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Vignettes - an artistic puzzle game that looks and plays amazingly well
I'm always a fan of something that takes an artistic slant toward gameplay. Vignettes does just that in a bright pastel color palette with a series of object puzzles and visual effects. To quote Skeleton Brothers, the makers:
Vignettes is a casual but unique exploration game without text or characters, where objects shapeshift as you spin them around to wander through a kaleidoscope of different moods and settings.
Posted April 20, 2017 by Jeff Scott
Fold and unfold puzzles in Kami 2
Kami 2 takes the paper-folding color swapping puzzles of Kami and expands, makes it a free to play game, and adds a user generated level editor. Pretty good for a puzzle game.
The calming yet addictive puzzle game is back!
With over 100 hand-crafted puzzles, Kami 2 takes you on a mind-twisting journey that combines logic and problem-solving.
Posted March 31, 2017 by Jeff Scott
Orangepixel extends Meganoid franchise with Meganoid (2017)
We're huge Orangepixel/Pascal Bestebroer fans at Slide To Play. The retro style, maddening hardness, and constant game release from them is just amazing. Meganoid (2017) is no exception. Taking the platformer that we know and love and expanding and extending it with so many new features and reasons to pull your hair out. A great updated game from great developer.
Posted March 30, 2017 by Jeff Scott
Card Thief
Card Thief is an RPG in a deck of cards
The follow up to Card Crawl is out now. Card Thief is an RPG-like solitaire card game with great finish and is a very fun quick play.
In Card Thief you move through a deck of cards as a stealthy thief. Sneak in the shadows, extinguish torches, pickpocket guards and steal valuable treasures without getting caught. In your thief hideout you can use your stolen goods to unlock powerful equipment cards. Each heist you can use 3 equipment cards to become a skillful master thief.
Posted March 24, 2017 by Jeff Scott
Golf Zero
Half golf game, half platformer, Golf Zero entertains
Golf Zero is the kind of game that must have come out of a dare or a high. Combine a golf game with a platformer and throw in bullet time just for the heck of it. In the multiple holes the player has up to three shots to get the ball in the hole while jumping from platforms and generally shooting the ball (magically) while in the air. Not sure how that works, but this game, miraculously does work.
It's inventive, fun, lots of levels, and best of all it's free to play with ads.
Posted March 17, 2017 by Jeff Scott
Ticket to Earth
Robot Circus brings turn based battler Ticket to Earth to mobile
Turn-based grid battler Ticket to Earth is finally out on mobile. I first saw this promising game what seems like a lifetime ago. In Ticket to Earth, the board grid is played like a strategic match-3 game. Connect the tiles to increase / trigger certain powers. The strategy involved is where the player under control ends up. Too close to the bad guys and they will strike. Too far and the player can't strike them.
Ticket to Earth is a good strategy game that melds a couple styles that work well on mobile together. The game play time is a bit long for a casual player, but just right if you like strategy games and are willing to devote a little time in a play session.
Posted March 17, 2017 by Jeff Scott
"One Touch Flying Mayhem!" - Spinnywings brings memories of the arcade to mobile
Single button control games aren't usually my thing. They generally lack any sort of replayability. But in this case it's an design decision that actually works out well as it keep the game arcade-like. In Spinnywings you touch the screen to turn right, avoid other planes and gather balloons for power-ups, loot, and fuel. Arcade fun through and through.
Spin your way across the sky and collect balloons. Unlock loot crates and collect 10 different aircraft along with a ton of different boosts, paint schemes and streamers.
See how long you can resist the massed forces of Evil Air Corporation's zeppelins, fighters, bombers, choppers and air mines!
Posted March 16, 2017 by Jeff Scott
The Big Journey
Big Journey from Armor Games makes me wish ngmoco didn't implode
Big Journey is just about too cute. It's a rolling fat cat that has to eat and grow as it rolls through a beautiful platformer. Quite an homage to Rolando and the days of past. It takes the simple premise of a rolling platformer and adds a few interesting twists to it while not making it too difficult.
A real cute one and worth picking up, even if it's just to remember how great Rolando was and complain about it being gone.
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Cartoonist Saul Steinberg will always be associated with his 1976 drawing, "View of the World from 9th Avenue." His satiric map foregrounds the buildings of 9th and 10th avenues and looks outward across the Hudson River to a thin strip labeled "Jersey," fading into a few bumps of the American West, a perfunctory Pacific Ocean, and in the distance, hints of China, Japan, and Russia. It was widely read as a smirking depiction of cosmopolitan self-centeredness.
But reading Deirdre Bair's "Saul Steinberg: A Biography," we learn that this interpretation was at odds with Steinberg's somber intent. He had not drawn the luxurious parts of Manhattan, but the working-class neighborhoods, and his subject was American provincialism and disconnectedness, not urban smug self-satisfaction. This is just one of the many fresh revelations in this comprehensive and engaging biography.
Bair, who received the National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett, has also written well-regarded lives of Simone de Beauvoir, Carl Jung, and Anaïs Nin. In this new book she attempts to draw a picture of what might be called the "View of the World from Saul Steinberg's Head." Readers familiar with the artist's covers and cartoons in The New Yorker magazine may be surprised at how dark and driven that world could be.
Bair's research was complicated by Steinberg's penchant for autobiographical inventions designed to mislead the prying and the curious — he wore masks as well as drew them. Her account reveals a private man who was relentlessly social, an imaginative innovator who wanted to always be in control, a creator who posed an artist's purpose as, "To be one's own witness."
Steinberg, who was Jewish, left Romania in 1933 at 19 to study architecture in Milan, escaping growing anti-Semitism and entering the Italian world of art and ideas. Broke, and frequently hungry, he feverishly filled sketchbooks with renderings of Italian architecture and street scenes. He began drawing illustrations and cartoons for Italian newspapers for pay, but as he was gaining visibility as an artist, the Fascist grip on Italy tightened, and in 1941 he was interned with other foreign-born Jews before receiving clearance to flee.
Based on his growing reputation as a cartoonist, he was eventually allowed to enter the United States. In June 1942, he landed in Miami, and his infatuation with American excess and its democratic craziness began. Art Deco buildings intrigued Steinberg with their blend of European modernism and American bravado, and, as Bair notes, their design would appear as a motif in his art for the next 40 years.
They were just the first course for the omnivorous "first-class noticer," as he called himself. He appropriated American emblems and icons to rewrite and redraw America's self-image.
In Steinberg's graphic theater, eclecticism ruled. He cast the Founding Fathers opposite a sinister Mickey Mouse, and drew New York's yellow cabs to resemble Brancusi sculptures. He could draw risible lovers in lilting lines one day and psychedelic riot cops the next. He made cubism talk to classical sculpture and expressionism flirt with pointillism, all on a set seemingly designed by surrealists. In the same cartoons, he often rendered figures in watercolor, pen, gouache, and collage, and the mash-ups were all in the obedient service of his satire, which displayed the virtuosic draftsmanship of a Heinrich Kley, the acid bite of a George Grosz, and the trippiness of an R. Crumb.
Two outstanding examples are his 1976 and 1981 drawings (both reproduced in his 1992 collection, "the Discovery of America") of Thanksgiving, Steinberg's favorite American holiday. In the earlier work, the guests are Washington, Lincoln, Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, a Halloween witch, and an alarmed Lady Liberty. She seems to be the only one aware that the turkey platter is empty and that a beautiful peacock parades in front of the holiday table. It's a drawing that plays with ritual, myths, icons, and national vanity, but Steinberg serves the viewer no easy answers.
Five years later, the turkey is present, alive and huge, looming over a capacious bullfighting ring where a diminutive matador, Uncle Sam, is approaching the bird with an American flag cape and an outstretched sword. In the background, Lady Liberty looks on, flanked by Mickey Mouse and Santa Claus, this time in the role of a horse-mounted picador. The image drops New World tradition in Old World ritual. It is ridiculous and riveting.
With Steinberg's rushed 1943 US citizenship came obligatory military service, and, as a cartoonist he got an appropriately odd assignment. Bair notes: "Fluent in his native Romanian and Italian, with excellent French and good German, able to get by in Spanish, and with a smattering of Portuguese and comprehensible English, he was sent to be a spy in inland China."
After further propaganda assignments in North Africa and Italy, he returned to the States at war's end.
He married artist Hedda Sterne in 1944, and Bair's biography is almost as much about Sterne as Steinberg. She was his co-thinker and critic, and even after they separated in 1960, they talked on the phone nearly daily until his death in 1999.
Steinberg was not only a satirist but also apparently a satyr. He had difficulty meeting a woman without attempting a seduction. He had many lovers before, during, and after his time with Sterne, some one-night stands, others liaisons that lasted decades. His other long-term relationship was with Sigrid Spaeth, a woman 21 years his junior. Steinberg and Spaeth both suffered from varying degrees of depression, and the last third of the biography is a harrowing fugue of their intertwining struggles with the illness.
When his brooding slowed his artistic output, Steinberg tried travel as an antidepressant, breathing in new scenery, and sketching new material. He visited Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe and most of the states in the United States. Upon his arrivals back in New York, he was a much-sought-after dinner companion and raconteur in Manhattan's literary and artistic circles.
Steinberg's friends included a who's-who of the cultural elite here and abroad, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Calder, Eugene Ionesco, Billy Wilder, Ian Frazier, Mary McCarthy, and Charles Addams. Igor Stravinsky sold him a second-hand Cadillac; Vladimir Nabokov gave him guidance on quitting cigarettes; and Marcel Duchamp advised him on sorting his mail.
Bair spares few details of the artist's life as she meticulously documents publication contracts, exhibit arrangements, and dinner party slights. But the book disappoints in two small ways. There are no complete letters quoted, only excerpts — an unfortunate omission given that Steinberg and Sterne were prolific correspondents. It would be nice to see their thoughts develop, even if their English wasn't perfect. And the book contains too few reproductions of the cartoonist's work. Bair and her publisher were constrained by the condition imposed by the Saul Steinberg Foundation that the book be limited to 35 of his drawings. This is a shame. Steinberg described himself as a "writer who draws," but writing, even Bair's able descriptions, is no substitute for seeing a drawing. Readers might do well to find a library copy of one of the Steinberg collections as a companion to this compelling biography.Dan Wasserman is the Globe's editorial cartoonist. He can be reached at wasserman@ globe.com.


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Noir has shipped into distribution and will soon be available in stores. The printer was able to send us some copies of the book ahead of time, so Noir is now available in the Green Ronin Online Store.
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If you feel the need to wrench on something already broken, feel free to come on up and lend a hand with the Rover. ::)
i thought you bought that thing to help out with the toting around and such.
Hopefully the R won't be too much of a pain for you....if it is, Just sell it and fina an FJ60 or something like that :)
I did. But, it is a beater. It runs well, but thats about it. There is much wrenching to be done. not to mention pounding out of dents, tracing electrical gremlins, securing loose pannels on the interior, then I can get to the list of upgrades - sliders, skid plates bumper & winch, upgraded lights, this will be a good project car.
personally, it I could have a dream project 4x4, I would want an FJ55..I LOVE them, very much :)
just in time for me to be done with working on cars....this shows up at my door step ;)
a hydrolic spring compressor. 5.5" travel, 1500lbs. Not the best tool out there, but very affordable, and much faster for the springs I use on the MINI. I did not want to go through the compressor part when I put on my adjustable camber plates and new top hats/spring perches.
Just ran a "dry check" and the thing is pretty amazing. I will let you know how it goes.
I remember when I was helping Andrew 34k with something and a bolt snapped on a very expensive piece.... I think it was when I was helping aim the HIDs.
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Battleship and Journey of the Center of the Earth 2 are adding some major class. Watch the most horrific clip yet from Resident Evil Afterlife. The look of Captain America villain Red Skull is totally terrifying.
Spider-Man Reboot:
A Toronto Globe feature on actress Hillary Duff mentions she has a script marked "Spider-Man" sitting on her coffee table, with lines for a character called "girl" highlighted. "Girl" might be the incredibly subtle codename for the movie's mysterious non-Mary-Jane love interest...or it could just be a random female character. Still, this means it's at least theoretically possible Duff is under some consideration for the role, however slight. [CinemaBlend]
Captain America:
Marvel Studios executive Kevin Feige explains they chose to shoot the movie in Europe - causing Manchester and Liverpool to double for 1940s New York City - because that's where the majority of the movie takes place anyway, once the action shifts to World War II. He also discussed the look of the Red Skull, as played by Hugo Weaving:
Hugo Weaving has been in the Red Skull effect, in costume for a couple of weeks now and it's a hell of a lot of fun. We gave people a little taste in San Diego about what his character will look like but now that we've started to work with the actual skull it's going to be a lot of fun and a rather frightening villain.
Alien Prequel:
It turns out that Gemma Arterton is not meeting with Ridley Scott to discuss a role in the movie, at least not according to her publicist. [MTV Movies Blog]
Resident Evil - Afterlife:
Here's an awesomely scary clip. [UGO]
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Hollywood's leading supplier of gravitas-for-hire, Liam Neeson, is reportedly going to bring a little dignity to another ludicrous action movie. The reports indicate he will play Admiral Shane, the father of supermodel Brooklyn Decker's character and future father-in-law of her fiance Taylor Kitsch. Hopefully this will lead to the great Liam Neeson/Tom Arnold/Rihanna acting showdown the world has so anxiously been waiting for. [Deadline]
And here are some pictures of Rihanna and Taylor Kitsch together on set, with more at the link: [Just Jared]
Journey to the Center of the Earth 2 - The Mysterious Island:
Speaking of actors who will seemingly appear in just about anything - and are all the more awesome for it - Michael Caine is reportedly set to play Josh Hutcherson's grandfather. The movie will reportedly following Hutcherson and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's attempt to rescue Caine from a mysterious island. Caine will reportedly be involved in multiple chase sequences, including one with giant bees, which brings us to the Michael Caine/The Rock/giant bees showdown we've also been so desperately waiting for. [The Hollywood Reporter]
Transformers 3:
Production will reportedly head to Florida once they're done in Detroit. They will reportedly be shooting in the Kennedy Space Center, which will include getting footage of the space shuttle Discovery as it prepares for its final mission. [Collect Space]
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows:
Another couple of images have been released: [CinemaBlend]
Here are two new character posters, showing off the lovably villainous Megamind and Minion: [HeyUGuys]
Men in Black 3:
A casting notice for extras is out. There are a couple interesting details - they want "People with 1960s era CARS in good to mint condition", which is more indirect confirmation of the new movie's time travel angle. They are also looking for muscular males, gorgeous models, FBI types, and, perhaps most intriguingly, "CHINESE COOKS with real-life training/work experience." Make of that what you will. [New Faces]
Here's a new clip: [MTV Movies Blog]
Zombieland 2:
Director Ruben Fleischer and star Jesse Eisenberg say the first draft of the sequel screenplay is done, and Fleischer is confident it will be amazing. Both are eager to make the film, but due to their busy schedules it may not be for a year or two until they're both ready to go. [CinemaBlend]
And here are a couple interviews with Anna Torv and Jasika Nicole: [SpoilerTV]
The Event:
Here's a new official synopsis:
The Event is an emotional, high-octane conspiracy thriller that follows Sean Walker (Jason Ritter, "The Class"), an everyman who investigates the mysterious disappearance of his would-be fiancée Leila (Sarah Roemer, "Disturbia"), and unwittingly begins to expose the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.
Sean's quest will send ripples through the lives of an eclectic band of strangers, including newly elected U.S. President Elias Martinez (Golden Globe nominee Blair Underwood, "In Treatment"); Sophia Maguire (Emmy Award nominee Laura Innes, "ER"), who is the leader of a mysterious group of detainees; and Leila's shadowy father (Scott Patterson, "Gilmore Girls"). Their futures are on a collision course in a global conspiracy that could ultimately change the fate of mankind.
Then there's a new trailer: Click to view
And here's a fan Q&A session with Blair Underwood and Laura Innes: Click to view
Stargate Universe:
Here are some promo pics for the first two episodes: [SpoilerTV] [gallery 5632332]
Rodney McKay portrayer David Hewlett discusses his appearance in the fifteenth episode "Seizure", reprising his Atlantis role alongside Robert Picardo as Richard Woolsey:
"I was sitting there going, 'How does McKay fit into this world?' He's such a different character, and Atlantis is so different from SGU. "I was a little nervous about that. But I think they've done a really good job of getting them in there. It's not a McKay episode. It's not all about McKay and it's not all about Robert [Picardo]. It's an episode of SGU. But I think they've nicely melded the worlds together. You cannot have McKay in an episode - just like you can't have Jack [O'Neill] in an episode of Stargate - without a certain personality, or at least aspects of that personality, coming through," Hewlett told GateWorld. "But I think they've done a really good job of getting just enough of it in there. But not so much that it takes away from what they are doing on SGU."
Aquaman will reportedly be one of the dozens of returning characters for Smallville's tenth season swansong. Alan Ritchson will reportedly reprise the role in episode 9. [TV Guide]
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I am trying to build a chiller but I forget if I have heard that the copper tubing should be 3/8 in. diameter on the inside or outside. Or maybe it's not that measurement at all. Anybody want to comment on how much they have payed to make one of these. Thanks.
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I don't if it is OD or ID but I think that when you buy copper tubing you get it in 3/8 inch as any larger and you won't get as efficient heat transfer. I cheated and bought mine. In retrospect I should have made it but it was an impulse buy at the LHBS. I think I paid 40 bucks for the phils chiller.
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Mayor Don Wesely today congratulated all the government offices and local businesses who recycled unwanted office paper during "Clean Your Files Week" April 16 through 20. He also presented awards to the top business, school and government recyclers for this year's campaign.
"We can all be proud of our city's participation in this nationwide campaign to recycle office paper," said Mayor Wesely. "About 28 local buildings and institutions took part, and an estimated 29,700 pounds of valuable office paper was recovered for recycling during the week."
Winning the top award in the business category was White Electric, which collected 82 pounds of paper per employee. The school to collect the most paper was the LPS Science Focus Program at the Folsom Children Zoo, which collected almost three pounds of recyclable paper per student. The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, which collected more than 8,600 pounds of paper, received the award for the most paper collected by a governmental entity.
About 4,865 pounds of paper, 16 percent of the total, came from employees of the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County, who have an ongoing paper recycling program.
This was the second year the event was sponsored in the city. Joining the Mayor in the awards presentation were representatives of WasteCap of Lincoln, the Lincoln Public Schools, the University of Nebraska and Midland Recycling.
"'Clean Your Files Week' lasts only one week, but increasing the recycling of paper should be a year-long effort," Wesely said.
The third annual "Clean Your Files Week" is set for April 22 through 26, 2002.
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The use of torture by some governments continues and the practice is being challenged in a series of events this week in Washington.
The events mark Torture Awareness Month and are sponsored by groups such as the Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International, National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Witness Against Torture, whose members include faith-based leaders and Catholic Workers from across the U.S.
Demissie Abebe, director of the torture survivors group, said the events keep the focus on the impact of torture on human beings and give torture survivors the chance to explain how widespread the practice is by governments around the world.
"It's all about educating the public so that they can wake up and stand up to speak up about this problem," Abebe said.
Witness Against Torture has long advocated for the release of the 171 suspected terrorists still being held at the U.S. Army base in Guantanamo, Cuba. The organization maintains that American interrogators have used torture on detainees in Guantanamo and elsewhere in its anti-terrorism campaign.
The U.S. government has denied the claim.
The week's events include a Witness Against Torture-sponsored procession of orange jumpsuit-clad protesters, representing the men held at Guantanamo June 23. Members will walk from the White House to the Capitol, with stops at the Justice Dept and the Supreme Court.
The Catholic University of America hosts a daylong workshop June 22 on contemporary applications of justice for torture survivors in post-war settings, an event sponsored by the torture survivors coalition. Activists and torture survivors will visit congressional offices June 23 to call for the U.S. to end support of countries that torture.
The week closes June 25 with a 12-hour vigil in Lafayette Park across from the White House.
"It's not acceptable for a country like the U.S., a human rights champion, to send funding, to send aid to countries that are torturing its citizens," Abebe said. "We know there is a long way to go."


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GiverNeeder.com needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 76 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
We are GiverNeeder.com
We are a network of Entrepreneurs that wants to help other entrepreneurs in their needs in developing countries. We work without payment and help entrepreneurs all around the world by coaching them towards more success. Our focus is to build a platform to fully engage and commit entrepreneurs in sharing experience, money and knowledge. Giving whatever the other Needs. GiverNeeder.com stands for sharing and focussing on lasting results. We bring AND get enourmous energy doing this and this is exactly what drives our network of entrepreneurs.
Our target audience is twofold:
1. the entrepreneur that wants to share his money and exchange knowledge and/or experience.
2: the entrepreneur is open minded, thirsty for learning and interested in the experience of other (global) entrepreneurs.
The Giver and the Needer is twowaytraffic: We exchange wealth, knowledge and experience.
We want an innovative, clear logo that shows the exchange. Sofar we thought only about hands or heads, or both. The most "sharing" will be 1on1, this is what excites all people (money, knowlegde, experience).
We also thought about the infinity sign with the G and N letters in the lying 8, but did'nt like that enough.
GiverNeeder.com wants to describe the giving, but not only the charity side. It must not be like:
1. Any other logo
2. Old
3. Unclear
4. Too much to show to understand
5. Blurry
6. Childish or cartoon-like
It must be like:
1. Fun
2. Clear that the giving is not only in de money
3. Clear in bold and sharp letters
It needs to be fast for the internet site. We want to use the logo for our website and for confirmation mails to entrepreneurs. It will also be used in presentations. We want to have .jpeg but also the vector format like that produced by Adobe Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator.
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Riders vent about track safety work
STAMFORD -- New Haven Line Metro-North riders' frustration has mounted this summer as they've had to cope with late trains, slow trains and long travel times caused by the extensive track and tie replacement projects in the Bronx and on other stretches of railway.
Trains are almost invariably delayed up to 15 minutes, commuters interviewed at the Stamford train station said this week. They said they want more details from the railroad about what, specifically, causes the delays. They also said they worry the travel times won't return to what they once were, and that the track work will go on indefinitely.
"The most disconcerting aspect of the whole situation is Metro-North has no timetable for how long it will go on with the delays," Wilton resident Terry Bonini said as he waited for a train at the Stamford station earlier this week. "The situation among commuters is they don't think Metro-North is being forthright about how much work they are doing."
The railroad put out a new timetable in mid-August that was adapted to the track work, but it's often wrong, Bonini said. His regular 5:52 p.m. train to Cannondale often arrives 15 or more minutes late, he said.
Terri Minogue, a Stamford commuter who resorted to taking an earlier train to her job in Manhattan to cope with the delays, said she thinks customers would be less upset if conductors were able to explain the source of the delays. She also worries that the railroad won't ever get the travel time back to what it was when trains ran faster prior to the stepped-up safety work.
"Part of the reason my husband and I purchased a home in Stamford was the convenience of the 45 minute commute," Minogue said. "It's not even that I would like a discount, but I would just like to know what is going on and when things change."
Stephen Rich, a Stamford commuter who works in downtown Manhattan, said he is also worried that the repair work might continue for a long time. He said that given the longer travel time to the city, the railroad should discount monthly commuter passes until it begins meeting its former on-time standards.
"It takes more than an hour, and it was 45 minutes four months ago," Rich said. "I wish they'd decide to give us a discount, but I know that would never happen."
William Rourke who was taking the 8:19 a.m. train to Grand Central Terminal expressed defeat.
"Yes, I've been late, and yes I've been inconvenienced, but this is typical of Metro-North," he said.
Resigned to the situation
And Khurram Ali, a banker who commutes to Stamford from points north said the delays are still ongoing, but the new schedule has normalized expectations somewhat.
"It has gotten better, so the remaining delays are not so bad," Ali said.
The track work was originally scheduled for completion by Labor Day, but after the May derailment that injured 76 people, Metro-North hired an outside company to inspect the New Haven Line's tracks with ground-penetrating radar, which turned up more serious deterioration in the tracks, ties and underlying foundation, and the scope of the repair work was greatly expanded. The completion date for the work has now been pushed out to November 17.
Speed restrictions for safety
The ground-penetrating radar has turned up a large number of short-term track repairs that have to be made, which requires speed restrictions, Metro-North Railroad spokeswoman Marjorie Anders said. Most of time the slow-speed orders cut trains to just under the normal 70 miles per hour, but in a half dozen cases the speed had to be cut to 10 miles per hour. In those cases, all repairs were completed within 48 hours, she said.
"We have a lot of track work to do," Anders said. --¦Once it's done, we need to stay on top of it with a more aggressive track maintenance program, which is being developed."
On-time performance fell from 94 percent in May to 89 percent in August, according to the railroad, before rebounding to 94 percent in September.
Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Jim Redeker said it's hard to estimate when the safety-related replacements and repairs will be finished, speaking before members of the state's appointed commuter advocacy group Wednesday night.
"There is going to be continuous work and a lot of this is a reaction to the derailment," Redeker said. --¦I don't think there is a lot of choice because it is the right thing to do, though there is no date for when we might be done."
NTSB probe a factor
Another factor that might affect the department's ability to keep the public up to date is the NTSB investigation of the derailment, which is still ongoing, Redeker said. Depending on the outcome of the investigation, the department might have to fast track other infrastructure projects that could affect service.
"There is a hearing in October and we don't know what is coming out," Redeker said. "Until we get some of that information and what some of the investigation is finding it might be premature to put some information out."
NTSB hearings in Washington, D.C., are scheduled for Oct. 22 and 23, at which the derailment and the death of a track worker near the West Haven station, also in May.


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Robert G. Madden
The law is a powerful force in all aspects of contemporary American society. The legal system furnishes the context and procedures for the creation and enforcement of laws to resolve disputes, protect rights, and generally to maintain order. Social workers are expected to understand the basic workings of the legal system. Knowledge of the legal system provides the foundation to support social workers to undertake social justice initiatives, to give voice to vulnerable client populations, and to work for legal rules that support good social work practice.
Charles D. Cowger
This entry discusses the relationship of war and peace to social work practice. The historic and current mandate for social workers to work for peace is presented. The inevitable tie of war to everyday social work practice is described, and the relationship between social justice and peace is illustrated.
Political Ideology and Social Welfare
Mimi Abramovitz
Political ideologies shape public policy debates as well as the social policy strategies developed to address "social problems." The clashes among long-standing political traditions—conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, and feminism—reflect fundamental and often irreconcilable differences regarding social, economic, and political life. The four political ideologies are compared for their varied perspectives on several core issues that underpin social welfare provision, including human nature, need, the general welfare, social problems, racial inequality, and the role of government. The resulting distinctions provide social workers with a framework to more effectively assess social welfare policy.
Political Interventions
Megan Meyer
Since the Progressive Era, social workers have played important roles in political struggles for social justice. They have criticized, designed, and implemented an array of social policies and have increasingly campaigned for and held political office. Even so, there has been considerable ambivalence within the profession about the extent to which social workers should engage in political action. A major challenge facing the profession during this century will be to ensure that social work students and practitioners understand the impact of political processes on their own and their clients' lives and develop the skills to identify which forms of political intervention are effective for different goals and contexts.
Progressive Social Work
Rosemary Barbera, Mary Bricker-Jenkins, and Barbara Hunter Randall Joseph
Since the beginning of the profession, progressive social work has been characterized by a lived commitment to practice dedicated to advancing human rights and social and economic justice. Since the mid-1980s, the rise of global capitalism has vitiated support for robust social welfare programs and has had a conservatizing effect on the profession, rendering the progressive agenda both more urgent and more difficult. The economic crisis of 2008 has seen a rise in people suffering, while at the same time those programs that would help ease suffering are being cut back, further perpetuating the myth that austerity is the cure for the disease that it has caused. Meanwhile, the modernist ideals that gave rise to progressivism are being challenged by postmodernist thinkers. Progressive social work has responded to both challenges with innovation and energy, but theoretical and practical conundrums remain.


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Dear James RI'm not sure I quite agree in reference to your comment that baptizing her wouldn't do any good. Remember that one cannot even enter the kingdom of heaven without first exiting the baptismal waters.She will be raised in a Orthodox household, Dad wants nothing to do with her, we are practically raising her anyway. Many have had to abstain from sacramental life because of persecution (and this is a type of persecution). If worst came to worse I would fight the custody battle but not Grandmother, (for reasons not on topic).I just want (in case something unforeseen happens) for Alexis to go to her judgment prepared.
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This is very important (at least it is to me).
I have a student who raises his shoulders too much. This is a very common problem, especially among men who tend to put too much strength into their movements. They raise their shoulders in an effort to generate more power -- but in the process, actually slow themselves down and generate less power.
I am always telling this student, "lower your shoulders," "lower your shoulders," "lower your shoulders," ... I must seem to say it all the time.
I had the same problem so I can sympathize. My shoulders were always raised.
But it suddenly dawned on me -- when I was working in my son's yard -- that I should not repeat "lower your shoulders" over and over. That would be like picking weeds but not planting grass.
You can pick all the weeds in a yard, but unless there is good grass to grow in its place, you will just get more weeds. You have to also plant good grass.
So instead of saying, "lower your shoulders," I am now saying, "squeeze your lats."
When you squeeze your lats, it is just about impossible to raise your shoulders. Try it. And when you raise your shoulders, it is also just about impossible to squeeze your lats. The two are mutually exclusive.
So the point is that you have to replace a bad habit with a good habit -- you have to dig out the weeds but also plant grass. You can't just say "stop, stop, stop". You have to also teach the student how to do the correct thing.
Instead of stopping the bad habit of raising the shoulders, you should encourage the good habit of squeezing the lats. One is negative, the other positive.
Like I said, this is important to me, because I do not like being negative.
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Replace A Bad Habit With A Good Habit
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Confidential is packed with stunning new revelations and opens a window into the shadowy world of a key covert operative, who evolved into a genuine member of Hollywood's royal elite.
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U.S. Rep. Jared Polis told an estimated 200 people at a town hall meeting Wednesday that he's been pushing for comprehensive immigration reform for four years -- and it may now be within reach.
A bipartisan group of eight U.S. senators is expected soon to unveil a bill outlining reforms.
"I come before you more optimistic than usual on this issue," Polis told the crowd at the Boulder Public Library. "It is (an issue) I have cried tears over, but I am very hopeful that we will be able to move ahead in a bipartisan way."
At the town hall, Polis discussed possible reforms, why he supports them and fielded questions from constituents.
"As you know, we are a nation of immigrants and we are also a nation of laws, and currently, with this very dysfunctional system, those two are out of whack," said Polis, noting many immigrants violate the law as do many businesses that employ them. "And there are people that are being torn away from their families in stark contrast to our values as Americans."
Polis laid out three principles of reform: keeping families together; positive financial impact; and enforcement going forward.
He said detaining and deporting people who are in the country illegally after they have been contacted for non-serious reasons like traffic stops costs taxpayers -- $150 per night for detainment and $10,000 for deportation, in his estimation -- when they may have been paying taxes and working beforehand.
He said creation of a visa category for entrepreneurs and increasing the number of year-round guest worker visas for those people seeking unskilled labor positions could stimulate the U.S. economy.
He said the estimated 11 million people already in the country illegally would be offered a path to green cards and citizenship through the reform, but that would be years down the line after they had reapplied for guest worker visas.
Children of immigrants, brought here by their parents illegally, now
protected from deportation through a federal deferred action plan, should be sent to the front of the line for citizenship, he said.
"No version of reform conveys citizenship on anyone. It is about creating lines," Polis said.
A majority of the people in attendance seemed to favor Polis' positions, but there were many who clearly opposed the reforms he outlined, including Robert Cluster, of Boulder.
Cluster brought with him a handout citing statistics from the Federation for American Immigration Reform that said undocumented immigrants in Colorado cost taxpayers $1.45 billion each year, while their contribution is $61.8 million. He said that in a time of high unemployment, continued high immigration rates would hurt American workers.
"Do you feel any obligation to American workers -- people who were born here or came to this country legally, who played by the rules -- to explain to them why you are selling them out with this legislation?" he asked.
Some attendees shared horror stories from their experiences with the immigration system.
Veronica Pedro, originally from South Africa, said she and her husband had been in the U.S. working since 1997. She said her husband was a contractor for the Department of Defense, and despite support letters from government officials, he was deported last year. She received her green card last summer after applying in 2004, and records show her husband's application remains open despite his deportation.
Polis said her story was sad but typical of the system.
"I think they should start fixing the system before they start fixing the people in the system," Pedro said.
Volunteer members of Organizing for Action, a nonprofit group dedicated to advocacy on behalf of President Barack Obama's legislative agenda, organized Wednesday's event.
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Meeting Jim Carrey for the first time is an experience akin to one of his hit comedies. Walking into the room, he mock recoils in horror at the voice recorder on the table, before breaking into the widest of grins and whispering: "I better watch what I say!"
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Mr Popper's Penguins
This movie about a man who learns valuable life lessons from penguins is really just another Jim Carrey film. Read article
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Such antics come as standard from the man who has made a career from his physical comedy, and financially at least achieved more than most dramatic actors. The first star to command a US$20million (Dh73.4m) fee (for 1996's The Cable Guy), his career never seems to have dipped, with his name being one of the few in Hollywood that still guarantees a box-office hit. The latest project that could continue that trend is Mr Popper's Penguins, based on the much-loved children's book by Richard and Florence Atwater.
The feel-good comedy is about a serious, career-driven man (Carrey) who inherits several penguins from his adventurous (but absent) father. Turning his apartment into an Antarctic habitat, at first the newly acquired birds wreak havoc on his life. Soon, however, they unearth a softer side he never knew he had.
For some actors, the offer to make such a film would bring to mind WC Fields's famous quip "never work with children or animals" however, for Carrey, his feathered co-stars were the selling point of the role.
"This is going to sound fake and corny, but I really love penguins," he explains. "When I got the script I immediately called my agent and said 'get me the penguin movie!' They represent innocence to me, I love anything that tugs on your heart strings and that is kind of embodied in these animals. They make me happy!"
His love for the animals would be tested to the limit during filming, as Carrey adopted unusual methods in order to make the penguins cooperate. "I thought they would be special 'movie penguins', who just did stuff on command," he says, laughing, "but they are so hard to train. They only care about fish, so I ended up having fish stuffed in my pants, my pockets. The more I smelt like fish the more you can get them to do what you want."
While the actor revelled in the sentiment of the movie, his character Tom Popper is anything but innocent - a ruthless and ambitious man who views the inheritance of these new penguins as an interruption on his road to success.
"He's a good guy, but the absence of his father has made him cold," says the actor, with a sudden serious tone. "That's what the movie's about, the effect being abandoned will have on someone and the choices they make as a result of that abandonment. Thom in the movie structures his whole life, his whole personality, around that feeling, and I think a lot of stories in movies or on TV are about losing someone or something. I think abandonment, or fear of it, motivates a lot of our decisions in life, and this movie is about recapturing what's important, taking a risk in order to have something in our lives like family."
Carrey has been part of the Hollywood family for more than 20 years, coming from a stand-up comedy background to television in 1990 with the show In Living Colour, before having an unprecedented string of hits during the subsequent decade, including Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask and Dumb and Dumber. Comedy has always been the genre where he has found most success, but there have been forays into drama, too, such as his critically acclaimed role in The Truman Show and Michel Gondry's surreal Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Despite achieving so much in his career at this point, Carrey insists he is still passionate about the business and has no intention of slowing down. "It's a new start with every movie I make, I feel like the new guy in the business even now," he says with a grin, before continuing, "I love it when people come up to me and say a movie I made meant a lot to them, or that they watched one of my movies like a thousand times when they were young. That's why we do this, to transport people to another place, to make people happy for a couple of hours. I could never get tired of that." A question that always follows Carrey around is will he ever make sequels to some of his biggest hits? He has steered clear of follow-up movies ever since the poorly received Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, with sequels to his other movies being made without him, Dumb and Dumberer and Evan Almighty being high-profile examples.
"We're always talking about bringing back some old characters," he reveals, "but I never wanted to do something like that 'just because', you know? A movie would do well in the past and they (the studio) would say 'OK, let's do a sequel!' and the movie would have only just come out. If there's a good story, if there's a place to go with these characters, that's not just bringing them back for the sake of it, then it's worth doing."
For many comedians there is a darker motivation behind why they first needed to make people laugh, and Carrey is no exception. "We're in the business of making people forget their problems, and I guess that's how I got into comedy when I was young," he explains. "My family was dysfunctional, there would be arguments and people getting upset, so my way of trying to heal that would be to be funny. I'd make people laugh by doing impressions of relatives, or pulling a crazy face, and the laughter would take people out of that sadness. I think a lot of comedians had that start, using their comedy as a way of healing something that was wrong."
He admits that through success he has developed an even greater need for the spotlight. "I think I want to be in front of that camera making people laugh as much as the people watching want to laugh - yes, I really am that needy," he jokes. This darker side also includes a history of depression, curbed of late but which the actor acknowledges is always a factor. "I can veer off occasionally," he says simply, "but I've learnt I can steer myself back on the right road again".
The 47-year-old appears to have reached a point in his career where, unusually for a 40-plus actor in Hollywood, anything seems possible. "You know, I'd just like to make movies families remember, and make an impression, like the movies I grew up with made an impression on me," he says. "You just hope that with the time people give to see this, they'll come away a little happier, or maybe having just laughed a lot."
• Mr Popper's Penguins opens in the UAE today.
Penguin facts
With their ready-made suits and funny waddle, it's no wonder Jim Carrey loves penguins. These creatures make a lot of other people happy too.
Happy Feet (Film)
Mumble is a penguin who cannot sing, a pity since penguins find their mates through song. He compensates by tap dancing. Robin Williams, Elijah Wood and Brittany Murphy lend their voices to the film.
March of the Penguins (Documentary)
Two isolated cinematographers – Laurent Chalet and Jérôme Maison spent a year shooting footage of penguins around the French scientific base in Adelie Land, resulting in an Oscar-winning nature documentary.
Pittsburg Penguins (Sports Team)
The National Hockey League adopted the penguin as their mascot because their home ground, The Pittsburgh Civic Arena, was formerly referred to as The Igloo.
Penguin Books (Publisher)
Literature lovers know the penguin on the cover is synonymous with classic books at a good price.
The Penguins of Madagascar (Television Series)
The popular Nickelodeon animated series, a spin-off of the Madagascar film franchise, follows the heroics of four penguins trying to protect their home in Central Park Zoo
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Last week during CES, Nvidia's press conference was among the most talked about thanks in no small part to the unveiling of its new portable gaming device, known as Project Shield. Powered by a brawny Tegra 4 chip, the Shield can play games and media content available on the Android platform, send content to an HDTV, and even stream games from your home PC to the device.
The consensus was that Nvidia had a winner on its hands. Peopled talked about it everywhere, always popping into conversations when the dialogue inevitably leads to "what has stood out to you so far?" People dug it, and this year's CES – which was dominated more by evolution than innovation – was better for it.
The hardware looks impressive enough, and the ability to stream PC games like those found on Steam, makes it a great device – for a very small percentage of people. Consider us not sold.
Project Shield has a lot of potential, but it's potential that has already been realized in other devices. Access to the Android library – not to mention the console-like controls that go with it – is great on paper, but whether or not people accept it will likely come down to the price. As more and more people accept smartphones as essential parts of their daily lives, they already have the Android gaming library at their fingertips if they want it. The console controls are nice, but not all games will accept them, and those that do can be played using inexpensive add-on controllers that connect to an ordinary phone via Bluetooth. We don't know that for sure what the Shield will cost, but it's a safe bet these accessories will be cheaper.
As a dedicated gaming device, the Shield sacrifices what makes Android devices worth the purchase in the first place. It isn't a tablet or a smartphone, so there are instantly other devices out there that do most of what it can do, and far more. Even as far as a portable gaming devices goes, the Shield isn't that flexible; Sony's PS Vita and Nintendo's 3DS both offer far more uses.
Sending content to a TV is nice, but again, it's nothing a smartphone or tablet with the proper connections can't already do. That leaves the most intriguing feature of the Shield: the ability to stream PC games to your device.
Playing PC games anywhere sounds nice, but the Shield's range is limited to the strength of your home network, so you won't be taking it far from your gaming machine. Sound familiar? The Shield is basically Nintendo's Wii U, but for PC gamers.
The Wii U's best feature, arguably, is the ability to play a full game on the system's GamePad. It's a great gimmick, but most people wouldn't buy the system only for that ability. It might be one of the features that convinces people to adopt Nintendo's new console, but it isn't likely to sell too many units entirely on its own. And that is basically what the Shield does.
Playing PC games on the move through services like Steam sounds great, but your range is severely limited. The idea of taking those games on the go is enough to grab the attention of gamers, but why would you sacrifice your current setup, which may include a large monitor and good sound system, for a smaller screen and weak speakers or headphones that you can play one room over? Plus, the Wii U takes up the TV, which others in the household may want to use, making the GamePad useful to entire families. Although many PC gamers do use a standard TV, the traditional setup uses a monitor that is specifically for PC gaming. What's the advantage of the smaller screen?
A lot of it will depend on the price. If it's inexpensive, then the Shield could be a good peripheral for people to use once in a while. And that's a best-case scenario.
The Shield is the type of product that garners headlines, and that's great for gamers. With the sales reports of the gaming industry consistently painting a negative picture, it's good that there are still companies looking to push gaming in new directions, and that there are people excited to hear about it. Yet when you boil it down, the Shield is just a decent peripheral for a very small niche of gamers who want to play PC games in their house, but not on a PC. At least it has people talking about gaming.
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The S.I. Official Cookbook Thread
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Lucky posted 8/26/2008 20:19 PM
We are pleased to announce the official Surviving Infidelity Cookbook!!!
Everyone is encouraged to contribute their favorite recipes! We do however ask that you also include the number of servings, prep time, cook time, etc., and please be specific, if you post add one cup of onions, let us know if that is chopped, minced or whole. We ask that you please included any nutritional facts, if you have them.
And if you have any food or wine pairings, we would love that as well.
All recipes submitted will become the property of Survivinginfidelity.com, a nonprofit organization.
Please include which category you feel your recipe belongs in.
Main Dishes;
Soups and Stews;
Sides; -Vegetables
- Brunch
-Non Alcoholic
-Smoothies, Juices & Spritzers
[This message edited by Lucky at 1:20 PM, August 27th (Wednesday)]
metamorphisis posted 8/26/2008 20:22 PM
O.k. finally ready to make my submission (6 weeks later than promised ) Just made this tonight and it was really yummy.
Baked Potato Soup
Category.. Soup/Stews.
I made it as a first course before Thanksgiving dinner.. but it is filling enough to stand on it's own with a salad and nice bread.
15 slices bacon
2/3 cup margarine or butter
2/3 cup all-purpose flour
5 cups milk (I used skim)
2 cups of chicken broth.
5 large baked potatoes, peeled and cubed
4 green onions, chopped
1 1/4 cups shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
Garlic powder to taste (about a half teaspoon)
1. Place bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium heat until browned. Drain, crumble, and set aside.
2. In a stock pot or Dutch oven, melt the margarine over medium heat. Whisk in flour until smooth. Gradually stir in milk, whisking constantly until thickened. Stir in potatoes and onions. Bring to a boil, stirring frequently.
Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes.
3. Mix in bacon, cheese, sour cream, salt, and pepper. Continue cooking, stirring frequently, until cheese is melted. ( I did the first two steps in the morning and reheated just before dinner and then completed step 3.)
You can really play with this recipe.. thicken with more potato or thin with more broth.. use ham instead of bacon..and play with the spices to your taste. It can also be made much less fattening by using fat free sour cream , low fat cheese e.t.c)
All in all it a great filling soup
[This message edited by metamorphisis at 8:41 PM, October 12th (Sunday)]
Deeply Scared posted 8/26/2008 20:31 PM
I have two delicious recipes to contribute.
Homemade meatballs and marinara sauce and my Italian Pie....both from scratch and all mine
Lucky posted 8/26/2008 20:34 PM
I am so looking forward to everyones recipe submissions.
Thank you to DS and MH for allowing us to do this.
[This message edited by Lucky at 8:42 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 20:36 PM
Grilled Steak with Chimichurri Sauce:
-Main Dish (Beef)
Chimichurri is a sauce and marinade for grilled meat originally from Argentina
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: ~ 10 minutes
Chimichurri Sauce (makes about 12 servings):
1/2 cup olive oil
1/2 cup white wine vinegar
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 bunch fresh oregano
1 bunch fresh parsley
4-8 cloves of garlic
1 jalepeno
6 green onions
paprika, cumin, salt and pepper to taste
Blend all of the ingredients together in a blender. Prepare it at least a day before and refrigerate.
Marinate steaks (I prefer rib-eye) in your preferred marinade. Grill them on the barbecue to desired level.
Serve the sauce as a dip for the steak.
[This message edited by SerJR at 9:00 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 20:53 PM
Chicken el Diablo:
-Main Dish (Poultry)
Prep time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Servings: 2-4
2 tbsp olive oil
1 red onion chopped
4 cloves of garlic chopped
1 small jar of sundried tomatoes (drained)
(Montreal/Chicago) Chicken Spice/Seasoning and pepper to taste.
1/3 cup of balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
4 chicken breasts cubed.
Heat oil in a frying pan on med-high. Add in the garlic and onions and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the other ingredients and cook until chicken is cooked through (approximately 10-12 minutes stirring often).
Works well alone or served over garlic bread that has been roasted with smoked provolone cheese.
[This message edited by SerJR at 10:14 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 20:57 PM
Boccicini Salad:
Prep time: 15 minutes
Servings: 4
1 container of pearl sized boccicini (mozzarella balls).
1 package of cherry/grape/strawberry tomatoes.
1 bunch fresh basil chopped.
Balsamic vinaigrette dressing.
Add in the first three ingredients and toss with the vinaigrette dressing.
[This message edited by SerJR at 9:00 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
Lucky posted 8/26/2008 20:59 PM
Junior - what categories would you like those in?
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 20:59 PM
(I'll edit them)
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 21:17 PM
Guacamole Chicken:
- Main Dish (Poultry)
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Servings: 4
4 large chicken breasts.
4-8 slices of corned beef.
1 small tub of Guacamole.
1 small can black beans (rinsed).
1-2 cup Salsa.
Salt and pepper to taste.
1 tbsp Chili powder.
1 tbsp Balsamic vinegar.
1 tbsp olive oil.
Tortilla chips.
Shredded cheese.
Cut a pocket (slit) into each breast and put in a tablespoon or two of guacamole (as much that fits), and then wrap with the corned beef so that the slit is completely covered and the guacamole won't leak)
Blend the can of rinsed beans with the chili powder, olive oil, salsa, salt and pepper, and balsamic vinegar.
Take a baking dish and put enough of the bean mixture down to coat the bottom. Place in chicken breasts. Then cover with the bean mixture (you will probably have some mixture left over in which you can use as a nacho dip)
Then cover with shredded cheese and crushed tortilla chips. Bake at 350 for 45 minutes (check to make sure it is done).
cielo posted 8/26/2008 21:23 PM
Lucky - what category do bread recipes go in? Ditto breakfast food recipes?
SerJR posted 8/26/2008 21:36 PM
Prep time: 20 minutes
Servings: 6-8
2 cups of graham cracker crumbs
1/2 cup of chopped pecans
8 tbsp of melted butter
Combine graham crumbs, pecans and melted butter and press into a glass pan to form a crust. Refrigerate for 2 hours.
8 oz cream cheese
1 cup of powdered sugar
1 tsb vanilla
4 cups of cool whip (1 container)
2 tbsp honey
1 tsp lemon juice
1/2 tsp cinnamon
Blueberries (fresh or thawed-frozen)
Beat all of the ingredients together until smooth adding the cool whip in last. Spread evenly over the crust. Top with blueberries (or other fruit of choice).
[This message edited by SerJR at 11:13 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
Lucky posted 8/26/2008 21:39 PM
cielo, I've included breads, and am asking DS about breakfast.
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:11 PM
Honey-Vanilla Challah Bread
Category - Breads
Ingredients: Makes 1 Loaf
1/2 tablespoon active dry yeast
4 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
4 1/4 to 4 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup of warm milk
2 eggs + 1 for the glaze
4 tablespoons of olive oil + 1 teaspoon for greasing the bowl and another for the glaze
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1 tablespoon honey
In a large bowl using a whisk combine the yeast, sugar, salt and 1 cup of the flour. Add the warm milk, 2 eggs, 4 tablespoons of olive oil, then the honey and vanilla. Vigorously mix the ingredients until smooth, scraping the sides of the bowl halfway through, about 3 minutes. Add the remaining flour, 1/2 cup at a time. Switch to a wooden spoon when the dough becomes too thick for the whisk.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until soft and springy, about 4 minutes. The dough is done when its smooth and small air bubbles show under the skin. If you press your thumb into it the impression should bounce back. This dough needs to be slightly firm dough, so you can easily braid it later on.
Place the dough in a bowl greased with 1 tsp of olive oil. Turn the dough once to coat the top and cover with plastic wrap. Allow it to rise at room temperature until doubled in bulk, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper or lightly grease it with non-stick spray. Gently deflate the dough by pressing your fingers into it, then turn it out onto a lightly floured surface.
Divide into 3 equal portions, and roll each portion out into a smooth, thick strip about 20 inches long, with the ends slightly thinner than the middle. Lay these ropes side-by-side, not quite touching.
Beginning in the middle and working towards you, braid the lower half of the three ropes. To braid, alternately move the outside ropes over the one in the center - left over, right over, left over -until you come to the end. Now go to the other side of your working space and braid the other half, this time moving the outside ropes under the center one. Braid tightly - you dont want any gaps. When you finish braiding each side crimp the tapered ends together, then tuck them under.
Place the braided dough on your baking sheet, cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise until almost doubled in bulk, 30 to 40 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Just before the rising time has finished, whisk together 1 egg and 1 teaspoon of olive oil, this is going to be the glaze for your bread. Gently brush the dough with a thick layer of it. Place the dough in the oven and bake for 30 to 35 minutes. The bread should sound hollow when you thump on the bottom of it.
Transfer to a baking rack to cool. Allow to cool completely before slicing.
[This message edited by cielo at 10:09 PM, September 8th (Monday)]
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:20 PM
Cinnamon Rice Pudding with Caramelized Bananas
Category - Desserts
1 two inch long cinnamon stick
A two inch strip of lime zest, colored rind only, 3/4 inches wide. (optional)
1 cup rice
1 quart (4 cups) of milk
3/4 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 large egg yolks
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, cut into bits.
Ground cinnamon, for garnish
Step 1: The rice. Bring 2 cups of water to a boil in a medium size saucepan, add the cinnamon stick and lime zest, then cover and simmer over medium heat for 5 minutes. Pour in the rice, let the mixture return to a boil, stir once, then cover and cook over medium-low heat for 20 minutes, until all the liquid is absorbed and the rice is tender.
Step 2: The pudding. Stir in the milk, sugar and salt, and simmer over medium to medium-low heat, stirring frequently, until the liquid shows the first signs of thickening, 20 to 25 minutes. Take from the heat and remove the cinnamon stick and zest.
In a small bowl beat the egg yolks until runny, stir in the vanilla and a few tablespoons of the hot rice, then spoon the yolk concoction back into the rice mixture. Spoon the rice pudding into a decorative 8-inch-square baking dish.
Note for Step 2: The mixture should be simmered only until the milk takes on a slight creaminess (it will still look soupy). Overcooking will give you something dense and unapproachable. If you end up with something dense and overcooked, stir in a few tablespoons of milk just as youre about to serve, dot with butter and brown again.
Step 3: Browning and finishing the pudding. Preheat the broiler and dot the rice pudding with the butter. Set the dish under the heat long enough to brown the top, 3 to 4 minutes. Sprinkle with the ground cinnamon, and serve warm or at room temperature.
Slice off the ends of an unpeeled, ripe banana, then slice it vertically down the middle so that you have two long halves. Carefully remove the peel, taking care not to break the pieces. Sprinkle both sides of each slice with dark brown sugar (about 1/4 to 1/2 tsp of sugar in total).
In a skillet melt 1 tablespoon of butter over medium-high heat, until foamy. Saute the banana slices, cut sides down, for one minute, shaking the pan occasionally to make sure the slices dont stick. With two forks, gently flip the slices over and continue to saute for about 30 seconds longer, until the sugar melts and the banana has a light, golden brown color. As before, shake the skillet to prevent sticking.
Sprinkle the bananas with a pinch of granulated sugar and serve with warm rice pudding. Garnish the pudding with a pinch of ground cinnamon and freshly grated nutmeg.
[This message edited by cielo at 11:21 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:25 PM
Key Lime Meringue Cake
Category - Desserts
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/3 cup whole-wheat pastry flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 large eggs, at room temperature
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon freshly grated lime zest, preferably Key lime
3 tablespoons almond oil or canola oil
1 (14 ounce) can nonfat sweetened condensed milk (not evaporated milk)
1/3 cup lime juice, preferably Key lime
1 teaspoon freshly grated lime zest, preferably Key lime
2 large egg whites, at room temperature
1/4 cup sugar
To prepare cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Coat two 9-inch round cake pans with cooking spray with flour; alternatively, coat the pans with regular cooking spray, line them with parchment paper and spray the paper.
Whisk all-purpose flour, whole-wheat flour and salt in a medium bowl.
Beat 4 eggs and 2/3 cup sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium-high speed until pale yellow and doubled in volume, 5 to 10 minutes. Beat in vanilla and 1 teaspoon lime zest.
With a rubber spatula, gently fold almond (or canola) oil into the egg mixture, using long, even strokes, until just incorporated. Add the flour mixture; gently stir until just incorporated. Divide the batter between the pans; spread to the edges and gently rap the pans against the counter once or twice to settle the batter.
Bake, rotating the pans halfway through, until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 20 to 22 minutes. Cool on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then invert the layers onto the rack, remove the pans and parchment paper, if using, and let cool completely, about 45 minutes.
To prepare lime filling: Whisk condensed milk, lime juice and 1 teaspoon lime zest in a medium bowl until combined. Refrigerate until thickened, at least 30 minutes or overnight.
To prepare meringue: Beat egg whites in a medium bowl with an electric mixer at high speed until soft peaks form. Beat in 1/4 cup sugar in a slow, steady stream. Continue beating until stiff peaks form.
Position oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source; preheat broiler. Transfer one layer, bottom-side down, to a large baking sheet. Spread the meringue on top of the cake, creating decorative peaks and valleys in the meringue with a rubber spatula. Broil until lightly browned, watching carefully to prevent burning, 30 seconds to 1 minute.
To assemble cake: Place the plain layer, top-side down, on a serving plate; spread the lime filling on top. Cover with the meringue-topped layer.
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:28 PM
Strawberry Cream Puffs w/Strawberry Sauce
Category - Desserts
3/4 cup water
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon sugar
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 large eggs
1 cup chilled whipping cream
7 teaspoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon kirsch (clear cherry brandy)
1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
6 large strawberries, hulled
2 pints strawberries, hulled
3 tablespoons sugar
Powdered Sugar
For cream puffs: Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheet with parchment paper. Combine water, butter, salt and sugar in heavy medium saucepan. Bring to boil, stirring to melt butter. Add flour; using wooden spoon, stir vigorously until mixture clumps together, forming ball. Stir 1 minute longer. Remove from heat. Transfer dough to medium bowl. Using electric mixer, add eggs 1 at time, beating until dough is smooth after each addition (dough will be slightly soft and shiny).
Using 1 rounded tablespoon dough for each cream puff, spoon dough onto prepared baking sheet, spacing about 2 inches apart and forming mounds about 3/4 inch to 1 inch high and 1 1/4 inches in diameter. Using moist fingertips, gently press tops of cream puffs flatten any peaks. Bake until golden brown, about 37 minutes. Transfer baking sheet to rack; let cream puffs cool. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Let stand at room temperature.)
For filling: Beat cream, 1 teaspoon sugar, kirsch and vanilla in medium bowl until stiff peaks form. Combine 6 strawberries and 2 tablespoons sugar in small bowl. Using fork, crush berries. Fold crush strawberry mixture into cream.
Cut top third off each cream puff. Place cream puff bottoms, cut side up, on plates. Spoon filling into bottoms, mounding slightly. Ladle sauce over, allowing sauce to spill onto plates. Top with cream puff tops. Dust with powdered sugar.
For sauce: Puree 1 basket strawberries in processor. Transfer to bowl. Stir in sugar. Quarter remaining strawberries; add to sauce.
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:33 PM
Category - Desserts
1 cup sliced almonds, toasted and finely chopped
1 cup graham cracker crumbs
1/3 cup butter, melted
4 (8 oz) pkgs. cream cheese, softened
2 cups sugar
1/4 tsp. almond extract
3 eggs
1/4 cup amaretto liqueur or milk
1. For crust: stir together almonds, graham cracker crumbs and butter.
2. Press the crust mixture evenly 2" up the side and over the bottom of a 9" Springform pan. Place in a shallow baking pan.
3. For filling: in a large bowl, beat cream cheese, sugar and almond extract until smooth.
4. Add eggs all at once. Beat on low just until mixed. DO NOT OVERBEAT!
5. Beat in amaretto or milk just until combined.
6. Turn filling into crust. Bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or till center appears nearly ste when gently shaken. Cool on wire rack for 10 minutes. Loosen cheesecake from side of pan. Cool for 30 minutes more. Remove side of pan. Cover and chill for at least 4 hours or up to 24 hours.
7. Serves 14-16.
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:39 PM
Category - Soups and Stews
1 1/2 lbs. beef stew meat
1 small bell pepper, chopped
3/4 cup 1-inch pieces green beans
3/4 cup chopped onion
2/3 cup uncooked barley
2/3 cup fresh whole kernel corn
1 1/2 cup water
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. chopped fresh or 1/2 tsp. dried thyme leaves
1/4 tsp. pepper
2 cans (14.5 oz) beef broth
2 cans (14.5 oz) diced tomatoes with garlic, undrained
1 can (8 oz) tomato sauce
Brown stew meat. Mix all ingredients together in crockpot. Cover and cook on low 8 to 9 hours or until vegetables and barley are tender.
cielo posted 8/26/2008 23:45 PM
Category - Desserts
1 cup flour
1/2 tsp. salt
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp baking powder
1 1/2 Tbsp. cocoa
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
1 tsp. vanilla
3/4 cup milk
2 Tbsp. melted butter
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup chocolate syrup
Preheat oven to 350°. Mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking powder and salt. Add nuts and vanilla. Stir in milk and butter until blended. Scrape into a greased 8x8 square pan. Make topping and pour over cake. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes. Cool in pan for 20 minutes. Cut into squares. Serve syrup side up. Spoon extra syrup over cake and top with ice cream.
[This message edited by cielo at 11:45 PM, August 26th (Tuesday)]
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