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Geographic Information Systems
The GIS project is an initiative to package GIS related software, to make Fedora and EPEL attractive platforms for you GIS needs. It also covers some software from adjacent fields, like remote sensing or geodesy.
Fedora GIS activists hang out in #fedora-gis channel.
Actual Content
- ann - Library for searching Approximate Nearest Neighbors
- ast - A Library for Handling World Coordinate Systems in Astronomy
- basemap - The matplotlib basemap toolkit is a library for plotting 2D data on maps in Python
- carto - Mapnik style sheet compiler
- CGAL - Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
- clusterPy - Library of spatially constrained clustering algorithms
- cptutils - Utilities for the manipulation of color gradients; mainly for translating between different formats
- Dan's GDAL scripts - Utilities for use in conjunction with GDAL
- e00compr - ANSI-C library to compress and uncompress Arc/Info Export (E00) files
- eccodes - a library for decoding and encoding WMO data formats
- Emerillon - A map viewer for GNOME
- FoxtrotGPS - A mapping and GPS application like tangoGPS
- GarminDev - Drivers for communication with Garmin GPS devices
- garmintools - Communication tools for Garmin devices
- GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
- gdalcpp - C++11 wrapper classes for GDAL/OGR
- geoclue2 - Geolocation service
- GeographicLib - Small library to perform conversions between coordinates, geoid height, geomagnetic field calculations and for solving geodesic problems
- GEOS - Geometry Engine - Open Source
- GMT - Generic Mapping Tools
- gpsbabel - A tool to convert between various formats used by GPS devices
- gpscorrelate - A GPS photo correlation/geotagging tool
- gpsd - Service daemon for mediating access to a GPS
- gpsdrive - A GPS based navigation tool
- gpsman - a graphical manager of GPS data that makes possible the preparation, inspection and edition of GPS data in a friendly environment.
- gpx-viewer - GPX Viewer is a simple program to visualize a gpx file
- grads - Interactive desktop tool to easy access, manipulate and visualize earth science data
- GRASS - Geographic Resources Analysis Support System
- gypsy - A GPS multiplexing daemon
- iGMT - Interactive mapping interface to GMT
- Inteproxy - Security extension for unsecure OWS clients to secure spatial data infrastructures
- kosmtik - Make maps with OpenStreetMap and Mapnik
- libgaiagraphics - Graphics canvas for GIS rendering (pre-requisite for the SpatiaLite-GUI)
- libgarmin - C library to parse and use Garmin image files
- libgeotiff - GeoTIFF format library; License problems with EPSG table
- libosmium - Fast and flexible C++ library for working with OpenStreetMap data
- librasterlite2 - Stores and retrieves huge raster coverages using a SpatiaLite DBMS
- libspatialite - A complete Spatial DBMS in a nutshell
- MapBender - Geospatial portal for OGC OWS architectures
- mapnik - Above all Mapnik is about making beautiful maps
- MapServer - Development environment for building spatially-enabled internet applications
- Marble Virtual Globe - Free Software Virtual Globe and Qt GIS library / map widget
- Merkaartor - Qt-Based OpenStreetMap editor
- MTKBabel - a Perl program to operate the i-Blue 747 GPS data logger.
- mingw-gdal - MinGW Windows GDAL library
- mingw-geos - MinGW Windows GEOS library
- mingw-libgeotiff and mingw32-libgeotiff - MinGW port of libgeotiff Georeferenced image library
- mingw-proj - MinGW Windows Cartographic projection software (PROJ.4) library
- mingw-shapelib - MinGW Windows shapelib library
- nik4 - Command-line interface to a Mapnik rendering toolkit
- nodejs-leaflet - An open source JavaScript Library for Interactive Maps
- NodeJS Mapnik pool
- NodeJS Mapnik reference - Reference for Mapnik Styling Options
- NodeJS Sphericalmercator - Transformations between Spherical Mercator and Lat/Lon
- nodejs-srs - Spatial reference library for Node.js
- nodejs-tilelive - Frontend for various tile backends, mapnik and mbtiles
- nodejs-tiletype - Detect common map tile formats from a buffer
- OGDI - Open Geographic Datastore Interface
- ogr2osm - Convert ogr-readable files like shapefiles into .osm data
- OpenLayers - A JavaScript library for displaying map data
- OpenSceneGraph - High performance 3D graphics toolkit
- osgearth - Terrain rendering toolkit for OpenSceneGraph (volter; Current QGIS versions (2.10) don't work with the latest version)
- osm-gps-map - Gtk+ widget for displaying OpenStreetMap tiles
- osm2pgsql - osm2pgsql imports map data from OpenStreetMap to a PostgresSQL database.
- osmctools - Tools to manipulate OpenStreetMap files
- osmium-tool - Command line tool for working with OpenStreetMap data
- osmpbf - C library to read and write OpenStreetMap PBF files/
- paraview - Data analysis and visualization application; was developed to analyze extremely large datasets using distributed memory computing resources.
- pcl - Library for point cloud processing
- PDAL - Library for translating and manipulating point cloud data of various formats
- perl-Geo-Forward - Calculate geographic location from lat, lon, distance, and heading
- perl-Geo-Inverse - Calculate geographic distance from a lat & lon pair
- perl-Geo-ShapeFile - Perl extension for handling ESRI GIS Shapefiles
- perl-GIS-Distance - Calculate geographic distances
- perl-GIS-Distance-Fast - C implementation of GIS::Distance formulas
- perl-GPS - Perl interface to a GPS receiver that implements the Garmin protocol
- perl-GPS-OID - Package for PRN - Object ID conversions
- perl-Net-GPSD - Provides an object client interface to the gpsd server daemon
- pgRouting - Provides routing functionality to PostGIS/PostgreSQL
- PostGIS - PostGIS adds support for geographic objects in PostgreSQL
- PROJ.4 - Cartographic Projections Library
- pygrib - Python module for reading and writing GRIB (editions 1 and 2) files
- pynmea2 - Python library for parsing the NMEA 0183 protocol
- pyproj - Pyrex generated python interface to PROJ.4 library
- pyshp - Pure Python read/write support for ESRI Shapefile format
- cartopy - A library providing cartographic tools for python.
- python-Fiona - Fiona reads and writes spatial data files
- python-geojson - Encoder/decoder for simple GIS features
- python-geopandas - Geographic Pandas extensions
- python-modestmaps - Modest Maps python port
- python-networkx - Creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks
- pyosmium - Python bindings for libosmium
- python-OWSLib - Client library for OGC web services
- python-phyghtmap - Generate OSM contour lines from NASA SRTM data
- rasterio - Fast and direct raster I/O for use with Numpy and SciPy; Rasterio reads and writes geospatial raster datasets
- python-Rtree - Python wrapper for the spatialindex library
- Shapely Geometric objects, predicates, and operations
- python-tilecache - A web map tile caching system
- python-tilestache - A stylish alternative for caching your map tiles
- QGIS - Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a user friendly Open Source Geographic Information System
- QLandkarteGT - GPS device mapping tool
- QMapshack - GPS mapping and management tool
- qtgpsc - A client for the gpsd GPS server
- readosm - Library to extract data from Open Streetmap input files
- routino - Find the route between two points using the dataset of topographical information collected by Openstreetmap or data in that format (KDE-Marble can make use of it.)
- rtklib - Standard and precise positioning with GNSS (global navigation satellite system)
- SAGA - GIS with API for processing geodata
- sparcy - Command line utility for Sparc Systems GPS loggers
- spatialindex - Spatial index library
- Spatialite-gui - GUI to manage Spatialite databases
- SpatiaLite Tools - A set of useful CLI tools for SpatiaLite
- splat - Analyze point-to-point terrestrial RF communication links
- tangoGPS - a lightweight and fast mapping application
- tinyows - WFS-T and FE implementation server (volter started packaging the currenct version; the package is orphaned)
- vifir - A viewer for electronic aviation charts
- viking - GTK2-based GPS data editor and viewer
- jmapviewer - Java component to integrate an OSM map view into your Java application
- JOSM - Editor for OpenStreetMap
- jts - Java Topology Suite
- spatial4j - A Geospatial Library for Java
New packages pushed to stable
New packages to test
Packages on review
- ossim - High performance software system for remote sensing, image processing, geographical information systems and photogrammetry
gctpc - General Cartographic Transformation Package-- Project is gonepycdf - A python interface to the Unidata netCDF library-- Cancelled- taudem - Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models
Mumpot - GTK mapping application-- Cancelledgdal-grass - Standalone GRASS 6 Drivers for GDAL and OGR (Originally viji, see volter's: repo for the current version)libLAS - Library and tools for the LAS LiDAR format-- Stalledmkgmap - Convert OpenStreetMap data for Garmin GPSes-- StalledNavit - Car navigation system with routing engine-- Stalledobdgpslogger - OBDII and GPS data logger for your car-- StalledOpenCPN- A free and open source software for marine navigation -- Not ready, needs work upstream plus wxjson must be packagedosm2go - osm2go is an editor for openstreetmap.org map data.
Wishlist and interesting apps
- alaCarte - OpenStreetMap tile renderer
- Cartaro - Web mapping platform and CMS
- degrib - Driver for the GRIB2 library (found bundled in GDAL)
- Eoxserver - Python application and framework for presenting EarthObservation (EO) data and metadata
- epigrass - Epigrass is a simulation platform created to study epidemics and their spatial (geographic) dynamics
- Geodjango - A world-class geographic web framework (Actually part of the Django package)
- Geoalchemy - GIS Support for SQLAlchemy (Early stage of development)
- Geo-Distance - Perl module to calculate distances and closest locations
- Geomoose - Web Client Javascript Framework for displaying distributed cartographic data
- GeoTrellis - High performance geoprocessing engine and programming toolkit
- Gosmore - Routing and viewer of OSM XML data such as the whole planet.osm or other osm files from Geofabrik or Cloudmade. (KDE-Marble can make use of it.) License problem with icons; kkofler informed upstream.
- gmapcatcher - An offline map viewer
- GPStk - Open source library and suite of applications (paused with packaging FabianAffolter; volter got involved; see repo)
- imposm - Importer for OpenStreetMap data written in Python
- Imposm3 - Importer for OpenStreetMap data written in Go
- Legato - Configurable, lightweight web mapping client that can be easily embedded into web pages and portals, CMS and individual web applications
- libnav - LibNav is an algorithm library for navigation and positioning. (started with packaging FabianAffolter) -- Release is from 2009, in parts copied over from gpstk of that time
- librttopo - RT Topology Library
- MapGuide - web-based platform for developing and deployment web mapping applications and geospatial web services.
- mapknitter - Web service to upload, stitch and georeference aerial photography
- MapProxy - Proxy for geospatial data -- caches, accelerates and transforms data from existing map services and serves any desktop or web GIS client (volter: Started packaging, see repo.)
- MB System - Processing and display of bathymetry and backscatter imagery data derived from multibeam, interferometry, and sidescan sonars (volter: Started packaging, see repo; see below for missing dependencies)
- monav - MoNav offers very fast and exact routing with OpenStreetMap data for mobile devices as well as desktop computers (Contains a bundled lzma; icon licenses need to be reviewed; no commits since 2011)
- MyTourbook - It is free software to visualize and analyze tours which are recorded by a GPS device, bike- or exercise computer and ergometer
- Nik4 - Mapnik to image export
- nominatim - Open Source search based on OpenStreetMap
- OpenEV - Software library and application for viewing and analysing raster and vector geospatial data (volter: Started packaging, see repo; no release for a few years.)
- OpenGTS -- Open GPS Tracking system is a full featured web-based GPS tracking system for your fleet of vehicles.
- OpenModeller - Fundamental niche modelling library; There is also a desktop application. The desktop application is tightly bound to QGIS. Therefore, I'll wait for the next QGIS release. (volter: Started packaging both, see repo.)
- Opticks - Opticks is an expandable remote sensing and imagery analysis software platform. (volter: Packaging is on hold. As long as Opticks needs its own modified version of OSSIM, it can't ship; Nov 2012)
- Orfeo Toolbox - Library of image processing algorithms; There is also an accompanying software called Monteverdi. A QGIS plugin also exists somewhere. (volter: Loads of bundled and forked libraries; some detection scripts don't work right; could make use of liblas; volter: Early package draft in repo; work on halt until clarified); A different draft is available on COPR (rashadkm: all bundled libraries are removed with exception of 6S. COPR repoistory includes all dependencies used by OTB. And Packages are ready for Fedora 20 and 21.)
- osm2pgrouting - Import tool for OpenStreetMap data to pgRouting database
- osrm - C version of the PBF library code
- osrm-tools - Tools to extract postgresql database into OSRM normalized files, and PostgreSQL function to access OSRM Server
- ossim - Powerful suite of geospatial libraries and applications used to process imagery, maps, terrain, and vector data. See volter's repo
- pbf2osm or pbftoosm - Convert between old and new OSM format
- Postal Address Geo-Coder - Library and a CGI based web service that uses an address-ranged street network shapefile along with one or more postal addresses and provides the longitude/latitude coordinates
- pycsw - OGC CSW server implementation written in Python (volter: Packaging has started, see repo)
- pygeographiclib - Python implementation of the geodesic routines from GeographicLib
- pykml - Python package for parsing and authoring KML documents
- Pysal - Python Library for Spatial Analytical Functions (volter: Started packaging, see repo.)
- pyresample - Resampling (reprojection) of geospatial image data in Python
- python-geohash - Geohash is a string representation of two dimensional geometric coordinates. It is basically, a form of Z-order curve.
- Pyspatialite - Python dbapi2 compliant driver for SQLite + Spatialite -- This one is a bit complicated, because it requires the Spatialite source code present while building.
- PyWPS - (Python Web Processing Service) is an implementation of the Web processing Service standard from Open Geospatial Consortium. (volter: Started packaging, see repo.)
- Rasdaman - Raster data manager - Allows to retrieve and maintain multi-dimensional arrays of unlimited size stored in standard relational databases through an SQL-style query language (volter: Started packaging, see repo)
- SaVi - Satellite constellation visualization -- Allows you to simulate satellite orbits and coverage, in two and three dimensions.
- sumo - Simulation of Urban MObility
- Tilemill - Modern map design studio; Style maps with CSS-like syntax and export to tiles
- tirex - Suite of programs for running a tile server
- TotalOpenStation - Downloads and processes data from total station devices -- (volter: Packaging draft is ready, see repo; Details already discussed on their ML)
- Zoo - WPS (Web Processing Service) framework
- AtlasStyler - The Styled Layer Descriptor (SLD) / Symbology Encoding (SE) tool for OGC-compatible styling of geodata.
- BeeGIS - opensource tool for Digital Field Mapping. Seems that they didn't try to build it for Linux (although its based upon JGrass/uDig/Eclipse).
- bt747 - GPS Datalogger Device Control (available on COPR)
- Deegree - Java package with OGC services, desktop application and tools for processing and management.
- Geogit - Distributed versioning of geospatial data
- Geopublisher - a software that allows you to create digital multimedia atlases. The atlases can be automatically published on a media (CD, DVD, USB-stick), as well as on the Internet.
- GeoNetwork - GeoNetwork is a catalog application to manage spatially referenced resources (Java)
- GeoServer - like MapServer but written in Java
- Geotrans - Application to easily convert geographic coordinates
- GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
- HidroSIG - a GIS with special tools that will allow you to make estimations and analysis of hydrological, climatic and geomorphological variables
- JGrass - open source GIS based on the GIS framework of uDig (that is why the intro looks so similar to that of uDig). JGrass tries to exploit in its engine the power of GRASS.
- Kalypso - General modelling system, focused on numeric water economics simulation
- MapAnalyst - Accuracy analysis of old maps
- MXD2Map - Converter for ArcGIS MXD files into Mapserver mapfiles
- NEST - ESA Toolbox to view and analyze SAR data
- osmosis - A command line Java application for processing OSM data
- gpsprune - gpsprune is an application for viewing, editing and converting coordinate data from GPS systems. Basically it's a tool to let you play with your GPS data after you get home from your trip.
- Repast - Family of advanced, free, and open source agent-based modeling and simulation platforms (actually not only Java)
- Sextante - SEXTANTE is a spatial data analysis library written in Java
- uDig - Desktop application framework, built with Eclipse Rich Client (RCP) technology
- Whitebox geospatial analysis tools (gat) - Cross-platform Geographic information system (GIS) and remote sensing software intended for advanced geospatial analysis and data visualization in research and education
No upstream or seemingly dead
- OSGRS - Open Source GNSS Reference Server (OSGRS) is a HTTP server that provides data for Assisted-GNSS applications (Only release in 2007)
- Thuban - Interactive Geographic Data Viewer -- Last commit is from late 2009
Missing dependencies
- OpenCPN
- Orfeo Toolbox
Insight Toolkit-- Passed the review on Apr 23rd 2013VXL-- Passed the review on Nov 24th 2012
- ossim
- qgis webclient
- ExtJS -- Stalled review
- Geoext
- qgis
- OpenSceneGraph (dependency for osgearth)
Misc. info
- EPSG - OGP Surveying and Positioning Committee Geodetic Parameter Dataset
- Generate and distribute GPS position fixes from attached GPS devices
List of people who share their interest on this topic:
- Hans Ulrich Niedermann (ndim)
- Subhodip Biswas
- Juha Tuomala
- Fabian Affolter
- Peter Lemenkov
- Sven Lankes
- Viji V Nair
- Anne Ghisla
- Mathieu Baudier (mbaudier)
- Kalyan Janakiraman (kalyankj)
- Balint Cristian (rezso)
- Peter Hopfgartner (phopfgartner)
- User:Mayorga
- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
- Rashad Kanavath (rashadkm)
- Patrick Vavrina (patux)
- Andrea Musuruane
- Fedora Geo_Spin
- GIS packages in Debian
- DebianGis (its packages)
- FreeGIS.org
- OSGeo
- Package index of the OSGEO Live DVD
- UbuntuGIS
- Suse's Application:Geo
- Another index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects
- List of GIS software at Wikipedia
- Open Source GIS Applications
- List of GIS tools - Especially some web mapping frameworks


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Main Cast :
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B'Elanna Torres
Jennifer Lien
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Voyager is lost in the Delta Quadrant because Janeway decides that if they use the array to return instead of destroying it, the Kazon will then use it to destroy the Ocampa. Why not just put a few tri-cobalt torpedoes on the station with timers set to blow it up a few minutes after the ship returns?
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So far as we know, the First Officer, Lieutenant Commander Cavit (1st officer), Lieutenant Stadi, the Human doctor and his Vulcan nurse. We later find that the Chief Engineer, Transporter Chief and Astrogation Plotter are also killed. There were probably others - Voyager could have lost upwards of several dozen crew in the transfer to the Delta Quadrant.
Voyager pilot episode. We open with a scene of a Cardassian warship chasing a small Maquis vessel through the plasma storms of the badlands. The little ship manages to escape, but moments later a powerful energy wave sweeps it up...
Cut to Captain Kathryn Janeway, who is visiting a Federation criminal rehabilitation facility in New Zealand. She meets with inmate Tom Paris, an ex-Maquis member, and informs him that one of her officers, Tuvok, has vanished whilst attempting to penetrate the Maquis. Since Tuvok's target was a terrorist cell led by Chakotay, Paris's former commander in the Maquis, Janeway wants to enlist his help on the mission to find Tuvok. Paris agrees, and the two head off to Deep Space Nine. Here the crew of Janeway's brand new ship, USS Voyager, are assembling and enjoying the sights of the station. We meet young Ensign Kim, a brand new Academy graduate on his first assignment, who narrowly avoids being ripped off by Quark thanks to Paris's help. The two report aboard Voyager and meet Janeway before the ship heads out into the Badlands. Ensign Kim is warned off about Paris - in his time at the Academy he was involved in a stunt that killed some cadets, and then after leaving topped that off by becoming a terrorist who was captured on his very first mission. Despite the warning Kim offers friendship to Paris.
Voyager is not a huge ship - with fifteen decks, massing 700,000 tons, and a crew of around 150, the ship is closer in size to Kirk's Enterprise than Picard's.
They head into the plasma storms and quickly encounter the same energy wave Chakotay did earlier. The wave sweeps them across space, badly damaging Voyager and inflicting many casualties. The ship barely survives, with the emergency medical hologram being activated to replace the dead chief medical officer. The crew find a huge space station near their location, but before they can react a mysterious force beams the entire crew away. We see them in a rural "waiting area", but when they try to find out what is going on they are quickly transferred to a medical facility of some sort and we see them being subjected to some kind of experiments before they are returned to the ship - only with Ensign Kim missing.
The Maquis ship is nearby and Janeway quickly captured it and offers to negotiate with the crew. Chakotay beams aboard to talk, along with Janeway's missing officer, Tuvok. We learn that a Maquis officer, Torres, is also missing and the two crews agree to work together to find their missing people. They try going back to the alien space station but the being they meet in the waiting room declares that he hasn't time to help them, and beams them back. Seeing the array sending energy pulses towards a nearby planet, Voyager heads there to investigate.
On the way they encounter a debris field where the scavenger Neelix is working. He has heard stories like their before, and knows the local area, so they take him aboard to act as a local guide. In exchange they offer water, apparently a rare and valuable thing in this region of space. Neelix calls the alien on the space station The Caretaker, which is what the Ocampa, residents of the planet they are headed for, call him. He takes them to the planet and they beam down to find the Kazon-Ogla living on the devastated, arid surface. The Kazon are holding a young Ocampan girl prisoner, and Neelix demands she be released. Janeway goes along, freeing the girl and beaming them back to Voyager. She's unhappy that Neelix apparently misled her, but Neelix says that the Ocampa city deep underground is likely where the missing people are being kept. And indeed they are; both Kim and Torres are in the city, being held there by the natives. Their bodies are decorated with strange blisters, a result of the medical experiments by the Caretaker. Janeway is able to penetrate the Ocampan city with the help of Kes and they rescue Kim and Torres and begin to make their way out. Tuvok arrives at a theory : The Caretaker was responsible for some ecological disaster on the planet which destroyed its ability to produce rain. He dedicated himself to caring for the surviving Ocampa natives, building their underground city. But now he is old, near death; he has been bringing species from across the galaxy to experiment on them because he is looking for a way to reproduce himself. Unsuccessful, he has used the energy blasts to top up the city's reserves as much as he can to preserve them for as long as possible after his death.
As the Caretaker dies the Kazon, sensing a chance to get control of the technology on his station, bring in ships to attack. Voyager and Chakotay's ship defend the station, but the Maquis vessel is badly damaged. Chakotay beams his crew to Voyager and makes a suicide run on a big Kazon ship, damaging it badly. On the station Tuvok finds a way to send Voyager back... but leaving the station intact will give the Kazon massive power, letting them destroy the Ocampa and who knows what else. Unable to fight the Kazon off and unwilling to leave, Janeway beams back to Voyager and blasts the station into pieces. The Kazon curtly inform her that she has made an enemy, and depart.
Janeway sums up their situation to the crew; 70,000 light years from home, they are 70 years away from the Federation. They have no choice but to head back the long way, but she assures them the two crews will combine and work together, searching for anomalies, wormholes, new technologies, anything that might help them. So beings the epic quest of the USS Voyager.
A somewhat mixed back, the premiere of Voyager. As always it does somewhat suffer from Pilot-itis, having to infodump on us and establish everyone and everything. Voyager has an advantage in that respect; they had TNG and DS9 around to set up the Maquis, the Cardassians, the Badlands, Deep Space Nine... all of this we already knew and could simply accept and move on. Even aspects of the characters benefit - when Torres regrets her anger and says "sorry, it's the Klingon in me" the writers know they can just leave that there, and the audience will know exactly what she means without further explanation. Still, the episode does have to set a lot up, and although we don't drown in exposition, we do have to sit through it.
There are also issues inherent to the story. For one, the Kazon. We know looking back that they simply didn't work, in the long run, but to honest they didn't work even on first meeting. When we meet them they're living in rags, in a desert settlement more primitive than most places you'll find in the 20th century. They have no transporters, a technology the Federation has had for over two centuries. Hell they can't even produce water for themselves. Think of this; in Voyager's time the food replicator is basic, everyday technology, their equivalent of your DVD player or printer... and it's utterly beyond the Kazon. Is this really what the writers though would make a big threat for Voyager?
And of course we have the most infamous issue with the pilot; Janeway's dilemma is that she actually finds a way to send the ship back, but if she does then the Kazon will seize the Array and gain all that lovely power and technology. So she blows it up, stranding herself. And Trek fandom did raise it's unified voice to the heavens and cry "well why not leave a few photons behind on a timer to go off after you leave, then?"
Ahem. Yeah, end of problem right there. One COULD suggest that Janeway thought the Kazon would disable such devices before they could go off (although they don't know what a transporter is, can they handle a photon torpedo with any certainty?)
You could solve this problem; I would have Tuvok work out a theoretical way of using the technology whilst still at the planet, and then head back to the array to use it only to find the Kazon already aboard, already establishing control. Have THEM offer to use Tuvok's method to send Voyager home to get it out the way; Janeway then can only accept the Kazon offer or fight. And in destroying the array with many Kazon already aboard, we have a more believable reason for the Kazon to hate Voyager for years afterwards.
But there is the more fundamental problem with Voyager, which is this : the show was set up to show the crew as failing. They want to get home; every episode where they don't get home is one where they have failed. Every episode where they do something OTHER than try to get hom is one where you question their motives. They toss off a bland "we're supposed to be explorers" line every now and again, but no, you are NOT supposed to be explorers in this situation, you're supposed to be trying to get home. Voyager's constant stopping off at every nebula, every primitive planet... it may be necessary to set up stories, but it makes it look like they aren't especially keen to be on their way home. And of course, all those times when ways home were dangled and then lost... it just makes the crew look incompetent. In TOS and TNG the ship might deal with the unexplained well or they might do it badly, but the mere fact that they encountered it at all and lived to tell the tale means that the crew are fulfilling their stated mission. Voyager is set up from day one so that the crew will fail in their stated mission, every single episode - because even one success would mean the end of the show.
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Apostle Peter
The holy, glorious and all-laudable Apostle Peter is the leader of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ. His feast is celebrated on June 29 along with the Apostle Paul.
The divinely-blessed Peter was from Bethsaida of Galilee. He was the son of Jonas and the brother of Andrew the First-called. He was a fisherman by trade, unlearned and poor, and was called Simon; later he was renamed Peter by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who looked at him and said, "Thou art Simon the son of Jonas; thou shalt be called Cephas (which is by interpretation, Peter)" (John 1:42).
On being raised by the Lord to the dignity of an Apostle and becoming inseparable from him as his zealous disciple, he followed him from the beginning of his preaching of salvation up until the very Passion, when, in the court of Caiaphas the high priest, he denied Him thrice because of his fear of the Jews and of the danger at hand. But again, after many bitter tears, he received complete forgiveness of his transgression. After the Resurrection of Christ and the descent of the Holy Spirit, he preached in Judea, Antioch, and certain parts of Asia, and finally came to Rome, where he was crucified upside down by Nero, and thus he ascended to the eternal habitations about the year 66 or 68, leaving two Catholic (General) Epistles to the Church of Christ, known as I Peter and II Peter. He is also generally regarded as being the primary source (i.e., in interview) for the material recorded in the Gospel of Mark.
Troparion (Tone 4)
- First-enthroned of the apostles,
- teachers of the universe:
- Entreat the Master of all
- to grant peace to the world,
- and to our souls great mercy!
Kontakion (Tone 2)
- O Lord, You have taken up to eternal rest
- and to the enjoyment of Your blessings
- the two divinely-inspired preachers, the leaders of the Apostles,
- for You have accepted their labors and deaths as a sweet-smelling sacrifice,
- for You alone know what lies in the hearts of men.
Kontakion (Tone 2)
- Today Christ the Rock glorifies with highest honor
- The rock of Faith and leader of the Apostles,
- Together with Paul and the company of the twelve,
- Whose memory we celebrate with eagerness of faith,
- Giving glory to the one who gave glory to them!
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I am obsessed with tea, but refuse to be a "tea snob". That does not mean that I am not picky about my tea, just that I think the arrogance of some tea drinkers is ridiculous and off-putting.
My favourite teas currently are: China Black Gunpowder, Pouchongs, Good old Brodies Royal Scottish Tea, and Martha's hope first flush darjeeling.


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Annette Funicello dead; Original Mouseketeer and 'Beach Blanket Bingo' star was 70
Published April 08, 2013
Legendary Disney Mouseketeer Annette Funicello died on Monday from complications due to Multiple Sclerosis, a disease she battled for more than 25 years.
She was 70 years old.
"Annette was and always will be a cherished member of the Disney family, synonymous with the word Mousketeer, and a true Disney Legend," Bob Iger, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, said in a statement. "She will forever hold a place in our hearts as one of Walt Disney's brightest stars, delighting an entire generation of baby boomers with her jubilant personality and endless talent."
Funicello died peacefully at Mercy Southwest Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif., the Disney company said.
Funicello stunned fans and friends in 1992 with the announcement about her ailment. Yet she was cheerful and upbeat, grappling with the disease with a courage that contrasted with her lightweight teen image of old.
The pretty, dark-haired Funicello was just 13 when she gained fame on Walt Disney's television kiddie "club," an amalgam of stories, songs and dance routines that ran from 1955 to 1959.
Cast after Walt Disney himself saw her at a dance recital, she soon began receiving 8,000 fan letters a month, 10 times more than any of the 23 other young performers.
Her devotion to Walt Disney remained throughout her life.
"He was the dearest, kindest person, and truly was like a second father to me," she remarked. "He was a kid at heart."
When "The Mickey Mouse Club" ended, Annette (as she was often billed) was the only club member to remain under contract to the studio. She appeared in such Disney movies as "Johnny Tremain," ''The Shaggy Dog," ''The Horsemasters," ''Babes in Toyland," ''The Misadventures of Merlin Jones" and "The Monkey's Uncle."
She also became a recording star, singing on 15 albums and hit singles such as "Tall Paul" and "Pineapple Princess."
Outgrowing the kid roles by the early '60s, Annette teamed with Frankie Avalon in a series of movies for American-International, the first film company aimed at the burgeoning teen market.
The filmmakers weren't aiming for art, and they didn't achieve it. As Halliwell's Film Guide says of "Beach Party": "Quite tolerable in itself, it started an excruciating trend."
But the films had songs, cameos by older stars and a few laughs and, as a bonus to latter-day viewers, a look back at a more innocent time. The 1965 "Beach Blanket Bingo," for example, featured subplots involving a mermaid, a motorcycle gang and a skydiving school run by Don Rickles, and comic touches by silent film star Buster Keaton.
Among the other titles: "Muscle Beach Party," ''Bikini Beach," ''Beach Blanket Bingo," ''How to Stuff a Wild Bikini" and "Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine."
The shift in teen tastes begun by the Beatles in 1964 and Funicello's first marriage the following year pretty much killed off the genre.
But she was somehow never forgotten though mostly out of the public eye for years. She and Avalon staged a reunion in 1987 with "Back to the Beach." It was during the filming that she noticed she had trouble walking — the first insidious sign of MS.
When it was finally diagnosed, she later recalled, "I knew nothing about (MS), and you are always afraid of the unknown. I plowed into books."
Her symptoms were relatively mild at first, but gradually she lost control of her legs, and she feared people might think she was drunk. So she went public with her ordeal in 1992.
She wrote of her triumphs and struggles in her 1994 autobiography, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" — the title taken from a Disney song. In 1995, she appeared briefly in a television docudrama based on her book. And she spoke openly about the degenerative effects of MS.
"My equilibrium is no more; it's just progressively getting worse," she said. "But I thank God I just didn't wake up one morning and not be able to walk. You learn to live with it. You learn to live with anything, you really do."
"I've always been religious. This just makes me appreciate the Lord even more because things could always be worse. I know he will see me through this."
Funicello was born Oct. 22, 1942, in Utica, N.Y., and her family moved to Los Angeles when she was 4. She began taking dance lessons the following year and won a beauty contest at 9. Then came the discovery by Disney in 1955.
"I have been blessed to have a mentor like Walt Disney," she said 40 years later. "Those years were the happiest of my life. I felt that back then. I feel the same today."
Asked about the revisionist biographies that have portrayed Disney in a negative light, she said, "I don't know what went on in the conference rooms. I know what I saw. And he was wonderful."
In 1965, Funicello married her agent, Jack Gilardi, and they had three children, Gina, Jack and Jason. The couple divorced 18 years later, and in 1986 she married Glen Holt, a harness racehorse trainer. After her film career ended, she devoted herself to her family. Her children sometimes appeared on the TV commercials she made for peanut butter.
The beach films featured ample youthful skin. But not Funicello's.
She remembered in 1987: "Mr. Disney said to me one day, 'Annette, I have a favor to ask of you. I know all the girls are wearing bikinis, but you have an image to uphold. I would appreciate it if you would wear a one-piece suit.' I did, and I never regretted it."
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With this months No Croutons Required theme being mushrooms I went a little overboard and got way too many mushroom. Having extra mushrooms is not something that I consider to be a problem. In fact I had been wanting to try making a cream of mushroom soup for a while. I had a one pound package of wild mushrooms containing cremini, shiitake and oyster mushrooms that would be perfect for a cream of wild mushroom soup. When I made my oven roasted eggplant and mushroom miso soup I found out that roasting mushrooms adds a ton of flavour so I knew that I would have to roast the mushrooms for the cream of roasted wild mushroom soup. I immediately thought that I would have to use dill in the soup as dill is my favorite herb pairing with mushrooms, but I did not have any dill on hand… I did have some thyme and sage which I though would also go well. I used some homemade vegetable broth which added a lot of flavour. The soup came together easily and just as I was about to pour the cream into the soup I paused. I thought, I could replace the cream with miso and make this a roasted wild mushroom miso soup. I thought it over for a while and in the end I decided that I had started the mushroom soup because I wanted to try making a cream of mushroom soup. I can always try the mushroom miso soup some other time. The soup was so good! It was full of mushroom flavour and nice and creamy. I served the cream of mushroom soup with some cheesy garlic bread . I will definitely have to make this soup again though, next time I will use dill.
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- 1 pound mushrooms (cleaned and sliced)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 teaspoon thyme (chopped)
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- 1 onion (chopped)
- 2 cloves garlic (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon thyme (chopped)
- 1 teaspoon sage (chopped)
- 4 cups vegetable stock
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon miso (optional) (gluten free for gluten free)
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- Toss the mushrooms in the olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper.
- Roast the mushrooms in a preheated 400F/200C oven until golden brown, about 30-40 minutes.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Add the onions and saute until tender, about 5-7 minutes.
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Editors note: This is the second of a two-part series. The first discussed Butch Cassidy and train robberies and appeared Sept. 15. Both stories will be posted in the Special Reports section at cortezjournal.com.
By Andrew Gulliford
Gullifords Travels
MONTEZUMA COUNTY Ive followed the Outlaw Trail looking for Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. Butch caroused with a lot of outlaws, but his best friend the Sundance Kid grew up here in Southwest Colorado. Ive been searching for Sundance in Cortez and Montezuma County, and Ive heard some interesting stories and crawled into an outlaw cave or two.
The thing about an outlaw is you dont claim him as family when hes doing his deeds, but let a century pass and then hes fine to call yours. Hes earned his place back on the family tree, but famous Western outlaws have a hard time staying dead and buried.
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh grew up in a blue-collar family in Pennsylvania. At age 14, in 1882, he left home to help distant cousin George Longabaugh, who had moved to Durango. George was lured farther west to homestead near Cortez. Harry stayed with the family for four years but by early 1886 he chose to ride on. Within a year he would be arrested on three counts of grand larceny for horse theft and stealing personal goods against the peace and dignity of the Territory of Wyoming. Confined to the county jail in Sundance, Wyo., he earned the nickname The Sundance Kid.
What prompted his life of crime? What had young Harry learned in Cortez and Montezuma County that suggested horse stealing as an honorable profession? And even after he was convicted and jailed, Sundance was unwilling to accept the judges decree of an 18-month sentence. Longabaugh and a fellow prisoner attempted an escape on May 1, 1888, but were returned to their cells. When Sundance served his time and got out of jail, he was not yet 21.
Coming to Cortez at 15, Harry learned to rope and ride and shoot a Colt .45. He knew good horse flesh. He probably knew how to brand cattle not his own, and he learned how to live out of saddle bags and move through the country fast, without being seen. The West was wide open. To a young man with grit and gumption there seemed easier ways to make a living than to settle on a homestead, scrape sagebrush, plow and plant and wait for rain.
Local haunts became outlaw caves and north-south routes became known as the Hoot Owl Trail within a larger Outlaw Trail system between Utah and Wyoming. Desperados or questionable men who kept their hats pulled down low over their eyes were known as Hoot-Owlers. Cattle and horse theft was rampant, and for big outfits like the Carlisle Cattle Co. out of Monticello, Utah, that ran thousands of head, who would miss a few unbranded cattle? Most of the petty outlaws stole this and that and remained anonymous. Only Sundance would have his own file created by the Pinkerton Detective Agency and his sisters mail surreptitiously opened.
An outlaw cave can be found on land Bud Poe owns in Trail Canyon west of Cortez. Poe thinks it may have been a waypoint on the Hoot Owl Trail system with access between the Great Sage Plain and McElmo Canyon.
It was very exciting to see it for the first time, Poe says. Unless youre within 10 feet of the cave, you dont know its there.
Though the roof has fallen in and no artifacts or dates were found, theres no question that someone dug out the cave and built a substantial 2-foot-tall berm of rock and dirt at the caves lip for concealment. Poe said, You can kind of stand up in the cave. You could get four guys to sleep in it, and down below is evidence of a brush fence to enclose cattle or horses.
As we stood atop the hideout on a sandstone ledge facing Sleeping Ute Mountain, Poe said, Sundance may have heard about this cave. Well never know, but in Montezuma County, rumors abound.
Longtime rancher Al Heaton has found outlaw hideouts on his range including Squaw Point on Bureau of Land Management land west of Pleasant View. Heaton found rocks built up under an overhang big enough for two people to sleep in with a firepit out front and a horse corral 500 yards away well secluded from each other. Heaton adds, The distance gives it away as an outlaw hideout. Sheepherders would have had their corrals right there.
He found another site five miles from Slickrock with a pretty fancy fireplace and a hidden meadow that you just have to ride into to see it. You cant see it from across the canyon, and it has feed enough for a month. I found it tracking a cow.
At Indian Camp Ranch, Archie Hanson has a root cellar that may have been an outlaw hangout, but theres no evidence of habitation even though local legends tell of outlaws using nearby Alkali Creek. Former Cortez barber Carl Armstrong spoke with Walter Longabaugh, who died at 98. The aging Longabaugh told him, When I was 12 or 14 I carried fresh eggs, milk and butter to the dugout. My mother would fix it all up. But were not sure which dugout received the provisions.
What we do know was a famous horse race with Butch and Sundance in McElmo Canyon near Hartman Draw on a big flat left a Ute Indian dead and caused the cowboys to flee to Robbers Roost in Utah. Armstrong says, They had a horse race and bet a horse against a horse. They lived in a dugout and had a run-in with Indians not over who won the race but what the spoils would be. Guns were drawn over the disagreement and the cowboys slapped leather.
Once they won a local Mancos horse race, but they didnt take any money out of the country. They gave it all back in the bars and such, Armstrong said.
In Western history the outgoing, jovial Butch, and the quiet, sharpshooting Sundance made quite a name for themselves. Sundance took up with the beautiful Etta Place and bought her a diamond watch at Tiffanys in New York. They went on to rob banks and trains but never small homesteaders or ranchers. Its still a mystery where Butch and Sundance lived and hid out in Montezuma County, but in the end they died in a shootout with the Bolivian army in 1908. Or did they? Into the 1930s there were supposed sightings of Butch across the West.
Donna B. Ernst wrote The Sundance Kid (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009) and it is a standard reference, but theres a new book by Marilyn Grace titled Finding the Sundance Kid: Solving the Wild Bunch Mystery. She dug up a grave in Duchesne, Utah, and claims DNA testing on the remains proves it was Sundance, buried in 1936 under the alias William Henry Long.
Duchesne Mayor Rojean Rowley agrees: Theyve dug up this grave three times and its my understanding that its the Sundance Kid. Its an outlaw with a hole in his leg, though theres controversy among the family about it.
Thats the thing about famous outlaws. They ride the Outlaw Trail and not only do their legends live on, they wont stay dead and buried.
Andrew Gulliford is a professor of history and environmental studies at Fort Lewis College. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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New Study Finds Bankers Expect Big Challenges And Few Benefits From Dodd-Frank 1073
A new report indicates that bankers are sour about the upcoming implementation of Dodd-Frank 1073, a new regulation that is intended to increase transparency for customers making cross-border payments. The report, released today by Fundtech, a global banking transactions company, found that nearly 90% of bankers expect Dodd-Frank 1073 to have a negative impact on their payments business. And the majority of bankers surveyed (52%) said that they did not think that the regulation would deliver the intended benefits to consumers. Only 2% of the respondents expected the regulation to deliver those benefits.
[See Related: CFPB's New Remittance Regulations Could Shake Up the International Payments Market]
The doubt that bankers have in the effectiveness of the regulation can be demonstrated by the rule that banks will have to give customers 30 minutes to cancel a cross-border payment. Although bankers will have to adjust policies and operations to comply with this rule, only 2% of the banks surveyed by Fundtech report that customers frequently rescind orders. Of those banks that kept track of those cancellation requests, 43% said that they had never had a customer ask to cancel a cross-border payment before.
"Our own research [finds] that 50% [of banks] believe it will have an extremely negative impact on their payments business," Nancy Atkinson, a senior analyst at research firm Aite Group, said of the regulation in a statement released by Fundtech. "Banks will need to determine the importance of international electronic fund transfers to their businesses and how they will provide these services."
Jonathan Camhi has been an associate editor with Bank Systems & Technology since 2012. He previously worked as a freelance journalist in New York City covering politics, health and immigration, and has a master's degree from the City University of New York's Graduate School ... View Full Bio


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Jim Carrey has penned a story for kids titled How Roland Rolls about a scared wave called Roland.
"I wrote a children's book. Because I just think, I want to be part of special moments for people and to me, there's nothing more special than the moment before bed when you're reading a story with your kid. That's one of those moments where it's just kind of a little slice of heaven when you're reading the story," he said.
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When you're trying to decide where to eat, knowing what's on the menu is important. But for restaurants trying to bring customers through the door, what's not on the menu is just as important.
Secret menus aren't new. In-N-Out Burger has had one for years. But experts say more companies are now adding secret menu items, which are even catching on overseas in places like the United Kingdom and Singapore.
Especially in this economy, restaurants want to set themselves apart. And in order to do so, they have to connect with customers.
"If you have a secret menu or if customers know the secret menu, they feel like they're insiders," says Bret Thorn, senior food editor of Nation's Restaurant News, a trade publication. "They feel kind of a personal connection to the restaurant; they feel they know something that maybe not everybody else does. And everyone loves that."
Nowadays, secret menus pretty much have the same items you'd find on a regular menu, just mixed up in a different way. But the menus make people feel like they're in on something. It's like they've become restaurant insiders, or like they've cracked some big code.
The latest player to jump into the secret menu game is Panera Bread. Last month, the company rolled out six new items.
One thing you won't see on Panera Bread's secret menu? Bread.
As Scott Davis, who oversees menus for Panera Bread, explains, "This is probably the most extreme anti-kind of Panera diet you can have, right? It doesn't include bread and flour and that sort of stuff."
Davis says the company had been missing out on a whole group of diners: diabetics and people who were cutting carbs or avoiding gluten. This menu lets the company tap into that growing health-conscious market.
"If someone never considered Panera before because the name 'bread' is in it ... this is a way of opening that door," says Davis.
So at its 1,800 stores around the country, Panera trained its employees to either pull out the secret menu card or scan a code that'll put the menu on a customer's mobile device.
But only if someone asks for it.
Davis says the reason they're doing it this way is because it saves money. According to him, "It's a lot easier to execute, not having to go through the printing of all the collateral materials, and ultimately cluttering up the cafe with too many messages."
There are no brochures or huge ad campaigns. And because it's a pretty low-risk experiment, it's no big deal if Panera decides later that it doesn't want to make these items anymore.
Panera is getting the word out through its customer loyalty program and through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. It's not uncommon for restaurants launching secret menus to use word of mouth in this way.
But that doesn't always cut it. I found that out when I went through two different McDonald's drive-throughs recently looking for a Monster Mac — that's a Big Mac with eight patties — and left empty-handed.
Oh, well. I'm probably better off without it anyway.
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No, I prefer this this Americanized rendition that gets to sit on a pile of wide buttered egg noodles. There's something about the rich, creamy, tender beef wrapped inside those fat ribbons of pasta that really does it for me.
Monday, March 28, 2011
No Russian this Beef Stroganoff Recipe
No, I prefer this this Americanized rendition that gets to sit on a pile of wide buttered egg noodles. There's something about the rich, creamy, tender beef wrapped inside those fat ribbons of pasta that really does it for me.
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- Julie Hall said...
All-Clad 13" French Skillet with lid?
- March 28, 2011 at 4:24 PM
- Chef John said...
- March 28, 2011 at 4:28 PM
what can I substitute white wine with? or can i mot it all together?
- March 28, 2011 at 6:08 PM
No, one Putin joke was fine! I laughed very hard during the first one.
I'm going to have to make this when I get home. (Not a lot of cooking goes on in college, just booze and ramen!) - March 28, 2011 at 6:10 PM
- Chef John said...
Just use half the amount of white wine vinegar and half water.
- March 28, 2011 at 6:29 PM
When do you personally opt for stainless or enamel, or would you consider them interchangeable?
What grade meat did you use for this? Did you have a choice?
Jim - March 28, 2011 at 6:48 PM
- Andy said...
What a great recipe! I'd love to see your version of Brazilian Strogonoff too. I'd imagine it's pretty easy -- and tasty as well!
- March 28, 2011 at 7:10 PM
- Chef John said...
Either works! I prefer the SS here.
- March 28, 2011 at 7:11 PM
Yeah! Finally I know how to make this!
- March 28, 2011 at 9:08 PM
- cdcphoenix said...
Yes! This is almost exactly how I make Stroganoff, and haven't seen a recipe like it anywhere. Love the idea for a touch of garlic, and the chives really rock the presentation. The biggest news for me in this video, because there's always something wonderful, is the tip to ask the butcher for a single muscle cut of chuck. Fighting those membranes and misshapen pieces takes some of the fun out of the preparation. Now I'm excited to make this again.
And creme fraiche is in its first stage on the counter as I write.
Thanks Chef John!
Claudine - March 28, 2011 at 10:19 PM
Beef Stroganoff is wonderful with buttered rice (but that might be a Chinese thing.
- March 28, 2011 at 10:22 PM
- Unknown said...
Mmmmmm, yummy!
So far, I prefer your personal movies, because of course your cooking and teaching skills, but even more I enjoy your puns. Too bad the sponsored movies don't have the puns. - March 28, 2011 at 10:40 PM
- Tam said...
Chef John,
With what wine would you recommend to pair this? It looks delicious! - March 28, 2011 at 10:58 PM
- Chef John said...
i think any lighter red would work
- March 28, 2011 at 11:43 PM
hey chef jon, why are there no pickled cucumbers in your stroganoff? I always thought that was what it made stroganoffy
- March 29, 2011 at 2:26 AM
- Chef John said...
I knew I forgot something!
- March 29, 2011 at 2:44 AM
- Fatcat said...
CHEF JOHN: I would luv to know where you got your WIDE egg noodles from. I live in the South Bay and I sure can't find any that WIDE in our local stores down here. I was thinking of using lasagna noodles and cutting them lenght wise when tender enough? Thanks..
- March 29, 2011 at 1:40 PM
Hey Chef John, I absolutely love your website! I had a question for you: You made a good point about the weakness of sour cream to separate and curdle, is that also true of Greek yogurt? Thanks so much.
- March 29, 2011 at 3:35 PM
- Chef John said...
I'm not sure if that breaks also. Havent used in a hot sauce before, only as a marinade. Maybe someone here knows! :-)
- March 29, 2011 at 3:37 PM
Beef Stroganoff is always on the top of my favorites! Thanks for sharing with us! And such a great video too. I especially like the "clock reflection in the lid" part. Nice touch. :)
Now off to make some creme fraiche! - March 29, 2011 at 4:08 PM
- julie {chefjulieyoon} said...
chef john,
this looks amazing. I'm a big fan of anything involving buttered noodles...your home made creme fraiche really puts it over the top.
julie - March 29, 2011 at 5:29 PM
- Food Junkie said...
Thanks for the recipe. I have loved this dish since I was little. So tasty and yet so simple.
- March 29, 2011 at 7:09 PM
- Noliebean said...
use this recipe all the time (once a week at least) although i use sour cream so now i have to get the creme fraiche to try! thank you so much for sharing!
- March 29, 2011 at 8:20 PM
aww...reminds me of my father..tycj. Oh btw, what happened to your end-grain cutting board?/end randomness
- March 30, 2011 at 6:54 PM
- DeafeningWhaler said...
Chef John,
I made the crème fraîche a few nights ago, which turned out excellent. Very easy to do and almost no cleanup. Since it was ready last night, I made this recipe. The family and I enjoyed it greatly. So much so that our normally talkative dinner table was quiet. I have to say it was the best beef stroganoff I've had. I'll be making this again. For dessert, we had strawberries and crème fraîche, which was most excellent. :D Thanks for sharing. - April 1, 2011 at 12:11 PM
- Kurt said...
Chef John,
Last night we had dinner guests and I made your Stroganoff. I made the Creme Fraiche two nights before. For desert I made your Chocolate Pot de Creme recipe. Everybody loved everything and there were several gastronomic orgasms from the Pot de Creme's. Thanks for the great recipes.Keep them coming! - April 3, 2011 at 9:57 PM
- Greginspace said...
Made this last night and will definitely make again!. The epitome of "brown food" this is just one of the most comforting of dishes. Used the homemade Creme Fraiche I started on Friday night; what a treat! You'll be glad to know, Chef John, that the link to the Creme Fraiche video got my dear foodie brother to subscribe to Foodwishes :D
- April 4, 2011 at 8:59 PM
I made this tonight. It came out wonderful. Thanks Chef.
- April 10, 2011 at 12:44 AM
- Stephanie Du Trieu said...
Chef John,
I watched your Crème fraiche video and was thinking quietly to myself that I should try to make it. My husband went out and got all the stuff without me knowing and made it from your recipe, turned out fabulous, and it was a great surprise. I made this stroganoff tonight with it, and he gobbled it up like it would disappear if he didn't eat fast enough, which is amazing because he doesn't usually enjoy stroganoff. Thank you for another amazing recipe! - April 14, 2011 at 12:26 AM
- Chef John said...
Well, you have a great husband! (and he has a great wife ;-)
- April 14, 2011 at 12:34 AM
- Jim said...
This was the best beef stroganoff I've ever eaten and the homemade creme fraiche was fantastic!
- May 11, 2011 at 10:23 PM
Chef John, I'm in the UK and stumbled upon your recipe after a girlfriend asked if I could cook Stroganoff, which I of course repied 'yes' before panic set in.
Problem solved with your excellent video and I've now bought some Creme Fraiche (no time to make my own) andthe rest of the ingredients, hoping that Meat Chuck is the equivalent of Braising Steak here in the UK.
Also assuming 'Beef Broth' is Beef Stock, though no idea what you mean when you say it's 'divided'.
Tomorrow I need to acquire a large frying pan with a lid then we're set to rock and roll so finger's crossed and thanks again for the video. - May 26, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Vincent said...
No Cyrillic? Cям oн ю, ceф Чон, cям oн ю!
It was really tasty though, every time I cook something that's on here people ask me to cook it again some other time. - June 19, 2011 at 9:40 PM
Love'd it! I almost went to prison for it because my wife ate the leftovers and didn't save me any;-)
- July 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM
- chiajx said...
Made this for the second time, and seasoned it much better after my first attempt. This particular time was for my mother's birthday! She loved it! Thanks again for an amazing recipe!
- August 18, 2011 at 10:59 PM
Not raciest, I'm part German and I love German and Russian food as well. Stroganoff is so great.
- August 27, 2011 at 12:42 AM
Making this right now but only have red wine. Should I go to the store or use the red?
- October 5, 2011 at 4:52 PM
- Chef John said...
You can use red, but may look a little pink.
- October 5, 2011 at 5:10 PM
Thank you! Pink doesn't sound appetizing. I think I will run to the store. LCJ (Love Chef John!)
- October 5, 2011 at 5:35 PM
I made this yesterday for our anniversary - my husband loves my usual strog recipe made with prime steak and lots of sour cream, so he was skeptical about doing it this way with a cheaper cut of meat. But now I'm not allowed to make it any other way. I even added a bit of paprika and cayenne (yes really) for a bit of extra earthiness. I didn't fancy drinking white wine with my dinner last night, and not wanting to buy a bottle just to use a splash or two in my strog I used dry vermouth instead, which worked very well. The sauce thickened and reduced lke a dream, velvety and smooth and rich, and the creme fraiche (bought, sorry chef, I didn't have time to make my own) was a revelation - none of the splitting or greasiness you get from soured cream. Smashing!
- October 14, 2011 at 6:05 AM
Ahh, I made this yesterday, again. Amazing.. So, you're 25% Russian? Borscht anyone?? hint, hint :) Thanks for everything, Chef :)
- November 6, 2011 at 1:27 PM
I love love love this recipe. Making it again today (4th time). I now keep white wine frozen in a container in the freezer just for this recipe. It scoops out like a slushy. LCJ!
- November 20, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- dahdog said...
You really need some fresh dill with this...
- January 12, 2012 at 11:32 AM
- Valerie said...
Just finished this dinner, and think I had a foodgasm - even made the creme fraiche, per your video. Aaawww yeeaaah! This is now my new favorite thing to make/eat!!! I love your blog SO much! You make me be a better cook!
- February 6, 2012 at 7:37 PM
dear chef,,you forgot to add the paprika,stroganoff always has paprika,,best wishes david marlow
- February 27, 2012 at 6:32 AM
Great recipe, John! Cooking it right now and got a question about pickled cucumbers mentioned here. When to add them? Or not to add them at all?
Oh, I've got to give my noodles a stir! :) - May 31, 2012 at 8:40 AM
I can't believe how long you were stahlin to take a bite of that dish!
just did this for the fam and was vantastic!!!! I sprinkled over some porcini powdered mushrooms to make the "earthy" flavour more pronounced and the wife was very impressed!!!!
thanks John! - June 4, 2012 at 2:05 PM
- Garry Morera said...
Hello Chef John,
My wife just made this, and it was awesome..
thanks for sharing this with us. Foodwishes is our favorite food blog and youtube channel.
Here is the picture..
Garry & Dona - June 25, 2012 at 5:35 AM
Hey Chef John, how many servings does this recipe give? Cuz I'm making this for 4 people.
- July 17, 2012 at 5:53 AM
- Chef John said...
Makes 4
- July 17, 2012 at 8:26 AM
This is (swear word) amazing! That is all.
- September 15, 2012 at 11:00 AM
- Joe LaGreca said...
Do you think you could use a tri tip for this recipe?
- October 2, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- wonderfulbryan said...
Making this now, and can't wait to try. Oopsidentally using vegtable stock instead, and my beef couldn't wait gil the creme fraiche was ready, so sour cream it is! Love the videos, thanks
- November 14, 2012 at 9:34 PM
- Lucia said...
I just made this recipe! Had to use canned mushrooms since I had none fresh left... And it turned out pretty good. I live in the uk and used stewing beef which ended up super tender after the hour in the pot ;) My husband is amazed on my cooking skills, we have only been married for 6 months and believes I am a professional. Thanks Chef!!
- November 26, 2012 at 4:01 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey chef John, I have a silly question, but what do you think would happen to the beef stroganoff if I put Greek yoghurt in the sauce instead of cream frache??
- January 14, 2013 at 8:01 AM
My wife commented last night that she was in the mood for filet, and I wanted to try Chef John's mushroom pan sauce (I had a half-pound of shitake and crimini mushrooms I had bought a week ago sitting in the fridge), but we settled on beef stroganoff instead.
Well, had I checked on my mushrooms beforehand I might not have been so hell-bent on using them, but we had settled on this so I had to deliver. The mushrooms were dried out but not slimy, so I thought I could revive them by soaking them in warm water for a few minutes. I did that and thought the "tea" smelled so good it would be a shame to waste it, so I decided to roughly chop the unused stems and add them back to the stock and reduce it until I had about 1/4 cup left, and added that, strained, to the beef broth that is called for in the recipe.
Other than that, I didn't have creme fraiche (I've been meaning to try making some but haven't gotten around to it yet) so I mixed light sour cream and heavy whipping cream in equal parts and let that sit in the fridge for a few hours until I needed it.
Everything turned out wonderfully! It smelled so good simmering on the stovetop, and was so satisfying to eat... I've always loved beef stroganoff, but this was so, so, good! And relatively easy, despite the longer cooking time.
I can't wait to try it again with home made creme fraiche!
Thanks Chef John! - January 28, 2013 at 7:15 PM
- Estoy_Listo said...
Another winner.
I upped the mushrooms a bit, and I browned that meat like there was no tomorrow--lots of frond in the pan. And I'm happy to report that I have a jar of CJ's creme fraiche in the fridge--so I was good to go. - June 23, 2013 at 9:55 PM
- Greg said...
This meat was so tender and tasty. After following your recipe for Creme Fraiche, it was perfect using it this Stroganoff. I have always had separating of sour creme and it was a pleasure seeing the Creme Fraiche didn't. Great recipe, John.
- July 16, 2013 at 10:32 PM
- paulinepslee said...
Love your video and recipes, you make cooking so easy. So far, i have made this recipe twice.
Your fan all the way from Asia. Keep the recipes coming! - July 30, 2013 at 2:09 AM
- Unknown said...
One of the easiest beef recipes that you can actually make for dinner.
- October 7, 2013 at 4:12 AM
- Unknown said...
I made this two weeks ago when Chuck was on sale. It was awful tempting to get started right away, but I went through the two day process of making my own creme fraîche. First of all, the creme fraiche worked like a charm and was delicious and beautiful. It doesn't last in the fridge as long as a popular "triple churned" sour cream, but was nice to make. Frankly, I won't make creme fraiche again - sour cream works well, and you really cannot tell the difference; traditionally beef stroganoff, is made with sour creme anyway. Still, I wanted to try it.
Now, the beef stroganoff - lovely, velvety, delicious, but TOO SALTY. I'm a salt lover and it's rare for me to say something is too salty (I drink pickle brine, okay?).
So what I will do next time, is not salt anything until the dish has come together. My theory is that by concentrating down the liquids, the salt content gets concentrated.
Other than that, I'm making it again. I haven't had it since I was a kid, and this brought back warm memories, and basically disappeared between two of us.
Thumbs up once again Chef John. - November 16, 2013 at 7:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Made this with the creme fraiche on buttery mashed potatoes.
As you say, it is truly
"amazeen." :) - December 29, 2013 at 4:39 PM
- Unknown said...
On my way to make some pasta dough for pappardelle. I keep Creme fraiche in the fridge (make my own. Why buy)
I have a chuck roast in the freezer I'll pull out for this and do it tomorrow. Your recipes are totally reliable. Was reading Chow and there was a reference to stroganoff so I am over and did a search on your site.
By the way, loved your stuffed peppers made them a few days ago.
Terry - April 9, 2014 at 10:01 AM
- Unknown said...
This is just one of my many favorite recipes on your site. I just love you! I haven't made anything from your site that hasn't been amazing or magnificent...my boyfriend loves you too, he says thanks!
- April 9, 2014 at 1:23 PM
- Unknown said...
This is just one of my many favorite recipes on your site. I just love you! I haven't made anything from your site that hasn't been amazing or magnificent...my boyfriend loves you too, he says thanks!
- April 9, 2014 at 1:24 PM
- AmandaW said...
I like how this is just a big, elaborate promotion for his homemade creme fraiche... ;)
- May 24, 2014 at 3:07 PM
- Jackie Reynolds said...
I know that it's been over three years since this post but I finally made it today for a birthday dinner party. Everyone said it was by far the best stroganoff they had ever had. Thank you so much Chef John.
PS The creme fraiche turned out fantastic as well.
- June 14, 2014 at 1:12 AM
- Unknown said...
Excellent! I used 2 onions and sour cream. My family loved it! thanks
- July 9, 2014 at 7:11 PM
- Unknown said...
Will this work with chicken stock?
- October 10, 2014 at 6:46 AM
- Erin said...
Hello Chef John,
I recently discovered your blog and videos. When I made this beef stroganoff in late September, it came out great, but when I made if last night, it was fantastic! I had more patience to sear the meat longer to get a richer flavor. Also, we made the crème frâche. It was so simple, and so delicious. The sauce tasted like velvet.
I look forward to learning more from Food Wishes. And as an Italian American from Rochester, I have a special appreciation for all the regional foods from Upstate New York. Though I am in St. Louis now and can't shop at Wegmans, I am thankful for the many local specialty stores to buy good ingredients. Thanks! - November 8, 2014 at 11:34 AM
- Gloria Kelley said...
Made this beef stroganoff tonight exactly as written except used red wine. I seared the beef very, very well to obtain an incredibly rich gravy.
This was without a doubt the best beef stroganoff I've ever had my guests loved it, I loved it and this is a keeper. Used your recipe for crème fraîche and it really was better than the usual sour cream i've always used.
So the secret is use chuck meat for flavor, sear it very well for richness, be sure to cook it long enough so that it's very tender, and by all means mix in crème fraîche.
- January 27, 2015 at 2:14 AM
- Rhonda said...
I have been using the recipes on your blog for about 6 months (probably more) now. It has transformed me into a rather good cook (courtesy of your videos and instructions on your blog…I would be nothing without them). I apologize for not leaving a comment sooner. I feel it necessary to leave a comment because oddly enough most of the commentators have not tried to make the meal on the blog. So, here it goes: This is actually the second time I have made the stroganoff. The first time with sour cream and this last time with homemade creme fraiche. Both were delicious, but we enjoyed the creme fraiche version better. It is worth making the creme and it was soooooo easy. I made the stroganoff exactly like you did (except my cut of meat was not as superb) and it came out amazing! Definitely a keeper...like 99.999% of your recipes. This recipe was very easy. The only "hard" part to it, was that it had to simmer for 1 hour. Thank you for a lovely dinner Chef John!
- January 31, 2015 at 9:02 AM
- Gloria Kelley said...
I found that chuck roast cut into small pieces as you suggested, took about two hours on low simmer to completely tenderize. That was no problem because I'm never in that much of a hurry. I use chuck roast for beef stew, pot roast and other braising dishes all the time so I knew it would take longer than one hour. It makes the most delicious gravy.
- February 1, 2015 at 11:49 AM
- Unknown said...
This is the best easiest stroganoff I have ever cooked or eaten. The only thing I used different was beef consumme and man this dish was rich in flavor.
Oh yeah that creme thing......it's on my list to do. Looking forward to it.
thanks for such a simple delicious meal! - November 9, 2015 at 9:23 PM
- Shawna said...
Just made this last night for my hubster's birthday - sweet buttery jesus - this is excellent. Substituted the white wine for red wine, then added a few splashes of balsamic vinegar to the mix at the very end. Incredible recipe.
- November 19, 2015 at 1:59 PM
- Unknown said...
Hey chef, i love your youtube videos.
Me and my wife have made chicken noodle soup and recently the alfredo chicken recipe. I want to get to doing this recipe, but i have one question: when you say white wine, do you actually mean the wine or white wine vinegar? And if so, what brand can you direct me too? - December 17, 2015 at 12:24 AM
- Espyw said...
Chef John, this was an awesome dish! We subsituted brandy for the wine and added a little extra beef stock. So glad we did because everyone loved it!
- December 19, 2015 at 7:33 PM
- Unknown said...
Hi, Chef John,
Making this dish for 20 people for my birthday, dec 26th... thanks for your lesson...
I guess because you are simmering the meat for a long time in the already sautéed
juices, there is no need to marinade the meat in advance, right?
Ed D.
- December 24, 2015 at 6:42 PM
- Unknown said...
Hello Chef John, I just got a set of stainless steel cookware for Christmas and the directions say not to use it on high heat. This recipe requires searing on high heat and you're using stainless steel but you obviously know what you're doing, so may I ask what kind of stainless steel cookware you use? Are some better than others? Mine is cuisinart...do you recommend any particular brand or shall I attempt to use what I have despite the warnings?
Thank you so much - January 12, 2016 at 12:34 PM
- Native Born said...
Is it safe to assume if you do not have SS that you can use cast iron??
- April 11, 2016 at 8:15 PM
- Unknown said...
Made this tonight for the second or third time, but tonight was the first time I actually made it with the creme fraiche. So amazing. I was a skeptic when I started the creme fraiche process a few days ago...no faith. But now I'm a believer. Really makes a world of difference over store-bought sour cream. Thanks again chef!
- October 8, 2016 at 9:53 PM
- Unknown said...
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- October 23, 2016 at 4:17 PM
- Norma said...
OMG! This came out so good. We made our own crème fraiche per your other recipe. This is a keeper...plate-licking good.
- November 1, 2016 at 1:46 PM
- Unknown said...
I don't have a big SS pan, just big non-stick skillet, but I assume I can use my big cast iron skillet.
- December 16, 2017 at 4:33 PM
- Shelly said...
How come the egg noodles are not listed with the other ingredients? How do I know how much to buy?
- January 13, 2018 at 1:12 PM
- Unknown said...
I made this tonight with whatever ingredients I had available: one smallish New York strip steak, some less-than-fresh white button mushrooms, red wine, homemade chicken stock, and homemade yogurt. With all of the substitutions, I wasn't sure whether it was going to be any good. I was so pleasantly surprised, it turned out to be absolutely delicious. I did luck out since I used strip, I didn't have to simmer it for very long. Also, I forgot to add the flour at the right time, but I made up a roux and microwaved it to cook off the raw flavor and just used it to thicken the sauce at the very end, with the yogurt. Saved! And I got to use up all those mushrooms before they got away. :)
- March 31, 2018 at 12:39 AM
- Unknown said...
I made this yesterday with my homemade creme fraiche. It was amazing. Thank you so much for the recipe. The only thing I did different is that I added a few sprigs of Thyme and a bay leaf. I also used red wine because I didn't have white. Lastly, I used homemade chicken stock with some beef better than bouillon. Paired the dish with homemade egg noodles. It was divine.
- August 20, 2018 at 1:54 PM
- Unknown said...
when you post the recipe for foodwishes, could you also include the instructions as well as the Ingredients: someday this video could disappear and we would lose that recipe. it would be nice to just print out the recipe and go the kitchen and start cooking. I do know there are things like ipads but my version isn't kitchen safe.
- September 21, 2018 at 4:48 PM
- Unknown said...
when you post the recipe for foodwishes, could you also include the instructions as well as the Ingredients: someday this video could disappear and we would lose that recipe. it would be nice to just print out the recipe and go the kitchen and start cooking. I do know there are things like ipads but my version isn't kitchen safe.
- September 21, 2018 at 4:48 PM
- Unknown said...
Thanks for the recipe, I made this dish tonight for the first time ever and it turned out great! The hardest part was waiting, while the aroma made me hungry! Great video,God bless.
- October 18, 2018 at 7:26 PM
- A Kitchen Advisor said...
Thank you very much for an upgraded version of Beef Stroganoff. By adding pasta, mushrooms and onion you made it different...but still very creamy and delicious. Recently we made Beef Stroganoff in more traditional way:
Thank you very much for your ingenuity and great sense of humor. - February 21, 2019 at 9:29 PM
- Teman Jiwamu said...
Yummy Thanks Chef!
- March 4, 2019 at 3:06 AM
- Unknown said...
I was looking for your recipe on how to make creme fresh, as I always was told by chefs it is the same thing.
- June 23, 2019 at 4:48 AM
- Josh Hassan said...
Wow nice, very interesting
- October 28, 2019 at 4:57 AM


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March 27, 2013
According to Russian state media, Alexander Abnosov's adoptive family didn't treat him well — he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and had to steal to survive. The Kremlin banned American adoption of Russian children in December.
March 27, 2013
According to Russian state media, Alexander Abnosov's adoptive family didn't treat him well — he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and had to steal to survive. The Kremlin banned American adoption of Russian children in December.
Alexander Abnosov shows his American passport to journalists in the Volga river city of Cheboksary, Russia. His 72 -years old grandmother is in the background. Abnosov was adopted by an American couple at age 12 has returned to Russia claiming that his parents treated him badly, according to reports from Russian media with close ties to the Kremlin.
MOSCOW — A teenager adopted by an American couple has returned to Russia after five years claiming that his adoptive family treated him badly and that he lived on the streets of Philadelphia and stole just to survive, according to Russian state media reports.
The allegations by Alexander Abnosov, now 18, will likely fuel outrage here over the fate of Russian children adopted by Americans. It's an anger that the Kremlin has carefully stoked to justify its controversial ban on U.S. adoptions.
Russia's Channel 1 and Rossiya television — which are both state controlled — reported Tuesday that Abnosov returned from a Philadelphia suburb to the Volga river city of Cheboksary, where his 72-year-old grandmother lives.
Russian media identified the teen as Alexander Abnosov, but also show him displaying a U.S. passport that gives his name as Joshua Alexander Salotti.
Abnosov, who spoke in a soft voice and appeared somewhat restrained, complained to Rossiya that his adoptive mother was "nagging at small things."
"She would make any small problem big," he said on Channel 1. He also told Channel 1 that he fled home because of the conflicts with his adoptive mother, staying on the streets for about three months and stealing.
"I was stealing stuff and sold them to get some food," he said with a shy smile.
According to the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Abnosov says that his parents visited him while he stayed in a shelter in Philadelphia, but that they didn't ask him to come home as he'd expected. Channel 1 said his adoptive father gave him $500 to buy a ticket to Russia, though it wasn't clear when he arrived here.
The newspaper said it reached Abnosov's adoptive mother, who denied driving him away. She was quoted as saying he was asked to come home, but said he wanted to return to Russia where he has relatives to care for.
The teen's adoptive parents — identified in the media reports as Steve and Jackie Salotti — could not immediately be reached Tuesday. A woman who identified herself as a relative at the couple's home in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, said the parents weren't there and did not want to discuss the case.
Abnosov's story was top news on Russian state television, which tried to cast it as an example of the alleged misfortunes that befall Russian children adopted by U.S. parents.
The Russian government in December banned all American adoptions of Russian children in retaliation for a new U.S. law targeting alleged Russian human-rights violators.
Some 60,000 children have been adopted by Americans in the past two decades, and many Russians disagree with the ban, seeing it as a politically driven move depriving children of a chance to have a family.
To help justify it, the ban has been accompanied by extensive state media coverage of what is described as numerous cases of parental cruelty to adopted Russian children in the United States. The Kremlin also has accused U.S. authorities of turning a blind eye to such cases.
Most recently, Russian officials pointed to the Jan. 21 death of 3-year-old Max Shatto, born Maxim Kuzmin, whose mother found him unresponsive outside their home in Gardendale, Texas.
Russian officials claimed the boy was the victim of "inhuman treatment," and expressed disbelief with an American grand jury decided earlier this month not to charge Max's adoptive parents in his death after a prosecutor concluded his fatal injuries were accidental.
Abnosov's grandmother told Rossiya that she was refused custody of her grandson after his alcoholic father died five years ago.
"I've been asking them to give me the boy," she said, referring to child welfare officials. "But I was very ill then, and they told me I was too old and ill to raise him."
Abnosov indicated he plans to stay in Russia, and state media reported that he is going through the legal process needed to establish at what level he would fit in the Russian education system
Courtesy: AP


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DC++ is an open source client for Windows for the Direct Connect network. Direct Connect allows you to share files over the Internet without restrictions or limits. The client is completely free of advertisements and has a nice, easy to use interface. Firewall and router support is integrated and it is easy and convenient to use functionality like multi-hub connections, auto-connections and resuming of downloads.
DC++ offers these improvements over its predecessors:
- Much more stable. DC++ wastes less memory, is faster, file size is smaller and long queue won't freeze the whole program. Neo-Modus Direct Connect eats memory and resources.
- You can connect to many hubs at same time and search for files from all of them with same search.
- You can continue downloading the same file from other users if somebody leaves.
- You can see timestamps in the chat. Chat won't jump to end when you roll back old messages.
- Bot messages wont popup new windows, you can also filter bot messages out.
- No Ads.
- Search is more versatile.
- Hublist is downloadable from multiple servers/sources.