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Monsour founder's caregiver charged
A caregiver for one of four founding brothers of the now-defunct Monsour Medical Center was arraigned on Wednesday on charges she diverted $340,000 from the 95-year-old doctor's accounts into her personal accounts.
Maureen A. Becker, 58, of 521 Mountain View Road, Fairfield, was charged with theft and receiving stolen property in connection with funds that disappeared from the accounts of Dr. Robert Monsour between January 2008 and March 2011.
Becker diverted bank certificates, receipts from property sales and multiple Social Security checks that were supposed to go into Monsour's personal bank accounts into her own accounts, according to court documents filed by Westmoreland County detectives Frank Galilei and Will Brown.
The discrepancies were reported by Monsour's attorney, Dom Ciarimboli, after an audit, according to court documents.
Becker was hired in the mid-2000s to take care of the doctor at his estate along Freeman Road in Ligonier Township.
Becker's attorney, Tim Andrews, said his client is contemplating her next move.
"We're still in the process of discussing the case. She took care of him 24/7, and she maintains as do numerous other people that Ms. Becker was asked to take care of numerous financial issues for the doctor," Andrews said.
Monsour's family members allege that $167,000 the doctor received from the sale of 67 acres in July 2010 was "put into two savings certificates at 1st Summit Bank in Johnstown in the name of Robert Monsour In Trust For Maureen Becker," according to documents.
"It was later learned that the certificate account had been closed and put into (Becker's) name alone with the explanation from Maureen that Dr. Monsour wanted her, Maureen, to have as a gift," according to records.
"The two CDs she allegedly took were deposited in a bank with the approval of Dr. Monsour and specifically put in a trust by him for Ms. Becker to compensate for her years of devoted service. ... I don't understand how that can equate to stealing," Andrews said.
Galilei and Brown said they learned from Pat Donnelly, an agent with the inspector general's office of the Social Security Administration, that Becker deposited the doctor's government checks into a joint account bearing her name.
In her interviews with detectives, Becker told investigators the joint accounts were set up with Monsour's approval to maintain his estate.
When Galilei and Brown questioned Monsour, he denied any knowledge of the gift or joint accounts.
When the detectives asked Monsour about the money from the property sale, he told them it went into his personal accounts. When asked if he would have given it to Maureen Becker, the detectives said Monsour acted surprised.
"Absolutely not. Why would I do that?" Monsour replied, according to Galilei.
Monsour also denied knowledge of other purchases allegedly made by Becker from the joint account of a $30,000 truck titled in Becker's name or $10,000 for a snow plow, records show.
In recent years, Becker also had her pay increased from $300 a week to more than $800 weekly, the documents indicate.
Becker was released on signature bond pending a preliminary hearing March 2.
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Last Updated May 22, 2008
Food history has its favorite bits of fakelore and old saws, and Food History News has been taking shots at them early and often. On this web page, you will find the straight scoop about some of these persistent tales, plus advice on how to spot food mythology when you see it.
The Truth About Spices, Lobsters, and Flaming Ladies
By Sandy Oliver
If you believe everything you read about colonial life, you might think that one day the housewife was dredging her spoiled meat heavily in spices so her servants who had already eaten lobster (or salmon) twice that week and so would refuse another bite of seafood, would not notice the bad flavor. Sadly she stepped a little too close to the fire, her skirts caught flame, and she perished in a horrible fiery death. And the exact same thing happened only the week before at her neighbor's house!
We like a good story, even when they aren't true, and especially if the story makes us feel a little smarter than we imagine people in the past were, or else having thrilled us with the dangers of colonial life, it leaves us more self-satisfied about modern conveniences and comforts. Every field has tales, usually apocryphal, which persist though knowledgeable professionals spend an inordinate amount of time trying to present the facts. History is full of them; famously, for example, Parson Weem's invention about George Washington and the cherry tree.
Food historians shake their heads over the idea that spices were used heavily in the past to cover up the bad taste of spoiled food; that some people refused to eat lobster or salmon more than twice a week; and that the second most common cause of death among women (right after childbirth) was dying when their skirts caught fire at the hearth. These stories are so firmly entrenched that they are solemnly repeated even by experts. There seems to be no evidence, however, that any of these are true. At the center of all these stories, though, is a tiny kernel of truth which is often much more interesting and revealing than the exaggerations.
For example, it is true that for a while in the history of culinary practice, cooks used spices with a heavier hand than many of us are accustomed to today. In fact, in some parts of the world, usually in hot, humid, climates, food is more dramatically spiced than it is in cooler, drier climates. There has even been a little scientific research conducted that shows certain spices retard spoilage somewhat. But the story about covering the taste of spoiled meat is mainly told about Medieval and Early Modern European and sometimes about colonial American, cooking, too.
In fact, European elites were most likely to use spices heavily, the very same folks with the most sophisticated food procurement systems, and the means to obtain the freshest and finest fare on demand. Aristocrats and their cooks had the same good sense that the peasantry did not to eat spoiled food. This didn't prevent them from hanging some kinds of fowl or flesh to age somewhat, much as we age a fine steak today. And on the odd occasion when some piece of meat began to show signs of going off, there were recorded methods of washing it to bring it back to good condition. Those instructions may give rise to the idea that there was a lot of spoiled meat around. Actually what the elite were doing is what the very wealthy have always done: they were showing off-demonstrating their wealth by using lavishly very expensive spices. The fad did not endure because it did not actually improve the cooking very much but mainly because spices lost their caché along with their scarcity when European merchants established regular trade with the East and West Indies and even middling sorts had access to them.
The lobster and salmon story is one of the most frequently told about New England seafood. It generally goes like this: Salmon and lobster "used to be so abundant that, it is said, " pick one---the apprentices, servants, boarders, lumbermen, occupants, prisoners, and slaves of-pick another--Newcastle, England, Boston or Lowell, Massachusetts, Puget Sound, Bristol, Rhode Island, Islesboro, Maine, the Maine State Prison, or the South-refused to eat either lobsters or salmon, more than twice a week. Recent versions of the story usually feature lobster, but the vast majority of accounts prefer salmon.
All the stories have in common some group of people who have no control over their food choices, people who have to eat what is served them. The stories all explain that these sufferers had a meeting to form a complaint presented to an official in charge. The story, substantiated only by reference to an alleged expert who "has it on good authority" or words to that effect, is usually put in the context of former natural abundance. So the tale is reported second hand, refers to a time from fifty to one hundred years earlier than the usual late 1800s publishing date. The most common sources for this particular tale are town histories which abounded in the nineteenth century often written by a local antiquarian, though it appears also in George Brown Goode's The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States published in 1887. Lack of primary evidence is the main reason to doubt this story. No minutes of these indignation meetings, nor ordinances outlawing sea food more than twice a week, have ever emerged. But why salmon, why lobster, why twice a week?
The stories appear when salmon or lobster are becoming historically scarce, when the author wants to recall a distant, more abundant past. Twice a week was for many in early England or the colonies, the number of fast days a week on which one customarily ate fish. As Protestantism neglected religious fasts marked by fish consumption, the idea of having to eat fish more than one's religion formerly required sounded like an imposition on people who always preferred meat to fish.
Now, housewives did occasionally die from burns when their skirts caught fire at the hearth and when it happened it made for sensational headlines in the papers. However, more died, as did their husbands and children, from contagious disease. Researchers have closely examined two late 18th century diaries, one kept by the Philadelphian Elizabeth Drinker who recorded the cause of death of everyone she knew or heard about, and one kept by Martha Ballard, a midwife and health care provider in frontier Maine. The diaries reveal that when people died from burns, it was often, as Drinker noted a toddler dressed in cotton, or an tottery elderly person, who fell into or near the fire. Once someone suspected of being a drunk perished from burning in a fireplace. Interestingly enough, Martha Ballard recorded caring for children with burns and noted that she occasionally treated women with scalded feet and legs.
Most women hard at work in their kitchens, never feared catching fire. They knew their hearth like the back of their hands. But with little ones about, a moment's distraction could mean a child getting too near flames, or setting a pot down too suddenly could result in splashing ones feet with hot liquid. Otherwise, staying sober and wearing sensible and less combustible wool or linsey-woolsey skirts kept most women safe and alive and their toddlers, too.
Of course, if you really want to believe these stories, I can tell you ones about poisonous tomatoes and the invention of the doughnut hole, too. And popcorn at the First Thanksgiving.
Spices and Rotten Meat
Old Saw: "They Used A Lot of Spices to Disguise Spoiled Meat."
Medieval cuisine is notable for its astonishing seasoning. Sharp, spicy sauces pointed with vinegar and richly flavored with numerous spices, accompanied each dish of meat, fowl, or fish; vegetables were stewed with herbs and spices; an the final course of a grand meal invariably featured a highly spiced wine called hippocras. After dinner, the nobility retired to their rooms to nibble epices de chambre. Spices were the consuming passion of the Middle Ages, devoured by all but the poorest. The wealthier one was, the more spices one consumed.
The number of different spices familiar to the medieval cooks exceeds that of any other period in the West, yielding complex flavors (though generally the seasonings were not hotchilies, after all, were still to be introduced from the New World.) This is true even though the ancient Romans had been very fond of exotic spices and had conducted a busy trade with India. It remains true today, despite our own recent curiosity about ethnic foods and the fact that spice imports to the US have risen steadily for over a decade.
Later historians and chefs, at a loss to explain this extravagant taste for spices so foreign to their own culinary customs, came up with an explanation whichalthough it is wronghas been embraced and repeated with great relish ever since: namely, that medieval eaters, poor dears, had to season their food heavily in order to disguise the unsavory taste of spoiled meat.
This theory allows us in the 20th century to feel a comfortable superiority to the people of the past (and often, we suspect, as well, to tropical regions in what we call the Third World.) We are modern, scientific, technologically advanced. They were backward, lacking refrigeration, modern canning technology, and any notion of the bacteria which were acting on their foods. Unable to feed their herds, we assume, through the long winters, they had to slaughter all their cattle in the fall and salt the meat in an attempt to preserve it. Even so, it went off, and would have been impossible to eat without a lot of potent spices, however bizarre the flavor that amount of seasoning might be. Our tastes are far more refined than those of the simple, undereducated, benighted souls of the Middle Ages, and thank Heaven, we don't have to eat that way.
Of course, many cultures today use a good many spices to produce rather tasty dishes. Spices are the splendor in wholesome, delicious, and, incidentally, often vegetarian, Indian food. The cooking of southeast Asia is another example of an extraordinarily fineand spicycuisine. And the tremendous popularity of fiery peppers in Mexican fare is virtually a mainstream taste in modern North America. Perhaps the cooking the Middle Ages was no so aberrant after all. It is time to take another look at our old notions about medieval, and later, seasoning.
Spices and spoiled meat: During the middle Ages, large market towns, and many smaller ones, controlled the quality of the goods sold there, and provided inspectors to enforce its laws. The records of regulations and court cases concerning the sale of putrid meat show that people were aware of the importance of freshness, and what's more they felt it was possible to ensure that they were given fresh meat. When in 1319, William Sperlyn was pilloried in London in front of two carcasses of putrid beef he had attempted to sell, there is no evidence of a resigned, "what-the-heck,-I'll-just-cover-up-the-off-flavors-with-spices" sort of attitude toward his product.
Medieval recipes do not suggest heavier seasoning for tainted meat than for fresh; indeed, the only author I know who mentions spoiled meat at all is Platina, whose De honesta voluptate was destined to become the first printed cookbook in 1475. Platina warns cooks to salt carefully the flesh of piglets "lest it start to spoil or taste rancid." In his section on ham, he instructs the reader to plunge a knife into the middle and smell it; if it does not have a good odor, one should let it alone.
Sir Jack Drummond in his book The Englishman and His Food, offers another alleged proof of the "tainted meat" hypothesis. Drummond quotes Hugh Platt's The Jewell House of Art and Nature, 1594, suggestion of wrapping "greene" venison in a cloth and burying it for a few hours to make it "sweet enough to be eaten." The word "green" was often used in past times to describe fresh foods, including meat, in this case quite probably venison not yet hung for flavor and tenderness.
In medieval cookbooks, meatless Lenten dishes are just as highly seasoned as meats and meat's sauces. Vegetables, too, are copiously spiced: chickpeas are cooked with cinnamon and sage, for example; mushroom tarts contain ginger, cloves, cinnamon, and grated cheese; and saffron, cubebs, cardamom, and mace flavor applesauce. To make hippocras, grains of paradise, long pepper, and sugarthen a rare, expensive substance which was also considered a spiceare added to wine.
Spices and preservation: Spices certainly contribute to the preservation process but their use in tropical cuisines has more to do with inducing perspiration, which helps cool the diner, than to preserve meat. Contrast the heat of tropical cuisines with those of hot, desert regions, where perspiration is not as desirable, and flavoring tends towards aromatic and herbal and avoiding extremes of pungency.
Finally, medieval methods of food preservation were effective and produced the same delicious products we produce today: bacon, salt fish, spiced sausages, and dried beef have remained popular over the centuries. Furthermore, spices in medieval quantities were abandoned in European cuisines long before the introduction of modern methods of refrigeration and preserving.
Spices and conspicuous consumption: Imported over long distances from Africa, India, Indonesia, or China, spices were indeed expensive. Yet surviving household accounts show purchases of vast amounts of spice, quantities which work out to a annual consumption per person far beyond what we consume today. Those who could afford to indulge themselves this extent could also afford to feed their cattle through the winter and so eat freshly slaughtered beef. Besides, the nobility also had year-round access to the wild animals in their game preserves.
What did medieval food taste like? It is difficult to tell. Period recipes do not specify quantities. Keep in mind that the long time spices spent in transit, coupled with the customary long storage periodup to ten yearsprobably made medieval seasoning much less potent than what we use today. But medieval dishes would not have been bland, for the flavor of the spice was the flavor of wealth and power. Conspicuous consumption was the feature at every medieval banquet, where precious silver pieces were routinely displayed on a sideboard and the host was honored by the placement of an elaborate salt cellar squarely in front of him. The music and entertainment, the elegant decor, the abundant foodpredominately meatsand the spicing thereof, were all designed to impress guests and onlookers.
Spices and the Doctrine of Humors: Spices were not limited to grand occasions. They were used at every meal, and their primary purpose was to ensure the good health of the master and his household. Since ancient times, the humoral system of health described all foods and even the physical natures of all human in terms of varying quantities of hot or cold, moist or dry, which had to be kept in balance. Disruption of the balance led to illness. In keeping with accepted medical theory, the cook carefully selected spices to add to food in accordance with its humoral make-up. For example, the potentially dangerous moistness of beef could be tempered by a dollop of a sauce redolent of dry spices, while the hot natures of the spices themselves would be balanced by the vinegar basis of the sauce.
There is a great deal more evidence for this argument than for the old spoiled meat explanation of medieval spicing. Every herbal takes great pains to list the humoral nature of each herb or spice. Medieval medical books, where we often find recipes, discuss diet at length. While these cookbooks contain no special instructions for cooking with fresh or spoiled meat, there are some variations in the sauce making methods for summer and winter, since according to the doctrine of humors, the seasons, too, have different qualities of heat and moisture.
In our age, in which physicians are largely oblivious to diet, we may be skeptical of the humoral theory, and find people of the Middle Ages were far more credulous than we are. But credulity depends on what one is asked to believe. Medieval people may have believed that cinnamon came from the nest of the phoenix, that serpents guarded pepper plants, that grains of Paradise grew in the Garden of Eden, and that spices could cure their ills, but they would laugh in amazement at the preposterous notion that they were using spices to disguise the taste of spoiled meat.
"The people of twenty generations ago knew perfectly well the difference between fresh food and rotten food. They knew of several very effective ways to preserve food over long periods, and they had enough common sense not to try to prepare or to eat rotten food by dousing it in strong spices.!" Terence Scully, Early French Cookery
On the food of the late medieval Britain "...for the gentry fresh meat, newly slaughtered on the manor farm, was in fact available through much of the year, while poultry was never killed until it was needed for the table. Regular spicing, however, became a habit; and once palates were accustomed to strong aromatic flavours, unspiced foods tasted insipid." C. Anne Wilson, Food and Drink in Britain
A Typology of Culinary Fakelore
The Invention of Culinary Fakelore and Food Fallaciesi
When I began exploring the history specific culinary products years ago, I quickly discovered that some foods had been researched extensively, while others seemed to have been overlooked. Surprisingly, the tomato was one commonly-consumed food whose history had not been examined. But what was written about the tomato's history was intriguing: Many writers claimed that the tomato had been considered poisonous and was an aphrodisiac. Other writers offered stories about how the tomato entered into the American diet. One such story was preeminent: Robert Gibbon Johnson, claimed many writers, ate the first tomato in the United States on the court house steps of Salem, New Jersey, on September 26, 1820. Thousands of people watched him in horrified expectation that he would drop dead with his first bite into the poisonous love apple, or so the story goes. However, the authors who recounted this story offered no primary evidence and various versions of the story differed dramatically.
I found the story intriguing enough to visit Salem, where I examined newspapers from the period, books written about Salem in the 19th century, hundreds of articles in magazine and agricultural journals, memoirs, and other primary source material. Robert Gibbon Johnson was a prominent Salemite and much was written about him. Unfortunately, I found no evidence connecting him to the tomato. The first version of the story appeared in print 86 years after the purported event. All it said was the Johnson ate a tomato in 1820.iii Subsequent authors embellished the story adding extraneous information and the purported event was dramatized on national radio in 1949. Subsequently versions have appeared in numerous professional and scholarly journals, newspapers, and popular magazines.iv While it is impossible to say that something did not happen, based on all the evidence uncovered about Johnson and Salem in the 19th century, it is extremely unlikely that any such event occurred. I wrote up an article debunking the myth. However, the story acquired a life of its own and writers have continued to perpetuate the storyeven those who are well aware that it was not likely true. The Johnson and the tomato story has graduated to a national legend, not unlike the tale of Johnny Appleseed planting apple trees throughout the Midwest, dramatized by Walt Disney in cartoon format, and believed by most Americans.v
The Johnson story suggests several characteristics of how fakelorevi becomes enshrined as legends. First, the story rings true and is presented in such a way as to be difficult or impossible to disprove.vii Second, the story explains a real problem. Everyone knew that Salemites did not eat tomatoes during their early years, so a story that explained why they shifted from not eating tomatoes, provided locals with the solution to a puzzling mystery. Third, simple stories are more enjoyable than complex reality. Fourth, some Salemites believed the story gave their community visibility, and therefore promoted the story to magazine, newspaper and book writers. Finally, writers found the story attractive. As there was no primary source evidence, writers couldand didembellish the story to give punch to their writing.
Towards a Typology of Culinary Fakelore and Logical Fallacies
Since uncovering the Johnson fakelore, I've located hundreds of other undocumented food stories and I suspect that they are inherent in all culinary histories. Some contain statements that are easily disproved; others that are likely false; and still others that are possibly true, but undocumented. Part of the reason for accepting undocumented stories is the fact that historically food preparation has largely been based on oral traditions: cooks orally passed on techniques, recipes and lore to successor generations. This is particularly true in non-literate cultures, but even in literate societies, methods, traditions and rituals of food preparation and consumption were rarely recorded until the 20th century. And much of what was written down in cookery manuscripts or diaries has been lost, hence oral traditions may be the only sources available. Yet, undocumented culinary folklore cannot be accepted at face value without qualification: oral traditions change over time, with information dropped and other aspects added. While culinary folklore and oral traditions are important dimensions of food history and need further exploration, it is clear that many stories that purport to be folklore in fact have been invented in modern times for reasons other than historical accuracy, such as promotion of people, places and products.
Fakelore is not the same as mistakes made by authors. All authors make mistakes. However, factual or other mistakes are usually easily fixed. Neither are we concerned with genuine oral traditions, which may not be documented with primary print sources. Culinary fakelore specifically refers to invented stories that serve purposes other than historical accuracy. While stories that serve other purposes are not necessarily false, other motives coupled without documentation should arouse suspicions. The usual motivations that underlie culinary fakelore are:
1. Journalistic enrichment: undocumented accounts repeated by writers who want to spice up their stories with "exciting tales." Journalists usually do not invent basic information, but they do frequently add facts, dialogue and drama. The reasons for this are several. They frequently rely on interviews and often fail to check the information given to them with primary sources. Most newspaper and magazine writers are not historians. They are usually on deadline and need a story quickly, which usually precludes their examination of primary sources. Finally, journalists adore pithy quotes or sound bites with unusual twists.
2) Culinary jingoism: undocumented stories about cuisines intended to improperly attribute origins of particular dishes to a specific location, group, or nationality.
3) Great (usually white) men stories: undocumented attribution of origins of dishes to specific individualsusually white males. The Johnson story is but one example of this tendency to identify great men as the inventors, introducers, or originators of food, recipes and other culinary matters. Marco Polo is frequently credited with introducing pasta from China into Italy, but pasta like foods were already consumed in Europe before Polo was born. Thomas Jefferson is frequently credited, for instance, with introducing Carolina Gold rice, which, according to culinary historian Karen Hess, was grown in South Carolina well before Jefferson was born.xi
4) Commercial promotion: undocumented stories repeated by corporations in their advertising intended to sell commercial products. Almost all food advertising that makes reference to historical events is inaccurate. In this case, advertisers are interested in promoting sales, not in accurately telling history.
5) Health myths: medicinal claims for specific foods/products frequently repeated without solid scientific basis.
George Lang wrote in 1980 that "Culinary history is a collection of questionable happenings, recorded by persons of dubious credibility, about events no one cares about and people of no consequence."xviii Lang went on to prove this point by presenting many culinary stories as fact while offering no evidence for them. In fact, much of what has been written under the rubric "culinary history" has been collections of twice-told myths.
Food fakelore is frequently repeated because there are few easily accessible, accurate culinary histories. This general lack of serious work depends in large part upon the failure of academics to take culinary history seriously. Academic course offerings in culinary history are haphazard and sporadic. Partly at fault is the rigid departmental structure of modern universities. Since no departments of culinary history exist, courses must be tacked onto history or culinary arts departments. Most mainstream historianseven social historianshave little interest in food except as it relates to war, mass starvation, malnutrition, or an economic ingredient to trade. Few historians consider the cookbook an important primary source for information about people or about the times in which they live. Other academics in the arts and humanities do not consider food to be an art form, or certainly not a "high art," like painting, poetry, or music. Hence, food history is usually segregated into culinary schools or nutrition departments. Still, despite its shallow toeholds in academia, culinary history enjoys wide popular appeal, permitting amateurs, dilettantes, and popularizers to jump on the chuck wagon without any need to consult an established canon of knowledge.
Hence, anything goes in the culinary history fieldparticularly the telling of undocumented food stories, which become the grist for newspapers, magazines, cookbooks, and even serious works that purport to be well researched. Myths gain reality through repetition, and unfortunately almost all modern food writers are guilty of the repetition at one time or another. However, if the field of culinary history is to thrive, it must promote higher evidentiary standards. Failure to do so will result in culinary history's relegation to the arena of fiction and trivia.
End Notes
i. Adapted from Andrew F. Smith, "False Memories: The Invention of Culinary Fakelore and Food Fallacies," in Harlan Walker, ed., Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery 2000 (Devon, United Kingdom: Prospect Books, 2001).
ii. Andrew F. Smith teaches culinary history at the New School in Manhattan. He has written or edited ten books on food history. He is currently the General Editor for the University of Illinois's Food Series, and the Editor in Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America.
iii. Joseph S. Sickler, The Old Houses of Salem County (Salem, N.J.: Sunbeam Publishing, 1949), 40; Steward H. Holbrook, Lost Men of American History (London: Macmillan, 1946), 131; Salem Sunbeam, February 1, 1949.
iv. Jan Longone, "From the Kitchen," American Magazine 3 (Autumn-Winter 1987-88): 1; Salem Sunbeam, July 22, 1988; July 24, 1988.
v. Andrew F. Smith, "The Making of the Legend of Robert Gibbon Johnson and the Tomato," New Jersey History 108 (Fall-Winter 1990): 59-74; Andrew F. Smith, The Tomato in America: Early History, Culture and Cookery (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994).
vi. The term fakelore was borrowed from Richard M. Dorson, Folklore and Fakelore (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1976), 5.
vii. For more information about the introduction of the tomato into America, see Andrew F. Smith, The Tomato in America (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1994).
viii. Andrew F. Smith, "The History of Home-made Anglo-American Tomato Ketchup," Petits Propos Culinaires 39 (December 1991): 35.
ix. Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Savoring the Past; The French Kitchen and Table from 1300 to 1789 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1983), 42-48.
x. Andrew F. Smith, "The First Thanksgiving," Gastronomica (Fall 2003): 79-85.
xi. Karen Hess, The Carolina Rice Kitchen; The African Connection (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1992), 19-20.
xii. Andrew F. Smith, Peanuts: The Glorious History of the Goober Pea (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002).
xiii. For instance, see [Louis Eustache Audot], La Cuisinière de la Campagne Vingt-cinquieme Édition (Paris: Audot, editeur du bon jardinier, 1841), 215, in which no tomatoes are mentioned in the recipe; M. M. et Fouret et Délan Viart, Le Cuisinier Royal (Paris: Gustave Barba, 1842), 298, which uses tomatoes as an ingredient and mentions the Napoleon story.
xiv. Andrew F. Smith, Popped Culture: A Social History of Popcorn in America (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1999), 3-5.
xv. Andrew F. Smith, Peanuts: The Glorious History of the Goober Pea (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002).
xvi. For a broader discussion of invented traditions, see Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
xvii. Andrew F. Smith, "Tacos, Enchiladas and Refried Beans: The Invention of Mexican-American Cookery," in Mary Wallace Kelsey and ZoeAnn Holmes, eds., Cultural and Historical Aspects of Foods (Corvallis: Oregon State University, 1999), 183-203; Andrew F. Smith, "Tomatoes, Peanuts and Okra: African-American Influence on Early American Cookery," forthcoming.
xviii. George Lang, Lang's Compendium of Culinary Nonsense and Trivia (New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1980), 11.
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Mayor Tim Kent was expected to be released from North Mississippi Medical Center Thursday after being severely injured in a freak accident Tuesday night.
According to Shellie Kent, his wife, the mayor was in his shop at home working on an old Jeep he has been in the process of restoring. While he was using a grinder, an approximately four-inch piece of steel flew back and struck him in the neck. He was wearing protective gear but the metal went below the level of the shield.
His son, Austin, was in the shop with him and immediately put him in a car and took him to the emergency room at Baptist Memorial Hospital. There, they were able to control the severe bleeding some but the doctor there determined he needed to be airlifted to North Mississippi Medical Center immediately for surgery.
Kent was in surgery for about an hour and a half and then placed in ICU overnight. He was moved into a regular room later Wednesday after no complications arose.
Kent's injuries would have been much more severe if the path of the metal had been even an inch different, doctors said, and any concerns about possible nerve or voice box damage have proven unwarranted.
Kent was expected to be off work for at least several days but Mrs. Kent said it looks like his main problem will be with soreness rather than anything worse.
"We have been overwhelmed with the outpouring of sympathy and support from so many people," Mrs. Kent said, referring to the near-continuous phone calls and messages. "It has been amazing."


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Two pirates ships including the ship that Captain Jack sparrow stole in pirates of the carribian have arrived in Newport for a 3 day visit.
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Recently, I heard from a guy who claimed that squirrel tasted just like chicken. Some days, I swear, I get the idea that everything's supposed to taste like chicken. But it brought home the fact that what we eat, as well as what we think, is often more a matter of geography than of anything else. Frankly, I wouldn't care if it tasted like chocolate ice cream, I've never had squirrel on my plate and I aim to keep it that way. As with frogs and snakes, there are some things I regard as food and some things I'd prefer not to think about at all. And that's how I want to keep it.
So it will probably come as no surprise that I am not a champion of diversity even though I am aware that the word, itself, has taken on sacred qualities in certain quarters, along with such words as liberal, progressive and Hillary. Leftists mainly enjoy using the word as a club with which to bash conservatives over the head. Suggest that you believe that America's traditional values and culture trump those of other countries, and you can expect to get whacked.
For a couple of hundred years, foreigners have been flocking to the shores of this most welcoming of nations. They would bring along their art and music along with their cuisine, but they adapted their ways in order that their children and their children's children would acclimate and be full-fledged Americans. There was a reason, after all, that America was nicknamed the Great Melting Pot.
But somewhere along the way, there was a sea change. Now we have that oddest of strange creatures known as the dual citizen and we have millions of people living here who apparently have no particular loyalty to this country and are being encouraged to retain their own language and their old ways. "Press one for Spanish, two for English" has become commonplace. Teenagers who have never even set foot in Mexico, Salvador and Guatemala, demonstrate in our streets while carrying foreign flags, and we're all supposed to respect them or be labeled as bigots and xenophobes.
American citizens who are being taxed to death to support illegal aliens are called racists if they object to footing the bill for health care and education for millions of freeloading ingrates who insist they're only reclaiming land that is rightfully theirs.
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text: Members of Juntos protest ICE holds in Philadelphia earlier this year. (Image: Facebook/Jose Hernandez)VIDEO: Immigrants, undocumented or not, have rights Josh Kruger August 29, 2014 News & People, Uncomfortable Questions, What's Up Now It's well known that immigrants in Philadelphia, whether they are documented or undocumented, have civil rights. Asserting this notion, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed an executive order earlier this year telling the Philadelphia Police Department to stop aiding federal immigration enforcement laws, ending the so-called "ICE holds." ICE, short for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is a federal agency overseeing a myriad of border-related laws, including deportations. When Nutter signed the order earlier this year, CBS3's Cherri Gregg explained that now "Philadelphia police will no longer hold undocumented immigrants for ICE officials unless the individual is being released following a first or second degree felony conviction and federal official obtain a warrant from a judge." Prior to Nutter's executive action, local police could, and did, hold undocumented immigrants for ICE even after summary offenses like traffic violations. Immigrant advocacy organization Juntos and the Philadelphia Family Unity Network are now promoting a PSA-style video educating Spanish-speaking immigrants of all statuses about their rights. "You have the right to not sign any papers without the presence or consent of a lawyer," says the video, "and you have the right to an interpreter. You don't have to open your door to the police or immigration if they don't have a warrant." "All people have rights," Juntos executive director Erika Almirón tells PhillyNow, "no matter what their immigration status." The Mayor deserves credit for his executive order earlier this year ending ICE holds in the Philadelphia Police Department. His commonsense approach to law enforcement in this regard does, however, bring up an uncomfortable question: If the Mayor is able to use an executive order to take a hands-off approach toward laws that aren't his police department's primary responsibility, like federal laws surrounding immigration, why can't take this same type of swift executive action surrounding state laws like prohibitions against marijuana? Part of Nutter's rationale for stopping city enforcement of federal laws was to "rebuild trust" between the police and immigrant communities. As of late, it seems that such bridges might also be built between police and people of color communities as a whole. Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Login with your Social ID Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Comment


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The Andrew Skurka book will be released on Feb 21. I have a pre-release copy and I LOVE it! Lots of energy in the writing and I learned more than I thought I would - So even if you are an old hand at UL it still has plenty for you - especially inspiration! It will be available many places later this month, including the MLD site.I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE you to buy it directly from his site, andrewskurka.com, since he will get the sale and you will get a signed copy- SO surf over there to pre-order.More info on the book at his website.
Already pre-ordered mine and am patently awaiting it's delivery.
From what I've seen of the rough draft version it should be a very good book. I'm definately going to be changing a couple things about the way I backpack in the feature based on his ideas.
Luke, you are reviewing the book for BPL. When can we expect a sneak peak?
Just ordered mine, and a small word of caution...If you are one of those who uses software to populate blank fields (address, etc.) on order forms... note that the state defaults to Colorado. Your software may or may not override that field (mine didn't) -- so review your completed order to make sure.
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Oh you caught me Matthew. Not sure how much I'm supposed to say on such issues. Once BPL gets the document its up to them when they publish it but close to or prior to the official release of the book would be an intelligent guess. All I'll say now is from what I've seen it will be an awesome book. Its a bit different than your average "How to be an Ultralight Hiker" guide so I think it will have its own niche.
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LOL. I was just going to email you about your impressions. I figure his book will be better for newbies than Chris Townsend's latest edition. I'll be adding a short Amazon review for it soon.
Picked one up at the OR Show, and I really like it. Easy to read, good illustrations, and - best of all - common sense about saving weight. Highly recommended.
Wait! Richard, you already have the book?I thought it was not due out until mid Febrary.Best order up my copy.
He was signing 150 copies at OR and I got lucky and got one. Its a good book with a great layout. He was giving away a signed copy on his twitter account recently. Still looks good even after Alaska
This book is wonderful... I'm totally impressed. I'll post a link to the review when it is posted.
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HR Business Breakfast - The Lakes Golf Club
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Andrew O'Keeffe of Hardwired Humans
Andrew O'Keeffe is Director of Hardwired Humans and an associate of AGSM, MGSM and Mt Eliza. He has worked in senior HR roles with IBM, Optus, SKM and Hewitt Associates. Andrew started his career in industrial relations in the mining industry and as a "personnel manager" with James N Kirby at Milperra. He is author of The Boss and Hardwired Humans. In 2008 and 2011 he joined with the chimpanzee expert, Dr Jane Goodall to talk with business audiences about the lessons of social instincts for leadership of organisations.
The Lakes Golf Club, cnr King Street & Vernon Ave
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|People leadership is easier when we understand the nine instincts that drive human behaviour.
Offices and factories are not our natural habitat. With the Industrial Revolution just 250 years ago, in moving from our hunting, gathering and village societies we did not drop the instincts as a social species. We carry with us the suite of behaviours that come with being born human.
In this informative session you will learn how the instincts of clan connections, hierarchy, gossip, politics, snap judgments, status displays and sexual competition continue to drive modern workplace interactions just as they have driven human interaction for millennia.
This breakfast will appeal to HR leaders who want to avoid making predictable people-management mistakes and who want to use a framework that uses natural forces to lift engagement and output. Places will be limited so book early to avoid disappointment.
Cost: $44.00 (inc GST)
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Pebble smartwatch firmware update adds multiple notifications, watchface
The Pebble smartwatch has received a firmware update, introducing more changes to the user interface. Notifications have been updated to allow for multiple items to be viewed, the UI for setting the time has been reworked, and the wearer's current speed in the RunKeeper app can now be viewed from the Pebble display. The minimalist Simplicity watchface has been added as an option instead of the Fuzzy Time watchface, which has now been transitioned to the watchapp library, according to the version 1.11 firmware release notes.
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This 12-minute reading is from The Soul of a Chef, on my first experience with a tasting menu. Though I had special consideration at the meal—I was not a paying customer—it is an honest and emotional description of what remains the most important restaurant meal of my life. I thought it apropos, following my previous post addressing recent criticisms in the media of today's tasting menus. It's not a polished video—I simply set up a tripod in my kitchen before dinner and read—so please forgive my lack of video production skills! [For more information on what led up to my unlikely passage from unknown Cleveland-based writer to dinner at The French Laundry and what was to follow, read The Main Dish, a 35-page memoir of becoming an accidental food writer. It was published as a Read On »
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"I always say this to the young chefs and mean it: The customer is excited, he says you are an artist, but we are not, just craftspeople with a little talent. If the chef is an artist, he doesn't succeed. Why? Because he is inspired today but not tomorrow. We cannot do that." —Andre Soltner (quoted in Forbes, May 2012) Back in in the fall of 2008, nearly five years ago, I moderated a discussion between Tony Bourdain and Marco Pierre White (insofar as those two former chefs can be moderated at all). MPW railed against the multi-course tasting menu, and Bourdain reiterated it, while Grant Achatz, feeling personally attacked, fumed in the audience. As I pointed out in a post addressing the event, The End of the Multi-Course Tasting? (scroll down past Tony's curious remarks), Read On »
Last election, I put up a big "Vote Obama" post in light of what I considered to be eight disastrous years of Bush, unnecessary war, and an economy that was going to take well more than four years to fix. I was at first surprised by some of the angry comments I got. A reader named Art wrote, "You're a consommate [sic] chef. Leave it at that. Keep your friggin' political opinions to yourself," followed two minutes later by Joe: "Because you can cook, you can tell me for whom I'm to cast my vote? I don't think so. Keep it in the kitchen—not the voting booth." My response was more or less, "This site is my fucking yard and I can put up whatever sign I want." And this led to more comments, pro Read On »
Last week's reports calling into question the benefits of fish oil pills pissed me off because they remind me yet again how utterly credulous (i.e., stupid) the general public seems to be about what is good for them and what is bad for them. I suppose it's not their fault given all the confusing messages media spreads through our culture. Just last night ABC Nightly News reported a new staggering health threat for our children. Watch the story here—click "New Major Health Issue." Diane Sawyer intones ominously, "The threat… iiis … salt." Reporter Sharon Alfonsi then goes on to cite the damning evidence: Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, Ragu Tomato Sauce, and Captain Crunch. NOT ONCE DO THEY SAY THE THREAT IS PROCESSED FOOD! NOT ONCE DO THEY SAY PARENTS ARE ADDING TOO MUCH KOSHER SALT TO Read On »
Today I wish a happy Independence Day to all my smart, vigorously commenting, articulate, wonderful readers who make this blog so exciting to write. Many of you come here to read about food and drink, for the occasional recipe, or to enjoy my wife's excellent photography, but I'm guessing from the comments and from which posts are most read, that people come back because I'm an independent thinker and writer about food and cooking. I, with my friend and collaborator, Brian Polcyn, wrote a love song to animal fat and salt in a fat- and salt-phobic country. Earlier this week, I moved to make July Butter Is a Vegetable month (because it is, if you think about it right) even though every doctor in America will warn you away from too much butter (no matter that Read On »


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Whether due to rising prices, concern for the environment or a growing emphasis on health, Americans are eating less meat. According to recent USDA projections, the country will see a sharp drop in meat consumption this year. Americans are expected to eat 12 percent less meat and poultry than they ate five years ago.
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Here's the trick with January: It's the time of year we want to slim down and get healthy, but the cold weather still has us craving comfort foods.
So to help with that balance, we've rounded up a few comfortable recipes to make at home, packed with good-for-the-body vegetables.
The Swiss Chard, Eggplant and Mushroom Lasagna, for example, comes from a new Prevention cookbook, "101 Recipes You Can't Live Without," and calls for three eggplants and 3 and one-half pounds of greens. That's a lot of veggies. ...


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RICHMOND, Ky. (WKYT) - A fire destroyed the home of a Richmond firefighter and his family on Tuesday. It happened on McIntosh Drive in Madison County. Firefighters say someone was working on a car near a garage when it sparked, causing the fire. The firefighter's family tells us the home was destroyed.
It's their first home and he was real proud and happy of it," says Richard Jimenez, the victim's father. "And he spent a lot of money taking care of it and working two or three jobs. And to lose it all in a minute, just like that."
Firefighters say no one was injured in the fire.
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Jan Stetter Wies, Community Press Guest Columnist
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Have you ever heard of or been to the CTRH Horse Show held in August in Milford? CTRH stands for Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship. It is a nonprofit organization whose sole purpose is to provide recreational and therapeutic horsemanship activities for children and adults with disabilities. Riders have disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome, developmental delay and many, many others.
It was my privilege to attend last year's "Richard Thomas Annual Horse Show" on a bright, August Saturday. My friend from high school has been a volunteer at CTRH stables for several years. In that capacity she has assisted children with spine injuries, adults with behavioral anxieties and a multitude of others with various physical and cognitive disabilities. Many of the riders she assists cannot stand or walk independently, yet, on a horse assisted by trained instructors and volunteers these people are given independence and a freedom beyond the restrictions of their wheelchairs and braces.
Last year I attended this horse show not quite knowing what to expect. Would there be ribbons? Would there be races? Would mint juleps be served and ladies wearing flamboyant hats meet me at the gate as in the manner of our own Kentucky Derbies? No such fanfare was presented at this horse show. Instead I saw so much more and I was humbled.
CTRH riders both young and old compete in a series of show classes held at several scheduled intervals. Only CTRH riders participate. The riders show what they've learned in their CTRH Adaptive Recreational Riding classes and circle the track assisted by volunteers who lead the horses and walk on either side of the rider. Spectators are asked for complete silence in order to keep the horses calm and minimize any undue noise or distraction.
If you haven't had the challenge of living with a person with "different abilities" you may never know the challenges and joys faced by the individuals and their families on a daily basis. Going to the Richard Thomas Annual Horse Show gave me that view for a few brief hours and I was amazed. All day as I looked around at all of the people there, I felt a sense of goodness. I felt like I was witnessing the very best that we as people have to share with others. The look of accomplishment, pride, independence and joy in the eyes of the horse riders and their family and friends was gratifying.
I am not associated with the Cincinnati Therapeutic Riding and Horsemanship Association in any manner other than being a guest of a friend who volunteers there. It was my honor to attend the horse show and I would like to invite you to do the same. This year it will be held on Saturday, Aug. 3. The CTRH stables are located at 1342 U.S. 50, Milford/Miami Township. Call 831-7050 for information.
Since the CTRH members come from all over the Tristate area - I invite all to attend. You won't regret it.
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To the editor:Help, my rock has been stolen. But that must have happened when I bought my home and moved to the city of Jonesboro in 1979. If Mayor Day had taken the time to look back at the city council meeting minutes from when I moved to Jonesboro, she would have found I have stood in front of every administration and expressed concerns every time it was necessary. In all cases the previous administration would take time to listen to the citizens and make informed decisions. Now we have gone from no forum to "I will stay and listen as long as any one wants to speak" back to no forum. How I long for the good old days. When I come before the council it is because I have an issue I feel needs to be addressed on behalf of myself or elderly and fixed income citizens who are scared to come before the council for fear of being belittled (as we have seen) or of retaliations. Every time I bring issues before the mayor and council, I have copies of what I have found for their review. Almost all are provided through the open records act. Which on one request the city clerk informed me that "the mayor " had instructed her not to comply with the request, in violation of state law. This was in front of a third party. A letter was then produced on city letterhead that I would not be allowed to review the records. Would you like a copy, mayor? What is being hidden from the citizens of Jonesboro? I meet the same qualifications that your city manager was quoted in the paper as the requirements that Councilman Clifford "Rip" Sewell had for serving as a council member. Even though he had told a city police officer in front of me he had moved to Ola, Ga. prior to voting to set the millage rate and collect taxes in the city. This was confirmed to me by his co-workers at the courthouse and the real estate listing on his old home. And if you come down right now you will find I still own a home in Jonesboro with a wife, two kids, several dogs and all the bills including the taxes. Which may amount to double taxation by having to pay county fire tax in addition to subsidizing the county fire department with city taxes. This is by a badly negotiated contract which cost the citizens of Jonesboro almost $90,000 per year that no other property owner in Clayton County has to pay. I pulled the "Mayor Day's Accomplishments for Jonesboro" flier that was used in her re-election campaign. If you can't find yours or it's too painful to look at, here are a few highlights. "No city taxes, no sanitation fees," "secured $1,000,000 from ARC for downtown project (to begin 2004). Is this the one that almost $500,000 has been spent on for consulting fees and now will only involve the area at the train depot instead of all of Main Street on both sides of the tracks that still has not started? "Fireman on call in station/faster response times." Based on recent comments and actions these appear a little hypocritical to me. If the citizens "rate very high" with you, Mayor Day, why did you ignore the written request of almost 400 registered voters in the city? The 'set" of candidates running for office are the only ones I have seen at the council meetings. And again we are back to the mayor deciding how things will be done and not the elected officials of the city of Jonesboro. I wonder if the attack by the mayor is in response to my desire to serve the city by serving on the DDA. But I have no fear mayor I will never be found hiding under a rock or with my head had in the sand. You will find me at every council meeting watching for the lies and falsehoods and standing at the t the podium to ask why. Jon Crane Jonesboro
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Mickleover starts the weekend early when the village's first official Christmas lights are turned on by two stars of Derby Assembly Rooms' Peter Pan.
The lights will be switched on at 6pm on Thursday with a special appearance by Mike McClean who plays Smee and Dame Able Mabel, alias Jason Sutton.
Derby Hospitals Band, the Singing Saints and the Mickleover Methodist Church singers will be providing musical entertainment and there will be festive food and drink on offer.
Also on Thursday, there will be a Christmas shopping evening at Studio 61 Gallery Boutique, in Holloway, from 5pm to 8 pm.
Buxton's Pavilion Gardens hosts an indoor Christmas farmers market on Thursday with an array of provisions on offer from producers across the High Peak and Derbyshire Dales as well as local crafts for sale.
Matlock town centre is the focus for a whole weekend of Christmas activity starting on Friday when the annual three-day Victorian Christmas market opens with 150 stalls in two marquees selling a wide range of goods.
There will be a Christingle Service in Crown Square at 5.30pm on Friday with Santa, street entertainers and face painting and also, as part of Matlock's Victorian weekend, many of the town's local independent businesses will be staying open until 8pm on Friday.
Milford's Christmas lights will be turned on this Friday, when Santa and the Mayor of Belper, Cllr Mark Robertson, will be accompanied by carol singing from Milford Primary school at 5pm.
Following on from Milford's lights switch on, Derby County Captain Shaun Barker and DCFC mascot Rammie will be switching on Belper's Christmas lights at 5.45pm on Friday with help from Belper's busy Mayor.
The switch on will be accompanied with free entertainment including Punch and Judy, brass bands, a Dickensian market and late night shopping until 8pm.
Shed 2 Studios in Ilkeston is opening its doors for a Christmas shopping weekend on Friday evening and Saturday. The artists and designer/makers at the studios produce a range of contemporary items, including jewellery, art, sculpture, furniture and interior design pieces and will be opening their studios on Friday from 5.30pm to 9pm and on Saturday from 11am until 5pm giving you the chance to buy some unique and beautifully designed gifts for Christmas, with 10% off everything.
The Devonshire Dome in Buxton is the venue for an evening of amateur boxing on Friday hosted by Buxton Amateur Boxing Club and starting at 7.30pm. Tickets are priced at £13 for adults and £8 for children and students, with an option for a VIP ringside table with food for which advance booking is required.
Children have a chance to take breakfast with Santa this weekend, at Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, with Father Christmas making special breakfast time visits to Sudbury Hall's Coach House Restaurant. The museum has a special children's breakfast menu followed by a visit from Father Christmas and a present for all the good boys and girls!
Ashbourne Animal Welfare is holding a Christmas weekend on Saturday and Sunday at the Ark in Wyaston Road. The charity will be launching their 2012 dog and cat Christmas Dinner Appeal with tours of The Ark, which is decorated for Christmas and each cat and dog has a stocking hung up, which they are hoping will be filled.
Turn back the clock with a visit to the 21st Indoor Dickensian Market to be held at the Pavilion Gardens Octagon in Buxton on Saturday where there will be a Dickensian style street market with decorated stalls and stallholders suitably dressed in Dickensian costume and lots of entertainment to enjoy including dancers and brass bands plus music from choirs and musicians.
Strutts North Mill in Belper is holding a Christmas Craft Fair with a host of seasonal stalls including tasty food, children's activities and a Christmas decoration workshop. All happening between 1 and 5pm on Saturday.
From Saturday, children will have the chance to see Santa in a genuine limestone grotto as Father Christmas will be dropping in to Poole's Cavern. There will be opportunities to explore the caverns, illuminated for the festive season, before visiting Santa and receiving a special gift. Tickets cost £5 per person, to include a present from Father Christmas, a visit to Poole's Cavern and a drink in the Cavern Cafe.
Saturday evening will see Father Christmas parade through Matlock town centre, followed by the switch on of the town's Christmas lights by BBC weather presenter Anna Church at 4.45pm.
The Hydro Restaurant will keep Buxton's Dickensian theme running into the evening by hosting "A Twisted Christmas Carol", Dickensian themed murder mystery dinner promising an evening of festivities, murder and mayhem as diners join with the professional cast performing Dickens with a difference.
The Old lock Up Studio in Cromford will hold a one-night only Salon 2 exhibition on Saturday evening, showing the work of thirteen regional and international artists with music by singer/songwriter Marc Block.
Riding Lights Theatre Company presents their new play, Give it Back Mak! on Saturday evening at St Lawrence's Church, in Heanor, from 6.30pm. Incorporating puppetry and wonderful story telling full of desperate deeds, sheep in prams and people that glow in the dark - this is a warm hearted, funny, Christmas story suitable for all the family.
Nationally acclaimed comedian and TV personality Alan Davies is bringing his Life is Pain tour to a sold out Buxton Opera House on Saturday evening with sharp and inventive wit from the QI regular and former Jonathan Creek and Whites star.
The Central Methodist Church in Belper has a Festival of Angels at 10.45 am on Sunday morning. Local primary schools, Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Playgroup and others groups have been involved with creating their own interpretation of a 'Festival of Angels' and the service will include the Toy and Christingle service. Everyone is welcome to attend the service, to enjoy the decorated church and admire the displays.
The sixth annual Carsington Santa run takes place on Sunday morning when dozens of runners, all dressed as Santa, will tackle the five kilometre course in aid of Rainbows Children's Hospice.
Just one Santa will be paying a visit to Heage Windmill on Sunday, where he will arrive by pony and trap, at 12.30 and will be meeting the children in his grotto under the windmill from 1pm until 4pm. There will also be seasonal stalls, mince pie and free mulled wine, tombola, raffle, marble game and the opportunity to create your very own Christmas badge.
Matlock's Victorian weekend will close on Sunday evening with a firework display at 5.15 in the town centre.
Finally, Heanor's Christmas lights switch on takes place at 6pm on Monday when the fun starts at 4pm with a community fair in St Lawrence's Church and a Victorian market at the town hall. Ilkeston Brass Band and Heanor Musical Theatre Company will accompany the Mayor, Cllr Janes as he switches on the town's brand new lights.


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Tavern that is clean and all of the equipment is kept up. Great comfortable sitting area. Dart leagues - Poker nights - Football, 24 hour kitchen. If you have an interest please contact me and request a non-disclosure document. After it is completed and returned I will release the information on this business. Also, please be aware that to close escrow on this business the time frame is 6-9 months as the Buyer must be approved for liquor and gaming. You may look at the city liquor and gaming applications at lasvegasnevada.gov and the state gaming application at http//nv.gov under the business classification.
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This business has a leased location of 4,357 square feet with a total rent of $8,809. The seller is active in business with 8FT employees. Included in asking price are $150,000 in FF&E and $100,000 in leasehold improvements. Hours of operation are 24/7.
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Why? Because you can! And pickle, and jam, or otherwise celebrate the resurgence of the domestic arts our forebears held so dear. Put on your best apron and step into our kitchen, won't you?
A sweet ale mustard made with Dogfish Head Raison D'Etre ale, macerated organic raisins, and brown & yellow mustard seed.
Homemade mustard pays great dividends -- practially effortless, it's a very popular and much appreciated gift. This year's Cranberry Rosemary Mustard recipe has double the fruit and herbs, punching up the color and flavor.
Pair this spicy jelly, with cheese for a memorable party appetizer.
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The local housing market is expected to improve in the coming months after the area saw a decline in the number of houses sold during the month of February, a trend also seen in January.
The Ohio Association of Realtors released its latest figures this past week showing the number of homes sold across Ohio in February fell 4.3 percent from the level posted a year ago for the same month, though the prices of homes rose 4 percent year-over-year.
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OSHA awarded $8 million in Susan Harwood Safety and Health Capacity Building Training grants to 45 organizations.
These organizations – including nonprofit and community/faith-based groups, employer associations, labor unions, colleges and universities – will provide safety and health programs that educate workers and employers in industries with high injury and fatality rates.
The primary focus is on hard to reach and vulnerable populations, such as workers with limited English proficiency and low literacy rates, young workers and small business employers.
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The Kenyan water relief event in Newark Saturday had relay teams carrying 5-gallon jugs of water around the reservoir. Each team traveled together and members could give support and encouragement to the member lugging the jugs.
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San Francisco law said misleading, not scientific
San Francisco's contested cellphone radiation warning law was at least temporarily denied on Thursday over scientific grounds. Judge William Alsup, the same judge overseeing Oracle's lawsuit against Google, said that the claim cellphones triggered cancer was a "debatable question" and that it was a "matter of opinion," not an incontestable fact the city could use to make laws. He added that the tone of the proposed fact sheet, which would post radiation levels, was "misleading" by implying that phones weren't just dangerous but had circumvented the law just by being on sale.
The ruling didn't completely side with the CTIA, the telecom-backed organization that sued to block the law. Judge Alsup believed San Francisco could require a fact sheet but had to phrase it to avoid the alarmist tone. In its arguments, the CTIA believed that just posting radiation levels was wrong and a free speech violation.
Either side can appeal before November 30. City officials have planned to contest the ruling; the CTIA isn't likely to object despite the opening for a radiation sheet.
Conflicting studies have surfaced for much of the past decade as to the possible cancer-inducing effect of cellphones. The WHO drew attention when it left the possibility open in a study, but a countering Danish report found no evidence, even after studying hundreds of thousands of residents for almost two decades. FCC officials so far haven't seen enough signs of trouble to warrant tougher regulation.


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Congressional Republicans have a message for Democrats suddenly expressing angst about the newly implemented health care law: We told you so.
Even before Thursday's House committee hearing, where contractors responsible for HealthCare.gov site were grilled by lawmakers, Republicans were feeling validated by the apparent flaws of Obamacare.
"Each and every day people are finding out that their premiums are going up, that they can't keep the insurance plan they like. It's a disaster," Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said Wednesday. "And that's sort of confirming, I think, some of the key arguments we were making over the past several weeks."
Indeed, Republicans, fresh off a failed campaign to defund and delay the law's implementation, say their worst fears about President Obama's health care law are being realized. This is especially true regarding the individual mandate, which requires uninsured people to enroll in the new health care exchanges or face a penalty. After their initial defund effort failed, Republicans pushed hard for a one-year delay of this provision, predicting that people would be unable to enroll due to technical difficulties that were being whispered about even before Oct. 1.
"The one thing we were really asking for is a delay of the individual mandate "¦ so the American people [would not] be required to sign up on a website for something that they can't even get on the website and sign up for," said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. "So it only made sense to give them a break for a year."
The effort to delay the individual mandate ultimately failed, but Republican fears have proved prescient. Now, with millions of uninsured Americans struggling to navigate a dysfunctional enrollment system, a growing chorus of Democrats is calling for exactly what Republicans asked for weeks ago.
"We have to consider delaying the mandate that is the penalty," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said on MSNBC Thursday.
Blumenthal joins the swelling ranks of congressional Democrats urging Obama to either extend the enrollment period past the March 31 deadline, or delay the penalty for those who do fail to register by that date. The groundswell started on Tuesday with a letter to the White House from Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., which asked Obama "to consider extending open enrollment beyond the current end date of March 31, 2014."
Meanwhile, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., is touting legislation to delay the individual mandate by one year.
These Democratic defections are not lost on Republicans, who took the brunt of public blame for an Obamacare-induced government shutdown.
"We are starting to see Democrats flip as this thing — it's a train wreck. It's not working," Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, chief architect of the GOP's anti-Obamacare effort, told Fox News on Wednesday. "And, in any political fight, when the truth is on your side, you are in a good situation. And here the truth is this thing isn't working."
With the Senate adjourned until next week, the immediate heavy lifting — in terms of oversight and investigation of the health care law's problems — has fallen to the House. And Thursday's hearing was just the beginning. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius will testify in front of the Energy and Commerce Committee next Wednesday, the same day HHS officials are expected to brief House Republicans on the turbulent implementation of Obamacare. Meanwhile, several other committees are preparing to hold health care-related hearings to keep the spotlight on what they have long argued are fatal flaws of the Affordable Care Act.
Republicans insist they take no joy in seeing Americans suffer under the new health care law. But they do take comfort in knowing that voters now realize what they've been fighting against — not just in recent weeks, but since the law was enacted in 2010.
"Now that we're past the date of Oct. 1, Obama and [Senate Majority Leader Harry] Reid, they own this thing," said Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga., who sponsored the original legislation to defund Obamacare. "And all of America knows that it was John Boehner and the House Republicans who did everything they could to protect them from it."


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