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Jeremy Pearce is just like a "grandson" to Eleanor "Ellie" Kampschmidt.
Jeremy Pearce is just like a "grandson" to Eleanor "Ellie" Kampschmidt.
When Elvis Presley shook up American society in the bland 1950s, adults recoiled as if he were the devil's progeny.
Pearce's personable approach to Presley's music and character is more endearing and appealing.
That's why he's been acting out Presley's musical legacy and jump-suited persona on the last Sunday of each month - for 11 years - at Stockton's Valley Brewing Company.
The Fresno-based performer, who's done 4,000 shows as Elvis, will be there again Sunday - with shades, sideburns, shiny black duck-tail hairdo and jump suits and guitar - singing an hour's worth of Presley's songs, shaking it up, giving away autographed scarves (an Elvis rite) and prompting Ellie and other regular Presley patrons to sing and smile. Even scream.
"Oh, sure," said Pearce, 38, whose King Productions is an all-things-Elvis operation. "Ellie's one I know on a first-name basis. I usually find out she's there when she sends stuff back stage. She knows I'm sitting there waiting and doing nothing. That's when I get my Ellie box of little jokes, news clippings, stories and other stuff."
"I just love him," said Kampschmidt, 84, a Stockton resident who attends Pearce's show each month with family and friends. "He's so nice."
She wasn't a major Presley follower in the '50s, though - perhaps serendipitously - Presley died in 1977 at age 42. On Kampschmidt's birthday (Aug. 16).
"I learned a lot about who (Pearce) was and how he started," she said. "He was like one of my (three) grandsons. I do little things for him to get a lot of little laughs. I make greetings cards. He just loves them. He's so appreciative."
Initially, Kampschmidt heard Pearce sing at Stockton's First Baptist Church, where he performed gospel songs that were Presley's favorites.
"I just sat there mesmerized," said Kampschmidt, whose husband, Sam, had died in 2003 at age 76. "From there on in, I was a fan. It helped me to be around young people. It makes me feel younger."
Pearce portrays a slightly older Elvis - his Las Vegas incarnation as a super-show pioneer in the 1970s. Covering Presley's entire career would encompass 107 top-40 hits (18 No. 1's) and 800 songs.
In Stockton, Pearce, who knows an estimated 500 of those tunes, performs to pre-recorded music from King Tracks in Crossville, Tenn.
"Other than those that are really off-the-beaten-track, there are very few I can't do," he said. Pearce never avoids the "very specific moves" of "Suspicious Minds" (1969) and "Can't Help Falling in Love" (1961), Presley's traditional closer.
He buys his hand-sewn suits from B&K Enterprises Costume Co. Inc. in Charlestown, Ind. It can take a year to create one.
A native of Reedley, Pearce began lip-syncing to Elvis tunes at age 8 ("Blue Suede Shoes"). At 10, he performed in a library competition after his beautician mom, Charlotte Bavaro, "spray-painted my hair black" for historical accuracy.
"I got the bug," he said. "I got the applause. That is love. The cheer of the crowd. That was it."
At 15, he nervously tried his lip-sync thing during an Elvis cologne promotion at Fresno's Fashion Fair Mall: "I got a great response" - and $80. "I couldn't believe it."
After graduating from Reedley High School, he studied political science at California State University, Fresno, and was an aide to U.S. Rep. George Radanovich, R-Mariposa. His potential political career lost out to playing Presley, though.
Pearce started by singing Elvis karaoke. Now, his King Enterprises includes themed shows; trips to Elvis' Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn, and Hawaii ("Blue Hawaii"); cruises; a mobile Elvis museum; a monthly fan-club letter; and an annual Fresno barbecue that's free for fan-club members.
Pearce owns the last Cadillac (a light-blue Eldorado) that Presley purchased in April 1977.
"What I try to reinforce - and like to tell people - is that it would be hard to represent another person every day if he wasn't a good guy," Pearce said of Presley. "To represent somebody who was not a good person, that would be tough. He was a very generous, very nice guy."
That's Kampschmidt's take on Pearce. Valley Brew owner Kellie Craig-Jacobs', too.
"His show is just so popular and such a great show and crowd," said Craig-Jacobs, who first saw Pearce perform in Fresno. "He's popular. I appreciated Elvis, but I was truly amazed at what an incredible performer he (Pearce) is. As far as an impersonator, he hits it on the mark."
Kampschmidt is one of Craig-Jacobs' affectionately named "Elvis groupies."
"They love him and really get into it," she said of the longest regularly staged show in her venue's history. It also attracts "young gals" and people "who bring their kids."
They've got their "Elvis shirts. Elvis purses. Signed scarfs," she said. "They get their pictures taken. It's really fun. It's like that every month. He's very dynamic."
As was true during Presley's career, a sweaty, autographed scarf is the truest talisman.
They're a "huge part of the show," Pearce said of the six to 10 autographed mementos awards. "That's what all the ladies want. I put it around my neck to put a little life into it.
"They get one if it's a special occasion. The other way is that you're just into it. Really screaming and trying to get my attention. That's a good way to get one."
Ellie Kampschmidt will be out there trying again on Sunday.
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Why Do People Love (REAL) Guitars?
What is it about the guitar? Bernard Butler, the musical genius behind Suede and mastermind of Duffy's Rockferry success, celebrates the glory of six strings.
Guitar genius...Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler is one of the most important guitarists of the last 20 years. As a founder member of Suede, he pretty much helped to kick-start what became known as Britpop - a phenomenon that launched the career of bigger bands such as Blur and Oasis. And in Bernard Butler, we finally had a new ,classic British guitar-hero, who could stand proud next to any of the greats,
After recording Suede's second album, Dog Man Star, Butler left the band and his path has been rocky and erratic ever since - sometimes finding success, sometimes being ignored by critics and public: he made a few solo albums, formed the McAlmont & Butler duo and rejoined Suede's singer Brett Anderson in a new band, The Tears, which unfortunately didn't last.
In all those projects, he proved to be a skilled songwriter, great producer and talented guitarist.
After producing several important indie bands - The Libertines, The Cribs, The Black Keys, Sons & Daughters - Butler recently announced he was retiring as a live performer, aged only 38!
But that's not to say he's not being busy: Bernard Butler co-produced and co-wrote many of the songs on Duffy's phenomenally successful album 'Rockferry', including the title track. In other words: as a producer and songwriter, Butler is more succesful than ever today.
But his abiding love has always been the guitar, and in this 2006 article for The Guardian, he explained why guitars appeal to so many people, still. In this day and age of Guitar Hero, it's always good to remind what's so special about real guitars...so read on!
Return of the axe
Butler and The Tears...with his trusty old Vox AC-30
"When I was eight, I played the violin, and I used to get beaten up and spat at on the bus for it. But now my eight-year-old son, who attends a school in the same London borough, is taught the guitar along with most of his classmates. Some days it seems as if every kid you pass is carrying a huge guitar over their shoulder. There they are, learning music on £30 instruments, and then boring old dad will play the Stones in the car one day and they'll make the connection. They'll hear the riff to Satisfaction and realise they know how it works.
"The guitar music that kids are listening to today is very inspiring. Jack White's riffs for the White Stripes and the Raconteurs are just what kids want to learn. If I was learning now, the riff to Seven Nation Army is the first thing I'd want to master, and it's really simple. You could get it in a day, with a bit of dedication, just repeating it because you love the primal sound of it.
"I've never had a lesson in my life. When I was 13 my brothers got a terrible electric guitar from a catalogue but they got bored of it. So I took it and sat down with a chord book, and tried to work it out. Then I heard Johnny Marr playing with the Smiths and that was it. From then on, every record I got, I listened to once, then worked out the guitar parts. To this day I can play every Smiths song, something of which I am very proud.
"And that's the traditional folk way of learning. Dylan did it. Bert Jansch [an acoustic folk legend who inspired Jimmy Page, among others] grew up listening to this canon of Scottish folk songs and when he made his first record he had to borrow a guitar to do it because he didn't own one. My folk music was the Smiths, New Order and Joy Division, who were pretty alternative at the time. That was my secret life as a teenager.
"Now it's cool to have a cheap guitar again, and with technology you can get good stuff for cheap, and get modelling pedals and amps that digitally re-create the sound of vintage guitars and amps. Some boring old 50-year-old in a shop might say, "It's not the same," but to a kid who can afford it, they'd think, "Wicked, I can play something straight away." Most kids have computers and you can plug a guitar into a computer and make a record easily. And through MySpace you can target the people who would want to hear your record, which is great.
Butler in action
"It's not cool right now to be technically extraordinary. The Libertines couldn't play guitar to save their lives. The attitude that you can pick up an instrument that's out of tune and thrash away at it, singing to your heart's content, is massively inspiring. We're fed up with supershiny pop records, and the monster stadium-rock bands. When I produced some of the Libertines' records, Carl Barat would come up with the simplest riffs and he'd not be able to play them properly, and it was brilliant. He didn't think in terms of complex scales and notes, just something to sing along to.
"Even Bert Jansch hates the "extraordinary, legendary folk guitarist" stuff that's written about him. He has incredible character in his playing, which is actually kind of of slapdash, inspired by odd things he happened to pick up on, but he's not the most technically adept.
"If you want to learn, my advice is to buy the Smiths back catalogue and learn it and let it set you on fire. You reach a point where it gets hard but that was the stage I started writing my own stuff. Everyone has their own sound. You'd never mistake Jimi Hendrix or Jack White's sound.
"I'd encourage anyone to get into it the cheapest way possible.
"I think music should be accessible. I hate people seeing it as a career option, where you must know all the references and read the right books. All that matters is the spark of creativity and injecting personality into it, which you can't do if you're just emulating Coldplay.
"And it doesn't matter if you don't form a band. It's just good to have a musical instrument in your life, without thinking you have to be really successful at it. I hope these kids grow up having great experiences with guitar, because music leads to film, books, clothes. When they're 50 they can still be doing this very creative, soothing thing."
Butler in action
Originally from The Guardian. Read it in full here.
Getting The Bernard Butler Sound:
Altough he sometimes played a Gibson Les Paul, Butler favorite guitar have always been semi-acoustics. His main guitar is a 45-year old Gibson ES-355. If you want a cheap semi, try the Tanglewood models. Get a Boss DS-1 like he used to have in his Suede days and off you go.
And this is Bernard Butler's pedalboard when he was playing with The Tears, a few years back:
Line 6 MM4 Modulation Modeler, Line 6 DL4 Delay Modeler, Dunlop Tremolo/ Pan, Boss GE-7 Graphic Equalizer, Electro Harmonix Holy Grail Reverb, ProCo Turbo Rat, ProCo Rat 2, MXR DynaComp, Dunlop Cry Baby Wah, and the ubiquitous Boss TU-2 tuner pedal.
Bernard Butler's favorite amp throughout his career has been the VOX AC30.

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Warnaars (Warnaers, Warners, Warnaer, Warner, Werner, Warnaertsen), a Dutch family, originally living in the district of Twente, province of Overijssel, where some of its members by marriage became Mennonites ca. 1640. Until ca. 1875 some were members of the Mennonite congregation of Almelo, and some also of Enschede. At first they were weavers and lumber and linen merchants; later some were wholesale dealers. Many of them served the church of Almelo as deacons, and Gerrit Warnaars (1663-ca. 1728) was a lay preacher, serving at Almelo until 1697 and 1697-1728 (?) at Haarlem. Lourens Warners, a preacher of the Groningen Old Flemish church at Emden, East Friesland, 1721-1760, may also have been a member of this family. A side branch of this family, found at Amsterdam from ca. 1670, was engaged in business, banking, and insurance, and furnished some deacons, while two of them were trustees of the Algemeene Doopsgezinde Sociëteit.
Nederland's Patriciaat (1913): v. IV, 431-35.
Warnaars, J. H. Het Geslacht Warnaars. Amsterdam, 1920.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1959). Warnaars family. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 18 November 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Warnaars_family&oldid=120494.
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I'm new to Texas. This is my first trout season on the Guad. Any suggestions of what type of flies to use? I was on the river today and had no luck. Saw a few guys in drift boats land a few trout but they were down river I couldn't talk to them.
What types of flies are catching trout
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As a young boy, Sam McLaurin's grandparents loaded him and his three siblings into the family van and drove around the seedier areas of Havana, Fla., outside Tallahassee.
Bobby McLaurin pointed out people he did not want his grandchildren to emulate. Some were people with problems like those of Sam's parents.
"I used to take them around and show them what the drug dealers and dope addicts and crackheads look like," Bobby McLaurin said. "We'd ride through and show them. 'Is this what you want to be like? This is it.' "
Those images, along with the memory of his parents' arrests when he was 5, helped shape Sam McLaurin, a senior forward for Illinois.
"As a kid, I was always determined not to be like my parents," he said. "I wanted something better. My grandma always said I was the one who would say when I was old enough, I was going to leave and not come back."
That drive led him to Illinois, where he transferred from Coastal Carolina as a fifth-year senior. McLaurin averages 4.5 points and 4.1 rebounds off the bench and makes coach John Groce gush.
"He makes plays on film and I say, 'Did he really do that?' " Groce said. "He deflects the ball, challenges shots, and those things are not on the stat sheet. His activity level is high. He makes winning plays, and that you cannot underestimate."
After only a few months on campus, the 6-foot-8 McLaurin, 23, was voted a captain by teammates.
A basketball hoop on their property was one way Bobby and Vienia McLaurin kept the kids nearby and out of trouble. Sam took to it quickly.
But more than basketball kept McLaurin focused. His grandparents pushed academics, not allowing extracurricular activities if grades slipped.
McLaurin said he hopes to pursue law school after earning his master's degree.
At 5, he saw police arrive at his home and arrest both of his parents on drug charges.
"I really didn't understand it at the time, not until I got older," McLaurin said. "They said they would be gone for a while."
His mother, Darnica Gilliam, said she was young and naive, selling drugs to help provide for her four children.
McLaurin was a two-time all-state selection at East Gadsen High School.
He set Coastal Carolina records for career field-goal percentage (61.8 percent) and blocked shots (155). Baylor and North Carolina State recruited him when he announced his transfer intentions, but he was drawn to Illinois.
Although not starting for the first time in his career, McLaurin said he thrives as a team motivator.
"As long as we're winning, then I'm doing something right," he said.
Since his parents' release, they have become reacquainted. But his identity formed while they were away, he said.
"I'm older," McLaurin said. "I'm a grown man now. I live my own life. All of my brothers and sisters are adults now. We all do well."
What: No. 10 Illinois (12-0) at No. 12 Missouri (9-1)
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Senior pole vaulter Greg Tao became the 162nd CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America in MIT history with his selection to the Men's Track and Field and Cross Country Second Team this morning. Tao, who is a two-time Academic All-District honoree, recently graduated from the Institute with a degree in Mechanical Engineering while carrying a 4.7/5.0 GPA.
Tao finished his career as a three-time All-American in the pole vault, including a sixth-place finish at the 2010 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship. Tao also earned New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) All-Conference honors in each of his four years, winning the conference title three times. The senior, who was the New England Division III pole vault Champion on five different occasions, becomes the first Tech vaulter to be named Academic All-America since William Singhose in 1990, and the 15th overall for the Track & Field and Cross Country programs.
Tao was one of five selections from District One, which includes Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and Quebec. Jarrett Arredondo joined Tao in representing the NEWMAC, as the WPI senior was a First Team pick.
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Last week, the Red Devils played their last varsity home game of the season against the Emery Spartans on Tuesday, April 8, scoring a big win in the tight contest against the reigning Region 15 champions.
"It was a great game. It was the way I like to see baseball played," said Red Devil assistant coach Ron Dolphin.
Neither the Red Devils nor the Spartans were able to put points on the scoreboard until the fifth inning, when Grand finally scored a hard-fought run. Emery's pitcher attempted to throw out a base hit bunt by sophomore Dalton McElhaney on second base. The pitcher's overthrow into the outfield advanced McElhaney to third, where junior Ronnie Dolphin's squeeze bunt put the Red Devils in the lead.
Grand held the Spartans scoreless through the top of the seventh inning when, with the bases loaded, pitcher Red Devil Kyler Nelson struck out Emery's last batters to claim the 1-0 win. Nelson pitched for the entire length of the contest, holding the Spartans to five hits and striking out eight of Emery's batters. The Red Devils also played strong defense throughout the game.
"Everybody contributed to the win in some form or another," said Dolphin.
On Thursday, April 10, Grand scored back-to-back wins in a double-header against the South Sevier Rams. The first game of the afternoon was a tug-of-war between the Red Devils and the Rams.
As the designated home team, Grand had the last opportunity at bat in the contest. After the Rams took the lead in the first several innings, GCHS sophomore Braden Ward hit a grand slam to tie the score. In the next inning, the Red Devils relinquished three more runs to the Rams, but soon after came back to take the lead.
"It was a back and forth game," Dolphin said. "We came up behind them four times."
The Devils were up 9-7 in the bottom of the sixth inning of the contest, but by the bottom of the seventh, Grand was down 10-9. The Red Devils ultimately rallied to beat the Rams 12-10.
"[The game] really showed our resilience as a team," said Dolphin.
The final game of the day featured home runs by Red Devil juniors Ronnie Dolphin and Tanner White and senior Cameron Taylor. After gaining momentum in the third inning following Dolphin's home run, the Red Devils had to fight for the win, coming from behind to finally take home a 12-7 victory.
"In both those games we had a kid get us excited play and fired up. The motivation really bred more success," Dolphin said. "We hit all four home runs of the season in one day."
Grand will play its next region game on the road against Monticello on Tuesday, April 22. The varsity game is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. The Red Devil varsity squad will play San Juan in Blanding on Friday, April 25 beginning at 3 p.m. The junior varsity and C teams will play San Juan on Saturday, April 26 beginning at noon.


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The Complete List of Whiskey Blogs Keeps Growing
I've continued to update my Complete List of Whiskey Blogs (being a blogger means never being bored) and the list is now includes over 300 whiskey blogs! In addition, I now have a section at the end which features informational websites which are not quite blogs, such as databases, pod casts and other media (note that those are not included in the blog count).
In my first go round at the list, I started with blogs I know and mostly engaged in link following, but my updates are now done through voluminous Google searches, so there are now a lot of blogs on the list that are probably unknown to most of my readers.
There are some really interesting and bizarre whiskey blogs out there. Interested in some Catholic theology with your whiskey? Whiskey Catholic is the blog for you. But if that's not your thing, maybe you're an avid cycler or a fan of fine time pieces. Yup, there's a whiskey blog for that.
My current nominee for best named whiskey blog is the very short-lived, but excellently titled Daddy Drinks 'cuz Baby Cries.
Every once in a while, I'll post some updates of particularly notable or fun new blogs I find.
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"Lost" (KOAT-7 8 p.m.) After the brilliant mindbleep of last season's cliffhanger, "Lost" returns with the promise of more unexpected plot twists and more spilled secrets. Of course, the new truncated season is even more truncated (eight episodes out of an expected 16) thanks to the Writers Guild strike, meaning you shouldn't set you sights for resolution too high.
"Eli Stone" (KOAT-7 9 p.m.) I'm not sure what to think about his new drama/comedy about a California lawyer (Jonny Lee Miller) who thinks he may be a prophet based on a series of hallucinatory miracles, many of which involve singer George Michael. Think "Ally McBeal" crossed with "John From Cincinnati."
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Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 12:26 pm
Post subject: Pressure Cookers
A few months ago I bought a Pressure Cooker because it seemed to be a great way to cook good food in a short time and use less power. I did consider buying a slow cooker instead but didn't like the thought of leaving an electric appliance on for hours on end.
I have been selling the new Pressure Cooker Cookbook by Suzanne Gibbs, daughter of Australia's grande dame of cooking, Margaret Fulton, since it was published earlier this year. When I actually found the time to sit and read it, every recipe sounded like a winner, so I went out and bought a super-dooper new stainless steel Pressure Cooker with lots of safety features. I'm sure we all have a pressure cooker disaster story from the last time they were in fashion, in the 1960s, or earlier - exploding pots, dented ceilings and walls, that kind of thing.
What a fabulous addition to our kitchen! Every recipe from Suzanne Gibbs' book that we have cooked has turned out well and we have cooked many of them more than once. We can cook a curry in around 30 minutes, Greg makes his beloved Creamed Rice in 10 minutes and Corned Beef takes around an hour. We love it and use it as often as we can.
Does anyone else have a Pressure Cooker and if so, do you use it?
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I have always wanted to use a pressure cooker but am afraid of them. I only use a huge, ancient, and probably dangerous one for canning sometimes. I am glad to hear of your experience.
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If you get a steamer insert for the pressure cooker - if you find one that fits your pot - you can, for example, steam vegetables in the last 5 - 15 minutes (depending on the veggie) of cooking your stew or chili or whatever super-quickly and serve it up alongside.
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My father constantly uses his... to the exclusion of any other way of cooking!!! I rarely use it - it worries me slightly.
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Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:11 pm
Post subject: They are so much safer now
Throw out your mother's old pressure cooker. In the 70's my mother's DID explode with the valve pinging all about the kitchen. I emailed Lorna Sass, a pressure cooker guru and well-respected cookbook author whose expertise spans a few decades (one of her cookbooks on cooking with grains won a James Beard award). I asked her for a recommendation for a pressure cooker. I ended up buying a 7-qt Kuhn-Rikon. I LOVE it. Artichokes in 7 minutes? You bet. A Moroccan Lamb and Lentil stew in 12 minutes? Yum.
I love Lorna's cookbook, "Pressure Perfect: Two hour taste in twenty minutes". Got it from amazon. (I use Clotilde's cookbook a lot, that's why I feel like I can talk about someone else's cookbook
Here is what Lorna said, "I recommend Kuhn-Rikon, WMF, and Fissler 6- or 8-quart, all heavy duty stainless steel. There are positive reviews of a less expensive 6-quart stainless Presto pressure cooker on Amazon. I haven't tried it but recently met someone who is very pleased with it. I don't have a particular favorite among the electric cookers which, for me, take up too much counter space and do not allow the option of a quick release under cold running water—a limitation for some recipes—such as cooking foaming ingredients like beans and grains.
"You can get help comparing a wide range of cookers and then purchasing on
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I had an old one and I loved it but it was made of aluminium and I didn't like to cook with it continuously. I bought a couple of pressure cooking books, but the first recipe I tried from one was awful. I doubt the writer even tested it first.
It's currently retired but I intend to get a new model at some stage and work through the other book as it looks solid and I'm pretty sure all the recipes are legit.
My mother was using one once and it blew up in her face as well. I've heard that they've killed a few people over the years.
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Pressure cookers used to be dangerous, Sherri. Especially in the years after WWII, when manufactureres were in a rush to take advantage of their popularity. Most of the horror stories you hear originated in that period; say, 1947-1960.
Modern ones have little resemblence to those poorly made, unsafe products. Today's pressure cookers have all sorts of safety valves, and release mechanisms, etc. So they are perfectly safe to use.
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I remember when I was a kid the pressure cooker used to be the one thing that we all had to keep away from. I remember as I got older that I started using it. I would always keep the thing at arms length when I removed it from the stove in case the top blew off.
These days they are so much better and so much safer.
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I'm still in love with my pressure cooker and use it more than anything else in my kitchen.
It's summer here, and hot, and it's a great, quick way to cook without adding too much extra heat to the kitchen.
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Pressure cookers are endlessly popular in the Indian kitchen. I use mine almost daily. Given their popularity, Indian brands are often cheaper, better made and easier to handle than what I've seen here in the US. But in either case, the new varieties are very safe. No one I know has ever had an accident, and they are used all the time.
Because an Indian meal consists of many different items, the toughest task is getting everything ready at once. Many people have large cookers with stackable stainless steel round trays inside. You can cook rice in one, while you steam vegetables in another, and cook daal in a third. You then have the makings of an entire meal in about 15 minutes.
Pressure cookers are also very popular for tough cuts of meat, like mutton or goat. See for instance Anjum's blog, where she has a super easy Tomato Gosht recipe that requires nothing but a little pressure cooking (you have to scroll down the page). It's one of the nicest and simplest things I make in my pressure cooker.
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Mom bought this
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; I don't know what its name but it awesome. I don't have talent in terms of cooking but with this cooker, I can now cook. Constructed of 18/10 stainless steel designed with a solid thermal aluminum sandwich, this pressure cooker will provide even browning and rapid heat cooking. The stainless steel of this cooker will not react with foods and the pot is dishwasher safe. Internal fill lines provide convenient measuring guidance. This cooker comes with a 10 year warranty on all non-replaceable parts, materials and workmanship. Really amazing, huh? My mom found this very useful item.
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Although I realize it's not the same thing...I sure love my crockpot! I think I'm too scared of pressure cookers.
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The over-reaction of the immune system in Type III hypersensitivities causes large numbers of immune (antibody-antigen) complexes to form in the body and lodge in certain organs. A certain type of kidney disease called glomerulonephritis occurs when these complexes lodge in the kidney and block its ability to filter the blood. Lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis are other examples of this type of hypersensitivity.
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Dynamic choice under ambiguity
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This paper analyzes dynamic choice for ambiguity-sensitive decision makers. It demonstrates that unambiguous behavioral predictions can be obtained, even in the face of dynamic inconsistency, by taking the individual's preferences over decision trees, rather than acts, as primitive. In particular, it leverages preferences over trees to formalize Sophistication as an assumption about the way individuals resolve conflicts between preferences at different decision points. The main result employs Sophistication to provide a behavioral characterization of Consistent Planning (Strotz, 1956). The analysis accommodates arbitrary decision models and updating rules, and delivers unambiguous welfare comparisons. As an example, a characterization of prior-by-prior Bayesian updating and Consistent Planning for arbitrary maxmin-expected utility preferences is presented. The resulting sophisticated MEU preferences are then used to analyze the value of information under ambiguity; a basic trade-off between information acquisition and commitment is highlighted.
Keywords: Ambiguity, consistent planning, value of information
JEL classification: D81, D83
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Skip to comments.Harold Camping Oct. 21 Rapture: Bible Preacher Declares 'Nothing to Report Here'
Posted on 10/21/2011 1:29:53 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Harold Campings only words to reporters the day before what he has claimed will be the worlds last day were: Were not having a conversation. Theres nothing to report here, according to Reuters.
Wearing a bathrobe and using a walker outside of his Alameda, Calif., home, the doomsday preacher chuckled as reporters tried to get comments from him Thursday regarding the supposed Rapture that, as of Friday afternoon, appears not to be happening.
However, Camping did say the Oct. 21 rapture would be "quiet."
Months after Camping's second prediction of a May 21 Judgment Day, the doomsday "prophet" said that no one noticed it because it was a "spiritual" judgment and that the physical end would "probably" come on Oct. 21. Camping, 90, added that people might not even notice because "there will be no pain suffered by anyone because of their rebellion against God. Unbelievers might just fall asleep and never wake up."
However, according to an expert on doomsday cults, Camping gave himself an easy, linguistic way out.
Catherine Wessinger, who studies doomsday groups at Loyola University in New Orleans and is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Millennialism, told NPR that Camping is using a common trick among doomsday leaders.
When prophecy fails, she says, "the person making the prediction can give themselves a way out, sort of a backdoor way of getting out of the prediction. Or on the other hand, when nothing happens, the event can be spiritualized."
Reuters also reported that Local American Legion officer Ron Parshall, 70, who meets at a veterans group in an adjacent room next to where Camping holds prayer services on Sundays, said he saw the preacher about a month ago, and that Camping showed no outward signs of debilitation and "wasn't limping at all."
"He was a nice man," Parshall said, adding, "He was just too radical for me. Anyone who claims to be that close to God, I take it with a grain of salt."
Take the money and run you old fraud!
Matt 24:36
I wonder if some distance away, a Neutron star is spinning and emmitting a spray of planet-destroying Neutrons; and these are hurtling at us at near the speed of light, and when they arrive they will sterilize our planet. We wouldn't know they were coming, we wouldn't know what hit us; and there is no way to evade them. Depending upon their intensity, we could be vaporized in an instant, or heat and burn over a long period of time. And yet another prophecy would come to pass.
Either way, one could assume that God is pretty tired of all the bullshit.
I think is the guy who had a program on AM radio. People would call in with almost any question and he anwser them using scripture.
He wasn't screaming or begging for money just explaining scripture.
He sounded reasonable until all this end of the world predictions junk.
Humans have been prophecizing the end of the world, since the beginning of the world.
You're right. The Family Radio Stations NEVER solicit money on the air. They are supported by millions of faithful listeners.
They are probably the ONLY ( I am not sure of this ) radio station today that still play the great traditional hymns of faith.
I listen to them regularly and then tune it off when Harold Camping's OPEN FORUM comes on the air.
RE: Matt 24:36
Harold Camping is not unaware of this verse. Yet, he sort of explains away this verse with clever, lawyerly explanations which in effect, exempts him.
But, as this was probably set in motion a long, long time ago - God knew that all this bullshit was gonna happen. He just set the 'Kitchen Timer' and is patiently waiting for it to ring; then it's spankings for 'most everyone. If I just get a spanking and a stern talking to; I'll consider myself lucky.
This type of "prophecy" is solemn blasphemy.
At one time he was one of the largest non-government operated shortwave radio outlet operators in the world. Anyone who began listening to SW in the '70s often easily stumbled on Family Radio within minutes of their first time using the radio.
I don't know which SW station was more annoying, "Family Radio" or "Radio Tirana."
My first radio with SW bands was a Bristol in 1976. I remember the strongest stations: VOA, Family Radio, the BBC, Radio Moscow (with the hum), Radio Canada International, Deutsche Welle, Radio Nederlands, and yes, the exciting Radio Tirana, which would broadcast two hour essays along the lines of, "The Marxist Progressive Movement of the Proletariat in the West is Growing in Size and Strength."
That got me hungry for some BBQ.
There are still several hour left.
On the other hand, as Jimmy Buffet once said, It's five o'clock somewhere.
Back before and on May 21st I saw a number of his followers on a street corner in front of a big shopping area near my work with their signs .I wondered how many of them had quit their jobs and sold their possessions and how much money they spent out of their own pockets to pay for the signs and how much $ they had donated to Campion.
I didnt see any of these people this time. Either they were raptured or they finally caught on to the fact they were grifted buy the old fraud.
Camping is a false teacher, who taught that he had figured out the date from his own warped reading of the scriptures.
He also rejected the Millennial reign of Christ.
I'll never tell. BTW, know any good restaurants in Cancun? How much does it cost to rent a villa on the French Riviera for a month or two?
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