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In 2014, global flavour leader McCormick, parent company of leading herbs and spices brand Schwartz, is celebrating its 125th anniversary. The yearlong celebration kicks off with the launch of the 125th Anniversary Edition of the Flavour Forecast (a new, annual prediction of what 'flavours' will be most popular in the cooking world) and the Flavour of Together programme, with the goal of connecting people around the world as they share 1.25 million stories about the special role food and flavour plays in our lives through.
To inspire people to share their flavour stories and tell the blogger community about Flavour Forecast, McCormick challenged me and a few other lucky bloggers to come up with a new recipe that is based on the Flavour Forecast trends :
1. Chillies Obsession: Food lovers everywhere are seeking out their next big chilli thrill.
2. Modern Masala: Indian food is finally having its moment, breaking free of its traditional confines with modern interpretations.
3. Clever Compact Cooking: Proving that big flavours can come from small spaces, cooks in urban kitchens are making the most of what's available.
4. Mexican World Tour: Mexican flavours are making their way around the globe, with people everywhere discovering new aspects of this bright, casual cuisine.
5. Charmed by Brazil: The world's attraction to Brazilian cuisine is heating up, thanks to its seductive mix of global and native influences.
I decide to take up Modern Masala as a flavour trend. Coming from India , using a complex mix of spices as part of our daily diet has always been a part of my life. The beautiful large open fruit n vegetable markets even in major cities are a visual treat and there is a lot of passion involved in say getting the right type of chilli powder. So I think my recipe is an amalgamation of these two big flavour trends together – Chillies Obsession and Modern Masala and of course because I manage all my culinary experiments in my tiny urban kitchen which is the size of a postage stamp I am sure my recipe also covers the theme Clever Compact Cooking!
My most vivid memory of spices being sold loose is of this huge wholesale and retail market in an area called Parel , Mumbai in India.There are many tiny shops and vendors which hand carts with huge piles of spices , bright red chillies in jute sacks and mini yellow mountains of turmeric and ever imaginable spice being sold in the open.Of course with our modern industries being so well developed we always used masalas out of a packet but the sheer variety available locally in any small town in India is mind boggling.
In London I trudge to my local Indian shop and bulk buy the packets and secretly wish I could get an unlimited supply of aai's home made garam masala and red chilli powder where she carefully selects 2 types of chillies with varying degrees of heat and roasts them in a kadhai after they have been dried in the blistering hot afternoon sun! Then she takes it to a local mill where it is ground and packed into a large ceramic jar and then stored at home.
I have made a simplified version of Tibbs Frankie using boneless mutton and a variety of Schwartz spices which were sent to me.You could safely say that this fella "Frankie" is a distant cousin of the Fajita and the Kathi Roll.How this Frankie came into being is also a very interesting story which I shall share in a few lines here.
"The year 1967 Mr. Amarjit Tibb on returning back from England had a stopover in Beirut. During his brief stop there he stumbled upon a very ingenious Lebanese preparation, which was a pita bread wrap, with a variety of stuffing's, this fascinated him. Upon his return the idea still lingered on and he kept innovating it to suit the Indian palate, after a year of research along with his wife they hit upon the perfect concoction. This Indianised wrap was soon tried among friends and family and after testing brilliantly it hit the markets. That was a new era to the term fast food in Mumbai, it caught on like fire in the Jungle, people accepted it and kept asking for more.Now came the problem of naming the product, again a number of brainstorming became the order of the day till a unanimous decision on the name was taken i.e. Frankie"
This explosion of flavours in a handy easy to eat roll which was given a modern food truck makeover is a gastronomic delight and is available in a large variety of stuffings both veg and non-veg.I have rather fond memories of my college days and spending my pocket money which was always in short supply on these spicy, tasty rolls with a bunch of friends giggling away and then gathering any loose change we had left amongst us to buy a bottle or two of some fizzy cola to quench our thirst. Alert : have been suddenly been hit by a huge wave of nostalgia 🙂
I have created what is my version of a tawa chicken roll (tawa meaning pan in Hindi), the original Tibbs frankie filling is a tangy spicy taste which they attribute to a secret "Frankie Masala" – humm , well I think I got pretty close 😉 – evil laugh follows 🙂 You can go crazy and creative with the fillings and use this recipe idea to use up meat from your sunday roast, try various different veg and non veg patties with meat and masalas rolled into boiled potato casing and shallow fried. Great way to use a lot of colorful veggies and create a stir fry filling too – the possibilities are endless.
Image Courtesy :Hindustan Times
Serves: 2 (with 2 rolls each and leftover filling)
Preparation Time for roll:5 mins
Preparation & Cooking Time for the "TAWA Chicken filling":30 mins
Preparation & Cooking Time for the chutney:10 mins
Ingredients – "Tawa Chicken" Filling:
- 500 gms chicken breast
- Schwartz Asafoetida – a tiny pinch
- 2 heaped tsp Schwartz garam masala
- Schwartz Onion salt as per taste
- 1/2 tsp Schwartz Garlic Minced
- 2 heaped tsp Schwartz Coriander Ground
- 1 heaped tsp Schwartz Cumin Ground
- Schwartz Red Chilli powder as per taste
- Ginger fresh – about the size of your thumb
- 2 medium sized red onions finely chopped
- 1 tsp Turmeric
- 2 large juicy tomatoes chopped very fine
- 1 large green chilli split lengthwise
- 1 red pepper slit lengthwise
- 3 large tablespoons of cooking oil
Ingredients – for the Mint and Coriander Chutney:
- 1 large bunch of fresh coriander
- 1 small bunch of fresh mint leaves
- 2 green chillies
- juice of half a lime
- salt to taste
Ingredients – for filling :
- 1 large red onion chopped lengthwise
Ingredients – for the paratha coating:
- 2 small sized eggs
- salt for seasoning
Method for the Chicken Filling:
- Heat a saucepan on medium heat and add the oil, when it is hot add the asafoetida, split green chilli and crushed bit if fresh ginger ,saute' and add the garlic granules, when the garlic begins to give out a strong fried aroma its time to add the finely chopped red onion.
- Cook the onion till it reduces and turns a delicious brown, then add the coriander and cumin powder and garam masala and mix well.
- Then add the finely chopped tomato and add very little water and cook for 1 -2 minutes without lid , stirring frequently, so as to ensure the mixture does not stick to the saucepan. Now the spices have been thoroughly cooked along with the onion and tomato to make a thick gravy.
- Now add the washed and cleaned chicken breasts after cutting them into long lengthwise strips , toss in the red pepper cut into lengthwise strips
- Cook on a low flame with lid
- Add onion salt to the mixture, red chilli powder and turmeric
Method for the Mint and Coriander Chutney:
- Wash the coriander and mint leaves and spritz them in a food processor with the green chilli chopped – to reduce the heat use 1 chilli de-seeded.Add the salt and lime juice and spritz once again.
- A smooth thick green paste is the consistency we are after – add some water to adjust the consistency.
- This chutney stores for upto 10 days in the freezer in a clean ,air tight jar – rarely lasts that much in my house though – love making Bombay sandwich for dinner ummm.
Method for coating the Paratha :
- Crack the eggs in a bowl and beat with a fork ,add salt to taste
- Using a plastic brush spread on the surface of a frozen ready to eat paratha and place the eggy side down on a hot pan coated with some cooking oil.(Paratha – ready to eat Indian bread readily available in the World Food Frozen section)
How to put the Frankie Roll together:
- Once the paratha coated with egg has been cooked on both sides on a pan slather it with the mint and coriander chutney and add some red onion chopped lengthwise.
- Add a generous helping of the chicken filling , roll and wrap one end with some kitchen foil or baking paper .Enjoy hot.
- Dip into the chutney or tomato ketchup as you munch along.
After I received the samples and wrote up my flavour story, my left hand was operated on (unexpected rescheduling) – a minor but rather errrmmm painful surgery and I walk around most of the time with a sling (promptly remove it as soon as OH leaves home for work hehe) So I had a bit of a panic attack about getting this post up on time,I know I missed the deadline by a few days 🙁
But am really grateful to the kind folks up at McCormick for bearing with me.Also I would like to thank OH for patiently chopping and cutting all the fresh ingredients for me and helping me to click these lovely photographs – what would I do without you? Sighh…
After I received the samples and wrote up my flavour story, my left hand was operated on (unexpected rescheduling) – a minor but rather errrmmm painful surgery and I walk around most of the time with a sling (promptly remove it as soon as OH leaves home for work hehe) So I had a bit of a panic attack about getting this post up on time and I missed the deadline 🙁 But am really grateful to the kind folks up at McCormick for bearing with me.Also I would like to thank OH for patiently chopping and cutting all the fresh ingredients for me and helping me to click these lovely photographs – what would I do without you? Sighh…
The company has pledged to donate $1 to United Way Worldwide and it's UK partner Focus on Food, for every story shared on the Schwartz website, Facebook page or other social channels.
Disclaimer: I was sent samples of Schwartz by McCormick to create a dish and write a review and was also sent a generous voucher to compensate me for the ingredients.I was not required to write a positive review and was not compensated monetarily for this post.Like all my previous posts about events and reviews, ALL opinions expressed here are entirely my own.


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Not My Job: Nick Lowe Gets Quizzed On Peace, Love And Understanding
Not My Job: Nick Lowe Gets Quizzed On Peace, Love And Understanding
Nick Lowe was one of the founders of the Great British rock explosion of the 1970s, writing songs like "Cruel to Be Kind and "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace Love and Understanding." He's just released a new album of Christmas songs called Quality Street — A Seasonal Selection For All The Family.
Since Lowe's lyrics would lead us to believe there isn't anything funny about peace, love or understanding, we'll quiz him on three hilarious instances of human kindness.
Click here to listen to songs Lowe performed live at the Wait Wait taping.
And now the game where we reward a lifetime of being cool with 10 minutes of being lame.
SAGAL: Nick Lowe was one of the founders of the Great British rock explosion of the 1970s, writing songs like "Cruel to Be Kind" and "What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding." He's got a new CD out, an album of new Christmas songs. It's about time; were all getting pretty sick of "Jingle Bells." Nick Lowe, welcome to WAIT WAIT...DON'T TELL ME!
NICK LOWE: Thank you. Thank you very much.
SAGAL: So it is awesome for me to meet you because you were behind all my favorite music when I was growing up, your own songs, the songs you produced for Elvis Costello, Grant Parker and all those other great bands. Did you guys have any sense right there that you were doing anything new, That you were trying to change things?
LOWE: In a way we did, yes, because when that all started, the music business had got very, very staid, you know. And so we thought we'd do something else. And one of those things was to cause a bit of mischief, really, and kind of tear the playhouse down.
SAGAL: Well, what happened?
LOWE: Well, we had a lot of fun. I can't remember too much about it, frankly.
SAGAL: That's the surest sign that it happened, I'm told. Now you've written so many songs that have been very well covered by all kinds of interesting people, Elvis Costello and Tom Petty and Johnny Cash, who was your father-in-law.
LOWE: Yeah.
SAGAL: That must have been an interesting experience, being Johnny Cash's son-in-law.
LOWE: Yes, it was fantastic.
SAGAL: Really?
LOWE: Yeah.
SAGAL: Were you intimidated when you met his daughter, and you fell in love and she's like I'm going to take you home to meet my stepfather, it's Johnny Cash? Don't wear black because that's his thing.
SAGAL: Were you a little intimidated, or was it a time of your life, to hell with it?
LOWE: I was very intimidated, yeah, yeah, but a lovely guy. He and June came to stay with us in our house in London, and John and June turn up, you know, in three taxis, you know, one with them in and two with their luggage. And June dressed head to foot in mink, you know, covered in diamonds, walking down the street, but everyone loved them. I could go on, but...
SAGAL: I wouldn't mind. But let me ask you about your Christmas album. This is the first time you've done a Christmas album.
LOWE: Yeah.
SAGAL: And what bestirred you to do that?
LOWE: I was approached by my record company, and they asked me if I fancied trying to do one. And at the time I could think of nothing I fancied less.
SAGAL: Would you at this point like to do a song from...?
LOWE: I'd be very happy to do one, yes.
SAGAL: We'd be very pleased to hear it. Ladies and gentlemen, Nick Lowe.
LOWE: (Singing) Outside the taxi window on the way to catch my flight, I noticed snowflakes playing in the ever-failing light. When he dropped me at departures, it was really coming down. Deep and crisp and even, it settled on the ground. It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport. All the planes are grounded, and the fog is rolling in. It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport this year. Now the doors are locked and bolted. Let the festivities begin.
(Singing) The terminal was seething without much Christmas cheer. So I found an empty closet, and I settled down in there. When I awoke much later, I was quite alone. Check-in was deserted; everyone had gone. It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport. I took a set of X-rays; they came out pretty well. It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport this year. Now I'm doing Santa's sleigh ride on the baggage carousel.
(Singing) It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport. I should be at the table with all my kith and kin. It looks like Christmas, Christmas at the airport this year. Don't save me any turkey; I found a burger in a bin.
SAGAL: Well, Nick Lowe, it is a pleasure to have you hear and listen to you talk and sing, but we have asked you here to play a game we're calling...
CARL KASELL: I'll tell you what's so funny about peace, love and understanding.
SAGAL: Apparently, based on your song, you don't think peace, love and understanding can be very funny. We disagree. We're going to ask you three questions about hilarious tales of good feeling among mankind. If you get two right, you'll win our prize for one of our listeners, Carl's voice on their home answering machine. Carl, who is Nick Lowe playing for?
KASELL: Nick is playing for Elyssa Herzfeld of Chicago.
SAGAL: All right first question is about peace, obviously. There was a great attempt at peacemaking that happened just recently when a leader of the NAACP sat down to talk to a leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Wyoming. The NAACP official asked the Klansman why he wanted to be in the Klan anyway. How did the Klan guy explain it? Did he say A, quote, I have a really pointy head, and this is the only hat that fits; B, quote, it's the only way I can wear my lingerie in public and get away with it; C, quote, I like it because you wear robes, and they have secret handshakes.
LOWE: The last one sort of sounds possible. I think he probably said because I've got a pointy head.
SAGAL: Really? And the cone-like hood...
LOWE: Wait a minute, that would be too funny for a guy like that to say, wouldn't it? No, I think it's the last one.
SAGAL: You think it's the last one? You're frighteningly adept at reading the minds of Klan members because you're right.
SAGAL: That's what he said. All right, that's very good. Next question is about love, of course. People like to come up with elaborate schemes to propose to their girlfriends sometimes. One British man named Lefkos Hajii saw his plan go terribly wrong when what happened? A, the lion he had hired to bring the ring up its teeth then tried to eat his girlfriend; B, the enormous helium balloon he had hidden the ring in, so he could pop the question, floated away with the ring; C, he planned a romantic rowboat ride in the middle of a sewage containment pond.
LOWE: I think it's the lion.
SAGAL: You think it's the lion? No.
SAGAL: I wish it were because I'd like to be the man who says you know what would be really romantic. It was actually the enormous balloon. He hid the ring, this $12,000 ring, inside a balloon, and he was going to pop it, it was going to fall out. But of course he let go of it, and it was last seen floating away over London.
SAGAL: All right, this is exciting because if you get this last one right, you will win it all. And of course we've done peace, we've done love, now it's understanding. When the first British ship, commanded by Captain Cook, approached the coast of Australia in 1770, natives, called by the British, Aborigines, ran out to the water and yelled a welcome, they yelled warra warra.
So the question is: What does Warra Warra mean? Does it mean A, bum a smoke, bum a smoke; B, pasty faced white guys, pasty faced white guys; or C, go away, go away.
LOWE: Go away.
SAGAL: That's exactly right.
SAGAL: The British sailors with Captain Cook had been warmly welcomed by the natives all over Polynesia. So they assumed they were being welcomed again. They were not. The Aborigines were wise to try to get rid of them. It didn't work. Carl, how did Nick Lowe do on our quiz?
KASELL: Two correct answers, Peter, so he wins for Elyssa Herzfeld.
SAGAL: Well done.
LOWE: Great, fantastic.
SAGAL: Nick Lowe's new album "Quality Street: A Season Selection For All The Family" is out now. Now Nick, before you go I'm told we have time for one more song.
LOWE: Yeah, with pleasure, yes.
SAGAL: Would you do so? I would be thrilled.
LOWE: (Singing) As I walk this wicked world searching for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself is all hope lost? Is there only pain and hatred, and misery? And each time I feel like this inside, there's one thing I want to know: What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?
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In any sales job you must have a good prospecting model. Commercial real estate sales and leasing is no different. The prospecting model in the commercial real estate industry is however quite special to the type of property you work around and the clients that you deal with. The database that you create has to capture property investment detail such as area, property type, price range, rent levels, special property needs, and location detail. The database you use should be versatile enough to do that.
It's worth expanding on this prospecting point so that you can construct the prospecting model that works for you. You have to have leads and lots of them to make money in commercial real estate. It's not really the office that you work for that actually matters, although it will have some minor impact. The real results that you get in the industry come from one activity that you and only you control; it's called prospecting.
Those people that start up in the industry do not really 'get it' for some time. They think that business 'walks in the door' of the office. Only a small amount of business will come to you in that way. In fact the more you sit in the office, the less successful you will be. I tell many new people to the industry to spend no more than 2 hours a day in the office, and the rest of your time in your market.
So what should you do 'in your market' each day? Here are a few main activities that are obligatory.
- Get a map of the streets that contain the property listings that you are interested in. Check out the good properties in the street and note them on the map. Any properties of note should be tracked down as to who owns them.
- Walk the streets each day, entering the businesses and asking to speak to the business owner or General Manager. Leave your business card if the right person is not available. Do at least 10 businesses per day. What you are looking to do here is introduce yourself but more particularly find out if the business is a tenant or an owner of the property. This is invaluable market intelligence.
- The golden rule of prospecting contact in commercial real estate is for you to make direct contact with the people that are qualified prospects at least every 90 days. This cycle does not stop. You should be doing at least 5 of those every day over a 90 day period. When you do your numbers this indicates that you should be working at least 300 qualified prospects.
- Suspects are the other people you contact and they are approached simply to see if they should become prospects in your group of 300.
- Send at least 5 letters a day to people that you know own the best properties in your area. Always follow up these letters with a telephone call.
- When you have made a sale or a lease in an area, make contact with the nearby owners with a letter telling them of the success. Always follow up those letters with a telephone call.
- Meet the tenants or occupiers of any neighboring properties that are adjacent to things that you have listed for sale or for lease.
- When a sign board goes up on a property through another agency, make sure you personally canvass the other properties adjacent and near to those listings. Most property owners would rather compete through another real estate agent should they want to also list their property for sale or for lease.
- Look for vacant property, as this is always a reason to contact the owner to see if they want to sell or lease the property. A vacancy is usually a landlord 'pain' factor that requires relief.
- Check out the local planning authority each month to see if any new developments or rezoning applications are going through. The local planning authority is most likely located at the local council and they usually have minutes that are available for public scrutiny.
- Work the investment cycle of buy, lease, and sell in your area. Property investors will usually buy a property, hold it for 5 years (on average), lease it during that period, and then position themselves for another purchase or sale. This then says that you can work out the best listing opportunities from the lists of properties in your area that were purchased about 4 to 5 years ago.
- Create a great database from your enquiries for other properties. A carefully constructed and executed property sale or leasing campaign will always leave you with many leads for other property opportunities. One good property marketing campaign will leave you with well qualified contacts that you can shape up for future opportunity.
- Make lots of calls each day. The telephone has to be your friend so get used to using it. Sure you will make lots of calls to suspects and most of them will say 'no' to your offering. The best way to make lots of calls in commercial real estate is simply to use the 'Yellow Pages' of businesses in your area. A carefully crafted telephone conversation will identify whether the business is a tenant, a property owner, or a property buyer. All of these categories offer opportunity.
- Monitor the 'time on market' of other agents listings. Not only will these be a source of listings later for you, but the 'time on market' will give you an idea of what is selling or leasing and what is not. Avoid overpriced listings at all costs unless you believe the property owner will bring their price down.
- Check out all 'for sale by owner' listings. They may not sell or could be a later source of listing for you when the property owner has given up trying to do the job themselves.
- Business owners will tell you a lot about the area and the neighboring properties. You just need to ask the questions. Taking to business owners every day will help you build your resources for listing opportunity.
- Strengthen relationships through constant 90 day contact with all your prospects. Create lots of qualified prospects through sifting through lists and direct telephone calls to suspects.
You may look at the list and say that it is obvious; surprisingly most commercial real estate people do very little of what is on the list. Why is that? They simply lack the personal focus and do not follow through each and every day. If you follow the rules in commercial real estate, you will become very successful. Commissions will flow toward you and you will be the agent of choice.


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STOCKTON - In a landslide victory, 51-year-old Democrat Susan Eggman was elected Tuesday to represent the newly drawn 13th District in the California Assembly.
STOCKTON - In a landslide victory, 51-year-old Democrat Susan Eggman was elected Tuesday to represent the newly drawn 13th District in the California Assembly.
Her election represents a number of significant developments. "I'm the first gay and the first Latina to be elected from a district that has a high percentage of Latino voters," Eggman said. "And, with my military background, all the old-school vets are at my party."
Eggman, twice elected to the Stockton City Council, defeated Republican K. Jeffrey Jafri. She had 62.2 percent of the vote at 10:30 p.m. with 30 percent of the precincts reporting. Jafri had 37.8 percent of the vote.
"It feels good and very affirming," Eggman said, "to have the people of Stockton and the 13th Assembly District believe in me and my leadership. It is humbling and exciting.
"This is a part of California that is often overlooked, and I hope to bring an end to that."
Christian Burkin, her campaign manager, pointed to the bipartisan nature of Eggman's victory as a "transformation of the political landscape of San Joaquin County."
He credited her "industry, tenacity and intelligence" for the strong showing.
The 13th Assembly District, drawn last year by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission, incorporates all of Stockton and Tracy and most of western San Joaquin County.
Republican Greg Aghazarian was the last Stockton resident to serve in the state Legislature. He was a member of the Assembly from 2002 to 2008.
Jafri, 68, is a Stockton resident and a retired electrical engineer who worked at the Delta pumping plant for the California Water Resources Board. He also owns a 180-acre almond farm.
"I congratulate her. Susan ran a really nice campaign. Neither of us used negative fliers. It was one of the cleanest campaigns, and I'm glad for that," Jafri said. "Now I'd like to work with her to achieve some of the things we talked about, some of the very positive things."
Eggman, an associate professor of social work at California State University, Sacramento, until this fall, said she used her campaigns for the council as a model for the Assembly run.
"It's about getting out, meeting people and staying positive," Eggman said. "I try to stay interested in what people want, meet people where they are. I've tried to serve in same manner, and I think that resonates with people."
Eggman's seat on the City Council will be filled after the first of the year by appointment.
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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America Last: The Real Meaning of the Donaldĺs Deplorable Aggression Against Iran
At the end of the day, the whole misbegotten notion that oil security in the Persian Gulf requires the presence of the 5th Fleet is a left over canard from the Cold War, which ended 29 years ago. The 1970s theory of Kissinger and his team of hegemonists was that the dying Soviet Union was on the verge of pushing into the Persian Gulf from the north.
Needless to say, it never had the military capacity or economic resources to accomplish that feat, and the now open Soviet archives show that there wasnĺt even a paper plan to do so.
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Home-based Exercise for Management of HIV-associated Cardiovascular Disease Risk
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01377064
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : June 20, 2011
Last Update Posted : December 12, 2013
- Study Details
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|Condition or disease
|Cardiovascular Diseases Hyperlipidemia Obesity
|Behavioral: Physical Activity Group Other: Standard Care Group
|Phase 1
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|60 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Home-based Exercise for Management of HIV-associated Cardiovascular Disease
|Study Start Date :
|March 2011
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2013
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|July 2013
Experimental: Physical activity group
Subjects will participant in physical activity program
Behavioral: Physical Activity Group
9 months of home based physical activity meeting HHS recommendations for physical activity for all americans
Active Comparator: Standard care group
This group will not receive a physical activity intervention
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FJ: Can anyone tell what the hell this article is SAYING?
Kate: No, no I cannot. I think maybe it's that fatphobia doesn't exist because capitalism does.
FJ: I'm getting something like… standardized sizes don't fit anyone, so they don't fit plus sizes, so you should stop selling plus sizes.
Sarah: My most charitable read is that she's distinguishing the average weight from the mean weight. Her argument, as I see it, is that it's in the economic interests of the clothing companies to make clothes near the mean (rather than the average simply because that's how they can maximize the number of people who can wear their clothes while minimizing what they spend on developing different sizes.
IOW, even though the "average" size may be a 14, that doesn't mean that's the single size (or range of a few sizes) that the greatest number of women can wear. There's a big range of sizes above a 14, obviously — and those all affect the average size, but that doesn't mean that any *one* (or two or three) of those plus sizes is common enough to pull in lots and lots of customers, at least to a brick-and-mortar store. So the sizes promising the greatest numbers of customers wouldn't be the *average* size (or range of sizes), but the *mean* size, which (she claims) brick-and-mortar stores already do try and cater to.
As I say, that's my most charitable presentation of her case. I have no idea if it's true. I also think that her main thesis – i.e. that not carrying sizes over size 14 isn't sizeist, just good business – is hogwash. Indeed, though she doesn't say so, her own analysis kind of calls attention to the reason why it's horseshit. If having an "uncommon body" (her words) means you shouldn't expect to be accounted for by apparel companies, then whence the proliferation of size 0 models, mannequins, and readily-available clothing? Oh, uh, well, you know, we meant "uncommonly BAD, i.e. FAT" not "uncommonly BEAUTIFUL, i.e. extremely thin. Because we're happy to have THEIR business." Sort of like Paul Campos' point that finding Keira Knightley attractive isn't seen as this odd, weird fetish… whereas finding someone 350-plus pounds attractive is. Even though both kinds of bodies are equally "uncommon," statistically. So even if her math is correct, her presentation of it is still really othering.
Also, this isn't the first time this point has come up about plus size women not spending as much on clothing in the recession. What's going on there? I'm intrigued and pre-emptively pissed off.
FJ: OK, Sarah can write about it.
A Sarah, as it happens, is working up something else, but luckily the good folks at Jezebel (which I used to turn my nose up at — why?? I still skip all the celeb stuff but they do meaty topics with aplomb) have offered an insider's take on the "it's more cost-effective to clothe size 8s even though the average woman is a 14 because the majority of people are not average" argument.
Tatiana the Anonymous Model's article makes really good use of the analogy between plus and petite clothing, but in my book the last graf is the real money, and the nut of my initial reaction to the Postrel article. She writes: "Moreover, the excuse about cost boils down to complaining that making clothes that fit most women is really hard — and that doesn't sound quite right coming from companies who are in the business of clothing women." Word up — how lazy is it to say "oh, fat women's bodies have all these idiosyncrasies, we're just going to throw in the towel"? I'll buy, I suppose, that the average size 8 woman is shaped a little more like a size 8 fit model than the average size 20 woman is shaped like a size 20 fit model. That claim erases a lot of women's bodies if you cleave to it too strongly, but I could be convinced, at least temporarily for argument's sake, that there's less range among most thinner women in a particular size. (Of course, most non-fit-model-shaped fat women I know deal with this by buying one size in tops and another in bottoms, but moving on.) If I believed that clothing manufacturers responded to body variation by actually trying to accommodate various bodies, I'd buy that this puts a bigger burden on them — and even though they don't, I can see why they might find it more cost-effective to simply stop making the sizes that tend to fit more women less well, and keep making the ones that fit fewer women better. Maybe.
But I'd still find it fucking reprehensible. This is your excuse? That fat women are hard to fit? I watch Project Runway; I'm not surprised that fashion designers would grouse about the fact that there are supposed to be women under those clothes. Making clothes wearable for women who don't look like models is so harrrrrrrrrrd! But using that as the basis of a claim that the fashion industry isn't fatphobic is just a bit absurd. If you deliberately ignore a huge portion of your potential clientele allegedly because working with them potentially makes your job a little tricky, you're pretty much either a bigot or a lazy ass. If clothing manufacturers aren't fatphobic, they're even bigger slackers than we are at this blog (and they're getting paid).


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- [Jay confronts a drunk Bradin.]
- Jay: You should be careful of man eating lawn chairs. They have a nasty habit of jumping out at you. Especially when you can't walk a straight line.
- Ian Straub: You might want to count to 10 before leaving Ian Straub.
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- Susannah: And the fact that that happens to be true is something she is much too young to know.
Into My Life[edit]
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- Sarah: I can't believe you find it so inconcievable that we are celebrating our three year anniversary.
- Bradin: And have a baby to rush home too? C'mon...
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- Susannah: [to Ava] Okay. When your dad says don't see that boy who's the first boy you wanna see?
- Johnny: I think that would've been me.
- Ava, Susannah: Yeah.
- Nikki: I don't have to get naked, do I?
- Ava: For a facial...no.
Skipping School[edit]
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- Ava: Ahh! You scared me!
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Kicking and Screaming[edit]
- Cameron: You don't have to do this, if you don't want to
- Nikki: Who says I don't want to?
- Cameron: [to Patrick] Hey, easy there, slick.
- Cameron: You called me a jellyfish.
- Nikki: I guess you didn't hear what I said next. I said that you were the best jellyfish in the entire ocean.
- Cameron: Is that supposed to be a complement?
- Amber: (to Nikki) What you would want me to say. That you and Cameron are really tight and you didn't want to diss him in front of that creep Patrick.
- Susannah: I got offered a job today. A real job.
- Johnny: As apposed to your fake job with Ava?
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- Bradin: Amber, interesting. The girl you almost killed at the beach party?
- Nikki: The very same. Ironic, huh?
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- Cameron: Well, maybe that girl.
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- Cameron: We're just, we just keep going round and round here.
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- Nikki: Oh, it's ugly, and I don't want it that way. I mean, if Cameron likes Jordan, then I guess he doesn't like me anymore.
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I Am the Walrus[edit]
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- Derrick: So you adults can talk.
- Susannah: May we be excused?
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- Ava: Yesterday, I found his lufa in the tub!
- Susanna: Great, now I have to spend the rest of my life thinking about Simon with a lufa.
- Colby: I suspected he exfoliated.
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- Callie: NO!
- Bradin: This was an accident. It's no big deal.
- Callie: That's the problem, it's never a big deal to you but it's a big deal to me.
- Bradin: [yelling at the top of his lungs] Callie, you make everything a big deal.
- Callie: Well thanks for understanding Bradin.
- Bradin: Look I know things have gotten complicated.
- Callie: You got that right.
- Bradin: But ever since you told me how you feel I've been trying to do everything you want.
- Callie: That was humiliating.
- Bradin: I'm sorry. I didn't ask for my aunt to walk in on us.
- Callie: Imagine what she thinks of me.
- Bradin: She thinks you're great. This doesn't change anything.
- Callie: I wish I could believe that.
Where There's a Will, There's a Wave[edit]
Leaving Playa Linda[edit]
- Susannah: Hey Bradin, let me show you something really cool in another part of the house that's still within earshot!
- Ava: I do not know if I can compete with ice cream and Oreos but here goes. If Cameron says it's not about you, maybe it isn't.
- Nikki: Maybe but he isn't talking.
- Ava: He's a guy. They often take the emotionally inarticulate route.
The Space Between Us[edit]
Safe House[edit]
- Susannah: [to Nikki and Cameron] Well, don't do anything I wouldn't do.
- '[[Ava hits Susannah.]
- Ava: Go ahead, enjoy yourselves.
- Susannah: What did I say?
- Ava: Do you have to shine a light on their raging hormones?
Careful What You Wish For[edit]
What's Past Is Prologue[edit]
Ava: I love you, I am totally and completely in love with you
Johnny: Ava, if this is about me moving out -
Ava: Johnny, you could move out and move back in ten thousand times and would not change the way that I feel. Anything can happen, I mean if any two people know that its us. I just, I don't want to keep going round and round, and I don't wanna fight with you anymore.
Johnny: I love you too. And I'm sorry I haven't been able to say it, it's just with everything that's happened I've been cautious...
Ava: I know.
External links[edit]
- Summerland quotes at the Internet Movie Database


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NEW ORLEANS — The eureka moment hit Robert Wilson, recently retired from the Army, as he and his girlfriend Stephanie Ferrand left the Gretna Heritage Festival in September. The Saints had just lost their fourth consecutive game to start the season, falling 28-27 to the Packers, and a team once thought capable of becoming the first to play in a Super Bowl in its home stadium was essentially dead, dead, dead.
Its head coach, Sean Payton, was in exile, courtesy of an unprecedented one-year suspension imposed by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell in the wake of the Bountygate scandal.
On the way to his car, Wilson saw a local vendor selling voodoo dolls out of a booth.
"Somebody should make one of those of Roger Goodell," Wilson remarked offhandedly to his girlfriend.
"Why don't you do it?" she shot back.
The rest is Singer sewing machine history. In the past several months, Wilson's 10-inch voodoo dolls with a likeness of Goodell and five handy stick pins — each with a fleur-de-lis and bearing the name of a Saints coach, executive or player caught up in Bountygate — have been selling faster than snow cones in August.
Wilson figures the project he started as a lark to provide Christmas stocking stuffers for frustrated family and friends has been transformed into a going concern, with sales approaching 3,000 at $15.99 apiece — each one handmade and crafted with Who Dat love.
His needlework business has exploded. Wilson is providing nearly 600 of the dolls — a smaller 6-inch version — to one group of Mardi Gras float riders in the satiric Krewe of Muses, which will parade four days after the Super Bowl.
"I don't go to bed," Wilson said with a laugh. "I was going to school, but I took the semester off to make dolls, if you can believe it. My girlfriend and I work on the dolls together nonstop, but she's got a full-time job. I don't go to bed before 4 a.m. My mom gave me some sewing tips. This is basically every mother's dream come true. Her son comes to her and says, 'Mommy, help me make dolls.' "
Wilson plunked down $100 for a new sewing machine, hoping he might be able to get his money back. He will. For Christmas, while his siblings got gift cards to local restaurants from his mother, he got one for Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Store.
"We can't make enough to meet the demand," Wilson said. "It's just fun."
On a purely intellectual basis, Wilson said he can understand why Goodell did what he did. Banishing Payton for a year — the coach was reinstated yesterday — and suspending other coaches and players for extended periods would lay the groundwork in future concussion lawsuits that the NFL was serious about protecting players from brain injury. So Goodell threw the Saints under the Mercedes-Benz Superdome a la Jimmy Hoffa, who may be buried in cement shoulder pads under the old Giants Stadium.
"The real reason is blatantly obvious," Wilson said. "It was to get out ahead of the concussion lawsuits. There's a lot of traumatic brain injury, and, believe me, that's very important to me being a soldier. Many of those veterans are experiencing the same thing.
"But I also know it was just very easy to make an example of a small market. This wouldn't have happened in New England. My take on this is that the main reason Sean Payton is so successful — and the Saints follow his lead — is his hubris and his arrogance. That's what makes him a successful coach. But he thumbed his nose at the league."
Wilson said he hopes the voodoo dolls will allow Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Who Dat to channel their frustration in a fun way, and he stressed he does not wish any ill will toward Goodell when he arrives in New Orleans for Super Bowl XLVII between the 49ers and Ravens.
"The NFL is not really known for its sense of humor," Wilson said. "But this is something we view as innocent and as a way to blow off steam. I don't want anybody spitting in his food or cursing or yelling at him and all that nonsense. We just thought this would be a nice outlet for people. It's been cathartic for us to make them."
Joy Lampard, a member of the Krewe of Muses, said the Goodell dolls may be one of the most cherished "throws" in Mardi Gras history. She said krewe members discovered Wilson's craft business while brainstorming for a theme at their regular "thirsty Thursday" gatherings.
"Goodell's name and voodoo dolls came up, and I said, 'Let's Google it. There's got to be somebody out there doing something,' " Lampard said. "Wine and cheese and an iPad and couple of crazy women who are diehard Saints fans — put them all together and you've got something."
Another diehard, David Bergeron, owner of The Creole Creamery on Prytania Street, has posted a picture of Goodell behind the ice cream counter of his shop with the following caption: "Do Not Serve This Man."
Would Bergeron really refuse service to the commissioner?
"If he would like to appeal my decision, I would be happy to review it after the Super Bowl," Bergeron said. "But understand this — I make the rules."


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All Fired Up About BBQs
June 19, 2014
By Sandra Coopersmith
Features Writer
What symbolizes summer more than kicking back in the yard on a sublimely sunny day, sipping a cool, refreshing drink while grilling something succulent on the barbeque? Mmmm . . .
To enjoy outdoor living to the max, check out Armand's Fireplace and Barbeque Equipment at 9400 Venice Blvd. at the southwest corner of Main St./Bagley Ave., a family-owned business and Culver City fixture in the same location for as long as anyone can remember, way back to when it was originally owned by Armand Kahan who dealt in home-related products of a different nature.
"It started as a vacuum and sewing machine shop, with sales, service and demonstrations," said Simone Steinberg. Her husband, Howard Steinberg, added that "my father bought Armand's in 1963 and ran the store as a sewing machine and vacuum cleaner store until 1979 when I bought it, 35 years ago." "Howard continued in the original vein with vacuums and sewing machines," Simone said, "but in 1981 he added barbeques to the mix."
"I love to smoke ribs," Howard said. "I think that is my favorite. A good dry rub, slow smoke them and finish off on the barbeque. So, I added barbeques because I like them!"
Simone elaborated that "he wanted one for himself and thought of sharing his love for barbeques with some of his customers by offering them for sale. They were an instant hit. The first three sold immediately, so he ordered and kept ordering."
It was an excellent business decision.
"Barbeques are fantastic for California living," Simone explained. "They are not as seasonal as in other parts of the country. We sell charcoal, natural gas and liquid propane models of barbeques and the accessories for all. The perfect complement to barbeques is fireplaces. Both are fire-related. We sell everything from the actual fireplace to everything that goes in one, gas logs or wood-burning accessories to the tools and all types of enclosures, freestanding or attached doors." Armand's is an authorized dealer for many major fireplace and barbeque manufacturers.
Although the business revolves around products that utilize fire, fire has not always been a friend to Armand's.
"In 1976 there was a Standard Oil gas leak which caused an explosion on Venice Blvd.," Howard recalled. "The store was closed for about one week. In December of 1988 there was an electrical fire in the store which caused a closure for about one month."
But on the whole, Armand's has flourished, even including outdoor refrigerators and patio heaters in its product line. When visiting the website, http://www.armandsdiscount.com, clicking on the Virtual Showroom link will expose the viewer to a veritable treasure trove of barbeque and fireplace equipment.
Although the website is quite comprehensive, Howard believes "visiting the showroom is the best way to touch and feel the products customers are interested in purchasing. Our knowledgeable staff can assist clients with helpful and useful information about the different products. Personal explanations are usually a plus for most customers. And at different times throughout the year we have manufacturers' demonstrations on the different products."
There will be an enticing display to behold this Saturday, May 24, when Armand's has its annual Memorial Day weekend sidewalk sale.
"Customers have told us they wait for this BIG sale," Simone said. "Being in business for so long we get a lot of repeat customers. People who have bought a barbeque over 10 years ago might come back on the day of the sale and remind us they bought their barbeque all those years ago and they were waiting to come back on that day. We have had as many as nine different companies fire up their grills on that day. In addition to this, we have been known to fire up our wood-burning pizza oven on a Saturday and toss around some yummy pizzas to serve to our customers and show off the pizza oven." And she has confirmed that pizza will definitely be on the agenda this Saturday.
Armand's carries a large array of products to satisfy one's outdoor living needs, with patio heaters gaining in popularity for residential use. "If the people are anything like me, always cold, everyone will buy one of these heaters for their backyard," Simone said.
As part of its "sell, install and service" business plan, Armand's will go to the homes of customers and assist with design and placement of anything related to the outdoor kitchen. It offers in-home measurement and design of custom fireplace needs as well as many standard fireplace door enclosures and fireplace accessories.
Licensed general contractors, architects and interior designers are encouraged to visit and bring their plans, and Armand's will assist with product advice for fireplace and barbeque installations.
"We do not have a mission statement per se," Simone said. "However, we strive to offer the best service and personal attention we can." And it definitely helps to do what you love, love what you do, and do it so well that you elicit comments such as those of Andy Viault, owner of H.A.S. Construction, Inc., a Culver City-based general contractor serving a wide range of clients both within and outside the area. He spoke highly of Armand's.
"We have more than 25 years of experience working with Howard and Armand's," Viault said. "We could go anywhere for fireplaces and gas grills but there is no one with better selection, more knowledge or better service in Los Angeles."


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A [well-padded] protester is apprehended by riot police during an anti-government rally supporting Ssangyong Motor workers near the automaker's main plant in Pyeongtaek, about 70 km (40 miles) south of Seoul July 29, 2009. Ssangyong Motor, maker of sport utility vehicles and 51 percent owned by Chinese automaker SAIC Motor Corp, secured protection under court receivership in February and has called for more than 1,000 workers to be laid off, triggering protests from the labour union. Thousands of protesters held the rally denouncing the police's plan to evict the unionists on Wendesday from the plant, which about 600 striking workers have been occupying for over two months. REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak. Image may be subject to copyright.