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I used to be terrified of failure. Then it hit me that failure is the only way to learn, and that at least I tried and can say I gave it my all. I still struggle with it sometimes, but this acceptance of failure has led me to do some pretty ridiculous things that sometimes work out, and sometimes don't. Like, starting my own handmade soap company because why not (worked out), and building a super classy potato box last year just to see if they were any good (sort of worked out, but decided against one for 2014 since we're trying a new method).
One of the places I've learned to accept and love failure is in the kitchen. Love might be a strong word, but I love that it forces me to just go for it, experiment, try something new, and learn from it when it dies in a blaze of glory and curses. It's a growing opportunity. Sometimes things succeed exceptionally well which of course makes me feel like I could win "Worst Cooks Ever" on the Food Network, and sometimes—just sometimes—the happy accident happens. Which is, of course, my very favorite thing to happen in the kitchen because it means you end up with something better than you intended. That's a straight up win in my book.
This weekend I had a happy accident which started with the following train of thought, all in about 2 minutes.
"I can make granola. I bet I can make granola bars."
"Ohh, what if I made chewy granola bars?"
"How on earth do you make chewy granola bars?"
"Where's my phone?"
"Oh, that's how you make them? Wait, this ones different. So is this one."
"I'll wing it. What's the worst that can happen? I'll bake whatever happens into granola clusters or something."
That, my friends, is how delicious Oatmeal Truffles were born. You are welcome.
The granola bars were on par to be pretty delicious, but I must have added too much agave or not enough coconut oil or something. They were just a little too sticky and drooped in bar form. I started squeezing the bar to see if it was just a compression thing. As I did that, I ended up with a ball. At that point I genuinely did not care that I didn't have granola bars anymore.
This is where, in happy accident land, a light bulb went off. I ran into the pantry and grabbed my raw cocoa powder and shredded coconut while I completely and blissfully forgot about any granola bars that might have been in another space and time.
You get where this is going, right?
I even put my fancy pants on and did a single line of chocolate around while leaving the ends plain. Then I ate it immediately after taking a picture.
I've got to tell you guys something. These are delicious and surprisingly filling. They taste like no-bake cookies but without the butter/dairy. I ended up deciding the best combination was a mix of chocolate and coconut together, which you can see below. One other happy accident I found, but isn't pictured here, is that if after you coat the balls in chocolate you can keep rolling them in your hands and the chocolate absorbs into the peanut butter oils and makes a nice non-powdery coating.
At the end of the day, I'm pretty excited I didn't end up with granola bars. These are so darn good. I'm going to wing giving you guys a recipe just like I winged these. Pretty much once your mixture can easily hold together in ball form you're good to go. Remember one tip though, it's kind of a compressing into a ball motion versus a quick roll to make it all stick. These are vegan-friendly and even raw-vegan-friendly if you use raw nut butter! I think what I like most about these is that they are not overly sweet. I'm not huge on sugary sweet desserts and these fit the bill. It's also pretty easy to be satisfied with one or two, since they're very dense and filling.
I know these won't save the world, but happy, not hangry, people make good decisions and express kindness to others. That's got to count for something, right?
- 3 cups thick cut oats
- 1/4 cup agave nectar
- 1 cup peanut butter
- 1/4 cup coconut oil (I'm not sure this is definitely needed, experiment!)
- 1/8 - 1/4 cup dried blueberries
- Few tablespoons chia seeds
- Few tablespoons shredded coconut (I use dried shredded, not moist)
- Shredded Coconut
- Raw Cocoa Powder
- Baking Chocolate
- Whatever else dried product you want to roll them in
- If using coconut oil, melt before adding. It helps to add in the peanut butter to the coconut oil to melt everything down before mixing to coat the oats evenly. Add all "mixture" ingredients in a bowl and combine. Set mixture in the fridge to cool for an hour. Test to see if the mixture can hold ball shape by grabbing a small handful and compressing into a ball and then rolling around in your palms. They should hold up pretty solid. If they don't hold add more peanut butter (or play around to see what works best for you).
- Once they hold, roll into balls and roll in your mixtures to coat. Place in a single layer and put back in the fridge to fully set up.
- Now, eat!
- You want these to be cold when you're working with them. The heat of your hands will begin to melt the peanut butter/coconut oil. If they get too warm just put the mixture back in the fridge to chill again before continuing.


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LOWER POTTSGROVE - Maria C. Flores-Rivera, 30, of Reading has been charged with felony retail theft, theft by unlawful taking and receiving stolen property, police said.
The Home Depot on 295 Armand Hammer Boulevard, lead an internal investigation of Flores-Rivera after she allegedly sold items for less than they were worth on two separate occasions, police said.
On Jan., 13, Flores-Rivera sold items to an unknown woman for $50 less than they were worth, police said.
Then on Feb., 1, Flores-Rivera sold $629 worth of merchandise to the same unknown woman for $6.29, police said. The internal investigation also found that on Jan., 17, Flores-Rivera took $400 from her register with the proper authorization, police said.
When she was arrested on Feb. 4 at 6:27 p.m., Flores-Rivera admitted to giving unauthorized discounts to an unknown man and woman in exchange for being paid cash by the man after the transactions were over, police said. The total loss to Home Depot was $1,100, the report said.
Flores-Rivera is in the Montgomery County Correctional Facility, after she was unable to make $5,000 bail, police said.
The investigation is ongoing and police are looking the unknown suspect, police said.

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This has been quite a journey again with my fourth child. Only reason I say that is there has been so much going on with me and my family. I am finally moved and settled into our new home. I am still going to school, but this is my very last course and I will be done!!! I am very excited; this degree has been a long time coming, and I was not going to stop until I finished. My other three children are doing great and growing big, and my husband remains supportive and strong for me.
I do have an update with my new little addition. I did have an ultrasound in the very beginning of December. I finally know what I am having now. We are going to have another little girl!!! I am thrilled and just happy I know now instead of wondering what the gender is going to be. When they did the ultrasound and put the gel on my stomach it was quite a mess. The baby would not really cooperate again so they had me lay on my left side and then the right. They needed to measure her head and they could not get a real accurate measurement. After the switching sides I got to meet the nurse. The nurse went over the procedures at this hospital since I am new to the area and I have never been here. Finally the time came to meet the doctor and he just explained what to expect. After that brief conversation I was done for the week with them. I did have to do my one-hour glucola drink -- that test to see if I have developed gestational diabetes.
Everything is going well so far; there have been some pains here and there. Nothing else major with the baby. I am getting really excited as the time draws closer to the baby's arrival.
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Tottenham Hotspur winger Steven Pienaar has no regrets about leaving Everton despite his injury hit spell at White Hart Lane.
Pienaar has featured just once for Spurs this term after picking up an injury in pre-season, while he made just 12 appearances for the club last season following his move from Goodison Park.
But the South African international says he has no regrets over a move to north London.
"Regrets? No, not at all. Not at all," he says, eyes wide with surprise," he said.
"It has been a year of mixed feelings and, yes, it has been a bumpy road, but hopefully I can make it a success.
"It was a very hard decision to make. It was hard to leave Everton as a club, and Liverpool as a city.
"The people I had around me, the players, most of the supporters were very good to me, and I will always be grateful to them. It was so hard to go, but in life you have to make decisions.
"I made this one as a footballer and as a human being, and I don't have any regrets about what I chose to do. Not at all."News Now - Sport News


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William F Stiles from The Museum of the American Indian ,Heye Foundation stayed with us while my parents were excavating a clay mound near Brown's landing. Be sure to check out the photo taken by William Stiles of my mother working in the trench. I wanted to know when they were going to find the gold . What did I know at thirteen. There seemed to be lots of archaeologists staying with us or stopping by to check on my parents latest location of any newly discovered mounds including Clemons de Bailou , Dr A. R . Kelly , Rebeka Burgess. and Dave Phelps.
It's amazing how my parents could get a major museum to send William F Stiles to see the site they were excavating . In a letter written by the noted archaeologist Dr. A.R. Kelley he writes " It's a curious coincidence that my friendship with doctors and all surgeons at that , has been critical to serious work in different parts of Georgia during the past 25 years.


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Emlyn Jones was an accomplished Welsh surveyor, bomb disposal officer in the Second World War and experienced Alpine and Himalayan climber.
Having qualified from university as a chartered surveyor, Emlyn joined the Royal Engineers on the outbreak of the Second World War to help defuse devices in London.
While on duty Emlyn made the incredible discovery that low-level bombs had a time-delay fuse which did not arm until the shell hit the ground. Emlyn therefore noted that they could stop the fuse clock on bombs with either strong magnets, or pouring in brine. Having established himself as an expert in the field, Emlyn was later posted in northern Europe after D-DAY to help destroy the secret V3 "super-gun".
Throughout the war Emlyn reported back to the War Office on developments in the explosives technology and was appointed an MBE, which was later raised to CBE, for this crucial intelligence.
Following the end of the war, Emlyn was able to resume his career as a surveyor and joined a commercial partnership in London. He later spent seventeen years at the Lands Tribunal where he became an authority on rating valuation and appeals. Emlyn shared his expertise in both these fields in 1982, when he published his book The Lands Tribunal: a Practitioner's Guide. As an esteemed surveyor Emlyn was appointed a Council Member of RICS.
Emlyn had a passion for mountaineering and came close to being one of the first people to climb Everest. In 1952 Emlyn was approached by John Hunt to be part of the Mount Everest reserve team.
Unfortunately, Emlyn and the rest of the reserve team never had the opportunity to complete the expedition as the first team were successful in their ascent; however Emlyn still played a vital part behind the scenes of the eventual conquest in 1953. Emlyn contributed a number of articles to mountaineering journals and acted as president of the Climbers Club in 1968-1969 and later of the Alpine Club in 1980-1982.
Sadly, Emlyn Jones passed away in 2014 aged 99; however he leaves behind an impressive legacy in his widespread achievements.
Edward Ryde was one of the most eminent British surveyors of the 19th century and one of The Institution's early Presidents.
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Here it is! Finn's baby quilt. I am in love with this quilt & am so happy that I finished it before he was born! I started out with the idea that I would make a patchwork quilt out of solid squares of fabric. Then I saw this tutorial for half square triangles by Christina of The Sometimes Crafter and I knew that I wanted to try it out!
Now this quilt is not at all perfect. I can see where many of the squares don't link up or the stitching is the complete opposite of straight, but I love it anyway. The color combination makes me happy & it totally shows my love for triangles right now. It's modern & crisp & colorful & awesome.
I hope Finn likes it too. His own quilt, made by hand by his mama before we even knew him. :)


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Four men were found guilty yesterday of the fatal gang rape of a young woman on a bus in New Delhi, a crime that shook India to its core and forced Indians to confront the issue of rampant sexual violence in a society undergoing wrenching change.
Arguments on sentencing are due to begin today, a court official said. All four could be hanged for the murder conviction.
With tears in her eyes and wearing a pink sari, the mother of the 23-year-old victim sat just a few feet from the four men who stood against a wall in the court as Judge Yogesh Khanna read the verdict.
"I convict all of the accused. They have been found guilty of gang rape, unnatural offenses, destruction of evidence ... and for committing the murder of the helpless victim," Khanna said.
The case resonated with thousands of urban Indians who took to the streets in fury after the attack.
The brutality of the attack shocked even in India, where newspapers daily publish a grim litany of sex crimes against women.
India is the worst place among G20 countries to be a woman, according to a global poll last year by TrustLaw, a legal news service that is operated by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Bus cleaner Akshay Kumar Singh, gym instructor Vinay Sharma, fruit-seller Pawan Gupta, and unemployed Mukesh Singh were found guilty of luring the woman and a male friend onto the bus on the night of Dec. 16 as the pair returned home from watching a movie at a mall across the street from the court where they were found guilty.
As the bus drove through the streets of the capital, the men repeatedly raped and tortured the victim with a metal bar before dumping her and her friend, naked and semi-conscious, on the road. She died in a Singapore hospital two weeks later of internal injuries.
Police constable Naresh Chand, who led the four men away from the court after the verdict, said they were subdued.
"It was not like normal today. They are usually whispering among themselves, even smiling. Today, they were quiet," he said.
The verdict capped a seven-month trial, often held behind closed doors, that was punctuated dramatically by a fifth defendant hanging himself in his jail cell.
Outside the court, the case cemented India's reputation as unsafe for women, even after parliament passed new laws against sexual crimes.
After the verdict, Mukesh Singh's mother, a frail woman in a peach and pink sari, fell to the floor crying outside the court and clutched the feet of his lawyer, V.K. Anand.
Pawan's lawyer said his client was tearful as the verdict was read.
Indian law prohibits naming the victim, a trainee physiotherapist from a lower-middle class family who had worked in a call centre, but Indian media have dubbed her Nirbhaya, a Hindi word meaning fearless.
In the narrow-laned Ravidass Camp slum where the men met to drink alcohol and eat chicken before leaving in the bus to find the victim on the night of the attack, neighbors and relatives were glued to television sets awaiting the ruling.
"Now that they are proven guilty, they must be hanged. There cannot be any other option," student and slum resident Rajesh Singh said.


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BuzzFeed reports that Zuck and wife Priscilla Chan will hold a fundraiser for NJ Gov. Chris Christie—meaning that Facebook now has political ties. It also means the Republican governor has some serious Silicon Valley cash headed his way.
The event—which will surely draw a throng of affluent and powerful tech figures—is likely the first of its kind for Zuckerberg, who is usually quiet about his political views. But after his $100 million donation to NJ public schools, Zuck and Christie (who's up for reelection this year) have become pals:
"Mark and (his wife) Priscilla have worked closely with Governor Christie on education reform in the Newark school system," said Facebook spokeswoman Sarah Feinberg. "They admire his leadership on education reform and other issues and look forward to continuing their important work together on behalf of Newark's school children."
Giving money to a troubled school district is nothing but noble, but raising cash for Christie means Zuck is throwing his weight behind the man's entire platform—not just the nice things. Christie has proven himself to be an opponent of gay rights, abortion, and unions. His ACLU report card isn't exactly inspiring.
Still, Governor Christie's popularity is at an all-time high post-Sandy and after mega-public appearances with President Obama. For Zuck—not always the most beloved public figure—to attach himself to the thick-necked gov's campaign might be mutually beneficial. But no matter the sum raised, the fundraiser has one major consequence: cash drummed up by Facebook (and you) now has political meaning.


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So, what lazy green thing have I been up to this week? I signed up to follow AltUse on facebook. That way, when they tell me some wacky way to reuse something or a new way to use something simple and organic and it's not crazy, it will stick in my head and I'll waste less. It doesn't really get much lazier than simply following something on Facebook, does it? I never claimed I was a go-getter.
Also, I really loved this article over at Styleture about Sustainable Interior Design. Check it out here.
Now, for the sustainable product of the week….drumroll please…
I LOVE the Vitra Cork Stools. I love that there are three shapes, though I kinda wish there were four, just to even things out. The top one reminds me of fungi, and the bottom two remind me of chess pieces. I think it would be really cute to have two pairs of them around a kids table, since they are only 13″ high. This is also good coffee table height, and end table height if they are next to a low modern sofa or daybed. I have to say, the pricetag forces me to think of these more like functional art in the form of sculpture, but when I pick my favorite products, I have no budget constraints holding me back.
So what makes these eco-friendly? Cork. Cork is a natural product harvested from trees in the Mediterranean basin of Spain and Portugal. While many people think cork is a new technology, it has actually been used for thousands of years. Unlike hardwood, the useful part of a cork tree is the bark, not the lumber of the tree itself. Cork is only retrieved from mature cork trees and is limited to being harvested in 9 year cycles so that the same tree can harvested for generations making it an environmentally friendly resource


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This is a buddy lee doll I found a flea market in Los Angeles. The doll is in excellent condition except for two small cracks along the sides of the neck.
I have been researching and I can find no information or pictures of this doll online. I have found some Pepsi Buddy Lee replicas, but they have different outfits and and a marking on the bottom of the foot numbering them. This one has no such markings.
I have read that Lee released a Pepsi Salesman version at some point, but as I mentioned, I can find no pictures or information on it. I have another Buddy Lee doll from the late 40's and is of a hard plastic, this one is shorter and I believe is of the original Composite material (which would place it at pre-1949). It is much heavier.
Any information on whether or not this is an original Buddy Lee or what year it is from would be greatly appreciated.
If it is an original, I am sure I got a good deal on it, but regardless, I am also curious to wether or not it has any value.
Thanks for the help!!


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CNET's Daniel Terdiman says Twitter is starting to look more and more like Instagram, Facebook's mobile photo-sharing app.
It's true.
In recent days, Twitter added Instagram-style filtering to its photos and made it so that on some mobile apps, photos appear right in the stream without an extra click or tap.
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The collapse of the Soviet Union flooded the art market with works of often uncertain provenance. German and Israeli police now believe they have broken up a "cartel" suspected of selling hundreds of Russian avant-garde forgeries worth tens of millions.
Dusk was falling over the foothills of the Ural Mountains as art lovers from Perm, 1,150 kilometers (700 miles) east of Moscow, witnessed a minor sensation. On this evening in May 2005, the state-run art gallery on Komsomolskiy Prospekt presented a series of spectacular Russian avant-garde masterpieces that had unexpectedly re-emerged from the dim recesses of history. Among these works were a composition by El Lissitzky, a "Portrait of a Woman in Blue" by Aristarkh Lentulov and a painting by Kazimir Malevich that had been unknown until then even within the art world.
This extravagant exhibition came from the private collection of a mysterious businessman named Edik Natanov, an art lover who attended the show's opening in a dark suit and black T-shirt, presenting his motivations as altruistic. "I wanted to show people something they had never seen before," Natanov told a television crew, smiling modestly.
Perm's art enthusiasts didn't get to see the jewel of Natanov's collection, though. "K19," an avant-garde effusion of color bearing Wassily Kandinsky's well-preserved signature, was at an auction house in Milan at that moment, where it was up for sale for several million euros.
In this oil painting, dated 1919, respected Moscow art professor Valery Turchin believed he recognized not only Kandinsky's complex visual language, but also the "erratic glow of spiritualized matter." Additionally, Turchin wrote in an exhibition catalogue, the work contained unmistakable religious references to the apocalypse and the Last Judgment.
The secular justice system, however, was not quite so effusive in its praise of the supposed masterpiece. In fact, a Milan criminal court ruled earlier this year that "K19" was nothing but a forgery. Working on behalf of the Italian court, appraisers had determined that the purported Kandinsky could "hardly" have been painted in 1919 and must have originated decades after the artist's death, in 1944. In fact, they found that some of the paint on the canvas was "not even completely dry."
Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), headquartered in Wiesbaden, has taken an interest in the case as well. BKA investigators believe that two of Natanov's long-standing business partners, who sought to sell the purported Kandinsky painting in Italy, are the "marketing directors" of a cartel that, in their view, has flooded the art market with forged works of Russian avant-garde artists. According to the BKA, this group "operates internationally" and has sold at least 400 paintings, each for "four- to seven-figure euro sums" and generally to private collectors. The total profits from such activities -- if the BKA's suspicions prove true -- reach at least into the double-digit millions.
This places the art world at the cusp of a new forgery scandal sure to overshadow all previous ones. In the past, forgers tended to focus primarily on the oeuvre of individual artists. Wolfgang Beltracchi, for example, hoodwinked the art world with works in the style of Max Ernst and Heinrich Campendonk, while a would-be German "count" put several hundred Giacometti forgeries into circulation.
But now an entire epoch -- the Russian avant-garde -- has become suspect. The market is flooded with works from the first decades of the 20th century that are said to have been newly discovered. But few can prove their provenance beyond a doubt.
There are historical reasons for this chaos. After the 1917 October Revolution, Soviet museums acquired avant-garde works en masse. Some painters, including Malevich, even made copies of their own works to meet the production goals of Lenin's massive state. Then, under Joseph Stalin, the only works of art that counted were eye-catching, monumental pieces in the Socialist realist style, while the abstract work of avant-garde artists was denounced as "decadent and bourgeois."
The flourishing trade in Russian avant-garde art didn't take off in a big way until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the "rediscovered" paintings often had thrilling stories to back them up. Some came from secret government warehouses, one hears, while others were carefully hidden family possessions.
Operation Malefiz
While investigating suspected money laundering, agents of Lahav 433, a new law-enforcement organization known as the "Israeli FBI," stumbled upon this scene more or less by chance. They discovered that some of their suspects were apparently also dealing in art forgeries. When they discovered a gallery in the western German city of Wiesbaden that they suspected of crooked dealings, they brought their counterparts at Germany's BKA into the investigation.
In a covert operation, German and Israeli police monitored telephone conversations and email correspondence while tracing shady cash flows around the globe. In June, the investigators finally struck in a concerted action under the code name "Malefiz" (the name of a German board game, but also an obsolete word for a crime or misdeed). They searched apartments, galleries and offices in both Israel and Germany, froze Swiss bank accounts and confiscated hundreds of works of art.
In a single furniture store in Wiesbaden, BKA agents discovered nearly 1,000 suspicious paintings, drawings and watercolors that were apparently being stored for future sale. The storeroom was not climate controlled and lacked any special security system -- hardly a way to store goods worth millions.
The raid led to the arrest of two art dealers, Itzhak Z., 67, and Moez Ben H., 41, identified in this way due to German privacy laws. According to the files on their case, the two are strongly suspected of "fraudulently selling for profit forged Russian avant-garde works of art presumably produced in Israel and Russia." Among the two suspects' offerings were works from the same "Natanov Collection" that had caused such a stir at the 2005 exhibition in Perm.
A 'Family Inheritance'
That collection, also the source of the supposed Kandinsky painting "K19," was largely unknown to German art experts. Only the small art magazine Artprofil devoted a lengthy article to this "private, museum-quality art collection." According to the article, Edik Natanov hails from a distinguished family from Samarkand, Uzbekistan, that has collected art "for generations."
The grandfather, Mikhail, was supposedly a "well-traveled scholar" who headed a collective farm during the Soviet era, acquiring most of the works in the current art collection in the 1950s. After his death, according to Artprofil, these paintings passed into the hands of his son and then, in 1995, to his grandson Edik.
Whether that story is truth or fiction, the fact remains that, in early July 2002, five items from the collection, including the dubious Kandinsky, turned up on loan to an art museum in Pereslavl-Zalessky, a town 140 kilometers (87 miles) northeast of Moscow. The delivery receipt was signed by Edik Natanov.
At the time, the heir of this putative art fortune was president of a diamond trading company based in Israel while also getting involved in the gallery business in Wiesbaden. In August 2002, he founded his own art dealership together with Itzhak Z., who is now in prison, and another partner, Daniel S.
The three business partners rented upscale commercial space in a historic building on Wiesbaden's Taunusstrasse and invested several hundred thousand euros in renovations, with the plan of creating an exclusive exhibition space. They also installed a walk-in safe for the paintings in the building's cellar. And they were quick to give their company an international-sounding name, combining the first letters of each of their last names to call themselves "SNZ Galeries," although they evidently failed to note that in English the word "galleries" is spelled with two l's.
Fake It Till You Make ItBy this point, the trade in Russian avant-garde art was in full swing. By March 2002, a piece from the "Natanov Collection" found its way to an auction house in Frankfurt. This constructivist portrait, titled "The Writer" and supposedly painted by Nadezhda Udaltsova between 1915 and 1920, was valued at 100,000 ($130,000). But then, the auctioneer recalls, he received a call telling him the painting was a fake. To be on the safe side, he pulled it from the auction.
Business got better as time went on. In 2004, the Triton Foundation, an art foundation established by a wealthy Dutch couple that had made its fortune in shipping, purchased a "Natanov" piece, "Dynamic Composition" by Alexandra Exter. Several hundred thousand euros are believed to have changed hands.
According to a Russian exhibition catalogue published in 2003, at that time, Natanov's collection included at least 18 Russian avant-garde pieces, including two Malevich works, two Jawlenskys and the supposed Kandinsky composition "K19."
It was with this last painting that Itzhak Z., Natanov's fellow gallery owner, evidently hoped to make millions. Original Kandinskys come onto the market only rarely -- and they fetch top prices.
The hurdles that must be cleared to make such a sale, however, are high. Any piece that hasn't received approval from the Paris-based Société Kandinsky is more or less impossible to sell on the established art market. The society, founded by Kandinsky's widow, Nina, keeps close watch over the artist's body of work, and auction houses only accept pieces listed in the society's catalogue.
"K19" didn't have that stamp of approval. So, to sell the painting, Natanov's business partners needed a broker who could connect them with the gray market.
Business Ups and Downs
One such man was an Italian named Andrea N. At the time, N. was working for a gallery in Paris that bought and sold works by Modigliani and Picasso, but he was not averse to doing a little business on the side. In exchange for a hefty commission, N. agreed to look for a buyer for "K19."
In February 2005, Moez Ben H. traveled to Paris. He was executive director of SNZ Galeries at the time and had talked up the fabled Kandinsky work to Andrea N. on an earlier visit. This time, he brought the masterpiece with him, handing it over to the Italian middleman at his apartment on Avenue Emile Zola, on the Left Bank of the Seine.
Andrea N. stored the painting in his wardrobe. His housemate kept an eye on the valuable artwork whenever he was out, N. later told the court, since he was a writer and "only left the apartment to run errands."
Soon it seemed N. had found a way to market the painting. He took "K19" out of the wardrobe, packed it and flew with it to Italy. The supposedly valuable Kandinsky work made the journey in the cargo hold, packed in among the other passengers' suitcases. In Milan, N. met up with a former antiques dealer who ran a small auction house on Corso Garibaldi. The dealer showed "K19" to several prospective buyers over the course of the following months, but no one wanted to buy it.
The gallery owners back in Wiesbaden didn't let that stop them. Having finally finished renovations on their exhibition space on Taunusstrasse, they threw a grand opening party attended by the local smart set on November 7, 2006. Meanwhile, the demand for unknown Russian avant-garde works seemed to be increasingly, and this included paintings from the "Natanov Collection." In April 2007, for example, the "Composition" supposedly painted by Alexandra Exter around 1913 sold at auction in Berlin for a possibly record-breaking 310,000.
Then SNZ Galeries received good news from Milan: A wealthy businessman was willing to pay 3 million for "K19." The painting was delivered to the businessman's office in late 2007 in exchange for collateral in the form of securities ostensibly worth millions of euros.
But disagreements arose over the payment, as it seems both sides of the deal were not above using tricks. While the businessman wanted to pay for the alleged Kandinsky with shares in an American real estate fund, Natanov's business associate Z. wanted to see cash. An intermediary, apparently worried about his commission, filed charges against the buyer, claiming his securities turned out to be useless junk.
In July 2008, when Italian police arrived at the businessman's office to retrieve the painting for the seller, the erstwhile buyer retorted that it was a forgery anyway. In the end, police confiscated the painting -- and launched a criminal investigation of everyone involved.
Things went downhill from there for the Wiesbaden gallery. Former employees say Z. began visiting the local gambling hall more frequently and that Natanov was nowhere to be found. Moez Ben H. resigned as executive director in late 2009 and, a year later, the leaderless company was forced to abandon its premises. H. went on to become a seller of secondhand goods in Wiesbaden.
Unanswered Questions
But the BKA uncovered further shady business dealings. H. and Z. are suspected of having sold at least seven more forgeries of Russian avant-garde art since 2011, for a total of over 2.53 million. Six of these supposed masterpieces -- including three by Natalia Goncharova, one by Malevich and another by Lissitzky -- ended up in Spain. A collector in Germany's Rhineland region paid 450,000 for another painting, this one in the style of Lyubov Popova.
Proving whether these and other recovered paintings are indeed forgeries will require the BKA to conduct extensive investigations -- and a separate one for each individual work. The only piece so far proven to be a fake is the purported Kandinsky.
Investigators still need to determine where the fakes were made and how many people painted them. At least some of the paintings, investigators believe, may have been produced by a 53-year-old painter in St. Petersburg, who was caught in the act of forging three paintings simultaneously in Tel Aviv on January 13.
Natanov, meanwhile, has publicly and repeatedly stressed that he had his artworks extensively appraised for authenticity, although he claimed to trust "only experts from Russia."
Was the collector deceived by his business associates? Or did he know about their activities and decide to offer up his family history to lend a credible legend to their forgeries? German investigators have not charged Natanov with any crime. He claims he no longer has anything to do with this business and that he parted ways with business partner Z. years ago because they supposedly "didn't get along."
Natanov says he "simply left" the supposed Kandinsky, which had "been in the family for years," with Z., and that he "didn't received any money for it, nor did I ask for any." He also says that's just the kind of person he is. He still has his art collection, but he declines to reveal how many pieces are in it.
Defense lawyers for Itzhak Z. and Moez Ben H. likewise declined to comment on the accusations. Both men were tried in Italy, where on February 19, 2013, the third chamber of Milan's criminal court sentenced them to suspended sentences of one year each for their involvement in the sale of the forged Kandinsky. The verdicts, however, are not yet legally binding.
As for "K19," the painting is now stored alongside confiscated antiques in a slightly dilapidated side room of a former imperial residence in Monza, a city just north of Milan. The residence serves as an evidence storage facility for the Carabinieri, Italy's paramilitary police force.
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Total Time: About 1 hour, 10 minutes, plus 20 minutes cooling time and 30 minutes to bake extra stuffing as pudding.
Note: The cornbread is best made a day in advance. This recipe makes more stuffing than the average turkey can take, but the extra can be made into a cornbread pudding as indicated below, or just drizzled with a cup of chicken stock and baked.
1 cup coarse yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2teaspoon salt
3/4cup buttermilk
1/4cup vegetable oil, plus extra for pan
4 large eggs, divided
1 large onion, finely diced
3 stalks celery with green leaves, finely diced (about 1 1/2 cups)
1 medium red pepper, cored, seeded and diced (about 1 cup)
1/3 cup chopped fresh sage
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
8 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
3 tablespoons minced garlic (about 3 cloves)
3 1/2 cups stemmed, diced shiitake mushrooms ( 1/2 pound)
3 1/2 cups diced andouille sausage or fresh chorizo (1 pound)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup whole milk
1. Heat the oven to 375 degrees.
2. Combine the cornmeal, flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a mixing bowl and toss with a fork to blend. Combine the buttermilk, oil and 2 of the eggs. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and stir until thoroughly mixed but still lumpy. Oil a 9-inch-square baking dish and heat it in the oven for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour the batter into the pan and bake 20 to 25 minutes, until browned and firm. Cool completely before proceeding.
3. Cut the cornbread into 1-inch cubes and place in a large mixing bowl. Add the onion, celery, red pepper, sage and parsley.
4. Melt 6 tablespoons butter in a large saute pan over medium heat. Add the garlic and saute until softened, about 2 to 3 minutes, then add the shiitakes. Cook until soft but not browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer the garlic-mushroom mixture to the bowl with the cornbread.
5. Melt the remaining butter in the saute pan and brown the sausage. Add it to the cornbread mixture. Toss until the ingredients are well blended, then season lavishly with salt and pepper to taste. Cool completely.
6. Fill the neck and body cavities of the turkey with the stuffing.
7. Beat the remaining eggs with the milk and mix with the remaining stuffing. Transfer the pudding mixture to a shallow nonstick baking dish and bake at 350 degrees until set, about 30 minutes.
Each serving: 310 calories; 11 grams protein; 16 grams carbohydrates; 1 gram fiber; 22 grams fat; 9 grams saturated fat; 96 mg. cholesterol; 577 mg. sodium.


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Cake Writing 201: "Congratulations"
"Alright, class, take your seats. We're going to need extra time to review yesterday's quiz, since once again you have all failed to meet even my lowest expectations. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, considering you each barely scraped through Cake Writing 101 - yes, even you, Doug, so stop looking so superior. How you all expect to be professional cake decorators when you can't even spell the most common cake word after 'happy' and 'birthday' is beyond me. Seriously, what do I have to do? Spell it out for you? Oh wait, that's right: I ALREADY HAVE!!
"Laura, so help me, if you run blubbering to the bathroom one more time I am going to fail your cotton candy rear faster than you can say "contralulations". Which, incidentally, is what you wrote on your cake:"
"And Laura? What in the name of all things holy is UP with that apostrophe? Does Ronan belong to Contralulation, whatever that is? Oh for goodness' sake...here, take a Kleenex. I don't see what you're crying about, though; I'm the one saddled with teaching you bunch of imbeciles.
"Ah, Chris, I see this isn't quite so funny to you now, is it? Mr. Chuckles looks a little worried! Could it be because you made the EXACT same mistake as Laura?"
"Who's the big man now, Chris? Huh?
"And Katie, could you please remind the class of the very first thing I said to you all when we started last week? Oh, I'm sorry; you don't remember? Well, obviously you don't remember, Katie, because what I said was 'there is no 'd' in congratulations'."
"Way to go, Katie; you inserted a 'd' and omitted the 'i'. Now, class, 'omitted' means 'left out' - I don't want all these big fancy words to overtax your teensy little brains.
"Sarah, this looks like 'Congratwat Jody Clarry'."
"Maybe if you would stop focusing on your cutesy little flowers for a few seconds, you could attempt to center your inscription, eh? How's that sound? Honestly, class, have you undergone some massive brain-wipe since The Art of Spacing? Do you remember NOTHING that I taught you?!?"
[breathing deeply]
"Alright, moving on: Doug, let's take a look at your cake:"
"Say, Doug, why don't you do us a favor and just say the word you wrote here, hmm? No, really, I want to hear you pronounce it. Go ahead.
"I'm waiting, Doug. No? Nothing? I see.
"And finally, there's Beth's cake:"
"Beth here apparently thinks my years spent teaching have left me blind as a bat. Wow, it's like I can't even SEE that gaping hole between the 't' and the 'u', Beth! And I certainly would never notice the 's' is missing, or the fact that the 'g' stands out more than my wife at an anorexics anonymous meeting. Nope, this cake looks A OK to me!
"Well, since I'm obviously not getting through to you numskulls, we're just going to have to try a slightly less traditional teaching method. The metal pens you see before you are not airbrushes, class; they're tattoo pens. Now, pay VERY close attention, because you're really going to want to get this next bit right..."
Becky W., Claudine, Katy B., Liz P., and Terricha, class dismissed!


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With The Avengers hitting theaters this summer, audiences are eagerly anticipating a chiseled parade of superhuman beefcake saving the world, not unlike if the Chippendales were conscripted as U.N. Peacekeepers. But did you know that Marvel Comics actually rated The Avengers according to hotness two decades ago?
It's true! In November 1989's Avengers West Coast Annual #4, writer Mark Gruenwald and artist Amanda Connor produced a short story titled "Rate the Hunks!" In this tale, Avengers heroines The Wasp and She-Hulk unsparingly ranked their male colleagues according to comeliness.
Given that "Rate the Hunks!" was penned 22 years ago, we here at io9 have contributed our own latter-day scores to represent modern ideals of masculine beauty. Welcome to one of the strangest back-up tales in superhero history.
Before we begin, here's Wasp's own explanation of her scoring system.
A "1" barely qualifies the guy for manhood, let alone hunkdom. Avoid them at all costs! EUUUWW! I'm talking about major league barf-bags like Attuma and Thanos! [...] And a "10" is a guy who's godly in hunkiness, someone you'd do anything — and I do mean anything for.
See, right off the bat, I take umbrage with these ratings. Thanos looks boss in a swimsuit, like a jacked California Raisin (and Adam Warlock's obviously hidden the Infinity Gauntlet in his swim-breeches). But enough of my bellyaching, here's the main show.
Thor: 2
Sure, Thor has the visage of Gunnar Nelson in his prime, the calves of a mastodon with gigantism, and the hat of a floral wire service. But as this Tumblr so aptly demonstrates, life with Thor would be like the three seashells scene from Demolition Man ad infinitum. And do you think Thor understands the intricacies of human courtship? In Asgard, foreplay requires a mighty wallow in the spoor of Ratatoskr the bore-toothed squirrel who dwells upon the world tree Yggdrasil.
Iron Man: 8
I love how depictions of superheroes' alter egos change with the times. For example, illustrations of Tony Stark nowadays include a hint of Robert Downey Jr.
But according to The Wasp, the Iron Man of 1989 was Magnum fucking P.I. Mr. Baseball in a cybernetic exoskeleton! You win, 22 years ago.
Captain America: 3
I really enjoyed last year's Captain America movie because it reminded me of an adult film with all the nude scenes excised. Like Pirates! It had that glossiness that suggested the movie was filmed on a San Fernando soundstage, and scenes of the Red Skull and Arnim Zola at Oktoberfest spilling steins for Fräuleins Gone Verruckt were only accessible if you walked through the cowboy doors at your neighborhood video store.
But back to Cap. Yeah, he looks like Chris Evans these days. And that's a good thing! Who wouldn't want a tussle with Mace from Sunshine? But remember, this was 1989. Sex with Captain America would be like intercourse with Johnny Appleseed or Uncle Sam. His pillow talk is a stern reprimand to always close your icebox.
Quicksilver: 8
When I was a kid, I thought Quicksilver was essentially Steve Martin with Wolverine's haircut. Such early impressions are hard to shake.
Hawkeye: 10
As She-Hulk notes, Hawkeye has "a cute tush." This is canon, people. Also, Hawkeye is one of the few guys on this list who won't bear you children with squid tentacles growing out of their foreheads.
Hercules: 6
Minor digression — when I first started reading comics, I similarly assumed that the "Marvel Comics' headband/face latex" fashion as sported by heroes like Gambit and Havok was the pinnacle of grown-up fashion. Like, we'd be wearing those head condoms to weddings and board meetings. Hercules is sporting this look, so he wins points.
Black Panther: 9
Everyone always seems to gloss over that the Black Panther gets his powers after being anointed from head-to-toe with a rare herb.
That means one of two things — he either A.) never has body odor or B.) always smells like pesto. I could live with both options.
Vision: 10
Lay off it, you two. Remember, even an android can cry. At this point in his career, Vision wore the most stain-prone costume in comic book history. That's confidence you can't program.
Here are the rest of The Wasp and She-Hulk's ratings. As much as I'd love to hypothesize what Doctor Druid looks like without his eldritch pajamas, whether or not Namor's shoulder blades have the bouquet of Vlasic dill, or if Quasar stole his costume from a middle school production of Jesus Christ Superstar, the news cycle does not wait for profound ruminations on The Falcon's overall-shaped tan lines. Also, I'm pretty sure this song was blasting in Gilgamesh's head 24/7.
Via CBR. Top images from the Marvel Swimsuit issues, which were an entirely different, much stranger affair.


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Quick Thoughts On Canadian Legal Ruling
There was an important ruling today on accessibility from the Canadian Federal Court that is worth a read.
A blind woman filed suit against the government of Canada stating that the government "violated her rights under section 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Part I of the Constitution Act, 1982". In short the findings of the court were that many web sites for the Canadian government are not meeting the Common Look and Feel standard (CLF). The Court found that the government should update the CLF standard to utilize WCAG 2.0 instead of WCAG 1.0 and that there is sufficient evidence of compliance problems that need to be addressed that the Court found that the applicant was discriminated against due to the need to access information and apply for employment via these websites. The Court is allowing the government 15 months to come into compliance.
There are a couple of points raised in the ruling and in a Globe and Mail online article (Court orders Ottawa to make websites accessible to blind) that I would like to clarify. The points are as follows:
- From the ruling: "The applicant testified that in June 2007 she attempted to access information on the consumer price index and unemployment rate from the Statistics Canada website. She stated that actual statistics were, however, only available in "pdf" format, which is not accessible to screen reader technology."
- From the ruling: [reported by a witness for the applicant] "…for example, "flash" is a technology that cannot be read by many screen readers. If a website uses "flash" technology, the user will not be able to access that content…"
- From the Globe and Mail article: "Many blind people use screen readers, computer software that translates electronic text into audio. But the readers aren't foolproof — for one thing, most can't decipher PDF files, a format often used to publish documents online."
None of these is accurate. Even in 2007, most screen readers could read PDF and Flash capably. In fact, the screen reader used by the applicant was capable of reading both PDF and Flash. The points above indicate that most screen readers can't read PDF or Flash, but it is more accurate to say that most can, including JAWS, Window-Eyes, NVDA, and others. Adobe provides a "read out loud" feature in Adobe Reader that provides basic access to PDF documents, but most users who are blind will depend on a more full-featured assistive technology.
This is not to suggest that the applicant didn't encounter challenges, she clearly did. Authors of HTML web pages, as well as authors of PDF documents and Flash content need to make sure that they follow accessibility standards, and if authors don't, users suffer.
We have techniques available for complying with WCAG 2.0 when authoring Flash, HTML, and techniques for PDF are in the works (there are training resources available for PDF at Adobe's accessibility site in the meantime). The information that authors need is available, this ruling will undoubtedly stimulate an increased interest in these sources of information.
Adobe is committed to helping authors comply with accessibility requirements, whether using HTML, PDF, or Flash. Here's a few links to relevant information:
- Dreamweaver (HTML authoring): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/dreamweaver/index.html
- Acrobat (PDF authoring): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/acrobat/
- Flash Professional (Flash authoring): http://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash/