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milk and tea
But the English do go through a lot of milk--in their tea. Now it's my turn to turn my nose up. English tea, or at least the everyday blends that we refer to in our house as (BrE) bog standard tea, is blended to be strong enough to withstand milk and sugar. Because they're used to very strong tea, the British claim that American tea (typically an orange pekoe) is "like dishwater". Americans are more likely to drink their orange pekoe with lemon than with milk, and it makes nice iced tea. (Don't try to make iced tea with British brands like PG Tips or Typhoo--it turns out incredibly bitter. And don't try to serve nice iced tea to the English--they probably won't appreciate it, though some are starting to drink overly sugared and overpriced flavo(u)red iced teas that come ready-to-drink.) Some British folk insist that Americans would drink more tea if we had "proper" tea like theirs. Faced with the prospect of British tea, however, I've become, for the first time in my life, a coffee drinker. My thinking is that if milk and tea were suited to each other, then tea ice cream would be at least as popular as coffee ice cream. But it isn't, is it? (Mental note: prepare for onslaught of comments and small incendiary devices.)
But I started this post to write about types of milk, having done types of cream some time ago. (It remains one of the most Googled posts here, although the top ones are probably red shoes, no knickers and smacking and spanking, which are Googled late at night by people with something other than dialectal variation on their minds.) Milk with the fat removed is called skimmed milk in BrE, while in AmE it tends to be called skim milk. On the other end of the scale (3-4% fat) is what Americans call whole milk and the British call full fat milk, which is a nice dieting ploy, since I'm too embarrassed to buy it. In between, Americans have options, known as 1% milk and 2% milk, while the British have semi-skimmed milk, which is 1.5-1.8% fat, according to Delia (old-school British TV chef).
When referring to the units of milk you can buy, Americans speak of buying a half-pint, pint, quart, half-gallon (i.e. 2 quarts) or gallon of milk. (Pints aren't that common, though, as we are probably buying it to drink, rather than to splash on our tea. Half-pints are what you get with your [AmE] school lunch/[BrE] school dinner.) In BrE, one always speaks of units of milk in pints (metric system be damned!). So, you can buy a pint of milk, or two-pint, four-pint or six-pint containers. British (Imperial) and American (US) liquid measures are not the same, and a British pint is slightly bigger than an American pint ('Hear, hear!' say the blokes down the pub). But there are such things as Imperial quarts (2 pints) and gallons (8 pints), so I'm not sure why only the term pint is used in measuring milk. By law, the pint-label(l)ed containers now tell you how many (milli)lit{re/er}s they hold, but no one pays any attention.
---Note to homesick Americans within easy reach of south-eastern England. Tallula's tea rooms in Brighton, behind Waitrose, serve a nice iced orange pekoe and very nice American pancakes--although they haven't learned to serve the latter with butter and they put way too much citrus fruit in the glass with the former. When I complained once that all I could taste was orange, and not tea, the waiter said, puzzled, 'But it's orange tea'. No, it's orange pekoe--it's thought to be named after the royals in Holland, not its flavo[u]r or colo[u]r. That said, they take requests for butter and 'not much fruit' without much eyebrow-raising.--
Postscript (15 April): I meant to mention (BrE) builder's tea: very strong, with lots of milk and sugar. So, here we have the way you take your tea linked to your social class...
Post-postscript (March 2010): Tallula's has gone out of business. I am SO SAD!
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- Alice14 April, 2008 00:34
Black tea with no milk stains your (my) teeth, which is pretty much the only reason (along with pure habit) that I have milk in my tea. I don't drink floor-sweepings (aka bog-standard) tea though, unless it's an emergency. Yuk. (from the UK)ReplyDelete
The problem Britons have with American tea isn't the variety of leaf; it's with the incompetent presentation. Even today, it's virtually impossible to get a cup of tea in an American restaurant where the WATER IS BOILING. Nothing else matters anywhere near so much as this detail.ReplyDelete
Most people, even in people's houses, think that "was boiling several minutes ago" is good enough. It's not, not even close. Worse yet are those 190 degree F taps that some people have put in, and I won't even go into the horror of tea made with hot tap water, which I have seen.
There's a little ritual with this, all across America: you ask for tea, and you get one of those little metal teapots full of hottish water, and a cup and saucer, and a teabag still in the envelope. You're expected to unwrap it and dunk it in the rapidly cooling water and wait a minute. If you put milk in the pale yellow result, it would go stone cold. Horrible, just horrible.
Mind you, I've had some pretty wretched cups of coffee in England; quite a few places still seem to believe that instant coffee counts. It doesn't.
I'm one of the few people (I believe) who drinks both tea and coffee regularly.ReplyDelete
I grew up on coffee - plenty of sugar and milk from I was about ten. Dropped first the sugar and since the milk when I didn't burn my tongue anymore. It'll have to be a very very bad cup of coffee before I add milk or cream to it. I do like the occasional cappuchino, though.
Tea, though, I know because my uncle isn't a coffeedrinker. These days I have two cups of coffee in morning and perhaps another two in the afternoon. But I'll often have a cup of tea or two in the evening or even with a meal.
For much the same reason I'm now drinking more than just earl grey. Depending of mood, time and occasion I enjoy EG, Darjeeling, Lapsang Souchong and Assam or English Breakfast. I picked up this variety from sampling the bags when I lived in Bath - the English selection is much wider than the Danish in that regard.
Now, though, I buy my tea coarse-leaved from the speciality shop.
I never take anything in it, though. With the possible exception of honey if I have a sore throat. I was rather bemused by seeing how the English would plop a bag into their mug with milk before pouring in the boiling water. Seemed very counterproductive to me.
As for Orange Pekoe, this is what Upton Tea says hereReplyDelete
And fnarf is spot on. The xanthene in tea is only readily soluble in boiling water. I only have tea at home. At work it's the cheapest teabags for tea flavored water, and I feel lucky to get that. Only Chinese restaurants serve decent tea - mostly Oolong.
Recent study showed that the benefits of tea are negated by milk. I grew up with Canadian mom, so hot, winter, drink was milk with some hot tea in. As I got older, I took less and less milk, until I now rarely drink the crap - milk that is. (Always hated milk, as a kid forced to drink it at every meal, Whole Milk ugh.)
I know where the Indian import shops are, and I get good, loose, tea there.
- Dr. Tom Roche14 April, 2008 06:48
Real pancakes are of course served with maple syrup, which I suspect is probably nigh onto impossible to get in Britain, right?ReplyDelete
Afair, Kate Fox has a chapter on tea in "Watching the English", which is rather enlightening, too. It includes details on different rituals of making tea (like the one where the milk goes in the mug first, then the tea bag, then the water...:)) or the theory that the lower classes tend to like their tea strong and it gets weaker the higher up in class you look.ReplyDelete
- Harry14 April, 2008 09:05
I've never seen tea ice cream made with black tea, although the Japanese make a nice ice cream flavoured with matcha, the powdered green tea used for the tea ceremony.ReplyDelete
But their used to be (C18th? Regency?) a dessert in Britain called 'tea cream' which was a set cream dessert flavoured with tea - like a tea pannacotta, maybe? I can't remember whether they used gelatine to set it or something else. I doubt if it was made using PG Tips though.
I generally prefer coffee or other kinds of tea - oolong, green tea - but there are times when a milky cup of strong tea is comforting. It speaks to some kind of deep atavistic part of my Englishness.
dr. tom roche wrote:ReplyDelete
> maple syrup, which I suspect is probably nigh onto impossible to get in Britain, right?
No -- it's readily available.
Yes, maple syrup is easy to get in the parts of England I've lived in. However, when I was growing up in the US, my family didn't eat maple syrup; we ate the "maple-flavored" brands of syrup based on corn syrup. These are also the syrups that are normal in restaurants that serve pancakes, except very high-end ones. When times were flush we ate Mrs Butterworth's (the brand) and normally we ate store brand syrup.ReplyDelete
I have read that people in Vermont, a state where maple syrup is made, use maple syrup normally, but not the A grade stuff one can buy. The insider syrup is the B grade.
I developed a taste for maple syrup as an adult, and it's lovely, but if I am looking for the peculiar comfort of something that tastes like what one ate when little, it's Mrs Butterworth's for me.
- Anonymous14 April, 2008 11:26
I recall an Alistair Cooke talk from the mid-70s, when he explained about milk-drinking . If I have the detail correct , Americans were encouraged to partake (in the 1930s ?) partly for health reasons and also to help agriculture . Milk sterilisation had however not started in Britain , and so for health reasons many Brits would not drink it . When city kids were evacuated to the country in 1939 there was widespread TB.ReplyDelete
Milk-drinking by kids was widespread after WW2 (and sterilisation), with 1/3 of a pint given to all school pupils every day until it was done away with on cost grounds [hence the expression "Margaret Thatcher milk snatcher"]... before fat and cholesterol became hot topics .
While maple syrup is available here, it's amazingly expensive--which helps account for the price of American pancakes in restaurants here. I buy locally-tapped syrup whenever I'm visiting my folks (or they give it to me for Christmas) so I have my supply, which I use with butter on crumpets!ReplyDelete
It's not just the presentation of tea in America, I think. If it were, then my mother-in-law wouldn't mind drinking stuff that she can make herself in the US. When she goes there, like many other British folk, she brings her own bags (Waitrose's own, I think).
But if we're going to get on each other about presentation, I'll have to take the English to task for toast racks! Preciously warm bread, anyone?
Was it ever true that the English only toasted their toast on one side? I don't know where I heard that (if I'm not completely making it up), but you're comment on toast racks reminded me of the idea.ReplyDelete
Jhm, I'm willing to bet that it was Sting that told you about that - it's a lyric from "Englishman in New York"! As an Englishman myself, I can't speak for the rest of us, but I've yet to meet someone with that particular quirk.ReplyDelete
- Jane Sales14 April, 2008 16:37
My mother used to toast bread on one side, spread the other with butter and call it "French toast." Her family are Kentish.ReplyDelete
- biochemist14 April, 2008 16:41
Toasting: in cafes in the UK I have had toasted teacakes that were toasted only on the inner face, presumably because the outer crust was seen as already cooked. This is really not palatable as it doesn't allow the whole teacake (or hot cross bun in season) to warm through. It's the melted butter that does it! Incidentally, I thought everyone toasted their hot cross buns (which have been on sale in supermarkets since early January, and still are, long after Easter !!!!), but I have friends from New Zealand who eat them 'raw'.ReplyDelete
Milk in tea: the upper classes were reputed to add milk last - perhaps that was because creamy milk floats, while my semi-skimmed seems to sink rapidly.
Incidentally, I often make this iced tea recipe with PG-Tips.ReplyDelete
To be honest, the idea of plunking milk, a teabag, and boiling water into a mug seems bizarre to me. I'd never dream of making tea without employing a teapot.ReplyDelete
Have you seen this yet?ReplyDelete
A difference between the North and the South in the US is that in the South one gets 'sweet tea' (in restaurants, they'll ask "sweet or (Southern AmE) unsweet", while in the North, tea is served without sugar or sweetener, and you add it if you want to. The reason why I miss iced tea (though I do import appropriate teabags and make it sometimes) is because it's a flavo(u)red yet calorie- and sweetener-free drink. I miss being able to order it in restaurants, and the new trend for over-sweetened things in cans doesn't help.ReplyDelete
Conuly, yes I've seen that, but it has nothing to do with tea and milk, does it? :) But if you search 'baseball' on this blog, you'll find at least one post about basebally expressions.
dr tom roche said "Real pancakes are of course served with maple syrup "ReplyDelete
No no no. REAL pancakes are thin, slightly crispy around the edges and served with sugar and lemon on pancake day.
I am not a coffee drinker, I prefer a nice hot (but not scalding)pot of tea, with the non-dairy milk in the cup first and then a nice Yorkshire tea to follow. I am from the US and find the way tea is presented in restaurants here an after thought..a cup of hot water, a tiny pot of hot water and some really terrible Lipton blend with a lemon wedge on the side.ReplyDelete
To their credit, the English do have some lovely choices in tea, lots of different kinds from all over, and not all drunk with milk.
But to jump start the morning...a nice strong british blend does the trick.
- Anonymous14 April, 2008 23:26
LG} I'm not sure why only the term pint is used in measuring milk {LGReplyDelete
Last time I was back in the UK (ca. 1988) I too noticed this tendency to refer to multiples of small units. I asked for a carton of cigarettes. The clerk said: "Do you mean two hundred?"
I don't know why we would ask for eight pints of milk instead of a gallon, but asking for 200 cigs instead of a carton may have to do with the austerity and super-taxation of luxuries of the 40s and 50s, when Woodbines were sold in packs of five. In fact, if my memory is not playing tricks on me, I believe there were even packs of three.
But if austerity is the answer, Germany suffered from it as much as we did, nicht wahr. So why is it that the Germans never had any trouble understanding that 'Eine Stange' means 200, whereas for us Brits the concept of 200 cigarettes demands an understanding of quantum physics.Replies
Nine years is a long time to wait for a response, but here goes.Delete
You're a Brit who's pretty much American by now, right? Carton in BrE just refers to a cardboard pack, not to a size. It's an uncommon word over here anyway.
Googling for "cigarette carton" and "cigarette cartons" on UK sites I found: an on-line wholesaler who always specified that a carton was "of ten packs of 20"; a Metro newspaper article that said "One of the most high-profile changes comes in the form of new standardised packaging – which will see all cigarette cartons be the same drab green colour", referring to individual packs of 20; and a Daily Mail on-line webpage on the same topic with 'carton' in the URL but not in the article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3632794/Opache-couch-mix-green-brown-designed-cigarette-cartons-voted-world-s-worst-colour-think.html.
Clearly in Britain a 'carton' is no more a specific size for cigarette packs than a 'stick' is for butter. We do understand "the concept of 200 cigarettes" though; we just use the same phrase for the thing and the concept.
- MattF15 April, 2008 00:46
As for milk-drinking being commonplace in the US-- when I was growing up (in Queens) there was a milk-carton dispensing vending machine in the basement of the apartment building we lived in-- right next to the cigarette machine. A quarter for a quart, if I recall correctly.ReplyDelete
- Dr. Tom Roche15 April, 2008 08:02
"No no no. REAL pancakes are thin, slightly crispy around the edges and served with sugar and lemon on pancake day."ReplyDelete
I am trying to imagine what these things are, and nothing served here comes to mind. When, pray tell, is 'pancake day'?
Pancake Day is Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday and the start of Lent.ReplyDelete
By 'real pancakes' johnb means pancakes in the English style. They are similar to French crêpes.
I discussed the pancake issue in a previous post, here. I'll go back and put a link to it in this post as well.ReplyDelete
To mis-quote a bad joke. "Hey! You might think they are crepe, but I quite like them."ReplyDelete
It just bugs me a bit when people assume that their version of something is real and everything else is .. well .. not real?
- the_sybil15 April, 2008 16:48
Lynneguist's tale of trying to get a glass of milk in a hospital antenatal ward reminds me very much of my parallel experience of trying to get a cup of tea with milk in hospital after having a baby in America.ReplyDelete
I found it very odd when I first arrived here, to go round someone's house and be offered tea. I'd be expecting "real" (by my standards) tea - what I would be offered would be a selection of herbal tea bags, amongst which might or might not be a sachet of the leaves of "Camellia sinensis".
However, even if I use British-bought tea, boil the water and make it in a pot, I still can't create what I would consider a "nice cup of tea" here in the US. I've come to the conclusion that it's the amount of chlorine in the water here in LA (due, I think, to the virulence of the bugs in the Colorado River where most of our water comes from). I've given up and gone native - now I drink herbal tea, without milk, and often even pronounce it without the "h".
the_sybil's experience with using British-bought tea in the US mirrors mine; the treatment of local water can make all the difference in the taste. After many years of experimenting I've found that Tetley's 'British Blend' and Boston water (which is pure and minimally chlorinated) makes a very decent cuppa indeed.ReplyDelete
this explains why British childcare guides insist that you sterili{s/z)e baby bottles for the first full year, while the recommendations in American sources are anything from 'don't sterili{s/z} at all' to 6 months.ReplyDelete
My Mom insists the reason American tea is so bad is because the Brits haven't let us have the good stuff since we threw it into Boston Harbor.ReplyDelete
- Canadian15 April, 2008 20:52
I've never seen people drink milk with a meal in real life (except maybe a sweet breakfast like pancakes and maple syrup). We always have a glass of water with our meal, just like I did growing up.ReplyDeleteReplies
- Also Canadian07 February, 2017 03:32
I know it's been 9 years, but just thought I'd jump in with an anecdote that many people I know do drink milk with dinner, but mainly if it's a family dinner. When we had guests, or if we go for a fancy meal like thanksgiving with family, it's water, but unless the adults were drinking alcohol with dinner, both my parents and my in laws would have milk. And it was always milk for the kids.Delete
- Cameron15 April, 2008 21:35
Anonymous said:ReplyDelete
So why is it that the Germans never had any trouble understanding that 'Eine Stange' means 200
But it doesn't. It means ten packs. The number of cigarettes in a pack may well once have been twenty, and the manufacturers want to pretend that it still is, want no one to notice or talk about the reduction, but in fact the packs now routinely contain eighteen or even just seventeen cigarettes. So a Stange is now only around 180 cigarettes or fewer. Which is in and of itself a good reason for referring to the actual number of cigarettes rather than a stange or carton.
Pancake Day/Shrove Tuesday is the British equivalent of Mardi Gras (="Fat Tuesday") or Carnival. It's a bit embarrassing, really. No parties or parades; just a pancake to prepare us for our (mostly fictional) abstinence during Lent.ReplyDelete
PS I completely agree regarding British iced tea. It's over-sugared and over-priced. If anyone knows somewhere in London that sells the good American stuff, please tell. It's possible to get unsweetened oolong tea in many East Asian stores, though that's usually a bit too bitter for me.ReplyDelete
To go with Builders' Tea is Builders' Sugar - bought in especially by middle class households who wouldn't otherwise have a bag of white granulated in the house.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous16 April, 2008 15:34
Well now there is a question...Why wouldn't a house have White Granulated Sugar in it?ReplyDelete
I can't think of ever being in a US house whaich doesn't have a Bag of Granulated Sugar in it...even if it is in the very back of the cupboard, hardened almost to a solid mass...but it is there. Is that a rarity in the UK? Or did I misunderstand the post?Replies
- Anonymous30 September, 2017 22:42
US house. Not a speck of sugar (white, brown, powdered, etc.), ever. Good luck guests who want some in their tea, and guests who want coffee are stuck with the instant variety I keep in the back of the spice cupboard specifically for this purpose, though I've never been asked twice by the same person. I will happily supply some stevia, though. We have both powdered and liquid.Delete
Oh, I suspect that most UK households have a bag of sugar somewhere in the house.ReplyDelete
In some houses it is only there so that guests can have sugar in their tea :)
It is also considered polite to offer anyone who comes to the house a cup of tea. That includes builders and other workmen who come to the house to do small jobs etc - invariably they ask for tea with two sugars.
OK, sometimes it three sugars and some don't take sugar at all - but you certainly get strange looks if you offer them sweeteners instead :)
We still use a small amount of sugar in cooking occasionally, but the last time I used sugar (apart from that) was in a 'cuppa' for the plumber when he was here 3-4 months ago.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the REAL British working class way of drinking your tea - pour it into the saucer, and drink it from that ... (putting it into a shallow vessel with a wider surface area cools it down more quickly, y'see - the working class have a good understanding of physics. Although I confess I haven't seen tea drunk that way since at least the early 1960s ...)ReplyDelete
JohnB is quite right, since nobody bakes at home any more, and no middle class person would put sugar in their tea or coffee, they don't buy sugar, and they don't have any to offer the "tradesmen" when they call. I once offered a plumber a cup of tea, and realised with horror that the only sugar I had in the house was vanilla sugar, in a jar with a vanilla pod in it, for making pavlova meringues for dinner parties ...
- Anonymous16 April, 2008 22:51
Well then I guess the next question is, why don't people bake anymore?ReplyDelete
It seems to be as popular as ever over here...
The British are big on ready-made foods--in part because their ready-made foods are so good. So, they buy cakes and such. Also, when we say that Americans bake, it must be understood that much of that baking is from packaged mixes. My mother has never made a cake from scratch since I've known her, but if a birthday comes up, she'll bake something from a Betty Crocker box, and that's considered 'home-baked'--though she wouldn't need to have her own sugar for it!ReplyDelete
While the British are big on ready-made foods from the supermarket or deli, Americans are bigger on eating in/from restaurants.
And sure, there are lots of British who bake (I went to a tea party Saturday and sampled two very impressive homemade cakes), but there's no shame here in buying a cake in a box from a shop here, even for someone's birthday. While in the US you get fresh-baked/decorated cakes in the bakery section of big supermarkets (and those are acceptable bday cakes--though overpriced), you tend not to see mass-produced cakes in boxes in the bread section (Entenmann's is the nearest thing), and, at least in the circles I've travel(l)ed in, you'd not use one of those for your child's or sweetheart's birthday (unless they were an Entenmann's fiend). In Better Half's dad's family, every birthday gets the caterpillar cake from Marks & Spencer.
In Australia, low or no fat milk is usually called "Skinny milk".ReplyDelete
Skinny Milk is in fact a brand of no fat milk that was launch around 1980 with a very successful advertising campaign, but it is now used to refer to all no and low fat milks, regardless of brand. By contrast, whole milk is sometimes humorously called "fat milk".
Lynne, am I right in thinking you do not approve of toast racks? If so, why is that?ReplyDelete
Toast racks are evil. The entire point of toast is that it should be warm. That way, the butter melts into it and it's yummy. The toast rack is the most efficient way to make toast cold fast.ReplyDelete
The American way is to serve toast piled up, sometimes wrapped in a cloth napkin in a basket, so that the heat is retained. Many British people find this horrible. They say "but the toast gets soggy!" I do not understand this fear of soggy toast--and I believe that the sogginess of piled-up toast is much exaggerated. (I like it soggy with butter, after all.)
But cold toast, that is something to be feared!
We do bake occasionally in the UK. I was re-enacting a Civil War battle last weekend and eating freshly baked 17th century reproduction biscuits and Welsh cake (a sort of spicy thick pancake). They were supreb :)ReplyDelete
My wife bakes occasionally - but that probably doesn't count because she is American.
However, my mother still bakes for special occasions such as Christmas, but less and less each year.
As Lynne says there is such a large range different high quality baked goods available in the shops, it becomes increasingly difficult to justify the time baking.
Yes, that is true about the store bought cakes...ReplyDelete
In the US, store bought cakes are somewhat looked-down upon, unless they are from some sort of fancy bakery, or at the very least custom ordered from the supermarket. You almost have to apologize for bringing/having one otherwise. "Oh I just didn't have time to bake."
I think, to an extent, that comes from the fact that so few supermarket cakes have good frosting, it usually tastes very artificial (for the lack of a better word.)
It can be true for other baked goods like cookies, however it is more prevalent with cake. (Mind you that this really only applies to a frosted cake in my mind, as opposed to a pound cake, but I won't get in to the differences between cakes, I am still not sure I understand everything from Lynne's previous post on the distinctions. lol)
I drink loads of milk - probably two pints a day, not including cereal. Partly it's because I like the taste, and partly it's anti-soft drink discipline after my dentist had a go at me.ReplyDelete
One thing you definitely don't want is milk in herbal tea - proof that some Brits really don't get h(')erbal tea yet.ReplyDelete
Also, at my maternal grandparents' house, my father and maternal uncle are able to have extremely lengthy private conversations with each other by leaving notes in the white granulated sugar tin. Obviously, the sugar is very, very rarely used - my grandma stopped baking after a stroke, but I have taken up her mantel. I bake the Christmas cake (a good healthy 2-3 months before Christmas), and make various breads 1-2 a week. Baking is cool!
- Anonymous17 April, 2008 22:01
Being originally from a former British colony, I have inherited the penchant for strong tea - in fact it is one of the colonial legacies I'm immensely grateful for! (Note: This has nothing to do with taking milk in the tea, since I enjoy my tea black as well.) So this post was extremely enlightening - I can finally understand why Lipton sold outside the US is perfectly dependable but Lipton sold in the US hardly qualifies as tea, IMHO. I can finally stop railing silently against the supermarkets when I pass the Lipton in the aisles! =) BTW, I have in fact tasted black tea-flavored ice-cream before, and I think there's a plausible reason why it hasn't caught on the way coffee ice-cream has. The tea ice-cream I had simply had a very nondescript flavor, so much so that it was even difficult to tell it was meant to be tea-flavored. It may have been that the maker was afraid of making the tea flavor too strong precisely because of the worry that people might complain it was too 'bitter'.ReplyDelete
- Canadian18 April, 2008 01:43
I can't imagine not keeping sugar in the house! I go through sugar so fast. Other than using it in coffee or tea, I bake at least twice a week, plus my husband puts it in his cereal, plus you often need a little bit for main dishes or side dishes or even pancakes, not to mention jam-making season...ReplyDelete
> But cold toast, that is something to be feared!ReplyDelete
The answer, then, Lynne, is to eat it from the rack while it is hot!
Your fellow-academic Kate Fox discusses differences in 'toast culture' in her Watching the English (2005, p.312-3):
"The 'toast rack' is a peculiarly English object. My father, who lives in America and has become somewhat American in his tastes and habits, calls it a 'toast cooler' and claims that its sole function is to ensure that one's toast gets stone cold as quickly as possible. English supporters of the toast rack would argue that it keeps toast dry and crisp, that separating the slices of toast and standing them upright stops them becoming soggy, which is what happens to American toast, served hugger-mugger in a humid, perspiring stack on the plate, sometimes even wrapped up in a napkin to retain yet more moisture. The English would rather have their toast cool and dry than warm and damp. American toast lacks reserve and dignity: it is too sweaty and indisceet and emotional."
I'm of Kate's, rather than of her father's opinion: I hate 'toast sweat'. Still, one man's meat is another man's poison (or even 'poisson'!)
Anonymous -ReplyDelete
Aren't most of us from a former British Colony?
Well, I am, but most Americans aren't, since only 13 of the 50 states can claim to be 'former British colonies', right?ReplyDelete
point for Lynne...ReplyDelete
I can too actually, both originally, and where I am from now...
Gotta love the East Coast.
- Anonymous19 April, 2008 00:44
Reply to Bill - Indeed you are right =) but the States that once were British colonies achieved independence much much earlier than countries that only did so after WWII. For us the memories are fresher – and the tea still stronger... hehe...ReplyDelete
I don't know how Irish tea and English tea compare, but when I took a trip to Ireland, I did find I liked the tea better with milk and sugar. But here in the U.S. herbal tea at home, ice tea in restaurants (with a very occasional hot tea).ReplyDelete
Regarding your comment about Americans being more likely to drink their orange pekoe with lemon than milk, do you think that could be a regional thing?ReplyDelete
I grew up in on Long Island drinking tea with milk and sugar (not sure if it was orange pekoe or otherwise), and when I moved to Indiana for college, I remember people looking at me so funny for drinking my tea with milk as opposed to lemon, but to me and indeed all my family's friends back in NY, this was entirely normal.
(I also remember being ridiculed in Indiana for my Long Islander's pronunciation of "dawn," but that's another matter entirely.)
Could be regional, but isn't a general east-coast thing, since I grew up with lemon.ReplyDelete
But milk probably isn't enforced there as it is here. Here, you will be served tea with milk unless you specifically ask for no milk (though lots of restaurants will serve the milk on the side, many do put it in for you, and in people's homes it comes mixed in, typically). Be careful, Americans: unless you specifically order 'black coffee', it comes with milk--not necessarily on the side.
I'm from the middle of the U.S., and I've never heard of hot tea with lemon. Ice tea is usually served with a lemon in restaurants, but I can't recall ever getting one when ordering hot tea. Though I can't vouch for what people do in their homes.ReplyDelete
Hi there. Nice blog. I'll definitely be back!ReplyDelete
I'm from South Africa where we drink rooibos tea with either honey and lemon, or milk and sugar, or just on its own. We buy milk in litres or 500ml bottles and not gallons or quarts, whatever those are. I guess we have the best of both world :)
- The Welsh Jacobite21 April, 2008 22:33
On toast ...ReplyDelete
Toast at breakfast should be eaten cold, from a toast rack.
Toast at tea-time should be eaten hot, directly from the toasting fork.
Hot toast at breakfast is WRONG.
My next post is about toast (the Toast Post)...so you might want to wait to begin the War until then...ReplyDelete
The whole milk in Central Iowa was known as homogenized and until the mid1-1990s the labels on top of the gallon jugs said Skim, 1%, 2% and HOMO. Political correctness took over, I guess, and now they say Whole.ReplyDelete
My parents were both English and we have always consumed proper English tea. Dad used to bring Tetley's back from Canada, nowadays it and PG Tips are available locally. Ours is always right off the boil, made in a teapot, milk first into the cup, no sugar. Even the offspring drink it that way, and dropping the sugar is a rite of passage to adulthood.
I didn't want to get into the whole milk first/milk last question, as there are social class markers and all sorts of mythology about why one should/shouldn't put the milk in first. Look up 'tea' on Wikipedia and there's some info...ReplyDelete
Herbal teas just don't compare to tea made from tea leaves. They are simply different drinks. Some of the latter require milk, some don't, but no herbal tea should have milk.ReplyDelete
It's a shame that the americans want to drink herbal tea the whole time, and that the Brits all want to drink tea that's of such low quality that it needs disguising with "milk and 2 sugars" before it is drinkable.
As for orange pekoe, it's nice, but I prefer an oolong or (for a black tea) a darjeeling.
Whole books could be written on milk in tea I'm sure
- Anonymous08 May, 2008 01:10
My British Husband is always grossed out every time he sees my American self pour a big glass of milk (usually after I've made him his morning tea!) But, we do understand the importance of milk and the nutrients it provides so I have him taking supplements and getting the same nutrients from other food sources.ReplyDelete
One dialectal issue I don't think you've covered on this blog yet is the fact that British and Australian people planning to visit America are often warned not to order a white coffee from a black waiter. Apparently, the term "white coffee" being unfamiliar to Americans (who would say "coffee with milk"), it is sometimes misconstrued as "coffee good enough for white people". I don't know how common such misunderstandings really are, but it's commonly reported as a potential hazard.ReplyDelete
White coffee is not 100% unfamiliar in the US, I think, since I've been using black coffee/white coffee as an example of opposites in my work for years...I'd have to check whether this example is in my (AmE) dissertation/(BrE) thesis (finished in 1993), but it was only more recently that I discovered that not every American understands it.ReplyDelete
I think these days people would think you meant a special kind of coffee--like white tea can be another kind of tea on a par with green tea or black tea (i.e. referring to the kind of leaves it's made from, rather than what's done with it once it's brewed. But the other difference is that in America you're rarely handed a cup of coffee that already has the milk (or in the US, cream--see the previous discussion of cream) in it--you're left to put it in yourself, which means that you're often expected to drink stuff from those little sealed white plastic cups, which I've only seen in hotel rooms (where you're making your own coffee) in the UK, not anywhere where you're served fresh coffee.
(Of course, you are served coffee with milk if you order a caffe latte or cappuccino--but you know what I mean.)
Americans who like black coffee have to learn in the UK to order "black coffee", otherwise it often comes with milk that you've not asked for.
JohnB writes of builders' tea and how it has two sugars. He surely jests. Six sugars more like. Builders' tea inevitably leads to builders' cleavage.ReplyDelete
Hmmm... As an Irishman, I rarely put myself in the position of defending British customs, but I am going to make an exception. The Irish way of tea drinking is inherited from the British for obvious reasons. We like strong black tea, with fresh full fat Irish milk, sometimes with sugar sometimes without (without for me please). A pleasant warm energy drink for farmers and laborers alike back "in the day".ReplyDelete
It has stayed that way, unsophisticated, but unbeatable. I detest the horrible warmish stuff I get served in NY and never ever order tea there anymore. I much prefer coffee than that.
I use loose tea, but I have absolutely no problem drinking a cup of Lyons' or Barry's (tea bags). I grew up on tea bags so I like them almost the same as loose tea. I agree with the earlier point regarding the HOT water...just off the boil, straight into the pot (or mug), leave it alone for a while, and then add a drop of milk.
A lovely cup of tea.
- Robbie04 November, 2008 14:44
Americans drink far more milk per head of population than any other country. Even more so when children are taken out of the equation. Most western countries agree that children should have milk, but it's not generally seen as a suitable drink for adults.ReplyDelete
Milk in bottles from your milkman comes in pints (for those few who still have milkmen). More often nowadays in the UK milk comes in litre TetraPak cartons, or two-litre plastic jugs.
There's a standard colour code for milk and cream packaging in the UK. I thought it was a pan-European thing, but apparently not.
Red = Skimmed milk (and single cream)
Green = Semi-skimmed milk (and whipping cream)
Blue = Full fat milk (and double cream)
There is also "gold top" milk from the Channel Islands, with its extra-rich creaminess.
We usually have Assam tea in this house -- good and strong without being bitter. I prefer it with lemon rather than milk, but part of the reason might be that I'm marginally lactose intolerant.
This is totally late, but I'm from central Texas, and I don't know ANYONE who regularly drinks milk with meals any more. Kids might, but that's it. I remember a few families who did growing up, but most of us thought they were weird (I'm 32).ReplyDelete
This may be due to the prevalence of iced tea here. I usually drink water at home with meals, but my family always had iced tea. They put loads of artificial sweetener in it, but I can't stand the stuff because I like to TASTE the tea.
Presweetened tea in restaurants is a rather new thing in this area, and it annoys me because people tend to assume you want the sweet.
I lived in Europe for five years (Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic), and I agree that the super sweet stuff called iced tea that people are starting to drink there is NASTY.
Finally, I don't usually drink hot tea (I'm not much on hot drinks in general except when it's really cold, so that leaves out any time around here!), but when I do, I drink it black. I was traveling with my English friend through Europe this summer and he consistently bitched, especially in France, about the tea being terrible because it wasn't hot enough.
- Anonymous27 October, 2011 00:54
A few comments on comments, so late that they should probably be time-barred:ReplyDelete
First, to the_sybil: As an American, I'm not surprised that you were offered something other than Camellia sinensis. I am surprised, though, that you'd be offered anything while going round someone's house. (I would probably say "around" there, but I'm from New York and regional usage may differ.) If I were visiting friends, I wouldn't expect them to offer me anything until I came inside, or at least sat down on the porch.
But I agree that "herbal tea" is either a tautology or a contradiction, depending on whether you classify C. sinensis as an herb, and in either case is lexically (as well as, in many of its American variants, gastronomically) horrible. I don't know why the French "infusion," which is perfect in this context, hasn't made inroads into English.
Also, I wanted to reassure Matt that, in my experience (which I admit is limited almost entirely to southern Ontario), Canadians universally and non-judg(e)mentally refer to non-skim milk as homo milk.
Lynne, there aren't 13 US states that used to be colonies, but 16. Maine was part of Massachusetts in 1776; West Virginia was still part of Virginia, and Vermont was disputed territory on the border between New Hampshire and New York.ReplyDelete
Many other states - Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi were (wholly or largely) nominally claimed by Britain until 1783, but they were never under the practical control of the British. A small fraction of Minnesota falls into this category too.
Washington and Oregon were also disputed until 1846, but there's no reasonable way to describe them as British colonies at any time.
Absolutely true. Thanks for the correction!ReplyDelete
I'm a 40-something American living in southwestern Ohio and I love a cold glass of milk once in a while. As a matter of fact I had one with my dinner tonight. I don't drink milk every day or even every week, but I do buy milk every time I go to the grocery, and sometimes after I've put away the groceries I'll drink a glass of milk straight away.ReplyDelete
And a favorite thing to settle a queasy stomach or to cure a bout of insomnia is a glass of milk with some malted milk mixed in.
I've lived in the US for the last 16 years, and the only American adult I've ever seen drink milk is B. A. Baracus.ReplyDelete
it's virtually impossible to get a cup of tea in an American restaurant where the WATER IS BOILING. Nothing else matters anywhere near so much as this detail.
The jazz musician Django Bates expressed the British credo beautifully in this song:
The Importance Of Boiling Water
(infusion music).
It's the best drink of the day,
Whether Assam or Darjeeling or Earl Grey, so
If you like great tea
Listen carefully:
Please put some tealeaves in a pot.
Don't use a teabag, please do not.
Boil some water, but you ought ta
Make sure it's scorching and seething and scalding.
Now pour the water over the leaves (watch them dancing).
See what a spell hot water weaves: (taste enhancing).
But it must be one hundred degrees.
Now put some milk into a cup (or some lemon),
Don't fret your tea is coming up (let me demon-
strate), Give it time: four minutes should be fine.
Now pour the tea through a strainer.
Please heed my words, you'll be the gainer.
Lift the cup to your lips and take three sips...
It's good, it's good, it's goo---d, it's
Good (is it not)? And there's more in the pot, yes it's
Great to drink tea that tastes this good, 'cos it's the
Best drink of the day so,
If you want tea that tastes this good, we say the
Water must be boiling:
Take it from us it really should.
You used to be able to stream it from Django's website. Now you'll have to pay to download it from iTunes or Amazon or wherever, but I do recommend it.
Massachusetts, aged 25, eccentric-ReplyDelete
Even herbal tea is too bitter for my taste. At least a steaming cup of mint tea smells pleasant. Coffee turns my nose at 10 paces!
Regarding American style pancakes, butter is optional, syrup is required, and if you're in the northeast, maple syrup is the one true syrup.
I have enough of a sweet tooth that I will use imitation syrup if maple isn't available, but when I do, I know I'm committing sacrilege.
On another thread, Anonymous saidReplyDelete
My Chinese grandfather taught me to make tea with water that was just shy of the boil because boiled water loses oxygen and tends to taste flat. Similarly, he found the British habit of drinking tea with milk and sugar "ridiculous." Just because the British drink a lot of tea doesn't mean they are the authorities on what is "proper," it's just a way to prepare a beverage and preferences are just that...
British tea drinkers never discovered the merit of adding water before it boiled. However, we did discover long ago the demerits of adding water after it's gone off the boil. That's why we used to insist on carrying the pot to the kettle, never vice versa. I think it dates from when there would be a kettle gently boiling on the hob over the fire. Not nearly as good as your grandfather's tea, but still much, much preferable to the stuff they make in Europe with water that's no longer really hot.
We don't insist that tea with milk and sugar is 'proper' — just that it's the taste that we grew up with. The classic way to serve tea is from a pot and two jugs — of milk and hot water — and a bowl of sugar. You choose your strength, and whether to have milk and/or sugar. As in some other culture, one person is nominated to mix the drink as requested. You offer to be that person by saying
Shall I be mother?
For the last year or two, in the UK, you've been able to get 1% milk as well as skimmed, semi-skimmed and full-cream / full-fat. If semi-skimmed is about 1.8%, maybe 1% was introduced as an approximate halfway house between the first two - a gap that had never been filled in the UK before.ReplyDelete
In Canada, the full-featured milk is referred to as "homogenized milk" (some people call it homo milk for short), but in my experience nobody chooses to drink it except small children (who need the full nutrients) or those who need it for health reasons. Most people drink 1% or 2%, or *maybe* skim, and everyone has a strong opinion about which is best based on which they Grey up with! (I'm a one-percenter -- skim is too watery, and even 2% feels like drinking table cream to me!)ReplyDelete
Also, our milk comes in cartons and jugs, but in some parts of Canada (not most, as is the common misconception)... in bags! Here in Ontario, we can buy 4 1-litre bags of milk. These come packaged in a disposable bag that contains all 4 packs, but once you open it up, there are individually packaged clear bags of milk. The bag gets placed in a plastic milk jug, the top front corner is snipped off the bag, and then it's pourable. It took some getting used to when I came from a province without bagged milk (and you can still by milk in other forms here) but it's a lot cheaper to get it in bags.


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A bicycle passes along a path and leaves some tracks. Is it possible to say which track was made by the front wheel and which by the back wheel?
Explore when it is possible to construct a circle which just touches all four sides of a quadrilateral.
The centre of the larger circle is at the midpoint of one side of an equilateral triangle and the circle touches the other two sides of the triangle. A smaller circle touches the larger circle and. . . .
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An observer is on top of a lighthouse. How far from the foot of the lighthouse is the horizon that the observer can see?
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Vacuum Cleaner Belts come in many styles, and hundreds of sizes. Typically,
domestic vacuums use a belt to drive an agitation device - also called brush
roller. With only a few exceptions, most vacuums use either a flat belt, a round
belt (O-RING style) or a geared belt (also called toothed / notched belt).
The Type of belt your vacuum uses is very important, not only for
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vacuum uses will have a major impact on the systems ability to clean carpeted
surfaces. Proper agitation (Beating, sweeping and brushing carpet fibers) is
nearly 70 percent of a vacuums cleaning ability. You can also read that as less
than 30% of vacuumed soil (on a carpeted surface) is removed by suction.
Suction is very important however,. It is suction that pulls the dirt that
has been beaten or brushed from the carpet into the vacuums collection media
(paper bag or dust cup). Suction (airflow) is also the key factor in cleaning
hard surfaces or when using the vacuums hose with attachments. Without suction a
vacuum cleaner could only bring dirt to a carpets surface. While obviously both
suction and agitation are important in vacuuming carpets, it is the agitation
that actually cleans them.
Most all manufacturers use a brush roller made of wood, metal or plastic
driven by a suction or brush motor through the use of one of the three kinds of
belt - Round, Flat or Geared.
Round belts are the earliest style of belt as they were simple to produce and
easy to engineer on a vacuum. Unfortunately the round style of vacuum belt is
generally run in the same space as vacuumed dirt. This means nearly all the
dirt, paper clips, staples and hair you vacuum pass around the belt - cutting,
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This type of belt is still in use today on some domestic commercial vacuums. The
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in commercial applications. For home use, most vacuum can go 3 or 4 months
before the noticeable reduction of cleaning ability as the belt begins to
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they became a little more durable, but more importantly they could be
manufactured in styles other than "round". Enter the flat belt,
perhaps the most common belt in use on domestic vacuums today. The flat belt is
circular as all other belts but have a flat face. This is important because the
point of contact could be expanded from 3/16 on a round belt up to
5/8 or even 3/4 on a flat belt. I guess you could say that
"there is more rubber where it meets the road". More contact mean less
slippage, however the vacuums fault tolerance is still built in.
What is vacuum belt fault tolerance? - The rubber belt runs on an extended
motor rotor shaft designed to hold a belt in place up to the brush roller. The
belt is stretched into place for normal use and requires stored tension in the
rubber belt to operate. If the vacuum is used and put into a condition where the
brush can not turn the belt is designed to burn, then break. While this is a
pain to anyone cleaning on Sunday before company comes over, it is a necessary
evil. If the belt did not stretch, burn then break then it could possible be the
motor that would try to stretch, burn then break. Just imagine that every time
you caught the corner of a throw rug, or vacuumed up the kids socks you had to
replace the motor in your vacuum. So this fault tolerance, while a bit low-tech,
does work.
Flat belts are also most often run in a circular fashion as well, instead of
the twisted route the round belt takes to deliver performance in the proper
direction. This allows the manufacturers to run the belt off one side of the
brush roller, instead of the center where the dirt is. This is a great
innovation as well because you can eliminate premature failure due to dirt and
soil in the belt path, and you also move the belt close to the brush roller
bearing reducing stress on the entire machine.
Flat belts were defiantly an improvement to vacuums in general, and continued
to be improved themselves. One company has introduced a Kevlar© vacuum belt. As
you might imagine, this belt does not stretch but is tensioned by an external
pulley. The hope is that this belt will have an extended life of 8 to 12 months.
Also recently, Hoover has combined flat belts with another style of ridged belt
called a "V" belt. The "V" belt is used to drive the roller
because it is hard and not subject to cuts and scratches in the brush roller
chamber. The flat belt is used farther back in the chain protected from the dirt
to provide tension, extending its life 2-3 times that of normal flat belts.
The last design of belt is considered by us in the industry as the best.
While many variations exist, the geared belt is the most efficient method by
which to drive a brush. The geared belt is also called a positive drive system
because the energy of the brush motor is transmitted directly to the brush. The
brush and motor are locked by fixed teeth to each other trough a tensionless
cogged belt. This direct connection results in higher cleaning efficiency
because the brush can be driven at a faster speed regardless the age of the
belt. Flat belts stretch as they become used (and warm) losing their tension.
This can mean a vacuum with a worn tension belt will clean 40% - 80% less
effectively than a vacuum with a new belt. Your vacuums belt is always
stretching - losing it's tension from the moment you put it on even wile at rest
stored in the closet.
Geared belts are not used under tension. You do not stretch a Geared belt
into its place. Geared belts are also usually reinforced, made of neoprene and
fiberglass just like those in a car. Geared belts are also many times more
durable than flat or round belts. Reinforced geared belts will typically last
years under normal household use, and in many cases will last the life of the
machine - never needing replacement.
There is really only one drawback to geared belts; the initial cost of the
vacuum. Geared belts are usually used on two motor vacuums, either canister
powerteams or European two motor uprights such as Lindhaus or Windsor. Not only
is a separate suction and brush motor required, but also electronic sensory
systems to tell the user when something is wrong in the brush. These new
electronic sensors take the place of the old burning belt, stopping the system
in an instant when something other than dirt and dust is accidentally pulled
into the nozzle. Imagine that, instead of driving all over town Sunday looking
for the right vacuum belt, you simply pull juniors toy soldier out of the
vacuums brush, and start cleaning again.
As you can see, belts are very important to your home vacuuming efforts, and
the technology behind vacuum belts is still changing. The newest advances in
belt technology are clutched brush systems with gearing reduction allowing the
use of a geared belt on single motor vacuums, and even the new "beltless"
vacuums that have actually embedded a motor into the brush roller - eliminating
the need for a belt completely. Always keep a fresh vacuum belt on hand, or
upgrade to a geared belt system and your time will be better spent while you
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This weekly television series is dedicated to empowering the millions of Americans living with diabetes, featuring real people, real stories, celebrities, advice, and diabetes-friendly cooking.
dLife TV
The Behavioral Diabetes Institute is an organization dedicated to helping people with diabetes live long, healthy, and happy lives. This website provides an array of evidence-based clinical programs, all designed to help people overcome the emotional and behavioral obstacles to living well with diabetes.
Behavioral Diabetes Institute (BDI)
This resource provides tools for behavior change and information on how to create new healthy habits as well as a network to connect and share with other concerned families.
Diabetes Families
This DVD, designed for older adults, features strength, balance, and flexibility exercises that can be done at home, at work, or at the gym.
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
This televised chair exercise program was developed by a team of medical and fitness professionals to improve the health and wellness of older adults, physically limited individuals, and those managing chronic conditions and chronic pain.
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This video and facilitator's guide demonstrates patient-centered self-management education and encourages health care professionals to follow up with their patients, showing that it does not take much time to get patients to self-manage effectively.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
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American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
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California HealthCare Foundation
This video includes activities to help health care professionals recognize the importance of empathy in fostering physician-patient partnerships and improving patient adherence to therapies for type 2 diabetes. It also presents solutions for overcoming barriers to patient adherence to therapies for type 2 diabetes.
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The South Carolina State Election Commission has just released its initial review of allegations from the state's Department of Motor Vehicles that more than 950 deceased voters appeared to have ballots cast in their names after they died. And no surprise, the commission found that of the 207 cases reviewed, there was no evidence in 197 of them that fraudulent votes had been cast. The commission said that records in the other 10 cases were "insufficient to make a determination."
The findings are not a big surprise because what often appears to be "dead" people voting usually involves something else — such as clerical errors — once officials investigate.
But in South Carolina, the issue is highly charged because the state is currently battling the Justice Department's decision to block implementation of its new voter ID law. The allegations of "dead" people voting have fueled arguments that photo ID is needed to stop fraud at the polls. The DOJ argues that the law is unnecessary and would discriminate against African-American voters who are less likely to have the required photo ID.
In its review, the election commission found 106 cases of clerical errors by poll managers — such as marking that John Doe Sr. had voted when it was really John Doe Jr. There were another 56 cases of what the commission called "bad data matching." It said that the DMV used only a voter's Social Security number to match their names against death files, and that produced incorrect matches. The commission says there's no evidence that the voters are in fact dead.
The commission has turned its findings over to the state attorney general's office, which has been investigating the allegations of fraud.


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Submin provides a Web-based admin interface to your Subversion and Git repositories. Its features include user/group management, path permission management, the ability to create svn repositories and managing commit email messages. For Subversion, authentication is done with htpasswd/svn authz, so it can use the same login information as apache2/svn (and trac). For Git, ssh is used, and the login information is synched whenever a change is made. The Web interface can also work with NGINX/uWSGI, but the Subversion part only works with Apache.
Elefant is a full-featured, but refreshingly simple CMS and PHP Web framework. It features an intuitive, streamlined admin interface, a tightly integrated WYSIWYG editor, dynamically embeddable content objects for building dynamic Web sites without touching code, and an extremely fast, secure, and flexible framework for add-ons and themes. The core CMS includes page editing, a blogging engine, site navigation, file and user management, automatic version control, a tool for translators and multilingual site management, and an in-browser theme/layout editor. It is also extensively documented and has a small but friendly and active developer community.
wwwhisper is a privacy-friendly system which simplifies sharing Web resources which are not intended for everyone. It allows you to specify which HTTP resources can be accessed by owners of which email addresses. Mozilla Persona is used to prove that a visitor owns an allowed email address. No site-specific password is needed. The Persona UI makes the authentication process really smooth. wwwhisper is application-independent and can be used for any Web resources.
wcfg is a flexible and easy to customise script that can configure (or remove) complete LAMP-like virtual Web servers. It supports both nginx with php-fpm and apache2 with mod_php and can manage name based virtual servers, MySQL databases and privileges, FTP and SFTP users, and awstats and related static reports. It configures logrotate, and keeps everything consistent with the regulations and automatisms provided by the standard Debian packages. A new user is created for every virtual server, with the Web site root path as the home directory.
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Acrylic Innovation delves into acrylic's potential to create unique styles by addressing the methods and techniques that allow reader to find their own voice within the medium. The author presents a variety of successful acrylic painters, each using acrylic in unique ways to create their own original styles. By looking at how other artists find ideas with the book's 29 step-by-step demonstrations, readers will be able to explore ways of personalizing their own art.
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The project transformed the early 20th-century rail station into a modern, multi-modal transportation hub that will anchor development in the downtown Seattle neighborhood.
"Providing people with centralized access to multiple modes of safe, affordable, efficient transportation serves as a catalyst for economic development and urban renewal," said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. "We've seen it work in cities and towns across the country just as it will in Seattle."
The restoration refurbished historic features of King Street Station, while creating a safer, more inviting and accessible station for Amtrak's Cascades, Coast Starlight and Empire Builder customers. It also improved connections to commuter rail, light rail and bus lines operated by Sound Transit, King County Metro and other providers.


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This flipbook helps teach patients to identify ways to become more physically active. It provides color illustrations with two- to third- grade level text on the patient pages and simple teaching points on the corresponding instructor pages.
National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
This website provides access to program models, tools, and resources to enable health care professionals to provide self-management support for adults with diabetes in real world clinical and community settings. En español
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MSU is one of only seven members of the Canine Comparative Oncology Genomics Consortium. The Consortium is comprised of experts from around the world who share their knowledge and expertise to understand the genetics and behaviors of different cancers that affect our pets. MSU's Center for Comparative Oncology is also a member of the Canine Oncology Trials Consortium. This Consortium is a nationwide group dedicated to the evaluation of new cancer treatments.
Taking the Lead In Pet Food Safety
MSU not only has a state-of-the-art cancer treatment center, it is also a leader in pet food safety. It has teamed up with countries from around the world to advance the safe handling of food and feed on a global scale. Its work in this area not only assures safe food for your pet, but helps protect the safety of human food as well.
Most notably, during the 2007 melamine scare, MSU investigated the source of the poisoning symptoms, including renal failure, and made pictures of affected animal kidneys available to clinicians and veterinarians. Then in 2010, during another pet food recall, a team of scientists at MSU discovered a link between a group of illnesses reported in dogs and a specific brand of dog food. Both examples serve to assure pet owners that MSU will be on the front lines of pet food safety should any further recalls arise.
Developing the Future of Shelter Medicine
Teaming up with local shelters, the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine has launched an exciting new shelter medicine program to help benefit the entire community, including students, veterinarians, patients, and clients. As the program develops, veterinary students will gain valuable experience in various aspects of shelter medicine, such as spay and neuter surgery and population health, as well as behavioral enrichment and shelter and adoption programs. Ultimately, the program will build a population of veterinarians who have an increased understanding of shelter issues and needs, and the training to help meet them.
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As your local Farmers® agent in Pittsburgh, PA, I help customers like you identify the insurance coverage that best fits your needs. This process is straightforward and personalized to help make you smarter about insurance. I have the knowledge and experience to help you better understand your coverage options--whether that's auto, home, renters, business insurance and more.
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As your local Farmers agent in Pittsburgh, I can help make you smarter about insurance.
Depending on your state, you may be eligible for certain discounts. See how Farmers can save you money on insurance specific to Pennsylvania residents.
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Are you currently reviewing your insurance portfolio? If so, this is a great time to consider the value and convenience of choosing Farmers for your insurance needs. Your agent can show you all your available options, and you may qualify for discounts when you purchase additional insurance policies.
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Apply for the Farmers® Rewards Visa® and Visa Signature® cards and watch your rewards add up quickly. Cardholders can enjoy exclusive benefits and rewards. Use your points for a credit card statement credit to offset purchases or redeem points for travel, gift cards, and merchandise.
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Farmers® agents provide this service in person or online to help you review your existing coverage, so you can decide how to keep up with your changing insurance needs.
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Changes in your life can add up to changes in insurance needs. A change in marital status, the birth of a child or the purchase of a new home are just a few examples of life events that may create overlaps or gaps in your coverage.
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Achievo is a Web-based project management and tracking tool for small- to medium-sized companies, aiming to become a fully featured ERP-like system in the future. Features include a time registration module, scheduler, project management, todo's, and several statistical tools. Achievo is multi-language, fully customizable, and uses a modular system to allow future extensions.
The Advanced Bash Scripting Guide is both a reference and a tutorial on shell scripting. This comprehensive book, the equivalent of 1,000+ print pages, covers almost every aspect of shell scripting. It contains 382 profusely commented illustrative examples, a number of tables, and a cross-linked index/glossary. Not just a shell scripting tutorial, this book also provides an introduction to basic programming techniques, such as sorting and recursion. Included scripts are the Game of Life, a Perquackey variant, a Morse code trainer, and an implementation of the Gronsfeld Cipher. This book is suited for both individual study and classroom use. It covers Bash, up to and including version 4.2. Note that users of miniaturized single-board computers running Linux, such as the Raspberry Pi and the Beagle Bone, would find this Guide useful for learning and running Bash scripts to explore and expand the capabilities of these small, but powerful machines.
Ariadne is a Web Application Framework and Content Management System built with PHP. It allows you to build complex Web applications and sites with ease. It takes care of the mundane stuff like internationalization, security, user management, templating, data retrieval and storage, caching, and site management. It stores content in a structured object store that can be accessed through an extensive filesystem-like API.
Arkeia Network Backup is designed for organizations that require fast, easy-to-use, and affordable data protection. It backs up critical data to disk, tape, and cloud storage. Arkeia protects all major virtual platforms including VMware, Hyper-V, XenServer, and more than 200 physical platforms including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Netware, most UNIX flavors, and BSDs. The company's source-side Progressive Deduplication technology helps users realize better performance at a lower cost by reducing data volumes. Arkeia's deduplication is crucial to accelerating replication of on-premise backups to private or public clouds.
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Babylon Java Chat is a client and server combo that allows groups to chat and draw over any TCP/IP connection. The client can be run either as a standalone Java application or as an applet launched from a WWW document. It features public and private chatting and drawing, email, file transfers, chat rooms, instant and answering-machine style messaging, and console paging. The drawing canvas enables users to draw freehand, or to create lines, rectangles, ovals, or fonted text, or to paste images from files.
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BZFlag is a 3D, multiplayer, tank battle zone, capture the flag game that pits players against each other in a networked environment. It runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000, Linux, MacOS 10.x, Irix, Solaris, and others. An OpenGL accelerator is highly recommended, but it is playable with 3D in software.
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"Harold Ray has been a regular musical paramedic squad, delivering a healthy injection of hot soul sounds."
SF Weekly
"quality, smokin' blue-eyed soul stomp . . . romping on the grave of bands like the SPENCER DAVIS GROUP or MITCH RYDER & the DETROIT WHEELS . . . making the whole room dance like their shoes are on fire."
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"So, what have we here? Some kind of archival recording of a James Brown contemporary? A lost legend of funk and soul, lovingly restored for you, the modern listener? Not exactly. From the trés retro packaging to the fuzzy live sound to the I-feel-good yelps and Booker T. jams, Harold Ray Live in Concert seems to be one of those dug-out-of-the-garage-sale finds, a forgotten sixties gem. But Harold Ray Live is not what it seems. To begin with, there is no Harold Ray. Harold Ray Live is headed by a white, twenty-something, Berkeley-dwelling record store employee named Jason Morgan. He is backed by a five-person band, all young and Caucasian, who improbably resurrect the raucous energy of Nixon-era soul. They are, naturally, a concept band, ironically appending the word "live" to their fictional leader's name, yet their ferocious show feels completely real and unmediated. Add them to the short list of bands (The Dirtbombs, basically) who can translate their record-collector passion for old soul discs into living, breathing, butt-shaking music. In-joke or not, this is a record that, to borrow a phrase from Harold Ray Live (and the Showstoppers and the J. Geils Band), "ain't nothin' but a party."
It is probably not a party you've been to before. Harold Ray Live is all covers, most of them fairly obscure. There are two Sly and the Family Stone tunes -- one ("Turn Me Loose") from the first album, the other ("Dance All Night") from long-unreleased studio sessions at Autumn Records. There's only one real James Brown cover -- "Tell Me That You Love Me" -- yet almost everything here could have come from the hardest working man in show business. There is a frantically funky, sax-propelled urgency to almost every track, and Morgan does the soul scream ("aaaaaaaaaouuuuh, yeah!) about as well as anyone working today. However, the point Harold Ray Live makes with its covers is how deep and wide the stream flows. You've probably never heard of R.L. Johnson or Wayne Cochran or the Combo Kings, yet these tracks are just as powerful, just as vibrant, as those from better-known names. They're played well, too, with thundering bass-driven rhythms, fast, frequent drum breaks and gloriously over-the-top sax, at once loose and tight. You can't sit still while the disc is playing -- and why would you want to?
There's a lot of entertaining "live show" interplay here, too. Morgan orders a Jose Cuervo, asks a talkative female fan "You got a microphone, young lady?" and prior to his house-shaking finale "Goin' Back to Miami", announces that he's got to talk to his accountant to see whether he had a good time. Judging from the applause, whistles and sporadic audience sing-alongs, it sounds like everyone else did.
How much you enjoy Harold Ray Live in Concert will depend, to a large extent, on how you feel about authenticity. Can a bunch of post-collegiate hipsters be said to have "soul"? Were the Blues Brothers funny or a racist prank? If you can shut that kind of crap off and just listen to the music, Harold Ray Live is as good as it gets."
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