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Thursday, 17 April 2008

Review: Sin Lok Restaurant

Updated 31 Aug 2010: Sin Lok Restaurant is closed for good as the next generation wasn't interested to take over the business.

SL - Sin Lok Restaurant

Sin Lok Restaurant is amongst the older generation of Chinese restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. It is located in Kuala Lumpur's first shopping complex - Ampang Park! One of our manager used to bring our client nearby Ampang Park to Sin Lok for lunch. If I'm around for meetings, I will get to go too hehehe... Their dishes are very much old school and by far I can vouch that they serve the best roasted suckling pig in town! I guess the reason being that they will only roast it before serving even during huge wedding banquet!

We were here last month celebrating the birthday of my dad and aunt. There were 14 of us and I decided to split us up into two tables of 7 each even though they could accommodate all 14 in one table. I refrained as it's quite hard to reach for the food since the table is going to be very big. I pre-ordered some dishes in advance and had to be careful with my choices as there were quite a number of old folks who have problems in eating tough food like meat.

For that I chose to have some marmite pork ribs for the young. This dish is really tasty, just right and not too salty. The ribs were of the tender part. I was surprised my boiboi loved this and ate two pieces! This dish was cleaned up very fast in our errmmm "younger" generation table.

SL - marmite pork ribs

Next came the vegetable dish of fu yue yau mak (stir-fried romaine lettuce in fermented/preserved bean curd). Enough wok hei (breath of the wok) and just the right amount of fu yue.

SL - foo yue yau mak

We have some buttered prawns which came crispy peppered with butter bits. Not only the prawns are large, they're very fresh too. Lovely!

SL - butter prawns

Next we have foo yoong tarn (egg omelette) which is my uncle's favourite dish. When it came, I overheard the older folks table remarked it was his fave and that I've remembered. Sin Lok's version is surprisingly not overly oily and have lots of ingredients in the omelette. Lemme recall - char siu (BBQ meat), chopped prawns, spring onions, onions and errr not sure what else.

SL - foo yoong tarn (omelette)

I've ordered an old school dish - diced chicken in yam ring. The yam ring was cut by the wait staff, I was too late to ask her not to do it, so now you can only see one "opened" ring. The yam ring is made from mashed yam mixed with tapioca flour, shaped into a ring and deep fried. The diced chicken is cooked with an assortment of vegetables of onions, capsicum, baby corn, carrots and cashew nut. This dish was quickly eaten up at our table.

SL - yam ring with diced chicken

The piece of resistance came finally! We only have half a piggy for each table since most of the older folks shun roasted suckling pig. Guess who untung (benefited) the most??? Heh... I tell you and I'm sure Yozora would vouch for this too - this is the most crispy and delicious suckling pig in town! Very reasonabily priced too - only RM120 per pig!

SL - the best ever roasted suckling pig

The last dish that came was a beancurd with angled loofa. By then we were already rather filled. However, the beancurds slowly disappeared from the plate as well. The beancurd they've used is homemade of the eggy kind which is very fragrant. They were braised with angled loofa until the angled loofa soften till you can slurp them up from your spoon.

SL - beancurd with angled loofa

Did not order any dessert as I've brought along these cupcakes to served as Birthday cake for my dad and aunt. It's their first time having so many cakes per se as their cake hahaha cos usually it's one whole cake. Even the wait staff can't help but to stand around to admire them. It's Strawberry White Chocolate Cupcakes, recipe will be posted later.

Strawberry White Chocolate Cupcakes - Dad & Koo Mah birthday

All the above dishes, plus nuts, tea and rice (not sure how many bowls) inclusive of taxes costed us RM475.20. Reasonable or not for two tables of 7?

Restaurant Sin Lok
3rd Floor Ampang Park
Jalan Ampang
Kuala Lumpur
Tel: 603-21614664

Jun said...

oh u made those cupcakes? i like the sugared longevity peaches *hehe* (and i love ur new template!)

babe_kl said...

wah you're fast jun. yes i made those cupcakes. thanks for the compliments!

Stupe said...

I've lost count how many wedding dinners i've attended since i know what a wedding dinner is at this restuarant. It was formerly partly owned by my mum's uncle. Staff price la, that is why all the weddings on my maternal family side are there...and you are talking about 3 nucleas family living next to each other (each with 10 siblings!)

Kenny Mah said...

Those are sure some cute birthday cupcakes... and the longevity peaches are a nice touch! ;)

yasmin said...

Hi..the prawn looks yummy, i wish it's a halal restaurant. Anyway , the cupcakes are cute ! Thanks for visiting my blog.

twosuperheroes said...

wah babe...the taufoo looks so delicious woh. Very banjir! Hahah..oh, and your cupcakes are absolutely lovely.. Nicely decorated some more. :p

Jess said...

it's considered very cheap for 2 tables....must try

MamaBoK said...

Very reasonable..! i love it..!

YozoraNiteSky said...

oh yes.. i can definitely vouch for the fantastic food they serve there, plus the price is reasonable.

wah.. i love those little longevity peaches lah.. soooo cute..must teach me how to make

dcyk said...

i can vouch for the deliciousness of babe's cupcakes, she made me some on the reception night buffet b4 the wedding day, DELICIOUS!!:)

daphne said...

ooo.. those cupcake looks delish. Hey, u mean the yam ring is old schooled? That's still my must order... oh dear, i must be outdated.

Precious Pea said...

Those dishes....all my favourites!! The cupcakes especially the ones with the plum so cook. Wat are they made of?

mimi said...

I went for this restaurant many years ago for a wedding reception of my cousin, his daughter now already 11 yrs old....

ling239 said...

wow... this place still exists!!
i tot it was long gone... :P

very pretty cupcakes
cant wait for the recipe... ^_^

UnkaLeong said...

wah must go try Sin Lok. Have not been there in yonks. I can see the neon lighs of the restaurant above the Maybank sign from where I am sitting right now:)

J2Kfm said...

wow, ALL, yes I mean ALL of the dishes are me and my family favourites that we'll order most of the times! except suckling pig of course. can imagine the smooth taufu taste, fermented beancurd yau mak aroma, and 'fatt putt' aka yam ring. so long never visit Ampang Park liao.

Big Boys Oven said...

this is so cool! this restaraunt is a nice place to be. was there before for a dinner with friends! those dishes looks awesome and so were thos cupcakes!

marilyndeasy said...

Hi babe...the price is reasonable..the pictures make me lapar! hehe...
oo u like cupcakes?
maybe u can try to see this blog..
her cupcakes are cute too..n u can order it for mother's day, bday n etc..

KampungboyCitygal said...

uve got talent! such lovely cupcakes..

babe_kl said...

stupe, the food is still great eh?

yes jess & mamabok, very reasonable indeed

daphne, old school means it was available since aeons ago? :p

pea, you mean peaches? those are made of fondant

perhaps its time for a visit mimi?

unka, so near only, a must go la definitely!

j2kfm, so what are you waiting for? hahaha

kenny, yasmin, twosuperheroes, yozora, dcky, ling239, BBO, marilyndeasy & kampungboicitygal :thanks for your compliments

Simon Seow said...

Nice piggy. Long time never eat Futt Put (Yam ring).

Anyone want to organize food trip here? I don't have that many family members.

Suresh said...

Hi there,

Would any of you guys know where Sin Lok has moved or are they still in Business? . My grandfather loved this restaurant and i've been there since a child, now its no more at Ampang Park. I'm craving for their Shark's Fin Soup which has been our family favorite for years now. Does anyone have any info on Sin Lok now?

Thanks so much.

babe_kl said...

Suresh, I'm sorry to break your heart, Sin Lok is no longer in operation as the next generation wasn't keen on taking over.


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Friday, 1 July 2011

Half Year Mark...

Sighhh time really does fly eh and today mark half a year has gone by in the year 2011. I'm still officially "jobless" albeit enjoying my time working on part-time basis at Bayan Indah. I've learnt lots of stuff and met lots of people of all walks of life from some corporate top guns to famous Malaysian artist to the number 4 most influential woman in the world and best of all bumping into my ex-colleagues and old friends!

I guess the highlight ought to be the 3 Kampung Cuisine classes that I've taught whilst Rohani was away on holiday last month. Amongst these 3 classes, one of them was under Malaysian Kitchen initiative and guess who was in the kitchen??? Never would I imagined "teaching" an Australian Masterchef and he's none other than Season 2's winner - Adam Liaw!

Other than this, I've been really really quiet about my pregnancy late last year since I had a bad track record previously. In fact very very few of our friends or relative were aware of it. We have both been having really good vibes and were terribly careful about it. I was also being monitored ever so closely by my obgyn (she's reading this, I know - Hi!) that my visits were on a regular 2 weekly basis. Alas things just decided to go downhill with another miscarriage. What could have been more worse off than having it to happen on the 2nd day of Chinese New Year and to add on to that... a rather traumatic time in the emergency room.

This time round, fetus was just tested healthy with nucal scan and blood tests came back normal as well (they don't come cheap!), just like 2 weeks before and my last check up was just a couple of days before Chinese New Year. Anyway to cut long story short, my placenta seemed to have another bout of bacteria infection and the 14.5 months fetus aborted itself. To thank Lord that I do not have to be induced which can be extremely painful!

It has been really really hard since we both were prepared for this and I totally understand now what devastation meant now. As my mother was recovering from her bout of gout, I have to literally take care of myself after discharging from the hospital. Luckily we have an acupuncturist friend whom had helped me to recover quickly by giving me the right herbs in the form of tablets and capsule plus of course needle pokes.

Capt'n Hook just can't bear it when my obgyns have advised us not to conceive anymore since they have no idea how the infection could have taken place and the chances to recur is very high. So we decided to take a break in Chiang Mai the following week which left my acupuncturist aghast as he thought that I should stay at home to rest and practice some kinda confinement :p

When things like this happened, many would advice... well don't worry time will heal but seriously, it can be quiet hard. I would have thought 5 months have gone by la-ti-da but things are not helping when you tend to keep bumping into pregnant ladies or newborn babies in prams but the worse bit was seeing new mummy carrying their newborn leaving the hospital!

The cream of the cake came when we have to send BoiBoi to the emergency room 2 weeks ago. Gosh it was so hard walking through the door, I could literally see the blood drips on the floor... and the floodgate opened when they put BoiBoi opposite to where I was placed. It's also not helping (well, we could laughed about it now though) that it was the same nurse whom witnessed the abortion before the doctor arrived attending to BoiBoi. The Medical Officer was puzzled why the mummy is crying and my poor BoiBoi looked kinda worried. What a lousy mum I must have been at that moment. Again Capt'n Hook became my pillar of strength to help me quickly recover from the meltdown so that we can concentrate on BoiBoi.

Thank goodness he's all well now, fully recovered and back to his normal self. I supposed we're glad to be blessed with him, more could have been better though but I do felt relieve now that I don't need to wake up to a wailing baby, changing smelly diapers, having smelly curdled milk on my shoulders or clothings... but I really do missed the smell of a baby. Gosh jotting all these down still bring me tears... still not 100% healed yet I guess :(

I hope those of you whom have invited us for tea party, dinners and reviews and oh yeah also a video feature on a food programme on NTV7 but we have turned down mostly would understand the situation that we're in. A lot of times I just don't feel like mingling around. Just give us a bit more of time ya. Sorry.

6 months have gone by and almost a year to my VSS, I supposed I really do need to sit down and reflect, to think of what could be my next move. Should I jump back to the corporate world or should I pursue something I enjoy and doing the things I love??

I guess you guys just have to wait and see then...

Anyway for something on the bright side, this month I should start thinking hard on my other baby - Merdeka Open House 2011! This year will be the sixth installment, woohooo! Lemme sit on it for a while cos this week, my work schedule has been really really crazy. I've never done so much preparation and cooking especially deep frying. I have been a really good and clever girl this week hahaha... never been so proud of myself.

There's something that I do hope turn out nice this month and would update here once we got wind of it. So excited actually :D

Well, may the next 6 months bring us and you more good tidings ;-)

Little Inbox said...

So sorry to hear about this. I have the same experience like yours. It happened on the 2nd day of cny too. 3 years back. Painful experience that I would never forget.

sckhoo said...

Banyan Indah looks interesting. may sign up for a class.

Best wishes to you and you family.

ping said...

Wow, that's a lot on your shoulders. Coming from some one who has no clue about this sort of things, I do believe being overly stressed is a big no-no. Take it easy and here's wishing you a good and safe delivery and outcome.

J said...

LOVE n HUGS to you and Capn Hook and Boi Boi... I hope the next 6 months and forever after that will bring happiness n joy into your lives....

Julian Si said...

Hey, I just read this beautifully written blog from you, and wanted to send you all the Blessings and well wishes from the Middle East!

Things always happen for a reason, just that sometimes it takes years, or decades, for us to see .. and know why!

daphne said...

What a challenging year. life throws us curve balls in the most unexpected way :( Keep the positive attitude up and miracles do happen!

Ry said...

hugs. Gambateh babe in the city !!

babe_kl said...

*hugs* Little Inbox

Thanks Khoo, hope to see you at Bayan Indah soon

Thanks Ping for such comforting words

Lets keep our fingers crossed J! *hugs*

Agree with you totally Jules ;-) Thanks.

Daphne, yes it does. Thanks dear.

Thank you Ry

puiyee said...

Hiya, been stalking your blog for a long, long time now, and am so sorry to hear about the recent sad events. Hope things look up for you from hereon and my admiration for your strength to go on (all these blog posts throughout the year!) and my thoughts for you, Capt Hook and BoiBoi!

Pureglutton said...

Ye, may the next 6 months and many months after, bring you & family better things - I'm sure of that! Take care.

UnkaLeong said...

*hugs* Things can and only will get better from here.

babe_kl said...

Hi PuiYee, I do hope to hear more comments from you ;-)

Thanks PureGlutton

Unka, thanks

celine said...

oh, babe ...... i am so sorry to hear about this. sending over a {{BIG HUG}}. stay positive and i am sure God will bless you (and your family) richly! :) xoxo

babe_kl said...

Thanks Celine *hugs* it's comforting to know someone do care even though we have never met! :p

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Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie BrowniesThese layered chocolate chip cookie brownies will have you coming back for seconds. And thirds.

How in the world did I manage to live 41 years and never think of this? Soft, chewy brownies…with a layer of chocolate chip cookies on top? Obviously, these are pure perfection. This amazing creation came to be when Kalina was in the mood to bake.

Thankfully, Kalina is in the mood to bake several times per week. She has mastered cookies, brownies, cakes and more. This time she wanted to experiment…and experiment she did.

These layered chocolate chip cookie brownies are amazing!!!

The first thing Kalina did was whip up a batch of her favorite chocolate chip cookie dough.

These layered chocolate chip cookie brownies are amazing!!!

Next she mixed up a batch of brownies.These layered chocolate chip cookie brownies are amazing!!!

And then magic happened. Right in our oven.

These layered chocolate chip cookie brownies are amazing!!!

Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies.

Thanks to Jenny Craig, I have not actually tried these. But I have it on good authority that they are delicious.

These layered chocolate chip cookie brownies are amazing!!!

Absolute magic in your mouth. You should make some.

Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 50 minutes

Yield: One large pan

Layered Chocolate Chip Cookie Brownies

  • Cookie portion:
  • 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, softened
  • 3/4 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1 cup chocolate chips
  • Brownie Portion:
  • 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 2 large eggs
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1⁄3 cup cocoa powder
  • 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
  • 1⁄2 cup flour

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Start by combining dry ingredients for the cookie topping.
  3. Combine: flour, baking soda, and salt.
  4. In separate mixer combine: softened butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar. Once they are thoroughly mixed, add in eggs and vanilla extract.
  5. Slowly add dry ingredients.
  6. Gently mix in chocolate chips.
  7. Cover and refrigerate.
  8. For brownie mixture:
  9. Combine: baking powder, cocoa powder, salt and flour.
  10. In separate bowl combine eggs and sugar.
  11. Once mixed stir in vanilla extract.
  12. Combine this mixture with dry ingredients.
  13. Butter large baking dish. Pour in brownie mixture. With your hands and a spatula, add an even layer of chocolate chip cookie dough.
  14. Place on bottom rack in oven and check after 30 minutes. Cookie layer should be cooked and the knife should come out clean.
  15. Enjoy with fresh, hot coffee!
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As you know, our teens all go on at least one Teen Missions trip…this year it is Kalina’s turn. She will be headed to Peru to work on a Bible School. She has been working like crazy (at a local garden last summer and babysitting this winter) to earn the money she needs. If you are interested in donating you can donate online here (it says $100 suggested donation but feel free to ignore that. Her team is Peru #17010). If you are local, Kalina would love to bake you something delicious for a donation, babysit or work.

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  1. The cookies sound wonderful. My husband and I and our three children were in Peru, first in Lima and then on an Amazonian tributary and the wildlife is wonderful–huge relatives of guinea-pigs (just as cute, but fifty times the size) called capyberas roam the banks–you can watch them from a boat. We got to handle little alligators, too, and monkeys in trees threw coconuts at us. We saw lemurs and sloths, with their huge moonlike eyes. Also tarantulas, who won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. A local dish, “Juanes” with rice, wrapped in a leaf, is delicious (named, somehow, after John the Baptist’s head on a platter, but it’s usually vegetarian, or with a few chicken bits). The ONLY bad thing is . . . watch out for the water and don’t be surprised if a particularly horrible form of diarrhea occurs. Bringing along a small bottle of vodka and forcing it down medicinally (maybe a tablespoon?) might be a good way to avoid all those antibiotics that I, alas, had to take. Kalina should read Katherine Hepburn’s memoir, The Making of the African Queen: How I Went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and Almost Lost My Mind. Different continent, but many of the same parasites in water and elsewhere. Bogie and Bacall were drinking river water and felt fine–they were also knocking back the vodka. Hepburn, with her bottled water and careful instructions from her physician father specializing in tropical diseases didn’t do so well . . . she never touched “the stuff.”

    • Chuck I met on a trip to Brazil, of course. Not exactly Peru (and that is still on my list of countries to visit) but we were most definitely in the jungle! Thanks for the book recommendation, I will have her read it for sure.

  2. This is my favorite thing to bring places. School, work, holidays. It’s easy and everyone thinks its genius. Plus my oldest will make it and he does not love the kitchen.

    • When Kalina asked to do this, I wondered why I had never thought of it before! Glad to hear we are not alone in this amazing deliciousness.

  3. The cookies love wonderful and Kalina you are very brave to be heading off and I hope you have an amazing time in Peru

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Fruit butter is a very thick, smooth fruit puree. It is made by slowly cooking fresh fruit with sugar until the fruit is so tender that it can easily be made into a puree. There is no butter in the recipe, and the name comes from the fact that puree has a smooth, silky texture to it. In terms of flavor, fruit butters have a very natural flavor to them because, although some sugar is added during cooking, the main ingredient is fresh fruit. Fruit butters typically are less sweet than jams and preserves are, and they are much smoother (and sweeter) than something like applesauce.

Fruit butters can be made with many different types of fruit. Apples, pears and pumpkins are very commonly used, but all stone fruits work well, as do some tropical fruits, such as mangoes. They are often spread on toast or used to top waffles, pancakes or scones.  Fruit butters can also be used interchangeably with jams and preserves in some applications. You could use them on a peanut butter sandwich or as a filling in a baked good, for instance. But because fruit butters are much less sweet than preserves are, they can be showcased in recipes where you want the fruit flavor to stand out, like an Apple Butter Pie.

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  2. Real butter has gone by the wayside in my attempt to be healthy and lean for our Australian spring. This could be a wonderful alternative for my morning toast.
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Runway To The Real World: Winter MustsPeople love summer but honestly the winter season holds all the best fashion possibilities. Layers, color, fur and frill, all are vital components to a fashionista’s winter wardrobe. But luckily, you don’t have to be a fashionista to look cute. Take these looks, find similar pieces in your favorite stores and make up your version of these runway cold time threads.
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TTYM: A Hairy NHL Lockout Situation And A Cowboys Fan Blasts Romo

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In this week’s That Thing You Missed, Fab Melo gives new meaning to the term “banging your head against the wall,”  a passionate Cowboys fan gets up in “arms” over missing the playoffs and the NHL lockout provokes a hair-raising response.

A Hairy NHL Lockout Sitch

We all know athletes are eerily superstitious and many take to growing facial hair during the playoffs or particularly high performance runs.

Now, as an act of protest a 17-year old hockey fan, Maggie Wagner has decided not to shave her legs until the NHL lockout ends.

The good news?  At this rate Locks of Love is going to have a pretty massive donation one day.

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Hitting the Big Leagues

Celtics fans have been chomping at the bit to get rookie Fab Melo called up to Boston.

And now it’s finally happened.

Only it’s not his impressive performance in the D-League that’s earned him the move.

Actually, all the center had to do was get concussed.  He accomplished this by hitting his head on a hotel room doorway. (According to the NBA rules a player must be on the roster for a team doctor to examine him.)

How is a talented NBA player clumsy enough to manage that?  Don’t ask.  That is unless your 7-feet tall.

Story via CBS Boston

Cowboys Fan Washes His Hands of Romo

Part of the beauty and my adoration for the NFL is the passion of fans and how they are all so amazingly different.

For example, Chargers fans are completely boring with the exception of your rare one-off drunk and disorderly dude.

Giants and Jets fans are always completely confrontational despite the fact your team may be kicking their a** by 28 points.

Saints fans have most likely sold their second born child and gone without eating for a week to get a coveted ducat.

And in Dallas, well, you get this:

A Cowboys fan literally “blasting” Tony Romo.

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Just Taking A Swing At It

David Denson a 17-year old high school senior from California won this year’s Power Showcase Home Run Derby by 19 knocking balls out of the park including a 515 foot blast over the Jumbotron at Marlins Park in Florida.

In related news, the derby came close to matching the Marlins Park 2011-2012 attendance record.

Story via CBS Los Angeles

Fidos Hate Fatheads

The extremely popular Pittsburgh Pirate Andrew McCutchen has at least one “hater.”

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Don’t take it so personally, Andrew.  Apparently it’s a common problem for sports lovers everywhere.

I’m guessing this canine is either Libby’s sister or prefers American Football

And, I’m thinking Homer here is jealous of Justin Verlander’s relationship with Kate Upton.

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The Fields

The shack was in the fields not far from the house. I used to ride my bike there almost every day. A tangle of streets, sidewalks, houses and lawns now layer the area so thickly, I can’t remember exactly where it stood.

We were the second or third family to move into the neighborhood, then a new tract surrounded by a vast green moat of undeveloped land. The high grass, wild shrubs and trees offered a continent of adventure for a young boy and within days after arriving, I carved a domain out of the bush. The fields became my province; my refuge. There wasn’t a far corner I didn’t investigate or a square yard left unexplored, with the exception of the shack. It was a lure, but the well-worn path leading to a misshapen, unkempt hedge, and that dim light flickering through the windows late most afternoons made me wary.

It wasn’t until I retraced my steps around the fields for a number of weeks that I approached the shack. No marked change of landscape separated the fields from this building. Grass and weeds waded under the remnants of a hedge through the yard and reached up the walls. A rusty gate, almost hidden by the growth, faced an opening in the ravel where an obscured stone path extended to the door. The shack was a moldy brownish green, this color long ago replacing a cover of paint.

I tried the front gate. When it wouldn’t open, I followed the hedge line until locating a bare spot, slipped through, and stepped to one of the windows. The wooden jalousies were cracked so slightly I could barely see the outline of a single chair, and I moved quickly around the shack trying with no luck to find a better spy hole in each window. As I spun past the last corner and headed for the gate at a gallop, I was yanked off my feet – gripped by my back collar – and held suspended, legs spinning. I twisted and turned wildly to protect my back, fought free and dropped to the ground.

Without turning around, I stumbled toward the gate, a booming voice calling after me, “You have to lift that thing to unlatch it. The catch is broken. And the next time you come visiting, knock on the door.”

I plowed through the hedge and scurried 20 yards into the field before wheeling around. An old man stood watching me, smiling broadly, his thumbs hooked in his belt. I raced to a mound of brush beyond sight of the shack, slid under a wedge of bushes and lay there, heart pounding, trying to fit the pieces together. I didn’t think I had caused any serious trouble. The old man hadn’t chased after me. And he had been smiling.

I crawled from the bush and made my way toward a thicket set some distance from the shack. Here, I perched in a tree and watched the building. All appeared quiet and undisturbed. I began to climb down when the tree shivered slightly. Below me, leaning against the trunk, arms folded comfortably across his chest, was the old man.

“Used to be you could see a good-sized pond in the other direction,” he said, without looking up, “but they filled it in to have more land to build on.” He walked around the tree to what had been the pond side. “Better come down ‘fore you fall down. Tree’s dead and it ain’t real sturdy.”

The old man was sitting at the base of the tree when I swung down. “Were a lot more trees to climb, too,” he said, his eyes focused on the middle distance. “You coulda climbed’em all. Yeah,” he shrugged, punctuating the sentence with a stream of tobacco juice, “coulda had a time.”

He grabbed his boots around the ankles and rolled forward, pulled himself upright. His faded denims were patched neatly in the back; his blue work shirt was cut into short sleeves just above the elbows. When he turned toward me, I backed away from the tree.

“Jesus, boy,” he said spitting for emphasis, “I ain’t gonna hurt you. You gotta let people know if you plan to come around is all. Sorry if I scared you.”

He was a big man, tall as well as broad. A shock of white gray hair, streaked with ribbons of dark brown, framed a long, narrow face, straight nose and thin lips. His eyes sparkled, clear green. Huge hands hung at the end of muscled arms, which he kept in constant motion while talking. And when the old man chewed on only one side of his mouth, making it possible for him to talk and chew at the same time.

“Like fishing? Could’ve fished in that pond that ain’t there now.” He pointed toward a large circle of red dirt. “You don’t talk much, do you? Your parents tell you not to talk much? Good advice,” he answered himself. “Learn more by listening.”

The old man started to walk away. I had come around from the side of the tree. He looked in the direction of the few houses on the lot. “You’d better head back,” he said. “Be dark soon.”

The Fields Portrait CoverOver the next few days, I combed the area looking for the old man. I hoped to see him in the fields, where I felt comfortable and far removed from the embarrassment of our run-in. I even spent most of one afternoon roosting in the dead tree trying to attract his attention. But the light in the windows of his shack signaled where he would be found. Frustrated, I returned to the shack and stood uneasily on the doorstep.

“Come on in, boy,” he yelled before I had an opportunity to knock.

I struggled with the door, which scratched heavily across the floor.

“Put your weight behind the thing,” he said.

I leaned into the door with my shoulder. It slid open into a dark room. I could only make out a dull light, that flickering light, coming from the back of the room. There sat the old man in a large, threadbare upholstered chair, puffing on a pipe, a book in his lap. A candle rested in an ornate, silver holder on the arm of the chair.

“Well, you found your manners,” he said. “Welcome to my humble castle. Reach under the bed there.” He pointed with his pipe. “You’ll find a rug you can sit on.”

I unrolled the small rug in front of his chair and sat cross-legged. “Why do you live here all by yourself?” I asked.

“Oh, so you can talk,” the old man said loudly, slapping his legs and jerking forward to confront me as if he had caught me in a lie. “What’s your name, boy?”

“Alan,” I replied defensively, trying to keep my voice from quavering. “Alan de Wilde.”

“That’s quite a name. Yes,” he said, leaning back and blowing a puff of smoke toward the ceiling, “that’s quite a name.”

He returned to his book. I picked up a sign of movement under his chair. A cat emerged, then flattened to the floor. With one eye in my direction, it bellied cautiously to a bed lining the wall to the left of the chair, leaped on top and settled down in a pile. A bookcase ran the length of the wall opposite the bed. It was built of heavy, dark wood. Carved cabinets decorated the lower half, and volumes filled two rows across the top. The rest of the room was bare.

“What time you supposed to be home, Alan?” the old man asked, looking over the top of his book.

“By 6:00.”

“You better work on your timing son. Last time I had to send you off, too. It’s closing in on 6:00.”

I stood and rolled up the rug. The old man stopped me. “Leave it there. You can use it next time.” He followed me to the door and swung it open easily.

“Could you please tell me your name?” I asked, stepping into the yard.

“Shane. Not as fancy as yours, but it’ll do.”

Shane and I spent a lot of time in the fields, “grubbin” as he called it. He taught me the names of trees, bushes, flowers and insects. Sometimes we’d sit hunched together, staring under a large rock or log, while he identified every bug, stick and leaf, explaining the patterns and struggles that played out.

When not in the fields, Shane was reading. He began leaving the door open so I could steal quietly into the shack until it was convenient for him to be interrupted. Shane sometimes read aloud to me, most often from Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill. These books, with their tall tales and vast settings, were particular favorites of his. He acted out bits and pieces of the stories, bounding around the shack, shouting and laughing, dancing and shadow boxing. Shane brought life to these story book legends, and I grew fascinated with Bunyan’s Northwest, its huge trees, cascading rivers and towering, snow covered peaks.

The face of our neighborhood began changing, imperceptibly at first. Small piles of wood, bricks and tools appeared. Men roped off portions of the fields. In time, huge machines lumbered about, transporting mounds of earth while orange-helmeted workers erected skeletal frames of houses filling holes left by the machines. There was an excitement to this noise and bustle.

When the sound of construction began to ring out clearly across the area, Shane grew quiet. I couldn’t understand his lack of interest in the activity that surrounded us. Shane shut himself in, wouldn’t read, and often didn’t say anything for hours at a time. I sat on my rug, he in his chair, and there we’d stay.

One afternoon, Shane broke the silence. “Some men came by last week and told me they want to build houses on this land and will be tearing down my place.”

I jumped from the rug. “How can they do that? Don’t you own the shack?”

“I built it so I guess you could say I own it, but I don’t own the land. Never knew who owned it. No on ever bothered me about it before.” He shook his head slowly. “Guess I knew this was coming one day.”

I was confused. “Even if you live someplace, people can come and make you move? They can tear it down?”

“Seems strange, don’t it?” he replied. “But, I know the way things are, always have, just forgot. Ignored it, really. Guess I hoped it wouldn’t catch up with me.”

Shane eventually stopped talking altogether unless I asked him something, and even then he was detached, filtering in only what was absolutely necessary for a brief response. But he never appeared concerned and merely shrugged when I asked what he was going to do. Sometimes I wasn’t even sure if he knew I was there, and I wanted to talk to him, tell him that I was sorry about things.

I wasn’t planning to visit the afternoon I found the books lying on the couch in our living room. I thought about it all day and decided Shane probably needed some time to himself. The tattered volumes of Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill looked out of place resting on the soft blue of the cushion.

“Where did you get this?” I snapped at my mother, confronting her in the kitchen, waving the books in her face.

“Well, I…,” she stammered, surprised. “I found them in the mailbox this morning. They were wrapped with a rubber band and piece of paper with your name written on it. I was going to ask you where they came from.”

I bolted out of the house and ran down the block to the fields. The shack was gone. A large, level graded area stretched out like an empty table top. Men were pounding stakes in the soft, brown earth.

“Where’s Shane?” I shouted, running toward the nearest workmen.

“Hey, kid, you shouldn’t be here,” someone yelled from behind me.

I stopped and turned. “Where’s Shane?” I directed at the person who was approaching.

“What?” the man asked, grabbing my arm and leading me away from the area.

“He lived there,” I twisted, gesturing back over my shoulder. “In the shack.”

“Oh, the old man. Don’t know. He set fire to the place real early this morning, at least we think it was him, and disappeared. Saved us the trouble of ‘dozing the junk heap. Now, kid, you stay off this land, away from the construction area. You could get hurt.”

I stood on the edge of the site, staring across the flat, brown stain. I wondered how Shane would ever find another home; then wondered if he would even try.

About the author

J. David Bethel

J. David Bethel is a writer of fiction and non-fiction. He has been published in popular consumer magazines and respected political journals. He is the author of Evil Town, a novel of political intrigue that has received high praise from Washington opinion leaders, and is one of only a few novels available through Kindle that has been rewarded with Five-Stars by all readers who provided reviews. Bethel spent 35 years in politics and government. He served in the Senior Executive Service as a political appointee where he was Senior Adviser/Director of Speechwriting for the Secretary of Commerce; directed speechwriting offices for other Cabinet officials, serving as Chief Speechwriter to the Secretary of Education; and lead speechwriter in the Department of Transportation's Office of Policy and International Affairs. He also served as press secretary/speechwriter to members of U.S. Congress. Bethel authored the speech given by Senator Paul Laxalt (R-Nevada) nominating then-Governor Ronald Reagan as the GOP candidate for President. Bethel works as a media consultant for a number of prominent communications management firms, including Burson Marsteller and The Wade Group. He writes speeches, opinion editorials and Congressional testimony for CEOs from the nation’s largest corporations, including the Monsanto Corporation, Hilton Hotels Corporation, and Royal Caribbean Lines. His op-ed pieces have appeared in The Washington Post and other prominent newspapers around the country. Bethel graduated with Phi Beta Kappa honors from Tulane University and lives in Miami, Florida. Contact the author.
  • Doris Emmett

    Reading this story made me feel like a kid again. The innocence driven by curiosity and the inevitable sense of injustice accompanied by unfair tactics of the grown up world. It brought back memories of the urge to explore and discover…the thrill of mystery and trying to solve puzzles…even if they came in human form. Though the ending made me sad…the story brought many other emotions to the surface and one of those was live and compassion and the human need we (all) have for connection with other human beings. A very moving tale.

  • Alaska

    Pretty amazing detail in your writing, Dave. For some reason, I feel like I can relate…and not because I grew up in/ playing in the woods like Alan or Shane did. This was excellent….I usually only have time to read the first couple paragraphs of anything these days, but got drawn in to this one. Also feel very sad for anyone who never got the chance to get dirty and experience trees, woods, moss, an old shack in the middle of evergreens or deciduous trees. Great, great job on this.

  • Katy

    After reading this once, I read it to the people with me so i could hear their opinions on the story and ending. And, it’s amazing what reading this to a group reveals about different people’s perceptions and varied ways of life. I read The Fields expecting a short story, and ended up with a great conversation.

  • Marilyn

    There’s something about the way David writes that pulls you in, and won’t let you go until the end of the story is revealed…and the read is smooth sailing, no bumps, no stalling…just perfect and thoroughly enjoyable!

  • Kaiya

    Transported to another time and another place by this wonderful short story.

    • David Bethel

      Thanks for the kind words.

  • cindy paz

    David Bethel does it again. His noteworthy coming of age tale is also Novel potential. W
    onderful piece!!!!!!

  • Barbara C.

    David, thoroughly enjoyed reading this short story. If I closed my eyes, your vivid descriptions of the locale and the characters transported me there. Excellent writing and I will be more diligent in finding more of your works to delve into! Thank you for sharing your gifts.

  • Carol Lopez

    This story reminds me of my innocence and naivete as a child, A memory of so long ago that it seems as much a fiction as this story. Growing up happens in bittersweet steps and the feeling is captured very well here. I love a short story that transports me in time or place – Thanks.

  • Gayle D

    Despite the sad ending, Dave, I really liked the tone and feel of the story and how quickly I was invested the piece. It’s interesting how certain childhood interactions can have a large influence on your life – I’m sure Alan headed out to see Bunyan’s Northwest as soon as he could travel on his own. I know that “helping” my grandfather with the company books by playing on his 10-key decided my CPA career path for me (and yes, I’m a geek!).


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Certificates give boost to area shoppers

By Diana Bowley, BDN Staff
Posted Dec. 05, 2008, at 11:30 p.m.

DOVER-FOXCROFT, Maine — The Piscataquis County Chamber of Commerce and area employers recognize that shopping local is vital in Piscataquis County and Dexter region in the wake of industry closings and job losses.

So larger employers have teamed with the Chamber once again to promote local shopping through the Chamber’s gift certificate program.

“It keeps the money local, which keeps our business healthy,” said Russ Page, the Chamber’s executive director, this week.

Keeping money local, he said, benefits the communities because the merchants support schools, civic organizations and clubs in the region. “We think it’s very important to keep them healthy and to find as many ways to do that as possible.”

Under the program, employers buy gift certificates at face value in $10 increments from the Chamber and give the certificates to their employees in lieu of other gifts or money.

The certificates are redeemed at face value at more than 150 merchants in the Chamber region and in Dexter. Those “merchants” include doctors, dentists, fuel suppliers, convenience stores, restaurants and Central Maine Power Co.

The purchase of the gift certificates and the administrative costs are borne by the Chamber.

“The sales have been going well,” Page said. Employers are buying the gift certificates for the holidays or year-end bonuses, he said.

Among those involved in the program this year include CMP, Foxcroft Academy, Piscataquis Regional YMCA and Mayo Regional Hospital.

Through the gift certificate program, the Chamber helps keep about $30,000 in the local communities, according to Page. Over the past seven years and including this year, the program has kept about $230,000 in the region, Page said.

According to statistics, about 48 percent of every dollar spent locally is reinvested back into the community or the county, in such areas as wages or donations, Page said. So, the gift certificates are a beneficial way to help the local economy and the merchants in the county and Dexter, he said.

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More than 100 arrested as California street party turns violent

Posted April 06, 2014, at 3:06 p.m.

More than 100 people were arrested when an annual spring break party in California turned violent, with police using chemical spray and foam bullets to disperse crowds, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday.

More than 40 people, including several law enforcement officers, were taken to hospitals for treatment after clashes broke out between partygoers and police during the annual “Deltopia” street party in Isla Vista, about 11 miles south of Santa Barbara.

The party draws up to 15,000 people every year, mainly college students from the nearby University of California at Santa Barbara, officials said.

The melee erupted Saturday evening after a university police officer was hit in the head with a backpack filled with large bottles of liquor, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. The officer was hospitalized with a “significant head injury,” according to the statement.

Authorities tried to break up the event by declaring an unlawful assembly, and “chemical agents and less lethal foam projectiles were deployed to disperse the crowds,” the statement said.

At least five other sheriff’s deputies were injured, including one who was hit in the face with a brick and two who were hit with bottles, the statement said.

Partygoers were also blamed with setting several small fires and ripping down stop signs, authorities said. There was no immediate word on how many of the 100 arrested would be charged with crimes.


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Eliot Cutler has a leadership problem

Posted July 06, 2014, at 11:46 a.m.
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I supported independent Eliot Cutler for governor in 2010. Part of his appeal was that he was a fresh face. He said he would do things differently. Those of us who voted for him hoped for the best, even though we didn’t have a record against which we could test our hopes.

Cutler is running again.

This time, he is no longer a fresh face. He has been around Maine as a candidate for governor — announced or unannounced — for the last three years. He has a record of sorts. And this time, I am unable to support him.

Last fall, Cutler published his plan for Maine’s future, A State of Opportunity,” in which he wrote that “our politics are broken” and that “overwhelmingly, Mainers want their leaders to focus on solutions, not on scoring political points.”

This also was the mantra for the Cutler campaign in 2010. The results of the 2010 election gave Cutler something of a mandate to demonstrate this leadership. Based on this standard, has Cutler been the kind of leader he believes Maine needs?

For three years, the Maine Legislature has grappled with difficult issues involving education, health care, reproductive rights, the environment, taxation, spending, equal opportunity, voting rights, civil liberties and much more. But, apart from announcing his position on some of these issues and providing some financial contributions for some of the causes he supports, Cutler was nowhere to be seen.

Arguably, Cutler’s only substantive contribution to Maine politics from 2010 until he announced his candidacy in 2013 was the creation of the advocacy organization OneMaine. Its stated goal was to foster political leadership in Maine that negotiated pragmatic, bipartisan solutions to Maine’s many problems. From its founding to its demise, OneMaine under Cutler’s leadership was remarkably ineffectual.

As a member of OneMaine, I witnessed the lack of leadership as OneMaine’s mission drifted. At first, OneMaine intended to form a political action committee that would fund candidates in the 2012 election who favored pragmatic solutions over ideological conflicts. Having failed to raise the necessary funds, OneMaine then shifted its focus; it would endorse and campaign for Republican and Democratic candidates it could not afford to fund. Having endorsed a slate of candidates, however, OneMaine — and Cutler — for the most part avoided any active campaigning or advocacy.

OneMaine and Cutler promised to work with legislators in 2013 to help forge pragmatic solutions. Instead, after the 2012 election, Cutler and most of his staff left OneMaine to plan his latest gubernatorial campaign. Pragmatic, bipartisan solutions would have required active participation in complex negotiations. OneMaine did not participate. It vanished.

Cutler played no public role in countering the political conflicts in 2013 or in finding bipartisan solutions to Maine’s challenges. As a leader, he was AWOL. As OneMaine morphed into the Cutler campaign, its primary goal became increasingly obvious: to position Cutler as the best partisan alternative to Gov. Paul LePage.

With respect to OneMaine, it is a fair question to ask whether leadership on Cutler’s part was ever there. If OneMaine was not simply an opportunistic effort on Cutler’s part, I think it is fair to say that, as a leader, he failed.

Voters in 2014 should take this failure into account. Voters should ask, “Where was the leadership?”

In recent months, Cutler’s misunderstanding of what leadership entails has become unpleasantly evident. Should a supporter of Equality Maine really be bitter because Equality Maine chose not to support him for governor? Cutler’s anger provides the appearance of unexamined egotism rather than leadership.

However they vote in the fall election, supporters of Equality Maine, Cutler included, should be able to affirm the sea-change in Maine politics that the Mike Michaud candidacy represents.

I am one Cutler supporter from 2010 who will not be voting for him again. Through my work with OneMaine, I have had the chance to see Cutler clearly enough to take his measure. He has proven that he is candidate, not a leader. Again and again as a leader, he has been absent without leave.

This time, I hope none of us will be fooled. I wonder if any other candidate for governor in recent Maine history has ever made greater claims based on fewer accomplishments?

Tony Brinkley, who teaches English at the University of Maine, served on OneMaine’s advisory board and its Penobscot County committee until the end of 2012.


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Pros / Cons of Swiss Bank Accounts in Currency Terms

The historical attraction of Swiss bank accounts has been the idea of safety and tax mitigation for a large international clientele.

In our view, potential tax savings is not the key issue but rather currency safeness. Depending upon which country you call home, a Swiss based account domiciled in the local Swiss franc currency (CHF) may be a great investment or mediocre at best.

Switzerland with large foreign exchange reserves currently has an overvalued CHF currency as measured by purchasing power parity and also verbally expressed by officials form the Swiss National Bank - their central banking authority.

Let's say one wishes to open and invest monies into a well respected Swiss banking institution. The ultimate success of your investment will depend in a large part based on currency valuation and timing of your initial purchase.

With interest rates on Swiss bank accounts ranging from 0 to 1%, there is minimal return based on interest income.

However, if your home country for example is Nigeria, a CHF based account at today's valuation would have been a smart move since the Nigerian naira has declined by 20% in value over the last year.

If you were a European national say from Germany prior to January 2015 when the then Swiss franc was pegged to the euro (EUR). After de-pegging in January 2015, the Swiss franc soared by 30% in value from the 1.20 CHF to EUR to the 0.805 level. Today, the Swiss franc floats in the market with a current valuation of 1.08 CHF to buy one EUR and/or 0.98 CHF to buy one US-dollar (USD). Even with modest depreciation of the CHF from the 0.805 trading range after de-pegging, the German investor is still well ahead based on currency capital gains.

A Swiss franc bank account from a Venezuelan national a couple of years ago would have been a terrific investment as the Venezuelan bolivar has since collapsed in value. The Swiss franc provided the necessary currency stability as this is one of the key important traits worldwide investors seek.

An American investor who opened a CHF based account shortly after removal of the Swiss franc peg from the Euro back in January 2015 would be underwater on currency valuation by 15% in capital losses. Although invested monies would receive minimal interest depending on deposit size, the overall position is still in loss. Plus, US citizens must report these accounts along with the necessary paperwork to the IRS for offshore reporting and tax obligations.

Timing is everything, the U.S. investor over the last year and a half would have most likely been better off holding their monies with American banks back on the continental USA.

Every investment time frame window is different. One needs to look at currency valuations, interest rates paid on accounts and tax reporting requirements to see if an offshore investment makes sense.

A Venezuelan citizen holding bolivars for the long term is not too thrilled at this current time.

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If America’s bankers celebrated the end of 2009 exuberantly you could hardly blame them.

After all, new Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. data analyzed by the Investigative Reporting Workshop confirms that last year was one of the worst in memory for the industry.  The data show:

  • Bank failures, rose from 26 in 2008 to 140 last year (there were three failures in 2007 and none in 2006). By the end of the year, the FDIC had 702 banks on its official troubled list, up from 252 a year ago. At the end of 2007, only 52 banks were on the FDIC list, which the agency does not make public.
  • According to the analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, 391 banks had a troubled asset ratio of more than 100, up from 165 a year ago. The troubled asset ratio compares bank capital and loss reserves to nonperforming loans and foreclosed property. It has proven to be a strong indicator of bank stress. Of the 140 banks that failed last year, more than 125 had a ratio over 100 just before they were closed.
  • The industry continues to struggle under the weight of bad loans, primarily mortgages and loans connected to real estate development. And banks continue to accumulate foreclosed properties. Total troubled assets amounted to $367.3 billion on Dec. 31, compared with $237.2 billion a year ago.
  • Perhaps more troubling, the FDIC reported nearly 10 percent of first mortgages were delinquent on Dec. 31, compared with just over 5 percent a year earlier. Nearly 16 percent of construction and development loans were not being paid on time.
  • Even though profits rebounded slightly from 2008’s dismally low figure, they still were down 90 percent from 2007. As a group, the nation’s banks made $12.5 billion last year, up from just over $10 billion in 2008. In 2007 bank profits were $100 billion. And nearly all the profits were accounted for by the biggest banks.
  • Lending continued its historic decline; it now has fallen for six straight quarters. At the end of the 2009, total loans stood at just over $7 trillion, more than 8 percent for the year. Real estate development and construction loans fell by 23.5 percent, and commercial and industrial loans declined by 18.5 percent.

Banks blame recession, tighter regulation for lending decline

Because of political pressures, the banking industry has become especially sensitive to the charge that the decline in lending is hurting the recovery. Instead, bankers portray the decline as resulting from a combination of lower demand because of the recession and a sensible response to the reality that many would-be borrowers simply cannot or should not take on additional debt.

Michigan banker Arthur C. Johnson, representing the American Bankers Association, told a Senate Banking Committee hearing last week, “In this severe economic environment, it is only natural for businesses and individuals to be more cautious. Businesses are reevaluating their credit needs and, as a result, loan demand has fallen dramatically since the recession began. Banks, too, are being prudent in underwriting, and our regulators demand it.”

Johnson added, “We recognize that there are some consumers and businesses in the current situation that believe they deserve credit that is not being made available. We do not turn down loan applications because we do not want to lend – lending is what banks do. In some cases, however, it makes no sense for the borrower to take on more debt. Sometimes, the best answer is to tell the customer no, so that the borrower does not end up assuming an additional obligation that would be difficult if not impossible to repay.”

Bankers also are focusing on what they consider an over-reaction by regulators to the growing loan losses – and resulting bank failures. Eric Gillette, an Ohio banker, told the Senate hearing: “Community banks confront a very tough regulatory environment. While Washington policymakers exhort community banks to lend to businesses and consumers, banking regulators, particularly field examiners, have placed very strict restrictions on banks,” he testified.

Gillette, representing the Independent Community Bankers of America, added, “In many instances, the banking agencies have moved the regulatory pendulum too far in the direction of overregulation at the expense of lending. It is important to return to a more balanced approach that promotes lending and economic recovery in addition to bank safety and soundness.”

Credit unions weather downturn better than banks

The nation’s 7,554 credit unions also had a difficult year, but as a group fared better than banks.

  • Troubled assets at credit unions jumped by 37 percent. Credit unions had $12.2 billion worth of nonperforming loans and foreclosed property on their books at the end of 2009, up from $8.9 billion a year ago.
    Despite a large increase in loan losses, profits rebounded from a loss of $151 million in 2008 to a profit of $1.5 billion in 2009.
  • And credit unions managed to increase their lending by 1 percent last year, in sharp contrast to the contraction in lending by commercial banks. The National Credit Union Administration, which insures credit unions, reported, “A majority of loan growth in 2009 was in used for automobile, credit card and first mortgages.”
  • Consolidation continues among credit unions, an industry that is dominated by smaller institutions. At the end of 2009, there were 7,554 federally insured credit unions, down from 7,806 a year earlier.

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Bank profits hit new high in 2013

The nation’s banks have recovered strongly from the financial crisis, and the results for 2013 provide even more evidence: Profits for the year hit $154.7 billion, according to reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. That's the highest level ever. And only 24 banks failed last year, the fewest since 2007. More

Credit unions still recovering but worries linger

Solid loan growth and continued low interest rates have helped the nation’s 6,600 credit unions rebuild from the 2008-09 financial crisis, according to new data from the National Credit Union Administration. But there might be storm clouds on the horizon. NCUA Chair Debbie Matz warned recently that the prospect of higher interest rates could cut into credit union profits.  More

Bank Tracker: Five-Year Review

By most accounts TARP achieved its primary purpose: To help bring about stability in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. But the program has been called "one of the most hated, misunderstood and effective policies in modern economic history.”  More

Smaller banks rebound more slowly

The latest data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. shows that the nation’s banks continue to recover from the financial crisis, reporting stronger earnings and increasing loan volume. But an analysis by the Investigative Reporting Workshop shows that for the vast majority of banks — those with less than $1 billion in assets — profits are harder to come by as they continue to try to work their way through a disproportionate amount of troubled loans and foreclosed property. More

Reshaped banking industry emerges from crisis

The banking industry has emerged shaken but in some senses thriving. Last year was the second most profitable ever for the nation’s banks, according to reports filed with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., but it is unmistakably true that the industry is fundamentally different today than it was five years ago.   More

More money, fewer banks

Banks are closer to pre-recession profit and lending levels, but there are fewer of them. More

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Conflict Abounds in Ashley York's The Seventh Son--Medieval Monday

My friend Ashley York brings a tragic kind of family conflict to Medieval Monday, with a scene from her latest, the exciting THE SEVENTH SON.Only this time, the conflict between father and son takes an unsettling twist. You'll want to check out the talented Ms. York's book to see just what the controversy is all about.

What sounded like a bellow of rage brought immediate silence to all in the hall.

It was her father. She started toward the antechamber where the men had gone but Fergus held her fast. “Ye best not interfere.”

The men who had appeared deeply inebriated suddenly sobered, drawing their weapons, clearly unsure of where the danger lay. Doors slammed in the distance. Loud voices came closer. It was the Meic Lochlainn, not her father.

Fergus began to draw his sword but he was too late. The huge man closing in on her sank his dagger into the man’s chest without missing a step. The captain dropped to her feet.

“We need to see this consummated.” Aodh Meic Lochlainn replaced the bloodied blade and grabbed her by the arm, dragging her to the stairs.

Tisa looked behind her at Fergus, his blood spreading beneath him. She couldn’t speak. She couldn’t breathe. Her father came out of the anteroom. Darragh stood beside him.

“Father?” was all she could get out as she was dragged toward the stairs.

The crowd of strange men followed behind. She strained to find her father in the sea of heads but he was lost behind her.

“Nae. Stop. Where are ye taking me?” She pulled against the hurtful grip on her arm.

Darragh appeared on the other side of her and faced his father. “I will see to this, Father.”

“Are ye sure ye’re able to?” His words dripped with derision.

Tisa didn’t understand this interplay.

“Please,” she said. “My father.”

They continued moving to the top of the stairs.

“Release my wife!”

Darragh’s commanding tone brought a look of surprise from his father. They paused to face each other. His expression of surprise changed to one of respect. Tipping his head, he released his hold and raised his hand, palm out. Tisa rubbed at her arm.

“As ye will, my son. See to it then.” His jaw tightened, he moved in close, his eyes widened in warning. “Let. There. Be. No. Doubt!”

Drogheda, Ireland 1076

The sixth son bears a curse as certain as the seventh son bears a blessing. When Tadhg MacNaughton’s betrothed is ripped from his arms and married to another, he believes the legend is true.

Tisa O'Brien's life slams into a downward spiral at the news she is no longer betrothed to the love of her life but to the tanist of a warring, prideful clan with dangerous political aspirations, the Meic Lochlainn. She faces her destiny with all the strength and dignity of her Irish heritage despite dealing with a husband who resents her, fighting off the lustful advances of her father-in-law, Aodh, and longing for the husband of her heart.

Tadhg MacNaughton makes a deal with the devil to ensure the survival of his clan as he is commanded to fight for Aodh who envisions himself the new Brian Boru, High King of Eire. Up close and personal, Tadhg must witness his true love's marriage and remain silent even as it rips him apart. When a sinister plot to over throw King William of England led by the exiled Leofrid Godwin and Clan Meic Lochlainn comes to light, Tadhg is faced with saving his clan or endangering his sister and her Norman husband.

An Irish beauty and a warrior betrayed, doomed in love from the start or does fate have something else in store for them?

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  1. So glad to have you, Tisa, and her awful in-law visit today, Ashley!


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This is the show of the year. The show that if you could only attend one show a year, this would it be it.  We just returned and finally caught up on our sleep (the early mornings, late evenings, and prep work was worth it), and this years show did not disappoint!

We typically go for the corner booth (this year we were in booth #2093, next year #2116). The corner booth allows the maximum exposure for a 10 x 10 because you are visible from two aisles…

It was great to see the same exhibitors we’ve met in previous years, to sample their new product lines and share stories.

It was great to see new exhibitors (there’s no way to see EVERY exhibitor…there are soooo many)

It was fantastic to see our current customers and meet potential new ones. It’s always great to get feedback from existing customers on how their business is doing, and what they would like to see from us in the upcoming months. Talking strategy is always important, and we want to thank all of those who came out to support us throughout the week.

Efficiency is key, and it was good to also meet some vendors we could use in the upcoming months for packaging, printing, etc.

We look forward to going again next year, and hopefully we will see you there – 2015 Chi-town!

Thanks again for all of those who stopped by our booth, if for nothing else but to say hello…

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New York has rolled out its first multinational ad campaign as it battles stiff international competition to bring in tourists. Tagged �This Is New York City,� the effort highlights the wide range of activities and sights of the Big Apple.

The campaign will be aired on TV in Spain, Ireland, France and the United Kingdom. Billboards are planned for Brazil, Portugal, Italy and Spain, while print is ready to go in countries including South Africa and Germany.

NYC & Company, the city's tourism office, has pushed hard overseas, signing up marketing reps and running smaller outdoor campaigns in the U.K. and Ireland. The new TV spots will be the first to appear on foreign television.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to boost the number of annual tourists to 50 million from 44 million by 2015. The heavy focus is on overseas visitors, because they tend to stay longer and spend more. Tourism already pours an estimated $24 billion into the city each year.

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I don't mind admitting that this report brought a tear to my eye.

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Melvin Rector ... served ... with the 96th Bomb Group in 1945 as a radio operator and gunner on B-17 Flying Fortress bombers, flying eight combat missions over Germany during the spring of the war's final year. On four of these missions, his plane came under heavy fire. One almost proved catastrophic, and the plane returned to base with holes dotting its wings.

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On May 6, Rector stepped foot on British soil for the first time in 71 years. The group first visited RAF Uxbridge in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Rector toured Battle of Britain Bunker, an underground command center where fighter airplane operations were directed during D-Day. After climbing back into the sunlight, he told Jowers he felt dizzy. She grabbed one of his arms, and a stranger grabbed the other.

There, just outside the bunker where Winston Churchill famously said, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few," Rector died quietly.

"He walked out of that bunker like his tour was done," Jowers said.

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Before repatriating his remains to the United States, a small service for the fallen hero was planned in Britain. It did not remain a small service.

"They just wanted something very simple. And when I found a little bit of background out about Melvin, there was no way we were going to just give him a very simple service," Neil Sherry, the British funeral director in charge of Rector's service, told ITV London News. "I wanted it to be as special as possible."

Though Jowers expected no more than four people, word of Rector's war record reached the American and British Armed Forces. The American Embassy donated a flag to drape over his coffin, and the room filled with servicemen and women and London historians who had never met Rector but wanted to pay their respects to their spiritual brother in arms.

There's more at the link.  I highly recommend clicking over there and reading it in full.

Here's a British news report on MSgt. Rector's funeral.

May MSgt. Rector rest in the peace he earned the hard way.

Bob said...

An incredibly moving story. Thank you.

Old NFO said...

Amen to that.

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Rest in Peace, Sergeant. You earned it.


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You’ll have to decide who or what is Beyond Therapy in this Bay Theatre Company performance

Beyond Therapy — which opened for a Valentine’s Day revival at The Bay Theatre Company — is  about love, sex and self-awareness in modern society. Specifically in New York in 1981, where everyone is messed up.

True or false: Oak is the best wood to burn.

As more and more people are using firewood for heating their homes, I am often asked about differences between hardwoods. Yes, there are differences. There are soft hardwoods and there are hard hardwoods.

Link up with the chain pickerel

Fishing the Tidewater this early is an exercise in hope, humility and discomfort. These are times of unpleasant wind and bone-chilling temperatures. But for the determined angler, there can also be moments of heady triumph and the first real excitement of the season — not to mention a tasty fish dinner.

The cycle continues in the heavens and in distant galaxies

February’s full moon straddles Thursday and Friday, appearing equally large both nights. The actual moment of totality is at 4:36am Friday, when the moon is opposite the sun with earth smack-dab between the two.     Despite some spring-like days, February often ushers in the heaviest snowfalls of the year, hence the names the Snow Moon and the Hunger Moon. But February also marks the stirrings of life, as names like the Sap Moon and  the Worm Moon indicate.

Two hitmen make mincemeat out of the company that betrayed them in this highly entertaining shoot-em-up

In a South American cartel compound, a wealthy drug jeffe dives into the blackened waters of his swimming pool. As his guards carelessly look away, he is caught by a scuba-geared assailant and drowned. Changing from scuba gear to a kitchen uniform, the assassin slips past the dozens of armed guards, who stare bewilderedly at their expired leader.     It’s ridiculous, yes, but it’s also pretty damn entertaining.

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Prime up on the Impressionists to appreciate this Colonial Players performance

Colonial Players’ Inventing van Gogh requires an investment. Come mentally refreshed with a primer on the Impressionists, and you’ll enjoy it. Come unprepared with a weary mind, and you’ll likely be nodding off mid-way through Act I, as much of the audience did on opening night. The dialogue can be tedious.

How did you fall in love? Most of us eventually achieve our own love story, some of us many times over. Common as the love story is, it never grows stale.

How did you fall in love? That’s a question worth dwelling on. Girls at least — perhaps boys, too, though they’ll never tell — grow up dreaming of how they’ll fall in love. Most of us eventually achieve our own love story, some of us many times over. Common as the love story is, it never grows stale.

An economic downturn upends three corporate Americans in this redemptive recession drama

In the wake of 2010’s unyielding recession and the threat of a takeover, conglomerate GTX decides to secure the company’s bottom line by laying off thousands of workers. GTX doesn’t see people. It sees falling profits and nervous investors. By trimming non-essential jobs, the CEOs can keep their private jets, $500 lunches and mahogany-trimmed offices while also fending off corporate raiders.

Black walnut trees don’t mind bulbs and ground cover, but they kill competing broadleaf species

The black walnut is a unique tree. It selects its neighbors and wipes out its competition. The roots, bark, wood, leaves and husks of the black walnut contain an enzyme called juglanace. This enzyme remains in the tissues until they are decomposed beyond recognition. The horticultural term used to describe the competition-controlling properties of black walnut is allelopathic response.


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Thank you for your interest in our allied health programs. Here you will find information about the variety of allied health programs offered through curriculum, continuing education, as well as a new collaborative agreement with ECU, Regionally Increasing Baccalaureate Nurses (RIBN) which results in a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing.

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The Associate Degree Nursing, Practical Nursing and Medical Laboratory Technology Programs are limited in the number of students that can be admitted each year, therefore, these programs are competitive-based. They have special admission requirements, application process and selection criteria. Completed application packets are taken and reviewed by appointment on a first-come, first-served basis.

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Students applying to the Associate Degree Nursing program or the Practical Nursing program will have to complete the Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI) TEAS test with a minimum proficiency score of 58.7%. A student may complete and submit an application to the Allied Health Coordinator, but evaluation and ranking will occur only after completion of the TEAS admission test shows a proficient level. TEAS scores must be submitted before the January 31st application deadline.

Students will have three attempts within twelve (12) calendar months, from February 1st to January 31st, to obtain a proficiency score of 58.7% on the TEAS test. Students are encouraged to prepare for the TEAS test prior to their testing date. As well, remediation services are offered through ATI should a student score less than the 58.7% required minimum proficiency. Students completing TEAS testing at other facilities may have an official ATI TEAS transcript sent to the Allied Health Admissions coordinator, provided the scores occurred on a testing date within the twelve calendar months of the application deadline (January 31st)

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The Struggling Beauty of Jason Shawn Alexander’s Paintings

Jason Shawn Alexander illustrates and paints beautiful people who are bent and crooked from the struggles of life. However, he does it in a way that’s still appealing and uplifting to view. So, when you stand in front of his work you begin to feel up and contemplative, rather than ominous and down like you’d initially imagine from the darker pigments and conditions of his subjects. Originally from the south, Jason now resides in Los Angeles and interestingly enough, besides being a figurative painter, he worked for years as a draftsman at all of the top-dog comic publishers like Dark Horse and Marvel…(via)

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

What Mexico Stole from Me

So my closest female friend at school is off on the adventure of a lifetime (which isn't really true, since I know she'll have many more) studying abroad in Mexico this semester. This isn't that tragic on the surface, except she has been one of my closest friends for eight years and in a very real sense I have never had to do anything without her. She is always there to quote Koala Lou at me gossip be a sounding board for dilemmas. Whether this semester is just hard or whether it is specifically harder because of ehr absence is a mystery to me, but without my closest confidant I have to admit I'm floundering a little. To his credit, my boyfriend (rightfully) assumed he'd have to pick up some of the slack and has been remarkable. She is in Mexico having a very real sink or swim moment which will prove to her and everyone around her that she can make it in the real world, and, in a much more quiet way, I have to figure out how to swim, too.

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Monday, January 14, 2013

Menu Planning Mondays

Remember when I said there were going to be a few changes to the blog? Well today brings the first one.
I have moved my menu planning to Mondays! and it will every week not fortnightly. One catch though. I will still be planning at home fortnightly on a thursday so my posts will be retrospective. I'll be able to give you fab feed back on new recipes I try much better this way too.

We were still on holidays for the first part of this weeks menu plan...

Mon ~ Toasted Sandwiches
Tues ~ Chicken drumsticks and roast veg
Wed ~ Meat pie and veg
Thurs ~ Quiche, Baked Spuds and salad
Fri ~ Homemade Pizza
Saturday ~ Sausages and veg
Sunday ~ Corned Beef, veg and cheese sauce

I really haven't baked at all since before christmas. I did whip up some cream and decorated a bought sponge with strawberries and the cream while we were away for Brians birthday though :)

Do you Menu Plans? Would love for you to share, just link up below!

Come back tomorrow to see what's happening on Tuesdays :)

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Boulevard Celebrates Soccer Team Win with Saison

Boulevard Brewing (Kansas City, MO) is commemorating the Major League Soccer Cup winning Sporting Kansas City.

Joining the Smokestack Series is Sporting Kansas City Championship Ale, celebrating the win, and the team’s hard work.

“We are excited to share this unique collaboration with fans of both the brewery and the team,” said Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevard’s director of marketing. “Despite a tight production schedule, everyone at Boulevard was committed to recognizing a remarkable season with a special release. Sporting KC has been a great hometown partner for us, and we look forward to celebrating their wins for years to come.”

Boulevard Sporting Kansas City Championship Ale will be a saison hopped with a new German hop Mandarina Bavaria. The her will hit shelves in the Kansas City area in June.

Style: Saison
Availability: 750ml Bottles. Limited to 2,000 cases
Arrival: June, 2014

6.2% ABV

Read more: Boulevard Smokestack Series