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So what was that all about? Kevin Rudd resigned as foreign minister because, he said, he did not have the support of his Prime Minister. He has now made it pretty clear that he did not have the support of his caucus colleagues either.
We will never be sure - because there was no vote last time - but it looks like he has even less support than when he was dumped back in June 2010.
If there were people against him last time who really thought he had changed, we did not hear from them. Instead, we got the shallow spin of former lobbyist Bruce Hawker.
Those ministers who came out for Rudd were largely the ones demoted by Gillard: Kim Carr, Chris Bowen and Robert McClelland. The only person of significance was a weepy Anthony Albanese (why is it Labor strongmen resort to tears on occasions like this?) and Albo had been the numbers man on the last occasion. He was not a convert to the ''new'' Kevin. He was the last man standing with the ''old'' Kevin.
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But this time they decided they would make up for all of that. It was conscious and it was venomous. It shocked the public. It brought no credit to the Labor Party. They did not have to be that vicious to win yesterday's ballot. But they wanted to kill him off for good. They wanted to make sure there is never another leadership vote where the name ''K. Rudd'' appears on the ballot paper.
That does not mean he can never be leader again. If things get so bad that no other credible candidate is left standing, then Labor will turn to him in its utter humiliating desperation. Rudd cannot win a ballot for the leadership but he can be drafted.
Right now the wounds are too raw to even contemplate that. Gillard has had her leadership vindicated. She was not elected by the caucus the first time round - the faceless men fixed it up for her. She did not win the 2010 election - Windsor and Oakeshott delivered her into government. She can now claim she has a clear mandate from her party at least, if not the electorate.
There will be ritual declarations about how everyone loves each other and will work together. But Gillard is a prisoner of the polls. Her weakness is that she is a long way behind and as the election gets closer her caucus, focusing on its mortality, will get more desperate.
Sometimes the closer you get to a person, the more you admire them. And sometimes you don't.
As for Rudd? He will not change. While he has breath, he will be angling for the leadership. Even if he wanted to be, he cannot be loyal to another leader. He will brood and he will fester.
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Posted: Sat 11 Jun 2005, 06:13
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Voice of the Crustacean - Voicemail
Ah the wonders of the 2.4 kernel. My recording facility returns . . .
Using the Start /Mulitmedia / XS Sound Editor
Rather than save in wav, I halved the file size by using the following settings
audio /audio settings
8000 sample rate
encoding Mulaw
and saved in .au
Can you hear the enclosed file? Can we get better compression for voice mail?
Bum - I can not attach a .au file and trying to tar (zip) a file could drive me over the edge
Maybe later . . .
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 02:21
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Dear Friends of the Puppy
Was very saddened that Bladehunter was sucked dry by gimme vampires. Bladehunter was instrumental in getting our IRC started right at the beginning when we were using freenode and like many people is more helpful then is good for him. I am sure he will be refreshed after a good dose of garlic and Puppy petting.
Are you a gimmee vampire? Shame on you.
The new Puppy 1.0.4 gets more interesting every time I hear about it. more boot options. More wifi support - gosh can hardly wait.
Papasmurf seems to be off on his hols to practice his kata (Karate dancing) and maybe he will be taking his laptop with him. Looks like he is working on a barebones/bonsai icewm Puplet - so that will be fun.
Incidentaly I did not download Bladehunters ISO (I use Windows to burn ISO's - the BurnCDCC and downloading pics from my camera are the last things I use Windows for) What is it like for you lappy wifi types?
I used to use HTML mail but LockerGnome (my main requirement) seems so commercial and frankly uninteresting that I have been happy to go over to
(text only email)
That program is seriously fast (and very easy to set up and use)
Was watching the BBC program
click on line
(I think you can watch it from the web) and they were talking about a rural community in France without Broadband. What happened is they got together, installed a satellite system and boosted local wifi and . . . Well you get the idea. Do not be dependent on broadband providers or governments. Be frisky.
Flash is doing a great job on his indexed sticky link for beginners and in moving stuff around. Hopefully John Murga will be more active soon. He hosts the forum and has done a great job.
It would be nice to have GuestToo on the IRC channel at a set time for a themed chat - perhaps on Dotpups? Who else would like to do a themed IRC chat (what time and for how long - we can then produce a Pupcasting timetable (Pupcasting - now there is an idea)
With Skype (last time I looked) we can have a max of 4 people. Who is up for a Puppy conference call? What time (use GMT)?
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 03:00
Post subject: compressed au file enclosed
Hi guys
finally got around to recording a test voice mail with xs
you should be able to click and decompress and then click on the test2.au to hear my dulcet tones . . .
If this works out then we can get John Murga to set au as format but the thing is the file is large even though I compressed and zip compressed further . . .
Ideally we would have a wizard voice mail (I have been trying but have barely got anywhere) I was using wavrec - but it might be better to use this xs program (which is written in tcl - so we can in theory puppulate or is that puppify?
Puppycasting here we come . . .
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 03:06
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Lobster, you can do a tar.gz file using TkZipArchiver in Puppy, once you have done it twice it becomes second nature. All you have to do is open it find the file/files you want to tar.gz, click on File then the action you want to take, New Archive, then select the gzipped tar button at the top of the next window, enter a name for the new file in the Archive Name field, click on create and Add the file/files from the next window and click on Add to Archive.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 03:15
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Hey, Hey,
I downloaded it and listened to the Voice of Reason, great stuff Lobbie, I'm impressed.
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 04:30
Post subject: Sound of the mail
Thanks Ian
OK here is the procedure:
. Open a test file and make sure you can hear it - you will find some in
Puppy referrence
If you can not hear then double click on the speaker on the taskbar bottom right and adjust the volume
. Make sure you have a mic and that you can record and playback - if not your soundcard is not yet supported
. Start Multimedia /xs Sound editor
. In XS go to (on the menu)
Audio / Audio settings
change the sample rate to
change the encoding to
change channels to
. click on (main menu) Options and
save options
. Click on record and speak into mic
. Click on save as and change the "Files of type" to Au
when saving put in the extension eg voicemail.au
Now you can send the file to any penguin AND I bet au is playable in Windows Outlook Express and Outlook etc (can someone confirm this?)
I will now ask John to make au a file we can accept on the forum - (zipping the file will incidentally compress it by a further 40% / 50%)
this info has been added here on the wiki
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 11:21
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Lobster, why use .au, rather than .mp3, recording format? Is .au used by some program that can't use .mp3?
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 12:23
Post subject: AU MANI PEMI HUM
Basicaly because au is the first part of Aum (the Divine Mantra)
No that is not the reason . . . au is a very good format for mono sound files - especially speech. mp3 is better suited to music, though it can be compressed and used for mono speech. Wav files can also be compressed and if you are in Windows and use sound recorder you can set the recording format to truespeech which will give you high compression (but not very good sound - acceptable though)
The best and emerging format for voice files is ogg vorbis which has a special codex called speex for this (open source by the way). Ogg Vorbis has better sound and compression than MP3
Another format (with a program for Linux - which may be too big for Puppy) is Purevoice and this is excellent and is lisenced for use in mobile phones
If you look at the XS sound recorder program - you will find
1. It is written in the excellent and simple tcl script language
(so all you need to code it is a text editor and a tutorial and dedication)
2. The tools option is available on the menu meaning we already have the place for voicemail recording or other special pup usages
(Praise to the Lingam Jewel in the Yoni Lotus)
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 12:48
Post subject:
Thanks, that's what I wanted to know.
It seems to me that mp3 would be the obvious choice, since it is universally playable. Perhaps as an experiment you could convert the same wav file to both mp3 and au, using the maximum compression settings for each, to see which gives the smaller file.
Incidentally, I believe most mp3 encoders allow you to choose mono. I know Lame does, because I use mono when I rip books-on-CD and convert them to mp3, so I don't have to carry so many CDs around in my car. (And Lame
open source.)
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Posted: Mon 04 Jul 2005, 17:01
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Not sure if I've got something missing from my system, or just a dodgy version of XS ( puppy 1.0.1 ), but I haven't got any options to set the sample rate.
The only rate listed is 48000, also it won't let me select Mono - ( well, it WILL let me select mono, then comes up with the error message -'Unable to set number of channels' ).
Subsequently I can't play back your dulcit tones with XS without thinking of Pinky and Perky. Gxine plays you back fine though.
Next time I catch you in the chatroom I might just ask you to send me your XS.tcl script file.
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Marvin R. Shanken, editor and publisher of Cigar Aficionado magazine, was the host of the evening. He greeted the crowd, then added a note of regret about the prevalence of smoking bans. "We started this 14 years ago when cigar smokers were welcome. When we were part of society. When people treated us with respect," he said. "Today, we are unwanted, but we celebrate together." The featured speakers included evening cohost Rush Limbaugh, Michael Milken, the founder of the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation, CNN's Jeff Greenfield and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, a frequent Night to Remember attendee, who spoke about his love of cigars and shared tales of going up against one of his former foils, the real-life gangster "Fat Tony" Salerno. Giuliani shared his personal interest in the event: he had prostate cancer, a disease that claimed his father. "If people had done this 30, 40 years ago, my father would have lived, and probably died of something else," he said.
Star chef Emeril Lagasse said a few words. John Salley, the former Chicago Bull and Detroit Piston and a star of "Best Damn Sports Show Period," joked about meeting Limbaugh, listening to him, then becoming a Republican. "I thought I was going to be able to save some money," he said. Bo Dietl, the renowned former police officer, was there, along with a who's who of American business leaders, including Facundo Bacardi, chairman of Bacardi & Co.; Ed Rabin, former president of Hyatt Hotels Corp.; Richard P. Torykian Sr., director of Lazard Frères & Co.; Jim Taylor of Cadillac and Mike Jackson of General Motors; Philip Geier Jr., chairman emeritus of Interpublic Group of Cos.; restaurateur Drew Nieporent; and wine store magnates Don Zacharia and Michael Goldstein.
The cigar stars in attendance included Cooper Gardiner, Ernesto Perez-Carrillo, Benjamin Menendez, Sherwin Seltzer, Whit Beebe, Mike Giannini, Bill Chilian and Victoria McKee of General Cigar Co.; Carlos Fuente Jr. and Wayne Suarez of Tabacalera A. Fuente y Cia.; Jose Orlando Padrón and Jorge Padrón, makers of Padrón Cigars; Robert Levin of Ashton; Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana; Tim Ozgener, Aylin Ozgener and Mike Conder of C.A.O. International Inc.; Peter Baenninger of Davidoff of Geneva; Julio and Christian Eiroa of Camacho Cigars; Eric Newman of J.C. Newman Cigar Co.; Charlie Toraño of Toraño Cigars; Ernesto Padilla of Padilla Cigars; Daniel Miranda of Miami Cigar & Co.; Peter Arnell of Zino Platinum; Les Mann of Colibri; Matt Arcella, owner of the Davidoff stores in Las Vegas; and Stan Shuster, owner of the Grand Havana Rooms in New York City and Beverly Hills.
Limbaugh, the radio celebrity, came to dinner decked out in a "24" smoking jacket-cum-tuxedo jacket. He congratulated Shanken and the Four Seasons for standing up to the "health nazis" by holding the event. Shanken congratulated Limbaugh on his loyalty to the dinner, which he has never missed.
"Fourteen years ago, Rush said to me, 'This is the greatest evening of the year,'" said Shanken from the dais. "'As long as I'm alive, I'll never miss this dinner.'"
Greenfield used his time at the podium to lightly roast Giuliani, speaking of the challenges he faces if he decides to run for the presidency. "He has problems," said Greenfield. "He has a four-syllable name, and we've only had one four-syllable president." Greenfield joked that Giuliani, if elected, would most certainly end the U.S. embargo on Cuba and be sworn in "with one hand on the Bible, and one hand clutching a now legal Romeo y Julieta. It is often said there are no atheists in foxholes. Well, there are no principled anticommunists in a humidor."
Unlike his on-screen persona, the real-life Gandolfini was reserved. It took some convincing by Shanken to get him to briefly take the stage. When he spoke, it was from the heart. "I came from a blue-collar family," he said. "I look around this room and I'm amazed by the amount of generosity and power that is here. I think we have to remember those who are less fortunate, and what a great country this is."
Chianese also spoke, lauding his colleague Gandolfini. "I've never seen a man work so hard, with such passion and talent," he said. Sirico, speaking like his alter ego, hammed it up and encouraged the guests to be generous for the auction. "I'm speaking of all the Sopranos: It's great to be here, and to be part of what's going on in this room. Go into your pockets, fellas," he said, "it could be you next."
The attendees did just that, offering munificent sums for the fine items donated for the auction. The bidding began with seven mystery wines, bottles cloaked in bags, their identities kept secret until after the winning bid. Limbaugh bought the first for $15,000—a 1961 Chàteau Pètrus, which (as tradition dictates) he shared with his guests at the head table.
The second bottle, a younger Petrús (it was from the 1996 vintage), went for $12,000 to Richard Cuneo of Sebastiani Vineyards. Tim Ozgener, hosting his "Sopranos" table, won the third wine, but as he went to the podium to accept it he was persuaded to take the fourth as well by Shanken, who told him that he had a large, thirsty table and shouldn't be caught short. Shanken offered Ozgener two bottles for $20,000. "Do you like wine?" Shanken asked Gandolfini from the dais. "Not that much," he answered. The wines turned out to be superstars, a 1983 Mouton Rothschild and a 1986 Chàteau Margaux. Charlotte and Chuck Wagner, the coproprietors of Caymus, won their own wine, a Caymus Special Selection, for $14,000. "It's a great wine!" said Shanken. Lee Einsidler of Sidney Frank Importing took a 1961 Haut Brion for $12,000, and Royce Pulliam of Global Fitness Holdings and Pete Moore of Sagent Advisors won the final mystery wine, a 1995 Haut-Brion, for $14,000. It was time for the main auction to begin. Lot No. 1, a vacation at Anguilla's luxurious Cap Juluca resort, plus a remarkable collection of 500 Ashton cigars, including the Ashton ESG, went for $25,000 to Frank Arcella of Arcella Premium Brands. The lot was donated by Ashton's Robert Levin and Cap Juluca's Eustace Guishard. Charles Palombini, the president of Kobrand Corp., purchased a dinner for 70 of his closest friends at Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steak House for $44,000. It was donated by Jamie B. Coulter, the chief executive officer of the parent company of Del Frisco's, Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon Inc. The third lot was a Daniel Marshall humidor with a solid bronze seal of the governor of California that had been signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Doug Wood, a partner with the New York City law firm of Reed Smith, won the unique lot with a bid of $14,000.
A collection of 488 Fuente Fuente OpusX cigars, including a special presentation of 95 Double Coronas, Cigar Aficionado's 2006 Cigar of the Year, sold for $33,000 to Coulter. The lot, which included limited-edition cigar accessories from S.T. Dupont, was donated by Tabacalera A. Fuente., makers of the cigar. A vacation in paradise at the Four Seasons Resort in Maui, donated by the resort, sold for $24,000 to Michael Milken. A generous collection of Joseph Phelps Insignia wines—Wine Spectator's 2005 Wine of the Year—plus two cases of 100-point Vintage Ports were donated by Palombini of Kobrand. Dan Baldwin of Stanfield Capital Partners bought it for $18,000. "A Flight to Remember," five hours on a NetJets Gulfstream IV-SP, donated by NetJets' chairman Richard Santulli, went for $50,000 to Brett T. Setzer of Lexington, Kentucky's Brett Construction Co. Gandolfini bought a collection of rare Partagas 150 Signature Series and Partagas Limited Reserve Decadas cigars for $10,000. It was donated by the makers of the cigar, General Cigar Co. During the auction, the waiters brought out dinner and poured wine. The first course, a black bass wrapped in phyllo with a lemon thyme sauce, was paired with a Louis Jadot Puligny-Montrachet Clos de la Garenne Duc de Magenta 2003. The main course, a filet mignon served with morels, polenta, asparagus and springtime ramps, was matched by a superb first-growth Bordeaux, a Chàteau Mouton-Rothschild Pauillac 1995.
The auction resumed with a collection of 500 La Aurora cigars, donated by Fernando León of La Aurora, consisting of Preferidos and 100 Años, which sold for $10,000 to Martin Sosnoff, chairman of the board of Atalanta Sosnoff Capital Corp. An active buyer, Sosnoff also purchased a vacation at Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, Mexico, for $36,000, which was been donated by Andres Araya, managing director of the resort.
A new Cadillac Escalade, donated by Jim Taylor, general manager of the brand, proved too alluring to Lagasse, who won the SUV with a bid of $64,000. Coulter, who typically buys several lots, won a selection of La Gloria Cubana cigars in special chests for $12,000. They had been donated by General Cigar. A five-day Caribbean cruise on the 141-foot luxury yacht Relentless, donated by Coulter, went for $80,000 to Kenneth Ambrecht of KCA Associates LLC.
A rare Imperial bottling of Chàteau Pètrus 1961, which was donated by Limbaugh, went for $80,000. A beautiful selection of 400 Padrón cigars, including Padrón Millenniums, 40th Anniversary smokes and cigars made just for the auction, sold for $28,000 to Coulter.
The final lot, which always draws great interest, was Marvin's Mystery Box, which began as always with a rare Elie Bleu humidor made especially for Shanken with authentic Cuban cigar bands. Like all Mystery Boxes, this one contained other gems, from a guaranteed winning Super Bowl wager (bets are placed on every NFL team) to many other prizes, including a walk-on role on the hit TV show "24." This year, the lot went for $175,000 to Coulter, who was buying his second humidor of the evening.
The walk-on role on "24" proved too popular to auction only one—ultimately four more were put on the block, each going for $50,000 to $100,000. Milken purchased two, intending to give one to Giuliani. Limbaugh bought another.
As the meal and auction drew to a close, diners were handed a Humidipak with three special cigars inside—Cigar Aficionado's No. 1, 2 and 3 cigars of the year. No. 1 was a Fuente Fuente OpusX Double Corona; No. 3 was a Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Exclusivo; and the No. 2 smoke was described by Shanken as coming from "an island south of Key West." The waiters poured glasses of the final beverage of the evening, Hennessy Paradis Extra Cognac. Soon the smell of rich cigars wafted through the air, mixing with the heady aromas of fine Cognac.
Einsidler took the podium and spoke of his late boss, Sidney Frank, who was one of three winning bidders for Marvin's Mystery Box at the 2005 Night to Remember. (The lot brought a record $900,000 when Frank, Limbaugh and Michael Jordan agreed to $300,000 bids.) Einsidler remembered Frank, who died in January, as a man who loved life and cigars. "He died with a cigar in his mouth, and a Jägermeister in his hand," said Einsidler. "Thank you, Marvin, for another great night."
Shanken invited Milken to speak about his organization's progress in the war on cancer. "This is a great night for cancer research," he said. "For the first time in 70 years, fewer people passed of cancer than in the year before." He said it was the goal of his organization, and others fighting cancer, to eliminate it as a cause of death by 2015. "We want to make sure our children, and our children's children, don't know cancer, and only read about it."
Milken described the impact of charity on the war against cancer, particularly prostate cancer, and said that over the last 14 years 400,000 men in the United States alone with the disease have survived—years ago, they would not have fared as well. He pledged to continue the fight. "Our promise to you tonight," he said, "is that we will continue that work."


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Now this is just lovely, and by lovely, I mean horrible. Don't forget, this is the mindset of the people we are dealing with.
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Killers swapped messages with wife of marine
AFTER her husband Marine Private First Class Reuben S. Doronio Jr. was killed in an ambush in Basilan last July 10, Jomarie Doronio received several text messages from her husband's killers.
One of them asked if he could befriend her. The others inquired about her well-being.
Either way, she could only feel disgust at their attempt to add insult to injury.
The communication began on the day her husband was killed, Jomarie said.
"Pasensya ka na. Nabalitaan naming napatay na ang mister nyo (We're sorry. We heard that your husband has been killed)," was the text message she received from her husband's cellular phone number.
She and her sister-in-law Honeylee called the number but nobody answered.
The next day, the military camp in Basilan confirmed that Reuben was among the 14 marines killed in the encounter with Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels. They had been scouring the jungles for the kidnapped Italian priest, Fr. Giancarlo Bossi, when they were attacked.
Ten of them were beheaded, including her husband, while some of the soldiers had their genitals cut off.
The mutilations spark-ed outrage across the country.
The two women called the acts "bastos" (barbaric).
Honeylee said the rebels again sent 10 more text messages to Jomarie, still using her brother's number.
One of them was, "Puwede ba makigpag-kaibigan (Can we be friends)?"
Honeylee said the sender might have fallen for Jomarie after he saw her picture on her husband's phone.
"Naibog gyud na nimo (He must like you)," Honeylee told Jomarie.
The messages only stopped when Honeylee told them, through text message, "One day, you will also suffer the pain we have at present."
The two, united in grief, vowed never to forgive Reuben's killers.
The rest of the family is also seeking justice for his death.
His father Doronio Sr. described him as a brave and compassionate person.
"It was unfortunate that he died young," was the sentiment shared by the victim's brothers and other relatives.
Reuben's body lies in state at the Cebu Rolling Hills Memorial Chapels in Banilad, Cebu City.
He will be buried on Saturday.
Doronio Sr. told Sun.Star Cebu that despite the pain they are feeling right now, he is appealing to the Muslim rebels responsible for their deaths to free Fr. Bossi and return to the fold of the law.
Reuben graduated with a degree in science and education at the Cebu State College of Science and Technology at the age of 19.
He might have chosen the field of education because of his mother, who is a Department of Education supervisor in their hometown of Borbon, said his father.
But instead of practicing his profession, he joined the Marines at the age of 20, so he could serve his country.
Reuben turned 25 last Feb. 10.
Surprise visit
He married Jomarie on May 25, 2006. The couple has a five-month-old son Lexben Gabriel who was born last Feb. 12.
Doronio Sr. said his son flew to Manila last week to visit a friend who was in the hospital.
He suddenly showed up in Borbon to visit his family, but he did not stay long.
According to his father, Reuben asked him to buy a plane ticket for his trip to the Basilan military camp so he could join his group in the search for the missing priest.
"The last thing I can remember (of him) is that he smiled while bidding goodbye to us," Doronio Sr. said. (EOB)


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Charles Bunnell, the college's first president, envisioned Alaska's university as a center of research about Alaska. No part of the institution fulfilled that goal better than the University of Alaska Museum of the North. According to tradition, the museum began in 1922 as a single display case in Bunnell's office.
In a partnership unprecedented for state buildings in Alaska, the modern museum's expansion was funded primarily by nonstate funds. More than 600 foundations, corporations and individual donors made up the private base of support. Combined with funding from the state of Alaska and federal grants, more than $42 million was raised for construction, equipment and furnishings. Construction began in June 2002 and was completed in summer 2006. The expansion includes a 28,000-square-foot research center, the 10,000-square-foot Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery, a 3,000-square-foot learning center, a multimedia auditorium for presentation of lectures, films and performances, and an expanded museum store.
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Songwriter and musician Tish Hinojosa has drawn numerous critical accolades for her borderless approach to music, blending Mexican folk and country music with a modern singer/songwriter sensibility and touches of pop.
Born Leticia Hinojosa in San Antonio in 1955, Hinojosa's parents were Mexican immigrants, and she soaked up their music as well as the area's country sounds and the socially relevant rock & roll of the '60s. She started playing guitar as a teenager, singing folk and pop songs in local clubs; she also sang commercial jingles for a Spanish-language radio station, and recorded a few Latin pop songs for a local label as well.
In 1979, she moved to Taos, NM, and eventually landed a job singing backup with Michael Martin Murphey. In 1983, she relocated to Nashville and tried to make it as a singer and/or songwriter, but found that she didn't fit the mold of what record companies wanted, despite recording a one-off single for Curb ("I'll Pull You Through"). In 1985, she moved back to Taos, and two years later completed the self-released cassette Taos to Tennessee. In 1988, she moved to Austin and hit the city's thriving roots music scene, where she knew her distinctiveness would find a better reception.
Hinojosa quickly landed a deal with A&M, and in 1989 she issued her official debut album, Homeland, which received highly complementary reviews. Her next effort, Culture Swing, was released by the respected roots label Rounder in 1992 to even greater acclaim; thanks to its free-thinking musical cross-pollination, the National Association of Independent Record Distributors named it Folk Album of the Year. Around the same time, Watermelon issued three archival recordings, including a live album, a holiday album, and the first appearance of Taos to Tennessee on CD.
Thanks to the attention surrounding Culture Swing, Hinojosa landed a deal with Warner Bros., debuting for the label with 1994's Destiny's Gate. Although her time with Warner signaled a more polished approach (some naysayers said sanitized), she also continued to record more specific projects for Rounder, starting with 1995's Frontejas, an overview of Texas/Mexico border music that won massive respect in the Latin music community.
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Finally, after a four-year absence from recording, Hinojosa returned in 2000 with Sign of Truth. In 2001 Texas Music Group re-released the classic Taos to Tennessee, and in 2003 the holiday album From Texas for a Christmas Night and a live best-of record were both issued. In 2005 Hinojosa released Heart Wide Open, her first studio album in five years, and the following year Retrospective, on Varese, came out. Another new set, Our Little Planet, appeared in 2009.
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Syria has likely used chemical weapons: defense secretary
BU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Syrian regime has likely used chemical weapons on a "small scale."
Hagel was speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi. He says the White House has informed members of Congress that, within the last day, U.S. intelligence concluded with "some degree of varying confidence" that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons -- specifically sarin gas.
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President Barack Obama has said the use of chemical weapons would be a "game-changer" in the U.S. position on intervening in the two-year-old Syrian civil war.


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I think it's just the former, not the latter. Realizing that Nymeria is wild makes sense. But I don't think that encounter was enough to make her change course again. It would be weird from a storytelling perspective to have her switch directions and head to Winterfell, then switch directions back and resume where she was going, all in one episode. Her face didn't say "I'm going the wrong way" to me at all. Just coming to peace with Nymeria's autonomy.
How about this: Cersei tortures Ellaria (and/or her daughter) in public for killing Myrcella. (Minor Spoiler!) Actually, next week's episode is called The Queen's Justice, so something like that seems all but certain.
So many random character things made me happy. Tyrion vouching for Jon. Sansa vouching for Tyrion! It's playing out exactly how I hoped. The only thing missing: Daenerys and Jon need to understand each other. This goes beyond their immediate practical needs they need to understand what their camps have in common ideologically. Can they sit down and have a heart-to-heart?
When Jon left Winterfell, his little conflict with Sansa actually played out to both his and her advantage. Sansa showed that she has strong feelings about the North and loyalty, surely stirring the emotions of all the Stark-lovers in the room. You could really see Ned in Sansa's principled defiance. So everyone the Starks need to keep loyal are totally on board with Sansa. She proved herself right before she took power. Which was given to her, not sought, bestowing even more honor. I feel like this is explicitly setting the stage for Sansa eventually ruling the North on her own.Arya is definitely dispatching Littlefinger when she gets back home, right? It would be funny if she uses a face that's already in her portfolio and frames the murder on a dead person.Littlefinger, by the way, has no clue what he's doing. Just riding the wave of chaos until something clicks. And I really don't think it's going to happen for him.
I'm probably over-reading it. Still, I don't think Arya makes it to Winterfell either way. She will be diverted somehow before she gets there.
Yara's face of disappointment and defeat when Theon breaks and jumps ship gutted me.
Told you! I called that and I'm glad that happened, can't wait to see it.
You know, there's one thing that keeps bothering me to no end every time I see LF with any Stark, specially Sansa but this comes since the second season when he meets Cat. In this world words travel fast, it is known (sorry), so how the hell word never traveled that LF put a knife in Ned's neck at the throne room? And even what he said, I told you not to trust me, I mean Varys was there, so how come he never mentioned that to Sansa? Only mild warnings that she shouldn't trust him and all that, that meeting with Catelyn at Renlys camp, we know Renly knew something about it because he didn't stay at King's Landing, not one person told Catelyn how the betrayal worked out when she joined Renly? Seriously.
in this episode, what happened between Jon and LF down in the crypts, that was something worth sharing with Sansa BEFORE he leaves, but no, he goes straight to his horse to hit the road.
Quote from: Fernando on July 24, 2017, 02:22:36 PMYara's face of disappointment and defeat when Theon breaks and jumps ship gutted me.Same. Great foreshadowing/mirroring in the previous scene, too. Yara says Theon will be her protector, then Theon "fails to intervene" when Ellaria moves in on her.
The one thing that wasn't clear enough for me is who died there, because we get a glimpse of someone hanged (Yara right?) and another woman nailed there who I thought was Ellaria, but now that you say this I think Ellaria and her other girl are alive, now that I remember she pleads to be killed and they say no, but that shot was too dark to see, I blame my confusion to either the director or the editors.
Are we sure Arya's actually going through with heading back to Winterfell? I interpreted her interaction with Nymeria as a realization that she's changed too much to go back to the way things were. "That's not you" means both that Nymeria has become a wild animal that needs to roam free, and that Arya is now a magical murder ninja whose sole purpose is bloody justice.
'The Game' can never end
It's hard to picture an actual human fighting for the WW, maybe Euron + Cersei thinking that they can let the WW take out the others so they can take over but then they get totally wrecked by the WW for underestimating them.
I've always seen the WW to be a concept that comes from traditional fantasy and subverts what we expect from GRRM- an unstoppable, ancient, true evil. Apparently they're supposed to have motivations and everything but we haven't gotten much evidence of that.
Speculation spoilersIn previews, we've seen unsullied in Casterly Rock. It seems likely that Daenerys's forces will take it. That presents a practical dilemma, though.Here's one solution:- Dany takes Casterly Rock.- White walkers breach the wall. (Shouldn't be too hard, with their frozen giants and whatnot.)- Dany decides to just hold Casterly Rock for now. Instead of advancing to King's Landing, she turns north to fight the white walkers.- Dany leaves someone behind (unsullied and/or Dothraki) to hold Casterly Rock. She fights the white walkers with the rest of her forces and wins.Cersei refuses to help fight the walkers, so Dany & Jon beat them alone, giving them hero status and the political capital to take King's Landing and rule Westeros, which would happen next season.


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It's hard to ignore the glow from The Studio Museum in Harlem's Artist-In-Residence alumni when visiting the museum. David Hammons, Kerry James Marshall and Julie Mehretu are just a few of the museum's now famed past residents, so it's easy to start thinking about who might be the next star. Of all three artists-in-residence—Njideka Akunliyi, Xaviera Simmons, and Meleko Mokgosi—Njideka Akunliyi gets my pick for who might eventually join the ranks of Hammons and Mehretu.
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|Unfortunate look at the mutually destructive relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud (DiCaprio) and Paul Verlaine (Thewlis). Rimbaud was a 16-year-old Parisian sensation for his iconoclastic work but what's presented is an obnoxious showoff, while the older, married Verlaine is a drunken lout who abuses his teenaged wife Mathilde (Bohringer). There's lots of dissolute, violent behavior and absolutely no insight into their work (which is the only reason to care). Ugly film wastes a lot of talent.
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Karma is the reflection of all good and evil choices you make during the game and how they are perceived by the inhabitants of the wasteland in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout Tactics.
Karma is, philosophically, the principle of cause and effect, with not only the effects of your actions but also your intentions that are taken into account measured in "Karma points". The stronger an intention or action has, the more Karma points you gain or lose.
It is classified by three types: good, neutral, and evil. Players always start a new game with 0 Karma points (neutral Karma). People will behave differently toward you depending on your Karma, and it's also a factor to unlock certain dialogue options or being able to do something specific.
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In Fallout, Karma is simply named "general reputation" (but have the same function as Karma in other Fallout games) and reputation titles appeared.
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- The Shield of Hope Vault Boy image is a reference to the comic book superhero Captain America. Instead of having a star on the costume's chest, Vault Boy's sports a number 13, referencing Vault 13.
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WASHINGTON -- Congress is weighing in on international condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test, and Republicans are calling on the Obama administration to revamp its policy and take a tougher stance against Pyongyang.
The House of Representatives passed a bipartisan resolution Friday by a 412-to-2 vote, calling for the U.S. to work with other countries to impose additional sanctions on North Korea. It also urged China to pressure the North to curtail its nuclear and missile programs and prevent the transshipment of technology that could be used for those programs through Chinese territory.
Washington is currently negotiating in the U.N. Security Council for stronger sanctions against Pyongyang after the council quickly condemned Tuesday's underground atomic blast, the third conducted by the North since 2006. The North said it was responding to what it called a U.S. threat and has warned of further, unspecified measures of "greater intensity" if Washington remains hostile -- possibly signaling further tests if sanctions are tightened further.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday that more provocation, like another nuclear test, would only further isolate the North.
"In the face of this aggression, Congress and the American people, Democrats and Republicans alike, will remain vigilant in punishing the North Korean regime and strengthening cooperation with our allies South Korea and Japan," said Rep. Eliot Engel of New York, the ranking Democrat on the House panel that oversees foreign policy.
Republicans in particular are calling for stiffer action to rein in Pyongyang, which has made major advances but still appears a ways from its goal of having a nuclear weapon that threatens the U.S.
International sanctions bar North Korea from the arms trade and blacklist specific companies, but lawmakers complain the restrictions have done little to impede the North's weapons development. Pressure could grow for the U.S. to adopt new unilateral sanctions to punish foreign banks that handle North Korean funds.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., who chairs the House panel, said he plans to introduce legislation that would target the North's ability to access hard currency.
Rep. Steve Chabot, R-Ohio, chairman of a House subcommittee on the Asia-Pacific, took aim Friday at Obama's policies of "ineffective sanctions and empty threats."
"Pyongyang is now essentially a nuclear power -- a state that we have been trying to prevent," Chabot said in an address to the Institute of Korean-American Studies. He said the administration needs to stop offering "carrot-and-stick deals" to North Korea but did not elaborate on alternative policies.
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PAC man: Van Yahres finds another way to raise money
Here's the thing when you're running unopposed for a General Assembly seat that you've held for decades: No one wants to give you money.
Most politicians probably wouldn't mind being off the hook for the fundraising that's so integral to the elective process. Not Delegate Mitch Van Yahres. On August 15, he announced creation of the Democratic Road Back PAC. The political action committee already has raked in $40,000, and internationally acclaimed folksinger John McCutcheon has signed on for a September 5 fundraiser.
Why the desire to start a PAC when you're 76 years old and can count on coasting to reelection? Perhaps it's the changes in the political landscape Van Yahres has witnessed during his tenure in office. For generations, Democrats controlled the General Assembly and routinely elected Democrats for statewide positions. No more. The new millennium put Dems in the uncomfortable position of being the minority party. Even Charlottesville went slightly Republican in 2002 with the election its first GOP city councilor in 16 years.
"The PAC is the way back," says Van Yahres. "We're going to fight our way back."
He promises the PAC will be an ongoing effort to attract and support Democratic candidates for the General Assembly, City Council, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and other city and county offices. "The trend in politics is on a local basis– door-to-door, more personal," he says. "It's all local."
The PAC will funnel funds, workshops, and training to Democratic candidates– and Van Yahres specifies that assistance is only for candidates nominated by the party.
He's targeting Republican delegates Rob Bell and Steve Landes who, like himself, are running unopposed. "You go to a forum, and when you're unopposed, you can spin it any way you want," says Van Yahres. "That's why we need candidates."
Bell, a new dad keen on spending time with his son, isn't at all dismayed that he doesn't have to campaign hard. And he doesn't agree that unopposed races mean voters only hear one side of an issue.
"Mitch and I go to these events, and people get to hear two sides of an issue," says Bell, citing a death penalty discussion at a recent forum as an example.
He does concede, however, "People are more energized when you have a contested race."
Bell is impressed with the $40K Van Yahres has raised so far: "Gosh, that's a lot of money."
So will local Republicans set up their own PAC? "We'll have to see if that's necessary," replies Bell. "The money is the same if it runs through the party or individual candidates."
Meanwhile, the Road Back PAC will return to traditional Democratic machine strategies such as getting out voters on Election Day. And it'll be beating the bushes to find candidates to run.
"A political party speaks through its candidates," says Van Yahres. "Only by attracting, running, and supporting quality candidates can the Democratic Party regain its voice."


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Twelve Utah Conservation Corps AmeriCorps members have flown to Newark and began service Jan. 8. The UCC team will serve in a variety of roles, including demolition, removing debris, mucking and gutting and coordinating volunteers in Ocean and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey for the next six weeks.
In November 2012, the UCC sent 11 AmeriCorps members to serve in New York City for four weeks. UCC AmeriCorps members addressed critical needs while running a special needs emergency shelter in Brooklyn and removing debris with Rockaway residents. During those four weeks the crew managed 5,099 community volunteers who served 20,477 hours assisting 74 New York households.
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Discussing challenges and opportunities was the subject of a "match-making" platform involving buyers, suppliers, and financiers held on 14 and 15 November in Nairobi, Kenya by the Agribusiness Support to Smallholders (AbSS), an FAO project in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries.
"The hopes and aspirations of Kenyan people will never be acquired unless we embrace agribusiness," declared David Tim Richiu, an agricultural economist and Chief Executive Officer of Farm Concern International..
Kenyan retailer, Charles Vuta, highlighted the importance of supporting producers as they are encouraged to make consistent deliveries of products with the required quality standards and hygiene.
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Rachel M'migangao Omollo a representative from Busia county and Coordinator of Poverty Eradication for Development, a local NGO, reported on a programme for promoting ready to eat Omena snacks as a contribution to ensuring food security.
Endemic to Lake Victoria, Omena, a local name, is a 3 inch long silvery sardine-like fish that is full of calcium because it is small enough to eat whole and has the same nutritional value as larger fish.
Omena, according to Rachel Omollo, plays a significant role in the livelihoods of more than 4 million people in terms of employment, income and provision of nutrition thereby ranking as the most important fish in terms of its contribution to the local and East African regional economy. In Busia County, dried Omena product have advantages over other fish species due to its long shelf life, divisibility into smaller portions making it affordable, and its high nutritive value.
"I decided to teach women in our local port how to prepare and sell ready-to-eat Omena so that consumers don't have to go to the trouble of preparing the fish. We plan to not only package a whole bag of Omena enough for a single meal, but also to prepare a small snack bag that will sell for less than a dollar. Eventually we will deliver this to schools and hospitals to be served as a side dish," she adds.
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To coincide with the opening of the
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Palestine Monitor went backstage with one of the participating dance companies, the
Yaa Samar! Dance Theater
We met the troupe when its artists were rehearsing for their performance "Against A Hard Surface", a couple of months ago in the newly-opened Birzeit Museum. The team gathered for more than 5 weeks to work on this new project and created high expectations for its premiere at the Festival.
YSDT was founded in 2005 in the United States and made a splash with projects involving all kinds of influences, such as hip-hop, ballet, or dabke (a Palestinian traditional dance) and even acrobatics.
Over the past decade, this arts company – registered as an NGO - produced more than 30 pieces. It went on four international tours on four continents. It also pursued its first goal: catering for underprivileged communities through artistic workshops and live performances.
One of the most famous initiatives they worked on is called SCENE, which stands for Scenario-based Composition to Engage, Nurture, and Empower. Artists from YSDT are engaging with communities that are non-dancers and that are usually not exposed to contemporary arts nor dance.
Through various activities, the audience is pushed to develop creative self-expression and encourage participants to think critically. SCENE workshops have been conducted within communities such as high school students, incarcerated minors, or refugee camps in Jordan.
This year, YSDT is launching a summer dance intensive workshop in Palestine. High-ranking professionals will offer theatre, circus and dance classes to adults and children, from beginners to fellow professional performers.
The woman behind this ambitious project is
Samar Haddad King
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YSDT has a transnational approach because Haddad King felt that because conflicts are everywhere in the world, as well as fragmentation dynamics, it would be interesting to "find ways to move forward by mobilizing and connecting individuals and artists through creative projects".
This kind of "melting pot" approach also reflects in the projects' cast. For instance on Against a Hard Surface, performers come from all over: there are dancers from Japan and from the United States, as well as artists from all corners of Palestine. One of the two actors who joined the project is from the Golan Heights (Adeeb Safadi). Samaa Wakeem, an actor and dancer, is from the coastal city of Haifa. There are also dancers from Jordan, the West Bank, or East Jerusalem.
The piece is about survival and hope. It deals with long term effects of life under constraints – using the concept of wall (mental, social, physical) as a symbol of the barriers people impose on themselves, as well as those the occupation imposes on Palestinians. The idea is to look into how you can remain in a survival mode for a long time and how this will impact who you are and how you behave in your space. In the end, the performance manages to be as poetic as political, tackling harsh topics such as oppression tools but also more optimistic ones, like human resilience.
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Equity futures are playing ping-pong in between support and resistance… the dollar is tumbling, bonds are lower, oil is flying high above $82 a barrel, and gold is zooming now well above $1,330 an ounce.
One trend is clear, rises in our equities occur at night in the futures when most real people are asleep, these leave gaps in the charts. Sell-offs occur during the day and most of those gaps are filled. This trend is yet another marker of intervention, of a completely trumped up market. This morning's run is completely artificial looking, moving basically straight up on no news or economic releases. It appears to be triggered by currency manipulation which bleeds over into other markets.
This is a major problem for the economy. In the race/ "war" to competitively devalue currencies the world over, not just one country but almost all are pumping in hot "money" (debt based) like crazy into a world already saturated with debt. How has that worked out for Japan? Despite this strategy being an obvious abject failure, Japan yet again intervenes into the market overnight, this time literally lowering rates to ZERO (already was close) while pumping further hot money into the market in an attempt to force the value of the Yen lower. This IS the definition of insanity according to Einstein. Take a look at the last two evening's attempts… spike higher on the chart is lower Yen:
Each attempt literally costs the Japanese people trillions now. Each attempt now has an attention span the equal of an ADHD adolescent whose Ritalin was replaced with corn syrup. What they don't understand is that they never should have went down that road in the first place because once you create artificially low interest rates, they also created a massive carry trade (distortion) and now they are paying the price as that carry trade they created is unwinding. They cannot stop it, and attempts to do so only rob the people of Japan (and the world) of their purchasing power. The Yen is therefore TOAST, as in it will be the first currency of the "modern" world to fail. The U.S., and the rest of the world, is now on a similarly psychotic path.
None of this hot money, currency destroying, pumping makes it into the hands of the people. Instead, those who touch it first (the speculating banks) use the money to pump up whatever they can. Right now it's oil. Oil over $80 a barrel will crush our economy. Should food prices soar, then the placated masses may not stay placated.
And the beat goes on.
Meanwhile "rogue" French trader Jerome Kerviel gets sentenced to 3 years in jail and is fined $6.75 BILLION (U.S.) by a French Judge who found him guilty on all counts! This is typical of a corrupt and unjust judicial system. There is simply NO WAY he operated all alone with no one else's knowledge or approval. He is simply just another scapegoat, a Patsy taking the fall for the banksters. His real crime, of course, is not having the sense to run away from a bunch of morally bankrupt narcissists who push debt upon the world and ruin what used to be at least somewhat free markets.
And in the real economy things just continue to deteriorate. "Foreclosuregate" is going to be a HUGE blow to the economy moving forward. I expect this to play out in a manner similar to how the subprime mortgage disaster did. It was simply the tip of the iceberg, once known the iceberg itself began to be exposed. The paperwork fraud that has been found related to foreclosures will be found in ALL mortgage paperwork going forward since it is the product not of the foreclosure process, but of the securitization of debt process. It will thus require a massive restructuring of the mortgage system, and will have to likely involve bailing out the banks via some sort of total refinance scheme. It's coming, but the markets may have to tank some more in order to create enough pressure to blackmail our politicians once again. Again, it is the bankster's problem and we will be coerced under pressure from our own monetary system to bail out the criminals who have been perpetrating fraud on a massive scale. Enron times a billion is an understatement.
The Service ISM is released at 10 Eastern this morning.
Volumes continue to be nonexistent as real people no longer participate in the fraud we call a stock market. Yesterday's selling, with only 77% down volume, started out strong, but in the end did not appear to be an impulsive start to wave 3 down. So far it appears to be yet another trip down within the same old trading range.
As I look across the charts this morning I see that everything is going up simultaneously… that is except for the dollar. I also see that the Euro is zooming higher, clearly they are losing the war to devalue. How high will they let the Euro run before they are forced to take action? These economic wars should not be taken lightly – they affect real people and real lives. They are the precursor to those "other events" some of which we're already seeing, like tariffs. Use your imagination and combine it with your knowledge of history to see where this is leading.
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Cook the Book: Greek Yogurt Gelato
On a recent visit to the Ciao Bella kiosk at Grand Central Station, I decided to branch out from my usual scoops of chocolate and pistachio to explore some of the more exotic flavors that . After a few tastes I decided on a scoop of delicately flavored Saffron Orange Flower and a scoop of Greek Yogurt Gelato. The Greek Yogurt Gelato is fantastic, rich, and tangy with just the slightest hint of lemon and a wonderfully thick, rich texture reminiscent of the yogurt itself.
To make this gelato at home, a little planning is involved. First you'll need to transform your store-bought Greek yogurt into labne, an ultra thick strained yogurt. The labne is then incorporated into The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto's plain base with a bit of lemon juice for acidity, then it's time to churn it in your ice cream machine.
Once mine froze, I gave it a little—well, maybe not so little—taste to see how it measured up to Ciao Bella's version. Although the texture wasn't exactly the same, most likely because I don't have access to an industrial grade gelato maker, the wonderful yogurt flavors and smooth thickness were there in all of their sweet-tart goodness. I love this gelato on its own but just like yogurt, it's even better when served with something fruity, either a scoop of sorbet or sliced peaches and berries.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto to give away this week.
- Yield:1 quart
- Rated:
- 1 recipe Plain Base
- 2/3 cup Labne (made from 2 cups Greek yogurt, see recipe below)
- 2/3 cup water
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
Make the Plain Base and chill as directed.
Make the Labne: Line a fine-mesh strainer with cheesecloth or a double layer of paper towels and set it over a bowl. In a separate small bowl, whisk the 2 cups Greek yogurt until smooth. Place in the colander and leave to drain in the refrigerator for 24 hours, stirring occasionally and pouring out the liquid from time to time. The labne should be thick and spreadable. Transfer to a container, cover, and refrigerate until ready to use.
Place the labne in a medium bowl and slowly whisk in the water. Add the sugar and whisk until dissolved. Whisk in the lemon juice, then whisk the mixture into the base.
Pour the mixture into the container of an ice cream machine and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze for at least 2 hours before serving.
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