TIME featuring Steve Jobs

teven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and inventor widely recognized (along with his Apple business partner Steve Wozniak) as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. He was co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Jobs was co-founder and previously served as chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios; he became a member of the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company in 2006, following the acquisition of Pixar by Disney.
In the late 1970s, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak engineered one of the first commercially successful lines of personal computers, the Apple II series. Jobs directed its aesthetic design and marketing along with A.C. "Mike" Markkula, Jr. and others.
In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of Xerox PARC's mouse-driven graphical user interface, which led to the creation of the Apple Lisa (engineered by Ken Rothmuller and John Couch) and, one year later, of Apple employee Jef Raskin's Macintosh. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs left Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher-education and business markets.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd, which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He was credited in Toy Story (1995) as an executive producer. He remained CEO and majority shareholder at 50.1 percent until its acquisition by The Walt Disney Company in 2006, making Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder at seven percent and a member of Disney's Board of Directors. Apple's 1996 buyout of NeXT brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he served as its interim CEO from 1997, then becoming permanent CEO from 2000, onwards, spearheading the advent of the iMac, iTunes, iPod, iPhone, and iPad. In buying NeXT, Apple also "acquired the operating system that became Mac OS X." From 2003, Jobs fought an eight-year battle with cancer, and eventually resigned as CEO in August 2011, while on his third medical leave. He was then elected chairman of Apple's board of directors.
On October 5, 2011, around 3:00 p.m., Jobs died at his home in Palo Alto, California, aged 56, six weeks after resigning as CEO of Apple. A copy of his death certificate indicated respiratory arrest as the immediate cause of death, with "metastatic pancreas neuroendocrine tumor" as the underlying cause. His occupation was listed as "entrepreneur" in the "high tech" business.

Newsweek Featuring Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955, and adopted at birth by Paul Reinhold Jobs (1922–1993) and Clara Jobs (1924–1986). Clara's maiden name was Hagopian. When asked about his "adoptive parents," Jobs replied emphatically that Paul and Clara Jobs "were my parents." He later stated in his authorized biography that they "were my parents 1,000%."
The Jobs family moved from San Francisco to Mountain View, California when Steve was five years old. Paul and Clara later adopted a daughter, Patti. Paul Jobs, a machinist for a company that made lasers, taught his son rudimentary electronics and how to work with his hands. Clara was an accountant, who taught him to read before he went to school. Clara Jobs had been a payroll clerk for Varian Associates, one of the first high-tech firms in what became known as Silicon Valley. Asked in a 1995 interview what he wanted to pass on to his children, Jobs replied, "Just to try to be as good a father to them as my father was to me. I think about that every day of my life."
During World War II, Paul Jobs joined the Coast Guard and "ferried troops around the world for General Patton. I think he was always getting into trouble and getting busted down to Private," Jobs said. A machinist by trade, his father worked hard and was "a genius with his hands."
Jobs told an interviewer, "I was very lucky. My father, Paul, was a pretty remarkable man." When his son was five or six, Paul Jobs sectioned a piece of his workbench and gave it to Jobs, saying "'Steve, this is your workbench now.' And he gave me some of his smaller tools and showed me how to use a hammer and saw and how to build things. It really was very good for me. He spent a lot of time with me... teaching me how to build things, how to take things apart, put things back together." Jobs also noted that while his father "did not have a deep understanding of electronics [...] he'd encountered electronics a lot in automobiles and other things he would fix. He showed me the rudiments of electronics and I got very interested in that."
Jobs attended Monta Loma Elementary, Mountain View, Cupertino Junior High and Homestead High School in Cupertino, California. He frequented after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company in Palo Alto, California, and was later hired there, working with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee. Following high school graduation in 1972, Jobs enrolled at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Although he dropped out after only one semester, he continued auditing classes at Reed, while sleeping on the floor in friends' rooms, returning Coke bottles for food money, and getting weekly free meals at the local Hare Krishna temple. Jobs later said, "If I had never dropped in on that single calligraphy course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts."

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The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas

The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas

A Jerry’s Diner Revue

I have to admit to having mixed feelings about the Frugal Gourmet. On the one hand, he can be extremely condescending, especially when talking about the people who are the origins of ethnic dishes. On the other hand, he presents recipes that are simple and interesting. The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas is absolutely full of wonderful Christmas recipes from many traditions.

The various recipes are presented as “food for...” a player or players in the birth of Jesus. So it starts with “a flower salad for Mary” and “milk and honey for Jesus”. Everyone present gets some food. There is even “honey cake with rose water for the Angels” and “grains with vegetables for the Roman troops”.

Jeff Smith is a theologian, and is a minister at Christ Church in Tacoma. “I love theology more than food,” he says, which is why he wrote this book. It is as much a sermon on the season as it is a cookbook. And while I tend not to like cookbooks that have more yakking than food, and his writing style remains sermonesque, the tales themselves are inherently interesting and their inherent worth comes through his writing style.

The recipes themselves, of course, are the star of the book. If you love baking during the Christmas season, you are unlikely to be disappointed. I can hardly wait until Christmas to try out the Christmas puddings! He has a collection of five Christmas puddings and cakes, some of which actually look great, and most of which are extremely easy. I let my duty fall in 1996, but I fully expect to terrorize my friends with a dreaded pudding come Christmas 1997.

There is also a recipe for mincemeat from scratch and mincemeat pie. Mincemeat is indeed made from meat: four quarts of mincemeat filling takes two and a half pounds of beef and three quarters pound of beef suet. Yum! It looks awfully good in the picture, however, and the pie looks even better. I remember liking the mincemeat pies at Christmas parties when I was very young, but the tradition fell by the wayside very quickly. I’m looking forward to reviving it myself in the next year.

For another very theological Jeff Smith cookbook, look for “The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine” and The Frugal Gourmet Keeps the Feast.

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Old Mother Hubbard

The Old Mother Hubbard referred to in this rhyme's words allude to the famous Cardinal Wolsey. Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was the most important statesman and churchman of the Tudor history period in 16th century England. Cardinal Wolsey proved to be a faithful servant but displeased the King, Henry VIII, by failing to facilitate the King's divorce from Queen Katherine of Aragon who had been his queen of many years. The reason for seeking the divorce and hence the creation of the Old Mother Hubbard poem was to enable him to marry Anne Boleyn with whom he was passionately in love. In the Old Mother Hubbard song King Henry was the "doggie" and the "bone" refers to the divorce (and not money as many believe) The cupboard relates to the Catholic Church although the subsequent divorce arranged by Thomas Cramner resulted in the break with Rome and the formation of the English Protestant church and the demise of Old Mother Hubbard - Cardinal Wolsey. Another rhyme reputedly relates to Cardinal Wolsey Little Boy Blue