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Have you been taking care of your grand parents? Do you plan on going back to school by taking a Masters program? Is one of your biggest concerns is the fact that you cannot and do not want to just leave your in-need grand parents back at home alone without your or any assistance from anybody else to help them get basic tasks done for them? It is good that you are considering them and not being selfish. You can actually get them proper assistance from a professional service that specializes in providing old people like your grand parents who are in need of proper assistance with assisted living facilities.

You should not worry about your grand parents not being treated properly because such a service must be very well experienced at what they do in the assisted living communities. There will be activities that your grand parents will be able to participate in with other members in the communities. The facilities in the communities are also specially designed for old people so your grand parents will most likely enjoy living there with the professional assistants and other members that can become friends to talk with.

If you want more information about what the assisted living communities have to offer in terms of facilities and programs, you can actually locate them on the internet and visit the community’s website. There should be a lot of information that you can get and learn about the community. If you want to know more details apart from what the website has to offer, you can make a direct contact with the company by sending them an email or giving them a phone call. Or, you can also sign up from the website to have more access to more information. You can find information about the fees, housing options, etc.

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Indigenous cookerytraditional South African cuisineIn the precolonial period, indigenous cuisine was characterized by the use of a very wide range of foods including fruits, nuts, bulbs, leaves and other products gathered from wild plants and by the hunting of wild game. The domestication of cattle in the region about two thousand years ago by Khoisan groups enabled the use of milk products and the availability of fresh meat on demand. However, during the colonial period the seizure of communal land in South Africa restricted and discouraged traditional agriculture and wild harvesting, and reduced the extent of land available to black people. Decline of indigenous cookeryUrbanization from the nineteenth century onward, coupled with close control over agricultural production, led black South Africans to rely more and more on comparatively expensive, industrially-processed foodstuffs like wheat flour, white rice, mealie (maize) meal and sugar. Often these foods were imported or processed by white wholesalers, mills and factories. The consequence was to drastically restrict the range of ingredients and cooking styles used by indigenous cooks. On the other hand, some imported food plants (maize, tomatoes) have expanded the dietary range of indigenous cooks. Of these maize is the most significant – it has been integrated to such an extent into the traditional diet that it is often assumed to be an indigenous plant.Popular foods in modern South Africa are chicken, limes, garlic, ginger, chili, tomatoes, onions and many spices. Settler cookerySouth Africa was settled from the seventeenth century onwards by colonists from Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. These colonists brought European cookery styles with them. Cape DutchTraditional cookery of South Africa is often referred to as “Cape Dutch”. This cuisine is characterized by the use of spices such as nutmeg, allspice and hot peppers. The Cape Dutch cookery style owes at least as much to the cookery of the slaves brought by the Dutch East India Company to the Cape from Bengal, Java and Malaysia as it does to the European styles of cookery imported by settlers, and this is reflected in the use of eastern spices and the names given to many of these dishes. Indian cookeryCurry dishes are popular with lemon juice in South Africa among people of all ethnic origins; many dishes came to the country with the thousands of Indian labourers brought to South Africa in the nineteenth century. Restaurants and fast food outletsSouth Africa can be said to have a real “eating out” culture. While there are some restaurants that specialize in traditional South African dishes or modern interpretations thereof, restaurants featuring other cuisines such as Moroccan, Chinese, West African, Congolese and Japanese can be found in all of the major cities and many of the larger towns. In addition, there are also a large number of home-grown chain restaurants, such as Spur and Dulce Cafe.There is also a proliferation of fast food restaurants in South Africa. While there are some international players such as McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken active in the country, they face stiff competition from local chains such as Nando’s and Steers.Many of the restaurant chains originating from South-Africa have also expanded successfully outside the borders of the country. Typical South African foods and dishesAmasi, sour milk.Biltong, a salty dried meat (similar to jerky).Bobotie, a dish of Malay descent, is like meatloaf with raisins and with baked egg on top, and is often served with yellow rice, sambals, coconut, banana slices, and chutney.Boerewors, a sausage that is traditionally braaied (barbecued).Bunny chow, curry stuffed into a hollowed-out loaf of bread. A bunny chow is called Kota by the locals.Chutney, a sweet sauce made from fruit that is usually poured on meat.Frikkadelle – meatballs.Gesmoorde vis, salted cod with potatoes and tomatoes and sometimes served with apricot jam.Hoenderpastei, chicken pie, traditional Afrikaans fare.Isidudu, pumpkin pap.Koeksisters come in two forms and are a sweet delicacy. Afrikaans koeksisters are twisted pastries, deep fried and heavily sweetened. Koeksisters found on the Cape Flats are sweet and spicy, shaped like large eggs, and deep-fried.phajjay k payeebiryanisamosayMageu, a drink made from fermented mealie papMala Mogodu, a local dish equivalent of tripe. The locals usually enjoy mala mogodu with hot pap and spinachMalva Pudding, a sweet spongy Apricot pudding of Dutch origin.Mashonzha, made from the mopane worm.Melktert (milk tart), a milk-based tart or dessert.Melkkos (milk food), another milk-based dessert.Mealie-bread, a sweet bread baked with sweetcorn.Mielie-meal, one of the staple foods, often used in baking but predominantly cooked into pap or phutu.Ostrich is an increasingly popular protein source as it has a low cholesterol content; it is either used in a stew or filleted and grilled.Pampoenkoekies (pumpkin fritters), flour has been supplemented with or replaced by pumpkin or sweet potato.Potbrood (pot bread), savoury bread baked over coals in cast-iron pots.Potjiekos, a traditional Afrikaans stew made with meat and vegetables and cooked over coals in cast-iron pots.Rusks, a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit eaten after being dunked in tea or coffee; they are either home-baked or shop-bought (with the most popular brand being Ouma Rusks).Samosa or samoosa, a savoury stuffed Indian pastry that is fried.Smagwinya, fat cakesSmoked or braai’ed snoek, a regional gamefish.Sosaties, grilled marinated meat on a skewer.Tomato bredie, a lamb and tomato stew.Trotters and Beans, from the Cape, made from boiled pig’s or sheep’s trotters and onions and beans.Umleqwa, a dish made with free-range chicken.Umngqusho, a dish made from white maize and sugar beans.Umphokoqo, an African salad made of maize mealUmqombothi, a type of beer made from fermented maize and sorghum.Umvubo, sour milk mixed with dry pap, commonly eaten by the Xhosa.Vetkoek (fat cake, magwenya), deep-fried dough balls, typically stuffed with meat or served with snoek fish or jam.Waterblommetjie bredie (water flower stew), meat stewed with the flower of the Cape Pondweed. See alsoSouth African wineUmgqusho is made of samp (maize) and sugar beans and staple food for Xhosa people ReferencesCoetzee, Renata, 1977. The South African Culinary Tradition, C. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa.Leipoldt, C. Louis, 1976. Leipoldt Cape Cookery, Fleesch and Partners, Cape Town, South Africa.Van Wyk, B. and Gericke, N., 2000. People’s plants: A guide to useful plants of Southern Africa, Briza, Pretoria, South Africa.Wylie, D., 2001. Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA., United States of America.Routledge Encyclopaedia of Africa – Farming External linksSouth African cuisine – International Marketing Council of South Africa web siteEating the South African wayFood tourismv  d  eCuisine of AfricaNational cuisinesAlgeria  Angola  Benin  Botswana  Burkina Faso  Burundi  Cameroon  Cape Verde  The Central African Republic  Chad  Comoros  Cte d’Ivoire  The Republic of the Congo  The Democratic Republic of the Congo  Djibouti  Egypt  Equatorial Guinea  Eritrea  Ethiopia  Gabon  Gambia  Guinea  Guinea-Bissau  Ghana  Kenya  Lesotho  Liberia  Libya  Madagascar  Malawi  Mali  Mauritania  Mauritius  Morocco  Mozambique  Namibia  Niger  Nigeria  Rwanda  So Tom and Prncipe  Senegal  Seychelles  Sierra Leone  Somalia  South Africa  Sudan  Swaziland  Tanzania  Togo  Tunisia  Uganda  Zambia  ZimbabweEthnic and regionalcuisinesArab cuisine  Jewish cuisine  Mediterranean cuisine  North African cuisinev  d  eSouth Africa topicsHistoryCape Colony  Orange Free State  Transvaal  First Boer War   Second Boer War   Apartheid  Foreign relations  Nuclear weapons programme  History of wine industryGeographyProvinces  Municipalities  Cities  Towns  National parks  Rivers  Postal codes  Telephone codesPoliticsConstitution  Political parties  Diplomatic missions  Elections  Military  PoliceEconomyCommunications  Transport  Companies  TourismCultureArt  Cinema  Cuisine  Education  Language  Literature  Music  Poets  Public holidays  Religion  Sport  Media   WineOther topicsNotable South Africans  HIV/AIDS  Crime  LGBT rightsv  d  eCuisine (List of cuisines)RegionalAfrica  Asia  Caribbean  Europe  Latin America  Mediterranean  Middle East  North America  Oceania  South AsiaHistoricalAncient Egyptian  Ancient Greek  Ancient Roman  Historical Chinese  Historical Indian  Medieval  OttomanStylesFast food  Fusion  ImmigrantTypes of FoodConfectionery  Dairy products  Fruit  Herbs / Spices  Meat  VegetableCarbohydrate StaplesBread  Cassava  Pasta  Potato  Quinoa  Rice  Sweet Potato  YamTypes of DishCurry  Dip  Pizza  Salad  Sandwich  Sauce  Soup  StewTechnicalEating utensils  Food preparation utensils  Techniques  Weights and measuresSee alsoKitchen  Meal (Breakfast  Lunch  Dinner)  Wikibooks:Cookbook Categories: South African cuisine

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Former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel, who lost his job in the wake of Ohio State’s version of the NCAA’s latest round of impermissible benefits scandals, has landed in the same NFL that recently agreed to take his former quarterback, Terrelle Pryor(notes). While Pryor will see his first time on the NFL on Friday after getting a third-round look from the Oakland Raiders in the supplemental draft, Tressel will work for the Indianapolis Colts as a “gameday assistant.” Tressel will serve as a replay consultant, freeing up other Colts coaches to deal with strategic and personnel matters.

“He’s a guy I have known for quite some time and have a good relationship with,” Indianapolis coach Jim Caldwell said on Friday. “We have hired him as a gameday consultant. He was around last night and will be working with us next week.”

It’s an odd title for a man who spent most of the last decade pretending he didn’t see what was going on right in front of him.

In March of 2011, Tressel was suspended two games and fined 0,000 by the NCAA for failing to report recruiting violations that at least partially involved a local tattoo parlor. Five players, including Pryor, were suspended for trading championship memorabilia and gameday gear for tattoos. Just over a month later, the NCAA revealed that it believed Tressel had lied to keep athletes that would otherwise have been ineligible on the field.

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Pryor and the other four players were suspended five games by the NCAA, and Tressel requested that he be suspended the same number of games for the 2011 season. However, when Pryor left school and applied for the supplemental draft, he had to accept the NFL’s ruling that he serve that five-game suspension to start his rookie regular season because he had somehow violated the spirit of the supplemental draft. This despite the fact that other suspended players (such as Kentucky defensive lineman Jeremy Jarmon) had used that same method to enter the NFL without punishment.

With Tressel’s hire, the motivation seems to become a bit clearer — though Tressel has no specific NFL experience, he’s obviously a league pet, and it’s certainly easy to argue that Roger Goodell was using his matchless skill for selective prosecution to settle a score, as opposed to doing what was best for the league. It’s reasonable to assume that Pryor was going to have to pay a price solely because he got in Tressel’s way.

I wouldn’t hold my breath. While Pryor was doing and agreeing to anything possible — even sacrificing the possibility of an NFLPA-mandated appeal of his suspension — to get to the next level, Tressel was being welcomed as a conquering hero at training camps for the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns. Tressel’s move to the NFL isn’t really a surprise; the only possible aspect to give pause is that he’s got the guts to put himself out there as any sort of administrator of anything after committing what Ohio State head goon Gordon Gee once called “mistakes of the heart.”

At best, it’s borderline offensive to think that Tressel will be allowed to enter the NFL without some sort of equivalent punishment. At worst, it’s a pure violation of the supposed ethical equity that is supposed to exist between players and coaches. Because if anyone violated the spirit of what the NFL claims to hold dear — if anyone in this tawdry little scenario refused to (as Goodell always likes to say) “protect the shield,” it was the coach who made millions of dollars off the backs of his players, lied to the NCAA to insure that those players would continue to benefit his employment when they clearly should not have been doing so, and kept lying to cover his butt even after the fact.

This is not a man I would want in charge of my replay challenge system. This is not a man I would want taking my car to be washed, but apparently, the Colts feel differently. And that means that the NFL, by proxy, feels differently. Perhaps Tressel will be allowed to suspend himself as he did at Ohio State — and to complete the farce, maybe he can come back to the replay booth, as Bobby Valentine once did to the dugout, in disguise.

Valentine did it as a joke. One gets the feeling that Tressel would have no issue excusing his own attempts to return to the game under any guise or pretense.

 

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HistoryShotgun houses spaced tightly together in Louisville, Kentucky. In cities, shotguns were built closely together for a variety of reasons.Shotgun houses were most popular before widespread ownership of the automobile allowed people to live farther from businesses and other destinations. Building lots were kept small out of necessity, 30 feet (9 m) wide at most. An influx of people to cities, both from rural areas in America and from foreign countries, all looking to fill emerging manufacturing jobs, created the high demand for housing in cities. Shotgun houses were thus built to fulfill the same need as rowhouses in Northeastern cities. Several were usually built at a time by a single builder, contributing to their relatively similar appearance.The New Orleans housing taxation structure contributed to the design of the shotgun in its region. The shotgun utilized a minimized lot frontage, when taxes were based on lot frontage, then when that was subverted by untaxable second floor additions of space AKA the “Camelback”, the tax was shifted to number of rooms, which equalized the taxation per square footage within a property. Consequently, neither design contains closets or hallways, which were counted as rooms.Folklorist and professor John Michael Vlach has suggested that the origin of the building style and the name itself may trace back to Haiti and Africa in the 1700s and earlier. The name may have originated from the Africa’s Southern Dahomey Fon area term, to-gun, which means, “place of assembly.” The description, probably used in New Orleans by Afro Haitian slaves, may have been misunderstood and reinterpreted as “Shotgun.” Another, frequently repeated theory suggests that the term “shotgun” is a reference to the idea that if you open all the doors to the house, the pellets fired from a shotgun would fly cleanly from one end to the other (though the origin of this description is unknown). Also a common understanding of the name is that they were built of discarded crates, i.e. shotgun-shell and other crates.The theory behind the earlier African origin is tied to the history of New Orleans. In 1803 there were 1,355 free blacks in the city. By 1810 blacks outnumbered whites 10,500 to 4,500. This caused a housing boom. As many of both the builders and inhabitants were Africans by way of Haiti, historians believe it is only natural they modeled the new homes after ones they left behind in their homeland. Many surviving Haitian dwellings of the period, including about 15 percent of the housing stock of Port-au-Prince, resemble the single shotgun houses of New Orleans. A simpler theory is that is that they are the typical one-room-deep floor plan popular in the rural south, rotated to accommodate narrow city lots.A pair of camelbacks in Louisville’s Original Highlands neighborhoodThe shotgun house was popularized in New Orleans. The style was definitely built there by 1832, though there is evidence that houses sold in the 1830s were built 15 to 20 years earlier. The houses were built throughout hot urban areas in the South, since the style’s length allowed for excellent airflow, while its narrow frontage increased the number of lots that could be fitted along a street. It was used so frequently that some southern cities estimate that, even today, 10% or more of their housing stock is composed of shotgun houses.The earliest known use of “shotgun house” as a name for these dwellings is in a classified advertisement in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, August 30, 1903: “Two 3-room houses near the railroad yards at Simpson st. crossing, rent a month to good tenants who pay in advance; price ,200 on terms or 0 cash, balance a month; a combination of investment and savings bank: these are not shacks, but good shot-gun houses in good repair.” While this advertisement seems to present shotgun houses as a desirable working-class housing alternative, by 1929 a Tennessee court noted that shotgun houses could not be rented to any other than a very poor class of tenants. After the Great Depression, few shotgun houses were built, and existing ones went into decline. By the late 20th century, shotgun houses in some areas were being restored as housing and for other uses.Shotgun houses were often initially built as rental properties, located near manufacturing centers or railroad hubs, to provide housing choices for workers. Owners of factories frequently built the houses to rent specifically to employees, usually for a few dollars a month. By the late 20th century, however, shotguns were often owner-occupied. For example, 85% of the houses (many of them shotgun) in New Orleans’ Lower Ninth Ward were owner-occupied. CharacteristicsFloor plan of a typical single shotgun with bathroomThe rooms of a shotgun house are lined up one behind the other, typically a living room is first, then one or two bedrooms, and finally a kitchen in back. Early shotgun houses were not built with bathrooms, but in later years a bathroom with a small hall was built before the last room of the house, or a side addition was built off the kitchen. Some shotguns may have as few as two rooms.Chimneys tended to be built in the interior, allowing the front and middle rooms to share a chimney with a fireplace opening in each room. The kitchen usually has its own chimney.Other than the basic floor layout, shotgun houses have many standard features in common. The house is almost always close to the street, sometimes with a very short front yard, and no porch. In some cases, the house has no front yard and is actually flush with the sidewalk. The original steps were wood, but were often replaced with permanent concrete steps.Sketch of a typical camelback, or one and a half story, shotgun house, with a detailed sketch of a typical decorative wooden door bracketA sign of its New Orleans heritage, the house is usually raised two to three feet off the ground. There is a single door and window in the front of the house, and often a side door leading into the back room, which is slightly wider than the rest of the house. The front door and window often were originally covered by decorative shutters. Side walls may or may not have windows; rooms not adjoining the front nor back door will generally have at least one window even when the houses are built very close together.Typically, shotgun houses have a wood frame structure and wood siding, although some examples exist in brick and even stone. Many shotguns, especially older or less expensive ones, have flat roofs that end at the front wall of the house. In houses built after 1880, the roof usually overhangs the front wall, and there is usually a gable above the overhang. The overhang is usually supported by decorative wooden brackets, and sometimes contains cast iron ventilators.The rooms are well-sized, and have relatively high ceilings for cooling purposes, as when warm air can rise higher, the lower part of a room tends to be cooler. The lack of hallways allows for efficient cross-ventilation in every room. Rooms usually have some decoration such as moldings, ceiling medallions, and elaborate woodwork. In cities like New Orleans, local industries supplied elaborate but mass-produced brackets and other ornaments for shotgun houses that were accessible even to homeowners of modest means. VariationsA conventional one-story freestanding shotgun house is often called a single shotgun. Many common variations exist in high quantity, and are often actually more common than the single shotgun in cities.A double shotgun structure in the Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans. Double shotgun houses were a form of multiple-family housing, where essentially two conventional shotgun houses shared a central wall.Double Shotgun, also called double-barrel shotgun, essentially two shotgun houses connected to each other and sharing a central wall. They are a form of Semi-detached housing. The double shotgun requires less land per household than the traditional shotgun and was used extensively in poorer areas because it could be built with fewer materials and use less land per occupant. It was first seen in New Orleans in 1854.Camelback house, also called Humpback, a variation of the Shotgun that has a partial second floor over the rear of the house. Camelback houses were built in the later period of shotgun houses. The floor plan and construction is very similar to the traditional shotgun house, except there are stairs in the back room leading up the second floor. The second floor, or “hump”, contains one to four rooms. Because it was only a partial second story, most cities only taxed it as a single-story house – in fact this was a key reason for their construction.Double Width Shotgun, is where an extra large and wide shotgun house would be built on two lots instead of one. These were typically built one to a block in locations where a single person would first buy the entire city block during development, then build themselves a double sized home and then subdivide the rest of the block with single lot homes.”North shore” houses, shotgun houses with wide verandas on three sides. They were so named because most were built on the north shore of New Orleans’ Lake Pontchartrain as summer homes for wealthy whites.The term may also refer to a different structure, common in rural areas and small towns, which takes the form of a small, long, free-standing house, generally made of wood, with no hallways. Unlike the larger terraced version, this is generally a single-storied dwelling, but it was still associated with poverty and popular partially because of its ability to make hot weather more comfortable. It was most prevalent along waterways and bayous in rural Louisiana.A combination, the Double Camelback shotgun, also exists. A minor variation is a side door allowing access to the kitchen, or a porch along the side extending almost the length of the house.A classic camelback shotgun house in Uptown New Orleans Decline and legacyThe construction of shotgun houses slowed and eventually stopped during the early 20th century. The affordability of two technological innovations, the car and consumer air conditioning units, made the key advantages of the shotgun house obsolete to home buyers. After World War II, shotgun houses had very little appeal to those building or buying new houses, as car-oriented modern suburbs were built en masse. Few shotgun houses have been built in America since the war, although the concept of a simple, single-level floor plan lived on in ranch-style houses.The surviving urban shotgun houses suffered problems related to those typically facing the inner city neighborhoods in which they were located. The flight of affluent residents to the suburbs, absentee owners, and a shortage of mortgage lenders for inner city residents led to the deterioration of shotgun houses in the mid and late 20th century. Confusing ownership, passed down within a family over several generations, also contributed to many houses sitting vacant for years.Though shotguns are sometimes perceived as being housing prevalent in poor African American neighborhoods, many were originally built heavily in segregated white neighborhoods. Many of these neighborhoods became predominantly black during the 1950s and 1960s, but many others did not and remain predominantly white.Regardless of who was living in them, from World War II until the 1980s, shotguns came to be widely viewed as substandard housing and a symbol of poverty, and they were demolished by many urban renewal projects. This thinking is no longer so prevalent, with cities such as Houston and Charlotte establishing “Shotgun Historic Districts”. Shotgun houses have even been praised as quality and cost-effective cultural assets that promote a distinctive urban life. Other cities, such as Macon, Georgia, experimented with renovating shotgun houses for low-income residents, but found that it is cheaper and more effective to tear them down and build new housing.A camelback house in Louisville’s Paristown neighborhood. The perpendicular section makes it not a shotgun.There are many large neighborhoods in older American cities of the south which still contain a high concentration of shotgun houses today. Examples include Bywater in New Orleans; Portland, Butchertown, and Germantown in Louisville; and Cabbagetown in Atlanta. Their role in the history of the south has become recognized; for example, Rice University recently sponsored an exhibition called “Shotguns 2001″, which featured artistic paintings of the houses and lectures, in a neighborhood of restored shotguns.In some shotgun-dominated neighborhoods, property value has become quite high, leading to gentrification. Sometimes, a new owner will buy both homes of a double-barreled shotgun structure, and combine them to form a relatively large single house. Shotguns are also often combined to renovate them into office or storage space. Southern cultureThe shotgun house plays a role in the folklore and culture of the south. Superstition holds that ghosts and spirits are attracted to shotgun houses because they may pass straight through them, and that some houses were built with doors intentionally misaligned to deter these spirits. They also often serve as a convenient symbol of life in the south. Elvis Presley was born in a shotgun house, the Neville Brothers grew up in one, and Robert Johnson is said to have died in one. Shortly before his death in May 1997, Jeff Buckley rented a shotgun house in Memphis and was so enamoured with it he contacted the owner about the possibility of buying it. Dream Brother, David Browne’s biography on Jeff and Tim Buckley, opens with a description of this shotgun house and Jeff’s fondness of it. See alsoCulture of the Southern United StatesList of house typesMobile homeRailroad apartmentTerraced house References^ a b McAlester, Virginia & Lee (1997). A Field Guide to American Houses. New York: Knopf. p. 90. ISBN 0394739698. ^ a b c “Southeast Shotguns”. http://www.victoriansecrets.net/shotgun.html. Retrieved 2006-05-16. ^ “The Shotgun House: An African Architectural Legacy”. Pioneer America 8: 4756. 1976. ^ a b c d e f g h The Shotgun house: urban housing opportunities. Preservation Alliance of Louisville and Jefferson Co.. 1980. ^ a b c d e Vlach, J: “Shotgun houses”, pages 5157. Natural History 86, 1977).^ Burns, Richard Allen. The Shotgun Houses of Trumann, Arkansas, Arkansas Review, (April 2002), Vol. 33, Issue 1^ Moore v. Minnis, 11 Tenn.App. 88 (Tenn. App. 1929).^ a b c d Starr, S. Frederick. The New Orleans Shotgun: Down but Not Out. New York Times. Sep 22, 2005. pg. F.7^ Marling, Karal Ann (1996). Graceland. Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/margra/shotgun.html. ^ Shotgun Houses on Architectural Patrimony. Accessed April 4, 2006.^ a b Holl, Steven. Rural and Urban House Types in North America, Princeton Architectural Press (1990) p.3439^ Kniffen, Fred B. (1936). “Louisiana House Types”. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 26 (4): 179193. doi:10.2307/2569532. ^ Duncan, S. Heather. Rehab or replace? The case for and against shotgun houses. The Macon Telegraph. 6 March 2006. pg. 1^ Roney, Marty (July 2, 2005). “Old shotgun homes given new purpose”. Montgomery Advertiser. p. 1. ^ Karal Ann Marling, Elvis Presley’s Graceland, or the Aesthetic of Rock ‘n’ Roll Heaven, American Art, Vol. 7, No. 4 (Autumn, 1993), pp. 72105^ Arroyo, Raymond. The Devotion of Aaron Neville. Crisis Magazine, September 2001.^ Trail of the Hellhound: Delta Sites, Retrieved April 4, 2006^ Browne, David. Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley. HarperEntertainment. January, 2001. pg 1 External linksWikimedia Commons has media related to: Shotgun housesShotgun Houses on Architectural Patrimony (includes many example photos)Shotgun House Project for New Orleans Discussion of appropriateness of new shotguns for rebuilding NOLAA New Orleans shotgun converted into a two-story three-bedroom house (the Spring 2008 This Old House project)Description on Great Buildings OnlineShotgun Homes and porchesProject Row Houses is an example of art and social activism, based on 22 shotgun houses rescued and renovated in Houston’s Third Ward. Categories: American architectural styles | Vernacular architecture | House styles | House types | Southern United StatesHidden categories: Featured articles

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The Champion Salesperson, True Story

True story of Max Kumar, Managing Director.

Sales Coaching and Interview.

 

Max Kumar is 30 years old and he already has 15 years of experience with sales and marketing in places such as Dubai, Mumbai, Jamaica, United Kingdom and At Sea.

 

Can you get friendly with a stranger in less than 30 seconds?

 

Can you look at someone for the first time and figure out his or her credit card limit?

 

Have you sold one diamond ring for ,000 US Dollars?

 

A man walks inside your store asking for a Rolex and wants to spend approx. ,000 US Dollars and you end up selling him a watch for ,000 US Dollars and the watch he has never heard of before in his entire life?

 

Have you sold a natural yellow fancy diamond bracelet worth ,000 to a lady come on a cruise ship and walks in your store for the first time ever?

 

Exclusive Interview with Max Kumar…..

 

1)    Please tell us about how you entered sales and marketing?

“I started my sales career in Mumbai, India where I first started selling Standard Chartered credit cards in the year 2001 and I worked for Impact Marketing, Direct Sales Agents for Standard Chartered Bank.”

 

2)    Tell us about your first customer

“It was a job which involved cold calling and I was very nervous knowing that I will have to walk in someone’s office for the first time even though they had never seen me before and I am going there to sell them a credit card”.

 

3)    How was the experience of walking in a stranger’s office?

“It was terrible, I was shivering and nervous and my Manager who was training me had to accompany me in his office. I was running out of words. That customer did not buy from me”.

 

4)    What happened next?

“It was the first time I had to deal with failure and I was really finding it difficult to deal with but the positive outcome was I started thinking, what went wrong and then I started working on my sales and marketing strategies”.

 

5)    Did you want to quit?

“I had a never say die attitude and I was always stubborn, I decided to learn everything about sales and marketing”.

 

6)    Did you get any success from that job and experience of cold calling?

“Absolutely, within the next 6 months, I was one of their best salesman but not the best”.

 

7)    Wow, what a transformation, how did you manage that?

“I watched everybody, how they use their sales pitch, involve the customer with themselves in a conversation, the art of convincing and closing the sale”.

 

8)    How long did you work for them?

“Not very long, as I got an better offer from Andromedia Marketing, Direct Sales Agents for Citibank and this time I was selling Citibank credit cards”.

 

9)    How was your experience with Andromedia Marketing?

“I was good but unfortunately I did not stay with them for a long time as I became a part of Esscom Marketing, Direct Sales Agents for ICICI Bank”.

 

10)                       Why did you keep changing your jobs?

“Good question, Mumbai is a big city but all agencies keep an eye on the field salesmen and each company tries to get the best salesman in their organisation for better results in more sales, I was a victim too”.

 

11)                       How long it took you to be spotted by these agencies?

“Three Years, By this time I was good at selling sand to the Arabs”.

 

 

12)                       What was the next phase in your career with sales and marketing?

“Most of my family is settled in the Middle East, but as an individual I wanted to explore the Western World such as United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada etc. I kept reading the newspaper, Mid-Day especially on a Wednesday where you would find thousands of classifieds and see the jobs available abroad. It is because of this newspaper I found a job in Ocho-Rios, Jamaica, West Indies. This was a high end jewellery store, House of Diamonds with a couple of stores very close to the cruise ship pier and they were looking for a Manager who had some experience in sales and marketing”.

 

13)                       Please tell us about your experience in Jamaica?

“I worked in Jamaica for three years from 5th Apr 2004 to 11th July 2007”. Since this was a high end jewellery store, I had a lot of difficulties for the first six months”. The biggest problem was the cultural difference between India and Jamaica, language, lifestyle and me not knowing anything about jewellery”.

 

14)                       How did you manage working in such difficult conditions?

“During the first six months, I was learning everything about diamonds, gemstones, watches, gold, carat weight, colour, cut etc. I read books about diamonds and gemstones which my boss gave me and I kept reading that book till late in the nights because our store was very close to the cruise ship pier and next day we would have passengers coming on a cruise ship”.

 

15)                       Tell us about your first customer in Jamaica?

“A lady walked in the store for the first time, from the cruise ship and I did not want to speak to her as I did not know what to say, my boss asked me to speak to her, she wanted an everyday watch and I was showing her some Skagen watches and she liked one but did not buy because the crystals were inside the glass and not on the outside and she left the store, this is where the story of the champion salesman begins. My boss asked me the reason of that lady not buying the watch. I said the crystals and he was actually listening to my conversation with that lady and he said you could have said, the company does not do crystals on the outside anymore as people complaining of them coming off and they end up losing the crystals, that was an eye opener”.

 

16)                       Tell us more about your experience in Jamaica?

“Well there were some other obstacles that I needed to overcome. One of them was the geographical knowledge about United States of America. I have never been there. In sales general knowledge always helps. Let me give you some examples, if someone says Illinois, I said Chicago. If someone says Maryland, I said Baltimore. If someone says Texas, I said Austin. If someone says Kentucky, I said fried chicken. I read and studied the Atlas to get some general idea about United States of America and was trying to familiarise myself with different states, towns, counties, their specialities and if someone said Mid-West, what they were referring to?”

 

17)                       What was the major difference between selling Jamaica & Mumbai?

“Fantastic question, when I was in Mumbai, the job involved cold calling that means the salesperson approaching the suspects and it was a process of converting those suspects into prospects. In Jamaica, it was the other way around. I was in the store behind the counters and the passengers from the cruise ship approached me. Sales is like cars, surprised, let me explain please. You need to change gears according to product, service, concept, customer and various situations”.

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18)                       Very interesting, tell us more about Jamaica?

“The company hired four boys from Mumbai, I was one of them. There were local Jamaican girls working in the store and the bosses who were brothers were always on the sales floor. They were the best salespeople, I have ever seen in my life. What makes me say that, I have seen them sell jewellery worth ,000 to someone who has never seen them before and in fact has landed for the first time in Jamaica. I learnt a lot from them”.

 

19)                       How was your career progressing in Jamaica?

“Well I worked in Jamaica for just over three years, the first year was the learning process, the second year I was confident and the third year, I was the best salesman in that shopping mall, Taj Mahal Plaza as there were another 14 jewellery stores in the same mall and the competition was fierce. The other store managers and owners knew that once I start speaking to a customer, I will close the sale”.

 

20)                       What made you a champion salesman?

“Desire to win, learn, perform and show my colleagues what I am capable of on the sales floor and as actions speak louder than words, I was always in action”.

 

21)                       Can you remember some sales that you made in Jamaica?

“Absolutely, here is one example. On a Saturday morning, a couple was wandering around the mall. There was no cruise ship on that particular day. This couple walks inside my shop and bought a pair of plain gold earrings worth .00 US Dollars. I asked for .00 and they were bargaining for .00 US Dollars. What happened next was History. I then started showing a bracelet to the same lady, she liked it and was resistant to buy it which was ,000 US Dollars. The man asked the lady if she likes it. She said yes. Immediately I commented, I have never seen that bracelet look so good on anybody ever. He gave me his credit card. I was shocked and surprised. The man was a president of some big organisation in Madison, Wisconsin. Since they were coming from the beach, they were wearing beach wear. So you never know, who you talking to and I wanted to learn more about people’s appearances”.

 

 

22)                       Was there a time you were not comfortable selling in Jamaica?

“This is going to make you laugh, when I landed in Jamaica, we had only one line of Skagen watches from Denmark which range from .00 USD to 0.00 USD. But the owner wanted to get high end watches. In the next few months after visiting the Basel show in Switzerland, he acquired some new watch lines such as Bertolucci, Maurice Lacroix, Paul Picot, Elini, Perrellet, Chase-Durer, Wenger etc. When I was a kid, I use to take my Casio watch to the watch guy to repair it and these lines, the watches ranged from 0.00 USD to ,000 USD.

 

We received the watches and displayed them in the counter and went home. We had an company accommodation where all four Managers lived in separate rooms. After we had dinner, we had a little conversation. What you must say to the customer to convince him to buy these expensive watches. I had no clue about watches and this time my boss gave the Swiss Watch Manual with almost 500 pages. What this book was about, the history of different watch companies, their manufacturing process and location, their models, numbers, brand ambassadors etc.

 

In the next few months I was the watch encyclopaedia. I was selling Maurice Lacroix as if there was no tomorrow and Roger Federer was the brand ambassador for Maurice Lacroix those days. I sold a Perrellet watch to someone who came in asking for a Rolex. I sold him Perellet and he had never heard of it before and this watch was 18kt gold and worth ,000 US Dollars. The customer wanted to spend 6k and I end up making him spend 15k. He was the owner of a golf course in Boston, M.A”. I was gifted an Elini watch worth 00 US Dollars by the company for being the best salesperson in the Caribbean for their line and I was also regarded as the best Maurice Lacroix salesman in the Caribbean”.

 

 

23)                       Give us a demo of a live watch sale please?

“Max Kumar asking me, “What watch are you wearing, Citizen. What a nice watch, I like the gold plating, the dome shaped crystal, it really sits nice on your wrist and does not turn around, it must be a very comfy watch and it actually suits your personality as shoes and watch say everything about a man and this one just matches your stature. One of the best features of this watch is that it is kinetic and does not need a battery”.

 

24)                       What did you enjoy selling diamonds or watches?

“To be honest, watches but I sold diamonds as well. My highest sale for one diamond ring is ,000 US Dollars”.

 

25)                       Amazing, tell us about that sale please?

Again there was no cruise ship on this day, this couple had come from Royal Plantations resort in Jamaica and I knew only rich people can afford to stay there, so I started showing a very expensive diamond ring to this lady and she fell in love with it. I asked her to walk outside the shop and see the ring in the sunlight as diamond needs light to dazzle and sparkle. She said are you sure, I said absolutely, please go ahead. She went out with her man and came back after 20 seconds. I was waiting with my heart in my mouth but this was a risk I had to take. She came back and then I asked her to see the ring in the mirror. It just blinded her as it was a special diamond cut by Lazare Diamond company and it weighed approx. 2.10 cts and the colour and clarity was F, VS1.

 

One can buy a ring like that for approx. ,000 US Dollars with it but will have a couple of carbon spots on the diamond which takes away the beauty and this one was absolutely flawless. The lady likes it, now it all comes down to the man because he is buying. I offered him a beer and he gladly accepted it. I always followed the basic rule, praise the lady and tease the man. I said she is a very beautiful lady. He smiled and asked how much is the ring, I said ,000 US Dollars and honestly I was not expecting him to buy it. He gave me his Black American Express credit card and politely asked, can you make it 30k please? I said yes but was shivering as this was my highest sale and my boss helped me get over it”.

 

26)                       What happened after Jamaica?

“I decided to work at Sea for Harding Brothers Ltd, based in Bristol, on the cruise ship, Ocean Village 2. Here my highest sale was £5300.00 Pounds to an old couple. I know you want to know the whole story about this sale”.

“Well our weekly target was £21,000 Pounds and we had done only £15,000 Pounds in that particular week, my manager who was a girl from New Zealand comes to me and says, Max you need to do something and I said the shops are closed and it is 11.00 pm. What can I do? The shops were open from 5.00 pm to 11.00 pm and the doors were shut.

This couple wanted to see me. They had seen me earlier in the week and I was showing them a three stone diamond ring. They come after the doors were shut and we were closed. I opened the doors and sold them a ring. This man was old and he said I am going to die soon and I asked why what happened? He said it was because of asbestos. I felt very sorry for him and asked him how many children he had? He replied three daughters and as I was showing them a three stone diamond ring, I said one for each daughter. That is it. He bought the ring. Sometimes you have to associate sentiments with purchase and people buy jewellery to celebrate anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions etc”.

 

27)                       How was the pressure of being a champion salesman?

“It was tough because every time I would speak to a customer, good results were expected and I needed to be consistent with my figures as I did 0,000 US Dollars every single month as we had an excel sheet with all the names and sales figures. I always wanted to lead. People at times said, Max can begin the conversation but not close the sale. I came up with a trick. My hobby was collecting police officers and firemen’s patches. I asked every customer to send me one patch from their town and in return I would give them a special price. This worked  and in no time, I had one patch from every town of United States of America and I got a lot of sales”.

 

28)                       Can we start with some Sales Coaching now?

“Please go ahead, I will now show you the magic of a champion salesman”.

 

29)                       What are the different types of selling?

“That is easy, product, service and concept selling”.

 

30)                       Which is the most difficult?

“All three but in all honesty I have sold everything and my experience says it is concept selling because there is no product or service but plain dreams that you are selling such as Time Share”.

 

31)                       Who are the best three salesmen?

“Car Salesman, Property Salesman and Jewellery Salesman”.

 

32)                       What are the qualities of a good salesman?

“Very good question, smart, cunning, instant, one that can overcome obstacles with a smile, good with words, one that has good general knowledge, product knowledge and one that can maintain constant eye contact, one who can understand the customer needs, knows competition etc”.

 

33)                       Tell us how you in past overcame an obstacle?

“I was in Jamaica and was showing a ring to a lady and she asked if this diamond was blood free because it was during this time that the movie came out, Blood Diamond. I told her it was blood free because the movie had just come out and this diamond was found a year ago. Does not make a lot of sense but it did the trick and closed the sale for ,000 US Dollars”.

 

34)                       Three important things for a good salesman?

“A-S-K, Attitude, Skill and Knowledge”.

 

35)                       Tell us how you determine in seconds about the customer?

 

“By looking at people and their appearance, it is just like a book”.

A)    Clean Shaven, Suit needs very professional approach.

B)     Not shaven, wearing shorts needs an casual approach.

C)    Denim jeans, Rolex Watch, Clark Shoes definitely believes in Brands.

D)   Big guy, tattoos, pierced is very careless and becomes friendly instantly.

 

36)  Is there an formula to follow in Sales?

A)    Meet and Greet

B)    Introduction

C)    Presentation

D)   Short Stories

E)     Close

F)     Rehash

 

36)                       Any other ideas?

“Ask open and closed questions, such as would you like a beer or brandy? The person is forced to pick one of the two. That means the salesperson is in the Driver’s seat. These questions help the salesman determine which way the customer is heading towards. Also you need to make the customer talk and the salesperson should know what the customer wants to hear”.

 

37)                       What the customer wants to hear, please explain?

“There is a trick to break the ice and make the customer talk, you can simply break the ice by talking about profession, hobbies, culture, country, locations, sports, latest news and events etc. Hence a good salesperson needs to know what is going around in the world. For instance if the customer is from United States of America you will now talk about Barrack Obama or if the customer is from United Kingdom, Alan Sugar or X-Factor would be a good talk”.

 

38)                       How else can you determine about the customer?

“Very easy, expressions, looks and movements of the body.

A)    Rubbing his chest means not comfortable and does not trust salesman.

B)    Legs crossed, totally negative.

C)    Nodding his neck to your statements, the customer is listening to you.

D)   Sat backwards, feels that the salesperson is entering his/her personal area.

 

 

39)                       Can someone become a Champion Salesman?

“Absolutely, anyone can become a champion salesman provided he or she gets the right training”.

 

40)                       How can you help staff and employees or different organisations?

“I can give Sales Seminars for three hours and work with the sales staff. I can analyse immediately what they need to do and which areas they need to work and correct themselves. The Seminar would cost £500.00 GBP and I can visit any location in United Kingdom and after attending my seminar the sales team will triple their sales immediately. To make bookings in advance please e-mail me at Timesofbusiness@aol.com

 

Do you want to or train your staff and employees to become a champion salesman?

 

Courtesy:

Max Kumar.

Managing  Director.

Max Business Solutions Ltd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

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NBA Draft 2010

 

The first two men taken in the NBA Draft 2010: Wall and Turner offer the Wizards and the 76ers great talent. Of course, everyone turns to second guessing the guys doing the drafting. Kentucky’s John Wall can run the court with the best of them, but does he possess the keys to make himself a force as a NBA guard? His last season as a Wildcat was impressive as he led the team in scoring, assists, and steals.

Ohio State’s contribution to the NBA Draft 2010: Wall and Turner might mean more to Philly than Walls will to Washington. Shooting guards that are 6′ 7″ come in handy anywhere, but Turner could be more than a diamond in the rough. He has the size and the weight to make a formidable foe for any guard in the NBA. His final season as a Buckeye saw a 20.4 ppg average, with 6 assists and 9.2 rebounds.

Draft results can never be judged at the time they take place. The NBA Draft 2010: Wall and Turner will definitely provide two teams with some talent. Wall needs to develop more from 3 point land to be viable, and his free throw shooting is suspect too. Turner is probably ready to start for the 76ers, and he should make a considerable difference in their game.

While the 2010 NBA free agency craze is a week from now – basketball fans will be eager to watch NBA Draft 2010 live online today to see the direction that their teams will take in the 2010-2011 NBA season. If you plan to watch NBA Draft live today know that it will last a total of 5 hours. Remember that their are 60 draft picks set to take place today and each between each pick there is some additional time that is given to teams for trades and reconsidering their pick given what has transpired before them.

So you can watch the NBA draft online today if you wish on ESPN3. Of course everyone will be just as curious to see if any trades develop during the show as where the brightest upcoming stars end up. John Wall is predicted to become the first overall pick in this year’s draft and go to the Wizards.

Blowing up their roster at the trade deadline paid off as the Wizards had luck on their side by winning the draft lottery. Wall is the obvious choice since their only point guard is Gilbert Arenas who just cannot be counted on at this point of his career. Arenas can move to the two while Wall becomes the new face of the franchise.

For the first time post-lottery, I actually contemplated Derrick Favors going to the Sixers now that they need a big man since  trading Samuel Dalembert . Turner gets the edge because he is the needed complement to Andre Iguodala on the wing and will bring his versatility to a franchise badly in need of a go-to player.

The latest chatter out of Jersey is that Wesley Johnson has leaped ahead of Favors as the likely pick, but some reports are contradicting, saying Favors will still be the pick. The Nets need all sorts of help and a scorer on the wing like Johnson will help, but is he a better long-term prospect that Favors? I don’t think so. I still think Favors is the pick.

If Turner and Johnson are off the board, the T-Wolves are “forced” to take Favors or Cousins at No. 4. But the Timberwolves have been high on Johnson all along as he would bring some needed talent to the wing. This selection could also be dealt with a team like Detroit possibly trying to move up to grab one of the top bigs, though Minnesota seems set on hanging onto the selection.

The Kings will likely take whomever is on the board of the Johnson/Favors/Cousins trio, but will also take a serious look at Monroe. The Kings did just  acquire Samuel Dalembert but he is a free agent after this season so there is still a long-term need for a big man like Cousins.

Outside of their backcourt, the Warriors roster is sort of a mess and they should take the best available player. They reportedly prefer Ekpe Udoh rather than Monroe due to his (GASP) ability to be a difference maker on defense. Either would provide a boost up front since Anthony Randolph and Brandan Wright have not developed like the franchise would have hoped, and Andris Biedrins has seemingly fallen out of favor in Golden State. With the Warriors dealing Corey Maggette, they might take a more serious look at a small forward like Aminu as well.

The Pistons would love to move up and get DeMarcus Cousins and when all the smoke has cleared, it may happen. If not, they are probably thrilled Monroe falls to them since he provides an inside presence Detroit so badly needs. If Monroe ends up going six to Golden State, Ed Davis is likely the pick.

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This is the ideal situation for Los Angeles’ other team. The biggest hole on the Clippers’ roster is at the small forward position and they would probably be thrilled if Aminu fell to them. If not, the Clips will take whomever they like best of the Henry/Babbitt/George/Hayward group. There is also a rumor out there this pick could go to Chicago for Luol Deng and No. 18.

My first “ballsy” pick of my 2010 NBA Mock Draft. I have been saying since the ping pong balls were revealed that Indy should strongly consider taking Bledsoe. There is a good chance the Pacers end up dealing this pick because they covet a young point guard. If they don’t get one via trade, why not draft Bledsoe whom I think will develop into one of the top ten players in this draft? Indy could also use an athletic post player and would likely jump on Davis or Udoh if they fell to this spot.

The Hornets have two pretty glaring needs: depth up front and a wing player of the future since Peja Stojakovic is in the final year of his deal. There will be a lot of options for both with this pick between Patterson and Aldrich, or George/Henry/Hayward. I think Henry is the best prospect of that group so I will make him the pick.

The Grizzlies could be losing Rudy Gay this offseason and need to have a backup plan. George continues to climb up draft boards because there aren’t many players in the league who are 6-9 and possess the type of skill set which is rather similar to that of Rudy Gay.

The Raptors need to find a replacement for Chris Bosh and could use a post player like Patterson or Aldrich to help that transition. The Raptors are also trying to deal an unhappy Hedo Turkoglu and would take a serious look at Babbitt, but in the end, a Bosh replacement might be the trump card. This is another pick that is rumored to be on the market so anything is possible.

The Rockets are in a position where they have no glaring needs and take the best available player. I don’t see Aldrich as being anything more than a solid backup in the league, but Houston could use a player like that considering Yao’s recent injury history and the fact that is entering the final year of his contract.

The Bucks addressed their need for a wing player via trades by acquiring Corey Maggette and Chris Douglas-Roberts in the past two days. While I think they should turn their attention to the frontcourt where Andrew Bogut is the only real inside presence on the roster, general manager John Hammond will implore a “best available player” theory and likely not pass on Babbitt. The Bucks are rumored to be very high on Larry Sanders as well so he would be the likely pick if the Bucks feel they need to land a big.

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Indigenous cookery

traditional South African cuisine

In the precolonial period, indigenous cuisine was characterized by the use of a very wide range of foods including fruits, nuts, bulbs, leaves and other products gathered from wild plants and by the hunting of wild game. The domestication of cattle in the region about two thousand years ago by Khoisan groups enabled the use of milk products and the availability of fresh meat on demand. However, during the colonial period the seizure of communal land in South Africa restricted and discouraged traditional agriculture and wild harvesting, and reduced the extent of land available to black people.

Decline of indigenous cookery

Urbanization from the nineteenth century onward, coupled with close control over agricultural production, led black South Africans to rely more and more on comparatively expensive, industrially-processed foodstuffs like wheat flour, white rice, mealie (maize) meal and sugar. Often these foods were imported or processed by white wholesalers, mills and factories. The consequence was to drastically restrict the range of ingredients and cooking styles used by indigenous cooks. On the other hand, some imported food plants (maize, tomatoes) have expanded the dietary range of indigenous cooks. Of these maize is the most significant – it has been integrated to such an extent into the traditional diet that it is often assumed to be an indigenous plant.

Popular foods in modern South Africa are chicken, limes, garlic, ginger, chili, tomatoes, onions and many spices.

Settler cookery

South Africa was settled from the seventeenth century onwards by colonists from Portugal, the Netherlands, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. These colonists brought European cookery styles with them.

Cape Dutch

Traditional cookery of South Africa is often referred to as “Cape Dutch”. This cuisine is characterized by the use of spices such as nutmeg, allspice and hot peppers. The Cape Dutch cookery style owes at least as much to the cookery of the slaves brought by the Dutch East India Company to the Cape from Bengal, Java and Malaysia as it does to the European styles of cookery imported by settlers, and this is reflected in the use of eastern spices and the names given to many of these dishes.

Indian cookery

Curry dishes are popular with lemon juice in South Africa among people of all ethnic origins; many dishes came to the country with the thousands of Indian labourers brought to South Africa in the nineteenth century.

Restaurants and fast food outlets

South Africa can be said to have a real “eating out” culture. While there are some restaurants that specialize in traditional South African dishes or modern interpretations thereof, restaurants featuring other cuisines such as Moroccan, Chinese, West African, Congolese and Japanese can be found in all of the major cities and many of the larger towns. In addition, there are also a large number of home-grown chain restaurants, such as Spur and Dulce Cafe.

There is also a proliferation of fast food restaurants in South Africa. While there are some international players such as McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken active in the country, they face stiff competition from local chains such as Nando’s and Steers.

Many of the restaurant chains originating from South-Africa have also expanded successfully outside the borders of the country.

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Typical South African foods and dishes

Amasi, sour milk.

Biltong, a salty dried meat (similar to jerky).

Bobotie, a dish of Malay descent, is like meatloaf with raisins and with baked egg on top, and is often served with yellow rice, sambals, coconut, banana slices, and chutney.

Boerewors, a sausage that is traditionally braaied (barbecued).

Bunny chow, curry stuffed into a hollowed-out loaf of bread. A bunny chow is called Kota by the locals.

Chutney, a sweet sauce made from fruit that is usually poured on meat.

Frikkadelle – meatballs.

Gesmoorde vis, salted cod with potatoes and tomatoes and sometimes served with apricot jam.

Hoenderpastei, chicken pie, traditional Afrikaans fare.

Isidudu, pumpkin pap.

Koeksisters come in two forms and are a sweet delicacy. Afrikaans koeksisters are twisted pastries, deep fried and heavily sweetened. Koeksisters found on the Cape Flats are sweet and spicy, shaped like large eggs, and deep-fried.

phajjay k payee

biryani

samosay

Mageu, a drink made from fermented mealie pap

Mala Mogodu, a local dish equivalent of tripe. The locals usually enjoy mala mogodu with hot pap and spinach

Malva Pudding, a sweet spongy Apricot pudding of Dutch origin.

Mashonzha, made from the mopane worm.

Melktert (milk tart), a milk-based tart or dessert.

Melkkos (milk food), another milk-based dessert.

Mealie-bread, a sweet bread baked with sweetcorn.

Mielie-meal, one of the staple foods, often used in baking but predominantly cooked into pap or phutu.

Ostrich is an increasingly popular protein source as it has a low cholesterol content; it is either used in a stew or filleted and grilled.

Pampoenkoekies (pumpkin fritters), flour has been supplemented with or replaced by pumpkin or sweet potato.

Potbrood (pot bread), savoury bread baked over coals in cast-iron pots.

Potjiekos, a traditional Afrikaans stew made with meat and vegetables and cooked over coals in cast-iron pots.

Rusks, a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit eaten after being dunked in tea or coffee; they are either home-baked or shop-bought (with the most popular brand being Ouma Rusks).

Samosa or samoosa, a savoury stuffed Indian pastry that is fried.

Smagwinya, fat cakes

Smoked or braai’ed snoek, a regional gamefish.

Sosaties, grilled marinated meat on a skewer.

Tomato bredie, a lamb and tomato stew.

Trotters and Beans, from the Cape, made from boiled pig’s or sheep’s trotters and onions and beans.

Umleqwa, a dish made with free-range chicken.

Umngqusho, a dish made from white maize and sugar beans.

Umphokoqo, an African salad made of maize meal

Umqombothi, a type of beer made from fermented maize and sorghum.

Umvubo, sour milk mixed with dry pap, commonly eaten by the Xhosa.

Vetkoek (fat cake, magwenya), deep-fried dough balls, typically stuffed with meat or served with snoek fish or jam.

Waterblommetjie bredie (water flower stew), meat stewed with the flower of the Cape Pondweed.

See also

South African wine

Umgqusho is made of samp (maize) and sugar beans and staple food for Xhosa people

References

Coetzee, Renata, 1977. The South African Culinary Tradition, C. Struik Publishers, Cape Town, South Africa.

Leipoldt, C. Louis, 1976. Leipoldt Cape Cookery, Fleesch and Partners, Cape Town, South Africa.

Van Wyk, B. and Gericke, N., 2000. People’s plants: A guide to useful plants of Southern Africa, Briza, Pretoria, South Africa.

Wylie, D., 2001. Starving on a Full Stomach: Hunger and the Triumph of Cultural Racism in Modern South Africa, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, VA., United States of America.

Routledge Encyclopaedia of Africa – Farming

External links

South African cuisine – International Marketing Council of South Africa web site

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Oil Well for sale is emerging as one of the most profitable business wings across the world and it is the most vital revenue generator in the United States. Oil Wells in the United States use various analysing techniques and engineering methodologies, these techniques play a major role in the sale of Oil wells.  Around 22 barrels of oil can yielded per day from ten oil wells with three injectors, and the rate and amount of the oil varies from place to place.  The economic returns from the crude oil will be greater than 0K from 2000 acres of land and the yield varies accordingly to the water injectors and the land used for drilling. The most significant Oil wells in the United States are given below, the Illinois Oil Wells, Texas Oil Wells, New York Oil Wells, Pennsylvania Oil Wells, Kentucky Oil Field etc.

 

The Illinois Oil well produces large amount of crude oil from the depressed regions of Pennsylvania and the large yielding oil resources are found in Mediterranean rocks when they are drilled below 13,000 feet.  Texas Oil Trade is the best illustration for US economic growth in this century and the Texas Oil wells have yielded maximum oil in Permian, South east and north eastern regions of Texas, these Oil wells are the most outperforming oil wells. Underneath the basins, oil and gas can move through small holes and pores to other surfaces of the rocks, they must be carefully expelled through shafts and machines. The oil and natural gas explored from these areas at greater depths are considered to be the purest form of natural resources.

 

The oil wells in these regions are subjected to strict rules and regulations and these rules and regulations differ with place to place. Many revised plans are carried on these oil wells, and this leads to increase in the production of Oil in the United States, even though the other parts of United States are subjected to heavy loss, these parts are not affected and they contribute consistently. While comparing with the data of 2007, there was one percent decrease in the oil production, this was due to the increase in population and modernization. The comforts and luxuries are increasing at rapid rate in this modern world which may destroy the natural resources, and the mankind will be facing numerous problems in future. The Oil well trade is running successful across the world because of the oil producing companies are providing the investors, with lion’s share of their profit.

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Article by Jerry Boone

THE LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE, published by Stackpole Books, 1998, is a unique book about an eighteenth century explorer, written by a nineteenth century biographer, and edited by a twentieth century author. How does it come off? Not too bad! In fact, this is probably the most authoritative account of the renowned frontiersman we will ever see.

I have a special interest in the subject. Daniel Boone is my great, great, great, great grandfather. No, I won’t bore you with my own genealogy. Suffice it to say, I descended through Jesse Bryan Boone, Daniel’s eighth child, who died the same year as Daniel — 1820.

Including notes and index, THE LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE is a large volume totaling 596 pages. And those pages are loaded with rather small print plus drawings and maps. But don’t let that discourage you from taking a peek at this one of a kind work.

If you would like a quick summary of the book, read the Preface. In eighteen pages, Belue appraises the character of Daniel Boone, what he did, and what he thought of his own fame. We discover Boone was a skilled woodsman, hunter, trapper, explorer, scout, militia commander, judge, and county representative. And he was a natural leader.

In his introduction, Ted Belue describes him as: “charismatic, quiet, even-tempered, and rarely willing to utter criticism even of those who opposed him. Boone’s genteel ways were the sort that universally garner respect and attract.” That plus his lack of guile and a sense of honor earned Daniel Boone a solid reputation.

But what did he think of himself? Belue quotes Boone’s own words: “Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man. It is true that I have suffered many hardships and miraculously escaped many perils, but others of my companions have experienced the same.”

Daniel Boone was modest. He comes across as a good man, one we would like to have on our side in a crisis.

Next we turn to the chronicler of information on Boone and his times. The self-appointed biographer, Dr. Lyman C. Draper, born September 4, 1815, showed exceptional insight for his day. Nineteenth century storytellers had no qualms at all mixing fantasy with truth. If it spiced up the story, a good myth even seemed preferred over mundane facts. Against this concoction of history and legend stood Draper with his grand vision of saving facts from oblivion. While the evidence was still available, and the people who remembered the events were still living, he wanted to separate fact from myth, correct misconceptions, and get as close as possible to the truth about frontier history.

In his youth, Draper selected twenty subjects to save from mythology. Besides Daniel Boone, other subjects meriting Draper’s attention included George Clark, Anthony Wayne, Daniel Morgan, and Dunmore’s War.

From 1843 to 1852, Draper traveled the trails Boone had explored, seeking interviews and gathering data on the frontiersman. But the project never turned into a book. He died in 1891 lamenting he had not finished the “Life of Daniel Boone.” Since 1854, Draper’s manuscript remained in the archives of the State National Society of Wisconsin.

In 1990, historian Ted Franklin Belue decided that Draper’s huge manuscript, rich in details of Boone and frontier life, should be available to the public. Thus the book began.

Belue presents Draper’s work much as it was left by the biographer nearly one and a half centuries earlier. Belue’s changes to Draper’s transcript were minor. He eliminated excess commas and made military titles and abbreviations consistent with modern usage.

Belue wrote the introduction and provided us with a series of notes at the end of each chapter following Draper’s original notes. The editor concluded his introduction by reminding us that what we are holding in our hands had been hidden away since 1854. “Read it. Savor it. Take time to get to know Lyman Draper, his methods, his point of view, the tenor of his times, and his man, Daniel Boone.”

Good advice. But to that I might add, there are three men in this book who are best understood in the context of their times: Boone, Draper, and Belue. Of the three, Boone is by far the most straightforward. Simply put, he was an adventurer who couldn’t rest until he saw what lay beyond the next hill. His life was an ongoing search for Eden, an unspoiled hunter’s paradise.

In Kentucky, he found much of what he was seeking. But civilization, which he himself helped usher in, quickly ruined what he considered most appealing. So off he went in search of a new unblemished wilderness.

The real Daniel Boone was a man of courage, skill, and good fortune who nevertheless suffered much over his 85 years. He was no Fess Parker. He wasn’t a big man. He killed few Indians and despised those who attempted to portray him as a fearless Indian-killer. Occasionally we are struck with the quaintness of the times. Sentimentality, not “cool,” was the predominant mood of the eighteenth century. Here’s a prime example. When Boone led a party of men from Boonesborough, they managed to rescue his own daughter, Jemima, and two other girls from a combined force of Shawanoes and Cherokees.

How did Boone propose to celebrate the event? He said: “Thank Almighty Providence, boys, we have the girls safe — let us all sit down and have a hearty cry.” And they did! That direct quote somehow never made the Daniel Boone TV series.

Now let’s consider the compiler of information, Dr. Draper. What should I say about this mother lode of facts and opinions, and what should I leave for you to discover for yourself? I will limit myself to three observations. Draper’s style will certainly catch your attention. A few pages of Draper comes across as quaint and charming. Then again, several hundred pages of him is downright tedious. For modern tastes, it’s a bit too much: too wordy, too flowery, and too sentimental. But wasn’t that typical for the period? Yes, I believe it was.

Draper reflected his time in other ways too. The mood of the mid-nineteenth century was a positive one. They were as assured of themselves, their culture, and their values as we are uncertain of ours in the early twenty-first century. Dr. Draper championed Manifest Destiny. Anglo-Americans were marching westward taking their civilization in tow. At times Draper seems to be more of a cheerleader than a historian. But, as Belue points out, Draper never had a historian’s perspective. He couldn’t distinguish the trivial from the significant. So his notes are full of minute details of no particular interest.

Despite all of his faults, Draper preserved much of historical interest which would be lost without his efforts. That is his real contribution. Unfortunately, he never did get around to exploring Daniel Boone’s latter years. This entire volume is dedicated to the first half of Boone’s life.

Belue, unlike Draper, is a historian. By and large, he displays the objectivity and evenhandedness that Draper lacked in his manuscript. But is one major respect Belue reveals that he too is a man of his day.

The term “American Indians” has now been changed to the politically correct term “Native Americans.” Belue is numbered among those who believe what Caucasians did to Native Americans was morally reprehensible. What Belue espouses is, in effect a moralistic view of history.

Our question for Mr. Belue is: How did those Indians tribes obtain their lands? Well, they acquired them by driving off, killing, or assimilating other tribes who had the land before them, as they had in turn done to those who preceded them.

The history of Britain was no different. Picts lost their land to the Celts, who in turn were driven away by Anglo-Saxons, who in turn were conquered by the Normans. Larger tribes, more aggressive people displaced others and took their territory. What Anglo-Americans did to Native Americans is what mankind has been doing to each other throughout recorded history — no more, no less.

Draper’s manuscript details deceptions and atrocities committed by both sides, as well as acts of friendship and good will offered by both. Here Draper appears to be objective. Belue agrees.

A couple of centuries after the events, it is easy for us to lob criticism at the frontier settlers. After all, they won, didn’t they? But what were those eighteenth century settlers really like? What were the eighteenth century Indians like? This book, the most authoritative document we have for this period, opens our eyes to the timbre of the day. Before condemning the settlers, perhaps we should ask ourselves: if you and I were in constant peril, how altruistic would we be?

The LIFE OF DANIEL BOONE is a book worth reading. This volume is our passport back to the eighteenth century frontier America. It’s a time of great beauty and danger, unbelievable opportunity and hardship, plus numerous acts of courage, savagery, and cowardice. It is an exciting period. See for yourself.

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