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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
A Healthy Appetite
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
"Uh, really? Well, in that case, let 'er rip!"
Jody celebrated his "biethday" in Turkey, which explains the adorable inscription. As for the rest - I have no idea. Maybe the locals were trying to make a point about American eating habits? Is this the Turkish equivalent of those V8 commercials? Or - OR - is it possible there's some sugary Turkish treat that looks exactly like carrot sticks? (I'm holding out hope for that one.)
Ok, Patreesha, your mission is to eat some carrots with chocolate icing and tell us what it tastes like. Quicky, now! The rest of us NEED this information.
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- April Feagley said...
I hope those are actually orange icing squiggles. Carrots as cake sprinkles - hmmmm, I think I prefer my icing non-crunchy.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:30 AM
- Suzy said...
- February 10, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- Katie said...
Maybe she had confessed her love for carrot cake...and this is how it turned out. Pretty unfortunate though.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:35 AM
perhaps the "carrot cake" recipe was lost in translation.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM
Are we sure those orange sticks aren't icing? Eeep.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:38 AM
so THIS is chocolate carrot cake!!!
What's with the medical instruments on the table???
WV: cusnalep
Happy Birtday Cusnalep from Ant Joe - February 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM
- Unknown said...
After yesterday's wreck, I wasn't sure I was going to be able to "stomach" any more wrecks for a while. *GAG*
- February 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Jody clearly likes carrot cakes. Delicious ;)
- February 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM
If this was from a bakery from an English-speaking country, it might be funnier. I don't really think expecting foreign cake wreckers to spell in their non-native tongue is that fair. But it is a VERY ugly cake.
Also, my family is Turkish, and so far, I haven't encountered any Turkish desserts look quite like this. - February 10, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- Carrie and Michael Brown said...
Now that looks appetizing!
- February 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM
It's a pizza! Er, isn't it?
Angie (from over at www.HalfAssedKitchen.com) - February 10, 2009 at 9:43 AM
- Colleen said...
Ug, cultural differences aside that cake looks terrible! No way I would eat that.
~Colleen (cyberrblue.wordpress.com) - February 10, 2009 at 9:44 AM
In Turkey (and most of the Middle East) carrots in rose water are a very common treat.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- feywriter said...
Are those really carrots??? And those leaves are looking quite shiny and plastic...
Love this blog! I have an Award for you! - February 10, 2009 at 9:49 AM
It appears like orange-tinted white chocolate shavings. (Or at least I hope it is.) And are those lime wedges? Will probably come in handy after you take that tequila shot to help this cake go down smoothly.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- whit said...
It's funny, because I have had some of the best desserts of my life in Turkey... apparently the Turks just aren't good at cake?
- February 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM
- Doublebanker said...
Probably the only way that I'll eat carrots is with chocolate icing!
More bad driver gifs - February 10, 2009 at 9:52 AM
I believe I can answer your question re: carrots & chocolate. When I was about 8, my dad got remarried. There was chocolate fondue with fruit and cake at the reception. Well, I'm a BIG chocolate fan, so I quickly decimated the dippers. But there was still a lot of fondue left. Oh, what to do, what to do? Then I spotted...the crudite tray. Carrots and chocolate aren't bad when you are 8. Not sure how I would feel about them now...
- February 10, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- pitchersbakery said...
NASTYYYYYYY Thats so wrong in so many ways....i just cant say nasty enough... breakfast, uhhh no thanks...just one question, whats the red things around the edges? weird...
- February 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- Mrs. Flax said...
Is it wrong that I don't think carrots dipped in chocolate frosting sounds that bad?
- February 10, 2009 at 9:54 AM
What's with the yellow rose!?!
- February 10, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- rissykay99 said...
Yikes, on first glance I thought that was a meat loaf cake: http://www.meatloafcake.com/
But looking at it again, it's scaring me even more to realize it's a traditional cake with extremely disgusting frosting. - February 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- SpiderBrigade said...
No, see, obviously what happened is they asked him what kind of cake he liked and he said "Carrot cake"
I'm imagining them scratching their heads thinking "Uhh...carrots on a cake? That sounds really disgusting...but maybe that's what they like in America? We wouldnt want to disappoint him..."
Hilarious cultural misunderstanding! - February 10, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- Baking and Mistaking said...
Mmmm carrots and chocolate icing.
Oh wait, that sounds disgusting. - February 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- Kara said...
maybe they heard about the popularity of carrot cake in the U.S. and came up with this? if only the carrot-riding babies could have made an appearance!
www.cookeatreadsleep.blogspot.com - February 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- Christy Dawn Yoga said...
Yummy, carrot & pepper cake! I usually put raisins in my carrot cake, but to each their own I guess LOL
- February 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- HorribleLicensePlates said...
I think just about anything with chocolate icing would be good.
Wait a second... I take that back... - February 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM
What's that green stuff along the border? Is that pickle relish?
--Blue Jean - February 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- rosie said...
that cake makes me think of pimento loaf-which then makes me think of gagging!
- February 10, 2009 at 10:13 AM
Is that a pearl onion by the 2nd 'p' in "Happy"?
- February 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM
- Sharon said...
Mmmm...charcoal slurry icing. Omg..that looks horrible. That's even uglier than yesterday's Dr. Pachman cake with the black edges and yellow-green airbrushing. Those really do appear to be raw carrots, unevenly sliced raw carrots, not icing. And I see seeds on it, too.. yellow-green seeds in the edging around the black, like the ones I find sometimes in trail mix, hulled pumpkin seeds.
- February 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM
perhaps the bottle of beer (im assuming) next to the cake could add a little bit of explanation to the mishap
- February 10, 2009 at 10:45 AM
Well... Maybe it's a cake made of meat?
- February 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
For some reason this cake reminds me of a raccoon - like it has a bandit mask across its face. Weird.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:03 AM
- Kristin @ Going Country said...
Okay, this is my first time on your site, and I have to say it is pretty damn funny. However, the REASON I am here is that one of my commenters suggested that a King Cake I decorated (none too professionally, I will admit) and posted about on my site today should be submitted here. Now, 1) I can't submit it because I didn't pay anyone for it, and 2) How should I feel that someone thinks my cake is that much of a wreck? I mean, it kind of is, but still.
Whatever, it still tastes good. And that's what really matters in a cake, right? - February 10, 2009 at 11:05 AM
Ewwww, I thought it was a "biethday" pizza. Weird!!!!!
- February 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM
That looks a lot more like ground pistachio than ground pepper.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:13 AM
This cake is not my cup of tea, but after yesterday's footnote to cakery almost anything is an improvement, even carrots and chocolate. (Hmmm, hadn't thought of that combination. Well, maybe not this morning.)
- February 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM
oh dear!
- February 10, 2009 at 11:21 AM
this is the first time I have ever wanted to vomit after seeing a cake. Even the feet cakes didn't phase me; although I probably could never bring myself to nibble on a toe.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM
- gryphondear said...
Aside from the spelling/syntax problem, I was sort of leaning toward the pizza explanation, too--like those fruit pizzas that were popular about 15 years ago. The cake looks like a cookie anyhow, so maybe the orange things are supposed to be simulated cheese, but then there's that chocolate swatch with the flowers. Just not quite... .
:^) Jan the Gryphon
http://gryph-wotd.blogspot.com/ - February 10, 2009 at 11:29 AM
- the ginabean said...
I have nothing clever to say, but that doesn't mean I don't think this cake is fugly.
I'm also curious about the carrots on the cake. But not curious enough to try it. Obviously. - February 10, 2009 at 11:30 AM
I know all the cakes on this site are professionally made, but I'm beginning to wonder if the definition of "professional" might be a little loose...like, for example, "this cake was made by a professional wrestler, in his spare time." It blows my mind that people actually earn a paycheck making some of these things! The misspelling is the least of this cake's problems.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM
I don't know about carrots and chocolate icing, but my dad seems to enjoy eating carrots and toblerone.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM
People already asked if those are lime wedges accompanying the carrot sticks and butter (buttercream if we're lucky) rose...but what about the maraschino cherries and pistachio (?) garnishes? This is becoming a Mediterranean trail mix cake!
- February 10, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- Marie Cloutier said...
my birthday is tomorrow and i would cry if that was my cake!
- February 10, 2009 at 11:47 AM
- Chris the Yardsale Queen said...
I like the way they stuck the candle in dead center of the cake - since it tells me that they are perfectionists.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:51 AM
I lived in Turkey for about 15 months while my husband was stationed there at Incirlik Air Base. I don't recall ever seeing any Turkish desserts looking like that. As a matter of fact, we would go eat at the local Hilton at their brunch buffet sometimes, and their desserts were absolutely beautiful! I wish I had a picture of some of them. And it was all Turkish locals that ran the hotel, not Americans.
- February 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM
OMG...just gross! Is it me, or are those green pepper "leaves" that accompany the yellow frosting flower? I'm gonna gag...hope it went down ok...
- February 10, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Unknown said...
Literally, a carrot cake, perhaps? Bierthday Happy. Cake not happy.
~Amy - February 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- alexlady said...
That yellow rosette really classes up the joint.
- February 10, 2009 at 12:01 PM
- Wendy said...
"In Turkey (and most of the Middle East) carrots in rose water are a very common treat."
I'll have to try this! Carrots ARE very sweet. I use them in smoothies all the time instead of sugar.
The "cake" is a little sad looking, though. - February 10, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Denise said...
Aren't cakes universal? Delicious in any language.
That cake is wrecktastic here, there and frankly everywhere. - February 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM
What might the little red things be that are placed around the border? Grape tomatoes?
And the gritty-looking stuff sprinkled over the wording? Pepper? - February 10, 2009 at 12:17 PM
I'm with Mrs. Flax. Carrots are sweet enough that carrots with chocolate could work. Can't say I've tried it though.
- February 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Sarah K said...
wait...do they not have birthday cake in Turkey?? that's it! i refuse to go there during my birthday! ridiculous!
- February 10, 2009 at 12:24 PM
Okay, having looked very carefully at the close-up, I am convinced that the "carrots" are something akin to chocolate shavings, the red things and the rose leaves are made of candy, and the greenish-tan stuff above and below the text field is, not mold, but a sprinkling of seeds-- not my first choice in cake topping, but possibly quite delicious.
The "pepper," on the other hand ...
wv: toyallit. "I had a bite of the pepper cake and ran for the toyallit." - February 10, 2009 at 12:42 PM
- Suzanne Dargie said...
Well, in the close-up I can see what appear to be pistachios, which is usually included in Baklava, and the black pepper may be some sort of ground spice.....but black pepper IS an ingredient in Masala Tea...which most people call "Chai Tea" and it's sweet. Hmmmm. I've had pickled carrots at Indian restaurants, and grated carrots with raisins do form the base of a sweet, cole-slaw type salad. Maybe the cake IS just what it appears to be. I wish we could see a photo of the inside...that might help shed some light on how it would taste.
.............maybe. - February 10, 2009 at 12:43 PM
did you mean to say "quicky, now" there at the end? are you encouraging Patreesha to try carrots with chocolate icing while that is going on? i thought the post before this was the one about freaky fetishes...
- February 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Unknown said...
I ate carrots with chocolate frosting about a month ago and it was delicious. I like crunchy and chocolate together and there was nothing else to put the frosting on. Yum.
That said, the "pepper" on this cake doesn't look too appetizing. - February 10, 2009 at 1:10 PM
- Ana said...
Looks like curls made with orange-colored white chocolate, doesn't it?
I would not say that was carrots... - February 10, 2009 at 1:11 PM
Euww, yuck. I love carrot cake, but that's too much! Lol
Anna Marie - February 10, 2009 at 1:20 PM
I lived in Turkey for 3 years, and I don't think I have *ever* seen anything like that.
- February 10, 2009 at 1:33 PM
While this cake does look very unappetizing, I actually do have a recipe for chocolate carrot cake that is AMAZING!!!!
- February 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Aaron F Stanton said...
It's not even "Happy Biethday" - it's "Biethday Happy"!
- February 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM
Sorry to burst the bubble of fun, but if you look closely at the picture you'll notice a bottle of beer in the left hand corner and the "medical instruments" are what we use here in Turkey for cookouts. I suspect it was a drunken joke. That said though, there are plenty of "wrecks" here particularly for New Years (which of course is when Santa comes and puts gifts under the tree).
- February 10, 2009 at 2:00 PM
I've lived in Turkey. With no disrespect meant for such a wonderful people and culture, this would not surprise me at all. I've got many stories that in which the results were "lost in translation!"
- February 10, 2009 at 2:08 PM
- cgreyd said...
Maybe they requested "Carrot cake?"
- February 10, 2009 at 2:10 PM
OK, so I actually lived in Turkey for many years, and I must say I'm surprised! I have seen some of the loveliest (not to mention tastiest) cakes over there.
Still, this one *is* exceptionally ugly. I never saw carrots on a cake over there, though. - February 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM
On further thought, I think it might be a burfi/halva-inspired cake. Burfi and halva are dessert bars that are popular in India, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Carrot and pistachio are both common ingredients. I've seen them in indian sweet stores in chicago.
- February 10, 2009 at 2:32 PM
- Anne said...
Biethday Happy??? Geez Louise!
- February 10, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Oh my that is a horrid cake for us turks. Wait, are those pistacchios? I think it would've been much better if they grinded them first. And ditched the orange.
- February 10, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Maybe it not chocolate icing at all.....maybe its paté with olive tapenade? Certainly it would be tastier with carrot sticks!
- February 10, 2009 at 6:27 PM
- Margi Macdonald said...
oh pish posh
This delightful delectation is imbued with a certain rustic charm.
I want one. - February 10, 2009 at 6:29 PM
- EllenHoff said...
I don't think enough people have touched on the "Birthday Happy" part of this cake.
- February 10, 2009 at 7:18 PM
- Heidi said...
Huh. After reading the comments and taking a long hard look at this cake I have to say I agree with others. I'm seeing the 'pepper' as green sugar (look closely around the candied cherries on the edges), the carrots as some sort of chocolate shaving (look at the bottom right where the "carrot slice" is completely round - that'd have to be an entire carrot half if this were in fact a pile of carrots), and while I initially thought the green seeds were pistachios as well, upon close inspection I'm seeing pine nuts. I think you've got yourself a Kwanzaa cake there that Sandra Lee would be proud of.
- February 10, 2009 at 8:13 PM
I teach ESL, and for my birthday last year, one of my Turkish students made me a SPINACH CAKE. I mean, the thing was green. I have to say, though, it wasn't bad. Hopefully Jody's was just as tasty.
- February 10, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Emily said...
I vote for the misunderstood "carrot cake" theory so many other comments have put forth.
As for pistachios, those are very common in Turkish/Mediterranean desserts - like baklava. So it's not really weird to see those.
The thing in the middle is a white candle seen from the burnt wick end, not a pearl onion, and the red things are definitely nice reasonable maraschino cherries.
The pepper, though, I'm as clueless as the rest of you. Unless they misinterpreted "carrot cake" even worse than we thought. Actually, though, black pepper with chocolate shouldn't taste too bad - much less dubious than the carrots! - February 10, 2009 at 10:09 PM
If something is slightly sweet it is fair game for dessert somewhere. I was in Brunei a few years ago and was served a banana split with corn in it! And sweet potato ice cream is common in Japan. That icing may not even be chocolate. It could be like the "chocolate" cake I once bought in Singapore that turned out to iced with red bean paste.
- February 10, 2009 at 10:20 PM
ok, I lived in Turkey for seven months, and I never came across anything looking like that...
- February 10, 2009 at 11:08 PM
This reminds me of when I lived in the Philippines and ordered a pecan pie: I provided the pecans and the recipe. I got a beautifully cooked pie-- with a cup of pecans on the side. Apparently the recipe didn't actually say to put in the nuts. I agree with Katie, I'm sure she asked for carrot cake. When in Turkey, I've had chicken pudding.
- February 11, 2009 at 2:07 AM
- Dolores Griffin said...
Whatever it looks like, I'll bet it was delicious! I had the most incredible desserts in Turkey. Mmm...just thinking about it makes me want to go back! I will grant, of course, that it looks, well, not delicious :)
- February 11, 2009 at 4:37 AM
- Miranda said...
biethday might not be so happy if I tried to eat cake with carrots and pepper. Yargh! *runs away*
As for the previous cake feet: It made me paranoid. I ped-egged my feet thoroughly and painted my toenails. lol.
You haven't killed my fetish, though; you've just reminded me to be picky. :P - February 11, 2009 at 9:38 AM
- Valerie said...
That looks like a cake I made for my DOG last year (used carrot slices to make flowers, since dogs really shouldn't eat icing).
Actually it looks more like the cake after my dog dug into it.
Ew! - February 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM
- missamandabear said...
I've never commented before, but this post will make me do it. I just found out I'm pregnant, and I wanted to let you know that that cake right there - actually made me physically gag! Thanks for that :)!
- February 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM
I can't vouch for carrot and chocolate icing, but carrot sticks in chocolate fondue are actually quite nice. The same cannot be said of raw mushrooms though!
- February 11, 2009 at 1:42 PM
- Richard Boussarath Malone said...
Maybe they ordered a carrot cake, and the Turkish bakery didn't know what that was.
- February 11, 2009 at 2:30 PM
- Unknown said...
Maybe Jody was from Utah, and the cake makers, knowing nothing else about Utah except for their penchant to put carrots in green jello decided to put the carrots on the cake thinking maybe that carrots went into every desert in Utah. (And I live in UT, and the carrots/green jello thing...totally true)
- February 13, 2009 at 1:26 PM
I've lived in Turkey a long time and I've never seen a cake this bad. I think the orange things are probably carrots, the green things are pistacios, and the little red decorations on the sides are pomagranite kernels. I agree with some of the other comments that poor Jody must have requested a carrot cake and the Turks didn't know how to make one. How funny. I love this site. I can come here whenever I need a laugh.
- February 14, 2009 at 5:49 AM
I have been telling people for YEARS that carrots never belong in/on cakes. This is simply an extreme example of exactly why I hate carrot cake. Some things were just not made to go together.
- February 14, 2009 at 9:45 PM
- Mollie said...
Are those chopped olives?!
- February 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- Kristine said...
Isn't "Jody" the pig that haunted the little girl in that Margo Kidder movie (I didn't see the remake) The Amityville Horror?
- April 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- LibraryChristi said...
I can honestly say that I've voluntarily eaten carrots dipped in chocolate frosting and they were quite tasty. A friend made some absolutely delicious frosting for some mini chocolate cupcakes. I had already had a few cupcakes, but still wanted more frosting (and felt it would be a major faux pas to stick my finger in the frosting bowl)...so I dipped in a baby carrot. And then a second...
Of course, I probably should mention that I'm pregnant :) - July 22, 2009 at 8:52 AM
*eye twitch*
- December 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM
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This is the ideal accessory to be used with candles routines. The Thumb Tip Flame may be used as a gag or combined with flash string or paper and for misdirectional purposes.
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Use it to light a cigarette or ignite flash paper.
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I thought I'd re-post this. Sometimes stuff gets lost in the archives never to be noticed again. I had to remove this from a different site a long time ago due to "legal reasons," but it was a bit of work to research. Time to revisit Tubby Boots!
Obese, often tasseled and prone to streaking, Charles 'Tubby' Boots was a one man vaudevillian sexual revolution. The comedian stands alone as a wild eccentric who performed profane, occasionally hackneyed, and often very jiggly, physical comedy in after hours clubs, burlesque houses, state fairs, traveling road shows, cruise ships, race tracks and Coney Island. A close confidant of the equally eccentric Lord Buckley, drinking partner of the roly-poly insult comic Jack E. Leonard and a pain in the side for many conservative Bennett Cerf types at showbiz parties, Tubby Boots was the gay beatnik who could have passed as your uncle. Marquees billed the 375 pound comic as "Tons of Fun." Tubby Boots is topless above for a reason. He was a performer who, as you can see, would grab the attention of any audience before saying a word. Taking to the stage in the form we see on this LP, immediately hypnotized a crowd. He often dared patrons in the front row to grab his "titties." He was a common master of ceremonies on the burlesque circuit of the nineteen fifties. He occasionally wore the same type of tassels that many of the beautiful women on any given bill sported and regularly pulled the stunt of twirling them simultaneously in opposite directions. Believe it or not, he's only twenty-six years old in this photo.
Tubby's parents were a vaudevillian dance team called Boots and Barton. At the age of seven this youngster was clocking in at an astounding two hundred pounds, a constant target of ridicule in his Baltimore schoolyard. According to AWARE, the progressive 1970s publication devoted to gay arts, the look of the character Tubby in Little Lulu comics was based on Tubby Boots as a child. This, however, has not been substantiated by any of the artists involved with the character and is perhaps an attempt by Boots to build his legend. Little Lulu was initially a single panel comic done by Marjorie Henderson Buell for The Saturday Evening Post from 1935 to 1944. Following that streak it was expanded into a brilliant and hilarious Dell comic book executed by masters of the comic art form John Stanley and Irving Tripp.
According to one account, Buckley was reading the entertainment trade papers and saw the headline, "Tubby Boots - Packing Them In in Cleveland." Buckley was well aware of Tubby's fawning love for his Lordship. He phoned Tubby Boots and told him to come to Los Angeles immediately because he had a part for him in a movie. It was actually just a way to get him to Hollywood to help out with the rent. Tubby Boots described the decor of their dwelling in the book Dig Infinity! The Life and Art of Lord Buckley by Oliver Trager (Welcome Rain Publishers, 2001). "We had several paintings on the wall ... One was of Jesus Christ... autographed. 'To Lord Buckley, from your buddy cat J.C."
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Monday, October 5, 2009
Peplum Problems
I mean, right? Doesn't her peplum look way different than mine?
Anyway, let's think positive for a minute. (But just a minute, and then we can go back to thinking negative.) The things I do like? The covered buttons, which I made using a Dritz kit. Oh, and THE LINING. I found a silk crepe with bright pink roses on it that just screamed Betsey Johnson to me.
Maybe I'll wear it inside out.
I made a small change to the pattern, which was narrowing the shoulders and making the sleeve cap higher to fit the new armhole. Even though I don't think I'm narrow-shouldered in the least, I always find McCall's patterns to be very wide-shouldered. But I think this is more of a personal fit preference than anything.
I thought Erica B.'s version of this jacket looked awesome. I just don't think it's for me. I wish the photograph had been more accurate with the peplum. And I wish there had been a better way to sew the peplum lining in so that it wouldn't interfere with the jacket peplum lying flat. Oh, if wishes were fishes . . . they'd solve all my peplum problems.
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I think it looks great - particularly with that skirt and can't see any difference between yours and Ericas.
After looking at yours and the pattern (only because of your comments)the difference I can see is the length of the bodice - it seems longer on the pattern, particuarly noticable between the buttons. As your not going to be carrying the pattern enveope around with (I presume!) all anyone will see is a lovely, well fitting, well made, expensive looking jacket with a gorgeous lining.I think it looks great. I don't see any problems with the peplum, especially not when not right up against the pattern envelope. I think it looks great on you and that you really are being your own worse critic. You are so pretty and have a such a great figure, pretty much anything you put on looks great!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 9:56 AM
Well, I understand once we gals get an idea in our head about something, not even congress can get us to change it...and if YOU think it is laying wrong, it will just plain bug you....
but, doll, it looks wonderful from here!
May I suggest taking it to a good cleaners and having them give it a professional claening/ironing? I had a jacket similar to this years ago that I bought at a thrift store. I loved the way it SHOULD have looked but it wouldn't lay proper....so I took it to a cleaner who has been around here since the world (or at least our town) began and they gave it a proper cleaning and ironing and VOILA! It lay perfectly.
Wish I still had it...of course, that would also mean wishing I was still 98 pounds..but, hey, I'm not and that just means I can make/buy new-to-me clothing!!
See? Always have my glass half full!! I agree -- your jacket looks more like the pattern sketch. I bet they've got a big clip in the back pulling her peplum back. I've even seen some reflected in mirrors in the Burda pattern magazine! Trust only the technical drawing...
I second the suggestion for professional dry-cleaning/pressing. I've heard many people say this is just the final step in proper sewing.
And, it's a beautiful jacket, with a gorgeous lining, on a lovely woman. What's not to like?I agree with Erica B., if you look at her jacket again you can see that her peplum looks just like yours.
The difference I see between IRL and the pattern picture is that the front of the peplum is shaped differently. The real peplum starts curving out directly from the waist seam where the one on the pattern comes down straight overlapping the other side for at least an inch and THEN starts to curve out. I personally think you did another great job.Ha ha, yes, we are our own worst critics, aren't we? You are all very sweet. I'm wearing the jacket today and it's definitely growing on me.
Erica, you probably think I'm crazy, but I feel like your peplum lies flatter than mine. Do you think that maybe in the step where you sew the peplum fabric and the peplum lining together and turn it right side out, it would make sense to baste the raw edges together? That way the peplum and lining would hang better I think.
I do like the fit of the bodice, and I think if I make this again I will lengthen the bodice and maybe use a peplum from a different pattern. We'll see.Having sewn from this era, the waistline was always a little shorter/higher than in the drawing. And this was the beginning of distortion in drawings....longer necks, longer bodices, longer legs, longer arms, etc. But all that in consideration, I think you're being too critical. The peplum looks great, maybe the next time, for your own personal preference you can take out some of the fullness and put in a fairly stiff interfacing to make it not be so flouncy....maybe, but it looks good to my eye.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Gertie. I do think that the pattern looks longer than your version. Not that that is bad, you understand. Yours is great. But, I have found the same thing sometimes in what I sew. What I really hate is doing a good job - as you did - on the piece and then having it not be what I wanted or what I was hoping it would look like. Grrrrrrrrrrr!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM
I JUST bought this pattern, and I only hope I look as good in mine as you do in yours.
-Sandra In my minds's definition of a peplum, it is not supposed to lay flat - it is supposed to be a little wavy - like the sketch. Yours looks great! Could it be a little short waisted? Maybe it would make a difference if the jacket were about an inch longer before the peplum.
Also - a gorgeous picture of you! And the picture of you with Mr. Henry Higgins is terrific - life is good!- AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Hi Gertie-- I was going to say the bias cut like Julia above. It looks as if it was cut on the bias which will always give you a flare. And like Julia mentioned-- try steam!
I actually love the peplum. So cute! And love, love the lining! - AnonymousOctober 5, 2009 at 2:27 PM
The carefully placed and matched plaid used for the pattern envelope jacket may be visually distorting / influencing the way one 'reads' the shape of the jacket?
ReplyDelete I think yours looks quite good and that it looks like Erica B's version.
I agree with kazoom about how I envisage a peplum; it has a gentle wave to it.
Aside from that, the model seems to be wearing a larger size which has been lapped and pinned to appear to fit. This makes the jacket seem longer waisted, and the overlap at the peplum may help it lie flat. Plus, notice the contrived way she is holding her hands to cover the exact location of her hips below the peplum, disguising the amount that it actually sticks out.I think the pattern envelope is photoshopped, and that drives me crazy! I think it happens a lot, because finished garments rarely have the same proportions and shape as the pattern envelope illustration.
Years ago I used to prefer to buy patterns with photos, as they were more realistic than the stretched-out drawings. But photoshop has destroyed that realism. Now the only place we can check what a garment will really look like is the internet, on blogs and pattern review.- HillaryOctober 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Yeah I love it! The model on the front of the envelope is like VoNBBS-skinny! Look at her rib cage! I think that is why the peplum looks different in that picture, the whole thing's been altered for her and pinned like mad down the back, so the whole thing looks longer & narrower. I think it's a great-looking jacket that will work so well with a lot of the things you've made just this summer alone. The neckline angles frame your ink really well, too!
ReplyDelete Your jacket looks great! I can't remember what pattern it was exactly, but I can remember on the Burda website, seeing a photo where I could CLEARLY identify a binder clip holding sticking out from behind a model, holding the back of her dress. At that point, I stopped trusting images entirely and only fully trusting my muslins! Besides, those models are all built like twelve-year-old boys and well, we, are not. Hence, the non-flat peplum. Revel in your curves, you look FANTASTIC!
ReplyDeleteI can understand your frustration with the peplum. It is extremely vexing when things that should lie flat DON'T (I'm having the same problem with a wide-lapel jacket that I'm working on). However, the jacket looks adorable, even if the peplum isn't perfect! I think I'd be tempted to wear it inside out just so that I could see the lining--it makes me smile!
ReplyDeleteYour jacket looks great; however, I think the jacket on the pattern envelope has a longer bodice. That's why is lays flatter. I always thought that "Peplum" didn't lay flat. It's defined in the dictionary as "a short overskirt or ruffle attached at the waistline of a jacket, blouse, or dress." Anyhoo, you look fab!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousOctober 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM
One of the down sides (and there are few) of the Happy Land of Sewing Blogs it that pretty much everyone posts very nice, upbeat comments. So you tend to not believe readers when they tell you something looks good. You figure they're just being kind or they're clueless.
TRUST ME: This jacket really looks fabulous on you. It's flattering, well constructed and looks like a peplum jacket should.
I agree that it doesn't look like the pattern envelope (though weird that it does look like the illo), but it also looks 10 times better than the pattern envelope.
The jacket totally jumped out at me as I scrolled down the page. My first thought was WOW. Then I read the word "problems" in the post. I thought, "Problems, what could possibly be the problem with this jacket?"
Seriously, it's a great jacket. - AnonymousOctober 11, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Not a fan of peplums but it looks GREAT on you. Rock it!


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http://www.starbucks.com/-Considering that Lady Gaga may be the world's hottest star right now and an innovative creator unlike anyone we've seen, imagine our delight when we learned that she's also a big Starbucks fan. Well Ms. Gaga, we happen to like you quite a lot, too.
So we'd be hard-pressed to let a cultural moment like this one – the May 23 global release of Lady Gaga's new album, Born This Way – go by without a little something special.
On Monday there'll be a Gaga takeover of the Starbucks Digital Network in partnership with Yahoo!, where we'll be giving away a limited number of downloads for her new song "The Edge of Glory" to the first little monsters to claim them. And if one song isn't enough to get your paws up, you can listen to the Special Edition of Born This Way all day. We'll also be streaming an exclusive video of her singing an acapella rendition of "Born This Way." To get on the SDN, just get on our free Wi-Fi at participating stores and go to starbucks.yahoo.com.
And for those of you who love a good puzzle, you don't have to wait for May 23. We've just launched a unique digital game called SRCH. Along with the thrill of the hunt, there are some pretty sweet prizes and Lady Gaga has a featured role. The game lasts from May 19 to June 7, and there's no purchase necessary to play. To get started, scan the code below with a QR code reader. (Need a QR reader? Conveniently, the My Starbucks iPhone app has one embedded in it). Have fun and good luck!


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The New York Times wants you to know there are some bad people on the internet. You know what? There are some bad people walking the streets of your home town.
The question is: What do you want to do about it?
Here's the conclusionish stuff at the end of Mattathias Schwartz's fascinating article. (He embedded himself with evil trolls and lived to tell the tale.)
Does free speech tend to move toward the truth or away from it? When does it evolve into a better collective understanding? When does it collapse into the Babel of trolling, the pointless and eristic game of talking the other guy into crying "uncle"?(Hang on. I'm going to do a separate post about the use of the word "eristic.")
Is the effort to control what's said always a form of censorship, or might certain rules be compatible with our notions of free speech?This is extremely useful to know. Remember that principle. People who want the most freedom for themselves and the least for you. They're not just the trolls of the internet. They're everywhere. Defend yourself by identifying them and continuing to claim a good amount of freedom for yourself.
One promising answer comes from the computer scientist Jon Postel, now known as "god of the Internet" for the influence he exercised over the emerging network. In 1981, he formulated what's known as Postel's Law: "Be conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others." Originally intended to foster "interoperability," the ability of multiple computer systems to understand one another, Postel's Law is now recognized as having wider applications. To build a robust global network with no central authority, engineers were encouraged to write code that could "speak" as clearly as possible yet "listen" to the widest possible range of other speakers, including those who do not conform perfectly to the rules of the road. The human equivalent of this robustness is a combination of eloquence and tolerance — the spirit of good conversation. Trolls embody the opposite principle. They are liberal in what they do and conservative in what they construe as acceptable behavior from others. You, the troll says, are not worthy of my understanding; I, therefore, will do everything I can to confound you.
[T]echnology reduces the social barriers that keep us from bedeviling strangers, it does not explain the initial trolling impulse. This seems to spring from something ugly — a destructive human urge that many feel but few act upon, the ambient misanthropy that's a frequent ingredient of art, politics and, most of all, jokes. There's a lot of hate out there, and a lot to hate as well.It's human nature.
So far, despite all this discord, the Internet's system of civil machines has proved more resilient than anyone imagined. As early as 1994, the head of the Internet Society warned that spam "will destroy the network." The news media continually present the online world as a Wild West infested with villainous hackers, spammers and pedophiles. And yet the Internet is doing very well for a frontier town on the brink of anarchy. Its traffic is expected to quadruple by 2012. To say that trolls pose a threat to the Internet at this point is like saying that crows pose a threat to farming.Ha ha. Great. Exactly.
So can we have maximum freedom of speech or do we need legal remedies for the really bad people?
Are we ready for an Internet where law enforcement keeps watch over every vituperative blog and backbiting comments section, ready to spring at the first hint of violence? Probably not. All vigorous debates shade into trolling at the perimeter; it is next to impossible to excise the trolling without snuffing out the debate.That's Free Speech 101, but people seem to need to hear it again.
Schwartz assumes that trolls will successfully hide behind anonymity/pseudonymity, but we need to take note of the new developments in the AutoAdmit case:
With the help of a subpoena issued six months ago, attorneys for two Yale Law School students have succeeded in unmasking several anonymous users of the Web forum AutoAdmit whom the women are suing for defamation.Actually, the First Amendment won't protect you. A court is going to decide whether the plaintiff has met the legal standard Volokh is talking about, and a judge may not care enough about the right to say fuck you. You need more than the First Amendment for protection, you'll need judges who care about it and will stand tough and enforce hardcore free speech values even when confronted by seemingly nice, respectable plaintiffs who are royally outraged at insults and obscenities and delighted to use the courts to ruin brash young people who have said too much.
Some of the defendants will finally be named when the students soon file an amended complaint, said their attorney, Stanford Law Professor Mark Lemley, who declined to comment further....
John Williams, a court-appointed lawyer who represented AK-47, whom he has never met and whose identity he does not know, said he was disappointed by the judge's decision to sustain the subpoena, which he said went beyond where any other court has gone.
"Free speech takes another hit," he said....
Courts have long recognized that subpoenas may be available to identify anonymous commenters if litigants can demonstrate a plausible case for defamation and are not simply trying to intimidate critics, said Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles....
"If you're doing right, the First Amendment will protect you," [First Amendment lawyer Marc] Randazza said. "If you're doing wrong, it won't."


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New Album From Man In Black For 2014
Here is more info from Chris Talbott about a new Johnny Cash album for 2014, Bh.
There's new never-before-heard music coming from Johnny Cash. Cash's estate is releasing "Out Among the Stars," an album he recorded with Billy Sherrill in the early 1980s that was never released by Columbia Records, then disappeared when the company dropped Cash in 1986. Turns out Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, stashed the tapes — along with just about everything else that came into their possession.
"They never threw anything away," said their son, John Carter Cash. "They kept everything in their lives. They had an archive that had everything in it from the original audio tapes from 'The Johnny Cash Show' to random things like a camel saddle, a gift from the prince of Saudi Arabia."
They stored away so much, in fact, the younger Cash and archivists at Legacy Recordings didn't find the material until last year, long after the family began issuing archival music by Cash. "Out Among the Stars" will be out March 25, and continues an intense period of interest in the singer, who helped shape modern country and rock 'n' roll music and became an American pop cultural figure before his death 10 years ago at age 71.
Multiple music, book and restoration projects have been started in the past 18 months to mark what would have been the singer's 80th birthday and the 10th anniversary of his death. The music being released was recorded during a difficult period for Cash personally and professionally.
Columbia paired him with Sherrill, a producer and Country Music Hall of Fame member who was then the president of CBS Records Nashville. One of the main architects of country music's so-called countrypolitan sound, Sherrill helped push the genre toward pop sounds and conventions — and away from Cash's more independent-minded ways.
The pairing came at a time when Cash was at a low ebb in his popularity. The music on "Out Among the Stars" is taken from 1981 and '84 sessions, at a time when country music was going through great change.
"Dad was always uniquely himself," Cash said. "And later on the world would come back around. He never modified himself. But Nashville at the time was in a completely different place. It was the 'Urban Cowboy' phase. It was pop country, and dad was not that. I think him working with Billy was sort of an effort by the record company to put him more in the circle of Music Row and see what could happen at the heart of that machine."
It was clear record company executives didn't think much of the outcome. They put out a few more Cash albums after the recordings were made, but never used the music from those sessions before dropping him. Sherrill backed Cash with a band that consisted of fellow Country Hall of Fame member Hargus "Pig" Robbins and a young friend of Cash's named Marty Stuart.
The younger Cash and his co-producer, archivist Steve Berkowitz, decided they'd bring Stuart back in to re-record his parts with 30 years more experience as a picker. Others, including Buddy Miller and Jerry Douglas, helped fortify the original tapes as well. The 12 tracks include a duet with Waylon Jennings and two with June Carter Cash.
"We were so excited when we discovered this," Cash said. "We were like, my goodness this is a beautiful record that nobody has ever heard. Johnny Cash is in the very prime of his voice for his lifetime. He's pitch perfect. It's seldom where there's more than one vocal take. They're a live take and they're perfect."
John Carter Cash doesn't think Columbia executives realized what they had in hand. Even though his father had been a major star, tastes would soon turn to Garth Brooks and Shania Twain.
Biographer Robert Hilburn, who recently released "Johnny Cash: The Life," said the music fans are about to hear was recorded during some of the most difficult years of Cash's life. He felt like he'd lost his legacy and he was still dealing with the fallout from personal problems including infidelity and drug addiction.
He soon met producer Rick Rubin, though, and wrote a coda to his career that gave his life something of a mythic quality.
"Johnny Cash was redeemed, and that was a wonderful lesson," Hilburn said. "His story is so great and it's so dramatic and it's so much more dramatic than I ever envisioned." ___
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Aaron Harang (9-10, 3.80) vs. Clayton Richard (14-12, 3.81).
blah blah no chance something something PLAYOFFS la de da we suck blah blah blah
Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
Aaron Harang (9-10, 3.80) vs. Clayton Richard (14-12, 3.81).
blah blah no chance something something PLAYOFFS la de da we suck blah blah blah
White Flag Lineup:
Victorino RF
Herrera LF
Kemp CF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Cruz 3B
Punto 2B
Treanor C
Harang P
This feels like the 17th time we've faced Richard this season.
Victorino scratched. Kemp gets to continue fraying his labrum.
New lineup:
Herrera LF
Punto 2B
Kemp CF
Gonzalez 1B
Ramirez SS
Cruz 3B
Rivera RF
Treanor C
Harang P
That is a spectacular lineup, with an added bonus that the guys who really should be resting aren't
That's not an iceberg on the horizon, that's Juan Uribe in an inner tube
No vowels for Yom Kippur seems appropriate, anyway.
Like an inner tube would keep Uribe afloat...
What happened to Vic?
Bruised ovary, perhaps?
Why the weird start time again?
The lead from the ESPN game preview:
Time is running out on the Los Angeles Dodgers' playoff push, and giving the ball to Aaron Harang doesn't seem the best way for the team to pick up a needed win.
I don't know, I kinda like the sinking ship better.
If we lose and the Cards win again today, can we just rip the metaphorical band-aid and tank it tomorrow to get it over with?
I don't know why I just saw this, but I just snarfed out my gatorade realizing that QuadSevens' fantasy football team name is "Secret Urinals".
Q7, that is frickin' awesome. I owe you a beer.
Thanks Sax. I was trying to find a Dodgers inspired team name that didn't use a player. Then I remembered the topic of the new bathrooms and thought it sounded funny.
If only I'd been clever enough to start Matt Schaub instead of Alex Smith last week.
Is this game a must win?
Bruised ovary. heh
Employment is tiresome.
Well, run.
This is a good start.
2-0 Dodgers after 4 straight singles by Punto, Kemp, AGon and Hanley. Cruz and Rivera line out to end the inning.
Harang walks Headley with two out.
Harang not being stingy with pitches.
Gadalf lines out. Harang at 23 pitches.
Stars yesterday- 9 innings, 1 run
Scrubs today- 1 inning, 2 runs
This is a completely fucked-up sport.
Shockingly, the murderers' row of Treanor, Harang, and Herrera go down 1-2-3.
Other than Punto, though, stars got the hits.
Another two-out walk.
No harm done. On to the third. And with that, I head home.
I wish...
Jesus Guzman makes me think about Joel Guzman. Remember those heady days?
Again with Punto.
Again with the scoring!
Good God, I am accomplishing exactly nothing. Why am I even still here?
Ya mo b there.
Where have these dodgers been all year?!?!
Waiting until times are truly desperate to turn it around, only to come up just short?
Not that I'm bitter.
I'll just leave this here.
I still don't understand, but I've come to accept it.
Feel that Cards? That's Juan Uribe breathing down your neck!
Is that what that is? I was wondering why I was craving french fries all of a sudden...
So excited if we win and cards lose we are back to pathetic place we were at yesterday minus two games.
BISON is back
We are going to have a meaningless win streak aren't we? That would sum up everything.
As long as we win the last 3 games...
I wish I could care about beating Fresno Grizzles.
I always care about that, I'd just prefer that it mean something.
There goes the shutout.
That's because you hate bears Stubbs.
this is what happens when I don't pay attention. I thought this was at 9:30 for some reason and was kind of excited to watch. I was reading the game thread and realized we were scoring a lot. then of course we start giving up runs.
I think i saw the 6:30 (est) start and added 3 hours
T-Fed sighting? This game is nuts.
HOU up 2-0.
8-2 baby!!!
Come on, finish it!
Brewers winning
Cards LOOOOOOSING
PGT up!
4/3 vs. SF (W, 5-4): Sax
4/15 vs. WSH (L, 4-6): Dusty, Orel, Sax
5/6 vs. MIA (W, 6-3): AC, Sax
5/16 vs. CIN (L, 2-7): AC, Sax


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What is heart-healthy eating?
A diet high in fat and cholesterol may contribute to the development of heart disease in adulthood. A heart-healthy diet may help prevent or treat high blood cholesterol levels. The American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Nutrition recommends that healthy children age 2 and older follow a diet low in fat (30 percent of calories from fat). These are the same recommendations for healthy adults. A diet high in fat, especially saturated fat, may increase your child's risk for heart disease and obesity in adulthood. It is important to teach your child about healthy eating so that he or she can make healthy food choices as adults.
It is important not to put children younger than age 2 on a low-fat diet unless advised by your child's healthcare provider. Children younger than age 2 need fat in their diets to promote appropriate growth and development.
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Saturated fat is a type of fat found in foods and is usually solid at room temperature. This type of fat may raise the body's total blood cholesterol level more than other types of fat. It is recommended to limit saturated fat and replace it with unsaturated fat to help decrease the risk for heart disease. Some of the main sources of saturated fat include the following:
Fatty meats (bacon, hot dogs, ribs, sausage)
Chicken skin
Whole milk
Ice cream
Grain and dairy based desserts
Coconut oil
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What is unsaturated fat?
Unsaturated fat is a type of fat in foods and is usually liquid at room temperature. This type of fat does not usually increase the body's total blood cholesterol level when eaten in moderate amounts. Foods high in unsaturated fats which can replace unhealthy fats include the following:
Olive oil
Canola oil
Safflower and sunflower oil
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Corn oil and vegetable oils
What is cholesterol?
Cholesterol is a waxy substance that is made by the body and found in some foods. Cholesterol found in foods is called dietary cholesterol and is found only in animal foods such as the following:
Dairy products
Plant foods (grains, fruits, and vegetables) do not contain cholesterol. If the body's blood cholesterol gets too high, then cholesterol may build up in the blood vessels and cause damage. It is recommended to limit the amount of cholesterol in your diet.
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Protein. Go lean with protein. Choose low-fat or lean cuts of meat and poultry. Vary your protein routine by choosing more fish, nuts, seeds, dried beans and peas.
Oils are not a food group, yet some, such as vegetable and nut oils, contain essential nutrients and can be included in the diet in moderation. Others, such as animal fats, are solid and should be avoided. Studies have shown that a Mediterranean diet consisting of vegetables, whole grains, beans, fruits, and olive oil lowers the risk of heart disease.
Keeping your sodium intake to less than 2.3 grams of sodium a day lowers the risk of a heart attack.
Exercise and everyday physical activity should also be included with a healthy dietary plan.
Nutrition and activity tips:
Try to control when and where food is eaten by your children by providing regular daily meal times with social interaction and demonstration of healthy eating behaviors.
Involve children in the selection and preparation of foods and teach them to make healthy choices by providing opportunities to select foods based on their nutritional value.
For children in general, reported dietary intakes of the following are low enough to be of concern by the USDA: vitamin E, calcium, magnesium, potassium, and fiber. Select foods with these nutrients when possible.
Most Americans need to reduce the amount of calories they consume. When it comes to weight control, calories do count. Controlling portion sizes and eating nonprocessed foods helps limit calorie intake and increase nutrients.
Parents are encouraged to provide recommended serving sizes for children.
Parents are encouraged to limit children?s video, television watching, and computer use to less than two hours daily and replace the sedentary activities with activities that require more movement.
Children and adolescents need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity on most days for maintenance of good health and fitness and for healthy weight during growth.
To prevent dehydration, encourage children to drink fluid regularly during physical activity and drink several glasses of water or other fluid after the physical activity is completed.
To find more information about the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010 and to determine the appropriate dietary recommendations for your child?s age, sex, and physical activity level, visit the Online Resources page for the links to the ChooseMyPlate.gov and 2010 Dietary Guidelines sites. Please note that the My Plate plan is designed for people older than age 2 who do not have chronic health conditions.
Always consult your child?s healthcare provider regarding his or her healthy diet and exercise requirements.
Guidelines for decreasing fat intake:
Increase intake of fresh fruits and vegetables.
Bake, broil, or grill foods instead of frying.
Choose low-fat meats such as chicken, fish, turkey, lean pork, and lean beef (meat without visible fat and without skin).
Limit high-fat meats such as sausage, bacon, hot dogs, salami, pepperoni, bologna, and fried meat.
Use fruits as dessert instead of high-fat desserts (for instance, ice cream, cake, cookies).
Limit amounts of added fat such as margarine, butter, oil, salad dressing, and mayonnaise.
Use low-fat or fat-free products such as milk, cheese, sour cream, cream cheese, and ice cream.
Food adjustments
Consider the following examples of food for healthier eating:
Food Product Category |
Eat Less |
Eat More |
Meat and meat substitutes, poultry, fish, dry beans, and nuts |
Regular beef, pork, lamb, regular ground beef, fatty cuts of meat Poultry with skin, fried chicken Fried fish Regular lunch meat (bologna, salami, sausage, hot dogs) |
Beef, pork, lamb, lean cuts (90 percent lean, well-trimmed before cooking) Poultry without skin Fish, shellfish Processed meat prepared from lean meat Dry beans and peas Tofu and tempeh Nuts and seeds |
Eggs |
Fried eggs in butter |
Egg whites Egg substitutes |
Dairy products |
Milk: whole and 2 percent milk Yogurt: whole milk types Cheese: Regular cheeses (American, cheddar, Swiss, blue, Monterey Jack, cream cheese) Frozen dairy desserts: regular ice cream |
Milk: nonfat (skim), low-fat Yogurt: nonfat or low-fat Cheese: low-fat or nonfat types Frozen dairy desserts: low-fat or nonfat ice cream, low-fat or nonfat frozen yogurt |
Fats and oils |
Butter, lard, shortening, bacon fat, regular mayonnaise, sour cream, cream cheese, salad dressings, coconut oil, palm kernel, palm oil, and products with and trans fats |
Unsaturated oils: safflower, sunflower, corn, soybean, canola, olive, peanut Low-fat or nonfat mayonnaise, margarine, sour cream, cream cheese, and salad dressings |
Grains |
Refined grains (white flour, white rice), biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, breakfast pastries, doughnuts, waffles, granolas, fried rice, and packaged pasta and rice mixes |
Whole-grain breads, pasta, rice, and cereals |
Vegetables (dark green, red and orange, legumes, beans and peas, starchy vegetables, and other vegetables) |
Vegetables fried or prepared with butter, cheese,cream sauce; or salt, olives |
Fresh, frozen, or canned, without added fat, salt or sauce |
Fruit (whole, cut up, pureed, and 100 percent fruit juice) |
Fried fruit or fruit served with butter or cream sauce |
Fresh, frozen, canned, or dried |


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Kentucky wins another thriller
Published 12:00 am Sunday, April 6, 2014
ARLINGTON, Texas — No, this was not an instant replay, though it certainly is turning into a highlight loop that Aaron Harrison and his Kentucky teammates could get used to watching.
Harrison took a pass from his twin brother, Andrew, spotted up from NBA range and watched the ball rattle in for the lead with 5.7 seconds left Saturday night to lift the Wildcats to a 74-73 victory over Wisconsin in the Final Four.
It was a near carbon copy of his game-winner last weekend in the regional final against Michigan. It was almost as clutch as the 3 he made the game before that to help Kentucky take the lead for good in the Sweet 16 against Louisville.
"You can't be scared to miss, and you want to be that guy that wants to take the big shots," Aaron Harrison said.
"He has that clutch gene," Wisconsin's Sam Dekker said.
Traevon Jackson had a last-second shot to try to beat the Wildcats (29-10), but the desperation jumper rimmed out, and once again Harrison found himself at the bottom of a dog pile at center court. Sophomore Alex Poythress' leg bent backward in the scrum. He was icing his left knee afterward but said he'd be OK for Monday's final.
Eighth-seeded Kentucky will play seventh-seeded UConn — the highest seed total to play for the title since they started putting numbers by the names back in 1979. The Wildcats, who missed March Madness last year, haven't lost a tournament game since the 2011 semifinal against UConn.
"I know how good they are, but I don't know how they play," Kentucky coach John Calipari said of his next opponent.
Second-seeded Wisconsin (30-8) set a Final Four record by going 95 percent from the free-throw line — 19 for 20. But that one miss cost the Badgers dearly. Jackson got Andrew Harrison to jump into him while attempting a 3-pointer with 16.4 seconds left. His first free throw rimmed out, and — after he made the next two — Wisconsin had a 73-71 lead and Kentucky had the ball.
Any doubt where it was going?
"Coach said wanted me to take the shot, my teammates have confidence in me, and I just fed off that," Harrison said.
Against Louisville in the regional semifinal, Harrison was open in the corner when Julius Randle found him. He hit the go-ahead 3 with 39.1 seconds left on the way to a 74-69 win.
Two nights later, there were 2.3 seconds on the clock and Harrison was a few steps right of where he was Saturday when he took the pass from his brother. Michigan's Caris LeVert hit Harrison's hand as he shot from about 24 feet but the ball went in anyway. After that one, the freshman calmly backpedaled before his teammates reached him to congratulate.
This time, it was Josh Gasser in his face at around 25 feet — a big step back from where the NBA line would be. The ball clanged in and Harrison trotted backward for another muted celebration.
A few minutes later, he was hugging his mom in the stands.
"He was pretty deep out there," Gasser said. "He hadn't really looked to pull up for a shot the entire game. I saw him start to rise up, and I tried to contest the best I could. I thought I did a good job, but he made another good shot."
It was Harrison's only attempt from 3 all night; the Wildcats went only 2 for 5 as a team.
James Young went to the rim hard in the first half and led Kentucky with 17 points. Randle finished with 16, but only five boards to snap his string of three straight double-doubles.
But Kentucky did damage in other ways on the inside, finding the answer for Wisconsin's do-everything 7-footer, Frank Kaminsky, who was held to eight points and five rebounds.
Ben Brust and Dekker had 15 each for the Badgers, who came up a game short of their first appearance in the final since 1941.
Instead, it's Kentucky going for its ninth national title and second in three years, with an almost completely rebuilt roster from 2012. It's the way Calipari does it, like it or not, and it hasn't all been easy sailing. The team that was ranked first in the preseason poll fell out of it completely for the start of March Madness.
Only then, did the Wildcats start playing to their potential.
"They know I believe in them. Aaron knows," Calipari said. "If you've watched us, we have a bunch of stars on this team."
Harrison is the biggest of them in this tournament. If he chooses to leave after Monday, he'll have first-round potential, though it won't be his final numbers in this game — eight points, three rebounds — that will impress the scouts as much as his final shot.
"He was smiling, like he knew he was going to make it," Andrew Harrison said. "He's a big-time player. I've never seen anything like it."


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The race was heated and the votes super-close, but the Apple Wired and Wireless Keyboards took the top spot with 27% of the overall vote - and when the total poll attracted close to 12,000 votes, that's pretty good.
Hot on its heels was the only mechanical that made the list (much to many of your chagrin!), the Das Keyboard, which reeled in close to 25% of the overall vote. In third place with over 17% of the votes cast is the Logitech G Series keyboards, made specifically for gaming but loved by users of all stripes. Behind it in fourth by about a hundred votes and close to 17% of the total is the ergonomically designed Microsoft Natural Series, and bringing up the rear in fifth place was Logitech's productivity and general use K Series Keyboards, with close to 14% of the overall vote.
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Tom Coburn will leave the Senate with a reputation as "Dr. No," but not necessarily as doctrinaire.
The Oklahoma Republican, who at age 65 is undergoing his fifth bout of cancer, announced that he will resign in December, two years before his second term expires.
"This decision isn't about my health, my prognosis or even my hopes and desires," Coburn, a physician, said in a statement. "As a citizen, I am now convinced that I can best serve my own children and grandchildren by shifting my focus elsewhere."
The departure of Coburn, a leading conservative who previously served three terms in the U.S. House, will divest Congress of one of its most ardent budget and debt hawks.
His zeal is reflected his annual, much pored over "Wastebook." It details examples of what he views as flagrant government spending excesses. Last year's compilation of 100 included $65 million for post-Hurricane Sandy tourism advertising, as well as $10,000 for a National Endowment for the Arts grant to produce a live "pole dancing" performance that featured power linemen, their bucket trucks and 20 utility poles.
"Tom Coburn was fighting runaway spending long before it was cool," wrote Jim Geraghty, columnist for the conservative National Review, under a Friday headline that read, "Depressing news this morning."
Kurt Hochenauer, an Oklahoma Democrat and author of the political blog Okie Funk, says that while Coburn's actions often felt like political theater, his war on wasteful spending resonated across the political spectrum.
"I disagree with Tom Coburn on many issues, but I have found common ground with him at times, especially his interest in wasteful government spending," says Hochenauer. "Sometimes his actions as so-called Dr. No have seemed like political stunts to me, but I admire his consistency and focus."
"I also admire that he stands up for his principles and views," Hochenauer says, "even when it means going against more extreme members of his political party."
Coburn's decision to step down early also returns to the sidelines a strict social conservative, but one who would occasionally buck his own party — and who unfailingly avoided vilifying his political opponents.
It was President Obama, in fact, who wrote about Coburn last year for Time when the senator was named to the magazine's annual list of its picks for the 100 most influential people in the world.
Obama and Coburn famously befriended each other at an orientation dinner in 2005 when they were both new senators. Their wives bonded, and so did they, the president wrote, "over family and faith."
The men collaborated, Obama said, on government transparency legislation, trimming earmarks, and efforts to "close tax loopholes that benefit only the well-off and well connected."
"After I took office, Tom received dozens of letters from Oklahomans complaining that we looked too close on TV," Obama wrote. "Tom's response was, 'How better to influence somebody than to love them?' "
Coburn loves his party, too, but he was willing to give it hell.
He excoriated Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's "defund Obamacare" mission that led to a partial government shutdown last year.
Here's what he said on MSNBC's Morning Joe program: "To create the impression that we can actually defund Obamacare, when the only thing we control, and barely, is the House of Representatives, is not intellectually honest."
Back in the spring of 2008, during the height of the chaotic battle for the GOP nomination for president, he accused Republicans of being in a state of "paralysis and denial." He lambasted fellow party members for hiding a "big-government liberal agenda" (read: spending) inside a GOP package.
Here's more of what he wrote in the Wall Street Journal:
"Regaining our brand is not about messaging. It's about action. It's about courage. It's about priorities. Most of all, it's about being willing to give up our political careers so our grandkids don't have to grow up in a debtor's prison, or a world in which other nations can tell a weakened and bankrupt America where we can and can't defend liberty, pursue terrorists, or show compassion."
After Obama won a second term in 2012, Coburn, who decided to become a doctor at age 30 after his first bout with cancer, urged Republicans to "never give up."
"Many want to blame our setbacks in the Senate, in particular, on the Tea Party," he said. "I agree we need to do a much, much better job of candidate recruitment. The problem in Republican politics isn't the challengers: It's the incumbents — career politicians who say they are for limited government and lower taxes but make decisions that give us bigger government and higher taxes."
The Dysfunction Factor
Less than a month ago, Coburn decried Washington dysfunction in a Wall Street Journal commentary headlined, "The Year Washington Fled Reality."
His disillusionment was palpable, including with Obama for having "conformed to, rather than challenged, the political culture that as presidential candidate he vowed to reform."
Coburn, who opposed the president's health care legislation, criticized the disastrous rollout of the law — though in a Senate floor speech in December, he said its health insurance exchanges will ultimately "work, and work well."
But his real ire was reserved for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the Nevada Democrat who deemed that a simple majority of senators could override filibusters on presidential nominees, except those to the Supreme Court.
Reid's "narrative about Republican obstruction of appointees is a diversion for his own war against minority rights," said Coburn, who last year offered more amendments than any other senator.
Coburn's seat is expected to remain in Republicans hands when a successor is picked in November, and his party is within sight of winning Senate control.
But Coburn, in an interview with The Oklahoman newspaper, said he's ready to move on.
"I've had a lot of changes in my life," he told the newspaper. "This is another one."
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COMMENTS: Four wins in a row? One series tie and two series wins against NL West opponents? Tied for first place? Yeah, we'll take it.
Tonight brings us the battle of the lefties, with Stults looking to continue his unheralded goodness while Zito attempts to relive some of his glory days at Dodger Stadium, where he's 3-1 with a 2.73 ERA.
Back in Oaktown
He could throw that curveball by them
Make their legs buckle down boy
Saw him the other night in the NL West
We were walking off, he was walking out
Came back the next night 'gainst Stults threw a few curves
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Republican voters in Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday will engage in the truly American political invention called the caw-cawaasough.
Make that the "caucus," the oft-maligned system in which party members gather to discuss and declare their preferences for a candidate by scribbling a name on a piece of paper for hand-count by party officials.
Why maligned?
Tradition, in part. Caucuses are inherently messier than straightforward voting booth primaries, and grousing about caucus-state Iowa's influence with its first-in-the-nation presidential contest is a revered political pastime. (Unless you live in the Hawkeye State.)
But, this year, with difficulties having plagued the two state caucuses Republicans have under their belt, critics have been handed more fodder.
A faulty count in Iowa's contest denied Rick Santorum his win, at least initially. And Nevada's tabulation was so chaotic, even with a low turnout, that it prompted the Twitter meme, #thingsfasterthannvgop. Faster-than tweets included: lines at the DMV, bicycling from Las Vegas to Reno, glaciers carving valleys, reading Ulysses.
With eight more states and the Virgin Islands scheduled to hold caucuses this presidential season after Tuesday (Maine's is an ongoing, weeklong affair that ends Saturday), we decided to take a look at the origins of the practice, why it collects criticism and what caucus defenders have to say.
Where did "caucus" come from anyway?
For this, we turned to the words of the late Middlebury College classics professor William Harris and his analysis, "The Caucus: History and Etymology." Harris, who died in 2009, traced the word to 1624, when Virginia colony leader Capt. John Smith, in a history book he wrote, mentions the Algonquin Indian word caw-cawaasough. He describes it as meaning "one who advises, a counselor."
Here's what Harris wrote: "It seems pointed that Captain Smith, who ... spoke the native language, made special mention of an Algonquin family-based word for 'counsel' as a discussion group." He theorizes that the emergence of caucus, a "truly American word," was fortunate in that it contrasted local level discussion and consultation with distant British rule of the time.
"It was an ideal item of vocabulary," Harris wrote, "since it meant something over here which would not be understood as word or as meaning to the British government over there." In 1763, the term "caucus clubs" appeared in John Adams' diary, Harris wrote. He notes that, by 1809, caucuses were being characterized as nonpublic party meetings where "it is decided for whom the people shall be instructed to vote, and by what course of politics the party may be secured." A group that, Smith might say, advises and counsels.
How did they evolve into public party events?
It wasn't by the choice of the political elites, that's for sure. By the 1820s, according to a caucus history compiled by the Council on Foreign Relations, reformers including presidential candidate Andrew Jackson took exception to closed party caucuses being used to pick presidential and vice presidential candidates. By 1830, "the advent of the modern political convention" expanded the caucus process beyond members of Congress and to party members, though predominantly insiders.
A majority of states used caucuses to pick their convention delegates before 1972. Traditionally, caucus night is when party members pick designees who will represent candidate preferences at state conventions where presidential delegates are chosen. (Iowa still adheres to that practice; Nevada, however, is among states that award presidential delegates directly from caucus-night results.) Reforms designed to encourage broader participation in picking presidential candidates led Democrats to switch to primaries in many states in the 1970s, and Republicans to do the same.
What's with the caucus criticism?
It gets back to the age-old complaint of the outsize influence of party insiders on caucuses. Even though caucuses aren't restricted to party elites, they do require a significant commitment of time, energy and passion that many average voters just don't have.
That means that only a small number of stalwarts tend to show up. And though they may not reflect the views of the electorate at large, they have the power to choose all the delegates.
A quick calculation by NPR's Shirish Date using the results of the GOP contests so far reinforces that criticism.
In Nevada, for example, which will send 28 delegates to the Republican presidential nominating convention, only 32,894 party members marked caucus ballots Saturday. That means only 1,175 caucus votes were cast per delegate awarded.
Contrast that with the Florida primary, held just a few days earlier.
There, 50 delegates were at stake and 1,672,352 votes were cast. That breaks down to 33,447 votes for every delegate awarded. Very few people in caucus states make very big presidential decisions.
Critics also complain that, given modern technology, there simply has to be a better, faster and fairer way to tabulate results. Christopher Hull, a defender of caucuses and author of Grassroots Rules: How the Iowa Caucus Helps Elect American Presidents agrees, with some caveats.
So why have caucuses today?
Hull, a former Republican staffer in the Iowa Senate, sees an upside and downside to caucuses but wants to preserve what he and other supporters view as their inherent worth: party building, and giving favor to a candidate that "can build up, rather than tear down."
"It's very difficult for you to buy a caucus, and the process is a healthy one," he says. "The caucus-to-convention process awards activism and true believers, and I personally think it is reasonable to conclude that a mix of primaries and caucuses are healthy when selecting a president," Hull says.
The downside? Paper ballots and the failure of states, like Iowa, to tie caucus results directly to the awarding of presidential delegates. "If you're going to say the precinct caucus night is important, formalize it," he says. That includes the vote count.
Hull remains an evangelist for caucuses and makes this argument: "Democratic, small 'd,' isn't always the goal," he said of the more democratic primary contests. "The small 'd' democratic and small 'r' republicanism are at war."
"The Founders," he says, "wanted people to select people who would select for them, which is what the caucus process is all about. You're not trying to identify what the state thinks, but what the party thinks."
Going by that logic, by Wednesday morning, we should all have a pretty good idea of what the parties in Colorado and Minnesota think, if not the states. Capt. Smith and, perhaps, John Adams, too, would likely think that's just fine.
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Lemons have still been plentiful and cheap and every time I walk by them in the grocery store I remember the buttery lemon chicken piccata that I made a while ago and really enjoyed. I also remembered thinking that a fish version would also probably be really nice and possibly even lighter. This weekend I decided to try the fish version. I figured that any white fish would probably do the trick and the tilapia fillets looked good so I went with them. A reader had suggested that the next time I make the chicken picatta that I try adding peperoncini peppers and I liked the sound of a bit of heat in the lemon sauce. I have never seen a fresh peperoncini pepper so I ended up using some pickled ones that I was able to find. The tilapia piccata turned out great! I think I enjoyed the tilapia version even more that the chicken version as the light flaky fish soaked up more of the tasty buttery lemon sauce with every bite. I also enjoyed the heat and flavour that the peperoncini peppers added to the dish. It is always nice to find ways to change up old favorites and possibly even make them better.
Tilapia Piccata
- 2 tilapia fillets (or other white fish fillets)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 splash dry white wine
- 1/4 cup chicken stock
- 1/2 lemon (juice)
- 1/2 lemon (sliced)
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 2 small peperoncini peppers (sliced, optional)
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon parsley (chopped)
- Season the fish with salt and pepper.
- Heat the oil and butter in a pan.
- Add the fish and fry until golden brown on both sides, about 2-3 minutes per side and set aside.
- Add the wine and deglaze the pan.
- Add the chicken stock, lemon juice, lemon slices, capers and peperoncinis and simmer to reduce the liquids by half.
- Stir in the butter and pour over the fish and garnish with fresh chopped parsley.
Chicken Piccata
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Halibut Piccata with Baby Artichokes on Quinoa
Halibut with Lemon, Butter, Caper and Dill Sauce
Pan Seared Tilapia in Avgolemono Sauce
Honey Lemon Chicken
Tom Yum Baked Tilapia
Tilapia Baked in Thai Green Curry
Cod Wrapped in Crispy Potatoes with a Dill and Caper Sauce
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Lemon Chicken Romano
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It was the first three-homer game by a Red Sox player since Kevin Millar went deep three times against the Yankees on July 23, 2004.
Pedroia reached base six times in six plate appearances, with a double in the first, a solo home run in the fourth, a walk in the fifth, a single in the seventh, a two-run homer in the eighth, and the two-run bomb in the 10th.
He scored four runs and tied a career high with five RBI (also on June 15, 2007 and September 2, 2008). Pedroia reached base six times on September 10, 2008, in a 14-inning loss to Tampa Bay (two doubles, two HBP, one walk, and one reached on error).
Jonathan Papelbon blew a two-run lead in the ninth inning, allowing three consecutive one-out singles. After the Red Sox took the lead in the top of the 10th, however, he got the Rockies in order in the bottom half.
Adrian Beltre singled, doubled, and homered, scoring three times and driving in three runs. Jason Varitek and Mike Cameron each had a two-run double.
The Red Sox and Rays are 2.0 GB the Yankees.Daisuke Matsuzaka / Jason Hammel
Mike Lowell will likely be placed on the disabled list before tonight's game because of hip discomfort. That will open up a spot for Matsuzaka.Scutaro, SS
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Beltre, 3B
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The timetable for Josh Beckett's return in late July or early August.
On May 22, Hammel had a 7.52 ERA. In his five starts since then, he has allowed only three runs in 34.1 innings (0.74 ERA). Last Friday, he extended his scoreless-innings streak to 25.1. Hammel faced the Red Sox eight times in 2006-08 as a member of the (Devil) Rays.
The Rays beat the Padres 5-3 this afternoon to move into second place in the East. The Yankees, who are off tonight, are 2.0 GA of the Rays and 2.5 GA of the Red Sox. Boston is in third place, yet only one team in MLB has more wins.
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What a pleasure it has been dealing with this company. We bought a huge amount of wood from them – their service was excellent. The quality of the wood we ordered was 10/10 If only all suppliers were this good! 😀
Robin Carpenter-Frank
Excellent service, prompt & tidy delivery, very pleasant people to deal with. Very happy with the wood. I would highly recommend Firewood Cape-Town.
Catherine Middlemost
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