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Ecuadorian wise men of the past had a deep understanding of nature… astronomy and sense of place as this positional structure at the entrance of Cotacachi shows. That wisdom can help us think beyond logic when it comes to retiring from the rat race at any age… 30, 40, 50, 60 or later despite living in a predatory world.
Ecuador is a great place to retire at any age… right now.
A March 7, 2102 Yahoo.finance.com article entitled "Ecuador Seen as New Retirement Hot Spot" by Alina Dikik says: The warm weather, cheap housing, and inexpensive healthcare are a draw, especially for baby boomers with eroded nest eggs and a sense of adventure.
For retirees, leaving the United States often means a more affordable way of life, including low-cost healthcare, real estate and even gasoline prices. Cherry-picking a warm weather spot can offer another perk. Some expatriate retirees also point to the social benefits that accrue when they become part of a tight knit community.
Logistics like health insurance and banking have been surprisingly easy, says Connie Pombo. The Pombos pay $85 per month for comprehensive health insurance with Nova Ecuador, a national insurer.
Pombo says most retirees prefer to simply pay out of pocket for doctor visits, which are less than $20 per appointment.
How Long Will Ecuador be a Good Place for Retirement?
Not everything is perfect.
The article goes on to say: Ecuador is still in the infancy stage in terms of attracting … the infrastructure is still not as strong as other places like Costa Rica. Many Americans are not prepared for the language and the culture.
Real estate scams are common and can include hidden fees. It's unregulated and nobody is enforcing the laws.
Ecuador has recently seen an increase in long-term home rentals, which can be a good alternative to buying, she adds. Negotiating a two or three-year lease can halve monthly payments. For example, a three-bedroom, waterfront condo can rent for $700 with a multiyear lease.
Unexpected living expenses also add up… the cost of furniture, appliances and electronics, can sell for up to three times. Western-sized clothing can be especially difficult to find… Americans tend to be a lot bigger.
The article also points out that retired expats are required by the U.S. government to pay taxes, even if residing abroad plus it says: Crowder also cautions Americans thinking of retiring abroad to not be overly trusting. White-collar crime is becoming a concern for some retirees in Ecuador. "Gated communities have these big austere looking fronts, but a lot of crime is committed by insider jobs," says Crowder who owns a home in Ecuador. He warns against an increasing number of expat criminals who establish trust with retirees by speaking fluent English. Expect to be bombarded with ways to part with your money from locals too.
A local attorney can help start the year-long residency process and specify which notarized documents are necessary before leaving the United States. Brushing up on Spanish and learning about the Ecuadorian language and culture is a must.
Our Ecuador Ateam services help solve three of the problems above:
#1: Provide contacts with attorneys, brokers and agents with good long term records.
#2: Provides real estate tours so you can assess property markets (now in their tenth year) on an objective basis.
#3: Help you learn Spanish with Frequency Modulation.
However Frequency Modulation is more important than helping in Ecuador and Spanish now. FM can help in all the future…. anywhere… with any learning and thinking.
Recent messages have reviewed thoughts on the problems retirement may face in the future. A growing and aging population is breaking down the social economic contract we call money. Saving to retire may not be enough because the purchasing power of money in core industrial nations may fail.
Deciding where to retire is difficult because of the chaotic state in the world.
A previous message at this site said: The mindset of the Western world is indoctrinated on these 3 Ps…position, possession and popularity. These concepts form the foundation of many lives and they are the precursors for stress, tension and poor health as well as financial doom. These structural flaws in our social economic morality create a template for self slavery and potential failure. We voluntarily become chained to our desk or jobs and are willing to even cheat (ranging from small fibs on loan applications to doctoring books to billion dollar Ponzi schemes) to gain the 3Ps. The weakness in this framework of thought also leaves us open to fraud.
The framework of this materialistic mindset goes way beyond the creations of our personal risks as well. The framework reaches to the very core of world's geo-political tensions and chaos.
This creates a predatory world and super thinking can help us survive in a predatory world.
This is not likely to change quickly. Can we rid ourselves of poverty in our lifetimes… if ever? Deuteronomy 15:11 suggests not when it says: There will always be poor people in the land. Therefore I command you to be openhanded toward your brothers and toward the poor and needy in your land.
In our lifetimes we"ll probably not see a perfect world… we'll not find perfect places without poor.. without fear… without crime… without tension… and these forces create predators.
What can we do to live and retire amidst all this stress without letting it get us down?
First, living in a calm life in a world of stress we can develop a historical perspective on the world's problems creating by this eternal jockeying for the three Ps… possessions… position and power.
To get one perspective, let's follow a vine of social discontent back about a hundred years to WWI as it impacts our forward thinking on where to invest… where to do business…. where to live and retire now.
This vine leads us to WWI and the Balkans.
According to Wikepedia: The causes of the military conflict, which began in central Europe in August 1914, included many intertwined factors, such as the conflicts and antagonisms of the four decades leading up to the war. Militarism, alliances, imperialism, and nationalism played major roles in the conflict as well. However, the immediate origins of the war lay in the decisions taken by statesmen and generals during the July Crisis of 1914, the spark (or casus belli) for which was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip, an irredentist Serb.[1] However, the crisis did not exist in a void; it came after a long series of diplomatic clashes between the Great Powers over European and colonial issues in the decade prior to 1914 which had left tensions high. In turn these diplomatic clashes can be traced to changes in the balance of power in Europe since 1870.[2]. Fundamentally the war was sparked by tensions over territory in the Balkans. Austria-Hungary competed with Serbia and Russia for territory and influence in the region and they pulled the rest of the great powers into the conflict through their various alliances and treaties. The topic of the causes of, or guilt for, the First World War is one of the most studied in all of world history. Scholars have differed significantly in their interpretations of the event.
If so, tensions in the Balkans were a driving force in social military tensions at the turn of the last century.
The Balkans include:
* Albania
* Bosnia and Herzegovina
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Greece
* Kosovo
* Macedonia
* Montenegro
* Serbia
Other countries sometimes included are:
* Moldova
* Romania
* Slovenia
* Turkey
The problems remain with us today, plus according to many WWI was the root of WWII. Winston Churchill described the treaty of Versailles, "monstrous" and "malignant."
WWII created such tension that Harry Truman and many others were so paranoid about Communism that the Truman Doctorine evolved which led to the Korean and the Vietnam War.
The Vietnam War kick started America's drug problem which has created such wealth that Mexican and Colombia drug lords can undermine federal authority and even create risk in places where Americans typically retire… Southern California… Arizona… South Florida.
The LA Times has a huge section in its paper entitled "The drug war at our doorstep".
An NPR.com article entitled "Mexican Drug War Brings Violence To Arizona" says: Home invasion and kidnappings are on the rise in Arizona. State authorities pin the blame on Mexican organized crime. Host Cheryl Corley speaks with Ariz. Attorney General Terry Goddard about how he hopes to address the problem.
This problem hit South Florida first. When enforcement efforts intensified in South Florida and the Caribbean, the Colombian organizations formed partnerships with the Mexico-based traffickers to transport cocaine through Mexico into the United States and spread the drug wars across the American south.
This is one vine of history in a thick foliage of reality that is so dense it creates a dark jungle that no amount of logic can penetrate.
On the subject of military political history am reading one really fascinating book now… "Twilight Warriors".
The Twilight Warriors, is the winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and looks at the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa.
This is especially interesting to me (and many boomers) because my father was a Seabee attached to the Marines. Wounded in the invasion of Iwo Jima, he was hospitalized in Hawaii and scheduled to return to battle probably in the invasion of Japan… which would have been perilous.
During his hospitalization the Battle of Okinawa became the most expensive naval battle in American history, with almost 10,000 American casualties. Thirty ships were lost, and over 350 more were damaged, many beyond repair. Okinawa taught President Truman a grim lesson: "any weapon," even an atomic bomb, "was preferable to an invasion" and this perhaps was a fulcrum point in the fabric of reality determining "to be or not to be". Had dad gone onto another invasion I might not have been.
Random House also reported that "Twilight Warriors" was a History Book Club Main Selection and a Featured Alternate of the Book of the Month Club and the Military Book Club.
Read more about The Twilight Warriors
Read more about Bob Gant's books here.
Where is it safe to go in a predatory world ? Where will we be able to afford to live? Where will we find peace?
The answer is not a nation or state… but is in a state of being… being more intelligent… more flexible… more intuitive wherever you go… or are led.
How can we figure out these answers?
We cannot. Logic is a deficient tool in our universe where chaos rules along with order. This graph from Jame's Gleick's book "Chaos, Making a new Science" shows how everything in our universe moves from states of order to disorder.
Mark Twain expressed this reality nicely when he said: He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
The logic of logic shows why it will not work in our quantum world. Logic in the form of deductive reasoning concerns what follows necessarily from given premises (if a, then b). Logic requires seeing a reliable given premise a to understand "b". Quantum mechanics suggests that reality is too complex for our minds to see enough facts. There is too much information to process to come up with accurate premises.
If we cannot think our way to a happy lifestyle… what can we do?
First, we can accept that everything is in perfect order and remember the importance of attitude. Kahlil Gibran, the Lebanese poet, stresses attitude's value nicely: Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Second, we can add frequency modulation into our armory of thought processes to expand our vision when outside events are so unpredictable we cannot depend on logic.
When we think as the shamans of the Andes, we see events…fate…and our free will as being connected. The shamans call this "following the forces of nature".
The circular thought of the shamans is sometimes difficult to grasp. Some shamans will say something that seems it has no logic…until one day an event…act or an aha starts to make sense.
For example, their concept of fractals is that everything is part of a sacred geometry that leads us to where we should be. They observe what they see and look for hints or clues as to where they should go from what they see.
Here is an example that has been meaningful to me.
The shamans say that any mountain near us when we grow up is our mother (Pacha Mama). They believe that she guides us on our life's way.
This never made much sense to me until one day when we were visiting our daughter, son in law, grandkids and my mom in Portland, Oregon, where I was born and raised.
Each day I walked out my mom's front door (she has lived in the same house for 50 years) and enjoyed the view where I grew up.
Mt. Hood… my Pancha Mama. Something was gnawing at me…where had Mt. Hood led me? I missed that connection until…
I returned to Cotacachi and noticed the equivalent geometry. This is Mt. Cotacachi that one can see each day from Cotacachi.
This did not hit me fully until we took my mom to a favorite beach of ours that is our historical escape on Oregon's coast. I took this photo as I looked down the beach.
This made me think even more about where I had been led.
Mt. Hood and this coastal view were a big part of my youthful formation… pictures I saw as I grew.
Then I realized how similar this geometry is to our beach escape in San Clemente, Ecuador.
Our life in Ecuador in the US and I suspect anywhere we would find ourselves is filled with abundance. Did the sacred geometry beginning with a bullet shot by Gavrilo Princip in Serajevo lead me to Cotacachi and San Clemente? Did these same patterns return us to the USA and bring our involvement in agriculture?
Did we make our decisions to live in these wonderful places because of some impression beyond logic…some deeper message given long ago?
I don't know the answers to these questions, but do know that the biggest joys in our lives have all come from using frequency modulation to make decisions that are beyond logic.
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There is a path to true security.
I was reminded of this once when I made a horrible mistake. Almost!
The supposed error? Letting my mind wander six decades back to an hour I spent with a girl.
Learn from this near disaster, seven most powerful sources of wealth, health, security and fulfillment in this era.
The girl was pretty and blond. Terry was her name. My imagination spanned decades returning to my Oregon roots seeing her as if she were there.
We were 11 or 12 and had known each other since we started Rockwood grade school. Just buddies, our non-romantic friendship lasted 12 years, from first grade till high school's end. Then she went off to Pepperdine College in California. I started traveling the world. Never saw her again. I hope her life has gone well. But until that reflection I'd never thought much of Terry in so many years.
What could have been the tragic error was letting that memory touch my heart. Two kids, walking on a crisp, Pacific Northwest autumnal afternoon.
We walked down a sun filled, pine needle covered, dirt path. Huge, fat, green Douglas firs lined the road. Traffic was no problem, not many cars. Crossing Stark Street we turned left, hiking three blocks to 182nd. There we passed an old clapboard candy store. I can still hear the wooden sidewalk of that store slap beneath my feet, felt the soggy planks sag and smelled astringent pitch from the fir trees. Then we turned right, up 182nd for about a mile. There was Terry's house.
I carried on, walking through a big field, waist high grass turned straw brown by an early frost. There were dozens of paths made by who knows what. Animals perhaps or countless generations of other kids walking home alone from school. I chose one following it to another wood of tall, rough-barked fir. Crossing one more field, I climbed a rock wall, struggled through a barbed wire fence (my Mom hated that fence ripping my jeans). I was home!
Sweet simplicity, that dream. Two kids holding hands, walking on a dirt trail under a crisp, but blue, sunny sky. Pure innocence.
My tragic error was looking back. I returned to Rockwood, Oregon with Merri and my kids to show them this part of their roots. Following the route, Terry and I had walked were the candy store, grange hall, old wooden buildings and their home spun honesty and charm.
Instead we found six lanes of fast, frantic traffic and road rage. McDonalds, KFC, strip shopping centers. The car radio blared warnings of local gangs and drive-by-shootings. Beauty, innocence, sweet simplicity, replaced by drive ins and drive bys. Gangs and drive-by shootings replacing a tender walk in the sun. Good bye memories, good bye.
How can our kids walk in places like this? How can we return to those old feeling of security and comfort?
How can any of us possibly keep pace in this world that's moving so fast? Then something inside snapped. "There has to be an answer for honest, hard working folks to enjoy the wonderful opportunities of today and regain what we've lost over the past forty years", I swore to myself.
How can we keep up, without having such a fast paced life we turn into machines? Where do we find time for God, family, charity, and our friends? How can we rediscover those sun filled, pine needle covered, dirt paths we want to walk?
"There has to be places that are still innocent and pure", I thought. "There has to be a way of life that does not pound us with stress".
This thinking led me to begin reviewing the thousands of economic and business experiences I have shared with readers over the decades. This started a search for a simpler way of life and a better place to earn and protect our wealth.
By digging, asking and observing, traveling and talking to investors and investment managers all over the world I found that there are true paths to real security in the here and now. That knowledge helped me develop courses on how to have natural health, everlasting wealth and purposeful investments.
This knowledge helped Merri and me invest in stocks and real estate all over the world. It helped us find and develop Merrily Farms into a sanctuary here on Little Horse Creek.
That almost error led us to create an entire portfolio of information on how to keep pace, get ahead, enjoy our modern society but, to enjoy life wherever you choose without having to move too fast.
I want to share this information with a special few in our summer course in the Blue Ridge Mountains where the air is dry, crisp, with a bright sparkling sun. Our North Carolina woods is a place where we can once again walk down sun filled, pine needle covered, dirt paths beneath huge, fat, green fir and hemlock.
We start the course with this question that can help us get our lives back.
"What would you think in the last 30 seconds of your life if you were the richest man in the world but were unhappy?"
This quote is from the opening slide of our Value Investing Seminar, "How to Secure Your Future With a Value Breakout Plan". This a vital question because few investors think about the value of comfort and happiness. Yet the truth is, those who are comfortable and happy with their investments are likely to make good investment decisions. If not, no matter how much money an investors has, changes are, they'll lose.
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In 2016 Merri's, David's and my mission is to share our 50 years of experience in international business, investing and living to make ourselves happier, healthier and wealthier.
To reach a wider audience we have shifted our seminars online including the seminar "How to Secure Your Future With a Value Breakout Plan".
Here is a partial syllabus of this seminar.
- Three common sense ideas: Avoid lines. Go where you are a name not a number. Decide who you are and what matters to you.
- Why three economic trends that have make smart investors rich every 30 years are ready for cashing in now.
- How to look for short term problems that create long term value.
- Update on the best ten markets for safety and profit.
- How to diversify in value with Country ETFs.
- The value of time in investing and life.
- The economics in cyber wars. How to look back at the economics of war to see ahead.
- Great new innovations that will ignite a 16 year bull market from 2016 to 2032.
- The next great fuel.
- Timing long cycles, economic cycles and seasonality.
- Investing in Demographics.
- Trading Down, the biggest global trend ahead.
- Hidden Inflation .
- How to protect against pension loss.
- The Silver Dip 2016. When and how to invest in gold and silver . How to double your position with loans.
- How to spot currency distortions and borrow low to deposit high.
- How, Why When & Where to bank abroad.
Club membership is for an entire year and the recorded seminar is just one high point.
In 2016 and 2017 we are conducting online seminars about value investing, natural health and how to write to sell.
International Club members receive all the online seminars free.
In addition club membership includes:
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Merri and I have been organizing courses, seminars and newsletters about international and Super Thinking lifestyles for over 30 years. The importance of this sharing… by like minded souls… was reinforced when a delegate from a course sent an email that said:
My Dearest Merri and Gary, Thank you for your most gracious hospitality last weekend. I am just thrilled at being a part of your group. You and Gary were exactly as I imagined you to be, warm friendly, kind, considerate, genuine, helpful, fun, sincere, what else can I say……I felt so comfortable in your presence and learned so much in your course. I was sad to leave the farm that Sunday afternoon. You made us all feel so welcome and cared about. You were so kind to make arrangements for a ride with the other delegates from the Charlotte Airport. They were so nice to me and so helpful, by the time the weekend was over I felt like they were my long lost brothers. Monday morning we all had breakfast at the airport together and I was so sad to see them go, I was sad the weekend was over, perhaps sad is not the right word for how I was feeling perhaps Gratitude is a better way to describe it. Grateful for having the opportunity to share the weekend with such wonderful, like minded Human Beings, in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina. Thank you Merri and Gary. Thanks to you I now have new hope and a new direction to move forward in my life. I know by attending your classes and conferences that through education and due diligence I will make the right choices.
I invite you to be a member of the International Club.
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If copying helps breed innovation, how should we treat works of plagiarism and the modern "remix" phenomena?

Everything is a Remix Part 3 from Kirby Ferguson on Vimeo.
Kirby Ferguson, writer and director of the brilliant cultural documentary series Everything Is A Remix (and who spoke at our inaugural Creators Project meetup on Free Culture back in April), just released the third installment of his remix chronicling doc: "Part 3: The Elements of Creativity." The video deconstructs the components of invention and innovation, dethroning the age-old "creation myth" of creativity as something that comes from "divine inspiration" or singular genius, and demonstrating that "new ideas" are really the product of a much slower, building block-like process that begins with copying, moves on to transformation, and thrives through creative combination.
Creativity isn't magic: it happens by applying ordinary tools of thought to existing materials. And the soil from which we grow our creations is something we scorn and misunderstand even though it gives us so much — and that's… copying. – Kirby Ferguson
The video comes at an interesting time for us since, just last week, we conducted a Skype interview with a creative duo in Japan called Kagemu, who have been emailing us regarding an interview we posted last month with Kenzo Digital on the visuals he helped create for Beyonce's Billboard Awards performance. What was, by all accounts, a truly spectacular performance incorporating bold projection visuals that synced perfectly with Beyonce's powerful choreography became entangled in a nasty copyright debate. Beyonce and her team were accused of copying a performance by an Italian pop singer named Lorella Cuccarini (though both Beyonce and Kenzo openly referenced the pop singer as an inspiration during interviews). But then, to complicate matters further, it was revealed that Cuccarini herself copied her visuals from Kagemu's Black Sun performance, released a year prior. Right down to using the exact same music in parts. The group was now crusading for acknowledgment and recognition of what they believed was their original concept. Oh, what a tangled, sampled web…
Put simply, copying is how we learn. We can't introduce anything new until we are fluent in the language of our domain, and we do that through emulation. – Kirby Ferguson
All finger pointing aside, this scenario encapsulates a growing problem facing modern creatives and the works they produce. With information being spread at break-neck speed, influences have the potential to reach global audiences virtually overnight and are being incorporated into new works faster than ever before. This vast globalization of information and creative output is generally heralded as a good thing, with many championing the "democratizing power of digital media," but it does beg the question—in "the age of the remix," what exactly constitutes an act of plagiarism and what a "sample" or an adaptation? How can artists protect their work from being ripped off while still making it widely available online? It's tricky business, and no one seems to have a definitive answer.
In the case of these three audiovisual works, it's true that the performances all have several components and conceptual elements in common—the wall-breaking scene, the upside-down doppelgängers, the bird motifs, etc.—but taken as a whole, it's difficult to deem either of the subsequent interpretations as a full-out copy. Each one significantly modifies and builds upon the visual design put forth by their predecessors. And it could be argued that, as artists clumsily experiment with this still relatively new fusion of projection visuals and choreography, certain foundational building blocks will be forged, only to be reused, remixed and repurposed by future artists.
But how similar is too similar? We'll leave that question to the law makers.
This ordeal is emblematic of a pervasive issue that is plaguing creatives of our generation—as we've seen from several highly publicized incidents involving prominent artists like Shepard Fairey and Richard Prince. If nothing else, this particular instance helped propel an obscure Japanese group into relative prominence, and Kagemu themselves, despite seeking justice in the form of proper acknowledgement and attribution, concede that the whole thing is pretty incredible.
"We're thrilled that some of the concept and artistic power of our work has somehow traveled such a long distance and took some kind of new root in Beyonce's performance," they told us during our Skype chat.
Regardless of whatever creative elements were unjustly borrowed from the original, each iteration contributed to the development of an emerging performance form. If we're to believe the case for copying Ferguson makes in his video, this is all part of the program, and one day all these imitations will lead to true innovation.
The interdependence of our creativity has been obscured by powerful cultural ideas but technology is now exposing this connectedness. We're struggling legally, ethically, and artistically to deal with these implications… and that's our final episode, part 4. – Kirby Ferguson
Compare and contrast the videos for yourself below. Visit Ferguson's website to view parts 1 and 2 of his documentary series and, if you're so inclined, contribute to this magnificent self-produced project.KAGEMU – Black Sun (2009)
Lorella Cuccarini – Sanremo 2010 Performance
Beyonce – Billboard Awards 2011 Performance

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Makes 4 burgers
Lemon-Basil Mayonnaise
1/2 cup lowfat mayonnaise
1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
6 large fresh basil leaves, finely chopped
2 teaspoons brine-packed capers, rinsed and drained
1 pound fresh tuna steaks, trimmed and ground
1/4 large red bell pepper, finely chopped
1 whole green onion, finely chopped
2 tablespoons Chardonnay
1 tablespoon horseradish mustard
1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1/3 to 1/2 cup unseasoned dried Italian bread crumbs
Vegetable oil, for brushing on the grill rack
4 seeded hamburger buns, split
4 slices mozzarella or provolone cheese
2 (6-ounce) jars marinated artichoke hearts,
drained well on paper towels and cut into small pieces
Mixed baby greens
To make the mayonnaise, combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl and mix well. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before using to allow the flavors to blend.
Prepare a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill with a cover, or preheat a gas grill to medium-high.
To make the patties, combine the tuna, bell pepper, onion, Chardonnay, mustard, olive oil, and seasoned salt in a bowl. Handling the tuna as little as possible to avoid compacting it, mix well, adding just enough bread crumbs to hold the mixture together. Divide the mixture into 4 equal portions and form the portions into patties to fit the buns.
When the grill is ready, brush the grill rack with vegetable oil. Place the patties on the rack, cover, and cook, turning once, until done to preference, 3 to 4 minutes on each side for medium-rare. During the last few minutes of cooking, place the buns, cut side down, on the outer edges of the rack to toast lightly. During the last minute of cooking, place 1 slice of the cheese on each patty to melt.
To assemble the burgers, spread the mayonnaise over the cut sides of the buns. On each bun bottom, place an equal portion of the artichoke hearts, a few greens, and a patty. Add the bun tops and serve.
Build a Better Burger
Celebrating Sutter Home's Annual Search for America's Best Burgers
by James McNair
Ten Speed Press
$17.95; Paperback, 208 pages
Recipe reprinted by permission.
This page created September 2005
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frightenverb [ T ]uk /ˈfraɪ.tən/ us /ˈfraɪ.tən/
Más ejemplos
- They fired off several shots to frighten us.
- The fast-moving traffic frightened the horse.
- I was frightened by the anger in his voice.
- He frightens people by creeping up on them.
- Don't let her frighten you, her bark is worse than her bite.
Thesaurus: sinónimos y palabras relacionadas
- chill
- chill sb to the bone/marrow idiom
- cow
- creep
- curdle
- daylight
- flesh
- frighten sb into sth
- overawe
- petrify
- put the fear of God into you idiom
- put/get the wind up sb idiom
- scare
- scare, frighten, etc. the (living) daylights out of sb idiom
- send chills down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shivers down/up sb's spine idiom
- send shudders/a shudder down your spine idiom
- shiver (up and) down your spine idiom
- shudder
- wit


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Sizzling Ripe Olives
4 Jan 2011
|7 Ounce (pitted ripe)
|2 Clove (10 gm), minced
|Salad oil
|2 Tablespoon
To undrained olives in can, add the garlic.
Refrigerate several days.
To serve, heat olives in small amount of the olive liquid, with salad oil added.
Spear on toothpicks.
Recipe Summary
Difficulty Level:Easy
Preparation Time:5 Minutes
Rate It
Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 525 Calories from Fat 471
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 50 g76.8%
Saturated Fat 1.4 g7%
Trans Fat 0.5 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 1847.3 mg77%
Total Carbohydrates 17 g5.5%
Dietary Fiber 6.8 g27.3%
Sugars 0.1 g
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Here's a look at USC's ninth opponent in 2013...
Date: Nov. 1 at Reser Stadium (6 p.m. Pacific time)
2012 record: 9-4 (6-3 in Pac-12 Conference)
All-time series: USC leads 59-11-4
Last meeting: Oregon State won 36-7 on Nov. 20, 2010, at the Coliseum
Coach: Mike Riley (13th season)
Returning starters: 8 on offense, 7 on defense
Top returners: QB Sean Mannion, RB Storm Woods, WR Brandin Cooks, DE Scott Crichton, CB Rashaad Reynolds
Outlook: The ''old hand'' of the Pac-12 coaching fraternity, onetime USC assistant coach Riley is now almost halfway through his second decade in Corvallis, and any doubts about his talents were put to rest last year, when the Beavers rebounded from a 3-9 finish in 2011 to win nine games. They couldn't get past rival Oregon, but not many could. One of the conference's most intriguing battles could be among Oregon State quarterbacks Mannion and Cody Vaz. Mannion is considered highly talented but also makes questionable decisions (he had 15 touchdowns and 13 interceptions last year). When Mannion got hurt last year, Vaz did well for himself. He wasn't as efficient as Mannion, but he also threw 11 touchdowns compared to only three interceptions. The job looks as though it belongs to Mannion right now, but if things go wobbly, Riley has a solid backup plan. He's also got a pretty good pair of offensive weapons to turn to. Woods rushed for 940 yards as a freshman last year and should be even better now. The one-two receiver punch of Markus Wheaton and Cooks is gone, with Wheaton's departure, but Woods is a pass-catching threat as well. The Beavers also bring back four starters on the offensive line. Every Oregon State opponent will have one eye on Crichton, who had nine sacks and 17.5 tackles for loss last season. That's because Crichton is good, and there isn't a lot else to see. The Beavers didn't have much of a pass rush beyond Crichton last year, but they were pretty stout against the run. That will likely put some pressure on the Oregon State secondary, which must compensate for the loss of Jordan Poyer (team-high seven interceptions in 2012). Oregon State's corners will get some help from the solid safety duo of Ryan Murphy and Tyrequek Zimmerman.
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Your editorial (4 April) on house building is welcome, but I think there is a core problem which is tragic and insoluble. Any party which succeeded in getting enough new housing built, in the right places, to dent prices would be committing political suicide.
Those who vote already own houses and would not take kindly to negative equity. Buy-to-let owners, looking for capital gains, would not like lower prices either.
There are those desperate for lower house prices. But they more often than not do not vote. The moment they become home owners and voters, they too will want house prices propped up.
Britain will never enjoy good-quality housing, affordable by nearly everyone.
Trevor Pateman, Brighton
I agree that "Britain's building rate is pathetic", but not that "a solution seems very far off". Your leader and the speeches of the politicians omit the word "productivity".
Office blocks use components made off-site on an industrial scale, assembled by crane. Houses are still being constructed brick-upon-brick, using methods unchanged from Roman times. These methods are very labour-intensive, and labour is costly. They are also very slow.
"Prefab" was a derogatory word after the Second World War, but variety can be introduced by using different colours and materials. Town houses using these methods in the early 1960s were built by Wates in Dulwich and Span in Blackheath, south London, usually grouped around a cul-de-sac where children could play.
Someone, such as the Prince of Wales, should offer a prize for the design of a good house, affordable and a pleasure to look at.
William Robert Haines, Shrewsbury
Your suggestion that more homes should be built may seem the obvious answer to the current shortage.
However we need to consider that Britain is a small island which can't keep expanding to suit demand. There comes a time when we have to say no to more development of green spaces, no to more airports and infrastructure.
The problem is the population. It needs to be limited so that everyone can enjoy living here.
Martyn Pattie, Ongar, Essex
Your leading article of 4 April gives welcome emphasis to the gap between housing supply and demand.
Could someone in the construction industry please give an explanation of why this gap exists when we have capacity to build, healthy customer demand, ample unemployed people, low inflation and a government desperate to get the economy moving. What is the missing piece in the jigsaw? I would love to know.
Oh, and by the way, we are about to demolish four tower blocks in Glasgow which could accommodate four thousand people.
Rodney Freeman, Harkstead, Suffolk
Why degrees don't impress employers
In her letter of 2 April, Dr Maria Gee, senior lecturer in accounting at the University of Winchester, berates employers for only employing Russell Group graduates or those with 300+ Ucas points. As a retired lecturer in accounting, I can explain why this is the case.
The reality is that no more than 25 per cent of the population has academic ability, so with more than 40 per cent of the population going to university it should be obvious that many should not be there. What they should be doing is taking advantage of the many talents they have which are just as good as being able to cope with academic theory.
Now universities are under pressure to publish research and award good grades, and the only way they can do this is to dumb everything down. The result is that, outside top universities, a 2:1 degree is a worthless piece of paper. The real problem is that the difference between a top 2:1 (69 per cent but not rounded up to a first) and the bottom 2:1 (59 per cent rounded up) is vast. One student is intelligent, hard-working and highly employable, while the other has probably not learnt how to get out if bed in the morning. Yet they both have the same piece of paper
When universities go back to setting proper standards, then employers will again believe their degrees.
Malcolm Howard, Banstead, Surrey
Leveson charter for a free press
The events in Croydon described by Andy McSmith ("Long arm of the law leaves another journalist hacked off", 2 April) have nothing to do with Hacked Off, Leveson or the Royal Charter.
In fact the Leveson/Charter system will increase the freedom of journalists to do their job. It reduces the scope for political meddling in self-regulation and frees the press from the "chilling" effect of bullying litigation by the wealthy. The only freedom it seeks to curb is the freedom of papers to mistreat the public without being accountable for it.
Sadly, the big newspaper companies are still resisting this.
Brian Cathcart, Director, Hacked Off, London SW1
It is obvious that the Maria Miller furore is being stoked by the print media because she is involved in implementing Leveson. It is a blatant attempt by them to sabotage the process. Most worrying is that politicians know this but are still so intimidated by the press that they dare not say so.
Keith Brawn, Portchester, Hampshire
Israel's right to east Jerusalem
Gordon Broadbent asks (letter, 1 April) why we are applying sanctions against Russia over Crimea but not against Israel for annexing East Jerusalem. The answer is simple: Jerusalem did not previously belong to any sovereign state.
Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish state of Judea for over 1,000 years until conquered by the Romans, who spitefully renamed their new colony Palestine. It stayed a colony under all successive conquerors until the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. The San Remo Conference of 1920 resolved to give the whole of Palestine back to the Jews and this was ratified by the League of Nations two years later. Britain was awarded the mandate over Palestine, specifically charged to make it into a Jewish homeland with close settlement.
Instead, Britain sheared off 83 per cent of the territory to create the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan, and did everything possible to retain control of the remainder. When, in 1947, the United Nations voted to partition the remainder of Palestine, with Jerusalem "internationalised", the Jews reluctantly accepted the small consolation of less than 10 per cent of the original Palestine, but the Arabs rejected the plan and five Arab states waged war on the one-day-old Jewish state. Transjordan illegally seized the West Bank and East Jerusalem, throwing out thousands of Jews who had lived there for generations. For the next 19 years, Jordan did not even allow Jews to visit their Holy Sites in Jerusalem and Hebron.
In annexing East Jerusalem from a regime that had no legal claim over it, Israel was simply regaining its historic rights, in accordance with the League of Nations resolutions. Incidentally, many Arabs who live in East Jerusalem are very happy to be part of a democratic country with full civil rights, rather than being subjected to the tyranny and cronyism of surrounding Middle Eastern countries, or their own Fatah or Hamas.
Alan Halibard, Bet Shemesh, Israel
Gladys, a big name in Bolivia
Linda Grant ("Ask Horace, Cecil, Gertrude or Gladys if there is such a thing as a timeless name", 5 April) might be reassured to know that linda is in constant use in Latin American Spanish and Portuguese as an adjective agreeing with a feminine noun meaning "pleasant", "lovely".
She would also be interested to know that Gladys is a popular name in Bolivia. There is even a restaurant called Tía Gladys (Aunty Gladys) in one of the main thoroughfares of La Paz.
I would also like to remind Ms Grant that Prince Harry is officially Prince Henry of Wales, but it was announced soon after he was born that he would be known as Prince Harry.
Rosemary Morlin, Oxford
The name Gertrude "effectively extinct"? (Report, 4 April) Not in this household. Number three dog is called Gertie, or by her full name of Gertrude when she has hidden my shoes again.
Jan Cook, South Nutfield, Surrey
Eat up your nice spinach curry
I was very disappointed in Rosie Millard's column (2 April), in which she supports all the prejudices encouraged by the food companies to sell junk food to our children. In particular, her jibe about spinach curry was out of place. A curry of chick-peas and spinach (chana saag) is very tasty, readily available in most Indian restaurants and one of my favourites – and I'm anything but vegetarian. There is a recipe that adds tomatoes and that's three of your daily portions of vegetables, or you could try aloo saag (spinach and potatoes).
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Group DescriptionAre you an ocean photographer and/or enthusiast? We at the Ocean Portal from the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History invite you to share your pictures of the ocean, its ecosystems, and its organisms with us through this Flickr group. Whether you use a disposable camera at the beach or the aquarium, or have high-tech gear to take underwater photos while scuba diving, your images of ocean life and human interactions with the sea are welcome in the group.
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A senior police officer has called for an end to criminalising drug addicts, warning that the UK has "comprehensively failed" to win the war on drugs.
Mike Barton, Durham's Chief Constable, said that using the NHS, or a similar institution, to supply addicts with drugs would stop the flow of billions of pounds to organised crime gangs.
Barton, one of the North of England's most experienced crimefighters, described how in County Durham there are 43 organised crime groups on his team's radar and "most of them have their primary source of income in illicit drugs supply; all of them are involved in some way."
Writing in The Observer, he stated that The Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 has not had the impact that legislators intended, and throughout his 34 years of service he has seen politicians, professionals and the media "collude in the fiction" that prohibition is successful. He has warned of the dangers of not learning from the history of prohibition, comparing the situation in the UK to the infamous 1920s prohibition era in America, and the "sinister rise" of Al Capone's Mob.
Instead, he claimed that "people who encourage others to take drugs by selling them are the criminals. But addicts need to be treated, cared for and encouraged. They do not need to be criminalised."
"If you started to give a heroin addict the drug therapeutically, we would not have the scourge of hepatitis C and HIV spreading among needle users. I am calling for a controlled environment, not a free-for-all."
Barton is a pioneer of initiatives, including his force's "Operations Sledgehamer" which has broken up criminal networks in County Durham. During his tenure there has been a recorded 14 per cent drop in total crime figures in his region.
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- Bells Blair Athol Distillery (1.1 mi / 1.7 km)
Lovely country hotel and grounds with an excellent dining room. Highly recommend.
Beautiful setting in old manor house. Convenient to town. Staff is friendly and helpful
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- This hotel has 23 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 2 floors
- Check-in time 3:00 PM-9:30 PM
- Check-out time is 11:00 AM
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- Government-issued photo ID required
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- Pets allowed (dogs only) *
Extra people
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- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free self parking
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- Free hot/cold buffet breakfast daily
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Room service (during limited hours)
- Golfing nearby
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Luggage storage
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Garden
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- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Coffee/tea maker
- Iron/ironing board
- Hair dryer
- Cable/satellite TV channels
- Desk
- Phone
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Pets are allowed for an extra charge of GBP 7.5 per pet, per day
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.
Recent reviews
Excellent 4.5 /5 from 57 reviews
We had the pleasure of staying in this hotel for one night. It was fabulous. We fell in love the moment we arrived. Everyone of the staff seemed to go out of their way to make us feel welcomed. When we arrived for dinner we were greeted like friends and brought to our table. There were games available for use in the lobby/sitting area. We went out in the evening and walked back to the hotel not to worry that it was locked for the night, we had a key. The grounds were also beautiful. We would stay here again without hesitation.
We had a very nice two day stay at this hotel just after Easter. The hotel was at the edge of town just a short 10 minute walk down a hill to get to the main part of Pitlochry. The area was quiet and we had an easy time parking as there were only 4 or 5 other rooms being used at the time, I am not sure how the parking will be when the hotel is full. We were very satisfied with the room, the hotel and the staff were very friendly.
We stayed only one night. The hotel is very beautiful in the common areas. It has nice modern rooms. The only negative for me was that it is located up a hill from the high street area. It is close enough to walk to, but coming back up the hill on foot may be an issue if you have any disabilities. The staff was friendly and the the breakfast very nice. Cannot comment on their dinner menu as we went to the nearby pub. But the dining room is beautiful. Overall good stay and would stay here again if in the area
Beautiful place and helpful staff
Good hotel, but not really a 4 star.
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