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Tropico 4 Apocalypse DLC spells the end of all things
Island life is about to get a little less idyllic, as Tropico 4 developer Haemimont Studios has released the Apocalypse DLC pack for Xbox 360 and . It includes a new mission titled "How I learned to love the bomb," which asks players to to prepare their island citizens for the end of the world.
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There's a new DLC pack out for city-builder and management sim Tropico 4, challenging players with unusually high levels of rebel activity but kitting them out with new military resources to combat the strife.
Tropico 4 Voodoo DLC out now on PC, Xbox 360
Haemimont Games has produced yet another DLC pack for tropical island management sim Tropico 4. Called Voodoo, the new pack includes a mission in which our beloved El Presidente is targeted by a voodoo curse – entirely undeserved, I am sure. It also adds the Voodoo Manor building, Voodoo Priest costume, and a suitably magical […]
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Kalypso Media have announced the release of three new DLC packs for Tropico 4 on Xbox 360.
Tropico 4 Megalopolis DLC now available, new screenshots posted
Tropico 4 has new DLC available via the Megalopolis pack, which contains a new campaign, new avatar clothing and other items.
Tropico 4's Pirate Heaven DLC is now available for PC
Tropico 4's Pirate Heaven DLC is now available for PC.
Tropico 4 Gold Edition releases in November for PC and Xbox 360
Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release in November on PC and Xbox 360, and comes with the Modern Times expansion. The title contains over 30 unique missions, over 100 buildings in total, the Council of Ministers, and a sandbox mode for custom games, with improved map and scenario editor. Tropico 4 Gold Edition will release […]
Tropico 4 available via Games on Demand
Humorous management-sim, Tropico 4, is available via Xbox 360's Games on Demand service as a 3.47GB download for $29.99/£24.99. Read about the experiences of a Tropico virgin, when VG247's Brenna took control of her own banana republic and realised one of her lifelong dreams: to build a pub.
Try something new: learning to sim with Tropico
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Tropico 4 free to play this weekend on Steam
Tropico 4 is free to play all weekend on Steam, with 66 percent off the purchase price if players like what they see.
Tropico 4 gets Modern Times DLC, now available from Steam
Kalypso has released the Modern Times DLC for Tropico 4. The content, which is set a year after events from the main game, features new crisis events related to the current economic situation and challenges regarding the war on terror and more.Get it from Steam here.
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Evil Avatar reports Kalypso has released a new Tropico 4 add-on for both PC and Xbox 360. The Quick-Dry Cement pack goes for $4.99 or 400 MS Points, and adds a cement factory building, the constructor character trait, an engineer helmet, a new mission theme, and a handful of new decorations. You can see a […]
Quick Shots: The future is now in these Tropico 4: Modern Times screens
Kalypso has released a pack of screenshots from Tropico 4: Modern Times which will be available in March for Xbox 360 and PC for 1200 Microsoft Points/$19.99. The expansion takes the island into the modern era, and you, as El Presidente, must decide whether to fight the changing tide, or go with the flow. Check […]
Tropico 4: Modern Times Expansion coming to PC and 360 in March
Kalypso has announced the Modern Times Expansion for Tropico 4 will be released in March for PC and Xbox 360.
El Presidente returning to Xbox 360 in Tropico 4
Kalypso has announced a release date for Tropico 4 on Xbox 360. The game, which was released on PC over the summer, contains 20 new missions across 10 new maps and new game features such as the ability to elect ministers into power to help get your more controversial decisions passed. It's out on October […]
Xbox 360 Tropico 4 delayed, arriving October 18
Hanging out for Tropico 4 on Xbox 360? Keep a-hangin', publisher Kalypso Media has confirmed to Joystiq that the game planned for "mid-September" will now be arriving in mid-October.Specifically, the game should start hitting shelves from October 18th, even though the PC version's out already. We hear that "although it isn't radically different in terms […]
Tropico 4 US release windows locked down
Kalypso has written to let us know it's settled on a launch window for tropical island dictatorship sim, Tropico 4. The latest entry in the series is due on PC on August 30, and will arrive on Xbox 360 in mid September.Not sure how you feel about managing a nation dotted with volcanoes? Check out […]
Tropico 4 demo now available
Kalypso Media has released a demo of Tropico 4, which includes four tutorial missions and one campaign mission, where players will assume the role of the newly elected El Presidente who must build his island's economy from a financial backwater to a world class economic superpower. Tropico 4 is set for release at the end […]
Friday Shorts II: Humble Bundle, RE6, Tropico 4, King Arthur, Def Leppard
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My First Recipe
Photograph by Adam Roberts
"This is a really big step: you should be really proud."
I'm talking to Molly Stevens, author of my new favorite cookbookAll About Braisingand she's patting me on the back for something I haven't done yet.
"When you don't use recipes anymore, when you call on your own techniques, that's when you can call yourself a chef," she says. "Coming up with your own recipe is a big moment in your development."
What Molly doesn't know and what the voices in my head keep reminding me is that this big step I'm about to take is one I'm not ready for. Like some kid who likes to dive in the family pool and then enters the Olympics, I am in over my head.
You see, I'm an amateur cook, and I mess up frequently. Not only do my techniques suck (I recently peeled my finger when I meant to peel a carrot), but I'm a nervous persona jittery cookand I tend to cling to whatever recipe I'm using with disturbing desperation. Recipes do for me what the blue blanket does for Linus: They comfort me, they reassure me. As long as I have this recipe, I tell myself, I'll be OK.
I've been following recipes for as long as I've been cooking. If I keep following recipes, the best I can be is a great recipe follower. Don't I want more for myself? Why can't I come up with my own recipe? I envy the home cooks who throw in a dash of this and a dash of that and make a mini-masterpiece. Why shouldn't it be my turn?
"How do you do it?" I ask Molly, suddenly motivated by a need to innovate.
"Good question!" she says. "I wished more people asked me that. I do it a number of ways. Sometimes I'll just start making something without a recipe. Other times, if I know what dish I want to make, I'll read as many recipes and techniques and resources that I find reliable and then pick and choose the bits I like the best."
This sounds logical. And doable. Hey, I say to myself (in italics), I can do that!
"You find inspiration in an ingredient or a technique and then you tweak it," Molly says. "There's nothing wrong with people saying, 'This recipe comes from an idea from so-and-so.'"
Hunh, I think. This is going to be easy!
Technique-wise, my inspiration is on the phone with me. Molly's recipe for chicken, bacon, and parsnips braised in hard cider convinced me (and several friends) that braisingthe simple technique of browning, deglazing, and simmeringis the most foolproof and rewarding approach to cooking fathomable. The meat gives up fat and flavor as it cooks; the liquid and aromatics infuse the meat with their own unique characters. Braising is an orgy of smells, sounds, and tastes. If Prometheus discovered fire, Bacchus discovered braising. It's like going to Las Vegas without leaving your kitchen.
But ingredient-wise, I am stuck. OK, so let's say I want to make a chicken braise. What liquid will I use? Her book already has recipes for chicken braised with wine, beer, and cider. What's left? Soda?
Soda! Of course!
"Do you think I could make a chicken braise ... with orange soda?"
Why orange soda? Well: Coke is so dark it'd overwhelm the chicken, and the lemon-lime flavors of Sprite may make the chicken too tart. But orange soda feels right for some reason. Maybe because of the sticky sweet orange chicken I like to order, sometimes, at Chinese restaurants?
There's a bit of a pause and then Molly says, "Sure. As long as you balance the sweetness. I mean people braise with Champagne, why not orange soda?"
I thank Molly for all her help and then head to the store. I am feeling empowered and inspiredinspired by orange soda. Orange soda will do for me what lamb's tongues did for Mario Batali. I enter my local Key Foods and race to the drink aisle. And then I'm face to face with a big bottle of Sunkist orange soda.
The bottle before me fills me with nostalgia (it was my favorite soda while growing up) but after I pick it up and study the ingredients, it also fills me with disgust.
Blech, I think. Would you really want to bite into a piece of chicken saturated with neon orange chemicals?
I reevaluate my goals. What did I like about the idea of orange soda chicken? Well I liked the idea of using oranges with chicken. So why don't I buy a few oranges? I can use the zest and the juice. But what will be my braising liquid?
I think about wine and then I remember something Molly said. "People braise with Champagne...." What if I mixed the orange juice and Champagne? Why that's a mimosa. I can make mimosa braised chicken!
Invigorated, I skip quickly down the aisles. I decide to give the recipe an Asian spin. Molly's book gives examples of flavor profiles you can create with different aromatics; so, thinking about the orange chicken I get at Chinese restaurants, I imagine that the orange components will match well with the Asian components. So I buy green onions and lemongrass. I also buy sesame seeds. Oh, and chickenfour chicken legs, with thighs attached.
When I get home, I immediately get to work. I brown the chicken in butter and olive oil. I remove the chicken, then add the scallions, lemongrass, and orange zest. I add some red pepper flakes for heat.
When it's time to deglaze, I use a mixture of Champagne, orange juice, and Grand Marnier. I let the alcohol burn off, and then I put the chicken back.
I cover and let it simmer for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, I make rice.
And then the magic moment, the moment that will reveal how far I've really come. I mound the rice on the plate, top with a piece of chicken, and add some sauce, which I've reduced. The smell is potent, citrusy, and alive.
I sit on the couch and take my first bite. Immediately, the brightness of the flavors makes a party in my mouth. "Mmmm," I say to no one in particular. "This is good! I've done it!"
Soon my roommate Diana comes home and says she'll try a bite. I watch her eagerly, nervously, and when she finally puts a piece in her mouth (after what seems like an eternity) a big smile grows on her face. "This is good," she says. "I mean it. It's tasty."
I breathe a sigh of relief and smile at myself in the mirror. Who's that looking back at me? I'm Linus without the blanket; a real grown-up cook.
Maybe even, dare I say it, a chef.
About the author: Adam Roberts is The Amateur Gourmet. His book, The Amateur Gourmet, will be published by Bantam/Dell in summer 2007.
Mimosa Braised Chicken
serves 4
Ingredients 3/4 cup Champagne 1/4 cup Grand Marnier 1/4 cup fresh squeezed orange juice (from the same oranges you've zested; make sure you zest first, it's easier) 1 teaspoon soy sauce 4 chicken legs, thighs attached (about 3 pounds) Kosher salt Freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 scallions, thinly sliced 1 stalk lemongrass, thinly sliced 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes (to taste) Zest of three oranges (about 1 tablespoon) White sesame seeds (optional) White rice (optional)
1. In a measuring cup, mix together the champagne, Grand Marnier, orange juice and soy sauce. Set aside.
2. Wash and dry the chicken thoroughly. Sprinkle generously with kosher salt and pepper, on both sides.
3. Heat butter and oil in a large sauté pan until hot enough to make the chicken sizzle. When ready, add the chicken and brown thoroughly (careful not to move the chicken for the first few minutes, so it develops a nice golden brown sear.) When golden brown on all sides, remove chicken to a plate and set aside.
4. Pour off all but 1 Tbs of fat. Add the scallions and lemongrass and sauté for 30 seconds. Make a hot spot and add the red pepper flakes and allow them to toast. Incorporate into the rest and then add the orange zest. Mix another 30 seconds or until the green onions are wilted.
5. Deglaze with the champagne, Grand Marnier, orange juice and soy sauce mixture. Make sure to pick up all the brown bits from the chicken.
6. Bring to a boil and return the chicken to the pan, pouring all the chicken juices back in from the plate. Reduce the heat, cover, and allow to simmer for 30 minutes. Check the pot every 10 minutes to make sure it's not bubbling too rapidly.
7. After 30 minutes, remove the chicken to a plate and taste the sauce. If not concentrated enough, bring to a rapid boil and reduce until thickened.
8. Mound rice on to a plate, top with a piece of chicken, spoon on the sauce and garnish with sesame seeds. Serve to your surprised and delighted friends.
Suggested drink: Mimosas, of course!
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We had such an amazing day! Sweet Deacon was surrounded by his friends & family & partied until he couldn't keep his eyes open & passed out on my shoulder. I'm not entirely sure how a WHOLE year has passed already but it went by faster than everyone warned me it would & it was WAY sweeter than I could've ever imagined. I had such a fun time planning & executing his party. I've been working on little bday party projects since April during D's nap time. I found a bunch of the ideas on Pinterest. Maybe now I won't be such a stranger on here! I'd love to start sharing some of the projects Deacon & I have been working on! ;)
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text: A girl's gotta have options. That's what she had said, what was it? – was it five years before? Travis Mayweather looked at a display on a Sick Bay monitor as it scrolled past the temperature – 23.9 C – to the time – 1440 hours – and then to the date – May seventh of 2161. That was right, then, it had been about five years ago that she had said that. Nearby, a bat squealed in its cage. It then let out a really loud, ear-splitting shriek, and he jumped. "Why do you even keep that thing around?" he demanded of the doctor. He already had his sidearm unsheathed, ready to shoot that damned bat. "The Derellian bat," said the doctor; "makes an enzyme that's useful for treating infections. My predecessor may have been a subhuman saboteur, but he did know his alternative treatments. Everything in the menagerie he brought over from the NX-01 is useful." The doctor surveyed his dominion, such as it was. He was a thin fellow, with a face that was mostly nose, and his demeanor was pretentious. "But Phlox was a saboteur," Travis said, "She had me torture and kill him myself," Travis said, smiling a little in remembering his fun. He resheathed his sidearm. "So, Dr. Morgan, how's the baby?" "Your son," the doctor replied, "is not doing so well." He beckoned Travis over to a monitor. There were two security guards in the Defiant's Sick Bay with them, guarding a patient laying on one of the bio beds. One of the guards came over. "Hodgkins, this doesn't concern you," Travis said, a little angrily, "go back to guarding her." "Yes, Commander," spat out Hodgkins. The man's attitude was obvious – he coveted what Travis had, or at least what he thought Travis had. Still, he returned to his post. "Over here," Dr. Morgan indicated quietly, pointing on the monitor. "See that? The fetus has a hole in his heart." "Oh," Travis was crestfallen, "But you can fix that, right?" "I can, but, well, come with me a moment," he said, and then added more loudly, so that Hodgkins and his partner, Curtis, could hear, "I may need you for a transfusion, Commander, so we'll do the test in the decon chamber. We wouldn't want the sight of a little blood to overly excite anyone now." The two of them entered the chamber. The doctor shut the door and made sure it was secure. "I want you to listen to me very carefully," he said. "Oh?" "The Empress has never been more vulnerable than she is right now." "Our son has got to be even more vulnerable, though, right?" Travis asked. "He is. But with vulnerability comes certain, er, opportunities." "Opportunities?" "I've seen how she treats you, and how all of the other men on the senior staff do," said Morgan. "Well, they're jealous," Travis said defensively. "Perhaps they covet your position," Morgan allowed, "but wouldn't it be better if you could really lord it over them, not as the Empress's consort, no, but as the Emperor Travis Mayweather himself?" Travis blinked several times. "What are you driving at?" "It would be unfortunate for the fetus. But she could die on the operating table." "Our son would die, too." "Correct – a most unfortunate sacrifice. But then you could seize power. Kill the other men on the senior staff – Masterson, Ramirez and MacKenzie, and Torres, too – and kill off the kids she's had with them, as well. Install, perhaps, one of the female second shift or night shift pilots as your consort. You like Shelby Pike and Melissa Madden. I have seen how you stare at them when you think the Empress is not looking. Or maybe you'll choose Lucy Stone, the Science Officer. She's the smartest female on the ship and, yes, I am including the Empress in that statement." "You're talking treason and mutiny, Doctor." "There's nothing wrong with overthrowing tyranny – and getting what you truly want in the process." "That would be a lot of killing to do. Huh, I could take my time with it." That part certainly appealed to him. "No, it would have to be fast. Have you read any Machiavelli?" Travis shook his head. "I suggest you start. Make your decision immediately." "How come?" Travis asked. "I'll need to start the surgery soon if you decide that you do wish for me to repair the hole. Today would be preferable. So I'll wait for you to tell me what you think the outcome of the surgery should be. But don't dawdle." "What do you expect to get out of this, Doc?" "Oh, I'm sure you'll reward the kingmaker," Morgan smiled an oily smile, "Take an hour. No more." He jabbed a needle into Travis's arm and took a little blood, and then opened the door. Travis was about to leave in order to think things over when he heard his name being called weakly. He walked over to the bio bed where the mighty Empress Hoshi Sato was laying. She was six months pregnant and already as big as a house. "Is everything all right?" she asked, "I can't be hanging around here. I've got worlds to conquer." "The baby needs an operation," Travis said, warily eying Hodgkins and Curtis. They seemed too close, and too nosy. Knowing that he had sired an imperfect child was the kind of a sign of weakness that could be used against him, if it ever really came out in detail. "Take a walk," the Empress said to the two security crewmen. "We are here for your protection," Hodgkins protested. "I said leave," her voice was a lot sharper. The two men left. Once they were gone, she asked, "What's going on?" "The fetus has a hole in his heart," Dr. Morgan said, "I can perform the surgery today. You could be up and about again in less than a week." "Will the surgery leave a scar?" she asked. "I'll do my best when it comes to the both of you," Morgan said, "but I can't make any promises. This is delicate surgery." She seemed to accept that and thought of something. She then said to Travis, "Izo. I will name him Izo." "Izo?" "Yes. You know all of the names for my children are meaningful. Jun means truthful; Kira means dark; Arashi means storm; Takara means treasure and Takeo means warrior." "And Izo?" Travis asked, hoping it wasn't idiot, a designation she sometimes used for him, and it was certainly not out of any affection. Some of the men who wanted to take his place knew that, and they surely didn't covet that as a part of the deal. "It means iron, for he's going to be powerful once that hole is sewn up. After I'm dead, they'll all fight over the succession. The only blood tie they will have in common is to me, so none of them will be out to kill me. I'll live a long and comfortable life. They will love and revere me." "Well, you're the Empress," Travis said, as the doctor busied himself with putting together a hypo. "It is that," Hoshi said, "but it's also because I'm their dear old Mom. None of them will have that kind of a tie to you, except for Izo. And even then I'm not so sure. After all, you're not their babysitter, Aidan is." "Right," Travis said, "uh, I need to take a walk for a while. Sick Bay smells bother me a bit." "Get back here for when Morgan puts me under," Hoshi commanded, "and get security back in here." Travis nodded wearily. When he opened the Sick Bay doors, Hodgkins was standing just outside, with Curtis nearby. "She's all yours," he said. =/\= He walked a bit, seemingly on auto pilot by the time he got to the lift. "Uh, deck six." The doors opened in time for him to see Melissa Madden and Shelby Pike waiting for that same lift. He walked out and turned a little in order to watch them move. They were roommates, and there were rumors that, if you offered something they wanted, they would do more than be a little friendly, either to each other or to a guy like him. Everyone knew Madden was bi. Pike, on the other hand, well; she had had a profession before becoming a pilot. It had been the world's oldest one. "Ladies," he said. "Ha!" Madden scoffed as the lift doors began to close, "You don't know us very well." The last sound he heard from them was some giggling and he was left to imagine what was going on in the lift. Travis turned to walk to quarters, but found them occupied. The babysitter – Aidan MacKenzie – was in there with the Empress's five children. Jun, the eldest, was the son of some guy named Ritchie Daniels, who was supposedly a time traveler although Travis had always thought that was just some line to get into Hoshi's pants. It had been about Daniels that Hoshi had referred to the need for options. But Daniels had left quickly, and the report had been that his shuttle had crashed on Daranaea, a planet of furry fox-faced aliens. A few weeks after that, Hoshi had started experiencing violent morning sickness. When that baby was born – and looked nothing like Travis – Hoshi assured him that her sleeping around was a good idea. "It'll keep the senior staff in line. A girl's gotta have options," she had said, and they were off to the races. The aforementioned four and a half year old Jun had a small knife and was busily throwing it against a wall to see if it would stick. The Empress had next seduced MacKenzie, who had been in Tactical. But outside of bed, he had displeased her, and so she had busted Mac to babysitter, the lowest level on the ship, even lower than any of the women. She'd had painfully alarming Braxton Hicks contractions throughout the last trimester of that pregnancy, and had been ordered by Morgan to spend a lot of that time in bed. Travis had had to wait on her hand and foot. Kira was the tallest of the children, and was a few months shy of three. He was throwing a tantrum. Next born was Arashi, but no one really knew who his father was. Hoshi had insisted on not finding out, as she figured a mystery in that area could work to her advantage. Arashi was either the offspring of José Torres, the security chief, or Frank Ramirez, the Chief Engineer, Charles Tucker's replacement. That pregnancy had been punctuated by long volleys of kicking. Nearly two-year-old Arashi was mesmerized by a PADD and its pretty, blinking lights, until it frustrated him. He started banging it on the floor. The most recent – before Izo, that is – additions to the Sato clan were the twins, the children of the current Tactical Officer, Chip Masterson. Takara was the only girl, and she was currently wearing a little midriff-baring imitation of her mother's uniform, a bit of exaggeratedly inappropriate sexiness for a child who wasn't even a year old and was still in diapers. Her slightly younger twin, Takeo, had taken to pulling her pigtails any chance he got, so she retaliated by hitting him. They had been breech births. And now Izo, allegedly, would be the last. Every time she'd gotten pregnant by some other guy, Hoshi had assured Travis that he wasn't forgotten, and that he would get his chance "soon". And now his chance had arrived, and it was a very different chance from what he had thought it would be. "Travis, are you here to help?" Aidan called out over the din as he grabbed a fresh diaper from the stack, "'Cause if you are, Takeo needs to be changed." "Uh, no, I gotta go," Travis said. With no particular destination in mind, he just started walking, beating a hasty retreat out of there. He wasn't exactly safe in the Defiant's halls, but he wasn't exactly a target, either. There were aspects of his position that were coveted by others. But anyone taking him out of the picture would not get his job. Instead, most likely, all that would accomplish would be to move one of the piloting hotties to the day shift and the next First Officer would be the next guy in line – Masterson. Anyone knifing Travis would potentially get bedroom privileges, but also occasional deafening time with the unruly brood. They probably didn't covet that. Travis found an unused lab. There was a stool in it, and he sat down. "What the hell do I do?" he asked no one. "Izo, huh? I don't even get to pick out the name. And he'll be Sato, not Mayweather." He sighed. "What would it mean," he said to himself, "if I let Morgan do what he's suggesting? Bodyguards. Watching my back all the time, and everyone'd be gunning for me. I'd have to take out Torres and Masterson first – they'd be the toughest. Aidan might even be glad. And then what, after I step over the bodies of four senior officers, five little children, God knows how many security crewmen and, and my own son? Not to mention her. I was just a sergeant with the MACOs before she spotted me. She's the one who got me here. She's why I'm in this position at all. She's why there's an Izo to begin with. Morgan isn't suggesting this in order to make my life any easier – he's suggesting it to make his own life easier. Morgan always looks out for Morgan, and for no one else. He's only pushing this because he figures he'll have something over me if I say yes. This isn't my plan and it isn't my ambition – it's his." He bit his lower lip, and made his decision right then and there, and it was a new start for him, for he had never felt this way before, never thought this way. It was a thought for dreamers, an emotion for suckers, and he had, until that moment, felt that sort of thing was beneath him. But no longer. He could tell that things would be different, that he would take whatever Hoshi dished out, like he always did, but now there was a purpose to all that submission. And the purpose was to pave the way for Izo. All that mattered was Izo, from that day forward. There was nothing and no one else. =/\= He ran to Sick Bay once he'd gotten off the lift. "Doc!" he yelled. Morgan and Curtis looked up. "Do everything you can for Izo!" "And the other matter we discussed?" asked Morgan. "I'm glad you'll be helping with any, uh, rehab you think the Empress might need after the surgery," he said, sidestepping the question, "And, well, I'll be there for that, too." He said, but it wasn't her comfort and health that he was thinking about at all. It was Izo's. "Rehab?" Hoshi asked, voice rising. "Calm, please," said Morgan, "it's only to, uh, help prevent any scarring. And Travis could help you – you may take a day or two to really recover." He shepherded Travis a little bit away from the bio bed. More quietly, he said, "You'll say nothing?" "I won't. But now you owe me. You will do everything in your power to help Izo, any time he is sick or hurt, for the rest of your life. Do you understand?" "I suppose I do. Empress," Dr. Morgan was all oily smiles again, and called out, "let's get you prepped!" "And you'll stay and wait?" Hoshi asked Travis. "Yes, I want to be sure Izo is all right." "Now begin counting backwards, by threes from one hundred," Dr. Morgan said, "begin." "One hundred, ninety-seven, ninety-four," and she was out. The doctor drew a curtain and Travis was again alone with his thoughts. There had been many titles he had coveted over the years. And he had even achieved a few. But it wasn't consort, or lover or boy toy or First Officer or pilot or even Emperor that he coveted any more. There had been things he had wanted, commodities to decorate his uniform or his cabin or even his bed. But his decision had changed his life in an instant, and it was as if he was beginning anew. There was but one commodity that he wanted, and that was an heir. There was but one title that he wanted, and that one was Dad. He knew there was every possibility that he would not live long enough to ever hear Izo say it. But he was hopeful. Morgan would now owe him. And Travis would cozy up to as many of the security crewmen as he could, in order to protect the boy, due to be born in late July or early August. He would do whatever he could, for nothing else mattered, and Travis vowed that he would follow every lead and protocol and hunch if it would help Izo. There would be no stone unturned in his quest to give his son every possible advantage, no matter where any of those protocols and hunches led. After all, a fellow's gotta have options.


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Since the early 1970's, private industries have recognized the benefits of conducting environmental, health and safety audits at their regulated facilities. In general, the purpose of an environmental, health and safety audit is to ensure compliance with the myriad of environmental, health and safety regulations that have been promulgated by the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), and many other federal, state and local agencies. In addition, contemporary audits include the implementation of environmental health and safety management systems such as ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 and adherence to corporate standards or guidelines. In order for an environmental, health and safety audit to be successful, the author offers the following tips:
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- Pre-planning for an environmental, health and safety audit is as important as the audit itself. Much of the success of an environmental, health and safety audit program depends upon careful planning. At least two weeks prior to the on-site activities, the lead auditor should prepare and distribute an agenda to all involved personnel, including the site contact.
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As women, we can tend to place our emotional health on a back-burner for a variety of reasons. The problem is, that if we do not start caring for ourselves as we care for everyone else, then we may be facing anger, frustration, illness, depression and a host of other negative ramifications further down the track.
Historically, our role as women has been that of caregiver. Therefore, many of us hold an irrational belief that we are selfish if we put our own emotional and mental health first.
We can find it difficult to take care of our emotional health even when we know how important it is, because we may not know how to.
We may try to push what we are feeling under the carpet, hoping it will go away. This rarely occurs. What is more usual is that, matters may get worse and then, we may find ourselves exploding with anger because we did not extinguish the small flame that was there in the first place.
It may be hard for us to find time for ourselves with the endless tasks of daily life that need doing. But that just means we are putting a higher value on tasks than we are on our own well-being.
Some of us feel guilty about spending money pampering ourselves.
Many of us feel that we have to be there for everyone but ourselves and that the world is on our shoulders. Even if we are single parents, it is vital to take time out, otherwise we will experience burn out. Who said we need to be on call 24 hours a day?
What we do not realize is, that if we do not look after our emotional health, we will not really be able to look after anyone else in any positive way. What is the use of going into depression? It will affect not only our quality of life but also the lives of those around us that we so want to look after.
One of the best things we can do to begin helping ourselves is to really challenge our thinking. How much do we value ourselves? If we look at the tasks we perform each day and the roles we adopt, would we ever expect anyone else to be doing this without a break or reward? What is reasonable for us to do and when is it time to stop and just BE?
Do we want to live a passionate, fulfilling life and have positive relationships? It all begins with taking care of our own emotional health. …
Emergency crash carts are useful devices in hospitals and other medical facilities that function to create a storage space and means of transporting emergency hospital equipment in order to treat critical patients quickly. Today's medical environments are extremely fast-paced and medical personnel must be constantly multi-tasking if they wish to get their jobs done effectively. It is vital that medical personnel in the Emergency rooms, have easy access to these emergency response carts in order to attend to patients in a timely fashion. The necessary medical tools must be easily accessible and readily available to prevent lost time and ensure that everything can be done for the patient quickly to help him or her survive and recover. For asuransi jiwa severely injured patients, the chances of their life being saved are greatly increased when the proper emergency equipment arrives quickly. Through the use of emergency carts, emergency medical supplies can be organized efficiently and transported quickly and easily in any hospital emergency situation.
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Diet plans = lose weight fast. The many diet plans like Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, and Nutri-system all work well to improve your health and help you lose weight fast if you follow all of their rules to a tee.
Atkins and South Beach were recently very popular, and they work on slightly different principles, both which will improve your diet. The Atkins diet is the popular low carbohydrates diet where you remove refined carbohydrates like sugar, flour, and high fructose corn syrup from your diet. In restricting carbs, you force your body to look to other energy sources, like fat. The South Beach diet also espouses a low carb intake, but it also encourages eliminating saturated fat – unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats are allowed.
Nutri-system is a weight loss diet plan that sends you all of your meals for the day. The nutritional principle behind their food choices is that all the food has a low glycemic index, which keeps your blood sugar level from spiking and falling very quickly and causing the excess glucose to be stored as fat. Nutrisystem meals instead cause your blood sugar levels to stay in healthy ranges, extending the use of that energy and increasing your metabolism.
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This is the result if you follow these diet plans = lose weight fast, but there is a much quicker way than all of them listed above.…
For those who choose to live a natural lifestyle, usually eat organic foods and grow their own vegetables or even fish for their own meat. A detox diet may be the perfect type of plan this type of healthy eater can become accustomed to. A detox diet is used to eliminate harmful toxins and other parasites that may cause problems to the body's system. But, it's really no way of getting around the body absorbing the numerous chemicals, harmful elements and pollutants in the air.
When toxins previously stuck in the body are removed, it's amazing at how clear the skin becomes. Also, the lungs are clear when harmful elements are taken out.
It's evident that contaminants are included in most of the foods we eat, drugs, tobacco, and alcohol. These toxins are removed as the person eliminates. During this time, weight loss also occurs. Cleansing the body can also help ease migraines, stomach problems and joint trouble. People say it also helped to fight diseases of the heart or arthritis.
Cleansing programs should not be used to treat or cure diseases thought. So, if a person is experiencing pain of lethargy, it may be another undering issue that may need to be checked out. It's best to cleanse a system at least 4 times a year for best results. As a dieter should understand that each day they come into contact with harmful outside elements that may be packing on extra pounds without them even knowing the causes of the weight gain. …
The aging Baby Boomer generation offers a lot of career opportunities in terms of the elderly care it needs. In 2008, around 7.6 million individuals received adult daycare services to treat long-term health conditions, terminal illness, acute illness or permanent disability, according to the data released by the National Association for Home Care and Hospice. However, to start the rewarding career of an adult daycare provider, you need to obtain an in home care license. The type of license you need depends upon the type of agency you want to start, ie, whether you want to work on your own or want to employ nursing staff for your agency.
In Home Care License: How to Obtain it
Here are the steps you need to follow to obtain an in home care license:
Application Submission : Firstly, you need to contact your State Department of Health and Human Services and submit an application for the home health-care license. You can get this application at the department's office as well as online.
Inspection : The Department of Health and Human Services may carry out a survey of the place or building that you intend to use to operate your home care business. The department may also inspect all the material and products you have to take care of patients. To ensure that you clear the inspection, you need to adhere to the various requirements charted out by the department. You will also be required to disclose all business records and accounts to the department. For instance, the department may ask for your price structure, annual budget, service categories, client demographics and individual employee roles. After the department is satisfied with the inspection, it will issue you a license.
Medicare License : If you want to serve Medicare and Medicaid clients, you will need to obtain an additional license. This requires you to apply through the State Medicare agency. Also, you will be required to contact an authorized surety company to obtain a surety bond of $ 50,000. Another inspection session will be carried out by a state representative to ensure that your home health agency adheres to all the health and safety standards. Other basic requirements include three months of operating funds, steady revenue and a minimum of seven clients.
Once you get the home care license, be prepared for annual total operation evaluations and surveys by the Department of Health and Human Services.
It must be noted that the department may require you to undergo training before issuing you an in-home care license. For this, you may need to complete a course at a local training center. However, the best way is to contact a reputed and trusted consultant, such as HomeHealthStartup. At homehealthstartup, you can get detailed manuals along with compact discs of the training material to start your home care business. A consultant will guide you through the steps to get the required license. …
Located in the South Platte River Valley on the High Plains just to the East of the Front Range of the Southern Rocky Mountains, Denver is the capital and most populous city in the state of Colorado. As of the 2005 census, its population was 557,917. Further, the Denver-Aurora Metropolitan Statistical Area, which combines the city and county of Denver with nine suburban counties, had an estimated 2006 population of 2,408,750, and the Denver-Aurora-Boulder Combined Statistical Area had an estimated population in 2006 of 2,927,911.
Denver has been nicknamed "The Mile-High City", because its official elevation, as engraved on the fifteenth step of the state capitol building, is one mile (1,609 meters) above sea level.
Attractions in Denver include:
– Denver Art Museum
– Denver Zoo
– Six Flags Elitch Gardens
– Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum
Here is some more information about the area:
– One of the major companies headquartered in Denver is Qwest.
– Important education institutions in Denver include Auraria Campus, Regis University and University of Denver. Auraria Campus homes facilities of three separate universities and colleges: the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center, Community College of Denver, and Metropolitan State College of Denver. Regis University a coeducational Roman Catholic university. University of Denver is an independent coeducational university.
– The principal airport serving Denver is Denver International Airport.
– Professional sports teams in Denver include the baseball team, the Colorado Rockies, the basketball team, the Denver Nuggets, the ice hockey team, the Colorado Avalanche, and the NFL American football team, the Denver Broncos. …
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text: Show Hide image Politics 29 February 2012 Atheist in memory lapse and slavery shock Following a week of attacks, the evolutionary biologist responds to his critics Sign-up Some years ago a colleague was admitted to hospital and a nurse came over to her bedside to fill in a form with her personal details. "Religion?" "None." Later my colleague overheard a pair of nurses gossiping about her. "She doesn't look like a nun." The absurd presumption that everyone has a religion, almost as a part of their identity, to be ticked off on a form the way one ticks the boxes for sex, eye colour and known allergies, is ubiquitous in our society and it has yet to be expunged from our census forms. The census of 2001 seemed to show that over 70 per cent of British people were Christian. This figure has been triumphantly and repeatedly invoked by politicians, prelates and apologists for religion, in apparently persuasive justification for a strong Christian presence in our governance and resource allocation. The census showed that we are still a Christian country, so it is claimed to be appropriate that all schoolchildren in England and Wales are required by law to take part in a "daily act of worship of a broadly Christian character"; right that 26 bishops should have seats reserved for them in parliament, where they influence political decisions in very Christian ways - on discriminatory faith schools, on abortion and on assisted suicide, for instance. Not just the unelected bishops: members of the Commons with an eye to re-election must heed the Christian voice and curry favour with the powerful Christian demographic. Seventy per cent of the population wants Christian policies, and 70 per cent cannot be gainsaid. Many of us suspected that the vaunted 70 per cent hid an embarrassment of non-Christian, non-religious vaguery. "Well, our family has always been Christian and I was christened; I'm not a Jew or a Hindu and certainly not a Muslim, I love singing carols, Jesus was obviously a good person, just look at that gorgeous sunset, and there are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, so . . . yes, I'd better tick the Christian box." Naturally people are free to call themselves whatever they like, and if you want to call yourself Christian even though you don't believe in God and have only the haziest idea of Christian teaching, that is none of my business. However, it very much is my business, and every other citizen's business, if the recorded demographic strength of Christianity in the country is falsely inflated by a very broad and loose definition of what it means to be Christian, and if that swollen figure is then hijacked and exploited by partisans of a much more narrowly defined Christianity. If you ticked the Christian box because (like me) you are moved to tears by Schubert and the Milky Way, and therefore consider yourself a "spiritual" person, your "spirituality" should not be used to justify bishops in the Lords, or "All Things Bright and Beautiful" in schools. Ditto if you ticked the box because (again like me) you have a nostalgic affection for the Book of Common Prayer and King's College chapel. It was for this reason, among others, that many of us campaigned to have the religion question omitted from the 2011 census. Unfortunately we failed. The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (UK) therefore fell back on plan B. This was to commission a large and comprehensive opinion poll, in the week immediately following last year's census, to find out exactly what people who ticked the Christian box believe, what lay behind their decision to accept the Christian label, and their attitudes to Christian-based legislation. Can politicians and others plausibly quote the percentage calling itself Christian as ammunition in arguments about religion in schools, homosexual rights, abortion and voting by the Lords Spiritual? The survey was done by Ipsos MORI in accordance with its strict rules to ensure accuracy and impartiality, and on 14 February we published the results in the form of two press releases and a link to the underlying data (all of which is now on richarddawkins.net together with links to the extensive press coverage). The main conclusions are very much as we suspected. First, although the official census figures have not yet been published, our sample suggests that the percentage that describes itself as Christian has dropped from 72 to 54 (plus or minus 2 points). That is a significant finding in its own right, but more telling is how small a proportion of even that 54 per cent believes in Christianity in any sense that could reasonably justify giving Christianity privileged influence in public life. In all that follows, it is important to remember (a retired bishop with whom I debated on television this past week got this wrong) that the percentages quoted are not percentages of the population at large, but percentages of the 54 per cent who self-identified as Christian. I will call them "Census Christians". To pick out a handful of Ipsos MORI's findings, only a third of the Census Christians ticked the Christian box because of their religious beliefs. Not counting weddings, baptisms and funerals, half of them hadn't attended a church service at all in the previous year, 16 per cent hadn't attended in the past ten years, and a further 12 per cent had never done so. Only 44 per cent of Census Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God. Only a third believe that He was physically resurrected. Why then did they think of themselves as Christian? Ipsos MORI asked them: "Which of the following statements best describes what being a Christian means to you personally?" Favourite, with 40 per cent, was "I try to be a good person" (well, don't we all, but some of us good people are Muslims, some are Jews, some are Hindus and rather a lot are atheists). Second favourite, with 24 per cent, was "It's how I was brought up" (indeed - I, too, was brought up Christian and I was baptised and confirmed in the Church of England, so I guess that makes me a cultural Christian). Only 15 per cent of Census Christians selected "I have accepted Jesus as my Lord and Saviour" and 7 per cent chose "I believe in the teachings of Jesus" as the best description of what being a Christian meant to them personally. "I try to be a good person" came top of the list of "what being a Christian means to you", but mark the sequel. When the Census Christians were asked explicitly, "When it comes to right and wrong, which of the following, if any, do you most look to for guidance?" only 10 per cent chose "Religious teachings and beliefs". Fifty-four per cent chose "My own inner moral sense" and a quarter chose "Parents, family or friends". Those would be my own top two and, I suspect, yours, too. The bottom line is that anybody who advocates a strong place for religion in government cannot get away with claiming that ours is numerically a Christian country as a basis for giving religion privileged influence. This conclusion is further borne out by part two of our Ipsos MORI survey. Census Christians were asked explicitly about their attitudes to various social issues as well as their views on religion in public life. Seventy-four per cent of them said that religion should not have special influence on public policy. Only 12 per cent thought it should. Only 2 per cent disagreed with the statement that the law should apply to everyone equally regardless of their religious beliefs (so much for the Archbishop of Canterbury's opinion that sharia law in Britain is "unavoidable", and for attempts to exempt Christians from compliance with equalities legislation). More Census Christians oppose than support the idea of the UK having an official state religion, and the same applies to the presence of bishops in the House of Lords. Less than a quarter of Census Christians think state schools should teach children a religious belief. Sixty-one per cent support equal rights for gay people and 59 per cent support assisted suicide for the terminally ill, given certain safeguards. And for those MPs worried about re-election and the need to appeal to the allegedly powerful Christian lobby, 78 per cent of Census Christians say that Christianity has no or not much influence on how they vote. Now finally to my joke title. During one of the many broadcast discussions of our survey, I used a vignette to illustrate how poorly acquainted Census Christians seem to be with their Bible. Ipsos MORI asked them to identify the first book of the New Testament from a four-way choice of Matthew, Genesis, Acts of the Apostles and Psalms, plus "Don't know" and "Prefer not to say". Only 35 per cent correctly chose Matthew; 39 per cent didn't even guess, and the rest chose various wrong answers. This is a truly stunning result. It is as though 64 per cent of those who self-identify as devotees of English literature were unable to pick out the author of Hamlet from a four-way choice of Shakespeare, Tennyson, Chaucer and Homer. It's not that ignorance of the sequence of the arbitrarily assembled canon of biblical scrolls matters in itself. The point is that this is an indicator of how utterly out of touch with Christian culture modern British people are, even those who signed on as Christian in the census. How would a Christian apologist deal with this devastating result? Dr Giles Fraser was in the radio discussion, and he dealt with it by going to extraordinary lengths to deflect attention in another direction altogether. He scored what he obviously thought was a "Gotcha!" point by asking me whether I knew the full title of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. He meant including the long, Victorian subtitle. I confidently said I knew it because, rather surprisingly, I do. But I then had one of those momentary lapses of memory that become increasingly common around my age. I stammered out an approximation, but was unable to recall the exact wording until I was cycling home and no longer under the pressure of speaking in a radio studio: "On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection: or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life." Canon Fraser (whom, incidentally, I greatly admire for his principled stand on the St Paul's tent protest) cannot seriously have thought the two cases were remotely comparable. The Census Christians were not asked to recite anything from memory, merely to pick out Matthew from a choice of four. Even if they had been asked to recite it, "Matthew" is just one word, while the full title of Darwin's great work has 21. The comparison is so inappropriate that, far from being a real gotcha, Fraser's diversionary tactic can only be seen as a measure of desperation, designed to conceal the embarrassing ignorance of their holy book shown by 64 per cent of Census Christians. In any case Darwin's Origin, I hope I don't have to add, is nobody's holy book. The argument was the first in an astonishing series of diversionary moves in the national press this past week, some of them amounting to outright smear tactics. Perhaps the most absurd (of many) was the Sunday Telegraph hack who trumpeted a story that my remote ancestors had owned slaves in Jamaica. Well, that settles it: Dawkins is an atheist and his great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather owned slaves. Gotcha! Case closed. I can quite understand why those whose aim is to protect at all costs the privileged status of Christianity in UK public life would want to deflect attention from the very significant findings of this important Ipsos MORI research. These are facts, not opinions, they aren't going to go away, and no amount of game-playing or smear tactics or irrelevant digression is going to change them. In modern Britain, not even Christians put Christianity anywhere near the heart of their lives, and they don't want it put at the heart of public life either. David Cameron and Baroness Warsi, please take note. Subscribe For more great writing from our award-winning journalists subscribe for just £1 per month! This article first appeared in the 27 February 2012 issue of the New Statesman, The God Wars SUBSCRIBE More


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This weekend's live-recorded call in the Dialogue2010 series left me reeling. Ten women scattered in Turkey, the Czech Republic, Italy and four U.S. states came together to discuss mapping the hybrid life, moderated by Rose Deniz.
The hour was early for those of us in Europe and Asia so we could catch the late night callers in Washington and California — but that's not the reason for the ringing in my ears.
The 90-minute talk, touching on what we hold on to and what we leave behind and the qualities we rely on to live in several different worlds at once, was so resonant it felt like being part of a carillon.
Bells were going off with each speaker's comment, one percussion setting off the next.
We represented wildly different notes: a Third Culture Kid with a parent in the United Nations who grew up on airplanes, the daughter of Turkish emigrants in New York who was thrilled to start school and join a wider community, a Dutchwoman grappling with a new size of the world in the Pacific Northwest, an American who suspected she was destined for something far outside of her Midwestern suburbia but didn't know exactly what until she went to China.
A surprise chord struck during the call: we all write and do other creative work, and everyone credited this self-expression as a survival tool, a way to process the high-definition drama of hybrid life.
I wonder about this breed of kindred spirits: were we born with some kind of hybrid gene? Obviously predisposed to compassion for other cultures like the Turkish emigrant, or more subtly drawn to the exotic like the suburban Midwesterner?
What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born?
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NICNT (21 Volumes) Now Available
I'm pleased to announce that the New International Commentary on the New Testament (NICNT) is now available for Accordance. This highly acclaimed and immensely popular commentary series consists of 21 volumes covering all the books of the New Testament except for 2 Peter and Jude. The series seeks "to provide earnest students of the New Testament with an exposition that is thorough and abreast of modern scholarship and at the same time loyal to the Scriptures as the infallible Word of God."
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Archived Comments
Mark Batluck
I'm interested in purchasing individual volumes—will that ever be an option?
Any update on the NICOT?
Rick Bennett
@Mark: Helen has said that we will consider it for NICNT/OT, but when we reviewed our past sales we noticed that relatively few have purchased individual or smaller groupings of commentaries.
@Brian: NICOT is underway and making good progress. We don't have any specifics on a release date at this time, though.
Helen Brown
The individual volumes of NICNT are now available.