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|Brief Summary
|The Icky Beginning
|Everything turns for the worst when the Turners hire Vicky for the 10,000th time. As Vicky tortures Timmy using old moments that Timmy thought would kill him, such us blasting him with a laser and putting him under an axe pendulum, Timmy finds out they were nothing but mere pranks to scare him off. Timmy gets his revenge on Vicky, only for her to grow more suspicious of his goldfish. What could possibly go more wrong? Find out in the big beginning of the great plot.
|Torture Zone
|A classic plot, involving the same Timmy and Vicky, but without Timmy's source of power. See as our favorite protagonist gets terrorized, by our favorite antagonist, in a rather twisty plot!
|Trouble o' Tootsday
|Tootie meets the really really new threat, Vicky. She's always an old constant threat to her, but after she learns of her new change, that is being a cruel fairy, she uses Vicky to finally hang out with Timmy, unaware of what she did with the wishes she granted to the little sister before. What's going to happen to Tootie and Timmy, as an even newer threat? Find out.
|Clone Un-Control
|A new ride opened up in Adrenaland, hyping up Timmy and Vicky, but because of the latter's control over him, she decides he is not going to ride it and makes a clone to look over him while she's out. Everything goes too awkward when the clone happens to have no control. How will Timmy deal with this new difficulty?
|The Fortressy Midnight
|Jorgen discovered one of Vicky's weakness points, that is sleeping, due to her torture that tires her quickly, and used it to talk to Timmy freely in the midnight at Timmy's treehouse. They're going to get a fortress to defend themselves from her and as a base of operations. Can they set it up in time, though?
|The Grand Med-EVIL Castle
|Vicky gets a bad nightmare, which made her go meaner than usual, to the point she changed Tootie's bed with a toilet after she yelled so loud, waking her up. As Jorgen wakes up inside Timmy's tree-fortress, he asks the fortress' CPU for information. Only to find that Timmy walked out without him, blaming Vicky for this... how will this end?
|Crockering Season
|Jorgen gets a new plan to try and overthrow Vicky, and that is using Timmy as a distracting tool for her and get Mr. Crocker to capture her, in order to get her wand and become a fairy again. How will his plan turn out to be?
|Transformed Mini-Dash
|A big remote controlled car race is about to begin as Timmy learns that in order for him to join, he must have a guardian because he's under 15. Timmy goes to his parents, hoping that his guardian wouldn't be Vicky, only to find out that Mrs. Turner is ill, and they have to leave him with Vicky, who will ruin the day for him as always. How will it end?
|Jetmaniac Chase
|Timmy takes the opportunity to steal Vicky's jetpack and fairy gear and uses them to run away from her, as her magic became very limited without them. Meanwhile, she meets an old enemy of Timmy's and uses him to her advantage. What will happen?
|What's going on?
|While Vicky's trying to find entertainment, Fairy World questions where did Jorgen go. Wanda fears the worst, the Special Fairy Finding Forces, a.k.a. the SFFF, bringing Vicky to court and turning Fairy World to a mess. What's going to happen, and what's going on? Meanwhile, Timmy and Jorgen are playing a game of International Crisis.
|Torture Zone: Act 2
|Timmy comes home from school only to see his parents leaving him Vicky so they can check on Aunt Gertrude. Worse, she claims to be angry at the world. How will Timmy survive the second act of torture chases?
|Burning Passion
|Vicky's clone from "What's going on?" has totally went out of control just like last time after the clone learns of the fairies' immortality. She set Fairly World on fire, and took away the magic of all fairies, even Vicky herself. Wanda however won't leave her, the clone, burn as much as she wants...
|Timmy Turner is once again living his miserable life of survival with his many enemies, Vicky included. However, because of Vicky's transformation to a fairy, Anti-Cosmo and his family discovers something... that would help them.
|Metal Desert
|Vicky takes Timmy to the desert, and this is when they meet their metal doppelgangers. What are they going to do?
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|Brief Summary
|After Timmy Turner sees a spiky meteor. His Girlfriend,Trixe has been STOLEN! Timmy could not do it alone, but With help with his fairys and a boy with brown long hair and has a stange note shaped stick that the boy is holding and has a lightish pink shirt with black sleeves and black pants and brown shoes with a yellow line on them,named tempo Woodwin
Anti Fairly Odd Maddie Edit
My spin-off of Fairly Odd Parents. It would be about me, the Anti Timmy, Ashley A, and the 4 main anti fairies, Anti-Cosmo, Anti-Wanda, Foop, and Anti-Sparky. It would be far better than Fairly Odd Parents, with few mentions of Timmy, Crocker, Cosmo, Vicky, and Poof - the characters you'd all hate and/or get tired of.
Snow Trapped Edit
Snow Spin-Off of The Fairly OddParents and with spinoff My Gym Partner's a Monkey and Danny Phantom the first episode of 2016
List of Snow Trapped episodes
Pilot: 2015 Edit
- Episode 0: Pilot (June 17, 2015)
Season 1: 2016-2017 Edit
- Episode 1: A Tale of Two Boys / The Date (April 23, 2016)
- Episode 2: Secret Tales / Help Wanted: The Army (April 24, 2016)
- Episode 3: Fort in the Trouble / Timmy Is a Beast? (April 25, 2016)
- Episode 4: Birds / Snow Mountain (April 30, 2016)
- Episode 5: The Egg! / Attack of the Sour (April 28, 2016)
- Episode 6: Spider or Consequences / Dimmsdale-Black Up! (May 3, 2016)
- Episode 7: The Whole Dog / Snow Ghost (May 7, 2016)
- Episode 8: Butterfly Trapped / The Second Limonade (May 5, 2016)
- Episode 9: The Snow Biker / Battery Flying (May 11, 2016)
- Episode 10: Potion in Motion, Parts 1 and 2 (May 13, 2016)
- Episode 11: Space Monkey / The Gold Cookie (May 14, 2016)
- Episode 12: Space Alien / Monkey Is a Alien (May 15, 2016)
- Episode 13: Snow Summer / Pirate of the Bummer (June 2, 2016)
- Episode 14: The Snow Temple, Parts 1 and 2 (May 20, 2016)
- Episode 15: The Snow Temple, Part 3 (May 21, 2016)
- Episode 16: The Goldfish / Snow Legend (October 3, 2016)
- Episode 17: Music Trapped / The Modern Bumpers (October 8, 2016)
- Episode 18: Snow Halloween (October 31, 2016)
- Episode 19: The New Boy / Pizza vs. Sandwich (January 2, 2017)
Season 2: 2017-2018 Edit
- Episode 1: Happy Birthday Danny / Modern Success (January 11, 2017)
- Episode 2: The Yeti / Secret Team Wanda (January 15, 2017)
- Episode 3: Tooth Freezy (January 31, 2017)
- Episode 4: Vicky the Food 1 (February 7, 2017)
- Episode 5: Vicky the Food 2 (February 8, 2017)
- Episode 6: Paradies or Consequences / Maze (February 16, 2017)
- Episode 7: Frog Wild / The Temp (April 2, 2017)
- Episode 8: What's Skip and Cartoons (March 12, 2017)
- Episode 9: The Birthday of Adam (May 31, 2017)
- Episodes 10-13: Gang of Birthday (September 8, 2017)
- Episodes 14-17: It's a Warp (Series Finale) (October 23, 2017 - March 2, 2018)


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Xiaomi Mi Mix users will be happy to hear that the company has started rolling out its first Global Stable update. It brings the version v220.127.116.11.MAHMIDL and is about 1466MB (Recovery ROM) in size. MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM is the major upgrade from the Xiaomi which is currently rolling out to several other devices including the Mi Note 2, Mi Max, Redmi 3/Prime, Mi 4, and more.
Here, in this post we have shared complete tutorial on how to flash MIUI 8.2 Recovery/Fastboot ROM on Xiaomi Mi Mix smartphone. It is a simple guide where users need to download the MIUI 8.2 ROM and install it using Updater app. Without much wasting time, do follow the steps one after another to update Mi Mix to MIUI 8.2 Global Stable ROM.
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1. Download MIUI 8.2 Global Stable Recovery ROM from the above download section and save it to root of the device storage. Make sure you have renamed the ROM file as "update.zip".
2. Under tools folder of your Mi Mix device, locate Updater app and launch on your mobile.
3. Tap on the three dots located at the top right corner and choose "Reboot to Recovery Mode".
4. Now the smartphone boots into Mi Recovery.
5. From recovery main menu, choose Install update.zip to System and confirm the flash.
6. Once done, reboot your device.
Check the firmware version from the path Settings > About phone. You'll notice the MIUI version as MIUI 22.214.171.124 which indicates that the ROM has been successfully flashed.
Method 2: Via Mi Updater App
Download MIUI 8.2 ROM from the above link and save it on your device storage. Launch Updater app from the app drawer. Tap on the three dots located at the top right corner and select "choose update package" from the available options. You need to navigate the rom file which you have copied to device storage. Confirm to start the installation process. Once done, the Mi Mix automatically boots into MIUI 8.2 firmware.
Method 3: Mi Flash tool
It is the method exclusively for flashing fastboot rom on your Xiaomi device. This method is mainly followed when your device bricks or any of the above method doesn't works for you. Make sure the device is well charged enough and the USB Debugging is enabled.
1. Download & install Mi Flash Tool on your PC.
2. Download MIUI 8.2 fastboot ROM from the above provided links.
3. Boot your device into fastboot mode (press & hold volume down + power button) and connect it with PC using a USB cable.
4. Copy the ROM folder address to the Mi Flash tool and then click on "Refresh" button. Now, the tool automatically recognizes your device.
5. Once the device is displayed on your PC, simply tap on "Flash" button to start the flashing process. Now you need to wait till the progress bar turns-out completely green indicating that the firmware has been successfully flashed.
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I love my mother and I love my sister. Through them I have found a community of womanhood that celebrates self love and a place to go to when I feel alone, because celebrating self love and womanhood isn't the most welcome topic today. Which is bullshit. This is where I have to let some of my anxiety go so I can actually meet more likeminded women.
I've realized that even when some people say they understand me, there's still some integral disconnect that isn't my fault, and it's not their fault either. We are programmed early on by weird things that stick with us forever, but I do believe it is possible to reprogram ourselves. When you meet the people who haven't undergone that change, though, it's a little off putting. No one wants to have their values turned around and slapped in their face.
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What: Glade Road Orchard you-pick vegetable farm, with berries, fruits and Christmas trees coming in future years.
Where: 3021 Glade Road west of Loveland, 7 miles northwest of downtown.
Hours: 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, and unofficially at other times during the week.
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As the father of five, Dave McMurtrey knows the value of family bonding experiences, and he has planted a you-pick orchard and vegetable farm west of Loveland with the goal of strengthening families.
McMurtrey has opened the vegetable patch at Glade Road Orchard to the public for two seasons now, and he's hoping to start harvesting raspberries and Asian pears next year and apples in 2020.
Eight to 10 years down the road, the farm at 3021 Glade Road also will have a cut-your-own Christmas tree section.
"In all that we've done, we've tried to make it a family experience," he said.
For example, the dwarf root stock he chose for the orchard will produce trees that children can pick from without ladders.
"A 5-year-old should be able to pick an apple for the family," he said.
Many people have fond memories of picking fruit with their families, whether it was strawberries in California or apples in New England, McMurtrey said. But Northern Colorado is short on such opportunities, and he wants to provide one.
"That is a real family-building experience, and we wanted to help create that experience for families," he said.
McMurtrey's vegetable farm is just an interim step while the fruit trees and vines mature, he said, although he plans to continue it into the future.
Harvest time
The 2018 harvest is just starting to take off, with tomatoes, peppers, summer squash, sweet onions, beans and herbs ripening in good numbers, he said.
At this point, the farm is open limited hours: 5-7 p.m. Wednesday and 9 a.m. to noon Saturday.
"There are informal times," McMurtrey added. "If you see the gate open as you drive by, go ahead and stop."
McMurtrey opened the vegetable patch to the public last summer on a trial basis, and he learned a few lessons.
For one thing, he said, 70 varieties of tomatoes was too many, and for another, planting them alphabetically didn't really make sense.
"If one of the customers said, 'I'm making hamburgers tonight, and I just need a slicer,'" he'd have to send the person hunting down several rows.
This year, he has arranged his tomatoes by variety: two rows each of cherry, slicer, salsa, heirloom and sauce tomatoes. With six types of each, he put 1,000 to 1,200 tomato plants in the ground.
The same system goes for his peppers, which are grouped by stuffing, snack and hot pepper varieties.
Overall, McMurtrey said he is growing about 10 types of crops, including cucumbers, summer and winter squash, pumpkins and flowers.
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Certain crops, such as lettuce and potatoes, he stays away from for a reason.
"One of the things we're really trying to differentiate ourselves on is flavor," he said.
"It's hard for me to differentiate my head of lettuce from anyone else's head of lettuce," he said. "It's cheap in the store, and my lettuce would taste the same.
"We're really trying to grow for flavor," he said. "Why else would we grow? We don't have enough ground to grow tons of tomatoes to sell to every restaurant in town."
When new customers show up at the farm, McMurtrey becomes a gastronomic tour guide, leading them down the rows of tomatoes with a water bottle in hand, rinsing off each variety, offering it for a taste test and eagerly watching the response.
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The choices of the 30 varieties of tomato that he planted this year were based on customers' taste tests last year and his own flavor preferences, he said, not on yield, shape, size or color.
Although Glade Road Orchard's vegetable patch isn't certified organic, "we are a no-pesticide, no-herbicide, naturally grown sort of farm."
For example, if he has to spray for powdery mildew, he uses diluted milk, which seems to work.
He fertilizes with low-nitrogen fertilizers, even molasses, he said. High-nitrogen fertilizer will boost a plant's growth, but he said the tomatoes off that plant will have a bitter flavor.
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Glade Road Orchard's vegetable patch is a you-pick, you-pay farm operated on the honor system. That means the customers read the prices off the board, calculate what they picked and put their money in the box.
"My experience is that people are very generous," he said. "They round up."
Many of McMurtrey's customers are neighbors who drop in whenever they see the gate open.
Don O'Connell stopped by Wednesday afternoon and picked three tomatoes.
"We wanted to have BLTs tonight, so I came to get some tomatoes," he said.
Tom and Sheila Miller, who live across the road, also were picking produce Wednesday.
"It's a great thing. We tell everyone we can tell about this place," Tom Miller said. "At my age, I don't want to plant a garden anymore, and I don't have to."
Tracy Lockwood brought her 9-year-old son, Max Fleischer, who was thrilled with the place.
"Man, this is awesome," he said, displaying a bucket with slim zucchinis in it. "I love zucchinis. I like to cook; I saute 'em."
McMurtrey said he and his wife, Karen, were talking several years ago about what they might want to do when he retires from his job as an engineer with Ensign Power Systems in Loveland.
He wanted some land where he could garden or farm, and she wanted a place to fish, he said. The property, which is bordered by Buckhorn Creek and has a half-acre pond on it, came up the month after the September 2013 flood.
After praying about it, they decided that although the purchase would be a stretch financially, they might never find another place like it where they could see their dreams become reality, he said.
McMurtrey has big plans for the property: 5 acres of vegetables and old-school apples, Asian pears, cherries, peaches, table grapes and raspberries; 6 acres of Christmas trees, mostly Douglas fir; a fishing pond with a bridge to the island in the middle; and more — all designed to create fun family memories. (And to fund his retirement, he added.)
Already, the feedback from his customers has been gratifying, he said.
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"Even though it's not yet financially making money, the people who come out make it all totally worthwhile."
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Two years ago, Brooklyn and Baltimore-based street artist Gaia began a mural program, called Open Walls Baltimore, that would make the city an essential part of the global discussion about mural art. While the street art world just began to take notice, writers had been working in the city for decades.
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"I don't like the color. It's not what I wanted!" These were the words that belted out of my 4-year-old daughter's mouth during her birthday party. Unbridled words that flew from the mouth of a child who was unaware and aloof of social norms but hurtful none the less. Every parent's worst fear, as the words were in reference to a gift given by my own parents who loved their spoiled granddaughter greatly. As a parent embarrassed in the midst of a pile of gifts yet to be opened, my child was instructed to be grateful for any and all gifts. Later, we had a discussion about politeness, and she was directed to apologize to Grandpa and Grandma.
This is a very difficult concept for a young child to learn – how to betray themselves and tell a fib. Yes, they may even lie about their true feelings. Most clients who are parents may disagree with me (denial). However, I tell my clients all the time that at some point nearly every parent has taught their child how to lie. (Gasp!) I know, but it is the truth. We have all been there. We have all received gifts we do not really want and didn't ask for.
I believe sex addiction is a gift. It is a gift that can either save you or destroy you. In fact, every addiction can be a gift. I believe sex addiction to be especially unique in that it will reveal the things in the heart of the non-addicted spouse unlike any other addiction. Sometimes, the things in a spouse's heart can be very ugly and telling. Both spouses came into the relationship with cavities. The sex addiction just reveals those cavities of distrust, fear, abandonment, anger issues, etc. The sex addict and sex addiction did not cause these issues. It just exposed them. Sex addiction is a gift, because I believe God's plan is not only to heal the sex addict, but the plan has always been to heal the sex addict AND their spouse.
Here are some of the ways I have seen spouses react to sex addiction recovery.
The Spouse who Stays
There are spouses who genuinely love their addict and sincerely want them to get better. However, they want no part in recovery. They see this as only the addict's issue, and the addict is the problem. They are so detached themselves that they don't see the value in walking this journey together.
The Spouse who Projects, Deflects and Blames
There are also spouses who are wounded from their own past and may become defensive and desire to project the pain they are feeling onto their partner in the present. The truth of the matter is they developed a wound of abandonment, rejection, or abuse, etc. in their lives long before marriage. They have a thick wall around their own heart. There are times that this type of spouse will go and get their emotional needs met outside the marriage by the opposite sex.
The Spouse who Embraces their Own Recovery
There are also spouses who accept their own flaws and enter their own recovery alongside their addicted spouse. They realize blame, projection and deflection only work for a short period of time. They are courageous men and women who risk being vulnerable by taking a hard look at themselves and their past regrets, mistakes and abuses.
The Spouse who Leaves
Finally, after full disclosure or verification with a polygraph examination, many spouses discover the addict is not only a sex addict who has been lying to them for most, if not all, of the marriage. They may discover the number of men or women involved. They may also learn intimacy anorexia is an issue. Many really love the addict, but the pain of staying is too great. They believe they must leave and separate from the agent of the pain and betrayal.
– Excerpt from Out of the Darkness, by Cory Schortzman
Now, if a spouse chooses to stay, I've listed a few reasons why I believe sex addiction can be considered a gift, especially if both partners are ready to be treated and brought into the light of recovery. It was a gift in my life as well as in the lives of many of my clients. You can have a better marriage than you ever imagined possible.
As we say in recovery, the addict stops growing emotionally when the addiction starts. Most addicts and their spouse are what I call emotionally constipated. So many addicts, even though they are physical adults, are emotionally children. Recovery will help the emotional age of both grow into their physical age.
Recovery will help not only the marital relationship but also immediate, extended, parental and work relationships. Recovery will teach you how to set boundaries, as it teaches you to say what you mean and mean what you say. It will help you begin to say "no" to the good, so you can say "yes" to the godly.
As you begin to get your emotional and relational life in order, you begin to stop medicating with overspending and become more responsible with your money. You begin to spend less than you make, pay off debt, become more productive at work, waste less time and tithe regularly. Your financial house begins to get in order.
Intimacy begins to improve dramatically outside the bedroom, which sets you up for successful intimacy and sex in the bedroom at a whole new level. Shame and secrets disappear due to newly discovered honesty.
Recovery will improve your physical health. As the stress of secrecy and lying will begin to disappear, your physical health will improve. As your self-care improves, you will no longer participate in stress eating and choose healthier foods. You may stay away from carbs, sugar and caffeine, which affects your emotions and your relationship with your spouse.
You begin to discover you are a spiritual being having a human experience, as your hard heart begins to soften to the God of the universe. Intuition, joy and peace begin to be part of your life again or maybe for the first time.
Enjoy the gift of sex addiction. There are not perfect people receiving that perfect gift. There are imperfect people receiving the perfect gift of recovery.
Cory Schortzman is an author, speaker, teacher and licensed mental health professional. Since 2008, he has served as the Executive Director of Transformed Hearts Counseling Center in Colorado Springs, CO. He is the founder of SARA, the Sexual Addiction Recovery Association. Cory is passionate about helping couples and individuals overcome sex addiction. He is also passionate about bringing awareness to the public and supporting the elimination of sex and human trafficking. Cory has been married since 1998 to his beautiful wife, Kerry, and lives in Colorado with their four daughters. He and Kerry have been seen on the CBS Early Show, Inside Edition, and ABC Good Morning America, Fox 21 News, and TLC/Discovery discussing the harm of sex addiction and the joys of recovery. He has also been heard on numerous radio programs.
Cory's books include: Out of the Darkness, Into the Light the Workbook, Into the Light the Steps, Ashes to Beauty the Steps, 301 Dating Ideas, 301 Conversational Ideas, 301 Ways to Say I Love You, 301 Ways to Love Your Children & 301 Recovery Tools & Tips.
Kerry's books include: Ashes to Beauty the Book and Ashes to Beauty the Workbook
Co-authored books include: 101 Blogs to Transform your Life, Volume I and Offended Deceived Addicted


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01/22/2014 The family members of the Benghazi victims sent a letter to House leaders this month, asking them to appoint a special Select Committee with subpoena powers to investigate the terror attack on Sept. 11, 2012 that left four Americans dead. Rather than doing the honorable thing and addressing the request directly, the House leadership is hiding behind the bushes and taking potshots at the families.
According to Breitbart News, an anonymous GOP aide called the victims' families a bunch of liars and said their request is "absurd." Boehner and his followers are still covering for Obama on Benghazi. Obama and a handful of congressional leaders are willing to allow these four Americans, all government employees, to die and then cover up the truth. They also did this with the two American agents who were killed by Fast & Furious weapons. If Obama and these leaders are ready to sweep these tragedies under the rug, what hope do the rest of us have that our government will protect our lives or our rights?
The bill to establish a Select Committee to investigate Benghazi, H.Res. 36, was filed more than a year ago. Five separate congressional committees have been attempting to investigate what happened in Benghazi and they have been stonewalled continuously by both the Obama regime and members of House Speaker John Boehner's inner circle. They are no closer to any answers today than when they started. That is why the victims' families asked for House leadership to take action on H.Res. 36.
H.Res. 36 has been parked in the House Rules Committee for a year now. The Rules Committee is chaired by one of Boehner's best friends, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX). Sessions claims that the five separate committees are doing such a great job that a Select Committee is not needed, yet 181 Republican House Members have now signed on as co-sponsors for H.Res. 36. Is the Boehner-led House leadership saying that those 181 Republicans are also absurd liars, like the victims' families?
It is way past time to appoint a Select Committee with subpoena powers to get to the bottom of what World Net Daily says was most likely a gun-running operation between the Obama regime and the Muslim Brotherhood. If World Net Daily's investigation is accurate as we believe, then House Speaker John Boehner most likely knew about the operation which led to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi. That is why he has told Rep. Sessions to park H.Res. 36 in the Rules Committee and let the issue die.
Congressman Louis Gohmert (R-TX) recently said that the Benghazi victims' blood cries out for justice (Genesis 4:10) and we agree. Proverbs 10:18 states, "Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, and whoever spreads slander is a fool." That describes Obama and his lackeys perfectly. They have lied repeatedly about Benghazi and now they are slandering the victims' families by calling them liars. If the truth about Benghazi comes out, it could even lead to impeachment proceedings.
We want a government that will protect our lives and our constitutional rights as citizens, no matter what. Unfortunately right now, we have a government under Obama that is willing to get us killed and then cover up the truth while anonymously calling us liars. That is why it is so important that everyone speaks up now and calls for a Select Committee on Benghazi.
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80g couscous
8 chestnut mushrooms, quartered
12 cherry tomatoes, halved
1 onion, finely chopped
1 clove of garlic, finely chopped
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
1 teaspoon of rapeseed oil
preparation 6 mins • you cook for 6 mins •
Serves 2
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If you want a dish that looks great and tastes great but is super quick and super simple, then this is the recipe for you. At only 189 calories per person, this recipe combines the earthy flavours of chestnut mushrooms and thyme, with the juiciness of cherry tomatoes. Add in some light and fluffy couscous to bind everything together and you have a weeknight meal that both your waistline and tastebuds can enjoy. This is a two part recipe. In part one we start cooking the mushrooms and couscous and in part two, we bring everything together and serve.
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Turn your frying pan/wok onto a medium heat and pour in a teaspoon of rapeseed oil.
Throw in the onions, garlic and thyme. Stir together and cook for 30 seconds to cook out the raw flavour of the onions. Add the mushrooms and tomatoes, together with a pinch of salt and pepper. Stir and leave to cook gently on a medium heat.
Put the couscous into your saucepan, add a small pinch of salt and pepper then pour iover enough boiling water to barely cover the couscous. Turn the heat up high and when the water comes back to the boil, remove from the heat, place the lid on top and leave for 5 minutes.
After 5 minutes remove the lid from the couscous - all the water will have been absorbed. Use a fork to fluff up the couscous and then add it to the pan/wok. Stir everything together to get the couscous nicely coated with all the delicious flavours.
To serve, simply spoon into your plates or bowls.
I hope the you enjoy it!
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Our Lady of Mercy's players, students and coaches were hoping to start off new head Coach Mike Earwood's tenure with a bang. On Saturday, speedy sophomore slotback Rashad Fant did just that. On the opening play from scrimmage, Earwood dialed up a buck sweep. Quarterback Lance McGuffie handed the ball off, the line held their blocks and Fant did the rest, zipping 91 yards for the touchdown.
"[Fant] had a great game," Earwood said. "180 rushing yards on five attempts is a pretty good debut. All in all, it was a very postive night for us. I wanted to see our kids play hard and that is what I saw."
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text: daa Welcomes Etihad's Decision to Expand Dublin-Abu Dhabi Service Back to overview Thursday 23 January 2014 Etihad Airways is increasing its Dublin-Abu Dhabi service from 10 flights per week, to double daily from July 15, 2014. The 40% increase in frequency will provide almost 9,000 seats each week between the capital cities of Ireland and the United Arab Emirates. Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) Chief Executive Kevin Toland said he was delighted with Etihad's decision to go double daily on the route. "The partnership between Dublin Airport and Etihad Airways has been hugely successful since the airline launched the Dublin-Abu Dhabi route in 2007," Mr Toland said. "Dublin has long been one of Etihad Airways' busiest routes and the airline has steadily expanded capacity on the service over the past six years." The 40% jump in frequency "will offer additional choice and convenience to both business and leisure travellers," Mr Toland added. The Minister for Transport, Tourism, and Sport, Leo Varadkar TD, said Etihad Airways' decision to further expand its Dublin route would significantly increase the number of potential visitors to Ireland. "It's more great news for tourism and for Irish aviation and represents another significant capacity boost at Dublin Airport this year. Overall, there is a huge increase in airline capacity into Ireland this year which will help us to continue growing visitor numbers." Etihad President and Chief Executive James Hogan said that: "From the moment we started flights to Dublin in July 2007 it has been one our most successful routes and we're delighted that from this July, seven years later, Etihad Airways will offer guests a double daily service to and from Abu Dhabi." Etihad Airways will operate the route with a Boeing 777-300 ER, configured to carry 380 passengers with 40 in Pearl Business Class and 340 in Coral Economy Class, and an Airbus A330-200, configured to carry 262 passengers, with 22 in Pearl Business Class and 240 in Coral Economy Class. The schedule for the double daily flights will ensure connectivity both ways with 800 weekly connections to 45 Etihad Airways destinations in the Middle East, Africa and Asia, including Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Perth, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. "The 40% increase in flight frequency will benefit business and leisure travel not only between Ireland and the UAE but also right across the Etihad Airways network, especially countries which have a connection with Ireland like Australia, Thailand and Malaysia," according to Mr Hogan. Since launching flights to Dublin in 2007, Etihad Airways has flown nearly 1.2 million passengers on the route which regularly features on the airline's top 10 most popular destinations. Last year was the busiest year to date, with more than 240,000 passengers flying between Dublin and Abu Dhabi. Etihad Airways' Dublin flight schedule from 15 July 2014: Flight From To Aircraft Seats Dep Arr Frequency EY45 AUH DUB B777-300 380 02.25 07.30 Daily EY42 DUB AUH B777-300 380 09.20 19.40 Daily EY41 AUH DUB A330-200 262 09.15 14.25 Daily EY48 DUB AUH A330-200 262 20.55 07.20* Daily (*Next day) Flying Etihad? Book a relaxing stay at the Dublin Airport Lounge


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I have been lucky enough to be Director of Reform since May 2005, having co-founded the organisation with Nick Herbert in 2001. I support our talented, committed and extremely hard-working staff. I work with our valued financial supporters and committed Trustees and Advisory Board. Reform has become an established voice in Westminster and Whitehall, respected for our knowledge, professionalism and non-party independence, and I take a lot of pride in that.
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At university I became interested in politics. What has motivated me since is the sense that the welfare state doesn't always deliver for the people that need it. When Reform began in 2001, we worked a lot on widening choice in public services (as well as competition in supply). Straight after the financial crisis, we led the debate on "more for less" i.e. changes that would not only improve public services but also deliver a sustainable level of public spending. The 2017 Parliament will debate how to increase public spending without losing any focus on improved outcomes or value for money. It is an exciting prospect.
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The 9 of Cups, otherwise known as the "wish" card, urges you to tap into your hopes, wishes and dreams today. There is an air of contentment as you go about your day. Use this energy to go within and find out what it is you truly desire in your life. Write down your wishes, hopes and dreams in a notebook, and as you will them into being, watch your world change.
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The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. The institution recently announced a plan to eliminate student loans.
One of the most prestigious universities in the entire world, Brown University, has recently promised to eliminate student loans from any university undergraduate financial aid package.
The news was announced via a press release issued by Brown University on September 20th, 2017.
The Providence, Rhode Island-based Ivy League institution is promising to replace packaged student loans with grant funds that will not have to repaid. This removal of student loans from financial aid packages is anticipated to impact all of Brown's 6,500 current undergraduate students in addition to all future undergraduate attendees.
Where will the money be coming from that allows Brown the ability to fund each undergraduate's education through grants? The money will be coming from a recently announced fundraising campaign that is part of Brown's BrownTogether Campaign, which was launched in 2015. The BrownTogether Campaign is a $3 billion fundraising campaign, and the Ivy League university is looking to build upon that $3 billion by raising another $120 million to help fund their new initiative.
If Brown University is able to raise $120 million, the institution could implement its student loan-free financial aid plan as soon as the 2018 - 2019 academic year.
The fundraising effort to raise $120 million to eliminate student loans is being called The Brown Promise: The Future of Financial Aid at Brown.
Brown University President Christina Paxson gave the following statement in the associated press release: "We're committed to making a Brown education accessible to students from all income groups, so we can continue to accept the very best and brightest students from around the world."
Both the larger BrownTogether Campaign and The Brown Promise campaigns build upon a 2003 Brown initiative that began a need-blind admissions policy. In 2003, Brown University made the decision to eliminate any consideration of an applicant's ability to pay tuition when making undergraduate admission decisions. The move signalled Brown's desire to keep finances from impeding a talented student's ability to attend the Ivy League institution.
Five years after implementing the need-blind admissions policy, Brown eliminated parent contributions for any family with an income under $60,000. During that same time, Brown also replaced educational loans with scholarships for any student that comes from a family that has an income below $100,000.
Brown University's initiative to make the institution student loan-free is certainly a noble cause at a time when student loan debt hampers many young Americans. According to The Student Loan Report, the average student loan borrower owes $27,857 in educational debt. Additionally, the national student loan debt currently sits at $1.41 trillion, an amount collectively owed by more than 44 million Americans.
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Kazakhstan: Contraction in industrial production softens for third month
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Kazakhstan's industrial production contracted for a fifth consecutive month in November, but the pace of contraction softened for a third time. Industrial production decreased 3.3% annually in November, which came in marginally above the 3.9% decrease observed in October. Industrial production plummeted in August, which had marked the steepest drop since March 2009.
The softer contraction in November resulted from a milder drop in mining and quarrying—which continues to reflect less oil production as well as in manufacturing production. On a negative note, electricity distribution swung from a 0.2% increase in October to a 3.9% contraction in November.
With November's decrease, the output trend continued to suggest that a recovery in industrial production is not foreseeable in the coming months. The annual average variation in industrial production fell from minus 0.6% in October to minus 1.2% in November, the weakest level since May 2009.
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By Mr Sanjeev Vashishta, Chief Executive Officer, SRL Limited
In an interview with People and Management magazine, Mr Sanjeev Vashishta, Chief Executive Officer, SRL Limited, shares his views on Indian health sector, advances in health check ups and mission & values of SRL.
Now that health sector is undergoing rapid transformation in India, where does SRL stand today?
The diagnostic sector is going through an interesting phase. Although major portion of diagnostic business is being managed by so called 'unorganised sector', people are becoming more discerning about quality, in terms of service, product (samples), turnaround time and promptness in reporting. Further, the gap in demand and supply of quality diagnostic services necessitates service providers to reach out to people. SRL diagnostics has created an impressive network* of 246 labs and over 5000 collection points across the length and breadth of India that makes it the largest player in India in diagnostics arena and second largest in Asia in terms of volumes handled. We also have the largest network of accredited labs in India, with 32 National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) labs and four College of American Pathologists (CAP) certified labs. 65 hospitals have entrusted us with offering diagnostic services to them as hospital implants. Our ability to provide high end tests and esoteric tests as well as state-of-the-art technologies that help in quick and reliable diagnosis has helped us gain our customers' trust.
Our vast menu of over 3500 tests and around 700 qualifi ed faculties, which includes eminent Histopathologists, Microbiologists, Scientists, Biochemists and Pathologists, put us in a higher orbit in the diagnostic arena. The test menu includes, Clinical Chemistry, Hematology and Blood Coagulation studies, infectious diseases and autoimmune disorders, Surgical and Anatomical Pathology: Immunohistochemistry; Tumour markers, Radioimmunoassay, Chemiluminescence, Flow Cytometry, Microbiology, including Rapid Mycobacterial culture, Cytogenetics and Molecular Diagnostics, including Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR).
What are the recent advances in health checkups?
The epidemiological transition, from communicable diseases to non-communicable or lifestyle disorders, has played a major role in the need for wellness. In view of the recent, alarming rise in lifestyle diseases, hospitals and diagnostic labs alike, are promoting wellness as an essential choice of an individual to lead a healthy life. There is a stress on wellness as the choice to assume responsibility for the quality of one's life, and to take personal interest in directing one's life towards optimal health and well-being by focussing on early detection by means of world class screening tests and preventive wellness health checks.
Comprehensive wellness packages have been created to screen one's vital organs and to suit the needs of individuals. Limitation with the normal check-ups is that they focus only on popular tests and often do not include the newer and advanced screening tests. With recent advances bringing to the fore, advanced tests for cancer screens, allergy screens- Phadiatop, which is employed for screening of allergic sensitisation in patients with suspected allergic diseases, food intolerance screens which actually needs to be done only once or twice in a lifetime, as well as excellent predictive tests for cardiology, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, HsCRP, homocysteine and autoimmune screen, a concept of niche health checks is being introduced for the discerning customer. These would aim at not only screening the individual for basic conditions but also provide due guidance for lifestyle changes and holistic health.
In an employee's hectic work schedule, it is diffi cult to take out some time to go for a test and more diffi cult to go back to pick up the reports. Does SRL have any easy and convenient option? Please brief.
A health check can be as easy as giving 10 minutes of your time and one draw of blood, with the samples being collected from one's home/offi ce and the reports being delivered via courier or email, at the person's convenience. Since every patient has a distinct identity by means of a unique barcode number and a unique identity number, hence one can print reports at their own convenience, at their homes/offi ces. With the help of robust IT platform, SRL is also offering the facility of getting the reports through mails to its customers. Further, SRL maintains the health record for its clients at no additional charge and provides the values and graphical presentation of health record in the subsequent visits. Thus, if a patient has already visited any of the SRL lab fi ve times, he/she will get complete health record including previous fi ve visits, during the sixth visit.
In order to reach out to the customer, SRL is providing 'Home Collection' facility whereby the samples are picked up at the convenience of customers, from their homes.
It is always a challenge to effectively acquire and develop human capital in a health sector. What methodology you follow to manage these responsibilities?
While getting good quality human resources is not an easy task yet given brand value and vast network created by SRL, it is relatively easier to attract best talent. Apart from offering attractive salaries, perks and facilities, the team members are given opportunities to learn on job and also sent for advanced trainings and orientation programmes. A lot of emphasis is given to training the teams, whether on technical or soft aspects. This is one of the USPs of SRL. People brought up and trained in SRL command due respect in the industry.
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"Stay Healthy and should the need arise, we are just a call away."
Together with our associates, we reiterate our commitment to serve our customers with vigour, passion and compassion and in the process realise our mission of becoming the fi rst choice path lab and/or wellness center for customers in all the markets that we operate.
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To keep efforts in perspective and to give you some thoughts on what you can do today, "The Agitator's Guide: Twelve Steps to Get Your Community Talking about Dying" by Americans for Better Care of the Dying is reprinted here.
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Thus for the past 2.5 years, I have been researching how women entrepreneurs in Japan leverage opportunities to build a business, and what makes them successful in the Japanese context. In order to research this question, I had to first understand the socio-economic, political, historical, and cultural environment for women entrepreneurs in Japan. And what better way to do that, then taking courses such as "Gender in Japan" at Kyoto University, as well as courses in the Graduate School of Management with actual women entrepreneurs in Japan.
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|Phil's bestest friend is his cousin Auggie. Okay, they're not really cousins, I figure ALL dogs are cousins. But Auggie is Phil's buddy. Auggie's owner (Also named Joe) and I take Phil and Auggie on walks together and watch them play.
|We go out for walks on a pretty regular basis. When we do, we usually run into other dogs in the neighborhood. We used to stop to say hi to cousin Terrence who used to live next door.
|We also used to meet up with another neighbor, cousin Sally. When Joe used his motorized chair, Sally would jump on his lap for a ride. Sally has also since moved.
|This is where you imagine the song "Born to be Wild" is playing.
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New York City
Per Se, Time Warner Building, 10 Columbus Circle. Tel: 212/823.9335
Having eaten and enjoyed dinner in Napa's French Laundry on a couple of occasions, I was delighted to secure a table at Chef Tom Keller's New York sister establishment, which opened in February 2004. Per Se is the urban alter ego of The French Laundry: the ambiance and setting could not be more different, and yet so many things are the same. Whilst the French Laundry is set in a rural, historic and fairly modest building, Per Se is conceived on a much grander scale, a soaring, opulent space within the showy Time Warner complex, set on the southwest corner of Central Park. But the true soul of this place is in the detail. Seated at your table in the glamorous dining room with its glittering views over Manhattan, and the same discreet, charming and friendly service soon blows away any fears that this place will be style over substance. Every member of staff was relaxed and utterly charming, our waiter returning with a hand-written list of favourites when we asked him to recommend a steak house for a true NYC experience. A glass of Pierre Gimmenet Cote a Cote Champagne 2005 was perfect as we settled in an enjoyed some beautiful canapés including cornets of Scottish salmon with red onion crème fraîche and warm gougères. Then started an absolutely brilliant meal, purportedly of nine courses, but in fact I lost count at 15. A creamy Tahitian squash velouté was laced with black truffle, pumpkin seeds and hazelnuts, whilst sushi of fluke came with compressed English cucumber and pickled ginger. It was intense, sweet and brimming with flavour. Tiny Nantucket scallops came with a light but deep watercress purée and grapefruit salad, whilst a ragout of black winter truffles sat in a truffle custard. Many French Laundry favourites appear too, including the always delightful Oysters and pearls – the most buttery, sweet tapioca cream, salty Sevruga caviar and lightly cooked Island Creek oysters. Of the main courses (slightly more substantial portions) roasted Portuguese turbot was a highlight, cooked simply but perfectly with Swiss chard and a beurre rouge (red wine butter) and I loved the Snake River Farms Calotte de Boeuf, grilled and served with a bone marrow pudding, little Japanese Hakurei turnips and a sour cherry jus. Somehow, the pacing of the meal, the small portions (many are no more than one or two spoonfuls) and the relaxed atmosphere is enough to keep the appetite alive and well, even when faced with several desserts and cheese courses. My favourite was probably another signature dish of 'coffee and doughnuts' (little cinnamon-dusted doughnuts with a cappuccino semifreddo) that brought a real smile to my face. We had a tour of the enormous kitchen with its own temperature controlled chocolatier, bakery and butchery, where head chef Eli Kaimeh works the pass beneath a large monitor beaming live pictures direct from the French Laundry kitchen in Napa. My expectations of Per Se had been high, though a little murmur of doubt wondered if Keller and his team could successfully transfer the special magic of the French Laundry to the other side of the country. Any doubts were simply blown away: this is a brilliant dining experience serving some of the world's most sophisticated, but in its way unpretentious, food. The magic is there. The menu costs $275 per person including service. The wine list is all-encompassing and advice from the sommelier team well worth listening too, as many wine pairings and by the glass offerings can be rustled up like magic. (2010)
Alto, 11 East 53rd Street (between Madison and Fifth Avenue). Tel: 212/308.1099
Named after the Alto Adige region in northern Italy, this two-Michelin-starred restaurant is smart and comfortable, with a cool palate of pastel colours and subdued lighting. Executive chef and co-owner Michael White overseas a menu that pays homage to northern Italian cuisine, but which is resolutely modern and open to other influences, and which displays a lightness of touch throughout the menu. I started with seared scallops, which were beautifully cooked to a golden crispness on the outside, served with grappa-soaked raisins and toasted marcona almonds. I followed this with a pasta dish of duck and foie gras ravioli doused in melted butter and sage, with a red wine jus. My main course was sensational: a block of alabaster-like bone-marrow crusted halibut that was served with roasted salsify, broccoli rabe (a leafy, green member of the mustard family) and a deeply-flavoured wild plum jus. To finish a clear, concise and beautifully balanced meal, pumpkin cheesecake was a proper baked version but was light and slender and the perfect, tapering conclusion to the meal. The wine list is excellent (and obviously the passion of sommelier Eric Zillier) with a heavy bias towards Italy, but a really interesting and globe-trotting selection that spans both verticals of the great and the good of world wine, and some quirkier exploration of less well-known corners. Good by the glass options too. The four course menu costs $84, with a seven course tasting menu available at $130. (2010)
The River Café, One Water Street, Brooklyn. Tel: 718/522.5200
The River Café did not have its Michelin star the last time I ate there, which I think was in the late 1990s. But my memories of its absolutely magical setting, tucked beneath the Brooklyn bridge with views back to Manhattan, drew me back. The restaurant has been here since the 1970s, when it shared this part of the Brooklyn waterfront with warehouses and working wharfs. Today it is a little more chic around here, but the building and its extensive gardens looked exactly the same as on my previous visit. We were seated efficiently by the window, and the welcome was warm and friendly. I kicked off with a terrine of goat's cheese, potato and crisp pancetta which was a lovely melange of flavours and textures, served with cubes of golden beets, leaves and edible flowers. For my main courseI kept things very simple and have to say I am so glad that I did. Whilst my dining companion's fish and seafood dishes were all pronounced as very good, my 'Lobster and Lobster' was just sensational: a whole tail of lobster in a lemon butter sauce with salad of raw green beans and sugar snap peas, plus a lobster sandwich. The sandwich was just heavenly: beautiful, sweet lobster meat in a light mayo, in perfect rounds of butter-fried brioche. Calories? Cholesterol? Off the scale no doubt, but what a dish. Passing on dessert (at least one moment of lucidity) I finished with good espresso and thoroughly enjoyed this meal in a place which some call a tourist trap, some call over-priced, but which I thought delivered an excellent product at a fair price. Winner of numerous Wine Spectator awards for its wine list, four of us stuck with Roederer Estate's Brut NV throughout the meal at $50 per bottle. Dinner is a fixed price $98 dollars, with lunch at around $60 for three courses. (2010)
Sparks Steak House, 210 East 46th St (between 2nd & 3rd Ave). Tel: 212/687.4855
This was our choice for the New York steak house experience. Let me set the tone by telling you that part of Sparks' fame stems from a freezing night in December 1985 when "Big Paul" Castellano, a local mobster, was gunned down on the restaurant's steps. It sounds like a story-line from the Sopranos, and indeed walking in is like visiting a film set: it is an enormous restaurant, clubby and darkly-lit, the busy bar serving beers and cocktails with brisk efficiency and a simply vast dining room (how many covers here? Hundreds I suspect). The space is divided by wood and etched glass partitions, and after a Manhattan at the bar we were comfortably seated in a corner table and settled in to peruse the menu. Steaks dominate of course, but a selection of lamb, fish and other dishes is available too. I ordered sirloin, with onion rings and creamed spinach, which is perhaps the quintessential choice. The steak was excellent: caramelised and with some bite on the outside, yielding and flavoursome inside, though the creamed spinach didn't do much for me in terms of flavour or texture I must say. We had to have baked New York cheesecake of course (good, not exceptional) and a bottle of robust Cabernet Sauvignon from an extensive list. Overall we paid around $120 per head which was fine for an entertaining evening. I probably would not return: other than the steak itself the food was lacklustre and I found the several groups of noisy businessmen that surrounded our table a little loud. It is an experience for sure. (2010)
Mary's Fish Camp, 64 Charles St, West Village. Tel: 646/486.2185
No reservations at this terrific and tiny, no-frills neighbourhood restaurant where diners squeeze into crowded tables and order from the short, every-changing menu. If there's no table when you arrive, leave your name and have a drink in one of the surrounding bars – they will come and get you when your time has come. The open kitchen produces copious plates of fish, which is delivered fresh daily. At lunch I ordered a pan-fried cod sandwich, which came with a mound of French fries. The sandwich was delicious, the fish cooked to just opaque perfection and from the very short wine list a bottle of Sauvignon Blanc from South Africa hit the spot at $40. With coffees, the bill for four came to $160. (2010)
Nyonya, 199 Grand St (Little Italy). Tel: 212/334-3669
Nyonya is Malaysian cuisine, and this packed restaurant with its exposed brick walls and buzzing atmosphere is reckoned to deliver an authentic interpretation of it with imported ingredients such a ginger flowers, Kaffir leaves and Galanga and home-made curry sauces made from coconut milk and tamarind seeds. After some very tasty chicken satay washed down with Malaysian beers, we shared a large, overflowing bowl of beef rendang with coconut rice. The beef had been slow-cooked in coconut milk and curry spices for many hours, before being finished in a wok to dry off the liquid and leave moistly-coated chunks of melt in the mouth beef. This was a good casual dinner, the total bill coming in at only around $20 per person (cash only). (2010)
New York – Finger Lakes
In the north of the state of New York lies the Finger Lakes, with a sizeable wine industry and plenty of recreational activities. In 2007 I spent a long weekend there, based in the town of Ithaca, home of Cornell University.
Ithaca: Mahogany Grill, 112 N. Aurora Street. Tel: 607/272.1438
This bistro-style, busy restaurant was jumping both inside and on the pavement tables on my weekend visit, but the short wait for a table was worth it for the welcoming, speedy service and a good choice of food, wines, and micro-brews. I had a very nicely char-grilled USDA Black Angus steak and slice of creamy baked cheesecake, both of which were unfussy, well-cooked and tasty. Moderate prices. (2007)
Ithaca: Moosewood, 215 N. Cayuga Street. Tel: 607/273.9610
Fine, hearty vegetarian cuisine – expect long queues at peak times. Good range of micro-brew beers as well as wines and large platters of home-cooked food. (2007)
Florida – Orlando & Cocoa Beach
The most recent notes here are from October 2016. There's a selection of restaurants in the popular Cocoa Beach area one hour due east of Orlando, and one review from the upmarket Orlando suburb of Winter Park. Other Orlando notes date from 2009 visit, but all were still trading as of October 2016.
Cocoa Beach
Chain restaurants
Seven or eight mile of dead straight causeway takes you from Cocoa Village to Cocoa Beach, passing through Merrit Island where I was based. In a fortnight here we exhausted the area's meagre stock of 'fine dining' restaurants, and not wanting to cook every evening, had very little choice but to try a couple of the chain restaurants that line the Causeway. It is so typical of suburban America, completely dominated by sports bars, fast food joints, diners and restaurant chains like Outback, Red Lobster and Longhorn. The latter category really could all be rolled into one giant super-chain, as their plastic laminated menus are so similar and their 200-seater dining rooms almost identical. Despite billing themselves as specialising steak, seafood, Italian or whatever, differences in food quality are indiscernible too. Red Lobster provided delicious cheddar biscuits (three helpings of those would do me for dinner) and lobster linguini was pretty good, certainly not short on lobster. Each main came with a decent Caeser salad and our bill, with a couple of glasses of beer, was $85 before service. Another evening we were in the mood for steak, so flipped a coin and ended up in Longhorn Steak House, another massive barn, exchanging the faux fishing memorabilia for faux cowboy memorabilia. Once again a choice of salad was included with my filet mignon, keeping it simple with just a baked potato with sour cream to accompany. With beers the bill once again came to $85 pre-service. Both were competent, and about as special as eating in a motorway service station. It will undoubtedly sound snobbish, but whilst each did a job of feeding us, I'd be truly depressed if my restaurant choice was confined only to such chains.
Cocoa Vilage: Crush Eleven, 11 Riverside Dr, FL 32922. Tel: 321-634-1100
It sounds cruel to say that Crush 11 is showing nearby Café Margaux (below) how it should be done, but there's more than a grain of truth in that. It's own strap-line of "Rustic urban fare," may be a tad pretentious, but the food was really good and the service and atmosphere spot-on on our busy Saturday evening visit. With an emphasis on quality artisan ingredients – locally sourced where possible – and a menu that contains lots of 'snacks' and 'bites' to encourage at least an element of tapas-style sharing, it chimes very well with contemporary fine dining. We started with three small plates to share, all priced around $5 -$7 dollars: fried Marcona almonds with rosemary and sea salt, Medjool dates stuffed with goat's cheese and wrapped in candied bacon with sticky sweet Malbec glaze, and finally, deep-fried wedges of Herreño cheese, served with Amish mustard. All were delicious, but the briney bite of the cheese against the sweet but pungent tang of the mustard was probably the winner. For my main I chose a flat iron steak, beautifully char-grilled and sliced over a crushed fingerling potato and avocado mash. The steak had also been marinated in a spicy Srirachra sauce to give and extra layer of piquant flavour. My partner's grilled duck breast came with a cauliflower purée and lots of pickled blackberries in the red wine reduction, and a side of thematic duck fat-roasted fries that were yummily full of flavour. Like its sister restaurant The Fat Snook (below) BYO is welcomed with a corkage charge of $20 per bottle, which was perfect for us, though the one-page wine list is pretty good too. With a pre-service bill of $105 this was excellent value all round and the best meal of the trip.
Cocoa Beach: The Fat Snook, 2464 S Atlantic Ave, FL 32931. Tel: 321-784-1190
Since 2007 The Fat Snook has ploughed a fairly lonely furrow in trying to offer a modern fine dining alternative to the chains that dominate the scene here. It seats around 50 in a pleasant but simple dining room one block from the beach. Sister restaurant to Crush Eleven, it is still Florida-casual, but compared to the laid-back feel of Crush Eleven, I found it trying a bit too hard and slipping dangerously close to being somewhat pretentious. Our utterly pleasant server's minute-long descriptions of each special and menu 'highlight' were so full of extravagant detail as to be both tedious and bewildering. The menu is fairly similar to Crush Eleven's, though I thought the food was not quite on a par. Maybe that was just our particular choices. I started with a roasted beet salad, which was very good, along with multi-coloured beets came orange and papaya segments and little balls of goat's cheese coated in crushed macadamia nut. For my main course I took Catch of the Day option #1, which was Mahi Mahi, landed at neighbouring Port Canaveral, which was roasted and served over an inch-thick rosti of potato and fennel salami, served with a roasted garlic & white anchovie aioli and with a crunchy salad of local green beans. The fish was flaking and moist, the rosti full of flavour, though its bulk made this a fish dish that lacked finesse and was just a little stodgy. Three desserts were on offer, and having read that desserts were a highlight, we opted to share all three. I'm not a fan of most Key lime pies I've tasted, finding them far too sweet without enough limey zest to counterbalance the sugar, but this was promoted as the house signature dessert. For me it suffered from the same cloying sweetness. A chocolate millefuielle affair was a little too sweet for my taste too, and possibly my favourite of the three was a ricotta 'cheescake', piped into a pastry shell. With a bottle of superb Chardonnay from Ramey of Sonoma at $72, the bill came to $215, or $250 once a tip was added. In all honestly this did not feel like great value. The staff were great and the overall experience good, so I would certainly try the Fat Snook again on a future visit, but would choose differently and certainly take advantage of their $20 corkage policy.
Cocoa Village: Café Margaux, 220 Brevard Ave, FL 32922. Tel: 321-639-8343
Café Margaux is so typical of many 'fancy French' restaurants that I've come across in smaller towns all over the US: a real throwback to 1970s Britain, in terms of decor certainly, and to a certain extent, food. Replete with more swags and tails drapes, busy carpeting and rococo-patterned tableware, our waiter did tell us that the restaurant was about to be modernised and the food offering somewhat changed, which in my honest opinion, it badly needs. First a word for the wine list: with several vintages of Bordeaux first growths – some going back to the 1970s – and other top end wines from Europe and the US, it's a pretty serious list, though not at bargain prices. The well-heeled clientelle (one elderly party of four was collected by a uniformed chauffeur driving a dazzling blue Rolls Royce) clearly regards this as the spot to dine in the area. Expensive at night, lunch offers a simple menu with main courses at around $20, including a green salad or soup. I went for the $21 Coquilles St. Jacques and upgraded to a Caesar salad for $2, which was decent but unexpectional. The scallops – three in a small boat shaped dish on the plate – where good, nicely caramelised and well cooked, though they sat under slightly too heavy cheese sauce with sliced mushrooms, that had been fired under the grill. Also on the plate were two small salads: one a cold pasta salad, the other a refreshing bowl of watermelon and mint. Both perfectly pleasant, but such odd choices with coquilles St. Jacques, then I noticed the same two accompaniments were served with every meal I saw leaving the kitchen. We passed on dessert, and with half a bottle of Kendal-Jackson Reserve Chardonnay, the bill of $71 ex-service was not inappropriate for a very relaxed and comfortable lunch, but until the style and substance is improved I'd struggle to whole-heartedly recommend Café Margaux.
Winter Park
Blu on the avenue, 326 Park Ave South, FL 32789. Tel: 407-960-3778
Winter Park, a suburban city of Orlando, provides a real antidote from Kissimmee and the theme parks. With its highly strollable historic centre and lots of upmarket shopping and eating, it's a place I've always enjoyed for its more Californian vibe. Blu is a relatively recent opening, with a bar, large dining room and pavement terrace. The wine list is pretty good, and learning that on Mondays and Tuesdays they take $10 off all full bottles was a bonus. I started with a really good carpaccio of beef: some excellent flavour to the meat, that was just as creamily soft as it should be, yet retaining a bit of texture, lots of shaved Grand Padana and a salad of bitter leaves accompanying nicely. For my lunch-time main I zoomed-in on a lobster sandwich: plenty of meat inside a Parmesan crusted brioche bun, the lobster held in suspension by melted Gouda. Alongside, a bowl of crisp and delicious fries. With a bottle of Guenoc Chardonnay the bill for two of $90 before service seemed perfectly reasonable.
I would never even have considered the Disney Empire as a fine dining destination. Several people urged me to try however, naming in particular the Portobello and the more expensive Californian Grill. Both are within Disney World, but neither require Park tickets to attend.
The Portobello Yacht Club, Disney Pleasure Beach. 407-934-8888.
The Portobello has a nautical theme with lots of polished wood, brass and decorated with fine ships models. Like everywhere else in the Magic Kingdom it is also large, noisy and child-friendly (a good or bad point depending on your point of view!). We ate here on the first evening after flying in and I felt a bit jet-lagged, but I enjoyed what I remember very much. True to its Italian leanings, before the meal we were served warm, home-made Italian bread with excellent olive oil and a whole bulb of slow-roasted garlic for spreading. Delicious. My Seabass was seared and, though slightly over-cooked, very tasty, served with good, fresh vegetables and rice pilaf. Decaffeinated Espresso was good. The individual pizzas made in the wood-fired oven looked excellent, and the mostly Californian and Italian wine list had a fair by-the-glass selection. Worth a visit. $150 for dinner. Open daily.
The Californian Grill, Disney Contemporary Resort. 407-824-1576
This was easily the best meal of my trip. The Californian Grill has a big reputation for food and wine, regularly appearing in "America's Top 100" type lists. It is situated on the 15th floor of a large Disney hotel within the Magic Kingdom, with easy parking, mono-rail connection and absolutely spectacular views over the theme park and lake which can be enjoyed from a couple of large terraces. We were very lucky in that we were given a prime seat facing directly onto the Disney Castle and evening fireworks. Kitsch or not, itis a remarkable view compared to that from most restaurant tables! The food really was superb, light and imaginative. A starter of Sonoma goats cheese ravioli in a tomato and herb broth was wonderfully textured and full of flavour. For a main course I chose the filet mignon which was truly stunning – the best steak I've had in a long time – served on mashed sweet potato. My partners seared yellowjack tuna steak was also fantastically good, blackened and cooked just raw in the centre. The waiter suggested sharing a hot triple-chocolate soufflé with peanut butter ice-cream for dessert which was the right decision – it was densely rich, yet light as a feather and as good as any dessert I can remember. Again, good espresso to finish things off. The wine list really is first class – a choice of about 100 interesting and some quite rare bottlings, with reasonable mark-ups and – best of all – everything available by the glass. Friendly staff complete the picture of a really enjoyable night out. $250 for dinner. Open every day.
Florida – Tampa Bay area
Bern's Steak House, 1208 South Howard Ave, Tampa. 813/251-2421
What can I say about Bern's? A legend in its own lunch-time. This place is over-the-top, unique and wonderful in an awful kind of a way. Formed from what looks like a large concrete warehouse under a freeway slip-road, the interior is a wonderful cross between Parisian bordello and Blackpool pleasure beach. Apart from the steaks and the decor, Bern's is famous for its wine list. Weighing in at a couple of Kilos, it has 7,000 entries including, for example, 100 vintages of Latour going back to the 1830's. Bern's operates on a vast scale, with several large dining areas and lots of hustle and bustle. The dining room I was in (Burgundy), despite the red velvet and wine-themed murals, was basically a large, ambiance-free hanger of a place with horrible lighting. The waiting staff were helpful and charming though which helped make up. The steaks are superb – you specify weight, thickness and cut, and it is cooked the way you like. All meat is top quality and hung for 8 weeks to ensure it is succulent and tender. Desserts can be taken in a special dessert room with a piano player belting out schmaltzy show tunes and cheesy ballads. Designed with 50 individual booths, all of which have a view of the piano player or a TV screen relaying the sound and pictures. Great fun, decent food and quite a wine list. Maybe not very sophisticated, but an experience. $110 for dinner. Open every day.
Guppy's, 1701 Gulf Boulevard, Indian Rocks Beach.
A fairly chic, but casual and friendly place with a large outside terrace and a couple of big indoor rooms, Guppy's does some really good fish and seafood at reasonable prices. I loved the smoked-fish pate served with crackers as a starter – a lovely, rough texture with chunks of fish and a really nice flavour. One of the house specialities is the tuna steak – cut like a filet-mignon in a thick, small portion and broiled (Charcoal grilled) just nicely. Wine list is a single sheet of A4 – mostly Californian – and there's a good list of beers. The waitress made that familiar but annoying mistake of treating foreigners as if they don't know to tip – she did a huffy number on us when she thought she was only keeping $5 change out of the $100 I gave her – hope she felt bad when she discovered the other $10 I left on the table…. $95 for dinner. Open 7 days.
Florida – Palm Beach area
Eleven Maple Street, Jensen Beach. Phone 561/ 334-7714
Outside the door on a Thursday evening is market and neighbourhood street-party, but inside it's an oasis of calm with a comfortable yet up-market atmosphere. This was probably my second favourite place in food terms. The cuisine here is definitely "fusion" with a Pacific Rim flavour. My Oak-grilled Grouper was served on sticky rice and Thai Crab-cakes, with a Thai green curry sauce. It was garnished with delicious wild mushrooms, smoky bean-sprouts and stir-fried vegetables. This was a sensational dish – not nearly as weird as it sounds! The oak-burning grill in the kitchen imparts a wonderfully smoky flavour. Dessert was equally good – a light pineapple and macadamia nut cheesecake, served with a berry coulis and some sweet, black, mission-figs – scrumptious stuff. Wine list is also quite interesting with some unusual choices from small US producers. We had a Pinot and Viognier by the glass, both good. Eleven Maple could be an expensive choice with main courses starting at $25 and everything a la carte, but it is very good.$160 for dinner.


text: Oldleg #1 Posted 10 May , 2018 (edited) Can anyone help, I have been reading letters written by a priest by the name of J H Lorrain who was with the Lushai Labour corps in France in 1918, in the letter he says that his postal address at the time was A.P.O. S.80 BEF, France, does anyone know where this was situated? Edited 10 May , 2018 by Oldleg Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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