text: Establishing Protection Intro to IP – Prof. Merges 3.15.2012 [originally scheduled for 3.12.2012] Categorizations Trademark Category • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • TENDER VITTLES (cat food) ROACH MOTEL (roach trap) CHAP STICK (lip balm) VISION CENTER (optical store) BEER NUTS (snack food) FAB (laundry detergent) BOLD (laundry detergent) STRONGHOLD (nails) CITIBANK (banking services) NUTRASWEET (sweetner) Descriptive Suggestive Descriptive Descriptive Descriptive Arbitrary Suggestive Suggestive Suggestive Descriptive Statutory basis: registration of descriptive marks Except as expressly excluded in paragraphs . . . of this section, nothing in this chapter shall prevent the registration of a mark used by the applicant which has become distinctive of the applicant's goods in commerce. -- Lanham Act sec. 2f, 15 USC 1052(f) Trade Dress & Product Design Trade Dress Product Design Trade Dress Protection Lanham Act § 43(a), 15 USC 1125(a) Any person who shall affix, apply, … or use in connection with any goods or services … a false designation of origin … , and shall cause such goods or services to enter into commerce … shall be liable to a civil action …. Two Pesos v. Taco Cabana 505 U.S. 763 (1992) Taco Cabana Trade Dress Word Mark TACO CABANA Goods and Services IC 042. US 100 101. G & S: FAST FOOD RESTAURANT SPECIALIZING IN MEXICAN FOOD. FIRST USE: 19870615. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19870615 Standard Characters Claimed Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK Serial Number 85531206 Filing Date February 1, 2012 Prior Registrations 1581970;1778181;1978245;AND OTHERS Serial Number 85531206 Mark Drawing Code (3) DESIGN PLUS WORDS, LETTERS, AND/OR NUMBERS Design Search Code 26.03.17 - Concentric ovals; Concentric ovals and ovals within ovals; Ovals within ovals; Ovals, concentric 26.03.21 - Ovals that are completely or partially shaded Serial Number 85234033 Filing Date February 4, 2011 IPNTA 5th p 764 n. 1 Trade dress' is the total image of the business. Taco Cabana's trade dress may include the shape and general appearance of the exterior of the restaurant, the identifying sign, the interior kitchen floor plan, the decor, the menu, the equipment used to serve food, the servers' uniforms and other features reflecting on the total image of the restaurant. Two Pesos (cont'd) • Findings of the District Court – Taco Cabana has an identifiable trade dress – The trade dress is non-functional – The trade dress is inherently distinctive – The trade dress has not acquired secondary meaning Sec. 1114 (Lanham Act sec. 32). Remedies; Infringement; Innocent Infringement by Printers and PublishersSec. 1114 (Lanham Act sec. 32) (1) Any person who shall, without the consent of the registrant — (a) use in commerce any reproduction, counterfeit, copy, or colorable imitation of a registered mark . . . . • [I]t is common ground that §43(a) protects qualifying unregistered trademarks and that the general principles qualifying a mark for registration under §2 of the Lanham Act are for the most part applicable in determining whether an unregistered mark is entitled to protection under §43(a) – IPNTA 5th ed p. 765 IPNTA 5th at 767 The protection of trademarks and trade dress under §43(a) serves the same statutory purpose of preventing deception and unfair competition. There is no persuasive reason to apply different analysis to the two. Sec. 1125 (Lanham Act sec. 43). (1) Any person who, on or in connection with any goods or services, or any container for goods, uses in commerce any word, term, name, symbol, or device, … or any false designation of origin, … which — (A) is likely to cause confusion, or to cause mistake, or to deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of such person with another person, or as to the origin, sponsorship, or approval of his or her goods ... Shall be liable Inherently Distinctive? Defendant's argument • Factual finding: No secondary meaning has been established – In the relevant market – Consumers do not associate this trade dress with a unique source Supreme Court: Irrelevant • Inherently distinctive trade dress is as protectible as inherently distinctive words or symbols • No basis in statute to distinguish trade dress from other types of trademarks Qouting 5th Cir with approval • "… the legal recognition of an inherently distinctive trademark or trade dress dress acknowledges the owner's legitimate proprietary interest in its unique and valuable informational device . . ." – IPNTA 5th at 766 What about "depletion" argument? • Sup Ct: We always have functionality . . . • Functional trade dress cannot be protected Korean Barbecue What about product designs? • Same issues? • Any distinctions? Inherently Distinctive? Jeans Pocket design – secondary meaning must be proven Walmart v Samara • Children's clothing designs • Product design as opposed to packaging or trade dress • What are the requirements for establishing protection for trade dress? Samara Clothing Design IPNTA 5th 771 • These courts have assumed, often without discussion, that trade dress constitutes a ''symbol'' or ''device'' for purposes of the relevant sections, and we conclude likewise. ''Since human beings might use as a 'symbol' or 'device' almost anything at all that is capable of carrying meaning, this language, read literally, is not restrictive.'' Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Products Co., 514 U.S. 159, 162 (1995). • Nothing in §2, however, demands the conclusion that every category of mark necessarily includes some marks ''by which the goods of the applicant may be distinguished from the goods of others'' without secondary meaning—that in every category some marks are inherently distinctive. • It seems to us that design, like color, is not inherently distinctive. The attribution of inherent distinctiveness to certain categories of word marks and product packaging derives from the fact that the very purpose of attaching a particular word to a product, or encasing it in a distinctive packaging, is most often to identify the source of the product. • Trade dress in a single color or in product shape or design can never be inherently distinctive. Wal-Mart "Competition is deterred, however, not merely by successful suit but by the plausible threat of successful suit, and given the unlikelihood of inherently source-identifying design, the game of allowing suit based upon alleged inherent distinctiveness seems to us not worth the candle" Rule against inherent distinctiveness • Designed to facilitate SJ in favor of defendant/trade dress copier • NOT the same as saying that trade dress may never be registered • But – must prove secondary meaning And in Wal-Mart, we were careful to caution against misuse or overextension of trade dress. We noted that 'product design almost invariably serves purposes other than source identification.' TrafFix Devices, Inc. v. Marketing Displays, Inc. 532 U.S. 23 (2001) Consumer predisposition "[W]e think consumer predisposition to equate the feature with the source does not exist. Consumers" do not associate product design with source, but with product features. -- IPNTA 5th 772 • "Consumers should not be deprived of the benefits . . . ." • Difficult to design a test for inherent distinctiveness • Functionality should also be a defense in relevant cases Err on the side of . . . • Caution: classify trade dress as product design • Do not allow inherent distinctiveness in a close case Aromatique, Inc. v. Gold Seal, 28 F.3d 863, 31 U.S.P.Q.2d 1481, 1483 (8th Cir. 1994): "The difference between trade dress and trademark is no longer of importance in determining whether trade dress is protectable by federal law. … Indeed, trade dress may now be registered on the Principal Register of the PTO." Registered: Thermostat Design Registration No.: 1622108 Filed: 1986-05-09 Registered: 1990-11-13 Published: 1988-11-29 Renewal Accepted: 2000-11-13 Will Expire: 2010-11-132000-11-13 First Used: 1952-00-00 OG Renewal: 2010-07-132001-03-06 Goods - Services: (INT. CL. 9) THERMOSTATS International Class(es): 09 (Electrical and scientific apparatus) First Used: 1952-00-00 HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC. 101 COLUMBIA ROAD MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY 079622245 Affidavit Section: REGISTERED - SEC. 8 (10-YR) ACCEPTED/SEC. 9 GRANTED Affidavit Date: 2010-06-04 Zippo Lighter Design Trademark Reg. No. 1,959,544 (Reg. March 5, 1996) Beebe, Cotter, Lemley, Menell & Merges


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FORMER England boss Sven Goran Eriksson has been snubbed by Ukraine.
The Swede will not have the chance to wreck his old team's World Cup dreams after losing out as coach to Mykhaylo Fomenko.
Ukraine are unlikely to reach the 2014 finals but could have a key say in Roy Hodgson's men qualifying as they travel to Wembley in Group H in September.
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Affiliations: Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, PA,
University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands
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We read with great interest the article by Ganushchak and associates (June 2004).1 The authors have investigated the correlation between the combinations of hemodynamic events during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and the development of postoperative neurologic complications. The authors have utilized cluster analysis to review 1,395 perfusion charts, and have concluded that CPB procedures with large fluctuations in hemodynamic parameters have an increased risk for the development of postoperative neurologic complications.
We would like to make a few comments for this important investigation. First, it is well documented that the number of emboli (micro and macro) delivered during CPB has a direct correlation with the postoperative neurologic dysfunction.2–3 The duration of CPB also has an impact on the number of emboli delivered during CPB; the longer the duration, more emboli delivered.4 According to Table 2, the duration of CPB was much longer in one group with postoperative neurologic complications (n = 27) compared to the no-complication group (103 ± 43 min vs 82 ± 33 min, p = 0.01 [± SD]). The only way to quantify the number of microemboli during CPB is to use transcranial Doppler (TCD) monitoring. Did Ganushchak and associates use TCD monitoring during CPB?
Second, the authors have used two different hollow-fiber membrane oxygenators in this investigation. One wonders whether or not there was any significant difference between the oxygenators in 27 patients with postoperative neurologic complications. In 27 patients, did the authors calculate how many times one oxygenator was used vs the other oxygenator? Were there any significant differences between the two oxygenators?
Last, the authors have documented that the majority of patients with postoperative neurologic complications (21 of 27 patients) coincide with postoperative cardiac arrhythmias. It is not clear whether the neurologic complications were secondary to cardiac arrhythmias or not. The cause of postoperative neurologic complications in these 21 patients was probably due to ventricular arrhythmias rather the CPB procedure.5 We congratulate the authors for applying cluster analysis to this particular patient population, and we also believe that large fluctuations in hemodynamic parameters during CPB has caused significant postoperative neurologic risks.5
First, we thank Drs. Luo and Ündar for their comments on our investigation, and acknowledge them for recognizing the interest and importance of our article. In answer to the first comment, we like to express that we also recognize the fact that the number of emboli (micro and macro) delivered during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) could have an impact on the incidence of postoperative neurologic complications. Unfortunately, we were unable to use transcranial Doppler (TCD) routinely in our patients. However, a longer CPB procedure is theoretically accompanied by a higher number of emboli delivered, as was described previously.1–2 Therefore, although we did not use TCD, one could hypothesize that the aforementioned is confirmed by our findings as presented in Table 2. However, the large difference in number of patients in our study (27 patients with postoperative neurologic complications vs 1,368 patients without neurologic complications) made the results of the analysis of variance test suspicious. That is why we used cluster analyses, and in the sequence of these analyses the impact of duration of CPB on the development of postoperative neurologic complications disappeared. Nevertheless, microremobilization of cerebral vessels during CPB could be one of the factors explaining the significance of fluctuations in hemodynamic parameters in the increased risk for the development of postoperative neurologic complications. It is well documented that good blood flow through the brain might hasten the clearance of microemboli, and increased perfusion pressure during CPB has been proposed as a means of forcing air bubbles through the cerebral microcirculation.3 It is obvious that fluctuations in perfusion pressure could often provoke the stabilization of an embolus in a cerebral vessel and increase the duration of hypoxia and extend the area of hypoxic damage.
Second, the type of oxygenator indeed could affect the rate of microemboli during CPB4 and, in this way, be related to the incidence of postoperative neurologic complications. The two types of oxygenators used in our patients were used in sequence. Although the influence of oxygenator type on postoperative neurologic complications was beyond the scope of our study, we evaluated whether there was any significant fluctuation in the frequency of neurologic complications during the study period (between May 1996 and January 1999). This appeared not to be the case, and therefore we assumed that the type of oxygenator had no significant impact on the results as described in our article.
Third, in general, causal relations are extremely hard to prove in clinical research. In this retrospective study, we could not distinguish the sequence of events in complications development. Our results show that the development of severe postoperative neurologic events in all but the first clusters was statistically related to at least one coexistent complication. The interrelationship of these events makes the identification of the relative contribution of each single variable difficult. It is reported that the development of neurologic complications can be the result of low cardiac output syndrome (ie, severe arrhythmias).5–6Vice versa, cardiac injury can develop as a result of brain damage.7–8 Therefore, further studies are necessary to elucidate the relationship of these complications.
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Jim Cutler, the former head coach of Liberty's baseball team, and Liberty's 1977 State champions team was honored on May 17.
Cutler behan coaching at Liberty when it was still called Bedford High School in 1961. He continued to coach the team until 2001, during which he racked up an impressive 513 career wins and earned a place in the VHSL Hall of Fame as well as Liberty's Hall of Fame.
Despite all the accolades and honors Cutler has garnered throughout his decades of successful coaching, he considered being honored on May 17 especially special.
It was an ending right from the movies.
A walk-off grand slam by Kayli Mull in the eighth inning led Jefferson Forest softball past Cave Spring on May 8.
Before the happy ending, the game seemed to be heading in an all too familiar way as the Cavs trailed 4-3 into the bottom of the sixth.
Just two days earlier, JF was playing Halifax County and had a commanding 3-0 lead going into the sixth. But, a few miscues handed Halifax a 4-3 lead that they never let go of.
Staunton River girls soccer continued to be competitive despite a season marred with injuries against William Byrd and Northside.
The Golden Eagles started their week at William Byrd on May 2, where they came up one goal short to concede the game 2-1. SR controlled the possession from the beginning and fired off a few shots on goal that unfortunately didn't find the back of the net. The Terriers struck first in the 17th minute, netting a goal from 30 feet out while SR's keeper was blinded by the sun.
Liberty HS' girls and boys track team enjoyed stellar results on May 3 at Amherst. The meet included to host school as well as: E.C. Glass, Hargave Military Academy, Jefferson Forest, Liberty Christian Academy, Nelson County and Rustburg.
The girls team had several athletes finish in the top half of their events. The Lady Minutemen's best finishes of the evening came from Jerica Thompson, Fiona Taylor, Alexis Mattson, Krystal Carrol Maliyah Harris.
Staunton River softball managed to hold onto an early lead to best William Byrd in the season's second "War on 24" match-up on May 3.
The Golden Eagles dropped the first "War on 24" on April 3, but as history has shown, they captured the second game of the series to split. After weeks of struggling to put the ball in play at the right time, SR's "bats just came alive," according to Head Coach Josh Weller.
Cavalier Fishing has made an impressive statement in just its first year of competing.
The teams of Robert Parker/Harrison Rice and Ethan Robinson/Spence Francis qualified for the 2017 JSC High School Championship after placing first and fourth at a regional tournament in late March.
The fishing rules of this tournament were: five fish allowed in the fishers' livewell, two of them having to be 14-inch and three could be 12-inch.
Staunton River baseball continues to enjoy a successful season, as it picked up two wins over Lord Botetourt and William Fleming to push its record to 9-3.
Jefferson Forest's softball team couldn't be stopped, as it drove in a stunning 33 runs combined between their April 26 game with Liberty Christian Academy and April 28 contest against Heritage.
In its first game of the week, the Cavs exploded in the second inning with 13 runs. This big inning came as JF batted through its entire lineup twice. Marlie Hill, Olivia Fox and Skylar Jenkins all notched two hits in the second, with Hill and Fox grabbing two singles and Jenkins knocking out two doubles.
It was a busy week for Jefferson Forest's baseball team, as they played three games in three days. The Cavs picked up two wins for the week, capping it off with a epic comeback win over William Monroe, the 2016 State 3A finalists.
Less than four years ago, Madison Karnes was the No. 1 singles player for Liberty HS girls tennis team.
Fast forward to today, the 21-year-old Liberty alumna is now the head coach.
Liberty's girls tennis program holds a special place in Karnes heart, as it was the place where she learned to play the game she describes as one of the biggest passions in her life.
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Matthias Hotel Apartments, Rethymnon
- Free WiFi and free parking
Main amenities
- 17 apartments
- Near the beach
- Restaurant and bar/lounge
- Outdoor pool
- Breakfast available
- Beach umbrellas
- Airport shuttle
- Terrace
- Coffee/tea in a common area
- Air conditioning
- Daily housekeeping
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- This hotel has 17 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time noon-7 PM
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- Up to 2 children (12 years old and younger) stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding
- No pets or service animals allowed
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- Airport shuttle (available on request) *
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- Continental breakfast daily (surcharge)
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- Beach sun loungers
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- Children's pool
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- Year Built 2000
- Terrace
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
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- In-room safe
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DiningOnsite venue - Overlooking the pool, this bar specializes in Greek cuisine and serves light fare only. Happy hour is offered.
- Bicycle rentals nearby
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Children under 17 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool without adult supervision.
This property does not have elevators.
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Continental breakfast is offered for an extra charge of EUR 5 for adults and EUR 5 for children (approximately)
Airport shuttle service is offered for an extra charge of EUR 80 per vehicle (one way)
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As Kez looked into Victors eyes, something strange happened. His vision began to blur, his usually keen senses suddenly dulling and starting to fade. His legs trembled beneath him, the injured one threatening to give completely.
Fighting to keep his balance, Victor tried to focus on her face as she looked up at him, her mouth moving around a silent word. Tiny tendrils of light unfurled upwards towards him and brushed across his skin, surprisingly warm.Fear suddenly gripped him.
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He fell, unaware of others gently guiding his body to the ground, Kez's hands under his head. Tears slipped down his numb face and soaked into his wild tufts of black hair, now cold and stiff like the fur of a dead animal.Cast into a muted world, he did not feel her hands softly hold his face.
"Victor, wake up you little rat, there's work to do"!
A sharp slap across the face woke Victor and his body leapt up before his mind could, his thin blanket falling away and onto the floor and leaving him cold and shivering. His bleary eyes focused on the huge bulky figure that loomed over him, a familiar but terrifying shadow in the faint dawn light and he felt himself step back, bare legs brushing against the prickly straw mattress he slept on.
"Pick up your blanket child, are we pigs"? the shadow growled, hand out to deliver another slap. Victor immediately gathered up his excuse for a blanket and spread it as neatly as he could on the bed. Uncle could get so angry if it wasn't neat.
"S..sorry" he managed, teeth chattering with the cold.
"Get dressed boy, its time to go"
Uncle threw some clothes in Victor's general direction then left the room, slamming the flimsy wooden door behind him. The whole room shook and Victor was left in the morning dark, shaking. Though he was used to this, his young mind knew that today was not like the others;today was different. Uncle had been restless for the past few days, pacing about, talking in hushed tones with strange people. The various and unfamiliar faces had unsettled Victor but he did not know why. Something in their eyes seemed to spell something bad, something unspeakable.
Pulling his clothes on, Victor felt his fingers brush across his prominent ribs. He hadn't eaten in days. Uncle had decided to sever his rations after what he did last week. Out of compassion for one of Uncles hungry dogs, he has loosed the chain so it could wander a little more freely, not knowing the animal would break free and kill three sheep. The beating he received for that had almost killed his eight year old body. Those sheep had been worth a week of food each and so to pay , Victor would go hungry for three weeks. Five days had passed and he was beginning to find it hard to even stand. Fear kept him going. His stomach had long since stopped rumbling, now shrunk down to nothing.
Shuffling over to wash his face by the water pitcher in the corner, he caught his reflection in the dirty mirror on the wall and was struck still. More white had grown through his jet black hair, in strange long streaks, coming from his temples and crown. Uncle had cut them out with a knife last week, but somehow they had come back, brighter than before. Victor looked around for his small hunting knife, panic filling him as he thought of his uncles reaction to this strange hair growth.
Finding it under his bed, he began to saw furiously at the tufts of white hair, pulling some of it out in his haste to be rid of it. Tears rolled down his cheeks as he worked desperately to cut them out, shaky fingers grabbing handfulls of it and tugging it up straight to slide the blade over.
When he was finished, he looked into the mirror at himself, somewhat more normal now, except for his thin and sunken face. He though he looked older than eight now, the other children he saw, golden tanned from the sun, with full faces and bright eyes. Victor's eyes were dull and dark, his skin sickly pale. Nobody liked to look at him for very long.
A series of hard thumps on the door shook Victor out of his moment and he quickly finished dressing, working on not falling over with exhaustion. He left the room to where his uncle waited for him, coat on, ready to go. Today was going to change everything, Victor could feel it. His young and tired mind tried to work out the expression on Uncle's face as they made their way out to the horses. In a strange act of charity, Uncle had saddled one for him, though he had to be lifted onto the huge animal, scrawny wasted arms unable to pull his body into the saddle.
They rode off into the approaching dawn in total silence. Victor thought the sky looked like it had been splashed with an angels blood. This thought caused his heart to turn in his chest and a deep fear settled into his bones.
An angel's blood.
Suddenly the sky seemed all too close.


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Finance - Banking systems and nonbank financial institutions - Finance sector development - Inclusive finance
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In line with the Interim Country Partnership Strategy 2012-2014, and as part of the Policy Matrix of the Support for Myanmar s Reforms for Inclusive Growth Policy Based Loan (PBL) in support of the post program partnership framework (P3F), this TA will support sustainable and inclusive economic development. In particular, this TA will support two key program areas included in the interim CPS including building human and institutional capacity to help lay the foundation for medium-term engagement and effective development processes. In addition, the TA will promote an enabling economic environment which is needed to achieve macroeconomic stability, promote trade and investment, diversify the economy, create jobs, improve financial intermediation, and increase agricultural productivity.
Through both targeted and flexible capacity building to the Central Bank and the microfinance sector, the overall impact of the TA is focused on improving financial sector intermediation. The outcome of the TA will be a strengthened institutional and policy framework for financial sector development through support for CBM's transition to institutional and budgetary independence and by strengthening its human resources ability strategy which will in turn help CBM to more effectively implement fiscal and monetary policy and regulate and supervise the financial sector. The TA also aims to establish a strategic framework for responsible finance which will lead to greater better financial inclusion for low-income segments of the population but will benefit all people in Myanmar.
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The government has set out a challenging economic reform agenda to lift economic growth to sustainable levels and to ensure growth is inclusive across different socio-economic groups and subregions. This agenda was described in Support for Myanmar's Reforms for Inclusive Growth (or PBL), which was approved by ADB's Board of Directors in January 2013. The agenda included: (i) macroeconomic stabilization, (ii) trade, investment and financial integration, (iii) stimulating rural development, and (iv) promoting human capital development. The government's reform agenda started with macroeconomic stablization which were based on a unified exchange rate which the authorities floated in April 2012. To anchor the floating exchange rate, the government has introduced a basic monetary policy framework targeting reserve money which is implemented through deposit auctions. The CBM has also initiated a comprehensive and complex set of reforms for central banking and financial sector development. At the same time, and important to the proposed TA, the new Central Bank of Myanmar Law was enacted on 11 July 2013, giving CBM significant administrative and financial autonomy. The CBM will need to restructure its organization to effectively implement the new central bank law. Given its rapid assumption of significant oversight and control over monetary policy and the broader economy, CBM considers capacity building of CBM staff in central banking functions and finance sector development as its highest and most urgent priority to support its reform agenda, including macroeconomic stabilization over the medium term, and financial sector development over the longer term. Support will be required across all areas of CBM's operations with a particular emphasis on, human resources management, monetary policy, and payment systems.
At the microfinance level, the government recently adopted a Microfinance Law in November 2011 which established a new framework for allowing local and foreign investors to operate as privately owned entities in the sector. Because of extremely low capital requirements for both non-deposit and deposit-taking microfinance institutions, there are now 166 licensed MFIs (as of September 2013). The Myanmar Microfinance Supervisory Enterprise (MMSE) has the responsibility for licensing and supervising MFIs despite its low capacity to do so. The sector is further challenged by the limited differentiation between deposit and non-deposit MFIs and an interest rate ceiling . In light of the low capacity level of the microfinance regulator, the ease of obtaining a license to issue credit or take deposits, and the recent consumer protection and credit crisis experience of neighboring countries, there is a critical need for the development of basic standards around consumer protection and a financial literacy strategy both at the microfinance level but also at the commercial banking level.
|Improved financial sector intermediation
|Description of Outcome
|Strengthened institutional and policy framework for financial sector development
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|Implementation Progress
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CBM institutional and staff capacity strengthened
Support Framework for Financial Inclusion Enhanced
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Under Output 1, the human resources development advisor, capacity development advisor and payments and settlements advisor have been engaged. A human resources needs assessment of the Central Bank of Myanmar has been conducted and a draft strategy for human resources development has been developed.
Under Output 2, the financial inclusion and financial literacy advisors have been engaged. Initial stakeholder consultations have been conducted and work has begun on development of a responsible finance strategy and a national strategy for financial literacy.
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|Involuntary Resettlement
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The project team consulted a range of development partners and local stakeholders during project design. At the Central Bank level: the International Monetary Fund (IMF); World Bank (WB); Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA); and Die Deutsche Gesellschaft f r Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) were consulted.
At the microfinance level: World Bank; PACT; GRET; World Vision; Save the Children; Myanmar Agriculture Development Bank (MADB); Ministry of Cooperatives; Central Cooperative Society; United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF); the International Finance Corporation (IFC); the Myanmar Microfinance Association; UK Department for International Development (DFID); and the Livelihoods and Food Security Trust Fund (LIFT).
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Under output 1, three international consultants (a capacity development advisor, human resources expert, and a payments and settlements expert) will be engaged through individual consultant selection to support the Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) through a comprehensive Human Resources (HR) assessment, development of a short and long-term HR action plan, coordination of training and capacity building, and provision of strategic advice on payments and settlements.
Under output 2, two international consultants (financial inclusion advisor and financial literacy specialist) will be engaged through individual consultant selection to develop a framework for responsible finance, help strengthen the microfinance association, and develop a national strategy for financial literacy.
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|Hattel, Kelly L.
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|Southeast Asia Department
|Responsible ADB Division
|Public Management, Financial Sector and Trade Division, SERD
|Executing Agencies
Central Bank of Myanmar
Office No.55, Nay Pyi Taw,
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|16 Sep 2013
|Fact Finding
|17 Sep 2013 to 23 Sep 2013
|04 Dec 2013
|Last Review Mission
|Last PDS Update
|29 Sep 2014
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|Effectivity Date
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|31 Dec 2015
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This is the auction I was talking about http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sewing-Machi...item53e9bcc148. I can't believe that I left that out! I "copied"....but forgot to "paste"! Senior moment?
Is there a vintage attachments separate thread? I have an odd one for a 66-3 that i'd like to identify. Odd as in I've not seen it before.
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It could be weeks before the Red Arrows resume flying after a pilot died at an air show in Bournemouth, sources claim.
Flight Lieutenant Jon Egging, 33, from Rutland, died when his Hawk T1 aircraft plunged to the ground near Bournemouth Airport on Saturday after completing a formation display over the town's seafront.
The RAF has grounded all its Hawk T1 training jets while a service inquiry is carried out into what caused the tragedy.
Investigators will first assess whether the circumstances of the crash are unique or whether other aircraft could be affected as well.
Once air chiefs establish there are no wider safety concerns about the Hawk T1, the Red Arrows can begin flying again.
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An inquest into Flt Lt Egging's death at the Bournemouth Air Festival has been opened at East Dorset Coroner's Court in Bournemouth and adjourned until a later date for a full hearing, a coroner's officer said.
The Ministry of Defence declined to comment on reports suggesting that the crash near the village of Throop may have been caused by a bird being sucked into the aircraft's engine.
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"Steeped in spicy dialogue and [New Orleans] flavor . . . a behind-the-swinging-door peek into the world of chefs." —Entertainment Weekly
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If you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans!
Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man's wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchen—he's spent the last ten years in Angola Prison for murdering his boss
If you can't stand the heat...Get the hell out of New Orleans!
Liquor has become one of the hottest restaurants in town, thanks in part to chefs Rickey and G-man's wildly creative, booze-laced food. At the tail end of a busy Mardi Gras, Milford Goodman walks into their kitchen—he's spent the last ten years in Angola Prison for murdering his boss, a wealthy New Orleans restaurateur, but has recently been exonerated on new evidence and released. Rickey remembers him as an ingenious chef and hires him on the spot.
When a pill-pushing doctor and a Carnival scion talk Rickey into consulting at the restaurant they're opening in one of the city's "floating casinos," Rickey recommends Milford for the head chef position and stays on to supervise. But soon Rickey finds himself medicating a kitchen injury with the doctor's wares, and G-man grows tired of holding down the fort at Liquor alone. As the new restaurant moves toward its opening, Rickey learns that Milford's past is inextricably linked with one of the project's backers, a man whose intentions begin to seem more and more sinister.
Full of the flavor of one of America's greatest cities, Soul Kitchen is a sharp commentary on race relations in pre-Katrina New Orleans and a fast ride through the dark side of haute cuisine.
"Steeped in spicy dialogue and [New Orleans] flavor . . . a behind-the-swinging-door peek into the world of chefs." —Entertainment Weekly
Mardi Gras morning dawned dank and cold. The four cooks had already been at the restaurant for a couple of hours, preparing a krewe breakfast for Rickey's mother's truck parade.
Truck parades are a Carnival Day phenomenon unknown outside New Orleans. Rather than the ornate and glamorous confections boasted by the bigger, richer krewes, their floats are basically giant wooden boxes pulled by tractor-trailer cabs that blast their air horns incessantly as they roll through the streets. Each float's riders select a theme-Louisiana Sports Legends, say, or Favorite Desserts-and decorate their trailer in foil and crepe paper to reflect it. If they are feeling flush, they might invest in theme sweatshirts too, but many of the beads, cups, and trinkets they throw are caught from other parades earlier in the season or even the previous Mardi Gras. Truck parades are a part of blue-collar Carnival seldom seen by the tourists who frequent Bourbon Street, but a certain segment of the citizenry cherishes them.
John Rickey and Gary "G-man" Stubbs were not a part of that segment, at least not today. Because they owned a popular restaurant, Rickey's mother had convinced them to put on a breakfast buffet for the Krewe of Chalmatians, so named because most of its members were from NewOrleans' Lower Ninth Ward or the neighboring suburb of Chalmette. Rickey and G-man had grown up in the Lower Ninth Ward, but moved away when they turned eighteen, a little over a decade ago. The only vestiges of downtown that remained were their gritty Brooklynesque accents and a certain reluctance to take any shit off of anyone, be it a lazy line cook, a purveyor delivering inferior produce, or a diner with an unjustified complaint about his meal.
Having cooked together for fifteen years and lived together for the better part of that time, Rickey and G-man knew each other's kitchen habits by heart and worked together as efficiently as two hands washing one another. To fill out their crew this morning they had recruited Tanker, their dessert guy who was secretly a crackerjack saute cook, and Marquis, who was young but learning fast. He'd started out as a salad bitch, but now they let him work the hot line on slow nights. Today he would be in charge of keeping bacon, sausage, and toast coming out of the oven, topping up the water in the rented steam tables, and cutting celery for the Bloody Marys.
Tanker had reheated the big pot of crawfish etouffee they'd made last night and was now working on a giant batch of grits. G-man, Rickey's co-chef and the true workhorse of the kitchen, was adding clarified butter to egg yolks in a double boiler to make hollandaise sauce for Rickey's eggs Sardou. Tall and rangy, with short dark hair tucked under a purple New Orleans Hornets baseball cap, G-man scowled at the sauce through the dark glasses he habitually wore in any bright light. He had tried to talk Rickey out of this fussy and time-consuming dish, but Rickey had insisted on it. The restaurant's name, Rickey pointed out, was Liquor. All their dishes contained some form of booze, a perfect concept for New Orleans. Of course they weren't sticking to the gimmick for this breakfast, but Rickey felt that at least one dish should pack an alcoholic punch, so eggs Sardou it was: poached eggs with artichoke hearts, hollandaise, and an Herbsaint-laced spinach cream.
"Splooge," Rickey muttered as he tasted the spinach. Not as tall as G-man and a little paunchy from a lifetime of sampling his own dishes, he was handsome enough to have been anointed a glamour boy by the national food press, but his features were sharpened by a nervous tension that seldom left him even when he was drunk or sleeping. "Baby food. All this fucking shit is baby food. It's giving me flashbacks to when I had to work hotel brunch."
"So why'd you sign up?" said Tanker. "More to the point, why'd you sign us up? Nobody said you had to make breakfast for three hundred."
"It's not three hundred. I mean, they got like three hundred people in the krewe, but not all of them are gonna show up."
"You hope," G-man said.
"My mom made a signup sheet, OK? We got one-eighty coming in. We scoop it and poop it, they eat it, everybody's happy."
"Yeah, but why'd you agree to it in the first place?" Tanker persisted. "I mean, you're a prima donna, Rickey. You hate this kinda shit."
"I know it." Rickey pushed the blue bandanna up on his forehead and thumbed a stray drop of sweat out of his left eye. "But it's my mom, dude. She never asks me for anything."
"Except a couple grandbabies," G-man said. Rickey's mother had been doing her best to ignore G-man's role in her son's life for years now.
"Yeah, well, you know she's never getting 'em, so I figured we could do this for her. Besides, these clowns are paying pretty good."
"I think my momma wishes she'd quit getting grandbabies," said Marquis. "My sister, she just done had her fifth."
"And the daddy don't help her out nohow."
"Same one for all five kids?" Tanker asked.
Marquis glanced up at him, seemed to measure whether such a fatuous white-boy question deserved any response at all, said, "Nah, dawg," and went back to laying out strips of bacon on a sheet pan.
G-man, the youngest of six children from an Irish-Italian family, silently counted himself lucky that his parents already had an even dozen grandchildren. Otherwise, his mother probably would have been pushing him and Rickey to get a kid from somewhere or other despite her strict Catholic beliefs. Of course, owning a restaurant was a lot like having a five-hundred-pound baby that never grew up. Originally financed by local celebrity chef, multimillionaire, and all-around shady businessman Lenny Duveteaux, Liquor was running under its own steam now, and they hoped to buy Lenny out with some money Rickey had inherited under strange circumstances the year before. Most of the inheritance was tied up in a piece of Texas property, however, and Lenny still owned twenty-five percent of Liquor. Fortunately, he was busy with his own two successful restaurants and mostly left Liquor alone.
Rickey put the spinach cream in the lowboy refrigerator at his station and headed back to the walk-in cooler to get a case of eggs. The other cooks had begged him to use a powdered mix for the scrambled eggs-it would have made his life far easier this morning, and if Rickey's life was easier, theirs were too-but such a shortcut simply wasn't in his nature. He might be a bit of a whore, he supposed, but he was no shoemaker. He would scramble the eggs slowly and gently in a double boiler, adding a knob of butter now and then, until they took on the perfect creaminess that was the only acceptable consistency for scrambled eggs as far as he was concerned. If the Chalmatians just shoveled the eggs into their hungry maws, too drunk to notice the difference, he would still have the satisfaction of knowing he had done them right. That satisfaction was one of the major things he lived for.
In the three years since it opened, Liquor had become not just a popular restaurant but a trendy one. Between Lenny's machinations, food-press enthusiasm, a prestigious James Beard award, and a couple of healthy doses of controversy, it was now one of the best-known new restaurants in New Orleans. (In a city where several eateries had been in business for a century or more, it would remain a "new restaurant" for at least a dozen more years.) Rickey had very mixed feelings about this trendiness. Because of it, and because of what Food & Wine had once cringe-inducingly called "his dissipated-fratboy good looks," he had been subjected to all manner of hype that had nothing to do with the backbreaking day-to-day business of running a world-class kitchen.
Agreeing to do this breakfast had been one of his little ways of reacting against the hype. Most hot chefs would probably turn up their coke-encrusted noses at the idea of cooking splooge for a hundred and eighty working-class yats. Rickey still considered himself one of those yats, and while he wasn't exactly proud of the food itself, he liked how aggressively declasse such a breakfast was.
Lost in his thoughts, he nearly tripped over some large object that had been left on the floor of the walk-in. Peering down in the dim light, he saw that it was a burlap sack of oysters. At the krewe's request, they'd set up a makeshift oyster bar in the dining room for those perverts who considered a dozen icy-cold raw mollusks dipped in ketchup, horseradish, and Tabasco part of a nutritious breakfast. (Rickey liked oysters on the half shell just fine, but not at seven o'clock in the morning.) Marquis was supposed to have lugged the oysters up front and dumped them on ice to await the shucker's arrival, but apparently he had forgotten.
Rickey started to holler for him, then decided not to. Marquis was getting to be a decent cook, but he was easily distracted. If he left his station now, he'd probably burn the bacon or worse. Instead Rickey bent to hoist the fifty-pound sack onto his shoulder. As soon as it came off the floor, he knew he'd lifted it badly, and an instant later he felt something give deep in the small of his back.
"Owwwwwwfuck!" he yelled. His hands instinctively wanted to go to the injury, but he knew if he dropped the oyster sack now, he wouldn't be able to lift it again. Instead he got it the rest of the way up and stood holding his breath, waiting to see how bad the pain was going to get. It flared, twisted through his spine like a hot wire, then settled down with the air of a visitor that had found a comfortable spot and was planning to stay a while.
While Liquor was something of a trendy restaurant, its dining-room decor had little in common with that of most hot spots: no dangerous-looking metal sculptures, lipstick-red walls, glass floors with saltwater lagoons underneath, giant paintings of fruits and vegetables, or Arabian fantasies. Rickey, who micromanaged every aspect of the restaurant, had been far more influenced by the look of New Orleans' old-line joints, and so the dining room was a dark green, softly lit, clubby space accented with rich wood trim and small mirrors.
On a typical night, the dining room was full of men in suits or sports shirts, women in cocktail dresses, the clink of cutlery on plates and ice cubes in glasses, the aromas of fine food and fresh bread. This morning, it was packed with people in pink sweatshirts bearing the legend krewe of chalmatians and the krewe's logo, a spotted cartoon dog with a bouffant hairdo. The dog was supposed to be a Dalmatian, a pun on the krewe's name, but looked rather more like a Chihuahua with chickenpox. Most of the women had hairdos that rivaled the dog's. Most of the men were balding. At 6:45 a.m., the krewe members were already well-lubricated, happy, and yakking up a storm.
"Raymond! Hey, Raymond! I hope you don't getcha hand stuck in there again-"
"Aw, Marie, hush up about dat."
"How you makin, dawl? I ain't seen you since Friday, maybe Saddy-"
"Bud-DY! Where y'at?"
"We gotta good team! Dis is gonna be da year!"
At the bar, Mo-Tanker's girlfriend and Liquor's head mixologist-dispensed mimosas and poured Bloody Marys and screwdrivers from huge pitchers she had mixed early that morning. The waiters circulated, clearing dirty plates and topping up the buffet. The shucker, who had finally received the contents of the fateful burlap sack, slid his short flat blade between shells, severed connective muscles, nestled oysters by the dozen into platters of crushed ice.
At the center of the hubbub was Rickey's mother, Brenda Crabtree (she had retaken her maiden name upon her divorce a quarter-century ago), resplendent in a fresh Copper Penny dye job and cat's-eye glasses with a dusting of tiny rhinestones at the corners. At her side was her gentleman friend, Mr. Claude, listening meekly as was his habit in life. "This is my son's place!" she told anyone who would listen. "My boy, he's a famous chef! He got him a write-up in Bone Ape Tit Magazine!"
Back in the kitchen, the famous chef winced as he bent to retrieve more eggs. A small hiss of pain escaped him. G-man, who was now cooking French toast, heard it even over the sizzle and bang of the kitchen. "Dude, what's wrong with you?" he called. "You been gimping around all morning."
"Nothing," Rickey said. "Just twisted my back a little. I'm fine."
In fact, the pain had increased so much that he felt a little nauseated. He wasn't about to say anything, though. He might tell G-man what had happened later, after the shift was over, but cooks in the kitchen didn't cry about their injuries. Burned yourself? Consider the weal a badge of honor, like the tattoos most of them had. Sliced your finger open? Slap on a bandage or some duct tape, maybe Superglue it if it's really bad, and get back to work. Most of them had cut off at least one fingertip during the course of their careers, and all had ladders of burn scars on their forearms, hot-fat spatters on the backs of their hands, and feet that looked as if somebody had worked them over with a hammer. It was a painful line of work, but in the hyper-macho pirate crew atmosphere of the typical restaurant kitchen, complainers were apt to be mocked without mercy or hounded right out of a job.
G-man looked searchingly at Rickey over the tops of his shades, but said nothing; to challenge Rickey on this point in front of their crew would seriously violate the rough etiquette of the line.
"Anyway," said Rickey, "we only got a couple more hours. The Chalmatians gotta stage way the hell down on St. Claude, so they'll all be out of here by eight-thirty. We can break it down and get gone by nine."
"Y'all gonna watch the parade?" said Tanker.
"Aw, I don't know. My mom wants us to," (G-man rolled his eyes at that us) "but there's gonna be all that Zulu traffic."
"Just go on down Broad Street," said Marquis. "You can cut over to St. Claude after Jackson. Zulu don't go no farther than that."
"I know, I know.
Excerpted from Soul Kitchen by Poppy Z. Brite Excerpted by permission.
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Poppy Z. Brite is the author of two previous books in this series, Liquor and Prime, as well as five other novels and three short story collections. She lives in New Orleans with her husband, Chris, a chef.
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I have been reading Ms. Brite's work for many years, and really love the way she has grown and changed. Her books featuring Rickey and G-Man are wonderful. I read through it in one day, only to read it again to see what I had missed in my speed read through it. It's a wonderful book to have in your Brite collection. I highly recommend it.
This book is, in some ways, the most subtle of the Rickey and G-Man series. The characters are aging, physically and mentally. Previous ways of doing things and thinking about major issues in the lives of these characters are questioned. This is not a book in which everything seems to be happening at a fast rate, and the title hints at this: 'Soul Kitchen' as a name is an invitation to slow down a little, to wait awhile for what comes ahead. NOT to say that this is a book that drags. Far from it. It simply catches the characters at a time in their lives when things are supposedly more stable - only to present other challenges. The distress of employees/friends. Injuries affecting the quality of life. Old grudges and old coots in new, unsettling situations. And that's just a sampling of what's in store between the covers of this one. It is all written about so well that it just can't be put down. Since I read 'Liquor', 'Prime', and 'The Value of X' before 'Soul Kitchen' came out, I can't effectively say that anyone can drop in on the series at any time with any one of these books. I have, however, lent 'Soul Kitchen' to a relative and will see what her reaction is, as it will be the first of this series she has ever read. Personally, I think the references to the recurring characters' pasts enhance the storytelling and are not at all distracting or numerous. Just sit yourself down and read the book!
I'm in the habit of reading more than one book at a time - one in the car, one in bed, one on the coffee table for when boredom hits around the house, and so on - but this book grabbed me, ripped me out of the books I was reading, and deposited me once again in New Orleans, eating up (pun most certainly intended) the latest installment of Chefs John Rickey's and Gary 'G-man' Stubbs's struggle with life, love, food, and the various facets of the New Orleans culture. I would definitely suggest reading Liquor and Prime (the previous novels in the Liquor series) before reading this one. They provide valuable information on the characters that a new reader will need before becoming fully immersed in the world that Ms. Brite creates. There are no flashbacks to previous books in Soul Kitchen, and while there are a few references to situations in previous books, they're not something that can carry the previous stories for a new reader. So if you're not familiar with the series, I would certainly take the time to catch up. I'm somewhat of a food junkie and thoroughly enjoy Ms. Brite's attention to detail in describing the meals prepared by her fictitious chefs (textures, colors, flavors, and overall presentation in particular are carefully laid out for the readers). I felt that more attention to these details went into Liquor and Prime than in Soul Kitchen, but how often can you go into detail about cuisine without boring the 'average reader'? I also felt that the end of the book came rather quickly and was a little blunt. It had the same formula as the other books (rising tension, new characters with issues that affect Rickey and G-man, Rickey and G-man's reactions, a little filler with Lenny and/or other characters, a climax, and BAM, five pages of epilogue), but if a thing works, why change it? I did not feel that Soul Kitchen was as strong of a novel as Liquor or Prime - mostly I just didn't feel as connected to the characters in this book as in previous ones (perhaps some of the essential 'filling out' of the book was cut in the editing process?) - but it was still a great read. I would definitely recommend it to Poppy Z. Brite fans, and would recommend the Liquor series to those that haven't yet had a taste of it (sorry, I couldn't resist the pun). I did, in fact, give a recommendation so strong that I felt as if I was delivering a mini-lecture on Ms. Brite's writing to the lady at the bookstore who sold Soul Kitchen to me, and her interest was so piqued that she decided to set aside a copy of Liquor to read for herself. Overall, Soul Kitchen is a well written book that entertained me from beginning to end. It may not be my favorite of the series, but it still absolutely warrants a re-read. I'm looking forward to the next Liquor series publication.
Poppy Z. Brite has outdone herself once again with this one- she has a way of making you feel like you are right there in the story when you read her work and Soul Kitchen is no exception-it makes you feel as if Rickey and G-man are people you know-and Poppy once again demonstrates her extensive knowledge of New Orleans' cuisine-very cool-will leave you thirsty for more!
Unfortunately, this is more a rebuttal than a standalone review. The above (and as I type, sole) review is highly innaccurate. Soul Kitchen is the third (actually, fourth with 'The Value of X') book to feature the main characters of Rickey and G-man. Of course, as in any series, there are refreshers on what has happened to them in the past, but of the 274 pages, perhaps 15 refer to prior books. That's a high estimate. The plot centers on a chef from their past, a new restaurant venture complete with shady characters, relationship tensions and an injury resulting in chronic pain that leads to an exploration of 'dependance' in more than just medicinal ways. As with the previous books, the relationship between Rickey and G-man is as much a plot-point as the murder or the restaurant. Each book brings new ingredients into their lives, and the chefs have to work together to keep the flavors balanced. In Soul Kitchen, Brite brings more insight into the inner workings of kitchen life in New Orleans, how outside influences creep in, and yet another glimpse into the city that could never mistaken for any other.
Not only is Soul Kitchen the strongest in the series. The funniest in the series but it would be one hell of a stand-alone novel. The few (and there are VERY few) references to events in Prime and Liquor are the sort of memories that a character would naturally think about in certain situations and. There were MANY memorable moments in Soul Kitchen but, in my humble opinion, Lenny stole the show here. Every time Lenny hit the page, I laughed aloud. Heck, I literally had a 'beverage out nose' moment (Lenny plotting to bring a wayward pastry chef home HILARIOUS and classic Lenny). There were also the touching moments, mentioning particular heart-breaking characters would be giving away too much but the unintended depressing bits tore at the heart strings even more. Never mind the fact that the characters drove past my subdivision. the one that isn't there anymore. But a fairly substantial part of the book is like a love letter to places that were completely destroyed after the (Army Corps of Engineers caused) levee failures following Hurricane Katrina. She couldn't have known what was going to happen to these beautiful places but the timing was eerie, to say the least. G-Man and Ricky, as always, have the kind of relationship that we all aspire to. Their passion for each other and their art (food) is inspirational. I can think of no one who wouldn't enjoy Soul Kitchen.
Poppy Brite's Rickey and G-man have always felt more alive to me than many actual people. They're among the most personable characters I've encountered in fiction. It's fun to spend a few hours in their fictional presence. Three books in, I'm delighted to find the Liquor series still going strong -- and most importantly, evolving. Like the two previous installments, Soul Kitchen is built around a mystery and builds to a thriller-like climax, but the real attraction of the book is the chance it offers to get behind the kitchen door of New Orleans restaurants. I got a kick out of the riffing Soul Kitchen does on the molecular gastronomy trend, and I appreciated its introduction of a character notably different than those that have previously turned up in the series. Ex-con Milford Goodman is a plainer, more natural character than the New Orleanians that typically populate fiction about the city, and his dialogue -- particularly his conversations with his sister -- has a realism that's rare in genre fiction. (And I don't mean that as a slam of genre fiction, which I quite like.) I'm also pleased that Rickey and G-man's relationship continues to mature. So far, Liquor is staying away from the the common series trap of freezing characters in static positions and refusing to let them grow. My only gripe about Soul Kitchen is that I wish it were longer. D*U*C*K now, please!
Soul Kitchen holds its own nicely with Brite's previous works Liquor and Prime, reuniting readers with familar faces Rickey, G-man, Lenny, and the staff of Liquor, along with introducing new characters who bring their own stories to this book - with interesting twists and turns along the way. There are several layers of story going on here, so don't make the error of focusing on one and think that's where the action is or you'll be cheating yourself. Readers get to see a side of Lenny that's really not been shown before, issues of race, class and the degree to which they determine one's life are interwoven throughout, along with a realistic, non-preachy but non-glamourous look at drug addiction. Anyone who has worked in a restaurant will be familiar with the issues that cause a battle of egos - but no spoilers here. You'll have to read to see how / if they resolve. As someone who doesn't reside in New Orleans, I enjoyed the local perspective on Mardi Gras and the extra tidbits and history that I'd not been aware of before. The characters in these stories feel quite real, not the least bit of stiff caricature is present. In reading this book, it felt that the Lenny/Rickey/G-man Liquor partnership had moved from being strictly professional to more in the direction of friendly colleagues, and Rickey and G-man continue to deepen the bond they have while growing in new directions. The staff are prevented from becoming just convenient props by having lives and issues of their own that spill over into the main story lines. It's a well-rounded cast, and one I'm looking forward to revisiting again soon.
Having been a fan of Poppy Brite's older 'goth' material, I was very excited to see the new direction she is going. 'Soul Kitchen,' the most recent title (DUCK is due out in Jan?) in her Ricky/G-man/Chef series is great! Good story line, good new characters, makes me hungry for more. What I really appreciate is the way Poppy writes about food. She makes me wish that Liquor were a real restaurant and that Ricky and G-man would put out a cookbook....and reading her current series make me hungry.
I picked up my copy of 'Soul Kitchen' right before embarking on a transatlantic flight and, sadly, finished it long before the landing gear dropped down. It is a wonderful book, especially if you're a fan of the other Liquor books (although this isn't a requirement -- this one stands alone pretty darn well!). I enjoyed the character development of G-man and Rickey so much that there were times I would stop reading and wait for a few minutes before I started again because I wanted to make this last. Just like a delicious meal, I wanted to quickly devour every bit and yet savor it slowly. The mystery-story-within-the-story (no spoilers here, sorry) made me deeply sad. It's one of those situations where, all too much like real life, knowing the truth still leaves behind terrible damage and sadness. Also, the problems of addiction and the havoc it can cause were thoughtfully addressed, but no moralistic preaching was forced down my throat, for which I am grateful. (Yeah, I know drugs are bad. I also know why people take them, and my feelings for addicts include pity, not just anger.) The ending scene with Rickey and the old man is truly one of the most heartwrenching realistic yet inspiring scenes I've read in a long, long time. That part alone is worth the price of the book! So do yourself and anyone you love a favor, and buy them this wonderful book.
Well, don't get me wrong : this book was OK, not great but OK. I mean it mainly consist of flash backs of Liquor and Prime (2 great books!) and the real space for the new action is about 70 pages. Not much of a plot, then. Depends on what you expect, this novel is mostly based on characters we already know well. Nothing really new under New Orleans sun. I'm waiting for the next course (DUCK), to see if i still like the dinner.
To put it simply, this is anti-Christian godless trash. The story revolves around 2 sodomites in the restauraunt business...and that's pretty much it.


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