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Tunisian Chickpea & Cabbage Shakshouka
One reason Easter snuck up on me this year is because I do not get a statutory holiday this weekend. In Canada, I usually get Good Friday off. (In Quebec, I think they get the Monday off instead). Here in Texas, nothing. Although I think stores may be closed on Sunday.
The second reason, of course, is that we will not be celebrating it with family or friends.
I have even less knowledge of Passover but it passed my mind as I made this quintessential Arabic-Jewish dish: Shakshouka.
I first encountered shakshouka (also known as shakshuka or chakchoukah) in Morocco. At its roots, it is a mildly spiced tomato dish in which eggs are poached directly in the tomatoes. Like most dishes, every city had its own variation: more vegetables, less vegetables, more spice, less spice.
I was drawn to this version due to the overabundance of vegetables. Tomatoes, bell peppers and cabbage. Shakshouka's country of origin may lie in Morocco's neighbouring country of Tunisia, known for its hot and spicy harissa pepper paste. While I have made my own (not-too-spicy) harissa before, I opted for something quasi-similar I had in my kitchen: pat-chi. Aka, kale and collard kimchi spiced with Thai chiles. Aka, related to kimchi with a yaya-twist. A little bit goes a long way to flavour our vegetable ragout.
To keep this vegan, I swapped the eggs (perhaps totally losing the essence of shakshouka) for chickpeas. I loved it. But sadly, upon investigation found that with this swap, this would no longer be appropriate for passover. No chickpeas for Passover. Perhaps you could serve the ragout with some quinoa: now kosher approved for Passover.
Will you be celebrating Easter or Passover this weekend?
Chai Spiced Rice Pudding & The Blender Girl Cookbook Giveaway
Adult rice krispies and now adult rice pudding.
The difference is that I liked rice krispies as a kid but hated rice pudding. My brother loved it, but me, not so much.
However, spice it up with chai-infused flavours, sweeten it with apple, dried currants and a touch of maple syrup, bathe it in coconut milk and sprinkle it with pistachios along with leftover short-grain brown rice, and I am a happy camper.
This is no quick-fix rice pudding but it sure is delicious. My friend who tried it said it was the best rice pudding she had ever eaten.
This is my take on Tess Masters' version found in her gorgeous new cookbook The Blender Girl. Do not let the title mislead you too much. Yes, this is a cookbook where nearly every recipe uses a blender, but this does not mean only smoothies. The recipes are all gluten-free and vegan with only natural sweeteners. The recipes revolve around whole foods. Raw and cooked recipes are included. Tess has recipes for juices, smoothies, dips/spreads, soups, dressings, sauces and even desserts. She has entrees that use homemade sauces, including her penang curry and creamy mushroom stroganoff. Desserts include sugar-free no-pumpkin pie and chocolate-chile banana splits. Breakfast favourites including pancakes and crepes, with delicious toppings like ginger-apple-pear butter and instant raw raspberry jam. She even finds a way to use a blender for rice pudding.
She knows her stuff. It may dirty another container but I liked how a portion of the rice was pureed to thicken the rice pudding. It was rather ingenious.
She is a girl smitten by her high-speed blender. I can tell. I have one, too, and I find it hard to remember what my kitchen was like without it. Do you need an expensive high speed blender for this cookbook? Certainly not. However, you definitely need something with a blending capacity, may that be a regular blender, an immersion blender or a food processor. If you don't have a blender, you could still gain inspiration from her creations. Your textures may be different but it would be fun to see what else you could make.
Thankfully, the publisher allowed me to share the recipe and giveaway the cookbook to a reader living in the United States. To be entered in the random draw for the cookbook, please leave a comment below telling me what you love to make with your blender (or blending instrument). The winner will be selected at random on April 20, 2014. Good luck!
Other recipes shared from The Blender Girl:
Creamy and Crunchy Spuds (with Raw Mayonnaise)
Watermelon Gazpacho is The Bomb
Fresh Spring Rolls with Orange-Almond Sauce
Creamy of Cauliflower Soup
Incredible Edible Edamame Dip
Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff
Penang Curry
Pad Thai
Anti-Oxidant Avenger
Pineapple Salsa Smoothie
Chock-Full Chocolate Surprise Smoothie
Raw Chocolate-Orange Torte
PS. This is my submission for Alphabakes and Random Recipes.
Roasted Cauliflower and Mustard-Hummus Rice Bowl with Garlicky Spinach & A Vegan Mustard Tasting Party
One of the main things I will miss when I leave Houston will definitely be the people: my friends, my co-workers and the awfully friendly strangers. If it weren't for connecting so well with my co-workers, I don't think I would have enjoyed Houston as much. And you know how I know we met special people?
They were not only amused but also excited about our idea for a mustard tasting party.
This idea had been brewing for nearly as long as our idea for a tamale party. Somehow, I managed to convince Rob, that yes, I wanted the mustard variety pack at Trader Joe's, and yes, I knew we only had 6 months left. Oh and yes, we already had another 3-4 other mustard varieties.
We proposed the idea: help us eat our mustards, let's have a mustard tasting party. We figured we had enough mustard to sample, but everyone also brought their own favourite mustard as well. Collectively, we had 12 mustards. Everything from a Mango Diablo mustard, to a honey and whiskey mustard, to a creole mustard and nearly the entire gamut of Trader Joe's mustards. ;)
The question, of course, was what to serve at a (vegan-friendly) mustard tasting party.
I loved the suggestion for small boiled potatoes for tasting the mustards individually. I also made plain roasted cauliflower and Rob cut up some pita bread to serve with fresh hummus. Our guests provided some chips, pretzels, sausages and beer [including ginger beer].
The small potatoes were a resounding success. I was impressed that they all looked different when sampling, too.
For those curious: I think we all really liked Trader Joe's Basil Mustard. The El Diablo Hot & Spicy mustard also earned high praise, but I didn't try it since I was warned it was uber spicy. I also highly recommend Stadium Mustard that our friend brought us from Cleveland, which sadly did not make an appearance because we ate it all before the party (you can see it pictured here with my vegan cheese-stuffed sausage and sauerkraut, though).
We had a bit of odds-and-ends leftovers after the party and they combined fabulously. So fabulously, I just had to share it. Knowing that hummus+mustard worked well in my vegan deviled eggs, I worked with a mummus sauce (mustard + hummus). Worried my rice bowl may be too beige, I added the leftover roasted cauliflower and hummus to freshly sauteed garlicky spinach. I was thinking Terry's Sesame Wow Greens would have been great, but I went with something more simple: spinach and garlic finished with toasted sesame oil. It complemented the hummus really well. (Of note, I just made a single serving but increased the amount to serve 4 in the recipe below).
Leftovers need not be boring and I may never have had the forethought (or energy) to make such an involved recipe. But I highly encourage you to try it out. :)
Not that I need new mustards right now, but which one is your favourite? Have you ever made homemade mustard?
This is my submission to this month's No Waste Food Challenge.
Mango Chana Masala
It is the most wonderful time of the year….
Not because the spring weather in Houston is positively happiness (it is!) or it is the beginning of a cycling season (it is!)…. but it is the beginning of mango season and now we live closer to the mangoes!
Nearly every year, Rob will hunt down Alphonso mangoes. The fancy mangoes flown in from India. I am not sure whether they will be coming to Houston, but it does not matter. There are cheap and plentiful Mexican Ataulfos to be found. Last week, we picked up a whole case for $5. (We split it with a friend to keep our eating crop fresh. I know we'll be replenishing a few times, no worries)
We tend to keep the mangoes plain and unadorned (at least I do, Rob adds it to his breakfast granola) but used some frozen mangoes for this fun twist on chana masala. It kind of a combination of my Mango BBQ Beans combined with Indian flavours. While I have used amchoor powder (raw mango powder) to make a nice chana masala, this was a fun twist since it was hot and sweet, too. The heat came from our newest infatuation: roasted hatch chiles. The flavours complemented each other nicely, especially with the tang from the tomatoes and the earthy tones from the cumin, mustard seeds and garam masala, too. Not too overly spiced.
Rob actually made a double batch of this and we shared it with friends. We told them to give an honest opinion of the dish. It was the first time we tried it, so we could handle their feedback. Like us, they loved it! And I hope you do, too.
Here's to a prosperous mango season!
This is my submission to this month's Bookmarked Recipes and this week's Souper Sundays.
Kale Ribbons and Chickpeas with Curried Spaghetti Squash
I am sorry but not sorry, Canada.
I am sorry that this was one really long and cold winter. But I am not sorry I missed it.
Last week, I returned to Canada. In Montreal, I was greeted by mountains of snow banks that still had to melt away. However, by the end of my stay, a fresh blanket of snow covered the city in near white-out conditions. My flight home was cancelled but Air Canada thoughtfully put us on a later flight, skirting the worst of the storm.
(People poo-poo Air Canada but I like flying with them, especially compared to any airline based in the US. I can catch up on my movie watching (no additional charge!) and sometimes they even give me pretzels (HA!)).
Knowing full well that warm meals are still in season (even Houston's weather has tamed somewhat), I am unashamedly sharing yet another winter squash recipe. In March. Because, yes, they are still on my counter and based on my last post with kabocha squash, still in your kitchens, too. Plus, this dish was too good to hide until next year.
It is a deceivingly simple recipe: spaghetti squash, kale, chickpeas, sun-dried tomatoes, smoked paprika and curry powder. In fact, it sounded downright weird. However, after I tasted it, it made sense. A lot of curries are tomato-based and while I don't use tomato, sun-dried tomatoes deliver intense bursts of tomato flavour without sauciness. Smoked paprika adds a different twist so this isn't a boring, bland curry. Chickpeas add protein and bulk. The kale is more earthy but a barely noticeable way to eat some greenery. The spaghetti squash is merely a backdrop but sops up the flavours deliciously. This dish made fabulous leftovers, allowing the flavours to meld even further.
Did you get walloped with more snow this weekend, too?
Raw Dolmas with a Cilantro-Tahini Sauce
Did you know March is National Nutrition Month? While I celebrate proper nutrition every day (ok, 3 times a week here), I was encouraged by Erika to join Houston's VegOut! challenge to eat 30 different vegetables in 30 days.
Thirty different vegetables in thirty days? Even as a veggie-loving gal, that's a pretty huge feat. Look at my sidebar. I have favourites. Barring onions, my top ten are: garlic (227 recipes, and I don't even tag all my garlic), tomato (139 recipes), ginger (121 recipes), carrot (110 recipes), red bell pepper (82 recipes), spinach (64 recipes), mushroom (50 recipes), kale (44 recipes), zucchini (44 recipes) and broccoli (36 recipes).
Erika may have won the first challenge with her black bean and veggie burgers (with 15 vegetables!) but I thought I'd try my best with their second challenge: my best jicama dish.
No stranger to jicama, I have enjoyed mostly in Mexican-inspired dishes: a raw burrito and as a cranberry-jicama salsa. This time, I decided to switch avenues and was inspired by Middle Eastern flavours. Packed with vegetables (7 if you include olives, but I think they are technically fruits), these are a fun twist on dolmas, stuffed grape leaves.
Instead of cooked rice, the jicama is riced into small pieces. Jicama is quite moist, so it needs a thorough drying before being incorporated with the cucumber, olives, and sun-dried tomatoes. If you don't have jicama, cauliflower would work, too. Dill and mint were used for the filling and cilantro for the green tahini dipping sauce. With all the fresh ingredients, the flavours really popped.
This was also the first time I tried grape leaves raw. I mean, without steaming them first. Steaming makes them more tender and less salty, but this was a quick and easy way to enjoy them.
Do you think you could eat 30 different vegetables in 30 days? How do you like to eat jicama?
PS. This is my submission to Raw Food Thursdays and to VegOut Jicama: #vegoutjicama #vegoutrfs
Cuban Beer-Infused Black Beans & Cookbook Giveaway
Vegan cookbook lovers rejoice! Today is a great day for vegan cookbooks. I counted at least 3 different vegan cookbooks being published today.
For my deluge of cauliflower recipes, I really appreciated Eileen's comment about food trends. Basically, she said seeing an ingredient repeatedly can actually be quite boring. So in that vein, instead of reviewing the more popular vegan options, I thought I'd share a hidden gem: Meatless All Day.
At first, I was hesitant to review it because it is not a vegan-only cookbook. Instead, there is a mix of vegan and vegetarian options. Vegan options are clearly marked but in the rest of the cookbook, some recipes use eggs and cheese (and sometimes butter, but that is an easily solvable problem). However, the recipes are inventive and even if you are vegan, you can gain inspiration from different combinations of ingredients or the gorgeous photography. I am itching to try the Miso-Glazed Tofu which was inspired by Nobu's Miso-Glazed Black Cod (which I loved in my pre-vegan days).
In truth, the real reason I wanted to touch bases with the publisher was because I desperately wanted to share this recipe. Because I know my beans recipes, and this was possibly one of my favourite bean dishes to date.
Black beans are simmered with a Farmhouse ale, cumin, tomatoes, a touch of coconut milk and lime juice and if you ask me, the best part was using the roasted hatch chiles. They are a fairly mild chile but add a lot of flavour which melded so well with the rest of this dish. The dish hit all the markers: sweet, salty, spicy and bitter perfectly.
For the beer haters in the audience (that's me!), you cannot taste the bitter hoppiness (thank goodness!) but it adds a different dimension to the beans. If you are a beer hater and unsure what to make with the rest of your can of beer, may I suggest beer-soaked fries?
A side of roasted plantain chips would be great too. The original recipe was actually a Cuban Black Bean Stew with plantain chips, but I simmered away the stock until it became a caramelized thick coating instead. Delicious. And easier to transport as lunch leftovers, too. Do I know why it is considered Cuban? Not at all..
Thankfully, the publisher allowed me to share the recipe (with my modifications, of course) AND giveaway the cookbook to a reader ANYWHERE in the world! BOOYAH! To be entered in the random draw for the cookbook, please leave a comment below telling me about your favourite meatless meal. The winner will be selected at random on March 15, 2014. Good luck!
PS. This is my submission to this month's My Legume Love Affair.
Käsekrainer (Cheese-Stuffed Sausage) & High Protein Vegan Cookbook Giveaway
I have been meaning to review Hilda's High Protein Vegan for a while. I bought it last year while exploring more protein-rich ideas (I thought it was a great deal, under $5 for a kindle version). Despite many people poo-pooing protein needs, I have long been a proponent of higher protein intake. This is especially important for active people (see my first rant here). With Carrie's recent post about Fatigue and the Ex Vegan Phenomenon and Sayward's older post about low cholesterol and protein on a vegan diet, both highlight the importance of proper nutrition. One needs adequate calories (including protein! and fat!) on a restrictive vegan diet which is naturally high in carbohydrates (see my review of vegan nutrition guides here). Why harp on protein? For me, it can be the most difficult to obtain on a vegan diet.
Eat beans and legumes. That includes tofu. Hilda's book may be soy-free but soy is ok. Yes, there is protein in vegetables (spinach is almost 50% protein) but you have to eat a lot of vegetables for it to be a meaningful protein source. Whole grains, like quinoa, are ok, too. And when you want a high protein boost, pick something like vital wheat gluten which is basically wheat protein powder. Anyways, enough with the lecture, more about implementing high protein meals.
I like Hilda's book because it has over 100 recipes with an emphasis on a (soy-free) protein component. All are whole-foods based recipes. Recipes are marked as gluten-free, nightshade-free, nut-free, and onion/garlic-free. Some are low-fat, some are higher fat. She does not call for processed foods like fake meat, cheese or yogurt. The cookbook highlights the gamut of vegan protein selections – beans including chickpea flour, whole grains, nuts and seitan. She even has a soy-free tofu recipe to use in a satay tofu with an almond sauce, cauliflower parmigiana bake, bean and mushroom stroganoff and even pasta alla carbonara. I was most excited about the seitan recipes since I don't make it nearly enough.
One of the paradoxes about eating vegan is that you explore new foods and increase your food options despite limiting meat and dairy consumption. I had never even heard of käsekrainer or a "kransky" before, let try alone a vegan version. Cheese-stuffed sausages are probably the antithesis of vegan eats but here is a vegan spin on it. An easy, flavourful steamed seitan is filled with a cashew cheese spread. I thought the cheese spread was absolutely delicious and was thrilled I had a bunch leftover. I don't like nooch-heavy sauces but it was very well balanced. In fact, I preferred the cheese sauce before steaming as it lost its sharp, salty bite once in the sausage.
Certainly, I cannot vouch for its authenticity but I can tell you how it tastes: delicious. I shared it with Rob (who hadn't had a kransky previously, either) who said it tasted 60% like sausage and 40% like cheese. It was 90% like cheese as the uncooked spread. With my recent infatuation with all things mustard, I thought it was perfect with a side of sauerkraut as well. (With a shout-out to this recipe that led me to finally making homemade sauerkraut successfully!!).
Hilda graciously allowed me to reproduce her recipe (it would have taken me so long to type up!) AND giveaway the cookbook to a reader ANYWHERE in the world! BOOYAH! Please visit her blog and thank her! To be entered in the random draw for the cookbook, please leave a comment below telling me about your favourite vegan protein and how you like to prepare it. The winner will be selected at random on March 10, 2014. Good luck!
PS. Here's a shout out to my latest raw brownie with over 7g of protein per serving without beans/legumes/protein powder. Not enough protein for a meal but I think it is great for a dessert. ;)
This is my submission to Ricki's Weekend Wellness.
Raw Brownie Cake with a Chocolate Avocado Frosting
Remember Valentine's Day? I reneged on my promise to make dessert. Rob had no problem coming up with an alternative. In fact, he was happy when I said I didn't have the time to make my dessert of choice. He had already planned the whole meal!
The week post-V-Day is always special for us because we celebrate Rob's birthday and our anniversary, so I eventually made my planned dessert, too. Our stash of avocados were perfectly ripe and could I really ignore an excuse to try out a new coconut flour-based dessert?
I cobbled together a delicious dessert from a few places. The base is inspired by Emma's Raw Brownies but I topped it with a chocolate avocado frosting, based on my chocolate avocado mousse. To get a firm frosting, I used juicy Medjool dates as the sweetener (with a dash of agave only because I ran out of dates) along with a touch of lemon juice to balance the flavours. Next time, I might try a spiced version with cinnamon and cardamom again (like in my mousse).
Because I smushed this into a springform pan, this is more like a brownie cake. The brownie was delicious and it was amazingly fudgy and moist for a raw/no-cook dessert. Unlike my walnut-based raw brownie, this was lighter in texture due to the coconut flour (but more fudgy than my raw chocolate zucchini muffin). Plus the frosting just sealed the deal: delicious decadence. I highly recommend this. Although make no mistake, this is a decadent and filling treat.
This is my submission to this month's Four Seasons Food, Dead Easy Desserts and Tea Time Treats.
PS. Here's a shout-out to my Mom who got me a small off-set spatula. Which I totally used to frost the brownies. :)
PPS. Have you entered my giveaway for No Meat Athlete yet?
Black Bean Soup with Roasted Red Peppers, Lime and Cilantro
First of all, you guys are awesome. You guys are word wizards! I love it!
(And yes, I realize there is a selection bias based on who chooses to write a comment, but still…)
Second of all, did you catch the recent posts all about beans? Like "5 Reasons You Shouldn't Avoid Eating Beans" on Breaking Muscle? Or Ginny's recent post on The Vegan RD called "Plant Protein: Why Vegans Need Beans"? Both are very well done posts about beans. Bucking the paleo trend, Jeff points out common (or quite uncommon) misconceptions about beans and why you should be eating them. Ginny makes a great case why beans are the best source of protein that is relevant for vegans and non-vegans alike.
You know it. Beans are my fuel, too. Oftentimes, I get stuck in the land of chickpeas and lentils when there are actually a lot more beans out there. With the Mexican slant in Houston, I have been gobbling up black beans with much gusto as of late. Mexican black bean dip, black bean tostadas, Mexican zucchini lasagna, black bean and sweet potato tamales and even black bean tortilla soup. And here we go with another Mexican-inspired black bean soup.
This is an absolutely delicious soup. However, there is an asterisk. It tastes good because you coax all the goodness out of each ingredient individually. Translation: it is a bit labour-intensive but so worth it.
Caramelize your onions and carrots. Roast your red bell pepper. Make your own Ancho chile puree. Freshly toast your cumin seeds. If you have the time, prepare your beans from scratch. Squirt on some lime juice and scatter cilantro throughout. Yeah.
Take the time to tend to this soup and you will not be disappointed. In fact, I recommend you double the recipe so that you can freeze your bounty.
Want to take the short cuts? I am sure this will still be a delicious soup: soften your onion and carrot with the red pepper, throw in your pre-cooked/canned beans, swap Ancho chile powder for the puree, forego the cumin toasting. It can all be done and will still be delicious.
Here's to more more beans! :)
This is my submission to this week's Souper Sundays. (more…)
Lentil Marinara Sauce with Spaghetti Squash
Did you have a good Valentine's Day? I don't think I have been told to celebrate Valentine's Day more than yesterday (and I forgot to call my parents, OOPS!). It almost felt like a national holiday, with everyone at work asking about the evening plans, rushing to finish early for the weekend. Is it because Texans are just so friendly? Or because Americans love holidays?
Rob and I have never been big fan of V-Day, enjoying each other's company more than anything else. Rare gifts and certainly no cards, this year was the most low-key ever. A nice dinner with friends. True to his word, Rob and Matt had a feast ready for me just as I stepped (pedalled) home: Holy Moley Veggie and Rice Soup and corn tortillas followed by Chocolate Peanut Butter Balls. Actually, the order was reversed, we ate the dessert as an appetizer while we waited for the veggies to cook. I had offered to make dessert but Rob saved the day.
Rob also registered us for Cycle Oregon. Tent porter, and all: we're committed. Lucky (or unlucky) for me, cycling is easier on me than walking.
After a few weeks of rest and recovery, I resumed my daily cycling commute this week. I also swapped my HIIT classes at the gym for weights. No impact and no balance required. Mostly upper body. My knees may be resting but I am certainly still keeping active. I don't think my arms have ever worked so hard. Although while it would be nice to have a goal to do an unassisted pull-up (NOT happening anytime soon), I think a more realistic goal will be to be able to refill the water cooler at work without too much difficulty. I am a bad employee right now. If it is empty, I do not refill it. I can do it. I mean, I did it once, but it wasn't pretty. More awkward than anything else but instead of potentially making a giant puddle, I am acknowledging and working within my limitations. ;)
Now about the food. For anyone looking for a fun twist on spaghetti, this is a delicious marinara sauce. A heartier, cooked version of my 15-minute garlic basil marinara sauce, I fortified the sauce with red lentils. The finishing raw garlic and basil made the sauce truly special. I swapped the raw zucchini noodles for winter's veggie noodle: spaghetti squash. While those expecting a noodle replica will be disappointed, those looking for a fun veggie side will be thrilled. A new texture and a fun way to slurp up all the delicious sauce.
So, please tell me: how was your Valentine's Day? Do you refill the water cooler?? :)
This is my submission to this month's Credit Crunch Munch, Extra Veg, Pasta Please, Simple and in Season and Cooking with Herbs.
Vegan Cheesy Chickpea Dip with Coconut Bacon
I tried a little bit harder with this dip.
You had great suggestions for sprucing up my Mexican Black Bean Dip. It was all about the garnishes: salsa, chopped tomatoes, cilantro, and tortillas were all great ideas.
This time I topped the dip with coconut bacon. (I will tell you about the delicious dip in a moment, but first: COCONUT BACON). This was not my first encounter with coconut bacon. I have tried it in many different iterations: lovingly inside a BLT at Aux Vivres, as a snack I brought to Burning Man courtesy of Phoney Baloney, and even a slippery, thick raw coconut bacon made from fresh coconut inside The Naked Sprout's BLT.
While I have made raw eggplant bacon before, coconut bacon had been on my hitlist for awhile. I even captured a picture of their ingredient list when I was at Aux Vivres. Definitely one of the benefits of them selling items to go. However, instead of using their ingredient list, I ran with Julie's recommendation to add smoked paprika to the recipes floating around the web. It worked for the raw eggplant bacon so I was quickly sold on her smoked paprika pitch. It did not disappoint and I liked it better than anything else I had tried. The fact that it made so much is great because we are going to enjoy this for awhile.
But don't let me distract you from this dip. A cheesy chickpea spread with smoky undertones, it was a fun salty snack I served at our tamalada. We had some delicious chips that needed a dip and this was a great choice. Everyone approved and Rob is adamant about bringing it back into our dip repertoire. I won't stop him.. and to give him due credit, I only crafted the recipes, Rob executed them with finesse… and then I cobbled together some photographs. :)
With the Superbowl, Academy Awards and the Olympics on the horizon, this may be the dip-friendly part of the year. If you would like other delicious dips, consider these, too:
Green Velvet Guacamole (aka Guacamame or Edamame Guacamole)
Ginger Lime Wasabi Edamame Hummus
Hillbilly Hummus (Black Eyed Pea and Peanut Butter Hummus)
This is my submission to this month's Four Seasons Food Challenge, this month's Cheese Please, this month's Spice Trail for paprika, and to this month's Bookmarked Recipes.
Tomato Red Lentil Soup with Dill
I love it when Houston behaves itself.
Rob and I had another Canadian visitor recently. In between Polar Vortex 1 and Polar Vortex 2, Houstonians enjoyed balmy (normal) summery weather at its finest. You know, summer how it is meant to be: around 25ºC. None of that feels like 38ºC with 90% humidity forecast. None of that below freezing business (that's tonight, by the way).
Together, we did more touristy things than we had ever done before: hiking next to alligators, admiring the Museum of Fine Art's impressive gold collection, watching Americana in our backyard via the Martin Luther King Jr Parade. However, I still skipped out on the stereotypical NASA Space Center visit. We still shared our favourite haunts but explored new restaurants as well. Nearly every meal was pre-planned. My friend had so many restaurants she wanted to try!
After the whirlwind of a visit (if you knew my friend, you would know this is no overstatement), both Rob and my friend parted for Canada. One to Toronto and the other to Winnipeg. Both returned to temperatures around -20ºC (-4F). Yesterday, my friend in Winnipeg told me it was -40ºC with the windshield. For those that need a conversion to Fahrenheit, at -40, both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales collide. Collide and freeze. They are the same. Both, really, really cold.
With the imminent cold weather, I am sharing another warming soup. Red lentils are a perfect blank canvas for a hearty meal. Pureed tomatoes and red lentils are combined with cauliflower and brown rice in a broth spiced with cumin, mustard and dill. I never would have thought to combine those flavours together but the dill really brightened the dish. This is an excellent soup!
How have you been keeping warm lately?
This is my submission to Deb for this week's Souper Sundays and to this month's Bookmarked Recipes.
PS. The winner of Balanced Raw is Marquis. Congratulations! (more…)
Kabocha Squash, Coconut & Lentil Soup
I spoke too soon. It was cold but now it is warm.
Houston felt the "Polar Vortex". The "Arctic Invasion" that froze Niagara Falls (!!) (on the American side) brought Houston to lows a bit below freezing. With the 90% humidity, -4ºC was quite chilly but nothing compared to what the rest of the country was feeling. But this weekend, the humidity and chills disappeared. It was a balmy 26ºC with (only!) 25% humidity and Rob and I celebrated by wearing shorts, visiting the beach and kayaking in the Galveston area bay. Yeah, it was summer once again.
People at work wonder why I am so happy, but even small victories like this make my heart sing. Every time I cycle to work, I am ecstatic. Instead of hurricanes, Houston was hit by a drought this year. I have cycled to work every day, safe 3 days so far in the past 6 months. Snow, ice and rain will keep me off my bike, not cold weather alone.
Soups like this also make my tummy sing. It is filled with all great things: red lentils as a solid base, kabocha squash and coconut milk for a creamy backdrop, spiced with ginger and chile flakes, tempered by tamarind and lime juice with a lemongrass twist. The flavours meld perfectly and this is a soup that will definitely warm you up during a cold front.
Were you hit by the cold? I heard the vortex may return again. I am thinking warm thoughts for you.
If you like this soup, you may also enjoy these:
Butternut Squash and Coconut Indian Stew
Plantains and Cabbage with Split Peas
Thai Sweet Potato and Kabocha Squash Stew
This is my submission to Deb for this week's Souper Sundays and to this month's Bookmarked Recipes.
Top 13 Reader Favourite Recipes from 2013
Thank you for all your positive feedback from my top 13 favourite recipes. This is the first year I also looked through my blog stats and decided to share your favourite recipes you read on my blog last year. I was going to add them to my last post, but I didn't want to overwhelm you. Some oldie-but-goodies are in this list, so be sure to check them all out.
1. Apple Strudel (How to Make Authentic German Apfelstrudel)
My most popular recipe is not even vegan, but I am tickled pink that I keep reading everyone's success with our family recipe for apple strudel. No store-bought phyllo dough here, we have authentic strudel dough. Who does not enjoy seeing step-by-step photos of my Oma making an apple strudel? (Also my top post last year).
2. Ethiopian Lentils in Berbere Sauce (Yemiser W'et)
We have gravitated to Ethiopian w'ets as they are cousins to simple Indian dals. Easy, flavourful and healthy. All good! Ethiopian restos can be hit-or-miss for me, as Ethiopian food tends to be even more spicy than Indian curries. I learned the hard way that Penzey's berbere is way.too.spicy, but this recipe comes with a delicious blend for even the mild palate.
3. Better Than Nutella Cheesecake (Almost Raw Chocolate Hazelnut Cheesecake)
You have good taste. This dessert was awesome. An almost raw cheesecake with nutella flavours from chocolate and hazelnuts.
4. Raw Tacos with Walnut Taco Meat, Cashew Sour Cream and a Cherry Tomato Salsa
A raw cuisine classic, and it is no surprise why. Even the most serious meat eaters approved! The walnuts are easily crumbled into a mock ground beef and topped with a simple tomato salsa and cashew sour cream.
5. Spanish Chickpeas and Spinach with Roasted Garlic
If you could not tell, I really like chickpeas and they work well warmed. Here they are dressed up Spanish-style along with smoked paprika, roasted garlic, lemon and spinach for an easy weeknight meal.
6. Almost Guiltless No-Bake Chocolate Mousse Pie
A hit from last year, this chocolate mousse silk pie acquires its light silkiness from tofu. I promise you can't taste it. This was so good, I also turned it into a chocolate mint no-churn ice cream.
7. Ethiopian Split Pea Puree (Kik Alicha)
It boggles my mind that kik alicha, a simple Ethiopian split pea puree, is one of my post popular posts of the year. But it shouldn't. It is a deliciously garlicky, silky dip/spread/thick stew. For those who think Ethiopian food is only hot-and-spicy, this will definitely prove you wrong.
8. Broccoli and Cauliflower Salad with Lime and Cilantro (Whole Foods Detox Salad)
This was a fun cilantro-lime twist on a broccoli and cauliflower rice salad originally popularized by taking the Whole Foods salad bar by storm. Sunflower seeds add crunch and dried currants add sweetness, making a fantastically popular salad.
9. Nut-Free Raw Carrot Cupcakes with Apple-Cashew Frosting
I was going to include this in my list of of favourite recipes from 2013, but I knew it would be repeated here, so I refrained. Coconut flour was revolutionary in my kitchen and this was my gateway dessert. A low-fat, nut-free, raw carrot cupcake made with carrots, topped with an apple-cashew frosting. Ingenious, no?
10. Mango Cupcakes with Mango Buttercream Frosting
Bring on more cupcakes! I made these for Rob's birthday and they were a hit. A lower oil cupcake made possible by adding mango puree to the cupcake batter. Spiked with vanilla and cardamom, they were topped with a mango-coconut buttercream frosting. The frosting melted by the end of the night, but the cupcakes were a winner.
11. Vegan Okonomiyaki (aka Japanese Vegetable Pancake), As You Like It
I really like that some of my popular posts are quite non-traditional. This a vegan spin on the Japanese cabbage pancake. Instead of flour, tofu and cornstarch/arrowroot are used to bind the baked pancake together. Top with black sesame seeds, shredded nori, as well as okonomi sauce and Japanese-style mayo for the real deal.
12. Savoury Indian Chickpea Pancakes (Besan Chilla)
A staple in our kitchen, these are Indian-flavoured chickpea pancakes that Rob loves to whip together on weekends together. They are very flexible, so fill them with your vegetable odds-and-ends. Our newest favourite version incorporates kimchi into the batter.
13. Quinoa Wraps with Sweet Potato, Tofu Feta and a Sweet Tahini Dipping Sauce
This was a portable spin on an Ottolenghi-inspired salad with sweet potato, quinoa, wild rice and brown basmati rice with tofu feta and a sweet and creamy tahini dipping sauce. Wrap it in rice paper rolls for easier transportation, or leave it a salad in a bowl; it will be delicious either way.
14. Warm Chickpea and Artichoke Salad
A bonus #14 since we had a repeat for #3. Plus this is an oldie-but-goodie and worthwhile revisiting (or visiting if you have not tried it yet). Pan-fried chickpeas and toasted almonds are combined with artichoke hearts in an Italian marinade with lemon, basil and oregano.
What were your favourite finds from the year? Did I miss any of your favourites?
Favourite here, previously:
My 10 Favourite Recipes from 2010
My 11 Favourite Recipes from 2011
My 12 Favourite Recipes from 2012
My 13 Favourite Recipes from 2013


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Is there a way to export SiteMap surfaces to PyMOL?
Yes, using maps. There is an article on the PyMOLWiki that discusses working with maps:
To export SiteMap surfaces, follow the sequence below.
- Run SiteMap.
- From the Manage Surfaces panel in Maestro, export the SiteMap surface using "Export to Map". Choose CCP4 as the file format.
- Transfer the structural information to Pymol. One way is to put the receptor and ligand into the Maestro Workspace, choose Maestro → PyMOL, then click Send: Workspace in the Pymol for Maestro panel. You can also start Pymol, and Import the structure with File → Open.
Optionally, at the PyMOL command line, enter the command
unset normalize_ccp4_maps
This is mentioned at the bottom of the web page listed above, and will equate the Maestro isovalue with the PyMOL isovalue.
- Use File → Open to import the surface into PyMOL. You will need to select the file type. The surface will be listed as a separate object in the structure table
To display the map, use the "isomesh" command. The
usage is:
isomesh object-name, map-name, iso-value, structure-object, carve=n
For instance, if the SiteMap surface was named test1_map.ccp4, and the structure is called "maestro01" in the Pymol table, then a command with isovalue "-8" would look like
isomesh my_map, test1_map, -8, maestro01, carve=3.0
Experiment with the isovalue and carve value to adjust the surface for your preferences. Also consider the
map_doublecommand mentioned in the web page above to increase the mesh density. In addition, there are other suggestions to increase the quality of the image.
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While cranberry sauce is a staple on Thanksgiving, sometimes we often find ourselves with an excess of the tart berries and no use for them. Why not add cranberries to the table in a new way by drying them out? We've got a homemade version with less sugar than Craisins but still has that chewy, tart taste you love. As long as you're hanging around the house, you just leave the oven on to do the work.
1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. This is a slow process, but requires less than five minutes of hands-on work.
2. Toss cranberries in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of orange juice and 1 teaspoon of sugar.
3. Lay across a foiled, ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 200 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. You will see the progression of the berries as they wrinkle when they lose moisture. Then, increase the temperature to 250 degrees and bake for another 30 minutes.
4. After 2 hours, turn off the oven, but leave the cranberries in the oven for another 2 hours.
5. Remove from pan and store in a jar in the refrigerator. It keeps for a month.
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Fifth century bishop in Scotland. Driven into exile by pagan Scots, he spent his latter years as a hermit on the Isle of Man.
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National Cheese Pizza Day
September 5th is National Cheese Pizza Day! Pizza, as we all know, is a type of baked flatbread, usually topped with tomato sauce and cheese, along with about a zillion combinations of other items. It originated many years ago in Naples, Italy, and the cheese pizza is arguably the most popular of them all.
Here are 10 amazing cheese pizza recipes, ranging from Mac & Cheese to Grilled, & ending with a classic cheese with roasted tomato sauce. Don't miss the video bonus at the end for a very unique twist…Bon Appetit!
- Hotter than Hell Cheese Pizza: A quick vegetable pizza made with three different spicy cheeses, plus some red and green peppers for good measure. … Nick thinks you should have some milk at the ready for this recipe. Be sure to check out his blog, ……More at Hotter than Hell Cheese Pizza – Taste for Adventure – Tablespoon
- Grilled Cherry Tomato, Corn, & Goat Cheese: Pizza on the grill is my number one way to entertain outdoors. Just ask any of my friends and neighbors, and they'll tell you there is always a fresh pie on the grates. I love creating new flavors using up the last of my farmers ……More at Grilled Cherry Tomato, Corn, and Goat Cheese Pizza Recipes
- Mac & Cheese Pizza Recipe: While on vacation this summer, my children were reading the kids' menu at a restaurant and proclaimed they were getting macaroni and cheese pizza……More at Mac & Cheese Pizza Recipe Will Have Your Kids Begging for More …
- 3 Cheese Pizza w/ Pancetta & Mushrooms: INGREDIENTS. Pizza dough; 1/2 cup purchased marinara sauce; 1 cup coarsely grated Fontina cheese; 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan cheese; 1/3 cup coarsely grated mozzarella cheese; 2 ounces crimini (baby bella) mushrooms, thinly ……More at Three-Cheese Pizza with Pancetta and Mushrooms – Bon Appétit
- Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza: Flavorful, soft, homemade pizza topped with tomatoes, zucchini, red onions, and goat cheese. … Flavorful, soft, homemade pizza topped with tomatoes, zucchini, red onions, and goat cheese….More at Zucchini Goat Cheese Pizza + Giveaway | Diethood
- Ham & Pimento Cheese Brunch Pizza:Â This pie topped with pimiento cheese, ham and eggs is the perfect recipe to satisfy your morning hunger. Find prepared pimiento cheese in the refrigerated….More at Ham and Pimiento Cheese Brunch Pizza Recipe
- Fig, Bacon, & Blue Cheese Pizza: So the moral of this story is that I just really adore figs, cheese and – obviously – bacon. And pizza. And even… arugula. If I love all of those things, how could they steer me in the wrong direction? Exactly. That's why I ate all this pizza by myself. … until cheese and crust is golden and bubbly. Remove and let cool for 5-10 minutes. Toss the arugula with olive oil, salt and pepper, then add on top of pizza. Serve! There's a lot of green stuff on there, no? Pizza, Recipes….More at Fresh Fig, Bacon + Blue Cheese Pizza | How Sweet It Is
- Asparagus, Bacon, & Herbed Cheese Pizza: A zesty pizza that's especially nice with spring asparagus but lovely all year round when you add mozzarella and bacon. — Dahlia Abrams, Detroit, Michigan….More at Asparagus, Bacon & Herbed Cheese Pizza Recipe | Taste of Home
- Grilled Philly Cheese Steak Pizza Recipe: Products for this post were provided by Pillsbury through MyBlogSpark. All opinions are 100% my own. With summer here grilling season is in full force, but have you ever thought of grilling pizza? Pillsbury has made it super ……More at Nanny to Mommy: Grilled Philly Cheese Steak Pizza Recipe + …
- Classic Cheese Pizza w/ Roasted Tomato Sauce: This homemade pizza uses a traditional, from-scratch and roasted grape tomato sauce to complement a classic mozzarella topping. Serve with a side salad of your choosing and a glass of wine. Classic Cheese Pizza with ……More at Classic Cheese Pizza with Roasted Tomato Sauce | Making Life …
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The power of one key for Maroons
Phil Lutton One round to play, one spot to fill. Queensland selectors will keep an eagle eye on this weekend's NRL games before deciding on a key final addition to their State of Origin stocks.
Selectors face difficult choice over Maroons' game two squad
Phil Lutton Breaking up is hard to do. But sometimes people, footballers even, just grow apart. Sigh.
Petero still has an Origin role
Phil Lutton Queensland Origin selectors have a handful of key decisions to make for their game one squad but dropping Petero Civoniceva isn't one of them, writes Phil Lutton.
Super Friday shapes up as ultimate Origin audition
Phil Lutton Super Friday at Suncorp Stadium shapes as a mass State of Origin audition on both sides of the border, with the final blueprint of the Queensland and New South Wales squads destined to be influenced...
Maroons hopefuls in white-hot form
Phil Lutton New South Wales will be confronted with a Maroons side stacked with in-form stars and a colossal bench when Mal Meninga unveils his squad tonight for the Origin opener.
If it ain't broke: Maroons squad unchanged
Phil Lutton New South Wales may think it's broken after going close in game one but Queensland selectors have seen nothing that requires fixing, unveiling the same 17-man squad for the second Origin in Sydney on...
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Phil Lutton Israel Folau has played his last State of Origin game for Queensland.
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well i had a post on a 22LR pistol or wheel or rifle and
when i was at the store and saw a small Rifle and it was a Ruger <3
and it was a traditional looking rifle, (and it was a ruger) Model 10/22
I can say the range was closed when i got my 22LR and in the am Ill be there ASAP!! right when they open.. =)
Range report comming in the AM. ( well after the range)
here is action pic.
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YEAH!!!! Get some!!! =D
I'm taking my daughter out to the range tonight. Her first weapons safety course and then a little live fire action!!! Should be good fun.
10/22s are great plinking fun! Have a blast!
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well i had to make sure the rifle had some oil , and
here is some pics...
This 10/22 is so easy to clean vs a ruger mk pistol.. LOL
Awesome buy! You can't go wrong with a 10/22.
No range report tonight. I was hoping. The class lasted an hour longer than it was supposed to (man that guy was really pleased with himself), she was grumpy at 10 pm and the range was starting to fill up (don't close til midnight).
well just got home and had about 2 hrs at the range .,.,,. i would of stayed till the 3pm close but had to do some other things... grrr.....
I went about 300 rounds and only 2 issues but not the rifle fault. 1 rnd had a case sper,, and 1 rnd had a bad copper coat and was epic to big to fit..
besides that my first time with a rifle with no scope.. (getting one really soon.)
25 yrds and did a 5'' x 7'' group.
time to start looking for a scope....
i herd that bsa makes good budget scopes? any info on that...
That's a good lookin' rifle! Looks a lot like the one I had before the boat accident.
Take a look at this:Simmons 3-9x32 .22 Mag Rifle Scope
Simmons is head and shoulders above BSA.
And SWFA is a great place to shop!
I just picked up a 3-9x50mm from WalMart for $35 along with some high-rise rings so I can still see the iron sights for another $10. With that scope, I'm getting groupings of about 2" at 100 yards over 20 rounds. It's extremely crisp and clear!
I just picked up a scope from walmart a center point .
3-9 x 32 it was about $58 if i remember well,using it to look around the street wow is all i can say... and the clamps went on the rifle tail really easy..
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CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP | Lake County police responding Thursday to a fire that leveled a home near Lake Dalecarlia discovered an injured man, who was airlifted to Loyola University Medical Center.
Police responding to the fire in the 4700 block of West 153rd Avenue about 12:30 p.m. Thursday found the house completely engulfed, according to a news release issued Friday by police spokeswoman Patti Van Til.
A local resident told police an explosion had been heard just before the start of the fire, the release stated.
Police are investigating the role of the injured man, who was not identified. His condition is currently unknown, according to the release.
Police identified the home's owner as Richard Stone, of Cedar Lake.
Police believe no one was living in the home at the time of the fire, which is considered a possible arson.
The fire remains under investigation, the release stated.
Five fire departments responded Thursday to the blaze at the northeast corner of 153rd Avenue and Colfax Street.
No one was living in the house, which was being renovated, the release stated. The house burned to the ground in less than an hour.
The fire was one of two reported within an hour of each other Thursday.
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4. Project Reports
OUCS attracts around £1m in external grants each year from bodies such as the JISC and Research Councils. These allow us to pursue important development and research projects of key importance to the future direction of the University, which we otherwise would not have had the funding to do. We also offer assistance to faculties and departments who wish to pursue funding applications with a considerable IT element. In this final section we present short reports on some of the projects we have led.
4.1. Accessing and Storing Knowledge
The JISC-funded Accessing and Storing Knowledge (ASK) project was completed in April 2007. The project successfully created a pilot repository system that demonstrates the integration of open standards within the repository domain. The system allows students, tutors, and librarians to create and share reading lists using federated library searches, as well as store files that can be accessed through the Internet.
We have secured further funding for a follow-up project called Bridging the Interoperability Divide (BID). The new funding will allow the project team to work with Oxford eResearch Centre (OeRC) and Systems and e-Research Service (SERS) to continue implementing interoperability specifications between learning, library and e-science technologies.
4.2. Bridging the Interoperability Divide
The Bridging the Interoperability Divide (BID) project received funding from April 2007. The project, led by OULS in partnership with OUCS and OeRC, is building interoperability between three digital repository systems: Fedora (OULS), Storage Resource Broker (SRB) (OeRC), and ASK/Sakai (OUCS). The creation of a joined-up set of repository applications will support workflows between e-science research, academic publishing, and learning support. The project is focussing on a selection of repository services including:
Metadata harvesting (e.g. harvesting metadata from SRB to Fedora);
Access management (e.g. Shibboleth across organisational boundaries);
The project is contributing to the planned migration of Weblearn from Bodington to Sakai, and is part of a wider set of activities under the aegis of the Oxford Digital Repositories Steering Group.
4.3. British National Corpus (BNC)
The British National Corpus (BNC) is a major linguistic resource, developed at OUCS and still widely used by language learners and teachers worldwide, as a unique snapshot of British English at the end of the 20th century. This year we completed a complete revision of the corpus, converting it from SGML to XML, reviewing and revising several aspects of its encoding, and correcting some long standing errors. Production of this new edition was carried out by Lou Burnard and Ylva Berglund, with input from many BNC users worldwide.
Distribution of the new version began in March 2007, and within four months we had distributed nearly 300 copies in over thirty countries under the terms of a new licence.
4.4. Constructing2Learn
http://dfl.cetis.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Constructing2Learn Constructing2Learn is a project funded by the JISC Designs for Learning Programme. The 18-month project began in May 2006. The project has built and is evaluating software and learning designs to enable university students to build computer simulations and games within their field of expertise. Oxford University academics in Zoology and the Said Business School have collaborated with us as domain experts and are testing our software with their students. We have developed student handouts that provide detailed instructions for building models of artificial societies and the spread of infectious diseases.
The software prototype consists of:
A library of program fragments capable of being assembled into serious models of animal behaviour, epidemics, ecologies, and economies;
A component that generates and runs NetLogo models (http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/);
An interface to LAMS 2.0 (Learning Activity Management System — http://www.lamsinternational.com/) to support the creation and execution of learning designs involving scientific model creation.
This research will continue for another two years within the Modelling4All project funded by the Eduserv Foundation.
4.5. e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models
The e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models (eIUS) project aims to gather and document concrete evidence of how e-infrastructure is, or is planned to be used as a facilitator of the research process across all major disciplines, in order to broaden participation in the use and future development of e-infrastructure services. The project's overall objectives are to:
develop a deep understanding of the e-Infrastructure services that are currently available in the UK, as well as how they are used by the research community in all major subject disciplines;
establish a self-sustaining community process to contribute to this shared understanding during and beyond the lifetime of the project;
contribute to the International e-Framework Initiative whose primary aim is to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes.
The project received funding from the JISC in April 2007 and, during this period, has developed a methodology for the gathering of usage data and the construction of narrative use cases. The project is led by OUCS in collaboration with the e-Horizons Institute and National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS — University of Manchester).
4.6. Frockle
Building on the successful introduction of MyWebLearn personal spaces in the institutional Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), the Frockle project's overall aim was to provide a means of:
linking to other personal spaces and resources within the VLE.
This was achieved by integrating Friend of a Friend (FOAF) capabilities into WebLearn, and making use of the eProfile toolkit developed by the University of Essex. A graphical interface is provided to allow easy navigation and creation of linked users as a social network. User profiles are stored in a separate database and accessed via web services, allowing the potential for other applications to re-use the profiles.
The project was funded by JISC as a toolkit demonstrator project in the e-Learning frameworks and tools programme, and additional funding was granted to allow the enhancement of the original toolkit to accommodate our requirements.
4.7. Oxford e-Research Centre
On 15th June 2007, the Vice-Chancellor attended the official opening of the new e-Science Building at 7 Keble Road, and the formal launch of the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC).
The OeRC is a major initiative to stimulate and support new forms of research across the whole of Oxford University, by enabling the use and development of innovative computational and information technology in multidisciplinary collaborations. The Centre is strongly linked to the UK's national e-Science programme, and national and international collaborations ensure that activities here at Oxford are aligned with e-infrastructure developments nationwide and abroad. The OeRC works closely with OUCS to develop new computing facilities, projects and collaborations. OUCS and the OeRC participate jointly in the eIUS and BIDS projects.
The many innovative projects involving the OeRC can be seen at
http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/activities/e-ResearchProjects.xml (out of date).
4.8. OSS Watch
OSS Watch is the JISC funded project providing advice and guidance to UK Further and Higher education wishing to engage with open source software. OSS Watch has been hosted by OUCS since its inception in 2003.
In the last year, OSS Watch has focused on the following key activities:
Producing content on issues relating to open source software;
Profiling the level of uptake and development of open source software in Further and Higher education.
We have published 27 documents on the OSS Watch website during the year ranging from briefing notes to conference reports and case studies. These publications have covered issues such as sustainable open source development and effective engagement with open source projects.
Our support activities fall into two main areas:
- Project development — 25 face to face project consultations, over 50 telephone and / or email consultations, running a community development workshop held in Oxford, attendance at numerous external events;
- Knowledge transfer — engaged with 18 institutions directly (including Oxford) plus engagement with services such as JISC legal and ISIS Innovation.
Other significant activity has been the study of development practices within JISC projects with reference to the JISC open source policy and our first automated study of software (in this case inbound mail servers) deployed within HE and FE. Such studies, alongside our bi-annual national survey, inform our future support efforts.
Other important activities include:
Events within Oxford such as Isis Innovation workshops, Online and Offline Survey Methods, Copyright and Online Resources, Choosing a Linux Distribution, Open Source for the Keen Photographer, Single Source Publishing with Apache Forrest;
The adoption of a Client Relationship Management system for internal management of our support activities;
The creation of Simal, an open source, RDF based project catalogue registry which utilizes outputs from the Apache stable of open source products.
4.9. Oxford Text Archive
The Oxford Text Archive celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2006,
and in September held a one day conference on the history and future
of electronic text archives and the state of humanities computing at
OUCS. The conference combined celebration of past achievements, a
touch of nostalgia, a critical appraisal of the current landscape,
and a lively discussion of future possibilities. Presentations can
be found online at
http://ota.ox.ac.uk/OTA30/ (out of date).
New accessions to the collections of electronic resources this year displaid an enormous variety from a revised version of the Corpus of Sumerian, a new edition of Chaucer's Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, the Lancaster Newsbooks Corpus (of fascinating 17th century news pamphlets), and corpora of modern language data, including a corpus of French research articles, and one of academic spoken English. Among numerous outreach activities, the OTA participated in workshops at the annual PALA conference in Kansai Gaidai Japan, and at the Corpus Linguistics 2007 conference in Birmingham, to promote the use of electronic resources in literary studies, and ran a workshop on electronic text encoding at the International Medieval Congress in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
The JISC-funded XCRI project developed data formats for the eXchange of Course Related Information between computers, and specifically, a prototype Course Advertising Profile (CAP).
When complete, CAP will enable institutions in Further and Higher Education to advertise their courses to careers advisers, school leavers and adult learners using regional and national web services.
The OXCRI project was funded by JISC to test the nascent XCRI-CAP schema against a diversity of course types:
Examined and non-examined courses offered by the Department of Continuing Education to the general public;
Courses for research students and staff advertised by the Skills Portal managed by the Careers Service.
These courses have a range of learning methods (entirely online, assisted by online resources and face to face), and a range of learning outcomes (technical training, continuing professional development, diplomas, degrees and postgraduate degrees).
We found little difficulty in automatically encoding course overviews in CAP and sending these to JISC's trial web server. The OXCRI project has recommended significant improvements to the trial CAP schema. We have enhanced the CAP schema with Schematron rules to implement business logic, and demonstrated how nested elements drawn from different schemas (CAP, Dublin Core, XHTML) can be validated using the recent ISO NVDL (Namespace-based Validation Dispatching Language). Since Continuing Education runs courses across Oxfordshire, we have also mapped CAP data to the KML format of Google Earth and Google Maps to enable prospective students to quickly find which courses are available where.
4.11. OxShibboleth
OUCS has deployed a production Shibboleth service which will enable Oxford users to access, amongst other things, resources currently protected by the external Athens service. Shibboleth is an international access management protocol based on a federation of trust model and designed to enable the use of institutional single sign-on systems to access online resources managed by other organisations within the same federation.
From August 2008, Shibboleth will replace Athens as the preferred route to JISC-licensed resources (though Athens will continue as a subscription-based service for those institutions who desire it). Shibboleth is increasingly the protocol of choice within the e-science domain and for national access management regimes (e.g. Switzerland).
The OUCS production service, for which the technical implementation was completed in the last quarter of this period, built on the experience OUCS had gained through a number of JISC-funded Shibboleth projects. The implementation was undertaken in consultation with OULS and is expected to be formally rolled out to users from January 2008, though it is now possible to use an Oxford username to access most Athens-protected resources. The second phase of the project will focus on providing support for Oxford resource providers who wish to enable access to users based at other institutions.
4.12. The Phoebe Pedagogic Planner Project
Phoebe is a collaboration between the Learning Technologies Group and Technology-Assisted Lifelong Learning (Department of Continuing Education). Its brief is to build a tool to guide practitioners working in post-compulsory learning (FE, HE and ACL) in designing effective and pedagogically sound learning activities. The key objectives are to:
Develop a prototype online planning tool that will offer users both flexible and guided paths through the planning process and encourage them to explore new approaches and tools in their pedagogy;
User-test the planning tool for functionality and usability;
Investigate the integration of the planning tool into pedagogic practice by trialling it in teacher-training and staff-development contexts.
Phase 1 (May 2006-February 2007) focused on developing a proof-of-concept prototype. In phase 2 (March 2007-February 2008) we are working on a more full-featured tool for evaluation with practitioners.
Dissemination activities have included presentations at Alt-C 2006 and CAL'07, and participation in an international pedagogic planning 'round table' at the London Knowledge Lab in July 2007.
4.13. First World War Poetry Digital Archive
The First World War Poetry Digital Archive (FPDA) project commenced in April 2007. The FPDA will contain primary source material from some of the major British poets from the First World War. This will consist predominantly of manuscripts and letters from five poets, plus contextual information such as images, video and audio. It will also innovatively show how these can be embedded in teaching, include facilities to help researchers and lecturers personalise their interactions with the site, and open the archive up for remote deposit via its Community Collection. So far the project has focused on:
Selecting, placing orders for, and cataloging the digital objects;
Securing formal usage agreements with the literary estates and holding institutions;
Establishing a metadata schema, and designing the technical architecture of the archive;
The object repository software CONTENTdm has been chosen as the content delivery system.
The project has also established links with various other individuals, groups and institutions to help in the promotion of the project, in particular the community collection. Podcasts have been made of a number of relevant lectures, events and interviews with public figures and made available on the project website and iTunes.
The project is working closely with researchers, teachers and lecturers of First World War Literature to design supporting educational resources and tools, ensuring that the archive is firmly embedded within practice. During the coming year we will be running a workshop entitled 'Teaching WW1 Literature' to discuss various aspects of teaching practice in the genre, including the use of digital resources.
This project builds on the Virtual Seminars for Teaching Literature Project which was funded by the JISC under the JTAP scheme for (1996-98) and is widely used in schools, FE colleges, and for University teaching and research. The new archive will be launched on the 90th anniversary of the Armistice on the 11th November 2008.
4.14. SACODEYL: System Aided Compilation and Open Distribution of European Youth Language
This is a three-year project which aims to develop an ICT-based system for the assisted compilation and open distribution of European teenager's talk in the context of language education. The project will compile spoken corpora for seven European languages and make these available in text, sound, and video format, together with language learning exercises based on the corpora. A further aim of the project is to facilitate future creation and use of similar resources by making available the tools, methods, and techniques developed for the project.
The project is supported by the European Commission within the Socrates/Minerva scheme (http://ec.europa.eu/education/programmes/socrates/minerva/index_en.html) and brings together researchers from seven European institutions, led by University of Murcia, Spain.
This year, OUCS has produced the XML-schema that will be used for the corpora. We have also co-ordinated the collection of the English corpus material which is now being transcribed and annotated. The next phase sees the creation of a set of language learning exercises and dissemination of corpora and other resources.
4.15. Exploring the Experiences of Master's Students in Technologically-Rich Environments
Exploring the Experiences of Master's Students in Technologically-Rich Environments (Thema) project is part of JISC's Learner Experiences of E-learning programme. This project is investigating how Master's students at Oxford University use digital technologies in their academic and social lives. We believe that students at this level are of interest because of their heterogeneity in terms of age, educational history and life situation. Starting from the assumption that they come to Oxford with an existing set of IT skills and technological tools at their disposal, we are investigating:
- Whether – and how – students' use of such tools changes during their course, through contact with the tools provided by the University and tools which they find out about in other ways;
- Students' perspective on the use of technology by teaching staff;
- The extent to which students are using 'social software' and whether they feel these tools might have a role to play in their studies;
- Whether it is possible to characterise the 'effective' use of technology to support learning, and how such knowledge might help students develop appropriate strategies.
The project is using online surveys to gather broad-brush quantitative data, triangulated by qualitative data in the form of 10-12 case studies. The case studies will be constructed from written contributions solicited from October 2007-May 2008 and follow-up interviews.
4.16. Text Encoding Initiative
Oxford is one of the four host organizations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Consortium, an international project creating detailed guidelines and XML schemata for the encoding of texts.
Our main role in the past year has working on the P5 version of the TEI Guidelines, with a confirmed release date of November 1st 2007. We have provided the main editorial input, maintenance of all the tools, and project management. The following staff from the RTS have worked on the TEI:
Lou Burnard (European editor of the TEI): Guidelines development and teaching;
Sebastian Rahtz: infrastructure tools, publication stylesheets, Roma schema interface (
http://www.tei-c.org.uk/Roma/), and teaching;
A two-day course on the TEI was offered through the ITLP in February 2007, and staff offered papers and teaching at international workshops in Wurzburg, Kalamazoo, Dagstuhl, Montreal, and Nancy.
During the year we hosted two visiting researchers for the TEI: Carmen Arronis Llopis (University of Alicante) and Ioan Bernevig (University of Nancy).
4.17. VLE Service: New Features and Strategic Enhancements
The VLE Development team are currently at the early stages of making long-term strategic improvements to WebLearn. The incumbent VLE is based on the Bodington System (http://bodington.org) but we intend to replace this with a new framework known as Sakai (http://sakaiproject.org). The rationale for the change is that Bodington usage and development in the UK is dwindling and we simply do not have the resources to maintain and develop the software on our own.
Sakai already has lots of features which match or better Bodington's current functionality. In addition, with the support of the international community, we are in the process of transferring the 'best bits' of Bodington into the Sakai framework; things like the hierarchy, groups service, and devolved administration. This means that over the last year resources have been moved away from developing WebLearn (Bodington) into developing a replacement Sakai service.
Some new facilities have been added to WebLearn including the provision of two new tools. The first is a peer marking tool which allows each member of a group to assign and moderate marks for each other. The second new tool provides a basic Collaborative Authoring Environment known as EasyWriter. This allows an HTML document to be generated by individuals or teams and provides locking and change tracking. A screen shot is shown below:
Other, smaller improvements include the merging of the quick link and external link tools; the streamlining of the process of resource creation including input validation; the networking of resources that share the same keywords; and the introduction of a high-class WYSIWYG HTML editor (FCK Edit) with image upload capabilities.
As indicated above, a lot of work has gone into the preparation of a Sakai service. Information regarding the future of WebLearn can be found via: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ltg/vle/; specifically there is a wiki (http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/) which can be browsed by all interested parties. This includes links to our plans and the work currently being undertaken. A test implementation of Weblearn Beta is available for evaluation at http://beta.weblearn.ox.ac.uk/.
4.18. Virtual Research Environments
OUCS, through the Research Technologies Service, has been actively involved in a number of projects funded under the JISC Virtual Research Environments (VRE) Programme. The first phase of the Programme ended in this period, and OUCS completed its contributions to the Building a VRE for the Humanities (led by Professor Alan Bowman, Humanities Division); the development of a VRE for the Integrative Biology (IB) pilot e-Science project (led by Professor David Gavaghan, Computing Laboratory); and the SAKAI VRE Portal Demonstrator project (led by Professor Robert Crouchley, Centre for e-Science, University of Lancaster). The final report for the IB VRE project is available at http://www.vre.ox.ac.uk/ibvre/IBVRE-FinalReport-1a.pdf.
The Humanities Division, led by Alan Bowman, was successful in obtaining funding for a subsequent phase of the Building a VRE for the Humanities project, focusing on the development of a VRE for the study of documents and manuscripts (see http://bvreh.humanities.ox.ac.uk/), to which staff from OUCS continue to provide expertise.
UCISA is the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association, and is hosted by OUCS. UCISA represents those responsible for delivering information systems and technology services in universities, colleges and related institutions. UCISA's main aims are to promote best practice amongst its members through events, awards, publications and a network of contacts, and to represent the interests of its membership through lobbying, responding to consultations, relationships with other groups and taking part in appropriate working groups and committees.
UCISA ran eighteen events last year. These ranged from one day seminars covering subjects as diverse as Getting The Best From Customer Feedback (which was run at OUCS) to Service Oriented Architecture, to four multi-day conferences for directors of Information Services, heads of Corporate Information Services and advisory services and distributed IT support staff.
UCISA published the third edition of its Information Security Toolkit which provides template policies and procedures to help institutions comply with the international standard on information security (ISO27001:2005). In addition UCISA published the third edition of its Best Practice Guide on Exploiting and protecting the network.
UCISA represented the community in discussions with a number of Government departments and its agencies during 2006-7. Shared services was top of the agenda with the Cabinet Office actively promoting the introduction of such services right across the public sector. UCISA was also prominent in discussions with HESA, UCAS and the Student Loan Company on systems changes.
Finally, UCISA responded to a number of consultations on behalf of the community on various topics including the Commons Select Committee inquiry on the Bologna Process, student support regulations (DfES), procurement (HEFCE) and the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (DfES).
XAIRA is the name of the latest version of SARA, the text searching software originally developed at OUCS for use with the British National Corpus (BNC). This new version has been entirely re-written as a general purpose XML search engine, which will operate on any corpus of well-formed XML documents.
To accompany the BNC XML Edition we produced a new release of Xaira, with several new features designed to take advantage of the rich XML markup in the corpus. Like previous versions, this release (version 1.23) is distributed under an open source licence from the sourceforge site. Further enhancements, designed to improve the PHP interface, are expected to be completed later in the year as a part of the Clay Sanskrit Library project.
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WebControl::ToolTip Property
Gets or sets the text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the Web server control.
Namespace: System.Web.UI.WebControls
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
public: virtual property String^ ToolTip { String^ get (); void set (String^ value); }
Property ValueType: System::String
The text displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the Web server control. The default is String::Empty.
Use the ToolTip property to specify the custom text that is displayed when the mouse pointer hovers over the Web server control.
This property is rendered for all browsers. However, only Microsoft Internet Explorer will display this property as a ToolTip. All other browsers will ignore this property.
The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and ASP.NET Globalization and Localization.
The following example illustrates how to set the ToolTip property on the Button control, which is inherited from the WebControl base class.
The following code sample uses the single-file code model and may not work correctly if copied directly into a code-behind file. This code sample must be copied into an empty text file that has an .aspx extension. For more information on the Web Forms code model, see ASP.NET Web Forms Page Code Model.
Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.


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Unified Science Bridge Program (USB)
College Survival Skills
Many students entering college find it really different from high school, and it sometimes takes them several semesters to figure out how to be successful in college. For students who want to increase their potential to do well in college, Brooklyn College is offering a select number of students interested in mathematics and the sciences a chance to participate in the Unified Science Bridge program, a 6-week summer "college survival" program that offers many benefits, all completely free!
USB students take a free 3-credit college mathematics course focusing on problem solving and applications of mathematics to the sciences. They also learn how to negotiate the Brooklyn College campus and the offices and resources that support college success. Team building experiences create a familiar cohort of students before USB students start classes in September so they enter college already having friends and supporters. The program focuses on how to think about career choices in the sciences and how to plan college work so students have the maximum chances to be successful in graduate or professional careers or jobs in the sciences after graduation.
Students who have done USB in the past have given it high marks for giving them a great start in college; see what they have to say here:
Features of USB
- SCALE-UP Pre-Calculus – This is a dynamic student-centered, free, 3- credit class emphasizing collaborative problem solving, often worthwhile as a strong math foundation even for students who have had high school-level calculus
- Math-Science Link - Designed especially for science-oriented students, MS-Link helps students learn how to apply relevant mathematics concepts to actual science problems
- Orientation and Team Building - Get to know the Brooklyn College campus so you know the "who, where, when and whys" of navigating your way as a college student. The "Accessing Brooklyn College" activities employ real-life case studies that develop strategies to help students learn how to resolve common college-level problems.
- Career Exploration Project - Student are often not aware of the very wide range of lucrative and interesting careers open to students who are interested in science. The Career Exploration project broadens students perspectives about the many options open to students who study mathematics and science.
- Field trips - Trips around the city aimed at exploring science in action
- Free lunch!
Students who have already passed AP Calculus may be offered an alternative.
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Techniques to Learn About Structure and Function for AP Psychology
Practice questions for this study guide can be found at:
Biological Bases of Behavior Review Questions for AP Psychology
As technology has improved, scientists have used a wide range of techniques to learn about brain and neural function. Over 150 years ago, studying patients with brain damage linked loss of structure with loss of function. Phineas Gage was the level-headed, calm foreman of a railroad crew (1848) until an explosion hurled an iron rod through his head. After the injury severed the connections between his limbic system and frontal cortex, Gage became hostile, impulsive, and unable to control his emotions or his obscene language. Observed at autopsy, his loss of tissue (where the limbic system is connected to the frontal lobes) revealed the relationship between frontal lobes and control of emotional behavior. In another case, Paul Broca (1861) performed an autopsy on the brain of a patient, nicknamed Tan, who had lost the capacity to speak although his mouth and vocal cords weren't damaged and he could still understand language. Tan's brain showed deterioration of part of the frontal lobe of the left cerebral hemisphere, as did the brains of several similar cases. This connected destruction of the part of the left frontal lobe known as Broca's area to loss of the ability to speak, known as expressive aphasia. Carl Wernicke similarly found another brain area involved in understanding language in the left temporal lobe. Destruction of Wernicke's area results in loss of the ability to comprehend written and spoken language, known as receptive aphasia.
Gunshot wounds, tumors, strokes, and other diseases that destroy brain tissue enabled further mapping of the brain. Because the study of the brain through injury was a slow process, quicker methods were pursued. Lesions, precise destruction of brain tissue, enabled more systematic study of the loss of function resulting from surgical removal (also called ablation), cutting of neural connections, or destruction by chemical applications. Surgery to relieve epilepsy cuts neural connections at the corpus callosum, between the cerebral hemispheres. Studies by Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga of patients with these "split brains" have revealed that the left and right hemispheres do not perform exactly the same functions (brain lateralization) that the hemispheres specialize in. The left cerebral hemisphere is specialized for verbal, mathematical, and analytical functions. The nonverbal right hemisphere is specialized for spatial, musical, and holistic functions such as identifying faces and recognizing emotional facial expressions.
Direct electrical stimulation of different cortical areas of the brain during surgery enabled scientists to observe the results. Stimulating the back of the frontal cortex at particular sites caused body movement for different body parts enabling mapping of the motor cortex.
In recent years, neuroscientists have been able to look inside the brain without surgery. Computerized axial tomography (CAT or CT) creates a computerized image using x-rays passed through various angles of the brain showing two-dimensional "slices" that can be arranged to show the extent of a lesion. In magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a magnetic field and pulses of radio waves cause emission of faint radio frequency signals that depend upon the density of the tissue. The computer constructs images based on varying signals that are more detailed than CT scans. Both CT scans and MRIs show the structure of the brain, but don't show the brain functioning.
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Our means
Our common aspiration as Juventutem members is to draw our sanctification from the traditional liturgy and spirituality of Holy Mother Church. Having discovered what a valuable support the 1962 Roman rite is to our souls, as well as the doctrinal presentations of the divine truths so eloquently expressed by that very special form of the Roman rite, we desire to use them always more fruitfully. To which end we require the support of prayer, friendship and learning. Those values we expect to use and share through Juventutem, as much as it pleases Our Blessed Lord and His Mother Immaculate. The more we will assimilate the Roman traditions of the Church so as to be sanctified in them, the more God will touch other people through us. Thus we will find our fulfillment in humbly and joyfully helping to forward God's grace across His creation.
Added on the three commitments that anchor each member's day and week, a meeting of the members should take place on a regular basis. The backbone of the Juventutem activities would seem to be this monthly meeting including an informal meal, a doctrinal talk given by a (sound) cleric, preceded by Holy Mass (whenever the "forma extraordinaria" is made available) and/or followed with Holy Hour. This meeting does naturally not forbid friendly recreation, such as watching together an appropriate film for instance.


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A woman waited years for her ex-husband -- the one who left her with two daughters and one on the way in 1976 -- to pay all of the child support he owed her over the years. Last week, with all three of her daughters grown, she finally got the $93,000 her ex was hiding in an account, $60,000 of which was interest he accrued after taking so long to pay.
When asked what she planned to do with the money, Kathi Smith-Petersen said she is going to share it with her daughters. Share it? Isn't the whole point of child support is that it's for the children?
The reporters asking the questions seemed to think that was terribly magnanimous and loving of her, which is true. But it's also just the right thing to do. The fact is, child support is for the kids, not for the mom. And whether it's collected at the time the kids are little or when they're 80, that money isn't hers. It belongs to the kids, period.
And maybe it should have been given to them instead.
There really does seem to be this notion out there that child support is somehow for the parent. This is why some orders, especially for celebrities, are so obscenely high.
It makes no sense for a child support order to exceed the cost of raising any child. This whole notion of the child living to the standard of both parents is slightly absurd and only encourages women to try to get pregnant by rich men. Why not? It would pay for their entire life!
Smith-Peterson obviously deserved the money she got and she is doing the right thing with it by sharing it with her daughters who are the ones left behind. Leaving a wife is one thing, but leaving your children is another.
Sometimes it seems like the two are too closely intertwined in our culture. There is nothing wrong with a man leaving the mother of his children if he doesn't love her, but financially abandoning his children and hiding accounts is pretty low. Those kids deserve every penny of that money for being dealt a terrible hand in terms of their father. But the money is theirs, not their mother's.
Do you think it's weird that she is being applauded for sharing money that wasn't hers to begin with?
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I agree with the previous reply. She had to cover everything her ex should have paid for but DIDN'T this is essentially her reimbursement. I'm glad she's decided to share it with the daughter, while she doesn't have too (and should have to) it is the right thing to do :)
Child support is supposed to help pay for the things the child needs like a house, food, clothes, utilities, Medical coverage etc.etc.etc. With out that money for all those years the mother payed for 100% of it herself so I think yes she should get at least the amount that will reimburse her for those things for all of those years that she payed for on her own!
totally agree with Randelle Pfost!! And I bet this womans daughters would too!!!!
I wish my husband's child support would go straight to his 3 children from his previous marriage. They're all grown now, all 3 are married, 2 even have children. But no, it's going to his ex-wife and Lord knows what she's doing with it. All I know is his kids could use that money a hell of a lot more then his ex could.
No, those expenses have already been paid. Why would you expect to be reimbursed for taking care of your own children? That should be a given. If you live with a man you should have tyhe benefit of his income, if you don't have to put up with that man you shouldn't get anything from him. The kids - yes they should get whatever their father gives them. It belongs to them not their mother.
She paid the expense while waiting for the money all those years. So, she should get some reimbursement from him since she's already paid.
Because having children is a PARTNERSHIP. When one parent flakes, the other one suffers in trying to raise the children. The mother obviously paid for the children in all aspects and the crap for brains father failed them. The money goes to the mother to do with as she sees fit in raising the children. It's not as if the other parent is deceased and that hardship is dealt with as a family- the other parent just sucks.


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"U.S Open" Nike Air Tech Challenge II
The Nike Air Tech Challenge II is on a roll.
The Nike Air Tech Challenge II silhouette will continue on with another tennis major inspired colorway. Following the Wimbledon will be the "U.S Open" version.
This classic Andre Agassi model features a tonal black upper with bright blue accents coming from the outsole and logos. Why the blue accents you might ask? It's to mimic the nighttime matches at Arthur Ashe Stadium.
No word of a wide release date as of yet, but these are available now at 21 Mercer. Stay tuned for the updates.
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Not bad ! Lava graphic could stand out lil more.
Need these,been looking but resell price are $300.
^ 300$ for these? mannnnnnnnn what type of meth is dudes smoking nowadays
Not at all interested in this colorway but hope this is leading up to a release of the real heat.
^^^Yes, ma'am!!
keep getting hated on with these agassi releases…smh
Overrated sneaker. There is a lot of sneaker Nike Needs to bring back for real. Fab 5′s Flight Huarache.
Was at the Open last night and they will NOT be carrying these. How does NIke release a "US Open" QS and not release it at… er, the US Open?
Silly, illogical fail.
how is this shoe overrated when last time a tech challenge released it sat in stores and on sales racks? Some of yall make no sense at all.