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ALCS Game 2: Yankees @ Rangers, 1p
Phil Hughes (Postseason 1-0, 0.00) vs. Colby Lewis (Postseason 0-0, 0.00).
NLCS Game 1: Giants @ Phillies, 4:30p
Tim Lincecum (Postseason 1-0, 0.00) vs. Roy Halladay (Postseason 1-0, 0.00).
COMMENTS: Wow. If you thought the Dodgers' epic collapse against the Yankees in June was bad, at least they didn't save it for Game 1 of the LCS. Up 5-1 last night, the Rangers' bullpen allowed five runs in the eighth and the Yankees won 6-5. The two teams go at it again today, but if the Rangers don't tie the series up, all the Cliff Lees in the world won't help them.
As for the ballyhooed NLCS pitching matchup, I'm going to break from conventional thinking and predict that Lincecum gets lit up this afternoon. No, not like that. Phillies take this one, 5-1.
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In India, there is a long-standing tradition that women serve men and maintain the home. Many drop out of school; some never venture outside their homes at all.
Through World Vision training programs, women like Jyoti and Khadija receive training in tailoring as well as sewing machines, empowering them to open their own tailor shops and inspire the next generation.
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The iron shutters of Jyoti's tailoring shop rattle as they open. She starts her daily ritual by sweeping up the strips of cloth and thread left behind after yesterday's stitching.
A few kilometers away, Khadija sends her children off to school and starts work. Paddling swiftly with her feet, the sole energy source of her sewing machine, she sets the pace of the needle etching a pattern on the cloth.
For these high school drop-outs, their professional lives began the day they defied the norms of society and picked up a reel of thread.
Deep in poverty, Khadija's father was unable to support a family of nine, leading to her dropping out of school in grade 7.
"I had the dream of becoming a doctor, but my father could not afford paying school fees, so we dropped out," says Khadija.
The stereotypical role of a woman — cleaning, cooking, caring for the young — was entrusted to her. She begged her father to let her study, but at 18, she was married off.
Her desire to stand on her own vanished. When her husband's business failed, the family plunged into debt. With limited resources, she fell prey to a daunting dilemma — education or survival.
For Jyoti, who dropped out of school in eighth grade, having her own tailoring store was never an option. After her father's accident, the family's reserves hit an all-time low, and Jyoti, at age 15, relinquished her education to work.
"My sibling's education, food, and clothes all required money. My father was unable to do his egg business, so I stepped in. From 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., I worked in the car upholstery factory. Education became the least of my priorities," says Jyoti, now 18.
Both Khadija and Jyoti struggled to keep pace with the expectations of society. But liberation came in the form of a stitch in time.
"The number of school drop-outs and unemployed youth was alarming when we first started work," says Harish Chand, a project manager for World Vision in India. "We decided to conduct vocational courses for girls. Tailoring classes and beautician courses were the most valued. Many were also sent for English-speaking courses so they could find work in retail stores."
World Vision staff motivated families to send wives and daughters for classes. Khadija and Jyoti were two out of 198 women who received basic training in tailoring. For many, it was their first exposure outside the solitary confinement of their homes.
For Jyoti, it was a breakaway moment from the long-hour shifts at the factory.
"Having one's own business is a different experience. My schedule is not strenuous like my previous job," she says. "And being my own boss is liberating. Now I do work at my convenience and earn a profit. The desire in my heart to open my own store has finally been fulfilled through World Vision."
With a radiant glow on her face, Jyoti says, "I am not less than any fashion designer. Ask me to make any design or outfit, I will make it. I carry this skill and confidence with me wherever I go."
For Khadija, she crossed the threshold of her home for the first time, shattering the norm that society had imprinted on women. The classes came as a saving grace. Khadija reminisces about her giant leap of faith.
"The first day of class, I saw many women. It was very encouraging. I made a lot of friends. At the end, to start my career, World Vision gave me three sewing machines," she says. "The greatest blessing is that I can stand up on my own two feet now. I have a feeling of pride in me, that I am not dependent on anyone anymore. I am able to take care of my family better and focus more on my children's well-being. My husband is proud of me."
Taking a break from her boutique adjacent to her home, Khadija switches back to the role of mother as her children return from school. Teaching her four children to dream big, Khadija vows to educate and empower them to be what they want to be.
Owing her competence to World Vision, Khadija has made it her mission to motivate others through the power of a stitch.
Jyoti shares a similar vision. In the evenings, her shop turns into a training center for young girls.
"The girls I teach get the opportunity to come out of their homes, and I hope someday they will work too. In our community, the attitude toward women working is poor. People talk about women being someone else's property but fail to realize that women are the bearers of life. Without women, the world will not grow. Through this skill, we are helping women to stand up on their own feet. My hope is that these girls become more confident and empowered," says Jyoti.
Attending to her business has also sparked an interest in education. Jyoti is looking for options along with World Vision to get back to studying.
"With education, I can achieve greater things in life," she says.
Like yarn that has different compositions but serves one purpose, Jyoti, Khadija, and others like them come from different backgrounds but intertwine to constitute one perfect ensemble: the garment of empowerment.
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text: Princeton professor Robert Wuthnow was among 34 new members recently elected to the American Philosophical Society, the nation's oldest scholarly organization. Wuthnow, the Gerhard R. Andlinger '52 Professor of Social Sciences and a professor of sociology, was inducted into the society's social sciences class. Lewis Lockwood, who earned his Ph.D. in music from Princeton in 1960, was inducted into the humanities class. Lockwood is the Fanny Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus at Harvard University. Candidates for APS membership are nominated by existing members and elected for extraordinary accomplishments in their fields.


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With 13 days left until the Nov. 6 election, President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, both included trips to Iowa and Nevada on their schedules. Each tried to fire up his supporters and cast doubts about the other to gain an advantage in a race that appears essentially tied.
At rallies in Davenport, Iowa, and Denver, both swing states where the election is fluid, Obama trotted out attack lines he's used in recent days against the former Massachusetts governor.
The president included one of his latest jibes against Romney: that his opponent must have "Romnesia" because he seemingly forgets his past positions.
OBAMA: "I want to go over the symptoms with you, Davenport, because I don't want you to catch it. (Cheers.) I don't — I — I don't want it to spread. If you say you won't give a big tax cut to the wealthy but you're caught on video promising your tax cut would include the top 1 percent, then you might have "Romnesia." If you talk about how much you love teachers during a debate, but just a few weeks ago you said we shouldn't hire anymore teachers because they won't grow the economy, you probably have "Romnesia."
Obama also tried to counter Romney's charge that he lacks a second-term agenda by pointing voters to a plan his campaign made public this week.
In Reno, Nev., a state that was hit harder than most by the housing market collapse, Romney stayed with his main economic argument as to why he should be elected president instead of Obama.
ROMNEY: "I — I was just a few days ago speaking with a — a man. As I recall, he was in his 50s. And he said that the job he used to have was at $25 an hour plus benefits. But the job he has now is $9 an hour without benefits. And he said, you know, I'm showing up on the employment rolls, but my life has changed dramatically.
"And we've seen this across the entire country, and that's in part because the president doesn't understand what it takes to get this economy going. He doesn't have a plan to get jobs for Americans. I do, and that's why I'm going to win." (Cheers, applause.)
Obama has consistently led Romney in state polls in Nevada though his lead has generally been within the margin of error. Likewise, several Iowa polls have given the president a slight lead or show the race as tied.
On Obama's schedule Wednesday was a trip to Burbank, Calif., for a taping of the Tonight show with Jay Leno and a stop in Nevada where Romney had been earlier in the day.
The president's travels at midweek were part of a 48-hour campaign blitz meant to fire up his voters. Besides Iowa and Colorado, the president was scheduled to hit Florida, Ohio and Virginia with a stopover in Chicago where he hoped to set an example for others by voting early.
For his part, Romney had Iowa on his Wednesday schedule as well while his running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, was in Cleveland delivering a speech on upward mobility.
Meanwhile, Obama campaign officials on Wednesday tried to undo a minor but gratuitous mess they created by changing their minds and releasing a transcript of Obama's interview with Des Moines Register executives, part of the president's effort to seek the endorsement of that newspaper's editorial board.
The president gave the interview on the condition that it would be off-the-record. A similar interview with Romney was done on-the-record.
The Romney campaign had a bigger mess to deal with: continued fallout from a comment by Richard Mourdock, a Republican candidate in Indiana running for U.S. Senate. Mourdock, who is backed by the Tea Party, caused a ruckus by saying during a debate Tuesday that pregnancies caused by rapes are "intended" by God.
Romney's campaign distanced itself from Mourdock's statement, but there were calls for the Republican nominee to take further action because he appears in an ad endorsing Mourdock.
Then there was Donald Trump. The reality show star, real-estate developer and celebrity birther on Wednesday offered $5 million to the charity of Obama's choice if the president makes public his college transcript and U.S. passport.
White House and Obama campaign spokespeople indicated they wouldn't be taking up Trump on his offer.
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Review: Tech in Galaxy S 4 doesn't come together
First-look review: Galaxy S 4 stuffed with new technologies that don't come together
NEW YORK (AP) -- The Galaxy S 4, Samsung's latest and greatest, has a cute feature we'll probably see in a lot of phones soon: You can shoot both yourself and your surroundings at the same time, using the front- and back-mounted cameras. It's a bit like having a two-camera film crew follow you around.
But other than that, it's hard to point to anything that will set the world on fire in the new phone, revealed Thursday at an event in New York. The S 4 has what you'd expect from a new smartphone: a bigger screen and a faster processor. It may prove to be unfortunate that didn't stop there when it presented the successor to its hit Galaxy S III, because the phone has a grab-bag of features that don't come together as a pleasing whole.
The phone will go on sale sometime between late April and the end of June, from Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile USA, US Cellular and Cricket, Samsung says. If history is any guide, even smaller phone companies will get it, if not right away. The phone companies will set the prices; expect this phone to start at $200 with a two-year contract.
Samsung provided reporters with some hands-on time with pre-production units, which revealed the S 4 to be, in terms of hardware, a solid successor to the III. The screen is slightly larger, at 5 inches on the diagonal compared to 4.8 inches for the III and 4 inches for the iPhone 5. It sports a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, as much as you'd find on a high-definition TV set. This should mean that the resolution chase is over in the smartphone area: the eyes just can't discern any more pixels on these small screens. Competing top-line Android phones already have the same resolution, so Samsung isn't breaking new ground here.
The bigger screen is crammed into a chassis that's actually a hair narrower and thinner than the S III's. This is quite a feat. Samsung shrank the frame surrounding the screen to make room. Shrinking other internal components allowed it to make the battery 20 percent larger than III's, but Samsung isn't saying whether that translates into longer battery life — the added battery power could be eaten up by software and hardware changes.
The body is still dominated by softly molded plastic, and the S 4 doesn't really advance the aesthetics of its predecessor the way competitors Apple, Sony and HTC have done with their latest phones. Apple and HTC, in particular, have put a lot of sweat into machining metal into jewel-like enclosures; Samsung doesn't seem to care all that much about looks.
Samsung does care about trying to push the envelope on what the phone does, but it may have poked through the envelope, tearing a hole or two in it. It's probably not a disaster, because most of its features can be turned off, but first-time users could be confused.
For one thing, Samsung is taking the whole "touch screen" thing further by now sensing when the user's finger is hovering over the screen. In other words, you don't even need to touch the phone to make it react. Hovering over a thumbnail of a picture in the Gallery will reveal a bigger thumbnail, and hovering over one email in a list will show a preview of its first lines.
The idea is similar to the "mouse hover" feature on a PC, which sometimes reveals things before the mouse is clicked. Implementing it on a smartphone is trickier, though. On the PC, you have to use the mouse, so you'll discover the hover functions in the normal course of use. But since the feature is new in a smartphone and there's normally no reason to have your finger hovering over the screen, users are likely to discover this feature by chance. That wouldn't be so bad if all applications responded to hovering in a consistent manner, but very few applications react to it all. On the S 4, the "Email" app will show previews, but the "Gmail" app won't. The built-in "Gallery" app will show picture previews, but other photo apps won't. I suspect users will get tired of trying to hover with their fingers and give up on the whole thing.
The hovering feature also sets the phone up for another problem. In my testing, I found that the phone sometimes registered a close hover as a touch. In other words, the screen was overly sensitive, thinking I was touching it when I wasn't. This may be fixed by the time the phone is in production, but it's potentially an annoying issue.
The S 4 tries to divine your intentions in two additional ways. It has an infra-red sensor that looks for hand movements up to about 4 inches away from the phone, and it uses the front-side camera to figure out if it's front of the user's face. Thanks to the IR sensor, the phone's browser responds to an "up swipe" in the air above it with by scrolling up, and to a "side" swipe by jumping to another tab. This could be pretty useful when the smartphone is the lunchtime companion and you don't want to grease it up with foody fingers, but again, the "air swipe to scroll" shows up in only a few applications.
The camera is supposed to engage when you're watching a video, pausing playback if it thinks you're looking away. This didn't work in the preproduction unit I tested, but it's hard to imagine that this is a feature to die for.
The list of user interface innovations goes on, but they don't amount to a coherent new way of interacting with the phone. Nor do they turn the phone into something that's intelligently aware of what goes on around it. It's more like Samsung is throwing a bunch of technologies into the phone to see what sticks. Sometimes, that's how progress works, but consumers might not appreciate being guinea pigs.
The S 4 presents an interesting contrast to the BlackBerry Z10, which is coming out in a few weeks. Research In Motion Ltd. jettisoned the old BlackBerry software and rebuilt it from the ground up. The phone's hardware isn't as impressive as Samsung's, but the software is easy to use, and it's based on a strong idea: taking the pain out of communicating across email, text messaging and social networks. The S 4, unfortunately, doesn't have the same clarity of purpose.


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On this Memorial Day, we want to honor those who have died in war, and pay tribute to those who have risked their lives and are coping with the aftermath of war. In a couple of minutes, we're going to hear from Brian Turner, who fought in Iraq and wrote a book of poems about facing the constant possibility of death. The book's called "Here, Bullet."
But first, we're going to excerpt the interview that led us to Turner - an interview with retired Lt. Col. John Nagl, who was the operations officer of a tank battalion task force that was deployed to Anbar Province - in Iraq's Sunni Triangle - in 2003 and '04. He lost 22 young men, and his task force earned over 100 Purple Hearts. Nagl was one of the first military leaders in Iraq to practice counterinsurgency tactics, and he wrote the introduction to the U.S. Army-Marine Corps' Counterinsurgency Field Manual.
When I was preparing my interview with Nagl in 2008, I read an eloquent review that he wrote of Turner's poetry collection, "Here, Bullet." I quoted some of that review when I spoke with Nagl.
GROSS: (Reading) It is Halloween as I read this, and I'm being visited by ghosts - some friendly, some not - whom I have kept away, locked inside me for years. But Brian Turner, Ghost 1-3 Alpha, that son of a bitch, he's calling them back. I've put them away, kept them inside, the ghosts of the lieutenants and the captain and the first sergeant, their bodies torn by shrapnel or a sniper's bullet or gone, just gone, into hundreds of shreds of flesh the size of my still-living hand. But Ghost 1-3 Alpha speaks to ghosts. He calls to his ghosts, and they bring mine along for company, and now they will not go away.
And you go on to describe, you know, some of what you experienced in war. And let me just read a little bit more. (Reading) If you have been to war, if you have held a microphone in your hand, begging for medevac with the blood of your friends on your hands, pouring out your soul over the airwaves to keep your friends from becoming ghosts, from joining the shades in an unholy company of men who have given limbs and eyes and hearts; if you have held that bloody hand mic, then Ghost 1-3 Alpha will take you back to that day, that day when time stopped and life stopped and never really started again, no matter how hard you try to make the ghosts go away.
That's really beautifully written. Do you write a lot?
LT. COL. JOHN NAGL: I wrote poetry - I still write poetry. I'm working on a novel, actually, about Iraq. So someone - I think it was Alfred Lord Tennyson - said that poetry is powerful emotions recollected in tranquility; and I was asked to write a review of Brian's wonderful book, "Here, Bullet," and it was Halloween, and (pauses) got to deal with some ghosts. And that was a good thing. And it is an enormous privilege to have worked with and fought with the men I fought with, and I will never forget them.
GROSS: Are the emotions that you expressed in that review that I read, things that you can't really keep on the surface when you're actually fighting the war?
NAGL: In the particular battle scene that I was remembering when I wrote - when I talked about that "with the hand mic in my hands, calling for medevac," someone told me afterwards that when I came on that scene - and it was my job as the operations officer to report to places where things were happening; so I saw the worst of what happened, and also the best - someone said that, one of the soldiers told me that I came in smiling and calm and collected. And I was shocked. I - that wasn't at all what I was feeling, at the time. And I'm pleased that I was able to maintain a positive attitude because it's important in that kind of environment to keep the soldiers focused and professional, and try to ensure that they maintain their professionalism. And if you show anger or rage, that can create an unhealthy dynamic. And so I tried very hard, in those circumstances, to be as professional as I could. And apparently - in that one case, at least - I succeeded, although the turmoil inside was very real, and still is.
GROSS: Well, I want to thank you very much for talking with us, and I hope we talk again. Thank you.
NAGL: Thank you, Terry.
GROSS: Retired Lt. Col. John Nagl, recorded in 2008. In July, he'll become the new headmaster at the Haverford School in Haverford, Pa. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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This credit card interest calculation illustrates how much you repay for credit card balance of £ 250.00. There is also a calculation and supporting information for the reduction of your credit card balance of £ 250.00 by using fixed repayments versus minimum repayments on your credit card. This credit card calculator calculates how many monthly payments are required to clear a credit card balance if paying a regular fixed amount or the minimum amount. The Credit Card Calculator illustrates how much money you can save my using a fixed monthly budget to repay your credit card early when you have £ 250.00 to repay on your credit card.
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Credit Card payments are typically setup to deduct the minimum monthly repayment, this will normally be calculated as a percentage of the outstanding balance. The below example is for credit card with an outstanding balance of 250 with a minimum repayment of 3% or 5 (whichever is higher).
Minimum Payment Example: 250 x 3% = 7.5 or 5 if higher
Repaying the minimum amount is not the best practice and can mean that you spend years repaying your debt and pay far more interest. A more effective way to budget for a credit card and repay it quickly with less interest paid is to use the fixed repayment method.
The beauty of using a fixed payment approach is that you can plan for the monthly expenditure as part of your household budget. You will know exactly how mush is due to leave your bank account and when.
In comparison, repaying the minimum amount will mean that you typically pay slightly less each month (NOT ALWAYS!!!< if the PAR percentage is high, repaying the minimum could actually cause your debt to increase!
The true comparison comes in how you pay off the loan, yes, a credit card is a loan. Minimum payments will only reduce the total of your credit card loan by a very small amount, especially when the minimum repayment amount is 1% or less. Most of your monthly repayment is actually spent on interest rather than repaying the debt. at 1.5%, your monthly minimum payment is split roughly 50/50 on interest repayment and reducing the Principal (the amount owed). Above 1.5% and you are repaying more off the Principal than you are on Interest charges.
Okay, we understand the financial challenge that most people have. Living with debt is not easy, climbing our of the debt hole can seem impossible but you can do it. The key to your financial future is practical planning. You need to set a budget ad stick to it, you will be amazed at how quickly your debt becomes manageable and the prospect of 'Debt Free' becomes a reality. In our illustration above, we mentioned the 1.5% and above golden figure. Most reputable credit card providers use a minimum of 3%, we suggest you budget for 5% if possible. Lets look at another example using the same figures as above.
Fixed Payment Example: 250 x 5% = 12.5
12.5 may seem like a large amount but, if you budget for this then you will repay your credit card several years faster than using the minimum repayment approach. If 5% seems too high, try 4%. Whatever you do, the key message is keep those payments fixed.
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text: The mouth is the window into human health. This course provides an overview of dental medicine to engage, educate, excite and assist you in improving the oral health of your patients and members of your community. We will review topics in dental medicine including scope of the field, what to expect in function, and some of the many ways that dysfunction may present for different patients. This will include discussions of mouth, jaw, and tooth anatomy, pathology, and treatment. We will talk about differences between patients and the unique roles that different members of the dental field may play in treatment depending on the patient and condition. This course starts from basic concepts and proceeds to review trends in current research and technology. We offer scientific background, some skills for patient evaluation and interview, and some suggestions for further learning for those interested in or involved in dental education.


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Elias Diaz Colorado Rockies Nike Home Replica Player Jersey - White
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You're the type of Colorado Rockies fan who counts down the minutes until the first pitch. When your squad finally hits the field show your support all game long with this Elias Diaz Replica Player Jersey from Nike. Its classic full-button design features the name and number of your favorite player in crisp applique graphics leaving no doubt you'll be along for the ride for all 162 games and beyond this season.
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Dal Bhat - Pokhara
Dal Bhat
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Pokhara is a small Nepalese city tucked into the foothills of the Annapurna range of the Himalayas. Things, including time, move slowly here. Cars are not yet a problem, television transmission is intermittent and the air is fresh and clear. While the area tries to keep a low profile, 100,000 travelers arrive here every year. The city is a mecca for climbers and trekkers who account for 80% of its visitors. The area is also a retirement haven for Gurkha officers whose presence, coincidentally, keeps the crime rate low and the economy healthy. Those who come are charmed and pampered. Many stay. Hence, I can happily report it is possible to get fabulous pizza in the foothills of the Himalayas. The old city is much like the Kathmandu of my imagination, but accommodations are first-rate and are a welcoming place to train for, or recover from, strenuous outdoor activity. Part of the daily panoply is watching helicopters evacuate trekkers who have underestimated the toll that altitude will take on their bodies. Most recover poolside and still have the time of their life. I was completely charmed by Pokhara and its residents. If you are lured by the unusual and enjoy back roads and byways, Pokhara will enchant you as well.
In Nepal there's a entree called a Nepali set. It is an assortment of dishes arranged on a plate especially designed to feature each component of the meal. I'd like to take you through those components a step at a time and, today, we'll start with the two most basic elements of the dish. Rice and lentil are the staples of the Nepali people. They are eaten twice a day in a dish that's called Dal Bhat. The dish may be supplemented with curried vegetables, called Tarkari and pickles, but rice and lentils are always part of the meal. They will also appear on our expanded versions of the Nepali set that we'll build a step at a time. Here is the recipe for the rice and lentils that form the base of the Nepalese diet.
Dal Bhat...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
Plain Rice (Bhat)
2 cups rice (Basmati or Long grain preferred)
4 cups (1 lt) water
1 teaspoon butter (optional)
Lentils (Dal)
1-1/2 cups lentil (any kind)
4 to 5 cups of water (depends preference of your consistency of liquid)
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon garlic, minced
6 tablespoons clarified butter (ghee)
3/4 cup sliced onions
2 chillies (dried red chilies preferred)
Salt to taste
1 tablespoon fresh ginger paste (optional)
1) To prepare rice: Wash rice and soak for 5 minutes. Boil the rice over medium heat for about 10 -15 minutes. Stir once thoroughly. Add butter. Turn the heat to low and cook, covered, for 5 more minutes until done
2) To prepare lentils: Wash lentils and soak lentil for 10 minutes. Remove anything that floats and drain. Place lentil in fresh water and bring to a boil. Add all spices. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 20 to 30 minutes until lentils are soft and have the consistency of oatmeal. In a small pan, heat remaining butter and fry onions, chilies and garlic. Stir into lentils a few minutes before you stop boiling. Serve with rice.
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55 comments :
- Flavia Galasso said...
MAry...thank you for the reportage of your trip ....you make me travel with you!!Thank you so much... tomorrow I will translate in english every recipe I'm going to post on my blog...so...from now... sorry for my grammar mistakes...ciao and blessings
- November 16, 2010 at 5:05 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
The snow covered mountains are breathtaking! I enjoyed visiting Shangri-Lla with you this morning. Coincidentally, I am planning a pot of lentils today. Instead of the usual, I'll use your recipe sans ginger paste which isn't currently in the pantry.
Bonnie - November 16, 2010 at 5:24 AM
- ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥ said...
Mary, u enjoyed India totally and thoroughly, and u make see India sooo beautifully , totally !!
I love how u connect each post of the place and food together!
I love traveling there with u,imagine u relishing this and thinking ,boy she really did make the best despite the hiccups!!
Love this Dal Bhat, have heard about it too! - November 16, 2010 at 5:41 AM
- Zurin said...
I wish I was there..it sounds totally charming...fancy having a pizza in that little sweet town!
- November 16, 2010 at 6:26 AM
- Prema said...
Hi Mary,
Such a comfort recipe luks delicious...Beautiful Pics. - November 16, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Unknown said...
What gorgeous pictures, Mary! I've always wanted to find my Shangri-Lla...little did I know I could find it right here on the internet!
- November 16, 2010 at 8:14 AM
- Katerina said...
It sure looks delicious and exotic. The photos as always travel you away.
- November 16, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- Joy Tilton said...
I can almost smell the cold air from those mountains! Got a chuckle out of your response..."my Pilgrims had lemon pie!"
- November 16, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Claudia said...
I've been considering lentils today! But it is not the lentils that draw me in - oh those Himalayas - what sights you have seen. How much you can appreciate! (And love that there's a pizzeria - how fun).
- November 16, 2010 at 9:06 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
You are making us have itchy feet to travel the world and see such sights, exoperience great food and meet passionate people along the way.
- November 16, 2010 at 9:27 AM
- PeggyR said...
Another interesting dish and your pictures are gorgeous!
- November 16, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Tasha said...
The photos are stunning! I think Pokhara sounds like my type of place to want to visit. First rate accomodations and all that beauty and a slower pace of life- sounds delightful. I'm sure the lentils are too.
- November 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Unknown said...
Sounds like a wondeful part of your trip! Stunning photos! We love basmati rice and lentils so this would be great for us! That first picture leaves me hungry, the rice so fluffy!
- November 16, 2010 at 10:03 AM
- Pondside said...
What a beautiful setting. I tried to cook Basmati rice for the first time last week, without great success. I'll have to try again!
- November 16, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- StephenC said...
What a beautiful dish. And we even have whole Indian lentils, call urad dal. And the photos - spectacular.
- November 16, 2010 at 10:57 AM
- Big Dude said...
I'm loving the combo of food, scenery, and culture you're putting in your posts. Napal is one of those places I always wanted to visit - you my inspire me to make the trip.
- November 16, 2010 at 11:09 AM
- aipi said...
Just the name 'Dal Bhat' brought a smile to my face... its a staple for us folks... dad has eaten it for lunch every single day for the last forty odd years :) I cannot deny I was a little jealous as well... lol... I was born there but you have seen more of India than I have so far.
US Masala - November 16, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Pam said...
Great photos - love the snow covered mountains.
I've never eaten a dishg like this but I am certain I would enjoy it . - November 16, 2010 at 12:10 PM
- D said...
Mary, I have just had a most enjoyable time reading through your recent posts on your travels, the people, scenery, food. I can only try to imagine what a wonderful trip and experience you and Bob had. Thank you for sharing this with us, and hope all is healed. ;)
- November 16, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- ♥ Kathy said...
Your pictures are just gorgeous Mary!
- November 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
I love your travel tales.
- November 16, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- M @ Betty Crapper said...
Those mountains are so very beautiful. I'm really enjoying the daily trip recaps. Keep them coming.
- November 16, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Alessandra said...
I never managed to eat with my fingers...
You remind me of my experiences. I am a mountain girl really, when I see the mountains I feel good, i need to go up a little... I remember the planes in India, the heat, smells, noise, colours... then we moved to the Himalaya and i felt better. Even the poverty looked different in the mountains, I supposed that it is too cold to sleep out in the streets at night, mountain people needs to be more inventive, make a constant effort, leaving on alms alone would not be possible there. And then in Nepal also, the country is much poorer than India, and yet the poverty doesn't look the same in the eyes of the visitors.
Sorry Mary, better stop now or I'll write for hours!
Alessandra - November 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM
- flying eagle woman said...
ahhh I've come to treasure your posts...a tiny reprieve from my reality! thank you for sharing! one of my closest friends' daughter's name is Anna Purna
I've done a search on your page but I wonder if you've ever posted any recipes for quinoa?
Just checkin' again, THANKS!
Shawna - November 16, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- High Plains Drifters said...
Color me jealous re: your trip.
Lovely photos and travelog. - November 16, 2010 at 2:57 PM
- Velva said...
I love that you have taken me on this trip to Nepal with you. Enjoying the local food is a wonderful way to peer into the culture and way of life.
I learned a lot reading this post today. Thanks for sharing. - November 16, 2010 at 3:03 PM
- Faith said...
Wow, your photos are breathtaking, Mary! Reliving vacations through food is so much fun...and thank you for sharing, now we get to experience other cultures too! :)
- November 16, 2010 at 3:53 PM
- Alison Kilpatrick said...
Wow this trip truly looks amazing. What I would like to know was how you managed to post recipes while traveling. Now that's dedication.
- November 16, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Alison, the recipes that were posted while I was gone were made weeks before I left and time released according to a schedule I had established. I'm now back to one day at a time.
- November 16, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- Andrea@WellnessNotes said...
Thanks for sharing your trip with us! I love the photos!
And I could eat lentils and rice every day! The dish sounds great! - November 16, 2010 at 5:49 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
Your pictures are stunning and amazing! The sharpness of the mountain peaks and the colors take my breath away, and I never knew about this place! How long did you stay?
- November 16, 2010 at 5:58 PM
- tasteofbeirut said...
These vistas are breathtaking and the description of life in that village made me feel like I was there; It sounds lovely and welcoming and so beautiful. Love that dish, too.
- November 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
So beautiful Makes me want to go there.
- November 16, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- nannykim said...
Beautiful pictures again!! Wow!! The lentils sound good too!
- November 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM
- Joanne said...
Nepal sounds like such an interesting place! A little of this, a little of that. I am so excited to learn more about the culture since I truly don't know anything about it, and what better way than through food!
- November 16, 2010 at 7:43 PM
- Kath said...
I am really enjoying hearing about your trip, Mary. Your photos are gorgeous! The Dal Bhat sounds really good.
- November 16, 2010 at 7:54 PM
- Alessandra said...
Thanks Mary, so sweet of you to write that comment, sometimes I think (actually I am sure) that I talk/write too much!!! :-)
- November 16, 2010 at 8:31 PM
- Melinda said...
Looks and sounds like a wonderful trip--the pictures of the children are just adorable.
The tea sounds very interesting.
Melinda - November 16, 2010 at 8:53 PM
- elpi said...
It's hard to find recipes though! Thank you for this--I will definitely be trying it soon!
- November 16, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
Breathtaking photos! Thank you for sharing your trip. :)
- November 16, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Kim said...
Mary- Thank you for sharing your pictures. I feel like you can sense the calmness and serenity of Pokhara. It looks like my dreams:) My two children have been quite the handful lately and I would be more than happy if someone could drop me off in the center of town where I would happily eat rice and lentils for weeks or more....
- November 16, 2010 at 9:43 PM
- Chef Bee said...
Thanks for sharing your beautiful pictures. The ones of the mountains are inspiring.
Plan B - November 16, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Faith said...
Mary, I am enjoying your posts so much but its making me get the travel bug!!!!
- November 16, 2010 at 10:11 PM
- Juliana said...
Oh! Beautiful pictures of Nepal...what an interesting lentil dish...it sure sounds and looks good :-)
- November 16, 2010 at 11:00 PM
- Duncan D. Horne - the Kuantan blogger said...
Hi Mary, another charming post as usual. I did leave you a comment on my blog but I'm not sure if you'll have the time to be back there any time soon, so I'll write you something here aswell.
I appreciate you coming back to my blog to visit and also leave a comment. I am now following your blog. - November 16, 2010 at 11:30 PM
- Jeannie said...
Such breath taking photos...wish I could visit someday, the simple Dal Bhat looks very healthy!
- November 17, 2010 at 12:31 AM
- Sanjeeta kk said...
Love the read, and the delicious Pakora recipe too, Mary.
- November 17, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- Monet said...
As everyone has already said...thank you so much for sharing your trip! It sounds like you saw some breathtaking sites, and experienced some amazing food and people. I love learning about how different cultures eat, and so I found this post particularly intriguing. I love lentils, and now I have a new recipe to try. Thank you for sharing. I hope the rest of your week is beautiful!
- November 17, 2010 at 1:32 AM
- elpi said...
wonderful photos. .I love rice too! lol India is such a rich heritage. I would love to experience what you have, I want to go to India and explore:)
- November 17, 2010 at 2:45 AM
- RamblingTart said...
Sigh, what exquisite views, Mary! I love that you're sharing photos from your trip with us. :-) I ADORE dal and now I must make it again post haste. :-)
- November 17, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- My Little Space said...
Oh my, those photos are gorgeous! Just look at the view. Absolutely breath taking! I do wish to visit there one day. The food served there looks simple & healthy. Did you just mention pizzas???
Kristy - November 20, 2010 at 7:27 AM
- chij gurung said...
I think Pokhara sounds like my type of place to want to visit. First rate accomodations and all that beauty and a slower pace of life- sounds delightful.
- January 11, 2012 at 11:31 PM
- Shankar Banjara said...
mountains images are very beautiful i like your travel tales thanks for sharing
- January 13, 2012 at 10:15 PM
- Trekking in Nepal said...
I love the dal bhat.. real delicious food of Nepal......
- April 16, 2013 at 7:19 AM
- Pankaj said...
I love to have dal bhat, its really good food. thank you for sharing your experience.
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Thanks to Susan S., Beth M., Kimmi D., Bianca S., & Karen P. for the wrecks, and to Gary Larson - once again - for allowing me to be raised on The Far Side.
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The Far Side of the Bakery
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Thanks to Susan S., Beth M., Kimmi D., Bianca S., & Karen P. for the wrecks, and to Gary Larson - once again - for allowing me to be raised on The Far Side.
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- mimi said...
Poor Wall-E.
And I love the Far Side cakewrecks days. :D - June 29, 2011 at 9:37 AM
I want to start a band just so we can call ourselves the "whistling spleen".
Another funny post. Thanks!
And the writing on the first cake is pretty. Too bad she/he forgot to cross the t.
CC - June 29, 2011 at 9:44 AM
- Unknown said...
I totally would listen to a band called "Whistling Spleen"! LMAO!
- June 29, 2011 at 9:50 AM
mmm granular defect pig cake
- June 29, 2011 at 10:00 AM
- BP said...
The whistling spleen...I can just hear it whistling that one song..."Don't worry....be happy...." LOL Almost cried reading this. TOO FUNNY
- June 29, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Trevor said...
You did a great job on a Far Side take today. I'm impressed you came up with "spleen." I just looked at it and saw a giant pig nose.
- June 29, 2011 at 10:05 AM
- zoomom said...
Maybe it's just me, but isn't there a certain irony to making plastic flotsam (a.k.a. garbage)out of Wall-E characters?
- June 29, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Oh dear.
Are you sure Gary Larson is still alive? Because I think he might be dead and you're channeling his ghost. - June 29, 2011 at 10:22 AM
- Meghan said...
I recently underwent a despleenification procedure (a splenectomy for the more pedestrian)and I had been wondering what they did with it.
Never imagined they would turn it into an ocarina on a cake. - June 29, 2011 at 10:23 AM
- BADKarma! said...
That's not a "whistling spleen"! It's an Ocaspleena! Get it straight!
- June 29, 2011 at 10:24 AM
The Elmo wreck reminds me of one of my favorite YouTube clips:
P.S. Thanks for the daily laughs! =) - June 29, 2011 at 10:25 AM
What in the name of all that is right and holy is #2 supposed to be??? I mean, I at least get a SUGGESTION of the others, but... what??? WHAT???
- June 29, 2011 at 10:31 AM
- Donna said...
Poor Elmo. His eyes are bleeding.
- June 29, 2011 at 10:31 AM
What...the. Can't comprehend O_o
- June 29, 2011 at 10:33 AM
I've been staring at the spleen for a bit now... and I am still without words. Or possibilities as to what it is supposed to be.
However, I may have developed feelings for said spleen. - June 29, 2011 at 10:34 AM
- Welcome! said...
Great post! We love farside sooo much! My sister and I have memorized dozens of them, and come up in conversations on a regular basis.:)
- June 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM
why is are two year old twins celebrating their birthday with a luau and a pig roast? on second thought...that sounds like fun. how nice they didn't lay the pig in a bed of flames. he looks like he's resting.(nice penmanship, too)
poor, shocked mousie! his tail's even all coiled up! (but really--what is the design concept of this cake?)
poor Elmo, trying to win the staring contest. his eyes are starting to bleed!
I didn't know Batman's car was related to Kitt. Doesn't it know he's falling off the building to his doom? ("Wait u-u-u-u-u-up!") He looks like he's hailing a cab. upside down.
don't. understand. Wall-E. what's with the sea of blue v. the sea of yellow? is he in the ocean? the sky with stars? is that a toxic yellow beach full of melted tootsie roll toxic waste poop? - June 29, 2011 at 10:53 AM
- Theresa Mooney said...
did anyone else think "moisturize me" when they saw the elmo cake? no? no? just me? :(
- June 29, 2011 at 10:58 AM
This is too funny! I am currently wading my way through "The Complete Far Side" (I'm up to 1983) and I find it hillarious that Gary Larson upset so many people in the '80's! O.K. so the people writting the letters were obviously enjoying a special kind of stupid, but still! The letter from the "scientist" who after looking at a *comic* called *"The Far Side"* gave Mr. Larson a dressing down because he should have more concern for "historical accuracy" is particularly endearing...or revolting...I always get those two mixed up. :0)
Rock on wreckies! - June 29, 2011 at 11:15 AM
Terrs-uh... we did, kinda. My husband said,"oh my god... Cassandra is red!" so you know, same idea :)
- June 29, 2011 at 11:25 AM
- Haiku Joy said...
Some superheroes
kersplatt nuclear goo, but
Batman gets cakeface. - June 29, 2011 at 11:42 AM
- Unknown said...
The Elmo one definitely nailed the Far Side tone perfectly!
- June 29, 2011 at 11:43 AM
- SaraCVT said...
Our twins loved the movie "Wall-E" so much that when we got a Ford Escape Hybrid SUV, they immediately dubbed it "Ev-uh", because she had a green sprouting leaf on her side, just like Wall-E's love.
@Terrrs-uh and @Rachael: I have to admit, I did not immediately see that in the (supposedly) Elmo cake, but now that you mentioned it, all I can see is Cassandra! And I feel like the last human....
WV: polist If these bakeries are not more careful with their cakes, customers might call the polist on them. - June 29, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Haiku Joy said...
Gosh flamin' dang-it!
That's what I get, grading papers
while I haiku.
Should read:
Some superheroes
kersplatt in nuclear goo, but
Batman gets cakeface. - June 29, 2011 at 12:18 PM
wait a second..
Those are real rocks on the first cake?
Knowing how those "decorateurs" are soo careful and hygienic...
Eeewwwwwww! - June 29, 2011 at 1:20 PM
wv: ressa
I get the whole pig with a gland problem cake maybe, but the ressa them are pretty messed up. What on earth is that whistling spleen cake supposed to be, and I thought the crap Wall-E was surrounded by in the movie was garbage not feces...? - June 29, 2011 at 1:24 PM
Yikes!! I thought the Wall-E cake was an ode to Starry Night at first. Ick.
- June 29, 2011 at 1:39 PM
Thank you for reminding me how badly I miss the Far Side. I'm going to ask for Far Side books for my birthday next month!
- June 29, 2011 at 2:20 PM
#1: Further irrefutable proof of the existence of Hogzilla!
#3: Poor Elmo. I didn't realized his meth addiction had got so bad.
I miss the Far Side. - June 29, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- Banana said...
Will someone please explain what the Wall-E cake is supposed to be about? My brain is hurting just trying to figure out what the decorator was envisioning- is there a purpose to the blue and yellow and poo? I suppose I should be concerned over the spleen, too.
- June 29, 2011 at 3:19 PM
wv: phyran
I must not be phyran on all 8 today, because I just don't get any of these.
And I'm a Far Side devotee.
Well, actually, I don't get two of them.
I feel like a salad...
--Blondie's Mom - June 29, 2011 at 3:53 PM
- Kimberly said...
@ Banana
One side is WALL-E's junkyard he cleans up, the other is EVE flying through space. - June 29, 2011 at 4:02 PM
Is anyone else reminded a bit of Lord of the Flies with #1? It's weird for a 2 year old
- June 29, 2011 at 4:27 PM
#1 a bit odd for a toddler's birthday, but there's worse.
#2 like the others, I'm stumped about what that could be about. however, your caption was pitch-perfect and absolutely hysterical. I've got the read-CW-at-work-silently down pat (finally), but that one, now way I could keep those giggles inaudible! Definitely one of your best quips.
#3 I'm kinda feeling sorry for the elmo cake...
#4 I like @Anonymous at 10:53's merging of your line with KITT.
#5 @mzmclean-- I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that! But what on earth (or in galaxy?) was that design supposed to be?! - June 29, 2011 at 4:50 PM
- Jen said...
Okay, what is the second one supposed to be????
- June 29, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- ViolaNut said...
I wasn't going to comment, but my WV is "ingests", and since anyone who ingests ANY of these wrecks is probably blind or starving, I figured I might as well say something after all.
- June 29, 2011 at 5:12 PM
Am I the only one who thought that the "pig" was really pikachu lying on his back?
- June 29, 2011 at 5:57 PM
Haha this made my day!Although the rat/mouse witch ever you want to say it is was cute to me.
- June 29, 2011 at 6:03 PM
- Unknown said...
Six hours later and I'm still laughing at the whistling spleen...OMG Jen, you have made my day!
- June 29, 2011 at 7:56 PM
- Freddie said...
Usually, my Wednesdays are a bit icky, but this Far Side wreck made it less icky. I especially liked the whistling spleen.
- June 29, 2011 at 8:20 PM
- MistressMissy said...
Why do two year olds have a 'pig roast' cake in the first place?
- June 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM
- MotorCityMich said...
I keep staring at the rat cake trying to have it make sense. What giant pink thing with two holes and little tiny pink thingies next to it would a rat be staring at... with three tiny pink thingies next to him? Usually I can sort of figure out what the wreckerator was going for, but this one??? Not so much. I have a headache now.
Also, I totally thought the pig in #1 was Pikachu. - June 29, 2011 at 9:10 PM
Wha........??? I have stared at the spleen mouse cake without ANY clue for some time. Nonetheless, the whole post almost had me waking up my daughter laughing, and spewing my drink on my computer screen.
- June 29, 2011 at 9:36 PM
I think the spleen is meant to be a heart....yuck!
- June 29, 2011 at 9:45 PM
The whistling spleen made me think a PIG was trying to tunnel out of the cake, and WTH is the blue and yellow cupcake Wall*e cake supposed to be??!! Indigestion and nightmares abound!!!
- June 29, 2011 at 9:52 PM
- Craig said...
#1 The inhabitants of this island are really clever geneticists. They not only bred a pig that can feed the entire population, but also dwarf palm trees that make coconut harvesting much easier. Not much shade, but ya can't have everything.
#2 Someone knows about this. They need to share, now. Why is the poor creature's tail coiled? Some diabolical mouse-telephone hybrid being exposed to the Whistling Spleen for some evil purpose, no doubt.
#3 Exploding Elmo is (deservedly) rare -- if you see one, grab it. Carefully.
#4 The grand tradition of Batman being ditched by his ride continues. "Taxi! Follow that car!" [SPLAT! BIFF! OW!]
#5 Aww. The touching scene from Wall-E where our hero falls into the junkyard outhouse and Eve declines to rescue him.
wv: poote. I am SO not making this up. - June 29, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Melinda said...
My sister once had an guy who called himself "Whistling Ray" in her office selling his CDs...he must have had his spleen removed, but I'm not sure who came up with the idea to put it on a cake.
wv: authint--I hope that isn't an authint-ic spleen. - June 29, 2011 at 10:19 PM
wtf? on #2 I see a pig snout. it's quick-icing and he's going under??
could the twins on #1 be "22" vs. "2?" still icky but less o.O
Haiku Joy is my new hero.
-Barbara Anne - June 29, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- queenb said...
the first one....it's a POUS...didn't you hear? The islands are suddenly overrun with Pigs of Unusual Size...it's an epidemic...
'whistling spleen'?????? ROFLMAO...That is hilarious with a capital H!
Bonnie - June 29, 2011 at 11:11 PM
- jillb-ilslp said...
You nailed a perfect Larson impersonation. Your next book should be filled with such captions for wrecks. You could call it "Distant Edge."
And to echo the other comments, thank you for having such a fantastically twisted mind to see not just a spleen, but a whistling spleen! Yes, indeed. - June 30, 2011 at 12:37 AM
I think Batman was run over by Robin lol at least that is what that cake looks like to me. As for that whistling spleen it kind of looks like Mr. Bill run over by the Pepto Bismol man or something. Sheesh what are these wreckerators thinking.. or should that be drinking?
- June 30, 2011 at 1:45 AM
- ecuakim said...
- June 30, 2011 at 3:41 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh my! Now that is an overgrown pig :D That cake is so funny.I almost fell of my chair laughing
- June 30, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- Ado Annie said...
This may be a stretch as far as from here to Plasticine (I just made that up) Age, but could the spleen cake mammal ~possibly~ be the little rat creature from Ice Age? I don't recall that his acorn looked anything like a bivalve internal organ, but he did look concussed through the entire movie.
- June 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM
I'm the mother of the 2-year-old twins with the disastrous luau cake. We asked the bakery for a "Hawaiian Kids Beach Theme" and this was what we got. My son just kept saying, "Look Mommy- they're not wearing shirts!" over and over for the whole party. Sigh. Thanks for posting the picture!
- June 30, 2011 at 5:53 PM
i love this site, and i love to decorate cakes, and i am lucky to do it for a living. imagine my surprise to find one of my very own cakes on here, as a "cake wreck". as the cake decorator who decorated the cake of the grey rat with the piece of cheese, i would like to clarify that the rodent has not lost his bowels, but has chewed his cheese! i'm not sure if i should laugh or cry! :)
- June 30, 2011 at 7:54 PM
may I suggest laughing? you'll feel better!
-Barbara Anne - June 30, 2011 at 10:05 PM
- SaraCVT said...
@Amy Cakes Ray:
First off, I feel for you. It can't be easy, to find something you created being essentially mocked. But I have questions, if you would be so kind as to answer them (and you are the only one who can). Why is the cheese pink? And why does it have such prominent built-up holes--are you trying to suggest Swiss? What are the little thingies by it? And, lastly, what was the occasion for this order--why did the customer choose this tableau? - July 1, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Gosh i thoughr the pig on the first cake was pikachu!!!
XD - July 9, 2011 at 2:59 PM
99% sure that horrible Batman cake was the product of the horrible Dominick's bakery I worked in part-time in Naperville, IL.
- July 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM
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At the end of the day, if your website can't be found by your potential customers or readers then the look and feel of the page makes no difference.
Our Approach
The approach we take at Internet Marketing Experts is to create a comprehensive strategy before any work is physically created on a new or updated website. To achieve this we:
- Work with you to determine your key goals for your site
- Utilise site components that satisfy your goals
- Plan and develop strategies to increase traffic for your website
- Document a brief and proposal for your website design and development
- Identify the expectations and general intentions of potential visitors.
- Create a Revenue Growth Tactic (RGT)
- Clarify your own objectives so we can work toward to the same goals as you
Once we satisfy these areas then we will start physically designing and developing your website to fit all of these characteristics we have identified that you both want and need to achieve your goals.
It's a winning strategy
Because of our approach, your Return on Investment (ROI) is always considered from the very start.
We aim to not only generate websites with a fantastic 'look and feel' so people explore and engage with your website, but we make sure that the door is open for them to actually discover what you have to offer. This optimum balance is what we strive for, and what our customers love about our service. Quite often it is about showing you the potential that you didn't even know existed, this will then be converted into the highest potential for online visits, and this will convert into revenue and maximum ROI.