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Ohh gosh. I will be honest. When I found out this month's ingredient for the #BreadBakers event was grapes, I was a little bit thrown off. I'll be the first to say, I really dislike raisins. Like, I totally hate them. I know that tons of people out there love them and I usually give away most of what I bake anyways, but I really wanted to try something different and new.
I'm also really weird about certain fruits in baked goods (so fresh grapes were a no-go either). Then I found out that wiiiine was allowed in our October bread event. I looooove wine. So, I decided of course…that had to happen somehow.
I had wanted to try to make a sourdough with wine (just obtained a new starter that I got from school and I want to experiment with it), but I was informed by my pastry chef that the wild yeast couldn't handle the high alcohol content in wine (wouldn't that be delicious though?). Sooo then I decided brioche would be great because it's a really versatile dough and I had so much fun working with it in class.
We poached some pears in my knife skills class for the bakery, and they were so delicious that I haaad to try it at home. We did marsala ones at school, so I figured a vino version would be great. The wine flavor with the pears and the buttery brioche dough, plus the tangy creme fraiche and crunchy toasted almonds. Ohhh… It's pretty a tasty combination, if I do say so myself.
That red wine reduction sauce. Pure heaven.
We just did bread week in my intro baking class in culinary school, and the entire time our chef was reiterating to us that all bread needs is time. It's the easiest thing to make in terms of ingredients, it just always needs to be given some peaceful alone time before it can do its magic. Chef even says kneading is highly overrated in many cases. Often times the yeast just needs to ferment and develop all that wonderful flavor and leavening properties by resting.
I'm much more experienced with the patiserrie side of baking and pastry, and a lot of things on that spectrum are time sensitive…meaning they have to be made quickly and efficiently or else most of the time they won't come out. Boulangerie has some of that (hellooo croissants), but many breads prefer to rest and take it easy (especiallly wild yeast breads…like sourdough). Keep your eyes out for lots 'o bread experimenting on this 'lil blog in the near future!
This week I start the Production Baking class, where I will be working for the bakery in our culinary arts building that is open to the public. It's five days a week, for five hours each day (and pretty early haha) so I'll be baking alllll the time. I'm so excited. 😀 Anyhow, back to the bread!
For the brioche: Grease a 9 inch spring form pan. In a food processor, blend the dry ingredients until mixed. Add the butter, and pulse until the butter is broken into pea-sized pieces. Next add the eggs and milk, and pulse again until a sticky ball of dough forms. Pour into your pan, and with floured fingers press the dough down in the bottom of the pan until evenly distributed. Allow to sit (covered with a towel or plastic wrap) in a draft free warm area for at least two hours. It will not necessarily double in size, but it will become fluffier.
While waiting for your dough to proof, make the filling: Peel and quarter your pears. Core them, and then slice each quarter into 3 wedge-like pieces. In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar and wine and cook on medium-high until it boils and the sugar is dissolved (whisking occasionally). Turn down to medium low, add your pears and let it simmer for 8-10 minutes until the pears are tender. Remove them with a slotted spoon and set aside to allow them to cool (I stuck mine in the fridge so they'd cool faster). Boil the wine mixture until it reduces down to about 1 cup. In a small bowl whisk together the water and corn starch, and then stir into the wine. Whisking occasionally, cook the mixture until it becomes quite thick (about 3-4 minutes). Set aside for later.
Assembly/Baking: Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Once your pears are cooled, arrange them over the brioche dough in a concentric circle (leave about a half inch border around the edge). Make sure you line them up quite close together. Sprinkle the pears with the two tablespoons of sugar remaining. Sprinkle the border with sliced almonds. Bake for about 30 minutes until the edges of the brioche are browned and the middle is cooked through. Remove the sides of the pan, and allow to cool on a wire rack before serving. Slice into wedges and drizzle with red wine sauce. Top with a dollop of crème fraîche.
It seems like a lot of work, but it's actually a fairly easy process. You can totally make the pear part a day or more before, and with the food processor brioche it's pretty quick in terms of hands on time.
Absolutely gorgeous!! What fabulous color on those pears too. Wow!
It surely doesn't get better than red wine and dessert. Lovely take in grapes 🙂 Good Luck with ProductionBakery classes.
Beautiful colors those pears must taste amazing!
That is stunning! Such a gorgeous brioche, and the color of the pears with the wine… wow.
That's a picture perfect tart! The colors are absolutely gorgeous. Good luck with your class–I'm jealous!
Poached pears are a favorite of mine and placed in a brioche tart? Sounds heavenly!


Khao Sok National Park is located a couple of hours north of Krabi Town in the neighbouring province of Surat Thani.
Khao Sok National Park is Thailand as it always was. One of the largest areas of unspoiled rainforest in Asia. The area is home to thousands of species of animals, trees and plants that exist nowhere else.
The National Park area has been protected from any sort of development by the fact that the only access to a large part of it is by boat and the only accomodation in the Park is, to be honest, rather primitive. But its this that has allowed the park to retain its unspoiled beauty and even the raft house accomodation in itself has a charm that makes this trip an experience of a lifetime. Where else in the world can you truly escape the modern world? Khao Sok really is one of the most remote places on Earth.
While in the park you can enjoy rafting, kayaking and trekking in places that really very few people ever visit. Accomodation and tour groups are strictly limited to avoid the wildlife being over exposed. A guided tour of Khao Sok National Park is essential to know the places where the best of the wildlife and plantlife can be found in this vast place.
The landscape is dominated by the limestone mountains that surround it, if you trek to the top of one of these you will get to see a sight unparalelled anywhere.
If you take the 2 Day/ One Night program, the Resort is just outside the park area but still in an area of real Natural beauty. The accomodation is simple but comfortable and feedback has always been positive. The rooms are en suite bungalows.
On the bungalow tour, the jungle trek takes you right into the Park from the outside, there are some great viewpoints and an abundance of wildlife.
This is real rainforest and there are bugs and leeches. Its best when walking through the jungle to wear full length clothing and sensible footwear. The rainforest can be a harsh environment.
08.00 -Transfer from your hotel.
10.40 -Arrive to canoe camp.
mountains, you can also swim and at one place there is a swing over the river which is a really fun thing to do.
12.30 -Set menu lunch served with fresh seasonal fruits and soft drinks. (Halal available on request).
13.30 -Enjoy elephant trekking to one of the waterfalls.
15.00 -Stop at Scenic Viewpoint and get some really must-have photos.
15.30 -Check in and stay overnight at bungalow.
19.00 -Set menu dinner at the restaurant of bungalow.
08.00 -Breakfast at the restaurant.
09.00 -Jungle treking by foot into the Khao Sok National Park.
13.00 -Set menu lunch serve with fresh seasonal fruits and soft drinks at canoe camp.
14.00 -Visit The Monkey Cave Temple. You'll soon see where it gets it's name from!
16.30 -Arrive to your hotel.


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Moved to France for the 2007-08 season, signed by STB Le Havre.
On December'09, signed by SIG Strasbourg.
Moved to Italy for the 2010-11 season, signed by Pallacanestro Ferrara, Legadue.
On November'10 signed by Pistoia Basket.
On Feburary'11 moved to Belgium, signed by Liege Basketball.
On December'11 signed by RBC Verviers-Pepinster.
Signed for the 2012-13 season by Liege Basketball.
Signed for the 2013-14 season by Spirou Charleroi.
Played at the 2013 and 2015 European Championship.


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Your hair will start growing back several weeks after finishing your cancer treatment.
You will need to continue taking good care of it to boost hair regrowth.
Most of the time, your hair will start growing back about 4 to 6 weeks after finishing your cancer treatments. After the first month, you should already start to see some hair appear, count about ½ inch of growth per month. Keep in mind that hair growth can cause your scalp to itch.
Hair often changes when growing back, especially at the beginning, it is often thicker, frizzier and sometimes grey. Generally, apart from the colour, your hair will go back to normal after several months.
It is the same for your body hair when it starts to grow back, it is more abundant and forms a light fuzz, but no need to panic as it does not last long.
Avoid any dyes, perms, straightening or blow dries during the first 6 months. You risk to weaken your hair even more and damage the regrowth.
If having grey hair is not your thing, you can use natural, organic hair dyes that are free of ammoniac, parabens and resorcinol.
Do not use any hair dyes while you can still see skin on your head.
Do not shave your hair, or fuzzy body hair as it will disappear after 6 months.
Use castor oil to help with regrowth. The texture is quite viscous so you can mix with another oil to make it more fluid (Avocado or Argan oil).
At night, massage your skull to help boost hair regrowth or your ends to make them stronger and voluminous.
Leave on overnight. To avoid getting oil on your sheets, place a towel between your head and pillow.
In the morning, wash your hair normally. As the texture is quite thick, you will need to wash thoroughly to remove all remaining oil.
Repeat the process 1 or 2 times a week.
If you prefer to wash your hair at night, we suggest leaving the oil to sit for at least 30 minutes before washing.
During hair regrowth, you can still wear your wig as it lets your scalp breath and does not slowdown hair growth. Same thing for chemo turbans and headscarves.
Cutting your hair will not speed up your hair growth.
Your hair grows on average ½ inch per month after chemo. However, it is at the roots where everything happens, which is why it is important to detoxify the hair follicle before boosting growth with food supplements, stimulating shampoos and fortifying serums.
Keep your head warm, day and night! The cold contracts the hair follicles and limits growth.
And for lash and brow regrowth?
Just like your hair, your eyelashes and eyebrows will grow back, but it will take more time. They can sometimes be thin and sparse, but stay patient as they will go back to normal!
You can put castor oil on a cotton bud and apply every night at the base of your eyelashes and eyebrows.
For fast, effective regrowth, we recommend the Revitalash products, specially developed to boost lash and brow growth after chemotherapy.


Central banks across the globe have been on an almost decade-long printing spree (quantitative easing) since the 2008 "Great Recession" in an effort to encourage economic activity through low borrowing rates in order to promote greater spending at multiple levels of society. While that well-meaning policy was intended to stimulate the economy, one of its major drawbacks is that it is undiscerning as to who or what institutions benefit from its largesse. This means that any borrower, regardless of quality, has easier access to low cost debt, which makes it possible for even unsound ideas with low likely future success rates to receive financing. This sets the stage for future negative economic shocks as debt use by governments, corporations, and individuals has exploded as a result. Now that the Federal Reserve is attempting to drain the party's punchbowl there is a significant concern that the economy could end up with one heck of a chaotic hangover as normalization occurs. The good news about chaos, and the risk inherently present in such times, is that it is the environment where asset mispricing and opportunity can be created.
Recent Federal Reserve rate hikes and balance sheet tapering has resulted in substantially tighter borrowing conditions. This will likely make it harder on those surviving on cheap debt and creates opportunity for those able to benefit from now higher interest rates.
A frequent topic of conversation in past CWM articles and live events has been around Federal Reserve (Fed) monetary policy and the question of when will the committee begin to normalize, and to what magnitude, that policy. Policy normalization involves the hiking of interest rates and the tapering of the Fed balance sheet, reversing the excesses of previous quantitative easing efforts (a.k.a. the reduction of money printing and buying debt to lower interest rates). This normalization process will not be just an exclusively American phenomenon, but is expected to be a global event as major central banks across the world move to unwind their balance sheets in the coming years. The graphic below has been frequently featured in past articles and displays the expected drawdown rate for the Fed, the Bank of Japan (BoJ), European Central Bank (ECB), and the Bank of England (BoE).
Source: Kelly, D. et. al. (March 31, 2018). Guide to the Markets. J.P. Morgan Asset Management.
As expected, the Fed is keeping its tightening promises by raising rates and beginning to reduce its balance sheet. A review of the Fed balance sheet shows that the value of US treasuries held by the Fed has now shrunk from its all-time high of $2.465T (that's "T" for trillion!) by a little over -3% (as of May 18th). Wall Street reporters have been giving the below chart a lot of press lately because it makes this recent drawdown seem like a dramatic drop.
Source: U.S. Treasury Securities Held by the Federal Reserve: All Maturities. (May 17, 2018). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
Viewed from a greater context, it can be seen that the recent balance sheet decline is but a drop in the ocean compared to how much Treasury debt has been purchased by the Federal Reserve over the last ten years. The circled red area in the chart below depicts the same balance sheet decline shown in the chart above, but shown over a longer timeframe. However, this longer-term perspective should not completely discount the Fed's recent tightening efforts. It should be noted that the declining trend, obvious even in the longer-term chart below, is a marked change in behavior from what has occurred over the last decade. This change is likely going to force many governments, corporations, and individuals to change their borrowing behavior, willingly or not.
The U.S. government balance sheet of 11 years ago (pre-financial crisis: March 2007) had a vastly different appearance. Since that time, the total U.S. public debt has more than tripled while Federal Reserve activity (discussed in the section above) has kept government borrowing costs affordable.
Source: Podkul, C. (March 27, 2018). 10 Years After the Crisis. The Wall Street Journal.
The $15 trillion mountain of government debt is still continuing to grow. The 2017 Federal government budget shows an expected deficit of an ominous $666 billion dollars for the current fiscal year. A number that is expected to get larger, not smaller in coming years.
Emphasis added by Comprehensive Wealth Management.
The current $666 billion deficit may soon seem a paltry sum if forecasts by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are accurate. The CBO projects that the annual deficit will be between $1.5 - 2 trillion by 2028.
Source: Akabas, S., Shaw, T, and Remetta, J. (April 12, 2018). CBO Confirms Trillion Dollar Deficits Coming Soon. Here's Why It Matters. Bipartisan Policy Center.
On top of a high and rising debt level there is also spiking interest rates. The 5-year yield has risen from 1.62% on September 7th, 2017 to 2.89% as of May 21st, 2018. If the government keeps the average maturity of its debt near where it is currently (about 5.73 years) than this rise in rates will effectively raise government borrowing costs by approximately 78% over time as refinancing occurs and new debt is issued.
Source: U.S. 5 Year Treasury Note. (May 21, 2018). MarketWatch.
The rising debt level and cost of debt is a huge future risk even at current, near record low, rates. The CBO forecasts that by 2025 the federal government will spend more on debt interest payments than it does on defense and non-discretionary budget items (example: the Department of Education). Bloomberg reports that "over the next decade, the U.S. government will spend almost $7 trillion -- or almost $60,000 per household -- servicing the nation's massive debt burden."1 Net interest costs could rise from today's $263 billion per year to almost $800 billion per year in just the next seven years.
Source: Tanzi, A. (April 11, 2018). Massive Debt, Massive Interest Payments. Bloomberg Businessweek.
The rising interest cost on the U.S. government's massive pile of debt will likely constrain the ability of the Federal Reserve to raise rates and fight inflation due to the inability of the government to afford higher borrowing costs. There are those that suggest an independently run Fed will not allow this consideration to prevent it from raising rates if it deems necessary, but it is the CWM opinion that the Fed will give in and support the U.S. government if solvency becomes a real concern. As it stands, the government will borrow/refinance an equivalent value to 25% of GDP this year, which is a worse borrowing level than Italy, a country thought of to be a bit of an economic basket case. This borrowing/refinancing need should put upward pressure on government debt yields over time.
Source: Slok, T. and Brody, Q. (April 25, 2018). A Coming Debt Crisis in the US? Deutsche Bank Markets Research.
Despite the above negativity, major risks to U.S. debt are probably some years off yet. For now this event can be likened to a slow moving train wreck that will likely cause significant economic hardship in the future (depending on how it is handled), but it is not something investors need to run screaming in terror from just yet.
U.S. corporate debt levels have reached the point relative-to-GDP that has marked previous credit and economic cycle tops. GDP (gross domestic product) is a numeric reflection of the total wealth created by a country in a given year. The ratio of corporate debt-to-GDP suggests that at certain high levels of debt relative to national economic activity the high debt burden becomes a headwind to future economic growth. The most recent credit cycle tops saw this ratio top out around 45% corporate debt-to-GDP, meaning that the current total U.S. corporate debt (depicted in the chart below) has an equivalent value to the high levels of previous cycle tops that occurred just prior to economic recessions. Think of this like having a very high level of credit card debt relative to personal income and it likely becomes a bit clearer why the current high ratio reading is problematic for the overall economy. The grey verticle bars in the chart below reflect periods of economic recession that soon followed credit cycle peaks in the corporate debt-to-GDP ratio.
Source: Mauldin, J. (May 17, 2018). A Liquidity Crisis of Biblical Proportions Is Upon Us. Mauldin Economics.
Despite very high corporate debt levels, the high yield default rate (the default rate for the lowest quality corporate borrowers, left vertical axis below) is near all-time lows. Historically there is a very strong positive relationship between high debt levels and a high default rate. The current spread between the two metrics is something that hasn't been seen in the available record going back to the 1980s. A reversion to the norm would suggest a much higher default rate or lower debt level, which would most likely mean losses for high yield corporate bond holders at some point in the future.
Source: Borodovsky, L. (April 30th, 2018). The Daily Shot: Is the Market Pricing in a Fed Policy Mistake? The Wall Street Journal.
The spread shown above is a statistical outlier, meaning it's something unusual based on history. This suggests there is increased and immediate risk for high yield bonds and prudent investors should be reducing their exposure to assets that would be harmed if the debt-to-default relationship returns to normal levels. It is far more likely that default rates rise sharply than it is for highly indebted companies to suddenly become more frugal and prioritize reducing their debt.
Revolving debt (credit cards, HELOCs, etc…) levels are now higher on a nominal dollar basis than they were prior to the 2008 market crash. It should be noted that adjusted for inflation, the real comparable dollar amount to May 2008's $1.019 trillion would be approximately $1.181 trillion in 2018 dollars. Today's levels are only at $1.026 trillion currently. Like with high government and corporate debt, high levels of personal debt represent a risk to the future U.S. economy.
Source: Donisanu, P. (April 24th 2018). Rising Household Debt – Canary in the Coal Mine? Wells Fargo Investment Institute.
If non-revolving credit (mortgages, student loans, car loans, etc…) is also included, it can be seen that total consumer debt is nearing $4 trillion dollars and well above the 2008 high levels even on an inflation adjusted basis.
Source: Konish, L. (May 21st, 2018). Consumer Debt is Set to Reach $4 Trillion by the End of 2018. CNBC.
High debt values alone are not a reason to become overly pessimistic until those debt levels become unsustainable and defaults begin occurring. Unfortunately there are some emerging signs of debtor weakness beginning to emerge. For instance, credit card charge-offs (a.k.a. defaults) have been steadily rising since 2015 (grey line) and are forecasted to increase sharply (orange line).
Debt, whether government, corporate, or personal, functions as a method for bringing future spending into the present. The tradeoff for that action requires greater rates of saving in the future than would have otherwise been required. Current high levels of debt across the spectrum of potential borrowers is of great concern for a national economy like the U.S. that is largely dependent on consumer, business, and government spending for its function and growth.
While the above items are concerning, especially as we get further into the 2020s, current trends are creating some immediate shorter-term opportunities. Yields on traditionally less risky bonds have risen sharply from the all-time lows and bond prices have consequently fallen, especially on the shorter end of the bond yield curve. Lower valuations combined with higher yields creates opportunity as traditionally safer assets are now providing a more reasonable level of income at a better overall valuation. This allows the prudent investor to trade higher risk debt, like the high yield corporate bonds mentioned above, for assets with less default risk.
Source: Martin, C. (April 10th, 2018). Short-Term Investment Options for a Rising-Rate, Volatile-Market Environment. Charles Schwab.
The recent 100-day loss in bonds is on par with some of the worst similar selloffs since 2000. It should be noted that subsequent timeframes have been positive for bond valuations after that point. This examination of history suggests bond investors, as an aggregate, should be able to be more confident in expecting a near-term positive outcome as that is what has occurred after similar levels of price drop in the past.
Source: Gutscher, C. (May 21st, 2018). Corporate Bonds Sink Fast in One of Worst Tumbles Since 2000. Bloomberg.
Rising yields have also created another unusual phenomenon as U.S. yields are now higher than other major developed countries for the first time since the year 2000.
Source: Sonders, L. (May 16th, 2018). US 10y Treasury Yield. Twitter @LizAnnSonders.
This spread of U.S. debt to foreign rates is also unusually high at over 1% to comparable aggregated global bonds. Meaning U.S. bond investors earn 1% more in income annually than a comparable group of foreign bonds. This high statistical spread is another occurrence that is typically followed by a more positive environment for U.S. bonds, which should again give U.S. bond investors confidence in expecting future positive outcomes. The chart below shows that the spread between U.S. and global bonds typically falls after reaching similar high levels of positive difference. At the very least, this suggests that U.S. debt typically outperforms global debt in the environments following those readings.
Source: Abramowicz, L (May 18th, 2018). U.S. 10-year Yields are More than 1 Percentage Point Higher than Global Yields. Twitter @lisaabramowicz1.
To sum up all of the above sections and contained data, we believe prudent investors should be concerned about the debt situation in the U.S. and what that means for its economy over the long-term. For now, recent negative bond market moves have created opportunity in traditionally safer assets through higher yields that are now competitive with more aggressive income assets; those bonds also now have lower overall valuations. This opportunity is presenting itself when risks appear to be rising for the more aggressive income assets, like international and high yield bonds, that have held up a bit better than their typically safer counterparts so far this year.
Our CWM PTS® metric currently stands at 1.58 as of May 17, 2018, down from 1.81 in January. Markets have traded lower to sideways since January's article which, along with other factors, moved this indicator back towards a more normalized indication since valuations are not quite as high as they used to be. At this level we can be highly confident that future stock market returns will be subdued with a significant potential to underperform bonds/non-correlated investable assets over the next couple of years, though nothing is ever guaranteed of course. As it stands, the current 1.58 indication suggests we should remain overweight to bonds/non-correlated assets versus stock investments.
Source: Macro PTS® Score. (May 17, 2018). Comprehensive Wealth Management.
Though there is potential for stocks to move higher, current valuations reflect a high probability of a negative future outcome, a risk we are striving to mitigate for our clients. CWM PTS® models continue to be invested conservatively, as they have been for some time. The CWM team will continue to be disciplined in our efforts to provide the best risk adjusted returns possible for our clients.
P.S. When considering anything, it is important to keep be aware of the perspective, or framing, being used to reach a conclusion. For instance more people are scared of swimming in the ocean because of fears of being bitten by sharks than they are of walking in the woods and risking a mosquito bite. Framed with proper information, it can be seen that mosquitoes should easily be considered the more terrifying creature when judged by the number of human deaths caused by each creature.
Source: Gates, B. (April 23, 2018). This Animal Kills More People in a Day than Sharks Do in a Century. Gates Notes.
1Tanzi, A. (April 11, 2018). Massive Debt, Massive Interest Payments. Bloomberg Businessweek.


With John having become a motorcycling Tetsuo and with the DRZ gutted in the garage, it's time to use our own human feet. At 2544m, the aptly named Moldoveanu is Romania's highest mountain. It's located in South-Central Carpathians Mt., in the Western Fagaras range, which is notoriously beautiful and challenging to explore. Remote and rugged, Fagaras boasts several 2K+ peaks. So it's rather evident that climbing its highest is something that any Romanian mountain buff wants under their belt. How about a quickie outing in the mountains then? The timing is so and so: it's been ten (OMG!!!!) years this month since we started dating, and less than 4 weeks since John's complicated wrist surgery. But fellow adventurer Alastair Humphreys quips everyone should make time for micro adventure, which must include people with a titanium wrists, too.
The landscape here is already dramatically different: vapid waters run over light caramel boulders, evergreen trees fringe a glorious sky, and the road twists and turns like a furious snake. Come once, and I promise you Fagaras mountains will steal your heart. If you've already been to Romania and missed it, there's your reason to return. In typical ITW fashion, we have decided to leave Bucharest on a whim so we don't arrive at the end of the gravel until 5 p.m. The road stops right where the actual climb begins, at the foot of the steep Evil Valley, carved by the river that bears the same name. The abandoned wood cabin sitting across the creek (an old sheep pen I presume) puts everything up to scale. From this point it's a good 4 hour hike to the top, so too late to reach Moldoveanu before nigh time. But of course that we have a plan.
We cross path with a couple of hikers returning from the top: 50 year olds in short shorts and boots, with big backpacks and muscular legs; a humming teenage girl with thick braids; a guy and a gal carrying a bunch of aromatics gathered for tea. Under 'normal' circumstances we would not even notice each other. But I love how people stop and chat when they meet on a mountain, with genuine joy, as if in this feral environment we are suddenly able to see beyond prejudices and connect. Bare rock demands respect and humbleness. Man, the top predator, suddenly becomes physically aware of how transient he is, and is relieved to recognise another member of their clan, which is a funny thing, considering how much effort we normally put into avoiding other people when we are going about our daily lives in the city!
A few hundred meters into the climb, the path narrows and steepens. Micah glitters through the rock. The mountain wall is infested with purple flowers and medicinal plants: wild thyme (anti-fungal, also good for colds), yarrow (a powerful wound healer) and St John's wort (known antidepressant, but in my family we simply add it to regular winter tea). At places one needs to crawl their way up, so John finds himself between a rock and a hard (titanium-enhanced) place. If it looks like he's stepping outside his comfort zone it's because he is.
The highest waterfall marks the ridge of the Evil Valley. On the windy plateau a flock of sheep scatter. These are the final days of July, but there are still patches of snow yet to thaw. We're gonna set camp a couple of hundreds meters further, at the triangular glacier lake (aka Iezerul Triunghiular). This time we are using a 3-season second hand tent received from a German cyclist in Ulaanbaatar. It did the job in Siberia as John was riding the BAM, so I reckon it'll be splendid for a night at 2159m in Romania.
Our camping ritual includes foraging, trying not to stab each other, and bowing to the mountain gods while praying that they bestow eternal happiness to that anonymous German cyclist. The next scene finds us playing #Thermarest, camper's choice of bagpipe when there's no bagpipe around.
Mattresses in, sleeping bag in (it's the same since 2010, having survived over 800 nights by now). YES. This is the perfect crib. Soon temperature drops below 10 Celsius. We devour our food and we retreat 'indoors' to spoon.
Moon shines brighter @the Triangular Lake. We wake up with a glorious view. We share the spot with 3 more tents: one is shared between 2 German hikers, and inside the other 2 slept a Czech and a Slovak who are travelling together.
Our target is visible to the left. The next section is a bit steep again and the rock is crumbly. Should we decide to hike to the right, we would pass by an alpine refuge. We have business on the other crease. On the way to Moldoveanu we pass Romania's third highest peak, Viștea Mare (2527m).
The top view is spectacular, with abyssal valleys and the unmistakable Fagaras silhouetted in the back. The kind of landscape you'd find on a bucket-list road: the Transfagarasan.
On the way back I feel proud again of my titanium-enhanced man who's killing it on the mountain. John is such a critter magnet, and this time we are rewarded with the brief encounter with a baby viper.
I wonder why is this place called the Evil Valley, when it looks like the land of fairies. Evil fairies perhaps?


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How To Shop A Thai Market Like A Pro
By Quincy Surasmith
Published Sep 18, 2019 9:00 AM
Shoppers stock up at a discount supermarket in Pattaya, Thailand on July 31, 2017.
(Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)
When the Tilakamonkul family opened Bangkok Market on Melrose and Normandie in 1971, they didn't expect the store to become a building block of Los Angeles's Thai American community.
They launched the humble, 2,000-square-foot space to fill a basic need -- providing produce and ingredients that their fellow Thai immigrants couldn't find anywhere else. To import the goods they needed, they had to navigate U.S. customs and build supply chains where none existed, laying the path that other Thai grocers would follow.
Bangkok Market boomed, moving down the block to a space three times the size. The store grew along with the community. (For more details on the role of food in the rise of Thai Town, check out Mark Padoongpatt's fabulous book, Flavors of Empire: Food and the Making of Thai America.)
L.A. is now home to the highest number of Thai people anywhere in the world, except for Thailand. The heart of that community is Thai Town in East Hollywood, and people have plenty of places to buy their groceries.
In the 38 years since Bangkok Market debuted, other Thai markets have opened. There's Bangluck with locations in Thai Town and North Hollywood, Silom Market on Hollywood Blvd. next to Thailand Plaza and LAX-C, a giant warehouse known as "Thai Costco," northeast of Chinatown.
Support these institutions by shopping at them like a pro.
Sriracha at a Thai market.
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Unless you've been living under a rock these last two decades, you've heard of sriracha, the fiery red sauce that's ubiquitous at pho shops, rice bowl joints, burger shops and food trucks across L.A. The brand with the rooster logo, marketed by Vietnamese American David Tran and his company Huy Fong Foods, has become iconic but it's not the sriracha I grew up with.
Sriracha comes from the town of Si Racha in the eastern half of Thailand, along the gulf. The Thai version of the sauce is smoother, more liquid and poured from glass bottles. You dip grilled meats and seafoods in it or, if you're teenage me, you use it to spice up spaghetti sauces, chili, fries and noodle soups.
Although Huy Fong's sriracha can be found in most major grocery stores, you'll have to go to a Thai market to find brands such as Panich, Shark and Por Kwan. They vary in heat level and, unlike the heat-forward Huy Fong version, their flavor tends to be rounded out with garlic and sugar notes.
Soy sauce at a Thai market.
"But I already have soy sauce at home," you might be saying. Most Asian cuisines that feature soy sauce use one that's specific to their culture. Try to make pad see ew with Kikkoman and it won't come out like you'd hoped.
There are three main types of Thai soy sauce: light/white (thin and salty), dark/black (thicker and sweeter) and sweet (more viscous and extremely sweet).
Dragonfly and Healthy Boy sell all three types, and are the most popular brands to cook with. Golden Mountain sells a more savory soy sauce-adjacent condiment meant to finish dishes at the table. It also goes well with fried eggs and rice porridge. (If you've had Maggi, it's very similar.)
Nam phrik phao, a roasted chili jam, at a Thai market.
Nam Phrik Phao
This roasted chili jam is the secret hero of many Thai dishes. Without knowing it, you've probably had this blend of chiles, sugar, shrimp paste, garlic, tamarind, shallots, fish sauce and other spices in countless restaurant tom yum soups, stir fries and salads. It's spicy but doesn't lead with the heat. Instead, it adds a sweet, savory, briny, fiery kick to dishes and makes a great addition to grilled cheese sandwiches (an idea from Thai food writer Leela Punyaratabandhu).
Various brands of fish sauce (nam pla) at a Thai market.
An essential ingredient in the Thai pantry, fish sauce, aka nam pla, adds a distinct briny funk and goes well with anything that needs a savory boost. That includes eggs, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms and any number of sauces and soups.
Most major supermarkets carry one, maybe two kinds of fish sauce but nothing beats the variety at a Thai grocery store. You'll find leading brands such as Tiparos and Tra Chang alongside various seafood-themed brands. (At least five different brands use crabs on their label.) They like to differentiate themselves by touting the purity of their fish sauce and whether they add sugar, glutamates or coloring. Each one varies in strength, saltiness and sweetness. Since every Thai cook has their preference (usually based on what they grew up eating), it's hard to find consensus. Fortunately, fish sauce isn't expensive, so you can try a bunch and find your favorite.
Curry paste at a Thai market.
In a perfect world, you'd pound together herbs, spices, chiles and aromatics with a pestle until you made a fresh, fragrant paste. But when you're trying to survive meal prep or serve a quick dinner, it's way easier to grab one of the many pre-made Thai curry pastes.
They run the spectrum: gaeng phed ("spicy" aka "red curry"), gaeng khiew wan ("green sweet" aka "green curry"), gaeng panang (a nutty and thick curry), gaeng massaman (a curry with Malay and Muslim influences), and gaeng garii (a curry based on Anglo-Indian sauces and the only one Thai people literally call "curry," aka "yellow curry").
They're sold as either single-use cans or, in case you plan to cook the dish regularly, in sealed plastic tubs.
Palm sugar at a Thai market.
Palm Sugar
Long before refined cane or beet sugar came to Thailand, the traditional sweetener of choice was palm sugar, harvested from the sap of palm trees. The stuff that's exported to the U.S. is thickened and hardened into disks, bricks or jars. Its distinct flavor is key to sweetening dishes such as pad Thai. In recipes, brown sugar is often recommended as a substitute. If you have a disk of palm sugar, go with that instead. Its extreme sweetness will add a hint of butterscotch flavor.
Thai basil (bai horapha) at a Thai market.
Thai cuisine relies on many aromatics and herbs that are hard to find, even in other Asian grocery stores. If you're lucky, you can find mint (bai saranae) and Thai basil (bai horapha) in some Asian markets but for ingredients like holy basil (bai kaphrao), lemongrass (takhrai) and makrut lime leaves (don't call them kaffir lime leaves), the produce section of a Thai market is the way to go. Choose wisely. These herbs are usually bundled in plastic bags and the quality of individual leaves varies.
Chili powder at a Thai market.
Thai chili powder is traditionally made by taking sun-dried Thai chiles, toasting them in a pan until the whole house has a fiery, smoky aroma then grinding them into a powder. My parents made their own, a process that took days and turned our home into a biohazard zone but they did it as an investment in the spiciness of future dishes. Red pepper flakes from a supermarket spice aisle can't compare. I learned this the hard way in college while trying to season my laab with ingredients from Safeway. Seek out the real stuff. Noodles, stir-fries and salads will all benefit from its dry toasted heat.
Naamwa bananas at a Thai market.
Naamwa Bananas
Thai grocery stores offer a wealth of amazing, seasonal fruits from Thailand: rambutan, longan, lychee, mangosteen, tamarind, jackfruit and the infamous durian. My favorite is the Thai "naamwa" banana.
It's smaller than the Cavendish (the standard American banana). It's also a little sweeter, a little more tart and creamier. Frankly, it tastes more like a fruit. Sometimes, you can find them sun-dried and soaked in syrup or battered and fried in fritters at snack shop Ban Kanom Thai in Thailand Plaza. I prefer them ripe and fresh. Maybe it's because they're easier to peel and eat than many other Thai fruits, saving me the awkwardness of trying to crack shells and navigate around pits (looking at you, jackfruit).
Naamwa bananas are impossible to find in mainstream grocery stores. Even other Asian grocery stores, like 99 Ranch, rarely offer them. But Thai markets will usually have a least a few bunches. In Thailand, they're available year-round but their peak season occurs between January and March. They're often green when they're imported so give them a few days to ripen and turn yellow with some dark spots before enjoying them.
Dried squid snacks at a Thai market.
Every Thai market offers a wealth of crunchy, salty, sweet and sour snack items. Most are based on dried fruits or fruit flavors, like mango fruit leather, candied tamarind, fried banana chips and pineapple cookies. On the savory side, you'll find endless varieties of salty and spicy dried fish, squid and cuttlefish, pounded thin for jerky-like snacking.
Potato chips imported from Thailand at a Thai market.
Thai Chips
These are a highlight of any trip to a Thai market. In other countries, companies like Lay's produce flavors that we rarely see in the United States, and Thai markets have dutifully imported them stateside. Enjoy herby, spicy flavors such as Thai basil, grilled squid and miang kham (a traditional savory leaf wrap snack or, in this case, a synthesized version of that flavor). Check out the clever localization of the logo. It actually reads "Lay" in Thai.
Thai tea mix at a Thai market.
Make Thai iced tea at home by swirling the dark red brew with condensed milk and copious amounts of sweetener (bonus points if you use palm sugar). Since it's not instant, you can also make Thai iced black tea as "cha dam yen," the way my mom preferred it -- no cream, lots of sugar and a squeeze of lime. Cha Tra Mue is the most popular brand in Thailand, and its dark red powder has been packaged so you can brew it here in the U.S, ideally using in a muslin cloth steeped into a large stock pot.
If that seems daunting, pick up a ready-to-drink bottle of Thai tea in the refrigerated section.
Noodles at a Thai market.
Competition in the Asian instant noodle game is fierce, so I'm not going to say Thai noodles are superior to all other noodles but they more than hold their own. The Thai flavors bring another level of heat, acidity and seafood brininess to each bowl.
Let's start with instant pad Thai. It's not as good as a fresh batch of the stuff but when you have only five minutes and a cup of hot water to make your lunch, it's a solid option. You can also get instant versions of tom yum noodles, green curry, hot and sour nam tok pork noodles, and so much more, from the leading Thai brand, Mama, as well as its competitors, Wai Wai and FF.
If you have the time to cook the non-instant variety of these dishes, you'll find packaged rice and wheat noodles of varying thickness to use in pad see ew, pad kee mao, laad naa and kuaytiew noodle soups.
Hale's Blue Boy syrup, often used to flavor soda water, milk and shaved ice, at a Thai market.
Hale's Blue Boy Syrups
Thai iced tea and oliang (Thai iced black coffee) are my current beverage loves but nothing tastes quite as nostalgically sweet to me as Hale's Blue Boy. These colorful flavor syrups typically come in green for cream soda, clear for jasmine and, most iconically, red for sala or palm fruit. You can mix them into chilled soda water or milk (pink milk with red syrup is quintessentially Thai), or use them to top shaved ice. All of them make a refreshing treat on a hot day.
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Als Pelzdesigner werden Pelzprodukte entwerfende Mitglieder der Modebranche bezeichnet. Sie gehören zumeist zur Berufsgruppe der Kürschner, ansonsten der Modedesigner. Wie auch Modedesigner ist es keine geschützte Berufsbezeichnung.

Allgemein
"Design" stammt sprachgeschichtlich vom italienischen disegno, "Zeichnung", ab.

Seit den 1960er Jahren setzte sich im allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch das im Englischen seit dem 16. Jahrhundert geläufige Design gegenüber dem französischen Wort "Dessin" durch. In den 1980er Jahren verbreiterte sich der Begriff auf viele Lebensbereiche. Die Modeautorin Charlotte Seeling erkannte als den ersten Modedesigner den Franzosen Paul Poiret (1879–1944). Der damaligen Mode entsprechend befanden sich Pelzbesätze, -verbrämungen und -muffe in seinen Kollektionen. Um die 1980er Jahre griffen die Pelzproduzenten den Begriff auf und erste Kürschner und Kürschnereien bezeichneten sich in ihrer Außendarstellung als Pelzdesigner. Seit den 1990er Jahren ist Designermode die gebräuchliche Bezeichnung für die Avantgardemode wie auch für exklusive Designermarken und für Prêt-à-porter.

Vorgeschichte
Bezeichnungen wie Modeschöpfer, Designer oder ähnliche trafen anfangs für den Kürschner kaum zu, zumindest bis in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein.

Sieht man von den Lamm- und Ziegenfellmänteln der Bauernschaft ab, trat der Pelz erst in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts als selbständiges, mit dem Haar nach außen zu tragendes Bekleidungsstück in Erscheinung. In der Mode, weitgehend eine Trachtenmode, war er versteckt als wärmendes Innenfutter und zeigte sich nur als schmückende Verbrämung oder als Kragen, besonders in der Männer-, aber auch in der Frauenkleidung. Die dafür benötigte Stoffhülle entwarf und fertigte der Schneider. Daneben gab es, gegen Ende des Mittelalters beginnend, Kleinteile aus Fell. Eher als Kuriosum, aber modisch eigenständig, stach dabei das sogenannte Flohpelzchen hervor, ein in Tierform gearbeiteter Schal mit edelsteinverziertem Kopf für die Damen einer kleinen wohlhabenden Hof- und Bürgerschicht. Muffs für beide Geschlechter, Pelzschals und andere Kleinteile für die Damen kamen im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert hinzu.

Eine eigene Pelzmode entstand, als 1842, beginnend mit der ersten schwarzen Damen-Sealjacke, in der bürgerlichen Kleidung der Pelz mit dem Haar nach außen getragen wurde, als Nächstes folgte als Fellmaterial der, ebenfalls schwarze, Persianer. Mit den neuen Möglichkeiten entstand das Pelzmodellhaus. Diese Firmen waren meist in Weltstädten und Großstädten ansässig, in Paris, Mailand, Turin, Rom, New York, London und Wien, in Deutschland herausragend in München, Mannheim, Nürnberg und Hamburg. Diese Häuser waren die "Createure" von Pelzmodellen und die Avantgardisten, die modische Pelztrends vorgaben. In Paris, dem Weltzentrum der Mode, entstand schließlich neben der Haute Couture die Haute Fourrure. Die Eigenständigkeit des Pelzes bestand lange jedoch vor allem in der besonderen Optik des Felles, nur selten in eigenen modischen Eskapaden. Selbst noch nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg herrschte die Ansicht vor, dass ein so langlebiges und hochwertiges Produkt eine gewisse klassische Zeitlosigkeit aufweisen sollte. Bald begannen französische Modeschöpfer jedoch einen schnellen Modewechsel durchzusetzen, der auch an den Pelzen nicht spurlos vorbeiging. Die modische Umgestaltung von Pelzen gewann erheblich an Bedeutung.

Zuvor richteten sich die Berufsbezeichnungen des Pelzmachers nach seiner Tätigkeit, nach dem Material, das er verarbeitete oder dem gefertigten Produkt. Im Deutschen waren, das neben dem hauptsächlich mitteldeutschen Kürschner, bevorzugt in Nord- und Süddeutschland Namen wie "Pelzer", "Pelzmacher" und "Pelzwerker", in Niederdeutschland "Büntner", "Buntmacher" und "Buntfütterer". Der Zusatz "Bunt" meint das grau-weiße Fehfell und besagte, dass der Kürschner nicht Lammfelle, sondern vor allem die feineren Fellarten verarbeitete. Durch den Einfluss der Schriftsprache setzte sich dann der Begriff Kürschner allgemein durch.

Moderne
Der aus dem Englischen übernommene Begriff des Pelzdesigners war vor allem in Nordamerika gebräuchlich. In den USA wurden die einzelnen Schritte der Pelzfertigung schon Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts, nicht nur in den Großbetrieben, sehr viel mehr von Spezialarbeitern ausgeführt als noch gegen Ende desselben Jahrhunderts in der übrigen Welt. In den USA entwarf 1952 der "Designer" und nicht der Kürschner das Modell, bevor es in die Produktion ging. Die Schnittmuster in ihren unterschiedlichen Größen wurden eventuell bereits von einem weiteren Spezialisten gezeichnet, dem "pattern maker". Das US-amerikanische Pelzfachverzeichnis des Jahres 1963 führt im Inhaltsverzeichnis 20 "Designer und Pattern Makers" auf, von denen sich die meisten in ihren Inseraten als "Fur Designer" bezeichneten, einer als "Fur Stylist", einige waren Anbieter von Pelzkonfektion.

Anfangs wurde im deutschsprachigen Bereich vor allem in der Presse der Begriff Pelzdesigner zur besonderen Heraushebung eines Pelzschaffenden gebraucht. Eine gebräuchliche Hervorhebung eines eher konservativ erscheinenden Kürschners war bis dahin unter anderem "Pelz-Couturier", was auch als Eigenbeschreibung möglich war. Edelpelze Berger in Hamburg warb als "Pelzcouturehaus" um 1966 mit seinem "zeitlosen Design". In den Firmenbezeichnungen finden sich öfter Zusätze wie "Pelzmode" oder ähnliche, das Wort Mode beinhaltende Ergänzungen. Spektakulärer waren in der Boulevardpresse Bezeichnungen wie "Pelzkünstler"., "Pelz-König" oder "Pelz-Zar". Ganz besonders häufig findet sich der Begriff Pelzdesigner, gelegentlich auch Pelz-König usw., zum Beispiel für den sehr medienpräsenten Modedesigner Alfredo Pauly (* 1955) in Bad Neuenahr.

Weder der Pelzdesigner noch das Wort Design steht in einem um 1950 erschienenen Pelzlexikon, wohl aber der Begriff Dessin. Eine frühe Erwähnung der Kürschner als Pelzdesigner findet sich in einer Zeitschrift der Pelztierzüchter aus dem Jahr 1977, allgemein  auf alle Pelzproduzenten angewandt. Im Juni 1978 beschloss die Mitgliederversammlung des Schulvereins der Bundes-Pelzfachschule in Frankfurt am Main, eine Klasse mit einer Spezialausbildung Pelz-Design einzurichten und im Modellversuch zu erproben. Der erste Teillehrgang endete im Juli 1979.

Kürschnermeister Dieter Scheibe in Laboe hat den Begriff "Pelzdesign" seit der Erringung der ersten Goldmedaille beim Internationalen Design-Wettbewerb des deutschen Kürschnerhandwerks im Jahr 1985 in seinem Firmensignet. Die in der Vereinigung Initiative Pelzgestaltung V.I.P. zusammengeschlossenen Pelzanbieter warben 1989 erstmals gemeinsam in einer Werbeaussendung mit dem Designerbegriff: "Lassen Sie mal einen Designer an Ihren alten Pelz", bezeichneten sich selbst allerdings als "kreative Kürschnermeister", nicht als Pelzdesigner. Inzwischen scheint Pelz-Designer, meist mit Bindestrich geschrieben, mehr im Gebrauch zu sein als das althergebrachte Wort Kürschner. Auch in den Firmenbezeichnungen wurde zunehmend der Begriff Pelzdesign verwendet. Der jährliche Modellwettbewerb des deutschen Kürschnerhandwerks wurde erst 2006 in Design-Wettbewerb des deutschen Kürschnerhandwerks umbenannt.

In der DDR, wo Anglizismen wenig erwünscht waren, hieß Design bis in die 1970er Jahre "industrielle Formgestaltung". Ab 1979 wurden zu den Leipziger Messen regelmäßig gut gestaltete Produkte mit der staatlichen Anerkennung Gutes Design ausgezeichnet, allerdings nur industrielle Serienprodukte. Seit 1979 wurde alljährlich am "Tag der Republik" der "Designpreis der DDR" an besonders talentierte Hochschulabsolventen und Kollektive vergeben. Für Kürschner gab es den Titel Anerkannter Kunsthandwerker, der mit einem einer Jury vorgelegten Teil erworben werden konnte und steuerliche Vorteile gewährte. Auch einzelne Kürschner hatten sich hiermit ausgezeichnet, in Sachsen waren das die Kürschnermeister Michael Kaufmann in Leipzig und 1987, kurz vor der Wende, sein Kollege Peter Margenberg in Riesa, in Berlin Christel Giesecke (* 1939).

Im Jahr 2004 wurde die Kürschnerei, zusammen mit anderen Berufen, ein zulassungsfreies Handwerk, es ist keine Meisterprüfung für die selbständige Ausübung mehr nötig. Eine Meisterprüfung kann jedoch weiterhin abgelegt werden. Bei den Betrieben ohne Meister ersetzt die Berufsbezeichnung "Pelzdesigner" wohl in der Regel den einfacheren Begriff des früher auch schon auch nicht jedem geläufigen "Kürschner". Bedingt durch den Rückgang des Pelzabsatzes fingen etwa um diese Zeit zunehmend mehr Betriebe an, sich im Sortiment breiter aufzustellen und wollen nicht mehr als Pelzspezialisten wahrgenommen werden. Bei ihnen verschwand der Begriff zumindest aus ihrer Werbung.

In der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung herausragende deutsche Pelzdesigner waren neben anderen Wolfgang Joop, Karl Lagerfeld zusammen mit den italienischen Fendi-Schwestern, Rudolph Moshammer und Dieter Zoern. In den 2010er Jahren machte der 1994 geborene Schweizer Wesley Petermann mit Firmensitz in Leipzig auf sich aufmerksam.

Siehe auch
 Kürschner

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Pelzherstellung

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Nestled in his seat 500 feet above Fort Lauderdale, Jason Donald looks out the helicopter window at the $5 million mansion.
"It's a nice house, but do you see the standing water on the roof?" he asks into his headset.
And with that the chopper ascends, heading north to the second of six properties on this aerial tour for Donald, 38, an Internet company executive looking to move to South Florida from Tampa this summer.
Skywater rents a helicopter six or seven times a year for well-to-do clients serious about buying. It's a way for them to peruse a handful of properties quickly and offers a perspective not seen on foot.
As the state and national housing slump lingers into a fourth year, real estate agents are finding creative ways to impress clients.
An agent on the west coast of Florida takes prospective buyers on boat tours of foreclosed homes. And agents in South Florida and elsewhere have organized limousine tours.
Luxury home sales are especially soft in a down economy, so brokers have to do all they can to reach out to buyers, said Richard Barkett, chief executive of the Realtor Association of Greater Fort Lauderdale.
The chopper with black leather seats costs Skywater $1,000 an hour, which the firm can easily cover with one six-figure commission.
Skywater offers helicopter tours for home buyers as well as commercial developers eyeing large tracts of land. Most properties are in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, although the firm will go to Palm Beach County and other areas across the state.
Ree Fritz Cole, Skywater's co-owner and broker, has spent the past six months helping Donald search for homes. He's looking for an estate in the $4.2 million to $5 million range, with enough dock space for two boats. Also on his wish list: a gourmet kitchen and an elaborate master bedroom and pool.
The fourth property on the tour, a five-bedroom palace with a clean white facade on the market for $5.4 million, immediately catches Donald's eye. It has 6,750 square feet under air, an elevator and water views from every room.
The tour ends with a 7,400-square-foot home in Pompano Beach, which Donald dismisses as too far north. The chopper hugs the coastline on its trip south and touches down on the roof of a downtown Fort Lauderdale parking garage.
Back on the ground, Cole calls the listing agents for four of the homes, making arrangements for her to preview the properties. She'll take photos for a slide show and then have Donald visit the homes himself before he makes an offer. He hopes to find a place by August.
Cole, the ex-wife of actor Dennis Cole, says the helicopter tours have become an important part of her business.
Paul Owers can be reached at Powers@SunSentinel.com or 561-243-6529.


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Marriage* 28 May 1690 She married Isaac Jacob Van Bebber, son of Jacob Isaac Van Bebber and Christina (?), on 28 May 1690 at Maryland.
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Birth* circa 1643 Elisabeth Schuster was born circa 1643 at Oberfischbach, Nassau-Siegen Region, Germany.
Marriage* 4 February 1666 She married Johannes Coontz, son of Gotthardt Coontz and Anna Elizabeth Steiger, on 4 February 1666 at Oberfischbach, Nassau-Siegen Region, Germany.
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Voting Rights Are Threatened Again Before the Supreme Court: ARI BERMAN reports on yesterday's argument, where the same conservatives who gutted the Voting Rights Act are now challenging "one person, one vote." Ari's new book, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times.
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NEW HAMPSHIRE - The U.S. Energy Information Administration projects the average cost for heating oil will be approximately 10 percent higher this winter (10/1/2011 - 3/31/2012) compared with the same time period last winter.
Heating oil prices for the state are predicted to average $3.72/gallon over the course of the 2011-2012 heating season, although fuel oil purchased during the months of November, December and January will likely remain above that price point.
Although "average cost" to heat with oil this winter are predicted to be higher than in any previous winter. Prices are only expected to average approximately $0.33 more per gallon over the previous winter, (which is still considerably lower than the summer of 2008 when record high prices in the $5.00/gallon range were charged for heating oil.


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Having sold out all their preceding Australian tours, Cypress Hill have become known because of their dynamic live performances, which often call for swirling green smoke . In Marvel Comics , Cypress Hill Graveyard served as the headquarters of the supernatural superhero team, The Midnight Sons. For your best Value - Tickets can be purchased before your journey at significant savings.
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"We hope this action signals that New Jersey is ready to join other states that have already taken action to end the terrible practice of shark fining," Dillingham added.
Sharks occupy the top of the marine ecosystem and play a critical role in maintaining the health of the ocean. As top predators, there are naturally relatively few sharks in the ocean. Some species take 25 years or more to reach reproductive maturity and most give birth to small litters after a prolonged gestation. The low reproductive rate makes it difficult for shark populations to recover from overfishing. As result, many species of sharks are on a fast track to extinction.
The populations of some species of shark have declined by more than 90% in the past 50 years, and some may have declined by as much as 97-99% in the last 35 years. The demand for shark fins continues to grow and is the major reason for the declines in many shark populations. There are simply not enough sharks to meet the demand for shark fins. The loss of so many sharks has already had dramatic and negative impacts on the ocean ecosystem.
While current federal law bans "finning" – the practice in which a shark is caught, its fins removed, and the mutilated animal is discarded – it contains a loophole that allows importation of shark fins regardless of where or how the fins are obtained, even if they come from threatened or endangered species.
The states of Hawaii, Texas, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, California, Delaware, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, as well as Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, where able to close the loophole by prohibiting the sale, possession and distribution of shark fins.
New Jersey could join this group with passage of A3945/S2044. The American Littoral Society urges the full NJ legislature to pass this important law.
Please contact your state Senator or member of the General Assembly and urge them to support this legislation. Click here to find your state legislator and their contact information.
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MILLIONS of sharks are brutally killed for their fins.
This has to be made illegal with strong penalties.
Our oceans & marine life have to be saved from slaughter, drift nets & single use plastics that are ruining everything.
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'I might not see a soul tomorrow' - Ealing dry cleaner has been in business for 40 years but is struggling to survive lockdown
Despite his hardship, owner Tony Moran is setting up a food bank to help others
Anahita Hossein-Pour
Tony Moran has been running his business on Pitshanger Lane for decades. Image: Megan Henderson (Image: Megan Henderson)
A dry cleaning business owner has said the latest lockdown "will finish a lot of businesses" as he fears they've hit the worst point for trade during the pandemic.
Tony Moran, who runs Salisbury Dry Cleaners in Pitshanger Lane, Ealing, described the high street of independent shops as a "ghost town" on the first Saturday since the latest coronavirus restrictions were announced.
The 68-year-old grandfather has been struggling to sustain his dry cleaning service throughout the crisis as offices and social occasions have dropped off, with no need for suits, shirts or "glad rags" which make up a large part of the business.
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But according to Tony, who has had his business on the lane since the early 1980s, this winter lockdown will further "hurt a lot of people" until it is expected to end in mid-February.
"Saturday was the worst day I had for footfall. There was no footfall down the lane no one was about, no one came in the shops," he explained.
"I might not see a soul tomorrow, I don't know. This is the most concerned and worried I've been in all of lockdown."
He added: "This will finish a lot of businesses this last lockdown - if this is the last lockdown. If they extend it I don't know what will be left."
Since March last year, Tony has been trying to make his outlet as Covid-friendly as possible, with offers of free collection and drop off to people's homes to get their dry cleaning done, and an appeal for more customers to use his "contact-free" drop off and collection box outside his store-front, which can be used 24/7 for no extra cost.
The £40,000 investment in the equipment began getting up and running properly in the last year but Tony said the initiative hasn't really "taken off" with customers using it so far.
A 24/7 drop off and collection box is outside the dry cleaners so people can get jobs done contact-free. Image: Megan Henderson (Image: Megan Henderson)
The father-of-three has been forced to furlough staff and himself work seven days a week to afford the upkeep of the business.
"I have got to find the wages, I have taken no salary over lockdown, I'm working on my savings," Tony said.
"At 68 years of age I should be on an easy street, but I'm not on any easy street...I have worked very hard for the last nine to 10 months. There comes a limit to being able to do it anymore."
While extra work for other laundrettes has "helped massively" in Tony's business survival, the Isleworth resident is wary there's only so much work he can take on for one person.
He added: "For me it's not only the physical side of the job, [it's] also got a mental side of the job which is that bills don't go away - your water bill, gas bill, electricity bill...they are horrendous bills for me, horrendous."
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Tony is hoping in the future things will be brighter, and he'll get into a position to re-employ the staff and not be so hands on.
His daughter Megan Henderson has also been trying to help build up a following on social media to help her dad's business flourish.
Megan has been helping her dad create a social media presence online for the business to boost footfall. Image: Megan Henderson (Image: Megan Henderson)
Through posting fun videos and pictures of the services, Megan hopes to remind residents and customers in the area the dry cleaners is still open for business and also give something back to her dad.
"He's always dropped everything to come and help us, now I just feel I'm doing everything I can, Facebook, Instagram, to try and boost some footfall into the shop and get it out there and just show what he does," Megan said.
" He's my dad it just hurts to see he's worked all his life for this, he's hoping to retire in a few years time and this has just wiped this away.
"As a family, it's really heartbreaking."
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But trying to survive through the crisis has not stopped Tony wanting to help those worse off, and the dry cleaners is making preparations to set up a food bank from the Pitshanger Lane store by the end of the week.
Tony added: "Compared to someone living on the streets and sleeping in freezing weather, the bottom line is we should help people on our doorsteps...
"If it helps one person it's one person less."
To find out more about Salisbury Dry Cleaners search 'Salisbury Dry Cleaners Ealing' on Facebook or email Tony Moran on salisburycleaners153@gmail.com.
If you have a story or any information for us from this area, please email anahita.hosseinpour@reachplc.com
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At least 13 Naxals were gunned down in an encounter with police in Etapalli's Boriya forest area in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, on Sunday.
The encounter took place around 11:00 a.m. between the Naxals and the C-60 commandos.
However, no official confirmation on the death toll has been received from the authorities yet.
The additional teams of the special unit have been dispatched to the Boria jungle area for security purpose.
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State Advocate Christhénus van der Vijver begins by stating that for obvious reasons which will become clear later, the State will argue that the person getting out of the vehicle (previously referred to at the 'walker') and the person who then assaults the deceased (the 'kicker'), as well as the person getting back into the vehicle (previously separately referred to as the 'walker') is the same person. But for purposes of cross-examination this morning they will refer to the person getting out of the car, the person getting into the car and the kicker as such, so that the cross-examination is clear and that it cannot be misconstrued that van der Vijver is in agreement with Atkinson's theory for the defence.
Formally recognised as an expert in the AV field, Atkinson has been called on to testify in a number of high profile court cases in South Africa, where he has had to examine audio and video tape recordings to find inconsistencies ,or to verify their authenticity and originality. "My mother always said I should have been a .lawyer and perhaps she was right," he says.
The cross-examination begins with the State confirming the points Atkinson made in his evidence for the defence.
Atkinson confirms that he can't really say that the 'walker' who leaves the car and the 'kicker', who appears later, could be one and the same person.
Secondly that the footage is of course limited by the camera's reach, and Atkinson further suggested that particular events could have occurred outside of this frame.
And thirdly that that Camera 5's footage is of such poor quality (in terms of sharpness, and the available light in the area filmed) that one can't make any definitive conclusions regarding who or what is being seen.
The State: "I know, Mr Atkinson, I've asked you this previously and I can't quite remember what your answer was, so can you just repeat it, the question whether the person gets out of the car and the person getting back into the car, whether that's the same person according to you?
The State: "And I think we're in agreement, we, being the State and yourself, on that point, but on what do you base it? Why do you say that the person getting out of the car and the person getting back into the car is the same person?
The State: Especially that hour of the morning.
Atkinson: Bit of a shortage of drivers, yes.
The State: "I say that the theory or the possibility that you have now just described as to what could have happened and explained the running etc, is not only improbable it is so far fetched that he [the 'walker'] would get out of the car, talk to this kicker, say you can't do this to this lady, the kicker as you put it mockingly run away at a high speed we must add according to your evidence, turn around, then kicked this poor deceased to a pulp and your driver we know must have stood there watching this, and when the lady was dead he walked past her and got into his car and off his goes. Do you really think that is a probable scenario?
This is eactly what the court was referring to in the description published in our article from earlier in the trial.
Atkinson insists that he cannot state unequivocally that the 'walker' and the 'kicker' are the same person through not only the quality of the footage, but that the visual continuity link is broken as each figure walks off screen during the incident.
The State: "Would you agree with me that the top garment of the kicker is of a lighter colour than the pants?
Atkinson: "It looks like that, yes.
"Would you agree there, the top garment is lighter than the bottom?
The State: Would you agree with me that that could be indicative of a person that is angry, he is walking with purpose?
Atkinson: Yes it could be.
As Atkinson had also spoken in his evidence about the difference in gait of the walkers – the State refers to an occasion when Atkinson had pointed out that the person who got out of the vehicle was walking with bigger strides than the person who entered the vehicle. The state asks Atkinson if this was intended to show that the walkers were different people, and Atkinson confirms that it was not.
The prosecution also points out the fact that the car was parked fairly far away from the side of the road, in van der Vijver's words "virtually in the middle of the street". Atkinson had previously stated that "either somebody was in a hurry to stop and get out or the vehicle's lights were picking up something that was in view and they didn't want to loose it" – this is van der Vijver quoting Atkinson.
Van der Vijver also gives attention to an uknown woman (it is agreed that this person is most probably a woman) who approaches the deceased after the assault, seemingly tries to perhaps slap her on the face, and then later attempts to speak with the walker who gets into the car before driving away from the scene. This women was on the scene with the kicker, as well as with the walker.
Other people who feature in the 2 hours of footage are first ruled out: an unknown man (here referred to as the 'pedestrian'), the police, the District Watch, and the two security guards who were inside a building close by, as "irrelevant for purposes of this trial in terms of the commitment of the offence" van der Vijver's words.
This unknown woman, who "observed the whole exercise and at the end of the exercise went down and spoke to the man in the garden, walked back, went to the guardhouse and went away, that woman has never come forward to say what she saw" – van der Vijver's words.
Note: The 'kicker' enters the scene just prior to the deceased, who is in the process of falling to the pavement.
Van der Vijver refers to the karate championship dismissively as "the video with the Karate Kid".
The State: "I come back to what you've alerted us to right in the beginning of your evidence about being bias. And I must put it to you, Mr Atkinson, that I think you fell into that trap. Because I mean you are – you're not really here to assist the Court, I would argue, but just to kick up dust and to say well there must be some other possibilities off screen. And I don't know how that assists the Court.
On Tuesday 01 November 09:30 the trial will continue with the defence's second-to-last witness.


When I left my house this particular soggy morning, I wanted to capture some interesting moments in Chinatown that included umbrella's. So when I saw the match going on at this table I went straight for it. I wanted a shot of everyone looking at the chess board which was sopping wet from the rain, to increase the drama, but the man on the left was intently reading his newspaper instead. Given the amount of people around this particular table I guessed that it was a very good match, and that sooner or later the ebb and flow of the game would draw his attention back again, and he would finally put his paper down. My hunch was correct. Then I just waited for the player on the right to let out a nice long drag of cigarette smoke, which would stand out nicely because of the navy jacket behind it, if the man wearing it didn't move, which as fortune had it, he didn't. As soon as I snapped the shutter I knew I had one heck of a shot.
Great capture and thanks for the story attached.
Very well captured - I like the fuming cigarette and the tension!
Three things I like about this photograph: 1. I find it interesting that he is taking this opportunity to stretch this legs in this deep yoga position 2. especially when he is also trying to relax with a cigarette 3. whatever game they are playing is water proof, as if to say, we have had this rain issue before and we have addressed the issue with a water-proof solution.


Regina King, Don Johnson, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Adelaide Clemens and Andrew Howard will star in the drama pilot based on the comic book series of the same name. No details were immediately released about the characters they will be playing on the pilot written by Damon Lindelof.
King starred for five seasons in TNT's Southland, three seasons in ABC's American Crime, two seasons in HBO's The Leftovers and the Netflix limited series Seven Seconds. Her casting serves as a Leftovers reunion with Lindelof.
Johnson recently starred in the FOX comedy pilot Daddy Issues which is still in consideration for a midseason pickup. He previously starred in five seasons of NBC's Miami Vice and six seasons in CBS' Nash Bridges.
Nelson's film credits include O Brother, Where Are Thou?, Holes, Syriana and The Incredible Hulk. He next has a starring role in the Netflix anthology series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs from the Coen Brothers.
Gossett Jr. won an Emmy Award for his performance in 1977's Roots and an Academy Award in 1982 for the film An Officer and a Gentleman.
Clemens starred for four seasons in SundanceTV's Rectify.
Howard starred in the History miniseries Hatfields & McCoys and has recurred on A&E's Bates Motel and ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.