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Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya - Dark Sunrise

Singer-guitarist Rikki Ililonga may have lived in Denmark for 30 years, but he’s also an originator and ongoing steward of Zamrock. In the early 1970s, Zambia enjoyed, if that’s the right word, a set of circumstances finely tuned to instigate a rock and roll subculture. The landlocked central African country had been independent of English rule for about a decade, long enough for the first president to become the first dictator and to pick an economy-throttling fight with major trading partner Rhodesia … but not long enough for the white, English commercial class to pack up and leave. Since they had the money, the foreign-born folk exerted inordinate influence over what records made it into the shops and what got played on the radio. Take a legacy of hope, confront it with impending economic collapse, mix in an influx of international pop sounds in a newly emergent urban metropolis with strongly rooted rural cultural practices, cut off easy transit in and out of the country, then let it all simmer in the hot tropical sun — the result was a small circle of interrelated, mutually supportive psychedelic combos that included Witch, Amanaz, and Ililonga’s Musi-O-Tunya.

Collectively they displayed a penchant for fuzz guitar and heavy beats inspired by Cream and Hendrix, but there are also differences. At least on record, Witch and Amanaz could have been from anywhere where the guitars were loud and the tape decks cheap; Musi-O-Tunya’s singles and one album sound very much like music of Africa. The band’s burning guitar freakouts often took off from a foundation of skipping beats that could have originated in neighboring Congo or further west in Nigeria and Ghana, and even though English is Zambia’s official language, they sang a lot in Benba, Chinyanja, and Silozi. They also used an indigenous name; Musi-O-Tunya is the pre-British name of Victoria Falls and translates as “The Smoke That Thunders,” which isn’t a bad name for a band that aspires toward heaviness. Musi-O-Tunya’s earliest recordings date from a sojourn in Kenya in 1973, and while the drum-chant-whistle workout “Ng’ombe Shala” on one of its early singles displays the band’s roots, the flip side “Mpulala” shows that rock ‘n’ roll was part of the equation from the beginning. The crisp guitar sounds fresh out of the garage, the drumming and the song’s structure owe a lot to Mersey Beat, and the guitar and bass duel in the middle sounds like some kids trying to realize their favorite Yardbirds jam and not quite succeeding.

The recording quality on Wings Of Africa, Musi-O-Tunya’s sole album and the source of most of Dark Sunrise’s first CD, is a huge leap ahead of the one-take murk of the singles, and the music keeps pace. “The Sun” is lithe and lively; Canadian Kenny Chernoff’s soprano saxophone and Ililonga’s tart guitar fills snake in and out of the massed vocals and dynamic percussion. It’d sound just right next to your favorite tracks on the Nigeria Special and Ghana Soundz compilations. But it’s the tunes where Ililonga pushes his rock influences to the front that mark Musi-O-Tunya as a band apart. “Dark Sunrise” totally rocks, with a towering backbeat and big, fat guitar leads that’d bring a tear of jealousy to a nascent pedal-hopper’s eyes. The riff of “One Reply” sounds stunningly similar to Lou Reed’s “Charley’s Girl”; since it was recorded in 1974, two years before Reed debuted his tune on Coney Island Baby, one wonders if he could possibly have heard Musi-O-Tunya’s song first? Probably not, but in any case, the Zambians kick more ass than Lou did in his “playing football for the coach” phase, especially when Ililonga’s guitar tries to muscle to the front of the mix.

Is there any scenario more typical of ’70s rock than the talented guy saying “I don’t need these jerks” and going it alone? That’s just what Ililonga did in 1975, the year he recorded the first of the two LPs that make up Dark Sunrise’s second CD. The set comes packaged in a swanky hardcover book, and most of its pages are given over to Ililonga’s very specific remembrances of Zamrock’s circumstances and personalities. According to his telling, the rest of the band didn’t want to keep learning new songs, so he ditched them; certainly his solo LPs are powered by a hunger to play in a myriad of ways that Musi-O-Tunya did not. “Hot Fingers” is a shameless and aptly named bit of guitar flash; “Stop Dreaming Mr. D” memorializes his old band to the accompaniment of an acoustic guitar and harmonica that could have been played by Richie Havens; “The Nature Of Man” could be early Traffic mixed with a little Buffalo Springfield; “The Hole” is brazenly explicit get-it-on funk; and “Working On The Wrong Thing,” with its sparse groove and rude synth, would fit right in on that Shuggie Otis record. Whether the songs muse on the travails of Zambian urban life or Ililonga’s love life, they articulate a first person singer-songwriter stance that foregrounds the “I” (as opposed to the voice that represents or describes the community) in a way rarely heard beforehand in African pop.

Ililonga’s willingness and inclination to operate as a man apart has served him well. He left Zambia in 1980, around the time that the economy completely tanked but before AIDS wiped out his generation (to this day, 10 percent of the population is infected). He’s sustained his music career around Europe, and also facilitated the dissemination of Witch and Amanaz’s music in recent years alongside his own. One of Dark Sunrise’s chief pleasures is reading his reminiscences about his old mates and the scene they briefly inhabited., written by Bill Meyer

One of the great lost movements of modern African music finally gains time in the stateside spotlight in the form of two excellent reissues from Stones Throw archivist subsidiary Now-Again.

Until recently, the storied Zamrock scene of the mid-to-late 1970s was only prevalent within the parameters of the nation from which it derived - the Republic of Zambia, a copper-producing country landlocked by the unsteady climates surrounding them in Democratic Republic of the Congo to the north, Tanzania and Malawi to the east, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia to the south and Angola to the west. The country was also rife with poverty and the then-gestating AIDS pandemic that plagued the lives of several of Zamrock's founding fathers.

These dire straits did not make many of the albums released within the harsh confines of Zambia all that accessible beyond the few ex-pats who brought their record collections to Europe and the United States, where they migrated. Eventually, though, word got out about this fuzzy, freaky fusion of reverberating, wah-wah drenched electric rock, which the musicians had heard on Western pop albums from Jimi Hendrix, Santana and the Jefferson Airplane that were bootlegged into the country, not to mention being influenced by the high energy funk brought forth on James Brown's legendary 1971 tour of Zambia. Additionally steeped in the indigenous polyrhythms of the music along the Congo plus traditional Zambian folk, the sound of Zamrock became a sonic delicacy highly sought-after among the globe's most serious break hunters.

And there is no doubt that the time is indeed nigh for this rediscovery spurred by the crate diggers at Stones Throw/Now-Again. Dark Sunrise is a two-CD anthology of the scene's first breakout star, guitar wizard Rikki Ililonga, and his band Musi-O-Tunya. Housed in a beautiful, hardbound book-style package and featuring a scholarly essay on the evolution of the Zamrock revolution in the extensive liner notes, Dark Sunrise gathers together on the first disc Musi-O-Tunya's 1975 debut album Wings of Africa with a cache of super hard-to-find 7-inch singles that date back to early 1973, while the second CD houses Ililonga's two solo albums, 1975's Zambia and 1976's Sunshine Love, which are more rooted in the bandleader's affinities for the songwriting styles of Loaded-era Lou Reed and Taj Mahal back when he played with Ry Cooder.

Los Angeles being a car town, driving soundtracks are important and help calm the nerves and lift the spirits while navigating the oft-living hell that is the daily commute.

Thank goodness, then, for "Dark Sunrise," the exquisite new reissue of the mid-1970s music of Rikki Ililonga and his group Musi-O-Tunya. Ililonga was a prime mover in the Republic of Zambia's rhythm rock scene of the 1970s, and this two-CD set captures a unique, and nearly vanished, secret history. The release has filled at least one frustrated Angeleno's car with (very loud) distraction over the past few weeks.

Issued by the Los Angeles-based reissue label Now-Again, "Dark Sunrise" features 31 songs that jump tempos and signatures but retain a consistent rhythmic base. The southern African country from which the music sprang, the Republic of Zambia, was at the time a poverty-stricken place in which pressing records was an unaffordable luxury, so the mere existence of these songs seems somehow miraculous. Explains Now-Again owner (and the set's executive producer) Eothan "Egon" Alapatt in the reissue's liner notes:

"[T]he records that did surface in the collecting community of the monied Japanese, European and North American record obsessives of the mid-'90s were often in worse condition than worn Frisbees. The condition of the average Zambian record found 'in the field' is on par with that of the war-torn discs found occasionally in modern-day Angola."

Alapatt was aware of Ililonga's music through collector's circles, and tracked down the singer, who was living in the Netherlands and had workable master recordings -- some of which compose "Dark Sunrise."

It's perfect driving music, filled with steady rhythms, a funky horn section and some great, James Brown-esque swagger. Unlike the clean, gymnastic guitar tones being made in West Africa at the same time, the sound of the south was filled with fuzz guitars and solid chords, which makes the end result more driving, and a little more aggressive, especially on Ililonga's early recordings with his band Musi-O-Tunya.

The second disc features solo Ililonga, and he sounds like a mix of Arthur Lee, Bob Dylan, Damo Suzuki, Fela Kuti and Curtis Mayfield, and, musically, moves from groovy, Dylanesque garage-rock breakdowns -- augmented with congas and wood blocks -- to wilder, more guitar-centric, psychedelic work with tangled solos.

It's an important reissue, and offers yet another glimpse into the sound of Africa in the 1960s and 70s. In the past half-decade, countless African crate-digger classics have been reissued, each another piece of the puzzle from a continent less archivally minded than most. But "Dark Sunrise" is a peak, and a vivid glimpse into a particular moment in time., written by Randall Roberts

There are particular things in life which bring out sentiments even to the most hardened individual. And music is one of them. Especially good music. As Thomas Beecham said, “Good Music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and quits the memory with difficulty”.

At times, one need not even comprehend the lyrics in a song, as long as the ear recognizes the value of the beat at play, then the listener would understand the universal language that is music. As human tastes are varied, not every song is appreciated by everyone. Yet still, there are those who have had difficulties of purging the songs of Zambia’s most indomitable bands and soloists from their minds.

Though pace setters like Alick Nkhata and the Big Gold Six were more of folk singers, they were trail blazers in commercial recording and their songs were well received. Good as they were, not many heads were turned by their sounds, until a group of young men barely into their twenties banished themselves to the city of Nairobi, Kenya; in pursuit of good recording studios and lucrative contracts. The move paid off because their self exile imbued them with creative juices; consequently, they came charging with an energetic verve and a ground-breaking resonance. And before anybody realised what was going on, it happened. They had inaugurated a new sound which was later to be echoed by contemporary groups; a fusion of James Brown’s raw funk as well as Jimi Hendrix’s fuzzy psychedelia; music that flirts with Fela’s Afro-beat and Congolese rumba and simultaneously brings the blues of Taj Majal; and it was christened “Zamrock”.

Unbeknown to them, they were on an expedition that would degenerate into diametrically opposed opinions, which would lead to disbanding, leaving their fans feeling short changed and wanting more of the innovative sound from the new band. They were the Musi-O-Tunya!!!

The band was an institution, where, if you did well in your lessons, you would go on to larger things; which is true of most of its former associates, but if you botched your course, you were consigned to a cavity which; opportunely; never happened to any of them. Because as it was, the critical accomplishments of the band propelled the former members to greater things, masking the commercial failures, which were taken on the chin and treated as show-biz teething problems, given that while they found fame, they did not make a fortune. Be that as it may, all the former bandsmen went on to have successful careers long after the group went into oblivion.

The line up of those who had a stint in the group reads like a “Who is Who”, in the “Zamrock” Hall of fame. Rikki Ililonga, Ndara “Derreck” Mbao, Alex Kunda, Jasper Siliya Lungu, Paul “Ngozi” Nyirongo and Brian Chengala all graced the band, albeit some joined as a result of departures of other members, owing to the egos which were emerging. Of all the above mentioned; only Rikki and Brian, who now goes by the surname of Shakarongo, are still alive. It is more than thirty five years since they first recorded and their music has until now, been very rare and some of the most sought.

Fans do not have to wait anymore. The group’s founder, major song writer, and most successful former member, Rikki, has teamed up with “Now Again Records” and record distributer “Stone Throw Records”, both of Los Angeles California. They have released Dark Sunrise, an Anthology of Rikki’s music, a trilogy of Musi-O-Tunya’s first album, Wings of Africa and the band’s six singles, together with Rikki’s two solo albums, Zambia and Sunshine Love, on the “Now and Again” Label; junkies of early “Zamrock” are in Paradise.

Disk one is Musi-O-Tunya, whose opening tune is ‘Tsegulani’. The instantly recognizable, brusque and pulsating voice of Ndara “Derrek” Mbao comes hurtling and lamenting, taking you to a crescendo with the inimitable Paul Ngozi’s lead guitar wizardly. After six minutes and twenty seconds, you will think the song will have ended too soon, as it takes you into the second song ‘Mpondolo’, which opens with a Kalimba played by Derreck, and then the trumpet takes over, intermittently with the group backup vocals and a sporadic solo horn. Siliya Lungu’s expertise on African drums is explicit. The rest of the tracks are ‘Walk and Fight’, ‘The Sun’, ‘Dark Sunrise’, ‘One Reply’, ‘The Wings of Africa’, Jekete Yamankowa Part 1 & 2, ‘Chalo Chawama’ ‘Ng’ombe Shala’, ‘Mpulula’ and finally ‘Smoke’.

Disc two contains Rikki’s two albums, ‘Zambia’ and ‘Sunshine Love, which have a combined eighteen songs. It is a delight listening to the silky ‘Shebeen Queen’, the sorrowful ‘Munzi wa Kangwanda’, the forlorn ‘Angel Black’, the enlightening Musamuseke, the instructive ‘Ulemu’, and the captivating ‘The Hole’. The later, along with other Ililonga songs were proscribed on Radio Zambia. Given the sort of songs that receive airplay these days, it is unquestionably time to revisit the decision.

1. Tsegulani
2. Mpondolo
3. Walk and Fight
4. The Sun
5. Dark Sunrise
6. One Reply
7. The Wings Of Africa
8. Jekete Yamankowa Part 1
9. Jekete Yamankowa Part 2
10. Chalo Chawama
11. Ng'ombe Shala
12. Mpulula
13. Smoke
14. Sansa Kuwa
15. Sheebeen Queen
16. Stop Dreaming Mr. D
17. The Hole
18. Hot Fingers
19. Se Keel Me Queek
20. The Nature Of Man
21. Musamuseka
22. Zambia
23. The Queen Blues
24. Love Is The Way
25. Lovely Woman
26. Munzi Wa Kangwana
27. Working On The Wrong Thing
28. Ulemu
29. Sunshine Love
30. Take It Light
31. Angel Black

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  1. among the most beautiful psychedelic rock < the last in bolt< musics ever made on any latitude-can't recommend it enough to your readers.a love from the first note affair.


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Zogby currently serves on the national advisory board of the ACLU, The Human Rights Watch Board of Directors for the Middle East and North Africa and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Additionally, he is a Senior Advisor for the polling firm Zogby International, where he is responsible for the firm's groundbreaking polling across the Middle East. Since 2001 he has hosted the award-winning "Viewpoint with James Zogby" on Abu Dhabi Television, LinkTV, Dish Network, and DirectTV.

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Agnes Meyer Driscoll was one of America's leading cryptanalysts during the early part of the twentieth century and was sometimes described as "the first lady of naval cryptology." She was born in Geneseo, Illinois in 1889. She attended Otterbein University in Columbus, Ohio, from 1907 to 1909, then Ohio State University where she studied mathematics, statistics, physics, music, and languages (German, French, Latin, and Japanese). She received an A.B. degree from Ohio State in 1911. Upon graduation she accepted a job as Director of Music at Lowry Phillips Military Academy in Texas, teaching there until 1914 when she became head of the mathematics department at Amarillo High School in Texas.

Meyer enlisted in the Naval Reserve as a Chief Yeoman in 1918 where she began her career as a cryptanalyst (cryptanalysis is the science of breaking codes.) Her active duty ending in July, 1919. The following year she joined the Department of Ciphers at Riverbank Laboratories in Chicago, Illinois, on loan from the Office of the Director of Navel Communications. In 1921, Edward Hebern, the inventor of the first machine to use the rotor principle to encrypt coded messages, "advertised an 'unbreakable' cipher in a marine magazine, but Miss Agnes Meyer, a cryptanalyst...solved the sample message" [2]. Hebern in turn then hired Meyer for cryptologic help, but his company ultimately failed. It was during this period that Meyer married Michael Driscoll, a Washington lawyer. In 1924 she returned to the Office of the Director of Naval Communications. There she helped teach cryptology to Lawrence Safford, the first head of the Navy's Cryptographic Research Desk, as well Joseph Rochefort, a major figure in the U.S. Navy's cryptologic and intelligence developments from 1925 to 1947, and Thomas Dyer, who led the team that was responsible for most of the breakthroughs in reading Japanese naval communications during World War II. Susan Lujan writes that "she was often the first in a group of skilled analysts to break new systems and codes considered milestones in the history of the field, including solutions to the Hebern cipher machine, the Japanese Orange Grand naval Maneuvers cipher, the Japanese Red Book and Blue Book superenchiperments, and more" [1]. Breaking the Japanese Blue Book required solving both the code and the overlaying cipher simultaneously. Rear Admiral Edwin Layton described "Miss Aggie" in his book And I Was There:

In the navy she was without peer as a cryptanalyst. Some of her pupils, like Ham Wright, were more able mathematicians but she had taught cryptanalysis to all of them, and none ever questioned her superb talent and determination in breaking codes and ciphers. She understood machines and how to apply them. In 1937 she would share the fifteen-thousand-dollar prize granted by the Senate for her contribution to developing a cipher machine with Lieutenant Commander William F. Gresham. But her principal talent was her ability to get to the root of a problem, sort out its essential components, and find a way to solve it. Among her uniformed colleagues, she was held in the highest esteem throughout her long career....
Agnes Driscoll served as a "principal cryptanalyst" for the Navy until December 1950. From 1950 to 1959 she worked for the Armed Forces Security Agency, the precursor of today's National Security Agency, retiring from active federal service on July 31, 1959. She died in 1971 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

  1. Lujan, Susan. "Agnes Meyer Driscoll," Selections from Cryptologia: History, People, and Technology, Cipher Deavours, Editor, Artech House, 1998, 269-278. Originally published in Cryptologia, Vol. XV, No. 1 (January 1991).
  2. Kahn, David. The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing, Macmillan Company, 1967.
  3. Layton, Real Admiral Edwin T., with Captain Roger Pineau and John Costello. "And I Was There", Pearl Harbor and Midway—Breaking the Secrets, William Morrow and Company, 1985.
  4. "Agnes Meyer Driscoll, 1889-1971," National Security Agency Hall of Honor, 2000 Inductee.


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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Daring Bakers - Almond Gateau with Praline Buttercream

This is a sad, sad post since when I went to write it I realized my pictures of my finished cake were missing. They aren't on my camera or in the Daring Bakers file on my computer. I'm afraid in my effort to make sure they didn't end up on Flickr before posting day they were mistakenly erased. I could almost cry because this was a really hard challenge & I was so proud to have finished it. Anyway here goes...

almond brown butter cake with apricot ginger filling
(this is not the actual challenge cake. Let's just call this Almond Brown Butter Cake a stand-in, imagine it with one more layer plus buttercream & whipped cream between the layers.)

This month's challenge was the Filbert Gateau with Praline Buttercream from Great Cakes by Carol Walter. Its a three layer nut cake layered with buttercream & whipped cream then coated with a fruit glaze & finally topped with a chocolate ganache. That is a lot of different pieces & a lot of time. I spent two days making this cake. Day one was spent making the actual cake layers. Day two I made the fillings, glaze & ganache & finally put the whole thing together. Let's go through the recipe...

Almond Gateau with Praline Buttercream

1 Almond Genoise

1 recipe sugar syrup, flavored with dark rum

1 recipe Praline Buttercream

½ cup heavy cream, whipped to soft peaks

1 recipe Raspberry Glaze

1 recipe Ganache Glaze, prepared just before using

Almond Genoise

Because of the amount of nuts in the recipe, this preparation is different from a classic genoise.

I chose to do almond instead of filberts mainly because I already had the almonds. This is actually 1/2 the original recipe. I used this & cooked four 4.5-inch layers of cake but only used 3 in the final cake, we ate the forth layer warm from the oven.

¾ cups almonds, toasted/skinned

1/3 cup cake flour, unsifted

1 Tbsp. cornstarch

4 large egg yolks

½ cup sugar

½ tsp. vanilla extract

¼ tsp. grated lemon rind

3 lg. egg whites

1/8 cup warm, clarified butter (100 – 110 degrees)

Position rack in the lower 3rd of the oven and preheat to 350 degrees. Grease and flour a four 4.5-inch round cake pans.

Using a food processor, process nuts, cake flour, and cornstarch for about 30 seconds. Then, pulse the mixture about 10 times to get a fine, powdery mixture. You’ll know the nuts are ready when they begin to gather together around the sides of the bowl. While you want to make sure there aren’t any large pieces, don’t over-process. Set aside.

Put the yolks in the bowl of an electric mixer, with the whisk attachment, and beat until thick and light in color, about 3-4 minutes on med-high speed. Slowly, add 6 T of sugar. It is best to do so by adding a tablespoon at a time, taking about 3 minutes for this step. When finished, the mixture should be ribbony. Blend in the vanilla and grated lemon rind. Remove and set aside.

Place egg whites in a large, clean bowl of the electric mixer with the whisk attachment and beat on medium speed, until soft peaks. Increase to med-high speed and slowly add the remaining 2 T of sugar, over 15-20 seconds or so. Continue to beat for another ½ minute.
Add the yolk mixture to the whites and whisk for 1 minute.

Pour the warm butter in a liquid measure cup (or a spouted container). * It must be a deep bottom bowl and work must be fast.* Put the nut meal in a mesh strainer (or use your hand – working quickly) and sprinkle it in about 2 tablespoons at a time – folding it carefully for about 40 folds. Be sure to exclude any large chunks/pieces of nuts. Again, work quickly and carefully as to not deflate the mixture. When all but about 2 Tbsp. of nut meal remain, quickly and steadily pour the warm butter over the batter. Then, with the remaining nut meal, fold the batter to incorporate, about 13 or so folds.

I didn't bother using a strainer to add my nuts to the butter. Mixed with the butter it became more of a thick batter for me than something pourable.

With a rubber spatula, transfer the batter into the prepared pan, smoothing the surface with the spatula or back of a spoon. **If collected butter remains at the bottom of the bowl, do not add it to the batter! It will impede the cake rising while baking.

Tap the pan on the counter to remove air bubbles and bake in the preheated oven for 30-35 minutes. You’ll know the cake is done when it is springy to the touch and it separates itself from the side of the pan. Remove from oven and allow to stand for 5 minutes. Invert onto a cake rack sprayed with nonstick coating, removing the pan. Cool the cake completely.

*If not using the cake right away, wrap thoroughly in plastic wrap, then in a plastic bag, then in the refrigerator for up to 3 days. If freezing, wrap in foil, then the bag and use within 2-3 months.

Sugar Syrup
Makes 1/2 cup, good for three 4.5-inch round layers.

Again this is half of what the original recipe called for.

1/2 cup water

2 T sugar

1 Tbsp. dark rum

In a small, yet heavy saucepan, bring the water and sugar to a boil and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add the liqueur. Cool slightly before using on the cake. *Can be made in advance

Swiss Buttercream

I had really good success with this buttercream & will use this recipe again. I did make a whole batch of this instead of half to make sure I had enough for decorating later, I could have gotten by with a half batch

4 lg. egg whites

¾ cup sugar

1 ½ cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, slightly firm

1 ½ -2 Tbsp. Rum
1 tsp. vanilla

Place the egg whites in a lg/ bowl of a electric mixer and beat with the whisk attachment until the whites are foamy and they begin to thicken (just before the soft peak stage). Set the bowl over a saucepan filled with about 2 inches of simmering water, making sure the bowl is not touching the water. Then, whisk in the sugar by adding 1-2 tablespoon of sugar at a time over a minutes time. Continue beating 2-3 minutes or until the whites are warm (about 120 degrees) and the sugar is dissolved. The mixture should look thick and like whipped marshmallows.
Remove from pan and with either the paddle or whisk attachment, beat the egg whites and sugar on med-high until its a thick, cool meringue – about 5-7 minutes. *Do not overbeat*. Set aside.

Place the butter in a separate clean mixing bowl and, using the paddle attachment, cream the butter at medium speed for 40-60 seconds, or until smooth and creamy. *Do not overbeat or the butter will become toooooo soft.*

On med-low speed, blend the meringue into the butter, about 1-2 Tbsp. at a time, over 1 minute. Add the liqueur and vanilla and mix for 30-45 seconds longer, until thick and creamy.

Refrigerate 10-15 minutes before using.

Wait! My buttercream won’t come together! Reheat the buttercream briefly over simmering water for about 5 seconds, stirring with a wooden spoon. Be careful and do not overbeat. The mixture will look broken with some liquid at the bottom of the bowl. Return the bowl to the mixer and whip on medium speed just until the cream comes back together.

Wait! My buttercream is too soft! Chill the buttercream in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes and rewhip. If that doesn’t work, cream an additional 2-4 Tbsp. of butter in a small bowl– making sure the butter is not as soft as the original amount, so make sure is cool and smooth. On low speed, quickly add the creamed butter to the buttercream, 1 Tbsp. at a time.

Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 5 days, or can be frozen for up to 6 months. If freezing, store in 2 16-oz. plastic containers and thaw in the refrigerator overnight or at room temperature for several hours.

Praline Buttercream

I left out the rum in this since it was already in the buttercream itself. I didn't make my own praline as I found some almond paste in the store & decided to cut myself a break on this one step. I should have run the paste through the food processor before adding it to the buttercream to make it a little finer, there were too many chunks in the finished product to make it easy to decorate with.

1 recipe Swiss Buttercream

1/3 cup almond paste

1 ½ - 2 Tbsp. Jamaican rum (optional)

Blend ½ cup buttercream into the paste, then add to the remaining buttercream. Whip briefly on med-low speed to combine. Blend in rum.

Raspberry Glaze

Good for one 4.5-inch cake

I chose to use raspberry instead of apricot glaze which that the original recipe called for because we really love the taste of raspberry & chocolate. Once again this is a half recipe.

1/3 cup thick apricot preserves

1/2 Tbsp. water

In a small, yet heavy saucepan, bring the water and preserves to a slow boil and simmer for 2-3 minutes. If the mixture begins to stick to the bottom of the saucepan, add water as needed.

Remove from heat and, using a strainer, press the mixture through the mesh and discard any remnants. With a pastry brush, apply the glaze onto the cake while the cake is still warm. If the glaze is too thick, thin to a preferred consistency with drops of water.

Ganache Glaze

Makes about 1/3 cup, enough to cover the top and sides of a 4.5 inch layercake

The corn syrup was the main difference from the chocolate ganache I've used in the past. I'm not sure it really made a difference. I actually did this in the microwave & it worked just fine.

3 oz. (good) semisweet or bittersweet chocolate, like Lindt

3 oz. heavy cream

1/2 tbsp. light corn syrup

1/2 Tbsp. rum
1/4 tsp. vanilla

1/2 - 1/4 tsp. hot water, if needed

Blend vanilla and liqueur/rum together and set aside.

Break the chocolate into 1-inch pieces and place in the basket of a food processor and pulse until finely chopped. Transfer into a medium sized bowl and set aside.

Heat the cream and corn syrup in a saucepan, on low, until it reached a gentle boil. Once to the gently boil, immediately and carefully pour over the chocolate. Leave it alone for one minute, then slowly stir and mix the chocolate and cream together until the chocolate is melted and incorporated into the cream. Carefully blend in vanilla mixture. If the surface seems oily, add ½ - 1 tsp hot water. The glaze will thicken, but should still be pourable. If it doesn’t thicken, refrigerate for about 5 minutes, but make sure it doesn’t get too cold!

Assembling Cake

Cut a cardboard disk slightly smaller than the cake. Place the first layer top-side down on the disk. Using a pastry brush, moisten the layer with 3-4 Tbsp. of warm sugar syrup. Measure out 1 cup of praline buttercream and set aside.

Spread the bottom layer with a ¼-inch thickness of the remaining buttercream. Cover with ½ of the whipped cream, leaving ¼-inch border around the edge of the cake. Place the middle layer over the first, brush with sugar syrup, spreading with buttercream. Cover with the remaining whipped cream.

Moisten the third layer with additional sugar syrup and place on the cake. Gently, press the sides of the cake to align the layers. Refrigerate to chill for at least 30 minutes.

Lift the cake by sliding your palm under the cardboard. Holding a serrated or very sharp night with an 8-inch blade held parallel to the sides of the cake, trim the sides so that they are perfectly straight. Cut a slight bevel at the top to help the glaze drip over the edge. Brush the top and sides of the cake with warm apricot glaze, sealing the cut areas completely. Chill while you prepare the ganache.

I had a hard time doing this trimming & final just decided my cake was straight enough. It also took quite a lot of glaze to get the whole thing coated smoothly, crumbs from the cut parts kept coming off.

Place a rack over a large shallow pan to catch the ganache drippings. Remove the gateau from the refrigerator and put it the rack. With a metal spatula in hand, and holding the saucepan about 10 inches above the cake, pour the ganache onto the cake’s center. Move the spatula over the top of the ganache about 4 times to get a smooth and mirror-like appearance. The ganache should cover the top and run down the sides of the cake. When the ganache has been poured and is coating the cake, lift one side of the rack and bang it once on the counter to help spread the ganache evenly and break any air bubbles. (Work fast before setting starts.) Patch any bare spots on the sides with a smaller spatula, but do not touch the top after the “bang”. Let the cake stand at least 15 minutes to set after glazing.

This whole thing about not touching the top of the cake again after getting a smooth finish is so important. I could resist the urge to co back & fix a little flaw & really messed up the shiny top. Luckily I have no pictures to show you that.

To garnish the cake, fit a 12 – 14-inch pastry bag with a #114 large leaf tip. Fill the bag with the reserved praline cream. Stating ½ inch from the outer edge of the cake, position the pastry tube at a 90 degree angle with the top almost touching the top of the cake. Apply pressure to the pastry bag, moving it slightly toward the center of the cake. As the buttercream flows on the cake, reverse the movement backward toward the edge of the cake and finish by pulling the bag again to the center. Stop applying pressure and press the bag downward, then quickly pull the tip up to break the flow of frosting. Repeat, making 12 leaves evenly spaced around the surface of the cake.

Make a second row of leaves on the top of the first row, moving the pastry bag about ¾ inch closer to the center. The leaves should overlap. Make a 3rd row, moving closer and closer to the center. Add a 4th row if you have the room. But, leave a 2-inch space in the center for a chopped filbert garnish. Refrigerate uncovered for 3-4 hours to allow the cake to set. Remove the cake from the refrigerator at least 3 hours before serving.

I didn't follow these decorating instructions at all but made up my own design, a 4.5-inch cake doesn't have a ton of room to decorate. The almond paste in the buttercream made it almost impossible to pipe it & get a nice look.

Leftover cake can be covered with foil and kept in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Will I make this cake again? No, I'm glad I challenged myself to do it though. It was quite frustrating to put all that time into putting it together to only have the piping turn out so messy because of the almond paste. The cake was good but pretty sweet, almost too sweet for us, with the praline buttercream, sugar syrup, fruit glaze & chocolate.

I will make nut flour cakes again. The Almond Brown Butter Cake I used as my stand-in above is a favorite & a little less of a process with only a fruit filling & chocolate ganache.

I will use that buttercream recipe again. It worked really well for me & I liked the flavor. I don't think I'll be putting almond paste in it again though.

I'm looking forward to next month's challenge, hopefully this time I can manage not to erase my own pictures!

Christine said...

I am so sorry about your pictures! The glaze on the cake looks delicious and your layers are perfect!

Jeanine said...

Oh no, sorry to hear about your pictures. That stinks. :P However, your pictures in the process look great too (as does the stand in) :)

marye said...

sorry about the pictures! Great job o n completing the challenge

Veron said...

I've had the disappearing pictures happen to me a couple of times - I am so sorry that happened to you- that is the worst feeling.But you completed your challenge and that is what counts!

Ann said...

Great work and so sorry about the missing photos!

Jen said...

Hi Kat- I'm sorry to hear about the pictures, the cake was a lot of work but at least you have a stand in. I was afraid the cake would be too sweet too, so I didn't sweeten the whipped cream and added lime juice instead of water to the glaze. It was still very rich, but good in small amounts.

JennDZ - The Leftover Queen said...

Aw, I am so sorry to hear about the pictures! That sucks, especially after how challenging this challenge was! I think your cake looked pretty cool though with the raspberry on it!

giz said...

Don't you just hate when that happens!!! I've done it too and then drive myself crazy looking at every file on photoshop thinking maybe I uploaded it somewhere under another title. That you loved it and enjoyed the process is really what counts.

kat said...

Thanks everyone for you kind words about the photo disaster! i just know I'll be much more careful with them in the future

Neen said...

You do realize that you're a superstar overacheiver, right? Just so we're on the same page....

jillian said...

Oh no! So sorry about your pictures

Deborah said...

Sorry you lost your pictures!! I still have to finish mine - nothing like waiting until the last minute! I like the idea of using almonds - the hazelnuts were pretty expensive.

Ben said...

I am so sorry about your pics :( That's what happened to me last month. But at least it seems like it was a very nice challenge :)

HoneyB said...

I'm sorry to hear about your pictures!

Lorrie said...

I'm sorry about your pictures! It looks wonderful otherwise, and your ganache is so thick on top!

Christina said...

Bummer about the pictures. Judging byt he stand-in, I'm sure it came out great!

Christina ~ She Runs, She Eats

culinarytravelsofakitchengoddess said...

Sorry to hear about your pics.

Lauren said...

Oh no! I hate it when I lose pictures! However, I must say that the stand-in looks divine!

Debyi said...

Bummer about your pix! Your cake sounds great though, almonds and raspberries are always a good combo. I wish I would've used almonds, realized after making the cake that I just don't care for the taste of hazelnuts. Live and learn. :)

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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Firefox joins Chrome in plugin crash protection

Category: Plugins

Yesterday Mozilla released a new Firefox 3.6 point release including regular stability fixes and a plugin crash protection system that was originally planned for Firefox 3.7.

The crash protection isolates plugins in their own process, meaning that a plugin will not bring down the entire browser when it crashes or freezes. Mozilla states that one of three browser crashes are caused by third-party plugins.

Currently only Linux and Windows include the crash protection, Mac users will have to wait for Firefox 4 planned to be released later this year. This is a fantastic addition in a point release!

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When is Webkit 2 going to launch. it too has isolated crash for plugins.

Comment by MySchizoBuddy — June 23, 2010

1 in 3 firefox browser crashes are caused by third party plugins?
So 66% of all crashes are caused by unfixed firefox bugs?
That doesn’t sound terribly good. Maybe they should be tackling that larger percentage first.
MySchizoBuddy: The two main webkit browsers already have plugin isolation :]
But yeah, will be cool to have it in the reusable library

Comment by ProPuke — June 23, 2010

@ProPuke: Maybe a single feature that covers one third of all crashes and is already implemented and tested in another two open source browsers was easier to add in a point release, than fixing and regression testing hundreds of single misterious bugs.

Indeed, as you surely know, many times debugging and new features have different development paths and teams involved; also, new feats help attract and expand the userbase, where bug fixin’ is less sexy.

Let’s face the truth: I would find a release less sexy (in a sort of unconsciously thrust) if it would claim itself as maintainance only, than knowing that it brings new bells and whistles and zero bug fixes.

However, I can understand that rationally speaking, a software running uninterrupted for more than half a day like Firefox would greatly benefit from a major boost in stability, more than adding features like DirectWrite graphic acceleration or Personas.

But everyone here knows that the problem for the foxes is that the WebKit team is producing great results in really short times: great, stable browsers, cutting edge feats, plugin and tab isolation, and so on. They need to put on some lipstick, a great dress and a good perfume again, or in the long term, the distance could become unbridgeable. Heck, even the IE team acknowledged that.

Comment by giank — June 23, 2010

@giank: You are, ofcourse, completely correct.
I was trying to be half humorous/pedantic.
Although the figure does scare me. Surely the percentage of internally triggered crashes should be considerably lower for something that is no longer beta (or indeed zero).

You make all-good points.
I fear the mozilla+xulrunner framework might have too much weight to effectively react in todays market (or at least keep up with webkit & chromium).
Odd. Agility was originally firefox’s trump card (with the advent of such an extendible application).
Odder still that Mozilla (the “original” opensource browser) is now “competing” against webkit (the now-de-facto opensource web framework).
It seems to have lost it’s own ground somewhere along the line.
But it has certainly helped fantastically in shape what we have from the browser today.
But the age of the browser is still young – How can we make the interface more enjoyable to use & navigate? What new paradigms can we leverage? What new standards can we employ & develop? How can we take the browsing experience further?
These are questions all browsers are now starting to ask, & it’s brilliant to see.
Thanks for the update Mozilla. Let’s see if you can’t lose some weight now & get strongly back in the fight.

Comment by ProPuke — June 24, 2010

Good points giank and ProPuke. Maybe we’ll end up with an equilibrium (a la Emacs vs. Vi) where Firefox is a bit bloated and slow, but can do anything (like Emacs), and Webkit is small and nimble, but sticks to its core competencies (like Vi).
I, like many others, use Emacs for hardcore programming, but Vim for quick changes to system files. I wonder if this is how people will use Firefox/Webkit in the future…

Comment by Skilldrick — June 24, 2010

I really wonder how much JägerMonkey and hardware acceleration will help push Firefox (4) forward again.

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Monday, November 12, 2007

Resting and Planning

I've been looking forward to this time all season long. Currently I am nursing a nagging hamstring injury, sleeping and eating a ton, and savoring time with my family and time off the trails. In fact, I am looking froward to getting a out of shape, doing some skiing and re-charging the batteries. I know that sounds weird but it's true. There's plenty of time to get in shape. Right now, it's rest...and planning!

In thinking about that, of course, I am focusing on what I need to do to get ready for Western States. As anybody who knows me clearly understands Western States is the focus of my entire season every year going into 2008 I am directing all my energy into an attempt to break 17 hours if conditions allow. With a 17:07 in 2005 and a 17:20 in 2007 I think I can get there. It will just require total focus.

So, my plan is channeled into three areas:

1. Weekly Long runs on Western States type terrain
2. Once a week hill repeats both up and down (on an 800 meter hill with 300 ft of climb)
3. Speedwork in the form of long 1200-1600 meter intervals on track or bike trail.

All other runs will be easy runs on trails between one and three hours.

Assuming I can have a foundation in place by the beginning of February I'd like to follow the following program leading up to the Big Day:

Week 1 - Feb 3 - 15 miles hilly trails, 3x1200, 2xhill
Week 2 - Feb 10 - 17 miles hilly trails, 4x1200, 3xhill
Week 3 - Feb 17 - 20 miles hilly trails, 5x1200, 4xhill
Week 4 - Feb 24 - 18 (Sun) and 12 (Sat) miles hilly trails, 6x1200, 5xhill
Week 5 - Mar 2 - 12 miles flat (Sun), NO SPEED OR HILLS THIS WEEK, Way Too Cool 50K (Sat)
Week 6 - Mar 9 - NO SPEED OR HILLS THIS WEEK - 16 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 7 - Mar 16 - 10 miles flat, 3x1600, Coyote Two Moon Ultra 100 Miler (Sat)
Week 8 - Mar 23 - Recovery week
Week 9 - Mar 30 - 14 miles hilly trails (Sun), 3x1600, 3xhill, 22 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 10 - Apr 6 - 18 miles hilly trails (Sun), 4x1600, 4xhill, 24 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 11 - Apr 13 - 20 miles hilly trails (Sun), 5x1600, 5xhill, 26 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 12 - Apr 20 - 22 miles hilly trails (Sun), 6x1600, 6xhill, 28 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 13 - Apr 27 - 20 miles hilly trails (Sun), Recovery week
Week 14 - May 4 - 52 miles "Ice Cream Sandwich Run" Cal 2 to Swinging Bridge and back , 4x1600, 4 x hill
Week 15 - May 11 - 30 miles hilly trails (Sun), 3x1600, 3xhill, 20 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 16 - May 18 - 14 miles hilly trails (Sun), 4x1600, 4xhill, 38 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 17 - May 25 - 32 miles hilly trails (Sun), 24 miles hilly trails (Mon), Recovery week.
Week 18 - June 1 - 20 miles hilly trails (Sun), 6x1600, 6xhill
Week 19 - June 8 - Western States Training Camp 124 miles in four days:
June 10 - Michigan Bluff to Last Chance and back (24 miles)
June 11 - Foresthill to Last Chance and back (38 miles)
June 12 - Foresthill to Driver's Flat (18 miles)
June 13 - Placer HS to The River and back (44 miles)
Week 20 - June 15 - 2x1600 (Wed), 12 miles hilly trails (Sat)
Week 21 - June 22 - Race week!

It'll be fun to see how it all pans out!

Marc and Tanya said...

On your weekly long runs, what is your pace like. Race pace?,Easy?, moderate? Or does your mood dictate your pace on long runs?
Maybe we will see you at WS100 my wife is in the lottery.

AJW said...

Thanks for the note. In my 100 Mile training I try to run all my long runs at 100 Mile race pace which for me essentially amounts to 9-10 min per mile depending on terrain. I save the fast stuff for the track and the hill repeats.

Dave - Atlanta Trails said...

Thanks for sharing how you set up your training.

I look forward to see you performing well at WS in 08!

Paul DeWitt said...

Holy crap - I'm tired just looking at your planned schedule! Seriously, looks good and hope you are able to get the sub 17.

My one comment would be on the mile repeats; I think they are great if you as long as you are taking short enough rest (under 1 minute) otherwise it might be helpful to alternate a 4 mile tempo run every other week. If you are running the mile repeats faster than a 1 minute rest allows, you are probably well over your areobic threshold and thus not working the system that is most important for racing at sub-maximal efforts.

AJW said...

Great point. I should probably have said that I do the 1600's at about 5 seconds faster than 5K race pace (for me that is between 85%-90% of Max HR). I usually rest just long enough to get my heart rate back down to 60% of max and then crank it up again (usually 60-90 seconds).

Again, thanks for the feedback.

Paul Charteris said...

Hi Andy

Thanks very much for sharing your training schedule, it provies a great insight. I have a couple of questions:

1. What day if the week do you schedule your hill repeats (I assume you need some recovery time before/after the weeknd long runs)?

2. Your hill repeats and on a relatively short hill. Do you believe there is greater benefit in doing many repeats on a shorter hill than fewer repeats on a longer hill? I seem to remember an interview with scott Jurek and sounded like he did few repeats on a really long hill.

Cheers, Paul

olga said...

Thanks for sharing, always up for different plans to compare!

AJW said...

Thanks for the questions:

1. I try to do the speedwork on Tues PM and the hill repeats on Thurs PM

2. You're right, the hill is short but the repeats are placed in the middle of a longer 90 min workout on rolling terrain. Essentially, the repeats take up between 20-40 mins in the middle. I save my longer hills for the long runs.

Loomdog said...

Andy, you make me realize I undertrain badly! I agree with Paul. A tempo run of 30-60 minutes at a steady 1/2 marathon race pace might add a lot to your fitness. You have shown you have incredible strength, recover well, and handle hills and heat well. Maybe all that separates you from the win is some speed sustainability.
Good luck,

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Finally, my very own dot com implosion.

More on why I'm putting this in the dot com implosion pile. I think this is still a big ripple of the 1.0 bust. We'll see some more museums and cultural institutions fall in the next few years.

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AW English teachers attend training session

Posted February 14, 2013 at 6:00 am

by: Carla Robinson

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On January 23, AW English and Language Arts teachers, Mrs. Pam Von Hagel, Mrs. MaryJane Tapper, Mrs. Jodi Richey, and Mrs. Lucy Baker attended an Iowa Core Curriculum training session.

At the session they studied how to incorporate informational text into the English and Language Arts classes that are taught at AW.

The teachers will attend two more training sessions, one in February, and one in April.

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November 28, 2005

Stop questioning his patriotism

Ted Rall loves our troops.

Just please never let anyone love me that much.

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You don’t blame Charles Graner for this?

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To paraphrase Dean Wormer:
“Ugly, untalented, and stupid is no way to go through life.”

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That’s his schtick — being as offensive and evil as possible. Since he has no wit (unlike Tom Tomorrow or Aaron McGruder, much as I may disagree with them), it’s the only way he can stay employed as a cartoonist.

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Thin Line

Readership, Readership, Let Me In

The Guardian garnered a lot of attention on leap day with an ad pitching the U.K. paper's news-gathering method. It's called open journalism, the gist of which is that readers help direct content.

In an age when people can comment, blog and share posts on social networks, readers are no longer “passive recipients of journalism,” says Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger.

In the ad, men with guns break down the doors of the Three Little Pigs’ homes after they've boiled the Big Bad Wolf alive. Citizens Tweet their opinions, provide evidence against the wolf’s guilt via YouTube, and point the way to a broader story.

So what's new about this? Is the Guardian putting its name on a change happening in newsrooms everywhere anyway? If we’re doing it right, we should probably be hearing from readers who are pitching stories, directing the flow of information. Plus, I've long seen journalists taking the temperature, posing questions and panning for sources on Facebook and Twitter. When there's a lengthy comment thread pointing out additional angles on an issue, we'd be fools to ignore it.

One major difference, though, is the Guardian posts its story budget—a list of what reporters are chasing—online every day. The paper asks readers for their two cents before articles are written.

In the echo chamber of the Internet, it gets even worse as stories are transmitted with the damning opinions of the re-poster up top.

Ian Katz, deputy editor, testifies that this approach has led to big breaks for the paper. Technology allows the newsroom to enlist readers as an army of reporters, he adds.

But the Three Little Pigs ad glorifies audience reaction and participation—probably because the Guardian wants people to buy into its concept. Andrew Cohen wrote in the Atlantic that it could be dangerous to encourage people to weigh in before a jury delivers a verdict on the porcine trio's case. Cohen sees the video as an illustration of the tension between freedom of the press and the right to a fair trial.

It's a legitimate concern. Ask Michael Lee. I interviewed him last year just hours after he won nearly $1 million from the city. He was jailed for 15 months for murders he didn't commit. "That whole saying, You're innocent until proven guilty? Bullshit," he said.

His case was so high-profile, the jail had to put him into protective custody. By the time someone else was pinned for the crime with DNA evidence, Lee's name and reputation were pretty well-tarnished. Try getting a job when a quick Google search turns up scores of news stories screaming accusations.

There are rules that are supposed to help journos avoid convicting people in the headlines. But they don’t always work. When you see someone in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit—or as you skim KOAT's " See Who Got Arrested" yellowed mug shots—guilt is assumed no matter how many “according to police” caveats there are.

In the echo chamber of the Internet, it gets even worse as stories are transmitted with the damning opinions of the re-poster up top. The rights of defendants, Cohen argues, have gone to pot in the age of social media and instant global communication.

Let's be cautious with our new tool/weapon.

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Free Will Astrology Week of November 11, 2010

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Where I live, 35 percent of all high school students confess (or brag) that they have engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as imbibing five or more alcoholic drinks in a two-hour period. According to my reading of the omens, your inner teenager may soon be longing to flirt with that kind of intense and total release. Can I talk him or her out of it? As much as I sympathize with the younger you's need to escape the numbing effects of the daily grind, I'm asking the adult you to step in and assert your authority. Try to find a more constructive approach to liberation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Why did feathered dinosaurs evolve wings? Paleontologists in Britain have a new theory: It added to their sexual allure. The head researcher at the University of Manchester speculated that "maybe they ran around with their arms outstretched to show off how pretty their feathers were." Eventually those forearms became wings that came in handy for flying. In other words, the power of flight did not originate from the urge to fly but rather from the urge to be attractive. Oddly enough, Taurus, this approach to understanding evolution would be useful for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could develop some interesting new capacities as you work to enhance your appeal to people who matter.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On the subject of being divided, novelist Iris Murdoch wrote the following: "He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths." Whether you deserve the generosity of that interpretation still remains to be seen, Gemini. It is possible that your version of doubleness will be rooted in deceit or delusion rather than sincere and honest duality. Of course I'm rooting for the latter. Please do all you can to ensure that you're being authentic, not manipulative.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My friend Ariel's 6-year-old daughter Juno doesn't understand why anyone would build streets that run in a straight line. Isn't it more fun if the highways and byways are crooked and curvy? Shouldn't people want to get to where they're going by veering this way and that, relishing the playful twists and turns? That's where the best action is, says Juno, and I agree: in the tweak, in the twirl, in the winding way—not in the beeline route that leaves no room for improvisation. That's especially true for you right now, my fellow Cancerian.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you be delighted if I arranged to get an offshore oil-drilling rig named after you? Probably not. Would you celebrate if you won a prestigious all-expenses-paid vacation to the hottest war zones in Afghanistan? I doubt it. So don't accept dubious honors and gifts like those, Leo. Be clear that you're not interested in ego strokes that are irrelevant to your long-term dreams. If you hope to get the prize you're aiming for, you will have to say a definitive no to supposedly good things that you don't really want.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The nature of the game is changing. Do you know which game I'm referring to? I mean the one that everyone's playing but no one's acknowledging they're playing. The rules of the game had held steady for quite some time, but recently they began to shift. Now even the game's rewards are in the process of metamorphosing. My advice? You don't necessarily need to splash a big dose of raw candor all over the place, but I do recommend that you at least tell yourself the truth about what's going on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My Facebook friend Robert Goldberg has come up with terms for you Libras that puts a more positive spin on your reputation as a fence-sitter. He suggests "fence dancer" or "fence warrior." You don't always deserve to be bestowed with those honorable titles, of course. Sometimes you really do molder there in your intermediate position, paralyzed by indecision and unable to do what's in the best interests of anyone, including yourself. But on other occasions—like now—you have the power to use your in-between status dynamically, coordinating the opposing interests to work as a whole that's greater than the sum of the parts.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert," wrote author Charles Bowden, "and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control." Yikes! That's a pretty extreme approach. But I suggest that you consider trying it out in the coming week. If you hope to seize even one of the multiple opportunities that are swirling in your vicinity, you will need both supreme focus and a loosey-goosey willingness to respond to novelty. So don't tense up and blank out and try to wrestle the mysterious flows into submission. Use your sixth sense to find the groove, and relax into it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried," said Winston Churchill. He was defending his favorite political system, asserting that its imperfections are superior to the flaws of monarchy, plutocracy, anarchy, theocracy and the rest. I invite you to use a similar gauge as you evaluate the belief system that's at the center of your life. Does it sometimes lead you astray, cause you to see things that aren't really there and fill you with confusion—but in ways that are more life-enhancing than any other belief system you know of? Or is your belief system actually kind of toxic? Should you consider replacing it with another set of organizing principles? If it's the latter, now would be a good time to begin making a change.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Connie Post, my beloved former editor at the Dayton Daily News, sent me a haiku-like poem that I'd like you to ponder: "November trees / which are living? / which are dead?" I'm hoping this will put you in the mood to mull over an even bigger question, namely: What parts of your own life are withering and what parts are thriving? In my astrological opinion, it's very important that you know the difference and act accordingly.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Numerologists say the number 10 signifies completion, wholeness, totality. It could rightly serve as your lucky number in the coming weeks—a symbol of your power to draw long-term processes to a climax on your own terms. But you might also want to consider using 11 as your emblem of good mojo. That number denotes the drive to surpass the success you've earned before—to transcend easy triumphs and conventional wisdom so as to reach for a more challenging conquest. Either way, Aquarius, I think you'll be flying high for the foreseeable future, so there's no need to worry about which way you should go. If you do choose 11, the risks will be somewhat greater and the rewards more interesting.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Moby-Dick, Herman Melville suggested that ideally a person should be a "patriot to heaven." Poet Gary Snyder wrote, "I pledge allegiance to the soil / one ecosystem / in diversity / under the sun / with joyful interpenetration for all." Seminal environmentalist Edward Abbey said, "My loyalties will not be bound by national borders ... or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language or culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time." I recommend you experiment with this perspective in the coming weeks, Pisces. You don't have to tone down your love for your tribe or country. Just see if you can expand your sense of belonging ... extend the borders of your comfort zone ... and feel at home everywhere you go.

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A couple of nice little pieces by Aliqudsi at My Nokia Blog (though they mostly apply in their entirety to non-Nokia Windows Phones too) - firstly listing his fairly long list of grievances with Windows Phone 8 (some of which I echo!) but obviously being prepared to stick with his Lumia 920 since he's also compiled an excellent run down of system settings which are worth tweaking in order to maximise battery life. Links and quotes below.

Firstly, his grievances, after a month of use:

I’ve just realized that today marks exactly one month with my Lumia 920, happy anniversary.  With the time I’ve spent with my 920 I completely love it, the design is beautiful (as always), the minor build quality issues that were present in previous version have been rethought (specifically the metal plating around the camera on the back of the phone). But on a software side WP8 is a mixed bag, although it brings some great new (much needed) features, it does that on the cost of stability and performance that made me fall in love with WP7, so here’s a quick list of flaws I think need refining or fixing in WP8/Lumia 920 on the software side.

*Note not all of these are real issues; but this is what bugs ME in Windows Phone 8 (some of it might seem like nitpicking but then I guess I’m a nitpicker)

  • Computer drivers fix, sure WP8 supports drag and drop and all that cool stuff; but the new software used with WP8 instead of zune is a complete joke. For example you can’t even create playlists from it, nor can you use your old Zune playlists; plus the phone needs to be connected to use it to play any media; did I mention you can’t subscribe to podcasts either? Oh plus for some reason it decides to completely tank and die (even the official windows Phone support couldn’t fix this for me)
  • Deeper Twitter integration, sure Windows Phone is super social, but some parts need to get their act together, for example if someone replies to my tweet how difficult is it to show me what tweet he’s replying to? Why should I have to power up a 3rd party twitter app just to figure that out? And it can’t be too difficult to reply to multiple people in a single tweet!

Read on in the original piece for more.

And secondly, from Aliqudsi's 'How to increase battery life' piece:

  • Disable Xbox live IF you don’t play any Xbox live games online- If you don’t play any games on the Xbox live server (such as Wordament or Alphajax etc.) then it’s a smart idea to turn off the connection to Xbox live; stopping it from constantly searching for friend and game requests.
    To disable Xbox live go to the games tile “Settings–>Connect With Xbox live–>set to off”
  • Change your maximum data speed to match what your carrier provides- Depending on your carrier/location (not available in the US/At&t apparently); but if you live in an area with poor 4G coverage or spotty reception it’s better to shut off your 4G antenna and save some precious juices.
    To shut off 4G/3G go to “Settings–>Cellular/Mobile Network–>Highest Connection Speed”
  • Disable any non-vital applications from running in background- Some apps will run in the background and drain your battery as well as your data plan, to avoid that prevent them from running when closed.
    To block background applications go to “Settings–> Swipe to the “applications pane” on the right”–>Disable any non-vital apps (such as Nokia Drive, Baconit, IMDB etc.)”
  • Turn Off “Connect to Xbox cloud Collection” and “Xbox music” in the Media center- With the latest Smartglasses update your phone can now connect to your music collection in the cloud, and sync music across multiple devices (include your Xbox and Windows 8 machine); but this requires a Xbox music pass as well as a connection, which means it’ll eat some of your battery. Another feature that I personally keep on is “connect to Xbox music” which downloads background images (for the media player) and lock screen images related to the currently playing song, you can disable this if you like. To disable these open the music tile and hit “settings–>Switch to off”

Read on the original piece for the full list.

As our own experience with Windows Phone 8 grows, it'll be interesting at some point to compile the definitive AAWP guide to extending battery power. Watch this space!

Source / Credit: My Nokia Blog


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Flow Cube is a logical puzzle game, with no timers, bonuses, or levelling up getting in the way. All you have to do is join up the coloured dots on the playing field. But unlike your common garden puzzle game, this game takes place in three dimensions...

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Right then, it's quick and easy puzzle time with your Windows Phone today, and I want to point out Flow Cube to you all. Some times I like my games to be complicated, where I need to plan ahead, think about the next move, and look at the layers of puzzling on offer, peeling them mentally back to find the answer.

But other times I just want 'cheese', and in the best possible way, that's what Flow Cube offers me.

The premise is a simple one that I've seen before on a number of games - you have a game grid, and on it are a number of coloured dots. You need to join these dots up with a continuous line, but you cannot have two joining lines crossing over each other. Yellow joins to yellow, red joins to red, but the yellow and red lines must not cross over each other. Run alongside, yes. Wind around each other, yes. But never cross.

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What we have is a topographical puzzle game. It's the sort of game that some people will take a long time to play, but my brain can see the answers to each level rather quickly, which turns this into a fast food style frenzy of game playing. The twist on offer here is that the topography is in three dimensions. Rather than a square grid, the game area has been wrapped around the three visible sides of a cube. That opens up some different routes available to my mind, and different layouts of the so called 'standard' tricks needed (such as looping a line behind another coloured start/end point rather than go for a direct route).

Part of me wishes they had taken the final step and covered all six sides of the cube with a puzzle, but I think that would be a little too hard to visualise and manipulate on a mobile phone screen.

The interface is easy to use, just drag your finger from a point of colour (be it one of the end points, or a half completed line, and trace the route you want the colour to follow). While there's no way to scrub out a route, you can easily trace over it with a another colour, or use the master reset button to clear all the colours on a level and, in essence, start again.

Flow Cube is a free to play game, and is ad-supported. It's a touch annoying to see the same advert twice on screen (once at the bottom of the game play area, the second in the 'level complete ' dialog box). The adverts showing today (for UK mobile phone network Three) do take away from the design of the game and stand out a little harshly, but that's always the risk a developer takes with an ad-supported title.

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And that's about it. Fifty fixed levels, with the next five uncompleted levels unlocked so you can always move on to another level if you do get stuck, and you'll likely burn through the game in a day or two of disjointed playing. But that's fine in my book, there's always space for titles like this in my smartphone - and there should be in your smartphone as well.

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"My husband's Grandmother from Syria made soup similar to this. Very hearty and great for those who don't feel well."
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  • 615 kcal
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  • Fat:
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  • 26%
  • Carbs:
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  • 24%
  • Protein:
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  • 77%
  • Cholesterol:
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  • 33%
  • Sodium:
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  1. Place chicken, celery, carrots, onions, garlic, cloves, cinnamon, cilantro, peppercorns, and bay leave in a large stock pot and fill with cold water, (it is not necessary to peel the garlic or onion, just wash the outside.) Using low heat cook for 4 hours after boiling begins or until water line is an inch or two from the top.
  2. Using a colander drain broth into another pot. Reserve chicken meat and discard the rest.
  3. In a bowl put rice and 1 cup of water to soak. While it is soaking skim fat off the top of broth and remove usable meat from chicken.
  4. Add rice to chicken broth and salt and pepper to taste. Boil at least 20 minutes and then add shredded chicken. Remove from heat and let sit until soup thickens.
  5. Once soup has reached desired thickness heat through and serve.

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  • 9%
  • Protein:
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  • 24%
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  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
  2. Grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
  3. Place a steamer insert into a saucepan and fill with water to just below the bottom of the steamer. Cover pan and bring the water to a boil. Add asparagus, cover, and steam until just tender, 5 to 8 minutes.
  4. Heat olive oil in a large skillet; cook and stir mushrooms and onion until the mushrooms have given off their liquid, 5 to 8 minutes. Stir in the asparagus, tossing vegetables just until hot. Remove from heat.
  5. Mix saltine cracker crumbs, sharp Cheddar cheese, and black pepper together in a bowl; spread half the mixture into the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
  6. Spoon the asparagus mixture over the crumb mixture.
  7. Whisk the cream of mushroom soup and milk together in a bowl until smooth, and pour the soup mixture over the asparagus mixture.
  8. Spread the remaining crumb-cheese mixture over the casserole and sprinkle with pecans.
  9. Bake in the preheated oven until the casserole is bubbling, about 30 minutes.

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I will make this one again! I added some cooked chicken meat for a complete meal. And had no leftovers!

Served this at our Thanksgiving and it was a big hit. Followed the recipe as written.

Easy to put together Everyone loved it This is a keeper!. can't wait to try again.


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"The healthiest way to make fries is to bake them. It saves money and you can't beat the taste. I have been playing around with different ways to bake fries for some time now, and I feel this is the best recipe thus far. Baking time may vary depending on how thick you cut the fries. Enjoy!"
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  1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil; spray with cooking spray.
  2. Place sliced potatoes in a colander; sprinkle sugar over potatoes. Set aside until liquid is released from potatoes, 20 to 30 minutes. Drain liquid and dry potatoes well.
  3. Mix potato slices, olive oil, garlic powder, salt, and black pepper in a resealable bag until evenly coated. Spread coated potato slices in a single layer, leaving space around each potato, on the prepared baking sheet.
  4. Bake in the preheated oven for 20 minutes; flip fries and continue baking until crisp and browned, about 20 more minutes.

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  • When I cut the potatoes I make 3 cuts lengthwise, so I'm left with 4 ovals. Then each oval is sliced into 3 strips. The sugar releases the juices in the potatoes and allows them to crisp more, so don't leave out the sugar.

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We had these tonight and really liked them. They are good! I used russet potatoes because that's all I had on hand. I agree with the submitter that the sugar is necessary in this recipe and the...

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I haven't tried this yet. Sounds delicious but what is the purpose of the sugar?

We had these tonight and really liked them. They are good! I used russet potatoes because that's all I had on hand. I agree with the submitter that the sugar is necessary in this recipe and the...

These are great! They're really easy, quick to make and are delicious. Mine didn't take the full 20 minutes on the second side. Be sure not to forget the non-stick spray - I used foil on my pa...

Great French fry recipe. I made a half-batch for my DH and me and served them with 'Mom's Big Burgers', another AR recipe. The fries were the star of the meal. I liked the crispness of the fr...

The sugar releases the starch (liquid) in the potatoes and then you drain it off and dry them well. When you place them on the baking sheet be sure you place them in a single layer with space ar...

First, let me state that I hate oven fries. Most are a pale imitation of french fries and just not worth the effort. These are not like the others. They're super easy and quite tasty. I'm a fren...

I LOVE THESE! You must realize that no baked fry will ever be a fried fry, so don't expect that. These are exceptional compared to other baked fries I've tried from this site and this is now m...

This is definitely a 5-star recipe! I made 1/3 a batch---two larger Yukon potatoes is all. I used about 1 1/2 tablespoons of oil, a teaspoon each of sugar and garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon each ...

I used Russets and tossed them in the sugar in a mixing bowl, then into a colander for a rest as directed. Dried them with some paper towels then back into the bowl to toss with the salt, peppe...

These were excellent! Be careful not to leave them in too long - they get a little tough on the outside. They crisped up very well and the sugar was not noticeable at all. I added a few more s...


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