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About midway into the latest X-Men flick, Bryan Singer's generous, delightfully convoluted "X-Men: Days of Future Past," there is a prison break so exuberant and uncharacteristic of superhero movies that you sit up a bit in your seat. You feel the audience around you snapping to. Not because Singer's return to the 14-year-old film franchise feels undernourished (it doesn't). Or what comes before seems perfunctory (it's not). But because the sequence — Wolverine, the Pentagon and "Sanford & Son" — is so eccentric you're reminded that a little charm has been in the contract between audiences and superheroes all along:
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Tangy, thick, and lusciously rich, there's a lot to love about Greek yogurt. While we love a bowlful of it for breakfast, one of Greek yogurt's many great qualities is its versatility. Throw it into a bundt cake batter to make it extra moist, marinate chicken in it, add it to mashed potatoes to make them ridiculously creamy, or just whip up a quick dip with garlic and lemon. Here are a few (no wait, a whoppin' 41!) of our favorite recipes using the stuff.
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The 2012-13 St. John's women's basketball team made its fourth-straight trip to the NCAA Tournament after finishing tied for third in the Big East.
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I told Judy she needed to have her head examined.
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Richards Bay has a hospital and we went there but they seemed too busy and seeing a neurologist was going to take weeks they said. Even ER couldn't attend to her.
So we drove to Durban. George and Ellen came with us.
The hospital there was first class and it turned out that her hearing loss had nothing to do with the blow to the head; it was an infection treatable with drops and pills. Good.
We had some time so we went downtown, saw a park and some nice buildings, shopped for boat parts and charts, checked out the marina, had lunch at the beach. And we stayed overnight at a nice Bed & Breakfast in an old colonial mansion on the hill.
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As has been the standard operating procedure recently, Hampton Coliseum made the announcement on its Facebook page: The great Bootsy Collins will headline the 2013 Hampton Funk Fest.
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Here it is: The first straight Electro Swing – compilation from Austria, selected by two of Vienna´s finest Electro Swing DJs Cab Canavaral and Tony Maroni, known for their Live-DJ-project: The Swing Towers. Tony, a shown expert for great mixing techniques and superfast mash-up gigs and Cab, is not only decorated for his sax-hits-the-dancefloor-gigs, but is also part of Austria´s No.1 authentic swing band "5 in love" and label boss of Billybong records. Together, the two ElectroSwing-enthusiastics also managed to collect Electro Swing tunes from all over the world.
Surprisingly most of the songs on "Swing It!" are based on clear and proper House and Techno Beats. Compared with other compilations like Bart and Baker´s Electro Swing I-V or the consistent vocals-based on the Electro Swing Revolution-series the selection is quite a straight mingle-mangle of known and soon-to-be-famous Swing House representatives and based on around 125 bpm-producing artists. Only at the beginning will you find marked SwingHop such as Dunkelbunt´s "Augen zu und durch", one of the first SwingHop tracks in German, the NeoSwing version of Bart & Baker´s magnificent "Big Band" or bassy-swinging tunes by the highly skilled Jenova Collective from the UK. The rest of the 26 songs which makes up the sampler are almost exclusively an entire 4-to-the-floor-bash.
For Cab Canavaral this was not necessarily a conscious step: "It was not planned to have so many housy tracks on the compilation, but it definitely reflects the sound of our "Swing It!"-Events in Vienna."
Nevertheless the choise is very diverse. Some of the contributions are characterised by vocals in classic verse-refrains structures, some of them are instrumental, while other artists experimented with dub-based or bassy elements. The selection is very consistent and seems well-grounded, but was mainly the artist´s choice, according to Cab: "Many of the producers, with whom we stood in close contact with, decided themselves, what tracks they wanted to make available. We were surprised that almost every artist we requested for a track agreed to be a part of the project."
Next to hits of best known genre-giants like Jamie Berry, Skeewiff or Bart & Baker, you will discover many undiscovered gems in the Electro Swing community like the highly active Andrea Fissore with his impelling "My summer vacation". Noteworthy are the contributions of donJohnston, Natanael Megersa or Incontrol, in addition to the many other high-quality productions.
Fortunately and thanks to the mastering skills of Yossi and Ron, both part of the Israelian project "Segment", which also appears on the album, most of the productions on the compilation are flawless and on a high technical level.
There will most definitely be a second edition next year, hopefully with even more artists from the flourishing Austrian Electro Swing Community.
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Can massage help to relieve pain from cancer?
Wayne Mylin, Dipl. ABT (NCCAOM), AOBTA-CP is an Asian Bodywork Therapist specializing in Shiatsu and Acupressure at Pennsylvania Hospital , responds:
Many types of massage and bodywork (shiatsu, acupressure, etc.) can be very helpful for pain from cancer. Depending on the cause of the pain, an experienced and well trained practitioner may be able to address the cause - but more often, the practitioner can treat the cumulative effects of chronic/acute pain, such as muscle tension, stress, shallow and rapid breathing, etc.
In short, pain creates tension, tension increases the pain.
Reducing tension and relaxing the body/mind/spirit helps to break that cycle of pain and tension. This can be very helpful in managing the pain.
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Solon, (born c. 630 bce—died c. 560 bce), Athenian statesman, known as one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece (the others were Chilon of Sparta, Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Cleobulus of Lindos, Pittacus of Mytilene, and Periander of Corinth). Solon ended exclusive aristocratic control of the government, substituted a system of control by the wealthy, and introduced a new and more humane law code. He was also a noted poet.
Solon's era
In Solon's lifetime, the Greeks had not yet begun to write history or biography. It was not until the 5th century that accounts of his life and works began to be put together, on the evidence of his poems (of which the 300 or so lines preserved by quotation probably represent only a small proportion), his law code, oral tradition, and inference from existing institutions. Although certain details have a legendary ring, the main features of the story seem to be reliable.
Solon was of noble descent but moderate means. As the tradition states and his travels and economic measures suggest, he may have been a merchant. He first became prominent about 600 bce, when the Athenians were disheartened by ill success in a war with their neighbours of Megara for possession of the island of Salamis. By publicly reciting a poem that made the issue a matter of national honour and that called on the Athenians to "arise and come to Salamis, to win that fair island and undo our shame," Solon induced them to resume the war, which they eventually won.
The early 6th century was a troubled time for the Athenians in other ways as well. Society was dominated by an aristocracy of birth, the eupatridae, who owned the best land, monopolized the government, and were themselves split into rival factions. The poorer farmers were easily driven into debt by them and when unable to pay were reduced to the condition of serfs on their own land and, in extreme cases, sold into slavery. The intermediate classes of middling farmers, craftsmen, and merchants resented their exclusion from the government. These social, economic, and political evils might well have culminated in a revolution and subsequent tyranny (dictatorship), as they had in other Greek states, had it not been for Solon, to whom Athenians of all classes turned in the hope of a generally satisfactory solution of their problems. Because he believed in moderation and in an ordered society in which each class had its proper place and function, his solution was not revolution but reform.
Economic reforms
Solon had already held office as archon (annual chief ruler) about 594 bce. It was probably about 20 years later that he was given full powers as reformer and legislator. His first concern was to relieve the immediate distress caused by debt. He redeemed all the forfeited land and freed all the enslaved citizens, probably by fiat. This measure, known popularly as the "shaking off of burdens," was described by Solon in one of his poems:
These things the black earth…could best witness for the judgment of posterity; from whose surface I plucked up the marking-stones [probably signs of the farmers' indebtedness] planted all about, so that she who was enslaved is now free. And I brought back to Athens…many who had been sold, justly or unjustly, or who had fled under the constraint of debt, wandering far afield and no longer speaking the Attic tongue; and I freed those who suffered shameful slavery here and trembled at their masters' whims.
He also prohibited for the future all loans secured on the borrower's person. But he refused to go to the length demanded by the poor, which was to redistribute the land. Instead, he passed measures designed to increase the general prosperity and to provide alternative occupations for those unable to live by farming: e.g., trades and professions were encouraged; the export of produce other than olive oil was forbidden (so much grain had been exported that not enough remained to feed the population of Attica); the circulation of coined money (invented in Solon's lifetime) was stimulated by the minting of a native Athenian coinage on a more-suitable standard than that of the coins of neighbours, which had been used hitherto; and new weights and measures were introduced. The rapid spread of the new coinage and of Athenian products, particularly olive oil and pottery, throughout the commercial world of the times, attested by archaeology, shows that these measures were effective. Poverty, though not eliminated, was never again in Attica the crying evil that it had been before Solon's reforms.
Political reforms
Solon's new political constitution abolished the monopoly of the eupatridae and substituted for it government by the wealthy citizens. He instituted a census of annual income, reckoned primarily in measures of grain, oil, and wine, the principal products of the soil, and divided the citizens into four income groups, accordingly. (Those whose income was in other forms, including money, must have been rated on a system of equivalents.) Henceforth, political privilege was allotted on the basis of these divisions, without regard to birth. All citizens were entitled to attend the general Assembly (Ecclesia), which became, at least potentially, the sovereign body, entitled to pass laws and decrees, elect officials, and hear appeals from the most important decisions of the courts. All but those in the poorest group might serve, a year at a time, on a new Council of Four Hundred, which was to prepare business for the Assembly. The higher governmental posts were reserved for citizens of the top two income groups. Thus, the foundations of the future democracy were laid. But a strong conservative element remained in the ancient Council of the Hill of Ares (Areopagus), and the people themselves for a long time preferred to entrust the most important positions to members of the old aristocratic families.
Code of laws
Solon's third great contribution to the future good of Athens was his new code of laws. The first written code at Athens, that of Draco (c. 621 bce), was still in force. Draco's laws were shockingly severe (hence the term draconian)—so severe that they were said to have been written not in ink but in blood. On the civil side they permitted enslavement for debt, and death seems to have been the penalty for almost all criminal offenses. Solon revised every statute except that on homicide and made Athenian law altogether more humane. His code, though supplemented and modified, remained the foundation of Athenian statute law until the end of the 5th century, and parts of it were embodied in the new codification made at that time.
Response to Solon's reforms
When Solon had completed his task, complaints came in from all sides. In attempting to satisfy all, he had satisfied none. The nobles had hoped that he would make only marginal changes; the poor, that he would distribute all the land in equal shares and, if necessary, make himself tyrant in order to enforce the redistribution. But Solon, although concerned for freedom, justice, and humanity, was no egalitarian, nor had he any ambition for autocratic power. Though discontented, the Athenians stood by their promise to accept Solon's dispositions; they were given validity for 100 years and posted for all to see on revolving wooden tablets. To avoid having to defend and explain them further, Solon set off on a series of travels, undertaking not to return for 10 years.
Later years
Among the places Solon visited were Egypt and Cyprus. Those visits are attested by his poems. Less credible (because of chronological difficulties) is the famous encounter with the fabulously rich Croesus, king of Lydia, who, so the story goes, learned from Solon that wealth and power are not guarantors of happiness and that, while they lived, fate could reverse the fortunes of all.
When Solon returned to Athens, he found the citizens divided into regional factions headed by prominent nobles. Of these, his friend Peisistratus, general in the final war for Salamis and leader of northeastern Attica, seemed to Solon to be planning to become tyrant. The old statesman's urgent warnings were disregarded, even dismissed as the ravings of a madman. His reply was that "A little time will show the citizens my madness, / Yes, will show, when truth comes in our midst." It was not long before he was proved right: Peisistratus did become tyrant (560 bce). Although on this occasion he was soon ejected, it seems that Solon did not live to see it.
Solon embodied the cardinal Greek virtue of moderation. He put an end to the worst evils of poverty in Attica and provided his fellow countrymen with a balanced constitution and a humane code of laws. Solon was also Athens's first poet—and a poet who truly belonged to Athens. As the medium through which he warned, challenged, counseled the people, and urged them to action, his poetry was the instrument of his statesmanship.
It was probably before the end of the 5th century that the Greeks first drew up a list of the Seven Wise Men who had been prominent intellectually and politically in the 6th century. The earliest list, accepted by the Greek philosopher Plato, did not satisfy later writers, who expanded it to 10 and even 17 to accommodate rival claimants. Every version, however, contained four names that were not challenged. One of them was that of Solon of Athens, a testimony to the abiding respect in which his memory was held.Theodore John Cadoux The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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land reform: Ancient reformsWhen Solon was elected archon, or chief magistrate,
c.594 bce, his main objective was to free the land and destroy the horoi.His reform law, known as the seisachtheia,or "shaking-off the burdens," cancelled all debts, freed the hektēmoroi,destroyed the horoi,and restored land…
comparative law: Ancient roots of law…to legend, the Greek lawgiver Solon, faced with the task of compiling the laws of Athens, gathered together the laws of various city-states. Similarly, in the 5th century
bce, a Roman commission was reported to have consulted the statutes of the Greek communities in Sicily before giving Rome the famous…
Peisistratus: Rise to power…Peisistratus's mother's relative, the reformer Solon, had improved the economic position of the Athenian lower classes, but the Solonian reorganization of the constitution had not eliminated bitter aristocratic contentions for control of the archonship, the chief executive post. As Peisistratus reached manhood, the two major vying factions were called the…
DemocracyDemocracy, literally, rule by the people. The term is derived from the Greek dēmokratiā, which was coined from dēmos ("people") and kratos ("rule") in the middle of the 5th century bce to denote the political systems then existing in some Greek city-states, notably Athens. The etymological origins…
Economic systemEconomic system, any of the ways in which humankind has arranged for its material provisioning. One would think that there would be a great variety of such systems, corresponding to the many cultural arrangements that have characterized human society. Surprisingly, that is not the case. Although a…
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Mavis Batey is, I am sure, a name that will be familiar to many of you, especially those who love, as I do, her 1996 book, Jane Austen and the English Landscape. Her death, at the age of 92 was sadly announced last week.
This book truly was revelatory and, for me, it opened up another aspect of Jane Austen's world to discover in detail : the landscape, and, in particular, that very 18th century aristocratic pursuit of changing it. Or improving it, as the practice was known. Mavis Batey's beautifully written and illustrated book gives detailed explanations of how Jane Austen studied the appearance of natural and man-made landscape, and, importantly, how to critically view both. Austen's knowledge of the subject is shown to have been a vital part of her compositions, especially in Mansfield Park. The book demonstrated exactly how Jane Austen's critical attitude to landscape played an important part in her personal reading habits, and how her attitude toward "improvements" and "improvers" differed from that of the richer sections of her family. One of my favourite books about Jane Austen, it lives on my bedroom library shelves.
Mavis Batey's knowledge of this subject was such that she acted as an advisor on gardens and landscape to the BBC for their popular 1995 production of Pride and Prejudice.
The study of the historical landscape was an important part of Mavis Batey's life and living with her husband in Capability Brown's park at Nuneham Courtney, after the war, was the spur. She played a vital part in the park's restoration. She was a prominent and very valued member of the Garden History Society for many years. She became Honorary Secretary of the Society in 1971, a post she held until 1985 when she was elected President. She was President for 15 years, and, during her time with the Society, led its campaign on the plight of urban parks. She worked with the Historic Buildings Council to instigate the formal recording of historic gardens which, eventually, led to the publication of English Heritage's Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England in 1983. Her achievements in this field were recognised by The Royal Horticultural Society which awarded her the prestigious Veitch Memorial Medal in 1985, and in 1987 she was appointed MBE for services to the preservation and conservation of historic gardens.
Mavis Batey also shared her love for the subject through by her many publications. Other than her Jane Austen book, my favourites include The Regency Garden published by Shire and especially, The English Garden Tour, which she co-authored with David Lambert.
These achievements would seem enough for one lifetime. But in 1998 it emerged that Mavis Batey had, during the Second World War, been part of the vital war work at Bletchley Park, as a codebraker. She had been recruited to serve in the Government Code and Cypher School at the outbreak of the war in 1939 and in 1940 began to work at Bletchley. At Bletchley teams studied and devised methods to enable the Allied forces to decipher the military codes and ciphers that secured German, Japanese, and other Axis nation's communications. Her work there included working on Dilwyn Knox's team deciphering messages sent by the Italian Naval Enigma machine. In 1941 she managed to decode a message which read " Today's the day minus three" and after much hard work she decoded an exceptionally long message which detailed the Italian plan to intercept a British naval convoy en route from Egypt to Greece. The British success under the command of Admiral Collingwood in the resulting Battle of Matapan ensured that the Italians never sailed close to the Royal Navy again until their surrender in 1943.
It was at Bletchley that she met and married her husband, Keith, also a mathematician and fellow codebreaker.
They married in 1942 after having worked together deciphering codes. Keith Batey died in 2010, and together they had a son and two daughters.
Their work at Bletchley remained a secret until 1974 when wartime information was declassified. In the intervening years we have become, almost daily, astonished at the stories that have emerged of the work undertaken here, especially regarding the Enigma machines, and of the advances in computing that resulting from it. In 1999 Mavis Batey appeared in the Channel 4 television series, Station X , describing her work there. In 2010 she eventually wrote a book on her code master, Dilwyn Knox, Dilly: The Man Who Broke Enigmas:
Here is a link to a fascinating video of Mavis Batey talking about her book, which I'm sure you will enjoy. Her intelligence and humour, not to mention her modesty, are apparent.
Her love of landscape became united with her work at Bletchley when she created a garden trail there to commemorate the Anglo-American special relationship in intelligence sharing during World War II, which started at Bletchley Park during the war and which still continues today. This was opened in August 2004 by Minister David T. Johnson of the American Embassy. The American Garden Trail starts at the giant sequoia tree which can be seen directly in front of the mansion, and which was planted in the Victorian era. The tree is better known, perhaps, as the Californian Redwood and is, of course, one of the state emblems of California. During the war the tree played an important part at Bletchley: an aerial was placed at the top of the tree so that it could transmit radio signals for Station X. The Trail then continues through the grounds of Bletchley featuring many other horticultural emblems of the American states, including a cactus which is one of the state emblems for Arizona and a lilac tree representing New Hampshire.
Mavis Batey died on the 12th November, aged 92. What an amazing life: well lived, in a gracious, modest and intelligent way, and most importantly, with humour, as evidenced by her reaction, below, to being recruited to join the code breakers:
So I thought, great. This is going to be an interesting job, Mata Hari, seducing Prussian officers. But I don't think either my legs or my German were good enough because they sent me to the Government Code & Cipher School.
I can only imagine that Jane Austen would have approved of her, her writings, wartime work and attitude.


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User talk:Thai420/Archive
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- 1 2006
- 2 2007
- 2.1 Vandalism
- 2.2 Administrators
- 2.3 Wiki Collaboration
- 2.4 New Logo
- 2.5 Excuse me
- 2.6 Vandal
- 2.7 Library
- 2.8 Block log
- 2.9 Help fin.
- 2.10 Chip2007
- 2.11 Chip2007
- 2.12 Chip2007
- 2.13 Vandalism Report
- 2.14 Vandalism Report
- 2.15 new caretaker
- 2.16 Information for you
- 2.17 Stubs...
- 2.18 Missions
- 2.19 login register problems
Cheers. Hopefully I can carry on writing more pages. Anyone else active on here? --A-DustTalk to me! 01:53, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
Vandalism Report
There has been vandalism and made up articles on the site case in point:
On the Infernus Page, I LOVE GUYS HA HA HA IM STILL TRYING TO LOOK FOR THAT PEICE OF SHIT, BUT NO LUCK
And i think we should edit the Phil page for accuracy instead of someones fanboyism of Phil Cassidy.
im going to edit off but just to give you warnings on this and ill be looking for more tonight.
-Mynock 9:26 10/2/06
Not sure when you will read this, but as the admin of the Wikia I'll list some pages that need deleting:
- Japan
- Leave message
- Expansion pack
- Contributions
- Chip1990
- Martin
- Admin
- Thai420
- Chief of Staff
Also, Chief of Staff made a good suggestion, that being registration before being able to edit or merely restricting those who can edit to a select few users. A-Dust 22:03, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
- Those vandalized articles A-Dust mentioned above... I categorized them as candidate for deletion. Now another user with IP, though different from that of vandal but I don't know if this is same guy or not... *shrugs*, came and undone those action I took. I had to revert them. Now this user undone it again. I already left him/her a message asking him to refrain from blanking them out.... :/ --Legion 13:58, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
- It appears the same guy strikes again, with similar M.O., but this guy is using different IP every time... I now doubts the IP blocking will do any good... what now? This guy is already frustrating me. Prior to becoming administrator along with A-Dust, this guy already had made appearance under at least two different IPs and so I decided to wait and see if this repeats.
- Turns out I was correct in predicting this. Now this guy is using third different IP.... which pretty much renders IP blocking useless and futile. I don't know whether this involves proxy things or whatever... I'm not very technical person so one of you or someone else might know what's involved there... This guy is already exhausting my patience. I don't know what to do now... I'm getting frustrated and annoyed at this pesky vandal... and I'm only relatively inexperienced at being administrator and am still learning everything about administrator, especially reading from MediaWiki website... I'm out of ideas on how to deal with this annoying (probably) troll. :/
- Hello, just to keep you informed/updated, I have blocked the latest IP under which this guy came under today for one week. It's best I can do but I'm afraid this may not be effective.... since this guy came under quite several different IPs, it's unlikely to prevent this guy from returning and vandalizing. But, again, I am relatively inexperienced at this so I'll have keep watching and see if this guy returns. :/ --Legion 12:11, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
- I also want to add that, just in case you want to know, we already gave him a warning at least two times or so and that this guy continues to vandalizes. I also strongly believes that this is the same guy vandalizing, even under different IPs, since this guy had similar M.O. under different IPs in that he/she identifies himself/herself as Chip1990. Anyway, I will keep eyes out and see if this guy returns or not. Thanks. --Legion 14:23, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
Cheers. Hopefully this will split the workload and allow for the speedy deletion of pointless pages, which have been created recently. Also, I can understand you being busy. Am in the first year of my degree, so that and work make mean theres not always a lot of time. Cheers once again. A-Dust 20:43, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
Wiki Collaboration
Hi - I'm Xenon from Grand Theft Wiki. Chief of Staff and A-Dust have been Discussing the possibility of a collaboration between GTAWiki (this site) and GTW (my site). Of course the decision is between us two, so I thought we could talk about it. Suggestions have ranged from us having a simple agreement to share images and content to actually merging the two wikis. Feel free to join in the various discussions around GTW, or talk to CoS and A-D, or email me (anything at ttpn.net will get to me). Thanks - Gboyers 21:11, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- You might want to use "E-mail this user" feature, since it was only then when vandalism became worse enough at some point that I had to email him about it and that was when he finally responded. I suspect he doesn't have the email notification about any changes on his user talk page enabled or something. I don't know. He said he was busy so that could be it. *shrugs* --Legion 21:21, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
New Logo
hi, I've taken the liberty of creating a new logo for you and I've uploaded it for you, Hopefully you'll like it enough that you'll use it as the site wikilogo, but if not then never mind. -- Olipro 16:33, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Excuse me
Hello, i would like to use the Photo GtaUsaMap.jpg Photo over at Grand Theft Wiki, but with this sites permission first. Idaho 02:14, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Thanks, i just don't want to cause any trouble. Idaho 04:38, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
Chip2007 has created strange pages like Firetruck@Wikipedia. I have marked it with Template:Delete. And now he goes on my userpage writing that i will get banned if i make duplicate pages, which i haven't done. your's sincerily, Your R.E. Admin F
Hi. Is there any page where i can place these? <youtube "width=100" "height=100" >XzjvhK3XbCU</youtube> <youtube "width=100" "height=100" >bd25uhsfWgI</youtube> <youtube "width=100" "height=100" >JLgbfEi1Bn8</youtube> <youtube "width=100" "height=100" >tGfki-VrW-w</youtube> The ending for all 3rd Eras c'ept VCS
Block log
User:184.108.40.206 has continiusly vandelised the GTA:SA page with Sexual-related writing (please spare the irony of the game having sexual content in it) It seems he hasn't been blocked for these offences. [F]
Help fin.
i need someone to help finish WCTR Transcript. Bein kicked off computer so i eed you to fix it up. also this site has been alowed to use this by "Copyright".
hi i have sorted things out with User: forerunner he understands about the trash and this user in calaboration with me created a new page
yes i think calaboration with grand theft wiki is a good idea
we could adopt this page but it means increasing the workload for the Admins my idea is to adopt this from today and sell the site to wikipedia
Vandalism Report
the jack thompson page has been vandalized i traced the user IP to this address :188.8.131.52 the damege has been corrected i will keep an eye on this troll
Vandalism Report
the gurning chimps page has been vandalized i deduse this is the same charecter using a differet IP I recommend banning this troll for two weeks i shall clear up this mess
new caretaker
since i have finished my break I have been busy editing adding wanted pages clearing up vandalism and besides tho odd troll i really think im helping to build something great i wondered can i take the title of caretaker thanks
Information for you
Hi, I am Anaba 'Eesoree (preferably called Gerzam). My normal Wiki site is Halopedia, where I once was a large contributor to vandal fighting (I was one of the leaders of an anti vandal user group when it was around). Since then they have enough administrators that I don't even get a chance to revert (which is good, since before edit wars lasted for hours). I have been reading on this wikia since I got San Andreas and wanted to learn more about it. I noticed some vandals have been hitting some of the articles (as usual) and I have reverted it. If you want help with vandals, I am the guy. I just wanted to inform you I am around and can help out if needed (I chack the site every day, unless something prevents me too) as I am familiar with codes and protocols. I thank you for reading this message.--Kane 23:23, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
Hello Thai420, I am ClaudeSpeed9425, administrator of the Grand Theft Encyclopedia in Spanish. I have seen that there are thousands of pages sketches, which have single category. He marked with some Template: delete. Should not these items be removed? If you need my help say it. Greetings. ClaudeSpeed9425. Postscript: I am Spanish, so I do not speak very good English.
Hi, i'm Playsonic2 from Grand Theft Encyclopedia in Spanish. I'm normal user. I see the articles of missions are not so complete, and I can help with this, I make a lot of articles of missions on Grand Theft Encyclopedia, so I can help with this. --Playsonic2 22:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
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Owner: John Gibb
Launched: 2005
Traffic/mth: Currently at 60,000 visits a month
Revenue/mth (roughly): Up to $3000 a month
Target Market: I target the health niche and specifically those seeking natural health supplements.
Theme/Topic: Alternative Nutritional Supplements
Top 3 Marketing Strategies: These are currently web 2.0 marketing, SEO marketing and power-linking websites that point links to my website.
1. Can you give us some background on yourself? Tell us a bit about your career experience before you first got started online.
My name is John Gibb and I'm 27 years old. I've been involved in creating websites and online marketing since 2003. Before I started learning how to make money online, I worked in IT support taking care of problems and calls from various customers.
I realized at a very young age that working a job and working for someone else was never going to be the path I would take in life. After taking enough orders from my previous boss, I left the rat race and vowed to pursue self employment no matter what.
I never went back to a job again.
My first business was working as a trader selling electrical goods at various markets across the United Kingdom. I also branched this off and started selling on eBay too. This particular business became much like a full-time job and I gradually weaned away from doing this while I learned more and more about making money over the Internet through websites.
2. How long has your site been on the Web?
The website being profiled has been on the Internet since 2005. However, I left it for a few years as I was currently applying my system for creating an income to multiple mini-sites. Around 2007, I started building the website up, added a newsletter and added unique articles building the website out bit by bit.
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No, I have had hundreds of websites in the past, one of which I even sold on the AssociatePrograms.com forum. That particular website was aimed at the computer and printer industry and the main method of monetization was the Google AdSense program.
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I got the idea for the nutritional supplement website from a fellow online marketer who was interviewed and profiled in the same ebook I was in back in 2005. This was called "Niche Site Confessions" and was featured on AssociatePrograms.com too.
The person I learned from was working the health niche and was driving an incredible amount of sales as an affiliate for a natural health company that pay for the lifetime of each customer.
I began my ongoing education learning everything I could over email from the man who would go on to become my online mentor.
5. How did you go about developing the website? Who set it up for you?
I developed this website myself including the content. The only aspect I outsourced was the theme for the website. I used a special template to save me the headache of coding the entire website.
6. What is your target market?
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7. Why did you make the choice to run your business on the web?
I wanted to work from the Internet for two main reasons:
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Some high ticket health products I promote can generate me as much as $280 in commission payment per sale of that particular health product. So if I get a few of these in a day too, I've done extremely well.
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My favorite marketing strategies are using my own personal system which I have developed over the last few years. The system consists of creating mini-sites, targeting high converting health products, growing out web authority and snow-balling traffic from a variety of external platforms.
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10. What kind of traffic are you seeing to the site (visitors a month)?
Currently the traffic is topping off at around 1800 to 2000 visits a day.
11. Where are people finding you?
I am seeing traffic from various web 2.0 platforms, the top article directories, and from many different pages listed in the top search engines.
12. Do you use SEO to build traffic?
My whole system is based on SEO. The game is constantly changing and you have to be prepared to change what you are doing and embrace adaption over time. It's an ongoing challenge but if you rise to it, the rewards are ongoing.
13. Do you use pay-per-click advertising?
I prefer SEO methods to PPC because you don't have to analyze everything in so much detail. If you get a day wrong in PPC, it can cost you a fortune.
Not to put down PPC by any means, it's a great way to drive targeted traffic fast – and people make fortunes doing so. However, I just prefer knowing that my visitors are coming to me for free once I have put in the investment of time.
14. Have you built a mailing list? How big is your list?
Yes, I have several newsletter lists in the health niche. They all vary but most of them are above 1000 subscribers currently. The subscriber list for the website being profiled is around 5000 subscribers at the moment.
However, the daily sign-up rate ranges from 10 to 50 per day. I predict that it will grow to double the size, maybe even treble within the next year.
I entice people to sign up for the newsletters by offering a free health ebook, then I do a series of emails talking about natural health and some of the health products I use and why.
15. What kinds of challenges exist for people in your market?
That's a good question and there are lots of challenges for people in this niche. Every day I get emails asking about my opinions on certain health matters, or if I like this product and if I have used a particular product. You need to know your topic theme, and understand the niche you work in if you run a newsletter.
You don't have to reply to every email, but if you to reply to as many as you can, you gain more credibility and people will trust your recommendations more.
16. Would you say there are any mistakes you've made along the way?
Yeah – every day I make mistakes but every day is another chance for me to be the best I can be. Life is all about mistakes but you learn from them, improvise and adapt. If you can apply this to affiliate marketing, you will get ongoing results.
17. Could you tell us 3 tips that you wished you had known or learned when you first started your site?
I wish had of known the power of residual income and promoting health programs that pay for the lifetime of the customer.
I also wish that that I focused on making affiliate sales in the early days rather than going for Google AdSense revenue. I would be making quadruple the sales I am now if I had started doing things the way I am now, back then.
My final wish is that I should have been outsourcing my articles much earlier as soon as I was in profit. That way I would have grown more and more mini-sites and more and more websites of authority that much faster.
18. Could you tell us about 3 things that have made the most difference to the success of your site or improve the cashflow?
Sure, the first one is adding more unique articles that pre-sell health products overtime. The second is power-linking the links that point to the website. I have seen impressive traffic jumps every time I have done this.
And finally, varying where I get links from. Recently there was a major change at Google, however my website came out on top. I believe it was because the website has a wide variety of incoming links, coupled with many pages of unique content.
In the end, I am trying to help people to improve their health by giving useful information.
When you write an article, think about what someone is looking for when they type in that keyword, write about it and give them the information they seek. If you do this, over time the search engines will reward you for it.
I'm not saying any website I create is safe from algorithm changes. The truth is any website can take a hit. However, I believe if you diversify what you are doing on each mini-site, you will stand the test of time.
Recently, the famous EzineArticles.com took a major traffic hit, so no website is bulletproof. That doesn't mean EzineArticles.com lost its authority and using that site is no good any more, far from it.
In fact, now would be a good time to use such a platform as most people quit, thinking that article marketing is dead. Changes like this level the playing field.
By the time you have more customers built up under you for various different health companies you won't be worrying about these algorithm changes any more.
19. If you had a complete newbie sitting down in front of you right now, what advice would you give them as they're just getting started on the Web?
Unsubscribe from all the newsletters you're on trying to work all of this affiliate marketing out. Many of them will just try to sell you product after a product filling you with far too much over-promise and then constantly under-delivering.
Subscribe to a quality newsletter like AssociatePrograms.com that is reputable and contains practical information you can use to grow your online business.
Focus on one working method until you make that work for you. Rinse and repeat that method until you're at the level you want to be, and then diversify your income by applying what you know on various companies and products.
20. How would you say running your site has affected the way you live your life now?
I don't answer to anyone any more and that is the greatest achievement for me. I love the feeling of being my own boss and making money while helping people at the same time.
The only person I answer to is myself and that's the way I like it. Of course my old man still tries to tell me what to do, but that will go on for the rest of my life no matter how successful I become ☺
To Your Success
John Gibb[UPDATE: John is now providing elite private affiliate training. He does a surprising amount of the work for you – even creating a new mini website for you. I recommend you check it out. The money-back guarantee is one the strongest I've ever seen.]


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Taecyeon of 2PM Shows Off 'Spartan Abs' for Men's Health – Hunk of the Day
If 2PM is the N*Sync of Thailand, then Taecyeon is Justin Timberlake. Recently, this heartthrob of the Korean boy band world posed shirtless for the cover of Men's Health Korea, along with an accompanying video.
It's Taecyeon's so-called "Spartan abs" that helped give 2PM the nickname "beast idol," presumably referring to their beast-like demeanor when hitting the gym.
We don't remember Timberlake and JC looking like this guy back in the day. Maybe they would have if they'd just lifted a few weights. (Those bums.)


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A federal appeals court not only ruled that Belmont Abbey College�s lawsuit against the government could proceed, but decided that they will be keeping tabs to make sure the government follows through with its promises.
A federal appeals court not only ruled that Belmont Abbey College�s lawsuit against the government could proceed, but decided that they will be keeping tabs to make sure the government follows through with its promises.
The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty filed a lawsuit against the federal government on behalf of Belmont Abbey College last November, stating that requiring the college to cover contraception in its health insurance plan violated the Catholic college�s religious beliefs.
The Affordable Care Act, also called Obamacare, required most health insurance plans to cover preventative services for women, including contraception, without charging a co-pay or deductible. Nonprofit religious employers that offer insurance to their employees were exempt if they met certain conditions. According to the religious employer definition, an organization must have the indoctrination of religious values as its purpose, primarily employ people who share its religious tenets, primarily serve people who share its religious tenets and be a nonprofit organization to qualify. Under that definition, the college wouldn�t qualify for an exemption.
Tuesday�s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals was a reversal from a lower court decision over the summer. The Washington, D.C., District Court ruled that it was too soon for Belmont Abbey College to claim damages from the law when the government had not amended regulations to reflect objections and dismissed the college�s case in July.
�Fairly irritated judges�
�Today not only are you back in court, you�ve got three fairly irritated federal judges telling you, �You better give us status reports on what you�re doing,�� said Kyle Duncan, attorney for the Becket Fund.
Duncan said he�s never seen a court give an order worded so specifically, or one that asks the government to report back.
�It�s far more likely that you get a dismissed, affirmed, denied,� Duncan said. �This is a very explicit order, and I think it�s very easy to read between the lines and see they have some major concerns.�
The federal judges called the lower court�s dismissal �erroneous� but noted that the ripeness question � whether the case was ready for litigation �was more difficult to determine.
The federal government said during oral argument that it would never enforce the healthcare law in its current form against those who oppose contraceptive services.
Government attorneys told the judges that a new proposed rule would be published in the first quarter of 2013 and the government would issue a new final rule before August 2013.
Holding government accountable
�We take the government at its word and will hold it to it,� the court order states.
The order requires the government to file status reports with the court every 60 days until the government issues a new rule regarding contraception coverage. The order places the college�s lawsuit on hold until the government issues new rules.
�Now they have to put up or shut up,� Duncan said. �And the moment the government doesn�t follow through, we�re going to be pushing forward with the case.�
Duncan called the court�s decision a major victory for religious employers.
�It changes the tide,� Duncan said. �It really puts the burden on the government to do something. And now they have to do something.�
You can reach reporter Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or follow twitter.com/AmandaMemrick.


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Best Of :: People & Places
There is no spot we know of where the soul (some would say soullessness) of Dallas is on display more than at the West Village on Saturday night. Young, toned bodies fitted into stretch-fabric outfits. Quick and quicker gaits. Grand entrances. Primo automobiles. If your Benz is in the shop and you're stuck for the night with the Aerostar van, you'd better park it three blocks away, maybe by the trash bin behind Texas Land & Cattle Co. Among the chic restaurants, bars and grown-up movie theater, there's a lot in this quarter to attract the attractive. Former Mayor Ron Kirk once famously said that nobody comes to Dallas for the scenery; people come here to get rich. He was dead right, with at least one qualification. People come here to at least look rich, and when that's on the agenda, this is definitely the place.
Everything about La Duni is magnificent, from the tasteful décor to the incredible pork-loin-filled "slow-roasted lomo." But the attributes of La Duni are made more apparent after you've had several of their signature drinks, especially our fave, the margarinha. It's a combination margarita-mojito, made with Sauza Silver tequila, hand-crushed limes, sugar, Cointreau and crushed ice. And, yes, it's as refreshing as it sounds. Is your mouth feeling dry yet? Is it? Seriously, is it?
Sound like a dorkfest? Fine, then call us dorks. Pete's is a surprisingly rollicking time: Four top-notch key-strokers attack two baby grands, taking requests and playing favorite tunes by request. Sure, it ain't the Cliburns, but it's a good time and something unique to do on a Friday night in Dallas. Nothing wrong with that.
With more than 60 acres of incredibly landscaped park to choose from, the Dallas Arboretum can provide a great backdrop to a portrait for anything. The Arboretum has fountains and sculptures, and something is always blooming, so you can wander around until you find a good spot. Even in the heat of the summer, the Arboretum seems like a cool and calming place. Maybe they're growing poppies.
Sidle up to the bar and order a Lone Star longneck. Then another. Then one for the pretty young thing next to you. Then a round for the people you just met. Fall off your barstool on your way to the restroom. Get lost coming back. Stand in front of the band while it rides herd over a sweet set of C&W, the kind your daddy told you about. Grab another longneck, which is sweating a little bit less than you are at this point. Ask that pretty young thing to dance. Fall down again and come up laughing. Keep doing this until you're out of money and out the door. Come back and do it again next week. That's what Adair's is like. And thank the Lord.
In most large cities, the downtown area is a grid of one-way streets. Easy to understand, easy to negotiate. In Dallas, while the streets curve more than their counterparts on the East Coast, the same concept holds true. So why is it that in cities like New York and Boston you almost never see someone going the wrong way on a one-way street but here in Big D it happens almost daily? Good question, though we have no answer. We offer only proof. If you work downtown, we suggest spending your lunch hour camped out on any corner with a one-way street. Wait there for a while. It won't be long before you see some confused, oblivious driver pointing his or her Honda Civic the wrong way. Then you can watch, amused, as other motorists honk and point in vain while the fool in the Honda looks wildly for street signs but continues to drive the wrong way anyway. Ugh. In New York, they don't ticket you for those types of stupid indiscretions; they beat you and leave you for dead.
Elderly Cambodians, a few Vietnamese and a handful of Thais are still in Old East Dallas, remnants of the refugee tide that came through in the 1980s and quickly dispersed to the suburbs. These are the least assimilable. The ragtag little vegetable plots they keep on Fitzhugh Avenue are their tiny fragment of home. On Saturday mornings they sell water spinach, Asian herbs, wax and loofah gourds, snake gourd, vine tips and more. Unfailingly polite, sad and jolly at the same time, they offer a serene beginning for the weekend.
You have to pay to be a member of the Y, but the fees are reasonable, and the downtown branch offers swim lessons for all ages plus water aerobics classes at its indoor 25-meter, eight-lane pool. It's an easy walk or short drive from virtually everywhere downtown, so office workers panting to take a dip can fit it into their schedules. Better still, along with your swim you can work out at the Y's extensive aerobics and weight facilities upstairs, though do us a favor and hit the showers before jumping in. We once made the mistake of asking a lifeguard why the water sometimes tastes salty. You don't want to know the answer.
We all need to blow off some steam these days. Between North Korea, the Middle East and various domestic dilemmas, our chances of seeing the new year are slim. So why not enjoy ourselves while we still have the time? Right. That's what we say. Want to have some real fun? There's nothing better than screwing with golfers. If you drive around the Lakewood Country Club, you'll notice that the golf course is surrounded by iron gates--the kind you can easily see through. That's the key here. So this is what you do. Drive slowly. Pick out a foursome (we suggest the elderly or the competitive--they always react with excited indignation). Then, when one of them is on his backswing, honk your horn and scream obscenities out the window. At the least, you'll get to watch them shank the ball. In the best scenario, they'll jump up and down or throw something your way. All very funny. Feeling particularly blue? Just drive by again. Hey, it's free. And besides, we'll all be dead soon from nuclear winter, so it won't matter anyway.
Between suburban Cedar Hill and Grand Prairie, the rolling landscape along this rapidly developing two-lane road is about as close as you're gonna get to the Texas Hill Country. The route leads to the popular and picturesque Lake Joe Pool, where a state park boasts nature trails, campsites and bike routes that are hardly overused as long as you skip Fourth of July weekend and Memorial Day. You'll want to make a quick detour into the tree-hidden campus of Northwood University. In the early evening, it provides a nice vantage point to see red-tailed hawks and big white egrets swooping in for landings.
The spacious ice rink in the center of downtown's Plaza of the Americas is the perfect escape for any middle-management yuppie who could use a cool break from that three-walled hell known as the cubicle. Located on the bottom floor of a building filled with law offices, real estate agencies, financial consolidation groups and Internet mortgage blabitty-blabitty-blahs, the rink generally will be filled with a mix of businesspeople, vacationers staying at the adjacent Westin City Center and local high-schoolers who make their way over via the Pearl Street DART station. Surrounding the ice rink is a plethora of shops and restaurants ready to provide you with a post-skate snack and some trinkets to bring home. Closer than the Galleria and better than hosing down the driveway on one of Texas' only subzero days, Americas Ice Garden Ice Rink is a chilly oasis in the middle of our concrete jungle.
Thought it was going to be some techno club, huh? Well, hang on, because Red River has its share of mainstream and country music. Hear us out on our reasoning. The venue has a house band when it doesn't have a scheduled concert, dance lessons (because there's nothing worse than turning the wrong way, causing your new dance partner to lose an eye) or one incredibly entertaining mechanical bull. The joint has drink and cover specials most nights and the aforementioned lessons two nights a week. It's a bit like an amusement park for drinkers, really. Grab a Bud, slide out onto the hardwood dance floor, spin for a few, go for a ride--and on occasion the ladies can race and claw their way to cash, thanks to a balloon drop. Red River is chaos, it's country and it's fun. Give it a shot...after buying us one, of course.


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The stone reads:
S.W. Stuart, Dublin
In Affectionate
And Loving Memory of
His Beloved Wife
Who died 27th March 1892.
Aged 40 years
Oh for the touch of a vanished hand
and the sound of a voice that is still.
I heard the voice of Jesus say
Come unto me and rest,
Lay down thou weary one lay down
Thy head upon my breast.
Copyright©irisheyesjg2008-2012. All Rights Reserved.
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Dan Walters
Dan Walters: Jerry Brown may be getting desperate on bullet train
Jerry Brown may be getting desperate about keeping the state's increasingly unpopular – not to mention financially and legally challenged – bullet train project alive.
Faced with a judge's insistence that the project follow the law about having its financial ducks lined up, Gov. Brown is now poised to shift money from the state's "cap-and-trade" fees on greenhouse-gas emissions into the bullet train.
Brown, it's been reported in The Bee and elsewhere, will propose in his 2014-15 budget that a portion of the fees being extracted from California business be committed to the bullet train.
While creating the new revenue stream might – emphasis, might – help persuade the court that there is a legally sufficient financial plan for the initial bullet train segment from the San Joaquin Valley into Southern California, as the law requires, the legality of such a shift is itself legally suspect.
The cap-and-trade law says that proceeds are to be used specifically to lower California's greenhouse-gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, but the Legislature's budget analyst, Mac Taylor, says bullet train construction would actually increase emissions "for many years" and a decrease, if any, would not occur until decades later.
One could easily envision that bullet train opponents who have successfully challenged the project in court would make common legal and political cause with environmental groups, which have pledged to hold Brown accountable for spending the cap-and-trade fees as the underlying law requires.
Brown's ploy indicates that he and his handpicked High-Speed Rail Authority have no real answer to the judicial mandate that they follow the law voters enacted when they, by a very narrow margin, approved $9.95 billion in bullet train bonds in 2008.
The state cannot tap the bond money as long as there's a legal cloud on the project and otherwise has only a few billion dollars from the federal government for laying a small section of San Joaquin Valley track.
Under its agreement with the Federal Railroad Administration, the state is to begin matching the federal money by June, but cannot do so without funds from the state bonds, or from the cap-and-trade fees.
The feds are informally allowing the state to spend the federal money without an immediate match, but that's being challenged by congressional foes of the project, and with Republicans likely to retain control of the House this year, additional federal money is a dim prospect.
Brown, et al., apparently believe that diverting cap-and-trade fees into the bullet train may buy enough time to move some dirt and lay some track, with the hope that once construction begins, it will create a moral/political commitment to complete the project.
But the proposed diversion is more likely to be dumping more money into a bottomless rathole.


text: David Stockman, the boy-wonder budget director in the first Reagan administration and the brains behind the supply-side economics in 1981, is making waves within the Republican Party by adamantly proclaiming that the Bush tax cuts should not be extended — not for the rich and not for the middle class. He's also suggesting cuts in the military. Those two recommendations are direct opposites of the policies he championed during Reagan's first term.


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Star Wars Helmet Polos
Appropriate work attire
Hey Boba, did you get that memo? Yeah, it's just we're putting cover sheets on all the CTPS reports before they go out now. So if you could go ahead and try to remember to do that from now on, that'd be great.
After the Rebellion's successes dampened the Imperial forces, some of the fringe programs in the Galactic Empire had to be reduced. As a result, many of the military branches' best and brightest ended up in the same office building. Now, one may not be so inclined to imagine Boba Fett, some Troopers, Vader, and R2D2 working well together. But, when the gloves are off, except for Casual Friday, there isn't much animosity. Thanks to their matching Helmet Polos, every employee can proudly display the emblem of their political temperaments without creating much friction: a win-win for productivity and, by extension, the Corporate Office here at Owen Lars and Company.
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Within the first two weeks of knowing each other, Danny and I were in a kitchen together, standing side by side, chopping and talking about what we were going to eat. He was sort of horrified by how badly I mangled the onions when I cut them up into giant hacking pieces, but he refrained from saying anything. I was sort of in awe of how quickly he moved, a dancer on his toes in front of the stove. We laughed, a lot.
We haven't stopped since.
Danny and I both believe there must be dozens of places for couples to work together and talk, dance and laugh. The garden. Cleaning out the shed. Picking up the clutter from the living room floor. Running a business together. Going for long walks. Raising a child. Not everyone loves to be in the kitchen we know that.
However, we both wish that more people would walk into the kitchen on a daily basis and chop up the fresh rosemary from the garden, sauté up the ground beef, and kiss while waiting for the water to boil. After all that work, you get to eat together.
This week, we've been cooking from a cookbook that celebrates the couples who cook together, who have made a life of food and eating well, who stand side by side at the stove. The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together has been a joy this week.
Now I should say, right away, that I'm bound to be biased about this book. Lorna, one of the authors, is a good friend of mine. Over the past year, we have traded descriptions of meals, stories about our husbands, Twitter quips, and deep conversations about the process of writing a book. Her blog, The Cookbook Chronicles, began as a record of her cooking and testing and re-tweaking the recipes that would end up in The Newlywed Kitchen. As Danny and I have become better friends with Lorna and her husband, Henry, we have been mentioned in that blog more and more. Clearly, we cannot be entirely clear-eyed about this book.
Also, Danny and I are in the book. Lorna's co-author, Ali Basye, wrote a series of deftly drawn portraits of couples who make their lives in food, which are interspersed among the recipes. I loved reading about the weekend food-gathering-on-bicycles life of Kimberly and Vitaly Paley, the first taste of porchetta that Ryan Hardy and his wife Cathy Rusnak shared together in Italy, and the kind jesting tone of Armandino and Marilyn Batali talking back and forth in their kitchen. These pithy essays are little glimpses into the lives of people who cook food for a living and still play together in the kitchen. Still, Danny and I are one of the many featured couples, so you could say we are biased here too.
In the end, here's why Danny and I decided we could recommend this book with a clear heart, in spite of our bias. That Lorna, kind-hearted, sharp-tongued woman that she is? My god, that woman knows good food. And she eats it all, with delight.
Here are some of her recent updates on meals:
"lunch today: udon with pork belly and shiso in dashi/sour plum broth, goma-dofu with wasabi and soy sauce, spinach with bonito and sweet sherry vinaigrette."
"Derby day! Making biscuits, Henry's spicy chicken wings, and having mint juleps."
"Roasted smoked marrow bones with lemon, capers, and parsley to spread on toast, and then roast pork sandwiches with tomatoes and basil as the main event."
You think Danny and I eat well? It's like we're living on mac and cheese out of a box compared to the way Lorna eats. She writes about restaurants in Seattle, among other things. Lorna consistently eats memorable meals.
(Plus, she looks like this. How does she maintain her loveliness? Genetics. A running habit. And more than that, she knows how to live in food without indulging too much.)
Along with all this, Lorna is picky. She thinks about every bite of food she takes, compares it against her platonic ideal of what it could be, and often finds it falls short of her hopes. She's not a snob. Lorna is one of the sweetest people I know. She also loves good, simple comfort foods and homey baked goods. She just has very high standards.
This is why the recipes in The Newlywed Kitchen are so good.
We ate well this week.
This is a homey lovely breakfast: a savory egg bake with bread cubes, chicken sausage, and artichoke hearts. Danny loves artichoke hearts. When I put this in front of him, he sighed.
After we ate, we all sighed. Lu finished her entire bowl.
And these? Oh my, these. These are the softest-tasting meatballs I have ever eaten. With pork, veal, and beef, plus bread cubes soaked in milk, fresh oregano, and red pepper flakes, these meatballs were bursting with taste.
My friend Gabe came over yesterday afternoon, unexpectedly. We sat and talked as Lu enjoyed her dinner. I pointed toward the noodles and meatballs. He took a bite, kept talking, took another bite, kept talking, and then stopped. "Man, I am really digging on these meatballs."
We think you will too.
Lorna makes great comfort food. Her award-winning mac and cheese has bacon, butter, mozzarella, blue cheese, Parmigiano, and Gruyere. We thought about making that this week, but I knew that if we made a pot, I'd want to eat another pot. I'll throw it together for a party when I have to divvy it out to friends and take only three bites for myself.
The book has a great recipe for slow-cooked lamb ragu, a red wine and mushroom risotto, a creamy kale gratin (inspired by the one Lorna ate at Boat Street Cafe), smoky-sweet corn pudding, cheddar cheese grits with bacon gravy, ultra-crispy fried chicken, a grilled porterhouse steak with blue cheese butter, classic lasagna, and chicken potpie with cheddar thyme crusts. Wow. Just flipping through, Danny and I wanted to make everything.
But I tried to stick with the lighter dishes this week, to go with my new running habit and newfound resolve to be fit. Here is a sign of a good cook: Lorna made broccoli taste decadent by roasting it with a bit of parmesan and hot pepper flakes. I loved the maple-roasted root vegetables with sherry vinegar. I can't wait for summer to make zucchini fritters with tangy yogurt sauce. And while I would probably cut down on the amount of red peppers in the mix, I'm keeping the turkey meatloaf with the balsamic glaze.
This was one of the lunches we ate this week: warm mushroom and bacon salad with spinach, and a curried goat cheese salad with chickpeas. Yes, please.
The recipes in this book are not intended for beginner cooks. If you know someone who doesn't know how to scramble an egg well, I'd probably find a more basic book as a wedding present. But if you love food, or know a couple just starting their married life who like to laugh in the kitchen together, you should buy this book.
Danny and I danced in the kitchen this week. We think you will too.
We're giving away a copy of The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together. Tell us a story about cooking with someone you love.
Buttermilk Onion Rings, Gluten-Free, adapted from The Newlywed Kitchen: Delicious Meals for Couples Cooking Together
Let me make this clear: Lorna's book is not gluten-free. However, as is true of all recipes that are well made, these are easy recipes to adapt. Because of this, I came to have my first onion rings in over five years.
Oh my goodness. Need I say more? No. Look at the photograph, then make these. (You should probably only eat them once in a while, as a great treat. They taste better that way.)
1 medium red onion, very thinly sliced
2 tablespoons hot sauce (optional)
1 teaspoon plus 1 tablespoon garlic salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
2 cups buttermilk
4 ounces potato starch
4 ounces sweet rice flour
2 ounces cornstarch
2 teaspoons xanthan gum
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1 quart canola oil for frying (you could use any vegetable oil you wanted here)
Combine the sliced red onions, hot sauce, 1 teaspoon of the garlic salt, and 1/2 teaspoon of the pepper in a large bowl. Pour the buttermilk over it all, pushing down on the onions to submerge them, and let this sit for 2 hours.
Combine the potato starch, sweet rice flour, cornstarch, and xanthan gum. Stir well. Mix in the remaining garlic salt and smoked paprika.
Dredge the buttermilk-soaked onions in the flour, flipping them over and over to make sure that everything is coated. Shake off the excess and lay these on a plate.
Set a large pot on medium-high heat. Make sure it is deep. Pour in the canola oil, then watch the temperature carefully. (Keep the kids away, playing in another room if possible.) When the temperature of the oil has reached 360°, drop the first few onions into the oil.
(Now there's a rule. The first batch is always just okay. Throw in a few to sacrifice to the onion ring gods, and move on.)
When the onion rings have turned golden brown all around, about 3 minutes, take them out with tongs and lay them on paper towels. Finish with each successive batch, making sure the oil comes up to heat again, until you are done. Shake a little salt over them and eat. Now.
Serves 2 (or 3 in this case, because Lu loved them too)