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2011 RM Auctions in Monterey - LIVE BLOG
We'll be live-blogging it all after the jump, and just as an explainer: all prices listed include a 10 percent commission for the auction house, so if something – say, the 300SL above – hammers at $760,000, the final price would be $836,000. We'll just be listing the gavel price. And with that, let's get to it.
10:31PM And... we're out!
10:31PM Sold at $860k
1935 Bugatti Type 57 "Grand Raid" Roadster (220)
Bidding started at $200k
Hammer price $900,000
1974 Ferrari 365 GTB/4 Daytona Spider (221)
Started at $400k
Hit $1m in less than 2 minutes
$1,020,000 and slowing...
And it doesn't sell. Didn't meet reserve.
1961 Austin-Healey 3000 MK II BN7
8:03PM Started at $20,000
8:05PM $105,000 - new bidder
8:05PM The auctioneer is begging for more bids. He's also British, so...
8:06PM Hammer price $112,500
8:07PM Skipping the Packard (224) and Chrysler Imperial (225)
8:15PM 1963 Ferrari 250 GT Lusso Berlinetta (226)
8:15PM Bids starting at $400k
8:15PM And right up to $650k
8:16PM $675 to $700k in quick succession8:17PM Gavel price of $825,000
8:23PM 1929 Bentley 4 1/2-liter Open Tourer (227) gavel at $610,000
8:23PM 1966 Aston Martin SB6 Vantage Coupe - LHD (228)
8:23PM Right up to $150,00
8:25PM Estimate is ranging for between $275 and 335k
8:26PM "Let's just say 5 because it's between friends."
8:26PM $270,000 then...
8:27PM Hammer falls at $270k
8:27PM And... video time. Ferrari retrospective.
8:27PM Here it comes...
8:27PM One of only 55 built
8:27PM 4.0-liter engine
8:28PM The 1955 Ferrari 750 Monza Spider
8:28PM Estimated sale price: $2.5-3.25m
8:28PM Bidding starts at $1,000,000
8:29PM $2.1m took a lotta time. And a lotta prying.
8:30PM And then right to $2.3m
8:32PM Finished. Done. Gone for $2.3m.
8:32PM Not a great take. But not bad.
8:32PM Two minutes feels like an eternity at an auction.
8:38PM 1938 Lagonda LG6 Rapide Drophead Coupe (230) goes for $495,000. Estimate: $650-900k
8:39PM The RM restoration probably cost more...
8:39PM 1965 Mercer-Cobra Roadster (231) - Estimate: $800k-$1.2m
8:41PM Lots of copper. Full runner. Looks like a water-bound phallus.
8:41PM Started at $300k and about to go for $550,000
8:42PM Going for $600k. Once. Twice...
8:42PM Sold! For $600,000 at the gavel
8:43PM 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster (232). Coachwork by Singlefinger. Different from other roadsters. No running boards. Very French.
8:43PM $1m then $2m out of the gate
8:43PM and then right up to $2.5m
8:45PM $3.5 to $3.6 then $3.8 all within 5 seconds.
8:46PM Whoa. $4.2m. Crowd erupts.
8:46PM Sold for $4.2 from a new bidder. Nuts.
8:59PM Stepped out for a cocktail. 1932 Packard 904 Individual Custom Dietrich Dual Cowl Sport Phaeton (233) sells for $860k. 1938 Jaguar SS100 3.5-liter Roadster (235) gavels for $625,000.
8:59PM Here we go.
8:59PM 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Coupe. Seven total. 1936 Paris Motor Show car.
9:01PM Starts at $1m. Shoots right up to $2.5m within a minute.
9:01PM $2.75m and going. Bids coming from the phone.
9:02PM $3m. Then... no. $2.8m.
9:03PM Sold for $2.8m and going overseas.
9:05PM 1932 Ferrari 340 Mexico Berlinetta (237). A racer's racer for the Carrera Paniamerica. 4.1-liter V12. Shelby driven. McAfee driven.
9:05PM This is the car on the cover of the RM auction book. Bidding starts at $1.5m.
9:05PM No estimates published. Only available on request.
9:05PM And right up to $2m
9:07PM Starting to slow at $3.1 then $3.2.
9:07PM Only three in the world.
9:08PM $3.3m. The bidding is sticking in the room. Which is awesome.
9:08PM Matching numbers drivetrain, with the engine number stamped onto the back of the gearknob. Yes, a matching numbers shift knob.
9:09PM "Gordon, would you like to come back in? Why not?"
9:09PM $3,350,000 from the phone.
9:10PM Gordon! I'm selling it to the phone!
9:11PM Sold for $3,350,000 to someone in the room.
9:13PM 1958 BMW 507 Roadster (238). Owned by Ursula Andress. Estimated between $800k and $1.m
9:15PM Started at $500k and up to $775,000 to an overseas bidder.
9:15PM $800k to Stephanie. Who's possibly drunk.
9:16PM $825k to another bidder that already has one. Matching pair anyone?
9:17PM $900k. "Make it a Million sir. Throw her off."
9:17PM $925k
9:18PM $975k. So close to a million. MC is begging Stephanie for 7 figures.
9:18PM "What do you mean wait. It's an auction Stephanie."
9:18PM Stephanie on the phone... and... Gone for $975,000 at the gavel.
9:28PM Video time again. This time for...
9:28PM The 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Spezial Roadster (242)
9:29PM Utterly. Stunning.
9:29PM 5.4-liter supercharged engine.
9:29PM This should go for $5m+
9:31PM Opening bid at $4m. And then right up to $5, then $6, then $6.5m. Then $7m. Holy. Hell.
9:32PM $8,000,000 in the room
9:33PM Germany is out at $8.2m
9:34PM $8.4 to $8.5 in 30 secs.
9:35PM $8.6 came quickly. There's wavering. There's hand-wringing. It's going... going...
9:35PM going...
9:36PM $8.8 after much prying.
9:37PM This is getting really, really good.
9:37PM "It's not every day you bid $8,900,000 on a car."
9:37PM This will be first time it's left the original owner.
9:38PM The room is completely silent. Waiting for $8.9...
9:41PM This '73 Ferrari 265 GTB/4 Daytona Coupe (243) looks... surprisingly pleb.
9:42PM 1960 Ferrari 250 GT SWB Berlineeta Competizione (244) from the Skip Barber collection. Fully restored in Maranello.
9:42PM Starting at $1.5m
9:42PM And right up to $2m. Estimates are between $3.8-4.5
9:42PM $2.5m from the phones.
9:43PM "I'm sorry. Was I ignoring you. That's bad customer service." And then the guy bids $3m.
9:45PM $4.4 and back in the room. $4.45 from the phones.
9:45PM And then $4,500,000 from the room.
9:46PM $4.55 on the phones and then back to the room with $4.60. Then back to the phone at $4.65.
9:46PM $4.7 back in the room.
9:48PM Two very desperate people bidding on this. Stephanie on the phones gets it to $4.75. The bidder in the room comes back with $4.8m. Going once... twice... and... gone!
9:57PM Starting bid at $1.5m. Goes from $2 to $3m in less than a minute.
9:58PM $3.3m and begging for $3.4
9:59PM $3.35 after much cajoling.
10:00PM $3.375 and slowing... rapidly?
10:00PM $3.4. Then $3.425. "Is that a joke? Let's blow him out of the water."
10:03PM 1953 Ferrari 375 America Coupe (248)
10:04PM Bidding started at... $500k? Bidding went up to $1m quickly and then shot to $1.7m
10:05PM 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540 K Sport Cabriolet A (249)
10:05PM I'm not a massive fan of the pre-war stuff, but this is rolling magic.
10:07PM Right up to $2m. Now $2.5 from the phone. "Dana" is hemming and hawing.
10:07PM $2,500,000 going once.
10:07PM Twice.
10:07PM $2.6! From the room.
10:08PM $2.7m from the phone.
10:08PM Sold for $2.7.
10:14PM This Mercedes auction is the most entertaining of the evening. Just because of the MC.
10:15PM Like pulling $975,000 worth of teeth.
10:15PM 1962 Ferrari 400 Superamerica Coupe (252). Short-wheelbase. Covered headlamps.
10:16PM Opening at $500k
10:17PM "Do I have $1.2m sirs?" Back of the room "FIVE!"
10:17PM $1.5 to $1.6 to $1.7 in 5 seconds.
10:18PM $1.85 to $1.9
10:18PM And sold for $1.9m. Exactly the high end of the pre-auction estimate.
10:26PM 1953 Siata 208/S Spyder (255). Previous Steve McQueen car and our last auction of the night (do you really care about a replica Benz Motorwagen and an SLR?). We don't and we're in need of strong drink.
10:26PM Referred to it as his "little Ferrari."
10:27PM McQueen spotted the man he sold it to in LA and gave him a drive.
10:27PM Starting at $400k


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The Big Sky Conference unveiled its new logo and branding campaign Monday as part of the league's Summer Kickoff in Park City, Utah.
For the past year, the Division I Big Sky Conference has been working with SME, Inc., on a rebrand, a process that will continue through 2013-14 when the league celebrates its 50th anniversary, and the 25th anniversary of sponsoring women's sports. The Big Sky now includes 11 full members in nine states, plus two football affiliate members.
SME, Inc., is a renowned strategic brand development firm which was responsible for the rebranding of the Pac-12, among other prominent collegiate and professional sports properties.
The new logo is a dynamic and exciting new expression of the Big Sky Conference brand, which upholds and forwards all the promise that the name suggests in both opportunity and optimism. It features the color of the sky (two blues and white), the sky element itself as well as a visual progression within the logo from the ocean up to the mountains, then down to the plains. The mark presents all of elements within a fresh new retaining shape that demands attention and stands apart.
"A dream finally came true with the rebranding of the Big Sky Conference," said league Commissioner Doug Fullerton. "We have a fresh and exciting new logo, new colors and a new league mentality. All of which speaks to the fact that we represent the dreams and aspirations of our alumni, student-athletes, institutions, and communities."
"The overarching goal of the process was to create a dramatic and fresh new identity that ensures the Big Sky Conference's future success," said SME Chief Creative Officer Ed O'Hara.
At the core of the new brand lay the unique and shared values of Authenticity, Integrity, Fearlessness, Honesty and Loyalty.
"These values will be used to measure everything we do - from partners we consider aligning with, to how we judge student-athlete behavior, to whether or not we consider entrance of new schools that wish to join our conference,'' Fullerton said.
Because of the recent additions of Southern Utah University and the University of North Dakota as full members, and Cal Poly and UC Davis joining as football members, it proved to be the perfect time for the league to update its identity.
This marks the first time the 49-year-old league has undergone a rebranding campaign. The league had used the prior logo since the mid-1990s. Big Sky institutions will also feel ownership in the logo, as it has been designed in all 13 school's official colors. The new logo will appear on uniforms, fields and playing courts in each university's colors.
"We wanted to be sure that our Big Sky Conference brand was a compelling representation of who we have been, who we are now, and most importantly, who we aspire to be in the future," said Big Sky Conference Commissioner Doug Fullerton. "Additionally, we wanted to add value to our conference brand as we enter future negotiations and continue current relationships with partners and sponsors."
The unveiling and rebrand comes after a very deliberate and thoughtful process. SME, Inc. spoke extensively with all of the major key stakeholders ranging from fans, alumni, media, coaches, administrators and university presidents.
"We uncovered certain truths about our conference that are unique and different," Fullerton said. "This led to our new identity and that will be built upon in the coming years. We think the overall new look and feel of our conference properly expresses our essence and the essence of our fans, student athletes, member schools and our partners."
The Big Sky Conference is one of the premier Division I Football Championship Subdivision conferences, having won six national championships. The league plays at the Division I level in all of its sports. The league has positioned itself as one of just three football-playing conferences in the western United States, along with the Pac-12 and Mountain West.
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Jamie Rapavy, Owner and Wedding Planner/Coordinator of Devoted to Details is simply amazing! We hired Jamie and her staff to help us plan our daughter's September 10th wedding for two primary reasons. First, weddings have gotten to be such "Big Business" with so many venders and venues that we truly felt overwelhmed and in need of some professional advice and guideance in the process. Secondly, on the wedding day, we all just wanted to truly enjoy the day and not worry literally about all the "details". Jamie, not only addressed these concerns but gave us so much more!!
Jamie was always available to us and provided an enormous amount of information and support. She never made us feel rushed during any of our appointments and instead made us feel like we were the only wedding she was managing. She provided assistance with the major things like selection of venders to the smallest items like floor charts. She brought in other experts at appropriate times and was so good natured about everything we through in her path. For example, she even ran rehearsal when we learned the clergy would not be present. I can't imagine going through this process without Jamie. Our daughter and her new husband made it a very heartfelt, touching and memorable moment because of their love for one another but the event itself was more beautiful, romantic and enchanting than we could have imagined because of Jamie's assistance.
We give Jamie and Devoted to Details our highest praise and without a single reservation recommend them to you for your wedding or any other event.
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Becky allowed to be "Mother-of-the-Bride"!"
Wedding: 7/8/2012
I used Lauren Lawson from Above and Beyond which is the day of coordination part of the Devoted to Details company. Lauren and her team did a fabulous job of making my wedding day everything I wanted it to be! Lauren was incredibly detailed and organized. She kept me on task throughout the planning process and honestly, without her I might not have gotten it all done! On that day, she was right there every step of the way and I felt like I had nothing at all to do but enjoy my day. They took such good care of me and my groom. I cannot say enough good things about Lauren, Rita and the entire staff!
Wedding: 9/3/2011
For my September 2011 wedding we hired Devoted to Details as our weekend wedding planner (aka Above and Beyond weddings) The team of Lauren and Rita could not have done a better job! They did ten times more than we thought they would, ther are extemley organized, returned every email within hours, dealt with any issue that came up during the wedding day with complete ease, helped us with any questions we had during our planning, arranged all of our decor at the recpetion hall, made helpful suggestions, calmed my nerves and just worked their magic. I could NOT have done this with out them and I would recommend that you give these ladies a call!
Wedding: 9/24/2011
What a pleasure it was working with the Devoted To Details staff last summer. I can't tell you how many people in our wedding party commented on how organized and detailed the Devoted To Details staff was! They are so organized and friendly. They keep you in the loop of every possible detail you can imagine. They create a timeline for your entire wedding weekend and not a detail is left out. They really were such a gigantic help in our wedding planning process and truly we would not have had such a successful event had we not hired them. I am forever grateful to them. Organized, kind, and fun. Just really spectacular people to work with. I would recommend them to everyone! Also, when I told the band manager that we were working with Devoted to Details, she was so excited and relieved because she said that she has had so many wonderful experiences working with them. Thanks again Devoted to Details!!
Wedding: 3/5/2011
Jamie, Lauren and their team were absolutely wonderful! I couldn't thank them enough for everything they have done for us. From the smallest to the largest request, they made it happen. I never felt more taken care of in what can sometimes be a very stressfull day. It was amazing and I accredit them for that. My husband and I and our entire family could not have been more pleased with the amount of help and attention we had on our wedding day. If you are in need of someone fabulous to pull together the most important day of your life Jamie Rapavy is your lady. Thank you!!!
Wedding: 5/15/2010
I can't say enough wonderful things about Jamie and her crew! I originally didn't think that I would need a coordinator but I am so thankful that we hired Devoted to Details. I was able to step back two weeks before the wedding and just enjoy everything that was happening. Tionna and Rita contacted all of my vendors and made sure everyone was on the same page, helped my bridal party know where to be and when, made sure that everything was where it needed to be before the wedding and that everyone had been paid, took care of our gifts, flutes, license... everything on my day of to-do list was taken care of by them! It was so nice to not have to delegate things to family members and my mom and I were able to enjoy a cup of coffee the morning of the wedding. I couldn't believe how stress-free the day was! They set themselves apart from our other vendors because it was obvious that they cared about us and wanted to get to know us before we even talked about wedding details. We definitely felt comfortable handing over responsibilities to them! You will not regret inviting DTD to help with your wedding, my husband and I both agree they were more than worth it!
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When you throw something away, where is away? We all generate waste, and disposing of our waste properly is crucial for keeping us healthy and keeping our environment clean. But is the trashcan the right place for all of our waste? We will discuss landfills and how they work, as well as recycling, composting, hazardous household waste, and other ways to rid ourselves of unwanted things.Library: Tecumseh Driving Directions
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Wine and chocolate, anyone? In today's tour, The Chocolate Tourist producer Leanne Westphal invites you to brave the rain and taste Kollar's red wine truffles, milk chocolate ganache, and dark chocolate with Grand Marnier.
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Bue′na Vis′taˈbweɪ nə ˈvɪs tə, ˈvis-(n.)
a village in NE Mexico, near Saltillo: site of U.S. victory in battle (1847) during the Mexican War.
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Buena Vista(noun)
a pitched battle in the Mexican War in 1847; United States forces under Zachary Taylor defeated the Mexican forces under Santa Anna at a locality in northern Mexico
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Buena Vista is an unincorporated community located in the town of Delafield, Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States.
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The word Vinyasa means ?breath-synchronized? movement. In other words, the teacher will instruct you to move from one pose to the next on an inhale or and exhale. This technique is sometimes also called flow because of the smooth way that the poses run together and become like a dance. This class is suitable for all levels.
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McCormick & Schmick's Final Surf and Turf Sale
NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- McCormick & Schmick's Seafood Restaurants (MSSR) said on Tuesday its board agreed to a sale of the company to Landry's Restaurants (LNY) for $8.75 a share in cash, for a total equity value of $131.6 million.
The deal to buy McCormick's represents a premium of about 29% to McCormick & Schmick's closing stock price on Monday. McCormick shares rose nearly 28% to $8.65 in premarket trading, but are still below their high of $10.47 a share reached in February.
Overall, the stock has fallen more than 40% since its 2004 initial public offering. The company has suffered consecutive quarterly losses this year after posting a $23.19 million annual loss in 2010.
The company's biggest shareholders are Landry's founder Tilman J. Fertitta; Wellington Management; Michael Murphy; Dimensional Fund Advisors; Royce and Associates; and hedge funds Carlson Capital and AQR, all with larger than 3% holdings in McCormick shares. Co-founder Douglas Schmick owns more than 50,000 shares.Landry's said it will finance the transaction by using both its cash and issuing debt, which it already has arranged financing for. Currently, Landry's has nearly $60 million in cash and short-term investments and more than $1 billion in total debt. The Katy, Texas-based seafood company expects its purchase to close in late December or early January 2012, according to a press release announcing the deal. "After a broad and comprehensive evaluation of strategic alternatives, the McCormick & Schmick's Board of Directors concluded that the sale of the Company to Landry's will provide substantial and immediate cash value for our stockholders," said Douglas Schmick, chairman. In April, Fertitta made a bid to buy McCormicks for $9.25 a share, but he withdrew the offer in July. At that point, Discovery Group, led by Murphy, announced a 6.3% stake in the seafood chain, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, potentially signaling that a deal was still expected. Founded in the early 1970s by Bill McCormick and Doug Schmick, the seafood company, according to its Web site, has more than 80 restaurants that feature a menu printed twice daily with a signature "Fresh List" of 20 different varieties of fresh seafood, in addition to aged steaks, poultry, entrée salads and pasta. Piper Jaffray is serving as financial adviser to McCormick & Schmick's. -- Written by Antoine Gara in New York
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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu [Light Novel] [PDF]
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kenji_onlineMay 31st 2012 (2 years and 6 months and 19 days)
is there anyone who has the anime of seasons 1 & 2??
DeviationMay 31st 2012 (2 years and 6 months and 18 days)
» kenji_onlineis there anyone who has the anime of seasons 1 & 2??
FFFpeeps done the eng sub for season 2. You won't find it on Bakabt as it's licensed by Funimation.
NLightnFebruary 17th 2013 (1 year and 9 months and 30 days)
anyone gonna update this, the last volume comes out in march and 10/11 are translated, with the last probably finished within a short time span. Would like to see this completed at that time.
Leming111March 4th 2013 (1 year and 9 months and 15 days)
yay more Hideyoshi, the third Gender in Human history
KilljoyMarch 20th 2014 (8 months and 29 days)
Just started reading this and saw that baka-tsuki has all the way up to volume 11 translated already, and a bit of 12.
Will this be updated once 12's done?
Will this be updated once 12's done?
lololitasMarch 24th 2014 (8 months and 25 days)
yes. that's what I'm waiting for
ssjokgAugust 31st 2014 (3 months and 18 days)
Will this torrent be updated with the 12th Volume since it has been completed?
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Yes it will. Give me some time do get things in order here, I still have a few things that need doing before starting my upload sprees
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LoveNothingDecember 11th 2014 (8 days)
i think i should note that Volumes 7 - 10 has illustrations that are not translated, Translators already fix/uploaded the translated illustrations
lololitasDecember 11th 2014 (7 days)
Will have to wait until early january. I'm to busy right now.
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A Wise Man's Footsteps
Critical Christmas Carols: You Saw Three Ships?!
You saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day, on Christmas Day; You saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning?! That would have been a miracle, Or far advanced technology Such as appears on Doctor Who On Christmas Day in the morning. For Bethlehem's a landlocked town, On Christmas [Read More...]
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A lot of the people bake their cakes and once they cool they wrap them in saran wrap two times then some put them in freezer bags or aluminum foil wrapping them again. Everybody does it differently. The cakes stay moist this way and you can pull them out of the freezer to thaw. Most torte the cakes and level them before freezing them. I am sure there are others here who will give you more information. I only do this for a hobby but some of the experts on this forum will be able to help you more than I can.
Your question is actually complicated because it completely depends on what your recipes are and what prep work you want to do. I can tell you that I do as much prep in advance as possible but with the type of pastry and cake I make, there isn't much I can do. I mean, if I'm making a ton of pie I can make the dough weeks in advance and freeze it, then make filling a few days ahead and put it in the walk in. But if I am baking wedding cake the most prep I can do is pull the butter to soften.
I'm not sure where you are located, but the first thing you need to do is take a food safety class. I'm not sure if it's required for the license to operate in your area, but it's a good thing to take and know for anyone that wants to sell food to the public. For example, you'd never ask if you can pool your wet ingredients together and for how long they are good for because you would have taken that class and learned about time/temperature control, managing pH levels, etc.. and you'd know that you should never do that with raw eggs. And you'd also know that it doesn't matter what I say - your Health Department will have an answer for you that is the only answer that matters since they are the ones to bust you!
Anyway best of luck for your business!
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One thing I do is do the last things first so that at some point I meet up with my work and I can really get a big wind in my sail. Let me explain that
I make the box first. I make any flowers or decor that can be done in advance. I make boards. I make icings and filling before I bake. I can prepare pans for baking days in advance--just keep them protected from dust & stuff. I make sure my car is ready for delivery. I make sure my box will fit. I make sure there's a roll of paper towels in my car because they work great to level the seat. I put the sheet pan in there to place over the paper towels to sit the cake box on. I make sure I have the ribbly shelf liner in the car so I can keep my boxes from sliding. I will put the plateau in the car days in advance sometimes so I don't have to think about it. I keep scissors in the car just in case I forget.
So then I bake and start assembling tiers and whatever, icing and doweling, put borders whatever last minute decor--then lo and behold I've met up with
my work and I can sit back and apply all the butterflies and flowers and just stick it in my box slap it in the frige and breathe easy. Because after all the structural assembly and cleaning up the mess I'm tired. I'd hate to have to be responsible for getting all creative at that stage. So I try to let my creative juices flow early on while I'm fresh and do all the mechanical things as early as possible.
And if you chill your cakes before delivery, get the frige re-arranged for that as early as possible 'cause that is the biggest bummer of a task at 11:30 12 midnight or later when you gotta arm wrestle that baby into the chill box anyhow but you gotta clear out room for it oh deliver me!!!! ;)
I like to do the ingredient mise en place within 24 hours of baking or making icings/fillings. I don't like to do that too far in advance. But yeah every little bit of advance work done is time gained for you at the end when you're tired facing that deadline and the extra minutes are a cool breeze on a hot brow.
Anyhow--some thoughts for you.
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Even though you are just planning a business now, you NEED to learn and follow the food safety rules ASAP. The certificate is usually good for 3 years.
It is EXTREMEL:Y important to not learn any bad habits for the sake of convenience of a "hobby". Do each job the right way the first time, in the end you will work better when you do start that business. That means WEIGH dry ingredients, and write the date and recipe on every prepackaged set of ingredients. Because someday you will have to provide that info on labels.
Yes you can premeasure the wet stuff the night before you are going to set up and bake. Remember that most recipes tell you to have the eggs as well as the butter at room temperature... so remember to let the premeasured stuff warm up in the morning. You have clearly never frozen whole eggs mixed with milk, or you wouldn't even ask that question. It's OK to freeze whites, but yolks turn into this disgusting lumpy mess when they thaw.
Best place for you to start right now: go to your public library and see if they have a copy of something called "Professional Baking". Authors can be Wayne Gisslen, Joseph Amendola, Toba Garret, to name just a few...read the book and look at the careful explanations of how they bake and set up their fancy cakes.
ASAP if you go on with your plan, you should buy a used copy of Professional Baking by Wayne Gisslen, any edition, from www.abebooks.com and NEVER let it out of your hands. It will have large scale recipes as well as the lessons. And good luck.
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I didn't think you were able to edit your post so long after creating it, maybe the rules are different for the first post in a thread.
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Born and raised in Bangkok, Pim took a circuitous route through the world of food–from writing, teaching, to jam making [ahem, award-winning jam making]–before finding her way back home to the food she grew up with. Longing for Thai food of richer quality and variety in the U.S., Pim is now on a mission to liberate her beloved Thai cuisine from the tyranny of peanut sauce. Her Thai cooking has earned effusive praise from world-class chefs like Alain Passard and Rene Redzepi. Kin Khao is her first (and hopefully not last) restaurant project.


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If American politics were a TV show, it would by now have jumped the shark. Then again, American politics is a sort of TV show, considering its surreal plot lines, its cast of kooky narcissists, and an epistemology that blithely combines absolutist religious convictions with post-modern relativism: belief that the Bible is literally true comfortably co-exists with disbelief in simple, verifiable matters of fact, like the President's place of birth or the absence of an HCR death panel mandate. It's not surprising that, under the influence of the Tea Party, freedom is just another word for no abortion rights (and no contraception or cancer screenings for poor women).
Not long ago, the Tea (taxed enough already) Party was often presumed to stand for what its name implies -- low taxes and limited government services (or at least limits on programs and services not enjoyed by its members.) But a new Pew Forum survey offers some quantitative evidence that Tea Party members tend to be religiously inspired, social conservatives; the movement "draws disproportionate support from the ranks of white evangelical Protestants ... most people who agree with the religious right also support the Tea Party."
What seems new is the increased dominance of the Republican Party by sectarian religious extremists and their acquisition of power during a prolonged economic crisis and even
longer war.
Pew's findings are unsurprising. You might have inferred the Tea Party's religious motivations from the statements and policies of its established or aspiring political leaders, at state and federal levels. I'll refrain from offering an extended litany of their wacky assertions and legislative ideas. Just keep in mind a few examples.
One of the subtler but also most hysterical expressions of legislative sectarianism is the wave of state proposals aimed at banning the non-existent threat of Sharia law. At first glance, you might mistake this trend for an effort to keep religion out of government, but a law intended to impose special disadvantages on one religion is no less sectarian (and violative of the First Amendment) than a law intended to extend special advantages to another.
So it's not surprising to find proposed bans on Sharia law in conservative states, like South Dakota and Texas, alongside extreme anti-abortion proposals. (You can find atheists and agnostics who oppose abortion rights, but generally the anti-abortion movement is overwhelmingly religious and tends to divide along sectarian lines: according to Pew, "most religious traditions in the U.S. come down firmly on one side or the other.") The notorious South Dakota bill that would arguably legalize the killing of abortion providers has been tabled; but a bill pending in Texas requires doctors to conduct pre-abortion sonograms for women and to impose on them a description of the fetus's arms, legs and internal organs. Supporters of this bill insist that it is "pro-woman;" its purpose is empower them and "ensure there are no barriers preventing women from receiving the information to which they are entitled for such a life-changing decision" -- barriers like a woman's right to decline a sonogram or description of the fetus.
But the right wing's aggressive sectarianism extends far beyond the usual battles over abortion and other culture-war casualties. Just listen to Mike Huckabee gush over Israel (biblical Zionists have been carrying on about Israel for years, but these days they have Tea Party stars on their side.) Michelle Bachmann claims that "if we reject Israel, then there is a curse that comes into play." Note former Senator Rick Santorum's defense of the Crusades, which, he laments, have been maligned by "the American left who hates Christendom." Remember the Bible-based environmental policy of Illinois Congressman John Shimkus, now chair of the House Environment and Economy Sub-Committee. "The Earth will end when God declares it's time to be over," Shimkus famously declared in a 2009 hearing. Reading from the Bible and citing God's promise to Noah not to destroy the earth (again), Shimkus said, "I believe that's the infallible word of God and that's the way it's gonna be for his creation."
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If you're backstage with Heidi Klum and Michael Kors at the hottest ticket at New York Fashion Week — the "Project Runway" finale show — what do you talk about? Handbags, of course.
"Heidi told my sister she liked her purse [a black leather Thomas Wylde tote with a studded skull] and that she has the same one," reports Alexus Shefts, a 15-year-old aspiring fashion designer who traveled to Bryant Park from Seattle with sister Brittany, 18. "Michael told us a story about a model at his show who was posing with a purse and the strap broke. It was a $20,000 purse, and he just cut the strap off and said, 'Here's a clutch.' "
The girls' parents, Misha and Sherry Shefts, bought a "Project Runway" package for $3,400 at a Seattle SCORES fundraiser last spring. They didn't know at the time that Alexus and Brittany would get to brush shoulders with their fashion icon, Victoria Beckham. As Posh herself would say: Major! ...
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The Walk, 2000
The convoy twists along, a stammering band of civilian cars, jeeps, military ambulances, tanks, and huge bulldozers on the backs of transporters. Her taxi driver is quiet and gloomy. His hand rests on the Mercedes's gear shift and his thick neck does not move. For several long minutes he has looked neither at her nor at Ofer.
As soon as Ofer sat down in the cab, he let out an angry breath and flashed a look that said: Not the smartest idea, Mom, asking this particular driver to come along on a trip like this. Only then did she realize what she'd done. At seven that morning she had called Sami and asked him to come pick her up for a long drive to the Gilboa region. Now she remembers that for some reason she hadn't given him any details or explained the purpose of the trip, the way she usually did. Sami had asked when she wanted him, and she'd hesitated and then said, "Come at three." "Ora," he'd said, "maybe we should leave earlier, 'cause traffic will be a mess." That was his only acknowledgment of the day's madness, but even then she didn't get it and just said there was no way she could leave before three. She wanted to spend these hours with Ofer, and although Ofer agreed, she could tell how much effort his concession took. Seven or eight hours were all that was left of the weeklong trip she'd planned for the two of them, and now she realizes she hadn't even told Sami on the phone that Ofer was part of the ride. Had she told him, he might have asked her to let him off today, just this one time, or he might have sent one of the Jewish drivers who worked for him—"my Jewish sector," he called them. But when she'd called him she'd been in a state of complete frenzy, and it simply had not occurred to her—the unease slowly rises in her chest—that for this sort of drive, on a day like this, it was better not to call an Arab driver.
Even if he is an Arab from here, one of ours, Ilan prods at her brain as she tries to justify her own behavior. Even if it's Sami, who's almost one of the family, who's been driving everyone—the people who work for Ilan, her estranged husband, and the whole family—for more than twenty years. They are his main livelihood, his regular monthly income, and he, in return, is obliged to be at their service around the clock, whenever they need him. They have been to his home in Abu Ghosh for family celebrations, they know his wife, Inaam, and they helped out with connections and money when his two older sons wanted to emigrate to Argentina. They've racked up hundreds of driving hours together, and she cannot recall his ever being this silent. With him, every drive is a stand-up show. He's witty and sly, a political dodger who shoots in all directions with decoys and double-edged swords, and besides, she cannot imagine calling another driver. Driving herself is out of the question for the next year: she's had three accidents and six moving violations in the past twelve months, an excessive crop even by her standards, and the loathsome judge who revoked her license had hissed that he was doing her a favor and that she really owed him her life. It would have all been so easy if she herself were driving Ofer. At least she'd have had another ninety minutes alone with him, and maybe she'd even have tempted him to stop on the way—there are some good restaurants in Wadi Ara. After all, one hour more, one hour less, what's the rush? Why are you in such a hurry? Tell me, what is it that's waiting for you there?
A trip alone with him will not happen anytime soon, nor alone with herself, and she has to get used to this constraint. She has to let it go, stop grieving every day for her robbed independence. She should be happy that at least she has Sami, who kept driving her even after the separation from Ilan. She hadn't been capable of thinking about those kinds of details at the time, but Ilan had put his foot down. Sami was an explicit clause in their separation agreement, and he himself said he was divvied up between them like the furniture and the rugs and the silverware. "Us Arabs," he would laugh, revealing a mouth full of huge teeth, "ever since the partition plan we're used to you dividing us up." The memory of his joke makes her cringe with the shame of what has happened today, of having somehow, in the general commotion, completely erased that part of him, his Arabness.
Since seeing Ofer this morning with the phone in his hand and the guilty look on his face, someone had come along and gently but firmly taken the management of her own affairs out of her hands. She had been dismissed, relegated to observer status, a gawking witness. Her thoughts were no more than flashes of emotion. She hovered through the rooms of the house with angular, truncated motions. Later they went to the mall to buy clothes and candy and CDs—there was a new Johnny Cash collection out—and all morning she walked beside him in a daze and giggled like a girl at everything he said. She devoured him with gaping wide looks, stocking up unabashedly for the endless years of hunger to come—of course they would come. From the moment he told her he was going, she had no doubt. Three times that morning she excused herself and went to the public restrooms, where she had diarrhea. Ofer laughed: "What's up with you? What did you eat?" She stared at him and smiled feebly, engraving in her mind the sound of his laughter, the slight tilt of his head when he laughed.
The young cashier at the clothing store blushed as she watched him try on a shirt, and Ora thought proudly, My beloved is like a young hart. The girl working at the music store was one year behind him at school, and when she heard where he was going in three hours, she went over and hugged him, held him close with her tall, ample body, and insisted that he call her as soon as he got back. Seeing how blind her son was to these displays of emotion, it occurred to Ora that his heart was still bound to Talia. It had been a year since she'd left him, and she was still all he could see. She thought sadly that he was a loyal person, like her, and far more monogamous than she, and who knew how many years would pass before he got over Talia—if he even had any years left, she thought. She quickly erased the notion, scrubbing it furiously from her brain with both hands, but still a picture slipped through: Talia coming to visit them, to condole, perhaps to seek a sort of retroactive forgiveness from Ora, and she felt her face strain with anger. How could you hurt him like that? she thought, and she must have mumbled something out loud, because Ofer leaned down and asked softly, "What is it, Mom?" For a moment she did not see his face before her eyes—he had no face, her eyes stared into a void, pure terror. "Nothing. I was thinking about Talia. Have you talked to her recently?" Ofer waved his hand and said, "Forget that, it's over."
She kept checking the time. On her watch, on his, on the big clocks in the mall, on the television screens in appliance stores. Time was behaving strangely, sometimes flying, at other times crawling or coming to a complete standstill. It seemed to her that it might not even require much effort to roll it back, not too far, just thirty minutes or an hour at a time would be fine. The big things—time, destiny, God—could sometimes be worn down by petty haggling. They drove downtown to have lunch at a restaurant in the shuk, where they ordered lots of dishes although neither of them had an appetite. He tried to amuse her with stories from the checkpoint near Tapuach, where he'd served for seven months, and it was the first time she discovered that he would scan the thousands of Palestinians who passed through the checkpoint with a simple metal detector, like the one they used when you walked into the mall. "That's all you had?" she whispered. He laughed: "What did you think I had?" "I didn't think," she said. He asked, "But didn't you wonder how it's done there?" There was a note of childish disappointment in his voice. She said, "But you never told me about it." He presented a profile that said, You know exactly why, but before she could say anything he reached out and covered her hand with his—his broad, tanned, rough hand—and that simple rare touch almost stunned her and she fell silent. Ofer seemed to want, at the very last minute, to fill in what he had left out, and he told her hurriedly about the pillbox he'd lived in for four months, facing the northern neighborhood of Jenin, and how every morning at five he used to open the gate in the fence around the pillbox and make sure the Palestinians hadn't booby-trapped it overnight. "You just walked over there like that, alone?" she asked. "Usually someone from the pillbox would cover me—I mean, if anyone was awake." She wanted to ask more but her throat was dry, and Ofer shrugged and said in an elderly Palestinian man's voice, "Kulo min Allah"—it's all from God. She whispered, "I didn't know," and he laughed without any bitterness, as if he had understood that she could not be expected to know, and he told her about the kasbah in Nablus, which he said was the most interesting of all the kasbahs, the most ancient. "There are houses there from the Roman era and houses built like bridges over alleyways, and underneath the whole city there's an aqueduct that goes from east to west, with canals and tunnels running in all directions, and the fugitives live there because they know we'll never dare follow them down." He spoke enthusiastically, as if he were telling her about a new video game, and she kept fighting the urge to grasp his head with both hands and look into his eyes so that she could see his soul, which had been slipping away from her for years—although with warmth, with a grin and a wink, as if they were playing a casual game of tag to amuse themselves—but she did not have the courage to do it. Nor could she say to him simply, in a voice that was not drenched in complaint or accusation, "Hey, Ofer, why aren't we friends like we used to be? So what if I'm your mom?"
At three o'clock, Sami would come to take her and Ofer to the meeting point. Three o'clock was the farthest point in her thoughts. She did not have the strength to imagine what would occur after that, and this was further proof of her frequent claim that she had no imagination. But that was no longer true, either. That, too, had changed. Recently she'd been flooded by imaginings—she had imagination-poisoning. Sami would make the drive easier for her, especially the way back, which would undoubtedly be far more difficult than the way there. They had a domestic routine, she and Sami. She liked to listen to him talk about his family, about the complex relationships between the different clans in Abu Ghosh, about the intrigues in the town council, and about the woman he had loved when he was fifteen, and perhaps had never stopped loving even after he was married off to Inaam, his cousin. At least once a week, by total coincidence, he claimed, he would see her in the village. She was a teacher, and there were years when she taught his daughters, and then she became a superintendent. She must have been a strong, opinionated woman, judging by his stories, and he always drew the conversation out so that Ora would ask about her. Then he would report her news with a sort of reverence: another child, her first grandson, a prize from the Ministry of Education, her husband's death in a work accident. With touching detail he quoted their chance conversations in the mini-market, the bakery, or on the rare occasions when he drove her in his cab. Ora guessed that she was the only person he allowed himself to talk to about this woman, perhaps because he trusted her never to ask him the one question whose answer was obvious.
Sami was a seasoned man, a quick thinker, and his life wisdom was augmented by his business acumen, which had produced, among other things, his own small fleet of taxis. When he was twelve he had a goat, and every year she birthed two kids. And a year-old kid in good health, he once explained to Ora, can sell for a thousand shekels. "When the kid would get to a thousand shekels, I would sell it and put the money away. I put away, and I put away, until I had eight thousand shekels. At seventeen I got my license and bought a Fiat 127, an old model but it worked. I bought it from my teacher, and I was the one boy in the village who came to school with wheels. Afternoons, I did private drives, errands, take this, bring that, go, fetch, and that way, slowly-slowly . . ."
Last year, amid the great upheavals in her life, a friend of Ora's found her a part-time temporary job working for a new museum being built in Nevada, which for some reason was interested in the material culture of Israel. Ora liked the unusual work that had fallen into her lap to distract her from herself a little, and she preferred not to delve too deeply into the museum's ulterior motives or what had led its planners to invest a fortune in the construction of a model of Israel in, of all places, the Nevada desert. She was on the team in charge of the fifties and knew there were another few "gatherers" like her on various other teams. She never met any of them. Every two or three weeks she set off with Sami on delightful buying trips around the country, and out of some vague intuition she avoided discussing the museum and its intentions with him. Sami never asked, and she wondered what he imagined and how he described these trips to Inaam. The two of them spent days roaming the country together. They bought a collection of stainless-steel basins from a kibbutz in the Jordan Valley, an antique milking machine from a moshav in the north, a shiny like-new icebox in a Jerusalem neighborhood, and of course the trivial, forgotten items whose discovery gave her an almost physical joy: an eighth of a bar of Tasbin soap, a tube of Velveta hand cream, a package of sanitary napkins, textured rubber "thimbles" that Egged bus drivers once used, a collection of wildflowers dried between the pages of a notebook, and vast quantities of textbooks and popular books—one of her tasks was to reconstruct a typical kibbutz household library from the fifties. Time after time she watched as Sami Jubran's warm, earthy charm encircled everyone he met. The elderly kibbutzniks were positive that he was a former kibbutz member (which was true, he told her jokingly: "Half of Kiryat Anavim's lands belong to my family"). In Jerusalem, at a local backgammon club, a few men pounced on him, convinced he had grown up with them in the Nachlaot neighborhood and even claimed to remember him climbing pine trees to watch Hapoel soccer games in the old stadium. And a vibrant Tel Aviv widow with bronzed skin and jangling bracelets determined that he was without a doubt from the Kerem: even though he a was little fat for a Yemenite, it was obvious that he was "with roots," she said when she called Ora the next day for no reason. "And very charmant," she added, "the kind of guy who definitely fought in the Etzel. And by the way, do you think he's available for a moving job?" Ora saw the way people agreed, for Sami, to part with beloved possessions, because they felt that these objects, which their children belittled and would undoubtedly get rid of as soon as the old people passed on, if given to him, would in some sense stay in the family. And on every trip, even a ten-minute drive, they always got into politics, keenly confabbing over the latest developments. And even though years ago, after the devastation with Avram, Ora had completely cut herself off from the "situation"—I've paid my price, she asserted with a narrow, distancing smile—she found herself drawn into these talks with Sami over and over again. It was not his arguments or his reasonings that pulled her in, because she'd heard them all before, from him and from others, and she didn't believe anyone had a single unused claim left in this eternal debate. "Who could possibly come up with a new, decisive argument that hasn't yet been heard?" she asked with a sigh when anyone else tried to take it up with her. But when she and Sami discussed the situation, when they argued with little jabs and cautious smiles—and with him, curiously, she frequently veered much further to the right than she intended, further than her real opinions, while with Ilan and the boys she was always, as they said, on the delusional left, and she herself couldn't say exactly what she was and where she stood, "and anyway," she would say with a charming shrug, "only when it's all over, the whole story, will we really know who was right and who was wrong, isn't that so?" Yet still, when Sami used his Arabesque Hebrew to undermine the long-winded, indignant, greedy pretenses of both Jews and Arabs, when he skewered the leaders of both peoples on a sharp Arab saying that often aroused from the depths of her memory the equivalent idiom in her father's Yiddish, she sometimes experienced a subtle latency, as if in the course of talking with him she suddenly discovered that the end, the end of the whole big story, must be good, and good it would be, if only because the clumsy, round-faced man sitting beside her was able to preserve within his fleshy thickness a flame of delicate irony, and mainly because he still managed to be himself within all this. There were also times when it occurred to her that she was learning from him what she would need to know, one day, if—or when—the situation in Israel was reversed, God forbid, and she found herself in his position, and he in hers. That was possible, after all. It was always lurking behind the door. And perhaps, she realized, he thought about that too—perhaps she was teaching him something by still being herself in all this.
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