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Brick Wall Solutions – John Carnegie, John Stanley, John Carnegie (again) – Lost and Found
This is the second installment of a theme-based blog on brick walls in family history research and how to break them down. Initially I will be using my own examples but I also welcome input from others who have solved their brick walls using out of the ordinary resources or searches.
This blog intersects with Helen Carnegie's story (Brick Wall Solutions Blog 28 Nov 2009) as John Carnegie was her father. I started researching the Carnegie family in 1977.
John Carnegie was born in Montrose, Forfar (now Angus), Scotland in 1837. He was the son of James Carnegie and Betty Sharp.
He married Helen Stratton, the daughter of Charles Stratton and Eliza Ferrier. Helen was born in 1839, also in Montrose.
John and Helen married in Dundee, Scotland in 1861 and had two children in Montrose – Helen born 1862 (Blog 28 November 2009) and John born 1864.
In 1865 John and Helen Carnegie and their two children Helen and John immigrated to Queensland, Australia.
Their passage to Queensland was to be the first brick wall in that I could not find them in the card index to immigrants at the Queensland State Archives. So for many years the name of the ship they arrived on was unknown.
The next event in their lives was the death of their son John in Brisbane in 1866 and he was buried in the Paddington Presbyterian cemetery. The death certificate shows that the cause of death was teething and that the family were living in the Westend Estate, South Brisbane. The certificate indicated that they had been in Queensland for about 10 months, putting their arrival about May or June 1865.
I made another attempt at trying to locate the passenger list on microfilm but there were quite a few ships arriving at that time, the handwriting was poor and I am not sure my heart was in it as it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. So the name of the ship continued to be unknown.
In 1867 John and Helen Carnegie had another daughter Georgina Carnegie.
Early on in my research I had no trouble locating John and Helen Carnegie's death certificates and they both died at Toorbul, Queensland in 1903 and 1913 respectively. John was an oyster farmer and I had found his applications for land selections at Toorbul in 1879 and 1885.
John and Helen had another daughter Clara ca 1872 and Georgina had died according to John's death certificate. I tried finding Clara's birth and Georgina's death but without success and as it was the days before Queensland BDM indexes; I could not imagine why the Registrar General's staff could not locate the entries. They should have been born and died respectively in Brisbane or Toorbul, just north of Brisbane. Here was the second brick wall.
In 1980 I decided to get Clara's marriage certificate and this partly paid off in that it told me that her name was Clara Stanley Carnegie and she had been born in Grafton, NSW. I promptly sent off a request for a birth certificate to the NSW Registrar of BDMs and was disappointed to receive a 'could not find' letter. Why not?
I was also puzzled my Clara's middle name of Stanley, where did it come from? There was the County of Stanley where Toorbul is located but they hadn't moved there yet. Another mystery.
As I mentioned in the beginning, I started researching the Carnegie family in 1977 and it was not until 1987 that I had my breakthrough and the brick walls started to come slowly down.
That year I was pregnant with my son and as I could no longer work easily in the reading room at Queensland State Archives, I was asked to work on a special project. I suggested a guide to prison records, as these were an unused resource.
Why did I choose prisons? I had no real reason other than they contained lots of biographical information on people and a guide might see more use made of the records.
Well I found so many of my ancestors in the prison records that I was truly shocked to start with, but over time I came to see how 'fortunate' I was in that there was lots of information on them. I have been giving a talk on my criminal ancestors for the last 20 years and it is still one of my most popular and requested talks.
John's Story
In the Colonial Secretary's correspondence, I found a letter from John Carnegie dated 10 September 1869 asking for remuneration for his time in HM Gaol, Brisbane. He had been sentenced to two months gaol with hard labour. It was recommended that he be paid a remuneration of 7s 6d. He was discharged on 21 September 1869. Totally excited by this discovery I tried to find out why in the court records but without success.
I then turned to the newspapers because the offence would have occurred in July 1869 and after a search I found an account of the crime in the Moreton Bay Courier on 23 July 1869. John was brought before the Central Police Court charged with assaulting William Hays, a cab driver, at 11pm in Edward Street, Brisbane. It appears that Hays was standing in the street outside Dinsdale's Hotel when he and John Carnegie quarrelled. John struck Hays on the face with an old worn out chisel causing a cut over the eye. John was found guilty and sentenced to two months hard labour.
Prison records are wonderful for biographical information and they also give the name of the ship if a person was not native born. John's prison record gave me the name of the ship he and his family arrived on. At last!
The Sunda arrived in Moreton Bay on 26 May 1865 and it didn't take me long to find the passenger list in the microfilm. If I didn't know that the name was Carnegie I would never have read it that way. It is no wonder that the people indexing the passenger lists didn't get it right. At least that brick wall was demolished.
The prison entry for John reveals he was from Scotland, 32 years old, 5 feet 4½ inches tall and with a stout build. He had a fresh complexion with brown hair and blue eyes. There is no surviving photograph of John, so this description is simply wonderful.
Also of immense interest were his three tattoos. Not one but three and they simply add to the mystery of this intriguing family. John had bracelets tattooed on both wrists, he had the Montrose coat of arms tattooed on his right breast (confirming that he must have been mine) and last but not least, he had the American colours on his right arm. Why?
When John married Helen in 1861 he gave his occupation as a seaman – had he travelled to America? Why did they come to Australia and not America? 1861 was the year the American Civil War started so that might be one explanation. The American colours tattoo is yet another mystery to puzzle over.
Was John's conviction and time in gaol the reason why I couldn't find the two missing certificates? The years went by again and the NSW BDMs were released on microfiche so I could do my own searching. But again no luck.
When the NSW BDMs came online and searching was free, I again tried to find Clara's birth and Georgina's death. In a moment of inspiration or perhaps it was desperation, I tried searching under Clara Stanley with Stanley being the surname. Clara was born in 1872 at Junction Road, Clarence River, NSW and her father was given as John Stanley, a gardener, 34 years old and from Scotland. Her mother was Helen Stratton and there was one living daughter and a deceased son but no mention of Georgina. So it was definitely my family but now calling themselves Stanley instead of Carnegie and where was Georgina?
With this new information I then searched for Georgina and found her death under the name of Stanley in 1871, the year before Clara's birth. Rather than purchase a certificate, I took the cheaper option of getting a transcription only, which is allowed in NSW.
Georgina Stanley died in Prince Street, Grafton and her parents were John Stanley, gardener and Ellen Stratton. Georgina was 4 years old and had died of diptheria. Her time in NSW was given as 12 months so this meant that the family had moved to Grafton about March 1870 or six months after his release from gaol.
Was it an attempt at a new life? Why did they move back to Queensland? Why did they start using the name Carnegie again? I will probably never know the answers to these questions but sometime between Clara's birth in July 1872 and September 1879 they moved to Toorbul and John selected land and became a highly respected oyster farmer.
Brick Wall Tips
- Search surname possibilities. If you can't find an entry under an expected surname think of the possibilities. Are there are unusual middle names or even mother's maiden names just in case there was no marriage
- Search spelling variations for both given and surnames
- Try other States – people moved around a lot more than we think and often for reasons we can't even guess at
- If you can't get a birth record, try marriage or death records for clues
- No one swam to Australia – most will be found on passenger lists but remember that handwriting is often hard to read, not everyone is recorded especially if they were steerage and so on.
- Check all available records – people don't just disappear, there is usually a reason and prisons and asylums are good starting places
- Keep revisiting the research as more records become accessible and online
- Never give up
- Tell others how you did it – inspiration and clues for researching their own brick walls
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Sunda 1865
Gail, did you ever obtain a copy of the passenger list? My Great Great Grandfather, R S Hews, arrived on that ship and I have been trying for years to find out what members of his family accompanied him.
Ken Harley
Passenger list for ship Sunda 1865
Hi Shauna,
You may be able to help me break down one of my brick walls.
I suspect, through a process of elimination based on information I already have, that a family I am researching for a friend arrived in Queensland on the ship Sunda in 1865, but there is no mention of the family name Kewin (and I have tried every variation I can think of) on the Queensland Archives online lists of immigrants. Perhaps you could let me know the details of the microfilm containing the passenger list so I can try to track it down. I am in Sydney and suspect I may have to ask a contact in Brisbane to have a look for me, although I would prefer to access it myself if possible.
Many thanks,
Gail Macqueen
Passenger list for Sunda 1865
Hi Gail
I don't have a copy of the passenger list but it is microfilm Z1957 which was part of the Immigration Kit so you should be able to see it at a genealogy society or other local library if they bought the kit.
Passenger list for Sunda 1865
Thanks Shauna. I'll let you know how I get on.
Gail Macqueen
John and Helen CARNEGIE
Hello Shauna,
I just this evening subscribed to this forum,and was surprised to see this posting.
Helen CARNEGIE (junior),married Alexander Miller FERGUSON in Brisbane on 21 January 1889.
Alexander Miller FERGUSON died in Brisbane and was buried in South Brisbane Cemetery on 19 August 1925.
Helen FERGUSON(Nee CARNEGIE)then married Charles Wademore CHICK(born at Bathurst in 1871 with
parents Henry Thomas CHICK and Jane HUTCHINSON and died at Parramatta on 28 October 1929 and buried
at Rookwood Independant cemetery on 29 October 1929) on 3 February 1927 in Country Queensland(I did find
Charles Wademore CHICK with Helen CHICK at Sapphire,Queensland in 1913.)
Helen CHICK returned to Queensland to live with a sister Mrs C.S.BISHOP(Clara Stanley BISHOP,died 1960 in
Brisbane)at "Karisma",Toorbul till her death on 23 December 1946 aged 84 years,her death was registered at
Brisbane.A death notice was published in the "Courier Mail on page 8 of the issue dated Thursday 26 December
Charles and Helen FERGUSON(nee CARNEGIE) had no children that I am aware of as Helen appeared to have
taken up with Charles in her later years.
Peter PASCOE,
Hi PeterThanks for this
Hi Peter
Thanks for this comment - since posting the original brickwall on 9 Dec 2009 I posted a follow up on 28 Jan 2010 and again on 9 July 2010 following various breakthroughs in my research. One of these was making contact with a Ken Pascoe (a relation to you I suspect) who gave me information on the Chick connection. We were totally unaware of it as Helen's family seem to have wiped her from the family memory so it has been really interesting to find out that she was alive until 1946 and that her sister Clara was aware of it.
If only I could go back in time and ask my grandmother and her siblings if they knew a woman called Ellen Chick - perhaps they did and just didn't realise it was their grandmother. Or perhaps their father didn't want anything to do with his mother and stopped all contact between them.
Helen CHICK
Hello Shauna,
Ken PASCOE is my father's brother,and we have been doing family history together for possibly eight
years(time gets away on us).Between us we have pulled down a few brick walls,and have a fairly good grasp on
most lines of our families,but occassionally hit brick walls of our own.
Both uncle and myself have helped a lot of other people who have hit their brick walls and uncle seems
to enjoy doing the family research.
Regards from Canberra,
Peter PASCOE.
Try weird ways of searching on BDM's
I hit a brick wall looking for the birth of my g-g-g/mother, Elizabeth Lorne Brackenreg. I already knew the info but wanted to buy a certificate, except she wasn't coming up on the NSW BDM. After many frustrating searches I listed her first name only (thankfully Lorne is an unusual middle name) and her parent's first names, and up she popped! Her birth had been mistakenly transcribed online as Crackenreg, not Brackenreg.
So my advice is to try searching but leave out fields here and there in case there's been a simple typo.
Good luck!
I know a bit about this family. Lizzie Brackenreg was a daughter of Charles James Brackenreg and his wife Mary Ann Bailey, who is my ancestor. Mary Ann was a daughter of Samuel Bailey (per Lord Eldon 1817) and his wife Sarah (married previously as Morris and per Princess Charlotte). Mary Ann was transported with her mother at as an infant and brought up as a child of Samuel and Sarah. Sarah & Samuel operated the Cottage of Content Hotel at East Maitland for many years. Two of thier daughters married Brackenreg boys.
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"I really don't know if words can express what I feel right now," Lee head women's soccer coach Matt Yelton said. "To be in this spot and do something that nobody has ever done; I didn't do it, my team did it. It's just such a unique occasion that it's hard to describe the achievement in and of itself."
The Lady Flames finish the season with a final record of 23-2-0. Concordia, who was making its third appearance in the title game, concludes its campaign with a 19-5-1 mark.
"This team has battled, they challenged and they have worked for each other," Yelton said. "I told them in the huddle that it's not the wins and losses at the end of the day, it's the fact that they did this as a group. It wasn't one individual. It wasn't one player that went and won it for us. Whether that player played tonight or not, they were a part of this success."
Lee got on the board just 9:34 into the match as Leah Fortune assisted Ashley Aragona on a goal from the front of the box that caught Cavalier keeper Tori Talbutt off guard for a 1-0 lead. The sophomore duo reversed roles14 minutes later with an Aragona cross from outside the 18-yard line to Fortune, who was waiting inside the box, to push their lead to 2-0. That score stood heading into the break.
"We went into halftime and said it is 0-0," Yelton said. "I don't care what the scoreboard says, Concordia is too good of a team and they've got too good of a coaching staff for us to think that the job is over and done with. We knew we had to press and try to get a third goal."
That's exactly what Lee did. With 28 minutes left on the clock, Talbutt came out to gather a cross by Amy Cochran, only to have Aragona strike again to put the Lady Flames up 3-0.
"When the third goal went in, I probably felt a little more secure about things," Yelton said. "I knew that they are such a talented squad that we had to fight for 90 minutes tonight and I think our kids did a great job of that."
Aragona, who was forced to exit from the Semifinal game against Azusa Pacific (Calif.) due to an injury, finished the match with a pair of goals and an assist. In five national championship games played, she totaled four goals and two assists. For her performance on the field, Aragona was named Most Valuable Player and is the fourth Lee player to earn the honor.
"What she [Aragona] did tonight was probably one of the gutsiest performances I've ever witnessed as a coach," Yelton said. "She was hobbling up and down the halls all night and she could barely walk. Then she comes out here tonight and has a hand in all three goals. Not just that, but the effort she put into it. I think that if I would have tried to put her on the bench, she would have fought me to get onto the field."
The four-year run in the national championship by the Lady Flames has seen them outscore title game opponents 11-0, shutout their last 15-straight tournament foes 44-0 and have gone unbeaten in 19-consecutive matches, and senior Jamie Achten has been a part of all of it.
"It's absolutely incredible," Achten said. "I feel so worn out and so tired, but God had so much grace on me and the team. We worked our butts off every single day with that goal in mind. Even since freshman year when we first won, it was always like, we can do more; we could win all four and it actually happened. I can't even believe it."
One of the most decorated players in NAIA women's soccer, Achten once again etched her name in the record book by setting the single-game assist record by dishing out five in the Second Round. She also earned a spot on the 13-player All-Tournament team along with teammates Caroline Scales, Laura Thacker, Fortune and Aragona.
"Coach [Yelton] prepared us 100 percent from day one," Achten said. "It was one of those things that when you set a goal out and you are thinking about it every single day, and then when you get to this point, you can't help but give your whole heart and hope for the best."
Fortune was named the national championship's Outstanding Offensive Player, racking up four goals and four assists in five games played. Outstanding Defensive Player accolades were taken by Danielle Ross of Azusa Pacific.
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|Point Loma Nazarene (Calif.)
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Leah Fortune, Lee (Tenn.)
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Danielle Ross, Azusa Pacific (Calif.)
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Samui's beautiful Big Buddha located in Plai Laem. One of the most popular tourist locations with a stunning view of Koh Panagan. This area offers tourist food and shops for Thai sovenirs.
Wikipedia:Ko Samui island of Surat Thani Province (or Koh Samui, Thai: เกาะสมุย, Thai pronunciation: [kɔ̀ʔ samǔj]), or often, simply Samui as it is referred to by locals, is an island off the east coast of the Kra Isthmus in Thailand, close to the mainland Surat Thani town. It is Thailand's third largest island, with an area of 228.7 km2 and a population of over 50,000 (2008). It is rich with natural resources, white sandy beaches, coral reefs and coconut trees.


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Knowledge Management for Virtual Reality Applications in a Home Rehabilitation Virtual Network pp477-486
© Jan 2008 Volume 5 Issue 4, Editor: Charles Despres, pp347 - 550
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This paper describes the reference architecture to support a multi‑user virtual healthcare network that enables rehabilitation and social reintegration of people with disabilities. The network, based on a virtual collaborative environment supported by the www, includes collaboration and interpersonal communication devices and data collection mechanisms that provide knowledge management for the system and effectiveness evaluation. The Virtual Network (VN) allows the rehabilitation patients spread in geographically dispersed areas, a very frequent reality in the considered context, to access a distributed virtual platform able to offer communication and shared knowledge with doctors, nurses, therapists, social workers and other people involved in the process of rehabilitation. VN solutions allow building a virtual shared space, a context of understanding and knowledge where the "real world" knowledge affects virtual interaction and virtual interaction modifies "real world" therapies. The main aim of the VN is to achieve a higher quality of life for the people with disabilities and, in the long term, from the economic point of view, to produce important savingsprofits and bring about feasible ways to improvingre‑organizing health care services. The present paper illustrates our team's first steps in building such a network in Romania. The first section establishes the link between the virtual reality and the medical rehabilitation as an important branch of the healthcare system. Several applications in the field are presented here. The second section focuses on two main aspects: on the one hand, the current Romanian reality of medical rehabilitation and, on the other hand, the existing possibilities to build a VN for rehabilitation as a solution to the main problems Romania has in this field. The third section is a technical preamble to the knowledge sharing process particularized for a healthcare VN in section number four. The last part of the paper includes both pro and cons arguments for the designing of a VN as a solution to the discrepancy between the demand and the real current hospitals' supply of medical rehabilitation in Romania.
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During his graduation speech to the class of 2009 at the University of Notre Dame, President Barack Obama emphasized the use of embryonic stem cell research for juvenile diabetes. During part of President Obama's commencement speech focusing on the political and cultural disagreements Notre Dame students will encounter as they go into life, Barack Obama approached the controversial topic of stem cell research.
"Those who speak out against stem cell research may be rooted in admirable conviction about the sacredness of life, but so are the parents of a child with juvenile diabetes who are convinced that their son's or daughter's hardships can be relieved," he said.
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Camino brunch is so delicious. If you live within driving distance of Oakland, check it out. Potatoes fried in duck fat, baked eggs, homemade sausages.... don't get me started. Of course their dinner is scrumptious as well.
Russ' recipe for Eggs Baked in Cream was published in the NY Times in November. We gave the recipe a try and it was really good. We didn't have the single egg-sized ramekins that Russ suggests, so we adapted the recipe to cook 2 eggs in our eight inch cast iron.
Ingredients for 2 eggs:
- 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup sliced tender leeks
- salt
- 4 sprigs thyme, leaves chopped
- 4 sprigs parsley, leaves chopped
- 2 large farm eggs
- 4 tablespoons Half and Half
- ground pepper
Preheat oven to 400 with rack in middle of oven.
In an 8" cast iron, melt butter, add a splash of water, a pinch of salt, and saute leeks until tender ( just a minute or 2).
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Why is it that our current twenty-first century A.D. is so similar to the twenty-first century B.C.?
Is history destined to repeat itself?Will biblical prophecies come true, and if so, when?
It has been more than three decades since Zecharia Sitchin's trailblazing book The 12th Planet brought to life the Sumerian civilization and its record of the Anunnaki—the extraterrestrials who fashioned man and gave mankind civilization and religion. In this new volume, Sitchin shows that the End is anchored in the events of the Beginning, and once you learn of this Beginning, it is possible to foretell the Future.
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I recently got a question from an anon asking how to wear newsboy caps/flat caps… and my mind went into a spiral of fashion and wonderfulness.
I think the better questions is: what COULDN'T you wear newsboy caps with? Ok, maybe they wouldn't go with a frilly dress or a leather biker outfit. But beyond that, they're pretty much embedded into every aspect of the fashion industry. Poeple are femmeing them up with lipstick and purls. Hipsters are thrifting them and wearing them with plaid and boots. Golfers and country clubbers are pairing them with argyle and preppy styles. And really cute queers are being really cute. But what's new.
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Americans living in the nation's "Tornado Alley" are hardly strangers to the havoc that even mid-sized tornadoes can suddenly visit on communities. In fact, the recent violent start of the 2014 tornado season, with lethal twisters tearing through Oklahoma and Arkansas, illustrates just how sudden and devastating these storms can be.
Six decades ago, an outbreak of scores of tornadoes across both Oklahoma and Kansas killed more than 100 people, injured hundreds more and destroyed homes and businesses in dozens of counties. On the night of May 25, 1955, a monster F5 twister (in the Fujita Scale's grim terminology, a tornado capable of "incredible damage") slammed into the northern Oklahoma town of Blackwell, not far from the Kansas line. Twenty people died and hundreds of homes and businesses were demolished.
In the days following the Blackwell twister, LIFE photographer Joe Scherschel was on the ground there, documenting the devastation and the recovery effort in one small town that had nearly, but not quite, been wiped off the map by a shockingly destructive force that disappeared as quickly as it had erupted.
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This is me on a normal day-to-day basis: This is me after I learned of another Miyazaki Lynch:
i hope i'm not one of the 'some' who would say it looks bad. bad dv bugs me. thats insane he's been shooting this already with recognizable actors and word had never leaked.
Kinda disappointing to hear he's shooting on DV, but then again, Collateral looked pretty damn good. Lynch should be one of the people who can make DV look good, so I've still got high expectations, myself.
hmmm. lynch on dv. it works quite well for his internet shorts, but i picture lynch films to be lush and beautifully shot, with amazing colors and shadows. you really can't get that "lynch-look" on dv, and it upsets me that he says he never wants to go back to film.


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Must See? A Car Chase On Fox Prompts Apology
On Fox News Friday afternoon, viewers were presented with a police chase. In the end the suspected car-jacker appears to shoot himself. Fox issued an apology for airing the scene. NPR's David Folkenflik reports on the perils of live coverage.
On the Fox News Channel yesterday, there was a grisly reminder of some of the perils of live coverage. Viewers were presented with a police chase involving a man suspected of a car-jacking in Arizona. NPR's media correspondent David Folkenflik offers this essay breaking down what happened and what went wrong.
DAVID FOLKENFLIK, BYLINE: There is a logic to broadcasting footage of a car chase live on the air. And local news helicopters make it so easy. It's ratings catnip and fast-moving, with an adrenaline rush, uncertainty, a whiff of peril and usually - usually - few real consequences. Not this time. Fox news anchor Shepard Smith is never shy about his tabloid TV sensibility. A lively car chase or fire rarely fails to stoke his interest. Around 3:26 p.m. Eastern time yesterday, Smith cuts back to footage from the Phoenix Fox affiliate.
SHEPARD SMITH: Well, look at this. Dingbat here has gotten off the freeway. Remember he was westbound on the...
FOLKENFLIK: The man gets out of his car and things start to go awry.
SMITH: Look at this. He's just running. Oh, my. Well, it looks like he's a little disoriented or something.
FOLKENFLIK: Smith is watching and speculating with us as the man wanders around serpentine in the brush.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (unintelligible)
FOLKENFLIK: The man pulls out what appears to be a gun and presses it against his head, and Smith starts yelling at his producers.
SMITH: Get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off, get off it, get off it, get off it.
FOLKENFLIK: The man's gun begins to move and the camera turns back to Smith in studio wincing and what he's seen. After a short commercial break, Smith returns, his face drawn.
SMITH: Well, I have some explaining to do. While we were taking that car chase and showing it to you live, when the guy pulled over and got out of the vehicle, we went on delay.
FOLKENFLIK: Smith says Fox created a five-second buffer as a precaution - it didn't work. His apology is abject.
SMITH: Sometimes, we see a lot of things that we don't let get to you because it's not time appropriate, it's insensitive, it's just wrong - and that was wrong. And that won't happen again on my watch, and I'm sorry.
FOLKENFLIK: I think Smith deserves great credit for his immediate, forthright and transparent apology. But, absent a fugitive at least on the order of O.J. Simpson, a live car chase has no national news value. Remember the hoax flight of balloon boy who happened to be tucked away in his family attic? That was spectacle, not an everyday local crime suspect alluding cops. And at least that was genuinely transfixing. There was no need for what was shown yesterday, no point to this, especially not live or just about live, giving producers no real margin of error. In this case, the whiff of peril turned out to be quite real. David Folkenflik, NPR News.
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Catching up on blog awards
Sunday, February 21, 2010
You like me! You really like me! HAHA! Yes, I'm goofy today and I'm in a good mood!
I got a bunch of awards while I wasn't able to use the computer regularly, so here's my post to catch up!
I received the above award from Melissa at Outnumbered 3 to 1.
The requirements for this award are:
- link back to the blogger who sent me this award
- post where I would like to be in 10 years
- pass it on to 10 awesome bloggers (I'm tagging ten women total for both awards.)
Where would I like to be in 10 years?
Wow... ten years. I really don't wanna think THAT far ahead but oh well... I guess I will. I want to have my degree and an MCSE and be working on computers. I'd like to be married and have a home somewhere other than Maryland.
I got the above award from THREE different ladies and I'm flattered by this too! I received The Sunshine Award from Luscious Deals, Shelley's Swag, and The Scattered Mind Fragments of a Musical Mommy.
Thank you to all of you!
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Marlborough College is a foundation member of the Cadet Movement. The Contingent is now an Army-only organisation with an establishment of 300 cadets and nine officers. There is a full-time School Staff Instructor and a full time assistant SSI.
The CCF welcomes all cadets, male and female, and seeks to develop their skills of leadership, teamwork and self-confidence. The Contingent does not seek to recruit, but hopes to foster interest and respect for the Armed Forces.
The unit occupies large buildings overlooking the Parade Ground and has a modern, indoor six lane 25 metre range. The College grounds and river are used every week for 'green' training, the more formal aspects of drill being saved for occasions such as Remembrance Sunday.
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The earliest mention of a Rifle Corps appears in The Marlborough Magazine of March 1860. The first officers were all pupils and were nearly 20 years of age when they left the school.
The uniform was a light grey dress which earned them the name of 'The Millers'. By 1881 there were over 300 boys in uniform, a figure which has been more or less maintained to the present day.
A cyclist section was formed in 1891, later to be merged into the Signals, and a marching band attended all camps and parades. In 1908 the Officer Training Corps was founded (OTC) and in 1948 this became the Combined Cadet Force or CCF.
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The Contingent has the great distinction of wearing the Foot Guards Beret and flash, in accordance with Regular Foot Guards Regiments. The Contingent is one of only six CCFs to enjoy an affiliation with the Household Division and the Honourable Artillery Company.
The Signals section was formed in 1885 and practised with flags, lamps and field telephones until the early 1930s. The wireless society was formed in 1934 and transmitting licences granted by the GPO, one static, one mobile.
Under the inspirational guidance of an officer, AR Pepin, five metre wavelength man-pack radios were built, the first in the British Army, which brought about an immediate response and lavish support from the Army Signals. As a result, Pepin was awarded the MBE and the Marlborough troop to this day has the right to 'Royal' status and cap-badge.
By 1940 there were twenty-eight ex-signallers in the Royal Corps of Signals or RAF Signals. The secret wireless station operated in Stalag Luft 3 was run by an ex-Marlborough College signaller and he used the original Marlborough College OTC call sign of "ÄOX".


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LOS ANGELES (AP) A Florida man has pleaded guilty to a fraud charge in a Los Angeles courtroom in connection with swindling about $2.3 million from Indianapolis Colts defensive end Dwight Freeney.
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5145 Wellington St. (at 6th Ave.)
Phone: 514-362-1818
Website: www.restaurantsu.com
Open: Tues.-Thurs. 5 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.; Fri. and Sat. 5 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Sun. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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Price range: Meze: $7-$16; soups and salads $5.50-$7.50; main courses $19-$26; desserts $3-$10
MONTREAL - Last week, the terrific little restaurant Mas Cuisine served its last meal. Not only was Mas a true blue chef-driven restaurant (its chef-owner, Michel Ross, did most of the cooking during every service), it really was one of the first restaurants to put Verdun on the foodie map. For 4½ years, Ross and his wife, Sandra Auger, served locals and newcomers alike, while the scene around them began to blossom. Some have come and others have gone, two faves right now being Wellington and Blackstrap BBQ, but the one that really turns my crank is the Turkish restaurant Su. Not only is it serving upscale Mediterranean food too rarely seen on our dining scene, but it is owned and operated by one sharp chef, Fisun Ercan.
Born in Izmir, Turkey, Ercan grew up on a farm, where her parents grew mandarins and olives. After studying cooking at LaSalle College, Ercan opened her restaurant in 2005. She called it Su, meaning water in Turkish. It also happens to be her daughter's name.
Now, I cannot deny I really only began to hear about Su quite recently. There's a nice little buzz about the place in chef circles, and as Ercan published a book, Su: La Cuisine turque de Fisun Ercan (Trécarré, 2011), she had also been making the rounds of Québécois food/living/cooking/book-plugging shows. As there are no Turkish restaurants on the fine-dining beat, my exposure to this cuisine had been close to nil. Yet I am always eager to add any of the so-called "ethnic" cuisines to my list.
It never ceases to amaze me that the word "ethnic" in the restaurant world represent cuisines outside of American or European cannon. No doubt Turkish falls into that category, which though incredibly large, is so incredibly misrepresented on the upscale dining scene, something that always hits me as incredibly silly as I'm always pleased to be eating something other than the same Old Montreal bistro fare.
Turkish dishes are rich in yogurt, olive oil, grilled meats, eggplant, peppers, garlic, nuts, beans, fruit (pomegranates, apricots, plums, figs!), herbs and spices.
Turkey also produces both potent red and crisp white wines, the ideal match for this lush cuisine. With this sudden summery blast of weather we've been having (did spring show its face at all this year?), I figured a little Turkish feast would hit the spot.
Su's dining room is simple but pretty, with bright blue and white furniture and a bar at the back of the room that can seat another 10 diners. There's a welcome Mediterranean feel to the space, which is thankfully devoid of fishing nets, an excess of ceramic urns or paintings of shepherds on hilly vistas.
The menu is divided into four sections: mezes, soups and salads, main courses, and desserts. Dishes are immensely appealing, so I'd recommend the shared meze platter, which can be assembled for two or more.
With a bottle of refreshing chardonnay and sauvignon blanc blend, Vinkara Quattro Beyaz 2011 (Turkish and organic, to boot), we delved into five different meze, including "kirmizi biberli ezme" a spread made up of grilled red peppers, walnuts and mint, cigarillo-sized rolls filled with herb-enhanced white cheese, vegetable fritters served with a dill-laden yogurt sauce, stuffed vine leaves, and radicchio leaves filled with cubes of marinated eggplant and more yogurt sauce.
Every bite was fantastic, with extra marks for the super crisp "sigaraboregi" (the cheese rolls), the earthy red pepper spread, and the grease-free fritters. Nothing was too spicy, but the cool flavours combined with all the diverse textures were good fun.
Next up, a house classic, "manti." Described on the menu as Turkish ravioli, the dish consists of a thin pasta sheet wrapped around ground beef and served in a pool of yogurt sauce enriched with a spicy tomato sauce.
I loved the silky pasta and the contrast between the spicy sauce and rich yogurt. I'm told this is one of Ercan's signature dishes, and I see why.
Main courses that followed maintained the sense of adventure provided thus far.
Halibut was the fish of the night, and here it was rolled into three rounds, placed upon a bed of cold lentils with red peppers, and topped with a spicy mayonnaise-like sauce and fried onions. Very nice.
I also relished every bite of a dish of rock cornish game hen that, according to the menu, hails from a recipe from the Ottoman palace that includes the grilled half chicken with an "aphrodisiac" sauce made with dried fruit, grilled red peppers, toasted almonds and chickpeas. I liked everything here, but most especially the deliciously juicy oven-roasted tomatoes piled overtop the succulent bird.
The last main was a slight letdown in that it starred grilled leg-of-lamb kebab marinated in spices served in a homemade pita. Sauces include garlic-infused yogurt and more of that spicy tomato sauce. As great as this dish tasted, the meat was cooked beyond the preferable medium-rare. The sauces made up for the dryness of the meat, but I can only imagine how much better this would have been had the meat been pink and juicy.
With so much already under our belts, dessert seemed excessive. Yet I would highly recommend the ones we tried, including a chocolate and halvah molten cake with mandarin ice cream (gorgeous!) and kunefe, a galette made of kadaif (shredded phyllo dough) with mozzarella, vanilla sugar syrup, chopped pistachios and a few blueberries. What a bore of me to toss around the word "texture" endlessly regarding this food, but there's no avoiding it in this dessert, which has the most wicked smooth to crunchy contrast. If I could, I'd eat kunefe every day, for breakfast, dessert, afternoon coffee, midnight snack …
If I could, I'd also make Su a regular stop on my dining circuit. Fascinating food aside, I also admired the service staff for their smarts and enthusiasm. The wine list is also well chosen and interesting, with a serious selection of Turkish wines and many more well-priced private imports.
To end this review, a bit of news: Chef Ercan will soon be opening a second restaurant, a Turkish meze place featuring shared small plates on bar counters, in partnership with restaurateur Edward Zaki at the old Salute space on Laurier Ave.
Until then, I encourage you to head to Verdun to sample some of Ercan's fabulous fare. She can hold her head high in Verdun's burgeoning foodie scene. And I have a sneaking suspicion Mile End's restaurant row will benefit greatly from her sunny cuisine, too.
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Married coppersmith and silversmith. Convert. Disciple of Saint Patrick. First bishop of the diocese of Elphin, Ireland. Late in life, citing his unworthiness to lead his parishioners, he retired to live as a prayerful hermit on an island in Donegal Bay; monks from his diocese followed and tried to get him to return.
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Microsoft's $844 Million Software Giveaway To Nonprofits: Pure Charity Or Cheap Marketing?
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Microsoft has just released its 2011 Annual Financial Report. But alongside that document's dry facts about its $69.9 billion turnover, and the operating income of $27.2 billion, Dj Walker-Morgan pointed us to a more interesting publication, Microsoft's 2011 Citizenship Report:
We release our Citizenship Report at the same time as our Annual Financial Report to give our broad base of stakeholders a full view of Microsoft's financial and non-financial performance. Corporate responsibility means more than returning value to shareholders – it means engaging with stakeholders to address our responsibilities in the areas of environmental, social and governance issues. We believe all corporations have, as part of their license to operate, a responsibility to contribute positively to society on a global scale. To quote our company's founder, Bill Gates: "It takes more than great products to make a great company."
So let's just take a look at the things Microsoft has been doing to "contribute positively to society on a global scale". Here's one detail:
We have increased corporate charitable giving year-over-year since fiscal year 2008, despite economic challenges. Our employees volunteered more time—more than 380,000 hours in the U.S. alone. We also contributed more cash and in-kind support to nonprofits—$949 million globally.
That's nearly $1 billion of cash and in-kind support to nonprofits – a big number. There's a web page devoted to these activities, with this paragraph giving some more information:
In FY2011 we donated more than $844 million in software to 46,886 nonprofits in 113 countries/regions.The value of software we have donated globally since 1998 is more than $3.9 billion. The FY2011 value of software donated now includes employee software donations; previous years' in-kind giving numbers do not.
This means that of the $949 million dollars "contributed" to nonprofits, $844 million -- 88% – was actually software, presumably Microsoft's, since it's unlikely it went out and bought it from competitors.
What's harder to judge is how much that $844 million worth of software actually cost Microsoft: the specific phrase used is "fair market value". This has quite a well-defined meaning in US tax law:
The fair market value is the price at which the property would change hands between a willing buyer and a willing seller, neither being under any compulsion to buy or to sell and both having reasonable knowledge of relevant facts.
Now, I'm not suggesting that the people who put up the web page about Microsoft's contributions to nonprofits were following that definition exactly. But equally, it seems likely that the gist is the same: it's a kind of rough price that you'd usually find in normal markets selling the products in question. And those prices are almost certainly well above the cost of manufacturing, especially if the software was delivered online, or if multiple installations were permitted.
So the actual cost to Microsoft of that donated software is likely to be only a small fraction of the $844 million "fair market value" cited. This inevitably tempers our admiration for Microsoft's ten-figure generosity somewhat.
But there's something else. Microsoft wasn't just handing out a bunch of any old products: it was giving away mostly Windows and Office, judging by a table showing a breakdown by region. Both of these are well-known for the lock-in effects they produce: once you start installing applications and creating documents with them, it's quite hard to move to a completely different platform like Apple or GNU/Linux. Most people don't even try.
So these free copies not only cost Microsoft considerably less than the $844 million figure it used to calculate that near-billion dollar total for its corporate brochure, but it wasn't really altruistic at all. With hundreds of thousands of copies of Windows being distributed (417,030 were supplied for refurbished computers alone), there is a very high probability that Microsoft will be benefiting financially – and not just in terms of goodwill -- from upgrades and follow-on sales for many years to come.
Making copies available at zero or very low prices is something that Microsoft has done time and again whenever there was any danger of customers "defecting" to open source. For example, in 2009, Russia planned to deploy free software throughout its education system. That didn't happen, in part because Microsoft offered to license Windows for $30 a copy (article in Russian.) It's part of the rough and tumble of the highly-competitive software business.
Still, it's a little rich for a company as profitable as Microsoft to try to dress this up as "corporate charitable giving." It's really nothing of the kind: it's marketing, pure and simple, and Microsoft should be big enough to describe it as such.
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A Fair Trade iPad? How Apple Could Change the Industry's Game
In April, the most valuable publicly traded company of 2011, Apple, announced that it would implement labor reforms for the Chinese workers who assemble Apple products.
The announcement followed an inspection by the Fair Labor Association (FLA) of factories in China where Apple's products are assembled.
The factories, run by Foxconn Technology Group, have been criticized by fair labor groups for years because of harsh conditions such as extreme overtime, dismal wages, and exposure of workers to toxins. Media focus on the factories increased over the past year, and Apple consumers around the world staged protests and sent petitions calling for reform.
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MyNorthwest.com: A few days after Washington lawmakers approved a budget deal to lower state spending last year, small-government Rep. Gary Alexander got $40.60 worth of dry cleaning done. Then he made sure taxpayers paid the bill.
Alexander, the Republican budget writer in the state House, billed more than $500 worth of dry-cleaning fees to the state over the past two years, according to an Associated Press analysis of thousands of expense reimbursements. He wasn't alone: Seven Democrats and 12 Republicans in the Legislature requested and received compensation totaling more than $5,600 for dry cleaning since the start of 2011.
Lawmakers are able to get taxpayer-covered compensation for what the Legislature deems legitimate business expenses tied to the job. That includes common costs of being a lawmaker, such as travel around the district to meet with constituents, parking fees for meetings, office supplies and rent for district offices.
It also includes a variety of expenses with less-explicit benefits for taxpayers, including iPhones, picture frames, artwork, expenses for meetings with lobbyists and dues to professional organizations like the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council.
Alexander said he only submits dry cleaning receipts that are above and beyond the expenses he has outside of his legislative work. He said the job, especially when the Legislature is meeting, requires him to use a lot more dress shirts and sport coats. "I don't think that's an unreasonable expense to be reimbursed for," Alexander said.
After an AP reporter questioned him about how it aligns with a limited-government message, Alexander said he would explore ways to keep his expenses down. "I'm always looking for ways that we can do it by example," said Alexander, who is from Olympia.
Stephen Ellis, vice president of the group Taxpayers for Common Sense, said the idea that lawmakers should spend public money to decorate their office or keep their clothes clean is beyond the pale. He said that while the amount of money may be small in comparison to the budget at large, the expenses offer a chance for taxpayers to get a glimpse at how lawmakers operate.
"We see it as a lens into how they approach the budget," Ellis said. "If they're profligate with their own spending in offices, it stands to reason that they're not going to be too frugal with the state or the federal budget."
Democratic Sen. Rodney Tom, who lives in the wealthy enclave of Medina and recently built a coalition with Republicans to install himself as majority leader, purchased various books from Amazon.com and got reimbursement for a Bose headset that cost $164.20. Senate Democratic Leader Ed Murray got coverage for his home Internet ($50 per month) and telephone ($50 per month), in addition to the cellphone that he and many other lawmakers expense.
House Republican Leader Richard DeBolt, of Chehalis, meanwhile, filed for only about $100 in total expenses over two years – all tied to travel. House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, used his account mostly to expense costs related to his district office.
Rep. Larry Haler, R-Richland, expensed more than $600 in membership dues for business organizations in the Tri Cities. Rep. Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, purchased $383.25 in artwork for his office in March of last year, also when lawmakers were struggling to balance the budget.
Pederson said the art – a painting of the Montlake Bridge done by a Seattle artist – was like other furniture that lawmakers need to make their offices comfortable and inviting. He noted that he doesn't typically use his full allotment for reimbursable expenses, which has been $6,500 in recent years.
Murray, the top Democrat in the state Senate, said he uses his own money to cover a number of expenses related to his legislative work. He bemoaned the focus on reimbursements. "It's why we have trouble recruiting candidates who aren't rich, old and retired," said Murray, who is from Seattle.
Haler said he wouldn't be part of the business organization if it wasn't for his work in the Legislature. Tom said his expenses were all important to his legislative work, such as books on policy and a headset for phone conversations.
Each lawmaker typically totals between $10,000 and $25,000 in expenses each year, including per diems during the session, postage, printing, travel and the more generic category of office expenses. Legislators earn a salary of between about $42,000 and $50,000, and many maintain external jobs.
Washington lawmakers are currently looking to fill a roughly $1 billion shortfall and looking to add another $1 billion to education in the coming legislative session.
Only in a government job would you be reimbursed for dry cleaning and artwork. I doubt there are many private sector jobs that would reimburse you for these items. But I guess these representatives feel they deserve these perks for their role in being a "public servant".


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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) published, on December 5, 2008, in the Federal Register a Final Rule eliminating the portion of existing regulations providing for committee-directed emergency withdrawal of lands from the operation of various public land laws.
Under Section 204(e) of the 1976 Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) and current BLM regulations providing for emergency withdrawals, 43 CFR 2310.5, the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) must withdraw lands immediately upon determining that an emergency exists and that extraordinary measures need to be taken to protect natural resources or resource values that otherwise would be lost. The statute and regulations also provide that the Secretary must follow the same course if a similar determination is made by either of two congressional committees specified in Section 204(e) and appropriate notification is made by that committee to the Secretary.
Since at least 1981, questions have been raised concerning the constitutionality of the congressional committee notification provision of Section 204(e).
In one instance, a District Court found it unnecessary to opine on the constitutionality of this portion of section 204(e) of FLPMA because the Secretary had bound himself through the regulations at 43 C.F.R. 2310.5. The final rule, by removing the regulations, would remove a potential impediment to judicial resolution of the constitutionality of the statutory provision. The statutory language in FLPMA Section 204(e) providing for a committee-directed emergency withdrawal remains unchanged under the final rule.
The BLM published a proposed rule to remove both committee-directed and Secretary-initiated emergency withdrawals on October 10, 2008 (73 FR 60212 (2008)), initiating a 15-day public comment period. The rationale for the proposed rule was twofold; one, the existing regulations for emergency withdrawals are redundant, as the segregation of lands provided for in the conventional withdrawal process is equally as effective at protecting resources as are emergency withdrawals and provide for a public process in the decision-making; and two, the committee-directed withdrawal presents constitutional issues.
While the BLM continues to believe that the regulations for Secretary-initiated emergency withdrawals is redundant, the BLM decided not to remove the emergency withdrawal regulations in their entirety in response to public comments. The Final Rule removes only the congressional committee-directed withdrawal provision of the regulation, but retains a procedure whereby the Secretary can initiate an emergency withdrawal.
The BLM manages more land – 258 million acres – than any other Federal agency. Most of this public land is located in 12 Western states, including Alaska. The BLM, with a budget of about $1 billion, also administers 700 million acres of sub-surface mineral estate throughout the nation. The BLM's multiple-use mission is to sustain the health and productivity of the public lands for the use and enjoyment of present and future generations. The BLM accomplishes this by managing such activities as outdoor recreation, livestock grazing, mineral development, and energy production, and by conserving natural, historical, cultural, and other resources on public lands.


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text: The much-blogged-about Welsh indie-pop band Los Campesinos gets a proper introduction to North America with the EP Sticking Fingers Into Sockets, which compiles both sides of the band's first two singles and adds a kicky, statement-of-purpose cover of Pavement's "Frontwards." Given Los Campesinos' skewed sense of humor—evident in the titles and twisty structures of songs like "We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives" and "You! Me! Dancing!"—as well as their preference for glockenspiels and fiddles, the band appears to have more in common with Brakes and I'm From Barcelona than with Steven Malkmus. But they clearly know a grand melody when they hear it, and for all the twee trappings, Los Campesinos is surprisingly aggressive. Somewhere, in some college dorm, someone just discovered a new favorite band.


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Sweet, gooey hot cross buns and hearty Easter pies are on the menu for the Easter season at First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville.
Sweet, gooey hot cross buns and hearty Easter pies are on the menu for the Easter season at First United Methodist Church in Hendersonville.
Volunteers will be meeting in the church's commercial kitchen to prepare a holy day brunch, and the chef who heads the food ministry has reduced her institutional-sized recipes to share with home bakers.
Senior Minister Dan Martin said he enjoys the long-held tradition of eating the special, seasonal treats.
"These are not sacred foods, but they serve to remind us of the place of church in our culture," Martin said. "In a world where we can eat strawberries and asparagus year-round, we forget that our lives are seasonal. The Christian year is seasonal also; these special treats are a taste of the season of resurrection."
The sweetness of the hot cross buns, Martin said, is symbolic of the sweetness that is the rising of Christ on Easter Sunday and is derived from Monrovian tradition.
"Imagine the day that Christ is killed being called Good Friday. Well, in order to sweeten that day, the hot cross buns are sweet, they're spicy, they have bits of dried fruit in them, and they have that wonderful glaze on top in the shape of a cross, just to remind people the sweetness of the death of Christ because we know what's going to happen on Easter Sunday," Martin said. "It is a strange thing, but calling that day Good Friday is a strange thing anyway."
The Italian tradition of the meat- and cheese-filled pies full of the rich foods that have been avoided during the Lenten season, Martin said, is perfect for Easter Sunday brunch.
"It was to break the Easter fast in a celebratory way," Martin said. "We have sunrise service at 7 o'clock and then followed immediately by Easter pies with beverages and fruit."
The Food Ministry of FUMC is led by chef Lou Reeves, who coordinates the preparation of meals served at the church and the volunteers helping with cooking, serving and cleaning.
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill alumnus began her professional career in marketing, but as her children began to prepare for college themselves, she decided to go back to school at Asheville-Buncombe Technical College for her degree in the culinary arts.
When she was approached by the church to work in its food ministry, she said she would try it for a year and is now into her eighth year.
"I get to work in a commercial kitchen and not have to worry about hiring or firing anybody," Reeves said. "Instead, I am greeted by eager volunteers. It is just great."
Reeves has prepared the following recipes along with some helpful tips and tricks to make these dishes in your own kitchen.
Serves: 16
Start to finish: 3 hours
1 cup warm milk (105-115 degrees)
2 (� ounce) packages active dry yeast (4� teaspoons)
� cup sugar + (1 teaspoon sugar reserved for yeast)
4 cups all-purpose flour
1� teaspoons ground allspice
� teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon salt
1� sticks (10 tablespoons) unsalted butter, cut into pieces
Finely grated zest from 1 orange
2 large eggs at room temperature
1 egg yolk, room temperature
� cup dried currants
� cup golden raisins
� cup dried cranberries
Chef's tip: When measuring flour, use "scoop and level" method. First, loosen the flour with a whisk, then with 1 cup dry measuring cup, scoop flour, without shaking or tapping. Sweep off or level the excess with a knife or spatula.
In a small bowl, stir together warm milk, yeast and 1 teaspoon sugar until yeast is dissolved and foamy.
In a large mixing bowl, combine flour, allspice, cinnamon, salt and remaining sugar. Blend in butter with your fingertips or a pastry blender until mixture resembles a course meal.
Lightly beat egg with egg yolk in small bowl.
Make a well in flour mixture and pour in yeast and egg mixture and add orange zest. Stir until dough forms. If using an electric mixer, use dough hook and mix on slow speed until dough forms, scraping down sides if needed.
Transfer dough to a lightly floured surface and knead with lightly floured hands until smooth and elastic for about 8 minutes.
Reeves says to make sure the surface is only lightly covered in flour or else you will run the risk of drying out your bread.
Transfer dough to a large buttered bowl, then roll the dough over in the bowl slightly coating the top of the dough in butter. Cover bowl with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place until doubled in bulk, which should take roughly one hour.
Once dough has risen, turn dough out onto a minimally floured surface and add currants, raisins and cranberries. Gently knead the dried fruits into the dough so they are dispersed evenly.
Form dough into a log and slice into 16 equal pieces. Form each piece into a ball and arrange balls about 1.5 inches apart on buttered baking sheet. Let rise, loosely covered in a warm place until doubled in bulk, about 45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Once doubled, bake buns until golden, about 14-16 minutes. Cool slightly.
To make the cross on top, make a sugar icing from three-quarters cup of confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoon of milk and one-third teaspoon of vanilla. Beat with wire whip until smooth. Pour into sandwich bag. Make a small cut across the corner of the bag, and you will be able to pipe a cross on top of each bun, completing your Hot Cross Buns.
Serves: 6
Start to finish: 1.5 hours
2 unbaked, refrigerated or homemade pie crusts
6 eggs
1 scant cup ricotta cheese
1/3 cup Parmesan cheese
2 tablespoons cream
� teaspoon pepper
1 cup diced cooked ham
� cup shredded mozzarella
1� ounces prosciutto sliced into pieces (optional)
Dash nutmeg (optional)
1 cup cooked spinach with water drained and pressed out
Begin by preheating the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large bowl, blend eggs, ricotta, parmesan, cream, pepper, nutmeg and spinach.
In the pie shell, create a layer of ham, then add mozzarella on top, followed by prosciutto.
If you prefer salami, it can be substituted for the ham or prosciutto. Cottage cheese could be substituted for ricotta. Spinach could be omitted.
Take your large bowl with egg mixture and pour it into the pie shell. Cover with second pie crust and press the edges together to form a seal along the circumference of the pie.
Then make a "vent" on top of the pie in the center in the shape of a cross.
If using your favorite dough recipe, reserve some dough and cut out crosses either by hand or with cutter. Brush the tops of the pies with an egg wash and place crosses on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes or until golden and eggs are set.
Chef's tip: Pies can be made in advance and frozen. Thaw in the refrigerator the day before using.


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BART passengers can expect residual delays system-wide this morning after equipment problems stopped trains in Fremont, BART official said.
A 30-minute delay on the Fremont-Richmond line was reported at about 5:20 a.m. due to an equipment problem in Fremont, BART officials said.
At about 6:20 a.m., BART officials said passengers could expect a 10-minute delay on the Fremont-Richmond line.
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