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It's no secret that the mobile Internet – smart cellphones and tablets – is a hothouse blossoming with innovation. Every day these devices become more useful (some argue "essential").
The wireless future isn't largely about voice calls: It's about reading (books, newspapers, magazines), shopping, and staying in touch with social networks. Coming soon will be communicating with other devices (such as a car) and even replacing a credit card to make on-the-spot retail purchases.
That's why federal regulators must take a long, thoughtful look at the proposed merger of wireless carriers AT&T and T-Mobile proposed last week. The merger could threaten the very competition that has benefited consumers and created new opportunities for countless startup companies.
After absorbing T-Mobile, now owned by Deutsche Telekom, AT&T would become the largest cellphone carrier in the US with nearly 40 percent of the market. The current No. 1 carrier, Verizon Wireless, would drop to No. 2 with just over 30 percent.
Together, they would form a near "duopoly" in the marketplace, with only Sprint, at about 12 percent, still a significant player. And though Verizon has said it's not interested in acquiring Sprint, the two companies might yet decide they should merge as a counter to AT&T and T-Mobile, reducing competition even further.
T-Mobile has been a low-cost leader with consumer-friendly pricing plans for both voice and data. It also has a decent track record for service, unlike AT&T, which ranked at the bottom of the pack for customer satisfaction in a recent Consumer Reports survey. Which corporate culture is likely to prevail after the merger?
Each cellphone market in the US has a different mix of providers, including some smaller players. Regulators from the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Justice Department will need to take a close look at the effects on consumers on a market-by-market basis. The US House will hold hearings as well, putting a welcome additional spotlight on the deal.
The Obama administration has already allowed a couple of large mergers. Online ticket service Ticketmaster bought out Live Nation Inc., a concert promoter, related businesses to be sure, but not direct competitors.
The administration also allowed Comcast, the nation's largest cable TV company, to absorb NBC-Universal, the TV network. Again, the businesses were closely related – one creates content and the other distributes it – but they weren't principally direct competitors, such as AT&T and T-Mobile now are.
Google's innovative Android operating system could be a loser, too. T-Mobile has an open approach to app development and availability, meaning that it is easier for an app developer to offer its product directly to consumers without being approved by the carrier. Fewer carriers could make it easier for Verizon and a bigger AT&T to control apps.
AT&T argues that prices for mobile customers have been dropping in recent years, proof that plenty of competition exists. It also says that with the merger, service to rural areas will improve and the upgrade to the next level of technology – 4G – will come faster.
Those claims should be thoroughly vetted. Meanwhile, the era of low prices may be ending. AT&T has already eliminated "all you can eat" data plans that allow unlimited data usage. It has installed tiers with pricing caps on its data plans, making phone ownership more expensive for heavy users.
Verizon has said it's likely to follow this year. More expensive data could mean less use of the burgeoning abilities of smart phones and a general slowing of innovation in the whole industry.
Influential tech analyst Om Malik has summed up the effect on consumers if the merger goes through: "[T]he freewheeling culture of downloading apps that helps spawn the new mobile Internet revolution would come to an end," he writes in his blog. "Bluntly put, AT&T is carbon monoxide for this blossoming ecosystem."
Decades ago the federal government broke up a telephone monopoly and brought in an era of unprecedented innovation, choice, and price competition for consumers.
Now government may need to step in again to make sure that the heat stays on in the innovative hothouse that was created.

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|Sep 4th, 2012 10:48 PM
|You're right, Ex Leper! That's so strange as the awesome illustrations are the only thing that anyone seems to remember about the books, since the stories are mostly just urban legends we've all heard a thousand times before. That sucks.
|Sep 4th, 2012 12:41 AM
|Ex Leper
|They re-leased this book series and replaced the illustrations with the guy who drew for The Series of Unfortunate Events books. This is indeed and unfortunate event
|Sep 12th, 2011 05:49 PM
|I still have all these books! I never had any idea that they ever existed in audio form. This is great!
|Nov 15th, 2010 07:31 AM
Now that I hear the stories, I know I must have heard that tape at some point. Only I can't remember how or where.
I also had some sort of Alfred Hitchcock scary stories record I used to listen to all the time.
There were a few of the Scary Stories I didn't understand, including one that (if I remember correctly) had the monster or killer or whatever saying, "Me Tie Doughty Walker".
|Nov 14th, 2010 11:39 AM
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found this enjoy i love these from when i was a kid so many a sleepless night over these tapes lol
|Sep 2nd, 2010 10:53 PM
|Ex Leper
|The picture Esuohlim posted looks like Heidi Fleiss.
|Oct 23rd, 2009 10:43 AM
|Thanks very much for posting this. It brought back a lot of memories.
|Sep 23rd, 2009 06:50 PM
|crown pika
|I love scary stuff. But unfortunately, I've never read those books. I want to though. my favorite book right now I think is either Jurassic Park, Jurassic Park-the lost world, or the complete works of Edgar Allen Poe.
|Sep 11th, 2009 10:24 AM
man i just saw this now, talk about behind the times
yeah i remember these books, particularly i remember a story about a kid getting hung up by his wrists and bleeding out, and one about these guys nailing a scarecrow to their roof, i'm pretty sure those were both from these books
and yeah the illustrations freaked me out in my youth. oh nostalgia
|Dec 7th, 2008 06:11 PM
|the one that scared me was for some reason I dont understan "Oh Suzzanna" I really dont know why.
|Oct 26th, 2008 10:35 AM
I know I'm late to the commenting party, but I had to thank you for putting this up. I loved (and feared, thanks to the illustrations) the books as a kid.
And now, the book on tape version. I never knew it existed. But it's surprisingly creepy, even as an adult!
|Oct 16th, 2008 08:00 PM
This picture freaked me out big time as a kid
|Oct 16th, 2008 07:33 PM
|My brothers and I used to listen to these as a kid. In fact they scared the living crap out of my youngest brother. I just called him on the phone to play the big toe and he hung up on me screaming in terror. Sweet dreams Jason.......
|Oct 15th, 2008 09:42 AM
|Its pretty cool actually. Even though I'm a decade or so younger then you Rog, I still remember going to the library and checking out these things. In fact, I remember one night when I was sleeping over my aunt's house, my cousin actually told us his own version of the toe story.
|Oct 14th, 2008 05:44 PM
|Damn, I wish I had known this book existed. I only got Even More Short and Shivery when I was in girl scouts and got the book as a gift for participating in the cookie sales (God, I hate girl scout cookies). Did the guy who illustrated the cover of this book illustrate the Short and Shivery series too?
|Oct 14th, 2008 01:00 PM
|Glad to see so many of you remember the books! They're still available you know, so don't hesitate to pick 'em up. And when the mailman delivers them, politely ask him, "Wheeeeere iiiiiis myyyyy toeeeeeee???"
|Oct 14th, 2008 11:26 AM
|The illustrations in these books still creep me out! Especially the "Mexican dog" one...
|Oct 13th, 2008 08:15 PM
|Dude, i totally grew up with this series! these books were/are awsome!
|Oct 13th, 2008 07:38 AM
|Yeah, I'll echo everyone else and say I love these books. Man, I remember getting them during the school's book fair. Good times. On another note, awesome Bill Hicks avatar, Seesawbooy.
|Oct 12th, 2008 08:10 PM
Wow, I too used to fall asleep listening to that tape when I was a kid.
I wish I still owned the original volumes. But at least I have the "Scary Story Treasury" that I can share with my nieces when they're old enough to stop eating books that you put in front of them.
|Oct 12th, 2008 08:01 PM
|Jigby Huggletinks
|Yeah, so, Room For One More... definitely Twilight Zone-inspired.
|Oct 11th, 2008 10:32 PM
|Mister Tea
Neoboman: Oh yeah, you're talking about "The Red Spot." That one was from the third book.
Fluffkomix: Now you're supposed to turn to the person next to you and shout: "YOU HAVE IT!!"
|Oct 11th, 2008 09:30 PM
|i remember this book! i used to read this all the time! but now i've lost it. so the question is: WHEREEEEEE ISSSSSS MYYYYYYY BOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!
|Oct 11th, 2008 08:28 PM
|Jer Ber
|There's a version of The Viper on "God Bless Tiny Tim." I wonder what the origin of this story is...
|Oct 11th, 2008 02:31 PM
|I always loved these stories when I was younger.
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Halloween and the election are over...whew! And now, we're at the cusp of the sweetest season of the year, that series of two months where we eat copious amounts of delicious pumpkin pie and christmas cookies. That's right--November is the point of do not pass go, do not diet until New Year's.
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Kelly Clarkson has abandoned her plans for a fairytale wedding and insists she and her fiance Brandon Blackstock are now considering eloping.
The singer was planning an "earthy" autumn wedding at the home she shares with the music executive, but admits the planning has become a little too much for her.
The Since U Been Gone singer tells People.com, "We are so busy that we finally just came to terms the other night and were like, 'So, we change our minds and we want to elope.' We just got so overwhelmed by it – all the decisions.
"We sent out a save-the-date (invitation) to everyone and then it got crazy and all the details were leaking.
"I have a Christmas record coming out, I'm doing a bunch of (promotional) stuff with (insurance company) State Farm right now, we have two kids who just started school, we're going to all these football games and soccer games and volleyball games and Brandon's got one of the biggest artists in country music (Blake Shelton). He's flying everywhere."
Clarkson tells the publication the couple has sent guests a note, which reads: "Thank you so much for understanding, but it's just going to be me and Brandon and his two kids and the minister."
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With invasive alien species posing a major threat to native biodiversity, progress in tackling the problem is among the topics at the UN biodiversity conference that starts 8 October.
Shyama Pagad, Programme Officer with IUCN's Invasive Species Specialist Group, explains the 'invasives' problem, what's being done about it and how she got involved.
Invasive species are organisms that have been transported from their native environment, accidentally or intentionally, to a new environment, where they can have devastating impacts on native species and habitats.
In many areas of the world, invasive mammals such as rats, mice, cats and mongoose have devastated bird populations even to the point of extinction. Introduced herbivores like goats, sheep, deer and cattle damage vegetation, altering entire ecosystems, while introduced pigs root and dig and destroy habitats, sometime carrying disease from place to place.
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My love for nature and growing plants was nurtured by my parents especially my mother, an avid gardener. I had my own little vegetable patch when I was six growing coriander and okra. I remember spending endless hours with my siblings watching dung beetles make progress, ants building anthills and, chasing lizards.
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Parthenium hysterophorus was introduced to India as a seed contaminant in the early 1950s. I recognised and understood biodiversity loss for the first time when parthenium and other invasive plants overtook all our open spaces. We could not find the cassia plant, the leaves of which we used to make a curry with coconut milk. Gone also were the lovely blue convolvulus plants. We also saw fewer lizards and the big showy grasshoppers that sat on the milkweed plants.
I went on to complete a degree in Horticultural sciences at the University of Agriculture Sciences in Bangalore. My first job was working on a project that focussed on the transfer of agricultural technology - the 'Lab to Land' project. After some years spent in designing landscape and environmental projects, I went on to settle in New Zealand. Here I realized not only the extent of the impact of invasive species on native biodiversity and their habitats, but more importantly that timely conservation action can bring success. Removal of introduced predatory mammals on our off-shore islands has created havens for our native birds and restored native species. Some of these islands are home to native species that have become extinct on the mainland.
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At the Convention on Biological Diversity conference in Hyderabad in India, my home country, I am looking forward to seeing recognition of the severe impact that invasive species have, not only on biodiversity, but also on food security and livelihoods. I also hope to see greater recognition of the fact that preventing the introduction of new alien species and managing pathways of spread is critical to turning the tide of biodiversity loss.


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October has been a better month than the couple of months preceding it. For one, the rains have finally stopped!! Even if they did give way to scorching, melting, burning sunshine, for me, that means the shorts, summer dresses & flip-flops can finally replace easy-dry clothes & plastic footwear!
I've been traveling a bit, first to Bangalore and then to Bordi (posts coming up, of course!). There's also been a fair bit of socializing with two back-to-back blogger meets by Indiblogger – the first, a blogger preview of MasterChef India2 (photos) and the second, the launch of Dove's Damage Therapy range via a mini-spa for bloggers. Both were delightful, fun and had some great giveaways (now come on, bloggers are human too – we like freebies just like everybody else!).
One of the highlights (lowlights?) of the month was when Cadbury's-Sula asked me to host a Dark Duet Party and botched it up, then topped it with a bad rescue attempt. Incidentally another friend reported another fiasco at her Dark Duet Party, the following weekend.
And finally, Marvin's World back! After a bit of acting up, my Android has been taken care of with a SD card format and is app-browsing again! Onto some link-love:
- 'Social Networks Defined Through Peeing': Oh ewww! And hahahaha! (via Reface.me)
- A new reason to watch your words: Barring a witty retort, the other person might say "That's what she said!". And here's more TWSS! (link courtesy GautamGhosh)
Apple founder, Steve Jobs passed away a few hours ago. The products he pioneered have touched many of our lives in different ways, whether it was the iPod that was the first thing you saved up for & bought with your own money or, like me, if you were lucky enough to have a Mac for your first computer. Fans, detractors aside, here's what stays with me – Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address. (via Youtube)
If you ever wondered about the correct way to say 'bruschetta' or 'panini', here's an easy guide: 'How To Order At An Italian Restaurant Without Sounding Dumb (Or Pretentious)' (via HowAboutWe.com).
- Hope for public transport-tortured Mumbaikers may be around the corner in the form of a 24-hr dial-in autorickshaw service. Login to Rickshawale.com or check their Facebook Page. And here are some early impressions (link courtesy SharinBhatti, )
Schedules and timely updates on the Mumbai train lines (via MumbaiLocalTrains, spotted at the Indiblogger-Dove meet).
- Annie Zaidi & Smriti Ravindra's latest book 'A Bad Boy's Guide To The Good Indian Girl' explores the relationships women have with men, with each other and themselves. The promotional video features me (!) and a number of other women talking about The Good Indian Girl. (via Youtube).
- Always a good read or listen: 'Everybody's free to wear sunscreen' (via Youtube, link courtesy Sanjita)
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Girl Scouts of Nassau County set a new record for the tallest free-standing tower made entirely of Girl Scout Cookies ... Six feet, 1/8 of an inch, completed about 11:20 p.m. on Saturday, January 9, 2010. A good time was had by all!
And as much fun as it is to break new records, the real advantages of the project were the teamwork, patience and perseverance that the girls displayed ... Over 100 girls participated in planning the design and implementation of the project and then came out to work in shifts.
They learned how mathematic principles can be applied to problem solving and they had the opportunity to work up-close and personal with Rebecca Goldberg, a professional engineer, who shared her love of her profession with all of them. More than a few of those girls have already expressed their interest in learning and exploring more avenues related to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM).
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Rebecca is one of the most patient and hardworking people with whom I have ever spent a day. She was there the ENTIRE day, from about 8:30 a.m. through close, and took only momentary breaks, working diligently with each team of girls as they rotated through the schedule. Her coaching, guidance and patience with the girls was immeasurable ... But what impressed me even more than her skill with the girls, was her ability to finesse all the "side-walk" superintendents who tried to tell her how to do the job ... Rebecca is tremendous role model for all of us!
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I also want to thank Merritt Engineering Consultants PC for being our event sponsor and to our numerous witnesses including Town of Oyster Bay Councilman, Anthony D. Macagnone, Nassau County Legislators Judi Jacobs, Rose Walker, Norma Gonsalves, Dave Denenberg, Well Jones, CEO, Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Dan Murray of KJOY's promotions team and GSNC Board Members Ruth Bigman, Anthony Edelman, Diane McFarlane, Diane White and GSNC Volunteer Debra Leraci and our final witness Donald Dekenipp, PLS, our surveyor.
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Though I'm not sure — despite the length of the workshop — that there's going to be a Day 2 or 3 post.
I'm here in Providence (can't you see where I am?) for a three-day workshop at Brown on contextual encoding with TEI, run by the Women Writer's Project, and led by Julia Flanders and Syd Bauman. One of the first things I did when getting on board with digital humanities was to take part in the first iteration of THATCamp New England in 2010, and I'm glad I didn't really have any idea who I was there with, or I would have been horribly intimidated instead of just self-conscious. One of the other attendees was Julia Flanders, and among other things she leads the Women Writers Project at Brown. What I learned about the WWP at THATCamp was impressive, but I have since learned (tonight, if you must know) is that it is a self-sustaining project residing at Brown. As I also know more about sustaining university-level projects than I used to, I am even more impressed. However, I have also built up my knowledge of and abilities in digital humanities, so I'm also more ready to approach problems with what I would consider, were I leading a workshop such as this, an appropriate level.
It's a strange situation for me, as I have worked with text encodings in one way or another since some time in the mid-90s when I was in publishing and worked with Quark XPress, though I didn't entirely know at that time what I was doing and certainly didn't know about the global history of text encoding, let alone SGML, TEI, and XML. In my second stab at making it in the publishing world, I learned a bit more about that space. While at HarperCollins in the late 90s, we used an in-house encoding system that we called Text Markup System, though we also were phasing it out when I was laid off. Even so, I never really associated my work in TMS with a larger world of text encoding, not even with the HTML that I was teaching myself on the side. Extend that situation roughly through the next several years, and you'll see that while I understand a lot of the basics of markup and even have paid attention to some of the questions posed about TEI and to limitations suggested from some critics, I still have a lot to learn during this workshop.
Today was, I expect, the strongest showing for the awkwardness, as there was a good deal of scene-setting. We went through general notions of why we encode research objects and the basics of XML in the morning, then got in to the basics of TEI in the early afternoon, with enough time in the later afternoon to work on our own documents. My attention was frequently consciously divided, as much of the presentation was known material for me. Since I don't have a research project per se (that is, my text-based research projects are whatever faculty or students bring to me), I needed to choose a work that would be appropriate for a workshop on contextual encoding. With some advice from Yale post-doc Natalia Cecire, I settled on Émile Zola's Le Ventre de Paris, and I haven't regretted it. Among her many other helpful suggestions was Jean Toomer's Cane novel with the benefit of having some site-specificity in the good ol' US of A as well as that of having multiple text formats for juicy encoding goodness. However, what I might call my research interests include continually examining digital humanities tools, practices, and constructions from a multilingual or plurilingual point of view, so I went with the Zola and grabbed the textfile from Project Gutenberg. My recollection is of having read it years and years ago, but I can't recall with any further precision, so this process is also about getting reacquainted with this story.
After discovering and then applying Matthew Jockers' Python text-to-TEI formatter for Gutenberg content (I knew learning some Python would come in handy one day!), I dumped our friend Émile into le ventre de oXygen and spent some time figuring out what I care about in this text and how to encode it. Since we are dealing in context, I decided to start with marking up all specified locations and all people. So far, I've been able to geocode everything I've found, but I'm still at a fairly generic and introductory point in the text. Even so, while I say I've been able to geocode what I've found, it hasn't been entirely straightforward how to then encode it. For instance, there's an early mention of the Pont de Neuilly. Reading a little too closely, which is not to say doing a close reading of course, I wasn't sure whether it was the bridge of the same name currently located in Neuilly-sur-Seine or some other one that may have been eliminated. Even so, it wasn't so simple to reference with a GeoNames page as was Paris. The latter got a
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location, and
geo with
location having a sibling of
placeName that contained "rue de Longchamp." In a very small way, it's an editorial decision to assert that Zola meant the intersection of rue de Longchamp and Avenue Charles de Gaulle, not least because Zola never met Charles de Gaulle. But that's what I'm hoping to get deeper with over these three days #&8212; these editorial decisions, how they can be made manifest as a result of the encoding choices, and how they can prove useful in scholarship for Yale researchers and student-researchers.


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The Verdict: This thing kinda sucks. I was hoping the ScreenPlay would be able to replace my current setup of streaming media over an Xbox 360. The 360 works most of the time, but sometimes it gets hung up buffering large files, and I don't have an external HDD the size of the ScreenPlay to plug into it. If this one could play all the codecs of the Xbox while looking halfway decent and not lagging, I'd convert in a heartbeat.
The first problem came when I tried to load files from my Mac. The drive is formatted in NTFS, rendering it incompatible with OS X. Worried I'd lose the ScreenPlay's UI if I formatted the drive, I got some files from my roommate's PC first. (Later, I formatted the drive to FAT, and everything loaded fine from both computers.) The AVIs transferred quickly, and I hooked it up to the TV via HDMI.
The UI is just a basic file manager, nothing special or sexy about it. One thing I found particularly annoying is that the button in the center of the D-Pad is "Play" and not "OK," so pressing play on a folder went straight to the first file. It took me about five times of hitting it to figure it out. However, I did like that the ScreenPlay accepted multiple levels of folders, something I haven't been able to figure out for my Mac files on the Xbox.
Picture quality on the ScreenPlay wasn't very good. It claims to upscale content, but my low-qual Flight of the Conchords videos looked like junk, and higher-res BSG episodes looked the same as they do on Xbox. When I tried to play a 720p ep of Planet Earth, I got a "resolution not supported" error—this never happens on Xbox. The MP4 videos that I use to encode all my Handbrake rips didn't show up in the menu, since they are not supported. Music and photo playback were decent, but the interface wasn't nearly as robust as the Xbox.
The ScreenPlay HD didn't meet my expectations at all. Sure, it can play some videos and other multimedia, and it's nice to not worry about buffering, but the playback limitations outweigh the benefits. On top of that, $200 is steep for a 500GB HD, especially considering Iomega sells others for under $100. There's no chance that this would replace my Xbox for watching computer media on TV, but it could make a nice, if expensive, addition to plug into the 360's USB port. [Iomega]


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HENRY D. SOKOLSKI is the executive director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, Washington, DC. He previously served in the Senate as a nuclear and military legislative aide, in the Pentagon as Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, and as a full-time consultant on proliferation issues in the Secretary of Defense's Office of Net Assessment. Mr. Sokolski also served as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency's Senior Advisory Group, on two Congressional nuclear proliferation commissions, and has authored and edited numerous volumes on strategic weapons proliferation, including Best of Intentions: America's Campaign against Strategic Weapons Proliferation.
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SSI books and monographs by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski
Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, Second Edition
August 22, 2018
Authored by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
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Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future, Second Edition explores what nuclear future we may face over the next 3 decades and how we currently think about this future. Will nuclear weapons spread in the next 20 years to more nations than just North Korea and possibly Iran? How dire will the consequences be? What might help us avoid the worst?
Should We Let the Bomb Spread?
November 22, 2016
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
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With nuclear proliferation in South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia intensifying, the spread of nuclear arms increasingly is viewed as being more of a fact than a problem to be solved. However, is proliferation truly inevitable? More important, will it bring disastrous wars, a new era of mutually deterred peace, or is it ultimately inconsequential? This volume taps the nation's leading nuclear deterrence and proliferation experts for the answers. The result is a rich debate that goes well beyond current scholarship to challenge the very basis of prevailing nonproliferation and security policies.
Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future
December 22, 2015
Authored by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
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Underestimated: Our Not So Peaceful Nuclear Future explores what nuclear future we may face over the next 3 decades and how we currently think about this future. Will nuclear weapons spread in the next 20 years to more nations than just North Korea and possibly Iran? How great will the consequences be? What can be done?
Nuclear Weapons Materials Gone Missing: What Does History Teach?
November 06, 2014
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
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Ever since President Obama spotlighted nuclear terrorism as one of the top threats to international security, guarding and disposing of nuclear weapons-useable materials have become top international priorities.
Moving Beyond Pretense: Nuclear Power and Nonproliferation
June 17, 2014
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
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The further proliferation and possible use of nuclear weapons are among the very greatest threats to U.S. and international security, yet most governments and industry officials downplay the risks of civilian nuclear technology and materials being diverted to make bombs. They use this optimistic assessment in formulating U.S. and international nuclear trade and nonproliferation policies. This volume taps the insights and analyses of 13 top nuclear and security experts to weigh the validity of their narrative. The result is a comprehensive counternarrative that recommends a significant tightening of current nonproliferation controls.
Nuclear Weapons Security Crises: What Does History Teach?
July 30, 2013
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Dr. Bruno Tertrais.
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What do China's Cultural Revolution, a coup in French Algeria, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the changing nature of the Pakistani government have in common? All represent situations when the respective governments came close to losing control of their nuclear arsenals during political crises. This volume reveals previously unknown details about the four cases and offers additional analysis and lessons learned by leading scholars.
The Next Arms Race
July 25, 2012
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
As the United States and Russia negotiate to bring their number of deployed nuclear weapons down, China, India, Pakistan, and Israel continue to bump their numbers up while a growing number of smaller states develop "peaceful" nuclear programs that will bring them closer to getting bombs if they choose. Welcome to the brave new world of tighter, more opaque nuclear competitions, the focus of The Next Arms Race—a must read for policy analysts and planners eager to understand and prevent the worst.
Nuclear Power's Global Expansion: Weighing Its Costs and Risks
December 31, 2010
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
Will the global spread of nuclear power programs, which could bring many more countries much closer to acquiring nuclear weapons capabilities, be an inevitable consequence of energy market economics? Or is such an expansion impossible without government subsidies and new policies to support them? This volume showcases the analyses of some of the world's leading energy experts to shed light on this key 21st century security issue.
Reviewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT)
April 29, 2010
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
Why does the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) warrant support as a nonproliferation convention?
Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Reining in the Risk
January 19, 2010
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
With any attempt to assess security threats, there is a natural tendency to focus first on the worst. Consider the most recent appraisals of Pakistan's nuclear program. Normally, the risk of war between Pakistan and India, and possible nuclear escalation, would be bad enough. Now, however, most American security experts are riveted on the frightening possibility of Pakistani nuclear weapons capabilities falling into the hands of terrorists who are intent on attacking the United States. Presented with the horrific implications of such an attack, the American public and media have increasingly come to view nearly all Pakistani security issues through this lens.
Nuclear Heuristics: Selected Writings of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter
January 26, 2009
Edited by Mr. Robert Zarate, Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
Pioneers of nuclear-age policy analysis, Albert Wohlstetter (1913-1997) and Roberta Wohlstetter (1912-2007) emerged as two of America's most consequential, innovative and controversial strategists. Through the clarity of their thinking, the rigor of their research, and the persistence of their personalities, they were able to shape the views and aid the decisions of Democratic and Republican policy makers both during and after the Cold War. Although the Wohlstetters' strategic concepts and analytical methods continue to be highly influential, no book has brought together their most important published and unpublished essays--until now.
Falling Behind: International Scrutiny of the Peaceful Atom
February 27, 2008
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
If possible, it would be useful to enhance the International Atomic Energy Agency's ability to detect and prevent nuclear diversions. This would not only reduce the current risk of nuclear proliferation, it would make the further expansion of nuclear power much less risky.
Pakistan's Nuclear Future: Worries Beyond War
January 16, 2008
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
After Pakistani President Musharraf imposed a state of emergency in November 2007, the political turmoil that followed raised concerns that Pakistan's nuclear assets might be vulnerable to diversion or misuse. This volume details precisely what these worries might be.
Gauging U.S.-Indian Strategic Cooperation
March 05, 2007
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
The volume offers U.S. and Indian policy and law makers a detailed checklist of things to watch, avoid, and try to achieve in order to assure U.S.-Indian strategic cooperation succeeds.
Taming the Next Set of Strategic Weapons Threats
July 12, 2006
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
Long discounted by arms control critics, traditional nonproliferation efforts now are undergoing urgent review and reconsideration even by their supporters. Why? In large part, because the current crop of nonproliferation understandings are ill-suited to check the spread of emerging long-range missile, biological, and nuclear technologies.
Getting Ready for a Nuclear-Ready Iran
November 01, 2005
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Mr. Patrick Clawson.
This book examines what additional security threats Iran might pose as it becomes increasingly capable of making nuclear weapons, what steps the United States and its friends might take to deter and contain it, and what should be done to assure Iran's neighbors do not follow in Tehran's nuclear footsteps.
Getting MAD: Nuclear Mutual Assured Destruction, Its Origins and Practice
November 01, 2004
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
With the deployment of defenses of American cities against missile attacks, the Bush administration has explicitly rejected the strategic doctrine of nuclear mutually assured destruction (MAD). But what exactly is this doctrine? Where did it come from? To what extent did the nuclear weapons powers ever adopt it, and how much sense does it make today? Getting MAD, the first critical history of this influential line of strategic thinking, supplies the answers.
Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
January 01, 2004
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski, Mr. Patrick Clawson.
The fear about what Iran might do with nuclear weapons is fed by the concern that Tehran has no clear reason to be pursuing nuclear weapons. The strategic rationale for Iran's nuclear program is by no means obvious. Unlike proliferators such as Israel or Pakistan, Iran faces no historic enemy who would welcome an opportunity to wipe the state off the face of the earth.
Beyond Nunn-Lugar: Curbing the Next Wave of Weapons Proliferation Threats from Russia
April 01, 2002
Edited by Mr. Thomas Riisager, Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
Originally commissioned by the NPEC as part of a study on the future of U.S.-Russian nonproliferation cooperation. It is different from other studies of U.S.-Russian cooperation because it relies on competitive strategies, which detail how best to pit one's strengths against a competitor's weaknesses in a series of moves and countermoves. The goal is to devise strategies that force one's competitor to spend more time and resources shoring up his weaknesses than in taking offensive action.
Planning for a Peaceful Korea
February 01, 2001
Authored by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
With the change of administrations in Washington, current U.S. policy toward North Korea will naturally undergo review and scrutiny. The essays in this volume offer an option to the current engagement approach. The authors suggest an alternative strategy for promoting peace and security in the Korean peninsula different from the ones contemplated or implemented by Washington in recent years.
Prevailing in a Well-Armed World: Devising Competitive Strategies Against Weapons Proliferation
March 01, 2000
Edited by Mr. Henry D. Sokolski.
This book provides insights into the competitive strategies methodology. The book also demonstrates the strengths of the competitive strategies approach as an instrument for examining U.S. policy. The method focuses on policies regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.


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California decision-makers must begin to think far more strategically and grasp the significance of developing economic and social trends or face losing a huge portion of the state's middle-class residents within the next two decades.
That was the harsh-but-important message delivered to members of the state Senate earlier this week by an economist who studies the long-term effects of public decision-making.
It is a message that is absolutely vital. The trick, of course, is to get elected officials who have their terms limited to think beyond the next election cycle.
California Lutheran University economist Bill Watkins dutifully pointed out earlier this week that the state's once-explosive growth already has dwindled to a veritable trickle. In fact, he expects the state's population to drop in the next 10 to 20 years because of out-migration and a drop in the overall birthrate. Perhaps the most disturbing part of his analysis is that the losses will be disproportionately among middle-class families who can find better opportunities in other places.
"We're losing the economic heart of our state," Watkins told the Senate.
The inevitable outcome of such a trend is a state of both rich and poor, and little or no middle class. To see how well that economic model works, one need only study about 40 Third World countries around the globe.
But, as we said, members of the Legislature are not exactly prone to considering things beyond their own ideological talking points. Their idea of long-term thinking is deciding which office to run for after they are termed out of their current post.
If Watkins' analysis wasn't scary enough, he also offered a thunderbolt to the Bay Area. His analysis notes that even the high-tech sector, which has been the Bay Area's economic engine for decades, could face dramatic challenges and changes sooner rather later.
He pointed out that consumer technology is changing from computers with complex software and moving toward smartphones and tablets with cheap apps, which can be produced from almost anywhere.
Of course no discussion of the state's future can avoid its horribly flawed tax structure that helps create boom-and-bust budgets, its mountain of unsustainable debt and its dreadful business climate.
These pages have spent much time and energy hammering on those themes, but it is clear that without significant reform in them the state's economic forecast is shaky, at best.
Watkins said the state must create what he calls "an opportunity economy." He said the Legislature must make it easier to form and expand a business by reducing the amount of regulatory red tape such enterprises currently encounter.
He also argues that the state should actually encourage more immigration from other countries because he says immigrants found job-creating new businesses at a faster rate than native-born Californians.
But Watkins' overall message was that whatever steps the Legislature takes it must carefully examine the long-term implications of that action. It is a message we can wholeheartedly support and we will offer our strong support to any elected official — regardless of party — who works to make such reform happen.


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I had never realized before that a photograph of a partial solar eclipse behind lots of colorful clouds at sunrise looks so much like a shark attack. Especially if you're watching it over the Pacific Ocean with about 40,000 other people in Cairns, Australia.
See the fin?
In my nine eclipse expeditions, I have never seen these unique atmospheric conditions before. Traditional knowledge suggests it's best if your solar eclipse view is cloudless, with the sun's corona surrounding the moon's black disk at totality. But if clouds spoil that view, I discovered that dramatic images can hide in the cloud decks, especially if the clouds are thick enough to filter the sun's light (effective neutral density of four or greater) and allow a camera to capture images without a solar filter. (Safety note: We kept solar filters ready at a moment's notice if conditions improved. We also viewed only through the LED display of the digital camera, not through the viewfinder.)
The museum's solar eclipse travelers had a front row seat from the balcony of their rooms on the 11th floor of our Australia hotel. Boats had anchored in the harbor below us, and eclipse watchers camped on the boardwalk by the water. The event became a dynamic interplay of clouds and the partially eclipsed sun. Sunrise began with decks of clouds drifting between the sun and us. We aimed cameras mounted on telescopes to the place where we knew the sun would appear when the clouds parted.
The view from out hotel balcony at 6 a.m., when the sun was just clearing the peninsula's tallest peaks. The Takahashi FCT-76 is on the left and the FS-60 is on the right, riding on a Sky Patrol equatorial mount.
Rays of sunlight through cloud decks also showed the sun's location. As the beams moved across the land, we knew it would soon be our turn to see through a tiny thinning of the clouds just before totality. As totality approached, the sky gradually darkened and the temperature dropped. The city lights below us had just turned off at sunrise and now flickered back to life. Flash bulbs blinked over the city as photographers hoped in vain to light a path through the clouds. For the two minutes of totality, the rays of sunlight vanished, the clouds became black shadows and a sunrise glow illuminated the horizon. Then daylight returned, and we looked to see if our cameras had captured anything our eyes had missed. That's when we discovered the shark fin shapes of the partially eclipsed sun appearing to sail behind a fantastic display of pale hued clouds. Did we have the best view of totality? Maybe not. But in the interplay of thick colorful cloud decks, we were treated to a very rare unfiltered solar eclipse at sunrise.
Photographs tell the story better:
Here I'm focusing the Celestron 5 telescope. Next to me is the Takahashi FCT-76 and the Takahashi FS-60 is closest to the camera.
At about 6:20 a.m., the partially eclipsed sun peeks through the clouds. Photography through a Celestron 5 with focal reducer (focal length 800mm).
The shark's fin is the sun's disk, partially covered by the moon and by several banks of Earth clouds. Photography through a Celestron 5 with focal reducer (focal length 800mm).
At about 6:25 a.m., totality is just over 10 minutes away. The colors become more dramatic as the sunlight level drops. Photography through a Celestron 5 with focal reducer (focal length 800mm).
The camera cuts off most of this shark fin, but notice the sunrise colors lingering in the clouds. Photography through a Takahashi FCT-76.
At about 6:30 a.m., the clouds and colors become dramatic as totality nears.
Photography through the Takahashi FS-60 at 600 mm focal length.
Four and a half minutes later, as totality approaches, the clouds darken, with only the closest illuminated by the last rays of the sun's photosphere and perhaps the first faint glows of the corona. Photography through the Takahashi FS-60 at 600 mm focal length
At 6:38 a.m., totality began and the clouds obscured the fainter corona. The sky became as dark as a full moon night with sunrise colors streamed across the horizon.


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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Ring in the New Year with Bourdon French Toast
Okay I realize that this is yet another recipe with bourbon, but I just can't help it! Baking and bourbon are a match made in heaven. I find myself adding a dash (or more) in all kinds of things. So of course when I was making french toast, I just had to try adding a bit of bourbon to the soaking mixture. I loved the flavor it added to this already decadent breakfast dish. Perfect for the holiday's. What better way to welcome the New Year than with a great breakfast?
8 large slices hearty white sandwich bread
1 1/2 cups whole milk or half and half, warmed
3 large eggs (for a richer french toast use just the yolks)
3 tablespoons light brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of fresh grated nutmeg
2 tablespoons unsalted butter , melted, plus 2 tablespoons for cooking
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon bourbon
1 teaspoon vanilla
Fresh fruit for topping (optional) I used blueberries but almost any fruit would work.
Maple syrup
1. Adjust oven rack to middle position and heat oven to 300 degrees. Place bread on wire rack set in rimmed baking sheet. Bake bread until almost dry throughout (center should remain slightly moist), about 16 minutes, flipping slices halfway through cooking. Remove bread from rack and let cool 5 minutes. Return baking sheet with wire rack to oven and reduce temperature to 200 degrees. Alternately, place bread on a sheet pan and leave in cold oven overnight too allow bread to dry slightly.
2. Whisk milk, eggs, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, 2 tablespoons melted butter, salt, bourbon, and vanilla in large bowl until well blended. Transfer mixture to 13- by 9-inch baking pan.
3. Soak bread in milk mixture until saturated but not falling apart, 20 seconds per side. Using firm slotted spatula, pick up bread slice and allow excess milk mixture to drip off; repeat with remaining slices. Place soaked bread on another baking sheet or platter.
4. Heat 1/2 tablespoon butter in 12-inch skillet over medium-low heat. When foaming subsides, use slotted spatula to transfer 2 slices soaked bread to skillet and cook until golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Flip and continue to cook until second side is golden brown, 3 to 4 minutes longer. (If toast is cooking too quickly, reduce temperature slightly.) Transfer to baking sheet in oven. Wipe out skillet with paper towels. Repeat cooking with remaining bread, 2 pieces at a time, adding 1/2 tablespoon of butter for each batch.. Top with fresh fruit Serve warm, passing maple syrup separately.
Here's a picture of what Hubs calls my secret stash!
If you liked this recipe check out these recipes:
Bourbon Pecan Pie
Maple Bourbon Cream Cheese
Baked Brie with Pomegranate and Apples
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Snickerdoodles and giveaway winners!
Snickerdoodles have always been one of my all-time favorite cookies. My mom made these all the time when I was growing up. I remember being thrilled when I opened my lunch box and in it was two snickerdoodles, wrapped in waxed paper. At that point I didn't care what else I had for lunch!
There are two different methods for making snickerdoodles. One that uses cream of tartar and one that uses baking powder. I've tried both ways and I know that baking powder has cream of tartar in it, but the cookies just don't taste quite the same. The cream of tartar lends a bit of tang to the cookies and also helps with the texture of the cookie. I also prefer the all butter recipe over the part shortening part butter recipes.
In my opinion snickerdoodles way better than your average sugar cookie. The top of a snickerdoodle is crackled and crisp but the inside is soft. Perfect cookie texture! For some reason though I haven't made them in a long time. They are an old fashioned cookie and I guess because I love trying new recipes, I just neglected to make snickerdoodles for a while. I recently renewed my love affair with this cookie and will be make anther batch before Christmas. I thought this would be the perfect cookie to submit to the Eat Christmas Cookies Season 2 round-up hosted by Susan of Food Blogga
From Joy of Cooking
Makes about 36 3" cookies
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease or line 2 cookie sheets.
Whisk until well blended
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons cream of tartar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Beat in a large bowl
1 cup (2 sticks)unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
Add and beat until well combined
2 large eggs
Stir in the flour mixture.
In another bowl combine
1/4 cup sugar
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
Shape the dough into 1 1/4-inch balls, roll in the cinnamon sugar, and arrange about 2 3/4 inches apart on the cookie sheets. Bake until the cookies are light golden brown and the edges, 12 to 14 minutes. Let stand briefly, then remove to a rack to cool.
And now for the winner's of the Silver Bells book giveaway!! I drew numbers and the winners are...Pam of For the Love of Cooking and Cathy of Noble Pig. Congrats!! Just email me your mailing address to paulahennig(at)msn(dot)com and I'll get your book in the mail. Thanks to everyone for all your great comments!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Silver Bells Teacakes and a Giveaway
About a week ago I was contacted by the publishing company representing author Mary Burton. Mary Burton is a passionate baker as well as author. She developed this recipe for Silver Bells Teacakes in honor of the publication of Silver Bells. Mary Burton joins legendary author Fern Michaels and Joann Ross along with Judy Duarte in creating this holiday collection. Mary's novella is titled Christmas Past.
Mary confesses to a borderline addiction to sweets that is fed by a passion for baking that has become part of her writing routine. Struggling with a plot point, pondering motivation, and wondering if her dialogue is reading smoothly are all triggers for a break from the computer and a sojourn in the kitchen. "When the going gets tough, the tough get baking," says Mary, who describes the time spent doing so as a chance to relax, focus on the task at hand, ruminate and go back to work refreshed and ready to tackle the relationships, homicides, and police investigations that power her plots.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Mary Burton is also an avid cook and even volunteered as a kitchen assistant at a local culinary school to hone her skills.
I agreed to try her new recipe and giveaway two of her books. These tea cakes are easy to make and very tasty.
SILVER BELLS Lemon Cherry Teacake Cookies
¾ cup softened butter
¼ cup softened cream cheese
½ cup of confectioners' sugar
1 teaspoon lemon extract
2-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
¼ teaspoon salt
½ cup of dried cherries
Confectioners' sugar for dusting
½ cup canned cream cheese icing (I used homemade cream cheese frosting I had leftover from making cupcakes. Go here for that recipe)
In a stand mixer, mix together the softened butter and cream cheese until smooth. Mix in lemon extract and confectioners' sugar. Sift together flour and salt and mix into creamed butter/sugar mixture. Gently stir in dried cherries and chill for an hour. Form dough into (about 2 inch)balls, flatten with the bottom of a glass or mug, dredge in confectioner's sugar and place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper (cookies won't spread). Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cook 12-15 minutes until set but not browned. Place the cookies on a cooling rack resting over a baking pan. Spoon canned icing into a microwave safe bowl and microwave for 15-20 seconds. Stir until smooth and then pour a thin coating over the cookies. Let stand on the rack until the icing hardens. Dust with confectioner's sugar and garnish with dried cherries.
For fun, I decorate some of the cookies with red and green cream cheese frosting that I had on hand.
I'm giving away two copies of Silver Bells. All you need to do is leave a comment at the end of this post(one per person please!) by 11:59 CST on Saturday December 20. I'll randomly draw two winners from all the entries. Good Luck!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Sugared Cranberries
I made these lovely little gems for the first time as a topping for my pumpkin cranberry cupcakes. I liked them so much I also decorated my All-in-One Holiday Bundt Cake with them as well. At first I was really just looking for a festive decoration. After making these however,I found that not only are they a glittery and beautiful decoration for desserts but they're an excellent little snack as well. The cranberries are soaked overnight in simple syrup then rolled in superfine sugar. They are sweet and tart and pop in your mouth when you bite them. The cranberries hold quite well for several days in an airtight container. Put these gorgeous little gems into pretty containers and give them as gifts along with your other Christmas goodies.
2 cups granulated sugar
2 cups water
2 cups fresh cranberries
3/4 cup superfine sugar
Combine granulated sugar and water in a small saucepan over low heat, stirring mixture until sugar dissolves. Bring to a simmer; remove from heat. (Do not boil or the cranberries may pop when added.) Stir in cranberries; pour mixture into a bowl. Cover and refrigerate 8 hours or overnight.
Drain cranberries, reserving steeping liquid, if desired. Place superfine sugar in a shallow dish. Add the cranberries, rolling to coat with sugar. Spread sugared cranberries in a single layer on a baking sheet; let stand at room temperature 1 hour or until dry. Store in an airtight container in a cool place for up to a week.
Use the reserved steeping liquid as a mixer in your holiday cocktails!
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Someone's in the kitchen...cooking for me!
I don't know about you but, although I adore cooking, it's always nice to have someone cook for you. Especially when they make one of your favorite meals, just because you mentioned it.
Yesterday Hubs and I were talking about our favorite breakfast meal. I said that mine was eggs Benedict. I've always had a weakness for eggs Benedict. Although I usually can't resist ordering it when we go out for breakfast, I rarely make it at home. It's one of those things that just tasted better to me when someone else makes it. This morning when I came into the kitchen, Hubs had out the Joy of Cooking cookbook and was looking up hollandaise sauce. He said he was going to make eggs Benedict for me. "Really? Why? I asked" His answer: "Because you said it was your favorite breakfast." Awww isn't that cool!
So he made hollandaise sauce and I poached eggs. He put it all together with a little ham and it had to be one of the best breakfasts, ever! Thanks Hubs! Love you and not just for your mad cooking skills!
Eggs Benedict
2 to 4 servings
Prepare and drain well, and keep warm: 4 Poached Eggs
Place on warmed plates or a warmed serving platter: 2 English muffins, split, toasted, and buttered.
Cover with: 4 thick slices ham or Canadian bacon, warmed
Top with the well-drained eggs, then top the eggs with: 1⁄2 cup Hollandaise Sauce or more if desired.
Serve immediately.
Hollandaise Sauce
source: Joy of Cooking
Generous 1 cup
Melt over low heat:
10 tablespoons (1 1⁄4 sticks) butter
Skim the foam off the top and keep warm.
Place in the top of a double boiler or in a large stainless steel bowl:
3 large egg yolks
1 1⁄2 tablespoons cold water
Off the heat, beat the yolks with a whisk until light and frothy. Place top of the double boiler or bowl over—not in—barely simmering water and continue to whisk until the eggs are thickened, 3 to 5 minutes, being careful not to let the eggs get too hot. Remove the pan or bowl and whisk to cool the mixture slightly. Whisking constantly, very slowly add the butter, leaving the white milk solids behind. Whisk in:
1⁄2 to 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice
(Dash of hot pepper sauce) (Hubs used a very generous dash)
Salt and white pepper to taste
If the sauce is too thick, whisk in a few drops of warm water. Serve immediately, or cover and keep the sauce warm for up to 30 minutes by placing the pan or bowl in warm (not hot) water.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
Time to vote!!
The voting for this month's Iron Cupcake Earth: cranberry challenge is now open. Just click here and vote for my Ode to Fall Pumpkin Cranberry cupcakes!! Voting ends Friday Dec. 5th.
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