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Mother of Pearl Floral Chest 7-Drawers - Grey
$3,490.00 $3,590.00
This grey floral mother of pearl inlay chest of drawers could be the striking centrepiece for your entrance or living space, or the pièce de résistance in your bedroom.
It is as beautiful as it is spacious, and creates an unmatched aesthetic that makes both heart and home sing. Meticulously handcrafted and 100% ethical, this chest is designed to express who are and what you love.
- Seven drawers, available on wooden sliders or on premium Hettich metal sliders. We will send out the piece that's in stock, unless notified on preference within 48 hours of purchase
- Standard dimensions: 135cm W x 50cm D x 85cm H
- Large dimensions: 150cm W x 50cm D x 85cm H
NOTE: All our furniture is handmade by skilled craftsman, so each product is unique and may have different variations.
DELIVERY DETAILS: This product is IN-STOCK in both sizes, and will be dispatched within 2 weeks, to be confirmed within 48 hours of order. If you require this item quickly, or would like to confirm the estimated wait time for this particular piece, please contact us directly to check availability.
- Seven drawers, available on wooden sliders or on premium Hettich metal sliders. We will send out the piece that's in stock, unless notified on preference within 48 hours of purchase
An update regarding COVID-19Due to COVID-19 outbreak and the ongoing nature of the pandemic internationally, we are currently experiencing many unknowns and delays surrounding logistics, travel and shipping.
Our team in Melbourne and India are still running at full capacity, to ensure your products are made and/or delivered as soon as possible.
We ask for your patience during this time, as we cannot give guaranteed delivery times, nor can we predict how our warehouse and their shipping times may be affected by the ongoing supply chain situation overseas.
We always provide the information that we have at the time, however this can change from day-to-day, and we endeavour to keep our customers updated with new information as we receive it. In the interest of keeping our team safe and following health authorities, it is also up to the discretion of our delivery team, and state dependant, whether an order is taken inside, or whether it is contactless delivery.
The most important thing is for us all to stay safe and follow safety advice given by health authorities - we thank-you for your kind patience and ongoing support during this time. Please reach out with any questions, at anytime xxHow much is the cost of shipping?
- Homewares Delivery Australia-wide - $9.95
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- Metro Syd/Melb/Bris/GC: BULKY FURNITURE (Coffee Tables, Chests, Sideboards, Consoles) - $119.95
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- Metro Perth/Adel/Newcastle/Can: BULKY FURNITURE (Coffee Tables, Chests, Sideboards, Consoles) - $199.95
- Regional: MID-SIZE FURNITURE (Bedsides/Side Tables/Mirrors) - $149.95
- Regional: BULKY FURNITURE (Coffee Tables, Chests, Sideboards, Consoles) - $349.95
For all of these deliveries, we cover majority of the delivery cost still however given the extreme increase in freight costs since Covid-19, we have had no choice other than to add on delivery. We appreciate your understanding.Please email us if you'd like this option, or for any shipping information, at email@example.com or contact us through our form.
How is my large furniture piece delivered?
If you have ordered a larger piece of furniture, such as chests of drawers or console tables, these require very careful packaging in crates to ensure your delicate inlay furniture will not be damaged in transit.
Our inlay furniture delivery to metro Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & Gold Coast service includes a 2-man delivery to your home (with items arriving un-crated and in bubble wrap and foam). For all other areas outside these metro delivery locations, ground floor delivery is included in crates (with a standard courier delivery team and tracking number), and your delivery will be taken to your door. For front doors that are accessed via stairs, your delivery will be taken to the ground floor only and not up any stairs. We recommend that, if possible, you have someone else available to assist you with taking the items inside your home, unpack and position your piece/s in your home.
If you do require your piece to be taken into your home and upstairs, please kindly contact us to arrange further options and we will happily arrange this with you at a cost.We pride ourselves in offering high quality pieces at reasonable pricing, so that more customers can experience the feeling of beautiful inlay pieces being in their homes.
If there are any further services required for delivery, please feel free to contact us at any time prior to the delivery of your inlay piece/s and we will happily assist with options at your cost.How long will it take for my order to arrive?
All delivery timeframes are listed on each product page on our website. In usual times, you could receive your items within 2-14 weeks however with these new delays we're experiencing since the beginning of Covid-19, we expect you to receive your items within 2-18 weeks. As mentioned on our product pages, please kindly contact us if you would like to check availability, or how far your desired piece/s is from arriving into our Melbourne warehouse.
Our aim is to deliver the best possible service to our lovely customers, and we will ensure to keep all customers updated on the status of purchased items. In order for a smooth delivery process, please provide a suitable delivery address and contact number where deliveries can be made during business hours (Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm). We will not post to PO post office addresses. If we foresee any delays, you will be notified via email or phone.
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If you wish to provide Mahlia's carriers with the authority to leave your items when being delivered, please provide any authority to leave delivery instructions during the order checkout process. This will give the carriers the authority for your items to be left at the front door or another safe spot. Please note that we do not take any responsibility for loss or damage of your items in which we have been given an authority to leave. We recommend you track your items where necessary to avoid this. If you have given the authority to leave your items, a signature is not required.What if I missed my delivery, or the carrier was given limited delivery access?
If a delivery is missed, you may be required to arrange re-delivery that takes additional time and may incur an additional cost (with the carrier). For smaller deliveries, if your delivery is missed, a card will be left in your letterbox to arrange a pick-up or redelivery.
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If items are received late, this does not entitle you to cancel your order, as a late delivery does not constitute any breach of your agreement with us. We will not be liable at all for any loss or damage as a result of a late delivery of your order with us.
Inlay Handmade Pieces
As with all things made by hand, these pieces are all unique and small flaws may be present, which adds to the intrinsic character and beauty of each piece.Care Instructions
To clean your bone inlay or mother of pearl inlay furniture, please wipe with a slightly damp cloth. After some time of owning your inlay piece, if the shine comes off slightly then please apply a small amount of coconut oil and white wax and clean it with a dry cloth.Bone and mother of pearl inlay furniture has a porous surface, so items in high-use situations - such as coffee tables - should be sealed prior to use. Grout or polyurethane sealant (available from any hardware store) is suitable for this - example: https://www.bunnings.com.au/cabot-s-500ml-satin-water-based-cabothane-clear-polyurethane-varnish_p1522368
Whilst this sealant is clear, when you are sealing your piece, we recommend using a very soft cloth in a circular motion (rather than a paint brush) in order to avoid any potential brush strokes left on your piece.Please do not use regular cleaning products (surface cleaners, glass cleaners) to care for bone inlay. They are very harsh to use on inlay pieces.
If your piece is under direct and constant sunlight, the bone pieces may have the potential to turn a slightly yellow tone over time, and little exposure to sunlight can be useful to help them stay light for a longer duration. Please be careful that you don't put your inlay piece under extreme heat or directly under the sun.
If your inlay products may be used often (tray, drawers for example), the bone pieces may fall from edges during the use. The wood and bone both are naturally contracting and expanding materials but not at the same pace, so during season/weather change this could happen. Please use all-fix or super glue available locally to easily fix yourself if this may happen.
For our vase products, we would recommend covering your vase base prior to using, as these vases are not 100% waterproof.
Inlay products are delicately handmade and heavy in weight, which is why our products are very carefully bubble wrapped and then packaged and bolted carefully within a crate. During the transit and customs process, our products can be moved around numerous times, and hence it is safe to package with extra precaution to eliminate any damage.
When the larger furniture crate arrives at your home, you will require two tools to open the crate. This includes a crow bar and hammer, or as a third additional option you can use a cordless drill with Phillips head attachment (or a Phillips head screwdriver to unscrew the screws is a perfectly fine alternative). Here is a video displaying a simple way to open your crate: https://youtu.be/c_73cP5dFWM


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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Forty Important Days Ahead for Me
December 6, 2006 marks the one year anniversary of the beginning of this blog.
For the next forty days, until December 6, 2006 I will be taking a sabbatical from blogging. Tomorrow, Sunday, October 29, 2006 will be my last major post until December 6, 2006.
Three important things are on the horizon in the next forty days for me:
(1). Tomorrow's post entitled "A Statement of Cooperation for the Southern Baptist Convention" expresses hope for the future of missions and ministry cooperation in the SBC.
The post will represent a small attempt to offer a constructive document that helps initiate the conversation on how we can keep our collective focus and excitement on the gospel of Jesus Christ as we cooperate together in Southern Baptist kingdom ministry. Rather than getting bogged down in theological minutiae, the "Statement of Cooperation" will help us join hands around our affirmation of the essentials of the Christian faith and Baptist identity. The Statement of Cooperation will list five basic articles necessary for Southern Baptist cooperation.
I am indebted to Dr. Michael Bird New Testament Lecturer, Highland Theological College,Scotland, United Kingdom, and Joel Willitts, Assistant Professor of New Testament at North Park University in Chicago, and to their soon to be published manifesto Solum Evangelium: Renewing Evangelicalism with the Evangel. These two like-minded, theologically conservative inerrantists desire to see a revival among all evangelicals, but recognize that cooperation around the essentials must first begin within respective denominations before there can ever be a revival in the evangelical world as a whole.
They have graciously dialogued with me to help articulate the importance that conservative Southern Baptists will, as Carl Henry says, 'major on the majors.' With their permission the "Statement of Cooperation" will be built upon some of the concepts formulated by these two Baptist scholars in their manifesto.
(2). On December 5th, 2006, there will be a Baptist pastors and Christian leaders roundtable discussion held at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas, Rev. Dwight McKissic, Pastor.
Topics to be covered at the roundtable are as follows:
(a). There will be an announcement regarding the dates, time, place, speakers, and topics for the Baptist Conference on the Holy Spirit to be held in April of 2007.
(b). There will be an exploration of the possible formation of a Sandy Creek – Charlestonian Baptist Fellowship open to all Baptists for the specific purpose of assisting Southern Baptist church planters and missionaries who are conservative inerrantists but are now excluded from participation in Southern Baptist missions and ministry.
(c). Discuss and dialogue how the SBC can return to her historic openness to all Baptists and address contemporary issues in Baptist life, identify solutions, and develop action plans for the future.
If you would like to be a part of this Christian leaders and pastors Roundtable on Tuesday, December 5, 2006 from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (lunch will be provided), please RSVP at (817)468.0083. All are welcome.
(3). During the next forty days I will be focusing on two key events for me personally.
I plan on concluding the manuscript for my next book entitled "The Gospel According to Jonah: What To Do When You Feel A Million Miles Away from God." The chapters are done, but the transitional portions of the book and the final edits have not yet been completed.
In addition, I will be traveling overseas to dedicate the new construction at our orphange in India. Our church member, Sister Josna, does a phenominal job caring for over 1,000 children who will impact the nation of India in the years to come because of their Christian upbringing in our orphanage. I will also be spending some time with our IMB personnel in the region.
I reserve the right to blog again during this time period if the Lord impresses me to do so, but I anticipate enjoying the next forty days apart from blogging.
I close by thanking all of you who have made this past year and the over 300 posts a very eventful year in my life. Tomorrow's post is only a beginning for the dialogue, and my prayer is that it will lead to profitable and edifying discussion among all who participate.
In His Grace,
30 comments:
- Todd Nelson said...
I wish they weren't necessary, but what encouraging developments you've announced! -- the roundtable, the conference on the Holy Spirit, and the possible forming of a fellowship of cooperative but excluded Baptists. (It's so sad, but so much a part of our Baptist history, huh? We can hope the new fellowship won't be necessary.)
I look forward to your statement on cooperation. God grant you continued wisdom and grace.
Have an enjoyable and profitable time away from blogging!
Todd - Sat Oct 28, 02:46:00 AM 2006
- irreverend fox said...
you will be in our prayers.
will this statement of cooperation be introduced at the sbc for any kind of official affirmation (or rejection)?
I hope so.
Grace, Mercy and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ be on you during this time. - Sat Oct 28, 06:41:00 AM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
It's a little too early to speculate, but obviously that would be one possible course of action. - Sat Oct 28, 07:50:00 AM 2006
- Marty Duren said...
Dang, you beat me to the punch. December is my 31 days of "blog fasting."
I hope it accomplishes for you what I anticipate for myself. - Sat Oct 28, 07:59:00 AM 2006
- Rex Ray said...
1. Will your present blog stay available for reading?
2. Can any new comments other than yours, be added if it is available?
3. If new comments are added, will they be 'screened' by you?
Rex Ray - Sat Oct 28, 08:26:00 AM 2006
- RKSOKC66 said...
I've learned a lot "evesdropping" on your journey during the last eight months.
Being a Christian and trying to be conformed to His service is definately an "E ticket" ride.
Will you check in with us some time in January? - Sat Oct 28, 08:47:00 AM 2006
- Baptist Theologue (Mike Morris) said...
Wade, you said,
"There will be an exploration of the possible formation of a Sandy Creek – Charlestonian Baptist Fellowship open to all Baptists for the specific purpose of assisting Southern Baptist church planters and missionaries who are conservative inerrantists but are now excluded from participation in Southern Baptist missions and ministry."
Do you forsee this group as being like the CBF was at its beginning, a place for Southern Baptists disaffected with the current convention leadership and policies? Will the group compete with the IMB and NAMB for mission dollars? - Sat Oct 28, 09:00:00 AM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
Baptist Theologue,
No. We are Southern Baptist conservatives who are not angry :) and wish to work with all our conservative brothers, including Fundamentalists. - Sat Oct 28, 09:02:00 AM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
(1). Yes
(2). Yes
(3). Yes - Sat Oct 28, 09:03:00 AM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
We shall tag team Martin "How U" Duren :).
I'm glad I'm first.
Wade - Sat Oct 28, 09:04:00 AM 2006
For those interested. C.J. Mahaney, a reformed charismatic, preached at Southern's Chapel twice this week.
Hillarious! I love when he picks at Mohler.
I wonder if Paige Patterson will invite him.
I love CJ.
http://theologica.blogspot.com/ - Sat Oct 28, 09:16:00 AM 2006
- Kevin Bussey said...
40 Days of Blogging? Was that written by Rick Warren?
Blessings to you. - Sat Oct 28, 09:30:00 AM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
Mike and Mr. Theologue,
Our church gives over $115,000 to the Cooperative Program. We give additional funds through our World Missions Fund to the Lottie Moon offering. I will continue to represent my church and other CP churches as a trustee of the IMB and look forward to continued service. Appointment to committees of the IMB is at the pleasure of the Chairman of the Board. The opportunity to serve as a trustee is at the pleasure of the SBC messengers.
We have six IMB career missionaries that are missionaries in our church on three different continents, not to mention several journeyman.
We will continue to support the IMB, and I will continue to serve as a trustee of the IMB at the pleasure of our convention.
However, we also have other members of our church that are not qualifed to serve with the IMB because of a private prayer language and the fact that their baptism has been deemed unacceptable (they were baptized after coming to faith in Christ, by immersion, in a river by the person who led them to Christ --- we accept the baptism as a church, the IMB does not).
We support these church members who are missionaries in India and Africa to the tune of over $100,000a year. These funds are in addition to our CP contributions and Lottie Moon contributions.
Southern Baptist churches are free to do both direct missions and cooperative missions.
We do not need a new 'missions agency' to be created. We are Southern Baptists. However, an alternative funding mechanism that provides an opportunity for God-called, missionaries from our churches who don't qualify with the IMB or NAMB because of new policies is in the interest of some.
Obviously, we would not recommend any cut in giving to the CP, as we don't plan to do. In fact, we would like to increase it.
In addition, you both need to realize there is simply a call for dialogue on these matters, no concrete plans.
Hope that answers your questions.
Wade - Sat Oct 28, 11:31:00 AM 2006
- CB Scott said...
I wish you could take in an Alabama game during your time away. You can not imagine what a real football game does for the blood flow to the heart.
I wish all Baptist preachers from Oklahoma, Texas (especially Texas)Arkansas, Georgia and Louisiana could see the great Tide "Roll" in Tuscaloosa on a cool Autumn Saturday. It would put "spark" in many Sunday pulpits:-)
Seriously, have some good days with the family and friends.
cb - Sat Oct 28, 11:50:00 AM 2006
Halleluiah. May your 40 days turn into 40 years.
- Sat Oct 28, 02:00:00 PM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
That's funny.
I appreciate a man with a sense of humor.
Wade - Sat Oct 28, 02:12:00 PM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
By the way Mr. Anonymous,
Unless you are a Frenchman the word is 'hallelujah.'
:) - Sat Oct 28, 02:24:00 PM 2006
- CB Scott said...
May you, within the next forty years, become man enough to sign your name.
cb scott, 3125 Cherry Lane Birmingham, AL 35224 - Sat Oct 28, 02:37:00 PM 2006
- Kevin Bussey said...
CB is 100% correct about Bryant-Denny on a Saturday afternoon!
I grew up there and there is nothing better than a Rammer-Jammer Yellow Hammer!
Roll Tide! - Sat Oct 28, 05:06:00 PM 2006
- wadeburleson.org said...
Obviously I would encourage your church and other churches to give as much as possible to the IMB.
I am doing all I can to insure people from your church and likeminded churches like yours are represented on the Board of Trustees. - Sat Oct 28, 05:10:00 PM 2006
I pray for traveling mercies for you and your party. The blogosphere won't be as much fun while you're gone.
Grace and peace to you.
Les - Sat Oct 28, 06:14:00 PM 2006
- Bob Cleveland said...
I checked Emmanuel's site and could not find the answer: where, in India, is the orphanage? - Sat Oct 28, 08:24:00 PM 2006
- Paul said...
I'm sure you know this, but Bird and Willitts co-blog together at Euangelion. It's a great read, especially for those who are interested in some good theological thinking. - Sun Oct 29, 01:26:00 AM 2006
- Rex Ray said...
One day, my uncle turned around to see who said, "Go to Ector", but no one was there. He asked his wife if they needed anything in Ector. Ector was a town three miles away with one grocery store.
She said, "No", but he hitched his horses to the wagon and went.
In Ector, there was a poor man who stole hay ever now and then from my father for his milk cow. My father never mentioned it as times were hard during the depression. Everyone knew the man was not a Christian.
At the store, my uncle heard this man was on his death bed. He rushed to ask him to accept Jesus. The man said, "I don't know how."
He took my uncle's hand and repeated the sinners' prayer. He yelled for his wife and told her, "I've got to haul some hay."
She said, "You old fool, you're in no shape to haul hay!"
But he had a smile from ear to ear. He died three days later.
Wade, whether there's a call to go to Ector or India, God's voice is still in this world. God bless you in your work.
Rex Ray - Sun Oct 29, 05:17:00 AM 2006
- K. S. Holmes said...
I think your brothers and sisters in Arkansas did get to see the Alabama Tide roll this year. - Sun Oct 29, 02:53:00 PM 2006
- K. S. Holmes said...
Grace, peace, and truth to you brother. May God continue to bless and enrich you spiritually. May He continue to use you as a voice of reconciliation.
I'll see you at Cornerstone. - Sun Oct 29, 02:58:00 PM 2006
The December 5th discussion is one of the most encouraging things I have heard of in a long time. I like the basic statement of faith with a committment to preserve soul freedom and local church autonomy but joined with a committment to a high view of the Bible.
- Mon Oct 30, 10:23:00 AM 2006
- Rex Ray said...
Let's see—you said, "I have received probably 100 comments favorable for a statement of cooperation…there have been 4 that could be considered critical of it including the 2 that focused on Ron's comment—for the sake of keeping the focus on the issue at hand I am closing the comment section."
Well, well, well—what kind of truth and grace is that? Should Ron's comment be deleted because two people didn't like it? He wrote what he thought was the truth. Let's hear what these two guys say. I thought discussion was the basis for your blog. To shut the post down is what Hitler did to newspapers.
Wade, a few times you have disappointed me, but this is the first time I'm angry. You say you want to change the SBC, but you're not going to do it with your tail between your legs.
Rex Ray - Mon Oct 30, 08:21:00 PM 2006
- Will said...
- Tue Oct 31, 03:45:00 PM 2006
- gmay said...
Open dialogue has been a much needed phenomenon in SBC life for many years. I look forward to the day that it reoccurs in BGCT life as well. After reading your post on Mckissic, I reread one of your posts from August. In that post you agreed to confront anyone tearing down the character of another. The blogging craze is yet to find its ethical boundaries and I know your commitment and boldness will help us find the borders. I trust that your commitment includes fellow bloggers including those who are assisting you in this endeavor as well as those you have already found reason to rebuke. - Thu Dec 07, 06:54:00 PM 2006

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Exxon Passes Apple As Most Valuable Company
Exxon has once again surpassed Apple as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone and iPad maker saw its stock price falter.
Apple Inc.'s stock has been on the decline since the company's quarterly earnings report Wednesday suggested that its fast growth phase, rare for a company of its size, may be coming to an end.
Apple's stock fell 2.4 percent to close Friday at $439.88 for a market capitalization of $413 billion. That followed a 12 percent drop on Thursday, the biggest one-day percentage drop for the company since 2008.
Exxon Mobil Corp. gained 38 cents Friday to $91.73 for a market capitalization of $418 billion.
Apple first surpassed Exxon in the summer of 2011, displacing the oil company from a perch it had held since 2005. The two companies traded places through that fall, until Apple surpassed Exxon for good in early 2012 – at least until Friday.
China's largest oil company, PetroChina, could lay claim to having hit a market capitalization even higher than either Exxon's or Apple's, but only based on prices on the Shanghai stock exchange, which is isolated from the rest of the financial world because of Chinese laws on foreign investment. PetroChina's shares also trade in Hong Kong and on the New York Stock Exchange. Based on prices there, its market capitalization never went as high as $500 billion.
Apple and Exxon are among only a half-dozen U.S. companies to have ever reached $500 billion in market value. Apple and Microsoft Corp. are the only ones to have ever hit $600 billion.
Apple's stock price peaked in September at $705.07 on the day the iPhone 5 was released. Exxon, in the meantime, has been trading steady. Its business – oil – seems less prone to stock market ups and downs than the Cupertino, Calif.-based tech darling.
Exxon, which is based in Irving, Texas, set a record in 2008 for the highest quarterly earnings by any company. In the first nine months of 2012, Exxon earned nearly $35 billion, or 10 percent more than in the same period in 2011, on revenue of $367 billion. Results for the fourth quarter are due Feb. 1.
Exxon, the biggest investor-owned energy company in the world, predicted in December that oil will continue to be the most important source of energy. That's because cars, trucks, airplanes, trains and ships will still depend heavily on oil-derived fuels such as gasoline and diesel.
This year, investors seem unforgiving with Apple, looking for perfection and punishing the stock for anything less. The company's stock price slipped below $500 for the first time last week, as investors saw signs that the iPhone 5 was falling behind competition from phones running Google's Android software, especially those from Samsung Electronics Co.
The latest quarterly report added to the concerns. Apple warned that its revenue growth, which had been running at a speed more reminiscent of promising startups than multi-national corporations, is slowing down considerably.
A big reason: It has been nearly three years since a new product has come from a company still seen as the embodiment of innovation. That last product, the iPad, came in 2010, when its CEO Steve Jobs was still alive. Some analysts question whether Apple can keep growing by just releasing new versions of its old products.
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Putting a healthy spin on the popular fish taco
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Mexican cuisine has been popular for a long time, but my recent travels around our country have persuaded me that fish tacos are big now in a way they never were before.
Naturally, perhaps, they are easiest to find in regions with a strong Hispanic influence — particularly California, Texas and Florida — but I've also been bumping into them in Chicago and New York. Soon enough, they should be just about as ubiquitous as falafel. It's a happy thing.
Folks in Mexico's coastal cities — where fresh fish and tacos are both plentiful — have been enjoying fish tacos since before the arrival of the first Europeans. But if any one individual can take credit for the north-of-the-border spread of this culinary delight, it is Ralph Rubio.
On spring break from his studies at San Diego State University in 1973, Rubio flipped for the fish tacos in San Felipe, a port town on the Baja California peninsula. Ten years later, back in San Diego, he opened Rubio's Baja Grill, which specialized in fish tacos. Today, there are hundreds of Rubio's locations.
Traditional fish tacos consist of battered fish topped with shredded cabbage, a drizzle of citrus mayo, all wrapped in a corn tortilla. But there's plenty of room for variation.
These days the fish might be grilled rather than battered and fried. Sometimes it's served on flour tortillas, sometimes on corn tortillas. It's almost always topped with some kind of creamy sauce, as well as with shredded cabbage and/or avocado. Whatever. I've never met a fish taco I didn't like.
My version is light on calories, but heavy on flavor. The fish is lightly-floured and sauteed rather than deep-fried. The citrus mayonnaise sauce went bye-bye in favor of a puree of avocado and buttermilk. The avocado contains healthy fat, and the buttermilk is as lean as skim milk, but much tastier. Topping it off is shredded cabbage, carrots and radishes tossed with vinegar, salt and a pinch of sugar.
Fans of chilies will love the sliced jalapeno garnish. I think the cilantro is key, too, but if you were born with the anti-cilantro gene (a real thing!), you can swap in basil instead. Finally, those of you who worry that corn tortillas are high in calories can relax; two 6-inch corn tortillas, softened up and toasted without oil in a dry skillet, weigh in at just 80 calories.
A note about the fish: I used tilapia because it is sustainable, affordable and widely available all year. But substitute any fish you like. Just keep in mind that a thinner fish will take less time to cook.
Start to finish: 40 minutes
Servings: 4
What you need
1 large Hass avocado, peeled,
pitted and cut into eighths
1/3 cup buttermilk
2 cloves garlic, minced, divided
Zest and juice of 1 lime
Kosher salt and ground
black pepper, to taste
3 cups shredded Napa cabbage
1 1/2 cups coarsely grated carrot
1 cup coarsely grated radishes
1/4 cup white wine or cider vinegar
1/4 teaspoon sugar, or to taste
Hot sauce, to taste
1 pound tilapia fillets,
cut into 8 equal pieces
Whole-wheat flour, for
coating the fish
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
Eight 6-inch corn tortillas
Sliced fresh jalapeno peppers,
to serve
Chopped fresh cilantro, to serve
Heat the oven to 200 F.
What to do
In a food processor, combine the avocado, buttermilk, 1 clove of garlic, lime juice and salt and pepper. Puree until smooth, then set aside.
In a medium bowl, combine the cabbage, remaining garlic, carrot, radishes, vinegar, sugar, lime zest and hot sauce. Season with salt and pepper and toss well. Set aside.
Heat a heavy skillet (such as cast-iron or stainless steel, but not nonstick) over medium heat. One at a time, place the tortillas in the skillet and toast for about 30 seconds per side. As the tortillas are toasted, stack them on a sheet of foil. Wrap the foil around the tortillas, then place them in the over to keep warm. Alternatively, the tortillas can be held with tongs and toasted directly over a gas burner for a few seconds per side.
In a pie plate or other wide, shallow bowl, combine about 1 cup of flour with 1 tablespoon of salt and 1 teaspoon of pepper. One at a time, dredge each piece of fish through the flour until coated evenly. Shake off any excess.
In a large nonstick skillet over medium-high, heat about 1 tablespoon of the oil over medium-high. Add half of the fish to the pan and cook, turning once, until golden and cooked through, about 3 minutes a side. Transfer to an oven-safe plate and set in the oven to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining oil and fish.
To serve, top each tortilla with a bit of the avocado puree, then a piece of fish. Drain the cabbage mixture, then mound some of that over each portion. Serve with jalapeno slices and cilantro on the side.
Nutrition information per serving: 500 calories; 190 calories from fat (38 percent of total calories); 22 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 60 mg cholesterol; 51 g carbohydrate; 10 g fiber; 5 g sugar; 31 g protein; 370 mg sodium.


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Monday, January 30, 2012
What We're Up Against
On the one side, the heritage of the Enlightenment: democracy, free speech, free inquiry, science, pluralism, tolerance, a secular state, and rights of women, gays, and the poor.
On the other side: people like Francis Schaeffer who reject those things because of "a life and death conflict between the spiritual hosts of wickedness and those who claim the name of Christ."
I know what side I'm on. Do you?
36 comments:
- cody said...
It floors me that the superstitions of ancient goat-herders persist in a world dominated by the fruits of scientific labors. And it's downright upsetting that a fraction of the electorate sufficient to influence politics believes in that crap, it is so embarrassing for the species.
- 2:02 AM, January 31, 2012
"But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world view is true."
People with even more understanding realize that choosing your conclusion before your presuppositions is putting the cart before the horse. - 9:28 AM, January 31, 2012
It makes total sense that Lil' Dougie and Schaeffer are homies.
- 8:06 PM, January 31, 2012
"people like Francis Schaeffer who reject those things"
Do they really reject those things at the 100% level like you imply?
Or do they believe in 95+ percent of each of those things? - 12:13 AM, February 01, 2012
- Jeffrey Shallit said...
Miranda, I'd like to introduce you to commenter Melville. You two are a match made in ... well, somewhere, anyway.
- 5:49 AM, February 01, 2012
- John said...
democracy - as long as the votes go their way,
free speech - as long as no one disagrees with their holy book,
free inquiry - see above,
science - see above,
pluralism - as long as everyone fits their mold,
tolerance - see above,
a secular state - ha!,
and rights of women, gays, and the poor - ha! again.
You can't partially accept any one of those ideas. If you don't apply it equally to everyone, then you've rejected it.
So, yes. They really reject those things at the 100% level like Jeff implies. - 9:54 PM, February 01, 2012
- Takis Konstantopoulos said...
cody said... "And it's downright upsetting that a fraction of the electorate sufficient to influence politics believes in that crap"
It's not just a negligible fraction. I think it's quite large. - 10:07 AM, February 02, 2012
Why is it that everytime I comment it STINKS in here. FAAAAAART.
- 2:56 PM, February 02, 2012
- John said...
Every time,Miranda? You do realize that the only common factor is you, right? Think about that.
- 8:31 PM, February 02, 2012
Thanks Jon, for the bullet points you were accurate about, you demonstrated my point very nicely.
- 1:46 AM, February 03, 2012
Others demonstrate my points nicely but I can demonstrate my passing of gas just as nicely! Sniff, sniff!
- 10:05 AM, February 03, 2012
- John said...
Miranda, I notice you have no actual argument against them.
- 2:07 PM, February 03, 2012
- Takis Konstantopoulos said...
I know a Russian professor who had no idea of the Enlightenment. Not just the word (we managed to translate it in Russian for him), but of the actual Enlightenment. He acknowledged he had never heard of the term. I told him that, without the Enlightenment, he probably wouldn't have been able to be what he is or do what he does.
Although I'm almost certain that most of the religious right(eous), IDiots (a.k.a. creationists), etc., have heard of the Enlightenment, it is as if it never occurred for them. They choose to live in the Dark Ages. They're trying hard, very hard, to convince us that some obscure religious texts (and by-products of them, such as the "works" of IDiots) is all one needs to study.
Unless you're an idiot (or farter), you can't be on their side. - 6:00 PM, February 03, 2012
"You can't partially accept any one of those ideas. If you don't apply it equally to everyone, then you've rejected it."
Oh, is that a fact?
After some thought, you'll realize that even you don't believe it to be true. - 12:57 AM, February 05, 2012
"Oh, is that a fact?"
You know what is a fact? You cut the cheese again and at church!
Ugh. Talk about the stench of sin... - 6:08 PM, February 06, 2012
- John said...
Miranda -
"After some thought, you'll realize that even you don't believe it to be true."
Still no actual arguments? If it isn't true, show me why. - 10:20 AM, February 11, 2012
I'd prefer to let you do your thinking for yourself.
- 9:34 PM, February 11, 2012
- John said...
And I appreciate that. But if you have a point to make, you need to support it with arguments. If you can't, I see no reason to pay attention to you. Any parrot can say "Think about it"
- 12:49 PM, February 12, 2012
"I'd prefer to let you do your thinking for yourself."
The words of one without an argument and with no idea of how to defend their meager assertions. - 9:45 AM, February 14, 2012
meranda u sound like teh smaretest woman in the world. u make such logics.
- 3:47 PM, February 15, 2012
These sound like Miranda and Doug Groothuis' kind of people:
http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/billionaire_romney_donor_uses_threats_to_silence_critics/ - 3:20 PM, February 17, 2012
> "democracy, free speech, free inquiry, science, pluralism, tolerance, a secular state, and rights of women, gays, and the poor."
FREE SPEECH: "Former congressman Tom Tancredo was invited to speak at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. His topic? States failed economic policies regarding giving tuition money to illegal citizens. Of course, he could not speak because all of the race-baiting leftist barged the event, shouted him down and actually destroyed campus classroom windows in the process."
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaTkGgE-hXA
"A documentary film covering the assault on free speech and free thought on college campuses."
Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-zz1HwxIjg
You'd think that without all these rights, women would be miserable. Yet surveys say that religious women are happier.
Example: http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19770325&id=EbcrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uuUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3708,3808501
I'll grant you this one!
Uh, are poor people supposed to have different rights than non-poor people? This just shows the fault of your thinking. Besides, didn't you know that believers give more to secular charities than non-believers do?
SITE: http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/6577 - 12:34 AM, February 19, 2012
- Jeffrey Shallit said...
Silly Miranda, up to her usual stupid tricks. How do you think your examples address anything of what I said?
Just to respond to one of your fallacies: citing a single example, like how Tancredo got shouted down, doesn't constitute a refutation of what I said. The far Left is like the far Right in its intolerance of free speech; read Free Speech for Me But Not for Thee. Neither the Far Left, nor the Far Right, respect the heritage of the Enlightenment.
You will be happy to know that I routinely speak up for the rights of conservatives to speak.
There is simply no question that Schaffer's Christian Right is wholesale in the business of censorship, not to mention denying the other rights I mentioned. Anyone pretending this is not happening cannot be taken seriously. - 6:03 AM, February 19, 2012
Jeff, are you a friend of "Miranda Farted"? You surely haven't said a peep about his stupidity. Stupidity against your side you can't put up with; stupidity on your side you're A-OK with.
- 1:07 PM, February 19, 2012
- Jeffrey Shallit said...
Miranda: you're an adult. The other guy is a child, or acting like a child. No point in addressing that kind of nonsense.
- 2:50 PM, February 19, 2012
"How do you think your examples address anything of what I said?"
Actually, I thought it addresses, and challenges, parts of the paragraph that starts with "On the one side." The "heritage of the Enlightenment" is a bit exaggerated, in my opinion.
Who inherited the heritage of the Enlightenment? The non-far-secular-left and the non-far-religious-right? Or just the non-far-secular-left?
I was not trying to address the paragraph starting with "On the other side". Schaeffer's quote sounded like blather to me, so I ignored it.
"You will be happy to know that I routinely speak up for the rights of conservatives to speak."
I had never seen that in your blog, so I didn't know. Your letter was nice.
"No point in addressing that kind of nonsense."
Consider it done! - 1:43 AM, February 20, 2012
Thanks for the link to the wisdom of Francis Schaeffer. His love for God and for his fellow man was manifested in his works, in his words, and in his life. They are an inspiration in a dark world.
- 12:54 AM, February 25, 2012
- Jeffrey Shallit said...
Thankfully, Anonymous, most civilized people today realize how ignorant & misguided Schaeffer was.
- 7:07 AM, February 25, 2012
An interesting Pew study on Tolerance: http://news.investors.com/article/604124/201203130802/pew-center-study-of-american-online-habits.htm
"The new research found that instead of engaging in civil discourse or debate, fully 16% of liberals admitted to blocking, unfriending or overtly hiding someone on a social networking site because that person expressed views they disagreed with. That's double the percentage of conservatives and more than twice the percentage of political moderates who behaved like that."
It's good to know you're the exception. - 2:08 AM, March 14, 2012
- Takis Konstantopoulos said...
I wonder who is the idiot who wrote an article titled "Online, liberals far less tolerant than NORMAL people".
This implies that liberals are not normal.
Just the title of the article makes you want to puke. - 8:56 AM, March 14, 2012
- Jeffrey Shallit said...
I haven't read the Pew study, but assuming the results are reported correctly, isn't there an obvious competing explanation? Conservatives could simply be much stupider and/or more annoying than the average person.
I readily admit to unfriending a religious colleague on Facebook because every single day he was posting multiple messages praising his god. I had to scroll through dozens of his screeds to get to the things that interested me. I guess that makes me an intolerant liberal. - 3:29 PM, March 14, 2012
Takis writes: "Just the title of the article makes you want to puke. "
Figures that you'd spend all your focus on the relayer of the survey instead of on the survey itself. - 1:16 AM, March 16, 2012
"Figures that you'd spend all your focus on the relayer of the survey instead of on the survey itself."
Figures that you'd spend all of your focus on fighting losing battles, Fart Queen.
Some bloggers that would appreciate the company of the Fart Queen: Doug Groothuis, Albert Mohler, any other right wing evangelical blogger. - 1:51 PM, March 17, 2012
"Stupidity against your side you can't put up with; stupidity on your side you're A-OK with. "
- Miranda
...So you are admitting that you spout stupidity? FINALLY! - 7:42 PM, March 17, 2012
I think it's kind of ridiculous that you think Francis Schaeffer rejected so many of those things. He believed in Christ, and true, that creates conflict with his world view and others. But to say a completely oversimplified statement such as "people like Francis Schaeffer who reject those things..." is putting yourself in your own label. All Christians aren't Francis Schaeffer, and Schaeffer isn't all Christians. In his book How Should We Then Live? Schaeffer simply challenged the way we all lived by looking at Rome vs America and how we are so uniquely paralleled to the Roman empire. He challenges that. He makes you think.
It seems like most of you that have replied don't really understand what Christianity is about. Miranda...as long as people fit into their mold? as long as people believe their Holy Book? I am incredibly sorry for any believer in that Holy Book that you've met that has been this way - in other words, a hypocrite. Christians don't fit any mold. We don't claim to be perfect, and if one of us tried to, it be simply because we are insecure.
But maybe...just maybe...if you all were wrong, and there was such a thing as spiritual hosts of wickedness...what would you do?
I challenge you to dig deeper. Deeper than the surface of what you THINK you know about Francis Schaeffer, about Christianity, and about spiritual battles. ....What if you were wrong?
What if you were wrong? - 2:05 PM, April 20, 2012
- Takis Konstantopoulos said...
Anonymous said... What if you were wrong?
What then? I can't guess. Can you please explain? - 8:22 AM, April 22, 2012


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INSKEEP: When did this alleged money laundering take place?
ZARROLI: Well, this is all contained in an order that was released yesterday by the New York State Department of Financial Services. It was really unsparing in the way it described the bank. It says between 2001 and 2010, the Standard Chartered Bank basically operated as a rogue institution. It transferred Iranian money in and out of its New York branch, even though the U.S., as you know, had sanctions in place against Iran.
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INSKEEP: I assume this is part of Standard Chartered's defense now. It's not like there's an account that was labeled Iranian nuclear account. The very fact that things were complicated, does that give them an opportunity to say they didn't actually know what was going on?
ZARROLI: Well, what they've said is that, you know, in pretty strong language, that they deny everything that was happening, that they, in virtually every case, they fully complied with U.S. law. Standard Chartered really has a lot at stake, here. The regulators are basically saying, you know, tell us why you shouldn't lose your license to do business in New York state.
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INSKEEP: Well, given everything you've said, though, based on the information that's available, did anybody inside the bank ever say, wait a minute, we're laundering Iranian money here?
ZARROLI: Well, yeah. According to the order that came out yesterday, the chief executive of the bank's North American subsidiary did issue a warning about what was going on. He told the bank, you know, this has the potential to really do us serious harm. The bank's reputation could really be hurt. I think he used the word catastrophic. He said there could be criminal liability.
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What Did You Do With *Your* Old Pasties?
The It's Not Easy Being Green Dancers prepare for their upcoming command performance of Anne Geddes WTF: Geddes Gone Burlesque.
Performance is all about presence...
... and kick-ass costuming.
Dude. You gotta wear the pasties. I have a reputation to uphold.
You're takin' pasties for the team, Frog.
Gimmicky, yes, but it draws the crowds: PussyFrog Doll
I put pasties on my baby.*
I am a Bad Mother. I make no apologies.
(And, yes, I am an abuser of helpless toys. Kermit will doubtlessly require years of therapy to recover from the damage of being coerced into prancing about as a skank ho-phibian. Again, no apologies.)
And. Am hungover. Last night was TO mommyblogger debauchery, and all that buffing and vodka tonic slurping knocked me (already struggling with a cold) on my ass. It was all that I could do today to lift a hungover finger to upload exploitative pictures of my child and her amphibian dance companion.
Full report, with photos, tomorrow on MamaBlogsToronto.
In the meantime, seriously - what did you do (what would you do) with all those leftover pasties?
*You asked, Dawn. I delivered.


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Brave is Pixar's 13th movie. It's about a flame-haired princess named Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald) who doesn't want to get married. She'd rather ride her horse, drink from waterfalls and wield her bow and arrow, like a medieval Katniss. The animation giant has featured female characters in its movies, including adorable Boo in Monsters, Inc., daffy Dory in Finding Nemo, feisty chef Colette in Ratatouille, the clever robot Eve in WALL•E and ant princess Atta in A Bug's Life. But Pixar has never made a girl the lead until now, just as it's never had a woman direct one of its films until now.
Oh, wait. Brenda Chapman (The Prince of Egypt) was the director of Brave, until she was replaced in the last 18 months of production by Mark Andrews, and the halfway-there aspect of that triumph serves as an apt metaphor for Pixar's halfway embrace of female empowerment within the text of Brave. Merida is strong, capable and courageous. But depressingly, she's a princess, the most traditional role for female characters in children's fictions. She's a rebellious tomboy, but her concerns are still limited to those of a princess, the biggest of which remains, as ever, marriage.
(MORE: Brave Old Worlds: Does Pixar Have a Problem with Stereotypes?)
Pixar is full of brilliant, flexible minds, the kind that made credible heroes out of a stuffed Wild West sheriff, an assortment of worker-bee types, including an ant and a robot, and a rat that dreamed of creating haute cuisine. It has been 17 years since the studio released its first movie, Toy Story, an awfully long time to get around to a female lead. I'm glad it finally got there, but I would have preferred that the studio's groundbreaking moment had involved something actually groundbreaking.
"It's a failure of imagination," says writer Peggy Orenstein, author of the best-selling Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. (Full disclosure: Orenstein and I were once in a writing group together, and she also blurbed a book I wrote. I'm grateful, but she'd be the go-to person on the topic of princesses regardless.)
She's talking about the nature of the character, but it is also true that the movie itself, while nowhere near the low point of last summer's Cars 2, doesn't dazzle. The animation is beautiful, but the story is staid. It is set in medieval Scotland, where Merida has just come of age and her mother Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson) is preparing to marry her off to any of three candidates from the other clans. This is tradition, intended to keep the peace among clans with a history of warfare, and therefore it's Merida's duty.
(MORE: The War on Women Begins with Girls)
Although Queen Elinor has a Susan Sontag–style white streak in her hair, she's Miss Manners in a crown. A princess doesn't raise her voice. She is "cautious," "clean" and "above all, strives for perfection." Elinor hardly considers marriage the end of the world; she actually loves her buffoonish husband Fergus (Billy Connolly). But for Merida, it feels like the end of freedom. Stewing with resentment, she consults a witch to change her mother's mind but doesn't stop to read the fine print.
The best parts of Brave are the scenes involving the changed Queen Elinor, now a gigantic bear. But despite a lot of superficial talk of fate — "Our fate lies within us. You only have to be brave enough to see it" — her physical metamorphosis represents the main transformation. Other than deciding her mother isn't so bad, Merida doesn't really grow. She's simply extended her time as a tomboy, another archetype, less a girl than a stereotype of a kind of girl. "It wasn't clear to me what her arc was," Orenstein says. "What is it that we are imagining girls moving toward here? 'I get to ride around on a horse all day' isn't really enough. That isn't going to take her anywhere. There wasn't a desire to do something."
This wouldn't feel so vaguely unsatisfying if Brave were just one of many Pixar movies that featured a strong female lead. It's the absence of others that turns the spotlight on Brave. And having a princess protagonist isn't inherently bad. It's just that she is so chapter one of what girls can be — and so many other Pixar movies skipped most known chapters and moved on to whole new volumes.
(PHOTOS: A Brief History of Pixar)
I did wonder if Pixar went with the princess concept in Brave with an eye toward subverting the tired (ahem, Disney) genre by attacking it head on, making this princess so defiantly different that all the other princesses would pale in comparison. If so, the studio hasn't carried it off. Merida has red hair. She can shoot like Hawkeye in The Avengers. But Mulan accomplished more. Susan in Monsters vs. Aliens grew more (literally and figuratively), even if, as Orenstein points out, she could have used "a few more pixels in her waist." Tiana in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, the first black female lead for the studio, had a job and an ambition. I'd rather have seen Pixar make Remy's daughter its first female lead in a Ratatouille sequel (Ratatouille 2: The Leftovers).
Girls of all ages need to see female characters in leading roles — whether they can shoot a bow and arrow like The Hunger Games' Katniss or unabashedly embrace their gloriously imperfect bodies like Lena Dunham in Girls. Cultural equality is essential to broader equality. The images we see don't have to be idealized and role models. They don't need crowns. Average sorts of girls being represented in and incorporated into stories as leading characters can and will empower future feminists. And it's just as crucial for those who might never call themselves by that name to see themselves on screens large and small because they still need to get jobs and find their way in the world.
(MORE: Brave: The Princess and Her Unbearable Mom)
Moreover, it's not only girls who need these images. When I told my 8-year-old son we were going to see Brave, you'd think I'd have told him school was not out for the summer after all and that I was making him a spinach sandwich. He was vague about why he didn't want to see it, and when I asked directly, he claimed it had nothing to do with the lead character's being a girl. It might have been harder to get him into a seat, and the bear scared him, but in the end, he said he liked it very much. (Of course, his favorite characters were Merida's little brothers, a trio of naughty, carrot-topped imps.) Will having seen Brave make him one day be more respectful of his college girlfriend? Who knows? I could use all the help I can get in nurturing a good future man.
I have no doubt there are a lot of good men at Pixar, but if they'd grown up in an environment in which it was totally normal for them to see movies with girls in the lead, maybe it wouldn't have taken 17 years for the studio to get around to making a girl the star. And I'm with Orenstein in hoping that Brave does well enough to encourage the studio to make more movies with girls in the lead. (Pixar's Pete Docter, director of Up, is reportedly working on a film that takes place inside a girl's mind.) "The fact that we have to put this much analysis into this movie is really a symptom of the problem," Orenstein says. "I just want to see such a broad range of female characters onscreen that we don't have to have a discussion every time one comes out." Exactly. Believe it or not, I'd love to shut up about the topic.


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The 2013 wildfire season hit a milestone Tuesday: Preparedness Level 5, an officious way of saying resources are stretched thin and it could quickly get worse.
Preparedness Level 5 is the highest on the national wildfire preparedness scale, which the National Interagency Fire Center uses to chart wildfire activity, the deployment and availability of firefighters and equipment and the likelihood that more big fires are coming.
"The decision to move to Preparedness Level 5 reflects the complexity facing our federal and non-federal fire managers," said Interior Secretary Sally Jewell in a statement.
Jewell is referring to an escalation in wildfire that now has 18,000 firefighters simultaneously tackling 48 major blazes in nine Western states. The firefighter deployment already matches the 2012 number even though there is far less fire activity overall this year.
As of Tuesday, 3.4 million acres have been scorched in 31,896 wildfires. That's just 60 percent of the average for the past 10 years and half the acreage burned to date last year.
But thunderstorms with lightning have sparked hundreds of new blazes across California, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and major existing fires continue to burn in Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and Wyoming. Thousands of homes have been threatened in just the past week.
This is the fifth time in the past decade and the 10th time since 2000 that NIFC has hit Level 5. The last season with this demand for resources was in 2008.
"When we reach PL-5 there are always going to be shortages," says NIFC spokesman Don Smurthwaite. "We can call on the military. We can call on countries that we have mutual aid agreements with. We have contractors out there and we also have what we call the ready reserve, which is people who don't normally fight fire but they are qualified."
Those additional forces may be needed sooner than usual this year because the congressional sequester forced budget cuts that left 700 federal firefighter jobs unfilled.
In fact, NIFC has already called up some of the ready reserves, which numbered 8,000 last year.
"The sequester was a debt, but the wheels are still on and we're moving ahead," Smurthwaite says. "It's always the case where we have more fire and more needs than resources available whether there's a sequester or not ... we make work what is given to us."
The immediate forecast for much of the West calls for conditions conducive to wildfire. The fire season in most of the region typically winds down around Labor Day, except for California, where September and October can be the busiest months.
"We know how to set the priorities. We rely a lot on our experience," Smurthwaite says, "and in the end it always works out."
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I've written in the past about the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) trend and how it can impact your enterprise in terms of security. I've also mentioned that the trend isn't going to go away. In fact, right about now, if you are a business owner, you may very well have received a new smartphone or other similar gadget over the holidays and be wondering how you can utilize it to increase your own productivity, even if you haven't yet considered that a possibility for your employees. Starting in 1999, when Blackberry's first devices supported by RIM technology came out, businesspeople experienced wider choices for staying connected to the enterprise via an always-on phone rather than having to boot up a computer to check email. Only a decade later, however, Apple's iPhone had supplanted Blackberrys in popularity, and iPhone owners who either hadn't received a Blackberry from their employers or who had but didn't want to carry two devices were clamoring for a way to get work email as easily as on the RIM devices. Even before that, Windows phone owners had wanted email connectivity for their devices, and a few years after iPhone, Android appeared on the scene, and its adherents also wanted more enterprise connectivity. That's what led to the BYOD trend. The fact that AT&T pushed iPhones at all their partner companies is probably what fueled it initially, breaking Blackberry's hold on the enterprise. Competition in a niche is a good thing, but enterprises weren't ready for the new smartphones, in terms of security. In the past decade, however, new device management technology has also sprung up to fill the space that RIM's management backend had satisfied for Blackberrys. Some of the management software is based in the Cloud (SaaS) and some is meant to be run within the enterprise. The best Mobile Device Management (MDM) supports, at a minimum, Windows Phone, iOS, and Android devices, and it's even better if it will also support Blackberry and Symbian. (While I can't formally endorse any vendor, AirWatch does support all these devices at an excellent price point.) In addition to supporting a wide range of device types, the ideal MDM solution will also allow end users to use their devices the way they want on their own time, while safeguarding corporate data by using encryption for connections and data and separate containers. Virus protection and controlled access to applications should also be a part of MDM, since especially in the case of the more "open" Android platform, rogue applications can seriously impact device security. That very openness, however, is part of Android's draw for its users, so as long as you are employing MDM - and monitoring carefully - you shouldn't ban that platform from your enterprise. (I'll admit to being a huge Android fan myself.) I've mentioned Software as a Service (SaaS) as one platform for MDM in this article, and next week I'll explore more about SaaS and its advantages for enterprise security. In the meantime, whichever MDM solution you pick, this is probably an excellent time to get on the BYOD bandwagon and let your employees use all their new gadgets for productivity's sake.
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Mike Murphy, the very quotable Republican political consultant who has listed some of his party's biggest names as clients, including John McCain and Arnold Schwarzenegger, has some advice on picking a vice presidential running mate.
In a conversation about what qualities Mitt Romney, the presumptive GOP nominee, might seek in a person to fill out his national ticket, Murphy told NPR's Melissa Block on All Things Considered Tuesday the worse thing to do is to go for the wow factor, the political equivalent of a sugar high that provides an immediate buzz but leads to a later collapse:
"I'm from the old school which is 'first, do no harm.' Because the truth is, nobody votes, other than immediate family, for the vice president as a reason to vote for the president.
"Instead, voters look at who you choose as a message about who you are. So the worst thing you can do is pick somebody who sends a message either that you're not making good decisions or you frankly pick somebody who's a little more of a sparkler than you are. Then you start suffering by comparison.
"So the incentives when you're sitting around the convention thinking about it saying hey we need a miracle pick, a wunderveep who can win the campaign overnight, we've got astronaut Jack Bag- Of-Donuts here.
"The problem is you have two risks. One is, if they're not a professional politician, and even in an anti-political year, they may not be good at all the dinosaur wrestling you have to do to survive in the modern media environment.
"So you want somebody with the skills of politics, somebody the media knows so they don't have a spastic attack reaction. And finally someone who is loyal and is not going to steal the spotlight from the star which is you.
The conventional wisdom, which gets people in trouble all the time is "our guy is buttoned down and not that exciting. So we ought to go to Vegas and see if we can get Wayne Newton or something to, quote, 'balance the ticket.'
But all you really do is make your guy look worse because of the comparison. It's like the old Hollywood agent rule. If I'm Robert Redford's agent and the studio calls up and says: 'Hey, we're going to do a Redford movie. We know he's old but he's great, one more movie, a cop movie and there's a side role and guess what? We're thinking of Brad Pitt. If I'm Robert Redford's agent, I'm saying we're thinking of Ernest Borgnine. Because it's all about Redford, not the up and coming star next to him.
For many of these same reasons, Murphy, as many will recall, was down on McCain's choice of Sarah Palin from practically the moment her selection as 2008 Republican nominee's running mate was announced. His wasn't exactly a popular view initially within the party but many people eventually came to see its wisdom.
Because of that experience, he's pretty certain those vetting Romney's potential vp pick will go the cautious route which is Romney's style anyway.
Murphy counts Romney among his past clients. He worked on the 2002 campaign that led to Romney winning the Massachusetts governorship. He also calls Romney a friend.
Given that, who does he think is on Romney's vice presidential radar?
"Mitt's a grown up and he's going to want a grown up vice president who knows how to tame the explosive budget spending and get the economy going again. So when you look at the names, you know the usual suspects are Marco Rubio, Rob Portman of Ohio, maybe the governor of Virginia (Rob McDonnell) there are a bunch out there, Paul Ryan.
I think ultimately Portman will be very attractive to him because he's a budget expert from the OMB and he has an Ohio background, he's competent, he's vetted, and I think they get along well."
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Year-End Round-Up - Pink Saturday
Most ViewedMy Savory PicksMy Sweet Picks
1. Pumpkin Butter
2. Braised Short Ribs Côtes-du-Rhône
3. Norwegian Christmas Bread
4. Watermelon Smoothie
5. Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup
6. Chocolate Hazelnut Truffles
7. "Real" Coffee Cake
8. Bow Ties with Sausage and Leek Sauce
9. Cold Lime Souffle
10. Cranberry Layered Cheese Cake
11. Bouillabaisse de Poulet
12. Blueberry Flognard
13. Pumpkin Apple Bread
14. Asparagus Soup
15. Lemon Sponge Pudding with Apricot Sauce
16. Pilgrim Hat Cookies
17. Cotes du Porc A L'Auvergnate
18. Apfel Sahne Torte
19. Refrigerator Dill Pickles
20. Thai Tamarind Shrimp
21. Sour Cherry Pie with Streusel Topping
22. Fettuccini with Corn Pesto
23. Cantonese Fried Noodles
24. Old-Fashioned Lemon Pudding
25. Oven Baked Baby Back Ribs
26. Yucatan-Style Chicken Lime and Orzo Soup
27. Key Lime and White Chocolate Cake Squares
28. Iced Watermelon Drinks
29. Moules Marinier
30. Chocolate Hazelnut Pie with Vanilla Cream
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Pink Saturday, sponsored by Beverly at How Sweet the Sound.
37 comments :
- ann said...
Mary, you are a very talented cook. I absolutely love reading your blog posts every time you write one.
Happy New Year! - December 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM
- Ginny Hartzler said...
This list is nice. I haven't seen quite a few of these, probably because they were from before I found you. I have been checking some out, especially the lemon pudding! Two more hours till New Years!! I know whatever you are doing right now, you are all well fed and happy. Thinking of you this evening, Mary, Happy New Year!!!
- December 31, 2010 at 10:03 PM
- The Words Crafter said...
I'm just going to bookmark this page....it has so many fantastic recipes on it...
I hope your new year is full of wonderful blessings! - December 31, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
You have so many wonderful recipes Mary, and your photos are always so appealing too. This is a great end-of-year roundup.
Have a very Happy New Year! - December 31, 2010 at 11:01 PM
- Dinners and Dreams said...
Mary, have a happy and safe new year!
Nisrine - December 31, 2010 at 11:42 PM
- Country Wings in Phoenix said...
Happy Pink Saturday Mary Sweetie...
I am so tickled pink. Quite a few of my favorites are here. I tell you I wish I lived close by, I would be popping by when you make some of these goodies to learn first hand from the pro. You are the BEST cook. I love everything you share.
What a beautiful year we have had in 2010. I so look forward to your shares in 2011. Thank you sweet friend for the wonderful memories. I truly enjoy your friendship.
Many hugs and much love, Sherry - January 1, 2011 at 12:07 AM
- Monet said...
Oh my...I'm drooling! This round up of recipes is wonderful. Each and every one is worth looking at again. Thank you for sharing with me all that you do. I wish you many blessings and much joy in the New Year!
- January 1, 2011 at 12:54 AM
- What's next said...
Great end of year list! Some I hadn't seen before...Thank you for sharing! Happy New Year.
- January 1, 2011 at 2:06 AM
- Self Sagacity said...
I like your wrap up for the year. I will have to save this page and come back to have a better look at the recipes.
- January 1, 2011 at 3:47 AM
- Couscous & Consciousness said...
Happy New Year Mary - I think my picks would be the Blueberry Flognard or the Sour Cherry Pie. Hope you have a wonderful year ahead.
Best wishes
Sue - January 1, 2011 at 4:15 AM
- Anette said...
This is my first time visiting your blog, and I know it isn't the last time! So many delicious things to read and dream about, maybe even make them myself :) Happy New Year from Anette in Norway :)
- January 1, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- Chiara said...
a wonderful selection of food Mary!
I hope your new year is full of happiness! - January 1, 2011 at 7:24 AM
- Unknown said...
What a fantastic list Mary! I, for one, have found many many many amazing recipes here and can't wait to see what you will be creating in the new year!
Happy new year to you and your family! - January 1, 2011 at 9:56 AM
- Cathy said...
Your list is wonderful, Mary. I've tried many of your recipes and can't wait to sample more.
Happy New Year to you and your family. - January 1, 2011 at 10:02 AM
- Lynn said...
Happy New Year Mary! Your blog is a true source of inspiration! I wish you all the best in 2011-enjoy:@)
- January 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM
- Unknown said...
Oh your recipes all look wonderful! That cranberry cheesecake looks nummy!
Thanks for stopping by and saying hi!
Happy New Year!
~Liz - January 1, 2011 at 11:04 AM
- Sherry from Alabama said...
What a beautiful and delicious-looking post!
Wishing you a blessed and happy New Year!
Sherry @ A Happy Valentine - January 1, 2011 at 11:13 AM
- StephenC said...
Mary, you are one of the best blog-o-philes around. I look forward to what you will have to share in 2011.
- January 1, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
Happy New Year Mary!!! Thank you for the great list of favorites! The bowties with sausage and leek sauce is a must try for this week. I love your blog and look forward to all of your 2011 posts!
- January 1, 2011 at 11:28 AM
- scrambledhenfruit said...
What a delicious year you've had! I hope you have a lovely 2011! :)
- January 1, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Diane said...
What a wonderful selection. Happy New Year. Diane
- January 1, 2011 at 12:16 PM
Happy New Year From Southern California.
Don't forget to watch the 122nd Rose Parade on New Year's Day coming from Pasadena, California...only 30 miles from The Old Geezer's home :-) If you miss the live telecast, I'm sure there will be lots of reruns through out the day.
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. ~Henry Ward Beecher
May God Bless and Protect You in the Year to Come. ~Ron - January 1, 2011 at 1:25 PM
- Joanne said...
Oh Mary I want to devour all of these! I hope you have a very happy new year!
- January 1, 2011 at 1:39 PM
- cottage garden farmer said...
Well there goes my new years diet... where do I start - i think it has to be the beef short ribs - and the pumpkin butter looks so lovely too - so many treats so little time.....
- January 1, 2011 at 2:44 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Happy 2011! I bookmarked quite a few of your recipes in 2010 and can't wait to see what you come up with in 2011 :)
Sues - January 1, 2011 at 4:02 PM
- Emily Z said...
I think you picked a fantastic round up. I like the pilgrim's hat cookies, I did not see those before! Looking forward to exchanging more recipes in the new year!
- January 1, 2011 at 5:18 PM
- Donnie said...
What beautiful photos. It's great having a lot of them in one post. Happy Pink New Year.
- January 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM
Love your recipes.
You are blessed with such an amazing talent.
I look forward to seeing what recipes you bring in the new year. - January 1, 2011 at 8:26 PM
- teresa said...
what a delicious roundup! i couldn't say no to any of those things!
- January 1, 2011 at 8:49 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
That is 30 "yums" from where I sit reading your blog tonight.
Glenda - January 1, 2011 at 9:30 PM
- FOODalogue said...
Such deiciousness on one page!
All the best to you and yours in 2011. - January 1, 2011 at 10:14 PM
- Alessandra said...
Great idea to do a roundup, I forgot about the watermelon smoothie (how could I have???) so it was a lovely reminder, now that we start getting watermelons here :-).
I look forward to more of your great recipes this year!
A. - January 1, 2011 at 11:41 PM
- Diana's Cocina said...
Mary ~ What beautiful recipes! My mouth nwaters with the lemon pudding, complete bliss! Happy New Year!!
- January 2, 2011 at 12:37 AM
- Tasty Trix said...
Goodness, I have a lot of catching up to do! Happy New Year!
- January 2, 2011 at 9:07 AM
- Gloria Baker said...
Dear Mary I adore your recipes, really, this round up is wonderful!! I hope you have a lovely and amazing New Year, a lot of blessings!! gloria
- January 2, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Rita said...
What a great post; you put so much work in this; love all your creations. All the best to you in 2011.
Rita - January 2, 2011 at 11:07 AM
- That Girl said...
This is a perfect introduction for new readers like me!
- January 25, 2011 at 12:28 PM