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The truffle weighed  and has entered the Guinness Book of Records.
The record price paid for a single white truffle was set in December 2007, when Macau casino owner Stanley Ho paid US$330,000 (£165,000) for a specimen weighing , discovered by Luciano Savini and his dog Rocco.
One of the largest truffles found in decades, it was unearthed near Pisa and sold at an auction held simultaneously in Macau, Hong Kong and Florence.
This record was then matched on November 27, 2010 when Ho again paid US$330,000 for a pair of white truffles including one weighing nearly a kilogram.
Looking for truffles in open ground is almost always carried out with specially trained pigs (hogs) or, more recently, dogs.
The Lagotto Romagnolo is the only dog breed recognized for sniffing out truffles (although virtually any breed could be trained for this purpose).
The female pig's natural truffle-seeking, as well as her intent to eat the truffle, is due to a compound in the truffle.
This compound is similar to androstenol, the sex pheromone of boar saliva, to which the sow is keenly attracted.
Truffles can be cultivated, but it is not easy.
The two world wars disrupted the growing of truffles in Europe, and changes in land use has reduced the available area.
Truffles are now being cultivated in Australia and New Zealand.
breeding, pictures,culinary recipes "  Species of Truffles, "hunting" techniques [en] & [ro]
Website of the North American Truffling Society
"In the throes of truffle fever" by Tyrone Beason, Seattle Times, January 4, 2007
Storage methods, preparations, and recipes
Sorting truffle names
"White Gold" by Fleur Kinson – the experience of a white truffle hunt and auction
Sweetbreads or ris are culinary names for the thymus or the pancreas glands especially of the calf (ris de veau) and lamb (ris d'agneau) (although beef and pork sweetbreads are also eaten).
Various other glands used as food have also been called 'sweetbreads', including the parotid gland, the sublingual glands, and testicles (cf.
Rocky Mountain oyster).
The "heart" sweetbreads are more spherical in shape, and surrounded symmetrically by the "throat" sweetbreads, which are more cylindrical in shape.
One common preparation of sweetbreads involves soaking in salt water, then poaching in milk, after which the outer membrane is removed.
They are also used for stuffing or in pâtés.
They are grilled in many Latin American cuisines, such as in the Argentine asado, and served in bread in Turkish cuisine.
The word "sweetbread" is first known in the 16th century, but the logic behind the name is unclear. "
Sweet" is perhaps used since the thymus is sweet and rich tasting, as opposed to savoury tasting muscle flesh. "
Bread" may come from brede 'roasted meat'.
Culinary name is the name of an ingredient when used in the kitchen for preparing food.
Sometimes the kitchen name is used because it sounds more attractive than the real name, or because a cheaper ingredient can be linked with a more expensive one.
The culinary name may also refer to a way of cooking or to a region, or using a particular ingredient
Sweetbreads, used because it sounds nicer than thymus or pancreas.
Lumpfish caviar, used give lumpfish eggs the sound of the more expensive sturgeon caviar.
Cassia bark is a cheaper substitute, but is called cinnamon in North America.
Florentine, meaning from the region of Florence, means the dish will include spinach.
Kenneth Lee Salazar (born March 2, 1955) is an American politician.
He is the United States Ambassador to Mexico since September 14, 2021.
Salazar was a member of the United States Senate from Colorado from 2005 until being appointed as the United States Secretary of the Interior in 2008 by President Barack Obama.
Salazar officially became secretary in 2009.
He resigned as secretary in 2013.
Salazar is a Democrat.
In May 2021, President Joe Biden nominated Salazar as the Ambassador to Mexico.
His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 11, 2021.
Salazar was born in Alamosa, Colorado.
He studied at Colorado College and at the University of Michigan.
United States senators from Colorado
Lawyers from New Mexico
He was born in Paris, the son of Auguste Casimir-Perier and the grandson of Casimir Pierre Perier, premier of Louis Philippe.
He entered public life as secretary to his father, who was minister of the interior under the presidency of Thiers.
On 17 August 1883 he became under-secretary of state for war, a post he retained until 7 January 1885.
From 1890 to 1892 he was vice-president of the chamber, then in 1893 president.
On 3 December he became prime-minister and foreign minister, but heresigned in May 1894, and was re-elected president of the chamber.
On 24 June 1894, after the assassination of President Carnot, he was elected president of the republic by 451 votes against 195 for Henri Brisson and 97 for Charles Dupuy.
He was president for only six months.
The day after Dupuy resigned, on 14 January 1895, Casimir-Perier resigned, saying he was ignored by the ministers, who did not consult him before taking decisions, and did not keep him informed upon political events, especially in foreign affairs.
From that time he completely abandoned politics, and devoted himself to business - especially mining.
At the trial of Alfred Dreyfus at Rennes, Casimir-Perier's evidence, as opposed to that of General Mercier, was of great value to the cause of Dreyfus.
Hilda Solis (born October 20, 1957) is an American politician.
She is currently a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1.
Before being elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1, she was the United States Secretary of Labor from 2009 to 2013.
Solis was a member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 32nd congressional district before being elected as the Secretary of Labor.
Prior to being a U.S. Representative, she was a California State Senator and a member of the California State Assembly.
She was the first Hispanic woman to serve in the California State Senate.
Solis is a Democrat.
She was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for District 1 on June 3, 2014.
She was sworn in on December 1, 2014.
Louis de Béchamel, marquis de Nointel (1630–1703) was a French financier and patron of the arts.
Son of Jean-Baptiste Béchamel, Louis was a rich tax farmer and superintendent to the house of the Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
In 1697, Béchamel bought the marquisat of Nointel and later became Louis XIV's head steward.
The white sauce called béchamel sauce (Fr.
sauce béchamel) acquired its name from him for he perfected an older sauce made from cream originally made by François Pierre de la Varenne (1615–1678), the cook of the marquis d'Uxelles.
The sauce was dedicated to Béchamel to flatter him, at which the Duke of Escars commented:
Kathleen Sebelius (born May 15, 1948) is an American politician.
She was the  United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2009 to 2014.
Before becoming the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sebelius was a governor from Kansas.
Time Magazine listed Sebelius as one of America's five best governors in 2005.
Sebelius is a Democrat.
She resigned on April 10, 2014.
Kansas Democrats
Lojze Grozde was a Slovenian student who was killed by partisans during World War II.
His death is recognised as martyrdom by the Catholic Church.
He was beatified on June 13, 2010.
Grozde was born on May 27, 1923 in the village of Gorenje Vodale, Tržišče  near Mokronog in Lower Carniola, Slovenia.
He was an illegitimate child.
When he was four years old, his mother married.
His stepfather chased him away each time he wanted to see his mother.
Later, because Lojze was a good pupil, the stepfather became friendlier towards him, and so he remained at the house and his aunt took care of him.
She saw to his schooling and sent him to a school in Ljubljana, where she was working as a servant.
Some benefactors helped her support her nephew.
He stayed at the Marijanišče boarding school and attended Classical Secondary School (Klasična gimnazija) in Ljubljana.
There he was an outstanding student; but found time for literary creativity too and so became poet and writer.
He was a member of Catholic Action  and a member of the Marian Congregation.
Towards the end of his high schooling World War II was approaching.
Circumstances were becoming increasingly strained.
This was also the time when Lojze had to make a decision about his vocation.
He sought his path in life through meditation and learning, in deep prayer, and in apostolic work for others.
During his summer vacation of 1942 he did not go home because there was a lot of violence and it was not easy to travel.
It was only for New Year 1943 that he decided to visit his relatives.
He asked for a permit to travel home.
First he visited a friend of his at the village of Struge.
On 1 January 1943, the first Friday, he attended mass at the monastery at Stična, where he received communion for the last time in his young life; then travelled by train from Ivančna Gorica to Trebnje, where he found he could not travel further because the rails had been destroyed.
He decided to continue to Mirna on foot, and on the way he rode in a cart.
By the first house at Mirna he had to get out of the cart because a partisan guard seized and interrogated him.
On him they found a devotional book, The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis and a booklet on Our Lady of Fatima.
He was taken to a nearby inn and interrogated, tortured, and killed.
Three hours earlier the seminarian Janez Hočevar, who wanted to visit his relatives in nearby Šentrupert, had been also shot.
Lojze Grozde was suspected of being an informant; the communists saw in him the mentality that they deprecated and persecuted.
On 23 February 1943 the fate of Lojze Grozde was partly revealed, indicating that he had been tortured.
Schoolchildren picking snowdrops found his corpse.
Although there were traces of torture on his body, the corpse itself was uncorrupted.
His body was taken to nearby Šentrupert, where a committee made a report.
The body of Lojze Grozde was buried at the cemetery in  Šentrupert because it was impossible to take it to his home parish of Tržišče under the difficult circumstances of those days.
The news of the violent torture and death of this innocent student struck fear among people and shocked the students in Ljubljana.
On the 50th anniversary of the death of Lojze Grozde, the Archdiocese of Ljubljana started a process to recognize his martyrdom and also his beatification and canonization.
When Pope John Paul II visited Slovenia for the first time in 1996, he mentioned Lojze Grozde twice.
He said, "The servant of God Lojze Grozde is just one of innumerable innocent victims of Communism that raise the palm of martyrdom as an indelible memory and admonition.
He was a disciple of Christ."
Pope Benedict XVI said that "saints are not the past, but they represent the present and the future of the Church and society.
They fully realized love in truth, which is the highest value in Christian life; their figures are like prisms that in various casts reflect the unique light of Christ."
On March 27, 2010 the news came from Rome that Pope Benedict XVI had affirmed the martyrdom of Lojze Grozde.
Thus a solemn beatification is allowed that took place at the Slovenian eucharistic congress in Celje on June 13, 2010.
In his introduction to the biography of Lojze Grozde by Anton Strle, who is also a candidate for sainthood, Taras Kermauner wrote: "Grozde combines the ardour and apostolate of Friderik Baraga, the asceticism and suffering of Janez Frančišek Gnidovec, a gift for organization, and the Slovenian national consciousness of Blessed Anton Martin Slomšek ... He symbolizes the entire martyrdom suffered by Christians and Catholic Slovenians during World War II and afterwards for their affiliation to their faith ... His personality should be returned to the common Slovenian consciousness of heroes that have been praised and elevated to the first plane as the only models.
Today a man like Grozde is needed as our model – a martyr, a saint.
Not a man of aggressive military action thinking he will put forward God with arms and the blood of other or foreign people ... I do not fear to write that Grozde belongs among the greatest young Slovenians; that his attitude is fitting and most precious."
Moj glas zliva se v prošnjo (My voice melts together in supplication - Slovenian) Documental Emission – Film on RTV Slovenia-1, Programm One.
Speaks Archbishop and Metropolite from Belgrade Stanislav Hočevar, Jesuit Miha Žužek and others.
Duhovni koledarček 1944, Sestavil župnik Gregor Mali, Ljubljana, Knjižice Nr.
239/240 from 1 December 1943.
Narte Velikonja, Malikovanje zločina, in: Wikivir.
Anton Strle, Slovenski mučenec Lojze Grozde, Založba Knjižice, Ljubljana 1991.
Milanka Dragar: ZVEST KRIŽANEMU, Knjiga o Grozdetu, Ljubljana 2010, Založba Dragar, 518 pages, .
Anton Strle: Un martyr des temps modernes.
Aloïs Grozdé, 1923-1943, Paris 1957
Miroslav Slana:Slovenski sij svetosti.
Mladi mučenec Lojze Grozde, Maribor 2001 .
Anton Pust, Zdravko Reven, Božidar Slapšak, Palme mučeništva: Ubiti in pomorjeni slovenski duhovniki, redovniki in bogoslovci in nekateri verni laiki, Celje 1995.
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Papež Janez Pavel II.
v Sloveniji, Bog blagoslovi predrago Slovenijo, Edition Družina, 160 pages, Ljubljana 1996,
Saints-SQPN-com: Blessed Lojze Grozde
Diocese Novo mesto
Dnevnik, Internet, liberal daily newspaper
Internet of Christian youth
Moj glas zliva se v prošnjo – Documental emission, RTV Slovenija
Szilárd Ignác Bogdánffy (21 February 1911 – 3 October 1953) was a Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare and Oradea of the Latins.
On October 30, 2010 he was proclaimed blessed in a ceremony  held in St. Mary's Basilica, Oradea, Romania, being recognized as a martyr of the Communist period.
Szilárd Bogdánffy was born on February 21, 1911 in the village of Feketetõ, then part of Torontal district, Austria-Hungary; today called Crna Bara, near the town of Kikinda, district Northern Banat, autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia.
He lived there with his family until 1925.
He was baptized in the parish church of Čoka to which his village belonged and where his father was a cantor.
Study and priesthood
Bogdánffy went to elementary school in Crna Bara, until 1925 when the Bogdánffy family moved to Timişoara  a city in Eastern part of Banat.
There he went to the Piarists high school.
After his final exams, he was accepted to the Catholic seminary of the Latin-rite Diocese of Oradea.
He was ordained  a priest by the bishop of Oradea Stefan Fiedler on the June 29, 1934.
He continued his studies at the University of Budapest, where he earned a PhD in philosophy and dogmatics (with a thesis on “Apocalyptics in the Synoptic Gospels”).
Upon his return to Romania he became professor of the Catholic seminary in Oradea and confessor at the Ursuline convent in the city.
In 1939 he was followed by the Royal Romanian Secret Services for alleged anti-Romanian activity.
During World War II – because he was hiding Jews – he was also interrogated by the  Hungarian Fascist „Nyílás” gendarmes.
Bishop in secret
After the end of the war, the new Romanian communist leadership started a campaign against Christian (especially against the catholic Christian) religion.
As a consequence, the Vatican allowed secret consecration of bishops.
Dr. Szilárd Bogdánffy was consecrated as bishop of Oradea of the Latins and auxiliary bishop of Satu Mare on February 14, 1949 by  Gerald Patrick O’Hara, Regent of the Apostolic Nunciature to Bucharest.
The new bishop was arrested and imprisoned only two months later.
He had previously been approached, on several occasions, by representatives o the regime, with the request that he lead an "independent Romanian Latin-rite Church, with no ties to the Vatican" which he adamantly refused.
Until his death he spent four years as a captive in various prisons throughout Romania, including the evil reputed Capul-Midia camp.
He fell seriously ill, being affected by bad conditions and regular tortures.
In Aiud Prison, as the Byzantine rite Catholic bishop of Lugoj, Ioan Ploscaru recalled, Bishop Bogdánffy was "humble and serene, always ready to help his fellow sufferers".
Although lying with serious pneumonia, the prison doctor refused him the necessary medication claiming he was not worthy of it.
He died in solitary confinement on October 3rd, 1953 in the prison of Aiud, Romania.
His beatification took place on October 30th, 2010, in Oradea.
Saint mass with 200 priests, 42 bishops and two cardinals guided and during it preached  Cardinal Péter Erdő, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Council of European Bishops' Conferences (CCEE).
The same ceremony of beatification was presided by the Cardinal and Archbishop Angelo Amato, President of the Congregation for causes of the Saints.
He is the first Catholic martyred during the Communist regime in Romania to be elevated to the honor of the altars.
Ioan Ploscaru, Lanțuri și teroare, Editura Signata, Timișoara, 1993, pag.
185-189.
László Böcskei püspök: Imafüzet (Isten Szolgája/Boldog) Bogdánffy Szilárd vértanú püspökhöz, Rómaikatolikus Püspökség Nagyvárad 2010 pages 36.
Online-Encyclopedia: Szilárd Bogdánffy
magnificat.ro
Report about new Blessed
News: Erdély ma
Erdély ma from: 6.
Catholic Newspaper: Magyar Kurír
Trevor Bayne (born February 19, 1991) is an American race car driver.
Until 2019, Bayne drove the No.
6 Ford Fusion for Roush Fenway Racing.
On February 20, 2011 Trevor Bayne won the 2011 Daytona 500.
Bayne is the youngest driver to win the Daytona 500.
Trevor Bayne started racing Go-Karts when he was 5 years old.
Bayne won over 300 races and 22 championships in Go-Karts.
In 2005, Bayne started racing in the Allison Legacy Series.
He drove in 22 races, and won 12 of those races.
In 2006, Bayne raced for Team Rensi in the USAR Pro Hooters Cup, and he won the Rookie of the Year award at age of 15.
In 2007, Bayne left Team Rensi to race for Dale Earnhardt, Inc.
For the 2008 season, Bayne drove the #1 car for Dale Earnhardt Incorporated in the NASCAR Camping World East Series.
Bayne had 6 Top 5's, two poles and one win at Thompson International Speedway in his 6th start.
In the 2009 season Bayne made his first NASCAR Nationwide Series start for Means Racing in the #52 Taco Bell Chevrolet at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Bayne also agreed to drive the #99 Aarons Toyota for Michael Waltrip Racing for 8 races.
Bayne got his career best finish at O'Reilly Raceway Park when he finished 7th.
In September 2010, Bayne left Diamond-Waltrip Racing and went to drive for Roush-Fenway Racing.
He will drive for Roush-Fenway Racing in the 2011 season in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
He made his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start in the 2010 AAA Texas 500 at Texas Motor Speedway with Wood Brothers Racing.
Bayne is the first driver to compete in one of the top three NASCAR series to be born in 1991.
Bayne drove the #21 Wood Brothers Racing Ford in 17 Sprint Cup Series races in 2011.
He did not competing for the Rookie of the Year award because he was racing the full Nationwide Series season.
Bayne won his first Sprint Cup Series race in his second race ever, the 2011 Daytona 500.
This win makes him the second youngest driver ever to win a Sprint Cup Series race, and the youngest ever driver to win the Daytona 500.
In 2015 Bayne started racing full time in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing.
Stories and photos about Travor Bayne from the Knoxville News Sentinel
Video interview with Travor Bayne
Yahoo Driver Page
Ambrosia are a pop rock music group.
It formed in the Los Angeles area around 1970.
They had many radio hits in the 1970s, although much of the material is progressive in nature.
The founding members of Ambrosia grew up in southern California.
Ambrosia (1975)
Somewhere I've Never Travelled (1976)
Life Beyond L.A. (1978)
One Eighty (1980)
Road Island (1982)
Miguel Olivo (born July 15, 1978) is a Major League Baseball player from Villa Vasquez, Dominican Republic.
Olivo plays as a catcher for the Seattle Mariners.
In 1996, Olivo was signed as a free agent by the Oakland Athletics.
In December, 2000, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox for Chad Bradford.
Olivo made his Major League Baseball debut on September 15, 2002, for the Chicago White Sox.
On December 9, 2010, Olivo signed a two year, seven million dollar deal with the Seattle Mariners.
It is being used in more and more cities in the USA.
Volunteeers conduct a survey of people living in homeless shelters, warming centers and people who do not have any housing at all.
The  vulnerability index is from the work of Dr. Jim O'Connell of Boston's Healthcare for the Homeless.
A national drive is underway by Common Ground to  work with the HUD homeless count.
These include Charlotte, North Carolina, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Santa Monica, California.
Common Ground is a nonprofit social services organization.
It provides housing for the homeless and others.
Their philosophy holds that housing costs less than homeless shelters.
It also costs many times less than jail cells or hospital rooms, They also believe that people with psychiatric and other problems can better manage them once they have a place to live.
It was started in 1990 by Rosanne Haggerty.
Since then the organization has created more than 2,000 units of housing for the homeless. "
This is about creating a small town, rather than just a building," according to Haggerty. "
It’s about a real mixed society, working with many different people."
Haggerty’s work was recognized in 2001.
She was selected as a prize winner and received and award called a MacArthur Fellowship award.
The MacArthur Foundation praised her work in saving historic buildings, and fixing them up.
She used creative financing which means new ways to deal with banks and other organizations that provide money for housing.
Street To Home
Among Common Ground's activities is documentation of the homeless population.
In other words, to study them and write down what is going on so that people can figure out a plan of action.
Sometimes this is done while counting the homeless.
These counts are sometimes called "enumeration" because they put a number on how many homeless there are.
In these counts, there is a way of writing down who is most vulnerable, who is most in danger from being homeless.
This is called a vulnerability index.
Workers complete the vulnerability index by asking about medical problems.
Then they try to persuade those who spend the most time on the streets to seek permanent housing.
They do this even if the people still have drug, alcohol or medical problems.
Some of those involved in the issue of homelessness consider Common Ground a pioneer - someone who thinks up new ways to deal with old problems.
However, the count is not an end to itself, but a first step.
According to Becky Kanis, the Director of Common Ground’s "Innovations Department",
The important part is what we do with this information.
We want to move from crisis management to lasting solutions.
Other cities have done that successfully.
We plan to do the same. ...
At the real end of the day the only thing that’s going to matter is the people who have been ... unwilling to accept the offers of shelter... Can we reach them and make a positive difference in their lives?... "
Kanis states: "We don’t know exactly what’s going to work here in New York, but we know what’s worked in other cities.
Therefore, we’re going to spend our efforts doing those things, and as we find smarter and better ways to do things we will adopt them.
Common Ground Relief
Prince George Ballroom
Common Ground Adelaide
CRISIS UK
Unity of greater New Orleans
Toronto's Homes First Society
The Chinese Mountain cat (Felis bieti), also known as the Chinese Desert cat, is a small wild cat of western China.
It is a little-known member of the genus Felis, the common cats.
Some authorities regard the chutchta and vellerosa subspecies of the Wildcat as Chinese Mountain cat subspecies.
Barri Griffiths (born January 13, 1982 in Tremadog, Wales) better known by his ring name Mason Ryan, is a Welsh professional wrestler currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) and to the Raw brand where he used to be part of the stable, The Nexus.
He also wrestled for Florida Championship Wrestling where was a one time FCW Florida Heavyweight Championship.
Griffiths is a former Gladiator where he was known by the name, Goliath.
He has also wrestled in several wrestling tournaments throughout his home country Wales before joining the WWE.
Welsh sportspeople
An expansion pack is an addition (extra part) of a video game, that adds to it.
Expansion packs can add characters, worlds, weapons, or scenarios.
They can be for all types of video games.
Most expansion packs need the main version of the game to play, although there are a few exceptions which can be purchased stand-alone, such as The Ultimate Doom.
The term "Expansion Pack" was also used by Nintendo for a hardware add-on that plugged into the Nintendo 64 and was required for some games.
It increased the RAM from 4 MB to 8 MB.
Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – November 24, 2016) was an American actress and singer.
She starred as Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch between 1969 and 1974.
She was hosting her own talk show, The Florence Henderson Show, on television.
The Subtle Knife is the second book of the His Dark Materials trilogy  written by Philip Pullman and first published in 1997.
In the first world that Lyra enters, Lyra meets a boy of 12 years named Will Parry who comes from Oxford of the reader's universe and is escaping from the authorities.
Defending his sick mother he has accidentally killed a man.
They travel through a silent world to resolve many mysteries.
They begin to realize that there is something special about that world.
Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in the Harry Potter books written by J. K. Rowling.
This character is a teacher at the school Hogwarts, and a good character in the series.
She helps Harry Potter, the main character, many times in the series.
She teaches "transfiguration", a type of magic where you change objects or animals into other objects and animals.
At the end of the books, McGonagall becomes the school principal.
Her honorary title is Hogwarts Headmistress.
When McGonagall was young she went to Hogwarts.
She was in Gryffindor, a house for brave and bold students.
When she got older she decided to train herself to be an "animagus", a wizard who can change themselves into an animal without a wand.
She can change into a cat.
Later, she became a member of the Order Of the Phoenix, an organization trained to fight evil wizards.
In a quidditch match, she was hurt by a Slytherin player.
Knots Landing was an American soap opera which began December 27, 1979 and ended May 13, 1993.
It was a spin-off of Dallas.
The show aired on CBS throughout its run.
It was set around a fictional coastal suburb of Los Angeles and focuses on four married couples living in a cul-de-sac.
By the time of the show's end, it had become one of the longest running primetime drama shows on television in the US.
Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) are known in many English-speaking countries as lady's fingers or gumbo) is a flowering plant in the mallow family, related to cotton and hibiscus.
It is valued for its edible green seed pods.
It is cultivated for the pods, which are harvested in the immature stage and used in salads, soups and dishes.
It is the national vegetable of Pakistan.
Daniel is a Hebrew given name for males and a surname.
It means, "GOD IS MY JUDGE".
There are many nicknames for "Daniel": Dan, Danny, Dani (English) and Danya (Russia).
For females, nicknames include Danielle, Daniela, Dani, and Danitza. "
Daniel" as a surname developed into Daniels, meaning "son of Daniel".
Dan Andriano, bassist in American punk band Alkaline Trio
Dan Aykroyd, Canadian-American actor
Dan Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (1850-1941)
Dan Brown, American author, writer of The Da Vinci Code among others
Dan Castellaneta, American actor, the voice of Homer Simpson
Dan Coats, U.S. senator and ambassador to Germany
Dan Cruickshank, British architectural historian and television presenter
Dan Curry, visual effects producer most noted for his work on the Star Trek series of movies and TV shows
Dan Daniel (sportswriter), American sportswriter
Dan DeCarlo, American cartoonist
Dan Green, American voice actor
Dan Glickman, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
Dan Gurney, American racing car driver
Dan Jansen, American speed skater, Olympic gold medalist
Dan Kowarsky, Canadian Singer, B4-4/RyanDan
Dan Lewis, Canadian volleyball player
Dan Majerle, American basketball player
Dan Marino, American football player
Dan Middleton, British YouTuber.
Dan Varga, American Viddy Star.
Dan O'Bannon (1946-2009), American filmmaker
Dan Reeves, American football player and head coach
Dan Savage, American sex columnist
Dan Snow, British television presenter
Dan White, assassinated San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk
Daniel, the Old Testament prophet, of the book of Daniel in the Bible
Daniel (singer) (born 1955), Montenegro-born singer
Daniel Alves (born 1983), Brazilian international footballer, currently playing for FC Barcelona
Daniel Anthony (actor), British actor
Daniel Barenboim, pianist and conductor
Daniel Boone (1734-1820), American pioneer, fur trader, explorer, adventurer and hunter
Daniel Brunhart, Liechtenstein judoka
Daniel Castellani, Argentine volleyball player and coach
Daniel Chan, Hong Kong singer and actor
Daniel Ciobotea, Romanian patriarch
Daniel Colla, Argentine volleyball player
Daniel Coronell, director of Noticias Uno
Daniel Craig, English actor
Daniel Day-Lewis, English actor
Daniel Delfino, Argentine association football player
Daniel Defoe, English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer.
Daniel Dennett, American philosopher
Daniel Drezner, American political scientist and author
Daniel Duquesnois Dubois, French-Brazilian visual artist
Daniel Gibson, Cleveland Cavaliers guard
Daniel Henney,  Korean-American actor and model
Daniel Hudson, American baseball pitcher
Daniel Johns, Australian vocalist, composer, guitarist and pianist
Daniel Johnston, American singer-songwriter
Daniel Jorgensen, American freestyle swimmer
Daniel Dae Kim, Korean-American actor
Daniel Kandi, Danish trance producer
Daniel Armand Lee (a.k.a Tablo), Korean-Canadian hip hop artist, songwriter and lyricist
Daniel Lewis, Canadian volleyball player
Daniel Lins Cortês, Brazilian association football player
Daniel López, Chilean association football player
Daniel Málek, Czech breaststroke swimmer
Daniel Mameri, Brazilian water polo player
Daniel Murphy, American baseball player
Daniel Ortega, Nicaraguan revolutionary and politician
Daniel Pliński, Polish volleyball player
Daniel Radcliffe, British actor best known for acting the main role in Harry Potter films
Daniel Raditch, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Daniel Rincón, Colombian road cyclist
Daniel Schlereth, baseball pitcher
Daniel Sedin, Swedish ice hockey player
Daniel Sirera, Spanish politician
Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th Vice President of the United States
Daniel Tosh, American stand-up comedian and television presenter
Daniel Van Zandt, a fictional character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
Daniel Vasella (born 1953), Swiss businessman
Daniel Vasilevski, Macedonian-Australian association football player
Daniel Webster (1782-1852), American statesman
Daniel Webster (Florida politician), former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
Daniele Barbaro, Patriarch of Aquileia.
Daniil Granin, Soviet/Russian writer
Daniil Kharms, early Soviet-era surrealist and absurdist poet, writer and dramatist
Daniil Simkin, soloist with American Ballet Theatre
Danny!,
American record producer/hip-hop performer
Danny Ahn, Korean-American rapper and actor
Danny Alves, Portuguese association football player
Danny DeVito, American actor
Danny Elfman, American musician
Danny Glover, American actor
Danny John-Jules, British actor and dancer
Danny Jones, vocalist & guitarist, British band McFly
Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
Danny La Rue, Irish-British entertainer
Danny Saucedo, Swedish pop/dance-singer
Danny Thomas, Welsh association football player
Danny Wallace, British author and humourist
Danny Way, American professional skateboarder
Danny Wood, singer, New Kids on the Block
Danyl Johnson, British singer
Daniel Alfredson, Hockey player
Daniel Vernon, school student
Andrew Daniel, winner of the fifth season of the American show Big Brother
Antoine Daniel, Jesuit missionary
Arnaut Daniel, Provençal troubadour of the 13th century
Augustus Daniel, former Director of the National Gallery in London
Beth Daniel, professional golfer
Bill Daniel, governor of Guam and Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives
Britt Daniel, lead singer of the rock band Spoon
Brittany Daniel, American actress
Caroline Daniel, panelist for The McLaughlin Group
Celso Daniel, former mayor of Santo André, São Paulo
Charles E. Daniel, United States Senator from South Carolina
David Daniel, Wales international rugby player
Elton L. Daniel, historian and Iranologist
Frank Daniel, Czech-born film director, producer and screenwriter
Gabriel Daniel, French Jesuit historian
Gbenga Daniel, governor of Ogun State in Nigeria
Glyn Daniel, British archaeologist
Jack Daniel, founder of Jack Daniel's whiskey
James Simpson-Daniel, English rugby union footballer
Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer and singer, notably of the group Shalamar
Jennifer Daniel, British actress
John Daniel, 17th century English musician
John Reeves Jones Daniel, United States Representative from North Carolina
John W. Daniel, American lawyer and Democratic politician
Junius Daniel, American planter and career military officer
Lorenzo Daniel, American track and field sprinter
Marcos Daniel, Brazilian tennis player
Oliver Daniel,  American arts administrator, musicologist, and composer
Paul Daniel, English conductor
Peter Vivian Daniel, American jurist
Price Daniel, United States Senator from Texas
Ray Daniel, Welsh football player and manager
Robert Daniel, United States Representative from Virginia
Samuel Daniel, English poet and historian
Tony Daniel, American comic book artist
Wayne Daniel, cricket player
Wendy Palmer-Daniel, professional basketball player in the WNBA
William Daniel, 19th century American politician
Yuli Daniel, Soviet dissident writer
Ruthless People is a 1986 American black comedy crime movie which stars Danny DeVito, Helen Slater, Bette Midler and Judge Reinhold.
Also starring in the movie is Bill Pullman in his movie debut.
David Zucker, Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams are the directors of this movie.
It was distributed via Touchstone Pictures.
1986 crime movies
Movies directed by Jim Abrahams
Movies directed by David Zucker
Its origin is not really known.
Although Alexander I employed Carême, this dessert is not claimed by Carême.
It was possibly first made in Finland, by Swiss pastry chefs in Helsinki in 1818, when Alexander was due to visit.
It is also said to be a Latvian dish.
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was a 6.3 magnitude earthquake which struck the South Island of New Zealand at  on  NZT. (
This is 23:51  UTC).
It was about 5 km underground.
It struck the Canterbury region of the island and caused a lot of damage and many deaths in Christchurch, New Zealand's second largest city.
It was the largest aftershock of the 4 September 2010 Canterbury earthquake, although it is being regarded as a separate earthquake.
It was smaller than the September earthquake, but it was more damaging because it was closer to Christchurch and nearer to the surface of the earth.
It also happened at lunchtime on a Tuesday compared to before dawn on a Saturday, which meant that more people were outside and in danger of being injured by falling buildings.
Buildings were also already weakened from the previous quakes.
The intensity felt in Christchurch was MM VIII.
At the end of the first day 65 people were known to have died, and the number is expected to rise.
Over 100 people may be trapped in one building alone.
The New Zealand Fire Service says many people were injured and trapped in buildings.
At 5pm local time Radio New Zealand reported that 80% of the city was without electricity.
Water and wastewater services are not working in many parts of the city.
People are being asked to use as little water as possible and to collect rainwater.
It is expected that the State of Emergency Level 3, the highest possible in a regional disaster, will last at least five days.
Medical staff from the army are being used.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported that two buses and a number of cars were crushed by falling buildings.
Buildings damaged
Buildings have collapsed around Cathedral Square in downtown Christchurch.
The spire of ChristChurch Cathedral has completely collapsed.
Christchurch Hospital was evacuated due to damage in some areas, but soon reopened to treat the injured.
It has treated over 220 serious injuries so far, even though sometimes they were working by torchlight.
The New Zealand defence forces have been called in to help move people out of the central business district.
Fires were reported at the Canterbury Television (CTV) building.
The Pyne Gould Corporation building on Cambridge Terrace has suffered a lot of damage (photo), and some of the building's 200 workers are believed to be trapped within.
Screams have been heard from inside.
The Statistics New Zealand buildings in Christchurch were also damaged.
They were due to process much of the March 2011 census of New Zealand.
The census has been cancelled because people living in Christchurch have had their lives seriously disrupted.
This is the third time the census has been cancelled, the previous two times being during the Great Depression and World War II.
Christchurch Cathedral
ChristChurch Cathedral has lost the top of its main spire and its roof has fallen in. (
photos ) Initial reports said 22 people were in the spire at the time of the collapse.
However, after the building was made safe to enter over a week after the quake, and searched thoroughly, no bodies were located.
Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament
Lyttelton
Buildings in Lyttelton have been damaged; a fire officer said that 60% of the buildings in the main street have collapsed.
The town's historic Timeball Station was also badly damaged.
The New Zealand Historic Places Trust who own the building have decided that it is unsafe to try to repair it.
It will be dismantled, if possible, and perhaps re-constructed.
Beyond Christchurch and Lyttelton
Around 30 million tonnes of ice fell off Tasman Glacier into Tasman Lake, about  from the epicentre, hitting tour boats with waves 3.5 high.
Emergency response and relief efforts
New Zealand Prime Minister, John Key, said "All Civil Defence procedures have now been activated; the Civil Defence bunker at Parliament is in operation here in Wellington."
Civil Defence has alerted all Urban Search and Rescue teams in Christchurch.
The New Zealand Red Cross is also involved.
Australia has offered help, and immediately sent a search and rescue team of 70 from New South Wales on a RAAF C-130 Hercules.
Foreign Affairs Minister Kevin Rudd also said a second team from South Australia will also be sent with more equipment.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has offered John Key any other help he may need.
Christchurch International Airport was only open for emergency air traffic, but has now been opened to all local and domestic flights.
The earthquake has affected all air traffic in New Zealand.
Air traffic control services by Airways New Zealand, the national Air Traffic Control organisation, have been disrupted.
2011 Christchurch earthquake (June)
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Les Frères Provençaux
Dugléré was a chef de cuisine to the  Rothschild family until 1848, and was manager at the restaurant Les Frères Provençaux at the Palais-Royal from 1848 to 1866 which was owned by three men from Provence named Barthélémy, Maneille and Simonas (who were, in reality, not brothers).
Café Anglais
In 1866 he became the head chef of the   which was the most famous Paris restaurant of the 19th century and where he is believed to have created the dish Pommes Anna.
Dinner of the Three Emperors
It was at the Café Anglais in 1867 that Dugléré served a famous meal that became known as the  Dîner des trois empereurs, () for Tsar Alexander II of Russia, his son the tsarevitch (who later became Tsar Alexander III) and King William I of Prussia, as well as  Prince Otto von Bismarck who were in Paris for L'Exposition Universelle.
The table service used for this meal is on display to this day at the oldest existing restaurant in Paris, La Tour d'Argent which is owned by the descendants of Claudius Burdel, the last owner of Café Anglais which was demolished in 1913.
The evening of 7 June 1867 is reputed to have been the most magnificent ever to have occurred in any restaurant in the world.
The three emperors and Prince Bismarck had requested of Dugléré a meal that would live in their memories and the maître de cave, Claudius Burdel, was instructed to accompany the dishes with the greatest wines in the world.
The most famous dish attributed to Dugléré is almost certainly Pommes Anna.
Other dishes created by Dugléré include Potage Germiny, a sorrel soup created for the Count of Germiny, governor of the Bank of France, Poularde Albufera, dedicated to Maréchal Suchet, Duke of Albufera, Soufflé à l'anglaise, Sole Dugléré and Culotte de bœuf Salomon, (dedicated to Salomon de Rothschild)  and Barbue à la Dugléré (brill in tomato and parsley sauce).
He is also credited with inventing Tournedos Rossini, but this dish has also been credited to both Escoffier as well as Carême (although not the title itself).
It was composer Gioachino Rossini who dubbed Dugléré Le Mozart de la cuisine (The Mozart of the Kitchen).
It was a title he used on the menu for the Dinner of the Three Emperors.
Sean Christopher Avery (born April 10, 1980 in Pickering, Ontario) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger.
He played 12 years in the National Hockey League (NHL).
He played with the Detroit Red Wings, Los Angeles Kings, New York Rangers, and Dallas Stars.
Avery was known for his agitating playing style, as well as his controversial behavior both on and off the ice.
A cul-de-sac (literally "bottom of bag") is a word that came from the French language and means a small street without a way through at the far end.
It is also used in Catalan and Occitan, its meaning being equivalent to a dead end, close, or no through road (United Kingdom, Australian and Canadian English).
While culs-de-sac were built in history for other reasons, its modern use is to calm down the traffic.
Daniel Boone(1734 – 1820) was an American explorer and frontiersman.
He is probably most famous for exploring Kentucky when it was not part of the U.S. In 1769 he made the Wilderness Road, a trail through the Appalachian Mountains from North Carolina and Tennessee and through Kentucky.
He spent the last 20 years of his life in Missouri.
Boone was born on October 24 1734 (N.S.).
Boone's grandfather, George Boone, a Quaker, immigrated from England in 1717.
Daniel Boone was born in Berks County, Pennsylvania, the son of Squire Boone and Sarah Morgan.
His father was a weaver while his mother ran the family farm.
In addition to his chores on the farm, Boone learned to hunt, fish and trap.
When he was 15 his family moved to the Yadkin Valley of North Carolina.
Boone was a part of an British expedition in 1755 into French territory.
When the column was attacked by Indians allied to the French, the British commander, General Edward Braddock was mortally wounded and many of the soldiers were killed.
This was the Battle of the Monongahela where then colonel George Washington rallied the British and the Virginia militia into an organized retreat.
Boone, who was supervisor of the wagon train was one of those who retreated with Washington.
He returned to North Carolina and settled on a farm near his father's.
In 1756 he married Rebecca Bryan.
1757 saw several more British defeats but life on Boone's farm remained peaceful.
In 1758 the British had several victories over the French.
But at the same time their Cherokee allies were becoming tired of poor treatment by the British and the Americans.
The French took advantage of this and encouraged the Cherokees to attack American homesteads.
In 1759 the indians attacked in Virginia, North and South Carolina.
To protect their families many settlers left their farms for safer areas.
Boone took his wife, two young sons, and all the belongings they could carry in a single wagon to Culpeper County, Virginia.
To make a living Boone hauled tobacco to market in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
In 1763 Boone and his family returned to their farm in North Carolina.
Boone first heard of the lands of Kentucky while he was serving with General Braddock in 1755.
The person he heard it from was John Findley, another member of the wagon train.
Findley had been there as a trader at a Shawnee village called "Blue Lick".
He talked about Kentucky as a paradise full of wild game.
Boone decided he had to see Kentucky.
On a long hunt in the winter of 1767–68 he, his brother Squire and a friend named William Hill moved westward trying to find Kentucky.
They reached as far as the present site of Prestonsburg, Kentucky where they remained the rest of the winter.
Not realizing they had reached Kentucky, they returned to North Carolina in the spring.
Boone again met John Findley and asked him for the route from North Carolina to Kentucky.
Findley was not a backwoodsman but did know of a trail the Cherokee used when they made war on the Carolina colonies.
In the summer of 1769 Boone and five companions used the warrior's trail to get to Kentucky.
They hunted and explored the area.
Most of his friends were killed or captured by Indians, but Boone and his brother escaped every time.
He made another attempt to reach eastern Kentucky in 1763 but had to turn back.
In 1775 he founded the settlement of Boonesborough, Kentucky.
In 1778, Boone and a party were gathering salt when they were attacked.
Boone was captured and taken to Detroit where the indians made him a member of their tribe.
Boone soon escaped and returned to Boonesborough.
In one of the last battles of the American Revolutionary War, Boone, a lieutenant colonel, was at the Battle of Blue Licks on 19 August 1782.
The Americans were led into an ambush.
Boone was one of the last to retreat.
His son Israel Boone was killed in the battle.
Boone was the hero of the battle, but other leaders had not listened to his warnings that it was a trap.
Boone remained a leading figure in Kentucky for the next 24 years.
Through a series of defective land titles and being cheated by land speculators, Boone lost all his lands in Kentucky.
There were swarms of people coming into Kentucky and Boone felt crowded.
Kentucky was no longer the wilderness it was when he first came there.
Now he wanted to discover new lands.
He was drawn to the wilds of what is now eastern Missouri.
Louisiana territory
In 1799, Boone moved with much of his extended family to what is now Warren County, Missouri.
It was then part of Spanish Louisiana.
The area later became part of Missouri.
The Spanish were eager to promote settlement in the sparsely populated region and so they did not enforce the requirement for all immigrants to be Roman Catholic.
The Spanish governor appointed Boone "syndic" (Justice of the peace) of the Femme Osage district.
Boone served as syndic and commandant until 1804, when the area became part of the Louisiana Purchase.
His land grants from the Spanish government had been largely based on verbal agreements, but the former lieutenant-governor, Zenon Trudeau, made the promise in writing and Boone's lands were confirmed.
However, Boone had not made the necessary improvements under the law and so the lands were again taken away.
About 1810 Boone sent a petition to Congress to restore his lands.
It took them until 1814 to create a special bill which was signed by President James Monroe on 10 February 1814.
Boone spent his final years in Missouri, often in the company of children and grandchildren, where he continued to hunt and trap as much as his health and energy levels permitted.
He died on 26 September 1820 just before sunrise.