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Nothing too exciting has been going on in this "blog-worthy" life with the stress of the end of the semester. But these past couple of days have had some of my all time favorite things.
1. Panera & a movie night.
Friday night after a quick stop-in at a slightly chilly Relay and a run in Panera, a night in to watch movies with a friend was perfect! Not that I made it too long through the movie, but 27 Dresses is one of the best ones out there and Panera's on the top 5 favorite restaurants, so an awesome start to my list.
Yes, I know it was just a scrimmage. But it was the last one of spring practices, which means football season is close! I cannot describe how excited I am for this season. Saturday was made even better by the fact that my sister, a future Hokie, rode up to come to the game. We walked around campus for a while, but she's pretty familiar with Tech, considering she's basically been coming since birth. I did take her to West End for lunch, where she was overwhelmed, but I'm sure she'll adjust quickly :). We meet up with some ADPis & got ready for some football!
3. Driving with the windows down. especially blaring country music.
Kels & I had a great drive back to Lynchburg after the game, blaring some country with the windows down. I don't typically listen to country, but it's definitely a summertime thing. And summer's right around the corner!
4. Home-cooked food.
I love to cook & have a full kitchen this year so I definitely could, but that doesn't really happen. So I love the food my Mom cooks so a weekend full of good food is always a favorite. And, with it being Easter, I got some of my grandmother's good food too!
5. History.
Yes, I am a nerd. I was able to attend the Panhellenic Council's Recognition dinner for Dr. Robertson, a Civil War professor here at Virginia Tech who is retiring at the end of the semester. He has been in Blacksburg since 1967, teaching for 43 years! It was an incredible experience to sit across the table from the man who's class has been filled each semester. Definitely my favorite class I've taken so far & I'm not sure any will surpass it. This university will definitely miss him!
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Hola folks, so we've got another sneak peak of Thursday's show for you with a track from the awesome Look, Stranger! The guys will be making up a top, top bill tomorrow night for us with Left With Pictures and Emit Bloch at the Old Queens Head (Angel, Islington).
'Songs that make you want to move and be moved' is what We.Are.A.Fever say, well we'd go one step further and say that they will actually both move you and make you move. So we're really excited about having the majestic four piece down for the evening, here's a little taster of exactly why with their tune "To The River" just for you Inverted Worlders…
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By Brian Langis
Note: Dollar amounts are in Canadian $ unless mentioned otherwise. USD-CAD 1.1228 Price of 1 USD in CAD
Group Jean Coutu (OTCPK:JCOUF) (PJC) was one of my better investments last year. My initial research article, Group Jean Coutu – An Opportunity For The Patient Investor, I made the case for investing in PJC. It's much easier to pick a winner when management tells us exactly what they are going to do when they announce a capital return plan upward of $500 million in share buybacks and special dividends. This article is an update; therefore I suggest reading the original research to have a better understanding of PJC.
Investment Summary
Please note that the actual publishing date was October 24, 2013 but it was written before. The actual returns described below represent a full year but is three days short of the publishing date.
PJC.A +37.74% vs. JCOUF +21.33% vs. TSX +10%, Oct 22, 2013 – Oct 21, 2014. Source: Google Finance
If you held the Canadian version, PJC.A, your investment is up 42% including dividends. This is superior to the 10% the TSX provided and my own initial valuation. If you held the American version, JCOUF, your returns were negatively impacted by the drop in the Canadian dollar. However, with a 26% return including dividends, it's still respectable and superior to the S&P 500. PJC also increased their quarterly dividend 17.6% from $0.085 to $.10.
My approach to investing in PJC is similar to the one I would take if I would be buying a private enterprise. PJC has the characteristics of what I'm looking for: a good old cash rich drug store retailer with solid reliable free cash flow, no debt, modest growth, heavy insider ownership, long-term potential, and that provides goods and service essential to the community. In today's investing environment, PJC would classify under the boring investment tab and that's not a bad thing.
With a 40%+ return, you would have thought that PJC is a sexy high flyer stock. Anybody that is familiar with the company knows that's certainly not the case. Group Jean Coutu is a snail. It's slow, but steady and consistent. PJC's lack of an "aggressive" growth plan really bugs analysts. When you listen to the analysts' conference call, they always sound so disappointed that management didn't declare some big splashy news or some kind of enormous acquisition. It is indeed for the patient investor. The analysts also weren't impressed with last year's massive capital return program because it wasn't sexy enough. It's mind boggling that the stock price lagged for a while after they repurchased $400 million in shares. PJC did make the analysts happy at one point when it went down the "flashy road" in 2004 with the mega acquisition of Eckerd drugstores in the U.S. That turned out to be a disastrous blunder. Now PJC is buying one store at the time. Francois Coutu, the CEO, wants to get to 500 stores within five to 10 years, both by buying independents and building new stores. I agree that it is a torture to see PJC open only a few locations a year with a little bump in same-store-sales (SSS), but I'd rather be safe and steady than reckless.
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Sister is pissed off that she has to spend her Christmas holiday confined to my apartment courtesy of the Swine Flu. So, to get revenge on those fucking pigs, we will be eating mass quantities of pork and wrapping everything in bacon.
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Wednesday, 9:30 A.M. – Oct. 11, 1995
Dear Aunt Alice Mae …
I'm having a cup of honey-tea and like to think that you are, too. It's a pleasant way to visit, read, and write. A sip from my cup and I listen before beginning my typing – The house pays no mind to me; it listens to its own tones, a melody of familiar sounds expressed from a rumbling furnace, a thumping dryer and, the subtle creaking of it's infra structure. I turn on the radio and walk away dismissing the house from my thoughts after all, there are those times when the dwelling becomes bothersome so I pay it no more attention than it does to me. It covers my head; I sweep its floors ... it waits the warming from the sun; I exact pleasure from my computer. This morning is such a time - time for you and me.
You're always in my prayers however, for the last few weeks, my prayers have focused more on Richard and Bill (your good sons-in-law) for recovery from their medical problems. What the blazes, dear hearts, we'll not give our occasional physical setbacks any more catering than we have to, as Lord knows, the setbacks are sneaky, stealthy thieves as is the passing of time, both constantly altering our passage and condition in life, not always for our comfort. Sometimes that's only appreciated when the miseries that we humans inherited from those infamous apple-eaters in the Garden of Eden before they got pitilessly evicted from there, are over with! I wonder, if it had been more serious than eating an apple, would anyone one of us be here today? I think hadn't they eaten the apple we would not.
We, here on the farm, are fine. Each day God keeps us from anymore darkest terribleness is a blessing - all other hardships are manageable. The loss of my Raymond last year continues to feel unbearable as is the loss of his two older brothers as you know occurred in 1992 and 1980. I dare only argue with the good Lord up to when I begin to feel a spit of flame licking at me all the way from Dante's inferno.
Isn't autumn beautiful! I just paused a few minutes for refill of tea and a look-see at my surroundings, from the kitchen slider door, while the pot went to a boil. The vibrant colors that wind-dance and shimmer from a sunlit wood line creates a warm feeling within me. In increasing numbers, deer have been crossing our fields taking their leisure searching for the sweetest growths although they never take this house for granted in their selective "grocery shopping" – erect ears and large oval eyes ever fine-tuned to their environment. They instinctively know that there are people in this house, people with hunting rifles that could claim one of them when the weather turns colder. This is the time of year instincts sharpen instinctively. Time, for them is relevant, as it is for us, and it's just a matter of time before rifles are re-cleaned for hunting and L.L. Bean boots are taken out of storage.
Yesterday, I tapped on the front door window just loudly enough to echo across our facing fields. The nearest deer immediately looked up and stared motionlessly in my direction. None of them bolted and ran off to safety. Obviously, it wasn't a noise that was directly life threatening like a snapping twig from under a booted foot, or crunching strides on dry leaves or, the sound of pounding heartbeats that only pursued creatures can hear.
I was merely a distraction - a harmless bother they dismissed as they have for as long as we've lived here. They traverse on set paths and come from this area, Auburn, Durham, Gray, Cumberland, Falmouth … They are healthy and their thickening, sienna-brown fur glint in the myriad bands of autumn light.
The coy-dogs that congregate on our upper pastures (referred to as the 'Homestead fields') are getting bolder. A week ago, pups from spring's packs were yelping and yipping directly from behind Bob's trailer communicating to the others who would respond within chilling cries from the river-cabin pastures. Now, that's very close to the main house though I suppose that shouldn't surprise us as they've been traversing the land closer and closer to our dwellings each Autumn and springtime. When conferring with the game wardens on this matter (bear in mind how profoundly city'fied we are) their recommendation was that we "put them down" whenever we can target one within the perimeters of our land boundaries. Well, we're not up to doing that as no threats have been demonstrated so they remain free to live and excite one's senses with the pulses of wildlife, such as it is, stifled by encroachment. I've not had the heart, nor tolerance, for that not even for destroying friendly raccoons here though one would be wise to assume the strong possibility that they may be infected with rabies, a caution the media urges us to regard in their local news reports. I hope I won't be sorry someday for being led by the emotions of my heart instead of the logic of my mind. However, my dear aunt,accept it as an absolute certainty that I've no conscience when it comes to my nemesis, the wicked, evil fox that relishes taking our chickens and taunting us! There would not be a split second's hesitation in my discharging him to Hades where he'd be stalked for an eternity by meaner beasts than he ... that is if I can ever get my gun loaded and a bead on him before he's out of harm's way grinning from ear to ear till the reverberation of my curses echo back to embarrass me.
Well, that time has come, hasn't it? Seems I can't ignore the sounds of the house any longer ... drying to be folded, rugs to be vacuumed and kitchen floor to be rinsed ...
Same date, 4:30 pm. I've just returned home from soccer practice. He limps, the result of playing serious defense but he doesn't complain – I had him lay down on the couch with the TV on, and serve him a lunch. His brother, C.J., hasn't come home from school yet, no doubt dunking baskets and batting the breeze with his friends at the ball-courts. Woody's still at work. The house settles and the dog naps. As my fingers prepare to resume typing, I quickly glance towards a neat pile of papers to be worked on and placed in a folder, one of several taking up where my second cousin, Garret, from Holyoke, Ma., left off in his overview of the Fortin family genealogical history that I'm picking up from and tracing to Normandy, France. I've been most fortunate in tracing, and documenting, to pre-1600's.
By the way, grandmother, Amanda, has been, since I can recall, steadfast in her claim that there were Iroquois Indian genes in our makeup. I've not discovered any presence of that in our genetic lines. If any Iroquois genetic material resides in us, I've yet to uncover any trace of it however, Woody insists that this may be true as he's witnessed me 'go on the warpath' on occasion! Chances are that if there is the presence of an Indian presence, I would think it to be Algonquin or Abenaki.
It's getting late, dear Aunt Alice. Another chapter tomorrow …


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Donald Trump is calling Republican leaders "naive" for dismissing his claims of a rigged election and urging his supporters to "come together and win this election" as many of his supporters don't believe their vote will be counted.
His comments came in a series of tweets Monday.
"Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day," he said in one tweet. "Why do Republican leaders deny what is going on? So naive!"
In a later tweet, Trump said: "Voter fraud! Crooked Hillary Clinton even got the questions to a debate, and nobody says a word. Can you imagine if I got the questions?"
There is no evidence voter fraud is a widespread problem in the United States. House Speaker Paul Ryan says he is confident the election will be conducted with integrity.
In an another tweet Monday, Trump said: "We have all got to come together and win this election. We can't have four more years of Obama (or worse!)."
On Sunday, Trump's running mate, Mike Pence said Trump's claims of a rigged election refer to media bias.
"The American people feel like, in a very real sense, that the Democratic party and many of you in the media are working together to prevent the kind of change the American people long to see of a stronger and more prosperous America."
But he said, "We will absolutely accept the results of the election."
Not long after Pence said that, Trump partly undermined his comments. In a tweet Sunday, Trump said, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary – but also at many polling places."
Meanwhile, the latest CBS News Battleground Tracker shows Hillary Clinton with a six-point lead over Trump, 46 to 40 percent, across 13 battleground states. Clinton and Trump were tied in those states a month ago, CBS News reported.
Last month, Clinton had 45 percent of the female vote in these key states, but today, it's at 51 percent. Trump, meanwhile, took a dip from 40 percent to 36 percent of women in those states.
"Trump has lost support among women, among Republican women as well," said Anthony Salvanto, CBS News elections director. "So it goes beyond partisanship a little bit. And the poll finds that 70 percent of voters feel that now that Donald Trump does not respect women, what could be trouble for him going forward are these moderate and Republican women are precisely the kind of voters that he needs now to start winning."
CBS2's Dick Brennan reports another poll shows nearly half of Trump supporters don't believe their vote will be counted. Those numbers drop for Democrats.
Clinton's campaign released a commercial likening Trump to famous movie bullies.
"It's a guy who is whining because he's a big bully who is getting beaten and now he's starting to whine," said Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine.
It seems that the 2005 "Access Hollywood" video where Trump was heard making lewd comments about women may have been the catalyst, CBS News reported. Seventy percent of women said they found it offensive.
Ten women have since come forward in recent days accusing Trump of harassment or sexual assault, WCBS 880's Marla Diamond reported.
Monday morning, women lined up outside Trump Tower with signs that read "Divider in Chief" and "Trump Demeans Women," 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck reported.
Terry O'Neill, the president of the National Organization for Woman, called Trump an embarrassment.
"We will not tolerate his talk about sexually assaulting women," she said. "We will not tolerate his talk about insulting women and demeaning women. We will tolerate him as president of the United States."
Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney also attended the rally.
"It makes him feel bigger to make women feel smaller," she said.
And Public Advocate Letitia James had her own message for Trump.
"This is 2016 and not 1816 and that women do not exist to look good for him," she said.
In earlier tweets Monday, Trump said he can't believe allegations of sexual assault are affecting his campaign and he pointed to Vice President Joe Biden as he defended himself.
Biden has never been accused of sexual improprieties, but he has raised eyebrows during media events for his lingering embraces of women.
Trump linked Monday to a video montage of Biden's awkward moments. He also tweeted: "Can't believe these totally phoney stories, 100% made up by women (many already proven false) and pushed big time by press, have impact!"
Meanwhile, Clinton's camp is facing yet another embarrassing trove of hacked emails released by WikiLeaks, including some believed to be from her campaign chairman John Podesta discussing how her failure to express remorse for her private email server would hurt her.
The CBS News Battleground Tracker shows that 55 percent of voters polled think Clinton has different motives in private than in public and only 33 percent believe she tells the truth.
Kaine alleged Russian hackers are trying to sway the election.
"Anybody who is going to try to cyber-attack and then try to destabilize an election, you can't trust that they're going to maintain scrupulous honesty about the content of what they're dumping out for the world to see," he said.
Clinton is still battling her own negatives on trust, and more questions about the use of her primate email server when she was secretary of state.
Republican congressional leaders said FBI documents show State Department Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy contacting an FBI official in 2015 to dispute the classification of a Clinton email about Benghazi, which was reclassified to "secret." The bureau official then asked Kennedy about a request for more FBI slots overseas at U.S. missions.
The FBI said the classification was not changed and denied Republican claims this was evidence of quid pro quo, or a deal.
New polls show very tight races in the swing states of Nevada and North Carolina, as Trump holds a four-point lead in Ohio.
On Saturday night, the Republican party headquarters in Hillbourough, North Carolina was firebombed and the building next door was spray-painted with the words: "Nazi Republicans leave town or else."
A state Republican official called the attack "political terrorism" and Trump is blaming Clinton and her supporters, though there isn't any evidence yet as to was behind the incident.
On Twitter, Clinton called the attack "horrific" and "unacceptable."
Hillsborough Police Chief Duane Hampton said in an email that nothing developed overnight as the investigation continues.
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April Issue of NFJS, the Magazine published.
I've never posted about this before, but I think it's time to start. For almost two years now I have been the Technical Editor for a software development magazine called NFJS, the Magazine. The magazine focuses squarely on software development on the Java platform. That includes the Java language, anything related to Java Enterprise web development and any language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (Scala, Clojure, JRuby, Jython, etc…). Aside from the content, the most compelling part about the magazine is that it is an offshoot of the popular No Fluff Just Stuff conference that tours the country yearly. Most NFJS, the Magazine articles are authored by speakers on the No Fluff tour. Since the tour features the top experts in the Java universe, the magazine contains the knowledge written by these experts. Check out the tour roster and some of the past issue authors and you'll see names like Neal Ford, Ted Neward and Venkat Subramaniam.
I'm very proud of the work we do on this new magazine. The staff and I have worked hard to produce a top-notch magazine that is unique in the realm of software development magazines. The magazine costs $50 per year, which includes 10 issues. Each issue has at least four articles. You can download in a print-quality PDF and two mobile formats: EPUB (for the Nook and iPad) and MOBI (for the Kindle). The articles are professionally edited and are written by top experts in their field, so the content is worth well more than the $50 you pay.
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My colleague Alex Christoforou has reported on the US Representative Tulsi Gabbard's forthright response to US media attempts to perpetuate the myth of President Assad's sole responsibility for the Syrian war.
A key point to make about Tulsi Gabbard is that she has made these comments after actually visiting Syria, and going to places like Damascus and Aleppo.
As I have previously pointed out, since the end of the fighting in Aleppo, the city is now safe to visit by Western journalists, which is why Tulsi Gabbard has been able to go there, and has been able to speak to people there. By contrast the Western media, which throughout the autumn was full of lurid reports of atrocities supposedly committed in Aleppo during the fighting there by the Syrian army and the Russians, is staying away.
So far to my knowledge the only mainstream journalists who have visited Aleppo since the end of the fighting are the Turkish journalist Fehim Taştekin, whose interesting and highly informative reports I have discussed (see here and here), and the BBC's Jeremy Bowen, whose disappointing report was neither informative nor particularly interesting (see here).
If people like CNN's Jake Clapper, with whom Tulsi Gabbard publicly clashed in the interview which my colleague Alex Christoforou has covered, want to take issue with the things Tulsi Gabbard says, then it is high time they or their journalistic colleagues do what Taştekin and Gabbard have done, which is go to Aleppo and talk to the people there.
I need hardly add that Vanessa Beeley and Eva Bartlett who went to Aleppo whilst the fighting there was actually underway put the West's much vaunted journalistic corps to even greater shame.
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Other than one sock monkey for my old friend Katie, I don't think I've ever really made anything on my own. I tried cross-stitching in junior high, got 95% done with my project (a St. Louis Cardinals logo for my dad), and left it sit in my closet until my mom finished it sometime when I was in college. I tried sewing when I went home for Christmas last year, got super frustrated, and, uh, my mom did almost all of it.
But I will never give up the dream! Here, my latest "effort":
Gina's Kwik-n-EZ Laptop Case
*broken thrift store heating pad
*foam (thanks to the foam experts at Howard's Foam and Fabrics Solutions of Rochester, NY)
*duct tape
*needle and thread
Step 1: Remove actual heating pad from decorative heating pad cover. Contemplate cutting it open to see what's inside! Discard.
Step 2: Fold foam over laptop. Cut two sections just big enough to cover each side. Apply duct tape liberally on three edges to create a sleeve.
Step 3: Cut a third piece of foam as wide as the others and a few inches long to form a flap over the open part of the sleeve. Duct tape to secure.
Step 4: Place foam pocket into fabric cover.
Step 5: Enlist mom to sew on Velcro pads.
Ta da!
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Camilla Belle featured Glamour's American Icon feature: 'You can do anything! That's the message of the seven decades of female risk takers, rule breakers and style makers here. We celebrate them with the help of some very-2009 young talents.' Camilla posed as Mary Tyler Moore.
MTM's television character, Mary Richards, was a sassy, single career woman who was more focused on having a satisfying work life and valuable friendships than husband hunting. But young women recognized Mary, and her working wardrobe of flared pants and wrapdresses, as themselves.
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In honor of St. Patty's day being right around the corner and the fact that we are going to see our good friends Maney & Amy this weekend (they are our foodie buddies) - I decided to make cake balls again. It was so much fun the first time, why not?
I mentioned in my "Who's Counting" Cake Post that I had a minor failure with one of the vanilla cakes I was making. It was undercooked and decided to sink in the middle. Not in my plan for that cake! At first I was devastated....then I remembered that cake balls are perfect if the cake is undercooked a little bit. Problem solved, devastation averted. Cake balls saved the day!
Cake Balls: The Vanilla Cake Version
The Cake & Frosting
For the complete cake and frosting recipe click here
The Cake Balls
For the complete and detailed process click here
Since I just did a post on cake balls, I won't go through the whole process again. Here is the short and sweet vanilla version:
Crumble the cake the easy way - with the food processor.
Add frosting to the crumbled cake.
Combine them together - I like to just dig right in. For my family and friends who have kids, they would love to help with this part! :)
Roll them into balls and lay on cookie sheet. Put them in the freezer for 15 minutes.
Melt the chocolate bark a few pieces at a time.
Since St. Patty's day is coming up, I used green food coloring to the chocolate bark and green sprinkles.
Dip the cake ball into the melted chocolate bark.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Battered Ciabatta Ham and Cheese Melt
My amazing sister is living this amazing dream of spending two years in New Zealand with her family. I say "wow" with every picture she posts on Instagram. The experiences they are having, the things they are seeing, the places they are going...it is truly incredible! In the midst of all this amazingness, she has become this amazing cook as well. Actually she's always been a great cook but she's really uped the ante. I have yet to try one of her recipes that doesn't get added to my list of repeats. She recently went on a girls trip to Australia and on the way home, had this fabulous sandwich at the airport, of all places. She quickly came home and recreated it and then was kind enough to share it with the world. I may or may not have drooled when I first saw the picture she posted. We had a chilly, rainy day recently and it was the perfect night for a big bowl of Tomato Bisque and this lovely, melty, cheesy sandwich. Just so you know, the soup is a must with this sandwich. I tried adding some dijon mustard to the sandwich and loved it! It's great without the mustard too, if you're not a fan. Our tummies were very happy when we went to bed that night, dreaming of far away adventures in New Zealand.
6 ciabatta rolls
4 eggs
1 Tbs milk
salt and pepper to taste
1 lb deli shaved ham
12 slices Mozzarella or Swiss cheese
6 tsp dijon mustard, optional
Heat a large non-stick skillet over medium-high heat. Whisk together eggs and milk, season with salt and pepper. Cut rolls in half lengthwise and dip each side in egg mixture then arrange on skillet. Cook each side for 3-4 minutes, or until lightly browned. Preheat oven to broil. Layer ham onto the bottom rolls, top with a slice of cheese and broil for about 2 minutes, or until cheese starts to melt. Add the top rolls and top each with an additional slice of cheese. Return to oven and cook for an additional 2 minutes, or until the cheese is melted and starting to bubble. Enjoy warm out of the oven, or dipped in a bowl of Tomato Bisque Soup.
Source: Whisked Away
Posted by Janessa at 12:00 AM
Labels: Main Dish, Pork, Quick Meals
2 comments:
- Jamie Young said...
You are too sweet! I'm so glad you loved this exotic dish from the other side of the world ;) The addition of dijon sounds perfect, I guess I'll just have to use that as an excuse to make this again!
- April 8, 2015 at 3:31 PM
- Janessa said...
Any excuse to make this again, right?
- April 16, 2015 at 10:18 AM
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I love Paula Deen. Love her. I mean, really, her recipes are yumm-eee.
My new favorite recipe is one of hers and it is for the crockpot. Swoon.
Try it. You'll see what I mean. On the other hand, how can you go wrong with a recipe when there are fritos involved?
The first time I made it, I halfed it, because I didn't think the girls and I would eat it all. Boy, was I sorry. There wasn't enough left over and I was sad. :(
2 lbs ground beef
2 cups chopped onion
2 15 1/2 oz cans pink kidney beans (at my grocery store, the cans all said light red. light red/pink whatever!)
2 15 1/2 oz cans pinto beans
1 15 1/4 oz can niblet corn, drained
1 14 1/2 oz can Mexican Tomatoes
1 14 1/2 oz can tomatoes with chilis
2 4 1/2 oz cans diced green chilis
1 small can black olives, drained, sliced
1/2 cup green olives, sliced (I didn't put this in)
one 1 1/4 oz package taco seasoning mix
one 1 ounce package Hidden Valley Ranch salad dressing mix
corn chips (fritos!!!)
sour cream
grated cheese
chopped onion
Brown the ground beef and onions, drain the exess fat and transfer beef and onions to your crockpot (needs to be a large sized one). Add the beans, corn, tomatoes, chilies, olives, and seasonings, and cook on low all day (6-8 hours). To serve, place a few corn chips in each bowl and ladle soup over them. Top with sour cream, cheese, and onions.
Be prepared for your stomach to growl. All. Day. Long.
And the leftovers are super duper yummy if you have any! ;)
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
My New Favorite Soup Recipe
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Labels: Cooking
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Recently, my dear wife, Amelia (the principal author of this blog, though long absent from it), got a new cookbook: The Homesick Texan by Lisa Fain (Hyperion, 2011) [check out here blog here]. Maybe I can convince Amelia to get back on here and write something about the book and how it makes her feel.
From my point of view, just owning the book makes her feel loved. Loved just by being known and understood in ways that any ex-patriot to their homeland can relate to, especially as it relates to food. What is it about food that just grabs your heartstrings and yanks you 'home'? Whatever it is, this book does it for my wife. And for me. I am strangely weak-at-the-knees when I see full-blown pictures of 'Gorditas' and 'San Antonio Tortillas' and 'Brisket'....Yum. Mouth-watering, eye-glazing yum.
But this post is about yesterday's first venture into said cookbook, and what's on the menu is kolaches.
I can't say I know a lot about kolaches. In fact, my first thought when I looked at these big pastries, was 'Huh, that's not what I had pictured in my head.' Kolaches are Czech by origin. Brought to Texas by that wave of Czech migration in about the 1860's (as I remember it; you can 'czech' my facts online, here or maybe here?, or chime in with your own link), the kolache of my memory is firmly rooted in West, TX, just north of Waco. Anyone driving down I-35, will certainly notice the big signs at the gas stations by the roadside signaling, 'Kolaches For Sale'. And while I'd have sworn I'd stopped and had one before I certainly hadn't had one like these.
So, a kolache is an almost donut-like, pastry with a big dollop of cream-cheese in the middle. Amelia made these with just a hint of 'lemon' and they were good! These were big and thick, but what I really liked about them was that they were just the right sweetness and just the right texture. Not too sweet that I felt like I was eating a danish and not too flaky or spongy that I was eating a crescent roll or pound cake. The experience was something in-between all these and it was nice.
Half of one was enough for me and even though our boys LOVE sweet pastries none of them ate the whole of theirs. It was a bit too much for them. So, maybe they could have been made smaller, but 'smaller' and 'Texan' don't go so well together, so I'll say they were just right. Anyhow give 'em a try!
My parting note is less about taste and more about where this food 'takes me'/'yanks me':
My girlfriend in high school, her family hailed from this part of Texas, just a few miles north of West, from Abbott, TX. She always spoke of Abbott like it was 'home' for them. Catholic, small, and quaint; with a Truck Wash as its main highway presence. I went there once with her. You felt like everyone in the town knew you were a visitor and everyone knew I, at least, wasn't Czech. (My girlfriend had blonde, super-curly hair that signaled her ethnic heritage, even if she didn't grow up there.)
But the key thing to know is that West and Abbott are joined by 'Willie Nelson Rd' for a reason: Abbott is Willie's hometown. Now you know. So, hey, if Kolaches are good enough for Willie, they're good enough for you and me, right?
They are if they're made this way, thanks to my wife and Lisa and Fain. And if they're made a long way from Willie's house, they're even better still.


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Whew...the past couple of weeks have been a doozy govna's! Christmas, company, Granny moving in, starting back to work, getting sick AND taking care of my favorite little person have left this blogstress with zero time to update the ol' blogerroo.
Hudson's first Christmas was fantastic! Granny arrived with Uncle Chris who stayed with us for the week. Chris gave Hudson his first Teddy Bear, a little Jedi bear appropriately enough. Granny gave him/us a Baby Bullet that we will use to make homemade baby food for our bubble blowing Ewok...so perfect!
On Christmas morning Hudson got to meet his Papa Bob and his Great-Grandma, Nana who came for breakfast with his Nana Nina. Nina sent Hudson his first baby blue Santa hat and stocking...super cute!
After breakfast Hudson "opened" his gifts and snoozed with Sammy and Daddy on the couch before picking up our spokane-cousin, Alex who joined us for dinner and Pictionary. It was exactly this time last year that we decided to start trying for a family...how lucky we felt this year to have him and all our family here sharing his first Christmas!
Herbie is now over three months old...what a difference a month has made! His latest accomplishments include rolling over from his tummy to his back, grabbing, sticking his fist and fingers in his mouth, holding his head up, and sitting in his bumbo chair. He goes crazy for bath time, laughs at Granny's raspberries, prefers his fingers to his binky, and loves to look at himself in his play-station mirror.
I miss spending all day, every day with him like the dickens now that I am back at work! I bawled my first full day back and considered turning the car around a half mile from home...had it not been for the fact that he was with Granny I would have called in my 2 week notice immediately! When you go from spending every minute of every day with your babe to being away for 9 hours a day you ask yourself, "what firsts am I going to miss?", "will he remember me when I get home?", "will he love me less?" and "is it worth it?" Plus you just feel so naked without your little bundle in tow! I spent a solid week wishing I hadn't promised to come back after the holidays...but everyone said it would get easier...and it has. When I am at work, I know my baby is having the best time playing and snuggling with his Granny...she makes him smile so hard and it's obvious how happy he is to be with her. I know all three of us are feeling pretty lucky to have her here!
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
A Day of Fishing
Scroll Mouse Over Image to See "Before" Version
First, let me apologize to my blog visitors for going 4 days without posting anything. It really urks (is that really a word?) me when people promise to blog daily, and then go weeks without posting a thing. I'm guilty...I'm one of 'those' people. When I first started this blog, I promised to post an image everyday. Then...after a few months, i promised to post an image everyday, Monday through Friday. Now...I'm just completely lame and going four days in a row without a post. To make matters worse, I'm going to be "offline" for almost 2 weeks starting this Thursday. However, I promise to return to my blog with a bucket load of new and exciting images. I can't say any more than that...Don't want to give away any secrets. Shhh!!!
So, this is a photograph I took while fishing with my family on Father's Day. It's an HDR image. The "before" image is the tonemapped image without any further post-processing. This was a fun shot to work on. It required 7 exposures as I shot into the sun. The work in Photomatix was pretty straight forward. However, as you can see, it needed quite a bit more work. In Photoshop, I brought in the tone mapped layer as well as the individual exposures. I blended the tone mapped layer with several different exposures...to fix the sun as it was too blown out...to bring in more of the sky's reflection in the water...to fix the clouds in the sky. Next, I increased contrast and fixed tones with levels and curves. The tone mapped version left me with a lot of chromatic abberation, which was not easy to fix. I hate this side effect of HDR photography, but it's really unavoidable, especially when you're shooting into the sun. I removed these annoying color fringes from the tree's with the clone stamp. Not my traditional "fix" for this problem, but it seemed to work the best with this particular image. Then, I painted in different shades of green in the trees, oranges to the foreground, and subtle blues to the sky. Viola!!
Unfortunately, my blog is going to be inactive for a few weeks. I apologize to my regulars, and assure you that things will return to normal by July 6th!! I also promise that it will be worth the wait as i will be returning with amazing shots, loads of post-processing information, and lots of fun stories!! Please don't forget about The Fuse. Cheers!
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Very nice image, i like the warm tones and feeling of it. I look forward to seeing more when you get back.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 22, 2011 at 11:52 AM
Thank you both for the visit and nice words!! have a great week!ReplyDelete
As usual, your photography was moving, and beautiful. Have a great time. and I look forward to your images.ReplyDelete
Wow! Now, that's a compliment. Thank you 'Book of Drachma'. I promise to bring some very interesting images in a few weeks. Stay tuned...ReplyDelete
Great work (^___^)ReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing what you bring back!
- AnonymousJune 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM
Shooting directly in to the sun sure does require a lot more processing doesn't it... It's one of the reasons I tend to blend in a lot of the RAW images these days... Your worked image is very nice though, with that golden light on the water..ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2011 at 1:25 PM
Really awesome!ReplyDelete
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Interviews with personalities from various popular asian dramas. Questions you've always wished you could ask them will be asked by me, the host of this show. See you then…
Spend The Day With….. I20 Apr
Ahn nyeong ha se yo, Everyone, and greetings from Asian drama land where more angst is always better. I'm Millie and I'll be your host/interviewer for this show. Let me just say, it's a pleasure to be with you all. Feel free to direct all comments, thoughts ad/or suggestions to the comments box available at the end of the show, um, I mean, post…
So … without further ado, let's welcome to the show our two interviewees. Boy, do I have a treat for you today. We have TWO guests today. Somebody please say hallelujah.
Male voice from Audience: Hallelujah!
Audience Laughs
Millie : O-kay. I didn't mean literally. But… thanks anyway. Let's move on. Our first guest today was portrayed as a childish jerk with a one-sided love. However, by the time he got through with us, we were all blathering idiots singing his praises. Come on out, Lee Mong Ryong of Delightful Girl Choon-hyang fame.
Fanfare. And out walks Mong Ryong. Audience applaud, whistle, shriek and make noise in general.
Millie: WOW! I mean, someone turn on the air. It's gotten hot in here all of a sudden.
Mong Ryong: C'mon, Millie. Flattery will get you everywhere.
Millie: No, seriously. Someone turn the air.
Audience Giggle
Millie: Are you at all curious about the next guest?
Mong Ryong: Of course. He better not be cuter than me, that's all I can say.
Millie: That's going to be a bit hard. Our next guest was portrayed as a stiff stick-in-the-mud. That is, until he fell for the most adorable con artist in the world. Ya'll know who I'm talking about, don't you? Let's welcome to the show, Seol Gong Chan, of My Girl fame!…
Fanfare Again.
Gong Chan saunters out amidst cheers and applause.
He takes a seat opposite M.R.
Millie: You look Amazing!! Marriage MUST be agreeing with you.
Gong Chan: Thanks for having me on your show, Millie.
M.R.: Hyung, you're making me feel bad.
Millie: It's fine, M.R. We all know how rude you are. Although, you did change a little by the end of your drama, didn't you? I could say you grew up.
M.R. : Oh, that. Yeah, I kind of had to, you know? My girl disappeared on me. Who wouldn't change? Right, hyung?
Audience twitter.
Millie: Didn't you find her? And I think you found out why she left in the first place.
M.R.: Pardon my language, but her reason for leaving was the biggest bunch of crap ever.
Millie: You're pardoned. So are you saying you wouldn't have done the same thing if your positions were reversed. She just wanted to protect you.
M.R.: I understand that part, but you forget there was a much simpler solution to the problem than disappearing.
Millie: Enlighten me, please.
M.R.: She could have told me the truth. She didn't have to leave.
Millie: Ahhh, what a novel idea to the land of kdrama. The truth. I'm thinking she did have to leave. How else would more drama be created. Besides, angst is a ratings blaster, you see. You should be happy she didn't get cancer and die on you.
Audience hoot with laughter.
M.R. : That's true. Are you laughing too, hyung? You were just like me.
G.C.: Not so much. Yoo Rin left for just two years. Choon Hyang left for five.
M.R.: At least Choon Hyang's reasons for leaving were way more better than Yoo Rin's.
G.C.: Hyung! Don't underestimate my grandfather. He's scary.
M.R.: Scarier than Byun Hak Do?
G.C.: Yeah, he was scary. Scarily irritating. I felt like punching him in the face whenever he showed up on the screen.
M.R.: What happened to that dud who was following Yoo Rin around. I think he was your friend. So…Seo… something.
G.C.: Seo Jung Woo?
M.R.: Yeah, him. The dude with the freakish hair. What happened with him?
G.C.: He married his secretary, Yoon Jin Kyung. Apparently, she had a thing for him. I hear they even have a kid.
M.R.: Is that so? That's a surprise. With the way he was going on about Yoo Rin, I would have thought he'd never get married.
G.C.: You and me both.
Millie: clears her throat loudly. I'm the interviewer here, you know?
M.R. and G.C. look at Millie with chragrin.
M.R.: Sorry, Millie.
G.C.: Yeah, keep going, Millie.
Millie: (mutters) I'm never having two guests on the show again.
G.C.: Don't be like that, Millie.
M.R.: Don't be mean, Millie.
Millie: Anyway, I've always wanted to know this. How is life after the end of the drama? Did all you guys stay together?
G.C.: You know it. Yoo Rin can't live without me.
Millie: Are you bragging now?
G.C.: No. Really. She tells me that everyday.
Audience: AWWWWWWW….
Millie pulls up a picture of Joo Yoo Rin on the big screen.
Millie: sighs. The stubborn they are, the harder they fall. Any kids yet?
G.C.: Not yet, unfortunately. We're both too busy with work.
Millie: Still…
G.C.: I did have a strange dream last week.
Millie: A conception dream? You know how Korean dramas rely on that device to foreshadow pregnancy. Any chance it might be true?
G.C. shrugs, looking smug. The Audience laugh.
What about you, M.R? How are you and Choon Hyang?
M.R.: Oh, we're great. We couldn't be happier. Well…we could… but let's not go there.
Millie: Why? What's the problem.
M.R.: The children. They tire us out. We barely have any time for ourselves anymore.
Millie: Children? Am I to understand that you have more than one child?
M.R.: We have three.
Millie: I guess Choon Hyang kept her promise.
M.R.: Promise?
Millie: Remember when she wanted to go study abroad? You made her promise to go only after she married you and had three children. That was in episode 17, I believe.
M.R.: You're right! Man, I forgot all about that. I think she forgot too. I hope she's not watching this right now. This isn't live, is it?
Millie: Oops.
Audience laugh.
G.C.: Don't worry about it, Mong Ryong. Choon Hyang's grandfather won't let her go. Not when he tried so hard to find her. And you know how scary he is.
Millie: That's right. You guys are related. How's that working out?
M.R.: Oh, it's fine. Choon Hyang's happy to know her grandfather.
Millie: So how do you deal with the problem?
G.C.: What problem?
Millie: Well, Mong Ryong's parents in Delightful Girl Choon Hyang is Gong Chan's uncle and aunt in My Girl. How do you guys call them when you're all together?
M.R and G.C. gape at each other in shock.
G.C.: We didn't realize…
He trails off. Audience hoot loudly.
Millie: On that not, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'll sign out. Thank you Lee Mong Ryong and Seol Gong Chan for being lovely guests on the show. And to my beautiful audience, you have been great. Tune in next time to …
SPEND THE DAY WITH…. the Audience roar and applaud.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Playing with Colors
Good Morning
Pumpkin Pie, Summer Starfruit, Basic Black are today's Colors. I decided to use
Tags 4 You for my card today. In the center of the spider I colored a rhinestone
to give it a little bling, Hop over and see what Chat (memystampsandi) created today.
Stamp: Tags 4 You (Holiday Catalog)
Paper: Basic Black, Pumpkin Pie, Summer Starfruit, DSP Witches' Brew
Ink: Stazon Jet Black
Accessories: Black Brads, Basic Rhinestone, Summer Starfruit Stitched Ribbon
Punches: Label Bracket, Decorative Designer Label
Thanks for Stopping By
1 comment:
- Julie A. said...
This is such a cute card! thanks for sharing:)
- September 26, 2013 at 3:46 PM
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What Do You Need
In your Kitchen? Not much according to Mark Bittman, a New York Times food columnist and cookbook writer. His kitchen in New York City is six feet by seven feet. Picture.
a young journalist called and asked what, after all, I considered essential in a modern kitchen? "A stove, a sink, a refrigerator, some pots and pans, a knife and some serving spoons," I answered. "All else is optional."[...]
No calls came from chefs, either, or from fellow food writers. They, too, know that when it comes to kitchens, size and equipment don't count nearly as much as devotion, passion, common sense and, of course, experience. To pretend otherwise — to spend tens of thousands of dollars or more on a kitchen before learning how to cook, as is sadly common — is to fall into the same kind of silly consumerism that leads people to believe that an expensive gym membership will get them into shape or the right bed will improve their sex life. As runners run and writers write, cooks cook, under pretty much any circumstance.


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Basket Weaving for Beginners
Learn the basic skills, using natural and pre-dyed reed, including attaching rims and handles, pattern weaving and shaping. Expect to make 3-5 baskets in class. Materials fee, $35-50 per basket. Kay Normann and Drew Tibbetts, Instructors
Start date: 08/08/17
End date: 08/11/17
Fee: $330
Contact Information: Sievers School of Fiber Arts
P.O. Box 100
Washington Island, WI 54246
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"The virtual scale may even be seen as post-spatial as digital media break down the significance of space and place-based identities entirely." (Williams 2011:163)
"The term "scales" comes from geography, where it has been used to spatialize the social world into nested hierarchies (e.g., local, regional, national, global)." (Williams 2011:146)
In this post, I focus on the notion of "scales" within which we can make sense of subcultures in general. Williams (2011) in his chapter on the said matter, distinguishes several "scales". For instance, there is the category of "sociological scales" (Williams 2011), which can be further divided into "micro", "meso" and "macro" scales. Then there are the "spatial scales" (ibid) – the "local", the "trans-local", the "global" and the "virtual". The virtual scale is one particularly relevant to the Brony subculture. Elsewhere, I have mentioned that the Bronyism is also (and in fact, began as) an online subculture. It brings to mind Bell's notion of "new, distinctly hybrid cyber-social groups rooted primarily in technology." (Bell 2001 cited in Williams 2011:160) The Brony subculture is very much rooted in IP technologies such as Internet forums, YouTube, Facebook, 4chan and so on. Williams (2011) distinguishes between previous and recent considerations of the virtual scale. In what follows, I will explore first previous considerations of the virtual scale as examplified by the work of scholars such as Hodkinson (2002) and Bennett (2004). I argue that recent considerations of the virtual scale more adequately fit Bronyism.
Previous Considerations of the Virtual Scale
Previous considerations of the virtual scale can perhaps be summed up in one sentence: it considers the ways in which "members of local and trans-local scenes utilise new media technologies to enhance their subcultural participation." (Williams 2011:158) For instance, Hodkinson (2002) notes how three kinds of insider media within the goth subculture reproduce the subculture virtually and trans-locally in "an efficient and effective way". (Williams 2011:159) These three kinds of insider media include goth fanzines, flyers and the Internet. According to Hodkinson (2002), the Internet reproduces the goth subculture virtually and trans-locally and enhances the culture in various ways e.g. spreading information about trans-local events, linking up goths from around the world who may have never met. Undoubtedly, the Internet serves a similar function for the Bronies. Let us consider the example of the Bronies in Singapore. Through their Facebook page and internet sites such as Equestria Daily (http://www.equestriadaily.com/), various information or what Thornton (1996) would call "subcultural capital" is shared amongst members. The Internet in fact enables the dissemination of other types of insider and "virtual" media such as season premiere spoiler clips.
These clips are particularly important for the Bronies in Singapore given that the local screening of the cartoon series lags that in the US by one season. The above clip is taken from the series's third season which is to be launched on the 11th of November. In spreading and viewing such clips, it enhances the subcultural participation of Singaporean Bronies, enabling them to speculate on the direction of the series together with their fellow Bronies in the US by being on the same page. It thus reproduces the subculture trans-locally. However, I would now like to return to my argument at the beginning of this post. With regard to Bronyism as a whole, framing the Bronies (and even the SBS) within previous considerations of the virtual scale is somewhat problematic.
Recent Considerations of the Virtual Scale
My issue with previous considerations of the virtual scale has to do with their focus on the notion of "subcultural participation enhancement". Implicitly tied to this notion of "subcultural participation enhancement" is the notion of the local scale, that in going online, the subcultural participation of individuals in local scenes are enhanced. This is for instance evident in Hodkinson's study of goth, "Hodkinson's third media example, the internet, is the most obviously virtual of his examples, though it similarly functioned as a medium for communication among individuals dedicated to local or trans-local goth scenes." (Williams 2011:159, emphasis mine) As Williams (2011) notes, rather than "demonstrating much of the potential that new media possess in creating virtual subcultural scenes……Hodkinson's study, and others like it,……[give] primacy instead to traditional scales – local, trans-local and global…" (p. 160, addition mine) Following Williams (2011), I argue that the Brony fandom constitutes a virtual subcultural scene and not an extension of a local scene online. This virtual subcultural scene does not merely enhance subcultural participation but redefines it as well. Williams (2006) in his study of identity and authenticity in an online straightedge forum notes "the emergence of a new type of subculturalist…- one whose subcultural participation is limited to the internet." (p. 173) Where the Internet is but a supplement for "music-straightedgers" (Williams 2006:183), it is "a primary or exclusive subcultural resource and medium" for "net-straightedgers" (ibid). The latter, as Williams writes, contest the necessity of involvement in face-to-face straightedge music scenes (ibid).
A face-to-face scene does not really exist for the Singapore Bronies. Though the Bronies may meet up periodically for gatherings (karoke or simply just hanging out) and even attend anime conventions such as the upcoming Anime Festival Asia, much subcultural participation is done online. One does not have to attend these gatherings or conventions in the physical world to be considered a Brony. The Singapore Bronies do not have a clubhouse. And unlike Bronies in the US, there is no yearly BronyCon at the national and town levels. In fact, it is somewhat difficult to imagine their online participation being taken offline e.g putting together a pony music video (PMV) and posting it on the SBS page, on one's YouTube channel etc. I would argue that a face-to-face scene (if one does exist for the Singapore Bronies) is but a supplement to the virtual scene, in a sense, a reversal of the situation of Williams' music-straightedgers. Evidently, besides enhancing subcultural participation, for the Singapore Bronies, participating on the Internet itself constitutes subcultural participation. For some members, it is the only form of subcultural participation since they don't attend the periodic gatherings and conventions (In fact, these are often attended by the younger members of the SBS, aged between 14-18. In my conversations with so-called older Bronies like myself, they often mentioned fears of awkwardness when interacting with the younger Bronies in the flesh or the "realities of older adult life that prevent them from attending". For them, merely participating online was enough.)
Bennet, Andy. 2004. "Virtual Subculture? Youth, Identity and the Internet." Pp. 162-172 in After Subcultures: Critical Studies in Contemporary Youth Culture edited by Andy Bennett and Keith Kahn-Harris. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Williams, J. Patrick. 2006. "Authentic Identities: Straightedge Subculture, Music, and the Internet.", Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 35(2):173-200.
Williams, J. Patrick. 2011. "Scales." Pp. 146-164 in Subcultural Theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.
And that's how Equestria was made: In episode 23, "The Cutie Mark Chronicles", Pinkie Pie explains how she got her cutie mark. She ends the story by saying, "And that's how Equestria was made". The phrase is commonly used in forum boards.


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Wednesday, May 09, 2007
All the stars came out for Coachella....to do mass quantities of drugs in an open-air field. Here's Paris Hilton partaking backstage with a group of friends, but it's no news that she loves the weed.
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320/365 – Mammoth
A mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus, proboscideans commonly equipped with long, curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.
They lived from the Pliocene epoch from around 5 million years ago, into the Holocene at about 4,500 years ago. And were members of the family Elephantidae, which contains, along with mammoths, the two genera of modern elephants and their ancestors.
Like their modern relatives, mammoths were quite large. The largest known species reached heights in the region of 4 m (13 ft) at the shoulder and weights up to 8 tonnes (9 short tons), while exceptionally large males may have exceeded 12 tonnes (13 short tons).
However, most species of mammoth were only about as large as a modern Asian elephant. Both sexes bore tusks. A first, small set appeared at about the age of six months and these were replaced at about 18 months by the permanent set.
Growth of the permanent set was at a rate of about 1 to 6 inches (2.5 to 15 cm) per year. Based on studies of their close relatives, the modern elephants, mammoths probably had a gestation period of 22 months, resulting in a single calf being born.
Their social structure was probably the same as that of African and Asian elephants, with females living in herds headed by a matriarch, whilst bulls lived solitary lives or formed loose groups after sexual maturity.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth
291/365 – Frog facts
Frogs belong to a group of animals called amphibians. (am-fib-ee-anz). Amphibian means two-lives. Frogs begin their lives in the water as eggs and then tadpoles and when they are fully developed they live on land.
Scientists believe that there are more than 4,000 different kinds of amphibians on Earth. Toads, newts, salamanders and caecilians (blind worms) are also members of the amphibian group.
Frogs are cold-blooded which means that their bodies are the same temperature as the air or water around them.
When they are cold they will lay in the sun to warm up and when they get too warm they will go into the water to cool their bodies off.
Scientists have found frogs fossils that date back to the Jurassic period over 140 million years ago.
Frogs are found all over the world, and in every climate, except Antarctica.
They can be found near any, and every, body of fresh water but prefer ponds, lakes, and marshes, because the water doesn't move very fast. Frogs cannot live in the sea or any salt water.
281/365 – Ants Fact
1. Ants are capable of carrying objects 50 times their own body weight with their mandibles.
2. Soldier ants use their heads to plug the entrances to their nests and keep intruders from gaining access.
3. Certain ant species defend plants in exchange for food and shelter.
4. The total biomass of all the ants on Earth is roughly equal to the total biomass of all the people on Earth.
5. Ants sometimes herd or tend to insects of other species, like aphids or leafhoppers.
6. Ants will enslave other ants, keeping them captive and making them do work for the colony.
7. Ants lived alongside the dinosaurs.
8. Ants started farming long before humans.
9. Some ants form "supercolonies," massive communities of ants that can stretch for thousands of miles.
10. Ants follow scent trails laid by scout ants to gather food.
Source: http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/a/10-cool-facts-about-ants.htm
260/365 – Prawn
Prawns are decapod crustaceans of the suborder Dendrobranchiata. There are 540 extant species, in seven families, and a fossil record extending back to the Devonian.
They differ from other, similar crustaceans, such as Caridea (shrimp) and Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp) by the branching form of the gills and by the fact that they do not brood their eggs, but release them directly into the water.
They may reach a length of over 330 millimetres (13 in) and a mass of 450 grams (1.0 lb), and are widely fished and farmed for human consumption.
Shrimp and prawns
While in biological terms shrimps and prawns belong to different suborders of Decapoda, they are very similar in appearance.
In commercial farming and fisheries, the terms "shrimp" and "prawn" are often used interchangeably.
However, recent aquaculture literature increasingly uses the term "prawn" only for the freshwater forms of palaemonids and "shrimp" for the marine penaeids.
In the United Kingdom, the word "prawn" is more common on menus than "shrimp", while the opposite is the case in North America.
The term "prawn" is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (such as "king prawns", yet sometimes known as "jumbo shrimp").
Australia and some other Commonwealth nations follow this British usage to an even greater extent, using the word "prawn" almost exclusively.
When Australian comedian Paul Hogan used the phrase, "I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you" in an American television advertisement, it was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.
248/365 – Fish
Fish have been on the earth for more than 450 million years.
Fish were well established long before dinosaurs roamed the earth.
There are over 25,000 identified species of fish on the earth.
It is estimated that there may still be over 15,000 fish species that have not yet been identified.
There are more species of fish than all the species of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals combined.
40% of all fish species inhabit fresh water, yet less than .01% of the earth's water is fresh water.
The spotted climbing perch is able to absorb oxygen from the air and will crawl overland using its strong pectoral fins.
Some fish like sharks don't posses an air bladder to help keep them afloat and must either swim continually or rest on the bottom.
Some fish make sounds by grating their teeth and others like some catfish make sounds from their air filled swim bladder.
Some species of fish can fly (glide) others can skip along the surface and others can even climb rock.
Fish have a specialized sense organ called the lateral line which works much like radar and helps them navigate in dark or murky water.
The largest fish is the great whale shark which can reach fifty feet in length.
The smallest fish is the Philippine goby that is less than 1/3 of an inch when fully grown.
Some species of fish have skeletons made only of cartilage.
Fish have excellent senses of sight, touch, taste and many possess a good sense of smell and 'hearing'.
Fish feel pain and suffer stress just like mammals and birds.
Source: http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=16+2160&aid=586
227/365 – Zebra
Swahili Name: Punda Milia
Scientific Name: Burchell's zebra (Equus burchellii); Grevy's zebra (Equus grevyi)
Size: 45 to 55 inches at the shoulder (Burchell's); 50 to 60 inches (Grevy's)
Weight: Burchell's: 485 to 550 pounds (Burchell's); 770 to 990 pounds (Grevy's)
Lifespan: 40 years in captivity
Habitat: Woodlands to open plains
Diet: Herbivores Gestation: 12 months (Burchell's); 13 months (Grevy's)
Predators: Lions, hyenas, hunting dogs, leopards, cheetahs
Zebras, horses and wild asses are all equids, long-lived animals that move quickly for their large size and have teeth built for grinding and cropping grass. Zebras have horselike bodies, but their manes are made of short, erect hair, their tails are tufted at the tip and their coats are striped.
Three species of zebra still occur in Africa, two of which are found in East Africa. The most numerous and widespread species in the east is Burchell's, also known as the common or plains zebra. The other is Grevy's zebra, named for Jules Grevy, a president of France in the 1880s who received one from Abyssinia as a gift, and now found mostly in northern Kenya. (The third species, Equus zebra, is the mountain zebra, found in southern and southwestern Africa.)
Physical Characteristics
The long-legged Grevy's zebra, the biggest of the wild equids, is taller and heavier than the Burchell's, with a massive head and large ears.
Zebras have shiny coats that dissipate over 70 percent of incoming heat, and some scientists believe the stripes help the animals withstand intense solar radiation. The black and white stripes are a form of camouflage called disruptive coloration that breaks up the outline of the body. Although the pattern is visible during daytime, at dawn or in the evening when their predators are most active, zebras look indistinct and may confuse predators by distorting true distance.
The stripes on Grevy's zebras are more numerous and narrow than those of the plains zebra and do not extend to the belly. In all zebra species, the stripes on the forequarters form a triangular pattern; Grevy's have a similar pattern on the hindquarters, while others have a slanted or horizontal pattern.
Burchell's zebras inhabit savannas, from treeless grasslands to open woodlands; they sometimes occur in tens of thousands in migratory herds on the Serengeti plains. Grevy's zebras are now mainly restricted to parts of northern Kenya. Although they are adapted to semi-arid conditions and require less water than other zebra species, these zebras compete with domestic livestock for water and have suffered heavy poaching for their meat and skins.
Family groups are stable members maintaining strong bonds over many years. Mutual grooming, where zebras stand together and nibble the hair on each other's neck and back, helps develop and preserve these bonds. Family members look out for one another if one becomes separated from the rest, the others search for it. The group adjusts its traveling pace to accommodate the old and the weak.
The females within a family observe a strict hierarchical system. A dominant mare always leads the group, while others follow her in single file, each with their foals directly behind them. The lowest- ranking mare is the last in line. Although the stallion is the dominant member of the family, he operates outside the system and has no special place in the line.
Zebras are avid grazers. Both Burchell's and Grevy's zebras are in constant search of green pastures. In the dry season, they can live on coarse, dry grass only if they are within a short distance (usually no farther than 20 miles away) of water holes.
Caring for the Young
When a foal is born the mother keeps all other zebras (even the members of her family) away from it for 2 or 3 days, until it learns to recognize her by sight, voice and smell.
While all foals have a close association with their mothers, the male foals are also close to their fathers. They leave their group on their own accord between the ages of 1 and 4 years to join an all-male bachelor group until they are strong enough to head a family.
Zebras are important prey for lions and hyenas, and to a lesser extent for hunting dogs, leopards and cheetahs. When a family group is attacked, the members form a semicircle, face the predator and watch it, ready to bite or strike should the attack continue. If one of the family is injured the rest will often encircle it to protect it from further attack.
221/365 – Cows
A cow is a mature female and a bull an adult male of a bovine family. A heifer is a female cow that hasn't had a calf yet. Cattle is the name for the whole "cow" family.
There are about 920 different breeds of cows in the world. They were domesticated about 5,000 years ago. Cows came to America with the Pilgrims.
Modern domestic cattle are believed to belong to either the species Bos taurus (like Holstein, Brown Swiss, Jersey and Guemsey), or the species Bos indicus which are humped cattle like the Brahman. Some cattle are a cross between those two species.
The smallest type of cow is a breed called Dexter, which was bred a small size for household living. Cows can live 25 years. You can guess the age of a cow that has horns by counting the number of rings on the horns.
Cows have almost total 360 degree panoramic vision and are able to see colors, except red. They can detect odors up to 5 miles away. Cows can hear lower and higher frequencies better than humans.
Per day, a cows spends 6 hours eating and 8 hours chewing cud. A cow doesn't bite the grass, but she curls her tongue around it. A cow has no upper front teeth.
The average cow drinks about 30 gallons of water and eats about 95 pounds of feed per day.
A cow stands up and sits down about 14 times a day.
The mean gestation period of a cow is between 279 and 290 days. The bond between a cow and her calf is very strong and continues after the calf is fully grown. In non-commercial herds, some cows will nurse their calves for up to 3 years.
A cow weighs about 1400 pounds. A 1000 pound cow produces an average of 10 tons of manure a year.
Cows are very social animals. They form large herds and will bond to some herd members while avoiding others. They "moo" and use different body positions and facial expressions to communicate with each other.
A Holstein's spots are like a fingerprint. No two cows have exactly the same pattern of spots.
A cow has one stomach containing four digestive compartments: the rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum. The rumen is the largest compartment and acts as a fermentation chamber. The abomasum is last of the four and is comparable in both structure and function to the human stomach.
Cows have cloven hooves. In galloping through boggy places or in deep mud, cattle can run faster than a horse. Their toes spread, and therefore their wide feet do not sink so deep as do those of the solid-hoofed horse.


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I'm not a fan of overwrought cuisine. I never understood the "molecular gastronomy" fad or the flavored "foam" fad. Why would anyone think this would appeal to human beings?
Along with the food fads have also come drink fads, namely the appearance of "mixologists." Can you imagine the pretentiousness of adding "ologist" to other, non-PhD type professions? Like, "I need a plumbologist to come fix my toilet." Or, "Can you ask our servologist to bring us the dessert menu?" It's ridiculous. No offense to you mixologists out there, but to make a drink you put booze and ice in a glass. If you want to get fancy you add an olive or slice of lemon. It's not rocket science.
However, I have to admit that some good things have come out of the mixologist fad. They have produced some refreshing twists on old favorites, most notably the introduction of the increasingly popular herbal cocktail.
I've been thinking about cocktails a lot lately. After a miserably cold early spring, Kansas City has suddenly rocketed into the 90s. Dignity and our stubborn midwest nature prevents many of us from turning on the air conditioning before June, so it has been HOT.
|Enough with the ceiling fans Mom...let's get some A/C.
In an effort to cool off, I've decided to go beyond the infusion of vodka into heretofore unknown territory: I've been experimenting herb-infused cocktails, with surprisingly good and refreshing results (just call me a refreshologist). I was especially inspired after discovering a recipe for lavender infused champagne, a concoction that combines two of my very favorite things in life! Oh mixologists, you've found my weakness. I give in to your ridiculous title (don't hold your breath molecular gastronomists).
Of the one's I've subjected my friends and family to thus far, these three have been the favorites. Some of the recipes require advanced preparation (like popping grapes in the freezer before work) but none of them are complicated. The ingredients are all easy to find and inexpensive (no rare extracts of mung bean or anything). Enjoy!!
Blackberry Mint Julep (serves 4)
From marthastewart.com
• 1/2 cup packed fresh mint leaves
• 1 pint blackberries
• 6 tablespoons sugar
• 1/2 cup bourbon
• 4 cups small ice cubes
• 4 sprigs mint, for garnishing
1. Roughly chop mint leaves.
2. Puree the mint, blackberries, and sugar in a blender. Press through a fine sieve into a bowl; discard seeds.
3. Rinse blender, then return puree to blender, and add bourbon and small ice cubes; blend until smooth. Divide mixture among 4 glasses. Garnish each with a mint sprig.
Lavender Champagne (serves 4-6)
From marthastewart.com
• 1/8 cup sugar
• 1/4 tablespoon dried lavender
• 1 bottles (750 mL) dry Champagne or sparkling wine, chilled
• Fresh lavender sprigs, for garnish
1. Bring sugar and 1/2 cup water to a boil in a saucepan, stirring to dissolve sugar. Stir in dried lavender. Remove from heat. Let cool completely. Strain out lavender. Refrigerate syrup until ready to serve (up to 1 month).
2. Pour about 6 ounces Champagne and 1 1/2 teaspoons syrup into each flute. Garnish each with a lavender sprig.
Biano with Frozen Grapes (serves 4-6)
From Fine Cooking
1/2 lb. grapes, preferably a large, seedless variety such as Red Globe, plucked from the stems
1 3-inch sprig fresh rosemary
1 3-inch sprig fresh mint
1 bottle (750ml) Sauvignon Blanc wine
1 3-inch strip lemon zest (pared with a vegetable peeler)
1 3-inch sprig fresh rosemary
1 3-inch sprig fresh mint
1 bottle (750ml) Sauvignon Blanc wine
1 3-inch strip lemon zest (pared with a vegetable peeler)
1. Rinse the grapes and pat them dry. Spread on a rimmed baking sheet and freeze until solid, for several hours or overnight.
2. Rinse the herbs well. Open the wine bottles, stuff the rosemary and mint springs and the strip of lemon zest into the bottle, recork, and refrigerate for 6 hours, or overnight.
3. To serve, set out glasses, put 3 to 5 frozen grapes (depending on size) in each glass, and pour in the chilled bianco.
|My little laboratory
|Mum's burgeoning herb garden
If this leap into the world of herbal cocktailing seems like too much all at once, I suggest taking baby steps. An easy way to do this is to start infusing your on vodka. A few months ago my mom and I started doing this. Compliments of a few Costco bottles of Skyy vodka, we have experimented with pear, ginger, cucumber, lemon, basil and thyme infusions. As a result, ginger and basil vodkas are now permanent fixtures in our household.
Be creative. Be bold. Find your inner mixologist.


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Paul and John seem to disagree with regards to the authority of government. In Romans 13:1-7, Paul says:
1 Let every person be subordinate to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been established by God. 2 Therefore, whoever resists authority opposes what God has appointed, and those who oppose it will bring judgment upon themselves. 3 For rulers are not a cause of fear to good conduct, but to evil. Do you wish to have no fear of authority? Then do what is good and you will receive approval from it, 4 for it is a servant of God for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword without purpose; it is the servant of God to inflict wrath on the evildoer. 5 Therefore, it is necessary to be subject not only because of the wrath but also because of conscience. 6 This is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. 7 Pay to all their dues, taxes to whom taxes are due, toll to whom toll is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.
However, in Revelation 13: 4-17, John writes:
4 They worshiped the dragon because it gave its authority to the beast; they also worshiped the beast and said, "Who can compare with the beast or who can fight against it?" 5 The beast was given a mouth uttering proud boasts and blasphemies, and it was given authority to act for forty-two months. 6 It opened its mouth to utter blasphemies against God, blaspheming his name and his dwelling and those who dwell in heaven. 7 It was also allowed to wage war against the holy ones and conquer them, and it was granted authority over every tribe, people, tongue, and nation. 8 All the inhabitants of the earth will worship it, all whose names were not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life, which belongs to the Lamb who was slain. 9 Whoever has ears ought to hear these words. 16 It forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a stamped image on their right hands or their foreheads, 17 so that no one could buy or sell except one who had the stamped image of the beast's name or the number that stood for its name.
How can we square these? Paul says all authority comes from God. John says that Roman authority (the Beast = Domitian) comes from the Dragon, who is Satan. Paul says not to oppose authority; the whole book of Revelation is one long resistance text to the Roman Empire. Paul says to pay taxes; John implies that it may even be necessary to boycott Roman currency to remain faithful to the Lamb rather than worship the Dragon. Thoughts?


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MIRA Hardcover April 2005
Doubleday Large
Print hardcover April 2005
Reviewer Sissy Jacobson
Contemporary Romance
TABLE FOR FIVE is the story of five
people who are plunged into the depths of grief so deep they think they
will never recover, and the love they share that helps them pull
The Holloways have
it all for a while. Derek Holloway works hard to stay at the top of the
PGA circuit. He is wealthy and handsome with a beautiful, vibrant, wife,
Crystal, and three children. Cameron, age 15, is doing well in school
and seems to be planning to follow in his father's footsteps in golf;
Charlene (Charlie) is in the third grade and understands everything
about golf. She's a crack score-keeper; and then there is Ashley, the
two-year-old darling of the family. Yes, they have it all…until the
cracks made by Derek's infidelity split the family wide open ending it
with divorce. Now the final break…an automobile accident that kills both
Derek and Crystal.
Lily Robinson had
only one true friend in her whole life, Crystal Holloway. They were
closer than sisters, and Lily was an honorary aunt to the Holloway
children. They adore her and she loves them as her own. Crystal had once
made Lily promise that if anything happened to her, she would take care
of the children.
Sean Maguire,
Derek's half-brother, also a golfer, has just returned to the states
after playing the Asian tour for several years, when he receives the
tragic phone call. He immediately flies to Comfort, Oregon, to be with
the children, only to find Lily already there.
After the funeral,
all are shocked when Sean is named guardian of the children in Derek's
will. Crystal had never signed her will after she changed it naming Lily
as their guardian. Sean hasn't a clue how to raise children, but rolls
up his sleeves and plunges in, doing the best he can. Lily doesn't want
to seem interfering, yet she doesn't always agree with Sean's methods of
child rearing. Sean does know one thing: he has to get a job. Derek's
agent pulls a miracle out of the hat and gets Sean started on the PGA
tour with Wonder Bread as his sponsor. According to Wiggs, "The truth
is, Derek, the elder, was the hard worker, the consistent player. Sean,
with more talent but less dedication, always seemed to be in his shadow,
but no one was forcing him to stand there."
Lily surprises them
all by driving up in her sister's R.V. decorated by Wonder Bread, with
shirts and caps with the WB logo on them. Can they learn to pull
together as a family during this summer road trip in order to help Sean
as he begins climbing the ladder in the PGA?
There is no way that
one can write about the length of time it takes for people to begin to
get over the deaths of loved ones, but Susan Wiggs has used pacing to
smoothly begin pulling this made up family of five back onto the road to
TABLE FOR FIVE is
built around not only the deaths of the parents, and their loved ones
left behind to mourn them, but also about golf. It doesn't matter
whether or not you know anything about golf, you will understand the
story and the realistic characters and their actions. I only had to call
my son once to ask a question about golf so I could write this review
with some degree of accuracy. My only warning is have a box of tissues
near during the first part of the book.
As usual, Susan
Wiggs has written a story filled with characters that touch our hearts
and stay with us long after the book has ended.
July 2005
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text:
Primitive Future
October 28, 2008
Log House
Treatment Centre for Mentally Disturbed Children. Hokkaido, Japan.
Tokyo Apartment. Tokyo.
(I'd like to see this when it's completed.)
All by Sou Fujimoto Architects.
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rudy permalinkNovember 8, 2008 7:48 pm
The Treatment Centre is gorgeous. I wonder, though, if it doesn't seem a bit intimidating & cold for the mentally disturbed.