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No other reason for this post, but to make you all hungry. This is Parmesan Encrusted Chicken with Mostaccioli. Had it a few weeks ago at my (new) favorite restaurant (because not only is the food delicious but all the meat is halal = eatable by ME and other Muslims). Yum.
Random, I'd really like to be try being a chef someday (but those of you who know me are probably thinking "what WOULDN'T you want to try?"). Yes, yes I'm bipolar when it comes to careers lol. Its fun making new and different things and being creative with spices (as funny as that sounds but coming up with new tastes/flavors is cool...except when its a FAIL, then that's just disappointing) . Lately, I've been trying cooking new things for the fam. on the weekends which is cool. Most of all I like to dress up the plate, table, etc. Presentation is the best-est part, no? And then watching a satisfied audience eat away is even better =).
I know a few of the writer's on this blog would agree.
Plus, its really nice to be able to make things that you might WANT to order (as a Muslim) in a restaurant but can't because the food isn't prepared the way your religion asks. Basically we eat meat that is blessed (with a prayer) before its killed. There are many other rules like making sure the cutting tool is as sharp as possible so the animal doesn't suffer unnecessarily (sharper knife means a swifter cut). The jugular veins are usually cut so that blood is properly drained from the body. Also its important to isolate the animal being slaughtered from others in line to-be-slaughtered. That's so the other animals don't go through psychological trauma of seeing what will happen to them. And another one is not to sharpen the knife or cutting tool in view of the animal.
Also, since I'm on the topic we're not allowed to eat pork, or the meat of already dead animals (since they were not blessed at the time they died and because they might have been weak, sickly, etc. ) Andddddd no alcohol.
So why did I start with all this? Oh right, eating at restaurants. Anyways, that's Islamic eating in a nutshell.
P.S. I'm off to class in a little bit, sometimes I wish they would hurry up and do hologram lectures or something. There's just so much more I could do at home, listening in on a lecture, then listening to it at school in a stuffy classroom.
Never doubt that a small group of people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has- M.M.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
10 comments:
- fuelMybrain said...
OH how cool hologram lectures would be... I would set up the equipment in my kitchen so I too could just cook and bake away at the same time!
I secretly want to be a chef too! - May 26, 2009 at 2:46 PM
- Jasmine said...
I know someone (and this is no lie) who sold "halal meat sausages" at his turkish food shop. He had a halal sign in the window.
They were made of pork. - May 26, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Artistic Logic said...
fuelmybrain - u got it =)
jasmine - that's so grosss but sadly its believable =( - May 26, 2009 at 3:29 PM
- PerplxinTexan♥ said...
and by halal you of course mena ZABIHA!
sorry it makes me crazy when confuse the two terms. - May 26, 2009 at 3:39 PM
- Constructive Attitude said...
^ it makes me crazy too
and is ur new fav restaurant L.A. B.? or L.A. E.? whatever its called. lol - May 26, 2009 at 5:00 PM
- MarjnHomer said...
what new stuff have you tried to make?
- May 26, 2009 at 5:42 PM
- Artistic Logic said...
yes yes i mean zabiha
stop going whacko on me pt
ca - yes it is
marjnhomer- various things lol like most recently chicken pot pie, as common as it is, never had it before ;) - May 26, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Lisa said...
I love all the different hats you wear! That looks really good, and I'm sure your family loves your cooking. I think you can do it all sweetie, especially knowing how tough it is job-wise in mechanical engineering.
I haven't seen you in awhile, and I'm so glad you are posting again. Love you lots. - May 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- PerplxinTexan♥ said...
Dear A.L. I'm not going nuts on your it's called PMS...geez
*cries in corner* - May 27, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Asma said...
"Parmesan Encrusted Chicken with Mostaccioli" makes me drool =(
- June 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM


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Dolly Mertens |
Wild Flour Bakery Cafè, located in a downtown Milwaukee shopping mall, offers wrapped products, such as bars, for grab-and-go convenience. |
When the Mertens renovated the Lincoln Ave. location, they retained the showcases from the original 1929 bakery. |
The Mertens' son, Josh, is Wild Flour's general manager, and he develops the bakery's bread formulas. |
Dolly and Greg Mertens reached out to their community even before Wild Flour Bakery opened its doors for business eight years ago. To ensure opening day would run smoothly, the Mertens went through several days of test production, generating extra product.
"We went door to door in New Berlin handing out free loaves of bread to home owners," Greg Mertens says. "They couldn't pass up a beautiful loaf of bread, and people became aware that a bakery was opening."
The Mertens entered the bakery business by chance. Dolly and Greg took a trip to the eastern United States, and stopped at Firehook Bakery in Alexandria, Va. They bought some crusty bread and decided they wanted to try a similar bakery in their hometown.
Their bakery business has now grown from an idea to three Milwaukee-area locations with a fourth in South Milwaukee and fifth in Bay View opening soon.
The original Wild Flour Bakery was intended to offer only breads, but the Mertens added a case with muffins and other products just before opening. The deli side of the business evolved in the same unplanned way.
"We had a lot of customers come in and say our bread was great, and why don't we offer sandwiches," Dolly says. "Since we had everything, we thought why not?" All Wild Flour locations now offer sandwiches, soups and salads.
Each location offers the same core Wild Flour products with modifications to fit each store. The downtown location, Wild Flour Bakery Cafè, sells more sandwiches than other stores, but is not a bread store like the Lincoln Ave. location. It also is the only location that offers wrapped bars for grab-and-go convenience, and sells about 75 per day along with more than 100 cookies. The bakery cafè is located in a shopping mall and serves the many hotels and businesses that surround it as well as mall shoppers.
Differences among locations
Wild Flour Bakehouse on Lincoln Ave. is located in a more residential neighborhood that is very diverse and has been a bakery since it was built in 1929. (For more information on the bakery's renovation, see page 70.) The New Berlin store is in a suburban strip mall, and the building that houses the South Milwaukee location was built in 1920. The production area of the South Milwaukee store is up and running, however the store front is not yet complete.
"All the stores have a different flavor to them," Dolly says. "You can't just make something because you want it there. For example, in the New Berlin store, we couldn't sell an elephant ear, but at the Lincoln Ave. store they sell very well."
Customers are loyal to the Wild Flour brand and often frequent several of the locations. Some of the customers who live in the Lincoln Ave. neighborhood shop the Lincoln Ave. store on weekends, but work downtown and stop by the Grand Ave. location for breakfast or lunch on weekdays.
The Mertens also adjust the prices of products according to the location. They have learned that downtown customers, who are often in a rush, are willing to pay a bit more for products than customers at the other locations.
Farmers markets have become another dependable source of revenue for the bakery. Wild Flour participates in three on Saturday and one on Wednesday. "We would like to do more, but we only have so much staff to handle it," Greg says.
The markets offer a way to interact with the community, publicize the bakery, and also helped develop the wholesale business, Dolly adds. "Chefs would come to the farmers markets, and that was how we got a lot of wholesale business in the beginning," Dolly says.
Wholesale now accounts for 45 percent of the bakery's business, and Wild Flour supplies some of Milwaukee's high-end restaurants, independent coffee houses and grocery stores.
Split production
The Lincoln Ave. location houses all of the artisan bread production for Wild Flour, while the pastry production is done at the South Milwaukee location. South Milwaukee also makes up cookie dough for baking at the Grand Ave. location, which also bakes frozen croissants. Seventy percent of Wild Flour products are created from scratch. "We don't want to have the same products as other places," Dolly says.
Bread production begins at 3:30 p.m. when the mixer begins the 12 to 15 doughs that are produced each day. At 5:30, two more production employees arrive, and the baker begins baking at 8 p.m. The last loaves are baked by 3 a.m. when four drivers arrive to begin their routes. "All of our breads are hand-formed," Greg says.
When the Mertens purchased the South Milwaukee location earlier this year, it included equipment for an Italian bread line and donut line. The previous owner decided to stay with the bakery and work for the Mertens. Wild Flour now offers a line of Zizzo Bros. Italian bread, named for the previous owner.
Never say never
"I always said that I would never do donuts, but we bought the bakery in South Milwaukee, and it had a donut line. So for Fat Tuesday, we made up 1,500 donuts and paczki and told the drivers to drop some off at their stops," Dolly says.
One of Wild Flour's wholesale customers, a grocery store, called up and wanted to start offering the donuts in its three locations. Wild Flour now produces 150 dozen donuts per day. "So, never say never," Dolly adds.
Wild Flour is best known for its bread, but muffins are another consistent seller. It sells about 1,000 muffins a day and produces 2,000 every Saturday for the three farmers markets.
"I believe in the baking industry. I really do," Dolly says. "I keep stressing all the time that it's not about lugging 50-lb. bags of flour. It is a very respectable career. We are there for people in every time of their life."
The Mertens often give as much as they get back. When Dolly heard an advertisement on the radio about an organization trying to raise money to buy ovens for women-owned bakeries in Afghanistan, she decided to do something herself. The radio station was asking for donations of $3 and in return they would send a recipe for naan bread.
Dolly called the radio station and offered to bake naan bread to send along with the recipes. Since the radio station did not have the facilities to store the bread or the capability to ship it out, they decided to direct listeners to Wild Flour locations to donate the money and pick up samplesof naan bread. The goal was to raise enough money nationwide for three ovens, at about $1,800 a piece.
"Wild Flour stores raised enough for three ovens in three days," she says.
Wild Flour also tries to involve the communities in the bakery. Dolly often invites local elementary schools to decorate the store windows. The bakery also was part of the Lincoln Ave. neighborhood drive to provide trash cans for the streets. The trash cans were then painted by neighborhood children.
"You have to be involved in your neighborhood and your community. You have to give back," Greg says.
"Baking is a very healing job. When I give tours, I always say I wonder how many problems have been solved at this bench," Dolly says, pointing to the bakery's workbench, an original from 1929 when the Lincoln Ave. location was built.
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Friesel expressed his personal sympathy for the Gattrell family. "I've known the little girl and the family since she was born," he said. "She's played in about every sport with my granddaughter. It's tragic."
The Ohio State Highway Patrol was not involved in the pursuit, according to OSHP Lt. Darrin Blosser.
"We're investigating the fatality portion. Charges will be reviewed by the prosecutor's office, and we'll be guided by them," said Blosser. "I'm not sure what angle they will take as far as any charges that may be filed."
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That the main reason why I'm not moving from 1.1.x to 2.x.
So, I'm also waing for Babylon 2.x theme. :(
If that helps you taking any kind of decision: as far as I know nobody is working on it and the last change to the code is 9 months old and it had nothing to to with code itself.
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Saturday, June 4th, 7pm
Abundant Sugar (in the Brewery Arts Complex)
618A Moulton Ave..
Los Angeles, 90031 (map)
Our line-up for this event currently includes:
- Nina Hartley - pornstar, author, and educator
- Carol Queen - writer, speaker, educator, activist & Dr. of Sexology
- Reid Mihalko – sex geek extraordinaire
- Bill Ratner - actor and seven-time Story Slam winner
- Barbie Davenporte – sex columnist for the LA Weekly
- Morgan - transgendered superhero, performer, and union iron worker
- Kamala Devi – tantra coach & sacred sex author
- Music by Tacos on Prom Night, Alicyn Packard and DJ Timmmi
- YOU! We're still looking for a few more storytellers for the show...if you have a tale to tell, contact firstname.lastname@example.com
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618 Moulton Ave.
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Saturday, June 4, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PDT)
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Dixie De La Tour, founder of Bawdy Storytelling, is equal parts educator, entertainer, and irreverent host. Drawing on the rich storytelling lore of the Blue Ridge Mountains she once called home, Dixie made her way to the Bay Area and founded San Francisco's "blue personal narrative" movement. Dubbed 'the Grande Dame of Dirty Storytelling,' Dixie has turned curated salon storytelling into an art form by providing guidance and encouragement while serving as Bawdy's stage mom, talent scout, and talk show host. In addition to being a well-regarded writer, Dixie is a former producer of Fireside Storytelling and Memoir Spool, and continues to perform on a regular basis.


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This is a complete guide to flash (upgrade) your Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica to Android 2.1 (firmware EXXJCE (March 2010)). I have tested it on my own Spica with firmware version DXIL1 and two of my friends with firmware version DXJA1 and it really worked. You can use this guide to upgrade your Spica at your own risk and don't blame me if you turn out your Spica into a bricked device .
(This guide has been updated on 07 May 2010, find it at the bottom of this post)
MULTITOUCH now is enabled on Spica, check the guide on how to enable it here
What you need:
Alternative download links (Mydropbox, ads free, direct download) (Big thanx to Yousef):
Note for I5700 driver:
If windows doesn't detect the phone in download mode, disconnect the phone & try to uninstall pc studio or kies then reboot. Reinstall pc studio or kies then connect the phone (you may also remove & insert the battery before connecting the phone).
Before start checklist:
How to flash:
Flash I
Note: If you already get Eclair on this stage, skip the Flash II & III.
Flash II
Flash III
Now you have the new Eclair in your Spica, but wait, firmare EXXJCE is french firmware, so you'll get your Spica language in French, to change the language, enter paramètres menu at bottom corner then choose Paramètres de langue then Langue et règion and select your language.
Rooting Your New Eclair
In some cases, you may need your Spica to be rooted in order to install some applications like shootme, my favourite screen capture application. This is just optional, you don't have to follow this step. I use LkMod v2.5.1 by Leshak that based on EXXJCE firmware to get my Spica rooted and get some additional features like live wallpaper and custom logo while booting my Spica.
LkMod 2.5.1 features:
What you need:
Create your custom logo (Optional)
Default logo comes with LkMod can be replaced with your own logo, you can replace the logo with your own using Photoshop or other image manipulating software.
How to change the logo:
>C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\tar -cvf LkMod-2_5_1-PDA.tar cache.rfs datafs.rfs logo.png zImage
How to flash
Usefull information about Samsung Firmware
XA = Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland, UK
XB = Denmark, Norway, Sweden
XC = Portugal, Spain
XD = Croatia, Czech, Hungary, Slovakia
XE = Bulgaria, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
XF = Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania
XP = Dutch, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Polski, Portuguese, Turkish
XW = UK, Italy, Germany, France, Australia, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland
XX = Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom
DD = India
DX = Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
ZC = China, Hong Kong
ZH = Hong Kong
Code = Year – Month
A = 2001 – January
B = 2002 – February
C = 2003 – March
D = 2004 – April
E = 2005 – May
F = 2006 – June
G = 2007 – July
H = 2008 – August
I = 2009 – September
J = 2010 – October
K = 2011 – Novermber
L = 2012 – December
My Spica has firmware version I5700DXIL1
DX = Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam
L = December
1 = Version
Update May 17, 2010
1. DXJC4 (Asia) Firmware
If you have flashed to JCE and want to reflash it to DXJC4, flash with DXJB3 first (complete package) using Sameer's guide than flash to DXJC4 as one package.
2. EXXJD1+ Lk2.02 modd
If you are using JCE and want to upgrade to JD1, flash JD1 (complete package) using Sameer's guide and then apply Leshak's Lk2.02 mod.
3. F0r Indonesian users that use Europe firmware (jce,jcf,jd1), to overcome problem with 3 and im2 simcard:
- For rooted device without Lk2.02:
- For rooted device with Lk2.02 (has recovery tools)
4. Install Nexus One boot animation (win 7 style)
Nexus one boot animation file (bootanimation.zip) was taken from Leshak's samdroid mod
- For rooted device without Lk2.02
- For rooted device with Lk2.02 (has recover tools)
5. Install Samdroid Mod 1.o.3
Samdroid 1.0.3 can be applied to any 2.1 firmwares + lk2.02 installed and has two partitions on sdcard (one should be ext2 partition).
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pls,tell me how to restart i5700? thanks
lorenz i already used spicagen mod n cyanogenmod bt my phone got hanged.all the apps are installed on phone memory.wht shuld i do plzz help?????
q, using spica i 5700 and i dnt know zhy but the screen and the power key stop working….should i flash it first to see what it!!!!!!!!!!!please help
mean uppdate the files!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can any one plzz give me another site!
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Thank you this is saving my spica
thanks lorenz, your troubleshooting part @ flash 2 and 3 solved my spica flashing issues. cheers.
Sooo I've done all this.. Now my phone won't book. I press the power button and get the Samsung boot screen, the status bar fills aaaaaaaaaaaaaand that's it Now what???
It works! I've able to save my phone from being bricked.
[...] Samsung I5700 Galaxy Spica Android 2.1 Flashing Guide | All About Web & Mobile Application Devel…. [...]
I completed Flashes I and II on my Spica with no problems. When I reconnected phone for Flash III Odin no longer recognised it. What should I do?
Simple solution to all Vista problems: when all else fails, simply reboot. Problem solved!
You are the best!thx a lotttttt!!!you have the best tutorial,easy to follow,GOOD JOB!!
is a problema at flash 3,i`ve waitend 2 hours and nothing happend,it remains at FORMAT stage..what should I do
Awwww man. Incredible thank. I'd lost my mine unbricking that device
D'abord MERCI BEAUCOUP
Depuis hier, toute la journée, j'ai tout essayé et c'était tout le temps bloqué sur
"setup connection".
Votre méthode a marché du premier coup (en presque 7mn seulement)
Spica cupCake (BVIL3) vers Eclair.XXJCE(2.1-update1)
Encore Merci.
Thanks a lot bro that really help me because i just recently bought my phone but it came with cupcake and the Bluetooth wasn't working but that problem was fixed.but there is another problem my phone memory is to low and apps2sd isn't working. i have read that it only works with froyo 2.2. so i was wondering if i could flash it with froyo using this same method?. And if the method is different will you have tutorial for? Anyway thanks alot man
samsung i5700 odin multi not connected can u help me
what is the time to complete the flash III??
The Odin is doing the installation for 30 minutes with no progress.
I need your help
I notice I made a mistake that was corrected. My I5700 has been updated. I appreciate the guidance. The sansumg you should be sorry. I am grateful for you.
Thanks for providing the help, I could bring out my bricked samsung i5700 phone , install eclair successfully and could root too. The earlier version was cupcake which was broken in an attempt to root using i5700_LK2-02_PDA.tar
Hello everybody
I need some help
firt started first flash and did work well.
But then when I try to reconnect my Spica to the PC, it says "unknown device". Even in Odin no device detected.
I tried to reboot windows 7, and download maximum samsung drivers…nothing works. Neither windows 7, nor Kies, PCStudio, Odin recognize my spica.
The good news is that it seems that Eclair is correctly installed on my spica, and as far (12hrs) works well.
What do I need to do to get it recognized by windows 7 and Ovin to finish flashing? because now I cannot connect it to the PC
TESTED by me and its okey.
may u add link for FW asia package..? plz.
will this work if i have miui rom android 4.0.3. sd dont work in this miui rom so i cant install other rom because in the recovery it says sd cant mount so any way will this work if i have android version 4
This site worked for me… though afterwards, my data (3G, Edge, etc)connection wasn't working and I thought I'd screwed up. Turns out I just had to load the APN (access point name), which I was able to find on my provider's website.
Settings>wireless and networks>mobile networks>access point names>menu button >new APN
This was great.. though afterwards, my data (3G, Edge, etc)connection wasn't working and I thought I'd screwed up. Turns out I just had to load the APN (access point name), which I was able to find on my provider's website.
Settings>wireless and networks>mobile networks>access point names>menu button >new APN
I followed the guide. It went ok until the first reboot. I got a message that the installing failed. Then three options in green, the first one was to reboot, second to install .zip from SD card and the third… I don't remember. I picked reboot but it stays on the samsung screen, and then nothing. Maybe I did something wrong? I am using windows xp professional and I tried to install CM-7.0.0-spica-a1_upadate.
This is what is shown:
Android system recovery
– Samsung Spica i5700 –
Use Up/Down and OK to select
Reboot system now [Home+Back]
Apply sdcard/update.xip
Apply any zip from SD
Opening update package…
Verifying update package…
Installing update…
Deleting files…
Deleting files…
Deleting files…
Deleting files…
Deleting files…
Copying files…
Copying files…
E:Error in install_busybox.sh
(status 65280)
E:Failure at line 21>
run_program PACKAGE:Iinstall_busybox.sh
Installation aborted
Now what? Please, help
hi lorenz hi everybody
i'm from algeria i started the 1 flash but i don't know if it worked well because it took a lot of time without progress like this :
Download Start…
Create File…
StartThread Detected : 1
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
StartThread Detected : 0
setup connection…
odin mode.. check plcatform verification.
check download environment.
zImage download..
1/5 Finished.
datafs.rfs download..
2/5 Finished.
factoryfs.rfs download..
same prob in flash 3
plz tel me what to do should i wait or i have to do an other thing
knowing i waited more then 70 mnt
plz plz plz help
thank very very much my spica itºs saved now¡¡¡¡¡¡ this site ist THE BEST¡¡¡¡¡¡
Thanx dudes totally working I unbricked this thanks a million
Great solution!!!
Thx alot m/
Great solution!!!
Thx alot \m/
Hi, i have this phone, and changed the Cupcake 1.5 OS to Eclair 2.1 but i'm getting some difficulties with my network connection, i used to live in Aruba and my internet connection worked perfectly, but now i'm living in Holland and have chosen Vodafone and it does't work at all.
I would like to get an advice so ican solve this problem.
I was thinking of changing it back to Cupcake version, but i don't know if it's possible.
Hey, can you give me another link for Firmware I570EXXJCE? Both of them don't work for me.
If you want this to work
it is easy
follow flash I
But before you click start
Select I570EOLBJB3-CSC-CL167487-OLB.tar
in the CSC field
then click start
then it will work perfectly !
no flash II or III
Worked for me and Im in Ireland
just change the language on the phone
and my vodafone SIM works fine
BTW note that my phone was network Unlocked long before I did this
Thanks again !
bro tnx for this post.
An outstandіng share! I've just forwarded this onto a coworker who was conducting a little homework on this. And he in fact bought me lunch simply because I stumbled upon it for him… lol. So allow me to reword this…. Thanks for the meal!! But yeah, thanks for spending the time to talk about this topic here on your internet site.
Thanks alot you have saved my mobile phone (Samsung Spica GT-I5700). I just follewed the steps in Flash I,(I did not more than this).I wish you the best. Keep on.
Hello i have a spica
with cupcake XXIL3
Baseband I5700XXIK1
tried everything, workd fine but cannot get wifi back,do you have a idea
update v1.5 vs v2.1update1 de mon gt-i5700 parfaitement réussie. congratulations et merci beaucoup pour le tuto. fantastique
update v1.5 vs v2.1update1 my gt-i5700 perfectly successful. congratulations and thank you very much for the tutorial. fantastic
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hi, thnx for this post i reset my android phone… which is Samsung Spica i5700.. but problem with language now…
how to fix it into English?
anybody tell me…
i don't know it's in some other language now..
how can i change it to English ?
the links are dead.. can you provide a updated link? thanks
very thanks………….very very usefull……
I try to install firmware now. Now when is start my cellphone. Screen showing in mobile+triangle+PC.
Pls. some one help me to sort out this issue.
hello i download i570exxjce and in odin dialog box appear
I live in uk.. which firmware is the best to ulock as i followed above procedure but not working phone is still locked
dudde how long will it takes


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Sorry, a bit of Mets fan humor on my part. People here ended up hating Rodriguez (though of course, a lot of that had to do with his off-field issues). I didn't hate him, but I was never exactly comfortable when he came into a game. His statistics may show him to be one of the better relief pitchers in the league, but I've never seen a closer let so many guys on base. He'd get the job done more often than not, but he probably took a few years off my life in the process.
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Posted 12 February 2005 - 08:22 AM
As per the teaser, this weeks foodblog does indeed come to you from Atlanta, where I live with my two children (hereafter known as Girl and Boy) and husband (hereafter known as The Man). Girl is 11, Boy is 14, and The Man is old enough to know better.
Atlantas huge: the total metro population is about 4 million, and there are no physical boundaries to growth like rivers or mountain ranges, so people just keep moving (and commuting) farther and farther out of town. Atlantans can be divided into ITP (inside the perimeter) and OTP (outside the perimeter), the perimeter referring to the interstate freeway that encircles the downtown area and surrounding neighborhoods, separating it from outlying suburbs. The politically minded may note that these areas could be designated red and blue. Ill let you figure out which is which.
Were about as ITP as it gets, with home, work, school, and restaurants all in walking distance. The neighborhoods called Druid Hills, the setting for the play/movie Driving Miss Daisy. The houses date from the 1920s, and because Atlanta has so little in the way of old buildings the neighborhoods on the National Register as a Historic District. Charming, sure, buts lots of the houses need some updating, and ours (purchased in 1996) was no exception. So we remodeled last year, including an addition with a new kitchen, and this weeks blog will look at the finished product.
So, some encouragement for those of you presently involved in kitchen renovation, some ideas for those who are considering it.
But never mind all that for the moment: Whats for breakfast?
Dutch babies, thats what. And even better, these Dutch babies are produced by my children, the aforementioned Girl and Boy. The first picture is right from the oven, the second is after the somewhat messy job of sifting powdered sugar on top. They are delicious (the Dutch babies, I mean, not the children) and a great weekend treat.
The Man drinks coffee in the morning whereas I prefer tea. He's not up yet, having played poker last night. I'm hoping he makes it out of bed in time for dinner.
I also eat fruit whereas he prefers, well, anything but fruit. This is not such a bad thing, as it means that I dont have to share the fruit. Pomegranates are a pain to eat, but not so bad if youre reading the newspaper at the same time. This ones from California, but you can also grow them here if youve got enough sunshine (which I dont).
Posted 12 February 2005 - 08:28 AM
What a great way to start the day. I miss the South! Looking forward to reading your blog and seeing pics of the kitchen redo.
Posted 12 February 2005 - 08:41 AM
Posted 12 February 2005 - 08:46 AM
What a great way to start the day. I miss the South! Looking forward to reading your blog and seeing pics of the kitchen redo.
Thanks, fou. We've been really happy with the kitchen, and I'm looking forward to showing it off.
Some uninvited guests for breakfast:
They're eating bird seed that they've spilled from a bird feeder that's suction-cupped onto an adjacent window. You can't really tell from the picture, but the window frame the squirrel's sitting on is actually at the second story level (the green stuff in the background is an enormous azalea bush that's down at ground level).
Posted 12 February 2005 - 08:50 AM
Good morning Therese! Looking forward to your blog. Breakfast looks yummy!! What's in it? Is it like a soufflé??
It's an eggy sort of sweet pancake, flavored with vanilla. You start it on the stove top, pouring the batter into the pre-heated, buttered (Boy went a bit overboard on the butter) to make a nice crispy edge and then finish it off in the oven, where it gets puffy. It collapses quickly, and the texture then reminds me a bit of clafoutis, without the cherries.
Posted 12 February 2005 - 09:12 AM
Posted 12 February 2005 - 05:00 PM
Lots of food so far today. I'd arranged to meet a friend for lunch at noon. We'd decided on a Korean place that neither of us had been to before that specializes in fish:
Unfortunately they'd changed their hours, so I called my friend (who hadn't yet arrived) and we decided to go next door to:
We'd both been before, but it's a nice place. As per the sign you can do Korean BBQ there, but it's not what most people do there, at least not for lunch (there's another place down the road where we like the BBQ).
While I waited for my friend I relaxed with a:
Tables set with spoons (paper-wrapped bowl of spoon in foreground) and chopsticks only.
We had:
We ended up with a lot of leftovers. Fortunately my friend was willing to take care of them, because I've already got too many meals already planned. The friend in question is known here on eGullet as FoodTutor. Here she is in person:
After lunch we went to a Vietnamese bakery a couple of blocks away called Mozart Bakery:
I bought things for breakfast tomorrow AM:
The item on the plate was actually for Boy's dinner this evening, as The Man is taking me out dancing for Valentine's (and Girl has an overnight with a friend). It was described as containing sausage, but in fact was more like chicken pot pie/vol au vent sort of filling. Disappointing for him, but he still ate it.
Dancing this evening is to The Basin Brothers. The musically inclined among can check out some of their song on the "music" portion of the web site.
We don't know yet where we're eating. They usually serve jambalaya at the dance, but I don't know for sure if it's available tonight. So either we eat elsewhere first, or run the risk of a beer-only dinner. Hmmm...
Posted 12 February 2005 - 05:04 PM
Gotta go brush my teeth right now, though.
Posted 12 February 2005 - 06:26 PM
What kind of pa-jun was that?
Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:00 PM
Man are you getting ripped off Pan, if you aren't getting at least 10 panchan at your local Korean restaurants! Heck, usually you just keep askin', they keep bringin'.Wow, looks like you had a 10-plate panchan at the Korean restaurant! That's a lot of side dishes!
What kind of pa-jun was that?
Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:08 PM
Wow, looks like you had a 10-plate panchan at the Korean restaurant! That's a lot of side dishes!
What kind of pa-jun was that?
Yep, quite the spread. Typical of panchan in Atlanta (I've not eaten enough Korean outside Atlanta to say whether it's particularly generous or not), at least in my experience. One of the tofu houses always give you some little fried fish (not tiny, about four inches long) that I like (and that my kids fight over---they give you one per person, but one of the kids always tries to score an extra one).
The pajun was hae-mool (mixed seafood). A little blander than I like, but then also a nice foil for some of the spicier things. I rarely eat the rice that comes with most dishes, so the heat can get a little overwhelming.
The fish was mackerel, one of my favorites. The restaurant features a number of large, shallow open fish tanks in the front lobby. Towards the end of our visit we noticed some guys come in with large styrofoam coolers, which they proceeded to empty into a couple of the tanks. On the way out we saw that they were flounder (or something that looked like flounder), trying mightily to turn the same color as the bottom of the tanks. Or maybe it just seemed like they were trying to turn the same color as bottom of the tanks. Maybe they were really just resigned to their fate.
Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:14 PM
Man are you getting ripped off Pan, if you aren't getting at least 10 panchan at your local Korean restaurants! Heck, usually you just keep askin', they keep bringin'.Wow, looks like you had a 10-plate panchan at the Korean restaurant! That's a lot of side dishes!
What kind of pa-jun was that?
Seven is enough!
Seriously, I go to Korean restaraunts only when I'm really hungry, because the panchan plus the dish is a really big meal.
Posted 12 February 2005 - 10:36 PM
But we ended up getting Thai on the way over, at a place about a mile from our house. Better than many in Atlanta, so I can't complain.
My husband had tom kha gai followed by a really lovely dish of little lamb chops, nice and rare. Unfortunately the picture of the latter didn't turn out, so we'll have to make do with the soup:
I had nuer nam tok. I really like this restaurant's version, and have trouble ordering anything else when I go there.
Since I didn't have another savory course I indulged after the meal:
Posted 13 February 2005 - 04:40 AM
Thai iced coffee? Looks delicious.
I have more than enough leftovers for several days from that lunch, plus I got several pastries from Mozart as well. Therese was disappointed that they didn't have the lovely boxes of small cookie assortments they usually have, because in their place they were carrying Valentine's day assortments of chocolates. I picked up a box of those for my boyfriend, and it's very cute. It reads, "Sweet Message - I wish you happy forever." Of course, it would have been even cuter if I'd picked up a box that actually had chocolates in it.
Great blog, therese. Was tonight your V-D, or are there more V-D festivities to come?
Edited by TheFoodTutor, 13 February 2005 - 04:41 AM.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 05:23 AM
I have a tip on how to get the seeds out of the pomegranate without staining your hands. Cut the pomegranate in half and gently wack the back of the fruit with a wooden spoon into a large bowl. The seeds should fall out. Then eat with a spoon.
You can also juice them and mix it with apple juice or orange juice. I mix it with mango juice.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 06:48 AM
Great blog, therese. Was tonight your V-D, or are there more V-D festivities to come?
More festivities to come.
And the iced Thai beverage is actually tea. It was prettier when it arrived, with the layers nicely separated, but I took a sip and stirred it a bit before remembering to photograph it. The restaurant's somewhat dimly lit, with red walls, so even after a bit of color adjustment that shot looks too red.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 06:57 AM
Great blog Therese. I used to live in Virginia Highlands and my sister lives in Alpharetta. Druid Hills is a great neighborhood.
Cool. How long ago did you live in VaHi? We spend a lot of time there, though I don't think it too likely that we'll make it this week.
For the others out there, VaHi is another ITP neighborhood, mixed residential (mostly bungalows from the '20s) and retail shops and restaurants. A bit of a bar scene on the weekends, but it hasn't kept families with young children away.
Alpharetta, on the other hand, is about as far OTP as you can be and still be considered metro Atlanta. Lots of recent affluent development.
As for the pomegranates, I actually sort of like the tediousness of the task: sort of soothing, like needlework or cutting out paper dolls. Pomegranate juice is the antioxidant of the moment (well, the wave has probably crested) and widely available now. It makes a nice mixer with vodka---hmm, does that drink have a name?
Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:04 AM
Here's the cake, now unwrapped. As the nut in the middle indicates, it's walnut.
And here's the cake cut, along with a couple of cakes filled with bean paste:
The cake is nice, mildly sweet. The top and sides look like they should have marzipan in them, but don't taste of almond, so perhaps contain ground walnuts or some sort of bean.
The bean paste filling in the small cakes is very sweet, powdery/chalky rather than sticky. I do like stickier versions as well, but this sort is very nice with tea.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:27 AM
Some background: The Man and I both work at the same place, Emory University. He moved to Atlanta in 1982, I moved here in 1985 (for school), and we've both always lived within walking distance to work. When our present house came on the market we both fell in love with it, but knew that we'd eventually have to do some remodeling, as the bathrooms were original and the kitchen was truly scary (more about that later).
So we bought the house is 1996, and actually had a total of three different sets of preliminary drawings done over the next six years, none of them giving us quite what we needed (and one of them unworkable because we wouldn't have been able to get approval from the Hysterical, oops, I meant to say the Historical Commission).
In the end we realized that the only way to get what we needed was to extend the house towards the back. Our lot's deep and backs up to a golf course, so that plan takes maximum advantage of the view. The lot slopes off pretty drastically as well (Atlanta's actually in the piedmont of the Appalachians, so it's quite hilly), so it meant that we could extend the basement and create a two car garage (The Man's fondest desire, as it turned out). Many houses in in-town Atlanta have no garage at all, and attached garages are particularly unusual (and particularly prized).
So the size of the extension was dictated by the fact that we wanted a garage at the ground (basement) level.
Above that is the new kitchen (ground level with the front of the house), and above that is the new master bedroom and bath.
Along with the extension we re-worked the layout of the upstairs bathrooms and closets, and gutted the remainder of the house: all new electrical, plumbing, new roof, additional insulation blown into (plaster) walls, floors re-done. If we could think of it we did it.
The job took 7 1/2 months to complete, during which time we moved into an apartment. We'd been told 7 months, so all in all a very timely process, especially considering that the first couple of months were very rainy, slowing down some of the early work.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:56 AM
One of my favorite lunches as a kid was mango with coconut rice and thai iced tea, my mom didn't realize that they were really dessert!
Posted 13 February 2005 - 12:55 PM
Posted 13 February 2005 - 04:49 PM
Lovely blog, Therese. For those of us not to familiar with Korean cuisine, perhaps you could describe the dishes you had and what they consist of?
One of my favorite lunches as a kid was mango with coconut rice and thai iced tea, my mom didn't realize that they were really dessert!
Therese mentioned to me that she's having just a bit of technical difficulty with her internet today, so I thought I'd stop in and let everyone know that she'll be back shortly. As far as the Korean food, the pan chan we were talking about, in the pictures indicating 10 small side dishes above, are little pickles and salads that come with everything you order, and they tend to be unique to the individual restaurant, with some dishes that are mainstays. Kim chee being very common - the spicy, fermented cabbage in the bottom-most right picture - and other types of pickled vegetables including cucumber, bean sprouts, bamboo shoots, spinach and even okra. Some times there are soy beans and, alternatively, boiled peanuts. There's also a whipped potato salad in one of the little dishes.
She's more familiar with the big pancake than I am, but it's very easy to like. Just a simple batter encompassing vegetables and seafood, which is cooked in that large cast iron pan until crisp (presumably well-oiled, but the fat content balances out when weighed against all the veggies eaten) and cut into wedges while it's still sizzling. The mackerel is very simply char-grilled, giving a flavor that complements the fish very well. And then there's rice, but not much need to eat it, since there's so much other food to eat, so no need to have a heart attack over whether to use your spoon or chopsticks for the rice, or whether you can pick up the bowl. . .
I really like Korean food a lot, actually, but no need for me to take over her whole blog or anything. . . She'll be back momentarily.
Posted 13 February 2005 - 05:30 PM
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Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:25 PM
Between the Korean, Vietnamese and Thai places you have started out with a lot of Asian food. Is that a preference or a coincidence? Are Asian cuisines particularly prominent in and around Atlanta? I wish good examples werre more readily available where I live.
<Hoping therese will forgive me for responding in her absence> The Asian food available here is quite amazing, and it's a wonderful part of living here. Korean, Vietnamese, Thai, Chinese (though some Chinese restaurants here have variable quality), Malaysian and Japanese readily available, and even some Indonesian occasionally. Large Asian populations are scattered in various areas, both ITP and OTP, interspersed with a variety of Hispanic populations from Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Venezuela. . . just about anywhere. And then there is a large pocket of Indian restaurants, a single Bangladeshi restaurant, plus many markets for ingredients to make these cuisines. Outwards from the city, there are more European markets catering to Russian ex-pats and other enclaves of Czechs, Slovaks, some Hungarians and Polish immigrants. . . Great Persian and other Middle Eastern foods. . .
So, basically, lots of really great options if you like variety in your food. High-end European a little harder to find, no foie gras stands on every corner or anything like that. And probably the hardest thing to come by is really good Southern food in the city. She can tell you about that more than I can, definitely, and there are a few places that are very popular and/or serve authentic Southern dishes.
But you can pretty much find just about anything here, and there's more than enough to eat. Provided that you can sit in traffic long enough to get there, which is why some of us live intown.
Oh, but there's plenty of mediocre pap available, too. The trick is weeding that out.
Posted 14 February 2005 - 02:26 AM
Much thanks to FoodTutor for posting to the thread in my stead last PM, and on with the show...
Between the Korean, Vietnamese and Thai places you have started out with a lot of Asian food. Is that a preference or a coincidence? Are Asian cuisines particularly prominent in and around Atlanta? I wish good examples werre more readily available where I live.
Both. As FoodTutor notes, there's an enormous ethnic mix here, much of it first generation. It can be a bit intimidating if you're not of that ethnicity (English marginal, unfamiliar food items, etc.) but of course also very rewarding. We were the only non-Asian (and I'd guess only non-Korean, but I didn't go around and take a poll) guests at lunch on Saturday, ditto the Vietnamese bakery. The Thai place, on the other hand, is in my neighborhood, and the clientele mix there is much more varied, with lots of university students, faculty, etc.
We eat Asian pretty frequently because it's easy to get a great meal, it's inexpensive, and it's generally pretty healthy. I'm also specifically interested in exposing my kids to different sorts of foods, not just at restaurants but also at home. On a recent shopping trip to one of the really big pan-Asian/Hispanic markets here, Buford Highway Farmers Market, Boy wanted to know what sort of dish one would make with pork uteri (on display in shrink-wrapped foam trays in the meat section, right between pork testicles and pork tongues). I told him that I had no idea, but that it was probably pretty chewy.
Posted 14 February 2005 - 02:35 AM
Lovely blog, Therese. For those of us not to familiar with Korean cuisine, perhaps you could describe the dishes you had and what they consist of?
Heh heh. I would if I could. The hae-mool pajun and the broiled macker are as FoodTutor described them.
The assorted side dishes are all brought to the table without being ordered, and it just depends on what that restaurant has available that day. Some dishes more hot and spicy, some dishes more sour, some dishes more starchy. I usually recognize the base ingredient, but apart from that I don't have any particularly expectations for any particular item. Sometimes I don't even recognize the base ingredient---I've no idea what the strips of pale tan vegetable were, for instance. Some sort of root vegetable is as close as I'm willing to guess.
Posted 14 February 2005 - 02:40 AM
When our present house came on the market we both fell in love with it, but knew that we'd eventually have to do some remodeling, as the bathrooms were original and the kitchen was truly scary (more about that later).
So what was it, precisely, that made the original kitchen so scary?
I'd actually seen the kitchen at two different times, the first time in the early '90s, when the older couple who lived here for over 40 years (rearing six kids) put it on the market. This house is still known in the neighborhood as the "So and So House", and one of the original kids (who is now old enough to have grandkids of his own) lives a couple of blocks away and we see him and his family socially. Most of the other kids ended up in the area as well.
The kitchen had originally been built for servants to work in, and it was a small and dark space when I first saw it in the early '90s. Seems like the walls were institutional green back then. It was located on the very back of the house, but there was no view at all towards the back yard and the golf course. A deck had been added at some point, probably during the seventies.
The young couple that bought it that first time brightened things up by replacing the back wall with French doors (that opened out onto the deck) and painting everything cream. But the doors were single pane glass, and because the kitchen was located in a sort of shed annex it was very cold in the winter. Oh, and they didn't cook. At all. Lovely people, but they never cooked.
Specific issues with the kitchen when we bought the house:
1. Thoroughly worn out pale yellow flooring (over several other layers of thoroughly worn out flooring, fortunately no asbestos).
2. Thoroughly worn out pale yellow countertops.
3. Cabinets poorly constructed and poorly positioned. I can't even begin to describe how badly laid out it was. Take my word for it.
4. Refrigerator smaller than standard, with no freezer. Awkwardly positioned, door opened the wrong way. I'm pretty sure that, over time, this arrangement would eventually have driven me insane.
5. Electric range on which only the two back burners worked. Oven worked on "broil" setting only. Have you ever broiled Christmas cookies? We had an outdoor gas grill that I used almost every night, as otherwise we might have starved that first year.
6. Shallow double sinks, finish nearly worn through.
We hadn't yet figured out what to do with the rest of the house, but in the interest of my mental health we decided to do an emergency mini renovation after we'd been in the house about year.
We ripped up the floor (to reveal boards, which we painted dark green), painted the walls and hideous cabinets (which we didn't replace, figuring it would give us incentive to proceed with the final remodel down the road, which it did) white, replaced the counter top (there was only one, hah hah hah) with dark green laminate, replaced the sink, replaced the dishwasher and dispos-all, switched positions of the range and fridge and replaced them with a gas version of the former and larger version (with freezer, opening to the correct side) of the latter.
We added a small breakfast bar with stools and some shelves and a pot rack and in the end it was actually pretty cheerful and pretty efficient. But still too cold, and with such crappy storage that I refused to buy small kitchen appliances of any sort.
No digital pictures of either the scary version or the interim version of the kitchen, I'm afraid. I'll look around for one that I might be able to scan.
Posted 14 February 2005 - 02:42 AM
Another thing Ive learned is that if you try and take photographs of highly reflective surfaces while wearing your pajamas you will end up with a lot of photographs of yourself in pajamas.
So, on with the kitchen
Having finally scraped together sufficient scratch to foot the bill for the remodel we started working with an architect whose work Id seen in a couple of other houses in the neighborhood. She had great ideas, and was as interested in maintaining the period feel and architectural integrity of the house as we were. She was also cool about incorporating my ideas.
We took three bids from contractors, and ended up going with the lowest (by far) of the three. Weve been happy with his work, happy with the fact that it was done on time, and happy with follow-up/touch up sorts of things that weve needed over the last year. Very detail-oriented, very concerned with getting trim just so, fine with working from non-detailed architectural plans (saving us the trouble and money of having the architect draw them up).
I hadnt planned on using a decorator at first, but realized early on that every minute I spent agonizing over twenty bajillion different light fixtures was another minute I wasnt agonizing about something important, like food. He ended up contributing more to the design of the house than Id anticipated.
I didnt end up working with a kitchen designer at all, in large part because I already had so much input from the rest of the team. I didnt really need much in the way of ideas, as Id been thinking about what I wanted in my kitchen for years, and the layout aspect of it was straightforward. Since I went with all custom cabinetry I could communicate directly with the cabinet maker and get exactly what I wanted---stock or semi-custom would have made this approach problematic, I think.


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Here's a little video that will give you an idea of what you can expect at
Salem CultureFest (video from Salem CultureFest 2011)!
Computers in Africa
Starting with AEDEC, a school populated by over 2000 middle and high school students from all over Africa, we have been working hard to get computers accessible to people in Africa. We feel that access to computers brings people one step closer to equality worldwide. Access to the Internet brings information to people's fingertips, communication to the farthest reaches of the Earth, and removes many of the limitations put on various civilizations by a lack of technology. This is an ongoing effort, and one well worth exploring. Thank you for your support.
School Desk Project
Having set foot within classrooms at the AEDEC school in Dakar, Senegal, it was immediately recognized by A3D's volunteers and members that the condition of the space in which the students learn and advance in their classwork is extremely poor. We are seeking $1200 per classroom, as described below.
Upcoming Events
07/20 10:00am - 8:00pmSalem CultureFest (Day 1)
07/21 10:00am - 6:00pmSalem CultureFest (Day 2)


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Elleni Toumpas
A Melbourne and Brisbane photographer
January 12th, 2011Life
So today has been the first day that Brisbane has been under any serious threat from the South East Queensland flooding. Evacuations have been occurring around low lying areas and a general sense of nervousnes is starting to rise. Experts predict floods will hit its peak in two days, these images come from the first evening and night taking in the effects so far from the flood waters.
For ANY usage rights on ALL of these photos please contact the photographer – Elleni Toumpas email@example.com
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