"Lisa, honey, my face was as red as could be when I was reading your blog. I was just humiliated for you!
Thanks, Mom. Trust me when I say it was worse living it than reading about it.
Well, I just wanted to tell you that you never should have gone on that date. The first clue to cancel would have been finding the run in your hose. That was God's way of telling you to stay home.
Mom, what are you saying? Jesus was trying to tell me something and I wasn't hearing Him?
Uh, no, Mom, I didn't have time to shower. What does that have to do with anything?
That was your second clue from God. You should have said you had malaria and stayed home. If you're not clean, you shouldn't be going out on a date. Did you have time to take a Texas bath?
Mom, I have no idea what you're talking about… how does Texas factor into this scenario?
A Texas bath is when you use a wet washcloth to wipe "certain" parts of your body and sprinkle yourself with powder. It's also known as a whore bath, but we're not gonna use that term.
Uh, no, I just cleaned up the regular way.
Okay, well, just remember what I said. The next time you decide to go on a date and find a run in your hose, what do you do?
I listen to Jesus and stay home.
That's my girl! I love you and I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye now!
I hang up the phone and sit there gathering my thoughts, or rather what's left of them after having a conversation that included Jesus, pantyhose and the personal hygiene habits of women of questionable moral standards. All this time I've been looking for direction from above only to find out that Jesus was in my sock drawer.


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It's autumn. It's time to bid farewell to flip flops and open toe sandals and dust off your wellies and fleece (or sheep skin for those who are that way inclined)-lined knee-high boots. Although I am not a big fan of cold, I have a dear admiration for the autumnal months… the red trees that line the avenues, the crisp crunch of fallen leaves underfoot, and the hypnotic patter of welcome rain… are but a few of the sensory pleasures that put a smile on my face.
Nevertheless my body invariably switches to hibernation mode – that's "collect carbs and go to sleep" mode in case you were wondering. And that doesn't even account for the gastronomic adventures of Christmas!!! So I usually make a conscious effort to stay in shape.I do not "diet". I enjoy food too much. So I see myself as more of a "conscious eater". It's probably a phrase I have made up (I do that a lot according to my husband), but it means I just stay aware of what I put in, rather than how much per se.
One of the great boons of Indian home cooking is that we use a lot of spices… which inherently have medicinal and health-promoting properties (as well as adding the "Kapow" to my food). Even now, Indian mothers often treat their children's cuts and grazes with turmeric paste in preference to any shop-bought antiseptic creams. It just works! What I'm trying to say is that Indian food is healthy… or at least it should be, but it may need a little tweak to get it there. So there is no need to feel guilty when you are making yourself an Indian snack! I don't (and neither does my other half… who crosses the line between well-meaning appreciation and gluttony with child-like abandon far too often!). For example, try swapping out regular basmati for brown basmati rice or replacing white flour with wholemeal or millet flour. Don't worry – you will not be sacrificing any of the taste!
This brings me to today's recipe. Aloo tikkis are a street food favourite in India! You will often see locals chowing down on these fried potato spiced potato cakes served with chutneys and salad, on the roadsides in India because they're so damned moreish! Unfortunately, although they taste amazing they're probably not the kindest to your waistline. In my recipe I have used exactly the same traditional spices but simply swapped out regular potato for sweet potato, baked instead of fried and served with a kachumber salad (yes… that's not cucumber… but kachumber – I'm not making it up!). I made a batch of 12 of these and my hubby inhaled them within minutes. I'd like to think that was a testament to the taste and not to his hunger!
Place the potatoes inside a plastic carrier bag and tie a knot. Pierce a hole with your finger and cook in a microwave for approximately 12 minutes. (The exact time may vary depending on your microwave and size of potatoes so cook until you can easily place a knife through them).
Allow to cool then peel the skin off (you can easily peel with your fingers) and cut into rough chunks.
Place all the remaining ingredients apart from the oil into a processor. Process everything for 40-50 seconds until it is mixed together well. Check for salt and adjust accordingly. Empty into a bowl.
Grease your hands with oil. Now get a walnut size amount of the sweet potato mixture. Roll into a ball and press down slightly so a patty forms. The width should be about 3-4" wide. Place on the baking tray and repeat with the remaining mixture.
Bake for 10 minutes then turn over and cook for a remaining 10 minutes. Enjoy!
You can make the patties as big or small as you like. If you make bigger ones, they are great in burger buns and make fantastic veggy burgers!


Consider this post my own little TasteSpotting.
I've got several dishes- from breakfast to dinner and dessert-that I have been wanting to post about for a while, but because of time constraints they will never boast their own individual posts. So here they are in picture form with a few recipes to boot.
Perhaps you can glean a little inspiration for your lunch today, or maybe you'll just scroll through and say "Had it. Had it. Made it. Over it." Whatever you choose to do is fine with me, what do I care? Hey, I'm off to do some cooking over an open fire, have tickle fights in the family tent, build some sand castles and enjoy getting back to nature without a battery operated toy for miles around.
I haven't showcased many berry recipes yet this summer, but that doesn't mean we haven't been scarfing them down by the bucket fulls. We've enjoyed them many ways like Mango-Blueberry Lassies and Chocolate-Raspberry Ice Cream Sandwiches (recipe coming soon!) I loved this breakfast dish because it is made up the night before and all you have to do in the morning is bake it off and whip some cream. Don't leave your mixer beating the cream and go check your email, like I did, or your whipped cream will more resemble butter than a creamy topping. Tisk-Tisk.
The night before: Grease two 8 oz ramekins. Line bottom half with bread cubes. Cover with blueberries and cream cheese cubes and top with remaining bread. Mix eggs, milk and syrup together and pour over bread. Cover and let soak overnight in refrigerator.
In the morning: Preheat oven to 350F. (Make your coffee and wake yourself up) Bake for 25-30 minutes or until puffy and golden. Remove from ramekins and serve with your topping of choice and plenty more of that coffee.
If you are lucky enough to get to one of Montreal's fine bagel shops, those bagels are all you really need to enjoy your smoked salmon and cream cheese, but all the other fixings are pretty sweet to spoil yourself and your surprise lunch guests with, too.
I know, I know, I couldn't let these beauties from my own garden go to waste, so I overcame my fear of ingesting bugs and slugs (happened to me IN a restaurant), gave the blossoms a good clean and was so happy I did. They were amazing, as was the sherry mayo I made to go with them. Heavenly.
Everyone's favorite snack, these ones are my Aunt Jenny's specialty: crusty rounds of baguette, oven-roasted, über-ripe sliced tomatoes, sprinkled with fresh herbs and drizzled with olive oil and salt. Serve warm and make lots.
For the bacon-lovers in your family. Toss asparagus in olive oil and season, then wrap with panchetta. Group into rows of about 5 spears each and run a skewer through them to bunch together for easier grilling. Grill over a low flame and serve warm.
Thanks to copious amounts of oregano in my garden, Salmoriglio is a fresh herb sauce I whip up all the time to accompany grilled meats, especially lamb. These chops benefited from an overnight marinade of olive oil, tons of oregano, a touch of rosemary, some lemon zest and plenty of black pepper. The vegetables are picked from my little kitchen garden.
In a mortar and pestle pound the herb leaves and salt until completely crushed. Add the lemon juice. Pour the oil slowly into the mixture. Add a little pepper. Drizzle over grilled meats such as lamb or beef.
Variation: Marjoram, thyme or lemon-thyme can be substituted for oregano.
I'm enjoying immensely the crop of garlic I planted last fall. If you've never tried growing garlic, you are missing out on one of the easiest and rewarding gardening experiences to be had. I forget exactly which month I planted the little cloves (guessing late October) but they were the first thing to poke up out of the ground this spring and now there are hardly any left because I can't stop pulling them up and adding them to everything! You can see the tight, juicy bulb sliced in half in the photo above. It's hard to buy garlic this fresh.
OK, this potato dish really deserves it's own post, but lucky you are getting it now.
Seriously, don't you feel like this post is a virtual Christmas stocking of great recipe ideas?? And there's still more to come!
Every once in a while I come across a potato recipe that stops me in my tracks--the last one being Tartiflette--and this dish is a favorite in my repertoire. I've been making it for ages and meaning to share it...but you know how it goes, it usually gets gobbled up before I can snap a photo.
Oh, and would you believe it? This recipe is also from the River Cafe Cookbook. If you don't own it already, put it on your Christmas List. The garlic and fresh sage is from my garden, the potatoes are not as I am patiently waiting for the plants to flower before I drop on all fours and furrow into the earth to collect my bounty.
The recipe suggests Roseval or similar yellow waxy potatoes, but I have made it with pretty much every kind of potato. Of course, new potatoes are ideal.
Preheat oven to 375F. Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the pancetta over a medium heat. Stir in the garlic, add the sage, cook for a minute and remove from heat. Slice each potato lengthwise (or in 1/2 inch wedges if you are using large potatoes). Place in a large bowl and add the pancetta and oil mixture and the cream. Season with salt and pepper and toss together. Put in a baking dish, making sure that the potato, pancetta and sage are evenly distributed, cover with foil and cook in the oven for 40 minutes.
About 20 minutes before the end of cooking, remove the foil so that the surface of the potatoes become brown. Add a little Parmesan 5 minutes before the end. Enjoy!
We haven't been eating a lot of sweets around here (shocking, I know) but I am showcasing two of my favorite summer desserts from previous posts.
Picking a favorite recipe is like asking which of your children you love more, but these two recipes sprang to mind when I was thinking about fresh summer flavors in desserts. The best part is that they are both minimal effort as well as gorgeous!
So the first dessert is this pretty panacotta with strawberry coulis and fresh strawberries. In the original post I didn't gush overly about my love of panacotta, but it's a love affair that hasn't wavered in many, many years. Originally created by the pastry chefs at Restaurant Toque! many years ago, this cute cone-shaped panacotta was my dinner party dessert of choice for some time. The tops bow and jiggle when you bring them to the table in a comical and inviting way. So cute! Of course any fresh berries would be lovely with this dish and I remember a cherry compote I once made that was a hit, too.
It is nice to have options and here is the second dessert that sums up the lazy days of summer. I created this peach galette to round out a fabulous dessert table for a party my siblings and I threw for my parents last summer. (Read all about it, see the sweet table and get the galette recipe) This rustic dessert was up against some big names in dessert show-biz like Dark Chocolate and Wild Strawberry Cupcakes and Citrus and Cointreau Cheesecake, but at the end of the evening was declared the favorite by many.
Of course, the accompanying whipped cream was in perfect peaks, so that helped!
So there you have it. Now go get cooking and if your tummy isn't rumbling yet, you need help!
Labels: Asparagus, Blueberries, Bon Matin, Comfort Food, How does your garden grow?, What's For Dinner?
Six weeks ago, I invited you to participate in a Jam, Jelly and Preserve swap, scheduled to happen late this fall. I promised to keep you abreast of the details and so here is the latest news, hot off the press!
If this is the first you have heard of Under the High Chair's Jam Swap, read more about it in the official invitation!
OK, I've been meaning to post this update for a while now and encourage everyone in their canning endevours, but how could I light a fire under those of you who are still undecided when I myself had not yet gotten started on preserving summer? Fortunately this week I managed to make a batch of fresh local Raspberry-Vanilla Bean Jam, so now I can at least say that I have gotten a jump on my home canning! I still have many little jars to fill ( love these ones from Canadian Tire) and am waiting for inspiration to hit me for the next batch.
So, for the update!! I was thrilled with the response I received back in June to the invitation and heartily thank those of you who emailed and left comments. A few people have been asking if the swap is still happening and let me reassure you, we are in like Flynn!
Good news, we have a date set!
The swap will be on Sunday, November 9 sometime in the afternoon. It's not too close to Christmas, but late enough to turn those October apples into butter and sauce. I will booking a location once I have a better idea of how many people will be attending. Just a reminder, if you are interested in participating, just leave a comment or send me an email and let me know. If you have an idea what you are bringing, that would be good information to have as well. Again, read the initial invitation for suggestions and requirements on how to participate. Also, please feel free to email at any time if you have any questions or suggestions to help make this event a success!
It is great to see people getting excited about this swap!! In addition to a group of about twenty local participants (so far), we will be welcoming readers who are making the trip from Quebec City and Ottawa. Talk about dedication! I have received a few emails detailing what people are bringing and the line-up is tantalizing; I'm particularly anticipating some Okanagan Cherry Jam from a reader who was recently in British Columbia and was thinking ahead for the swap.
Also something to look forward to is the participation of famed Montreal chef and spice merchant, Philippe de Vienne (and several of his staff) who I've talked about on many occasions like here and here. I'm sure he'll come up with something that will leave us all shaking our heads in wonder.
One a closing note, I have had a few requests from individuals for a tutorial of sorts on jam making and the safety issues of preserving, but I am nowhere near qualified to give any such thing. I have never claimed to be an expert in this area and shudder at the thought of leading people astray, or worse, causing anyone harm by coaching a fatal batch of spoiled beans. Home canning is still a huge learning process for me. Personally, I have never experienced any problems, either with products I have made or received as gifts, but I know it is a concern for some people.
If you are lucky enough to have a family friend or grandmother who is skilled in this area, consider asking them to show you a thing or two and walk you through the process.
I won't be giving the recipe for the Raspberry-Vanilla Jam because on closer inspection it is a little too runny to be classified as 'jam'. It is more like a coulis or thick syrup and I'll have to figure out what happened. And here I was so happy that the vanilla seeds didn't sink and the raspberry seeds didn't rise! Oh well. It tastes heavenly and I am thinking how fabulous it would be over vanilla ice cream or a stack of waffles. OK, I know what I am having for breakfast!
Happy canning to each and every one.
I've had enough cakes for a while, thank you very much.
Enough butter, enough sugar, enough icing. Please stop already with the flour sifting and the spatula licking--oops, did I just say that? I would never lick a spatula!
Seriously, though, after making this cake last weekend, I am ready for a change. I need to sweat some onions or grill some meat, and spend a few hours making a minestrone with perfect vegetable cuts.
Nothing went wrong with the cake and I was happy with how it turned out, but I was SO stressed out about it, I was hardly able to enjoy the process. Really, not until it was sliced, served and folks wiped the crumbs off of their mouths with their napkins did I really sit back with a sigh.
OK, who am I kidding, it was more like make a beeline for the bar and down a rum and Coke.
Now I've made my fair share of cakes and I'm quite comfortable in that area, so you are probably wondering 'why all the sweat?', but it was the areas out of my control that had my knees knocking last Saturday.
Things like the ultra high humidity and thundershowers.
We must be on one of the worse power grids in Quebec, because we seem to lose electricity at the slightest gust of wind. It crossed my mind more than once that I could very well be stuck with three tiers of iced wedding cake sitting in a dark, dead fridge at any point in time. Seriously, it's happened before.
Somehow, though, we managed to avert disaster at every turn and deliver a cake that the bride loved. It survived the van ride from my place to the reception hall, thanks to Danny's mad driving skills, and we even made a quick pit-stop for a poutine-to-go for our growling stomachs. I needed something salty to counter balance all the icing and cake in my system! I couldn't stop eating all the scraps and trim during the cake assembly process. There were probably a few nights where I just sat down to a big bowl of icing and a glass of milk for a late supper.
So this was my second attempt at a tiered cake with rolled fondant and I'd say it came out just OK. However, I think I am going to enjoy playing around with fondant in the future. It's so easy to work with, like grown-up play dough.
Each tier of wedding cake had a layer of chocolate cake and a layer of vanilla buttermilk cake. (A photo of how this looks and both recipes can be found here.) Everything was then coated in a simple buttercream and covered in rolled fondant.
For the decorations, the bride had a few requests. The bridesmaids wore pink that we matched the ribbon on the cake to and the white mini-gebera and lisianthus on the cake were echoed from the brides bouquet.
Lastly, the antique bride and groom topper were passed down from the brides' mother, who had used them on her wedding cake, some 35 years or so ago. I though that was sweet.
So huge congrats to the happy couple, A & J, and thanks so much for letting me be a part of your wedding day!
For now, though, it's time for a little baking break. Danny is on summer holidays and we're looking forward to some sweet family time! A trip to the zoo is planned, as is a three day camping trip. I think I know what I am getting myself into-tenting with two babies-but if anyone has any tips to pass along, they would be much appreciated. And no I don't mean "get a hotel", either.
I feel the need to keep apologizing for my sub-par photos, but probably should come to terms with the fact that this is how it's going to be for a little while. Baby Mateo is now a laughing 16 lb, 4 month-old who Must. Be. Held. and so I usually end up shooting with him on one hip. Also Noah, who is almost 3 now, and thinks it's great fun to traverse the kitchen at top speed and slam into my knees right when I have the perfect shot. YOU try holding a camera steady! Sigh. So for the last time, sorry for the lack of inspiring photographs. Check out the super talented Aran's photography on Cannelle et Vanille if you really want to see some gorgeous stuff.
The babies keep on coming and so do the cakes!
We love babies around here and in the last few weeks were thrilled to welcome Angelique, Jesse and Owen to our extended family. I wasn't kidding when I said that three of my sisters-in-law were pregnant! Congratulations to the proud parents and best wishes for the new chapters in your lives ahead.
This cake was for a friend of mine and first-time mama, Valerie, who is due in just a few weeks, but I have to admit, it was a trial run for the wedding cake I am doing this weekend. I wanted to see if I could cover an 11-inch cake with rolled fondant and actually succeed, not like this disaster!
It came out OK and was lots of fun to do, even if it involved waking up at 6:30 am to decorate so as to be ready for a 9:30 AM brunch baby shower. Who does that??
So quickly clockwise from top left: rolling out the fondant...to find I have waaaaay too much. Oh well, better than to little! Then there is the trimmed and smoothed cake with the humidity starting to make it glisten; a closeup of poke-a-dots.
I dyed the fondant a pale blue (yes, it's a boy!), wrapped the bottom in satin ribbon, and cut a pregnant lady out of fondant for the top. You can find the template here for the silhouette, designed by the super creative Melody of My Sweet and Saucy. I keep stealing it, but she's so pretty, how can I not?
I was unsure of how else to decorate the cake, as I was still a little bleary eyed, but after my morning coffee kicked in, and with time ticking on--oh look, I haven't done my hair yet, either-- I decided poke-a-dots would be cute and easy.
So I rolled out more fondant and used the small end of an antique piping tip (size 12) to cut perfect circles. Again, improvisation is key at all times! By this time the fondant was sweating ever so slightly, and all that was required to fix the poke-a-dots to the side of the cake was a gentle push of the thumb.
I used two really reliable recipes for this cake: a buttermilk cake for the top and chocolate for the bottom; that way everyone gets a sliver of each so you never have to decide what flavor you want. Who can make these kinds of decisions before noon anyway?
Email me if you have any questions about quantities.
1. Preheat the oven to 325. Sift together flour, baking powder and baking soda. Add the salt after sifting and set aside. Measure out the buttermilk and set aside.
2. Cream the butter and the sugar using an electric mixer, until the mixture is pale and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, letting the eggs beat for 1 minute in between additions. Scrape down the bowl in between additions.
3. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the wet ingredients. Start by adding one third of the flour mixture. Mix just to incorporate. Add half of the buttermilk. Add another one third of the flour mixture. Mix to incorporate. Add the last half of buttermilk, followed by the last third of flour.
4. Pour into two buttered 7-inch round cake pans or one 9x13 pan. Bake about 15 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter two round 9-inch cake pans or one 9x13 pan; set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, sift together cocoa, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.
Add the eggs, warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla; mix batter until smooth, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl to ensure batter is well mixed.
Divide batter evenly among pans. (If I have any extra batter I like to make a few mini cupcakes.) Bake until tops spring back when touched, about 20 minutes, rotating pan once if needed.
Is that a mini head of broccoli I see peeking through the leaves?
The garden status is as follows: shamelessly overgrown and full of weeds. The weather continues to be quite hot with plenty intense rain bouts, so the plants are managing to thrive despite my sheer neglect. Still, something must be done soon! I need to stop baking cakes and get my hands dirty out there.
OK, one last wedding cake this weekend and I am done for a while. Promise.
We're enjoying these courgettes sliced very thinly on pizzas with wild boar sausage.
Is that corn getting taler than I am?? Not hard to do.
As Noah-the-backseat-driver always chants "Red means stop and green means go" but not in the case of these sweet cherry tomatoes. Full speed ahead to pick those red ones!
Young onions. SO GOOD thinly sliced on a burger. I can't believe this is my first time to grow onions. They are such fun!
First peppers starting to form.
A few baby carrots; the rest are in desperate need of thinning. The purple color is just starting to show.
Labels: How does your garden grow?
My parents returned to British Columbia this week and I returned to blogging catch-up, an overgrown garden, a neglected house, and piles of laundry! We are recovering from the non-stop action that ensued while they were here, not to mention a nasty cold for Yours Truly, and trying to get back to a normal routine, whatever that is!
It is always fun to play tourist in your own town and we had a great time soaking up the culture of the city together: visiting art galleries, catching a few shows at the Jazz festival, window shopping, and of course, dining out. Quebec's beautiful countryside didn't go unnoticed either as we managed to spend three days touring rural Quebec, visiting wineries, local farms, quaint towns and relaxing by lakes. Such fun!
But mostly during their visit we ate!
We feasted on grilled lamb, fresh seafood, BBQ-ed steaks and a cheese fondue and plenty other delicious dishes as I was determined to put a few pounds on my svelte parents.
As usual I was too busy hosting, cooking and mothering to take any photos of our dining enjoyment, let alone half a brain to remember what ingredients I put together, but there was one exception that managed to get partially captured and that was a Sunday afternoon garden party where we stuffed ourselves with pulled pork sandwiches.
Inspired by the cover of Gourmet magazine's June issue,I thought pulled pork would be a great way to go for a hungry group of twenty-five or so close friends and family. This was a very homey menu, perfect for a backyard party, with plenty of comfort food favorites like potato salad and brownies. Guests helped themselves to a table full of food and made their own sandwiches, while paper plates made for easy clean-up.
I was determined to keep the menu simple, and almost everything was made the day before. I had to talk myself out of making the recipe for buns in Gourmet and saved time and energy by buying several dozen. I also had a few people bring brownies, so we would have an assortment without me having to bake all afternoon. That helped a lot and so a big "thank you" to those who made brownies!
It was a sweltering hot day, but we kept cool in the shade with the help of some homemade beverages. I made my iced tea with Earl Grey, then added thin slices of lemon and lots of ice just before serving. The day before the party Danny squeezed oodles of lime juice to which I added simple syrup. I stored that concentrated mixture in my fridge and then added cold water, ice and raspberries when I served it. The berries turned it a pretty pink color.
The pulled-pork sandwiches were the highlight of the meal, though: crusty buns, crunchy coleslaw, tender sweet and sour pork. I had tried a few recipes previously and found this one from Martha Stewart to be best suited to my busy schedule. While the Gourmet recipe takes over 8 hours on a charcoal kettle grill with plenty of basting and babysitting, this recipe turned my 12 pounds of pork shoulder into fork-tender shreds in about three hours in my oven. Perfect!
This recipe, together with my simple coleslaw and some buns, you are set to entertain this summer!
Preheat oven to 350 degrees, with racks in lower and upper positions. In a small bowl, combine sugar, cayenne, 1 tablespoon salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper.
Place pork in a 5-quart Dutch oven or large heavy-bottomed pot; rub with spice mixture.
In a medium bowl, combine vinegar, garlic, and 1 cup water; pour over pork. Cover pot, and place in oven on lower rack. Bake until pork is very tender and separates easily when pulled with a fork, 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Transfer pork to a work surface, reserving pan juices. With two forks, shred meat. Transfer to a large bowl, and toss with pan juices to moisten (you may not need all the juices). Pile pork on rolls, and top with barbecue sauce, if desired.
Toss cabbage, carrots and radishes with salt and pepper in a large bowl.
In another bowl combine mayo, vinegar and sugar. Toss mixture with slaw until well combined. Cover and chill for at least one hour.
May be made up to one day ahead of time and kept chilled.
Labels: Sandwiches, What's For Dinner?
A large box of chocolate arrived for me recently. It was just in time, too, as I had cleaned the cupboards bare of anything chocolate and was starting to sneak Noah's Smartie stash that we keep for potty training. No chocolate in the house means hard times around here. I always keep some on hand for baking and snacking.
Where did all this chocolate come from? Did I order it? Win a draw somewhere?
Nope, it was from the company Dove and completely free, hence the 'dream come true' part! Sweet!
I was so excited to be recently contacted by the Montreal advertising company, Matchstick, and asked if I would be interested in receiving a Dove Chocolate 'Pleasure Pack', no strings attached. All I had to do was enjoy it! Duh, yeah!
Matchstick is a member of WOMMA (Word of Mouth Marketing Association) which is the newest force in the wold of marketing and starting to catch on all over. It's a brilliant idea, really, I mean if we find a product that we love, we can't stop talking about it, right?
I didn't have a very hard time convincing them I was a chocoholic and an ideal candidate for their program!
"How soon can I get the chocolate?" I asked "Because I am expecting 16 girls here for a party this weekend and the theme is chocolate".
Well, it didn't make it here in time, but that's OK as I would have had a hard time sharing it!
So, yea, I've been on a permanent sugar high and chocolate-induced pleasure coma since it all arrived. I'm a fan of milk chocolate for snacking and prefer dark chocolate for baking and I was lacking nothing with this pleasure pack. Also included was the smartly named 'Dusk' chocolate, which is what they call milk chocolate with a hint of dark. It's great and perfect if you can't decide between dark or milk.
So all the little 'purse packs' went pretty fast (lucky receivers, you know who you are!) but I stashed the bars away for some baking and that's how these brownies came to be. I figured they would be a pretty good test of the chocolate and was impressed at how they turned out.
I used a fabulous recipe from Tartelette for Katherine Hepburn's Brownies, one of those outstanding recipes of Helen's that has been bookmarked for ages but I have never gotten around to make. If you haven't checked out her blog yet, get cracking! Not only is she a sweetie, but she just signed a book deal and will be putting out a cookbook soon! Lucky us!
I seldom make brownies; I guess I'm more of a cookie girl, but that is all about to change as these were amazing! They were plenty moist, but not so gooey to require several napkins. I didn't count how many of these I ate right out of the pan, but it was a lot and so let me warn you, they are highly addictive.
I under baked mine slightly so as to have more of a fudgy brownie, oh and I threw in some walnuts for fun.
In a heavy saucepan, melt the chocolate with the butter over low heat, stirring until completely melted. Remove from the heat and stir in the sugar, coffee, cocoa powder and cinnamon . Add the eggs and vanilla and whisk well. Stir in the flour, walnuts and salt and mix well. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 40 minutes.


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Q: Saving a Child class instance in a parent type variable and using the Child's functions through parent variable? I have two classes called Bird and Eagle. The Eagle is inherits from the bird. Now, I can use the Bird Class to store an eagle type instance. However, when i try to call the function of eagle using the variable a    I get an error saying

error: 'class bird' has no member named 'attack'

How do i use the function attack ? Also, will it be the similar for typescript?
#include <stdio.h>

class bird{
    public:
    void fly(){
        printf("fly");
    }
};

class eagle: public bird{
    public:
    void attack(){
        printf("attack");
    }
};

int main()
{
    bird *a = new eagle();
    a->attack();

    return 0;
}

A: The variable a is pointer to an object of type bird, so you're only allowed to call methods that are defined on the bird class. This makes sense - you can't treat all birds as eagles, after all.
You have a few options:

*

*Don't call non-bird methods

*Change the type of a to eagle*

*Use dynamic_cast to hack around the issue (not recommended, this is usually a sign that you've modeled your data incorrectly)

dynamic_cast<eagle*>(a)->attack();

Documentation for dynamic_cast: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/dynamic_cast

A: You can create virtual function attack in bird, which does nothing.
Then attack definition in eagle will override the base one.
virtual void attack() = 0;

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James Redford Dies: Filmmaker, Activist & Son Of Robert Redford Was 58
James Redford, documentary filmmaker, activist and the son of Robert Redford, has died of complications from bile-duct cancer, his wife Kyle Redford told The Salt Lake Tribune. James Redford died Friday at his home in Marin County, CA. He was 58.
In a Twitter post Friday, Kyle Redford wrote "Jamie died today. We're heartbroken. He lived a beautiful, impactful life & was loved by many. He will be deeply missed. As his wife of 32 [years], I'm most grateful for the two spectacular children we raised together. I don't know what we would've done [without] them over the past 2 [years]."
James Redford had been diagnosed with Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, a rare auto-immune disease affecting the liver and received two liver transplants in 1993. According to his bio on IMDB, the near-fatal ordeal inspired him to found the James Redford Institute for Transplant Awareness, where he produced The Kindness Of Strangers, a documentary film which examined the sacrifices made by organ donor families. The film premiered at Telluride International Film Festival and aired on HBO in 1999.
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As filmmaker, James Redford's work focused mainly on documentaries about the environment and health. His 2012 documentary, The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia, was inspired by his son, Dylan, and his struggles with dyslexia in high school.
That same year, The Redford Center produced Watershed: Exploring a New Water Ethic for the New West, a film that brought together several non-profits in a successful bid to raise 10 million dollars in restoration funds for the Colorado River Delta.
In his 2013 film Toxic Hot Seat, Redford chronicled the health problems caused by exposure to flame-retardant chemicals used in furniture. Kyle Redford told the Salt Lake Tribune that the film prompted a change in California law that barred use of the chemicals, a ban which eventually spread nationwide. She said the film also was behind a change in heath care benefits for California firefighters who were diagnosed with cancer caused by exposure to the flame-retardant chemicals while fighting house fires.
He later teamed with Karen Pritzker on two documentary films highlighting the biological harm posed to children by physical and emotional abuse — Paper Tigers in 2104 and 2016's Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope. In 2017 Redford starred in and directed The Redford Center's Happening: a Clean Energy Revolution, a co-production with HBO which examines the rise of the clean energy economy and culture.
Aside from his documentary work, James Redford penned the screenplay for Cowboy Up starring Kiefer Sutherland and Darryl Hannah and directed Showtime's Spin, starring Stanley Tucci and Dana Delaney. He also wrote the critically acclaimed screenplay for Skinwalkers, which premiered on the PBS mystery series.
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20 August 2021 Blogs, Academic, Librarian, Faculty
Resource Sharing: What Will We Keep from the Pandemic?
Librarians share their experiences and predictions in a Library Journal and ProQuest-sponsored panel
There is no doubt that the resource-sharing environment has drastically changed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Increased user expectations, reduced budgets, and remote teaching and learning have driven librarians to urgently re-evaluate their resource-sharing workflows, processes, platforms and technologies. The pandemic also made resource sharing more important than ever.
Initiatives like RSCVD, the OCLC Physical ILL Return and Lending Status map, the Hathi Trust Emergency Temporary Access Service, and the RapidILL COVID-19 Pod were all born out of the need to help librarians share materials in a public health emergency. But as many institutions reopen their doors and return to in-person education and research, which of these urgent changes will become permanent?
This was the topic of "Resource Sharing: What Will We Keep from the Pandemic?" – an August 2021 webinar featuring candid conversations with resource-sharing librarians. The event was divided into three panels, each featuring several librarians from across North America. Here are a few highlights of what we learned.
Panel 1: Challenges and Opportunities
Moderator: Robyn Weisman, Research Sharing Services at Vanderbilt University Libraries
Panelists: K. Zdepski, Resource Sharing Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Gail Williams, Library Information Specialist for Resource Sharing, University of Missouri-Kansas City
During the pandemic, the University of Massachusetts Amherst library – which uses RapidILL – had to cut down on resource-sharing services, but still managed to improve fill rates. "We just didn't have the staff hours to do retrieval and scanning. Right now, we're trying to sort out how…to keep the innovations and the things we figured out how to do more smoothly," Zdepski said.
Those innovations were born out of necessity – in other words, they began as workarounds when staff or resources weren't available, such as developing a triage system to address loans, enabling patrons to self-select delivery methods on the library website, or referring patrons to the local public library.
Williams agreed. "We tried our best to come up with alternatives for our users – for example, if someone requested a book, we asked if there were one or two chapters that would work for them instead," she said. "People have been reasonable in their expectations."
Williams, also a user of the RapidILL interlibrary loan service since 2018, said the interlibrary loan service was a game-changer during the pandemic. "There are many requests we don't even see at all, which is great," she said (RapidILL automation handles these requests without mediation from librarians). "Our library also uses RapidILL in conjunction with OCLC and DOCLINE to make sure all our bases are covered when filling requests."
All three librarians are working quickly to prepare for the upcoming academic year as policies and mandates continue to evolve. "We're pretty sure that 'normal' isn't going to be the normal that we're used to," Weisman said.
Panel 2: Resource Sharing Through Partnerships
Panelists: K. Zdepski, Resource Sharing Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jalesia Horton, Head of Access Services, Southern Methodist University; Alison O'Grady, ILL Supervisor, Williams College
These three panelists stressed that despite the challenges of the pandemic – including long delays in the postal service – their fulfillment rates and turnaround times have remained solid, even for materials outside of North America. That's thanks to the hard work of their staff, tools like RapidILL, and excellent communication between other libraries and patrons.
"At the beginning of the pandemic, resource sharing was the only way for [students and faculty] to get materials, so it pretty much became a necessity," said Horton. "RapidILL and other resources and partnerships were game-changers in users' ability to be successful in the classes that they had already started. I think the pandemic really opened faculty and students' eyes to what was possible through resource sharing."
Zdepski stressed that automated interlibrary loan (ILL) systems are important to "take care of the easy tasks" so the library staff can take more time for one-on-one communications. "It's always worth the effort to just ask another library," they said. "Sometimes a simple conversation can get a patron's needs met."
O'Grady said her users have been extremely grateful for the help and have offered "a lot of gratitude and a lot of understanding…RapidILL allowed us to fill more requests...and that was a game changer."
"When they get an article very quickly, they say 'thank you, thank you,' not knowing we didn't even touch it," she said. Horton agreed: "seeing those types of comments definitely helps us understand that we are helping people. I think patrons really [feel] like they [can] rely on us and that that really comes through in their feedback."
Panel 3: Cooperation and Conversation
Moderator: Judith Fraenkel, Director of Product Management for Rapido, Ex Libris
Panelist: Mark Paris, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Discovery, Brandeis University; Dan Taylor, Library Systems Specialist from Ithaca College
Brandeis and Ithaca College are two early adopters of Rapido, a full-service, discovery-to-delivery library resource sharing platform that automates and simplifies the borrowing and lending processes. Built on the Ex Libris higher-ed cloud, Rapido includes RapidILL technology for document delivery, and integrates with the Primo discovery tool and the Alma library services platform.
The COVID pandemic really unearthed the fact that resource sharing, said Taylor, is "the best part of our library."
"It involves cooperation, collaboration and contribution," he said, and "it wraps up into a neat little ball [the ability] to get knowledge out there, making sure people get what they need when they need it."
Paris agreed. "Resource sharing is not just about getting materials for our patrons – it's about the community interaction and contributing to mutual success," he said, adding that resource sharing needed to be "very seamless and consistent…starting with the request process." Brandeis's move to Rapido has facilitated strong conversations with partners and will mean improved collection access, Paris said.
Like other panelists, Taylor said that automating the busy-work of resource sharing means more time to focusing on more strategic, "trickier-to-find" items. "Implementing RapidILL as part of Rapido has been a big game changer – it's a larger net that we can cast out to get digital files, and the turnaround time has been tremendous for us."
As early adopters, both Paris and Taylor said they've had a positive experience working with ExLibris to help shape and adapt the product to make it even better for future users – and implementation has been relatively simple.
"It's been great to have that cloud-based infrastructure," said Paris. Taylor added: "there are fewer points of failure along the whole track, and it's familiar to our staff and our patrons. It fits into the workflows we've already established."
To learn more about RapidILL and Rapido – or to request a no-obligation meeting with an expert – visit https://0-go-proquest-com.library.cairn.edu/LJ_resource_sharing_webinar.
Watch the full Library Journal/ProQuest webinar on resource sharing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPswe9fHtu0&t=22s.


Congratulations to our CBST swimmers on their accomplishments during Silver Champs and thank you as always to our parent volunteers.
Thank you once again in advance for helping to make Senior Champs successful! Below are the assigned volunteer slots for Central Bucks Swim Team. Traditionally, Championship meets will not begin if teams do not fulfill their volunteer responsibilities. Please keep this in mind and do not force coaches to come find you. Their efforts should be focused solely on the swimmers this weekend. The Meet Director has requested that all teams with volunteer responsibilities report to the announcer's table 20 minutes prior to the start of the session.
If you are planning on officiating, the Senior Champs Meet Director has asked that you utilize the link below to sign-up for the session that you will be able to volunteer.
Once entered into a meet, CBST swimmers are expected to swim all the events that they have signed up for. Barring extreme circumstances, swimmers will not be scratched from events the day of the meet (if a swimmer wishes to scratch they must do so prior to the day of the meet).
As a reminder, CBST team policy states that all athletes that make finals MUST stay and swim in those finals. Unless there is an unforeseen emergency that you speak to the coaches about, they will expect to see you on deck. If your swimmer does make finals, you should expect to volunteer during the session.
As previously stated in meet information, swimmers participating in the 1000 and 1650 freestyle must provide their own counter and timer. Because of the length of the sessions, the Meet Director is also asking that swimmers participating in the 500 Free and the 400IM during the prelims should provide their own timer and counter.
The link to the Senior Champs live stream is www.swimyorky.org/live. Meet Mobile will be active and the live results will be at www.swimyorky.org/realtime.
Age group has concluded for this short course season – see you April 18th for the start of long course.
Senior group last practice is March 30.
Remember that all accounts will need to be current in order for swimmers to begin long course.


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Abstract Pervasive data sensing is a major issue that transverses various research areas and application domains. It allows identifying people's behaviour and patterns without overwhelming the monitored persons. Although there are many pervasive data sensing applications, they are typically focused on addressing specific problems in a single application domain, making them difficult to generalize or reuse. On the other hand, the platforms for supporting pervasive data sensing impose restrictions to the devices and operational environments that make them unsuitable for monitoring loosely-coupled or fully distributed work. In order to help address this challenge this paper present a framework that supports distributed pervasive data sensing in a generic way. Developers can use this framework to facilitate the implementations of their applications, thus reducing complexity and effort in such an activity. The framework was evaluated using simulations and also through an empirical test, and the obtained results indicate that it is useful to support such a sensing activity in loosely-coupled or fully distributed work scenarios.


We have known all along that employers can be held liable for the discriminatory acts of managers, supervisors and even employees. But what about independent contractors? According to a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the answer can be yes.
In Halpert v. Manhattan Apartments, Inc., the plaintiff, a job applicant, sued the employer for violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act after the interviewer said he was too old for the job. The employer defended by arguing the interviewer was actually an independent contractor hiring employees for himself. The trial court agreed with this argument and dismissed the plaintiff's case.
The career counselor who arranged the interview believed plaintiff was being interviewed for a position with the employer, not the independent contractor.
Employers relying on independent contractors must require they make it clear when hiring or taking any other actions, that they are acting on their own behalf and not on behalf of the employer. On the other hand, employers should ensure that outside companies doing their hiring are abiding by the employer's non-discrimination policies and agree to indemnify the employer in lawsuits alleging failure to hire.


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Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
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On 12 Jul 1861 Dexter, a shoemaker, mustered into service with the 15th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, being credited to the quota of Northbridge, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He was 22 years and 10 days old.
Dexter S. Brown died on 15 Dec 1862 at Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland, unmarried, of dysentery, and the death was registered in Northbridge. He was 23 years, 5 months and 13 days old.
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I rarely read author interviews. Besides the fact that I like to make my own interpretations of books, I really hate it when authors are asked where their stories come from. It's a dumb question that adds nothing to the discussion about a book and the answers are usually banal. If the answer to the question of where a story comes from is as interesting as the answer in Jason Bucholz's A Paper Son, I might have to revise that policy. Peregrine Long's inspiration came from a cup of tea. Stranger still, the story he saw in that cup of tea turns out to be real.
Peregrine Long is dedicated teacher still holding a torch for his writing career. He's mostly given up on getting published, but he takes a chance when a fellow teacher lets him know about a literary magazine that's taking submissions. His first installment of a serialized story is accepted. All is well. At least, all is well until a Chinese American woman comes to his apartment and accuses him of stealing her family's story. She's angry and frightened of how this man can know so many details. How did he know that her mother, grandmother, uncle, and grandfather left to visit China in 1925? How did he know the name of the small town they were visiting? The name of the ship they took? How did Peregrine know that the grandmother was, unwittingly, her husband's second wife?
A Paper Son gets even spookier from this point. We learn that Eva has turned up because Peregrine might know what happened to her uncle. Soon, Peregrine starts to see characters from his "story" in real life. He hears haunting violin music no one else can hear. The only cure seems to be writing more of the "story." The narrative of the novel shifts between Peregrine and his story; the whole thing is a delightful tangle.
We never learn quite what's going on with Peregrine and Eva and the story/not-story. Some readers will hate this, but I loved how Bucholz plays with the boundaries of fiction and non-fiction in this book. It reminds me of a book I read a few months ago, Gordon McAlpine's Woman with a Blue Pencil. These two books reinforce my belief that fiction, once published and sent out into the world and readers' brains, becomes real. It's not ghosts—though there are ghosts in A Paper Son—and Peregrine is not crazy. He's just channeling a story that's more real than most.
I received a free copy of this ebook from Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review. It will be released 1 January 2016.


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Terror Attack Brighton - Blowing up the Iron Lady
Kieran Hughes
The Brighton bombing in 1984 was the most audacious terrorist attack ever on the British Government. Certainly it was the most ambitious since the Gunpowder plot of 1605. The Provisional I.R.A. detonated a bomb at the Grand Hotel on 12th October 1984. Most of the Government were staying at the hotel at the time. The Conservative party was holding its annual conference in the town. Five people were killed in the explosion, and more than thirty were injured. It came very close to wiping out most of the Government, including the Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. The I.R.A.'s Patrick Magee had booked into the Grand Hotel under the false name of Roy Walsh, about a month before. He planted a bomb with a long-delay timer, hidden under a bath in one of the rooms. He was given eight life sentences for the crime, but released from prison in 1999 under the Good Friday Agreement. He served just fourteen years behind bars.
It was one of two IRA bombs aimed directly at the collective Government of the day. The other was in February 1991 when, at the height of the Gulf War security alert, the I.R.A. fired a mortar bomb directly at Downing Street. The War Cabinet was in session to discuss the threat from Saddam Hussein. The bomb was only yards from hitting the Prime Minister and his senior colleagues. The Grand Hotel bombing and the Downing Street bombing were 'different' to the IRA's other attacks. They were aimed directly at the heart of the democratically elected Government of the day, particularly the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Other IRA bombings either caused greater loss of life, resulted in more injuries or were of a far greater financial cost. For example, attacks at Omagh in 1998 killed twenty-eight, the explosion in the City in London in 1993 cost one billion pounds and the Manchester Shopping Center bomb in 1996 saw two-hundred people hurt. Devastating as these attacks were, it can be argued that they were aimed at getting attention, disrupting democracy, costing the country money and bullying their way to the political decision making process.
Kieran, son of Maureen, was born in Liverpool, spent his childhood in Shrewsbury, then spent the first part of his life in London, as a journalist and newsreader on BBC and commercial radio. By his late thirties he had started university to study for two degrees and teacher training. His Mum had persuaded him that he would make a good teacher! Kieran now teaches history full-time at a school in High Wycombe. He has four sons, seven grandchildren and lives with his wife Bridget near the town centre.
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For New York Design Week 2018, Ladies & Gentlemen Studio teamed up with Japanese lifestyle brand MUJI to present a large-scale, immersive installation, celebrating the brand's 10 year anniversary in the U.S.
Taking the form of an abstracted landscape, MUJI Materials Garden juxtaposes a curated selection of MUJI's products composed with the raw source materials used to make them.
L&G Studio mixed their long-standing reverence for MUJI's honest approach to simplicity with their fascination with materiality to create an environment that re-contextualizes MUJI's everyday products by celebrating their natural origins.


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Jerwood Visual Arts, Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, Bankside, London SE1 0LN
Jerwood Staging Series 2019
Title : Rebecca Moss, She Walks in Beauty
Website : https://jerwoodarts.org/
Title : Rebecca Moss,Thick-skinned
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Title : Onyeka Igwe, the names have changed including my own and truths have been altered, 2019
Review by Harriet Smith Hughes
This is the third year of Jerwood Staging Series, a curatorial project that creates events of work that includes film, installation, performance, and discussion. This year's four artists are diverse in their interests and work: Onyeka Igwe, a London artist and filmmaker absorbed in the archive, place, and the body; Essex-based Rebecca Moss, whose work plays with slapstick and absurdism; multi-disciplinary artist and sculptor AJ Stockwell; and Birmingham-based curator and researcher Seán Elder. Below are reviews of two of the Series' events, those by Onyeka Igwe and Rebecca Moss.
Onyeka Igwe's installation at Jerwood Space, 'There Were Two Brothers', continues her work on archive, place and the physical body. At its centre is her film, 'the names have changed, including my own and truths have been altered', which Igwe described as being 'of together three interconnected narratives': her grandfather's; 'the land'; and 'an encounter' with Nigeria. Forms and narratives are layered to create a manifold negotiation: of archive and assemblage; of visual styles and forms; of narratives personal, fictive, and colonial. Archival footage of Nigeria passes to contemporary footage of Igwe in the physical archive. British colonial photography gives way to the artist and her collaborator in dance, their hands gathering and discarding the space around them. Wide architectural shots of hallways and staircases open onto further archive footage, which speaks of history, and folklore, and which in turn distil into close-ups of eggs, viscera, chickens in the dust. Around and within the weft of the visuals runs Igwe's voiceover, as narrator, interlocutor, subject, observer.
All of which is very conscious and interested in construction. For instance: the film begins with a close-up of a slide projector. It is throwing archive stills on to a black wall and our perspective moves from the projector itself - image of conscious construction - to the images it portrays. These photos are shown a few times within distinct cycles, each of which engages rapidly and unnervingly with a totalising colonial eye, as it observes Nigeria, and with various subject 'I's. A group of women glower into the camera, shoulder to shoulder and full of fury; the screen flashes up the text, 'types of igbo beauty' in capitals; a young woman grins down the lens, eyes confident and warm; the glowering women return.
Later, the image of a projector recurs, this time playing a film reel. We see Igwe searching for the reel in a physical archive in Nigeria, on her own trip into familial and artistic history. After she finds it, she holds her hands up to the camera, palms streaked with dust. When the tape is played, we see nothing of the film. Instead we're shown close-ups of the projector and unspooling tape, as Igwe's voiceover describes the scenes being displayed. There are multiple films at play here, and each shown to exist in many places at once: as physical reel; as artefact; situated in the place of the archive; in memory; in narrative contrivance. It's a sequence that binds mechanism and artistry: the mechanisms of film; the artistry of reconstructing and interpreting an archive; the role of personal perspective in realising a narrative.
By the end of the film, the 'three interconnected narratives' have split, multiplied, and been interwoven beyond separation. One of these strands is the folk tale of three brothers, characters that twine with and give further vocabulary for the story of the artist's family. At the film's close, the three brothers, whose paths have detached and joined repeatedly throughout, are reunited in 'The Place Where'. It is a final gathering for the many elements of the film: a false finality, a place of continual possibility, continual reading; a living archive.
At one point in Rebecca Moss' 'A Panel Discussion', two women - curator Anna Smolak and artist and academic Dr Chantal Faust - each positioned behind painted cutout boards, leaned through their respective face-holes, trying to pass a piece of paper from one to the other. The paper had a quote by Margaret Atwood on it that Smolak wanted to reread, so Faust stretched a limb through the hole where the face of a World's Strongest Man should be, towards Smolak. Smolak reached her own hand out of the empty face of a clown - and the audience laughed, tense, as their fingers almost touched. The moment held, the hands still reaching out of the face-holes and the laughter grew. Then they retreated, passing the paper to each other behind the cutout boards and - most bizarrely - we all returned to quietly listening to a panel of women discuss the feminist potential of absurdism.
Part seminar, part performance piece, 'A Panel Discussion' brought six artists and curators together to consider the feminist possibilities of slapstick and absurdist comedy: Elise Atangana, Roshanak Khakban, Anna Smolak, Dr Ruidi Mu, chair Dr Faust and Rebecca Moss, whose work was screened at the event. From behind face hole boards - a country & western couple, the World's Strongest Men, a pair of clowns - the panel explored the radical feminist catharsis of a collective joke, and the pleasure and pain of slapstick violence. They spoke about 'the joyful moment between women' that a face hole board can elicit and the vulnerability of having your face framed but your back exposed. The conversation absorbed and revelled in the awkwardness of panel discussion format: silences, sore backs, difficulty hearing the speakers (there was a giant moustache involved) all spoke to the absurdist framing.
The problem was that the framing concealed a multitude (pun ... etc.). It gave, for instance, a kind of license for wide-ranging discussion, with ideas being raised then falling away. Take Dr Faust's comment, that 'when everything is a joke, maybe to be truly absurd we have to be really serious', which would have been great to follow up, given the gallery context and the oddity of the situation. More importantly, we got very little sense of the speakers and none but Faust spoke for more than a few minutes in total. Having the speakers present, but hardly participant, was frankly a little uncomfortable and - sure - absurd. And while that contributed to the interesting framing, it would have been more valuable to hear about the various panellists particular practices.The panel itself ended up straddling the two sides of Faust's comment: neither truly absurd nor truly serious; neither fully engaged with the performance, nor with the academic conversation. Was that to greater effect? Did it engage the central conceit in a particular way? If you can't explain why someone falling over is funny, can you explain why it's not?
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1897 – St James's Theatre -The Princess and the Butterfly
Theatre: St James's Theatre
Performance: The Princess and the Butterfly
Main Actors: Mr George Alexander, Mr H. B. Irving, Mr A. Vane-Tempest, Miss Julia Neilson
SKU: 5551890 Categories: 1800, 1890-1899, A Vane-Tempest, George Alexander, Henry Irving, Julia Neilson, St. James's Theatre Tag: St James's Theatre
Part of highly collectable series, this is a decorative example of programme for this theatre with a very resplendent Beefeater on the front cover. The programme depicts the performance of another Arthur W. Pinero play. This one comprising 5 Acts and lasting around four hours! The St James's hosted the first production of this play on 25th March 1897. Miss Julia Neilson, playing Princess Pannonia, was later replaced by Miss Julie Opp, a popular American actress.
4 pages including front and back covers; approx 26cms x 19cms.
Condition Code: 4-5: No nicks, tears or folds; minimal evidence of any handling; superb condition for its 120+ years
1936 – St. James's Theatre – Pride & Prejudice
Theatre: St James's
Performance: Pride & Prejudice
Main Actors: Celia Johnson, Athole Stewart, Hugh Williams, Anthony Quayle.
1910 – St. James's Theatre – Eccentric Lord Comberdene
Theatre: St James Theatre
Performance: Eccentric Lord Comberdene
Main Actors: George Alexander
1897 – St James's Theatre – The Tree of Knowledge
Performance: The Tree of Knowledge
Actor/s: Mr George Alexander, Mr W. H. Vernon, Mr Fred Terry, Mr H. B. Irving, Miss Carlotta Addison, Miss Fay Davis, Miss Julia Neilson


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When was George Michael's funeral, where is he buried, what was the cause of death and who attended?
The singer's funeral took place with a small, private ceremony attended by family and close friends
By Chris Masters
30th March 2017, 7:15 am
Updated: 30th March 2017, 7:19 am
AFTER weeks of delay, George Michael's funeral finally took place with a small, private ceremony in north London.
The service at Highgate Cemetery was attended by family and close friends, including the singer's boyfriend Fadi Fawaz. Here's what we know…
George Michael was found dead at his home on Christmas Day last year
Was George Michael's funeral on March 29 and who attended?
Singing legend George Michael has finally been laid to rest in North London.
A service, attend by family and close friends, was held in the tiny, 30-seat chapel at Highgate West Cemetery on March 29.
The service took place amid tight security, with black tarpaulin covering the cemetery's iron gates.
No hearse was spotted entering the grounds. It's thought that the singer's body arrived inside a private ambulance.
Following the service, guests attended a wake at George's house in Hampstead, which is less than a mile from the cemetery.
Family in attendance included George's 80-year-old feather Kyriacos and sisters Melanie and Panayiota.
Among the guests were former bandmates Andrew Ridgeley, Helen "Pepsi" DeMacque and Shirlie Holliman, as well as Spandau Ballet star Martin Kemp.
Also in attendance was Fadi Fawaz, the singer's boyfriend, who was expected to be excluded from proceedings.
Another of George's lovers, his long-term partner Kenny Goss, joined the mourners at the intimate ceremony.
A statement from Michael's family read: "We can confirm that the funeral of the singer George Michael took place today. Family and close friends gathered for the small, private ceremony to say goodbye to their beloved son, brother and friend.
"George Michael's family would like to thank his fans across the world for their many messages of love and support. We ask that the family's wish for privacy be respected so that they can continue to live their lives privately, away from any media intrusion."
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Andrew Ridgeley, his former Wham! bandmate, was seen leaving the funeral
Where will George Michael's grave be?
It's been known for some time that George will be laid to rest next to his mother in family's private plot in Highgate Cemetery.
The cemetery, a designated Grade I site on the Historic England Register of Parks, had been deluged with enquiries for several weeks.
A recorded telephone message from the cemetery said: "If you're phoning about George Michael, I'm sorry we haven't got any information for you."
The official website carries a similar message.
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Fadi was seen leaving the cemetery on the afternoon of March 29 after attending George's funeral
Was Fadi Fawaz banned from the funeral?
Speculation suggested that George's boyfriend Fadi Fawaz, who he met in 2009, would be banned from the funeral.
Michael's 'cousin' Andros Georgiou previously said: "Fadi has not been invited to the funeral. He is not welcome, the family hate him. Heaven help him if he turned up.
Speaking exclusively to The Sun at the beginning of March, boyfriend Fadi himself said: "I don't know anything about the funeral. I really don't know anything. Believe me. It's all so strange."
However, the hairdresser was seen arriving at the cemetery on March 29, as other guests arrived.
What was the singer's cause of death?
Despite initial unverified reports that George died of congestive heart failure, it was eventually revealed that the singer had heart and liver problems.
Senior coroner Darren Salter said the pop legend suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy with myocarditis and fatty liver, and that he died of natural causes.
The verdict was delayed until March 7 as the coroner awaited the results of toxicology tests – a wait which left funeral plans on hold.
An initial post-mortem, held in late December, had proved inconclusive.
What is dilated cardiomyopathy?
Dilated cardiomyopathy is a disease of the heart muscle, that causes it to become stretched and thin.
It means you're unable to pump blood around your body properly.
In some cases the condition is inherited, but it can also be triggered by viral infections, uncontrolled high blood pressure and excessive alcohol consumption.
Symptoms include:
– shortness of breath
– swelling of the ankles and tummy
– excessive tiredness
– palpitations
What is myocarditis?
Myocarditis is inflammation of the middle layer of the heart wall.
It can affect the heart muscle and the heart's electrical system – and can prove fatal.
It's typically caused by a viral infection, and symptoms include chest pain, fatigue, heart failure and an abnormal heart beat.
If it becomes severe it can weaken the ability of the heart to pump blood.
And blood clots can form, which can result in a heart attack or stroke.
In mild cases, the condition can have no apparent symptoms.
You may just feel ill and a bit under the weather.
But, in serious cases, common signs include:
– chest pain
– rapid or abnormal heart beat
– swelling of your legs, ankles and feet
– fatigue
– other signs of the viral infection, including headache, body aches, joint pain and a fever
Who will inherit George Michael's fortune?
Prior to his tragic death, at the age of just 53, George is believed to have amassed a huge fortune worth a reported £105million.
He raked in huge sums over the years, with his accounts showing he earned more than £48million from touring between April 2006 and March 2008 alone.
And with no husband, children or any obvious heirs there has been some speculation over what will happen to his estate.
It has not yet been confirmed who will inherit the Wham! singer's fortune, but there is a shortlist of his nearest and dearest who are expected to be remembered in his will.
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The day seemed nice enough. Sun peeking through the clouds. Birds singing on my terrace. I looked for comfort as I dressed for the day. But the sky had other plans and so now I am inside, waiting out the rain.
This Celine sweater is as soft as my kitten and the same smoky colour as her fur. Cashmere is my fall go-to and the extra long sleeves and effortless way it hangs on my body makes it a must-have. Maybe I will get another, perhaps two?
Everywhere I look hints of Halloween are beginning to appear. Are my Acne Studio pants the perfect orange of the season? Their smooth tailoring and crisp box pleats say everything you need to know about them. So chic and comfy for a day of walking around.
As I search through my new Fendi bag, I am reminded that it is definitely time to get a new wallet. Keeping my cards loose is such a bad habit! Fall is the season of rebirth isn't it? No. That is Spring.
A strong coffee with a hint of honey. That is my drink. My 'beverage' of choice. No Pumpkin Spice for this girl! I like to keep the bees in mind on days like this. They are so important to our environment. Stella McCartney has been using images of bees in her collections for years to help the fashionably-conscious help with a great cause.
Do you feel like you are cheating when you wear your slippers outside? These Wang's, with their soft rabbit fur and kitten heel, are all I wear at home. Propped up on the ottoman watching Netflix. Is anyone else obsessed with Travellers? I can't stop watching this series and knowing that it is filmed in Vancouver is so cool.
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This Week in Disney News: Marathons, Sundaes, and Star Wars Weekends
Today we're starting a new weekly feature here on DisZine called "This Week in Disney News" where we'll feature some of the top stories from some of our favorite sites.
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The week started with the opening of registrations for the 2015 Walt Disney World Marathon. The marathon weekend is proving to be very popular with runners as the Walt Disney World Half Marathon, 10K, Family Fun Run 5K, and the Dopey Challenge are all sold out! The full marathon is currently at 70 percent capacity while Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge is at 55 percent capacity.
runDisney also announced that next year's marathon weekend will feature newly designed medals for all the races, including a special commemorative medal for the 5th anniversary of Goofy's Race and a Half Challenge.
Our friends at the Disney Food Blog had some delicious news to share last week, including the news of a new $23 sundae – the Mickey Mouse Kitchen Sink Sundae – available at the Plaza Ice Cream Parlor and Beaches and Cream at Disney's Beach Club Resort.
But perhaps the biggest Disney food news last week was the grand launch of the DFB's Guide to Magic Kingdom Snacks e-book, 2014 edition. The 2014 DFB Guide to Magic Kingdom Snacks e-book has been completely updated and includes information and photos on more than 150 snacks at the Magic Kingdom.
And right now, DFB readers can get the e-book for $2 off it's cover price for a very limited time! You can order your copy now for only $8.95 (regular price $10.95), using the code MAGIC14 at checkout.
Star Wars Weekends News!
In just a couple of weeks Star Wars Weekends begins at Disney's Hollywood Studios, and this year includes a few firsts for the very popular event. Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker!) is appearing for the first time, the event is running for five weekends for the first time ever, and there are several special dining events planned for the first time.
Just last week Disney Parks announced the Feel the Force Dining Event and Dessert Party and the Disney Food Blog has all the details! This event includes reserved premium viewing for the afternoon celebrity motorcade and the evening fireworks, with beverages and snacks at the motorcade and a dessert party for the fireworks!
In other Star Wars Weekends news, the full celebrity lineup has been announced and it includes Mark Hamill, Billy Dee Williams, Peter Mayhew (Chewbacca), and stars from Star Wars: The Clone Wars plus stars from the new Disney XD animated series Star Wars Rebels.
Speaking of Star Wars, have you seen the Saturday Style story from our friends at Walt Disney World for Grownups? If you're a fan of Star Wars and you always wanted Princess Leia's cinnamon bun hairstyle, you need to check it out!
And before we travel out of the Star Wars galaxy we have one more intergalactic item to share with you – these adorable R2D2 Measuring Cups that our friends at Mickey Fix found!
Other Disney News
Back in this universe, some other noteworthy items include a story about our favorite sweet shop in Epcot's Germany Pavilion, Karamelle-Kuche, which you can find over on Walt Disney World for Growups and the Top 5 Reasons to Stay at the Animal Kingdom Lodge. And, over at PopCenturySite.com there's a great list of ideas for what to do on your resort day.
For all the Disney news that's fit to print, be sure to visit DisZine every day. What was your favorite Disney news item this week? Leave us a comment and let us know!
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A vast literature employs vector autoregressions (VAR) methods in order to capture whether innovations in productivity lead to increases or decreases in employment for U.S. manufacturing. Studying 25 Mexican manufacturing industries with annual data from 1984 to 2000, we examine labour productivity (value added per employee) and total factor productivity (TFP) effects on Mexican manufacturing employment. We find that productivity measures vary considerably in Mexico. Making use of panel data methods that control for sector specific effects, the business cycle and real wages, interesting results emerge. First, there are strong positive impacts of TFP (without and with human capital) on manufacturing employment, as well as ambiguous effects of labour productivity on employment. Second, the capital stock effect on employment varies across periods, yielding a positive impact for post-NAFTA and for the overall period. We interpret the latter as evidence that the increase in FDI inflows in the post-NAFTA period has made capital a stronger complement to labour more recently.


From the documents that launched baseball rules as we know them to a high-grade Nolan Ryan rookie card, the most valuable sports memorabilia sold at auction in 2016 proved once again that there's a big money market for rare sports treasures.
The top 10 highest selling items totaled well over $13 million.
Topping the list at $3,263,246 is the "Laws of Base Ball," the group of documents written in 1856 and 1857 that framed the foundation of America's pastime. The documents were sold last spring by SCP Auctions.
Other notable items include a 1952 Topps #311 Mickey Mantle rookie card, graded PSA NM-MT+ 8.5, that sold for over $1 million, and a pair of T206 Honus Wagner cards.
Of the top 10 items sold at public auction, two cracked the PSA "Record Breakers" list for all-time auction records. The "Laws of Base Ball" earned the top "Baseball Document" spot, while the 1909-11 T206 Honus Wagner PSA EX 5 (MC) ranks as the all-time highest selling baseball card at public auction.


Since 1857, the universities of Oxford and Cambridge have battled it out over 4.2 miles of the River Thames annually to win the prestigious Boat Race. Over a quarter of a million people line the banks of the river to watch and cheer on the rowers, with a further 15 million tuning in from the comfort of their own homes. This year's race, on Saturday 11th April 2015, will be the first time that the women's race will run on the same day, over the same course, and be televised.
Fast-becoming one of the nation's favourite sports presenters, Clare Balding has chosen to host this historic event, turning down the chance to present the Grand National, arguably the biggest event in the horse racing calendar, the sport which Balding has built her career and life around. Balding says that she made the decision as a way of affirming that she supports women's sport and the platform that the media is giving it.
Balding sees her chance to present the Race as a political one, a chance to really highlight women's sporting talent. This is especially important as only 0.4% of all commercial sponsorship goes to women's sport and only 7% of women's sport gets media coverage. This has all been made possible by Helena Morrissey, the CEO of the women's Boat Race's main sponsor Newton Investment Management, who has pushed the dream of a women's race into becoming reality. Morrissey has stated that the commercial sector should invest in women's sport as part of a business plans which predicts high returns and greater impact.
The battle for gender equality in sport plays into the wider discourse of feminism. Balding claims that sport provides women with physical freedom, a way of expressing the self through hard work, sweat and determination. The women's Boat Race will be a cause for celebration and added excitement around an event which gathers so much pride and interest. Whatever the outcome, whether Oxford or Cambridge reigns victorious, this is a euphoric moment for women's sport and will undoubtedly be a crowd pleaser.
Wilson said that this race has been brought about by a culture of strong, stubborn and passionate women who have fought for nearly a century to have the same platform as their male counterparts. However little or much you know about rowing, this alone is a reason to watch. History in the making.
The women's Boat Race is on Saturday 11th April, 4.50pm BST on BBC1.


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Hearts: Top ten January transfer window signings
The January transfer window can be one of the most interesting and exciting periods of the season – but it's also a notoriously tough time to find quality recruits.
By Craig Fowler
Saturday, 15th January 2022, 8:00 am
There are many examples of mid-season additions going horribly wrong in Gorgie. Thankfully, these ten examples show it's not all bad:
10. Genero Zeefuik
He was here for a good time, not a long time. If it weren't for YouTube and the ease with which fans are able to bring up old highlights, Zeefuik would be one of those near-mythical players your dad talks about. Here came a striker with an alarmingly large waist-size but in that bruising physique existed a glue-like touch and a penchant for scoring loads of goals. He hit double figures in half a season to give an injury-ravaged Hearts attack some extra punch on their path to the Scottish Championship crown in 2015.
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9. Danny Wilson
Came to the club when it was on its knees in 2013 and did an admirable job as captain of a startlingly young side which eventually dropped out of the top flight due to a 15-point deduction despite a valiant effort. He then captained the team which made it back at the first time of asking before going off to rejoin Rangers. Not someone who was taken to the hearts of fans – hard when you play alongside the scorer of 40-yard derby screamers, Alim Ozturk – but was widely respected throughout his spell.
8. Deividas Cesnauskis
The third Lithuanian to arrive at the club after Vladimir Romanov acquired Hearts, he was excellent on debut and showed enough promise towards the end of the 2004/05 season. Got off to a slow start the following campaign but eventually came good and was arguably the club's most consistent player in an otherwise stumbling end to the famous, cup-winning season. That would be the peak of his powers, however, as he only showed flashes in the two campaigns which followed prior to his release.
Steven Naismith and Liam Boyce were each originally brought to Hearts in the January transfer window. Picture: SNS
7. Lee Miller
Exactly like Zeefuik but did his work in the top flight. Miller was a revelation in the latter half of the 04/05 season and it's difficult to imagine just how pedestrian John Robertson's side would have been without his goalscoring touch as he bagged 11 in 23 games. Decided against a contract offer from Hearts and instead joined Dundee United (huh?!), a choice which proved to be costly for the player as he failed to do much at Tannadice while Hearts went out and signed a Champions League winner as his replacement. Still fondly remembered, though.
6. Ryan Stevenson
What's the best way to make up for vexing the fans with complaints about car payments? Why, scoring a belting goal in a cup victory against Hibs of course! Could go through lengthy spells with little contribution but always seemed to step up in big games . He scored in memorable wins over Rangers, Celtic, Aberdeen and, as mentioned, Hibs, while his performance in the 3-2 League Cup final defeat to St Mirren was exceptional. He was the emotional leader in the second half of the doomed 2013/14 season, including netting a hat-trick in a 5-0 mauling of Kilmarnock, which at least made Kris Boyd unhappy.
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5. Steven Naismith
The Scottish international could have been top three with a little more luck. Twice he was struck down in the 2018/19 season when his impact was having a major boost on Hearts' performances and the team went into the toilet as a result of his absence. Struggled a little the following season in a dire side and it eventually became clear last term he was finished at the top level, so he retired and joined the coaching staff. He acted like one on the field all the time anyway, so it was a natural progression.
4. Saulius Mikoliunas
Hearts' most capped foreig n player of all time . Was he about the most inconsistent attacker to ever grace the Tynecastle turf? Perhaps. But he also had a habit of smashing in terrific goals, and the one match in five when he was on his game, he was an absolute joy to watch. Got a lot of stick from supporters and unfairly became the poster boy for Romanov's meddling, but ultimately left with everyone's best wishes after four-and-a-half years. The definition of a cult player. Plus, his dive against Scotland was quite funny.
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3. Liam Boyce
He failed in his initial remit to keep Hearts in the top flight, though in fairness he was carrying an injury toward the end of the truncated and ill-fated 2019/20 season. Since then, however, there can be no complaints about his output. Finished top goalscorer last season and is currently on course to become the first Hearts player to score 20 goals in a single campaign since John Robertson, despite a drought of only one goal in his last seven appearances.
2. Bruno Aguiar
The Portuguese player would easily have been No 1 on the list if he'd been utilised properly when he first came to the club – even though a few month s after joining in January 2006, Hearts finished second in the SPL – and if Julien Brellier hadn't tried to remove one of his legs in training. When he finally returned, after 18 months out, he became undoubtedly the club's most valuable player in the surprisingly competent 2008/09 season when Csaba Laszlo took them to third. Aguiar was the lynchpin of the attack from the No 10 role.
1. John Souttar
This has aged very badly, but putting aside his potential impending move to Ibrox, there's no doubting Souttar's impact over the past five years. Quickly established himself as a first-team regular while still 20 and would've easily topped over 250 appearances for Hearts – or moved on sooner – if not for the five serious injuries he suffered during his time in Gorgie. A Rolls Royce of a defender. It's a real shame he looks set to leave for nothing.
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