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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Five Reasons To Not Be Me, Plus Pie
Around the blogosphere, I run across all these "tags" and whatnots - similar to the chain emails where you have to fill out things such as "your 4 favorite movies" or "4 places you'd rather be right now" and then you pass the email on - you get the picture...it's the same with blog tags. Now, all of these are quite good natured as far as I can tell - and I just feel that natural pull to mix it up a little bit, naturally. Because sometimes when I read those "getting to know me" tags/emails, I find myself pondering oh their life sounds so perfect, I think I want their perfect life, when in all reality - it's all a bunch of imperfect perfectness. So, I thought I'd just go ahead and embrace it all in a gloriously-imperfect-sort-of-way and do a straight-shooting list called....
Five Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Be Me
1) I abhor the phone. I mean, it's like picking up a spider and putting it to my ear. Now, it's not that I don't want to talk to people (non-sales people, specifically) - it's just that, I can't tell people that I have to go now. Even worse, if I do work up to telling them I have to go, and then they sort of ignore it - and keep on talking - there will be absolutely NO way on the planet that I will be able to say it again. No. I may as well filet them open, remove their organs and sell them on the black market right then and there - that's how subversive it would feel in comparison to trying to get off the phone again. I'm that sensitive to thinking that it might hurt them to say I have to go yet again. So email? Blessing and a curse.
2) I adore the word hubris. J'adore it. I love that word, and have for years, but rarely have a chance to use it properly. Plus, when I do use it - people usually just look at me blankly or with a bit of shock and go - did you just say PUBIS?
3) I eat the same thing for breakfast and lunch every single day. The only variation is, at times, on the weekends when we go out to eat. Weird, I know. But mostly, it's just laziness. I don't want to think about breakfast - I just want to make it and cover all the nutritional bases, get out the door; and, I actually *love* my breakfast - it's like dessert to me. And lunch? I make it, bring it with, it's simple and nutritious - but it's got to be one of the goofiest lunches ever. It's a dumb lunch. I want to eat it in a dark closet, it's so dumb.
4) I don't like making plans, like ever. I like total flexibility at all times. I like all plans to be soft. How annoying is that? I mean, if friends ask in the beginning of the week to go to dinner on the weekend - instead of just being all, SURE, my mind may go into a tailspin thinking howIamsupposedtoknowifI'llfeellikegoingtodinnerthisweekendwhenit'sonlyMondaynow!
And a dentist or doctor appointment? I'll cancel about 4-6 times before I'll actually GO to the appointment, because it just all feels too inflexible to me. Why can't I just show up when it works for ME? Sometimes, I want to cup my hand around the phone when I'm calling to reschedule the appointment, just to disguise my voice and pretend I'm calling FOR ANN. How many readers did I just lose?
5) I'm an over-confirmer. For example, I can ask Tony if he likes, say, a piece of wood. And, here is how the conversation would go:
Ann: "Do you like that piece of wood?"
Tony: "I do like it"
Ann: "But do you really like it?"
Tony: "Yeah, I really do like it."
Ann: "Are you sure you like it, I mean really?"
Tony: "I really do."
Ann: "You're not just saying it because, say, I like it."
Tony: "No, I noticed it right away and liked it."
Ann: "So, you truly, actually, and genuinely like it?"
Tony: "I REALLY DO like it."
8 HOURS LATER...Ann: "So, you really did like the piece of wood from today, are you sure?"
It's a miracle I'm married. And for those of you wondering - YES, I'm emailing this list to my shrink as soon as I'm finished with it, not that she is in need of any new material, obviously.
Now, there is one reason I can think of that you might want to be me for an hour - perhaps so that you could make and then eat this chocolate pie.....
(And, if you want to play along - feel free to leave a comment with A Reason I Wouldn't Want To Be You, the self effacement is actually quite refreshing!)
Chocolate Pie
I don't know why, but I was really hesitant in making a chocolate pie. For some reason, I just didn't think it could possibly taste good enough or chocolate-y enough - or anything-enough, frankly. But, Tony kept requesting it - so I caved. I figured if Nicole at Baking Bites recommended this silky little pie, who am I to argue? So, with Nicole as my sensei - I made my first chocolate pie - and, needless to say, it won't be the last. The texture is smooth, soft, creamy - and the taste is rich, deep, and definitely more chocolate-y than I was expecting. We loved it, it really was divine!
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tbs. sugar
6 tbs. cold unsalted butter, cut into cubes
1/4 c. cold vegetable shortening, cubed
1/8 c. cold vodka
1/8 c. cold water
In a food processor (or using pastry cutter), combine 2/3 c. flour, salt, and sugar. Add butter and shortening and combine until dough clumps into size of small peas. Add remaining flour and combine until dough has broken up; transfer dough to medium bowl. Sprinkle vodka and water over mixture. Using rubber spatula, fold the mixture and press down on dough until it is tacky and sticks together. Form into a ball, flatten into a 4-inch disk, wrap in plastic and refrigerate at least 45 minutes or up to 2 days.
Next, par-bake the crust. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Roll out the dough on a flour-dusted surface, about 1.5 inches wider than the width of your pie pan. Transfer dough to your pie pan, gently laying it into the pan, without stretching the dough; prick bottom of dough with fork in a few spots. Trim excess dough off top of pie pan, and crimp edges with fingers. Line the dough with aluminum foil and fill with pie weights or with dried beans. Bake 10-12 minutes or until beginning to set. Remove foil with weights and bake 15-18 minutes or until golden. If shell puffs during baking, press down with back of spoon. Cool on wire rack.
Sinful Chocolate Filling
1/2 c. butter, room temperature
3/4 c. sugar
1 oz. semi-sweet chocolate, melted and cooled
1 oz. unsweetened chocolate, melted and cooled
1 tsp. vanilla
2 large eggs, room temperature
In large mixing bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in chocolate and vanilla until combined. Add 1 egg and beat for 5 minutes (yes, FIVE minutes!). Add second egg, and beat for 5 minutes. Scrape down sides of bowl as needed. Filling should be smooth and creamy. Taste to confirm - and just to revel in the gloriousness of it all. Pour mixture into pie shell and smooth with spatula. Refrigerate for at least two hours, or until firm. Serve with whipped cream, dark chocolate curls or shavings. Enjoy! Adapted from Nicole at Baking Bites and Cooks Illustrated.
29 comments:
That pie looks incredibly wonderful. I might slap a little meringue on it, but then again shaved chocolate makes everything a little bit better. Shaved chocolate on top of meringue, I think I'll do that tonight.
Why you wouldn't want to be me: Reason #7,648,382 -- I can get mad at the sun if I try just a little bit. It's hard being me sometimes. :)
- May 24, 2008 at 9:55 AM
You don't want to be me bc I can't cook a damn thing, yet this is one of my favorite blogs, which probably makes me a pubis without hubris.
- May 24, 2008 at 3:29 PM
- Lisa said...
lol! yes, I don't want to be me either, some days at least. Probably because I would make this chocolate pie and then eat it for breakfast every single freakin day until it was gone. All the while looking at the nutritious stuff like fruit and thinking "yeah, later . . . " And then I wonder why I have an ongoing battle with the last 5 pounds! Love your posts and recipes and OCD - have a great weekend!
- May 24, 2008 at 3:49 PM
- Ann said...
Luscious - Mad at the sun, I love it! Actually, since I live here in the desert, I can pretty much relate...
Cam - aw, thanks! And, love that you used both pubis and hubris in the same sentence, brilliant.
- May 24, 2008 at 3:49 PM
Omg, can I just say it's a pleasure to "meet" someone who might hate the phone as much as I do?
- May 24, 2008 at 7:25 PM
First, I'm totally with you on the phone. It's a tool I use only when absolutely necessary, and while I'll be chipper and delighted to talk to my loved ones, I'm actually pretty pissed off everytime it rings. Just because *they* want to talk to me *right now* doesn't mean I felt the same and they've just intruded on whatever very important thing I was doing. Like uploading my tuna salad sandwich onto Flickr so strangers can see what I ate for lunch.
Which leads me to ...
What exactly do you eat for breakfast and lunch each day? You can't leave us hanging like that!
You don't want to be me, because a) I am very strapped for time most of my day and I create a lot of burden on my schedule due to my own disorganization b) I live in a rather trendy and nice loft apartment in the city, but, it doesn't have laundry facilities and I have cart my laundry off site and I'm really lazy about doing it and c) because of subparagraph a, above, and my time disorganization, I've often found it far easier to just stop at the store and buy new underwear, instead of going out to the laundermat to wash those I have already have in a pile on my bathroom floor.
- May 24, 2008 at 9:10 PM
- Ann said...
Lisa - Me ocd? NAH!!! And, I'm the exact same way - if there is a dessert in the house, it's all I think about, until it's gone. :)
Missy - bless you. :)
Kate - OMG, are we related? And also - if you're uploading tuna sandwiches to Flickr, I clearly need access to this account for viewing said sandwich. Okay and PLUS, I used to sometimes buy new dishes instead of washing them when I was in my 20s - we may seriously be related....
- May 24, 2008 at 9:51 PM
You wouldn't want to be me because I can know I need sleep so very very badly, and yet go 'I'm sure there's something fascinating I simply must read somewhere on the Internet...'
- May 24, 2008 at 10:12 PM
- My Sweet & Saucy said...
Looks deliciously divine to me...
- May 24, 2008 at 10:40 PM
- NV said...
Lots and lots of self-effacement here, Ann. But I'm with you on the phone one. At least most of the time. One of my nearest and dearest called me today instead of sending an email and it was a delight.
Right now, you wouldn't want to be me because my midigit still hurts like an SOB!!! There are a million other reasons you wouldn't want to be me. I'm too structured. I've actually gotten more flexible with age rather than less. But I have to PLAN everything. :-)
- May 24, 2008 at 11:07 PM
that looks so good! chocolate shavings rule :)
p/s i've been wanting to make clafoutis for sometime now but will have to wait till summer when i'm home and have some ramekins around :)
- May 25, 2008 at 3:13 AM
- Ann said...
Anon - lol, I'm probably keeping you UP then! :)
Sweet and Saucy - Just read in your profile that you're a pastry chef...come on over, girl!
NV - at least you're a planner with flexibility. :)
Diva - yes, glad you did hear about that clafoutis - I thought you might have ;).
- May 25, 2008 at 6:08 AM
Oh this pie looks really delicious and really pretty easy. Many chocolate pies ask for 4 eggs, with beating after each and all I have is a handmixer; 2 eggs is much better, so this is great. You do NOT want to be me because I'm an over-planner and that is just incredibly annoying, even to me.
- May 26, 2008 at 6:57 AM
- Jennifer S said...
Oh, yum. That looks seriously delicious. Your site is beautiful!
The phone drives me nuts, too. I hate the awkwardness of it. You should try this trick...hang up while YOU'RE talking. Then the other person thinks you lost the connection. Of course, if they call back, you're on you're own there, but it's worth a shot. (Not that I would ever try this...)
I'm curious about breakfast/lunch, too. Tell, please.
The biggest reason (there are many) that you wouldn't want to be me is that my house is half-packed and littered with boxes since we're moving this summer (to Indiana, we think).
Thank you for stopping by my place--I'm glad to find your place, too, and am adding you to my reader.
- May 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM
I linked to you from my blog, you goose, and you didn't even know it.
I fret. I worry. I ache over why you didn't see and then I find that you have been knee deep in chocolate pie.
The perfect excuse.
Me too, Ann. Me too.
I forget everything when I am faced with such a pie.
- May 26, 2008 at 12:43 PM
- Ann said...
Rebecca - couldn't agree more - which is why I specifically looked for one that had 2 eggs, bc there was no stinkin' way I was going to beat for 5 minutes after each egg with 4 eggs!
Jennifer - I really like your brain, really. And now that I just discovered your blog, so sad to hear you're leaving AZ to move to Indiana. Why, WHY I ask you?
Lacy - GASP! Coming over to your blog PRONTO!!!!!!!!!!
- May 26, 2008 at 6:38 PM
This pie looks luscious, it's going on the list-to-make. There's a reason to not be me: I'm addicted to making lists.
- May 27, 2008 at 3:00 PM
You definitely don't want to be me because you don't sleep, and I have this horrible leg-twitchy thing that makes me have to shake my legs every five minutes if I stay up past eleven. SO annoying!
The pie looks heavenly, and though this is the wrong post, I agree with firefly. I like this header for the summer. Maybe dark again in the fall? You have me rethinking my header now too... :)
- May 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM
- creampuff said...
That is one gorgeous pie!
- May 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM
- Ann said...
Kspin - oh no - restless leg syndrome - I get that too sometimes, it's terrible! Ugh.
Creampuff - thank ya! :)
- May 27, 2008 at 8:14 PM
Oooooohhhhh. Pie. I'll be back. Thanks for the comment on my blog. BTW, best way to end a call if you don't want to is to start talking and hang up on yourself. Then, keep the phone off the hook. No one could possibly believe that you hung up on them when you're talking, and if your line is busy ... you can claim, Telephone Trouble. I'm so bad....
- May 28, 2008 at 8:07 PM
- Suburban Correspondent said...
I'm with you on the breakfast and lunch thing - I mean, c'mon, how many different decisions can a person make each and every day? It's too exhausting.
- May 29, 2008 at 2:17 PM
- Ann said...
Standingstill - this is the 2nd time I've heard this tip and I MUST remember it, brilliant! :)
Suburb. - Thank you, EXACTLY!!
- May 29, 2008 at 3:14 PM
So, what do you eat for breakfast and lunch every day? Because if you can stand it 5 out of every 7 days, it must be awesome.
- June 4, 2008 at 1:21 PM
Reasons Not to Want to be Me:
I sat in amazement as I read your reasons because each one of them sounds exactly like me. You are not alone!
Pie looks absolutely phenomenal - definitely going to try this one out!
- June 28, 2008 at 1:47 PM
- AJM said...
So, you don't bake the filling at all? You leave it as is with the raw egg? I want to try it, but that kind of grosses me out. :)
Reason not to be me: I get anxiety attacks when I eat at restaurants.
- March 1, 2009 at 10:59 AM
OMG that chocolate pie sounds phenomenal!!!!!!!! Some reasons you wouldnt want to be me...let's see: 1-I love talking on the phone:) 2- i love making definite plans a ridiculously long time in advance 3-I am so very type A it is exhausting 4-I can not even function on less than 6 hours of sleep 5- if you were me, I am not sure you'd get along with yourself! haha I feel like we are almost total opposites which is a nice feeling for me because I am a twin:)
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Micarraen and Laelarra waited behind the barricaded doors of Micarraen's bedroom, listening to the shouting of soldiers as they await their final battle. Micarraen arms her staff and casts spell after a spell at the door, repairing the damage magically that the men on the other side caused, until her magic began to weaken. She stared at the staff with confusion and fear. "The Queen has forsaken me." She whispered to herself but, loud enough for Laelarra to hear.
"Sister?" Laelarra asked attempting to cast magic in Micarraen's stead but, to no success, for her magic no longer existed as well. The two sisters looked upon each other in horror as the doorway was pounded again and again until it finally gave way.
Elves, and orcs with them, stood in the archway slowly pouring in. A quiver shook the house as a mighty roar echoed in the hall. The two elven sisters, as well as their attackers, looked around as another quake shook the room and dust and debris fell from the ceiling. "What was that?" Laelarra asked but, before an answer was given a hole cracked loose on the opposite wall from the bedroom door and the ceiling gave way crushing the attackers.
"Run!" Micarraen yelled grabbing Laelarra and sprinting down the newly created tunnel.
The cave they found themselves in was cold and new. Neither had been down this route before nor, have they even heard tales of this cavern system. Hunger began to set in as well as fatigue. "Where are we?" asked Laelarra looking around at the cave walls that have slowly gone from loose stone to well crafted mine shafts.
"I don't know, sister," responded Micarraen. "I hear something ahead, though."
Laelarra looked in the direction Micarraen pointed towards and shifted her ears to hone in the sounds. "It sounds like mine workers," she claimed, more to herself than to Micarraen.
"Let's hope their master's are weak." Micarraen armed her staff, if only out of habit, and marched with more enthusiasm than either of them have shown in the last few days.
When Micarraen walked around the corner she saw a multitude of Dwarves, digging in the mine they have crafted, as well as laughing and joking with one another. Supervisors gave commands with warm requests, something the two elven sisters were not familiar with.
"Dwarves?" Micarraen asked out loud, apparently loud enough for the Dwarves to hear. Micarraen stood confused, looking at the underbelly mine system of Iron Forge. The Dwarves became startled seeing the Elf standing in the open shaft of the mine alone.
"Blood Elf!" One shouted as the multitude of Dwarves grabbed their shovels and pick axes, slowly walking towards Micarraen with both anger and fear.
"What the hell is a Blood Elf?" asked Laelarra, now just catching up to her older sister, showing herself around the corner of the mine. "Dwarves?" she asked and then noticed them getting closer and closer. "Dwarves!" She shouted as the Dwarves tackled both of them to the ground, capturing them both and rendering them unconscious.


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The Infinite Jest Liveblog: Using Your Head
This is the latest entry in Words, Words, Words the ongoing liveblog of David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Jest."
March 29, 2012, pgs 902-911/1077. Many questions in just a handful of pages. We continue to get Gately's backstory, which is kind of funny in a you-don't-get-the-backstory-of-a-major-character-until-the-last-hundred-pages kind of way. We establish that Gately was nine years old during what sounds like the Rodney King riots. Assuming Wallace is referring to these specific riots, that means Gately was nine in March of 1992, and is 29 here in the YDAU, making it 2011 or 2012. It's unclear when his birthday is, though I'm sure some enterprising young obsessive could figure it out. For not, it's another clue in nailing down the exact year.
Gately's relationship to his head, at least in his younger days, is far different from the way Wallace usually deals with heads. Gately's is a tool, a physical object so large and indestructible that it serves as a net positive in his social interactions and overall happiness. Most of the other heads in this book are portrayed as something along the lines of locked cages and/or torture instruments. The "here" from Hal's "I am in here." on the first page of the book is reasonably interpreted as inside his head. It's the first of many times when someone is basically trapped by their head — but not the young Don Gately, who uses his head to get laughs, get beers and get touchdowns. For more on how Wallace felt about heads, check his Kenyon University remarks.
Speaking of being inside Hal's head, we swing back to another of his first person sections. "Some more heads came and awaited response and left." This section marks the return to the main text of Mike Pemulis, who appears looking haggard. When Hal says "I could see my asking him where he'd been all week leading to so many different possible responses and further questions that the prospect was almost overwhelming," it sounds an awful lot like the way being high has been described earlier in the book.
As I said, there are many questions, for example…
Pemulis says that Petropolis Kahn, who Hal appeared to ignore a moment ago, had "mentioned hysterics" when reporting to MP about Hal being in the room. Hysterics?
Hal is thinking of his father's funeral. Why?
There is "a whoop and two crashes directly overhead." Significant? Or just general ETA-waking-up noises?
There is what seems to be a deliberate mention that Hal hasn't seen C.T. or his mom all week. Where are they?
When asked about going to get food off campus, Hal finds that "I couldn't decide." Hamlet Sighting? (Yes.)
When Hal says that Pemulis "blarneyed" the urinalysis guy into giving them 30 days, Pemulis, who is itching to talk to Hal about something important, replies "Blarney wasn't why we got it, Inc, is the thing." Why did they get it, then?
Pemulis remarks that he hasn't even heard of half of JOI's stuff, followed by "And me using the poor guy's lab." What is Pemulis using the lab for?
Pemulis misreads that Annular Fusion is Our Fiend, and is corrected by Hal that it's our Friend.The closing of the section focuses on JOI's film Good Looking Men…etc, with Hal specifically requesting to watch the last part in which Paul Anthony Heaven delivers a pedantic lecture on ancestors and inherited behaviors. When JOI enters the pages I always consider him as a stand in for Wallace, or at least Wallace's artistic ambitions, and here we have his work appearing as Pemulis wears rimless specs and talks about blarney, while Hal considers the insertion of references to the artists JOI loved while the lecturer refers to generational hydrophobia. These cues make me think of James Joyce, and may perhaps explain Wallace's struggle to avoid being "deprived of some essential fluid, aridly cerebral, abstract, conceptual, little more than hallucinations of God," and step out of the shadow of his ancestor: "it is, finally, artistic askesis [discipline, or asceticism] which represents the contest proper, the battle-to-the-death with the loved dead."
…tears run down Heaven's gaunt face…
Last question: The book ends in 70 pages. How is he going to wrap this up?


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Holey Nanoparticles Create New Tumor Imaging and Therapeutic Agent
Using a polymer that has both water-soluble and water-insoluble regions, a team of investigators from the Siteman Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created a nanoparticle shaped like a bialy, a close relative of the bagel.
Combining this nanoparticle with manganese, a metal that boosts magnetic resonance imaging signals, and an antibody that targets blood vessels, the investigators then created a new type of imaging agent that also has the potential to deliver drugs to tumors.
Gregory Lanza, M.D., and Samuel Wickline, M.D., both at Washington University of St. Louis, led the research team that set out to create a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agent based on manganese rather than gadolinium, which is widely used today in a variety of medical imaging applications. Recent reports showing that gadolinium-based contrast agents can produce irreversible kidney damage in some patients have prompted the imaging community to search for equally effective but safer contrast agents. Manganese may fit this bill, but only with a means of delivering it to targeted tissues.
Nanobialys that self-assemble from the polymer poly(ethyleneimine) appear to have promise as such a delivery agent. The bialy shape, also known as a torus, has a large surface area exposed to water, a key for manganese to function as an effective MRI contrast agent. When the bialys form in the presence of manganese, the metal becomes incorporated stably in the nanostructure. Once formed, the investigators were able to add vascular targeting molecules using a mild chemical coupling reaction to the nanobialy polymer.
Using a targeting agent that binds to fibrin, a major component of clots that form in blood vessels, the investigators were able to image clots using MRI in an in vitroassay system. The investigators were also able to load the nanobialys with two different anticancer agents—doxorubicin, which is water soluble, and camptothecin, which is water insoluble. The researchers plan further tests with these drug-loaded, targeted nanobialys.
This work, which was supported in part by the National Cancer Institute's Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, is detailed in the paper "Ligand-Directed Nanobialys as Theranostic Agent for Drug Delivery and Manganese-Based Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Vascular Targets." Investigators from Philips HealthCare and St. Thomas's Hospital in London also participated in this study.
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I've been going through my folder of recipes recently and have come across a few old favourites – like these devilled drumsticks. I have my mum to thank for many of these recipes – she photocopied them for me when I first moved to Paris in 1995 – not that I had a kitchen big enough to cook in back then! They have accompanied me all the way to Toronto where I pull them out every now and then and make an "oldie but a goodie". This recipe is not one I had made before and it's written out in my mum's handwriting – looking suspiciously like she copied it out of a magazine, so I have no way of giving any credit where it's due. I loved the idea of a quick comfort stew-type dish with chicken, tomatoes and honey and I especially liked the addition of ginger and cinnamon – it lends a little Moroccan flavour to the dish which I complemented by adding some lemon zest and serving it atop fluffy couscous. It's a wonderful bowl of flavour on a cold winter's night.
Chicken with tomatoes and honey
Chicken with tomatoes and honey - comfort food with a twist, ready in under an hour!
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 1 medium onion, finely diced
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 tablespoons cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon powdered ginger
- 2 x 800ml cans diced tomatoes, 1 can drained
- 1.5 kg chicken thighs, trimmed and chopped into bite-sized pieces
- 1/4 cup liquid honey
- 1 tablespoon lemon zest
- fresh chopped parsley, to serve
- Melt butter over medium-high heat until bubbling.
- Add the onion and sauté until translucent, about 4 minutes.
- Add the garlic and cook until soft, about 2 minutes.
- Add the cinnamon, ginger and tomatoes stir to combine. Cook for about 5 minutes until fragrant.
- Add the chicken pieces, stir well then cover and cook over medium heat until the chicken is cooked through, about 15 minutes.
- Remove chicken from the sauce, keep warm (in the oven, covered with tin foil).
- Turn up the heat on the sauce to reduce it until sizzling - the tomatoes will start to caramelize a little - stirring constantly so the sauce does not stick and burn.
- Stir in the honey and lemon zest return the chicken to the sauce and heat through.
- Serve over warm couscous and top with the parsley.
It's so very quick and easy and guess what? It tastes even better the next day 🙂 This one is a keeper – I'll definitely be adding it to our "make it on Sunday to enjoy through the week" roster 🙂
Did you see my latest article for Food Network Canada – all about cooking classes in Paris! Read right through to the end for a hint of what I have up my sleeve this summer!!!


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breakaway/collapsible bikes
6 comments:
- Jan said...
I think the choice between S&S and Ritchey Breakaways come down to 5 questions:
1. Do you plan to break down the bike regularly, or maybe just one or two times a year?
This question is related to durability. From the information/opinions I've read, the S&S couplers are more durable. The Ritchey connection is lighter than the S&S couplers. I own three S&S coupled steel Mtn. bikes. They are bomb proof, but heavy.
2. Mountain or Road?
I've not seen Ritchey breakaways on any mountain bike frames, I've only seen them on Road frames.
3. Your intention for getting a collapsible bike is for transport on a plane? or car/train?
S&S coupled bikes can be disassembled and packed into a hard case which fits under most airline LengthXHeightXWidth restrictions, which is usually 62 inches. This means you don't have to pay additional "large" item fees, as long as the whole case weighs less than 50 Lbs (for travel within the USA).
Some Ritchey Breakaway frames can do this too, but not all. Both types require fairly expensive cases, whether soft sided or hard sided. I've owned both soft sided and hard, and prefer the hard sided for better protection, especially for travel overseas.
4. Do you already have a round tubed steel or ti frame?
Retrofit of an existing steel or Ti frame might be cheaper than buying a whole new Breakaway frame. I paid about $400. to retrofit each of the three of my existing steel frames.
5. Do you want to eliminate airline transport fees, or don't mind paying a small fee for each flight?
With an S&S frame, you could get away getting in under 62 inches, not telling the airline you're traveling with a bike, and hence save those additional fees. There are some good soft sided bags that are not under 62 inches, and I have a friend who just recently purchased one, and had no problems on a single fight recently. I've traveled around the world 3 times with my bike, and never had to pay extra fees. If you want don't plan on very many trips on a plane, you might save money by just not getting a Breakaway or an S&S and just get a large bag/case and pay the extra fees for your regular bike.
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- Blue-eyed Devil said...
Hack saw and duct tape. Lots of duct tape.
- 3/25/2008
- riderx said...
You've got to pay to play. There are no cheap options.
- 3/25/2008
- gwadzilla said...
great advice all around...
looking at the cost
I think that the hack saw and duct tape may work for me
as I do not ride my bikes/frames long enough to double their value
guess I have to pay for shipping or rent bikes when I travel
another thought
UPS in advance
- 3/25/2008
- gwadzilla said...
I wish I had gone to yard sales last weekend
went to some thrift stores
found a vintage Columbia
cool bike
but would not work for me
- 3/25/2008
- horn said...
the S&S are amazing... thought i'd avoid the pricey retrofit by picking up a surly travelers check...
until i found out that a frame that costs $1100 (i think) would cost me £800, so that's what... $1700-1800
who said the pound was strong. boo.
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By Mick Krever, CNN
Forgiveness: It was the Rainbow Nation's first miracle.
When South Africa emerged from apartheid twenty years ago, it was deeply scarred by decades of institutionalized racism, bigotry, and violence.
Vengeance would have been a natural desire.
But President Nelson Mandela had another idea: truth and reconciliation. Put the past out in the open, but forgive.
He chose Desmond Tutu, the Archbishop of Cape Town, to lead that effort.
Now, Tutu is taking his campaign for forgiveness to the internet - and the world. He is one of the world's undisputed heavyweight human rights champions, and he has never feared speaking truth to power.
He and his daughter, an Anglican priest, are launching an initiative to try another way of healing divisions – from personal grudges to global struggles.
"I wish we could have been able to have started this earlier," Tutu told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Thursday. "People have seen examples of what happens when you do forgive."
One need look not just at South Africa, he said, but at the Good Friday Agreement that ended the strife in northern Ireland.
"The time is now. People are hurting. People tend when they have been hurt to want to hit back. And we are saying…'No future without forgiveness.'"
People from 118 countries have signed up to the Tutu's Forgiveness Challenge.
"Each day you will have an email from us that will give you some pointers for things to do on that day," Mpho Tutu, told Amanpour. "It's a thirty-day challenge. There are exercises and ways to engage with those who may have hurt you."
Mpho Tutu herself has written about the struggle of forgiveness after her housekeeper was brutally murdered in her own house.
"Intellectually, I have forgiven, and I know this because I have no desire to exact retribution, nor do I wish them ill. The killer does not owe me anything," she wrote. "Emotionally, I'm not quite there yet, because it still hurts, and I know there is still healing work to be done."
Desmond Tutu, now Archbishop Emeritus, has never shied away from speaking his mind on big issues of the day.
He has been particularly outspoken on homosexuality.
"I cannot worship a homophobic God," he once said, according to the BBC. "I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say, 'Sorry.' I mean, I would much rather go to the other place."
From Nigeria to Uganda, many African governments – often with broad popular support – have been passing stringent laws banning homosexuality and imposing stiff penalties.
"Homophobia is something that characterizes not just Africa," Desmond Tutu said. "In America you have had instances of people being killed because they were homosexuals."
"We've also got to remember that these people, many of them are funded…by American conservatives who go into Africa and promise people all kinds of things; so that we need to be a little more careful."
"We want to say remember that we are human together," he said. "I need you to help me to become what God wants me to be, as you need me."
Amanpour asked Mpho Tutu what she preaches from the pulpit about homosexuality.
"I say we can't preach love and hate at the same time," she said. "We as human beings have tried, over the ages, to legislate love."
"We've said that people of different races shouldn't be married. We've said that people of different economic classes shouldn't be married. We've said that people who are uneducated shouldn't marry people who are educated."
"As we discover that it was impossible to legislate love between people of different races, it is impossible to legislate that people of the same gender not love each other."


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The result is that over the next 50 years, while peace and prosperity reigns due to the guiding hand of the Overlords, marriage, traditional morality and organized religion all vanish.
Of course, Clarke actually thought this was a good thing, and the rest of the novel is about humanity moving onto the next stage of evolutionary development: as a non-material group mind. But in a sense, that's the really interesting thing, that as someone who saw traditional marriage, morality and religion as a problem back in 1953, Clarke say the two inventions most likely to get rid of all three as being completely reliable contraception and paternity testing.
Coming at things from a Catholic point of view, G.E.M. Anscombe saw the same trends, now well advanced, in relation to contraception, morality and marriage in her 1972 essay "Contraception and Chastity". Some key bits:
I will first ask you to contemplate a familiar point: the fantastic change that has come about in people's situation in respect of having children because of the invention of efficient contraceptives. You see, what can't be otherwise we accept; and so we accept death and its unhappiness. But possibility destroys mere acceptance. And so it is with the possibility of having intercourse and preventing conception. This power is now placed in a woman's hands; she needn't have children when she doesn't want to and she can still have her man! This can make the former state of things look intolerable, so that one wonders why they were so pleased about weddings in former times and why the wedding day was supposed to be such a fine day for the bride.
There always used to be a colossal strain in ancient times; between heathen morality and Christian morality, and one of the things pagan converts had to be told about the way they were entering on was that they must abstain from fornication....
Christianity was at odds with the heathen world, not only about fornication, infanticide and idolatry; but also about marriage.... But the quarrel is far greater between Christianity and the present-day heathen, post Christian, morality that has sprung up as a result of contraception. In one word: Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
And if there is nothing intrinsically wrong with contraceptive intercourse, and if it could become general practice everywhere when there is intercourse but ought to be no begetting, then it's very difficult to see the objection to this morality, for the ground of objection to fornication and adultery was that sexual intercourse is only right in the sort of set-up that typically provides children with a father and mother to care for them. If you can turn intercourse into something other than the reproductive type of act (I don't mean of course that every act is reproductive any more than every acorn leads to an oak-tree but it's the reproductive type of act) then why, if you can change it, should it be restricted to the married?
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Deer Valley envisions major expansion in Wasatch County
Deer Valley Resort and a small group of other landowners in Wasatch County with a combined hundreds of acres under their control have started discussions about a major expansion of the resort on ground overlooking the Jordanelle Reservoir.
An expansion would involve new ski terrain and a substantial amount of residential development. The land is situated in unincorporated Wasatch County, meaning that county leaders there will review any proposals from Deer Valley and the other landowners. No applications have been filed.
Bob Wheaton, the president and general manager of Deer Valley, said the resort and the other landowners have been in talks over the past year about acreage in the direction of Heber from the base of the Jordanelle Express gondola. It is on the Deer Valley side of U.S. 40. A development application or multiple ones could be filed in Wasatch County by the end of the year, he said.
The talks have involved representatives from what is commonly known as the Mayflower acreage as well as the state's Military Installation Development Authority, a body that facilitates projects on military land. The Mayflower land, running from the bottom of the resort's Mayflower lift toward U.S. 40, has for years been seen as having significant development potential given its location on the edge of Deer Valley.
Wheaton said the parties are considering their own developments but on a coordinated basis. Houses, hotels and condominiums are being discussed, he said. Wheaton said there is the potential of the landowners seeking approval for at least hundreds of units. The expansion of the resort's ski terrain could encompass hundreds of acres ranging from beginner to expert terrain, he said. At least a couple new lifts could be involved, he said.
An expansion into the Wasatch County side of Deer Valley like the one under discussion would significantly bolster the resort's presence to the east. Deer Crest, which extends toward U.S. 40, now serves as the entry to Deer Valley from that side of the resort. A new development, though, would likely offer a more traditional base area than Deer Crest, a gated community.
It would provide easier access to the slopes, meanwhile, for skiers in Wasatch County and some points on the East Side of Summit County. They could avoid entering Park City along S.R. 248, a state highway notorious for its traffic backups during the ski season.
"I think it adds another . . . substantial portal to the resort. It would enhance a skier's access," Wheaton said.
A project would continue the aggressive expansion at Deer Valley since the late 1990s. The resort's terrain now stretches from the base of the Jordanelle Express gondola to the top of the Empire Express lift in Empire Canyon. Empire Pass, anchored by the Montage, is seen as the most prominent while Deer Crest was significant as well.
Deer Valley also has long-held rights to develop the parking lots outside Snow Park Lodge, but a timeline for the project is not known.
Wheaton said Wasatch County leaders have shown a "positive attitude" based on their interest in vitalizing the Jordanelle Reservoir access to Deer Valley.
Doug Smith, the planning director in Wasatch County, said there are three potential Military Installation Development Authority project areas in the vicinity of Deer Valley.
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Dale Earnhardt Jr. concussion: NASCAR star says he was scared after injury, frustrated at missing two races
MARTINSVILLE, Va. — A little more than two weeks ago, Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s mind didn't feel right and it scared him.
Then he felt fine but couldn't get back into his racecar, and that frustrated him.
For the last 19 days, Earnhardt has been dealing with the effects and impact of suffering two concussions in six weeks. Two days after his crash on Oct. 7 at Talladega Superspeedway, he went to doctors because he had no choice—he couldn't drive through the fog that was in his head, he said.
Earnhardt, who has missed the last two Sprint Cup races, climbed back into his Hendrick Motorsports car Friday at Martinsville Speedway and plans to race in Sunday's Tums Fast Relief 500.
"Some concussions are really bad and I don't care how tough you think you are, when your mind is not working the way it is supposed to, it scares the (expletive) out of you,†Earnhardt said while addressing the media at Martinsville.
"You're not going to think about racecars. You're not going to think about trophies. You're not going to think about your job.
"You're going to be thinking, 'What do I have to do to get my brain working the way it was before?'â€
Earnhardt crashed during a test session Aug. 29 at Kansas Speedway, suffering an impact with the wall that registered 40 Gs. Despite feeling the effects of a concussion, Earnhardt continued to race and was involved in the 24-car crash on the last lap of the Oct. 7 race at Talladega, where his car spun violently and suffered a hit he said registered only 20 Gs.
Regan Smith replaced Earnhardt for two races while Earnhardt sat home and watched the races at Charlotte and Kansas.
"I felt like I could have raced at Kansas (last week), for sure, and Charlotte no problem,†Earnhardt said. "I feel kind of foolish sitting at home, feeling OK and not being in the car. It feels really unnatural.â€
The key to his return was visiting Dr. Michael Collins at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Concussion Program. Collins developed the ImPACT test used to determine baseline testing for concussions to help diagnose the recovery of athletes.
Earnhardt visited Collins on Oct. 16 and has talked to him at least twice daily. The 38-year-old driver tested Monday at Gresham Motorsports Park in Georgia. He ran 123 laps with no problems.
"There have been times it has been frustrating because you want your brain to clear up and the fogginess to go away and all the symptoms to go away,†Earnhardt said. "Every concussion is different. They're kind of like snowflakes. You react differently to each one.â€
Earnhardt said believes he has had four to six concussions in his career and vowed to be honest with doctors about how he's feeling in the future.
He said he plans to race another five to 10 years and hopes recurring concussions would not sideline him before he decides to retire.
Earnhardt could have sat out the rest of this season and it wouldn't have impacted where he finishes in the 10-race Chase. After missing two races, he is 12th in the standings, 60 points out of 11th. Because of the adjustment to the points for the Chase for the Sprint Cup, Earnhardt cannot fall out of the top 12 in the final standings.
So why come back for the final four races of the season?
"Just like the decision to get out of the car in the first place, I wanted the doctors to make that decision instead of me,†Earnhardt said. "If I could race, I wanted to be at the racetrack.
"That's what I love to do and if the doctors felt I was healthy enough to do that, I wanted to be doing that. … I've been pretty honest (with the doctors) and so far they've been real pleased with what they've seen and feel like I can get back in the car.â€
Earnhardt said his two concussions were completely different. The impact from his Kansas crash led to a typical concussion and caused "fogginess†in his head. The Talladega crash caused a concussion to the base of his brain where the spine connects, which he said triggered a lot of anxiety.
He said he had to learn to be patient and stay in contact with his doctors. He said the physical and mental recovery program designed by Collins helped him.
"That made the biggest difference,†Earnhardt said. "I went to Pittsburgh a mess. I was really mentally a mess. The doctors up there, we talked for the whole day and went through these exercises and did a lot of stuff and in 12 hours, I felt really good.
"I felt completely different. … It's been pretty normal the last 15 days or so.â€
Earnhardt stressed that he feels fine now.
"I wanted to do it right,†Earnhardt said. "I wanted to get back as soon as I could but I wanted to make sure it wasn't too quick.
"I'm glad I did what I did and I'm glad I took the time off and made the choices I made. They were hard to make. I had to do it.
"I didn't have a choice. I knew that something wasn't right. You can't layer concussions. It's really dangerous doing that. You read about it in the papers and I was going through that. I was living that.â€
Earnhardt said he plans to be responsible and take the right precautions if he suffers another hard hit. He said he doesn't plan to attempt to race with a concussion again.
"I definitely am going to be honest with myself and honest with the doctors,†Earnhardt said. "I am going to do whatever they tell me to do. I want to be able to live a full life and not have any issues down the road.
"But I feel pretty fortunate to have recovered from this concussion rather quickly and feel lucky that I made the choices that I did to give myself that opportunity.
"Had I tried to push through this second one, I would have put myself through a lot of danger. We can just hope that I don't have any more big hits for a while and race another five-10 years and have some fun.â€


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There were a handful of videos published this week:
We announced the arrival of the new WordPress for iPhone 2.0 with a brief overview of its features and quick introduction, and published a great plugin tutorial from Adam W. Warner on the AStickyPostOrderER plugin.
We also received and published yet another fantastic French-language tutorial from WordPress Channel: Effectuer une mise à jour de WordPress.
Next week will see the first videos from WordCamp Netherlands, and we hope to get you back up to a daily dose of WordPress video starting on Monday.
Off-weeks don't have to be light like this! We're always looking for new videos from the community—this is your resource. A great example is Adam's plugin tutorial from this week. Is there a plugin that you absolutely can't live without? One that you think more people should be using? Check out this list of screencasting resources and put together a quick tutorial. It's really quite easy to get the hang of it.
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After thousands of auditions, hundreds of on-stage performances and dozens of finalists — "American Idol" is down to only a handful.
Siobhan Magnus was voted off the show on Wednesday, dropping the final six down to five.
The sprightly star took to the stage one last time to sing Aretha Franklin's "Think," unleashing her trademark powerful wail to close out the song — but it was too little, too late.
Michael Lynche, Casey James and Siobhan landed in the bottom three before the first two were pronounced safe.
The exit came after a star-studded evening.
Rascal Flatts opened the show and returned toward its end to back Shakira on a special performance of her new song, "Gypsy," while Lady Antebellum and Sons of Sylvia also performed – with the latter introduced by former "Idol" winner Carrie Underwood.
Cameron Diaz and Antonio Banderas made a non-musical appearance to talk up their latest film, "Shrek Forever After," with Ryan Seacrest.
Ryan, the "Idol" host, has a cameo in the new film – and the "Idol" contestants got to try their voice-acting talents as well, with the final six playing out a scene in the studio from the 3-D film in behind-the-scenes footage.
In another cinematic treat, "Idol" also aired footage of five of the final six undergoing a transformation (thanks to hair and makeup) into "Twilight"-style vampires for the Ford Fiesta commercial that ran during the episode.
The clip found the five attacking Michael Lynche, who remained "human."
That commercial wasn't the only notable one included with the "Idol" hour.
A much-discussed clip for Lane Bryant's plus-size lingerie line ran during a break just before the show's conclusion, the end to a controversy that emerged after the clothing company claimed that ABC and Fox had declined to run the ad.
At the time, ABC told Access the only restrictions they made were that the ad is limited to the last pod, or the last 10 minutes of the show – the time slot in which it ultimately ran on FOX's "Idol."
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This is Veleda's SYTYCB week 2 entry.
This post is about lists. Yes, don't worry, Matt, there'll be an actual list in here, too. But first, I want to sell you on the virtues of a particular type of list  the checklist.
You've got a flying mount, right?
In flight training, pilots have the use of checklists drilled into us from the beginning. It doesn't matter if you're a student pilot who has yet to solo, or an airline pilot with thousands of hours logged. Almost any repetitive series of tasks is done with a checklist. You might think that after doing the same sequence every time we fly, we'd be familiar enough with the routine that we wouldn't need the list to remind us. But it's that very familiarity that is in some ways the problem!
Huh? What? Where was I?
Flying, like WoW, can have many things interrupting you as you try to do something. Sometimes, you just need to talk to someone else, and it doesn't matter whether it's Air Traffic Control on the radio, or the whisper you just got from a friend in game that you need to respond to. You've paused your tasks, and when you pick them back up, where were you? You have many memories of doing these tasks previously. But did you just do it?! Have you marked it as complete on the checklist? If so, you've done it, and if not, you haven't.
But… But…
Okay, you say, but WoW is just a game. Why would we need checklists there? Because there are many times we, too, have to go through a number of repetitive tasks, and we sometimes do them when we're bored or tired or dealing with several other things at the same time. The most useful place in WoW that I've found checklists is in post raid restocking.
Are you the weakest link?
I suspect most people have been in a raid when someone has indicated they're out of some consumable they need to continue to contribute effectively to the raid. Perhaps they want to borrow mana potions from others in the raid. Or, they might need a portal to a city and a summons back, so they can buy some reagents, or ammunition. This interrupts the raid and makes everyone else wait for the person that isn't prepared, at best. At worst, they might not have noticed the lack until the pull, and have just wiped the raid because they didn't have something that they needed.
I sleep now?
If, however, you have a checklist of everything you consume during a raid, you can use that to restock right after a raid, so that you're always ready to go. You might be tempted to wait until just before you're next scheduled to raid to take care of this, but I'd caution against that. Some consumables might not be available at all times, so it's better watch for them early. And there are the opportunities that arise unexpectedly. Do your restocking right after a raid, and your character is ready for anything the next time you log in.
Making the list
So, here's a generic restocking checklist, that you can use to build a list customized to each of your characters.
Repair your gear
It'd be awkward to charge into battle in the future only to have your armour fail you because a strap that was on it's last legs broke.
Replace ammo
Particularly for hunters, who should always completely refill the largest quiver or ammo pouch they can carry. Other classes that use a ranged weapon to pull, check your ammo level to make sure that will still be useful.
Replace reagents
Many classes need reagents for the abilities they bring to a raid. My shaman only has to deal with Ankhs, but other classes will want various other things for the abilities they're counted on for while raiding. Figure out how many you might need on a bad night, and set that as the minimum.
Buff food
No matter what you do, there's probably a food that gives you a buff that helps you do it better. For my hunter, that's warpburgers or grilled mudfish. For my shaman, it's golden fishsticks. If you're a hunter, don't forget to add Kibler's Bits, either, to buff your pet.
Replenishment food and drink
Food for health, and drinks for mana, between fights. Many raids will have a mage make a table that provides conjured mana biscuits, but you shouldn't depend on those. If you find yourself in a raid without mages, have enough to keep you going. Naruu rations are the best way to go, once you have SSO rep for them. Again, hunters also need pet food, to keep their pet happy through the raid.
Healing potions
Sometimes, the healers are busy working on others. If you can use a potion to stave off death until the healers get around to you, that'll keep you in the fight longer.
The biggest bandages you can use, which should be the biggest ones in the game. Same rationale as healing potions, but with a different cooldown timer, so they can be used if you recently used a potion.
Mana potions
If doing your job requires that you have mana, you probably are going to be carrying some of these to help you out when your mana gets low before the end of the fight is in sight.
Elixirs and/or Flasks
Which of these you prefer will depend on your specific needs. Sometimes, it makes sense to use one or two elixirs, and other times, the right flask. Elixirs are generally much cheaper, but they don't persist through party wipes, so if you're working new content, they might end up being more expensive than flasks. Make sure you have enough to get through a raid.
Weapon buffs
This can be something that buffs the weapon, such as sharpening stones or poisons, or it can be another way to give you an unrelated buff, such as with superior mana oil.
These can be pricey, but unlike an elixir, you can use a scroll to boost a stat while using a flask. Figure out if any scrolls are worthwhile to you, and make sure you have them stocked.
Checking it twice
Once you've got the list made, find a handy way to go through it after each raid. Ideally, you should have a way of keeping track of where you are on the list. You can print it out, and either check or cross off completed items, or follow while sliding a ruler down the list. You can use a to-do program on your computer to build and check off the lists as you go. I've recently taken to using one of the free to-do programs available for the iPhone to go through my restocking lists.
Are we there, yet?
Well, now that you've got raid restocking checklists for your characters, you can checklist other things. You might have a ready checklist for any given raid. It's embarrassing to be on Nightbane's terrace only to realize that you all left your summoning urns in the bank. Once you've harnessed the power of the humble checklist, such moments can be a thing of the past.


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This code was replaced in the 2020 ICD-10 code set with the code(s) listed below. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has published an update to the ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes which became effective October 1, 2019. This code was replaced for the FY 2020 (October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020).
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