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My mother making paella — from where I stand on a stool at the sink I can see the wooden spoon she's using is stained yellow from the saffron. I'm tearing the legs and shells off of the frozen shrimp she will cook and stir into the pot. My hands burn from their cold flesh but it is oddly pleasing work, and their multiple slender legs make a strange and faint zipping noise as I separate them from their frosty, firm abdomens. I reward myself for each tail I coerce intact from its flimsy gray armor, and don't realize I've been given this task to keep me busy, and quiet.
Tomatoes from the garden gathered in a wooden basket and placed before me. I grasp at them clumsily before they are washed, diced and tossed with feta cheese, herbs and olive oil, and then scooped up with pita bread.
Pan de sal, palm-sized rounds of bread dusted with grainy cornmeal and spread with rapidly-melting butter, brought to me on a hand-painted plate by one of my grandmother's maids, along with a cardboard box of mango juice. Fried baby cuttlefish the length of my index finger, but much thinner and consumed whole — bones, head, tail. After eating them with my cousins in Manila, I clamor for it, but my mother only cooks the little fish for me once, when my father is out of the house; he hates smell.
Leaves of lox and slabs of cream cheese bookended by bagels from H&H, so salty and thick behind the teeth that talking is impossible. Ful, chick peas and fava beans warmed on the stove and spooned into a bowl before getting mixed with mashed garlic, lemon juice, parsley and olive oil. Honey Nut Cheerios and Rice Crispies, crunched with as little milk as possible so the round O's and puffed rice still snap with each bite. Eggs scrambled with the sujuk my father hangs inside a wooden frame lined with mesh; it looks like a rabbit hutch, but nothing has ever lived in it but sausages drying.
Dolma, stuffed with rice and ground beef, the leftover orange oily broth of which my mother ladles into a mug for me to drink after dinner. Hummos whirled in the food processor with more and more lemon, garlic and tahini added until my father is satisfied. It's that or mutabbal, which I dislike. Boureg, sheets of phyllo layered with shredded cheese, parsley and red pepper, flaky on the first day and reinflated in the toaster oven on the next. Tray after tray of baklava and Lebanese pastries, and separating each crumbly tier with my tongue. I suck at its rose-scented sweetness with as much strength as I can before finally chewing.
Spaghetti with meat sauce, my Armenian grandmother's recipe, full of glistening sautéed onions. I plaster it with so much Kraft Parmesan that it resembles the surface of the moon more than a plate of pasta and I don't care that it feels grainy. More strands of spaghetti, Filipino-style, sweetened with sugar and ketchup and cooked with sliced hot dogs and Spam.
Baloney sandwiches on white bread or lunch rolls, carried to our table in the dining hall on brown plastic trays. I am scared of the meatloaf, which I have neither seen nor eaten before. Breyer's Cookies and Cream, chunks chiseled off with spoons while sitting on commercial-grade dormitory carpet next to my roommate, who is eating maraschino cherries direct from the jar. Rum and Cokes, obscenely syrupy, sipped nervously from red Solo cups from the corners of parties.
Wilted triangles of pizza oozing neon drizzles of oil onto flimsy napkins. Pasta salad drenched in bottled Italian dressing and tossed with cubed cheese, tomatoes and olives. We pretend we made it all from scratch and finish the leftovers in front of the open fridge. Wonder Bread toast, blanketed with butter and Smucker's while still warm, so that together they melt into the crunchy top. Corn fritters we fry on the battered stove and dip into a puddle of maple syrup, leaving sticky trails across the counter.
California rolls, the first sushi my best friend tries, and I convince her to place the entire circle in her mouth even though she'll struggle to chew it. Char siu baau buns, startlingly tangy inside puffy dough, shared with my mother's father in countless Chinese restaurants and Chinatowns around the world; I carry this memory with me like a creased photograph kept in my wallet, and pull it out often in the days after his death. Chicken B'stilla, simultaneously savory and sweet, drenched in a yogurt and mint sauce I greedily lap up even though mint makes me think of being a child and ill, and of the strong teas my father brewed for me from the plants he tended in old wine barrels in the backyard. Aloo mutter in a room with tangerine-colored walls on Mass Ave, and the man I will marry in six years winks at me across the table.
Rib-eye steaks cooked medium-rare and eaten off of plates balanced on our knees. We don't have a dining room, let alone a dining room table. Onions sweated for hours until they caramelize; I stir their gilded ropes into majedera, a mixture of lentils and bulgur, or cluster them across the crust of a goat cheese and sun-dried tomato pizza I will later adorn with an herb chiffonade. Whole split chicken breasts, garlic and lemon slices slipped beneath the fatty ivory skin that will turn crisp and blush gold within the heat of the oven. Butter cookies flavored with mahleb, powder ground from the pits of sour cherries, baked in my new kitchen following the recipe my father's mother dictated to mine decades before she quietly dies at age eighty-eight in a Los Angeles nursing home that smells of copper and Lysol.
Sausages, sauerkraut and beer underneath the green and white striped awning of a tent on the Rhine. Lechón, the suckling pig I can't eat without thinking about the sound the animal makes when a knife is plunged into its throat, something I heard for the first and only time when I was ten. Croque-monsieurs on the Pont Neuf, the wind threatening to loosen the scarf from my neck. Fruit-flavored margaritas on D'Aguilar Street; I'm panting in the Hong Kong heat and the tequila goes straight to my head. Cornish pasties and licking crumbs from my fingers in the shadow of Bath Abbey at Christmastime. Squat foil-capped bottles of Yakult, sweetened fermented milk purchased from a 7-Eleven in Seoul. Durian stinking up the car in a Bangkok traffic jam, though later as I eat its sweet and tender flesh, I'll forget I breathed through my mouth for an hour and nursed a stench-induced headache.
A candied shell enclosing a dollop of sugared olive oil alongside a kumquat skin holding its flesh turned into sorbet. Breaded cubes of liquefied foie gras placed on the tongue whole, then made to explode by the pressure of my mouth closing. Wintermint and vanilla ice cream coerced by science into a pliable rope, knotted and twisted into a cool, icy coil that I cut into with a fork. A Stonehenge of roasted bones upright on a white plate, its marrow shiny and bright under overhead lights before I smooth it across craggy planes of toast, decorate it with verdant parsley leaves and dot it with coarse gray sea salt. And chocolate chip cookies, either straight from the oven or out of a bright blue package that noisily crinkles at my touch, served with a glass of milk to bring me home again.


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At the VA Medical Center in Nashville
I spent a day at the VA Medical Center in Nashville with Dennis, earlier this week. In the late 1960s, he injured his hand while working on a Navy aircraft carrier flight deck. Now the injury is affecting his ability to grip with that hand, so he had a morning appointment related to that. Then he had a 3-hour wait for an unrelated appointment in the afternoon.
While Dennis was at his first appointment, I waited for him in a lobby on the third floor that overlooks a courtyard. The last time I spent time looking through that window, workers were laying the walkway. It was interesting to see the finished project. One thing bothered me, though -- a red piece of garbage on the rocks.
|The courtyard, seen through a third floor window
When we went back to the first floor, I walked outside, crunched my way across the rocks, picked up that piece of trash, and put it in a garbage can. It was a jagged piece of red plastic with a few small white words on one side. I decided it was part of a broken sign. Maybe it blew off one of the surrounding rooftops.
|In the background, the window where I took the first picture.
Every plant in the courtyard makes a statement. The flower planters had not seen any attention this spring. A scraggly pansy was growing in the corner of one planter. In another, a single tulip was almost ready to bloom. Why not plant ivy in the flower boxes if they aren't going to be kept full of flowers?
|Unexpected visual treat
I didn't spent my entire day analyzing this courtyard, even though it may sound like it. After I got that piece of red plastic trash picked up, I spent the rest of the afternoon in 19th century South Dakota with Norwegian settlers -- Giants in the Earth by O. E. Rölvaag. After we finally got home, I sat down and finished the book.
In Giants in the Earth, there are great dreams, mighty labors, well-earned victories, crippling fears, terrible loneliness, and heartbreaking losses. Several days later, I am still mulling over what I read.

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So yesterday we pitted a couple of classic Motown wagons against each other in the Choose Your Eternity poll, and the result was so close to a tie as to make no difference (with the Dodge photo-finishing past the Ford). Today we're going to look at a couple of cooperative efforts between the island of the Rising Sun and the island whose empire's sun never set. Yes, Japanese style and British reliability, together at last! Fasten your seat belts, everyone!
Let's face it, Rover's cars never sold well in the United States (for reasons we really don't need to explain here), so when it came time to sell the Rover 800 over here, the marketing suits at British Leyland figured they'd just call it something else. And so it was that the Sterling was born; with Honda V6 power and British good looks, it looked like a can't-possibly-miss; no oil leakage, no clattery tractor-engine sounds, no dullsville Japanese-sedan styling. Yes, the Sterling was quite a car, and this 1989 Sterling 827 SL, available for the farthingly low asking price of a cool grand, could soon be gracing your garage. Now, don't be intimidated by the British electrical system; after all, the reliability of the Honda running gear is so profound that it emits a force field of Japanese quality that actually prevents problems in unrelated systems! Would we make this stuff up? And that bad talk going around town about poor build quality and corrosion? Hogwash! Though the description on this car is a bit sparse...
Was there ever an Isuzu that was cool enough to be a Project Car Hell car? Most emphatically, yes! The Impulse with the "Handling By Lotus" option is such a car. This '89 Impulse has rear-wheel-drive, Giorgetto Giugiaro styling, and the aforementioned suspension tuning done by none other than the road-gripping gurus at Lotus. It's got the Chex wheels, a somewhat new clutch (though you might consider asking to see the receipt), and... we're not sure what else. Sure, Isuzu never really measured up to the quality standards of Honda, Nissan, and Toyota, but it can't be that bad. Can it?


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For miles, the two-lane highway that winds down to Spain's Costa de la Luz had shown us only the mythical light of our destination, yellowing the dry fields and whitewashed towns. There was no hint of the sea itself. Then, as we rounded a bend near the ancient port of Tarifa, the horizon was suddenly filled with signs: huge, wing-shaped kites that rocked back and forth in the sky, rising up from time to time as if lifted by an unseen hand.
I had dreamed of trying the neoteric sport of kiteboarding, and this part of the Andalusian coast had seemed to promise a nice, low-key place to learn. Or so I had convinced my girlfriend, until we ventured out onto a promontory above the beach. There, beneath the riot of brilliantly colored kites, we saw a bay covered with kiteboarders -- streaking along on their boards, arcing effortlessly into the air, floating back down to race off again. Pulling and twisting on their lines, they looked like sun-bleached puppets come to life. And there seemed to be hundreds of them.
If crossbreeding is the creative fixation of extreme sports, then kiteboarding (or kitesurfing, as it is also known) may have been inevitable. It owns obvious debts to windsurfing and wakeboarding, from which some of its equipment is derived. But the high arts of kiteboarding have less to do with surfing than they do with flight. The boards are smaller and much lighter than windsurfers; on a windy day, a skilled kiteboarder can launch 30 or 40 feet into the air without so much as a wave. They can also fly into a nearby building or highway. At least 17 people have been killed in kiteboarding-related accidents since 2000, according to a safety adviser for one of the sport's governing bodies.
Such dangers notwithstanding, kiteboarding has spread with terrific speed. A fledgling international organization now accredits schools from Australia to Finland, and dozens more operate independently or under the auspices of other governing bodies. But all of that constitutes a challenge when trying to figure out the best place to learn. I was advised to look for a well-established school somewhere with wide beaches and steady winds. Some experts recommended the Outer Banks of North Carolina or Hurghada, on the Egyptian Red Sea, because the shallows extend far offshore and beginners can stand right back up after a fall. Then there are what one friend described to me as the ''Rasta places'' of the sport -- Maui and Cape Town and Cabarete, in the Dominican Republic -- meccas that attract the most ardent of kiteboarding pilgrims.
All of them sounded alluring, but one of the names tugged insistently at my imagination. Tarifa is the southernmost town on the European mainland, and reputed to be the windiest. Moorish invaders landed there in 710, and the town took its name from the Berber general, Tarif ibn Malluk, who seized the garrison that summer. The Moors held on to Tarifa for nearly six centuries, and though the town's main drag honors the Castilian king who retook it in 1292, Sancho IV (El Bravo), the Arab influence is still present from the old city battlements to the design of the trendiest nightspots.
Following the Moors, the Castilians and the French, the kiteboarders laid siege to Tarifa a few years ago, drawn, like those before them, to its unique geography. The winds that funnel through the Strait of Gibraltar are said to blow more than 300 days a year. When they blow too directly onshore in Tarifa, determined kiteboarders can usually drive around the tip of the peninsula to catch them from a more favorable angle near Algeciras. I saw other advantages as well. The coastline between Cadiz and Tarifa, with its long, pristine beaches, is perhaps Spain's most unspoiled. The Andalusian White Towns, magical whitewashed warrens that recall the Moorish past, would be fairly close by. The seafood was said to be remarkable.
Tarifa is now home to some 15,000 people, although to drive through the center of town is to wonder who among them doesn't kiteboard. The boulevard that approaches the old city has become a kind of kiteboarding bazaar, lined by signs for shops with names like Shark Kite and Art of Surfing. The kiters support a thriving secondary economy of juice bars, coffeehouses and Internet cafes, and there is a busy trade in kiteboarding instruction. But none of the 15-odd schools were affiliated with either the International Kiteboarding Organization or its American counterpart, the Professional Air Sports Association (like others in Spain and France, they were regulated by national sporting associations). I was at a loss to choose among them.
After some foraging on the Internet and a few unhelpful phone calls, I finally found a young British kiteboarding instructor who was headed to Tarifa and offered to help. He was going for what he referred to meaningfully as the Third Annual European Kitesurfing Championships; they were relocating there, he said, because of the reliability of Tarifa's winds. He eventually found me a local instructor, Nacho Yuste, who was entered in the competition but willing to juggle my lessons with his heats.
When we met up at his kiteboarding shop, however, Nacho was not a happy man. Tarifa's famous wind had been truant for most of the previous three days, and the competition was already behind schedule. Now, the weather reports on Nacho's laptop suggested that the wind might vanish altogether. Hoping for the best, the three of us drove to Valdevaqueros, the beach where the contest was taking place, and picked our way through a muddy lot that was haphazardly filled with hipster German hatchbacks, live-in delivery trucks and post-Woodstock vans.
The competitors were parked in similar disorder on the picnic tables overlooking the beach. They had come from as far away as Norway and Turkey, but the origins of the men, in particular, were obscured by the soul patches, shaved heads and dreadlocks they all wore. The kiters seemed to wear a uniform expression, too, as if the air had been let out of them.
We stood in line for free orange juice and muesli and sat down to wait for the wind. Nacho began with a little theory. We would fly our kites in a three-dimensional arc, he explained. With the wind at our backs, the kite would pull hardest when it was directly in front of us. We would be able to hold it steady at the top, or zenith, of the arc and fly it under greater control along the arc's outer edges. That afternoon, my girlfriend and I started out practicing with a two-line kite that looked only a bit larger than the sort one might buy at a toy store. But even in wind so limp that it left the competitors slumped over their picnic tables, the small kite pulled me skidding across the beach.
We awoke the next morning to a grim, gray rain. The cafes in town were unusually full, crowded with morose-looking men and women huddled over lattes and herbal teas. Out at the beach, the would-be competitors looked as depressed as I guessed kiteboarders could look. Our antidote was a trip to one of the White Towns, Zahara de los Atunes, and a great fish lunch with some friends at an old hotel overlooking the sea. Returning to Tarifa that evening, we concluded that even if the wind did pick up again, our next lesson might not be Nacho's primary concern. I went looking for another school and found a well-regarded Frenchman, Jerôme Clausse, who said he would fit us into a novice class whenever the wind returned.
The sun came up blazing the next morning, but still no wind. By early afternoon, Tarifa had the torpor of a ship becalmed; now only the bars were crowded. I was deep into a nap when the phone rang about 5 o'clock. The sky had gone gray. It was Gabriel, or Gabi, as our new Basque instructor was called. ''I'll see you at the beach in 10 minutes,'' he said.
Out on the sand, Gabi went back over some of the ground we'd covered with Nacho, but with an even greater emphasis on safety. (He happened to mention the story of a novice kiteboarder near Barcelona who had been dragged into a busy highway along the beach and killed by traffic.) He showed us how to inflate the struts and the leading edge of the kite, which would keep it afloat and allow us to relaunch it from the water when it fell. ''It's no problem if you let go and the kite crashes,'' Gabi told us in Spanish. ''Remember that.''
We were introduced to a young Latvian businessman, one of several classmates who would join us over the next few days. This time we flew larger kites, moving up in size as we grew comfortable with their power. Over the next couple of hours, I started to get the hang of it, learning how to use the wind and how to avoid it. Then, suddenly, Gabi was shouting at us to land our kites and start packing them up. We just barely got the equipment put away when a thunderstorm rolled in over us. The next day was another calamity of sun and calm. Our despair grew, and the European Kitesurfing Championships sputtered to a disastrous close.
Through an English friend, we were introduced to some of the washed-up elite, a crew of local Spaniards and expatriates who had abandoned their various careers to write, make art and (mostly) kiteboard. This led to several long, entertaining nights at assorted Tarifa hangouts. We avoided the thumping neon-lighted techno clubs around town, fortifying ourselves instead at small bars that served some of the best seafood tapas I had ever tasted. Our center of gravity was the Zen Café, a sushi place where the American chef, a young veteran of Hollywood film production, liked to close up shop (or not open at all), roll an Oriental rug out onto the sidewalk and wait for friends to drop by for drinks. There, I felt, the relaxed attitude of the Andalusians meshed especially well with the laid-back culture of the kiteboarders. But maybe it was just late.
By Tuesday, our fifth day in town, the lousy weather had left Gabi a backlog of four students waiting to complete what was nominally our second four-hour period of instruction. Finally, however, the wind began to cooperate. We picked up wet suits, life jackets and harnesses, and headed back to Valdevaqueros. Gabi gave a brief description of our day's lesson, which involved a rather undignified maneuver known as the ''body drag.'' I launched my kite and shuffled toward the water's edge.
I was now attached to the thing: the ''control bar'' in which I held the lines of the kite was hooked into a harness that wrapped tightly around my waist and thighs like a sumo diaper. This was not comfortable, but it got less comfortable whenever my kite dipped into the wind and pulled me skittering down the beach. From Gabi's stern commands, I understood that we were to wade waist-deep into the ocean, lean forward and turn the kites into the offshore wind. We would then steer ourselves out to sea in a kind of guided dog paddle, before turning back in the other direction to return to shore.
I went first, my eyes fixed on the unsteady kite above me. I stubbed my toes across the rocky shore until I could feel the cool Atlantic rising up over my legs. The loud, Basque-accented barking in my ear was apparently a cue. I leaned forward, turned my kite into the wind and shot out to sea. Thrilled with my forward progress (and the inexplicable fact of my head still above water), I decided to go for it. I turned my kite more strongly into the wind, and it plunged toward the sea. Then, turning it frantically back skyward, I managed to pull it out of the dive -- and back into the full force of the wind.
Then I was flying, too -- only in a prostrate, hanging-on-for-dear-life kind of way. (I had seen a version of this technique on a late-night episode of the television series ''Jackass.'') My landing was also memorable. After a little gasping and coughing, I was able to spit out the quart or so of seawater I had swallowed and make my way back to shore. I couldn't wait to try it with a board.
The pace of our instruction picked up with the force of the wind. Gabi's initial shyness gave way to a pedagogical technique that might have frightened a Marine drill sargeant. ''Asi nooooo! Asi nooooo!'' he would yell. ''Not like thaaaaaaat!'' It was some time before I stopped hearing this admonition in my dreams. After some more successful body dragging, Gabi produced a couple of boards. One, a directional board, looked like a miniature windsurfer, with a pointed nose and fins at the tail. The other was a more standard twin-tip: light and thin, turned up at both ends and not too buoyant. It looked much like a wakeboard or snowboard, and could be ridden in either direction without switching one's feet in the foot straps.
Now came the hard part. We were to float out into the frigid ocean on our backs, holding the control bar steady with our left hand and pulling the board up to us with our right. We would slip our feet into the foot straps (preferably without looking down) and pull our knees up to our chests so that the far edge of the board was angled about 45 degrees out of the water. We would then pull the kite into a steep dive, turn sharply before it crashed and, with luck, lift ourselves out of the water.
As I floated out to sea, I heard something like an air raid siren coming from the beach. It was Gabi, shouting, ''Zeeee-niiiiith! Zeeee-niiiiith!'' as my kite swooped haphazardly from side to side. (With his Basque accent, this came out, ''Thaaaay-neeeethh!'') I steadied the kite and attached myself to the board. Then, I turned the kite down, cranked it back up and launched myself out of the water with a velocity that amazed me. The only problem was that I had somehow turned my board sideways. That meant that I flew out of the water in a kind of head-over-heels spin, and returned to the surface with a rather epic splat.
Finally, though, it happened. On my fourth or fifth try, I got into position in the water, dived the kite and shot up onto my board. I maneuvered the kite back and forth in front of me, keeping it in the wind, and it whisked me along the water. It didn't last all that long, but it was glorious.


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ORLANDO, Fla. – Sources tell Local 6 Sports Director David Pingalore that the Orlando Predators have signed former Florida Gators quarterback Chris Leak.
Leak played for the Florida Gators from 2003 to 2006, under coaches Ron Zook and Urban Meyer, leading the Gators in 2006 to their first SEC Championship since 2000. Leak was named the MVP of the 2007 BCS National Championship game, in which the Gators defeated the Ohio State Buckeyes.
"We think Chris is a great fit for the Predators," Predators Head Coach Bret Munsey said in a release. "He certainly has the tools to be a great quarterback in the league."
Leak started the season with the Arena Football League's Jacksonville Sharks. He threw for five touchdowns as the starting QB in the team's win against Kansas City.
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Two men charged with Howson Road murder
The News Shopper reports that two men have been charged with the murder of Matthew Clement, who was found dead on Howson Road in May last year. One of the men charged lives on Foxberry Road, Brockley.
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The News Shopper reports that two men have been charged with the murder of Matthew Clement, who was found dead on Howson Road in May last year. One of the men charged lives on Foxberry Road, Brockley.
hmmm Nick is it a good idea to harp on these types of stories?
Theres no point reporting on it in the first place if its not going to be followed up.
This isn't the Brockley Tourist Board. It's news, it's relevant to Brockley. A short article giving the bare details is hardly "harping on".
It is news. I would rather hear about it on here than not know at all.
"Harping on"? A short story is hardly harping on
yes there is a point in posting these things and the man who was killed happened to be my best friend
please keep posting stuff like this it is greatly appreciated to have the low-down. thanks
thanks for keeping us updated on the problems
D, I am sorry to hear abvout your loss, and to be commenting on other aspect of this that I feel I must. I hope further scrutiny doesn't add to your pain.
This is what concerns me here:
"Matthew Taylor, aged 23, of no fixed abode, and Perry Walters, aged 24, of Foxberry Road, Brockley, will appear at Greenwich Magistrates' Court tomorrow (July 27)."
Why is Mr Taylor listed 'of no fixed abode'?
Could it be that he really is (or then was), or could it be that yet again we have another 'hostel dweller' - the actual abode of which is always withheld from the unsuspecting Brockley public, because it's a bail address?
Lots of 'ifs' 'buts' and conclusions drawn from that. Why not let the process takes it's course before the amateur criminology that will not doubt result?
@Reg - no fixed abode - the answer is probably simple, following his mate steps he was waiting to be assigned a victorian house/flat by Lewisham Council.
No worries when he gets out he will be at the top of the waiting list, meanwhile working people have to move out of Brockley because of prices and scarcity of property offer.
The Council owns few hundreds victorian properties in Brockley. They should sell them to fund the services to the poor and needy and to facilitate accommodation also to those who work.
That is quite a different subject.
Clearly not the FBI...
Could it be that he really is (or then was), or could it be that yet again we have another 'hostel dweller' - the actual abode of which is always withheld from the unsuspecting Brockley public, because it's a bail address?
Not one "if" or "but" there. It was also a question.
Regardless of this particular case, you will notice a number of these 'no fixed abodes' in Brockley having gone, or coming, to trial. And the term will increase in usage - which suits the police, council and probation services. No ifs or buts about it.
Firstly, my sympathies to this young man's family and friends.
Secondly - Reg, unless you have inside knowledge on this issue, you're speculating, which is what I understand by 'lots of ifs and buts'. There are plenty of young people drifting about who have no fixed address, having fallen out with their families or having left care on reaching adulthood. Do you know for sure that this term is mostly used by journalists to describe people who have been in a bail hostel?
In any case, what does it matter whether the accused was in a bail hostel or not? At least the people in the bail hostel are known to the authorities. There are plenty of violent, impulsive, amoral people living in South London who are not currently under any supervision at all. Fortunately they are massively outnumbered by the rest of us.
It's also a term agreed by the authorities to conceal an address.
Homeless can also be used to describe a number of persons who are not in fact homeless. All sort of issues may be taking place, cruelty by parent, etc. This would make them vulnerable and homeless -but should not as far as police are concerned.
In this case I mention it because I have seen it with other bailed to appear, convicted persons and so on.
Fortunately speculation is not yet restricted, or unlawful.
Err...two people have been CHARGED.
Shouldn't any speculation be stopped, forthwith?
thanks for updating.
Speculation can be prejudicial to a trial and can I think in the worst cases lead to a trial being abandoned so I suggest Reg and others stop.
Talking of hostels, i see they are asking for planning permission to change the care home on Manor Av to a hostel.
Given that it was suggested that I focus on crime too much a few threads back, I simply asked whether it's such a good idea to be giving a running commentary of local crime. These types of stories do affect the way you feel about an area. Especially people who might be thinking of moving to an area.
Charlie, you reacted to one incident by declaring it to be a sign that the End Times had arrived. I am reporting the facts of a major incident without jumping to any conclusions. The two things are obviously quite different.
Nick I simply asked a series of questions, in part to try and get a discussion going to get a better sense of the extent of crime in the area.
Because to my mind, unfortunately there does appear to be rather a lot and of particular audacious variety.
This, a shooting, daylight mugging, a serial sex attacker, machete wielders, burgulary sprees it does seem to go on and on.
But maybe it's just my perception, fuelled by these types of threads! Hence the question!
1. This site didn't report the daylight mugging, it was raised by a reader in one discussion.
2. The machete wielder was arrested without anyone being harmed.
3. The night stalker crimes took place over many many years, none of them occurred here and the guy arrested lived in Southwark.
4. Burglaries happen everywhere - there's been a national upward trend.
Brockley is a large chunk of London and this site has been reporting major incidents for nearly five years. You can either look at individual incidents and try and discern a trend or you can look at the actual statistics, which this site also reports and which declare Brockley to be decidedly average by London standards.
Thanks to the improvised but sterling work of the police no one was hurt, but there was a real sense of menace in that incident.
Regarding the serial sex attacker yes that's right the chap did not live in this town, so i found it particularly unfortunate that he kept getting attached to here. Not helped by the threads you created on the story, however.
Look, Nick I think you do an excellent job, with this site to pump up Brockley, but this banging on about crime, I'm not sure that it helps. There was also a story about a teenage girl involved in a killing thing, some time back too. It really can be a bit much.
Charlie, the purpose of this site is to help people understand their area better. If it has a propaganda element, it's to celebrate the best of the area, not to pretend that Brockley is the only place in London that crime does not exist.
The site doesn't spend a lot of time reporting crime nor do we ever engage in hyperbole about crime. I'm happy with the balance we strike and if you look at the coverage of the nightstalker case, it was all over the national news that the guy was from Brockley, I pointed out that he wasn't really.
If someone reads a story on here and gets put off, well then I'll be happy that we have one less person without a sense of perspective living in the area. I'll also be glad that we gave them the information they needed to make a choice that works for them.
If you're so worried about what people might be think when they read this thread, then perhaps you should avoid cataloguing every bad thing that has happened in the area during the talkback?
Pete, speculation cannot be prejudicial to a crime, nor can a question.
A jury must try a case based on the evidence.
Even if a jury member were to take these questions as 'leading', then a judge would in the first instance direct them to not read the Internet, and where they had done so to ignore it.
If I said Harry had killed before, Harry is a totally fictitious character so please don't let your sensibilities run awry, it should not matter to a jury; who must try the case based on the evidence - and not Harry's 'previous'.
Leave the directions of the jury to the learned judge.
"A jury must try a case based on the evidence."
Unlike your baseless speculation about the circumstances surrounding the suspects. What are you McTaggart?
Reg...two newspapers speculated about Christopher Jefferies and found themselves on a charge of contempt.
Mr Jefferies was merely arrested, these two men have been CHARGED.
I think the stories that relate to crime are interesting and important.
If you look at the local press, it does, indeed make for grim reading in papers like the SE London Press and News Shopper. At the opposite extreme, the outpourings of Lewisham council are relentlessly positive, very like a corporate magazine. Both are misleading and unbalanced.
For a long time I thought this blog tended too much towards the latter extreme with little coverage of the local incidents.
I hyperlocal site like this can provide a good service in reporting local concerns. Brockley is a part of inner London and can be expected to have a certain amount of local villainy. It seems to me to quite an appropriate subject, though I guess it might annoy those obsessed by the market value of property.
"one less person without a sense of perspective living in the area"
off you go then Nick
Clear Horizons
Fortunately Nick has very broad shoulders, which makes him immune to narrow minded comments such as yours.
Nick has done a great service to Brockley in maintaining this site and in no way deserves to be the recipient of comments such as yours.
what's wrong with 'a sense of perspective'?
Well done is what I can say, and good for brockley to help clean the place up. That evening on route home from the Jam we found him, it was quite scary not knowing what happend and that we could cross who ever did this then and each time we we walk past that passage way... Its good Brockley central reports this news.
Sorry but that previous comment doesn't ring true. If you were that bothered you would seek out news on the story. the South London Press website is quite easily accessed is it not?
And, as if to hammer home the point that this thread was not bizarre enough, Chief Inspector Kolp wades in with further speculation about the validity of a posters comment.
Not heard of the South London Press?.. Gotcha!
yes there is a point in posting these things and the man who was killed happened to be my best friend


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ORRINGTON, Maine — A predawn house fire Saturday that claimed the lives of four members of a local family left residents of this small Penobscot County town reeling from shock and sadness.
The four who died in the fire at 580 Dow Road were identified as 30-year-old Ben Johnson III, his sons Ben, 9, and Ryan, 4, and 8-year-old daughter, Leslie, state public safety officials said Saturday.
The sole survivor of the fire was wife and mother Christine Johnson, 31. On Sunday, Johnson remained at Eastern Maine Medical Center, where she was being treated for smoke inhalation. She initially was listed in serious condition but her medical condition since has improved, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Sunday evening.
State investigators continued to comb the charred structure on Sunday searching for the cause of the fire, which was reported at 2:38 a.m. Saturday. Preliminary results of that investigation could be released sometime Monday, McCausland said.
The people who were the first to arrive on the scene of the fire said it appeared that Ben Johnson died after putting his wife out of harms way on a breezeway roof and then going back inside the burning house to save his children.
Neighbors Terri and Doug Winslow said they were alerted to the emergency by Christine Johnson's pleas for help.
Terri Winslow said she was awake when the fire broke out shortly after 2:30 a.m. on Saturday.
"I heard someone holler 'Help!'" Winslow said in an interview Sunday morning outside her home. She said she initially thought it was an animal noise from the nearby woods but kept listening nonetheless.
"I heard it again and I woke my husband up and I asked him if he heard it," she said. "And then we heard 'Help, please, help.' When I heard 'please' I knew it was a person. So we jumped out of bed and looked out the window and saw just orange light coming from that direction," she said, referring to the Johnson's home just down the road.
"I wasn't sure what it was so I jumped on the phone and called 911. While I was talking to them, I was hollering out my window to her, just letting her know that we were getting help. And that's when she said that her husband and kids were still in the house," she said. Winslow said she could hear Ben and Christine Johnson talking to each other from across the yard.
"They were talking and it was anxious. like you can imagine. I could hear him talking but I couldn't tell what he said," she said.
"I told them — 911 — what was going on in the house and to hurry," Terri Winslow said, pausing briefly to regain her composure.
The Winslows put their coats on, grabbed some extra jackets, and ran down the hill to the Johnsons' home. When they arrived, Christine Johnson was on the roof of a breezeway connecting the house to the garage behind it.
"She's, as you can imagine, frantic and said, 'They went the wrong way, they went the wrong way,'" Terri Winslow said.
"I'm thinking her husband put her out the window and went back in for the kids because she (Terri Winslow) heard him talk to her before we got out of the house," Doug Winslow said.
Doug Winslow said Christine Johnson "was thinking they went down the stairs to the front door because the stairs emptied out right down to the front door, right in the middle of the house, right behind the fireplace," a brick hearth with a woodstove set inside.
The Winslows told her "to stay put, that she was safe and not try to get down," Terri Winslow said. Johnson told them she thought the door was unlocked.
"We ran around the house [to the] back door. My husband threw a birdbath through the window and hollered in to see if we could hear any reaction but there was nothing," she said. She said she was able to open the back door but the fire and smoke inside had built to the point that it was unsafe to enter.
The Winslows said that after a while they could hear glass breaking and parts of the house collapsing.
"You know, the worst thing is when you're standing 30 feet away from someone who's dying or dead and there's nothing you can do," Doug Winslow said. "That's the definition of helplessness."
When fire crews arrived, the distraught wife and mother told firefighters she was fine and to save her family, the Winslows said. Soon after that, firefighters helped her down from the roof.
"We covered her up and we just held her," Terri Winslow said.
Orrington Fire Chief Mike Spencer said firefighters were forced to withdraw shortly after entering the house because conditions were too unsafe. McCausland said the bodies of Johnson and the three children were found a short time after firefighters entered the burning house.
Dave and Brenda Chase, who live across the street from the demolished home, remembered Ben Johnson as a hard worker who held a full time job at the Bangor Walmart Supercenter and a part time job as a dealer at Hollywood Casino.
Dave Chase said Johnson was excited about being close to buying his first home. Brenda Chase said she sometimes helped Christine with home improvement projects.
The Chases liked all three of the Johnson kids. They said the younger Ben was protective of his younger siblings and Leslie adored her mother. Ryan was "a tough little guy" who was always trying to ride his bicycle too close to the road and played mailbox pranks on them.
"He would put the red flag up and I would put it back down and he would put it back up again, David Chase said.
Until Saturday, life had been looking good for the couple, according to coworkers and friends. Christine Johnson, who had been writing out of their home, in October celebrated the release of her paranormal fantasy novel, The Quest for the Enchanted Stone.
Ken Goetz, casino manager at Hollywood Casino in Bangor, remembered Ben Johnson as an employee who customers and colleagues alike enjoyed.
"He was always happy, always smiling," Goetz said. "He was one of our best dealers." Saturday was a difficult day at the casino, which provided quiet space for coworkers who needed that as well as counseling and other support through the company's human resources and employee assistance programs.
"It's just a tragic situation," he said. "I don't think there are words to describe it. People including myself were devastated. It's heartbreaking. I don't think anybody will ever be able to make sense of something like this."
Goetz said that last week, Ben Johnson — who usually worked the Thursday night shift — had asked to work dayside instead so he and his wife could host their first Thanksgiving dinner in the home they moved into about six months ago. Goetz said that instead, he gave his employee the entire day off.
"You should have seen the smile on his face as he walked away," Goetz recalled.
Matthew Johnson, a close friend Ben Johnson but not a relative, is working at the Hollywood Casino to put together a benefit for the fire's survivors.
He said that Ben, with whom he graduated from George Stevens Academy in 2000, Christine and the children had lived in several area communities, including Brewer, Bucksport and Bangor, before finding their dream home on Dow Road.
Despite the recent good years, Matt Johnson said Sunday that Saturday's tragedy was not the first for his friends, who lost a child before giving birth to Ryan.
Superintendent Allan Snell said Saturday that Orrington school officials were briefed on the tragedy early that morning and notified staff at Center Drive School, where the younger Ben Johnson was in fourth grade and his sister, Leslie Johnson, was a third grader.
"They were both great kids, very nice kids," Center Drive School Principal Roy Allen said early Saturday afternoon. "This is just such a tragedy. It's going to be devastating for the kids because it's such a small school and everybody knows everybody."
Snell and Allen said that the school already is seeing an outpouring of support, both from the community and nearby school units that have offered to provide assistance with grief counseling and any other services that are needed. Snell said local fire officials also have offered to be at the school if they are needed.
Despite Veterans Day observances on Monday, Snell and Allen said the school will be open from noon to 3 p.m. Monday for anyone who wants to come in and reflect. One or more counselors will be on hand during those hours, they said. They said that a crisis team is being mobilized for Tuesday, when classes resume.
The bodies of the four family members were taken to Augusta for autopsies. The results were still pending late Sunday.
Funeral arrangements, which are being handled by Brookings Smith Funeral Home, had yet to be set as of Sunday night.
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All that tract or parcel of land lying, being and situate in Land Lot 244, Second Land District, Appling County, Georgia, containing 0 800 acres, more or less Said tract being bound, now or formerly as follows North by lands of Dale Atkins, East by Tract 7 as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 18, page 100, Appling County, Georgia, deed records, South by Corey Street and West by Tract 9 as shown on a plat recorded in Plat Book 18, page too, Appling County, Georgia, deed records Said tract is more fully shown and described as Tract 8, according to a plat of survey by Everett Tomberlin and Associates, certified by Everett Tomberlin, G R L S No 2922, dated February 13, 2008, and recorded in Plat Book 19, page 14, in the office of the Clerk, Superior Court, Appling County, Georgia, and by reference incorporated herein and made a part hereof for descriptive and all legal purposes
Said property is known as 317 Corey Street, Baxley, GA 31513, together with all fixtures and personal property attached to and constituting a part of said property, if any.
Said property will be sold subject to any outstanding ad valorem taxes (including taxes which are a lien, whether or not now due and payable), the right of redemption of any taxing authority, any matters which might be disclosed by an accurate survey and inspection of the property, any assessments, liens, encumbrances, zoning ordinances, restrictions, covenants, and matters of record superior to the Security Deed first set out above.
The proceeds of said sale will be applied to the payment of said indebtedness and all expenses of said sale as provided in said Deed, and the balance, if any, will be distributed as provided by law.
The sale will be conducted subject (1) to confirmation that the sale is not prohibited under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and (2) to final confirmation and audit of the status of the loan with the secured creditor.
The property is or may be in the possession of Jonathan Kyle Courson and Amanda Nicole Courson, successor in interest or tenant(s).
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. as Attorney-in-Fact for Jonathan Kyle Courson and Amanda Nicole Courson
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The SPIE Mirror Technology SBIR/STTR Workshop was held in Rochester, NY this year at the end of July. This is always a good conference for BMC, and we go every year. The conference can best be summarized from their website:
Tech Days annually summarizes the USA Government's investment strategies and activities in developing technology for any application (such as telescopes, imaging systems, seeker/trackers, high-energy laser systems, solar energy, etc.) which requires optical components. Tech Days covers technology investment efforts in: optical materials; substrate design & manufacture; optical fabrication and metrology technology; optical coatings; wavefront sensing and control via adaptive optics; nano-technology imaging technologies; etc.
I highlighted the text for emphasis as to why we attend: You can see why this is a great place for BMC to be. We get to present the latest progress on our NASA SBIRs (of which we have 4 ongoing), see some of the other great research that is going on in the field, and learn from the NASA Program Scientist what the future needs are for mirror technology. Also this year, BMC was a sponsor/exhibitor. This gave us a chance to set up a table displaying some mirrors and information about our products and technology. It was in a great spot at the conference where lunch, coffee breaks and the Tuesday night reception were held. While the conference was not as big as some other SPIE events (e.g. Photonics West and Optics and Photonics), it was a great opportunity to meet with some key people.
A couple of takeaways from the meeting were
(1) NASA SBIR/STTR program is strong and growing.
They are using the research funding they have for strategic programs that will help with technology development, which was called out in the decadal survey as an, if not the, important push for the next ten years.
(2) There is a continuing need for BMC mirror technology.
There are a number of projects that will require the wavefront control that our DMs can provide.
Both of these items point to a rich future for BMC and the deformable mirror industry as a whole. We look forward to connecting with these folks again next year and for many years to come.


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l = (f + 1)n alpha baker needs beta help
I'm having a discussion with myself here regarding a formula I found to calculate layers in laminated dough.
l = (f + 1)n
L being # of finished layers, F # of folds and N being the # of times the dough is folded.
Seriously lacking in the math department myself it probably is a better idea to ask for help!
I understand the formula, but I'm uncertain as to where the formula starts counting. Here is my point: if I lock in the butter, which I wouldn't "count" as a "fold", I start out with 3 layers anyway, right? So... that will effect the total number of layers by an extra factor of 3... or am I completely nuts.
Or is it just as simple as this: one sheet of dough with butter locked in= one layer?
Any pointers?
Thanks for helping me out
P.S. You would do me a big favor endorsing my BreadLab iniative. Every "like" will get me closer to realizing a 6 episode documentary/road movie; chasing the best bread Europe has to offer. Thanks in advance!


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Color Me Confident Teen Bedroom Decorating Idea
Fearless, passionate color is a decorating idea that electrifies these teen rooms with individuality and youthful flair. The eye appeal of this space illustrates an established decorating rule: You can use a variety of strong colors in one room if they're of a similar intensity that creates balance.
Color is the most compelling, emotionally charged element in any decorating scheme, and, for many youngsters, identifying a favorite color is important to developing a sense of self. This cheerful room shows how far you can go to indulge a favorite hue or two -- and still have a room you won't need to close the door on.
So go ahead and indulge your child in his or her best-loved shades. Simple treatments and a few well-placed neutrals can tame the mix in style.
On the next page, you'll learn how you and your teen can play around with the colors you've chosen.


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Category: Non-Historical Miniatures
Rules: HeroClix (2012 Core)
Cost: $2.00
Duration: 1 hour
Host: unknown (WizKids)
Age requirement: Everyone (6+)
Experience requirement: None (You've never played before)
Are materials provided: No
Location: Indiana Convention Center, room Hall C : Wizkids, table HQ
Tickets: 2 out of 2 are available (as of 1:30 AM Saturday August 25th, 2012, but this information may be out of date.)
Official site: Check the official site for the most up to date information and to purchase tickets. You must be logged in at the official site for this to work.
Time slot: Thu Aug 16 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Event added: Wed May 23 2:34 pm
Want to play your friend in a HeroClix game but you decide the rules? This event is for you. You and your friend play any type of event you want and you will be rewarded with a Print and Play card.


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|Pretty-in-Pink Swiss Swirl Ice Cream Cake
The July 2010 Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Sunita of Sunita's world – life and food. Sunita challenged everyone to make an ice-cream filled Swiss roll that's then used to make a bombe with hot fudge. Her recipe is based on an ice cream cake recipe from Taste of Home.
4 large eggs
1 large egg yolk
1/3 cup sifted cake flour
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon granulated white sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
pink food colouring gel (optional)
What to do for Sponge Cake:
Preheat oven to 450 degrees F and place oven rack in bottom third of oven. Using a silpat or greased and floured parchment paper cover a 17 inch x 12 inch baking pan.
While eggs are still cold separate two of the eggs, placing the yolks in one large mixing bowl and the whites in another bowl. To the two yolks, add the additional yolk, and the two remaining eggs. Cover the two bowls with saran wrap and allow the eggs to come to room temperature before using - about 20minutes.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl whisk together the sifted cake flour and cornstarch.
Place the egg yolks, along with 1/2 cup of granulated white sugar, in your electric mixer, fitted with the paddle attachment. Beat on high speed for 4-5 minutes, or until thick, pale yellow, and fluffy. It will have tripled in volume. At this point beat in the vanilla extract.
Sift half the flour mixture over the egg yolk mixture and fold in gently with a rubber spatula, just until the flour is incorporated. Sift the remaining flour mixture into the batter and fold in gently.
In a clean mixing bowl (any fat in bowl will prevent stiff peaks from forming). With a whisk attachment, beat the egg whites until foamy. Add the cream of tartar and continue beating until soft peaks form. Sprinkle in the remaining one tablespoon granulated white sugar and beat until stiff peaks form. Gently fold in the whites until just incorporated. Pour the batter into the prepared pan, evenly spreading the cake batter with an offset spatula or knife. With a toothpick or two, swirl pink food colouring gel into batter very gently. If needed, gently smooth batter once more.
Bake for about 7 minutes or until golden brown. A toothpick inserted in the center will come out clean and the cake, when lightly pressed, will spring back.
Immediately upon removing the cake from the oven invert the sponge cake onto a clean dish towel that has been sprinkled with confectioners sugar. Carefully remove the parchment paper, sprinkle lightly with confectioners (powdered or icing) sugar, and roll up the sponge, with the towel, while it is still hot and pliable. Place on a wire rack to cool.
OR, if using the silpat, roll the cake in the sponge. Roll it along the long side of the cake. (i.e. the roll will be 17 inches long).
Filling for Roll
1 jar of lemon curd mixed with 2 cups of whipped cream or whipped topping.
Assembly of roll
Unroll the cake and spread with lemon curd mixture. Gently loosen cake (may want to use a knife or metal spatula to loosen) from silpat and re roll the cake.
Place in fridge until needed.
Ingredients for vanilla ice cream
2 and ½ C of whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
½ cup of Castor sugar
1. In a mixing bowl, add the cream, vanilla and sugar and whisk lightly till everything is mixed together.
2. Pour into a freezer friendly container and freeze till firm around the edges. Remove from the freezer, beat till smooth and return to the freezer. Do this 3-4 times and then set completely
Strawberry Ice Cream
1/2 cup granulated sugar
8 ounces softened cream cheese
3 large egg yolks
1 tsp. vanilla extract or 1 vanilla bean
3 cups half-and-half
1 heaping tsp. fresh lemon zest, grated
1 1/2 cup strawberries
1/4 cup brown sugar
1. Beat sugar and cream cheese together until smooth and creamy.
2. Beat in egg yolks and vanilla (if using liquid); set aside.
3. Dice strawberries and mash a few times with fork or potato masher.
4. Mix strawberries and brown sugar in small bowl; set aside.
5. Pour half-and-half into heavy saucepan.
6. If using vanilla bean, splice in half and scratch out inside of pod. Add to half and half.
7. Bring half and half to a low simmer.
8. Slowly mix the hot cream into the cheese mixture.
9. Pour mixture back into saucepan and heat over medium - low heat. Stir constantly until custard thickens slightly. Be careful not to boil or the egg may will scramble. About 5 minutes.
10. Remove from heat.
11.Allow mixture to cool for 20 minutes or so.
12. Add lemon zest.
13. Cover and refrigerate 4 hours or longer.
14. Stir chilled custard; freeze in your ice cream machine according to manufacturer's instructions.
15. Add strawberries when ice cream is semi-frozen and allow machine to mix in.
Assembly of Swirl Ice Cream Cake
1. Cut the Swiss rolls into 30ish equal slices (approximately 1 cm each).
2. Cover the bottom and sides of the bowl in which you are going to set the dessert with cling film/plastic wrap.
3. Arrange two slices at the bottom of the pan, with their seam sides facing each other. Arrange the Swiss roll slices up the bowl, with the seam sides facing away from the bottom, to cover the sides of the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and freeze till the slices are firm (at least 30 minutes).
4. Soften the vanilla ice cream. Take the bowl out of the freezer, remove the cling film cover and add the ice cream on top of the cake slices. Spread it out to cover the bottom and sides of the bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and freeze till firm (at least 1 hour)
5. Add the fudge sauce over the vanilla ice cream, cover and freeze till firm. (at least an hour)
6. Soften the chocolate ice cream and spread it over the fudge sauce. Cover with plastic wrap and freeze for at least 4-5 hours till completely set.
7. Remove the plastic cover, and place the serving plate on top of the bowl. Turn it upside down and remove the bowl and the plastic lining. If the bowl does not come away easily, wipe the outsides of the bowl with a kitchen towel dampened with hot water. The bowl will come away easily.
8. Keep the cake out of the freezer for at least 10 minutes before slicing, depending on how hot your region is. Slice with a sharp knife, dipped in hot water.
The cake is great! But to be honest, I would buy the ice cream and sauce pre-made. Next time I will use nutella as the cake filling with coffee and chocolate ice cream.


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Oracle Software Development Manager- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure team in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Manage a team that designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
As a manager of the software engineering division, you will apply your knowledge of software architecture to manage software development tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing software applications, operating systems and databases according to provided design specifications. Build enhancements within an existing software architecture and suggest improvements to the architecture.
Manages and controls activities in multi-functional areas of sections. Ensures appropriate operational planning is effectively executed to meet Corporate specifications. Demonstrated leadership and people management skills. Strong communication skills, analytical skills, thorough understanding of product development. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area. 4 years of software engineering or related experience.
Oracle is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and protected veterans status or any other characteristic protected by law.
Oracle is an Affirmative Action-Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veterans status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Cloud Infrastructure Group (Seattle, WA)
Are you interested in building large-scale distributed infrastructure for the cloud? Oracle s Cloud Infrastructure team is building new Infrastructure-as-a-Service technologies that operate at high scale in a broadly distributed multi-tenant cloud environment. Our customers run their businesses on our cloud, and our mission is to provide them with best in class compute, storage, networking,
database, security, and an ever expanding set of foundational cloud-based services.
We re looking for Manager of Software Development with expertise and passion in solving difficult problems in distributed systems, virtualized infrastructure, and highly available services. If this is you, at Oracle you can design and build innovative new systems from the ground up. These are exciting times in our space - we are growing fast, still at an early stage, and working on ambitious new initiatives.
As a Manager of Software Development you will lead the software development team and development for major components of Oracle s Cloud Infrastructure.
You should be a distributed systems generalist, able to architect broad systems interactions, while being very
hands-on, able to dive deep into any part of the stack and lower level system interactions. You should value simplicity and scale, work comfortably in a collaborative, agile environment, and be excited to learn.
Candidate will be responsible for providing leadership, direction and strategy
Establishing and development of organization to meet and execute on strategy.
Working with geographically distributed teams and contribute to the success of his/her and other related teams.
Delivering large scale project on-time with the high quality
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4 years experience delivering and operating large scale, highly available distributed systems.
Strong knowledge of C, C or Java, and experience with scripting languages such as Python, Perl, etc.
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Working familiarity with networking protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP) and standard network architectures.
Strong understanding of databases, NoSQL systems, storage and distributed persistence technologies.
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Requisition ID: 20000FBV
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Domain Broker Service: A Seller's Roadmap
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Poor Jersey Shore cast. When will you finally find somewhere you truly belong (outside of your native city, that is)?
Alessandra Mussolini (yes, granddaughter of that Mussolini) has "been telling Italian newspapers that she is outraged that the mayor of Florence, Matteo Renzi, is allowing the cast of the "tamarri" Italians (the Italian term for what Americans call "guidos") to film in the city that birthed the Renaissance."
Mussolini has also referred to the mayor's decision to allow filming of Season 4 in the streets of Michelangelo, Galileo, and Botticelli as "pure madness" and "shameful". While the mayor has allowed the use of public land, use of the Uffizi, a renowned art museum in Florence, as well as access to other national treasures, has been expressly forbidden to the cast members and their crew.
Folks, it finally happened. Prince William and Kate Middleton are finally parents…to a baby penguin. The royal couple has adopted a baby penguin named Acorn: "Given as a wedding gift, officials at the northwest England zoo say the animal will remain in his habitat with 49 other Humbolt penguins."Hopefully the happy couple will come and see little Acorn playing in his pool very soon," a zoo spokesman said Friday."
Taylor Swift will allow fans to watch her rehearse in an effort to raise money for victims of the recent tornados. The 'Speak Now...Help Now' event, which will allow 13,000 fans to get a sneak peak at her upcoming US tour before it begins, is set to take place on May 21. [Contact Music]
- In your daily dose of Chuckles news, Charlie Sheen feels really badly that his fans weren't able to see his Two And A Half Men character kill himself. [Contact Music]
- Lindsay Lohan's community service has already begun. [Contact Music]
- "It was, but I didn't have 16 million people watching! I only had, like, 100." —Reese Witherspoon comparing her recent wedding to the royal wedding. [Digital Spy]
- Jordan Sparks' latest single "I Am Woman" will be released on May 10. Hear it here first. [Just Jared]
- "This is hometown-girl hot. I'm definitely wearing some tight jeans in this movie." —Julianna Hough talks about the upcoming Footloose remake. [Just Jared]
- In case you somehow forgot, allow Lady Gaga to remind you. She "was put on this earth to cause a ruckus". [Digital Spy]
- Justin Beiber is going to tour Japan, with or without his crew (who are reportedly refusing to accompany him). [TMZ]
- "I'm happier than I've ever been in my entire life. So I feel completely content and complete." —Rachel Zoe on being a new mom. [People]
- Will Smith may be the lead in the new Quentin Tarantino movie. [ONTD]
- Pregnant January Jones looking adorable in black glasses and a nondescript (for Betty Draper, anyway) outfit. [People]