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By By Terry Terrell | March 1, 2012
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When I was 19 years old I knew everything. After all, I had a private pilot license. Looking at life from the perspective of unchastened youth, I can recall an unflinching belief that all things were imminently achievable. The possibility of penalties for failure did not show up for me at the time on any imaginable radar screen. Having risen above all apparent peers with a flying hobby beginning in high school, I was certain that I was infallible, and that I was destined for perpetually unbridled success, aerial and otherwise. It didn't bother me in the least that I remained years away from appreciating that I was in dire need of experience, the most valuable of all personal assets, in aviation and in life.
During this time I remember basking in the privilege of flying an F-33A Bonanza from NAS Barbers Point, Hawaii, to Kauai, the Garden Island, accompanied by an inordinately trusting companion, who would later, astonishingly, persevere long enough to become my wife. We had a fine holiday, returning to the airport after dark for our return flight back to Oahu. The tower was closed and the night was moonless, and the Bonanza had only a single piston engine, but since I was an active duty crew chief/swimmer in Navy Sikorsky H-34s during that period, I was not at all intimidated by a mere 100 miles of Pacific Ocean.
Our departure was as smooth as the airfield was quiet, and we climbed to a comfortable eastbound VFR altitude, flying a heading and watching the lights of Kauai recede to a soft glow behind us. No VOR reception was available for the first half of the 40 minute flight, but I began to look for Honolulu's lights after cruising for 20 minutes or so, maintaining a course that was bound to put us within navaid range in short order. When not even a dim glimmer on the horizon ahead appeared after half an hour, I began to tune ADF equipment, scrutinizing things a little more closely. I caught a beacon, and got the needle on the RMI to point weakly, but that couldn't have been right, because the bearing didn't make sense. I finally got around to checking the heading card against the wet compass, and was jolted into remembering everything I was supposed to know about gyroscopic precession, since the DG disagreed with the whiskey compass by about 110 degrees, and I quickly came to terms with the fact that we were headed straight for Tahiti. Fortunately we had plenty of fuel on board (though not enough for Tahiti), and I corrected our heading, eventually seeing Oahu's lights and finding HNL, impressing my innocent travel mate, who mercifully never had to contemplate, as I had so quickly and so deeply, just how much water is out there southwest of Hawaii.
Years later, as I was enjoying Coast Guard HH-3F pilot transition training armed with many layers of aviation experience I had not possessed in Kauai (as well as a realization that I could not swim 100 miles after all), I was reminded of my open ocean encounter by an incident which mirrored the earlier heading confusion episode closely, on a larger and more consequential scale. A Sikorsky H-3, staging out of Coast Guard Air Station St. Petersburg in Florida, had executed an extended Gulf of Mexico search west of Tampa. The Coast Guard version of the S-61 was configured to fly 300 nautical miles offshore, hover for 20 minutes, and return to base with comfortable fuel reserves, so exhausting an HH-3F to bingo fuel is not easy, but it can be done, especially if heading errors are allowed. Somehow, this aircraft and crew, after the long hours and many twisting turns required within a complex search pattern, were victims of heading gyro splits, and they ended up flying south out of their search, instead of east, back to St. Pete. No lives were lost, but by the time the errors were noticed, fuel status was not sufficient for a return to base. As a result of this incident, those of us preparing to command H-3s were assigned an additional course of NFO navigator training back at Navy Pensacola, so I ended up with tripled reinforcement of specific experience in the science of confirming heading validity and accuracy.
Wise philosophers have long attempted to describe and illuminate the immense value of experience to the general human cause. Some have said that experience is a good school, but that the fees are high. Others have noted that experience teaches only the teachable. But for constructing and confirming quality in aviators, experience has no equal. After all, good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, though, experience comes from bad judgment.


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May or may not count as a 'real' paper model but night before last I made insomnia work for me and threw together some quick cardboard mockups of a plastic model kit I want to buy next month of three trackside sheds in HO scale which to use on my set of HO modules on local club's layout.
Has been ages and ages since I've done anything resembling actual classic paper modeling.
Handcar shed, relay cabinet, and generic tool shed kit has been previously offered by Model Power, and who knows who else in decades past, and is now issued by Walthers. Walthers catalog has listed footprint dimensions, so, using those, I went to work.
Yesterday made the quick 2 mile trip to our model RR club to see where the sheds would look best around where I want them on one of my 4 modules.
A display carton for packets of cat treats and a box for frozen egg rolls provided the raw materials.
I don't care for dilapidated appearance of handcar shed and that will be changed when kit is acquired and constructed.
Okay, that works, looks more or less logical. Relay cabinet is out of frame to left at signals at other end of crossover.
Handcar shed ramp/platform will have to be shortened, but, hey, what fun is building a model if you don't change it
Fun to look at images from the little people's point of view. Going to be a colorful scene when done.
Sheds will get painted to match signal cabin and the grounded cabus as yard office.


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It took a trip to Japan to realize I've been making edamame wrong all these years.
Well, not necessarily wrong wrong. But not the best way possible.
When I discovered the joys of edamame about 10 or 12 years ago, I would buy bags of the frozen stuff, microwave them, and sprinkle table salt on top. Then I progressed to boiling them in a pot. When I discovered fresh edamame in Chinatown, and replaced Morton with Malden, I thought this was as good as edamame could get. After all, it tasted the same as at all the Japanese restaurants in the US.
Then I went to Japan. In Tokyo this past summer, I noticed something slightly different about the fuzzy little legume that was as good an accompaniment with omikase-style sushi as it was with beer at 2 a.m. My meals of tempura, sashimi, fugu, and yes, even fugu sashimi were all bookended by a dish of edamame that tasted, well, better. Was it just because my subconscious dictated that the Japanese food had to taste better in Japan?
One night when returning to the guest house, a traveler from the north of Japan was snacking on some edamame in front of the TV. He was watching game show contestants clad in knee pads and mud hurling themselves around an obstacle course. He offered me some edamame.
It had the same subtle but brilliant taste as in restaurants, like a Chinese tea egg mixed with dried salted peas mixed with a sensuous bowl of tonkatsu ramen...but more muted, and in the shape of a pod. Garlic? Anise? Sugar? Well, I was lost. Unfortunately, I spoke no Japanese, and his English was rudimentary at best, so there was no way I could dig up a list of ingredients from him.
Back in the US, my internet research and Japanese cookbooks have been little help. Salt, water, salt, water, is what every recipe calls for. My tastebuds are not always accurate, but I know the edamame in Tokyo I've eaten is boiled in something other than pure H20.
So here is where I'm seeking your help. Do you know of a recipe that employs anise, garlic, and joyful amounts of umami? If not, do you use season your edamame with something other than just salt, for a little more oomph? From comments, I'll hopefully finally gather enough info for a recipe, and finally stop going all the cookbooks at Borders in search of something that seems so simple.


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In the 1982 NFL Draft, the Oakland Raiders selected Marcus Allen at No. 10 overall. He was the third running back taken in a draft that saw seven rushers go in the first round.
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Sunday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Fan Fest, Allen told NFL Media's Elliot Harrison he was discussing with legendary runners Eric Dickerson, Earl Campbell and Marshall Faulk the devaluation of their once-dominant position.
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Don't look now, but the latest installment in the decades-old neocon saga is currently taking place. Reviled as serial bunglers and amateurs after the Iraq war went south, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and a host of other neoconservatives are seizing the spotlight to conduct their own very personal war of liberation. They want to free themselves from the rap that they got it all wrong. And so they are going into overdrive to pin the blame for the collapse of Iraq on anyone other than themselves. Only this time, the American people, unlike in 2003, seem primed to ignore them.
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But perhaps the most prominent sign of the neocons' return came in the form of a flattering profile of the neocon thinker and Brookings Institution scholar Robert Kagan in the New York Times. Just below a lengthy portrait of how former British prime minister Tony Blair is haunted by the legacy of the Iraq war, the Times' Jason Horowitz offers a remarkably different take in rehabilitating Kagan, one of the principal intellectual authors of that conflict.
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In his doorstop history of 19th-century American foreign policy Dangerous Nation, for example, Kagan sounded his favorite, and the neocons', favorite theme. He depicted America as uniquely virtuous, pursuing idealistic aims, while presenting all other great powers as fighting for venal and self-interested motives. So assiduous was Kagan in his fanciful interpretation of American actions that even the Spanish-American War, seen by most historians as the product of William Randolph Hearst's yellow press and the U.S. desire to expand its influence on behalf of economic imperialism, becomes something else entirely—a bright and shining crusade for freedom: "Too few have seen or perhaps have wanted to see how the war was the product of deeply ingrained American attitudes toward the nation's place in the world. It was the product of a universalist ideology as articulated in the declaration of independence." Certainly Kagan pointed to economic factors and prejudice, among other things, as contributing elements but he emphasized that "by far the most persuasive interpretation of the war with Spain is that it was indeed undertaken primarily, though not exclusively, for humanitarian purposes, just as McKinley and everyone who supported the war claimed at the time."


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This question is mostly directed towards the atheists (as I know we have some non-athiests amongst us).
(FYI for the religious, atheists tend not to get married in churches but in a registry office or City Hall etc)
I'm not specifically talking about gay marriage, just marriage in general.
Would you get married? Or have you got married for the legal privileges that go along with marriage and perhaps as a gesture of love to a special person. Maybe you are one of these people who feel as long as you are together thats all that matters?
Personally I am all for marriage as a romantic gesture and the legal benefits are just a really great bonus that go along with it.
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Well I don't think you have to say the "Till death do us part" part.
Interested in what you said about making promises. I see a promise as a statement of intent at the time it is made, rather than an absolute guarantee. Even as an atheist, I sort of like the insha'allah thing (god willing). There are always going to be things that are out of our control - so I would suggest that there is never going to be a promise you know for sure you can keep. But you can declare your intent nonetheless.
Having been divorced, I see the marriage vow in this light - that when I made the commitment, it was my full intent to live it out. The fact that it didn't the first time, did not change my view on making the commitment based on my intent the second time. Actually, I think I made the commitment with more assurance because I had learned from the first experience and was better equipped to make that promise the second time around.
Even with that caveat, I am generally not a fan of making promises. If you say you're going to do something, you should do your best to do the thing. I want others to be able to rely on me, whether or not I utter "I promise" at the end. It can have value, I suppose, in communicating that this particular thing is of special importance, or emphasizing that you are going to put a real yeoman's effort into the thing.
I'm sure that attitude has something to do with my quaker roots. We were taught not to take oaths (we affirm, not swear). We were taught "let your yes mean yes and your no mean no." Actually, a traditional quaker marriage doesn't have all the vows and promises. The guy and the gal just stand up during the meeting and declare their intent to be married and it's basically done (although there's almost always a more mainstream wedding too).
I also find the "til death do us part" an impossible promise to make.
My fiance and I have joked about changing it to "for at least a few years, and then as long thereafter as mutually desired."
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I'm a fan of marriage. My husband and I are about to celebrate our 4th anniversary in a couple of weeks. I personally am happier being married than being single. But I know that many people don't feel the same way. There are lots of people who like to date, or who are polyamorous, or who feel like they don't need a ceremony or paperwork to make their relationship more meaningful. John and I got married while we were still Christians, and our wedding ceremony was very religious, so being married was important for us, socially, legally, and spiritually. If we did it over now, the ceremony would be a lot different. But I do appreciate the legal benefits that marriage provides, as well as just the feeling of security. One of my best friends, however, was married, had a child, got divorced, but still lives with the guy because they are madly in love. They have a great relationship and little family, it's just that marriage doesn't work for them. So I think that if marriage is what you want and is best for your relationship and family, then go for it. If it isn't, then don't.
My wife and I (both atheists)got married. I fully agree that marriage is not needed to have a lasting and committed relationship. Marriage is for some people and not for others. It's not a necessity, but I respect that it feels like the right thing to do for some people. In our case, we did it as a symbol of our love, and taking my surname made my wife feel even more a part of the family. We designed our own secular ceremony, and it was really quite beautiful. To me, it's all down to the individuals. Don't see the point? Great! Don't get married. But if you like the idea, I see no reason atheists can't or shouldn't get married. It isn't an inherently religious construct after-all.
hahaha, good one. :)
I guess I never listed my surname here, just so TA didn't turn up when perspective employees googled my name. Sadly, that could still stand in the way of getting a job here...
Hubby and I had both been married before. We went camping one weekend in northern Calif and tooled over to Reno to get married that Saturday. One reason for wanting to make it official at the time was because we each brought a young son into the relationship, and we wanted them and the extended families to know we were in this for the long haul. I didn't really expect it to change our relationship - and it didn't. Except that it did, in an indefinable way that surprised me. Even though our first marriages didn't pan out, it still made a difference to have made the public pronouncement.
I do think the legal/civil benefits of marriage are important - things like medical decisions, or inheritance. My husband is the person who knows me best, and should be in charge of those things. Outside of marriage, it can be quite complicated to create those legal relationships.
Ending a marriage is generally more difficult than ending a non-legally-binding relationship. This can be good or bad - it can mean working just a little harder to get through the rough patches, or it can mean staying together even when it's toxic. But those things can happen without the piece of paper as well.
It's been eleven years, and I'm glad we're married. I'm especially glad we only spent $150 that weekend - including the photography (a single polaroid) and the wedding dinner (burger and a beer at an OTB joint).
Was it the Irish who had a one year trial period after which the marriage could continue or dissolve? I think that's a nice way to go about it.
No, I'm from Ireland and we defiantly don't have that here. You have to file for a divorce of annulment and its not a quick process.
Marriage is great when that is what the people involved want and what works for them. Marriage like many other things isn't for everyone. I'm not married right now due to financial reasons. After I'm done with grad school (if I even get in next year) my partner and I will likely get married because that will be for us and our future the most logical thing to do.


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Pan Am Astronomy A New Telescope Looks into the Birthplace of Stars
Astronomers have long had a basic understanding of how stars are formed. But observing and proving the theory has proven elusive. Now, a German-American project, complete with an infrared telescope mounted on an old Pan Am 747, is providing new insights.
Stars are heavenly bodies that originated in darkness. All of the twinkling points of light in the night sky were once born in inky black clouds that wander through the vast expanses of the Milky Way.
The maximum temperature in these ghostly clouds is minus 250 degrees Celsius (minus 418 degrees Fahrenheit); indeed the clouds are hardly any warmer than space itself. Furthermore, their density initially is almost as low as that of a vacuum, with a volume the size of the Pacific Ocean containing but a single gram of hydrogen.
These widely dispersed gas atoms are the raw material from which stars are born. But it takes eons for the thin, icy strips of clouds to condense into compact, hot balls of fire. First, clumps must form within the clouds of gases and dust, with particles attracting one another and flying together at supersonic speeds. In the end, extreme pressure builds in the center of the increasingly dense ball of gas, and thermonuclear fusion in the hydrogen core begins. It is the fire of the new star.
This, at any rate, is the theory, based on computer simulations. No one has actually seen the birth and growth of suns. To the regret of astronomers, all of these processes are either invisible in the early stages or are hidden in the late stages. The gas-and-dust clouds surround the growing stars like a protective cocoon, preventing all light from escaping. The precise details of how a star is born remain a mystery.
Now astrophysicists are taking a new approach to gazing at the places where stars are born. Even the icy, dark clouds emit thermal radiation. While such waves are invisible to the human eye, the world's most unusual telescope, which stares into space from an aircraft, is now being used to intercept the infrared signals.
Clouds Ablaze
The telescope, called SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy), is the largest German-American research project currently running. It took 20 years of development, at a cost about 1 billion ($1.27 billion), before it was ready for prime time -- and the project was repeatedly in jeopardy of cancellation.
The infrared telescope is located on board a converted Boeing 747 that was once used on Pan Am's trans-Atlantic routes. At altitudes of up to 14,000 meters (45,932 feet), high above the flight paths of commercial aircraft, the older jet transforms itself into a convertible. A retractable roof in the fuselage is opened so that SOFIA can gaze into infinity. To offset turbulence and vibration, the telescope, the largest ever to be mounted in an aircraft, floats on a film of oil.
The great effort involved in unavoidable. An earthbound telescope is largely blind to infrared radiation from space, because most of it, with the exception of a few wavelengths, is absorbed by water vapor in the earth's atmosphere. As a result, the cold gas-and-dust clouds can only be studied from the stratosphere on out.
The effort seems to be paying off. "On the first images, it looks as if the dark clouds were ablaze, because of how intensely they glow in the infrared spectrum," says Hans Zinnecker, the deputy director of SOFIA Science Mission Operations. "We can now finally recover an incredibly valuable treasure trove of data."
The clouds of matter aren't just the raw material from which the stars emerge. They also form cosmic factories in which highly complex molecules are incubated, presumably even building blocks of life, like amino acids. "Complex chemical processes are taking place inside the clouds, processes that we haven't even come close to understanding," says Zinnecker.
The astrophysicists are currently evaluating data they have obtained with their flying telescope. And it looks as if SOFIA will indeed provide them with a view into the delivery room of the stars.
Fast-Forward Star Production
A team led by astrophysicist Friedrich Wyrowski of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, set its sights on an early phase of star development. The scientists have observed how ice-cold protostars gradually consume the clouds of matter surrounding them. Their appetite seems to be limitless.
The scientists picked up telltale light signals of ammonia molecules rushing toward the protostars "at measured speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per hour (about 6,200 mph)," says Wyrowski. Their calculations show that, because of its tremendous gravitational force, each of the gas balls absorbs the mass of the earth within only a few weeks.
Because of this high "accretion rate," stars develop at a much faster rate than computer models had predicted. The star embryos will continue to grow in their cocoon for just another 10,000 years or so until some of them will have reached masses 30 times that of our sun. Then, nuclear fusion will suddenly begin deep in their cores, transforming a dim ball of gas into a blazing star within a few years.
The astrophysicists plan to keep sending their flying telescope on trips into the stratosphere until at least 2030. Their infrared observatory will soon be without any competition at all. The only other telescope sensitive to comparable wavelengths is the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, which will run out of coolant in a few months.
The Herschel spacecraft has recently made some exciting discoveries. Last week, a team headed by Markus Nielbock of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg presented a unique 3-D map of a dark cloud, which the scientists created with the help of Herschel data. The 3-D image shows that the cloud of molecules, dubbed Barnard 68 (in the constellation Ophiuchus), has apparently collided with a smaller cloud.
This collision could now trigger the collapse of Barnard 68, leading to the birth of several new stars within the next 100,000 years.
The Next Generation
The scientists working on the SOFIA project hope to make such a dramatic event, the ignition of a star, visible within the next few years. "By measuring infrared radiation, we'll be able to observe how a star taps against its eggshell from the inside," Zinnecker hopes. "And we'll also be able to watch it emerge from the egg."
With each birth of a new star, the cosmic cycle of coming into being and passing away begins anew. When a star like our sun is extinguished after a lifetime of several billions of years, it ejects its hot gaseous shell out into empty space. The gaseous remnants of an extinguished sun continue to burn at several thousands of degrees for thousands of years after that. But then the cloud gradually cools off and drifts through the Milky Way, so that the ashes of dead suns furnish the raw material for the next generation of stars.
In the end, perhaps the astronomers will even solve the mystery of why such an astonishingly small number of stars are born in our home galaxy. The Milky Way contains an almost unimaginable number of stars, more than 100 billion, as a photo published by the European Southern Observatory at the end of October impressively illustrates. It shows more than 84 million stars in the center of the galaxy but, oddly enough, hardly any new stars are being added.
The swirling dark clouds should provide enough fuel to allow a new star to flare up in the sky every hour. But star maturation is apparently a sensitive process, one that only begins when the clouds of molecules reach exactly the right temperature and density. This helps to explain why only three new stars are ignited in the Milky Way every year.
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan


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Jump Lists are a feature found in Windows 7.
Jump Lists
Jump Lists are a new Windows 7 Taskbar feature that gives the user quick access to recently accessed application files and actions. Jump Lists come in two flavors, automatic (autodest, or *.automaticDestinations-ms) and custom (custdest, or *.customDestinations-ms) files. Autodest files are created by the operating system
Jump Lists are located in the user profile path, in the C:\Users\user\Recent folder. Autodest Jump Lists are located in the automaticDestinations subdirectory, and custdest files are located in the customDestinations subdirectory.
Path: C:\Users\user\Recent\AutomaticDestinations
Files: *.automaticDestinations-ms
The autodest files follow the MS-CFB compound file binary format specification. Each of the numbered streams within the file follows the MS-SHLLINK binary format specification.
The autodest files also contain a stream named "DestList" which acts as a most recently/frequently used (MRU/MFU) list. This stream consists of a 32-byte header, followed by the various structures that correspond to each of the individual numbered streams. Each of these structures is 114 bytes in size, followed by a variable length Unicode string. The first 114 bytes of the structure contains the following information at the corresponding offsets:
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Things to do in Cape Town
The Lady Hamilton Hotel is situated in the South African city of Cape Town. Warmed by the African sun, beautiful Cape Town is dominated by the famous, towering Table Mountain, so named because of its distinctive flat top which is not unlike a table top.
The city is on a peninsula of soaring, rocky heights and lush valleys. At the edge of this peninsula, the Indian and Atlantic Oceans converge.
Immense natural beauty and the fast pace and bright lights of a great urban centre with friendly people melt effortlessly here. Firmly positioned on the international map, Cape Town offers a myriad things to do and places to see, whatever your tastes, inclinations or budget.
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- For the other world event, similar to the East Asian holiday Mid-Autumn Festival, see Harvest Festival.
Pilgrim's Bounty is a world event occurring in November, around the time of the American holiday Thanksgiving. Among the activities which occur are cooking, feasting, food fights, and turkey hunting. Bountiful tables are set up in towns and outside cities, filled with various types of food platters which players can interact with. Players can either eat the food themselves, or pass it around to other players seated at the table. These tables are also surrounded by various vendors and quest-givers related to the event.
In 2019, Pilgrim's Bounty will be held from November 25th to December 2nd.
New for 2017 Edit
- Pilgrim's Bounty gear is now cosmetic and can be transmogged during the duration of the holiday.
Cooking Edit
This event mostly involves cooking. Five special recipes can be learned from the [Bountiful Cookbook], which is sold during the event.
|Recipe item
|Food item
|[Recipe: Spice Bread Stuffing]
|[Spice Bread Stuffing]
|[Recipe: Pumpkin Pie]
|[Pumpkin Pie]
|[Recipe: Cranberry Chutney]
|[Cranberry Chutney]
|[Recipe: Candied Sweet Potato]
|[Candied Sweet Potato]
|[Recipe: Slow-Roasted Turkey]
|[Slow-Roasted Turkey]
Making the Spice Bread Stuffing requires the [Spice Bread] level 1 recipe, which is trainable at any cooking trainer (the event has cooking trainers nearby).
The Pilgrim's Bounty Vendors also sell Bountiful Baskets, which can be used to combine one of each of the five special items into a Bountiful Feast.
Leveling Edit
Participating in this event and cooking these items is an excellent way of raising your cooking skill to 300 or above quickly and at low cost. The materials are inexpensive and available in practically unlimited quantities. The minimal required level starts at 1, and the recipes stay orange over a long range. Each recipe turns yellow only 10 levels below the requirement of the next recipe.
To level up your cooking from level 1, make 70 of the Spice Bread, followed by 70 of the Spice Bread Stuffing, then 70 of the Pumpkin Pie, and 65 of the other recipes (Sweet Potato, Chutney, and Turkey) in turn, learning each next recipe when it becomes available. While you are at it, the production will be enough for the quest chain and three sets of the dailies.
The Turkey recipe is still orange at 329 cooking skill, but you will need to go to Outland or Northrend to train Master level cooking before or at 300. The Turkey recipe doesn't turn gray until level 355 so it is an easy way to get your cooking all the way to Grand Master level.
Achievements Edit
All of these achievements are part of the meta-achievement Pilgrim. Obtaining the Pilgrim achievement will not help towards the What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been, as it is not a requirement for this meta-achievement.
|Bounce food off a fellow feaster's head at a Bountiful Table
|[Now We're Cookin']
| Cook up one of every Pilgrim's Bounty dish.
|[Pilgrim's Paunch]
| Acquire The Spirit of Sharing from a complete Bountiful Table feast at every Alliance / Horde capital.
| [Pilgrim's Peril]
[Pilgrim's Peril]
| While wearing either a [Pilgrim's Dress], [Robe], or [Attire], take a seat at each enemy capital's Bountiful Table.
|[Pilgrim's Progress]
| Complete each of the Pilgrim's Bounty dailies.
|[Sharing is Caring]
| Pass one of every dish at a Bountiful Table.
|[Terokkar Turkey Time]
|Defeat Talon King Ikiss while wearing a [Pilgrim's Hat] and either a [Pilgrim's Dress], [Robe], or [Attire].
|[The Turkinator]
|Hunt enough Wild Turkeys quickly enough to gain Turkey Triumph.
|[Turkey Lurkey]
| Blast those dirty, sneaking rogues with your [Turkey Shooter].
Quests Edit
Apart from the lead-in quests, there is a quest chain and five daily quests revolving around cooking the holiday-specific recipes.
Commoners in every city will offer you [?] Pilgrim's Bounty, sending you to the festival grounds outside Stormwind or Undercity. Once there you can accept [?] Sharing a Bountiful Feast from the Bountiful Table Hostess or Bountiful Feast Hostess, who can tell you how the tables work. You can also pick up the first quest in the chain and two of the daily quests.
Quest chain Edit
This quest chain involves quantities of 5, and generally sends you from the city that has the ingredients to a different city. Actually making the items requested is often part of the objectives. This means that getting the foodstuffs from other characters isn't good enough. Nor does it help to make the items before you accept the quest.
At the end of the chain you receive the [Turkey Caller] as a reward.
Daily quests Edit
The daily quests require you to either allocate some bag space between days, or spend extra travel time to pick up the ingredients. The quests are given by an NPC and require you to bring that NPC some food cooked from ingredients that are (except for stuffing) sold in a different city. They involve quantities of 20 (a full stack). By carrying some ingredients in your backpack overnight you can reduce the amount of travel required to complete the daily quests.
|Get items
|Get items
|[Daily] We're Out of Cranberry Chutney Again?
|[Daily] She Says Potato
|Sweet potatoes
|Thunder Bluff
|[Daily] Don't Forget The Stuffing!
|[Daily] Can't Get Enough Turkey
|Tirisfal Glades
|Elwynn Forest
|[Daily] Easy As Pie
|Thunder Bluff
Horde circuit Edit
One choice is to stockpile the [Tangy Southfury Cranberries] and [Mulgore Sweet Potato] and start your day in Undercity before you deliver Undercity and Tirisfal Glades food to Orgrimmar and Thunder Bluff, restocking your cranberry and sweet potato hoard for the next day.
The other choice is to stockpile the [Wild Turkey] and [Ripe Tirisfal Pumpkin] and start your day in Thunder Bluff and then travel to Orgrimmar before you deliver sweet potatoes and cranberries to Undercity. Stock up on pumpkin and wild turkey in preparation for the next day.
Alliance circuit Edit
One choice is to stockpile the [Tangy Wetland Cranberries] and [Teldrassil Sweet Potato] and start your day in Stormwind before you deliver Stormwind and Elwynn Forest food to Ironforge and Darnassus, restocking your cranberry and sweet potato hoard for the next day.
The other choice is to stockpile the [Wild Turkey] and [Ripe Elwynn Pumpkin] and start your day in Darnassus and then travel to Ironforge before you deliver sweet potatoes and cranberries to Stormwind. Stock up on pumpkin and wild turkey in preparation for the next day.
Daily quest rewards Edit
|[Pilgrim's Hat]
|[Pilgrim's Attire]
|[Pilgrim's Dress]
|[Pilgrim's Robe]
|[Pilgrim's Boots]
|[Turkey Shooter]
- NOTE: The [Turkey Shooter] is not re-usable and is consumed after 1 use and have a 3 second cast time.
Media Edit
Videos Edit
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 1 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 2 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 3 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 4 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 5 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
| Pwniversity Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Part 6 Pilgrims Bounty Guide
Patch changes Edit
- Patch 3.2.2 (2009-09-22): The recipes are available for purchase during the world event by <Pilgrim's Bounty Vendor> (as part of the [Bountiful Cookbook]) in every major city.
- Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Achievements added.
- Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Five undocumented recipes are in the patch code, but are not yet available to players: [Candied Sweet Potato], [Spice Bread Stuffing], [Cranberry Chutney], [Pumpkin Pie], and [Slow-Roasted Turkey].
References Edit
See also Edit
External links Edit
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When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world.
—Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1
|Rob McDonald, Lexington, Virginia.
I am not a birdwatcher, and except for a crow's cawing, I'm hardly able to distinguish one native bird's voice from another in the raucous chorus my family hears from our deck in southwest Virginia. We love the colors of that chorus and the flitting entertainment, though, so I keep three feeders year-round. My younger daughter, Emma, startled us last spring when she reached upward as a sparrow shot from an oak tree, her hands cupped as if to catch rain, and said her first word: burrr.
Despite my ignorance of birds, I have made many photographs of birdhouses that accumulate in a series called Southern Places. I take most of the photographs with a Holga, a "toy" camera that some serious photographers, in this age of digital refinement, appreciate for the imprecision and unpredictability of its simple plastic lens. Light leaks and lens flares contribute to "soft" negatives that make prints with an ancient, meditative cast consistent with the subject of the series: the suggestiveness of place. Holga images can make familiar scenes abstract, and common subjects fresh.
The photographs in this series record moments when light and subject converge in a particular place, calling for attention, and imbuing scenes with significance. Having lived my life in the US South, growing up in rural South Carolina as a descendent of generations of subsistence farmers on both sides of my family, I am most drawn to subjects connected to the agrarian past. This is dangerous territory, where a large and seductive catalogue of clichés and stereotypes tempts at every turn. That is why I have chosen equipment and photographic processes that deny the certainty of surfaces.
I made my first birdhouse pictures one oppressively hot afternoon in July 2002 when we were home visiting my family in South Carolina. Walking near a grapevine that my father had planted along a wire fence, I noticed that the vine's lush leaves had ensconced a bluebird house he'd nailed to the top of a post. The day was overcast, but enough light fell on the house that it caught my eye—such a quiet, cool, and safe-seeming spot. Towering lightly but distinctly in the distance, and in stark contrast to the lushness of the grapevine, were skeletons of old sweetgums that had died that year. Once, these trees had stood on the banks of two farm ponds, connected by a canal, but they had not survived the disturbance of their roots when one of my uncles drastically reshaped the landscape to make the two ponds one. The contrast between birdhouse and backdrop seemed significant, and framing it in the Holga's viewfinder, I saw sanctuary against foreboding change. Inspired, I walked across the yard and photographed a periscope-looking house emerging from an apparent wilderness, then back toward the unfamiliar new pond. As many times as I had seen the purple martin house and gourd tree there together, they seemed on this day desperately vacant.
Meditations on home. How else to explain the accumulation of nearly thirty photographs of birdhouses in the catalogue of a forty-two-year-old photographer who is the only member of his family to have moved outside a thirty-mile radius?
These birdhouses, with one or two exceptions, were made by local people who placed them, often quite intriguingly, in their yards. Constructed of unfinished and unadorned materials, they are avian equivalents of the vernacular architecture found along backroads. Birds live, or have lived, in some of the houses, but not all. Some have sat vacant since they were installed, their builders leaving them as decoration, or suggestion. I have learned that birdhouse builders often don't know much more about birds than I do; they may not recognize the difference between the songs of a cardinal and a nuthatch. But as one said when I asked why he creates birdhouses and places them in his yard, "I guess I just like the idea of birds."
Pines in the distance begin to brighten,
deep blue to something like green.
Everything winged must be dreaming.
—Susan Ludvigson, "Grace"2
Locations of McDonald's Photographs
(Each birdhouse stands for one image in the essay.)
About the Author:
Rob McDonald is a professor of English and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Virginia Military Institute. His publications include Southern Women Playwrights: New Essays in Literary History and Criticism (University of Alabama Press, 2002) and three books on Erskine Caldwell, most recently Reading Erskine Caldwell: New Essays (McFarland, 2006). He is self-taught as a photographer.


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In order to clearly present service stations to the Wazer, it is best to follow the following instructions when naming service station brands:
- Enter the FULL ADDRESS for the Service Station, to aid with routing the driver to the station. (not just the street name). For example:
266-278 Hoddle St, Abbotsford, VIC
- Enter the complete phone number including area code. Do not add any parenthesis or symbols.
03 9419 6494
- Coles Express service stations should be saved as "Coles Express", NOT "Shell"
- Caltex Woolworths service stations should be saved as "Caltex Woolworths", NOT "Caltex"
Although all Coles Express service stations are Shell, not all Shell service stations are Coles Express. This is the same case with Caltex Woolworths. Only Coles Express and Caltex Woolworths service stations provide fuel discounts to supermarket customers. If you list Caltex Woolworths as Caltex, the driver will not know that they are entitled to a discount there with their shopping voucher. Similarly, if you list Coles Express as Shell (and the service station isn't a Coles Express) then the driver will be upset that they could not get their discount there, and furthermore may have been able to drive to a cheaper station that does not offer the discount.


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The textbook of yoga psychology: a new translation and interpretation of Patanjali's Yoga sutras for meaningful application in all modern psychologic disciplines
Lyrebird Press Ltd, 1972 - Philosophy - 401 pages
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Absolute Purusa according ahamkdra analysis Aphorism asana atoms bandha becomes Bliss body Brahman breathing buddhi called cause chakram chittam concentration Cosmic Consciousness cosmic forces death death instinct destruction ego-consciousness elements empirical eternal evolution existence experience feeling gunas happiness Hence identifies identity ignorance individual consciousness instinct intuitive knowledge Ishvara Kaivalyam karmas Kriya Yoga liberation light of Purusa manah material matter means mechanism meditation mental mindstuff modifications motion nddam Nirvdnam niyama not-self noumenon objective universe obtains omnipotent omnipresent omniscient one's operation organs pain parindma perception personality physical practice prana prdna present principle produce psychic energy psychic processes psychological Pure Consciousness Purusa and prakriti Raja Yoga rajas realized reflection of Purusa result Saguna Saguna Brahman samddhi Samkhya Yoga samyama sattva sciousness Self-analysis sensation senses sensory sleep spiritual substance subtle suffering superconscious Supreme Nature tamas tanmatras things tion transformation truth Ultimate Reality unconscious unity vdsands yogin


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VATICAN CITY — In his first message for World Communications Day, Pope Francis spoke of the importance of creating a culture of encounter, explaining how media should always be a service which goes out to meet others.
"A culture of encounter demands that we be ready not only to give, but also to receive," the Pope stated in his message — released Jan. 23, in time for the Jan. 24 feast day of the patron of journalists, St. Francis de Sales — adding that "media can help us greatly in this, especially nowadays, when the networks of human communication have made unprecedented advances."
In the beginning of his address, Pope Francis stated that, although we are living in an increasingly "smaller" world, where developments of technology and travel "bring us closer together" and make us "more connected," divisions which are often "quite deep" still exist.
"On a global level, we see a scandalous gap between the opulence of the wealthy and the utter destitution of the poor," he noted, adding that "our world suffers from many forms of exclusion, marginalization and poverty."
Challenges for Real Encounter
"Media can help us to feel closer to one another," the Pope said, adding that "the Internet, in particular, offers immense possibilities for encounter and solidarity," which is "a gift from God."
Reflecting on certain challenges the area of communications brings, the Holy Father said the "speed with which information is communicated" can inhibit "our capacity for reflection and judgment," which cripples "balanced and proper forms of self-expression."
Although the wide variety of opinions online can often be helpful, the Pope warned that they can also enable people to "barricade themselves" behind a wall of information, which only confirms "their own wishes and ideas."
Despite the fact that these drawbacks exist, the Holy Father stressed that they do not "justify the rejecting of social media," but, rather, remind us that authentic communication is a "human" achievement and not a "technological achievement."
Stating the importance of recovering our sense of "deliberateness and calm," as well as the ability to "be silent and listen," the Pope said that "people only express themselves fully when they are not merely tolerated, but know that they are truly accepted."
Witness Like the Good Samaritan
"How, then, can communication be at the service of an authentic culture of encounter?" he asked, explaining that the answer can be found in the Gospel, when Jesus states that everyone is our neighbor.
In order to truly understand communication in the sense of "neighborliness," the Pope continued, we can look to the Parable of the Good Samaritan.
Not only does the Samaritan come close to the man he finds on the road, "he takes responsibility for him," the Pope said. He explained that, through this image, Jesus shifts our understanding, so that we no longer see "the other as someone like myself," but have the ability of making ourselves "like the other."
He said, "Whenever communication is primarily aimed at promoting consumption or manipulating others, we are dealing with a form of violent aggression like that suffered by the man in the parable. ... We cannot be live apart, closed in on ourselves."
"The world of media also has to be concerned with humanity; it, too, is called to show tenderness," stated the Pope, adding that "personal engagement is the basis of the trustworthiness of a communicator."
Turning to our witness as Christians, he explained that, "thanks to the Internet," we are able to "reach the peripheries of human existence."
"Effective Christian witness is not about bombarding people with religious messages, but about our willingness to be available to others by 'patiently and respectfully engaging their questions and their doubts' as they search for truth and meaning," he said, quoting Benedict XVI's message for last year's communications day.
Be Citizens of the Digital World
Pope Francis concluded his message by praying that the image of the Good Samaritan be an inspiration for all in the communications field.
"Let our communication be a balm which relieves pain and a fine wine which gladdens hearts," he stated, expressing his hope that the "light" we bring will not be "the result of cosmetics or special effects," but, rather, of being "loving and merciful 'neighbors.'"
"Let us boldly become citizens of the digital world," he exclaimed, adding that "the Church needs to be concerned for, and present in, the world of communication, in order to dialogue with people today and to help them encounter Christ."
"The revolution taking place in communications media and in information technologies represents a great and thrilling challenge," noted the Pope.
He said, "May we respond to that challenge with fresh energy and imagination as we seek to share with others the beauty of God."


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Wallace & Gromit are heading to the beach for a grand day out filled with cracking contraptions, Wensleydale cheese and family-friendly thrills.
> Photos: Wallace & Gromit Thrill-O-Matic at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Set to open in 2013, the $7.8 million Wallace & Gromit Thrill-O-Matic dark ride at the United Kingdom's Blackpool Pleasure Beach will whisk visitors through the world of the eccentric cheese-eating inventor and his anthropomorphic dog.
The 4-minute ride will feature a dozen scenes inspired by the animated short films starring the beloved British claymation characters, including "A Grand Day Out," "The Wrong Trousers," "A Close Shave" and "A Matter of Loaf and Death."
Aardman Animations, which produces the stop motion clay animation films, will work with the design and engineering team at the family-run seaside amusement park to build the world's first Wallace & Gromit ride.
Nick Park, the Oscar-winning animator who created Wallace & Gromit, visited Pleasure Beach with his family as a child and still lives about 20 minutes from the park in Northwest England.
"It's not a hair-raising, terrifying ride but a family-friendly ride," Park told BBC Radio after turning down offers from other theme parks wanting to build Wallace & Gromit rides.
The new Wallace & Gromit dark ride continues a shift from roller coasters and thrill rides to branded family attractions at the 42-acre Pleasure Beach, which opened in 1896.
In 2011, the park added the $16 million Nickelodeon Land children's area featuring nine new kiddie rides including the world's first Twist 'n' Splash by Mack Rides.
Thrill-O-Matic will replace the Gold Mine dark ride, which closed at the end of the 2011 season after 40 years in operation.
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The 'meh' of a salesman
Barack Obama has still never really sold the American people on anything but himself.
For Obama supporters, the question has become frustrating and frequent: how can the man and the team who made a freshman senator the country's first black president, and kept people with him despite Great Depression-level unemployment, have failed to truly turn public opinion around on a single difficult issue?
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Twice, they turned Candidate Obama into a movement. But they haven't been able to turn President Obama into more than an inclination.
The question couldn't be more pressing, with the president preparing for a fall of implementing Obamacare and facing down Republicans over the budget, especially after two weeks when his own party forced him to accept he hadn't convinced them first on Syria, then on Larry Summers.
( PHOTOS: Obama's second term)
"It's profound, is what it is," said Paul Begala, the Democratic strategist who consulted for the Obama-supportive super PAC last year.
Friday's trip to a Ford plant in Kansas City capped off an unusually focused week of administration messaging that included a new report documenting economic progress over the last five years, a Sunday morning talk show interview with the president, a press call with top economic adviser Gene Sperling, a White House event headlined by Obama, a trip to the sometimes unfriendly territory of the Business Roundtable, and repeated reminders from White House press secretary Jay Carney that the deficit's been cut in half over Obama's presidency.
That's a lot, but speaks to the depth of the problem he faces still struggling to convince people that the economy really is in significantly better shape five years after the meltdown, let alone that his policies are the reason — a Gallup poll in August found just 35 percent of people approving his handling of the economy, and 26 percent his handling of the deficit. Both numbers have dropped since June.
( Also on POLITICO: GOP battles boost Obama)
Or take Obamacare. Three and a half years after he signed the bill into law, a year and a half after the Supreme Court upheld it and less than two weeks from the beginning of enrollment, polls out Monday show majorities saying they still don't understand Obama's signature achievement, and they still don't like it.
The administration's holding out hope that the policy will get more popular once people start actually feeling and getting more familiar with its benefits. Polls out this week showed that among people who say they understand the law well, Obamacare's over twice as popular as among people who say they're still confused.
But instead of capitalizing on that with the kind of barnstorming on the road and on the air, backed by the kind of push that both his campaigns excelled at, the president's barely mentioned the word Obamacare with any kind of consistency. The number of people who say they understand the law "pretty well" or "very well" is just 30 percent, according to the Wall Street Journal/NBC survey, and very well" at 25 percent, and "somewhat well" at another 39, according to one by USA Today/Pew.
"It's a surprise to many of us, because he seemed to have a real gift of eloquence and persuasion when he was elected — and he has given some stirring speeches and he can show, on occasion, a great deal of conviction and passion," said Robert Reich, the former Clinton administration Labor Secretary and Obama supporter. "But he seems not to be able to make the sale, not only to the American people, but to members of Congress."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's coming climate crackdown)
Of course, Obama didn't win the Iowa caucuses just because he gave good speeches, though the good speeches certainly helped, strategists point out. He won because his campaign directed modern politics' most powerful cult of personality into a blanketed presence with a unified message, using social media and other innovations into identifying and organizing supporters where no one even thought to look before. He became a brand powerful enough to sell T-shirts and puppets and homemade CDs.
But the economy, health care, the stimulus, the attention he says he's taken to rethinking surveillance and national security, or just about anyone else — not a lot of people are buying any of it, and the president hasn't tried to do nearly as much selling as he did for his own campaigns.
The problem, according to the White House, isn't anything they're doing or not doing. With polls that show broad, general support for ideas like cutting the deficit through tax increases in addition to spending cuts, higher taxes on the wealthy and a path to citizenship being part of immigration reform, and opposed to cutting Medicaid, Social Security, education and infrastructure — all Obama positions — the thinking goes that Congress just needs to listen and get out of the way, not that Obama's to blame for an inability to mobilize the support they see.


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Makes 12
275g (10 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour
3 tsp baking powder
Pinch salt
100g (4 oz) caster (superfine) sugar
2 eggs
200ml (7 fl oz) milk
75g (3 oz) unsalted (sweet) butter, melted and cooled
1 tsp vanilla extract
12 tsp strawberry or raspberry jam
For The Toping
100g (4 oz) unsalted (sweet) butter
150g (5 oz) granulated sugar
½ tsp ground cinnamon (optional)
You will need 12 hole muffin tin lined with paper cases.
Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas mark 5.
Sift the flour, baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl, and stir through the sugar. In large jug, lightly beat the eggs then add the milk, cooled butter and vanilla extract and beat together. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients stir gently until just combined. (Do not over mix, its fine to have a few lumps in the mixture.) Spoon half the muffin mixture into the base of each paper case. Top each muffin with a teaspoon of jam. Now equally between each paper case, top with the remaining muffin mixture. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 – 20 minutes until well risen, golden and firm to the touch.
For The Topping: melt the butter in a saucepan over a low heat. Spread the granulated sugar in a wide, shallow bowl with the cinnamon if using. When the muffins are baked, leave in the tin for 5 minutes. Dip the tops of the muffins in the melted butter and then roll in the sugar. You can serve these muffins warm or cold; however, I do prefer to eat them whilst warm.
Note: Any flavoured jam would be equally as delicious to use in this bake as opposed to strawberry and raspberry. You may have some delectable homemade jam(s) you wish to use or what about the sublime Dulce de Leche, ("toffee sauce") even a thick vanilla custard or stewed apples. The amount of baking powder is correct in this recipe, I know it seems a vast amount but it does work.
Lastly slip into the sublime world of Jammy Doughnut Muffins and eat your heart out on a muffin or two....mmmmmmm....


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Am I Ready For Some What Now?
As a prefessional blogger/author with a penchant for working odd hours and quoting Ghostbusters at inappropriate moments - ("Ugly little spud, isn't he?" "THAT'S MY NEPHEW.") - I think it's pretty obvious I don't get out much.
That's ok, though, because I have all of your submissions to keep me up to date on current events! In fact, you'd be amazed how much you can learn about the world through cake.
For instance, I can now confidently predict that the world will end...
...last month.
Ok, so maybe I'm a little behind on submissions. Whatever. It's not like it's the end of the world! Haha! ZING!
Also thanks to your submissions, I happen to know that it's currently football season. That, or there's another Saw sequel in theaters:
Well, for our breakfast's sake, let's assume it's football season. And as is our tradition here at CW, I will now give you a quick gameplay overview, so that you, too, can be stared at and admired by your friends and family and that guy at the coffee shop who clearly finds your keen grasp on the inner workings of professional gameplay delightful, and that's why he keeps snickering.
Ok, so. Football. First of all, it's NOT soccer.
However, this IS what happens when you get a football and a soccerball drunk.
Football is played on a field of green, which is not to be confused with a field of dreams unless Kevin Costner is on it. Shirtless. (Bow chicka WOW WOW.)
The field is divided into forty yard lines on one side and fifty yard lines on the other. Whichever team won last gets to start on the fifty side.
Sometimes the field is sectioned off into a grid so the crowd can play a giant game of lawn checkers during halftime:
Other times the field is ditched all together in favor of a handy cow pasture:
[insert "tight end pass" joke here]
The football itself is sometimes referred to as the ol' "pigskin," but this is a misnomer, since the ball is actually made from leftover Thanksgiving turkeys:
The players, or "idiots" as hardcore fans know them, wear the skulls of candy canes in place of helmets:
This makes it easier for the players to hear all the fans calling them idiots.
It's the players' job to kick the ball as high as humanly possible, so that it can climb Jacob's Ladder and land in God's lap:
Since God likes basketball better, though, sometimes they paint a basketball brown to try and trick St. Peter into catching it:
This is known as a "Hail Mary."
If you start to find the rules of football confusing, then just study this clearly marked strategy guide until you realize you don't care anymore and just want some more nine-layer-dip and Cheetos, please:
In the end, I'm sure you'll find more cow poop - but you'll probably ALSO agree with me and this baker when we say that Football is Fabulous!
Go Red Sox!
Thanks to Michelle C., Jefferson L., Sarah F., Liz B., Sara S., Donna, Chris B., Anna B., Boni M., Abigail C., Diane B., &Heather D. for being such great team players.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — TripAdvisor Inc. rose Monday, leading a rally in closely watched momentum stocks, while Allergan Inc. attracted attention after it rejected Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc.'s buyout proposal.
TripAdvisor TRIP, +0.81% shares climbed 6.2%, propelling the Nasdaq higher. Facebook Inc. FB, -0.52%, Netflix Inc. NFLX, +0.05%, and Tesla Motors Inc. TSLA, -0.97%, all notable momentum plays, were strong performers. The Nasdaq index COMP, -0.28% is up 1.8% at last check.
Monster Beverage Corp. MNST, +0.63% shares climbed 4.8%. The energy drink maker last week reported first-quarter earnings of 55 cents a share, beating analysts' estimate of 49 cents a share.
Salesforce.com Inc. CRM, +0.02% added 6.4%. The Web-based business-software company is slated to release its first-quarter results next week. Analysts are projecting Salesforce.com to report earnings of 10 cents a share.
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. ALXN, +1.06% shares gained 5.4% while Biogen Idec Inc. BIIB, -0.22% shares are up 4.9%. The two stocks are leading the biotech sector as fears about the sector being overbought recede.
Gogo Inc. GOGO, +8.91% shares rose 7.6%. The company, which provides wireless Internet networks for airplanes, reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings on Monday.
Allergan AGN, -0.35% said Monday its board had unanimously rejected Valeant Pharmaceuticals International's US:VRX takeover bid, adding that the offer "substantially" undervalues the company. Allergan also said it expects per-share earnings to rise by 20% to 25% in 2015. Allergan shares slipped 0.9% and Valeant shares were down 1%.
Exelon Corp. EXC, +0.23% shares dropped 2.1%. The utility company last month said it would buy Pepco Holdings Inc. US:POM in a deal worth about $6.83 billion.
DirecTV DTV, +1.55% shares fell 2.8%. The satellite-television provider last week reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings. It has also been approached by AT&T about a possible buyout, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Navient Corp. NAVI, +0.83% shares slid 2.3%. The stock of the loan management company replaced SLM Corp. in the S&P 500 at the end of April.
Hillshire Brands Co. US:HSH shares slumped 4.1%. The company said Monday it agreed to buy Pinnacle Foods Inc. US:PF for about $4.3 billion in cash and stock. Including debt, the total deal is worth about $6.6 billion, the companies said in a statement. Hillshire owns brands including Jimmy Dean and Sara Lee. Shares of Pinnacle Foods, which owns brands such as Duncan Hines and Birds Eye, surged 13%.
Tickers to watch:
BTU: Shares of Peabody BTU, +2.85% rose 2.3%. The stock was upgraded to overweight from equalweight at Morgan Stanley. Analyst Evan Kurtz said Peabody is the safe play given regulatory challenges and a "significant inventory cycle." Kutz also raised Peabody's stock-price target to $30 from $20.
MRK: Merck & Co. MRK, -0.70% shares were up fractionally. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the company's drug called Zontivity that lowers the risk of thrombotic cardiovascular events in patients with a history of heart attacks or peripheral arterial disease.
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Where do old t-shirts, sweatshirts, and pants go to die? They don't die silly! Those pieces can be passed down to become part of someone else's wardrobe. We celebrate hand-me-downs and second-hand clothing on National Second-Hand Wardrobe Day!
Other Holidays:
- Kiss and Make Up Day – you can't hold a grudge forever. Today is the day to kiss and make up!
- National Banana Split Day
Birthdays & Remembrances:
Claudia Schiffer (41)
Rachel Ray (43)
Billy Ray Cyrus (50)
Tim Burton (53)
Gene Simmons, Kiss (61)
Regis Philbin (78)
Sean Connery (81)
RIP Ted Kennedy (1932-2009)
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A young boy named Kurt finds himself stranded on a peculiar planet, and he must find his way home. Finding help from unlikely allies and the curious tools in his backpack, Kurt must use gravity-defying beams to conquer every platform and solve every puzzle on this strange journey.
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Friday, February 1, 2013
The Slush Pile Survival Guide Has Moved!
Pending getting a place of its own, The Slush Pile Survival Guide is now cohabiting with STUPEFYING STORIES. Today's new column is "About That Secret Handshake," by multiple Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning writer Bruce Holland Rogers. Check it out!
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No, our friends at Gizmodo aren't working for the Saudi police. Authorities there are blaming real magic for a crash that occurred earlier today in the Kingdom.
According to reports, police in Hail, Saudi Arabia, were investigating a minor crash and discovered a handkerchief with human nails and hair tied together.
The accident involved a man an his family traveling with a maid and, from this evidence, the police assumed the accident was caused by the black arts. No word yet on whether the maid was involved in the "magic work."