How to Catch Fish in Vermont: No Bait, No Tackle, Just Bullets

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Using the Right Bait to Catch a Comet

Using the Right Bait to Catch a Comet 01/22/2004 03:19 AM
Dr. Peter Tsou used silica aerogel to gather an unaltered sample of five-billion-year-old dust and gas ejected by the Wild 2 comet.

Sport Anglers Said to Catch More Fish
Than Thought

Sport Anglers Said to Catch More Fish
Than Thought 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
Casual fishermen reel in nearly a quarter of the catch of overfished saltwater species, a much higher share than previously thought, researchers report in a new study.

Microsoft and Vermont Plaintiffs Settle
Vermont Class Action Lawsuit

Microsoft and Vermont Plaintiffs Settle
Vermont Class Action Lawsuit 07/02/2004 05:20 AM
The law firms of Johnson & Perkinson and Potter Stewart Law Offices, P.C., counsel for a proposed class of Vermont consumers, and Microsoft Corp. jointly announced today that a settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit alleging that Microsoft Corp. violated Vermont's consumer fraud act.

Big Fish, Small Fish, Green Fish, Dead
Fish.....

Big Fish, Small Fish, Green Fish, Dead
Fish..... 09/03/2004 06:20 PM
Small businesses often rely on off the shelf software and systems. It is easier t...

One Fish, Two Fish, More Fish, Few Fish?
(Los Angeles Times)

One Fish, Two Fish, More Fish, Few Fish?
(Los Angeles Times) 07/12/2004 05:27 AM
Los Angeles Times - DRY TORTUGAS NATIONAL PARK, Fla. — In these warm, jade-colored waters two hours from the nearest port by fast catamaran, Ashley McCrea-Strub donned her black wetsuit and pink flippers. It was time to get back to her summer job as census taker of the sea.

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
an

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
an 05/12/2004 07:03 AM

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
and Tapwave Zodiac

LDW Software Releases Fish Tycoon: A
Real-time Fish Breeding Game for Palm OS
and Tapwave Zodiac 05/31/2004 01:55 PM
Fish Tycoon is the follow-up to their award winning plant breeding sim, and features beautiful hi-resolution fish that grow, breed, and eat both while the device is turned on--and when it's off! [PRWEB May 3, 2004]

LDW Software Hatches Fish Tycoon 1.1
with Tradable Fish!

LDW Software Hatches Fish Tycoon 1.1
with Tradable Fish! 08/17/2004 03:55 AM
Now you can beam rare and exotic fish to your friends’ Palm OS Devices, in this best-selling aquarium game. [PRWEB Aug 17, 2004]

Photo of a little fish in the mouth of a
big fish

Photo of a little fish in the mouth of a
big fish 12/08/2003 03:32 PM
Who says fish can't convey emotions with their faces? See the look of doom in this little guy's eyes?. Link (via Reality Carnival)

Catch -- catch.com -- Interview: TBogg

Catch -- catch.com -- Interview: TBogg 07/18/2004 05:18 AM
interviewed by Catch .. interview

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Red Fish, Blue Fish

Red Fish, Blue Fish 06/28/2004 10:08 AM

Color Communication & Symbolism

"Colors in motion - an animated and interactive experience of color communication and symbolism. (flash. via One's web)" [MetaFilter]

This is a very cool explanation of color, one that might be helpful for librarians that design web sites.

Campground in Vermont Goes Wireless

Campground in Vermont Goes Wireless 07/06/2004 09:56 AM
AP via Newsday Jul 6 2004 2:03PM GMT

Sticky Situation In Vermont

Sticky Situation In Vermont 04/06/2005 11:49 AM
CBS News Apr 6 2005 3:17PM GMT

Wal-Mart: A Danger to Vermont?

Wal-Mart: A Danger to Vermont? 05/25/2004 01:23 PM
America's favorite giant retail whipping boy adds another ill to its list.

Campground in Vermont Goes Wireless (AP)

Campground in Vermont Goes Wireless (AP) 07/06/2004 06:50 AM
AP - Visitors to the North Beach Campground can now surf the Web while toasting marshmallows over the fire.

Bait and switch

Bait and switch 09/15/2004 12:25 AM
Computer Times Sep 15 2004 5:04AM GMT

Bullets sent to DPP members

Bullets sent to DPP members 08/05/2004 07:37 PM
Bullets are sent to three nationalist councillors who are members of district policing partnerships in County Down.

Words, not bullets

Words, not bullets 08/16/2004 10:05 AM
The long-awaited national conference begins in Baghdad despite a dangerous security situation.

Et cetera: bullets for a new day

Et cetera: bullets for a new day 11/05/2003 10:31 PM

All the bullets fit to shoot

All the bullets fit to shoot 04/16/2004 02:19 PM

Bullets of Butter

Bullets of Butter 02/05/2005 09:44 PM

« Runebergintortut / Runeberg cakes »

February 5th is Runebergin Päivä and every year little bullet cakes topped with jam and rings of icing start appearing a few weeks after the Christmas holidays are over to commemorate the the national poet [who wrote in Swedish] J.L. Runeberg [Lovely website. Requires Flash]. I had never tried the cakes because I'm not particularly fond of cavity inducing sweets and Jarkko had warned me off of them. On a whim I bought a package of them at the grocery one evening and tried one for the hell of it and found it to be not too horribly sweet and rather tasty in spite of the handicap of being mass produced and subsequently a bit on the dry side.

So, I consulted my copy of Kotiruoka and was intrigued by the use of bread and cookie crumbs in the recipe. I looked at other recipes for the cakes and found them suspect by comparison due to many of them using margarine instead of butter. Unless you have serious dietary requirements which bar you from enjoying butter occasionally, any recipe for a confection that calls for synthetic fats [exception for pie crust and pastry dough] should be held suspect since they are not the same as butter and, given I'm a chemist, I consider them to be far worse for you than butter when used in moderation. Many of the recipes also omitted the gingerbread cookie and bread crumbs or tried to tart up the recipe with various other ingredients. The Kotiruoka recipes are decidedly not fancy, very traditional and trustworthy recipes. Considering just how far off the English versions are from the original Finnish recipes, it's a pity there isn't an English translation for the bible of Finnish cooking. I made four different variations, including the original and had a few willing victims taste them and pick the one they liked the best.

The Problem: Runeberg cakes are a traditional confection for Runberg's Day on 5 February in Finland. They are generally regarded to be either too dry or too sweet when rum or liqueurs are added to moisten them.

The Goal: To make a traditional Runeberg cake that is not quite so dry without resorting to adding liqueurs for moisture.

The Solution: Part of the dryness problem stems from the fact that most people rely on bakeries to provide the cakes and, especially if they are purchased in the grocery, they dry out fairly quickly in the winter air if not sealed well. The combination of bread crumbs and gingerbread cookie crumbs also soak up much of the available moisture. I went back to the classic recipe in Kotiruoka and found that it calls for jam topping before and after baking which most of the other recipes and the bakeries don't do. The jam supplies a bit of extra moisture during baking. I also added a bit of fruit juice to complement the jam of choice and to add a bit more moisture without making them soggy.

Runebergintortut - Runeberg Cakes

Makes: 12 regular or 8 large bullet-shaped cakes
Preparation time: approximately 1 hour
Special Equipment: Runeberg forms or straight-edged muffin pan [ dimensions: 5.7cm/2.3in wide and 5.5cm/2in deep ]
Source: Kotiruoka, pg. 411

Ingredients

• 150g | 1.5 sticks butter
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 dl | 1/2 cup ground or finely chopped almonds
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup wheat flour
• 1.5 dl | 3/4 cup bread crumbs [korppujauhetta] (optional: substitute 1/4 cup gingerbread cookie crumbs)
• 1 tl | 1 tsp. baking powder
• .5 dl | 1/4 cup cream
• 2 Tsp. orange juice (optional)

Decoration

• raspberry jam or marmalade
• 1 dl | 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
• about 1/2 Tsp. water

Apple-walnut variation

Substitute full fruit apple jam [chunky] in place of the raspberry, apple juice for the orange juice and use finely chopped walnuts instead of almonds.

1. Mix dry ingredients [ flour, bread crumbs, gingerbread crumbs (if used), baking powder ] together and set aside. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time, mixing well. Add cream and dry ingredients. Stir vigorously until smooth and thick. Fold in nuts.
2. Pour the batter into muffin cups or greased popover/straight-edged baking pans. Fill the cups 2/3 full [about 1/3 cup]. Press floured fingers into the batter to create a divot in the top and fill with raspberry or apple jam.
3. Bake in an oven pre-heated to 395F/200C for about 15 minutes. Remove the forms/remove from the pan and decorate the cakes when cool. Add more raspberry jam to the top of the cake. Mix the confectioner's sugar with water until it becomes a thick paste. Pour or pipe the icing into rings around the jam.
4. If gingerbread crumbs are used in the batter, you can spice it up with 1 tsp. of cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. of cloves.

The classic shape of the cakes are squat and bullet-like from the straight-edged forms [5.7cm/2.3in wide and 5.5cm/2in deep] but those less fussy about how they look may use a muffin pan with paper cups, bake-proof ceramic coffee cups/small souffle cups or even small tomato paste cans [they're smooth] with the bottom removed. Finding these special forms locally in the country where they are traditional at this time of year is surprisingly difficult. I did eventually find them at Stockmann for 2.50 euro/ea. Apparently few bother with making their own or making them with the forms. Outside of Finland/the Nordic region, the closest ready-made pan is the Nordic Ware Crown Muffin Pan. The advantage the forms have over the muffin/popover pan is that they lift off of the cakes instead of having to tease them out of the muffin pan, 6 at a time, without mangling them. If using the muffin pan, allow extra time to cool since they are a bit more fragile when they are warm.

Creaming the butter and sugar together and then adding in the eggs is, perhaps, the most important step in this recipe. I reluctantly purchased one of those Braun hand held mixers last year and have rarely used my standing mixer since. It's perfect for this job as the purpose of creaming the butter and sugar together is to get a bit of air into the mixture. The original recipe doesn't state how much of the gingerbread cookie crumbs to use but I found a 1:3 ratio of cookie to bread crumbs to be the best. After adding in the dry ingredients you will have a thick, porridge-like batter that won't ooze out from beneath the cake forms. Add the fruit juice last.

Grease the pan and forms well and pour about 1/3 cup of batter into each form. Press the batter into the form with a moist spatula and smooth the top and edges since the batter retains much of the shape after baking and it will look ragged if not smoothed out before. Place a small blob of jam on top of the batter in each cup. The directions in the original recipe call for using floured fingers to make a depression for the jam, but I didn't find that this worked very well and used a wet spoon with some success or just shoved the spoon with jam into the batter without bothering to make a divot first. I found the latter to work better since the jam didn't bubble up quite as much during baking. Once they're done baking and have cooled, decorate and eat. The cakes do travel well if packed properly and I will note that the square clear plastic boxes that some of the butter cookies are sold in [in Finland] will hold 9 cakes perfectly.

My attentive assistant and discriminating taste-tester seemed to prefer the cakes where I used the gingerbread cookie crumbs from the original recipe version although claimed that the batch I made without gingerbread but with added orange peel and orange juice tasted 'more like the Fazer' version of the cakes. I subjected 8 test subjects at work to a blind tasting with 4 samples; 3 of mine and one from a Fazer control. Again, the gingerbread cookie crumb variety was popular as was the apple variation. Interestingly, several picked the Fazer control which may be due to baseline normal for this annual traditional cake as they liked the variations very much as well. The apple variety could also be good to make all year as it's not so closely associated with Runeberg's day.

Keep those bullets away from Sistani!

Keep those bullets away from Sistani! 05/18/2004 07:46 PM

Bullets sent to councillors

Bullets sent to councillors 05/08/2004 04:57 AM
Bullets are sent in the post to three SDLP members of a County Down policing body, the party says.

Vermont Man Plays Poker for 72 Hours
(AP)

Vermont Man Plays Poker for 72 Hours
(AP) 06/14/2004 01:05 PM
AP - You can reasonably bet that Larry Olmsted is pretty sick of seven-card stud. The Vermont native sat at a poker table at Foxwoods Resort Casino at Mashantucket at 1:22 p.m. Thursday and remained there for the next 72 hours, taking occasional bathroom breaks but never leaving the poker area.

School Bus Gets Vermont Farmer's Goat
(AP)

School Bus Gets Vermont Farmer's Goat
(AP) 05/30/2004 02:52 PM
AP - A goat farmer who converted his house into a barn to keep his animals warm during the winter has had another run-in with the law.

Smallest Vermont Bank Holds Its Own (AP)

Smallest Vermont Bank Holds Its Own (AP) 07/15/2004 03:22 AM
AP - The First National Bank of Orwell is the smallest bank in Vermont, and it's made a name for itself by staying that way. Based in the house where its president's father was born, the bank has no drive-through or Web site, and offers no ATM cards. And it is the state's only bank without a branch — for now.

Phishers Using Cash For Bait

Phishers Using Cash For Bait 03/22/2005 05:03 PM
Someone should do a study on the way the various phishing scams have evolved over time. From the original, poorly worded spam messages trying to get people to give up their bank account or credit card info to very slick replicas that currently go out and even on to mixing and matching 419 scams with phishing scams, it appears that those involved with phishing attacks keep adjusting. That's probably because the scam seems to be runnin g dry in a few places. The latest trick is to try to appeal to a surfer's greed, rather than just fear that something is wrong with their account. A new set of phishing emails are offering up cash in exchange for giving away your info -- though, of course, no one ever sees the cash (if anything, they see less of it in their own accounts). However, given the fact that many people will hand over their passwords in exchange for a chocolate bar, a pen, or a friendly smile, is it any wonder that offering a few dollars seems to make people give away their bank accounts?

Bush's Bait and Switch... and Why I Like
It

Bush's Bait and Switch... and Why I Like
It 12/19/2004 03:12 PM
George Bush got re-elected on the strength of two issues: the "War on Terrorism" and "Moral Values." That's what motivated a decisive share of the electorate to come out and vote. So, isn't it a bit surprising that the two pillars of his agenda for the next term are tax reform and social security reform? If I were a Bush supporter (which I'm not), I would be scratching my head about now.

Some jail bait for kittie?

Some jail bait for kittie? 12/17/2003 02:24 PM
Wag the dog. No fat cats can save Gov. Ryan now. An update on the MIFI hero former IL Gov. Jim Ryan and perhaps why he issued a death penal moratorium in 2000. [more inside]

Mac Mini Is Bait to PC Users

Mac Mini Is Bait to PC Users 03/27/2005 11:27 PM
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Cutting Fitch Bait

Cutting Fitch Bait 08/11/2004 09:47 AM
Abercrombie & Fitch warns, and that's never a trendy garment.

CERT: IE bug is bait for phishers

CERT: IE bug is bait for phishers 06/15/2004 09:51 AM

SkillSoft as Buyout Bait

SkillSoft as Buyout Bait 06/07/2004 09:13 AM
SkillSoft is provides e-learning solutions. As the market grows, the company could be an attractive buyout candidate.

States Tell Phishers To Cut Bait Or Else

States Tell Phishers To Cut Bait Or Else 04/13/2005 03:06 PM
Information Week Apr 13 2005 5:55PM GMT

Cringely : Phish or Cut Bait

Cringely : Phish or Cut Bait 06/05/2005 11:27 PM
"Is the government now going to be telling me I'm sending too much e-mail? How much mail is too much? And what are they doing monitoring my e-mail, anyway? Will they next be clamping down on my unhealthy propensity for forwarding Jenna Bush jokes?"

Data flies, bullets too

Data flies, bullets too 07/06/2004 01:54 AM
USA Today Jul 6 2004 6:08AM GMT

Post-holiday bullets

Post-holiday bullets 07/08/2004 06:55 AM
The iPod Mini makes its worldwide debut, Microsoft loses on the ergonomic keyboard patent, and Starbucks claims people are actually using the T-Mobile Hot Spots in it US stores.

Bullets sent to SDLP office

Bullets sent to SDLP office 05/04/2004 11:03 AM
SDLP leader Mark Durkan condemns an attack in which ammunition was sent to an assembly member.

Man jailed for bullets on plane

Man jailed for bullets on plane 04/19/2004 08:16 AM
A former airport security worker is jailed for nine months for carrying live bullets on a plane which landed at Heathrow Airport.
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