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It's winter in San Francisco, which means we should be expecting some of the most glorious weather around, right? Well, under some circumstances the weather can be quite cold and miserable in the city in winter...but due to a strange weather pattern in the western US, so far this winter has felt less like winter and more like an early spring day.
On this pleasant, sixty-degree sunny day, under a sky filled with wispy white clouds, a crowd of students met photography instructors Brian Rueb and Alicia Telfer.
The class participated during the orientation and gave the instructors a good idea of their experience levels, gear, and instructional goals for the class. When that was completed, it was time to head out to the beach to begin our day of photography.
We like to get the class shooting as soon as possible at our workshops, and this also allows our teachers to meet with the students right away. For new photographers, we're able to start to de-mystify the manual settings for them and work towards giving them an understanding of the camera settings and the "why" behind it. For our more experienced photographers, we're able to work on composition, creativity and maybe go over some items they might not have a full grasp on, like histograms and white balances.
We spent the first hour on the beach before loading up into the ApCab, our custom-built Mercedes bus, and set off for our second stop...the Civil War era Fort Point!
Fort Point is a great old relic. Not only is this old garrison full of narrow corridors and lovely brick architecture, and more nooks and crannies than an English muffin, but it's built in possibly the best location in the city....RIGHT UNDER THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
Once the class was inside the fort, we split into two smaller groups so Alicia and Brian could point out some of the smaller areas. We showed them the old gunpowder room, which is very dimly lit, but provides a lot of lessons for photography. Whether it's working on very shallow depths of field and focusing on just one barrel, or a portion of a barrel, or taking a wider approach and using a higher depth of field to utilize the great repetitive shapes of row after row of these barrels, there are so many possibilities for compositions in this little room that it would be easy to spend all day there.
We also took the class through the officers' corridors, which contains a seemingly endless row of doorways that makes a very nice image. This location is great to work on white balance, as well as how to compose images when extreme symmetry is involved. The area provides other challenges as well; it's extremely small and only one photographer can set up at a time, and with the constant flow of people travelling through the hallway, it's often difficult to get a shot off without any people in it.
The third spot is also several rows of highly symmetrical red brick archways. This location is not inside, but outdoors, in natural light. This situation means resetting our white balances, and again working on our compositions. The fort is full of possibilities for photography, and great learning opportunities. With symmetry, it's important to work with the students to create images that are themselves highly symmetrical and balanced, or skewed intentionally to show creativity and vision.
The class enjoyed all the spots we showed them, which are some of the treasures of Fort Point...but the fort is SO much bigger than these places, and there are so many smaller areas a group cannot get to. That's why we turn the class loose for the last 45 minutes of our time there so they can get out and explore and find their own special images. Brian and Alicia walked the halls in a game of photographer hide and seek, looking for students to review images and check to see if they need any help.
Lunch is our next stop, at a wonderful little cafe in Sausalito, at the base of the Marin Headlands. This small stop is a chance to regain some energy, grab a cold drink and engage in photography discussions with instructors or fellow classmates.
We spent just enough time there to eat and relax a bit. Sunset comes early this time of year, and a doozy was setting up on the horizon a few miles away on Rodeo Beach, our next stop.
Our group parked, geared up, and then headed out to where a group of sea stacks sit on a rocky beach awaiting our arrival to capture sunset photographs. This place is probably the best for working with students on the use of filters. The graduated neutral density filters and polarizers really come into play here. The grad filters allow students to place one in front of the lens and hold back several stops of light from only the brighter top portion of the image, leaving a well balanced photo of a sunset that shows great color and detail in the sky, as well as detail in the foreground.
The class spread out across the beach and set up for what turned out to be a truly AMAZING sunset, one of the best even the instructors had seen from this location. The class captured swirls of red, gold and purple as the sky shifted and changed through out the sun's descent. The class worked on gathering images that showed the silky movement of the tide as it washed the shoreline. Everyone was thrilled with the images they got, and walked back to the van with smiles across their faces...although you couldn't actually SEE them, you just had to trust they were there...it was getting dark, which meant it was time for our last stop - The Golden Gate Bridge.
While this isn't a night course by design, it's difficult to make the drive back to San Francisco and drive past those vistas of the bridge and the city without stopping to capture an image. It's such an iconic location and scene that it would be wrong of us to not stop and help the class capture a few images before we took them back.
Night shooting is a lot different than what we were doing for most of the day, while we definitely made strides in learning about longer exposures, nothing quite prepares the newer students for taking shots that last over two minutes. For those who don't have cable releases or remote controls, this stop serves as a great lesson in how ISO can be helpful in allowing students who can't shoot beyond 30 seconds to still come up with nice images even without the cable release or remote.
The spot was great, and the clarity of the city and bridge were stupendous. It was the perfect exclamation point at the end of a great day of shooting in the middle of winter in San Francisco.
Until next time,
Brian, Alicia, and the rest of the Aperture Academy Team
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Peanutty Ice-Box Cake
Featured on Amuse Bouche the blog for the magazine Where Women Cook.
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Sometimes. Maybe. Confused might be a better word for the robin who spends all day, every day, diving into the large bank of windows that front our home. This has gone on for days now, and while we've done everything we can think of to ward him off, he'll keep at it until nesting season is over or he is concussed and falls from the sky. This happens every year and I'm always amazed these confused souls make it through mating season with their small brains intact. I mention this only because I can no longer deny my own recidivist tendencies. The delivery of locally raised meat forced me to access the contents of my auxiliary freezer. A quick inventory revealed that it was packed to the rafters and there was no room for the meat. This, too, happens every year and it's a good thing that Albert isn't around 'cause we all know what he'd say. After some mild cursing, deep digging and inventory analysis, I made space for the meat. The only bizarre aspect of the episode was my freezer wasn't jam-packed with meat or vegetables or survival staples. It was packed to the rafters with bread, berries and nuts. If ever there is a shortage of freezer jam stop by. I have enough of it to feed a small country. At any rate, tucked among the nuts was an embarrassingly large stash of peanuts. So, as you probably have already guessed, I'll be exploring recipes for peanuts for the next few days, and think I'll call the exercise Nuts to You Week in honor of Albert Einstein.
While many would call this a refrigerator cheesecake, I think it's more like an old-fashioned Charlotte or an ice-box cake. While it contains cream cheese, its texture is mousse-like and completely different than that of a cheesecake. The recipe, which comes from The Peanut Institute, is one of the easiest I've ever come across and even beginning cooks will be able to make it successfully. The Silver Fox made the cake that I photographed for this post. I've made no changes to the original recipe, but I do have a couple of suggestions should you decide to make it. I freeze the cake and slice it while it is frozen. This mousse-like cake is very soft, and in a perfect world it would benefit from the infusion of a bit of gelatin. The use of gelatin would, however, move the cake from its super easy status, so freezing it is the way to go if you want clean slices. Once it's cut, it has enough substance to stand on its own without drooping. I let the frozen slices sit in the refrigerator for an hour or so before serving. If I'm in a real rush 30 minutes at room temperature will also do the trick. This obviously is not gourmet fare, but it's a really nice dessert that's suitable for guests as well as family. If you like peanut butter desserts, you'll love this one. Here's the recipe.
Peanutty Ice-Box Cake...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of The Peanut Institute
3/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup butter, melted
2/3 cup creamy peanut butter
4 packages (3 oz. each) cream cheese, softened
1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
1/3 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 container (4 oz.) frozen whipped topping, thawed
1/2 to 3/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts for garnish
1) Combine peanuts, graham cracker crumbs and melted butter. Press crumb mixture into 9-inch spring form pan. Chill crust for 20 minutes.
2) Using an electric mixer, cream softened cream cheese and peanut butter until fluffy. Gradually add condensed milk and mix well. Add lemon juice and vanilla and blend well. Fold in whipped topping.
3) Pour mixture into prepared crust. Garnish with chopped peanuts. Chill 2-3 hours or freeze. Makes 12 servings.
You might also enjoy these recipes:
No-Bake Cheesecake with Green Apple Syrup - Anncoo Journal
Chocolate Strawberry Refrigerator Cheesecake - Passionate About Baking
Irish Cream Cheesecake - Drick's Rambling Cafe
No-Bake Cheesecake - Closet Cooking
No Bake Mini Cheesecakes - Gigi Cakes
Mini No-Bake Cheesecake - Felice in the Kitchen
Lemon Myrtle No-Bake Cheesecake - The Three Cheeses
No-Bake Low-fat Yogurt Cheesecake - My Wok Life
No Bake Vanilla Cheesecake with Thin Mint Crust - Baking Bites
Mini Oreo Cheesecakes (No Bake) - Made with Love
No-Bake Cheesecake - Diner's Journal New York Times
No-Bake Creme de Menthe Cheesecake - Delicate Flavors
No-Bake Bailey's Cheesecake - Ping Mouse
Blueberry Cheesecake - Pinoy Food
84 comments :
- CaThY said...
Awesome! I love cream cheese & peanut ;)
- March 22, 2011 at 1:03 AM
- cocoa and coconut said...
What a wonderful recipe! Easy but still impressive! It looks so creamy...
I am looking forward to seeing more of your peanut recipes. That silly little Robin! - March 22, 2011 at 1:06 AM
- Faith said...
Oh man I am a magician with reorganizing the freezer!!! That icebox cake looks like a great treat...one I will definetley put in my Summer cooking list!
- March 22, 2011 at 2:07 AM
- Unknown said...
wow...amazing box cake...yumm yumm...pass me some!!:)
http://www.myeasytocookrecipes.blogspot.com/ - March 22, 2011 at 2:18 AM
- Denise said...
Crazy bird! My husband would love this...he loves all things with peanut butter. Thanks for sharing such a cool treat! :)
Denise @ Creative Kitchen - March 22, 2011 at 2:19 AM
- Chiara said...
Lovely treat Mary!I love it! have a good day....
- March 22, 2011 at 2:43 AM
- Jean said...
this looks so creamy and smooth...amazing!
- March 22, 2011 at 3:01 AM
- Alessandra said...
Frozen like an ice cream must be amazing... but can you even just chill it? Not to soft?
Alessandra - March 22, 2011 at 3:25 AM
- Katarina said...
What a lovely treat! Looks so creamy and delicious! Hugs
- March 22, 2011 at 3:34 AM
- Lora said...
I love this and the idea of the texture being between a cheesecake and a mousse. Beautiful!
- March 22, 2011 at 3:56 AM
- Elin said...
Mary..this is awesome. Beautiful texture ! Simply mouth-watering :)
- March 22, 2011 at 4:28 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Simply mouthwatering,cake looks extremely addictive..
- March 22, 2011 at 4:44 AM
- Umm Mymoonah said...
I'm so much craving for that slice now, looks very delicious.
- March 22, 2011 at 4:48 AM
- Ana Rita Marreiros said...
Hi Mary,
You're right it's really simple.
I'm sure is delicious....
p.s-Today is your day at my blog. - March 22, 2011 at 5:06 AM
- Coleens Recipes said...
I love the idea of freezing this. My grandkids will love it. Thanks for sharing.
- March 22, 2011 at 5:18 AM
- Helia Roberto said...
Simply delicous!!
Have a great day!
Hélia - March 22, 2011 at 5:25 AM
- Three-Cookies said...
Excellent cake assembly skills!
- March 22, 2011 at 5:56 AM
- Suman Singh said...
Wow, wow, wow...looks AMAZING!
I'm craving for that slice now..yum! - March 22, 2011 at 7:29 AM
- Elaine said...
We have a robin that does that every year. Well, I've decided it is the same robin. Anyway, it just upsets me so when he hits the window. Your icebox cake is so pretty and it sounds like it is the perfect dessert for a hot summer day or any day.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- Receitas para a Felicidade said...
Oh my God Mary, a wonderful recipe, looks so delicious and so creamy. Thank you for the recipe,
kisses and have a good week my friend!! - March 22, 2011 at 7:40 AM
- Sanjeeta kk said...
What a lovely presentation of a decadent dessert! Mary you are a lovely cook, your creations are so tempting and delicious.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Sanjeeta kk said...
What a lovely presentation of a decadent dessert! Mary you are a lovely cook, your creations are so tempting and delicious.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:50 AM
- Kim said...
I like this dessert, love it when it's cold, so good!
- March 22, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Martha said...
Icebox cakes are the cakes of our grandmothers but am glad to see them coming back for they are really good!
- March 22, 2011 at 7:51 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I had noticed that nuts were definetly prevelant in your cooking lately.This does look wonderful Mary!
- March 22, 2011 at 7:53 AM
- Harika baratam said...
Wow your appetizer looks gorgeous. Very tempting just want to have a bite.
- March 22, 2011 at 7:56 AM
- Carol said...
Looks so creamy and so delicious, what a nice treat this would be!
- March 22, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- Claudia said...
"If you love peanut butter?" Am amazed that someone would not be craving this. Must check my freezer for peanuts! Rich and satisfying and you know I love ease. And note to self: check freezer before ordering meat.
- March 22, 2011 at 8:46 AM
- Unknown said...
The cake looks amazing! Refrigerated cheesecake, ice box cake, whatever you call it, I'd eat the whole thing!!
Chris and I were just talking about how we wished we had room for a big freezer. With the cost of meat continually going up, it would be well worth it. Oh, and if I lived closer, I'd take some of the freezer jam off your hands :) - March 22, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- brandi said...
i love easy desserts - this looks like a great recipe to have on hand.
- March 22, 2011 at 9:18 AM
- Priyanka said...
Another wonderful and yummy looking dish.....
- March 22, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
I'm going to have Andrew read this post. He thinks we are the only ones with packed freezers. He also might make this cake since there a large tin of Virginia peanuts nestled among the other necessities in said freezers. We have an abundance of crusty bread on ice. Perhaps we should meet somewhere--you and your jam and me and my bread. Anyone out there with an abundance of sweet butter wanting to come along?
Bonnie - March 22, 2011 at 9:32 AM
- Reshmi Mahesh said...
Awesome recipe...melt in the mouth look...and wonderful taste of peanut...slurp..
- March 22, 2011 at 9:47 AM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
I love easy desserts like this, especially in the hot summer months when I don't want to bake.
If I lived close to you Mary, I'd be over for some of your freezer jam; it's the best tasting jam there is. - March 22, 2011 at 10:07 AM
- Josy said...
Hi Mary
Is the first time I come to your blog as a nominee of Rita Bembons
I'm loving. You have very good recipes and pictures are beautiful.
This should be congratulated. Sorry, but I can not write well english, I hope I did understand. A good day for you. Kisses
Josy - March 22, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- Unknown said...
Hi Mary, I like the look and sound of this peant butter ice-box cake. I can taste the peanut butter flavor;-). Beautiful presentation too!
- March 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Pondside said...
I love ice cream-type cakes but hate to buy them, so I'm always happy to have a new recipe. This one will be for Saturday supper.
- March 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- love lives in the kitchen said...
wow it's just delicious! thanks for sharing :)
have a sweet day,
justyna - March 22, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Jamie said...
The whole peanut story is hysterical, Mary, but good thing you'll be coming up with peanut recipes because I love peanuts. And this pie is wow! I want a slice now. Creamy, peanutty, you don't even need the crust, just pass me a spoon. Fabulous!
- March 22, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- Emily Malloy said...
This is GORGEOUS. I am so impressed.
- March 22, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- June said...
Wow - it looks fabulous, although until I make it I'll maintain your best cheesecake is the Cranberry Layered one. It is stellar!
- March 22, 2011 at 11:15 AM
- PeggyR said...
Oh that looks so good.
- March 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Adam said...
That looks so good. I love everything that has to do with peanuts and peanut butter (or any type of nut) and this is a must try. And I have to say, I'm really looking forward to your future nuttiness as you eat away at your peanut supply :).
- March 22, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
I'm loving peanut week! And, I'll take any tips on how to organize a chest freezer. Mine's a mess!
- March 22, 2011 at 11:59 AM
- Élia said...
Very good!!!
Élia - March 22, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- Renee Paj said...
deeeeeee licious! What is not to love?
- March 22, 2011 at 12:10 PM
- Beloved Green said...
Oh heavens, you are killing me with all this goodness. I am hungry now.
- March 22, 2011 at 12:30 PM
Looks interesting. I've only ever heard of the ice box cake with the chocolate wafers, so this is different!
- March 22, 2011 at 1:09 PM
This is a lot like peanut butter pie. It's prettier, though!
BTW, Mister is still raving about that peanut butter fudge. I put a copy in my book of favorite recipes. I will be making it again! - March 22, 2011 at 1:18 PM
- Maria said...
Wow that is one delicious cake! Looks fantastic!
- March 22, 2011 at 1:35 PM
- Wendy Irene said...
I love the circle pattern of the peanuts on top!
- March 22, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- Joanne said...
I am absolutely SO thrilled that you'll be writing about peanuts for a while because I absolutely love them! I've never had or made an ice-box cake, but now I'm really craving one!
- March 22, 2011 at 2:23 PM
- Eileen said...
Sounds like a good, easy dessert. :)
That poor bird! I hope it figures things out soon. - March 22, 2011 at 3:04 PM
- briarrose said...
Beautiful cake. I adore peanuts and this looks like it would hit the spot.
- March 22, 2011 at 3:27 PM
- That Girl said...
Ice box cakes always make me think of June Cleaver! Secret confession- I've never had or made one.
- March 22, 2011 at 3:49 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
I think I can almost taste it now!! It looks so creamy and mousy
- March 22, 2011 at 3:59 PM
- Chele said...
Man oh man does that look good! And I'm not even the bigest fan of cheesecakes or peanuts etc but I really want the biggest slice I can get my fangs around!
- March 22, 2011 at 4:04 PM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
Mary, this would be a refreshing cake!! Our Germans friends who always had trouble with birds flying into the windows, but large silouettes of blackbirds made out of black paper on the inside of the windows. It seemed to help to scare the birds away. But on the other hand, this happens all the time, so I guess the birds just have to learn the hard way!!!
- March 22, 2011 at 4:17 PM
- Sushma Mallya said...
Thts a wonderful recipe, Loved the very look of it:)
- March 22, 2011 at 5:30 PM
- Margarida said...
Hello Mary, I got to know your blog through the blog today and of course Ana Rita came ca see your recipes, I was a fan, you have wonderful recipes, so I have to say thanks to Ana Rita for having given you to know, because I go back many and often more, since you then go'm watching the news.
If you want to also pass on my corner!
a kiss - March 22, 2011 at 5:35 PM
- Unknown said...
I always have a huge stash of peanuts too! I love the the little babies!
The Silver Fox did a wonderful job with this dessert I must say! So it sounds like it's not nearly as heavy as a 'cream cheese cheese cake' - nice!
Thanks for sharing as always! - March 22, 2011 at 5:53 PM
- Gloria Baker said...
Mary!!! What lovely and yummy Cake! blessings dear, gloria
- March 22, 2011 at 6:14 PM
- Leontien said...
Hi Mary!
Thank you so much for coming over to my blog and putting in such a sweet comment! In the next few days i hope to catch up on my "blogs to follow" and hope to check out yours!
Thanks again and hope to see you lot's!
Leontien - March 22, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- Mary505 said...
Me gusta mucho lo que veo en tu blog asi que aqui tienes otra seguidora y te dejo mi blog por si quieres visitarme
http://mary505.blogspot.com/ - March 22, 2011 at 6:56 PM
- Ryan said...
Ha, Ha, I'm glad I'm not the only one with a packed freezer! I think its the sign of a person who really loves to cook. :) This ice box cake looks fantastic. Perfect now that the weather is getting warmer!
- March 22, 2011 at 7:50 PM
- Kim said...
Mary- Your post about the robin and the contents of your freezer really tickled me. My freezer explodes on me when I open it. Frozen food just rains on me every time.
The peanutty ice-box cake looks wonderful. I've one similar to this and it is a real favorite with my family. - March 22, 2011 at 9:01 PM
- jaclyn @ thelateafternoon said...
cream cheese and peanut butter sounds like an amazing combination. what a velvety delicious looking cake!
- March 22, 2011 at 9:19 PM
- createwithmom said...
wonderful cake looks delicious with peanut butter
- March 22, 2011 at 9:22 PM
- kitchen flavours said...
This looks like a delightful dessert! Looks like I'm not the only one with a packed freezer! Well, one thing I have to say, no matter how big the freezer is, there will never be enough of space! :)
- March 22, 2011 at 9:37 PM
- ~~louise~~ said...
I've never "met" an ice-box cake that I didn't totally enjoy, Mary. And by all means, I mean yours too!!! It sounds amazing! Thanks for adding that piece about even a novice can do it:)
Love the title of your week too. How cool is that???
As for your robin dilemma, I've never "met" one of those that I haven't liked but I know exactly what you mean. When I lived in New York, the same thing happened all the time. To my chagrin, too many went by the way of concussed...
Thanks for reminding me, I need to tackle that freezer!!! - March 22, 2011 at 9:49 PM
- Unknown said...
Mmmmm This is going in my recipe box now! Looks fantastic Mary : )
- March 22, 2011 at 10:43 PM
- Unknown said...
Wow, Mary....this sounds heavenly! Ice box and peanut butter? Cannot wait to make this...yours looks wonderful! Cheers, Nina
- March 22, 2011 at 10:57 PM
I'm a huge fan of anything nutty, this is tempting my taste buds, unlike you though.. I have zero items in my freezer... I have this fear that if I stock up, it will go to waste...I'm a daily shopper, otherwise I end up throwing so much away... I think because my schedule will be lax one week and super busy the next...
- March 22, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- Yasmin said...
Jaw dropping! I am printing this recipe to make strait after lent!
I love the creaminess of this dessert! It looks soooooo good!
Yasmin - March 23, 2011 at 3:36 AM
- FOODESSA said...
How nice it was to read that your Mr. has a hand at treating to something sweetly made and talented too!
The cake looks incredible Mr. Fox ;o)
Ciao for now,
Claudia - March 23, 2011 at 6:12 AM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
No need for oven! Great... this is a keeper :D
- March 23, 2011 at 8:33 AM
- Amanda said...
OMG my partner needs to go on vacation so that I can give this a whirl...silly peanut allergy!
- March 23, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Shelley said...
I have the same problem with my freezer! Live teh Nuts to You Einstein theme. Looks like you found an excellent soultion for your peanut broblem- the cake looks delish!
- March 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM
- Unknown said...
Mary thanks for stopping by and your wonderful words about my food :) I totally want you (please) to send this cake as an entry for my Crazy for Cake event- It's new, innovative and absolutely gorgeous! Here is the link - I've provided a linky tool - Do me the honor :)
http://priyasnowserving.blogspot.com/2011/02/announcing-second-guest-event.html - March 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM
- The Single Nester said...
Oh my gosh. This looks delicious. I love lemon but am wondering what it adds to the recipe's taste.
- March 23, 2011 at 5:33 PM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
I love the sounds of this. Such a short and easy ingredients list!
- March 23, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Mrs. L said...
This sounds so good and I can't wait to make it! I'm loving me some no-bake recipes...makes me think the cold and rain will stop soon and I'll have some warm weather.
- March 24, 2011 at 4:26 PM
- Mikaela Cowles said...
Your blog is so lovely! I'm not sure how you found mine, but I am so glad you did because now I have found you. This recipe is a lot like one my family makes and I adore it. What could be better than chocolate and peanut butter. I look forward to more wonderful recipes.
- March 24, 2011 at 6:32 PM
- Alicia Foodycat said...
I've really enjoyed all these peanut recipes! You are using them in amazingly creative ways. I must bookmark this cake - we're getting into barbecue season and this is a great dessert to take!
- March 26, 2011 at 11:57 AM

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In Mississippi, Romney had the support of 30 percent of primary voters who earn under $50,000 a year, compared with 26 percent in Alabama. He drew the backing of 33 percent of Mississippi primary voters with no college education, compared with 27 percent in Alabama.
Only about half of all voters in each state said they work fulltime for pay, and they, too, voted differently one state from the other.
Santorum outpolled Romney, 39 percent to 23 percent among that group in Alabama. The two men tied among that group in Mississippi.
As has been true in earlier primaries, the economy was the most important issue to voters, and an ability to defeat Obama the most important quality when it came time to pick a candidate.
The exit polls were based on interviews with 1,552 voters as they left 30 randomly selected polling places around Alabama, and with 1,575 Mississippi voters from 30 sites. Each survey had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The Southern showdown came as new polling showed a decline in Obama's approval ratings — a reversal amid escalating gasoline prices and turbulence in the Middle East.
The day began with Romney leading the delegate competition by far in The Associated Press count, with 454 of the 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Santorum had 217, Gingrich 107 and Paul 47.
That gave the former Massachusetts governor more than his rivals combined. And while Santorum in particular challenges the mathematical projections, Romney is amassing delegates at a rate that puts him on track to clinch control of nomination before the convention next summer.
Romney, campaigning in Missouri, took exception to a television commercial airing in both Southern states and said Santorum "is at the desperate end of his campaign." The commercial was backed by a super PAC that supports the former senator, not by him.
Santorum's camp had earlier issued a memo that dismissed as fuzzy math Romney's claim that he is on track to amass a delegate majority. "Simply put, time is on our side," it said.
Gingrich's aides issued a rebuttal of their own with the polls still open in the primary states. It said the primaries were not yet half over, and the former House speaker "is well positioned to win the GOP nomination."
The large amount of television advertising was testimony to the importance the contenders and their allies attached to the primaries in both Alabama and Mississippi.
All three candidates as well as super PACs supporting each of them ran television commercials. As has been the case all year, Restore Our Future, which backs Romney, spent more than any of the others. The group put down $1.3 million for television ads in Alabama, another $900,000 in Mississippi and more for radio on Christian and other radio stations as well as thousands of pieces of mail designed to help the former Massachusetts governor.
It was only in recent days that Romney seemed to sense a chance in Alabama and Mississippi, and he responded by increasing his television ad expenditures and his plans for campaigning in the states.
Born in Michigan and a longtime resident of Massachusetts, he told one audience the two primaries were "a bit of an away game for him" and drew laughs from another when he said he hoped to go hunting with an Alabama friend "who can actually show me which end of the rifle to shoot."
He generally steered away from criticizing his Republican rivals and aimed his rhetoric instead at Obama, whose prospects in both states are as dim next fall as anywhere in the country.
Santorum campaigned against the president and Romney simultaneously as he sought the support of conservatives who have fueled his recent surge.
In Biloxi, Miss., on Monday, he ridiculed the science behind global warming. "The dangers of carbon dioxide? Tell that to a plant, how dangerous carbon dioxide is," he said.
Gingrich spent part of his time pushing back against suggestions — including from his own staff — that he might drop out if he didn't notch a pair of Southern victories. His only two wins so far came in the South Carolina primary on Jan 21, and last week, when he won his political home state of Georgia.
Initial polls showed the former House speaker in a strong position in both states, but he abruptly canceled a campaign trip to Kansas in advance of the state's caucuses late last week to remain in the South.
He used a recorded telephone message from Chuck Norris, the actor and Karate champion, for a last-minute appeal to voters in Alabama.
Associated Press writers Charles Babington in St. Louis and Beth Fouhy and Philip Elliott in Montgomery, Ala., contributed to this report.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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A 14-year-old found the 57 letters inside a box walking along a beach in Atlantic Highlands the day after Sandy struck. They chronicled life for Dorothy Fallon and Lynn Farnham from 1942 until the week before they married in 1948.
Kathleen Chaney tells WNBC-TV in New York she started playing amateur detective as her son dried the letters.
She left a message on a website where she learned Farnham had died in 1991. A niece contacted her to say 91-year-old Dorothy Fallon Farnham is in frail health in Asbury Park.
It's believed the letters floated from the Rumson area down the Shrewsbury River into Sandy Hook Bay.


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Russian region begins recovery from meteor fall
CHELYABINSK, Russia: As a small army of people worked to replace acres of windows shattered by the enormous explosion from a meteor, many joked on Saturday about what had happened in this troubled pocket of Russia.
One of the most popular jests: Residents of the meteor were terrified to see Chelyabinsk approaching.
The fireball that streaked into the sky over this tough industrial city at about sunrise Friday was undeniably traumatic. Nearly 1,200 people were reported injured by the shock wave from the explosion, estimated to be as strong as 20 Hiroshima atomic bombs.
But it also brought a sense of cooperation in a troubled region. Large numbers of volunteers came forward to help fix the damage caused by the explosion and many residents came together on the Internet — first to find out what happened and soon to make jokes.
Chelyabinsk, nicknamed Tankograd because it produced the famed Soviet T-34 tanks, can be as grim as its backbone heavy industries. Long winters where temperatures routinely hit minus-30 Celsius (minus-22 Fahrenheit) add to a general dour mien, as do worries about dangerous facilities in the surrounding region.
In 1957, a waste tank at the Mayak nuclear weapons plant in the Chelyabinsk region exploded, contaminating 23,000 square kilometers (9,200 square miles) and prompting authorities to evacuate 10,000 nearby residents. It is now Russia's main nuclear waste disposal facility. A vast plant for disposing of chemical weapons lies 85 kilometers (50 miles) east of the city.
"The city is a place where people always seem bitter with each other," said music teacher Ilya Shibanov. But the meteor "was one of the rare times when people started to live together through one event."
"For most people, it's a good excuse for a joke," he said.
It also is why Shibanov quickly concocted a rap video that got wide Internet attention, including the lines: ""Pow, pow, pow — everything flew and factory windows crumbled. This Friday the bars are going to be full, so be ready for the aftermath."
But for many, it's provided a reason to roll up their sleeves and get to work repairing the more than 4,000 buildings in the city and region where windows were shattered, or to provide other services.
More than 24,000 people, including volunteers, have mobilized in the region to cover windows, gather warm clothes and food, and make other relief efforts, the regional governor's office said. Crews from glass companies in adjacent regions were being flown in.
Gov. Mikhail Yurevich on Saturday said that damage from the high-altitude explosion —believed to have been as powerful as 20 Hiroshima bombs — is estimated at 1 billion rubles ($33 million). He promised to have all the broken windows replaced within a week.
But that is a long wait in a frigid region. The midday temperature in Chelyabinsk was minus-12 C (10 F), and for many the immediate task was to put up plastic sheeting and boards on shattered residential windows.
Meanwhile, the search continued for major fragments of the meteor.
In the town of Chebarkul, 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of Chelyabinsk city, divers explored the bottom of an ice-crusted lake looking for meteor fragments believed to have fallen there, leaving a six-meter-wide (20-foot-wide) hole. Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Irina Rossius told Russian news agencies the search hadn't found anything.
Police kept a small crowd of curious onlookers from venturing out onto the icy lake, where a tent was set up for the divers.
Many of them were still trying to process the memories of the strange day they'd lived through.
Valery Fomichov said he had been out for a run when the meteor streaked across the sky shortly after sunrise.
"I glanced up and saw a glowing dot in the west. And it got bigger and bigger, like a soccer ball, until it became blindingly white and I turned away," he said.
In a local church, clergyman Sexton Sergei sought to derive a larger lesson.
"Perhaps God was giving a kind of sign, so that people don't simply think about their own trifles on earth, but rather look to the heavens once in a while."
In Chelyabinsk, university student Ksenia Arslanova said she was pleased that people in the city of 1 million generally behaved well after the bewildering flash and explosions.
"People were kind of ironic about it. And that's a good thing, that people didn't run to the grocery store. Everyone was calm," the 19-year-old architecture student said. "I'm proud that our city didn't fall into depression."
As Chelyabinsk began its healing process, residents of San Francisco, on the other side of the planet, worried that they might be next. A science institute in Northern California says it has received numerous reports of a bright streak of light over the San Francisco Bay area on Friday night.
Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to the meteorite that detonated over Russia this week, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls.
There were no reports of any injuries or damage such as those caused by the Russia meteorite, which sent out shockwaves that hurt some 1,200 people and shattered countless windows.
Cuba apparently experienced a phenomenon similar to the Chelyabinsk meteor several days earlier, island media reported, with startled residents describing a bright light in the sky and a loud explosion that shook windows and walls.
In a video from a state TV newscast posted on the website CubaSi late Friday, unidentified residents of the central city of Rodas, near Cienfuegos, said the explosion was impressive.
"On Tuesday we left home to fish around five in the afternoon, and around 8 p.m. we saw a light in the heavens and then a big ball of fire, bigger than the sun," one local man said in the video.


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Update at 3:00 p.m. ET. No Settlement Expected Today:
NPR's Ken Barcus says that no settlement is expected today. The most likely scenario is a contract vote sometime on Sunday, he says.
The Chicago Tribune reports quotes a union attorney who said that the outlines of an agreement are there, but a vote on ending the strike is not likely until Sunday.
Our Original Post Continues:
Despite yesterday's optimism coming from both Chicago teachers' union head Karen Lewis and the school board chief, David Vitale, there's no tentative agreement in the teachers' strike against the city's public school system.
NPR's Sonari Glinton tells NPR Newscasts one sticking point may be job security. There's concern Chicago may close some schools, and teachers want to know what role principals will play in recalling laid off teachers.
Both sides could be also working out some fine print. Union members meet today to hear the latest proposals, and they might get some real numbers; the Chicago Tribune says negotiators are doing ' number crunching'. The report says union chief Lewis, who had hinted Thursday that teachers could ink a deal and return to work by today, is now less certain of a return to the classroom by Monday.
Vitale emerged from negotiations very early this morning, and told the Chicago Sun-Times that negotiators are "closing a lot of gaps." If they really do bridge their differences and strike a tentative deal today, it could be presented to the teachers' union house of delegates, the body that can approve or reject it. While they wait, rank and file teachers continue to walk picket lines.
Update at 1:29 p.m. ET. An Upcoming Meeting:
NPR's Claudio Sanchez, who covers education, tells us that Chicago teachers' union head Karen Lewis is set to meet with the union's "house of delegates" at 3 p.m. ET. It's a group of 700 teachers that may get an opportunity to approve a new contract with majority vote.
Claudio has also been talking to many rank-and-file union members who see "this strike as the perfect opportunity to say 'enough is enough.'"
Claudio adds:
"Anthony Codi is a former teacher and activist opposed to the Bush-era 'No Child Left Behind' law and President Obama's Race To The Top policies who says 'it's up to the teachers of Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland everywhere else to lead from the bottom and that's what teachers in chicago are doing..and i think there's a lot of us ready to follow them.'"
In other words, Claudio tells us, teachers are saying its up to the rank-and-file, not the national union leadership, to shield them from pay for performance or schemes that tie teacher evaluation to students' test scores.
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They are usually part of a section where companies or individuals can publish ads, often for a fee, and are organized by categories to facilitate the search (real estate, automobiles, jobs, computers, personal relationships, etc.).
Each ad consists of a brief description and contact information; sometimes it includes the value of the product. There are even publications dedicated to classified ads in a specific category, usually for housing, automobiles or second-hand items.
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With the advent of the Internet, digital techniques have developed and professionalized, relegating the print media to a secondary role in classified ads. The vast majority of these digital publications are free of charge for users because they have lower infrastructure maintenance costs than print media.
On the Internet, classified ads have acquired a new perspective, people who were previously forced to pay to publish their classified ads in the print media, now opt for this new alternative, which in most cases is free of charge.
Search for jobs on Craigslist portals
Craigslist portals are characterized by very specific job offers. Do not expect to find on seokminko.com job offers for bank manager, just as it is very likely that if you are looking for a job as a doctor you will not find a job offer on seokminko.com. What you will find on both portals will be hundreds of offers to work as a waiter, offers for store clerk and the like.
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University of Iowa claims top party school title
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — College students consider the University of Iowa the nation's best party school, even though Iowa City has tried to make its famous bar scene less hospitable to underage drinkers.
The Princeton Review bestowed Iowa with the top ranking Monday on a list determined by 126,000 students in a nationwide survey. Rounding out the Top 5 are: University of California, Santa Barbara; the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; West Virginia University and Syracuse University.
The organization also released its "stone-cold sober schools" list — led again this year by Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah; and followed by Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill.
Officials in Iowa City aren't celebrating the ranking, which comes after they've made recent strides in the battle against binge drinking on campus and downtown. University of Iowa spokesman Tom Moore said The Princeton Review "gets some things right," by describing Iowa as an affordable Big Ten university with students who are both studious and social.
"That indicates they are balancing their academic responsibilities with their social pursuits," he said.
The rankings are based on surveys in which an average of 333 students per campus are asked 80 questions about a range of subjects in the last three school years. Its methodology uses a five-point scale, allowing for school-to-school comparisons.
Universities routinely dismiss the rankings as unscientific and invalid, while praising the free publicity that comes along with positive ones. For instance, Emerson College is likely to embrace its ranking Monday as the most LGBT-friendly school, and the University of Mississippi will certainly tout its "most beautiful campus" designation.
Packed Iowa City bars blaring dance music, off-campus house parties and tailgating before Hawkeye football games are as much a part of Iowa's culture as the cornfields that surround the city. Fraternities and sororities also contribute to the party atmosphere.
But the No. 1 spot seems out of step with national data released this year showing fewer Hawkeyes are drinking and engaging in high-risk drinking. The percentage of Iowa students who reported drinking in the last 30 days (75 percent) was the lowest in 20 years of studies, even if it was above the national average.
Policy changes have scaled back Iowa City's bar scene, and a 2010 ordinance requiring customers to be 21 to enter bars — instead of 19 — is credited with reducing drinking and crime. Once popular watering holes such as Vito's and One Eyed Jake's have closed, replaced by an indie movie theater and a nice restaurant.
"We are continuing to work to change the culture on our campus by educating students to only consume alcohol in a legal, safe and responsible manner, and those efforts are achieving results," Moore said.
The No. 3 party school sprawls across parts of two cities — Urbana and Champaign, Ill. — and in both, students younger than 21 can legally enter bars. In Champaign, where most of the bars are located, the minimum age is 19; in Urbana, it's 18.
The campus' party reputation is enhanced by a single annual event, Unofficial St. Patrick's Day— or, simply, Unofficial — when thousands of students and others converge for a day of drinking at parties and in bars. Local police ticket hundreds every year, and some city leaders have tried to limit Unofficial by restricting bar operating hours and taking other steps, with little or no success.
At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, No. 8 on this year's list, university officials and the city have worked to address the drinking problem, including passing an ordinance in 2012 designed to crack down on large house parties and trying to provide more entertainment options for students who aren't of legal drinking age.
Starting this fall, all incoming students will be expected to complete an online education program about alcohol abuse.
"When I started my freshman year, there was no talk in orientation or any sort of things in the dorm about alcohol, even though we all knew coming in what the reputation was of Madison as a party school," said Mark Woulf, a 2010 graduate who now serves as the city's food and alcohol policy coordinator.
Given that changing the booze-heavy culture is difficult, the school is now teaching students to take responsibility for themselves and their friends, Woulf said.
The Princeton Review senior vice president Robert Franek said its lists are based completely on students' opinions, and that Iowa's ranking does not diminish the Review's "great respect" for the school's academics or progress it's made regarding alcohol issues on campus.
The privately held education services company has published "The Best 378 Colleges" book annually since 1992. It includes 62 lists, such as the best-run college — Claremont McKenna College in California — and best college library — Columbia University in New York City.
Associated Press writers Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis., and David Mercer in Champaign, Ill., contributed to this report.


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My name is Mrs Adelaja and I have been married to a wonderful man for
the past 10yrs. We have a 9year old son together but after then I have
not been able to conceive, we have been to almost all the churches in
Africa for deliverance and we have also been to hospitals and I have
taken all sorts of medications, yet we didn't get the result we
My husband's family wants him to take another woman and he has agreed to
it, but he is still denying it to me. I can't have kids again that's
what the doctors said and my husband wants as many kids as possible, I
can't stand seeing my husband with another woman not to mention him
marrying another woman. I don't know if I am being self-centered but I
am a Christian my faith does not support polygamy.
I know my husband loves and respects me but if I allow him to take
another woman, I know one thing for sure and it's that I am going to
loose my home because right now we are having some financial crisis and
he is suggesting I move in with my parents which they have agreed upon,
while he rents a mini apartment until he can complete his building and I
know that will hasten his steps in picking a second wife, honestly I
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(BRUNSWICK, Ga., AP) – In five years, Sherry West has lost two sons to unspeakable violence.
The Georgia mother was grieving from Thursday's shooting death of her 13-month-old son in his stroller during an attempted robbery while they took a morning stroll. In 2008, her 18-year-old son was stabbed in an altercation in New Jersey.
A pair of teenagers was arrested Friday in the most recent shooting. West had just been to the post office a few blocks from her apartment Thursday morning and was pushing her son, Antonio, in his stroller while they walked past gnarled oak trees and blooming azaleas in the coastal city of Brunswick.
West said a tall, skinny teenager, accompanied by a smaller boy, asked her for money.
"He asked me for money and I said I didn't have it," she told The Associated Press on Friday from her apartment, which was scattered with her son's toys and movies.
"When you have a baby, you spend all your money on babies. They're expensive. And he kept asking and I just said 'I don't have it.' And he said, 'Do you want me to kill your baby?' And I said, 'No, don't kill my baby!'"
One of the teens fired four shots, grazing West's ear and striking her in the leg, before he walked around to the stroller and shot the baby in the face.
Seventeen-year-old De'Marquis Elkins is charged as an adult with first-degree murder, along with a 14-year-old who was not identified because he is a juvenile, Police Chief Tobe Green said. It wasn't immediately clear whether the boys had attorneys.
Police announced the arrest Friday afternoon after combing school records and canvassing neighborhoods searching for the pair. The chief said the motive of the "horrendous act" was still under investigation and the weapon had not been found.
"I feel glad that justice will be served," West said. "It's not something I'm going to live with very well. I'm just glad they caught him."
West said detectives showed her mugshots of about 24 young men. She pointed to one, saying he looked like the gunman.
"After I picked him, they said they had him in custody," West said. "It looked just like him. So I think we got our man."
West said she thought the other suspect looked much younger: "That little boy did not look 14."
The slaying happened around the corner from West's apartment in the city's Old Town historic district. It's a street lined with grand Victorian homes from the late 1800s. Most have been neatly restored by their owners. Others, with faded and flaking paint, have been divided into rental units like the apartment West shared with her son. The slain boy's father, Luis Santiago, lives in a house across the street.
A neighbor dropped off a fruit basket and then a hot pot of coffee Friday as a friend from the post office dropped by to comfort West.
Santiago came and went. At one point he scooped up an armload of his son's stuffed animals, saying he wanted to take them home with him. He talked about Antonio's first birthday on Feb. 5 and how they had tried different party hats on the boy.
"He's alright," Santiago told the boy's mother, trying to smile. "He's potty training upstairs in heaven."
West said her son was walking well on his own and eight of his teeth had come in. But she also mourned the milestones that will never come, like Antonio's first day at school.
"I'm always going to wonder what his first word would be," West said.
Beverly Anderson, whose husband owns the property where West has lived for several years, said she was stunned by the violence in what's generally known as a safe neighborhood where children walk to school and families are frequently outdoors.
Jonathan Mayes and his wife were out walking their dogs Friday, right past the crime scene, and said they've never felt nervous about being out after dark.
"What is so mind-numbing about this is we don't have this kind of stuff happen here," Mayes said.
It's not the mother's first loss of a child to violence. West said her 18-year-old son, Shaun Glassey, was killed in New Jersey in 2008. She still has a newspaper clipping from the time.
Glassey was killed with a steak knife in March 2008 during an attack involving several other teens on a dark street corner in Gloucester County, N.J., according to news reports from the time.
"He and some other boys were going to ambush a kid," Bernie Weisenfeld, a spokesman for the Gloucester County prosecutor's office, told the AP Friday.
Glassey was armed with a knife, but the 17-year-old target of the attack was able to get the knife away from him "and Glassey ended up on the wrong end of the knife," Weisenfeld recalled.
Prosecutors decided the 17-year-old would not be charged because they determined that he acted in self-defense.
Sabrina Elkins, the sister of the older suspect in the Georgia baby's slaying, said Friday evening that she believed her brother was innocent of the charges. She didn't know whether he had a lawyer.
"He couldn't have done that to a little baby," she told AP. "My brother has a good heart."
She said that her brother had been living in Atlanta, and only returned to Brunswick a few months ago. Typically, he would come by her house in the morning and they'd go to breakfast. But Friday morning, police came to her door as her brother was approaching along the sidewalk.
"The police came pointing a Taser at him, telling him to get on the ground," she recalled by phone. "He said, 'What are you getting me for? Can you tell me what I did?'"
Police arrest 2 teens in Ga. baby killing
March 23, 2013
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I mean, I rarely enjoy PEOPLE Magazine. Like almost never. But today, today I LOVE PEOPLE Magazine. I love them for doing this. For giving Britney Spears some real estate on Justin Timberlake's wedding cover. COME ON.
It's BRILLIANT.
He has been trying to get away from her, and that time in his life, and his ringlets and denim suits, for a long, long, long time. And even when he gets married, even when he gets married, there she is, Britney forever, always in his face.
Thank you PEOPLE. So much. With no sarcasm. This is your best editorial decision of the year.
I have more thoughts on this. And they're coming. But for now, click here. That's how it is. STILL.


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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie agreed to ease restrictions on medical marijuana for chronically ill children, but he won't go as far as lawmakers would like.
NPR's Joel Rose reports that Christie, a Republican, has rejected part of a bill that would allow young patients access to an ingestible form of marijuana at state-approved dispensaries without the approval of a psychiatrist and pediatrician.
His partial veto sends the bill back to the Democratic-controlled Legislature for approval before it becomes law.
The Associated Press reports:
"Like the 19 other states that allow medical marijuana, New Jersey lets children use it. But unlike all but a few, the state law and regulations currently in place — considered perhaps the most stringent among states that allow medical pot at all — have additional hurdles for young patients. ...
"It attracted broader attention this week when parent Brian Wilson confronted the governor during a campaign stop in a diner. Wilson believes his 2-year-old daughter, Vivian, would benefit by using a certain form and strain of pot for Dravet syndrome, a rare and sometimes deadly form of epilepsy.
"In a moment captured on video that made news shows and websites, Wilson told the governor, 'Please don't let my daughter die.' "
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St. Louis — Saint Louis University junior Zach Grummer-Strawn has never seen "The Exorcist," the 1973 horror film considered one of the finest examples of unadulterated cinematic terror. He's only vaguely familiar with the monthlong 1949 demon-purging ritual at his school on which the film and William Peter Blatty's 1971 novel were based.
But just in time for Halloween, Jesuit scholars have joined a whole new generation of horror buffs in St. Louis to recount the supernatural incident. The university hosted a panel discussion Tuesday on the exorcism, which involved the treatment of an unidentified suburban Washington, D.C., boy. About 500 people crammed into Pius XII Library, with some spilling into the library aisles, leaning against pillars or sitting on desks.
"I'd like to believe it's the real thing," said Grummer-Strawn, a theology and sociology student from Atlanta. "But you just can't know. That's part of why we're here. It's the pursuit of truth. And it's such a great story."
The university scholars and guest speaker Thomas Allen, author of a 1993 account of the events at the school's former Alexian Brothers Hospital, emphasized that definitive proof that the boy known only as "Robbie" was possessed by malevolent spirits is unattainable. Maybe he instead suffered from mental illness or sexual abuse — or fabricated the entire experience.
Like most of religion's basic tenets, it ultimately comes down to faith.
"If the devil can convince us he does not exist, then half the battle is won," said the Rev. Paul Stark, vice president for mission and ministry at the 195-year-old Catholic school. He opened the discussion with a prayer from the church's exorcism handbook, imploring God to "fill your servants with courage to fight that reprobate dragon."
Some of the non-students in the audience spoke of personal connections to an episode that has enthralled generations of St. Louis residents.
One man described living near the suburban St. Louis home where the 13-year-old boy arrived in the winter of 1949 (his Lutheran mother was a St. Louis native who married a Catholic). Another said she was a distant cousin of Father William Bowdern, who led the exorcism ritual after consulting with the archbishop of St. Louis but remained publicly silent about his experiences — though he did tell Allen it was "the real thing."
Bowdern died in 1983.
Bowdern was assisted by the Rev. Walter Halloran, who unlike his colleague spoke openly with Allen and expressed his skepticism about potential paranormal events before his death a decade ago.
"He talked more about the boy, and how much he suffered, and less about the rite," Allen said. "Here was a scared, confused boy caught up in something he didn't understand.
"He told me, 'I simply don't know,' and that is where I leave it," the author added. "I just don't know."
Allen zealously protects the anonymity of "Robbie," despite others' efforts to track him down to this day.
Gary Mackey, a 59-year-old accountant who left work early to attend the campus event, said he also is unsure whether "The Exorcist" was a work of fiction or instead a riveting real-life account of barely comprehensible forces.
He does know this: He cannot forget the movie that he saw with a buddy four decades ago. They drove 100 miles from their home in Louisville, Ky., to the nearest theater showing it across the state line in Cincinnati.
"I saw the movie when I was 19 years old and it scared me to death," Mackey said. "I think it's the scariest movie ever made."


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As Arizonas official crackdown on illegal border-crossers gains momentum, where will all the scattering illegal immigrants end up? How about welcoming them to settle in such sanctuary cities as Alexandria?
Come on in, folks. Bring your anchor babies and other relatives to feast upon the aid and comfort of Alexandrias vast storehouse of (free) resources, services, and hospitality!
This prospect may be an ideal dream for illegal immigrants but will serve as just another fiscal and law-enforcement nightmare for tax-paying Alexandrians. We oppressed citizen-taxpayers, who generally have far better foresight than our elected rulers, should marshal a quick, practical remedy to the coming invasion.
Indeed, that remedy already has a foothold in legislation drafted for introduction into the Virginia General Assembly as soon as possible (see the public petition posted at www.virginiaruleof law.com ). One of its key provisions would forbid any Virginia jurisdiction from proclaiming itself as a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
I recommend that any Alexandria Council member choosing to oppose passage of this sorely needed legislation be voted out of office. Whats more: As the measures language becomes final, it should maintain stiff penalties for any and all violations.
Larry W. Bryant


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