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If I were a Cadillac dealer, here's the last thing I would do to generate buzz: 1. Tart up a collectible 1953 Cadillac with purple and white paint; 2. Drop it from a crane positioned 53 feet in the air to celebrate the fact that I'd been in business since 1953 and was building a new dealership.
Destroy a Lexus, perhaps? A Lincoln? A BMW? Anything but a Cadillac from the era when the company was actually building some of the best luxury machines in the world. But then, I'm not handling publicity for Frank Kent Cadillac of Fort Worth, Texas, and as they say in the biz, any publicity is good publicity. The stunt managed to get ink from the local paper, the New York Times, Jalopnik, and now us.
The message we take away from this: At Frank Kent we consider the Cadillacs we built our business on to now be worthless junk.
UPDATE (6.December 2011): The folks from Hudson Creative, the PR agency, got in touch to offer a few additional details.
When it was found, the car's interior was already gutted and it was extremely rusted. Our passion is cars – if it could have been restored, it would have been. Instead, we cleaned up the body and are using the motor and engine to restore another vintage Cadillac.
Also, Frank Kent plans to immortalize the symbolic Cadillac as artwork for years to come. At the grand opening, it will be buried nose-first into the ground, paying homage to Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo Texas.
Looks like the chrome was in very good shape. Appears it had a straight body. What a bunch of idiots. With stunts like that I'm surprised they have been business since 1953!
Ranks right up there with the immoral and awful 21st Century insurance commercial on TV where they try to fit that 63 white Caddy between two cars by bashing the front and rear of the Caddy. I would NEVER buy insurance from these jokers.
It's a '61 in the commercial that broadcasts here. I hope that they didn't do that to two cars, but I agree with you 100%.
I can't watch that commercial.
Sorry guys. You are BOTH wrong. It's a '62.
I won't be Buying my next Caddy from Frank Kent!
What a WASTE of a Collector Car!
P.S. What was the Point anyway?
Having the Car Parked in Front of the Dealership would pull more "Heads" then Distroying it.
Someone called Churchill (the War Time Prime Minister in UK) breaks ground on Armistice Day (11/11/11) by dropping a car onto a building site from a GM Division that had a major role in WW2. How crassly insensitive. Twin Owners. Twin twits I think or maybe just no idea. Certainly the mental giants in the Advertising Agency who dreamed up this meaningless and insensitive rubbish deserve to get the Dope of the Year award. Must send it to the people who judge adverts. Well done guys.
I hope this dealership goes out of business. That was a good looking car and should have been saved. Those people are fools.
The fool at Frank Kent Cadillac who approved this stunt is probably scratching his head and wondering why customer traffic and sales are down. Most Cadillac owners are loyal to the brand and would not take kindly to a vintage model being abused.
Its shame to destroy a classic like this just for a stunt, its really lame.
I hope that the damage caused to the car is ultimately less than the damage to the reputation of the idiot dealership.
My vote lies w/The Absolutely Stupid & lame side !!
has to take the cake as the DUMBEST car salesmen trick of all time!
You can post your real feelings about this at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8I0oTpJsY&feature=youtu.be
I know I did and I feel a lot better now.
I watched the video and I never have seen so many clueless people at one time! Everything's bigger (and stupider) in Texas!
Morons, I don't understand this type of stunt. I'm sure that car was worth something to someone who enjoys old Cadillacs.
You wonder why they did not drop one of the new Cad. was it because they are made out of plastic!!!!
I read in an earlier report that the '53 Cadillac was in good running condition and was purchased for $4500. If they wanted to draw attention to their new facility which was founded in 1953, they could have had a display of all the 1953 Cadillac models, or a display of all the various cars of 1953, or every Cadillac year by year since 1953, or . . . ANYTHING other than dropping this collector car from a crane. I hate to imagine the ultimate fate of this Series 62 Sedan. I'm surprised Cadillac Motor Division didn't stop this stunt early on.
If you'd like to see a website that honors 1953 Cadillacs, as well as all 1950 through 1953 models, please visit my site: http://www.1953cadillac.com.
I've owned a 1953 Fleetwood since 1964.
P.S. An ad agency in Houston suggested to a piano company that they drop a grand piano from a 100′ crane on an annual basis – that it would make great publicity. The piano store owner asked them why he should drop and destroy the one thing he is trying to promote and sell. He found another ad agency.
Ray- Your comment struck home with me. Here is an interesting anecdote from the cobwebs of my memory.
~ In about 1965, the year before my highschool graduation, my great-aunt Wilma Thorpe came to the decision she was no longer fit to drive her '54 Cad, Series 60 Special 4dr sedan, which she & her then late husband had purchased new @ Betts Cadillac, in DesMoines, Iowa. As family lore has it, a Steinway grand piano was to be the object of her desire which would substitute for the pristine plum & mauve 13,000 mile beauty. When Wilma let the dealer know the car was for sale Betts Cadillac management (probably Charles Betts himself) made a deal to buy her the piano in exchange for the sedan. I can still recall the car proudly gracing Betts' new car showroom window in downtown DesMoines for several years thereafter. I wonder where it might be now.
& Ray…. thank you for the excellent Cadillac site. ~ Scot
I plan to offer to pay Frank Kents' membership dues in the Cadillac LaSalle Club.
They should drop Frank Kent from a crane and see what happens!!
to bad he wasnt standing under it
A commenter at Jalopnik who said he was involved with the stunt or at least knew of the car said this car was indeed a basket case. It was prettied up enough to look decent when dropped and I think the drivetrain was removed because it was salvageable.
That said, I agree that even so, it's a stupid stunt and says that he values publicity at any cost over the cars he actually sells. Seems to make the wrong kind of statement.
Frank Kent is a class dealer with roots deep in the community. Those of you without a sense of humor (most of you apparently) can move along. I think its hilarious
Do you also enjoy jokes about beating baby seal?
Angus, Isn't that just what we are saying? "Frank Kent is a class dealer with roots deep in the community." This would only happen in Texas! Jerks!
Just to clarify a few facts, the rusted Cadillac was on its way to the junkyard and the interior had been completely stripped. Their passion is cars — if it could have been restored, it would have been. Instead, they cleaned up the body and are using the motor and engine to restore another vintage Cadillac. This symbolic Cadillac will be immortalized as art in front of their dealership for years to come.
"and are using the motor and engine to restore another vintage Cadillac"
What motor? The wiper motor?
I own a 1967 Fleetwood 75 and would never consider doing this.
GM's best days are in behind them. I'll never buy another new one.
One look at the dealership website gave me some insight into why they thought this was a good idea.
Cadillac still has some work to do to reclain it's former status of Standard of the World. I suspect that if a Lexus, BMW, Mercedes or other luxury dealership did a publicity stunt of this nature, their franchise might be at risk.
I'm with the rest of you…Most dealers think of their cars as "units" for making sales. Much like an appliance. No brains, no passion.
Does anybody have those nitwits email ?.
If I were in the market for a new caddy, I know where I wouldn't get it… that ticks me off. its about as bad as the NTSB offset-crashing that restored 1959 Impala into a 2010 impala, trying really hard to shear along the frame, so as to make the 1959 look worse than it is.
I'm a ford guy, but both of these events tick me off.
Over the years, the Frank Kent dealership has done a number of very good things. In the early 1970's they commissioned a small run of some of the best Cadillac station wagon conversions ever made. Something very unfortunate has happened in the interim. Whether the car was "pristine" or a rustbucket, this is disrespectful of the heritage of the brand you are selling. And the condition of the (now-destroyed) grille and bumper alone show this was not a worthless basket case.
By the way, if my calculations are correct, a falling Cadillac attains a velocity of about 39.5 mph in 53 feet, which makes this somewhat similar to those 40-mph barrier crash tests you see all the time. Nice 61 year old crumple zone there.
Would never buy a Caddy from such stupid people. If they would intentionally destroy a nice old Caddy they clearly need their heads examined. Plain stupid. Just plain stupid. They won't ever earn my business when my next Caddy is due, that's for sure.
Tipical for GM dealers and certain customers. My last Cadillac was in 1983 at which point I switched to Euopean luxury cars.
Since they can't recapture the glory days they try everything they can to erase them.
Sad. So very sad.
Now that's just plain wrong. How about RESTORING a '53 in honor of your dealership's establishment? Let people watch the process in the shop then display it proudly in your showroom. Its sad that a nice Cadillac – the mark that made these people the $ to pull off this cheezey stunt – was treated this way.
Stupid event, stupid PR, stupid music, stupid Texan.
I sent a strongly worded email to Frank Kent Cadillac via their website protesting what they did. As a daily driver of a Cadillac and an owner of many an older cadillac it is a shame to see that. Perhaps a Lexus or a Jaguar.
I read some posts indicating that the car was actually on its way to salvage. Well so be it, still a bad idea good car or no good car.
Going beyond the death of a car, I just have to ask WHY? Notice that it just takes a second, and then what? All that build-up and then, well, there it sits, a crumpled car. Golly! Let's grab a free hotdog and go home. At least if you are going to do something like this, use some sense. Why not drop, say, a Lincoln or Lexus or Benz? When I was in high school every guy in my class went down to the vacant lot across from the Chevrolet dealer one afternoon-they brought in a "Big Foot" style car crushing truck and had some old F-series trucks lined up. That was kinda fun. So, if Frank Kent had owned that Chevy dealership they would have had a Ford truck crush some Chevy's???
Drop an Escalade (that's not a word) next time!
Oh yea great promotional idea, next the dealership needs to park this cadillac in front of the new dealership they are building. Shows the dealership has no respect for the Cadillac name and will have no respect for YOU when you purchase a vehicle at the new dealership. Attention they wanted, and that is what they got; although it's almost 100% negative response, can they say back fired!
Frank Kent has been dead for years. So stop threatening to drop him! LOL
Started out at a Buick store back in the '20s, then bought a Ford dealership.
Legendary story has it that Kent was rewarded for being a top sales dealership for Ford, that he was invited to go on an African safari with other dealers.
He kept up with business via cables and telegrams, when he found out that the Cadillac dealer in Fort Worth was looking for a buyer. He supposedly had his people start the paperwork to acquire the franchise, and when he got back to Texas, his Ford dealership became a Cadillac store!
The Honda-Pontiac-Buick-GMC stores have an equally interesting story. Except for Buick, they were owned by legendary Pontiac dealer Bill McDavid. When McDavid sold his stores off (cancer or some other medical issue), the franchises and facilties were acquired by Mac Churchill, who was General Manager of Frank Kent Cadillac…and the HUSBAND of Frank Kent's granddaughter, Wendi!
They kept Frank's name on the Cadillac store, but put Mac's on the others (which also included Subaru and Acura–Bill McDavid was the ONLY dealer in the U,S. with both Honda AND Acura, as noted in the book 'Arrogance & Accords') and added Lincoln-Mercury and Dodge later (they lost the Dodge franchise during the recent Chrysler bankruptcy-mandated dealer closings).
Odd to see the dominant AND competing American luxury car franchises in one city owned by ONE married couple. But then again, in Dallas, one family owns the Cadillac, Lexus, AND Infiniti franchises!
Wendi divorced Mac (or so I've heard) several years ago, and all of the franchises became Frank Kent, except for the Acura and Lincoln-Mercury stores)..Wonder what the late Wendi Kent would think about the brouhaha now.
Website here notes the history of the FK Motor Company.
The old '50s-era Frank Kent Cadillac sign used to sit on the southern edge of the Pate Museum of Transportation grounds, facing south for all of the northbound traffic on U.S. 377!! Not there now, so it must've been sold when the PMoT auction was held a few years ago.
Oh, and dropping the car was a dumb idea, but I don't hold it against the great-grandkids. They more likely don't hold old cars with reverence.
They probably dropped the sign right under the Cadillac.
Problem is most people who buy Cadillac's today don't like old cars…that's why they are buying new ones.
The front end of that '53 looks much worse that the front of my '50 (which is very similar)did after rear ending a Rambler wagon. Bumper was still good…went right under the rear of the Rambler and pushed the grill and fenders back about a foot and a half…stupid rear view mirror fell off and I reached for it and inadvertently changed lanes…4 days out of the brake shop.
What a sad thing to do. A friend of mine has a fairly nice '53 Cadillac 4dr.. Worst thing on it is the front bumper, I'm sure he would have liked the one off this car! Looks like it might have been a good one.
I normally do write ups on all stories I see when the contain classic Cadillacs but when I saw this I was disgusted. Total lack of respect, I just didn't think it needed to be publicized more.
I would of had readers unsubscribe from our blog if I was to ever report a story like this. It made me shed a tear.
I am sure there are other 1953 owners or Cadillac owners from that era model that shed a tear also.
This is a tired stunt done a thousand times. Why did they do it? It's the 'Top Gear' mentality. Stupid stunts for silly people.
I agree that the stunt wasn't in good taste but you can't save everything.
(What about the Caddy that was dropped on Mythbusters a while ago).
The other thing is the stunt has done it's job. They have people all over the country talking about a dealership that most of us had never heard of.
Maybe someone can res erect the dropped Caddy or pay it homage. But it has done a good job of getting attention.
Looks like just another typical texas mentallity stunt to me, lots of BIG action without much BIG thought. Loud mouth pack of wannabe big shots. I have restored cars with a LOT less to start with than that one. I would've loved to had that thing. Thanks Frank… I guess what they say is true. EVERYTHING in texas is big, including the idiots like you. Go ahead and park that thing out front of your place to prove it.
I wonder who came up with that hairbrain idea. He would have gotten a lot more publicity mileage if he preserved the car and displayed it at his dealership. Unbelievable!
The only thing that can be taken away from this stunt is it was totally pointless.It illustrates noting.It proves nothing.It is a meaningless action that in no way portrayed what in their mind they wanted to say.It only served to gratify those who enjoy destroying things for no reason. I think the proper term for this would be….
Besides the dumb idea of dropping this car(my opinion), the dealership and or their ad agency must have thought it a good idea, based on past similar stunts and the attention and customers brought in. Even so, it is a sad snapshot of our society in this day and age.
So they plan to bury this poor car in front of the new dealership a la the Cadillac Ranch. They're going to have to bury it up to its tailfins because those are about the only body panels not dented or kinked from this asinine stunt.
Goes To Show There Is Always 1 or More Jack Asses
Willing to Degrade Themselves And Act Disrespectful To
What Made Or Gave Them Good Fortune ! .
Sorry this happened it should have been a cts with a 3.8 eng. in it what a piece of junk they are. you have to carry a 55gal. oil drum in the trunk
In West Texas, it was once considered a status to have Frank Kent on the back of your Cadillac. When they bury this old girl with her tail in the air, the brilliant folks who decided to do this need to be buried with their tails in the air with her!
Wow….clueless. Looks like plenty of parts were good…grill, etc.. Will never visit this dealer ever. Spread the word…yeah they'll get publicity 😉
Is this the best stunt these morons could think of? This lack of creativity would get most ad agencies fired. Not very much creativity to copy a stunt straight out of Myth Busters or the Jackass movies. And then the dealership owners who OKd this lunacy should also be fired. As someone else stated, then bury them with their sorry asses sticking out of the ground. For showing disrespect to the world reknown product that produced their success, these fools should have their Cadillac franchise revoked.


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Thousands of people welcomed the Lunar New Year at the Chinese New Year parade in Washington's Chinatown on Sunday, Feb. 2. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the Year of the Horse, symbolizing a capacity for work, independence, intelligence and friendliness. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally include firecrackers, live musical performances with lion and dragon dancers, and feasts with foods like a whole fish and dumplings.
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MR. KOJO NNAMDIWelcome back. It's Food Wednesday. You can start calling now. Does your family celebrate the Lunar New Year? Have you ever enjoyed a Chinese New Year meal? 800-433-8850 is the number to call. In China and in Chinese communities around the world, including right here in Washington, the most important holiday is the Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.
MR. KOJO NNAMDIAnd while you might be more familiar with the Chinese New Year parade, you might be missing out on one of the more important and tasty aspects of the 15 days of celebration. Many of the traditional foods eaten at this time of year are thought to bring good fortune for the coming year. This is a great time to visit a Chinese restaurant to explore some of those food traditions. Joining us to talk about what you might find on a Chinese menu this time of year is Corinna Shen. She is co-owner of the Seven Seas restaurant in Rockville, Md. Corinna Shen, thank you so much for joining us.
MS. CORINNA SHENThank you for inviting me back.
NNAMDIGood to see you again. Also with us in studio is Scott Drewno. He is the executive chef at The Source restaurant here in Washington. Scott, good to see you again.
MR. SCOTT DREWNOGreat to see you. Thank you for having me.
NNAMDIAlso in studio with us is Tobie Meyer-Fong. She is a professor of East Asian history at Johns Hopkins University. Tobie Meyer-Fong, thank you for joining us.
DR. TOBIE MEYER-FONGThank you for including me.
NNAMDI800-433-8850. Corinna, tell us a little bit about Chinese New Year. It's also known as the Spring Festival. When does this holiday fall?
SHENWell, every year it falls on a different date because it's not following the western calendar. And it's followed by the lunar moon cycle. So every year it falls on a different date.
NNAMDIAnd this year?
SHENThis year is January the 31.
NNAMDIAnd we have 15 days of celebration?
SHENWe have the 15 days of celebration. Today is the sixth day. Actually yesterday was the fifth day. And on the lunar calendar shows that yesterday was the first day of spring. And we celebrate a Spring -- we call it Spring Festival because in the old days we worshiped the -- ancestor wished for the better year and give out the celebration.
NNAMDINew Year's Eve is when the biggest holiday meal is served. That was last Friday, January 31. What's the tradition -- and this question for you too, Tobie -- what's the tradition in most Chinese families, starting with you Corinna?
SHENOkay. My family, we must have a dumpling. The history of dumpling is very -- it's quite extensive. But I just want to share the common reason why dumpling are eaten in New Year. The dumpling resembles the shape of a gold nugget. And you're holding the nugget...
NNAMDIWhich is what I'm holding in my hand.
SHENYes. And eating dumpling symbolize gaining prosperity. So that's a must dish. And then my family tradition, we have to have lions head meatball. Just try to imagine to see the lion's head. It is round.
SHENAnd my mother always tell me that you have to have the meatball so you can gain strength, have power because lion symbolize power. So...
NNAMDIYour family traditions, Tobie Meyer-Fong.
MEYER-FONGWell, my mother-in-law is from the coastal part of eastern China. And so she doesn't particularly like to eat dumplings. To her she thinks that's a northern tradition. So she likes to eat wontons when she wasn't vegetarian or to have -- the idea is you want to do something where the family participates together. And dumplings are something that a whole group...
DREWNO...makes, yes.
MEYER-FONG...a family make together. You've got a big pot of filling, whether it's vegetarian or meat filling. And you have someone rolling out the dumpling skins.
SHEN...the dough.
MEYER-FONGAnd everybody's working together...
MEYER-FONG...to make it. And in places like Shanghai or Guangzhou, they might eat (word?) wontons instead of dumplings. But the idea is the same, making it together as an expression of family togetherness.
SHEN...as a whole. And the fish is another item that the family must have. You serve the whole fish.
MEYER-FONGAnd that's because like many New Year customs or many customary foods eaten on New Year, it's got an auspicious sound to it.
MEYER-FONGRight. Every year you have fish (speaks foreign language).
MEYER-FONGYou want to have every year. Fish sounds like every year having extra, having abundance.
SHENYes. Because the pronunciation has double meaning. One meaning is fish and another is abundance.
NNAMDIThere are four basic elements to a festival meal, Corinna. What are they?
SHENChicken, dog, fish, meat, (speaks foreign language).
NNAMDIThose are the four elements on this Food Wednesday. Scott Drewno, you're the executive chef at the Asian-themed restaurant The Source. How did you mark Chinese New Year's Eve at your restaurant last Friday?
DREWNOLast Friday we hosted a communal menu, a Chinese banquet-style menu for togetherness for family. So we invited groups of eight or larger to enjoy a banquet feast that had all the four elements involved in it. And was really meant to be family-style sharing and promote togetherness.
NNAMDIYou came up with new dishes -- well, you come up with new dishes every year for Chinese New Year, but it's my understanding that you came up with a special new dish this year, lettuce cups. What's the symbolism around those and are those what I'm looking at here?
DREWNOThose are what you're looking at there. And for me every year Chinese New Year is an exploration into tradition. And, you know, three are so many great symbolic foods for the New Year. We try to -- for me I've been cooking a Chinese New Year dinner for about 17 years and really try to keep digging deeper and exploring. And this dish, the lettuce cup, you know, symbolizes fortune. And there's also pine nuts in there, which Dr. Fong could explain a little bit better than me. But we try to use symbolic foods for the New Year.
NNAMDITell us about all the ingredients of the lettuce cup.
DREWNOSo this lettuce cup has lamb...
NNAMDII would tell you but they didn't bring me a fork because they don't want me to eat on the air.
DREWNOIt's ground lamb that we've marinated in orange zest soy sauce, a little brown sugar. It's stir-fried in a wok with toasted pine nuts, crispy rice noodles and then a little salad with spinach on top.
NNAMDITobie, the symbolism around the food served at New Years is important. And a lot of it apparently has to do with what food looks like or what the food names sound like. Can you talk a little bit about that?
MEYER-FONGSure. Chinese is a language with a lot of punning potential because a lot of words sound similar. And so the word for pine nut sounds like the word for to send sons or to send children. So (speaks foreign language). And lettuce sounds like the word meaning to get wealthy. And so a lot of the items that you find on the Chinese New Year table like the fish, like the lettuce, or in Cantonese communities you find a kind of desert moss called (speaks foreign language) which sounds -- which literally means hair vegetable. But it sounds like the second half of the New Year greeting (speaks foreign language) which means congratulations...
SHEN...wishing you good fortune.
MEYER-FONG...wishing you good fortune and get rich.
NNAMDIThe puns are never ending. 800-433--8850, give us a call. Does your family celebrate Lunar New Year? Do you have a favorite Chinese dish or local Chinese restaurant where you celebrated Lunar New Year? Give us a call, 800-433-8850. Corinna, what are you serving at your restaurant for New Years?
SHENWell, we have this one signature dish. It's called braised pork butt. So (speaks foreign language) . That falls in one of the elements, pork. Every family have to have a pork. And the character (speaks foreign language) is roof with animal underneath. And that's another reason we have to have pork for the New Year. Come and try the braised pork butt in Seven Seas.
NNAMDIHow about the lions head meatball that you described earlier?
SHENWell, we do have that dish also. So order that and...
NNAMDIIt has a mane of lettuce, right?
SHENYeah, the cabbage resembles the lion's mane.
NNAMDIAnd you have herbal chicken soup?
SHENYes. And that's a chicken dish. It's very healthy. It's good for wintertime. And we have ginseng wolfberry -- yeah, wolfberry. And (speaks foreign language), dates.
MEYER-FONG...red dates, Chinese dates.
SHENYes, dates. All this good ingredients that will make you healthy, strong. So come and try that.
NNAMDIGetting back to the puns with the chicken. Chicken -- the word for chicken sounds like luck in Chinese is my understanding?
SHENYes. (speaks foreign language).
NNAMDITobie, you and your family prepare a Chinese New Year meal that involves dumplings. Tell us about that.
MEYER-FONGWe make dumplings and one of the -- we don't eat pork and that poses problems for Chinese New Year because it's customary to eat pork. But we have a new world variation. We use turkey. And we do a turkey and pumpkin dumpling that we steam. It's very tasty.
NNAMDIIt's my understanding that you celebrate two traditions in your family, Jewish and Chinese. And so you have adapted some of the Chinese traditions. Can you talk about that?
MEYER-FONGWell, that's one of them. We don't eat pork and so we substitute turkey for pork. And we celebrate Rosh Hashanah and Chinese New Year and the New Year.
NNAMDIScott, you serve meals family style at The Source for this holiday. What makes a meal family style in Chinese culture?
DREWNOWell, generally it's large platters at the table meant for sharing. So instead of an individual course like we do a traditional tasting menu, it's large platters meant to -- known to be shared.
NNAMDIOnto the telephones. Here is Victoria in Washington D.C. Victoria, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
VICTORIAHi. So I was born in Singapore. And the ethnically Chinese there in that region in Malaysia are similar for Chinese New Year. They have I think two traditions, at least my family does. One is steamboat. which is the same as hot pot or in Mandarin, it would be (speaks foreign language) . And it's when everyone comes over it's basically like Chinese fondue. But it's funny. It's only called steamboat, like, in that region.
VICTORIAAnd then the other food tradition we have is a tradition that is specific that was created in that region called (speaks foreign language) which is of Cantonese origin but it's basically what we call prosperity salad. And we -- there are, like, different ingredients like carrot, radish, you know, pomelo, ginger, cucumber, pickles, yam, all these different things that represent -- it's also a very colorful salad. And in the middle it's fish. Obviously fish has a significance -- you know, auspicious significance of the Chinese New Year.
VICTORIASo what you do is you get together around the table. It's like a circular plate and everyone digs their chopsticks in and tosses the salad together and say (speaks foreign language) which basically, you know, means to rise, as you're tossing all these ingredients that each have a significance. And that is basically a really fun way that we celebrate New Year's together.
NNAMDIVictoria, thank you so much for sharing that tradition with us. I couldn't help noticing that she also brings up the theme of togetherness in that situation. The family gathered around the table. Can you talk a little bit more about that?
MEYER-FONGSure. I mean, obviously families are really important value. And that's expressed both through the shared eating of food in the form of (speaks foreign language) making dumplings together. And actually there's a food that you eat on the New Year whose name is a homophone for family togetherness. You eat (speaks foreign language) which are a kind of gluttonous rice ball often stuffed with sesame paste or with peanuts. But the name sounds like the idea of family togetherness, which is an essential part of the New Year.
MEYER-FONGAnd in fact, if you've been following Chinese New Year in the newspaper, it occasions the most massive run on the Chinese transportation system as Chinese people who are living in cities or living away from home try to get home for the holidays.
NNAMDITobie Meyer-Fong. She's a professor of East Asian history at Johns Hopkins University. She joins us to discuss Chinese New Year food traditions here on Food Wednesday along with Scott Drewno. He is the executive chef at The Source restaurant here in Washington. And Corinna Shen, co-owner of the Seven Seas restaurant in Rockville, Md. You're invited to join the conversation by calling 800-433-8850. Are you interested in the symbolism of different foods, speaking of which, Corinna, uncut noodles. What do they represent?
SHENWell, they're long. When we celebrate birthdays -- you know, elderly person celebrate birthday and we always pick the longest noodle from our own ball to give it to the elderly to -- this represents longevity, long life. So we give the elderly person a long noodle meaning bring her or him good luck, longevity.
NNAMDIWhy is it important to serve a whole fish?
SHENThe whole fish from head to tail represents the beginning of the year to the end of year. By serving the whole fish from head to tail meaning that you have leftover because earlier we said that the pronunciation of fish (speaks foreign language) that there's a double meaning. One meaning is fish and the other meaning is abundance. So serving fish to have leftover in fortune, leftover in...
MEYER-FONGBut also you should have good -- you should have leftovers the whole year through.
SHENYes, The leftover...
MEYER-FONGSo from the head of the year to the tail of the year you want to have abundance.
NNAMDIBlack moss, which looks a lot like hair. Why is that served at this time of year?
SHENWell, the black moss, there's another name of the black moss. It's called hair vegetable. And the Chinese pronouncing of hair vegetable is (foreign language). And the pronunciation of (foreign language) is so similar to (foreign language). So we take that two sound. You know (foreign language) is gaining prosperity and (foreign language). are the same sound. And you have to eat (foreign language) to be (foreign language) to gain prosperity.
NNAMDIDo families usually eat out on this holiday? Because it's my understanding the Chinese New Year is something like Thanksgiving. Typically it's a meal that's prepared and served at home.
SHENWell, when I was growing up, the New Year time, there's no store or anything were open. And modern days people going out to have meal, like earlier you mention the Thanksgiving. Yes. We -- modern Chinese, they -- younger generation, they like to go out and not cooking because it takes a long time to prepare.
SHENTwo weeks.
NNAMDI...to prepare this.
SHENTo prepare the festival meal.
NNAMDIIndeed, Scott, a lot more American families have been eating out on Thanksgiving. So who comes to your restaurant for Chinese New Year's dinner?
DREWNOIt's a diverse crowd. There's so many people that come that, you know, I think a lot of people like me that just are so interested in the exploration of new cuisines and new cultures. And, once again, you know, like you said, so many restaurants are so busy on Thanksgiving nowadays whereas probably as little as 15 years ago that wasn't the case. But now it's some of that -- you know, some people just get tired of cooking. So that's why you come to The Source.
MEYER-FONGThey're busy working.
NNAMDICorinna, do some people come for Chinese New Year's who are not Chinese but who just may want to celebrate or learn about Chinese food traditions?
SHENOur restaurant is located in Rockville, so we do get a lot of the Jewish community people. Yes. On New Year's period we serve half -- 50 percent are not -- non-Chinese. And with Chinese they're mostly, like, family gathering celebration time.
MEYER-FONGAnd as Corinna said, historically businesses all shut down for the period of the New Year. But, you know, there have been Chinese restaurants in China that we know the names of from contemporary accounts back to the Sung Dynasty, 960 to 1279.
NNAMDIOn to Nam in Rockville, Md. Nam, you're on the air. Go ahead, please.
NAMHi. I wanted to call in because I am Vietnamese. And we celebrate Lunar New Year. And of course like, you know, the other caller that called in and all your experiences, it's all centered around family and lots and lots of eating. And what we do is we have a -- you can't call it a pastry because it's not sweet, although it does come in three versions. But it's called (speaks foreign language) and it is a -- it's in a log form. It's sticky rice wrapped around mung beans and a piece of fatty pork belly.
NAMAnd it is wrapped in banana leaves and steamed for a very long time. And it also comes in, like, a square brick form called (speaks foreign language) .
NNAMDIAnd that is a part of your family tradition?
NAMYeah, it's not just my family. I know a lot of people, you know, do it. And it's, you know, a big deal because it takes a really long time to make. And you can eat it with, like, (word?) vegetables or my family put a little bit of sugar on it. I don't know if that's a Vietnamese thing or just my family does that.
NNAMDIDo you know if that's available in Vietnamese restaurants here for the Lunar New Year?
NAMNo. It's actually found more in, like, you know, grocery stores. You know, people make it at home, specialty shops. Like, you can find it all over in the Eden Center.
NNAMDIThank you very much for sharing that with us, Nam. We've got to take a short break. When we come back we'll be continuing this Food Wednesday conversation on Chinese New Year food traditions. But you can still call us right now, 800-433-8850. Or you can send email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Does your family celebrate the Lunar New Year? Tell us how. You can also shoot us a Tweet @kojoshow. I'm Kojo Nnamdi.
NNAMDIIt's a Food Wednesday conversation about Chinese New Year food traditions with Scott Drewno. He is the executive chef at The Source restaurant in Washington. Tobie Meyer-Fong is a professor of East Asian history at Johns Hopkins University. And Corinna Shen is co-owner of the Seven Seas restaurant in Rockville, Md. And hearing that the host of this broadcast is easily bribable, Corinna just gave me a bright red envelope with a fresh crisp new dollar bill in it. Tell me about this tradition.
SHENWell, the red envelope, it's called (speaks foreign language) . Chen (sp?) is money so (speaks foreign language) meaning awarding the old age. So you don't get older. Isn't that correct, Dr….
NNAMDIThat's why the money is new and crisp.
NNAMDIAs she says Dr. Meyer-Fong. Tell us about this.
MEYER-FONGIt just should be fresh new money that's not been used for other purposes. And actually in Chinese communities, for example in New York City, if you put your ATM card in you can request new hundred dollar bills come out so that you can put them in the red envelope and give them to people new and fresh.
NNAMDIYou can get new one dollar bills also?
MEYER-FONGI don't know about dollar bills from the ATM but certainly you can go into the bank and request fresh new bills for the purpose of giving as gifts.
SHENYeah, yesterday I went to Asia Bank and my best friend Rita exchanged $20 brand new one-dollar bill for me.
NNAMDIWell, I am the happy recipient of one such. And I expect this is going to give me good fortune in the year ahead. Scott, you are well known as a chef in Asian cooking but you are not only not Chinese, you grew up in upstate New York. You originally pursued a career in criminal justice. So tell us how this happened. You got interested in Chinese cooking working in a restaurant in Vegas?
DREWNOYeah, so I originally -- you know, when I graduated high school my parents had sort of picked out a career path for me. And they wanted me to go into criminal justice, and so I'd gone to school for criminal justice. And I was always working in restaurants at the time. And I really wanted to cook. I wanted to be a chef but at that time it was about 20 years ago, and being a chef then wasn't what is -- it's not what it was -- it's not what it is now what it was then. And my parents were like, this is not a good career and you can't make any money.
DREWNOAnd so after two years of criminal justice I decided I would just with all my heart and I had a good friend move to Las Vegas. So I dropped out of school to -- sort of my parents' dismay and I moved to Las Vegas. And fortunately Wolfgang Puck had just opened his French Asian restaurant Chinois which is -- you know, Wolfgang was really one of the first chefs to do, you know, sort of fusion cooking taking traditional Chinese ingredients and using a French technique to cook them.
DREWNOWell, I walked in that kitchen and I saw roasted ducks, a wok that had a million degree burner and (word?) and ginger and all these things that I -- just blew my mind because I was from a very small town -- a village in upstate New York called Penn Yan, which is a beautiful area in the Finger Lakes. But as far as diversity of food, there's not much. So when I walked in that kitchen I just fell in love and I've devoted the last, you know, 18 years of my life to trying to learn and, you know...
NNAMDIThere may not have been a lot of diversity of cuisine in that village but there was certainly a lot of cooking that seemed to be going on in your house, because your mother and grandmother, it's my understanding, were probably also responsible for your love of food and cooking in general.
DREWNOOh, true. And, you know, I think that's another reason sort of the Chinese New Year means something to me, is that we always had big family celebrations with food. And my father's side is Polish and we would go and have family banquet meals where there's five of us in my family and my two grandparents, there would be seven of us. But there'd be enough food for 25 people, you know, pierogis and, you know, polish dumplings and golumpkis and kapusta and all these foods that were just -- you know, food is I think a kind of language that really feels good to celebrate with family and be together.
MEYER-FONG(unintelligible) ...
NNAMDIWe got an email -- oh, please go ahead, Tobie.
MEYER-FONGOh, I was going to say in Chinese they say (speaks foreign language). It's the people take food as Heaven.
DREWNOYeah, that's great.
NNAMDIWe got an email from Cade in Hyattsville who said, "I got a little intimidated in -- I get a little intimidated in Chinese restaurants. I understand a lot of the food we get here are Americanized and not really Chinese. Is that true? What would you recommend I try if I want to be more adventurous," Corinna?
SHENWell, that's why when I first met Scott today I told him that, Scott, I am so proud of you. Your creation brought the Chinese cuisine to -- and at the level because the traditional Chinese food, we are facing a difficulty to find a good chef now in the traditional restaurant. Well, to this friend who has this question, traditional Chinese food, there's -- you know, in Rockville -- last time we talked about Rockville it's almost like a little Taipei. It's a little Chinatown. There's a lot of Chinese restaurants. Seven Seas, my restaurant, we service pretty much traditional Chinese too and cover all regions.
NNAMDII was about to say at Seven Seas you serve food from the four major Chinese regions.
NNAMDIBut it seems like many of these food traditions now cross regional boundaries. Has Chinese food, like many other cuisines, Tobie, become more universal?
MEYER-FONGWell, I think the idea of Chinese food as a unitary thing is a product of Chinese people being outside of China. I mean, if you're in China, you eat in a restaurant that serves food or you eat in a restaurant that serves regional cuisines. Like if you're in Beijing a lot of people like to go out for Citron food or (word?) food or Shanghai-style food or Cantonese food. And so maintaining those regional distinctions becomes a kind of branding for the restaurants.
MEYER-FONGBut on the other hand, I would say that New Year's traditions have probably become a bit more internationalized and also more universal.
NNAMDIWe've got a video on our website from the Chinese New Year parade right here in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown, including interviews with spectators about the meaning of this New Year, the year of the horse. So you can find that at our website kojoshow.org. On to Pat in Herndon, Va. Pat, your turn.
PATHi, Kojo. A pleasure to join you today. I'm sorry I missed your open house on Saturday but (unintelligible) ...
NNAMDIWell, about a thousand other people did not but you were missed, yes. Go ahead.
PATI was curious how far across the Asian community is the New Year or when the New Year practiced. For instance, I understand the previous caller talked about Vietnamese do celebrate. How about, like, Japan or Korea or some of the other...
MEYER-FONGWell, I was going to say, Japan has shifted pretty firmly to western New Year. And many of the traditional Japanese New Year observances moved from the Lunar Year to the western New Year with Japan's modernization in the early 20th century. China and Vietnam pretty strongly retain...
MEYER-FONG...and Korea retain the Lunar New Year.
NNAMDIHey Pat, thank you very much for your call. You know, you mentioned earlier, Corinna, that today is the sixth day of celebration. Do people still take time off as it gets into the sixth and seventh days of the celebration? Is it still a holiday for some people?
SHENI believe so. In China commonly known that business will take at least a week off. And some place, like earlier we said, about 15 days at celebration from full moon to the next full moon. Usually the 30th of the Lunar calendar is the full moon. And the moon lasts for 15 days. So to the next full moon day is the last day of celebration, which is the lanterns day, the 15th day.
NNAMDIIt seems to make so much sense. Some of our people seem to take a week to recover from the New Year's Eve celebration. (laugh) We often see mandarin oranges associated with Chinese New Year. What's the symbolism of those?
SHENYes. The mandarin orange again is -- we resemble the pronunciation of orange to (speaks foreign language). (Speaks foreign language) means blessing and prosperity. That's why in Chinese New Year all families always serve (speaks foreign language) orange on the table.
MEYER-FONGAnd actually 19th century western observers commented that that was an important part of the Chinese New Year festivities.
MEYER-FONG... (unintelligible) tradition.
NAMSo it's been around for a while.
NNAMDIDessert is something we often note that seems to be absent from Chinese menus. What's the story of sweets in China and what other kinds of sweets are common at this time of year?
MEYER-FONGWell, of course as part of the general package of wanting auspicious things, sweetness is obviously something auspicious across cultures. And so things like eight treasures sticky rice would be...
SHEN...rice cakes.
MEYER-FONG...a sweet dish or rice cakes, which is another thing that you see regional variation across regions. Everyplace in China has something like what your opening there, Kojo, called (speaks foreign language) ...
SHEN...(speaks foreign language).
MEYER-FONG...which means...
NNAMDIThanks, Corinna.
MEYER-FONG...year cake. And it also, again, is a homophone for (speaks foreign language) getting higher every year. So it expressed the wish that, Kojo, you may have already reached the pinnacle but you can keep rising even higher in your profession. And that's something that would be sweet. In different regions of China they have something called (speaks foreign language) that looks completely different...
NNAMDIKeep talking about the part about me rising higher in my profession.
MEYER-FONGSo you have to eat (speaks foreign language) year.
MEYER-FONGYou have to eat it every year.
SHENYeah, (speaks foreign language) is higher and...
MEYER-FONGAnd the one that Corinna brought you is a Cantonese (speaks foreign language) .
MEYER-FONGWhereas at my mother-in-law's house you would eat something that's shaped like small earlobes also made out of (word?) pounded rice cake. And she stir fries it with a kind of flour called (speaks foreign language) which has a kind of citrusy flavor to it. And she stir fries the rice cake, adds a kind of sugar syrup with the flours in it and so it's sweet and fragrant and very delicious. And she would say that the one from her hometown is the best.
SHENMy goodness. I haven't heard (speaks foreign language) .
MEYER-FONGYou've never -- it's...
SHENWell, I've heard of (speaks foreign language) but, you know, I haven't had it for years.
MEYER-FONGWell, come to my house for New Years sometime, Corinna.
SHENOh yes, definitely.
NNAMDIYou mentioned that your mother-in-law is vegetarian. Is that because of tradition or just for health reasons?
MEYER-FONGWell, in fact she's vegetarian because she's a Buddhist. But actually in many Chinese communities, the lunch of New Year's day is an occasion to eat vegetarian food. And then you would revert to eating the leftovers and meat for dinner on New Year's day.
NNAMDIScott Drewno, if someone comes to The Source who's vegetarian and wants to celebrate the Lunar New Year, can you help them out?
DREWNOAbsolutely. We always -- you know, Chinese food lends itself very well to vegetarian food. So we always offer -- you know, we have a seven-course tasting menu for vegetarians. We have a lot of menu items and we can always accommodate.
NNAMDICorinna, Tobie, it's my understanding that in Chinese tradition the New Year is when you turn one year old. And this is the year of the horse. What are the characteristics of people born under this symbol?
MEYER-FONGThe horse year?
MEYER-FONGI particularly love the people who was born a horse because when I was growing up all my playmate, my friends are horse year. And horse itself, the character of the horse resembles an actual horse. It has four legs in the character.
NNAMDIShe's showing me on the calendar.
SHENYes. And can you see the horse?
NNAMDII can see the horse.
SHENAnd can you see the four legs?
NNAMDII see the four legs indeed, yeah.
SHENSo this is the symbol of horse.
NNAMDIThis is a calendar put out by Citi Bank for 2014 but it does celebrate the year of the horse. Tobie.
MEYER-FONGYeah, and I was going to say actually the very idea of businesses producing calendars on the New Year and giving them to their clients, like banks or Chinese supermarkets is very much part of the package of Chinese New Year customs.
NNAMDIAnd I'm afraid that's about all the time we have. Tobie Meyer-Fong is a professor of East Asian history at Johns Hopkins University. Thank you so much for joining us.
MEYER-FONGThank you.
NNAMDIHappy New Year.
MEYER-FONGHappy New Year to you too.
NNAMDIScott Drewno is the executive chef at The Source restaurant here in Washington. Scott, thank you for joining us.
DREWNOThank you. Happy New Year.
NNAMDIHappy New Year to you. And Corinna Shen is co-owner of the Seven Seas restaurant in Rockville, Md. Corinna, I hope I was born under the horse. Thank you so much for joining us.
SHEN(Speaks foreign language).
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Developers and new residents are eying Reston, Virginia, and Fairfax County officials want to change zoning rules to allow them to move in. But in a trend that is playing out across the region, many long-time residents say their community is becoming too urban too fast.


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JSE: Good evening ladies and gentlemen,
I have just finished briefing the Security Council on the situation in Syria and I was able to tell them how proud I am of the colleagues on the ground – unarmed observers and civilian experts – who have shown incredible courage in the work they have been sent down to do. And I also expressed my appreciation for the Member States who have offered observers for the mission and also helped us airlift some of our equipment. And I think if you had an opportunity to listen – I was very pleased also with the two departments in New York, who have done everything possible to deploy as fast as possible. We started slowly but they have given us an assurance that by the end of this month, the whole 300 observers would be on the ground and I believe their presence will make quite a difference. We have been small in numbers but even where we have been able to place two or three observers, they have had a calming effect. And I think when they are fully deployed, and working as a team, establishing relations with the people, we will see much greater impact on the work that they are there to do.
There has been some decrease in the military activities but there are still serious violations in the cessation of violence that was agreed and the levels of violence and abuses are unacceptable. Government troops and armor are still present, though in smaller formations. There have been worrying episodes of violence by the Government, but we have also seen attacks against Government forces, troops and installations, and there has been a spate of bombings which are really worrying, and, I am sure, creates incredible insecurity among the civilian population. However, it is also clear, as I have said earlier, that the presence of our observers, and, in situations where they have intervened specifically, have not only had a calming effect, but sometimes they have been able to get the forces involved to do the right thing. There has been, as I said, less shelling, but I also emphasized to the Council, that the need for human rights abuses to come to an end cannot be underestimated. This is part of the plan, part of what the mission is all about, and I think once we are fully deployed we will be able to have even greater impact in this area. And it must be understood that we need to ensure that all aspects of the six-point plan are implemented to create a conducive environment for us to move on to the political dialogue. It will be extremely difficult to make good progress on dialogue if the current conditions persist. I also told Members of the Council that I believe that the UN supervision mission is possibly the only remaining chance to stabilize the country. And I'm sure I'm not telling you any secret when I tell you that there is a profound concern that the country could otherwise descend into full civil war and the implications of that are quite frightening. We cannot allow that to happen.
I hope that both the government and all components of the opposition understand this, and see this fragile but real opportunity to bring the situation under control. The violence must stop and a credible political process must begin for the sake of the Syrian people who have suffered so much, and whose welfare must be at the centre of everything we try to do.
I will take a few questions.
Q: Mr. Kofi Annan, when you talk about the political process, can you talk about the parliamentary elections yesterday in Syria in this political process?
JSE: I think that the electoral process, the election of yesterday was an initiative of the government and they had planned it. When I talk of a political process which would be an outcome of dialogue and discussions, a national dialogue between Syrians and the Government, which could also lead, which may also lead to elections; this is not that election. This was a separate election and I think the Syrian authorities understand that depending on the outcome of the dialogue, another election may be necessary.
Q: What's the biggest priority right now for your plan to progress?
JSE: I think the biggest priority, as I said, first of all we need to stop the killing. We need to stop the killing and we are pushing very hard for that, not only with the government and the parties on the other side, but also talking to governments with influence to support us in this process. We also need to get humanitarian assistance to those in need, and we are not where we want to be on that and discussions are going on on the humanitarian issue.
But it's a six-point plan and all the six points must be implemented comprehensively. And I think if we do that and we send a powerful political signal that we are ready to resolve this issue peacefully, we stand a better chance of making faster progress when we bring the people to the political table.
Q: Concerning the fragility of the ceasefire, are there any specific measure that you can propose or the UN are willing to take?
JSE: I think the message should go out loud and clear to the government, which has a greater responsibility in terms of its size to really do whatever it can to reduce the violence; but the same goes to the other armed groups. They should think of the people who have been caught in the middle for about fifteen months, day and night, hearing guns, their rights abused and traumatized, and really give peace a chance.
Yes, we may be told it's extremely difficult to get everyone to honour their commitments and obey the order to lay down their arms but we all remember that they did it on the 12th of April. It was quiet on the 12th of April. So they are in control, both sides. And if you can do it for one day, why don't you do it for a week, for a month? Give peace a chance and give the people of Syria a break. Why do they have to put up with this trauma?
Q: Do you think President Assad is worried about the consequences for him personally, if your plan does not succeed, do you think he should be worried? And have you warned him about the consequences of failure?
JSE: I don't carry warnings and threats. I mediate and negotiate and try to get people moving in the right direction. I know lots of questions have been asked about what happens if the plan fails. I am waiting for some suggestions as to what else we do. I think if there are better ideas, I will be the first to jump onto it. I think the international community through the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Arab League have endorsed this approach and we are trying to push it as hard as we can to make it work. We may well conclude down the line that it doesn't work and a different tack has to be taken. And that will be a very sad day, a tough day for the region. But my appeal to those with guns, my appeal to those who have taken – I was going to say the people prisoners, because in a way there are frightened – is to really think of them, think of the people, think of Syria, think of the region and disarm and come to the table. They all tell me they are ready to talk. We should do it sooner rather than later.
Q: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that it is a race against time to avoid civil war. So do you hope that with the deployment of observers by the end of the month, things will already change? Are you sure you going to win this race? Is there a deadline when you can take other steps?
JSE: Nothing is sure. Nothing is sure. What we have to do is to do our best and hope that the better forces in us will prevail and lead us to put down the arms and do what is right. If it fails, as the Secretary-General has warned, and it were to lead into a civil war, it will not affect only Syria, it will have an impact on the whole region. This is why we should all be so concerned for the Syrians, for Syria, and for a region that for geo-political reasons we should all be concerned about.


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Lazy Angle Ruler Episode Debuts on KayeWoodTV.com, Free Download of Chapter One From My Book at My Blog
Lazies, Our Lazy Angle ruler demo debuts today at KayeWoodTV.com. But before you head over to watch the demo, let me tell you about our Lazy Angle ruler. Get a cuppa cuppa, this is a long one.
Click to enlarge to better see the Lazy Angle pieces.
(Photo: The quilt shown above is 'Lazy Sunshine', which is used in the Lazy Angle episode of Kaye's Quilting Friends. Fabrics are from Benartex, designed by Nancy Halvorsen of Art To Heart – I'm a huge fan of Nancy's work.)
I've created a Lazy Angle Tutorial page at our blog. You can read all about this tool, see step-by-step how it works and…announcing here for the first time ever…you can download the first chapter of my book 'Lazy and Lovin' It' for free from the tutorial page.
What is a Lazy Angle?
The block at the far left is a Lazy Angle. This block uses an 'A' and 'B' piece, as cut with the Lazy Angle ruler.
When pieced, a Lazy Angle block has a seam that runs from a corner to the center of a side when finished or sewn in place in a quilt.
That means the cut pieces and the angle are awkward. This is definitely not a 30 degree angle. It's actually just a smidgen under 30 degrees. Look at the tutorial for more on this.
This angle looks familiar.
It's the same angle in half triangle rectangles (two 'B' pieces) and Doreen Speckman's beloved 'Peaky and Spike' block, and the Storm At Sea quilt design. However, I couldn't find a common name for the angle itself, so I called it 'Lazy'. Besides, I think of it as not being ambitious enough to reach the opposite corner, but rather a lazy little angle that landed out in no man's land.
What does the Lazy Angle ruler look like?
Here it is. It's a one-piece acrylic tool with markings to cut 'A' and 'B' pieces in six sizes.
Visit the Lazy Angle Tutorial page to see how to use the ruler.
Why invent a tool just for this block?
When I work on a quilt piecing project, I want the promise of ease and accuracy. I want the only variables to be my skills at the moment and the mystery of how the final quilt will look once all the fabrics are cut and sewn together. Other than that, you can keep the guess work and variables – I'm looking for the best chance at success.
(Photo:The nine-patch quilt block to the left is 'Parody' from our book 'Lazy and Lovin' It'. Parody has four 'Chunky Wrap' Lazy Angle blocks for the long points, one square in a square block for the center, and simple squares for the corners.)
So, back in the late 1990's I designed a quilt, based on a block I thought was intriguing. There wasn't a tool or notion available that would accurately cut the two pieces I needed. I wasn't asking too much, I just wanted help in doing this one thing well.
The Lazy Angle ruler sprang from that simple need. I imagine a lot of tools and notions come from the same place.
Well, I didn't realize it at the time, but while the Lazy Angle ruler helped me do that one thing well, it turns out that it does so much more.
So, I filed for (and later received) a patent, looked for a manufacturer and thus the Lazy Angle ruler became a reality.
(Photo above: The four patch-block is 'Pinnacle'. It is composed of four 'Ribbon Wrap' Lazy Angle blocks.)
What does the Lazy Angle ruler do?
The Lazy Angle ruler allows you to cut two shapes 'A' and 'B', in six sizes, from strips of fabric with no waste or scary math. That's it.
Now remember that part about the angled seam ending at the 'center' of a side? Well, click on the image of the table runner to the left so see a close-up of the piecing.
The burgundy point from the Lazy Angle block perfectly matches up with the seam of the four half-square triangles that compose the center block of this nine-patch. That's good stuff!
That endpoint for the angled seam matches everything else with a seam at the center: square-in-a-square, four-patch, corner cutie (that's one folded triangle on a corner) and more.
(Photo: The table runner shown here uses three 'Reigning Star' nine-patch blocks. I love this block! I've paired four 'Diagonal Wrap' Lazy Angle blocks, with a pinwheel block in the center, and four simple squares for the corners.)
You decide how to use the 'A' and 'B' pieces to make the simplest of Lazy Angle blocks, like I did for the Lazy Sunshine quilt. Or make more intricate blocks like 'Parody', 'Pinnacle' 'Reigning Star' and more.
Starting to identify the 'A' and 'B' pieces in these images? The B's in Lazy Sunshine are the green and yellow pieces. The burgundy and some of the background fabrics are the A's.
The book 'Lazy and Lovin' It' offers more than 250 different block designs made using the Lazy Angle ruler. Lazy Girl Designs also offers a number of quilt patterns that use the Lazy Angle ruler. You can see these quilt patterns here.
Hop on over to Kaye Wood TV.com, watch the demonstration, then visit the Lazy Angle Tutorial page and print the first chapter of my book 'Lazy and Lovin' It'.
Lazy Girl Designs makes a donation to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation for each of our books and rulers we sell. All of our products are available online or through local quilt shops.
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4 Responses to "Lazy Angle Ruler Episode Debuts on KayeWoodTV.com, Free Download of Chapter One From My Book at My Blog"
Thank you so much for all the fabulous quilting info you send my way — i just can't get enough BUT I cannot find out where to purchase the lazy angle ruler — I want one asap — please advise
Thank you so much
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Hi Jeanette,
I'm not sure where they are available in the UK, but you can order online at many places including Quilter's Warehouse.
Hello, I am from Lima Peru, I would like to know how to buy the book Lazy and loving it, and of course the ruler. I think patchwork designs are wonderful and although they seem a little bit difficult, I would like to try…
A friend from Peru
I cannot get on the site for Video for Lazy Angle. Is there
another Video that I can watch? Thankyou Colleen True


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TOWN OF OAK GROVE--Beginning this week, work will begin on the reconstruction of the Hwy. 10/CTH E intersection in the Town of Oak Grove.
As part of the project, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) will implement a detour throughout the duration of the project. Motorists will be detoured off of E to Hwy. 29-35 to CTH QQ to 10 back to E.
The project will realign the north leg of E with 10 so it meets 10 at almost a 90-degree angle to allow better site distance for motorists on E. Turning lanes will also be added.
The project is expected to be completed prior to the beginning of Farm Technology Days this summer.


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There have been posts on this site asking what the best method is to retrieve a large amount of data (1000+ rows) from a database. The suggested approach is to use a page-by-page iterator, as seen on http://java.sun.com/blueprints/patterns/j2ee_patterns/page_by_page_iterator/index.html
My question is, how do you implement a page-by-page iterator with CMP beans?
Right now, I am using a simple finder to retrieve a Collection of 1000+ entity beans. How would I implement a page-by-page iterator and bypass the finder method (because this is expensive since there are many remote calls to populate each bean's data). I guess I could roll my own JDBC code, but this introduces longer coding times, handling JDBC failure conditions, getting JDBC connections, etc... Is it really worth it?
Thanks for any help!!
How do you implement a Page-By-Page iterator?? (1 messages)
- Posted by: Danny B
- Posted on: January 10 2002 11:00 EST
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- How do you implement a Page-By-Page iterator?? by Pranab Ghosh on January 10 2002 16:38 EST
How do you implement a Page-By-Page iterator??[ Go to top ]
Using entity bean finder method for retrieving thosands of records is a recipe for disaster. I have implemented a page by page iterator as follows
- Posted by: Pranab Ghosh
- Posted on: January 10 2002 16:38 EST
- in response to Danny B
- A singleton caches stores the result set which is obtained by straight JDBC calls
- The cache is accessed through SLSB
- The client invokes a method on the SLSB and passes an instance of a PageIterator class. This class encapsuales the client state by storing current location, page size etc.
There are other variations of this general approach.


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FIFA Taps Into China ManU Announces 17.3% Revenue Growth WADA Rejects RUSADA's Appeal Formula E Invests In Marketing Hangin' With ... Jorge Rincon Executive Transactions Peru Declares Holiday After WC Qualification Names In The News Barcelona Releases Study Of Club's Brand ITV Signs Gary Neville For 2018 World Cup
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BT Signs Up 2 Million Customers, Scores Early Success In Battle With BSkyB
BT has signed up more than 2 million customers for its new sports channels, "marking early success in its battle with BSkyB," according to Daniel Thomas of the FINANCIAL TIMES. However, the costly launch of BT Sport and the acquisition of sports rights for the channels "weighed on earnings at BT, which is embroiled in a big gamble to win high spending TV and broadband customers against rival BSkyB." BT's share price, which has risen 60% this year as "investors have embraced the more aggressive growth strategy," rose 2.4% to 378.2p on Thursday afternoon. BT said that the clear majority of the 2 million signed to its sports platform "were existing customers who would get the channels for free." This number doubled from August, and compares to 10.5 million paying BSkyB subscribers. An additional 70,000 new customers boosted BT's overall pay TV platform to about 900,000 subscribers. As "importantly for BT," which is using TV to attract customers to its wider package of high speed fibre and calls, there were 156,000 new retail broadband customers in the quarter. This represented "more than nine in ten of the overall broadband market net new customers in the period" (FT, 10/31).
CONSUMER SALES UP: In London, Juliette Garside reported revenues from consumer sales are up 4% in the September quarter, the best performance in 10 years, and BT's TV service has added 70,000 subscribers, more than in any quarter since '08. The loss of customers with a BT telephone line -- "a key measure of defections from the company" -- fell to 65,000 for the quarter, the best performance in five years. Jefferies bank analyst Jerry Dellis fears Sky "had successfully countered the impact of BT Sport by giving away broadband free to TV subscribers had been overblown." Dellis: "Robust broadband net adds from BSkyB … had raised some concern that BT's heavy investment in TV might be having rather limited initial impact at stemming the loss of retail lines within the BT base. In fact BT Retail KPIs are quite encouraging" (GUARDIAN, 10/31).
SATURDAY HELP: In N.Y., Simon Zekaria reported BSkyB -- which has rights to more than three times the number of live matches -- "shrugged off the challenge earlier this month," saying its Premier League TV audience is up more than 20% compared with last year, "helped by a key Saturday-night live game slot." Viewing of its sports channels rose near 15% year-on-year. Still, BT said BT Sport is now in 4 million British homes, with "more than half of customers taking the channels direct from BT and others having the service via a wholesale deal with Virgin." The launch "sparked broadband sign-ups, stemmed losses of fixed-line customers and drove up consumer revenue by 4% -- its best performance in 10 years" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 10/31). Hargreaves Lansdown Head Of Equities Richard Hunter said, "The take-up of BT Sport from existing customers, as well as its contract with Virgin Media, puts the company in front of a whole raft of consumers. This has, of course, come at a cost, and investment in the new foray into sport has provided a drag on overall earnings. On balance, though, the company's prospects continue to whet the appetite of growth investors" (INDEPENDENT, 10/31).
FIFA Club World Cup No Sought-After Commodity For German Broadcasters
Defending UEFA Champions League champion Bayern Munich "will play a maximum of two games at the FIFA Club World Cup in December, however, it is not yet known what German TV channel will broadcast the event," according to Manuel Weis of QUOTENMETER. Bayern Munich "will play against the winner of the game between the AFC Champions League champion and the CAF Champions League champion in the first semifinal" at 7:30pm German time on Dec. 17. The final of the tournament "will take place in Marrakesh, Morocco at the same time on Dec. 21." German free-to-air TV channel RTL and pay-TV operator Sky "have already said that they will not show the Club World Cup." German public broadcaster ZDF "also said that it will not air the competition." All "signs point to the event being broadcast on the country's second public broadcaster ARD." An ARD spokesperson said two weeks ago that "the broadcaster is already in negotiations." Asked about the progress of those negotiations, ARD Sports Dir Axel Balkausky said on Thursday that "he had no news" (QUOTENMETER, 10/31).
2013 FIFA Club World Cup Participating Teams
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Bayern Munich
UEFA Champions League (Europe)
Raja Casablanca
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CF Monterrey
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Sportitalia Channels To Go Off Air In Italy On Friday After Nine Years
The Sportitalia channels will stop broadcasting on Friday "after nine years on the air," according to Branislav Pekic of ADVANCED TELEVISION. Founded in '04, the TV sports network of French-Tunisian businessman Tarak Ben Ammar "was present on DTT with three channels -- Sportitalia 1, Sportitalia 2 and Sportitalia 24." In protest, journalists "have proclaimed a two-day strike, because as many as 35 of them have no certainty for the future." The fate of Sportitalia was already marked since July 29, when the Sportitalia channels "were auctioned and bought by Rome-based thematic channel producer LT Multimedia, whose portfolio includes the channels Nuvolari, Marcopolo, Alice, Leonardo and Arturo." In unison with the closure of Sportitalia, Italian media group LT Media "plans to launch three sports channels (LT Sport 1-3) that will seek to replace the defunct broadcaster." The first channel "will be dedicated to football, the second to Olympic sports and the third to motor sports." Initially, the new channels "will be available only on satellite" (ADVANCED TELEVISION, 10/31).
Predictable Finish Leaves F1 Scrambling For Ways To Increase Viewers, Rights Fees
The F1 season "has come to resemble a car at the back of the grid: fast-moving but prone to technical problems and in need of something new and exciting," according to Blitz & Allen of the FINANCIAL TIMES. Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel's victory at last weekend's Indian Grand Prix "sealed a fourth consecutive drivers' championship for the German." Yet "the much-predicted outcome also means the final three races of the season, in Abu Dhabi this weekend, and the U.S. and Brazil later in the month, will be processional" -- of interest "only as historical footnotes and likely to hit audience ratings." In terms of sustained sporting interest, '13 "has been a write-off in F1." Is F1 "sleepwalking into stagnation?" F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone "has been acutely aware of the risk of 'sameness' damaging public interest in the sport." Yet Ecclestone "has also talked up Vettel's achievements, describing him as probably better than Ayrton Senna, the Brazilian driver." While '14 "promises further uncertainty at the top of the sport, the new season will bring the opportunity to inject some much needed competition." The cars "will have to cover the same 300km race distance but using one-third less fuel." While this has posed a stiff challenge for the teams, Mercedes in particular has "been working hard to prepare for the change and have been making confident noises about next season." The new approach "has helped entice Honda, the world's largest engine builder, back into the sport." Will the "viewing public notice the difference?" F1 "will certainly hope so, given that this a crucial time for its relations with broadcasters." F1's global TV audience "fell last year," down 34% in China alone. The sport "is at a crossroads regarding media rights distribution, with traditional mass-market broadcasters such as the U.K.'s BBC, RAI in Italy and TF1 in France no longer able to afford the rights fees." Ecclestone "has been pushed into doing exclusive or semi-exclusive deals with pay channels such as Sky and Canal Plus." In the U.K. and Italy -- two of F1's largest TV audiences -- "viewers are able to see only half the races live on free-to-air channels." F1 "continues to push into new markets, particularly in Asia and the Americas, but the television audience has remained stubbornly eurocentric" (FT, 10/31).
TEAM Marketing's Martin Wagner Predicts Growth In Champions League TV Rights Fees
TEAM Marketing delegate to the board Martin Wagner said at the Int'l Football Arena conference that the "UEFA Champions League Final delivered with a global TV audience of over 170 million, the highest global audience for a sports event so far in 2013," according to Paul Nicholson of INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL. TEAM, which markets the Champions League and Europa League for UEFA and does so as its exclusive business, currently generates $1.85B annually for UEFA and Wagner said that will grow and the "clubs will be happy." Behind the leap in the growth of TV rights fees in recent years "has been the entrance of advertiser funded channels as serious bidders for rights, generating competition, and pay TV providing a home for sport with dedicated channels." Mid-week, prime-time football featuring the best clubs in Europe "guarantees solid and valuable TV audiences for broadcasters." Wagner: "We have seen the effect of this in the UEFA Champions League. In 1995 to 97, over 95 percent of the revenues came from commercial or Public Service Broadcasters; in the current cycle, over 50 percent of revenues now come from pay TV partners. Digital TV research estimates that, by 2018, the number of pay TV subscribers will exceed 1 billion, a 23 percent increase compared to today." Wagner said that "selling football rights is not just about putting them side-by-side on the sports supermarket shelf and letting the rights-buying customer choose and negotiate a price." It is actually "becoming more complicated than ever before and requires a more integrated approach." The first trend "is in the sponsorship market." Wagner "quoted the PWC valuation of the global sports market" at $130B, of which $40B is sponsorship, up from $27B in '06. This "will continue to rise with the real growth opportunity coming in the area of virtual advertising" (INSIDE WORLD FOOTBALL, 10/31).
Fans Angered By Rugby League World Cup Television Blackout
So much "for live and uninterrupted coverage of the Rugby League World Cup," according to Adrian Proszenko of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. Not for the first time since the tournament kicked off on Sunday, "angry viewers vented on social media about their access to the showpiece international event." The U.S. enjoyed "perhaps their finest moment on the world stage in their 32-20 win against the Cook Islands in Bristol." But "in a major embarrassment for organisers, league fans were unable to tune into the action due to issues with the host broadcaster and the satellite connection." When the matter was finally sorted, "the coverage was replayed from the start of the match rather than providing the promised live coverage." A Seven spokesperson said, "The issue was with the host broadcaster and the satellite connection. When the satellite issue was resolved and play was in progress, the host broadcaster re-cued to the start of the match and we could not broadcast live." The gaffe follows complaints from fans unable to access the coverage on the Seven Network's 7mate station, "which can only be picked up by households with HD access" (SMH, 11/1).
Media Notes: Modern Times Group Extends Champions League Media Rights
Modern Times Group announced it has prolonged its live media rights to Champions League football in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, from the '15-16 season through the '17-18 season. MTG is the first broadcaster in Europe to secure the Champions League media rights for this period (MTG). ... SingTel fiber broadband customers "will be able to watch the first Barclays Premier League match that kicks off on every Sunday for free on the telco's exPress Portal" (ASIA ONE, 10/31). ... The Royal & Ancient Golf Club and the Japan Golf Association have launched a new Japanese Rules of Golf iPad and iPhone app featuring two of the country's leading golfers, Ryo Ishikawa and Hideki Matsuyama. The app is designed to give a guide to the rules of golf in the Japanese language and uses video footage, illustrations and images to explain the many different rules issues which can arise in a round of golf (R&A). ... EPL Sunderland and StreamAMG have launched a new online multimedia service, SAFSee. This is the EPL club's fourth video to be powered by the StreamAMG platform. The new SAFSee "opens up a whole host of content to Sunderland fans completely free of charge" (FC BUSINESS, 10/30).


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With Obama's impending presidency giving Americans new hope for 2009, it's a perfect time to reflect on the nature of 'honest politics' with Jonathan Demme's excellent documentary Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007, E, Artefact £14.67). Demme follows Carter on a 2006 tour to promote his provocatively entitled book Palestine: Peace not Apartheid and looks back to the famous Camp David handshake between Begin and Sadat with informative, insightful and often strangely emotional results. It's a terrific piece of work from a fine film-maker who straddles drama and documentary with aplomb.
The ghosts of Georges Méliès, Fritz Lang, Sergei Eisenstein, David Lynch and even (bizarrely) Al Jolson have been identified by critics struggling to make sense of Argentinian director Esteban Sapir's enigmatic oddity La Antena (2007, PG, Dogwoof £14.67). Allusions to the grand traditions of silent cinema, German Expressionism and the Soviet avant-garde are clear, but the real 'meaning' of this dystopian fable about a world in which voices are silenced by the sinister Mr TV remains enigmatic.
Fans of Guy Maddin's anachronistic oeuvre will be more prepared for Sapir's monochrome experiments than mainstream audiences; the Hollywood Reporter hit the nail on the head when it described La Antena as having "very limited market potential but immense powers of attraction". Sapir's work lingers in the mind like a half-remembered dream and seems to grow in stature on each viewing.
Finally, let's hear a "Hail! Hail! Rock'n'roll!" for John Sayles's Honeydripper (2007, 12, Axiom £19.56) which is, among other things, about that strange moment when acoustic blues tipped over into electrified rock. Set in Alabama in 1950, the film entwines Sayles's longstanding, down-to-earth social and political concerns with semi-mythical tales of bluesmen like Robert Johnson. It's a handsome ensemble work with stand-out performances from Danny Glover and Stacy Keach, made with the care and attention which have earned Sayles his deserved reputation as the king of independently minded modern American cinema.


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A little bottle but a big difference. With 180 applications per bottle, this can last up to 6 months with daily use.
Suitable for all skin types. Brilliant for everyday use for all skin types, but especially useful for skin that is inflamed, easily irritated, exposed to extremes and prone to breakouts.
|Glycerin, Aqua, Simmondsia Chinensis (Jojoba)* Seed Oil, Oenothera Biennis (Eveneing Primrose)* Oil, Rosa Canina (Rosehip)* Fruit Oil, Prunus Amygdalus Dulcis (Sweet Almond) Oil, Tocopherol (Vitamin E), Aloe Barbadensis (Aloe Vera) Leaf Extract, Hippophae Rhamniodes (Sea Buckthorn) Fruit Extract, Sucrose Laurate, Leptospermum Petersonii (Lemon Tea Tree) Oil, Citrus Aurantium Dulcis (Seet Orange) Flower Water, Daucus Carolta Sativa (Carrot) Root Extract, Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract, Xanthan Gum, Sorbic Acid, Salyclic Acid, Benzyl Alcohol, (Citral, Linalool, Citronellol, Gerniol, Eugenol in essential oils).
|*Certified organic ingredients.
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