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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Jamie Oliver gone bad - a weird banana and honey bread
I bookmarked the recipe last week and couldn't wait to try it – I love baking with yeast and the idea of a banana honey roll seemed amazing. And that roll was one of Jamie's recipes. I was sure it would be delicious.
Well, I wouldn't know about that – the bread came out so weird I did not feel like putting it in my mouth. It was far too moist and dense, heavy... It did not look like bread to me. I'm no expert, but I have baked yeasted breads hundreds of times and the results were pretty good. And Jamie's bread was anything but good (I'm glad I halved the recipe).
I won't let this recipe put me off my willing to make yeasted banana bread. So, if you have any suggestions or recipes to share, I'm all ears, oops, eyes. :)
No recipe today – but you can read the original here.
25 comments:
- Manggy said...
Oh, I'm so sorry it didn't turn out well, Patricia... Please resist the urge to put JO on your knee and give him a good whacking. You know, moist and dense are not at all bad in my book. Maybe it went overboard, though... How was the taste at least?
I know you won't believe me when I say it still looks really really good and it's making my stomach grumble at 1AM in the morning but trust me when I say I honestly do! - September 24, 2008
- Katie said...
It looks like a really doughy under cooked biscuit. Yet I still wouldn't mind trying some. Maybe that's just the lack of lunch talking. I'm sure you will find a winning recipe.
- September 24, 2008
- Deborah said...
I like hearing about recipes that don't work, so I don't waste the time and ingredients later on! I'm sure the next one will be better!
- September 24, 2008
- Meeta K. Wolff said...
oh my god!!! A Jaime Oliver recipe bummed out on you? I think I need to bookmark this - it's got to be a one in a million! I've never made his banana bread before though. Could it be that the yeast in combination with the bananas make it heavy and dense!
- September 24, 2008
Well your praline cookies made me happy!
- September 24, 2008
Maybe Jaime will drop you a note and stop by to help you rework it again!
- September 24, 2008
- lululu said...
It might not look good. But as long as it tastes good, who cares?!
- September 24, 2008
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
Well, certainly doesn't look like a traditional banana bread -- but even when things go awry in the kitchen, it's fun. And if it tastes fine, don't worry about how it looks!
- September 25, 2008
- pepsakoy said...
Try have a look at the link below..although it doesn't mix banana in the bread dough but you have them as the filling !
http://www.bloggang.com/mainblog.php?id=pepsakoy&month=23-02-2008&group=12&gblog=4 - September 25, 2008
- Peabody said...
So that recipe left you less than inspired, I've certainly had a few of those in my life. :)
- September 25, 2008
- KJ said...
If it makes you feel better, I've tried making this as well with exactly the same result. Heavy, dense and awful. I think it is just a bad recipe.
- September 25, 2008
- LyB said...
I can see why you halved the recipe, his original must make A LOT of bread! But I can also see why you wanted to try it, it sounds really good. I wonder what went wrong? Still, I'm glad you posted it. Good or bad, it's fun to know what you're up to. :)
- September 25, 2008
- RecipeGirl said...
That's a bummer. You know, I've had a Jamie Oliver cake recipe sitting on my desk for a LONG time and I'm hesitant to make it since I saw a bad review on someone's blog. I think he must have some real winners and some real duds!
- September 25, 2008
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
Isn't that weird when a recipe from someone you trust didn't work out? I always assume I blew it somehow, but there are those recipes out there that just don't work. Live, learn, and move on, I say.
- September 25, 2008
- pam said...
So sorry this didn't work out. It does sound like it would be good. I just hate it when a recipe doesn't work.
- September 25, 2008
Sorry to hear it didn't work out. You should leave a message on his website!
- September 26, 2008
- Sarah said...
Sorry this didn't turn out, Patricia. It sounds like it would be so good! I always hate when I work myself up for a recipe and it isn't very good.
- September 26, 2008
- Kana said...
I just hate it when I have a dud recipe...
- September 26, 2008
- Marysol said...
Aw, I'm sure you won't let it discourage you.
I've tried some recipes from lovable Jacques Torres and equally lovable Jacques Pepín and they both failed miserably. Yet, some of their other recipes have been successful. You just never know until you take the plunge. Dud or not, it certainly looks good! - September 26, 2008
- Aimée said...
Best. Post Title. Ever.
...now I MUST tackle that mountain of laundry folding. Blech. - September 26, 2008
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Mark, I think that maybe baking is not his thing. Just cooking. I love his recipes, so I will try more of them.
I did not taste it - I was too mad and disappointed for it.
You are just adorable!
Katie, we will try anything when we are hungry, my dear! :)
Deb, I thought about that because I don't want others to waste their food!
Meeta, yes! Maybe he's good in cooking but not in baking...
Candy, thank you!
Cathy, I would like that! ;)
Lu, I could not try it. I was too mad. I felt like throwing the thing out the window. :)
Lydia, sometimes things go bad, right?
Pepsakoy, I bookmarked it - it looks delicious, tks for sharing!
Pea, my friend read your post and loved it.
KJ, I took a look at your rolls - I did not read you back then, such a shame! :)
LyB, 1kg flour?? 6 bananas?? No way. :)
RecipeGirl, I began to think he can cook but cannot bake.
Lynn, it's a bummer!
Pam, and did you see the photo on his website? It was some gorgeous bread. :(
Syrie, I will - tks for the great idea!
Sarah, isn't it the worse?
Maya, me too, darling.
Marysol, I'm glad to know I'm not alone.
Aimée, you made me laugh - tks, darling!
Good luck with the clothes. - September 26, 2008
- Jaime said...
i think it's just as important to post about the good recipes as it is the bad...now i know not to try this recipe!
- October 03, 2008
- zorra said...
In the meantime you found the perfect recipe as I saw, but perhaps you would like to try this one, too: Hawaiian Rolls with banana and pineapple juice http://kochtopf.twoday.net/stories/4112175/
- November 17, 2008
- Tom Davies said...
I cooked this bread for the first time today, and am pretty happy with the result.
Here are some pictures.
It's certainly denser and moister than plain bread, but I like its chewiness and the (fairly subtle) banana flavour/aroma.
I cooked mine for 20 minutes at 200C fan-forced, which is effectively a bit more than the recipe recommends. I also needed to add more water -- my three bananas were large enough that the pureed banana didn't need any topping up to get to the specified quantity. - January 30, 2010
- Patricia Scarpin said...
Hi, Tom,
Your loaf is beautiful! If mine had turned out like that I would have been really glad.
Thank you for sharing your point of view and photos. - February 03, 2010


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Roasted Tomato Soup & Tomato Parmesan Croutons
One of the things I always try to have on hand is a batch of soup. Does not matter the kind, but there is always one in the freezer, or one in the refrigerator or one simmering on the stove. This is my cure for everything. From being homesick to missing tooth.
The latter is me today. After a painful molar extraction yesterday, the only thing I wanted to eat last night was soup. Smooth tomato soup. I was too drugged up to even want to thaw the batch I had in the freezer so my dear honey brought me some home from the local eatery.
Today, in between two rounds of painkillers, I am putting this Roasted Tomato Soup on the stove. It is my drug of choice to nourish me while I can't have solid foods and to calm down the sounds coming from my stomach. A girl's got to eat and even beaten to a pulp, I will try to make something tasty.
I am really honored to be sharing this recipe with the reader of Joanna at Cup Of Jo today in her "Best Simple Recipes" series, here. I also wrote a bit of my long love story with soup for her readers.
Thank you Joanna for having me!
Roasted Tomato Soup With Tomato Parmesan Croutons
Serves 4-6
2 pounds fresh tomatoes
4 garlic cloves (skin on)
4 small Vidalia onions, cut in half (or 2 regular onions)
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 teaspoons dried basil
2-4 cups water (depending on how thin/thick you like your soup)
Salt and pepper to taste
For the tomato parmesan croutons:
8 to 12 large cherry tomatoes
1 teaspoon dried oregano
1 tablespoon grated parmesan
Fresh oregano to garnish
Preheat the oven to 400F.
Slice the tomatoes in halves and place them on a baking sheet. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil.
Place the garlic cloves and onion halves on a separate baking sheet and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.
Place both baking sheets in the oven and roast the vegetables until soft, about 20 minutes.
Remove from the oven and let cool.
Peel the skin off the garlic cloves and place with the rest of the vegetables, in a food processor. Add about 2 cups of water and puree until smooth. Add more water to reach your preferred consistency. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper if desired.
For the tomato parmesan croutons:
Turn your oven broiler on high.
Thinly slice the cherry tomatoes (I usually get 3 slices per tomato) and layer on a baking sheet line with parchment paper. Sprinkle evenly with the dried oregano and parmesan. Broil for about 1 minute or until the parmesan starts to get golden brown. Remove from the oven and let cool completely.
To serve, place the soup in a large saucepan and re-heat quickly over medium heat right before serving. Ladle the soup into bowls and garnish with the tomato parmesan croutons. Enjoy!


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SPOKANE, WA (AP) — The solar panels that Idaho inventor Scott Brusaw has built aren't meant for rooftops. They are meant for roads, driveways, parking lots, bike trails and, eventually, highways.
Brusaw, an electrical engineer, says the hexagon-shaped panels can withstand the wear and tear that comes from inclement weather and vehicles, big and small, to generate electricity.
"We need to rebuild our infrastructure," said Brusaw, the head of Solar Roadways, based in Sandpoint, ID, about 90 miles northeast of Spokane, WA. His idea contains "something for everyone to like."
"Environmentalists like it," he said. "Climate change deniers like it, because it creates jobs."
While the idea may sound outlandish to some, it has already garnered $850,000 in seed money from the federal government, raised more than $2 million on a crowd-funding Web site and received celebrity praise.
Solar Roadways is part of a larger movement that seeks to integrate renewable energy technology — including wind, geothermal and hydropower — seamlessly into society.
The Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group based in Washington, DC, described companies like Solar Roadways as "niche markets" in the booming alternative energy industry.
"They represent the type of creative innovation that addresses design and energy, while showcasing the diversity of solar applications," said Tom Kimbis, a vice president of the association.
Brusaw said that, in addition to producing energy, the solar panels can melt away snow and ice, and display warning messages or traffic lines with LED lights.
There are skeptics, who wonder about the durability of the panels, which are covered by knobby, tempered glass, and how they would perform in severe weather or when covered with dirt.
"It seems like something reasonable and something that is going to be very expensive," said Lamar Evans of the National Renewable Energy Association in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
Another problem would be how to store the electricity that could be generated, Evans said.
The Brusaws have produced no estimates of how much the solar panels would cost, so the financial realities of their vision remain an unknown.
To demonstrate the concept, the company has created a small parking lot at its headquarters, using 108 solar panels. Vehicles have been driven onto the space, without damaging the panels, he said.
"We'll start off small with driveways and walkways," he said.
His wife Julie came up with the idea after watching An Inconvenient Truth, the global warming movie featuring former Vice President Al Gore, Brusaw said.
She remembered that Scott had long talked about the concept of electric roads.
The U.S. Federal Highway Administration gave the Brusaws $850,000 to develop Solar Roadways over the past few years, and build the prototype parking lot.
This year, they turned to the Indiegogo crowd-funding site to raise additional money and move to the next phase. Launched on Earth Day, the campaign got off to a discouraging start, Brusaw said.
Donations trickled in, but two factors helped spread the company's vision: a viral YouTube video and celebrity mentions in social media. The video has more than 14 million views.
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SAN DIEGO — Actor Jim Kelly, who played a glib American martial artist in "Enter the Dragon" with Bruce Lee, has died. He was 67.
Marilyn Dishman, Kelly's ex-wife, said he died Saturday of cancer at his home in San Diego.
Sporting an Afro hairstyle and sideburns, Kelly made a splash with his one-liners and fight scenes in the 1973 martial arts classic. His later films included "Three the Hard Way," "Black Belt Jones" and "Black Samurai."
During a 2010 interview with salon.com, Kelly said he started studying martial arts in 1964 in Kentucky and later moved to California where he earned a black belt in karate. He said he set his sights on becoming an actor after winning karate tournaments. He also played college football.
The role in the Bruce Lee film was his second. He had about a dozen film roles in the 1970s before his acting work tapered off. In recent years, he drew lines of autograph seekers at comic book conventions.
"It was one of the best experiences in my life," he told salon.com of working on "Enter the Dragon." "Bruce was just incredible, absolutely fantastic. I learned so much from working with him. I probably enjoyed working with Bruce more than anyone else I'd ever worked with in movies because we were both martial artists. And he was a great, great martial artist. It was very good."


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Reading on an iPad, or a tablet, just isn't the same as reading a book. And for me, it's not better. Even though I was, of course, excited about the prospect of an infinitely accessible library in a carry-on form, the fact is that when I try to read on the iPad, I'm doing so reluctantly, and I get through far fewer pages in a sitting than I'm used to.
In theory, I have thousands of paragraphs in that aluminum-and-glass enclosure that I'd love to get to, but in practice, it feels like a chore. Sure, I'm in the minority here, but I know I'm not the only one: Researchers from Sven Birkerts (The Gutenberg Elegies) to Margaret Mackey (Literacies Across Media) have explored whether and how the growth of digital reading has changed our reading behaviors. In my case, it has—for the worse. But why?
Black Marks on a White Page: The Physical
We have intense emotional reactions to books as physical objects. We turn books over in libraries and stores; we smell them and suddenly it's Proust with a cookie (being anosmic, I cannot address this directly); we schlep boxes and boxes of books each time we move; we browse them on shelves; any single one may instantly remind you of a particular time or relationship. And this physicality, along with the haptic nature of page-turning, has real effects on the cognitive act of reading.
Research has shown that the physicality of books is linked to comprehension and memory. A 2005 study by Thierry Morineau et al. found that readers link, at deep levels of the brain, the physically and functionally "unitary object" of a book with the text content; much as repeating something out loud helps us memorize it, this sensory-motor experience reinforces focus and comprehension. In e-books, though, the connection between the text and material is at a remove that removes this reinforcement.
That haptic problem may not be avoidable with today's technology. We can, however, look at a few more immediate issues that I, and others, have with reading on an iPad. We can look at why they're issues, and what can be done to improve the experience.
Putting a Gloss on Things
The glossy, reflective screen of the iPad can be seriously distracting—sometimes it's a physical strain, sometimes it's a mental strain, but both degrade the reading experience. As a graphics professional friend of mine pointed out, you have to adapt to the iPad in ways you don't have to adapt to a book. He then demonstrated the not-quite-graceful pose he had to hold when he last was on a plane to keep screen glare to an acceptable level. Maybe it's an unintended consequence of my screen-cleaning OCD, but this happens a lot, and makes sitting with an iPad often less comfortable than sitting with a nice, matte-paper book.
The second problem with Apple's glossy screens is that I often find my eyes refocusing to bring the reflection in the screen into focus (I'm not vain, I'm just always there). This is a physical strain, but more importantly it takes me from reading the words on the screen to "reading" the image that's suddenly unavoidable. Once this happens I have to take action to refocus my eyes and my attention, just to get back to what would have been uninterrupted on paper.
This is forcing the user to task switch. Task switching, an active concept in psychology since the 1920s, is when we have to change our attention from one thing to another. It's important to realize that each time you ask a user to task switch, there is some switch cost; the best-known contemporary research shows how talking on the phone impairs driving performance. These costs may be large or trivial, but I think we can all agree that any cost can totally ruin it when the user's goal is to concentrate on or "get lost" in, say, Twilight fanfic.
I can't speak to how this plays on other types of displays, such as E Ink. Does losing the gloss eliminate this problem? I'd love to hear from users.
Thick as a Brick
Marketing copy is sure to tell you how thin and light the latest and greatest tablet is. I'll argue that the latter is good and should go further, but that the former attribute actually works against the latter.
How do we hold the things we are reading? Whether we're sitting, standing, or lying in bed, we're applying force with one or two hands. Generally, we put the majority of the burden on the muscles and tendons on the back of the hand in what's been called the "iPad pinch grip". Online forums have threads like "Beware of iPad Hand" and the Daily Mail surveyed a few slightly hysterical users. Is this better or worse than with books?
A third-generation iPad weighs right around 660g and is just under 10mm thick. Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist, a 480+ page hardback, weighs noticeably less and is about 45mm thick. The physical stresses on your hands when sitting (or lying, or standing) and holding the two in standard reading positions are different, because of simple physics.
I'm no biomechanist, so please correct me if I've got this wrong, but high school physics shows that the combination of thinner and heavier requires more "pinch" force to hold an object in a reading position. This in turn puts more strain on the ulnar nerve, the commonly strained dorsal tendons, and other areas that we already sacrifice to Repetitive Strain Injury demons. Alternately, a thicker book gives us more leverage in the "pinch," and a magazine is lighter. Print simply hurts less to hold. Perhaps when we get to the point when our tablets are made from a single, lightweight sheet, all will be cool.
Nook and Kindle readers, how do you feel about this?
The Light in Your Eyes
Another critical usability difference is that paper isn't a light source, while most tablets and e-readers (and certainly the iPad) are. Even with your book-reading app of choice (mine is Blue Fire, after Amazon bought and stifled Stanza) in Night Mode and the system's brightness turned down—here I have to interject that the iOS Auto-Brightness feature has never really seemed to work for me—your tablet is a powerful light source firing photons into your skull from mere inches away. This makes it problematic for reading in bed.
When the arrays of light receptors in our eyes detect that ambient light is low, as it is after sundown, our brain secretes sleep-triggering melatonin. If we bombard our eyes with artificial light, we affect this process and potentially disrupt our sleep cycles. This is especially true with light in the blue range of the spectrum—and computers and tablets emit a good deal of that (though you could counter this if you want to sport stylish, orange-tinted glasses).
This is not a settled matter, scientifically. The Los Angeles Times quotes Frisca Yan-Go, the director of the UCLA Sleep Disorders Center, as saying that light-emitting gadgets such as the iPad keep your brain, and you, away from sleep. But other researchers have suggested it's more a personal preference or habit. Studies have yet to definitively confirm or deny either case, but the trend leans toward considering light-at-night a potential problem.
Yan-Go also points out that iPads are relatively heavy compared to books. I know I've interrupted a good drifting-off when my iPad dropped from my hands directly onto my kneecap. Ouch! This is where Nicholson Baker's preference for the iPhone as an in-bed reader could be good safety advice.
I won't go as far as Baker in picking the iPhone over a book in bed, but I have noticed the iPhone screen, perhaps due to its small size, doesn't seem as bright or glossy. Is this less of an issue in a smaller form factor (fewer photons), or is it related to the book only reflecting ambient light?
How We Do: The Behavioral
When you change the nature of a thing, you also change the way we see, behave, and interact with that thing. Part of the strength of an e-reader is that it is not a book, so we are comfortable doing non-book things with it. But we have to account for how its non-bookness changes our actions, and how that can work against the goal of concentrated reading.
All tablets and e-readers are multifunction devices. This is true even of dedicated e-book readers; they still have access to multiple titles or other media available at a few taps. On the iPad, even when it's not connected to a network, I could not be reading in favor of writing, sketching, or playing a game. And when there is online connectivity, I have the constant urge to see if anything's changed on the internet.
When you're reading a book, you're reading that book (unless you're doing the "book and switch"). The switch cost is high and we know it. This helps us stay on task and be happy about it. In contrast, an immeasurable amount of R&D has gone into ensuring that switching titles on an e-reader or apps on a tablet has as low a cost as possible. This is a good thing, though it comes with the tradeoff of distraction (we can read a lot into the market for desktop apps that "lock" you into one app, or block you from the internet).
The result is that we have a seriously altered set of behavioral cues and pressures when reading on a tablet or e-reader.
Something Is Happening Here, But You Don't Know What It Is
Whether you fall into "Brain Age" optimism or "Is Google Making Us Stupid" pessimism on brain plasticity, it seems to be settled science that what we do regularly shapes our habits, expectations, and abilities. This is how we learn to be proficient at sports, reading, or living online. As Anne Mangen of the National Centre for Reading Education and Research at the University of Stavanger writes, we are constantly training ourselves to avoid concentration. "Skills inherent in screen-reading are quite different from print reading: for instance, the required ability in certain kinds of screen reading such as hypertexts, to navigate in a network without any defined and unambiguous beginning and end." (Even if you're not into the neuroscience, it's good UX to know that users fall into and value the familiar.)
And especially problematic for concentration or "flow" is that the rewards system in our brains is set up to encourage this—to hook us on fresh stimuli. Each time we find a new email in our inbox, or a funny tweet, or our status "liked" on Facebook, the brain squirts out a dollop of happy chemicals. As Christopher Chabris writes in The New York Times, "What the Internet does is stimulate our reward systems over and over with tiny bursts of information (tweets, status updates, e-mails) that act like primary rewards but can be delivered in more varied and less predictable sequences. These are experiences … [that] happen to be even better suited than the primary reinforcers to activating the reward system." Mangen agrees: "What we do when we (often quite apathetically) switch from channel to channel, is auto-stimulate our own attentional response."
This is what we're up against when we hold our iPads and swear that this time, really, we'll get through The Magic Mountain or Finnegans Wake. The cards are stacked against us biologically, and that stack gets higher the more proficient we are with our devices.
As users, we can fight against these biological and learned behavioral cues, but it's hard and, ironically, we're working against these wonderful, modern devices. I, for one, am weak. What could we as hardware, system, and app designers do to help reduce distraction? How atomic must the settings be to free us from the very affordances that make these e-readers so special? I'm sorry, I lost my train of thought there—had to go check my email. Nope, nothing. Let's move on.
I Go to Work
Another form of learned behavior related to reading on an e-reader is the fact we're staring at a screen, whether it's E Ink, LCD, OLED, or some other technology. We do so many things and spend so much of our life in that position—how does that affect your expectations and behavior when you're just trying to read, dammit?
In their 90th "Wait, What?" podcast, Savage Critics and semi-pro comics readers Jeff Lester and Graeme McMillan discussed reading comics on iPads, with McMillan stunning Lester by admitting he doesn't like it. To placate Lester, McMillan has to clarify that his problem is that he spends so much time at his computer to work his dozen or so writing gigs that if he tries to read on his iPad, facing an electronic screen puts him in "work mode," whether he wants that or not.
Conversely, I'm used to using an iPad for 1) communicating, whether via email or social media, 2) doing things like typing or sketching, and 3) playing silly games. So my mind gets conditioned to see iPads as two-thirds distraction devices, and this places extra mental tasks on me not to engage those, but to get through a book instead.
How can we improve as users? I suppose we could, as mentioned before, set strict limits and re-train ourselves. In my case, turning off all networking and delete all non-productive apps; in McMillan's case, working a bit less and playing a bit more. A more difficult question would be, how can we, as designers, help the users? Here we'll need to do serious user research and build specialized options for, say, my persona and McMillan's persona.
This is not to say there aren't some use cases where even I find the iPad a brilliant solution for reading. As with all usability evaluations, there can be situations where the use case can overwhelm other, perhaps conflicting, situations.
Last summer I worked abroad, and traveled occasionally for it. Though as I mentioned before, iPads are heavier than most books, they're lighter and easier to pack than multiple books. I usually want to read more than one book throughout an international flight, so an iPad works well there (though the glare issue can be worse on a plane, the lack of network access plus the peer pressure not to spend hours on Tiny Wings helps overcome my stated concerns). In addition, I had network access at work, but no set mailing address, so having an iPad allowed me to keep up with magazine subscriptions such as the New Yorker.
And comics look great on an iPad—the aspect ratio is perfect, the colors are vibrant, and swiping to turn pages just seems a better fit for comics than for books.
So I'm not saying it's a lost case, by any means. My experience outlined here is with the iPad. Some of my concerns may be unique to that device, and I'd love to hear from readers on other platforms. Some of my concerns may be mooted as thin-and-light technology advances, some may be addressed by screen setting options, some we can take upon ourselves in customizing and/or limiting our tablet, but will books ever be totally replaced in our hearts and minds?
Some of us will continue to find unique user experience value in our dead-tree friends until you pry them from our cold, dead hands.


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In spite of the hard time I've given Howard (or, as I've started referring to him, Naughty Howard) about topic-changing, I must admit that it's a topic I've meant to cover. So, most is forgiven, Howard--but I'm still going to think of you as Naughty Howard, due to my naturally stubborn and sadistic nature (which can't be too serious, considering the Libra factor).
So, readers, fill in the blank in the following sentence:
British English is different ____ American English in many ways.If you answered from, then congratulations! You are a citizen of the world, who uses the only variant on this phrase that is said around the Anglophonic world and the only variant that is universally considered to be "correct" by the people who make declarations about such things.
If you said than, then you're most likely North American. Note that objections to this form have softened through the years. For instance:
Different than has been much criticized by commentators but is nonetheless Standard [in American English--L.] at most levels except for some Edited English. Consider She looks different than [she did] yesterday. He's different than me (some additional purist discomfort may arise here). You look different than he [him]. The problem lies in the assumption that than should be only a subordinating conjunction (requiring the pronouns that follow to be the nominative case subjects of their clauses), and not a preposition (requiring the pronouns that follow to be the objective case objects of the preposition). But Standard English does use than as both preposition and conjunction: She looks different than me is Standard and so is She looks different than I [do]. And with comparative forms of adjectives, than occurs with great frequency: She looks taller [older, better, thinner, etc.] than me [than I do]. Still, best advice for Formal and Oratorical levels: stick with different from. --Kenneth G. Wilson, The Columbia Guide to Standard American English, 1993.
If you said to, then you're probably British, although you might be from a Commonwealth country. Or you could be me. For some reason, different to entered my grammar quite soon after I moved here. I thought I was being really "native" when I used it in a draft of a document for students. But my fellow American (and BrE pundit), the late, great Larry Trask, took me to task for it, saying that it was non-standard BrE. I can't find anyone else who feels so strongly about this as Larry did, but then again, there are fewer British style guides on the web---and I'm not in my office with Fowler's and Oxford Style at the moment. My Concise Oxford only says that different to is "less common [than different from] in formal use". Someone in a forum at this site reports:
But someone else on the forum (not citing which edition of Fowler's--and that matters a lot!), claims that Fowler's is completely intolerant of different than, claiming that if one needs to have a than there, then different must be acting as an adverb, and therefore should be differently, as in This soup tastes differently than it did last night. Now, since taste is a sense verb that acts as a linking verb, it can occur with an adjective (you wouldn't say This soup tastes spicily, would you?), so I'm not sure that commentator had his/her facts right. If I were a responsible blogger, I'd wait until Monday to post this, so I could look it up myself. But instead, I'll be lazy and hope that one of you will do it! The 3rd edition, please!
Fowler's Modern English Usage, Second Edition
different. 1. That d. can only be followed by from and not by to is a SUPERSTITION.


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Now the ethics and the well-being of a child will be up to the courts. Things just get more complicated.
"Colorado parents of transgender 1st-grader file complaint over restroom ban"
Colleen O'Connor
February 27th, 2013
The Denver Post
The parents of a transgender 6-year-old have filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division because Eagleside Elementary School in Fountain banned the first-grader from using the girls' restroom.
The child, Coy Mathis, was born male but identifies as female. She had attended the school since December 2011 before being pulled out by her parents.
"This is significant for both Colorado and nationally," said Michael Silverman, executive director of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, who is representing the family. "For Colorado, it is the first test of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act as related to access to bathrooms by transgender students.
"On a national level, as we see more and more transgender people coming out at younger and younger ages, people will be watching what happens in Colorado."
In November, a Maine state court ruled that a school district did not violate a transgender student's rights under the Maine Human Rights Act when it prohibited her from using the girls' restroom.
Wm. Kelly Dude, the lawyer for Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8, said there are no Colorado cases requiring public schools to permit transgender students to use restrooms of the gender with which they identify.
Transgender identity is a relatively new issue in the nation, so there is little uniformity among school district policies. Some in Colorado, including Boulder Valley Schools, have crafted detailed policies citing the state Anti-Discrimination Act. Others have not.
Boulder's guidelines specifically address restroom accessibility, stating that "students shall have access to the restroom that corresponds to their gender identity consistently asserted at school."
The policy was developed about five years ago because "the district has long been committed to the inclusion of sexual orientation and gender identity," said district spokesman Briggs Gamblin.
Every two years, the district participates in Boulder County's Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which "consistently has found one of the high-risk groups for teen suicide are GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender) or questioning," Gamblin said. "It's critically important that these students feel included — part of the community, not separated from it."
Coy Mathis wears girls' clothing, and students and staff used female pronouns when referring to her. But Fountain-Fort Carson administrators decided over winter break that the child should use the boys' restroom, the staff's restroom or the one in the school nurse's office.
That decision took into account "not only Coy, but other students in the building, their parents and the future impact a boy, with male genitals, using a girls' bathroom would have as Coy grew older," Kelly wrote in a Dec. 28 letter to Silverman.
Dude argued that the district is in compliance with the state Anti-Discrimination Act because "Coy attends class as all other students, is permitted to wear girls' clothes and is referred to as the parents have requested," and was allowed access to single-user restrooms used by employees or gender-neutral restrooms in the school's health room.
Coy's parents, Kathryn and Jeremy, are home-schooling her until the issue is resolved.
The family will appear at a news conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday on the west steps of the state Capitol to announce the filing of the complaint.
"It's important for us to talk about this, because a lot of people have been so afraid to be their true selves for so long," Kathryn Mathis said. "They've known from very young children who they are but were afraid to tell. We want to help create a society where it's OK to be who you are."
She said that as soon as Coy began to talk, she insisted she was a girl, not a boy.
As parents, they were sad and upset when they heard that Coy could no longer use the girls' restroom at school, Kathryn Mathis said.
"This automatically singles her out and stigmatizes her," she said. "It sets her up for future harassing and bullying, and creates an unsafe environment. The school has a wonderful opportunity to teach students that differences are OK, and we should embrace their differences, instead of teaching them to discriminate against someone who is a little different."
Thanks to POSP stringer Tim for making reference to this situation.


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'Orange' Creator Jenji Kohan: 'Piper Was My Trojan Horse'
A lot of people have been binge-watching the new Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, which is set in a minimum security women's prison.
The show's premise comes directly from a memoir of the same name: A white, middle-class woman named Piper, who graduated from a prestigious women's college, became involved romantically with a woman who was working for a drug ring. They traveled together on out-of-town business, and Piper agreed to carry a suitcase of drug money. She wasn't caught, but years later she was named in a drug conspiracy, convicted and sent to prison.
Beyond that basic premise, Orange's writers have created a fictionalized version of Piper's story, as well as fictional backstories for the inmates Piper is serving time with.
The memoir was adapted for Netflix by Jenji Kohan, who is also the showrunner, overseeing production of the series. Kohan also created the Showtime series Weeds. She tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross about the show's close-knit cast, why she chose Netflix, and what draws her to stories about privileged white women and criminality.
Interview Highlights
On what drew her to Orange when she read it
"I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other. There are very few crossroads anymore. We talk about this country as this big melting pot, but it's a mosaic. There's all these pieces, they're next to each other, they're not necessarily mixing. And I'm looking for those spaces where people actually do mix — and prison just happens to be a terrific one."
On stories about privileged white women and criminality
"In a lot of ways Piper was my Trojan Horse. You're not going to go into a network and sell a show on really fascinating tales of black women, and Latina women, and old women and criminals. But if you take this white girl, this sort of fish out of water, and you follow her in, you can then expand your world and tell all of those other stories. But it's a hard sell to just go in and try to sell those stories initially. The girl next door, the cool blonde, is a very easy access point, and it's relatable for a lot of audiences and a lot of networks looking for a certain demographic. It's useful."
On using flashbacks as narrative device
"When you're writing a show, [it] is your life. And I did not want to spend all my days in prison. It seemed really oppressive, and potentially depressing, and I wanted to build in a structure where I could get out, and these people could get out, and we could have some blue skies and wear some actual clothes, as opposed to uniforms. The bonus of that was that you get to see a fuller picture of who these people are. Because everyone wears a mask, to a certain extent, in prison; you take on a persona to survive, and there's more to these people than what they're displaying in this extreme situation."
On her close-knit cast
"The wealth of talent in this pool has been remarkable. The women that Jen Euston, our casting director, has brought in are so talented, and the bench goes so deep. Like Crazy Eyes, who is one of the real breakout characters on the show — I think [actress Uzo Aduba was] No. 50 on the call sheet, and she's a star. They're all stars. And they're dazzling, and they're enthusiastic, and they adore one another. And when their scenes are done, they stick around and watch other people do their scenes, and they hang out on the weekends. It's kind of been a love-fest on the set."
More On 'Orange Is The New Black'
On why she chose Netflix as a distribution channel
"I took it to HBO and Showtime and Netflix. And the greatest thing about going to Netflix was that I pitched it in the room, and they ordered 13 episodes without a pilot. That's miraculous. That is every showrunner's dream, to just 'go to series' and have that faith put in your work. They paid full freight. They were new, they were streamlined, they were lovely, they were enthusiastic about it. And I love being on the new frontier. I love being first out of the gate. It's really, really fun, because I think it is the future in a lot of ways, of how people consume media, and it's great to be in there early."
On how she started writing
"My ex-boyfriend said, 'You have a better chance of getting elected to Congress than getting on the staff of a television show.' Which was the perfect thing for him to say, because my entire career is, 'Well, screw you.' And we broke up. And then I started writing. ... I quit all of my crappy odd jobs, and I moved in with [a friend who] was living in Santa Cruz. And every day we would go to these little cafes in Santa Cruz, and I would work on spec scripts and study these videotapes I had recorded off television of Roseanne and Seinfeld and The Simpsons. ... What ended up happening was, my sister-in-law's father worked in a building with an agent and gave him my scripts in an elevator. And he read them, and I was on a show by spring. And it took off from there, and I never stopped working."
On Orange's Ira Glass-like character
"I'm a huge Ira Glass fan; I'm a huge fan of radio in general. I don't have a whole lot of time to watch TV, but I'm a big podcast listener, a big radio listener and a fangirl to a certain extent. ... [But] in terms of storytelling, we wanted a way for all of the prisoners to be able to experience [Piper's fiance's] betrayal. He's sort of co-opting her experience to make himself feel useful and special, and radio was a great way to do that. ... I find This American Life so compelling, and I engage on a very deep level with these stories, so I wanted that in our show — where everyone is quiet and listening."


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What city is next? Outside of the "Don't Get Detroit-ed" series, our eyes are on The City too Busy to Hate.
Black students at Alabama A&M used Lonnie Johnson's weapon to attack fire fighters -- thank God it wasn't a real gun! |
At the Historical Black College and University (HBCU) Alabama A&M, a Super Soaker fight - obviously these Black co-eds were engaging in a homage to Lonnie Johnson - turned violent:
Firefighters attacked on the job! They were responding to a fire alarm on the Alabama A&M University campus when they say a crowd drenched them with water. Huntsville Police were called, but got turned around before making it onto campus.
Huntsville Fire & Rescue crews called Huntsville Police for help. The Huntsville Fire & Rescue Chief told WHNT NEWS 19 Alabama A&M University police decided the city's police officers were not needed. The fire chief says they were.Huntsville firefighters recently went to the campus of Alabama A&M University to put out a fire, but did not find one. Fire and Rescue Chief Mike Sublett says the firefighters learned someone pulled an alarm as a prank.
The chief says his crews got attacked as they were trying to leave campus.
"They started having things thrown at them from some of the students there. Some water balloons, some water guns and other things," said Chief Sublett.
Chief Sublett told WHNT NEWS 19 that AAMU officials told him students had a water battle earlier in the day. He says the fight with water balloons and super-soakers spilled into the evening.
"I know students will be students, like you said pulling fire alarms happens from time to time," added Chief Sublett.
Six firefighters, including two district fire chiefs, felt it was necessary to call Huntsville Police.
"We feel like it is very unprofessional and unwarranted because we want to be there for their safety. There was no reason for us to receive any kind of action as we did receive," added Chief Sublett.
Chief Sublett says AAMU Police showed up first and turned away Huntsville Police. The chief says campus police told firefighters everything was under control.
Chief Sublett says not entirely.
"After a few minutes, one of our other district chief vehicles did receive some things thrown at it as well," added Chief Sublett.
Chief Sublett and Huntsville Police Chief Lewis Morris met with the Chief of Alabama AM University police to talk things out.
"It's just something that should never have occurred. Students should have more sense than to do things like this," added Chief Sublett.
Chief Sublett say AAMU Police Chief Monica Ray apologized.The average ACT score for an Alabama A&M is an astounding 17 (out of 36). The graduation rate is high for an HBCU: 37 percent.
Someone cue the Derek Vinyard:
Reporter: [Rasmussen shows a video of a crying Derek with his mother talking to a reporter after his father's death] Look I know this is tough. But how do you feel right now?
Derek Vinyard: How do you think I feel? I think it's typical.
Reporter: Typical how?
Derek Vinyard: Well, this country is becoming a haven for criminals so what do you expect? You know, decent hard-working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites. Reporter: Parasites?
Derek Vinyard: Blacks, Browns, Yellow whatever.
Reporter: I don't understand you're saying that you think maybe your father's murder was race related? Derek Vinyard: Yeah it's race related! Every problem in this country is race related not just crime. It's like... immigration, AIDS, welfare those are problems in them. The Black community, the Hispanic community, the Asian community, they're not white problems.
Reporter: Derek, are those really issues that deal with poverty?
Derek Vinyard: No. You know, no. They're not products of the environment either that's crap. Minorities don't give two shits about this country, they've come here to exploit it not to embrace it.
Reporter: What does this...
Derek Vinyard: I mean millions of white European Americans came here and flourished you know within a generation so what the fuck is the matter with these people going around shooting a... fireman? [cries]
Reporter: What does this have to do with the murder of your father?
Derek Vinyard: Because my father was murdered doing his job! Putting out a fire in fucking Nigger neighborhood. He shouldn't be giving a shit about. He got shot by a fucking drug dealer who probably still collects a welfare check!


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MUMBAI, India—India secretly executed the lone surviving gunmen from the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, four years after Pakistani extremists blazed through India's financial capital, killing 166 people and shattering relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors.
Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, a Pakistani citizen, was hanged early on Wednesday at a jail in Pune, a city near Mumbai, after Indian President Pranab Mukherjee rejected his plea for clemency.
News of the execution was widely cheered in India, with political parties organizing public celebrations and some people setting off firecrackers. But for those more deeply touched by the events of 26/11, as the attack is known here, the hanging offered only a partial catharsis.
"This is an incomplete justice as the masterminds and main handlers of 26/11 are still absconding," said Kavita Karkare, the widow of Hemant Karkare, the chief of Mumbai's anti-terrorism squad who was killed while pursuing Kasab. "They should also be hanged."
Indian officials accuse Pakistan's intelligence agency of working with the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba to plan the attack—an allegation Islamabad denies. India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since they were carved out of British India in 1947, suspended peace talks after the Mumbai attack.
Since 2011, the two countries have rekindled diplomatic negotiations, taken steps to bolster trade and signed a visa agreement to make cross-border travel easier, but New Delhi's frustration with Pakistan's failure to bring those responsible for the attack to justice has complicated efforts to mend relations.
The attacks were also a major embarrassment for India's security establishment, which failed to stop 10 gunmen who entered Mumbai on a dinghy from running roughshod over the police and elite security forces for three days.
Indian authorities faced public pressure to execute Kasab quickly, and the government fast-tracked the appeal and execution process, which often can take years or even decades.
Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said the ministry sent Kasab's mercy plea to Mukherjee on Oct. 16 and he rejected it on Nov. 5.
Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid said the government had attempted to inform Pakistani officials of the impending execution, but a fax sent to Pakistan's foreign office went unanswered. He said the government had also informed Kasab's next of kin.
Indian officials said Kasab was buried at Yerwada Central Jail, where he was executed. Some of India's most famous freedom fighters including Mohandas Gandhi served time there.
News of the execution provoked little immediate comment in Pakistan. Pakistan foreign office spokesman Moazzam Ali Khan said Kasab's family had not approached authorities about bringing his body home.
"We will look into this matter if the family of Ajmal Kasab contacts us to bring his body back, but so far they have not contacted us," he said.
Kasab and nine other gunmen entered Mumbai by boat on Nov. 26, 2008. Carrying cellphones, grenades and automatic weapons, they fanned out across the city, targeting two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a tourist restaurant and a crowded train station. The three-day attack was broadcast live on television, transfixing the nation and the world.
A photo of Kasab striding through Mumbai's main train station, an assault rifle in hand, quickly became the iconic image of the siege.
All of the other attackers were killed during the siege. After Kasab was captured, an Indian judge sentenced Kasab to death in May 2010 for waging war against India, murder and terrorism, among other charges. Kasab cried as he heard the sentence.
In his confession, Kasab said he was recruited by Lashkar-e-Taiba after he left a low-paying job as a shop assistant in search of greater fortune as a bandit. The attackers were in regular phone contact with handlers in Pakistan during the siege.
Some in India felt Kasab should have been executed publicly. Others complained that the government had spent too much money on the care and feeding of a vilified criminal and said that for justice to be done, the attack's masterminds—not just their foot soldier—must be punished.
Mukesh Agarwal, who was shot in his right arm during the attack, called Kasab's execution "the best possible gift" from the Indian government. But he said "instead of secretly hanging him, they government should have hanged him publicly."
"I am sad and happy both," said Sonu, an office clerk in New Delhi who uses one name. "Sad because I wonder what forced him do such things and happy because this will be a good example to all the terrorists in the future."


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Monday, July 28, 2008
By Show of Hands, Who Thinks We Should Call Child Protective Services?
Monday, July 28, 2008
It's bad enough that this cake seems to be using "full belly" as some kind of euphemism. Add in the picture of the scruffy-looking guy with his arms around a couple of kids, and surrounded by other children in various states of frolicking - all while in a secluded forest, I might add - and you've got some seriously disturbing cake imagery going on.
Considering the degree of wrongness already reached by those two issues, I almost feel petty in pointing out that there's no "a" before "dream".
Just call me petty, I guess.
Dana S., maybe we should look up that number...
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- oº˚ Homeschool Mom˚ºo said...
The title don't make since to me -- it don't match the cake -- something is wrong here.I started a Munching Mama Monday -- its a recipe sharing day. So come and join us
- July 28, 2008 at 8:04 PM
- Seoul Brother said...
Little Golden Books + Homemade Crystal Methamphetamine + Rob Zombie + Betty Crocker = cake wreck!
But it still doesn't explain the conjoined twin kid with one leg adn a flipper arm resting on (or growing out of) the tree. - July 28, 2008 at 8:06 PM
That's so terrible... I think the cake was supposed to be innocent, though, but I'm not sure. Hysterical, though. I laughed so hard I cried- and coughed, since I have a pretty terrible head cold right now.
- July 28, 2008 at 8:30 PM
- Dea said...
That's a "drrity" cake. Eeep! No thanks, don't want a slice of pervie cake! Anyone else desperately want to know what in the world the back story is???
- July 28, 2008 at 8:33 PM
Ye gods, I'm going to have nightmares now.
The skeezy-looking guy reminds me uncomfortably of a smaller and less nice version of Harry Potter's Hagrid. - July 28, 2008 at 8:37 PM
I just wanted to say that I really enjoy your blog. I can't remember when I've laughed so hard before. Thanks.
- July 28, 2008 at 8:55 PM
- The Courteous Chihuahua said...
The first thing I saw was "Full Belly" sentiment and thought it was perhaps a very bizarre baby shower cake. Now, I just don't know what to think.
- July 28, 2008 at 8:57 PM
- allison said...
Can someone explain to me why it needs to be "Full Belly" and not full belly?
It it for the Full Belly organization or could it be a case of runaway quotation marks? - July 28, 2008 at 9:28 PM
There's an organization where I live called the "Fully Belly Project." Basically it's for low income families or the homeless to get food. Maybe that is what it is for.
- July 28, 2008 at 9:29 PM
Anissa, the title implies that the guy in the picture is a pervert, which is why CPS should be called (the children are in danger from the pervy guy). Get it now? :)
Dea, I'm there with you. I would love to know what the story is behind this cake!! - July 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM
- ILoveMNStateFair said...
It seems inappropriate to have on a cake about having full bellies - like its making a mockery of hunger. On a luxury item that isn't even good for you, lets point out that it shouldn't just be a dream to not go hungry.
- July 28, 2008 at 9:44 PM
- Allison Jones said...
This is gold. There's a lot going on here, I really want to know the backstory.
- July 28, 2008 at 10:25 PM
Gosh, people really don't double check their work, do they? They put all this time and energy making the darn cake then they scribble out some words on top without a second glance... And the arbitrary quotation marks make me "nuts"!
- July 28, 2008 at 10:31 PM
"I'm Michael Jackson and I approved this cake."
- July 28, 2008 at 11:10 PM
- R J Keefe said...
The truly intrepid will want to compare this cake with the deadly quiet center of "Running Scared."
- July 28, 2008 at 11:29 PM
- Denise said...
Obviously it's for some sort of children's charity, food bank, soup kitchen, something that feeds kids. But still! Just put kids on the cake! Not creepy-Jesus-looking pervs!!
- July 28, 2008 at 11:31 PM
- Unknown said...
Whoa. Just... whoa.
- July 28, 2008 at 11:36 PM
- Unknown said...
Is the writing a reference to that Bob Marley song "Them Belly Full"? But that still would not explain the imagery.
- July 29, 2008 at 12:14 AM
- Solanah said...
Beards are not meant for cakes.
- July 29, 2008 at 2:27 AM
Cue dueling banjos.
Ekk! - July 29, 2008 at 4:00 AM
- joobie said...
'than' is misspelled, too.
- July 29, 2008 at 4:36 AM
- fairyhedgehog said...
Despite its faults I rather like this one.
- July 29, 2008 at 4:42 AM
I think the two "kids" by the tree are supposed to be apple cores (with faces)?
- July 29, 2008 at 6:59 AM
- berdawn said...
I assumed this was for one of those freaky jesus people families who have like a million kids.
- July 29, 2008 at 7:46 AM
- Sleepwalker said...
*shudders* Almost like there should be 'nudge, nudge, wink, wink' piped somewhere on there, too.
- July 29, 2008 at 8:10 AM
I discovered this yesterday and since my job involves sitting in front of a computer with nothing to do all day, I read all the way back to the first entry.
Ever. - July 29, 2008 at 9:11 AM
oh, and about the cake. I think the only plausible explanation is cannibalism. Or perhaps its for the Special Victims Unit?
- July 29, 2008 at 9:16 AM
YIKES! Yes, call CPS.
- July 29, 2008 at 9:19 AM
Let them eat cake!
- July 29, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- Miss Melville said...
I don't know if this is the case but being "full" is also Australian slang for being pregnant, so it *could* still be a baby shower cake...? Maybe the scruffy fellow compensated for lack of ability and adopted all the kids...?
Right, I don't know. *shakes head and wanders away* - July 29, 2008 at 10:23 AM
- Angela said...
Oh look, Charles Manson is having a picnic!
- July 29, 2008 at 10:45 AM
- MaryO said...
Ewwwwww. Very weirded out Jesus-hippie guy with his arms around two (unsuspecting)children, plus other children (looking like apple cores as another reader pointed out) leaning against trees - or are they mushrooms with green tops?
This is wrong on soooooo many levels!!!! - July 29, 2008 at 11:52 AM
- Jen said...
The kid by the tree looks like he's holding the head of the other kid. "Alas, poor Yorick..."
- July 29, 2008 at 12:55 PM
- K2 said...
ok----new take....that's not a beard it's a REALLY BIG SMILE on the face of the mom who is glad that she is pregnant again by another baby daddy....single mom times 6 kiddos...big bucks with foodstamps and welfare!!! WOOHOO!! and someone need to take the grass tip away from the decorator...it's not meant for trees!!
- July 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM
I just read through every post on the site, and a lot of the comments... and I just want to say THANK YOU for the best laugh I've had in a long, long time.
"It a gril" had me in tears.
THANK YOU!!! - July 29, 2008 at 2:04 PM
- Ronnica said...
Oh my! I love your site! This is crazy though, everything you just mentioned. It's like they're trying to say that their care workers/foster parents/whomever are a bunch of hippie pedophiles!
- July 29, 2008 at 5:11 PM
You know, my first thought of the guy wasn't pervert, but it was the "Buddy Christ" from Dogma. Does anyone else remember that movie?
- July 29, 2008 at 5:29 PM
- Rachael M. said...
Ok, I'm seriously not trying to offend anyone's choices here, but I thought maybe this was a shower cake for the "Quiver Full" movement folks when I read it...and then I couldn't figure out how a man with a beard played in, unless he was the dad and maybe it was a dad shower...
I think this is a good example of if your cake needs a lot of explanation, it is probably not a good cake. PROBABLY. - July 29, 2008 at 6:52 PM
- Katie Alender said...
Maybe this cake is for the man who gave birth a couple of weeks ago...?
And LMAO at Michael Jackson! - July 29, 2008 at 8:34 PM
- Dea said...
DOGMA!!!! Awesome movie - this guy is, alas, even creepier than Buddy Christ.....
- July 29, 2008 at 8:59 PM
- giz said...
I suspect that whoever made this cake had a whole different mindset about the message he/she wanted to deliver but isn't it fun to take it and make it totally nasty.
- July 29, 2008 at 9:16 PM
Go ahead and call CPS on a cake. It will give them something productive to do.
BTW, you are petty. - July 29, 2008 at 10:27 PM
- Chris said...
I anyone else concerned about the obvious red "devil horns" that the two L's in "belly" make on top of the creepy guys head??
Just wonderin'. - July 30, 2008 at 11:32 AM
- Terri said...
shocking! call CPS!
What IS the story behind this one? - July 30, 2008 at 5:13 PM
Uh, I thougt it might be made for starving children in some thirdworld country,
- July 30, 2008 at 6:04 PM
lk; Why, of course we will. Because of course there is no such thing as, you know, a "joke".
BTW, you are obtuse. - July 31, 2008 at 8:43 AM
Soo glad someone made a reference to Marie Antoinette. That is the first thought that came to mind when I saw this cake
- August 1, 2008 at 2:33 PM
Caption Contest:
[Jesus Man, speaking to children on log]: "Play your cards right, kids, and you won't end up skinned and looking like an apple core, such as the conjoined-at-the-neck Sherman twins over there. Billy, stop rolling on my new lime green shag carpet!" - August 5, 2008 at 12:56 PM
"Dang, I'm not very good at making human hair out of icing -- wait, hats! I'll put them all in hats!"
- August 6, 2008 at 4:07 PM
...and it should be "than" instead of "then".
- August 9, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Bless you, erica, it can be a good cause and a dreadful cake at the same time.
- August 13, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- Markus said...
I think it was a party for people who take care of the homeless. The children are embracing the homeless man and telling him that he deserves to eat.
- August 18, 2008 at 4:45 PM
except for the badly iced hair, which looks like a beard... but i didn't even notice at first, i dont see any real problem with this cake. it's really cute.
- August 22, 2008 at 10:24 PM
- knitakitty said...
I work as a Child Abuse Prevention Educator, and when I saw this, I laughed my ass off.
- August 23, 2008 at 11:48 PM
- Etiquette Bitch said...
creepy and also bloody hilarious...eew.
- September 2, 2008 at 7:49 PM
Maybe it's the opening of a homeless shelter.Still a cake wreck for spelling though
- September 21, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Gotta love all the negative stereotypes abounding about men who have beards, wear their hair long, and dare to smile. What, is it 1950 again?
- October 20, 2008 at 7:34 PM
Am I the only one who sees a straight-jacket on our hairy friend?
- November 23, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Hey...when did Micheal Jackson host a picnic?
- January 9, 2009 at 3:38 PM
I love how the man has a mullet.
- January 29, 2009 at 10:19 PM
I think it's supposed to be a "we can totally have kids even though you appear to be infertile" cake. I'm thinking "Full Belly" = pregnant. Though I can't speak for what the guy does to the kids when they get there haha
- March 2, 2009 at 2:39 PM
Why is a child growing out of a tree? That makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. Anyway, I am kind of wondering why you would make a cake like this. Michael Jackson Day? Pedophile Day?
- March 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM
- Mandy said...
Hmm..So someone should EAT A CAKE that says that a full belly shouldn't be a dream? How wrong. ;)
- March 19, 2009 at 2:22 PM
michael jacksons last dying wish
- July 27, 2009 at 9:43 PM
We have banquets all the time to elicit donations from the well-off for our anti-hunger charity. And yes, we often have cake. What do you think we should do, bang on the doors and say, "give us money!"? It isn't as if we're inviting hungry people and making them watch us eat.
You need to lighten up or you're going to have a coronary. And then I will laugh. Because, you know, I'm so "wrong". - June 30, 2010 at 3:30 PM
- Cupcakes Lady said...
lol...unbelieveable! xx
- October 7, 2010 at 3:24 PM
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The current study extends the analysis of European population genetic structure to include additional southern European groups and Arab populations. Even within Italy, the relative position of northern Italians compared with subjects from Tuscany is consistent with the general geographic correspondence of PCA results. Interestingly, the majority of Italian Americans (NYCP 4 grandparent defined) appear to derive from southern Italy and overlap with subjects of Greek heritage. Both of these observations are consistent with previous historical information [30,31].
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- In Β we see differentiation of non-Jewish southern European populations from Ashkenazi Jews along PC1 and from Druze, Palestinians, and Bedouins, along PC2. Greeks are concentrated near the center at the lower left quadrant.
- In C we see all the populations using only ancestry-informative markers and in D with all 270k markers. The two plots are similar, although use of the full set results in clearer results. We observe a cline of populations from the Near East to Northern Europe at the bottom. A little discontinuity between Greeks and Arabs would probably disappear if geographically intermediate populations had been included. Ashkenazi Jews are differentiated from the entire sample, suggesting that due to genetic drift, selection, or cryptic other ancestry (?) they cannot be reckoned as a simple European-Near Eastern mix genetically.
European Population Genetic Substructure: Further Definition of Ancestry Informative Markers for Distinguishing Among Diverse European Ethnic Groups.
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The definition of European population genetic substructure and its application to understanding complex phenotypes is becoming increasingly important. In the current study using over 4000 subjects genotyped for 300 thousand SNPs we provide further insight into relationships among European population groups and identify sets of SNP ancestry informative markers (AIMs) for application in genetic studies. In general, the graphical description of these principal components analyses (PCA) of diverse European subjects showed a strong correspondence to the geographical relationships of specific countries or regions of origin. Clearer separation of different ethnic and regional populations was observed when northern and southern European groups were considered separately and the PCA results were influenced by the inclusion or exclusion of different self-identified population groups including Ashkenazi Jewish, Sardinian and Orcadian ethnic groups. SNP AIM sets were identified that could distinguish the regional and ethnic population groups. Moreover, the studies demonstrated that most allele frequency differences between different European groups could be effectively controlled in analyses using these AIM sets. The European substructure AIMs should be widely applicable to ongoing studies to confirm and delineate specific disease susceptibility candidate regions without the necessity to perform additional genome-wide SNP studies in additional subject sets.


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On this North Korean national holiday, "Pyongyang residents spilled into the streets," The Associated Press writes. "Girls in red and pink jackets skipped along streets festooned with celebratory banners and flags and parents pushed strollers with babies bundled up against the spring chill as residents of the isolated, impoverished nation began observing a three-day holiday." And there was a marathon in the North Korean capital.
It was also another day for the world to watch and wait to see what new provocation might come from the nation now led by Kim Jong Un, the founder's grandson. As we've been reporting in recent weeks, the North has been issuing threats almost daily and claiming it's back at war with the South and the U.S. The conventional wisdom is that "tensions are rising" on the Korean Peninsula again — and Secretary of State John Kerry has been visiting the region to consult with leaders in South Korea and China about this latest "crisis."
We put "crisis" in quotes, because of what Professor Andrei Lankov from Seoul's Kookmin University had to say early Monday on Morning Edition. He studied in North Korea in the 1980s and keeps close watch on what happens there. He told NPR's Steve Inskeep that:
-- This is "just normal North Korean diplomacy. When North Koreans believe that it's time to start negotiations [over their nuclear ambitions, for instance] in order to squeeze more aid and political concessions from the outside world, [they] start from manufacturing a crisis. ... They promise usually to make Seoul or other capitals enter a 'sea of fire.' And the world media run headlines about the Korean Peninsula being on the brink of war. Of course, it's not on the brink of war, it's just [the] normal show."
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