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A Mighty Fortress
Published: February 27, 2000
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To many of us, the specter of so much control suggests the possibility, even the inevitability, of rebellion. The Scheibners' oldest children are 12 and 11. What happens when they hit their teen years? Won't their hermetically sealed world spring a leak? Generational self-definition is a dearly held precept in our culture, which is why it seems to make sense to us that both Megan and Steve come from religiously indifferent families in which they defiantly distinguished themselves by their theological conservatism.
When you ask the Scheibners to imagine the future for their own kids, though, they can't picture them going astray. Peter has wanted to be a missionary for the longest time now, and since he and his parents regard this as something he has been called to do, they entertain few doubts about his doing it. Admittedly, it's hard to imagine Peter as a renegade. He is the kind of kid who, when asked in all innocence whether he ever listens furtively to his beloved ''Lord of the Rings'' tape in bed, looks shocked and says, ''Oh, no, when it's time to go to bed, it's time to go to bed.'' He loves being home-schooled, and not long ago took it upon himself to write a letter to Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania. It read, in part, ''I have the joy of knowing I am going to heaven because when I was 4, I asked Jesus to come into my heart and save me from sin.''
After spending some time with the Scheibner family, I was not particularly surprised to learn that evangelical Christians have one of the highest intergenerational retention rates of any major religion -- meaning that, as Christian Smith puts it, ''they have a great ability to raise children who do not become theologically liberal or nonreligious when they grow up.'' Certainly they work extremely hard to prevent what they see as the tragedy of apostasy. And the new availability of Christian media and of home-school curriculums helps enormously. A generation ago, evangelical families who wanted to shield their children from mainstream culture had little to replace it with, other than self-denial. Now they can offer goodies of their own. And new companies and institutions are springing up all the time to meet their needs. The Scheibners, for instance, are very excited about the founding of the first college primarily for Christian home-schoolers, Patrick Henry, in Purcelleville, Va., which will be accepting its inaugural class of students in the fall. Among other things, Patrick Henry will ask its students to sign a pledge in which they promise to court and not date.
And after college? Neither Megan nor Steve is outright opposed to their daughters' working, especially before they have children. Like many conservative Christians, they warm to the idea of a wife running her own little business from the home. ''Proverbs 31 talks about the woman who made purple linens at home and sold them,'' Steve points out. But they warm even more to the idea of their daughters ''having an eye to serve without compensation,'' as Megan says. They think too many working women have forgotten the virtues of volunteerism. And if one of their girls was to pursue a full-fledged career, Steve says, ''we'd still love her and encourage her and, after all, at some point it's her life,'' but they would also find it hard to disguise their disappointment. ''A career takes away from what I think their primary happiness will be, which is being a good mother,'' Steve says.
And then he gives a little speech that bears the distinctive hallmarks of the new Christian counterculture. ''You know,'' he says, ''you may have lots of pats on the back at work, you may have a successful career and a lot of money and great cars to drive, but in the end it always lets you down. Look at any number of gazillionaires out there -- men, women, it doesn't make any difference -- who have awful, tragic lives. Those things are not the things that satisfy. The things that satisfy are raising a good family, having love.''
America has a long history of separatist movements, and within that history, there are, to put it bluntly, the bad separatists and the good ones. In the former category are the stockpilers of guns, the people who don't pay taxes or vaccinate their children -- people who lack any sense of their duty as citizens. And in the latter category are people like the Scheibners. Indeed you could argue that their sort of separatism is good for the culture at large -- or at least represents a reasonable compromise. If they are committed to teaching Creationism, for example, better that they teach it at home than insist that the public schools do. Besides, a culture that lacks a thriving and reproving counterculture is always in trouble. The very existence of alternative ways of life like the Scheibners' keeps alive a debate about the role of morality and religion in our culture and politics that probably ought never be declared over and done.
And yet you have to wonder about a way of life that requires such rigorous policing of its psychic boundaries. There is something poignant, for a parent like me anyway, about the idea of sons and daughters who love you as uncomplicatedly in their teenage years as they do when they were small -- who are, indeed, your best friends -- but there is something unreal about it too. There is something inspiring about the prospect of an American childhood in which advertising does not invade the imagination so relentlessly, but something claustrophobic about the notion that the only alternative is a sequestered family life. There is something fundamentally right and useful about the argument that American culture promotes independence at the expense, often, of the more nurturing virtues, but something sad and scared about the idea that the safest solution to this is early marriage. If the Scheibner philosophy allows girls to linger longer at the threshold of adolescence -- not having to worry about being thin or sexy -- it also pushes them much earlier into wifely domesticity.
By next summer, the Scheibners will be living in Maine, and they are looking forward to the move. Steve is eager to ''plant'' his new church. Megan thinks ''the slower pace of life'' there will make it that much easier to shelter the children from evil. The younger kids are excited about going crabbing and maybe seeing a moose or two on the rambling, wooded acreage where their new house will be. Katie, the oldest, is excited, too. She says she's hoping to find ''a little place of my own, where I could read or think, and nobody would know about it.''
Photos: Daily (Good) News: Steve and Megan Scheibner with (counterclockwise from left) Emma, 9, Peter, 11, Katie, 12, Molly, 7, Nate, 6, and Baleigh, 4.; The Scheibner Schoolhouse: Peter and Katie at their studies.; Megan teaching her ''class'' the four R's: reading, writing, 'rithmetic and religion. Absenteeism usually isn't a problem.; United they eat: Mealtime is sacrosanct for the Scheibners. (Jeff Riedel)


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The art of successfully using deception is a skill worth mastering if you know how to use it.
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Worldwide estuaries have been subject to multiple and escalating anthropogenic impacts which have resulted in the loss of many ecosystem goods and services including: commercial activities, navigation and marine transportation, recreational and landscape values, and flood control and biodiversity support. An example of these losses is provided in an urban-industrial region of an estuary in northern Tasmania, Australia, where excessive silt deposition has resulted in almost complete loss of the channel at low tide. The causes of siltation have long been attributed to poor watershed management and high concentrations of flocculated and suspended sediments transported upstream by asymmetrical tides. However, historical analysis of anthropogenic changes in estuarine and riverine processes revealed different stressors. These included the decrease in the tidal prism and hence regime equilibrium, brought about by channel infilling and draining of tidal wetlands to create dry land for urban and agricultural uses, and the reduction and redirection of freshwater inflows for the generation of hydroelectricity. Watershed sediment loads exerted a relatively minor role in the estuarine equilibrium, which is solely dependent on tidal flows and river discharges for maintenance of stable cross-sectional areas. Sustainable remediation measures include increasing the tidal prism through the restoration of dynamic river flows and reconnection and restoration of tidal wetlands. However, the former will not be achievable without changes in major provisioning services, particularly the use of water to generate hydroelectricity. This study emphasises the importance of identifying stressors as the basis for examining the potential to reduce the trade-offs between the multiple ecosystem services provided by an estuary and its tributaries, particularly between provisioning and cultural ecosystem services, within a rehabilitation context.
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The Volvo P1800 remains one of the most stylish cars Volvo has ever made and when we asked readers which fantasy cars they most wanted to see built, a modern take on the Volvo P1800 was a hot favourite.
Best known for its prominent role in the TV series The Saint, the Volvo P1800 is one of the Swedish manufacturer's most famous and elegant designs.
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Launched in 1961, production of the P1800 lasted 12 years during which time almost 50,000 models had been sold. The first models to roll off the production line were powered by a 1,800cc engine – hence the name – producing around 100bhp, sending power to the road via a four-speed manual gearbox.
From 1961 the P1800 was actually assembled at Jensen Motors' plant in West Bromwich, West Midlands, until 1962 when production was switched to Sweden. Volvo claimed the move was to try and boost sales but owners of earlier models believe it was in fact down to quality issues.
The success and influence of the P1800 can still be seen in modern day Volvos. The latest Volvo Coupe Concept unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September last year, drew heavily on Volvo's heritage and in particular the P1800. The chrome grille and front splitter on the concept are cues clearly taken from the sixties coupe.
Rather than create a P1800 influenced model, our exclusive image shows a direct successor to the coupe. All of the classic lines and features from the original remain, such as the circular headlights and swooping rear end.
"A GT coupe is entirely possible," said a spokesman for Volvo. "Our new scaleable platform could be adapted for a coupe."
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Has Volvo ever built a better-looking car than the P1800? The Pelle Petterson designed machine is certainly a front-runner in the Swedish manufacturer's style stakes.
The curvy two-door coupe with its trademark chrome swoosh connecting headlights with side window line is a design tour de force that Volvo is still trying to emulate today with cars like the Concept Coupe.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Danys Baez is taking over as the
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Baez had 71 saves with Tampa Bay during the 2004-05 seasons.
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Iâve had a bit of a âlove/hateâ relationship with âglamourpussâ until this point. Now, the scale always went more towards the âloveâ side of things thanks to Dave Simâs gorgeous black and white photorealistic depictions of fashion models and Alex Raymond artwork, and Simâs ongoing exploration of Raymondâs work. The âhateâ side of things came in with the fashion magazine parody elements of the book. There have been the odd amusing moments, but most either fall flat or are difficult to make out exactly what is being satirized. Thankfully, this issue actually delivers on that front a bit.
Simâs sense of humor works here as the issue kicks off with the first of five promised preview pages for the new title âglamourtween,â a book devoted to glamourpussâ (the fashion model the comic is named after) tween years with the lead story âGlamourtween has Four Mommies,â which is so absurd and over-the-top in its description of crack addicts and mid-operation trans-gendered persons than it canât help but exhort a snort.
Sim follows this up not with four more preview pages, but a two-page illustration of Cerebus behind the wheel of a Porsche in the parking lot of Our Lady of Perpetual Theatrics Cathedral. The contrast of Cerebus and the detailed car is wonderfully absurd and that itâs included as a distraction from the promised preview pages is pretty funny.
Simâs intended target in this issue is various age-defying products, which he takes to task by using quotes and advertisements (real and fake), and a mock-horror story entitled âThe Thinker.â Not everything lands, but enough of it does to make these portions of the issue worthwhile.
The real draw here is Simâs continuing exploration of Alex Raymondâs photorealistic style, which Sim concludes in this issue by reproducing five of his favorite âRip Kirbyâ strips (with a thanks above each to Heritage Auction Galleries for their scans of strips) and discussing what about each makes them his favorite. Here, it may be best to pull out the previous four issues of âglamourpussâ as Sim references them quite heavily, these analyses acting as a summation of everything heâs discussed so far.
Sim deserves quite a bit of credit for his ability to write about Raymondâs art in such an open and easy-to-understand manner. I have little familiarity with art techniques, particularly those involving inking, but Iâve yet to find anything Sim discusses beyond my comprehension. These analyses could easily have turned into discussion that only other artists could follow, but Sim never allows them, heâs always mindful of non-artist readers.
Simâs art is as amazing as ever here. His detailed lines are very realistic, but donât simply copy photos. He makes clear choices in the techniques he uses to draw the models found in fashion magazines and the results are breathtaking at times.
This issue not only offers some improved fashion magazine parody contents, but also concludes Simâs thorough analysis of and theorizing on Alex Raymondâs photorealistic style (and its evolution over the years). That doesnât mean Sim is done, just that heâs ready to move past Raymond and onto those who Raymond not only influenced, but those who took Raymondâs techniques and made Raymond evolve to keep up.


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Film, Comic Books
Gallery Nucleus showcases Graham Annable's lovely and melancholy watercolor contributions to "The Lovers, the Dreamers and Me," an upcoming tribute art exhibition to the late visionary Jim Henson.
"Clearly Kermit, Ms. Piggy, and Gonzo don't know what to make of their beginnings," the post on the gallery's blog states, "but what we can decipher from this is Graham's bold wit for introducing us to an unusual scenario we never expected the Muppets would run into."
The exhibition opens Dec. 10 with a reception at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California, and continues through Jan. 2.
Yesterday we kicked off our holiday gift-giving guide, where we asked creators like Jim McCann, Matt Kindt and more for gift suggestion and what they'd want to receive this year. Today we're back with six more creators, and we asked them the same questions:
1. What comic-related gift or gifts would you recommend giving this year, and why?
2. What gift (comic or otherwise) is at the top of your personal wish list, and why?
So without further ado, let the joy continue …
Jeff Parker
1. If you have young children, you can give them hours of quality time with any of Dark Horse's Harvey Comics collections. My kids have been poring through them repeatedly. I'll be following up with old back issues of Casper, Dot, Richie Rich and Hot Stuff from the local comics shops; they're always very cheap.
2. I would not sneeze at getting that Donald Duck: Lost in the Andes volume from Fantagraphics.
Jeff Parker is the writer of Hulk, Thunderbolts and the webcomic Bucko.
Tim Seeley
1. I'm a firm believer in buying comics for everyone on your list, even if they aren't an avid fan. Make 'em a fan! All-Star Superman for the superhero fan, Dungeons & Dragons from IDW for the gamer, Habibi for the sophisticated reader, and, of course, my Hack/Slash Omnibi for the horror fan. Or, if you're planning on dropping a bit more, might I suggest an iPad, loaded with comics apps?
2. I want the collected version of the web strip OGLAF, which I thoroughly enjoy. I wouldn't mind a CS Moore Witchblade statue to inspire me while I write.
Tim Seeley seems to be all over the place lately, whether it's writing the new Bloodstrike series from Extreme or Witchblade for Top Cow, drawing issues of Marvel's Generation Hope, or working on his own creations like Hack/Slash and Jack Kraken. There's a good chance I forgot something, but you can follow him on Twitter to learn more.
Back in March, Archaia Entertainment announced it would publish Tale of Sand, a graphic novel based on an unproduced screenplay by Jim Henson and his writing partner Jerry Juhl. Last week, on the eve of Henson's 75th birthday, the publisher posted a generous 20-page preview of the book, illustrated by Ramón Peréz. It's a bit disorienting at first, but stick with it — it's not exactly cinematic, but the flow of the story, especially in the first few pages, is also very different from traditional comics. Peréz told Comic Book Resources' Steve Sunu about the process of illustrating Henson's script:
After reading the script a couple of times, I sat down with my sketchbook and basically started sketching and adapting and the film just started unraveling in my head. The script itself is very light on dialogue; it's all about visual story. It could almost be a silent film with a principle soundtrack. If you cut all the dialogue, it would still work. It was very detailed, and I had to adapt the pacing to a graphic novel where you have page turns. You want to keep exciting moments as much as possible as the reader is flipping through
You can definitely see what he is talking about in the pages so far—there are quick cuts and montages, but it's definitely a graphic novel.
It's time once again for our monthly trip through Previews looking for cool, new comics. As usual, we're focusing on graphic novels, collected volumes, and first issues so that I don't have to come up with a new way to say, " Dark Horse Presents is still awesome!" every month. And I'll continue letting Tom and Carla do the heavy lifting in regards to DC and Marvel's solicitations.
Also, please feel free to play along in the comments. Tell me what I missed that you're looking forward to or – if you're a comics creator – mention your own stuff.
Puss in Boots Movie Prequel – I don't care for movie prequel comics as a rule, but swashbuckling cats are awesome in any incarnation. As long as these are fresh gags and not just ones warmed up from Shrek, I expect to enjoy this.
Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, Book 1 - I just introduced my son to The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth a couple of weeks ago, so this is great timing. He had the same questions about The Dark Crystal's world that I always do, so I'm looking forward to seeing Archaia's take on answering those. Totally feel like the world's in good hands with this publisher and these creators.
The Sigh - If Archaia's snagging Marjane Satrapi's (Persepolis, Chicken With Plums) new book has been reported already, I missed it. I'm surprised that wasn't bigger news.
Siegfried, Volume 1 – I've been meaning to read P Craig Russell's Ring of the Nibelung adaptation for years, so I think this might be what pushes me to finally do it. It would be fun to read Russell's and compare it to this version by Alex Alice.
Movies | National Public Radio commentator John Ridley critiques Hollywood for being even less diverse than the Big Two when it comes to diversity in lead characters, and demolishes their blame-the-audience theory that white people won't go to see a movie with a black lead by pointing to a study by Indiana University professor Andrew Weaver: "Weaver found that white audiences tended to be racially selective with regard to romantic movies, but not necessarily when it came to other genres. So, sorry, Hollywood. You can't blame it on the ticket buyers." [NPR]
Piracy | Comic-book torrent tracker Z-Cult FM, which was threatened with legal action by Marvel in 2007 and eventually shut down in 2009, has re-opened its virtual doors. [Facebook]
Creators | Becky Cloonan talks about the joys and the hardships of being a full-time comics creator: "Comics are hard work. Comics are relentless. Comics will break your heart. Comics are monetarily unsatisfying. Comics don't offer much in terms of fortune and glory, but comics will give you complete freedom to tell the stories you want to tell, in ways unlike any other medium. Comics will pick you up after it knocks you down. Comics will dust you off and tell you it loves you. And you will look into its eyes and know it's true, that you love comics back." [Becky Cloonan: Comics or STFU]
Nate Cosby has posted some artwork by Jennifer Meyer, Colleen Coover, Tom Fowler, and Roger Langridge from Archaia's upcoming Jim Henson Storyteller anthology. (That's the Langridge piece, above.) For a bit more on the project, check out Cosby's Wondercon interview with our own Tim O'Shea.
Roger Langridge posted some tantalizing news at his blog yesterday about what he has been up to since he stepped down from the Muppets comics earlier this year.
Three things, actually. He is scripting a chapter for his webcomic Mugwhump the Great, which looks like it hasn't been updated in a couple of years. No new material is up yet, but now is as good a time as any to catch up. Langridge is in negotiations about a print collection as well.
Next, very vaguely, "I may have a small Jim Henson-related project coming up." More to come on that, apparently.
And finally, a mini-comic! "I've had a fun time working for the Diamond crowd over the past couple of years, but it feels nice to be doing a proper comic again," says Langridge. That's the cover up there. Stay tuned for more details.
It's been 20 years since The Muppet Show creator Jim Henson passed away, and ToughPigs.com paid tribute to him by asking several artists — including David Petersen (above), Amy Mebberson, and Roger Langridge, among others — to contribute original illustrations honoring the visionary creator. Go take a look.


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- Blanch flowering sprouts in boiling salted water for about 1 minute. Drain and dry off excess water.
- Roll in olive oil (you could use butter instead). Season with crushed sea salt, cracked pepper and fresh grated nutmeg. They are really nice to eat just like this!
- Roast in the oven @ 200 oC for 10 - 15 minutes till colouring on the outside. Caramelisation = flavour!
- Drizzle with red pesto and sprinkle over grated parmesan.
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A personal chef for your holiday at www.bensonscateringltd.co.uk/holiday-chef - all or some of your meals taken care of; breakfast, lunch, children's and evening meals are all possible - you decide how much you want us to do. It's like being in a hotel but with the comfort and flexibility of your own home. No taxis to restaurants to organise and no baby sitter needed for the children - and it doesn't cost as much as you think!
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Monday, January 11, 2016
Think you don't like sprouts? Think again - try these red pesto and parmesan roasted flowering sprouts!
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Special birthday dinner party catering in Blockley, Gloucestershire.
Always good when you can surprise the birthday guest!
Catered birthday dinner party in Cardiff
- Tie the savoy cabbage wedges together to save them falling apart.
- Blanch them for approx 2 minutes in boiling salted water.
- Refresh in cold water.
- Wrap in pancetta
- Blast them in the oven 10 - 15 minutes @ 180 oC.
Christmas sandwich and cake buffet for an office party
Turkey, red pepper, spinach and cream cheese Christmas tree
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Gravity birthday cake with jelly bean ice cream for children's TV characters theme night
This year their fancy dress night (children's tv character from accross the years) happened to coincide with a fiftieth birthday, so in keeping with the Children's party theme we made a chocolate gravity cake with smarties, chocolate fingers and marshmallows. Then, after the requisite photo op served it as dessert with jelly bean ice cream and prosecco jelly. Good job calories don't count after 9pm......
Jelly was so popular we had to send out the spares too!
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Making magic for your one special day!
Saturday, October 03, 2015
Catering for a wedding near Banbury - Greek style meze and whole lamb roast
1 - Dolmas - homemade vine leaves. Had great fun rolling those - recipe from the Supper Club book. Luckily there's a Turkish food shop a few streets away which sells the leaves. Thought we'd made too many - but they all went!
2 - Chillis growing for stuffed chillis
3 - Falafel and cherry tomatoes - recipe from Ottoleghi - seriously one of the most popular things we served this summer at different events. Homemade falafel are about 10.3 million times better than shop brought ones!
4 - More dolmas with olives and caperberries in pesto marinade
5 - Garlic and thyme pitta crisps and homemade spicy bread sticks with homemade hoummous & tatziki
6 - Grilled halloumi with lime & capers - again, thought we'd cut way too much halloumi, but as soon as the plates went out, they came back empty, guests just couldn't get enough. Same thing happened with halloumi at other barbecues we served throughout the summer.
7 - Greek style meatballs
8 - Baba ganoush - burn those aubergines!
9 - Flavoured butter to go with bread rolls as the bride requested - we made Black olive, sun dried tomato & basil, horseradish & chive and chilli, lime & coriander.
10 - Whole lamb roast for main course served on platters with individual dauphinoise potato with salads served on the table: Beetroot, Rocket, Fennel Radish and Apple Salad with Cider Vinaigrette, Lebanese Salad, Roast Butternut Squash Salad with Pomegranate, Crispy Squash Seeds, Olives, Rocket and Walnut
11 - Trio desserts: Lemon and raspberry meringue roulade (made at 2am that morning), shotglass of tirimisu and their wedding cake made by the bride's mother - always good when the wedding cake actually gets eaten!
12 - The next day was Mamma Benson's 70th birthday, and what better way to spend your birthday morning that help clearing up a wedding venue! I did take her out for lunch afterwards though!
Friday, October 02, 2015
Pesto recipe
|Nettle and chorizo risotto with grilled scallops and nettle pesto
- Extra virgin olive oil can be a little strong & pungent for pesto - if using extra virgin consider using 1/2 and 1/2 with vegetable oil or low grade olive oil to tone it down.
- Like a good stew, pesto seems to taste better the next day when all the flavours have developed.
- If you want to keep it for a few weeks in the fridge transfer to a jar. Add oil so the herb/ nut body of the pesto is covered - this prevents the air getting to it and it will keep.
- If you want to turn the pesto in a dressing simply add more oil.
125g ish of herbs, depending on what you have growing. The version I made a few weeks ago was heavy on the basil, also with spinach, rocket, parsley, tarragon and nettles which all add a bit of depth.
75g Nuts - I used a mix of half pinenuts, half cashews
75g Grated parmesan
75ml Extra virgin olive oil
75ml Regular blended olive oil, or vegetable oil
1 - 2 Garlic cloves, depending on size and pungency.
- If you need to wash the herb leaves, make sure they are well dried on a clean dry cloth before using. Water mixing with the oil in the pesto makes it go white as it emulsifies, after it settles it splits - not good!
- Traditionally you would use a pestle and mortar. Now we have food processors and vitamixes and life is all good. You can choose how fine you want your pesto: a blunt charity shop food proccessor will make a coarse pesto, and slightly darker, as the more herbs are chopped and bruised the darker they go. The vitamix will whizz it into a fine bright green puree in seconds. The Kenwood mini chopper seems to go somewhere in the middle. It really depends on what you want to use your pesto for.
- Blend all the ingredients till your desired texture is achieved.
- Taste for seasoning.
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Bring the bistro to your home for the night - bistro dinner in Churchdown, Gloucester || Pea & mint soup recipe
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- Cut all the vegetables into roughly 1cm dice.
- Heat the olive oil in a large pan and add all the ingredients.
- Cook on a medium heat without colouring for 5 minutes, allowing the vegetables to soften slightly.
- Add the water and bring to the boil.
- Once boiling turn down to simmer and allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
- Strain through a sieve. Taste it. If there is not enough depth of flavour you can bring it back to the boil and allow it to reduce till you are satisfied with the taste.
This recent crop of pea shoots had passers by looking in from the street when I had them growing on the front window. It's a wonder more people don't grow them - it's so easy from dried peas.
- Sweat the onion in the vegetable oil till soft but not coloured. Add the garlic and cook for another minute till garlic is soft but not coloured. Add the stock and bring to the boil.
- Make sure the onion is soft enough to blend in to a puree before you add the peas, as the peas don't take long to cook.
- Add the bicarbonate of soda to the boiling stock , then add the peas and return to the boil.
- Once boiled reduce to simmer and cook for about 5 – 8 minutes till peas are soft.
- Add mint and allow to wilt in the soup, then blitz in a blender till smooth.
- Return to the pan, and then finish it with seasoning, crème fraiche, butter & lemon juice. If you think it needs it you can also add a bit of nutmeg & ground coriander.
- Depending on how powerful your blender is you may want to pass this, or you may not – the choice is yours!
|I rather like the look of this recipe too which was hanging on the wall because the amounts are rather relaxed - if you have an abundance of citrus left from a large event this would be a good use for it!
Saturday, September 26, 2015
Clams, mussels, squid and tiger prawns in black bean sauce for a 21st birthday pan asian theme buffet in Minster Lovell near Oxford
It's amazing how often people think you just turn up on the day and that's it. They don't see the 7 day industry that goes behind all the setting up, and clearing away. This party took 10 days in total from beginning to end. The pan asian menus especially take a lot of food preparation, both before and on the day, but it's all worth it for those fresh flavours - you can't get that with ready made sauces etc. It must have made on an impression on the birthday girl's aunt as well - as she has since booked us to cater for her wedding at the same venue next year!
Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Barbecue falafel kebabs
Dairy free eton mess for a wedding near Tewkesbury
Chill a tin of coconut milk in the fridge overnight. It has to be good quality coconut milk with high fat content. Refrigerating it makes it split between the coconut fat and thin water at the bottom.
Scoop off the coconut fat into a mixing bowl. Beat with an electric whisk till thick. If you've really thought in advance you could chill the mixing bowl too - to prevent it heating and splitting. You can add sugar and vanilla if you want to make it slightly sweeter, like I did here.
It pipes beautifully. All the chefs and waiting staff liked the coconut whipped 'cream' version better than the normal dairy cream version - the piping bag and mixing bowl were wiped completely clean - you can't get much better recommendation than that!
If you're being hi-tech you can also use an isi gun for this. According to information received the isi gun likes 35% fat content and the average can of coconut milk is 20%, so add 2 tbsp of coconut oil to the coconut cream and mix at room temperature, then chill overnight in the fridge before putting in the isi gun. Using coconut milk with added guar gum is also another tip to help prevent the coconut cream and coconut oil from separating while chilling.
We finished this one off with dried coconut flakes and toasted coconut. Despite the fact that it helps distinguish the dairy free version from the normal one, it also adds a bit more coconut flavour! Should have added malibu!
Sunday, November 23, 2014
Tabbouleh with grilled sweet potato, celariac & pink grapefruit salad
Turned out her 51 guests were arriving to eat at 12:30, not 2:30 as she had organised and her sick feeling was panic. I think she'd been used to shouty chefs. Who needs it? Much better to see these things as a challenge. "Riiiiight - let's go then!"
By some miracle we got 2 1/4 hours work done in 45 minutes - love bit of pressure! 10 minutes before we had originally been meant to start serving, the guests had finished and were leaving for the Christening ceremony none the wiser to the emergency behind the scenes. Job done.
Due to the rush this healthy living autumnal salad was rather rustic in presentation - but tasted great. Once you've segmented the pink grapefruit you can squeeze the remaining juice from the remaining flesh over the salad along with olive oil as a dressing.
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Sole roulades with saffron risotto, mussel broth and french beans wrapped in pancetta served near Cirencester
Gluten free bagels
Now re-mix the dough and shape it into bagel shapes. You do need a fair bit of gluten free flour (yes - make sure it's gluten free you use for dusting - easy mistake to use normal flour, then you have to start all over again!) on your hands & and the table top to make sure it doesn't stick.
Let the bagels rise - this may take 1 - 1 ½ hours depending on the heat in your kitchen. They should double in size. The dough will still be very sticky at this point so here's a golden tip - put the tray of proved bagels into the freezer for about an hour so they go slightly hard on the outside. Now you can boil them like normal bagels and they hold together. Then bake as normal.
American Independence Day 4th July garden party near Tewkesbury
This was another event with the Tewkesbury town band playing. Of course we had to start with the USA national anthem!
Barbecue Style Buffalo Wings with Blue Cheese Dip
"I didn't know buffalo had wings - I thought they were like cows...." Yes this did really happen #facepalm.
With a kettle barbecue after you have barbecued the burgers you can put the cheese on, put them on a tray and close the lid. That way the cheese melts on top without dripping and you still have your barbecue flavour. Burgers and sausages below from Martins Meats.
Great plates, no? We also had stars & stripes napkins and tablecloth from the USA food store in London.
Black Bean Salad
Honey Mustard Potato Salad
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
One from the summer - Grilled asparagus with raw vegetable salad & orange gremolata
Friday, October 10, 2014
Wedding catering in Bishops Cleeve Tithe Barn, near Cheltenham
|Trio of desserts: dark chocolate torte topped with raspberries, shotglass of eton mess and raspberry mojito sorbet
|Bishops Cleeve tythe barn. It was renovated and refitted a few years back and now makes a great space for a wedding. The hall looks new, fresh and bright - a lot of other venues could do with the same treatment!
|Tewkesbury town band played the wedding couple in to the wedding reception. We saw them at a few events this year - great sound!
|Found these cocktail skewers for the canapé mini burgers in homemade carrot and cumin buns - perfect for a wedding
|Also found a couple of perspex stands for the canapé beer battered fish and chip cones - looks much better when you hand them round!
Main course was chicken, parma ham, cherry tomato and basil pie - sadly no pics of that. With 2 kitchens (one on bottom floor, other on top floor) there was quite a lot going on as it was going out.....


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What is the best method deploying Python (including Django) behind Nginx?
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The official django documentation says that apache and mod_wsgi is the recommended way to get django into production.
We use nginx to proxy through to apache running mod_wsgi to serve our django site. We have apache listening on
I've also heard good things about gunicorn. (and you would still use
I use FastCGI for this on one of my sites (it's built on Django), both nginx and Django can do FastCGI natively. Addition: I have stress tested various approaches: nginx w/FastCGI, nginx w/Apache and then FastCGI, nginx w/Apache and then mod_wsgi and even nginx w/Apache and then mod_python. Performance was pretty much the same for a real application, so I chose nginx w/FastCGI without Apache to save RAM a bit.


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If we use the Sheldon Brown Gear Calculator set to metres development (although any other unit will work adequately), we see that the range for a 39-53 x 34-11 system is 2.5 to 10.4 metres developed per crank revolution, yielding an overall range of 416%.
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Mark Twain once wrote about writing, "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
Writing is one of those things that is available to anyone. If you can think a thought, you can write it down. But to write down thoughts that others can see themselves in, this is the challenge, the starting point of digging into earth and sky and planting a field that will feed your soul as well as another's.
Beginning March 7 and running through March 10, Pacifica is having its second annual Literary Festival and everyone is invited. Sponsored by the Pacifica Friends of the Library, the Pacifica Library Foundation, the Pacifica School Volunteers, A Grape In The Fog, the Pacifica School District, the Sanchez Art Center and Florey's Books — Lit Wave celebrates "the amazing literary world of Pacifica" with local authors, poets, storytellers and musicians, "who are coming together across Pacifica for four days of creative festivities." All events are free and open to the public.
Beginning a few days in advance, Pacifica School District kindergartners through fifth graders; will choose a poem when they visit their school library. They will be encouraged to read that poem, or their own-penned poem, to their classmates. Also earlier in the week, children grades six through eight will choose a poem and reproduce it in chalk, and each school site will have their own competition. On Saturday of Lit Wave weekend, some of those students will read their verses, sonnets, or rhymes at Florey's Book Co. on Palmetto.
On Thursday, March 7, 4 p.m., children of all ages can join the "rockin'" librarians for "Musical Story Time at the Sharp Park Library." Thursday evening at 7 p.m., at the Sanchez Library, adults are invited to hear award-winning poet, author and San Francisco State Creative Writing professor Toni Mirosevich, read from and discuss her book, "Pink Harvest."
Friday, March 8, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at the Sharp Park Library, there is a teen poetry slam "SPEAK." The open mic is organized solely by teens for teens and features special guest, Mike Taylor, winner of the 2008 Bay Area Youth Slam. Also on Friday night, 7 to 9 p.m., at the Main Gallery of the Sanchez Art Center, songwriters Nancy Hall, Gary Horsman, and Kathleen Enright will play a few of their original tunes in addition to sharing their insights on the process of writing lyrics for songs. The songwriters invite their audience to bring their own works-in-progress.
Saturday, March 9, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., poet, author and riddle master Emmanuel Williams will host "Sea Riddles on the Pier," where all ages are invited, to the Pier, to pick up a packet of riddles, and solve the riddles while they stroll the legendary fisher's promenade. Stump the riddle master with your own riddle and win a T-shirt.
Also on Saturday, "Poetry in Motion" presents a number of events from 1 to 5 p.m. at Florey's. At 1 p.m., Pacifica School District poets who will share their discoveries from earlier in the week. At 2 p.m., published poet, performer and Skyline College English and Creative Writing professor Katharine Harer will give a reading. At 3 p.m., there is a poetry open mic. At 3:30 p.m., last year's "Fishing for Words" prize winner Jenny Vo-Phamhi, will read her award-winning poem and other selected works. At 4 p.m., the microphone opens again to sharing poets. The entire event is hosted by poet Sherri Rose-Walker, also the host of the monthly poetry series at Florey's.
Saturday evening, 5 to 6:30 p.m., at the Sharp Park Golf Course Restaurant, Juanita Mercado, author of "Fore! Frogs On The Golf Course," will moderate an engaging discussion to challenge the facts used to support and condemn golf course operations. "Ideas and hors d'oeuvres will be served free and drinks are available at a no host bar."
Saturday night, 8 p.m., longtime musician, writer, and television host Ian Butler is bringing his band, Ian and the Humpbacks, to A Grape In The Fog, (for ages 21 on up).
Sunday, March 10, four Pacifica locations celebrate Lit Wave. Meeting at the corner of Beach and Montecito at 9:30 a.m., historian and author Jerry Crow, of the Pacifica Historical Society, will give a walking tour of historic West Sharp Park. Runs to 11 a.m.
From 2 to 4 p.m., all ages are invited to meet at the San Pedro Valley Park main building, and stroll the park with Emmanuel Williams, creating nature poems as they go.
The "Discover History" event, 1 to p.m., takes place at the Sanchez Library and features three authors. At 1 p.m,. Shannon Nottestad presents "Close to Home: Writing Local History," a slideshow and talk based on her experience researching, editing and co-authoring "Legends of the Coastland" by the California artist, writer and historian Galen Wolf (1889-1976). At 2 p.m., Gustav Tjgaard, author of "Windjamming to China," discusses the true story of his time at sea during one of the last commercial voyages made under sail power in 1938. At 3 p.m, David Hirzel, author of "Sailor On Ice," and "Hold Fast," will discuss the amazing true adventures of the explorer Tom Crean, who accompanied both Robert F. Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, during the "heroic era" of Antarctic exploration.
Sunday evening, 6 to 7 p.m. "Poetry in Translation" presents at Florey's, 6 to 7 p.m. Three poets will read from original and favorite poems in the languages of their original composition and their English translation. The poets are Camincha (Spanish), Sonoko Carlson (Japanese) and David Hirzel (English).
Anaïs Nin wrote, "We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." Pacifica's Lit Wave is a chance to savor it all. Lit Wave's schedule is available at the library and posted online at http://litwave.org/.


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In one of the most high-profile enterprise software product launches this year, Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 was finally released to manufacturing on September 20. To hear more about what the platform delivers and get Microsoft's take on what critics and competitors are saying, Intelligent Enterprise sat down last week with Alex Payne, Director, Office Business Applications, and Michael Smith, Director of Marketing, Office Business Applications. Is this version 1.0 product ready for your enterprise? Two executives who helped guide development, packaging and pricing make the case for PerformancePoint.
PerformancePoint was previewed extensively at Microsoft's Business Intelligence Conference in May. Where there any notable revisions or upgrades leading up to final release?
Alex Payne (AP): We've had more than 10,000 participants in our community technology preview (CTP), which is what we call our beta program. That's very broad participation, and for the most part I'd say we've been responding to CTP feedback and working on fit, finish and performance rather than adding net-new functionality.
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AP: The three big areas are monitoring, analysis and planning. From the planning side, we're delivering planning, budgeting, forecasting and consolidation as well as management reporting including statutory- and GAAP-type reporting. On the analysis side, PerformancePoint delivers Web-based analytic functionality on top of the same models, and that's where a lot of the technology that came over from the ProClarity acquisition shines through. On the monitoring side there's scorecarding, dashboarding and reporting.
Some analysts say that as a version 1.0 product, PerformancePoint has a way to go in terms of supporting content. What does Microsoft provide in terms of best-practices guidelines, business process frameworks and so on?
Michael Smith (MS): We've done a lot with built-in business rules. We have rules for common things that people need to do like currency conversions. In financial consolidation we have rules for how you consolidate multiple general ledger types and partial ownerships. We also have business rules for approvals, workflow cycles and escalations that will make these applications a lot more functional for end users.
How does that compare with what veteran performance management vendors offer, particularly competitors such as Cognos as well as Oracle and Business Objects with their recent Hyperion and Cartesis acquisitions?
MS: When you look at core processes such as consolidation, we've provided quite a bit of functionality — certainly enough to handle the majority of customer needs. There will always be high-end boutiques. Cartesis, for example, really excelled in some of the European consolidation rules and accounting support, but we're going to be quite competitive out of the box, even in version 1.0.
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Remember how comforting Alan Greenspan's testimony used to be? I miss those days.
Check out this quotation, from yesterday's Financial Times:
The current financial crisis in the US is likely to be judged in retrospect as the most wrenching since the end of the second world war.
C'mon, Alan! You're killing me, buddy. Where is the optimism? The confidence? The characteristic impenetrability?
In the last 24 hours, JPMorgan bought out Bear Stearns (with help from the Federal Reserve), markets around the world fluctuated wildly, and "crisis" and "recession" became watchwords. (Greenspan used "crisis" five times in his piece.)
In the first hour, we'll talk about what the Bear Stearns collapse means for Wall Street. And for your wallet. Mark Zandi, of Moody's Economy.com, and Sam Hayes, of Harvard Business School, will join us, to parse and posit. If you have a question about the economy, no matter how basic, leave it here.
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For years we have been told to "save" and now that we are in a position to use the interest of that savings for retirement, the fed lowers interest rates so low that we get almost no income. Where can we go with our $ and what is the incentive to save?
I was lucky enough to sell my home recently and will have about $300,000 that I need to park until I buy another house. I feel like the safest place to keep that money is in my mattress. Any suggestions? Could this worldwide financial meltdown make it risky to put cash in CDs? Treasury Bills?
I thought these New York investment banks were fans of Ayn Rand and hated "government intervention".
Isn't the taxpayer underwriting this deal?
What is going to the Executives of Bear-Sterns? Are they going to keep their jobs? Are the going to get golden parachutes. It seems they should be fired without compensation for doing a bad job, but that never happens to high ranking executive no matter how badly they do a job, even ones whose decisions are wrecking the economy as a whole.
When does tolerance for risk become tolerance for stupidity?
If the other investment banks had to worry about the same issues as BS, then they're not healthy either. How does it help us long term to prop up an industry of unhealthy, poorly run banks?
The question that I would like to have answered is: "How much did Bear Stearns pay out in bonuses this January/February for 2007 performance?" That money came right out of capital & any funds we, the taxpayers, have to pay will be $1 for $1 funding those bonuses.
I was mystified hearing about Wall Street bonuses this winter - knowing the argument that these had to be paid to retain the "good" employees because you can't penalize the stars for the failures.
What about us, the clean-living?
Many Democrats wish Bill Clinton still occupied the White House. However, before you put him in Mt. Rushmore, you might want to investigate his role in the mortgage foreclosure crisis.
The chief aim of what I have termed the Republican Counterrevolution has always been to roll back the New Deal. Anti-government rhetoric hides this as surely as states' rights hid racist segregation. Of all the New Deal legislation the GOP has sought to overturn, one that has always been at or near the top of the list is the Glass-Steagall Act. Ironically, a Democratic president repealed this for them.
An unreconstructed Southerner from Virginia, Carter Glass shepherded the creation of the Federal Reserve System through Congress, which has caused some to call him the "founding father of the Federal Reserve System." Later Glass would serve as Wilson's Treasury Secretary, recommending aid to Europe after World War I. Just before leaving Treasury to become senator, Glass warned about banks getting involved in stocks.
The only winners in this debacle is the bankers. They get paid a boatload when times are good. They still get paid when doodoo hits the fan. Government (read: tax payers) get to bail them out and hold the bags. What a deal. Unless we start penalize them with fines or jail time, we will just see this crap again and again.
I find it humorous that today's guest keeps referring to the Federal Reserve Bank as a government institution. The Federal Reserve is a private institution that has ties to the government, but it is not a government institution rather a private business. The Federal Reserve is responsible for the current financial crisis in America, and it should be held responsible.
What responsibility does the Bush Administration bear for this mess?
Every time I hear Republicans talk about privatizing Social Security, I laugh. And today's program (plus the S&L debacle of the 80s, the sub-prime mortgage mess and now the collapse of major investment institutions) explain why: As long as these companies are run by short-sighted, greedy managers who care only about themselves and not their customers, no way should we EVER privatize Social Security!
Where is the accountability for the likes of the Bear-Stearns? Their CEO and corporate officers make millions of dollars in salaries and bonuses each year and when things go wrong due to their own investment recklessness the US taxpayers pay to bail them out? If the average citizen went belly-up they'd be out on the street. Where's the accountability to the investors and taxpayers?
If we need to establish a market for mortgage securities why not put some of the SS funds to work with the appropriate discounts put in place?
Has this situation been precipitated by the deregulation of the banking industry and that the lack of oversight by the taxpayers which might have prevented the situation in the first place?
I own some shares of Bear Stearn that I could not sell in time on friday. Since they lost almost all their value,
I'm wondering if i should just hold on to it with the hope that i may recoup some value in time.
When the economy was strong, these investment bankers pulled down multimillion dollar salaries while the rest of us working professionals (I'm an engineer) felt the squeeze. I understand the need to prop up the economy, but resent having to foot the bill for greed and stupidity. I feel I've been footing the bill all along. Enough is enough.
by preventing the donmonio effect to happen are we now not allowing the new( organizations methods and tenchologies) to emmerge fro the old.
It is maddening to hear NPR continue to propagate the myth that the Federal Reserve is an agency of the US government.
The Fed is a private bank and the US government is it's primary borrower. The Congress has a credit card account at the Fed, which it makes minimum payments on by collecting income taxes.
The account is never paid off. It isn't even paid down. Just the minimum payments are made.
These are not "taxpayer dollars" that are being spent by the Fed to save one of its members. This has been the intended function of the Fed since its creation by the original members of the cartel.
It only makes sense that JP Morgan Chase (Morgan and Chase were founding owners of the Fed) would step in to "help the Fed" save a member bank.
Recommended reading: The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, which is available on Amazon.com.
I'd like to see the press do a little more research in the financial crisis. Headlines about how housing has dropped in value tend to ignore the fact that values were escalating out of all proportion to historical norms in 2003-2006.
All the stories about people defaulting on their mortgages - or getting into mortgages that they can't afford fail to mention that approxiamtely 35% of all homes are mortgage free and over 95% of all mortgages are performing. (Per a newletter from a realtor).
It seems some investment bankers got really greedy by bundling up subprime mortgages that had unrealistic re-set prices and selling them in the secondary market or into hedge funds. Commercial banks are more regulated than the investment banks altogether. It is unfortunate that we are so interdependent that they can't be left to fail. If I, unlicensed to give investment advice owned Bear Stearns I would definitely hold onto my Bear Stearn stock because it seems that you will end up with some JP Morgan stock - from what I read in the morning newspaper.
Jack Sullivan should consult a licensed investment professional.
The "Inconvenient Truth" that everyone seems to be dancing around without mentioning is ...
Its not a mortgage crisis, its a WAGE crisis.
Wages have not kept up with REAL inflation (yes, Including energy, health care, housing, college etc. that everyone I know pays and havce gone up while wages are FLAT).
If people had the money, they would be paying their mortgages.
Its that simple, but its also the elephant in the room because when wages of EMPLOYEES called CEOs goes up, it celebrated and not considered inflationary. But when regular employees, the ones who actually DO the work goes up ... oh, heaven forfend, THAT's "inflationary".
But gee, we can't talk about that because ... to point out what so obvious even a Nazi sympathiser like Henry Ford could see it, if the workers don't have the money, they won't buy your products - why that's "Socialism" or whatever.
Its not a mortgage crisis, its a wage crisis. Period.
One of your guests made a brief point stating that we need to keep people in their homes and home mortgages value balanced. That point won't be reached until wages and mortgage values come more into line. Obviously the drop in mortgage values has a way to go and so does wall street as they descend into further crises.
Do you think the US Govt stepped in to save Bear Stearn to "prevent" further sell-out of the US Financial Giants to Foreign Investors? I heard that UBS Corp sold 1/3 of it's stock to Singapore; Merrill Lynch sold a large portion of it's firm to foreign investors. Foreign investors are buying up "real estate" all over America at bargain basement prices with help from the de-valued US Dollar. what is the "end-result" of sell off of US Assets to foreigners?
It seems that just last December the major brokerages were issuing bonuses that averaged $600,000.00. In view of the current troubles with Bear Stearns, this seems like mismanagement. If they were in such good shape in December, how could their fortunes turn so fast. If, however, they knew they were in financial difficulty and issued the bonuses anyway, that seems like a fraud perpetrated at the expense of their customers and the taxpayer at large. Something smells fishy to me.
should we be interested in purchasing bear sterns stock today?
We doubt the economy would have fallen to the ground if BS had been allowed to declare bankruptcy. The other posters are quite correct. They caused a lot of these problems with their imprudent practices; they are the ones who should realize a 28 -1 value of debt to equity requires very careful managing and they are the ones who get huge bonuses if they make money but lose nothing if they lose a lot of money. This makes no sense to the average person who knows very well you cant have 28 times more debt to your assets or you will have problems (bankruptcy made harder by Bush) but then this is the new Bush system to allow the rich to get richer while the poor and middle classes continue to struggle.
I'd like someone to tell me just when all of these rate lowing moves are going to be felt by the little guy, the end user, in the mortgage market? We are one of those families caught in the middle of this sub-prime mortgage mess because the housing market is so soft. The Florida home we lived in for 10 years (and have to sell because of employment relocation) has sat on the market for over a year and a half, while we've made double payments... We are waiting to try and refinance , but despite all the hoopla, rates remain the same. What gives? Does anyone notice the forest for the trees?


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