text: Twelve New Biobased Product Categories Proposed Creation of new categories creates additional markets for U.S. agricultural products. Published on: Jun 6, 2012 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Tuesday the proposed addition of 12 biobased product categories to become eligible for Federal procurement preference. Once the proposed rule is finalized, more than 2,300 additional biobased products will be offered for preferred purchasing consideration by all Federal government agencies and contractors. The proposed rule is published in the Federal Register. Biobased products are composed wholly or significantly of biological ingredients – renewable plant, animal, marine or forestry materials. A BioPreferred designated item is one that meets or exceeds USDA-established minimum biobased content requirements.Biobased personal care and cleaning products are among the proposed categories for preferred federal procurement. "President Obama has directed the federal government to take decisive steps to dramatically increase the purchase of biobased products over the next two years, which will create jobs and drive innovation where biobased products are grown and manufactured," said Vilsack. "With these 12 additional categories, more than 2,300 biobased products will be available for government procurement and USDA will have increased the number of designated categories by 39 percent overall since the issuance of the President's memorandum. When procuring agencies buy biobased products they are helping their organizations increase energy security and independence, spur economic development, and improve our environment." The proposed rule designates the following biobased products for preferred Federal procurement: agricultural spray adjuvants animal cleaning products deodorants dethatcher products fuel conditioners leather, vinyl, and rubber care products lotions and moisturizers shaving Products specialty precision cleaners and solvents sun care products wastewater systems coatings water clarifying agents The proposed rule will be out for public comment for 60 days and can be read here. Comments will be considered and incorporated, and a final rule will be publicized shortly thereafter. BioPreferred is comprised of a preferred procurement program for Federal agencies and a voluntary labeling program for the broad scale marketing of biobased products (under development). Please contact firstname.lastname@example.com for more information about the Round 9 final rule or the BioPreferred program. A complete list and detailed description of each BioPreferred designated item, and items for future designation, can be found at www.biopreferred.gov; or follow BioPreferred on Twitter. Creating new markets for the nation's agricultural products through biobased manufacturing is one of the many steps the Administration has taken over the past three years to strengthen the rural economy. Since August 2011, the White House Rural Council has supported a broad spectrum of rural initiatives including a Presidential Memorandum to create jobs in rural America through biobased and sustainable product procurement, a $350 million commitment in SBA funding to rural small businesses over the next 5 years, launching a series of conferences to connect investors with rural start-ups, creating capital marketing teams to pitch federal funding opportunities to private investors interested in making rural and making job search information available at 2,800 local USDA offices nationwide.


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4-star hotel in Pompei with a restaurant
Situated in the city center, this hotel is close to Cathedral of Pompei, Pompei Amphitheatre, and Teatro Grande. Also nearby are House of the Vettii and House of the Faun.
Hotel Features
In addition to a restaurant, Hotel Palma features a sauna. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and complimentary wireless Internet access.
Room Amenities
In addition to satellite television, guestrooms include minibars and bathrooms with showers and makeup/shaving mirrors.
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- General
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. An Internet point is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center, secretarial services, and small meeting rooms. This Pompei hotel also offers a sauna, a rooftop terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Limited complimentary onsite parking is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is also available nearby.
Hotel Palma has designated areas for smoking.
- 24-hour front desk
- Air-conditioned public areas
- Airport transportation (surcharge)
- Total number of rooms - 29
- Number of floors - 4
- Bar/lounge
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Multiple large conference rooms
- Doorman/doorwoman
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-in
- Express check-out
- Free Wi-Fi
- Internet point
- Computer station
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Designated smoking areas
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Sauna
- Business center
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- ATM/banking
- Concierge services
- Laundry facilities
- Medical assistance available
- Multiple small meeting rooms
- Multilingual staff
- Free parking
- Secure parking
- Parking nearby
- Restaurant
- Room service (24 hours)
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Secretarial services
- Coffee/tea in lobby
- Television in lobby
- Tour assistance
- Dial-up Internet access - complimentary
- Free parking (limited spaces)
- Free guest parking during stay
- Internet
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi
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Free parking, Free guest parking during stay, Secure parking, Free parking (limited spaces), Parking nearby
- Room Amenities
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- Climate control
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Direct-dial phone
- Minibar
- Wake-up calls
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Extra towels/bedding in room
- Makeup/shaving mirror
- Shower only
- Bathroom scale
- Satellite TV service
- Individually decorated
- Window opens
- In-room safe
- Complimentary newspaper
- Soundproofed rooms
- Dining
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Hotel Palma has a restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
24-hour room service is available.
- Recreation
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Spa
- Turkish bath/Hammam in spa
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- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Accessibility equipment for the deaf
- Braille or raised signage
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Check-in time starts at 1 PM
- Payment types
Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Diners Club, MasterCard, Visa
- Pets
Pets allowed
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.

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Booking Same Location Twice in Auctions
Just wondered if it is possible to bid/win more than one auction per offer.
e.g. Villa Mangiacane auction for 4 nights.If i bid and win for that auction once,then bid/win when it comes up again.
Therefore,getting 8 nights in a row?
Just a thought (could be VERY useful for long haul holidays) and not too sure how the hotels would react.
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01-08-2009, 12:17 AMRe: Booking Same Location Twice in Auctions
yes, you can definitely bundle packages. in fact, a very clever idea.
it is subject to availability, if you plan to bundle auction packages for a longer stay, i highly recommend you call or email LL concierge (aka, customer service) before you bid on the 2nd package. they can contact the hotel and assist with availability/reservations.
Re: Booking Same Location Twice in Auctions
snapyou...we did exactly that....we bought two back to back auction packages for our upcoming holiday in Guatemala....before placing the bids, we used the toll-free telephone lines (probably not good for you since you are in Europe)to contact the General Manager at theproperty and confirm availability and approval to use the packages. The General Manager was very cooperative and happy to accommodate us....even agreed to hold the suite for a couple of days until we finalized our bids.
btw....we have enjoyed more than 18 trips with LL and findmost hotels are often willing to make adjustments (assuming your requests are reasonable)......we have "split" four night packages in the past at some properties, we have asked to substitute certain included "perks" for other options, we inquire about "early check-ins" after long-haul travel, we have arranged for special transfers (not offered in the packages).
There is no reason to be reluctant in making specialrequests.....if a propertywishes to beconsidered in the "luxury" category, then management is generally accustomed to certain adjustments for their guests......they caneither accept or decline....in which case, you have the option to accept or decline their decisions.....moving on to other properties, if necessary.
As to Michael's comments on use of the LL conciergeservices....by all means utilize them. They are consummate professionals and know their way through the maze.- Ω -
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Re: Booking Same Location Twice in Auctions
I know this is possible and the reason I have not gone for auctions in the past is because I would preferred if they had been for longer. As I'm not yet very confident on bidding, I would be afraid that if I did bid and win an auction, hoping that it came up again so thatI would hopefully win more nights in the same auction, but what if i didn't win the auction second time around and I was left with an auction I had won, but withtoo few nights?
I wish LL would feature properties with auctions for at least a week or more? i'm sure they would be very popular.
Re: Booking Same Location Twice in Auctions
Good Point Mary. The saving grace is that if you do win one package, you can always purchase the next few nights directly from the property or the concierge service at LL. (that's if you don't see the auction again.)


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I have been involved in a number of discussions this week about friends' reactions to our breast cancer. Each woman who raised this topic felt that she was the only one with this problem and, upon learning how common it is, wondered why no one had warned her what to anticipate. The summary is that there are inevitably surprises about friendships. All of us are disappointed by some thought-to-be good friends and very pleasantly surprised by others whom we knew less well.
Several women have recently described the loss of a best friend over the course of breast cancer treatment. In each case, the friend was not present in important times and ways. She may have not visited after surgery or not offered a ride and company for a chemotherapy appointment or just stopped calling. Some "friends" hurt us with comments and stories about others whom they have known who have not had good outcomes with breast cancer. On the flip side, there are always people whose reactions and involvement are unexpectedly wonderful. I often hear of acquaintances who offer to organize meals or rides, neighbors who thoughtfully call to ask if they can pick up something at the grocery store, or work colleagues who tactfully cover for us when we need a break. Former slight acquaintances may become close friends by sharing this time with us.
A third group of "friend surprises" are those women whom we meet because of breast cancer. Lifelong friendships can begin in a support group or daily contact in the Radiation Oncology waiting room. Even if there are real differences between us, our shared diagnosis and experience make us close. We understand one another.
When I meet a newly diagnosed woman, I sometimes suggest that she make a list of likely supportive friends. I tell her to list those people on whom she can depend and also those whom she expects to disappear. Then, I tell her, put that list away and don't look at it for at least six months. When she looks again, there are sure to be surprises--on both lists.
It is easy to be glad and grateful for the new friends. It is harder to know what to do about damaged relationships. Sometimes, the only possibility seems to be to let go, to recognize that lives change and friends don't always last. Other times, a friendship has been so valuable that it is worth the (possibly) painful risk of reaching out and trying to talk about your disappointment and sense of abandonment. Whatever you choose to do, remind yourself that a friend's behavior is due to her issues, not yours. She likely was so frightened by your diagnosis that she could not cope. This is not an excuse, merely an explanation and reassurance that the change is not your fault. If you have lost previously good friends, treasure, even more, the new ones. And be prepared to use what you have learned to help your next friend who has a crisis.


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Friday Group Ride #7
Andrei Greipel has laid down a marker. As the season cranks up and folks begin thinking about who is going to win what, the German sprinter, with three stage wins and an overall at the Tour Down Under, has reminded everyone that the Manx Missile isn't the only show in (Columbia) sprint town. In the US, the media focus last season was on Tyler Farrar's attempts to best Mark Cavendish, though Thor Hushovd showed that there is more than one way to skin that particular cat (Get it? Manx? cat? Alright, whatever.)
The standings from 2009 look like this: Cavendish – 23 wins; Greipel – 20 wins; Hushovd – 9 wins; Farrar – 9 wins; and just for excrement and giggles, Edvald Boasson-Hagen had 9 wins (B-H isn't a sprinter, really, yet, but he's fast).
So this week's Group Ride looks at the flats. So many of the season's tune up races are fodder for the faster fellows.
Who do you think has the best shot at toppling Cavendish? His teammate, Greipel? Hushovd? Farrar? Boasson-Hagen? Or perhaps a dark horse like Gerald Ciolek (Milram), Matti Breschel (Saxo Bank),Tom Boonen (Quick Step), Robbie McEwen (Katyusha), Daniele Bennati (Liquigas) ?
Who is the next, next thing, or the old, next thing or the right now thing? Who will save us from Cavendish's inane victory celebrations? Who has the best shot at being the fastest man in the peloton in 2010?
Bicycle History: A Book Review
Every bathroom needs at least one cycling volume. Back when I had roommates I used to leave a history of Mont Ventoux, in French, on the tank of the toilet, just to mess with them. When I was younger, my volume of the Rolling Stone Record Guide occupied the coveted tank spot.
I've got a new book to occupy those trips to the reading room. Title rather simply, Bicycle History the first book from Bill and Carol McGann's new venture, McGann Publishing, is a year-by-year assemblage of bicycle trivia, spanning 1860 to the present.
For the suspiciously minded: Frequent readers of RKP will recall that Bill McGann has contributed to RKP. Anyone who purchases a copy of the book will find a cover blurb I wrote for it. In neither case did any money change hand. I like what he does and he seems to have some regard for RKP. That's as far as this goes. End of full disclosure.
Imagine a perfect world. In Utopia, I expect there would be a game show devoted to bicycle trivia. Who won the 1952 edition of Paris-Roubaix? When was the toe clip invented? And by whom? This volume could serve as the perfect source material.
Bicycle History is a compendium of facts unbridled from the constraint of a narrative in which the author might seek to impress upon the reader a larger truth. As a result, it's an easy, if compelling read. You can sit down with 1951; maybe you'll make it through the whole year before you've finished your business. What sense there is to be made of the facts is left up to the reader to decide.
Frankly, the disparate details the book includes are a bit like Lay's potato chips. You won't stop at one. Or two.
Each year's chapter is a bit like a time capsule encompassing racing results, the births of future stars as well as the deaths of former greats, technological developments and sometimes business transactions as well.
Interested? You can order it here.
The 313 Life
Winter storms can have a curious effect on a dedicated cyclist. Their greatest effect is to curtail riding. Whether it is snow, rain or something more ambiguous, any precipitation in cold weather makes riding less convenient at the very least, but has the ability to make it downright impossible for days at a time.
But for other sports, namely skiing and surfing, winter storms are the Promised Land, Christmas day, the prologue of the Tour de France. It's times like these that I start thinking it's time to broaden my horizons again.
Each of these sports shares some similarity in appeal. They require a fair amount of balance and coordination. They are also much easier to participate in if you have some fitness and strength. That's why you never see zombie skiers, surfers or cyclists; they have mad strength, but terrible coordination.
Skiing—any variety of it—and surfing both have the advantage of being less equipment-intensive than cycling and, therefore, the potential to be less expensive as well. Yet for every feature that makes these sports attractive, I can think of a few reasons why cyclists are more fortunate. Now, given that you're already reading this blog we can assume you are a dedicated cyclist and therefore need no sales pitch on cycling. However, a celebration, even at this time of year, of just how good we have it can't really hurt.
The first and perhaps most obvious difference between cycling surfing and skiing is its lack of restriction due to geography or season. Surfing is confined to the coasts, so if you're a waterman in Salt Lake City, yours is a life of ennui. Even if you live near the beach, there are plenty of days when the surf is just kind of eh. It's even worse for skiers. Skiing is but a vacation endeavor if you live in Texas. But living near the mountains isn't enough; the best ski areas are still open fewer than six months. Sure, there are wintery days when getting on the bike would be no fun, but there aren't many places where you can't ride at all for six months and terrain isn't much of an issue. If there's a road, you can ride.
My favorite feature of cycling is that it has the ability to be social in a way that skiing, surfing and virtually every other sport is incapable. Sheltered within the bubble of the peloton or just out on an easy ride with a friend, we can ride in close proximity, pedal and chat, all at the same time. Just getting close enough to another skier to speak while moving can be suicidal. I really cherish that ability to do and share simultaneously.
It's true that straddling a surfboard and waiting for waves can be a great opportunity to catch up with friends. Similarly, the trip up on the lift is best spent chatting, so that you don't focus on the cold. The problem for me is, compared to cycling, both of those periods are not doing. Compared even to soft pedaling deep within the group, that still counts as riding.
Here's one of the unfortunate corollaries to cycling's more social nature: With surfing and downhill skiing, much of the sport is about taking turns. While that's a good way to learn social graces, it does hold the potential for conflict if someone doesn't much feel like waiting their turn. Even getting a wave at a surf spot you are new to can be very difficult. I've never had someone tell me I couldn't ride a road, though.
And whether you're talking about downhill or cross country skiing, going downhill fast—as fast as possible—is rarely an option unless you're in a race. Odd to say, but in cycling, many of my fastest descents came on roads I wasn't racing. Even more frustrating for me was the fact that the steepest trails I most wanted closed during a cross country ski race—so that I could utterly rip them without fear pile driving another skier—never were used in races.
Let's not forget the front door quotient, either. Being able to step out of my garage and swing a leg over my bike instead of having to load up equipment and drive anywhere from five minutes to five hours to enjoy my sport of choice really helps me maximize my time. There's no doubt that Mammoth Mountain is worth the drive, but it really can't be part of a practical daily regimen.
Ours is an opposite problem. We have the opportunity to do our sport too much, to overtrain. In some places, riding 365 days per year is possible; as a result, we actually have to choose days not to ride. If you make sure to take one rest day per week, that works out to about 313 days of riding per year. We never get that many days of riding, but it's nice to know the 313the limitation is more inner than outer. Skiers and surfers can barely fantasize about so many days of their favorite sport in a year.
I've thought about what life would be if I, as a cyclist, faced the challenges found in other sports. What if I got a hostile reception on an unfamiliar road? What if I didn't live near roads where I could ride? What if I could only ride during vacations? The reality is, I'd want a new sport.
That thought scared me, made me wonder if my devotion to cycling is less than a surfer's who may wait years for a massive swell to hit his favorite break. What I realized was that my desire is no different from the motivation to get married. I want this thing in my life on a daily basis. I'll take the mundane of base miles, the could shoulder of the wind, the disappointing days when the form just isn't there. I'll revel in the big days where every climb feels like a honeymoon. I love it enough to take it all and not just wait for date night, for vacations.
The Toll
It's still winter. It's still cold. There's snow down. Ice. Sand and grit. The wind is a flying dagger and the pavement is a black hole. Every night as I ride home in the dark, pedaling in and out of the glare of a million hostile headlights, I feel as though I'm on the moon. The wintertime road is a lonely place, a seeming light year from spring.
They say that discretion is the better part of valor, and that truism has been echoing in my head for the last month. Some weeks ago, I rode home with the air temperature at 9 and the wind gusting to 45mph. It was, as the kids say, epic. And perhaps stupid. My doctor friends warned me of the possible consequences of "exercising" in extreme temperatures. My wife looked at me askance and shook her head. Her eyes said, "Would it have killed you to take the bus?"
Of course, I've been reading a lot of my fellow sufferers lately. They talk about the form they'll have in the spring, the misery of couchtime, the boredom of the trainer.
But I come back to discretion. Perhaps it would be better to take this time off, rest my body and hit the spring fresh. I could scale the mountain of books by my bedside with two full hours of reading on the train each day. The trainer is boring, but I can do laundry while I spin in place. To everything turn, turn, turn.
This winter is taking its toll on me. I am physically exhausted from riding into the wind every day. I have a chest cold that is moving into its third week of residency in my thorax. My skin appears to be sagging like the legs of a fat man's bike shorts. I am slow. I am worn smooth, like a river stone. I am a winter shadow of my summer self.
Is this what the last section of pavé in Roubaix feels like? Is this what the third week of a Grand Tour comes down to? Is this my Mont Ventoux?
The word 'toll' denotes a price paid for some privilege, usually passage over a road. In that regard, I've certainly thrown the metaphoric coins in the metaphoric basket by continuing to scale the snow bank in front of my house with my bicycle slung over my shoulder.
In a tertiary definition, Webster's also talks of that price being "grievous or ruinous." In this connotation of the word, the toll is seen to be excessive, and maybe this is how I resolve my enduring ambivalence about this daily struggle. On the one hand, I'm paying for a privilege. I'm gaining access to something others aren't allowed. And if that toll isn't, in the final analysis, either grievous or ruinous, then perhaps the strictest discretion, those bits of reason that would put me on the couch in front of winter reruns or on the trainer, in the basement, next to the dryer, that discretion is not the better part of valor.
The better part of valor is softening your knees as you roll through a patch of slushy ice, keeping your weight back slightly to keep the front wheel from sliding out from underneath you. And, upon arrival, telling whomever asks that no, it's not really that cold out.
Friday Group Ride #6 Wrap
It's tough to boil down allegiances to teams, to isolate love for a formation independent of its riders and it showed in your answers. No matter how much we might want to identify a team's personality with precepts of management, director style or strength in a set of races, we still track back to the names flying the colors.
To this end: Were Quick Step not the dominant team in the Northern Classics, they wouldn't have made this list. At all. Their lack of native English-speaking riders loses them the jingo vote and without an ongoing streak of wins on cobbles, there wouldn't be much to love. Let's not be too surprised. We love them precisely because they kick ass.
The revelation was your love for Team BMC. By signing Big George (media outlets are contractually bound to use the adjective "big" before any mention of Lance Armstrong's former lieutenant), Alessandro Ballan and—more important—Cadel Evans, BMC led the voting nearly three to one. What?
Reader Blue summed it up best when he called BMC an "underdog supergroup." I'm still trying to get my head around that image. It's like pairing John Paul Jones (everyone's favorite invisible bassist) with David Gilmour (the world's most impressive withdrawn guitarist), Anthony Kiedis (a truly underrated singer and songwriter) and Pete Thomas (who modestly backed up Elvis Costello on album after great album). An underrated supergroup. God, I'd buy that album without ever hearing a single song. Asia wouldn't stand a chance.
Cervelo Test team got the next most votes and that illustrated a curious point: This underdog love thing isn't just talk. The two teams that got the greatest number of points are both Pro Continental teams, not ProTour teams. How weird is that?
The strange corollary to this point is that only two teams, Radio Shack and HTC-Columbia got some negative votes. Consider these the hanging chads of the cycling world. HTC-Columbia is so dominant in field sprints that a win by them has the ability to downright disappoint some of you. Worse yet, there's some noticeable backlash against Team Radio Shack before the first European race has ever been run. (Especially strange was how one reader disliked a team composed of old guys, but still digs Jens Voigt. Perhaps it's a good thing the German powerhouse didn't join an American team for his final season).
Garmin-Slipstream would almost certainly have faired better had they not joined the ProTour, but they scored as well as Quick Step, The Shack, Sky and HTC-Columbia, unless you figure in The Shack's negative votes, and then they don't fare so well.
If RKP had the ability to control race outcomes just to keep you folks happy, we would do well to make sure that Saxo Bank wins every tenth race that BMC or Cervelo doesn't win. Settling the Grand Tours could be hard, but in this scenario, neither Astana nor Radio Shack would have a chance.
Sky may have bought themselves a world class team, but they have yet to buy your love.
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All the big teams have had their presentations for the 2010 season. The season's goals have been laid out, some publicly, some not as. So what's likely to happen?
I got to thinking about what I'd like to happen. There are probably a great many of you who think I'll be at the prologue of the Tour with sniper rifle trained on Alberto Contador. My equipment will be loaded, to be sure, but only with a 2 gig memory card.
Would it be interesting to see Cav win Milan San-Remo going away from the field? Sure. Would it be amazing to see Tomeke equal Roger DeVlaeminck's record at Paris-Roubaix? Absolutely. Would it be great to see Contador battle Armstrong and Schleck until the field quit in submission? Truly, it would be riveting.
There's just one problem. Not one of these outcomes would be surprising. Even those of you who hate Armstrong with the level of detestation ordinarily reserved for the intestinal flu must admit that an Armstrong victory is a possibility, no matter how damnable you think that version of the future might be.
And so, with five hours of me, a bike and an average heartrate lower than the speeds I drove as an irresponsible youth, I thought about the coming season.
Obsessed may be more like it.
I asked myself how I'd feel about Cav winning in San-Remo. Blah. Tomeke enter the velodrome in Roubaix alone? Equal parts thrilled and bored. Contador in yellow in Paris? Less ennui than I felt when Indurain won his third, if pleased to see him equal Thevenet's and LeMond's record. What if Armstrong stood atop the podium. Stunned. Plain damn stunned. Can you think of another rider that more teams will be riding against at the Tour? Has there ever been another rider that more teams will have deliberately ridden against? Did Merckx inspire that kind of opposition in anyone other than DeVlaeminck?
The answer, in my case, is that I just want some surprises. I don't really mean of the Dirk Demol or Jean-Marie Wampers variety, you know a guy who doesn't even get named as a dark horse, but rather, a guy who is a 10 to 1 or a 20 to 1.
It means seeing a break succeed at Milan-San Remo or—better yet—a tactical checkmate that leaves Quick Step chasing all the way to Roubaix—and off the podium. Not that I've got anything against them, I just want some finishes that I would never have guessed. And given the enormous limitations of my memory and creativity, it really shouldn't be that hard.
So what would it require? Well, here's the thing that occurred to me somewhere around Hollywood's coastal outpost, better known as the Colony: Race outcomes were more uncertain—say it with me, people—before race radios.
There is plenty of dislike for race radios among the RKP readership as it is. I've straddled the line. Those of you who have been readers of VeloNews for a long time may recall Bob Roll's account of riding the Giro d'Italia in the 1980s and entering an unlit tunnel only to plow into a pile of bricks in the middle of the road and fall in a puddle of diesel. Race radios might have helped him. They have done much to help team directors alert riders of coming course difficulties. On the other hand, the race courses are generally better scouted and selected today.
What of TVs in the cars? Honestly, I think these are as much a problem as the race radios. Do you suppose the team directors would be ordering their riders to the front to pedal hard quite as often if they couldn't see live feeds of the race on TV in their cars?
So back to the old question. Should race radios be banned? If the team directors had less information about exactly what was happening from one moment to the next they might not bark quite so many instructions to their riders, ordering them to the front to ride.
Had radios been in use in '88 and '89 it is highly unlikely Dirk Demol and Jean-Marie Wampers would have stayed away to win Paris-Roubaix, and while I was non-plussed that a rider I had never heard of won Paris-Roubaix in '89, I'd be grateful to see more uncertainty injected back into the racing.
So one thing is certain: At the very least, the TVs ought to be outlawed, even if the radios persist. It's a miracle, if minor, that some DS, apoplectic over his riders' inaction in the face of an attack, hasn't crashed his car while glued to the feed.
Meh. So there it is, I've come around to wanting race radios banned from the peloton. I want the TVs yanked out of the cars, the radios left at home and team staff forbidden from watching TV at some hotel and calling the DS to update him on just what's on the tube. So maybe the cell phones should go—just during the race, mind you—as well.
I risk seeming a Luddite. I'm not against technology, but what I want to avoid is the near constant feedback that tells the pack they are bearing down on the breakaway. The GPS data that reveals what the gap to the break is—5:10, 5:05, 5:03, etc.—is tantamount to the live TV feed. While it's great for the home audience, I'd like to see anything that can give precise enough feedback to let the pack know the gap is coming down 10 seconds per kilometer find its way to Salvation Army.
After all, shouldn't part of racing be based on your ability to do math when you're at or above your lactate threshold?
So what's going to happen? The call for radios to be banned will grow louder, that is what's going to happen.
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Friday Group Ride #6
I am watching the Tour Down Under and having a hell of a hard time bending my tiny brain around the idea of it being summer somewhere on this big, blue marble we live on. Intellectually, I get it, but like that water-spinning-the-other-way-down-the-drain kind of way, I just can't quite believe it.
The other thing I'm having trouble with, as I do at this time every year, is figuring out which team is which in their new kits. BMC looks sharp in their black and red. Radio Shack look like a team of fax machines. Sky look like tubes of toothpaste. And of course, they've played musical chairs in the offseason, too. This guy is with that team now. That guy is over there. Confusing, despite keeping up 24/7 on this ever present Interweb®.
So, as I reconfigure my notions of what each team is about, I am wondering who you're supporting this year. Not what rider. What team? Who are you pulling for and why? Is one rider enough to bring your loyalty to a whole team? Is national origin important? Is it style? Is it substance?
Enlighten me. Help me choose my own home team. Make your case.
The Versus Petition
Here at RKP World HQ we pay for the questionable service of Time Warner. A great many of RKP's readers have let us know that they are unwilling to endure them and instead subscribe to DirecTV. However, DirecTV isn't carrying Versus, which is precisely why this household is willing to endure erroneous billing, service interruptions and impossible customer service. It seems a reasonable price to pay to make sure we get as much bike racing on TV as possible.
While there are an ever-increasing number of options for watching bike racing on TV, many folks would prefer to lounge on the couch with remote in hand. For all those of you who are DirecTV subscribers wishing they would carry Versus, the network has a petition to which you may add your name. Your voice could help encourage DirecTV to make bike racing available to hundreds of thousands of subscribers.
Tires: A Top Five
So I got a request to write about for my favorite half-dozen clinchers. "What a fun survey," I thought. And I began making my list. A list is nothing without bias, and I began to consider my priorities.
The first priority when I choose a tire is ride quality. Life is short; I say, ride what you like, even if that means you're on carbon fiber rims intended for PROs. Placing ride quality first meant this list would skew toward open tubulars and away from inexpensive 60 tpi clinchers.
Second is availability. There's no point in loving something you can't find. A prime example of this is Pariba. They make one of the single most supple open tubulars I ever rode. It featured a godawful lavender tread (nothing wrong with lavender as a color, but it won't match a single component on the market) with a grip like chewing gum. But you can't find it anywhere in the U.S. Or at least, the combination of me, Google and 15 minutes of wasted time were unsuccessful. Ergo, not on list.
Third is mountability. If the tire has a great ride quality but is insanely hard to mount, and ultimately, to change a flat, that will bump it on down the list.
Fourth is flat protection. You don't buy an open tubular because it doesn't flat. You buy it because it is the rubber equivalent of the kid glove. No other tire combines sensitivity, grip and reduced rolling resistance so effectively as a good open tubular.
I quickly realized I don't currently have direct experience with six clinchers that I can recommend. Some tires that I liked in the past have been discontinued. Some that I previously gave good reviews to have been changed to increase flat protection marginally, while decreasing ride quality noticeably. And there are some, such as everything by Challenge, that I have not ridden at all, while still others, such as Schwalbe, where I seem to have ridden all the wrong ones.
The list:
1. Any Vittoria Open Corsa. No other open tubular combines ride quality and availability the way the Vittoria Open Corsas do. Carrying Open Corsas is kind of a barometer by which I measure shops. If they don't have these, it can only mean one of two things: Either they like something else better, or they aren't that concerned with ride quality. I like the CG for durability. I rode thousands of miles training and racing on its tubular brother; it got my through some nasty Battenkill-style courses and training rides. That said, the CX is a little more supple and is preferable for descending and cornering. Performance-wise, probably the best tire out there, but you can't run it every day. Put another way, this isn't a tire for most of New England, but it's the perfect tire for Provence and Tuscany. I haven't tried the Open Corsa Tech or Slick, but would run either without reservation.
2. Torelli Gavia. This is my tire of choice as I've previously mentioned. It features a handmade casing and comes in but one color: Henry Ford black. It is also one of the grippiest tires I've ridden. I know the guys at Torelli and they let me to purchase directly from them, giving me a 320 tpi ride at 127 tpi prices. The Torellis are a good deal harder to find than the Vittorias, though you can purchase them online, so if you don't need them today, you can do well. They tend to run a bit more expensive online than the Vittorias do, but I prefer the ride quality of the Gavia over the CG.
3. Vredestein Fortezza Tri-Comp. Any open tubular is hard to mount the first time you put it on a rim. This is a feature inherited from its tubular fathers, which is why we were all taught to stretch our tubulars on a rim before gluing them on a wheel. The Fortezza Tri-Comp stretches more than your average tire and after the first week of riding or so, I can change flats without the need for a tire lever, which stops quick as a pee and helps keep me in the group's good graces. The Tri-Comp is a great tire, but I do not remotely buy Vredestein's contention that they need to be pumped up to 145 psi to work properly. That's like suggesting your food won't stay frozen unless you pack your freezer to capacity. Right. At that pressure mountain road asphalt feels like black ice. Back at sane pressures (7-8 bar), they offer cat-like cornering with driving glove sensitivity. When a shop doesn't carry Vittoria Open Corsas, this is usually the tire I find in its place.
4. Specialized Mondo Pro II. The Mondo Pro II is the Def Con II of bicycle tires. It offers almost all the protection of the Armadillo's conventional warfare while still engaging the road with supple diplomacy. This is the only bicycle tire that I've ever ridden that I can say has never flatted in more than 1000 miles of riding and I'm still willing to ride on mountain descents with the same gusto I reserve for open tubulars. To be clear: the ride quality of the Mondo Pro II suffers in the ride quality department when compared to the offerings from Vittoria, Vredestein and Torelli. However any other tire with as seemingly impervious a nature as the Mondo Pro II is inevitably bound to offer the sensitivity of a mosh pit, which is why this tire so surprised me.
5. Specialized Mondo S-Works. Sensitive as a chick flick, as available as Chevy and me-too priced, the Mondo S-Works is a terrific alternative to any of the other open tubulars listed above. Just one problem: changing this tire is harder than calculus. If human flesh stretched so little, we'd all look like Heidi Montag. I dread changing flats with this tire the way I dread changing flats with a tubular, and that's a level of fear that I reserve for Brian DePalma movies and phone calls from the IRS (not saying either are scary, just that I never know what I'm in for). It's a terrifc-riding tire, but if you buy a pair, just make sure you carry two tire levers with you.
Again, this list is rather personal. There are hundreds of tires on the market. In the next year or two, I hope to try two or three more that might increase my vocabulary.
FGR #5 Wrap
Another week, another Group Ride. This one seemed closer to real life than usual for me. In other words, I only had a vague idea of the route, and once folks got going I got dropped pretty quickly.
It's a tough topic to address cogently, because it resists the categories I'd like to assign. There are new races that are good. Most agree TDU, underway now, is one of them. And then there are races that are not as good. Tour of Qatar might be one of those. Equally, the early season Euro races whose hold on the imagination has dwindled have this great historical flavor, but when the rubber meets the road, they sorta suck.
We seem split between those who believe the pro peloton should suffer through the European winter/spring, and those who think it's a good idea to warm up in the, um, warm.
Of course this is all pretty fantastical as no one entity, not even the UCI, or particularly not the UCI, controls the races. They are privately owned events, as much at the whim of groups like ASO, as vulnerable to our vain wishes.
Phil Liggett, to whom I'm wont to defer in most of these situations, says the season is on. Versus is showing racing on my TV. Eurosport may be doing the same on yours.
And the peloton rides on.


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A New Paleo Delight.
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Thursday, May 13, 2010
Mmmmm. A new Paleo delight. Crandall found it. A Pan de Higo Almendrado, from Spain. Translated as Fig Almond Cake. My kids said it was in no way a "cake", but that does not diminish it's deliciousness. It is basically mashed up figs pressed with whole almonds. The ingredients are: Pajarero Figs and Marcona Almonds. That is a good ingredient list.
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Depicting the magical relationship between art and nature while painting a visually intoxicating portrait of artist Andy Goldsworthy, RIVERS AND TIDES follows the bohemian free spirit all over the world as he demonstrates and discusses his creative process and artistic philosophies. From his long-winding rock walls and icicle sculptures to his interlocking leaf chains and multicolored pools of flowers, Goldsworthy's painstakingly intricate masterpieces are made entirely of materials found in Mother Nature – an unpredictable "critic" who threatens and often succeeds in destroying his art, sometimes before it is even finished. RIVERS AND TIDES is a mesmerizing cinematic experience that helps us to appreciate design and nature in new and enchanting ways
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If You Build It spends a year in the life of one of America's most innovative classrooms. Starring Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller, founders of Project H Design, which is dedicated to design initiatives for Humanity, Habitats, Health, and Happiness. The film chronicles 13 high school juniors in Bertie County, NC throughout the school year where Emily and Matt will be teaching the fundamentals of design, architecture, and construction. Together with "design-build" fundamentals, the students will be learning the principles of "design thinking" – a very specific way of looking at problems to determine how best to solve them: Research, Ideate, Develop, Prototype, Refine, and Build. Their goal is that the students will leave Studio H equipped to tackle virtually any problem they will face throughout their lives
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'Travelling with Exodus on a small-group family adventure made a breeze of our packed itinerary. There's no way we could have organised an independent holiday in South India with such a rich variety of activities, local interaction and cultural insights.
Hats off to our wonderful guide, Suresh, who not only took care of all the ground logistics, but also enabled us to really get under the skin of the place. It's the little spontaneous extras – like pulling over onto the side of the road to meet and chat to local farmers or hiring cycle rickshaws for an
impromptu ride through a bustling city – that elevate these holidays from run-of-the-mill tours
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They're perfect for first-timers and experienced globetrotters alike. They provide a great opportunity to meet like-minded families (your kids get instant holiday pals) and, what's more, you know it's all going to be tried-and-tested child-friendly. So, take your kids travelling!
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Family Small Groups
Fun holidays that you and your family can enjoy together. These trips are active, adventurous and provide the perfect blend of exploration and sociability. You'll travel to your chosen worldwide destination in the company of a few other families. Most family adventures cater for children aged 5 or 6 years and above, travelling with their parent(s) or legal guardian. On certain trips designated teenage departures are offered. Group sizes are small to preserve the integrity of the more remote places we visit. Go on – travel with your tribe!
Teenage Departures
Our Family Group holidays usually cater for children aged 5 or 6 years and above, but many families that travel with us have teenage children. Experience tells us that children tend to prefer mixing with their own age group, especially teenagers. That's why we've designated certain departures on selected trips as particularly recommended for children aged 11 and over. However as teenagers often have younger siblings, we can sometimes offer a little flexibility on this.
Infant Departures & Trips
Why not take your toddlers on an Exodus Family trip? New for 2011 is our Kid's Club in the Austrian Tyrol. Based in a 4 star hotel with childcare available for babies of 6 months to kids of 12 years, you will have the freedom to take part in all the planned activities whilst qualified child minders look after the children. Older kids can either join you on the walks or take part in the activities at The Kid's Club. You can pick and choose what you and the family would like to do. So peace of mind for the parents and total flexibility for everyone! Also look out for the special Infant departure dates on our Morocco Mountains & Coast trip, perfect for you and your young family to experience the spirit and sights of Morocco.
Private Departure (formerly Independent) Family
If you would prefer to travel on one of our Family holidays with just your own family, extended family, a group of friends or on different dates to those shown - we can arrange this on certain trips. Like our Adult Private Departure Trips these holidays are based on one of our standard Family itineraries and are normally available for a minimum of 4 people.
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If flexibility tops your list of desires, or some of your children are very young, an activity centre is ideal. Try out a range of exciting, fun and educational pursuits from one base where you can decide how many you do and who in the family each is suitable for. The minimum age on these trips is between 2 and 3 years, although some activities are designed for older children and all have different age and experience requirements.
Single Parent Holidays
All of our trips are suitable for any shape or size of family. However we know that if you're a single parent that the thought of an overseas holiday can be especially daunting. Our Family Adventures are the perfect solution. Combine the fabulous mixture of other children and like-minded adults and you can simply relax and enjoy discovering the world together.
Family Cycling
Kids love bikes. It's one of your proudest moments as a parent when they wobble off on two wheels for the first time. As we all know once they've started there's absolutely no stopping them - in our experience kids delight in our Exodus cycling activities. Cycling is an activity on a number of our family holidays and we have one dedicated independent cycling holiday in the Loire Valley.
Family Walking
Discover the world on foot with your family. Exodus offer a range of family adventure walking holidays to suit your tribes stamina and ability. Climb the highest sand dunes in Namibia, enjoy relaxing walks in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains (Morocco), explore the Alps in France, trek in the Himalaya in Nepal. Go on - put the gameboys away and hit the trail with your kids.


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For a while I owned a GMC Acadia and I decided to tow my boat to Tennessee with it. I figured it has a 5200 pound tow rating so load her up and lets go. That falls into the "what the hell was I thinking" category. At one point I remember having the pedal to the floor with the tach on the redline going about 30 mph up a hill with a semi up my arse. I put a bit of wear on it that trip. The Acadia was the worst damn vehicle I've ever owned. We turned that thing into an expedition EL.
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That's a pretty puny tow rating for that vehicle, I'm actually surprised and shocked that it sucked that bad. I know people that tow a wake boat with their Traverse, they don't seem to have an issue but again maybe they just deal with it lol.
Plus isn't that the 3.6L? Uh oh GM, I hear you're putting that engine in the new Colorado...guess everybody will have to buy the 4cyl Duramax!2006 Mobius LSV
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Towed old Response(2700lbs) with our Acadia with no problems or complaints for the last couple of years. Decided to take it to pick up the new LSV this fall and it did fine. Yea the LSV is more to the limits of the Acadia. Plenty of motor but the weight ratio is going the wrong way on that combo.
Now... I only tow the boat 1/2 mile to the top of the hill now so we will continue to use the Acadia some weekends. Yea if decide to take the boat on a road trip I going to take one of the trucks.
Just added a '14 eco boost to the line up, we'll see how it does come spring with the boat. If not still have my '10 with 5.4 and still my favorite to drive.( yes I have a truck problem!!)Last edited by Buckeye LSV; 12-19-2013 at 08:56 PM.
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I probably had a thousand pounds of kids luggage beer etc in the Acadia at the time- I'm sure that didn't help
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I have a 13 Ecoboost and it has done great. I sold my 5.3 chevy and a denali 6.6 Duramax. Ive love this new truck and i tow allot with it. Test drive one and you might like it. I know loaded my boat, fuel, gear, people, coolers(fuel), im towing quiet a bit.
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My wife just got an Acadia and I'm trying really hard to hate it, but it's got more interior room than my Yukon and gets great MPG's on the highway. I was wondering how it would work for towing in a pinch. The biggest hill's we have around here are at the boat ramp so shouldn't be a problem. I hate it when they are right!
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to the op....we tow the boat with an 05 denali (regular not xl) and 07 duramax cc. Both pull the boat no prob. Of course the duramax pulls the boat as caboose behind our 9K lb 5'er so no yukon pales in comparison. But the yukon pulls the boat extremely well. If not camping, we load up all the gear and 3 kiddos and head out. It does have the 6.0L so that helps but not needed. I'm a bit spoiled though now so doubt when replacing it that I won't opt for the bigger powerplant. Many SUV's out there will do the job. But with kids and all the stuff that goes with them, the bigger the better both on room, HP, and tow load!
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Used our Acadia to pick up our LSV and put in and out a few times and it was fine. Wouldn't use it for a road trip with boat and gear, would opt for a heavier vehicle. We will be using both Acadia and F-150 this summer for tow duty. But for us now its 2miles to the gas station and 1/2 mile to ramp.
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Yeah I agree Acadia is fine for a few miles here and there just not the best choice to load up with gear and head down I75 through TN. We had a bad experience from the beginning because of service issues so I got sour on it pretty quickly. We tend to haul too much crap every where we go so once we had a third child we outgrew it. If they still made the excursion I would probably get one.
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I'm a Chevy man so my vote is a 2000 model year or newer Tahoe/suburban/1500 rado, the newer the better depending on budget. I have a 06 5.3 Tahoe that gets the job done whether towing the boat or car trailer. In 2010 I bought a new 1500 silverado 6.2 liter and it towes like a beast!
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In the early morning of October 9, three of the ten young Whooping Cranes in the 'Class of 2011' began their ultralight-led migration from their summer training site at the White River Marsh State Wildlife Area in Green Lake County, WI. This is the eleventh generation of cranes to take part in a landmark project conducted by the Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership (WCEP), an international coalition of public and private groups working to reintroduce the endangered species in eastern North America, part of its historic range.
The remaining seven colts were reluctant fliers and ended up having to be returned to their White River Marsh pensite. The Operation Migration team will again attempt to get the seven hesitant fliers to follow their ultralights Monday morning - weather permitting.
Guided by Operation Migration's (OM) three ultralight aircraft, the juvenile cranes will journey 1,285 air miles, traveling through Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Florida before reaching their wintering grounds at the St. Marks and Chassahowitzka National Wildlife Refuges on Florida's Gulf coast.
"Although this will be our eleventh ultralight-led migration with Whooping Cranes, each year inevitably presents new challenges," said Joe Duff, senior pilot and CEO of Operation Migration. "It took the combined efforts of many people to bring this conservation project to this stage. We have done everything we can to prepare the young cranes, now what we need are favorable winds and a little luck."
The Whooping Cranes that take part in the ultralight-led reintroduction are hatched at the U.S. Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MD from their captive flock and eggs shipped there by five captive propagation centers across the continent. The chicks are raised under a strict isolation protocol. To ensure the birds remain wild, handlers adhere to a no-talking rule and wear costumes designed to mask the human form.
In 2001, Operation Migration's pilots led the first Whooping Crane chicks conditioned to follow their ultralight aircraft, south from Wisconsin to Florida. Each subsequent year, WCEP biologists and OM pilots have conditioned and guided additional groups of juvenile cranes to Florida.
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This year the local council in Cronulla (Sutherland Shire) have been in contact with local and international surf experts regarding what to do with dredged sand from the local waterway's channels (Port Hacking).
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Seven Sows in Asheville KILLED IT!!! Fantastic
This is the first time in over a year a new place shocked me it was so awesome. Chicken Cracklin, Brussel Sprouts with a poached duck egg. Pig trotter seared with turnips on the side. The service was perfect and the bourbon selection was extensive. This will be a place to watch. It southern food done with a gourmet style. The shrimp were cooked and served head on, the way they should be. This place will pull me back often. I just think it was one of my best meals ever.
Just a reminder that they are open for brunch on Sundays (it was nearly empty). $1 oysters, some good beignets, but I found the breakfast poutine to be entirely disappointing. The flavor was nice, but not nearly enough toppings for a $12 plate...the country ham gravy was virtually non-existent.
Do go for the oysters, and my friends really seemed to enjoy their burgers/pancakes.
Chef Moore and crew were on point last night: short rib with root beer demi, pomme frites, and truffle oil, seared brussel sprouts with benton's bacon and coddled egg, boudin croquettes with barbecued beet salad, crispy chicken livers with firecracker sauce and pickled soybean, pig head torchon with corn salad, Eastern Carolina BBQ board with Cheshire pork and housemade pickles, butterscotch pudding with peanut butter fudge, raspberry cobbler with cardomom ice cream...yes, your reporter dutifully sampled each and every one of the above plus half a dozen oysters, two cocktails, and a beer. Now go get some, kids, whilst dad collapses in a groaning, farting heap in the backseat...
I'll add my 2 cents. We just got back from dinner and I am so happy we went. One of us had the $55 tasting menu without the wine pairing because he wanted to drink bourbon. I may miss something here, so apologies if I do. There was salted beets, heirloom tomato, Alabama pork tongue, Rapahanock oysters, pork hock crepinette, SC grouper, and jasmine creme brulee. The two outstanding dishes on that menu were the pork tongue and the crepinette. The tomato was a bit oversalted.
The other 2 of us (my 11 yo and I) shared the brussels sprouts, scotch egg, and the rabbit. The brussels sprouts were excellent, as JB BANNISTER states. The scotch egg was sadly weak. Great idea, nothing execution. There just wasn't that much flavor to it. The rabbit was killer and the staff even smilingly put up with our "Duck season, wabbit season" jokes. The dish may be a bit heavy for summer but it tasted so good, who cares? And the kid fell so in love with the pork crepinette that she ordered another serving for herself.
We went on the early side and were still there 2 hours. The pacing was a little odd with only one of us getting the tasting menu but we more or less expected that and didn't mind too much. If we lived closer this might be a more regular stop but I have to admit I was a little surprised at the tab. For me at least, Seven Sows would move into the special occasion category. Great, great addition to the Asheville scene, though.
Went to Seven Sows last night after ACT Costume Drama. Weather was not raining - big surprise - so we sipped and ate outside. Got a big laugh this morning when I saw your three pictures. Exactly what we shared last night.
You're right - Seven Sows Kills It! We go pretty often and the menu is always changing into something new and even more delicious.
One more picture that I loved. I would buy a tshirt with this on it.
re: Jeff C.
We ate there last Friday and it was one of our best meals in recent memory. We ordered all small plates to get a better idea of the menu. We had 2 drinks each (2 beer, 2 wines) and several small plates (7?) plus 1 dessert and it was $110 before tip. To me, that's a steal!
Charred octopus, chix cracklins, chacuterie board, salted beats, smoked pork belly with the amazing pimento cheese grits, pork heart tartate, local okra, are what I remember. This place is cooking at a very high level.


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I love brussel sprouts. They are also cute.
1I love baby carrots! Don't know is it me or what, somehow I feel that baby carrots taste sweeter & fresher than the usual ones :)
2Tiger's small pea leafs hehe, plus she luvs pimping them, I believe *grins* oo oo, birds eye chilis, I think they're mini and they're a temptress to any stir frys *wink* :)
3Hi, yeah, a nice baby ;-) We do not have this kind of vegetable here…what a pity ;-) Basically, we do not have min vegetable, or the one we have are really expensive (twice smaller, twice expensiver ;-) What's wrong ;-)
Claude4Midget capsicums! So that they can be stuffed, baked and served as bite-sized appetizers! :)
5I love just about anything tiny and cute.
6i love small mushrooms. enoki, and golden needle etc. bui i love large ones too.
7When I was a little girl, I LOVED cherry tomatoes! I still like them a lot, but I like grape tomatoes better as an adult because they are so much sweeter and have an intense and more concentrated flavor.
8Anonymous – yes, brussel sprouts are super cute and great. I love them too.
Linnish – I agree!
MW – Bird's Eye Chili is a fiesty, correct.
Shilpa – oh yeah, they are cute and will work for my Yong Tow Foo recipe. :)
Danielle – me too. I just bought myself a mini muffin pan for my Portuguese Egg Tarts recipe because I love them small. Somehow they taste even better when they are small. ;)
FBB – you are correct. I love enoki and buna shimeji. So adorable. :)
PE – Grape Tomatoes or Cherry tomatoes are all good because they are mini-me. ;)
9I love baby spinach! I also like those mini corn that come in a can (but are they really corn?!?). :)
10Baby Bak Choy, Mini Peppers, Cherry Tomatoes. Hey I was also thinking about buying a mini muffin pan this morning! Will get it when I decide to make your Portuguese Egg Tarts. I'll make the vanilla filling from your other tart recipe first :)
11I like so many of them…don't force me to make a choice, can ?
You know those baby bok choy, the real small cute ones are inside the "heart" of the parent baby boy choy…;012i was at the market today! guess what i bought…? hehe baby bok choy. :D hurray post a recipe so i can make it next week. :D
13Mushroommeadow – yes, mini corns in a can! Yes, they are corns indeed…you can get them fresh too!
Simcooks – yes, if and when you are ready, make the egg tarts with mini muffin pan, they are on-so-cute!!!
Tiga – I didn't know that…looks like vegetables also can make babies…interesting!!! LOL!!!
Budding Cook – I have already cooked my baby bok choy but I forgot to take pictures…never mind, I will teach you in person. ;)
14Cherry and grape tomatoes. They're like candy! I'm also a big fan of Taiwanese baby cabbage.
15Hi, I have tested yesterday your recipe for Chicken Satay…it was just delicious !!! I have put one kaffir lime leave because I really love this taste and I have eaten the Satay with friends, they were all happy and found that it was really good. I will publish the pictures and recipe in a few days. So once again, thank you for that proposition ;-)
Claude16All vegetables! Love them all, and this one too! Sometimes I want them green, and sometimes orange or yellow ;-)
17I just saw baby bok chow at my supermarket the other day and I did not buy it because I did not know how to cook it! Shame on me! I love "carottes nantaises" which are a variety of carrots but much more sweet and tender.
18CP – hmmm, will have to check out Taiwanese baby cabbage.
Claude – oooh, I am glad they turned out OK and that you and your friends liked the Chicken Satay. I can't wait to see your post on your site!!! :)
Bea – Thanks for visiting my humble blog and thanks for your comment. Exactly, all mini vegetables are so adorable and cute. If everything is mini, I am sure we have no problem eating the greens. ;)
Miss Diane – it's very easy to cook baby bok choy…I will post a recipe for you soon!
19The minis are great but I wonder how's their nutritional value compared to the original ones…
20i love all kinds of veg, mini or giantic. :-) except maybe brussel sprouts. ee…
21Hi. I'm very impressed with your recipes and your presentation of your food. Thanks for sharing. I have some recipes as well if you are interested in it. And I have a couple of short cuts to make chicken sate, kuah kacang and nasi. – A Hokkien in INDY.
22i love cherry tomatoes! and mini kailan from china!
23Great Article! Thank You!
24Thanks to author! I like articles like this, very interesting.
25nice blog!
26I love the mini-me bok choy, but I also love the mini zucchini, baby corn and baby egg plant. Gotta have egg plant in some of my wok dishes;)


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Professor Shred with Guthrie Govan: Tapping in 16th-Note Triplets
Govan covers tapping in 16th-note triplets and gives some insight on how to play "Bad Asteroid."
These videos are bonus content related to the January 2012 issue of Guitar World. For full print reviews, lesson tabs and more, look for theJanuary 2012 issue of Guitar World on newsstands now, or purchase this issue in our online store here.
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In this month's edition of "Professor Shred," Guthrie Govan covers tapping in 16th-note triplets and gives a little insight on how to play his song, "Bad Asteroid."
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