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Allergic Reaction To My Chocolate Cake!!! Help...
Decorating By nefgaby Updated 26 Mar 2007 , 6:54pm by Antylucifer
My first thought when you said it was a teenaged boy and girl was, I wonder if they disappeared from the party together for a period of time. Hmmmmm. (That might explain a contact allergy "all over".)
The only problem with this theory is that they say that the rash came back after eating leftover cake. (Unless they were together then, too.)
I agree that you are not to blame, but I would do the same as you, and give an ingredients list, just to be helpful.
I am betting the parents of the kids called her, so her next step logically would be to call the person who baked the cakes to find out what the ingrediants are!
If my kids ate something and got an allergic reaction, I would want to know what was in it, so I could figure out what the allergy was so they could avoid it in the future. It's not about placing *blame*...it's about figuring out what the allergen was!
It's still highly unlikely to think that two kids suddenly developed allergies from a cake.
I had a food allergy (to Orange Juice ) when I was really little. It would give me hives on my legs when I drank it. Now I can drink it but if I spill any on me I'll get hives on that area, so I have to quickly wipe it away. That being said though..
My brother is deathly allergic to peanuts. Even if he eats from a spoon used for peanut butter that wasn't cleaned utterly he can get very sick. He's been hospitalized a few times because of his allergy. He knew about this allergy from when he was 14 years old (that's around when he developed it).. and he knew ESPECIALLY when he ate baking stuff to ask first very carefully if the food item a) has any peanut product in it, and b) was made with utensils that had recently been used with something that had a peanut product. If the answers were yes, it was simple, he didn't eat the product.
I guess I can understand wanting to examine everything at the party that could have caused a reaction. However, if I was a parent of one of the teens, I'd be looking at a contact cause due to the nature of the reaction.
Really, I wouldn't lose sleep over it. Even if a kid was allergic to an ingredient in your cake, it's not your job to be a mind reader. The customer should tell you of any allergies if they want them to be worked around.. I like the chicken mcnugget example, haha.
Anyway, hope that the mom finds out what happened and that the kids are OKAY in any way, and I hope you get another cake order.
I have a coworker that is allergic to chocolate. Everytime she has eaten one of the chocolate cakes I've taken to work or the one she ordered from me, she has broken out in a rash. She was aware of the problem but ate it anyways. There's a good chance they are aware of the allergy and ate it anyways.
btw - allergies do turn up overnight. you develop allergies AFTER one or more exposures to something. meaning, you have to have eaten eggs at least once to develop the antibodies that have the potential to trigger the allergy the next time. but I still don't see why she wants your list of ingredients. I'd just tell her there isn't anything unusual in it - normal flour/sugar/eggs/etc you find any any typical cake recipe.
After reading the thread...my inclination is to blame the chocolate. Hey! I LOVE chocolate, but, one day (much AFTER my teen years) I discovered that if I eat "concentrated" chocolate (like a heavy choc. cake or a candy bar) my face will get LUMPS under my skin, on the lower portion of my face. I kinda get a "Planet of the Apes" look!
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Okay..... call me crazy, but why didn't the PARENTS contact you ? Do you know for sure this even happened ? Perhaps she wants to know HOW you bake your cakes........ I would contact the parents themselves, if you feel you need to contact anyone........ Something is just WRONG about this whole thing........
I agree with the other posts who have allergies. Food ingested would take a long time (a couple of hours) to illicit a reaction. So when they ate the cake again it would not have come up that quickly. It is something they physically came into contact with.
People with severe allergies know what to do and know what to avoid believe me! Both my boys and I have allergies and we never get rashes. All sorts of other things but never rashes from food.
Now I hate to be the devil's advocate here and forgive me for throwing this into the mix however, she ordered another cake from you? Does she expect a discount for this cake? I am not trying to make your customer look bad but people can do some funny things if they think they can get away with it. If my guests were affected as she claims and thinks it is your cake then you would be the last one I order from again. Just food for thought.
I'm counting my blessings that I and my family don't suffer from food allergies. I get hay fever in the spring sometimes but that's it.
You have referred to the two as kids, are they two who got rashes teenagers or younger? I am asking because my three year old has exzema and does get full body rashes if exposed to a new product sometimes but ONLY something like a new bubble bath, detergent, ect.. I would think they had a reaction to something viral, like fifth disease as suggested before. Unfortunately(and fortunately!) people try new things every day they forget about and perhaps they should list all the things they ate, tried new, clothing worn, ect for the 24 hours prior and then narrow it down.
I am sure it was not your cake though!!
I guess if the issue continues ask if it was hives or a rash. Some people call hives a rash and they are two different things. Yes allergies cause hives not rashes. As for timeline of breaking out in hives from food allergies it depends on the person. Some people break out within minutes of being exposed and others it takes hours. Red food coloring is linked to being a trigger for allergies and is being blamed for causing hyperactivity in children. The alleged victims should go to a doctor and find out what the cause of the rash is if it is an issue.
I have many food allergies and agree with most of what has been said. I am allergic to milk products and corn products. Some dairy products I can eat with out any problems others I can't. Corn I can't eat any whole corn or corn syrup. Both allergies cause severe stomache upset.
Rashes often occur with Drug Allergies, chocolate having caffene in it falls under that catagory. It will cause one of two types of reactions both are mild reactions but a rash will appear usually on neck and face or the person will become very sleepy and not be able to stay awake.
chocolate can also cause hives and anaphalactic shock but is only in very rare circumstances.
I would look for drugs or other environmental contact.
Not your cake
WOW, thanks again for all your help and replies!!
Well, I spoke with the customer again today and she did place another order with me, she wants a cake for next Sat (her son really loves my cakes), she is a return customer and by all means I will not give her a discount, I honestly don´t think that is what she is after...
Anyway, I found out more about this whole allergy mistery... They started with this "rash" (not hives for what she told me) about 2 hours after eating. It was NOT 2 teenagers as I first thought (for what I understood at first) but it was a young girl, 16 years old and the "boy" was the grandmother´s new husband, he is around 40 years old (Demi & Ashton´s syndrome good for her!) and apparently he is allergic to TONS of things, he takes Claritin like it was candy, he lives on those medications, day in and day out. Neither one of them went to the doctor so it is hard to tell now. The guy really does not concern me, since he has a history BUT the girl had never developed an allergic reaction to anything before. They both had cake the next day, both had a rash again and then this guy had cake for a 3rd time (I guess he really liked it) and had a rash for the 3rd time!!!
The customer told me that even though he is allergic to lots and lots of things, chocolate is not one of them neither is milk products, wheat, peanuts or eggs. His allergies are mostly to things around him, pollen, mold, humidity, etc.
Oh well... I´m not losing any sleep over this and if she is coming back for another cake then this tells me she is satisfied, even referring me to her friends... this time I will make her sign an allergy disclaimer. I did send her a list of all my ingredients and she was going to forward it to the girls mother, which has not contacted me for anything, she (girl´s Mom) also had a big piece of my cake at the party and did not develop any allergy either. Anyway... I´m thinking it was the red dye (the only one used) or the chocolate, since it was a very strong chocolate flavor.
Oh well, will keep you posted!!!
And BTW, this 2 people will attend the party on Sat and will have cake, again (customer told me that... I don´t get it...) so since it is a snowboard themed cake I will use no color gels this time (lots of snow) hoping to find out this way if it was the gel or something else... Only color fondant will be used for the little snowboarder boy, which is not meant to be eaten anyway.
Thanks again!
I agree with BlakesCakes. It wasn't your cake. And if it was (HYPOTHETICALLY-speaking) those kids knew better (please don't hit me).
It was probably something else, and the hostess just wants a free ticket out of a lawsuit.
And BTW, this 2 people will attend the party on Sat and will have cake, again (customer told me that... I don´t get it...) so since it is a snowboard themed cake I will use no color gels this time (lots of snow) hoping to find out this way if it was the gel or something else... Only color fondant will be used for the little snowboarder boy, which is not meant to be eaten anyway.
Thanks again!
Well thanks Nick! What I heard last is that the girl´s mother was not upset at all and this 40+ year old guy knew better! I´m thinking it was not my cake (since it has been eaten by kids as well with no problems) OR maybe the red dye. So when they pick up the cake on Sat I will have my little cluase ready for her to sign. Thanks again!
As someone else posted, when we thought it was two teenagers, my first question was whether the "rash" looked like beard burn. Now that we know differently, IF your cake was involved at all, I would look at the red food dye. I don't think the customer (or the rash folks) are too concerned about litigation or they wouldn't be coming back for seconds and thirds - or digging into another cake.
After reading all the posts, it sounds to me like a contact allergy to the icing. My first guess would be the red dye. I have two kids that will get very red from cantact with things like ranch dressing and BBQ sauce. I recently found out that the canned icing you buy in the store will cause it too. My son's preschool made brownies frosted with it. I have no idea what is actually causing it, but as long as they wash up after eating it isn't usually a problem. My 3 year old son though has a tendency to get it all over his face LOL.
I wouldn't let it concern you. If they know it's a problem and continue to eat the cake, it's their problem. Oh, it could also be the chocolate syrup, there are probably some funky chemicals in that.
I would also think contact allergy too. Food allergies cause hives, which can be tiny (looks like a rash) or big old nasty sores. The hives can appear almost instantly or take hours to appear, depending on the severity of the allergy. If anything, I'd say they were sensitive to the red dye. It's hard to imagine neither hadn't ever eaten red dye though!
I have a severe allergy to shrimp and got a bite of one accidently this summer. Within a minute of swallowing I broke out in incredibly itchy hives, then my tongue and lips went numb and my hands swelled (it made the bridal shower a little too exciting).
I think you were very consciencious to be so helpful in trying to figure out what happeded, but I don't think you did anything you shouldn't have when making your cake.
Thanks again everybody!! OK, so I think we are 90% sure it was the red dye since both eat chocolate on a regular basis (yep, just found out) and have never had any problems. Anyway, they are all fine and I feel much better knowing it was nothing I did or did wrong.
Thanks again for all your help!!!!
I doubt it was your cake really. For 2 of the kids to be allergic seems a little unlikely to me. I think probably it was more like a viral thing or something. Rashes are pretty common.
Since you asked though, I do know of someone that was allergic to red dyes. But for 2 kids to be allergic...?
Thanks Merissa!!
OK, so it is Monday now and I made the customer a cake for this past Sat, she picked it up Sat morning, I haven't heard anything from her yet but I will keep you posted and hope to know soon if they got something after eating my cake on Sat.
And I just don't get some people... if they are claming my cake gave them an allergic reaction, why in the world would the eat cake again and again and again??
Anyway, that just makes me feel better and if they came back for more than I guess it is all good!
Yeah I dont think they are too concerned if they bought another cake from you. Plus EVEN if it was from the red dye or something, you cant be blamed for something like that. You cant blame Peter Pan or Jiffy if you are allergic to peanuts. If someone knows that they are allergic to something they need to ask questions about what they eat.
I hadnt read through the whole thread when I answered before but it still seems odd though that 2 people would be allergic to the same thing (unless they were related) and never been exposed to a red dye before (or at least never noticed a reaction to it). I have to think red dyes are pretty common.
I know and my customer knows I can't be held responsable since she never asked anything or said anything about allergies... and they both said that neither one of them was allergic to chocolate or red dye (that they knew of) or anything else, like wheat, eggs, milk, nuts, etc. so I'm guessing that the girl IS allergic to the dye (all the right symptoms) and the guy was allergic to God knows what (since I was also told he is allergic to almost everything).
Anyway, will keep you posted!!
perhaps she loves your cake so much that she wants your recipe! so she can make them herself! lol
perhaps she loves your cake so much that she wants your recipe! so she can make them herself! lol
OMG!! How funny! I wonder if that is the case...
I scanned through a lot of this thread. There is so much stuff going around I would not be concerned. My husband had a heat rash from his fever last week. We all had a bug that cause fever for several days and sure enough he was red and rashy because of it.
Hello everybody!! I just wanted to let you all know how it all ended... the customer finally called and told me that, with the second cake (2 weeks ago) only one person had a reaction, it was the guy, the girl did eat cake but nothing happened to her... anyway, this person, with the reaction, now knows he is allergic to chocolate!!!
I know I know... it took him a while to figure it out!
Anyway, thanks so much everybody for your help!
And Thank God it was nothing I did wrong!
I have people in my family that are allergic to corn syrup and cornstarch...maybe the marshmallows???
you can actually develop an allergy to something at any point. It isn't always after the first few contacts. So maybe the guy has developed a chocolate alergy or maybe it is unrelated...who knows.


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Get an overview of this hotel3-star Terme Vigliatore hotel in Castroreale Terme with free breakfast
Popular property highlights
Located in Castroreale Terme, this hotel is 1.6 mi (2.6 km) from Villa Romana and within 9 mi (15 km) of Cathedral of Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto and Cathedral of Castroreale. Church of Candelora and Piazza Delle Aquile are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Hotel Features
Along with a restaurant, this hotel has a coffee shop/café and a snack bar/deli. Free continental breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, 24-hour room service, a meeting room, and laundry facilities are onsite.
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Hotel Amenities
The hotel offers a restaurant, a coffee shop/café, and a snack bar/deli. A complimentary breakfast is offered each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access. This business-friendly hotel also offers laundry facilities, 24-hour room service, and express check-in. Complimentary self parking is available on site. Guests can use the outdoor pool and health club at a partner property.
- Snack bar/deli
- Free breakfast
- Coffee shop or café
- Restaurant
- Total number of rooms - 22
- Express check-in
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- 24-hour front desk
- Express check-out
- Number of floors - 2
- Laundry facilities
- Television in common areas
- Elevator/lift
- Free WiFi
- One meeting room
- Free self parking
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Snack bar/deli
- Laundry facilities
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
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- Balcony
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Minibar
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Bidet
- Shower only
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Free WiFi
- Room service (24 hours)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
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A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 10:30 AM.
Onsite venue - This restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Open select days.
24-hour room service is available.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snorkeling nearby
- Scuba diving nearby
- Windsurfing nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Hot springs nearby
- Bicycle rentals on site
Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 11 PM
Check-in time starts at 7 AM
Check-out time is 11 AM
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Children and extra beds
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- Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for EUR 10 per night.
- Pets allowed
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- For more information contact the property at the number on the booking confirmation
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- New Year's Eve (31 December) Gala Dinner per adult: EUR 100
- Club Card: EUR 10 per accommodation, per night
- Airport shuttle transfer per adult: EUR 120 (one way)
Optional extras
- Crib (infant bed) fee: EUR 10 per night
Hotel Name
- Hotel Sait Terme Vigliatore
- Sait Terme Vigliatore
- Sait Hotel Terme Vigliatore, Sicily, Italy
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation. Guests can arrange to bring pets by contacting the property directly, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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Spring football: Sooner than you think
Didn't think you could wait until March 18 for spring football practice? No need to worry. The Bulls will squeeze in three practices before spring break, going March 4-6 before starting spring drills in earnest on March 18. So yes, spring football is just 12 days away ... with a 12-day hiatus in the middle.
USF sent out its full spring roster Thursday, and as the official blog of record for all things walk-on, I have a few departures to announce, even if they won't likely cause much of a fuss anywhere but here on the blog. Seven walk-ons who were on roster at the end of the fall aren't there for spring: kickers William Criswell and Morgan Riley, linebackers Josh Soto, Brad Chancey and Caleb Russell and running backs Rafael Bennett and Marquise Pease.
Again, nothing unusual here -- don't think any of those seven had made it on the field, with Criswell the longest-tenured of the departing walk-ons. I'm down to seven Pinellas County players this spring, with Riley, Criswell and Chancey leaving, but there are more locals coming in the fall. I can't do my "Pease, Love and Understanding" roster joke anymore, but that's probably a good thing.
Former Jefferson and Florida tight end Trent Pupello, said to be getting his first look at defensive end, is now listed as a defensive tackle, which probably suits his 6-foot-2, 276-pound frame. Again, Pupello would need a hardship waiver to play this fall, so it doesn't matter too much whether he's a tackle or an end.
For you roster-number junkies, eagerly hoping to update your video game databases, I can offer a few morsels of who's wearing what this spring: Pupello is wearing a very un-DT number, 44; another January addition, safety Charlton Sinclair, will wear No. 31, and the new walk-on running back, Joel Miller, will wear No. 37.
And yes, the NFL combine workouts are this weekend in Indianapolis, with Mike Jenkins, Trae Williams and Ben Moffitt representing USF. It looks like Moffitt might have dropped some weight since his USF days, as he was listed at 245 pounds at USF, but his bio page at NFL.com has him down at 231. Should have official heights and weights in the next day or so. Turns out the Big East football schedule likely won't get unveiled until Monday ...


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What are Artificial or Non-nutritive Sweeteners?
Artificial or non-nutritive sweeteners are sweeteners that do not provide any carbohydrate or calories per serving. There are six main non-nutritive sweeteners:
- Acesulfame potassium – Sold as Sweet One®, Sunett, or Swiss Sweet®, it has less of an aftertaste than saccharin and it is more stable when heated than aspartame. This sweetener, however, it is not available in all markets.
- Aspartame – Sold as NutraSweet (blue packet) and Equal, has little aftertaste but becomes unstable at high temperatures so it is not appropriate for baking or cooking.
- Luo han guo extract – Some extracts may also contain sugar, but pure extract is from this fruit, which is also called monk fruit. It is sold as Nectresse [with R in circle symbol], which also contains a sugar alcohol, erythritol, sucrose (sugar) and molasses. Each packet must have less than 5 calories to be able to claim "no calories" on the lable.
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They're Playing Our Song
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Renaissance Performing Arts Theatre
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Presented By: Renaissance Performing Arts Theatre
Replacing "The Last Five Years" in the off Broadway Series, Neil Simon and Marvin Hamlish collaborated on this hit musical, a funny, romantic show about an established composer and his relationship with an aspiring young female lyricist. Professionally their relationship works beautifully, but ultimately leads to conflict on the home front. Of course there is a happy ending. It is funny and full of blithe good humor, hilarious jokes and witty pointed characterizations. "They're Playing Our Song" is produced by the Renaissance Performing Arts Association and directed by Michael Thomas.
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American BioOptics has been featured on three Chicago News Stations. Each station highlighted ABO's novel optical technology as a potential solution for early colon cancer screening and detection.
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Today I was sent a message via ARISS and I replied back. The message kept coming same as the first time...Never had that happen before. ISS had to get out of range for it to stop.
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Message sender probably never got an APRS ACK (Acknowleged) that you received the message so it kept retrying. If you are running packet in unproto and not a full APRS operation, that can happen.
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Le Grand Continental® is a free, outdoor public dance event created by the Montreal-based company Sylvain Émard Danse. Celebrity Series presented this special event for three shows during May 16-18, 2014 in Copley Square Park to celebrate the closing weekend of our 75th anniversary season. We kicked off the season in the fall with our first large public project, Street Pianos Boston. These special projects have been our gift to Boston as a thank you for supporting our mission for 75 years. So, thank you!
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Gwyneth Paltrow Flashes Abs in "See-Through" Emmys Dress
Years of doing the Tracy Anderson Method have definitely paid off.
Gwyneth Paltrow walked the red carpet at Sunday's Emmy Awards in L.A. wearing a sexy see-through Pucci ensemble. The black and nude look exposed the actress' toned tummy -- and made fellow nominees envious.
"I can't stand next to her too long. She looks too good," Parks and Recreation's Amy Poehler joked.
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Jonas Brothers & Selena Gomez Both Dropping Tracks in April!
Selena Gomez might have dated one of the Jonas Brothers back in the day — we're looking at you, Nick — but it looks like there's going to be a little friendly competition between the two musical acts! The band of brothers have revealed that they'll be releasing their new track "Pom Poms" on April 2, and it's being reported that Selena will drop her new single one week from that day (April 9).
Though JB has officially confirmed that's when they're new song will come out, Selena is still teasing her fans about her new music. In fact, Selena changed the cover photo on her Facebook page, and it looks like the titled of the single will be "Come & Get It."
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Craig Patterson hearing in Julian Dawkins murder case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (WJLA) An Arlington County Sheriff's deputy charged with first-degree murder has a preliminary hearing Tuesday.
Craig Patterson is accused of killing Julian Dawkins back in May. Police say the two got into an argument near Dawkins' home in Alexandria. Investigators believe at some point Patterson left, got his gun, and shot Dawkins in the chest.
Patterson's lawyers say he acted in self defense. He's been held without bond since the shooting.


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MiamiDon Good job anyway, buffetbuster. The other month, I believe in Michael Hoffman's thread about half-smokes, Weenie Beenie came up as "the other half-smoke place."
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Sir Alex: FA were 'dying' to charge me
Sir Alex Ferguson has claimed the Football Association were 'dying' to hit him with his latest improper conduct charge.
Ferguson is facing another fine and a touchline ban following his touchline row with referee Mike Dean after Manchester United's narrow Premier League win over Hull.
The United boss was fuming that Dean did not send off Hull defender Andy Turner for a foul on Michael Carrick.
That Dean then awarded Hull a penalty for an innocuous Rio Ferdinand challenge on Bernard Mendy only infuriated the Scot even more.
Ferguson has until November 19 to decide whether to contest the charge, knowing he served a two-match ban last term for a finger-jabbing rant at Mark Clattenburg following a defeat at Bolton.
The Scot has not yet decide his next course of action but he did manage a sideswipe at the FA, who he feels are delighted to have the chance to censure him once more.
``I have no reaction because I have not read the charge yet,'' he said. ``I am a bit surprised. But this is the FA. They were probably dying to send me a letter.''
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A. Rahim, Mohamad Kamal and Mat Salleh, Mohd Nazif and Ayop, Osman and Masri, Thelaha (2008) Switched beam antenna system design. In: 2008 Conference on Radio and Microwave (RFM 2008), 2008, Kuala Lumpur.
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This paper described the design and implementation of switch beam antenna array system operating at 2.4 GHz frequency band. In this paper, four beam patterns are generated by incorporated with four dielectric antenna array and butler matrix. The PIN diode worked as a swicth while the PIC microcontroller used to control the beam pattern by setting the time delay between the beams. The result showed that the multibeam radiation pattern can be produced using this system.
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text: Culture 29 December 2010 "The Isles of the Blessed": a short story by Margaret Drabble Sign up for our weekly email * The voyage to the Isles of the Blessed seemed doomed. It had been conceived as a brave attempt to escape the rigours and dolours of yet another English Christmas, and they had been given, as they thought, the blessing of their family, who readily, perhaps too readily, accepted that Carol needed a break. She'd had a bad year, poor old Granny Carol, what with that mysterious accident at the crossroads, and the hospitalisation, and the physiotherapy, and then the mugging. One damn thing after another, as Carol and Paul put it, a little guiltily, to their middle-aged children, who were already quarrelling about which of them should try to cook the turkey. Sam was willing but couldn't really cook, Sarah complained routinely that she was always put upon because she was the girl, Will sometimes said he was a vegetarian. "I've cooked enough turkeys," said Carol to Paul, "let's leave them to it and bugger off to the sun." A brave attempt, but their spirits had sunk at Southampton, even before they boarded. The queues were as long as the queues at Gatwick and Heathrow which they'd been congratulating themselves on avoiding, and the sight of their fellow passengers was lowering. OK, OK, they'd realised it would be an elderly crew, but perhaps not this elderly, not quite so many of the lame and the halt and the deaf and the blind. One could have cheered oneself up by thinking of oneself as comparatively young and nimble, had one not in fact still been feeling rather frail, said Carol to herself: not, out of delicacy, wishing to voice these thoughts out loud. But she could tell Paul knew what she was thinking anyway. He always did. He was worried that she was having to stand around for too long with her bad leg, and she was worried that he was worried, and that was how it was and would be. They perked up when they reached their cabin. As promised, it had a little balcony, and would soon have a sea view. At the moment it had a view of a dank high wall, but the wall looked nautical, with thick dark twisted ropes and great rusted orange hooks. That was encouraging. Even more encouraging was a delightful drinks cabinet, on top of which stood several shining bottles of spirits - blue gin, amber whisky, crystalline vodka - and a bottle of champagne on ice, bordered by a shipshape little silver rail to stop them sliding around. Clearly, elderly voyagers knew what they wanted, and the management knew how to provide it. Also admirable was the absence, so far, of anything to do with Father Christmas. They had been slightly dreading his appearance. There was still time for him to materialise on board, but at least they wouldn't have to sleep with his image or even with a mini Christmas tree. Maybe, they ventured, as they unpacked their clothes and drank one another's health in an agreeable cut glass gin and tonic with ice and lime, maybe Charon Cruises had got it all sorted. They knew that what people wanted was to get away. And even if their fellow travellers were moribund, they wouldn't have to spend much time with them: they could entertain one another. They were both looking forward to the mid-cruise three-day break on the Canary Islands, and had done a little homework about what they wanted to see and do there. Volcanoes, sand dunes, beaches, cactuses, caves, craters, and the port whence Christopher Columbus had sailed. Not too much culture: they had enough culture in London, more than enough - they suffered from chronic guilt about plays not seen and exhibitions not visited. Sunny beaches would be a relief, even though they had read that some of the beaches were black. Paul loved to swim, and Carol knew that she should. Swimming was strongly recommended by Fred, her friendly physio. Their spirits were higher as they watched Southampton recede with its farewell flotillas of buzzing little water scooters, as they descended the staircase (unlike many, Carol didn't really need the crowded lift, the needs of others were greater than hers), as they queued dutifully to wash their hands with antiseptic gel from a smiling robotic machine before they were ushered by the smiling 16-year-old Filipino waiter to their table for dinner. The table was not so amusing. They had asked for a table for two, which, in literal terms, this was, but it was separated by a mere three inches from the adjacent table, already occupied by an unpromising and far too proximate couple. This was, in effect, a table for four, and there was no avoiding conversational interchange with their immediate neighbours, who eagerly introduced themselves as June and Greg. First names exchanged, but surnames cautiously withheld, the two parties took refuge in examining their menus and the wine list, but it was already clear that June and Greg wished to emerge from this truce to chat. They were bored with one another, and wanted new meat. Greg, a broadly built man with the jowled and heavy dark face of a bruiser and the mouth of a cane toad, was the dominant partner (he ordered the rib-eye steak), but his stout wife (lamb shank) had not graciously accepted her secondary role and was still, after decades of marriage, looking for an ally. They were considerably younger than many of the floating Christmas refugees, in fact they were younger than Paul and Carol - probably, guessed Carol, only in their fifties. They retained stamina and a lust for anecdote and combat. "Oh dear," sighed Paul in bed that night, as he picked up Saramago's Blindness (Saramago, they knew, lived on Lanzarote; this grim book was not holiday reading but it qualified as homework), "oh dear, they are heavy going." Two weeks of June and Greg was not what they had ordered. Nor did their dining partners improve on acquaintance. They soon learned that June and Greg spent much of their time cruising the globe, round the world forever and aye, round the world with unshut eye, from pole to pole and ocean to ocean, avoiding and being avoided by their much-fractured family, their expensive daughter (too many lavish weddings, they would have to draw the line at the next) and their unemployably feckless son and their demanding and dyslexic grandchildren. Paul and Carol learned that Christmas cruises were notorious for the outcast nature of their clientele, shipped off for the season to be well out of the way (June and Greg reported this without any sense of irony), and that there would inevitably be at least one death on board. (There was, but only one.) Carol would have enjoyed June's bizarre small talk, which included a dissertation on her hope of buying 36DD brassieres in the new M&S on Tenerife, had it not been for Greg's rudeness to his wife, whom he put down as often as he could. It was most uncomfortable. Paul suggested they might ask to have their table changed, but Carol thought that would be rude. She knew Paul secretly thought it would be rude, too, but had gallantly offered to be rude on her behalf. So they sat it out. They succeeded in having one or two breakaway conversations in the bar and on deck and over the peripatetic meal of lunch, but most of these had a macabre or medical slant to them. They heard much of old war injuries and recent widowings, of aneurisms and angina, of triple transplants and dental disasters, of cochlear implants and (more happily) of miraculously cured cataracts. Laser surgery came out with credit, they admitted to one another in bed as they watched on their television screen the silvery wake of the SS Annunziata. There was one game old boy with a Stephen Hawking voice box who would, like Hawking, have been interesting, had they been more practised at decoding what he was trying to say. But talking to him and listening to him required concentration, and they failed him. Given a life sentence or a longer fixed term in the inferno, they would have learned to keep him company, but a fortnight was too short for the investment. They avoided him. They let him down. It was on the shore trip to Cadiz that they made friends. They had signed up out of restlessness, knowing in advance that they would be obliged to walk two by two like kindergarten children while a relentlessly cheerful and indifferent local guide spattered them with statistics and off-colour patriotic and racist jokes about the Armada. But they wanted to see Cadiz, their last port before the final two days' sailing to Lanzarote, and humbly embarked on the tourist coach, resolving to be good, to keep a low profile, and never to interrupt. Walking in a crocodile up a handsome narrow street with handsome grim façades, Carol overheard two women behind them talking with lively animation about Henry the Navigator, the discovery of the Gold Coast, the rivalry of Spain and Portugal, and the early days of the slave trade. The subject of this dialogue was as astonishing and as refreshing as its tone. Not a word of ill-health or complaint invaded the spirited discussion, and the women, unlike most of the marching or stumbling couples, appeared to be the best of friends. The hospital ship SS Annunziata had not got them down at all. Carol eavesdropped attentively. It was remarkable. The two women laughed together with easy intimacy, and although one of them knew much more about Prince Henry than the other and was, indeed, now delivering a mini-lecture on his eccentricities, the listener (somewhat the older of the two, thought Carol) was absorbing the information eagerly, prompting with questions, adding a footnote or two of her own - most of them, Carol guessed, from the perspective of an art historian. It was a joy to overhear them. Carol manoeuvred herself and Paul to a position behind them, as they were led up the winding stone steps of an antique tower (not recommended for the less agile of the party) to see the camera obscura and the view over the city. They were sisters, she had decided, sisters and friends, out on some kind of celebratory spree. Over drinks back on board, the two women, Nell and Margot, confirmed to Paul and Carol that they were indeed sisters. The four of them had initially fallen into conversation in Cadiz while waiting for a straggler, a lost sheep of an old man who in the end turned out to have been asleep on the coach all the time, and they had arranged to meet in the cocktail lounge, where they now exchanged impressions and brief lives. None of their stories was without shadows - Carol confessed to her ludicrous accident, Paul to his impatience with his post-retirement posting, and Nell and Margot revealed that they had taken this cruise on the spur of the moment (very cheap last-minute rates) to escape from the aftermath of the funeral of their mother, who had died in her nineties in early December. They had been fond of and attentive to their mother, unlike a third sister who had kept well out of the way until the final two days, when she arrived to squat like a toad at the bedside, determined to be in at the death, not having lifted a finger during the life. But all this, even the irrepressible outbreak of sibling malice, was delivered with a cheerful vivacity, and Nell and Margot soon moved on from past domestic grief to future fun and to their pleasurable anticipation of spending Christmas on the beach in Lanzarote. It will make a change, said Margot, the hispanist, who claimed to know the Canaries well. The newly formed quartet, obliged by protocol to part for dinner, met the next day and the next, as they sailed south through the sunlight. Margot regaled them with stories of the seven Blessed Isles, each of which she had visited: of the visit by the Roman general Sertorius who had wished to set up an ideal community there in the first century of the first millennium, of their rediscovery in the 14th century by Genoese merchants, of the mysteries surrounding the origins of the indigenous peoples, of the art work of the local hero and environmentalist César Manrique whom, as a young woman long ago, she had known. (She didn't like all his paintings, but she loved his crossroads sculptures.) She made the Canary Islands sound infinitely pleasing, and promised on arrival to be their guide. She knew the perfect spot for their Christmas Eve lunch. They would hire a car for the day at the port of Arrecife, and she would drive them all to the golden beach, to the best beach on the island, and they would swim in the bay and eat fish and drink a delicious local wine called El Grifo in the little restaurant on the jetty and forget about Greg and June. Carol and Paul felt lucky and chosen as they sat in the back of the rented Opal and gazed at the passing landscape of subtle volcanoes and holiday apartments and at the calm expanses of the turquoise Atlantic. They were as happy and trustful as children in the confident hands of the sisters. The old-fashioned little fishing town of Arrieta, where they parked in a side street under a giant cactus, was all they could have hoped. The water sparkled, and families sheltered under brightly coloured parasols, and handsome young people sunbathed, and children were building sandcastles. Near the shore small children's waves broke, but way beyond the curving jetty were great breakers where surfboarders and windsurfers sported on the horizon. Elderly, and in Carol's case fragile, they swam in the shallows, then repaired to the beach to dry off in the sun on the emerald green towels that they had illicitly borrowed from their cabins. A few yards from them a young mother, naked to the waist, sat in a deckchair nursing her baby. "All this, and the Nativity, too," said Carol. The young woman was a beauty. They could tell, from the direction of her glances, from the occasional deployment of her binoculars, that her man was one of those brown athletes out there in the surf, riding the waves. Proudly, she watched him from afar as the baby sucked and mewed and mewed and sucked. She knew the old folk were admiring her, and she was pleased. The restaurant overlooked the harbour, with a close view of a surreal and brightly painted building with little stone lions and strange finials and balconies and a lookout tower and a pink clay-tiled roof. Margot told them it was called Africa House, because it was the nearest point on the islands to Africa itself. On a clear day, von Humboldt had written, you could see the continent whence the first Guanches might have been deported under the reign of King Juba, long ago. She had never seen it, but there it lay. So they were able to imagine the mainland of Africa, as they ate their sardines and shrimps and garlic and wrinkled potatoes, as they drank their wine. The only disappointment was the absence of El Grifo, for the Bar Azul was temporarily out of The Grief, and they had to make do with Viña Sol from Spain. Content they were as they sat there, a temporary fellowship, happy in the novelty and the familiarity of one another's company, forgetful of the dead and of their own ageing, enjoying the salt and sun on their skin, the post-prandial peace, the shimmering view. The mother and baby and surfboarder father, their Holy Family, had joined them under the bar's canopy - German, they guessed, or perhaps Scandinavian. All four of the grey-haired English voyagers were half asleep as they slowly and drowsily became aware of a certain disturbance, a small commotion, a drift of spectators towards the end of the harbour wall, a lifting of binoculars, a wave of anxiety and distress, a gazing towards invisible Africa, a sound of hooting, an approach of vehicles, a distant siren. And now people were moving towards the end of the pier, speaking in Spanish and in other tongues, the waiters were abandoning their customers, the customers were rising from their tables, they were all gazing out over the ocean to where, still far from shore, still far too far from shore, an overloaded vessel from Senegal was heavily sinking into the shining sea. And now it was all a confused flurry of action, as knowledge spread, as mobilisation was attempted, as a fishing boat was launched, but it was all too slow, far too slow, they were going under out there, within sight of safety, they were going under the waves after their long and perilous voyage. Very few of them could swim, they were drowning out there, drawn towards the immigrants' graveyard by the beacon of Africa House. But the handsome young surfboarder could swim, and before their eyes he hurled himself into the water and cut his way towards the slowly sinking wreckage of the patera, and began his heroic rescue. Of those aboard, single-handed he saved five, and brought them back to shore. The others drowned. He was never to forget their drowning. He saw their white eyes open under the water, he saw their mauve lips. But five of them he saved, and one of them a starving child. Legend has it that his woman suckled the starving child at her suntanned breast, there in the Bar Azul. Some of this is legend. But some of it is true. © Margaret Drabble, October 2010 Margaret Drabble's novels include "A Summer Bird-Cage", "The Millstone", "Jerusalem the Golden" and "The Sea Lady". Her "Collected Stories" will be published by Penguin in the spring. Subscribe from just £1 per issue This article first appeared in the 20 December 2010 issue of the New Statesman, Christmas Special More


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Johnson: Young players should avoid City
Adam Johnson has warned any potential England stars to reject the chance to join Manchester City because of the lack of first-team opportunitites on offer at Eastlands.
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Johnson was Roberto Mancini's first signing when he joined City from Middlesbrough in January in 2010 but failed to make the impact he hoped and was sold on to Sunderland in the summer.
The winger feels his international prospects were harmed while at City and he believes the door to the first-team will be closed to any rising star - no matter how good.
"Now if I was a young lad I wouldn't go to City," Johnson, who will face City on Saturday, said. "It's not that you're not good enough, it's just that the likes of Yaya Toure are going to play ahead of you no matter what you do.
"I'd advise young, young English players that you won't get the chance to play as much as you like.
"It has turned out that way with recent signings too. It is excellent when a club like City come for you, it's hard to say no. You're going to play for the champions. But you don't actually play for the champions. You're a squad member. It's totally different."
Johnson is hopeful his move to Sunderland will see him thrust back into the international spotlight.
"I missed the World Cup two years ago because I wasn't playing," he said. "I wanted to play every week. It was one of the factors. Coming to Sunderland and playing more would enhance my chances of playing for England more."
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AQHA's Trail Challenge program is designed to engage American Quarter Horse owners and trail riding enthusiasts to test their horsemanship skills in a safe environment.
June 5, 2017
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AQHA Convention Committee Agendas
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October 13, 2016
STEP Program Names Grant Recipients
More than $13,000 is awarded to recipients of Stewards for Trails, Education & Partnerships grants in 2016.
September 12, 2016
Pledge to Take a Friend Riding Sweepstakes Launches With Celebrity Support
Grammy Award winner, Olympian and Eclipse Award winner among celebs who pledge to introduce friends to equestrian sports.
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AQHA Rule-Change Proposal Deadline
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AQHA and Trail of Painted Ponies Partner on Art Competition
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Contrary to popular perception, business people can be benevolent. For instance, one recent study notes that four-fifths of all Harvard Business School graduates are involved with nonprofits, with more than half of those serving on boards. Most business professionals will spend some time on a nonprofit board. That's the good news, the author says. The bad news is that the involvement of business people can easily backfire. That's because they often try to take what they have learned from business school and the corporate world and apply it to their duties in the nonprofit sector. On the surface, there are similarities between the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. Both have boards of directors, trustees and chairpeople, regular meetings, and so forth. But the governance of nonprofit organizations is very different from the governance of for-profit businesses in several critical areas, including missions, measurements, and board composition. For instance, the CEO in the nonprofit world must manage a relationship with a nonexecutive board chair. In the for-profit world, the CEO is the chair. Such significant differences make it difficult to transfer ideas and practices between the for-profit and nonprofit worlds. In this article, F. Warren McFarlan describes the main differences between serving on a for-profit board and serving on a nonprofit board. As he points out, understanding the differences will make it easier for business people to move smoothly from one environment to the other and will therefore make their commitments more effective. Nonprofits need business people, but only on the right terms.
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