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- mrpeccator Oct 9, 2007 06:34 PM
So I'm not becoming a localvore, but I want our thanksgiving feast to celebrate the foods that are native to Southern California. The questions I have are: What are native foods? Where can I find them, especially in OC? Any help is greatly appreciated.
For some reason none of the fruits that I can think of are fall items
Oranges, peaches, strawberries, bell peppers (I'm just mentally driving through the Conejo Valley). Olives, more oranges and other citrus in the San Gabriel Valley.
California is such an agricultural powerhouse that it's hard to conceive of what's NOT available. Okay, so garlic is more Central Coast, not SoCal, as would be lettuce and artichokes.
re: SauceSupreme
I'm shooting for what the native folks would have eaten before LA was founded. Since SoCal is so recently settled we really don't have a strong local cuisine. The cactus, olives, and peppers are interesting. I also thought of rabbit, sage, dove, spiny lobster, but I really don't know how much of the chaparral ecosystem is edible or even what can be found offshore.
re: mrpeccator
Watercress is something we collected / harvested and eaten out of streams (at least we did it when we were in the scouts) in Malibu State park.
re: mrpeccator
Does any place have a true indigenous local cuisine? Pizza and bagels were not invented in NYC. Chili peppers were not indigenous to Thai food; Portuguese traders introduced chiles to Siam from New Spain (aka Mexico).
re: mrpeccator
People used to rake clams in Newport, but that was like a hundred years ago...
re: choctastic
Still do - there are signs in Khmer (at least there were recently) on Alamitos Bay in Sunset Beach warning of toxins in them. Big surf clams ("pismo clams") were important, just based on middens (piles of shells deep in the soil) on the Channel Islands and remote parts of the coastline.
Thought of a couple others - Mexican/blue elderberry (Sambucus mexicana, tart little blackish fruits in late summer/fall) and various native gooseberries (Ribes spp.), even more tart. And, there's always honey from native wildflowers. Had some good stuff from the Bouquet Canyon area for sale at the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market, which is bona fide L.A. County wildflower honey!
Reminds me - I saw a great-looking gooseberry pie at Dupar's in the Farmer's Market yesterday. Sort of pale greenish, blueberry-sized fruit, around $11 for a whole one. I opted for slice of sweet potato, which, for the record, was about the best sweet potato pie I've had in L.A. Sort of shortbread crust, didn't have that slimy-canned mouth-feel. Mmm.
re: cant talk...eating
speaking of berries, wouldn't boysenberry be an indigenous berry then?
re: justagthing
Good point - boysenberry no (it's a hybrid btwn. raspberry and blackberry), but we have at least one native blackberry found in riverbottom areas and around seeps in the hills. Nettles are also popping up on menus, and we have a couple native ones (careful of stingers though).
re: cant talk...eating
The gooseberry pie at Dupar's is better than nothing, if you're a gooseberry freak (as I am), but I found it much too gluey and much too sweet, as I tend to do with all their pies.
Gooseberries can't be grown here, at least not naturally. The shrub will thrive just fine, but it requires a significant amount of winter time at 30º or less to set its fruit, and that's a tad hard to come by in these parts.
re: Will Owen
Just to clarify - the greenish gooseberry of pies, jams, etc. is a European species; we have lots of native gooseberries (Ribes sp.) in our hills; I just mentioned the pie as an approximation of what was probably an important indigenous food.
re: choctastic
We used to do as kids in the 60s. Parents never considered the toxins. Oh well. Still here.
re: mrpeccator
I've always been frustrated in my search for Native American food. Beyond Indian Bread, there seems to be nothing...and I've searched on reservations and at Indian PowWows (Indian Taco? C'mon.).
Some native cultures and their foods in the link below:
re: RicRios
Dungeness Crab
One of the best TG meals I have ever had!
re: bulavinaka
I fondly and vivdly remember the "acorn lesson" in elementary school. I guess you could just roast them "over an open fire"… ? Oh, wait those are chestnuts! Here are some acorn flour recipes-
But where do you find acorn flour for sale in LA/OC? (from what I have read and remember from that lesson a pretty arduous process to meal) . This old link mentions Koreatown
I also found this related link, but you need to wade through it to find applicable to Southern Ca.
I would love to hear what you come up with…
re: LaLa Eat
Oh man, I remember the acorn lesson too! I remember being fascinated by the pounding and then we put the meal in the toilet tank (not bowl) to wash out the bitterness before making acorn meal.
I love being an OC gal.
re: LaLa Eat
Acorn flour is available in Korean supermarkets. In Tustin, check out Freshia.
If you're talking about what the early Chumash Indians, who were the largest group in the area up and down the coast, the diet was mostly acorns, which were leached to take off the bitter flavor. Wild game, wild grains and, of course, food from the ocean, complete the Chumash diet. The Chumash would bake in clay ovens using the flours frm the grains and acrons, but they didn't cultivate the land much, relying mostly on gathering. Later the Spaniards introduced citrus and an abundance of crops in addition to cattle. Of course, the question, to me, is always what snapshot of time is considered "native" as everyone came from somewhere. But one thing to remember about any early Southern California foods is that they would tend to be more focused on seafood and wild game since the land has always been semi-arid.
Yes, as Fuser said, acorns are indigenous and were a stable food of the aboriginal Californians. I recently posted a how-to for making acorn flour which can be used pretty much as you might use corn meal flour to make bread or pancakes etc.
Gathering the acorns is kind of fun - like a scavenger hunt. http://www.ramshacklesolid.com/2008/0...
Also we just harvested a crop of pomegranates which are really great on salads or as a table decoration.
Turkeys were indigenous to the Southwest. Not like the market ones, so you may be obliged to snipe one off on your own, though. Cactus apples, mesquite beans, some part of the tule plant. Frogs, turtles, steelhead and other trout.
From the sea, things like mackerel, squid and sardine and even anchovies are indigenous to the waters off of Southern California.
SoCal ethnobotany! Love it! A couple plants that were staples in the Los Angeles area that haven't been mentioned are Dichelostemma capitatum (aka blue dicks, wild hyacinth) and Salvia columbariae (Chia). The former is basically like a mild garlic with bright blue-violet flowers and which can still be seen in early spring on undisturbed heavy clay soils (Mt. Washington, Highland Park, Whittier Hills). Chia (mint family) was maintained by periodic burning, and its seeds were ground up and formed a staple of the indigenous diet; it's still found on more gravelly soils such as in the Hollywood Hills..
Have no idea what might approximate chia seeds in the modern diet. Anyway, the notion that "everything came from somewhere else"/ "what's native anyway?" just ain't valid, sorry.
As for stuff you might actually see on menus, turkeys aren't native, but California Quail is. Most fruit we associate w/ Calif. isn't native (citrus, etc.) but we have a native black walnut, and cactus fruit ("tuna", as in Las Tunas) was probably used, and is still actively picked by folks from Mexico around town, though most of these are the cultivated variety from Mexico which grows tall and has big, upright pads (nopales).
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Thanks for the info!
re: cant talk...eating
Acorn. Quail. Venison. Abalone. Blackberry. Black Walnuts. Chia.
For Thanksgiving, just off the top of my head, I'm thinking Turtle/Mesquite bean soup, Smoked Venison, and/or Quail with Abalone/Acorn/Black Walnut stuffing and blackberry/pomegranate sauce, and a a big fat artichoke (okay, we hoofed 'em down from Gilroy) boiled with some of that salvia.... Invite me, please!
re: jesstifer
What about all the great produce we grow here? Citrus, ARTICHOKES, avocadoes, strawberries, persimmons now in season, apples in apple valley, garlic, grapes, WINE... drive up the 5 through Modesto and Merced then back down the 101--all the farmstands there have all the greatest stuff for sale, any time of year...
re: AnnieMar
I am not positive, but I think when the OP asked about "indigenous" ingredients those types of introduced crops wouldn't be what they were interested in hearing about in this case.
re: Servorg
You are correct in your assessment of my intentions. I'm not as interested in what is cultivated but what is passively part of the ecosystem. What Chowhound doesn't want to try new things, especially something outside the boiler plate (foodie or traditional) holiday food? There are some fantastically informative responses and I am getting geeked about the possibilities this year. Now I just need to take up hunting, fishing, and gathering.
OK so far Ive gotten Acorn Squirrel Deer Fox Clams Halibut, barracuda, queenfish, sharks, and white sea bass yellowtail mackeral perch, croakers, and corbina shark sage poppy sunflower acorn the los angeles sunflower is so rare if someone where to cultivate it and farm it they would have an LA original food so start planting it in your backyards and selling at farmers markets I dont know if eucalyptus is native but it should be included because it is so Los Angeles in nature and identity here is a list of edible plants native to cali http://www.laspilitas.com/classes/edi...
re: lloydsk
Eucalyptus is not native...
The Chumash didn't grow/harvest any food. They were hunter/gatherers and fished for their food....abalone, etc. They also traded with other coastal natives.....shells, fish, berries, acorns, etc.
Their main food source, other than fish, was acorn which they used for bread and soup(s).
re: lloydsk
"Los Angeles sunflower" (the common name for a wetland plant that once grew in the sag ponds on the Raymond Fault and a couple other areas) is probably extinct, but there are/were several native sunflowers that are still common, including Helianthus annuus, which grows everywhere (flowers late summer), even along freeways. Drive through El Sereno in September and you can't miss it.
I particularly love these because they are Native to LA and can actually make a full on greens side dish have fun
Sidalcea neomexicana/ Prairie Mallow /L.A. New Mexico/ cooked greens
Opuntia biglovii
Prickly Pear/South California/Fruit Raw,seeds ground to meal and cooked Pads cut in strips and fried
Acer spp./Maple/Throughout California/A rather poor maple syrup can be boiled from sap
Chama esaracha coronopus/South California to Utah/berries raw or cooked
Descurainia species(except D.pinnata)/Tansy-Mustard/salad greens or seeds roasted and ground
re: lloydsk
Lloydsk - not sure where you got the above list; most of the info is inaccurate or so mis-spelled it's pretty useless.
re: cant talk...eating
Perhaps he/she got it here: http://www.laspilitas.com/classes/edi...
Not sure what kind of fishmongers you have down there - but Santa Barbara uni and Santa Barbara (sweet) shrimp. Both are great. There is uni somewhere near you but I don't know it personally (Catalina I think).
I think the Santa Barbara uni is the best I've ever had. Some prefer the Japanese, which is great, but S.B. is just richer and more decadent. The shrimp is also the best shrimp I've ever had. Both a bit pricey.
re: foodiemahoodie
Seeing as this is a 4+ year old thread, I'm throwing in my 2¢ worth just because I have something to say. I remember as a kid my dad taking the family up to Pismo Beach to dig up pismo clams. There were a few other places (where I don't recall) where you could dig up small mollusks that my dad called "cockles" in southern California. They're probably all hard to find if not virtually fished out. He also used to go surf fishing to catch barred perch. I am pretty sure the native americans ate all this kind of sea food.
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I just got your reply its such an important thread because California is crying out for an authentic identity besides movies and blondes and Since I replied yesterday I received five replies so I think its incredible that people stopped to look and ask. Thanks for your info I'm going to talk to some local people I know and see what we can do about native LA foods. I think it would really shake los angeles up to have a cuisine that is completely indigenous
re: lloydsk
"I think it would really shake los angeles up to have a cuisine that is completely indigenous"
There is only one thing that is completely indigenous to this area area that can really shake up Los Angeles...and it comes from the San Andreas fault...
re: Servorg
lol everyone hates on LA:) but seriously its a an adventure and a place to discover so many wonderful things hidden and kept from view buried
re: lloydsk
Indigenous is a loaded word. Corn and beans spread here from central Mexico hundreds of years before the conquistadores. Chiles grow here; are they indigenous?
You can certainly grow and harvest your own food, which is the epitome of eating locally. I am right now trapping and purging the snails that eat my garden; I feed them carrots from the garden and then I cook them and eat them. You can forage, within reason; black sage, which grows absolutely everywhere, is delicious as a pesto-type sauce, and white sage is fantastic slid between the fat and meat of a bird and roasted.
There are people out there who teach indigenous foraging—Joel Robinson is one, who runs a company called Naturalist For You—but you will frankly work harder at gathering than the Chumash did if you only want Chumash ingredients, because Los Angeles is a city now and the original balance is gone.
If you count anything that grows within Los Angeles as foraging, you can certainly make quite the meal out of snared rabbits (attention to the laws about this, the last time I talked about trapping rabbits in my garden I got all kinds of angry words from people), trapped birds (ditto), snails, fish, seafood, and of course public fruit. You'll have trouble with grains, though.
Also, just a slight complaint about your assumption that Los Angeles is only movies and blondes. That's the image projected out to the world, and if you never leave Hollywood or the Westside you could maybe be excused for that worldview, but Los Angeles isn't principally that; it's a huge melting pot where people eat "foreign" cuisines as easily as they eat their own, where you'll see Korean-speaking Latinos in Korean restaurants and Chinese-speaking Caucasians in Shanghainese places. That's Los Angeles's culinary identity to me.
re: Das Ubergeek
This is a great response, DU. But I'm not sure why everyone's talking Chumash... their territory ended around Calabasas. The Valley and LA Basin were Gabrielino/Tongva.
re: Das Ubergeek
> That's Los Angeles's culinary identity to me.
Very nicely put.
re: Peripatetic
I thought that the current Los Angeles' culinary identity means eating a pork pie while wearing a pork pie hat... ;-D>
re: Das Ubergeek
PS, just noticed that the OP seems to be in the OC, which (depending on what part) could also have been Luiseño or Juaneño territory. There's a pretty thorough discussion of Luiseño foods here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/ca/co...
re: Das Ubergeek
DU, the moment I fell in love with LA's happy cross-ethnic food thing was on one visit from Nashville, sometime in the '80s, when Papa-in-law took us to his favorite Little Tokyo sushi place, Frying Fish. Sitting across the sushi-makers' island from us were two youngish Latinas and maybe three kids, all of whom were enthusiastically attacking plate after plate, and doing it more neatly than I could manage. All my ambivalent feelings towards what is now my local culture began realigning themselves right then.
While it's interesting to think about what foods might have been native to the area at some point, that point will always have to be arbitrary, having to do with the arrival of one culture or another. The first "native" Americans? The first Europeans? The first Midwestern farmers? As for me and my house, we will think in terms of what's growing and/or being harvested here now, because we like to think that no jet fuel was harmed in the making of this meal. I grew up in a small Illinois town that had lots of backyard gardens, including our own, as well as plenty of locally-raised meat and poultry, plenty of fish in the lakes and small game in the woods. Hardly anybody ever bought a tomato from a store there between June and September. LA is not quite like that, but there is an awful lot of stuff that's grown either in the county or a truck-ride away, and most of it is well within my less than generous budget.
re: Das Ubergeek
So, do you also trap and eat squirrel? Opossum?
I'm curious about the snails in your garden. How long does it take for them to poop orange, on the average? I'm assuming this is why you feed them carrots?
re: latindancer
Eating Opossum the Texas way (one eye on the possum and one eye on the highway)...
re: Servorg
LOL. Road kill-to-the-table cuisine/dining. The only thing that crosses the road around these parts is an occasional pet cat or dog off leash....chasing a squirrel.
re: latindancer
I have trapped and eaten squirrel; 'possum, never.
It takes 3-5 days for them to poop orange, and yes, it's to purge them.
re: Das Ubergeek
So the snails in my garden could be rounded up and eaten.
Are they as tender as the ones I normally eat, in the shell, as escargot?
Thanks for the response, BTW.
re: latindancer
Most of the snails I've eaten in the United States have been boiled into rubbery submission, so I would say yes, they'll be at least as good as that and probably better. :)
re: Das Ubergeek
This is great information.
re: Das Ubergeek
Did you know that the LA area's brown fox squirrels aren't native? They were imported from the Southern US by Civil War veterans at the Old Soldier's Home at Sawtelle. The veterans thought the brown squirrels from back home were tastier than the native grey squirrels and ground squirrels.
A local research project has traced their spread from that introductory location, gradually displacing the native species. They have chronological maps of the spread:
re: GlenBlank
Actually, those vets were right about that. The bit they missed, however, was that without the rich forage of the east-central US, deciduous forests and stuff, those squirrels will never get to eatin' size. It's not the species, you see, it's the chow. The Illinois squirrels my dad hunted were every bit as big as his other quarry, the rabbits; two squirrels was more than enough for our family of five. On her first trip to my old home town, Mrs. O saw her first midwestern squirrel in the first half-block from my friend's house and yelped, "What the f*** is THAT?" Luckily it was my buddy Bob walking with us and not his mom … even I'd forgotten how big those things can get; it looked like a big fat fluffy-tailed cat.
The Portola expedition, the first Spanish explorers of the LA area, found that the Tongva natives they encountered frequently offered them "sage gruel" and baskets filled with (otherwise unspecified) "seeds."
The natives hunted small game - rabbit and antelope especially - with bow & arrow, and periodically burned off the grasslands of the Valley to make travel easier and improve hunting. (Much of the coastal plain was swampy, too wet to burn.)
Portola's Franciscan diarist, Father Crespi, noted abundant wild roses (Rosa californica), wild grape vines, and what he calls 'cumin' ("comino"). (I thought at first that might be the fennel that covers many hillsides today, but it turns out that's an invasive European import, so Crespi's 'cumin' was... something else).
Crespi mentions seeing bears, coyotes, herds of antelope, and mule deer. The expedition's soldiers reported sighting something at a distance that they described as an elk . (?)
The Tongva knew about grinding and leaching acorns, so they were a major food source.
Hugo Reid was a Scotsman who immigrated to Alta California in 1832 during the Mexican era, married a Tongva woman, and was the original recipient of the Rancho Santa Anita land grant in 1845. Shortly after the American takeover, in 1852, he wrote a series of letters to the Los Angeles Star describing the local native culture and criticizing their treatment at the hands of the Franciscans.
In one of those letters (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r...), he says:
The animal food in use among them was deer meat, young coyotes, squirrels, badgers,rats, gophers, snakes, racoons, skunks, wildcats, the small crow, the blackbirds, hawks, groundowls, and snakes, with the exception of the rattle snake. A few eat the bear, but in general it is rejected, on superstitious grounds hereafter to be mentioned.
The large locust or grasshopper was a favorite morsel, roasted on a stick at the fire.
Fish, whales, seals, sea-otters, and shellfish, formed the principal subsistence of the immediate coast-range of Lodges and Islands.
Acorns, after being divested of their shell, were dried, and pounded in stone mortars, put into filters of willow twigs worked into a concave form, and raised on little mounds of sand,which were lined inside with a coating of two inches of sand; water added and mixed up. -- Then filled up again and again with more water, at first hot, then cold, until all the tanning [tannin] and bitter principle was extracted. The residue was then collected and washed free of any sandy particles it might contain. On settling, the water was poured off. After being well boiled, it became a sort of
mush, and was eaten when cold.
The next favorite food was the kernel of a species of plum which grows in the mountains and Islands, called by them, Islay (pronounced eeslie). Some Americans call it the Mountain Cherry, although it partakes little either of the plum or cherry. It has a large stone, to which numerous fibres are attached, pervading the pulp, of which there is very little. Its color, when perfectly ripe, inclines to black, and very much like what in Mexico is called the Ciruela. This, cooked, formed a very nutritious, rich, saccharine aliment; and looked much like dryboiled frijoles.
Chia, which is a small, gray, oblong seed, was procured from a plant apparently of the thistle kind, having a number of seed vessels on a straight stalk, one above the other, like wild sage.This, roasted and ground into meal, was eaten with cold water, being of a glutinous consistency,and very cooling.
Pepper grass seed was also much used, the tender stalks of wild sage, several kinds of berries and a number of roots.
All their food was taken either cold or nearly so, which, of course, tended to preserve the teeth. Salt was used very sparingly in their food, from an idea that it had a tendency to turn their hair grey.
[Para breaks added for legibility.]
re: GlenBlank
Good info. Those journal accounts are great. The "islay" was almost certainly Prunus ilicifolia, the holly-leaved cherry, which is pretty common in hilly/foothill areas (Santa Clarita, Hollywood Hills), with a related species on the Channel Islands (not that they would have differentiated).
Re: above comments, as far as term term "native" goes there's sort of a strict ecological definition and then many interpretations from this that are constructs used to interpret the landscape people observe (as people have always done); an example is the familiar "if I see it growing 'wild', then it must be native" approach, which just causes confusion when trying to figure this stuff out.
As for things like corn, beans, prickly-pear (the "Indian fig" kind that is/was cultivated), they "spread" in the sense that Native Americans traded seeds up and down the Americas, but the distinction between this and, say pinion nuts, which were both traded *and* clearly indigenous to parts of CA is an important one. Of course, exceptions are out there, such as various weedy things like squash relatives which could either have been brought up by people or spread on their own.
Native fish (that you might actually find):
Albacore, Bluefin, Yellowfin, Skipjack and Bonito Tunas, although all but bonito remain several miles offshore)
Mackerel (Pacific Chub, NOT king mackerel or sierra/spanish mackerel)
Jack Mackerel
White Sea Bass
Giant Sea Bass (Illegal to harvest in US)
Chinook and Coho Salmon
Kelp/Sand Bass
Pacific Barracuda (not great barracuda)
Swordfish (offshore)
Striped Marlin (offshore)
Mahi Mahi aka dorado (offshore)
Mako and Thresher Shark
Dover, Rex, and Petrale soles, various turbots and sanddab
Butterfish, aka pompano
Others, like Sheephead (not sheepShead) ling cod, blue perch and surffish are commonly eaten by fishermen but I've never seen them for sale in a market
Chia seed is readily available in health food stores. Also, I have been told manzanita berries were used by the SoCal natives for producing an alcoholic beverage.


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Dr. Judd is a great OB! I was recommended to him by about 3 people. He does have a blunt and dry personality. He can be funny but he is very helpful! Some times there is a bit of wait to get in because he has so many patients but he spends the time with you need. I never felt rushed ever! He was great with my pregnancies. He was ok with the fact that I did not want an epidural, he would just ask if I was sure then let it be the end of it. He is into more of inducing because of his busy schedule with how many patients he has but he is ok with not doing one. But know there is a chance that he won't be available to deliver your baby if you choose not to induce. Which the other dr. in the office then does it. He likes to do episiotomies as well because its an easier stitch but I did not want that with my second and he was fine not doing it. He does listen and takes very good care of his patients despite what anyone says. He just has a personality you need to learn t get along with.
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Dr Judd IS AMAZING!!! I love him and his humor! He made me feel so comfortable and also took the time to write notes about things we discussed and would follow up with me on my next visits (such as my work, social things). I was unhappy with 2 other offices that I went to searching for an OB for my first pregnancy and I heard about Dr Judd from 3 other people. I figured he had to be worth trying! He was!! Sure, he may be a little busy, but he takes time with you, answers your questions, makes you feel comfortable, jokes with you and most importantly, he KNOWS WHAT HE IS DOING!! He also doesn't rush to do C-sections. My little boy(2011)was having trouble (we lost his heart beat) and Dr Judd was able to get him out fast and safe using forecepts. I am excited to see him again for my #2 - currenlty pregnant :) I'd rather wait a little longer in an office for him than a shorter wait for someone not as good or experienced. His nurses all love him! And to me, that also says a LOT!
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A very bad obgyn with questionable morals. I would avoid him at all costs! Any other doctor would be a better choice!
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Dr. Judd essentially fired me for asking questions about concerns that I had, not being willing to have an epidural, and requesting that I be able to leave the bed during labor to walk or get in the shower. He was extremely rude and abusive to me stating that I "was free to stand on my head and have a baby, but I will not be responsible for killing your child." He has 41 years experience, is extremely medical and not willing to do anything that does not fit his view of labor and delivery. He is not very personable and compared me to a used car with high miles on several occasions. If you want an epidural and don't want to have much input in your labor and delivery he might be an excellent doctor, but if you are interested in any part of the process or want to ask questions he will listen, but will not give you any good advice or be willing to help. Also, don't question his way of doing things b/c he will send you out the door crying.
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When I found out I was pregnant with my first baby my friend immediately recommended Doctor Judd. I had no other doctors in mind so I decided to go with him. I didn't mind him the first couple visits but I ended up having a some complications and at one point thought I was going to miscarry. When I expressed my concerns and worries he did not seem to care. He was not good about answering my questions and made me feel very stupid. I even heard his nurses talking about me right outside my door and how I was an emotional wreck. Seriously who does that? I immediately switched doctors and I am so glad I did because I ended up having a few other complications but felt very validated and secure with the new doctor. I would NOT recommend him to anyone especially if you want someone that will answer your questions and be respectful of how you are feeling.
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Had to wait a long time to be seen by the doctor. Was hard getting appointments made with their office because of their work schedule and in ability to work with mine. It seems like they have too many patients and not enough doctors. They have way too many office staff and could use more nurses. The nurses were good. Dr Judd is knowledgeable but very busy.
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Dr. Judd was fabulous with the delivery of my twins. He really knows what he is doing and I really had a great experience. Even my insurance high-risk nurse mentioned that she knew that I was in good hands with Dr. Judd. Truth told, I wasn't so sure at first. I actually was considering going to another doctor. I didn't think he was really good at listening, and sometimes it was hard to get the information I was looking for out of him, but in the end he was amazing at delivering the babies. He has a lot of experience, and I'd be nervous delivering twins with anyone else. He was even so kind as to voluntarily do some "reconstructive" work on the poor stitch up job my previous doctor did with the delivery of my first. No need for a C-section, and my recovery was quick. I would recommend him to anyone. When it comes down to it, he is fantastic.
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My wife and I were very disappointed with our visit to Dr. Judd's office. Although we were early for our appointment, the staff was very sluggish at getting us in for even simple blood and urine work. In addition, when we voiced some concerns over the initial ultrasound, the NP became offended and upset with us. Although we were just looking for information, we both felt like we were not wanted in the clinic. When Dr. Judd came in to talk with us, it seemed clear from his demeanor that he was mostly just annoyed at having to deal with us. Thankfully, after a few minutes it became very clear that this was the wrong place for us; since he stated clearly that he did not have the time to answer any of our questions or to address any of our concerns. My opinion is that this is a very poor clinic for couples who need a listening ear and want to feel informed about their medical decisions. If you don't need that sort of thing, however, it might be the right place for you.
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Doctor Judd was extremely great in keeping me out of pain during labor. He knows what he is doing! People expect their doctors to be like a "mother". He is not soft and cozy. But he will get the baby out as healthy as possible, and you and then get you on your way! Office is nice, and staff is professional. The nurses are the ones to ask questions to. OBGYN's are busy, so ask a nurse, they are mostly women anyway and know what your going through a little more.
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I saw Dr Judd for a couple of my prenatals (I saw his associate, Dr Weibell for the majority of my pregnancy and for my delivery). I enjoyed the visits I had with him. Even though I spent most of my time with his partner, I felt comfortable enough if he were to be the on call Dr when I went into labor. He has a fun/joking personality so if you have more of a serious personality you may not mesh well, but for my husband and I, we both really liked him. I would definitely recommend his clinic.
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Beeb news website goes titsup
The BBC news website was down for over an hour at lunchtime today due to an apparent technical glitch with its servers. A spokeswoman for the British broadcasting behemoth told El Reg that the Beeb had been "experiencing technical difficulties", and it hoped to bring the service back online as soon as possible. Anyone …
Here is the news.....errrr
and using Solaris too !!!!
Still Down
Well it still down at 15:00hrs BST
Someone had to say it!
No news is good news?
Still Down
Still not working at 15:02, and neither is my universities online learning environment, so I might just have a cup of tea, far better than actually doing work!
The BBC news website goes down during working hours = utilisation at work goes up
Still 404-compliant at 15:02
My browser is reporting that "the redirection limit for the URL has been exceeded".
On the bright side, El Reg is still working :-)
God Noooooooo.....
So much for one of the benchmark sites.... ! I suppose it happens to everyone at some point.
Looks like the bbc news website is going through Akamai content distribution. Did it ever do that before? All the history I can find (through netcraft for example) puts it on the BBC's own network.
Might explain why it's taken a turn for the worse?
International version is fine
Been dipping in and out of the BBC news site all day - it's only now I've had problems - but only the UK version.
Still got its tits in the air
Still kaput at 15:15BST
Actually, it seems its just the front page that's knackered....
Too quick off the mark
"and using Solaris too !!!!"
.. and no indication of course that the Solaris servers are the problem, could be app software, finger trouble etc.
Anaemic news
I like it. The BBC have good breadth in their coverage but a chronic lack of depth.
@Emj: agreed, it's a great site for testing browsers on embedded devices.
Working on old IP address
BBC news site seems to be up and running at an old IP address:
Don't panic, there's no need to do any work
You can still go to the news sections via the BBC homepage and navigate around from there, it's just the News Front Page that's not working.
The BBC News front page isn't loading, but navigating through the Top 5 emailed or most read is still working...
Does that mean they're going to stay there all day?
Didn't even notice
Since the quality of the 'news' on the site has dropped so low, and the commentators in the 'have your say' sections appear to be refugees from the Daily Mail forums, I stopped actually reading the beeb site ages ago, even though my browser opens it automatically on start up.
So tits to them, really.
only the front page
its only the front page thats gone:
And the purpose of the scurrilous muck-raking? How does a technical failure on their website have any relation whatsoever to other more controversial events? Has Kelly Fiveash morphed into Nelson Muntz? Can't I legitimately get away with shoe-horning the word 'schadenfreude' into this comment?
Erm, houston... what problem?
Sorry el reg, I had no issues viewing the news whilst munching my extra hot burrito at lunchtime, I also have no issues currently.
Works PERFECTLY FINE for the past hour!
Works fine!
Every now and then it has a female moment but other than that its fine.
Erm, Houston... what problem?
Sorry El Reg, I had no issues viewing El Beeb whilst munching on my lunchtime Burrito and Guac, nor do I currently have any.
Fixed now.
shoot the puppies?
Yesterday the BBC announced an unbelievable 2.5- 3.5 Billion squids shortfall. then they where threatening to shoot the puppies that are the one o'clock news and (GASP!) Top Gear. Today their most popular platform, the news website. Not very sophisticated tactics for the salaries they're getting. How about their dropping the crap lifestyle programmes to make up their shortfall?
Re-design cock-up?
Could it be anything to do with the new (and somewhat ugly) tabs that have appeared at the top of the page???
Shurely even the Beeb can't mess up the addition of some graphics to a header....
The Gods
The computer gods are punishing them for their wicked iplayer software.
Someone quick get a copy of Red Hat and bless them!
A few (best part of seven or eight) I had a tour of the old BBC R&D centre at Kingswood Warren. As part of this they showed us teh server rooms whithing which resided all BBC News/Sport etc websitey stuff... The nice man told us that there was a mirror site hosted in London (I forget where), so in the event of any misshap or errors, they could immediatly switch to the mirror and roll-back to before any coding problems (or bybass any hardware ones)... not sure if that is still the case...
And yes, sod the news, it's a poor shadow of its former self and to quote someone else on El Reg this week, 'Kaplinskiated' but I was trying to access the sports and that was very slow...
And I thought it was just my PC
Looks like RSS feed is having issues as well. Oh well.
Infinite 302
When you go to news.bbc.co.uk, it returns a 302 -> ... news.bbc.co.uk (Where else would it try to send you)
Sounds like somebody's been mucking around with httpd.conf, oops
Worst problem is that I'll have to rely on El-Reg to get my Paris updates.
Hmm underpaid techies
The last time I went along to the Beeb for a techie interview, (and royally turned them down I might add,) they were paying an absolute pittance. They wanted Solaris Guru's who were also Network Guru's, who were ALSO Windows Guru's. Ok fair enough you might say.......but you'll have to pay for that.
Sadly they weren't. They were offering less than what you'd expect for a Unix Sys Admin.....and not even a Guru level of pay.
They want too much for too little, so its no wonder they are having problems. They just can't afford to employ the best :)
Is that code for "not sucking Murdoch's cock"?
RSS Feeds down as well
RSS Feeds down as well
@can't employ the best...
They could probably afford it if they got rid of Jonathan Woss. Sorry, Ross. Get rid of Humphries and a couple of the other doddering old fools and they'll be able to pay twice the going rate!
The BBC makes something close to 4 billion a year from the telly tax, and another couple of billion from international sales of its back-catalogue yet, like any publicly funded organisation it always seems to be short of money. The problem, as always, is to be found lurking in the layer upon layer of administrators, managers, line-managers, overseers, executives, assistants, assistants assistants, house managers, floor managers, health and safety managers, lawyers and other middle-management cruft that always gathers in public institutions. The answer is simple. Fire the lot. Get rid of the failing digital channels, get rid of the unnecessary management layers and give Ross and his compatriots a well-deserved pay cut.
T'isn't happening though. Instead we've got the BBC chasing ratings. Ratings! It's a public service broadcaster, not a popularity contest! They're cutting the news and docuemntaries budget in order to expand their digital channels and re-organise as some sort of international comglomerate. How is that even justifiable given their charter obligations?
It's not the Beeb
BBC sold off BBC Technology to Siemens as Siemens Broadcasting Services under an outsourcing deal a couple of years ago.
I was briefly a contractor there and can tell you the BBC has some good staff and some real wasters. Server support contactors handled 25 calls per day each on average, permies did 4. I was introduced to the concept of 'Walkers'. Staff it would be difficult to get rid of, so they aren't assigned any work and the walk around chatting to their mates and visiting one of several bars at Television Centre.
unsackables (straying WILDLY off topic)
think it's bad at the Beeb? The shockingly unsackable are civil servants, then they threaten to strike at the merest hint of a drop in value of their gold-plated, guaranteed index-linked, non-contributory pensions, payable from age 60...
403? Yeeeeerrrrssssss.....
It was down last night @23.00ish, it's still down, now.
...has magically reappeared after redirecting itself. Still, two 403s 22 hours apart can't be good. (Yes, yes, my cache was clear!)
Only some of it was down
My RSS Feed linked me to some science/tech and entertainment stories. It seemed only the serious stuff was unavailable. Maybe they are on different servers?
Still, at least we had El Reg :) The IT Industry's answer to The Sun
El Reg
So where did El Reg get it's stories from today? Yeah, I'm gonna be banned, aren't I?
The good people at Netcraft have more on this outage, and a little bit more on the Akamai connection.
I haven't checked lately, but it used to be the case that the IP address you got when you looked up www.bbc.co.uk (or was it news.bbc.co.uk) depended on which ISP you were with, thus enabling some form of simple geographic load balancing (ie if your ISP is in the US, you get a "BBC" address which is the BBC's server farm in NYC, so your data doesn't have to be shipped all the way from BBC UK). Or something like this.
Not sure what happens to this scheme if you're using OpenDNS.
(Apologies if this appears multiple times, El Reg itself was briefly inaccessible when I submitted this. Honest.)
On unsackable people. I used to work for BT. They operated a system that can only be described as a craptocracy (or shitocracy). It was almost impossible to get rid of crap staff, so their line managers put them up for promotion to get rid of them. So the shit rose to the top while the good workers stayed where they were.
I notice the BBC haven't mentioned the outage on their own site, though they are quick to report outages on other major sites.
All they needed...
...to do was reboot...! As for Solaris what a load of rubbish...get yourself Windows 1.0 running IIS 0.01
Oh dear
Does that mean we can't read any more propaganda about cannabis and the latest rantings from sir-ian-should-be-fired-blair ?
What a shame eh.
It may not be much but its British by thunder!
The BBC is that glorious geriatric Institution that still runs on a combination of intuition and what the words sound like ... remember the "little Lions" on the eggs, well that is still news if you run out of Yokes!
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Official site for Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Tour operated by: Australian Coastal Mountain Tours
Address: 41 Milton Pde, Malvern, Victoria 3144
Phone: 04 0026 3172 | Mobile: 0400 263 172 | Fax: 03 9822 2576
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An excellent half day tour with Australian Coastal Mountain Tours which starts by exploring the cultural city of Melbourne, before heading along the Port Phillip Bay coastline on the way to Phillip Island. With Australian Coastal Mountain Tours you will enjoy delicious treats at the Island Chocolate Factory, followed by the opportunity to see Koalas in their natural habitat at the Koala Conservation Centre. Next the tour will travel to the Nobbies and Seal Rocks which is home to the largest Australian Fur Seal Colony. At night falls you will head to the Penguin Parade. A Penguin Odyssey, which is home of the little penguins. Watch the little penguins emerge from the sea and make way, with a waddle, to their homes in the sand, The Penguin Parade is Australia's number one wildlife tourist attraction and is highlight of any visit to the area. Tour concludes with dinner before returning back to Melbourne.
Adult rate includes, Chocolate factory shop, Penguin parade, Koala conservation centre entry fee, dinner, tea and coffee.
Australian Coastal Mountain Tours reserve the right to alter fares and itineraries in unforeseen circumstances. Passenger cancellation of any day tour, in less than 24 hours prior to departure time will result in a 50 per cent refund of money paid. Cancellation within 12 hours of tour departure of failure to take up a tour will result in a total forfeiture of the tour fare.Extended Tours: Cancellation of any extended tours within 72 hours to 30 days prior to departure will result in a 25 per cent cancellation fee of the tour cost. Cancellation within 24 hours to 72 hours prior to departure will result in a 50 per cent cancellation fee of the tour cost. Cancellation or transfer within 24 hours prior to departure date will result in a 100 per cent cancellation fee.
Pick-up near Melbourne city.
Departure details: 10/10/14 - 31/03/15
Mon/Tue/Wed/Thu/Fri/Sat/Sun: 1:00pm - 11:00pm
Melbourne CBD area
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Australian Coastal Mountain Tours provides unique Nature Based Australian Experiences throughout Melbourne and the surrounding regions of Victoria. Tour experiences range from the half day Penguin Parade and city tours, right through to ten day Sydney to Melbourne coastline and inland mountainous tour experiences. Operating out of the heart of Melbourne, Australian Coastal Mountain Tours has seven years of experience as an accommodation provider and now three years of experience as a tour operator. Australian Coastal Mountain Tours has been founded on a number of guiding principles of customer experience. Every tour experience is unique. Therefore ensuring each and every customer has a memorable positive Australian adventure is important. The small, intimate groups provide customers with highly valuable and personal guided experiences.Australian Coastal Mountain Tours provides luxury transportation with an eight seater Mercedes Viano and a five seater Lexus four-wheel drive.The quality provided through the partners Australian Coastal Mountain Tours works with to enhance customer experience with food, accommodation and activities. The Otway Fly Tree Top Walk and the Edge Helicopters and Phillip Island Nature Park.Key tours offer breakfast in the Yarra Valley, a majestic journey through the rainforest gallery in Warburton, see native Australian animals and taste some of Australia's best wine all in a day.Great Ocean Road is a one to four day experiences including rainforest walks, the Twelve Apostles, helicopter rides, kangaroos and koalas, and breathtaking views of the coast. On the Penguin Parade and Dolphin experience, you can swim with the dolphins on the Mornington Peninsula by day, and see Australia's little penguins by night. Sydney to Melbourne is the ultimate Australian east coast experience covers all bases, from the city to the coast, and into the mountains.For further information please contact Australian Coastal Mountain Tours.
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The screenwriter of "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" and "Voltron", Justin Marks is gearing up to tackle another feature film project. According to Variety, the scribbler has been tapped to pen the script of Rogue Picture's horror comic book adaptation "Hack/Slash".
Marks will team up with Ben Magid who has been signed earlier to work on the script. Further, together with Magid, he is set to finalize the script which initial draft has been made by Todd Lincoln and Martin Schenk.
Adapted from a comic book created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, "Slash" centers on Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels to small towns across the country to hunt serial killers. The film, scheduled for 2009 release, will be helmed by Lincoln and produced by Adrian Askarieh and Daniel Alter.
Marks is known for his works in adapting comic book, video game and toy-based feature films. He is said to be involved in the development of two Warner Bros. Pictures' films, "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" which is based on 1908s Mattel toy and "Green Arrow: Escape From Supermax" which is based on one of DC Comics heroes.
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Along with Peter Tosh, Bob Marley is virtually the only reggae superstar to find fame on the international stage. Born in Jamaica in 1945, Marley was singing and playing homemade instruments by the age of 15—thus beginning an extensive musical career that saw him record and perform from Asia to Zimbabwe, touring across every continent.
A unique live concert movie, Bob Marley is captured here during his final two concert tours. Material is filmed on location in Jamaica in 1979 during the famous Reggae Sunsplash Festival, and on Marley's Uprising tour of Europe which was filmed in 1980 in Dortmund, Germany. Dedicated music documentary filmmaker Stefan Paul combined the two concerts to indicate the strength of Marley's voice and remarkable stage persona. Music lost a legendary performer to cancer less than a year later when Marley died on his way home from a sanatorium in Germany to his mother in Miami. The concerts include some outstanding live versions of Marley smash hits including Zimbabwe, No Woman, No Cry, Get Up, Stand Up and a dub superjam version of his signature tune, Exodus.
The film moves beyond the stage to include footage from Marley's funeral in May 1981 in his home town of Kingston. The ceremony took place in front of tens of thousands of mourners. Coverage includes son Ziggy, still virtually a child, Marley's wife Rita and a legion of collaborators performing red hot tracks in tribute to their friend and hero. Interspersed with unseen footage of Marley at home in Hope Road, Kingston, Bob Marley: Live in Concert is a documentary certain to delight the converted and inspire those unfamiliar with the history of one of the most influential genres of contemporary music.


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Natatia Bledsoe is the public information officer for the Fredericksburg Police Department.
Daily Crime Report 7/31/2014
Recent police reports and arrests in Fredericksburg:
First Christian Church, 1501 Washington Ave, 7/30 4:00 p.m. A parishioner reported that she witnessed an unknown man stealing envelopes containing checks from the mailbox outside the church. An officer patrolling on Princess Anne Street later located a man matching the description of the suspect and detained him. The suspect led the officer to where he had stashed the stolen checks. Deshon Shelton, 27, of no fixed address was arrested for three counts of felony larceny and two counts of misdemeanor larceny. Shelton was incarcerated at the Rappahannock Regional Jail under no bond.
600 block Greenbrier Ct, 7/25 12:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m. A resident reported that an unknown person stole his television and damaged a second one. Both TVs had been stored in an unsecured Uhaul truck in the parking lot. No suspects or witnesses at this time.
900 block Charles St, 7/28 – 7/30 11:00 a.m. The property owner reported that an unknown person spray painted graffiti on the rear of the building. No suspects or witnesses at this time.
1800 block Caroline St, 6/29 – 7/29 5:00 p.m. A property owner reported that an unknown person cut the locks securing site. No suspects or witnesses at this time.
Luis Garcia, 33, of Fredericksburg was arrested for public intoxication.
Permalink: http://news.fredericksburg.com/citypolice/2014/07/31/daily-crime-report-7312014/


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Dongguan Houjie Henshine Sport Products Factory was founded in 2008 and covers an area of 3500 square meters. We are located in Dongguan, the famous manufacturing city in China. Our company is close to Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong International Airport and Highway, with convenient transportation access. We can provide the best services for our customers from all over the world.
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False-flag attacks on women: From Malala to Isfahan
The war-on-Islam psy-oppers are mutilating women – and blaming it on their Muslim enemies.
The war-on-Islam psy-oppers are mutilating women – and blaming it on their Muslim enemies.
Press TV has conducted an interview with James Fetzer, professor emeritus of the University of Minnesota Duluth (from Madison), about China releasing a report on human rights in the United States.
Nawaz led team is thinking and talking high and has announced highly ambitious mega projects which it intends completing during its mandated five-year tenure expiring in May 2018.
The US needed it's own Taliban to keep Pakistan engaged in internal house-cleaning and meanwhile give free space to India to attain what is has always desired: a large strategic stake in Afghanistan.
The Taliban's (Pakistan Chapter) has lived up to the tagline of unpredictable from the battlefield to the negotiation table. Surrounded by smoke screen, the GOP finally was able to convince all stakeholders that peace shall be given the first slot through negotiations with TTP.
Though the government (prosecution and defense) rested its case and the judge ruled on the evidence, the public jury remained unconvinced that the September 11, 2011 attack was not an inside job, a false flag Coup d' Etate to justify America's declaration of war on the world and on its own citizens.
The stalemate stretching over the uncertain future for warzone Afghanistan has markedly matured in the past few months, credited to American realization (though with limitation) that inclusion of Taliban in accepted norms into power will guarantee a lasting solution.
For the past few days, Indian media and the parliament are going full blast to build a war hype against Pakistan for five of their soldiers got killed.
Delving into the history of Pak-US relations spread over six decades one finds that the US relationship was always transactional in nature.
Borders, whether declared or symbolic have always played a pivotal role in the revolving dynamics of two nuclear armed neighbors from South Asia, India and Pakistan.
Another day breaks across Pakistan's largest province, but unlike associated with the dawn, little hope accompanies it.
A Florida lawyer has written Congress alleging that some veterans are falsifying Department of Veterans Affairs benefit claims for sleep apnea.
Another story not reported in the west, hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis are protesting recent elections.
by Jim Fetzer and Press TV "Imran Khan is taking a courageous and principled stance. . . . Let us hope that other nations will follow his lead."–Jim Fetzer As an outcry is growing over the increasing use of drones by the United States both at home and abroad, an American professor says […]
Sudden emergence of Tehrik-e-Taliban-Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007 under unknown Baitullah Mehsud (deceased) from nowhere was in reaction to Gen Musharraf's pro-US policies and its continued vendetta is because of the role of liberal parties pursuing Musharraf's policies.
Anti-Kalabagh dam (KBD) lobby in Pakistan has successfully scuttled plans to construct KBD which is technically most feasible, economically viable and beneficial for all the four provinces.
The Obama Administration's policy of "rebalancing" to the Asia-Pacific appears to be a nascent attempt to contain China. It would behoove US policymakers to recognise a key distinction between Washington's current proto-containment of China and its successful containment of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Pakistan is less than a month away from one of its most narrowly contested general elections, scheduled for May 11, 2013. It's the election fever which should have gripped a country on the eve of elections, but somehow out of the blue all gossips and rumors have been overcome by the unprecedented arrest and trial of former General/ President/ Dictator, Pervez Musharaf (PM).
by Dean Henderson (Excerpted from Chapter 6: The Bank of Crooks & Criminals International: Big Oil & Their Bankers…) The Black Network The Bank of Credit & Commerce International's (BCCI) most notorious acts were hatched out of its Karachi branch, where the bank's Black Network (BN) operated. BN was a global intelligence and enforcement […]
Going through the political history of Pakistan, one is constrained to learn that till 1956, Pakistan was without a constitution and it banked upon Government of India Act 1935 as an interim instrument to govern the country.
There is no denying the fact that Pakistan suffered from leadership crisis after the untimely death of Quaid-e-Azam in September 1948.
India has a long history of aggressions against Pakistan since its inception in August 1947. Soon after partition, India burdened Pakistan with plethora of unsettling problems and then forced a war on newly born Pakistan in October 1947 by making illegal intrusion in princely state of Kashmir that was to become part of Pakistan in accordance with the aspirations of Kashmiris and laws framed for princely states by outgoing British rulers.
Apart from hostile eastern border which has remained a chronic security concern for Pakistan since its inception, Pakistan's western border has also remained a source of constant irritation and anxiety.
In 1997 Trilateral Commission founder Zbigniew Brzezinski, the godfather of the Afghan mujahadeen, wrote a book titled, The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and its Geostrategic Imperatives.
Who's really behind the "sectarian violence" in Pakistan? Hint: Real Muslims don't blow up mosques.
Few thousands fighters under Taliban leader Mullah Omar and Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbadin Hikmatyar have been fighting the occupation forces and ANSF for twelve years.
The Wall Street Journal reported awhile back that the Syrian government had reversed a ban on women teachers wearing Islamic face coverings in the classroom.
The arrest of Mossad's Pakistani spy, whose name has not been released, is a blow to Israeli attempts to destabilise Pakistan.
It will be premature to coin "Pakistan Spring", but it has all the potential not to be much different. Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan is under siege. Hold on, it isn't the Indians from across the fence or the war loving Taliban.
The killings of the 2 Indian & 1 Pakistani soldier at the LOC and the rising tensions & rhetoric need to be analysed. The killings of the 3 soldiers have an agenda to target India-Pakistan relations & that is obvious. On the 15th of January onwards India & Pakistan were going to start issuing "VISAS ON ARRIVAL" for Senior Citizens.


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FOX is prepping for season 4 of MasterChef and will hold a casting call in Dallas on October 27, which means you have about one month to do whatever you think necessary to get TV game-ready. The concept of MasterChef is to find the country's best home cook. They start by scouring cities all of sha ... More >>
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There have never been more tears on Top Chef, including in our very own eyes, as there were throughout last night's episode. The crying wasn't from cutting raw onions. It wasn't from sliced fingertips. It wasn't even from the pork belly frying oil that nearly splashed in Ed's eye. The sentiment spur ... More >>
Last night's Top Chef delivered the most Texan of any conceivable Texas challenges: make barbecue that doesn't suck and do it at one of the state's best barbecue restaurants, Salt Lick in Austin. Oh, and make enough beef brisket, chicken and pork ribs to feed 300 people. No small task for the three ... More >>
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Cherisse Symons I don't watch American Idol because I don't believe in American Idol. Other than Carrie Underwood and (sorta) Daughtry, the "winners" don't really become rock stars. Simon's about to leave for Ellen. What the what? But mostly, I just think the show jumped ... More >>
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The sketch and final red-carpet dress from Richardson's Shirin Askari, featured last night on Project Runway's returnDear Lifetime, thank you. I've really, truly missed Project Runway. Last night I was visibly excited to have it back. One thing though: Go high-def, for crying out loud. Not being ... More >>
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Courtesy TMZ.com comes some actual legal news involving American Idol and a Dallas-based company called Peachez Inc. On Monday in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Studdard sued the promoter, which offices on South R.L. Thornton Freeway, for breach of contract -- most likely, over an axed ... More >>
Shinsei's Casey Thompson, like you didn't already know Gawker's running a poll at the moment, as it wonders who its readers think will be the next Top Chef. And though there are four cheftestants left, Gawker's editors only give you two chefs from which to choose: Dallas' Casey Thompson ("Little Mis ... More >>
Casey Thompson, putting the "first class" into "first class." Dunno what that means, either. Two in a row, Casey Thompson -- very impressive, especially considering you had guest judge Anthony Bourdain eating out of the palm of your hand by episode's end. "This is Top Chef, not top cook," he said, r ... More >>
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For those keeping score, Abacus Chef de Cuisine Tré Wilcox has now won two out of six Elimination Challenges on Top Chef. No Top Chef wrap-up this morning; had an early-a.m. interview, alas, which surely bummed out Shinsei's Casey Thompson, winner of last night's Quickfire quiz and no fan of this b ... More >>
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You didn't keep score while watching last week's Grammys? We did.
The more the world knows about the Dallas music scene, the better it'll be
I coulda sworn I was there when they turned on the TV
Oliver Beene goes against fake millionaires and phony idols