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One on the most happiest and interesting celebrations in every culture it's a wedding. For H'mong people it's the same, but there a lot of similitudes and differences between a Black Hmong wedding and an occidental wedding. So if you are lucky (and you are staying in a local homestay) probably you can discover more about this celebration in the Hmong culture.
For example, they celebrate two ceremonies. First, the groom have to go to bride's house and aks parents for permission. Once he had permission, they celebrate together at her village (he have to wear the traditional custome of her village). During this ceremony, they drink and eat until the groom it's enough drunk. When this happens, the girlfriend leaves her village with the groom and their friends, to go to his village (where wed takes place). There are more things, if you want to discover everything… keep reading.
- A black Hmong can marry anyone?
- Traditions before the wedding
- Food and drink
- Hmong wedding rules
- When Hmong husband dies
- Polygamy
- Divorces
- A real experience in a Black Hmong wedding
A Black Hmong can marry anyone?
Most of the Hmong clan groups are exogamous: that means that they need to marry someone from other social group. As far as we know, Black Hmong are able to marry with people of their own clan group only if they have a different family name. So, if they fall in love, they don't need to find a marriage partner from another clan. For example, a Thung Xiong may not marry Lee Xiong. However, they are allowed to marry blood relatives from their mother side (Neejtsa), for example the children of a brother and sister can marry because they would be from different clans.
After the wedding, the bride will join the groom family. Becoming one more of the groom's village and family, leaving behind hers.
In adition to this information, every day there are more Hmong girls that marry common Vietnamese or foreign men. But it's not usual, because usually they marry when they are so young: between thirteen and twenty years old.
Traditions before the wedding
Traditionally, when a boy wants to marry a girl, he will make his intentions clear, and will "zij" ("snatch") her during day light or night at any opportunity that is appropriate. This is traditionally only a symbolic kidnapping. There are so many rules or steps to follow before to "zij" a Black Hmong girl.
Before "zij", the boy must first give a gift to the girl whom he wants to marry. This is the way her that he is really interested in be more than friends. There are some villages where before the "zij", the boy also have to make a gith to the parents of the girl to get their approval before. The gifts for the family usually are pork, chicken or sticky rice. After a couple of days, the boy can then "zij" the girl. If the boy has never given a gift to the girl, she is allowed to refuse and go back home with any family member who comes to save her. Usually, the parents are not notified at the time of the "zij", but an envoy from the boy's clan is sent to inform them about the location of their daughter and her safety (fi xov). This envoy tells the girl's family the boy's background and asks what the girl's background is. For example, the envoy may tell the girl's family that the groom is from a Stripe Hmong family from Cat Cat Village, Sapa; the bride's parents reply that they are Moob Leej/Mong Leng from Nong Het, Lao Chai Village, Sapa. In this moment, the parents can't refuse about the wedding. But if the boy follow all the steps, love will succed. Before the new couple enters the groom's house, the father performs a blessing ritual, asking the ancestors to accept her into the household (Lwm qaib). The head of the household moves the chicken in a circular motion around the couple's head. The girl is not allowed to visit anyone's house for three days after this.
After three days or more, the parents of the groom prepare the first wedding feast for the newlywed couple (hu plig nyab tshiab thaum puv peb tag kis). The wedding is usually a two-day process. The couple returns to the house of the bride's family at the end of the first wedding feast and spends the night in preparation for the next day. On the second day, the family of the bride prepares a second wedding feast at their home, where the couple will be married (Noj tshoob). Hmong marriage customs differ slightly based on cultural subdivisions within the global Hmong community, but all require the exchange of a bride price from the groom's family to the bride's family.
Nowadays, this tradition it's not celebrated commonly. Sometimes the couple know each other for a long time and they had already felt in love. So this step it's usually avoided.
Before the bride and the groom visit the bride's family, she must wear the groom's traditional clan's clothes. For example: a Hmong Leng girl married to a Stripe Hmong boy must wear the stripe clothes to visit his family. After the wedding, the bride will be given farewell presents and sets of new clothes by her parents. Also she will be wearing her birth family's side traditional clothes. Example: the bride visits her parents by wearing stripe traditional clothes but when she is going back to the groom's place she must wear her Hmong Leng outfits. She will also be given food for the journey. When departing, the bride's family members would offer drinks (normally beer) to the groom until he can no longer drink. An example of this is, an older brother or uncle of the bride would offer the drink and before doing so, he would say a couple of words to his soon to be brother-in law/son-in law that since he now has their sister/daughter, he must promise to treat her well and never hit her, etc. Finishing the drink is proof of the groom keeping his promise. Most of the time, the groom would bring his brothers to come help him to drink. However, the groom would never leave without being drunk. When the couple leaves the bride's house and return to the husband's house, another party is held to thank the negotiator(s), the groomsman and bride's maid (tiam mej koob).
On the second day, the family of the bride prepares a second wedding feast at their home, where the couple will be married (Noj tshoob). Hmong marriage customs differ slightly based on cultural subdivisions within the global Hmong community, but all require the exchange of a bride price from the groom's family to the bride's family.
Lwm sub/Lwm qaib (Chicken Over The Head ceremony)
As we explained before, this is ritual required for bride and groom before entering the groom's house. The "lwm qaib" or "lwm sub" takes place when the groom brings a girl to his house to celebrate the wedding and the ritual is done before they enter the house. They should stand next to each other right outside the main door (qhov rooj tag) facing inward.
An elder uses a live rooster to wave above the bride and groom over and around their heads three times then down toward the feet. If a rooster is not available, there are are acceptable alternatives as an a small burning log (hlav hluav taws) or a branch of green leaves.
While waving the rooster, say the following:
"Ov! kuv lwm tub ___(npe) thiab nyab ___(npe) no kuv tsis lwm plig tub plig kiv, plig niam plig txiv, plig nyiaj plig kub. Kuv lwm no kuv lwm nkawd kaum ob haiv mob kaum ob haiv nkeeg, kev lwj siab ntsim plawv. Kuv lwm kua muag iab kua muag daw, lwm luag ncauj luag nplaig, ntaub ntsoj ntawv ntsuag, ntaub ploj ntawv tuag. Yam twg yam tsis zoo kuv lwm ntawm hau poob ntawm tes, lwm ntawm tes poob ntawm taw poob lis nthav mus rau dej tshoob lawm zaj zeg zaj qho kom ntsej tsis hnov muag tsis pom.
Kom tub thiab nyab no los ua neej mas kom ntshiab li dej huv li txhuv, qas txhiab tsis muaj mob qas pua tsis muaj nkeeg, los ua neej mas kom huaj txhaij tsav vam tu tub ki los puv vaj, ua qoob loo los puv tsev, nyiaj txiag los puv nas ov."
All of these words are just to rid the couple of all evil things and spirits. Sometimes, more can be added and some can be left out as one desires.
By the end, the chicken should have gone at least three times around the head and the body down near the feet. The chicken is then let go alive. Then, the couple goes into the house silently. When they are inside and the door is closed everybody may welcome the bride with kind words as she is being sent off into the bedroom immediately.
To finish the ceremony, then the groom kneel to the parents, spirits and relatives accordingly.
Food and drink
The traditional Hmong wedding includes eating vast quantities of delicious local food, drinking non-stop, and hoisting uncounted toasts to the family of the bride and to the bride and groom. A wedding is one the best choices that you could have to enjoy the pleasures of the vietnamese cuisine, specially if you are in a small vilage.
As you can see there are a big variety of foods: from chicken to fruit. You have to take in mind that they are going to be eating five hours. And usually there a lot of people in this ceremonies. They are preparing everything before, so most of the food it's included in plastic bags (it's a way to put faster in every table). Every table have a big bowl of rice, the main food in Vietnam. And every table have the same food without distinctions.
At Black Hmong wedding, there are only one drink allowed: happy water (rice wine). It's funny because they put the beverage into water bottles. You also can find differents varietys of soft drinks for the childs that assists to the ceremony. People it's drinking and drinking until the lose the account of how many shots they had in their bodies. At the beginning you can drink at your own rhytm, but if someone offers you a toast both have to finish at the same time. In adition, if someone it's to refill his/her shot you have to finish yours. They fill all the shots at the same time.
Price of a Black Hmong wedding
The bride price is compensation for the new family taking the other family's daughter, as the girl's parents are now short one person to help with house taks. The price of the girl it's set by the parents, based in her value for them (if the girl that you love in the only one or the last girl, probably your love is going to be more expensive). The elders of both families negotiate the amount prior to the engagement and is usually paid in bars of silver or livestock. Today, it is also often settled in monetary terms. If the boy doesn't have a dowry to give to the girl's family, he lives in her house until he is able to marry her. The usual price of a Hmong bride today in a Hmong village prices osciles between 30.000.000 VND and 70.000.000 VND. In America, would just depend on the parents or the value of the bride up to $10,000 USD, but the maximum set by leading clan leaders is $5,000 USD.
Hmong wedding rules
During and after the wedding, there are many rules or superstitious beliefs that the couple must follow. Here are some of them:
- When the groom's wedding party is departing from the bride's house, during that process, the bride must never look back for it is to be bad omen endured into her marriage.
- During the wedding feast, there are to be no spicy dishes are hot sauces served for it will make the marriage bitter.
- At some point during the wedding, an elder would come ask the bride if she has old gifts or mementos from past lovers. She need to desprend of these items.
- The bride's maid's job is to make sure the bride does not run off with a man as, historically, many girls were forced to marry and would elope with their current or past lovers.
- The price for a wife can be set at any price, it's a decision of their parent.
- Nowadays, some ritual such as "lwm qaib" and "hu plig" are no longer practiced. Some of them follow both traditional Hmong weddings and westernized weddings.
When Hmong husband dies
When a husband dies, it is his clan's responsibility to look after the widow and children. The widow is permitted to remarry, in which case she would have two choices:
- Marry one of her husband's younger brothers/ younger cousins (never the older brothers).
- Marry anyone from an outside clan (besides her own).
If she chooses to marry an extended member from her deceased husband's clan, her children will continue to be a part of that clan. If she chooses to remarry outside of her deceased husband's clan, her children are not required to stay with the clan unless a member of the clan (usually the deceased husband's brother or a male cousin of the same last name) is willing to take care of the children. If no one from the deceased husband's clan is willing to raise the children, they will follow their mother into her second marriage.
Once the children go with their mother to be a part of their stepfather's family, a spiritual ceremony may take place. The children can choose to belong to their stepfather's clan (by accepting his surname, his family spirits, and relatives) or they can choose to remain with their original clan (the family, spirits, and relatives of their deceased father). Often, regardless of the wishes of the mother or children, the clan would keep the son(s).
There are polygamy marriages in Hmong tribes?
Polygamy is a form of marriage among the Hmong, it has been documented. It is not rare among those Hmong who have migrated to Western nations. Many older Hmong people have had multiple spouses but some Hmong families around the world tell their children not to marry multiple spouses in the modern day because polygamy does not work out well.
There are divorces in Hmong tribes?
Divorce was rare in traditional Hmong society, however it is becoming more prevalent in westernized Hmong communities. If a husband and wife decide to divorce, the couple's clans will permit a divorce but will evaluate the situation fairly. If just the wife wants to divorce her husband without any firm grounds, the bride price must be returned to the husband's family, as the wife will be the one choosing to leave the household. If just the husband wants to divorce his wife without any firm grounds, the husband will have to come up with some money to send the wife back to her family with all the daughters and the sons will stay with the husband, as the husband will be the one choosing to leave the household. By tradition, the man and the woman do not have equal custody of all the children. If it is determined the wife had committed adultery, the husband will receive custody of the sons, the bride price and an additional fine. However, if it is determined the husband had committed adultery or married a second wife and the wife can not continue being part of the family, she will have the option to leaving her husband without paying back the dowry. If the husband allows it, she can take her children with her. If a divorced man dies, custody of any male children passes to his clan group.


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How to Train Your Dragon
There's no denying that the king of computer animation is Pixar. That juggernaut has released 10 movies and all have been good. Their track record truly is amazing. DreamWorks, on the other hand, hasn't fared so well. After two solid films in Antz and Shrek, they went downhill quickly, releasing junk like Shark Tale, Over the Hedge, Bee Movie and the two Madagascar pictures. They redeemed themselves a tad with Kung Fu Panda and Monsters Vs. Aliens, but their newest film, How to Train Your Dragon, may very well be their best. They still have a long way to go before they start nipping at the heels of the folks at Pixar, but this is a step in the right direction.
The film takes place in a village where Vikings rule. For hundreds of years, these Vikings have been at war with the local dragons who come to their land, burn down their houses and steal their livestock. To these people, dragon hunting is the most admirable thing you can do and those who do it earn the most respect. The leader of the warriors goes by the name of Stoick (voiced by Gerard Butler), a man who finds shame in his puny son Hiccup (voiced by Jay Baruchel) because he has never amounted to anything. Hiccup desperately wants to be accepted and wants to kill a dragon to prove himself, but his weak stature doesn't allow him to. One day, however, he lands a hit on the most dangerous dragon of them all, a Night Fury, but can't bring himself to kill it. Instead, he lets it loose, but its tail is severely damaged and it loses the ability of flight. Hiccup bonds with the dragon, whom he names Toothless, and creates an artificial tail to help aid him. He quickly learns that dragons aren't dangerous creatures at all and, with the help of Toothless, tries to convince his village the same.
Story-wise, How to Train Your Dragon is DreamWorks most complete film to date. It hits a range of emotions they previously could have only hoped for. Like a Pixar film, this movie creates a distinct relationship between its two characters, in this case Hiccup and the dragon, and you come to appreciate their bonding. Toothless is like a stray dog who wants to be loved, but is wary of anybody offering it because he simply isn't used to it. He looks at Hiccup as he approaches him, all tied up in the projectile net, desperate and afraid. After Hiccup releases him, he attacks him based on the assumption that Hiccup means harm. It isn't until he spends time with him that he starts to let his guard down. It's truly amazing how much emotion seeps through this creature just by the way he looks at Hiccup. His character development rivals everybody else in the movie and you see him grow throughout.
The bond they create is the crutch of the film. You'll love them as soon as they start to love each other. Despite its colorful nature and appeal to children, its the drama that comes through the best. You'll care about the characters, sympathize with them and fear for their plight. It's the humor that doesn't necessarily work.
Much like most animated features, How to Train Your Dragon tries real hard to produce laughs, but it feels more strained here than in others. I wouldn't say this is a dark film, but it's not exactly happy-go-lucky either and deals with rejection, loneliness and crippling injury, both to humans and animals. However, it doesn't go all the way. Nobody dies in this movie. When the dragons shoot their fire, the humans jump out of the way and it passes right by. Due to what I assume is fear of excluding children, the film is toned down in every area, which includes its forced humor to lighten the tension. None of it works. Had it gone a more adult route and had the chutzpah to show the violence and drama unfold more naturally, this would be a modern day adult animated masterpiece.
It doesn't quite reach that height, but it's a solid tale nevertheless. The animation is beautiful, the close-to-being-overdone 3D works magic and the voice acting is wonderful. Despite a few too many recognizable voices from the likes of Jonah Hill, Butler and Baruchel, who just recently starred in She's Out of My League, they fit their characters well and by the time you reach the high flying, pulse pounding climax, you will have forgotten that there were actual people voicing these characters, though it does take a bit of time to get to that point.
I've always been a person fascinated with flight. Ask me who my favorite superhero is, I'll tell you Superman and I'm astonished when someone in a window seat on an airplane puts the cover down so they can't see out the window. Being up that high and being able to soar through the clouds holds a sense of wonder for me. It's a sight so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes. Perhaps this is why I loved How to Train Your Dragon, because it tells a story not always through dialogue, but through flight showing how their friendship develops while they are in mid-air swooping up and down and around. The beauty of these scenes is reason enough to buy a ticket. It may not be the next Wall-E or Finding Nemo, but it's a pleasurable diversion that promises a more promising future from DreamWorks.
How to Train Your Dragon receives 4/5

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During August, I'll be posting 'Before / Afters' all month long.
En août, je publierai des "avant / après" tout le moi.
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This pork turned out SO WELL… I know things are good when my husband can't even be bothered to take a break from slowly chewing with his eyes rolled back into his head to say, "this is good." I had to actually stop him and ask him what he thought before he said, "a keeper" and then shoved another bite into his mouth.
The cauliflower rice is something that's just SO COOL… whether you're going grain-free or low-carb, trying to get in another serving of veggies, or trying to cut calories, subbing grated cauliflower for rice is a simple trick you can easily incorporate into your menu plans.
You'll need 4 pork chops that are about 3/4 inch thick. The first thing you want to do is get those marinating in the juice of 1 lime plus the juice of an 80z can of crushed pineapple.
While that's marinating, use your food processor or a box grater to make "rice" out of an entire head of cauliflower (which you've washed already).
The sauce for this meal is simple. Start with a cup of coconut milk with the juice of 1-2 limes squeezed in (I used 2 but I'm a lime lover).
Add the crushed pineapple…
A nice sprinkle of cayenne pepper and a bit of salt (not shown).
And heat this while you grill your pork chops 4-5 minutes on each side.
While the sauce is heating and the pork is grilling, heat a bit of coconut oil (or olive oil is fine if you don't have coconut) in a pan…
…and use it to stir-fry enough cauliflower for the number of people you're serving. I only made enough for 2 servings. When some pieces start to get a little browned, it's good.
And I put the rest of it in a bag in the freezer. (I've since used some of the frozen "rice" and it's just as good as new. No need to dedicate time to thawing it either… it thaws pretty instantly once it's in the pan. Just beware of splattering oil.)
And…serve! This meal is not for the flavor-phobic. My mouth is actually watering right now just looking at the picture again… it may make its way onto next week's menu for us. Mmm!
To recap:
- 4 pork chops 3/4 inch thick
- marinate in juice of 1 lime
- and juice of an 8 0z. can of crushed pineapple
- grill 4-5 minutes each side
- Sauce is 1 cup coconut milk
- w/salt and cayenne pepper
- juice of 2 limes
- crushed pineapple
- "rice" is grated cauliflower
- stir-fried in 1 Tbsp coconut oil (or EVOO) until warm and browning a little


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Although Fidel Castro, now in his mid-eighties, is being accused of many misdeeds, we must acknowledge that the revolution he led did a lot of good things for the Cuban people initially: the establishment of an effective health care system accessible to all, and the eradication of illiteracy, to mention just two.
His regime also became unwittingly involved in a number of spectacular frauds, one of which was perpetrated by the owners of Parmalat, the giant Italian milk conglomerate.
Shell companies and "cut and paste" forgery were combined with more traditional fraud, such as the falsifying of sales figures via phony invoices. In one particularly flagrant case of "cooking the books," Parmalat's Cayman Islands subsidiary Bonlat claimed to have sold enough powdered milk to Cuba in one year to produce 55 gallons of milk for each one of the small island nation's citizens.
The fraud was not discovered for a long time because the Cuban authorities routinely refuse to cooperate with large independent auditing firms and do not acknowledge the existence of accounts payable. In the Parmalat case the auditors, in turn, never bothered to seek alternative means of verification, such as examining shipping receipts, for example.
The Parmalat fraud is typical of the cases I had the opportunity to investigate as a Bankruptcy Trustee and Forensic Accountant and some of which I interwove into my novels, HAVANA HARVEST and FATAL GREED.


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Rob Feder, the dean of Chicago media reporters, has taken a buyout from Time Out Chicago, which was just sold, and will be moving on to greener journalism pastures. Feder, one of the best in the business — he spent nearly 30 years at the Chicago Sun-Times — announced the move on his Facebook page. "I am eager to continue my work and I expect to make an announcement soon," he wrote. Stay tuned. I'm guessing he'll be back on the beat sooner rather than later.
More Chicago: Publicist Don Halcombe, who I wrote about in yesterday's column, ended up winning a cool $100,000 on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" yesterday. He reps "The Steve Harvey Show," which tapes in the Windy City.
"Steve Harvey," by the way, had another strong week. In numbers released yesterday — syndication ratings are always two weeks behind — "Harvey" averaged 2.1 million viewers, up 8 percent from the week before and better than freshman talk leader "Katie" — which, as a caveat, was in repeats three out of five days that week. Still, even with that asterisk attached to the week, it was the first time "Harvey" beat "Katie" in total viewers this season.
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Notable quotables:
Frankie Avalon to "Inside Edition" on the death of his former co-star, Annette Funicello: "For at least the past six, seven years, she was without communication. It was a terrible existence . . . It makes me smile to know that she's up there dancing and singing and having a good time." Funicello, who had MS, died Monday at the age of 70.
And "Bones" star Emily Deschanel to People magazine on the last time she swore a blue streak:
"Last night I dropped some f-bombs when I messed up my lines. Mackenzie Astin is on the show and taught us a new swear word that his dad, John, coined: 'mother-grabber.'
"We love it."
Deschanel's quotes are in People's April 22 issue, out on newsstands today in New York.
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Last, but not least:
* Mark Effron, late of MSNBC, has been named VP/news director at Ch. 11, beginning April 17 . . . Today's gratuitous "Mad Men" slam: Spike TV's "Bar Rescue," hosted by Jon Taffer, beat Sunday night's hyped-to-the-gills season premiere of the AMC series in two important demos: men 18-49 (by 30,000 viewers) and men 18-34 (by nearly 95,000 viewers). So there . . . Say that name 10 times quickly: Canadian talk show host George Stroumboulopoulos will host a Friday-night show on CNN this summer (10 hour-long episodes) . . . "Monsters" ink: "River Monsters" opened its new season with 1.8 million viewers — the most watched season premiere in Animal Planet history. OK, so maybe it's cyberink, but you get the picture.


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12.02.13 'Raindrops - British conceptual artist Alistair McClymont manipulates the elements with his display at Raleigh's Contemporary Art Museum' By David Menconi, News Observer
12.12.13Motala & Vadstena Tidning Magazine features Helga Steppan October 2013
07.12.13Martin Jenner from 'A KIck Up The Arts' comments on Iain Andrews' first London solo exhibition, 'Il Teatro dei Leviatano'.
07.12.13Winsor & Newton comment on Iain Andrews 'Interpreting Old Masters with Acrylics'
07.12.13Fetish Form review Wieland Payer's solo exhibition at Man&Eve
"Everything We Are Capable of Seeing," on display at CAM through April 28, is as much a science fair as a conceptual art installation. It's McClymont's first show in America, and it shows off the 35-year-old artist's quirkily scientific ways.
"His work is not common," said CAM executive director Elysia Borowy-Reeder. "It's very in tune with nature in an urban kind of way, and also with math from his background in engineering. I have a particular affinity for art that's not just one discipline, and I like the way he problem-solves. He built a tornado machine that's a work of art, and it produces drawings which are also art."
"McClymont suggests new ways of experiencing art—Alistair McClymont makes night-time rainbows, suspends raindrops in mid-air and creates tornadoes with deceptively simple machines. A UK based artist working in sculpture, photography and video, McClymont describes these as 'phenomena' artworks, in which he tries to capture natural, often overlooked occurrences and evoke a sense of wonder. CAM Raleigh is proud to make his United States debut. Don't miss the opening night of the exhibition and February First Friday when you can catch his nighttime rainbow which lends its title to the exhibition: Everything we are capable of seeing."
Read more here: NewsObserver.


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From carefree young woman to disillusioned bride, the dazzling lady who would become mother and grandmother to two of history's most infamous queens, has a fascinating story all her own. . .
At sixteen, Elizabeth Howard envisions a glorious life for herself as lady-in-waiting to the future queen, Catherine of Aragon. But when she is forced to marry Thomas Boleyn, a wealthy commoner, Elizabeth is left to stagnate in the countryside while her detested husband pursues his ambitions. There, she raises golden girl Mary, moody George, and ugly duckling Anne—while staving off boredom with a string of admirers. Until Henry VIIItakes the throne. . .
When Thomas finally brings his highborn wife to London, Elizabeth indulges in lavish diversions and dalliances—and catches the lusty king's eye. But those who enjoy Henry's fickle favor must also guard against his wrath. For while her husband's machinations bring Elizabeth and her children to the pinnacle of power, the distance to the scaffold is but a short one—and the Boleyn family's fortune may be turning. . .
Praise for the novels of Brandy Purdy
"Recommended for readers who can't get enough of the Tudors and have devoured all of Philippa Gregory's books." —Library Journal on The Boleyn Wife
"Purdy wonderfully reimagines the behind-the-scenes lives of the two sisters." —Historical Novel Reviews on The Tudor Throne
My Review:
"The Boleyn Bride" by Brandy Purdy was right up my alley when it comes to reading and reviewing. I read every book I can get my hands on that deals with Anne Boleyn or King Henry VIII! Ms. Purdy did not disappoint. Her writing style was fluid and descriptive, and it keeps the reader interested through the entire novel. I loved reading the author's perspective on what Anne Boleyn's mother, Elizabeth Howard, was like during her life. In all of the books I've read about Anne, there has been barely a mention of her mother, since very little is known about her. Even though the author definitely used some creative license as to what she was really like, it was still interesting to read about what type of person she MIGHT have been.
While I definitely enjoyed reading the book, I would have enjoyed it more if it had been more about Anne Boleyn's mother, Elizabeth Howard, and less about Anne's rise and fall. I felt like the book was mostly Elizabeth (Anne's mother) telling the story of Anne and her brother George's life, and less about what HER life was like. Occasionally she would narrate what was going on in her life, but it mostly dealt with her multitude of lovers! Also, there were a few historical inaccuracies that threw me off, but nothing more than what any other historical fiction writer throws in.
All in all I really enjoyed reading this novel. The time period this novel takes place in interests me more than any other era. Any lover of historical fiction, especially the Tudor era, will love this novel. I would definitely recommend it.
I give "The Boleyn Bride" a 4 out of 5 stars!
I give "The Boleyn Bride" a 4 out of 5 stars!
"The Boleyn Bride" will be available for purchase in February 2014!


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Before anything else, I would like to share the kind of expectations I had from Farzi Cafe – It is a part of the Massive Restaurants – A company that owns Made in Punjab in Gurgaon & Mumbai – both of them have managed to impress me quite well, serving some of the best North Indian food that I have enjoyed. Besides that they have Masala Library in BKC, Mumbai, which managed to stun me on my only visit to the restaurant. Having traveled though India the play of flavors and combinations those guys served me told me a lot about the effort that went behind every dish. Besides the effort it needed lot of craziness, creativity and deep understanding of flavors. And now we come to Farzi Cafe.
Farzi is an Urdu word widely used to denote fake, not genuine, here it also denotes illusion. Illusion in the way food is perceived, presented and consumed. Farzi Cafe banks on Molecular Gastronomy to create that illusion, which sounds like a fancy word, however technically speaking is merely a tool for chefs with a creative bent of mind to play with their food in the ways it has never been done before. Earlier the term only referred to the scientific investigation of cooking, however around the change in millennium it started to describe a style of cooking where science and technology were embraced in the kitchen. The food that was presented to us, is molecular gastronomy applied to Indian Food. India food and flavors, recreated & re-mixed to change the way you perceive them, hence creating the illusion.
|Mishti Doi Spheres
|Raj Kachori with Kurkuri Bhindi Salad
|Inside of Raj Kachori
From Rajkachori without a hole in it, to mishti doi spherical bubble which pops in your mouth, to chutney disguised as froth. From Maggie with Foie Gras, truffle oil and pine nuts to bhelpuri in powdered form, to karela disguised as calamari – everything manages to surprise us by the sheer illusion. Then there came a burger in which the patty was galouti kebab, pork chops in a sauce made of kashmiri rista reduction, chicken lollipops with southern chettinad style sauce wrapped around it which I feel had not much to do with the sorcery called molecular gastronomy but sheer experience and creativity of human mind.
|Bhel Puri, yup, you read it right.
|Pork Chops in Rista reduction
|Samosa stuffed with duck
|Prawns with chutney in froth form
As overwhelmed as I was with the width of the variety, I was more pleased by the sheer fact that everything tasted best in class. The showmanship was there, however that did not mean that the food was lacking punch from any angle. The use of spices, the quality of ingredients, the combination of flavors gave depth to all the width in the food they serve. The bun in which Galouti kebab was serve was soft, fresh and melt in mouth, not saying much about the kebab here because on it they have expertise from Made in Punjab anyhow. The pork used was succulent, tender and very well cooked. Raj Kahcori's filling was fresh and different that it ensured that I finished it the bhelpuri as fancy as it looked, at that spicy zing to it. Oh! and did I mention about that Samosa with duck stuffed inside it then a coating of sauce on the outside? Mind-blowing stuff.
|Chiicken Chettinaa Lollipops
|Karela Calamari
|Kebab Burgers
|Inside the Kebab Burger – Absolutely loved them.
|Posh Maggi – Complete with Truffle oil, Foie Gras and Pine nuts
|Sarso, Makki, White makhan, Chaach – Go figure.
The eye for detail was very apparent in presentation, the egg drops, the flower petals, the saunf and kalonji on mishti doi sphere, use to curry patta on chicken lollipop the small cube of butter on those green kebabs (which have a story of their own) everything told me about the depth of understanding of the food that these guys have and how much effort it might have been to present it the way they are presenting it.
Sounds all good to me as long as someone is keeping a tab on what exactly proponents of Molecular Gastronomy are doing to the food and what exactly would its impact on foods nutrition and the human body eventually. But we shall cross that bridge once we reach it.
|Cheese Cake in Parle G crust.
|Roohafza waala Creme Brulee
|The Mujhwas, dried pan in Cotton Candy
And did I tell you about the desserts? The Roohafza flavored Crème brûlée if I might call it, complete with the hard burnt layer of caramel on top, topped with some faluda, and the Cheese Cake in which Parle G biscuits are used for the crust? They come dipped in something that tasted like rabri with some colorful gems thrown in, which immediately delights the kid in you. Even the mukhwas was given an Out of the Box twist – A dried paan wrapped in cotton candy shaped like a gujiya. And they tell me that we have only see the tip of ice-berg yet.
Fancy mumbo jumbo aside, as I mentioned earlier, its merely a tool for playing with food and you need creativity and understanding of flavors of next level to create what Farzi Cafe has managed to create here. They have managed to impress with both width and depth of their food and I feel have created a revolutionary concept in Indian food scene, making in modern and exciting. Very exciting.
Btw I have not talked about the fancier stuff that they do, oh yes, they pull lot many stunts off but then somethings are better left for surprises. If you are a food lover with an open mind then you should visit this place. Enough said.
PS : Farzi Cafe is located in DLF Cyberhub in Gurgaon


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Posts Tagged 'Renewal Seminar for Lay Liturgical Ministers'
Circular 2017-3: Renewal Seminar for Lay LIturgical Ministers
February 3, 2017
Memorial of Saint Blaise, Martyr
ALD Circular 2017-3
RE: Renewal Seminar for Lay Liturgical Ministers
My dear brothers in ministry:
In the spirit of the Year of the Parish being observed by the Catholic Church in the Philippines and in eager anticipation of the Synod of Lingayen Dagupan in September this year, having as its vision the renewal of the Church, I am now pleased to inform you that the renewal seminars for extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion and lectors/commentators will start on February 11 until May 30 this year. Kindly read the attached calendar of renewal seminars for every parish.
The installation of the new and renewed lay liturgical ministers will be held at the Principal Parish Mass on Pentecost Sunday, June 4.
Please be reminded of the following regulations with regard to lay liturgical ministers considered NORMATIVE and OBLIGATORY in the Archdiocese of Lingayen Dagupan without any exceptions.
1. The Ministry of Readers is open for the Catholic laity between 13 to 30 years old. The Reader must have received full Christian initiation, i.e. baptized, confirmed and have received First Communion. If married, they must be canonically married and living exemplary Christian life. They must be fluent in Pangasinan and English.
2. The Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion must be MALE between 25 to 50 years oldand must have received full Christian initiation, i.e. baptized, confirmed and have received First Communion. If married, they must be canonically married and living exemplary Christian life.
3. Readers and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion who have served for three consecutive years and were obliged to take a break from their liturgical ministry may return to the liturgical ministry provided:
3.1 they have engaged in the ministry of catechesis or charity during their leave;
3.2 they undergo the formation seminar for new lay liturgical ministers; and
3.3 their ages are within the age requirements already indicated.
We should have more lay leaders active in society that at the sanctuary. The arena of the laity is social transformation and not altar ministry.
4. It is pastorally necessary to recruit new lay leaders in the parishes and schools in order to insure the continuous transmission of the Christian faith to future generations. Ours is a young Church. We cannot allow ministries to age.
5. The probationary Readers and EMHCs who were temporarily deputed last Advent season 2016 must attend the seminar for new liturgical ministers. They cannot continue their probationary ministry beyond Pentecost Sunday 2017.
All the formation seminars will be held at the Lay Formation Center in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City according to the schedule enclosed herewith.
The registration fee is PhP 250 to cover expenses for meals and seminar materials of the renewal seminar.
New Lay Liturgical Ministers
For the new Readers and EMHCs, a two day orientation seminar is necessary to receive archdiocesan commissioning. The registration fee for the two day seminar is PhP250 also but the parish priests are kindly requested to financially assist the youth who cannot afford the fees considering their situation in life. A letter of recommendation from the parish priest will be required from the seminar attendees in order to insure their good standing in the parish community.
There will also be renewal seminars for parish workers, ushers and collectors, altar servers and pastoral workers for the sick as indicated in the enclosed calendar.
I request you to disseminate the schedule and the pertinent information early so that the lay leaders can reserve the dates ahead of time and participate attentively.
Let me reiterate the need to allow the youth to assume Church leadership. I state again that the proper sphere for the sanctification of the laity is not inside the church building but in society. Please encourage more lay leaders to be catechists and ministers of social action. Let the laity be truly leaven in society. We are not just a Church of the poor. We are even more a Church of the young. The young are not just our future. They are the majority of our present age.
Plunge into deep waters! (Luke 5:4)
Thank you for your continuing unity in faith and mission.
Sincerely yours,
Archbishop of Lingayen Dagupan


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Hi everyone! this is Annie. On the wiki my username is AnneCregan I'm located in Sydney Australia (so the OWL telecon is on at 3am for me! Please forgive me if I don't always make it, or if I sound a bit vague!) My employer is NICTA (National Centre of Excellence for Information and Communications Technology Australia), where I'm a Senior Research Engineer. My current day job at NICTA includes working on Situation Awareness in a Military Domain, as a joint project with the DSTO (part of the Australian Department of Defence). We are using Ontologies, DL reasoning and FOL reasoning for information fusion. I'm also affiliated with the University of New South Wales, where I'm finishing my PhD in Semantic Technologies. I've been following OWL's evolution since 2003 and am a graduate of the European Semantic Web Summer School 2005 (SSSW05). Thomas Meyer, who is also in this group, was my PhD co-supervisor before recently returning to South Africa. I've attended the last two OWLED workshops so you may have met me there :-) I'm currently on the OWLCNL task force, helping to design a standard Controlled English Syntax for OWL. I was responsible for starting Sydney OWL Syntax after the need for an English syntax was identified at OWLED2006. I'm also interested in RIF and SPARQL interoperability with OWL, and in extending OWL so it can do (even more) really cool things! I'm also a member of the W3C's Uncertainty Reasoning Incubator Group (URW3-XG) Unfortunately I have to give my regrets for the first F2F. Kind Regards, Anne Cregan ("Annie") On 10/10/2007, at 12:13 AM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > > This is a good time for members to start introducing themselves to > the other members of working group. > The topics generally covered are: > > -- a bio summarising experience you have that's relevant to the > work of this group > > -- as much contact info as you care to share on this public list > > -- what you expect to get out of this WG > > -- what you hope/expect to contribute. > > As we will be using a wiki to record information about the working > group, it would be great if you could create an account on it and > put your introduction there as well, or link to your post. Here's > how: Go to http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/. At the top right click > "Log in/ create account". On the next page click "Create an > account". Use a "wiki name" as your login, a concatenation of your > captialized first and last names, e.g. IanHorrocks. Once you have > an account, click on your home page, which will be linked to on the > topmost line of each page, and introduce yourself. Instructions on > basic editing within the wiki are available at [1]. You can also > add your page to the wiki participants page [2]. > > Also, in your email, please indicate your intentions/expectations > w.r.t. the first F2F meeting [3] by stating "Attending F2F" or > "Regrets for F2F". > > Thanks! I'm looking forward to talking to you on Wednesday and to > meeting many of you in Manchester in December. > > [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Wikitext_examples > [2] http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/Participants > [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-owl-wg/2007Oct/ > 0004.html > > Regards, > AlanReceived on Wednesday, 10 October 2007 17:53:13 UTC
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First up, time to choose the pattern you're going to use for the wrapalong.
I'll be using the Christine Jonson wrap dress pattern. The reason I like this pattern is because it's simple, and very similar to the classic DVF wrap. There are no darts, tucks or gathers, making it quick to sew and also avoid any odd puffy bits! I simplify the pattern even more by eliminating the bodice lining and adding a neckline binding instead, which I'll explain in a future post. There are collar and cuff options, and a sleeveless version.
However, there are lots of other options for wrap dresses if the Christine Jonson version doesn't tickle your fancy. Just bear in mind that the sewalong steps may not exactly match your pattern if it's significantly different.
One alternative is to make a fixed wrap dress, which means it looks like a wrap with the cross over top, but is in fact fully closed, so there's no risk of the wrap separating or blowing up in the wind! (What can I say, I like to live on the wild side….) McCalls M6884 is a great fixed wrap option.
If you want additional shaping, Vogue 8379 could be a good option for you (even though it didn't work for me). It also has collar and cuff options.
Another option for a wrap dress or top is Simplicity 2369, which was one of Pattern Review's best patterns of 2010. This is another fixed "mock wrap" version.
Finally: I don't recommend using a woven pattern for this sewalong, because all the steps will be focused on knits. I also find it much, much harder to fit woven wrap dresses, especially around the bust! If you want to make one in the future though, you could look at the Victory Nicola or Sewaholic Yaletown patterns, although neither have a large size range.
What pattern are you going to use?
Coming up next: choosing a knit fabric and essential supplies!


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3 Minutes With Keli Bundy
We are counting down to Kimoto Rooftop this Friday for NOSTALGIA, our celebration of the divine feminine in Downtown Brooklyn goes down Friday 4/28 hosted by a gang of creative goddesses holding it down in NYC. Today, meet Keli Bundy who will be joining us for the turn up. Check out her wave.
1. What is your biggest goal for what you do?
As a millennial working in public relations, my goal is to remain true to my craft, clients and provide the best services possible. In unison with bringing along women visionaries and empowering the future youth to be great.
2. How does your environment inspire you as a woman?
Growing up with a super successful, intelligent, independent, West Indian mother who paved the way for herself; I grew up very inspired. On the daily, just seeing women of color flourishing while looking good doing it always gives me that push to keep going & growing.
3. Tell us your personal style theory in 3 words.
Magical. Fearless. Honest.
Hang Out With Keli Bundy IRL, RSVP To NOSTALGIA Here.


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Broward County
A match made on ... Interstate 95? Hollywood man uses sign on his car to find love
The sign on the back of the Hummer gets straight to the point:
Looking for a Wife
When Erika Santos saw it, a few things crossed her mind:
"Is this guy a loser?"
"This is hilarious."
"Is this a joke?"
"I need a husband. Why not?"
Turns out the man on the other end of the line, Hollywood mechanic and Hummer tour operator Alexander Gorbunov, 37, isn't in the market for himself. He just likes to play matchmaker for his friends and family.
"I have a lot of single friends," Gorbunov said in Russian. "It's for fun. I like to bring people together."
And it works.
Santos has been dating Gorbunov's uncle, Michael Korol, for the last seven months.
"I couldn't be happier," Santos said.
Korol, who has been married four times before, said at first he thought the sign tactic may have been a joke, but now he is a believer.
"You never know how you can meet someone," said Korol, who owns a car repair shop in Hollywood.
Gorbunov's sign debuted about eight months ago.
Since then, he's gotten at least 15 to 20 calls and texts a day, and not only from local women who have seen him driving through Broward and Miami-Dade. Pictures of the sign have been posted on Facebook, leading to messages from California, Georgia, Michigan, and even Brazil, France and China.
About 80 percent of the callers are serious about finding a match.
Gorbunov thinks the sign attracts women who have a sense of humor.
"Nice Hummer," one woman wrote via text. "Has your phone been blowing up all day, lol?"
Gorbunov knew right away to back off.
"Whoever starts by saying something about the car is a gold digger," he said.
Another person wrote: "Hi, are you looking for a wife? I am looking for a sexy, smart, fun, outgoing husband."
He's had mothers call on behalf of their daughters, and grandmothers call on behalf of their granddaughters — and at least one grandmother call on behalf of herself.
"I had an 85-year-old call me," he said.
Gorbunov thinks "Looking for a Wife" could become a nationwide phenomenon. He bought the domain name "datingonwheels.com" and hopes to start a business where customers can put signs listing the website on their own vehicles. Potential mates could track them down by make and model of the car and license plate number.
His system is simple: find out the woman's age and interests and see which of his friends is the best fit. He forwards her number, and his friend takes it from there.
He has found his next project: getting his friend Arthur Melesh, 27, a date.
Melesh said he hasn't seriously looked for a wife, but he's ready and willing to be included in his friend's list of interested men.
"He gets a lot of calls," said Melesh. "Maybe it'll work for me."
But things haven't always gone smoothly for Gorbunov.
One time, he was stopped at a red light when the guy behind him smashed into him while trying to get a picture of the sign.
And sometimes he doesn't get the reaction he hopes for.
"Two girls walked by and said, 'What are you? A loser that you resorted to this,'" said Gorbunov.
As for himself, Gorbunov is open to love but said none of the women who contacted him felt like Ms. Right. His parents married a week after they met, and he's waiting for a similar spark.
"I don't look at the superficial. I'm looking for intelligence, for the right feeling. So far, I haven't felt it," he said. "It'll come to me on its own."


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If you frequent our Facebook page, you may have noticed last week that we were sharing the charity page from Scribbelicious. Scribbly are one of our page friends on Facebook and last week they supported our Book Bus project. Thank you to everyone who made a purchase and got involved, we raised £150 towards the fund!
Scribbly make some beautiful literary inspired pieces, including jewellery and bookmarks and we absolutely adore their stuff. From pendants to earrings, bookmarks and keyrings they pretty much have it all covered. You can find Scribbelicious on Facebook here, and from there you'll also see links to their website from the page.


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36cm and 46cm Doll Patterns, Zapf® Annabell® Dolls3:49:00 PM
To make sure that the Wollyonline patterns in the shop fit your doll, you can compare the body measurements below.
Zapf® Annabell® 46cm Doll Measurements1) Total Height: 46cm
2) Chest: 35cm
3) Waist: 38cm
4) Hip: 40cm
5) Neck to Waist: 9cm
6) Inside Leg: 16cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: 18cm
8) Head Circumference: 33cm
Zapf® Annabell® 36cm Doll Measurements1) Total Height: 36cm
2) Chest: 28cm
3) Waist: 30cm
4) Hip: 31cm
5) Neck to Waist: 8cm
6) Inside Leg: 13cm
7) Arm & Shoulder Length: 16cm
8) Head Circumference: 29cm
What is an Annabell® doll?Annabell® dolls are manufactured by Zapf Creations®, the same manufacturer that also makes the BABY Born® dolls. The dolls in the photo are my personal Annabell® dolls. You used to be able to recognize them by the 'short' fabric arms and relative long vinyl arms but the newer Chou Chou® dolls also have these arms and legs. Now you can recognize them by their faces.
|46cm & 36cm Zapf® Annabell Dolls®
The smaller doll is 36cm and this My First Annabell® is a smaller version of the larger doll. She also has the shorter fabric arms and legs and she can wear short sleeves.
The Annabell® doll faces change from time to time but the measurements have stayed the same over the years.


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Evo Fabuloso Caramel Conditioner 250ml
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Evo Fabuloso Caramel is a colour intensifying conditioner that provides an instant hair colour boost, combined with a nourishing treatment to condition, repair, add shine, and instantly tone coloured hair. This product also restores and maintains moisture balance, softens, nourishes and detangles hair without weighing it down.
Recommended for dull, dry, colour-treated medium blonde to light blonde hair to achieve a caramel blonde tone. See results in 3 minutes.
- Contains no ammonia or peroxides
- Maintains and extends the colour life of colour-treated hair
- Has a smoothing and anti-static effect
- Panthenol: moisturises and adds shine
- Cetrimonium Chloride: conditions and softens
- Cationic hair dyes: bond ionically to the hair fibre
Wash and towel dry hair. Spread 4-8 pumps, depending on hair length, with comb or fingers (gloves recommended). Wait 3 minutes, then rinse until water runs clear.


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Cinarex Eye drops
…a safe antibiotic for delicate patients
Cinarex (Tobramycin) is a water soluble aminoglycoside antibiotic active against a wide variety of ophthalmic infections. It is indicated for the treatment of external infections of the eye and its appendages such as bacterial conjunctivitis, keratitis, corneal ulcer caused by susceptible bacteria.Tobramycin ophthalmic preparation is safe and effective for use in children over 2 months of age.
The most frequent adverse reactions to Tobramycin are localized ocular toxicity and hypersensitivity, including lid itching and swelling and conjunctival erythema. These reactions are rare and occur in less than 3% of patients treated. Cinarex® Eye Drops: Plastic dropper bottle contains 5 ml sterile eye drops & each ml contains Tobramycin USP 3 mg.
- Consistent efficacy & total tissue penetration
- Excellent option in superficial ocular infection
- 99% cure rate in bacterial conjunctivitis
- Drug of choice in pseudomonal infection
- Safe and effective in adults and children


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Levy Restaurants UK strengthens executive culinary team
Four Directors of Culinary appointed to support strategic business sectors.
Four Directors of Culinary appointed to support strategic business sectors.
Levy Restaurants UK, the sports, leisure and hospitality business of Compass Group UK & Ireland, has created Director of Culinary roles within its core markets comprising; sporting venues, racecourses, leisure venues and arenas to support and develop the food experiences for its wide range of clients, partners and guests.
The new roles reflect the Levy Restaurants UK business model and have been created to reflect the very specific needs of individual sectors; from the demands of the operation in a fast-paced sporting venue to the more experiential, design-led approach required at a museum or gallery.
The new executive roles will see Allan Blackmore become Director of Culinary, sport. Allan will be responsible for championing innovation and guest experience for match and non-match day events at a unique collection of stadia including Twickenham, The KIA Oval, Chelsea FC and Edgbaston.
Frazer Wilson will continue to drive food innovation as Director of Culinary for Jockey Club Catering and will direct the legendary food experiences of over 1.8million race-goers annually. Frazer will mentor chefs across the 15 Jockey Club Racecourses and will drive the food and beverage offering for the world's most iconic racing festivals, from The Crabbie's Grand National Festival at Aintree to The Cheltenham Festival, and The Investec Derby Festival at Epsom Downs.
Paul Jennings has become Director of Culinary for the leisure sector, made up of some of the UK's finest museums and landmark destinations including Somerset House, Salisbury Cathedral and Levy Restaurants UK's most recent client win, KidZania. He will use his expertise to address the nuanced requirements within these unique venues to ensure catering enhances the guest experience.
Andy Wardle joined Levy Restaurants UK on 10 March as Director of Culinary, arena. The sector is made up of some of the UK's most famous performing and conference venues including The O2, ExCeL London and Scotland's iconic The SSE Hydro. Overseeing new food and beverage offers and working very closely with the other three Directors of Culinary, Andy and his colleagues will also drive the mentoring and development programmes for Levy Restaurants UK's chefs at all levels.
In addition to working with arena clients, Andy will also be assisting Jonathan Davies, Levy Restaurants UK, Sales Director with future opportunities and business development. Andy will ensure that the wider Levy business maintains and builds on the company's focus on legendary experiences. With more than 15 years of working in venues within leisure, sport and arena, his wealth of experience will strengthen the business further.
Commenting on his new role Andy Wardle says: "'Levy Restaurants UK is a fantastic business with some really strong client partnerships and I'm excited to become a part of this people-centric company. I have been watching the company grow as it asserts its market leadership and I'm delighted to be joining the very talented culinary team at this pivotal time. We are in the business of creating legendary experiences and focusing our skills and knowledge can only help us further enhance the experience for our guests."
Colin Bailey, Managing Director, Levy Restaurants UK, comments: "We are incredibly proud of our culinary talent and are delighted to expand our leadership teams in the UK with four exceptional Directors of Culinary. These individuals bring a wealth of experience, knowledge and expertise to Levy Restaurants UK at a very exciting time in our business. We work across a broad range of venues and it is key that we focus on the changing needs and requirements of our partners and the customers we serve each and every day."
Levy Restaurants UK is catering partner at many of the UK's leading and most prestigious venues and events and is recognised for its customer-centric approach, design-led innovation and championing of regional food producers.


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By Jeffrey May, J.D.
Investor Fayez Sarofim has agreed to settle charges that he violated the Hart-Scott-Rodino (HSR) Act after apparently improperly relying on the Act's investment-only exemption when he failed to notify the antitrust agencies of acquisitions of voting securities of Kinder Morgan, Inc. (KMI) and Kemper Corporation. Sarofim has agreed to pay $720,000 in civil penalties under the terms of a proposed consent decree that, if approved by the federal district court in Washington, D.C., would resolve allegations in a simultaneously-filed complaint (U.S. v. Sarofim, Case 1:16-cv-02156).
Investor-only exemption. There is a limited "investment-only" exemption to the HSR report-and-wait rules for passive investors acquiring less than 10 percent of a company's outstanding voting securities. The HSR rules provide that securities are held "solely for the purpose of investment" if the person holding or acquiring the securities has "no intention of participating in the formulation, determination, or direction of the basic business decisions of the issuer."
There has been criticism of the government's interpretation of the investment-only exemption from some circles. Some call the government's view too narrow and suggest that it can have a chilling effect on investment. As detailed below, Sarofim was a board member of the companies involved, and the government has found this sufficient to remove a transaction from the exemption.
KMI transactions. The complaint alleged that, in January 2001, Sarofim failed to report the acquisition of 237,000 shares of KMI—the largest energy infrastructure company in North America. This acquisition resulted in Sarofim—the second-largest shareholder in KMI—holding securities valued over the $15 million HSR threshold that was then in place.
Sarofim could not rely on the investment-only exemption because he was a member of the KMI board, in the government's view. The Justice Department contended that his board membership necessarily caused him to participate in the formulation, determination, or direction of the basic business decisions of KMI. Sarofim purportedly failed to make HSR filings when he crossed the two subsequent filing thresholds related to his holdings in KMI. Corrective filings were made in November 2014.
Kemper transactions. Sarofim also was a member of the board of Unitrin Inc., the predecessor company to Kemper. In May 2007, Sarofim, while a Unitrin board member, acquired 10,000 shares of Unitrin on the open market and, as a result, held Unitrin voting securities valued over $59.8 million, the threshold that was then in place. Sarofim allegedly did not report the transaction, relying on the investment-only exemption. According to the government, Sarofim could not rely on the exemption because of his status as a Unitrin board member. The government pointed to other purchases throughout 2008. Unitrin has since changed its name to Kemper. Corrective filings were made in November 2014.
Settlement. Under the terms of the proposed final judgment, Sarofim has agreed to pay a $720,000 civil penalty. Although Sarofim was allegedly in violation of the HSR Act premerger notification rules for many years, the government adjusted the penalty downward from the maximum permitted under the HSR Act. The government pointed out that the violations were inadvertent and that the defendant promptly self-reported the violations after discovery. Also noted was the defendant's willingness to resolve the matter by consent decree.
Attorneys: Jennifer Joy Lee, U.S. Attorney's Office, for the United States. Vadim M. Brusser (Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP) for Fayez Sarofim.
Companies: Kinder Morgan, Inc.; Kemper Corp.; Unitrin Inc.
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Organizers and participants of the popular Communities in Bloom program go to great lengths to explain that it's much more than a gardener's showcase.
While it's true that there are few images more viewer-friendly or logo-likely than perfectly nourished and arranged flowers, the program has evolved into an effort promoting all that can be good in a community. Fabulous looking flora is just the icing on the cake.
What is basically sought out and assessed by globe-trotting Communities in Bloom judges, are the qualities and charcteristics that make life more worth living in a given town or city.
The focus of Communties in Bloom has apparently evolved to the point where all sorts of factors are considered in the careful judging:
• How does Castlegar rate in terms of tidyness as compared to… let's say… Jasper, Alberta?
• How environmentally friendly is the local infrastructure of Castlegar compared to the arrangements on Fogo Island? The categories for comparison go on, then go on some more.
How does a visitor make fair and legitimate judgements between such vastly different communities? They do it with an incredibly detailed grid – a set of rigid criteria with relatively little 'wiggle room' for subjective considerations.
One thing is clear, and only takes a glance to notice: a Community in Bloom, like Castlegar, looks fantastic. We're already winners, thanks so much to the many volunteers. We'll see if there's more to celebrate at awards time in September.


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No one expected much of this team, and yet, for a glorious moment, they produced unexpectedly good baseball. Now they have collapsed into beyond pathetic and it got me wondering what happens when a team collapses?
A team collapses when it suddenly starts to play below its capabilities and enters a spiral of losing and declining competence fed by the losing. To collapse suggests the team has been performing well or at least OK, then it suddenly devolves to a lower, I mean awful, level of play. The Mariners were playing at or above their projected talent+skill+commitment capabilities. Then in a very short time, the team swoons to compete far below its talent+skill+commitment level. This results in a self-reinforcing corkscrew of losses reinforcing each other until the team has played itself out of contention.
A team collapse involves the well-documented psychological phenomenon of contagion. In a collapse, the low level of performance begins somewhere. In the Mariner's case, the entire batting lineup, but especially the collapse of Sean Figgins and Ichiro who are both hitting about 70 points below their career averages.
Other players begin to feel obligated to up their game. Team members push themselves to try to do more than they are capable of. They try to hit homers when they are live drive hitters; they swing at marginal pitches; they lose patience. This singular response is compounded because team members lose trust in the other players. They believe that other players will not do their part. This lack of trust in the rest of the lineup motivates them to push harder, move beyond their comfort zone and strengths. If they were role players and had defined comfortable positions, they press beyond these and fail.
This pressing beyond talent+skill level leads to disaster. Leaving aside sudden blips, hot games or streaks, most good to average players will decline when they move beyond their comfort or strength zones. Pitchers will magnify the problems once the scouts let them know a batter is now vulnerable to new pitches. So player-by-player individuals fall into patterns of failure and fall below their norms and even below replacement value. Suddenly you have a team that is last in the major leagues in 7 of 9 offensive categories and that is offensive (ugh!). Yesterday they set a record in Yankee stadium—18 strikeouts against good but not great pitching. This only occurs when an entire team anxiously presses and swings at balls at bad or marginal pitches.As in the Yankee game, they flail, check swings, watch third strikes; they manifest a collective lack of decisive confidence in their ability to engage or hit.
The offense woes lead managers to play mix and match and call up anyone in the farm system that looks like a hitter. This approach generates chaotic and unreliable patterns in the in field. So precision infield play or outfield fielding efficiency plummets. The trusting communication and internalized sixth senses of trust and anticipation disappears. Fielders overplay and compensate and even ignore scouts. This results in more errors and egregious mistakes that erode trust further. The team brings up minor league "hitters" who are marginal outfielders, so mistakes multiply and bloopers become a sort of expected norm.
The slow collapse of hitting coupled with the gradual wearing down of fielding competence finally infects the pitchers, and this nailed the coffin shut.
The Mariners were held together by superb but young starting pitchers and journeymen relievers enjoying career years. But now the contagion spreads in the same way. Young pitchers like Michael Pineda start to over throw knowing they cannot rely on run support. Doug Fister and Jason Vargas both need control and fine fielding to work. But like Pineda, they are forced to try for more strikeouts because they cannot trust the fielding. The pressure on each pitch goes up because so little run support exists (Fister had 8 runs scored in 6 starts). So "pressure pitches" multiply which increases the stress load and impact on pitchers wearing down their mental focus more quickly.
Pitchers know they cannot afford mistakes because the fielding is no longer reliable and the offense cannot offset errors. The mental and physical strain of every pitch intensifies. Pitchers wear down faster and young pitchers even faster. Now every player's failure feeds their own lack of confidence and also infects every other players eroding competence. The psyche of the team guarantees failure because no one believes they can succeed with this group of team mates.
On top of this the pundits demand trades and heads to fall, everyone now finds himself mentioned in columns and potential trade bait. So every at bat and every pitch now becomes an audition to be traded; this of course fosters even more nervous tension as well as harvesting massive insecurity in a clubhouse.
At this point many teams give up. We see it all the time on the field when a coach loses control of the team. Players not just collapse in skill set but they quit trying or they quit caring which leads to the same result. The talent+skill equation depends upon the commitment level of give it life. The Mariners, unlike the last two years, are still playing as a cohesive unit and have neither given up nor taken to attacking each other. They do not manifest a complete death spiral where the team and the coach have lost control of their destinies. I witnessed this happen at Washington with Tyrone Willingham's last college team.
17 losses in a row. They are not that bad; but they will never recover this year. Felix Hernandez staunched the record run; but more loss streaks on are the way and a slow agonizing season lies before us.


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Its my turn! First time using half-frame cameras. I'm being so generous with the shots now because one roll of 36 exposures = 72 half-frame shots. Or you can switch it to square format. Although its just a cheapy plastic camera, the price also goes towards to the interesting and thoughtful packaging. I love the little book that comes with it. Makes me more excited about shooting with it.
Oh did I mention Diana Mini now comes in WHITE!!
For those actually interested in vintage half-frame cameras, do a search on Olympus Pen EE, Canon Demi EE and Ricoh Auto-half.
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Seven books that wired my brain differently and made me smarter.
Yesterday, the travel blogging fundraiser Passports with Purpose met its target of $80,000 – and then kept going. Last I heard, they'd overshot by $8,000. And so for everyone who asked me to curry them (keep an eye on your post-Christmas mail, guys) and everyone who donated so generously…
That money will be building 2 libraries for Zambian children, in association with the non-profit literacy organisation Room To Read. All those donations, generated across so many travel blogs and fished out from so many pockets, will be putting books in front of young minds thirsty to learn about the world, filling heads with ideas and hearts with damnfool flights of fancy that might. just. work.Thank you. :)
I started throwing curry around the world because enlibrarying people is a cause that's important to me – because it touches on the core of who I am. Almost everything I am today, I owe to reading.
Okay. Now, I wrote the above paragraph a few days ago, and immediately rolled my eyes.
Yes, Mike, that's how to start a post. Revel in your Art. Maybe you can put up a photo of yourself swooning foppishly in a chaise longue, all velvet dressing gown and shinned shoes and a carefully maintained pasty pallor that speaks of an aversion to the Outdoors and its associated Common People. Maybe you can wax about your Great Calling and your desire to end your days tragically and syphilitically fighting for some Noble Cause, filching the Parthenon Marbles to return them to the Greek people before being gunned down in a cloud of wig-powder on the steps of the British Museum…
So I deleted it, and replaced it with something less true.
(Sometimes editing, like second-guessing, can make a mess of what you really meant).
The first adult book I ever read was Lord Of The Rings, and it took me 9 months. It sunk deep. Before that, I read things that taught me the basic mechanics of how to read. After that, I read things that taught me how to think.
Sometimes what I thought was "eh?". I first fought my way through Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance when I was 14, and it might as well have been in Klingon for all the meaning I got from it. But that was part of the fun, the not-quite-understanding. It's a delicious feeling. It's why Haruki Murakami is so popular (that and the beautiful, strange, unpredictable way he writes). Reading above my intellectual capacity taught me the value of being baffled. When you're baffled, your mind is perversely happy. It likes being baffled. Schools think the key to a well-tuned mind is remembering enormous amounts of stuff, but really, you just need a really good baffling on a regular basis when you're at an impressionable age.
Good books resonate. Even if you only read a good book once, you experience it many times over. It comes back to you in strange moments, whispers in your ear about social justice and power and ingenuity and hope and faith and believing in yourself and in others, and it speaks in a language your heart understands better than your head. Good books are felt.
(Good bookmarks are also felt. Or soft leather. Failing that, try a nice big leaf).
I could go on. And in fact I intend to – just not right now. Instead, here are 7 books to read that sunk so far into me, for all sorts of reasons, in part or in whole, that I'm indistinguishable from them. They're not necessarily the ones I found most enjoyable or thought-provoking, and I'm not claiming they're a Top Ten of any kind. But they have influenced me, deeply. And so these books are keys to why I'm here right now, as Me.
What's it all about? Oh come on.
Why is it so important to me? My first adult book was an epic journey, and it intoxicated me. I gurgled happily at every page, and the story filled my mind, right to the corners. And perhaps, just perhaps, that's why I love to travel. If that's the case – I may end up owing a career to this book. That's a nice thought.
What's it all about? The way we argue.
Why is it so important to me? Arguments are important. We need a way to convey differences of opinion. Problem is, most arguments are broken. Either they're a battle for supremacy or they're a way of reinforcing already-held opinions. Ever done the thing where you're not listening to someone because you're thinking up your next clever retort? Me too. Ever replied to something with the phrase "yes, but…"? After reading this book, I noticed how people do that all the time. "Yes, but…" is usually our fear and insecurity taking over our mouth, closing an open loop in our minds without bothering to explore what's in it.
"Yes, but…" is how dreams die.
What's it all about? A boy ends up in a mythical realm in the body of a full-grown knight.
Why is it so important to me? Because, as is usual with Gene Wolfe's work, it's effortless to read and challenging to follow. Wolfe has been described by Neil Gaiman as "the finest living male American writer of SF and fantasy – possibly the finest living American writer" – and hey, Neil Gaiman said that. So why is this book so important to me? Because it feels so utterly new in a genre so hackneyed. I've spent 30 years loving a genre that spent most of its time Xeroxing its master work. This is different, partly because it's Gene Wolfe, but partly because it's just so damn different. Read it. You'll see.
(Just be prepared to reread it if you want to even partially understand what the hell's going on).
What's it all about? What, you didn't even read the title? FAIL.
Why is it so important to me? Because this isn't just a series of self-help suggestions on being a more effective whatever-it-is-you-do. It covers that territory, yes, and covers it really cleverly. But the real lesson for me here is simpler, and it's this:
It's Smart To Be Nice To People.
This book explains, very clearly, why treating other human beings as human beings is the way to become successful at what you do. It clearly lays out arguments that illustrate this, and it understands how business people work in the real world. Forget the short-sighted nonsense you see in The Apprentice – good business is about building relationships, sparking synergy and employing the kind of leadership that inspires people instead of coercing them. (Yes, this is Seth Godin territory). And all those things require niceness in its truest, strongest, toughest, suffer-no-bullshit sense.
It's one thing to be told that you should be good to other people because, you know, you just should.
It's another to have it convincingly laid out as a tool for success.
And that's what this book is for.
What's it all about? The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the terrible things humans can do to one another. (That's for starters).
Why is it so important to me? Because it was the first book where I so thoroughly fell in love with the writing that I couldn't put it down. I'd fallen into stories before – but in this case, I couldn't tear my eyes away from what he was doing with the words, the language, the shape and the flow of it all. I went back and reread sections, again and again, poring over them like an English Lit student cramming for exams. I became infatuated with his writing (and I still am).
In fact I had to read everything twice, or else I'd have missed the story – which is devastating.
What's it all about? A far-future world that has forgotten its technological skills and lapsed into a futuristic medievalism is faced with a cosmic threat. The main characters get drawn into a race to reactive the "Feersum Endjinn" of the title and save their world.
Why is it so important to me? Not because it's a brilliantly written piece of scifi (which it is). No – the reason this book really got to me is the ending, which explains what the Feersum Endjinn does in the final word of the whole book. And that, ladies and gentleman, is how to end a story.
What's it all about? Travel writer and novelist Jonathan Raban takes a 35-foot boat up the Inside Passage from Seattle to Juneau, Alaska, tracing the course of Captain Vancouver's famous voyage of 1792 in the Discovery.
Why is it so important to me? I've never read anything better in the field of travel writing. It's also heartbreakingly personal – by journey's end, he'll have attended his father's funeral and witnessed the breakup of his marriage. It's a soulful, sardonic, prickly and keenly felt piece of writing, and its message is unsettling: you can choose your destination, but you have little control over how you'll get there.
A massive pile of (mostly) free reading on storytelling.
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