms, together with citizens and local actors, abandoned spaces into self-managed and independent places. These spaces become re-appropriated with cultural production and parallel economic activities such as food production – all of which has influence on the social re-activation and the education of citizens. Their projects are well documented on the AAA studio website as well as the R-URBAN project website, so I won't go into details. What mainly struck me in their practice is the long term built-up of the projects – many lasted for several years and shifted and evolved through different phases. Such as the ECObox project in which they initially managed a space, later co-mananged the space together with citizens, until finally there were enough social structures in place that the spaces became auto-managed and AAA could retract and move on to other projects. Their research focus consists not only in building up these projects, but in understanding the social dynamics that take place and thinking through the tactics for the long-term survival of their efforts (such as the mobility of the interventions). One of the research methods they use is mapping and visualisation of data on the project over longer periods of time, which provides new insights on how such projects evolve both socially, financially and spatially. See some of the pictures here of the presentation. One more takeaway I got from Constantin's talk is his description of the role 'key figures' play in urban (improvement) networks. Key figures have rhizome-like capabilities: they not only pick up knowledge, but also have the ability to spread this knowledge through their social network, diversify tactics and auto-manage spaces.
Unrelated to AAA, but also worth a link are these extensive databases of urban interventions and inspiration for collective action:Spontaneous interventionsCollAction
I will do a short presentation at the "Play in the City" (Samen spel maken/ Jouons en ville!) discussion night. It's organised by Platform Kanal to open the call for proposals Kanal Playground.
08/10/2013 - 19:00
Maison des Cultures
rue Mommaerts 4
1080 Brussel
Art and design interventions in public spaces have the potential to bring positive effects to neighborhoods. It's increasingly popular for local governments and socio-cultural organizations to invite artists, designers, architects or hybrid mixes of the former, to bring in their vision and expertise. Streets and urban wastelands are transformed into new creative spaces with new social, playful, functional and aesthetic qualities (*1). When these projects come to life in a participatory way, such as works that use methods like co-design or co-creation, they even have the potential to transfer new visions, skills and knowledge from the production team to the involved inhabitants. These joint efforts often have a positive impact on the social environment, as they bring people together around a shared goal.
Some of these projects proved to be so successful, that it can be envisioned for governments to install such a way of working as a permanent praxis. Budgetary restraints, however, are a limiting factor. But instead of seeing these times of crisis as a reason to procrastinate on urban improvement, we can see it as an opportunity for new ways of thinking and problem solving. It's up to governments to re-invent themselves and take up new roles and responsibilities. Citizens should be activated to take up a part of the responsibility and engage in the spaces they inhabit. Already today, we can find beautiful examples of bottom-up, self-organized and maintained urban improvement (*2).
Many governments don't have a clear strategy on how to respond to these bottom-up endeavors, nor stimulate them. It's not uncommon for power struggles to emerge when inhabitants request permission for their plans. Differences in culture, language, background and agenda can get into the way of working towards a common goal. Many considerations of governments are well motivated, such as the follow up and maintenance of the proposed projects, the quality of execution and safety concerns, to name a few. Most projects need some improvement before they can be placed in a public space environment. Therefore we propose a new type of hypothetical function within local governments. A team of 'Creative Community Coaches' takes up a supportive and educative role to help inhabitants to realize their project with an appropriate level of quality. Moreover, they are actively on the lookout for opportunities for creative improvement and coach the community towards shared goals.
Creative Community Coaches (CCC) are persons with social, creative and educative skills. Armed with knowledge and expertise on tools and methods to support community self-organization, collaborative design and DIY building, they coach inhabitants to self-improve their neighborhoods in a creative way. Since they are embedded in the government, they easily consult with teams of specialists and policy-makers on legal and technical issues. To allow the development of bottom-up initiatives outside the government's main policy, they ideally operate semi-independently.
We envision CCC's as a network of practitioners, who document and share solutions for recurring urban problems: a community of practice as well as an open learning environment for inhabitants, volunteers, interns and unemployed workers. The primary focus of CCC's is not to produce, but to educate: to transfer knowledge necessary for the community to replicate and adapt the works and tackle urban issues increasingly independently. Since CCC's settle in a community for a longer period of time, they understand the issues at hand on a deep level and create strong alliances with other local organizations. This ensures follow up, maintenance, and adaption to new situations. CCC's grow a 'Creative Community Network' (CCN). Globally, best-practices, blueprints of interventions as well as and methodology are shared. Locally, physical materials and tools are shared and recycled. Such a network is cost-efficient, and allows a pragmatic approach when choosing or designing a project.
The concept of CCC aims to foster bottom-up but coached and supported self-organization of urban improvement projects. The coaches act as a supportive 'interface' between the inhabitants and the government. The idea is inspired by practices of participatory art and design projects, while taking into account the possible limitation these projects might have. It attempts to solve urban issues in a systemic way, but recognizes that solutions to problems often need local adaptions. As a concept, it's an opportunity for future research and experiment in a real world context.
*1: For examples, see for instance: Collectif etc, Cascoland, Todo por la praxis, Assemble
*2: For examples, see for instance: El Campo de Cebada, PUM
This article will be published in Dédalo Magazine in October 2013.
It's based on my research in the arts fields as well as conversations I had at the workshop "Dédalo RE-ACT Urban Festival" with students, artists, designers and architects.
The ZWERM Tree became a popular hangout, for some players even a symbol of togetherness. Players passed by the Tree for an occasional 'single check-in' on their way to work or an errand, or met with their team for 'combo check-in'. Team placed posters on the Tree to invite other to come at a particular moment.
The Sparrows are interactive interventions attached to the window panes of residential houses. The inhabitants of these houses, volunteers we call 'Sparrow hosts', at times personally interacted with the objects, evoking playful interactions between the Sparrow host and the passersby. One player described to have experienced an "exciting yet invisible interaction" with a Sparrow host who seems to "enjoy making contact by echo-whistling". So although we designed the Sparrows for public interaction, private interactions proved a powerful amplifier of the social effects. However, one Sparrow host received a written message in her mailbox calling her a cheater, signed with "the ZWERM inspection". In future versions of ZWERM we will carefully consider interactions that mix public and private contexts.
Players of the ZWERM game were asked to create a 'poster' for ZWERM, and display it behind their houses' windows. Here are some of the the results.
Trees are totem-like urban interventions that are part of the neighborhood game ZWERM (Dutch for the word 'swarm'), which was played in February-March 2013 in the city of Ghent, Belgium. These interactive sculptures contain a touch-screen computer, an RFID-card reader and a 3G modem. A Tree is placed on a central square in each of the participating neighborhoods, which compete in a one-month game. Players of the game get points when scan an RFID game card at the card reader of the Tree, an action we termed 'check-in'. Players who 'check-in' alone score 10 points. When they scan their card together with someone they did not 'check-in' before, they each get 40 points. The goal is to get citizens physically together and get them to talk to each other, ultimately provoking a process of collaboration and self-organization. In the test-bed city of Ghent, a process of self-organization occurred in which people initiated events and gatherings around the tree with drinks, music and fire-pits.
The aesthetic concept of the Trees is inspired by nature (e.g. communal action of 'swarming' of birds) and 'hip' vintage computer games (e.g. low-polygon 3D models). Combined with the use of modern plywood material, a kind of 'digital nature' style was created.
ZWERM partners: iMinds, Alcatel-Lucent, City of Ghent. With collaboration of MAD-faculty and Fab Lab Genk and Firma 103. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreements n°270971: SmartIP.
Sparrows are interactive birds, attached to the first floor windowpanes of residential houses. They light up in a random mix of colours when someone whistles in the vicinity, adding a ludic dimension to the neighborhood, improving the neighborhood atmosphere through an interactive poetic layer. A Sparrow houses a range of sensors, including sound, light, movement and CO2, as well as a 3G enabled SIM card.
Sparrows are part of a city game ZWERM, which aims to improve neighborhood cohesion and ultimately neighborhood participation, through a network of urban, ludic interventions. Within the game, each Sparrow whistle adds points to the neighborhoods' score in which the object was located. Players are able to consult a map with the locations and the status of the Sparrows on the ZWERM website.
ZWERM partners: iMinds, Alcatel-Lucent, City of Ghent. With collaboration of MAD-faculty and Fab Lab Genk.
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme FP7/2007-2013 under grant agreements n°270971: SmartIP.


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Authentic Irish fare goes way beyond Irish-American favorites corned beef and cabbage.
And contrary to popular belief, corned beef is not a staple in Ireland. Many sources say it didn't become linked with the Irish until they immigrated en masse to the United States in the mid-19th century, when beef was cheaper.
So if you want to cook up some real Irish eats, think boxty, a large potato pancake that's often wrapped around meat, or bangers and mash -- Irish sausages served on top of mashed potatoes.
At Gus O'Connor's Irish Public House in Rochester, executive chef Michael Keys says that when patrons ask for real Irish fare, he steers them toward a fresh boxty or Irish bacon -- similar to Canadian-style back bacon.
"It's the best slice of ham you'll ever eat in your life," says Keys, who traveled through southern and western Ireland in 2005 exploring food and traditions. "It's not smoked, and you can cut it with a fork."
Gus O'Connor's Irish bacon dish features a cured pork loin that's boiled and served with champ (a mashed potato and scallion mix) and sauteed cabbage with a light parsley cream sauce.
At Baile Corcaigh in Detroit's Corktown, owner Sharon Mooney Malinowski says corned beef and cabbage are on the menu -- but so are Irish favorites such as shepherd's pie and Baile Corcaigh's version of bangers and mash.
"I think Irish food is substantial and has to go a long way," says Malinowski. "They certainly use a lot of potatoes."
She says one of the most Irish items on the menu is Dingle Pie, named after Ireland's Dingle Peninsula.
"It's like a pasty," says Malinowski. "It's lamb and onions in a lamb-based gravy baked in a traditional Irish crust."
Dick O'Dow's in Birmingham, Mich., plays down the corned beef and focuses more on stew, fish and chips, and turkey sandwiches.
According to kitchen manager Rick Spicer, true Irish fare is hearty and filling -- food that would get you through a cold and damp winter. Another example of a dish that would fit the bill, he says, is an Irish fry, which consists of two fried eggs, Irish bacon and Irish sausage, grilled soda bread and jam. It's featured on Dick O'Dow's menu under Irish classics.
"Most Irish food is honest. It's not as grandiose as, say, classic French or Italian foods," Spicer says. "It's comforting with a lot of potatoes, gravies and cheese."
While you need to check specialty stores or online sources for some foods such as Irish sausages and bacon, you can still cook authentic Irish dishes at home. Our recipe suggestions include, among other dishes, a boxty from Gus O'Connor's Public House; a hearty potato leek tart adapted from Baile Corcaigh, and the no-bake Murphy's and Baileys cheesecake drizzled with a stout and sugar syrup.
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Total time: 45 minutes
Makes: 12
1 pound Idaho potatoes, peeled, rinsed and grated
1 cup 2 percent milk
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon parsley flakes or 1 tablespoon fresh parsley
Nonstick cooking spray
Squeeze the excess water from the grated potatoes. In a large bowl, stir together the potatoes, milk, egg, flour, salt and pepper and parsley. Generously coat a nonstick pan with the cooking spray or use a large griddle to cook several at a time. Working in batches, pour about 1/4 cup of the batter in the pan. Spread it thin to insure the potato cooks through and is golden brown on both sides. The texture should be similar to a pancake. Serve plain, with honey or butter or filled with meat, cheese or vegetables.
From Gus O'Connor's Public House, Rochester, Mich.
Tested by Susan Selasky for the Free Press Test Kitchen. Analysis per 1 piece.
Nutrition information:
85 calories (10 percent from fat ), 1 gram fat (0 grams sat. fat ), 16 grams carbohydrates , 3 grams protein , 65 mg sodium , 19 mg cholesterol , 31 mg calcium , 1 gram fiber.
Potato and leek soup
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Serves: 12
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 large leeks, white and pale green parts only, washed well
1 medium onion, peeled, diced
1 large clove garlic, peeled, minced
4 carrots, peeled, diced
4 cups fat-free reduced-sodium chicken stock
2 teaspoons black pepper
1 bay leaf
2 pounds potatoes, peeled and diced
2 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream
3 tablespoons cornstarch mixed with 1/4 cup water
Salt to taste
Crispy fried onions, optional
1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley
In a large stock pot, heat the oil over medium heat. Slice the leeks into 1/8-inch thin slices. Add the leeks, onion, garlic and carrots to the pot and saute until tender, about 10 minutes. Add the chicken stock, black pepper and bay leaf. Add the potatoes and simmer until they are tender, about 20 minutes. Stir in the heavy cream and continue simmering another 5 minutes.
Add the cornstarch mixture a little at a time to the soup and heat over medium heat until the soup has thickened enough to coat the back of a spoon. Remove and discard the bay leaf. Season with salt to taste. Serve in bowls topped with fried onions and sprinkling of chopped parsley.
-- Adapted from Gus O'Connor's Public House, Rochester.
Nutrition information:
289 calories (65 percent from fat ), 21 grams fat (12 grams saturated fat ), 24 grams carbohydrates, 3 grams protein, 192 mg sodium, 68 mg cholesterol, 63 mg calcium, 3 grams fiber.
Leek and potato tart
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour
Serves: 8
Favorite pie crust for a one-crust pie
1 tablespoon olive oil
3 large leeks, white and light green parts only
3 tablespoons unsalted Irish butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups 2 percent milk
1 cup cheddar cheese, preferably aged Irish cheddar
Salt and pepper to taste
2 medium cooked potatoes, peeled, sliced into 1/8-inch thick slices
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Line a 10-inch tart pan with a removable bottom with the pie crust. Trim off the excess. Using a fork, prick the bottom of the crust all over. Line the crust with foil and add pie weights or dried beans--this keeps the crust from puffing up. Bake for 15 minutes or until just lightly browned. Remove from the oven.
Meanwhile, heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Saute the leeks until they are just softened, about 5 minutes. Set aside. In a saucepan, melt the butter. Stir in the flour and cook, stirring, 1 to 2 minutes. Slowly whisk in the milk. Continue heating over medium heat until the sauce is thickened. Stir in the cheese and allow it to melt. Season the mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
Line the bottom of the pre-baked pie crust with the potato slices. Sprinkle the leeks all over. Pour the white sauce to cover the ingredients. It will come to the edge.
Bake the tart about 20 minutes or until set. Remove from oven and cool 10 minutes before slicing into wedges. Serve with a crisp green salad for a complete meal.
-- Adapted from Baile Corcaigh, Detroit.
Nutrition information:
282 calories (55 percent from fat ), 17 grams fat (8 grams sat. fat ), 25 grams carbohydrates, 8 grams protein, 223 mg sodium, 31 mg cholesterol, 200 mg calcium, 1 gram fiber.
Murphy's and Baileys cheesecake
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Total time: 4 hours, 45 minutes (not all active time)
Serves: 12
Crumb crust:
1 1/2 cups crumbs from gingersnaps or Irish digestive biscuits, such as Carr's or McVitie's brand (6 to 8 biscuits)
3 tablespoons unsalted Irish butter, melted
4 cups Murphy's stout
2 cups dark brown sugar
1 package (8 ounces) cream cheese, softened
1 cup confectioners' sugar
2 cups heavy whipping cream
3/4 cup Baileys Irish Cream liqueur
1 envelope (\-ounce) unflavored gelatin
1 cup boiling water
Fresh berries for garnish
To make the crust: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a small bowl, combine the crumbs and melted butter. Press the crumb mixture onto the bottom and up the sides of a 9-inch round springform pan. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until lightly browned. Remove from the oven and let cool on a wire rack.
To make the syrup: In a medium saucepan over medium heat, stir together the stout and brown sugar. Gently bring to a boil, then reduce the heat to low and simmer for 20 minutes, or until the mixture is thick and syrupy and coats the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat and let cool. It will continue to thicken while it cools. It should be the thickness of molasses.
To make the filling: In a large bowl, combine the cream cheese and confectioners' sugar and beat until smooth with an electric mixer. Add the cream and beat for 3 to 4 minutes, or until smooth. Stir in half the Murphy's syrup and all of the Baileys.
In a small bowl, combine the gelatin and boiling water. Stir until the gelatin is completely dissolved, about 5 minutes. Stir 2 tablespoons of the syrup into the gelatin, then stir the gelatin into the cream cheese mixture. Pour the filling over the crust. Refrigerate about 4 hours, or until firm. Set aside the remaining syrup at room temperature.
When ready to serve, release the sides of the pan and cut the cheesecake into wedges. Drizzle some of the remaining Murphy's syrup around each slice and garnish with fresh berries.
-- Adapted from "The Irish Pub Cookbook" by Margaret Johnson, published by Chronicle
Nutrition information:
514 calories (48 percent from fat ), 28 grams fat (17 grams sat. fat ), 58 grams carbohydrates, 4 grams protein, 174 mg sodium, 83 mg cholesterol, 80 mg calcium, 0 grams fiber.
Shepherd's pie
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Total time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Serves: 6
3 tablespoons canola oil, divided
2 pounds ground lamb
Salt and freshly ground pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
2 carrots, peeled and diced
2 tablespoons minced fresh flat-leaf parsley
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
1 1/2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
3 cups canned low-sodium beef broth
2 pounds russet potatoes, peeled and cut into 1-inch pieces
1/2 cup 2 percent milk
2 tablespoons unsalted Irish butter or regular butter
3 tablespoons cheddar cheese, preferably Irish, grated (optional)
In a large skillet over medium heat, warm 2 tablespoons of the oil. Add lamb and cook for 5 to 7 minutes, or until browned. Season with salt and pepper. Remove from the heat, and with a slotted spoon, transfer meat to a large bowl.
Add the remaining 1 tablespoon oil to the pan. Stir in the onion and cook for 3 to 5 minutes, or until the onion is soft but not browned. Add the carrots, parsley and thyme, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes or until the vegetables are coated with oil. Stir in the flour, cook for 1 to 2 minutes, then add the beef broth.
Bring to a boil, scraping up the browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Add the meat, reduce the heat to low, and simmer, uncovered, stirring occasionally, for 20 to 25 minutes, or until the lamb is tender and the sauce is thickened. Season again with salt and pepper.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Meanwhile, make the topping: In a large saucepan over medium heat, cook the potatoes in boiling salted water for 12 to 15 minutes, or until tender. Drain and mash. Add the milk and butter and stir until smooth.
Transfer the stew to a large casserole dish or individual ovenproof casserole dishes. Decoratively spread or pipe the mashed potatoes over the meat mixture and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until the mixture is hot. Preheat the broiler for just a few minutes and sprinkle the potatoes with the grated cheese, if using. Place the pie under the preheated broiler, 4 inches from the heat source, and broil for 1 to 2 minutes, or until the potatoes are lightly browned and the cheese is bubbling.
-- Adapted from "The Irish Pub Cookbook" by Margaret Johnson, published by Chronicle.
Nutrition information:
565 calories (52 percent from fat ), 33 grams fat (12 grams sat. fat ), 35 grams carbohydrates , 32 grams protein , 152 mg sodium , 113 mg cholesterol , 77 mg calcium , 3 grams fiber. ------
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Jean-Luc Godard: Style Icon
Last month, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences phoned Jean-Luc Godard to tell him that he would receive an Honorary Oscar at their November 13 Governors Awards event. Characteristically, the French film director (who's been known to scoff at Hollywood before) seemed not to care — so much, in fact, that he didn't return their phone call. Vanity Fair filed a "missing persons flyer" asking anyone to help locate him, and countless blogs reported that the "enfant terrible" of New Wave cinema was nowhere to be found…
In early September, the Academy received a hand-written thank you note saying Godard would make it if he could. The gesture is in true Godard fashion. The director began his career as a critic for Cahiers du cinéma, and has continually approached Hollywood, filmmaking, and it seems life in general from a critical and often harsh perspective. He's not exactly the most well liked person in the world — he's been derisively called a leftist, Marxist, misogynist, and even an anti-Semite. But his works have had an unquestionably significant influence on 20th and 21st century film.
From a design perspective, one of the most interesting things about his cinematic style is his use of color (or contrast when he's shooting in black and white), space, and form. His black and white films have a strong sense of balance and composition — even in the most mundane interior shots, like the famous scene in the 1960 film, Breathless, where Jean Seberg and Jean-Paul Belmondo smoke and fool around in a tiny, messy Paris apartment. In his color films, red, blue, and yellow figure prominently, also used in high contrast.
Godard understood the beauty of daily life and "wasted" moments, and he used long, continuous interior shots to illustrate the complex and subtle nature of male-female relationships. Perhaps his most famous apartment scene occurs in Contempt (1963), between Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli. The couple seems to slowly deteriorate, as they circle from room to room, moving from couch to bed to dining table. Likewise, the camera follows them through doors and hallways, recording each mundane movement with the weight and significance that most directors attach to heated dialogue.
Any of his films — but in particular, those from the 1960s — are worth watching for their inspiring design and use of color.
• Breathless | A bout de souffle (1960)
• A Woman Is A Woman | Une femme est une femme (1961)
• My Life to Live | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux (1962)
• Contempt | Le mépris (1963)
• Alphaville | Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (1965)
• Pierrot le fou (1965)
• Masculin Féminin | Masculine Feminine (1965)
• Made in U.S.A (1966)
• 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her | 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle (1967)
• La chinoise (1967)
• Week End (1967)
This is a brief account of Godard that doesn't touch much on the interesting details of his biography, which you can read more of here. To learn more about Jean-Luc Godard and his films, check out the interview shown above, his filmography, and the following resource links.
• Jean-Luc Godard | The Criterion Collection
• Jean-Luc Godard | IMDB
• Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard | Richard Brody
• Jean-Luc Godard Bio | British Film Institute
• Help the Motion Picture Association Find Jean-Luc Godard! | Vanity Fair
• Statement regarding Jean-Luc Godard's Reply | The Academy of Motion Picture Arts
• Grace Kelly
• Jarvis Cocker
• Mark Twain
• Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Ernest Hemingway
Images: Jean-Luc Godard photo via Alpharrabio (1), Jean-Luc Godard Festival Poster on eBay (2), Screenshot from "Breathless" via Ninja Vintage (3), Screenshot from "2 or 3 Things I Know About Her" via Three Imaginary Girls (4), Screenshot from "Contempt" via movieimagestripod (5), Screenshot from "Pierrot le fou" via Romance in the Picture (6), Screenshot from "Alphaville" via Film Reference (7), Screenshot from "La Chinoise" via Medfly Quarantine (8), Still from "Une femme est une femme" via IMDB (9), Screenshot from Weekend via Medfly Quarantine (10)


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Where Are America's Working Mothers?
Ahead of Mother's Day, a new report offers a geographic and historical look at working motherhood in the U.S.
Among the findings: South Dakota is the state with the highest percentage of working mothers in the United States, according to a new analysis of 150 years of U.S. Census data compiled by the online history database Ancestry.com.
The Mount Rushmore state has topped the nation in working mothers per capita for the past three decades, according to Ancestry.com, which collaborated with a team of historians at the University of Minnesota to crunch the numbers going back to 1860.
Michelle Ercanbrack, a historian who works for Ancestry.com is careful to note that "any mother is a working mother," but the purposes of this survey, working mothers are defined as women who reported having an occupation to the Census bureau and who lived at the time with at least one child in their household.
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The voting is finished. The taste test is done. The verdict is in: Marti Olesen has won All Things Considered's Taste of Summer contest with her recipe for Diane's Dad's Summer Sandwich.
I know not everybody will agree with my decision. Frankly, in my book, all three finalists are winners. Judging them was tricky business because so often it was like comparing apples, oranges and kumquats.
Each story had its own merits. Each recipe was good and had its vocal supporters.
Susan Jones' Strawberry Trifle story was charming and fantastic. That a non-cook's "bring a dish" anxiety was extinguished by serendipity, when a scrap of paper blowing in the wind on recycling day caught her attention, is appealing for anyone who's struggled in the kitchen.
Patricia Mulvey's story was about how her Ensenada Slaw came out of a crazy trip from hell to Mexico. I think "Maximo's Auto Repair and Beauty Supply Shop" will be burned in my brain for the rest of my life. Screwball comedy — when it happens off-screen — is also very, very appealing, and Pat is an expressive storyteller, for sure.
But Marti Olesen's story was stealthy. On the surface, it was simple: She hears about a recipe with ingredients that seem odd together, she tries it, she doesn't like it. But then she learns the secret: It's in the layering. She tries it again and loves it so much she plants a garden to better enjoy this summer sandwich. Her dedication to this thing that didn't seem like it would taste all that good is also appealing.
At our NPR headquarters, I made each recipe for a Taste of Summer taste test. They were all easy to do, included seasonal ingredients and earned a summer cook's vote of gratitude for not requiring an oven or a stove top.
But here's one thing that gave the summer sandwich an edge: It has high shareability, in that it's a recipe people really, really want to share.
Over and over, pro-sandwich listeners wrote in along these lines: "I couldn't believe this sandwich, with its white cheddar cheese, tomato, cucumber, onion and crunchy peanut butter combo, could possibly be that good. So I made it. I loved it. I loved it so much I made another. I made my kids try it. They loved it. I cannot wait to make it again."
This high shareability quotient was driven home during our taste test.
While not everybody sampling was Team Sandwich, everybody who was Team Sandwich was emphatically and surprisingly Team Sandwich, and their enthusiasm was infectious. You could practically hear the buzz around the table as people not involved with the taste test were pulled in to try the sandwich. As engineer Stu Rushfield, who'd heard all the Taste of Summer stories, put it: "I wouldn't say no to any of these recipes. But the one I'd make again is the sandwich. Because it's just so strange. And so good."
Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest. It was a lot of fun. I'm off to make another sandwich now. The crunchy peanut butter really does make it.
Melissa Gray is the producer of All Things Considered's Found Recipes series.
And now, the big reveal, more anxiously awaited than the royal baby. It's the winner of our Taste of Summer Found Recipes contest. And joining me now is the judge of that contest, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED producer Melissa Gray, who's in charge of all of our Found Recipes items. Welcome back to talk with us about the three finalists and the winner of Found Recipes.
MELISSA GRAY, BYLINE: Thank you, Robert.
SIEGEL: You've been thinking about this a lot?
GRAY: I have been. I've had a lot of sleepless afternoons.
SIEGEL: Great responsibility. Let's go over the three finalists. First, listener Susan Jones and her strawberry trifle.
GRAY: Right. She told us about her anxiety over bringing a dish to a fund-raiser and not being a good cook. But then this recipe came to her literally on a breeze during recycling day.
SIEGEL: Next, listener Patricia Mulvey and her Ensenada slaw.
GRAY: A wackadoo story if ever there was one, Robert. It involved a trip to Mexico, a rock in the middle of the road, a borrowed car damaged, federales, drug-sniffing dogs and Maximo's auto repair and beauty supply shop, plus ultimately a friend who didn't care whether his car had been trashed as long as his friends were fine.
SIEGEL: And then we heard from listener Marti Olesen talking about a recipe called Diane's Dad's summer sandwich.
GRAY: Yeah. Really odd bird, that sandwich. It came from Marti's friend Diane, and it had thinly sliced tomatoes, cucumbers and onions between white cheddar cheese and crunchy peanut butter. And here's the thing: The sandwich has to be assembled in a particular order for it to work.
SIEGEL: I gather we had a couple of hundred messages from listeners who told us which recipe and story they think should be the taste of summer.
GRAY: We did.
SIEGEL: You arranged a taste test for the staff here. We all could sample the three finalists. So the results?
GRAY: The winner is Marti Olesen and her summer sandwich.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Singing) There she is, Miss America.
SIEGEL: Marti Olesen's summer sandwich. What about the trifle? I mean, it was rich. It was self-indulgent in the way that a summer vacation would be.
GRAY: You're so team trifle.
SIEGEL: I am.
GRAY: No. You are so completely...
SIEGEL: I was for the strawberry trifle.
GRAY: No. Here's the reason why Marti's sandwich wins. It is ridiculous and delicious. And I ate three of them. The crunchy peanut butter really does make a difference. It's insane.
SIEGEL: Well, as cucumber sandwiches go, it was all right. But the trifle actually was pretty tasty. The other one, the slaw, I thought was completely, you know, slaw.
GRAY: A lot of people like the slaw, Robert.
SIEGEL: I know they did. I'm just giving you my opinion.
GRAY: Well, anyway, it comes down to this: staying power. Diane's Dad's summer sandwich is the one I think most people will want to share with others. And this was borne out by the emails that were sent in. People were saying, you know, I saw this. I heard this. I thought eww. I tried it. It was delicious. And then I made it for someone else, and they thought it was delicious. And I'm going to make another sandwich. And we had the same reaction yesterday. There was a buzz around the table about this sandwich. That is the reason that I pushed it onto the pedestal.
SIEGEL: What buzz was there yesterday around the table?
GRAY: You were in the studio.
SIEGEL: I see.
GRAY: You did not hear the buzz.
SIEGEL: Right. It's a soundproof studio.
GRAY: These are soundproof studios, Robert.
SIEGEL: I couldn't hear the buzz outside. So it's Marti Olesen's recipe and story about Diane's Dad's summer sandwich that trumps even that wild adventure story across the Mexican border and is the winner of our Taste of Summer contest.
GRAY: Yes. Team slaw and team trifle, my condolences, but it's the sandwich.
SIEGEL: Well, thanks to everyone who participated. And, Melissa Gray, thanks a lot to you.
GRAY: You're very welcome, Robert.
SIEGEL: You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.