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"In the beginning, there was Beard," Julia Child famously said, in a characteristic display of generosity. But precisely what Beard began bears some explaining. Though she's among the foremost of Beard's proteges, the cookbook author Barbara Kafka can't contain her exasperation at the received wisdom that there were no good meals to be had in America until her mentor reared his enormous head. "It's like there was no food in this fucking city, or this country, until this miraculous apparition came along!" she says. "Or there was no cooking at home until Julia. Don't tell me this kind of nonsense! I think that Le Chambord, which I went to as a child, was probably the best French restaurant that New York has ever seen and will ever see. And in the West Forties, way over, there were bistros lined up and down. Guys got off the ships right opposite the biggest harbor, practically, in the world-off the Normandie and the Ile de France. And they were French guys."
So, yes, it is wrongheaded to presume that Americans did not eat well until the Big Three became big. The very first American cookbook, American Cookery, written by a Connecticut woman named Amelia Simmons and published in 1796, demonstrates that there were both cooks and eaters in those days who appreciated fine ingredients and flavorful food. American Cookery is considered the "first" American cookbook because, though several cookbooks had been published before it in the colonies and the young republic, they were adaptations or reprints of European cookbooks, mostly British. Simmons's book, on the other hand, was expressly aimed at born-and-bred Americans who used ingredients not available in Europe, such as the "pompkins" she used in a "pudding" recipe that differed very little from our current ones for Thanksgiving pumpkin pie. Her "Indian Slapjack," a cornmeal pancake of the sort now found on the menus of upscale Santa Fe bruncheries, would have gone very nicely with her "Beft bacon" (printers had not yet sorted out their use of f's and ornamental s's), which, in a manner that would excite today's aficionados of artisanal foodstuffs, was cured in molasses, sea salt, and saltpeter for six to eight weeks and then smoked over corncobs.
Further evidence of a culinarily attuned America comes in the most celebrated cookbook of the nineteenth century, The Virginia House-wife, by Mary Randolph, a pillar of late-eighteenth-century Richmond society (her brother was married to Thomas Jefferson's daughter), who, after her husband experienced some reversals of fortune, ran a boardinghouse and collected her recipes into a book, published in 1824. Not only was The Virginia House-wife a work of astonishing breadth and worldliness-Mrs. Randolph knew how to cook everything from the expected Ye Olde dishes like roast goose and Indian-meal pudding to seemingly very contemporary offerings like polenta and ropa vieja (Cuban- or Spanish-style shredded beef)-but her respectful use of vegetables was downright Alice Waters-ish. Randolph cautioned against overcooking asparagus, and advised that a perfect salad should have "lettuce, pepper grass, chervil, cress &c.," which "should be gathered early in the morning, nicely picked," and served with a lovely tarragon vinaigrette.
President Jefferson was himself quite the epicure and procurer of exotic foodstuffs, importing seeds from Europe to plant in his garden and cultivating Mediterranean fig, olive, and almond trees at Monticello. In his personal "Garden Book," he kept records of what produce was available at Washington's vegetable market during the years of his presidency, 1801 to 1809, and the sheer variety sounds much like what a latter-day foodie might gush over at San Francisco's Ferry Plaza Farmers Market on a bountiful summer day: sorrel, broccoli, strawberries, peas, salsify, raspberries, Windsor beans, currants, endive, parsnips, tomatoes, melons, cresses.
All this said, not for nothing is the United States known as a meat-and-potatoes kind of place. In the early years of the republic, it wasn't uncommon for Americans to have beefsteak not only for dinner, which was consumed at midday, but for breakfast-a habit only exacerbated as the country expanded westward, opening more land for ranching. Foreign visitors to the United States in the nineteenth century routinely expressed their shock at the huge, meaty smorgasbords set out on groaning boards in the public rooms of hotels at all hours of the day, not to mention the joyless, gluttonous dispatch with which the natives went about the business of eating. Charles Dickens declared that Americans ate "piles of indigestible matter." Thomas Hamilton, another Englishman, wrote an account of his journey to the United States in 1833 called Men and Manners in America, in which he observed, "In my neighborhood there was no conversation. Each individual seemed to his food down his gullet, without the smallest attention to the wants of his neighbor." The food in these places wasn't of high quality, either, with vegetables boiled to a fare-thee-well and starchy potatoes and puddings served in great quantities. The Canadian historian Harvey Levenstein, in a droll study of early-American dietary habits called Revolution at the Table, notes that "the enormous amounts of meat and starch and the short shrift given to fresh fruits and vegetables made constipation the national curse of the first four or five decades of the nineteenth century in America."Continue reading the main story
It's hard to square this bleak picture with the Edenic one painted by Mary Randolph and Thomas Jefferson, and, indeed, the feisty old culinary historian Karen Hess, who edited and wrote the introduction to the facsimile of the first edition of The Virginia House-wife, dismisses the work of Levenstein, her rival, as that of a "stupid idiot." (As she points out, the Randolph cookbook alone presents clear evidence to refute Levenstein's assertion that in the nineteenth century "herbs were used mainly for medicinal rather than culinary purposes" in America.) Still, it's possible for an unbiased observer to use Hess's and Levenstein's works complementarily and draw the conclusion that while the United States had some terrific cooks, cornucopian markets, and an abundance of wonderful homespun culinary traditions, it also had some serious food issues. The novelist James Fenimore Cooper, author of The Last of the Mohicans, spent several years in France as a U.S. consul, living in Lyons, the nation's gastronomic capital. Upon his return home in 1833, he recorded his horror at the state of American food, calling his fellow Americans "the grossest feeders of any civilized nation ever known," a culinarily clueless people who subsisted on a diet of "heavy, coarse, and indigestible" fare. The chasm between French and American food was all the more appalling to Cooper because he grew up wealthy in the woodsy hinterlands of upstate New York, where all manner of wild game roamed and edible plants grew, and knew that his country could do better.
But the United States, a country wary of elitism and susceptible to populist, xenophobic demagogues, would always have mixed feelings about taking culinary cues from the French. Long before the age of "freedom fries" and the efforts by an adviser to George W. Bush to damage John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign by saying the Massachusetts senator "looks French," the advisers to the Whig presidential candidate of 1840, William Henry Harrison, tried to smear the Democratic incumbent, Martin Van Buren, as a fey monarchist aristocrat-on the evidence that he drank champagne and had hired a Frenchman to be White House chef. The scrappy old soldier Harrison, on the other hand, subsisted on "hard cider" and "raw beef and salt," and won the election.
Whether it was a matter of this country's Puritan origins, its early inheritance of British culinary stodginess, or just a general don't-tread-on-me stubbornness, America would always have a dysfunctional relationship with the idea of culinary sophistication. A strain of the Harrison campaign's plainspoken beefy populism persists to this day: in 2004, the CEO of the fast-food chain Hardee's, Andrew Puzder, touted the company's Monster Thickburger-a 1,420-calorie sandwich composed of two one-third-pound beef patties, three slices of cheese, and four strips of bacon on a buttered, mayonnaise-spread bun-as "not a burger for tree-huggers." (Many of whom, presumably, look French.) Similarly, the thickset founder of the Wendy's chain, Dave Thomas, did a commercial in the nineties in which he addressed a grateful roomful of 300-pounders who called themselves the "Big Eaters Club." In another spot, Thomas portrayed himself as being trapped at a pretentious cocktail party where a mincing waiter offered him a dainty, absurd-looking hors d'oeuvre and said, "Crab puff, sir?" Cut to a shot of a relieved Dave back at Wendy's, sinking his teeth into an enormo-burger. On the other end of the spectrum were those who shied away from fancy feeding for ascetic or religious reasons. Many preachers, such as the Presbyterian minister Sylvester Graham (1795-1851), inventor of the graham cracker, inveighed against spicy and heavily seasoned foods because of their supposed aphrodisiacal qualities. (Despite this, Graham was later embraced as a hero by sex-mad 1960s hippies for his advocacy of vegetarianism and early opposition to refined white flour, which, he sensibly argued, had less flavor and nutritional value than whole wheat flour.) Even when the robber barons of the Gilded Age did embrace the sophistication of French cuisine in all its glory, hiring French chefs for their New York mansions and Newport cottages, they were countered in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by quack food faddists who were suspicious of pleasurable eating. Among the most famous was Horace Fletcher (1849-1919), a retired businessman with no scientific background who developed a huge following by advocating that all food be "thoroughly masticated"-chewed and chewed and chewed until it became flavorless and involuntarily shushed its way down the esophagus, thereby aiding the digestive system. (In fact, the probable health benefit from Fletcherizing, as this chewing process came to be known, was that it took so long that it made overeaters eat less than they would have otherwise.)
Marginally more credible was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (1852-1943), who, in addition to developing a breakfast-cereal empire with his brother, Will, ran a "health resort" in Battle Creek, Michigan. Though he later rescinded his 1902 endorsement of Fletcherizing, Kellogg had his own peculiar thoughts on food, arguing that eating meat encouraged masturbation (a bad thing) and urging his guests to take yogurt enemas, the concept being that the active cultures in the yogurt would provide healing benefits to bowel walls aggravated by a lifetime's worth of steak-eating and boozing.
In a sense, the home economists and food-company executives who held sway over the women's pages at the time of Beard's move to New York were quacks in their own right. As the nineteenth century turned into the twentieth, and as the United States grew more industrialized and urbanized, the sensualism and agrarian seasonality of home cooking gave way to the rise of processed foods and rigorous, supposedly scientific methodologies in the kitchen. Even Fannie Merritt Farmer, whose 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook is still considered a lodestar of honest American home cookery (and was renamed for her in subsequent editions), was a humorless home-ec lady, inordinately obsessed with couching her instructions in laboratory-speak. The first edition of The 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook kicked off with, "Food is anything that nourishes the body. Thirteen elements enter into the composition of the body: oxygen, 62 1/2%; carbon, 21 1/2%; hydrogen, 10%; nitrogen, 3%; calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, chlorine, sodium, magnesium, iron, and fluorine the remaining 3%"-not exactly a mouthwatering lead-in. Farmer also expressed her hope that the day would come when "mankind will eat to live," the implication clear that doing the opposite-living to eat-was reprehensible. On and on she went in this dour, lab-coated way, defining ingredients in terms of chemical compounds-for example, sugar as "C(12)H(22)O(11)"-and describing buttermilk, rather disquietingly, as "liquid remaining after butter 'has come.'"
While Farmer, at least, was well-intentioned in her commitment to nutritionally correct (if not particularly palatable) food, the new wave of big food companies cynically used pseudoscientific claims of healthfulness to appeal to customers. General Mills, the food conglomerate responsible for the creation of the fictional homemaker-sage Betty Crocker, launched an offensive to proclaim the "wholesomeness" of white flour and white bread, even though the very advances in industrialized milling that made white flour possible were the ones that removed the germ and the bran from a wheat kernel-and therefore, most of the nutrition. C. W. Post, the main competitor of the bowel-obsessed Kellogg brothers, plugged his first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal, which he called Grape-Nuts, as "brain food"; taking his chutzpah a step further, he intimated that Grape-Nuts were also effective in fighting malaria and consumption. After chemists in the 1910s and 1920s discovered vitamins-naturally occurring nutrients in foods that aid in metabolic processes-Post's company seized upon the opportunity to play up the cereal's calcium and phosphorous content in magazine ads that portentously asked readers, "Are you bringing up your children properly?" Even the Schlitz brewing company got in on the "health" act, boasting, oddly, that its beer was so pure that "when your physician prescribes beer, it is always Schlitz beer."
James Beard had no time for factory foods, health fads, or pseudoscience. Well before he became a professional food person, he was reveling in the pure, the regional, and the homemade, even as his country's cuisine, if it could even be called that, became ever-more processed and standardized. His unbridled enthusiasm, his pure love of taste, was so infectious that he could excite people even when he was describing eating experiences that, frankly, sound repellent. In his 1964 memoir, Delights and Prejudices, he documents his earliest "taste memory"-a phrase he is credited with coining-as he recalls being bedridden with malaria at age three. His family's male Chinese cook, Jue-Let, who worked in tandem with his mother, Mary, in the kitchen, spoon-fed him a cure of chicken jelly: chicken broth with the white of an egg and its shell mixed in, then strained, then chilled into quivering blobs. To Beard, this icky stuff was "superb ... magically good," and "the true essence of chicken ... [with] a texture that was incredibly delightful." Likewise, the slightly older Beard reveled in shopping with Mother in a fine-poultry shop where "I would come away with two pounds of gizzards and hearts for myself." Few people today would ever want to eat chicken jelly or chicken hearts-or, for that matter, the raw onions that Beard so adored-but fewer still could remain impervious to the sensual joy he took in eating these things, or to his conclusion that "the flavor of perfectly prepared chicken [has] remained a stimulant to my palate ever since." . . .
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Simon Heijdens is one of the tutors for the RCA Design Products course and has a decent port folio which means he can talk the talk and walk the walk. This must be why the RCA students come out with such a good education over a piece of paper.
The above pictures are from his Lightweeds project that uses a bright projection of nature onto a wall to add texture and visual impact to the setting, but it goes further as when people pass the weeds they move or loose their seeds like real plants. A clever use of lighting that changes the interior without re-decorating.
Shade Simon applies a film to the glass that as the sun moves throughout the day casts differing shadows on the interior. Here in Sweden with the sun moving almost visibly this could be a great addition to a window or entrance. Its a much better idea than just plain glass or a single tinting.
Tree is a similar concept to the Lightweeds but this time its a tree and is projected onto the outsides of buildings, the tree grows throughout the evening helping to light up the area, the leaves fall off and move around with peoples movement. A little whimsical but city centres need a little brightening up these days.
I really like the look of this on the tail ceiling above, again the projection is interactive with the use of the space which adds some dynamic to an otherwise static area of a building.
So maybe next time you think about changing the decor of your room or office you could look at putting some nature back into it with the ideas of Simon.
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text: Welcome to a place where even beer runs are a matter of life and death. As the Iraq War draws to an official close, Joshuah Bearman tells the funny and poignant tale of the real-life Baghdad Country Club, a bar in the Green Zone during the conflict's bloodiest years. Against all odds, its proprietors struggle to keep their raucous watering hole safe and well-stocked as the insurgency rages outside.


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Conceits, of course, can be taken too far, so far that the elasticity afforded the concept snaps, and what was vision, is mere elitism.
Burley Griffin took his remembrance of Edinburgh Castle, and the rock upon which it stood, and filtered it through the development of his ideal suburb. Streets were designed and planned to follow the contour lines, with foreshores preserved for public access. This can clearly be seen when looking at a street map. However, the geekiest thing that WBG and his wife, Marion Mahoney Griffin [MMG] did was to name these streets after prominent features of castles.
A 'Sortie Port' is the same as a 'Sally Port'. Armed men go out on 'sorties', yes? Indeed, they 'sally' forth.
So let me acknowledge Griffin's conceit, and match him: "And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it." [Matthew 16:18].
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The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track—until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back.
In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan to Brady, Virginia, population 2,200, in the heart of Appalachia, a part of the world she has only read about. Mattie Wyatt, lifelong Brady resident and head of the town's legal aid clinic, is there to teach her how to "help real people with real problems." For the first time in her career, Samantha prepares a lawsuit, sees the inside of an actual courtroom, gets scolded by a judge, and receives threats from locals who aren't so thrilled to have a big-city lawyer in town. And she learns that Brady, like most small towns, harbors some big secrets.
Her new job takes Samantha into the murky and dangerous world of coal mining, where laws are often broken, rules are ignored, regulations are flouted, communities are divided, and the land itself is under attack from Big Coal. Violence is always just around the corner, and within weeks Samantha finds herself engulfed in litigation that turns deadly.
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Read information about the author"Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel.
Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn't have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializing in criminal defense and personal injury litigation. In 1983, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and served until 1990.
One day at the DeSoto County courthouse, Grisham overheard the harrowing testimony of a twelve-year-old rape victim and was inspired to start a novel exploring what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants. Getting up at 5 a.m. every day to get in several hours of writing time before heading off to work, Grisham spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. Initially rejected by many publishers, it was eventually bought by Wynwood Press, who gave it a modest 5,000 copy printing and published it in June 1988.
That might have put an end to Grisham's hobby. However, he had already begun his next book, and it would quickly turn that hobby into a new full-time career—and spark one of publishing's greatest success stories. The day after Grisham completed A Time to Kill, he began work on another novel, the story of a hotshot young attorney lured to an apparently perfect law firm that was not what it appeared. When he sold the film rights to The Firm to Paramount Pictures for $600,000, Grisham suddenly became a hot property among publishers, and book rights were bought by Doubleday. Spending 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, The Firm became the bestselling novel of 1991.
The successes of The Pelican Brief, which hit number one on the New York Times bestseller list, and The Client, which debuted at number one, confirmed Grisham's reputation as the master of the legal thriller. Grisham's success even renewed interest in A Time to Kill, which was republished in hardcover by Doubleday and then in paperback by Dell. This time around, it was a bestseller.
Since first publishing A Time to Kill in 1988, Grisham has written one novel a year (his other books are The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, The Chamber, The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury, The Partner, The Street Lawyer, The Testament, The Brethren, A Painted House, Skipping Christmas, The Summons, The King of Torts, Bleachers, The Last Juror, and The Broker) and all of them have become international bestsellers. There are currently over 225 million John Grisham books in print worldwide, which have been translated into 29 languages. Nine of his novels have been turned into films (The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Client, A Time to Kill, The Rainmaker, The Chamber, A Painted House, The Runaway Jury, and Skipping Christmas), as was an original screenplay, The Gingerbread Man. The Innocent Man (October 2006) marks his first foray into non-fiction.
Grisham lives with his wife Renee and their two children Ty and Shea. The family splits their time between their Victorian home on a farm in Mississippi and a plantation near Charlottesville, VA.
Grisham took time off from writing for several months in 1996 to return, after a five-year hiatus, to the courtroom. He was honoring a commitment made before he had retired from the law to become a full-time writer: representing the family of a railroad brakeman killed when he was pinned between two cars. Preparing his case with the same passion and dedication as his books' protagonists, Grisham successfully argued his clients' case, earning them a jur
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5. How many articles and blogs should I have before applying for Google AdSense service?
Thank you in advance, I'll be very grateful for your time.
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By about this time fourteen years ago today, I had already put in a few dark-to-dawn miles on the roads of a sketchy Manchester neighborhood, vacated a hotel room near the Manchester/Bedford border, and scrubbed the Escape's exterior and interior at a do-it-yourself car wash to pass the time and adrenaline. By now, Bedford's Panera was finally open to receive me on my third pass, and I was settling into a dark-roast refill, chewing on an everything-with-veggie-cream-cheese and a day and life ahead. I'd already confirmed with the manager the order of bagels and pastries that was a component of tomorrow's brunch at the house.
I continued the night's journaling with free-flowing expository including: What's it like to wear a ring every day? Do you take it off when you make meatballs?; Man, she's beautiful.; Will we be able to see Albania from Corfu?; "She's sure smart, sensitive and creative to juxtapose rehearsal dinner at Fratello's in the Millyard at the heart of the city, with a reception at a rustic inn adjoining working farms. 'We can share and show our Texas and New Yorker people the environment we've chosen,' she'd ruminated six months earlier.
Thoughts wandering and wondering, the excitement of love and marriage, (even though I'd suffered through a self-imposed reread of Bonhoeffer's sobering letter On Love and Marriage hours earlier), as well as great anxiety, not over the wedding itself, but the fact that neither of us was comfortable being center-stage. Surreal chronos(?) kairos(?) as I became aware that Panera was in full-swing, and I could actually barge in on people at the hotel or the inn, who should now be awake. Time to enjoy catching up and killing time.
Finally, I joined the Saturday morning traffic, the southern reaches of Bedford to the northernmost tip of Manchester seemed to take forever. I was, as I remember it, a LITTLE earlier arriving at our home than the agreed upon turning-over-to-the-tux-team-time. Walked around the house to the rear mudroom entrance, I couldn't even begin to ascend the three steps to reach for the doorknob before I was (greeted) (stared down) by bouncers Sarah (Now) Deterling and Molly Zolas. Catching wafts of aromatic casserole ingredients for the aforementioned brunch, the smiles and happy-day chit chat ended with being shooed away with quick, repetitive wrist-waves-of-backhand dismissiveness like a bridege-and-tunnel-crowd LUMPA bypassing the desperate masses waiting in futility behind the velvet rope-line of the hottest NYC club-du-jour on a Friday night, stupid plans of dropping names and a sawbuck bribe attempt turned to humiliating failure, defeatedly moving on to a yet-unknown location. No way was I crossing that threshold with my bride-to-be on the premises. Seriously, Misty's support team was amazing. As was mine. Which went something like this:
A while later, trying to chillax' with best man John D'Amico, in the cozy comforts of Chris Emerson's study/office/parlor at First Congregational Church, UCC, Manchester. Been there awhile. Guys checking in and out, almost as frequently as me checking the time on my fantabulous new watch, an elegantly gift-wrapped shocker, delivered by one of the ladies-in-matching-dresses team. Yep. Been there awhile. Twiddling thumbs with my best man. Refusing alcohol. Plenty of time. Ten minutes before the starting gun:
"Harold, you're not gonna believe this." Shaking head. Pause. " I forgot the rings." He laughs lightly.
Having lived with his exceptionally strong Lawn Guy-land humor for a lifetime, I laugh back harder.
"No really. I forgot the rings."
"Stop. Enough. I get it."
"Ok. Whatever." He heh-hehs again. "It may get a little awkward when I'm supposeta hand'em to ya in the ceremony. But, whatever." He pulls pocket cloth fully outward, slacks and jacket, hanging sloppily and proving the now undeniable –
I'd like to say I was cool and calm and kind and able to kid. Like he was. But, it went more like this. In Chris Emerson's graceful and tasteful office, the place of pastoral care and love, symbols of Christian Miracle everywhere. Like this:
"Shit! Are you f-in' kiddin' me! Unbelievable!" And more.
John, still composed. "What car should I take?' (We'd limo-ed over.) "I'll go get them."
"I'll go. I can get there quicker. Where are they?"
"At your house. Right where you left them when you kept telling me not to forget them."
Anyway, a snapshot of the final hours before "ME" would be changed to "WE" infinitely and in ways unforeseen and unmatchable, beyond my wildest imagination. Maybe that Bonhoeffer guy was pretty, pretty, wise. As wise as Larry David, even. "Pre…tty, pre…tty, pre…tty good."
MSL, Honey.


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Meaning: maybe bold protector
Gender: male
Languages of use: German
Short forms: Ferdi, Ferre, Nand, Nándor
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Meaning/translation: bold protector (?)
Language of origin: Gothic
Info, male:
the Visigoth brougth this name to Spain where it became popular and the name of several rulers
the rulers of the house Habsburg made the name popular e.g. in Germany
frith = the protection, the safety Gothic
nanth = the boldness Gothic
Name variants: Ferdinanda, Ferdinande, Fernanda, Fernandine, Ferdi, Ferdinand, Ferdinando, Fernand, Fernando, Ferre, Fridenand, Fridunanth, Hernan, Hernando, Nand, Nándor
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D'oh! then Shhhhhh!
Mi Problema
So I thought my 6-month-old hard drive was already going bad. I heard sounded like bad bearings in the platters so I reluctantly ordered a replacement drive, took out the old one, popped in the new one, started up and ... AAH! The noise was still there. Turns out it wasn't the drive but the fan. D'oh!
Mi Solucion
Since I now had a spare (apparently good) drive now, I decided to kill two birds with one stone so I also ordered a Data Doubler kit from OWC so I could replace the optical drive with the hard drive and have 1.5TB of storage to make the ULTIMATE MacBook Pro. Okay, maybe not.
Anyway, the repair went fine. Three screws, zip, zip, zip, out it comes, in goes the new one, put the Data Doubler in, put it all back together, plug it in, start it up... and nothing. Happily I immediately remembered that I forgot to reconnect the battery. Zip, zip, take off the back, connect it and all is good. Back to a nice quiet machine.
Mi Consejo
First, make sure the part you're replacing is the actual part.
Second, if you're going to be opening up the machine anyway, think about other repairs or upgrades you might want to do at the same time.
Third, diagnosis is very important. I wish I'd been able to tell the difference between a failing hard drive and a failing fan, but not sure how I could have avoided this.
Fourth, make lemonade from lemons. The mistake turned out to be a boon of additional internal storage.
TR6 Torx Security Screwdriver
MacBook Pro 15" (Late 2008-Mid 2012 excluding Mid 2009 2.53 GHz) Left Fan


text: Coping with diabetes is hard enough, but now you also have to learn to inject insulin. But there's no need to worry. "Diabetes is not a death sentence," says Michelle Kowalski, a Type 1 diabetic in Phoenix, Ariz., who blogs about diabetes for dLife, a website devoted to the disease. "Taking insulin isn't the end of the world. Insulin is actually the answer to better control." Diabetics can turn to the insulin pump, which allows them freedom from having to measure insulin dosages and injecting themselves. But many diabetics still rely on injecting insulin into their bodies with the old-fashioned syringe.Read »


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|New Candles, New Tarts, and come extra containers!
|Love this Target candle, but I hated that I couldn't get to the
bottom of it! That is a lot of wax!
I had a lightbulb moment when I was walking through Michael's and saw wicks for people who make candles from scratch. I started saving all my "used up" candles. Once I had quite a few (basically an entire winter's worth), I got to work.
|The fruits of my labor doing it the hard way!
|This still needs to be melted and get a wick!
|See how the candle wax has melted and turned clear?
|This is the liquid from three "used up" candles. They combined to make half a
new candle for the price of one wick and some of my time..
|This is after the first liquid wax has been poured in. I didn't worry about
debris in the wax, but you could strain with cheesecloth if it bothers you.
|The fruits of my afternoon's labors...
|A tart! The oils in the candle make it easy to pull the liner off the cooled wax.
One other thing, to do this, you'll need a clean container ready to become a candle before you've even melted your first bit of wax. If you don't have an old one handy, try using a mason jar or some other little jar you've got laying around. You can even use votive holders. This is really a frugal project.
A note: Once you've poured all the liquid wax from your container, most likely you'll be left with something that looks like this. While it is still warm, it is easy to use a long fork to pop the old wick base out of the container and it will bring most of its adhesive with it. If you're planning to reuse the container as a candle, then you're done. If you're going to use the container as something else, you'll need to use Goo Gone or some other adhesive remover to get the last little bits of glue.
|The used up wick is held in place by adhesive you'll want to remove
before you repurpose the container, but not if it will be another candle.
So, don't throw away your old candles...save a few and get more life out of them and have a little fun while you're at it. You can even make layered candles if you'd like...just cool your layers before adding the new wax.


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50 Apartments in Dalmatia, Croatia
Apartments in Dubrovnik - Croatia - Dalmatia
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Apartments in Bol - Croatia - Dalmatia
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Jadran has numerous islands, bays and reefs, and among them is hiding mostly stone, gravel and sandy beaches. Sandy beach is a small number, and hotel complexes are governed mainly rocky and sandy beaches. Shade on the beach will give you trees that are typical for this part of the Mediterranean. Some beaches are further regulated by a variety of offerings, slides for children, sports facilities and cafes and restaurants along the beach. The beach is really a lot, and many islands are hiding some undiscovered beach, away from civilization and the tourist crowds.
Lastovo Islands in 2006. it became a nature park. On Lastovo is all within the realm of 46th There are 46 islands that surround it, 46 churches and church, 46 vineyards, olive trees and 46 hills. Lastovo island is ideal for nature lovers, sailing, fishing and traditional Croatian food (Lastovo is famous for its lobster and wine). It can be seen from the sea and the mainland, but substantial hidden beauty of the underwater cliffs and caves. Lastovo alive during the festival "Lastovo island of music" which is held every year in early August. The festival attracts local and international ethnic, jazz and rock musicians.
City walls, Dubrovnik - The walls of Dubrovnik girdle a perfectly preserved complex of public and private, sacred and secular buildings representing all periods of the city's history since its founding in the seventh century. Particular mention should be city's main street, Stradun, the Rector's Palace, St. Blaise's Church, the Cathedral, three large monasteries, the Custom's Office and City Hall. The Republic of Dubrovnik is a separate political and territorial entity, proud of its culture, its achievements in commerce and especially of its freedom, preserved down so many tempestuous centuries.


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These days, People bank their appetites on fear and doubt and yet want to watch a delivery of faith that move mountains. Have you ever seen or read where doubt and fear answered any prayer? They will never do.
It's not funny that some fear even paper tiger. People just fear the unimaginable. Some even fear their shadow. What a defeat.
One thing is sure: I might not know much about where those little strength will take you but I'm afraid those seeminly harmless fear and doubts could take you to hell. Revelation 21:8
Get up and feed your fears upon the Lord. He will not allow you to perpetually vegetate in your self-defeated moral zone. He wants you to have peace of mind in every areas of your lives. He wants you to bask in rhythmical joy.
Come unto me all you that labour and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. "Jesus is not Akpors" that jokes. He is real. His words are "Ye and Amen" but only to them who believe. Believe Him today. Peace.
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Office Hours: Dr. Raskin sees patients by appointment.
The office staff is available Monday through Friday from 9AM (MST) until 5PM (MST).
If you are from out of town, it may be medically necessary for you to remain in or close to Colorado Springs for your early recovery and follow-up care. This will be discussed with you pre-operatively and varies from procedure to procedure.
Further information about Cosmetic Plastic Surgery can be obtained through our office.
A brief overview of common plastic surgical procedures can be seen in the right hand column.
Overview of the Procedures
- Breast Implants
- This operation is designed to increase the fullness and size of the breasts.
- Breast Reduction
- This operation is performed in patients who have large breasts and associated musculoskeletal symptoms.
- Breast Lifts (mastopexy)
- The surgical procedure known as mastopexy is performed in patients who may or may not have had large breasts when younger but whose breasts have now have sagged and, as a general rule, volume has diminished.
- Liposuction
- These operations are performed in patients who have excess localized fatty deposits with associated cosmetic deformity.
Tummy Tuck Surgery
Abdominoplasty is performed in patients who have excess abdomenal skin and fat with associated abdomenal wall laxity. This is major surgery. The abdominoplasty procedure involves a rearranging of the soft tissues, primarily by excision of excess fat and skin and increasing the firmness of the abdomen by tightening the muscle wall. The scar is placed in the bikini line and will be explained at the time of your office visit.Sometimes patients have breast implants placed or breast lifts performedv during this surgery (Mommy Makeover).
SURGERY CENTER STAY: The procedure is performed on an outpatient basis at the Surgery Center at Kissing Camels .
SURGICAL TIME: Approximately 2.5 - 3.5 hours.
ANESTHESIA: General Anesthesia. Included at no additinal charge with a full abdominoplasty is a TAP block with Exparel. This technique provided by the anesthesiologist should make your surgical experience more comfortable with 3-4 days of improved pain control.
POSTOPERATIVE CARE: Drains must be emptied and volumes recorded every eight hours at home for the first 3-5 days. The sutures are removed within two weeks following surgery in most instances.
COMPLICATIONS: The patient will be given proper medications for discomfort and an antibiotic. In the event of complications, such as undue pain, or bleeding, your doctor should be contacted. Major complications such as an expanding hematoma where a large collection of blood develops underneath the abdomenal flap is very unusual but any great difference in the size should serve the patient notice to notify the surgeon immediately. Risks of this procedure include the loss of sensation and umbilicus (navel) asymmetry. Sensory loss is usually temporary, with sensation returning over a period of several weeks to months. Umbilicus necrosis or skin necrosis is a rare complication of this surgery.
SCARS: Surgical scars are permanent. Occasionally, a delay in healing occurs at the incisional edges. These scars, while quite noticeable for a period of approximately six months to a year, tend to fade and the disability relative to scarring is generally mild. These scars, as stated, although red and eventually end up somewhat widened, are the price the patient pays for improvement in contour and reduction of abdomenal size. In some instances a revision of these scars may be indicated a year or two following the original or primary procedure.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES: Social activities should be limited for approximately two weeks following this type of surgery. It is best to limit exercises and lifting for another two weeks.


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New applications development does not necessarily have to be lasting and tedious task where you first have to learn how to use new technology, master it, and then find a way to incorporate it in your business environment. Neos has designed and developed a methodology of enterprise application development based on the Oracle ADF technology. We have also created a library of reusable components and modules that together make a unique product, ADF KickStart.
Although a great part of Croatian users still work with Oracle Forms, Oracle ADF as a strategic development platform is an inevitable future. Surely you have already faced questions such as: "How to start developing an application on the ADF?", "How to move over from Forms to ADF Faces and how to make it short and painless?"
Neos, as the most ADF experienced Croatian IT company, has created a solution called ADF Kickstart that will make it possible to have a fast start in business application development as well as help the development team to focus mostly on business demands implementation.
The product contains
- Predefined basic standard enterprise application components
- Development templates based on the best cases from practice
- Development methodology with usage guidelines
- Training and workshop as well as the complete product documentation
- Compatibility with new versions of the Oracle ADF development environment
- Usage support and consulting
On the logical level, ADF KickStart is made of modules covering particular units:
- Users – definition and work with system users, passwords, parts, etc.
- Modules – application components and actions, forms, reports, basic procedures, etc.
- Parameters – system and user parameters, basic system settings
- Multilanguage – application languages (interface, messages, errors), translations, user settings
- Email – automatic email sending from the application and email editing
- SMS – sending and receiving SMS messages via Gateway
- Scheduler – definition, execution, controlling and deleting the default processes
- Log&Audit – system and user login on more than one level, audit and optional detailed audit on a particular module level, overview and search of the log and audit data
- Monitoring console – provides a simple overview and system components administration through an atractive user interface
Neos ADF KickStart 1.0. is planned to be update with following key features
- Mailing (mass mailing, mail statistics and analysis)
- Social network connectors (link KickStart users with they Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn… profile with ability to collect various users statistics)
- Support for ADF Essentials (migrating from WebLogic to GlassFish)
Neos ADF KickStart 1.0. works on and supports the following versions
- Oracle Database 11g R2
- Oracle Solaris 11
- Oracle Weblogic Server 11g R1
- Oracle Linux 5.5.
- Virtual Machine
- Oracle Exadata Database Machine
- Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
- Oracle SPARC Supercluster
Developing on the Oracle platform? For internal needs or external users and market? Want to use Java and ADF technologies on the WebLogic infrastructure? Contact us.


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By Adam Friedman
As the nation was thrown into a tailspin with the upset victory of Donald Trump, Maine provided a glimmer of hope for our fragile democracy. Voters there passed Question 5, making Maine the first state in US history to institute ranked-choice voting (RCV) for all federal and state elections.
Why does ranked-choice voting matter? Because our current voting system is rigged against anyone who isn't a Democrat or a Republican, and RCV is arguably the best way to break this duopoly. Ranked-choice voting allows you to rank your candidates in the order you prefer them -- 1, 2, 3 -- and would allow to vote your true values, say by ranking Gary Johnson as your first choice, and then the more tolerable major-party candidate as your second choice. If your first choice gets eliminated in an instant runoff round, your vote transfers to your second choice. You can even rank as many candidates as there are running, and express your preference thoroughly and honestly. The fear of the "spoiler candidate" is a thing of the past. This means more votes, more legitimacy, and more power for Libertarians.
How do we advance ranked-choice voting in our state? After the Maine victory, advocates put out a call for a strategy meeting and over 50 people attended. Participants ranged across the entire political spectrum, but agreed on one thing: we deserve a better voting system. They formed Voter Choice Massachusetts, and since November, their membership has quadrupled and they have over 60 active members coordinating actions almost daily. They are currently signing up new volunteers at events around the state, raising funds for a statewide poll to help craft a winning political strategy, writing reports for publication, and several other activities. They can use your help. Get involved by visiting http://voterchoicema.org/signup or by emailing Scott Kallgren, new members coordinator, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Editor's note: Voter Choice Massachusetts has organized itself as a 501 C(3), which means that donations are tax deductible. Donations to LAMA are not tax deductible, so if you would like to support this worthy cause, please do so directly and let them know their support is coming from a Libertarian.


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WelCom NewsA newspaper for the Wellington and Palmerston North Catholic Dioceses
A jubilee birthday for Fr Edmund in Takaka
Audrey Bakulit
31 March 2012
Fr Edmund Little celebrated his silver jubilee and his 70th birthday last December.
He concelebrated Mass with his long-time friend Lou Leuthard then joined parishioners from Takaka and many from his former parish, St Mary's, Nelson, for a lunch accompanied by stories, laughs and a singsong.
It was a beautiful Takaka day and all there thoroughly enjoyed themselves wishing Fr Edmund doubled blessings.
Pictured are Gerry Quinn, Gabrielle Quinn, Mary Kepple, Mary James, Fr Edmund and Margaret Risos.


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Is it a bad idea to grant shell access to the user account destined to be running Apache/Nginx?
I ask because, the Guvnr, in his VPS Bible series, sets up a new user with visudo'd
guvnr ALL=(ALL) ALL
privileges, and then sets up an Nginx server with that user.
Whereas the authors of Nginx HTTP Server recommend that you not grant shell access to the user running Nginx.
You could always remove guvnr's shell access, but then, how would you administer your websites?
edit: @Bart Silverstrim - Here's how the guvnr installs Nginx:
- (logged in as user guvnr)
- sudo install nginx dependencies
- user wget nginx source files
- user ./configure --sbin-path=/usr/local/sbin --with-http_ssl_module
- user make
- sudo make install
So perhaps Nginx is being installed to root here?
Is this an ok practice if root login is disabled in /etc/ssh/sshd_config?


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The Queen Elizabeth Health Complex Foundation's (QEHCF) mission is to benefit the Queen Elizabeth Health Complex (QEHC), a not-for-profit medical establishment that receives no government funding.
Promote, sustain and preserve the healthcare services provided by the QEHC.
Integrity, engagement, ethic, transparency.
Since its establishment in the Fall of 2000, the QEHC Foundation has contributed over $5M to the QEHC. These monies were raised through a variety of fundraising campaigns, events and activities: The 2000 and 2008 Major Campaigns, the Under the Tuscan Sun annual event, the Direct Mail annual program and much more. The vital support of our donors and partners enables the Foundation to provide required funds for the QEHC to meet the ever growing medical needs for our community.
The QEHC is a not-for-profit deeply rooted community led medical complex providing much needed medical support to the members of our community for over 20 years. The QEHC does not receive government funding. Unlike other health medical centers, the QEHC patient care services, up-to-date medical equipment and sustainable environment for its patients is only made possible through the generosity of our donors and partners. We thank you for your 2018/2019 continuous commitment which will contribute to the greatest needs of the QEHC:
The QEHC Foundation
2100 Marlowe, Suite 331
Montreal, QC
Charitable Registration Number: 86769 4820 RR0001
Elaine Lalonde
(514) 485-5023
Maria D'Onofrio
(514) 485-5018


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Gum Treatment Dallas
Serving Dallas, Plano, University Park, Fort Worth, and Surrounding Areas
There are many gum treatments available, including lasers and non-surgical treatments of gum infections and bad breath. Gum treatments are almost always non-invasive, non-surgical and pain-free.
- 80% of adults have some level of gum disease
- Gum disease has been linked to systemic problems, such as diabetes and birth problems
- Gum disease has been shown to increase risk of stroke or heart attack by 300%
Our office uses a non-invasive approach for treating gum infections, which includes:
- Use of a special phase-contrast microscope to identify the micro-organisms
- Irrigation of the infected gums with anti-biotics
- Use of a laser to sterilize the infected tissues
The gum treatment above is separate from the sculpting of gummy smiles, and another way we differentiate from other offices.
Dallas Designer Smiles has offered non-surgical treatment for gum disease for over 20 years and has brought people to our office from all over the United States. If you're self-conscious about the size and shape of your gums, please contact us today for a free consultation.
For more information, visit our page on Gummy Smiles.
Dr. Strader treats patients throughout the Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, area, including Plano, Highland Park and University Park.
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When buying new windows for your home, you will want to understand the basics of window installation or replacement, material choices, along with the conditions of your area to find the best windows suited for you. Your location will be an important factor in your window purchase and process. The guide to your specific local information will cover:
Your Area's Weather
Weather should be one of the biggest considerations in deciding what window materials to install in your home. Your local guide will cover all you need to know including annual precipitation averages, the humidity level, and any extreme weather conditions that your home needs to withstand.
How to Pick a Contractor
In many places, the right contractor is required to oversee the installation of windows to your home. This benefits you to have a licensed professional to help you throughout the process by ensuring you meet state obligations as well as utilizing their experience. By utilizing the tips in each guide to find your contractor, you will have the best person on your side to complete the job with their knowledge at hand to ask further questions.
Permits and Inspections Required
Each local guide will point you in the right direction of where to begin your process of applying for permits required by your city or state. Many cities have the authority to create their own laws regarding new buildings, improvements, or home repairs so it is important to seek local information to avoid extra fees created by missing a legal step.
Window Materials and What to Look For
Materials for your home are an important decision as well to make the investment in your home worth its value in the lower energy cost that it will save you money over time. Individual articles for your area will cover the top window material recommendations for your budget, weather concerns, and energy savings.
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text: Comebacks: Tesla's Motormouth Marketer Dodged Deposit Dilemma This article says the reason Darryl left Tesla was because: "Tesla has no factory to build the car, and no financing for it. Musk recently said that Tesla had gotten $350 million in loans from the government; in fact, it hadn't, a reality even Musk's own flack had to acknowledge. Taking deposits from customers under those circumstances in the hopes that everything will come together amounts to a fraud, Siry believed, and he wanted no part of it." I was thinking of writing something in response in the comments, but it kind of makes some sense actually thinking about it. Unlike the Roadster, where they had private funding & a factory/contractor to build the car, they don't have the same thing with the Model S. Is there a precedent of a company recieving deposits without being sure they can deliver (at least locked in a factory & financing)? (and the company not failing afterwards) Edit: edited title, actually is ValleyWag not Gawker.


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An escrow account is an account held by a third party on behalf of the beneficial owner of the money in the account. Such accounts are Excluded Accounts where they are established in connection with any of the following:
a. A court order, judgement or other legal matter on which the third party is acting on behalf of the underlying beneficial owner, for example, an account held by an individual or an entity appointed by the Court of Protection to look after the affairs of a vulnerable person.
b. A sale, exchange, or lease of real or personal property where it also meets the following conditions:
- The account holds only the monies appropriate to secure an obligation of one of the parties directly related to the transaction, or similar payment, or with a Financial Asset that is deposited in the account in connection with the transaction.
- The account is established and used solely to secure the obligation of the parties to the transaction.
- The assets of the account, including the income earned thereon, will be paid or otherwise distributed for the benefit of the parties when the transaction is completed.
- The account is not a margin or similar account established in connection with a sale or exchange of a Financial Asset; and
- The account is not associated with a credit card account.
c. An obligation of a financial institution servicing a loan secured by real property to set aside a portion of a payment solely to facilitate the payment of taxes or insurance related to the real property at a later time.
d. An obligation of a financial institution solely to facilitate the payment of taxes at a later time.
Accounts provided by a non-financial intermediary acting in that capacity (such as non-legal escrow type accounts) that meet the conditions above will also be Excluded Accounts.
Periodic payment orders in connection with an escrow account are not considered to be reportable Annuity Contracts.


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Bristol, TN
June 21, 2018
FREE run presented by We Run Events. Please bring a bag of pet food as your "entry fee," which we will donate to local animal shelters. It's the Summer Soltice so let's make the year's longest day something to remember! Unique 10K run starting and finishing at the top of South Holston Dam. Take on breathtaking views of the lake as we run from the top of S. Holston Dam to Osceola Island, and back. Save something for the challenging final 1-mile climb! Post-run pizza.
Timing and Parking
We have a time limit of 1h 30m so we can be out before the park closes, however feel free to start early if you think it will take longer. 6:00 early start (or whenever you want to get going!). The run is timed, but please understand that this is a group run (not a race), and no awards will be given. We will have a digital clock and kiosks where you can check your time when you finish the run. The roads will not be closed to vehicular traffic so please be careful on the roads. Parking is extremely limited so please plan accordingly. Carpool if possible and/or park at Weir Dam and ride with others to the top of S. Holston Dam.
Schedule, June 21, S. Holston Dam
- 4:30-6:00 pm, Packet pickup, late registration
- 6:00 pm, Early Start for those who think they will take longer than 1 hour : 30 minute time limit
- 6:30 pm, 10K Start
Entry Fees:
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'The Church and River at Mahim, Bombay'. One of a series of Views in India and in the vicinity of Bombay. Lithographed by G.E. Madeley after Major Pouget. Published in London, c.1850
Lithographer: Madeley, George Edward (fl.1829-1856)
Medium: Lithograph
Date: 1850
Lithographed by George Edward Madeley (fl.1829-1856) after an original drawing by Major Robert Pouget of 'The Church and River at Mahim, Bombay' one of a series of 'Views in India and in the vicinity of Bombay' published in London c.1850. The area of Bombay was orignally made up of seven islands including Mahim, situated to the north. Mahim became a centre of power in the 13th century, when Raja Bhimdev located his capital Mahikawati and the Prabhadevi temple on the island. In the following century, the Muslim kingdom of Gujarat was also established at Mahim, where they built a fort and a number of mosques. In the 16th century, the area of Bombay was ceded to the Portuguese, who established their capital at Bassein further north. In 1661, the area passed to the English as part of the dowry brought to Charles II by the Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza. Although the British continued to use the fort, their main headquarters were situated on Bombay Island. In 1845, Mahim was connected to the mainland by a causeway that was financed by Lady Jamsetji Jeejeebhoy.


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I had every intention of giving you more main dishes or side dishes this week, but when I saw this recipe I couldn't resist. After I made it, I knew I had to share it with you for the weekend.
I first saw this coffee cake on Pinterest. It sounded and looked like just the thing for Sunday breakfast. I was very pleased that I had just enough left-over pumpkin in my fridge from making the pumpkin cinnamon rolls. It must of been I sign that I was meant to make the coffee cake. Right?!?
The recipe is quite easy to put together, but it does require a long baking time. I actually pulled mine out after about 40 minutes and thought it was ready to eat. Unfortunately, when I cut two pieces from the edge the center began to ooze into the vacated space. I quickly stuck it back in the oven and hoped for the best. It turned out much better after 10 more minutes. I would suggest checking the cake with a toothpick after baking for 45 minutes and then continue baking if needed.
The overall opinion of the males in the household and the members of my Sunday School class was that this was a keeper. Definitely a nice treat for the weekend.
Pumpkin Coffee Cake
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2 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon allspice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1 stick unsalted butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs
1 1/4 cups pumpkin puree
1/2 cup sour cream or greek yogurt (I almost always use greek yogurt now instead of sour cream.)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the pecan topping:
1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons cold butter
1/2 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Preheat oven to 350° F. Spray a square baking pan (9X9) with non-stick cooking spray. Whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, ginger, allspice, nutmeg and salt into a medium bowl. Set aside. In a stand mixer, cream together butter and sugar. Add in eggs one at a time, beating after each addition. Add pumpkin puree, sour cream and vanilla to the butter mixture and mix until incorporated. Slowly add in flour mixture, 1/2 cup at a time, while mixing on a low speed.
Pour cake batter into prepared pan, spreading the batter so that it is evenly distributed. Prepare the topping. In a bowl combine brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut butter into small 1/2″ pieces and add to sugar mixture, cutting in with a pastry cutter or a fork, or by using your fingers to bring the mixture together. Stir in pecans.
Spread topping mixture over cake batter. Bake at 350° F for 40-45 minutes or until top starts to brown lightly and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.


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There is no getting away from the reminders. As she logs in deliveries to Costco's receiving docks, the plaintive call of passing trains blooms in her chest.
"Whenever I hear it," she says, "part of me thinks, 'This is the place. This is where it happened. Please slow down.' "
A year ago today, just before dawn, on the other side of the Costco parking lot fence, the known world came violently apart for the 180 passengers on Metrolink Trains 100 and 901 in the most destructive Southern California railroad wreck in recent memory.
Train 100, inbound from Ventura County, struck a sport utility vehicle left on the tracks near Glendale by an apparently suicidal driver, derailed into a parked freight train, then jackknifed into Train 901, coming from Union Station in the opposite direction.
The resultant disintegration erased the lives of 11 people onboard and injured the rest. It also sent out a seismic wave that shook those like Mendoza who were nearby and others, such as the families of the crash victims, who were far from the wreckage.
The re-imposition of human order began immediately with Costco workers' attempts to extricate survivors and battle flames. It has continued, uninterrupted, in the year since.
Coroner's investigators reassembled segmented bodies. Bereaved families started knitting their lives around the absence of loved ones. The injured adapted to their disabilities and discomforts. Lawyers began fixing blame and Metrolink embarked on a program of increased safety.
Juan Manuel Alvarez -- the 26-year-old man who left his Jeep Cherokee 150 feet up the tracks from the Chevy Chase Drive crossing, allegedly doused it with gasoline, then watched the catastrophe unfold -- awaits trial on 11 counts of murder.
Since the wreck, an estimated 60,000 passengers, including some of the survivors, have ridden Trains 100 and 901. Like an apple halved then put back together slightly misaligned, however, the present can never look exactly like the past for those involved.
Sounded Like Thunder
Karen Mendoza and Mark Zavala, a forklift driver, were standing near a closed dock door in the Costco receiving department when they heard a floor-shaking boom. It was drizzling outside, and although they assumed the noise was thunder, Zavala went into the predawn dark to investigate.
He could make out a train car leaning at a weird angle from the track. When he got to the end of the building, the silent, smoking wreckage, weirdly lighted by low fires, lay before him. A passenger carriage, its end blasted open and smashed to rubble, had crashed through the trackside fence and come to rest about 20 feet from the warehouse. The ruptured engine of the freight train was spilling copious amounts of diesel fuel, the smell of which suffused everything.
Zavala ran back to the receiving area and banged on a door to be let in. "The Metrolink crashed," he told Mendoza. "Call 911." Zavala told other employees to bring fire extinguishers.
For minutes that seemed hours long, the Costco workers were on their own, emptying their extinguishers into the flames. They heard low moaning coming from someone in the wreckage: "Help me. I don't want to burn." Up to their ankles in diesel fuel, they located the injured man.
"You remember when you were a kid and you had one of those airplanes that flew with a rubber band that you twisted? That was what his legs looked like," Zavala said.
"We had to lift him out by his pants and shirt because he was all broken up so bad," he said. "We laid him down by the side of the building. He had a bad head wound. He was bleeding bad. He kept saying 'I don't want to die,' and we tried to console him, saying help was coming. But I could tell he wasn't going to make it."
A little later, after fire and rescue teams swarmed in, Zavala saw the man lying on a flat Costco inventory cart. He recognized him by his legs, which protruded from the shroud that now covered him.
On a recent morning, Zavala and Mendoza walked the site. Sunlight reflected dully from the asphalt of the Costco parking lot, which had been resurfaced to repair damage from the wreck. New fencing and shrubs had been set along the tracks.
In the last year, the 40-year-old Zavala, who lives in Castaic, has seen his father die and a son born. The Metrolink crash, however, is "something I'm never going to forget," he said. "I'm glad we were able to help people. It's a thing of the past, but I'm not going to forget it. Never, ever."
Mendoza, who is 36 and lives in Covina, said the wreck "changed my life. These were ordinary people, just going to work. It taught me something about taking life for granted. Now I always make it a point to say 'Thank you' and 'I love you.' I let the love flow from my heart easier now."
She finds it curious that her 3-year-old son has become a train buff.
"I don't know if he somehow knows what happened or what," she said.
In December she took him to the train station in El Monte to see Metrolink's Holiday Toy Express, a train decorated with Christmas lights and other festive paraphernalia. His recent birthday celebration had a railroad theme.
Irony in Death
The ashes of Scott McKeown, the man Zavala and Mendoza tried to save, rest in a container by the computer in the living room of the Moorpark house he shared with his wife, Susan, and children Ashley and Brice.
McKeown was 42 when he stepped onto Train 100 last Jan. 26, bound for Union Station and then, via the Gold Line, his job as head of telecommunications for the city of Pasadena.
He was a full-throttle techie, a ham radio operator and a lover of railroads since boyhood. He collected model trains, railroad signs, signal lights and locomotive horns, one of which he kept wired to his AMC Eagle car in the days a dozen years ago when he and Susan were dating.
"It was really loud," Susan recalled. "Once a guy driving in front of us stopped his car on the railroad tracks, and I saw Scott reaching for the horn. I said, 'Scott, don't....' But he said, 'I'm going to show this guy a lesson.' And the guy must have peed his pants. That was a thing with Scott: You don't stop on the railroad tracks. That's what's so ironic about all this."
The morning of the wreck, Susan watched a television news report that said a northbound train from Union Station had derailed near Glendale. She turned off the television, relieved. Not Scott's.
A few minutes later, however, a friend telephoned and told her the report was erroneous, that three trains were involved, including Train 100.
Susan waited for a message from Scott. None came.
"I knew at that point he must be hurt," she said. "He was in telecommunications. He had his cellphone, his work phone, his GPS -- gadgets all over his belt. He could have called me immediately. I didn't panic. I thought, 'It's OK. He's hurt. I just need to find out where he is.' "
Susan's mother and a friend came to the house, and for the next three hours the trio called hospitals and police agencies. It wasn't until 12:30 that afternoon that her brother-in-law, a high-ranking LAPD officer, knocked at her door in the company of a grief counselor.
After Ashley and Brice were fetched from nearby Peach Hill Elementary School, Susan broke the news to them. Ashley, who was 8, cried. Brice, then 5, seemed shocked.
Susan's family and Peach Hill parents closed a protective fist around her and her children. For the first month, the parents provided dinner every night. Susan was determined to get Ashley and Brice back to their school routine as quickly as possible.
Her son's grief took the form of anger. "Brice was hitting me and venting out -- 'How could you let this happen?' For the first six months he continually followed me. I couldn't even go upstairs without his asking, 'Mom, where are you? Where are you going?' For a long time, I couldn't leave them. They were afraid I wouldn't come back."
The children, who have been in therapy, talk about their father a lot, Susan said.
"Someone we know recently died after being in a coma. Ashley said, 'You know, that makes sense to me, but what happened to Dad doesn't make sense.' "
Since Scott's death, Susan's parents have sold their house in Calabasas and bought one down the street from hers.
To pay bills and obtain health insurance, Susan started working full time as an insurance administrator in a doctor's office last March. Two weeks before the wreck, Scott had received a major promotion and Susan had been about to quit the job, which she was working part time.
Now she is bracing for her widowhood's second year, which her therapist has warned can be even more difficult than the first because the attention of friends tends to recede.
"At the time of the accident, everything was cream-of-the-crop for us," she said. "Everything was in its place. We were at such a good point in our lives. Some things are hard for me. Recently my microwave broke, and I called out, 'Scott, the microwave ... ' and then I caught myself."
Written in Blood
I [heart] Leslie
I []heart] my kids
Scott McKeown's wife never received a message from him. John Phipps wasn't expecting the one he wrote to get through either.
Trapped and bleeding in the eerie quiet of Train 901's wreckage, his face misted by the light rain coming through a broken window, Phipps awaited death, or rescue or whatever fate had in store for him. On an impulse he still can't entirely explain, he dipped a finger in his blood and wrote his simple missive on an overturned seat.
The jovial, 285-pound redhead became something of a global celebrity after a fire captain photographed the seat and told reporters.
Phipps appeared on CNN, "Good Morning America" and local television shows.
The continuing hold that his simple gesture seems to have on people baffles him. On a recent episode of the "NCIS" television series, he said, a character mentioned " 'that guy who wrote in blood on the Metrolink,' and people got in touch with me from all over the country, all over the world: 'Hey, did you see that?' I mean, I saw a website that had my name on it, and it was all I could make out; everything else was in Cyrillic."
The media attention has tended to obscure that Phipps suffered painful injuries in the wreck. Twenty-six staples were required to close a gash in the top of his head, 40 stitches to repair an injury in his groin area. He was cut and bruised all over his body. He had been sitting on the second level at one end of his passenger car, and regained consciousness on the first level at the opposite end.
Phipps works as a quality engineer at Senior Aerospace in Burbank. The wallpaper on his computer monitor is an image from a news video that shows him on a stretcher being passed by hand down a line of firefighters, whom he calls "my 14 best friends." A time stamp on the image shows that more than an hour had passed since the wreck.
Phipps returned to work a month later and after another month resumed singing bass in the choir of Community Presbyterian Church in La Mirada, where he lives. However, his injuries, particularly the one to the groin, continue to affect him.
"This morning's ride on the train -- I could not get comfortable," he said at his office on a recent afternoon. "I couldn't sit down till 10 this morning. There are things I wish could be better, but I'm not complaining. This may be as good as I'm going to get."
For several weeks after returning to work, Phipps avoided the train and drove his car instead, "but it's just too long a drive, man."
Warily, he climbed aboard the train again. On the first ride in, he was fine. Any lingering psychological trauma, he thought, was over.
"Then, that afternoon when I got on the train in Burbank for the ride home, I panicked. For half of the 10-minute ride to Glendale I just thought, 'I gotta get off this.' "
Phipps had calmed down by the time he got to the Glendale station. He's been riding Metrolink ever since, but one aspect of rail travel still unnerves him.
"I can deal with another train passing us from the opposite direction, but when one of them sounds its horn and you get that Doppler effect -- reeOWWWWwww -- I go right out of my seat. I just can't stand that, man. It freaks me out. I don't know if it's something I heard subconsciously the day of the wreck or what. People look at me and think, 'What's wrong with him?' "
Saved by Fate
Steven Toby has not boarded a Metrolink train since he climbed onto Train 100 in Burbank and found that his customary seat in a corner of the second passenger car was occupied by the outstretched feet of another rider. So he sat in the adjacent seat. Just a few minutes later came the wreck.
Toby's corner of the car was the pivot of the jackknife that slammed into northbound Train 901. His regular seat was obliterated. He was thrown across the aisle atop two other riders. A ceiling panel collapsed on top of them. Toby's left leg was pinned beneath a crushed bulkhead.
Because the passenger carriage was tilted, Toby was able to drop and slide toward an opening below. He landed in a bed of sharp gravel awash in diesel fuel. All around him lay "fragments -- flakes -- of plastic, glass and little pieces of circuit boards from people's laptop computers," so minutely destructive was the disordering force of the wreck.
Later that day, Toby and his crushed leg wound up in the hands of orthopedic surgeon Philip Merritt at Glendale Adventist Medical Center. "He told me, 'This is a really grievous injury, but I'd be interested in trying to put it back together. Would you like me to try?' "
Merritt used powdered coral to reconstruct Toby's tibia. "He put in a T-shaped plate, six screws and a couple of pins and washers, and I don't know what else," Toby said. "Ten years ago, I probably would have lost the leg."
The 52-year-old relies on his cane much of the time. He can walk a little without it, he said, "but one false step, and I go down." His knee is habitually stiff and prone to spontaneous pain. Sometimes the limb swells so much that it fills his pant leg, a condition doctors have told him will take several years to abate.
The injury has had a pronounced effect on the routines of his life. He must drive to work now, because he can no longer manage the 10-minute walk from Union Station to Los Angeles City Hall, where he is a sound technician for the City Council. He is largely unable to attend to chores at his home in Shadow Hills, on the northeastern edge of the San Fernando Valley, where he keeps two horses. Often he must bow out of family excursions with his wife and 8-year-old son.
"Now at a flight of stairs, I have to find a handrail and take it one step at a time, like a little old man," Toby said. "And I'm a guy who would jump on any horse in sight and canter to the top of the hill. It's worn me down physically and emotionally. I was a pretty robust individual, fixing fences, getting up on the roof, stacking hay.... I loved being self-sufficient."
What he finds hardest to accept is how life can be transformed in a microsecond, "even though you're just minding your own business. None of us on the train were goofing around or making a mistake. Here I was, a civil servant doing what I was supposed to -- not driving downtown, not adding to traffic congestion."
Even so, Toby counts himself a fortunate man. He worked most of his career as a technician at recording studios. As new technology allowed musicians to record at home, work at the studios began to dry up. He jumped ship while he still had a chance.
"I got out just in time," he said. "I've always been a lucky guy. I was lucky in this wreck too. I didn't die."


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