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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - "Everything has its season, everything has its time," goes a famous song from the musical "Pippin." Well, maybe, but for the many fans of that `70s Stephen Schwartz hit, a return to Broadway has been overdue for years.
Now those fans may get their wish. An ambitious revival that fuses the famous Bob Fosse choreography with the daring physical world of circus is in previews at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass. And before it even opened, it was surrounded by Broadway buzz, with word that producers were seeking a theater on the Great White Way, perhaps for the spring.
Director Diane Paulus certainly has an enviable track record. Her revivals of both "Hair" and "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" have not only gone to Broadway but have won Tonys for best revival of a musical. And to judge from the enthusiastic reaction at a recent preview in Cambridge, audiences are liking what they see.
It helps, of course, that there's so much nostalgia out there for the show, a whimsical coming-of-age story set in medieval times that opened in 1972 and ran for five years. Directed and choreographed by the masterful Fosse, it starred Ben Vereen as the Leading Player, an emcee-like role that won him a best-actor Tony. (Fosse, who died in 1987, won Tonys for direction and choreography.)
Paulus herself, a little girl during the run, was one of its ardent fans. "It made its mark on me," she says. "I knew that cast album by heart. I sang all the songs with my friends."
Four decades later, give or take a few years, Paulus was looking for her next project. Schwartz had come to her with another show, and during the conversation, she raised the subject of "Pippin," which is still performed by countless school groups and regional troupes. "I said, `BY the way...'" she quips.
Schwartz liked the idea, Paulus was excited _ but she needed a hook. The task was to modernize and reinvigorate it. And then it hit her: Circus. Specifically, the hugely physical style of a Montreal circus company, Les 7 Doigts de la Main (literally, the seven fingers of the hand).
"I wanted to put a unique acrobatic language onstage," Paulus says. "A light bulb went off." She spoke to the circus company's co-founder, Gypsy Snider, who noted that being "extraordinary" _ Pippin's aspiration _ is also the aspiration of every circus artist. (Snider has choreographed the circus parts of the show, and Chet Walker, who was in the original "Pippin," has choreographed the dance parts in Fosse style.)
There was also the question of casting. Vereen, especially, had made his role rather iconic. But, Paulus thought, there was nothing in the script that said the Leading Player had to be a man. She consulted with Schwartz, who concurred. All she needed was someone who could convey the power of seduction as well as Vereen.
And so, Paulus's Leading Player ended up being a woman _ Patina Miller, the ebullient Tony-nominated star of "Sister Act," in which she played Deloris, the Whoopi Goldberg role. The surprise was not, of course, that Miller could sing and act. The surprise was that she could dance.
"I don't call myself a dancer, but I think this sort of dancing suits my body very well," says Miller. "I guess I SHOULD call myself a dancer." Paulus says Miller is "has an incredible facility for movement" _ something that certainly comes across in the famous "Manson Trio" dance sequence.
Then there was the title role. Pippin is the young son of Charlemagne, and heir to the throne, but that's not enough for him: He's desperate to find a meaningful role in life (his own "Corner of the Sky," to quote his opening song.) On Broadway, John Rubinstein (son of pianist Arthur) imbued the role with a sweet, almost absent-minded innocence. Paulus saw droves of actors, and chose ... Spider-Man.
That would be Matthew James Thomas, the young British actor who played Peter Parker several times a week in the original company of "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," as a backup to Reeve Carney. Paulus says Thomas displayed just the right mix of vocal power, physical ability, and introspectiveness.
"He has soul," Paulus says. "Pippin has a deep soul. And Matthew is fearless _ he'll do anything physical."
Thomas says the physical challenges of "Pippin," in which he does things like jump through hoops _ literally _ and sing while scaling and descending poles, are more daunting than those of "Spider-Man."
"As Spider-Man I was wired the whole time," says the 24-year-old actor, munching on an energy bar to stay fueled on a recent nippy Cambridge morning. "Here, it's just my own body." He was facing a full day of rehearsals _ Paulus is still making changes _ and then an exhausting performance at night, during which he never leaves the stage.
The two are joined by a starry supporting cast. Virtually everyone has a Tony or was nominated for one. That includes Terrence Mann ("The Addams Family," "Beauty and the Beast," the original "Cats") as the king, and Charlotte d'Amboise ("A Chorus Line," "Jerome Robbins' Broadway") as the sexy stepmother.
And it includes the gifted comic actress Andrea Martin ("Young Frankenstein," "My Favorite Year," many others) as Berthe, the grandmother, a role made famous on Broadway by Irene Ryan. If Berthe's anthem "No Time at All" stopped the show on Broadway, it's safe to say Martin's, er, enhanced version stops it even colder in the A.R.T. production (to say more would be to spoil the fun.)
Though the show seems destined for Broadway, if the stars align, Paulus and her cast are trying to focus for now on perfecting it for an early January official opening (the run ends Jan. 20.) They're also trying to avoid the obvious trap: Thinking too much about living up to expectations.
"You're always going to get people who come in and expect to see what they saw years ago," says Miller. "I'm not Ben Vereen." In fact, to make that point, she at first resisted the costume she was given _ a slinky, black, curve-hugging tuxedo-like number _ because it looked too much like Vereen's.
Then she saw how good she looked in it.
"I decided it works," she says with a smile.
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Now, despite the fact that this design requires no decorating skills whatsoever, it does have the fatal flaw of being a cupcake cake. [hawww ptooiee!] Which means, more often than not, you're going to get something like this instead:
"Who cares? Look, a free baby rattle!'
2) Conversely, how tiny is that stuffed lamb?
3) Whichever it is, did the Wreckerator really think that lamb effectively "filled the space?"
4) Why put a baby's stuffed animal on an engagement cake, anyway? It has nothing do to with the design! It's like the cake was being wheeled past and the little guy just hopped on Bruce Willis style, riding it out to freedom while the building exploded around him.
(Ok, that last bit could be wishful thinking on my part.)
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The Los Angeles Police Department has rejected news reports that a body was discovered at a mountain cabin in California's Big Bear area where the fugitive accused of killing four people had engaged law enforcement in a hours-long standoff.
"Any reports of a body being found are not true," Cmdr. Andrew Smith said at a news conference Tuesday night.
He said the cabin was still too hot to enter.
The latest development comes amid a day of twists in the manhunt for Christopher Dorner, the former LAPD officer who is accused of killing four people.
Law enforcement had earlier surrounded the cabin in which the suspect, believed to be Dorner, had barricaded himself. The cabin was on fire, and media reports said a single gunshot was heard as authorities moved to demolish it. News reports, citing unnamed sources, said a body had been recovered from the scene.
Here is the chain of events that led to Tuesday's developments, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department: The alleged fugitive stole a car from a home in the area. The homeowners identified him as Dorner. They were unharmed. The fugitive abandoned the vehicle when pursued by sheriff's deputies, and entered an empty, rental cabin. He exchanged gunfire with the deputies, and shot them. One of them died of his wounds at the Loma Linda University Medical Center. The other was wounded, and is in surgery. He is expected to survive.
Since Dorner allegedly first shot the two people last week, LAPD launched a massive, multi-state manhunt.
This is a breaking news story. We'll update as we get more.
Update at 11:13 p.m. ET. LAPD Refutes Report Of Body
At a news conference, Cmdr. Andrew Smith said: "Any reports of a body being found are not true."
He said the department will continue to provide protection to those believed to be Dorner's targets until a body is recovered and identified as Dorner.
Update at 10:10 p.m. ET. Body Found
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that police recovered a body at the cabin where Dorner had barricaded himself. It may take days to come up with a positive ID, the newspaper reported, citing a source.
Here's more from The Associated Press:
"A single gunshot was heard from within, and a charred body was found inside.
"If the man inside proves to be Christopher Dorner, as authorities suspect, the search for the most wanted man in America over the last week would have ended the way he had expected — death, with the police pursuing him."
Update at 8:54 p.m. ET. Single Gunshot Heard
Both the L.A. Timesand The Associated Press are now reporting that a single gunshot was heard as authorities moved into the cabin where Dorner is believed to be holed up.
Here's more from L.A. Times:
"According to a law enforcement source, police had broken down windows, pumped in tear gas and blasted a loud speaker urging Dorner to surrender. When they got no response, police deployed a vehicle to rip down the walls of the cabin 'one by one, like peeling an onion,' a law enforcement official said.
"By the time they got to the last wall, authorities heard a single gunshot, the source said. Then flames began to spread through the structure, and gunshots, probably set off by the fire, were heard.
"Dorner's body has not been found. The police search will be focused in the basement area, the source said."
Update at 8:22 p.m. ET. News Conference
Cindy Bachman, the spokeswoman for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, said law enforcement authorities have surrounded the cabin.
She also confirmed that one of the deputies shot by the fugitive is dead. The other is expected to survive.
"We're expecting a long night," she said.
Update at 7:33 p.m. ET. Cabin On Fire
The cabin in which California fugitive Christopher Dorner is reported to be holed up is on fire. It's unclear what has caused the fire, or where Dorner is.
Update at 7:23 p.m. ET. Sheriff's Deputy Dead
One of the sheriff's deputies allegedly shot by Christopher Dorner is dead, according to the Los Angeles Times and other media. Another deputy was wounded in the shootout near the cabin in the Big Bear area.
Update at 6:09 p.m. ET. 'Enough Is Enough':
Commander Andrew Smith, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department, says that what Dorner needs to do now is turn himself in.
"Enough is enough," Smith said a televised news conference minutes ago. "It's time to turn yourself in."
Smith repeated the information released by the San Bernardino Sheriff's office, but he added that two officers were shot during an exchange of fire with the suspect.
Smith also cautioned that while it's likely that this suspect is Dorner, "we can't confirms it's him ... until he's in handcuffs."
Update at 5:27 p.m. ET. A No-Fly Zone:
ABC News has a bit more detail on today's narrative:
"The suspect is believed to have broken into a home nearby and briefly taken two women hostage before stealing a car. Officials say the suspect crashed the vehicle and fled on foot before barricading himself in a cabin.
"The two women were evaluated by paramedics and were determined to be uninjured."
The FAA has also placed the area surrounding the cabin under a no-fly zone.
Update at 5:36 p.m. ET. Stolen Vehicle Leads To Search:
The San Bernardino Sheriff's office sent this report:
"On Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12:22 p.m, deputies working the Big Bear area search for Christopher Dorner responded to the 1200 block of Club View Dr. for a reported stolen vehicle. The reporting party said the suspect took their vehicle and described the suspect as looking very similar to Dorner. Deputies immediately began a search on the ground and from the air for the vehicle.
"The vehicle was located at Hwy. 38 and Glass Rd. The suspect fled into the forest and barricaded himself inside a cabin. A short time later there was an exchange of gunfire between law enforcement and the suspect. Sheriff's SWAT is onscene.
"Two law enforcement officers are being airlifted to a local hospital with unknown injuries.
"Updates will be sent as new information becomes available."
Update at 5:15 p.m. ET. Barricaded In Cabin?:
The Associated Press and NBC News are reporting that a suspect thought to be Dorner is "barricaded in a cabin."
The AP quotes authorities and NBC News is quoting the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.
Southern California Public Radio reports that "two deputies were shot in two separate gun battles."
Update at 4:49 p.m. ET. Dorner Tried To Flee To Mexico:
As we watch, this story, it's worth noting Korva's post from earlier in which she details an affidavit where police say they suspect Dorner was trying to flee to Mexico.
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Who knew tax preparation could get so controversial? As tax season kicks into gear, archrivals H&R Block and Intuit, maker of TurboTax software, are squabbling like reality show housewives. In the process, they've kicked off a contentious social media conversation around our usually unspoken ideas about work, education, and social status.
The bickering began when Intuit rolled out commercials in which customers who use an unnamed tax service (pretty obviously intended to be H&R Block) are horrified to find their tax preparer working as a shopgirl in a clothing store in one of the ads. In another ad, a customer's tax guy is fixing a clogged pipe under their kitchen sink. "I thought you were a tax expert," the homeowner says to Bob the plumber as his wife raises her eyebrows and darts out of the room, presumably to go double-check the tax paperwork. (The commercials are here and here.)
H&R Block filed a lawsuit to try to block the commercials. It was unsuccessful; last week, a federal district court judge rejected the request. Company CEO Bill Cobb accused Intuit of "taking cheap shots at hardworking plumbers and retail sales clerks, not to mention millions of Americans holding down two jobs." Then he took the battle to Twitter.
The company launched a campaign, #iamhrblock, featuring snapshots of its tax preparers holding up signs — many of which say what they do for a living outside of tax season. It's an eclectic list: air-traffic controller, owner of a power-washing company, Zumba instructor. There are also some whose full-time professions hew a little more closely to our idea of "tax pro" and that go beyond the scope of Intuit's on-screen portrayals: CPAs, people with MBAs, business and accounting degrees, and Registered Tax Return Preparers.
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Regular people, some of them customers of one service or the other, started to weigh in on Facebook and Twitter as well. Some posted criticisms of the TurboTax ads, charging Intuit with being classist or misleading in its portrayal of H&R Block's workforce. Then came the backlash to the backlash, with others posting messages of derision, questioning just how competent or professional someone can be at tax preparation if they spend most of the year driving a truck, cutting hair, or fixing clogged pipes.
Now, it's not exactly a big secret that tax prep companies hire a slew of seasonal workers in preparation for the annual filing rush, so why did these commercials touch such a nerve?
It may be because we're not just debating the merits of having a person versus a software program help you with your taxes. We're confronting some prejudices about the competence and intelligence levels of people who work certain jobs.
"It plays into a set of biases that are very powerful," says Anthony P. Carnevale, director and research professor of the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. We like to think of ourselves as a classless society. Everyone is created equal and all the rest. Most of us would be reluctant to voice the belief out loud that we're somehow better than people who hold blue-collar or lower-paying jobs. Yet an ad that asks if we want a plumber doing our taxes triggers what Carnevale says are unspoken, sometimes unconscious biases many Americans have about class.
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"There's a tendency for us to suppose that those of us who have sort of can-do jobs, an electrician or a plumber or works in retail or so on, do so because they have less talent, and the evidence doesn't show that," he says. But to a large degree (pardon the pun), education has become a proxy for class in our society. "There's a class distinction in the labor market. Anything you do with a bachelor's degree is a profession, anything you do with a high school degree is an occupation."
Given the skyrocketing cost of a college education, it's likely some people are upset that someone who goes through short-term training and doesn't take out six-figure loans can earn the title of tax "expert," especially if that expert spends much of the year employed in a blue-collar field.
And as more people go to college, it increasingly becomes a socioeconomic class marker, in part because it's become harder to find a job that doesn't require a bachelor's degree. "Degree inflation" has increased as changes in education and funding over the past generation have prioritized four-year degrees over vocational and technical programs. "There's a long tradition in the U.S. of a deep respect for labor," Carnevale says. "That has shifted as we moved out of a high wage blue-collar economy."
(MORE: Student Loan Debt Crisis: How'd We Get Here and What Happens Next?)
Mike Rowe, host and job guinea pig of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs series, made a similar observation in a talk he gave at a 2008 conference. He describes how he showed up for one shoot on a sheep ranch for what we'll just euphemistically call "animal husbandry." (The link to his speech is here, but this is a vague description of the job in question for a reason: Like most of Rowe's show, there is an ick factor, so don't watch if you're squeamish.) He says he thought the worker was going about the job the wrong way, based on research he did before the shoot — only to find out his "right" way was totally wrong.
"We've declared war on work as a society," he admits. He takes to task all the factors that reinforce the stereotypes that turn the labor market into a hierarchy, from Hollywood portrayals of blue-collar characters as overweight dopes to commercials that insinuate all of us should be more like the dot-com whiz kid who cashes out to live a life of leisure. "The collective effect of all of that has been this marginalization of lots and lots of jobs," Rowe says.
Do TurboTax's new commercials contribute to this?


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Recipe re-printed with publisher's permission from Pie It Forward.
Makes 1 (9-inch, 23-cm pie)
For the crust:
½ batch Simple Tart Dough (recipe below)
For the caramel lining:
1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar
1/2 cup (120 ml) heavy cream
2 tablespoons (28 g) unsalted butter
1/2 teaspoon (3 g) salt
For the filling:
3/4 cup (165 g) dark brown sugar, firmly packed
2 tablespoons (30 ml) vanilla bean paste
1/4 cup (32 g) cornstarch
4 egg yolks 1/2 teaspoon (3 g) salt
1 1/2 cups (360 ml) whole milk, divided
1 1/2 cups (360 ml) heavy cream
For the assembly:
1 cup (220 g) dark brown sugar, firmly packed
4 egg whites
pinch salt
Procedure for the crust
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 C). Roll the dough into a rough 11-inch (28 cm) round. Line a 9-inch (23 cm) pie plate with it and crimp the sides decoratively. Dock the bottom and freeze it for 20 minutes.
2. Line the crust with parchment, fill it with pie weights or dried beans, and bake it for 15 minutes. Remove the parchment and pie weights. Bake the crust for 20 minutes more, or until it is golden brown and baked through. Set it aside to cool completely.
Procedure for the caramel lining
1. Combine the granulated sugar, cream, butter, and salt in a heavy-bottomed saucepan over low heat and cook, stirring, until the sugar has melted. Clip on a candy thermometer and heat until the caramel reaches 240 degrees F (116 C), then allow it to cool completely.
Procedure for the filling
1. Whisk together the brown sugar, vanilla, cornstarch, egg yolks, salt, and ½ cup (120 ml) of the milk in a mixing bowl.
2. Heat the remaining milk and the cream in a saucepan over medium heat until it comes to a simmer. Slowly pour the milk-cream mixture into the sugar mixture, whisking constantly until smooth.
3. Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook it over medium heat, whisking, until it thickens to the consistency of mayonnaise. Transfer the custard to a bowl, and cover the top with a piece of plastic wrap laid directly on the surface to prevent a skin from forming. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
1. Pour the caramel into the cooled crust and smooth it along the bottom and sides, using a small offset spatula. Spoon the custard over the caramel and refrigerate the pie until the filling is cool and set.
2. Begin making a meringue by combining the brown sugar and ½ cup (75 ml) water in a heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring until the sugar has melted. Attach a candy thermometer and heat the sugar mixture until it reaches 234 degrees F (112 C).
3. While the sugar syrup is cooking, place the egg whites and salt in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whisk until the egg whites are foamy. 4. Once the sugar syrup has reached temperature, turn the mixer to medium-low and pour the sugar along the inside of the bowl (not directly into the egg whites, to keep from scrambling the eggs). Increase the mixer speed to high and whisk until you achieve stiff peaks.
5. Top the custard layer with the meringue, creating swirls and peaks with the back of a spoon. Gently brown the meringue with a kitchen torch. Do not use a broiler to brown the meringue, as this will melt the custard.
Simple Tart Dough
Makes 2 ½ pounds (1.2 kg) dough, enough for 3 to 4 (8- to 9-inch/20- to 23-cm) tarts or 12 to 16 mini tarts.
(*Note: only one half batch of this dough is needed for the crust for the Butterscotch Meringue Pie)
4 cups (500 g) all-purpose flour, cold
2 cups (480 g) unsalted butter, cut into small pieces and chilled
1 teaspoon (6 g) salt
1/3 cup (75 ml) sweetened condensed milk
1 egg, at room temperature, lightly beaten
1. In the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment, pulse together the flour, butter, and salt until the mixture resembles cornmeal.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the condensed milk and egg. While pulsing, slowly pour this into the flour until the dough just comes together.
3. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured work surface and gently turn over a few times until it is smooth, the dry ingredients have been completely integrated, and the dough holds together. Take care not to overwork it.
4. Shape the dough into a loose circle, cover it with plastic wrap, and allow to rest in the refrigerator for at least 20 minutes.
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In the past two weeks, Members of Congress from both parties have penned scathing letters to the FTC warning of the consequences (both to consumers and the agency itself) if the Commission sues Google not under traditional antitrust law, but instead by alleging unfair competition under Section 5 of the FTC Act. The FTC is rumored to be considering such a suit, and FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz and Republican Commissioner Tom Rosch have expressed a desire to litigate such a so-called "pure" Section 5 antitrust case — one not adjoining a cause of action under the Sherman Act. Unfortunately for the Commissioners, no appellate court has upheld such an action since the 1960s.
This brewing standoff is reminiscent of a similar contest between Congress and the FTC over the Commission's aggressive use of Section 5 in consumer protection cases in the 1970s. As Howard Beales recounts, the FTC took an expansive view of its authority and failed to produce guidelines or limiting principles to guide its growing enforcement against "unfair" practices — just as today it offers no limiting principles or guidelines for antitrust enforcement under the Act. Only under heavy pressure from Congress, including a brief shutdown of the agency (and significant public criticism for becoming the "National Nanny"), did the agency finally produce a Policy Statement on Unfairness — which Congress eventually codified by statute.
Given the attention being paid to the FTC's antitrust authority under Section 5, we thought it would be helpful to offer a brief primer on the topic, highlighting why we share the skepticism expressed by the letter-writing members of Congress (along with many other critics).
The topic has come up, of course, in the context of the FTC's case against Google. The scuttlebut is that the Commission believes it may not be able to bring and win a traditional, Section 2 antitrust action, and so may resort to Section 5 to make its case — or simply force a settlement, as the FTC did against Intel in late 2010. While it may be Google's head on the block today, it could be anyone's tomorrow. This isn't remotely just about Google; it's about broader concerns over the Commission's use of Section 5 to prosecute monopolization cases without being subject to the rigorous economic standards of traditional antitrust law.
Background on Section 5
Section 5 has two "prongs." The first, reflected in its prohibition of "unfair acts or deceptive acts or practices" (UDAP) is meant (and has previously been used—until recently, as explained) as a consumer protection statute. The other, prohibiting "unfair methods of competition" (UMC) has, indeed, been interpreted to have relevance to competition cases.
Most commonly (and commonly-accepted), the UMC language has been viewed to authorize the agency to bring cases that fill the gaps between clearly anticompetitive conduct and the language of the Sherman Act. Principally, this has been invoked in "invitation to collude" cases, which raise the spectre of price-fixing but nevertheless do not meet the literal prohibition against "agreement in restraint of trade" under Section 1 of the Sherman Act.
Over strenuous objections from dissenting Commissioners (and only in consent decrees; not before courts), the FTC has more recently sought to expand the reach of the UDAP language beyond the consumer protection realm to address antitrust concerns that would likely be non-starters under the Sherman Act.
In N-Data, the Commission brought and settled a case invoking both the UDAP and UMC prongs of Section 5 to reach (alleged) conduct that amounted to breach of a licensing agreement without the requisite (Sherman Act) Section 2 claim of exclusionary conduct (which would have required that the FTC show that N-Data's conducted had the effect of excluding its rivals without efficiency or welfare-enhancing properties). Although the FTC's claims fall outside the ambit of Section 2, the Commission's invocation of Section 5's UDAP language was so broad that it could — quite improperly — be employed to encompass traditional Section 2 claims nonetheless, but without the rigor Section 2 requires (as the vigorous dissents by Commissioners Kovacic and Majoras discuss). As Commissioner Kovacic wrote in his dissent:
[T]he framework that the [FTC's] Analysis presents for analyzing the challenged conduct as an unfair act or practice would appear to encompass all behavior that could be called a UMC or a violation of the Sherman or Clayton Acts. The Commission's discussion of the UAP [sic] liability standard accepts the view that all business enterprises – including large companies – fall within the class of consumers whose injury is a worthy subject of unfairness scrutiny. If UAP coverage extends to the full range of business-to-business transactions, it would seem that the three-factor test prescribed for UAP analysis would capture all actionable conduct within the UMC prohibition and the proscriptions of the Sherman and Clayton Acts. Well-conceived antitrust cases (or UMC cases) typically address instances of substantial actual or likely harm to consumers. The FTC ordinarily would not prosecute behavior whose adverse effects could readily be avoided by the potential victims – either business entities or natural persons. And the balancing of harm against legitimate business justifications would encompass the assessment of procompetitive rationales that is a core element of a rule of reason analysis in cases arising under competition law.
In Intel, the most notorious of the recent FTC Section 5 antitrust actions, the Commission brought (and settled) a straightforward (if unwinnable) Section 2 case as a Section 5 case (with Section 2 "tag along" claims), using the justification that it simply couldn't win a Section 2 case under current jurisprudence. Intel presumably settled the case because the absence of judicial limits under Section 5 made its outcome far less certain — and presumably the FTC brought the case under Section 5 for the same reason.
In Intel, there was no effort to distinguish Section 5 grounds from those under Section 2. Rather, the FTC claimed that the limiting jurisprudence under Section 2 wasn't meant to rein in agencies, but merely private plaintiffs. This claim falls flat, as one of us (Geoff) has noted:
[Chairman] Leibowitz' continued claim that courts have reined in Sherman Act jurisprudence only out of concern with the incentives and procedures of private enforcement, and not out of a concern with a more substantive balancing of error costs—errors from which the FTC is not, unfortunately immune—seems ridiculous to me. To be sure (as I said before), the procedural background matters as do the incentives to bring cases that may prove to be inefficient.
But take, for example, Twombly, mentioned by Leibowitz as one of the cases that has recently reined in Sherman Act enforcement in order to constrain overzealous private enforcement (and thus not in a way that should apply to government enforcement). . . .
But the over-zealousness of private plaintiffs is not all [Twombly] was about, as the Court made clear:
The inadequacy of showing parallel conduct or interdependence, without more, mirrors the ambiguity of the behavior: consistent with conspiracy, but just as much in line with a wide swath of rational and competitive business strategy unilaterally prompted by common perceptions of the market. Accordingly, we have previously hedged against false inferences from identical behavior at a number of points in the trial sequence.
Hence, when allegations of parallel conduct are set out in order to make a §1 claim, they must be placed in a context that raises a suggestion of a preceding agreement, not merely parallel conduct that could just as well be independent action. [Citations omitted].
The Court was appropriately concerned with the ability of decision-makers to separate pro-competitive from anticompetitive conduct. Even when the FTC brings cases, it and the court deciding the case must make these determinations. And, while the FTC may bring fewer strike suits, it isn't limited to challenging conduct that is simple to identify as anticompetitive. Quite the opposite, in fact—the government has incentives to develop and bring suits proposing novel theories of anticompetitive conduct and of enforcement (as it is doing in the Intel case, for example).
Problems with Unleashing Section 5
It would be a serious problem — as the Members of Congress who've written letters seem to realize — if Section 5 were used to sidestep the important jurisprudential limitations on Section 2 by focusing on such unsupported theories as "reduction in consumer choice" instead of Section 2's well-established consumer welfare standard. As Geoff has noted:
Following Sherman Act jurisprudence, traditionally the FTC has understood (and courts have demanded) that antitrust enforcement . . . requires demonstrable consumer harm to apply. But this latest effort reveals an agency pursuing an interpretation of Section 5 that would give it unprecedented and largely-unchecked authority. In particular, the definition of "unfair" competition wouldn't be confined to the traditional antitrust measures — reduction in output or an output-reducing increase in price — but could expand to, well, just about whatever the agency deems improper.
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One of the most important shifts in antitrust over the past 30 years has been the move away from indirect and unreliable proxies of consumer harm toward a more direct, effects-based analysis. Like the now archaic focus on market concentration in the structure-conduct-performance framework at the core of "old" merger analysis, the consumer choice framework [proposed by Commissioner Rosch as a cause of action under Section 5] substitutes an indirect and deeply flawed proxy for consumer welfare for assessment of economically relevant economic effects. By focusing on the number of choices, the analysis shifts attention to the wrong question.
The fundamental question from an antitrust perspective is whether consumer choice is a better predictor of consumer outcomes than current tools allow. There doesn't appear to be anything in economic theory to suggest that it would be. Instead, it reduces competitive analysis to a single attribute of market structure and appears susceptible to interpretations that would sacrifice a meaningful measure of consumer welfare (incorporating assessment of price, quality, variety, innovation and other amenities) on economically unsound grounds. It is also not the law.
Commissioner Kovacic echoed this in his dissent in N-Data:
More generally, it seems that the Commission's view of unfairness would permit the FTC in the future to plead all of what would have been seen as competition-related infringements as constituting unfair acts or practices.
And the same concerns animate Kovacic's belief (drawn from an article written with then-Attorney Advisor Mark Winerman) that courts will continue to look with disapproval on efforts by the FTC to expand its powers:
We believe that UMC should be a competition-based concept, in the modern sense of fostering improvements in economic performance rather than equating the health of the competitive process with the wellbeing of individual competitors, per se. It should not, moreover, rely on the assertion in [the Supreme Court's 1972 Sperry & Hutchinson Trading Stamp case] that the Commission could use its UMC authority to reach practices outside both the letter and spirit of the antitrust laws. We think the early history is now problematic, and we view the relevant language in [Sperry & Hutchinson] with skepticism.
Representatives Eshoo and Lofgren were even more direct in their letter:
Expanding the FTC's Section 5 powers to include antitrust matters could lead to overbroad authority that amplifies uncertainty and stifles growth. . . . If the FTC intends to litigate under this interpretation of Section 5, we strongly urge the FTC to reconsider.
But it isn't only commentators and Congressmen who point to this limitation. The FTC Act itself contains such a limitation. Section 5(n) of the Act, the provision added by Congress in 1994 to codify the core principles of the FTC's 1980 Unfairness Policy Statement, says that:
The Commission shall have no authority under this section or section 57a of this title to declare unlawful an act or practice on the grounds that such act or practice is unfair unless the act or practice causes or is likely to cause substantial injury to consumers which is not reasonably avoidable by consumers themselves and not outweighed by countervailing benefits to consumers or to competition. [Emphasis added].
In other words, Congress has already said, quite clearly, that Section 5 isn't a blank check. Yet Chairman Leibowitz seems to be banking on the dearth of direct judicial precedent saying so to turn it into one — as do those who would cheer on a Section 5 antitrust case (against Google, Intel or anyone else). Given the unique breadth of the FTC's jurisdiction over the entire economy, the agency would again threaten to become a second national legislature, capable of regulating nearly the entire economy.
The Commission has tried — and failed — to bring such cases before the courts in recent years. But the judiciary has not been receptive to an invigoration of Section 5 for several reasons. Chief among these is that the agency simply hasn't defined the scope of its power over unfair competition under the Act, and the courts hesitate to let the Commission set the limits of its own authority. As Kovacic and Winerman have noted:
The first [reason for judicial reluctance in Section 5 cases] is judicial concern about the apparent absence of limiting principles. The tendency of the courts has been to endorse limiting principles that bear a strong resemblance to standards familiar to them from Sherman Act and Clayton Act cases. The cost-benefit concepts devised in rule of reason cases supply the courts with natural default rules in the absence of something better.
The Commission has done relatively little to inform judicial thinking, as the agency has not issued guidelines or policy statements that spell out its own view about the appropriate analytical framework. This inactivity contrasts with the FTC's efforts to use policy statements to set boundaries for the application of its consumer protection powers under Section 5.
This concern was stressed in the letter sent by Senator DeMint and other Republican Senators to Chairman Leibowitz:
[W]e are concerned about the apparent eagerness of the Commission under your leadership to expand Section 5 actions without a clear indication of authority or a limiting principle. When a federal regulatory agency uses creative theories to expand its activities, entrepreneurs may be deterred from innovating and growing lest they be targeted by government action.
As we have explained many times (see, e.g., here, here and here), a Section 2 case against Google will be an uphill battle. As far as we have seen publicly, complainants have offered only harm to competitors — not harm to consumers — to justify such a case. It is little surprise, then, that the agency (or, more accurately, Chairman Leibowitz and Commissioner Rosch) may be seeking to use the less-limited power of Section 5 to mount such a case.
In a blog post in 2011, Geoff wrote:
Commissioner Rosch has claimed that Section Five could address conduct that has the effect of "reducing consumer choice" — an effect that a very few commentators support without requiring any evidence that the conduct actually reduces consumer welfare. Troublingly, "reducing consumer choice" seems to be a euphemism for "harm to competitors, not competition," where the reduction in choice is the reduction of choice of competitors who may be put out of business by competitive behavior.
The U.S. has a long tradition of resisting enforcement based on harm to competitors without requiring a commensurate, strong showing of harm to consumers — an economically-sensible tradition aimed squarely at minimizing the likelihood of erroneous enforcement. The FTC's invigorated interest in Section Five contemplates just such wrong-headed enforcement, however, to the inevitable detriment of the very consumers the agency is tasked with protecting.
In fact, the theoretical case against Google depends entirely on the ways it may have harmed certain competitors rather than on any evidence of actual harm to consumers (and in the face of ample evidence of significant consumer benefits).
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In each of [the complaints against Google], the problem is that the claimed harm to competitors does not demonstrably translate into harm to consumers.
For example, Google's integration of maps into its search results unquestionably offers users an extremely helpful presentation of these results, particularly for users of mobile phones. That this integration might be harmful to MapQuest's bottom line is not surprising — but nor is it a cause for concern if the harm flows from a strong consumer preference for Google's improved, innovative product. The same is true of the other claims. . . .
To the extent that the FTC brings an antitrust case against Google under Section 5, using the Act to skirt the jurisprudential limitations (and associated economic rigor) that make a Section 2 case unwinnable, it would be contravening congressional intent, judicial precedent, the plain language of the FTC Act, and the collected wisdom of the antitrust commentariat that sees such an action as inappropriate. This includes not just traditional antitrust-skeptics like us, but even antitrust-enthusiasts like Allen Grunes, who has written:
The FTC, of course, has Section 5 authority. But there is well-developed case law on monopolization under Section 2 of the Sherman Act. There are no doctrinal "gaps" that need to be filled. For that reason it would be inappropriate, in my view, to use Section 5 as a crutch if the evidence is insufficient to support a case under Section 2.
As Geoff has said:
Modern antitrust analysis, both in scholarship and in the courts, quite properly rejects the reductive and unsupported sort of theories that would undergird a Section 5 case against Google. That the FTC might have a better chance of winning a Section 5 case, unmoored from the economically sound limitations of Section 2 jurisprudence, is no reason for it to pursue such a case. Quite the opposite: When consumer welfare is disregarded for the sake of the agency's power, it ceases to further its mandate. . . . But economic substance, not self-aggrandizement by rhetoric, should guide the agency. Competition and consumers are dramatically ill-served by the latter.
Conclusion: What To Do About Unfairness?
So, what should the FTC do with Section 5? The right answer may be "nothing" (and probably is, in our opinion). But even those who think something should be done to apply the Act more broadly to allegedly anticompetitive conduct should be able to agree that the FTC ought not bring a case under Section 5's UDAP language without first defining with analytical rigor what its limiting principles are.
Rather than attempting to do this in the course of a single litigation, the agency ought to heed Kovacic and Winerman's advice and do more to "inform judicial thinking" such as by "issu[ing] guidelines or policy statements that spell out its own view about the appropriate analytical framework." The best way to start that process would be for whoever succeeds Leibowitz as chairman to convene a workshop on the topic. (As one of us (Berin) has previously suggested, the FTC is long overdue on issuing guidelines to explain how it has applied its Unfairness and Deception Policy Statements in UDAP consumer protection cases. Such a workshop would dovetail nicely with this.)
The question posed should not presume that Section 5's UDAP language ought to be used to reach conduct actionable under the antitrust statutes at all. Rather, the fundamental question to be asked is whether the use of Section 5 in antitrust cases is a relic of a bygone era before antitrust law was given analytical rigor by economics. If the FTC cannot rigorously define an interpretation of Section 5 that will actually serve consumer welfare — which the Supreme Court has defined as the proper aim of antitrust law — Congress should explicitly circumscribe it once and for all, limiting Section 5 to protecting consumers against unfair and deceptive acts and practices and, narrowly, prohibiting unfair competition in the form of invitations to collude. The FTC (along with the DOJ and the states) would still regulate competition through the existing antitrust laws. This might be the best outcome of all.
Previous commentary by us on Section 5:
- The Case Against the Section 5 Case Against Intel, Redux (January 2010)
- Debunking the "Pro-business" Rationale for Section 5 Enforcement (February 2010)
- FTC's Misguided Rationale for the Use of Section 5 in Sherman Act Cases (February 2010)
- What's Really Motivating the Pursuit of Google? (June 2011)
- Testimony on Balancing Privacy and Innovation: Does the President's Proposal Tip the Scale? (March 2012)
- The Folly of the FTC's Section Five Case Against Google (May 2012)


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Race the short tracks with Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour
Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour is a Windows Phone game that puts you behind the wheel of racing karts to compete in the global kart racing circuit. It's a fast paced racing game that offers unique racing venues in eighteen countries, has over thirty achievements to earn and a ton of races to win.
Red Bull Kart also has two game modes, upgradeable karts, a handful of control options, and great graphics. If you like racing games Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour is a worthy addition to your Windows Phone gaming library.
From Red Bull's main menu you can choose your gaming mode, view the help section, access the control settings and mute the game sounds. Game modes include:
Challenge Mode: Compete against up to six of your friends in a pass and play time trial. Choose your track and race for the best time. When you pass your Windows Phone to your friend, they race against a ghost/shadow image of your car to see if they can beat your time.
World Tour Mode: Compete on the global race circuit to see how well you can place in each event. Each country has three race tracks to compete on with a practice mode for each. As you compete, the better you finish the more credits you earn that can be used to unlock kart upgrades. There are a 162 races to win in this mode.
The World Tour Mode's practice race will generate a ghost racer that will reflect your previous lap pace, giving you something to race against. Each race mode offers you the choice of three kart styles that reflect the difficulty level (easy, medium and hard). As you earn race credits you can unlock special features and custom colors for each kart.
On screen displays are fairly universal with a course map, lap number, lap times, race position and speed displayed on the left and/or right side of the screen.
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Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour offers your a few options on kart controls. You have:
Auto Steer: You control the gas and breaks while the kart automatically steers its way through the course. Accelerator controls line the right side of the screen. Sounds too easy but if you accelerate too much into a turn, you'll crash into a wall.
Auto Throttle: You control the steering and brakes while the kart takes care of the throttle. Controls line the bottom with steering arrows on the either side of a large brake pedal.
Full Manual: You control everything. Controls line the bottom of the screen to allow you to take charge of the steering, braking and throttle.
Each control mode has it's own set of challenges with Full Manual being the most challenging of the three. You also have the option to turn on/off a directional arrow that can help guide you through each track. The controls are responsive and laid out nice but it would have been nice to have seen tilt controls for steering come into play.
In just playing Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour for a short time, it comes across as a very entertaining, challenging, well animated racing game for our Windows Phone. It may have one of the longest game titles in the Windows Phone Store but by no means is it short on entertainment value.
Red Bull Kart Fighter World Tour is a free game for your Windows Phone and you can find it here at the Windows Phone Store.
George is the Reviews Editor at Windows Central, concentrating on Windows 10 PC and Mobile apps. He's been a supporter of the platform since the days of Windows CE and uses his current Windows 10 Mobile phone daily to keep up with life and enjoy a game during down time.


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Published on : Thursday, July 10, 2014
The World Cup fever is flying high at KLIA! So that travellers do not miss out on their favourite matches and teams, Malaysia Airports has set up a giant screen at its Departure Level 5 of KLIA screening live matches throughout World Cup 2014.
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As American troops leave Iraq, the one place in the country that's most likely to erupt into violence, at least in the short term, is the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
The city is a complicated ethnic mix of Kurds, Arabs, Turkmen and others. The question of whether it belongs to the autonomous Kurdish region in the north or to the Arab-dominated central government of Baghdad has long been a point of contention.
Until a few weeks ago, a U.S. military base operated in Kirkuk; the Americans were thought to be mediators of some sort. That relationship was tested last month when the U.S. was preparing to leave the base. As with hundreds of other American bases that have closed in Iraq in recent weeks, the U.S. signed the Kirkuk base over to the Iraqi military. But when the predominately Arab army prepared to enter the base, the predominantly Kurdish police force blocked the entrance.
'I Felt That That Was The End'
Kurdish journalist Kavez Mela Pervez disguised himself in a police uniform and sneaked into the base that day. He says the six-hour standoff at one point got so heated that both sides drew their guns.
"At that moment, I felt that that was the end," he said through a translator. "And that was not only me who felt this way. Actually, many of those who were around me felt this way, too."
The problem, Pervez says, is that before the Americans came, the base was used by Saddam Hussein's army to expel, attack and kill Kurds. Most Kurds believe the base should be a civilian airport, as it was before Saddam.
The standoff is an illustration of the larger problem in Kirkuk. Kurds want to regain control of a city they say was once theirs. Arabs don't want to let go of a city that they settled in, at the encouragement of Saddam. Turkmen, Christians and other ethnic groups are caught somewhere in the middle.
In a market in the center of Kirkuk, most people are afraid to talk about the departure of the Americans and who could help Kurds and Arabs resolve their differences now that U.S. troops are leaving.
'We Will Not Leave'
One young Arab named Mustafa says his family was offered about $17,000 as part of a government program to move Arabs out of Kirkuk. But that wasn't enough.
"We have lived all our lives here," Mustafa said through a translator. "Even if the Kurds come and try to kick us out, we will not leave."
Just outside Kirkuk, though, it's no longer an option for Arabs to stay in a valley neatly divided into plots of grain.
Kurdish farmer Abdul Abdullah says Kurds are moving in for good whether it's legal or not.
American officials in Iraq insist that just because U.S. troops are leaving, it doesn't mean American diplomats can't still serve as mediators between Arabs and Kurds. After all, it was diplomats who intervened to ease the standoff at the U.S. base last month.
But Hassan Turan, a Turkman who heads the Kirkuk provincial council, says U.S. diplomats will be perceived differently, now that guns no longer back up their words.
"They have many people from the State Department, but their power in my opinion will be less, without the military," he said.
Kirkuk Residents Lack Voice
Turan was part of a group of Kirkuki leaders who'd agreed to meet outside Kirkuk, in an effort to bring leaders from different ethnic groups together. The conference was organized by a German foundation. The hope was that it's not just the Americans who can act as mediators.
Joost Hiltermann, the group moderator, is a longtime Iraq analyst for the International Crisis Group. He says the only way to resolve the larger question of what will happen with Kirkuk — the so-called status question — is if local politicians can sit down and figure out how to get along.
"Status has been an issue between the political parties, at the national level, and it shouldn't be," he said. "It should be very much in the hands of the people of Kirkuk itself. But the Kirkukis never had that kind of voice. They were divided. They took no decisions of their own; it was one against the other.
"This is changing. And I think that is really critically important for the future of Kirkuk."
Locally, leaders from the different ethnic groups are beginning to make decisions like how to provide electricity despite national shortages. At the national level, though, Hiltemann says, the question of status will remain unanswered for some time. And the fear, he says, is that the next time the guns are drawn, there will be nobody to stop what comes next.
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It's been snowing outside for a few days now. Today it stopped, leaving the trees tops, the hills and the houses coated with an icing of powdery white. The air is clear and crisp although colored in shades of grey … and it's cold. It's the kind of cutting cold that goes straight to the bone benumbing toes, fingers and faces. I've had cold feet and hands for days that do not seem to warm up regardless of the hot baths, the feet stuck to the heater or the multiple layers of socks.
The cure had to come from the inside.
It had to be the soul-warming, intense-satisfying kind of cure, which only comes with a big bowl of comfort food. Meatballs are right up there on the top list of favorite comfort foods for us. While the pot simmers away in a wonderful thick sauce, the house begins to smell irresistible and inviting, chasing away the chill.
Meatballs and spaghetti, the Italian-American is a classic dish we grew up eating. But there is more to meatballs than pasta and a tomato sauce. When the mighty meatball travels the world it takes on many different luscious forms - each one more delectable than the other. The Greek have their keftedes, the Mexicans indulge in albóndigas, while the Swedish make köttbullar, in Germany you will find Königsberger Klopse, the Italians serve polpette alla casalinga, in Ukraine the bikti is popular, while Lebanese have kaftas, the Moroccans serve a kefta and the Danish make a mean frikadellar. Each country adding a special twist to make their meatballs special.
Contrary to popular belief, meatballs are not only an Italian dish. Throughout history, many nations and cultures have laid claim on the humble meatball. The meatball has become varied to accommodate different tastes, available ingredients, and even religious traditions.
The first mentions of meatballs is dated back to the time of the Romans, found in an ancient recipe book written by Marcus Gavius Apicus (Apicius), who was born in 25 AD.
Since then meatballs have also been found in other parts of the world. In Asian, Middle Eastern and North African cooking the kofta is found in rissoles, croquettes, and dumplings, where they are made of ground or mashed meat, which is mixed with ingredients such as rice, bulgur or vegetables. In India, koftas can be made with fish, or even without meat, using only vegetables. Here the kofta may have a spicy filling and contain nuts, cheeses, or egg.
Swedish meatballs, kötbullar, first made their appearance in a 1754 cookbook by Cajsa Warg. Kötbullar are served with a creamy gravy and lingonberry preserves and have become Sweden's national dish.
Italian immigrants brought along their own meatball - polpette recipes to the "new world", many of which had evolved according to family tradition. Polpette were not initially served with spaghetti but the two forces came together in order to please American guests, who frequented Italian restaurants and wanted meat served alongside their pasta dishes, thus creating another classic dish.
And Turkey boasts over 80 types of meatballs, each type made just a bit differently according to its region of origin!
When it is as cold as it currently is, I love making a divine thick gravy spiced with warming Indian spices like coriander, cumin, garam masala and chili to heat things up from the core. For my ultimate comforting dish, the koftas are simmered in a tangy tomato sauce spiced up with some of my favorite Indian spices, giving it a fantastic kick.
What is your favorite meatball recipe?
Printable version of recipe here
Prep Time: 45 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour
Serves: 6
- 2 tablespoons coriander seeds
- 1 tablespoon cumin seeds
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons garam masala
- 1-2 teaspoon Kashmiri chili powder
- 1 teaspoons Turmeric powder
- 600g red onions, finely chopped/li>
- 25g garlic cloves, crushed
- 700g ground beef
- 1 egg, beaten
- 6-8 cardamom pods
- 6 cloves
- 8 cm cinnamon stick, broken in half
- 200g can chopped tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- handful baby spinach leaves
- 1 red chili, finely sliced
- 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Heat a heavy pan over a high heat. Add the coriander and cumin seeds and roast for a few seconds until the spices are fragrant. Grind the spices into a fine powder, then mix with the Kashmiri chili powder, turmeric and garam masala.
- Heat half of the oil in a large saucepan and sauté the onions and garlic gently for about 10 to 12 minutes until soft and golden. Add the ground spices and seasoning, cooking for a further 4 to 5 minutes. Transfer half of the mixture into a mixing bowl and allow to cool.
- Add the ground beef and the beaten egg to the onion-garlic mixture and mix everything together well. Shape into balls the size of walnuts and set aside.
- To the pan with the remaining onion-garlic mixture, add the cardamom pods, cloves, red chili and cinnamon stick. Pour the canned tomatoes, tomato paste and about 300 ml water to the pan. Season to taste and allow to gently simmer.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining oil in a non-stick frying pan. Add the meatballs, if necessary in two batches, and fry for approx. 3 minutes, turning them to brown on all sides. Drop the meatballs into the tomato sauce and simmer, part-covered, for 20 minutes stirring carefully every now and then until the sauce has reduced and thickened. During the last 3-5 minutes add the spinach leaves and stir. Check seasoning and serve hot with coriander flavored rice.
A plate laced with steamy hot, perfumed rice and spicy meatballs wrapped in a wonderfully thick gravy is all I needed to feel the warmth of comfort and spice. With such gorgeous colorful meals inside, the cold outside has little chance of taking control.
Meals like this also keep me invigorated and energized, adding a great level of nutrition and substance to the busy days. I am in the middle of planning three workshops simultaneously, London, Ireland and next week I shall reveal the third one. Hang on to your seatbelts! I am also working on a fantastic new photo project and organizing our ski trip in February. No wonder I need comforting bowls of meatballs to keep me going! have a great week and weekend ahead everyone!
You might like these comfort food ideas ideas from WFLH:
Fettucine with Spicy Lamb Sausage Meatballs | Mint Lamb Meatballs with Spelt Risotto and a Coriander Pesto | Lamb and Quince Tagine |
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