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Cannes, France, was the place to be this week as tons of celebrities kicked off their new films and smoozed with fellow actors, actresses, directors, models and the rich and famous.
Israeli model Bar Refaeli hit the red carpet for the screening of "The Beaver." Bar and Leonardo DiCaprio recently ended their relationship. They got together in 2005 and split four years later. They rekindled their relationship, but now have broken up for good.
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Is it me, or are the people of Wales – a major contributor of British television in the 21st century – getting a little complacent about producing Doctor Who and other top BBC shows?
A former BBC head of programming, Richard Lewis, has declared that the BBC has "lost direction in Wales†– despite attracting jobs and awards.
"In my day we made important programmes on subjects like Dylan Thomas and Nye Bevan.
"It's all very nice for Cardiff to make programmes like Doctor Who, Torchwood and Casualty but does it do anything for Wales? My view is no.â€
This rather barmy outlook – when BBC Wales have made ongoing Welsh dramas such as Belonging – seems to indicate that Mr Lewis would prefer Welsh unemployment and insular programming.
Meanwhile, a disgruntled resident of Llandaff has complained to the local press thta he didn't get tickets to view a preview of The Eleventh Hour.
Why should he, you might ask? Well, the BBC very kindly issued tickets to residents of the town following filming of the first episode of the new series, and Mr Steve West of the picturesque village reckons the BBC should have been more careful with their random invitations.
"I feel really upset and really let down by this,†he said. "The BBC does not care about whether the people who have tickets are from Llandaff or not.
"I think it's only right the BBC check ID and turn away anyone who is not from the area.â€
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On February 5, Major League Soccer announced something which had been rumored for quite some time: international soccer icon David Beckham is going to bring a new soccer club to Miami.
But wait, didn't there used to be an MLS club in Miami? Indeed there was. The Miami Fusion was formed in 1997, competed from 1998-2001, and ultimately dissolved in 2001.
After MLS failed once already in Miami, is it possible for the league to have a successful club in south Florida?
My answer is a resounding yes, and here's why:
Today's MLS is not the MLS of 1998-2001
When Major League Soccer began its first season in 1996, all 10 clubs had previously paid a franchise fee of $5,000,000 to join the league. Miami paid a steeper price prior to its first season, shelling out $20,000,000 to join the league.
Fast forward to present day to see how much the value of MLS clubs has grown. New York City FC paid $100,000,000 to join the league in May of 2013.
In November of 2013, Forbes released a valuation of MLS clubs around the league. Eleven of 19 are either turning a profit or breaking even, while every single one is valued at $64 million or higher. (Seattle leads the way at $175 million.)
Today's Miami is not the Miami of 1998-2001
The new Miami club will be located in Miami-Dade County, the seventh-most populous county in the United States. This is a county which has changed dramatically since the Miami Fusion called it home.
In the year 2000, the approximate population of the Miami-Dade County residential area was 2,253,362. The county's median household income was $23,483.
Fast forward to present day (2012 census) and we see that the approximate population of the county is 2,591,035 (15 percent increase). Even more impressive is the fact that the median household income in the country is $43,464 (85 percent increase).
Not only has the county grown larger, but its average family has seen a significant increase in disposable income. Will that lead to more fans supporting the club financially? Only time will tell, but these facts are promising.
The club may be named Miami Vice
Yep. In the near future, this name may be known for more than just white pants and fighting crime. Take a look at a possible logo and kit design here, courtesy of the Palm Beach Post.
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You know who kicks ass? Shakespeare does. I enjoy pop culture as much as the next guy in line to buy a ticket to see Pirates-Transformers-Die-Hard-Potter-Shrek III: The Movie, but there are often times when I need my entertainment to be a little less escapist and a little more challenging.
Dellis and I (along with #1 son) attended (at the invite of Paul Skolnick) the Shakespeare by the Sea production of "The Taming of the Shrew" over the weekend.
This is the third year we've hit the show and I'm thinking this production has been my favorite so far. So, KER-POW! Score big two-fisted points for me in my battle against the dumbing down of literary and cultural entertainment (yeah, take that Pierre Bourdieu).
It's hard to believe that I've seen enough Shakespeare to be able to compare productions. Maybe even harder to believe my appreciation has grown to the point where I actually have favorites ("Much Ado About Nothing", "Romeo and Juliet", and "Hamlet" thank you).
Okay, maybe not all his most challenging works. At least I'm talking real stage productions and not the Muppet or Leonardo DiCaprio versions.
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Feast Day of the Angelic Doctor
As a highly Pagan poet said to me: "The Reformation happened because people hadn't the brains to understand Aquinas." The Church is more immortally important than the State; but the State has its rights, for all that. This Christian duality had always been implicit, as in Christ's distinction between God and Caesar, or the dogmatic distinction between the natures of Christ.
But St. Thomas has the glory of having seized this double thread as the clue to a thousand things; and thereby created the only creed in which the saints can be sane. It presents itself chiefly, perhaps, to the modern world as the only creed in which the poets can be sane. For there is nobody now to settle the Manichees; and all culture is infected with a faint unclean sense that Nature and all things behind us and below us are bad; that there is only praise to the highbrow in the height. St. Thomas exalted God without lowering Man; he exalted Man without lowering Nature. Therefore, he made a cosmos of common sense; terra viventium; a land of the living.
His philosophy, like his theology, is that of common sense. He does not torture the brain with desperate attempts to explain existence by explaining it away. The first steps of his mind are the first steps of any honest mind; just as the first virtues of his creed could be those of any honest peasant.
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It is worth recalling Etienne Gilson's comments on Chesterton's biography of St Thomas.
"I consider it as being without possible comparison the best book ever written on St. Thomas. Nothing short of genius can account for such an achievement. Everybody will no doubt admit that it is a "clever" book, but the few readers who have spent twenty or thirty years in studying St. Thomas Aquinas, and who, perhaps, have themselves published two or three volumes on the subject, cannot fail to perceive that the so-called "wit" of Chesterton has put their scholarship to shame. He has guessed all that which they had tried to demonstrate, and he has said all that which they were more or less clumsily attempting to express in academic formulas. "
I have started Etienne Gilson's Elements of Christian Philosophy. I will admit that it has been on the shelf for awhile. Just couldn't get past the first chapter. Then, as a lark, I read it out loud. Ah, what a difference. Maybe I'll try the same with Mr. Chesterton's treatment of the Angelic Doctor. It's been sitting awhile, too.
Wasn't it Stacy Trasancos that sighed longing for a relationship with the Catholic religion that went beyond the bookshelf?
One philosophic error of Aquinas, contrary to Chesterton, seems to be that he exhalted man while lowering God. Or that he at least opened the back door to humanism.
The critique I've come across is that Aquinas lacked a 'high' view of the Fall. He didn't take into account the profound effect the Fall had on our intellect. This seems to have elevated nature on a par with grace to where nature would soon dethrone grace, i.e. the humanist 'renaissance.'
It is important to distinguish between St Thomas's own teaching and that of some of his commentators, especially Suarez and his successors. They had talked of a "natural order," governed by Natural Law, consisting of truths accessible to unaided human reason, as something that can be kept separate from the supernatural truths revealed in the Gospel. This "two-tier" account of nature and grace was based on this view that the addition of "grace" was something super-added to a human nature that was already complete and sufficient in itself and apart from any intrinsic human need.
To rebut this misunderstanding of St Thomas was a central aim of the Nouvelle Théologie and united such such disparate thinkers as Blondel, Maréchal, the Dominicans, Chenu and Congar and the Jesuits, Lubac and Daniélou. Their central thesis was that the natural and the supernatural do not have utterly separate ends in and of themselves and that this is the teaching of St Thomas.
There's a line – it may in fact have been from Chesterton describing Thomists – that you learn more about them by reading their works than you learn about their subject. I don't see how you could fault Aquinas for errors in emphasis without having a full picture of his thinking. Aquiring that picture would take at least a lifetime – but oh, what a life it would be.
My one problem with Chesterton's book is that he set up Augustine and the Augustinians as the bad guys (or to put it better, the bearers of a less sane understanding). There may be truth in that. But I haven't been able to reconcile it with the fact that the Dominicans were essentially an Augustinian order.
Chesterton didn't like ambiguity or anything approaching a fideistic stance. So he would have held to that sentiment about Augustine. Chesterton liked that Aquinas affirmed the world and the mind and probably felt Augustine in some sense disparaged them both. But that was Chesterton–his personality and inclination.
St Augustine was a Platonist and, as Mgr Ronald Knox puts it, "The issue hangs on the question whether the Divine Fact is something given, or something to be inferred. Your Platonist, satisfied that he has formed his notion of God without the aid of syllogisms or analogies, will divorce reason from religion"


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WASHINGTON — Frustrated with the sluggish speed and high cost of their Internet service providers, the residents of Wilson, N.C., decided a few years ago to take matters into their own hands — they would simply build their own connection.
The city council unanimously voted in 2006 to create a fiber-to-home network that today provides affordable high-speed Internet to homes and businesses, connects schools, and even supplies downtown Wilson with free Wi-Fi.
Incumbent companies Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink were forced to lower their prices and upgrade their service to remain competitive.
Four other communities in the state also launched municipal broadband. Such enterprises irked big-time providers enough that, after years of lobbying and $1 million in campaign cash, North Carolina in 2011 passed a cable industry-backed law that makes it nearly impossible for any other municipality to do the same. (Time Warner Cable and CenturyLink did not respond to requests for comment.)
Two weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it intends to take a close look at overruling such state laws, which restrict the ability of cities and towns to build their own broadband networks in 20 states across the country.
The legal restrictions on municipal broadband are an "obvious candidate" for the agency's scrutiny as it seeks to enhance competition, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said.
"This is a very big deal," said Christopher Mitchell, director of the Telecommunications as Commons Initiative for the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. "The question will be where to draw the line — will they remove all barriers or just the ones that are really onerous?"
State laws resulting from Internet service provider-sponsored bills vary in severity across the country. Florida restricts community broadband by placing special taxes as well as profitability requirements that make it difficult to approve networks like Wilson's. In contrast, Pennsylvania does not allow municipalities to sell broadband services at all if a "local telephone company" already provides it, no matter how high the price or how poor the service.
"These restrictions are the result of intensive lobbying by incumbent Internet companies who don't want to see any kind of competition," said Matt Wood, policy director for the consumer group Free Press. "They have whole armies of people representing their interests."
The FCC's proposal to increase competition comes as the commission considers Comcast's bid to buy Time Warner Cable. The acquisition would unite two of the country's largest cable and broadband providers in what opponents say is effectively a monopoly on Internet service.
Public-private partnerships that make services like the hyped Google Fiber — already available in Kansas City, Mo. — possible could be shifting the balance of power away from the lobby for Internet service providers, known as ISPs. The same day the FCC said it would look at overruling state laws restricting public broadband, Google announced plans to bring its Fiber networks to an additional 34 cities.
The focus on possible ISP alternatives killed a Kansas bill last month that would have made it the 21st state with municipal Internet restrictions. The bill proposed by the Kansas Cable Telecommunications Association, whose members include Comcast, Cox and Time Warner Cable, outlawed community broadband services except in ambiguously defined "unserved areas."
It encountered such swift and vocal criticism from prominent companies including Google Inc. that it quickly lost support and its state Senate committee hearing was canceled.


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Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
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Parents need to know that this movie may be upsetting to some kids. The children in the movie are orphans who are continuously mistreated. There are constant scenes of peril and tension; though most of the violence is offscreen, we see the aftermath. An adult strikes a child and there are other assaults and murders and an apparent suicide. There is one scary surprise and several shots of creepy creatures, including rats, bugs, bats, and snakes. Some children will understand that this is intended as macabre humor but others will not, so parents should be particularly cautious about deciding whether the film is appropriate for their kids. Other parental concerns include some very crude language "said" by a baby ("shmuck," "bite me"), and a forced marriage with a 14-year-old (predatory, but only with regard to her money).
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LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS begins as a sugary but slightly off animated tale about the littlest elf, but Mr. Snicket soon interrupts, explaining that this will be quite a different kind of story. Violet (Emily Browning), an inventor, Klaus (Liam Akin), who reads everything, and 2-year-old Sunny (Kara and Shelby Hoffman), who loves to bite things, are on the beach when Mr. Poe (Timothy Spall) from the bank comes to tell them that their house has burned down and their parents have been killed. He drives them to their nearest relative, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey). The Count puts the children to work and tries to kill them, but no one listens when they try to explain what is going on. But they finally get removed from his custody and subsequent guardians include a kindly herpetologist (Billy Connelly) and a multi-phobic grammarian (Meryl Streep). Count Olaf keeps coming back (sometimes in disguise). He wants the Baudelaire fortune and is ready to kill -- or marry -- anyone he has to in order to get it.
Is it any good?
The whole movie is rather macabre. It may surprise some, but the Unfortunate Events series by Lemony Snicket (pseudonym of Daniel Handler) are wildly popular with school-age kids, though they may horrify tender-hearted parents. "These books are among the most unpleasant in the world," Snicket warns crisply on the dust jacket for the first three volumes, the basis for this film, "and if you do not have the stomach for such unpleasantries as a repulsive villain, a deadly serpent, cold cucumber soup, a terrible fire, and a doll named Pretty Penny, I would advise you to read three happy books instead." "Unfortunate events" is an understatement.
Some adults are genuinely horrified by the unabashedly creepy people in these books. It is disturbing to think of any children, even imaginary ones, being subjected to abuse. But Snicket's talent is in understanding his audience better than anyone past the age of 12 usually can. Watch how careful he is to create an atmosphere of menace while leaving what is, if you look for it, a very reassuring zone of protection around the children. Other than one slap, the children are never touched and they never appear to be rattled or upset. The very presence of the narrator itself adds a comfortable distance. And it is always clear that if the solution isn't found in one of Violet's inventions or Klaus' extensive knowledge from books, Sunny's powerful teeth will save the day.
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Families can talk about how we learn to respond to the unexpected, and the importance of having a Plan B (and Plans C through Z). Some kids will want to be reassured about who their guardians would be if something happens to their own parents. And families could talk about what messages they would want to read in a letter like the one from the Baudelaire parents and why books with such terrible abuse are so popular with kids.
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is ONLY ONE TOP SET really that productive ?
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Because Congress has yet to pass a supplemental funding bill, the Defense Department must start taking measures to ensure uninterrupted war operations, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said July 14.
If Congress doesn't act on the fiscal 2010 request for supplemental war funding, Defense Department employees may not get paid, Morrell said during a news conference.
Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is disappointed that Congress did not pass the supplemental spending bill before its Fourth of July break, Morrell told reporters.
"He's very concerned about the predicament that puts us in," he said. "And in order to assure that war operations are not interrupted, the services will now have to begin cash-flowing operating costs for war activities using their base budgets."
This means that the services will begin borrowing money from fourth-quarter accounts to pay for current obligations, but even that won't be enough, he added.
"We project that certain Army and Marine Corps accounts will run dry in August," Morrell said. "So we urgently need Congress to pass the supplemental [funding bill] before members leave town for the next break in August."
In the meantime, he added, the department is obligated to begin planning what to do if Congress does not pass the spending measure. "Needless to say, all of this is extraordinarily disruptive to the department," he said.
This is not the first time this has happened, Morrell said. "While we have faced this circumstance in years past, the situation we find ourselves in this year is much more difficult, because it comes so late in the fiscal year," he said.
The fiscal year ends Sept. 30.
"The department has a supreme obligation to protect this nation and support the hundreds of thousands of personnel that are deployed in harm's way," Morrell said. "We will take every step possible to fulfill these obligations in the months ahead until this matter is settled in Washington.
"It may involve asking a lot of hard-working people in this department to report to duty without an ability to pay them, or other extreme measures we would rather avoid. But we will get the job done, including in Iraq and Afghanistan and wherever else we operate around the world."
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Chris Wilson expects Explosive Lady to make a big impression on the track when she lines up at Newbury on Friday.
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NEWBURY: 2.20 Elm Park, 2.50 Langavat, 3.20 Mister Fizz, 3.55 EXPLOSIVE LADY (NAP), 4.30 Shingle, 5.00 Blue Waltz, 5.30 Gracious George.
NEWCASTLE: 2.00 Midnight Destiny, 2.30 Mr McLaren, 3.00 Summer Times, 3.35 Trinity Star, 4.10 Medicine Hat, 4.40 Shades Of Silk, 5.10 Red Shadow.
NEWMARKET: 5.25 Fieldsman, 6.00 Regal Parade, 6.30 Manshaa, 7.00 Sonnetation, 7.35 Robin Hood, 8.05 Tight Fit.
NOTTINGHAM: 2.10 Flash Fire, 2.40 Ligeia, 3.10 College Doll, 3.45 Above The Rest, 4.20 Scallop, 4.50 Modify, 5.20 Frosty Berry.
TRAMORE: 5.15 Collen Beag, 5.50 War Of The Pennys, 6.20 Line View, 6.50 Razia, 7.20 The Cub, 7.50 Monty Blue, 8.20 Xpectations.
DOUBLE: Explosive Lady and Regal Parade.
Explosive Lady can live up to her name by surging to victory in the feature event at Newbury.
Trained in Middleham by the eminently capable Karl Burke, this well-built filly made quite a splash at Ascot last month, when third in the Group Three Princess Margaret Stakes.
That run confirmed her undiluted promise, and she could feasibly find the Listed Bathwick Tyres St Hugh's Stakes a natural stepping stone towards bigger targets.
Explosive Lady was earmarked as a horse to follow at Nottingham in July, when she trounced a good-looking field by upwards of eight lengths on her debut over five five furlongs.
Better was to come later that month on the King George card at Ascot.
The daughter of freshman sire Alfred Nobel was held up by Martin Harley before trouble ensued two furlongs out, at which stage her jockey had to shuffle into the clear for a run.
Despite hanging to her right late on - a trait connections insist was naivety, rather than anything untoward - she responded really purposefully to get to within three and a half lengths of Osaila.
With the winner having already been earmarked as Guineas horse and runner-up Pastoral Girl due to run in the Lowther next week, the form should continue to be handsomely advertised throughout the rest of the season.
Moreover, the ground at Ascot was not too fast that afternoon, so even if there is further rain in Berkshire that should not knock her too severely off her stride.
In light of her Nottingham cakewalk, the decision to revert to five furlongs should not be an issue, either.
Explosive Lady has already been mentioned as a possible Cheveley Park horse in the autumn, so she really needs to be troubling the judge at Newbury to stand any chance of featuring at that grade.
There are just reasons, other than a sense of nostalgic loyalty, to support Regal Parade in the Anglian Home Improvements Handicap at Newmarket.
The Group One-winning 10-year-old is obviously not as sharp as he once was, but he should always be perceived as a threat when conditions are on the easier side of good.
Milton Bradley's old-timer has not been beaten that far at Epsom and at York this season, so the fires are still burning brightly.
And while he must shoulder top weight for this encounter, the chestnut son of Pivotal faces, at least on paper, his easiest challenge for many years.
That he is now 18lb lower in the handicap than when he last won a race - at Haydock in May 2013 - adds further lustre to his claims.
Trinity Star was unlucky at Beverley last month and would be a deserving winner of the bet365.com Handicap at Newcastle.
Michael Dods' inmate was pinched for room at a crucial stage in a 10-furlong handicap on the Westwood before he flew home to take second spot.
The form from that race may not account to a great deal, but Trinity Star has been in generally fine fettle all season and should not be unduly ruffled by a 2lb rise for that three-and-a-quarter-length reverse.
On-song sprinter Perfect Words must be followed in the yorkshire-outdoors.co.uk Handicap back at Catterick, with Above The Rest, a slightly unfortunate third at Kempton, nicely poised for victory in the Watch Racing UK Anywhere Maiden Stakes at Nottingham.


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While proclaiming, "It is not my practice to endorse any candidate for office…" in his July 8 letter to the editor, Anthony Renzoni identified Mr. Ken O'Brien as an attendee at a Holden Memorial Day service, a candidate for political office, a tarnisher of the memories of those we remember, and was deeply troubled by a statement Mr. O'Brien made and where he made it.
Conversely, he identified Kim Ferguson as Mr. O'Brien's political opponent and endorsed her gesture to set aside the campaign out of respect for Mr. Renzoni's fallen comrade.
Whether Mr. Renzoni realizes it or not, he has further politicized Memorial Day and used it, in his letters, to elevate one candidate and trash the other. And under the signature auspices of American Legion – Post 42 – Holden, no less.
As for Mr. O'Brien's statement that was so troubling to Mr. Renzoni, to wit: "I have the deepest respect and admiration for those who serve our country, but I believe the most important service to this great nation is in the political realm," seems to be the kind of statement former Vice President Dick Cheny would embrace. After all, he did pursue a political career after opting for five draft deferments to keep himself out of a war that was raging in Vietnam, and later extolling our troops as he sent them off to another war.
Mr. Renzoni goes on to say no campaign laws were broken and he's right. No laws were breached, everything was legal, including Cheny's five deferments, Mr. Renzoni's trashing letter and Mr. O'Brien's "faux pax," as determined by Mr. Renzoni.
As a veteran who enlisted in the Army in November 1950, reenlisted in 1956 and was honorably discharged in 1961, I can say, absolutely, I will defend the right of any American citizen to be obnoxious when it come to politics.
As for Kim Ferguson, I do congratulate her for not getting involved in this and I'm inclined to vote for her. There's a lot of hypocrisy going around these days. On that Memorial Day some vets addressed it, focusing on the fact that the same people are going back to the wars in the Middle East, again and again, some for their fifth tour. It's not right.
As my friend Joe Bove said, "Lip service is easy. Nit picking at a Memorial Day celebration is easy. It's picking up a rifle that's hard."
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Ben Slatter, Rutland Partners
Steven Chait, Burdale
Tim Hawkins, Centric Commercial Finance
Bob Henry, Matrix Private Equity Partners
Steve Merchant, Baker Tilly
Asset-based lending has been seen as a last resort in the past, yet has been hugely popular in the US for years. Do you think there's a stigma in the UK and mainland Europe?
Morrin: There's no real stigma but perhaps a lack of understanding of what it encompasses. You have three distinct propositions that sit within the Asset Based Finance Association (ABFA) marketplace: factoring, invoice discounting and asset-based lending. If you look at the history, life started with factoring, this evolved into invoice discounting and over the last five or six years this has evolved into ABL. ABL is very popular in the US and is less developed in the UK – nobody would dispute that. It's a learning curve and it takes people time to get used to a new proposition. ABL is easily the fastest-growing element in our portfolio.
Our activity levels have doubled in the last 12 months. You need the capability, the right people with the right skills and experience and you need to be able to market that effectively. So there's nothing holding it back or any reason why it should be seen as lender of last resort either. In any lending environment there are going to be some situations that are more difficult than others, and you will see the occasional failure. That's not a feature of the product, it comes down to businesses and their management.
Hawkins: ABL has secured its place around the private equity table – it is providing much needed liquidity and has become a mainstream offering. A lot of it comes down to education. Until private equity has done a deal using ABL, it's much easier to go the cash flow route because it's familiar territory. It's the route it has always taken until now. Once you can demonstrate that ABL works and once private equity firms try it, the proof is in the pudding. We're also seeing much larger transactions coming through, which has a lot to do with momentum – the more you do, the more you see. People start sitting up and taking notice of ABL deal structures, particularly if they also include a cash flow strip.
We are seeing a combination of repeat business and newcomers. There are those firms with companies in their portfolios that have breached covenants set at a time when conditions were far better. Now these businesses want to move from cash flow to ABL because the business has changed. These aren't necessarily bad businesses, they've just had trouble with cash flow covenants set when times were different.
You also have a lot of private equity houses that had to close deals purely with equity and are coming to us to put debt into the transaction post-deal. Additionally we have worked with a number of private equity firms who want to retire some loan notes and see ABL as a viable solution. Around 20 per cent of our business involves private equity, but we'd like to see that increase. Over the past three years that has grown because of the illiquid debt market. ABL has had a chance to make its mark because cash flow lending is expensive and has become difficult to obtain.
Why is ABL only now becoming more popular in Europe?
Chait: They're much more comfortable in the US with comprehensive ABL, lending against stock, debtors, plants and machinery and real estate in one package. The size of the respective markets is very significant, but the laws are also very different and that makes a huge difference. In the US, they don't have retention of title. It's much easier to lend against stock because title passes on delivery, whereas in the UK, lenders need to reserve for balances due to suppliers. Also they don't have the issue caused by the legal decision in the Brumark case in the US, whereas in the UK, to perfect your fixed charge, the lender needs to demonstrate control over the debtor proceeds.
In Europe other mechanisms are required, which differ from country to country, to ensure the requisite security is in place over the assets being financed. That all makes ABL more cumbersome in both the UK and Europe compared to the US. Across the Atlantic, lenders are now much more prepared to lend secured against stock and debtors in isolation (bifurcated facilities), which makes it more popular, and it works well alongside other providers of secured debt and equity in the capital structure. So it's easier to put in place in America, it's cheaper and it's secured, but only against specific assets. This type of structure is best suited to those businesses that are profitable, good performers. If we can get towards that we'll see much more growth over here.
As I said earlier, each country in Europe has different laws for taking and perfecting security, whereas the US doesn't have those obstacles. The popularity of the product is definitely growing over here and private equity is starting to realise that it has its advantages. It may be more cumbersome to set up than a leveraged finance product, but in situations where earnings are not as high as they were historically, it's a much better product for businesses because we're not focused on massive growth – we're focused on the assets that underpin our collateral.
Morrin: If you look at the ABFA statistics for Q4 2011, the stock security grew by ten per cent while plant, machinery and other assets grew by 95 per cent. So we'll see one element of the security base growing at a much faster pace than some of the others. Part of this is down to recently completed deals, particularly Speedy Hire. Once you get traction and a deal like that done then you find more will follow. People are learning.
Merchant: There's a growing understanding and fast-increasing level of collaboration between the private equity community and ABL providers. As an adviser it is clear the principal ABL players' knowledge and expertise in working with private equity has developed tremendously in recent years in both the lower-mid and mid-markets.
Yes, the lack of liquidity in senior debt markets has played its part in encouraging private equity to work more closely and regularly with ABLs. At the same time, there are many more ABLs with the people and skills to make these collaborations effective.


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We could argue all day about who's the greatest football player with ties to our region.
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But don't forget an Eastern New Mexico University quarterback whose passing records still stand after more than a quarter of a century.
Kevin Kott, now a branch manager for an investment firm in Carmel, Calif., never made the big time because he was slow afoot — but, oh, what a golden right arm.
Kott played two seasons for the Greyhounds — 1983-84 — and still has the school record for career passing yards (6,601), career touchdown passes (58) and most touchdown passes in a game (8).
He also engineered a 32-point come-from-behind win over East Central University on Sept. 15, 1984. That record may never be broken.
Kott was drafted in 1985 by the Arizona Wranglers of the United States Football League and signed a free-agent contract with the San Francisco 49ers prior to the 1986 National Football League season. But he never played a down with either team.
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There are now three full-time all-sports-talk radio stations in Chicago (the Score (AM 670; ESPN 1000: AM 1000; and The Game: FM 87.7) , and yet, even with 72 hours of sports programming to fill every day, not one of those stations has picked up the phone to ask the father of the sports-talk-radio-show in Chicago to contribute.
You may not have noticed, but he sure has. "I've obviously been blackballed," says Chet Coppock. "Does it hurt that nobody has reached out to me? Absolutely." It's not like he has left the market. He still has his fingers in the Chicago sports-media pie. "I host the Blackhawks heritage series – appearances with stars like Bobby Hull, Stan Mikita, Tony Esposito, Steve Larmer, Denis Savard, guys like that," he points out. "I host Notre Dame football at WLS radio. It's my 9th year doing that, and I love that too. Win or lose Notre Dame is always a story. And I've become a semi-regular on Rant & Rave with Fox (Ch.32)."
But what he really wants is one more shot at the format he helped create. "I'd love to have another shot at sports radio," he says, his eyes lighting up at the mere prospect. "I think it's excruciatingly dull right now – I mean it's never been this dull. "
And the never-dull Chet has been around long enough to remember. His sports-talk-radio show began in the early 80s after Chet was let go from his television gig. "Carol Marin wanted me out of Channel 5," he says now. "That's the reason I was let go. Plus they had this good looking Italian kid (Mark Giangreco) making a fraction of what I was making working in the sports newsroom. So they farmed my contract out to WMAQ radio as part of the settlement."
Chet convinced management to let him do a nightly sports-talk show. The show garnered enough of an audience that when the Loop was looking to start up a personality-talk station in the late '80s, Coppock was asked to come aboard too. Coppock on Sports now had a substantial lead-in every single night: Steve Dahl & Garry Meier. But it was still just a program, not a format.
The landscape changed forever in 1992, when the Score was the first station to realize it could focus an entire radio station around sports-talk. "I was the very first person the Score tried to hire," Coppock says. Chet turned them down and helped launch the Loop's own attempt at a sports-talk station instead. WMVP (AM 1000) went head to head against the Score.
"What I admired the most about the Score in those early days was they knew they couldn't compete with me as far as getting the big guests, so they invited everyone who was ticked off to vent on the air. They said, we are your open forum to express your anger. Where they did catch lightning in a bottle was hiring their midday show. I am number one as a solo act – I am Hulk Hogan, Mickey Mantle, George Halas and Joe DiMaggio as a solo act. But as a team – [Mike] North and [Dan] Jiggetts are bar none the greatest tag-team ever. They understood how do that kind of show, and ran with it."
Chet went to New York to work in television for a while ("I always wondered if I could hang with the big boys, and I discovered I could"), but when he came back, things had changed in Chicago. He was no longer the big dog. "I was almost hired by the Score again in 1998, but word leaked, and (Chet's former producer Dan) McNeil was quoted in the paper as saying 'I'll go to my grave before I work with Chet Coppock again.' I remember thinking – Listen you SOB, I gave you your first job at the Loop. Why won't you play ball with me?"
Fox Sports Net played ball with him for a couple of years ("the worst two years of my life"), and ESPN Radio (which is now on AM 1000) brought him in to host some shows there, but he left to join the ill-fated Web radio project with Mike North. When it blew up, he now had two sports talk stations in town that wouldn't touch him. "The Web radio (Chicago Sports Webio) fiasco hurt me and probably burned my bridges with ESPN," he admits. "I know I've burned a few bridges over the years. Anyone who works with creative tension, and who insists on winning, is going to burn bridges. But every station I've ever been with has made money with me."
Which is why Chet was sure he'd get a call when WGN general manager Jimmy de Castro announced a third sports radio station was coming to town. Not only did Chet think of himself as a proven revenue generator, de Castro was the one who had hired Chet back at the Loop in the '80s. Chet swears that is one bridge he never torched. "I've never had a conflict with him," he says. "I'm Jimmy's biggest fan. Nobody in their right mind bets against deCastro. It's like betting against Secretariat. I love Jimmy. But I ran into him at the United Center about a year ago, and he said he would give me an audience, and he hasn't. And that's painful. That really hurts."
Even though the phone isn't ringing, Chet isn't ready to hang it up. "I have no interest in retiring," he vows. "What am I going to do? Move to Florida and wear white shoes and a white belt and go to the early bird specials on Tuesdays? I'll never retire."
-Rick Kaempfer
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I have just recently moved back after 13 years doing talk radio in Dallas and until I saw this piece I for some reason, thought Chet was dead. Good to see he isn't. Although the idea of a Zombie Coppock is quite appealing to me. I worked with Chet, not that he would know me, I was just a coffee fetcher and he was…well…Chet Coppock. if he isn't the most uniquely Chicago sports personality of all time then who is? Looking over his social media feeds, he doesn't seem very active on either FB or twitter. The times have changed. You don't get a job in radio these days without having big social media numbers. I feel sports radio in Chicago owes him a great debt of appreciation but I am not sure anything more. I would bend over backwards to create a Chicago sports daily debate between the under Employed Mike North and Chet Coppock. Get those two guys in a studio with my team for an hour every morning, have them argue and debate some issues, then hack it up into about three different 2-5 min viral clips and release them via social media Daily at 9am 12pm and 8pm. Think a Chicagocentric viral PTI with the two biggest personalities in Chicago sports media. Reward people who share the posts with small prizes and do what all the smart talent is doing these days….kick management to the curb and own your own destiny! I don't believe Chet or Mike even have Youtube channels….My dog has a Youtube channel! How on Earth can these guys think they can compete with 20-30 year younger talent without being on the tech edge? Does Chet know what radio pays these days? He wont make 6 figures at any of the three big sports talkers…I can guarantee that. Not in his first contract back anyway. He will get 60 and a "good luck"; But ya certainly can make big money as a new media star. Just ask Justin Bieber. I am currently working with some other VERY BIG name, former Chicago personalities as well as a few in big D helping them understand what they can accomplish in new media. I would very much like to speak with him. Rick if ya could put Chet in touch with me that would be great. Another great piece from my new favorite author. Although I still like the one ya did on me best. : ) One last thing. I take this shit very seriously…. its how I keep my kid in a fancy private school in Austin. If Chet doesnt respect the power of what is potentially in front of him than I am not interested. If he doesn't understand that its less about the car radio and more about the ap these days then we have nothing further to discuss. I want to work with people who take this as seriously as I do. I think we could have a hit with Chet. Go ahead and try and steal this idea from me. Nobody knows this crap better than me. Ya get one shot. Pick the wrong producer and your done. If Chet needs some proof that I am not full of shit. Have him call our mutual friend, the legendary voice of the Dallas Cowboys and my favorite guy on Earth – Brad Sham. I am serious. : ) #reinventcos
Pugs I heard your Scary talents on WGN-FM,
the internet where a tiny fration of the audience listens suits you well
Bye Bye to that big, bombastic bag of wind from Chicago's airwaves. Why not ask Carol Marin and/or other people who had the misfortune of working around Chetty Chetty Bang Bang WHY they wanted him OUT? He may call himself "the godfather of sports radio" but he is also the Prince of Pompousness.


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Richard Lee "Dick" Wolfe, 82, of Canaan Valley, died Thursday Aug. 8, 2013 at Cortland Acres, Thomas. He was born in Clendenin, Jan. 3, 1931, the son of the late Alison R. and Iolene Thrash Wolfe. Richard is survived by his wife, Martha, whom he married Aug. 20, 1955. He was a veteran of the Korean War where he proudly served in the United States Air Force.
While a student at WVU, he became a brother of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity and remained a lifelong fan of the Mountaineers. Upon graduation in 1956, Richard was employed by Consolidated Natural Gas Company in Clarksburg. After retiring in 1990 as the vice president of human resources, he relocated to Canaan Valley.
There he was an active member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Davis. Richard served on several boards including United Hospital Center, Summit Center, United Way, Cortland Acres Association, Timberline Association and the Boys Scouts of America.
He was also a 50-year member of the Lions Club, and served as president of the Clarksburg and Thomas-Davis Clubs. Richard was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 40 and the Scottish Rite.
An avid golfer, he was a former member of the Clarksburg Country Club. Richard was preceded in death by a son, Richard II, and brothers, Rolly and Robert. Also surviving are a daughter Elizabeth (William) Fox, and five grandchildren, Alyssa Jayaram, Amanda Wolfe, Sarah Fox, Matthew Fox and Zachery Wolfe. Remembrances, if desired may be made to the Boy Scouts of America Allohak Council No. 618, 1340 Juliana Street, Parkersburg, WV 26101-3902. The phone number is (800) 654-5272 . Cortland Acres – Friends of Cortland Acres 39 Cortland Lane, Thomas, WV 26269.


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The routine placement of a pelvic drain following radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) may not be required. We describe our experience in 552 consecutive RRPs to emphasise the safety of this approach and explain our rationale for avoiding a drain when possible.
RRP was performed in 552 consecutive patients with clinically localised adenocarcinoma of the prostate between January 2002 and June 2005. Clinical and pathologic information was documented for each patient. After the prostate was removed and the anastomotic sutures tied, the bladder was gently filled with approximately 50 ml of saline through the urethral catheter. If there was no leak, a drain was not placed.
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If the bladder neck is preserved or meticulously reconstructed, there may be little extravasation and, thus, routine drainage is unnecessary. Our 4-year experience indicates that morbidity is not increased by omitting a drain from the pelvic cavity after RRP in properly selected cases.
Keywords: Prostate cancer, Prostatic neoplasms, Radical prostatectomy, Drainage, Surgery.
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Women planning a pregnancy are currently advised to take supplemental folic acid to reduce the risk of having a baby with neural tube defect, such as spina bifida.
Some countries such as the US have even introduced mandatory fortification of flour to ensure women have adequate folic acid in their diet.
However it is a matter of debate, whether this is a good idea. Some research suggests there may be a complex relationship between dietary exposure to folic acid and the risk of developing certain cancers.
New research now adds another dimension to this debate.
Food components including folic acid and vitamin B12 are known to be methyl donors.
This involves the addition of a methyl group to DNA, which in turn affects the activity of genes. Previous research on female Avy mice found that including a methyl donor in the maternal mouse diet influenced the gene activity in her pups, turning the pup's coats from yellow to brown.
Avy mice are also obese, hence Rob Waterland and colleagues from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US, conducted experiments to establish whether this too could be altered by epigenetics, specifically DNA methylation.
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From: Mike Elfant (michael.elfant cdph.ca.gov)
Many years ago, I decided the best way for me to remember this word would be to write a song about it. So I came up with a blues (with lots of innuendo) called "Numismatist". Here is one of the verses:
I wouldn't take no wooden nickels
Mike Elfant, Sacramento, California
From: Sonya Cashdan (SHCashdan aol.com)
Subject: numismatics
As my father was segueing from amateur to professional numismatist a few decades ago, my mother condensed her reactions thus:
My coin collection, laid out for inspection, a thing of great beauty to see,
My wife often lectures on coin collectors; her viewpoint is biased -- you see,
So she keeps insisting, while I keep resisting, and often our temperaments clash,
Sonya Cashdan, Paso Robles, California
What is it about numismatics that causes people to break into rhyme? Is it because coins jingle? Or money talks (and sings)?
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In the UK, nouveau pauvre has a more nuanced meaning than simply 'newly impoverished'. The nouveau riche are those who have acquired money and aspire to the lifestyle of the aristocracy, but without the knowledge to make 'tasteful' choices. Conversely, then, the nouveau pauvre are the old aristocracy who retain the knowledge to be 'tasteful', but lack the money to live as their forebears. NR means new stone lions at the gates of your owner-occupied council house: NP means old, crumbling stone lions at the Lodge House of your country estate.
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The infamous plague had two forms: bubonic and pneumonic. The bubonic form caused the ugly pustules called buboes, and could sometimes be treated by lancing them. The pneumonic form, caused by an airborne pathogen, was more aggressive. One could go to bed healthy and wake up the next morning at death's door.
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I mentioned this week's theme to a friend who speaks Yiddish. He replied, "Nu?"
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Best Of Lacrosse - Breakthrough Player of the Year Finalists
by Sean Burns | LaxMagazine.com | Twitter
Stepping up to the next level is something that happens at some point in every great player's career, often several times. There's the moment one becomes a great high school player after acclimiating to that level. Same with college, same with professionals - key moments lurk around the corner for anyone who is bold enough to snatch up the opportunity, and these five finalists did that this year and more.
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Kara Cannizarro, North Carolina
A second-team IWLCA All-America selection as a junior, Cannizaro was certainly not an unknown going into the season, but she blew up and helped lead the Tar Heels to their first-ever NCAA title, leading the team in goals, assists, points, game-winning goals, ground balls and caused turnovers. The monster year earned the Cazenovia, N.Y. native first-team All-America status from the IWLCA and the Honda Award, though she lost the Tewaaraton to Maryland's Katie Schwarzmann. She was also a finalist for the ESPY Award for women's college athlete of the year.
Eric Law, Denver University/Denver Outlaws
A deadly finisher, Law helped lead Denver to the NCAA semifinals, scoring the game-winner in the quarterfinals against North Carolina. He finished his Pioneers career ranked third in points in the school's Division I record book, despite playing his first collegiate year at Salisbury. After graduation, Law fit right in with the prolific Outlaws squad, finishing third among MLL rookies with 24 goals and setting a team record with a .632 shooting percentage. In the playoff loss to Charlotte, Law scored nine goals, including six of the first seven for Denver.
JoJo Marasco, Syracuse University/New York Lizards
Wearing the fabled No. 22 for Syracuse, Marasco had been a very good player for his first three years, netting 89 points and earning third-team All-American honors as a sophomore after a 23 goal, 18 assist year. This spring, however, Marasco broke out, breaking Paul Gait's single-season assist record for a Orange midfielder with 41 and earning Big East Midfielder of the Year honors and a trip to Washington D.C. as a Tewaaraton finalist. He had a solid finish to his summer with the New York Lizards, and was a last-minute add to the US Men's National Team tryout roster, making it through to the current training roster with hopes for playing in Denver next summer.
Drew Snider, Denver Outlaws
The 'Seattle Slinger' came into his own in his second MLL season, scoring 31 times with 46 points – both of which put him in the league's top 10 – and earning the league's Most Improved Player award this summer. His numbers were an improvement of 21 goals and 31 points from his rookie campaign in 2012 after helping lead Maryland to the NCAA finals.
Dillon Ward, Bellarmine
Fans of the Canadian Junior A league are no strangers to Ward's talent – he won Minto Cup titles with the Orangeville Northmen in 2009, '09 and '12 and was named the Robert Melville Memorial Award as Jr. A Outstanding Goalie in '08, '09 and '11. But he hadn't made a splash in the field game until this spring, leading Division I with a .662 saves percentage and finishing sixth in GAA (7.68) to earn ECAC Goalie of the Year honors and third-team All American honors for Bellarmine. Drafted by Ohio, Ward was traded to Hamilton where he served as Brett Queener's primary backup for the second half of the season and earned a tryout shot with Team Canada for next year's FIL World Championships.
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Buika Brings Unique Sound to the Music Center at Strathmore
Eve M. Ferguson | 4/2/2014, 3 p.m.
She goes by one name only. Buika.
If her name is unfamiliar now, once exposed to her unique vocal style, the name — and her sound — will stick.
Her full name is Maria Concepcion Balboa Buika, also known as Concha Buika, and her Spanish-language songs have earned her Grammy nominations for "Recording of the Year" for the song "La Nave del Olvido" and for her latest album La Noche Mas Larga for "Best Latin Jazz Album." Yet, to most on this side of the Atlantic, she is still largely unknown.
Described by critics as a Flamenco singer, perhaps due to the fact that she was born in Mallorca, Spain, the leonine-featured, 41-year-old songstress begs to differ.
"Well, I don't sing Flamenco style," she insists. "They say that I do. Some people say I do Flamenco, some say that I sing blues, some people say that I don't know. I never know what they hear when I sing. I don't call my music anything. I just sing."
On her latest, Buika works with her two main musical partners, pianist Ivan "Melon" Lewis and percussionist Ramon Porrina enhancing her extraordinary voice, which embraces the gritty, powerful nuances of the best Spanish Flamenco singers. But Buika goes beyond those confines to sing her own creations.
In fact, on La Noche Mas Largas, nearly half of the songs are original compositions by Buika which are actually credited to her. In the past, to her own admission, she has been so consumed with the artistry of singing those songs, that she allowed the business side of her work to go unchecked. By the time she reached her fourth recording – the first in 2007 was Mi Nina Lola (also a Grammy contender), followed by Nina de Fuego, and her essential 2-CD set En Mi Piel in 2011 – she learned enough of the industry to claim authorship of her own work.
Music came naturally to her, but she faced a childhood of hardship before she finally brought it out in public.
"I think I began singing before I could talk," she claims in her thick, Spanish-inflected accent. "My family all have musical capacity, but they chose other ways to make their living. But I heard music all day and all night at home. We are Africans."
Born to parents from Equatorial Guinea, Buika's father soon left the family and her mother had to raise Buika and her five siblings as a single mother. It was the advice of an aunt, who was looking for someone to take her place singing in clubs that catapulted Buika from singing around the house, to singing for audiences worldwide.
"It was tough," she said. "Those were hard times."
"I was around 15 or 16 years old. In my mama's house as a teenager, my aunt came over. She was a singer in hotels and resorts, and she said 'I think I am too old to sing in the clubs. Do any of your daughters sing?' And I saw that I could make a few bucks, so I was there," she adds. "I went out there, after always singing at home, and I started to invent and style my blues. It was too much money to say no. And the magic began. It was the first time in my life people listened to me and I got addicted. From then until now, I never stopped."
Since then, Buika has traveled the world, performing everywhere from Japan to Europe. And, she says, she has also lived in most of those places from Las Vegas to Spain. In 2011, she relocated to Miami, where she hopes to one day begin producing other singers. Until that dream materializes, she is content to spend her down time in the studio, and the rest on the road.
"To me, it has been an amazing discovery. I don't think language makes a difference. I think it is all music and it is all the same sound. Every song has its own secrets, and every song communicates what it should. You can understand everything that you need to."
Buika kicks off her North American tour on Sunday, April 6th at the Music Center at Strathmore before going on to New York, Philadelphia and Mexico City. For tickets and more information, visit www.strathmore.org.


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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Toddler Hair Talk
Monday, January 5, 2015
Back in October my husband and I found ourselves looking for a new pre-school for our daughter. Our initial goal was to have her in a new center by January 2015, but things didn't quite work out that way. We had two weeks to research, visit and make a decision. We've all heard the saying "when a door closes a window opens." (if you haven't, just follow along. lol) and that's exactly what happened when we chose the school CB is currently attending.
Thrifting and Fall Fashion
Friday, September 26, 2014
Hi guys! How have you been? It's been a minute since I've posted. Since my kids started school and another project I've been working on, life for me has been on fast forward! I wish it would slow down some days, but I'm totally not complaining! As the weather begins to change, I've been keeping my eyes peeled while out thrifting for a few cute additions to my fall wardrobe.
So you can image how I felt when I saw this jacket! My heart dropped!
So you can image how I felt when I saw this jacket! My heart dropped!
Cheesy Shrimp Nachos
Friday, June 27, 2014
Every Friday at my house, there's the battle at 6:00 p.m. asking "What are we going to eat for dinner??" No one knows what they want, but everyone knows what they don't want. Since I've thought of and prepared meals from Sunday through Thursday, I'm simply not in the mood to offer suggestions.
Cute and Chic Turban
Saturday, May 24, 2014
I hope you all are ready for me and my thing for scarfs as of lately. I like the creativity behind tieing one that looks effortless and chic. They're also great when some days, the real truth is I just don't want to do my hair.
How To Tie a Retro Head Scarf
Friday, May 16, 2014
I adore a pretty scarf and whenever I'm out thrifting, I try to pick up a few. They're great quality and you can get scarves for less than a dollar most times. I really start collecting them once the weather begins to warm up.
3 Much Needed Reality Checks
Friday, May 9, 2014
It's bad enough that young boys and girls deal with real life peer pressure, but the reality that in today's middle schools, how popular you are is measured by how many "likes" you have on your Instagram pictures is a whole other issue that requires some serious reality checking!
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Pear Apple Cheddar Pancake {grain-free, fruit-sweetened}/
Crispy fall fruit. Sweet and salty baked pancake. Dessert for breakfast.
Growing up, weekend breakfasts were always a treat. I remember waking up on Saturdays and helping my dad make his famous pancakes. He usually made griddlecakes and sometimes we would even take our camping stove to the beach. He also made the most fabulous apple pancake. This is my seasonal twist on the classic apple pancake adding salty cheddar cheese for contrast. This is more of a fruit soufflé rather than a heavy flour pancake.
Apples and pears are starting to be in peak season right now and add color and sweet taste to any dish. This dessert for breakfast is entirely fruit sweetened. Top with yogurt, whipped cream or maple syrup if desired. Enjoy with a cup of your favorite tea or coffee with pumpkin spice creamer for a cozy fall breakfast!
Bon appetit!
Pear, Apple, Cheddar Pancake
- 2 Bosc pears, slightly underripe
- 1 Granny Smith apple
- 2 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 5 eggs
- 1/2 cup coconut milk or kefir
- 3 tbsp Almond Flour
- 1 cup Dubliner cheddar cheese or sharp cheddar, shredded*
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Over medium heat, melt butter in a 9-inch skillet.
- Peel, core and thinly slice fruit. Briefly sauté fruit in butter, lemon juice and cinnamon for 5-8 minutes.
- In a mixing bowl, whisk eggs, kefir, and almond flour to a smooth batter.
- Pour batter on top of fruit and sprinkle cheese on top.
- Bake for 30 minutes or until the top is bubbly and golden brown.
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- 1 cup shredded cheese is about 4 oz. There should be enough cheese to cover the top of the pancake. Dubliner cheddar is a mature cheese with the sweet tones of swiss and the salty, aged flavors of Parmesan. This particular cheddar adds the perfect salty flavor to balance the sweetness of the fruit.
- Any sharp cheddar cheese will do the trick, however look for cheese that is either raw or made from grass-fed milk (read here for the nutritional importance of grass-fed meat and dairy). Kerrygold has great grass-fed cheeses and you can even find them at Costco.
- For more raw cheeses, click here.