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Sunday, August 31, 2008
The Minnesota State Fair and brunch with Myrna
With my face somewhat
less swollen I braved a
9 hour day at the MN
State Fair with my niece,
nephew and brother.
We had a blast. The
Fair is one of the things
about this state that I
Enjoy. I find the food
on a stick, (most of it
deep fried) to be interesting
if to my standards largely
inedible. I love the baked
goods that win awards,
the farmer's produce,
the quilts, the bands,
and the rides. Even the
rides that make me dizzy.
Jordan and Linnea have grown up SO VERY much this past year they were delightful companions. I share interests with both of them. I love to play softball and bike. I am outdoors a lot just like Linnea and I am a big fan of the theatre which seems to be a natural calling for Jordan. We had plenty to talk about. I have interesting relative whom I like to be with...how cool is that.
Foodies beware of the State Fair food, even those things you might recognize as food are not what they claim to be. Deep fried turkey is actually steamed and largely flavorless, pot stickers are deep fried dumplings and the Chinese restaurant that sells them is completely unaware that the name is a cooking method. A malt in the dairy building isn't a malt at all, but soft serve ice cream covered in syrup. A malt and a sundae are essentially the same things. Fresh squeezed lemonade will either be a stand where they squeeze it and shake it to order (delicious) OR a stand where they sell pre-fab crap that tastes like syrup, not lemons. In other words there is NO truth in advertising so buyer beware. Ask questions or risk eating some pretty nasty stuff.
With still limited jaw ability I had to forgo my usual apple from the farmers and settle for fresh pressed cider, which tasted pretty good. I did have an order of onion rings and still feel a bit guilty about that. I managed soft food, but not truly healthy.
Today was brunch with MYRNA and several others from Northfield Minnesota including Myrna's husband. I know people from e-mail and comments on the site and I had a completely wrong picture of Myrna. She is a pretty young Blondie, with a tattoo. For some reason I never expected a tattoo. She also makes a mean chocolate torte and she has promised to share the recipe, which I will then share with all of you. It's like a super rich brownie with a creamy center. MMM.
My brother and sister in law put this shindig together so I got to taste a LOT of food, most of which I didn't cook and all of it soft enough to not challenge my jaw. It was as tasty as it was high calorie and I did have a second helping of these wonderful creamy potatoes with a lot of shallot. I'm full.
No recipe today...we will be back to our scheduled programming later in the week. Stitches out on Thursday and my chewing capacity should be fully restored soon enough. My face may even begin to look normal again.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Ain't Nobody Here but us Chickens
A VERY web savvy reader found this photo of me back when I had The Country Club in New Orleans. I kept the chickens for the fresh organic eggs, not to eat. As much as possible I used organic locally grown food. I miss keeping chickens. If my landlord would let me I would have a couple of birds and a honey bee hive.
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Friday, August 22, 2008
Necessity Smoked Salmon Ravioli
Necessity is the Mother
of invention and I could
really use a Mother
right now.
I had an upper jaw graft, (old problems I did not take care of for a long time) and in many ways I am fine, but I look like I was the loser in a bar fight and I am not allowed to do any serious chewing or speak at all, for days. I must have as little jaw movement as possible. You can imagine how hard that is for me.
Egg drop soup, got tiring, veggies pureed in broth only go so far, while I love the peach tree out back there are only so many fresh peach and juice blends you can make before you need some FOOD.
The solution was to make up something satisfying that would literally melt in my mouth. Even for those of you who can both speak and chew, this is a great recipe.
The filling:
1/8 cup capers chopped in a food processor until they are about as big as a grain of kosher salt. Set aside.
2 ounces smoked salmon
2 ounces wild caught salmon (Farmed Salmon is bad for you and the environment, don't eat it)
1 clove garlic
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
a few drops of lemon juice
1 teaspoon cornstarch
Puree everything in the food processor except the corn starch. This should be a creamy mass the texture of a pate'. Remove to a bowl and stir in the cornstarch.
Lay down one wonton wrapper and dampen the edges, put a teaspoon of filling in the center and put another wrapper on top, press out all of the air and seal the edges, as you make them, set them aside, until you filling has run out. You will have a least 50 ravioli.
The dipping sauce:
1/2 cup whole milk Greek or Bulgarian style yogurt.
1/2 sweet red onion
Juice of one lemon
1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Finely grate the red onion into the yogurt and stir in the lemon and pepper.
Now you are ready to cook your ravioli.
For 8 ravioli, I put a touch of oil in a nonstick pan and placed them in the hot oil until they began to brown and sizzle. I then poured on 1 cup of water and when it came to a boil I put on a lid and reduced the heat so they would steam through and be very soft. When the water was almost gone (8 minutes) I removed the ravioli with a slotted spoon. I drizzled with the yogurt and carefully slid them 1/2 at a time into my swollen and distorted cavity of a mouth.
Both the wrappers and the filling melted in my mouth in an explosion of flavor. I plan to make them again when I am healthy and again for a party.
I didn't eat all fifty.
I put a number of them in the freezer by laying them out on a cookie sheet not touching, freezing and then tossing in a plastic bag and squeezing out all the air. They will be great this way for several months.
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Labels: black pepper, garlic, lemon juice, ravioli, salmon, smoked salmon, wonton, yogurt
A Daily News Story
Amanda sent me this link to a Daily News story I never even knew was printed. She wanted to know if I was the same guy. I am in fact.
The lasagne recipe is a great dish, I wish I had a picture of it.
Amanda sent me this link to a Daily News story I never even knew was printed. She wanted to know if I was the same guy. I am in fact.
The lasagne recipe is a great dish, I wish I had a picture of it.
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Labels: Chef Privato, Daily News, Fusion on the Fly, karl Wilder
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Woof's Super Fruity Party Punch
For those of you who thought that the Public Theatre's production of Hair was too clean, that it lacked grit, soul, energy, love, sweat, tears and anger; run, or take a train to Asbury Park, New Jersey and see this definitive production of the Love Rock Musical Hair. Staged by the Revision Theatre .
I was in a cast many years ago and have seen this show in several incarnations and have never been left with such a powerful punch as this version provides. If for any reason the director and choreographer of the Public version do not go to Broadway the producers need look no further than Andy Goldberg (director) and Elisabetta Spuria (choreographer) to find the talent needed to have audiences on their feet, not because they have been invited to join a Mama Mia type dance party, but because they have been touched deeply.
From the moment the lights come up and Aquarius begins as the souls of our pasts are given a summons from a Royal medium the chills begin. All around us the ghosts appear and as they grow stronger in voice they become real and it isn't a nostalgic look back, we are there. It's 1968 and we are at war, young men are needlessly dying in a war we know is wrong.
The voices are powerful and strong as the past comes to life as real and vital as anything we have experienced.
Many versions of hair make Berger the 'star'. Here we see him on his own methadrine trip, one of those selfish types who talk a good game and will someday be a Republican excusing his life with a yearly cheque to some charity.
As we become fully a part of the tribe, the tribe moves above us, around us, in front of us immersing us in their world.
When Claude sings 'Where do I go?" and the cast turns to him in the final chorus we are a part of them beseeching him to join them in being free, not to give his life for some idiotic thought of patriotism. We as the audience know no matter what the sacrifice, nothing changes.
As the show draws to a close we want them to stay, celebrate their youth just a little longer, be a part of something important, sing and dance for as long as you can. Don't become us.
It can't happen.
We know who they are, and we know who they will become. A population that has allowed the president and the congress to run roughshod over our constitution. We, who are complacent sheep going along with anything to be perpetuate the illusion that we are 'safe'. We who as the lights go on and souls of who we used to be depart sit stunned with tears in our eyes for what we have allowed ourselves and our country to be.
Theatre this evocative should run much longer than 3 weeks. The City of Asbury needs to give this amazing company an extension on the Carousal building and when it finally closes spend their resources turning the space into a Theatre, not some wasteful shopping court. If equity is an issue, guys bend your rules, you do it all the time to screw actors. Bend them again to give them a chance to be seen.
I'll make the trip to New Jersey again for this, but not to buy a pair of sunglasses.
Go to the website, read the names, remember these performers. Keep your eyes on them as they continue to work and hopefully fulfill the promises so many of us have failed.
So how do we go from here to a punch recipe? Hey, I'm a food writer, it may not always be a smooth transition but what is?
The one thing I remember about the 60's was punch, fruit juice (always eventually spiked) was served in big Christal or glass bowls. As hard as this cast works an Angel Hair pasta recipe just wouldn't cut it. They need something to rehydrate as they skinny dip til the sun comes up.
2 cups sugar
1 huge ginger root cut up
2 cups water
Warm the water on the stove and simmer the ginger root in the water for 30 minutes then stir in the sugar to make a syrup.
1 cup lemon juice
1 cup lime juice
1 cup unsweetened Cranberry juice
1 cup Cherry juice (tart if you can get it)
1 cup Pineapple juice
7 cups water
Once the syrup is made, stir in all the fruit juices and chill. Serve like a lemonade over ice and if the party calls for it spike it with some booze. Vodka, rum, or tequila blend best with fruit juices, but hippies can't be choosers so use what you've got.
Best served at final cast parties to celebrate a job well done. For this cast I would man the Barbecue at no fee, and I'm expensive.
Ephie Aardema, Julia Arazi, Casey gensler, Kyle Taylor Parker, Marah Meese, Mike Russo, Scoop Slone, Keith Antone, Steven Charles, Joay Caldwell, Spiro Gallatsatos, Martin Gould Cummings, Deidra Grace, Iliana Inocencio, Britt Johnson, Hannah Shankman, Anita Welch
The Band
Brian Green, All Coffey, John Gronert, John Manga, Jim Mcilvain, Steve Pleasnarki, John Luckenbil
Band Conductor: Andrew Hertz
Set Design: Russell Michael Scramm
Lighting: George Hansel
Costumes: Steven Epstein
Sound: Simon Ghezzi
Assistant Director: Heather Foard
Associate Set Design: Dawn Von suskill
Production Stage Manager: Julie Meyer
Assistant Stage Manager: Ann Marie Chiatia
Music Direction: Andres Hertz
Choreography: Elisabetta Spuria
Director: Andy Goldberg
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Labels: Andrew Hertz, Andy Goldberg, Asbury park, Elisabetta Spuria, ginger, Hair the musical, lemon, lime juice, Sugar, Woof
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Fabulous Kane Cast Cookies
If you look at the Kane Sisters web site you might think that you are in for an evening of song, dance, bawdy burlesque if you will. (David A. Rudd pictured)
Nothing could be further from the truth. There are no top hats and canes to be found in this farce. In fact by the time the actors appear for the bows we are dying to see some actual act from these Kane Sisters. The curtain call would have been a perfect opportunity to pull out the canes, the hats and the fancy socks and give us the number. But alas, yet another opportunity was missed.
With a plot as thin as Angel hair pasta and jokes from tired drag queens throughout history, you might wonder what this show has to offer and why on earth they get their own cookies.
This show offers some of the most talented cast members of any fringe show. Actors that make their caricatures into characters. Actors who are given no jokes who still manage to get laughs out of almost non-existent situations. There are too many talented folks to cite each one so I am printing the cast list out. They make a show that in lesser hands would have been unbearable into an evenings entertainment. I want to see more of all of these folks.
The Newscaster ............Zach Kleinsmith
Pice ............................... Andrew Dawson*
Shifty .............................Brent Erdy*
Lynn ...............................Elizabeth Bove*
Rory .............................. Patrick McCarthy*
Belva ..............................Sheila Stasack*
Romaine ........................Elizabeth West*
Merkin .......................... Brent Erdy*
Stinky .............................Nicholas Gorham
Buddy ............................. Christian Pedersen*
Lana ................................Marc Geller*
Nova ............................... Bill Roulet*
Slats ................................Christopher H. Matthews*
Pansy .............................. Marta Reiman*
Buster ..............................David A. Rudd*
*member Actors' Equity Association
Marc Geller who wrote and directed and acts in this bit of fluff shows his strengths only as a director. He coaxes the most out of a bare stage and out of his fellow performers.
So this talented cast gets a chocolate chip cookie, a thin one. It's been done about a thousand times before; there is little original about this recipe but if you do it well and put love and enthusiasm into your baking, these cookies will get a round of applause.
3 cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1.5 teaspoons salt
3 sticks butter softened
1 cup dark brown sugar, packed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
2 beaten egg whites
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 teaspoon brandy
2 packages dark chocolate bits (if you get chips, get one large chip and one mini chip)
Stir together your dry ingredients and set aside. In a large mixing bowl cream butter with sugars until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla and brandy. Stir in flour mixture with a spoon; stir in chocolate chips. Then get your small ice cream scooper or a tablespoon. Shape cookie dough into little balls. Place about 2 inches apart on lightly greased baking sheets, or us parchment if your baking sheets are as old as mine. Bake at 325° for about 15 minutes, or until flat and browned. Cool completely on the baking sheets. Store in airtight containers. This recipe makes enough cookies to feed a cast party.
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Labels: brandy, brown sugar, butter, chocolate, David A. Rudd, egg white, flour, salt pork, Sugar, vanilla
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Short Ribs and Fatback
I admit it, I am a lousy photographer. You won't even know what that image on the right is until I tell you, but it was so frigging delicious I had to photograph the dish.
I am very fortunate that I have a lot of good friends. One who appears out of nowhere whenever I think of him. He lives in LA and has a house in the UK but appears in NY anytime I need a friend. Either we have a psychic connection or my phone is bugged.
M called me the evening before he was due to arrive and wanted to make sure I had no plans for dinner. I said I was free, let's go somewhere and started to suggest restaurants. His response; I'm good with potluck, let's just hang out at your place and I'll have whatever you are having. I told him he would get a pasta, that I had a full day and no time to shop.
One of the great benefits of living in NY is that you can get pretty much anything DELIVERED. The following morning at 9 a.m. my doorbell rang and there was a delivery man with a bag of gorgeous short ribs, a bottle of wine and a box of seriously dark chocolate.
Clearly I was meant to cook and M wanted dinner, not pasta.
I tend to avoid short ribs in the summer, though I love them, they are a slow cook and all day affair. Due to the wonderful convenience of the crock pot I went for it.
6 gorgeous short ribs
1 large onion chopped
5 cloves garlic chopped
2 ripe Roma tomatoes chopped
1 cup Rose wine (okay you can use any wine, but I had Rose open)
1 cup Stock (whatever you have in the freezer)
1 cup white beans
1/2 pound fatback or slab bacon in chunks
Olive oil
Brown your onion til caramelized then add the garlic til soft. Dump in the crock. Salt and pepper your ribs and brown them in the same pan. Toss in the fatback and saute til golden. Dump it all in the crock and de-glaze your pan with the wine. Dump it in along with the stock, the beans, the tomatoes. Stir, turn on high and cover.
Go take a shower, have breakfast, make some more coffee...whatever you do in the morning.
After about an hour reduce the crock to low.
Go away, come back 5 to 10 hours later. Your house will smell amazing.
Remove everything from the pan with a slotted spoon and turn the crock to high again to reduce the sauce.
Separate your elements. Put the beans in a bowl, the fatback on one plate the ribs on another. Once the sauce has reduce a bit dump the ribs back in and turn to low.
Take your fatback and put skin side down in a cold nonstick pan and turn to medium. Wait for it to sizzle and brown. Get your hand blender out and puree the beans. Turn your fatback over and crisp and brown the other side. When crisp move to a plate and re-heat your bean puree. Put a little bean puree on the plate, layer the bits of crisp fatback and drizzle a touch of balsamic over the whole thing.
Okay, I know the photo is awful, I reduced it to BW because I was hoping for artistic. I failed. Anyway, the taste of the fatback is like a foi gras. It loses a lot of it's salt and absorbs much of the meaty goodness of the ribs. With the creamy beans and the slight acidity of the vinegar it all melts in your mouth.
Trust me, this tastes way better than it looks. Forget calories, in fact don't even tell your guests what they are eating until they taste. They will be shocked that it is fatback.
Fix a nice green vegetable, you have just eaten a portion of fat, you need the fiber.
Put your tender gorgeous ribs on the plate with the crisp light vegetables and go for glutinous to virtuous. With enough wine you will forget the fact you have been eating creamy slices of fat.
I recommend a rich, dark, dense, expensive Malbec to have with this feast, but any red will do.
You COULD have it as one dish and throw away the fatback, but that would be wasting some pretty good fat in my opinion.
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Labels: balsamic, fatback, garlic, Malbec, onion, short ribs, white beans
Monday, August 11, 2008
Five Pepper Goat Tacos
I have not had a large appetite lately and have been cooking less than normal, but Sunday I got seriously hungry while at the Farmer's market in NY.
I am a big fan of our Farmers, I literally used to work for food when I first moved to NY. Eating well has always been a priority and cash was low so I worked for Ed and Carol at Treelicious Orchards my first year off the plane. I love my Farmer's for making sure that I ate healthily and well.
This past Sunday (77th and Columbus market) Ed had the most beautiful peppers in many varieties and suddenly I was starving. I got my peppers and some of his delicious fruit and was on my way.
In the freezer I had a chunk of goat meat with no bones. Typically goat is hacked and most cuts contain bone so when I saw this I grabbed it, having no idea how I would cook it. It was about 3/4 pound. You can substitute any meat you like but realize that chicken might get overwhelmed by the strong flavors. I would favor pork or lamb.
For Two
3/4 pound of shaved meat (Easiest to do when frozen, shave with a slicer or a knife until you have thin slices.)
1 medium onion
5 peppers from sweet to hot sliced in very thin small strips
10 cloves of garlic (pureed with some olive oil in the food processor)
6 small flour tortillas
The topping
2 chopped ripe tomatoes
1 sweet onion
A big bunch of cilantro
Wrap your tortillas in some foil and warm in the oven. Saute the onion and peppers together until they are caramelized. Lay the thin slices of goat in the skillet, salt and cook just until done. Dump all the garlic in at the last minute to glaze the whole mass and divide into the warm tortillas topping the the tomato, onion, cilantro mixture.
NOTE: Wear kitchen gloves when seeding and chopping peppers or the oil may make your hands burn.
As we say in the south, these were slap your mama good.
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Labels: cilantro, garlic, goat tacos, hot peppers, olive oil, peppers, tortillas
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Stuffed Fig Leaves ala Nick and Ashley
The Fringe Festival in NYC has begun. I always to to several shows, often based on the time and location of the performance because it is so difficult to make intelligent choices based on one paragraph blurbs.
One does not go expecting full transferable productions, one goes in the hopes of seeing sparks of talent,writers, composers or actors you may want to keep your eyes on.
"Nudists in Love" did offer glimpses at some talent. The music by Nirmal Chandraratna has a few nice moments, the voila playing by Jessica Mui was really lovely. There were two performances that did not resort to characture, both Ashley Anne Harrell and Nick Algier had nice comic moments and great voices. I would love to see their work in the future.
That said the book and direction were a mess. The gimmick was a musical about nudists with no nudity, more on that later. There was no particular viewpoint...suburban families are bad, except when they are not??? Nudism is good???
A man is ousted as garden club president because he goes to a nudist camp, so everyone shuns and judges him until they find out they dislike the new president so they decide to make him uncomfortable by going to the meetings NUDE. The clever prop gimmick employed is ruined by putting the actors in bodysuits decorated with fig leaves. The clever props might have been funny if we weren't so aware that in essence everyone was fully dressed and therefore had nothing to hide behind those props. A blackberry hooked to a belt is much funnier than a blackberry held over a fig leaf. Jokes about how hirsute a character was fell flat, because the actor had no hair. Nothing much worked.
Since it is my mission to put the best forward I bring you...Stuffed Fig leaves ala Nick and Ashley...
I was in a market the other day and they had clusters of fresh figs complete with branches and beautiful leaves. I knew they were edible but in the two preparations I made I didn't much like them. I have great grape leaves in the back yard which are much more tender and
I used them to wrap shrimp and finally...success.
4 large fig leaves (or substitute grape leaves)
16 whole shrimp, bodies peeled, heads intact
4 tablespoons olive oil
4 tablespoons melted butter
Salt and pepper
Cayenne pepper
Heat the oven to 375°. Wash the fig leaves, and put them on the table, shiny side up. Put the shrimp in the middle of each leaf.Place the seasonings in the melted butter and toss the shrimp with the seasoning.
Put 4 shrimp on each fig leave and roll up the leaf to make a package. Put the folded side down when you place it on a baking sheet so that it will stay closed. Pour a little water and the oil in a shallow baking pan and put the packages in it.
Put the baking sheet with the four packages in the oven for about 15 minutes. Remember, it will continue to cook a bit after you take it out of the oven, so don't cook it too much. Put the packages on plates, and let each person open their own. It is good with a squeeze of lemon. Make sure you suck the butter out of the shrimp heads.
If you use grape leaves you can eat the leaf when done, while the fig leaves are edible, they work like a banana leaf in this presentation and pretty much exist to cover/steam the shrimp.
To learn about the actors...visit Nick and Ashley
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Labels: Ashley Anne Harrell, butter, fig leaves, Nick Algier, olive oil, Shrimp
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Anything But Chicken Soup
Sometimes we all need a bowl of chicken soup. It can help cure just about everything or to quote Stephanie Lee..."It can fix most anything 'cept the break of dawn and a broken heart."
Having had a little procedure yesterday I was off my red wine diet and needed something that would go down easy. Even when you feel rotten chicken soup goes down easy. So whether you've had a bone graft, or feel a little flue-like this recipe will help to heal.
8 cups chicken stock (canned and boxed are never very good)
2 carrots diced
Celery leaves finely chopped
Parsley finely chopped
Fresh Dill finely chopped
8 cloves of garlic finely diced
1 onion cut into semi-small chunks
A little olive oil
Shredded chicken (optional)
1 lemon wedge per bowl
I tend to make my stock in advance and reduce it so that it is ready in the freezer for whatever is needed, but a great time to make chicken soup is the day after you have had a roast chicken. Thrown the bones in the pot with water and whatever else you have and boil it down for several hours. If you don't cook and want a specific recipe grab a cookbook. I never make it the same way twice.
In a large pot saute the onion in the oil 'til it begins to carmelize then add the garlic, just when your garlic begins to brown throw in the stock and all the vegetables. While that is coming to a boil it is time to make the noodles. Come on, you didn't think I was going to open a bag.
Grandma's Thumbprint Noodles
A pile of flour
An egg
Salt and black pepper
Crack the egg into the flour and salt it well, then grind in some pepper. Beat with a fork and begin to incorporate flour. It will get gummy then doughy. When it become doughy knead a few times until you have a nice dough that is not too sticky.
You can roll the dough out and cut into nice even noodles, but my Grandma Ett did it with her thumb. Take a little pinch of dough and squeeze/roll between your thumb and your forefinger. Set them aside until they are done and then drop into the boiling stock and vegetables making sure you stir so they don't stick together. They will be soft in about 14 minutes. Throw in the diced chicken if you have it, otherwise just ladle into a bowl and top with the diced herbs and a squeeze of lemon.
This goes great with a light red, or a rose, but if alcohol is forbidden due to a painkiller it's not bad with a bit of club soda and a splash of juice.
It doesn't cure everything, but it never hurts.
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Labels: carrots, celery, chicken soup, chicken stock, dill, egg noodles, garlic, Grandma Ett, lemon, onion, parsley olive oil
Friday, August 1, 2008
Myrna's Minnesota Minestrone
Most Minnesotans have gardens and lots of vegetables that they grow. Traditionally the vegetables are put in big paper bags and given to everyone they know. Bags of tomatoes and zucchini are brought to offices and neighbors and after a few salads a lot of folks are at a loss as to what to do with them.
Toss 'em in the soup pot, or even a crock pot and make a kick ass soup. After a long day at the State Fair or whatever other summer activity you enjoy it can be so nice to come home to soup, salad and a glass of wine. it is so easy to make this ahead and warm it up. This version does not have rice or pasta, but if you want some, add it. If you have a different mix of veggies that's fine too. If you live in one of those lands of long winter you need to eat those fresh veggies while you can.
1 - 1 cup Great Northern Beans (okay you can use any bean, but you are in the North)
6 ounces salt pork or chunk bacon
10 cups chicken broth (best if you make your own but the truly lazy can use the boxed)
2 onions, chopped
2 celery stalk, chopped (plus the leaves, they add great flavor)
1 carrot, chopped
6 garlic cloves, chopped
1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil
1/2 head savoy or curly cabbage, sliced
1 cup of garden green beans halved
3 zucchini, diced
2 carrots, diced
4 cups fresh garden tomatoes
1 pound Italian Sausage browned (Yes you can use Jimmy Dean and it will taste fine, but really how hard can it be to get some hot Italian Sausage?)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Parmesan cheese, grated for garnish
Chopped basil or parsley for garnish
1 Soak beans overnight in cold water. Drain beans, rinse, and place them in a large stockpot or crock pot. Add salt pork which has been chunked and browned and 6 cups of broth. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook gently for about 90 minutes. (overnight in the crock pot)Keep an eye on the beans, if they need more broth add it.
2 Heat oil in a separate large stockpot. Add chopped vegetables (onion, celery, carrot, garlic,) and saute until lightly browned. Add remaining vegetables and tomatoes. Add remaining 5 cups broth. Simmer for 40 to 50 minutes or until vegetables are tender.
3 Remove salt pork from beans. Dice finely. Transfer half of the beans to a food processor or a blender and blend into a paste. Add mashed beans to the vegetables. Add remaining whole beans, broth, and diced pork to vegetables.
4 Simmer 5 minutes longer. Season soup with salt and pepper. Serve with a handful of brown sausage and a sprinkle of grated Parmesan cheese and the fresh herbs if you have them.
Serves 10-12, easily. (This recipe makes a lot of soup!)
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Labels: basil, chicken stock, garlic, italian, minestrone, Minnesota State Fair, myrna, tomatoes, zucchini
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A series of videos has been included to complement the lessons and reinforce key messages presented in the program. Several of the videos describe real-life scenarios told from the perspectives of the young people who experienced them. These videos illustrate the importance of insurance protection to help students understand how insurance could impact their lives. In addition, there are several humorous videos designed to present financial-management messages in a more lighthearted way.
The videos have been included to help you launch the lessons and engage students in discussions. Notations in the Educator's Guide in the "Lessons & Worksheets" section include suggestions for when to incorporate the videos into the learning modules.
Each video includes a brief description and the total running time. As with the lessons, we recommend that you preview the videos before sharing them with students. In addition, you will also find a downloadable video guide with previewing and post-viewing questions for several of the program's featured videos.
Student Resources
The student section of the website has been designed for you to share with students. Students can access this section of the site only by going to www.scholastic.com/nextgeneration/studentresources.htm. When you click on "Student Resources" from the teacher site, it will open in a new browser window, which is what students will see.
Explore the "Student Resources" and direct your students to this site for the following materials:
- Quizzes—Interactive versions of each of the five pre-/post-unit quizzes are available for students to complete on their own. Once they complete a quiz, students can print their answers and discuss them in class.
- Glossaries—Key terms related to each of the five modules or themes are available for students to access as they complete worksheets and exercises.
- Family Activities—These are activities for students to use with their families. Encourage students to take these activities home and share them with their parents and caregivers to find out what kinds of insurance and financial-planning strategies their families use. Help students start dialogues with their families as they themselves become more aware of and interested in the relevance of financial protection and planning in their own lives.
- Videos—Students can watch the videos related to each module.
National Standards
The lessons and activities satisfy a number of learning standards in financial literacy as well as other subjects such as life skills, math, and language arts. Where possible, we have linked lessons to these content standards within each module. The site includes a matrix that aligns the lessons and activities with national education standards.
Sources include:
- National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education: http://jumpstart.org/national-standards.html
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: www.nctm.org/standards
- Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning: http://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/browse.asp
- Common Core State Standards Initiative: www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards
Helpful Links
The list of helpful links includes resources that may be useful to you as reference when teaching students about insurance and financial planning.

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Most passengers took advantage of the autumn sun, and were up on deck enjoying the views!
The final raiding party consisted of myself, Mark, Stevie, Shaun (Stevie's son), Stewart, John his wife Ann Leis, and their daughter, Joanne, and son Matt. Once onshore we made the short but slow journey to Tobermory where we would stay for two nights at the excellent value, Park Lodge Hotel.
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Picasso's private muse / SAT 5-1-10 / Populist power couple of 1940s-'50s / Ornamental pond fish / Wimbledon's borough / Adversary of Rocky
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Constructor: Paula Gamache
Relative difficulty: Medium
THEME: none
Word of the Day: ORFE (24A: Ornamental pond fish) —
The ide (also id) or orfe, Leuciscus idus, is a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae found across northern Europe and Asia. It occurs in larger rivers, ponds, and lakes, typically in schools. The name is from Swedish id, originally referring to its bright color (compare the German dialect word aitel 'a kind of bright fish' and Old High German eit 'funeral pyre, fire'). (wikipedia)
This puzzle seemed reasonably easy, except for the NE, which was a kind of nightmare. Not just tough for me, but annoying tough, in that it was overwhelming proper nouns. Just look at the Acrosses. Name over name over name over name over whatever ORFE is over really awkward airport name (Airport alternative to JFK or LGA => EWR) over name over name over name over RESOD (45A: Fix, as some bald spots). 3/5 of the Downs are names as well. I love names, but come on. Balance. Also, for reasons I'm having trouble articulating, MAN BREASTS really bothered me (12D: Unmacho features) — the cluing seemed kind of offensive. I'm just trying to think of a comparative clue for women and how that would go over. [Unfeminine features]=>SAGGING TITS. I don't think so. Cluing seems oddly mean. Also, "man boobs" outdraws "man breasts," Google-wise, by a Huge margin. I did not even know MAN BREASTS was a real phrase. Rest of the puzzle seemed fine. I had AMEN, SISTER for AMEN TO THAT (26D: Response of approval), but other than that, no serious hangups.
Started in the NW and got those little Downs easily enough, but didn't know what followed EMPTY in EMPTY SUIT (1A: Good-for-nothing), and couldn't see GUARANTEE at all with just GUA-A---- sitting there. GUACAMOLE? Still not sure I understand TARS (4D: Hold hands?). Is a hold a place on a ship, and TARS are hands, or sailors, as in "all hands on deck"? Definitely didn't know the 80-year-old Triple Crown winner Earl SANDE, but, besides ORFE, I think that's the only answer in the puzzle I flat out didn't know. I should say, however, that the *only* reason I know Pou STO (42A: Pou ___ (vantage point)) is crosswords. It's a godawful piece of crosswordese. But today, that sort of thing was a rarity, so no complaints.
- 15A: Light seeker's question ("GOT A MATCH?") — In what decade? "GOT A LIGHT?" seems the more common phrase, though I liked this answer fine.
- 16A: Eponym of an annual award for best left-handed pitcher (SPAHN) — I was lucky enough to get "P" and "H" as my crosses. Not sure I would have uncovered it easily otherwise.
- 32A: Code broken by Joe Valachi (OMERTA) — "Code" and "Valachi" told me OMERTA (code of silence among mafia, word I learned from crosswords)
- 34A: Picasso's "private muse" (DORA MAAR) — Again, learned from crosswords. Couldn't remember last name exactly, though (MAHR?), which added to my NE struggles.
- 38A: Adversary of Rocky (NATASHA)— the Squirrel, not the boxer.
- 41A: Wimbledon's borough (MERTON) — uh, ok, if you say so ...
- 43A: He said "Most editors are failed writers - but so are most writers" (ELIOT) — Wanted WILDE at first.
- 52A: Beggar in Sir Walter Scott's "The Antiquary" (EDIE) — uh, ok, if you say so. I don't even recognize that as a Scott title, so the character? No way.
- 2D: Sourpuss's look (MOUE) — word I never see outside of crosswords. 75% vowels = very useful.
- 9D: Its news network won a 2008 Peabody Award ("THE ONION") — they also have a great crossword puzzle, ed. Ben Tausig.
- 33d. Botanical casings (ARILS) — more mainstream crosswordese. I *still* get ARIL and ANIL confused (the latter being a blue dye)
- 47D: "South Park" parka wearer (KENNY) — "Oh my God, they killed KENNY!" "You bastards!" — he used to die in every episode.
- 55D: Ciliary body locale (UVEA) — for the last time today, I say ... uh, ok, if you say so. No idea.
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As promised, we have some exciting news for you. We've teamed up with the lovely people at North of Chepstow Records to release our new single "Forever". It's being released on 11th December as a digital download and limited edition vinyl-replica CD. Want to hear it? Well you can't yet, but stay tuned - good things come to those who wait.
To celebrate this momentous occasion, we're holding a launch party at the Little Man Coffee Company in Cardiff on Saturday 12th December. There will be DJ sets from Dubrobots Soundsystem, as well as labelmates Hard Hearted Hannah (Thee Manatees) and David Mysterious (David Mysterious). If that doesn't sound tempting enough, it's free! Yes, you're all on the guest list with a plus one (we say "all", we may have to check the venue's capacity).
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This weekend, Mark Ruffalo revealed some details about how the Hulk will look in 2012's superhero team-up "The Avengers," but that wasn't all the news the actor shared with us about his upcoming turn as the green goliath's alter ego, Bruce Banner.
During last night's run-up to the Academy Awards, Ruffalo spoke to MTV News on the red carpet and shed a little more light on how the balance between Bruce Banner and Hulk will play out in "The Avengers."
Asked how much time he'll spend as Bruce Banner and as Hulk, Ruffalo said, "It's about equal. It really is."
The actor also hinted at some interesting twists for Bruce Banner's debut in "The Avengers," and an angle on the character that fans might not see coming.
"There's some great Bruce Banner stuff [in 'Avengers'], kind of a slant on him that we haven't seen before," said Ruffalo. "He's introduced in a really great way."
The Oscar-nominated actor also reiterated that he'll be playing both Bruce Banner and Hulk in the film — something that hasn't happened in previous big-screen installments of the character's adventures.
"All the great Hulk stuff, which I'll be doing too," he said. "I'll be the first actor to do them both."
While Ruffalo was happy to chat about some of the aforementioned topics, he wasn't giving anything away when MTV News asked about the Hulk's allegiances in the film. Would the green goliath be a force for good or, like the Avengers' comic book origins, be the destructive threat that the heroes must unite to defeat?
"Only time will tell," grinned Ruffalo.
Let us know what you think of Ruffalo's responses in the comment section or on Twitter! You can also follow me, Splash Page editor Rick Marshall, on Twitter!


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Bath Towel Warmers for Bathrooms
Do you often find that when you take a shower and you go to reach for your towel it is still damp from its previous use? This is a very dishearten experience; after all the point to a towel is to dry off, not to add to your already dampened physique. You could use a new towel after every shower, but this would eventually lead to a lot of laundry, a waste in energy and water, and ultimately be inconvenient. What you need, is a towel warmer. A towel warmer is designed to dry your towels and keep them warm as they hang to dry. There are different models of towel warmers, so you will want to select the one that best suits your bathroom and family use.
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The various towel warmer that you can purchase are made of either chrome or steel. They can be curved and small, a large towel rack or a single bar; they can be portable or mounted on your bathroom wall. Each of them are equipped with an electrical plug, so you will want to place the towel warmer near an outlet. Discover for yourself the revolutionary touch of a towel warmer; and dry off fresh and clean with warm towels every time you step out of the bath or shower!


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Fast and fuel efficient, thanks to the space saving benefits of sterndrives the Bavaria R40 packs a lot into 40 foot
Bavaria R40 review
Then along came pod drives like IPS and Zeus, which allowed designers to move the engines a long way back and provide more accommodation forward, albeit at the expense of the lazarette. Sterndrives do the same thing but more so, and this is what Bavaria has plumped for.
The result is two good ensuite cabins in a hull that is just 38ft 5in (11.72m) long. However, that is not unheard of; the real surprise is just how good and workable the full beam midships owner's cabin is, given that it lies tucked almost entirely beneath the saloon. Headroom is unavoidably restricted around the big double berth, but when you first step into the cabin it is very good indeed.
Two of the highlights of the R40 are the starboard side door and its opposite number in the form of a sliding window big enough to step through with ease. This pair transform the workings of the R40; communication, ventilation, and movement around the boat all improve significantly.
That roomy midships cabin pushes the cabin/engineroom bulkhead a long way aft. Consequently, engineroom access is down a vertical ladder into a cramped area with (surprisingly) no soundproofing whatsoever.
Our boat was one of three very rushed pre-production prototypes, so that might explain the untidy nature of the wiring and the plumbing installation. However, we've been assured that production R40 will be better, and that some engineroom soundproofing will be added.


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Update On Links
March 18, 2013 - I'm now using various file sites with varying success. With over 200 albums listed here, obviously I cannot upload everything at once. So if you're dying to hear something, please post a comment on that particular post and I will move it up in the priority queue. Enjoy!
Any posts taken down as a result of the sniveling coward will be re-upped. Check the link below for where to find them in the event that this site is unable to repost them. Don't forget to bookmark http://whereismrvolstead.blogspot.com/ in the event that the internet terrorists shut this page down.
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17 February 2011
(Give Me That) Business in F
This is another one that I had intended to post long ago, but on the other hand there is something to be said for not posting all the best stuff first. I really like the TOM series (am hoping to pick more up soon) because they have been issuing good quality releases of artists that are largely ignored by the larger producers. Check out Charlie Palloy, for a great example. I doubt anyone could do a complete Ben Selvin series, but what TOM included is still very entertaining. Many of these songs were covered by others, including Chick Bullock (gotta get my Bullock plug in!). If you read the post for Vol. 1, the liner notes suggest that these were throw-away tunes. However, the band performs them with gusto and I'm glad the recordings survive to this day. As did others in the era, Kardos recorded these under pseudonyms in an effort to record outside of his contract. From Amazon.com, "Gene Kardos led a popular dance band in New York in the early 1930s, but most of the records he recorded were released under a variety of names on different labels, which made it difficult for him to get proper credit for his accomplishments. The songs on this CD, for example, were released on the Crown label under the name of Joel Shaw and His Orchestra. Crown was a budget label that was started during the Depression--its slogan was "Two Hits for Two Bits"--and most artists who recorded for them used pseudonyms, particularly if they had recording contracts for other labels, as Kardos did. The Joel Shaw Orchestra, which was named for the band's piano player, had a propulsive rhythm. On tracks such as their cover of the Cab Calloway classic "Minnie the Moocher's Wedding Day" and on standards ("Dinah"), they were capable of playing some fine jazz. And selections like "Barnacle Bill (the Sailor)" and "Call of the Freaks" reveal a goofy sense of humor that only adds to the band's raucous, but good-natured sound. No matter whose name is on the label, the music of Gene Kardos and his band deserves to be heard." Enjoy. +
1. Stop The Sun, Stop The Moon
2. Business In F
3. Barnacle Bill
4. Sweet Violets
5. Some Of These Days
6. Alexander's Ragtime Band
7. Sing A New Song
8. If It Ain't Love
9. Business In Q
10. My Extraordinary Gal
11. Oh! Monah
12. Goofus
13. Dinah
14. Mouthful O' Jam
15. Whistle And Blow Your Blues Away
16. Darktown Strutters' Ball
17. Call Of The Freaks
18. How'm I Doin'?
19. The Scat Song
20. Minnie The Moocher's Wedding Day
21. When You're Getting Along With Your Gal
22. Who's Your Little Who-Zis?
23. One More Kiss, Then Goodnight
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Labels: Gene Kardos, Joel Shaw
12 February 2011
Shine On Harvest Moon
Finally, I'm getting around to posting this! Ethel Waters' version of Shine On Harvest Moon is my absolute favorite (Laurel & Hardy's is a close second), and there's not a track here that I don't like. Compare her playful version (some say 'campy') of A Hundred Years From Today.to that of Jack Teagarden. On Dinah she brings it down from the jumpy Mills Brothers cut to something you could slow dance to, a sort of lazy, hot afternoon stay-in-the-shade type of song. Meanwhile, Miss Otis Regrets is now a mournful ballad in comparison to Cab Calloway's version, for example. Stormy Weather is simply one of the best. Musicians present include Manny Klein, Joe Venuti, Duke Ellington & His Orchestra, the Dorseys, Bunny Berigan, Dick McDonough, Benny Goodman, Jack & Charlie Teagarden, Art Karle, Taft Jordan & John Kirby. A virtual who's who of the day. Full scans included. Enjoy. +
1. River, Stay 'Way from My Door
2. Shine on Harvest Moon
3. I Can't Give You Anything But Love
4. Porgy
5. St. Louis Blues
6. Stormy Weather
7. Love Is the Thing
8. Don't Blame Me
9. Shadows on the Swanee
10. Heat Wave
11. Harlem on My Mind
12. I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby
13. A Hundred Years from Today
14. Come up and See Me Sometime
15. You've Seen Harlem at Its Best
16. Miss Otis Regrets
17. Dinah
18. When It's Sleepy Time Down South
19. Moonglow
20. Give Me a Heart to Sing To
21. I Ain't Gonna Sin No More
22. Trade Mark
23. You're Going to Leave the Old Home, Jim
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11 February 2011
Son Of The Sun
Tearin' up the internet with three posts in one month! Jack Teagarden is simply one of the music giants, period. Both his trombone and vocals put an unmistakable stamp on the jazz era, influencing many other artists. But Big T deserves more than what I can write, so I'll get to the cd. This set takes Teagarden from a romping march, through the quintessential (IMO) version of Hoagy Carmichael's Rockin' Chair, and T's classic version of A Hundred Years From Today. I love the Classics series, but they often didn't use the cleanest transcriptions and there is some scratchiness on several tracks. For me, that's part of the ambiance though. Full scans with session info are included. Personnel include Nappy Lamare, Gene Austin, Joe Venuti, Benny Goodman, Bud Freeman, Charlie Spivak, Charlie Teagarden, and others. Enjoy. +
1. Son of the Sun
2. You're Simply Delish
3. Just a Little Dance, Mam'selle
4. Rockin' Chair
5. Loveless Love
6. You Rascal You
7. That's What I Like About You
8. Chances Are
9. I Got the Ritz from the One I Love
10. China Boy
11. Lies
12. I'm Sorry Dear
13. Tiger Rag
14. I've Got It
15. Plantation Moods
16. Shake Your Hips
17. Someone Stole Gabriel's Horn
18. Love Me
19. Blue River
20. Hundred Years from Today, A
21. I Just Couldn't Take It, Baby
22. Fare-Thee-Well to Harlem
23. Ol' Pappy
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Labels: Benny Goodman, Charlie Spivak, Gene Austin, Jack Teagarden
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Everyone in the blanck community knows you never have an Ex-Pastor.
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"The old labs were rather dreary-looking, and it was difficult to convince a prospective student that their experience here would be as good as that at a university that had new labs. Labs are so important to science students that they often decide on which university to attend based on the facilities. The SuperLab is simply beautiful to look at, so potential students are immediately impressed."
The magazine noted that the design "converted a dreary-looking chemistry lab at Carleton University into a large, exciting, colorful teaching lab that brings new life and increased enrollment possibilities to the university."
The design challenge was to adapt and reuse an existing facility that had not been significantly updated since its original construction in 1964 – and to do it in time for the upcoming academic year.
The renovation upgraded the maximum number of students from 96 to 120 while improving safety. The new SuperLab design stripped away existing shear walls and consolidated the four existing labs into open teaching modules.
In the first year after the SuperLab opened, the chemistry department's enrollment increased by 10 percent. The project was delivered on time and 20 percent under budget.
HOK was architect of record, with Morrison Hershfield as prime consultant.
14,500 sq. ft. / 1,350 sq. m.
Laboratory Planning
R&D Magazine – Lab of the Year Special Mention
Reduction in cost, compared to original budget
Increase in enrollment in the year after the lab was completed
Read about the consolidation strategy and sustainable features that earned the Carleton Steacie SuperLab a special mention in R&D Magazine's Laboratory of the Year Awards.


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We have been rather busy with our classes lately leaving posts spread a little thin these past few weeks. Luckily, we have not just been busy with our classes, but we have a couple of big things coming up.
• Beards and Brushes—Saturday, September 5th @ Bogda
Nick and I have both done entries for this show and will be sharing them on the blog next week.
• Atomic Sketch—Wednesday, September 2nd @ Old Library for Art walk
"The Atomic Sketch Event is an inaugural fundraising event for AIGA Jacksonville that consists of a panel of AIGA Jacksonville members who will be sketching, drawing, painting, inking, etc. —feverishly throughout the night—offering those works for sale at affordable prices, anywhere from $50 to FREE for and amazing piece of art! It's a great place to start an epic art collection and meet some amazing designers/artists! This event is live, so come on out, watch art in its creation and support your local designers!"
• Fridge Shirts—Have the money to put in the order for shirts, and the screen is ready. Coming within the next couple of weeks.
With all that said, here is a couple of quick sketch illustrations and a colored Turtle Torino putting up Fridge stickers.


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God Sent His Son
Every Christmas the church rightly turns her attention to God being with us in the person of Jesus Christ. This staggering account is captured in the gospel narratives of Matthew and Luke. The events that unfold are cause for angels to break upon the scene in proclamation and worship, governments to react, and prophets to – READ MORE >


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Pokémon Uranium Game is RMXP game by ~JV~ and his team. This is really a good game with new gameplay, new maps, new charactersand new Pokemons. Try to play it !!!
Welcome to the region of Tandor, where waves lap at sandy beaches in the rural west and people flock to busy centers of commerce in the east. Tandor is known, among other things, for its robust and slightly different Gym Challenge, where Pokémon trainers travel the region to collect six gym badges and compete in the Tandor Regional tournament, held once a year. This tournament, one of the longest-running in modern Pokemon history, is also renowned as being one of the most difficult. The honor of being Champion is one of the most sought-after in the Pokémon world.
And, you? You weren't interested in all that at first– you're just a thirteen-year-old kid leading a thirteen-year-old life. After your mother Lucille died ten years ago in a meltdown at a nuclear power plant, your father (an experienced Pokemon Ranger) left you with your great-aunt and departed to travel the region. But your aunt can't support you any longer, and so you're forced to leave home. Fortunately for you, opportunity presents itself: you can earn a living by becoming a Pokémon trainer.
Professor Bamb'o, regional expert on Pokémon elements, has been looking for a trainer assistant to travel the region and gather specimens of the varied wildlife. You, along with an eleven-year-old named Theo that you've known for most of
your life, step up to the challenge. After taking a test and receiving your starter Pokémon, you head towards your first gym badge in Nowtoch city, and your first steps exploring the Tandor region.
Things aren't as sunny as they first seem, though. Just when everything regarding the accident ten years ago in which you lost your mother seemed certain, new developments begin to emerge. A new power plant is contracted to be built over
the site of the old one. Your father begins acting strangely, journeying to the far reaches of the region and questioning whether your mother really is dead. And amidst all the turmoil, it seems that a great impending disaster is looming over Tandor…
It seems you may be in for more than you bargained for.
- Explore the all-new diverse region of Tandor
- Discover and catch 120+ never-before-seen Pokémon
- Completely original plot, with multiple sidequests for non-linear gameplay
- Play while listening to the entirely custom soundtrack, all remixed by me =p
- Pokemon Hack Name: Pokémon Uranium
- Engine: RMXP
- Author: ~JV~
- Team: ~JV~, Zephyr+, Zorin, Dew, Heinze
- Language: English
- Released: Beta
Download Pokémon Uranium Game (RMXP)


text: Women leaders are beginning to take control of organizational matters, becoming enabled and empowered to motivate others. Adobe India has a variety of programs, ranging from 'Grace Hoppers' and 'Women in Technology' to encourage women leaders to learn from each other. The 'Women's Executive Shadow Program' helps them identify key behaviours for their growth and development and initiate practices to align their goals. Through the 'Annual Women's Breakfast', Adobe arranges for its women to network with each other, share success stories and inspire one another.


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I threw up a new set of screenshots yesterday, I'll be making a front-page announcement about it in the next day or two. Mainly just shows off some of our new desert tileset. They don't show off the cliff tiles, or anything like that, but I wanted to get some shots out from our current codebase, seeing as we have made some progress that we haven't really shown off yet.
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Recently, I thought of getting the text from HTML documents and putting that text to PDF. So I did it :)
Here's how:
""" HTMLTextToPDF.py A demo program to show how to convert the text extracted from HTML content, to PDF. It uses the Beautiful Soup library, v4, to parse the HTML, and the xtopdf library to generate the PDF output. Beautiful Soup is at: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ xtopdf is at: https://bitbucket.org/vasudevram/xtopdf Guide to using and installing xtopdf: http://jugad2.blogspot.in/2012/07/guide-to-installing-and-using-xtopdf.html Author: Vasudev Ram - http://www.dancingbison.com Copyright 2015 Vasudev Ram """ import sys from bs4 import BeautifulSoup from PDFWriter import PDFWriter def usage(): sys.stderr.write("Usage: python " + sys.argv[0] + " html_file pdf_file\n") sys.stderr.write("which will extract only the text from html_file and\n") sys.stderr.write("write it to pdf_file\n") def main(): # Create some HTML for testing conversion of its text to PDF. html_doc = """ <html> <head> <title> Test file for HTMLTextToPDF </title> </head> <body> This is text within the body element but outside any paragraph. <p> This is a paragraph of text. Hey there, how do you do? The quick red fox jumped over the slow blue cow. </p> <p> This is another paragraph of text. Don't mind what it contains. What is mind? Not matter. What is matter? Never mind. </p> This is also text within the body element but not within any paragraph. </body> </html> """ pw = PDFWriter("HTMLTextTo.pdf") pw.setFont("Courier", 10) pw.setHeader("Conversion of HTML text to PDF") pw.setFooter("Generated by xtopdf: http://slid.es/vasudevram/xtopdf") # Use method chaining this time. for line in BeautifulSoup(html_doc).get_text().split("\n"): pw.writeLine(line) pw.savePage() pw.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main()
The program uses the Beautiful Soup library for parsing and extracting information from HTML, and xtopdf, my Python library for PDF generation.
Run it with:
python HTMLTextToPDF.pyand the output will be in the file HTMLTextTo.pdf.
Screenshot below:
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African Hunting Ritual
Pygmy Hunting Ritual
In the following we note the intriguing interplay of roles between men and women in hunting communities in Africa. Leo Frobenius' writes...
In the year 1905, in the jungle area between Kasai and Luebo [in the Belgian Congo], I (Leo Froebenius) encountered some representatives of those hunting tribes, driven from the plateau to the refuge of the Congo jungle, who have become known to the literature of Africa as Pygmies. Four of their number, three men and a woman, then accompanied the expedition for about a week. One day it was toward evening and we had already begun to get along with each other famously, there was again a pressing need for replenishments in the camp kitchen and I asked the three little men if they would get us an antelope, which for them, as hunters, would be an easy task. They looked at me, however, in amazement, and one of them finally came out with the answer that, surely, they would be glad to do that little thing for us, but today it would of course be impossible, since no preparations had been made. The conclusion of what turned out to be the very long transaction was that the hunters declared themselves ready to make their preparations next morning at dawn. And with that, we parted. The men then began scouting about and finally settled upon a high place on a nearby hill.
Since I was very curious to know whereof the preparations of these people might consist, I got up before sunrise and hid in some bushes near the clearing that the little fellows had chosen the night before for their preparations. When it was still dark the men arrived; but not alone. They were accompanied by the woman. The men crouched on the ground and cleared the area of all bits of growth, after which they smoothed it flat. One of them then drew something in the sand with his finger, while the other men and the woman muttered formulae of some kind and prayers; after which silence fell, while they waited for something. The sun appeared on the horizon. One of the men, with an arrow in his drawn bow, stepped over to the cleared ground. In a couple of moments, the rays of the sun struck the drawing and at the same instant the following took place at lightning speed: the woman lifted her hands as though reaching for the sun and uttered loudly some unintelligible syllables; the man released his arrow; the woman cried out again; then the men dashed into the forest with their weapons. The woman remained standing a few minutes and then returned to the camp. When she had left, I came out of my hiding and saw that what had been drawn on the ground was an antelope, some four feet long: and the arrow was stuck in its neck.
While the men were gone I wanted to return to the place to try to take a photograph, but the woman, who stayed close to me, kept me from doing so, and begged me earnestly to give up my plan. And so, the expedition went on. The hunters caught up with us that afternoon with a beautiful buck. It had been shot with an arrow through the neck. The little people delivered their quarry and went, then, with a few tufts of its hair and a calabash full of its blood back to their place on the hill. They caught up with us again only two days later and I that evening, to the froth of palm wine, I brought myself to speak about the matter with the most trusting of my little trio. He was the oldest of the three. And he told me simply that he and the others had run back to plaster the hair and blood on their drawing of the antelope, pullout the arrow, and then erase the picture. As to the sense of the operation, nothing could be learned, except that he said that if they did not do this the blood of the antelope would be destroyed. And the erasure had to be effected at sunrise too.
He pleaded earnestly that I should not let the woman know that he had talked to me about these things. And he seemed, indeed, to be greatly worried about the consequences of his talk; for the next day our Pygmies left us without saying as , much as good-bye, undoubtedly at his request, who had been the leader of the little team.
The Bushmen of the Kalahari
Writing afterwards of his somewhat ill fated trip into the Kalahari in 1957, Laurens Van Der Post wrote in his book The Lost World of the Kalahari (p236):
We were silent for a while, and then trying to break out of the gloom I said: I wonder what they will say at the sip-wells when they learn we have killed an eland?
Excuse me, Master,Dabé said bolder than I had ever known him,they know already.
What on earth do you mean?I asked.
They know by wire,he declared, the English word wire on his Bushman tongue making me start with its unexpectedness.
Wire? I exclaimed.
Yes, a wire Master. I have seen my own master go many times to the D.C. at the Gemsbok Pan and get him to send a wire to the buyers telling them when he is going to trek out to them with his cattle. We Bushmen have a wire here - he tapped his chest - that brings us news.
So it could be said that the Bushman women participate in a subtle way in the hunt of their male folk. In terms of ritual Van Der Post describes how in the evening at sunset the women would sit together at their shelters with a clumb of cut grass in their hand whose stalks they would caress, or strum,while singing the following loosely translated refrain over and over (p223):
This grass in my hand before it was cut
Cried in the wind for the rain to come:
All day my heart cries in the sun
For my hunter to come.
When the hunters did appear they would answer:
Oh look, like the eagle I come!
The interaction between the men and the women is interesting and suggests some common ground with both the Sahara rock engraving and the Pygmy ritual described by Frobenius. It is noteworthy that both the men and women use the singular even when they're singing together.
In The Heart of the Hunter p207 Van Der Post gives a longer version of the man's reply as:
Oh! Listen to the wind,
You woman there;
The time is coming near,
The rain is near.
Listen to your heart,
Your hunter is here.
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Van Der Post further observed (Lost World p245) that a Bushman in love carves a tiny little bow only 8cm long out of the sliver of a bone of Gemsbok Antelope . The arrows are made from a grass that grows near water (a reed). Its quiver is made from the (cut?) quill of the Kori Bustard. The bushman stains the head of his arrows with a special potion and sets out to stalk the lady of his choice. When the opportunity appears he shoots an arrow into her rear. If she destroys the arrow his suit is rejected if the girl preserves the arrow his courtship may proceed.


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Presumably other US granting agencies are issuing similar letters.
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Remember this song? It was a big pophit in Norway back in… 2005? Or 2006. Back then I had one of those "jumping-seats" installed in the ceiling of the front room of my tiny flat. And every early evening I would sit my oneyearold daughter in it, and I would put on Schnappi and other up-beat-songs which I had put together on a minidisc, and she would be jumping and I would be dancing, and thus we shared some quality time together right there, laughing and junmping, dancing and singing, every early evening before bedtime.
Quite clever what he´s done in that clip, bytheway. Translated the German lyrics into English. The original video is funny too. Cartoon. Good stuff.
Quality time. It is a much used concept in Scanidnavia these days. Don´t know if it can be translated directly, but. It means to REALLY be together, have fun together or feel close to eachother as a family. When everyday life becomes a juggling puzzle of two fulltime jobs, and school and kindergarten, plus spare time activities such as soccer or horseriding, times x according to the number of children in the family… then when the weekend comes, families often feel like they have to catch up, do something special together, as there was no time for anything but dinner and bedtime in the week that passed. And the week ahead will be the same. Until next school holiday.
Many families then go out, to some organized play space for children. Or they go for a picnic. They plan and structure their weekend.
I am different.
First, I stay at home. So my 3- and 5-yearold only stay half time on kindergarten. They are tired when I pick them up at 1 pm. They want a cup of cocoa and a dvd, Then they chill on the sofa, sometimes take a nap there. After an hour or so, they start playing together, or a neighbour child comes to visit. So everyday life is not so tough on them.
I don´t mean that other families do something wrong. Children are adaptable, they get used to long kindergarten days. And many don´t feel they have the choice to stay at home. Financial pressure.
We can´t really afford it anylonger either. I used to get a small amount from the local council for staying at home with the young, but now that support isn´t there anymore. We survive on my husband´s music teacher job (in a college, teaching future kindergarten teachers how to use music in their work)… but we definately need more money.
It will come, I am not worried.
Through this blog, through my sound therapy, or through me taking some kind of job.
But this was not my focus today, when I say I´m different. Yes, I stay at home and prioritize free time over money. But what is more important here, is that I understand the concept of quality time differently from most people.
Because I don´t feel that the children need to get out and about and do stuff all the time when the weekend comes.
I feel it is more important for them to relax. To not have to rush, for some set deadline like they do in the weekdays, be it the fruit meal in the kindergarten or time to cook dinner, pick up groceries etc.
My kind of quality time involves slow mornings, big brunches, a bath-tub-session if they suddenly say they want that. Sometimes we go to the woods, or to see a play in a Children´s theatre, or a concert… but normally not early in the day. Afternoons are better.
We used to go and visit grandma a lot. She lived on Rømø, another Danish island an hour´s drive away, in a little house in the woods. Peaceful and always so cosy to spend time with her, around meals, around the guitar, and enjoying the children together. We miss that. A lot.
But yesterday! We had an ace Family Quality Time day, and that is what has inspired me to choose this blog title today.
We had visitors. Simply.
A guy that sings in my husband´s bigband, and his wife and their three sons age 11, 8 and 6. (Their daughter who is 15 could alas not come along yesterday).
They arrived at noon, and we had lunch ready. Kids were served first, as our kitchen table isn´t so big. The six of them ate together, and then us four grownups afterwards, while the kids played piano, and whatever, around the house.
After tanking up, the fathers took the kids to a wonderful playground in the forest. While us mothers did a sound healing session. It was marvellous for me. She was happy too. 🙂 Very exciting actually.
After an hour, the daddies and kids returned and we just hung out. It was so nice to watch the children approach eachother and bond. They know eachother from before, but it´s been quite a while since our last hangout.
We left them mainly to themselves, whilst we hung out in the kitchen where my husband was turning the room into a pizza bakery! He had bought 6 or 8 pieces of dough from Jimmy pizzaman around the corner, and chopped up lots of different topping items. Then the kids were called in, one by one, to make a pizza. They loved it, and they impressed me. Very tasty indeed, and with appetizing patterns of mushrooms and tomatoes and stuff. And every child had a pizza exactly to his or her taste as well.
After eating, I took the other mama with me out into my listeninghut in the garden. Plus two glasses and a bottle of wine. So we sat in here, listened to a minidisc from the 90s and had a good talk like us women enjoy so much.
Ten passed ten pm they caought the ferry back to their car on the mainland, then they drove for 40 minutes, and were back at their wonderful farm. They would have stayed the night at ours, but they have a very pregnant horse, so they wanted to get home in case she gave birth last night.
Yes. That´s what family quality time looks like to me.
Amongst many other things. But just to be with others who have kids as well, share the joys of having children, enjoy seeing them get to know eachother, and with four adults present there is space for some fun conversations and twosome activities for the grownups as well.
As soon as their baby horse comes out into the world, they will call us and we will go visit them. Their sheep is pregnant as well, so I hope we´ll get to see the lambs too… It is such a gift to have someone to visit that live not far away, but the driving there is an additional treat, the little ones take a nap and we put a cd on and sing together in the car… Gosh this sounds so romantic, hahaha…
I am so grateful to know these people. My 10yearold daughter is crazy about horses, and the mama of our friend family there has had horses all her life… she brought her a pair of riding trousers yesterday, and a riding coat and some brushes and a rope. The smile on my daughter´s face…
So heartwarming to see.
The bigband that my husband conducts, is just such a special asset in my life. You can read more about it in the blogpost Not Big Bot Band.
It´s about a meeting and party we had with the band a month ago. Actually at our friends´ farm. No kids that time. Just 28 adults, merrily singing and dancing and eating together. Every time they have played enough gigs, they go travelling together. Bringing their partners and kids if they want. Last easter we spent together with the Not Big Bots in a casa with a pool in Fuengirola, outside of Malaga in Spain.
Autumn 2008 we went to Florida together.
Holiday Inn on Cocoa Beach. Disney World and Kennedy Space Centre and Swamp boat riding, watching alligators… Discovering Red Lobster and Denny´s and…right across the street from our Holiday Inn there was one of the best sushi restaurants I have EVER been to… totally anonymous looking by the main road there…
Yeah. Quality time.
Some times it includes travelling. Some times it means a plastic splashing pool in the garden and us all sleeping in a tent out in our garden… when the youngest is very little, it needs to be easy to remain fun for all…
Of course we go to Legoland and other themeparks, (Legoland is quite near to where we live, so we know that place quite well), we go to the public swimming hall, where they have hot water pools as well, steam sauna, jaccuzies, wave machines and slides for toddlers and for bigger people…
But some of the best weekends we have as a family, is when we don´t plan anything, we just spend the time as if it never ran out, follow the children´s wishes for some piano playing or apple tree climbing, just.
Being. Together. Not focusing on any doing.
Some children get stressed these days. I reckon what they need when their weeks are so busy, is to be allowed to rest. To stop running after the clock. Be in their pyjamas until early afternoon if they want.
Be, just be.
Until they get bored. And allow them to be bored.
Because that´s when they suddenly feel the need to get creative. To use their minds to activate themselves, come up with an idea for making some fun.
Yes we do have an Ipad. But only one, so they have to share it. From time to time the charger breaks. And I have to go with the ferry to the mainland to get a new charger. So it often takes me some weeks to do that. In the mean time they don´t really mention the Ipad. They just accept it´s not an option. I really enjoy seeing that they deal with it that way. Because there are times when they find it difficult to share it, they all want to play with it all the time.
My kids also love movies. We have quite a lot of movies. I buy good films, that I don´t mind them seeing over and over again, like kids do. I don´t think Disney Channel is good enough. Nor the Danish children´s tv channel. Or they are good enough for watching a programme or two. But.
Movies are different.
Astrid LIndgrens films, for example. Swedish author, wrote Pippi Longstocking for example, about a girl age about 9 who lives alone in a big villa with her monkey and her horse (!) , she is the strongest person in the world so she throws thieves up in a lamp post if it´s needed… A true superhero. She´s god a suitcase full of gold coins, and her father is a captain on a ship far away, one time she has to go save him from pirates…
My kids love Miyazakis´s animation films, Japanese. Fantastic films, both in form and content.
And they love the animation films about the tiny African boy Kirikou, and the film Azur and Asmar, all made by the same French animation company…
They get to chill on the sofa and watch movies. In Denmark it is cold, windy and dark outside, from October until March/April. In the Summer, not a lot of movietime.
In winter, quite a lot, but of course not limitless.
I find they naturally get up and start doing other things after a movie. If they don´t, then at some point we switch the tv off, and make a break.
I´m not worried about their use of screens for entertainment. As long as 1; it is quality they are spending their time watching. Or good games like Minecraft or Wii dancing or Supermario, stuff like that, non violent…
And 2; as long as it´s not too much time spent in front of screens, that they are physically active as well, and play more active games with eachother.
For my three, it doesn´t seem be a problem to find a healthy balance. For other children, other rules may be necessary.
Right. I think I have covered what I wanted to include about family quality time.
Maybe I can just add that my husband and I also make sure that there is quality alone time for each of us adults. It makes us better parents, knowing that he will play badminton tonight, or go watch a football match at the stadium. And for me to go to board meetings, and sit out here in my listening hut, do guided meditations…go to the jamsession at the local once a month, or a poetry reading on the mainland…
What we need to get a bit better at, is to make quality time for the two of us as a couple. But it´s getting easier now that our youngest just turned three. We can now go away without the three gems.
And we do also get good conversations in, or watch a documentary together and similar easy stuff, the nights when we don´t fall asleep exhausted, together with the children! 🙂
I never planned to have a family. My first child just happened. My second was planned. And my third just happened. And here we are now, a whole bunch of five!
I have a half Caribbean daughter, and two blonde Scandinavian little ones. There are sisters with 5 years´ agedifference, both of them with curly hair, one dark and one almost white haired, I call them my Yin and Yang…
And then there is a bit less than two years between the middle sister and the little brother. (He´s got long, straight hair, no curles).
So I really have got everything a social psychology loving mother can use to learn about life. 🙂
A mulatto´s path, the issues of identity are special there. Sisterhood.
The big age difference (which I am used to from my own siblings, sisters 6 years and 12 years my junior), plus the little age difference…
I love being in charge of this family, together with my husband. And of course, the core also includes his adult children. Five siblings in all.
"A together-brought family" we call it in Danish.
The kids that are not biologically linked to oneself, we call "bonus children". Isn´t that a nice term for it?
And they truely are a bonus to me, his grown kids.
Very loving and wise young people. Creative and honest too. With wonderful life partners, and there is even a grandson in our core now! He will be two in September. His uncle, my youngest, just turned three. It will be so much fun to watch them connect in the years to come.
Lucky is my middle name.
Family Quality Time.
I am truely a very rich lady.
Let me finish with the song that my eldest child was born to. It was in a natural birth clinic in Bergen in 2004. I brought my ghettoblaster and my minidisc mixtapes. We arrived at the clinic at midnight. And she was born 02.34 am. At that moment, this song was in the room with us:


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As a tenant administrator, you create a pre-approval workflow subscription that runs a vRealize Orchestrator workflow when a service catalog request generates an approval request that matches the configured conditions.
Log in to the vRealize Automation console as a tenant administrator.
Configure an approval policy level named External level for software. See Scenario: Create an Approval Policy for External Approval.
Create a custom vRealize Orchestrator workflow that sends the request to your external system. In this scenario, use the Automation Approval Request workflow.
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External level for software
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If you applied the approval policy to a software component in an active entitlement, request the item in the service catalog and verify that your approval policy and workflow subscription work as designed.


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