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THE FLASH Season 1, Episode 19 'Who is Harrison Wells?'
Who is Harrison Wells? is not only the title of this particular episode, it's also the question of the hour. We viewers know exactly what has gone on – that the Wells (Tom Cavanagh) we see is merely a shell of a body inhabited by the time-travelling Eobard Thawne, aka Reverse-Flash – but Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Co. are still in the process of figuring this all out for themselves.
We start things off here with Barry noting how he is now faster than ever, with it being almost like he is being chased by his past. Yeah, in case actions were not enough to imply this, the show makes sure that all viewers are on the right wavelength by slapping them in the face with this notion. It's okay, the tone of The Flash is charming enough that it can get away with this hammering home of its point for now. Whilst debating this notion, The Flash casually speeds his way to Coast City – the home of a certain Hal Jordan – in order to grab some pizza for the waiting hordes at Chez West. With Barry, Joe (Jesse L. Martin), Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) looking further into the possibility of Wells being Reverse-Flash (which he totally is), it soon becomes apparent that Caitlin isn't necessarily of the same thought process as those around her. After all, to her Harrison Wells is a man who has been a mentor, has stood by her, and helped her deal with traumatic moments like the loss of her husband-to-be, not to mention her reputation, during the whole particle accelerator accident that changed the landscape of Central City. Whilst Cisco is all for 'Wells is totally a bad egg', Caitlin is not so easily swayed.
On the villain-of-the-week front, this week we get the show's spin on DC's Everyman (Martin Novotny… with a little help from plenty of others), aka the shape-shifting Hannibal Bates. Basically, as well as pulling his name from Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates, this is a rogue who has similar powers to Marvel's Mystique and Morph. Much like a few of the more recent episodes of The Flash, Everyman largely plays a side course to the overall narrative of the show; that being the mystery behind Harrison Wells. That said, the use of Everyman does lend itself nicely to a few moments, such as a telling kiss between Caitlin and Barry (who is actually Everyman) and the plot of Eddie (totally not the real Eddie) landing himself in hot water for supposedly shooting some cops. Yes, as in that awesome moment from the recent Flash trailers, where a grinning Eddie takes out two cops, was all merely a ruse and was just Everyman posing as Detective Pretty Boy. And there we were hoping that this was something more telling and in line with the Thawne name…
In an effort to (literally) dig the dirt on Wells, Cisco and Joe take a trip to Starling City, the former home of Harrison Wells. It's here that we get to see the awesome coming together of Joe West and Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), with Captain Lance helping Joe and Cisco to check out the site of the fateful crash that took the life of Wells' 'one true' years prior. Of course, they end up finding the body of the real Harrison Wells. Whilst that is a major breakthrough in this particular arc, the bigger joy was seeing Jesse L. Martin and Paul Blackthorne sharing some screen time together. These two are often the MVPs of their respective shows, and it was brilliant to just see them share some back and forths. Hell, we even got to see a little of the lighter side of Lance, which is a nice change of pace to the constantly pissed off version of the character we've seen in Arrow ever since he found out that daughter Sara (Caity Lotz) was dead. Angry Lance is always great, but it was just nice to see him having a few lighter moments with Joe here.
Additionally, we also got to see Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) appear during the Starling City visit of Joe and Cisco, and this worked on several levels. Not only did we get to see Cisco develop a new version of the famed Canary Cry for Laurel, the character of Laurel Lance actually comes across rather well. Yes, the very same Laurel Lance who is as dull as dishwater, as unappealing as a wet fart, and as intimidating as an Andex puppy throughout the majority of her Arrow run. Granted, her role here is likely 5 minutes of screen time at best, and said screen time is generally spent with Carlos Valdes' ever-likable Cisco Ramon, but Laurel Lance comes across as an enjoyable part of the episode. Whilst we aren't seasoning any slices of humble pie just yet, the character's spark and appeal here should be noted for sister-show Arrow. Her inclusion also lends itself to Cisco quipping about how he's been "playing with sound waves lately", which could very well be a nice piece of foreshadowing.
When Who is Harrison Wells? comes to a close, the confrontation between Barry Allen and Harrison Wells etches closer as Barry, Cisco and Caitlin discover Wells' secret S.T.A.R. Labs lair (y'know, the one which houses Gideon, the Reverse-Flash suit, and that features a "Flash Missing" headline from a 2025 newspaper. It was also nice to see a few teases of possible developments down the line; such as what was Caitlin Snow about to say when she "frostily" turned up at Wells' door before being swiped away by The Flash?; and will there be any further development on Wells turning up at CCPD HQ to give his regards to Detective Thawne?
The villain on show here, Everyman, was used cleverly throughout the episode, particularly when alluding to Caitlin having romantic feelings towards Barry, and the transformation of the rogue in to a little girl when held captive by Caitlin and Iris (Candice Patton) was a brilliant idea from the writers of the show. Still, Iris West continues to be a character who has very few, if any, redeemable characteristics at this point, coming off as a stroppy teenager in nearly every episode. Again we find here giving grief to Eddie for holding certain information back from her. The same Eddie who is a cop and who she is aware obviously deals with sensitive and confidential information on a daily basis.
Another slight negative of Who is Harrison Wells? is that two of the most anticipated scenes of the final part of the season turned out to be completely bogus. By that, we're referencing the moment when Eddie shoots two cops and then the moment that we get to see The Flash vs. The Flash. Of course, these two happenings would end up being nothing more than just Everyman causing trouble. Still, this didn't particularly hurt the episode or the show as a whole, and there's still plenty of significance and consequence ahead for the Scarlet Speedster.
As well as being set to confront Wells imminently, it appears that Barry's focus could soon be switching to the super-strong, genius-level intelligent, psionic-powered beast known as Gorilla Grodd. Whatever happens, there's only four episodes left of The Flash and they're set up to be must-see TV.


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Before entering the bathroom, she said blood stains were seen on the bed.
She said she made her way into the bathroom, which first proved difficult because Woolmer's body was blocking the door.
"The first thing I felt for was the pulse, but there was none, then there was no response from the chest," she told coroner Patrick Murphy and the 11-member jury.
She said she administered CPR and chest compression, but "this did not work".
Robinson added that Dr. Asher Cooper arrived shortly after and he too administered CPR, this again failed.
She also told the inquest that the ambulance did not arrive at the hotel until about 11:40 a.m., almost one hour after she entered the Woolmer's room.
The coach, whose team, the day before was eliminated from the World Cup by an embarrassing defeat to Ireland, was pronounced dead at the University Hospital of the West Indies.
Dr. Herb Elliott, in a television interview on Tuesday, said when he entered Woolmer's room, the coach was still alive. It is not clear if he arrived before or after the nurse, but he is expected to testify later at the inquest.
An autopsy report by government pathologist, Dr. Ere Seshiah, ruled that Woolmer died from asphyxia caused by manual strangulation. But another examination by Dr. Nathaniel Cary, of the Metropolitan Police in London, showed he died from heart failure.
In an interesting situation, the hotel's information systems manager Lorraine Taite, who also took the stand, told the inquest that the team's physiotherapist Maurice Stephenson's room was opposite Woolmer's, but requested to be relocated.
Stephenson reported that he could not take the noise that was coming from near by and thus his request was granted.
Taite said after he was relocated, the key (swipe card) was use to enter the same room he removed from, but could not say who would have re-entered the room.
She was unable to say if another guest was given that room. The inquest continues on Friday.
Nurse tried unsuccessfully to revive Woolmer
Several attempts to save the life of former Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer were unsuccessful, a nurse told the Coroner's Inquest here.


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Read an excerpt from The Nanny Arrangement by Rachel Harris/
Soft-spoken and shy Hannah Fisher is determined to make the man she's loved her entire life finally see her as a woman. With the help of a makeover, a new mission—Operation Find My Happy—and the convenient forced proximity of a tour bus, she vows to win her best friend Deacon's heart.
Former bad boy and current fiddle player Deacon Latrell has the world at his fingertips: a new gig with a famous band, plus his best friend on tour as his son's nanny. Life couldn't get much sweeter. Now if only he could stop imagining kissing the daylights out of his childhood BFF…
With one friend set on pushing the boundaries and the other afraid to rock the boat, one thing's for certain—their story would make one heck of a country song.
The lingerie had been an impulse purchase—an impulse that had then led to an epiphany. Blush and jade. Satin and lace. Toile and mousseline…the colors, styles, and textures had been overwhelming. Trying them on, well, that had been extraordinary. The silk had felt decadent against Hannah's skin, almost forbidden, and so unlike anything she'd ever worn before. Living an ocean away from everyone and everything she'd ever known, nursing a broken heart, it had been exactly what Hannah had needed.
Initially, she'd fled to Paris to get over Deacon, but more than that, she'd been fleeing the woman she'd sadly become. A woman who sat on the sidelines of her own life. For far too long, she'd allowed other people to dictate her happiness, and that realization, coupled with naughty lingerie and a few glasses of spectacular wine in an adorable bistro, had birthed her new mission. Hannah liked to call it, Operation Joie de Vivre…or Operation Find My Happy.
Her mission was threefold.
First up, no more hiding. Hannah's bad habit of shying away from experiences simply because they made her nervous was over. Now, she would be bold. Adventurous. Outgoing. Anything from forming friendships to speaking her mind was fair game, with the number one rule being no more skulking in the shadows. Paris had awoken a desire to start truly living—and to stop putting her dreams on hold.
Secondly, Hannah wanted to find her place in the world. The tour with Blue was a perfect opportunity to explore a new option. So far, her contract lasted only through the national leg, with the idea that they'd extend her stay once she'd gotten past a short trial period—a test she intended to pass with flying colors. At twenty-four, she was excited to settle into a career where she could make a real difference, and while she hoped to find that in this position, she was open to just about anything. Band nanny, au pair, or a preschool teacher, they all sounded wonderful. As long as she could make a real contribution, it would fit the bill.
Lastly, but perhaps most importantly—
She was putting her heart on the line, once and for all.
Lingerie may've kicked off her mission, but it was the hope of Deacon that gave it life. Denying her feelings all these years hadn't changed them. Neither had leaving the country. The only thing that would, or so she'd decided, was pushing the boundaries of their friendship. Flirting (an activity with which Hannah had zero experience) and letting Deacon know she was ready for love were all part and parcel of her new plan to get her best friend to finally see her as a woman.
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Americans get a bad rap for being shallow people. Or maybe I'm thinking of Californians? Probably. But Thomas Gold does not believe Americans are shallow. He just thinks we know how to party.
"Even when there is a crisis, people still want to have fun, and they do. They don't think about it," says the Berlin-based Gold — who performs Saturday at Mandalay Bay's Daylight dayclub, and then again on Saturday night at Light nightclub.
Gold says he likes how happy we get.
"In Europe sometimes (at clubs or music festivals), people are not really enjoying themselves because they're thinking too much. There's nothing against thinking, obviously, but sometimes you just want to party."
When Gold DJs at clubs in Vegas and around America, he sees people having fun, smiling and being "superfriendly."
"I never see aggressive behavior at any of the clubs I have played (in America). It's supercool."
This is the part of the interview where I tell Gold, yes, Americans' true superpower is to relax and embrace superficiality.
"Ha ha, I didn't say that! But you know what I mean," Gold says.
"Some Europeans should really stop thinking" during parties, he says. "We can learn a lot in Europe" from America's temperament to get down.
Gold is positively bubbly about our nation.
"I love America," Gold says. "I have been traveling to the States for three years. I love how much love you get from the fans. This is something really cool, and I appreciate it. It's really nice to see how much fun people have.
"To me there's nothing better than touring the States — the U.S.A."
In Vegas, Gold has begun his residency at the new Light nightclub and Daylight pool. Last week, he spun at the pool for two hours on a Wednesday night for 4,000 people, including partygoer Jason Statham, the actor.
Gold is known for officially remixing Adele's "Set Fire To The Rain," in addition to recording his own songs "Marsch Marsch" and "Alive" (with Dirty South).
At Light venues, he plays hits plus new tracks and mash-ups.
"I know the Vegas crowd. They're coming to party. It's not an underground club. It's a huge club, and it's commercially orientated, and that's what I do," Gold says.
"I just want to make sure people have the best times of their lives while they're there."
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Giuseppe Penone (b. 1947)
Palpebra e spilli
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60¾ x 81in. (154.3 x 205.7cm.)
Executed in 1989
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Giuseppe Penone's works often concern various forms of skin, not least his own. Skin, after all, is the point of contact between us and the world around us, an exciting zone of encounter and experience. It also becomes a substitute canvas, a support upon which history leaves its own traces in the forms of scars and other marks, the gradual accreted result of our exposure to life itself. It is a record, a narrative, a picture, in its own right. By using strips of tape covered in charcoal and other materials, Penone sometimes takes an impression of sections of his skin which he then projects onto a larger surface, marking it out in a variety of media. In this way, the veining that reveals the gradual growth of this skin is magnified. In Palpebra e spilli, executed in 1989, Penone has used a combination of felt-tip marks and pins to trace out the projected, and therefore enlarged, form of an eyelid. This eye has been magnified onto a colossal scale, towering over the viewer. In applying the pressure of the pen and the pressure of the pins in creating this monumental image, Penone has continued his fascinating dialogue with his surrounding reality.
That this represents an eyelid, and therefore by implication a closed eye, introduces another crucial recurring motif from Penone's oeuvre. As early as 1970, Penone had explored the nature of eyes and the ability of sight as a phenomenon in Rovesciare i propri occhi, for which he himself wore mirrored contact lenses. This resulted in an intriguing reversal of the usual process of seeing. The eye became a boundary, rather than a portal, to his perception of the world around him. This emphasised the notion of the limits of one's own body. So too in Palpebra e spilli Penone has created the image of the closed eye, with the ghostly presence of the iris peeking through, emphasising its status as skin, as border. In this situation, the eye itself would perceive the other side of the eyelid, the flesh and blood of the eye's owner, complicating the boundaries of sight. Indeed, by creating this image by projection, Penone appears to have overcome such limitations, to have created a view of the eye that is itself the product of a magnified version of the process of seeing.
The fact that he has used pins in this depiction of an eye adds a strange, visceral sense of discomfort to the work, introducing a deliberate unease. Pins and eyes, and indeed pins and skin, make for a dangerous combination that allows Penone to add another layer of complication to his depiction of the surface of his own body, for this image decidedly and deliberately rebuffs the sense of touch so central to the skin that it depicts.
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Prevalence of Malaria in India: A Spatiotemporal Descriptionby Dr. Somdatta Sinha
Contact person: Dirk Brockmann
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Malaria is a vector-borne infectious disease widely prevalent in many countries of the world. This talk will present the available yearly data from the states of India and analyse the prevalence of the disease in space and time to arrive at some important features of its distribution.


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It's just my luck that my best ideas hit hardest right when I'm about to doze off. Bam! Like lightning right through my skull, blazing hot in the darkness.
I reach blindly for the iPad on the nightstand. I knock over a book. I forgot the cord was still plugged in, charging from the day's note-taking (and playing Dragonvale or Butterfly Farm or whatever), so it makes an awful sound. Ryan is asleep, and mutters something.
Finally I have it in my hands. When I press the home button, the screen glows like a sunspot. I double-click and drag the brightness down as far as it'll go. Then I write down a few sentences:
"Like a creaky old wheel or the rusty hinge on a doorframe."
I fractured my L1 vertebrae at the beginning of September. I fell about twelve feet while rock climbing at the local bouldering gym. Since then, I've spent most of my time lying flat on my back, and a good portion of that lying-flat time doped up on dilotid/morphine/oxycodone to manage the pain. Once I was able to get up and move around, I was extremely limited in what I could do.
"You have a certain number of points you can spend each day. At the beginning of the recovery cycle, you have very few points to spend. Going to the grocery store is the only thing you can do that day. It completely wears you out. As recovery continues, you can do more than one activity—maybe go to the grocery store in the morning and go to a friend's house in the evening."
Suddenly I knew what my grandmother feels like every day of her life. Instead of receiving more points each day (as I have), she gets less and less.
I spent the next ten minutes plodding on the iPad, writing, "At her present age, even playing a game of cards is a task. Medications have strange side effects, and she takes other medications to combat those, too. I took pain medication that caused nausea and dizziness [oxycodone], and took an anti-nausea that caused drowsiness. At the end of it all, I was in pain, dizzy, puking, and too sleepy to do anything useful."
That's not all. Once I finish jotting all this down in Pages, I put the iPad back to sleep and set it on the nightstand. I try once more to sleep.
Yeah, right. Another idea stings me. It burns and aches inside me until I give in.
"First line of ND: [This stands for Nicholas Dark, the book series I'm planning that revolves around a young pirate.] It was sometime in March when fever hit the Iron Maiden."
The Iron Maiden is the tentative name of Nicholas's ship. When I first began planning Nicholas Dark, I drafted three or four of the initial pages with a "dark and stormy night"-type feel. It was very regal, and introduced Nicholas's nemesis La Fantasma right away.
After reading Ready Player One, I realized this is the worst way to start a book. Patrick Rothfuss did it in The Name of the Wind, too, but I managed to ignore it and get into the book anyway.
Books, especially middle-grade or young adult books, must start with a hook. If you don't know what I mean by "a hook," go read this post.
So, somewhere in the recesses of my trauma-addled brain, I stumbled across the notion of starting out Nicholas Dark with a plague.
Diseases were common among ocean travelers in the 17th century, where they festered in the moist wood and cramped quarters. Beginning the story with a spreading sickness allows Nicholas to embark upon his first quest alone, without his first mate (who has fallen prey to the fever, nicknamed "purple fever" at this point). This early plot device launches the reader directly into the story, without any prologue or lead-up.
I'm not sure if I'll stick with it, but at least it got me thinking.


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The public-spirited effort to bringing internet access to impoverished designed by Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, is being called into question. Mr Zuckerberg wants to disrupt internet access in developing countries. He wants people to have free access to data on their phones and an Internet on-ramp to help them decide what to do with that data.
The project is called internet.org. Facebook has teamed up with companies such as Samsung, Qualcomm, Media Tek, Nokia and Ericsson. The project kicked off in 2014 in Zambian South Africa. It quickly added Tanzania, Kenya, Ghana, Columbia and India. It recently added Southeast African Malawi one of the poorest countries in the world.
The issue concerns "zero-rating" websites. A zero-rating site is one that is free to the user and paid for by subsidies. Facebook has so far included such sites as Amazon Kindle and Spotify. This action has opponents calling Facebook a kingmaker since these zero-rated sites are the ones most likely to be used by clients of Internet.org. Click here for full story.
Since these objections have been expressed Mr. Zuckerberg has opened the area. Now any site that meets Facebook standard may sign up for a zero rating, and a ton of iPhone applications are interested.


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MUMBAI: British actor Colin Firth has won his first major award for his role as the stammering George VI in Golden Globe nominated film The King's Speech.
Dame Helen Mirren, who is no stranger to playing royalty, curtsied as she presented him with the gong.
Firth bowed to her in return before he joked: "Maybe I am the Queen".
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Love this holiday twist on caramel corn, looks fabulous!!
Gingerbread Caramel Corn
Is anyone else feeling like a total Grown Up Cliche this holiday season? I don't know if it's because I'm actually older, or that I have two kids now and they've sucked everything from me including my brain cells and my metabolism or WHAT, but I don't think I've ever felt the craziness of the holidays quite like this year. Oof. And who has two thumbs and hasn't even started thinking about shopping for gifts? This lady. Fa-la-la-la-la!!!
Top of the Grown Up Cliche list is three holiday parties in the same weekend, and no idea how we're going to fit them all in. You too? Excellent. So let's talk hostess gifts. Maybe my Midwestern-ness is showing, but I do think it's nice to show up with a little something for folks insane enough to throw a big holiday gathering, especially considering how much effort that entails–shopping, running, organizing, obsessing, cleaning, and then re-cleaning once its all over. I'd say that kind of effort calls something thoughtful, festive, and preferably edible, so that the host/hostess doesn't have to find a place to put another freaking scented candle that they'll probably never use, in addition to having to re-scrub the bathroom once all the guests leave. So how about a big bag of Gingerbread Caramel Corn? Oh, and bourbon. Lots.
This sweet, salty, spicy, and just a touch savory recipe was inspired by our recent Thanksgiving jaunt to Chicago to spend the holiday with my huge, amazing, loud family. Ever since we moved to California, our trips out of town have almost always been on the shorter side–four or five days, max. This time, we decided to stretch it out further and do a whole week. And it was a fantastic idea, for a few reasons, not the least of which is that it takes a day to recover from a long-haul flight with two small children.
(Lest you think I'm exaggerating about the recovery: Picture, if you will, the movements of an Olympian competing in the discus throw. Except say that the disc itself comes alive and begins to propel the athlete, instead of the other way around. Now replace the disc with a nine-month-old baby with a will and limbs of steel, and the Olympic athlete with a haggard mother who hasn't made it to the gym in four weeks. Yes, that requires a day's recovery.)
But back to the popcorn. Another great thing about making our Chicago trip a little longer this time around was being able to spend as much time with family as we did sort of making our own fun with the kids and playing around the city, a city that, even after 10+ years in California, I still consider home. Now, I'm probably a little biased, being born and raised in the Chicago area and all, but you'd be hard-pressed to find someone who wouldn't rave about walking along Michigan Avenue during the holidays. It's movie-like magic, I'm telling you. Nostril freezing wind and all.
One day we braved the cold, bundled up our babies, and hopped the L downtown to do touristy things like take our girl to the American Girl store (talk about Chri$tma$ shopping, eesh!), and gorge ourselves on Garrett's popcorn. Even after days of feasting on everything from turkey and mashed potatoes to pizza, Italian beef sandwiches, and hot dogs, I was not leaving my fair city without having my kid try Garrett's popcorn for the first time. Priorities, obviously.
While we were there, we picked up bags of Garrett's classic caramel corn and unnnnreeeal cheese popcorn (that, plus wine = all anyone ever needs in this world), and sampled a new "seasonal flavor"–gingerbread caramel corn. Now, admittedly, at first I was all, "Pssh! I will NOT. Seasonal flavor?! What is this mess? It's for TOURISTS, is what it is." Then I remembered that I basically am a tourist in Chicago now, so I tackled the Garrett's employee and ripped from his hands the tray holding all the little plastic sampling cups of gingerbread caramel corn.
Upon landing back in San Francisco, we immediately got swept back up in work and school and just getting through the crazy days, but the first chance I got, I whipped up a Garrett's-inspired batch of Gingerbread Caramel Corn. And even though eating the whole pan in my kitchen isn't quite the same as pawing it into my face on Michigan Avenue, it's still pretty dang good.
Gingerbread Caramel Corn
Makes about 2 quarts
I like to start by popping my corn in a 2 1/2 quart pot on the stove with a tablespoon or two of oil. Then I just dump the popcorn onto the baking sheet, wipe out the pan with a paper towel, and make my caramel in the same pot.
I love using dark muscovado sugar for its depth of flavor, but regular dark brown sugar works fine, too–in that case, just reduce the corn syrup to 1/3 cup and add another generous tablespoonful of molasses. The gingerbreadiness hedges on a good molasses punch here.
It goes without saying that you can adjust the spices to your liking, depending on what most screams "gingerbread!" to you–I like lots of cinnamon and ginger, but you could also add some freshly grated nutmeg and a pinch of cloves, too. I love the black pepper here–it adds a nice savory edge to the whole things, and balances the sweetness.
Use your salt generously for the most craveworthy corn–I salt the plain popcorn on the baking sheet, add salt to the caramel, and then before baking the coated caramel corn, hit it with some flaky, crunchy sea salt, such as Maldon salt.
8 to 9 cups popped popcorn (from about 1/3 cup unpopped kernels)
Fine sea salt
1/2 cup packed dark muscovado sugar or regular dark brown sugar (see note)
1/4 cup water
7 tablespoons light corn syrup or brown rice syrup
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4-1/2 teaspoon ground ginger, to taste
A few pinches of finely ground black pepper
Flaky sea salt, for sprinkling
Preheat the oven to 250°F. Line a large rimmed baking sheet with a silicone baking mat or butter it generously.
Season the popcorn with salt, and remove any unpopped kernels from the popcorn. Pour the popcorn onto on the prepared baking sheet and keep warm in the oven while you prepare the caramel.
In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the corn syrup, molasses, dark brown sugar, water, and 1/4 teaspoon fine sea salt and stir gently to combine. Bring the syrup to a boil over high heat—once the syrup is boiling, stop stirring. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of a pan and reduce the heat to medium. Cook the syrup until the temperature reaches 250°F.
When the syrup is up to temperature, pull the pan from the heat and remove the thermometer. Stir in the baking soda and vanilla—the syrup will foam up a bit. Stir in the butter until smooth and then the spices. Remove the warm pan of popcorn and pecans from the oven and quickly pour the syrup over the popcorn in a thin, steady stream. Use a heatproof spatula or bench scraper to toss the popcorn to coat. After a minute or so, the caramel should cool enough to use your hands, if your prefer–just spray your hands lightly with nonstick spray and toss away. Don't worry about it being completely, evenly coated–it will become more so during baking.
Spread the coated popcorn into an even layer and bake for about 60-70 minutes, stirring well every 15 minutes or so. At the end of the baking time, the caramel corn will still be a bit tacky, but will crisp and dry as it cools. Let cool completely on the baking sheet and store in an airtight container.
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Shauna, this stuff looks positively addicting! Pinned to my gingerbread board 🙂
So brilliant! I was going to make my usual caramel corn for a party tomorrow – but will be kicking it up a notch for sure! thanks!
Better make this as a gift bc I'd inhale ALL OF IT.
Made this as soon as I possibly could on Friday afternoon (along with Pfeffernusse, Lebkuchen, and Pepparkakor – I guess you could say it was a gingerbready day!). My mom and two sisters came over that night to watch "Meet Me in St Louis" and enjoy cookies and tea. But the true star was this stuff – HOLY MOLY!!!! Great recipe, Shauna! 🙂
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BRUCE Forsyth used to tease an audience with: 'You get nothing for a pair" and they reply: "Not in this game."
But points make prizes, Brucie.
And this was a fine pair.
Two strikes in fact to send this much-maligned Wolves team into Seventh Heaven.
They weren't great. Far from it. But away from home they got the job done.
It was their first away win since February, first back-to-back successes since August last year and a first clean sheet since May.
Tommy Smith's bizarre own-goal 22 mins from time set Stale Solbakken's men on their way.
Smith performed a feat that the Harlem Globetrotters would have been proud of in slapping Bakary Sako's free-kick into the net.
Then, with confidence flooding through their veins, substitute Tongo Doumbia notched a memorable first goal for Wolves.
The leggy midfielder showed great placement with a long range shot that never left the ground from 25 yards as it nestled into the corner of the net.
Sako could have made it 3-0 with a free-kick which curled just a couple of feet over the crossbar before the final whistle but that really would have been rubbing Ipswich's noses into the mucky stuff.
By the time the final whistle sounded there was as much atmosphere in this part of Suffolk as would make a young Neil Armstrong feel at home.
So much angst had followed Wolves following their defeat to Cardiff and nervy victory over Leicester, but here they are.
Tommy Smith and Jason Scotland both fired over the crossbar late on but Wolves just about deserved it – particularly as Kevin Doyle had been foiled by the woodwork on the hour with a shot from the edge of the box after a good knock-down from Dave Edwards.
It cost £33.50 for an adult ticket and 723 Wolves fans had made an 326.8 mile round trip to Portman Road.
You can get best tickets for Blood Brothers at the Phoenix Theatre in the West End with a two course dinner for that – or if that doesn't tickle your fancy, how about Ronan Keating or Harry Hill?
Yet 16,540 turned up wanting some form of entertainment. They dozed through a woeful first half.
Daryl Murphy fluffed a massive chance after half-time but Bjorn Sigurdarson had produced a woeful finish from Razak Boukari's cross when he fired wide of the near post. The loudest cheer came on 30 minutes when a rogue corner flag finally stuck into the turf after an age.
Martin's free-kick was saved at the foot of the post by Carl Ikeme then Boukari's snapshot flew inches wide but Ipswich were shocking in truth.
IPSWICH (4-4-2): Loach; Cresswell, Chambers, Edwards, N'Daw (Drury,81); Chopra, Martin, Luongo, Smith; Taylor (Scotland,53), Murphy (Emmanuel-Thomas,71). Subs: Lee-Barrett, Hyam, Ainsley, Whight
WOLVES (4-4-2): Ikeme 6; Stearman 6, Johnson 6, Berra 6, Ward6; Boukari 6, Henry 6 (Doumbia, 66, 7), Edwards 6, Sako 7; P Doyle 7 (Margreitter, 80), Sigurdarson 5 (Ebanks-Blake, 66, 6). Subs: Peszko, Hunt, Foley, De Vries.


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Needless to say, when their third CD came out, I was anxious to get out and buy it—I just needed a Deseret Book nearby. (Good thing we just recently moved back to where Deseret Book is just a hop, skip, and a jump away!!)
On Wednesday, I drove down to Salt Lake in order to make it to Bogey's heart cath appointment the following morning at 7. As I was driving along, I started thinking about my current situation:
So, I was throwing myself a little pity party, and wondering why in the world Heavenly Father would deal me such a rough hand. Before the babies were born, our family was desperately praying that neither baby would have a cleft palate. We asked that they be healthy and strong, and that every part of their bodies would develop normally. I wondered why those prayers weren't answered—after all, we had prayed so fervently.5 children, including 2 new twin boysA sick, sick baby boyRelocation for the children and meAce working far awayTrips to Dr. Appointments,Hospital staysetc.
In the meantime, Mercy River was singing to me via Honda sound system. In my moment to think of more things I could complain about (and to get a fat drink of DC), this song hit me:
(I wish I knew how to get this track embedded onto this post, but I don't. So everyone go out and buy the CD so you can listen to the trio sing it. You won't be sorry—A little plug for Mercy River—that's worth a free t-shirt right?? :) Hopefully I got the words right)
We all have trials. If there is one thing that I have learned for certain, though, it doesn't do us any good to feel picked on, or complain when things don't go our way. The best remedy for hardships is to give thanks for the blessings we already have, and for the blessings we receive along our rocky road. There are good things and lessons to be learned.


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Earlier this month, Republican lawmakers in Michigan ran a dagger through the heart of unionized labor,
Earlier this month, Republican lawmakers in Michigan ran a dagger through the heart of unionized labor, becoming the second state this year — after Indiana in February — to pass Right-to-Work legislation.
Michigan workers who thought they received an early Christmas present should think again.
As soon as our jobs began disappearing overseas, by the hundreds at first and then the thousands, voices from the right began planting seeds of dissent to divert attention away from those truly responsible. You might recognize some. They're the business owners giving friends multi-million dollar bonuses as they close shops here and move jobs offshore.
The rhetoric has driven the wedge of animosity between nonunion and unionized workers further, convincing many that unions and their middle-class wages are culpable for our fraught economy.
In 2010, voters, under false pretense, elected GOP majorities in statehouses across the nation, and added 11 more GOP governorships to the tally. Now, nonunion workers have joined big businesses and corporations in triumph, still strangely unaware how these Right-to-Work laws will cause harm.
Right-to-Work laws don't guarantee a fair living wage, worker safety or security. Heck, they don't even guarantee employment. They only guarantee below living-wage jobs, no security and widespread austerity.
I've said before, it's all in a name, the label.
Take chambers of commerce, for instance. No one ever thinks of them as unions, but they are. They are unions of small and big businesses that oppose workers' rights.
In fact, chambers, and the corporate funded American Legislative Exchange Council, are the powers behind the Right-to-Work laws that allow nonunion workers to "ride for free" — not pay union dues — and still receive union services. Services like financial support for political candidates who will protect workers' rights — that's all workers rights.
To me, Right-to-Work laws are corporate plots designed to infiltrate and collapse unions, eliminate worker representation in Washington and drive down wages.
Instead of Right-to-Work laws, lets stop job and wage killing trade agreements with foreign nations that allow cheap goods, produced by mistreated workers in unhealthy working environments, to reach our shores. That is a sellout of American labor.
American labor deserves better than what Corporate America has been willing to give. The time has come to change that.
John Foster Way, of Norwich, can be reached through his blog at JohnFosterWay.com


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Reaction from State and Federal governments has been muted although West Australian health minister Tim Price said the companies should fund a public education program on the effects of smoking. Mike Horan, Queensland's health minister said: "This State spends $80m a year on smoke-related illnesses. If the other States invite us to join them in legal action, we will".
Public reaction was reflected on the stock exchange where Australian-listed tobacco companies suffered a hammering, following Liggett's disclosure, with the market slashing about $35m off the value of WD & HO Wills and Rothmans Australia shares.
Australia's market for cigarettes has shrunk about 8% in the past two years, forcing the tobacco companies into disastrous price-cutting.
Defiant Philip Morris, which is seldom traded on the stockmarket here, said the Liggett settlement "was a complete sham...this newest rumored settlement has nothing to do with the rest of the industry and changes nothing."
Copyright March 1997, Crain Communications Inc.


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Putting a finger in one's mouth may not seem like a route to cleanliness. But Dental Dots, from the company of the same name, give the act a practical twist, adding to a range of new portable oral-hygiene products that also includes "dental strips" and mouthwash tablets.
Apply the adhesive side of the dot-size toothbrush on a dry fingertip, then brush your teeth using the pre-applied toothpaste. Be as discreet as you want to be.
The toothpaste, which comes in cool- and fresh- mint flavors is billed as ingestible, as is the dot, so - in theory - there's no need to be near a sink.
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Think of it as a glorified piggy bank: Toymaker FAO Schwarz's Personal ATM, which must be stocked by the owner, can dispense real or play money. (It's up to the parents to ensure that the machine doesn't trivialize spending.)
You can customize the front-panel display with a personal logo. The device comes with up to 10 personalized ATM cards.
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Dec. 29, 2010
BOSTON -- The Tufts University philosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett wasn't surprised when, during research for a book, he encountered "secret non-believers"—outwardly religious people who don't believe in the creed of their own churches.
But he was stunned when some of those non-believers turned out to be priests themselves.
|Prof. Daniel Dennett at a conference in Gemany in 2008. (Wikimedia Commons)
"They're good people who good stuck in this awful trap," Dennett said. "We found some that were really suffering."
Dennett anonymously interviewed five active pastors who said they no longer believed the tenets of their church, but he thinks there are many more pastors like them. Now, he's gearing up for a second, larger study on the issue.
For the most part, Dennett found, the non-believing ministers he knew simply didn't learn early enough that something didn't feel right about their work. "They're basically very good people. They went into the clergy because, given their background, how they were raised, they wanted to do good in this world and this is the best path they could see," Dennett told WGBH's Emily Rooney. "Their first mistake is they should have gotten out in seminary, when the getting was good. Their second mistake was staying around and thinking, well, I'll live with this, I can deal with this."
Those priests, he said, are forced into moral, social and professional isolation. "They have to teach the doctrines of the church, and if you no longer believe them, you've got a moral problem."
One minister still hasn't told his very devout wife because he worries she would be devastated by the news. "These people lead very lonely lives, in some cases," Dennett said.
Dennett wants to learn more about how these priests handle their situation. He knows some work out their own private understanding with a God. "They say, 'I am not an atheist, I believe in God, but I believe in the God that I believe in.' That's very much a private God because they can't talk about that God from the pulpit."
He also wants to learn more about the scale of the issue. "We know there's Catholics, we know there's Mormons, we know there's Jewish rabbis," Dennett said, "but we have no idea yet how big this phenomenon is."
But an aspect of his first study suggests it's not uncommon. "Nobody says well, it's a tiny tiny fraction," Dennett said. ""Nobody denies that this phenomenon exists, not a single one of our critics has suggested that we are making this up."
Likewise, he said, no one criticized Dennett and his team for looking into the issue. They were critical of people admitting it. "It was like magicians getting angry with magicians for telling how a trick is done," Dennett said.
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Adbelbaset al-Megrahi walked free yesterday, having been freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish executive. The US is outraged, as, understandably are many families of victims of the Lockerbie terrorist attack, and everyone, including Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond, questioned the taste of the hero's welcome afforded Megrahi in Tripoli. The Libyans have pointed out that the welcome was not an official one but that's hardly going to convince the critics. But what few people have mentioned is the fact that those that welcomed Megrahi were not necessarily gloating over the murder of 270 people but because they believe that Megrahi is innocent. And they're not the only ones.
There are accusations flying about, most notably that Megrahi's release was part of a deal the UK struck with Libya to further open the country up to British oil companies. And Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, who holidayed with deputy PM (and former EU trade commissioner) Peter Mandelson on Corfu last month, says that's exactly what happened. Whitehall firmly denies this, leaving us in the invidious position of deciding whether we should believe the son of Muammar Gadaffi or a New Labour government. There are those who rightly point out the shabby behaviour of the British government in all this, who have been able to maintain their good relations with Libya while letting the SNP-run Scottish executive take the flak. Then there are others who suspect that the compassionate release was timed to avoid uncomfortable truths emerging in Megrahi's second appeal.
I'm not sure if I completely agree with the matter of compassionate release in cases of such gravity, but, as the victim's father Dr Jim Swire says, that's neither here nor there because, like him, I am convinced that Megrahi had nothing to do with the bomb that brought down Pan Am flight 103. His conviction rests on the flimsiest of circumstantial evidence and on the word of one man, the Maltese shopkeeper Tony Gauci, who claims to have sold Megrahi the clothing that was wrapped round the bomb. Gauci was interviewed by police 17 times and gave conflicting evidence on a number of occasions. It is also alleged he was offered a $2m reward in return for giving evidence, and that he was coached by police, and wined and dined by them in advance of giving his testimony.
Megrahi's defence also argues that the forensic tests on the circuit board of the timer were incomplete, relying on visual evidence rather than on gaseous swabs. The credibility of the three forensic scientists employed by the prosecution is also in doubt, not least because one of them, Dr Thomas Hayes, was involved in the framing of the Maguire Seven in 1976. The defence also says it has a secret document that disputes prosecution claims that Megrahi bought a digital timer from a Swiss company, Mebo and then planted the bomb on a flight from Malta to Germany. In 2007 the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission announced there was 'no reasonable basis' to place Megrahi in Malta at the time in question. It has admitted new evidence to allow a second appeal to go ahead, which Megrahi withdrew – needlessly – last week. Its 800-page report has never been published.
The US and British prosecutors originally targeted Mohammed Abu Talb, an associate of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who was allegedly contracted by the Iranian government to blow up the plane in retaliation for the downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the US navy cruiser Vincennes five months previously. But it seems realpolitik intervened during the 1991 Gulf War when the US declined to antagonise Tehran so as to be able to use its airspace during the attack on Saddam Hussein's Iraq. The focus then turned to Libya, none too implausibly, given Muammar Gaddafi's deep enmity towards the US and his previous sponsorship of terrorism, including the LaBella nightclub bombing in Berlin in 1986.
Gaddafi kept Magrahi and fellow suspect Lamin Khalifah Fahima under house arrest for several years until, after protracted negotiations with the US and the UK – and UN sanction – he handed them over to Scottish prosecutors in the Netherlands, where they stood trial, and Magrahi was convicted, in 2000. Since then Libya has gradually eased itself out of its pariah-state status, agreed to scrap its weapons of mass destruction, signed successions of trade deals with Western investors and become Italy's de facto immigration policeman in return for 'reparations' for Italy's colonial past in the country. The fact that Libya accepted responsibility for the bombing in 2003 is uncritically accepted as the cornerstone for the soundness of the case against them, as if the word of a dictator who brutally suppresses dissent at home and who sponsors terrorism abroad would ever be worth anything. The Gaddafi regime has done well out of its co-operation with the Lockerbie prosecution but it now seems to be having second-thoughts with Prime Minister Shukri Ghanem telling the BBC in 2004 that the admission was made – and $2.15billion dollars of compensation to victims' families paid – as the 'price for peace'. Abdelbaset al-Megrahi was the convenient patsy that took the fall for all this.
The case for Megrahi's innocence is not some obscure 9/11 'truther'-style conspiracy theory. UN observer Hans Köchler questioned the conduction of the trial, detecting political motives. Former Scottish Labour MP Tam Dalyell has long proclaimed Megrahi's evidence as have two British parents of victims, Dr Jim Swire and Martin Cadman, both of whom described Megrahi's trial as a farce. The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission saw sufficient irregularities in the trial to allow a second appeal while a retired Scottish police chief has testified that evidence was fabricated by the CIA. All of this points to a strong suspicion that the compassionate release was designed to sidestep uncomfortable disclosures in the appeal. The evidence to hand is almost overwhelmingly in favour of describing the conviction of Abdelbashet al-Megrahi as a miscarriage of justice of such a scale that it makes the framing of the Guildford Four, the Birmingham Six and the Maguire Seven seem minor indeed.
But all of the above either falls on deaf ears in the US or is never reported. Washington's protestations have been matched by victims' families, with Susan Cohen, who lost her daughter Theodora calling Megrahi's release a 'disgrace' and 'vile'. There has been further outcry from newspaper editorialists and from commenters on blogs. But references to questions over the soundness of the conviction are few and far between. One can forgive victims' families their bitterness – and Megrahi, while maintaining his innocence, has done that – and one can also forgive the average American their ignorance, considering the other side of the case is so poorly reported in the media over there. One might cynically point out that a substantial number of Americans still believe Saddam Hussein had a hand in September 11th and that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq in March 2003, but my intention is not facile Yank-bashing. The US media are however culpable of a shocking irresponsibility in their coverage of the affair from start to finish. One might expect nothing less from the likes of Fox News and the Wall Street Journal, whose stock in trade is lies and libel. But the behaviour of other media outlets, both old (The New York Times, Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune) and new (Huffington Post) has been exceptionally remiss with all the self-righteous editorialising completely ignoring the strong evidence there is for a miscarriage of justice.
Instead Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune says 'Libyans celebrate mass murder', a pundit on CNN wonders if the Libyans who cheered Megrahi's return home were terrorists. The Philadelphia Inquirer says Megrahi showed no compassion to his victims. The paper of record says questions arise after Megrahi's release but, of course, these questions pertain only to a possible deal done between London and Tripoli. Megan McArdle at the Atlantic is similarly coy (or ignorant) about the dubiousness of the conviction, while her colleague Eric Tarloff breaktakingly says 'Assuming Megrahi received a fair trial — and I have read nothing to indicate otherwise — a life sentence seems the minimal appropriate punishment for a crime of such enormity.' If Tarloff has failed to read anything that casts doubt on whether Megrahi received a fair trial, you have to question his fitness to hold a press card. The Boston Globe similarly omits to mention the flimsiness of the evidence against Megrahi. Even left-wing media are reticent on the matter, with no mention even of Megrahi's release to be found in The Nation, Mother Jones or In These Times. Only the New York Times' Lede blog gives any airing to questions raised in the media the other side of the Atlantic while the Daily Kos wonders, tentatively if there might be something wrong with the conviction.
So why is the US media reporting the story – and opinionating on it – with an almost unanimous disregard for the facts and with moral cowardice, as if questioning Megrahi's guilt would in some ways be an insult to the victims and their families? Why is the US media so uncritical and supine in its acceptance of what is clearly a flawed judgement? Why is it abdicating its responsibility to investigate a story that is crying out for media attention? It proves that David Simon's fears of a compliant, unquestioning media that doesn't do its job properly is already with us. My suspicion is that the US media and those outraged by Megrahi's release are willfully deluding themselves, repressing unwelcome truths in order to facilitate a narrative, to bring 'closure' to the bereaved, who are, understandably never going to recover from what was a terrible loss. An article in the Chicago Tribune says that Megrahi's release 'erases some of the victims' closure'. Larry Wild, whose stepdaughter Miriam Woolf died in the bombing says 'we thought we had judicial closure'. It's natural that grieving relatives should feel this way but the fact that this 'closure' was provided by Megrahi's dubious conviction does not make it right. Some of the US families accept that Megrahi was probably not ultimately responsible but they are still happy to accept his conviction, for want of a bigger fish in the net. In this psychodrama, Megrahi functions, both literally and metaphorically, as a scapegoat, and his role as the villain of the piece has symbolic value even for those who suspect he might not actually be the right guy. And the US media feeds all this. The role of responsible news-reporting is not to provide comfort and succour, not even to those who, like the families who lost loved ones in the Lockerbie bombing; its role is to investigate and query when there are reasonable grounds for doubt. The case against Megrahi is thin, the evidence so circumstantial that it would probably fail to meet probable cause for prosecution in a US court.
Relatives of British victims have been much more objective and clear-eyed in their reaction to Megrahi's conviction. This is understandable, as unlike American families, they have more immediate access to the investigation and have been able to follow it more closely. The fact that it was a Scottish court that produced the miscarriage of justice also gives them an extra vested interest in seeing something more than summary justice done. But the intransigence of some American families, while understandable, is harmful. Jim Swire says he has been unable to have a meaningful conversation with the US families since the 2000 trial and he also says the families were groomed, prepped and isolated by US authorities throughout the trial. Martin Cadman said last week that American families convinced of Megrahi's guilt need to 'get real' – a harsh comment but Cadman, like Swire and Rev John Mosey, knows that the show trial has deepened rather than assuaged the pain and hurt caused by the attack. Swire has been said to be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome by Lord Fraser, the Lord Advocate who oversaw the Camp Zeist trial, an outrageous smear on someone who rightly questions the conviction, and who is supported by many top Scottish legal minds, including Robert Black, who first proposed holding the trial in the Netherlands.
Lost in the diplomatic outrage, the headlines and the motives of Libya – which, again, are not implausible – is a simple matter of legal rectitude. Libya may or may not have been responsible for the attack – its previous admissions of responsibility are not to be taken at face value – and Megrahi is probably no angel either, as few people working for the Libyan secret service (or any secret for that matter) are. The problem is one of due process and the irregularities are so glaring that Scotland's own legal review board has called the conviction into question. Convictions can only be secured on available evidence and testimony, which, in this case, are flimsy to threadbare. We mightn't like it (or like Gaddafi's squalid, brutal regime) but it is highly unlikely that Abdelbaset al-Megrahi planted the bomb on Pan Am Flight 103. That the US media is failing to report this side of the story is a dereliction of journalistic duty.
Photo of Adbelbaset al-Megrahi courtesy of the Sunday Times
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