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Banana-Bacon Cinnamon Roll Roses recipe full of bacon, banana chips, and brown sugar just in time for Easter! This is an easy mini cinnamon rolls recipe and it takes no time to turn the cinnamon rolls into roses. I was going to save this cinnamon roll recipe for Father's Day but I'm so horrible at keeping secrets that I just had to post the recipe sooner! And for my email subscribers, a FREE E-BOOK! Read on for more information.
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I wish I had some exciting back story about this recipe. All I can say is that I apparently had bacon on my mind and tried to think of something fun to do for my husband. So I couldn't even wait until the next day to give this cinnamon roll recipe idea a try! I made them at night so my apologies for the horrible quality prep photos!! I guess that's what I get for having NO patience and waiting until the next day!
Start with some biscuit dough. I used Pillsbury (8 count) Grands Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits. Cut each biscuit into 8 pieces and roll each piece into a ball. Press each ball flat into a circle. Overlap 4 circles slightly and push down a little so that the dough sticks together. The dough should look like a snowman with an extra circle. :)
Cut the dough in half down the middle to form 2 . Brush the dough with a little melted butter.
Combine the brown sugar, cinnamon, bacon, and banana chips then sprinkle over the dough.
Roll up each piece of dough individually. Push on the seam slightly to close.
Put the cinnamon roll roses into a mini muffin pan that has been sprayed with a little nonstick baking spray or brushed with a little melted butter. If you have any leftover melted butter after you've done all the roses you can brush the remaining butter on top of the roses.
Bake the cinnamon roll roses for about 12 to 15 minutes at 350 degrees F (or follow the baking directions on the package of biscuit dough if you use a different kind). The cinnamon roll roses will be golden brown around the edges.
I then got some cheap (I'm talking like $1 for a bunch) fake roses. I cut off the flower petals and put the cinnamon rolls in their place at the top of the stems. Make sure the fake flowers you have or buy have a little plastic center piece that you can stick into the cinnamon roll to keep it in place. If it does not (some of mine fell off, but that's what you get for $1…), if there is a small hole in the middle, cut a toothpick (or wooden skewer) in half and place it in the hole and stick the toothpick into the cinnamon roll to hold it. Just be sure to tell your guests to remove the toothpicks before eating. :)
Instead of bacon and banana you could use your favorite fillings such as chopped dried fruit, chopped nuts, mini chocolate chips, or anything else you can think of!
Happy Easter friends! Hope you enjoy my cinnamon roll roses!!!
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|Banana-Bacon Cinnamon Roll Roses
- 1 (8 count, 16.3oz) package biscuit dough (I used Pillsbury Grands Homestyle Buttermilk Biscuits)
- ½ cup melted butter or margarine
- ½ cup brown sugar
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 pound bacon, cooked & finely chopped
- 1 (6oz) bag banana chips, finely chopped
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray a mini muffin pan with nonstick cooking spray.
- Separate biscuits. Cut each biscuit into 8 equal pieces. Roll each piece into a ball. Flatten each ball of dough. Overlap 4 pieces of dough (should look like snowman with an extra circle) and lightly press so dough sticks. Cut down the middle (you'll have 2 sets of 4 semi-circles for each for a total of 32 roses).
- Brush top of dough with melted butter. Combine brown sugar, cinnamon, bacon, and banana chips in small bowl and stir to combine. Sprinkle over dough. Roll up dough starting at long end to form roses. Push slightly on seam to adhere then place in prepared mini muffin pan. if you have remaining melted butter or margarine, you can brush on top of roses.
- Bake cinnamon roll roses for about 12-15 minutes at 350 degrees F.
SNAPPY SUBSTITUTIONS: Instead of bacon and banana, use your favorite fillings such as other dried fruit, nuts, and mini chips.
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The New Face of Capitalist War and Duty of the Left:Progressive Students Union
This guest post is an appeal circulated by Progressive Students Union (PSU) – Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) – about the state's war on "Maoist violence" , adding to the growing criticism of the CPI(Maoist) that cannot be conveniently dismissed as pro-state or anti-Left.
As has already been declared all across the national media, the state has declared war on "Maoist violence" across the country and is about to unleash its might on some of the most neglected regions and people of this country. While the Maoists are the declared target of the State, it is needless to say that they have hardly any qualms about "breaking a few eggs to make an omlette"! The thousands of adivasis and civilians going to be caught in the crossfire would be portrayed by the media as an inevitable but necessary price to pay for the eradication of the Naxal 'menace'. That may well be only less than half the story, because another reason for state operations in this area is the immense mineral wealth there which can not be passed on to Indian capital unless adivasis living there are displaced, and their survival systems completely destroyed. According to reports from Chhatisgarh, the state sponsored Salwa Judum has displaced more than three hundred and fifty thousand adivasis in the old Bastar area. Fifty thousand have moved to neighbouring states, another fifty thousand are living under the surveillance of para-military forces in state controlled camps, the remaining two hundred and fifty thousand have moved deeper into the jungle to escape the violence and pillage of Salwa Judum. While the adivasis of Central India have faced, and resisted state violence for long, the Central Home Ministry – under the leadership of the suave and genteel Home Minister and Prime Minister – has made plans for a larger offensive named 'Operation Green Hunt' (with the open possibility of aerial bombardment) to be launched in November this year. Progressive Students Union (PSU) condemns in the strongest terms these actions of the state which amounts to nothing but declaring war on its own citizens.
The regions which have been declared Naxal-hit and where combing operations have already been started by the State are some of the most backward regions of our country and are inhabited by largely tribal populations. These deprived sections have always had to bear the costs of capitalist 'development' and accumulation pursued by the Indian State since independence; whether by giving up their lands and access to common property resources in order to aid corporate expansion or by a steady erosion of social safety nets continuously dismantled especially since 1990 by a State determined to minimize its welfarist role at the behest of the neoliberal masters it is enslaved to. It is clear that anti-naxal/Maoist operations are nothing but a ploy to silence dissent and divert attention from the real issue, i.e., the abject failure of the Indian State to ensure the well-being of ALL its citizens. The State in order to deflect responsibility is simply avoiding a debate on how the pattern of capitalist development so dear to the ruling classes will mean nothing but the continuous immiserisation of the vast majority of toiling masses whose labour provides the surplus a tiny minority feeds upon. In its place, it is propping up an empty debate peppered with slogans of "national security" and "internal threats", hollow phrases that only seek to justify the State aiming its weaponry at its own people. Let us be very clear that throughout human history capitalist development has always been aided by the might of the State, as has been clearly witnessed during the Enclosure Movement in England or the expropriation of the indigenous people's land and resources by the white settlers in America and Australia. So what we are witnessing now is nothing but a new phase of 'primitive accumulation'.
However, at this juncture, PSU also feels that there is a need to critically look at the tactics adopted by the Maoists in leading the struggle against the State. To begin with, the Maoist line which has singularly been pre-occupied with violence as the core of their philosophical understanding, betrays the absolute lack of political understanding on their part. The Maoists have become victims/prisoners of their own limited understanding of the nature of the Indian state. This has led them to universalize their localized experiences and resort to strategies of armed struggle which may see them gaining the upper hand in isolated skirmishes but fails to hold good even ten kilometers outside the jungles. They see the Indian state as feudal when in reality the State, though steeped in regressive social structures of caste, communalism and patriarchy, is undeniably capitalist. Moreover, this capitalist state uses these pre-modern structures to propagate and entrench itself. These primordial relations make it difficult for them to perceive the actual capitalist character of the State and the mode of exploitation, and hence the appropriate mode of struggle. Their tactics of resistance consists in deploying a chosen few to lead or even fully undertake an armed struggle on behalf of the oppressed. The irresponsibility of this politics of behalf-ism has gone to the extent of carrying out surprise attacks in the name of resistance, and has left the impoverished masses exposed to the backlash unleashed by the State. The instances of irresponsibility shown by the Maoists are several, chief of which was observed in Kandhamal where the Maoists displayed their bravado in killing a VHP sadhu, yet no trace of them was seen later when innocent Christian adivasis were butchered by the rabid right-wing Hindutva brigade seeking retribution. Let us be very clear about the fact that violence can never be anything more than a part of tactics. Whether a revolutionary organization will take to arms can only be decided by the context, by the people engaged in the struggle and through building a concrete understanding of concrete situations. Unlike the capitalist forces, who keep on unleashing massive violence on the people despite abhorring it in theory, faced with a perennial persecution by the uniformed goons of the capitalist world order, Marxists have always been honest about their readiness to engage in revolutionary violence if the need arises. However, that does not mean reducing all our understanding of politics to merely engaging in anarchic violence while failing to build a revolutionary class consciousness among the masses. Moreover, in order to formulate appropriate strategies to overthrow the existing system, it is imperative that we develop a concrete understanding of the different ways in which the capitalist Indian state seeks to stabilize itself. On the one hand the Indian State has a truly terrifying command over a wide range of sophisticated weapons of annihilation, which it has never hesitated at the slightest to unleash even if it were against its own people as we have already seen in the case of the North East and Kashmir. On the other hand, the State has also erected several hegemonic structures through which it seeks to legitimize its existence, structures which have to be combated ideologically and cannot be undermined or overthrown by an armed struggle alone.
It is a well accepted fact that the extent of deprivation in our country has reached overwhelming proportions such that more than three quarters of our population subsist on less than Rs 20 a day. The 77% of our population violently pushed to the margins of existence consists of not just adivasis, but rural and urban poor as well. In such a scenario, isolated struggles for adivasis or other such oppressed identities may win individual victories and concessions, but will surely not be enough in bringing about a comprehensive systemic change. The only way forward for building a revolutionary praxis is one in which all oppressed sections are politicized and made truly conscious of the contradictions that keep them chained and divided. A strong solidarity among and with the struggling masses must be forged in order to strengthen the bonds of class consciousness which would be most effective in countering the hegemonic structures created and maintained by the appropriating classes. A revolutionary politics can never get built without intensifying class struggle, which in turn is impossible in our country without smashing the structures of caste, communalism and patriarchy, the structures which divide working classes and are exploited by the right-wing forces to pit sections of the working classes against each other. Frederick Engels in the Introduction to Karl Marx's "The Class Struggles in France – 1848 to 1850" pointed out as early as 1895 itself that "The time of surprise attacks, of revolutions, carried through by small conscious minorities at the head of unconscious masses, is past. Where it is a question of a complete transformation of the social organization, the masses themselves must also be in it, must themselves already have grasped what is at stake, what they are going in for with body and soul… But in order that the masses may understand what is to be done, long persistent work is required…"
This is not to position parliamentary democracy as the solution to all our problems. Engels, while speaking on the subject of universal suffrage, wrote, "In election agitation, it provide[s] us with a means, second to none, of getting in touch with the mass of the people where they still stand aloof from us; of forcing all parties to defend their views and actions against our attacks before all the people…" If parliamentary democracy allows you to assess your standing amongst the masses and represent their interests, how does entering into dubious alliances with reactionary forces serve the cause of building a revolutionary consciousness? Parliamentary democracy as practiced by the mainstream left has become nothing but a hollow brand of politics, where opportunistic alliances are formed in a bid to retain power, and where remaining in power is the end in itself and not the means to advance a social transformation. The degeneration and depoliticization that has set in among the mainstream left parties is self evident when on the one hand they continue to rhetorically pledge their solidarity with people's movements emerging across the country, but go ahead and forge alliances with exactly the same powers that pledge to crush these movements. An instance of this can be seen in Orissa where adivasis are resisting corporate depredation and exploitation (without any Maoist intervention) carried out by Vedanta, Posco and Tata actively promoted by the BJD government. However the parliamentary left in the name of 'not opposing industrialisation' not only entered into an alliance with the BJD but has also refused to stand in solidarity with the emergent mass movement.
Progressive Students Union (PSU) stands in firm solidarity with the people of Jharkhand, Orissa, Chattisgarh and all others who are valiantly resisting the ploys of the Indian bourgeoisie and appeals to all progressive and left-democratic forces to join hands against this new phase of capitalist war against the working masses of India. We believe that only through a process of unity against the enemy and critical debate within the left wing forces, will the road be paved towards revolution. All those forces will be condemned by history, that in the name of debate, expose their fissures to the enemy and also those, who in the name of struggle and unity, forget the critical debates within. An appreciation of this dialectics is the need of the hour.
Sd/- Vibha, PSU-JNU Sd/- Divya, PSU-JNU
Robin Raju permalinkNovember 6, 2009 6:21 PM
I support your cause and share the same thoughts on this subject. Evils of capitalism are slowly coming to the fore and I hope people wake up to the reality and speak up.
Thanks and Regards,
Andaleeb permalinkNovember 8, 2009 6:08 PM
PSU is students org of RSP – is this the same one?
Kaushik Ghosh permalinkNovember 23, 2009 10:29 AM
I agree with PSU's position on the Maoists but there is still something that one has to learn from the latter.
The Maoists are the only "left" who are actively and significantly present in the areas of adivasi resistance to massive disposession. They are certainly not leading or really involved in the struggles against POSCO, VEDANTA or TATA. But they have always recognized the histroical strength of adivasi struggles and the relative failure of the Indian state at hegemonizing them. It is very fine (or is it?) to talk about "proper left politics" — "building a revolutionary praxis is one in which all oppressed sections are politicized and made truly conscious of the contradictions that keep them chained and divided" — but this praxis needs to have started a little while ago, didn't it? Does it not sound a little to "collegiate" to be still talking in such cliches? The new struggles against dispossession — Singur/Nandigram or Posco/Arcelor — have certainly changed a great deal of the political atmosphere of fatalism in this land. It has forged open a new space for the left to rebuild again away from the dreary alternatives of CPI(M) and the Maoists. That space is an inspiration, an inspiration to learn a new language of politics and the will to struggle. It is a place to begin from. It is also a reminder — to the revolutionary, who really should not be needing this — to go to the struggling people. The struggles are here in Delhi, as much as they are in the devastated rural countryside. But they need the left politics to be with them with some humility and not with projects of "producing true consciousness" among the peasantry and the proletariat. One needs to have the courage and the good sense of asking "Who is conscious and who is not? Who is going to produce which consciousness in whom?" Thus these spaces of popular struggles today are not spaces of opportunity, like the Maoists and other moribund leftists may think. "Opportunity" implies a form of politics where the theory is all worked out and now only strategy and opportunity is left. Sadly, that is fundamentally "bourgeois thought," which the left has passionately embraced. It is the authoritarianism based on the bourgeois fear and need to reduce the uncertainty of its authority in the future (just like the fear fed upon by the state and "risk" capitalism). So, we need to learn from the Maoists to leave the living room of the "party office," but also, and now in negation of the Maoists, learn not to treat people's struggles as opportunistic entry points to propagate the tragic and authoritarian politics of "consciousness raising of the masses." It is an opportunity, but the historic opportunity for the Left bourgeoisie to lose its chains. To misquote Engels for the sake of the realities of 2009, "in order that the Left may understand what is to be done, long persistent work is required."
agantuk permalinkNovember 23, 2009 8:14 PM
it is erroneous to comment that the maoists are not present or suppotive of the struggles at posco, vedanta, tata. the maoists were certainly present at the singur agitation. the singur agitation is a reminder of a sad story of a reactionary party like trinamul congress capturing the leadership because of the lack of imagination of the various bengali marxist-leninist or maoist organisations. these organisations have been around since the naxalbari days. one should ask them what struggles have they carried out in the last four decades other than sniping at each other and fissuring into million pieces.
sun jo permalinkFebruary 10, 2013 2:54 PM
It is high time that all genuine ml and progressive forces form an united front in the type of
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LONDON: World oil prices slid further on Wednesday as the dollar rallied on the back of renewed fears over the eurozone debt crisis and tensions on the Korean peninsula, analysts said.
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A person, usually male (thus the "man" part) who kills for money. The suave, suit-wearing type romanticized by movies and video games are a rare breed these days, if not completely nonexistant (except maybe in governmental capacities.) Hired assassins are never suave, and they rarely wear suits.
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I'm sorry, we didn't do as much as we should have. We basically got out our binoculars and looked at the mountains to see the goats that others pointed out to us after they got back from their excursions. we spent hours in the hot-tub and pool with a precious lack of children on this day. we could see the mountains easily from the pool deck. they were gorgeous. i had planned to go to mendenhall glacier but cancelled it as made a dire mistake the night before: i wore new heels that i hadn't broke in and got blisters that left me hobbling that day.
our friends took the bus over and had a good time. but they were back early too.
We thought we'd enjoy exploring Creek Street for a few hours but no, it was more of a shopping mecca than a pub crawl. We took the funincular (outstanding views and great staff) up to the Cape Fox Resort and enjoyed the ESPRESSO shop there before going outside to see the Totems.
Then we went down Married Man's walkway. Again, this was similar to some local hikes in our county, but it was still beautiful, and the lore about 'married men' sneaking to and from the red light district was entertaining.
on Creek Street we did easily see the salmon 'running'. August is prime time for that.
A friend did the group canoe paddle and loved it. I should have done that. Like i said, do a few excursions!
Catching the bus to the totems at Bight/Potlatch is good, but a tour might be better.
We visited several bars and found them to be mostly too smokey for our liking. We went down "Betty King Alley" to have a drink at the Pioneer Bar (wi-fi was available!) where the bartender was very charming. we also liked the atmosphere at Annabelle's but weren't hungry enough to really eat. we just had the 'kung pao' calamari. it was fine.
We probably could have found some good bargains shopping (my friends did) but we just weren't in the mood.
I LOVE SEATTLE. That's why I live close by. Seattle started the public art movement. With all our overcast days we needed it!
It's easy to get some local flavor by going to the Pike Place Market or taking a tour bus or "the Duck".
If you're more adventurous walk uphill from lower queen anne to upper queen anne and snack in both neighborhoods. Likewise walk up Pike or Pine Street to Broadway and explore "Capital Hill".
Spend a day exploring Fremont, with it's outdoor art sculptures along the canal, and on the bridge (northeast corner of the bridge), and under the Aurora bridge (it's legendary).
Go to Greenlake or Alki and rent bikes and bike through the neighborhood and along the waterways. lots of good food and local art all around. Also -close to greenlake- the University District has a plethora of dining options and that college town feel. or close to Alki- the views on the hill of West Seattle are just spectacular.
Lake WA is also very bike-able but i'm not familiar with where all you could rent the bikes there. the view of Mt.Rainier from Seward Park is gorgeous and Seward Park is wonderful. Walking around Leschi and the Madison area is also charming.
i liked the charm of this town. we rented bikes and just lolly gagged around a bit. (rented at sockeye something). we went into the red onion (which was packed) and bellied up to the bar (no other way to get there) for a quick libation. the corset-clad staff showed enough cleavage to stifle my interest in the brothell-museum so we skipped that. we thought about doing the 'easy' hike up to lower dewey lake but enjoyed the bicycling too much. (yes, my blisters were all better). we went out to the river and back into town, but mostly we just tooled around town.
our friends did the train to white pass (or whatever) and they really enjoyed it. they took the short version and were back in time for lunch.
apparently there is an actual espresso shop in town, but we didn't find it. i was hoping for a starbucks and free wifi and i got directed to a coffee shop inside a jewelry store! i shouldn't have said starbucks! this shop was brewing starbucks coffee,and it was fine, except the line was like 20 people long, and it wasn't a starbucks.
We're fairly familiar with Victoria, so it was easy to get off the ship and find a drug store and a dollar store for some supplies we felt we "needed". Then we were going to go on the Pickle Pub Crawl but somehow got talked out of it. The weather was great so we decided just to walk to some pubs ourselves. Victoria has plenty of pubs/bars/restaurants. The waterfront area is definitely priced a bit higher than other areas, but it's also the most convenient.
We also found a dragon boat festival going on at the waterfront, where we discovered a group called Uminari Taiko performing (Taiko is a Japanese drum). They were wonderful. I'm seriously thinking about looking for a drumming club locally to join or at least to see if they do workshops.
We were a group of 3 couples, and regular taxis are limited to 4 people so we needed 2 taxis. The group behind us was in a similar position so we shared 3 cabs between the 12 of us. this was encouraged by the facilitators working the lines of people getting off the boats. we were instructed to meet at "The Parliment Building".
The problem was, we, in the middle cab, had a driver who took a shortcut instead of following the cab in front of us, and then dropped us off at "the parliment building" about a half mile away from where the other 2 cabs dropped all of our friends. it took an extra half hour to find each other. "The Parliment Building" is pretty big. (yes, there are some mini-van taxis that seat 6 passengers, but they are rare and in high demand). I still think we could have easily walked into town (a 30 minute walk) but our friends are not regular walkers (I am).
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–, Sunday, August, 29, 2010, (9:58pm)
Charles Johnson used to approve of people changing their minds, since he's a changeling himself. But now he's changed his mind.
UPDATE. "The transcript linked by Charles does not support the headline."
UPDATE II. Johnson deploys his famous photographic skills:
Here we go again with the claims that there were eleventy gazillion people at the Beck rally.
Check out this overhead photo posted at a wingnut blog.
This looks like a photo of a different rally to me …
Wrong. The photograph is genuine. Further analysis of that shot and others taken from similar angles here. Having implicitly admitted that the crowd appears "eleventy gazillion" strong, Johnson turns to a trusted source for a far lower estimate. That source? Former Johnson target CBS.
A lot has changed since 2004. Charles Johnson now believes CBS rather than his own eyes.
UPDATE III. Charles offers a nuance defence, including this line: "Blair's outraged today that I don't believe there were eleventy gazillion people …" Actually, Johnson did believe that the site photograph represented gazillions. That's why he thought the image was of another rally. Keep on nuancing, pal.
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Comment #270 to that thread may be of interest:
270 NamDoc67
Sat, Aug 28, 2010 2:36:51pm replyquote -1downupreport
Is anyone interested in the fact that the transcript linked by Charles does not support the headline to this post?
Beck does not state those characterizations of MLK. He quotes (and played a recording of) Julian Bond making those characterizations of MLK.
The entire point of what Beck does say is to try to figure out why a public figure like Bond would make those statements about MLK.
He seems to conclude that Bond is attemptng to legitimize currently unpopular radical socialist policies by linking radical socialism to a universally revered American icon.
Sun 29 Aug 10 (10:53pm)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:37am)
Thank you for wading through that, Roger, so the rest of us don't have to. The LGF Big Lizard continues to demonstrate leftism has become synonymous with dishonesty.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (02:20am)
And of course NamDoc is immediately castigated by Chuck's sycophants. The Holy Writ of Charles must not be questioned! Burn the heretic!!
Mon 30 Aug 10 (03:04am)
Countdown to NamDoc's banning: 5… 4… 3…
Mon 30 Aug 10 (04:09am)
"leftism has become synonymous with dishonesty"
has become? When was leftism not synonymous with dishonesty?
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:50am)
Roger, thanks for getting that far into the comments.
A long time before Charles had his meltdown, I found the volume of comments there completely unwieldy. I stopped reading them and then ultimately lost interest in LGF altogether.
Still, at least LGF remains on Tim's blogroll. Then again, so do plenty of sites which are long since 404. Hey Blair: Housekeeping!
Mon 30 Aug 10 (10:47am)
"leftism has become synonymous with dishonesty"
No, no, no. According to Charles, leftism is synonymous with "math and science". Go figure.
Oh, and by the way:
"Nuance is pure rage sauce for the dedicated wingnut."
Getting all shrilly when accusing someone of being shrill. Now that's nuance!
Mon 30 Aug 10 (11:45am)
"leftism has become synonymous with dishonesty"
But they wish things were true, and they are good things! Geez give 'em a break.
According to Charles, you must change your mind exactly when and as often as he changes his mind. Otherwise, you are a kook.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (12:16am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (06:53pm)
He makes the soup nazi look like a soft touch ... You vill change your view 180 degrees nooooww.
And I love his linking to any technology experts where he inserts himself as Charles, the master of all sciences. Webdesign, whooohooo.
The only constant with that puppy is his shameless whoring for Amazon.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:25am)
Charles who?
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:31am)
I agree w/ Roger above, and the commenter he quotes. I don't think Beck changed his mind.
CJ forgets that: 1) the 08-28 rally was planned at the site and on the anniversary of MLK's I Have A Dream speech. 2) Planning started in late 2009, months before that radio item went to air. 3) Beck includes King on his "American refounders" list. He quotes King often and is regularly derided by leftists for implicitly comparing himself to King. 4) King's niece was a key speaker at the rally.
On the radio item CJ misinterprets, Beck was marveling at this fact: Right after the Dems lose Ted Kennedy's seat to Republican Scott Brown, NAACP head Julian Bond, the last person you would expect to willingly tarnish Martin Luther King's image, has claimed that King was "not terribly, terribly radical, to quote Julian Bond, but a radical socialist". Beck asks: "When did that become acceptable in America? ... when did it become okay?" Based on Bond's comment, Beck suggests that the left must now be putting all their (socialists-under-the-skin) chips on the table--openly espousing and celebrating "radical socialism" and identifying MLK of all people with it.
The key quote is this (by Beck): "the uber left, if they are defending and using Martin Luther King as a radical socialist icon, they are not going to back away from socialism. CJ attributes all Bond's comments to Beck. But of course he is more interested in discrediting Beck than in the facts. Clearly, LGF commenters don't care anyway. They pay no attention to the transcript, and almost none to his misreading of it. All the commenters want to do is find a way to minimize or dismiss the numbers at the DC rally. Its size seems to disturb them quite a lot.
I find Beck a bit of a showman. But there is plenty of evidence that he approves of MLK's peaceful approach, his emphasis on character, and his liberationist mission. And there's no doubting the sincerity of the hundreds of thousands who attended the rally.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:50am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (03:12am)
All the commenters want to do is find a way to minimize or dismiss the numbers at the DC rally. Its size seems to disturb them quite a lot.
So what was the consensus, that it was hardly larger than Rev. Charlatan Sharpton's protest rally?
Mon 30 Aug 10 (04:37am)
Ah, he's claiming the aerial photo is from "a different rally".
He's really reaching now…
An alum of LGF, when Charles was right, here. My lucky stars, I got meself banned, just after Charles started his leftward, again.
And here I thought I had multiple personality disorder problems..
Mon 30 Aug 10 (02:15am)
Would someone please inform Charles that the correct numerical usage is elebenty.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (04:33am)
87,000? WTF? The people there have to be a good 8 to 10 feet apart. What a crock…
Mon 30 Aug 10 (04:33am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (06:47pm)
And the sign on the wall of the barn always read "4 legs good, 2 legs better".
The left - feeling great about lying to the plebs.
This photo shows the crowd probably reached all the way to the Washington Monument. There's easily 200,000 people in there.
For comparison, there were about 250,000 people in the Mall for Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (04:55am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (06:12am)
From Powerline's Paul Mirengoff, who attended both the 1963 and 2010 rallies:
What you don't see in this picture (the photo at the BBC Tim links to - SN) is the crowd that the extended most of the way to the Washington Monument (but was not packed tightly the way the crowd in front of the Lincoln Memorial was).
You do get a sense from this picture of how tightly packed that crowd was. In 1963, my father and I moved easily through the crowd towards the back when I insisted we get something to drink. And we moved fairly easily back towards the front when it was Martin Luther King's turn to speak.
Today, I could walk the crowd only slowly and often with difficulty.
Whatever the crowd size was on August 28, 1963, I don't see how it could have been less than twice that size today, and I'd estimate it at considerably more than that.
The estimates of 300,000+ that CJ so sneeringly mocks are almost certainly correct.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (08:59am)
A video. Time lapse, from early morning.
LGF, Wash Post, CBS etc got it right. There were at least two thousand people there.
Charles Johnson now believes CBS rather than his own lying eyes.
FTFY, Tim.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (05:37am)
Most of the captions beneath those (beautiful) rally photos were just too stupid for words. Look at the rhetorical gymnastics involved in creating a black vs. white narrative:
Mr Beck, who once described President Barack Obama as a racist who hated white people, told the crowd America had "wandered in darkness" too long but was now beginning to "turn back to God".
Mr Beck, who once described President Barack Obama as a racist who hated white people, told the crowd America had "wandered in darkness" too long but was now beginning to "turn back to God".
So, black people=darkness and white people=God. Bless your stupid little heart, BBC. Beck is a flaming racist? Someone had better tell C.L. Jackson...the black preacher who received the "Restoring Honor" medal from...erm, Beck.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (06:51am)
Charles Johnson = 1/2 trick pony, not hiding his decline.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (08:18am)
Has anyone noticed that Chucky's descent into madness began right after he had a falling-out with his cofounders of Pajamas Media? Apparently he had visions of becoming independently wealthy as a New Media mogul but for some reason was unable to mesh his work style and vision with the others'.
And then he decided that if he wasn't able to make a ton of money from blogging, no one else would be permitted to, either—hence the "attack" by his lackey Kilgore Trout on the Hot Air blog with repeated posting of comments containing racial slurs, not coincidentally just before Michelle Malkin sold the blog for multi-millions of dollars.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (08:38am)
"Hey, I've looked at those photos, and there are maybe 2 dozen people there, tops. By the way, I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me!"
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:20am)
"Actually, Johnson did believe that the site photograph represented gazillions. That's why he thought the image was of another rally. Keep on nuancing, pal."
Uh no he didn't. He suspected that there were less people than on the photo but he never claimed the photo contained eleventy gazillion people. In any case, your eyes don't tell you how many people were there. A professional estimate, such as that used by a third-party firm hired by CBS, is another business altogether.
You're a wingnut, Blair. That's why you won't get the points above.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:23am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (11:42am)
hey bubba (if that is your real name)
could you post a link or a quote from the website of this "third-party firm hired by CBS" that shows where they claim to be experts at estimating crowd size?
I looked and, for the life of me, I couldn't find it.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (02:04pm)
In any case, your eyes don't tell you how many people were there. A professional estimate, such as that used by a third-party firm hired by CBS, is another business altogether.
Now that, my friends, is pure. comedy. gold.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (02:30pm)
I agree with you, 300,000 seems about right.
Charles is going to have to find some more plausible 'crowd numbers avoidance mechanism' for next time.
Meanwhile, enjoy.....
Tue 31 Aug 10 (01:25am)
There were Gazilians there? Natives of Gazil? Who knew?
I Own The World nuts out the photos here:
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:25am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (11:26am)
Sorry, meant to post this link!
In the spirit of obama maths I nominate a figure of elebenty trillion as attending the rally.
And they were all racists - even the black ones…
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:34am)
So the main point of discussion is the body count, not the content of the speeches ?
Mon 30 Aug 10 (09:58am)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (11:02am)
Well, actually, the original post was about Charles Johnson denouncing Glen Beck as a (racist) hypocrite, until it was pointed out that Beck was actually quoting Julian Bond of the NAACP, then about Johnson claiming that "wingnuts" were lying about the rally's attendance and aerial photos posted were of another rally, which were then shown to be genuine… and so on.
The thread is less about the rally, or the actual attendance, and more about a smarmy formerly pro-conservative blogger beclowning himself.
For what it's worth, Glenn Reynolds has a roundup of all the best links to coverage of the event. To be honest, while I admire the effort, it was a little too much "church revival meeting" to keep my interest for very long.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:23pm)
No, but the idea of a body count does hold the attention of certain members of ACT.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (01:33pm)
Chuck's already written Beck off as a racist religious-nut hatemonger, so what he says doesn't matter. It's all a matter of how many people will show up for him. If the Left (statists/liberals/whateverists) can downplay how much of a draw Glenn is, they can feel like he's not a threat.
Charles: Comment 14
There's no need for a "consensus figure." We have a detailed scientific analysis. The debate is over.
Global warming - We have consensus. The debate is over.
Rally numbers - We don't need consensus. The debate is over.
Mon 30 Aug 10 (10:58am)
Tue 31 Aug 10 (01:38am)
We have a detailed scientific analysis. The debate is over.
Is that like CBS's "detailed scientific analysis" that "proved" the 60 Minutes George W. Bush Air Guard memos were "genuine"?
Oh, how the mighty have fallen…
That's it, Blair. You are banned from these internets!
Mon 30 Aug 10 (12:25pm)
Mon 30 Aug 10 (06:06pm)
Are you the real Charles Johnson?
If so, well done Tim, you have joined all the other banned people.
Tue 31 Aug 10 (01:39am)
Nah, it's one of our regulars having a bit of fun. Besides, Tim was "banned" by Captain Queeg months ago.
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This video was shot in Canada at Audi's Driving Experience which lets owners and potential customers get experience driving cars near their limits on closed roads and with professional instruction. This demonstration is shows what's possible for students who have do all their homework plus a little extra-credit.
The RS3 shares its drivetrain with the TT-RS. The inline-five-cylinder direct-injection turbocharged engine produces 335 horsepower and 332 pound-feet of torque. Mounted transversely, power is directed through a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission and uses a Haldex all-wheel drive system. While Haldex is a front-wheel-drive biased system, this video may convince you that plenty of drifting fun is still possible.
In Germany, the RS3 is priced a few thousand Euros under the S4, which in the U.S. starts at $47,100. A loaded A3 in the U.S., will set you back roughly $37,000. If we had to guess, and this is our guess, we suspect it will come in somewhere right around $40,000 give or take a couple grand. Anyway, this is about drifting through Christmas trees, enjoy the video. Especially the all-wheel drive sno-nuts around three minutes in.


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SETI, the privately funded organization searching for extraterrestrial life, announced a major break through: The first real evidence for intelligent outside of the Earth has been discovered. Professor P. Varicate stood before a stunned crowd of journalists, scientists and other concerned parties. "At approximately 2 PM local time the Parkes radio telescope in Australia picked up transmissions originating from the Messier 78 nebula which is in Orion's belt. We are confident that an alien intelligence is the source of these signals."
The room filled with shouts from the crowd concerning this newest discovery. How does your team know that these transmissions aren't simply the results of pulsar stars? Assuming that the signals are from an intelligent source, have they been translated?
"We definitely know that there are no pulsars in Messier 78 nebula. In fact, that area of space is a star nursery, and due to the gas and dust our earth-based optical telescopes have not been able to peer into that area," Varicate replied. The room was silent from hearing the news.
"And yes, we have been able to translate the message... with assistance from the President of the Church of Latter Day Saiths -- Thomas S. Monson." Mr Monson walked onto the stage and stood at the podium.
|Professor P. Varicate
Due to the nature of the signals emanating from the nebula, it was decided to bring President Monson in. The scientists were only able to translate one word from the transmission: Kolob. Mormons know that Kolob is the planet closest to where God's physical throne is. Kolob is the planet of God.
"We assumed that the Church of Latter Day Saints would be able to assist us in our translating endeavors, and we were not disappointed," the Professor said.
"Indeed, the Church's founder, Joseph Smith, was blessed by the Holy Spirit and translated the heavenly golden tablets as well as the Egyptian scrolls that came to be known as the Book of Abraham where Kolob is mentioned," President Monson added. "After some prayer I was able to translate the message that the Almighty was beaming to Earth."
There was a pregnant pause...
"Vote Romney."
"We aimed the Hubble Space Telescope and took images from that area in the night sky. We were stunned to see this picture," the Professor added.
The Romney campaign has not yet responded to this news. But inside sources report that there has been celebrating.


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Canada Stocks to Watch: Progress, Nexen, Agrium, TD, Petrominerales, TransCanada
By Judy McKinnon
Below are some of the stocks we expect to move during today's trading session.
Canada late Friday rejected the proposed takeover of Progress Energy Resources by Petronas, Malaysia's state-controlled energy company. It was a surprise decision that comes amid a broad review in Canada over how to treat takeovers from state-owned enterprises such as China's Cnooc, which has bid US$15.1 billion for Nexen and is awaiting its own ruling from the Canadian government.
Agrium said it will double its annual dividend to $2 a share and will move to a quarterly payout from a semi-annual basis. It also said it expects to take up and pay for about 8.72 million shares at C$103 each under its C$900 million substantial issuer bid.
Toronto-Dominion Bank is seen by analysts and investment bankers as the most likely buyer of Royal Bank of Scotland Groups U.S. operation, RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. RBS is facing pressure from the British government to sell the operation.
Petrominerales said it has made a light-oil discovery in two zones of its Sheshea-1X well in Peru.
TransCanada, which idled its Keystone Pipeline last Wednesday after finding an unspecified anomaly on the line in Missouri, has now pushed the restart back to Monday, according to reports. It first planned to restart Saturday, but pushed expectations to Sunday.


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Hey there, fellow flat-foots! While we're stuck at home waiting out the War (that would be World War II, of course), the hottest ticket on the homefront is that triumphant trio, The Apple Sisters. Based in Los Angeles, the three ladies sing, they dance, and they will have you laughing and cheering. We hopped on the train from New York to interview 'em, and several weeks later, there we were, backstage at an Apple Sisters show chatting with Cora, Seedy, and Candy Apple. Fair warning, fellers, there's a little blue language, and you might see some knee.
Man Cave: Tell me about the Apple Sisters… How'd did you gals meet, anyway?
Cora: I've got this one, sisters. I've known these girls since I was born. I don't know if I can pinpoint the exact moment of meeting.
Candy: Cora, you dumb dullard!
Seedy: What Cora is TRYING to say is that we are SISTERS. We grew up together.
Candy: You call yourself a journalist. Let me see your credentials!
Man Cave: Whoa, ladies, whoa! Give me the rundown: each of you introduce yourselves, where you're from.
Candy: I'm Candy Apple, the middle child. I'm tough as nails and sassy for all the lassies. I just love my husband Cheryl who is a man fighting in the war overseas.
Seedy: Cheryl, that's a funny name for a boy.
Candy: Sure is. Hello, newspaper-reading lassies.
Seedy: Well, I'm Seedy, I'm the oldest. And I just love my boyfriend God, who is watching over us right now, whether you're answering questions for an article in the papers, or working in the factories.
Candy & Cora: Buzz Buzz Buzz boring!
Cora: I'm Cora Apple. I'm the dumb one. I'd love sailors so much because I just LOVE seamen! Yay!
Man Cave: You have a pretty unique live version of your radio show you do. For those who haven't been able to score a ticket yet, what can a theatergoer expect from an Apple Sisters show?
Seedy: First of all, WHAT are you DOING? You really should be getting on the first bus charter out to Hollywoodland to come see a live show!
Cora: For you first time Apple Sisters show fans, you can expect a big huge MESS! Our show is a MESS!
Candy: Cora is half right. Our shows are certainly messy. If we don't have pudding on our face, blowing bubbles with our mouths, or spitting corn, it's not an Apple Sisters show.
Seedy: An added bonus, you get top notch LIVE three part harmony, dancing, special guests from the stage and screen, AND a big huge mess for one low, low price!
Candy: And for those of you who just listen, I think you should know that YES, we are all as attractive as we sound.
Cora: Except Candy. She's got a face for radio.
Candy: Cora![youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLCYHQ8CcXM]
Man Cave: I bet all the boys in the service want to know if you're single, and if so, do they have a shot? And what about reporters, wink, wink?
Cora: YES! YES! And YES! I'm a cheap date.
Candy: You get what you pay for.
Cora: Hey!
Seedy: As I said before, I'm taken. I am in a steady relationship with the creator of man! We sometimes have long walks on water and I drink his blood, which he turns back into wine.
Candy & Cora: Ew, Seedy, gross!!
Candy: And sorry buster, even if I didn't have a husband, you'd never have a shot with me. But I have plenty of room in my life for some girlfriends, ladies??
Man Cave: I hear you gals just went into the studio and recorded at album, what can you tell us about that?
Candy: Now we're cooking with gas!
Seedy: Candy, gas is being rationed, it's 1943.
Cora: Which is also the name of our record! 1943! Available for purchase at our PO Box, TheAppleSisters.com
Candy: Oh readers, it's a real swell album, with a full live band and it includes many, MANY talented Apple Sisters pals including PAUL F. TOMPKINS! OLIVIA WILDE (House, Cowboys & Aliens), KATE MICUCCI (Garfunkel & Oates, Raising Hope), EBAN SCHLETTER (Mr. Show), and Grammy Award winning fiddle player SARA WATKINS!
Candy: And as always, we have our maestro on the piano, Jerome Kurtenbach.
Cora: It's an instant classic and you should purchase one today with all your ration stamps.
Candy: It's available three ways.
Cora: Just like most of my nights.[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8RaMH7vxHM]
Man Cave: You also have a radio show you do… Where can we check it out live? And is there any place online we can find it? By which I mean, we're happy to wait on a ration line to listen to your show.
Cora: You can see us every month at the Elephant Lab Theatre. Check our PO Box for details.
Seedy: Our Christmas show is available on our YouTube page (it's a VERY long tube with moving pictures) /applesisters – where Cora was proposed to by a seamen!
Candy: You can also listen to our monthly podcast (it's a new fangled word for radio show) available on iTunes (a tune of eyes?!)
Cora: You can even be a part of our podcast by answering our MAILROOM QUESTIONS on our Facebook page (a book of faces?!)
Man Cave: Any other thoughts to leave the boys–and gals–with? Any words you'd like to get to our men fighting overseas?
Seedy: Keep fighting the good fight! We are proud of you men, and when you return we'll burn the slacks we have and have supper on the table waiting for you! Meat and potatoes!
Cora: I love meat and potatoes!
Candy: To all you ladies out there, just know that I think of you and ONLY you every time I perform.
Seedy: You can support the Apple Sisters by purchasing a record, "liking" us on our book of faces, or coming to a live show. We're doing God's work afterall, entertaining our boys overseas.
Candy: Buzz Buzz Buzz snoozical!
Cora: Call me, sometime.
Candy: Let's get out of here "Sometime."
Seedy: Oh brother! Thanks for having us Alex and until next time…
(they sing)
We're the Apple Sisters
To All You Misters
Ouch! I gotta blister
Panties in a Twister
It's the Apple Sisters Variety Shooooooow!
In real life, the Apple Sisters are three fabulously talented comedians named Kimmy Gatewood, Sarah Lowe, and Rebekka Johnson. You can check out their new album, and more info, at TheAppleSisters.com.
Alex Zalben is the sinister mastermind behind New York's Comic Book Club every Tuesday night. Follow him on Twitter @azalben, or with your Spidey sense.


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Climate Change Delusion: Woefully Official [1]
Richard Littlemore [2] | July 11, 2008
By Richard Littlemore [2] • Friday, July 11, 2008 - 15:56
This story [3] is legitimately tragic, but it's far from the first case of climate change delusion. Have they never heard of Benny Peiser [4]? Larry Solomon [5]? Tim Ball [6]? The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley [7]? Bob Carter [8]?
Of course, these guys may not be delusional. They may just be lying. But that would involve a judgment rather than a diagnosis …. And either way, a certain sort of sickness abounds.


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Toshiba Libretto W100 review: First look
We take a look at Toshiba's dual screen Libretto W100 to see what all the fuss is about.
Any resemblance between the rumoured Microsoft Courier device and Toshiba's new twin-screen multi-touch tablet is entirely co-incidental, according to Toshiba, which claims that the Libretto W100 was developed independently.
This is the tablet that Toshiba hinted at back in the spring and it's certainly different from anything else on the market. The two 7in screens open like a normal notebook, Windows 7 starts up on the top screen like any other notebook and the second screen looks like a keyboard.
In fact it looks like six different keyboards. Tap an icon and it switches between a standard keyboard, one with larger keys, one with the full function key layout, a numeric keypad and two styles of split keyboard that let you hold the Libretto in both hands and type with your thumbs instead of sitting down at a table.
Haptic feedback and XT9 predictive text help make your typing more accurate and the choice of keyboards means you can switch to whichever one suits you best. There are also dedicated buttons for cut, copy, paste and other handy tools, although with a touch screen the virtual track pad seems a little pointless.
It's not as good as a physical keyboard, but we found it more accurate than the keyboards on many 7in netbooks.
Although you get all the touch features of Windows 7, like gestures to copy, paste, undo and open jump lists, you don't get one key feature. There's no pen with the W100 and we couldn't get handwriting to work - athough you can use your finger to draw diagrams in Office 2010 or finger painting in Paint. Toshiba says the screen size wouldn't suit handwriting and you'd have to keep a stylus in the leather case, but it's a shame not to get the option.
• Intel Pentium U5400
• Two 17.8cm (7") multi-touch displays with LED backlight, 1,024 x 600 pixels
• WLAN (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Mobile Broadband (optional)
• 1x USB 2.0
• MicroSD-Card Reader
• Virtual software keyboard
• Built-in accelerometer to automatically switch from book mode to laptop mode
• 1 megapixel webcam
• Toshiba LifeSpace for dual screen user interface
• Toshiba Media Controller
• Size: 202mm x 123mm x 30.7mm
• weight: 819g
• battery life: 3-4 hours
• Windows 7 Home Premium
• Toshiba Eco Utility
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Munchi's Bringing Hard Moombahton to Grand Central on June 9
Miami should be all about moombahton.
You know you love lazy Latin rhythms, reggaeton swagger, booming bass, and killer house beats. And moombahton's got it all. It's loud, colorful, and sexy. Just like us!
Well, check it out -- Munchi, the young Dominican member of Diplo's Mad Decent crew, will be laying down a special night of Moomba mayhem at Grand Central on Saturday, June 9. And he'll be joined by local boys Mike Deuce, GTA's JWLS, and Atrasolis.
The story goes that Munchi put some tunes together and sent them to moombahton inventor Dave Nada, who was totally impressed. And from that moment, the young Dominican's productions became a staple of moombah compilations, eventually landing him a spot on Diplo's label.
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No doubt, it's gonna be a hard night with lots of bass and tons of babes. So play your cards right, dance till dawn, and you'll probably get lucky. 'Cause Miami loves booty beats.
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HAMPTON — A special New Year's Eve fireworks display sponsored by the Hampton Beach Village District will be held on the beach at the top of B-C Streets. This family-oriented event is planned for 8 p.m. on Tuesday, weather permitting.
The Blue Ocean Society will provide coffee, hot chocolate, and cookies before the show at its office at the top of D Street.
The restrooms at the Seashell Stage will be open to the public for this event.
In addition, the N.H. Division of Parks and Recreation will be hosting an open house from 7 to 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday at the Seashell Oceanfront Pavilion at Hampton Beach State Park. Refreshments will be served and fireworks will begin at 8 p.m.
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Latest Battersea Power Station Development plans feature 'affordable' homes
Published by Anonymous for 24dash.com in Housing and also in Development
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The plans for the next phase of the regeneration of Battersea Power Station have been revealed.
Phase three will include over 1,300 new homes, 103 of which will be made available at 'affordable' prices.
Following an international design competition held in September 2013, architectural firms Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners were chosen for the designs they had for new homes and a pedestrianised retail street in the area to the south of the iconic building.
Phase three is a key part of the regeneration of the Battersea site, and will feature a new high street for London, to be known as 'The Electric Boulevard'.
This will be the main gateway to the entire Battersea development, connecting the Northern Line Extension station with the power station itself, and is at the heart of the new community being created on the 42-acre site.
The site's new homes will be in a range of sizes and styles in two zones on either side of the boulevard.
In addition, a 160-room hotel and 350,000 sq ft of retail and restaurant space plus additional leisure space will be delivered as part of the proposals.
Gehry Partners has worked on projects such as the Guggenheim in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in the practice's home city of Los Angeles.
The firm has designed five buildings to the east of The Electric Boulevard, to be known as 'Prospect Place', which will house double-height retail units at street level, approximately half of the planned residential units, a community park and multi-use community hub.
Rob Tincknell, CEO of Battersea Power Station Development Company, said: "We have set out to make Battersea a showcase for the world's very best architects and the designs we are unveiling today demonstrate that commitment in action.
"Phase three is an important part of our plans for the Power Station site, creating a new thoroughfare which will be at the heart of the new vibrant community. We are determined to create a genuine sense of place, and developing landmark buildings in which people are proud to make their home and work in is vital to us achieving that aim."
Frank Gehry, founder of Gehry Partners, said: "Our goal from the start has been to create a neighbourhood that connects into the historic fabric of the city of London, but one that has its own identity and integrity. We have tried to create humanistic environments that feel good to live in and visit."
The Battersea Power Station master plan, designed by Rafael Vinoly, comprises over 3,400 homes as well as offices, shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, hotels, community and leisure facilities and 18 acres of open space.
Work began on phase one of the development, known as Circus West, in July 2013 while work on the restoration of the Grade II listed power station itself is gathering pace, with the reconstruction of the first of the iconic chimneys to the original specifications set to start shortly.
Ed Vaizey, Culture Minister, said: "Battersea Power Station is an iconic site and the unveiling of this exciting new design by Frank Gehry and Foster + Partners will ensure the development of this former industrial site will put Battersea on the world stage once again.
"The plans for a new high street for the capital show that London continues to attract the best in terms of architecture, design and innovation."
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Here's an oddity from back in the late '80s/early'90s:
I remember this being out, but I don't think I've ever held a copy in my hand. You'd think it would be worth more than this.
There are two WATCHMEN parodies scheduled to ship soon... WATCHMENSCH and ...-uh-... I can't remember the other one. Everything old is new again, eh?
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