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Accepting Gay Youth with Straight Facts
Remember that old nursery rhyme your parents used to tell you: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Sadly, it's wrong. "That's so gay," "faggot," "dyke" and "No homo" are some of the most common derogatory expressions used in schools today, but the least addressed by teachers.
For lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, words have the power to shape their identities and possibilities for the future. Put simply: words can hurt or heal. But sometimes our silence speaks much louder than our words. It's time we stop the silence surrounding the daily expression of casual homophobia in our schools, families and communities.
Our institute at the University of Alberta is helping to break the long-held silence that surrounds sexual orientation and gender identity in our schools and communities. Through innovative projects such as NoHomophobes.com, Camp fYrefly and the Family Resilience Project, we are using the power of research to both educate people and inspire action for positive social change.
It's what's next in helping raise awareness and understanding of the struggles of sexual and gender minority youth among us, and empowering them to embrace their identities at school and home and in their communities. It's work that has the ability to not only change lives, but also save them.
Kristopher Wells
Associate Director
Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services
University of Alberta
116 Street and 85 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
The first question I have to ask is, what's going on at the University of Alberta? In my mind, at least, Alberta has one of the most redneck reputations of all the provinces in Canada. Yet its largest university has an Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services. (According to the website, the ISMSS opened in January 2008, replacing and subsuming a couple of other organizations.) Does every large university in the country have something similar to it, or is UALBERTA on the cutting edge?
The second question is, where is a similar declaration from the largest university in the province where I live–the University of British Columbia? Why did UALBERTA take the lead? Where does UBC stand on this issue? Why wasn't UBC the trendsetter?
Great job, UALBERTA and, specifically, the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services. You should be very proud of your stand on this important matter and for setting the example for all post-secondary institutions in Canada.
This is me standing and applauding you.
Postscript on Wednesday, March 20, 2013:
The very same one-page advertisement I referred to above also appeared in today's edition of The Vancouver Sun.


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Chile, Ginger, and Lemongrass Ice Cream
Simultaneously spicy, sweet and savory, the aptly-named "Cold Sweat" from The Ice Creamists is exactly what you'll be feeling after licking up a cone's worth.
Reprinted with permission by Matt O'Connor. Copyright © 2013. Published by Octopus Publishing. Available wherever books are sold. All rights reserved.
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- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 40 minutes
- Total time:overnight, for chilling
- Rated:
- 1 cup whole milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 2 egg yolks
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon superfine or granulated sugar
- pinch of sea salt
- 1 red chile, seeded and finely chopped
- thumb-size piece of fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely grated
- 1 stick of lemongrass, finely chopped
- chili oil, to serve
Pour the milk and cream into a large saucepan and heat gently, stirring occasionally, until the mixture begins to steam but not boil.
Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolks in a heatproof bowl until smooth. Add the sugar and whisk until pale and slightly fluffy. Gradually and slowly, pour the hot milk into the egg mixture while whisking continuously to prevent the eggs from scrambling. Return the mixture to the saucepan and place over low heat, stirring frequently, until the custard thinly coats the back of a wooden spoon. Do not let boil.
Add the chile, ginger, and lemongrass to the custard and blend until smooth. Strain twice through a strainer or cheesecloth to remove all fibers and seeds. Pour back into the bowl and set aside for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally, until cooled to room temperature. For more rapid chilling, fill a sink halfway with cold water and ice and place the bowl of mixture in it for 20 minutes. Never put the hot mixture into the refrigerator.
Once cooled, cover the mixture and refrigerate, ideally overnight, but at least for 6 hours, until thoroughly chilled (at least 40°F). Pour the chilled mixture into an ice cream machine and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions.
When the churning is completed, use a spoon or spatula to scrape the ice cream into a freezer-proof container with a lid. Freeze until it reaches the correct scooping texture (at least 2 hours). Serve in cones.
Drizzle each portion with chili oil before serving.
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David Yale needed a new print or packaging design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 7 freelance designers.
The Avery Clinic
The Avery Clinic is a small rural family medicine clinic that cares for a full spectrum of patients. We deliver babies, care for infants and children and also take care of adults and elderly patients. Our tagline is a medical home for all ages. It has been in business for over 30 years.
We are located in the mountains of NC and are minutes away from 3 ski resorts, wonderful hiking opportunities and the blue ridge parkway. There are great trout streams as well.
We are 2 hours away from Charlotte and 1 1/2 hours away from Asheville, NC.
Our offices are connected to a rural 25 bed critical access hospital. We do see our own patients in the hospital. We have an in house lab and full time phlebotomist. Our offices are also located above the Avery County YMCA which makes it easy to workout at lunch or after work.
Our main draw would be the close relationships we have with our patients, our providers often take care of 3 generations of a family at a time. I will often see a baby, there mother and there grandmother in a single office visit. We know our patients very well and one of the most important tenents of our office is CONTINUITY.
Family medicine residents just graduating from rural tract residencies or family medicine obstetric fellows who are graduating from a 1 year fellowship in obstetrics so they can perform cesarean sections.
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Ya know, when a good cosplay finally dawns, it dawns in fire! But there is one cosplay you should definitely check out. In our tongue, she is called Dovahkiin, our Cosplay of the Day!
OK, maybe we tried a little too hard (or maybe not enough), to cling to the Skyrim motif, but oh well. Here is the Dragonborn, our featured character, who stars as the player-made protagonist of The Elder Scroll 5: Skyrim. Since customizable characters fascinate us, we thought this one would be good to showcase, given the incredible number of looks every gamer's Dragonborn can don. This feared warrior has the power to absorb the souls of dragons and let out mighty Shouts that use the ancient dragon language. Should you be scared of such a being? Only if you steal the Dragonborn's sweet rolls.
Manzi has taken up the mantle of Dragonborn and wears the default armor that is usually seen in promotional materials. She may look like your everyday wandering adventurer, but once she takes off that helmet, Manzi reveals her beautiful face and gorgeous golden locks that hide underneath the metal. We can just picture the scene now: she slowly takes off the helmet in the middle of Whiterun and everyone stops to see her yellow tresses flowing back and forth, shimmering in the sun as she shakes her head like in a Vidal Sassoon commercial.
But she really wins us over in the picture below in which she's reading a copy of The Lusty Argonian Maid, complete with the proper facial expressions. Check out more of her work on her deviantART, which includes a lot of Gravity Falls cosplay! Let us know what you think of her!


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99Designers needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
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Boulder Creek Landscape & Design
A premium Landscaping company in the heart of one of the world's largest landscape markets - Toronto. Boulder Creek Landscape & Design offers full design and construction services specializing in quality stone work, custom stone & water features and complete landscape installation. We DO NOT offer any maintenance, garden or turf care.
We are an award winning landscape design/build firm.
Specific audience: high-end, discriminating clientele in the income bracket of $100,000/yr +. Target audience is FEMALE homeowners looking for high-style, quality lifestyle, "keeping up the jones".
Generally located in high-income inner city locations or premium rural/country lots.
Business focussed clients.
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"Boulder Creek" must be larger and more prominent than "Landscape & Design"
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Twenty-nine years to the month that dignitaries and fanfare celebrated the opening of Longmont's Twin Peaks Mall, the walls will come tumbling down.
Twin Peaks Mall demolition event
When: 3 to 5 p.m. Friday, Aug. 1
Where: Northwest corner of the property off Bent Way
Who: NewMark Merrill representatives, city officials, I Have a Dream Foundation representatives
More info: http://villageatthepeaks.com
NewMark Merrill Mountain States, owners of the mall, have announced that August 1 will be Day One of the mall's demolition. The 100-ton excavator and claw will have a target as it proceeds to tear into the building: a giant Gamma Acosta mural being painted on the former Sears building, on the northwest corner of the mall.
"We've got the old (Twin Peaks Mall) logo going up, so it's representative of the old mall going away," said Luke McFetridge, regional property manager for NewMark Merrill.
McFetridge said his connection with Acosta grew out of conversations he had been having with Joanne Kirves, executive director of Longmont Council for the Arts. He said the two have been talking about some ideas for how Village at the Peaks, the new center that NewMark Merrill is building on the mall property, might be able to support the local artists' community in Longmont.
"Kicking some ideas around with her, she referred some great local artists and one of those was Gamma," said McFetridge, who added that he was very impressed with Acosta's work.
And the artist is no stranger to working with large canvases: one of his works of a couple years ago, "Overflow," depicted what appeared to be giant gallons of paint dripping down the side of the Longmont Museum & Cultural Center.
But that's not the only painting Acosta is going to be doing on the building before it goes away.
"On the east side, he's going to basically get a blank palette," McFetridge said. "I think he's got a full team he's planning to bring in."
Acosta's work on the east side will be visible from Kline Drive, east of the mall's ring road and across from the theater, and also on the outside of the ring road near Taco Bell and Burger King on the south side.
Though the closing of the UA Twin Peaks 10 on Sunday marks the official end of activity at Twin Peaks Mall, demolition work already has begun on the interior.
First, representatives from Habitat for Humanity and Boulder's ReSource Yard were allowed to come in and take out some of the furnishings. Wednesday night, members of the public were invited to participate in Pacific Auction's sale, and Habitat and ReSource will be allowed to come in once more and pick over what's left, McFetridge said.
Whatever remains will be reused, as much as possible, he said. Because the contractors will install all new infrastructure underground, including electric, sewer and fiber optic lines, the site will be completely ripped up. Plans are to reuse the brick as filler for the parking lots, and the asphalt will also be ground up on-site.
"The theme is to recycle, reuse and repurpose as much of this existing building as possible," McFetridge said.
Late next week, after people who bought things at auction have had a chance to remove their items, the Longmont Police SWAT team and Longmont Fire Department will be back in the building doing more training. This time, the police and fire crews will have free rein to destroy pretty much whatever they want to, he said.
"They have my permission to blow stuff up," McFetridge said with a chuckle. "In a perfect world I would like them to drive a car through the front door, but I'm not sure they're going to be able to pull that off."
Not only is NewMark Merrill providing local first responders with training and employing local artists, it's also using the pending demolition to raise money for the I Have A Dream Foundation.
NewMark Merrill is auctioning off three special VIP seats to the demolition, with the winning bidders getting a guided helicopter tour of the project site with NewMark Merrill and city officials. In addition, one member of the community attending the demolition event will be chosen to take a turn operating the 100-ton excavator, as will the three VIP winners of the auction.
Construction of Village at the Peaks will begin later this year, following demolition. The majority of the center, which will be anchored by Whole Foods, Sam's Club and a new Regal theater, should be open by the holiday shopping season in 2015.
For more information on the project or to bid to become one of the VIPs at the demolition, visit villageatthepeaks.com.
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Saturday, January 24, 2009
Cinnamon Pecan Sticky Rolls
It's below zero again in Minnesota (that is below zero on the Fahrenheit scale for readers who don't live in the U.S.) I figured that the intrepid band of coffee-breakers who were willing to trudge over to our house this morning deserved something special for their trouble, so I made fresh-from-the-oven caramel rolls.
While I was considering how to make these rolls without getting up at 3:00 a.m., I remembered Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, which I haven't used for a while. I am going to go out on a limb here, and say that these rolls are probably worth the cost of the book. They will give you a (possibly undeserved) reputation as a baker. I heard, "Where did you get these rolls? You made them? That's amazing!" so often that my store of modesty was quite used up. Granted, these people have an interest in encouraging me to keep providing them with food, but this was genuine enthusiasm.
The 5-Minute-a-Day method requires you to make the dough ahead of time and keep it in the refrigerator until you want to use it. The authors, Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg, say you can keep most of the doughs in the refrigerator for up to 14 days. The brioche dough, which I wanted to use for the pecan rolls, could be kept for only five days, so I mixed it up Wednesday night, let it rise for a few hours, and stuck it back in the refrigerator. That part was easy.
You really can't make these rolls in five minutes, however. No step is really hard, but it is time consuming. I still had to get up a 6:30 (a.m.!) (on a Saturday!) to make sure these rolls were ready on time.
This is the dough as it's dumped out of its plastic container. It doesn't look that promising, does it?
But it rolls out nicely.
As I roll out the dough, I realize that I'm a sucker for any recipe that asks you to roll out the dough, strew good things on top of it, and roll it back up, jelly roll fashion, although I've never made a jelly roll. I don't think I've ever even seen a jelly roll in the flesh, but without it, how would we know what cookbook authors were talking about when they instruct, "jelly roll fashion." I guess if they didn't exist, someone would have to invent them.
In this case, the aforementioned good things are butter, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and pecans. Usually this kind of roll just has you sprinkle cinnamon and sugar over the dough, but in the 5-Minute method, you cream the sugar and spices with the butter. This makes it harder to spread, and there's already so much butter in this recipe that I'm not sure that more is needed, but I have to say that nobody complained that there was too much butter.
Now you roll it up, you know how.
You cut slices off the roll and put them in a pan that's already been prepared with butter and brown sugar, creamed together, and then covered with pecan halves. More pecans than would be on anything that you might buy.
At this point, I had to punt. The recipe uses 1 1/2 pounds from 4 pounds of brioche dough. But I cut the brioche recipe in half, and I decided I might as well just turn all the dough into rolls. This gave me two pounds of dough for a recipe based on 1 1/2 pounds, so I increased all the ingredients in the pecan roll recipe by about 25%. This process overtaxed my math skills, so I'm going to give you the proportions in the original recipe, not as I fiddled around with them. The recipe says to put the rolls in a round cake pan, so I used an bigger oblong pan, figuring it would be about right. I was left with a lot of leftover dough, so I had to quickly grab a smaller cake pan, cream so more butter and sugar for the caramel part, and cut smaller rolls. I didn't tell anyone that these were makeshift, inferior rolls.
Then they had to sit for about an hour. I was so happy that I'd read the recipe the night before and allowed for this period of resting time. Otherwise, I might have had to lock the front door and hide when people started to arrive. As it was, I pulled the big pan of rolls out of the oven seven minutes before Robert, our first guest, arrived.
They looked nice and brown and fluffy in the pan, but inverting something like this is always an iffy proposition. There was so much butter that they could hardly stick. The worst that happened is that some buttery caramel sauce puddled out on the counter before I could completely get the rolls out of the pan.
Joe, our neighbor from across the street, told me they were the best sticky rolls he'd ever had, and he's had many. (Joe's wife Lela is the one who flattered my scones last week. I love Joe and Lela).
One more week of doughnut open houses, so I have to think of one more breakfast treat to make. I should have saved either this recipe or the chocolate babka as the final piece de resistance, because I'm not sure what I can bake next week that will be up to snuff. Any ideas?
BRIOCHE DOUGH (full recipe, makes about 4 1-poundloaves)
1 1/2 cups lukewarm water
1 1/2 tablespoons instant yeast
1 1/2 tablespoons kosher salt
8 large eggs, lightly beaten
1/2 cup honey
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, melted
7 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Mix the yeast, salt, eggs honey and melted butter with the water in a 5-quart bowl, or lidded (not airtight) food container.
Mix in the flour, using the dough hook on a mixer, or just use a spoon, until all of the flour is incorporated.
Cover (not airtight), and allow to sit at room temperature for about two hours
Makes 8 rolls.
1 1/2 lb. premixed brioche dough
Caramel topping:
6 tbsp. unsalted butter, at room temperature
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. brown sugar
30 pecan halves For filling:
Flour for rolling dough
4 tbsp. salted butter, at room temperature
1/4 c. granulated sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. freshly grated nutmeg
1/2 c. chopped and toasted pecans
Pinch of ground black pepper
To make caramel topping: In a large bowl using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream together butter, salt and brown sugar. Spread evenly over bottom of a 9-inch round cake pan. Scatter pecan halves over butter-sugar mixture and set aside.
To make rolls: Dust surface of refrigerated dough with flour and cut off 1 1/2-pound piece. Dust piece with more flour and quickly shape into a ball by stretching surface of dough around to bottom on all four sides, rotating ball a quarter-turn as you go. Using a rolling pin, roll out dough to 1/8-inch thick rectangle.
To make filling: In a large bowl using an electric mixer on medium-high speed, cream together butter, sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg. Spread mixture evenly over rolled dough and sprinkle with chopped pecans. Starting with long end, roll dough into a log, jelly-roll fashion. Using a serrated knife, cut log into 8 equal pieces and arrange rolls over pecans in cake pan. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rest and rise 1 hour at room temperature. Twenty minutes before baking, preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bake about 40 minutes, or until golden brown and set well in center. Remove to a wire rack. While still hot, run a knife around inside of pan to release rolls and invert rolls immediately to a serving dish.
26 comments:
- Melinda said...
My goodness they look... wow! What a perfect bread to serve for a bitter cold morning. They look so delicious.
Caramel draped over anything, always looks good to me! It might even make my shoes look edible.
My suggestion for next week is homemade Danish. Easy peasy.
By the way, I did my L.B. bread project today. It were loverly.
- breadbasketcase said...
Homemade Danish--easy peasy? Are you serious? The only recipe for homemade Danish I know is from Rose's Pie and Pastry Bible and it looks the opposite of easy. Hardy pardy more like. Or complicated pomplicated.
All I can say is GORGEOUS!!! I just wish I had neighbours like you. Jeannette
- Melinda said...
You crack me up!
- Doughadear said...
Your sticky rolls look absolutely fantastic. What a wonderful treat for your guests coming in from the cold to enjoy. You really are a great neighbour preparing all these lovely breads from scratch.
I would like to send you this recipe for Refrigerator Bran Muffins from Anne Lindsay's Smart Cooking - Quick and Tasty Recipes for Healthy Living, that I have been making for years. The reason I love these so much is first of all you prepare a hugh batch and just stick in the refrigerator. It is great to have this batter, which keeps for up to six weeks in the refrigerator, ready for whenever you want to make up a few muffins for breakfast. You just line the muffin pan with paper muffin cups, spoon in the mixture and in 20 minutes you have fresh muffins. Secondly I think these are the best bran muffins ever. I thought these would be great for a crowd coming for coffee because they will already be mixed, you just have to bake them in the morning.
Refrigertor Bran Muffins
1 cup vegetable oil 215 grams
1 cup granulated sugar 200 grams
6 eggs 300 grams
½ cup molasses 107 grams
3 cups milk 726 grams
5 cups natural bran 225 grams
3 cups whole-wheat flour 432 grams
2 tsp. baking powder
2 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
1 cup raisins or dates 145 grams
In a large bowl beat together oil, sugar and eggs until well mixed. Add remaining ingredients and stir until combined. Cover and refrigerate overnight for up to 6 weeks.
Spoon batter into paper-lined or nonstick muffin tins and bake in 400 F. oven for 18 minutes or until firm to the touch.
Calories per muffin – large-231, medium-116
- breadbasketcase said...
Seriously--do you have a way of making Danish that isn't like croissants, only more work?
Thank you. I wish you were a neighbor because you would properly appreciate me!
Thanks so much! I used to make a bran muffin recipe from Maida Heatter, and I loved them. Really delicious, and you totally forgot that they were good for you. This looks like a fantastic recipe, especially because you can keep the muffin batter on hand and enjoy a fresh, warm muffin any time. (And thanks for the translation into grams--I don't always bother to do the conversion, but I'm always glad when I do).
- Bunny said...
I have this book, I think if i make these for my hubby I could sweet talk just about anything I want from him! LOL!!
- Ethan said...
These look great. I've been using Artisan Bread in Five book a bit less lately too, but I often make the brioche sticky buns. I get requests for them now. I always make them the night before, roll, cut them up, and put them in the pan, then put them in the fridge to rise slowly overnight. Then you get up and take them out of the fridge while the oven preheats and bake away. I had to find a way to not get up too early.
- Jeff Hertzberg said...
Hi Marie: Glad the recipes are still working for you, your rolls look great! -- come visit us at www.artisanbreadinfive.com
Jeff Hertzberg (co-author)
Just had a look at this website given by your last commenter and book-marked it, so much to read! Do you recommend the book, Marie? I'm a sucker for baking books as most of us are on here.
- breadbasketcase said...
It worked for me!
I thought about that method, but wasn't sure it would work, since the dough had already been refrigerated for a couple of days. I'm glad to know that it does, and that I wouldn't have to get up at 6:30 to have these rolls ready by 9:30.
Thanksk. I visit your web site frequently to see what you're cooking up. You seem to have an endless supply of ideas.
I do recommend the book, although I had some trouble with the recipes initially (mostly because the measurements are in volume rather than weight). I think that some of the recipes aren't as good as, for example, Rose's version of the same thing, but I love the concept of being able to come home from work and bake bread for dinner.
- jini said...
i, the hesitant bread baker recommend the book too. i don't use it often, but then i rarely bake. now that qualifies me as a really really lazy baker. :)
- evil cake lady said...
Maire, you've been Bakey McBakenhammer lately! And such delicious goods, too. If anyone could pull off a hardy pardy danish it would be you.
Along with many, I wish I could be your neighbor and come over for coffee and excellent baked goods on a very cold winter morning.
- pinknest said...
simply gorgeous. i have the hugest brioche-y soft spot for pecan sticky rolls. they are one of my favorites. i remember the last time i made them, i was up til 3am. hahaha.
I would make Nick Malgieri's Apricot Sunny-Side Up pastries. It's from the Baking with Julie cookbook, but you could pull the ingredients from other books.
The individual pastries are small oval rounds of puff pastry topped with a blob of pastry cream and then topped with an apricot half before baking. Once out of the oven, they are brushed with thinned apricot jam.
They are utterly delicious, very easy, and adorable because the finished pastry looks like a fried egg.
If you don't have the book and want the recipe, I will gladly type it out for you. Just let me know.
PS - Your pecan caramel rolls look fabulous.
I was looking for an image of Nick Malgieri's Apricot Sunny-Side Ups on Google (no luck), but I did find a version using brioche dough, which wikk give you an idea of what they look like. I would stick to the puff pastry base, however, because the crispy-creamy contrast is so fabulous.
But if you Google this you'll get the general idea:
zoebakes.com Sunny-Side-Up Apricot Pastry
- breadbasketcase said...
But you baked the speculaas! (Did you see that I finally posted your pictures?)
I have been a crazy baker lately, but you know how I love projects, and this month's project was a different treat every Saturday morning, so what could I do?
You are so funny.
- jini said...
now i see them. thanks marie.
i have to go to the tucson gem show next week, then i'll bake the bread. honest. :)
- breadbasketcase said...
The photo you sent is a pastry made from the same brioche dough I used to make the sticky pecan rolls. I saw that picture in the Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes cookbook, and it looked delicious--probably even better with puff pastry. I dn't have the Baking with Julia cookbook. Do you recommend it? I think I'm going to get another baking cookbook, and that's one that I'm considering. I'd love to see the Nick Malgieri recipe, but I don't want you to go to the trouble of typing it out. (Puff pastry easy? You're like Melinda saying homemade Danish is easy!)
- breadbasketcase said...
Oh you poor thing. You have to venture into warm weather to look at beautiful gems. Have a great time--the bread will still be waiting to be made when you get back.
To all -
First off, my apologies to Michel Richard for giving Nick Malgieri credit for his Sunny-Side-Up Apricot Pastries. Malgieri contributed some terrific cookie recipes (the X-Cookies are wonderful), but Michel Richard was the puff pastry king on the series. I haven't made every recipe in the book, and there are some I will never make, but I wouldn't want to be without many of the recipes in this book.
I sent the recipes to you for the Sunny-Side-Up Apricot Pastries to your Comcast email address since I didn't think they'd fit in the combox. Also, I forgot to note that the PBS website has videos of the recipe demonstrations on the Baking with Julie program. I very much enjoyed the series.
- jini said...
you know marie, it's a tough job, but someone has to do it. i am really really hoping it is WARM!
- breadbasketcase said...
I think Michel Richard would forgive you. I can't wait to try these!
I'll be thinking of you as the snow flies.
- Chris said...
I'm a recent convert to Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day, so a friend sent me here. Wow! Great blog. I will be back often, even if my blood-sugar requires caution in this department!
- breadbasketcase said...
Thanks! I agree--you can't really be eating these sticky buns every day, or even every week, but as a special treat, they're pretty amazing.


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Actions, not words.
So formed part of Theresa May's speech to the Women's Aid conference after being appointed Home Secretary and Equalities minister, little less than a year ago. Actions, not words.
And, in some ways, she was right. Actions have been made, and very few words about them have been spoken. Actions that will result in the deaths, and the physical and mental harm of women all over the country, who are facing the reality of having their life-saving and life-creating services cut, thanks to this coalition government's financial and economic decisions.
It was revealed by Women's Aid this March that, across the country, 60% of refuge services will have no council funding in the new financial year, and neither will 72% of floating support services, which provide support within people's homes.
Actions, not words.
These cuts will also lead to 40% job losses in the refuge sector.
Actions, not words.
These cuts mean that next year, an extra 70,000 women and children will be left without the support they need to escape lives of violence. The cuts will reduce refuge projects from 400 across the UK, to 160. Every day, 200 women are already unable to access a refuge place. These cuts mean that many more women will literally have no-where to go to start new lives away from a world of physical, emotional and sexual violence. Their children will have no-where to go. Men in violent relationships will also lose the support that many of these services offer.
Actions, not words.
Statistics tell us that two women a week will die as a result of domestic violence, and 2,000 women a week are raped. The number of women annually killed by their partner has risen in the past few years, from 78 in 2008 to 97 in 2010. The basic facts are that as a result of these service cuts, more women will be beaten, physically and emotionally. More women will be raped. More women will die.
Women like Tania Moore, whose story was told on BBC Panorama. When Tania Moore left her abusive partner, he continued to stalk her and send her threatening messages, before murdering her in 2004. Her mother has since campaigned to raise awareness of the horrors of domestic violence and stalking.
Or women like Hannah Fisher, whose mother is currently raising money for Refuge to ensure that services which could have saved her daughter exist for future women. Hannah was killed by her former partner when she was 21.
The moment when a woman decides to leave her violent partner is the moment she is most in danger. Without support services in place to ensure a safe space for her to escape to, women are at huge risk of stalking, violence and death. Refuge places save lives, like the life of an anonymous woman who got in touch with me to say how her and her baby fled a violent relationship to find a place in a refuge, and were supported in finding secure accommodation. She says the refuge saved her life.
Actions, not words.
It was also revealed last week that the post created by the government to fight against female genital mutilation in the UK has been cut. This comes weeks after the government pledged to fight this crime, that often leaves women with health problems, pain during intercourse and periods, and increased complications during childbirth. It can cause severe pain and shock, psychological damage, urine retention, immediate fatal haemorrhaging and complications in pregnancy and childbirth. It is an act designed to control women. It is a crime committed against children. This cut suggests that the government has chosen to risk the physical and emotional health of young girls in order to save money. One charity worker says that of all the young women she works in from the FGM-practising community, nearly all have been cut. It is estimated that 24,000 girls in the UK are at risk of being cut. No-one has ever been prosecuted for practising FGM since it was made illegal in the UK in 1985.
Actions, not words. I have briefly laid out the facts of the effects of the cuts to services that provide support to women and men escaping violent relationships. I have told the stories of a few women who have been affected. Now, I ask you to take action. You can ensure that services which save women's lives are safe themselves. You can pledge to invest money and secure funding to protect services that save lives.
Supporting the domestic violence sector makes financial sense. Domestic violence costs London alone £2.5 million a day. The average annual income of a Rape Crisis centre is £81,598 – only marginally more the cost to the state of one rape. And it makes moral and social sense. I do not want to live in a society that sacrifices the lives of vulnerable women to make savings. Risking the lives of women to save money is not an option.
You can take action. After you have read this letter, please visit the websites of our leading domestic violence support service charities and donate. If the actions of this government have determined to cut funding from the this vital sector, then take action yourselves, and donate now.
And please, think of the sons and daughters who had no card to send to their mothers on the 3rd April. The siblings who will never reminisce with their sister. The mothers and fathers who will never see their daughters grow older. The best friend who loses the woman she loves. The women who will not live the lives they were supposed to live. And think of the women who have survived, thanks to the services that are dedicated to ending what the UN Secretary-General has called the greatest human rights violation of our time. Who are dedicated to ending violence against women and girls, with actions, not words.
Yours sincerely,
Sian Norris
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This week answer the following questions and either post your answers online or hand them in at the next class:
1. Which do you think was the most important invention, idea or law discussed in the lecture? Include in your answer the "when, where, what, why and how."
This is a matter of personal opinion, but for me it was Egyptian medicine. Even as far back as the Old Kingdom, Egypt was famous in the ancient world for having the best doctors. Several of the surviving Amarna Letters, which are ancient New Kingdom-era diplomatic letters between Pharaohs and foreign kings, contain requests from foreign kings for the Pharaoh to send a good doctor for their palace. Egyptian religion claimed that there was a goddess of both disease and healing (Sekhmet), and the physician Imhotep was later deified. Several medical texts have survived (the Kahun, Erbst, and Hearst papyruses) which prescribe some rather strange medicines (such as curing baldness by smearing the head in crocodile dung!). Good bodies are the gift of God, and good medicine is the greatest gift which Man has bequeathed us.
2. Pick one of the major ancient empires mentioned in the lecture, and describe basic information about it. Include in your answer a reference to how it compared with another ancient empire mentioned in the lecture.
Egypt and Nubia have long been close neighbours. In the Proto- and Pre-Dynastic Eras (c.6000-3100 BC), a number of small agrarian fiefdoms emerged along the Nile. Eventually solidifying into the Two Kingdoms of Egypt - the Upper, or Valley; and the Lower, or Delta - were unified by King Menes-Narmer with a capital at Men-Nefer; the Old Kingdom. Nubia, though, remained semi-independent and a trading partner of Egypt. The centralisation of state power and resources, coupled with Egyptian acquisition of Nubian gold, enabled the early Pharaohs to expend labour and materials on monumental funerary construction. Historians disagree as to the causes of the Old Kingdom's decline, but archaeological evidence appears to point towards a series of low floods which significantly reduced the food supply and therefore the legitimacy of central authority. During the First Intermediate Period (c.2181-2055 BC) Egypt split back into multiple local societies, until reunified by the Mentuhoteps of Waset. The subsequent Middle Kingdom saw the flourishing of Egyptian art and culture, with increasing commercial and diplomatic interaction, and military clashes, with the Nubians. The Middle Kingdom entered a period of rapid decline apparently synchronous with migration into the Nile Delta from the Levant (the "Hyksos Migration" theory). During the Second Intermediate Period (c.seventeenth century BC) Egypt again fractured while Nubia - which had by this point been significantly Egyptianised - again retained semi-independence and improved relations with an increasingly dependent kingdom around Egypt's largest city, Waset. Following the reunification of Egypt by the Ahmoses, the New Kingdom (c.1550-1100) saw relations between Egypt and Nubia become significantly more equal. Egypt maintained military control over Nubia, while Egyptian culture permeated the Nubian elite, yet Egyptianised Nubians were able to gain significant political and economic power in the Two Kingdoms. The decline of the New Kingdom, caused by internal political squabbling, saw Egypt and Nubia fracture in the Third Intermediate Period (c.1070-660 BC) until a Nubian military campaign led by Piye reunified Nubia and Egypt under the Twenty-Fifth (Nubian) Dynasty consisting of the Nubian Pharaohs Piye, Shabaka, Shebitku, and Taharqa. Following Taharqa's defeat by the Assyrians, Egypt and Nubia again split, forming two distinct civilisations which continue to this day.
3. There are several tables in the lecture containing various estimated dates. Pick one of those estimated dates and explain either why it surprises you, why you think it may be wrong, or why you know it is correct.
4004 BC. The table claims that Adam and Eve were created in 4004 BC, but the main text claims that "there is no reliable evidence of Man existing before 3500 BC", and that "there is no reason to think that man existed for thousands of years without ever expressing himself in written form". If Man was created in 4004 BC and immediately began writing, why is there no evidence of writing until 3500 BC? One of the Mysteries of History, perhaps.
4. Either write an essay of at least 150 words in length on any aspect of the lecture, or add or fill in 3 important terms from the lecture for the Study Guide at the link above (mention in your homework which three terms you picked).
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5. Write a longer essay (500 words rather than 150 words) in your answer to question 4, or add or fill in 6 important terms from the lecture for the Study Guide at the link above.
Throughout history, Ancient Egyptian religion was overwhelmingly polytheistic (the worship of multiple gods). But they had several contradictory Creation stories.
1) Ra. In the Old Kingdom, the Egyptian Creator-God, Holy Ra, was the dominant god. Egyptian mythology claimed that Ra had created himself out of the Primordial Water, and thus created the first Order over Chaos. But Ra, lonely at being the only intellect in existence, cried, and humans emerged from the tears. Ra then created the other gods to keep him company and help him govern the humans, which he did until a human rebellion forced him to appoint a half-man, half-god (the Pharaoh) to rule on his behalf. The cult of Ra spread throughout Egypt and Nubia throughout the Old and Middle Kingdoms, and merged with other gods, taking on their aspects (Ra-Khepri, Ra-Herakhty, etc).
2) Osiris. This version of the Ra myth contradicts the above version. In this myth, Ra creates the universe but does not create humans, instead making other lesser gods to serve him. Favourite among these was Osiris, and when humans were eventually created - by accident - Ra gave Osiris control over them. But Osiris' brother, Seth, tricked Osiris and killed him (similar to the story of Cain and Abel! There is even a Seth in Genesis - maybe the Egyptians meant the actual story of Cain and Abel but got one of the names wrong). Osiris' wife Isis put his body back together and their son Horus fought Seth, and won.
3) Ptah. Similar to the Biblical information, this myth claims that Ptah was a craftsman-god who made all of the universe with his carpenter's tools, then breathed life into animals and Man. This contradicts the Ra myth - Egyptians had a lot of contradictions!
4) Amun. Amun was originally a minor local god from Waset, but as Waset grew in tremendous political power in the Middle and New Kingdoms, Amun became a more important god who was claimed to have created the universe through unknowable magic. Under the reign of the three Amenhoteps, the priesthood of Amun, and their temple at Karnak, became so powerful that the new Pharaoh, Akhenaten, feared them. He elevated a very minor god, the Aten, and declared it was the sole god (monotheism). He even moved the capital to a custom-built city, and shocked Egyptians by saying that Aten cared for all humans, not just the Egyptians. Historians disagree why exactly Akhenaten did this - he may have been doing it as a political move against the Amun priesthood, he may have genuinely believed it, or liberal historians might have misinterpreted the data. Akhenaten's neglect of the military and foreign policy caused the Egyptian empire to badly decline, and his son Tutankhamun, who followed Akhenaten, was a weak boy who died young. After Tutankhamun's death, the Chief of the Royal Armies, General Horemheb, led a conservative counter-revolution which returned Egypt to its traditions, threw the invaders out, and proclaimed himself King. Egypt did not experience monotheism again until the late Roman Empire legalised Christianity.
6. Which matters most to the success of an ancient empire: its technology, its laws, its language, or its geography? Explain, with specific examples.
All, and none.
Technology in the Copper and Bronze Ages was largely the same across the civilised world. Although ironworking was practiced by some societies (such as the Hatti, or Hittites), the iron produced was brittle and largely used for ceremonial, not practical, purposes. In cases where a particular technology was not used - such as wheels not being used in Egypt - this was not due to a lack of knowledge but a lack of practical application. The Egyptians were aware of the concept of the wheel (they used potters' wheels, for instance, and tomb models of carts have been found), it was simply that wheels were highly impractical at the time as they were fragile and liable to sink into the sand. Therefore the majority of transport was on boats, with land transport consisting of pack-animals and sledges hauled by labourers. Given, therefore, the technological similarity of ancient civilisations, we cannot use that as an answer.
Law is a concept which emerged long before any of the civilisations discussed in the Lecture. Hunter-gatherer societies still exist, and they have laws against murder, incest, and other similar things which were outlawed in ancient societies and which we still prohibit today. There is strong evidence for law emerging long before civilisation, as Almighty God gave laws to Adam and Eve (which they broke). As ancient societies did not generally follow Biblical law, their laws cannot be considered good or important.
Language is inconsequential to the success or failure of any society, ancient or modern. All forms of writing use arbitrary symbols which have no meaning on their own - rather, they have meaning because of collective agreement. The ancient cuneiform and hieroglyph languages look incomprehensible to us, but the modern Latin alphabet used by English-speakers is equally incomprehensible to a native Chinese. Speech is, for obvious reasons, much more difficult to assess, as there are no living speakers of ancient languages. Experts think they can approximate the pronounciation, but cannot be sure despite what some adherents claim.
Geography - or more specifically, geographical determinism - is a debated issue in history. For example, some geographers and historians point to the Nile River as a unique place for a society to emerge and flourish, due to its fertility from annual flooding (before the 1950s), and natural borders in the form of deserts, sea, and mountains to the south. But if we consider that similarly impressive societies emerged along the Tigris and Euphrates - as the Lecture says - and if we also consider that Egypt was invaded and fell into political disunity several times in its history, we might question just how important Egypt's geography was.
Extra Credit (regular or Honors) 7. What is your favorite mystery about the ancient world, and what do you think explains it? Some suggested possibilities include:
The invention of the wheel: who, when and how? How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? Why did ancient empires collapse?
Construction of the Egyptian pyramids is indeed a mystery, but we can piece togther an educated guess. The first pyramids, such as the Stepped Pyramid of Pharaoh Djoser, were much smaller than the later Giza pyramids which are so famous today. Remnants of the ramps used to drag mudbricks to built it have been discovered. By the time the Giza pyramids were started, the Egyptians had centuries of experience constructing such monuments. When we consider that Egypt had no rival societies, a large population, and ample resources, it was fairly easy for the Old Kingdom Pharaohs to amass armies of workers (paying their state taxes in the form of labour for their God-King). Using simple technology, simple mathematics, a long time, and a lot of muscle from an army of devoted workers who (wrongly) thought they were serving a God, the construction of the pyramids does not seem quite such a mystery!
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"I get really bored in the offseason," she said. "That's what keeps me going."
It should come as no surprise that Angela's favorite coach is her father. Her friend and Taconic teammate, Nyanna Slaughter, feels the same. Slaughter played for O'Neil from the age of 4, be it in YMCA, Boys & Girls Club of Pittsfield or Taconic programs.
"He was like a father to me," Slaughter said. "I've known him since I was so young. Any time I was down, he was always there to pick me up and tell me I was going to be OK."
That kind of positivity rubbed off on Angela and Bob's wife, Betty.
"He loved to be silly," Betty said. "He loved to take things light. He had a really good sense of humor. Even if they weren't funny, he was telling a joke."
That positive nature faced its toughest test in May 2011. That's when Bob O'Neil learned he had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as Lou Gehrig's Disease. The nerve-cell disease which affects voluntary muscle movement has no known cure, and often claims those who have the disease within 5 years.
Early this spring, Betty went to her daughter with an idea. She'd learned of a road race in Falmouth that would benefit Compassionate Care, a non-profit organization which had been helping the O'Neils with medical equipment since Bob's diagnosis. Compassionate Care's founder, Ron Hoffman, had told Betty about the run.
Angela liked the idea, but felt the 7-mile distance was a bit much.
"I didn't know exactly what I was getting myself into when I said yes," Angela said.
Plus, there was a lot of money to be raised -- Compassionate Care was hoping Angela could earn $1,500 in donations.
"We tried to find out things about it to know if she could do it," Betty said. "I think the biggest thing was, how are we going to raise the $1,500?"
That's when family and friends stepped in.
The entry deadline was in June. By June 10, Lynsay Bell, a former player of Bob's, had set up a website for Angela to collect donations.
"Once she got our web page set up, we were able to email family and friends," Betty said. "A lot of our donations came through emailing people."
There were flyers posted around Pittsfield. A 3-on-3 fundraising basketball tournament was organized. Slaughter coined a team name, 'Bob's Believers,' for former THS player Steffon Charles' team.
From June to mid-August, when all money was to be collected, Angela raised $3,805.
All she had left to do was run.
Although he stopped coaching and working in 2011, Bob O'Neil was still passionate about sports. He always wanted to know how Angela was doing, be it in training, practices or games.
"Every single day," Angela and Betty said at the same time. "Every second."
"I knew, deep down, it was making him unbelievably happy that I liked basketball so much," Angela said. I wouldn't have loved it as much if it wasn't for him, especially with him being my coach."
As the disease progressed, though, it was getting increasingly tough for Bob to see his daughter play. That never stopped him, though, from trying.
Betty said Bob would ask her, "Can you call somebody that is a director of the AAU, and ask them if they have an outlet so I know I'll be able to plug in my machine that will help me breathe?"
May 25, 2012, was the last time Bob O'Neil left his house. All he wanted to do was see Angela play tennis. A Western Mass. tournament berth was on the line for the Braves against Pittsfield.
"We were bound and determined -- and Bob was -- that we were going to get him there," Betty said. "He wanted to be there."
Bob's brother, John, helped Betty get him to the courts. He was there to see Angela win her No. 3 singles match in straight sets, and Taconic win the match.
In January, Betty took a family medical leave from Stearns Elementary School to care for Bob. She extended the three-month leave to the end of June, with the help of the Pittsfield Schools.
In January, a a private caregiver was there 30 hours per week for Bob. By early spring, a caregiver was on hand 15 hours a day, every day. That went up to 20 hours a day by May.
One hour per day, it would just be Angela and Betty caring for Bob. Remembering that fact caused Angela some brief regret.
"I felt like I was lazy at times, though," Angela quietly said, looking down.
"Don't judge yourself," Betty quickly and firmly said, eyes focused on Angela, knowing her daughter had no need to feel guilty.
Slaughter said Angela would ask the question any child would ask about a father's illness: Why him?
Bob, ever the optimist, wouldn't ask why.
"The thing that I most admire about Bob is that he never felt sorry for himself," Betty said. "He never said 'why me'. And he never complained. Not once."
"Even knowing about it when he walked out of the doctor's office, he prayed to God and thanked him that it was not me or Mom," Angela added.
Slaughter would also go to the O'Neil house as often as possible, even staying over many nights with her friend and her coach.
"As it really got close," Slaughter said, "I'd still stay overnight, two nights or something, to see if she was OK. We'd go down there with him."
Bob asked Slaughter, the girl who he said was like a second daughter to him, to take care of Angela and Betty.
She was there for her friend and second family, staying at the house the morning of July 17, when Bob O'Neil died. He was 64.
More than anything, Angela O'Neil knew the pride her father took in her athletic accomplishments.
"He would say how proud he was of me because I picked [sports] up and was doing pretty well," she said. "I got the MVP in tennis, and even when he was sick, he would make me bring the plaque to show visitors who hadn't seen it."
That's why she had to be on a basketball court the day her father died. She had told her dad just days earlier that she would dedicate a game to him. This was the one.
Taconic had a summer-league game that night. Slaughter played, as did seven other girls who had played for Bob. Slaughter led the team in a pre-game prayer, and before they took the court, the players abandoned the usual "Braves on 3" huddle break in favor of Bob's favorite "Intensity on 3" break.
That the Braves lost by single digits to Lee didn't matter. That Angela missed an open 3-pointer off the back of the rim near game's end didn't matter. She still scored in double figures, surprising many with fast-break points along the way.
"It was that burst of energy I felt again," Angela said. "I was still satisfied with how I played. I was proud of our team. None of us ever gave up."
Betty set up at the 5-mile point in Falmouth to watch her daughter run. She has the same pride in her daughter that Bob did.
Angela had been training for weeks, whether running, biking or playing basketball. She adopted her friend Nyanna Slaughter's team name, "Bob's Believers." She may have been training, but she was nervous about the race. She expected to collapse at the 5-mile mark. She expected she would throw up at some point.
Still, that wouldn't stop her from running -- and it didn't stop her at the 5-mile mark, either, when she passed by a cheering Compassionate Care contingent.
"I kind of felt like I could make it the last 2 miles," she said. "The one thing I'm not going to forget is everyone was saying, 'You're almost there.' "
Angela was 150 feet away from the finish line when a runner she didn't know looked at her and said, "Come on. We're going to finish this." She sprinted the last 125 feet, finishing in 1 hour, 20 minutes.
"I felt something from within and just flew to the finish line," she said.
Now that she's finished a 7-mile race, Angela is getting information from her friends about other races that benefit the fight against ALS. She plans to run for Compassionate Care again next summer, with much better training this time.
"It's all a blur, these past two months," she said. "I know he was proud of me for raising money and wanting to do it."
Perhaps Angela had a little more support than she expected that day.
"The day of Bob's funeral, there was a monarch butterfly flying around the house," Betty said. "I just felt like that was Bob. Then we went to the Bahamas, and we saw one on the beach. I have never seen a monarch butterfly on the beach.
"Then, when her race was over "
Betty pauses to chuckle, recalling what she saw.
" there was a monarch butterfly," she said.
For her, it was a sign that, just one more time, Bob O'Neil was there to see his daughter compete.
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From: Variant Magazine email@example.com>
Date: 6 August 2010 13:04:53 GMT+01:00
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Subject: Re: Artists' Loan Questionnaire
Dear Gwilym
Thank you for your prompt reply and thanks too for the additional information about your research exercise on loans to artists. However, our concerns at Variant still stand. The key issues we see are the gathering of policy-based evidence and therefore, the questionable quality of your research project and the compromise of the arm's length principle.
Clearly there are tremendous pressures to find ways to support artistic and cultural activities as we face government cut backs in public sector finance. Sadly, officials often assume that the public interest is synonymous with the mores of the government and bureaucratic agendas which, in this instance, seem to be all about more money lending. However, the public interest is not served by gathering 'policy-based evidence' in line with political thinking – something which has become notorious in policy studies in the UK. Such studies have shown the same construction process going on in everything from justifying military invasions to magnifying the socio-economic benefits of the arts.
We at Variant do not see any justification for singling out artists for special loan arrangements. More significantly, your commissioning partners, Mission Models Money (MMM), appear to have a diversity of in-house expertise yet the researchers you appointed have failed to explore alternatives such as investment in credit unions or how complimentary currencies are used by businesses elsewhere in the world. The researchers appear to have unquestioningly adopted the narrow national comparisons offered in your tender pack which, it must be said, appears unduly biased towards what is done in the United States. Consequently there are major oversights which suggest either a lack of seriousness in the research, a lack of resources for it, or both.
There is also no basis for suggesting that loans will not be a wedge into existing grant funding. A more pessimistic view is justified. The use of Lottery funds points to the real possibility that targeted credit systems would operate as the thin end of a wedge into grants. So this "suspicion" mentioned on the last page of your tender pack is not unsubstantiated.
As far as we can see, the research you have commissioned about financing artists in Scotland is not striving for objectivity and therefore it is not being conducted in the public interest. Needless to say this is a serious issue in public research financed by tax payers.
Shetland Arts' criteria for shortlisting potential research groups rightly included the following point: "[2] The robustness of the methodology - Has the individual/team added to/developed/challenged the brief in a way that demonstrates an appropriate degree of rigour?" We see no evidence that BOP has met this criterion in a survey which they describe as "the main body of the research".
Let us be clear about our own motives for challenging this research exercise. Variant voiced opposition to the formation of Creative Scotland on the grounds that its terms of reference, and particularly its adoption of an entrepreneurial ethos, was an erosion of the arm's length principle. Creative Scotland has been formed under what many of our writers and readers believe is a faulty economic rationale coming from government and being imposed on the cultural sector. Nevertheless, this does not mean that the arm's length principle is up for grabs as well.
Successive ministers have pledged support for the arm's length principle and to the best of our knowledge no elected politician has openly refuted it. If Creative Scotland is to be informed by entrepreneurial imperatives so be it, these will now have to be dealt with transparently if the new organisation is to serve the broad public interest. In terms of conducting rigorous research about alternative funding for artists this would entail a detailed assessment of the deferral and adoption of risk though additional micro-credit systems.
Indeed we see from your tender pack that risk was discussed at length in a meeting with your partners from MMM. But there is no sign of this problem being addressed in any depth by your researchers. Evidence from other countries already suggests that micro-credit systems are not always benign, they can be highly exploitative, and they may well become more so. Although you say the sums of money involved in complimentary financing are small -- despite the survey propounding loans of £20,000+ -- accumulated they would be a significant addition to the already heavy burden of individual debt.
The alternatives to furthering a culture and economy based in usury are simply not examined in the research you commissioned from BOP. Yet they say that responses to their surveymonkey questionnaire will be "the main body of the research" and "will help form a strong body of evidence concerning the finance and support needs of Scottish artists and creative practitioners."
We do not know what methodology supports this sampling exercise but the research questionnaire itself seems poorly thought out and hastily put together. It appears to be little more than research into a new market for credit. This does not address many of the key issues that have been touched on by you and others involved in commissioning the research. It is therefore far from transparent. Nor do we understand why Shetland Arts - as a funded body - is playing a lead role in commissioning national research for which one would expect the SAC/Creative Scotland to take direct responsibility.
We therefore ask that this survey is closed down because it is gathering evidence in line with a well rehearsed political agenda. It is not investigating the broader issues in keeping with the arms length principle and the public interest which that principle is meant to protect.
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From: Gwilym Gibbons firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: 2 August 2010 16:28:10 GMT+01:00
To: Variant Magazine firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: Re: Artists' Loan Questionnaire
Dear Leigh
Thank you for your email and bringing to my attention your concerns and views. There is, in my view, nothing that intriguing behind my involvement in commissioning a study on small loan finance for artist/ and or makers. The origins of Shetland Arts exploring this idea was in response to a expressed need by several artists who just wanted a small amount of money to fund enhancement of their work. Framing of work was one example in which an artist wanted control of their final piece and to add value to the sale price of that work. Much of the discussion at that stage has been around finance of around £500 to add value to work that could be repaid after that work had been sold at an enhanced price.
I have attached the Tender Pack for the study which includes the initiating document I wrote in May 2009 that informed the development of this piece of work and the attraction of funds to pay for the research. I would like to stress that this piece of work was initiated by Shetland Arts and is in part supported by the Scottish Arts Council but pre dates Creative Scotland or my interests as a Board Member of this new organisation. It was simply a response to an expressed local need. I felt that the need may have relevance further afield which triggered the further exploration of the idea.
I understand that the 21st Century Financing Project was delayed but is now in delivery stage. The Steering Group for Creative Financing is working closely with the team working on 21st Century Financing Project and indeed the team working on Capital Mattershttp://www.missionmodelsmoney.org.uk/programme/capital-matters/ .
The Creative Financing Study has been collecting pros and cons from a variety of stakeholders in the sector and your views will be added to those of others who have attended consultations and responses to the questionnaire. I recognise some of the concerns you raise and indeed have discussed them at length internally at the early stages of initiating this project. At no point has this piece of work proposed that loans should be offered in place of grants.
The Board of Creative Scotland meets for the first time in mid August I can not therefore comment on the position of the Board on the issues you raise. However, your comments are noted and with others will be fed into the report which will be made available to all those interested including Creative Scotland when it is complete.
I trust this allays some of your fears and thank you again for your comments.
Gwilym Gibbons
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From: Variant Magazine firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:27:16 +0100
To: Gwilym Gwilym email@example.com>
Subject: Fwd: Artists' Loan Questionnaire
Dear Gwilym
I am intrigued that you as Director of Shetland Arts and also a Board Member of Creative Scotland should commission a Scotland-wide survey "looking at the feasibility and potential benefits of providing loan style financing to artists, creative practitioners and small creative organisations".
Can I ask when you, as a part of the public sector, will also be commissioning a balance to this market positivism by examining the potential damage of "loan style financing"?
Moreover, can I ask where the assessment is to prove the viability of "loan style financing", which would include a comprehensive risk and impact assessment that one would expect prior to any attempts at justifying demand? I would hope that you would agree that post-2008 we should all be aware that fostering a culture of carelessness with regard to markets is a failure of responsible regulation and oversight we can ill afford again.
The SAC / government collaboration dropped its tender for '21st Century financing for the arts and creative industries in Scotland Study'. I am not aware of any other publicly-commissioned academic research in Scotland into Creative Industries loans or IPR exploitation or independent research on financing that takes into account the depth and effect of the economic crisis in Scotland. If this absence of a crucial evidence base is the case, which it appears to be, then Creative Scotland / Scottish government have no new or existing contextual, evidence-based research to facilitate the introduction of loans, but appear, circuitously, to be seeking to do so regardless of the risks to the sector(s) which they to date have failed to properly investigate.
If Creative Scotland / Scottish government do not even have such fundamental information on which to base the decisions it has already taken -- see Public Services Reform (Scotland) Bill: 29 Grants and loans (4) "Creative Scotland may make grants and loans to such persons as it considers appropriate for the purpose of, in connection with, or where it appears conducive to, the exercise of its functions", which the abandoned proposed study would lead us to believe is the case -- is it not negligent to continue to propose such impositions as loans?
It is again worth drawing attention to what recently happened in Catalonia, where the imposition of loans in place of public grants for arts organisations failed dramatically even in pre-crash conditions. The hard evidence of the failure of such neoliberal economic instrumentalisation of culture already exists internationally, and the Scottish Government (and the sector) would do well to examine it. A Creative Scotland profit-orientated approach to culture / information management belongs to a pre-financial crisis set of cultural / developmental policies. We all need to contextualise Creative Scotland with regard to the deeper policy issues such as the paradoxical responses to the financial crisis; a crisis which has discredited the 'Anglo-American' model of finance-led capitalism, yet the Scottish Government continue to pursue the main planks of that neoliberal agenda, including labour market 'reforms' and financialisation as is exemplified in what we know to be one focus of Creative Scotland.
To be clear: loans and IPR exploitation do not constitute a positive spending injection into the real economy, they contribute to finance restructuring leading to a concentration of wealth and centralisation of banking power -- this should come as no surprise to anyone when Creative Scotland was / is controversially being structured by bankers and financiers. Loans serve to increase public debt overnight (see the disaster following the introduction of artists' loans in Catalonia for details) and are part of a spiralling debt crisis, part of an approach that is at the core of the global economic crisis. And for those of us who believe in defending a public sector, fundamentally, the introduction of loans is to extract user fees for public services.
To reconfirm our objections to Creative Scotland proposals from 18 months ago:
- The proposed exploitation of Intellectual Property Rights and the introduction of loans coupled with an effective cut in 'arms length' grant aid, will all act to reinforce artists' poverty. The case of Catalonia shows that increasing artists' debts has been disastrous for all concerned.
- We feel strongly that this bureaucratic process has not concerned itself with representing artists' needs, nor does it address UNESCO declarations on culture and freedom.
- We have no confidence in the process of the formation of Creative Scotland, or the confused and inappropriate proposals that have arisen. We are simply not convinced that the proposals will promote the development of and entitlement to culture in Scotland.
I look forward to your response.
Yours sincerely,
Leigh French
co-editor, Variant
Subject: Fwd: Artists' Loan Questionnaire
We are currently supporting a comprehensive study looking at the feasibility and potential benefits of providing loan style financing to artists, creative practitioners and small creative organisations across Scotland. The study was commissioned by Shetland Arts and Mission Models Money who are interested in how loan financing might complement existing means of financing the creative industries such as grants and burseries.
As one of our valued members, we would be very grateful if you could follow the below link and complete an on-line survey, the responses to which will form the main body of the research:
The survey should only take no more than 15 minutes to complete and doing so will help form a strong body of evidence concerning the finance and support needs of Scottish artists and creative practitioners.
By way of thanks, BOP Consulting (the consultancy contracted to deliver the research) are offering respondents the chance to win one of two £20 Amazon vouchers.
Please note that all responses to the survey will be stored securely and kept completely anonymous.
BOP Consulting
20 Margaret Street
London, W1W 8RS


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