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Lecture 24:
The failure of Balkan Communism and the causes of
the Revolutions of 1989
[This lecture was written in August 1995. It is clear after the passage of more than two years that some sections would be written differently today. However, in the interests of fininshing the project of posting the entire series of lectures on the Web, I have elected to keep the original text with only minor editing: interested readers should pursue newer information and interpretations in their libraries.]
The Revolutions of 1989 that ended Soviet-style Communism in the East European socialist states from the Baltic to the Balkans, were both dramatic and largely unexpected. It will be many years before a full documentary record is available, or the evidence required for a complete, reliable picture of what happened. However, one can discuss the causes of 1989, and explore some interpretations. This lecture discusses four explanations. Many of the key events in those explanations are interrelated, and it makes some sense to treat them as four stages in a lengthy process.
Briefly, these four explanations are:
1. Collapse due to economic failure: The Revolutions of 1989, and the general unrest which preceded them during the 1980s, have been interpreted as outgrowths of the economic failure of Communism. During the 1970s, the Eastern European Communist states pursued high-risk development strategies that relied on foreign loans to pay for construction of modernized economies. When oil prices rose in 1973 and 1979 and slowed the world economy, the Bloc states could no longer make payments on their debts, and this led to a loss of credit and internal economic problems from which they never recovered.
2. Collapse due to the arms race: The end of Soviet Communism has also been explained as a result of an economic crisis, in which American military pressure and the costs of the arms race were the most important causes. Under Presidents Carter, Reagan and Bush, the United States forced the Soviets to spend so much money on high-tech weapons that the Communist economy was bankrupted, after too many resources were diverted from productive investments and consumer needs.
3. Collapse due to "perestroika" in the Soviet Union: Another explanation points to the Soviet Union, and emphasizes the "perestroika" politics of Mikhail Gorbachev, without which revolutionary change in Eastern Europe would have remained impossible. Gorbachev did two things: he sanctioned an unprecedented degree of change in the Communist world, and he made it clear that the Brezhnev Doctrine of 1968 was no longer in force. Once it was clear that the Soviet Union would no longer intervene in the affairs of its neighbors, Eastern Europeans were able to address their own local needs in their own way.
4. Collapse due to the rise of alternatives to Communism: An approach that looks for explanations within Eastern Europe, rather than from the outside, argues that economic failure and the loss of Russian Communist pressure still do not explain the specific events and outcomes of the East European and Balkan Revolutions of 1989. The entrenched Communist leadership might have retained power on their own, except for the growth of alternatives, to which the various nations could turn to redefine their societies. Because this view uncovers very different developments in the various states, and therefore also explain why the revolutions had such very different outcomes in various parts of the Bloc. In Poland and Czechoslovakia, for example, alternatives included the so-called "civil society" movement, and provided local leaders like Poland's Lech Walesa and Czechoslovakia's Vaclav Havel, who stood up to authoritarian rule in the late '70s and early '80s to demand political pluralism and individual freedom. At the same time, states like the former Yugoslav republics followed a contrasting path, in which the most successful alternatives involved nationalist figures who reintroduced familiar Balkan themes.
The interaction of these explanations,and of critical events outside Eastern Europe, is apparent in following the development of Eastern European Communism in the two decades preceding 1989.
Step One: Economic failure
Eastern European Communism reached its political and economic high point in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The Soviet Union had become a scientific and military superpower comparable to the United States. Thanks to limited economic reforms like the New Economic Mechanism in Hungary, and acceptance of a semi-private "second economy," the Communist states achieved striking economic growth. This economic success made it hard to dismiss socialism as a valid alternative to capitalism, especially for developing nations.
Between 1965 and 1970, gross national product (GNP) per capita in the six Comecon states (East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria) grew annually by between 2.7 and 4.0 percent, compared to 2.5 percent for the United States. From 1970-75, GNP per capita rose in the same six states by 2.7 to 5.7 percent (an average of 4.2 percent), compared to a mere 1.2 percent in the U.S. and 1.3 percent in West Germany. In Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, GNP per capita doubled between 1960 and 1975, and new production began to include a higher proportion of consumer goods. GNP per capita was still only half of the American level, but the Communist states seemed to be catching up while offering universal health care, access to education, and full employment.
These growth figures were in some ways misleading. The Bloc countries began with such low levels of economic productivity that small increases translated into large percentage rates. Non-Communist Greece had rates of growth for1967-70 and 1970-75 that were even higher than those for the Comecon states (6.6 percent for Greece, 4.9 percent for the Bloc), and for the same reason.
Three traps were ahead for the East European economies.
First, growth on the cheap was about to end. Opportunities to build on previously untapped natural resources were exhausted: no more simple new hydroelectric dams, or mines exploiting high quality surface ores. The pool of underemployed rural labor -- an asset when new factories opened -- also had now been committed. The Soviet Union had subsidized growth by offering economic aid, petroleum and natural gas supplies, and expertise at low costs; world events would soon force Moscow to curtail these resources or demand market value. East Bloc labor had worked hard for minimal rewards, and by doing so, those workers were subsidizing socialism: when workers began to demand more consumer goods and improved housing, overall costs rose within the system. After 1970 these old advantages vanished.
Second, economic reform introduced new expectations. When the Bloc regimes accepted limited levels of Western profit incentives (through reforms like the New Economic Mechanism), they fostered popular demands for better conditions. The Solidarity union movement in Poland was the unintended result of such a reform. When the Polish state stopped subsidizing low food prices in 1970, consumers experienced reduced access to goods: the resulting dissatisfaction caused the Gdansk shipyard strike, which in turn began a process that created an independent trade union movement ten years later.
Third, contact with Western economic forces exposed the Communist economies to the risks, as well as the benefits, of free enterprise and modern economic structures. Access to Western loans is an example. The Communist states lacked hard currency to invest in modern industries that could compete with the West in advanced technologies and consumer goods. To pay for imported Western machines and services, the East European states borrowed from Western banks. By 1980 Hungary owed $9 billion to Western lenders; Romania owed $10 billion. The new East Bloc industries planned to sell the output of the new industries on the world market, and so raise the cash to repay the loans. Two things undercut this plan.
First, too much loan money was spent unproductively, subsidizing short-term consumer needs, lost to corruption, or wasted on bad investments like the $2 billion Smederovo steel works in Serbia, a factory that never turned a profit.
Second, the Comecon states became economic hostages to Western business cycles. They were among the victims of the 1973 world oil crisis when the OPEC states drove up the cost of energy from a 1973 index level of 80, to 138 in 1975. The Iranian revolution of 1979 caused another increase in energy costs, to an index level of 238 in 1980 and 276 in 1982. Even after the crises ended, typical index levels remained remained around 125 or 130.
As a result, the debt-laden Bloc states could no longer stretch their financial resources far enough to buy energy to produce new goods, repay old loans, and meet domestic consumer demand at the same time.. Without hard currency for debt repayment, vital Western investments would dry up: to pay back the loans, the Bloc states back on consumer goods, and this created lines at stores, general misery, and a loss of confidence in local economies and currencies (in the 1980s, cartons of Kent cigarettes had replaced currency as the preferred medium of exchange in Romania). Per capita GNP stopped rising in the 1980s; in Poland GNP figures actually began to go down.
Step Two: Cold War pressures
At the same time that the oil crises were straining Comecon finances by raising the price of energy, increased East-West tensions added burdensome military expenses.
When the period of "detente" ended in the late 1970s, the USSR and the US resumed a high-tech, high-cost strategic arms race. The Carter administration began work on neutron bombs and missile systems like the mobile MX and the cruise missile, which were deployed under Reagan in the 1980s. The USSR's 1979 intervention in Afghanistan to preserve a communist regime led to a lengthy, costly war. In 1970, the military share of the Soviet GNP was estimated to be about 13 percent of total GNP. By 1988 this had grown to 16 percent. These military costs went up when the USSR could least afford it.
While the East European and Balkan socialist states were not directly affected by these costs, they soon faced reduced Soviet aid as an indirect result. The USSR began to demand market prices for its products, especially oil and gas. Thus the arms race compounded the effects of other economic problems in the Balkans. Economic hard times were not new in the Bloc, but in the 1980s they combined with new political phenomena to set the stage for 1989.
Step Three: Perestroika
The revolutionary events of 1989 differed widely from place to place. This suggests that the decisions of East European and Balkan leaders determined the nature of specific events during the transition from socialism. Aging leaders remained in control of the Communist states, except in Yugoslavia, where Tito's death in 1981 ushered in an awkward system of short-term presidents drawn in rotation from all the consitutent republics. While states like Hungary allowed experimentation in their economies in the '80s, tolerance for change did not extend to political pluralism: the rationale for innovation remained pragmatic economic development.
The simultaneous rise of Mikhail Gorbachev to power in the Soviet Union signaled not only economic pragmatism, but a willingness to experiment in politics too. A fundamental factor universally at work in Balkan events was the transformation of Soviet Russian policy, and in that sense, a major impetus for change in the 1980s originated outside the Balkans. "Perestroika" (new thinking) in Russia began with economic reforms and a role for criticism under the concept of "glasnost" (openness). At the 1988 Party Congress speakers made real critiques of state policy. Combined with moves toward secret ballots and real elections, tolerance of such dissent implied a shift away from monolith Communist power in the state, and toward multi-party pluralism.
More important for the Balkan states, Gorbachev abandoned the Brezhnev Doctrine, the USSR's commitment to use force to block any shift away from Russian-style Communism. Soviet occupation forces left Afghanistan, and then Hungary. Speaking at the United Natoins in December 1988, Gorbachev renounced the use of force in foreign policy. Clearly Russia was no longer going to block political experimentation in Eastern Europe.
Step Four: Alternatives to socialism
During the 1980s, oil prices and foreign debts discredited socialist economics and gave Eastern Europeans a pocketbook reason to seek radical change, while Gorbachev's new policies removed potential Russian intervention as an obstacle. However, to understand the actual events that took place before and after the 1989 revolutions, we must look at domestic developments inside the Bloc states.
Just as trends in these states during the Cold War exhibited a strong degree of local variety, so did events at the end of the Cold War. There had been no uniform or "monolithic" Communism: neither was there any uniform shift to post-Communist societies and political systems. In some states, so-called "civil society" movements led toward Western-style pluralism; in others, authoritarian regimes (often tapping traditional nationalism) came to power. In some states, the revolution was bloodless, in others (like Romania) it led to civil strife, and in Yugoslavia, to extended open war. The presence (or absence) of specific alternative movements, ideologies and institutions correlates with the specific paths taken by the various Balkan states as the Communist era ended. In other words, local influences and decisions were important.
The varieties of Balkan experience
By looking back twenty (or more) years before the events of 1989, we can discern trends that illuminate what happened when change came. It is helpful also to look widely at events across all of Eastern Europe, because the steps that led to the 1989 revolutions show strong interconnections across the region.
We can see the roots of diversification in the Balkan and East European socialist experience as far back as the Tito-Stalin split, in Romania's pursuit of a "national road to Communism," and in the 1968 Prague Spring movement for "Communism with a human face" and its aftermath. While the 1968 Czech movement was suppressed, it produced echoes in other places that had profound consequences in years to come.
In Croatia, for example, 1968 demonstrations by pro-Czech student sympathizers led to the creation of new student groups that functioned outside the control of the Party. Under their leadership, interest in Croatian history and culture revived. This reawakened ethnic pride soon combined with economic resentment with an ethnic twist, as Croats watched money flow from Yugoslavia's rich north to the poor south.
The result was a growing Croatian separatist movement, based on a revived cultural organization of the nineteenth century, Matica Hrvatska (Matica means "queen bee"). In 1971, students sang banned patriotic songs in defiance of the authorities, while Matica Hrvatska proposed a new Croatian constitution under which Croatia would have the right to secede from Yugoslavia, and "Croatian" would become the sole state language. At the same time, Catholics criticised the Serbian Orthodox Church and there was an effort to end the right of Serbs in Croatia to education in Cyrillic. In the ensuing crackdown, numerous leaders were arrested. One of them was Franjo Tudjman, the future President of Croatia. In 1971 he was 49 years old, a former partisan and Communist general with academic interests, who had resigned his state posts in 1967 to take up the cause of Croatian nationalism.
The period of East-West detente in the middle 1970s injected additional factors. The 1975 Helsinki Agreements between the USSR and the United States included a pledge by the Soviets to permit the exercise of "human rights." While the concept was vaguely defined, the agreement nevertheless offered important leverage for reformers.
When an irreverent rock band called the 'Plastic People of the Universe' was arrested in Czechoslovakia in 1977, 243 Czech writers, intellectuals and reform-minded Communists organized an informal group called "Charter 77" to protest the arrests. Charter 77 issued a public letter calling on dissidents to live "as if" they were living in a "civil society," one in which basic human rights such as freedom of expression were allowed. Their most important leader was the playwright Vaclav Havel, later the first President of the post-Communist Czech Republic. Under Stalin (or Romania's Ceausescu), these kinds of dissenters would probably have been shot, but increased Bloc reliance on Western good will meant that they were simply harassed, while their message of disobedience persisted, laying the framework for an alternative system.
In Poland, the impetus for an alternative society came from other directions. The 1978 election of the Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II fostered Polish activism that included a rediscovered awareness of Polish Catholicism (in which nationalism was not far from the surface). In 1980, another economic downturn led to more strikes in Polish shipyards, and the emergence of Lech Walesa and Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the Bloc's first independent trade union, that is, one without Communist Party control. Solidarity offered an alternative model for labor in a "workers' state," despite being suppressed in 1981 by the martial law regime of Prime Minister (and former General) Wojciech Jaruzelski. Ironically, even Jaruzelski can be viewed as a figure opposed to external Soviet Russian influence. The prevention of an armed Russian intervention was one of the key factors behind the imposition of martial law, as much as opposition to reform ciurrents from within the Polish socialist state.
Events in Prague and Gdansk foreshadowed the course of the eventual revolutions and issues defining the post-Communist societies in Czechoslovakia and Poland. So did events in the Balkans. In retrospect, it is possible to find hints in the 1980s which point to emerging forces, forces that took center stage after Soviet control was removed.
In Hungary, the "alternative" to Communism largely sprang from inside the Party itself: for that reason the "Revolution" of 1989 was more of an "Evolution." Hungarian Communism in the 1980s tolerated strong elements of economic reform, and a good deal of decision making took place at the lower levels of the economy, even if prohibitions on political democracy remained in place. The private "second economy" was legalized in 1982. Such conditions encouraged opponents of the system.
Until the middle 1980s the Hungarian opposition remained small and was principally a matter for intellectuals. After 1985, however, other groups capitalized on new rights to freedom of expression won by this vanguard, and for the first time since the 1940s created mass movements outside the Party. Environmentalists opposed Czechoslovak projects for new dams on the Danube; demonstrators promoting aid to the persecuted Hungarian minority under Romanian rule in Transylvania. Neither group could be accused of anti-Communist views; both tapped into nationalist feelings as well.
In 1988, the senile Janos Kadar was removed from power by younger elements in the Party. By then, both pro-reform Communists and the new movements were comfortable with a relationship in which certain organizations functioned outside Party control. After Gorbachev withdrew the threat of Soviet intervention as a prop for traditionalists in the Party, the reform faction was able to gain control. Party reformers were willing to accept political as well as economic and organizational pluralism. In the spring of 1989, the Hungarian reformers declared the March anniversary of the 1848 revolution as a holiday, scheduled free elections for 1990. Unwilling any longer to enforce a closed frontier, they opened the border to permit Hungarians to freely visit Austria for the first time in a generation. The results were spectacular.
Hungary's decision to open its borders set off a chain reaction that involved all the East European socialist states. In August 1989, a stream of East Germans began to appear at the West German embassy in Budapest, seeking asylum and permission to move to West Germany. When the growing throng overflowed the embassy grounds, the Hungarians simply opened the border, and thousands of East Germans streamed into Austria. A similar cycle of events began at the West German embassy in Prague. The excitement was catching. Czechoslovakia and East Germany (whose Communist regimes remained traditional and authoritarian) now experienced massive street demonstrations, which went unchecked after police refused government orders to fire on the crowds.
By November 1989, a new East German reform cabinet entertained secret discussions of relaxation in the emigration rules: as a result, a rumor swept East Berlin that the Berlin Wall was being opened. Crowds filled the streets, and demoralized border guards simply let them cross into West Berlin. After that, East Germany unravelled in a few days. In Czechoslovakia, a week of mass demonstrations ended the Communist monopoly on power when Czech party reformers refused to use force. Vaclav Havel began the year in jail; by December he was the new President of Czechoslovakia.
Hungary, Czechoslovakia and East Germany experienced rapid, non-violent revolutions, in which an orientation to the West and the preexistence of progressive "alternative" structures played key roles. Events in the Balkan states stand in stark contrast. The "revolutions" there were slower to begin, slower to unfold, and slower to lead to dramatic changes: in fact, to the extent that former Communists retained an uninterrupted grip on state power, one might question whether "revolutions" even took place. Furthermore, events in the Balkans involved substantially greater levels of violence, iuncluding the resurrection of inter-ethnic strife, so that it was unclear whether the collapse of Communism looked forward to new 21st century visions, or backward to the traditions of the 19th.
Bulgaria experienced a rather quiet "revolution" in 1989. It is perhaps easier to say that the Party , like it's leader Todor Zhivkov, simply grew old and exhausted. As they had in Hungary, the limited levels of opposition to the Party in the 1980s revolved around issues that were relatively harmless from a political perspective. One center of dissent was an environmental movement, which focussed on air pollution from badly run factories in neighboring Romania. Another was made up of Bulgarian intellectuals opposed to anti-Turkish measures. Neither movement involved fundamental criticism of the Bulgarian regime.
In 1984, for reasons that are still obscure, the state decided to Bulgaricize the country's 10 percent Turkish minority, which lived quietly and productively in traditional rural districts. For the first time, Islamic religious observances were harassed, and Moslem families were forced to change their names to "Bulgarian" sounding names. Perhaps a hundred people were killed in small-scale riots. Dissent remained private until 1989 when Turkish leaders organized protests. The state responded by expelling 300,000 Turks from the country, a move that disrupted the economy and attracted criticism from Bulgarian intellectuals.
However, the more important forces for change came from within the party. Reformers publicized corruption among Todor Zhivkov's entourage, in part to put pressure on the Party to embrace needed economic reforms. Zhivkov resigned in November 1989 at the age of 78, and in December the Party gave up its monopoly on power. Like their Hungarian counterparts, reformers in the Bulgarian party overcame fears about pluralism, and in fact the renamed Bulgarian Socialist Party won the free 1990 elections. In other words, the result of the 1989 "revolution" was to return reform-minded ex-Communists to power, which casts some doubt on the use of the word "revolution" in this case.
In Romania too, Party insiders were important figures in offering "alternatives" to the existing, traditional Communist regime. Unlike Hungary and Bulgaria, however, their influence was far less progressive, largely because Ceausescu's brand of Stalinism had suppressed imaginative thinking for so long ,along with real dissent . Romania tolerated no movements like Charter 77 or Solidarity: the leaders of even minor strikes routinely disappeared.
Ceausescu's brother Nicu has called the events of December 1989 in Romania "a coup d'etat that took place against the background of a popular revolt." If levels of violence are any gauge, the revolution tapped deep wellsprings of discontent. The entire population had suffered under miserable conditions all through the 1980s, denied basic consumer goods while the foreign debt was repaid.
At the same time, ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania were singled out for second-class treatment. It was no coincidence that when the crisis broke in December 1989 it began with state efforts to arrest a Magyar priest in Transylvania. In that episode, several people were killed by the Securitate secret police, but inaccurate rumors of the massacre of thousands led to a nation-wide wave of unrest. Ceausescu's efforts to overawe his critics backfired, when he was booed at a mass rally in Bucharest. Fighting then broke out between street crowds and the Securitate, in which some 5,000 people were killed and parts of the city destroyed.
However, the absence of organized, well-known or credible alternative forces in the society left this popular revolution without leaders or a clear ideological direction. Instead, rivals of Ceausescu within the Party itself appear to have used these genuine demonstrations as a cover, under which they carried out long-standing plans for a coup. Army and Party leaders jealous or afraid of the Ceausescu clan took advantage of the disorder to arrest, execute, and belatedly try Ceausescu and his wife. Analysts have pointed to the rapid appearance of the National Salvation Front (NSF or FSN) as a sign of conspiracy: a previously unknown political organization, it rapidly took over the government.
Subsequent to 1989, the NSF proved to be a political tool of longtime Communist leaders, including Securitate figures, and not an expression of real dissent or opposition. While some alternative political groups and media have appeared, the NSF has dominated power as a new political monopoly. Ion Iliescu, a former Communist, secured 85% of the vote for president in 1990. When student demonstrators challenged NSF policies, the state brought 10,000 miners armed with clubs to Bucharest from the provinces, then used them to break up opposition gatherings and smash rival offices. Romanian politics in the period after 1989 showed few signs of real pluralism or reforms that might break up old corrupt centers of power.
Events in Yugoslavia displayed the resurgence of nationalism at their most extreme. Lecture 25 deals with events there. Suffice it to say for now that the alternative centers of social and political organization there were based strongly in traditional nationalism, and this accounted for the ethnic warfare that lasted four years. The aftershocks of the Prague spring fell on fertile ground laced with mistrust when it came to Serbs and Croats.
If we analyze the Eastern European revolutions of 1989 through the presence or absence of local alternatives to Communism, Albania presents an extreme case. Because Albania had the fewest alternatives to the Party structure, Albania experienced the least apparent changes in 1989. Instead, change began with the death of Enver Hoxha in 1985, the World War II guerilla leader who led the Party and the State all through the Cold War.
By the time Hoxha died at age 77, Albanian Communism was exhausted. Forty years of Stalinist domestic policies (periodic purges, repression of dissent and criticism, central economic planning and collectivization) had produced Europe's lowest standard of living, combined with a sterile culture offering no alternative ideas. Even Albania's celebrated independence in foreign affairs reached a dead end, when Hoxha broke with Communist Chinese modernizers after Mao's death in 1976. The country was self-sufficient but isolated.
Hoxha's successor was Ramiz Alia, a Communist since age 18, who rose rapidly in the Party-state apparatus. Despite his loyalty to Hoxha, Alia recognized in 1985 that the country needed international aid and economic reforms. From 1985-89 he introduced wage incentives, plant autonomy, consumer goods, and toleration of criticism by the nation's writers, while the Party retained a monopoly on political power.
Alia expereienced no serious challenge during the Revolutions of 1989. The Party accelerated economic reform, but made no move toward political pluralism until December 1990, more than a year after events elsewhere. In apparently free elections in 1991, the Communist Party took 56 percent of the vote, and Alia was elected President. In other words, there were so few alternatives in Albania that the party and its leading personalities still dominated the landscape. If there is to be "revolution" in Albania, it's crucial aspects are a matter of economic modernization, not politics.
We can make two summary observations, comparing Balkan events with those to the north, and even to those in Hungary.
First, only in the Balkans did former Communists retain a grip on political power in the period immediately after the revolution. Elements rooted in Solidarity and the Catholic Church routed the Polish Communists. Charter 77 created an alternative in Czechoslovakia. East Germany looked to Bonn, and former Party leaders were tried for treason. But in the Balkan states, ex-Communists remain major players in national politics, even if many chose to redefine themselves as nationalists.
Second, extensive violence during the 1989 revolutions was confined to Balkan states: Romania and Yugoslavia. The northern revolutions involved peaceful demonstrators, establishing pluralist regimes. In the Balkans, tolerance and pluralism remained in short supply. This led to violence responses to dissent, and to ethnic conflict. Both seem more like echoes of the Balkan past, than signs of progress into a brighter future.
This lecture is a portion of a larger Web site, Twenty-Five Lectures on Modern Balkan History (The Balkans in the Age of Nationalism); click here to return to the Table of Contents page.
This page created on 27 November 1996; last modified 3 November 1998.


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Friday, March 5, 2010
Yesterday's lunch: Eat More Color
Having reached the point where I am tiring of being ill, I roasted veggies so I could arm my body with lots of nutrients. Loved the color on my plate.
not the sharpest shot--I remember my hands were shaking due to my need to eat, so that's probably part of the problem. =)
I love the rays of color from the beet and hot sauce into the plain yogurt.
Believe it or not, this is a REALLY tasty meal: roasted beet, onion, parsnip (I think) with plain organic yogurt and sriracha hot sauce. Roasted veggies with olive oil rub, sprinkling of garlic powder, wrapped in foil, popped in oven. And of course, salt. mmmmm....
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Yesterday, at a friend's place, we all gathered around to listen to some beautiful (and original!) music…played by our own friends, in front of us, LIVE! It was pretty amazing, not only because they are all incredibly talented, but more so because when they played I experienced a certain inward peace. I don't think this feeling came from their voices or their instruments. Instead it came as a wave of realization as it became clear to me that we really to all have a purpose, a niche, a place. I tried to make this thought into a tangible metaphor–we're all a distinct puzzle piece, or we all have gifts (spiritual and otherwise)– but my metaphors seemed to water down my thought. I think this was because I don't think that it has to be something you can do or something you have to be amazing at. What I think I was experiencing, and in this case, watching, were my friends in moments of my friends humbly letting God show through them. In their beautiful voices were glimpses of the divine. Glimpses of things the way that they are supposed to be.
I am not sure that there can be anything more beautiful than that.
It dawned on me that these moments of holiness seen through the actions and words of those around me are more prevalent than I realize. For example, my friend Steph is really good at speaking so highly of others, of her friends, family etc–but when she tells me these things, I never feel inferior or like she's trying to make me feel any less valuable. In fact, it's the opposite, I feel really valued.
Or when Matt recently received a really heart-touching letter from a client who had been able to find a job with his help. The letter was incredible and as I read it I could literally feel how big it made Matt's heart swell. I could feel how proud he was. But the key, and what made the moment so holy, was that Matt's pride was rooted the joy that he'd been a part of helping someone better their life. He wasn't showing it to me to make himself look amazing or like a hero. It was a holy moment and he had done exactly what was right. He showed me a glimpse of how things are supposed to be.
Steve has a blog where he irregularly posts incredible thoughts. He is brilliant. But I get the same warm feeling reading his words. I know that his intention is to give glory to God, in all things. And his words are extra beautiful because of that.
We were talking about intention in the car on the way up north the other day and questioning if it mattered. I wasn't sure at the time, but I am sure now. Because in all of the examples I have given you above, the intention of the person was of the utmost importance. It was in their honourable intention that made them so translucent, and therefore so easy to see the hand of God at work. Their "stepping out of the way" made it really easy for me to see what God looks like.
My 10 in 2010 is a list of (in some ways, silly) things that I hope to accomplish in 2010. But I think that having pure and loving intentions in my words and actions (in addition to my life-long 2009 goals) is a really good concept to be mindful of this year. When I am talking to someone, am I simply trying to make myself sound smart? Cool? Well liked? Better than them?
This year (and forevermore) I want to step out of the way so that the people I interact with can (hopefully!) see God at work. I know that part of that means that I need to question my intentions and only act when I am intending to bring some good stuff into the world- like love, joy, patience, peace, kindness and self control.
There are so many people in my life who give me glimpses of redemption and a new way of living without even knowing it.
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NL: Brewers sinking fast; Mets win
Brewers lose 5th straight at home
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers haven't quit; it just looks that way.
Bronson Arroyo and the Cincinnati Reds knocked slumping and error-prone Milwaukee out of first place in the NL Central, beating the Brewers 8-3 Friday night.
The Brewers (62-60) lost their season-high fifth straight at home, falling a half-game behind the Chicago Cubs (62-59), who beat the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1 Friday afternoon in the opener of their four-game series.
``When you don't win, people always seem to think that you're pressing or doing something just because you're not winning,'' Prince Fielder said. ``As far as for me, I don't see that from none of my teammates.''
He said that it's hard to explain the current bad stretch. Milwaukee has lost 14 of its last 19 contests and 11 of 15 in August.
It's the first time the Brewers have been in second since Aug. 2 - they regained the top spot a day later.
``We're playing hard and we're just not winning,'' Milwaukee starter Jeff Suppan said.
Arroyo (6-13) gave up nine hits in 7 1-3 innings, including three solo home runs - two by J.J. Hardy and one by Gabe Gross. He struck out seven and also doubled and scored a run.
``It was one of those days where you get lucky,'' Arroyo said. ``Through seven, it was probably the easiest start I've had all year. They were being really aggressive and I was getting lucky and getting outs.''
Arroyo said that in the past, the Brewers had shown patience at the plate. Not in this one.
``Tonight it seemed like everybody top-to-bottom was swinging at one of the first two pitches and putting the ball into play,'' he said.
Adam Dunn launched a 455-ft drive into the upper deck in right for a two-run homer in the top of the ninth. His 33rd home run gave him 81 RBIs for the season, and was the third consecutive game in which he's gone deep.
Trailing 6-1, Hardy and Gross each homered in the eighth to chase Arroyo. But the rally ended against relievers Bill Bray and Jared Burton, and Dave Weathers pitched a perfect ninth.
The Reds padded a 4-1 lead with two runs in the seventh as the Brewers committed two errors.
Jeff Keppinger singled and advanced on Ken Griffey Jr.'s grounder to third baseman Ryan Braun, who threw the ball wide of second and into right field. Keppinger and Griffey kept on running and both scored when right fielder Gross' throw sailed into foul territory behind third.
Milwaukee had four errors in the game.
Suppan (8-10), the Brewers' $42 million free agent acquisition, is 0-3 in 10 starts since an 11-6 win over Kansas City on June 22. He gave up four runs - three earned - and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings.
Brewers starting pitchers are 1-10 over the last 18 games. Rookie right-hander Yovani Gallardo had the lone victory in a 2-1 win Aug. 3 against Philadelphia.
Scott Hatteberg hit a solo shot leading off the sixth. After a one-out single by Edwin Encarnacion and a sacrifice by Arroyo, Brewers manager Ned Yost pulled Suppan and Brian Shouse got Josh Hamilton looking to end the inning.
Keppinger figured in the Reds' first three runs off Suppan.
He reached on shortstop Hardy's fielding error and scored on Brandon Phillips' double in the first inning, then walked and came around to score on Griffey's double into the right-field corner in the third.
In the fifth, center fielder Corey Hart's fielding error on Keppinger's liner up the middle allowed Arroyo, on with a leadoff double, to score.
``I'm happy because he did score,'' Reds manager Pete Mackanin said of Arroyo. ``But it was funny watching him run around the bases.''
In other games
• Mets 6, Nationals 2 — New York's Tom Glavine picked up win No. 301 by allowing one run over seven innings in a victory at Washington. Glavine (11-6) beat the former Montreal Expos for the 33rd time, including the sixth time since the team moved to the nation's capital in 2005.
• Phillies 11, Pirates 8 — Aaron Rowand and Pat Burrell homered, J.D. Durbin won his fourth consecutive start and Philadelphia won at Pittsburgh.
• Giants 3, Marlins 0 — Barry Zito allowed one hit in seven innings, and Rajai Davis hit his first career home run to help San Francisco beat Florida in Miami.
• Dodgers 6, Rockies 4 — Eric Stults allowed two hits and struck out nine over seven innings after getting recalled from Class AAA as Los Angeles defeated Colorado at Dodger Stadium.


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I have a couple other blogs you can take a look at if you have a little time and want to get into who I am a little more.
A Poet of Sorts is a collection of the poems I have written over the past several years. They are in alphabetical order not chronological order as to avoid people knowing who they are about.
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Rebecca Agocs is currently pursuing her judges card with the North Carolina Hunter Jumper Association and will begin officiating horse shows in 2018.
Equitation is all about finding great riders. It's not really that different of a sport from the hunters, or even the jumpers. Instead, it's a step that helps promote every day good riding and a solid position. Dressage, eventing, and even trail riding all require good equitation as well.
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– Pace for the entire course is smooth
– In a forward line, the horse's pace should be set before the line begins so the rider doesn't make adjustments between the fences of the line
– In a collected line, the rider collects the horse earlier to make the short distance work
Signs of poor equitation:
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– Horse isn't forward on the flat, is clearly anxious or frustrated, or they're heavy their inside aids
– Over jumps he's inverted or his jump has no arc over the fence
Equitation means you need to ride the particular horse to its strengths, faults, weaknesses, limitations, and abilities. Adjust your riding accordingly! I know it sounds a lot like horsemanship, but that's because it is.


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Thursday, December 07, 2006
my little sunshine man graduated...
Not exactly the regular picture i post on here, but a very special one. I made this with one of my favorite residents a few weeks ago, during his hand strengthening program. I took a picture of it that day, so we would remember. Today, he graduated to heaven, unexpectedly. He was one of the few highlights of my day. Please pray for the staff on the floor -- it was a sad afternoon on Lawnside. I know Ziggy is in a better place, partying it up with Jesus, but I am going to miss him. He was WELL LOVED!
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Hey Leanne,
That is so awesome that you have that special picture to remember an amazing moment from your job that has not been the greatest working environment. I am sure you had a special impact on Ziggy in more ways than you will ever knoe
- Ruth said...
wow. what an honor that you got to know him.
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Only Michigan and Wisconsin lost more jobs in January than Indiana, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Indiana surrendered 12,500 positions, a 0.4 percent decline from December, leaving the state with a seasonally adjusted 2,968,100 jobs.
Compared to a year earlier, the state is down 4,400 jobs. Indiana and other industrial states are struggling to recover jobs lost early in the decade to recession.


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Professional speculation abounds about what purpose the recently returned X-37 might fulfill.
From DoD Buzz, there's this:
It could take advanced sensors into space for testing and, probably, allow sensors to operate from the X-35B as a large, stable platform with an independent power source. That power source (folding solar panels) might free sensors from carrying batteries, which would make them much smaller and lighter and perhaps extend their operational life.
More likely, it's an industrial base issue, with the X-37 serving to sustain space industry jobs. Remember, the X-37 program did start with NASA.
I'm just kidding. Sorta.
The truth is out there.


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What's the point of this? It's that if speakers tell audiences something, it's their responsibility to check that (at least to the best of their ability) that they're telling the truth. Here are a few widely-used misconceptions:
1) 'We only use 10% of our brains". Untrue. This is often mis-attributed to Albert Einstein, though there's no evidence he ever said it, let alone believed it. Neurologists have long known that we use most of our brains, most of the time.
2) "Lemmings commit mass suicide by jumping off cliffs". Untrue. The phenomenon has never been seen in nature. The idea comes from the Disney film White Wilderness, when cameramen pushed lemmings over a cliff.
3) "The Vauxhall Nova sold poorly in Spain because it means 'doesn't go' in Spanish". Untrue. Thousands of Spanish speakers worked on the project, and would obviously have noticed any problem. In fact it sold well in Spain, and many other Spanish-speaking countries.
4) "NASA spent millions developing a pen that would write in space, while the Russians used a pencil" Untrue. Both the US and Russian astronauts used pencils on early missions, then both used pens designed by the Fischer company at no cost to the space programs.
I've heard all these points, and many more, used by speakers to get a message across. If they have the desired impact, does it matter if they are false? I believe it does. If an element of a speech is untrue, what is the veracity of the remainder? In years past, I have used a couple of the statements above myself, until I took the time and trouble to check them out. Now I try to verify everything I say, unless it's my opinion, when I make that clear.
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It's a wonderful country we live in. I am so very thankful to those who have and are sacrificing their time and for some, their lives, to keep all the wonderful freedoms we have. My family will be spending the afternoon at a picnic at my sister's. I hope you are able to spend time with family and friends today.
I wasn't sure that I'd have time to make a card for the inspiration challenge on SCS today, but when I looked at the samples (I picked the one on the right), I knew just what I wanted to do and the card went together fairly quickly. Of course it helped that I had an image on my desk all colored.
The music is from an old piano practice book that I found in a rummage sale. The background layer is embossed in my cuttlebug. All the layers are sponged on the edges.
What's in it?
stamps: natural beauty, small scrip (SU)
ink: jet black stazon, creamy caramel
paper: whisper white, barely banana, bashful blue, old music
other: hemp, buttons, prismacolor pencils, gamsol, foam tape, sponge, cuttlebug, cb diamond in the rough embossing folder
Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderfilled day.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Happy Independence Day!
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this is really nice... all of your detail makes it quite special
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- July 5, 2009 at 7:18 AM
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Love the music bg....and the addition of the buttons
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Monday, August 6, 2012
Overcoming Obstacles
This morning, I was confronted with a situation. I had been planning to move forward on several projects with one of my partners. It all out of nowhere got derailed by the unexpected or more like unanticipated. I was discouraged. I have a lot of balls in the air with my partner, and this would knock the plan off track. I thought about it and felt frustrated -- more barriers to forward motion. Well, if there is anything I've learned in life and business, barriers are not meant for you to sit on the rock, open your picnic lunch, and enjoy the view. You study your barrier, size it up, and make a plan to move over, under or around it. The road to success is going to have rocks in the way, potholes to fall in, and distractions like pretty wildlife. It's your focused determination to make your goal no matter what that will achieve your success. So whenever a barrier gets in the way, don't get upset by it. Laugh at it and wave to your foreman to drive over the bulldozer and push it out of the way.
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We are all prisoners. All of us, every last one, lives in a world where our prison walls are not made of concrete and stone, not of cold steel and glass, but of barriers built in the human society itself.
These barriers are barriers of fear, of anger, of hatred, of derision and deception, wrought and worked in the fires of political expedience and the pursuit of power. Divisions, as always, are used to force separation, and thus remove cooperation.
We humans are a divisive lot, faction-filled and apparently programmed at the genetic level to compete, to find advantages for ourselves, and disadvantages for those we dislike. What is the truth? Among all the races, among all the factions of humanity, at the core of what makes us human, we are all the same. We are born, we live, we bleed, and ultimately we die. It is the nature of things, and of humanity.
When we are young, we are filled with wonder, and the world is full of flowers, and even the clouds and heat-haze of the roads reaches into our mind and pulls forth the imagination. When young, we do not hate, we do not fear, unless we are taught to do so, and be so. When brought up together, unless someone tells us it is 'wrong' to be different, we treat each other the same. We, however, seek an advantage, and in our equality, the greatest advantage is found when we separate others from us, and from their own. Because they are different they may be singled out, forced out, isolated, and targeted. They, for whatever reason, become something alien, something depersonalized and dehumanized, upon which our anger for our own perceived shortcomings boils forth.
When we hate, we focus on that which we see is not like ourselves, but the true measure of our anger is for that which we see in ourselves, and reject. We step out, reach out, and see a world that is so very full of temptation, of shame, of wants and desires, jealousy and lust, and because we sublimate them, hide them, and deny them, we attack, so often, the people that hold the very hidden desires that we cannot admit, not even to ourselves.
The greatest advantages one can place is via the power of the law, attempting to create advantages by force and coercion. Sometimes, however, it is more expedient to simply see to it that there is a disadvantage laid upon the back of a group. This process was supposed to be eliminated by the nature of general government, and the common law. The Jim Crow laws of the south, the gerrymandering, the outlawing of firearms for unpopular classes, poll taxes, literacy tests, and so many other things were designed, not to simply prevent certain classes from voting, but to prevent them from being seen as human. But.. were they not human? I believe that they can be argued to be nothing else.
As we tried to move from the hatred of people due to skin color (without regard to any 'color' of race) there were those who recognized a great deal of power in that hatred. By creating fear, they could sway crowds, incite people into the mass mind, the mob mind, where their individuality and critical thought ceased. However, the old methods of separation were slipping. What, then, was the answer?
The power was recreated fairly simply, creating classes that had labels that could not be seen in the skin, could not be understood, and that seemed so utterly alien that the political process could declare them to be monsters. They created labels, held them up to society as monsters, then let the old inner demons run forth. But how much more dangerous is a label to be feared that can be applied to anyone, at any time, that requires no proof of veracity, no evidence, just a simple allegation? A nebulous label which you can apply to anyone, quashing their rights.
I may be a total idiot... but even I can see the terrain that path leads through. We may be prisoners, but we don't need to make every mile... the Green Mile.
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Peter A. Speckhard on Telling People Who They Really Are
The following was delivered as an opening devotion for the Lutherans for Life National Convention in Appleton, Wisconsin in October of 2002.
"Who do you say that I am?" "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God." This question and answer is foundational to the Christian Church. Christ is how we know God and Christ is how we know man, and we Christians proclaim both to a world that knows neither. We may neither boast about nor apologize for the task. Our missionaries and evangelists proclaim the true God boldly amid all the idols. Our hospitals, schools, shelters, and charities proclaim . . .
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By Kim Eun-young and Kim Young Shin
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Seoul l Sept. 23, 2017
The "88 Olympic Bridge" promotional booth, where visitors can take a look at next year's PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, opened in Yeouido Hangang Park in Seoul on Sept. 23. Visitors are able to enjoy some VR ski jumping, ice hockey, biathlon and wheelchair curling.
The promotional booth is one of the special themed zones at six Hangang River bridges: the Olympic-daegyo, Gwangjin-gyo, Banpo-daegyo, Hangang-daegyo, Mapo-daegyo and Yanghwa-daegyo bridge. They are all part of the 2017 Hangang Run, an event to introduce 26 different bridges over the Hangang River.
The "88 Olympic Bridge" promotional booth, set up in a multiuse plaza at Yeouido Hangang Park near the Mapo-daegyo Bridge, was made to commemorate the Seoul 1988 Olympics and to wish for success for next year's Winter Olympics to be held in Gangwon-do Province.
Participants stood in line at the VR ski jumping booth to try the game with some of the newest VR headsets. The photo booth, where visitors can take photos with the official mascots of the PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, Soohorang the white tiger and Bandabi the Asiatic bear, was also popular.
"I felt like an actual athlete when I stood up at the top of the ski jump while wearing the VR goggles," said Hyung Jun Young, a participant who came with his kid. "I could get a beautiful panoramic view from up above the Alpensia Ski Jumping Center and it really made me want to visit there this winter."
"I learned terms such as 'hockey stick' and 'puck' for the first time," said Son Seung-ha, who tried playing ice hockey for the first time. "It wasn't as difficult as it looks."
"I hope that the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Games go well and that the good vibe continues to the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics," said Xu Chao, a student studying in Korea who visited the VR booth because he was interested in the biathlon and in the ski jump. "I hope that Korea and China support each other for successful Winter Olympics in both countries."


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One paddle, two paddle, imua!
Imua Keiki O Ke Kai organizer Andrea Moller gets a hug from Ryan Behn on Saturday at Kahului Harbor. The fifth annual event for Camp Imua campers and Special Olympic athletes drew more than 60 Maui ocean athletes, who volunteered their time to provide a safe and fun time riding outrigger canoes, windsurfing boards, kayaks and personal watercraft. Moller said that the large number of qualified volunteers allows parents and caregivers to feel confident allowing their children to try activities they might otherwise not be able to. "I feel the ocean is a bigger challenge, so a lot of these kids don't get out on the water," Moller said. The event is a precursor to Paddle Imua, a benefit race for Camp Imua scheduled for May 6. The downwind race from Maliko Gulch to Kahului Harbor raises funds for the annual summer camp for Maui children with special needs.


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We offer experimental climbing during regular climbing wall hours. Our staff will do the belaying and you can concentrate on the climb. No registration and fees are required. Climbing shoes are provided at no charge.
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Climbing is free after passing this class. Belay Training gives climbers a lot more freedom at our wall. When belay trained climbers come to the wall, they are able to take turns continuously belaying and climbing instead of having to wait for a staff member to belay them. We highly encourage climbers to become belay trained to allow them this freedom.
We also offer Intermediate Climbing, Lead Climbing Clinics and 1v1 Coaching.
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No one under the age of 7 years old may use the wall and belayers must be at least 18 years of age. Children age 15 and under must have a parent or guardian be present with them each time the child climbs and wear a helmet while climbing. Parent or guardian MUST take the belay class after first visit to belay each additional time child visits until they reach age 16.
Several times a semester the rock wall staff hosts a themed event for everyone to enjoy. The annual Halloween climb is one of the most popular.
Each spring the staff invites students and the climbing community to compete on our wall. Anyone can register!
Not Sure What Bouldering Is? Bouldering is rock climbing stripped down to its raw essentials. Leaving behind ropes and harnesses and just using climbing shoes and a bag of chalk, your challenge is to climb short but tricky bouldering "problems" (a route, or sequence of moves) using balance, technique, strength, and your brain. You don't need experience or lots an expensive gear to have a go. Every "problem" has its own solution, and to successfully climb it you need to work it out. Depending on your body shape and personal strengths, your solution could be different to the next person's. If you're tall, you might be able to reach the next hold more easily on spaced-out problems – but find yourself cramped when the route takes you into the nooks and crannies of the wall. It all evens out in the end. The key to the problem could be about how you position your body when you climb, or what order you put your feet and hands on the wall – or there might be a sneaky "toe hook" or one of countless other climbing techniques that suddenly takes the problem from impossible, to crushed. The climbs are high enough to be exciting, but not so high that they're hugely intimidating.
By appointment, organizations and their member can have a fun filled hour of climbing at the rock wall. Our helpful staff will provide all the necessary equipment, including harnesses, shoes, and instruction on how to safely climb your way to the top. Contact email@example.com to reserve a program time.


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2 Chainz – 4 AM (Feat. Travis Scott)
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2 Chainz is gearing up for the release of his Pretty Girls Like Trap Music album, but first gives fans a taste with a new Travis Scott-assisted song called "4 AM."
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Wheel of Fashion.....Can you for imagine for a moment you are on a game show hosted by Robert Verdi inside of an eponymous department store and you spin the wheel but instead of money, you win a Marc by Marc Jacobs handbag? Dream no more fashionistas, Bergdorf Goodman is making your wish into reality. The Sarah Shirley dream team in conjunction with Mr. Verdi and Bergdorf Goodman will let you spin and win. Tomorrow, on Fashion's Night Out, purchase a ticket for $10 with no guilt because the cash goes to charity and voila, everyone who spins, wins. Come spin away into the night.
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Moodys has cut Societe Generale's credit rating to Aa3, mainly because of its large holdings of Greek sovereign debt. SocGen is France's third largest bank. Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas are also having problems.
So it begins. I'd have thought a better headline would have been "So it continues" but, there you go. Zero Hedge has the details.
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I got this recipe from my Saving Dinner book. Cut the cayenne pepper and it was still plenty spicy. The baby ate it just fine, but my anti-spicy children complained about the noodles. I can't imagine what it would be like with double the cayenne pepper. I also added the stir fry veggies.
- 1 1/2 pounds boneless top sirloin, cut into 1 inch strips
- 5 Tablespoons teriyaki sauce, divided
- 12 onces thin spaghetti
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1 Tablespoon water
- 1/2 teaspoon ginger
- 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 Tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 bag stirfry veggies
- 1 Tablespoon butter
- 1 Tablespoon teriyaki sauce
- Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, combine beef and 2 Tablespoons of the teriyaki sauce and toss to coat; set aside.
- In a smaller bowl, combine remaining teriyaki sauce, peanut butter, 1 tablespoon water, ginger, and cayenne pepper. Toss with pasta when cooked.
- Meanwhile, in a skillet or wok, heat oil over medium-high heat until hot. Add beef and stir-fry until outside surface is no longer pink. (Do not overcook.) Add to pasta; toss lightly.
- Melt butter in a wok. Add veggies; drizzle with 1 Tablespoon teriaki. Stir fry until veggies until crisp tender. Serve with pasta.