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Received the following question from BWonder on the Sea Breeze Cooler:
First off, let me say I love your blog and I use your improvements/substitutions to mix Savoy drinks at home quite often. One thing I don't get is why you tend to use Apry and Orchard Apricot in place of apricot brandy. I have a bottle of Finger Lakes Distilling's peach brandy (as well as Apry and Orchard Apricot), which I think is more similar to apricot brandy than an apricot liqueur. It makes a completely different drink. I'm in Rochester, NY – perhaps out on the west coast you can't get a real peach/apricot brandy?
First, thanks for the kind comments! Always glad to hear the blog is read and appreciated.
Fruit Eau-de-Vie are used rarely in cocktails.
High quality Eau-de-Vie are too expensive, scarce, and hard to produce to be used in any quantity for cocktails.
You will not find a bottle of Apricot Eau-de-Vie in 99% of bars today, and that has not changed in the last 200+ years of cocktail history.
When a cocktail recipe calls for "Apricot Brandy", 99.9% of the time, what the recipe is actually calling for is "Apricot Flavored Brandy" or "Apricot Liqueur".
For the remaining 1% of cocktails, it is a problem.
At least, with "Cherry Brandy", you can be fairly certain that when "Cherry Brandy" is written, the author means Cherry Liqueur, as there is a common name, "Kirsch" or "Kirschwasser", which is usually used in cocktail recipes calling for Cherry Eau-de-vie.
In the case of Apricot Eau-de-Vie, this is not the case. We've only got "Apricot Brandy" for either substance.
About the only advice I can give you is to familiarize yourself with the "families" of drinks.
In this case, make a few "Coolers".
What is in most of the drinks called "Coolers"?
The "Shady Grove Cooler", for example: 2 oz Gin; Juice 1/2 Lemon; 1/2 Tablespoon of Sugar; Shake and strain into a tall glass. Fill with Ginger Beer.
With the sweetener from the Ginger beer and the 1/2 Tablespoon of Sugar, this is a fairly rich drink.
Would a very dry drink made of half gin and half Eau-de-Vie with only the sweetener from "2 Dashes Grenadine" make sense in the same class of drinks as the Shady Grove Cooler? Would it be any good?
Remember, you're building this drink into a 14 oz Collins glass with "1 lump of ice" and filling it with only chilled soda.
As a practical exercise, invest in some of Destillerie Purkhart's "Blume Marillen" and make the drink this way:
Sea Breeze Cooler?
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Grenadine
1 oz Apricot Eau-de-Vie
1 oz Dry Gin
1 Lump of ice.
Use long tumbler and fill with soda Water. 2 sprigs fresh mint on top.
Try it and have a few friends try it. What reaction do you get?
Invest in a bottle of Rothman & Winter Orchard Apricot and make the drink this way:
Sea Breeze Cooler?
3/4 oz Lemon Juice
1 teaspoon Grenadine
1 oz Apricot Liqueur
1 oz Dry Gin
1 Lump of ice.
Use long tumbler and fill with soda Water. 2 sprigs fresh mint on top.
What reaction do you get?
Given your new knowledge of the "Cooler" category, which drink makes more sense?


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Why Don't Boys Want to Dance?
Whether you have a son or a daughter, one of the joys of parenting is supporting your child in the things they love to do. My third grade son has always loved to dance, and his enthusiasm for the activity has always been just as important if not more so, than his actual talent. However, his zeal was recently thwarted when we enrolled him in a hip hop class where he ended up being the only boy in sea of twenty girls in sparkly Converse shoes demanding to dance to the latest Katie Perry song. Feeling out of place, he left in tears and has not wanted to go back since.
Our experience in the class really got me thinking about my own experiences as a competitive athlete growing up, and how this has influenced my role as an advocate for girls, a teacher, and a mom. I am in my early 40's and I vividly recall my experience as the only girl under the supervision of a sexist tennis coach. I was always put on the last court and it was clearly a punishment for the boys if they had to play with me. I hated that coach, but it also contributed to my intensifying dislike of tennis. Today it's much different. If you have a daughter and she likes to do things that are typically "boy," you are probably prepared to look for a class or a program that makes her feel comfortable. Not only that, but the coach or teacher is usually aware of the particular challenges of being one among many and goes out of their way to make her feel comfortable. I can think of countless soccer teams with ten boys and one girl where the adults make a point of including the girl and treating her equally. And even as the girls get older and move into single sex teams, there's still recognition that if a girl wants to participate, they have the right to be there.
But apparently, this is not the case if you're a boy. What amazes me is the lack of care and consideration we have towards our sons in similar situations. "Boys don't like to dance," "Boys don't like to read," "Boys don't like to be in plays," are just a few examples I have heard repeatedly as a teacher, writer, and parent. As if we, the adults, are not the ones responsible for creating the very environments where our boys would feel comfortable and included.
In my son's case, he lasted two classes. I simply couldn't believe my eyes as he was excluded and ignored by the teacher and not surprisingly, therefore, the students. He sat by himself fighting back tears. When I talked to the staff, they informed me that they have problems with boys all the time. When I asked if they even think about why they are having problems retaining boys, the person shrugged and said, "Boys don't like to dance." Well mine did. That is until he took that class.
So the question to all of us is why we are so committed to forcing boys out of arenas that are typically reserved for girls?
At least with girls, it is understood that the world can be an exclusive place for them and they have the language and voice to speak out against it. Boys usually don't know this, and in their ignorance learn to feel ashamed for anything they do that is remotely girl-like.
As my son and I drove home after the hip hop debacle and I told him we would withdraw him from the class, I asked him to think about this experience if he was ever in the situation where there was one girl with a group of boys. He nodded and then said, "I just want to go home."
I waited to reinforce the lesson another day, and instead just went home to listen to Grandmaster Flash and Mary J. Blige so he could reclaim the music he loves.

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Student or Learner
"It is all my fault!"
Do you agree that "all" as a predeterminer modifies "my fault"?
But if it is true, "fault" should be formed in the plural and considering meaning, I think "all" can be an adverb and a pronoun in the sentence, but not a predeterminer.
What do you think? Thank you so much as always and have a good day.
Whatever label you want to give it, all means completely.


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|January 17th, 2012, 12:06 PM
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a rare chessboard border rug.
Hi all,
The illustrated rug appears in a 1469-1480 painting (Pilates hand-washing) by the Master of Schottenaltar.
It might belong to a group of carpets with simplified motifs and very low knot-density, which, according to some authors, might have been woven in Europe (see main essay).
The interesting border features a chessboard of squares of equal dimension, structured into crosses of various colors. I dont know of any extant rug with this particular motif. Does anybody?
As mentioned by Dimand (1), the field (not the border) of Spanish large Holbein rugs frequently features chessboard areas enclosing the central octagon. A hint, at best.
I also suppose that it would be pure speculation to attribute the crosses to any Christian influence.
(1) M.S. Dimand, MET Art Bulletin, « Two fifteenth century hispano-moresque Rugs ».
Best regards
|January 17th, 2012, 01:58 PM
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Hi Pierre,
The most I can came close is this end of 19th Tree of Life Kazak:
I do not dare to suggest any connection, though.
P.S. some Karachov Kazaks have part of their medallions checkered too, but without crosses
|January 17th, 2012, 05:17 PM
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Hi Filiberto,
You are right, border- or field motifs based on a combination of multicolored little squares can be found in (very few) nineteenth century Caucasian rugs like your Kazak or a couple of Karatchoph or Erivan rugs.
A similar combination is part of the border motif of the Anatolian rug below (FIG 1: Konya, eighteenth century).
The Talish border sometimes display a cross pattern left in negative between four little squares.
But, as you write, it would indeed be difficult to see these rugs as being an evolution of the fifteenth century carpet featured in the painting by the Master of Schottenaltar.
Dimand does mention a chessboard field motif in large Spanish Holbein carpets (enclosing their trademark central octagons), but at least in the examples I am aware of, it rather looks like a chain-mail motif to me. (FIG 2: Alcaraz, fifteenth century, V&A London).
The border of the chintamani rug below (FIG 3: Anatolia, seventeenth century, M.A.A. Budapest) brings us perhaps a little closer to our target.
There is also a painting by A. Solario (FIG 4: ca.1470, Virgin and Child, Atri ), which features a small, very basic rug with prominent squares which IMHO could have come from a source of inspiration similar to the Masters rug.
By the way, I find it very strange that a simple motif like the cross would be so rarely used in rugs or in kilims.
Too simple and easy to weave for a proud weaver perhaps? Religious taboo? Chi lo sa?
Best regards.
|January 17th, 2012, 06:48 PM
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Hi Pierre,
I don't think the cross motif is so rare. Uncommon, perhaps, but not rare: in my very small collection I counted at least three rugs (1 Caucasian, 2 Afghan) and five flat-weaves (3 Caucasian, 1 Persian and 1 Iraqi) with crosses. Who knows, if I look in the storing chests there are more…
|January 17th, 2012, 07:47 PM
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Hi Filiberto,
Just simple 4-arms crosses? No other gimmicks?
Sure that you are not a "cross addict", are you?
How sad! Another nice theory of mine, killed even before it was born.
Will do better next time.
|January 18th, 2012, 11:43 AM
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Hi Pierre,
No, not all of them are just simple 4-arms crosses. I realize now that the answer to your apparently simple question requires a good dose of ponderation. Which requires more time.
See you soon
|January 18th, 2012, 02:24 PM
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Hi Pierre
I don't know whether this qualifies as an example with a chessboard border, but this inner guard border on this Salor trapping is fairly common:
Steve Price
|January 18th, 2012, 03:55 PM
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Hi Steve,
Yes, they qualify and so do the little crosses made of five tiny squares in the (is it "aina"?) guls.
|January 18th, 2012, 04:03 PM
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Hi Pierre
Yup, aina or ayna guls. Not to be confused with the German eine, which sounds the same. I'm told that ayna means "mirror" to central Asians.
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|January 18th, 2012, 06:00 PM
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Hi Pierre,
Wiktionary presents fourteen definitions. For our purposes, we can use three of them.
The first one is "a geometrical figure consisting of two straight lines or bars intersecting each other such that at least one of them is bisected by the other. NO SYMBOL, no meaning attached.
The following two definitions have meanings, though, and they could concern us too:
2 (heraldry) Any geometric figure having this or a similar shape, such as a cross of Lorraine or a Maltese cross.
3 (Christianity) A modified representation of the crucifixion stake, worn as jewellery or displayed as a symbol of religious devotion.
I could add another definition, from this pdf document
Titled "DEATH" SYMBOLISM IN TURKISH WEAVINGS" by Filiz Nurhan OLMEZ,
Dr. Suleyman Demirel University, Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Traditional Turkish Handicrafts,
The Motifs of Hook and Cross
The crosses and various hook types are frequently used in Turkish carpets to protect people.
The motif of cross is constituted by the interception of two lines; one is horizontal, the other one is vertical. Because of the shape of the cross that shows four different ways, it is believed that it divides the evil eye into four pieces and throws them into four different places. This is a commonly used symbol in Anatolia and has been depicted in Milas, Usak, Dosemealtı, Kars and Kutahya carpets as well as Sivas, Eskisehir, Konya kilims.
I had no idea of who Mrs. Olmez is but, according to this link:
she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Turkish Handicrafts of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Süleyman Demirel University. In 2008, Ölmez served as a Department Chair and a Chair of the Branch "Carpet-Kilim and Antique Textile Designs".
So, I think we should trust her. More, important, is the fact itself that she acknowledge the use of crosses on kilims and carpets in Anatolia. But we don't want to rest on another "ipse dixit", don't we?
So… I said I have three rugs (found one more – now they are four) and five flat-weaves with crosses. I admit it could be disputable.
The first candidate is this Iraqi kilim
Could we consider as crosses the two devices in the middle of the two central medallions?
Next candidate is this Kazak:
The devices inside the medallions are indeed crosses, no doubt on that.
But have they a symbolic meaning or are they just a decorative way to fill the negative space?
Same question for this Persian Kilim:
Geometrically, those central devices are crosses. But they are also part of a very basic composition, the stepped medallion. A technique-generated decoration, Marla Mallett would say. So basic that it's universal, one can find it everywhere, even in pre-Colombian cultures. This one, in a more complex motif, is from the Chancay culture, Peru (NO, this is not mine, unfortunately).
So, what is it, a cross or just the central part of a stepped medallion? I tend for the second interpretation, after all.
The small Afghan mat on the right has two crosses and half. They are at the center of their respective Memling guls, though. Like many other respectable Memling gul.
This Shirvan bag has a quite common Shirvan design with a lot of crosses.
This one is, I believe, a Zakatala bag with the same crosses.
Well, these crosses are not of the plain type: they are indeed quite similar to Armenian Crosses (but I do not think they are woven exclusively by Armenians )– which should put them in definition #3 or #2.
Finally, I have one more Caucasian rug:
a Shirvan Kilim:
And an Afghan rug (the cross is between the two birds):
I think we can assume quite comfortably that the crosses in the last three examples could be devices against the evil eye.
But then, who knows, really?
|February 4th, 2012, 05:06 PM
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Hi all,
There are several implementations of crosses in this Azerbaijani soumak, and the placing of some make me wonder if they are intended to be rather more than simple geometric decoration.
In particular, the crosses in the upper and lower medallions seem thoroughly planned - they are not just coincidental fallout of negative space edges. Indeed, such weavings require so much more effort and planning than a pile rug that I think almost nothing is fortuitous.
And the crosses in the center medallion are far more asymmettrical than is necessary and I am inclined to see a more religious interpretation intended by the weaver:
BTW, my current plan is to ignore all the comments about lousy dyes....
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|February 4th, 2012, 05:29 PM
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Hi Chuk,
Actually your soumak doesn't look bad at all on my monitor, apart perhaps some hot reds.
Around WW2, it seems, complete with swastika. Woven for an SS official?
|February 4th, 2012, 07:57 PM
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Hi Chuck,
That's a rather ecumenical sumak, featuring an amazing number of different motifs, including a swastika which rather hints at fire worshipers than at good Christians. But you are right, there are many simple crosses and, yes , they seem planned. The weaver was perhaps a crypto-Christian.
Dyes? No Sir, I was not mentioning any dye., Not me.
|February 5th, 2012, 04:45 PM
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Hi again,
Yes, well, I noticed that particular swastika as soon as I looked at this thing - can't really miss the shape + color combination. Still, upon a more thorough exam, we see several others including some with the direction of the device reversed which are all on the left side of the piece.
There's one at the upper left outside the medallion, and another inside the star just below - but rendered in purple, so difficult to see in this image
But, back to the point, observe the cross atop the creature to the upper right of the medallion - rather obviously proportioned, say I. Not unlike the one in Filiberto's Memling gul, which conveniently happened to manifest itself as the weaver compensated for design proportions (at least, that's her story and she's sticking to it...).
There's another swastika - blue - above the creature as well, that rotates clockwise:
The absoultely spontaneous - large - assemblage of totemics on this thing made it easy for me to look past the hot red (and faded hot orange, BTW) and buy it.
Chuck Wagner
|September 21st, 2012, 10:02 AM
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Hi all,
The rug below, described by Sarre early 1900s (but lost during a bombing of the Berlin Museum in 1945), features the same kind of chessboard border than the rug in FIG 3 and in the painting by the Master of Schottenaltar.
Its age cannot be known precisely ( C14 analysis was not available, back in 1945), but 15th or 16th century are possibilities.
The fied motif is interesting too. Sarre noted that the (seldom but not unique) motif was identical to a motif bordering the robe of a Hittite ruler (?) kneeling in front of his deity(?) on an Anatolian monument. The motif is also reminiscent of the (ubiquitous) swastika but this could be a mere coincidence.
IMHO the motif is unlikely to have perdured in Anatolian folk art during nearly three millenaries. One must rather suppose that a few local weavers took notice of it and found it nice.
Best regards
|September 22nd, 2012, 05:44 PM
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Absolutely! Nice find
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Wow, some lovely collection, I am looking for such rugs in Australia but still unable to find out!
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The beautiful blue-white star Rigel is in the constellation Orion the Hunter. This constellation is one of the easiest-to-spot of all star patterns, and Rigel is one of the brightest stars in the night sky. Follow the links below to learn more about the star Rigel.
How to see star Rigel in constellation Orion.
Rigel in history and mythology.
How to see star Rigel in constellation Orion. The star Rigel is easy to spot, in part because it's so bright and also because of its distinctive blue-white color. Plus this star graces a lower corner of one of the sky's most distinctive constellations, Orion the Hunter.
You can catch Orion in the east before dawn in late summer, but on January evenings Orion is riding at its highest in the mid-evening sky. Look for Orion high in the south on these Northern Hemisphere winter evenings. By early March, Orion – with blue-white Rigel in its midst – is high in the south as soon as the sun sets. By early May, it is setting before the sky has a chance to get really dark.
To find Rigel, look first for its constellation Orion. You'll look first for three stars in a short, straight line. These stars mark Orion's Belt. A line drawn downward at a right or 90-degree angle from Orion's Belt takes you to Rigel.
For comparison, draw the line upward and you come to Betelgeuse, with a distinctive orangish tinge. Do not confuse Rigel with Sirius, which is farther to the east and farther south. Sirius is similar in appearance, but significantly brighter than Rigel.
Science of star Rigel. We could not live as close to Rigel as we do to our sun, because its surface temperature is much hotter, about 19,000 degrees F (11,000K) in contrast to about 10,000 degrees F for the sun.
Overall, Rigel about 40,000 times brighter than our local star. Earth would need to be about 200 times farther away, or about 5 times as far as Pluto, to bear life in orbit around Rigel. Even then the light would not be the same, as much would be at higher, bluer, wavelengths.
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At magnitude 0.18, Rigel is the seventh brightest star in the heavens, the fifth as viewed from North America. It is a blue supergiant star, designated as type B8Ia, some 773 light-years from Earth (by Hipparcos data).
In other words, the light you may see from Rigel some spring or winter night, started on its journey a least 250 years before Columbus stumbled upon the outskirts of the already populated North America in his failed attempt to sail to the Orient.
Rigel in history and mythology. Historically, the brightest star in a constellation receives the designation Alpha, the second-brightest is Beta, and so on. This system isn't used for Orion's star, however. Instead, the red star Betelgeuse is Alpha Orionis, and Rigel is Beta. But Rigel is the brighter star. Go figure.
This deviation from standard stellar designations might be because Betelgeuse is a variable star and has been known to at least approach Rigel in brilliance. Rigel received the designation Beta Orionis from the German astronomer Johann Bayer in the early 1600s, who sought to systematize the naming conventions. It's possible Betelgeuse actually was brighter around this time. Nowadays, Rigel outshines Betelgeuse, though.
By the way, Rigel is also intrinsically brighter than Betelgeuse. If you were to put Rigel and Betelgeuse together at the same distance, Rigel would outshine mighty Betelgeuse by more than 400 percent.
The name Rigel comes from an Arabic phrase frequently translated as The Left Foot of the Central One. Although Orion was depicted as a giant or warrior in many cultures, in the original Arabic it might have been reference to a black sheep with a white spot or spots. Thus in the original form, Rigel might have designated the left foot of a sheep! Now, however, many people know it as the left foot of Orion the Hunter.
The mythology related to Rigel is sparse and unclear. Perhaps the most interesting connection is in Norse mythology, which sometimes identified Orion with Orwandil (also Orvandil, Aurvandil, Earendel and others). According to some, Orwandil was traveling with his companion, the god Thor, when his big toe froze in an unfortunate river-crossing incident. Thor broke off the frozen digit and threw it into the sky, where it became the star we see as Rigel. In some variations, the Orwandil's other big toe became the faint Alcor in Ursa Major.
Rigel's position is RA: 05h 14m 32.3s, dec: -08° 12′ 05.9″.
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Ron Artest scored 15 points and Andew Bynum 10 for the Lakers. Paul Pierce led Boston with 24.
Game 2 of the best-of-seven series will be played Sunday at Staples Center.
The Lakers trailed only once, 2-0, and were tied twice -- 2-2 and 18-18. They led 26-21 at the end of the first quarter and 50-41 at halftime.
The Lakers outscored Boston 13-2 to close the third quarter to take a 84- 64 lead. Artest scored five points during the run and concluded it with a 29- foot jump shot for a 3-point basket. The Lakers led by at least 11 points in the fourth quarter.
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BALTIMORE – The UMBC women's soccer team continues America East play on Thursday, Sept. 27, as it travels to West Hartford, Conn., to take on the Hartford Hawks at 7 p.m. at Al-Marzook Field inside of Alumni Stadium. The Retrievers conclude the weekend with their America East home opener on Sunday, Sept. 30, when they host Maine at the Retriever Soccer Park. Kickoff is set for 1 p.m., with live video available on www.umbcretrievers.tv
The black and gold (1-7-2, 0-1 America East) dropped their league opener on Sunday, falling 2-1 to New Hampshire. Junior midfielder Amy Savage (Ottawa, Ontario/Sir Wilfrid Laurier), who recently returned from injury, recorded her first goal of the season, heading in a corner kick from senior forward Rachel McKee (Ellicott City, Md./Mount Hebron) to even the score at one with 22:33 remaining in the contest. However, the Wildcats took advantage of a penalty kick from freshman midfielder Kirstyn Corder less than a minute later to pick up a victory in the America East opener.
Savage, who has competed in three games thus far this season, led with a game-high five shots on the afternoon. McKee picked up her third point of the year and leads the team with 18 shots. Her one shot in Sunday's matchup moved her into a tie for seventh place all-time at UMBC in career shots (119).
Junior goalkeeper Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas), who made seven saves on Sunday moved her into third place in the Retrievers' record book in career saves (268) and brought her season total to a league-leading 65 stops – ranking 13th nationally in the category. Her .844 save percentage also ranks atop of the conference.
The Hawks (5-2-3, 1-0 America East) defeated Binghamton in their conference opener on Sunday. Senior forward Amelia Pereira connected on a penalty kick in the 86th minute to help Hartford defeat the host Bearcats, 1-0. Pereira leads the offense with seven goals – including three game-winning goals – and three assists for a point total of 17 on the year.
Hartford enters the week ranked first in the league in goals allowed (eight), goals against average (0.75) and shutouts (five), thanks in large part to junior goalkeeper Erin Quinlan, who has played every minute of action between the pipes for the Hawks this season.
The Hawks hold an 8-2 series advantage and have won two consecutive meetings against the Retrievers. Both of UMBC's wins have come on their home field and have been 1-0 victories.
The Black Bears (5-3-1, 1-0 America East), who will play Boston University on Thursday before visiting the Retriever Soccer Park on Sunday, snapped a three-game winless streak with a 3-2 victory against Vermont in its league opener last Sunday. Junior midfielder Maggie Malone tallied her first goal of the season, the game-winner, in the 85th minute.
Maine has spread out its attack, with 10 different players scoring a goal and four with at least two goals on the season. Sophomore forward Jordan Pellerin and junior midfielder Nikki Misener have each tallied five points, on two goals and one assist each.
Freshman goalkeeper Lauren Swant has allowed 10 goals through nine games and has totaled three shutouts in her first collegiate campaign. The rookie has recorded 40 saves with an .800 save percentage.
The Black Bears own a 9-1 lead in the all-time series and have won three straight coming into Sunday.


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The parents of Kiveton toddler Daisy Garforth are still battling to raise money to pay for the life-changing treatment needs.
Daisy was born in June 2010, and after complications she suffered brain damage which led to her developing athetoid dystonic cerebral palsy.
The two-year-old can be treated by therapy at the specialist Bobath Centre in London.
But the therapy is not readily available on the NHS and each two week session costs around £4,000, with travel and accommodation on top the figure soars to around £6,000.
Her parents Lee and Hollie have already raised £1,2040 at a charity event at Kiveton Park and Wales Village Hall last month.
But they still have a way to go to secure the extra £4,800 they need to get Daisy in for her next round of treatment in the new year.
Daisy's first visit to the London clinic was such a success that Lee and Hollie are desperate to get her the twice yearly treatment staff have recommended.
Small things like helping Daisy sit upright with little support and encouraging her to use both sides of her mouth when chewing have made a massive difference to the youngster.
The aim of the treatment is basically to reprogramme parts of Daisy's brain, and it relies heavily on repetition to be successful.
By the end of her two week's in London she was able to roll in the correct way, sit with minimal support, stand in a supported way, chew new textures and drink in a new way that enables her to swallow correctly.
Lee said: "We are really grateful to everyone who has helped us so far and we have both been really been taken a back by how generous people have been."
"But we now need a big push to make the next event at Sheffield later this month a success."
On Friday 19th October the Garforth's are holding a ball at The Royal Victoria Holiday Inn in Sheffield. The glamorous evening includes a Pimms drinks reception, three course dinner with wine, live music, a magician, disco, auction and raffle. Tickets are £55 or £500 for a table of 10.
Since we last covered Daisy's story the two-year-old has started pre-school in Kiveton and is enjoying the chance to mix with other children.
"The staff there have been great and Daisy is really enjoying it," added Lee.
"It is great she is getting chance to spend time with children her own age as they learn off each other. She is really loving it."
Tickets for the vent in Sheffield are available by calling 01909 510738 or 07748 985492.
Visit www.therapyfordaisy.co.uk for more information.


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Farrah Fawcett, who captured hearts in the 1970s playing a beautiful detective in "Charlie's Angels," died Thursday as loved ones stood by her hospital bedside, ending the Hollywood icon's brave and public battle against cancer.
Fawcett, 62, came to the end of her hard-fought 2 1/2-year battle with terminal anal cancer in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Los Angeles, hours after a priest was summoned to her bedside.
"She's gone," Fawcett's longtime love Ryan O'Neal told People magazine. "She now belongs to the ages. She's now with her mother and sister and her God. I loved her with all my heart. I will miss her so very, very much."
O'Neal, friend and hairdresser Mela Murphy and pal Alana Stewart were among those who kept vigil as the stricken star drew her final breath. Their desperate hopes for an unlikely recovery were dashed at 9:28 a.m. Pacific Time. O'Neal and Fawcett's 24-year-old son Redmond, in prison on drug charges, spoke to his mother by phone.
He told his mom "how much he loved her and asked her to please forgive him, that he was so very, very sorry," Ryan O'Neal said.
The news came just days after O'Neal said he planned to wed Farrah.
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"I promise you, we will," he said. "Absolutely."
But it was not to happen. O'Neal, 68, said Fawcett drifted in and out of consciousness all through her last night.
"I talked to her all through the night," said O'Neal. "I told her how very much I loved her. She's in a better place now."
Stewart, Fawcett's close friend, was frequently with Fawcett during her terminal struggle and spoke of their friendship after Fawcett died.
"There are no words to express the deep sense of loss that I feel," Stewart said. "For 30 years, Farrah was much more than a friend, she was my sister, and although I will miss her terribly I know in my heart that she will always be there as that angel on the shoulder of everyone who loved her."
The star's condition began to worsen late last year, when she was forced to shave off her signature blonde tresses. Her battle with cancer was documented in a NBC video diary that showed her frail figure writhing in pain from the incurable disease.
"I want to stay alive," Farrah said in the video diary. "So I say to God, because it is after all, in his hands, 'It is seriously time for a miracle.'"
Tributes from stars who knew and worked with Fawcett poured in Thursday just after the news broke.
"Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith," said Jaclyn Smith, who starred in "Charlie's Angels" with Fawcett. "And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels."
Cheryl Ladd, who played Fawcett's younger sister on the top-rated show, remembered her co-star fondly..
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Co-star Kate Jackson said she "will miss Farrah every day...when you think of Farrah remember her smiling, because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered."
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Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, Fawcett attended the University of Texas at Austin where she was an art major. She left for Los Angeles to pursue an acting career and quickly began securing work in commercials and appearing in television shows such as "I Dream of Jeannie," "The Flying Nun," The Partridge Family," "Marcus Welby, MD," and "McCloud," among many others.
In 1976, she landed the role of Jill Munroe in the landmark Aaron Spelling series "Charlie's Angels," starring alongside Kate Jackson and Smith as gorgeous detectives who worked as a team and reported to the title character, who was never seen on screen. Around the same time, an iconic poster of Fawcett wearing a red bathing suit and tossing back her luxurious tresses made her an international superstar.
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In 1995, Fawcett received her star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 1995.


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Roger Clemens is returning to the world of baseball. Not Major League Baseball, mind you (though the Oakland A's could use a pitcher right now). Clemens will pitch Saturday for the Sugar Land Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League.
Why can't Clemens follow in the footsteps of other disgraced superstars who've had their name dragged through the mud and gone into reality TV, like Jose Canseco ("Surreal Life") and Jeff Kent ("Survivor")? Somehow, this doesn't seem like it will end well, and we'll be stuck with Mickey Rourke playing Clemens in a movie called "The Pitcher."
When you think of Clemens hanging around far too long, it's not hard to also think of some NFL greats who actually did the opposite and called it a career way too easily.
With that in mind, here are six guys who called it a career way "too soon."
And without further ado ...
Gaynell Tinsley
Don Hutson (pictured) dominated the NFL in the 1930s and '40s, but nobody remembers Tinsley, who played three seasons and might have been the league's first shutdown corner. Tinsley also excelled at receiver (they played both ways back then) and set the record for receiving yards in 1937. But the U.S. Navy called, and Tinsley never played in the NFL after 1940. He eventually went on to coach LSU.
Otto Graham
Long before John Elway made it fashionable to go out after back-to-back Super Bowl wins, Graham retired in 1955 after the Browns beat the Los Angeles Rams for the NFL title. Maybe it was the right thing to do, as the Browns struggled to a 5-7 mark the following season.
Jake Plummer
If you saw Plummer bumping around the set at NFL Fantasy Draft Week in New York, he looked like he could still play right now. But maybe that's for the best. Not only does he look pretty good for a former player, Plummer was able to escape from the tutelage of Mike Shanahan.
Kurt Warner
If you watch the final game of Warner's career against the New Orleans Saints, it's hard to argue against the decision he made. But he ranks third on this list because his former receiver, Larry Fitzgerald, stays awake late at night reminiscing what it was like to have a proper quarterback throwing him the ball.
Jim Brown
Brown is considered by many to be the best player in NFL history, as he led the league in rushing every year he played, except for one. Brown led the league with 1,544 rushing yards and tied a career high with 17 rushing touchdowns in 1965. And then he retired... at the age of 29! Though he did threaten to return to protect his rushing record as Franco Harris got close in the 1980s, Brown settled into a nice movie career.
Barry Sanders
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Brown'sWalter Payton's career mark when he decided to call it a career after the 1998 season. He also walked away from a rather lucrative contract. But with so much turnover going on in Detroit, Sanders shocked the world when he sent a retirement letter to his hometown paper in OklahomaKansas. Funny, he looks like he still could play today.
Please tell Rank how wrong he is via Twitter or via Facebook Also be sure to catch the latest on the Dave Dameshek Football Program.


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Upon further ponderance I have come to the conclusion that time does not exist except in the law of physics. I have come to this conclusion through the observation of how things change and why they change at the pace in which they change. To me it seems that every change that takes place in the universe is not dictated by time but rather physics. It is the law of physics that dictates the rate and speed at which all things change. For example if you have a car that is traveling at 100 miles an hour the speed at which the car travels is all dictated by physical changes and therfor controlled by the law of physics..Therfor it seems that for any change to take place all you need is physics and the law of physics that governs the physical changes. Time does not need be a factor and bears no relavance. As long as we have the law of physics everything will happen in accordance with those laws.
Time has 3 components. A front a middle and a rear. In the front time has what appears to be something of perspectual perspectualness that will move things forward at a set forth proponent. This part of time is easy to see and witness. However it is not easy to predict at which point time will make forward momentum happen. It would seem that this forward momentum is always in inactment but I would disagree with this. To me it seems more as if time interacts with things on its own accord leaving somethings unchanged for long standing periods of time. An example of this would be how time occasionally interacts with the speed of light. The speed of light remains constant but occasionally time will manifest itself into the equation and make modifications of the speed that light travels. For instance light will move forward forthwittingly at a billion miles a second but if it encounters any kind of resistance then time will inject itself and change the speed at which it was moving. Which leads me to the assumption that in order for time to inject itself into any equation a proponent has to take place that makes a physical change that would cause time to interject itself. If no physical change takes place than time has also not been a factor.
The middle proponent of time is the area in which time is manipulating the change that takes...Read More
I get turned on by some funny stuff. I'm not really into like full blown kinkiness or at least I wouldn't consider myself to be a kinky person but I do have a few fetishes. Some of them are a little out of the ordinary. For instance I have this one fetish about being tied up and thrown in the ocean and then rescued by a mermaid. I think this fantasy comes from when I was a kid and I used to dream of mermaids and always wanted to meet one. Well one day its gonna happen. Now don't go telling me mermaids don't exist. You don't know cause they are in fact real and as soon as I meet one I will prove it to you. As far as some of my other turn ons I guess what really gets me excited is people who tell other people to shut the fuck up. I love when a woman just looks at a man and tells him to shut his mouth. To me thats a big turn on because the woman seems assertive like a dominatrix or something. If she will be assertive in a conversation she will be assertive in the bedroom or so I would like to believe.
To fathom the fortrighteousness of time one has to contemplate the personification of forthwittial forthwittil. Time forthwittingly will only listen to the commands of its on inner personification to which there is no directional direction or so it would seem but on further inquisitories I have come to realize that there is a forthwittingly forthwittal of which time has pronounced and those commands seem to speak to the nature of to which time corresponds. To review these pronouncements for your own bemusement look at time as if you had it captured it in a bottle. What would happen? We know on the inside of the bottle time would force the inner workings of the bottle to correspond to times diabolical commands. Causing everything to change to times everlescent rules. however on the outside of the bottle things would not change, everything would stay in constant neutrality or would it? The question remains if there was no time would things still be allowed to happen and if so at what pace and what would dictate the pace at which things would change. There seems to be no rule in place for the dictation of the pace change which takes place. So it would seem that time has decided that factor somehow within itself. There could be a correlation at which things change and the pace being dictated by physics and the amount the physical world can be allowed to change within its own accord of set boundaries. To actually find...Read More
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There was a time when time did not matter. The thing that was an utmost relevance now was of no matter. The diffrence it made seemed miniscule and now it is constantly dictating everything that takes place before me. What is this thing that controls and makes everything manifest itself to its constraints and why and how does it do this. Time is nothing but the utmost miracle before us. Something that has always had to exist for anything ever to take place. There is no changing its course there is no variance in its absolute everlasting existance. To control time would be the utmost crown jewel of all accomplishments if indeed it could ever be controlled. The only way I ever see time being manipulated to change its values is to speed up everything that time has interacted with. In order to do such a thing you would have to understand the nature of the objects in question and how they are effected by time. For instance a speeding car will slow down in time without constant force being distrubuted by the engine. To slow down the car one only has to take their foot off the accelarator and gradually time will do the rest but if you could freeze time at the speed at which the car was traveling then time would not exist because the...Read More
I have looked at time many times and I have noticed a few components. There is a precise proponent that ushers in a manifestation. Whenever something new is going to happen you can look at that event which is about to take place and precisely predict exactly when it has started. Once you realize a manifestation has taken place you can precisely predict its out come. If you know that a manifestation has started to take place then you will know you are being guided through the realm precisely by the forces of an enlightenment. Throughout time this manifestation will remain constant starting with a beginning and an end and ending in a preconcieved enlightenment. Sometimes an enlightenment can take weeks and some times an enlightenment can take centuries. It depends on how many times that enlightenment has been benounced to the realm.
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I suspect a suffcient of sufficence of suffiacantel suffiance of suffiance of absurdity of absurdanace. In all actual actuality there is an actual actuality of actualityness in retrospect to the retorospective respect in which every person who has an intellectual intellect can see that the world is a prominance of prominance in which the order will reside as long as the order is maintained. Once that order is relinquished chaos will ensue. For chaos to be a calamity there only needs to be a perspectual perspective of perspectance that escalates the chaos to that height. What would cause that is a person or persons in the realm of the realmatical realmatics looking beyond thier own existance to the existance of there forfathers to see what has become of thier existance. If you look at your own existance for what it is you will see that it is neither logical nor illogical for it makes all the sense of a sensimatical sensematic. As long as you have a reason for your own existance then it is fruitful for you to exist. Once that reason or reasons are gone you will no longer care whether it is you live or die. In the realm in which we live is a prospectus prospectant of prospectantin which all will ensue. To change the prospectus prospectus you need to look to the realm and see what the prospectus prospectant is and manifest it to your own liking. My...Read More
In all actual reality the realm is manifested of certain procedural procedures that come forth frequently to forthrightous forthrightenous. In the place of predicament I have found that I can properly place things in the procedural sequence unbenowst to people of the realm. In order to conflict the conflictions you have to equate the equation of equationalness in to proper equations. Very simple but also very tedious. You do this by equating the equation into percise preciseness. An example of an equation would be a placement of perdicament of a certain event in which you wish it to be. The next manifestation I could manifest is a manifestual manifestation of manifests of a sequance of certainal circumstances. Put together a sequence by asking the sequence in order to manifest itself and then tell the manifestations to happen in frequence in which they will unfold.
If the future is a grain of sand and its falling through an hour glass nothing in the world can stop it. It will eniquivaocalby blind as to where its going when it comes to its rest it has befallen its fate and will remain where it lay for an eternity knowing nothing about itself or it's surroundings. I am that grain of sand. Nothing ever can change my destiny for only time here makes a diffrence.. To benounce the future is the only way to change ones fortune. The time it takes to make an equivical change remains the utmost mystery of the universe.
There where three men. All who seemed frightened. They stood on the edge of the canyon looking on as a fourth man tumbled to his death. We could have saved him said one of the men. He should have saved himself said another. The third man just look at them bewildered and brought a handgun to his own head and pulled the trigger. Blood spattered. The two men watched as he slumped to the ground. The first man screamed and the second threw himself to the side of the man on the ground. Why?!! he screamed. It was the only sound heard. Sobbing he looked at the man standing and said you did this! You and your frigging righteous speech about the lives we leave and the sacrifice we must make. Your the devil. I am not the devil said the standing man only the truth. The truth about what? The other man screamed. Your life he said and he jumped.
The man heard a ringing and he sat up slowly. It was over the dream but his thoughts where still on the side of the canyon. How did this happen. How did it all just fade away? The dream came and went in an instant leaving his mind boggled and his eyes heavy. I knew I was there thought the man but how? It was all to familiar the...Read More
The story of Elijah and Ellan. This is the story of Elijah and Ellan. Ellan is a beutiful temptress and Elijah is a dutiful servant of Ellan's. Together the pair fell in love and soon became a duo of in excessible excession. They frolicked in the sun under the rare occurance of rain they took shelter in the arms of each other. One day while hiding from the glares of the sun under an oak tree that provided an abundance of shade they looked into each others souls and realized there where no people suited for each other then the two of them where suited for each other. They basked in the notion that they where the most two compatible souls on the planet. As they where thinking this a giant unforseen acclamaited acclamation occurred. The planet began to tremble and shake beneath them and the stars came out. The sun hid amongst the clouds and everything from start to finish began to take shape. There where huge explosions and giant surges of wind and rain. The two began to run for their shelter knowing at the exact moment the trembling and violent agressions of unacclaimated weather started that they most likely wouldn't make it to see another sunrise. The planet was exploding with molten lava and the tempertures where unbearable as for the two of them could remember they had never seen a winter climate and didn't expect they ever would. The planet had been warming out of...Read More
Things have gone down hill drastically now for a very long time. We seem to be some what defeated but yet i know we still have some power and prominance. We are fighting an up hill battle and there is no way forward from here from what i can see. We are trudging along a path that goes nowhere.
Today i conquered and beat all adverseries there where to beat. Tomorrow new adversaries will arise. I will be ready, there is never a shortage of enemies who wish to dethrone me from the top of the world. I didn't get here by being passive and yeilding to the oppostion. I got here by defeating them both mentally and physically and in entiriety.
There was a time when I was in desilute despair. The only thing I had was me myself and I to fall back on. I looked at the person who was my opponent and I knew one of us was going to die and I was going to do everytrhing I could to make dam sure it wasn't me. I pulled my six shooter from its holster and aimed at the guy looking at me about 30 yards away. He also went for his gun and in lightning speed he was laid sprawled out on the dirt bleeding and moaning. I had heard a shot but new that it had come from my own gun. He never even got a shot off. I was unscathed and again undeafeted. Anybody who ever tried to kill me was dead and their where over 30 who had tried and failed to kill yours truly.
Gravity is the force of nature that pulls cellestrial bodies toward one another. The cause of gravity is the enertia of a bodies movement through space and time. This happens by an object preconcievably traveling through the cosmos at an alarming rate of acceleration. The faster an object travels the more enertia it will build up and then will therefore have a greater ability to move. the more it moves the more other objects will cling to it. the way this can be proved is by taking an object and hurtling it towards another object the two objects would collide do to the enertia pulling them towards each other. Thy would not stay on their current trajectory but their paths would alter towards one another in a greater force than their initial gravitational pull. the best test to accomodate this theory would be tow baseballs flying through the air at speeds over one hundred miles an hour. The baseballs would not interject themselves with one another normally but at this speed would do so do to the balls enertia pulling them towards one another.
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From the start, Fox Searchlight was confident that "12 Years a Slave" would win critical acclaim and be an awards contender.
Getting people to see it? The film's distributor feared that would be a different story.
The new movie depicts the evils of slavery in painful and unflinching ways. Scenes include lynchings and whippings, rape and the separation of young children from their mother. Many people go to the movies for a couple of hours of escapism; "12 Years a Slave" is anything but.
British director Steve McQueen "has no intention of making audiences the slightest bit comfortable with this terrible story" of a free black man kidnapped and enslaved in antebellum Louisiana, Times Film Critic Kenneth Turan noted in his review.
Recognizing the challenges of the material, the studio marketing team has taken a series of steps aimed at getting mainstream audiences to give the film a chance.
Hoping to position the film as uplifting, Fox Searchlight has crafted advertisements emphasizing the slave's determination and humanity, and is touting endorsements from influential African American entertainers Kanye West and Sean "Diddy" Combs.
Several advertisements include scenes of a benevolent abolitionist played by Brad Pitt, even though his role is small and doesn't appear until late in the film. "I will survive," Northup, played by the British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, says in a trailer. "I will not fall into despair."
This week, Fox Searchlight cut a television advertisement playing up the most redemptive scenes from "12 Years a Slave."
"The materials have not tried to soft-pedal the film or mislead the audience," said Nancy Utley, Fox Searchlight's co-president. "But we always wanted people to know that it's '12 Years a Slave,' not '1 Million Years a Slave.'"
Still, when Fox Searchlight agreed this year to distribute the independently financed movie, some studio executives worried that the film might be too harsh for large numbers of moviegoers. In fact, the studio didn't pay anything for the distribution rights, agreeing to share the box-office proceeds with the financiers of "12 Years a Slave."
The concern was understandable: Although some films dealing with painful topics, such as "Schindler's List," have become popular with audiences, others, such as "127 Hours," have fallen by the wayside.
"We're aware of it," Steve Gilula, Fox Searchlight's other co-president, said of concerns that the film could be perceived as too difficult. "Our focus is making it successful and getting people into movie theaters."
Because the film is not populated with recognizable actors, word of mouth will be critical to its success. Fox is hoping to build an audience by focusing its initial marketing push with the art-house crowd and African American moviegoers.
The film opened strongly last weekend, but it screened in only six cities, including Los Angeles. It will expand to 12 more markets Friday, including Detroit and Houston, selected because they have large African American populations.
At the same time, the film has to compete with "Gravity" and "Captain Phillips," both playing to auditoriums packed with mostly adults.
The studio also is hoping endorsements from prominent artists such as Combs and West can make "12 Years a Slave" part of the pop zeitgeist.
"This movie is very painful but very honest and is a part of the healing process. I beg all of you to take your kids — everybody to see it," Combs says in a message on his new cable channel Revolt TV, a video of which Fox Searchlight promptly promoted on the film's Facebook page.
Filmmakers were also aware of the challenges. McQueen and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt intentionally shot it with long takes, giving the audience little breathing room. But the film is also beautiful to watch, with striking shots of Southern landscapes and the natural world.
In recent years, audiences have supported several intense movies about difficult subjects, including two with graphic imagery that won the best picture Oscar: the Holocaust drama "Schindler's List" and "Slumdog Millionaire," which depicted torture.
But some movies, such as "127 Hours," in which a scene of a trapped hiker amputating his own forearm caused some patrons to pass out during screenings, were derailed when potential ticket buyers decided the experience might be too grim.
Bob Berney of Picturehouse was with Newmarket Films when it released "The Passion of the Christ" in 2004 and said moviegoers were willing to patronize the bloodily explicit movie about the last days of Jesus "because it had the broad blessing of the leading opinion-making preachers, their built-in approval."
Similarly, "Schindler's List" carried the imprimatur of director Steven Spielberg and was marketed less as a story about genocide and more about the selflessness of Oskar Schindler, credited with saving more than 1,000 people during World War II. "It's not really a story about the Jews and the Holocaust," said Gerald Molen, one of the film's producers. "It's about the difference that one person can make."
Christian Colson, who produced "Slumdog Millionaire" and "127 Hours," said, "I think intelligent audiences have a great tolerance for difficult subject matter if it's in service of an important story that reflects the times we live in."
At the Rave Cinemas Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza 15, where "12 Years a Slave" has generated strong ticket sales, a number of moviegoers this week said that even though they knew the film would be upsetting it did not stop them from attending.
"I wasn't hesitant, but ambivalent. I knew there would be scenes that would be difficult to watch," said 53-year-old Mena Moffett-Webster of South-Central. She admitted after the screening that the film was "exhausting" and "intense" and that she "walked out a few times and covered my eyes" during some of the most explicit scenes.
But she nevertheless intends on seeing "12 Years a Slave" a second time, when she will bring her 15-year-old son.
"It wasn't too graphic," she said. "Not at all."
Times staff writer Alicia Banks contributed to this report.


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When thinking of macarons to make for Christmas, I'd thought of doing mulled spice with brandy buttercream and bright red and white candy cane macarons, but I wanted to do a third flavour as well. Then it hit me, so obvious, gingerbread!
I did a search and found that this is quite a popular flavour. I decided to use the spice amounts that Tartelette uses in her ones, and they were fantastic.
I don't know why I'm always surprised at the incredible flavour that a macaron can have, but again I was. They leave that lovely ginger heat in the back of the throat, while the other spices still play on your tastebuds. It's incredible!
I decided to also use the same spices in the buttercream as Tartelette does, I can see myself using this buttercream for other things as well, it's fantastic. And in the spirit of Christmas, I've also put a little something in the middle of each one; who doesn't like to find a little pleasant surprise; a little peice of crystallised ginger.
Perfect for Christmas, perfect for any time of the year :)
90g Egg Whites, aged & at room temp
145g Confectioners/Icing Sugar
70g Granulated Sugar
115g Almond Meal/Ground Almonds
1/4tsp Ground Ginger
1/8tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/8tsp Ground Cloves
1/8tsp Ground Nutmeg
Crystallised Ginger Pieces
- Process the confectioners sugar, almond meal and spices until the almond meal is fine then sift into a medium bowl to remove any large bits of nuts
- Tip: If grinding your own nuts, combine nuts and a cup of confectioner's sugar in the bowl of a food processor and grind until nuts are very fine and powdery
- Beat the egg whites in the clean dry bowl until foamy
- Slowly add the granulated sugar and beat until the mixture is glossy and holds stiff peaks
- Tip: If you turn the bowl upside down they should make no move to fall out
- Fold half of the almond flour mixture into the meringue, starting quite vigorously then folding more carefully
- Add the remaining almond meal mixture and fold in carefully. Do not overfold
- Tip: A good way to tell if the batter is ready is when you fold it onto itself, it should blend back into itself in about 30seconds
- Spoon the mixture into a pastry bag fitted with a plain half-inch tip. You can also use a Ziploc bag with a corner cut off
- Tip: It's easiest to fill your bag if you stand it up in a tall glass and fold the top down before spooning in the batter
- Pipe 1 1/2 inch mounds of batter onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper
- Tip: I don't recommend using a silicon mat, I had trouble taking the macarons off each time I used it
- Once piped, bang the sheet down on a counter top a couple times to flatten any mounds and bring up air bubbles, also to settle the almond meal to the bottom giving smooth tops
- Sprinkle some ground ginger onto the shells
- Leave the unbaked macarons out to dry, between 30min - 1 1/2 hours
- Tip: If you have a fan assisted oven you can dry them in less time by just having the fan turned on with the macarons in the oven. They're ready when no longer sticky to the touch
- While the macarons are drying, preheat the oven to 140°C (120°C Fan Assisted)
- Once dry, bake for 15-22mins depending on their size
- Tip: They're ready when you push them and they move very slightly on their feet
- Cool on a rack before removing from the parchment, 15-30mins
- Pipe or spoon the ginger spiced buttercream filling, press a small peice of crystallised ginger into the middle of the buttercream then sandwich
Ginger Spiced Buttercream
2 Egg Whites
100g Granulated Sugar
175g Unsalted Butter
1/2tsp Vanilla Extract
1/4tsp Ground Ginger
1/8tsp Ground Cinnamon
1/8tsp Ground Nutmeg
1/8tsp Ground Cloves
- Combine the egg whites and sugar in a heatproof bowl
- Put the bowl over a pot of simmering water
- Whisk over heat until all the sugar is dissolved and it resembles marshmallow fluff, about 3 mins
- Pour the mixture into a large bowl and beat until the mixture is cool and you have a glossy meringue
- Beat in the butter a tablespoon at a time, making sure it's completely mixed in before adding more
- Tip: At some point it will look curdled, DON'T WORRY! Once you've added all of the butter, just keep beating and it will come together to form a smooth, creamy buttercream
- Beat in the vanilla extract and spices
This macaron recipe is adapted from Tartelette and Syrup And Tang's basic macaron recipe
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You'll find that most serious macaron bakers swear by using aged egg whites, and I do notice a difference with the feet between using fresh & aged. Some say 3 days is best, some say up to 5 days is best. To age your egg whites, leave them in the fridge (or if in a cool climate) on the counter covered with a paper towel to stop anything from getting inside, and allow to stand between 3-5 days. If aged in the fridge, leave out until room temperature before using.
Store in an airtight container in the fridge but sit out for an hour or two before eating
Macarons are best eaten a day or two after making them, the flavours continue to develop over this time
To add more Christmas sparkle, spray the shells with edible gold or pearl lustre
These make perfect Christmas gifts or favours, lay them in a nice box, tie a lovely bow on and give, give, give!