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"President Obama Can Redeem the White House"
Alice Walker is the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. But Monday, I called her to talk about a true story. The Obamas had just visited the White House. The first African-American elected president of the United States had visited his soon-to-be residence, a house built by slaves.
"Organizer in Chief"
You could almost hear the world's collective sigh of relief. This year's U.S. presidential election was a global event in every sense. Barack Hussein Obama, the son of a black Kenyan father and a white Kansan mother, who grew up in Indonesia and Hawaii, represents to so many a living bridge—between continents and cultures.
Studs Terkel, 1912-2008
The legendary radio broadcaster, writer and oral historian Studs Terkel has died at the age of 96 in Chicago. Over the years Terkel has been a regular guest on Democracy Now!
In 2005, Studs Terkel appeared on Democracy Now! shortly after undergoing open heart surgery. He told Amy Goodman, "My curiosity is what saw me through. What would the world be like, or will there be a world? And so, that's my epitaph. I have it all set. Curiosity did not kill this cat. And it's curiosity, I think, that has saved me thus far."
"Election Protection"
Election Day approaches, and with it a test of our election system's integrity. Who will be allowed to vote; who will be barred? Who will get paper ballots; who will use electronic voting machines? Will polls be open long enough to accommodate what is expected to be a historic turnout?
"Change Big Donors Can Believe In"
The candidates' coffers are swelling with larger and larger bundles of cash, but don't hold your breath waiting for the extended television discussions of this, because it's the broadcasters who profit the most.
"Mickey Mouse Won't Try To Vote"
The 2008 presidential election may see the highest participation in U.S. history. Voter registration organizations and local election boards have been overwhelmed by enthusiastic people eager to vote. But not everyone is happy about this blossoming of democracy.
"Open the Debates"
The reviews are in, and the latest U.S. presidential debate, the "town hall" from Nashville, Tenn., was a snore. One problem is that in a debate it is important for the debaters to actually disagree. Yet Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain substantively agree on many issues. That is one major reason that the debates should be open, and that major third-party or independent candidates should be included.
"Invasion of the Sea-Smurfs"
A little-noticed story surfaced a couple of weeks ago in the Army Times newspaper about the 3rd Infantry Division's 1st Brigade Combat Team. "Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months," reported Army Times staff writer Gina Cavallaro, "the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." Disturbingly, she writes that "they may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control" as well.
Amy Goodman First Journalist to Win "Alternative Nobel"
New York City, NY – Award-winning journalist and host of Democracy Now! Amy Goodman is the first journalist to receive the Right Livelihood Award, widely recognized as the world's premier award for personal courage and social transformation. The annual prize, also known as the Alternative Nobel, will be awarded in the Swedish Parliament on December 8, 2008.
"Troy Davis and the Supreme Decision"
Troy Anthony Davis was scheduled to die by lethal injection Tuesday. Two hours before the state of Georgia was to execute him, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a stay until Monday. It had earlier agreed to hear Davis' case on Sept. 29, but Georgia set his execution date six days before the hearing.
Charges Dropped Against DN! Journalists–Investigation Needed
The St. Paul City Attorney's office announced Friday it will not prosecute Democracy Now! journalists Amy Goodman, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman also issued a statement Friday that "the city will decline to prosecute misdemeanor charges for presence at an unlawful assembly for journalists arrested during the Republican National Convention."
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"Wall Street Socialists"
The financial crisis gripping the U.S. has the largest banks and insurance companies begging for massive government bailouts. The banking, investment, finance and insurance industries, long the foes of taxation, now need money from working-class taxpayers to stay alive. Taxpayers should be in the driver's seat now. Instead, decisions that will cost people for decades are being made behind closed doors, by the wealthy, by the regulators and by those they have failed to regulate.
Democracy Now! in Canada
The number of stations carrying Democracy Now! has currently reached a total of 39, including Quebec, Alberta and Nunavut. Find out more about the outreach efforts happening in Canada today!
Peace and Social Justice activists bring DN! to Evanston, Illinois
Peace and Social Justice activists in Evanston, Illinois had been stymied for years when they approached Evanston Community TV requesting that it air Democracy Now. But with persistence and dedication they were finally able to get Democracy Now! on the air. Read their story and learn how you can work to get Democracy Now! in your city.
"The Party Police"
The Democratic and Republican national conventions have passed, but controversy surrounds how they were funded and how they were run.
"Why We Were Falsely Arrested"
Government crackdowns on journalists are a true threat to democracy. As the Republican National Convention meets in St. Paul, Minn., this week, police are systematically targeting journalists.
"Poverty Is the Real Scandal"
Former Sen. John Edwards was supposed to speak in Denver at the Democratic National Convention, but he had an affair. Will the Democrats now forget about his signature issue?
"Cheney, Bush and Habbush"
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is on a book tour, where she is being hounded by activists and questioned about her pledge that "impeachment is off the table." She responded on the TV talk show "The View," "If somebody had a crime that the president had committed, that would be a different story." Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind may have provided the evidence she doesn't want to see.
"Don't Cage Dissent"
Open opposition, the right to challenge those in power, is a mainstay of any healthy democracy. The Democratic and Republican conventions will test the commitment of the two dominant U.S. political parties to the cherished tradition of dissent. Things are not looking good.
By Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan
"Don't make history a mystery" read one of the signs at a rally in Jefferson County, Colo. High-school students in this suburban district have been walking out of class en masse to protest the planned censorship of the district's Advanced Placement United States history curriculum by the local school board.
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RIP to one of the game's fiercest warriors. :(
WTF? The woman killed with him wasn't his wife.
Not expected out of a family man with 4 kids.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former NFL quarterback Steve McNair was shot multiple times, including once in the head, and a pistol was discovered near the body of the 20-year-old woman found dead with him Saturday in a downtown condominium.
ESPN said he had multiple gunshot wounds and the female had one. The gun was found near the female. Also said they arrested the female earlier last week for a DUI in which he was the passenger of the car. Sounds like a murder / suicide to me. Very scorned woman.......RIP
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Matt Bomer currently stars in the USA network hit series, White Collar, which is now in its third season. The show has turned Bomer into a star. Bomer, who recently co-starred with Justin Timberlake in the action Sci-Fi flick, In Time, has two other films currently in the works. Bomer's fan base is growing at a fast rate.
Bomer told us that he feels the impact of being on a television series, and enjoys fans coming up to him when he is not working and talking about the show and even taking pictures with him.
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How Google Leeches from the Long Tail in the Centripetal Web
How Google Leeches from the Long Tail in the Centripetal Web
For four years, I'd been a happy user of Bloglines, an RSS feed service
owned by Ask.com since 2005. Then a funny thing happened a month or so ago.
Feeds to my Wall Street Journal subscription, the New York Times, Reuters and several other sites I troll daily to support my coverage became inaccessible.
My complaint e-mail to Bloglines' support team went unanswered. Did someone at Ask.com lay off the Bloglines team and forget to tell us? I spent a few days manually going to the absent sites, hoping the power would come back on for my missing feeds. No such luck.
So, around the time September slid into October, I turned to Google Reader, and even though Bloglines allegedly has remedied its balky ways, I haven't looked back.
In fact, I found myself wondering why I hadn't switched to Google Reader sooner. I use Google for general search and blog search, and I use Google's Gmail. I spend a portion of my work day reading Google's blogs for news bits. Wouldn't it make sense to go whole hog with Google for the Web services I need? I'll come back to that idea.
Earlier this week, I read a post on Nicholas Carr's Rough Type blog that perfectly summed up my position. It's called "The Centripetal Web," and it's a must-read.
Carr noted that while the majority of us a few years ago stumbled upon new sites via Yahoo or AltaVista, our laziness increased. We became Web congregators instead of Web surfers, hewing to a few sites whose popularity was enhanced by search algorithms.
Google Takes Control
Sites such as Wikipedia and Google increasingly became the de facto destinations for information and we became casualties of the centripetal Web, as Carr wrote:
Yes, we still journey out to the far reaches of the still-expanding info-universe, but for most of us, most of the time, the World Wide Web has become a small and comfortable place. Indeed, statistics indicate that Web traffic is becoming more concentrated at the largest sites, even as the overall number of sites continues to increase, and one recent study found that as people's use of the Web increases, they become 'more likely to concentrate most of their online activities on a small set of core, anchoring Web sites.'
Google has had the search algorithms going for a
decade now, but the company has for the last five years been rapidly expanding
its Internet domain through Web services.
Text search retrieval wasn't enough, so Google added universal search to include content we'd normally look for elsewhere, such as blogs, pictures and YouTube video. Search wasn't enough, so Google bought a blog syndication site and created an Apps suite, complete with Web-based mail and a wiki.
Which leads me back to my situation. Why do I need to go to new sites if Google is going to make it easier for me to find the information I need, or execute tasks and conduct communications from one place? Google has dozens of data centers all over the world, and thus boasts the biggest scalability potential in the history of the Internet.
Outages happen, even for Google. But, unlike Bloglines, Google's hiccups haven't affected me (commence finger crossing now).
The existence of Google Reader means I no longer have to suffer the misfortunes of poor service from long-tail sites such as Bloglines. Bloglines is as dead to me.
Does that mean the long tail (shudder) is dead? It might as well be. Carr said the long tail remains an "elegant and instructive theory, but it already feels dated, a description of the Web as we once imagined it to be rather than as it is."
Farewell, long tail. We hardly knew ye.


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Definition of skinny-dip in English:
skinny-dipSyllabification: skin·ny-dip
Pronunciation: /ˈskinēˌdip/
verb[no object] informal
Swim naked.
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A naked swim.
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A promising comedy that goes awry all too early, But I'm a Cheerleader concerns a misunderstood high school kid (Natasha Lyonne) whose parents send her to a harsh, homosexual-rehabilitation camp despite a lack of evidence that she's gay. Ruled with an iron fist by a fascist counselor (Cathy Moriarty), the clinic only drives Lyonne's character toward an attraction to a rebellious tomboy (Clea DuVall), though screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson and director Jamie Babbit are curiously intent on keeping the two apart and depriving the audience of other comic possibilities. Meanwhile, hoary clichés abound: prancing boys, butch gays, lipstick lesbians. Despite a fine cast full of young talent, and cameo appearances by Julie Delpy and RuPaul Charles, this attempt to skewer a present-day trend in "curing" homosexuals of their sexual preferences is flattened by stereotypes and unimaginative thinking. --Tom Keogh
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The executive at Baby Plan Medical Technology Company Knows the camera is on.
"Working as a surrogate mother is better than being a prostitute, right?"
He says to a 30-year-old farmer turned surrogate mother in Wuhan. The comparison gives a small glimpse about how the surrogacy industry see's itself: better than prostitution.
The woman listening, a 30-year-old divorcee, surnamed Kong is renting her womb to the surrogacy agency for roughly $24,000.
While it is illegal in China to implant a fertilized egg into another woman's womb, Baby Plan Medical Technology Company avoids the issue by sending its surrogates to Thailand for the medical procedure. "All is permissible unless prohibited," says CEO Zenan Yang. While the company exists in a legally gray area, opinions about surrogacy on the street seem less gray.
In "China Experiences a Booming Underground Market in Child Surrogacy" Ian Johnson explores the murky world of surrogacy in China.


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" Mustek MDC 3000 - Digital camera - 2.1 Mpix / 3.1 Mpix (interpolated) - supported memory: CF - black, silver "
MUSTEK MDC3000 I was looking for a low-cost high resolution camera at least 2.0 MP that was less than $100 that I could use for 60-90 days until I get a Sony Cybershot camera that I expect to win in a contest at work. The primary purpose of buying this camera was for jobsite product shots and family photos that are higher resolution than my Sony NX70V which is only 300K resolution. My NX70V camera is convenient but is low resolution(300K) and has memory storage challenges unless I purchase a larger memory stick or CF card. I am waiting until Sony introduces new replacements for the NX series(which is doubtful) or the new UX series (which I like) but waiting to see what's new. Since I already have a 256MG CF card and several 128MG Memory sticks that I use with my NX70V I saw the Mustek's CF capability as an advantage especially since it included one 16MG CF card with the camera. I considered another lowcost digital camera that was selling for $80USD but it did not have removable storage(it was integrated)and by the time I purchased another CF card and batteries it would have cost much more than the MDC3000's sell price of $99.99. My expectations for this camera were low, however, except for some issues transferring images to my PC (software is slow and buggy) the photo images were acceptable. Overall, this camera was the best value based on my requirements of buying a low-cost, high resolution (vs. NX70V's 300K low res camera), complete package and portable size. Originally the Micro Center sales person told me about the Mustek camera and said it was $80 which is what got my attention. However, it turned out that the $80 camera was another manufacturer and did not have removable storage (it was integrated) and did not include batteries. When I compared the costs between the $80 model and buying a CF card ($30 USD) and batteries ($5 USD) the Mustek seemed to make the most sense, especially compared to most of the other name brand
3.1 megapixel cameras which were going for around $200+ USD. So far I am happy with the camera but I have not used it at a jobsite yet so I'll see how it performs. The AVIs were fine on my PC but were not easy to view on the camera. The battery consumption seems low but that is probably typical since I experienced the same with another Sony model. This camera says it uses a Sony lens so that's OK with me.
The MDC 3000 is a convenient, point-and-shoot digital still camera with a 1.8" color LCD and auto focus lens. It functions not only as a camera for capturing pictures and short movies, but also as a PC camera for video conferencing and communicating with friends face-to-face. The MDC 3000's bundled software lets you use your creativity while editing and enhancing your images. Its user-friendly design, multiple functions, and bundled software, allow the MDC 3000 to deliver high-quality digital photos and video.
The 1.8" TFT LCD lets you easily configure the settings by OSD and browse your captured pictures with the easy-controller button. MDC 3000 digital camera provides 3 different resolutions for captured images. Digital zoom enlarges your images. The TWAIN interface and Mounter (Viewer Window) enable you to easily transfer images from the camera to the PC for further storage or image editing. The TWAIN interface can be used for more detailed viewing and printing of images, while the Mounter's simple transfer function helps you manage your image files. The MDC 3000 supports the Digital Print Order Format (DPOF) standard, which allows you to select images for printing with a DPOF-compatible printer. A built-in TV-OUT device designed for easily transferring images to your TV that allows you to play slide show, AVI movies for quick and easy viewing right at your TV screen.


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AIDA64 is the best out there :-)
I don't see it doing much, or really terribly important, but that's just me. But I'm interested to know how many displays actually have this VESA standard
So Nvidia came out with a new driver, like, yesterday, that enables DSR for non-Maxwell hardware.
I was trying it and turns out, this feature
Holy shit HyperMatrix this is one of my all time favorite games.
It has some rough edges for sure, and the netcode and lag is pretty bad
I'd probably go with http://www.hwinfo.com/ if making a custom rainmeter isn't your cup of tea.
I'm looking for something I can put on my second monitor and give me info about my temps, voltages, clock speeds, fan speeds, everything I need. I am
this is such crap...
Yes lots of people still play the game. The community is huge.
Knights of the Old Republic. I played it long after it came out. And was amazed by how much I enjoyed it (I avoided RPGs at this time, was more into
You are wasting your time, running at at 67hz will not make any difference at all that you would notice.
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I need more karma to adequately wager on the flyers.
I am in early to collect karma, but I have not and will not bet on games until LA starts scoring.
I have been married for 26 years and I have SCORED more than LA in the last week...jeez.
My birthday game. Go Flyers!
I know defense wins, but I must admit I would rather see 5-4 games rather than 2-0, cause it seems the other team gets 1 or 2 goals and you realize we are done. But at least if you know we can score 4 or 5 we aren't necessarily out of a game when a team scores an early goal.
I will not be around for this game as I will be vacationing on a nice getaway in Big Bear so no bet from me.
But I'll still whore myself out before I go to get some karma from all of you! <3


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Too big to fail? Guerrilla central banking and the last resort
Deciding it was safe to come clean because banks are now on a more even keel and the worst of the credit crisis is behind us, the Bank of England has told the nation that at the height of the turmoil it secretly lent Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS a colossal £62 billion, which is more than the entire British defence budget.
Both banks faced the imminent closure of high street cash machines and the curtailment of normal banking operations across the country.
The Bank said "this was a dire emergency" and Downing Street called the secret lending of taxpayers' money in the Autumn of 2008 "a powerful reminder of how close the banking system came to near collapse."
In Westminster, some MPs were flabbergasted, even though the loans have now been repaid.
from Breakingviews:
Inflation's gonna be OK, says Merv
Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, sees a long, hard road back to the path we thought we were on before the financial crisis broke. Just how long is shown by Chart 2 in Wednesday's Quarterly Inflation Report. The Bank's Monetary Policy Committee does not expect Britain's GDP to return to its peak, 2007, level until 2011, and there's an outside chance that even in 2012, the country's output will be no more than it was in 2006.
This "considerable period" of "sustained weakness of demand" is why the MPC's other fan chart, the "rivers of blood" projections of inflation, looks so benign. The best guess (sorry, "central projection") is plumb on the 2 percent target for the CPI in 2012. We all know, said the Governor, that inflation is going to jump in January, thanks to the combination of dearer fuel and rising VAT, but after that, it should slide gracefully back, wobbling around the target for the next three years.
Bank hedges bets with QE expansion
When the Bank of England decided to expand its quantitative easing policy by 25 billion pounds to 200 billion on Thursday, it was essentially hedging its bets.
After Britain's economy shrank unexpectedly in the third quarter, and with two thirds of the City expecting an expansion to the QE programme, simply shutting off the tap of government bond purchases would risk being more of a shock than the economy could bear.
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Do banks really need to hoard liquidity?
That's the provocative question posed by Willem Buiter. His latest, characteristically lengthy, blog post tackles the regulatory vogue for forcing banks to hold much greater reserves of liquid assets - in practice, government bonds.
Buiter's missive follows new rules from Britain's Financial Services Authority, which will force banks to increase their reserves of government bonds by more than a third. The rules have been met with predictable bleating from the industry, which accuses the regulator of undermining Britain's competitiveness and promoting the fragmentation of the global financial system. Another concern is the FSA's handling of the transition.
Things just got a lot worse for inflation
- David Kuo is director at The Motley Fool. The opinions expressed are his own.-
What is the collective name for a crossing of fingers?
Because that seems to be what the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee members are doing. They are collectively crossing their digits in the hope that they have done enough to steer the UK economy out of recession.
They have pumped billions into the UK economy and it doesn't seem to be having much effect – yet. That is unless you are a banker looking to bolster your balance sheet with freshly minted notes. Banks are happy to swap their assets for the Bank of England's cash but remain unwilling to lend. Additionally, there is still uncertaintyabout the ability of the economy to grow unaided if the central bank should stop printing money.
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So that's why the Bank buys all that government debt
I've found the answer to the monetary puzzle de nos jours. The ritual of the UK Treasury's DMO issuing new government debt one day, only to have the Bank of England buy similar amounts of almost identical stock the next, has puzzled me ever since Quantatitive Easing began.
How much simpler it would be for the Treasury to borrow directly from the Bank - the modern equivalent of running the printing press faster - to pay the government's bills.
Enjoy low inflation while it lasts
- David Kuo is director at the Motley Fool. The opinions expressed are his own.-
If you are not confused you are not paying attention. Those sage words from management guru Tom Peters can be applied to a wide number of economic issues today, but none more so that to the latest inflation figures.
Question is: do we have inflation, deflation or some mixture of the two?
The answer lies in which index you are looking at?
Inflation as measure by the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) has held firm at 1.8 percent. But according to the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which excludes mortgage costs, inflation for July came in at minus 1.4 percent – that's up from minus 1.6 percent in June.
from The Great Debate:
BoE extends QE, fears 1930s re-run
-- John Kemp is a Reuters columnist. The views expressed are his own --
The Bank of England's decision to continue with its asset purchase programme, or quantitative easing (QE), at the rate of 50 billion pounds per quarter in Oct-Dec, unchanged from Jul-Sep, shows bank officials are more worried about ending support for the recovery too soon than about risking inflation by leaving it too late.
The problem with QE is that you have to keep buying the same amount of assets each month to maintain the same monetary stance. With interest rates, the Bank can cut them and they stay cut. If asset prices drop with QE, it represents a tightening of monetary policy.
One cheer for Darling's reforms
– Margaret Doyle is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are her own –
Chancellor Alastair Darling has ignored the first rule of holes: if you're in one, stop digging. He could have produced a few motherhood-and-apple pie reforms of the banking system, to give the impression of activity. Instead, he has dug in, proposing an upgrade of Britain's failed "tripartite" system of regulation.
Hike in interest rates a step closer
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A shopping tag-team sets upon AllSaints Spitalfields, in the meatpacking district.
A shopping tag-team sets upon AllSaints Spitalfields, in the meatpacking district.
The duo behind refined Parisian concept store FrenchTrotters divulge their necessities for the season.
A few clicks are all it takes to find that special gift.
This city, known for its cutting-edge design talent, keeps its avant cred with a slew of new concept stores that offer everything from edgy fashion to high-end furniture to four-star dining.
Monki and Weekday, the sister stores that are Sweden's answer to Topshop and H&M, continue their march through Europe, most recently arriving in the German city of Hamburg, where the shops opened last week.
T Magazine's Senior Editor Sandra Ballentine opens up her little black book of tips on where to go, what to buy and whom to know.
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What To Get: In our email-ridden world, a little bit of thick, creamy card stock goes a long way. Who doesn't appreciate a proper handwritten thank-you note on luscious letterpress-printed paper, or a crisply engraved custom invitation or announcement? Chelsea Shukov and Jamie Grobecker opened their first Sugar Paper store in 2003, and have since added a second location in Brentwood. Over the past few years, the pair's sweetly nostalgic but seriously high-quality stationery has attracted well-mannered Hollywood heavy-hitters like Katie Holmes, Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Garner.
T Magazine's women's fashion director keeps one step ahead of the trends.
I was born in San Francisco — a city I don't get back to often enough. But my sister still lives there, and when I do make it out to visit, I love to walk the streets and check out the local shops. My favorite is MAC (Modern Appealing Clothing) on Grove Street. The owners, Ben and Chris Ospital, recently upgraded to bigger and better digs, and their new space has plenty of room for their two huge dogs, their lush indoor garden, their quirky art installations and a wide variety of coveted men's and women's labels.
MAC carries international stars like Dries Van Noten, Martin Margiela, Tsumori Chisato and even a few names I didn't know, like the Belgian designer Sofie D'Hoore. (I was particularly tempted by the selection of William Morris vintage summer print pieces from Liberty of London.) And then there is the homegrown talent — Dema, Ryan Roberts and Serial Cultura, just to name a few. Instead of paper bags, shoppers take away their purchases in cool canvas totes designed by local artists. (The current one features variations on the word "stash.")
New Orleans's Pied Nu boutique. Having just returned from Prospect.1, New Orleans' groundbreaking new art exhibit (more on that in the forthcoming Holiday issue, coming out Dec. 7), I can report that the city's shopping scene is in full swing. The French Quarter doesn't offer much besides Mardi Gras masks and feather boas. So head […]
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As if the idea of Terminators isn't scary enough we are now finding ways for them to self-heal. Nancy Sottos, an engineer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a new plastic that "bleeds" when it is cut or cracks and then heals itself. The plastic is based on our own body's ability to heal itself. Our bodies are laced with veins, capillaries and other fun stuff that deliver whatever is needed to the site of the injury to help mend it.
Sottos made headline in 2001 for the creation of a healing plastic the used microcapsules filled with liquid resin that were located within the plastic. If the plastic cracked or was cut some of the microcapsules would rupture oozing the liquid resin into the damaged area then hardening. But that wasn't good enough, now she has created materials that have their own microvascular systems that are filled with healing fluids. Some of the channels within the plastic are filled with a liquid resin while others are filled with a curing agent. When cracked it causes the channels that it has broken open to spill their contents into the crack then the curing agent mixes with the liquid resin and forms a hard epoxy that then fills in the crack, fixing that which was broken. The plastic can be broken multiple times but re-heal each time. The liquids can also be replaced should they begin to run out.
The idea is that with this technology we may be able to stop catastrophes before they happen. Normally when a man-made structure fails it doesn't just sudden stop working or fall apart. It happens over time, caused by a small crack that goes unnoticed and eventually weakens the entire structure.
Sotto has created so far self-healing hard plastics and foam and has also created a plastic that pumps the healing liquid directly to the injury, like our own circulatory systems.
Using this microvascular system, Sottos has demonstrated how engineers could lower the temperature of materials by putting water into the channels rather than the healing liquid. This method could eventually be used to make computer chips and other electronics that can monitor and control their own temperature.
But Nancy Sottos isn't the only working on such things. Marek Urban, a polymer scientist at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, and his team have created a self-healing latex that turns red when damaged, much like the blood from a scratch on real skin. Unlike the plastic created by Nancy Sottos, however, Urban's creation must be placed in sunlight before it can heal.
Nissan announced earlier this year that they are working on self-healing iPhone cases. The paint being used on the cases is made with Polyrotaxane, which is special because it's chemical structure has the ability to change back into its original form and filling in all the nooks and crannies within the damaged area, thus healing itself.


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Kiresuk agrees. "When you see what happens to people who are in the stages of withdrawal, you know that this is a very serious affliction," he says. Committed smokers, he says, are "willing to risk death to keep smoking."
Still, the alternative approaches to smoking cessation have a growing number of converts -- and they've turned some cigarette cravers into permanent ex-smokers. A primary benefit of most of these unconventional methods is their ability to empower people to change. "Individuals learn that they have control over their body that they didn't think they had before. It's a learning experience that prepares them to make changes like quitting smoking," says Kiresuk.
Hypnosis: Heightened Awareness
Along with weight management, smoking cessation is the most popular medical use of hypnosis. Using this technique, individuals enter a state of focused attention and concentration and become more susceptible to suggestions that weaken their craving for cigarettes and strengthen their will to stop.
However, when researchers at Ohio State University reviewed nearly five dozen studies of the use of hypnosis for smoking cessation, they concluded that while smokers participating in hypnosis programs were more successful in abstaining from cigarettes than smokers who did not use any stop-smoking intervention, this approach appeared to have no advantages over other popular stop-smoking programs.
"When you look specifically at the well-controlled clinical trials of hypnosis, they have not yet confirmed the benefits of this method," says Timothy Carmody, PhD, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and director of health psychology at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
At UCSF, Carmody and his co-researchers are conducting a carefully designed study to help definitively answer the question of whether hypnosis really works for smoking cessation. All participants are receiving nicotine patches (for eight weeks) and standard behavioral counseling, and half of them also have gone through self-hypnosis training sessions.
These individuals are taught to relax and enter an attentive, receptive state. "Then," says Carmody, "they're given suggestions for focusing on and strengthening their reasons for quitting smoking, and picturing themselves as nonsmokers effectively overcoming and reducing the experience of urges or cravings to smoke." The UCSF participants are being asked to practice the self-hypnosis technique at least once or twice a day, as well as use it as needed to successfully manage situations where they may experience a desire to smoke.
A unique component of the UCSF study is that it is not relying solely on patient self-reports of successful quitting. "Our patients who say they have quit provide a saliva sample, which is analyzed for the presence of cotinine," a chemical byproduct of nicotine, says Carmody.


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Congrats on both bucks!!! I guess I always thought they were a whitetail/mulie cross, never really thought much about it, but I have some friends and cousins that live along the west coast. You got some awesome bucks there!
Mule ears = mule deer ;)
Indeed you are to be commended, those are truly nice deer, esp. for S. California. I know the Blacktails and Mule deer interbreed but did not know they were in a class all by themselves. That makes 6 classifications that I am aware of. Rocky Mtn., Desert, Inyo, Blacktail, California, and now a Pacific Hybred.
All I know any more is the horny one are called bucks and the skin heads are called does. Don't have the legs or lungs to hunt the steep stuff anymore so if it is legal it will taste just fine, ate some tenderloins out of a small one last year and the cut like butter. Guess cause they were seared in butter, garlic and onions med rarer than most.:p
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I feel like ranting so let's talk about this scene and why it's the most terrible thing ever.
And no, I don't mean terrible as in sad or tragic, I mean terrible as in being the worst thing Usagi does in the entire manga.
Okay, let's just sum up what's going on here. Sailor Moon and all the inners are fighting Queen Metalia and Endymion. They've figured out that the Silver Crystal is controlled by Usagi's heart, and that they need to find a way for her to be able to draw out the missing part of it that was absorbed by Mamoru, and then use the complete Silver Crystal with the Holy Sword to defeat Metalia. Luna makes it very clear that all this can only be done by Usagi. Not only that, but Usagi's crying also shows to have some effect on Mamoru, throwing him into momentarily confusion, hinting that he might not beyond help after all. So what does the girl do? She stabs Mamoru and then herself. Boom, the Silver Crystal goes out of control and starts growing around her and Mamoru's fallen bodies, only to be absorbed by Metalia. Luna, FREAKING LUNA, has to protect the inners, something that almost drains all her strenght. And later the inners have no choice but to sacrifice their lives in order to send their power to Sailor Moon so that she'll reawaken again and can use the Silver Crystal.
I mean… wow, this is… scratch the part about this being the worst thing Usagi does in the manga, it's probably the worst thing she does in any version of the series. She acted completely selfishly, hoping that by killing Mamoru and herself they could both be reborn again and live happily together.
I never thought I'd ever get a scene in Sailor Moon that can be described like this, but… what we see here is Sailor Moon selfishly abandoning her friends in the middle of their biggest battle yet, even while knowing that they need her in order to save the world.
I see a lot of people praising Usagi in the manga for being much stronger and more mature than Usagi in the anime, but you know what? That crybaby Usagi in the anime witnessed Mamoru AND the inners die in front of her very eyes, and she still didn't give up and abandon them, but rather pushed through and held out until the very end. Don't give me that "she was so lost in despair!" crap, that is one horrible, horrible thing to do, and for someone like me who is much more used to the anime and the kind of person Usagi is there, this choice of hers feels as out of character as she could possibly get.


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Richard Hugo, whom Carolyn Kizer called "one of the most passionate, energetic and honest poets living," was that rare phenomenon—a distinguished poet who was also an inspiring teacher.
The Triggering Town is Hugo's classic collection of lectures, essays, and reflections, all "directed toward helping with that silly, absurd, maddening, futile, enormously rewarding activity: writing poems."
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''Richard Hugo's free-swinging, go-for-it remarks on poetry and the teaching of poetry are exactly what are needed in classrooms and in the world.'' James Dickey, author of Deliverance
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HUNTINGTON, WVa (WSAZ) --- Christmas fellowship could be found, this Wednesday, in the kitchen of First Presbyterian Church.
Volunteers arrived to start cooking at 5:00 in the morning, for the church's Christmas dinner, that was open to everyone.
"This is our Christmas routine, it has been for years." says Rus Livingood. "We opened presents, last night, so we could be here early in the morning."
Roughly 200 meals were served at church, the rest were taxied to the home-bound throughout the region. Volunteers hit the road with more than 300 meals.
"We're just trying to make a difference" says volunteer Sonia Chambers. "We are so fortunate in our family to have lots of family and all the food we need and the ability to cook whatever we want, so we're just trying to share that.
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On his return to WWE for the Raw 1000 build: "You know what, as far as I'm concerned, WWE is a class act. I appreciated the opportunity; I had a lot of fun, saw a lot of old friends and caught up. (They were) just a class act from A-to-Z, so I was grateful… I was surprised; I wouldn't go so far as to say overwhelming. I was surprised, it was a good reaction; a great crowd. (Heath) was a good worker, a good wrestler. I got the call a few days before from the office; I was actually in Florida on business so I went up there and it turned out very well."
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Avengers To Continue Fight Against Tolerance In Wake Of DOMA Ruling
- Written by GHERU on Friday, October 19 2012 and posted in News with Benefits
After a federal appeals court ruled that the Defense of Marriage Act was unconstitutional, Captain America promised that he and the Avengers would continue to fight until all tolerance of mutants was stamped out.
Today, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that DOMA, or the Defense of Marriage Act, which aims to define marriage as being between two humans, effectively outlawing mutant marriage, is unconstitutional. This follows a similar ruling in Massachusetts, and the fight is expected to eventually reach the Supreme Court. That is, unless the sentinel of liberty, Captain America, and the Avengers can take care of it first.
"It was only a few months ago that mutants tried to solve all the problems in the world," said Captain America, referring to the Avengers vs. X-Men war that saw the X-Men, imbued with the powers of a flaming cosmic bird entity, put a stop to all war and hunger, effectively turning the Earth into a utopian planet. "We stopped them then, and we're going to stop them now. This attempt to make it legal for two mutants who love each other to have the same legal rights as humans is appalling and The Avengers will not stand for it."
According to early reports, Captain America has already assembled an assault team of Avengers, which is prepared to wait in S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier hovering above the locations of mutant weddings. When the service gets to the point that the officiant asks for anyone who objects to the union to speak now or forever hold their peace, Captain America will lead an assault on the ceremonies, instructing Norse god Thor to punch the bride in the stomach.
Surprisingly, Wolverine, a mutant himself, seems to support Captain America's stance on the matter. "If mutants can't get married, that means people can't accuse me of wanting to sleep with their wives," said the abrasive murderer. "Sleeping with another guy's girlfriend is not as bad, bub." To thank him for his support, Captain America then let Wolverine have ten minutes alone in a room with a bound and helpless Cyclops so he could beat the shit out of him, to the applause of simple-minded fans.
This is not the first time Wolverine and Captain America have teamed up to deny mutants the same rights as humans. Earlier in the summer, during the aforementioned Avengers Vs. X-Men war, the two took a warship to the mutant island of Utopia to take an underage girl away from her adoptive, mutant, grandparents. "The Avengers do not believe in allowing mutants the right to adopt children, and just because the child's adoptive father escaped into the future before we could rescue her that does not mean that she can stay with his younger father when they get back." Captian America told us via hologram.
Captain America continued; "We have updated our charter to include regulations that members must (1) To do their duty to God and the Avengers and to obey Captain America's word as Law. (2) To be heroes at all times. (3) To keep themselves physically superior, mentally strong and morally upright. If you cannot agree to these terms and my interpretation of them, you have no place on The Avengers."
When asked about these new revelations regarding The Avengers' stance on hot button issues, Wonder Man reminded everyone that he had been warning anyone who would listen about The Avengers and their "Uncle Tom" mutant members. "Just look at what The Scarlet Witch did to her fellow mutants just a few years ago. Are you trying to tell me that the 'futurist' Tony Stark, or 'the master strategist' Steve Rogers, or even the 'smartest man ever' Reed Richard (a close friend of The Avengers) didn't see that coming? Please, get real."
"'Uncle Tom!' That ionic purple freak has the gall to call me an Uncle Tom?!" Doctor Henry McCoy screamed during a phone interview. "Just because I work with and spread the message of an organization that does not believe that I should be allowed to marry, have children, adopt children, or teach children does not mean that I have turned my back on my people!" The Beast then had to end the interview because he had to clean up The Avenger's mess hall, kitchen, and mansion before he was allowed his daily meal.
The Outhousers, generally regarded as the greatest news organization the world has ever known, tried to reach Scott Summers for comment, but his warden told us that he was unavailable for an interview because he was in the infirmary after being heroically beaten down by the moral center of The Avengers, Wolverine.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The stock market is all about jobs this week.
Stocks rose Thursday after unemployment claims fell to a five-year low. A day earlier it was just the opposite; the market slumped after companies added just 119,000 jobs in April, the fewest in seven months, according to payroll processor ADP. And stocks could swing again Friday when the government's closely watched monthly employment report is released.
"Everyone is looking to the April jobs numbers," said Tyler Vernon, chief investment officer at Biltmore Capital. "People are more confident that it was an anomaly last month and are looking for some bigger numbers."
Economists forecast that the employers added 160,000 jobs last month. Stocks slumped April 5 when the government said 88,000 jobs were added, less than half the number forecast.
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Pairing Foie Gras With (Fortified) Wine [moved from Home Cooking board]
- souschef Oct 17, 2010 07:30 PM
I would not drink sherry with a dessert, and I like port only with Roquefort cheese.
re: Cynsa
Cynsa, does the higher alcohol content in port clash at all with the foie gras? The reason I ask is that someone on CH recommended Pineau des Charentes with foie gras, and I found it to be a horrible combination because of the higher alcohol content in the PdC.
Buttertart, sorry to highjack your thread.
re: souschef
I've found it to be a lovely pairing...
re: souschef
Foie gras with SAUTERNES, please.
re: buttertart
My thoughts exactly, but I do intend to try Cynsa's recommendation.
re: buttertart
Long story.
Here's the short version:
re: buttertart
Though Sauternes is not fortified. Not sure why the OP has that as a condition. I agree about the pairing; I love foie with any of the late harvest whites - Sauternes, Coteaux du Layon, Tokaji Aszu, etc...
re: sbp
Unfortunately (since this thread was split from another board) I did not get a chance to submit a clear first post, and I obviously did not choose a good title for this thread. My intent was not to ask for recommendations on pairing fortified wine with foie gras; instead, I was looking for comments on the pairing. This was because I thought the combination with Pineau de Charentes was horrible, but guster4lovers thought it was great. In addition, Cynsa recommended port, another fortified wine. So I was wondering what everyone else thought. I hope that clarifies it.
re: souschef
Perhaps the most successful foie pairing I've ever had was a smoked foie gras dish paired with Pineau des Charentes at Manresa in Los Gatos, CA in 2007.
re: Chinon00
No, I have not tried that sherry. I tend to think of sherry as something you sip before a meal, but if it is sweet I see how it would go with dessert.
re: souschef
Ah, some PX (Pedro Ximenez) could be in your future! I'd love to try this with foie gras, but I tend to fall back on the ne plus ultra of pairings: foie gras and Sauternes. By the way, if you ever get a chance, try the very concentrated PX (almost molasses-y, and not really for foie gras) called Venerable by the House of Domecq. It's thrilling. I've used it as a pairing with handmade chocolates, as syrup for pumpkin pancakes, body paint...
re: maria lorraine
for me definitely yes. i find SGN and Sauternes so rich when combined with the richness of foie gras it becomes overwhelming.
re: jock
The pairing needs acid because of the high content of the foie gras. That's why in most pairings, acid in some form, like aged Jerez vinegar or fruit or fruit juice, is added to the sauce accompanying the foie gras. With the addition of acid, the sweetness of the wine is reduced. High-acid Sauternes or other botrytised late-harvest wines are often fine without additional acid in the sauce.
re: maria lorraine
I prefer VT also. When I was in Alsace, I often had Gewurtz (non-VT or SGN) paired with foie gras, which I though worked well. Agree completely that wine needs good acidity.
Not exactly fortified but if you must serve a sweet wine with foie gras, try a four or five puttonyos Tokaji Aszu. Alsatian late-harvest Gewurztraminier and Pinot Gris -- especially the barely sweet ones -- can also be excellent.
Among fortified wines, fine amontillado can make a very fine match, though you'd want to ramp back on the sweet sides and sauces.
re: carswell
I take it you don't like sweet wines with foie gras. I once had a Brut Champagne with foie GRAS and did not like the combination, but a Demi-Sec went very well.
Re your point about sweet sides, I find that some chefs go overboard with the sweet sides. I have sometimes had sides that I considered too sweet for dessert.
re: souschef
Am not a big fan of sugary anything, though I am softening a little in my old age.
What I really object to, though, is starting a meal with dessert. The pairing of tooth-achingly sweet wines and foie gras accompanied by saccharine sauces and sides destroys the appetite and deadens the palate. And yet that's often how "appetizer" foie gras is served in North America. (And some Montreal restos add insult to injury by following it with a "trou normand" of commercial sherbet doused or not in alcohol. <shudder>)
There are exceptions, of course. Friends and I once began a spring equinox meal with a whole roasted foie gras accompanied by caramelized baby turnips and served with an only slightly sweet Condrieu doux, an exquisite pairing I can taste to this day.
But on the whole, give me a dry wine with good acidity (a fine old white Burgundy if you're treating) and a preparation that doesn't involve fruit or sugar.
re: carswell
Once at a very fancy French restaurant in New Jersey I was served foie gras with sickly sweet sides, followed by veal sweetbreads with too-sweet sides, followed by a too-sweet Grand Marnier soufflé. Dinner was a sugar overload. It was a corporate dinner at which I was a guest, so I had to grin and bear it.
I wonder why any chef would serve a sweet garnish with sweetbreads. It was as bad, but in a different way, as a restaurant in Montreal where I was served sweetbreads with chorizo, squid and a seafood foam. All you could taste was chorizo.
re: carswell
I'll risk the wrath of the gatekeepers by citing from Michael Broadbent's Vintage Wine:
When should you drink Sauternes? The classic combination is with foie gras or pâté at the beginning of a meal - though this rich combination tends to ruin the appetite for the rest of the menu. I personally prefer to serve it at the end with cheese. Most people, unfortunately, want to serve Sauternes with dessert. Unless all the ingredients are slightly less sugary, this simply doesn't work. What is the point of going to all the trouble of making this super-sweet wine -one glass per vine (at Yquem)- if you then turn it into a dry wine after one mouthful of a pastry chef's sweet confection? The important thing, when presented with a difficult combination, is to taste the wine first. Incidentally, I positively hate the expressions "pudding wine", and, even worse, the girlish "stickies" (ugh!).
re: RicRios
Why worry about the gatekeepers! Broadbent does have a point. As much as I enjoy Sauternes with foie gras, it is a tough act to follow as it is hard to then serve a dry wine. The next course too must be chosen with care.
I do know some East Indians who start dinner with something sweet. BUT, they then move on to blindingly hot rot-your-guts food (which I detest as I can't tolerate it) where you cannot miss the heat. I still refuse to believe you can taste anything when food is that hot.
re: RicRios
You won't get any argument from me. I agree with Broadbent.
My favorite preparation for foie gras is the classic terrine. and I like an agredoux accompaniment rather than a totally sweet.
re: Chinon00
Agreed, provided that the sweet items are not too sweet.
Last evening with my dessert wine group prepared an app of foie des volailles cooked and pureed with chili and lemongrass. Paired with Macvin, the Jura version of pineau de charantes. All agreed paired beautifully. It was 17 % alcohol.
Though I am a Sauternes snob, the best foie gras pairing that I have ever had was a seared, apple-infused foie gras, with a Canadian Late Harvest Apple Cider at The Greenhouse, London, Mayfair. That was a big surprise, but the ultimate pairing. Much had to do with apples on both ends, but I will always remember that dish and the wine.
Just dined there last week, and I spent 15 mins. with the sommelier, recounting that dish/pairing, though it was five years previous. That is how good it was.
re: Bill Hunt
How do you infuse foie gras with apples?
re: souschef
I only wish that I knew! I do not know if they added apples to the foie gras, and then ran them through the chinois, or some other method, but the foie gras was perfectly seared, and so very smooth. The apples were in the foie gras, plus as a garnish. I eat foie gras, whenever available, and that was my #1 of all time. A local chef does get it a tad bit smoother, and he's served me #2 and #3 on my all-time foie gras list.
PS - I am more into seared, than some other preps, but still order any often. At one lovely resort, I had foie gras six nights in a row, and each was great, plus a different prep. Let's just say that I did not have any medical lab work done for months! [Grin]
re: Bill Hunt
Wow. Double Wow. I remember a foie gras blow-out week as well, long ago.
When you say the foie gras was seared (also my favorite way), and that the apples were *in* the foie gras, how did that appear?
I've also had foie gras with apple preps (homemade apple sauce, apple chutney, among other things), and wondered about the best apple accompaniments. I love fruit with foie gras, provided the prep is not overly sweet and iinches towards a gastrique in tartness.
re: Bill Hunt
eat up on the foie gras, folks -- researchers have found duck and goose fat to be very high in oleic acid, which actually helps REDUCE your serum cholesterol levels. (Still lots of calories, though.)
Seems that the old folks in the southwest of France who swear that they owe their long life to duck fat aren't wrong after all.
re: Bill Hunt
I'm more into seared as well, though I have had a very few nice ones done "Au torchon", the only problem being that most restaurants do not serve it with HOT toast, which to me is a must.
I don't see having it several nights in a row as a problem, as the servings are so small. I'm glad that I have come across a butcher locally where you can buy just a slice instead of a whole lobe.
I wonder if it marinating in or injecting with cider is what got the apples into thefoie gras.
Have you ever tasted a foie gras cromesqui? You are presented with a small innocent-looking cube of breaded "stuff", and admonished to pop it whole into your mouth. When you chomp down on it you mouth is flooded with warm, liquid foie gras.
re: souschef
Yes, those cromesquis are something wonderful, when done properly, and something awful when they are coarsely executed. Like canelés.
If that's the next destination on the starship, count me in for the ride!
re: pilinut
I do have a recipe for cromesquis !
re: souschef
Cold foie, hot buttered brioche toast. A en mourir.
re: Bill Hunt
While I prefer wines other than sweet whites with my foie gras, I will agree that foie gras with apples (especially somewhat tart apples) is a marriage blessed by the gods.
Please, please, describe the foie gras and apple dish in greater detail: I am thoroughly intrigued--and hungry!
I've rarely had sweet white wine that actually improved my foie gras experience--together they feel too rich and unctuous by half (though I do like sweet whites with the right cheese). I'm sure there are exceptions to the rule, and I realize that the haphazard pairing of foie gras with any decent Sauternes/Montbazillac/sweet white has probably fed my prejudice, but I think I've tried it ofen enough to decide that I'd simply prefer something else.
My favorite hot foie gras prep of all time is the whole roast foie gras in a port and caper sauce at the Pont de l'Ouysse in Lacave. The balance of fruity sweetness and acidity from the port, and the slight tang from the capers were the PERFECT match for the roasted foie gras. One taste and you knew that they've been doing this sauce just right for many a year. I was relieved that the wine that the sommelier chose to pair it with was a white Bordeaux that provided our palates with the refreshment they needed. (I wish I could remember the name--I thought at the time I had committed it to memory--but I must have had a tad more to drink than I realized. Or maybe it was 300 grams of foie gras that clogged my happy little brain. )
re: pilinut
Nice post.
re: pilinut
OMG ! You ate 300grams of foie gras ?
I'm late to this thread, but hope this contrbution helps.
For seared foie gras my fave is a late harvest pinot gris from Alsace (in common with some other posters). I find that the coolness of the wine provides an additional counterpoint to the warmth of the foie (along with the many other comments with which I mostly agree).
With a 'cool/room temperature' serving, in pretty much all of the forms, I prefer a 'slightly fortified' wine - so again agree with many posters, although I'm not sure the thread so far has separated the different styles of serving foie gras. Certainly a Tokay works for me, but the best match (for me) is indeed a sherry - particularly a medium-sweet oloroso (100% PX is too simple). The alcohol (which fiishes slightly 'hot' is the counterpoint to the coolness of the foie gras).
I matched the Sandeman Imperial Corregidor (now sadly discontinued) with foie gras at a very upscale dinner about a year ago. Although the 'nominal wines' (mostly Burgundies with 50+ years of age) were the attraction (and indeed showed well) the wine that EVERYONE talked about afterwards was the sherry and how 'perfect' the wine/food match had been.