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People has Elizabeth Edwards on its cover this week, not that she posed for it or is quoted directly within it but, despite her plea for privacy, everyone just wants to know how she feels about the world knowing that her husband cheated on her. (Hint: Not good.) So David "TRex" Ferguson and I act like good little voyeurs and have a peek but get distracted by Keith Olberman's rant about how awesome smart women are (call me, Keith!) and Rachel Maddow, how Michelle Malkin is in no way responsible for Arkansas Dem Bill Gwatney's assassination, Media Matter's Paul Waldman's takedown of right-winger Jerome Corsi, becoming a minority, KFC and David's Unified Field Theory of Gay Republicans.MEGAN: Morning! People has this stupid teaser on its webpage for its cover story on Elizabeth Edwards' feelings told by other people as though people like you and I are going to run out and buy the magazine? I'd be tempted to make an appointment with my acupuncturist who has a description and gets it in the office, which costs a hell of a lot more money but is more useful than a magazine. Anyway, apparently, it hurt to hear that her husband was sticking his penis in other women. Has your curiosity been satiated? DAVID: I don't feel like I'll have a real handle on the story until Mike Allen at the Politico has interviewed Elizabeth about her Hollywood crushes, though. MEGAN: I'll be she thinks George Clooney is cute. DAVID: Well, clearly the lesson from all this is that we shouldn't vote for John Edwards in November. Now, can we move along, people? MEGAN: Wait, though, can we go back to Rush Limbaugh for a second? Because I think I might be allowed to crush on Keith Olbermann after he went after Rush last night. (Skip to minute 3, if you want to see it.) DAVID: Oh, sweet. I need to watch that. Olbermann is uneven for me. Sometimes he's awesome and then other times he goes so far over the top. Whereas my love for Rachel Maddow is unconditional and all-consuming. MEGAN: Yes, I have to agree about Rachel, but, um, Keith could, say, call me in Denver and yell about how awesome smart women are for a while. DAVID: So, what do you think about Arkansas? Do you feel like the shooting was politically motivated? MEGAN: I mean, if it wasn't politically motivated, why Gwatney in particular? DAVID: Most reports I'm seeing are refraining from speculation about motivation, but I have a sinking feeling in my stomach that this is exactly what I was talking about yesterday with the Limbots going insane and lashing out at Librull Amurrka. Of course, the fact that Righty screamer Michelle Malkin felt the need to issue a denial of involvement before the body was even cold speaks volumes to me. MEGAN: Some Internet troll types think it's another Clinton conspiracy. For real. DAVID: Conservatism, I am starting to believe, is a form of mental illness. Malkin is up to her old tricks again of publishing the contact information of people who challenge her. If you go down that thread and look, Malkin published some detractor's email address and full name and her commenters are bragging about looking up the guy's mother's name and threatening her. MEGAN: Hey, you know, that shit got some dudes a NY Times Magazine cover story, so... DAVID: Delightful people. Funny how much her denial of blame yesterday reminds me of her denial of blame in the death of UC Santa Cruz administrator Denice Denton. MEGAN: Yes, we get it, Michelle, you are not personally responsible for all the evil in the world, not even the evil committed by your fans. Speaking of pissing off Michelle's fans, did you see that the Census Bureau came out with new figures that say white people won't be the majority by 2042? Interesting timing on that one. DAVID: Except that she is. But speaking of trolls, did you see Larry King last night? Larry King and Paul Waldman handed Obama-bashing Jerome Corsi's his ass on a pizza. HA! Segway jinx! Yes, 2042 is when Mark Penn's target voters will no longer be the top dogs. To tell you the truth, I'm a little disappointed because I thought that white people were already outnumbered. MEGAN: I mean, is it just a little interesting to you that the government comes out with these figures that we've all know for ages now that prompt headlines like White Americans no longer a majority by 2042 a mere 11 days before the start of the first Democratic convention which will make Obama (an African-American) the first major- party candidate for President? Or am I just that paranoid? DAVID: When it comes to the perfidy of corporate media, I don't think you can ever be too paranoid, can you? MEGAN: Possibly not. DAVID: I mean, you've got Karl Rove's buttboy in at the top of the AP, GE owns NBC and MSNBC, then there's ClearChannel and Pox News. Even public radio and television are beholden to big money donors like BP and Wal-Mart. MEGAN: You know what's really funny? DAVID: Really, Megan, it's all down to you. You alone can tell the world the Truth. What's funny? MEGAN: A good friend of mine used to work at Alticor, which owns Amway (which, of course) doesn't advertise AND is heavily Republican... and they complain about the perfidy of the corporate media and the influence of advertising dollars, too. Aaaanyway, back to topical stuff... Want to talk about how this might be the first convention since 1984 that Jesse Jackson doesn't speak at? Or that he'll watch D.C. mayor Adrian Fenty (kind of a cutie) and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn but not House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel speak (though, the latter might be because he's had a couple of easily-foreseen ethical scandals crop up recently)? DAVID: Oh, well, I think that might be for the best, don't you? Maybe he has a pressing gig talking about spaying and neutering at a veterinary convention. Honestly, I think it may be time for Reverend Jackson to spend some more time with his families. MEGAN: I'm actually kind of disappointed in Charlie Rangel. It's like when people in D.C. said, "No one could be a bigger, more condescending prick who abuses the power of his office than Bill Thomas" he took that as a challenge. DAVID: Everybody needs goals in life. Charlie was just reaching for that rainbow, living the dream. Can we really fault him for that? MEGAN: Sort of like the owner of the gay cruising site that's maxed out to McCain. DAVID: Well, I have a theory about that. MEGAN: Self-loathing? Or straight entrepreneur? DAVID: Your gay Republican types thrive in an atmosphere of repression and secrecy. They want their gay sex dirty, shameful, and totally secret. They don't want to have stable gay marriages or adopt kids. They want to get down on it Larry Craig style. MEGAN: And so he thinks in a McCain administration his cruising site will do better? Actually, given McCain's incredibly gay entourage, that might not be too far off the mark. DAVID: I've thought about this a lot. I never could understand why someone would be a gay Republican. It's like being a chicken for Col. Sanders. MEGAN: God, reading that just made my stomach growl. DAVID: But then the more I thought about it, and as more and more and more twisted gay sex scandals came to light in the GOP, I started putting together my Unified Field Theory of Gay Republicans. For them it's all about The Forbidden. Well, that and racism.
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@traumamama: The asshats that comment on Megan McFartle's blog were saying that last week. [meganmcardle.theatlantic.com]
I can see how a gay person could be a Republican. The party's kind of gone in a different direction in the last 8 years, but gay rights isn't the only issue on their agenda. I'm only bothered when a gay Republican fights against gay rights then, you know, gets caught cruising in an airport bathroom. But that's just the stereotype, because there's plenty of openly gay Republicans who are perfectly normal but maybe believe strongly in, for example, lower marginal tax rates.


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Violet and Sylvia's first baby cousin was born on April 14th. His name is Daniel Louis. He seems pretty perfect. He just sleeps and snuggles. I guess he cries when he gets his diaper changed, but I don't believe his parents. He is just too perfect!
Sylvia was pretty excited to hold him. Violet still needs to warm up to the idea.
The girls also experienced their first convertible ride in Grandpa's fancy car.
After Grandpa "peeled out" and "fishtailed" a bit down the road, here was the girls reaction. We are going to have to watch out for Violet... she is a bit of a wild child!
(It should be noted that Adam was not present for this horseplay. He is the responsible parent!)

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Holy crap this is cool. Over on Brain Pickings, Maria Popova has an exclusive English version of a visualization (originally designed for La Lettura, a Sunday cultural supplement to the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera that features a weekly column dedicated to data visualization) that compares Nobel Prizes and laureates for every year since the award was created in 1901.
Popova explains:
Visualized for each laureate are prize category, year the prize was awarded, and age of the recipient at the time, as well as principal academic affiliations and hometown. Each dot represents a Nobel laureate, and each recipient is positioned according to the year the prize was awarded (x axis) and his or hear age at the time of the award (y axis).
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Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned his budget reform crusade to California's 300,000 public employees.
He's making two claims: First, that the pension system is too generous and therefore too costly to Californians. Second, the Governor maintains that the state can't afford to pay current salaries of state workers and they must be reduced either in terms of continued furloughs or actual pay cuts.
The first idea is worth discussing as a long-term priority. The fact is that we live much longer today than even 25 years ago. Just as the retirement age for Social Security has been moved back two years (and will in all likelihood soon be pushed back even more in the near future), it's reasonable for the state to reconsider its retirement pact with its workforce. That said, any savings from such changes are years away and wouldn't help reduce the current $19 billion deficit one cent.
The idea of continued furloughs or outright pay reductions for state workers potentially has immediate savings, and is thus more palatable to the governor and his fellow budget cutters. But will the proposal produce meaningful results?
The furloughs imposed last year were a disaster on two fronts. To begin with, the Courts overturned furloughs for thousands of state workers in categories where their salaries were not tied directly to state resources or had federal requirements. (Oops.) In addition, among the furloughs that were not overturned, studies showed that they cost the state half the projected savings in lost income tax revenues. In other cases, new temporary hires were brought in, or the delays in carrying out responsibilities brought about other costs. (Oops again.) All this took place in a working environment that, according to Governing Magazine, is the 49th leanest of the 50 states on a per capita basis. In other words, we couldn't spare any workers; there is no fat. (Dare I say oops a third time?)
Reducing state worker pay by 5 percent or 10 percent would barely be a drop in the state's budget bucket. In fact, you could fire every single state worker -- prison guards, park rangers, DMV employees, Department of Transportation road crews, California Highway Patrol and all the others -- and the savings from their salaries would amount to $13.2 billion. That's still well short of the $19 billion deficit.
Lost in the discussion is the governor's budget framework -- mainly, that he'll only consider reductions and no increased revenues. So why he comes up with ways to "trim" costs through reduced pay, he won't even consider an oil severance tax, even though California is the only one of 14 oil-producing states without one. Nor will Schwarzenegger accept raising the tobacco tax, even though California ranks 32nd. Nor will he consider fully rescinding his elimination of the motor vehicle tax, which is costing the state $5 billion in revenue annually.
So, while the governor and some legislators spending their time considering reductions in employee costs, they conveniently ignore the real problem of inadequate revenues. Until they face that music, they'll be playing the wrong song.
Not a Good Time to Work for the State of California
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has turned his budget reform crusade to California's 300,000 public employees.


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Media continue to push GOP rhetoric on reconciliation
Reporting on the Democrats' possible use of the reconciliation budget process to pass health care reform, media outlets have advanced the Republican criticism that reconciliation is "an end-run around the normal legislative process." However, the procedure has been used repeatedly by Republicans, and, as NPR has pointed out, reconciliation has been used to pass major changes to health care laws.
Politico, Wash. Post, others advance Republican attacks on reconciliation
Politico advanced claim that reconciliation is "an end-run around the normal legislative process." In a February 23 article reporting that centrist Democrats are warming to using reconciliation to pass health care reform, Politico claimed that Republicans may be able to convince voters that the procedure "is an end-run around the normal legislative process." Politico went on to quote Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) saying that reconciliation amounts to "the ultimate trick to get votes" without noting that Alexander repeatedly supported the use of reconciliation to pass parts of President Bush's budget.
From the February 23 Politico article:
To be sure, the hints on reconciliation do not signal any kind of ironclad commitment. Democrats remain hesitant about using the procedure, fearful that Republicans will be successful in convincing voters that it is an end-run around the normal legislative process.
It also remains unclear whether Democrats can even pull it off, given the strict rules governing bills passed through reconciliation, which requires the entire legislation -- down to a single line -- to have an direct impact on the federal budget. Simple policy changes, such as the president's new proposal to establish a federal review board on insurance rates, are unlikely to survive.
In a more combative tone, Reid told reporters Tuesday that Republicans should "stop crying over reconciliation as if it's never been done before."
"It's been done by almost every Congress, and they're the ones who have used it more than anyone else," Reid said. "Contract for America was done with reconciliation. Tax cuts, done with reconciliation. Medicare, done with reconciliation."
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) said Republicans have never used reconciliation on this scale and as a way to make changes to a Senate bill that could not pass the House on its own.
"This would be the ultimate trick to get votes," Alexander said. "The reason for the American people rejecting the health care bill so far is because of the tricks. If Democrats try to jam the bill through this strange process to get votes, then they will just be guaranteeing themselves a political kamikaze mission in November."
Wash. Post forwarded McConnell's criticism of reconciliation process. In a February 22 article, The Washington Post repeated Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) comments that Democrats are being "arrogant" in their possible use of reconciliation to pass health care reform and that "his party will continue to oppose Democrats if they try to use" the procedure. However, the Post did not point out that McConnell supported the use of reconciliation to pass legislation during the Bush administration.
From the article:
Republicans have accused Obama of using Thursday's summit as political theater, and they had raised the prospect of not attending. But the Senate's top Republican promised Sunday that he and his members are "ready to participate," while accusing Democrats of being "arrogant."
"You know, they are saying, 'Ignore the wishes of the American people. We know more about this than you do. And we're going to jam it down your throats no matter what,' " Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on "Fox News Sunday."
White House communications director Dan Pfeiffer said in response that "the upcoming meeting is an opportunity to get beyond oft-repeated and completely false talking points like these."
McConnell dismissed the idea of a GOP boycott, saying that "we're discussing the -- sort of the makeup of the room and that sort of thing, but yeah, I intend to be there and my members will be there and ready to participate."
He said, however, his party will continue to oppose Democrats if they try to use reconciliation.
"We believe that we think a better way to go is to, step by step, move in the direction of dealing with the cost issue, targeting things like junk lawsuits against doctors and hospitals, interstate insurance competition, small-association health plans," he added.
Wash. Post's Thiessen attacked Democrats' potential use of reconciliation as one of the Senate's "extraordinary parliamentary procedures." On February 23, Thiessen wrote of President Obama's proposed health care summit:
The president's real objective is to paint GOP leaders as obstructionists -- so that Democrats have an excuse to ram through their health-care legislation using extraordinary parliamentary procedures. Obstructionism has been Obama's mantra ever since Massachusetts GOP Sen. Scott Brown's election. Just last week in Denver, Obama declared that "for those who don't believe in government, those who don't believe that we have obligations to each other, it's a lot easier task. If you can gum up the works, if you make things broken, if the Senate doesn't get anything done, well, that's consistent with their philosophy." This is dishonest. Republicans have a robust health-care agenda, from health savings accounts, to association health plans, insurance portability, and medical liability reform.
Wash. Examiner: Reconciliation is "arcane" and Dems "are running a Washington con game" if they use it. In a February 23 editorial, The Washington Examiner accused Democrats of "running a Washington con game" in possibly using reconciliation to pass health reform, asserting that the process is "an arcane legislative magic act."
From the editorial:
To gain passage of his proposal, Obama has joined Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in an arcane legislative magic act known as "budget reconciliation." Only 51 Senate votes -- not the usual 60 required to pass major legislation -- are required to approve a reconciliation measure in the Senate, and a simple majority of 218 in the House. Reconciliation is supposed to be for tying up loose ends -- for technical, budget-balancing measures. But Democrats want to use it to put a government bureaucrat between patients and their doctors. This, despite the recent Gallup poll that, like so many other recent polls, shows a strong majority of Americans want Congress to go back to square one on health care reform and start over. The president talks bipartisanship, but his proposal and his actions this week make clear that he and congressional Democrats are running a Washington con game and hoping the American people won't figure out they're the mark, yet again, until it's too late.
IBD: It's an "abuse of power," "arrogant" and "absurd" for Dems to consider reconciliation. In a February 22 editorial titled, "No Nuclear Option," Investor's Business Daily suggested that if Democrats use reconciliation to "ram through radical health reform," it "would mean a new chapter on corruption for the history books," and stated that it's "arrogant" and "absurd" for Democrats to consider its use.
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Abuse Of Power: The White House has threatened to ram through radical health reform by abusing the budget reconciliation process. That would mean a new chapter on corruption for the history books.
"Using reconciliation," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell charged last week, "would be an acknowledgment that there is bipartisan opposition to their bill."
But it would actually be something far more arrogant.
Using reconciliation on health care is as absurd as using it to send a constitutional amendment to the states for ratification, or to pass a treaty, or to confirm a Cabinet secretary or Supreme Court justice.
It would be more honest for President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to announce the Senate's rules will now be changed: No more filibustering.
On Special Report, Wash. Post's Krauthammer referred to reconciliation as a "trick." On February 23, Charles Krauthammer called the reconciliation process a "trick" and said that "we've never done it for a bill of this scope and size or reform revolution."
From the February 23 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Bret Baier:
BRET BAIER (host): Well, about that -- reconciliation. I mean, it's this process. Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia is one of the people who came up with the rule back in 1974. Here's what he wrote to his colleagues just last year about using reconciliation, this process for health care.
"I oppose using budget reconciliation to pass health care reform and climate change legislation. Such a proposal would violate the intent and spirit of the budget process and do serious injury to the constitutional role of the Senate." That's from April of last year.
KRAUTHAMMER: Well, since he is one the inventors of this process, I think he's a pretty good authority on the spirit and intent. And it is a trick, and we've never done it for a bill of this scope and size or reform revolution in the sixth of the American economy. However, I don't -- it's not illegal. And if -- I think it's still possible.
Look, I think the reason Obama is trying this is not because he wants to placate his left and show that he gave it the college try. This is a man who believes ideologically in this deeply. He sees himself as a world historical figure, not just the first African-American president, but like Reagan, a man who changed history. He wants to be the father of national health care.
And if this is passed or jammed or rammed, ultimately we are going to end up with a Canadian system or a British system, and he'll be remembered as the man who did it. It's about ideology and politics.
Chicago Tribune called procedure a "legislative trick" and "legislative sleight-of-hand." In an editorial titled, "ZombieCare," the Chicago Tribune wrote that Democrats should not use the "legislative trick called 'reconciliation' " as a "back-door way to shove their much-maligned health care plans through Congress," calling it "a complex, lightly used budget-related gambit" and a "legislative sleight-of-hand."
From the February 19 editorial:
There's one way for Democrats to start restoring trust. They could formally swear off using the legislative trick called "reconciliation." Right now, they're clinging to it as a back-door way to shove their much-maligned health care plans through Congress.
The House and Senate have passed different versions of health care, but they don't much like each other's bills. The public doesn't like either of the bills. While Democratic leaders were haggling over what to do next, the whole effort flatlined when Republican Scott Brown won a special Senate election in Massachusetts.
So their bills are like zombies, floating in the netherworld. Not quite dead, clinging to life only because Democratic leaders keep whispering about this legislative maneuver called reconciliation.
It's a complex, lightly used budget-related gambit that "was never designed for this purpose," says Robert Dove, the Senate's parliamentarian emeritus who helped create the process.
Democrats no longer have 60 votes in the Senate to avoid a Republican filibuster. But reconciliation could allow them to do just that.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been talking up the prospect of using this legislative sleight-of-hand. Pelosi told Roll Call that the Democrats have to convince Americans that there's nothing "extraordinary" about it. "It would be a reflection on us if we could not convince people that this is not an unusual place to go," she said.
WSJ: Reconciliation involves "bypass[ing] the ordinary legislative rules." From a February 13 Wall Street Journal editorial (subscription required):
Those unversed in the arcana of Congressional procedure should familiarize themselves with "reconciliation." It's just another word for nothing left to lose -- that is, it's the tactic Democrats seem increasingly likely to use to bypass the ordinary legislative rules and railroad Obama Care into law with a bare partisan majority of 50 Senators, plus Vice President Joe Biden.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced this week in an interview with Roll Call that Democrats "have set the stage" for reconciliation. "It's up to us to make sure the public knows that this is not extraordinary," she said. "It would be a reflection on us if we could not convince people that this is not an unusual place to go."
Yet the reconciliation gambit really would be unprecedented for social legislation of this cost and scale. And as a matter of procedure, it would also be unusual, to say the least.
But reconciliation is neither "strange," "extraordinary," "arcane," "lightly used," nor "unusual"
Congressional Research Service reported that Congress used reconciliation process to pass 21 bills between 1980 and 2007. An August 10, 2005, Congressional Research Service (CRS) report lists 19 bills Congress passed that were enacted through reconciliation from FY 1981 to FY 2005 -- 16 of which became law and three of which were vetoed by President Clinton. A separate March 2008 CRS report lists an additional three reconciliation bills passed by Congress since 2005.
Congress previously used reconciliation to pass major changes to health care law
Reconciliation has repeatedly been used to reform health care. On February 24, NPR noted that many "major changes to health care laws" passed via reconciliation. Additionally, during a February 24 broadcast of NPR's Morning Edition, correspondent Julie Rovner quoted George Washington University health policy professor Sara Rosenbaum saying: "In fact, the way in which virtually all of health reform, with very, very limited exceptions, has happened over the past 30 years has been the reconciliation process."
Congress used reconciliation to pass Medicare Advantage. As part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, enacted through the reconciliation process, Congress -- which was controlled by the Republicans at the time -- created the "Medicare+Choice Program," currently known as Medicare Advantage or Medicare Part C. The program allows seniors to enroll in HMO-type plans rather than the traditional Medicare fee-for-service plan.
Congress used reconciliation to pass COBRA. As stated on the Department of Labor website, as part of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, Congress gave "workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances."
Congress used reconciliation to pass Patient Self-Determination Act. As part of the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1990, Congress passed the Patient Self-Determination Act, which requires hospitals, nursing homes, HMOs, and other organizations that participate in Medicare or Medicaid to provide information about advance directives and patients' decision-making rights.
Republicans repeatedly attempted to use reconciliation to pass increase in Medicare eligibility age. The version of the Balanced Budget Act of 1995 introduced by then-Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-NM) using the reconciliation procedure contained a section providing for raising the Medicare eligibility age. As the CRS reported, the provision was stricken from the bill during floor consideration on the basis of a point of order that the provision was "extraneous" to matters appropriate to reconciliation.
The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 -- also introduced through the reconciliation procedure -- also included a provision to raise the eligibility age. Fifty Republicans voted in favor of waiving a point of order against the provision that it was extraneous, allowing the provision to remain in the bill. The final version of the bill signed by Clinton did not contain this provision.
GOP used reconciliation to pass Bush tax cuts, welfare reform
GOP used reconciliation to pass Bush's tax cuts. Republicans used the reconciliation process to pass Bush's 2001 tax cut, the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001; Bush's 2003 tax cuts, the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003; and Bush's 2005 tax cuts, the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the 2001 tax cuts would "reduce projected total surpluses by approximately $1.35 trillion over the 2001-2011 period" ; that the 2003 tax cuts would "reduce projected total surpluses by approximately $1.35 trillion over the 2001-2011 period" ; and that the 2005 tax cuts would "reduce federal revenues ... by $69.1 billion over the 2006-2015 period."
Republicans repeatedly voted to use reconciliation to pass components of welfare reform. Congress employed the reconciliation process to pass welfare reform in 1996 as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Senate Republicans previously included welfare reform provisions in the Balanced Budget Act of 1995, which Clinton vetoed. As CRS reports, 46 provisions of the bill were deemed extraneous by the Senate's presiding officer. Fifty-three Republicans voted in favor of a motion to waive the point of order, but the motion -- which requires 60 votes -- failed on a 53-46 vote.
Media have repeatedly allowed GOP senators to attack use of reconciliation
Media have not challenged GOP criticisms of reconciliation process. Media Matters for America has documented a pattern of journalists uncritically quoting Republican senators criticizing the decision to use reconciliation, without noting that those same senators -- including Alexander, McConnell and Sens. Judd Gregg (R-NH), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT) -- voted to allow the use of the budget reconciliation process to pass legislation during the Bush administration, including tax cuts.


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This blog has been created to pen down my thoughts on value-based investment opportunities (or the lack of them) in Indian listed companies. As an enthusiastic reader and life-long student of Behavioural Finance, i also plan to blog on various aspects of investment psychology.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Rights Issues - get it right!
Here is how it works..
One should not deploy money in each and every rights issue which hits the market. Some basic pointers..
1) The company should be a decent company, not going at atrocious valuations. (Although it doesn't matter if its a bit expensive)
2) The rights issue price should be at a decent discount to the current market price. So, a Bajaj Hindustan will not do, but a Neuland Labs will do!
3) If its an unknown company will less institutional holding, it would be great. (I will clarify why it is so in due course.)
Lets say that A Ltd is coming out with a rights issue. The ratio is 1 share for every 2 shares held. The CMP is Rs.50 and rights issue price is Rs.30. Record date is April 19, 2012 (Ex-date will be April 18).
1) Buy 100 shares of A Ltd. close to the ex-date, on lets say April 15th itself at Rs.50. (So that on ex-date, the shares will be there in your demat account.)
2) On ex-date, the stock price should fall in the proportion as well as price of the rights issue. (Although, in the recent case of Neuland Labs, it did not fall at all!) Lets say here, it falls by Rs.8 to Rs.42.
3) Sell your original shares on ex-date. There would be a total loss of Rs.800. However, since you sold on ex-date, you are still eligible to apply for the rights issue.
4) Now, you can participate in the rights issue. On the original 100 shares, you will get 50 shares guaranteed (1 for every 2 held) at Rs.30.
5) However, while applying for the rights issue, you can always apply extra. Here, lets say that you applied for 950 extra shares. Total application would be 50+950=1000 shares at Rs.30 each.
6) Now, if all shareholders apply for the issue, you will not get anything extra. So, you will get only 50 shares at Rs.30. Lets say you are able to sell them at Rs.42. Thats a total profit of Rs.600. So, along with earlier loss of Rs.800, net-net, there is a loss of Rs.200 on the entire transaction. Since original position is small, the amount of loss is not much, in absolute terms/as a % of portfolio
7) However, if its an unknown company etc, where other shareholders did not apply, you can get extra allotment. Lets say, you got all 1000 shares you applied for, at Rs.30. And you managed to sell them at Rs.42. Thats a profit of Rs.12000! Minus original loss of Rs.800, which gives us a net profit of Rs.11200. Not bad. (I am not considering short term cap gain tax etc to just to keep things simple.)
8) The only risk here is in a situation where you got full allotment, and by the time the allotment was done, the stock price just crashed much below the rights issue price..then you are in trouble. That is why I laid down some basic pointers above.
So if you are lucky (yes, total luck, not skill!), you will get extra allotment and earn decent amount. If you are not lucky, the loss will not be very high, since initial position itself was small.
Some rights issues in which I got lucky in the recent past were Camlin Fine (got HUGELY lucky here!), SBBJ, etc. Others, in which I was not so lucky (no extra allotment) were Veljan, Sadbhav Engg (this one was interesting, since there were attached warrants too), etc. However, there was no loss in the same. Lets see what happens in Neuland!
One tukka in rights issues, where you get massive allotment, can give a huge alpha to your portfolio. e.g. in Camlin Fine, market price was Rs.105 (Rs.10 paid up), while the rights issue was at Rs.15.75!!! I applied a lot extra and for some reason, I got full allotment! Great return, without much analysis or trouble to the brain! Super balle balle.
Hope you get the rights right! Till then..
Cheers and happy investing!!
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66 comments:
- Raja said...
Thanks Neeraj,
Great post and some great learning.
I have a query regarding the Ahlcon Parenterals, the open offer is already announced by B Braun to acquire 26% of the shares from public. Pursuant to which B Braun will exercise the option of acquiring the rest from promoters to make it a total of 75%.
As per current shareholding structure 70.95% of the shares are with promoter. So, open offer is for 26% out of 29.25% lying with public.
My question: is the expectation of less than 100% acceptance the only reason, why the share is quoting at 418 and not very close to 460 ?
Or am i missing something ?
Is there a possibility that not all public will offer their shares in the open offer and hence there is a theoretical chance of 100% acceptance and 10% gain ?
Or am i missing something ?
- April 12, 2012 at 7:48 PM
- Abhishek Basumallick said...
Excellent post! Really informative and well written. I have never considered rights issues before, but now surely I will.
- April 12, 2012 at 8:11 PM
- bujjanna said...
Neeraj bhai,
Thanks a lot.You deserve an award for helping penny(retail) investors.
Can you also explain how to apply for rights issue and how log the money is blocked(incase of ipo the money should be held in a/c for some time).
- April 12, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Raja,
I dont think you are missing anything. :)
- April 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Thnx Abhishek,
Ya, it is an interesting way to deploy cash for sure.
- April 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Bujjanna,
Thnx, but this isnt anything special..i am sure lotsa people know about this.
regarding rights issue, you will get the application form for the same by post. You have to fill it up and submit it at the designated bank, along with the cheque. the money will be blocked for 15-20 days..however, now, with ASBA, the money doesnt go out of your account.
- April 12, 2012 at 9:23 PM
Hi Neeraj,
So like in your example if you applied for 1000 shares.. won't others guys also apply for extra shares (even if some 'brain dead investors' don't apply)??
Can't I or some other big guy go out and apply for maybe 1 crs shares?
Just trying to understand the process how it actually works...
- April 13, 2012 at 12:11 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
O yes Anon,
You can absolutely APPLY for 1 cr shares..but u will be 'lucky' to be ALLOTTED the 1 cr shares :)
As far as i know, the unapplied part is distributed pro-rata (in extreme cases, lottery system may also be adopted) to the shareholders who applied extra..if still there is undersubscription, as mentioned in the rights issue document, the promoters subscribe the shortfall.
- April 13, 2012 at 12:16 AM
Hi Neeraj,
Thank for the info.
I cud go thr the FAME Rights issue.
They offered Rights isue at Rs.34/- Premium.
What does it mean?
Does it mean shares would be alloted at Rs.34 or Rs 34 + FV.
Pls help me on this.
Thanks in advance
Karun Sandha
- April 13, 2012 at 1:32 AM
- Raja said...
Hi Neeraj,
Any idea how the NRI investor's can handle the kind paper work involved in such cases ?
- April 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM
- sameer said...
Hi Neeraj,
Thanks for sharing interesting and new way to play in market.
I would definitely like to play it for next right issue.
1)Any intersting right issues coming now?
2)Is all process done online or offline???Do we have to provide money while subscribing for right issue(like IPO)????If yes then it could lock money for some time.
3)If no then do we get letter from them about no of shares allocated and then we have provide cheque to them????
- April 13, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- sameer said...
all power lies in "you can always apply extra" about which many retail investors may not be aware. But this scheme is successful only if few know about it. By providing post u have increased competitors for u :)
- April 13, 2012 at 10:05 AM
- sameer said...
all power lies in "you can always apply extra" about which many retail investors may not be aware. But this scheme is successful only if few know about it. By providing post u have increased competitors for u :)
- April 13, 2012 at 10:05 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Karun,
Fame rights issue is at 44 bucks. (FV 10 plus premium of 34).
- April 13, 2012 at 12:14 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Raja,
Sorry yaar, not much idea about the procedures for NRIs..you can check the rights issue document for the same.
- April 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Sameer,
I dont see any rights issues except Neuland open currently. (Neuland's record date is already over)
And i was waiting for someone to say what you said :) well put! Ya, the entire game is about applying extra and if many people apply, my chances become lower..but, not many people read my blog! and the market is big enuf for everyone..besides, sharing increases friends, not competitors, wont you agree? ;-)
- April 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Sameer,
All the process takes place offline. You get the rights issue form by post..and all the application procedures are just like that of an IPO.
- April 13, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Good One Neeraj :)
One risk could be that share price tanks below the rights price...and so one can be stock with inventory. Any thoughts on this?
Also, how much time does it usually take in rights process.
- April 13, 2012 at 2:08 PM
- Raja said...
Hi Neeraj,
One Doubt.
The share holding of an independent director of a firm should be considered as part of public share holding, right ?
- April 13, 2012 at 2:13 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Saurabh,
I didnt understand the first part of your question..
About the time, it takes 1 month MAX.
- April 13, 2012 at 2:24 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Raja,
O boy, legal question..i am not a legal expert, but as per Clause 49 of the listing agreement, it is expressly stated that directors other than independent directors are considered related parties. So, independent directors' shareholding will form part of the public shareholding in my view. Again, i am not a legal expert..
- April 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM
Sorry lots of typos from my end. What i wanted to ask was this-
Suppose I get large amount of shares at Rs. 30, their is a possibility that when i want to sell these shares the stock price could have fallen below 30. So i do have a chance of losing money. Is my understanding correct?
- April 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
O yes boss, absolutely..thats one risk i had mentioned too..which is why i wrote that the rights should be at a reasonable discount to the market price..
- April 13, 2012 at 4:31 PM
- Dayanand Deshpande said...
Hi Neeraj,
I have been trying this strategy and it worked as well, in many cases..however I lost most of the gains in Muthoot capitals where I oversubscribed and got the full amount.the stock is yet to reach the rights price itself..
So you have to be very careful and cannot be complacent..also, generally when you are holding large amount of cash, the markets are generally at higher levels and the market risk is big...
- April 13, 2012 at 4:33 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello DD,
Yes, absolutely agreed..which is why i am of the opinion that one should apply to every rights issue that hits the mkt..i gave issues such as bajaj hindustan, lgb forge and muthoot too, a pass..what i try to do is form an elementary opinion on the company..without going in huge depth, as i would do in longer term investing situations. if this opinion of mine is not good, i prefer to give the rights issue a pass..did you get into neuland?
- April 13, 2012 at 4:37 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
And i hope u didnt mind me calling u DD..apologies if u did..its kinda shorter to type :D
- April 13, 2012 at 4:38 PM
- Dhwanil said...
Hi Neeraj,
Excellent! I am loving this due to sheer simplicity of the strategy. Low risk high return possibility for sure.
I too had never considered rights issue as important "special situation", but your post gives a new perspective to look at it.
Thanks for sharing.
Best Regards
Dhwanil Desai
- April 13, 2012 at 7:13 PM
hii neeraj ,
just to be clear
can i can just buy 1 share to be eligible for rights issue and then apply for lots more ?
seriously thanks i mean i really did not know abotu the extra wala funda
by the way have you ever been lucky in the karur vysya bank rights issues ?
- April 13, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Dhwanil,
Simpler the better right? :)
i keep on looking for ways like this to deploy cash. It is not foolproof or sure-shot, but definitely something one should look at.
- April 13, 2012 at 8:45 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Anon,
I would suggest that you buy in the proportion of the rights issue. e.g if the issue is for 1 share for every 4 shares held..and you buy just 1 share, you wont be eligible. You need to buy at least 4.
I didnt get into KVB issue. i do not understand banks much.
- April 13, 2012 at 8:46 PM
- Dayanand Deshpande said...
Hi Neeraj,
You forgot the most important word "NOT" in your reply to my post "which is why i am of the opinion that one should apply to every rights issue that hits the mkt.." well, that's a costly (for me) typo :-))
And no I won't mind being called DD. And NO I did not subscribe to Neuland issue.happy hunting for value picks currently..
I used to study SEBI website for upcoming rights issues and used to be ready with the shortlist before the actual issue. The list can help you to prepare in advance.
- April 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
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- April 15, 2012 at 12:42 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
O boy! quite a typo! my apologies sirji.
Ya, i also keep chking SEBI website and exchange announcements for rights issues.
I got into Neuland ONLY for the rights trade..otherwise, zero interest in the company.
- April 15, 2012 at 12:45 PM
Samtex Fashions - Obscure, Ugly but probably one of the cheapest opportunities out there
Samtex Fashions
Consolidated Turnover for TTM is around 750 crores and EBITDA is 54 crores
This company has a Garment Business which is listed and owns 100% of a Rice Company whose name is SSA International
The standalone numbers are ugly but the Consolidated Numbers are Mouth Watering
Almost all the Consolidated Debt is tied to the Paddy Inventory that it holds
Run by decent management which is not very open in communicating with fellow shareholders but is competent and knows what it is doing
Recently took a Convertible Warrant issue at a big premium over the current stock price
The market cap is less than half of the EBITDA
This type of a business usually trades at around 15-20% of sales which makes it a market cap of 110-150 crores, all that is required is patience and loads of it
- April 18, 2012 at 8:07 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Anon,
I have never seen the company, so dont really know..
Since you posted this as a comment to the rights issue post, can i ask you what does rights issue have to do with Samtex?
- April 18, 2012 at 8:32 PM
- Raja said...
Ooops!! I saw the same comment about samtex on another blog too :)
New way of Digital marketing ? ha ha
- April 19, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
haha..o is it Raja? shouldnt he do his marketing in places where lotsa people read? Yaha kya kar raha hai wo? :-D
- April 19, 2012 at 10:03 PM
This was copied from a blog I have
I wish the copy/paste artist talked to me directly about this
I have a vested interest in whatever I write on my blog or elsewhere but never thought somebody would share this interest in a company like this
Cheers !
Value Fiend
- April 19, 2012 at 10:12 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Ooo..ya..plagiarism is everywhr on the net it seems..
- April 19, 2012 at 10:16 PM
Hi Neeraj,
Lets say rights issue is at 1:2.
U buy 2 share & apply for 1000 extra. While i buy 200 shares & also apply for 1000 extra.
Are we considered same for rights issue??
If yes, then you can make a huge money (if lucky) in this just by buying 2 shares. That won't cost too much. Am I missing something??
- April 21, 2012 at 1:15 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Anon,
Plz refer to Pg 93 of the letter of offer of the rights issue.
"the allotment of such additional rights equity shares will be made as far as possible on an equitable basis having due regard to the number of equity shares held by such eligible equity shareholders on the record date..."
So, if i have 100 shares and i apply for 1000..you have 200 shares and you also apply for 1000, you will get more allotment. Buying 2 shares and applying much more may be theoretically correct, but if there are others who have much more shares and have also applied extra, probably, you wont be allotted anything extra.
Hope this helped.
- April 21, 2012 at 3:45 PM
Arihant Superstructures Ltd looks perfect case on your 3 pointer scale...
What say?
- April 21, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Anon,
Quite a questionable company and mgmt..and very questionable stock price movement too! :-)
Worth a punt..at max..total punt..
- April 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
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- April 21, 2012 at 6:49 PM
And EPC Ind??
- April 21, 2012 at 11:23 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Much better management, business and sector. Valuation is a question mark. But strictly as a rights trade, doable, imho.
- April 21, 2012 at 11:56 PM
- Vinay said...
Hello Neeraj,
Started value investing few months back and found in Prof Bakshi and you along with some other value investors great teacher.
I regularly look NSE corporate announcments and SEBI site, but was unable to track EPC and Arihant.
Can you plz suggest where more to look for daily updates, or where am I missing.
- April 22, 2012 at 7:33 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Vinay,
Well, i read all the BSE announcements everyday. Thats how i track most of the special situations.
Sorry, if i wasnt of much help..
- April 22, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Vinay said...
You have already helped me and many others much more than one can expect.
Doing great job!
Hope one day I may be as much helpful to others... Amen!
- April 23, 2012 at 7:48 AM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Amen Vinay!
- April 23, 2012 at 11:20 AM
- Suhail said...
You can follow NSE_Announce twitter feed: https://twitter.com/NSE_Announce
They have all sorts of disclosures, announcements, dividend, mgmt meetings updates, SEBI takeover regulation disclosures etc. However I've noticed one problem with this feed: When a stock is listed both on BSE/NSE, sometimes you would see the announcement only on BSE website, but not on this twitter ID (or maybe it happens very late).
I've not found anything similar for stocks listed only on BSE.
If anybody has better ideas to track BSE announcements similarly, I'd want to know that too.
- April 23, 2012 at 7:13 PM
- Ved said...
EPC irrigation has announced right issues today. what is your take on it
- April 23, 2012 at 7:15 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hello Ved,
i have already written bout it in the comments above. Plz do see the same..
- April 23, 2012 at 7:20 PM
- Vinay said...
Thanks Neeraj and Suhail
- April 24, 2012 at 8:07 AM
Thanks Neeraj, love your articles.
Do keep us posted on your next pick i.e the Rights issue. We will get more educated on such ideas.
- April 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Sure Vikas, most welcome.
- April 29, 2012 at 11:28 PM
Hi Neeraj
Fantastic post, I had never thought that rights issues could be so rewarding.
And now I am looking for the next rights issue to take part in :)
A query I had on the step 3 in the process, why do I have to sell my shares on ex-date?
The share price might go up after that? Or is it your general experience that stock keeps declining after ex-date?
- May 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Well Sirji,
if you are comfy holding on to the company, by all means, one should hold on..No compulsion to sell..i was talking about it only from a rights TRADE perspective..not from a fundamental long term holding perspective. if one has that perspective, no question of selling.
- May 3, 2012 at 12:24 PM
Neeraj ji,
Can you please elaborate on how to apply for right using ASBA?
I have my demat account with ICICIdirect in Hyderabad. Can I apply online or do I need to submit the forms to ICICI, Mumbai or ICICI,Hyderabad ?
- May 4, 2012 at 8:54 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Hi Anon,
The details of application using ASBA will be given in the form, which you have to fill.
You have to submit the application with the designated bank, as given in the form, irrespective of whatever your own bank might be. I do not think there is a provision for online application. At least i have never done it..
- May 5, 2012 at 11:17 AM
- pratik said...
Suditi industries is coming up with a right issues....
it meets all your criteria...
- July 17, 2012 at 5:29 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
Umm, well, it doesnt meet all criteria Pratik..
- July 17, 2012 at 5:33 PM
- pratik said...
Suditi Industries is coming up with an rights isuue...
It meets all the criteria.
whats your take on this
- July 17, 2012 at 5:34 PM
- Neeraj Marathe said...
The rights issue is not at a significant discount to the mkt price..how does it meet all the criteria???
- July 17, 2012 at 5:35 PM
- pratik said...
Yes Sir i just posted the comment in a hurry... the issue price is Rs. 10 very close to the cmp...
- July 17, 2012 at 5:52 PM
- pratik said...
Yes sir i posted the mail in ahurry... The issue being Rs. 10 is very close to the CMP...
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Currently, we do not provide that option. We might adding up that feature in the future.
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Blackboard is a Web-based course-management system designed to allow students and faculty to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with course materials, discussion boards, online quizzes, and more. The degree to which Blackboard is used in a course varies. For example, instructors may supplement an on-campus class by putting their syllabus and handouts on their course sites. In contrast, other courses may be conducted entirely through Blackboard, without any on-campus sessions. If you are enrolled in a course that uses Blackboard, your user name and password is the same as you AUM email account.
For faculty and students, Blackboard provides:
- Course calendar and announcements
- Asynchronous communication
- Synchronous communication
- Content creation and distribution
- Time release of content
- Course navigation panel
To access Blackboard, please click on the following link.
To login to Blackboard without going through the AUM web site, go to: http://bb9.aum.edu.
If you have questions about Blackboard, please contact the ITS Help Desk at 334-244-3500.


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Cheaper often isn't the same as better government.
Few people consider Walmart a paragon of public virtue. But no one would deny that Walmart is the avatar of low costs.
That's what makes a recent piece on Walmart's employee health-care plan so interesting. The company long resisted providing benefits to employees at all. But then it discovered that health care actually wasn't that expensive for most workers -- big costs were really driven by a small number with high-cost conditions. Then it realized that it could drive down those high costs through a simple expedient: providing even better care. All of a sudden, workers with serious health challenges were getting all-expenses-paid trips to the Mayo Clinic.
"We come at it from the perspective of how can we improve quality," a senior vice president told National Journal. "When we improve quality, often there will be a reduction in waste or unintended or unnecessary cost." (This echoes similar findings about Mayo's approach generally.)
Aside from what this says about health care, there is a lesson here about government.
Read the full story at TheAtlantic.com.


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OIT working to address e-mail outage, Feb. 6
Feb. 6, 2009 11:57 a.m.
The Office of Information Technology is working to correct an outage that is affecting e-mail delivery and other computer services for campus users. The outage began Friday, Feb. 6.
E-mail has been restored to a majority of users, though e-mail services may still not be available for some campus users.
A power outage that affected parts of campus early Friday morning is the cause of the e-mail outage. Power was restored to campus buildings around 5 a.m. Friday.
OIT is working to correct the e-mail problem and updates are available on the OIT Help Desk website.


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Venture Bros. creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer screen an early premiere of The Venture Bros. Special — From the Ladle to the Grave: The Story of Shallow Gravy — a 15-minute documentary-style animated special (premiering August 28 on Adult Swim), discuss their original series, and answer questions. The panel also features James Urbaniak (Dr. Venture).
» Friday 11:45-12:30 at Indigo Ballroom, Hilton San Diego Bayfront
Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer appear at the Bif Bang Pow! and Entertainment Earth booth #2343 from 3:30-4:30 on Friday to sign Venture Bros. action figures and convention exclusives. The toy company company is set to release Venture Brothers Series 4 and 5 and a Rusty Venture Action Figure Set as a convention exclusive. You can Pre-order ALL of these action figures today, or stop by the Entertainment Earth booth #2343 at the convention.
» Friday 2:30-4:30 Entertainment Earth Booth #2343
The Venture Bros. Blog will be hosting its second annual Venture Tweet Up at SDCC 2011. The Tweet Up will be held at the San Diego Marriott Marquis bar and lounge on Saturday, July 23rd at 6pm. The Marriott Marquis is next door from the convention center and has a wide selection of draft beers and drink specials. Join us for costumes, cocktails and booby traps! Hope to see you all there!
» Saturday 6:00-9:00 at Mariott Marquis Bar & Lounge
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Bake the Book: Desserts for Every Season
Seasons have a way of sneaking up on you. But just as the leaves inevitably change, so do our palates. Some of us wait all year for that first slice of pumpkin pie, while others cross their fingers, hoping for watermelon to finally ripen. Chef Jenny McCoy makes room for every sweet craving in her first book, Desserts for Every Season.
To say the book is gorgeous is an understatement. But beauty is nothing without brains, and this book packs serious smarts. The seasonal, fruit-forward focus and elegant photography are reminiscent of Nigel Slater's "Ripe", but the authoritative, yet encouraging tone is all her own. The educative nature of the text is no accident: Chef McCoy is a pastry arts instructor at the New York Institute of Culinary Education. Previously, she ran the pastry kitchens at top restaurants in Chicago and New York. She explains the why and how behind the rules of baking, making the laws of pastry understandable, manipulatable things, rather than feared canon. Her confidence is inspiring, and her trust in the home baker is as motivating as it is rare.
That confidence, combined with her varied experience, make for some solid recipes. They may be adorned with girly curlicues and illustrated cross-sections of fruit, but Desserts for Every Season is a heavyweight. Consider yourself lucky the book is divided into seasons, otherwise you'd be spoilt for choice. There are ice pops, roulades, pies, cakes, and breads, all delivered in a way that embolden the home cook.
As autumn is upon us, we are heralding the change of seasons and honoring Desserts For Every Season with four fall recipes. The first is a Pear-Cranberry Strudel, inspired by a trip to Vienna. Next, Buckwheat Honey Ice Cream, which contains the chill of winter and the molasses-like bite of buckwheat honey. There's Concord Grape and Rosemary Foccacia, that bakes the sweet fruit into toothsome bread dough. And lastly, Pumpkin-Milk Chocolate Pie with a Gingersnap Crust, a combination of flavor both logical and divine.
Win A Copy!
Thanks to the generous folks over at Rizzoli Books, we are giving away five (5) copies of Desserts for Every Season to give away this week. All you have to do is tell us your favorite season and its best dessert in the comments below.
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