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A difficult time just now for Davidsen to begin his period of training in the bank. The druggist kept wandering into his shop and taking up his time with discussions of a certain evening entertainment he was promoting.
The Segelfoss News had appeared with a decidedly appealing notice about the coming performance, a whole little article which no one could overlook. The headline read: "Entertainment to Raise Money."
But the most important detail was yet to be taken care of: the programme. Originally this had been simple enough, but after repeated conferences with Vendt of the hotel, Holm kept running back to Davidsen with alterations in the manuscript. When at length the programme had been printed, it appeared so outlandish to Davidsen that he remarked: "If you can get this thing to go, I'll say you're a lucky dog, Herr Druggist!"
"It's Vendt who has all the ideas," said Holm, shifting the blame upon his friend.
Hotelkeeper Vendt was a man with a good bit of woman in his make-up. Somewhat round and flabby, a negligible growth of beard on his face, he was, furthermore, left-handed. When he spoke, it sounded as though his voice were just changing — sometimes it would be deep and manly, but more often it would break and slide up the scale to an effeminate squeal. He could wash and cook and sew; he was good-natured and easily moved to tears. Several generations back there had been an influx of Jewish blood in his family — the blood of Jews from Holland, of which there had been so many in Bergen. He was now forty-five and still a bachelor.
Vendt was a blithely ignorant man, for he had read nothing whatever in his life, though he was something of an artist in his own way, with a decided gift for story-telling. He was likewise afflicted with a strenuous desire to sing; however, as he was tone-deaf, his notes were distressingly false. Thus he was no prodigy, despite his native talent. His one claim to distinction lay in the tales he told. Suddenly he would burst forth with one, thought up on the spur of the moment and delivered quite impromptu. There was little in the tales themselves, it was all in his manner of telling them. Not that he indulged in histrionics — the cheap tricks of the actor were entirely unknown to him — he would deliver his remarks without moving so much as a finger. Nor were his fingers in any way mobile members; they were short and stubby and utterly expressionless. No, he would merely sit down with an innocent look on his face and start in telling a story.
No doubt it had been this talent of his which had first attracted Druggist Holm to the man. They were both from Bergen and their tastes were similar. At the moment they were busy with the programme for the coming entertainment.
The original thought had been to schedule the individual performers for two appearances each, with the exception of Gina i Roten who was to appear three times — she would close the programme with that famous cow-call of hers. Fru Hagen, the postmaster's wife, was to play two groups of numbers, the first a series of folk melodies, the second two Mozart sonatas. This was legitimate music and the two gentlemen dared not tamper with this portion of the programme. Nor could any change be made in Gina i Roten's scheduled appearances, as both her main groups were to consist of hymns. But the accordion player's and their own numbers were altered and shifted about no end.
Hotelkeeper Vendt was originally listed for a single appearance as a monologist — later he desired to be billed as a "reader" and finally as a "lecturer."
"Now let me hear what you intend to do yourself?" he asked of Holm.
Holm was to accompany Gina's hymns on the guitar and later he would fill in a number by playing two records on the gramophone; thus one could see how busy he would be. However he must have felt that he had placed himself too much in the background, for he suddenly announced that he was contemplating a couple of solo numbers.
"Songs?" asked Vendt.
"Rather more in the way of recitations," replied Holm.
"What's that?"
"That is to say, I shall repeat a few verses whilst my pharmacist plays a tune on a comb."
Vendt had managed hotels in many lands and it was now his desire that a foreign touch be added to the programme. Just as with menu cards, he said; they always fell flat in Norwegian.
"Well, what do you suggest?" asked Holm.
"Oh — there must be a great many dainty things to choose from," said Vendt.
They discussed the matter seriously, now and then reached for a glass, and Holm, in particular, made a great point of throwing in technical musical terms, and made mention of certain operas and symphonies. He had given some thought to the idea of a string quintette with cembalo, he said.
"Who is going to play that thing?" asked Vendt.
"I shall," said Holm.
"Do you know how to do that?"
"Yes and no — but I shall endeavour to do my best."
"All right, then I'll give a little foreign ballad I heard in my early youth and which I've never forgotten —'Je suis à vous, Madame,' it's called."
"Can you sing it in French?"
"Naturally," said Vendt. "Now put down an intermission."
"Intermission? What for?"
"It will help to fill up the programme — it will make another line. That's the way we often do to make a menu card look longer — you know, add some little thing, like table water."
They refilled their glasses and drank.
Holm: "I've been thinking of Bismarck's March."
No, this did not appeal to Vendt.
"Not the one over the Alps," said Holm. "Bismarck's March is a rather odd thing — it appears in the Iliad."
"In the what?"
"You know, that thing by Homer — the Iliad."
Vendt thought this over. "Well, if that's the case," he said. "But who's to play it?"
"It can be played on the concertina and Karel i Roten can yodel. What do you say, shall I set that down?"
"All right," said Vendt, yielding. "But I can't help it if I'm pro-French. Don't use the name 'Bismarck'— just put down the name 'Iliad.'"
Holm wrote down "The Iliad."
"And now I imagine that will be all?" he asked.
"Put down another intermission," said Vendt. . . .
Holm was obliged to make two or three trips to the print shop before he found Davidsen in. The latter was terrifically busy with his new job at the bank and could spare but little time to talk.
"Is this the programme in its final form?" he asked.
"For the present," answered Holm, cautiously. "We were just trying to decide whether or not we ought to include the Songs of the Sulamite."
"No, I don't believe we ought to think of any more changes," said Davidsen. "It does not seem to my mind that the programme is improving greatly."
Hohn again laid the blame upon Vendt. He had so many ideas. For the past twenty-four hours he had been talking nothing but French.
Davidsen hastily scanned the manuscript. "There seems to be a frightful number of intermissions," he said. "Three intermissions."
Holm: "That too, was Vendt's idea. That's after the manner they make out menus, he tells me."
"Well, if only you can get away with it!" said Davidsen. "How many shall I print?"
"Three hundred," said Holm, no niggard.
Before leaving the shop he paid for the printing. He paid so handsomely that Davidsen threw in an extra job: he printed a whole stack of handbills which his daughter was to pass out on Sunday afternoon. A splendid idea on Davidsen's part; people would pause on the street to read those scraps of paper.
The signs were promising indeed — the weather was fine and many people were abroad.
The druggist's apprentice had been out the entire morning on business; he had picked up three hundred of the tickets used by the motion picture theatre and had gone from house to house and sold them for one krone apiece. When he returned at noon, he had between seventy and eighty kroner in his pocket. He ate his luncheon and immediately went forth again. A clever chap, that apprentice — he was good for other things than playing patience!
When he returned home at the coffee hour, he had over a hundred kroner. Even so, he had all of the best houses yet to visit, he said — the homes of the quality set and of those who were on the fringe. He had desired to wait until these people had had their noonday naps and their coffee upon waking up. In the case of these better class families he was hoping to sell a ticket to each member of the household. This time he rode forth on his bicycle.
By half-past seven, when people had already begun to arrive at the theatre, the druggist's apprentice had sold his entire three hundred tickets. He had gone through Segelfoss Town from waterfront to Manor with a finetooth comb, and had succeeded in getting old and young alike to support this charitable undertaking. He now took his station in the ticket booth ready to sell many more tickets at the door to the swarms of folk he was expecting in from the country districts round about. Ay, an alert little chap, that druggist's apprentice. . . .
Eight-fifteen inside the theatre:
The house with its brand-new cement floor was practically full; it was splendid to see how nobly Segelfoss had responded on behalf of the late Solmund's family. The Anabaptist in South Parish and Nilsen in North Parish had left the scenes of their fervent endeavours, the spirit of religious revival had subsided throughout the parish and the inhabitants of Segelfoss had turned out in unexpected numbers to attend this "Entertainment to Raise Money." Even Aase was there, even Tobias from South Parish was there, along with his wife and his daughter Cornelia — ay, three kroner had come from Tobias alone!
And who was not there! That bright little girl of Davidsen's had, of course, not passed out her handbills in town, already so carefully combed by the druggist's apprentice; instead, she had gone out into the rural district, waited for church to let out and passed out her handbills there. A crafty idea on her part.
Naturally, all the officials and their families were present and the ladies would glance at the programme and ask each other questions concerning details they themselves seemed to find obscure. Cembalo? they said. Iliad? they said. "Yes, that must be a musical expression," one of them answered. The pastor's wife, Fru Landsen, sat there with her dove-like face and was dainty and petite, and she didn't speak at all, and all she did was blush. And Gammelmoderen was there in her new dress from the store, as were all the rest of the Consul's people. Each ticket had been paid for with a krone, but when Lawyer Pettersen arrived with his wife, he immediately announced his intention of entering free of charge, as head of the company which owned the theatre. There was some discussion; the druggist's apprentice came dashing out of his booth and stood on his toes and was furious, and, when the lawyer and his wife, without further ado, went stalking into the theatre, the lad cried out through the open door to the assembled multitude: "Here come the only people who got in without paying!" No, that little apprentice, he was not to be trifled with. And even when the widow Solmund arrived with all her little ones and asked to go in free, he was forced to deny them permission. "It's the principle of the thing," said the druggist's apprentice.
The performers had chosen for themselves a little room backstage and there they were now assembled. Each held a glass, and, over in one corner, Vendt was pouring from a number of bottles he had been thoughtful enough to provide. Vendt himself was talking, for the most part, in French.
Fru Hagen, the postmaster's wife, glanced at the programme and looked up, startled. "Why, what in the world is this!" she exclaimed. "What do you mean, a string quintette?" she asked.
"String quintette and cembalo," answered Holm.
Fru Hagen laughed desperately and asked: "But who — yes, I mean who will —?"
"I shall," said Holm.
"Oh dear, I shall faint! Hahaha! See, Vendt? He is mad as I've told you!"
A quarter of an hour dragged by and, out in the theatre, the gentlemen in the audience were already glancing at their watches and muttering behind their hands that it was time for the show to begin. Doctor Lund was holding hands with his wife beneath the latter's shawl.
In due time the accordion player arrived, a country boy in his early twenties, quiet and matter-of-fact, accustomed to playing for dances. Down front stood a table and two chairs and the lad, realizing at a glance that this was to be his station, strolled leisurely down the aisle, seated himself atop the table and immediately began to play.
A song which all in his parish could hum, not such a bad tune, either — grew better and better as it went along, two good bass notes, it had. His fellow-parishioners were loyal supporters of this music-man of theirs, and at the conclusion of his number a few of the younger element made strenuous attempts to get up a little applause; however, as no one took it up, they were embarrassed and slumped down in their seats.
The lad sat idle on the table for a brief while, swung his legs and coolly looked into the faces of the audience. Then, without further ado, he struck up again, this time something he had heard on a phonograph record — a winsome melody, Weber, a tune which was gentle to the ears. Fru Lund — little Esther from Polden — sat there trying to conceal the fact that she was moved.
And this constituted the first number on the programme.
The next was Hotelkeeper Vendt — a lecture which simply missed fire. No, he ought to have sat down by the table and merely told one of his stories. He made a great mistake by standing up. He was grandly attired in full-dress, but he ought to have recognized his own limitations. His act fell flat. Vendt well up in affairs? The class struggle, prohibition, the art of the theatre, the shipping industry? What, Vendt a politician, or a mere intellectual? To be sure, he lectured on none of these subjects, but he approached to within perilously close range of them all and he even took a few potshots at them. Not that he was downright terrible, for Vendt could never be that, and now and then, when he attempted to be funny, he was able to draw a chuckle from both the pastor and the magistrate. But anyone could have delivered just such a lecture and, at length, Vendt was sufficiently the artist to realize this himself. After a quarter of an hour, he broke off abruptly and disappeared. When a patter of applause ran through the audience, he turned and backed out of sight. Some there were who were with the man at this point — he had made his exit so charmingly!
The third number on the programme consisted of two gramophone records and this was because Fru Hagen had suddenly become nervous and had pitifully begged for a delay. Singular indeed that she, the only one equipped with genuine talent, should have been the only one afflicted with nervousness. And when her emotion had not subsided at the conclusion of the second gramophone record, confusion reigned backstage.
"Let's take the first intermission!" said Vendt. He and the druggist were busy in the corner with certain bottles.
"No, let me sing now," said Gina i Roten.
"Yes, God bless you, Gina dear, please do!" begged the postmaster's wife.
But this required the presence of Druggist Holm as guitar accompanist, and, at the moment, he was truly in no fit condition to appear in public. He had unfortunately injured his finger, he said, look there, it was swollen. "Say, Karel, can't you go in and play for Gina?" he asked.
"Ay," said Karel, "if as you think me good enough."
The audience was growing restless and the hum of voices was growing louder. Ah, but there came Gina i Roten and her husband! The house fell silent as the pair sat down by the table.
Renowned for her singing in church and at prayer meetings, she was. And tonight she was dressed a bit finer than usual in a green waist with large buttons up the front and a handsome home-made skirt in which she had once carried hay and which she had again borrowed for the present occasion. Her costume could not have been improved upon; it created the proper impression, for she was appearing as no more than a farmer's wife from South Parish — God bless her, this was what she was, and this was good enough. Furthermore, she had had a glass of something which Vendt had handed her and a glow was in her blood.
Druggist Holm had been out to Roten a few times and had tried to teach her a few things. But she had probably not understood a word of his instruction, had said "Ay," to all he had said and had hustled into her clothes as though the devil were after her. She had refused to learn a love song or a ballade because of the piety induced by her recent baptism — no, they would have to be satisfied with those hymns of hers. She could not sing, but she had a deep breast and a throat.
Karel began to strum "Den gamle kristelige Dagvise"; he could hardly be said to play, but he could harmonize, he could wheedle a good bit of music out of a mere guitar. Then Gina's voice came in and Heavens, it was as though she had simply taken a chance and come in anywhere, regardless of the accompaniment!
One verse, two verses, three — ay, but the hymn had nine verses in all. Gina was generous and was going to sing them all. At the end of the fifth verse, the pastor rose from his seat in the first row, leaned far forward and begged her to pause for a breath. "Spare yourself a bit for the next hymn! You sing more beautifully than any other living creature, Gina!" he said.
"Yes! Yes!" cried people here and there in the audience.
Gina smiled back at him and, in conclusion, sang two watchman's songs. Then she and her husband retired, according to instructions.
First intermission.
It was now time for Fru Hagen to make her appearance. Naturally her numbers went splendidly and everyone applauded. She returned to the "green room" as happy as a child. "I didn't think I could do it!" she said, half-laughing, half-sobbing.
Vendt had, by this time, become so occupied with his bottles that he began to hum aloud.
"Shut up!" said Holm.
"I'm practicing," replied Vendt. "Don't you know that I have a French number to do?"
"So do all of us have numbers to do," said Holm, insulted. "You're forgetting my string quintette with cembalo."
Fru Hagen clapped her hand over her mouth to keep from laughing.
They spent so much time talking, the audience became restless again. The programme now called for "The Iliad," an accordion number with the singular title, "The Iliad."
"What's that?" asked the country lad who was scheduled to perform it.
"The most rousing march you can play," said Holm. "Bismarck's March. Karel will go out with you and yodel the melody."
Karel apologized, and said that as a newly baptised man he could indulge in no such frivolity at this time.
Yes, but this was no frivolous number — it wasn't a dance piece, it was a march, the next thing to a hymn! They succeeded in talking him over, gave him another glass, sent him out to face the audience.
This number was received with tumultuous applause; the younger element recognized their march, their musician and their yodeler — they stood on the seats and yelled their appreciation.
"Now I'm going on!" said Vendt, pulling himself together.
"It isn't a moment too soon for my own number," said Holm. "Après moi," said Vendt, literally bubbling over with happy emotion.
"Good Lord!" whispered Fru Hagen, after he had gone on. "He'll drive the audience away!"
They heard him sing "Je suis à vous, Madame."
Dashed if he hadn't made good his threat! Well, but there was at least one member of the audience who understood the words — Consul Gordon Tidemand — but not even he was familiar with the melody. . . . A voice which was forever failing to register the correct pitch. . . . Occasionally it had the quality of a properly vibrant string, but each time it would suddenly burst its bonds and end up in a high squeal. One would require a special talent to produce such ludicrous effects. Vendt himself noticed nothing unusual in his manner of singing; he sang, as it were, so innocently, and when he had finished, the audience applauded. And the applause, he likewise accepted in good faith. The audience must have clapped their hands to create the impression that they understood the French, though the language of the song was that used by the serving class in France.
Vendt bowed his thanks and beamingly returned to the others. From then on his superciliousness knew no bounds.
"What now?" asked the others.
"Intermission," said Vendt.
After the intermission Fru Hagen made her second appearance. She was no longer nervous; she walked in, played her Mozart charmingly and received tumultuous applause. When she returned, she said: "I could have kept on all night!"
They looked at their watches. An hour and a half had elapsed since the opening number.
Vendt and the druggist were busy with their bottles; they poured each other drinks, swallowed them down, filled the others' glasses and when they were empty offered to fill them again. "No thanks!" said Gina with a laugh. But she had become mellow and co-operative and, when the druggist urged her to sing love songs in place of the hymns listed for her second group, she turned to her husband and asked him what he thought of the idea. And yes, Karel had himself just finished another glass and was quite of the same opinion.
She began humming: "Venlige Aftenvind, flyv med min Klage hen til min Ven — Dear winds of eventide, bear to my lover my heart's fond lament."
Holm: "Splendid, Gina! And you, Karel, no doubt you can strum the accompaniment?"
"Ay, and that I can."
"Oh, that will be delightful!" exclaimed Fru Hagen. "I'm going out front to listen. Adieu!"
As there were fourteen stanzas in the Sjømandsbrudens Klage, it was too much to expect that Gina should sing any more that evening. Holm said: "At the end of that song, they'll clap like mad, you may be sure. You will turn to come back, but still they will go on applauding. When you get to the door here, just turn around and raise your hand a little — they'll all fall silent at that. And then, Gina, just at that point, you will sing out that cow-call of yours. Do you understand?"
Gina smiled. "Will that go?" she asked.
"Will it go! Why, that will be a magnificent encore after all you have sung this evening, a splendid closing number for our programme. You must stand there just as you do on the knoll, calling in your cows in the evening."
"Ay," said Gina.
"What shall I do?" asked Karel.
"You'll come back in here to us. Now go on out, both of you!"
They heard how gratefully the audience received this pair. Dead silence for a moment, then Gina lifted her voice. The miracle repeated itself. This time it was only the lament of a sailor's bride, but it was vibrant with sweetness and sorrow. No one begged her to pause for a long breath this time; some sat there bravely with a smile on their faces, others made no effort to conceal their tears. Fourteen stanzas of love, the emotion which everyone recognized — the young people in the audience were probably at the time experiencing the divine madness themselves, whilst their elders sat there remembering the day — the day —
Holm was right, the house went wild with applause. Gina moved toward the door, followed by a continuing roar of applause. She turned and raised her hand and immediately the audience was silent. Expectantly they waited for something unusual to happen, and happen it did at once — an even-song of the moorland, from a knoll a voice which swept the moor, a song without words, but a perfect deluge of melody — Gina, calling home her creatures.
The audience realized that this was the final number. They applauded and rose from their chairs, continued to clap their hands as they stood moving toward the aisles. After the performance, a few remained standing about the entrance to discuss the entertainment.
Meanwhile Vendt and the druggist were settling a bit of an account backstage and, in truth, their affair might have degenerated into almost anything, but for the fact that the two were friends. They were furthermore fellow-Bergensers and were soon able to reconcile their differences.
Vendt, to begin with, spoke in friendly wise to the druggist: "Look here — it's not to boast about myself — that's certainly not my intention — but after the pleasure I've given, I'd like to remind you that — I mean, when Gina has finished singing, I don't see why you —"
Holm, deeply wounded, yes, downright annoyed by the other's exuberance: "I understand very well what you're driving at, Vendt — you're trying to discredit my act!"
"No, my dear fellow, don't take it like that!"
"Shut up, I've known it the whole time. There was that little number of mine — string quintette with cembalo — but you were envious of me, you begrudged me my success — you were afraid that your own would —"
"Hey?" exploded Vendt.
"Yes, I'll say it straight out. You begrudged me the roar of applause and all those cries of 'Bravo!' which you yourself didn't get!"
Vendt, speechless with amazement: "— Did you ever hear anything to equal that, Fru Hagen!"
"Fru Hagen has gone," said the druggist.
"Hm. But the accordion player is still with us. And he knows how warmly I was received. There were many who stood up to applaud."
"Yes, but when I went on!" exclaimed Holm. "There wasn't a dry eye in the house, and they refused to let me go. But you, you never have a thought for anyone but yourself!"
Vendt, bored with the whole business: "That may all be, but I'm willing to let the audience decide between us. It was my hope to spare you, but now you can go right on and meet your fate!"
"Now?" sputtered Holm. "Now? Gina is singing now and after she is finished the show is over."
"Over?" asked Vendt. "How so?" He drew a little song-book from his side pocket. "I have more to put on!" he said.
"I don't doubt it. I had something myself, but —"
Vendt: "Very well, then, let's see who'll be next!"
But no, the performance was over and Holm was crushed — he had given up all thought of his number.
This touched Vendt. "All in all, nothing is ever over," he said. "And I'm now of a mind to see that you get your chance. You and I will go on as a male chorus."
"As a chorus?"
"And hold a singing contest."
It was at this point that the audience had burst forth with a tumult of applause for Gina's singing of the Sjømandsbrudens Klage. Karel came into the room and Vendt immediately offered him a drink. "You deserve it, Karel!" he said. "Where is Fru Hagen? We all deserve a little something," he said and tossed off his own glass.
Gina was beginning her cow-call. An upward avalanche of tone. In a few minutes she had finished and herself returned to the "green room."
Vendt said: "Come here, Gina. You deserve this! . . . Now we'll go on, Holm!" He was highly emotional, ready to go through fire and water for his friend. "Come on!"
"Wouldn't you rather be alone with it?" asked Holm.
"No, we're a male chorus," said Vendt.
He did not notice that the house was empty, that only a few stragglers had halted at the door; he was absorbed in his own thoughts and was madly pawing through his song-book as he made his way out to the table. He pawed through the book from cover to cover, then began again back at the beginning. "Sit down!" he said to Holm.
They took their seats, one at either side of the table.
"I can't seem to find anything," said Vendt. "We'll have to take the alphabet for our text!"
"The devil!" said Holm. "The alphabet?"
Vendt began singing at once; he was uncontrollable and would stop at nothing. A hair-raising hymn to life it proved to be, and quite unlike any other song in this world, including even itself. Holm followed as best he could and got in many a splendid howl, though as a minnesinger he held no brief for his own powers. Possibly he had too good an ear for music. . . .
One of those who had paused at the door was Pastor Ole Landsen. "They're drunk," he said. But he did not flee because of it. On the contrary, Pastor Landsen found a seat and sat down.
Of course they were drunk. As though neither of them knew the alphabet by heart, they primly sang from the book which they held between them across the table.
Their little informal audience at the door began to laugh and their laughter increased as the song went on. Oh those two monkeys! And the pastor laughed as loudly as any of the others. What else could he do? The text of this song differed radically from every known form of lyric and the resulting melody was imbued with all the frightful wantonness of modern jazz. But in this instance, at least, the art was quite unpremeditated, there was no attempt to endow it with significance; the song was uttered impromptu and the jazz effect was considerably enhanced by Vendt's miraculously breaking voice. . . . This was no game, it was as serious as nature itself. The two men were drunk and were becoming more and more forgetful of where they were.
Coming to the letter Q, Vendt began to show signs of emotion; his mood was contagious and even the druggist was soon deeply touched. At the back of the house their audience was moaning with laughter. The singers were giving of their best; each waved his free hand gently to and fro during tender and plaintive passages. They sang the concluding letters of the alphabet in a manner which was downright voluptuous and with tears streaming down their cheeks.
The pastor, too, had tears trickling down the countless wrinkles of his face — tears of laughter.
When their last notes died away, Vendt returned the book to his pocket, rose and staggered "off stage." The druggist followed him with his eyes; he had probably gained the faint impression that there were people at the back of the theatre and it was his thought to save what still could be saved. He carefully took his bearings and, without staggering, made a dash for the door.
The place seemed empty after the departure of the pair. Down front now stood simply a table and two chairs. At the back of the hall a small group of people still stood and laughed, held their sides and explained to each other the particular things they were laughing at. —"Those mad fellows!" they said.
"Yes," answered Pastor Ole Landsen. "But there are worse things we can do to each other than to make each other laugh."
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Black-Bean and Brown-Rice Cakes
These flavorful vegetarian cakes are easy to prep. Serve with a green salad and chips and salsa for a complete meal.Source: Everyday Food, January/February 2010
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This recipe makes enough to serve four as a main course. The patties can also be served as appetizers or vegetarian burgers for eight.
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MS1126081421 MAY, 2018I had to bind the patties with corn flour, and I added sauteed onion and shredded carrot, and lizano sauce for more flavorReply
shibble7 MAR, 2013Super tasty! ...but mine kinda fell apart. I think I will add an egg next time to keep them together better.Reply
MS1126081421 MAY, 2018corn flour is a lot better than egg for binding patties, and more flavorful
arm00leg527936819 JUL, 2017Not good at all, no flavor, so bland. Plus they fell apart in the pan. Simple to make but needs sooo much tweaking. Won't make again, will come up something better on my own.Reply
MS120865338 MAY, 2013I really liked this recipe, and even better, so did my two and four year old kids. I added about half a roasted beet to the purée and also about a 1/4 cup of gluten free bread crumbs, and used roasted red pepper because I didn't have jalapeño. Will definitely make this again.Reply
acbqueen418 JAN, 2012What is the nutritional information for this recipe?Reply
MS1046688015 JAN, 2012I, too, was worried about the heat a jalapeno might add to the burgers but one seeded, de-ribbed jalapeno added only the barest hint of spice (I wouldn't even call it heat and I'm a tenderfoot). The burgers and sauce were delicious. Next time, for easier eating since the bean and rice burgers are just a touch more tender than beef, I plan to shred the lettuce, dice the tomato and mash the avocado I put on top. The addition of a nice thin slice of crisp onion would also be nice.Reply
lovemynewkitchen12 JUL, 2010delicious and easy. loved it. i used poblano peppers instead of jalapenos because I dont like really spicy and subbed quinoa for brown rice to up the protein.Came out perfectReply
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Samantha Power, at 43 the youngest person to be appointed U.S. ambassador to the United Nations—it's her first anniversary in the job next month—arrived at her lunch spot of choice, the unpretentious Crave Fishbar, in Midtown Manhattan, boxed in at the entrance by her wary security team, like some rock star.
But she proved delightfully approachable, and perhaps her Irish roots account for her transparent warmth, a fierce articulate intelligence in support, a certain humor. "It's good to get out of the office," she said as if released for a while from the impossible cares of saving the world.
"Guys," said our friendly waiter.
"I'm really hungry," she announced, adding incongruously, "My husband loves this place because he hates white tablecloths." (It doesn't have any tablecloths.)
"O.K. I'm going to have the cauliflower soup, please, and the marinated Carolina amberjack."
"Do I call you Madam Ambassador?," I asked.
"Samantha, that's fine."
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"Not usually—unless I'm negotiating with the Russians."
I reminded her that her wily Russian counterpart, Ambassador Vitaly I. Churkin, had mocked her for sympathetically meeting Nadya Tolokonnikova and Masha Alyokhina, the two dissidents from the Russian punk group Pussy Riot. He wondered if she'd joined the band.
"I responded to him that I thought our first concert stop on tour should be where Russia holds its political prisoners, though regrettably I can't sing."
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"He didn't. I got the last word. It's what passes for small victories."
Samantha Power was born in Castleknock, Ireland, and came to America with her mother, a doctor, when she was nine. She retains a light Irish brogue, though not her Gaelic. "I have only so many foreign-language neurons," she explained. "When I learned Spanish, that displaced whatever Irish was left, and then I learned German and that displaced the Spanish, and when I learned Serbo-Croatian, that displaced the German. So I'm a bit of a muddle."
The former Harvard professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning ambassador didn't seem muddled. To the contrary, she's a clear-eyed woman whose mission, since she was a war correspondent reporting on the genocide catastrophes in Bosnia and Rwanda, has been to promote human rights. Her masterful book "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide is enduring testament enough to her commitment.
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Earlier that morning, Samantha Power had been trying to negotiate a new peacekeeping force among the killing fields of South Sudan. After lunch, she would return to the U.N. for a policy meeting about the troops in Afghanistan. But is a troubled, divided world listening to the U.N.? I put it to her that it's as if we're living in the middle of a global meltdown—from Assad of Syria's unstoppable slaughter of his own people to Putin's bare-chested grandiosity, to the unpredictability of Iran and its nuclear capability, to the latest unraveling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, to the permanent shadow over the planet of al-Qaeda.
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4caster Frank's Weekly Picks
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Colts 31 Jaguars 13
The time is growing short for original Jaguars QB Mark Brunell as rookie Byron Leftwich gets more playing time in another blowout loss.
Chiefs 34 Texans 10
Chiefs star RB Priest Holmes, who is already a little banged up can rest early as the Chiefs will get a big lead and cruise their way to a 3-0 start.
Lions 28 Vikings 24
Upset of the Week: The Vikings traditionally have problems in Detroit, and coming in at 2-0 they are ripe for an upset against a vastly improved Lions team.
Titans 24 Saints 13
Coming off a tough loss in Indianapolis the Titans look to rebound against the Saints. Even with QB Steve McNair hurting the Titans should have no problem.
Patriots 27 Jets 7
After rebounding from their 31-0 loss in Week 1 to beat the Eagles the Patriots appear back on track while the Jets appear to be flying into the abyss, look for the Jets woes to continue in a blowout.
Steelers 28 Bengals 20
The Bengals proved pesky on the road against the Raiders last week, but they are still the Bengals and after Sunday they will be 0-3.
Packers 45 Cardinals 16
Stinker of the Week: Brett Favre should have a field day going against the pathetic Cardinals defense, leaving Cards RB Emmitt Smith to ponder the positives of retirement.
Buccaneers 20 Falcons 6
Even in losing last week the Buccaneers did not allow a TD. This week they are angry and Falcons backup QB Doug Johnson will pay the price.
Redskins 28 Giants 17
After a tough loss on Monday Night Football, one can only expect the Giants to be feeling a hangover on Sunday as the Redskins take a stranglehold on the NFC East with a 3-0 record.
Seahawks 28 Rams 20
The Seahawks establish themselves as a legitimate contender by beating the Rams and improving to 3-0, as the Rams QB controversy takes another turn.
Chargers 27 Ravens 17
Don't expect Jamal Lewis to even come close to repeating last week's record-breaking performance against a Chargers team desperate for a win.
49ers 20 Browns 14
Despite being a little banged the 49ers should not have that hard of a time beating the Browns, although the 7 point spread seems a little high.
Raiders 27 Broncos 24
With QB Jake Plummer and RB Clinton Portis banged up the Broncos are ripe for the pickens. In addition the Raiders traditionally play well on Monday Night, while the Broncos have struggled in recent years under the lights.
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Parker turns 18 in March, and that's significant because the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints recently lowered the minimum age for men to serve a mission from 19 to 18.
He previously planned to attend college for at least a year before deciding whether to go on a mission or enter the NBA draft. Now Parker may go on his mission first and then decide between college and the pros.
Sonny Parker told ESPN.com that the family has spoken to former 49ers quarterback Steve Young and other pro athletes who chose not to go on a mission.
"Some people have kind of served a mission without them going on it," Sonny Parker said, "kind of doing the same work through the church, still making a difference."
Sonny is not a Mormon, but his wife, Lola, a Polynesian native of Tonga, is, and their seven children were raised in the church.
Parker is expected to commit and sign with a school during the early signing period, Nov. 14-21. He is recovering from a fracture in his right foot and is scheduled to begin rehab in another week.
ESPN, Scout.com and Rivals.com all consider him the top player in the 2013 recruiting class. He was featured in a Sports Illustrated cover story in May.
SI writer Jeff Benedict said, "Jabari handles the ball like a point guard and has a crossover that makes defenders stumble. His first step has been compared to Oscar Robertson's. He can drain threes, yet he goes to the rim with power and uses his 6-foot-11 1/2 wingspan to block shots and snatch rebounds."
An NBA executive told SI that if Parker had been eligible for the 2012 draft, he would have been a lottery pick. He is also an excellent student, with a 3.7 GPA.
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Consumer agency Codacons has called for a investigation by the public prosecutor into the "mystery of Rome's buses going up in flames", following the latest incident of an ATAC city bus catching fire while in service.
An internal investigation into the "dangerously frequent" phenomenon is "not enough", according to Codacons president Carlo Rienzi, who made his remarks after a bus operated by Rome public transport company ATAC caught fire suddenly on 26 March.
There were no injuries reported as the bus driver managed to evacuate all passengers before the vehicle was engulfed in flames on Via Tuscolana.
It was the fourth such incident since the beginning of March, the seventh since the start of 2017. A total of 19 ATAC buses have caught fire while in service over the past 12 months, with factors believed to include poor maintenance, budget constraints and an ageing fleet.
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We caught him at the Newport Folk Fest nigh two months ago, and this grimy, (night) sweaty fellow showed us how to boogie your tired soul out. The Herman, MO-born Rateliff is indeed soulful, smoking, burning on his self-titled Stax debut, his fourth full-length. If you haven't heard "S.O.B" on the radio, humming in the bar, in the bottom of that bottle, then maybe you should sober up and clean your ears out. Seemingly his anthem, Rateliff's strength here, and on this album, is the grit he blows through his lyrics. The songs are written well, but really, it's Rateliff's (+ Night Sweats') performances here that could turn even "Mary Had a Little Lamb" into anguish, soul-searching and catharsis.
That link to "S.O.B." above should suffice, and while that track seems rather pervasive, our snobbish selves have actually pulled a few others that we slightly prefer to it. "Howling at Nothing" brings out such a primal desire to dance - no, not EDM dance - but more like this: "We were howling at the moon / We were shaking our hips." Dancing the pain away, we think explains it. We similarly love the opener and the closer, and even the songs we don't dig as much ("Thank You" - My Morning Jacket still has a monopoly on that in our heart), we still dig them enough. We docked this album a point down to 4 because some of the songs don't really bring out Rateliff's stellar, gut-gripping performances. "Look It Here" is another one of those, and while the Night Sweats shine all the way through, it's really Rateliff's howl that we've come for.
Overall, an excellent soulful rock album that you'll want to drink / punch / swing to for as long as you can stand on your two feet. Highly recommended.
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CCNA 2 Chapter 4 Exam Answers
What type of IPv6 address is required as a minimum on IPv6 enabled interfaces?
global unicast
unique local
In order for packets to be sent to a remote destination, what three pieces of information must be configured on a host? (Choose three.)
default gateway*
DNS server address
DHCP server address
IP address*
subnet mask*
What two pieces of information are displayed in the output of the show ip interface brief command? (Choose two.)
MAC addresses
Layer 1 statuses*
IP addresses*
next-hop addresses
interface descriptions
speed and duplex settings
Place the options in the following order:
next hop
destination network
– not scored –
administrative distance
route timestamp
route source protocol
– not scored –
Which two items are used by a host device when performing an ANDing operation to determine if a destination address is on the same local network? (Choose two.)
destination MAC address
network number
destination IP address*
source MAC address
subnet mask*
Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator issues the show ipv6 route command on R1. What two conclusions can be drawn from the routing table? (Choose two.)
Packets that are destined for the network 2001:DB8:ACAD:2::/64 will be forwarded through Fa0/1.
R1 does not know a route to any remote networks.*
The interface Fa0/1 is configured with IPv6 address 2001:DB8:ACAD:A::12.*
Packets that are destined for the network 2001:DB8:ACAD:2::54/128 will be forwarded through Fa0/0.
The network FF00::/8 is installed through a static route command.
Refer to the exhibit. What is the purpose of the highlighted field in the line that is displayed from the show ip route command?
It indicates that this is a directly connected route.
It indicates that this route has been deleted from the routing table.
It indicates that this route was learned via EIGRP.*
It indicates that this is a default route.
Which two statements correctly describe the concepts of administrative distance and metric? (Choose two.)
The metric varies depending which Layer 3 protocol is being routed, such as IP.
A router first installs routes with higher administrative distances.
The value of the administrative distance can not be altered by the network administrator.
Routes with the smallest metric to a destination indicate the best path.*
Administrative distance refers to the trustworthiness of a particular route.*
The metric is always determined based on hop count.
What are two functions of a router? (Choose two.)
It manages the VLAN database.
It increases the size of the broadcast domain.
It controls the flow of data via the use of Layer 2 addresses.
It determines the best path to send packets.*
It connects multiple IP networks.*
A packet moves from a host on one network to a device on a remote network within the same company. If NAT is not performed on the packet, which two items remain unchanged during the transfer of the packet from source to destination? (Choose two.)
destination MAC address
source ARP table
source IP address*
destination IP address*
source MAC address
Layer 2 header
Refer to the exhibit. PC1 attempts to connect to File_server1 and sends an ARP request to obtain a destination MAC address. Which MAC address will PC1 receive in the ARP reply?
the MAC address of File_server1
the MAC address of S2
the MAC address of the G0/0 interface on R2
the MAC address of S1
the MAC address of the G0/0 interface on R1*
A network administrator configures the interface fa0/0 on the router R1 with the command ip address 172.16.1.254 255.255.255.0. However, when the administrator issues the command show ip route, the routing table does not show the directly connected network. What is the possible cause of the problem?
The interface fa0/0 has not been activated.*
No packets with a destination network of 172.16.1.0 have been sent to R1.
The subnet mask is incorrect for the IPv4 address.
The configuration needs to be saved first.
Which command is used to configure an IPv6 address on a router interface so that the router will combine a manually specified network prefix with an automatically generated interface identifier?
ipv6 enable
ipv6 address ipv6-address/prefix-length eui-64*
ipv6 address ipv6-address/prefix-length link-local
ipv6 address ipv6-address/prefix-length
Fill in the blank.
When a router receives a packet, it examines the destination address of the packet and looks in the " routing " table to determine the best path to use to forward the packet.
A network administrator configures a router by the command ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 126.96.36.199. What is the purpose of this command?
to provide a route to forward packets for which there is no route in the routing table*
to forward packets destined for the network 0.0.0.0 to the device with IP address 188.8.131.52
to add a dynamic route for the destination network 0.0.0.0 to the routing table
to forward all packets to the device with IP address 18.104.22.168
Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator issues the show ipv6 route command on R1. Which two types of routes are displayed in the routing table? (Choose two.)
route that is learned through the EIGRP routing protocol
directly connected network*
route that is learned through the OSPF routing protocol
static route
local host route*
What address changes as a packet travels across multiple Layer 3 Ethernet hops to its final destination?
source Layer 2 address*
source IP
destination port
destination IP
Refer to the exhibit. What will the router do with a packet that has a destination IP address of 192.168.12.227?
Drop the packet.
Send the packet out the GigabitEthernet0/1 interface.
Send the packet out the Serial0/0/0 interface.*
Send the packet out the GigabitEthernet0/0 interface.
A network administrator is implementing dynamic routing protocols for a company. Which command can the administrator issue on a router to display the supported routing protocols?
Router(config)# router ?*
Router(config)# ip forward-protocol ?
Router(config)# service ?
Router(config)# ip route ?
Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator has configured R1 as shown. When the administrator checks the status of the serial interface, the interface is shown as being administratively down. What additional command must be entered on the serial interface of R1 to bring the interface up?
no shutdown*
clockrate 128000
IPv6 enable
What is one feature that distinguishes routers from Layer 2 switches?
Switches use tables of information to determine how to process data traffic. Routers do not.
Switches move packets from one physical interface to another. Routers do not.
Routers support a variety of interface types. Switches typically support Ethernet interfaces.*
Routers can be configured with IP addresses. Switches cannot.
Which statement describes a route that has been learned dynamically?
It is identified by the prefix C in the routing table.
It is automatically updated and maintained by routing protocols.*
It is unaffected by changes in the topology of the network.
It has an administrative distance of 1.
Refer to the exhibit. A network administrator issues the show ip route command on R2. What two types of routes are installed in the routing table? (Choose two.)
directly connected networks*
routes that are learned through the OSPF routing protocol
a configured default route
routes that are learned through the EIGRP routing protocol*
a configured static route to the network 18.104.22.168
When a computer is pinging another computer for the first time, what type of message does it place on the network to determine the MAC address of the other device?
an RFI (Request for Information) message
an ARP request*
an ICMP ping
a multicast to any Layer 3 devices that are connected to the local network
25. Which two network parameters are used by EIGRP as metrics to select the best path to reach a network? (Choose Two.)
hop count
26. What route would have the lowest administrative distance?
a route received through the EIGRP routing protocol
a directly connected network*
a route received through the OSPF routing protocol
a static route
27. Which two parameters are used by EIGRP as metrics to select the best path to reach a network? (Choose two.)
Answer – bandwidth/delay
28. What are two common types of static routes in routing tables? (Choose two)
a default static route*
a static route shared between two neighboring routers
a static route to a specific network*
a built-in static route by IOS
a static route converted from a route that is learned through a dynamic routing protocol
29. Which software is used for a network administrator to make the initial router configuration securely?
terminal emulation client software*
HTTPS client software
SSH client software
Telnet client software
Consider the following routing table entry for R1:
D 10.1.1.0/24 [90/2170112] via 220.127.116.11, 00:00:05, Serial0/0/0
30. What is the significance of the Serial0/0/0?
It is the R1 interface through which the EIGRP update was learned.
It is the interface on R1 used to send data that is destined for 10.1.1.0/24.*
It is the interface on the next-hop router when the destination IP address is on the 10.1.1.0/24 network.
It is the interface on the final destination router that is directly connected to the 10.1.1.0/24 network.
31. Refer to the exhibit. PC A sends a request to Server B. What IPv4 address is used in the destination field in the packet as the packet leaves PC A?
32. What command will enable a router to begin sending messages that allow it to configure a link-local address without using an IPv6 DHCP server?
the ipv6 route ::/0 command
a static route
the ip routing command
the ipv6 unicast-routing command*
33. What are two types of static routes in routing tables? (choose two)
default static route*
built in static route by IOS
static route to specific network*
static route converted from a route that is learned through a dynamic routing protocol.
static route shared btween two neighboring routers.
34. what is a characteristic of an IPv4 interface on a Cisco IOS router?
it is assigned to a physical port and can be connected to other devices.
only one loopback int can be enable on a router
it is a logical int internal to the router*
the no shut command is required to place this in UP
35. Refer to the exhibit.
What does R1 use as the MAC address of the destination when constructing the frame that will go from R1 to Server B?
R1 uses the destination MAC address of S1.
If the destination MAC address that corresponds to the IPv4 address is not in the ARP cache, R1 sends an ARP request.*
R1 leaves the field blank and forwards the data to the PC.
The packet is encapsulated into a PPP frame, and R1 adds the PPP destination address to the frame.
36. Refer to the exhibit.
If PC1 is sending a packet to PC2 and routing has been configured between the two routers, what will R1 do with the Ethernet frame header attached by PC1?
nothing, because the router has a route to the destination network
remove the Ethernet header and configure a new Layer 2 header before sending it out S0/0/0*
open the header and replace the destination MAC address with a new one
open the header and use it to determine whether the data is to be sent out S0/0/0
37. What is a characteristic of an IPv4 loopback interface on a Cisco IOS router?
The no shutdown command is required to place this interface in an UP state.
Only one loopback interface can be enabled on a router.
It is a logical interface internal to the router.*
It is assigned to a physical port and can be connected to other devices.


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There is quite a bit of finishing work to be done on the inside. Everything major is already in place. The only error we spotted was that the island has two levels It was supposed to be all one height. Counter top height, Shaun said it's fixable. *whew* We had them build extra room in around the fridge so we can upgrade as our budget allows.
My favorite room...the kitchen...
The view out of the window over the sink
Master bath (forgot to take a pic of the master bedroom)
linen closet
walk in closet off the master bedroom
boys bathroom..didn't take one of their shower/tub
washer and dryer are going in the empty space to the left of the toilet..the shower is across from the toilet...their linen closet is 3ft deep and off the hall which is not pictured. Yet.
Logan and Billy's room
their good sized closet..which all the boys bedrooms have
Ben and Garrett's room
Declan Finn's room
And one last shot of the outside
We are beyond excited and feel so blessed. A new healthy baby boy last year. A brand new house this year.
Dreams can come true.
Which reminds me of a musical snow globe Shaun bought for me when we were first together. It plays Cinderella's "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" <3


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Apathy could hurt Democrats, Obama says
Wednesday, September 29, 2010; 3:06 AM
MADISON, WIS. - President Obama delivered an impassioned argument to young voters Tuesday night, declaring that the changes he promised in 2008 are underway and that "now is not the time to give up."
Trying to recapture the enthusiasm that catapulted him into office, Obama returned to the proven format of a large college campus to launch a pre-election push for fellow Democrats. Speaking to what was once one of his most fervent fan bases - students - he unleashed a string of dire warnings about Republican control, arguing that his opponents are banking on Democratic indifference to return to power.
"The biggest mistake we could make is to let disappointment or frustration lead to apathy . . . that is how the other side wins," Obama said. "If the other side does win, they will spend the next two years fighting for the very same policies that led to this recession in the first place."
The staging, complete with supporters waving "Moving America Forward" signs and a performance by the musician Ben Harper, evoked the generational enthusiasm of rallies past.
It was in Madison in February 2008 where Obama solidified his standing with the youth vote. He held a huge rally at the 17,000-seat Kohl Center just before his victory in the state's caucuses propelled him into lead for the Democratic nomination.
Despite the dramatic shifts in his popularity since then, Obama drew an impressive crowd, making it easily his largest event since his inauguration 20 months ago.
Madison police estimated that more than 26,000 guests filled Library Mall, a grassy quad between university buildings, and the surrounding areas. More supporters lined the motorcade route, another scene reminiscent of the presidential campaign.
The mood was upbeat but controlled; there was little of the Obama hysteria that defined his 2008 appearances. Until shortly before the event began, it was not clear whether Sen. Russell Feingold, the most prominent Wisconsin Democrat on the ballot, would appear with the president.
But Feingold did show, dismissing the idea of an enthusiasm gap between the parties. Obama picked up the theme, announcing to the crowd at the outset that he was "fired up" - another 2008 echo.
Then, with his sleeves rolled up and his shirt unbuttoned at the top, Obama rolled out a rollicking 45-minute campaign speech. He defended his record, joked with the crowd and challenged the conventional wisdom that Democrats are going to lose in November.
"The prediction among the pundits is, there's going to be a bloodletting for Democrats. That's what they're saying in Washington," Obama said, drawing boos. "And the basis of their prediction is that all of you who worked so hard in 2008 aren't going to be as energized, aren't going to be as engaged."
He continued: "Wisconsin, we can't let that happen. We cannot sit this one out. We can't let this country fall backward because the rest of us didn't care enough to fight."


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Christmas Celebrations in Goa - Christians, being the major part of the population in Goa celebrate this festival in big way. The day is celebrated as the birth day of Jesus Christ and is thus a very important day for Christians. It is the time for exchanging gifts and a lot of celebrations in Goa. The market places in Goa at the time of Christmas festival are all glittering and embellished with beautiful lights and tinsels giving away an aura of celebrations. Christmas trees are decorated with beautiful twinkling ornaments and Santa Claus masks all over the place.
Talking about the food, cakes and puddings are the important part of this festival. At the time of Christmas, friends and relative join each other forgetting all the rivalries to celebrate the occasion together with joy and happiness. people seems dressed up in their best attires, ready to thrill the party on Christmas eve. Santa clause can also be spotted at the shops in market distributing gifts to the children on streets.
The whole aura of Christmas celebrations cannot be explained in works. It is Worth to watch out with your own eyes in the state of Goa, India. Fireworks, gifts, fairy lights, nativity scenes, midnight Mass, bonfires and feasting all take place over Christmas celebrations in Goa.
If given a chance never miss out to visit Goa on Christmas as it is the most priceless experience one can have on earth.
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Quick mince suppers
An unjustly maligned ingredient takes centre-stage in a series of speedy and delicious dishes
Beef, lamb, pork, turkey... but definitely no pony. Mince has had a bad rap of late, thanks to the processed food industry's suspect lasagnes and meatballs, but don't let that put you off, because it is the most versatile of ingredients. From lamb hotpot to turkey pad Thai, TV chef Dean Edwards has come up with simple supper recipes that will soon have you ditching the ready-meals.
Recipes © Dean Edwards. Extracted from Mincespiration!, published by Bantam Press. It is available from the Times Bookshop for £16.19 (RRP £17.99), free p&p, on 0845 2712134; thetimes.co.uk/bookshop


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It's officially been one of the shittiest summers in recent memory - cinematically speaking - so let's salvage what we can and examine Mila Kunis, specifically how she is the next generation's Angelina Jolie and we can therefore chart her career to learn more about the "kids these days."
The awesome thing is that Mila played "Young Gia" in 1998's Gia, which is one of Angelina's standout films, noteworthy for Angie's commitment to a risky role as well as the nudity and lesbianism. Only 23, Ms Jolie got an Emmy nomination for Gia but she'd already hit big with movie lovers (and lovers of lips) by stealing the show in the young-love, computer-crime thriller Hackers ( which easily predicted an era when renegade computer nerds would ANONYMOUSLY hack into governments, banks and big businesses to steal and peruse data.)
Mila Kunis didn't hit her naked-lesbian-movie phase until age 27 with last years Oscar-winning Black Swan. The kids these days are less rambunctious, 27 is the new 23, but our culture is pushing them into showbiz earlier- Mila started TV's That '70s Show when she was just 15. Angelina was modeling at that age but didn't start seriously in film for another two years.
Angie followed Gia by winning an Oscar ( Girl, Interrupted) then doing a bunch of flicks with great nudity and sex scenes. 2001's Original Sin saw her in various compromising positions with sex-symbol du jour Antonio Banderas - Angie was 26. Mila just completed the new version of celebrity sexy, a flick with Justin Timberlake called Friends with Benefits - she's 28.
The funny thing about Friends with Benefits (other than the supporting cast) is that while it doesn't show any real true nudity, it is chock full of Mila pulling on or off her pants and all the sex jokes are about things like cunnilingus, genital grooming and anal sex. Images are not taboo to a generation raised on easy-access Google nude pics. Actions are taboo now- "weird" sex acts and voyeuristic undressing whereas in the old days a good look at some bouncing titties or heavy thrusting would suffice. No longer; the kids have evolved.
Angie, of course, moved away from the sex (not counting Taking Lives) after she became a megastar with Lara Croft and shifted into overdrive - becoming a UN Ambassador, adopting/having kids, doing voice-over work for cartoons ( Shark Tale , Kung Fu Panda ) still getting Oscar Nominations ( The Changeling, A Mighty Heart) and marrying Brad Pitt.
Also no stranger to voice work (Meg in The Family Guy) we'll see what Mila has up her sleeve for her post-lesbo phase. You can bet her career/life path will be less full-on than Angelina (the kids are less motivated nowadays - rather than find this generation's Brad Pitt Mila had apparently been dating Macaulay Culkin). There is, however, no denying Mila's talent, beauty or drive (two cunnilingus movies in two years) so she'll do just fine, banking on her comedy chops for a few films before finding that action picture that spirals her into the big time.
Speaking of the future, there's a historical spaceman movie opening. Apollo 18 is a PG-13 horror-sci-fi about back-in-the-day American astronauts re-visiting the moon for a secret mission. And then they find giant Transformers - just kidding! Actually there were no previews (not usually a good sign but for a horror it's actually better this way) so all I know is Apollo 18 looks to be shot entirely on in-narrative security cameras and has a real Paranormal Activity vibe going. Also, even though the flick drops Friday there's already an Apollo 18 video game/puzzle that you can download and play on Facebook. Kids these days...


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Language failed this week.
''Beyond comprehension,'' ''beyond our worst imaginings,'' ''beyond belief'' -- those were the phrases heard again and again in the last two days. As people struggled to describe the events of Tuesday morning, they reached for metaphors and analogies that might capture the horror of what they had seen. One witness on NBC local news described the World Trade Center collapse as ''one more circle of Dante's hell.'' Brian Williams on MSNBC compared it to Mount St. Helen's. Tom Brokaw on NBC compared it to ''nuclear winter.'' Diane Sawyer on ABC compared it to standing on ''the edge of a crater of a volcano.''
Chris Matthews said it was ''bigger than the Hindenberg, bigger than the Titanic.'' Many others invoked Pearl Harbor, but no one could come up a phrase like President Franklin D. Roosevelt's ''Day of Infamy,'' which summed up the nation's sense of terror and grief and anger.
In a day when hype and hyperbole have become a staple of cable news, in a day when the word ''reality'' has become associated with stage-managed fame-fests like ''Survivor'' and ''Big Brother,'' words felt devalued and inadequate to capture the disasters at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and near Pittsburgh. After all, we live in a culture where inflationary phrases like ''nuclear scenario'' were attached to the developments in last year's Florida election imbroglio, a culture in which cable television networks have repeatedly cried wolf, devoting hours of sensationalistic and alarmist coverage to shark attacks only a week or two ago.
For some time now, reality has felt increasingly surreal, increasingly impervious to the efforts of writers to show us ''the way we live now,'' in Trollope's words.
''The American writer in the middle of the 20th century has his hands full in trying to understand, describe and then make credible much of American reality,'' wrote Philip Roth in an essay in Commentary magazine. ''It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally it is even a kind of embarrassment to one's own meager imagination. The actuality is continually outdoing our talents, and the culture tosses up figures almost daily that are the envy of any novelist.''Continue reading the main story
Those words were not written in response to this week's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. They were written back in 1961, before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, before the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., before the social upheavals of the late 60's, before Vietnam, Watergate, the Clinton follies and last year's election standoff.
Because reality seemed so absurd, so ''chaotic, fragmented, random, discontinuous,'' in Tom Wolfe's words, many novelists abandoned the effort to write about American public life in the wake of the 60's. Some, like Ann Beattie, Harold Brodkey and for many years Mr. Roth, focused on the private realm of the self, on the convolutions of the individual psyche. Others, like John Barth and Donald Barthelme, contented themselves with performing postmodern experiments with fable, farce and recycled fairy tales.
Given our democratic government and pragmatic philosophic outlook, magical realism -- as practiced by writers from Latin America, Eastern Europe, India and Africa as a narrative strategy for grappling with turbulent political realities that elude naturalistic description -- was never really mastered in this country. In the hands of American writers like Alice Hoffman, it all too often devolved into cuteness and whimsy, devoid of a historical context.
Mr. Wolfe -- who wrote a famous manifesto urging novelists to ''head out into this wild, bizarre, unpredictable, hog-stomping Baroque country of ours and reclaim it as literary property'' -- attempted to pen big, sprawling, Dickensian novels based on lots of legwork and reporting, and writers like Don DeLillo, Richard Price and Robert Stone did find their own anomalous ways of tackling the social canvas of late-20th-century American life. Mr. Wolfe's 1987 novel, ''The Bonfire of the Vanities,'' which featured a Harlem minister who uses his gifts of gab and spin control to orchestrate racial outrage, proved eerily prophetic, appearing months before the events involving Tawana Brawley and the Rev. Al Sharpton broke in the news.
For the most part, however, large-scale terrorist plots and huge public disasters -- so sensationalist in tone, seemingly so far removed from our daily reality -- have remained the province of commercial screenwriters and novelists like Tom Clancy, whose 1994 novel, ''Debt of Honor,'' featured a plot in which a Boeing 747 is crashed by a Japanese airman into the Capitol building during a joint session of Congress, killing virtually everyone. The Sylvester Stallone movie ''Daylight'' postulated a disastrous explosion in the Holland Tunnel; ''Die Hard 2'' showed terrorists taking over the air control system at Dulles Airport and crashing an airplane; and ''Black Sunday'' depicted a extremist group planning to blow up the Superbowl with explosives loaded on a blimp. ''Executive Decision'' depicted Arab terrorists armed with a nerve-gas bomb who take control of a 747 and head for Washington.
Inevitably, many witnesses and television commentators on Tuesday turned to film analogies to describe what they had seen. In a culture that promotes Jerry Bruckheimer's ''Pearl Harbor'' as a big summer entertainment, in a culture besotted with disaster movies, there was an initial sense of déjà vu and disbelief on the part of these spectators -- the impulse to see what was happening as one of those digital special effects from the big screen. This couldn't really be happening, they suggested; this is something from the realm of pulp fiction, unaccountably thrust into the province of real life. ''It is apocalyptic,'' said Jack Valenti, head of the Motion Picture Association. An air travel consultant on MSNBC said that people looking at the disaster thought they were seeing ''Die Hard 2, Die Hard 6.'' A cameraman on CNN said it was ''like covering a very bad horror movie.'' Images of the World Trade Center exploding and collapsing into a pile of rubble; images of people running for their lives through the canyons of Wall Street; images of smoke and fire billowing from the caved-in walls of the Pentagon -- these images, shown on an endless loop on every television station, were repeatedly compared to the destruction of New York and Washington in ''Independence Day''; the terror of the people trapped in the twin towers to ''Towering Inferno.''
It may seem trivializing -- even obscene -- to talk about movies in the same breath as this week's tragedy, but the fact that so many people did was a symptom of our inability to get our minds around this disaster, our inability to find real-life precedents, real-life analogies for what happened in the morning hours of Sept. 11.Continue reading the main story


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That was until I saw this image of a local home on the Real Estate website. I still love Tolix stools probably a little bit more (and they are far more suitable for my children's antics), but man, these Cappellini Ribbon Stools look stunning here.
Images from here and here (sadly though the property is no longer listed).


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City council still supports Island Bay wet house
Nov 17th, 2009 | By Kara Lok | Category: Front Page Layout, Latest News, News
WELLINGTON City Council still supports a wet house for alcoholics in Island Bay, despite a decision by the trust that wants to run it to withdraw.
The council will continue to support the Te Whare Oki Oki Trust project, which is designed to house six to eight homeless alcoholics, as the facility is badly needed, councillor Iona Pannett told a meeting of the Island Bay Residents Association last night.
"It is a really good project and irrespective of the debate that is occurring there are still people sleeping on the streets or in a night shelter and that is unacceptable," she said.
Te Whare Oki Oki turned down funding from the council and the Capital & Coast District Health Board after it was asked by the health board to present a five-year funding plan for the wet house.
Ms Pannett says the proposed Ribble St property continues to be an appropriate location, as the facility should not be placed in an inner-city environment where the tenants would face unhelpful influences that would hinder their recovery.
She believes the centre's residents would pose little threat to the suburb's children and elderly, which is the main concern for the Island Bay residents opposed to the project.
Councillor Celia Wade-Brown agreed with Ms Pannett, saying studies available on similar facilities were on day centres catering for up to 40 residents.
"A lot of the concern from schools was that some of the day centres shut at 3pm.
"The potential residents [of the centre] were not convicted of serious crime and some of the undesirable behaviour was because they were homeless," she said.
She said she did not believe problems that arose at such day centres would occur at the Ribble St house, which would cater for only six to eight people.
Island Bay resident Iain Cossar said the group opposed to the facility was not against the concept of a wet house – they were opposed to its location.
"It should not be exposed to residential areas with high densities of children and elderly.
"There is a real question about the suitability of the Ribble St site," he said.
Many residents felt the council was not taking their concerns seriously and one resident questioned Ms Pannett about how she would feel if the wet house was placed next door to her home.
The facility trust's chairperson, Ruth Harrison, says in a media release Te Whare Oki Oki is considering other funding options, "as the trust is no longer willing to rely on the Council and DHB to provide their linked funding".
"The DHB's decision to demand a five-year funding plan right now – rather than after the project had been running for a year- is unreasonable.
"This is a pilot project and its success can only sensibly be assessed after its first year of operation," she says.
The Ribble St wet house may still go ahead if the trust finds the necessary funding from elsewhere, so the battle is not over for the opposing group.


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Multiplication can be thought of as the first number telling how much to make of the second number. So 2(-5) is like making 2 groups of (-5). There are 10 negative unit tiles in total, so 2(-5) = -10. A negative first factor can be thought of as the first number telling how much to remove of the second number. So -2 (-5) is like removing 2 groups of (-5). Recall that zero pairs have no value, so add zero pairs until there are enough negative tiles to be able to remove 2 groups of (-5). After removing 2 groups of (-5) there are 10 positive tiles remaining, so -2 (-5) = 10. Notice that the negative sign can also be thought of as taking the "opposite" of 2(-5).
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Federal Civil Service Commission (Education Officer Grade I - EXTENDED)
The Federal Civil Service Commission invites applications from suitably qualified candidates for the position below at the Federal Ministry of Education:
Job Title: Education Officer Grade I, Grade Level 09
Closing Date
5th November, 2016.
Job Title: Education Officer Grade I, Grade Level 09
- Candidates must possess a good honours degree from a recognized University with Discipline in Education in the following subjects: French, Fine Arts, Maths, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, ICT/Computer Science, Home Economics, Basic Science/ Basic Technology, Agriculture, Music, History, Yoruba and Igbo.
- Master's degree with at least one year post qualification cognate experience or bachelor's Degree with three (3) years post qualification cognate experience
Closing Date
5th November, 2016.
- For avoidance of doubt, completion/submission of application online is free and at no cost to applicants.
- Any applicant who submits more than one application for the same vacancy will be automatically disqualified


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Select the user you want to delete. Look for the Delete button on the right-hand side.
Reassigning tasks and ownership will be presented with drop-down options for users in your account. Depending on assigned tasks and ownership it could look something like the options and image below:
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If you have tasks assigned to that user, the system will prompt you to re-assign those tasks to another user.