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Interview date: 01/07/2009
Run date: 01/22/2009
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With the exception of a few indie films and a couple of TV appearances, we haven't seen a great deal of Chris Kattan since his departure from "Saturday Night Live." All that will be changing this summer, however, when his new IFC comedy miniseries, "Bollywood Hero," premieres on IFC. The three-part series finds Kattan playing an exaggerated version of himself as he decides to give up on the frustrating world of Hollywood and travel to India in an attempt to prove his mettle as a Bollywood star. I had a chance to sit down with Kattan in person while out at the TCA Press Tour in Los Angeles (along with executive producer Belisa Balaban), and we talked about his work on "SNL" and in "Monkeybone" and "House on Haunted Hill," as well as his interest in playing Buster Keaton in a future film project, but, mostly, we talked about "Bollywood Hero." The guy's really excited about it, and it's hard to blame him, but you'll definitely notice a trend where he brings any and every topic of conversation back to his latest project.
Chris Kattan: So how long are you out here?
Bullz-Eye: The full duration of the tour. I leave on the 17th to fly home.
CK: Oh, so you do have some time to go do something. Do you like L.A.?
BE: Yeah, I've only really been out here for work, it seems like, so I don't really get to do a whole lot, but I'm planning to head over to Largo on Friday night.
CK: Oh, that'll be great.
BE: Yeah, I've never seen Jon Brion, but I've been a fan since the Grays.
CK: Wow, and you've never seen him? He's great. He's a good friend. I saw a play there, at Largo, that Paul (Thomas Anderson) did there, with Maya (Rudolph) and Fred Armisen. That was good.
Belisa Balaban: It's a great space. It's much more comfortable than the old Largo…although I've heard from some musicians that the acoustics aren't necessarily as good.
CK: Now, do you want this (the recorder) closer to her, too? Because she's going to be speaking as well.
BB: I'm just here to…
CK: No, you're not.
BB: Yes, I am. I'm just here as back-up.
BE: Well, if you leave it where it is, it should be able to pick up both of you. But, Chris, if you want to slide it closer to her when she's chiming in on something, that probably couldn't hurt.
CK: Okay, we'll do that.
BE: So how did "Bollywood Hero" come about? What was the creative process? Did you have a hand in the creation of the show itself?
CK: Well, initially, it came from Belisa and her partner, Ted (Skillman), and my friend, Carmen Cuba, who's a casting director. They were looking for a Bollywood hero, someone who's obviously funny and physical, someone who could be a physical comedian but who was also a human being and not a crazy jackass kind of person. (Laughs) Not that there's anything wrong with that. But when they told me about the project, it really appealed to me, not only because it was a good idea but also because, basically, the idea is about an extension of Chris Kattan. Like, I'm playing myself, but it's really like how Larry David was doing "Curb Your Enthusiasm." He wasn't exactly playing Larry David, but it was a part of him that's funny to laugh at, and one that he's comfortable playing. So that's what I'm doing with this. I'm not doing a character. I'm doing it kind of the way Albert Brooks played himself in films, or Woody Allen, or Adam Sandler, those personas where they're very charming and funny, but I'm also able to be very physical. I incorporated the idea that, y'know, what if it was a guy loosely based on reality but not quite me, and if I were to believe that I could be a romantic lead? I'm a huge fan and a lover of great movies, the kind of great films they don't make any more, like the MGM musicals or the action films or the epics, where they had actors that weren't necessarily perfect in real life but were on film. And I believe…or my character does…that I could be a real romantic hero, that I could roll around in the grass with women and make love to them, and I'd look at their face for hours, and they 'd fall in love with me; I'd be in the magazines and on the covers, and be an action star and jump from motorcycle to motorcycle, and all that stuff. But the people here and the agents don't quite get that, but they don't want to hurt my feelings. But Bollywood still makes those kinds of films, so that appeals to me much more, and I get caught up…I don't know how I get caught up exactly, but I go to Bollywood and get caught up in that business there. And that really appealed to me, because that's just funny. But what also really appealed to me was the whole "Curb Your Enthusiasm" kind of aspect and not doing a "Borat" kind of thing. It's not mean, it's not making fun of another person. It's a real story. It's his journey in Bollywood, wanting to be a hero on screen but ending up being a hero in real life. He falls in love and all of this stuff. I guess all of that appealed to me. (Laughs) Wow, a very long-winded answer there.
BE: But a very well-detailed one.
CK: (Laughs) Y'know, I think there's a part of me that's very funny that I don't even know about, that I'm just finding, that's not physical. Coming from "SNL," there's a lot of funny characters and stuff like that, but just being myself in these situations could be a lot of fun. Plus, the great thing, too, is that with "Slumdog Millionaire" and just India itself, the whole thing is really just going to be terrific.
BE: It's perfect timing.
CK: Perfect timing. It's one of those things where it's not timing that we planned, but it just happened, and sometimes those are the best things.
BE: Now, as far as, like, the obvious career parallels, as far as someone struggling to find leading man roles…
CK: Sure.
BE: Like, when you did "Corky Romano," were you thinking, "This is it. This is gonna be the one that breaks me."
CK: (Emphatically) No. (Laughs) I mean, I knew that was a comedy. But with this…there's something funny about the whole fish-out-of-water thing that's a classic scenario, and "Bollywood Hero" is perfect for that. I don't know if you've ever seen any Bollywood movies…
BE: Yeah, a few.
CK: I was in India a few years ago on vacation, and it's a beautiful place and very spiritual, but I went as a tourist, and this time I'm going as a person to experience this with other people. I don't know, there hasn't really been anything on television like this yet. The last thing was, like, Jeremy Piven did a special where he was over in India ("Journey of a Lifetime"), but that was more like… (Affects narrator-styled voice) "These people here…" It was kind of like…not really pointing at people, but not really communicating with them, either. Obviously, they're people, but with "Bollywood Hero," it's their show. It's not, like, "What's going to happen with Chris Kattan in this situation? That's not going to work!" He's in over his head, he wants to be a movie star, he has this big ego, he'll probably fall in love, maybe he won't, but we have a great, strong script right now that's open to what may happen, y'know? Like, there was that terrorist attack, and obviously that'll be part of the issue now, and there's a lot of stuff going on that'll be open for inclusion.
BB: The show is fully scripted, but we're shooting in a real environment, and if real things happen, we will draw them into the script.
CW: We're there for ten weeks, so it's going to be an experience. We're not going to, like, get in, do the script, and get out. It's going to be an experience, and it'll be great to see what happens.
BE: When do you actually go to India to film?
CK: Late February. In early February, we're going to be filming the stuff here where I'm talking to my friends, and we'll have lots of cameos. We'll be going over my life, saying, "I just want to get out." But there'll also be a spiritual thing, too, which'll be brought up, as I try to analyze myself and see what I need to do for myself and how to pursue this dream. I really want to do it and make it happen, and there'll be a lot of scenes that'll be loosely improvised, like the stuff in L.A., but then we'll be in India for the rest of it. It'll be great.
BE: I wanted to ask you about some of your other film work, the first being "Monkeybone."
CK: Oh, yeah.
BE: Henry Selick is a director who's not necessarily known for working with, shall we say, real people.
CK: Sure.
BE: He's definitely more of a stop-motion animation guy. What was he like to work with in a live-action capacity?
CK: He was great. He's a genius, so he's one of those guys who was kind of…he works things completely out in his head, so sometimes he couldn't quite get his words out immediately. (Laughs) He was great to work with, but, yeah, he's used to working with puppets, having done, like, "The Nightmare Before Christmas." And this was a huge thing for him to helm, but it came out all right. It was a big movie, and I think that the marketing wasn't so great. Or it wasn't how some people had hoped it would turn out. But it was a great experience. It was a lot of work. I played a dead body…well, I was a spirit who was caught in a dead body, and I took a faulty body with a broken neck, so I had to pretend that I was running with my neck hanging off, and… (Tries to demonstrate, then starts laughing)
BB: Ouch.
CK: Anyway, it was a lot of work. But he was great to work with. He was very cool.
BE: How did you end up in the cast of "House on Haunted Hill"? That seemed like such an unlikely place for you to turn up.
CK: That I did because Geoffrey Rush was in it, and…well, it was the cast, y'know? I think a lot of the choices and decisions I've made, whether they've turned out good or not, there was something about them that I thought would be a great experience, or it struck me as original, or it was something new for me. Like, "Bollywood Hero," certainly, is a great idea. Clearly, it doesn't sound like something we've seen before. It's got a really great and original idea behind it, and the storyline's really great, and that kind of thing. But with "House on Haunted Hill," it was definitely the cast: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, and Ali Larter, who was in that other Bollywood movie ("Marigold"), and…who else? Someone else.
BE: Wasn't Taye Diggs in it?
CK: Yeah, Taye Diggs, too. It was an odd cast. It was, like, "Why are all of these people together?" But the producers were Robert Zemeckis and Joel Silver. And I think I passed on it, and then Joel Silver came to "SNL" and asked me to do it. He said, "What do you want me to do? You want me to…" And he said some bad euphemism. "You want me to blah blah blah?" "Um, no." But eventually I said, "All right, all right." And, also, they offered me a lot of money, too. (Laughs) But it was great. It was a fun experience. We shot it up in, like, Woodland Hills. But, y'know, "Bollywood Hero" will be a lot more fun. That was a movie where there were marks and special effects and stuff like that, and this is based on human beings. So we don't have to deal with, like, "I told you we have to do that lamp shot." This is about human behavior and funny situations. It has a lot of heart and a lot of meeting. And, plus, that one was a horror movie, too. (Laughs)
BE: A couple of inevitable "SNL" questions for you. What were your favorite recurring characters?
CK: Anything that was halfway real, I liked. (Laughs) Just being human for a change. Because a lot of it was just a lot of work, and you didn't learn much. I liked it when I'd do a scene where I'd go on a date or something. Like, I did a scene where I went on a date with Renee Zelwiger, and that was fun. The really good actors would choose those kinds of scenes. When you'd have J. Lo or Cameron Diaz, it would be, like, "I'd love to do Mr. Peepers and have him spit apple," or, "I want to do the Mango thing," y'know? And that was fun, and that was fine, but it was more, like, surface stuff. And I'd be, like, "I want to do the stage scene," or a scene where I can't find the right song on the radio, where I get to be my somewhat neurotic charming self. (Laughs) And, again, that's why I chose this project. It's perfect for that guy. And, plus, you get to be physical. It's going to hit all the marks. There's dancing…which is like Mango! (Laughs) All of the stuff that you liked me doing as characters, it'll be seen through me in this project. I won't be eating an apple like Mr. Peepers.
BE: Oh, come on.
CK: Well, all right, maybe I will. (Laughs)
BE: You haven't filmed it yet, after all. There's always a chance.
CK: That's true. You never know what's going to happen. Who knows?
BB: It might be a command performance from an Indian fan.
CK: True. Maybe someone will ask me to eat an apple.
BE: Were there any characters that just caused you to groan when you saw they were coming back for another sketch?
CK: Not really. Well, actually, yeah: the Roxbury guys. At one point, Will (Ferrell) and I were just going, "Oh, God…" (Rolls his eyes) Like, somebody would come on and say, "I would love to do the Roxbury guys," we'd be, like, "Oh, Christ…"
BB: That's why that commercial is so funny. (Writer's note: Kattan got a chance to express his feelings about the Roxbury guys at the tail end of a Super Bowl Pepsi commercial last year.)
CK: Yeah, I didn't want to do it. Pepsi was, like, "Could you put the suit on? And then you can be the one at the end doing it!" And I'm, like, "No, I'll do it if I say, 'I don't want to do this.' I think it's funnier if I say, 'Stop it,' or something like that." Thank God there are still smart writers out there. Like this show. It's smart. It's a smart idea, so it's not, like, "Wow, this is funny, huh? Just do this!" "Yeah, but it doesn't make any sense, so why am I doing it?" But with the Roxbury guys, I think the breaking point was when Stallone came on and wanted to do the sketch just because. And we're, like, "Well, now we've got to create a story, so, what, are we bopping our heads with Rocky? What are we doing?" That's the hard part: when you exhaust your ideas and you're starting to force it and just make sure it's funny, but it's not real. And that's what this show is based on. It's human, and it's real. So we can't lose.
BE: And last question: you're rumored to be playing Buster Keaton in "Life of the Party."
CK: Oh, yeah! And when they get the script right, I will.
BE: I guess that's a film that's been floating around since back when they were talking about Chris Farley playing in it.
CK: (With mock confusion) Chris Farley as Buster Keaton?
BE: No, no, no, as Fatty Arbuckle.
CK: Oh, sure, that would've been great. But, yeah, Keaton's a hero of mine. He took huge physical risks, and I like to do that, too. I naturally do that. There's a lot of that in "Bollywood Hero," too. We've got a lot of area in India for a lot of great physical stuff. There's a scene where I'm running after a train to get the girl, and of course a lot of scenes which are big production dance scenes, dramatic movies with fantasy sequences, and there'll be a lot of stuff that'll be Keaton-esque. I was talking to the director, who's this great visual guy out of London who's perfect for it, and he doesn't come from a comedy place, but he comes from a great artistic visual movie background, where he wants things to look beautiful and needs people to be human beings, which is the perfect balance. Because I like things to be funny and physical, so he's got that scope and he's ready to have that kind of movement. I love that Keaton aspect. He just took major chances with his body. He didn't think about it; he just did it. And that's the way to be a performer, whether you're a comic or an actor. You just do it. And if you can't do it, then don't try, because people will see it and just say, "Oh, please, stop."
BE: And speaking of stopping, I can see the publicist peeking around the door. But thanks a lot for letting me sit down with you for a few minutes.
CK: Oh, sure! And thank you very much!
BE: Can I get a picture for the piece?
CK: Absolutely. (Sternly) Just don't put it on Facebook.
BE: Um…
CK: (Laughs) I'm just kidding. You can put it on Facebook. (To Belisa) Did you see his face…? Oh, man…
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20's, choices, decisions & wisdom: 10 Ways to Ruin Your Life in Your 20s [essential reading; spot-on]
"No one ever plans to ruin their life. … but it does happen. It happens far too often. And it happens because of the choices we make, even though that is not a result that anyone would ever willingly choose. Most of those choices take place when people are relatively young—old enough to be making important decisions about their life, but young enough for those decisions to snowball and grow to have disastrous consequences. … How can we avoid making such mistakes? Below are 10 things people can do to ruin their lives while still in their 20s. It is a list of what not to do, or things to stop doing immediately if you don't want to suffer the results."
Beauty: The Race We're All Losing
"If beauty is fleeting, why do we chase it? … Our clay will never turn into the beautiful clear glass we are wanting because it is meant to clay."
Change, development, spiritual growth & spiritual maturity: Bearing Fruit in Old Age
"If I am the same person today I was ten years ago, I have stagnated."
Church & spiritual health: * Pain, Relationships, and the Body of Christ [essential reading]; * 5 Church-Types to Probably Avoid
* "It's easy to say that I'd like to start a new church that will 'do things right.' Or choose to withdraw from the gathered body all together, focusing on my relationship with God outside the confines of organized religion. So here are some tempering thoughts, presented in no particular order …"
* "With all of those caveats aside, I want to share 5 different sorts of churches that I personally would avoid if I were moving to a new city and were not a pastor of a church."
Doubt & outreach: 3 Things to Remember in Discussion with Doubters
"Saying your church is a safe place for doubters doesn't make it so. … Doubting is never just intellectual. … Strengthened faith should lead to the strengthening of other people."
God, perception, understanding & worship: The Myth of Worshipping an Identical God
"… we worship our individual projection of God, not a perfectly identical God. And this projection is formed by hundreds, if not thousands, of individual experiences, lessons, traditions, people, and revelations we each have had. In a sense, our personal view of God is like a thumbprint. It's that unique."
Nonviolence: At Gunpoint
"Daniel told us he'd kill anyone who tried to come in and take his family away from him."
Parenting: Teen Spirit
"Helicopter parenting has crippled American teenagers. Here's how to fix it."
Oral interpretation & Philemon: David Rhoads Performing Philemon [5 min. video; outstanding!]
"David Rhoads performing Philemon at SBL 2103 in Baltimore, MD."
Teachers & teaching: What Can You Do?
"Do at least one thing really well, and that will mean doing at least a few other things barely adequately. As the saying goes, 'If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly,' and a lot of duties imposed upon many of us nowadays are worth doing … but just barely.
"If, instead, we try to do everything asked of us reasonably well–say, at a 'B-' level–we'll feel 'B-' about it all. And exhausted in the process. And that's a lousy way to live.
"Work at something, at least one thing, at an 'A' level. It might be small. It might not even be noticed by others. But you'll know you did a great job of it, and the feeling of excellence you draw from that task will inspire you in the rest of what you do.
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Student Government Association
SGA Mission Statement
The SGA serves as the voice of the student body to create a better campus community for the students, by the students.
The group meets every Friday at noon in the TC3 Student Center Conference Room.
SGA Responsibilities
- Approving funding for all student clubs (funded through the Student Activity Fee)
- Assisting with the selection of student representatives to a variety of campus committees
- Promoting student leadership and encouraging participation from all students in campus co-curricular activities
- Taking part in and encouraging club participation in campus civic engagement initiatives
- Proposing positive changes and improvements in campus life
- Supporting and participating in club events and programs
- Working in partnership with the office of Student Activities on campus programs and events
- Recognizing the strength that diversity brings to the concept of community, where each person's unique voice is heard and can contribute to the overall picture of the TC3 student experience.
Become a member of the SGA
We define an 'active member' as one who:
- Regularly attends at general SGA meetings and committee meetings
- Actively participates on an SGA committee or project
- Attends one SGA Orientation session (offered three times per semester)
After one full semester of participation, an active member is defined as 'Senator-at-Large'
Why join SGA?
To network, meet new people, contribute to the College's organizational culture, practice your public speaking, have your voice heard, and learn life skills, problem solving techniques, and teamwork.
How do I join SGA?
Fill out the SGA Application form and bring it to the TC3 Student Center.


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DOMA Stories:
Federal Marriage Discrimination Hurts Families
GLAD is in court challenging the federal government's discrimination against legally married same-sex couples. In Gill v OPM and Pedersen v OPM, we represent couples and widowers who are harmed in various ways by DOMA. But DOMA hurts many more people than we can represent in these lawsuits.
In these stories, loving couples, widows and widowers, from all walks of life, describe how DOMA hurts their families.


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The GCC's trade surplus will average around $493 billion in 2012-13 as the oil prices remain high, offset by import growth at around 3.5 percent, said a report. This is slightly below the trade surplus levels of 2011 which is estimated at $520 billion, mainly a consequence of hydrocarbon exports, the Qatar National Bank (QNB) Group said in its analysis. This is twice the size of the country with the next largest surplus, China, and also about two-thirds the size of the US's trade deficit, the report added.
Regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia was responsible for almost half of the total surplus ($245 billion) followed by the UAE ($94 billion) and Qatar ($79 billion). According to QNB, the aggregated trade balance - the difference between the value of its exports and imports - is the largest in the world. Japan had been the region's main trade partner for decades, purchasing 16 percent of its exports and supplying 6 percent of GCC imports in 2010, according to IMF data. South Korea is also a long-standing leading trade partner, taking 10 percent of exports and supplying 4 percent of imports.
These two countries are by far the main contributors to the GCC trade surplus as their exports from the GCC far exceed the imports they supply. Half the GCC trade surplus in 2010 was a result of trade with these two countries, said the QNB in its analysis. Recently, trade between the GCC and other Asian countries has risen rapidly. In 2001, barely two percent of GCC trade was with India, by 2010 that had risen to 11 percent, only slightly behind Japan. Similarly, Chinese trade with the GCC expanded from just 4 percent of the GCC total to 10 percent in 2001-10.
As India and China are the first and second largest suppliers of imports to the GCC, this partly offsets their purchases of GCC hydrocarbon exports. The growing trade ties with Asia's two giants are not surprising. Their demand for hydrocarbons has been growing rapidly and, with limited domestic reserves, they rely on supplies from the GCC. Similarly, China and India have pursued export-led growth strategies. They have been producing and competitively-pricing goods needed in the GCC such as electrical items, textiles and construction materials. India's slight edge over China may be related to its geographical proximity to the Gulf and to the large population of Indian migrant workers in the GCC, who purchase goods from their home country. In fact, India was both the fastest growing import source and export destination for the GCC in 2006-10, with annual growth of 27 percent and 55 percent respectively. Despite the growing share of trade with Asia, Western trade partners remain important for the GCC, with the EU and US collectively representing about a fifth of GCC trade in 2010.
The EU countries differ from the GCC's other major trade partners in that they supply more goods than they purchase. This is because they mainly source their hydrocarbons from Russia and Africa, while the GCC imports large quantities of capital and luxury goods from the EU, ranging from German cranes to Italian handbags.
As a result, trade with the EU reduces the overall GCC trade surplus by about 18 percent. Trade with the rest of the Mena region is relatively small, equal to about 6 percent of total GCC trade and skewed towards exports. However, it has doubled in importance since 2001 when it was just 3 percent. If the rest of the Mena region was a country, it would be the GCC's sixth largest trade partner after the US. Intra-GCC trade, meanwhile, is equal to about 6 percent of the region's external trade, said the QNB report. Among the likely changes in trade flows compared to 2010 is tenthat Japan's share of exports from the GCC will rise even further, as it imports more hydrocarbons as a result of the closure of nuclear power stations. Meanwhile, Chinese imports are expected to continue to grow in importance, and so the GCC may post net trade deficits with China, the report added.
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Mila Kunis Diamond Pendant
Mila Kunis sported a dainty diamond necklace to pair with her Lanvin dress at the 'Friends with Benefits' photocall.
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Starlet Mila Kunis opted for a gunmetal gray shadow to pair with her Lanvin frock.
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A free dental clinic for children in Alamance County is planned for February and you can sign up beginning Tuesday.
The Alamance County Health Department and the Alamance-Caswell Dental Society will be commemorating National Children�s Dental Access Day with the annual Give Kids A Smile on Feb. 2 from 8:30 a.m to 1 p.m. at the Alamance Children�s Dental Clinic. The Dental Clinic is located at 1914 McKinney Street in Burlington.
Give Kids A Smile provides an opportunity for children without dental insurance to receive free dental services.
Scheduling will begin Tuesday and will end Thursday. There are a limited number of appointments available, and those interested should call 336-221-1267 between 9 a.m. and noon and then again from 2 to 5 p.m.
In order to be eligible for the Give Kids A Smile event, a child must meet the following criteria:
▪ Be in preschool 8th grade
▪ Reside in Alamance County or Caswell County
▪ Reside in a family that has financial need
▪ Have no dental insurance
▪ Not be currently enrolled in N.C. Medicaid or N.C. Health Choice program


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Home > News & Events > Wayland Press Release Archives > 2007 News Releases > December 2007 > Albuquerque dean chosen as honorary commander for Kirtland Air Force Base
Albuquerque dean chosen as honorary commander for Kirtland Air Force Base
ALBUQUERQUE – Dr. Ben Craver, dean of the Wayland Baptist University campus in Albuquerque, has been chosen as an honorary commander at Kirtland Air Force Base.
According to the invitation letter, the program is designed "to help promote good communication and an open exchange of ideas, both of which are vital in building a strong partnership."
Wayland has enjoyed a longtime presence on Kirtland, with offices and classes on base as a satellite of its main office location on Wyoming Boulevard in the northeast portion of Albuquerque. For Craver, who has been dean just under a year at the campus, the selection is quite an honor.
"This is a really cool thing. I guess it's not a real common thing, so to me it's an honor, a distinctive group," he said, adding he sees the benefit for both parties. "For me, it's a great opportunity to keep Wayland before them as much as it is for them to keep Kirtland a partner in the community. I think it'll be a blast, too."
In the honorary role, Craver will be matched with Lt. Col. John D. Roach, director of Mission Support at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center, and will be participating in various activities throughout the year. Though the specific plans are not known, Craver said he expects to be invited to activities that will give him a glimpse into the Air Force world. But he does have a wish list.
"They fly the Ospreys out here, which is a tilt engine machine, and I would love to go up in one of those," he laughed. "But I'm really not sure what I'll be doing."
Reciprocally, the Air Force hopes that Wayland and Craver will involve Roach in their special events as well, giving him a chance to know the university better.
According to Dr. Elane Seebo, associate vice president for external campuses, the honor shows the great relationship between the two entities and she is proud that exists.
"Wayland has been very supportive of Kirtland and, conversely, they have been very supportive of Wayland," Seebo said. "I'm glad to see any of our folks get that kind of recognition from a base, because it shows a great network and cooperative partnership."
The Kirtland Honorary Commanders Program was started in 1995 as a way of building partnerships in the community, and has served to spread support and understanding of the base's missions since its inception. Retired Col. Bobby Wright, who works as co-director at Wayland's site on Kirtland, helped revitalize the program while serving as vice wing commander from 1999-2001, when he retired.
Incidentally, former WBU Albuquerque Dean Dr. J.B. Boren was also chosen for the honorary commander position but transferred to Wayland's Amarillo campus before he could be installed.


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When Herbert Hoover ran for president in 1928, the Republican party promised his victory would assure the prosperity of "a chicken in every pot." This week, Republicans proffered a similar pledge to America.
Hoover won, and in 1929, after a decade of GOP rule in Washington, Republicans did deliver something foul to Americans. It wasn't the much-anticipated cooking hen. It was the Great Depression.
Now in the Great Recession, also delivered during a GOP presidency, Republicans have presented a new promise. They pledged to withdraw all unspent Recovery Act money to prevent it from employing even one more worker; kill health care reform to stop 30 million Americans from getting affordable insurance; slash $100 billion from federal programs protecting the middle class; preserve tax cuts for the rich and cut government regulation — like oversight of Gulf-oil-gusher-BP and contaminated-egg-producers Jack and Peter DeCoster.
This time, the GOP downsized the "chicken in every pot" promise. Instead they're pledging a salmonella-poisoned egg.
In 1932, Americans wisely rejected re-electing Republican Hoover, who is regarded as one of the nation's most inept leaders, and chose instead Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt, revered as one of the best. This fall, it's crucial that Americans choose sagely again, selecting Democrats intent on reforming Washington and protecting the nation's middle class.
Eight years of Republican rule in Washington climaxed with the worst recession since the Great Depression. Since that downturn officially began in December of 2007, poverty, unemployment and foreclosures have risen while middle class income and health insurance coverage have fallen.
The poverty rate increased to the worst level in 16 years, with 3.7 million people slipping from the middle class to the ranks of the poor in 2009. One in seven Americans now is impoverished. More than 8 million workers have lost their jobs, and 2.3 million families have lost their homes to foreclosure. Nearly one in four mortgage holders is under water, meaning they owe more on their house than it's worth. Also, last year, the number of uninsured Americans rose by 4.4 million to 50.7 million — 16.7% of the population. It was the largest annual increase since the government began collecting comparable data in 1987.
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Democrats, keenly aware of the diverging experiences of the nation's sucker-punched workers and its well-heeled elite, have worked to aid the beleaguered middle. They passed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which the Congressional Budget Office estimated created between 1.4 million and 3.3 million jobs by July.
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Some people have a gift. They can create glorious cocktails and have a knack for dressing up traditional drinks so that they taste entirely new.
The proprietor of this blog is one of these wondrously inventive people. [Oh, pshaw. -- Ed.]
I am not.
Put me in a kitchen with a dozen random food items, and I can make something tasty on the fly. But with drinks, I tend toward tried and true recipes with little variation. I like Manhattans and martinis and the most daring I get is experimenting with a new gin. So when Rose invited me to write a guest post, I knew that I'd be seeking outside help. And my outside help happens to be a fantastic, outdated (sorry, I mean "vintage") book that my boyfriend's grandfather used to own: The Esquire Handbook for Hosts, published in 1949.
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But I finally found a cocktail within my range as a lower-rank amateur: The Brainstorm.
It's a whiskey-based drink that resembles a Manhattan, but made with Benedictine instead of sweet vermouth. I realize that Benedictine might not be a liquor cabinet staple in the way that gin and whiskey are, but I've grown rather fond of it, despite my general dislike for sweet drinks. But it's hard not to like something originally produced by monks (says the Jewish girl -- maybe I like it because it's "exotic"?), and when used in small doses is lovely in after-dinner cocktails. (The Michelle Diet: Skip the cake and cookies and go straight for the booze.)
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(Adapted from Esquire Handbook for Hosts, 1949)
1 ounce Old Overholt rye whiskey
1/2 ounce Boissiere dry vermouth
1/2 ounce Benedictine
A dash of orange bitters
Stir all ingredients well with ice. Serve in chilled cocktail glass.
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I experimented with a couple different whiskeys and concluded that rye does work best for balancing out the syrupy honeyed flavor of the Benedictine. I've seen that some call the Old Overholt rather sweet, but I don't find it particularly so. Palates! So differing!
I also used slightly less than a half-ounce of the B, since a little of it really does go a long way. (Aha! Perhaps my fondness for this liqueur is its bang-for-my-buckitude!)
Finally, the original recipe calls for floating an orange peel on top of the drink, more for garnish than taste, but I substituted orange bitters and was pleased with the result.
And there it is. Not something I see myself putting into regular rotation come cocktail hour, but a nice change of pace from the same-old, same-old.


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I'm here to speak for my father and I think we all know why. My Father worked offshore for his intire life, moved to Lawtell and bought a club called The Offshore Lounge and gave many musicians a chance to be who they are today. Roy brought his friends and fans to Lawtell for his Carrier Fest.
Well, the club is going to be turned over to my mom Louise Jackson, and we plan to keep The Offshore Lounge alive, We are facing thousands of dollars to make it happen, so I call on my Zydeco Brother's and would love to say thanks to all of the Band's that told me they would love to do it for Roy, so we are going to give a tribute to Roy and put The Offshore Lounge back up on it's feet.
Saturday January 1st starting at 2:00 pm we are having a tribute to Roy at Slim's Y Kiki and we ask all friends, family and fans to come out January 1st at 2 pm 2011 and support Roy to get The Offshore Lounge up and going. We thank everyone for your love and support for Roy and Zydeco music, and hope to see everyone there thanks!!!
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The Real WorldSeptember 24, 2003
Looking for some well crafted, beautifully designed CSS-based sites for inspiration? Look no further than the portfolio of local Vancouver boys twothirty media.
You'll note, as you start poking through the source code, that most of these contain the odd table or two. You'll also notice that most come close to validation, but don't quite succeed.
These are real-world examples. Waxing theoretical about the benefits of pure and valid markup is fine, but when crunch time comes this is almost always the reality. Wired and ESPN do not validate. Cingular was never perfect, and is quite a mess now.
What can be said for the tables? Transitional layouts are still necessary today, given project requirements. Some visual effects cannot work reliably between the major browsers. Others cannot be done without CSS3. It's fun to think of a day when all browsers everywhere will handle every layout exactly the same. It's also fun to think of a day when we'll have flying cars and full meals in convenient pill format.
As has been noted elsewhere, we the people who are doing this for a paycheque face reality, not theory. When push comes to shove, we make the choices that work. This is not always consistent with the "right" choice.
Commercial web design will continue to be about compromise. Nine times out of ten, the more effective use of the client's dollar goes toward building and refining content over validating every last tag. Not to say that the two are incompatible, but between spending $500 on purifying their source or creating additional ads for off-site promotion, guess which most clients perceive as the most value for that money?
This is no excuse not to strive for the end goal of a compliant site. But it is a polite reminder to those who would find fault in others who, through factors they have no control over, can only go 95% of the way.
Theory is nice, in theory. But providing the best solution involves knowing that sometimes, it's okay to break the rules.
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Funny, I just went for a walk around the block to ease my frustration at working in a place where getting something done period seems to be of greater import than getting something done right. Your consolation is quite apropos. Cheers Dave.
I hear ya on this one, Dave. Though tableless structure is a spectacular goal, and one to strive for, sometimes that's just not practical. The site that I am commissioned to oversee was coded by a monkey before me, and the site is huge with constant content updates. Then, to make matters worse, the content management system that is going in in a month is based on tabled layouts, giving the desigers no access to head, css, or other important table killing tags. But do I "sin in the eyes of the almighty web standards deity" for a paycheck? Heck yeah. I wish there was another way, but sometimes, as you noted, it just isn't.
P.S. - glad your site is back up. Looks good to me. I wonder what's with that "every 4th refresh" thing. That's just flat out weird…
Damn, those are some nice looking sites. Oh and Shaun, your point about "getting something done period" is SOOO on the money.
no…i'd rather get drunk and dream of a world where xhtml2.0 is a ubiquitous reality and css rendering is consistent across all browsers… ;)
yup, when it comes to real life, we've all got to make sacrifices. transitional layouts with one or two (non-nested) tables is ok in most situations…and in future the content can still be extracted/munged/transformed into pure table-less code without too much hassle (which can't always be said of tagsoup).
heck, if it pays my bills, i'll roll over and do a 100% flash site held together in a nested table, if that's what it takes…
Spot on.
By the way let us not forget that the W3C drafts recommendations. We are not talking about the law here where (strict) rules should be followed to avoid punishment.
There is no right or wrong in webdesign (as such). However there is good and bad. We all know by now that huge bandwidth sucking flash intro's with bad techno music are a big no-no. We also know that we will have to drop tables for presentation some time in the future (except for tabular data). Again these examples are not wrong as such, they are just not a very good idea.
Let us cheer at those that implement CSS-based design into commercial projects instead of flaming them for not following W3C recommendations à la lettre. In the end the real-world is indeed more complex.
These are some nice looking websites…
man, nice work but that last site (http://www.eosgroup.com/ ) has a nav bar that looks an awful lot like the www.macromedia.com nav (well, before their mx 2004 upgrade)…
amen. the fundamentalists always ruin the fun.
Re "meat" saying that the Eos menu is like some older Macromedia menu. !!
In fact the menu is based on the "ypSlideOutMenu" by Aaron at http://www.youngpup.net/
The http://www.twothirty.com/ site itself is a breath of fresh air.
Beautiful article. I've been dealing with the eventual compromise between elegant standards following code and just making things work. CSS is great and all, I love it to death, but it's much like giving up my working peice of junk car for a brand new mercedes that only has two tires and I have to drive with my feet.
Look for logos with blue/navy circles or half circles. You'll find millions. See EDS and Express-Scripts. How many logo's out there look like a representation of Saturn (which mimics the circle/half circle premise)? Most logos out there are generic by nature to make them easily remembered by the masses. Plus there's just so many ideas out there and it's pretty easy to duplicate an idea that someone else had.
Well, lots of true statements here, but I have to admit that most of the time not having valid code is mostly a matter of laziness and lack of familiarity. God knows I've done my share of non-validating pages but I admit that it's usually because I have run out of steam by the end of a project and I just don't really care that much. Whenever I have set about making valid pages, I almost always accomplish it.
eric, i completely disagree that it's because of laziness or lack of familiarity. i consider myself meticulous when coding sites, and i'm quite knowledgable with standards-code. here are a few reasons why most of the sites dave listed don't validate:
- CMS issues - sometimes my company can't pick the CMS a client uses, and the CMS we have to use doesn't spit out proper code. this happens in the majority of the examples above.
- links - some of the links on those sites have chrs in them that cause the validator to output an error. since i can't change the links on external sites (i.e. amazon, referral programs, etc), nothing can be done about that.
- form submissions that submit to external sites that contain invalid code. again, since the form submits to registrar, there's nothing we can do about the code being invalid.
- external scripts, like stats trackers with invalid code. again, it's an external force that can't be changed.
- another big one is clients that do minor edits via frontpage/dreamweaver/(insert crappy wysiwyg) editor here. once we've handed a site off to a client on their servers, we're not responsible for it validating forever, unless we get paid to.
and those are just a few reasons, there are many, many others.
Paul, you can make your links validate by encoding them properly. You don't need to change the URL; it just needs to be encoded the like any other text in an HTML/XHTML document (e.g. change & to &).
Similarly, most of the stats scripts I've seen can be made to validate just by escaping characters correctly (generally by adding backslashes to special characters in Javascript).
I don't understand why forms to external sites can't be made into valid HTML. As long as the form fields and values are still the same, what prevents you from correcting errors in the markup?
This leaves CMS systems and client editing, which I agree have no good solutions.
This is so accurate. When reading some html newsgroups, people get on their high horse and preach how things MUST be done and I wonder if they've ever had to work in a corporate environment. Comprimise is everything but it's nice to see things heading in the right direction. On a side note, anyone notice that the logo for Firewhite is very close to Watchfire (http://www.watchfire.com/ )?
When I was learning basic CSS I became so frustrated when I couldn't build table-less sites that worked in every major browser/platform.
Then I picked through the portfolios of the "CSS gurus" and discovered they wrote table sites. If they can't do without layout tables then I shouldn't feel guilty about adding a table now and then.
Remember folks, table-less CSS is the IDEAL. If possible, use it, but if your boss has a gun to your head and you have only minutes to spare, then use tables.
jonathan: i think stylized flames in general are very popular, and i could probably find a bunch of sites with similar logos. my company didn't design it though, so i don't know. it looks more like a similar style than a copy though.
Here's another real-world example for you: Macromedia.com. Nice big complex site that looks gorgeous. Couldn't possibly validate as XHTML right? Well, take a look for yourself:
Almost forgot - Macromedia.com (at least the home page) is built without a single table tag.
I agree that CMS systems and client editing can be bad, but I don't include these when I say "my pages". Sure I write those pages, but they aren't really mine. As mentioned, links can (and should) be encoded.
Third party scripts can be changed, because they are typically done by someone you or the client is paying, and if they have some bad code, you often have leverage to fix it (at least with larger clients). If you inspect the code prior to making a commitment, you can also use this as criteria in your selection process.
eric, i think what dave is trying to say is that the real-world projects differ from joe blow who codes his blog and makes it valid through the css validator. real-world projects are run within a budget and within a deadline. blogs dont have a budget or timeline.
it'd be great to get things perfect, but projects are like term papers. you can try to make the paper as perfect as possible, but the night before the deadline, youve got to make a decision on either submitting a late-yet-perfect project or an on-time-yet-not-so-perfect project.


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Boehner covering for Obama ... or for himself?
GOP's inaction on Benghazi brings accusations back on speaker
As House Speaker John Boehner continues refusing to approve a select committee to investigate the terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, some are beginning to speculate the Ohio Republican has reasons of his own to suppress what really happened on Sept. 11, 2012.
Over the weekend, former Democrat pollster Patrick Caddell and former Republican Congressman John LeBoutillier, co-hosts of the Fox News Channel's "Political Insiders," suggested Boehner may indeed be involved in a "cover-up."
"John Boehner [has] been purposefully suppressing anything on Benghazi because he knew what we found out this week, and he approved it," Caddell speculated. "These CIA teams on the ground [were] sending weapons from Libya through Turkey to Syrian rebels without congressional approval."
Indeed, CNN reported this past week that the CIA had dozens of people in Benghazi on the night of the attack and that the agency has gone to "unprecedented" lengths to make sure what they were doing there remains a secret.
Caddell's charges echo speculation on Capitol Hill, as reported by CNN, that as many as 35 CIA operatives were in Benghazi, engaged in a program first reported by WND two weeks after the Benghazi attack to secure jihadist fighters and weapons for the Syrian rebellion.
Boehner and other GOP leaders thus far are contending the current investigation of the scandal is sufficient.
"Four committees are heavily involved in this," Boehner told Fox News in May, rebuffing a call for a devoted select committee. "I don't think at this point in time that it's necessary. Now, we may get to a point where it is. But at this point, I think our committees are doing a very good job, and I'm going to be supportive of them."
But the investigation, now almost a year old, has yet to reveal who was on the ground in Benghazi, what they were doing, where they are now or and why the White House didn't authorize force to defend the diplomatic mission, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, who was killed and dragged through the streets as part of the attack.
"That's the thing," fellow host John LeBoutillier answered Caddell. "Why won't the Congress want to get at the truth of this thing? … That's a cover-up of something."
Caddell and LeBoutillier's comments can be heard in the video below:
On his July 23 program, talk radio host Mark Levin threw out a similar accusation, namely that Boehner and President Obama must have "cut some kind of a deal" not to allow the truth out about Benghazi.
"John Boehner does not want to get to the bottom of what took place in Benghazi," Levin opined. "He's been asked over and over again by a majority of the Republicans in the House to set up a special investigative committee, as is the tradition in these types of investigations. So you concentrate expertise and resources and time in one special committee rather than multiple committees that are also investigating other matters and overseeing other matters and handling bills and so forth."
He continued, "It's obvious at this point, ladies and gentlemen, that we have to draw a very sad conclusion: John Boehner does not want to know what took place in Benghazi on that horrific day. And I'm honestly starting to think that he's cut some kind of deal with Obama, because why else would he do this?"
Levin's full comments can be heard below:
As WND has reported, the majority of House Republicans are now bucking their own speaker in demanding a select committee investigation.
Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., has introduced H.Res. 36, which would establish a select committee to investigate and report on the Benghazi attack. Since its introduction, the resolution has accumulated 163 cosponsors, but Boehner has refused to bring it to a vote.
Last week, another Republican, Rep. Steve Stockman of Texas, further introduced H.Res. 306, a discharge petition that would force GOP leaders to allow a House on Wolf's demand for a select committee.
"If I can get 218 Congressional Republicans to back me, a majority of the House, we will break through the D.C. stonewall and there will finally be a vote on creating the select committee to investigate Benghazi," Stockman explained on his website. "You see, Congress just canceled a hearing in which we were supposed to hear from Benghazi survivors. … Why? Because someone in a Democrat office leaked the names of the witnesses, who were then targeted for intimidation."
Wolf told WND he believes those survivors want to talk.
"I think a lot of them want the American people to know what happened. I think they also want to be recognized, because when you hear the stories of what they've done, it's kind of a great American story," he said, referring to the heroic efforts by those who survived, and the four Americans who died, in the terrorist attack.
Wolf believes a public hearing by a select committee is the only way to crack a CIA stonewall, which has included reports of non-disclosure agreements, polygraph tests and changing survivors' names and scattering them across the country.
"They don't want them to speak, it's pretty clear. You sign a non-disclosure agreement, that means you're not supposed to disclose anything," Wolf said. "Now, a subpoena from Congress would supersede that. But if you're 50, you have a couple of kids, a mortgage, you live in Fairfax County in a house, you have one kid in college and another one going soon, can you afford to lose your job? You can't do it."
He said that's why a public hearing is needed to uncover the truth, so surviving witnesses can feel safe.
"They need the protection of a public hearing and to be subpoenaed, so they can come forward," Wolf said. "That allows them to say what really happened."


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Elected officials call for outside review of Bay Bridge corrosion
Elected officials called for an independent review of corrosion inside the new $6.5 billion San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.
They said their concerns stemmed from a Sacramento Bee investigation published Sunday that identified rust inside a supposedly protected chamber where the new span's main suspension cable is attached. The corrosion – confirmed by lab testing – affects strands of the cable and rods that secure it to the bridge. The problem apparently was caused in part by water leaking through holes in the bridge deck.
Independent engineering experts who examined corrosion residue and photos warned of potentially serious long-term implications for maintenance and structural stability.
"First and foremost we have to focus on the safety of the bridge. To make sure there is no question about that," said San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, a member of the Bay Area Toll Authority. "Then we need to make sure that we are assessing whether or not taxpayers got their money's worth, in terms of the lifespan of the bridge."
Campos and state Sen. Mark DeSaulnier, D-Concord, chairman of the Transportation and Housing Committee, called on the California Department of Transportation to support an independent examination of the corrosion issues.
"We have allowed independent experts, including the (Caltrans) Seismic Safety Peer Review Panel, to examine all credible issues," said bridge spokesman Andrew Gordon.
An earlier Bee investigation of that panel uncovered professional and financial conflicts of interest.
Campos said he had no criticism of the Caltrans panel, but favored a review by genuine outsiders. "I think of experts who have had nothing to do with the project, who come into it without any preconceived notions," he said. "It's a matter of best practice."
"The Toll Bridge Program has always supported, and participated in, any such requests from the Legislature and will continue to do so, as we did with the Legislative Analyst's Office, who visited the bridge last year and will do so again later this spring," Gordon said.
"We get it, we're not in denial here," said Randy Rentschler, who directs Legislation and Public Affairs for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which works closely with Caltrans on toll bridge matters."We didn't expect to have this kind of water seepage into the system. It's being remediated."
The commission operates the Toll Authority, comprising local elected officials who oversee bridge-toll spending. They are waiting for Caltrans to deliver a list of ongoing construction and maintenance issues for the new span, promised in February. Rentschler said Caltrans might provide the list in May.
The list should include the corrosion issues reported by The Bee, Campos said, and if Caltrans fails to deliver it by next month, the Toll Authority should reconsider how to move forward.
Rentschler had no immediate comment about the cable strand corrosion, but ongoing tests by Caltrans will assess the vulnerability of the new span's anchor rods, including the ones that secure the main cable. "We're on it," he said. "We ... are consulting with metallurgical experts of all types until we get this right."
Despite concerns about the new span's water leaks, weld defects, suspect rods, corroded cable strands and other matters, Rentschler said bridge officials feel confident that the new bridge was "overbuilt" to ensure public safety.
Campos said that once Caltrans delivers its list, an independent third party should examine the issues and ensure that nothing significant has been overlooked.
Caltrans officials often have said that some problems are inevitable on so large a cutting-edge project, and that no bridge is perfect.
"That's not imperfection," DeSaulnier said, regarding the litany of Bay Bridge construction concerns. "That's incompetence."
DeSaulnier's committee has been conducting an investigation of construction and testing on the new span. He said an independent review of the corrosion on the cable strands and rods should be a step toward more comprehensive oversight.
"We should have an independent inspector general or something like that for Caltrans, and something like that for all megaprojects," DeSaulnier said. "The incestuous nature of relationships between transportation contractors and Caltrans provides too many conflicts of interest."
The new span is so crucial to the Bay Area and the state, said Assemblyman Marc Levine, D-San Rafael, that "we have to hold the project – as well as the people who were involved in it – accountable to very high standards."


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It's fun to surprise guests, especially with an unexpected twist on dessert. It's even more fun when the dessert in question — a basket of warm-from-the-oven madeleines — actually makes your life easier.
It's fun to surprise guests, especially with an unexpected twist on dessert. It's even more fun when the dessert in question — a basket of warm-from-the-oven madeleines — actually makes your life easier.
Madeleines are popping up all over now, from coffee shops to big-box grocery stores. They're often packaged as cookies, but they really are shell-shaped tea cakes. They adapt to a variety of flavors and finishing touches, although the best recipe may be the simplest: lemony madeleines dusted with powdered sugar. Heavenly.
Heaven, however, does have its price. To make an authentic madeleine, you will need a madeleine pan. But for an investment of $15 to $25, you'll have a pan you'll use the rest of your baking days.
There are several explanations for how the madeleine got its name, but the best story is that a deposed Polish king exiled to France in the 1700s was served these marvelous cakes made by a peasant girl name Madeleine. When the king's daughter married Louis XV, thus improving his fortunes with a move to Versailles, the delicacies were served regularly. Madeleines also are a symbol of the power of memory, their taste immortalized as the trigger for Marcel Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past."
Making madeleines requires only five main ingredients, the most flavorful of which is butter, so use a good unsalted brand. Vanilla and lemon zest build on this richness, but for an additional layer of flavor, try adding some orange flower water. Sometimes called orange blossom water, it's a flavoring distilled from blossoms of the bitter orange and often used in Mediterranean and French foods. It's available in many grocery stores in the flavorings and spices aisle.
Madeleines are characterized by a hump on their smooth side. That's best achieved by chilling the batter, a tip that also makes it easier to spoon into the molds. Best of all, that means you can make the batter at least an hour and up to a day ahead of baking, pulling it from the refrigerator when you're ready to bake — say, just after you've cleared the entree.
A word about pan prep: To get the madeleines to release easily from the fluted molds, baking sprays don't always do the trick. You may have to resort to a little — gasp! — manual labor. Melt a tablespoon of butter and, using a small brush, evenly paint the insides of the molds, then give them a light dusting of flour.
It's worth making the extra effort because there's a bit of showmanship involved here (or perhaps it's just a cheap thrill for the baker). Once the madeleines have baked, spread a clean cloth on the counter, then turn over the pan and sharply rap its edge on the counter. The madeleines should spill from the pan like golden nuggets.
Who said baking isn't theater?
Pile them in a basket, dust with powdered sugar and bring them warm to your guests, who probably have been wondering about the amazing aroma wafting from the kitchen.
Makes 12
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus 1 tablespoon for pan
� cup all-purpose flour, plus more for pan
� cup sugar
� teaspoon baking powder
Pinch of salt
Zest of 1 lemon
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon orange flower water, optional
� teaspoon vanilla
Powdered sugar
Melt 6 tablespoons butter in saucepan over medium heat; set aside.
In medium bowl, whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and lemon zest.
In small bowl, combine beaten eggs with vanilla and orange flower water, if using. Stir egg mixture into dry ingredients until just blended.
Add melted butter and mix slowly but thoroughly until smooth. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 1 hour and up to a day.
Melt remaining 1 tablespoon of butter and, with a small brush, coat the inside of each mold with butter. Dust lightly with flour.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Place oven rack in middle position. Fill each mold about half full with a generous spoonful of batter. Bake for 10 to 11 minutes or until cake springs back when gently pressed with a finger.
Over a clean cloth, rap the edge of the pan to release madeleines. Dust with powdered sugar and serve immediately.
Nutrition information per serving: Calories 128, fat 7 g, sodium 55 mg, carbohydrates 15 g, calcium 19 mg, protein 2 g, cholesterol 51 mg.


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Brooks Public Library Closure - What does it mean?
We're now only seven days away from our upcoming closure! As you might already know, the Brooks Public Library will be closed from Monday September 24 to Monday October 8, 2012 for renovations. We will reopen on Tuesday October 9, 2012. Over the next few days, we'll be giving you information about how you can still access the library during our closure, and an insider peek into the changes that are occurring behind the scenes.
With this closure, it's important to note that you will be unable to pick up holds, pay fines, or renew memberships at our library. You can return your library materials to the library while we're closed through our outside drop box, at any Shortgrass member library, or at the Medicine Hat College: Brooks Campus library. Our online catalogue will still be available for you to browse online, and to place holds. If you decide to place a hold, you items will be shipped to the Medicine Hat College: Brooks Campus library, where you can pick them up within seven days of your hold notification call or email.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused during this period and we kindly ask for your understanding and co-operation. We will be posting regular updates about the upgrade on our website (www.shortgrass.ca/bpl) or on any of our social media pages including Facebook and Twitter. If you have any further questions or concerns please feel free to speak to one of the Library Assistants at the Circulation Desk, or you can reach us by phone at 403-362-2947.


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Permit Costs: $21.5 million; $7 million
Project Cost: TBA
Permit Date: Applied January 2013
Completion: TBA
Owner: City of Memphis
Tenant: Bass Pro Shops
Architect: O.T. Marshall Architects
1 A.W. Willis Ave. • Memphis, TN 38105
Contractor: Gracycor Construction Co. Inc.
Details: The city of Memphis and Springfield, Mo.-based Bass Pro Shops have filed two permits with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for $21.5 million and $7 million for renovations to The Pyramid arena.
The city is still working on The Pyramid's structure to make the space ready for the actual store to be put in The Pyramid as Bass Pro Shops' part of the project.
The Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World at The Pyramid is tentatively scheduled to open in late 2013 or early 2014.
Alterations like a set of skylights at the mid-point of The Pyramid's four sides to be done by the city have been abandoned and there have been some changes to the location of a hotel, which is one of the other attractions to go with the store.
The retail space will be approximately 220,000 square feet.
As the city has worked on the interior and seismic measures around The Pyramid, it also demolished last year the Lone Star Industries cement terminal at the foot of Poplar Avenue as part of the changes to the property.
The permits, which list Gracycor Construction Co. Inc. as the contractor, show The Pyramid's address as 1 A.W. Willis Ave. O.T. Marshall Architects is the architect of record for the project.
2838 New Brunswick Road
Memphis, TN 38133
Sale Amount: $2.8 million
Sale Date: Dec. 21, 2012
Buyer: STORE Master Funding II LLC
Seller: Wolfchase Wings LLC
Loan Amount: $3 million
Loan Date: Dec. 27, 2012
Maturity Date: N/A
Lender: Citibank NA
Details: An affiliate of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based real estate investment trust STORE Capital has bought another Wolfchase-area restaurant.
STORE Master Funding II LLC – whose name stands for Single Tenant Operational Real Estate – paid $2.8 million for the Hooters of Memphis-Wolfchase restaurant at 2838 New Brunswick Road, south of U.S. 64 near Wolfchase Galleria.
The company bought the 4,655-square-foot restaurant in a Dec. 21 special warranty deed from Wolfchase Wings LLC of Louisville, Ky.
Built in 2002, the restaurant sits on 1.29 acres along the south side of New Brunswick Road and backing up to Interstate 40. It has an appraised value of $1.1 million, according to the Shelby County Assessor of Property, which lists the address as 2832 New Brunswick Road.
STORE Master Funding filed a $3 million deed of trust, assignment of rents and leases, security agreement and fixture filing through Citibank NA in conjunction with the purchase.
On Dec. 28, the same entity paid $2.1 million for the Firebirds Wood Fired Grill at 8470 U.S. 64 in Bartlett. Built in 1998, the freestanding restaurant sits on the north side of U.S. 64 between North Germantown Parkway and 64's intersection with Interstate 40 near Wolfchase Galleria. It filed a $2.3 million trust deed, also through Citibank, for that purchase.
Michael T. Bennett signed both trust deeds as executive vice president of the buyer.
Bartlett, TN 38133
Sale Amount: $2.1 million
Sale Date: Dec. 28, 2012
Buyer: Store Master Funding II LLC
Seller: DMLD Building Group LLC
Loan Amount: $2.3 million
Loan Date: Dec. 28, 2012
Details: An affiliate of Scottsdale, Ariz.-based STORE Capital has paid $2.1 million for the Firebirds Wood Fired Grill at 8470 U.S. (Highway) 64 in Bartlett.
The entity, STORE Master Funding II LLC, bought the 7,168-square-foot restaurant in a Dec. 28 special warranty deed from DMLD Building Group LLC of Charlotte, N.C.
Built in 1998, the freestanding restaurant sits on the north side of U.S. 64 between North Germantown Parkway and 64's intersection with Interstate 40 near Wolfchase Galleria.
The Shelby County Assessor of Property's 2012 appraisal of the restaurant was $2.4 million.
DMLD Building Group bought the restaurant in 2003 for $1.3 million from Don Pablos Operating Corp.
In conjunction with the purchase, STORE Master Funding II filed a $2.3 million deed of trust, assignment of rents and leases, security agreement and fixture filing through Citibank NA.
Michael T. Bennett signed the deed as executive vice president of the buyer, a real estate investment trust whose name stands for Single Tenant Operational Real Estate.
The Bartlett restaurant is one of two Firebirds in the area along with a location at Carriage Crossing in Collierville.
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Fullerton, Calif. - Haleigh Hamption had 12 kills and hit an impressive .526 to lead Long Beach State to a 3-0 sweep of Cal State Fullerton and helped the 49ers clinch at least a share of the Big West Conference championship in Titan Gym Saturday night.
The 49ers were victorious over the Titans for the 59th consecutive time dating back to the 1982 season and improved to 17-6 overall and 11-2 in league play in 2011. It was the ninth consecutive win for the 49ers since their Oct. 1 loss at UC Riverside. The Titans drop to 11-14, 6-7.
Fullerton hit just .069 against Long Beach's .296 and was led by Kayla Neto who landed 12 kills. She picked up her team-leading 14th double-double of the year by adding 10 digs in the 18-25, 24-26, 8-25 loss. Fullerton's Gabrielle Dewberry led all players with 15 digs.
Long Beach committed less than 20 total errors on the night, holding the upper hand most of the match. Fullerton had a 5-point lead in the second set as late as 19-14 and held a 2-point lead at 23-21 to force a 49er timeout. Two kills by Delainey Aigner-Swesey and another by Hampton got the 49ers to an overtime match point and one of Hampton's three blocks gave Long Beach a 2-0 lead heading into the break.
Following an intermission that saw former Big West Conference player of the Year and Titan All-American Erin Saddler get her jersey unveiled in the rafters of Titan Gym, the Titans stumbled to their worst set loss in the current 25-point scoring era, 25-8.
Long Beach was dominant at the net, out-blocking the Titans 11.0 to 5.0 with Alma Serna leading the way with eight blocks (2 solos). Ayana Whitaker paced the Titan squad with four block assists.
Fullerton will travel to UC Davis and Pacific next weekend before wrapping up the season with a pair of home matches against UC Irvine (Nov. 18) and nationally-ranked Hawaii (Nov. 25). All four of the matches will begin at 7 p.m.


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The NFL has suspended Browns linebacker Scott Fujita for the first three games of the season for his involvement in the Saints' bounty program. But with less than two weeks to go before the start of the season, Fujita still thinks there's time for that suspension to be lifted.
"I'm optimistic about playing in Week One," Fujita said today.
Fujita didn't explain exactly why he's optimistic, but his confidence may have been bolstered by Judge Helen G. Berrigan expressing concerns about the league's process in suspending Fujita, Jonathan Vilma, Anthony Hargrove, and Will Smith.
It's possible that Berrigan could issue a temporary restraining order to block the NFL from suspending the four players. Fujita sounds like he thinks that could be coming any day now.


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I'm so appreciative of the lovely readers who share in this wanderlust.
In unison with the words of Susan Sontag, "Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs," I am sharing one of my recent favourites.
Taken at the Magnolia Plantation (1676) in Charleston, SC, the moss riddled swamp seemed to me at once dramatic, cinematic, and magically peaceful.
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