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3 Building jobs included in each quarter in the Building Activity Survey comprise those jobs selected in previous quarters which have not been completed (or commenced) by the end of the previous quarter and those jobs newly selected in the current quarter. The population list from which jobs are selected for inclusion comprises all approved building jobs which were notified to the ABS (refer paragraph 2) up to but not including the last month of the reference quarter (i.e. up to the end of August in respect of the September quarter survey). This introduces a lag to the statistics in respect of those jobs notified and commenced in the last month of the reference quarter (i.e. for the month of September in respect of the September quarter survey). For example, jobs which were notified as approved in the month of June and which actually commenced in that month are shown as commencements in the September quarter. Similarly, building jobs which were notified in the month of September and which actually commenced in that month are shown as commencements in the December quarter. 4 The use of sample survey techniques in the Building Activity Survey means that reliable estimates of the number of private sector dwelling commencements are generally available only at state, territory and Australia levels. Although subject to higher relative standard errors, a range of sub-state estimates of dwelling commencements may be available. Reliable small area data are available for the Northern Territory, which has been completely enumerated since the June quarter 1991. Detailed data on Building Approvals, based on information reported by local government and other reporting authorities, are available for regions below state and territory level from Building Approvals, Australia (cat. no. 8731.0). CLASSIFICATION 5 Ownership. The ownership of a building is classified as either private sector or public sector, according to the sector of the intended owner of the completed building as evident at the time of approval. Residential buildings being constructed by private sector builders under government housing authority schemes whereby the authority has contracted, or intends to contract, to purchase the buildings on or before completion, are classified as public sector. 6 Building jobs are classified both by the Type of Building (e.g. 'house', 'other residential building') and by the Type of Work involved (i.e. 'new' and 'conversions, etc.'). These classifications are used in conjunction with each other and are defined in the Glossary. RELIABILITY OF THE ESTIMATES 7 Since the estimates are based on a sample of approved private sector residential building jobs, the estimates of commencements of private sector dwellings and total dwellings are subject to sampling variability. Relative standard errors give a measure of this variability and therefore indicate the degree of confidence that can be attached to the data. 8 Relative standard errors for the number of dwellings commenced in the December quarter 2007 are given below. There is 67% confidence that the actual number would be within one standard error of the sample estimate, and 95% confidence that it lies within two standard errors.
9 In addition, some returns containing jobs not known to have commenced are not received in time for inclusion in these estimates. Allowance is made for a proportion of these jobs, based on past experience, to have commenced. Estimates in this issue for the last two quarters are therefore subject to revision. SEASONAL ADJUSTMENT 10 Seasonally adjusted building statistics are shown in tables 1-3. In the seasonally adjusted series, account has been taken of normal seasonal factors, 'trading day' effects arising from the varying numbers of working days in a quarter and the effect of movement in the date of Easter which may, in successive years, affect figures for different quarters. 11 Since seasonally adjusted statistics reflect both irregular and trend movements, an upward or downward movement in a seasonally adjusted series does not necessarily indicate a change of trend. Particular care should therefore be taken in interpreting individual quarter-to-quarter movements. The seasonally adjusted series for total dwellings for Australia and each state and territory has been produced by summing the respective seasonally adjusted series for each of 'new houses', 'new other residential dwellings' and 'conversions, etc.' However, the states and Australia are adjusted independently, which means that the sum of the adjusted state series may not add to the adjusted Australian total. 12 From the June quarter 2003, the seasonally adjusted estimates are produced by the concurrent seasonal adjustment method which takes account of the latest available original estimates. The concurrent seasonal adjustment methodology replaces the forward factor methodology previously used, when seasonal factors were only revised following an annual re-analysis. The concurrent method improves the estimation of seasonal factors and, therefore, the seasonally adjusted and trend estimates for the current and previous quarters. As a result of this improvement, revisions to the seasonally adjusted and trend estimates will be observed for recent periods. In most instances, the only noticeable revisions will be to the previous quarter and the same quarter of a year earlier. 13 A more detailed review of concurrent seasonal factors will be conducted annually, generally prior to the release of data for the December quarter. 14 As a general rule, extreme care should be exercised in using the seasonally adjusted series for dwelling unit commencements in Northern Territory and Australian Capital Territory. The small numbers and volatile nature of these data makes reliable estimation of the seasonal pattern very difficult. TREND ESTIMATES 15 Seasonally adjusted series can be smoothed to reduce the impact of the irregular component in the adjusted series. This smoothed seasonally adjusted series is called a trend estimate. 16 The trend estimates are derived by applying a 7-term Henderson moving average to the seasonally adjusted series. The 7-term Henderson average (like all Henderson averages) is symmetric but, as the end of a time series is approached, asymmetric forms of the average are applied. Unlike weights of the standard 7-term Henderson moving average, the weights employed here have been tailored to suit the particular characteristics of individual series. 17 While the smoothing technique described in paragraphs 14 and 15 enables trend estimates to be produced for recent quarters, it does result in revisions to the estimates for the most recent three quarters as additional observations become available. There may also be revisions because of changes in the original data. For further information, see Information Paper: A Guide to Interpreting Time Series - Monitoring Trends, 2003 (cat. no. 1349.0) or contact the Assistant Director, Time Series Analysis on Canberra (02) 6252 6540 or email <email@example.com>. ACKNOWLEDGMENT 18 ABS publications draw extensively on information provided freely by individuals, businesses, governments and other organisations. Their continued cooperation is very much appreciated: without it, the wide range of statistics published by the ABS would not be available. Information received by the ABS is treated in strict confidence as required by the Census and Statistics Act 1905. RELATED PRODUCTS 19 All tables in this publication are available in electronic form on this site. 20 Users may also wish to refer to the following publications:
Building Approvals, Australia, cat. no. 8731.0 Construction Work Done, Australia, Preliminary, cat. no. 8755.0 House Price Indexes: Eight Capital Cities, cat. no. 6416.0 Housing Finance, Australia, cat. no. 5609.0 Private Sector Construction Industry, Australia, cat. no. 8772.0 Producer Price Indexes, Australia, cat. no. 6427.0. ABS DATA AVAILABLE ON REQUEST 21 As well as the statistics included in this and related publications, the ABS may have other relevant data available on request. Inquiries should be made to the National Information and Referral Service on 1300 135 070. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window. |


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Untamed by Glennon Doyle
Untamed: How to Stop People Pleasing and Start Living
"Packed with incredible insight about what it means to be a woman today."—Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club Pick)
In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and "patron saint of female empowerment" (People) explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others' expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: The Oprah Magazine • The Washington Post • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire • Bloomberg • Parade • "Untamed will liberate women—emotionally, spiritually, and physically. It is phenomenal."—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls and Eat Pray Love
This is how you find yourself.
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees, and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed, and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't it all supposed to be more beautiful than this? We quickly silence that question, telling ourselves to be grateful, hiding our discontent—even from ourselves.
For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her own discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There She Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high. But she soon realized they had come to her from within. This was her own voice—the one she had buried beneath decades of numbing addictions, cultural conditioning, and institutional allegiances. This was the voice of the girl she had been before the world told her who to be. Glennon decided to quit abandoning herself and to instead abandon the world's expectations of her. She quit being good so she could be free. She quit pleasing and started living.
Soulful and uproarious, forceful and tender, Untamed is both an intimate memoir and a galvanizing wake-up call. It is the story of how one woman learned that a responsible mother is not one who slowly dies for her children, but one who shows them how to fully live. It is the story of navigating divorce, forming a new blended family, and discovering that the brokenness or wholeness of a family depends not on its structure but on each member's ability to bring her full self to the table. And it is the story of how each of us can begin to trust ourselves enough to set boundaries, make peace with our bodies, honor our anger and heartbreak, and unleash our truest, wildest instincts so that we become women who can finally look at ourselves and say: There She Is.
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SEATTLE (AP) — For generations, pot crusaders have called for an end to the nation's prohibition of marijuana, citing everything from what they say are the government's exaggerated claims about its dangers to the racial disparities in who gets busted for drug possession.
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Now, they will get their chance in Colorado and Washington state to show that legalizing pot is better, less costly and more humane than the last 75 years of prohibition — all with the federal government's blessing.
In a sweeping new policy statement, the Justice Department said Thursday it will not stand in the way of states that want to legalize, tax and regulate marijuana as voters in Washington and Colorado did last fall, as long as there are effective controls to keep marijuana away from kids, the black market and federal property.
"It's nothing short of historic," said Dan Riffle of the Marijuana Policy Project, which backed Colorado's new law. "It's a very big deal for the DOJ to say that if the states want to legalize marijuana, that's fine. Everybody in this movement should be thrilled."
It won't just be the White House watching to make sure Washington and Colorado get it right. Voters in Oregon and Alaska could weigh marijuana legalization measures next year, and several states could face ballot questions in 2016, activists say.
Meanwhile, Latin and South American countries are also considering pot reform, and the Obama administration's stance on Washington's and Colorado's laws could embolden them, said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the New York-based Drug Policy Alliance, which supported Washington's law. Uruguay has already approved plans to license marijuana growers and shops.
The DOJ's decision came nearly 10 months after the votes in Washington and Colorado, and officials in those states had been forging ahead to make rules for their new industries without knowing whether the federal government would sue to block sales from ever taking place on the grounds that they conflict with federal law.
Licensed, taxed marijuana sales in the two states are due to start next year, and officials have estimated they could raise tens or hundreds of millions of dollars for state coffers.
The administration's guidance laid out eight federal law enforcement priorities that states need to protect if they want to authorize "marijuana-related conduct." They include keeping marijuana in-state, off the black market, and away from children; preventing violence and gun crimes related to marijuana distribution; and preventing drugged driving.
The DOJ noted that it simply doesn't have the resources to police all violations of federal marijuana law, and so it would focus on entities that threaten those priorities. If a state's enforcement efforts don't work, the feds could sue to block the state's entire pot-regulating scheme, Deputy Attorney General James Cole wrote in a memo to all 94 U.S. attorneys around the country.
The priorities are similar to the factors the Justice Department has previously considered in determining whether to shut down medical marijuana dispensaries. But the memo also clarifies that just because a regulated marijuana operation is big and profitable isn't reason enough to raid it.
Peter Bensinger, a former head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, criticized the announcement, saying the conflict between federal and state law can't be reconciled. Federal law is paramount, and Attorney General Eric Holder is "not only abandoning the law, he's breaking the law," Bensinger said.
Some in the marijuana-reform community also criticized the memo, noting it did not represent a fundamental change in the law, which would require the approval of Congress.
"It's like, 'We're going to be tolerant of this as long as we feel like it,'" argued Seattle marijuana defense attorney Douglas Hiatt. "Is a new administration just going to come in and shut it down?"
But others pointed to language in the memo they found remarkable coming from the Justice Department: an acknowledgement that a well-designed regulatory system could actually help achieve federal law enforcement goals.
"Indeed, a robust system may affirmatively address those priorities by, for example, implementing effective measures to prevent diversion of marijuana outside of the regulatory system and to other states, prohibiting access to marijuana by minors, and replacing an illicit marijuana trade that funds criminal enterprises with a tightly regulated market in which revenues are tracked and accounted for," Cole wrote.
A Pew Research Center poll in March found that 60 percent of Americans think the federal government shouldn't enforce federal marijuana laws in states where its use has been approved. Younger people, who tend to vote more Democratic, are especially prone to that view.
But opponents are worried these moves will lead to more use by young people. Colorado and Washington were states that helped re-elect Obama.
Kevin Sabet, the director of Project Smart Approaches to Marijuana, an anti-legalization group, predicted the new Justice Department policy will accelerate a national discussion about legalization because people will see its harms — including more drugged driving and higher high school dropout rates.
Kristi Kelly, a co-founder of three medical marijuana shops near Denver, said the Justice Department's action is a step in the right direction.
"We've been operating in a gray area for a long time. We're looking for some sort of concrete assurances that this industry is viable," she said.
Yost reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Alicia Caldwell in Washington, D.C., Rachel La Corte in Olympia, Wash., and Kristen Wyatt in Denver contributed to this report.
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Baku-APA. The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society and filling a vacuum left by departing international forces, APA reports quoting AP.
"If men can carry out this duty why not women?" asks Lena Abdali, a 23-year-old Afghan soldier who was one of the first women to join one of the special units in 2011.
Night raids have long been a divisive issue between Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who doesn't want foreign troops entering Afghan homes, and the U.S.-led coalition that says the raids are essential to capturing Taliban commanders.
Many Afghans, however, have complained that the house raids are culturally offensive. Having male troops search Afghan females is taboo. So is touching a family's Quran, the Muslim holy book, or entering a home without being invited. Another focus of anger has been the disregard for privacy and Afghan culture because women and children are usually home during the raids.
The raids now are conducted jointly by U.S. and Afghan forces, but the female Afghan special forcessoldiers play an important role. Their job: Round up women and children and get them to safety while guarding against the potential dangers of female suicide bombers or militants disguised in women's clothes.
The missions have taken on increasing importance and the Afghan government and the U.S.-led coalition have stepped up training of the Afghan special forces as international troops prepare to end their combat mission in 23 months.
President Barack Obama announced earlier this week that he will withdraw about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan within a year. He did not spell out what U.S. military presence would remain after 2014.
Afghan women have been part of their nation's security forces for years, but they didn't start being recruited for the special forces until 2011. Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said more than 1,000 women were in the army — a small fraction of the total force of 195,000.
The role of female soldiers also has come under debate in the United States after the Pentagon decided last month to open up front-line combat jobs to women.
Col. Jalaluddin Yaftaly, the commander of the joint Special Unit of the Afghan National Army, said villagers don't like foreign forces to carry out operations in their homes, but they have welcomed the Afghan special forces units and cooperated with them in many operations.
"We were faced with so many problems when we didn't have female special forces in our units," Yaftaly said. "Female special forces are quite useful."
On a recent frigid winter morning, an Afghan special forces unit, comprising 30 men and women soldiers, drilled at a training center in Kabul.
As part of the exercise, the unit was told that an insurgent leader was hiding in a house and women and children were inside with him.
The men on the team prepared to raid the house and arrest or kill the target. Abdali and two other female colleagues were tasked with making sure no women or children were harmed during the operation.
The most dangerous part of their assignment was the possibility that the main target was hiding among the women — perhaps in disguise — so Abdali and her colleagues had to stay alert to make sure they themselves were not attacked while getting innocent women and children out of harm's way.
The military advantages to having Afghan female special forces soldiers, however, have not yet offset the social issues women like Abdali face in doing their jobs.
A woman conducting night raids with male soldiers in a conservative country like Afghanistan is still not socially acceptable. Before she starts to fight the enemy in military operations she has to struggle with her family, relatives and others who might disapprove.
Abdali said that while she hides her occupation from many family members because of security concerns, she is proud to fulfill a duty she feels is important to her homeland.
"If I will not come and put my life in danger for the women and culture in Afghanistan, then who will do this?" she asked.
Abdali wears a traditional Afghan headscarf under her helmet, but otherwise she is clad in an army uniform and heavy flak jacket just like the men. Her weapon and equipment is heavy, but she runs with it along the peaks of snow-covered mountains, unpaved roads under the hot summer sun and on rugged paths in remote areas of the country.
"Women must show their bravery and power by carrying out this duty as men do," Abdali said as she loaded her weapon to take part in the drill.
"Move to your vehicles!" the unit commander shouted.
The unit ran from their formations to six armored vehicles and started toward the target. Along the way, the commander repeated a description of the house where the Taliban leader was believed to be hiding and instructed the unit on how to surround it and arrest the suspect.
The special forces soldiers crawled on the snow-covered ground up to the house.
"You have no place to hide. Please surrender yourself," one soldier shouted.
When the target didn't respond, he repeated his command. Again, the target did not respond.
"Attack," the commander shouted.
After a gun battle, four or five special forces soldiers entered the house and secured the area. The female soldiers then went in and escorted the women and children outside.
Abdali questioned two ladies and three small boys after they were shepherded to safety. She was trying to collect information to help her team while keeping them busy and distracting them from the violence.
The men in her unit see the benefits of having the female special forces at their side.
Agha Sharin Noori, an Afghan special forces soldier who has served in the unit for two and half years, said, "In a military operation, we need our sisters as much as we need our brothers."


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Ubuntu For Phones: Beautiful, Elegant, Doomed
How good could an UbuntuPhone really be? It can't possibly be unique enough and have enough of a value proposition to break into a market that's already dominated by big, powerful players.
On Wednesday, Canonical (the makers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution) came out with a promotional video advertising ... no, not just another version of Ubuntu, but a phone-based iteration of Ubuntu.
Cue deafening silence.
I watched the video (see it embedded below) and tried, in vain, to figure out what possible larger strategy is at work here, other than Mark Shuttleworth's pet software project entering yet another iteration that will gain little to no mindshare with anyone who isn't an IT professional.
It's not that it doesn't look good. The UbuntuPhone metaphor is pretty, and I liked the combination lock/home screen, and the usage-sorted displays. None of these things, though, are exclusive technologies — there's nothing that says the UI innovations in UbuntuPhone can't be applied elsewhere. (Windows Phone's tile system is similar, and perhaps even a bit more polished.)
The problem, as I see it, is dead simple: Ubuntu is hopelessly late to a party that already ended.
Barring a radical discovery of a previously untapped behavioral or use-case niche, the smartphone market is tapped out. There's iOS for people who want it and can afford it; there's Android, for people who want a bit more latitude in terms of device choice (and want not to spend quite as much); there's RIM and the BlackBerry, although it's anyone guess how long that'll last; there's Windows Phone, which ... well, we'll see what kind of market Microsoft can scare up for that. Canonical's not bringing anything to this race other than some cosmetic gloss.
The irony is that while sitting here typing this, I can already see one plan of attack that might well work. Use the UbuntuPhone (or whatever they're going to call it) to unseat RIM, and possibly Microsoft Exchange as well. Offer the U-Phone to companies as both a set of client devices and a server messaging appliance that could run on standalone hardware or a VM. (Or, better yet, offer cloud-hosted instances of the server.) Canonical has plenty of experience with creating server iterations of their OS; why don't they put that to good use unseating a dying competitor, instead of trying to chisel into a market that's already sewn up?
Answer: because that would be like saying they can't run with the big boys, that's why.
It's been the dream of every big-name Linux shop, at one time or another in their life cycle, to become a household word. Red Hat made some stabs in that direction, but then wisely decided to concentrate its work on the server side of things, and the result has been a solid little business for the company. Various parties have tried sticking Linux distributions in retail packaging and offering them as Windows competitor. All of them failed. Canonical has come the closest to making a dent, but only because they put a bit more polish on the whole package, and not because they created a platform that had its own value proposition the way Android did and does.
Android is as close to a consumer version of Linux as we're going to get. Deal with it. It took Google's sweat and blood to make Linux into a consumer product, not just by making the product relatively easy to use (I say "relatively" only because the earlier versions of Android were indeed a horror) but by also creating an app platform that wasn't cobbled together out of a dozen disparate pieces.
It's not that there's no culture of useful Linux software, only that the culture of Linux applications has far less to offer the average phone-toting user than the Android App Store. Both because of the extant apps, and because the Android platform was built inside-out for a mobile environment.
I wasn't crazy about Android when it first appeared — its 1.x and 2.x incarnations were pretty dodgy, and the hardware was horrific stuff to behold. But over the last two years or so, Android phones have become a force to be reckoned with. They look and run great, the apps are plentiful (albeit with most of them being free apps that front for a paid service, rather than iOS's richer culture of paid apps), and fragmentation and inconsistency between devices is becoming less of an issue than it had been in recent years.
If Canonical wants to get anywhere with this project — and they claim they're going to have actual branded phones shipping with it in 2014 — they need to be realistic about how mature the market already is, and where they could realistically get a toehold. You can't just throw phones at the masses anymore.
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Cars and other business assets that are used partly for private purposes, by the proprietor of the business (ie a sole trader or partners in a partnership), are allocated to a single asset pool to enable the private use adjustment to be made. For cars, the rate of WDA claimable in the single asset pool will still depend on the CO2 emissions of the car. Private use of assets by employees does not require any restriction of the capital allowances.
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A pastry shop called the Rebel Donut has among its specialties "Blue Sky" Breaking Bad doughnuts, pieces decorated with blue rock candy. And the Great Face & Body shop recently developed a new line of blue bath salts called Bathing Bad. (It's actually bath salt used to bathe, not the street drug also known as "bath salt.")
Meanwhile, Masks y Mas Mexican folk art store near the University of New Mexico sells papier mache statues of La Santa Muerte - Mexico's folk Death Saint who counts drug traffickers among her devotees. During the chilling opening scene of the show's third season, a pair of cartel assassins is shown crawling to the saint's shrine in Mexico to request some divine help.
"We provided the Santa Muerte statues for that shrine in that episode," said store owner Kiko Torres. "The stuff now sells out all of the time."
Tania Armenta, a vice president for the Albuquerque Convention & Visitors Bureau, said the city has seen positive benefits from the show's popularity, from demands for tours to inquiries from other production companies seeking to film in Albuquerque. The Legislature also passed what has been labelled the Breaking Bad bill this year that provides tax breaks to TV shows that film in New Mexico.
"It's raised the visibility of the city," said Armenta. "They are intrigued by the scenic images that they see."
Still, tourism officials and business owners are quick to point out that they are walking a fine line in trying not to promote the dark themes from Breaking Bad. But their pride in the show taking place in Albuquerque - and the money that it brings in - is often enough to offset their concerns.
Ball said the show doesn't glorify the drug war but rather educates the public on its dangers.
"Watch it with your children. Yes, it's dark," said Ball. "It actually educates you about meth, about making it and what actually happens to you when you walk down that road."
The show's themes prompted Miguel Jaramillo, 28, and Kim Shay, 38, both of Albuquerque, to take their own tour of the Breaking Bad sites around town during a recent afternoon.
While at the Crossroads Motel, known on the show as a den for meth use and prostitution, Jaramillo took photos with a smartphone and uploaded them to his Instagram account. In a day's time, the pair had visited more than six sites and planned on seeing more.
"This is part of my geekiness, I guess," said Jaramillo, who recently fell in love with the show before realising how big of a role Albuquerque played in it. "I'm geeking out today." - Sapa-AP


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Thursday, August 6, 2009
Roasted Pepper and White Bean Spread - Zach's In the Kitchen with Oma
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I'd like you all to meet Zach, my soon to be eleven year old grandson. He's been helping me in the kitchen this past week. We're working on a quick meal that includes a pepper and bean spread, salad, focaccia, pasta and cake. He's responsible for the pasta and decided to make carbonara, which is his brother's favorite meal. Zach's carbonara comes from Cook's Illustrated and the recipe is on their website which you can find here. The red pepper and bean spread comes from Gourmet magazine. It's another simple treat that the very young can make. It uses standard pantry ingredients and a blender to make a starter that's guaranteed to please young and old alike. It's a great way to start a Mediterranean-style meal. Here's the scoop.
Roasted Pepper and White Bean Spread...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
1 cup drained bottled roasted red peppers (8 ounces), rinsed
1 cup drained canned white beans (6 ounces), rinsed
1/2 cup coarse fresh white bread crumbs (1 slice bread)
1-1/2 teaspoons chopped flat anchovy fillets or 1/2 teaspoon anchovy paste
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
Purée all ingredients in a food processor until smooth. Serve with pita toasts or baguette slices. Yield: 1-1/3 cups.
34 comments :
- Through My Kitchen Window said...
Yummo. Sounds so fresh and healthy and looks so vibrant. All I need is a chair, the sun and a glass of wine to go with that one perfect bite.
- August 6, 2009 at 12:56 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
What a cutie and so glad to see him in the kitchen!
- August 6, 2009 at 1:09 AM
- Unknown said...
What a lovely combination of flavours... and what a lovely grandson!
- August 6, 2009 at 3:31 AM
- Jamie said...
That is wonderful that Zach is helping you in the kitchen and cooking! And the apron is perfect! Love this spread. Perfect for next I have guests over!
- August 6, 2009 at 4:24 AM
- Katy ~ said...
Oh my goodness, look how much he's grown from the picture in your sidebar. It all happens so fast.
The color of this alone would be enough to keep me going back and dipping over and over again. Well done. - August 6, 2009 at 5:09 AM
- Selba said...
Good job, Zach! You will be a great cooker like your Oma :)
- August 6, 2009 at 5:40 AM
- Martha said...
Of course, your grandson would be in the kitchen with you! Zach is a sweetie. Enjoy your time with him.
- August 6, 2009 at 5:58 AM
- Donna-FFW said...
Gorgeous color on that spread. Zach looks like a lovely young man!
- August 6, 2009 at 6:30 AM
- My Little Space said...
Just look at him! He is all grown up. What a handsome boy he is...he he! It was great to have someone close in the kitchen to give you a hand. I'm sure you enjoyed his accompany too.
- August 6, 2009 at 7:38 AM
- Lori said...
Cooks Illustrated is so stingy with their recipes.
I bet it was fabulous. And I always love white beans! Add red pepper- muy delicioso!
Great job Zach! - August 6, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
Great work Zach! I love seeing kids in the kitchen!
- August 6, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- Katherine Roberts Aucoin said...
You certainly have some handsome help in the kitchen Mary! Girls just love a man who knows their way around the kitchen!
- August 6, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Gracie said...
Way to go with your grandson in the kitchen!The spread looks yummy.
Gracie - August 6, 2009 at 10:55 AM
- Lakeshore Cottage Living said...
Hi Mary!
Zach is a handsome young man. I think it is wonderful that you are cooking with him. Those are times he will never forget. Your kitchen looks beautiful and that spread sounds yummy!
Kristine - August 6, 2009 at 11:20 AM
- noble pig said...
I bet he just loves being in the kitchen with you. What a sweet boy! And what a great spread!
- August 6, 2009 at 11:35 AM
- pigpigscorner said...
aww...so nice to have a little helper in the kitche. Sounds delicious and love the colour!
- August 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM
- Karen said...
How fun! The pepper/bean spread sounds delicious and is such a pretty color. Love Zach's apron! LOL
- August 6, 2009 at 1:19 PM
- Dee said...
oh yummy! what an interesting dip, seems like it would be a nice change up from hummus! i will look in the cupboard tonight to see if we have any white beans! yummy!
- August 6, 2009 at 1:31 PM
- Country Wings in Phoenix said...
Oh Mary!
That sounds so wonderful and then to have a helper on top? That just takes the cake, and he likes to cook. You are starting him out right. Not a lot of boys like to cook. It is one of the essential things that all boys should learn. At least he won't starve when he grows up. Thanks so much for posting this wonderful post, and thanks to Zach for being a great helper. Country Hugs Mary, Love, Sherry - August 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM
- Cathy said...
Isn't it fun working in the kitchen with a grandchild? And what a cutie! You are making some very special memories.
The roasted pepper and bean spread has got me salivating. - August 6, 2009 at 3:06 PM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
What a hand young chef, Oma. And the bean spread is right up our alley. Enjoy your visitors.
- August 6, 2009 at 4:24 PM
This looks great, and what a cutie!
- August 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- The Fajdich Times said...
Stop on over. I'm pleased to give you an award for your blog:)
- August 6, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
You have a wonderful kitchen helper! I love that you're making great tasting food together>
- August 6, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- NKP said...
What a sweet young helper!
Dinner sounds delish, he could cook for me anytime! - August 6, 2009 at 9:54 PM
- theUngourmet said...
It's so nice to meet you Zach! You are learning from the best! ;0)
Wonderful spread! - August 6, 2009 at 11:26 PM
- R3 Method Show said...
Peppers and beans are a winning combo!
- August 7, 2009 at 9:26 AM
- Puna said...
Oh my goodness, your son calls her OMA. Are you German?
- August 7, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Puna, my husband is German. Oma was easier than grandma for the boys to say when they were really small.
- August 7, 2009 at 7:44 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Looks like you have a great helper and that dip looks delicious!
- August 7, 2009 at 10:35 PM
- The Cooking Photographer said...
I see it now, Zach grows up to be a famous food blogger. How fun is this!
- August 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM
The spread looks great. My first thought was that it would serve as a perfect, flavorful sub for mayo on sandwiches like a BLT. I will def be trying this.
- August 9, 2009 at 3:24 AM
- tammy said...
On the pepper and bean spread, can you think of anything that could take the place of the anchovies. I have friends who keep Kosher and they cannot eat anchovies or the paste. Thank you
- October 19, 2013 at 5:19 PM
Can you suggest something to replace the anchovies. I have friends who are Kosher and they cannot eat anchovies or anchovy paste.
- October 19, 2013 at 5:21 PM


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2. It's all about the dialogue, the chat, the conversation:
I'm not just starting a campaign, though, I'm beginning a conversation — with you, with America. Because we all need to be part of the discussion if we're all going to be part of the solution. And all of us have to be part of the solution.You could say this is just... talk. It's pointless blather. Let's yammer and yak and jaw and babble. Let's chew the fat and confabulate. It'll be great. But if it's not nothing and it's something, I think it's a signal of openness — possibly as an antidote to the disease of calculation that everyone thinks she has and possibly to leave plenty of room to readjust any and all of her policies and proposals.
Let's talk about....
And let's definitely talk about...
So let's talk. Let's chat. Let's start a dialogue about your ideas and mine.
Because the conversation in Washington has been just just a little one-sided lately, don't you think? And we can all see how well that works.
And while I can't visit everyone's living room, I can try. And with a little help from modern technology, I'll be holding live online video chats this week, starting Monday.
So let the conversation begin. I have a feeling it's going to be very interesting.
And let me add that I think she looked fine. It's not easy to sit on a comfy couch and not sink into the cushions and look like a blob or to sit too upright and look like someone who's trying not to sink into the cushions and look like a blob. She had reasonably natural, appropriate hand gestures. And her voice was decently modulated with some midwestern edge to it. She did a nice job of injecting the feeling of a smile into her voice at times, which had a good humanizing effect.


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How to Buy Properties from a Wholesaler
Ever heard of the Latin phrase "Caveat Emptor"? It means "Buyer Beware".
There are so many newbie wholesalers in the market who want to sell a house in that a lot of "deals" are just not deals at all. Some are just plain dangerous to take on. The current wave of multi-level marketing is "educating" wholesalers and setting them up for failure. I've been strung along by some pretending to be a "friend" of the seller, and unethical middlemen who have never declared to the seller that they, the wholesaler, will not be buying the property. I've had wholesalers lie to me to complete a deal. I've almost been to court because of bad wholesalers selling properties unethically.
Good Wholesalers of Realty in MN
Most wholesalers that we work with are very ethical and provide a very valuable service. They are an indispensable part of my real estate investing business, and make it so that we don't have to go out and hunt real estate as much as we used to.
The good wholesalers are the ones who:
Disclose to their seller that they are seeking to wholesale the property and/or they are cash buyers who can close on the property if a buyer is not found on time for the target investments property. A good wholesaler will disclose to the seller what they are doing so that there are no tricks, no cons, and no misunderstandings with the house they are wholesaling.
Evaluate the Investment Property
Your main job in buying from a wholesaler is to be able to evaluate each investments property to make sure it is profitable for YOU.
Don't allow the fear that a wholesaler may be unethical deter you from buying wholesale deals. Think about it, when you are dealing directly with a motivated homeowner, do you know if they are ethical? Of course not. And, a lot aren't. I've had sellers tell me they owe $50K on a house, and when we pull the title report there's $150K in liens.
When you hunt real estate bargains, look at a wholesaler just like any other home seller in the field; no better, no worse. You don't try to buy a house from a homeowner, and ask them to tell you whether it's a good deal or not. It's like asking a car salesman if you should buy a new car. Their answer is "Of Course!" You expect them to advertise the best points, and then you will make the decision, based on your own due diligence, if it makes sense or not. Approach buying a wholesale house in the same way.
Do Your Due Diligence on Realty in MN
When you receive a wholesaler's ad for a property, your first job is to decide whether to pursue it further or not. Quickly weed out those that do not meet your investment criteria or that of your investor group. If you are not interested in the deal at this point, there is no need to verify any of the info.
If you want single family rehabs and the ad is for an apartment building, you can quickly rule that property out. But, if the property does meet your criteria, then verify all the information. Use your own investment formulas, and create the offer that makes financial sense for your investing business.
How Much Profit Should a Wholesaler Make on Properties?
When buying from a wholesaler, find the buying price that works for you. Don't worry about the size of the assignment fee that the wholesaler is making. As long as the deal works for your numbers, and you close on the deal, the wholesaler will be eager to bring you business again and help make you a little wealthier.
Sometimes it may seem like the wholesaler makes a lot of money for taking none of the financial risk and without doing anything to the house (usually not even taking title). But, you have to take into consideration the marketing effort that goes into attracting the motivated sellers, and the time requirement to sift through all of the deals, inspect all the houses, and negotiate all the deals, just to find the few that provide significant profit for both parties.
An investor we know recently shared this:
"I've purchased quite a few wholesale deals in my career. I've never cared what the wholesaler made because I negotiated a deal that worked for me and my business. Regardless of what the wholesaler made, I was happy with my profits. I didn't care if he made hardly any profit, or if he made a huge profit. It was irrelevant to my calculations. All that mattered was that 1) I was getting a good deal, and 2) that it fit my property investments goals."
If you can purchase at a price that makes financial sense, the wholesaler's profit margin does not matter to you. If it is large, that just means that he or she did a good job locating and negotiating a great deal which made it possible for you to have this opportunity to make money from the deal. But, if you balk at the wholesale assignment fee or try to nickel and dime them down a few more grand, you may very well convince that wholesaler not to do business with you again. I've already scratched a couple of investors off my list just because they tried to change the deal at the closing table because they didn't like that we was making $4-5K on the property; as much money from the deal as Realtors would have for listing it.
Creative Closings for Property Investments
If you are bringing a lender into the picture and having to get financing, you may have to work with the wholesaler to structure the deal to get passed some lending requirements. There are creative ways to avoid seasoning issues and assignment fees on the HUD1, and you will need to work with the wholesaler and the seller to get it done. Cash is king in this business, but a good wholesaler will work with you if you have your T's crossed and I's dotted to have your financing in place on any real estate deal.


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Friday, November 27, 2009
This Is What Happy Tastes Like
Friday, November 27, 2009
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Happy? Eewww, no thanks. I'll have a double helping of unhappy, with a dollop of angry on the side please.
- November 27, 2009 at 9:35 AM
- Wild Cakes said...
Happy is a turkey with a wattle piercing?
- November 27, 2009 at 9:37 AM
I'm just wondering...what's up with the tribal piercing?
- November 27, 2009 at 9:40 AM
Happy has a taste? And that taste is a Mr. Potato Head with a yellow lips, funky highlights, and a neck piercing? Sounds... uh... tasty. :)
- November 27, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Lillian'sheart said...
Oh wow! HAHA. The box is hilarious!!!
- November 27, 2009 at 9:49 AM
- kathryn said...
I definitely didn't know "happy" was a flavor!
- November 27, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Becca said...
Is that a nipple ring or is there another body part of that turkey that is pierced?
- November 27, 2009 at 9:54 AM
- ME! said...
I'm still preferable to "Fudgie the Whale". He would easily be just as happy tasting...
- November 27, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- zombies4pets said...
It looks like some angry affro bird that is mad at me with a strange piercing in its chin...
- November 27, 2009 at 10:00 AM
- The Internet Gypsy said...
That's what happy looks like too - the expression on the cake face makes me smile out loud. Sometimes these cakes make me want to cringe, but not this baby...
- November 27, 2009 at 10:06 AM
- Nancy said...
At least you can identify what it's supposed to be! Although, when I think of "turkey"....the first thought that comes to my mind is NOT "happy".
- November 27, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- Joy said...
Is it just me, or does the wattle looke like tears of blood?
- November 27, 2009 at 10:26 AM
- Erica said...
I do not want to know what part of that poor turkey (?) is pierced. What would you call a Prince Albert on a turkey anyway?
- November 27, 2009 at 10:40 AM
- Tiffany said...
What the heck? I agree - it's totally some sort of weird turkey piercing. Usually you can sort of guess what the decorator was trying to do, but I really have no idea!
- November 27, 2009 at 10:44 AM
- Gary said...
Little Chickadee sez:
"What would you call a Prince Albert on a turkey anyway?"
A Prince Tom. - November 27, 2009 at 10:53 AM
- Terry Lee said...
i know i'm happy now.
happy happy joy joy!!
still feeling a little uneasy about that piercing.
gobble. gobble. ack! - November 27, 2009 at 11:07 AM
- Annieofbluegables said...
Amen to all the above. Besides all those things pointed out, what is that holding his waddle? It looks like his beak has been broken.
Adam's Apple piercing. cringe
hey if you are looking for more wreckarators, check out this wedding wreck site.
maybe you already know about it, but there are some amazing pictures here, including some terrible cakes.
~a - November 27, 2009 at 11:13 AM
- Jedijson said...
What's with the bull ring stuck through it's neck? I'll bet it can't gobble anymore. Poor...whatever it is.
- November 27, 2009 at 11:19 AM
- Becky said...
That box is just as funny as the cake!
- November 27, 2009 at 11:29 AM
Is this "turkey" happy because he "just" has a cold, and not flu?
Maybe it's not. Ewwww.
Mocking - November 27, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- jackie31337 said...
For some reason I am reminded of a Discovery Channel nature documentary from about 12 years ago. I was trying to watch it in the common room of our house at college. When the narrator spoke the words "the male turkey has become aroused", my roommate insisted we change the channel.
- November 27, 2009 at 11:44 AM
what is it anyways? a google-eyed-triangle-nosed-neck-pierced-stick-arm-ketchup-snot-nosed-clown-wig-wearing-balloon-head? idk.... if that's what happy is suppose to taste like, then i never want to taste happy lol
- November 27, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- DJ Beauty and Beyond said...
Yes...what IS that ring thingy?
- November 27, 2009 at 12:00 PM
- Unknown said...
I can't wrap my mind around this cake. Disproportionate beak, drip of blood/gobble, wattle piercing, and ridiculously small feet? it just doesn't add up.
- November 27, 2009 at 12:18 PM
I thin I've worked it out. It's a bull, or something of that sort, which is the grey background and most of the black detail, and of course the nose ring. And then someone has turned it into a 'turkey' by decorating over the top with garish frosting.
So it's not even a turkey - it's a bullkey. A turbull. - November 27, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Sounds like something that should be printed on an adult product.
- November 27, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- Karen said...
Being that I'm lactose intolerant, I feel compelled to state that no ice cream cake will ever be "what happy tastes like" unless, of course, feeling ill as a result of dairy consumption suddenly becomes a happy occasion.
- November 27, 2009 at 12:54 PM
that's one bad-ass turkey! what a menacing look! and fro! and--piercing???
- November 27, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Stephanie said...
I love the chin piercing and the blood running from its left eyeball...
- November 27, 2009 at 1:27 PM
- Unknown said...
How'd he get the bloody beak?
~Amy B-H - November 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- kadyb said...
Turkey (?) is into bling. Wow. Professionals put these things out for sale?
wv: asimpri - Asimpri don't know what to make of some of these turkey cakes. - November 27, 2009 at 2:02 PM
- Viewtiful_Justin said...
Does anyone else see a problem with laying the head icing before you do the "tail feathers"? It makes the dimensions ALL WRONG. Several of these cakes would be at least 42.6% less horrendous if it didn't look like the feahters were eating the head.
- November 27, 2009 at 2:21 PM
- Hobbit said...
Happy tastes like a clown turkey with a bloody nose and a navel piercing?
(shrug) I'll buy that. - November 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM
- Laura Kathleen said...
That's a Carvel ice cream cake! :)
The M&M one is kinda creepy too. They have one stock oval cake that always looks like an M&M, an egg for Easter, or a football around Superbowl time.
It IS what happy tastes like, if ice cream cake is your cuppa tea. The crunchy things in the middle of the layers is pretty yum-o. - November 27, 2009 at 2:49 PM
- sloth003 said...
a tasty turkey so happy it is crying blood. ugh.
- November 27, 2009 at 3:03 PM
- ksaldria said...
Why does the Happy Turkey have a wattle piercing? o.O
And yes, I did have to go to wikipedia to look that word up. - November 27, 2009 at 3:29 PM
Jen, you are wonderful. Not only do you cause me to laugh till I cry nearly everyday but I also learn amazing new things on this site. Today I learned that a baby chick wearing a rainbow afro wig and a labret ring with blood running down its face pretending to be a turkey is what happy tastes like. Wow. Of all the things that happy could taste like I would have never thought of that. Thank you Jen for enlightening us. Wreck on!
- November 27, 2009 at 3:56 PM
I just had to tell you that yesterday was my birthday and my wonderful hubby ordered a cake for me, which he's never done before. He asked for them to put a ladybug on it since I love them, and instead of a ladybug drawn on the cake, they made painted the rectangular cake to look like a ladybug! I about died laughing! And, on top of that, it said 'Happy 27th Karen' and you could tell that they had messed it up and rewritten the 7. Total Wreck! I forgot to take pics before we dove in, it was priceless!!
- November 27, 2009 at 4:55 PM
- Wolverine Girl said...
So happy tastes like a blob of tomato sauce on chocolate icing, does it? Interesting.
- November 27, 2009 at 5:08 PM
Looks like he's pretty pissed about that chest ring!
- November 27, 2009 at 5:26 PM
- Melissa (& Billy) said...
It's Wavy Gravy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wavy_Gravy - November 27, 2009 at 5:44 PM
- Noni Mausa said...
To me, he/it looks like Fat Freddy from the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. Compare: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Keedspills.jpg
- November 27, 2009 at 5:55 PM
- Green said...
Word Verification: sympow!-enthusiastic sympathy. ex: I have real sympow! for that turkey's piiiieeerrrccciiingg. - November 27, 2009 at 9:28 PM
Dang, that looks like a punk turkey with a ring pierced through its neck. Or is the baker confusing it with a bull with a ring through the nose?
- November 27, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- krillia said...
That attempt at a wattle, seeing as it's a different kind of icing, looks kind of like the poor thing got shot through the head.
- November 27, 2009 at 10:03 PM
- DMackendrick said...
A punk rock turkey! Rock on oh pierced one!
- November 28, 2009 at 3:17 AM
i'm not even gonna lie, that's what all of the cakes at family gatherings have looked like. carvel is too good to pass up.
- November 28, 2009 at 4:21 AM
- Kaelen said...
Once upon a time Mr punk teenage turkey yelled at his Mom,and then ran off to get a neck piercing.
On the way home he got beat up by a gang (hence the bloody nose).
As he was slowly limping back to his home a cake wreck designer saw him, and immediately rushed to work, saying he had found the perfect new design for cakes!
The end!
And the motto of that story kids, is never get your neck pierced. - November 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- Brittany said...
I have expected some sort of homage to Black Friday.... although from the sleep deprivation I lack the creativity to say something witty, thus sparking your imagination... oh well
- November 28, 2009 at 8:12 AM
Oh, my goodness, it did use to be a bull. Look how the misplaced feathers are covering what used to be the eyes. Cake Wrecks is becoming like CSI: Icing Palimpsests.
- November 28, 2009 at 8:08 PM
- Maz said...
I'm pretty convinced that it was once a Bull cake, and someone tried to disguse the fact with excessive icing and stickfigure legs.
- November 30, 2009 at 6:26 AM
- ilovebabyquilts said...
This is what happy tastes like...now frickin' eat it and shut up!
Love, angry bull turkey - November 30, 2009 at 3:46 PM
Froth said...
-- it's a bullkey. A turbull.
Yes, I agree. That is one turbill cake. :) - November 30, 2009 at 5:28 PM
Why the "nipple" piercing...does the turkey need to be led to the taste of happy?
- November 30, 2009 at 6:42 PM
It looks like Richard Simmons. o.o
- December 2, 2009 at 1:02 AM
He reminds me of Mr. T. "I pity the fool who buys this cake!!"
- December 14, 2009 at 10:09 PM
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