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Anadama Rolls
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I don't know how or when it happened. After years of going "over the river and through the woods" there came a day when I, ready or not, like it or not, was the grandmother to whose home the revelers cometh. I know it's terribly unsophisticated to celebrate this meal, but I'll tell you up front that I love it, if for no other reason than the wonderful aromas that emanate from the kitchen as this dinner comes together. Christmas builds to a olfactory crescendo with aromas that are released over a period of days. Not so Thanksgiving. This is an all or nothing affair. The assault begins with breakfast bacon and continues through the day as the aroma of bread and pie and turkey and cider meld into a harmonious union that could put the orchestration of a symphony to shame. Thanksgiving is not a difficult meal to prepare; it's as easy to make for twenty as it is for two, but it does require a game plan and a bit or organization to pull it off. I do a great deal of the work ahead of time. Today I made our rolls, both Anadama and potato, and enough pie crust to last us through the Christmas holiday. Everything is in the freezer waiting to debut on the big day. The pie crusts will be rolled and filled on Thanksgiving morning. I pre-bake the rolls. We talked about Refrigerator Potato Rolls last year. Since then I've resurrected this wonderful recipe for Anadama Rolls. The recipe appeared in Bon Appetit over a decade ago. I really like these rolls. There is something especially fitting about rolls made with corn meal and molasses for Thanksgiving day. Symbolism aside, the rolls are really wonderful and they are not hard to make. I know you'll like them. Here's the recipe.
Anadama Rolls...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1 cup whole milk
1 cup water
2 teaspoons salt
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1/3 cup mild-flavored (light) molasses
2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter
1/2 cup warm water
1 envelope (2-1/4 teaspoons)dry yeast
4 to 4-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 egg, beaten to blend
2 teaspoons sesame or poppy seeds
1) Bring milk, 1 cup water and salt to boil in heavy large saucepan over medium heat. Slowly whisk in cornmeal. Cook until mixture thickens and boils, whisking constantly, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat. Whisk in molasses and 2 tablespoons butter. Transfer mixture to large bowl. Cool until thermometer inserted into center of mixture registers 115°F, whisking often, about 15 minutes.
2) Pour 1/2 cup warm water into small bowl; sprinkle yeast over. Let stand until yeast dissolves and top looks spongy, about 10 minutes. Stir yeast mixture into cornmeal mixture. Gradually mix in 4 cups flour, about 1 cup at a time, to form soft dough that pulls away from sides of bowl. Sprinkle 1/4 cup flour onto work surface. Turn dough out onto floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, sprinkling with more flour by tablespoonfuls if needed, about 10 minutes (dough will remain slightly sticky). Form dough into ball. Coat a large bowl with butter or shortening. Add dough to bowl and turn to coat dough with butter or shortening. Cover bowl with plastic wrap. Let dough rise in warm draft-free area until doubled in volume, about 1 hour 15 minutes.
3) Punch down dough. Cover with plastic wrap; let stand 10 minutes. Coat each of two 9-inch-diameter cake pans with butter or shortening. Roll dough into 18-inch-long log. Cut into 18 equal pieces. Using floured hands, form each dough piece into ball. Place 9 dough balls in each pan, spacing apart. Cover each pan loosely with towel. Let rolls stand in warm draft-free area until almost doubled in volume, about 30 minutes. Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Brush rolls with egg glaze. Sprinkle with seeds. Place rolls in oven and immediately reduce temperature to 350°F. Bake rolls until golden brown, about 30 minutes. (Can be made 1 day ahead. Cool completely. Store airtight at room temperature. Wrap rolls in foil and rewarm in 350°F oven 10 minutes.) Serve warm. Yield: 18 rolls.
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32 comments :
- Jennsmere said...
Yuuuummmm!!!! There is nothing like a special roll to complete a meal! So many meals these days are finished off with a 'grocery freezer' variety. Thanks for this wonderful recipe! Can't wait to try it with our thankful feast!
Bless you, Mary...
Susan - November 17, 2009 at 1:08 AM
- Coleens Recipes said...
I love the color!!!
- November 17, 2009 at 2:26 AM
- Federica Simoni said...
splendidi panini!!!!
- November 17, 2009 at 3:07 AM
- My Little Space said...
Too bad have to use cornmeal in this recipe, otherwise or I'll try it! The process is interesting too, boil cornmeal!
- November 17, 2009 at 3:07 AM
- KathyB. said...
I have never thought of doing so much before-hand, but this year my home will be filled with loved ones and I think I will take you up on some of the make-ahead recipes. These rolls sound delicious.
- November 17, 2009 at 4:27 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Gorgeous rolls--so plump and perfect. I bet they would be fabulous the next day with some turkey and cranberry sauce on them.
- November 17, 2009 at 5:01 AM
- P. said...
This looks so good.
Alfazema - November 17, 2009 at 6:15 AM
- Debbie said...
I love Thanksgiving and all the meal planning and craziness involved. Your rolls look delicious..poppy seeds, molasses...yum!
- November 17, 2009 at 7:05 AM
- Hootin Anni said...
I love breads....warm, straight from the oven bread....with REAL butter. LOL
And I have to agree with you, the Thanksgiving meal is easy to prepare if there is a game plan!!
And I too make my own pie crusts...I don't like reading the backs of the labels of the 'store bought kind'...all the additives and preservatives is enough to kill anyone. LOL
Happy Tuesday Mary. - November 17, 2009 at 8:11 AM
- NKP said...
Wow, you are super organized! Love the rolls, they look delish.
- November 17, 2009 at 8:20 AM
- Inspired by eRecipeCards said...
Mary, I love these. I have two separate Thanksgiving meals I am making (one Sunday, One T-day). I am sure these rolls will be a part of at least one of those days... Will blog the results if I can make you proud.
Molasses and corn meal... yum - November 17, 2009 at 8:27 AM
- Cathy said...
It just wouldn't be Thanksgiving without homemade rolls. These looks wonderful, Mary. I'll bet the bit of molasses gives the rolls so much flavor.
- November 17, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Heather S-G said...
Oh Mary, these do sound like the perfect roll for Thanksgiving. I think I'll have to give them a go!! Beautiful, thanks :)
- November 17, 2009 at 11:27 AM
- Pam said...
I love fresh baked rolls - these look and sound terrific Mary.
- November 17, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- Mimi said...
These rolls looks delicious. Perfect for a holiday or a cozy winter meal.
Mimi - November 17, 2009 at 12:33 PM
- Unknown said...
I love the color of these perfect little rolls. I bet they smell WONDERFUL!!! as they bake in the oven.
Geri - November 17, 2009 at 1:03 PM
- Katherine Roberts Aucoin said...
The aromas keep my crew hovering in the kitchen! I get so full off of the aromas that I'm too full to eat when we sit down at the table.
I like the flair the poppy seeds add to the rools. Baking bread is the ultimate aroma for me! - November 17, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- foodcreate said...
Dash away all they look so amazing make holidays wonderful meal I'm going to try .
Thank you for sharing your recipe :)
Have a wonderful day ~ - November 17, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Coralie Cederna Johnson said...
I so agree, Mary, that the celebration of Thanksgiving begins with the wafting odors of good food and lingers throughout the day, tickling our senses and inviting us to enjoy and give thanks. Lovely memories you've created and your anadama rolls look like a fabulous addition to the big event! Thanks so much for sharing! Hugs, Coralie
- November 17, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Unknown said...
I have always wanted to make Anadama rolls but weren't really sure what they tasted like or were used for I may have to try these this holiday season.
- November 17, 2009 at 7:11 PM
- Ljiljana said...
Fantastic, I will make them soon :)
- November 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM
- Barbara said...
Love this recipe. The fragrance while cooking must be heavenly! Freezing in advance is a super idea.
I agree-while Thanksgiving is not difficult, it takes tons of time and intricate planning. Especially if you want to spend time with your guests. It's my most favorite meal to eat, but my least favorite to cook. - November 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- Selba said...
Delicious rolls! I love the aroma of fresh baking rolls :)
- November 17, 2009 at 9:32 PM
- Curious Lissa said...
You are inspiring. Forget the roll recipe. I just want to come over to your house to kibitz. You sound like you've retained the fun of the holidays and discarded all the stress.
- November 17, 2009 at 9:33 PM
- Foodiewife said...
I am so glad that I discovered your blog. I have wanted to make Anadama bread for the longest time. You've finally convinced me to do it. I'm on a yeast binge, lately. I've got all kinds of rolls I want to discover and I see you have quite a lovely collection. I'll be hanging around in your kitchen for some time. Frozen pie crust, too? I'm so impressed!
- November 17, 2009 at 11:59 PM
the rolls look great. i do like that combination of corn meal and molasses. do you think you could use a combination of whole wheat flour (regular or white) and AP?
- November 18, 2009 at 1:11 AM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
You should be able to use whole wheat flour here. I'd advise no more than half and half because the cornmeal is heavy.
- November 18, 2009 at 1:16 AM
- Lisa said...
I've long heard about Anadama Bread but never tried making it. Yours are so pretty I'm thinking it might be time!
- November 18, 2009 at 2:01 AM
- Chef Fresco said...
Mmm delicious! I love homemade rolls!
- November 18, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- Zurin said...
I always love rolls and the way they look so adorable individually. yours look perfect! :))
- November 20, 2009 at 8:49 AM
- Mimi said...
I love Thanksgiving too! Especially the leftovers!
Great pictures of your outstanding rolls. - November 20, 2009 at 1:22 PM
- MC said...
Your pictures are always the best! Just beautiful... I am with you, I can't fathom how come my house is now Grandma's house and, like you too, I love Thanksgiving smells and tastes. It's got to be the best dinner of the year!
Beautiful rolls too... - November 20, 2009 at 10:57 PM


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The family showed no sign they knew a decision about their fate had been made. The four strolled by an outdoor restaurant as security officials kept reporters at a distance. The youngest child was seated in a stroller and the elder boy sat down on a curb.
The U.S. and Cuba share no extradition agreement and the island nation is also not a signatory of the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, an international treaty for governmental cooperation on such cases.
Cuba has harbored U.S. fugitives in the past, though most of those cases date back to the 1960s and '70s, when the island became a refuge for members of the Black Panthers and other militant groups. More recently, dozens of Cuban Medicare fraud fugitives in the U.S. have tried to escape prosecution by returning to the island.
But Cuba has also cooperated with U.S. authorities in returning several criminal fugitives in recent years, including Leonard B. Auerbach in 2008. Auerbach was wanted in California on federal charges of sexually abusing a Costa Rican girl and possessing child pornography. He was deported.
In 2011, U.S. marshals flew to Cuba and took custody of two U.S. suspects wanted in a New Jersey slaying.
Hakken lost custody of his sons last year after a drug possession arrest in Louisiana and later tried to take the children from a foster home at gunpoint, authorities said. A warrant had been issued for his arrest on two counts of kidnapping; interference with child custody; child neglect; false imprisonment and other charges.
Hakken entered his mother-in-law's Florida house last Wednesday, tied her up and fled with his sons, the sheriff's department has said. Federal, state and local authorities searched by air and sea for a boat Hakken had recently bought. The truck that Hakken, his wife and the boys had been traveling in was found Thursday, abandoned in Madeira Beach, Florida.
The family's flight to Cuba harkened back to the 1999 child custody case involving Elian Gonzalez, though unlike Gonzalez, the Hakkens had no apparent ties to the island.
In 1999, 5-year-old Gonzalez was found clinging to an inner tube off Florida after his mother and others drowned while fleeing Cuba toward American soil. The boy was taken to Miami to live with relatives, but his father in Cuba demanded the boy be sent back.
U.S. courts ultimately ruled Gonzalez should be sent back, though his Miami relatives refused to return him. In April 2000, U.S. federal agents raided the family's home and he was returned to Cuba soon after. He has since grown into a young man and joined a military academy.


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This month Elle at "Feeding My Enthusiasms" & Deborah at "Taste and Tell" chose to challenge us in a unique and dazzling way by asking us to make "Cheesecake Pops". I must say that I wasn't expecting to produce lollipops, so their idea surprised me positively!
Those cute "Cheesecake Pops" are not terribly difficult to make, but their confection can be tricky at times. So, although you don't need to be hyper concentrated while following the recipe, it is to be said that you still have to not mess it up completely and keep an eye on what you are doing!
The first complication you'll come across is related to the cheesecake's baking time. As a matter of fact, it takes longer to bake than mentioned in the recipe. Instead of the 35-45 minutes required, it took me a good hour in order for it to set. Then, rolling the cheesecakes portions into balls was quite a finicky and messy job as they tended to melt and desintegrate a little in the hands. So, I found out that if you wet your hand before you start shaping the balls, it help a whole lot and doesn't allow the cheesecake to leave a thick coating all over the palm of your hand. In that way, the balls will look a lot neater. Otherwise, apart from those two critical points, and the fact that one needs a big freezer, everything went smoothly and the final result was more than satisfying.
I must say that this cheesecake was one of the best I've ever made or eaten, so I will keep that recipe for my future cream cheese creations. It had a lusciously silky texture and a wonderfully delicate taste, and above all, it never cracked (it looked perfect). The vanilla aroma wasn't overpowering, but just sufficiently present to add a refined flavor to the batter. The semi-dark chocolate coating added an interesting contrast to those lollipops as it's slight bitterness and strong cocoa flavor paired perfectly well with the subtle roundness of the cheesecake...
Being a big cheesecake addict, those melt-in-your-mouth creamy bites were a real hit and rejoiced my gourmet palate. I would even say that I prefer this delectable frozen treat to ice creams (which I enjoy without ever really being overtaken by them, no matter how fine they are). Just simply to die for!
Those pretty and dainty "Cheesecake Pops" are ideal for outdoor/garden festivities, birthdays, brunches, weddings, christenings, etc... as they are kid and party friendly. So, you have no excuse not to try those exquisite calorie bombs!
~ Cheesecake Pops ~
Recipe taken from "Sticky, Chewy, Messy, Gooey" by Jill O'Connor and adapted by Rosa @ Rosa's Yummy Yums.
Makes 30 – 40 Pops.
5 8-oz. Packages (1200g) Cream cheese, at room temperature
2 Cups (420g) Castor sugar
1/4 Cup (32g) All-purpose flour
1/4 Tsp Salt
5 Large eggs (~53g)
2 Egg yolks
2 Tsps Pure vanilla extract
1/4 Cup (60ml) Heavy cream (43% fat, Crème de la Gruyère)
Ingredients for the chocolate coating:
1 Pound (450g) Chocolate, finely chopped (see remarks)
2 tablespoons vegetable shortening
Other needed items:
Boiling water as needed
Thirty to forty 20cm (8-inch) lollipop sticks
Assorted decorations (optional)
1. Position an oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 170° C (325° F).
2. Set some water to boil.
3. In a large bowl, beat together the cream cheese, sugar, flour, and salt until smooth (If using a mixer, mix on low speed).
4. Add the whole eggs and the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well (but still at low speed) after each addition.
5. Beat in the vanilla and cream.
6. Grease a 25cm (10-inch) cake pan (not a springform pan), and pour the batter into the cake pan.
7. Place the pan in a larger roasting pan.
8. Fill the roasting pan with the boiling water until it reaches halfway up the sides of the cake pan. Bake until the cheesecake is firm and slightly golden on top, 35 to 45 minutes.
9. Remove the cheesecake from the water bath and cool to room temperature.
10. Cover the cheesecake with plastic wrap and refrigerate until very cold, at least 3 hours or overnight (better option).
11. When the cheesecake is cold and very firm, scoop the cheesecake into 60g (2-ounce) balls and place on a parchment paper-lined baking sheet.
12. Carefully insert a lollipop stick into each cheesecake ball.
13. Freeze the cheesecake pops, uncovered, until very hard, at least 1 to 2 hours.
14. (When the cheesecake pops are frozen and ready for dipping, prepare the chocolate.) In the top of a double boiler, set over simmering water, or in a heatproof bowl set over a pot of simmering water, heat half the chocolate and half the shortening, stirring often, until chocolate is melted and chocolate and shortening are combined.
15. Stir until completely smooth. (Save the rest of the chocolate and shortening for later dipping, or use another type of chocolate for variety.)
16. Quickly dip a frozen cheesecake pop in the melted chocolate, swirling quickly to coat it completely.
17. Shake off any excess into the melted chocolate.
18. Roll the pops quickly in the decoration(s) of your choice.
19. Place the pop on a clean parchment paper-lined baking sheet to set.
20. Repeat with remaining pops, melting more chocolate and shortening as needed.
21. Refrigerate the pops for up to 24 hours, until ready to serve.
You can use all one kind chocolate or half and half of dark, milk, or white chocolate.
I used dark chocolate (60% cocoa).
Alternately, you can use 1 pound (450g) of flavored coatings, also known as summer coating, confectionary coating or wafer chocolate – candy supply stores carry colors, as well as the three kinds of chocolate.
White chocolate is harder to use this way, but not impossible.
Do not heat the chocolate too much or your chocolate will lose it's shine after it has dried.
You can also drizzle the frozen balls with a contrasting color of melted chocolate (dark chocolate drizzled over milk chocolate or white chocolate over dark chocolate, etc...).
Use decorations such as chopped nuts, colored jimmies, crushed peppermints, mini chocolate chips, sanding sugars, dragees, etc…
Serving suggestions:
Accompany those pops by a glass of cold milk, lemonade or homemade iced tea.
You can also serve those pops for dessert, along with other items.
Etant donné la longueur du texte original, je n'ai malheureusement pas pu faire une traduction française de ce billet et je m'en excuse auprès de tous mes amis lecteurs et blogueurs francophones!!!


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The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran's 80th birthday with a major exhibition that explores his unique impact on contemporary life in Britain.
Were you to walk down a street today and look through the windows of the houses, you would witness a wide variety of living spaces: homeowners today are preoccupied with design and the arrangement of the world around them. Countless magazines – Elle Decoration, World of Interiors, Wallpaper* and Domus – cultivate an aspirational vision of the home, while hundreds of books ensure its prosperity, television shows ignite popular appeal, and a plethora of design courses ensure a steady influx of wide-eyed interns ready for any opportunity to influence the shape of things around us. We have become aware of our cutlery, our bedding, even the message behind the font on our CV, in a reality of hyper-awareness and tactile fetishisation of the everyday.
However, this has not always been the case: for those living in the 1940s the concepts of household design had yet to become universally accessible and as a result domestic fashions tended to be staid and unimaginative. Since the 1950s, though, the British public have been exposed to the influences of Sir Terence Conran, who has, more than any other British designer, affected this change in national awareness. Since dropping out of his Textile Design course at the Central School of Art, Sir Terence has opened a workshop with Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (his ex-tutor), worked on The Festival of Britain, cultivated a restaurant empire, launched the Conran Design group, introduced flat-pack furniture and European design through Habitat, overseen a high street empire (including Heals, BHS and Next), worked extensively with Concorde, opened an architectural practice, established the Conran Foundation, and created London's Design Museum, the first of its kind in the world.
It is the Design Museum that plays host to The Way We Live Now, the current exhibition celebrating Conran's 80th birthday and his central role in shaping the national consciousness of design. Taking the visitor through Conran's illustrious career, including pieces from his early workshops, a re-creation of an early Habitat room and insights into his industrial and restaurant design, it's an ambitious project curated by Design Museum Director, Deyan Sudjic and Conran's long-term colleague and collaborator Stafford Cliff. Since joining Conran's studio as Office Junior in 1966, Cliff has learnt from and admired Conran at close quarters, designing the first Habitat catalogue and collaborating on Conran's 2008 publication Inspiration, where he provided an invaluable mental catalogue of works on behalf of the designer who has modestly refused to keep an archive of his own works.
Cliff's affection for Conran and his work is evident and his enthusiasm is contagious in forcing you to consider the effects that Conran has had on our aesthetics. He describes the task of curating an exhibition on such a huge figure in British design as an "overwhelming" one and goes on to describe Sir Terence's influence as "pretty fundamental [because] it's not only our homes but our behaviour, our shopping and eating habits, the way we socialise, the places we like and how we respond to them. In his lifetime he has changed all of that, not single-handedly of course, but by giving us things that we didn't know we wanted." Cliff cannot articulate enough the effects that Conran has had on our surroundings. "Look at all the programmes we have on home makeovers. Who would have thought? In the 1960s, 1950s, and even further back than that, the home wasn't something there were many magazines about and certainly there were hardly any books on interior design, decoration or lifestyle. When I started, if there was a new book out about home design and interiors, I would buy it and maybe there would be two a year if we were lucky. Now you couldn't possibly buy them all. It's an enormous industry with a huge amount of interest and it has captured people's imagination in a way that couldn't possibly have been anticipated."
Of course, a significant part of Conran's legacy and this acknowledgment and popularisation of design is the Design Museum itself and, given Conran's position as benefactor, there's an uncomfortable conflict of interests at bay, something that Cliff is quick to reject by emphasising Conran's lack of personal involvement: "He's extraordinarily modest, which sounds like a bit of a contradiction because he has been so outspoken in terms of his point of view, his feelings and his targets. But at the same time he has never wanted to have anything that seems self-congratulatory. What he has been focusing on all these years is the rest of us. He had to be persuaded that this was the right moment. So it was a challenge [also because] he has never really been interested in saving things, he has no archive of his own and he never really takes photographs."
This lack of an authoritative archive poses a real challenge to The Way We Live Now, but it is one that Cliff has approached with the enthusiasm of a child on a treasure hunt: "I get a thrill from being able to discover things." He shows a democratic desire to display these pieces and continue the country's appreciation of taste: "These are rare gems, there may be a lot of these designs out there but they're not around where anyone can see." Such artefacts also remind us of Conran's own influences, and the manner in which he has brought things now familiar to us, including duvets and woks, and even a more general, European Bauhaus aesthetic, to the common consciousness, while Cliff reminds us of the importance of making in Conran's design process: "A lot of what he has done has a resonance in the beginnings of the arts and crafts movement and the idea that the making and understanding of things has a part in why it looks the way it does." These elements are illustrated in some of his most famous pieces – the industrial-blown carafe and carefully balanced asymmetric shelving. And while Conran is frequently credited with the democratisation of design, his influences belie the clean, unadorned aesthetic of mid-century modernism, a style accused at various points in history of being both humourless and elitist.
Any interrogation of today's leading tastemakers, such as Stephen Bayley and Sudjic himself, provokes an insistence on modernism as the "correct" mood for today's post-industrial society, and this is something that Conran whole-heartedly endorses – "He gets a great thrill out of seeing something that somebody else has done when it works in the way he thinks it should work that is well priced, well made, has a good function and an appeal." In spite of modernism's failure to realise the utopian promises of the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier, it remains the prevailing aesthetic for international design professionals and the cliché that form follows function continues apace.
Cliff explains Conran's relationship with modernism: "He has always been interested in simple solutions that are effective and I guess that meshes with modernism. He's never been interested in decoration for the sake of it, or in over-embellishing something if it can be simple. It's in his bones but I don't think he analyses it. That also explains why he hasn't had a phase of being very trendy or fashionable and then fallen out of fashion; he's never been interested in fashion for its own sake at all."
And while this refusal to abide by and engage in fashions and fads ensures the timelessness of Conran products, it also jars markedly with the prevailing business model of manufacturers today: that of in-built obsolescence. In discussing Conran's very early pieces from his first factory Cliff enthuses: "You see the pieces now and they are completely timeless, you would buy one tomorrow. Not vintage looking, not old-fashioned, not impractical, they are terrific." In avoiding such a cynical commerciality Conran, who has cultivated a lucrative personal fortune, showcases strength of purpose rather than a naivety, taking pleasure first and foremost in the object itself, and witnessing how it improves the lives of those around him: "It liberates people, as simple as that. Terence has always believed that if you give people well made things, at a good price, they will buy them."
With a significant business empire, Conran is as much an entrepreneur as a designer – cultivating the idea of "lifestyle" products as well as the aspirations of the middle-classes. Habitat was undoubtedly his defining legacy and despite the company's recent closures, the shop paved the way for many other high-street chains and introduced design staples to British homes. By the 1990s, Conran had left the business and since then it has struggled, an apt flattery of his talents.
Conran's interests are not restricted to the home though: in addition to Habitat, Conran is known for his restaurant business and takes pleasure in creating beautiful, comfortable and welcoming environments in which to enjoy delicious food and vivacious company. With Mezzo and the Bluebird Café in his repertoire, Conran creates a "full experience … there's a glass wall, you can see the chefs working away, you're a member of the whole process. It's become an important part of the dining process, to understand what's been going on and who's been doing it for us."
Furthermore, he expertly uses this experience as a way to further his education of the public in the nuances of design and ensures customers for the other aspects of his empire through the whole dining and socialising experience: "You sit in a restaurant and you are thinking 'the quality of light in here is very pleasant', or 'this chair supports my back in rather a nice way', or 'look at the way the light catches this glass and this cutlery works rather well, I can feel in my hand that it isn't awkward.' All of those rather sensual things that involve our homes as well, we can experience in a restaurant, and you can take this with you; it seeps into the way we live as well. It's all part and parcel of his push towards having a better life for people."
In this manner Conran has showcased a remarkable entrepreneurial spirit that focuses on the holistic experience: "It all ties together in a way that nobody imagined" is the emphasis for today's young designers. While for many creatives, manufacturing and finance are seen as the dirty aspects of work, Conran has always embraced this and created Habitat through necessity, because "when he sold his furniture to stores they didn't know how to display it, in some cases they weren't even taking it out of the box." Similarly Conran begin working with other countries, particularly India, long before it became the norm. Budgeting, business and the constant innovation to create new markets became a significant part of what he does, and for young designers: "He has given them a lesson in showing them that you have to be involved in industry and the way things are sold … he has shown that it's fundamental to being a success."
This business-sense furthers the idea that Conran's work is an over-arching lifestyle whole. He has a specific look, a consistency of message, but unlike many designers: "He has never designed the Conran chair, that Robin Day or Philippe Starck might have done, because he's never been interested in just one chair." The Habitat catalogues in particular showed a way to live like Conran but Cliff emphasises that he never intends to be prescriptive: "The Habitat catalogue was a fundamental thing to show people how their homes could be. Terence never wanted people to have their homes furnished entirely by Habitat, that was a terrible idea, he wanted them to express themselves, some things from Habitat, some things from their parents, from a flea market or a junk shop, from their grandmother – to show their own personality and mix it with modern things and antiques or whatever your taste might be – make things yourself!" It's an idea that seems far too obvious today but this is largely due to the influence Habitat had upon the lifestyle market; our confidence in creating our own homes has come a long way.
The Way We Live Now was showing at the Design Museum, London 4 March 2012. www.designmuseum.org
Ruby Beesley


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He was born in Poland, but his family was living in Austria when Hitler came to power. As Jews, the family knew they had to leave, and pooled their money to send the smartest child (his name was Irving) to America, with instructions to find a way to make a living in America, FAST, and then bring them all over one by one. Irving was 19 years old at the time, and only knew 1 distant cousin in the U.S.
Somehow he did it. That's a story in itself.
World War II was only a few month away when it was Marty's turn. He remembered being on an immigrant ship when it was stopped and searched by a Danish warship, and the passenger's fear that it might be a German ship coming to turn them back if war had broken out.
Many family members didn't get out, and vanished from history. Lost anonymously in a death camp, with millions of others.
Marty joined the family in Chicago. To gain citizenship quickly he volunteered for the Army, and served through the war. Because of his German background he wasn't allowed at the front, as there was concern about loyalty. He was stationed at Camp Pendleton, in California, guarding against a Japanese invasion that never came.
After the military he went through the struggles of returning to normalcy, at different times working as a fur salesman, a door-to-door vacuum salesman, and finally finding his career at a clock factory. He had 2 children, one of which is my mother (Hi, Mom!).
Thank you, veterans everywhere.


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"Spy-ro Agnew!" I shouted. "Who calls him Spy-ro Agnew?"
"I've only ever heard him called that," replied BH.
This isn't the first famous American's name I've heard mispronounced on these shores. Another is Edward Sapir, as in the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis. In the UK, the last syllable of his name rhymes with ire and in the US it rhymes with ear and gets the main word stress. Whenever I lecture about him/the hypothesis, I preface it with "I know you've been hearing SAP-ire, but he was American, so I think he deserves the American pronunciation sap-EAR, don't you?" (He emigrated from Germany at age 5, so I think we can call him American.)
Now, of course, Americans pronounce names from other languages, including British English, in 'wrong' ways as well. There's a long discussion (with no real academic merit or answers!) about the difference between American and British pronunciations of Van Gogh at Yahoo answers. The residents of neither country should allow themselves to become smug about name pronunciation, as there are some that are "wrong" in both places.
The issue, to my mind, is respecting actual people by pronouncing their names the way they were intended. Granted, we have to work within the limits of our knowledge and pronunciation abilities--most non-English names I pronounce are a pale imitation of their bearer's pronunciation of them. If your native language doesn't have the sounds or the sound-combinations in another person's name, then you do the best you can. And if you've never heard a name pronounced (or only heard it pronounced incorrectly), you can't do anything but have a stab at it, relying on the spelling. So, though most Welsh people named Davies pronounce their names Davis, most Americans can't be expected to know about that.
But I do feel that I can give the BBC a little bit of a hard time over Spiro Agnew. News-broadcasting organi{s/z}ations create and use guides to pronunciations of names, and many dictionaries (including many on-line ones) provide the correct pronunciation. (One wonders whether and how Agnew appears in the BBC's list.) One problem, of course, is that the newsreader/presenter has to reali{s/z}e that the pronunciation they know might not be right before they'll have reason to look it up. The other problem, discussed well at Language Hat, is that such lists can be full of mistakes.
Let's end with a fairly unrelated anecdote from my days in South Africa. I phoned to order a pizza, and spoke with a speaker of (white) South African English.
Me: I'd like to order a small marguerita (AmE: cheese pizza) to collect (AmE: pick up).
Pizza Man: What's the name?
Me: Lynne.
PM: Sorry?
Me: Lynne.
PM: Could you say that again?
Me: Lynne.
PM: Really sorry, could you spell that?
Me: L-Y-N (I didn't see the point of confusing anyone with the -N-E)
PM: Ah! Lunn!
As I said, you do the best you can with the sounds you have.


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For this week's Tuesdays with Dorie selection, Lillian of Confectiona's Realm picked Chocolate Oatmeal Almost-Candy Bars, pages 114 and 115 of Dorie's book, Baking: From My Home to Yours.
I followed the directions except I subbed dried cranberries for the raisins. These cookies are really rich so I cut them into small squares.
These cookies have a bunch of candy-bar like ingredients: peanuts, oatmeal, raisins (or dried cranberries), and a chocolate center.
Be sure to check out the other Tuesdays with Dorie bakers!
Confectiona's Realm's blog
Baking: From My Home to Yours (pages 114 and 115)


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Chapter 29
The coming forth of the Book of Mormon is a sign that the Lord has commenced to gather Israel and fulfill His covenants—Those who reject His latter-day revelations and gifts will be cursed. About A.D. 34–35.
1 And now behold, I say unto you that when the Lord shall see fit, in his wisdom, that these sayings shall acome unto the Gentiles according to his word, then ye may know that the bcovenant which the Father hath made with the children of Israel, concerning their restoration to the clands of their inheritance, is already beginning to be fulfilled.
2 And ye may know that the words of the Lord, which have been spoken by the holy prophets, shall all be fulfilled; and ye need not say that the Lord adelays his coming unto the children of Israel.
3 And ye need not imagine in your hearts that the words which have been spoken are vain, for behold, the Lord will remember his covenant which he hath made unto his people of the house of Israel.
4 And when ye shall see these sayings coming forth among you, then ye need not any longer spurn at the doings of the Lord, for the asword of his bjustice is in his right hand; and behold, at that day, if ye shall spurn at his doings he will cause that it shall soon overtake you.
5 aWo unto him that bspurneth at the doings of the Lord; yea, wo unto him that shall cdeny the Christ and his works!
6 Yea, awo unto him that shall deny the revelations of the Lord, and that shall say the Lord no longer worketh by revelation, or by prophecy, or by bgifts, or by tongues, or by healings, or by the power of the Holy Ghost!
7 Yea, and wo unto him that shall say at that day, to get again, that there can be bno miracle wrought by Jesus Christ; for he that doeth this shall become clike unto the son of perdition, for whom there was no mercy, according to the word of Christ!
8 Yea, and ye need not any longer ahiss, nor bspurn, nor make game of the cJews, nor any of the remnant of the house of Israel; for behold, the Lord remembereth his covenant unto them, and he will do unto them according to that which he hath sworn.
9 Therefore ye need not suppose that ye can turn the right hand of the Lord unto the left, that he may not execute judgment unto the fulfilling of the covenant which he hath made unto the house of Israel.


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7 Nights | CAPTIVATING MEDITERRANEAN
About Civitavecchia, Italy
You will visit the following 8 places:
Palma is a resort city, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands in Spain. It is situated on the south coast of Majorca on the Bay of Palma. As of the 2009 census, the population of the city of Palma proper was 401,270, and the population of the entire urban area was 621,000, making it the twelfth largest urban area of Spain. Almost half of the total population of Majorca live in Palma. The Cabrera Archipelago, though widely separated from Palma proper, is administratively considered part of the municipality. Its airport, Son Sant Joan, serves over 22 million passengers each year.
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance; it has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages. Florence is often known as the ''Jewel of the Renaissance''.
Saint-Tropez is a town, 104 km to the east of Marseille, in the Var department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of southeastern France. It is also the principal town in the canton of Saint-Tropez. It is located on the French Riviera, and it is known today for its famous and extremely wealthy summertime guests. It has been dubbed the 'playground to jetsetters, fashion models, and millionaires', and it is most-enduringly known as the place where the iconic Brigitte Bardot was "discovered" and for its role in the liberation of southern France during World War II.
Marseille, known in antiquity as Massalia, is the second largest city in France, after Paris, with a population of 852,395 within its administrative limits on a land area of 240.62 km2. The urban area of Marseille extends beyond the city limits with a population of over 1,420,000 on an area of 1,204 km2. 1,530,000 or 1,601,095 people live in the Marseille metropolitan area. Located on the southeast coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Marseille is France's largest commercial port and largest French city on the Mediterranean coast. Marseille is the capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, as well as the capital of the Bouches-du-Rhône department. Its inhabitants are called Marseillais.
Barcelona – Spain's enchanting capital, second largest and most populous city. It is a huge city that vibrates with life, and there's certainly not another city in the country to touch it for its sheer style, looks or energy. It is one of the world's leading tourist, economic, trade fair and cultural centers, and its influence in commerce, education, entertainment, media, fashion, science, and the arts all contribute to its status as one of the world's major global cities. Barcelona is home to masterpieces of many great architects – the most famous of which is Antoni Gaudí.
Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo, officially refers to an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is located. Monaco has four traditional quarters - from west to east they are: Fontvieille (the newest), Monaco-Ville (the oldest), La Condamine, and Monte Carlo. Monte Carlo (literally "Mount Charles") is situated on a prominent escarpment at the base of the Maritime Alps along the French Riviera. Near the western end of the quarter is the world-famous Place du Casino, the gambling center which has made Monte Carlo "an international byword for the extravagant display and reckless dispersal of wealth". It is also the location of the Hôtel de Paris, the Café de Paris, and the Salle Garnier (the casino theatre which is the home of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo).
Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the Metropolitan City of Rome in the central Italian region of Lazio. A sea port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, the name ''Civitavecchia'' means "ancient town". The modern city was built over a pre-existing Etruscan settlement. The massive Forte Michelangelo was first commissioned from Donato Bramante by Pope Julius II, to defend the port of Rome. The upper part of the "maschio" tower, however, was designed by Michelangelo, whose name is generally applied to the fortress. North of the city at Ficoncella are the Terme Taurine baths frequented by Romans and still popular with the Civitavecchiesi. The modern name stems from the common fig plants among the various pools. And also next to the town is the location of the cruise ship docks. All major cruise lines start and end their cruises at this location, and others stop for shore excursion days that allow guests to see Rome and Vatican sights, which are ninety minutes away.


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Market demand knocks down regulatory barriers in Kansas City fiber deployment
In response to my analysis of Google Fiber, Timothy B. Lee at Ars Technica says the Google Fiber deployment is "hardly an example of the free market in action." Lee notes that Google received subsidized access to local government resources in the Kansas City area to support its fiber deployment. As I disclosed in my initial analysis, however, I agree that Google's deployment did not occur in an unfettered free market. Our analyses don't differ on the publicly available facts surrounding the Google Fiber deployment—they differ on the inferences and policy lessons that can be reasonably drawn from those facts.
Lee infers that local government subsidies were a significant factor in Google's decision to deploy a fiber network in Kansas City. Though that is possible, there is no publicly available evidence indicating that subsidies were economically necessary for Google's deployment. In its testimony before Congress, Google said it passed over other cities due to stringent regulatory requirements governing infrastructure deployment, not because they refused to offer subsidies. Most cities require network operators to serve all or substantially all neighborhoods irrespective of market demand, which is something Google was unwilling to do. Google's statements and behavior indicate that Kansas City's willingness to allow demand to drive Google's deployment and avoid unnecessary regulatory costs and delay were the critical factors in Google's decision to enter the market.
Google's statements also indicate that it would have been willing to pay reasonable fees for access to public rights of way and to obtain power and office space at its own cost if Kansas City had not offered these benefits for free. Google has objected only to government regulation that "results in unreasonable fees, anti-investment terms and conditions, and long and unpredictable build-out timeframes." Most franchise authorities impose fees on infrastructure providers that are designed to raise substantial revenue rather than recover the costs to the community of access to public rights of way. It infers too much to conclude that in-kind subsidies are required to build competitive fiber networks merely because Google objected to unreasonable fees and regulations and accepted the support offered by Kansas City.
Lee says "we should acknowledge the possibility that it simply doesn't make economic sense for private firms to build new fiber networks without taxpayer subsidies." That possibility has been considered a fact since the early 20th century. The United States has always subsidized networks in rural areas (e.g., areas that lack economies of density). Rural networks were traditionally subsidized indirectly by state-mandated monopoly telephone and cable networks that were subject to universal service requirements—i.e., in exchange for receiving a state monopoly, they were required by regulation to serve uneconomic neighborhoods and rural areas.
In my view, Kansas City's willingness to abandon this traditional quid pro quo is what makes Google Fiber a win for the free market. If Google had been willing to build its network without the in-kind subsidies it received, as I believe the evidence suggests, its deployment belies the false choice presented by "natural monopoly" advocates who believe our only options are (1) mandating a monopoly and requiring it to provide universal service (a public utility model), or (2) allowing "wasteful" competition and abandoning the goal of universal service.
As Jerry Brito at the Mercatus Center noted in an article contrasting Google Fiber with Verizon FIOS, these advocates assume that all broadband network operators will profit solely from the subscription fees they collect from subscribers. Plain-old-telephone service uses a subscription model because telephone networks were historically limited to the transmission of temporary content generated solely by consumers. Networks that could offer complementary services, however, have not always relied on a subscription model to generate revenue. Over-the-air broadcast networks offer television service to consumers for free and generate profits through the sale of advertising to other businesses. Advertising is Google's primary revenue source as well, which may explain why it is willing to offer Google Fiber for free to consumers who pay for installation. Google can also generate non-subscription revenue by bundling its hardware (Nexus 7), software (Android), and content (YouTube) with its premium network subscription, which serves to increase its share of these complementary markets. The profits generated by these complementary markets could sustain competition among networks without a government subsidy.
This is the possibility we should acknowledge—that there is an alternative to our current regulatory approach to networked industries, which assumes there are "natural boundaries" between networks, devices, and content. The free market aspects of the Google Fiber deployment suggest that these boundaries are not "natural," they are the result of an outdated regulatory approach that has mandated market boundaries for nearly a century. If these regulatory barriers were removed, many areas would likely be able to support competition among multiple high-speed platforms that offer differentiated packages of services, which would likely increase consumer choice and lower prices.
Eliminating regulatory barriers would not provide assurance that competitive networks would be built everywhere without any government subsidies. There is significant variation in population density and geography in the United States, and it would likely remain uneconomic to serve remote areas. The relevant question, however, is how to best address this issue. The traditional answer, providing a state monopoly in exchange for privately subsidized service in uneconomic areas, throws the baby (market-based competition) out with the bath water (low density). Google Fiber indicates that we should be encouraging private firms to build competitive networks without government subsidy whenever possible and rely on explicit subsidies only when necessary.
Google Fiber also indicates that the marketplace is better than the government at determining the circumstances in which competitive entry is economically possible. If Google believed existing network providers had a "natural monopoly" in Kansas City, it would have been irrational for it to enter the market. Though that is a possibility, I'm willing to give Google the benefit of the doubt.
Finally, in circumstances in which government subsidies are required, economic efficiency and fundamental fairness require that those subsidies be available to everyone, i.e., that all interested parties have an opportunity to receive the same treatment. On that issue at least, Lee and I agree.


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Bus Operator | First Bus | Last Bus | Duration | |
ANNAPURNA TOUR & TRAVELS | 21:15 | 21:15 | 6 hrs 25 mins |
Dildar Bus Service | 20:30 | 20:30 | 9 hrs 0 mins |
Tirupati Bus Service | 22:30 | 22:30 | 7 hrs 30 mins |
Pradhan | 18:00 | 18:00 | 12 hrs 0 mins |
Mahadev Bus Service | 19:30 | 19:30 | 11 hrs 0 mins |
The journey from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna is very smoothly covered by a bus in 9 hours. For bus booking on Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna route, customers can check the buses based on travel time and sort the buses based on less duration. There are operators running their buses between Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna bringing necessary travel convenience for several people in India. Usually, 205 buses are plying from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna. All buses are driven by proficient drivers ensuring safety during the journey.
A number of prominent operators ply buses from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna ensuring punctuality and safety for its passengers. Major operators offering various kinds of bus services are:
If you're looking to travel from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna and worried about safe travel, you can choose the Primo service launched by redBus. Primo is where passengers can enjoy travelling in high-rated buses with best-in-class services. While looking for bus tickets booking on Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna route, customers can check Primo tag in order to choose this wonderful service. From hygiene standards to on-time service and comfort, there are many benefits that passengers can get from Primo bus booking.
The common boarding points for Bhubaneswar and Bhawanipatna are Babasaheb Ambedkar Bus Terminal Bay No - 42, Baramunda Bus Stand, Baramunda Bus Terminus-33 (Bhubaneswar), Barmunda Bus Stand, Bermunda Bus Stand (v), Crown Hotel, Palasuni, baramunda overbridge near panda appollo tyre.
The common dropping points for Bhubaneswar and Bhawanipatna are Bhawanipatna Bus Stand, Bhawanipatna Bus Stand (Bhawanipatna), Bhawanipatna Bus Stand (v).
The cheapest bus ticket fare for Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna is INR 650.00.
The departure time of the first bus from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna is 17:15.
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redBus offer various payment options for bus ticket booking for Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna like redBus Wallet, Credit and debit cards, UPI payments such as Gpay, PhonePe, and Amazon Pay, wallets payments like Paytm and amazon pay, net banking, and buy now and pay later applications like Simpl.
You can check the Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna timing on the redBus application; all you have to do is search for the Bhubaneswar, Bhawanipatna, and travel date. Post that, you will be navigated to the bus operator list for Bhubaneswar and Bhawanipatna. Select the preferred bus you want to travel to, and you can also see the first and last bus from the list.
If you opt for the Flexi ticket, you can easily reschedule your bus ticket from the redBus application. You have to click on the change date option in the bus operator.
redBus provides a 100% refund if the bus is missed due to either redBus or its partner company's fault. However, if the bus is missed due to any other reason not directly related to redBus, no refund is provided.
There is 11 Buses running between Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna today.
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Users can cancel Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna bus tickets through their redBus account online or in the app, or by contacting customer service. Cancellations will incur charges as outlined on the ticket.
redDeals are discounts offered by top bus operators exclusively on redBus. The redDeal discount amount which ranges from a minimum of 5% to a maximum of 25% is in addition to any other discount applicable at the time of booking your online bus ticket. So with redDeals you can be assured of not just safe & comfortable travel but also of the cheapest travel option at any time. Different types of redDeals offered by operators include Return trip offer, Early bird offer, Last minute offer, Trial offer, Festive/Holiday offer and more
Various types of buses serving passengers from Bhubaneswar to Bhawanipatna ensuring safety and comfort. A few bus services are:
Bhawanipatna has a lot to offer to anybody who visits this place. Apart from conveniently located drop-off points, Bhawanipatna has a lot to offer that would entice anyone who visits this place. With a number of sites to visit and restaurants to raid, Bhawanipatna has it all. There are a ton of buses that run through Bhawanipatna and this ensures that Bhawanipatna is well-connected to the rest of the country. Don't think twice, book your bus ticket online today


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Does My Blog Look Fat In These Pants?
WHAT is the aesthetic of Her Bad Mother?
I'm having a blog identity crisis, on a par with bangs or no-bangs, skinny jeans or no-skinny-jeans, tat or no tat. What look is right for me?
I've been seriously tempted by this banner (design by Iz)...
I've also toyed with using one of the many spectacular WonderBaby images...
... like this...
But I JUST CANNOT DECIDE.
So how does one decide? Should it be my favourites, no matter their character? Or should it just be the popular posts? Or is it really just so much more grandstanding to flaunt old posts (hey! looky here! my ass looks good in these posts!)
Or is it really just so much more grandstanding and contrived insecurity to be asking for help in sorting out how to revamp one's look? OMG am so fat am such a bad mother should I not be wearing skinny jeans should I lose the bangs but isn't my forehead just too big omg have you seen my ass what do I do? (preen preen spin pose affect worry pose preen)
Maybe. Or maybe I'm just aesthetically stunted and indecisive and overly-reliant on peer support in making blog-altering decisions.
Let's go with that.


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Click here to read the New York State Fair Housing & Anti-Discrimination Notice.
The following is excerpted from publications of the National Association of Realtors and from a Westchester Realtor's Guide to Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity Real Estate Practice.
All citizens of the United States shall have the same right, in every state and territory, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convey real and personal property.
On June 17, 1968, in the case of Jones v. Mayer, the United States Supreme Court held that the 1866 law prohibits all racial discrimination, private as well as public, in the sale or rental of property.
Thus, any individual who feels he or she has been discriminated against can immediately file a suit in Federal Court. The court can stop the sale of a house or rental of an apartment to someone else or award damages and court costs.
The 1968 Supreme Court decision further held that the 1866 Act protects all individuals against the following:
1. Denial that housing is available for inspection, sale or rent when it really is available.
2. Discrimination in the terms of conditions of sale or rental lease.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (the Federal Fair Housing Law), declared it a national policy to provide fair housing throughout the United States. This law and subsequent amendment make discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin illegal in connection with the sale or rental of most housing and vacant land offered for residential construction or use. The Fair Housing Law provides protection against the following acts, if they are based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin:
1. Refusal to sell or rent or deal or negotiate with any person.
2. Denial of a loan or creation of different terms or conditions for home loans by commercial lenders, such as banks, savings and loan associations or insurance companies.
3. Discrimination by advertising that housing is available only to persons of a certain race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
4. "Blockbusting" for profit (i.e. persuading owners to sell or rent housing by telling them that minority groups are moving into the neighborhood).
5. Denial to anyone of the use of, or participation in, any real estate services such as brokers' organization, multiple listing services or other facilities related to the selling or renting of housing.
New York State law prohibits discrimination in the sale, rental or lease of housing accommodation on the basis of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, disability or marital status by owner, lessee, sublessee or managing agent of housing accommodations, or by real estate brokers and salesperson's.
The law prohibits discrimination in:
1. The terms, conditions or privileges of the sale, rental or lease or in the furnishing of facilities or services in connection with any housing accommodation.
2. The printing or circulation of any statement or publication or the use of any form of application or publication for the purchase, rental or lease of a housing accommodation.
The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply: (1) to the rental of a housing accommodation in a building which contains housing accommodation for not more than two families living independently of each other, if the owner or member of his family restricts the rental of all rooms in a housing accommodation to the individuals of the same sex or (2) to the rental of a room or rooms in a housing accommodation or by the owner of the housing accommodation, if such rental is by the occupant of the housing accommodation or by the owner of the housing accommodation, and he or a member of his family resides in such housing accommodation.
This act strengthened the enforcement of the 1968 Fair Housing Law. It is also provided substantial additional protection for handicapped persons seeking housing and limited restrictions on purchasers or renters on account of age or familial status. Sellers or landlords who would decline to sell or rent to persons on account of handicap or familial status are advised to consult an attorney beforehand.


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Tutorial Series | Plasma Tutorial |
Previous | C++, Qt, KDE development environment |
What's Next | |
Further Reading | DataEngine API, CMake Tutorials, Writing a Plasmoid (Tutorial) |
DataEngines provide a standardized interface to various data sources for visualizations to use.
This tutorial will lead you through creating a simple data engine. The example we will use is a simplified version of the time data engine provided with the basic plasma installation in kdebase-workspace.
The time data engine provides the current date and time for any timezone that the system knows about. It is used by every one of the many clock plasmoids. The obvious benefit of this is that there is no need to reimplement the logic for selecting timezones in every clock plasmoid.
The Plasma Engine Explorer
A very useful tool for anyone writing data engines is the Plasma engine explorer. You can use it to see how the time data engine should work now by running
Near the top of the window is a drop-down box for selecting a data engine. Choose the "time" engine. You can now request a source. Try requesting the "Local" source, with an update interval of 500ms (twice a second). A single item, Local, should be visible in the sources list. Click the + on the left to expand it, and you should get the date, time, timezone, timezone continent and timezone city listed, together with the type for each.
Have a play with selecting other timezones, such as "Europe/Paris" and "Asia/Tokyo".
Remember to test your data engine using the Plasma engine explorer when you have created it!
The Code
The Desktop File
Every data engine needs a description file to tell plasma how to load it and what it is called.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Test Time Engine
Comment=A duplicate of the Time Engine
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Author=Aaron Seigo
X-KDE-PluginInfo-Email=[email protected]
The most important bits are:
- the Name, Comment and Type fields, which are required for all desktop files
- the X-KDE-ServiceTypes field, which tells plasma that this is a data engine
- the X-KDE-Library field, which tells plasma how to load the data engine - in this case by loading plasma_engine_testtime.so from the plugin folder
- the X-Plasma-EngineName field, which tells plasma what the exported plugin name is (as given to K_EXPORT_PLASMA_DATAENGINE)
- the X-KDE-PluginInfo-Name is important for DataEngines since 4.2, without it, plasma will not find your DataEngine
The Header File
// the following header is required by the LGPL because
// we are using the actual time engine code
* Copyright 2007 Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or
* (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
* License along with this program; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
// a standard include guard to prevent problems if the
// header is included multiple times
#ifndef TESTTIMEENGINE_H
#define TESTTIMEENGINE_H
// We need the DataEngine header, since we are inheriting it
#include <Plasma/DataEngine>
* This engine provides the current date and time for a given
* timezone.
* "Local" is a special source that is an alias for the current
* timezone.
class TestTimeEngine : public Plasma::DataEngine
// required since Plasma::DataEngine inherits QObject
// every engine needs a constructor with these arguments
TestTimeEngine(QObject* parent, const QVariantList& args);
// this virtual function is called when a new source is requested
bool sourceRequestEvent(const QString& name);
// this virtual function is called when an automatic update
// is triggered for an existing source (ie: when a valid update
// interval is set when requesting a source)
bool updateSourceEvent(const QString& source);
#endif // TESTTIMEENGINE_H
A separate header file may seem a bit pointless for a plugin this small, but it is a good habit to get into.
Note that I don't put a K_EXPORT_PLASMA_DATAENGINE in the header file. When there is only one .cpp file in the project, there is no problem, but in larger plugins several files might include this header and there can only be one K_EXPORT_PLASMA_DATAENGINE in the project. If K_EXPORT_PLASMA_DATAENGINE is compiled in multiple times, you will get a linker error when compiling. Also note that the name should not end on "engine" (e.g. "testtimeengine"), because then Plasma does not find the DataEngine correctly.
The Main Code
// the following header is required by the LGPL because
// we are using the actual time engine code
* Copyright 2007 Aaron Seigo <[email protected]>
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or
* (at your option) any later version.
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details
* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
* License along with this program; if not, write to the
* Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
* 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
#include "testtimeengine.h"
#include <QDate>
#include <QTime>
#include <KSystemTimeZones>
#include <KDateTime>
#include <Plasma/DataContainer>
TestTimeEngine::TestTimeEngine(QObject* parent, const QVariantList& args)
: Plasma::DataEngine(parent, args)
// We ignore any arguments - data engines do not have much use for them
// This prevents applets from setting an unnecessarily high
// update interval and using too much CPU.
// In the case of a clock that only has second precision,
// a third of a second should be more than enough.
bool TestTimeEngine::sourceRequestEvent(const QString &name)
// We do not have any special code to execute the
// first time a source is requested, so we just call
// updateSourceEvent().
return updateSourceEvent(name);
bool TestTimeEngine::updateSourceEvent(const QString &name)
QString timezone;
if (name == I18N_NOOP("Local")) {
// Local is a special case - we just get the current time and date
setData(name, I18N_NOOP("Time"), QTime::currentTime());
setData(name, I18N_NOOP("Date"), QDate::currentDate());
} else {
// First check the timezone is valid
KTimeZone newTz = KSystemTimeZones::zone(name);
if (!newTz.isValid()) {
return false;
// Get the date and time
KDateTime dt = KDateTime::currentDateTime(newTz);
setData(name, I18N_NOOP("Time"), dt.time());
setData(name, I18N_NOOP("Date"), dt.date());
return true;
// This does the magic that allows Plasma to load
// this plugin. The first argument must match
// the X-Plasma-EngineName in the .desktop file.
// The second argument is the name of the class in
// your plugin that derives from Plasma::DataEngine
K_EXPORT_PLASMA_DATAENGINE(testtime, TestTimeEngine)
// this is needed since TestTimeEngine is a QObject
#include "testtimeengine.moc"
Responding to Requests for Sources
The sourceRequestEvent() method is called the first time a source is loaded. You can use this to do any special processing that should be done the first time a source is created, but not when it is subsequently updated.
If a source is created with a polling interval, updateSourceEvent() will be called each time that interval expires. For example, if an applet requests a source "foo" with a polling interval of 500ms, sourceRequestEvent("foo") will be called initially, then half a second later, and every half a second after that, updateSourceEvent("foo") will be called.
Note, however, that applets do not have to set a polling interval and may instead simply wait for an engine to push data to it.
Controlling Update Frequency
There are a couple of methods for controlling updates. We use setMinimumPollingInterval(333) to prevent updateSourceEvent() being called more than three times a second for any given source. You can also enforce a specific update interval for all sources provided by this engine with setPollingInterval(), which takes a time in milliseconds as its only argument.
Responding to Outside Events
Polling does not make sense for all engines. Some engines, such as the device engine, respond to outside events. You can use setData() at any time to create or update a source. removeData() and removeSource() are also useful methods. For the applets that want to be informed when the sources change, without using polling, use dataUpdated. Use it by calling connectSource
Listing Potential Sources
Applets can request a list of the available sources for an engine. By default, this is just a list of every source that has been created (with setData() or addSource()) so far (and not removed, of course). However, you may wish to advertise sources but not actually create them. For example, we could advertise every timezone that the system knows about, but not actually create and populate the sources, since hardly any will actually be used.
This can be done by reimplementing virtual QStringList sources() const and returning a list of the names of all the available sources.
If you want to perform any initialisation beyond setting simple properties, such as populating sources, you cannot do it in the constructor, since the data engine has not been properly initialised at this point. Instead, reimplement the virtual void init() method.
For example, the tasks data engine uses the init() method to get a list of all the currently running tasks and creates sources for each of them.
More Control Over Data
The DataContainer class can be used to give you more control over updating data if you need it. The relevant methods of DataEngine are DataContainer* containerForSource(const QString& source), void addSource(DataContainer* source) and SourceDict containerDict() const.
Building It
The CMakeLists.txt file tells CMake how to build your plugin. The following file will work for this project:
# A name for the project
# Find the required Libaries
find_package(KDE4 REQUIRED)
add_definitions (${QT_DEFINITIONS} ${KDE4_DEFINITIONS})
# We add our source code here
set(testtime_engine_SRCS testtimeengine.cpp)
# Now make sure all files get to the right place
kde4_add_plugin(plasma_engine_testtime ${testtime_engine_SRCS})
install(TARGETS plasma_engine_testtime
install(FILES plasma-engine-testtime.desktop
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIR
make install
Replace $KDEDIR with your kde installation directory if $KDEDIR is not set.
Alternatively, you can run the following
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull
cp ./lib/plasma_engine_testtime.so $KDEDIR/lib/kde4
cp ./plasma-engine-testtime.desktop $KDEDIR/share/kde4/services/
Now run kbuildsycoca4 to tell KDE applications (including plasma and the plasma engine explorer) about the new desktop file.
Now you can test it as we did the time engine. Run
plasmaengineexplorer --engine testtime
Note that if you change a data engine (or applet), the change will not register in any running applications. After modifying and reinstalling a data engine, to make plasma register the change you must run
kquitapp plasma-desktop (or plasma-netbook, etc)