A world famous Pra Niyom Preferred master-Class amulet of the Tamniab Pra Niyom, the Roop Muean Nuea Krang Putsa Luang Por Tong Sukh 2536 BE extreme limited edition amulet, with the Sacred Image of Luang Por Tong Sukh. Made in Magical Putsa Paste, from Deceased Guru Master, the Great Luang Por Phaew, of Wat Tanode Luang, made with collaboration of first apprentice Ajarn Pairote, who beseeched Wicha to make these amulets.
The amulet is made from molded Krang Putsa resinous Sacred Substance of Luang Por Tong Sukh, from Luang Por Phaew's repository which he inherited from Luang Por Tong Sukh. Only 99 amulets were made in all by Luang Por Phaew with the help of his novice apprentices, making this perhaps his most rare edition of amulets.
The Pra Roop Muean Nuea Krang of Luang Por Phaew is one of the most famous and highly sought after amulets of the 'Tamniab Wadthumongkol' Pantheon of amulets of Wat Tanode Luang, and one of Luang Por Phaew's top five amulets within his personal Pantheon; the Pra Roop Muean Luang Por Tong Sukh Nuea Krang Luang Por Tong Sukh.
The Roop Muean Luang Por Tong Sukh Wat Tanode Luang, is made from the famous Krang Putsa Magical Resinous Paste of the great Luang Por Tong Sukh, famous Sorceror Monk of Wat Tanode Luang. The amulet was made by his Looksit, and the subsequent succeeding abbot of Wat Tanode Luang, the Great Luang Por Phaew. Krang Putsa paste is renowned for its powerful desire inducing power, to invoke desire towards another person, or even desire to acquire (buy) the wares and goods of a salesperson. This implies intense Metta Maha Niyom Mercy Charm and Maha Sanaeh power of attraction. However, the Roop Muean Nuea Krang is also renowned for Kong Grapan Chadtri Klaew Klaad Protective/Evasive magic, and Maha Lap power to attract wealth and lucky fortunes.
The amulets of Luang Por Phaew were made continuing the methods and style of Luang Por Tong Sukh, preserving the Wicha in Continuation. His Krang Putsa Paste amulets are legendary, and highly reputed for their magic power. Luang Por Phaew's amulets are very rare, for he never made any large amounts, and his rarest of all amulets is his first and only ever Edition Guru Monk Coin from 2517 BE, which featured a simple image of Luang Por Phaew on the front face, and Sacred Na and Kata Khom Akom on the rear face.
Below, a documentation of this extreme limited series amulet which was released in 2536, with Gaan Toop incense sticks from Luang Por Ruesi Ling Dam's Kammathana Meditations, and using the Krang Putsa paste used in the original 2509 BE edition, and Luang Por Tong Sukh's original Luang Por Tuad Nuea Krang. The fact that the edition was made in esteem and nostalgic praise of the Roop Muean Nuea Krang Luang Por Tong Sukh, is a testament to the Eminence and Spiritual Power of this amulet. Most examples had an incense stick in the rear face, with a only a very few with Takrut inserts.


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What's Screening: November 3 – 9
November 3, 2017 ~ Lincoln Spector
Guillermo del Toro, Orson Welles, Billy Wilder, Sergei Eisenstein, Harry Belafonte, and nine (yes, nine) film festivals in the Bay Area this week.
Doc Stories continues through Sunday
Another Hole in the Head Film Festival continues through Wednesday
The Alameda International Film Festival opens today
So does The French Had a Name For It
The Napa Valley Film Festival opens Wednesday
New Italian Cinema also opens Wednesday
The Berlin & Beyond Autumn Showcase opens Thursday
The 3rd i South Asian Film Festival also opens Thursday
And yes, even the Cinematografo International Film Festival and Industry Forum opens Thursday
Festival Screenings
A The Shape of Water, Napa Valley Film Festival, Uptown Theatre, Thursday, 1:30
Only Guillermo del Toro could make a grand, romantic, suspenseful, and horrifying sequel to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Sally Hawkins stars as a mute cleaning woman in a huge, highly secure research center (this is in 1960). When a strange fish/man arrives for dissection, she senses its pain and sets out to free it. Octavia Spencer and Richard Jenkins play her eventual partners in crime, while Michael Shannon makes a wonderfully despicable villain. The creature looks very much like the one from the fifties movies, but far more expressive. Your heart goes out to him from the start.
B Gigolo, The French Had a Name For It, Roxie, Sunday, 9:00
This pretty good melodrama follows a poverty-stricken young man whose only real advantage is good looks (Georges Marchal). After losing a job because of the boss's daughter, he meets up with a much-older woman (Arletty) who basically becomes his pimp, farming him out to wealthy matrons. Of course, he's going to meet a beautiful, innocent young girl and fall in love, and there will be problems.
B- In the Heat of the Night, Alameda International Film Festival, Alameda City Hall, Friday, 8:00
The 1967 Best Picture Oscar winner still works moderately well as a murder mystery, but it comes from a time when white Americans north of the Mason-Dixon line could still pat themselves on the back and be glad they weren't like those bigoted Southerners. This story of a black police detective from Philadelphia investigating a murder in a small, Mississippi town has a few good scenes and one great one, but that's about it.
C+ After the War, New Italian Cinema, Vogue, Thursday, 9:00
A political assassination forces a former radical leftwing terrorist (Giuseppe Battiston) to go on the lam, and he takes his reluctant, teenaged daughter (Charlotte Cétaire) with him. Unlike most teenagers, she has good reasons to believe her dad is a creep. He's selfish, alcoholic, and still justifies a murder he committed ages ago. After the War works when it stays with these two people, but other members of the family aren't as interesting. And the ending is just too convenient.
C+ This Man is Dangerous, The French Had a Name For It, Roxie, Friday, 6:00
Eddie Constantine, an American actor working in France, plays a ruthless thug who has to outfight and outsmart other, better-organized ruthless thugs. Constantine's acting range is small, and it's hard to like him (early on, he murders an unarmed man pointblank). The plot is almost impossible to follow, but several sequences are fun in their own right. A big surprise changes the whole movie, allowing you to (sort of) root for the protagonist.
Promising events
The Magnificent Ambersons, Alameda, Wednesday
It's been a very long time since I've seen Orson Welles' second film–or at least what's left of it after RKO severely recut it between previews and premiere. I remember it being warm and nostalgic, with a strong sense of loss for a way of life that is no more. Welles himself doesn't appear onscreen in this film, but his beautiful voice provides a lovely narration.
A Sunset Boulevard, Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Sunday, 11:00AM; Monday, 12:10
Billy Wilder's meditation on Hollywood's seedy underbelly is the flip side of Singin' in the Rain (now that would make a great double bill). Norma Desmond is very much Lena Lamont after twenty-two years of denial and depression. And in the role of Norma, Gloria Swanson gives one of the great over-the-top performances in Hollywood history.
A- The Shawshank Redemption, New Parkway, Thursday, 9:00
An accountant ( Tim Robbins), convicted for a murder he didn't commit, receives a life sentence. In the stir, he discovers that at least some of his skills have their benefits even inside. Taking place over decades, this surprisingly optimistic prison movie makes a satisfying tale of winning over impossible odds.
A- Battleship Potemkin, Pacific Film Archive, Sunday, 2:00
Make no mistake: This ground-breaking movie is simplistic Communist propaganda. The workers and sailors are all good comrades working together for a better world. The officers, aristocrats, and Cossacks are vile filth who deserve to die. And yet, the story of mutiny, celebration, attack, and escape stirs your blood. And it does this primarily through editing techniques that were revolutionary in 1925 and still impressive today. More than 90 years after it was shot, the Odessa Steps massacre is still one of the greatest, if not the greatest, action sequence ever edited. Read my essay. With a recorded musical score. Part of the series The Art of Cinematography.
B Sing Your Song, Lark, Tuesday, 12:00 noon
Harry Belafonte is a great performer and a dedicated activist. This reverential documentary emphasizes the activism, from his high-profile importance to the civil rights movement to his current work reforming gang members. Director Susanne Rostock's picture encourages you to burn with anger at the world's injustices, and admire those who worked and sacrificed to end those injustices. But if you come into the theater because you love Belafonte's music, you'll be disappointed. You'll hear bits and pieces of many a great song, but you won't hear a single one from beginning to end. Read my full review.
B- The End of the Ottoman Empire, Pacific Film Archive, Saturday, 5:00
This isn't really a movie; it's a two-part French TV documentary. As historical documentaries go, it's not bad; unexceptional for PBS but way better than the History Channel. But little thought was put into making a good English-speaking version. For instance, when a British or American historian talks to the camera, we hear them speaking English, but their words are drowned out by the verbal French translation, and the English subtitles don't match the difficult-to-hear spoken English. But it's an important piece of history, and one that's made a mess of the world we live in.
Continuing Engagements
Cabaret, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Saturday, 2:00
My Neighbor Totoro (dubbed), New Parkway, Friday, 4:00; Saturday, 1:00; Sunday, 12:00 noon; Wednesday, 4:45; Thursday, 4:00
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Guild, Saturday, 11:55pm (just before midnight). MY REPORT.
The Shining, Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Tuesday, 4:20. MY BOOK VS. FILM ESSAY.
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Clippers' Big Two debut in OT win over Celtics
PMN Sports
Lou Williams scored 27 points, and Paul George added 25 points and eight assists to help the Los Angeles Clippers notch a 107-104 overtime victory over the visiting Boston Celtics on Wednesday night.
Kawhi Leonard returned from a three-game absence caused by a knee injury to score 17 points on 7-of-20 shooting. Patrick Beverley corralled a career-best 16 rebounds to go along with 14 points and seven assists, and JaMychal Green added 10 points as Los Angeles won its third straight game.
Jayson Tatum scored a season-best 30 points for Boston. Marcus Smart recorded 15 points and eight assists, Brad Wanamaker added 14 points, and Kemba Walker had 13 points and nine rebounds.
The contest marked the first time George and Leonard played together since both joined the Clippers in the offseason. Wednesday's game was George's fourth of the campaign.
The Clippers led by five points nearly two minutes into the overtime before Boston pulled within two. Beverley drilled a 3-pointer to make it 107-102 with 43.9 seconds remaining before Tatum's dunk pulled Boston within three with 34.7 seconds left.
Tatum missed a tying 3-point attempt with 2.6 seconds left, and Leonard blocked Walker's last-gasp 3-point attempt just before time expired.
Los Angeles shot 41.9 percent from the field and was 17 of 45 (37.8 percent) from 3-point range while committing 23 turnovers.
Boston had 18 miscues and shot 39.4 percent from the field, including 12 of 45 (26.7 percent) from 3-point range. Daniel Theis collected 14 rebounds for the Celtics.
An acrobatic driving hoop by Smart gave Boston a 94-87 lead with 2:21 remaining in regulation before the Clippers rattled off 10 straight points.
Beverley buried a corner 3-pointer, and Montrezl Harrell scored on the inside to bring Los Angeles within two with 1:37 left.
Williams connected on a go-ahead 3-pointer with 31.7 seconds left and added two free throws 11 seconds later to give the Clippers a 97-94 lead.
Tatum answered by draining a 3-pointer to tie it with 13.1 seconds remaining. Leonard missed a potential winning 3-pointer as time expired.
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Championing Champs
By DSM Staff (Digital Signage Magazine) 2018-11-06T15:00:42Z
Massive LED displays underscore branding at large New York sports store.
(Image credit: Signagelive)
Champs Sports, a division of Foot Locker, recently celebrated the opening of its New York flagship location at 10 Times Square—a multi-level property that is nearly four-times the size of its previous location and boasting 8,160 square-feet of retail space.
"At Champs Sports, we are always looking to bring the best retail experiences to our customers, and to establish ourselves as the go-to destination to find leading athletic brands. The Times Square store offers the best assortment of the top brands that shoppers know, love and have come to expect from Champs Sports," said Bryon Milburn, VP and GM, Champs Sports. "The new store has a prominent exterior presence with an LED display spanning 68 feet by 23 feet across prime Times Square real estate. Inside, there are four additional digital screens to allow for robust, interactive storytelling throughout the customer journey."
To achieve this sprawling visual display, Champs Sports engaged New Hartford, CT., integration and technology company, Activate the Space (ATS) to design and integrate several LED walls, including a massive two-story wall on the side of the escalators, and the media play engine for the large outdoor LED wall on the front of the building.
"There are four indoor LED displays," explained Christopher Pelzar, CEO and managing partner, Activate the Space. "The LED panels used are a special Activate the Space OEM-designed panel produced for ATS by Absen, one of the largest producers of LED panels in the world. The outdoor screens were provided by SNA. Activate the Space provided the entire design and build of the indoor LED displays and acted as the "Client Representative" for the choice and specification of the outdoor LED displays, which were supplied and integrated by SNA."
The indoor LED displays consisted of OEM-designed panels produced for ATS by Absen. (Image credit: Signagelive)
In addition to the indoor and outdoor LED systems, ATS also designed and integrated a multi-zone Bose Audio System complete with new ATS Core Control touch panels, which enables opera-tions of the entire audio and video systems as well as allows the ATS Technical Services to remotely operate or interrogate the system via the cloud from any device. HD Media Playback is provided using Brandcast Solutions powered by Signagelive and IAdea and allows cloud-based scheduling solutions, which power the large outdoor LED walls on the façade of 10 Times Square.
"We chose Signagelive for this project because of the cloud-based distribution, advanced scheduling interface, and the support of multiple media players such as IAdea, BrightSign, Apple and PCs," Pelzar said. "The media players chosen are 100 percent solid state, providing a long-lasting and highly reliable solution. Signagelive is used to schedule all of the content in the location including the indoor and outdoor LED displays by ATS. [We chose] Signagelive because its cloud-based architecture and workflow allows us to have multiple users access the digital signage in this store from anywhere, on any device, at any time. This has proved to be a major advancement over our own legacy systems and has allowed the ATS creative and technical staff to be more responsive and productive to our clients' needs."
Designed to be flexible, "The Arena" layout of the store allows Champs Sports and its vendor partners to tell key stories in new and creative ways, enhancing the customer shopping experience. Within this new layout, leading athletic brands will have elevated brand experiences with cross-category product offerings, allowing customers to easily navigate by brand and identify sought-after products more efficiently.
"The new Champs Sports store in Time Square demonstrates how digital signage has become core to design and customer experience for progressive retailers," said Jason Cremins, CEO and founder of Signagelive. "Activate the Space understand how to work with major retailers and brands to turn their ideas and stories into high impact digital environments. We are proud to be associated with such an iconic and high-profile project."


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Bill Schneider's expertise is in chemical applications of density functional theory (DFT) simulations. After receiving his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the Ohio State University, he began his professional career in the Ford Motor Company Research Laboratory working on a variety of problems related to the environmental impacts of automobile emissions. At Ford he developed an interest in the catalytic chemistry of NOx for diesel emissions control, and he has published extensively on the chemistry and mechanisms of NOx decomposition, selective catalytic reduction, trapping, and oxidation catalysis. In 2004 he joined the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering faculty at the University of Notre Dame as an Associate Professor. At Notre Dame he has continued his research into the theory and molecular simulation of heterogeneous catalysis, with particular emphasis on reaction environment effects on catalytic materials and their implications for mechanism and reactivity. He was promoted to Professor in 2010 and awarded the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Chair in the College of Engineering in 2016. He has co-authored more than 170 papers and book chapters, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a Senior Editor for The Journal of Physical Chemistry. He makes his home in Granger, Indiana with his three children, Justin, MiMi, and Meredith.


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10 new TV shows you need to watch this winter
Penélope Cruz, Bryan Cranston and Josh Radnor are just a few of the big names appearing in fresh cable and network offerings in the next few months.
10 new TV shows you need to watch this winter Penélope Cruz, Bryan Cranston and Josh Radnor are just a few of the big names appearing in fresh cable and network offerings in the next few months. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2CfZmd2
Kelly Lawler and Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY Published 10:29 p.m. ET Dec. 27, 2017 | Updated 10:42 a.m. ET Jan. 3, 2018
It's cold out there. Stay in and turn to these shows coming to your TV this winter. USA TODAY
Tracey (Rosie Perez) and Lou (Josh Radnor) are forced to settle their differences as heads of a Pennsylvania high school's theater program in NBC's upcoming musical drama 'Rise.'(Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC)
How many of you have ever felt personally victimized by Peak TV?
We know the feeling: lying to your friends that you've been "meaning" to watch The Leftovers when you're not even caught up on Game of Thrones, or wondering how Ray Donovan just scored an eighth Golden Globe nomination when no one but your dad still watches it. There are simply too many series to keep up with — and even more on the way.
But before you start stress-eating those leftover Christmas cookies, take a deep breath and clear some space on your DVR. After sifting through dozens of cable and network offerings, we picked the 10 new shows worth watching this winter.
Bernard (Nathan Lee Graham, left), Captain Dave (Dylan McDermott) and Ronnie (Kim Matula) make up the lovable flight crew of Fox's new ensemble comedy 'LA to Vegas.' (Photo: Fox)
'LA to Vegas' (Fox)
Jan. 2 (Tuesdays, 9 ET/PT)
Low ratings be damned, Fox has a knack for sniffing out whip-smart, offbeat workplace sitcoms, especially Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Grinder and The Mindy Project. The network has another potential gem with the similarly joke-dense LA to Vegas, an ensemble comedy set on that 45-minute flight between Los Angeles and Sin City. Dylan McDermott (The Practice) soars as a cocky pilot, but it's the colorful cast of sardonic flight attendants and kooky passengers that helps stick the landing. — PR
Common in 'The Chi.' (Photo: Showtime)
'The Chi' (Showtime)
Jan. 7 (Sundays, 10 ET/PT)
The new series, set in Chicago, is masterminded by Lena Waithe, who in September became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for comedy writing for her work on Master of None. The Chi, also produced by Common, is a colorful and emotional portrait of a group of loosely interconnected residents of the city, including a pre-teen struggling with growing up (Alex Hibbert, Moonlight) and a young man (Jason Mitchell) struggling to commit to a relationship. — KL
Terrence Howard in 'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams.' (Photo: Elizabeth Sisson/Amazon)
'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' (Amazon)
Following in the footsteps of Netflix's Black Mirror, Electric Dreams is a sci-fi anthology with a new story in every episode. Its 10 tales are based on writings of Philip K. Dick, who penned The Man in the High Castle and whose Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? inspired Blade Runner. The episodes span the near (and far) future and veer from familiar locales to exotic new worlds, and feature Terrence Howard, Bryan Cranston, Steve Buscemi and Anna Paquin. — KL
Cress Williams as Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning on 'Black Lightning.' (Photo: Bob Mahoney/The CW)
'Black Lightning' (CW)
Jan. 16 (Tuesdays, 9 ET/PT)
The latest superhero saga feels different than CW's previous DC Comics series. Created by husband-and-wife team Salim and Mara Brock Akil (The Game, Girlfriends), Black Lightning, unlike many other series, doesn't tell an origin story of a young, naïve hero learning his powers. Instead, it's the story of a mature hero who is also a parent, educator and community leader who put his heroics aside but dons the costume and mask againin a time of need. As played by Cress Williams, Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning is an electric new addition. — KL
Penelope Cruz as Donatella Versace on 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.' (Photo: Jeff Daly/FX)
'The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story' (FX)
Jan. 17 (Wednesdays, 10 ET/PT)
In its follow-up to 2016's lauded The People v. O.J. Simpson, the anthology series from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk turns its attention to another high-profile murder of the 1990s: The death of renowned fashion designer Gianni Versace (Edgar Ramírez), and the story of serial killer Andrew Cunanan (Darren Criss). The cast includes Penélope Cruz as Versace's sister, Donatella. — KL
Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans and Daniel Bruhl on 'The Alienist.' (Photo: Kata Vermes/TNT)
'The Alienist' (TNT)
Jan. 22 (Mondays, 9 ET/PT)
Based on the best-selling novel by Caleb Carr, the limited series from Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Beasts of No Nation) and Jakob Verbruggen (Black Mirror) follows the investigation by a criminal psychologist (Daniel Brühl) of brutal murders of young male New York prostitutes in 1896. The drama is a dark, violent and stylized affair, with co-stars Luke Evans as a newspaper illustrator and Dakota Fanning as a secretary who hopes to become a detective. — KL
Greg (Tim Robbins), a philosophy professor, and lawyer wife Audrey (Holly Hunter) are parents of adopted children from around the world in HBO's 'Here and Now.' (Photo: Ali Paige Goldstein/HBO)
'Here and Now' (HBO)
Feb. 11 (Sundays, 9 ET/PT)
Trust us: We still have PTSD from the excessively preachy, werepanther-populated last few seasons of True Blood. But we're willing to try a bite of creator Alan Ball's next HBO outing, which is described as a "darkly comic meditation on the disparate forces polarizing present-day American culture." Centered on a multi-ethnic family of adopted children, the promise of a button-pushing, racially diverse cable show is enough to pique our interest. Throw in Oscar winners Tim Robbins and Holly Hunter as their parents, and we've already renewed our HBO subscription. — PR
Annie (Mae Whitman, left), Beth (Christina Hendricks) and Ruby (Retta) are moms who break bad in NBC's 'Good Girls.' (Photo: Josh Stringer/NBC)
'Good Girls' (NBC)
Feb. 26 (Mondays, 10 ET/PT)
Don't be fooled by the quippy, bubblegum-pink marketing: This estrogen-fueled thrill ride isn't playing around. Created by Scandal's Jenna Bans, Good Girls is a dark, suburban melodrama about three moms (Christina Hendricks, Retta and Mae Whitman) who are pushed to the edge by cheating husbands and insurmountable bills, and decide to rob a grocery store. But no cleanup on Aisle 5 can get them out of this mess, as a vengeful gang and pervy boss threaten to blow their cover. — PR
Detectives Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) and Charlie Hicks (Jim Sturgess) struggle to enforce the law at the end of the world in Hulu's 'Hard Sun.' (Photo: Hulu)
'Hard Sun' (Hulu)
We still have another four months to go until we learn where Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is being carted off in The Handmaid's Tale. So praise be to Hulu for tiding us over with two new dramas: The Looming Tower, starring Jeff Daniels (Feb. 28), and broody detective series Hard Sun, the latest from Luther creator Neil Cross. Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn are magnetic as reluctant crime-fighting partners, while the show's pre-apocalyptic twist — set five years before an irreversible, world-ending disaster — gives it a unique urgency. — PR
Auli'i Cravalho as Lilette Suarez, Damon J. Gillespie as Robbie Thorne in 'Rise.' (Photo: Peter Kramer/NBC)
'Rise' (NBC)
March 13 (Tuesdays, 10 ET/PT, then 9 ET/PT as of March 20)
Rise's premise is all too familiar: A starry-eyed teacher (How I Met Your Mother's Josh Radnor) helps a ragtag bunch of high-schoolers come together and find their collective voice on stage. But if you're expecting another Auto-Tuned knockoff of Glee, then you'll be happy to know that co-creator Jason Katims (Parenthood, Friday Night Lights) injects the played-out genre with refreshingly authentic characters, who go up against stick-in-the-mud townsfolk to perform provocative play Spring Awakening. As musical mentors, Radnor and Rosie Perez impress. But it's the talented young cast — led by Moana's Auli'i Cravalho — that steals the spotlight. — PR
The selection of great TV shows continues to expand with more avenues for people to promote their craft. Here are USA TODAY's 10 best TV shows of 2017. Wochit
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Off-Contract Harms: The Real Effect of Liberal Rescission Rights on Contract Price
Michael Aikins
This Essay also shows that, even if we assume that Brooks and Stremitzer are correct in arguing that sellers will be induced to lower prices, the redistribution of contracting surplus from seller to buyer that Brooks and Stremitzer predict will not result; the seller can simply recapture surplus by requiring up-front payments from the buyer. Moreover, insofar as rescission rights are worth more to low-value consumers, they effectively allow the seller to offer the good in question more cheaply to these consumers, much as a coupon would. And, like a coupon, this allows the seller to price discriminate and therefore to shift to herself some consumer surplus. Again, this is the opposite result of what Brooks and Stremitzer predict in their article.
I. Rescission Rights and the Seller's Incentive To Lower Prices
Before critiquing Brooks and Stremitzer's argument, this Part briefly lays out its mechanics. To be maximally charitable to their argument, I take as given the simplified legal framework they adopt, which includes only the right to rescission and the right to expectation damages and does not consider other relevant aspects of American contract law like the degree of perfection required in the tender or the seller's right to cure.
The right to rescission and restitution allows a consumer to cancel a contract following breach by a seller and to receive back the contract price. A consumer will opt for rescission and restitution only when the contract is a losing one—that is, where the price exceeds the value of performance to the consumer. Adding some friction to the picture, rescission only will be attractive where the costs of opting for rescission are less than the loss that otherwise would be incurred by affirming the contract. If a suit is priced at $500, for example, and the value to the consumer turns out to be only $450, he will return the suit so long as the cost of doing so (in terms of time, hassle, transportation, etc.) is less than $50. Return can be very costly to the seller because she may be able to resell the suit only at a large discount, if at all (assuming, as Brooks and Stremitzer do, that the seller and buyer will not bargain to a different price). "By lowering the price," Brooks and Stremitzer argue, "the seller can reduce the likelihood that the buyer will want to rescind the contract."
If we broaden the analysis to include multiple buyers, the effect they predict holds for some buyers. To illustrate, imagine that a suit is priced at $500 and turns out to be worth $100 less than the consumer anticipated because of a defect in quality. If the cost of return is $50, all those consumers who valued the suit between $500 and $550 ex ante and between $400 and $450 ex post will return the suit. These returns are costly to the seller. But if the seller lowers the price to $450, then the value anticipated and attained by all of these consumers increases by $50 and none of them opt to return. That these consumers no longer opt for rescission saves the seller the considerable cost of reselling the used goods at a reduced price. In Figure 1 below, the curve D represents the demand for the good (i.e., the value placed on it by consumers), and the curve D' represents the demand for the good if consumers were aware of the defect before purchase (i.e., the value placed on it by consumers after the flaw has been discovered).
Brooks & Stremitzer's Effect
With the $50 drop in price, the consumer will now choose rescission only if his ex post valuation of the suit (D') does not fall below $400. This is because a consumer receives $400 by returning the suit (the $450 contract price less the $50 cost of return). Previously, the consumer would have returned wherever D' was below $450. By lowering the price, the seller thus prevents a number of consumers (X) from returning the suits. This, Brooks and Stremitzer argue, can induce the seller to lower her prices, which is socially desirable because it leads to redistribution in favor of the buyer and can curb the seller's monopoly power where this power exists.
However, the overall effect on the number of returns is not so clear. What Brooks and Stremitzer critically omit in their analysis is the entry of new buyers after the price drop. Lowering the price to $450 means that the group of people who value the suit anywhere between $450 and $500 will now buy it. These consumers derive the least surplus from purchasing the suit and are most likely therefore to return it. In fact, given a $50 return cost, all of these new consumers will choose to return the suit upon finding that it is worth $100 less than they anticipated. So there is in effect a substitution, and not a diminishment, of consumers who rescind. And although the frequency with which buyers choose to rescind may be lowered because there are now a larger number of overall buyers, there is little reason to think that the seller would be concerned with frequency. Instead, she will calculate the aggregate costs of rescission, which remain constant. The substitution of rescinding customers can be seen in Figure 2 below:
The Substitution Effect
Although the group of consumers who value the suit between $500 and $550 ex ante (X) will no longer return the suit after the seller lowers the price, the group of consumers who value the suit between $450 and $500 ex ante (Y) will now buy and return the suit. Recall that all those consumers whose ex post value (D') is less than $400 will return the suit. At the original price of $500, those consumers represented by the region X are in an identical position with respect to the decision to seek restitution as are those consumers represented by the region Y at the new price of $450. Contrary to Brooks and Stremitzer's claim, the seller will therefore not be induced to lower prices by reason of discouraging rescission.
With a concave up demand curve, which is a more accurate representation of demand for a normal good like suits, Brooks and Stremitzer's argument is even more problematic, as a drop in price results in an increase in the aggregate number of customers who return the suit. As can be seen from Figure 3 below, after a drop in price the number of customers no longer rescinding (X) is less than the number of new entrants who will choose to rescind (Y):
Concave Up Demand Curve
Under these circumstances, liberal rescission rights would induce the seller to increase prices, all else being equal. This, of course, is the opposite of the incentive predicted by Brooks and Stremitzer.
One might argue in response that certain assumptions about the distribution of consumer valuations underlie both of the above examples and that under other circumstances a reduction in contract price would lower the number of rescinding consumers. But I do not mean to argue that this reduction can never occur. I mean to show only that, under some common distributional assumptions, the reduction does not occur, or that a drop in contract price may actually lead to an increase in the number of rescinding consumers. Therefore, without any evidence as to the likely distribution of consumer values and the corresponding incentives for sellers, we must remain agnostic as to the desirability of rescission rights by reason of their effect on price.
A further problem with Brooks and Stremitzer's argument, as expanded to consider multiple buyers, is that reducing the contract price creates inframarginal effects that are costly for the seller. If the seller lowers the price of a suit from $500 to $450, she will lose $50 on every suit that she sells where the buyer does not seek rescission. Thus, even if we take as given Brooks and Stremitzer's claim that reducing contract price will reduce the likelihood of rescission, it does not follow that the seller will have an incentive to lower price. Rather, the amount saved by reducing the frequency of rescission must outweigh these inframarginal costs in order for the seller to be induced to lower price.
II. Some Complications of the Effect on Price
For simplicity, the foregoing argument made two assumptions: (1) there is a defect in all of the suits sold such that the consumer's ex ante anticipated valuation is always lower than his ex post actual valuation, and (2) the drop in value to the consumer that results from a defect is independent of the consumer's ex ante valuation. Abandoning the first of these assumptions tends to show that a drop in price will increase the number of consumers opting for return, and abandoning the second tends to show the opposite.
In the real world, not all of the suits sold would have an identical defect. Instead, there would be some probability of a defect that lowers the value to the consumer and also some probability that the suit will be worth more than the consumer's anticipated valuation (e.g., because the consumer comes to like the fit better, or because many wedding invitations were accepted after the purchase). The consumer's ex post valuation would thus be some distribution of values with corresponding probabilities and the ex ante demand curve can be seen as a weighted mean. However, as discussed in Part I, this complication has no effect on the substitution of rescinding consumers, because the new consumers are in the same position as the old, whether their ex post values are probabilistic or not. We can illustrate this graphically:
The Probabilistic Model
Because the probability of return does not depend on the absolute price of the suit, but rather on the price relative to a consumer's ex ante valuation, the consumers represented by the shaded triangles have identical probabilities of return. The only difference between the two situations, then, is the group of consumers shown after the price drop (Z). Assuming that those consumers have some nonzero probability of returning the good, there will be a greater number of returns after the price drop. All else being equal, this adds an incentive for sellers to raise, rather than to lower, their prices.
The argument in Part I also assumed that the difference between the ex ante and ex post value to the consumer was independent of the consumer's ex ante valuation (in my example, it was always a flat $100). There might be reason to think, however, that this difference would be a percentage of (or some other function positively correlated with) the ex ante value rather than a flat number in certain cases. If, for instance, the consumer discovers a flaw in the suit, one might think that he is likely to discount the value of the suit by a greater amount the more he values the suit. Thus, the flaw might lower the value by 10 percent: $100 for the consumer who valued the suit at $1000 and $50 for the one who valued it at $500. After all, a flat $100 drop would not be possible for the consumer who values the suit at less than $100. If we assume that the drop between ex ante and ex post value to the consumer decreases as the consumer's utility gained from the product decreases, the valuations for the product can be depicted as follows:
Variable Drop In Value
Thus, the new buyers who enter because of the price drop have a smaller gap between their ex ante and ex post values than those who would have bought the suit prior to the price drop. In other words, these new buyers care less about the flaw in the good and are correspondingly less likely to opt for rescission and restitution. As depicted in the graph, the buyers who would have rescinded before the drop in price (X) are more numerous than those who will rescind after the price drop (Y). Therefore, a price drop marginally decreases the number of rescinding consumers under the assumptions here. This decrease, however, may be outweighed by the increase in the number of rescissions that occurs if we assume a concave up demand curve or probabilistic ex post values, as shown above, or by the inframarginal effects of a drop in price.
The more general lesson to be drawn here is that the effect of rescission rights on price becomes much richer and more complex once we broaden the analysis beyond Brooks and Stremitzer's single buyer-seller relationship.
III.Rescission Rights and the Broader Market
We have seen that there is good reason to doubt that lowering prices will lead to a decrease in the number of rescinding consumers. If we set aside the effect of price on the probability of rescission and therefore also the incentives of a seller to raise or lower prices to affect this probability, there are independent reasons to think that a liberal provision of these rights will actually increase the cost of goods. Again, an analysis of these effects requires moving from the single buyer-seller context to a consideration of the effect of rescission rights on the market as a whole. Once this perspective is adopted, we see that rescission rights provide a valuable insurance function for consumers and increase the seller's marginal costs, both of which will tend to raise the price for the good in question. This Part also demonstrates that the redistribution from seller to buyer posited by Brooks and Stremitzer—insofar as it actually occurs—will be skewed in favor of those consumers who derive the least surplus from purchase, which effectively allows the seller to price discriminate.
The right to receive back the price paid for an item effectively caps the potential loss on the purchase at the transaction costs of the return. Wherever the loss to the consumer is greater than the cost of return, he will simply return the good and incur this cost. To take the example above, the consumer who values the suit at exactly $500 would have lost $100 on the contract but for the rescission right. With the rescission right, the consumer returns the good and incurs only the $50 cost of return. This cap on the downside can be seen as a kind of insurance and is, of course, worth something to consumers. Just as consumers are willing to pay a higher price for goods that are more easily returnable, they will be willing to pay a higher price for goods where rescission rights are more liberal. So liberal rescission rights push the demand curve outward.
This increase, however, is not uniform for all consumers. Rescission rights that give the consumer back the contract price are worth more to those consumers who value the product least because it is these consumers who are most likely to make use of the rights. If, for instance, the value of a suit to a consumer is $1000 and its price is only $500, it is much less likely that a defect in quality will lead this consumer to opt for rescission than it would be for the consumer who values the suit at only $600. It may be useful, therefore, to think of the right to rescission as an option that is much further out of the money (and therefore less valuable) to the high-value consumer than it is to the low-value one. The redistribution effects that Brooks and Stremitzer posit would therefore not be simply from seller to buyer but also would favor low-value rather than high-value consumers. High-value users would effectively subsidize the provision of these rights to low-value consumers.
Moreover, because rescission rights are worth more to low-value consumers, rescission rights effectively allow the seller to offer the good in question more cheaply to these consumers. This price discrimination allows the seller to shift to herself some consumer surplus. Again, this is the opposite result of the redistribution in favor of the buyer that Brooks and Stremitzer predict. Rescission rights therefore function much as a coupon does, providing a discount to low-value consumers and allowing sellers thereby to discriminate.
On the supply side, the seller's marginal costs increase with the increasing liberality of rescission rights and the corresponding increase in the number of returns. Liberal rescission rights also can be expected to lead to more aggressive use and experimentation on the part of consumers, who are emboldened by the insurance that these rights provide. The seller will anticipate these increased costs and gross up the price charged. The effect of liberal rescission rights on both demand and supply thus can be depicted as follows:
Value and Cost of Rescission Rights
The price charged under a regime of liberal rescission rights (P2) is thus higher than that charged under a regime of more constrained rescission rights (P1). These broader effects further demonstrate that Brooks and Stremitzer's conclusion regarding lower prices under a regime of liberal rescission may be unfounded.
IV. The Redistribution Effect
Even if we assume that Brooks and Stremitzer are correct in arguing that liberal rescission rights will induce sellers to lower their prices, it is not the case that this leads to a "redistribution effect," shifting surplus from the seller to the buyer.
Brooks and Stremitzer argue that the seller cannot take back the surplus that shifts to the buyer as a result of the drop in price. Price is the usual tool for adjusting the distribution of surplus among parties, and in this case the seller is not free to raise the contract price because raising the price increases the probability of rescission (again, taking Brooks and Stremitzer's claims about the seller's incentive to lower price as given). But what Brooks and Stremitzer overlook is that the seller could simply charge a nonrefundable deposit to "recapture" the surplus that shifts to the buyer as a result of a drop in price. The inability to directly adjust the distribution of contracting surplus through the contract price thus does not limit in any way the seller with market power from charging the buyer for a more expansive right of rescission.
Brooks and Stremitzer's neglect of this possibility is especially striking in light of the fact that they encounter the same issue when explaining how price can be used as a lever to adjust quality investment incentives under their rescission scheme: "When price acts as a lever to adjust incentives, however, it is not available as a tool to distribute the surplus among the parties. To achieve the distribution of surplus that reflects the parties' respective bargaining powers, the parties therefore have to rely on up-front payments." In precisely the same way, the seller could use up-front payments to make the buyer pay for the expansion of his rescission rights and to recapture the surplus that otherwise would shift to the buyer because of the drop in the contract price. The result is no redistribution effect even if we take as given the seller's incentive to lower prices.
Once we broaden the analysis beyond a single buyer-seller relationship, the effect of liberal rescission rights on price becomes ambiguous. At the very least, Brooks and Stremitzer's claim that a reduction in price will contribute to "considerably reduc[ing] the frequency with which the buyer chooses rescission" must be qualified. Although they are careful to note only that a seller may be induced to lower her price under a regime of liberal rescission rights, it equally is worth noting that a seller may be induced to do just the opposite. As this Essay has argued, under some very basic distributional assumptions, lower prices would lead to an equal or greater number of consumers who choose to rescind, thus implying an incentive to raise, and not to lower, prices. Moreover, even if we assume that Brooks and Stremitzer are correct in arguing that sellers will be induced to lower prices, no redistribution effect would result because the seller could recapture surplus by requiring up-front payments from the buyer.
Certainly, the observation that under some circumstances rescission can induce a seller to lower her price is remarkable and valuable, but until the likelihood of these circumstances is established, we should remain agnostic on the question of whether liberal rescission rights are desirable for this reason. Brooks and Stremitzer, however, go beyond this point to argue for a policy change favoring liberal rescission rights. Before this move can be made, much more has to be shown in terms of both the likelihood that prices will be lowered and the corresponding likelihood of distributive effects and effects on a seller's monopoly power. Brooks and Stremitzer have thus failed to establish one of the two principal reasons that they offer in support of liberal rescission rights.
Michael Aikins is an Articles Editor of The Yale Law Journal and a member of the Yale Law School Class of 2012. The author would like to thank George Priest for his oversight of this project; Richard Brooks, Yair Listokin, Alan Schwartz, Brad Tennis, and Jason Wu for their helpful comments; and Ramya Kasturi and the editors of The Yale Law Journal Online.
Preferred Citation: Michael Aikins, Off-Contract Harms: The Real Effect of Liberal Rescission Rights on Contract Price, 121 Yale L.J. Online 69 (2011), http://yalelawjournal.org/forum/off-contract-harms-the-real-effect-of-liberal-rescission-rights-on-contract-price.


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Q: javafx, hw do I get valus from main process This is basicly a simple producer - consumer application.
The code example is the following:
public class MyMainClass extends Application {

    // blocking queue that will be shared among my prcesses
    BlockingQueue bq;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage primaryStage) {
        primaryStage.setTitle("Hello World!");

        // parameters I wont the Thread passes to the server socket
        TextArea parameters = new TextArea("parameters-for-the-server");

        // setting the Producer button
        Button btnProducer = new Button();
        btnProducer.setText("Start Producer");
        btnProducer.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

            @Override
            public void handle(ActionEvent event) {

              /* ReadSocket connects to a web sockets,
                reads strings and saves them into a shared blocking queue: bq*/
                ReadSocket rs = new ReadSocket(bq);
                new Thread(rs).start();
            }
            // setting the Consumer button
            Button btnConsumer = new Button();
            btnConsumer.setText("Start Consumer");
            btnConsumer.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

                @Override
                public void handle(ActionEvent event) {

                  /* ReadSocket connects to a web sockets,
                    reads strings and saves them into a shared blocking queue: bq*/
                    Consumer c = new Consumer(bq);
                    new Thread(c).start();
                }
        });

        StackPane root = new StackPane();
        root.getChildren().add(btn);
        primaryStage.setScene(new Scene(root, 300, 250));
        primaryStage.show();
    }
}

My professor said that I should pass values in the constructor if I want them to be available to other objects.
My ReadSocket should look like something like this:
public class ReadSocket{
  BlockingQueue bq;

  ReadSocket(bq){
    this.bq = bq;
    // more code
  }
    /*I need here parameters in order to create an object o
    that will be used to create another object ms*/
    MyObject o = new MyObjext("parameters-for-the-server");
    MyServer ms = new MyServer(o);
}

So, does it mean I have to pass my values like:
ReadSocket rs = new ReadSocket(bq, parameters.getText());
even if the ReadSocket is not using them directly but creates an object based on parameters ? Is this correct to do?
Is there any other better way?

A: There are two ways you can do this. One using constructor and other using setter method. But as you mention that your professor suggested you to pass parameters using constructor so that these parameter are available to other objects.
Just make sure that you are storing reference to the parameters passed via constructor
public class ReadSocket{

  BlockingQueue bq;
  String parameters;

  ReadSocket(BlockingQueue bq, String parameters)
  {
    this.bq = bq;
    this.parameters = parameters;

  }

  private void createOtherObjects()
  {
    MyObject o = new MyObjext(this.parameters);
    MyServer ms = new MyServer(o);
  }

}

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Assessing and Addressing the Needs of the Poor
April 11, 2017 Rosie Perez
Providence St. Joseph Health consistently works to identify health problems of the poor and marginalized. With the help of many partners, it is able to provide real solutions.
Health care has evolved dramatically since 1912 when the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange ministered to victims of the flu epidemic in Eureka, California.
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Identifying the needs of all O.C. communities and reaching those who need help most is the ongoing work of St. Joseph Health, and it often requires innovative practices. This means reaching the community beyond our hospital walls, says Perez.
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"Affordable housing is the foundation of good health," says Perez. "Orange County housing is expensive, people who are dealing with a lot of health issues risk losing their housing."
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Aqua Furnishings specialises in marine soft furnishings, using fabric suitable for a marine environment. They offer curtains and blinds that stay flush to sloping walls; box seating cushions in fabrics that are soil and stain resistant, outdoor seating cushions in water resistant or water proof fabric; lastly made to measure mattresses using Freshtec toppings that allow air to circulate and keep you cool.
All these products will be demonstrated at the Crick Boat Show, including their own brand of 'Aqua by Design' fabrics. Curtains and roman blinds will be on show in the canal collection, a design inspired by the inland waterways, featuring narrowboats, locks, bridges and wildlife in different seasons. In this design, you can choose suitable fabrics for windows, seating and have bespoke items made to order such as bedspreads, armchairs and porthole bungs. NEW this year is the nautical fabric collection, featuring yachts, lighthouses and boating wheels. In addition, Aqua by Design has developed a range of 100% organic cotton homeware accessories and 'zero waste' gifts– using fabric that would otherwise have gone to waste. All homeware and gifts will be available to purchase at the show.
Bespoke box cushions for dinette & saloon seating areas will be at the show, you can sit on example box seating in the consultation corner and see a range of other cushions, fabric choices, and finishes available.
This year you can pre-book an appointment with Aqua Furnishing at Crick Boat Show. Bring with you the measurements of the seating or windows, you look at fabric choices and we'll do an estimate.
Tel 01283 585718 or email helllo@aquafurnishings.co.uk to pre-book an appointment or request a quote online www.aquafurnishings.co.uk.
Exciting times are ahead for Derbyshire based boat builder Aqua Narrowboats who have gained planning permission to build a 7500sqft purpose built factory in Foston, Derbyshire. The facility, which will include a 40 tonne crane and boat testing tank, will enable the business to increase production to allow them to build two new boats at a time, which will include both narrowboats and widebeam boats.
The company, who have been based at Mercia Marina for 9 years, have seen steady growth since establishing in 2004.
As part of the development a dedicated reception and showroom will be built. This will provide much needed space for their boat build customers as well as customers of their newly launched Aqua Furnishings business. This side of the business supplies and retails seating, blinds and soft furnishings for new and existing boat owners, and has also seen steady growth since launching in early 2017.
The increase in production and growth means that Aqua Narrowboats will be recruiting additional skilled craft people to keep up with demand. They will also be taking on new Apprentices to increase young talent and skills that the boat building industry is currently lacking.
As part of the expansion the company will also be relocating their luxury hire boats to Barton Turns Marina, on the Trent & Mersey Canal in Staffordshire. This move will allow hirers quicker access onto the main canal network at Fradley Junction, gaining them an additional days cruising on a holiday.
"This is a fantastic opportunity for us, and the whole team are keen to move in so that we can continue to be progressive and innovate the inland boating building industry.
We have enjoyed our time at Mercia Marina but we out grew the premises a number of years ago and have been unable to expand at the site.
Our new development which we move into in September 2018, will provide us with much needed space allowing us to increase production and productivity.
The factory will also provide a showroom and reception allowing us to create a better experience for both our Boat Build and Aqua Furnishings customers, something that we have aspired to for a number of years.
Aqua Narrowboats was established in 2004 with one hire boat fitted out by Justin and Jane Hudson-Oldroyd. The boat operated from Kings Bromley Marina and proved very popular. Another self-built boat was added in 2006 and the business continued to expand.
In 2008 a 10 year lease was obtained for the workshop at the newly built Mercia Marina and the hire boats were moved down from Kings Bromley. A Carpenter and Marine Engineer were taken on to expand the business into bespoke boat building and marine repairs. Throughout the recession the business has seen steady growth and now employs a total of 13 staff.
There are currently no plans to start building steel boat shells – these will continue to be outsourced from reputable shell builders.
Marine Engineering Work will cease at the end of 2017, other than work already booked in.
The Factory will be occupied from late September 2018 and the premises at Mercia Marina vacated in October 2018. The hire boats will be moved across to Barton Turns in January 2018 ready for the start of the season in March.
The new development will be freehold and owned entirely by Aqua Narrowboats.
Aqua Furnishings was successfully launched at Crick Boat Show 2017 and proved very popular with the canal boat community. The company has been established by boat builder Aqua Narrowboats who have developed years of narrowboat interior experience and supply contacts. They have developed a range of smart solutions for small spaces such as roman and venetian blinds that are flush to the walls, all in a range of over 120 fabrics. Customers can then match stunning porthole cushion liners and scatter cushions with the same fabrics. Furthermore galley inventory can also be matched to create a truly stunning interior style and design.
Narrowboat furniture is always difficult to find due to the limited space in a canal boat. However, Aqua Furnishings have found 3 luxury reclining chairs, petite enough to fit in your canal boat whilst still offering reclining and swivel features. These items of furniture proved most popular at the show, many customers trying out the new chairs and feedback was very positive.
The furniture store aims to be a one stop shop for people buying a new or used boat. It aims to help boaters turn their dream boat into a stylish and beautiful interior space. We have established links with boat builders, marinas and brokerages, so Aqua furnishings can deliver to marinas across the midlands or to your boat builder. You can even book a visit with a sales consultant who will visit you at your boat and show you the range of fabrics and products we have to offer and help you measure.


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By Emily Paster
A Mexican Jewish babka is taking over Chicago
Sufganiyot bursting with dulce de leche and pumpkin cream. Savory babkas swirled with roasted poblano peppers and crema. Mexican-inspired Jewish pastries from a new, online-only bakery are bringing exciting new flavors to Chicago's Jewish food scene and Chicagoans of all backgrounds are already addicted.
Founded by two Mexico City natives, Masa Madre offers a limited selection of made-to-order treats, many of which draw on co-founder Tamar Fasja Unikel's Jewish heritage. Among Masa Madre's offerings are several flavors of babka, challahs and a rotating selection of seasonal treats that change with the Mexican, American and Jewish calendars—from Pan de Muerto for the Mexican Day of the Dead to Thanksgiving pecan pies to rugelach and Hanukkah sufganiyot.
"Mexicans, Americans, and Jewish people are all very excited because there is something that they can relate to, but still try something new," Unikel says.
Indeed, although the business is only a few months old, Masa Madre has attracted lots of attention and loyal customers with its unique flavor combinations and personal, artisanal approach to baking.
"We do everything [to] order," Unikel says. "We make every order by hand. It's a different experience. You get a special treat that was packaged just for you."
Not only do Unikel and her partner, Elena Vázquez Felgueres, make everything by hand, they put their hearts and their heritage into each of their unique creations. Both women have day jobs—Felgueres teaches yoga and Unikel teaches kids' cooking classes as well as maintains a food blog called Ssugarpill — but they get up early and stay up late to bake for their customers.
The longtime friends met at university in Mexico City when both were studying fashion design, but Elena soon switched gears to attend culinary school and then cooked in restaurants in Spain and Mexico. Unikel worked in fashion for a time but eventually moved to Chicago where her husband was pursuing a doctorate in biblical studies.
When Elena ended up in Chicago a few years later, the two friends were determined to find a way to work together. They launched a business selling sourdough bread and babka, which Unikel had learned to bake when living in Israel. The sourdough soon fell by the wayside and the friends honed in on a highly curated menu of pastries anchored by the babka. Why babka?
"My grandmother is a baker and she is Ashkenazi, and I really felt like it was part of my heritage," Unikel says. Babka "is something that people here didn't really have. I had tried it in New York and Boston and I loved it and I couldn't really find it in Chicago."
Not only is Masa Madre's rich, not-too-sweet babka arguably the best in Chicago, like all of Masa Madre's other offerings it reflects Unikel and Felgueres's Mexican roots. Unikel grew up in Mexico City's thriving Jewish community with both Ashkenazi and Sephardic ancestry.
"My grandparents came from Syria on my dad's side and Poland on my mom's side," Unikel says. "They've been in Mexico for over a hundred years, so of course there's a lot of mix in the food culture."
From the beginning, Unikel and Felgueres knew they wanted Masa Madre's treats to mix Mexican and Jewish cuisine.
"We're both Mexican; we're not both Jewish," Unikel says. "Elena has shown me the recipes that she grew up with and I [showed her] mine. When I tell her about a holiday or a Jewish thing I want to do, she is quick to understand it."
Felgueres' professional training and extensive work experience in the pastry field has helped as well.
"She has a lot more experience in baking than I do," Unikel says about her partner. "And she brings a lot of the Mexican flavors."
Mixing Mexican flavors into traditional Jewish dishes, at least on the savory side, has been happening in Mexico for centuries. But not in dessert.
"This isn't something that is happening in Mexico that much," Unikel notes. Among Masa Madre's diverse clientele, Jewish Latinos, in particular, "have been very excited to see the mix of the two [cuisines]." Even Unikel was surprised to learn how many Jews from Latin America, or with Latin American roots, are in Chicago.
The bakers also were influenced by their shared Chicago neighborhood, Pilsen. Unikel calls it "amazing."
"It's mostly Mexican. The interesting thing is that it was started as a Polish neighborhood," Unikel says. "So I feel like what we are doing is a mix of those two: an Eastern European and a Mexican thing."
In return, the neighborhood has embraced Masa Madre.
"So far, [the residents of Pilsen] have been very receptive," Unikel says gratefully.
Unikel is keeping mum on what unique treats Masa Madre will offer for spring holidays.
"We think about [holiday items] about a week in advance," Unikel says with a laugh. "We are going one step at a time."
There is one secret that Unikel is willing to share: She and her husband are expecting their first child in June. But she plans to keep baking.
"I don't know what is going to be happening with the business then," Unikel says. "But I am happy I will be able to keep working from home."
Chicago-area babka lovers are counting on it.
This article originally appeared on The Nosher.
Emily Paster writes the widely admired blog West of the Loop, which is primarily about food but with forays into parenting and family life. She is the co-founder of the Chicago Food Swap and is a national leader in the growing food swap movement (community get-togethers where handmade foods are bartered and exchanged). She is the author of the book "Food Swap" [Storey 2016]." She has appeared numerous times on food and cooking segments for the major TV network affiliates in Chicago.


Our prediction of a dearer market rang true as the past two weeks of consolidation led to a solid basis for a reasonable volume of wool to be traded. Most exporters booked up wool late last week and early this week and this, coupled with the falling exchange rate, augured well for a rise in the market. The market was off to a flying start on Wednesday as most indicators recorded 10 to 35 cent gains. The finer indicators (finer than 17.5) failed to fire to finish in buyers' favour. The rises weren't as pronounced on the final day of trading with gains of up to 10 cents. Most notable was the shrinking discounts for VM and colour and cott. Some of our fleece lots with colour and soft cott made up to 20 cents clean more than same micron lots with the only fault being VM. One buyer we spoke to thought the discounts for VM in the 2 to 5 % range had halved with big volumes of these types being booked up over the past few days. This week's rising market saw us sell every lot, our first 100% clearance. 57% of our fleece lots made over 1000 cents with the average greasy price for fleece wool in Sydney this week at 1079 c/kg. This compares favourably with Melbourne - their fleece price was 896 cents - despite the Sydney offering just 0.9 micron finer than Melbourne's selection. The highlight was the 25 micron indicator in Melbourne climbing a massive 82 cents.
The good gains weren't confined to the fleece room as skirtings pushed higher on both days. By the close of trade all types and VM levels looked to be 30 to 40 cents up on last week. We had three lots that made over 1000 cents with two lots of Nyngan BKN averaging 610 cents with LKS from Yeoval making 513 cents - a great result! Cardings also pushed higher as the MCI lifted by 26 cents. Locks and Crutchings added 20 to 30 cents while Stains performed the best in this sector with 35 to 40 cent rises. Crossbreds took a breather this week and remained virtually unchanged bar the finer end with 25s mentioned earlier and 26 microns posting a 25 cent rise.
The cycle of upward prices looks to have started again as the EMI added 24 cents to sit at 1294 cents. This rise follows on from the poor start to the resumption of sales after the July recess. The opening two weeks saw the EMI fall 98 cents with the next three sales (including this week) claw back 31 cents. Next week's action moves to Newcastle as they host their first sale of this season. 15,000 bales are rostered with a sprinkling of superfine clips on offer to test demand for this sector of the market. Growers should notice a big difference in prices as some of these types have nearly doubled in value in 12 months. Our new wool store is nearing completion as the shed is practically finished and the office is being built at a rapid rate. Photos are on the website to check progress of construction.


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