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Why Is There So Much Lazy, Self-Indulgent, Pompous Drivel In Food Writing?
I was having a chat with a friend the other day about why there's so much tedious drivel in food writing these days. Apart from wine columns, I can't think of any other form of scribbling that is so self-indulgent, pompous, flowery, and lacking in thought and originality.
You only have to look at some of the chest-puffing scribes in the better known newspapers to see what I'm talking about. But it's the cooks turned food writers like lovable, rosy-cheeked Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who really take the biscuit. I liked his first couple of TV programmes and accompanying books, but for the past few years it's just regurgitated, cynical, unsustainable codswallop most of it. He clearly ran out of ideas back in 1998.
A look at his latest column in The Guardian seems to suggest he's just paid to write lists of adjectives and state the bleeding obvious these days. A few months ago, I gave up reading articles penned by celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay, or their long-suffering, down-trodden representatives, because even the thought of wading through the first few hundred words before they got to whatever they'd been commissioned to write about made me want to stab myself in the eye with a blunt pencil.
But HFW's column caught my (pencil-free) eye because it was about a subject I'd half-written a blog on: cabbage - or cauliflower without a college education, as someone once put it. I re-read my unfinished post based on a staff meal of fried cabbage I'd had while cooking at a friend's restaurant in Cambodia, and sat down to read Hugh's insightful piece that no doubt would be about the loveliness of brassicas, and the stirring Britishness of a young, firm quill of cavolo nero, or black kale outside of overcooked food articles.
No doubt he'd mention childhood memories of boiled cabbage stinking of sulphur in school banqueting halls, when dinner ladies would force open boarders' mouths as if they were chubby foie gras geese, and shovel repulsive greens smelling of grannies' farts down their throats.
I was right. It was in the first line, and again a few paragraphs later. Not about the dinner ladies, but about how he hadn't always enjoyed cabbage and how it had been a while since he needed any "encouragement or threat" to eat his greens. He didn't go into it any further for legal reasons I imagine. Those dark incidents at Eton were obviously still too fresh. But it gave him a handy hook to tell us that had all now changed and he adores cabbage, kale and leafy brassicas more than life itself.
He talked about "crisp, intricately-wrinkled" savoy cabbages and how the last of the Brussels sprouts were still offering up their "extraordinarily delicious" leaves. I know a few people who love Brussels sprouts, but even they'd be pushed to describe them as extraordinarily delicious.
What follows is then 450 words of hyperbole, waffle, hammered-in adjectives, and downright drivel. There's the "deep, wine-coloured, curly frizz" of 'Red Bor' kale, and the "elegant, deep-green, upstanding quills of tender, gentle" cavolo nero - a vegetable apparently "bursting with character".
I've grown a lot of kale in my time, and I've prepped more boxes of the stuff than I care to remember, but I can't say I've ever really noticed it bursting with character. Or having any character at all for that matter. In fact, I don't think I've ever come across a vegetable with any character. One or two ducks, yes, and one particularly eccentric sheep that was addicted to Trebor mints, but vegetables no - which presumably is why it's used to describe someone in an unresponsive state.
He then talks about how he likes to cook kale in chicken broth "in the aftermath of a spring roast chicken" - which is about one of the most unfortunate, pretentious phrases I've come across for a long time. Then he's on about "cabbagey characters" again and how he likes to keep his greens simple - by removing the tough ribs of the brassicas and shredding them cross-wise into strips "no more than 5cm thick and as fine as 4-5mm".
It leaves me with the image of armies of River Cottage lovers standing at the chopping board, ruler in hand, keeping it simple. Then we're back to warnings about how overcooking produces that "sulphurous, school-dinner pong that gives cabbage a bad name".
Eventually, he gets to three recipes for dealing with these cabbagey characters. None of which actually make the vegetables a centrepiece themselves, but just to seem to have them thrown in as an afterthought.
The first is a Chinese-style dish of beef with cashew nuts, with a bit of kale tossed in. The next is a salad of puy lentils, avocadoes, bacon, oh, and savoy cabbage. And lastly there's a panade of onion, cabbage, and "robust" stale bread. Any stale bread is pretty robust, but Hugh helpfully points out that stale sourdough works well just in case you haven't got any robust stuff lying around.
He says it was "inspired" by a recipe from San Francisco's Zuni Cafe, which is a phrase used by food writers when they actually mean stolen. As in: "Antony Worrall Thompson was inspired by a bag of reduced cheese and coleslaw at Tesco."
The panade uses "very humble" ingredients, says Hugh cheerfully, checking the word count for the third time. Very humble ingredients like half a bottle of olive oil and a block of expensive gruyere cheese.
Extremely humble to huggable Hugh with his book deals, TV shows, newspaper columns, River Cottage merchandising hubs, and celebrity-endorsed badger-gassing video game. But not so humble to the families now living off hand-outs at the dozens of food banks fast springing up across recession-hit Britain.
And that's what apparently passes for stellar food writing these days. And I don't know any other form of paid scribbling where you'd be able to get away with that amount of horseshit without having your head impaled on a sub's spike.
The recipe is clear enough - take half a pound of nonsense, sprinkle liberally with unnecessary adjectives, cover with piping hot clichés, and bake until golden brown and bubbling. Then bring to the newspaper and serve. Even the subs clearly lost the will to live, calling it "Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall's Cabbage And Kale Recipes" - which as headlines go is about as characterful as, err, cabbage.
So here goes...If you are eating from food banks, and gruyere cheese, olive oil, and River Cottage organic elderberry snifters aren't on your shopping list this week, then you might like this wonderfully unctuous dish I had the other day when I was working at a friend's restaurant.
The brilliantly hard-working and ever-smiling Khmer cooks and waitresses took it in turns to make staff supper and set themselves a budget of just 2,000 riel (30p) a day to feed four or five people, depending on how many were off sick that day. They made full use of whatever was going off in the larder, of course, but it was extraordinarily impressive what they could do with a few lightly-fried vegetables, fluffy rice, and the odd packet of free-range noodles. The permutations and heady aromas were endless.
But the most delicious meal of the lot was a splendid feast of stir-fried cabbage with a devilishly-fiery, incendiary even, chilli dipping sauce, helped down with the ever present bowl of fluffy, oh shit I've used that one, steamed rice. They'd spoon over tiny amounts of the delectable sauce, and then sup the air furiously at the chilli burn.
With the sour fish sauce and sweet sugar, it had tangs of the spicy, pickled cabbage dishes they serve as bar food in the many fantastic Khmer beer gardens out here, where they are ferried from table to table with bowls of sugared and salted freshly-fried peanuts, ice buckets, and jugs of foaming beer.
They'd chop up one of Cambodia's excellent, crunchy, and slightly peppery white cabbages, core and all, into chunks of between 8mm and 4cm, and then boil it in a saucepan of lightly-salted, briny water for a couple of minutes, and then drain it - knowing full well how overcooking cabbage into a soggy slop would remind them of the school dinners none of them had ever received.
Meanwhile, they'd fry a little vegetable oil in a pan and throw in some very finely chopped garlic and a tiny spoonful of kroeung spice paste, made from pounding gingery galangal, citrusy lemon grass stalks, golden yellow turmeric, and leathery kaffir lime leaves.
Once the garlic had browned slightly and taken on a splendid, caramelised, nutty taste, they added the drained cabbage and stir-fried it for another minute or so, until it was flecked with the lovely, warm, amber-coloured curry paste. Then they'd make the chilli dipping sauce by pouring fermented fish sauce and sloshing in an equal splash of fresh tap water in a bowl, stirring in some sugar, and adding three or four roughly chopped fiery little chillies.
They served the stir-fried cabbage in a communal bowl and then dug in with chop sticks. It was simple but delicious, and made a small bit of an incredibly crisp, ivory-white, and tremendously robust vegetable go a long way. There was something homely and good, very humble even, about making something out of nothing - a sort of epitome to thrift in these belt-tightening times etc etc.
Oh well. At least I tried Goddamn it. Goodbye.
MORE: What's next for Gordon Ramsay? Monkey Tennis?
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5 comments:
- Andrew said...
Cambodia and middle class England - not really an apt contrast however well meaning your prose. By the way have you ever written or tried to write anything about wine?
- 22 April 2012 at 21:37
- Mr London Street said...
Loved this. Restaurant blogs have an even more woeful turn of phrase but they seem to be prone to an overdose of adverbs - one pisspoor example peppers his reviews with "frankly" (which makes him really sound like a shoots-from-the-hip kind of guy, doesn't it?) and once used the word "face-meltingly" when referring to spicy food. Oh dear.
- 23 April 2012 at 08:39
- Douglas said...
Interesting question, Andrew.
- 23 April 2012 at 11:25
- tori said...
Great piece. Nb, read your book over Easter - cracking stuff. Congratulations.
- 23 April 2012 at 17:30
- Fish Restaurant said...
If most people wrote about this subject with the eloquence that you just did, I'm sure people would do much more than just read, they act. Great stuff here. Please keep it up.
Fish Restaurant
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina Senate gave preliminary approval Tuesday to legislation ordering Duke Energy to close all of its coal ash dumps in the state by 2029.
The unanimous vote came about four months after a massive spill from a Duke plant in Eden coated 70 miles of the Dan River in toxic gray sludge. The measure backed by Senate Leader Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, and Senate Rules Chairman Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, requires Duke to place ash from dumps at four of its plants into lined landfills or sell it for reuse by the construction industry within five years.
A new coal ash commission and state environmental regulators would decide whether the millions of tons of ash at 10 remaining plants would also be removed or whether it could be capped and left in place. The bill also requires Duke to monitor groundwater around the landfills for 30 years.
"I think it is a change that is going to have North Carolina leading the country ... when it comes to getting rid of coal ash," said Apodaca, whose home district near Asheville contains Duke dumps state regulators say are contaminating groundwater.
Senate Democrats voted for the Republican-backed bill, even though they criticized it as being too weak. Apodaca blocked a vote on a Democratic amendment that would have barred Duke from seeking an increase in electricity rates to pay for the cleanup.
"This is not a perfect bill," said Sen. Mike Woodard, D-Durham, as he asked his colleagues to vote in favor. "I'm not going to let the perfect stand in the way of the good."
The bill faces another Senate vote Wednesday before heading to the state House. If approved there, it will go to the desk of Gov. Pat McCrory, a Republican who retired after working at Duke Energy for 29 years.
McCrory backed an earlier version of the bill that would have given more discretion to his administration's environmental agency to determine how Duke would be required to clean up its coal ash dumps and how quickly. Last week, a lobbyist for Duke told lawmakers the company is opposed to the firm timelines included in the current legislation.
In an interview Monday, McCrory also expressed concerns about the Senate's plan to create a new commission to oversee the process, with legislative leaders appointing the majority of the board's nine members.
"I think coal ash is going in the right direction, except we do have some issues regarding the makeup of the commission because of separation of powers issues ... regarding how the commission is appointed and what the responsibilities of the commission are," McCrory said.
McCrory did not say whether he would sign the bill in its current form. He could also veto the legislation, or allow it to become law without his signature.
During debate Tuesday, Democrats questioned why the bill only explicitly requires the removal of ash from four Duke plants — Dan River, Asheville, Sutton and Riverbend. Republicans voted down amendments that would have added some of Duke's other 10 plants to the priority list, including Buck Steam Station in Salisbury.
The Associated Press reported last week that tests from Duke's own monitoring wells at the Buck plant repeatedly showed readings for levels of potentially harmful chemicals exceeding state groundwater standards. Some of those same chemicals have shown up in tests of well water from nearby homes. Duke says the underground contamination could be naturally occurring and that residents near its plant are in no danger.
Environmental groups on Tuesday criticized provisions in the Senate bill that could potentially allow Duke to leave the majority of its ash in the company's unlined pits, as long as they are drained and caped with giant plastic tarps and a layer of soil. The groups also pointed to a provision that after the expiration of a one-year moratorium would allow Duke to dispose of up to 100,000 cubic yards of toxic ash — enough to fill more than 50 Olympic-sized pools — into unlined structural fill projects such as those used to level land for new highways.
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OTTAWA - The federal government has confirmed that the fastest-growing sector of the oil sands won't come under federal environmental assessment, one day after acknowledging it won't come close to meeting greenhouse gas reduction targets.
A final list of the types of projects that will require a federal environmental assessment was released Friday. The list contains no mention of in-situ oilsands mines, which are expected to be the industry's most common type of development in the future.
"This is the largest single source of (greenhouse gas) growth in the country and yet the federal government is not going to be playing a role there," said Keith Stewart of Greenpeace.
On Thursday, Environment Canada released a report concluding that Canada is on pace to get halfway to its 2020 emissions target under the Copenhagen accord.
In-situ mines involve heating underground bitumen deposits enough to soften them so they can be pumped up.
In some ways, they are considered more environmentally friendly. They require no vast open pits or lake-sized tailings ponds of toxic water.
Environmentalists have pointed out they still result in habitat fragmentation on the surface through seismic lines and roads to wellheads. But their most significant impact results from heating the bitumen, usually through steam. Generating that steam burns a lot of natural gas, increasing the carbon intensity of the resulting barrel of oil.
The industry's gradual shift toward in-situ production is generally blamed for a recent rise in the average amount of carbon dioxide released per barrel of oilsands crude. About 80 per cent of the resource can only be recovered using in-situ methods.
Alberta government figures say in-situ production creates anywhere from one to 10 more kilograms of CO2 per barrel than open-pit mining.
Stewart said there are also unanswered questions about some in-situ techniques. He points to a Canadian Natural Resources project that has been leaking bitumen for months near Cold Lake, Alta., despite the company's attempts to stop it.
Large expansions to existing open-pit mines will still be reviewed. As well, the federal environment minister has discretion to call a review into any project if the minister feels it is warranted. And all new oilsands projects will still be reviewed by Alberta.
Environmental lawyer Melissa Gorrie said the province seems to be tightening its idea of what needs to be reviewed. She said a recent decision means two in-situ projects won't have any public review at all after the province ruled local aboriginal groups weren't directly affected by them.
"There's been a lot of problems even getting hearings triggered for in-situ projects in the province."
A spokeswoman with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers said industry welcomes the finalized list.
"The provincial government will still be doing a review and assessment and it's equally stringent," said Geraldine Anderson. "It's basically a reduction in duplication."
In background documents, Ottawa says the goal of the changes is to "achieve more predictable and timely project reviews, reduce duplication, strengthen environmental protection and enhance consultation with aboriginal groups.
"The amendments to the regulations ensure federal environmental assessment requirements are focused on those major projects that have the greatest potential for significant adverse environmental effects in areas of federal jurisdiction."
Gorrie said it's a mistake to think in-situ facilities don't have significant impacts.
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Petter Reinholdtsen reports on how large organizations can save thousands of dollars in toner costs by changing from Arial to Century Gothic for their typeface in printed documents.
Century Gothic is a "thinner" typeface and hence uses less toner. That's where the savings comes in.
But Century Gothic is wider than Arial and for that reason probably uses more paper.
You win a little, lose a little, I guess.
In my case, it's the first time I've even thought about how one typeface uses less or more toner than another.
If you're like me, you probably print a whole lot less than you used to, and you're saving a whole lot on toner and paper. Printing isn't going away, but it's certainly happening less than it once did.


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This bedroom, designed by Kelley Proxmire, was in the Spring 2007 Washington Design Center showhouse. I remember it well - it was simply stunning!
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The following images are from the Blakes Hotel in London, interior design by Anouska Hempel. We stayed there in July 2005. Interestingly enough, both rooms we stayed in at the hotel featured black walls.
We stayed in this room the last night. You couldn't help but feel a bit regal in it.
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"Cornerstones" were articles that appeared in the Sunday edition of the Calgary Herald between 1997 and 2000. The following article appeared August 3, 1997.
Memorial Park Library
• 1221-2nd Street S.W.
• Built: 1910-1912
• Architect: McLean and Wright of Boston, Massachusetts
• Contractor: Richard A. Brocklebank (multi-term Calgary alderman)
• Craftsmen: George Christie (head stonemason) and locally hired Scottish stonecutters
• Original cost: $100,000 ($80,000 grant from American industrialist Andrew Carnegie and $20,000 from the City of Calgary)
• Construction materials: yellow Paskapoo sandstone quarried at Calgary's Oliver Quarry. Load bearing sandstone walls (smoothly finished) backed with brick. Copper roof. Douglas fir floors, mahogany and birch trim.
• Architectural style: Classical with strong influence of Beaux-Arts tradition. Decorative shell motive on roof originally carved in sandstone. Classically inspired portico. Front entrance flanked by Ionic columns and topped by an elaborately carved pediment. Balconies with iron railings off the largest first storey windows. Latticing in the smaller second storey windows.
• Original interior details: On both sides of the foyer marble staircases led to the second floor. Two main floor fireplaces trimmed with mahogany. Moulded plaster columns and ceilings. Exterior entrance - granite steps and mahogany doors. Back walls gracefully curved with an expanse of windows which allowed a view of the park. Basement; walk-in vault, newspaper room. Main floor; reading room, children's room, reference room, stacks and cataloguing room. Second floor; lecture hall with stage, technical reading room and women's reading room.
Historical highlights:
• built on 4.78 acres owned by the city since 1889. The library site was chosen by plebiscite on August 12, 1908.
• Chief Librarian, Alexander Calhoun described the park as " an unsightly wilderness of sand and scrub." Still to be landscaped when the library opened in 1912, it was gradually transformed by city Parks Superintendents, particularly William Reader, into a beautiful formal park in the late Victorian tradition. Park became a civic showcase and a botanical experiment.
• by October 1908 site excavation was done and construction work began
• February 1910 contractor Brocklebank and architects McLean and Wright visited Attleboro, Massachusetts Public Library which they had also designed. The architectural plans for Attleboro and Calgary were almost identical.
• Calgary was Alberta's first public library and the first library structure in the province financed by wealthy American steel industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie.
• During a 33 year period Carnegie financed 2,811 libraries world-wide.
• construction completed in 1911, library officially opened January 2, 1912.
• during the first three months, five thousand Calgarians (city's population was 40,000) became library members.
• Central Park Library became the cultural centre of the city. Meeting place for educational and arts groups; Calgary Women's Literary Club, Historical Society of Calgary, Calgary Natural History Society, Calgary Arts Association.
• home to Calgary College 1911-1915 (first attempt at establishing a University of Calgary)
• in 1928 the park was re-named Memorial Park when Cenotaph was unveiled on Remembrance Day to commemorate the name change and those who died during the war.
• building was Calgary's main library until 1963 when the six - storey W.R.Castell Library opened on Macleod Trail.
• Memorial Park Branch library maintained in basement 1963-1967
• 1964-1973 building leased to Glenbow Foundation as an archives and research centre
• declared a Provincial History Resource in 1976
• 1977 - $1.1 million interior/exterior rehabilitation project funded by municipal and provincial grants and private donations.
• re-opened October 16, 1977 as Memorial Park Branch Library. Second floor space rented to Muttart Art Gallery.
• in 2002 celebrating 90 years of library service to Calgarians, Memorial Park is one of 17 branch libraries in the Calgary Public Library system.
"Then & Now" columns appeared weekly in the Calgary Herald between 2002 and 2005. The following article appeared June 4, 2002.
Central/Memorial Park Library
1221 2nd St. S.W., 1912
• Central Park Library opened in January 1912 as Alberta's first purpose-built public library. American steel industrialist Andrew Carnegie paid 80 per cent of the $100,000 cost, while the city kicked in 20 per cent. It became the Memorial Park Library following the 1928 dedication of the war memorial at the park's west end, near 4th Street S.W.
• The library building, designed by Boston architects and built of locally quarried sandstone, was designated a provincial historic resource in 1976. Today the Calgary Public Library has 16 branches, including Memorial Park, and is the second-largest public library system in Canada.
"Cornerstones" were articles that appeared in the Sunday edition of the Calgary Herald between 1997 and 2000. The following article appeared June 20, 1999.
Central (Memorial) Park
• 4th Street and 13 th Avenue S.W.
• Date developed: 1908 -- 1912
• Designers: H.G.Burrows, William Reader
• Original owners: City of Calgary
Historical highlights:
• In the 1880s, the 4.78- acre block of land that ultimately became Central Park was reserved as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway's survey of the Calgary townsite, through the authority of William Pearce, an administrator of federal lands for the Department of the Interior.
• In 1894, the city plowed the "barren scrub land" of Central Park for use as a nursery and distribution centre for the city's tree planting programs. As part of the "beautification" program, ratepayers were advised that spruce trees could be purchased for five cents each.
• In 1900, the city hired a man, at $1.75 per day, to water city- owned trees in the district and maintain the park's newly-erected windmill.
• G.J. Thorpe constructed a small bandstand (at the centre of the park) in 1904 at a cost of $310.
• Although Central Park grounds were originally laid out in 1908 by British immigrant horticulturist H.G. Burrows, site development continued for several years as time and money allowed. From 1913 to 1942, the park flourished under the supervision of parks superintendent William Reader, former head gardener for Patrick Burns. The park design was a symmetrical pattern of lawns, beds and gravel paths.
• In a 1993 article, City Heritage Planner Rob Graham described the park. "It is typical of civic parks and squares of the period in Britain and Canada and featured elaborate embroidery borders, edging and raised medallion carpets. (Reader) kept complete records of plant species which show that up to 20,000 annuals, colour-keyed for brilliancy, were planted yearly to satisfy what he considered the requirements of popular taste." Graham also explained that Reader's topiary treatment of the spruce (which is still maintained) is rare in Alberta. In fact, no other examples from the Edwardian era are known to exist in the province.
• Construction of the Carnegie library at the park's east end began in 1909 and was completed by December 1911.
• During the summer of 1909, the Scottish Pipers Band performed at Central Park.
• In 1912, the small bandstand was torn down. A large pavilion, similar to the one in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park, was constructed at the park's west end. During that summer, an underground sprinkler system was installed, a pergola which was divided into a series of vine-covered lattice work summer houses was constructed along the park's southern boundary and 1,400 trees and shrubs were planted.
• n 1913 the area in front of the bandshell was cleared and covered with rolled cinders. A drinking fountain was installed. Newly-appointed Parks Superintendent William Reader installed two large Egyptian style urns, planted with palms, at the park's east end.
• The South African War Memorial called "the Horseman of the Plains" located at the park's centre, was designed by noted French Canadian sculptor Louis Phillippe Hebert. At the time of its unveiling in June 1914, it was considered "one of the four finest equestrian statues in the world."
• June 23, 1924, the First World War Memorial -- a bronze statue of an infantryman, designed by Montreal sculptor Coeur-de-lion MacCarthy --was unveiled at the park's east end.
• The west end bandshell was demolished in 1928 for the construction of a cenotaph commemorating Calgary's war veterans. When the cenotaph was dedicated on November 11, 1928, the old Central Park was renamed Memorial.
• In 1928, the Federal Geodetic Survey chose Memorial Park as the location for the city's benchmark elevation point. A seven-foot concrete column was sunk into the ground as "a reference point for all precise levelling benchmarks in Calgary and vicinity." The benchmark is 3,439.66 feet above sea level.
• In 1939, a spectacular rose garden was developed for the royal visit of Their Majesties, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.
• On August 17, 1953 the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada unveiled a monument to R.B. Bennett, Conservative prime minister of Canada 1930-1935, Calgary lawyer and member of Parliament. The pyramid-shaped monument at the park's southeast side was dedicated by Eric L. Harvie Esq. Q., Honorary Colonel of the Calgary Highlanders.
• The cenotaph was refurbished in preparation for the Royal Canadian Legion's Dominion Convention, held in Calgary in 1994.
• Central (Memorial ) Park is Calgary's oldest surviving park and one of the last remaining formal Edwardian parks in Western Canada.
"Then & Now" columns appeared weekly in the Calgary Herald between 2002 and 2005. The following article appeared November 5, 2002.
THEN: Central Park
• The 1.91 hectares that was developed into Central Park beginning around 1908 quickly became a community focal point. In 1912, construction of Central Library was completed at the park's east end and a shell-shaped band pavilion at the west. Over the years, the park became home to memorials honouring soldiers of the Boer War (1899-1902), the First World War (1914-18) and the Second World War (1939-45). The Boer War statue "the Horseman on the Plains" was unveiled at the park's centre on June 24, 1914, only six weeks before the First World War was declared.
NOW: Memorial Park
• The park's east-end bandshell was demolished to accommodate construction of the cenotaph unveiled by Alberta's Lt.-Gov. William Egbert on Nov. 11, 1928. Inscribed "They shall not die while memory fulfils its task of gratitude" the simple white and gray shaft of marble and stone was originally erected in memory of fallen First World War soldiers. In later years, the monument was rededicated to include the Second World War and the Korean conflict. Annual Remembrance Day services were reintroduced in 1994 following the revitalization of the cenotaph and surrounding area.
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UNC physicians receive grant to train specialists in geriatric care
This grant will expand geriatrics training to five medical specialties and subspecialties training faculty, residents and fellows through the Alliance for Geriatric Education in Specialties (AGES).
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - The UNC Center for Aging and Health/Division of Geriatric Medicine has received a second four-year $1.5 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to develop a program entitled "Next Steps in Physicians' Training in Geriatrics." This grant will expand geriatrics training to five medical specialties and subspecialties training faculty, residents and fellows through the Alliance for Geriatric Education in Specialties (AGES).
The UNC Center received its first Reynolds grant in 2003 to train students, residents, and community physicians in geriatric care.
"As our population ages, 40-50 percent of specialists' patients will be older," explains Jan Busby-Whitehead, MD, professor of medicine, director of the UNC Center for Aging and Health and principal investigator. "These patients have complex needs due to the number of chronic conditions they have and the number of medicines they take.
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Co-principal investigators are Ellen Roberts, PhD, MPH, associate professor of medicine, Center for Aging and Health; Hyman Muss, MD, professor of medicine and director, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center geriatric oncology program; and Phillip Boysen, MD, UNC School of Medicine executive associate dean of graduate medical education and professor of anesthesiology.
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Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Aussie Christmas Quilt...
I was thinking of the bright colours we see at Christmas time here in Australia, the clear blue skies, green sparkling waters of the ocean, orange and pinks of the sunsets, yellows of the sandy beaches.
For the design I kept it simple, circles to represent the decorations on the Christmas tree...
The circle around that to represent the lovely Christmas wreaths often seen hanging in doorways to welcome friends and family.
The border fabric is from Amy Butlers Love range called Bliss Bouquet. The colours in this fabric are amazing and go very well with the white background with red writing (from Annie's Farm Stand Seed Catalog range, almost impossible to find now).
I kept the colours going on the back, I love this paint splodge fabric!
You can easily see the raw edge, freemotion quilting on the back too.
Brandon Mably's tents fabric makes wonderful binding.
This little quilt now lives in the Netherlands.
57 comments:
- Quiltjane said...
That is just beautiful. I love every aspect of that quilt from fabric to quilting.
- January 3, 2012 at 9:09 AM
- Aylin said...
Again, this is soooooo beautiful. And I love the way you used the red text fabric!!!
- January 3, 2012 at 9:52 AM
- Jan Maree said...
Love love love it! bet the recipient does too!!!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:11 AM
- Unknown said...
That is a gorgeous quilt. Well done!!!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- Red Pepper Quilts - Rita Hodge said...
Beautiful and a clever interpretation. Love the use of the background fabric.
Happy New Year!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:19 AM
- Anorina @SameliasMum said...
Soooo beautiful. Those colours are spectacular. Love, love, love!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:21 AM
- Maria Harrits said...
Oh, that's nice!!!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:42 AM
- Unknown said...
gorgeous Cathy!!!! I've just quilted a quilt in free motion spirals also.
- January 3, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- Beatriz said...
I love the colour combination, the pattern and the ability you display. I truly love the aussie quilts. It seems to me they show a certain fresh look, in common with our Brazilian concept of colour and design.
- January 3, 2012 at 11:21 AM
- the running chicken quilting said...
Beautiful quilt and wonderful colours! I wish we could see these colours over here at this time of year! Karen UK
- January 3, 2012 at 11:43 AM
- Oops-Lah said...
What a happy quilt; it really captures the essence of Christmas in Australia! I'm sure the recipient was very happy to get such a wonderful gift!
- January 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM
Oooh just gorgeous!!!
- January 3, 2012 at 12:43 PM
- Carla said...
Another winner, Cathy! What a beautiful way to start posting in 2012.....you always inspire!! I especially love your idea of the red/white text fabric as the background. Thanks for your explanation as well.
- January 3, 2012 at 1:17 PM
- Lurline said...
There must be one veeery happy girl in the Netherlands - fabulous Cathy.
Hugs - Lurline♥
- January 3, 2012 at 1:31 PM
- beth said...
Lovely quilt! That backing is striking. Wondering where it came from???
- January 3, 2012 at 1:45 PM
- Janet said...
What a terrific quilt and so clever in it's representation. Someone must be over the moon to get such a fabulous gift. Love that background, I'm hoarding some of it and the quilting looks spot on.
- January 3, 2012 at 2:09 PM
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- January 3, 2012 at 2:12 PM
- chefpa said...
That is one beautiful quilt. I really like the binding. How wide do you make your bindings? It looks wider than the standard 2.25 or 2.5 inch binding, which really shows off the print.
- January 3, 2012 at 3:25 PM
- seabreezequilts said...
Fantastic, great use of colour as usual from you. I am sure the recipient is thrilled.
- January 3, 2012 at 4:12 PM
- wishes, true and kind said...
Oh, it's just gorgeous! Great fabric choices. I especially love the red print background fabric and the Amy Butler border fabric. I used it to back a pillow once and liked it better than the front :D
- January 3, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- Nifty Quilts said...
Beautiful! As is all of your work. You really are good at quilting circles. I've never tried, but they look difficult.
- January 3, 2012 at 4:41 PM
- Marg said...
It's beautiful. Love the circles, the border the quilting and the binding. A wonderful quilt to celebrate an Aussie Christmas.
- January 3, 2012 at 8:01 PM
- Quiltycat said...
I love all of this quilt... circles,background,quilting...all!
- January 3, 2012 at 8:08 PM
- dutchcomfort said...
You partner must have been thrilled to receive this quilt! It's the most beautiful and gorgeous SSCS gift I have ever seen!
- January 3, 2012 at 8:43 PM
- Adele said...
FABULOUS! enough said.
- January 3, 2012 at 10:10 PM
I love this quilt. So summery yet festive!
Cath :)
- January 3, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Unknown said...
I just love the design and the colors! If I designed one that represented our Christmases here, it would be full of a lot of gray, whites, and browns. Not as happy as yours. Love it!
- January 3, 2012 at 10:59 PM
- Lucy | Charm About You said...
That is such a fun quilt! I love the bright wreaths - that was what jumped into my head when I saw it :)
- January 3, 2012 at 11:34 PM
- Miriam said...
Beautiful Cathy! I love all the Christmas references. Very clever! The border fabric is gorgeous and I love the backing fabric too.
Lucky recipient in the Netherlands!!
- January 3, 2012 at 11:47 PM
- Ann Champion said...
What a beautiful and cheerful quilt! I'm sure it was well recieved by your swap partner.
You have such a talent for putting fabrics together. : )
- January 4, 2012 at 1:41 AM
- Amy Gibson said...
Lovely quilt!!! I especially love your choices of the red words fabric for your background, and the straight echo quilting along the border. So bright and happy!
- January 4, 2012 at 2:35 AM
- Nedra said...
Lucky recipient! You have such an eye for color.
- January 4, 2012 at 2:47 AM
- Anna said...
I love Aussie christmas!!! You are so brave when it comes to color!
- January 4, 2012 at 6:10 AM
- Teje Karjalainen said...
Hi Cathy! Your quilt is fantastic! So beautiful - I love your design and of course all those lovely colourful fabrics!
I hope you had a wonderful Chrismas and I wish you Happy New Year! x Teje
- January 4, 2012 at 6:31 AM
- Viviana Franco said...
This is beautiful quilt! I loved the colors and how you mix them. Kiss
- January 4, 2012 at 6:55 AM
- Peg - Happy In Quilting said...
Cathy this is stunning, a very gorgeous generous gift...
- January 4, 2012 at 8:26 AM
- Pinkadot Quilts said...
Those are so my colors! Love the simplicity of it, hooray.
- January 4, 2012 at 9:00 AM
- Peggy said...
I love it, I want one!!! What size is it?
- January 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM
- Michelle @ the quilted tortoise said...
How FABULOUS Cathy!!! You would be the best swap partner ever!!
Hope you are enjoying the cooler weather today too!
- January 4, 2012 at 1:03 PM
- Letterpress said...
Just read MO's blog and now yours--I'm hooked on your Aussie quilts and colors, esp. now, when we're in the post-Christmas blahs (yes, even in Southern California) where we are all recoveing from the holiday excesses. This quilt is a tonic for what ails us.
Thank you!
Elizabeth E.
- January 4, 2012 at 2:50 PM
- Cardygirl said...
Just perfect Cathy!
- January 4, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- meli B said...
Loved it when I had a sneak preview and even better now that is finished. It really has the feel of an Aussie summer.
- January 6, 2012 at 1:37 PM
- One Flew Over said...
As always, stunning work Cathy.
Happy New Year!
- January 7, 2012 at 8:15 PM
- mieke said...
Oh Cathy, I symply adore your "Aussie Christmas Quilt"!!! I can tell you love circles just as much as I do! Thank you for the inspiration! x
- January 7, 2012 at 9:32 PM
- MJinMichigan said...
I LOVE that quilt, especially the combination of the border print and the seed catalogue background. I knew I had both those prints as soon as I saw your quilt so I pulled them out. Unfortunately I only have a half yard of the background and all attempts to locate more have failed. I never would have thought to use the two together if I hadnt seen your quilt.
- January 8, 2012 at 3:26 PM
I just love your interpretation of Aussie Christmas - the quilt is perfect! That background fabric comes up so well.
- January 8, 2012 at 4:52 PM
- Stephanie Hughes said...
Kathy, I love it! It is amazing. Great job. Steph
- January 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- RG said...
Cathy I love this and your thought process in the designing...it's a real work of art xx
- January 10, 2012 at 4:31 PM
- Julia said...
Just gorgeous Cathy...lucky girl, who receives this beauty..
- January 13, 2012 at 6:40 PM
- Marisa said...
It's awesome! A finished quilt is the best.
- January 15, 2012 at 5:30 PM
- Stina Blomgren said...
CAthy ... I love it.. so clever use of the fabrics.. great job!! :O)
Happy 2012 to you!!
- January 18, 2012 at 6:45 AM
- Ruth said...
I love the circular quilting in this! And the colours are amazing - very inspiring!
- January 18, 2012 at 8:22 PM
- Chookyblue...... said...
beautiful quilt Cathy..........
- January 30, 2012 at 9:06 PM
- Hi! My name is erica. Would you be my friend? said...
I LOVE this! The text fabric is awesome...
- January 31, 2012 at 1:53 PM
- Nanette Merrill said...
Circle quilts are so fun. I love the motion of the machine quilting too.
- February 1, 2012 at 5:31 AM
- Anna said...
A fantastic work. Congratulations.
- February 24, 2012 at 12:39 AM
- Evelief said...
Oooohh!! I live in the Netherlands, pity it doesn't lay on my sofa! Fabulous!!! Love the Fabric, love everything.
- March 2, 2012 at 6:10 PM


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Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
I struggled a bit with the title for this post. I wanted to title it "Amazing Banana Cake…" or "Delicious Banana Cake…" or "Amazingly Delicious.." In the end, I left the title simple and to the point, but let me add here… this banana cake is amazing, it's delicious, and it's quite easy to make! Go now and put your bananas in a paper bag- so they'll ripen faster, and then you can make this cake!
I experimented with several recipes before settling on the ingredients and proportions listed below. I was so happy when I tasted the first slice of this cake! Then I "sampled" a couple more slices, just to make sure they were equally good! This cake is sweet, fluffy, moist and flavorful.
To answer the question… "what's the difference between banana cake and banana bread?", this cake is similar in flavor to a wonderful banana bread, but lighter and fluffier. And certainly, the addition of delicious cream cheese frosting makes this recipe sweeter, and more decadent than banana bread.
Banana Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Yield: 9 moderate sized slices
This cake is easy to prepare and is a delicious way to use over ripe bananas.
Banana Cake
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup sour cream
2 eggs
3 tablespoons melted Challenge butter
2 mashed (over ripe) bananas (about 3/4 cup)
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extact
1 1/2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
Cream Cheese Frosting
1/2 block (4 oz.) cream cheese
2 tablespoons butter, softened
2 cups powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 teaspoons milk or cream, if needed to thin frosting for easy spreading.
1/4 cup chopped, toasted walnuts (optional)
Preheat oven to 375*F.
Grease an 8"x8" pan (with butter or non-stick cooking spray).
Prepare cake-
In a large bowl, whisk together sugar, sour cream, eggs, melted butter, mashed banana and vanilla. Whisk (can be done by hand, or with electic mixer) until fully combined.
Add flour, cinnamon, salt, baking soda and baking powder, and stir with whisk or spoon until fully combined and smooth.
Pour batter into prepared pan, and bake at 375*F for about 30 mintues (check after 25 minutes). Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no wet batter.
Cool (in pan) on wire rack.
Make the frosting-
In the bowl of an electic mixer, or with an electic hand mixer, beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Slowly add powdered sugar, then add vanilla. Add milk or cream, if needed to thin frosting for easy spreading.
Spread frosting onto cooled cake (make sure the cake is cool, or the frosting will melt).
Top cake with chopped, toasted nuts, if desired.
This recipe as is makes an 8"x8" cake. I'm sure you could use a 9"x9" pan if desired, but you will likely need to reduce the baking time a bit. If you'd like to make an 9"x13" cake, I'd recommend increasing the recipe by 1.5 or doubling the recipe. You will have to adjust the baking time accordingly. The cake is done when a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, or with a few moist crumbs, but no wet batter.
Recipes Source- Glorious Treats
This cake comes together quite easily, and would be perfect to prepare and pop in the oven right before dinner, then it can bake and cool during dinner, and be frosted and enjoyed for dessert. If you're lucky, there may be a piece or two left over to enjoy in the morning!
Happy baking!


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On the technical side, Amazon's EBS service may look like just another great new feature of the Elastic Compute Cloud, but on the business side it enables a whole slew of new customers. I won't pretend that I understand all the new uses, but I can talk about those we see and are supporting.
First a couple of words about what EBS is. In short, it's a SAN (storage area network) in the cloud. You can allocate a disk volume of 1GB to 1TB in size from what is now an endless SAN in the cloud and attach it to an instance of yours running in EC2. The volume is stored on redundant disks (with some form of RAID) and has a lifetime separate from any instance on which it is mounted, so you can unmount it and later remount it on another instance. You can also perform a snapshot backup of a volume to S3, where it is stored with the redundancy and durability of all objects on S3. Moreover, successive snapshots are incremental, providing a powerful and efficient incremental backup capability for volumes.
All this and much more is explained in detail in another post, and there's yet more detailed EBS information on our support site. The official EBS announcement is on the EC2 detail page, Werner Vogels provides some background, and Jeff Barr's blog entry has links to many other related announcements.
The RightScale dashboard supports all the features of EBS and offers a number of additional goodies, such as configuring volumes to automatically be attached to servers when these launch and keeping track of the ancestry of a volume or snapshot.
What does EBS enable? In short, traditional processing on large datasets and reliable storage for many servers. Let's look at these areas one by one.
Large Datasets
Amazon Web Services are designed for scale. EC2, S3, SQS, and SDB are ideally suited for building large systems that process huge data volumes. The catch has been that they are geared toward modern service-oriented systems that can use storage accessed via HTTP PUTs and GETs (Amazon S3), can work using a non-relational database like Amazon SDB, and thrive on large numbers of simple servers (EC2). Users that have more traditional applications, such as relational databases, that require large datasets stored in a filesystem with a POSIX interface have had difficulties in meeting all their requirements for operating in AWS. While an EC2 X-large instance comes with about 1.4TB of local disk, it is rather difficult to actually use this disk space in a production system. Populating the disk with data at boot time can take hours, and backups, replication, and restoring the data in case of an instance failure are all sore points. For up to 100GB the timescales are all workable, but beyond that it gets difficult.
With EBS, the processing of large datasets contained within a filesystem becomes easily accessible. Volumes can be up to 1TB in size; beyond that it is possible to mount multiple volumes on the same instance such that filesystems of 10TB are practical. The volumes can further be backed up to S3 using snapshots, and they can be replicated by creating new volumes from the snapshots. What is particularly nice is that a volume can be created in any availability zone (think data center) of a region from a snapshot, so copying a large volume across data centers can be offloaded to EBS efficiently.
Many Virtual Appliance Servers
EBS also enables SaaS vendors that use a single-tenant "virtual appliance" model. Many software vendors have approached us with use cases where they would like to run individual servers on behalf of their customers. Often these servers are co-managed between customer and software vendor or have other properties that make the service inappropriate for multitenant SaaS implementation. In these use cases the end customer is storing important data on these servers and requires a robust data safeguarding architecture, in particular for database storage. While we today have a very effective MySQL replication and backup solution, it is really geared at multiserver setups and doesn't fit the price and complexity budget of cookie-cutter single-server virtual appliances. For those use cases, EBS brings the desired performance and reliability and drops the complexity and price.
With EBS the canonical reliable single-server virtual appliance can be implemented with the following architecture: an EC2 instance whose type is chosen for the CPU and memory required, an EBS volume sized appropriately for the data set, a revolving set of frequent snapshots providing disaster recovery backups, and periodic application-level export of backups to S3 for archiving and off-cloud backups. In case of a total failure of the EC2 instance and the EBS volume (as might happen with, for example, a data center fire) a new instance and volume can be allocated in another availability zone from the last revolving snapshot.
When it's time to upgrade the virtual appliance to a new software version it becomes relatively easy for the software vendor to spin up a second instance and volume with the upgraded software for important customers so they can test-drive the new version on their data and train their internal users before committing to the upgrade.
Try It Out for Yourself!
We've been busy integrating support for this new storage system for months so that you can start using it immediately. Our RightScale Dashboard support for EBS is available as part of our free Developer Edition. To learn more about EBS and RightScale's support for it, check out my detailed technical review, read our EBS tutorials at wiki.rightscale.com, register for our upcoming RightScale EBS Webinar, or just drop us a line at email@example.com.


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Don't procrastinate or you will be homeless.
By Aaron Marshall, The Plain Dealer June 01, 2010, 5:35AM Cleveland.com
- Associated Press Foreclosure legislation has stalled until the end of summer.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Foreclosure legislation is headed back into the freezer until fall.
Senate Republicans had considered moving legislation designed to increase protections for renters and require registration for loan servicers as a watered-down substitute for a stronger foreclosure moratorium bill passed more than a year ago by House Democrats.
But Senate Finance Chairman John Carey, a southern Ohio Republican, said this week that the plug has been pulled on any foreclosure legislation because he didn't get much support for his Plan B.
The GOP inaction on the issue has angered housing advocates and the House bill's sponsor.
"I'm entirely frustrated. This has been a year these bills have been sitting over there, and now we are going to have to wait six more months," said Bill Faith, executive director of the Coalition on Homelessness and Housing in Ohio. "I don't understand how you can see record levels of foreclosures month after month after month, year after year after year, and do nothing."
The most recent statistics from the Ohio Supreme Court show that the first quarter of 2010 had 24,711 foreclosure filings, 9 percent above last year's record-setting first-quarter figure. In Cuyahoga County, 3,722 foreclosures were filed, far above the 2,974 foreclosure actions filed in the first quarter of 2009.
Rep. Mike Foley, a Cleveland Democrat who sponsored the House bill, which included a six-month moratorium on home foreclosures, said he was "disgusted" by the plan to break for summer with no action by Republicans.
"They are ideologically in line with the big banks. They have a bunch of people who couldn't care less. They are impractical. Take your pick," said Foley. "I'm really angry. We had been sending messages that we wanted to sit down and talk, and they never even bothered to call."
Maggie Ostrowski, spokeswoman for the Senate Republican caucus, led by Senate President Bill Harris, said that many in the GOP just don't believe in government fixes to the problem.
"Fundamentally, Senate President Harris and other members of the caucus don't believe that the government is going to solve the foreclosure crisis," she said. "They believe a good economy and good-paying jobs is where we need to put our focus." DinSFLA: YOU CAN'T EVEN SOLVE THE JOBLESS CRISIS…THERE GOES OUR ECONOMY! If you can't do the job find a replacement! WE NEED COMPETENT LEADERS…NOT AMATEURS!
While the moratorium idea never had any legs among Senate Republicans, Carey said a House provision that would give notification to renters that an owner has filed for foreclosure has support among his caucus.
"They have not exactly bought into that language, but they have bought into the concept of notification of renters," Carey said.
The substitute bill that Senate Republicans had considered gave renters the right to be notified only if landlords provided a list to the court of their tenants.
"It seemed unworkable — why would a landlord provide a list?" said Faith.
Carey said his caucus is also interested in some sort of registry for loan servicers, although probably not close to what House Democrats wanted, which raised fees on servicers to pay for increased regulation. He also said a Senate Republican bill that would steer foreclosure actions into court-ordered mediation is still a possibility for this fall.
"We haven't closed the door on that," he said.
Meanwhile, Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O'Connor urged state lawmakers to study the foreclosure problem in urban neighborhoods with high rates of absentee landlords in an opinion released this week in a Cleveland court case.


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hi i'm new to java programming and i have a problem with using the scanner, here is an extract of the code , i need help with storing a value into a, it is initialized with null first but when i enter a string from the terminal and print out the output it is still null. what is wrong with the code? as you can see from the code i have not used the scanner but i have modified the code to 'a=Input.next();' but still no luck
public String processInput(String theInput) { String theOutput = null; String a=null; Scanner Input = new Scanner(System.in); if (state == WAIT) { theOutput="type enter" if (theInput.equalsIgnoreCase("enter")) { theOutput =question1[Question]; theInput=a; theOutput = "" a ""; } else { theOutput = "Wrong password " ; } }


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We usually cringe when we see a lovely piece of hardware that's been cannibalised for the sake of another device. But that's not the case with Classified Moto's lovely lamps which are only made from spare motorcycle parts.
In other words, no motorcycles died in the making of these lamps.
Using parts specifically from Japanese motorcycles from the '70s and '80s like shocks, transmission gears, and brake rotors, the lamps manage to look classy enough for even a living room setting instead of being relegated to only the garage or workshop. And they're available in a handful of different designs from table lamps, to floor lamps, to wall mounts, ranging in price from £125 to £300. They're the perfect home accent piece for the wanderlust-plagued motorcyclist who's had to leave their days on the open road behind.
[Classified Moto via Inhabitat]


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Happy Easter! It is still the Easter season in the Catholic church, so technically I'm not late with my greetings even if Target has moved on and is selling 4th of July decorations already. We were on vacation for Easter and the week following and it was wonderful! We went on our annual beach trip and it was cold but tons of fun! Before leaving for our trip, we went on an Easter egg hunt.
Yes, the egg hunt was inside our local grocery store! It is fun for the children and perfect for our weather conditions. My children LOVE it and for weeks afterward hope they will find a stray egg leftover from the hunt. (It has never happened, but they still hope!)
Next we set out on our long drive to our vacation destination. Once we arrived, we went for a quick (chilly!) walk and then started getting ready for Easter as it was already Saturday afternoon. First we planted these magic seeds that I came across. (Idea found via Meet the Dubiens) The magic seeds enthralled my children as they had never seen seeds this big!
They planted their seeds in little pots and Easter grass (multi-colored crinkled paper) and put them in front of the "lovely" faux fireplace in the vacation condo. I told them I was pretty sure it would take all night for anything magic to happen, but they still kept checking.
Sure enough, by morning, two bunny lollipops had sprouted out of those pots! So cute! The children were thrilled and hope we come across some magic seeds to plant again next year!
We had a little egg hunt in the condo living area and the children were happy with their baskets. We've used the same baskets since my daughter's first Easter. I bought four identical wicker baskets her first Easter in the hope that I would one day have four children. I have been blessed with two children (and love them dearly, so I don't want to say "only" two children) so it looks like the other two baskets are for Mama and Dada.
These glasses make me smile! I think the Easter Bunny knew that Mama likes to take goofy pictures of her babies and this will make a perfect calendar picture!
Our Easter Sunday Mass was spent at a quaint little ocean front Catholic church. In this picture my children are standing in the church parking lot directly in front of our car. Look at that view! Breathtaking! The church was tiny but so sweet and the priest's message was wonderful. We really enjoyed the service.
One of our family traditions on Easter Sunday is to go for a drive after church and then get ice cream. Well, if you know the area, you can look at this family picture and guess where our vacation drive took us. We had a nice tour of this place and then enjoyed some fresh ice cream. Yum!
And, of course, no Easter is complete in our family without Bunny Cake! This one is rather messy and covered in crumbs and little fingerprints because I had lots of "help", but we had fun working on it together. I baked it home and we decorated it on Easter Sunday.
It was a busy day but so fun and so full of family time. Really a perfect Easter for our family.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Easter Vacation
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- Debbie said...
Happy Easter! What wonderful traditions. Looks like fun was had by all.
- May 9, 2011 at 8:19 AM
- Erin said...
Oh how fun! I thought the coast looked familiar and then saw your picture at the Cheese Factory! We love that place!!!
You did an Easter egg hunt INSIDE the grocery store? How much fun would that be?!?!
- May 9, 2011 at 10:34 AM
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Industry groups say suspension of all BP business units sets a dangerous precedent.
Business and oil-industry groups are urging a federal court to overturn BP's suspension from receiving new government contracts, calling it a "disturbing" overreach that threatens other companies doing business with federal agencies.
The American Petroleum Institute, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and other groups filed a court brief on BP's behalf in the oil giant's case against the Environmental Protection Agency, which imposed the freeze in late 2012 following the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
EPA suspended BP, a major fuel supplier to the military, shortly after the company reached a $4 billion criminal plea deal over the spill, which was caused by a blowout of a BP well being drilled a mile beneath the ocean surface.
The business groups that filed a brief on BP's behalf Monday say EPA's suspension of all BP business units—regardless of whether they were connected to the accident—from new contracts with any federal agency sets a dangerous precedent.
"These expansive assertions of authority, and EPA's actions pursuant to that authority, pose a grave threat to federal contractors and private industries with business touching on federal programs or federal lands," states the brief that's also supported by the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Ocean Industries Association, the Organization for International Investment, and the technology industry trade group TechAmerica.
They allege that EPA's "unprecedented assertion of suspension power over affiliates" is illegal.
They want the court to overturn EPA's designation of BP's corporate headquarters as a "violating facility" and the suspension of the company's affiliates lifted, noting it was BP Exploration and Production specifically that pleaded guilty to charges of felony manslaughter, environmental crimes, and obstruction of Congress.
Their brief was filed with the U.S. District Court in Texas where BP filed suit in August challenging the federal suspension. It argues that the implications of EPA's approach, if BP loses the case, are "disturbing" and that enabling this "guilt by association" would have major consequences.
"If an entire corporate family is suspended or disqualified from federal programs, a cascade of impacts will follow," the brief states, citing layoffs and harm to the broader economy.
The trade groups also warn of a ripple effect if federal contractors must "struggle with uncertainties" created by the threat of suspension of an entire corporation based on the improper conduct of a few employees of a single affiliate.