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1. The Email-Epistolary Novel
In a 2010 broadside subtitled "Where are the iPhone Addicts and Facebook 'Stalkers' in Contemporary Fiction?" Joanne McNeil critiqued the email correspondence in Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story (2010) as having been "presented no differently than the epistolary passages in nineteenth-century literature." McNeil argued that the accurate portrayal of online communication today would resemble Burroughs and Gysin's cut-up technique.
If McNeil's desired stalkers and addicts are still rarities in contemporary literature, the last several years have been bizarrely good for the email-epistolary novel. Besides Super Sad True Love Story (2010), S.D. Chrotowska's Permission (2013), Lynn Coady's The Antagonist (2011), Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012) and Kimberly McCreight's Reconstructing Amelia (2013) are all either primarily composed of emails or structurally rely on the form. The traditional epistolary novel is not as antiquated as memories of Richardson's Pamela (1740) or Stoker's Dracula (1897) might suggest. Contemporary authors are, after all, chief among the fetishizers of dead media, and snail-mail epistolary novels get churned out regularly. But the email-epistolary novel, arguably kicked off by Matt Beaumont's e in 2000, has now achieved conventionality as well.
Perhaps, however, this isn't so bizarre. Email offers fertile ground for the central elements (unreliable narrator, disjointed plot, use of multi-media etc.) of contemporary conventional literature. And then there is the fact that most people who write conventional lit are old; old, as in above thirty-five. And old people write emails. They might text and post on Facebook and Twitter-fight about the latest listicle, but they've been using email for decades. They're comfortable with its possibilities, with the way they can control it.

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"Phobos" is a Russian horror film about a group of partygoers who attend a dangerous shindig inside an abandoned old bomb shelter. You can pretty much figure out what happens next.
The final poster for "Pandorum" is freakin' sweet, and pretty trippy. The film goes wide September 18th.
Carla Gugino joins the cast of Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch". The film follows a young girl in a mental institution in the 1950's who has five days before she's given a lobotomy, so her and her friends enter an alternate reality where they begin planning an escape.


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Actress Rosanna Arquette married fiancé Todd Morgan on Sunday, People reports.
This is the fourth marriage for Arquette, 54, who has been with Morgan, an investment banker, for two years.
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Arquette, the older sister of actors David and Patricia Arquette, was previously married to Tony Greco, James Newton and John Sibel, with whom she has a daughter.


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The season of Advent begins on Sunday, November 30, and is the beginning of the new liturgical year. Below are events that celebrate this joyous season of anticipation and reflections to help you on your Advent journey.
Christmas is the church's celebration of the birth of Christ. The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ. Christmas is always on December 25. The Christmas season last 12 days until the arrival of the Magi on January 8 (this season doesn't count Sundays).
Ordinary Time
Ordinary time is the time between Easter and Advent, and the time after Christmas but before lent. The beauty of Ordinary Time is that it really is a time to grow beyond our "ordinary" selves.
During Lent, we fast for forty days (not including the Sundays) waiting for the arrival of the Easter season. The word Lent originally meant, simply, the spring season. This word is easier to use than the original Latin quadragesima, meaning the "forty days".
Easter is the celebration of the Risen Christ. After dying on the cross, three days later Christ rose from the dead. Easter eggs have been a custom in this season because the use of eggs was forbidden during Lent, they were brought to the table on Easter Day, colored red to symbolize the Easter joy. Easter is more than a single day, it is a 50 day celebration until the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.


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Jane Austen and Lena Dunham — sisters under the skin?
I first read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in 1976, when I was in high school. In those days, the book was popular, as it has been since its first publication two-hundred years ago (January 28, 1813), but it wasn't yet trendy. I didn't care about trends. I fell in love — with an author's voice, with her characters, and with the time and place in which those characters lived. Since then, with the exception of Northanger Abbey, which I appreciated as a spoof but never liked, I've read Austen's books repeatedly.
I don't know if it's boast-worthy or cringe-worthy that I've read my two favorites — Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion — at least fifteen times each. I view the books as friends. Just as I enjoy meeting my friends for lunch or a walk, during which time we hash and re-hash the same conversations about children and life, so too do I love rendezvousing periodically with Elizabeth and Anne. Austen's genius is that, two hundred years later, both of them are real people with whom I enjoy spending time.
One of the things that I love about Austen is that she's a moralist, although never a preachy one. Modern readers recognize the more obvious lessons she preaches: don't let the pride of your rank blind you to a good person's virtues; don't let your wounded ego allow you to seek out "the wrong guy"; and don't think you can manage other people's lives if you can't even do a good job with your own.
What too many modern readers (including those who should know better) miss is that Jane Austen was also an old-fashioned, middle-class, religiously driven cultural moralist. Austen never rebelled against the lessons she learned growing up in her father's parsonage. She preached many of those same lessons when it came to personal morality, only she slipped them into frothy, amusing, tart confections.
Think about it: In Pride and Prejudice, Wickham isn't just a vain or boastful man. He grossly violates middle-class morality. He begins by attempting to convince a fifteen-year-old girl to marry him, although he's foiled in that effort. Rather than learning his lesson, he sinks further into debauchery. After he runs off with another fifteen-year-old girl, this time with no intention of marrying her, it's also discovered that he routinely cheated people out of money. Wickham isn't just a jerk; he's a truly evil man. He's not evil in a big Hollywood way, with guns and drugs. He's something worse: he's a corrupter, one who uses his charm to destroy the moral decency of lonely or foolish young women. Austen does not redeem him at the end. He marries Lydia, but only when bribed to do so, and Austen makes it clear that Wickham continues to be as profligate and destructive as ever.
In her most starkly moralistic novel, Mansfield Park, Austen is open, not convert, when she condemns loose modern morals. Fanny is a rather uninteresting lead character, but she deserves her role as an Austen heroine because she is unfailingly faithful to true religious teachings, both at a doctrinal level and as those moral teachings reflect upon her day-to-day life. Austen has nothing but disdain for Henry and Mary Crawford, two charming and sophisticated young people. Charming and sophisticated they may be, but they use those characteristics, not for good but, as with Wickham, to corrupt innocence. And again, as with Wickham, Austen denies them redemption. Both of them, even when they fall unwillingly in love with Fanny and Edmund, are unable to break free of their vices.
I won't bore you with summaries of all of Austen's novels. I'll just note that each of them contains characters who reject middle class morality, who hurt both innocents and fools along the way, and who lack any sort of moral core that would allow them true redemption. Austen's major characters — Darcy, Elizabeth, Marianne, Capt. Wentworth, Emma, etc. — have foibles, but not vices. Each grows and learns throughout the course of the book. They go through purgatory, but are redeemed. But the evil men, the Willoughbys and Wickhams, are irredeemable. Austen casts them into Hell without a second thought.
Contrast Austen's stern and unforgiving morality with Lena Dunham. You may remember Dunham as the woman who wrote and starred in a video likening voting for Obama to losing one's virginity. Ick. If you don't have HBO, though, you've never come face-to-face with Dunham's major creation, a TV series called Girls. I watched the first episode, and it made me nauseous. Dunham showcases a nihilistic world of unhappy, empty young women who hook up with vacuous men or, as Kurt Schlichter describes it:
Girls is about four young, aimless college grads living in New York. Think of Sex and the City, except Sarah Jessica Parker has doubled her weight, dresses like a potato sack and fancies herself the voice of some undefined generation. There's sex and nudity – just not hot Homeland sex and nudity. This is the first show in the history of cable television where male viewers actively root for the heroine to keep her clothes on.
The characters seem to live in a minority and Republican-free bubble (though a black Republican (!) shows up as a character this season). There is no reference to religion – that wouldn't occur to them.
Questions of traditional morality never arise – of course you should consider an abortion! Instead of facing questions of morality, the characters face questions of behavior along the lines Seinfeld parodied – who has "hand" in a relationship, or the social faux pas of the "close talker." To put it bluntly, these are not the big questions that the great thinkers of Western civilization have pondered over the centuries.
When it comes to core values — indeed, any values — it is impossible to imagine two writers more different than Austen and Dunham. One is a strict, traditional moralist; and the other is a modern irreligious nihilist. Austen is pre-modern, living in a world defined by good and evil, moral and immoral. Dunham, by contrast, has gone a step beyond post-modern, because she doesn't even have an inverted morality, one that celebrates vice, not virtue. Instead, she has abandoned morality entirely.
Why then do I name my post "Jane Austen and Lena Dunham — sisters under the skin?" Because that's what NPR would like to have young women believe. Maureen Corrigan, who corrupts . . . er, teaches young people at Georgetown University, and who has a prominent, long-standing book reviewing gig at NPR, thinks that Austen and Dunham could be good buddies, because they're both witty. No, I'm really not kidding. After discussing an orangutan that is supposedly an Austen fan, Corrigan has this to say (emphasis mine):
What does Albert the orangutan hear in Pride and Prejudice, I wonder? Maybe the same thing my students hear when I teach survey courses on the evolution of the novel. We start our voyage out with Robinson Crusoe and often go on to Samuel Richardson's Pamela and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy — fine, weird novels that seem to hail from a civilization a million light years from our own. Then we arrive home, on Planet Austen.
The relief in the classroom is palpable; the energy of class discussion spikes. It's certainly not that my students mistake Austen's world for our own. After all, her novels revolve around the make-or-break perils of a highly ritualized marriage market. Rather, it's Austen's smart-girl voice: peppery, wry, eye rolling — that seems so close to modern consciousness. Austen could be gal pals with Tina Fey and Lena Dunham; she talks to us directly, bridging time and custom.
Implying that Austen, Fey, and Dunham are sisters under the skin is the ultimate form of literary deconstruction. Corrigan, a product of and a contributor to our modern education system, refuses to acknowledge Austen's actual messages about personal growth and irreparable moral failings. Instead, the only thing she sees is snark. And if Austen gives good snark well, then, she's a ready-made companion for Fey and Dunham, both of whom inhabit a moral universe that would cause Austen to draw back in revulsion.
Austen was no innocent. The late Georgian era in which she lived was a cesspool of debauchery, and Dunham certainly would have fitted well into the seamier side of Georgian England. For all their surface charm, Austen's books delve into such unsavory subjects as affairs, illegitimate children, gambling, premarital sex, etc. Unlike Dunham (and even the softer Fey), however, Austen doesn't celebrate these activities as normal, nor does she withhold judgment because "she has no right to judge." Instead, these people suffer. And they deserve to suffer. They have violated societal norms and religious strictures, and done so without compunction. Their regret over the consequences of these acts is irrelevant, because they do not regret the acts themselves.
I don't believe Corrigan's position is mere stupidity. This deconstructionist approach to Jane Austen is a deliberate effort to minimize her moral impact on modern readers. One cannot denounce Austen for being a prude, because her work is too witty and charming to function under that label. But one can encourage young women to ignore her moral strictures by pretending that her societal comments have as much meaning — or lack of meaning — as the empty, sad scenes that make up Dunham's and Fey's intellectual and creative worlds.


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Dear E. Jean: Am I imagining things, or have all my friends on Facebook turned into braggarts? Their status updates about their hot careers and new apartments are making me want to throw up! —Really Annoyed
Really, my luv: You should see my idiot friends. Their updates read like drunk dials from Glenn Beck interspersed with battlefield bulletins from Joan of Arc. Half of them are looking for new jobs (hence the bragging) and the other half—hell, I don't even know the other half. But here's how to feel better: You, I, and Facebook are on this planet for a very, very short time. And anyone who wastes even one minute of time begrudging their friends' happiness has not discovered the value of life.
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A New York Times Notable Book
NPR • The New York Times Book Review • San Francisco Chronicle
Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty—and Jende is eager to please. Clark's wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' façades.
When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende's job—even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice.
Praise for Behold the Dreamers
"A debut novel by a young woman from Cameroon that illuminates the immigrant experience in America with the tenderhearted wisdom so lacking in our political discourse . . . Mbue is a bright and captivating storyteller."—The Washington Post
"A capacious, big-hearted novel."—The New York Times Book Review
"Behold the Dreamers' heart . . . belongs to the struggles and small triumphs of the Jongas, which Mbue traces in clean, quick-moving paragraphs."—Entertainment Weekly
"Mbue's writing is warm and captivating."—People (book of the week)
"[Mbue's] book isn't the first work of fiction to grapple with the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, but it's surely one of the best. . . . It's a novel that depicts a country both blessed and doomed, on top of the world, but always at risk of losing its balance. It is, in other words, quintessentially American."—NPR
"This story is one that needs to be told."—Bust
"Behold the Dreamers challenges us all to consider what it takes to make us genuinely content, and how long is too long to live with our dreams deferred."—O: The Oprah Magazine
"[A] beautiful, empathetic novel."—The Boston Globe
"A witty, compassionate, swiftly paced novel that takes on race, immigration, family and the dangers of capitalist excess."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Mbue [is] a deft, often lyrical observer. . . . [Her] meticulous storytelling announces a writer in command of her gifts."—Minneapolis Star Tribune


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JUMO CANtrans p Ceramic - Pressure Transmitter with CANopen Output (402055)
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- Measuring principle: aluminum oxide ceramic thick-film sensor
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Hey, thanks, I like your user page also, actually I like the way you have your created articles listed better, takes up less space. --BachLynn(Accio!) 20:34, October 11, 2010 (UTC)
Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking. What's the problem with the Featured Articles? - Nick O'Demus 20:55, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Which ones? I checked the ten most recent FA's and they looked normal. - Nick O'Demus 21:04, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
- Not seeing it. I've checked her page on Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Google Chrome, and in none of them did the FA icon overlap the infobox picture. The only thing I saw it overlap was the "Mischief Managed" spoiler warning. You might ask Grunny, but I'm just not seeing anything wrong from my end. - Nick O'Demus 21:22, October 13, 2010 (UTC)
- BachLynn23 noticed that it may have to do with which skin you're using. If you're looking at the page with the new wikia skin, then yes, the icon overlaps, but if you're using the Monaco or Monobook skins, it doesn't. You can change this by logging in and going to Preferences, then select the "Skin" tab. - Nick O'Demus 14:30, October 14, 2010 (UTC)
Hey! Sorry for my very late response. It's nice you live in the Netherlands too :D Where do you live in Netherlands?? :) Nigell 22:45, October 19, 2010 (UTC)
Hello! I'm from the Netherlands too. How are you? Secret agent clank15:43, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, that's pity, but the rules are clear. I live in Purmerend near Amsterdam. Secret agent clank 16:54, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
Yes, but that's some time ago, so I can't remember really. How old are you? I'm 13 years old. Secret agent clank 16:58, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
What do you mean? How old do people have to be at least? Secret agent clank 17:01, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
Haha, got to go now. Speak you later. Secret agent clank 17:05, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
Hey, I saw you've got no friends on your userpage. I'll be your friend via this wiki if you want to Secret agent clank 07:11, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
Ok, I have a nephew with autism so I kind of know what it is. Speak you later. Secret agent clank 07:24, October 28, 2010 (UTC)
re: Hey there
Thanks. I feel like cleaning my way through articles that need a little work is a good way to keep my writing/editing skills sharp while I'm on medical leave from school -- that's what I keep telling myself, anyway, haha. Your English grammar is 100x better than my Dutch grammar, so I'm definitely impressed! ;) --Emmy (★) 20:59, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
RE:Hey there
3,675 by the time I will have saved this edit. :)--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 21:35, October 23, 2010 (UTC)
Right back at you!
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|The Order of Merlin is awarded to you by Emmy ★ for having over three-thousand edits on the Harry Potter Wiki.
Congrats -- Emmy (★) 08:32, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
re: Favor
All of the categories? -- Emmy (★) 09:27, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
Okay, done. I'm also going to fix my sig on your Award, if you don't mind! -- Emmy (★) 09:30, October 24, 2010 (UTC)
RE:Talk page
It does that sometimes, I don't know why. - Nick O'Demus 20:51, October 26, 2010 (UTC)
User page
You're welcome to put anything you wish on your user page as long as it complies with the user policy, and doesn't contain material/information that may be unsuitable for a family audience. - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 07:47, October 27, 2010 (UTC)
RE:Hey there
I have about 3,700 edits. :)--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 18:15, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
Salo Gardener / Gardner
Hi and sorry, when I opened your source I only read the name Gardener not Gardner so I thought it would be a mistake. Harry granger 20:41, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
RE: Redirect
Yes, and Done. - Nick O'Demus 20:48, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
- I went through most of the {{Conjecture}}-tagged articles a while back, but if you happen to notice any others, sure, go ahead and move them. - Nick O'Demus 20:58, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
- You start with the {{Information}} template. The important parts to fill in are "description", "source", "licensing", and "categories". "Description" is self-explanatory, and "Categories" are the same as before. "Source" is whatever book, movie, or game the image is from. "Licensing" templates can be found here (usually it'll be {{Screenshot}} or {{Fairuse}}). It should look something like this. - Nick O'Demus 21:24, November 17, 2010 (UTC)
RE: Badge
Well thank you. Does that make me a Double-Prefect? : P - Nick O'Demus 21:39, November 19, 2010 (UTC)
To be honest with you, I don't really know how that works exactly... But I'm assuming it choses a random picture from the article and places it there. For instance, the picture of Hagrid in Lucius Malfoy's article (under "Rubeus Hagrid" in the "Relationships" section). I'm not sure how to fix it, though. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:03, November 25, 2010 (UTC)
- You might ask Grunny or Cavalier One, they know a lot about technical details. - Nick O'Demus 22:17, November 25, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I don't know about that, but you can always look at the bottom of my user page because I have a userbox for that. :)--L.V.K.T.V.J.(Send an owl!) 17:36, November 28, 2010 (UTC)
New wiki
Hello Station7. I've created a brand new wiki called The Harry Potter Games Wiki. Do you want to help me with pages and stuff? Thanks. Secret agent clank 16:20, December 2, 2010 (UTC)
Here it is: http://hpgames.wikia.com . I think it's okay now. Secret agent clank 06:06, December 3, 2010 (UTC)
Well, I'm not surprised iv'e found you here. You're on over like, 50 wikis, right? Yeah, I'm a huge Harry Potter fan but I don't edit a lot because the wiki's so perfect, so flawless, it seems like there's nothing for me to edit here. NightfernMerry Christmas 22:24, December 16, 2010 (UTC)
Should I put Cornelius Fudge and Salazar Slytherin's basilisk in the Plot to Open the Chamber of Secrets Participants category
Thanks!!! --BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 15:26, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
Done :-) --BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 17:59, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
whoo, wtf, it's not done, grrrr, I don't know why the information isn't saving......that's frustrating --BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 17:59, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
That is so weird, I mean the hidef, isn't checked, I checked the source for the dark wizard info box thinking that was messed up, but don't see anything on the source and on Riddle's article the infobox is showing the family information........yea, go ahead and ask one of the other admin's, I'm at a total loss..... --BachLynn(Send an Owl!) 18:04, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
Terug komen
Kom je weer terug op de Nederlandse versie van de Harry Potter Wiki? We kunnen wel wat goede hulp gebruiken. --Wouter15 20:50, April 8, 2011 (UTC)
Voting issues
Voting is in progress for new infobox pics for Gellert Grindelwald and Fleur Delacour. There's only a couple days left before they both close, so be sure to weigh in for your favorite.
We're also WAY behind on some of our featured content, especially the QOTW's and DYK's, so if you've got a couple of minutes, drop in and voice your opinions on any you like or dislike, and maybe we can get some of the backlog cleared out.
Thanks. - Nick O'Demus 09:08, April 25, 2011 (UTC)
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It seems Nick O'Demus has removed the claim from the user's page before I saw your message :) As for how both Grunny and I are admins here and at the Wook? Just luck and dedication I guess :P - Cavalier One(Wizarding Wireless Network) 13:24, April 26, 2011 (UTC)
When you've got a moment, please take a look at the following discussions:
We could really use your input. Thanks, Nick O'Demus 07:20, August 8, 2011 (UTC)
How the hell did you get all this????????
Btw my person is YaxleySnape...
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Heyyy Man I have Autism toooooo. I have Asbergers. And I have... a fair few friends.... but yeah.. we're all crazy ;D
If you want to go by the books, only Filius Flitwick; if you want to go by the films, Flitwick, Molly Weasley and Horace Slughorn. Although, I wouldn't say their deaths were intentional killings, they were more accidental deaths to me. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 22:35, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
- They were only mentioned/seen in the films, yes; the books make no reference to them. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 23:29, November 18, 2011 (UTC)
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I know. We tend to keep off-topic blogs if they offer any kind of useful links or information and given 1337star and Shorty1982's prompt responses I've decided to keep it as an archive. Thanks anyway. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 21:43, December 12, 2011 (UTC)
I believe it's referring to Quirrell, Barty Crouch Jr., and Amycus Carrow. They were the only ones knowingly serving Voldemort and trying to further his plans. - Nick O'Demus 19:53, August 19, 2012 (UTC)
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Thank you for removing [Source?]. I've overlooked that I wrote it at the wrong place. Harry granger Talk contribs 20:58, December 7, 2012 (UTC)
You're welcome. :) --Station7 (talk) 20:59, December 7, 2012 (UTC)
Matthew Thompson
Station, thank you for your contributions to this wiki. However, one of your page-creations, Matthew Thompson, has been deleted due to not providing any references or sources. You are welcome to re-create the page if you like, but please provide some verifiable info regarding this individual. ProfessorTofty (talk) 19:40, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
- When was this article created? I understand that I made it, but it's such a long time ago. Off course I understand that there should be a source at the article. Was this article really made by me? --Station7 (talk) 22:54, December 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Actually, in examining the page history, it appears it was originally created in October, 2010 and later deleted by another administrator following a series of vandal edits. This original article had a source, a video, which is still active. It appears that the page was then later re-created by someone else, but without a source. I am going to go ahead and restore the article, as it was originally created, with the video reference. Oh, and BTW, happy belated birthday. ProfessorTofty (talk) 05:24, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
- Thank you. I was just shocked, because I got the message on my birthday. ;) --Station7 (talk) 09:54, December 31, 2012 (UTC)
Signature Harry granger
Hi, Station7! Can you tell me why you add these code to my template-created signature? I don't understand why? It looks the same as before. Harry granger Talk contribs 16:00, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- I mean here: http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Harry_Potter_Wiki:Requests_for_permissions?curid=4348&diff=765952&oldid=765752 unter Rollback for Hunnie Bunn. It looked as if you had added the code.
Harry granger Talk contribs 22:00, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- Oh, no problem. I do believe you. I also have no great experience with codes. Knows the cuckoo, where that came from (German saying, simply translated into English). I only thought there could be a problem with my signature, so I thought I should ask. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:11, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- That's a funny thing. What do you have for a computer? Harry granger Talk contribs 22:17, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
- I've heard from Philips, but that is new to me, really funny. :-))) Harry granger Talk contribs 22:36, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Yes, I have read that you are from the Netherlands. I am from Germany and Philips is or was sold here, too. But I don't have a console from Philips yet. I also don't know if Philips will already be sold here today. Harry granger Talk contribs 22:43, January 17, 2013 (UTC)
Re: Where is this image from?
According to the page for the image, it's from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film). As far as I know, that's correct. ProfessorTofty (talk) 03:45, January 21, 2013 (UTC)
- Quite possibly. I do know that all of the films have a number of deleted scenes. However, I don't personally own a copy of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on DVD or Blu-ray at the moment, so I can't readily check it. However, if you want me to, I can get one from a local library, DVD at least, possibly Blu-ray. ProfessorTofty (talk) 15:00, January 21, 2013 (UTC)
hey friends?fleurblack 10:57, April 13, 2013 (UTC)
Hi, Station7! I saw your question on ProfessorTofty's talk page. The answer is Chapter 15: The Hogwarts High Inquisitor. Harry granger Talk contribs 11:06, August 28, 2013 (UTC)
- Yes, I've read before that you're from Holland, but I don't know the Dutch title. I could have told you the German title, because I am from Germany, but I think that wouldn't have helped. :-) Harry granger Talk contribs 11:32, August 28, 2013 (UTC)
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I hope that your day has been great so far. I was just owling you to let you know that I have posted an application for Content Moderator over at the Requests for Permissions page (I know, sounds weird, I explain it all in the application) and I was wondering if you wanted to check it out? Don't feel as though you have to read it, but if it's something that you're interested in then be sure to have a read, and even leave an opinion!
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In any case… in the spirit of "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger", we've gotten through it somehow with a lot of support from other family and friends, and no small amount of kindness from many of you via e-mail and Facebook. So I'd really like to take a moment to thank all of you very much for all your patience, well wishes and support over the past year. It's meant a lot to us. Some of you have been Bits readers right from the very beginning way back in 1997, and the fact that you've stuck with us all this time – well, you're like family and that really means a lot.
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Tuesday 6th March 2018
Location: Portland Basin Museum
If you go down to Portland Basin Museum, you're in for a big surprise. The museum has been taken over by teddy bears! Big and small, old and new, each bear has a special story to tell.
'Ted' has just turned 60, having been bought for his owner from Mr Lowry's on Wharf Street, Dukinfield. 'Biggles' was bought for his owner when he gained his pilot's licence at the age of 70. And the most daredevil of all the bears, 'Teddy', recently did his first parachute jump! The bears have been loaned to the museum by people across Tameside.
As well as starring in the exhibition, some of the bears enjoyed a picnic at Stamford Park. Their adventures were captured by photographer Alison Hempstock and can be seen on display at the museum.
To celebrate the exhibition, internationally renowned knitting and crochet designer, Emma Varnam, has designed Portland Bear. Emma, who has written several crochet books and writes a popular blog on the subject, explains: "Portland Bear is inspired by my favourite museum, situated down by the picturesque Ashton Canal. Portland likes nothing more than spending his days on his pretty canal boat. He loves watching all the wildlife that live on the waterway. But his favourite thing to do is to welcome the school children who visit his museum. A day filled with laughter, fun and learning something new is a great day for this little bear". The pattern to make your own knitted or crocheted Portland Bear is on sale in the museum shop.
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Homocystinuria is an inherited disorder in which the body is unable to process certain building blocks of proteins (amino acids) properly. There are multiple forms of homocystinuria, which are distinguished by their signs and symptoms and genetic cause. The most common form of homocystinuria is characterized by nearsightedness (myopia), dislocation of the lens at the front of the eye, an increased risk of abnormal blood clotting, and brittle bones that are prone to fracture (osteoporosis) or other skeletal abnormalities. Some affected individuals also have developmental delay and learning problems.
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Mutations in the CBS, MTHFR, MTR, MTRR, and MMADHC genes cause homocystinuria.
Mutations in the CBS gene cause the most common form of homocystinuria. The CBS gene provides instructions for producing an enzyme called cystathionine beta-synthase. This enzyme acts in a chemical pathway and is responsible for converting the amino acid homocysteine to a molecule called cystathionine. As a result of this pathway, other amino acids, including methionine, are produced. Mutations in the CBS gene disrupt the function of cystathionine beta-synthase, preventing homocysteine from being used properly. As a result, this amino acid and toxic byproducts substances build up in the blood. Some of the excess homocysteine is excreted in urine.
Rarely, homocystinuria can be caused by mutations in several other genes. The enzymes made by the MTHFR, MTR, MTRR, and MMADHC genes play roles in converting homocysteine to methionine. Mutations in any of these genes prevent the enzymes from functioning properly, which leads to a buildup of homocysteine in the body. Researchers have not determined how excess homocysteine and related compounds lead to the signs and symptoms of homocystinuria.
This condition is inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern, which means both copies of the gene in each cell have mutations. Most often, the parents of an individual with an autosomal recessive condition each carry one copy of the mutated gene, but do not show signs and symptoms of the condition.
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- Michigan Department of Community Health: What is Homocystinuria? (PDF)
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- Carmel R, Green R, Rosenblatt DS, Watkins D. Update on cobalamin, folate, and homocysteine. Hematology Am Soc Hematol Educ Program. 2003:62-81. Review.
- El-Said MF, Badii R, Bessisso MS, Shahbek N, El-Ali MG, El-Marikhie M, El-Zyoid M, Salem MS, Bener A, Hoffmann GF, Zschocke J. A common mutation in the CBS gene explains a high incidence of homocystinuria in the Qatari population. Hum Mutat. 2006 Jul;27(7):719.
- Elsaid MF, Bener A, Lindner M, Alzyoud M, Shahbek N, Abdelrahman MO, Abdoh G, Bessisso MS, Zschocke J, Hoffmann GF. Are heterocygotes for classical homocystinuria at risk of vitamin B12 and folic acid deficiency? Mol Genet Metab. 2007 Sep-Oct;92(1-2):100-3. Epub 2007 Aug 7.
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Bodies from Malaysian Airlines crash bound for rebel-held city
HRABOVE, Ukraine >> Armed rebels forced emergency workers to hand over all 196 bodies recovered from the Malaysia Airlines crash site and then had them loaded onto refrigerated train cars bound for a rebel-held city, Ukrainian officials and monitors said Sunday.
The surprising, rapid-fire developments Sunday morning came after a wave of international outrage over how the bodies of plane crash victims were being handled and amid fears that the armed rebels who control the territory where the plane came down were tampering with the evidence.
Ukraine and the separatists accuse each other of firing a surface-to-air missile Thursday at Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 as it flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur some 33,000 feet (10,000 meters) above the battlefields of eastern Ukraine. Both deny shooting down the plane. All those onboard the flight — 283 passengers and 15 crew — were killed.
Ukraine says Russia has been sending sophisticated arms to the rebels, a charge that Moscow denies.
The rebels have been strictly limiting the movements of international monitors and journalists at the crash site, which is near the Russian border, and Ukraine's Emergency Ministry said its workers were laboring under duress, overseen by the armed rebels.
Associated Press journalists saw reeking bodies baking in the summer heat Saturday, piled into body bags by the side of the road or still sprawled where they landed in the verdant farmland in eastern Ukraine after their plane was shot out of the sky.
By Sunday morning, AP journalists saw no bodies and no armed rebels at the crash site. Emergency workers were searching the sprawling fields only for body parts.
It was immediately not clear Sunday if the rebels and the Ukrainian government were working together or at odds with each other on recovering the bodies — and from their comments, many of officials didn't appear to know either. Separatists were not immediately available to comment.
Nataliya Khuruzhaya, a duty officer at the train station in Torez, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site, said she saw emergency workers loading plane victims' bodies Sunday morning into five sealed, refrigerated train cars.
She said the train was scheduled to head to the town of Ilovaysk, 35 kilometers (22 miles) further east toward the Russian border, but no instructions had been given about when it would leave or any possible destinations beyond Ilovaysk.
Russian news agencies said the bodies were heading to the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. Ukrainian officials say they expected to have the bodies eventually delivered to government-held city of Kharkiv, but it's unclear if the rebels will agree to do so.
The deputy of governor of the Kharkiv region, where the Ukrainian government has set up a crisis center to coordinate its response to the disaster, said the Ukrainian state railway company had provided the refrigerated train cars.
Earlier in the day, Ukrainian Emergency Ministry spokeswoman Nataliya Bystro said workers at the crash site were forced to hand over the 196 bodies they had recovered to the armed gunmen who controlled the territory.
"Where they took the bodies — we don't know," Bystro told The Associated Press, adding she had no information either about the other 102 victims' bodies.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for monitors from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said some bodies have likely been incinerated without a trace.
"We're looking at the field where the engines have come down. This was the area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporized," he told reporters in Kiev, speaking via phone from the crash site.
Alexander Pilyushny, an emergency worker combing the crash site for body parts Sunday morning, told the AP it took the rebels several hours cart away the bodies on Saturday. He said he and other workers had no choice but to hand over the bodies.
"They are armed and we are not," Pilyushny said. "The militiamen came, put the bodies onto the trucks and took them away somewhere."
Despite the restrictions seen by journalists and observers at the crash site, separatist leader Alexander Borodai insisted Saturday the rebels have not in any way interfered with the work of observers.
The U.S. has pointed blame for downing the plane at the separatists, saying Washington believes the jetliner was probably downed by an SA-11 missile from rebel-held territory and "we cannot rule out technical assistance from Russian personnel."
An Associated Press journalist saw a Buk missile launcher in rebel-held territory close to the crash site Thursday just hours before the plane was brought down.
The latest U.S. intelligence assessment suggests that more than one missile system was given to the separatists by the Russians in the last week or so. But both Russia and the rebels vehemently deny any role in downing the plane.
In a blistering article for the Sunday Times, British Prime Minister David Cameron called the attack a "direct result of Russia destabilizing a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them."
"We must turn this moment of outrage into a moment of action," he wrote.
In a coded rebuke of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other European leaders who have blocked efforts to impose tougher sanctions on Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russia's actions in Ukraine, Cameron said Europe must now "respond robustly."
"For too long, there has been a reluctance on the part of too many European countries to face up to the implications of what is happening in eastern Ukraine," Cameron wrote.
Despite calls by world leaders for an independent, international investigation into the plane's downing, armed separatists limited observers' access to the crash site for the first few days.
The U.S. State Department described the rebels' refusal to give monitors a full access to the site "an affront to all those who lost loved ones and to the dignity the victims deserve."
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans told the Ukrainian president in Kiev on Saturday that people in his country were shocked by reports of the bodies being dragged around the crash site.
"People are angry, are furious at what they hear," Timmermans said, demanding that the culprits be found. "Once we have the proof, we will not stop until the people are brought to justice."
Putin and Merkel agreed Saturday in a phone call that an independent commission led by the International Civil Aviation Organization should be granted swift access to the crash site.
Peter Leonard in Kiev; Nataliya Vasilyeva in Moscow; Nicholas Garriga in Hrabove, Ukraine and Lolita C. Baldor in Washington contributed to this report.


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The Alaska National Fire Inicident Reporting System (ANFIRS) objective is to help Alaska develop fire reporting and analysis capability for our own use, and to obtain data that can be used to more accurately assess and subsequently combat the fire problem at a State level. After we compile the data from Alaska fire departments, we forward it to the United States Fire Administration (USFA) where they gather and analyze information on the magnitude of the Nation's fire problem, as well as its detailed characteristics and trends.
There are many objectives of ANFIRS. The information provides data that is utilized in development of methods of reducing deaths and injuries as well as loss to personal property. It provides a measuring tool for comparison of areas in the state and states throughout the United States.
Although paperwork may seem to have little to do with fire protection, firefighters who carefully document the causes of fires and the make model and serial numbers of products involved in fires help identify how similar fires can be prevented in the future.
With the implementation of the new Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS 5.0) in 2000, the Division of Fire and Life Safety upgraded it's reporting system to meet this new standard.
With the transition to the new system the Division of Fire and Life Safety implemented the following policies:
The State began using the new NFIRS 5.0 software on January 1, 2000. Incident reports in the 4.1 format was accepted through December, 2000. By that time all departments must have transitioned to the new format. The state will not accept any incidents reported in other formats other than NFIRS 5.0. If a fire department reports their incidents by any other means, their incidents will not become part of the State statistics and the fire department will be considered as "not reporting".
The NFIRS 5.0 reporting system is designed to be a computer based reporting system.
The Division of Fire and Life Safety will furnish paper forms for incident reporting but only to the departments that have less than 5 fires per year. All fire or related incidents must be reported to the Division of Fire and Life Safety on a form approved by the Division of Fire and Life Safety (13 AAC 52.020). All others must report electronically.
Departments must report monthly. The reports are due by the 10th of every month for the previous month reports.
If a department did not have any fires for the previous month, the ANFIRS Program Manager must be notified of this. Departments can notify Marie Collins by email, fax, phone call or any other means that is easiest for the Department. However, if available, sending an email is the best way for notification.
The NFIRS 5.0 forms, Reference Guide, and coding questions and answers can be downloaded below:
In an effort to assist fire departments, the Division of Fire and Life Safety is allowing the use of the Data Entry Brower Interface (DEBI); a web-based NFIRS program for Version 5.0. NOTE: Internet connection will be necessary. This will be granted to fire departments upon request and is at no cost to fire departments.
Departments must contact the Division of Fire and Life Safety ANFIRS State Program Manger to establish a username and password to access the system.
All departments must report fires and related incidents as per 13 AAC 52.020. Departments not reporting as required may loose their registration status.
The Division of Fire and Life Safety publishes statewide fire statistics once a year. These statistics include a list of all communities reporting up to that time and fire loss data yearly.
Last year, fires killed over 3,000 people, injured more than 15,000 and caused an estimated $11.5 billion in damage. Over a five-year period, the cause of ignition in the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS) was unknown in almost three out of every five home fire deaths, according to the United States Fire Administration and the National Fire Protection Association. Recognizing the reporting gap in NFIRS, the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM) has launched a free, online training program for the fire service, "Understand Your Role in Fire Incident Data," available at NASFM's training portal at www.nasfm-training.org.
This online course takes approximately one hour. Since the training program is self-guided, it can be easily incorporated into recruit training at a fire station level and used by full-time, call and volunteer fire departments.
Health care professionals who initially treat or attend to a person with the following injuries shall make certain a report of the injury is made promptly to the Division of Fire and Life Safety.
This report shall be submitted within three working days after the person is treated.
Health care professionals include emergency medical technicians certified under AS 18.08, health aide, physician, nurse, mobile intensive care paramedic, and physician assistant, but does not include a practitioner of religious healing.
A person who, in good faith, makes a report under this section, or who participates in judicial proceedings related to a report under this section, is immune from any civil or criminal liability that might otherwise be incurred as a result of making such a report or participating in the judicial proceedings.
Burn Reports to the Division of Fire and Life Safety are allowed by current HIPAA laws.
Per CFR 45 164.512(f)(1)(i) medical service providers are allowed to release patient information when that information is required by law. Alaska Statute 08.64.369 is that law. All providers of health care in Alaska are required by law to provide the information to our office.
Under the ANFIRS requirements if the injury is the result of fire the fire must be reported to the State Fire Marshal.
This information is used to identify causes of burn injuries in order to develop prevention programs. This information can also be used as part of a criminal investigation to identify person involved in arson.
Burn Injury Reports:
For further information please contact:
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HOTSEAT- Hello, Dahlia! Lithwick relishes Supreme Court jester role
In the last decade, Dahlia Lithwick has gone from unemployed attorney and aspiring author to one of the pre-eminent legal writers in America, becoming a senior editor at Internet magazine Slate, the go-to law expert for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and NPR, and joining the likes of Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as one of the "20 most influential legal minds in the country," according to Legal Affairs.
But none of it might have happened except for a chance visit to a friend in Washington in 1998.
"Slate called her up and asked if she'd file a few dispatches, probably just to hold on to their press pass until they found someone to cover the Microsoft anti-trust trial," recalls Lithwick. "She said she couldn't do it, but handed me the phone. I didn't know anything about anti-trust law. I hadn't been following the case, but they needed a warm body. So I just went in there and started making jokes."
Those jokes evolved into a regular gig for Lithwick, as she has continued to write her "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" column for Slate for the last decade, carving out a new niche in Supreme Court coverage.
"The convention had been to cover the court as if the justices were dead and the law were alive," she says. "Since I was writing for the Internet and people had no expectations, if I wanted to do schtick about Scalia, I could go ahead and do it."
That Lithwick has made a career tweaking the major players in American legal circles is no accident. She had the perfect training to view the courtroom as absurdist theater.
"Before this, I worked at a divorce law firm in Reno," she says. "It was usually some guy divorcing his third trophy wife to marry his fourth trophy wife, and they would pay me hundreds of dollars an hour to fight over the $25 Tupperware I could have bought them at Wal-Mart."
While her current line of work put an end to billable hours and ill-tempered clients, Lithwick concedes the constant commuting from Charlottesville to Washington for Court matters does put the mother of two- and four-year-old boys in occasional awkward situations.
"I was breastfeeding during [Chief Justice] John Roberts' confirmation hearing," she says. "So my life was running, and weeping, and pumping, and trying to cover the hearing. It was the most ridiculous Punch-and-Judy show, with these senators trying to trip John Roberts– who's 10 times smarter than anyone on the committee– with a tricky question. And all I wanted to do was go home to my baby."
Still, Lithwick is inspired by what she believes is vital work.
"When I met [Justice Stephen] Breyer for the first time, we were both hopping up and down like 14-year-old girls, and he told me 'What you're doing is so important, to humanize this court,'" she recalls. "With all this talk of 'activist judges' and even judges being shot at for their rulings, it's important to remember they're just human beings."
However, much as she tries to show the more personal side of the justices in her writing, Lithwick gets the occasional reminder that she knows them only so well.
"It's like people feeling they know Brad Pitt from seeing him on TV all the time," she says. "I literally bumped into [former Chief Justice William] Rehnquist on the street one day in Washington, and I felt like I'd run into my grandfather. He didn't even know who I was."
Age: 40.
Why here? My husband was living in New York, and I was living in D.C. and this was our compromise. True story.
What's worst about living here? Having to wake up at 4am to make it to the Supreme Court by 10. I will be in the first seat in the first car when that high-speed rail gets built.
Favorite hangout? The Discovery museum, Java Java, Greenleaf Park, C'Ville Coffee
Most overrated virtue? Timeliness
People would be surprised to know: My husband and I are the morons who pretend to be on a rollercoaster ride every time they start the movie at the Regal Cinema Downtown.
What would you change about yourself? I'd be organized– one of those people with a labeling gun and multicolored file boxes everyone calls when they need to know how to remove red wine stains.
Proudest accomplishment? Finding a job that I'd happily have done for free and more than likely have paid to do.
People find most annoying about you: My congenital inability to respond to the first 10 e-mails. Followed by a congentinal inability to respond to the next 12.
Whom do you admire? Sandra Day O'Connor. I spent years beating away on her when she was on the Supreme Court for her quirky jurisprudence. And then when she retired– at the height of her authority and to take care of a sick spouse– I realized she was not just a model of work/life balance but also a pragmatic, savvy, non-ideological hero who is now so missing at the high court.
Favorite book? Middlemarch by George Eliot
Subject that causes you to rant? The assault on civil liberties and the war on terror
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Facebook and the ability to stalk old boyfriends
Biggest 21st-century creep out? Facebook and the possibility of being stalked by old boyfriends
What do you drive? A Toyota Prius. Yes, that one.
In your car CD player right now: I totally thought it was Hannukah music, but my (far hipper) husband says it's the White Stripes.
Next journey? Reno, for a wedding and a 39-hour stint at the blackjack tables
Most trouble you've ever gotten in: I got sent to the principal's office for talking during prayers in fourth grade.
Regret: I should have enjoyed law school more.
Favorite comfort food: Cheese in its every last manifestation, from fondue to cheese puffs
Always in your refrigerator: That sweet, artificially flavored coffee creamer. I once used it in mashed potatoes!
Must-see TV: House, The Office, and Lost
Describe a perfect day: A houseful of friends over for Sunday brunch, mass of undifferentiated kids mashing cream cheese into the walls, good coffee, good screaming about politics
Walter Mitty fantasy: Easy. Girl-spy. With a decoder ring, and the poison lipstick, and the power to flatten James Bond with a single flutter of my radioactive eyelashes.
Who'd play you in the movie? Jennifer Grey, or Barbara Streisand, or Bette Midler or some other curly headed girl
Most embarrassing moment? I once did CNN with a Cheerio in my hair.
Best advice you ever got? My four-year-old told me: "Mommy, it's okay to be funnier, but you can't be fibbier."
Favorite bumper sticker? "Screw world peace, visualize driving."


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You can jazz up your Christmas morning breakfast or brunch menu with recipes like a rich parfait, winter fruit salad, peaches-and-cream French toast, sweet and peppery bacon and sparkling breakfast punch. Photo by: allyou.com
December 19, 2012 12:35:04 PM
An indelible memory I carry from childhood is of Christmas morning breakfasts. In our home, there was no charging from the bedrooms to see what Santa brought, no race between siblings to be the first to the tree. Oh no, if there was one thing we were good at, it was stretching out the Christmas experience.
The order of events was faithfully followed -- family breakfast, then stockings and then "Santa" in the morning. Later, a full-bore silver and china dinner would be followed by happy, chaotic hours of "Tree," the ritual by which the youngest children, as elves, took every single gift-wrapped present under the tree to my daddy (in Santa hat) so he could read aloud the tag.
Elves would then deliver each gift to its intended recipient. There was plenty of communal oohing and aahing as opening commenced -- and never a shortage of laughter. You could always count on a little elf to goof a delivery; then you get something like Uncle Stanley opening lacy unmentionables intended for one of my sisters. Good stuff.
But back to those breakfasts. Mother would be up very early in the kitchen. I recall delicious aromas that just added to the pleasure of those mornings, when excitement and anticipation ran high for what was to come. Only later in life did I come to truly appreciate the value of that comparatively quiet family time, sharing the day's beginning, before the house filled with relatives and guests.
If your Christmas morning calls for breakfast or brunch, recipes in today's food pages may offer a fresh idea or two. All You magazine suggests your favorite breakfast casserole paired with a gingerbread granola-yogurt parfait, winter fruit salad, peaches-and-cream French toast and sweet, peppery bacon. Cap it off with a festive, sparkling breakfast punch.
All these can be made ahead of time, so there's no last-minute fussing. The parfait even keeps up to two weeks in an airtight container and delivers seasonal flavor all through the holidays. You can find even more recipes at allyou.com/food/celebrations/christmas-breakfast.
My Christmas mornings, no doubt like yours, have changed greatly since childhood. My beloved parents are gone, as is one of my siblings. I eventually got to be the one up early in the kitchen, making a special breakfast for my husband and son. Then we would have stockings, and then "Santa," keeping the time-honored order of things intact. There aren't as many of us now, but we still do "Tree" on Christmas night. Thank goodness my niece has kept us supplied with little elves. We still ooh and aah and laugh, cherishing the little rituals of family. And we remember. I wish the same for you.
Makes 8 servings
8 oranges
4 grapefruit, preferably pink
1 pineapple
6 kiwis
1 1/2 cups pomegranate seeds, optional
(Source: All You, December 2010)
Makes 8 servings
3 cups old-fashioned oats (not instant)
1 cup sliced almonds
1 cup finely chopped walnuts
1/2 cup wheat germ
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/3 cup molasses
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
3/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup golden raisins, optional
1 cups plain or vanilla yogurt
(Source: All You, December 2010)
Makes 6 servings
1 8-ounce loaf French bread, sliced
8 large eggs
2 cups whole milk
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 15-ounce cans sliced peaches packed in juice, drained
1/2 cup packed dark brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup heavy cream
(Source: All You, October 2011)
Makes 8 servings
3 cups orange juice, chilled
2 cups pineapple juice, chilled
3 cups pomegranate juice, chilled
1 liter ginger ale, chilled
1 liter club soda, chilled
(Source: All You, December 2010)
24 slices bacon
2-3 tablespoons pepper
2-3 tablespoons dark brown sugar
(Source: All You, December 2010)
Jan Swoope is the Lifestyles Editor for The Commercial Dispatch.
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