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Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wild Rice and Vegetable Pilaf
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...This is an ugly duckling that I had the good fortune to stumble on. It is delicious and I highly recommend this casserole to you. It's wonderful with pork and duck or turkey. From my perspective, the best thing it has going for it, save for its great flavor, is that it can be made ahead of time and rewarmed in the microwave when it's needed. It obviously is a busy cooks delight. I suspect that many of you will question the amount of butter that's used in this recipe. Now, while I hate to say this, you can use half that amount without seriously damaging the taste of this dish, but please don't cut back any further than that. Butter is important to the over-all flavor of this casserole. I hope you'll give this dish a try. It's a wonderful accompaniment for holiday or company meals and I know you like it. Here's the recipe.
Wild Rice and Vegetable Pilaf...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
4 cups chicken broth
3/4 cup uncooked wild rice
1 cup uncooked long grain rice
1 large onion, chopped
2 medium carrots, halved lengthwise and sliced
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
1/2 cup butter, cubed
3 cups fresh broccoli florets
1/4 teaspoon pepper
Salt to taste
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a shallow 2-quart casserole.
2) Bring broth to a boil in a large saucepan. Add wild rice and reduce heat. Cover pan and cook for 30 minutes. Add long grain rice and cook, covered, for another 20 to 25 minutes longer, or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender.
3) Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute onion, carrots and thyme in butter until vegetables are tender. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the rice, broccoli and pepper.
4) Transfer to prepared baking dish. Cover and bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until rice is heated through and broccoli is crisp tender. Fluff with fork before serving. Yield: 10 to 12 servings.
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37 comments :
- Diane said...
A definite on my 'todo' list this looks delicious. Thanks. Take care Diane
- September 1, 2011 at 3:00 AM
- Marina said...
Hi! I wrote about your blog today :) Hope you will like the recipes I choose. You can see it here:
http://www.lifecoachwannabe.com/2011/09/enjoy-your-food-and-stay-fit-one.html - September 1, 2011 at 3:07 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Love wild rice and it looks so delicious with all sorts of vegetables.
- September 1, 2011 at 4:30 AM
- Karen S Booth said...
That looks fabulous and I LOVE pilav, so that is on my list of to make soon!
Karen @ Lavender and Lovage - September 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM
- Rachana said...
A healthy and a delicious pilaf.
- September 1, 2011 at 5:43 AM
- Priyanka said...
Healthy and delicious and totally colorful :)
- September 1, 2011 at 6:10 AM
- Lynn said...
I love side dishes like this Mary, it sounds great:@)
- September 1, 2011 at 6:37 AM
This would make any dish loki godo.Although it is called rice ,wild rice is not a rice.But who cares.It looks and taste good;)
- September 1, 2011 at 6:48 AM
- Alessandra said...
Great recipe Mary! Of course vegetable stock for me :-).
Alessandra - September 1, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Sprigs of Rosemary said...
Yep, you've given me yet another keeper, Mary. I love having make aheads in my arsenal. And I promise, swear, never ever to cut back on the butter.
- September 1, 2011 at 7:00 AM
- Priya Suresh said...
Flavourful and filling pilaf..
- September 1, 2011 at 7:06 AM
- Clint said...
Ummm....looks sooo good.
- September 1, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Kim said...
This pilaf is another great side dish that I really like!
- September 1, 2011 at 7:58 AM
Simplicity is always a good idea. This would go with just about any main dish. Thanks.
- September 1, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- Rita said...
i often make rice pilaff; my husband loves this. Now I have to try it with wild rice; gotta be good.
Rita - September 1, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Martha said...
Mary, I'm saving this -- for I love pilafs and right now I'm in the land of the wild rice!!!
- September 1, 2011 at 8:49 AM
- Unknown said...
I love rice pilaf..you can pretty much add anything to it!! And honestly, Mary, I don't think it looks that ugly... lots of color, I love it!
- September 1, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Picture perfect pilaf! Great post!
- September 1, 2011 at 9:39 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
I'll take anything that saves time, and includes a generous helping of butter! That's a beautiful splash of color for any table.
- September 1, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- Tasha said...
We love wild rice dishes, yet they rarely get made in our house for some reason. This one looks great.
- September 1, 2011 at 10:17 AM
Hmmm ... which one to make ... the healthy wild rice dish ... or your link to the chocolate cake with coffee and kahlua ... not fair, setting us up like that!!
- September 1, 2011 at 11:38 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
Dear Mary, these sounds delicious I love pilaf!! gloria
- September 1, 2011 at 12:56 PM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
Beautiful colors and keep the butter!
- September 1, 2011 at 1:05 PM
- Joanne said...
Doesn't look ugly to me! I love teh texture of wild rice!
- September 1, 2011 at 1:14 PM
I love meals that can be made ahead of time...especially when they're just as delicious reheated. Sounds great, Mary! Hope you're having a good day.
- September 1, 2011 at 2:00 PM
- mia maria said...
It looks delicious! So many colors!
- September 1, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Flavia Galasso said...
I'm back in Blogland from holidays..and I'm even happy to read your wonderful recipes..hugs, Flavia
- September 1, 2011 at 5:19 PM
- Juliana said...
I haven't had wild rice for a while, you just reminded me how tasty they are. Yours with veggies look yummie!
Hope you have a great Labor Day weekend Mary :-) - September 1, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Banana Wonder said...
Love dishes like this! I could eat it for din din or breakfast because I am weird like that.
- September 1, 2011 at 7:00 PM
- Amy Wilson (StreamingGourmet) said...
Looks delicious. Thanks for linking back to my wild rice recipe. Great to (re)discover your blog. Cheers! -Amy
- September 1, 2011 at 7:51 PM
- Style, She Wrote said...
Wow! Your recipes are amazing. Sharing with all my foodie friends!! xo style, she wrote
- September 1, 2011 at 8:01 PM
- HOPE said...
Thank you so much Mary, for your very encouraging comment on my blog. I appreciate very much your visits.
I don't think this is an ugly duckling..Look at the colors! and YUM. Thanks for sharing...I'd definetly like this!
HOPE - September 1, 2011 at 9:31 PM
- Culinary School: Three Semesters of Life, Learning, and Loss of Blood said...
I haven't had a pilaf since I had to make one for my second term culinary school exam (I wrote about it here, if you're interested: "Culinary School: Three Semesters of Life, Learning, and Loss of Blood," on Amazon Kindle - http://amzn.to/oqXw1R). But, now, seeing this, I'm thinking it is time to make another. Oh yes!
- September 1, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- That Girl said...
Can't wait to try this.
- September 1, 2011 at 10:49 PM
- PeggyR said...
Oh my that looks so good!
- September 2, 2011 at 9:02 AM
- Becki's Whole Life said...
I really like this recipe because not only does it sound yummy, but its a veggie and starch all in one (and it's quite healthy.) Plus it looks like it will yield some leftovers. Great recipe, Mary:-)
- September 3, 2011 at 7:35 AM
- Cindy said...
This looks perfect. But I really don't like thyme--should I substitute something else or just leave it out?
- September 8, 2011 at 7:07 PM


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As Gandhi never quite said,
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they attack you. Then you win.
I remember one of the first TV debates I had on the then-strange question of civil marriage for gay couples. It was Crossfire, as I recall, and Gary Bauer's response to my rather earnest argument after my TNR cover-story on the matter was laughter. "This is the loopiest idea ever to come down the pike," he joked. "Why are we even discussing it?"
Those were isolating days. A young fellow named Evan Wolfson who had written a dissertation on the subject in 1983 got in touch, and the world immediately felt less lonely. Then a breakthrough in Hawaii, where the state supreme court ruled for marriage equality on gender equality grounds. No gay group had agreed to support the case, which was regarded at best as hopeless and at worst, a recipe for a massive backlash. A local straight attorney from the ACLU, Dan Foley, took it up instead, one of many straight men and women who helped make this happen. And when we won, and got our first fact on the ground, we indeed faced exactly that backlash and all the major gay rights groups refused to spend a dime on protecting the breakthrough … and we lost.
In fact, we lost and lost and lost again. Much of the gay left was deeply suspicious of this conservative-sounding reform; two thirds of the country were opposed; the religious right saw in the issue a unique opportunity for political leverage—and over time, they put state constitutional amendments against marriage equality on the ballot in countless states, and won every time. Our allies deserted us. The Clintons embraced the Defense of Marriage Act, and their Justice Department declared that DOMA was in no way unconstitutional the morning some of us were testifying against it on Capitol Hill. For his part, president George W. Bush subsequently went even further and embraced the Federal Marriage Amendment to permanently ensure second-class citizenship for gay people in America. Those were dark, dark days.
I recall all this now simply to rebut the entire line of being "on the right side of history." History does not have such straight lines. Movements do not move relentlessly forward; progress comes and, just as swiftly, goes. For many years, it felt like one step forward, two steps back. History is a miasma of contingency, and courage, and conviction, and chance.
But some things you know deep in your heart: that all human beings are made in the image of God; that their loves and lives are equally precious; that the pursuit of happiness promised in the Declaration of Independence has no meaning if it does not include the right to marry the person you love; and has no force if it denies that fundamental human freedom to a portion of its citizens. In the words of Hannah Arendt:
"The right to marry whoever one wishes is an elementary human right compared to which 'the right to attend an integrated school, the right to sit where one pleases on a bus, the right to go into any hotel or recreation area or place of amusement, regardless of one's skin or color or race' are minor indeed. Even political rights, like the right to vote, and nearly all other rights enumerated in the Constitution, are secondary to the inalienable human rights to 'life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness' proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence; and to this category the right to home and marriage unquestionably belongs."
This core truth is what Justice Kennedy affirmed today, for the majority: that gay people are human. I wrote the following in 1996:
Homosexuality, at its core, is about the emotional connection between two adult human beings. And what public institution is more central—more definitive—of that connection than marriage? The denial of marriage to gay people is therefore not a minor issue. It is the entire issue. It is the most profound statement our society can make that homosexual love is simply not as good as heterosexual love; that gay lives and commitments and hopes are simply worth less. It cuts gay people off not merely from civic respect, but from the rituals and history of their own families and friends. It erases them not merely as citizens, but as human beings.
We are not disordered or sick or defective or evil—at least no more than our fellow humans in this vale of tears. We are born into family; we love; we marry; we take care of our children; we die. No civil institution is related to these deep human experiences more than civil marriage and the exclusion of gay people from this institution was a statement of our core inferiority not just as citizens but as human beings. It took courage to embrace this fact the way the Supreme Court did today. In that 1996 essay, I analogized to the slow end to the state bans on inter-racial marriage:
The process of integration—like today's process of "coming out"—introduced the minority to the majority, and humanized them. Slowly, white people came to look at interracial couples and see love rather than sex, stability rather than breakdown. And black people came to see interracial couples not as a threat to their identity, but as a symbol of their humanity behind the falsifying carapace of race.
It could happen again. But it is not inevitable; and it won't happen by itself. And, maybe sooner rather than later, the people who insist upon the centrality of gay marriage to every American's equality will come to seem less marginal, or troublemaking, or "cultural," or bent on ghettoizing themselves. They will seem merely like people who have been allowed to see the possibility of a larger human dignity and who cannot wait to achieve it.
I think of the gay kids in the future who, when they figure out they are different, will never know the deep psychic wound my generation—and every one before mine—lived through: the pain of knowing they could never be fully part of their own family, never befully a citizen of their own country. I think, more acutely, of the decades and centuries of human shame and darkness and waste and terror that defined gay people's lives for so long. And I think of all those who supported this movement who never lived to see this day., who died in the ashes from which this phoenix of a movement emerged. This momentous achievement is their victory too—for marriage, as Kennedy argued, endures past death.
I never believed this would happen in my lifetime when I wrote my first several TNR essays and then my book, Virtually Normal, and then the anthology and the hundreds and hundreds of talks and lectures and talk-shows and call-ins and blog-posts and articles in the 1990s and 2000s. I thought the book, at least, would be something I would have to leave behind me—secure in the knowledge that its arguments were, in fact, logically irrefutable, and would endure past my own death, at least somewhere. I never for a millisecond thought I would live to be married myself. Or that it would be possible for everyone, everyone in America.
But it has come to pass. All of it. In one fell, final swoop.

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There are many things to complain about when it comes to wine competitions. Results aren't one of them. I don't know exactly how many times I've been a wine judge, but it's somewhere around twenty-five to thirty times (could be more) among a dozen or so competitions. Every competition is different. Different standards, different judges, different sorts of judging conditions. And each competition has a different approach to awarding medals as well. Therein lies the main problem. The average person seeing a "Gold Medal" medallion on a bottle of wine hasn't the vaguest idea what it actually represents. I suspect competitions like it that way. Mystery adds weight to the significance. And "Gold," well, it conjures up Walter Huston dancing in "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre." "Silver" conjures up the Lone Ranger (Johnny Depp as Tonto? Really? Wait, was Lou Ferrigno already booked?). And "Bronze," that lowliest of medals, reminds us of the lowliest of actors, George Hamilton. Though putting a "Bronze Medal" sticker on your bottle of wine is like advertising that 1 out of 5 dentists recommends your toothpaste.
There are many ways to evaluate and "score" wine. Every one of them is flawed. This is the single fact you need to remember. If you are a person who buys wine based on numbers, or based on Gold Medals, or based on "blind" tastings done in a newspaper office, you cannot get around the fact that there is no foolproof way to evaluate wine. Period. But we like rankings and we like numbers, and we award them great significance and power. This is our fault as humans, not the fault of those who conjure up magical numbers in their heads after smelling and tasting a wine for a few minutes, or of those panels of judges who quietly taste, then compare their notes to all the other judges and decide, somehow, it's Silver. Why is it Silver? Well, because three out of four of us say so. Wine competitions are the Supreme Court of wine—heavily male, pretty damned old, and utterly convinced of the righteousness of their decisions. And, truly, most of us die in office.
A critic with many years of experience, the rare one that hasn't made himself into a buffoon, provides enormous insight. There are critics I trust. I often don't agree with them, I often think they are wrong about specific wines, but I trust them and I read them. Who? Well, Charlie Olken and Stephen Eliot of Connoisseurs' Guide for their perspective on California wines, Robert Parker for Rhône wines (though he has passed that region on to his new reviewer Jeb Clampett), Paul Gregutt for Washington wines, Tim Atkin MW has great insight, a formidable palate and is a talented and engaging writer, Steve Heimoff is always solidly informed, Nick Ponomareff and his California Grapevine crew do consistent and learned tasting notes, and there's always the iconoclastic, informative and idiosyncratic Dan Berger. There are others. But, for the most part, I rely on friends, people I've tasted with for many years, people whose palates I understand, for new wines to try. But I'm blessed with some friends who are among the best wine buyers around—Samantha Dugan of Wine Country in Signal Hill, CA, Gerald Weisl of Weimax Wine and Spirits in Burlingame, CA, Ben Pearson of Bottle Barn in Santa Rosa, CA. These folks know wine better than any M.S. I've ever met, and are far more engaging. If you're not in the wine biz, chances are you don't have friends like mine to advise you on wine.
But think of a wine competition (and, frankly, the word "competition" is wrong—each wine is judged individually, not competitively, which is why there can be many medals in each category) as a conversation. Among wine lovers, isn't that how we "rate" wines? We don't give them goddam numbers, except as a joke. ("I'm 97 on that." "Yeah, what about my wife?" "I'm 69 on that.") We open a bottle, share it with four or five or six people, talk about it, argue about it, agree and disagree about it, and, finally, just drink it. But we usually come to a kind of unspoken consensus as to its quality, usually demonstrated by how fast we drink it. It's the conversation, the input of other humans who love wine, that makes it fun and educational. That's all a wine judging is.
At wine competitions, we usually judge with other people we know, admire, and like (panels can be three, four or five judges, sometimes more). Or we come to like them by the end of the judging if we hadn't met them before. With the occasional arrogant and petulant butthole thrown in. Anyone who has been a wine judge for any length of time can tell you stories. I've seen an MS and an MW thrown out mid-competition for aggressive and insulting behavior to other judges. Judging wine! We're not arguing abortion rights or invoking the death penalty, we're talking about fucking Merlot. Almost every judging I've participated in has had one moron judge who thinks he knows far more than the other people on that panel. The arrogance is astounding. It's not standing up for principles to refuse to budge on your evaluations, it's the most immature form of one-upmanship. The only consolation is knowing that the egocentric judge lives in a private hell of his own making. Yet one person like that on your panel can sour you on wine judging for a long time. Come to think of it, invoking the death penalty just might work.
When you are part of an interesting panel, it's great fun. Every wine gets discussed, and the discussions are often extremely educational. Winemakers and Enology Professors make for really challenging days. They are trained to hunt faults, and the smallest thing might make them want to give a low, or no, medal. In a very recent competition, our panel consisted of me and another wine buyer/sommelier type, and two winemakers. There were several wines that the two of us felt were Gold Medal wines while the two winemakers found them unworthy of any medal. I learned a lot about faults that competition, mostly of the teeny kind. But faults, in my opinion, don't disqualify beauty. A large, obvious and regrettable fault—sure, disqualify it. But something minor ("The yeast were probably a little nutrient starved" is not something I have ever read in Wine Spectator), well, that might even define the wine a bit. Lots of gorgeous people have little flaws—Cindy Crawford's mole jumps to mind, and Marilyn Monroe's, and Marty Feldman's eyes. Can't a lovely wine? It's an interesting discussion, and out of it comes a medal that makes some sense. Not definitive, not written in Gold, definitely debatable, but, yet, sensible.
So how do stupid wines get Gold Medals? Charles Shaw most recently. There have always been rumors that there are "special" bottles of Charles Shaw that are sent to wine competitions, bottles with wine better than and not representative of the brand.. This is mindless crap. I could be wrong, but I don't think so. How could I be? I'm a wine judge, dammit. Would Fred Franzia cheat? Sure. He's been busted lots of times. For a wine competition? No. It wouldn't be worth it. He'd be guaranteed to be caught eventually, outed by a wine whistleblower, and looking that foolish for a three dollar bottle of wine that's already sold fifty million (!) cases would be stupid. He ain't stupid.
Let's understand that for the most part, the majority of the wines entered into a competition are not the great wines of the world. The finest wines don't need to enter a wine judging any more than George Clooney needs to audition. Gold Medals do nothing for them. Yes, there are a few very prestigious competitions that have many famously great wines entered—but those competitions do not have entries like Charles Shaw. Also, varieties that have hundreds of entries (Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, Sauvignon Blanc, Zin, Merlot…) are often segregated by price. In many competitions you're judging "Chardonnays under $15," for example. And you taste, and you discuss with your panel friends, and you might say, "Hey, for 10 bucks, this is damned tasty, why not Gold?" That bottle is never compared in any way with a $50 Chardonnay. Consumers like to see "Gold Medal" on eight dollar bottles too. I'm sure that the Charles Shaw wines that won in Orange County were in low price categories. The folks at Charles Shaw know that, and just like in horse racing, you only enter a race you think your horse fits. And they won. But that doesn't make Charles Shaw Chardonnay a Grand Cru Chablis. It makes it a three dollar wine that's worth three dollars.
And, finally, it's the stupid wines that create the most controversy. The best wines usually win a Gold or a Double Gold easily. (Double Gold is a wine that received a vote of Gold from every judge on the panel—very tough to do. If you buy wine by medals, buy Double Golds and not necessarily Golds. Words of advice which won't endear me to wine competitions.) Horrible wines, and they are legion (and their names are never revealed to the public, though judges know), are the subject of derision and occasional wit. (An old chestnut, "What I liked about this Chardonnay was the fruit didn't get in the way of the oak.") But it's the stupid wines, the wines that stun your palate with mediocrity, that can sometimes sneak by and get a Gold Medal. Sometimes the least objectionable wine rises to the top, the "American Idol" Law. Every panel member, when seeing the results of his judging, alone in front of his computer, will spot a few wines that received Gold Medals that he wishes hadn't. But if you judge 200 wines in two days, and only see two or three in the results that you feel are undeserving, that's fine, that's just how it goes. However, it explains why a single wine entered in many different competitions will often get completely different medals. Those, almost without fail, are stupid wines. Even the least talented nag may eventually win a race if you keep entering; champions win consistently.
There's a lot more to say, but I'm done here. Don't take any wine ratings seriously. Trust your friends, trust a few critics who seem to enlighten you, trust a decent wine shop… There are no guarantees. Get over it. But thinking that wine competitions are useless or invalid or unreliable isn't insight. Insight is knowing that wine always has, and always will, get the better of us. All of us.


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We've come full circle! Here we are at the cusp of a new year. As we stand on top of the hill looking forward to all 2009 will bring, I can't help but take a quick glance back at 2008.
Even though we've just experienced an extremely volatile year with the economy down to it's worst, terrorists in Bombay and the yo-yo prices of gas to name a few issues, personally it was a good year with several great highlights scattered throughout.
Blogwise I had so much fun with What's For Lunch, Honey? this year, learning so many new things in the process. There were exciting experiments in the kitchen, new baking techniques learnt, practicing and playing around with new photo techniques, researching on ingredients and studying up on food styling. I am not sure if I am doing a good job, but one thing I can tell you for sure - I certainly am having a ball doing it!
In 2008 I composed 138 posts. When one considers it takes me a total of 3-4 hours spread across 2-3 days to put one post together - that is a lot of time spent on this blog. That's 552 hours - hours I loved spending here, probably because of you! Yes, you - all my readers and cherished friends. Without the support, motivation and friendship you offer I am sure this would be half as much fun. Sometime this year I noticed that this blog had managed to hit it's 1,000,000 visitor mark. I guess I was so dumbfounded that I forgot to celebrate it with you! Whereas in 2007 I hit the 500,000 after two years of blogging, 2008 bestowed the same amount in a period of almost 12 months! I am shaking my head, still unable to grasp this, as I write these figures.
I thank every single one of the half a million people visiting my humble blog this year. It's been a true pleasure having you over. I thank you for the time you take to read through my rambles and to write a comment. I love getting your mails and appreciate your patience when I answer (I have to improve on this!). Your questions and queries are invaluable and I hope I am able to help you answering or finding the solutions to them.
Thank you - my daily readers, fantastic friends, supportive advisors, anonymous lurkers, encouraging cheerleaders and of course my loyal and loving family - for keeping What's For Lunch. Honey? alive with your spirit and making this blog a fun place to come home to.
I know many of you have your favorites from this blog. In your comments or mails you share your thoughts on a picture, a post, a recipe or emotions and it's always exciting to read what your favorites are. Keeping with the trend from last year's retrospective, I share with you my favorites in 2008.
I started 2008 with a very good resolution and got to the business of introducing myself to you properly. This has now become my official "About" page.
Bollywood Cooking is a series I truly love. Not only because I am able to research the background or the origins of the dishes I grew up on but mostly because many of the recipes are often from my grandmother or mother's kitchen or recreated with my mother's advice and tips. In reproducing them and writing them down for you I once again have a chance to be close to both of them. One is watching me from the heavens above and the other encourages me and gives me tips over the phone from miles away. I hope both will approve of what I have done with the series.
This year it was all about street food and popular restaurant food. My favorite was certainly the delicious and creamy butter chicken. The vegetable paneer frankies were such a delight and nourished my homesickness after I returned from visiting my parents in Dubai. I enjoyed researching for this particular post - going back to the several types of street food offered in India was enlightening and a lot of fun. Fun was also joining a few of my Indian blog buddies in our fried food frenzy making the most famous of all Indian street foods - Vada Pav. I enjoyed adding my little twist to it!
Cooking School provides a similar concept just recreating and researching other very popular dishes and recipes from around the world. This year I made hot cross buns, spaghetti alla bolognese, zabaione and zimtsterne to name just a few posts in this series. My favorite however was the preserving 101 with several recipe ideas for chutneys, relishes and jellies.
The Food Guide provides me an opportunity to look into produce and other ingredients more closely. It's enriching to know how a vegetable or fruit ticks - all what I find out, I share with you and as a special goodie I usually share a recipe using that particular ingredient. This year we did plums, tomatoes, butter oil and rhubarb to name only a few. I had two favorites this year - the currently featured parsnips and making my own homemade quark.
There were so many interesting recipes I shared this year and it really was hard to choose. Maybe you will enjoy my top five:
- Risotto with Rucola & Bresaola
- Chickpea Pumpkin Tajine With Coconut Couscous & Coconut Chutney
- Ricotta Pesto & Mushroom Lasagne
- Coconut Potato Curry with Basil & Cashews
- Homemade Parsnip Gnocchi with Rucola Cashew Pesto
Ummm! Now I am hungry all over again.
Desserts, cakes and everything to satisfy the sweet tooth was once again plentiful this year. There was that tangy lime brûlée, a cooling strawberry pistachio frozen parfait, mum's coconut lemon cake and the delicate saffron and cardamom panna cotta. I had two favorites, each one offering a plethora of tastes and satisfying each sweet craving. The sensational strawberry panna cotta and my peachy peach cardamom goat cheese tart. Oh boy were they good!
I celebrated my first anniversary with the Daring Bakers this April and in August, I hosted my own challenge, getting the hundreds of very daring bakers to make chocolate eclairs. There was a lot of baking with this fantastic group throughout 2008. We partied with a party cake, went for a night out with the opera cake, had fun tossing dough with a medley of pizzas and braided a Danish braid. The three challenges I enjoyed and learned the most from were the crispy French baguette, Lavash crackers and our most recent French Yule log.
Photography is not only a hobby but a passion. It's my way to relax or vent. This year my two favorite guys surprised me by setting up a small photo studio for my birthday. I splashed out on the Lowel Ego set and was ready to learn new lessons in food photography. This corner is my recluse, a place where I go to be creative, to read about photography or food styling. I am still learning so much especially with the lights and I was not always happy with the results I produced. Personally I found the quality of the photos a bit erratic this year. Sometimes I captured difficult motives with ease and the so called easier ones created so much agitation. My favorite was summer berries and all the reasons I love summer!
So, getting the Inspiring Food Photography award March 2008, looking good in the host's award for tropical fruit salad and clicking it with the reader's choice award were all a huge encouragement for me to keep at it. These three awards were precious awards because they came from you. An honor for me and my gratitude goes out to you for making it possible.
It was a busy but an exciting year and I am so glad your were there every step of the way. I took you to Dubai with a peak behind the scenes of a pastry kitchen, you enjoyed the summer in Austria with me, got so aggravated with the Indian press for stealing my picture and you joined Soeren and me for our cookie-for-charity event.
It's really been a lot of fun! As I look towards 2009 I know there will be changes and a big adventure coming our way. On the whole we are excited, but there will be a lot of emotions and probably a fair bit of temperament involved. However, I know whatever comes my way you will be right there to help me get through it.
Wishing you all a jazzy, funky and foodie new year. I hope 2009 brings you joy, happiness, prosperity and health. I look forward to your blogs, recipes and friendship and thank you for allowing me to be a part of this incredible community.
Party hard tonight! ;-)
Hugs and see you next year!
Srivalli will be doing a roundup of all our best ofs and faves for 2008 in her Best of 2008. This is going to her!
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What is Pentecost?
"The Spirit of the Lord fills the whole world, and holds all things together and knows every word spoken by man, Alleluia."
The Feast of Pentecost, celebrated the fiftieth day after Easter, commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Apostles and the birth of the Church. It is celebrated on the day of the ancient Jewish festival called the "Festival of Weeks," also called Pentecost (and the source of the name of the Catholic feast). The Catholic feast of Pentecost has also been known as Whitsunday, from "White Sunday," in reference to the white garments worn by those being baptized on the feast day.
Historically, this feast dates back to the first century and the days of the Apostles, but it appears that early on, being so closely bound to Easter, it was not observed as much more than the end of Paschaltide. The reference to Pentecost in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians likely refers to the older, established Jewish feast. The day as a celebration of the Holy Spirit coming down upon the Apostles was well established by the time of the Ecclesiastical writer Tertullian of the second and third century. However, for some time the duration varied; some fourth century writings describe Pentecost as lasting one week, though it was not kept with an octave, but only as a single day, in the west until a much later date.
– Adapted from the Catholic Encyclopedia
"When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them tongues as of fire, distributed and resting on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance…
…And Peter said to them, "Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. For the promise is to you and to your children and to all that are far off, every one whom the Lord our God calls to him." And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."
So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls. And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers."
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A Snuggie is a blanket. With sleeves. Because, you see, traditional blankets are so terribly inefficient! You can't, like, do stuff in blankets. Important stuff like eating and clicking the remote. Oh, and reading. (Whatever.) Amazingly, Snuggie has a major competitor which has named their product the "Slanket." (Get it? Sleeve/blanket = slanket?)
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I found a webpage which describes the mathematical foundation for the Magnus effect. It is located at the following URL, and describes the effect for rotating cylinders of infinite length:
I think it could be applied to our paintball, at least as a first cut approximation. After staring blearily at the equations, we come up with
L = - (rho) * v0 * (gamma), where
rho is the density of the fluid,
v0 is the velocity of the fluid (relative to the object in question), and
gamma is something called the circulation, defined as the line integral of the flow velocity around a closed loop.
What gamma basically means for us is "take the surface speed of the object and multiply it by the object's circumference". Thus,
(gamma) = vc * 2 * (pi) * r, where
vc is the circumferential (surface) velocity of the object,
pi is 3.14159 or thereabouts, and
r is the object's radius.
Let's plug in some of the data derived from the test 101 picture.
rho = 1.293 kg/m^3 (reasonable value for the density of air)
v0 = 85.34 m/s (280 fps)
vc = 1.25 m/s (4.1 fps surface speed)
r = 0.0086 m (radius of a paintball 0.68 inches in diameter)
So from this we get
L = -7.45 (units?)
I'm not sure what the units should be. Doing a bit of unit analysis on the equation for L, we have the following:
L-units = (kg/m^3) * (m/s) * (m/s) * (unitless) * (unitless) * (m)
L-units = kg/s^2 ???
That sure isn't a unit of force I'm familiar with. We're missing a distance unit in the numerator somewhere, and darn if I can find it. Any help, anyone?
I also have happened across the following webpage, which gives a different equation (of similar form) for the Magnus effect:
Here they describe the effect as follows:
M = cM * (rho) * D^3 * f * v, where
cM is the Magnus force coefficient (1.23 works pretty well, according to the webpage),
rho is the density of the fluid,
D is the diameter of the object,
f is the object's rotational frequency (rotations per second), and
v is the velocity of the fluid (relative to the object).
If the Magnus force coefficient is unitless, then a unit analysis of this equation actually ends up with units of force coming out of it. Let's plug in some numbers derived from test 101:
cM = 1.23 (unitless?)
rho = 1.293 kg/m^3 (reasonable value for the density of air)
D = 0.0173 m (0.68 inch diameter paintball)
f = 23.1 rotations/s (15 degrees per strobe flash, one strobe flash every 1.8 milliseconds)
v = 85.34 m/s (280 fps)
So for that amount of spin we end up with a Magnus effect force of 0.016 newtons. For a 3 gram paintball, this force results in an acceleration of 5.3 m/s^2, or right around 0.54 g's. Let's assume this equation has given us a correct answer, and see what the picture can tell us based on what we've calculated.
I am going to define the "first" strobe as the first image of the ball after it has exited the barrel, and incrementally name each successive ball image to the right of the first strobe (second, third, etc.).
An acceleration of 5.3 m/s should deflect the ball approximately 8.6 microns between the first and second strobes. This deflection is nearly two orders of magnitude smaller than the spatial sampling in the image (around 0.6 millimeters per pixel for the "bottom view" portion of test image 101). So even if the Magnus effect is at work, we simply can't see it from strobe to strobe. So let's look at the first and last strobes in the (strobes 1 and 5).
In this situation, the time interval is four times as large. Assuming the acceleration resulting from the Magnus effect is constant throughout the measured time, we should expect a deflection 16 times greater than that predicted between strobes 1 and 2, or around 140 microns (0.14 millimeters). This deflection is still smaller than the spatial sampling in the image.
If the ball is spinning at 15 degrees per strobe flash (and based on my other spin calculations and Tom's additional comments, I think we can safely assume the ball is not spinning at 195 or -165 degrees per strobe flash), and if the formula I used above is reasonable and accurate, then the high resolution pictures we have of the test are simply not sufficient to detect the resultant Magnus effect.
I looked at the "bottom view" portion of the test 101 picture to see if I could see any horizontal deviation in the ball's path, and I noticed something interesting... the laser aligned string is not straight. It curves slightly in the image. This leads me to believe we either have a camer/lens perspective effect going on here, or the string is vibrating during firing. The blast of air that escapes the barrel could be moving the string around.
I attempted to correct the slightly curved string by using Photoshop's transformation tools, but had little success. It seems that the transformation I'm looking for just isn't available in my version of Photoshop. Instead of measuring each ball's position from a single reference line, I generated local references corresponding to the string's location at each ball's position. I measured the following offsets:
Strobe 1: -4 pixels (-2.48 mm)
Strobe 2: -2 pixels (-1.24 mm)
Strobe 3: -2 pixels (-1.24 mm)
Strobe 4: -1 pixel (-0.62 mm)
Strobe 5: 0 pixels (0 mm)
These offsets are greater than the Magnus effect alone would suggest, unless the Magnus equation I used was incorrect. They may be the result of the escaping gas buffetting the ball around during the first few milliseconds of flight.
Well, that's about all I've got for now. Time to go do some work that actually fills up a paycheck.


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Chad Billingsley (10-9, 3.26) vs. Jonathan Sanchez (8-6, 4.46).
COMMENTS: The Giants took Game 1. The Dodgers took Game 2. Tonight is Game 3 and will therefore decide which team wins the series (what do they call this, again?). The Dodgers couldn't have been more different in the two games; in Game 1 the bats were alive but couldn't overcome the starting pitching disaster, while in Game 2 the bats were dead but the starting pitching held San Francisco scoreless. The only consistent part has been watching The Misadventures of Fred Lewis, as he misplayed balls both evenings. That gives us Dodger fans someone to mock out in left field, a tradition when the Giants come to town. Sanchez was a disaster in his last start (81 pitches when he was pulled in the third inning); Billingsley was great in his (7.2 innings of two-run ball, giving Chad the win). Let's keep those traditions going too, okay?


text: Space | 02. August 2012 Ariane 5 with record GTO payload mass launches tonight Exactly four weeks after the last launch, the next Ariane is, once again, on the launch platform! The final launch preparations are underway for what will be the fourth Ariane 5 launch (VA208) this year from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The 'dress rehearsal' took place last Friday, and the Launch Readiness Review was completed successfully on Tuesday. Yesterday, the rocket was rolled out to the launch platform, so nothing stands in the way of tonight's launch. The Ariane 5 launch window opens at 22:54 CEST and closes 57 minutes later at 23:51 CEST. Those interested can follow the launch on the 'live-stream' provided by Arianespace. VA208 is a commercial mission for Arianespace. On board are two telecommunications satellites that will be placed in geostationary transfer orbits. Intelsat 20 will replace the Intelsat 7 and Intelsat 10 satellites, which are co-located at 68.5 degrees east. From there, it will supply communications services to the Pacific region and Africa, as well as the Near and Middle East, using 28 C-band and 46 Ku-band transponders. Intelsat 20 is already the 53rd satellite bearing the name Intelsat to be launched by an Ariane rocket. The business relationship between Intelsat and Arianespace began very early on – the seventh Ariane flight carried Intelsat 507 into space in October 1983. Since then, on average two Intelsat satellites have been included in the payload of an Ariane flight every year. The second payload on this flight is HYLAS 2 (Highly Adaptable Satellite) owned by the British company Avanti Communications. From a location at 33.5 degrees west, this satellite, weighing 3300 kilograms and equipped with 24 Ka-band transponders, is to extend the service provided by HYLAS 1, which is already in orbit, offering broadband data services to northern and southern Africa as well as to Europe and the Middle East. Avanti Communications has also worked closely with Ariane; the company's first satellite, HYLAS 1, was also launched on board an Ariane rocket back in November 2010. Mission VA208 is a new record for Ariane; the total payload mass of 10,181 kilograms (6100 kilograms for Intelsat 20, 3303 kilograms for HYLAS 2 and 778 kilograms for the SYLDA multiple-launch system and the payload adapters) is the largest mass ever transported into geostationary transfer orbit on board an Ariane launcher.


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Q&A: Core Systems Transformation Best Practices In A Changing Landscape
We've seen a lot of core transformation activity from smaller banks, but much less from bigger ones. What's holding them back?
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Wakeman: A lot of us over the last five to 10 years thought there would be more activity in the industry around core transformation activity. I think for a number of reasons -- whether it's been the economy or it's just such a large undertaking -- we haven't seen as much of that traffic. In individual situations, instead of a rip-and-replace or true core systems transformation, some [banks] have addressed the issue in other ways to meet customer expectations without doing a full core system transformation. Some banks have kept their operational costs very low and optimized. That has helped them avoid a major transformation.
If I can spin it the other way around in terms of why some are [undertaking core transformations], you take complexity, aging workforce, skills in managing some of the older technology, mergers and acquisitions, taking a kind of best-of-breed [approach] and, of course, cost. Another [driver] is speed to market.
A few attempts have also made some [organizations] weary. Looking at some of the global systems out there, some [banks] have attempted to work with certain vendors to make their product U.S. regulatory-compliant and have had severe challenges there and weren't successful.
For some who want to explore it for some of the reasons that I talked about, it's a big journey. So the question is, what does that journey look like? Our consulting to our clients is to build a carefully thought-out road map, instead of attacking too big of a scope to begin with, and look for benefits across the road map.
It's obviously more expensive and complex for a bigger bank to undertake a core transformation project. Could you go deeper into some best practices for banks looking to launch this kind of initiative?
Wakeman: It's across people, processes and technology, building out a very solid business case across all of those elements. It's also getting at the heart of the material cost of ownership and laying that out across the road map to see some incremental benefits across that journey. Certainly good governance is needed. Then it's execution, starting with a strategy and a business objective, getting through to requirements, looking at end-to-end processes. And it's not just looking at what's going on in the core, but looking from a process lens and understanding the challenges.
The vendor landscape is certainly interesting when you start to look across who the players are. I think that, depending on the bank's business model, they can be grouped into who the players are fairly well. Each of them comes with some risks and some benefits. Some have more modern tech and the benefits of that, but then have some challenges with, for example, not being U.S. regulatory-compliant.
Chung: I would say that there are three characteristics that successful banks have implemented in the past. The first of those is innovation -- the push for innovation in terms of delivering innovative products to customers and the execution behind how we do that through core banking solutions. The second would be the simplification, meaning simplifying a more streamlined organization through the solution. And the last piece is what Marcia had indicated, which is the strategic/operational/delivery excellence in executing the right business processes, the right planning around this massive undertaking and changing the program across the organization.
You mentioned the vendor landscape. There has been a lot of M&A activity there lately. How do you think that will impact the market? Do you think it could affect banks' decisions to undertake core transformations in the near term?
Wakeman: I don't know that some of the consolidation that happened directly corresponds to the decisions of the bank. I think that the vendors that are out there all come from different places. Some have a more global perspective and have done some great implementations globally. But are they relevant and dominant in the U.S.? The answer is no. So that's one set of vendors. Will someone break through and be effective? That's the question on the table. You have others that offer what I call a "bank in the box" model. They all have something different, so being very careful about the business model you want, and its ability to meet those needs, is important.
But it's taking a careful look across the landscape, understanding and being very clear about your bank's business model and the implications. If you're too big -- the largest [customer] for any of those [vendors] -- or the smallest for any of those in their client base, then you have challenges that could potentially break the vendor's operating model, if you will.
Chung: Banks are dealing with many challenges right now in the market. There's this big push to really generate new income streams, there's retention of customers, there's this ongoing cost pressure. We're seeing these trends in the market, and I think going forward we'll see that there will be a trend in the bigger banks looking at -- or investing more in -- core banking.
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Some will suggest posting this video in Seattle amounts to sports torture. I prefer to think of it as a way to share admiration of a stupendous athlete in Kevin Durant — and speaking of torture, in case any of us has an opportunity to waterboard ex-Sonics owner Howard Schultz, we now have the video justification on file. No court would touch us.
Durant hit what may be the most preposterous three-point shot in basketball history Monday night during the Sonics-Grizzlies game — or if you prefer to honor the hijackers, the Thunder-Grizzlies game in Oklah(cough).
Down 98-93 in the final minute of game 2 of the series, the Thunder's Russell Westbrook nearly lost the ball out of bounds until he saw the Slim Reaper down the sideline. The off-balance Durant caught the pass falling down, was hacked, turned and fired before hitting the floor with 13.3 seconds left.
Swish. And one.
The four-point play cut the deficit to 98-97, and OKC eventually forced overtime, where the Grizzlies, to their everlasting credit, recovered their wits and won, 111-105.
So instead of talking about how the Houston Astros own the Mariners today, you know what the sports topic du jour might have been if David Stern and Schultz shared even a proton of conscience regarding their basketball business activities.


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- The discovery of G2a is added to the finds from Treilles, Derenburg, and the Alps. It is now virtually certain that the Neolithic transition in much of Europe, both inland, and coastal involved G2a-bearing men.
- The discovery of E-V13 in Spain is unexpected on a number of different reasons: there is relatively little of it there now; it had previously been associated with the inland route of the spread of agriculture, as well as the spread of the Greeks to Sicily and Provence, or Roman soldiers at a much later date.
For the six male samples, two complete and four partial Y-STRs haplotypes were obtained (Table 3). They allowed classification of individuals into two different haplogroups: G2a (individuals ave01, ave02, ave03, ave05, and ave06, which seem to share the same haplotype) and E1b1b1 (individual ave07). The four markers chosen to confirm belonging to these haplogroups (Y-E1b1b1-M35.1, Y-E1b1b1a1b-V13, Y-G2-M287, and Y-G2a-P15) were typed with a rate of 66%, which permitted confirmation that four males were G2a and one was E1b1b1a1b (Table 3).Analysis of shared haplotypes showed that the G2a haplotype found in ancient specimens is rare in current populations: its frequency is less than 0.3%(Table S3). The haplotype of individual ave07 is more frequent (2.44%), particularly in southeastern European populations (up to 7%). The Ave07 haplotype was also compared with current Eb1b1a2 haplotypes previously published (10–14). It appeared identical at the seven markers tested to five Albanian, two Bosnian, one Greek, one Italian, one Sicilian, two Corsican, and two Provence French samples and are thus placed on the same node of the E1b1b1a1b-V13 network as eastern, central, and western Mediterranean haplotypes (Fig. S1).
Mitochondrial HVS-I sequences were obtained for the seven individuals and can be classified into four different haplotypes (Table 2). All are still frequent in current European populations (Table S1), and three of them were also found in ancient Neolithic samples (Table S2). These haplotypes permitted the determination that the individuals ave01, ave02, and ave06 belonged to K1a, ave04 and ave05 to T2b, ave03 to H3, and ave07 to U5 haplogroups.
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Ancient DNA suggests the leading role played by men in the Neolithic dissemination
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The impact of the Neolithic dispersal on the western European populations is subject to continuing debate. To trace and date genetic lineages potentially brought during this transition and so understand the origin of the gene pool of current populations, we studied DNA extracted from human remains excavated in a Spanish funeral cave dating from the beginning of the fifth millennium B.C. Thanks to a "multimarkers" approach based on the analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA (autosomes and Y-chromosome), we obtained information on the early Neolithic funeral practices and on the biogeographical origin of the inhumed individuals. No close kinship was detected. Maternal haplogroups found are consistent with pre-Neolithic settlement, whereas the Y-chromosomal analyses permitted confirmation of the existence in Spain approximately 7,000 y ago of two haplogroups previously associated with the Neolithic transition: G2a and E1b1b1a1b. These results are highly consistent with those previously found in Neolithic individuals from French Late Neolithic individuals, indicating a surprising temporal genetic homogeneity in these groups. The high frequency of G2a in Neolithic samples in western Europe could suggest, furthermore, that the role of men during Neolithic dispersal could be greater than currently estimated.


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A year ago, JCPenney promised an end to "fake prices" and the usual retailer mind games played to make customers think they're getting a deal. Now that the ambitious attempt to wean customers off endless discounting and markdowns has proved to be a disaster, JCPenney has relented and will begin running sales again. Let the games begin (again).
When JCPenney was heavy into the discounting game, less than 1% of its revenue came from people buying stuff at the list (nonsale) price. Lately, instead of posting list prices that almost no one pays, the retailer has been displaying "manufacturer's suggested retail prices" (MSRP) that are even more meaningless — because shoppers never for a second face the possibility of paying such prices.
"Everybody loves a bargain, even when it is a phony one," says Edgar Dworsky, founder of watchdog site Consumer World.
Last year, in a major overhaul of store policy, and in a challenge to standard retailer practices in general, JCPenney stated it would get rid of such phony bargains. New CEO (and Apple-store veteran) Ron Johnson promised a fresh new "fair and square" approach that eschewed what he admitted were "fake prices," according to an article in the New York Times. The story also noted:
From 2002 to 2011, the average cost that Penney paid for an item stayed about the same, from $9 to $10. During that period, though, Penney increased the average price tag to $36 from about $27. Yet even as the price tag rose, customers ended up paying less because of coupons or sales.
(MORE: Epic Retail Fail: Where Did the Target + Neiman Marcus Collection Go Wrong?)
Dworsky says the idea advanced by Johnson was "wonderful." The only problem is, we apparently want our made-up markdowns. Revenue has plummeted since Johnson took the helm, and UBS analyst Michael Binetti said it may have fallen a whopping 30% in the most recent quarter, which is the time most retailers show their best performance.
To stop the flow of red ink, JCPenney just announced it is reversing course and will host regular sales again. "Moving forward we'll provide additional savings on popular items that are important during key events and holidays," says company spokeswoman Kate Coultas. For instance, the store is running a 20% off jewelry promotion to coincide with Valentine's Day.
The retailer is delivering what customers want — big reductions, even if they're off prices pretty much nobody paid in the first place. Last week, the New York Post called out JCPenney for putting what was described as "phony suggested retail markups" on some clothing it sells.
The newspaper cited anonymous suppliers who claim that the struggling department store wants them to provide "fake prices" that can be displayed in stores. "They're saying, 'I want a letter on file saying you have suggested this is the retail price,'" an unnamed manufacturing executive reportedly told the Post.
The Post did clarify that the retailer isn't looking for "artificially high" prices. But still, if nobody ever pays a price that's being listed, isn't the figure artificial?
(MORE: JCPenney's Not-So-Black Friday)
Coultas denies that any such thing is happening. "We are not involved in setting the MSRP price," she says. "Each manufacturer independently establishes their suggested retail price."
The retailer does acknowledge that it began listing MSRPs on brands such as IZOD and Levi's last fall, and that in the future it'll be displaying more suggested prices that shoppers will never pay. "Because [listing MSRPs] successfully resonated with customers, we plan to expand this effort by showing the MSRP comparison on additional national branded items," the retailer's statement says.
JCPenney isn't the only company engaged in this practice. The markup-markdown game is rampant among big retail chains. One discount-crazed retailer, menswear specialist Jos. A. Bank, was sued last year essentially on the grounds that it hosted so many sales that the list prices were allegedly "misleading, inaccurate and deceptive marketing."
JCPenney rival Kohl's is one of the worst offenders. In 2000, it had to pay $500,000 to settle charges of deceptive marketing brought by the Kansas attorney general. A 2002 investigation by the Boston Globe found that some items were on sale from the very first day a new Kohl's store in Medford, Mass., opened its doors, and a CBS hidden-camera investigation in California conducted around the holidays last year "found items marked up as much as $100 from earlier prices and then put on sale." In some cases, the "sale" prices were actually higher than the earlier prices.
(MORE: Can You Sue a Store for Having Too Many Sales?)
Is all of this — or any of it — legal? In its deceptive-pricing guide, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) states, "A retailer who advertises a manufacturer's or distributor's suggested retail price should be careful to avoid creating a false impression that he is offering a reduction from the price at which the product is generally sold in his trade area."
This sounds good, but Dworsky says enforcement by the FTC or at the state level is "spotty." So, as usual, we're back to the usual advice that accompanies a "buyer beware" warning: do your comparison shopping, and don't just assume that something is a deal just because the retailer says so.


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Hi All,
Welcome back, everyone, to our Forum ... the same as before, but different ... different but the same.
Things are still a bit of CHAOS as we learn new functions and where things are. It is a very much like moving into a new house, but everything is still in boxes, we haven't put everything where it is supposed to go, and I can't find the can opener!
Please bear with us and be patient these first days as we figure stuff out, get things organized and bring some new functions online.
The first new feature I would like to introduce is a new daily thread called "Jundo and Taigu Recommend These Threads" today, containing threads that Jundo and Taigu encourage you to read. This is meant to help newcomers and people who have been away for awhile quickly find threads, teachings and discussions that we think deserve a look. Folks in the past complained that they could not find or tell one thread from another, and what was worth looking at first, among all going on. This new section should help point people to where to look first. Taigu and I hope to update the "hot topics" listed there every day or so. I encourage everyone each day to make the "Jundo and Taigu Recommend These Threads" section the first place you look when logging in here any day. HERE IS THE LINK:
Also, a good first place to go each day is the "New Posts" tab found at the upper left corner of the Forum screen. That will take you to all new posts since your last visit.
In the coming days, Taigu and I and our technical wizards will introduce other new features of this place.
And to say it again ...
Taigu and I wish to thank the people who have been working so hard for weeks and months on this ... tirelessly and selflessly through often long hours, donating their professional skills and expertise ... locating, mastering and installing the new software, designing and redesigning the user interfaces, solving 1001 technical problems that came up along the way, especially Chris (ChristhatisChris), Morelos (Kyonin/Choco), Dokan and Shohei. I would also like to thank the other folks who have been involved in several accompanying projects happening as part of these changes, especially Yugen who is involved in so many things, Willow and the rest of the members of the "Engaged and Charitable Projects Committee", the "TREELEAF 2.0 Committee" and "Sticky Committee", and our novice priests Mongen the film maker, Fugen, Shinkai, Myozan and Dosho who were involved all through providing input.
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Sterling, Provident Banks To Merge
Provident Bank and Sterling National Bank announced today the two will be merging and use the Sterling name. The new bank will have nearly $7 billion in total assets.
The banks, which are both based in the New York metropolitan area, reached an agreement to a stock-for-stock transaction valued at $344 million. In the merger, Sterling shareholders will receive a fixed ratio of 1.2625 shares of Provident common stock for each share of Sterling common stock. Upon closing, Provident shareholders will own approximately 53% of stock in the combined company and Sterling shareholders will own approximately 47%.
According to the banks, The leadership team of the newly combined company will be assembled from both organizations, with Provident's Jack Kopnisky serving as CEO for the combined company and Luis Massiani serving as chief financial officer. Sterling's Louis J. Cappelli will serve as chairman of the board of directors.
The transaction, which has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, is expected to close in the fourth calendar quarter of 2013. The transaction is subject to approval by shareholders from both companies, regulatory approval and other customary closing conditions
[See Also: Risk and Customers Key Considerations in Mergers]
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Section 90
Revelation to Joseph Smith the Prophet, given at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1833. This revelation is a continuing step in the establishment of the First Presidency (see the heading to section 81); as a consequence thereof, the counselors mentioned were ordained on March 18, 1833.
1–5, The keys of the kingdom are committed to Joseph Smith and through him to the Church; 6–7, Sidney Rigdon and Frederick G. Williams are to serve in the First Presidency; 8–11, The gospel is to be preached to the nations of Israel, to the Gentiles, and to the Jews, every man hearing in his own tongue; 12–18, Joseph Smith and his counselors are to set the Church in order; 19–37, Various individuals are counseled by the Lord to walk uprightly and serve in His kingdom.
1 Thus saith the Lord, verily, verily I say unto you my son, thy sins are aforgiven thee, according to thy petition, for thy prayers and the prayers of thy brethren have come up into my ears.
2 Therefore, thou art blessed from henceforth that bear the akeys of the kingdom given unto you; which bkingdom is coming forth for the last time.
3 Verily I say unto you, the keys of this akingdom shall bnever be taken from you, while thou art in the world, neither in the world to come;
4 Nevertheless, through you shall the aoracles be given to another, yea, even unto the church.
5 And all they who receive the aoracles of God, let them beware how they hold them lest they are accounted as a light thing, and are brought under condemnation thereby, and stumble and fall when the storms descend, and the winds blow, and the brains descend, and beat upon their house.
6 And again, verily I say unto thy brethren, Sidney Rigdon and aFrederick G. Williams, their sins are forgiven them also, and they are accounted as bequal with thee in holding the keys of this last kingdom;
7 As also through your administration the keys of the aschool of the prophets, which I have commanded to be organized;
8 That thereby they may be aperfected in their ministry for the salvation of Zion, and of the nations of Israel, and of the Gentiles, as many as will believe;
9 That through your administration they may receive the word, and through their administration the word may go forth unto the ends of the earth, unto the aGentiles bfirst, and then, behold, and lo, they shall turn unto the Jews.
10 And then cometh the day when the arm of the Lord shall be arevealed in power in convincing the nations, the bheathen nations, the house of cJoseph, of the gospel of their salvation.
11 For it shall come to pass in that day, that every man shall ahear the fulness of the gospel in his own tongue, and in his own blanguage, through those who are cordained unto this dpower, by the administration of the eComforter, shed forth upon them for the frevelation of Jesus Christ.
12 And now, verily I say unto you, I give unto you a commandment that you continue in the aministry and presidency.
13 And when you have finished the atranslation of the prophets, you shall from thenceforth bpreside over the affairs of the church and the school;
14 And from time to time, as shall be manifested by the Comforter, receive arevelations to unfold the bmysteries of the kingdom;
15 And set in order the churches, and astudy and blearn, and become acquainted with all good books, and with clanguages, tongues, and people.
16 And this shall be your business and mission in all your lives, to preside in council, and set in aorder all the affairs of this church and kingdom.
17 Be not aashamed, neither confounded; but be admonished in all your high-mindedness and bpride, for it bringeth a snare upon your souls.
18 Set in aorder your houses; keep bslothfulness and cuncleanness far from you.
19 Now, verily I say unto you, let there be a aplace provided, as soon as it is possible, for the family of thy counselor and scribe, even Frederick G. Williams.
20 And let mine aged servant, aJoseph Smith, Sen., continue with his family upon the place where he now lives; and let it not be sold until the mouth of the Lord shall name.
21 And let my counselor, even aSidney Rigdon, remain where he now resides until the mouth of the Lord shall name.
22 And let the bishop search diligently to obtain an aagent, and let him be a man who has got briches in store—a man of God, and of strong faith—
23 That thereby he may be enabled to discharge every debt; that the storehouse of the Lord may not be brought into disrepute before the eyes of the people.
24 Search adiligently, bpray always, and be believing, and call things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the dcovenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.
25 Let your families be asmall, especially mine aged servant Joseph Smith's, Sen., as pertaining to those who do not belong to your families;
26 That those things that are provided for you, to bring to pass my work, be not taken from you and given to those that are not worthy—
27 And thereby you be hindered in accomplishing those things which I have commanded you.
28 And again, verily I say unto you, it is my will that my handmaid Vienna Jaques should receive amoney to bear her expenses, and go up unto the land of Zion;
29 And the residue of the money may be consecrated unto me, and she be rewarded in mine own due time.
30 Verily I say unto you, that it is meet in mine eyes that she should go up unto the land of Zion, and receive an ainheritance from the hand of the bishop;
31 That she may settle down in peace inasmuch as she is faithful, and not be idle in her days from thenceforth.
32 And behold, verily I say unto you, that ye shall awrite this commandment, and say unto your brethren in Zion, in love greeting, that I have called you also to bpreside over Zion in mine own due time.
33 Therefore, let them cease wearying me concerning this matter.
34 Behold, I say unto you that your brethren in Zion begin to repent, and the angels rejoice over them.
35 Nevertheless, I am not well pleased with many things; and I am not well pleased with my servant aWilliam E. McLellin, neither with my servant Sidney Gilbert; and the bishop also, and others have many things to repent of.
36 But verily I say unto you, that I, the Lord, will contend with aZion, and plead with her strong ones, and bchasten her until she overcomes and is cclean before me.
37 For she shall not be removed out of her place. I, the Lord, have spoken it. Amen.