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The Upsetter
Arresting News of (Dis)organised Crime and Corruption
THE LOVERS' LANE MURDERS
Historic Gangland Execution Re-examined After Ex-Cop's Corruption Claims
The crime scene
The crime scene photos were unsettling even to the most weathered detective with a ready shield of flippancy.
Two distorted torsos could be made out through a windscreen impacted by blood and human tissue.
The man in the driving seat of the Mercedes was probably the first to be shot in the head at close range from the back seat. The 12-bore shotgun then turned on his girlfriend next to him.
"It was one of the most vicious things I've ever seen and I've seen some 'orrible things," one veteran homicide detective recalled.
The couple had been kidnapped from her nearby home and forced to drive through rush hour on the last working day before Christmas.
Witnesses, including an off duty police officer, were struck by the erratic driving. They saw two men in the back seat of the Mercedes and one man in a Golf GTi with very low spoilers directly behind it.
At a junction, a driver got between the two cars until one of the men in the back of the Mercedes turned with a look so scary that the eyewitness pulled away.
Eventually, the Mercedes and Golf turned off the busy Epping Road into Lodge Lane. The dirt track led to an unlit lovers lane car park enveloped by forest and far enough away that two flashes of shotgun fire could get lost in the glare of headlights on the main road.
It was 7.30pm on Friday 22 December 1989. The two assassins covered in blood splatter and firearm residue slid into the Golf, which joined the metal crowd heading home through east London.
The black Mercedes remained unnoticed until the early hours of Saturday morning, when a police car turned into Lodge Lane looking for doggers.
The Essex cops were hoping to try out a new hand held thermal imaging device on the Mercedes, which was parked facing the forest. But neither passenger gave off a warm Ready Brek glow. Either the equipment was faulty or they were dead.
Within hours a Metropolitan police murder squad detective and crime scene manager arrived. A fleeting theory of murder-suicide was dispelled when no gun was found in the car.
After the Christmas break, a well-placed informant told his police handler the names of two men apparently responsible for the kidnap and shooting and a third man said to be behind it all.
The trio were well known gangland faces. The informant, also a face, was concerned for his safety because one of the three had "bent old bill wrapped around him," he warned.
Maxine Arnold and Terry Gooderham
Three decades later the murders of Terry Gooderham, 39, a pub stock taker, and Maxine Arnold, 32, an insurance clerk, remain unsolved. Corruption had been a problem from the start, police sources say.
Some time ago, The Upsetter learned that the detective who handled the informant was retired and still troubled by the double murder. 'Mark' (not his real name) couldn't shake the case.
"It involves people's lives and most importantly the lost lives of two young people in the most vicious and appalling circumstances," he said.
We made ourselves busy in the underworld and among retired detectives. Last week, our efforts paid off.
The double murder of Gooderham and Arnold is being re-examined. The new investigation is run by a joint group of anti-corruption and cold case murder detectives overseen by a 'gold group' of senior officers at Scotland Yard.
This is what we understand so far.
The Grey Overcoat
Mark heard about the lovers' lane murders on his way back from a holiday abroad. "I know someone who'll know about that," he told his wife.
It wasn't Mark's case, but what's the point having quality informants if you don't tap them when something like this happens. The informant he had in mind had proved himself over the last six years.
The meeting took place in the first week of January 1990. The informant appeared on edge, wired even. He didn't know Mark was coming. But after three hours he offered up three names and a motive.
David Hunt and Jimmy Holmes, he said, had allegedly taken up the contract because Gooderham was on the verge of going to the police about a pub protection racket.
Reggie and Ronnie Kray
The man behind the racket was named as Connie Whitehead, who in the late 60's had gone down with the Kray twins as an accessory to their murder of Jack 'the hat' McVitie.
The informant was no stranger to violence but Mark recalls his man was "terrified" of Hunt and Holmes, two up-and-coming violent gangsters operating in east London. There was also concern that what he was saying would get back to Hunt through his supposed corrupt police contacts.
Mark knew of Hunt's reputation and had heard the corruption rumours. He immediately drove to a police station near the crime scene, sat in his car and wrote a two-page intelligence log of what he'd just heard.
An informant's name never appears on the log. Mark's was registered under the pseudonym 'David Hampshire'. The real identity was held in a central registry at Scotland Yard and by a senior officer on the police division where Mark worked.
"I sat for a long time thinking how the fuck do I get this [log] into the system" without any corrupt interference. The next day Mark confided in a trusted superior who assured him the murder squad would be made aware of the intelligence.
But a few days later something extraordinary happened. "I was at Snaresbrook Crown Court when a high-ranking officer based at Scotland Yard arrived in his chauffeur-driven car."
The senior officer wore an expensive grey overcoat and wanted a private word with Mark.
"I was told the information I had submitted on the log was wrong, the informant had been spoken to and basically retracted, he'd been on pills, his head fucked. I was told thanks very much now leave it to the murder squad."
The whole set up felt wrong. If the informant woke up the next day and realised he had mouthed off while on drugs he could have phoned Mark personally and retracted. They had that sort of relationship, but he never called.
Instead, the high ranking officer was standing in front of him. The man in the grey overcoat had nothing to do with the murder squad but he was responsible for all other serious crime in London, which meant his was the word of God.
Who was Mark, a detective sergeant, to question God's word over that of a criminal informant, whose motives are almost always dishonourable – money, revenge or taking out the competition.
David Hunt
At the time, Mark was waiting for a transfer to south London. "I was glad to leave the east end after eleven years. The informant was going to be no use to me in south London so I left him behind. I would recruit new ones. I accepted what I was told, that [Hampshire] had got it wrong."
Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold led an unorthodox life. He spent half the week in her Walthamstow flat from where they were kidnapped, and the other half with another woman in Chingford.
A detective close to the Chingford woman said she was unaware of Maxine. "Until Old Bill turned up with sniffer dogs to do the Christmas tree – they thought drugs didn't they. That's the obvious thing when someone gets their head blown off," he said.
Maxine's mum, Violet, had gone round to her daughter's flat after the couple didn't show up for a drink on the Friday night of their murder. It looked like they had left in a hurry and Violet also noticed that Terry's auditing books were no longer there, a retired detective told Mark.
Terry kept these books and loads of cash at the homes of the two women with whom he was living a double life, the source added.
On the twelfth anniversary of the double murder, Violet made a TV appeal for witnesses to put her mind at ease "and let Terry and Maxine rest in peace."
A former detective joined in to offer a possible motive for the unsolved crime. "I personally think [Terry] did stumble over something in the course of his bookkeeping and it was so important there was a large risk of him coming to the police about it, and because of that he was killed."
The TV appeal yielded no actionable intelligence. That remained the position come the twentieth anniversary of the murder in 2009.
By then, Mark had recently retired after a 30-year career that took him all over the world as a specialist organised crime detective.
But the more he relived that day in January 1990 when the high-ranking officer in the grey overcoat approached him outside court, the more he believed there was something improper going on.
Firstly, the high-ranking officer had nothing to do with the murder, so why was he getting involved and personally? Secondly, irrespective of his seniority in rank, he should never have known the real name of the informant. Thirdly, the informant should not have been seen without going through Mark first.
A 'flagging system' in operation at the time had been set up to stop blue-on-blue situations where one police officer is chasing a criminal who is an informant for another officer.
Officers can flag informants, criminals, operations, locations as an early warning system if information comes into the central police intelligence collating system. Flagging can be done for honest reasons and crooked ones.
The protocol at the time was that the officer with the flag is told about the intelligence and the officer who runs the informant, but never the informant's real name. The two police are then supposed to speak and consider options. It allows the informant handler to also assess if the approach is legitimate or for some corrupt motive.
Mark was coming to the view that the high-ranking officer had flagged one of the three names, then used his rank to find out who was giving information about him.
The question was whether this was for a corrupt purpose, to tip one of them off perhaps, or possibly to protect another police operation at an advanced or crucial stage against.
In those days, said Mark, a murder did not always trump other police investigations.
Tiger to Crocus
One year before the lovers' lane murders, east London detectives had launched an operation against Hunt and his organised crime group.
Jimmy Holmes
Operation Tiger ran from a secret base because Hunt was suspected of having corrupt contacts in Plaistow police station, which covered his stomping ground of Canning Town and Custom House.
Operation Tiger also looked at Hunt's key associates Jimmy Holmes, Tony Bowers and Bobby Reading. The gang was variously suspected of involvement in lorry hijacks, pub and club protection, prostitution and drug supply.
Detectives on Operation Tiger said it was not sophisticated police work in that they lacked funding for a surveillance team and there was no phone taps. Tiger's strength was in a number of local informants and the determination of its detectives.
Legend has it that two turned up at Hunt's house in Varley Road and gave him the option of leaving Canning Town or facing the consequences. Whatever his reasons, Hunt did leave in October 1988 and moved to a new, bigger home in Rahn Road on the edge of Epping Forest.
Shortly before the double murder in December 1989, Operation Tiger was closed down for lack of resources, said the detective chief inspector who ran it.
But immediately after the murder, an increased amount of intelligence started coming in, recalled former detective chief inspector Norman McNamara. The intelligence concerned corrupt east London police helping local villains.
A new secret operation codenamed Crocus was set up in 1990 to deal with this corruption intelligence, which became the forerunner of Scotland Yard's anti-corruption Ghost Squad set up a few years later.
The high-ranking officer in the grey overcoat had no involvement with Operation Tiger, or the double murder inquiry and, according to sources, had shown an unusual concern about the corruption intelligence being collated by Operation Crocus.
At the time he was secretly under investigation for unrelated corruption offences.
By Universal Repute
A May 1990 police report on the double murder linked the deaths to "prolific organised crime operating primarily in east and north London."
The report went on:
"Preliminary research into Hunt and Holmes have revealed they are engaged on various criminal activities, primarily protection in respect of pubs in east London, the organisation of Acid House parties and the supply of drugs and the take over of clubs in the West End.
Hunt is presently being paid protection money by several public houses in the Canning Town area … By universal repute, no criminal activity takes place in that area of East London without his agreement.
It is also said by sources that very little of what occurs in Plaistow police station remains secret from this criminal fraternity and they even target this police station with long range listening devices."
Cornelius Whitehead
The murder squad were also onto Cornelius 'Connie' Whitehead. According to sources, detectives had set up a covert observation post on a warehouse Whitehead had in Stratford.
Lorries full of booze were hijacked and allegedly slaughtered (unloaded) in the warehouse and then sold to various pubs at a cheap price. Whitehead had numerous pubs, including the Beckon Arms, in east London.
The murder squad suspected the pub protection racket involved taking over pubs in distress by getting the licensee in debt or using menace. Mark's informant had told him the same thing during their three-hour chat.
Although never arrested for the double murders, Hunt became aware he was a suspect when Peter Wilson, a crime reporter on the Sunday Mirror, knocked his family home in Rahn Road in March 1992.
Wilson had just received a briefing from detective superintendent Bill Peters, the senior detective in charge of the murder. But when Wilson made his enquiries Hunt flew into a rage and head butted the reporter so expertly it broke his eye socket.
Wilson reported the assault and Hunt was arrested. But on reflection, the journalist withdrew the charges fearing for his safety.
Peters told The Upsetter that a number of criminal families, including the Adams family from Islington, were linked to the double murder. One theory was Gooderham was suspected of stealing, while Maxine Arnold was simply "in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Hunt, said Peters, was a rising star who despite their efforts "had the propensity to not get touched by the Met."
Holmes is Where the Hatred Is
Jimmy Holmes was arrested in 1992 for robbery and possession of a gun. The detectives, who were not connected to the murder squad, interviewed him about other alleged crimes, including the double murder. He stayed quiet but was jailed for mortgage fraud connected to the gang's porn interests.
The Morleys
However, in 1995, when Holmes came out, he fell out spectacularly with Hunt, who had moved into a 20-acre mansion called The Morleys.
The fall out was over the spoils of their criminal enterprise, Holmes claimed in an interview with The Upsetter in 2010.
He explained how cocaine abuse had become a way of blocking out the horrors of his life of violence since he joined up with Hunt in the mid-Eighties.
After the fall out, Holmes embarked on a guerrilla campaign to embarrass and undermine his former friend. This included speaking to intelligence officers from the Met. But when they asked about the lovers' lane murder Holmes denied any involvement.
Only, in our interview about his time with Hunt, he said:
"We moved into serious armed robbery, drug smuggling, pub protection rackets, porn, prostitution and other serious stuff, which I can't mention because loads of it is still on Old Bill's open files."
Holmes claimed he and Hunt carried out contract shootings, but not killings. "I can ride a bike," he said enigmatically. "So sometimes I rode a bike for him."
Pressed if he and Hunt were involved in the double murder, Holmes said:
"Some things I just can't go anywhere near and I wouldn't like to speculate. I've been put in the frame for that. There are certain things I can say and I can't say."
For his part, Hunt has always denied any involvement in any murder, contract shootings, torture or the assault on the Mirror journalist.
He said Holmes was his friend, godfather to one of his children and legitimate business partner who he tried to help through his drug addiction.
These matters were aired during an unsuccessful libel action that Hunt brought in 2013 against The Sunday Times. When considering the circumstances leading to the assault on Wilson, the judge, Mr Justice Simon, said:
"I am quite clear that Mr Wilson's evidence of an assault was a truthful account, and that the Claimant's denial was knowingly untruthful. Although the Claimant came across as mild-mannered and courteous, this part of the case showed that he could not be relied on as a witness of truth, that he was capable of sudden violence when his interests were directly threatened and that he was not frightened to 'take on' a journalist, notwithstanding the possible consequences."
The judge found that Hunt was a violent organised crime boss involved in fraud, money laundering and witness intimidation. He did not find that Hunt was involved in murder or drug trafficking.
Daily Mirror 23 December 2019
On the 30th anniversary of the double murders, The Upsetter and The Mirror published an article revealing for the first time the corruption concerns of Mark.
Retired detective superintendent Albert Patrick, who carried out a review of the double murder in 2012, recalled seeing an intelligence log on the file and confirmed that Hunt, Holmes and Whitehead were suspects.
"There was more than one source of intelligence," naming the suspects, said Patrick, adding that a witness had provided "almost a spitting image" of one of the two men in the back of the Mercedes. "Sadly we submitted DNA but nothing came out of it," he recalled.
Whitehead, now 84 and in poor health, was approached at home. "I don't know nothing about it," he said.
Mark had hoped the Met would get in touch after the Mirror article and maybe even start an investigation. The police did neither.
So he contacted Crimestoppers, his local chief constable and finally, in June 2020, the police watchdog. He had a list of concerns: Had his January 1990 intelligence log gone missing? Why had no one from the murder squad come to see? Had his informant been frightened off? Why had the high-ranking officer in the grey overcoat interceded?
The watchdog passed Mark's complaint to the Met's anti-corruption squad in July. Initially, he was told they were satisfied the January 1990 intelligence had reached the murder squad.
But Mark felt fobbed off and a face-to-face meeting was arranged with the anti-corruption head of intelligence. "Why are you doing this?" he asked. "I'm here to wake up the Met," Mark replied.
They discussed a 2002 anti-corruption report, Operation Tiberius, which said the Hunt and Adams organised crime groups had corrupt east London detectives working for them since the 1990s and could infiltrate and contaminate murder inquiries "at will."
The intelligence chief said he had spoken to the author of the Tiberius report and felt "two thirds was speculative." Mark knew many of the 42 officers named in the report as corrupt.
"I joined a police corrupt force," he replied. "The Met needs to open its eyes. If I was a corrupt officer I would have had Hunt flagged. It's not going away. The only reason you are not looking at this is because you don't want to open up Tiberius."
In September, Mark got word that the Met didn't have the resources and the matter had been put to bed. The intelligence chief had also retired.
Last month, Mark put out a call to former detectives announcing he was investigating the case himself. Two detectives on the original murder inquiry made contact.
"They were both adamant my intelligence log was never given to the murder squad," said Mark. One of the former detectives said the same high-ranking officer in the grey overcoat had tried to get information out of him. He was particularly interested in a corruption briefing given to Scotland Yard that led to Operation Crocus.
Further information came to Mark that the initial crime scene cordon was poor and by the time CCTV was recovered from a nearby petrol station it had been wiped.
Last week the Met confirmed in an email to Mark it had started a "homicide investigation" with anti-corruption and cold case murder detectives.
In a statement this evening, the Met said:
"These murders were subject to a homicide investigation at the time. As with all unsolved cases, these murders are subject to periodic review to consider if they can be advanced with the passage of time. No charges have been brought.
The murders were last reviewed in 2015 but the case could not be progressed further. The MPS has recently been contacted by a former officer presenting possible new information relating to the murders. As with all information this will be carefully assessed and this is ongoing at this time."
For the full story
A statement from Hunt's lawyer said:
"Mr Hunt denies any involvement in the murders of Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold. He also denies that he was involved in any way with any corrupt police officers."
Maxine Arnold's mother died without seeing justice. But her remaining family have welcomed the new probe. A relative said:
"It's a good thing that they are looking at it again, hopefully it will come to something. I just feel so sorry for Maxine, she was such a lovely girl and her life was wasted. She would have been 64 in September and she was just 32 when she was taken from us. What happened destroyed her mum who never got over it. She used to say to me how she hoped the killers would be caught before she died but they never were. It was all too much stress for her, her heart was broken."
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How plants grow new lateral roots: new method uses 3D live imaging
Formation mechanism for the meristem in the lateral roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. When lateral roots grow in this plant, after 4 layers of primordia are formed, the quiescent center is established, and the meristem is formed.Credit: Kobe University
Researchers have used 3D live imaging to observe the formation process of lateral roots in plants, and clarified part of the mechanism that creates new meristematic tissue. If the root formation mechanism in plants is revealed further, this could potentially be used to control plant growth by artificially altering root system architecture. These findings were published on August 10 in the online version of Development, and clips of the live imaging were selected as the Featured Movie of the current issue (Vol. 143/Issue 18).
The research group included Professor FUKAKI Hidehiro (Kobe University, Graduate School of Science), Project Assistant Professor GOH Tatsuaki (Kobe University, currently Assistant Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology), the University of Nottingham and the University of Montpellier.
Plants develop a root system adapted to their environment by growing new branched roots from existing roots. Root systems consist of the primary root, which is the first to grow after germination; lateral roots, created from internal tissue in existing roots such as the primary root; and adventitious roots, which sprout from above ground tissues. There is only one primary root, but after plant germination many lateral roots and adventitious roots are created. Since these latter types make up the majority of the root system, they have a large influence on its structure.
For a root to grow, new cells must be created in the root's meristematic tissue, located at the tip. In contrast to the primary root's origins as a radicle created in embryo, lateral roots are made from a subset of inner layer cells after germination. Thanks to research in genetics and plant tissue our understanding of the mechanism that creates the primary root has advanced, but there are still many unknown factors in the mechanism that creates lateral roots from a small number of cells.
The research group established a method enabling long-term observation of the developmental process of new roots (lateral roots) formed after germination of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Their method is based on 3D live imaging technology using confocal laser microscopy.
By comparing plant variants that showed abnormalities in the morphogenesis of lateral roots to plants with a natural development process, they elucidated part of the mechanism that develops lateral roots and the root meristem. Notably, they clarified the mechanism that establishes the "quiescent center cells" — important cells for the functioning of the meristem.
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Source: Kobe University
Tatsuaki Goh, Koichi Toyokura, Darren M. Wells, Kamal Swarup, Mayuko Yamamoto, Tetsuro Mimura, Dolf Weijers, Hidehiro Fukaki, Laurent Laplaze, Malcolm J. Bennett, Soazig Guyomarc'h. Quiescent center initiation in theArabidopsislateral root primordia is dependent on theSCARECROWtranscription factor. Development, 2016; 143 (18): 3363 DOI: 10.1242/dev.135319
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Lloyds Still Pressuring Staff Despite Mis-Selling Fine
Since 2009, there's been one thing after another for the vast majority of the banks in the UK in terms of scandals, trouble and generally one bad thing after another.
One of the major banks in this country, Lloyds has already been fined billions for mis-selling a number of their products like Payment Protection Insurance or packaged bank accounts.
They have recently been fined another £28 million for promoting a ruthless sales culture but it would appear that these millions of pounds in fines don't seem to have the desired affect on the banks.
Let's Put the Size of the Fine into Context Shall We?
Lloyds profits in 2013 stood at £3,205 million. A £28 million fine is therefore 0.87% of their profits. With the average UK income standing at around £26,500 that's the equivalent of a £230.55 fine.
Not really a deterrent when you consider the profits generated by the tactics of Lloyds Banking Group, which includes Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Black Horse generated almost £2.4 BILLION in investments and premium payments.
Referring back to the average UK salary again. That's the equivalent of receiving a £230.55 fine, but receiving a bonus of £19,843.20!!!
Will the regulators clamp down further? Don't hold your breath.
Aggressive Sales Tactics & Targets
An email from within Lloyds has emerged a just a week after Lloyds' bill for mis-selling PPI has topped £10bn which reveals the aggressive sales culture that still exists within the bank.
The email was sent by an as yet anonymous regional manager to a branch and it shows how employees at the branch are set targets.
We can assume that, in all likelihood, emails of a similar nature are a common occurrence across the bank.
Targets set targets to make as many appointments with customers as is possible.
In the email, it goes on to mention that they should be helping customers with credit cards and uses the term 'needs met' to describe sales.
Given the historical conduct of UK banks and lenders we can safely say that 'needs met' does not reflect on the needs of the customer, it will no doubt be the needs of the bank as it always is.
As well as all of this, staff are set targets to hit for the number of 'referrals' they get.
This means that when they pass a customer on to another department of the bank to where they will try to sell the customer a different product or investment. In the industry, this is known as 'cross-selling'.
Snippets From the Email
In the email, the manager piles on the pressure and reprimands the branch staff for not hitting targets and for falling short.
One extract from the letter reads: 'I will require the number of lending appointments booked again by email before you go home from every branch. Detail needed – how many lending [sic] booked for the next 5 days, how many advisers in the business.'
Also, talking about the number of daily appointments that the advisers are expected to make in a week, it advises: 'I'll give you a clue that 1's, 2's and 3's are simply not acceptable.'
Another extract from the reads as follows: '9 customers helped with a credit card (which embarrassingly is our busiest day of the week!!!).
With volumes and productivity being measured, I don't understand how 43 advisers can only help 20 customers with an internet (a free product?) and 0 with a credit card (another free product?)'
The letter then went on to warn staff who didn't hit their targets that their bonuses will be cut: 'Come on team you are better leaders than these numbers are telling me. You have ten working days left this quarter to make a difference to your half year.'
Mark Brown, of Lloyds Trade Union, which represents staff at the bank and has alerted the City watchdog to the email, describes the email as a clear threat to the staff.
Talking about the email, he said: "It's not even implied. It's gratuitous, offensive and menacing.'
The Union has since come out and accused the bank of being unfair and setting unachievable targets which, they added, 'drive the wrong kind of behaviours, to the detriment of customers potentially.'
The email was written ad sent out in June of this year, just 6 months after Lloyds were fined a record £28m for promoting a sales culture in their branches and throughout the company in which a number of different workers were told that they would be receiving half of their pay if they didn't hit targets that were set for them.
There were also 'champagne bonuses' put in place for selling customers certain kinds of investments that they didn't want or need.
Members of staff got that desperate at one stage that one salesman sold himself insurance, his wife and a colleague in order to stop his salary from being cut.
Does this behaviour sound right and fair to you? No, that's because it isn't. The banks have had enough out of the population of the UK in the last few years, just look at the PPI mis-selling scandal and the next big one, mis-sold packaged bank accounts.
If you think you may have been mis-sold PPI or a packaged bank account, get in touch with us here at Your Money Claim.
We're used to beating the banks on a daily basis, and we'd love to help you.
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By Cathryn Jakicic | Taste of Home
Most people who cook with cast-iron pans love them with the heat of a thousand suns. (iStock)
There are very few cast-iron rules to go with your cast-iron pan, but there are some foods it's best to avoid. Most people who cook with cast-iron pans love them with the heat of a thousand suns.
After all, they're a must for so many one-skillet meals not to mention they're handy for everything from breakfast to dessert (really—these cast iron desserts are so so good). However, as good as your skillet can be for making all these favorites, it's not a tool suited for all foods.
Find out what dishes you should avoid making in your cast iron.
Smelly foods
Garlic, peppers, some fish, stinky cheeses and more tend to leave aromatic memories with your pan that will turn up in the next couple of things you cook in it. Ten minutes in a 400ºF oven will generally get rid the smell, but it's best to avoid cooking foods that would be ruined by those lingering aromas for the next few cooks. (We're looking at you, chocolate pecan skillet cookie.)
Eggs and other sticky things
Once your pan is well-seasoned, no problem at all. But when your pan is new, even though it's seasoned, sticky things like eggs still may present a problem. Unless you like brown eggs and a gunky pan, relegate them to a regular nonstick pan for a while.
Delicate fish
The same heat retention that means your steak will get a beautiful brown crust in a cast iron pan will probably be the end of your lovely piece of trout or tilapia. Save the delicate fish for the non-stick pan, too. But salmon and other meaty fish that can stand the heat are fine.
There seem to be mixed feelings on this one. Some people say that tomatoes or lemons can react with the metal and cause it to leach into the food and break down the seasoning of the pan. Others believe that's a myth.
One thing to note: This list is for traditional cast-iron pans. If you've got an enamel-coated cast iron pan (like this one), you don't need to adhere to this list—you can just get cooking!
And if you do make a mistake with your cast iron pan and it gets really dirty—we've got the cleaning tips you need plus a step-by-step lesson on how to re-season your pan. Cast iron is tough and can withstand a slip-up or two.
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December 28, 1908 Earthquake
Less than one month before the Republic left New York, on December 28, 1908, the deadliest earthquake in European history (7.5 magnitude) and resulting tsunami devastated the Messina and Calabria areas of Italy, killing no less than 100,000 people and leaving over 200,000 homeless.1 This disaster remained front page news for several weeks and spurred major world-wide relief efforts. The staging area for relief efforts was organized at Naples, north of the disaster area - a port of call for the Republic.
Messina, Sicily, December 28, 1908
Source: Earthquake Engineering Research Center,
University of California at Berkeley
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Admiral Sperry's Great White Battleship Fleet, consisting of sixteen battleships and additional auxiliary and support vessels manned by over 14,000 sailors, then in the Mediterranean and nearing the end of its round-the-world cruise, was an active participant in the relief effort.
Sailors from the Battle Fleet viewing the ruins of Messina,
Sicily, destroyed by earthquake Dec. 28, 1908.
Sailors from the Battle Fleet searching the ruins of Messina,
Sicily, for the bodies of Consul Gen. Cheney & wife, Jan. 18, 1909.
1 The effects of the 1908 Messina earthquake on one man's family, and additional links and information can be found at: http://www.arduini.net/tales/tales15a.htm
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Ok sorry for the other post it seems i didnt make myself clear in it. I`m getting diff. answers from people i im online and junk. Ok this one should be clear. I need to connect 2 computers and i have a dialup modem i wanna have 2 computers use 1 modem as well. I know i need a crossover cable, 2 ethernet cards . DO I NEED A HUB?????
If you gots no crossover cable, you needs a hub..
I think, never tried it though, although, from the theory I remember, you have to have a crossover cable to go direct between two machines.
either crossover or a hub yes, but you need to configure DHCP as well, altough if you think you need help download Sygate home network.
He don't actually have to configure DHCP..
What operating systems are on the machines?
If you dont have a cross cable then you will need a hub.
Do you have the RJ45 tools to make a cross cable? if so you need to swap pin 1 (white & orange) with ping 3 (white & green) and pin 2 (orange) with pin 6 (green).
Dont forget to give the second machine DNS or you will not be able to resolve anything. An easy test is to go to a site by ip address if this works and the domain name doesnt then you have forgotten the DNS.
No hub needed.. Just a crossover cable, knowledge how to configure DHCP or some software that makes it easy.
if you need to build a crossover cable I created a tut here on how to make one.
It would be cheaper to buy or make a crossover cable then to get a hub or switch.
There was some discussion here a while back as to the benefits of dhcp, I said dhcp was great for networking any number of machines, Terr said if its under 8 or 9 (i think), dhcp isn't worth it - whilst i don't agree with that entirely, i'm inclined to think setting up dhcp between 2 pc's connected by a X over cable is overkill.