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The conviction of human trafficker Mohammed Rafiq shows that the exploitation of vulnerable workers will not be tolerated, says the Crown Prosecution Service.
Rafiq was found guilty of conspiracy to traffic at Leeds Crown Court on January 20.
An investigation into his company Kozee Sleep, based in Dewsbury, began after Hungarians Janos Orsos and Ferenc Illes were arrested over human trafficking.
Large numbers of their fellow countrymen were employed at Rafiq's Kozee Sleep factory, supplied by Orsos.
Rafiq, 60, of Thorncliffe Road, Staincliffe, was jailed for 27 months.
Gavin Hotchkiss, of the CPS Yorkshire and Humberside, said: "Large numbers of Hungarian men were employed by Rafiq at his Kozee Sleep and Layzee Beds factories.
"Rafiq was aware of the circumstances of the Hungarian nationals who were working at his factories and were exploited as a slave workforce.
"This defendant was part of a persistent and heartless campaign of exploitation involving many Hungarian men over a prolonged period of time.
"These men were vulnerable and desperate for work; they were promised good wages and accommodation."
Mr Hotchkiss said the employees worked for up to 20 hours a day, five to seven days a week, for little or no wages.
He added: "Once in the UK they faced a very different reality, living in shared, squalid and grossly overcrowded accommodation, some of which was provided by Rafiq.
"The money they earned was passed to the trafficking gang, who then handed over minimal amounts to the victims.
"The sentence handed down today is a clear warning that the exploitation of vulnerable workers will not be tolerated."

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- Always assume that a gun is loaded.
- Before cleaning your gun, please be certain that you have unloaded it.
- To adequately declare a gun "safe" you should visually ensure that there is not still a round in the chamber.
- In any event, it is still not a good idea to place your hand over the muzzle.
20 June 2008
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6 comments:
Nice reminder. I have a friend who learned this the hard way.ReplyDelete
I'm going to start asking EMS if there was any gun cleaning gear out in the home.ReplyDelete
I think a LOT of these are screwing-around accidents, but everyone will let you off the desperately stupid train if you tell them it's an accident.
Yeah, we generally accept the harmless fiction that it was simple negligence that caused the accident, instead of reckless endangerment.ReplyDelete
That's as long as you shot yourself. If someone other than the gun-handler gets shot, the cops are a little more aggressive in asking questions. Fortunately, that's not our job...
It takes so little effort to drop the magazine and pull back the slide as a matter of habit.ReplyDelete
Same thing with adjusting power tools (routers, saws, etc.) while they're plugged in. Just keep reminding yourself of the consequences of a single wrong guess each time you get frustrated when slowing down to Do The Right Thing.
True accidents are unavoidable; as an example, minor bumps have been known to engage magnetic "safety" switches on power tools (the tool turns off and stays off if the power goes out and quickly returns.) Gun owners don't generally have the defense of a freakishly low-probability failure mode such as that, so most incidents can be chalked up to inattention or incompetence.
I wonder if insurance companies treat "patient is an idiot" as a preexisting condition... :/
- Anonymous6/20/2008 7:03 PM
So, can that be repaired, and if so, how?ReplyDelete
My God that is pathetic. I hope to God it was not a cop!ReplyDelete


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I have an entry in the management and automation category for my Policy Based Management post. I'm in there with along with Grant and a few others. I have also been nominated in the New To SQLServerPedia category. WOW! I still pretty stunned to be honest, I'm in there with some great writers.
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Friday, June 5, 2009
Five uses for spiders in fantasy
The first spider I encountered in fantasy was Shelob the Great, "last child of Ungoliant to trouble the unhappy world". Ungoliant, of course, was even more horrifying, being able to threaten Morgoth to the point where he had to call for help from the Balrogs.
After that I discovered R. A. Salvatore's Homeland, which describes Drizzt Do'Urden's early life in the underground drow city of Menzoberranzan, where the Spider Queen Lloth is worshipped. Needless to say, that doesn't portray spiders in too positive a light either. In Colin Wilson's Spider World, humans live in tunnels and burrows, hunted by spiders with psychic abilities, and I'll never forget the cover of my copy of Richard Matheson's The Shrinking Man, which shows a giant black widow rearing over the tiny protagonist (I recommend this as a great read).
So far I've only come across one book which portrays a spider as something at all positive, Ray Bradbury's From the Dust Returned, but in a way that led to me becoming even more fascinated with spiders. They seem to be pretty misunderstood in fiction, considering that in reality, many species take care of their young, share food, cooperate in hunting and live in communal webs. I decided to come up with some uses for them rather than predators and (minor) antagonists, and here are five of those roles.
1. As thieves
I saw a picture of a spiderweb the other day and thought it would be even more attractive if tiny diamante drops were attached to the intersection of each strand. Maybe spiders in fantasy would do that to attract insects (or humans, depending on the sizes of the spiders) with the glitter and flash, meaning they would have to steal the stones from somewhere.
But with their ability to crawl down surfaces and spin webs that allow them to bridge gaps, they'd be good thieves. Perhaps large trapdoor spiders could keep their collections of such stolen objects at the bottoms of the pits they excavate.
2. As guardians
One thing I love to do with fantasy is to flip familiar concepts on their heads, so why shouldn't giant predatory spiders be trained to defend humans? We do it with dogs, after all. Wolf spiders might patrol the perimeters of property, while web-spinners could extend sticky defensive nets over such buildings to deal with anyone who might drop in from above.
3. As pets
Timothy, the human child raised by the Family in Bradbury's From the Dust Returned has a normally-sized spider as a pet. Such pets could be potentially useful, too – I've read of domesticated tarantulas which rid apartments of cockroaches, which I personally find much more scary and disgusting than spiders.
Or maybe they're status symbols. Ordinary people keep ordinary spiders, but those who can afford them buy spiders with certain abilities such as camouflage (some spiders IRL have body types which mimic those of their prey, or have intriguing patterns such as that of the Hawaiian happy-face spider).
4. As livestock
Large enough spiders could produce trade goods. In Sharon Baker's Quarreling, they met the dragon, silk is spun from the secretions of spiders, but spiders could also be raised for their poison or skins. Tarantulas have barbed hairs, so gloves made from the skins of such spiders could inflict abrasive or irritating wounds in defense. And that's before they're fitted with poison reservoirs…
5. As resurrectors
In Native American religions, the Spider Grandmother created the world. Bringing a human back to life would be much smaller a feat. I'm imagining the spider wrapping the corpse with silk, like a pupa, and perhaps certain other rites or rituals being carried out before the revived human breaks open the shroud and emerges. Though they might have suffered a sea-change, and not into something rich and strange…
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- writtenwyrdd said...
You have overlooked one positive image of spiders: Charlotte's Web. Charlotte was kind and good and wise. And she's the only portrayal of spiders that shows them like that that I'm aware of. Even Grandmother Spider has some tricks and isn't just nice.
I enjoy these posts that examine what could be minutia in fantasy; because these little details can make all the difference in setting tone and character and all kinds of great worldbuilding elemnets. They can also spark plot point ideas.
- June 5, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- writtenwyrdd said...
Oh, and have you heard about the genetically engineered goats who produce spider silk proteins in their milk? When the spider silk is rendered from the milk and developed into strands, the silk is one of the strongest materials known to man. Pretty cool, but off the topic a bit. :)
- June 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM
- Marian said...
Charlotte's Web! I always forget something - thanks for the reminder.
And you're right, Charlotte was a great character. I read the book a long time ago, but I still remember the scene at the end where her (posthumous) children were introduced.
Glad you liked the post! There was an overabundance of material on spiders both real and fictional, which is one reason they were fun to write about.
And thanks for the news on the milk! Not off topic. I'll bet that with some thought I could fantasify that kind of thing and incorporate it into a world (or a blog post, or both) some day. :)
- June 5, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Hazardgal said...
Once again, you have spun a web of words and unique concepts! Hey, I could see spiders in Las Vegas as dealers. They would be hard to beat- even hard to escape.
Check out my Friday blog!
- June 5, 2009 at 4:09 PM
Hey, I really like the idea of spiders as resurrectors. Quite alien and a little creepy too. Nice.
- June 5, 2009 at 5:57 PM
- spamwarrior said...
I want a pet spider now.
- June 6, 2009 at 9:51 AM
- Marian said...
Thanks Marge, that gave me another idea - a society where humanoid, sentient arachnids and insects walk among us. I might do a blog post on that, actually...
Going to check your blog out now!
- June 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM
- Marian said...
Thanks, newadventuresinfantasyfiction!
Like your blog, by the way.
- June 6, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- A. Shelton said...
Marian, you just gave me an idea for how a character can know that she's to perform a religious murder, and the way she'll be discovered before she can commit it.
- June 6, 2009 at 11:25 PM
- colbymarshall said...
Ugh...I can't help it...I don't think I could ever have a positive spider image. They just disgust me. Even Charlotte couldn't help me there...
- June 6, 2009 at 11:46 PM
- Marian said...
Glad to help, A. Shelton! Hope you make a great story out of that idea. :)
- June 8, 2009 at 3:56 PM
- Marian said...
*shooes spiders away from Colby* Go on, itsy bitsies.
The only spiders I'm really scared of are the poisonous ones (like black widows) and spiders which fly. I don't think any of the latter exist IRL, but there was one in an '80s cartoon called Sectaurs.
- June 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Rafael said...
Oh, but they do Marian. One particular species uses it silk strands to float in the air currents, reaching all the way to the jet stream (where they hibernate in the frigid temperatures of the upper atmosphere) and then land and form a new home.
- June 8, 2009 at 5:46 PM


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To continue with the punch, maybe I should compare the beer making and punch making processes, and see if I can find parallels.
My rough understanding of the beer making process:
1) Grains are malted, which means they are allowed to sprout and begin to transform complex carbohydrates into sugars for use by the growing plant.
2) Malted Grains are dried and milled.
3) Malted Grains are slowly cooked in water to form a sweet solution (aka Wort).
4) Solids are removed from the solution, and the boil is continued. Hops, or other flavoring agents, may also be added to this solution at various points, for flavor and alleged preservative qualities.
4) Microorganisms (typically yeast) are introduced to the solution.
5) Microorganisms consume the sugars producing flavor, Carbon Dioxide, and, more importantly, alcohol.
6) The solution is racked off, maybe fined or filtered, and bottled in sealed containers, where it continues to ferment and produce alcohol, flavors and now most importantly, Carbon Dioxide. The Carbon Dioxide, with nowhere else to go, pressurized the containers and dissolves in the beer producing carbonation.
Pop the top! I'm thirsty!
Anyway, the whole Malting, Milling, and filtering off solids process is too much of a pain for most home brewers and many commercial brewers. They instead buy "Malt Extract" or "Malt Syrup" and start at step 4.
Punch Making Process:
1) A sweet flavored solution, also known as sherbet, is created by macerating and steeping flavoring agents in sugar and hot water.
2) The sherbet is combined with booze and citrus and allowed to mingle for a period.
2a) If this is a Milk Punch, the combined booze, sherbet, and citrus mixture will be fined by adding warm milk to the solution. The milk solidifies into curd, which is then removed, leaving the elements of the milk whey behind in the punch.
3) The punch solution is chilled.
4) The punch solution is diluted with water, soda, or champagne and served over ice.
As I mentioned, my e-quaintance Rob DeNunzio had previously experimented with making what he hoped would be a cocktail-like beer.
In addition, the theme of the upcoming dinner is "Italian Modernist" brewers. Italian brewers who are re-inventing what might be considered beer by many folks. Chestnut flavored beer, beers made with flowers and herbs, beers that nearly resemble negronis in their flavor profiles.
When Alex pestered me about making punch for the dinner, I think he just wanted some serious booze at a very beery party.
But when I started thinking about it, what could I do that would be in fitting with the theme? Stretch the idea of punch?
The first thing that occurred to me was beers like Chouffe's N'Ice, practically a beer punch already, with its candy sugar, coriander, and curacao orange peels.
What if I went about it from the other direction?
Starting from my Bernal Heights Milk Punch I made some beer-like substitutions.
First I'm going to infuse (dry hop) the booze with hops. I'm also going to replace the tea in the sweetening syrup with hops. I'll replace a portion of the sweetener with Barley Malt. Last, I'll skew the flavoring spices towards those often used in some Belgian beers.
Cali-Belgique Pisco Punch. (with apologies to Stone Brewing)
750ml Marion Farms Biodynamic Pisco Style Brandy.
750ml Barbancourt White Rhum.
375ml Batavia Arrack.
1 Pineapple, chopped
6 lemons, peeled and juiced.
1 Quart Straus Family Creamery Whole Milk.
1 Pint Water.
8 teaspoons Cascade Hops.
4 pieces dried Clemetine Peel.
20 Whole Coriander Seeds, crushed.
8 Whole Cloves, crushed.
1/2 stick Cassia Cinnamon, crushed.
1/2 Pound Sugar.
1/4 Pound Malted Barley Syrup.
Place lemon peels in sealed container with rum and batavia arrack. Infuse for 48 hours.
Place pineapple in sealed container with Pisco and juice 4 lemons. Infuse for 24 hours.
Add 4 teaspoon hops to pineapple mixture and shake. Infuse for another 24 hours.
Boil water to a simmer and pour over 4 teaspoons hops, dried clementine peels, cloves, and cinnamon. Dissolve sugar and barley syrup in spiced solution. Cool and allow to stand for 24 hours.
Bring milk to 140-150 degrees F. Pour Pisco off of pineapple, attempting to squeeze as much juice/booze out of the fruit as possible. Pour warm milk into flavored Pisco, cover, and allow to stand for a half an hour or so.
Disturbing curd as little as possible, pour milk and pisco through a fine sieve.
At this point it will look kind of like "louched" absinthe. Filter again through a double layer of cheesecloth.
Remove peels from rum mixture and pour into pisco. Pour flavored syrup through fine sieve into mixture.
Pour all off into clean sealable containers and allow to stand at least 24 hours.
Rack punch off of any settled milk solids and filter through coffee filter or similar.
Bottle in clean sealable containers and chill.
Serve over ice or with a splash of soda.
About half way through this process, it occurred to me that I was making a compounded, flavored malt and alcohol beverage. Oh wait, isn't that what Zima was?
I mentioned this to Rob and his reply was, "And just think? If it does turn out like Zima, you'll be filling the sad vacuum it left behind."
Well, it doesn't taste like Zima, that's for sure.
The longer steep time for the spices put those out front. A slight underestimation of the sweetening power of Malted Barley tips this punch towards the sweet side. The use of lighter alcohol makes this seem like, "wait, does it actually have any alcohol?" I could have sworn I put some in…
Oh right, the legendary dangerously drinkable Pisco Punch. See you next week.


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Inaugural Berkshire Cycling Classic a winner
Monday May 7, 2012
LENOX -- As the starter's gun went off on a normally sleepy early Sunday morning downtown, 287 riders competing in the first annual Berkshire Cycling Classic shot out of the gate in a swarm of colorful blue, yellow, black and white riding outfits.
The event, organized by former riding champ John Eustice of Sparta Cycling, was cited by resident, local and state officials as a high-profile recreational and competitive ride for county residents as well as biking enthusiasts and pros from 22 states, including California, New Mexico, Utah and Florida.
Also represented were On tario and Quebec provinces of Canada and several foreign countries, including Brazil, Ar gentina, Germany and France.
About half of the participants were Berkshire County residents. Riders had a choice of hilly, 62- or 81-mile courses through a dozen South Berkshire rural communities.
About two-thirds of the bicyclists chose the long route, which included an especially grueling climb from Tyringham valley to Monterey's hilltop.
The first rider to complete the shorter course, coming in three hours after the start, was Brett Cleaver of Brooklyn, N.Y., nonchalantly munching a banana as he crossed the finish line to the cheers of onlookers.
"Some of the climbs were longer and more subtle than I expected," he said, appearing surprisingly relaxed. "I thought they would be somewhat shorter and steeper, so that made it a bit of a grind at times."
He was far ahead of the field for most of the ride after the two routes split in Tyringham and summed up the day as "a five-star event, across the board."
Cal Reeder of Cameron Park, Calif., near Lake Tahoe, was the official timed winner of the Cycling Classic, as the first 81-mile rider to cross the finish line at 3:33:39. He said he averaged 22.6 miles per hour. Waiting at the starting line was the toughest part of the day, he said.
Retired international racing champion Erik Zabel compared the long course to a stage of the Tour de France -- "some riders from there would love it, but most would hate it because it's really hard, it's difficult to find the rhythm in the race. It's a tough area for a cyclist, all the ups and downs, but it's fantastic and a beautiful landscape."
Zabel, 38, a native of East Germany, retired from pro cycling in 2008 after more than 200 victories, including six first-place finishes as best sprinter at the Tour de France between 1996 and 2001.
Finishing sixth in Sunday's 81-mile competition at 3:36:31, he noted the 6,000-feet of total elevation gain, "I feel it now," he said, enthused over a "really, really nice Sunday morning ride."
"It was a great honor for me to have been brought here by the organization," he added.
Christian Limberger of Sheffield, the first Berkshire rider to complete the shorter route, called the final 20 miles the most challenging, especially the long hill up Lenox Mountain Road. He said he was pleased to find that the route went past his house on Maple Avenue.
Tanya Beecher of Housa tonic was the first woman to complete the 62-mile route, while Anne Marie Miller of New York City was the first finisher of the long course.
Local police manned key intersections along the route, and portions of downtown Lenox were cordoned off to through traffic, creating a festive, block-party atmosphere, especially in the afternoon as riders returned individually or in small groups.
Eustice, addressing the riders before the start, called for "a nice and calm first 10 miles, just like a professional race. After that, you have 6,000 feet of climbing to get your ya-yas out. It's a gentlemanly, gentlewomanly ride, nice and chill coming out of town. There's no sprinting or head-butting at the start or the finish line. Trust me, this thing is hard enough."
Eustice thanked the entire town of Lenox for "pulling together, believing in this event. They helped rally all 12 towns, a big civic cooperation."
"I can't tell you how much your support means to us," said Kim Flynn, who heads the town's Marketing and Events Committee and was a key local organizer. "Come back next year and bring all your friends."
State Rep. William "Smitty" Pignatelli, D-Lenox, read a citation of congratulations from the state House of Representative for Zabel and all the other riders who joined the International Cycling Union's sanctioned event, the only American event on the 15 stops on its worldwide tour.
"It's a perfect day, they set it up quick, it puts Lenox on the map and it speaks volumes for the Berkshires," Pignatelli told The Eagle. "It's a boost for tourism and a kickoff for the summer season."
Kevin Sprague. head of Studio Two design and a former racer, praised the event's recreational and racing combination as he prepared to ride the "pretty challenging" long course.
"This is very appropriate for the Berkshires," he added, but also urged town government financial support for long-established events such as the Josh Billings RunAground.
The race started at precisely 8:32 for the 81-mile endurance riders and a minute later for the 62-mile group.
"This puts us on the international map," said Eiran Gazit, Gateways Inn owner and marketing committee members.
He emphasized the role of the town's New York-based marketers, Bodden Hamilton Partners, for connecting the town to the race organizer. "Without them, this wouldn't have happened," he said.
Looking ahead to next year, Eustice said he anticipates more time for establishing closer connections with each town on the route. "For the first year, it's a great first step and then every year you drill down further."
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Today's Dictionary Girl paper doll was colored after a friend of my friend complained that I didn't have enough brunette pale-skinned blue-eyed paper dolls like her and she thought this wasn't fair. Well, there is some truth to her remark, since I tend to favor variety of skin tone over variety of hair color. That all began when I realized the internet was full of printable paper dolls and they all seemed awfully white. Still, when a someone demands a blue-eyed brown-haired paper doll, and when they live in the same apartment building, it seems hard to refuse.
So, here is Fleur. She has the same skin tone as Alyssa and therefore can share shoes with Alyssa though I can not promise wigs will work since they have two different hair styles.
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This installment of the Sunday Spotlight on the Non-Western Cello will be a bit more personal than those in the past. I know I've been terrible the past couple of months about blogging, but [fortunately] I've just been far too busy performing and giving presentations to have spent much time writing here or elsewhere.
After having this wonderful dinner with some new Indian-Muslim friends at a Bollywood Party last night, though, I decided it was time to do another spotlight. The subject of this post is Anup Biswas, about whom I discovered after reading the Cambridge Companion to the Cello (which I still think should either be significantly amended or at least have the title reflect the actual subject matter: "The Cambridge Companion to the Western Cello").
The reference to Biswas at the end of a chapter in the Cambridge Companion to the Cello. Mainy in reference to the music school he started at an orphanage in Calcutta. Found this wonderful photo (above) of a collaborative performance between Dipak Sapui, Soumita Roy – the Bharat Natyam Dancer in center, and Anup Biswas at the Poulton House in Gloucestershire (5 June, 2010). It was part of a fundraising tour for the orphanage music school which teaches both Western and Indian classical music, and, apparently collaborative fusions between both art music traditions if this image is any indication.
The one video I'd been able to find of Anup Biswas playing Indian Music was from this recital, again to benefit the Mathieson Music Trust, at the Sacred Heart Church in Caterham, Surrey. The tabla player is Chiranjit Mukharjee.
Two things struck me when I first came across the reference to Anup Biswas: 1) that the Cambridge Companion to the cello bothered to mention anyone connected to a non-Western Cello playing tradition at all, and 2) until learning about Biswas, I was unaware of cellists in India who were already incorporating the cello into Classical Indian Music, most of what I'd seen are Western cellists (e.g. Saskia Rao-de Haas, Nancy Kulkarni) who had gone to India to learn Indian music on the cello (though now some cellists in the states are now getting conservatory level training on Indian music–more about that on a future Sunday Spotlight).
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The September 2009 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Steph of A Whisk and a Spoon. She chose the French treat, Vols-au-Vent based on the Puff Pastry recipe by Michel Richard from the cookbook Baking With Julia by Dorie Greenspan.
So puff pastry is one of those things that is so much easier to just buy in the store!!! Having said that....homemade puff pastry was WAYYYYYY easier than I thought it would be! Could be that I have recently watched two videos of Julia Child making puff pastry with two different chefs and they made it look like a piece of cake. Even more than that, they made it look FUN! And it was fun. The best part was beating the butter! I have a new kitchen toy that made it easy. My sister was sneaky when she was out visiting last month and bought me one after I commented it was on my wish list. Here I am rolling out one of my "turns" with the sweet silicone french rolling pin she gave me.
And an "action" shot (a great euphemism for blurry).
The dough was surprisingly easy to work with. I wish I had more shots of the process, but I was too floury to pick up the camera most of the day. I was thrilled with how my little vols-au-vent turned out. I'm sure there could have been more layers, but I DID get a few!!! (Kind of reminds me of Hungry Jacks) This one I stuffed with a Pear, Raisin & Walnut filling and drizzled with a little caramel sauce. Sooo good! These were the large ones, about 4 inches I guess.
The smaller ones (2.5 inches) were simply filled with chocolate whipped cream.
I really have never gone wrong with a recipe originating from Dorie Greenspan. Even if they aren't her recipes she certainly does know how to build a collection. She's a baking genius in my opinion. If you've ever had the inkling that you might want to do your own puffed pastry I suggest giving this recipe a try. You don't have to make the Vols-au-Vent...you can do whatever you want with it. I made enough to have two more batches to put in the freezer. So here's the recipe. Be Daring..........
Vols-au-Vent with Michel Richard's Puff Pastry DoughForming and Baking the Vols-au-Vent
Yield: 1/3 of the puff pastry recipe below will yield about 8-10 1.5" vols-au-vent or 4 4" vols-au-vent
In addition to the equipment listed above, you will need:
-well-chilled puff pastry dough (recipe below)
-egg wash (1 egg or yolk beaten with a small amount of water)
-your filling of choice
Line a baking sheet with parchment and set aside.
Using a knife or metal bench scraper, divided your chilled puff pastry dough into three equal pieces. Work with one piece of the dough, and leave the rest wrapped and chilled. (If you are looking to make more vols-au-vent than the yield stated above, you can roll and cut the remaining two pieces of dough as well…if not, then leave refrigerated for the time being or prepare it for longer-term freezer storage. See the "Tips" section below for more storage info.)
On a lightly floured surface, roll the piece of dough into a rectangle about 1/8 to 1/4-inch (3-6 mm) thick. Transfer it to the baking sheet and refrigerate for about 10 minutes before proceeding with the cutting.
(This assumes you will be using round cutters, but if you do not have them, it is possible to cut square vols-au-vents using a sharp chef's knife.) For smaller, hors d'oeuvre sized vols-au-vent, use a 1.5" round cutter to cut out 8-10 circles. For larger sized vols-au-vent, fit for a main course or dessert, use a 4" cutter to cut out about 4 circles. Make clean, sharp cuts and try not to twist your cutters back and forth or drag your knife through the dough. Half of these rounds will be for the bases, and the other half will be for the sides. (Save any scrap by stacking—not wadding up—the pieces…they can be re-rolled and used if you need extra dough. If you do need to re-roll scrap to get enough disks, be sure to use any rounds cut from it for the bases, not the ring-shaped sides.)
Using a ¾-inch cutter for small vols-au-vent, or a 2- to 2.5-inch round cutter for large, cut centers from half of the rounds to make rings. These rings will become the sides of the vols-au-vent, while the solid disks will be the bottoms. You can either save the center cut-outs to bake off as little "caps" for you vols-au-vent, or put them in the scrap pile.
Dock the solid bottom rounds with a fork (prick them lightly, making sure not to go all the way through the pastry) and lightly brush them with egg wash. Place the rings directly on top of the bottom rounds and very lightly press them to adhere. Brush the top rings lightly with egg wash, trying not to drip any down the sides (which may inhibit rise). If you are using the little "caps," dock and egg wash them as well.
Refrigerate the assembled vols-au-vent on the lined baking sheet while you pre-heat the oven to 400ºF (200ºC). (You could also cover and refrigerate them for a few hours at this point.)
Once the oven is heated, remove the sheet from the refrigerator and place a silicon baking mat (preferred because of its weight) or another sheet of parchment over top of the shells. This will help them rise evenly. Bake the shells until they have risen and begin to brown, about 10-15 minutes depending on their size. Reduce the oven temperature to 350ºF (180ºC), and remove the silicon mat or parchment sheet from the top of the vols-au-vent. If the centers have risen up inside the vols-au-vent, you can gently press them down. Continue baking (with no sheet on top) until the layers are golden, about 15-20 minutes more. (If you are baking the center "caps" they will likely be finished well ahead of the shells, so keep an eye on them and remove them from the oven when browned.)
Remove to a rack to cool. Cool to room temperature for cold fillings or to warm for hot fillings.
Fill and serve.
*For additional rise on the larger-sized vols-au-vents, you can stack one or two additional ring layers on top of each other (using egg wash to "glue"). This will give higher sides to larger vols-au-vents, but is not advisable for the smaller ones, whose bases may not be large enough to support the extra weight.
*Although they are at their best filled and eaten soon after baking, baked vols-au-vent shells can be stored airtight for a day.
*Shaped, unbaked vols-au-vent can be wrapped and frozen for up to a month (bake from frozen, egg-washing them first).
Michel Richard's Puff Pastry Dough
From: Baking with Julia by Dorie Greenspan
Yield: 2-1/2 pounds dough
Steph's note: This recipe makes more than you will need for the quantity of vols-au-vent stated above. While I encourage you to make the full recipe of puff pastry, as extra dough freezes well, you can halve it successfully if you'd rather not have much leftover.
There is a wonderful on-line video from the PBS show "Baking with Julia" that accompanies the book. In it, Michel Richard and Julia Child demonstrate making puff pastry dough (although they go on to use it in other applications). They do seem to give slightly different ingredient measurements verbally than the ones in the book…I listed the recipe as it appears printed in the book. http://video.pbs.org/video/1174110297/search/Pastry
2-1/2 cups (12.2 oz/ 354 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
1-1/4 cups (5.0 oz/ 142 g) cake flour
1 tbsp. salt (you can cut this by half for a less salty dough or for sweet preparations)
1-1/4 cups (10 fl oz/ 300 ml) ice water
1 pound (16 oz/ 454 g) very cold unsalted butter
plus extra flour for dusting work surface
Mixing the Dough:
Check the capacity of your food processor before you start. If it cannot hold the full quantity of ingredients, make the dough into two batches and combine them.
Put the all-purpose flour, cake flour, and salt in the work bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade and pulse a couple of times just to mix. Add the water all at once, pulsing until the dough forms a ball on the blade. The dough will be very moist and pliable and will hold together when squeezed between your fingers. (Actually, it will feel like Play-Doh.)
Remove the dough from the machine, form it into a ball, with a small sharp knife, slash the top in a tic-tac-toe pattern. Wrap the dough in a damp towel and refrigerate for about 5 minutes.
Meanwhile, place the butter between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and beat it with a rolling pin until it flattens into a square that's about 1" thick. Take care that the butter remains cool and firm: if it has softened or become oily, chill it before continuing.
Incorporating the Butter:
Unwrap the dough and place it on a work surface dusted with all-purpose flour (A cool piece of marble is the ideal surface for puff pastry) with your rolling pin (preferably a French rolling pin without handles), press on the dough to flatten it and then roll it into a 10" square. Keep the top and bottom of the dough well floured to prevent sticking and lift the dough and move it around frequently. Starting from the center of the square, roll out over each corner to create a thick center pad with "ears," or flaps.
Place the cold butter in the middle of the dough and fold the ears over the butter, stretching them as needed so that they overlap slightly and encase the butter completely. (If you have to stretch the dough, stretch it from all over; don't just pull the ends) you should now have a package that is 8" square.
To make great puff pastry, it is important to keep the dough cold at all times. There are specified times for chilling the dough, but if your room is warm, or you work slowly, or you find that for no particular reason the butter starts to ooze out of the pastry, cover the dough with plastic wrap and refrigerate it . You can stop at any point in the process and continue at your convenience or when the dough is properly chilled.
Making the Turns:
Gently but firmly press the rolling pin against the top and bottom edges of the square (this will help keep it square). Then, keeping the work surface and the top of the dough well floured to prevent sticking, roll the dough into a rectangle that is three times as long as the square you started with, about 24" (don't worry about the width of the rectangle: if you get the 24", everything else will work itself out.) With this first roll, it is particularly important that the butter be rolled evenly along the length and width of the rectangle; check when you start rolling that the butter is moving along well, and roll a bit harder or more evenly, if necessary, to get a smooth, even dough-butter sandwich (use your arm-strength!).
With a pastry brush, brush off the excess flour from the top of the dough, and fold the rectangle up from the bottom and down from the top in thirds, like a business letter, brushing off the excess flour. You have completed one turn.
Rotate the dough so that the closed fold is to your left, like the spine of a book. Repeat the rolling and folding process, rolling the dough to a length of 24" and then folding it in thirds. This is the second turn.
Chilling the Dough:
If the dough is still cool and no butter is oozing out, you can give the dough another two turns now. If the condition of the dough is iffy, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes. Each time you refrigerate the dough, mark the number of turns you've completed by indenting the dough with your fingertips. It is best to refrigerate the dough for 30 to 60 minutes between each set of two turns.
The total number of turns needed is six. If you prefer, you can give the dough just four turns now, chill it overnight, and do the last two turns the next day. Puff pastry is extremely flexible in this regard. However, no matter how you arrange your schedule, you should plan to chill the dough for at least an hour before cutting or shaping it.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Unlimited Employee Vacation Policy
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- Bob Boice said...
It would be interesting to hear how you track that time off and make sure your staff are indeed working as productively as possible. Unfortunately, not all staff in a larger company will be as trustworthy - likely to abuse the policy. There has to be some way to track this.
My initial thought when I read this was... is this why it's taking so long to get RS fixed, updated, in beta, etc.?
- April 25, 2012 at 10:28 AM
- Alyssa said...
@Bob We do keep a record of days employees take off. Since we started the policy, we've actually seen a decrease in average vacation days for the whole company.
- April 25, 2012 at 10:38 AM
- Travis said...
As frustrated as I sometimes get about progress, as I've gotten to (virtually) know the RS team they are pros and I can't imagine any abuse of this policy.
From my own experience with something similar, my concern actually goes the other way. The employees need to feel like they *still can* take vacation without feeling guilty about it. If employees never take any real time off even though it is "unlimited" it's bad for them and the business- totally burned out employees don't help anyone!
I think a policy like this is best, but you need consistent professionalism from both management and team members to do it right.
- April 25, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- Rick said...
I let my coworkers take care of their time, not just the days off. The days off they must ask for, and negotiate. The time they want not always is a good time for the company, in special a small company. Almost always the company accepts the requested periods but we cant accept things like "hey, I'll take 10 days off starting today ok? Bye!" :)
- April 25, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Chris Musty Online said...
If a projects needs are met and the price agreed on the employee should be able to take the remainder of the time available to do what he/she pleases ie take a break.
- April 25, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- Gerrut said...
I don't know if this is really such a great idea. It may even violate local work time laws.
What you should remember is that vacation is there for a reason - says someone who did not use enough vacation days himself. Trying to minimize the number of days employees take off with tricks like these may not be smart in the long term. You should actually encourage them to take a minimum of days. It might not always be convenient to the company, but it keeps your employees healthy.
At the moment I have to pay the prize for not taking enough vacation, work weeks of 60+ hours and having my own company on top of those, as well as being married to someone in the same company that let me take those 60+ hours who got burnt out before me because she did too much as well...
The bottom line is, people can't or don't always take care of themselves. It is good employership to spur them on to take rests even if they think they don't need it.
- April 26, 2012 at 2:26 AM
- Geoff Perlman said...
The point of this isn't to get employees to take less time off. The point is to treat them like adults. What we found was that when people were provided with a fixed number of vacation days per year, they would take them whether they needed them or not. Or they would NOT take them when they needed them for fear they might need them later. Our policy allows people to take time off WHEN they need it. A side effect of this is that people, in general, seem to take less vacation. Not a lot less, but less. However, that's not the intent. The intent is for people to take as much as they need.
Could it be abused? Certainly. But if it is being abused, you have a different problem. Your employees don't like their work.
And yes, if an employee plans to take more than day or two off, they are expected to give some advanced notice. That's the courteous and professional thing to do.
- April 26, 2012 at 8:56 AM
- Rottman said...
We recently opened an virtual office singapore cause some of our biggest clients are from there but we couldn't afford relocating just yet. That definitely solved our problems.Also, this allows us to go on vacations from time to time cause we know there's a backing office that can take care of business while we're away.
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Lewis Hamilton; reigning Formula One world champion, findind it hard to defend title with an under-par racing car.
Lewis Hamilton, the reigning Formula One (F1) world champion, and his team, Vodafone- McLaren- Mercedes, started the new season with their fingers firmly stuck on the self-destruct bottom, not too dissimilar to the way they conducted themselves in 2007 and 2008. In 2007 McLaren were excluded from contesting the constructors-title after being accused of obtaining confidential technical data belonging to their arch rival, Ferrari.
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McLaren-Mercedes, despite the blistering start to the season by Jenson Button and the Brawn GP, who have won four out of the five races so far, still regard Ferrari as their main challenger. Lewis Hamilton and his crew believe once things settle down and all the teams get to know their new cars better, it will be McLaren and Ferrari fighting for both the drivers and constructors titles just as they did in 2008.
This gives a little insight as to why McLaren-Mercedes felt the need to mislead the race officials after an incident involving the Toyota of Jarno Trulli during the season opening race in
It was very disappointing that McLaren, after the faux pas of the two previous seasons, hadn't learnt any lessons and were still operating with the same reckless abandon and lied to race officials about whether or not they instructed their driver, Lewis Hamilton, to let through the Toyota of Jarno Trulli under safety car conditions, which a driver should not do unless instructed to by the race controller for the purposes of un-lapping themselves and forming behind the race leader. An audio was played during the 'liar-gate' hearing proving they had indeed instructed
The opprobrium was overwhelming and eventually Lewis Hamilton was forced in front of the world press to make a contrite and humiliating apology.
The 'liar-gate' furore has long been (partially) resolved; McLaren were given a suspended three-race ban; we hope their mendacious ways are now behind them, we can look forward to seeing Lewis Hamilton edge his way back up on to the podium; where we've all become to expect as a given right after he thrilled us with some of the best drives ever seen in Formula One for a long time during his first two seasons.
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This time last year Lewis had 28-points going into
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Like the current Manchester United line-up, or Michael Jordan's rampaging Bulls of the 90s', this should have been Lewis Hamilton's 'Three-Peat' season; but Hamilton fell victim to his own meteoric rise to the top; he believed the hype; the buzz he had created, he let it 'go-to-his-head', he disobeyed team orders; crucially his team also believed the hype, they failed to control Lewis and Alonso, eventually the two team-mates destroyed each other.
Lewis Hamilton still has an opportunity to do at McLaren what Michael Schumacker did at Ferrari, especially since he is the undisputed number one driver at the team; his team-mate, Heikki Kovalainen is not in the same league as him. So, Lewis better pray that they don't bring in Sebastian Vettel, the Red-Bull driver, as a team-mate any time soon. Vettel would be the equal of
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Quote:I understand the points in the article, that is his inference based on a quote that might have been translated for him. I haven't seen the actual quote in it's original Japanese, so I'm not willing to split hairs....use common sense: (keep in mind we are in 2005, not 1905)Q: "What style of karate do you study?"A: "Naihanchi"doesn't really answer the question does it? I could be wrong. Maybe we should all start listing our katas instead of our ryuha.
Quote:Sanchin, when I was young I was taught about 20-30 basics, I have yet to see ANY karate kata that has anything more advanced than these basics I learned when I was 6. You presume a lot. I can show you techniques from each kata in Goju-ryu that you have not learned as a basic except from sanchin - gekisai serie and maybe tensho.About your tiger thing, I have heard one regarding Higashiaonna after observing or either participating in a fight to the death : When 2 tigers fight one will die and the other will be severely injured.You state that you train somewhat like the old ways, learning kata from different masters. You have read the Motobu book very well, he uses the same analogy (talking about styles of karate referring to kata). Do you, like Motobu, also focus on partner drills ? Have you experienced knowledge in ti techniques ?Beginners kata. They introduce you into karate in a logical way. In Goju they are the gekisai series and were designed to introduce youngsters into Goju before sanchin practise. Sanchin was considered not appropriate training for youngsters although Miyagi must have been introduced to it at age 14. Because it is beginner does not mean it is easy it just means it is a good way to begin.
Quote: Sanchin, Regardless of what you think about styles when you tell someone you do the style Sanchin you will really confuse someone with basic knowledge of martial arts and you will repeatedly have to explain yourself to other martial artist who will think you're crazy. Katas aren't considered styles anymore by anyone I've ever met,well,besides you. This has no bearing on what you know or it's effectiveness.
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Negativity, like fog, creeps in on little cat's feet, until one day we are encumbered with it. It's bad enough we have to feel crummy everyday and put up with something hurting, somewhere on these less than perfect bodies; but the damage to our spirit, our initiative and our joy in life can be far worse. It was Santayana I believe who said, "There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval." It's that in-between part that we get hung up on. I guess it's like the creamy filling of life wedged between two cookies. It should be the best part.
There's an almost mystical place you can reach when your pain no longer rules your life. Even in the animal world there is dominance demonstrated; top dog and all that. Every relationship we humans experience has that same factor in it. Within ourselves, we have to win the battle over the misery or life is lost. You have to reach a place in which you dominate your pain and it does not dominate you. You may still be walking around or limping around; getting up in the morning and going to bed at night, but you may not be enjoying the "filling." The chances are, you have every reason not to but the reasons don't really matter. Excuses don't count and can only weigh you down. I know. Any day you don't move forward, well, that same day was lived by the turn of a clock, as our lives ticked away. Whatever we did still took time, energy and emotion. If you chose to cry all day because you were miserable, that's okay. We all have days like that but the question is, did you move forward? I love the quote from Franklin Delano Roosevelt who certainly knew about disability and pain but was still able to say, "There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still." Look for your way of moving forward.
I know about standing still because there are many days the "worry train" runs right through our house. I worry about the future. I worry about lost relationships because I am left behind in life by many people in my life. I worry about what we'll do when my condition worsens. I worry about my husband being overweight and it's affect on his health and our lives. I worry about the economy, terrorists and something happening to someone I love. That's a long train, the "worry train" and it has many boxcars on it. When I find myself doing that, I remember my dear Dad who once told me, when I was a young single mother and was worried about an earthquake knocking down my world because there was a lot of shakin' going on in California at that time. He said, "Just look at the worse that can happen. You live in a double wide mobile home and the farthest you could all fall is about two feet. Besides, don't you know 98% of what we spend time worrying about never comes true?" One thing about riding the "worry train" is that it isn't going anywhere. It's also eating up time and time is life. I work very hard not to worry anymore. When I feel it coming on, I get up and literally, walk away from it and do something to distract myself; pick up a book or put in a movie. During this beautiful time of year, I go outside and let nature, my flowers and fresh air beneath gorgeous blue skies fill that space.
Far too often we let our pain win. We're afraid of tomorrow. We're afraid of failing at a new endeavor, even something as simple as exercising. Will it make us worse? Will it hurt? We have to move ahead, we have to move forward. The only true failure is to not even try. Remember the tiny acorn that can grow through the earth and grow into a forest. Look at the wonder in a tiny flower or vegetable seed. We can learn from the rhythm of life and try. Trying is everything and who knows, the results may astonish you. Get up and move. Try. Read something positive and stop dwelling on the fix you're in. Try. You might astonish yourself.


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Mary Mitchell
Mary Mitchell
Mary is a registered volunteer for Manchester Events Volunteers, an organisation built from the legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth games and based in the Town Hall in Manchester City Centre. Mary was one of 8 volunteers who registered with the Manchester Champions Project in June 2008 and was the only person to actually come along and see what the Project was all about.
On starting up a summer evening family bike ride at Debdale Park in the East of Manchester, at the first session nobody turned up. The following week, one family to came, the week after another and now there is a great turnout every week: everyone has great fun. Due to the success of the summer evening rides, the park warden is keen to get the sessions in his events book ready for this year as he knows how good they are. Every Saturday morning, Mary helps when 30 to 40 people turn up at the Champions Project and, without her help, the event would not run.


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Neel Kashkari announced his run for governor of California on Tuesday and then turned to the crowd to take a commemorative photo.
"Say cheese!" the multimillionaire Republican declared.
And all around the state of California, political veterans muttered: We've seen this picture before.
A wealthy novice candidate jumps into a race for the top seat available, sending multiple negative messages at once: That money can buy votes. That, as if afflicted with pinnacle envy, the only race that counts is the biggest one. That an outsider with no political experience is superior to a veteran of the state's sublimely complicated political environment.
Strategist Garry South, who dispatched a similar candidacy by Democratic financier Al Checchi when he ran Gray Davis' successful 1998 campaign, gently mocked via Twitter.
"Neel, buddy, wanna get together so I can share some CA political history lessons with ya? Could save you a lot of money," he jibed.
The swirl of moneyed candidates competing for political success in California is boggling, just counting those who have run recently. In 2010, Republican businesswoman Meg Whitman spent a mind-bending $177 million — $144 million of it her own money — in an unsuccessful bid for the governorship. She was defeated by Jerry Brown, who parlayed name recognition and a mere $36 million to victory.
Republicans aren't the only wealthy candidates who have found the political universe not nearly as inviting as the business one. Democrat Checchi blew through $40 million of his own money just in the gubernatorial primary; in a bad echo eight years later, Democratic Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Westly spent almost $44 million in his unsuccessful gubernatorial primary race, most of it his own. (Hard as it is to fathom, that level of spending doesn't always amount to much more than couch-cushion change for the uber-wealthy. Over the relatively brief course of his losing campaign, Checchi made his money back on increases in the price of his Northwest Airlines stock. Whitman's donations to her ambitious campaign were only a small chunk of her billion-dollar holdings.)
Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger's success in capturing the governor's office seems to have spurred some of the subsequent first-time candidates, all of whom have glided past the idiosyncrasies of his win: It occurred in a weirdly timed special election that spared the moderate Republican the crucible of a GOP primary dominated by the party's right flank. It focused on an exceedingly unpopular incumbent reeling from a statewide electricity crisis. And, not least, the challenger was Arnold Schwarzenegger, a man with far less baggage then than now.
Not all campaigns are the same, but wealthy candidates typically trip over the same stumbling blocks.
They often have not voted much, a fairly obvious display of civic disinterest. (The San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday that the 40-year-old Kashkari, of Laguna Beach, had failed to vote in nearly half the elections for which he was eligible.)
They tend to have past business experiences that, while perhaps seen as rational in the corporate world, come off poorly in the real one. ("When you're talking about massive layoffs, which we did ... perhaps the work needs to be done somewhere else?" Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina said in a devastating ad aired by incumbent Democrat Barbara Boxer's team in 2010; the comment came from a 2008 interview in which the former Hewlett-Packard chief discussed shipping 30,000 jobs overseas.)
And the fact that they have money to burn can breed a lack of efficiency in their campaigns. (Whitman's campaign spent 18 times more money on fundraising events in 2010 than did Brown's, including events at Torrey Pines and the Ritz-Carlton in New York. Still, Brown easily outraised her when Whitman's own contributions weren't counted.)
That brings up a wrinkle that Kashkari will have to smooth: The former Goldman Sachs investment banker and Treasury Department official is coming onto the stage as the wealthy candidate in the race — the alternative at the moment is Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of Twin Peaks — but he has acknowledged that he does not have the wherewithal to finance the campaign himself.
Political strategists suggest that his path is a difficult one for myriad reasons. Kashkari is running to be the Republican nominee for governor in a state where less than 30% of the voters share that affinity. His role overseeing President Bush's $700-billion bank bailout may irk Democrats and even some in his own party, as could his support for same-sex marriage and abortion rights. Were he to succeed, he would be running in November against Brown, whose success in helping balance the state's perennially deficit-plagued books has boosted his popularity.
Kashkari's wealth alone is not disqualifying, as several California elected officials can attest. The latest annual ranking by The Hill said that Rep. Darrell Issa of Vista was the wealthiest member of Congress, with $355 million in holdings; Sen. Dianne Feinstein came in ninth at nearly $42 million. (Brown, for that matter, isn't exactly broke, even if an image of frugality has shrouded him since his first incarnation as governor in the 1970s.)
Still, Kashkari will have to convince voters that he sees things through their eyes, even if his bank account is substantially larger than most.
"Voters are skeptical of all politicians, but wealthy politicians have a higher bar to cross," said Rose Kapolczynski, Boxer's chief strategist. "They have more of a hurdle to prove that they understand the lives of everyday voters."
Not voting ranks high on the list of things that rankle voters, she said, and represents a serious threat to Kashkari.
The newly minted candidate said in Tuesday's announcement that he had a single focus: "Jobs and education." He said nothing about his own wealth, nor about the precedent set by so many affluent candidates who tried, and lost.
But several weeks back, in an interview with the Sacramento Bee, he already seemed fed up with being compared to anyone else.
"Oh, give me a break," he said. "You're comparing this to Meg? Give me a break."
Twitter: @cathleendecker


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Oh, wretched, impoverished shopkeepers of the developing world! If only you could put down your weary, paint-splattered arm and stop making handcrafted signs for your stores. If only you had the brilliant Swiss diamond-light of Helvetica. Enter your minimalist paradise.
At the Try Helvetica blog, Brazilian design firm NOONO (So, not really a colonialist thing) virtually redoes hand-painted signage. Out with broad brush strokes, in with sleek, uniform bowls, descenders and spines. Perfect kerning. Swiss excellence. And the results look great! Sure, a bit of culture is compromised when plastered over with ultra-modern sterility, but Helvetica cares not for your indigenous charms, Brazil. Its titanium and porcelain fingers wipe your brow, and clench your throat — you won't resist its typographic reach. Relent. And look great! [Try Helvetica via Laughing Squid]


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Newmar Corp. rolled out its 2013 product lineup to consumers during the recently completed Good Sam Rally in Louisville, Ky., and at the Newmar Kountry Klub Rally in Gillette, Wyo.
According to a press release, the Nappanee, Ind.-based builder placed a design emphasis on bolder colors and more eye appeal in the new product line.
Highlighting the product change was the total life-cycle redesign of the Dutch Star Class A motorhome. One of Newmar's best known brands, the Dutch Star features a new front cap with stainless steel grill and LED accent lighting, a new hood design with hidden hinges and a heavier duty windshield wiper system with more coverage area.
The rear cap has also been redesigned and features new automotive taillights with LED accents. Four distinct, exterior graphics choices allow customers to choose from a variety of colors and each graphic includes five different colors with blended paint "fades."
Interior improvements include three wood choices, hidden hinges on all cabinetry and new designer mitered cabinet doors with glazing. Other amenities setting off the interior are polished porcelain tile with glass inserts, solid surface countertops and a new backsplash design with cut-glass.
Additional interior upgrades include a feature ceiling added to the bedroom of all floorplans and a soffit with standard halogen lighting added to the full-wall slide floorplan. Several former options were made standard for the 2013 model year such as auto gen start, Weather Pro electric patio awning, Oasis power entry door awning and side-view cameras.
The Dutch Star is offered in 10 floorplans in lengths of 37, 40 and 43 feet. The 37-footer is powered by a 400 ISL Cummins on a Freightliner chassis, while the 40-foot and 43-foot models are equipped with a 450 ISL Cummins on the Freightliner platform.
Other features on several floorplans include a Flexsteel L-shaped Extenda-Flex sofa and a 46-inch Sony television on an electronic powered mechanism that raises or lowers the television from behind a sofa or a fireplace.
"Prior to these rallies, all of us at Newmar were very excited about the all new 2013 Dutch Star," said Pat Terveer, director of luxury sales, product planning and design for Newmar. "The results indicated our excitement was spot-on, as dealers and customers alike have shared their acceptance of the major changes. We expect Dutch Star to experience a significant growth in sales based on early results."