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Samsung's next flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S IV, will likely be made out of plastic.
Samsung-focused blog SamMobile reported last week that, "the sides are made from aluminium but the back is still plastic."
This report was seemingly confirmed by Russian mobile analyst Eldar Murtazin who also says it's going to be a plastic phone.
Some people were hoping Samsung would drop plastic in favor of better materials. Apple, for instance, has an aluminum and glass case for the iPhone 5. HTC's One is virtually all metal.
Nokia uses a polycarbonate body, which is a fancy version of plastic, but it feels much more solid than the plastic on Samsung's Galaxy S III.
Samsung has done just fine with cheap plastic, so maybe it doesn't need to change. But, for a flagship phone it seems like it should step up its materials.

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New Line Cinema, founded in 1967, is one of the ten major Hollywood movie studios. It is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. which is a subsidiary of Time Warner. The current co-chairmen and co-CEOs are founder Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne.
The Lord of the Rings (film series) has New Line Cinema to thank for funding them, something which other film companies were afraid to do.


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Today, COR Entertainment is scheduled to release version 6.10 of Alien Arena 2007, the popular free software, 3-D, first-person shooter built atop id Software's Quake II engine, which was released under the GPL in 2001. The new release of Alien Arena comes with seven new arenas, a better arsenal of weaponry, and a new game mode for one-on-one duels.
If you're a gamer but not familiar with Alien Arena, think of Quake III or Unreal Tournament and you won't be far off the mark. If you're not familiar with those icons of the first-person shooter genre, think massive, sustained, unrelenting, ankle-deep-in-blood, kill-or-be-killed carnage which can be enjoyed solo, just you against the bots on your PC, or, if your taste in killing tends toward living targets, in multiplayer mode on a network server.
Alien Arena is a 3-D game, so to try it you'll need hardware support for 3-D acceleration. You'll also need, at a minimum, a 1GHz processor, 256MB of memory, and 500MB of available disk space. Downloads for both Windows and Linux versions of the game are available at a number of sites.
To install the game, unzip the download file, which contains both executables and source code. At the command line, change to the alienarena2007 subdirectory created when you unzip the download, and enter ./crx to start the client, or ./crded to start a dedicated server.
To display Alien Arena's console in the top half of the GUI, press the tilde (~) key. From there, you can change game options, chat with other players, or use any of the 138 available commands. I used the console the first time I started the game to set my name with the command NAME WARTZILLA. To close the console, press the Esc key.
You can also set and change your game name in the GUI. Use the arrow down key to highlight GAME OPTIONS and press Enter twice. That takes you to the Player Setup screen, where you can also choose one of 11 different player models, a red or blue skin, left- or right-handed play, Internet connection speed, and various download options. By default, the game automatically tries to download new maps, models, and sounds when you connect to a server.
If your play control settings are not to your liking, tweak them to your heart's content by first highlighting the specific control, pressing Enter, and then pressing the key or button you want to use for the action. Don't be afraid of messing things up; an option at the bottom of the page returns everything to the default settings.
You can change video options in the same way from the main screen. By default, you are in full-screen mode at 1024x768 resolution. To change that, highlight VIDEO OPTIONS and press Enter. There are also options to set brightness and display options, which may impact your performance in terms of frames per second in game play. Unlike the GAME OPTIONS, changes to video require you to explicitly apply the changes when you're done, or they won't stick.
Once you have customized everything to your liking, you're ready to play. You can play in SINGLE PLAYER mode, select JOIN SERVER for a multiplayer game, or start your own dedicated server.
I recommend at least an hour or so of SINGLE PLAYER experience before you venture onto the Internet for multiplayer games. Select SINGLE PLAYER, press Enter, then choose the level of play. EASY is the default, but it's not really all that easy. The bots are quite capable of sending you to eternity, even at the easy level.
You may also want to use SINGLE PLAYER mode to explore the many maps available as playgrounds. I count 43 maps in the SVN version of the game I downloaded and built the day prior to release. Each map combines a mode of play -- Death Match, Capture the Flag, All Out Assault, and so on -- with an arena, such as Atlantis, Omega, or Babel. There are 22 maps available for Death Match play, for example. You can change maps at the console with the MAP MAP-NAME command.
Selecting JOIN SERVER at the initial screen brings up the screen shown here. It's probably a good idea to select REFRESH LIST and press Enter before proceeding, to ensure that only currently active servers are displayed. Click on any of the servers listed to see information about the server and the players on it. When you find a server you want -- the USA Beginner Team is a good place to hone your multiplayer skills -- highlight it using the arrow keys, then press Enter.
The default game mode is the Death Match, where it is every player for himself. The rules are simple: kill everyone else and avoid being killed. Other game modes include Capture the Flag, All Out Assault, Deathball, Team Core Assault, and the newest one, Duel.
In Capture the Flag, you must steal the other team's flag and bring it back to your team's base. The team with the most captures wins. All Out Assault is like Death Match, but you can hop in vehicles and travel in them. If a server is running Duel mode, only two players are allowed at a time, and they go head-to-head. I've not had a chance to try Deathball and Team Core Assault yet.
When you join a server that is running a team game, you'll be asked if you want the server to assign you to a team, or to pick between the red and the blue teams.
If you ever need help with Alien Arena, check the game forums. You may find others have had the same problem and found the fix. If not, you can post a message, and more knowledgeable folk, developers as well as users, can have a look at it.
There are both Windows and Linux versions of the game. According to John Diamond, the game's lead developer, Alien Arena has been downloaded more than 500,000 times since it was released two years ago. He guesses that about 10% of those downloads were of the Linux version, but notes that about half of the game's regular players are running the game on Linux.
I wrote last year that "Tremulous is the best free software FPS game I've had the pleasure of playing." Alien Arena has changed my mind about that. They're both great, and both stand on the shoulders of the free software Quake engine, but Alien Arena is now at the top of my list.


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CHICAGO, Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Kevin Love went 14-for-14 from the free-throw line en route to 31 points Monday, helping send the Minnesota Timberwolves past the Chicago Bulls 95-86.
Love also pulled down eight rebounds as the Timberwolves logged a fourth victory in five games.
Ronny Turiaf helped out with 14 points and Chase Budinger added 12 in reserve roles.
It wasn't all good news for Minnesota, however -- center Nikola Pekovic left with a sore Achilles tendon early in the first period and didn't return.
The Bulls were paced by Carlos Boozer with 20 points, 14 rebounds and five assists.
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A 43-year-old man died Friday (January 24) morning after he was struck by a car at East 18th Street and Sycamore Avenue in eastern Sioux Falls.
Police spokesman Sam Clemens says the crash was reported just after 7am, but he says much of the incident is still under investigation:
Clemens says the man's name was not immediately released, pending notification of relatives. He says the driver of the vehicle stayed at the scene, and he says investigators are trying to determine what happened and whether speed or alcohol were factors.


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Actor Jason Segel is adding author to his resume after turning an old film script into a new book series for young adults.
"The Muppets" star reveals he came up with the story when he was 21 and sold the plotline for "super cheap" as an aspiring actor, but he recently tracked down the material and bought back the rights – and he has since decided to rework it into a collection of novels.
He says, "As I got more successful I kept hoping they (film developers) wouldn't realize I was the same Jason Segel as the Jason Segel they bought the script from (before he became famous)."
Segel is keeping the title of the literary project under wraps for the time being and he's not yet ready to open up about the series itself, simply explaining, "It's about kids facing their biggest fears, that's about all I can tell you."
News of the books, which the actor hopes to release later this year, was revealed during a special question and answer session on Thursday after a New York screening of his 2008 film "Forgetting Sarah Marshall."


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Ireland on Tuesday decided to upgrade the status of the Palestinian Authority diplomatic delegation in Dublin, starting what many in Israel fear will be a domino effect leading to the unilateral recognition of a Palestinian Arab state.
Irish officials stressed that the PA delegation was not being upgraded to a full embassy, but rather a diplomatic mission, and that Dublin was not recognizing "Palestine" as an independent state.
Still, the move does mean that the head of the PA delegation will now be referred to as "ambassador" and will present credentials to the Irish president just like a real ambassador. So while Ireland is playing a game of semantics, the reality "on the ground" is that the Palestinian Authority will be represented as an independent national entity in Europe.
Israeli officials were furious.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon warned that these de facto recognitions of a Palestinian state were putting bilateral peace further out of reach, and were actually advancing another onset of violence.
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DSOGaming writes: "It's always great to dig up the past and uncover things that never crossed your mind. Tomb Raider is a franchise that was introduced with Playstation 1 and was developed by Core Team. However, that team was merely a shadow of its former self by the time it was developing the fourth part of this IP. As Nathan McCree - Tomb Raider's original composer - revealed in an interview with Platform-Online, the whole original team had practically left by then."
they pushed it away...
Underworld was garbage, and the last TR has only the name.
if they go back to the old fashion addictive gameplay i would be very interested cause TR is maybe a good game but i prefer they kept it the way it has always been.
I love the latest tomb raider. People just don't like change.
Tomb Raider was getting old, stale and milked. Featured the same elements with every game, same plot....it got predictable.
I would argue the same is happening to Resident Evil, COD, even Mario titles.
Sometimes, it is necessary to take an IP and breathe NEW life into it. Reinvent it. And make it different. TR 2013 was just that. An origin story, detailing the events that led to Lara Croft, becoming the Tomb Raider. It was SUPPOSED to be different, for a reason. With today's tech regarding mocap, facial features, expressions and emotions....developers can create a character that can be loved and revered for more than just her tits, and yet still maintain a sexually appealing physique. With this new IP, Lara Croft can finally be the badass she was meant to be, surpassing ways in which she was held back, in previous games.
Some people just dont want change. And it's those people who would hold us all back, from bigger and better things...if they could.
The Tomb Raider RE-boot was excellent (with the exception of the under-developed smaller tombs/ puzzles). The story was well fleshed out, gritty & interesting. The upgrade system was intuitive & thematically good. The environments & character models were good as well.. If you haven't played this game go out & buy it. It's a great game (minus big breasts of course).
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LoL what all those ppl talking about.. they didn't reinvent anything they just clone other popular games (UC guhu-guhu..) & that's it, if u call that breath of new life then I call it the main reasons all the classic game series become garbage nowadays, want some examples? RE5/RE6 nice reinvention eh? nice breath of new life.. next Diablo 3 nice reinvention eh? what a fresh air of new life this game have.. bliah.. Silent Hill any1? what about DMC? or FF? they can keep their "breath of new life" & "modernization of old IP's" we don't want them, they can stick them where the light don't shine, most of those games were some of my old time favorites back in the PS1/PS2 days not anymore I don't even want to see what they did with them it's very painful to watch...


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Lights, cameras, the world: movies that take us places
This evocative 1985 award-winning film, shot on location near the Ngong Hills outside Nairobi, presented Kenya in such beautiful, lush detail that even today travelers seek to revisit its most memorable moments. The grandeur of the landscape, the graciousness and beauty of the people (descendants of the Kikuyu tribe), the magnificence and power of the herds of wildlife crossing the savannah, are lovingly revealed by cinematographer David Watkin's stunning, slow-moving photography. The scenery is so vivid and compelling that Africa itself becomes a character. Adapted from Karen Blixen's classic book, the romantic drama told the story of Blixen's life in colonial Kenya. Meryl Streep played the leading role, and Robert Redford played Denys Finch-Hatton, her lover. It is a story not only of Blixen's love for the fiercely-independent Finch-Hatton but also of her love for Africa. The box office hit won seven Academy Awards and lured travelers worldwide to the land that Blixen loved.
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Despite a frame that begins and ends the movie on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y., this 2002 bilingual romantic thriller about a hitman falling in love with tango brings the gray streets and sexually charged dance halls of Buenos Aires vividly to life. In fact, it "gets" Buenos Aires in all its glorious details, from the elementary schoolchildren clad in uniforms that look like miniature lab coats to the dog walkers trotting along behind a veritable herd of canines. Almost nothing ever takes place at street level. The hitman, played by Robert Duvall (who also directed), is always climbing to the upper floors of buildings to get an overview, or plunging down stairs to a subterranean dance club where he seeks to make the city's obsession with tango his own. And that's where the soundtrack gets Buenos Aires right as well, as passion and control vie with each other in the taut, simmering rhythms of tango. Piercing single high triplets played on an accordion resound from every street corner, and to see a couple break into spontaneous dance is not unusual. With its long, slow conversations and its sudden spasms of action, "Assassination Tango" has the Buenos Aires beat down pat.
David Lyon
From the opening montage of famous landmarks to the closing scene on a rain-slicked bridge over the Seine, "Midnight in Paris" (2011) is director Woody Allen's love letter to the City of Light. The story follows Gil Pender (Owen Wilson), an American screenwriter who yearns to be a novelist, on a visit to the city with his fiancée and her clueless parents. At midnight, Gil becomes a time traveler, transported to a cafe where he meets the literary and artistic legends of the 1920s — Ernest Hemingway, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Cole Porter, Pablo Picasso — along with charming Adriana (Marion Cotillard). It's Paris that has brought these luminaries together, and viewers are treated to scenes of the Eiffel Tower, Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, Arc de Triomphe, Notre Dame, the Louvre, and Bateaux-Mouches plying the river. As the scenes move from day to evening, see the same monuments ablaze with light. Landscapes, too, are familiar — manicured parks, cobblestoned streets, sidewalk cafes. (And perhaps nothing says Paris like the little, yippy dog at the table in an elegant restaurant.) At one point Adriana says to Gil: "I can never decide whether Paris is more beautiful by day or by night." A tough call indeed.
Ellen Albanese
Almost its own 138-minute Perillo tour of Italy, this 1999 film presents a tale of desire and false identity. Moving restlessly from symbolic place to place, it evokes the elegant curling seafront of the Italian Riviera in San Remo, steeps the characters in the grandiose, crowded bustle of Rome near the Piazza della Repubblica, and takes the solid ground from beneath their feet in the foreboding churches and formal plazas of Venice. But director Anthony Minghella truly excels in capturing the essence of heat-drenched summer on the Bay of Naples. In the first extended scenes of the movie on the fictional island of "Mongibello" (filmed on Ischia and Procida), heat almost rises in wavering lines off golden bodies stretched out on the beach. The ocean gleams back with blinding glare as the intense sun hammers down on the shallow chop. The ocean's salt spray and the clanging sun have weathered the village buildings to chalky pastels, yet even they seem suspended in an amber glow of summer heat. Minghella punctures the measured pace of indolence with the sudden buzzing rasp and putter of motor scooters screaming down the mountain and bursting from narrow alleys with reckless abandon.
Patricia Harris
At Katz's Delicatessen on New York's Lower East Side, you can order hot pastrami on rye, matzo ball soup, or "what she's having." When Meg Ryan showed Billy Crystal the difference between a fake orgasm and a poorly digested knish over lunch here, the classic deli went down in romantic-comedy history. Perhaps no other movie, outside of Woody Allen's canon, captures vintage New York as vividly as the 1989 "When Harry Met Sally." Though it begins in Chicago, the movie hits its stride when Sally's yellow Subaru pulls up in front of Washington Square Park. As Harry disappears into the Greenwich Village sunset, the Twin Towers loom in the background like a postcard from a bygone era. Today this square is a lively mix of street performers and New York University students filming their own flicks. The movie mines the quirks of the male-female dynamic, while Manhattan nudges into each scene like a come-hither lover. From a sumptuous Central Park in fall to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the beloved Shakespeare & Co. Booksellers, the city of 8 million people becomes a warm and friendly place. Sweeping Upper West Side exteriors and enviable interiors make you want to hop the next train to Grand Central, grab a hot dog, and search SoHo for red suede pumps.
Kathleen Pierce
This R-rated film noir from 1981 has much to recommend it, including William Hurt when he still had hair, a scene-stealing Ted Danson (with black hair, prepster glasses, and cool dance moves), a vampish Kathleen Turner, and a baby-faced Mickey Rourke. What it has, mostly, is heat, and we're not talking about the steamy stuff between Hurt and Turner, although that is plenty hot, too. Set during a heat wave in a fictional South Florida town (and filmed on location in Lake Worth, near Palm Beach), this movie is sweatier than Kevin Garnett in the fourth quarter. Hurt's shirt is drenched, Turner's white linen frocks are unbuttoned down to there, ceiling fans whir, and the local police detective, played by J.A. Preston, sums up the collective spirit: "When it gets hot, people kill each other. It's a crisis atmosphere. Pretty soon people don't think the old rules are in effect." Indeed. Night scenes drip with humidity, punctuated by a cacophony of chirping crickets and clattering wind chimes that promise relief but don't deliver. Shots of beach boardwalks, boat houses, tropical landscaping, and swaying palms deliver the look of sultry South Florida, but mostly, you will feel the heat sizzle from the screen as you watch. Keep the iced tea handy.
Some of the most compelling films of the last 15 years have grounded their hard-boiled stories in Boston's blue-collar Irish-American neighborhoods, notably "Mystic River," "The Departed," and "Gone Baby Gone." For me, the most haunting — and the most evocative of place — is Ted Demme's "Monument Ave." Filmed in Charlestown, the 1998 movie revolves around car thief Bobby O'Grady (Denis Leary). Bobby works for Jackie, the 'hood's chief gangster (Colm Meaney), and sleeps with Jackie's squeeze, the alcoholic Katy (Famke Janssen). After one of Jackie's henchmen kills a coked-up snitch in a bar — Billy Crudup, in a jittery riff that sends sparks up the movie's spine — the local detective (Martin Sheen) confronts the witnesses, who all claim they were in the bathroom. And so the code of silence moves to the center of the film, which proceeds to bare the price of these lies of omission. "All these mothers, all they've been through, all their sons — gone," Bobby's mum (Marilyn Murphy Meardon) reproaches him at Teddy's wake. "You'd better believe I'd say something." "Monument Ave." visually captures the character of place, but its gritty authenticity comes from the characters, who make their place into a prison.
was filmed in West Berlin in 1987, two years before the fall of the wall. Though in many ways it is a time capsule of a divided city, the iconic images and poetry evoked by writer and director Wim Wenders can still be seen and felt. It tells the story of Damiel, an angel who falls in love with a trapeze artist and longs to become human. When seen from the point of view of angels, the movie is shot in black and white. When Damiel transitions to a mortal life, his world — and the film — changes to color. Walking through the city today, one can re-create many scenes from the movie: view the gold-winged Roman goddess atop the Victory Column, spot the tall Fernsehturm (TV tower), order currywurst from a food truck, ride the U-Bahn trains, touch graffiti-covered standing portions of the wall, stroll streets crowded with cafes and people, and cross iron bridges spanning rivers and canals. Yet the connection between film and city is less about physical sights and more about questions of history, time, love, memory, and a longing for connection.
We were immediately immersed in the sun-drenched, wine-splashed Spanish setting, following girlfriends on a summer holiday in Barcelona. The 2008 movie, written and directed by Woody Allen, features two American women who become involved with a free-thinking, seductive Spanish artist. It's been called a meditation on love, a complicated, messy story of lust and love triangles. We shadowed Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlet Johansson) through the colorful and chaotic streets of the city, captivated by Barcelona's visual beauty, its art and architecture, and its seductive, jangling energy. We visited Güell Park and its lizard-shaped fountain, stood in the shadows of the Antoni Gaudí-designed Sagrada Familia Cathedral, and strolled lively Las Ramblas. So provocative is cinematographer Javier Aguirresarobe's filming, that the journey became ours. It's no wonder that Barcelona contributed money to the making of the movie, calling it a love letter to the city. Watch this film and you'll want to jump on a plane to Spain.
This 2007 film takes place in Germany and Turkey, but glimpses of Istanbul are what draw me back to it. Written and directed by German-born Fatih Akin, this is not a romantic portrait; there are no sweeping shots of the Golden Horn, Blue Mosque, or the Bosphorus Bridge linking Europe to Asia. Instead, the movie reveals the everyday and sometimes gritty side of life in a city with 13 million residents. I imagine walking the warren of streets with four- and five-story apartment houses, smelling kofte wafting from restaurants where men sit outside smoking and playing cards, hearing the call to prayer broadcast from mosques, and hopping the ferry to the neighborhood of Kadikoy. (However, I don't imagine myself running from the police or incarcerated in the women's prison.) The film is ultimately about relationships between mothers and daughters, a father and son, lovers and friends, and how identities split between two countries can both wound and heal.
Moviegoers hitch a ride with Roy (Woody Harrelson) and Jessie (Emily Mortimer) on their ill-fated rail journey through the "wild, wild East" in this 2008 film. It recounts the misadventures of the hapless American couple who travel aboard the Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Siberian railways on the epic 5,000-mile trip from Beijing to Moscow. The storied Trans-Siberian railway retraces the ancient caravan route between China and Russia, and director Brad Anderson uses Jessie's camera lens to frame majestic views of Siberia's snow-crowned fir and birch woods. The vastness and solitude of the enigmatic wilderness appear almost as palpable as the rhythmic clatter and lurching of the vintage passenger coaches. The movie pulses with realistic scenes of vodka-laced singing in the dining car, strange encounters with furtive passengers in dimly lighted hallways, and incomprehensible tirades by beefy Russian train attendants. During stops at remote villages, the camera pans babushkas (grandmothers) selling boiled potatoes and piroshki (meat-filled pastries) from baby buggies on the railroad platform.
While the silver screen can whisk us away to exotic locales, "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" reminds us that life's most exciting adventures often await right down the road — particularly if there's a little hooky involved. In the 1986 comedy, Ferris (Matthew Broderick) and his two friends cut class at their suburban Chicago high school for an impromptu field trip to the big city. Director John Hughes, a Windy City native, leads us on a whirlwind romp of his hometown, from the frenzy of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to the serenity of the Art Institute of Chicago, where we're given a virtual tour of the works of masters such as Picasso, Hopper, and Matisse that's worthy of a PBS travelogue. Ferris and his friends see Chicago from top — the observation deck of the Sears Tower (then) — to bottom — the raucous German-American Von Steuben Parade through the city streets. And what would a "sick day" in Chicago be without soaking in the sunshine and catching the Cubs at Wrigley Field? Ferris is a muse reminding us that it's not the distance of the trip that makes travel so enriching, but the break it offers from the monotony of daily life.
In England's Lake District, Beatrix Potter is as well known for her conservation efforts as for "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." The 2006 biopic "Miss Potter," starring Renée Zellweger, was filmed in part in the Lake District, where the children's book author spent summer vacations as a child and where she later settled to write and illustrate stories featuring an assortment of quirky but appealing animals. The landscape of this rural region in northwest England is striking — impossibly green fields; high, glassy lakes ringed by mist-shrouded mountains; old stone farmhouses surrounded by colorful gardens. Lake Windermere, in the heart of Lake District National Park, is the country's largest lake. Today you can visit Potter's Hill Top Farm in Coniston, a modest two-story, 17th-century cottage with beamed ceilings, stone floors, and original furniture. In her later years, the author bought up all the land she could in the Lake District to protect it from development. When she died at 77 in 1943, she left 4,000 acres to the National Trust.


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Gay marriage group puts out new ad
A national coalition backing same-sex marriage is releasing a new ad Friday, leading into next week's Supreme Court debates on the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8.
The $150,000 ad buy is the latest step in a $1 million campaign. The ads will be broadcast on stations in Washington, D.C., including the Sunday political talk shows and will air throughout next week on national cable.
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"A growing majority of Americans have come to believe it's time to allow marriage for gay and lesbian couples. Here's why," the ad from the Respect for Marriage Coalition begins. The ad features regular Americans talking about their gay and lesbian relatives and friends. The ad ends with the line, "It's time to give gay and lesbian couples the freedom to marry."
The ad hopes to capitalize on growing momentum for gay marriage. In the past week, both Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have announced their support for gay nuptials, and a Washington Post/ABC poll released this week found 58 percent of Americans support gay marriage, a dramatic reversal from a decade ago.
"We want to support our daughter," Holly Mak, who is featured in the ad alongside her husband, Marc Hersh, told POLITICO. "We adore her. And if she wants to get married, she should have the same protections we have as a heterosexual couple."
( PHOTOS: Pols who evolved on gay marriage)
The ad taps into a major reason for increased support for gay marriage: the experience of knowing gay people. Portman announced his support after his son came out to him two years ago. A Pew Research Center poll conducted this week found 14 percent of Americans had changed their minds about gay marriage, and 32 percent of those said it was because they knew someone who was gay.


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Thursday, April 12, 2012
Dusty Thursday: Where is all the dusty Scotch?
This question came up on a forum the other day so I thought I'd address it here. There is so much talk about dusty bourbon, but is there dusty Scotch and if so, where is it? There is dusty Scotch but it's more recent and much harder to come by.
Most of the dusty bourbon I find on the shelves is from the 1970s and '80s. This was a great era for bourbon, and there are many good finds to be had. I see Scotch from the same era but it's mostly crappy blends because that is mostly the Scotch that people were drinking back then (I can't even begin to count the dusty bottles of Cluny I've passed on).
Single malts didn't really come on the scene in the U.S. in any significant way until the late 1980s, so the hot period for dusty Scotch malts is the late 1980s to the late 1990s. However, unlike a lot of the old bourbon that I find in dingy corner stores where the owners have no idea what it is, single malt was a high-end product that tended to go to high end stores that had a high product turnover, were heavily trafficked, and where the proprietors understood the value of the various products. For that reason, you are a lot less likely to find Scotch of any real quality gathering dust.
That isn't to say there aren't some great dusties out there, but they are harder to find and more expensive. I know someone who recently found an Ardbeg Provenance for $300, which doesn't sound like a steal, but that malt goes at auction for around $1,000.
The dusty Scotch holy grail would be a 1994/1995 Black Bowmore. If it was sitting on a shelf for its original price it would be around $200 or $300, whereas now it regularly fetches upwards of $4,000. Like the actual holy grail, though, I'm not sure Black Bowmore dusties exist.
Of course, there are lots of old Scotches out there, but most of them are going for high prices at spirits auctions. Finding a decent old single malt on the shelf in an American liquor store is a lot tougher to do, but hey, there's no reason not to try.
I'd love to hear any good stories folks have of dusty Scotch finds. Leave them in the comments.
UPDATE: I wanted to post this excellent response by Adam from the LA Whiskey Society:
Ahhh, one of my favorite topics.
In short: all the (good) dusty scotch was cleaned out over the past decade.
You are right to point out that scotch (particularly the single malts that we'd seek) was a high-end product that was treated differently. Also, Bourbon was much more widely distributed than single malts, and in much greater quantities. There's simply more of it to be left sitting around. Whereas the sort of malts we'd currently hunt for always existed in quite limited quantities. (Example: Signatory dumpies).
Bourbon hunting is also a more recent phenomenon. Scotch hunting predates it, and the people doing so were well-networked by the late 90's (due to the internet). Combine that with the fact that bourbon enthusiasts are generally on a lower budget than scotch enthusiasts, 'cause bourbon's generally a lot cheaper than single malts. So, when a malt hunter found a dusty treasure trove, he was more likely to clean it all out, and he had the network of people to distribute it to. I've heard stories of someone finding a few cases of (say) a very early Macallan 18, and he'd buy it all -- knowing that there were plenty of other friends in his whisky circle who'd happily take some of the bottles off his hands. Springbank 12/100 was essentially cleaned out of America by just a handful of guys (namely the stately and respectable PLOWED folks) [Ed: PLOWED is a Scotch tasting group], who'd often share a large find with each other.
You're not finding any dusty malts in LA because me and The Duke [Ed: Another LAWS member] scoured LA County and the neighboring valleys around 2008. PLOWED had already cleaned out SoCal in their great FOAFing [Ed: FOAF = dusty hunting] adventures of the earlier 2000s, and we bought whatever scraps they'd left behind. And drank most of it. As examples, there were still scant Springer 21's, Macallan Gran Reservas, Ardbeg 17s.
Keep in mind that it only takes ONE good hunter a few days to hit every single store in a small city. Personally I can hit upwards of 100 stores in a good day (seriously). If I've been somewhere/anywhere with some spare time on my hands, then by the time I leave, you're gonna have difficulty finding any dusty scotch in that area (I mean scotch that's any good).
To give you an idea of how seriously this was taken in the past -- before I travel anywhere, I'll speak with some of the "godfathers" of scotch dusty hunting I know. They can almost always tell me if an area has been hunted out, who hunted it, and when. You hear stuff like, "Oh yeah, so-and-so cleaned out everything on the 10 corridor between Palm Desert and Phoenix, he was commuting for business a lot between 2004-2006."
It's my belief that the Great American Whisky Hunt is essentially in its last glimmers of twilight, as far as single malts are concerned. Yes, you can hoard cases of Ardbeg Ten L7143, but that's a whole different category of dusty hunting.
Black Bowmore is gone (original was released in 1993). I think I heard that someone found a bottle in upstate NY in like 2004.
South Central LA remains unfoafed. [Ed: Not quite Adam, I've spent some time there, but there aren't any Ardbeg Provenances or Black Bowmores to be found...at least so far].
Great comments Adam, Thanks.
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Nothin' from me. I'm always looking for American whiskey, but i love your perspective on why there's no old sotch hanging around...and it makes perfect sense.
It was in 1978 or '79 when a friend showed up with a bottle of Laphroaig, proclaiming that it was the only presentable whisky on planet Earth, and I was totally disgusted!
Still not a fan, but am much more tolerant of the extremes that exist in whisky, and am eternally grateful to Harry for his foresight!
- April 12, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- Greg said...
Steve - Excellent post. I've thought about this as I've hunted bourbon in the past but not really being into Scotch at the time, only gave it a cursory thought. My most recent "dusty" Scotch would be the Springbank Alchemist. I did just recently open a Johnny Walker 12 year from 1965 and thought it was very good....in fact suprisingly good.
- April 13, 2012 at 4:22 AM
Found an old Springbank 21 in Indiana once! Never found anything else worth bragging about.
- April 13, 2012 at 6:29 AM
- Macdeffe said...
It's bloody annoying driving around California, all the stores have been cannibalized
- April 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM
Awesome story, Adam. you guys were waaaay ahead of the curve and are to be commended for your early efforts at coordinating mass swaths of "scorched liquor store" strategy.
I am truly impressed, you whisky ninjas, you!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:11 PM
- AdamH said...
Thanks Sam. You don't even want to see the maps we've made for such purposes... they're cross-referenced with census data overlays in order to identify the most promising neighborhoods. But the truth of it all is really that the hunt is more fun than the find. I've always said that whiskey is an adventure, and this way it literally becomes one!
- April 13, 2012 at 9:37 PM
- BMc said...
So what census data did you use? In my limited experience, I've found that areas that have been high-density for 30+ years but have experienced gradual economic declines have been the most fruitful.
I can't count the number of Scotch blends I've seen from the '70s here in DC. I haven't heard of ANY of them except Teacher's, and no single malts except an old Highland Park 12 from the '80s.
- April 14, 2012 at 6:45 AM
I was on the hunt for bourbon a few years back. I knew little about Scotch and probably passed up some great dusties.
- April 14, 2012 at 7:54 AM
- AdamH said...
BMc, yes, previous wealth met with recent decline is a top indicator. Also, racial makeup indicates the kinds of booze that were/are distributed in an area. (I recognize that may sound superficially racist, but it's not when you understand liquor marketing/sales demographics).
It all sounds a little heartless and mercenary, but it's really just about finding good whisk(e)y. We know it looks really weird on the surface. The #1 rule before getting out of the car is, "Hide the socioeconomic maps!"
- April 14, 2012 at 2:44 PM
Picked up a Bowmore Sea Dragon at a little bodega in the Bunker Hill Condos 3 years ago for $280.
Maybe wasn't such a steal then, but sure is now.
- April 14, 2012 at 6:20 PM
- BMc said...
Weird? Only if you think a good plan is weird.
"Planning's for losers! Get me another Bud Light Lime!!!"
- April 15, 2012 at 7:38 AM


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The Esquire Guy Breaks Down the Politics of Favors
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Whether or not you do the favor isn't the important thing. What's important is how you say yes or no. And how you should say yes or no is: moralistically. You run the risk of seeming uptight and condescending and a little preachy, but moralistic you must be.
It doesn't matter how big it is--from "Will you have an informational interview with my niece?" to "Will you hire my niece?" to "Will you not fire my niece?" to "Can you please not press charges against my niece?"--every request for a favor comes bundled with implicit points.
Such as:
You have power where I do not.
I will repay this favor at a later date.
I have faith in you.
You are The Man or The Woman.
Also, pleeeeeease?
There are so many unspoken issues that the process can feel smarmy. So when you're asked for a favor, it's important to get a few things out on the table, to take the request head-on, speak what is usually unspoken, shine a little light on the quid pro quo of it all.
You could say, "Sure," of course, but then all you're doing is acceding. Which is a wasted opportunity. Note the differences between these two answers:
Option 1: "Sure."
Option 2: "Sure, Dave. You've been a good friend to my business over the years. I'm happy to do this. I know you'd do the same for me."
What you've done with the second option is definitively answer the question, exhibit magnanimity, tack enthusiasm onto agreement and de-smarmify the implicit promise of reciprocation by simply acknowledging it out in the open, transforming a favor's unspoken IOU to YDOMAIJWTTTOTNHMBTRI (You Don't Owe Me Anything I Just Want to Take This Opportunity to Note How Mutually Beneficial This Relationship Is).
You've also established that you're thoughtful about the promises you make--that when it involves your business, you're not going to agree to just anything. You've effected another kind of transformation, as well: You've transformed a request that seems personal into something professional, because you've refocused things on your company, the moral center around which the whole thing should be revolving.
"It's more respectable to say no if you highlight that it's not about the person you're declining, but rather that you're trying to maintain your commitment to another set of people," says Adam Grant, professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and author of Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success.
The beauty of this approach is that you're not the one doing or not doing the favor. Your company is doing or not doing the favor. You've made clear that if the favor is not right for the company, then the favor won't get done. It's all about the company.
A Few Words on the Various Characters Involved
Grant divides the parties into three types:
- Takers "will do a favor when they think they can get a larger one back or when they are trying to impress someone powerful or influential."
- Matchers "believe it's important to trade favors evenly, so their favors come to either reciprocate one given in the past or perhaps to earn an equal one in the future."
- Givers "do favors, for the most part, without strings attached and are willing to offer them, usually to people they don't feel they owe anything to."
It's always bewildering when you come across a taker. What are these people thinking? They're conspicuous. They're bad actors. And they're annoying. They're like Sofia Coppola in The Godfather Part III. The way to deal with a taker is the same way you deal with any favor: You acknowledge the request, say yes or no (depending on what's good for your company) and explain the reasons you're saying yes or no. Easy.
Why You Really Should Say No From Time to Time
The primary reason to say no to a request is, of course, that saying yes just doesn't feel right. You'd be compromising your principles or your company's mission, or you're just not able to provide the kind of help the requester is looking for.
But there's another reason to say no. In his research, Grant uncovered that givers tend to finish last: "By going out of their way to do favors for everyone without expecting anything in return, they end up sacrificing their time and energy and resources for others."
If You Will Allow Us to Undermind That Last Point
But givers tend to finish first, too. Grant concludes that givers who act selflessly are "asking for trouble," yet givers who act with clear conditions--"I am going to be clear about who I help, how I help and when I help"--become more energized, rather than distracted.
"When people follow this setting of boundaries around the who, the how and the when, givers end up outperforming matchers and takers because they build deeper and broader networks," Grant says. "People feel this wasn't just a transaction or a self-serving exchange, but there's some real goodwill. Givers end up benefiting from a lot more reciprocity."
Favors are opportunities--to do good (even when you say no), to build relationships (even when you say no) and to remind those in your professional universe what kind of business you run (even when you say no). And the kind of business you run is one that requires a payment for this kind of service: not money, not some unspoken IOU, not even a cup of coffee, but respect.
Key Technical Matters
When presented with a request for a favor, ask yourself: Will this be good for my business?
If the answer is no, do not do the favor.
But explain why you're not doing the favor.
Then suffer through the inevitable awkwardness that results from your refusal.
A favor requested by a professional superior is not, in fact, a favor. It is a demand.
A request for free products is not a favor.
It is a request for free products.
The rate of favor requests you field will increase proportionally along with your business success.
The rate of disappointing people will, too.
The best way to say yes to a favor is: "Of course!" followed by a much less enthusiastic justification for saying yes. It's a buzzkill, but it's important.
Favors requested over the phone are to be considered more thoughtfully than those requested over e-mail.
Favors requested over e-mail are to be considered more thoughtfully than those requested over Twitter.
Favors requested via congressional subpoena are to be looked over by a lawyer.
Should You Do That Favor?
|Can you recommend a good graphic designer?
|Can you write me a letter of recommendation?
|"Just say I worked for you once, and I was great. Cool?"
|A few minutes of your time?
|A meal?
|A meal-length amount of time, without the meal?
|Hold this door for me?
|Hold this sack of money for me?
|Hold this gun for me?
|Mind if I visit your operation?
|Mind if I look around a little?
|Mind if I look around a little without you accompanying me?
|May I pick your brain? (Asked by someone you know.)
|May I pick your brain? (Asked by someone you don't know.)
|May I pick your brain? (Asked by someone you don't know who is holding a thin metallic rod.)


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There are problems to use trickling:- against law. You will be soon in prison- you are not able to bye a digital balance and weigh needed stuffs.- and 20 other reasons....
OA apparently has little or no effect on queens.
The theory that I remember that makes sense to me on efficacy to mites and not queens is this. The bees eat the OA syrup. The mites feed off of the bees blood and die from the high amount of oa present. - it does not go that way. The influence is external. There is no antivarroa stuff which affect via blood. Therefore OA trickling may be harmless to the queen. - it has bee carefully researched. IT IS NOTI believe all the literature I speak of is available at Randy Olivers website.- as far as I know, Randy is not a varroa expert. He is just writing.If you want real expert put in goodle "nanetti varroa " . He is an Italian beekeeping professor who has developed the trickling.I think a perfectly sound organic treatment is being wasted, simply because it is not approved in the USA and people are scared to death to open a colony in winter. It cost something like two cents per treatment, per colony.- when I made it first time, I was really afraid what happens to my hives.- the treatment has bee advertised so that it is like atom bomb. Mask, rubber gloves, keep breathing .....Many beekeepers are afraid to open the cover because they are afraid of stings. So they ask from forum instead that they look inside the hive.."I have not looked my hive for two months. What to do now".- the answer: "let them be in peace"
What I say, in America unefficient methods are widely used among hobby beekeepers.
I write with mobile Nokia C6. I cannot link.
I agree with you, many here ignore sound science, and instead want to wave a magic wand of powder sugar, screened bottom boards, etc.,
I would appreciate links to sound studies or trials that you say makes the method of O.A. trickling....
Heres one link after googling what Finski suggested:http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,34953.0.html
But sad to see that sugar dusting is still recommended on Beemaster and UK forums even if it has proved to be unefficient.


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Prices paid for farm ground have surged over the past several months. Good farmland in my home area in northwest Iowa, for example, just sold for $9,500/acre. That follows a $10,000/acre price paid in February for a field, nearly a record high price for farmland in Plymouth County. Last November, we thought the $13,950/acre price paid in neighboring Sioux County was an aberration. But farmland prices continue to stay very high.
Recent newsletters from farm management firms and realtors reconfirm the continued high prices for good farmland. The Iowa Farm & Land Chapter #2 Realtors Land Institute surveyed farm realtors about what they estimated farmland values were during March. The survey showed high quality cropland across the state jumped nearly 20% from September 2010 to March 2011. Here's a look at the average price per acre of different quality land in the March survey:
High quality - $7,380
Medium quality - $5,700
Low quality - $4,034
Non-tillable pasture - $2,213
Cropland prices in Illinois have seen similar surges. Price of the most productive ground in northern Illinoi s increased 14% last year and the price of ground rated good increased 18%, according tothe Illinois Society of Professional Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers. The group also noted that in central Illinois, the top ground increased in value 10% while good ground jumped 22% in value. The group noted that high commodity prices and a lack of good farmland for sale have kept these prices high.
And finally, land values jumped 12% during 2010 for cropland in the Seventh Federal Reserve District, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. This is the second largest increase in land values reported in the past 30 years for the district, which includes Iowa and parts of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan.
The reserve issues an annual summary of growth in agricultural land. The value of Iowa land increased the most at 18%. Indiana was second with a 12% increase in land value, and Illinois was third with 11%.
The survey of the seventh district also noted land values particularly surged in the fourth quarter and expected the surge to continue well into 2011. Iowa, for example, increased land values 8% in the fourth quarter 2010.
While the high land values bring back thoughts of the last land spike in the '70s and the bust in the '80s, it may be different this time. Some realtors note that many current farm sales involve a high percentage of cash and that lenders have caps on how much may be loaned/acre. So should land values drop during a correction period, the financial damage may be limited and not similar to the devastation seen in the 1980s.


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For many people who have bought the BOSS 302 Mustang, they have been wondering when they would receive their TracKey. It is the magic red key, that changes 200 parameters in the cars systems to provide maximum performance. It is "For Off Road Purposes Only", but yet CARB, the California Air Resources Board, has not signed off on it. Ford can not guarentee that the TracKey does not affect emissions, the engine's durability or mess with on-board computer diagnostics.
Given how well California's government works, it may never happen, and once again, the People's Republic of Kaliforna fowls it up for the rest of us. In a responce someone made this brilliant video which plays on the meme of changing the subtitles to a particular scene in the movie "Downfall"
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Hi All - Elaine aka Ellapu here with my Mid Month Challenge Project.
I was pondering quite a while as to what I was going to make until I spotted a kitchen roll insert and an envelope stiffener (cardboard) and from there the idea was born - a pen holder!
I was pondering quite a while as to what I was going to make until I spotted a kitchen roll insert and an envelope stiffener (cardboard) and from there the idea was born - a pen holder!
The idea for a mid month is to show step by step tutorial for the project so here goes - a really long post lol - please bear with me on this one lol.
Do click on each photo to see more detail.
Do click on each photo to see more detail.
First off I laid out what I thought I would use, pic on left was original idea, pic on the right is more like it - minus the black lace (a thought I added in along the way along with leaf trim lol)
This shows the process of trimming the tubes to desired length - bet you noticed the stray toilet roll insert, slightly smaller than the other one (another unplanned add in lol) You can see I am no good at step by step huh...
I cut out a base shape from the envelope stiffener then painted it along with the inside and edges of the tube using black acrylic. Then came the paper hanging, lol,I started by covering the outsides using beautiful papers called Chalkboard by Craftwork Cards - gorgeous love them. Please note the pic on right shows my first mistake - I did not allow enough paper to fold down completely inside - next pic shows me redoing it lol
see now rectified
bit of a bodge up but got there in the end
After completing all three tubes I wiped the edges using black soot Distress Ink.
Now there was alot of drying time in between the steps and I promise I will not be talking to you in between - I sat on my sofa watching TV - better than watching paper dry, lol ...Anyway I am now back from being a couch potato (well I could have been doing the housework instead but chose not to, lol) . This was the point I came across the latest add in - black guipure lace - love this. I trimmed around the top of the tubes inside and out and around the edge of the base. I covered the bottom of the base with felt - Ooops lost the pic of that one - still it would have been a boring pic anyway as I am sure you all know what felt looks like lol!
I stuck the tubes and base together and added flowers and leaf trim to give it a bit of ummmmppphhhh! Now for a copious amount of pics...... I have most probably duplicated pics along the way so please forgive me - I just could not see which angled shot was being merged with what in the end!
That's it from me right now and you can see my project over at my blog - not an awful lot different to what is posted here but would still like to see you at mine so to speak!
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When I finally got my copy of Michael Ruhlman's latest cookbook Ruhlman's Twenty, the first recipe I made was this beautiful cast iron bread. It is now my go-to bread recipe, producing a round loaf with a tender crumb, a chewy exterior, and excellent volume. This loaf also has a lightness you don't expect from 100% whole wheat bread. With only five ingredients (seven for my adapted version), the recipe is simplicity in edible form, and makes, as my husband says, an "amazingly good" bread.
Though the version in Ruhlman's Twenty is made with all-purpose white flour, I made a whole wheat version using freshly ground white whole wheat flour. For the most consistent results, I use a digital scale to measure the flour and liquids by weight. To reduce the kneading time for the whole wheat dough, I used the autolyse technique, mixing the flour, instant yeast and liquids together in the mixer bowl, then covering the mixture and letting it sit for an hour. This helps hydrate the dough and develop the gluten with less work. After the autolyse period, I worked the salt into the dough using my hands, and then kneaded the dough for ten minutes on medium speed in a mixer until the dough achieved a proper windowpane when stretched.
Borrowing an idea from the website Breadtopia, I substituted beer and vinegar for a portion of the total water required, adding a very subtle undertone of sourdough flavor. If you'd like a little stronger sourdough flavor, simply increase the amount of beer and vinegar to your taste, but keep the total amount of liquid at 330 grams for 500 grams of white whole wheat flour.
Since whole wheat flour contains less starch than refined white flour by weight, it helps to develop the flavor further by letting the dough sit overnight. In this recipe, Ruhlman offers an option to complete the second rise overnight in the refrigerator. I shaped the dough into a round for the second rise and put it on a large piece of parchment paper in the refrigerator, covering it loosely with plastic wrap. The next morning, I used the parchment paper to lift the mostly risen dough into the 5-quart cast-iron dutch oven, placing the parchment paper and dough directly into the dutch oven. This keeps the bread intact without losing any volume in the transfer.
Besides the excellent loaf Ruhlman's recipe produces, the thing I like most about this recipe is being able to take the dough straight from the refrigerator the next morning, and after an hour of letting it sit at room temperature, to simply bake it. For a solid recipe with great results, and one that is easily adaptable into a 100% white whole wheat version, this cast iron bread from Ruhlman's Twenty definitely takes a place among my all-time favorites.
Whole Wheat Cast Iron Bread
(adapted from the cookbook Ruhlman's Twenty by Michael Ruhlman)
500 grams white whole wheat flour (freshly ground if possible)
2 grams/1 teaspoon instant yeast
230 grams water
85 grams pale lager beer
15 grams apple cider vinegar
10 grams/2 teaspoons coarse-ground kosher salt
extra virgin olive oil for drizzling
salt for sprinkling
digital scale
5 quart cast-iron dutch oven
parchment paper
an instant-read thermometer
(Important note: I don't include volume measurements for the flour or liquids in this recipe because variations in weight with those two ingredients can make a noticeable difference in the outcome of the bread. A cup of all-purpose flour, commercial white whole wheat flour, and freshly ground white whole wheat flour all have different weights for the same amount of volume, and the method people use when measuring by volume can differ a lot too. It's also easy to have slight differences when measuring liquids by volume, and when making bread, even a couple of tablespoons of liquid can make a difference in the outcome as well. For very small increments of weight, like the salt and yeast, I included the volume measurements because some cheaper digital scales don't always register such small amounts very well. Also note there is a difference between using coarsely or finely ground salt when measuring by volume. If you use a finely ground salt instead of the coarse kosher salt, you may need to decrease the total amount of salt to one teaspoon).
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After an hour, stir or work the salt into the mixture. Using the dough hook, knead the dough on medium speed for ten minutes until you can pull a windowpane from a small piece of the dough. Remove the dough, roll into a loose ball, and place it back in the mixer bowl. Cover and let rise in a warm area until doubled in bulk, from two to four hours. After the dough has risen completely, remove the dough and shape it into a tight round by rolling it between your hands on the countertop, gathering and pinching the ends together on the bottom, and rolling again to finish. Place the dough on a large piece of parchment paper, cover the dough with plastic wrap, and place in the refrigerator overnight.
The next morning:
Using the parchment paper, remove the dough from the refrigerator and place it in the cast-iron dutch oven. Using scissors, carefully trim the paper back evenly all the way around the dutch oven so the edge of the paper is below the rim of the dutch oven. Also carefully cut vertical slits into the paper surrounding the dough so that the paper lies flat against the sides of the dutch oven, letting the dough rise evenly. Cover the dutch oven with its lid, and let continue to rise in a warm area for one hour.
While the bread finishes rising, preheat the oven to 450ºF. At the end of one hour, remove the lid on the dutch oven. Drizzle almost a tablespoon of olive oil over the top of the dough and very gently smooth it over the surface of the dough. Sprinkle the top of the dough with a little salt. Score the top of the dough in a cross pattern, using a razor blade or serrated knife, about 1/4-inch deep. Place the lid back on the dutch oven, and place the covered dutch oven containing the dough on the middle shelf of the oven. Bake for 30 minutes, then remove the lid, lower the oven temperature to 375ºF, and bake the bread an additional 10 minutes until the top is deep golden brown. The internal temperature of the bread should be at least 200ºF when tested with an instant-read thermometer.
Makes one approximately 9-inch round loaf of bread