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Monday, June 7, 2010
Got a Medical Question?
I'm in awe of Lydia. She's a wife, mother, writer, blogger, and part-time doctor. Wow - and I thought I was busy! Not only that, but Lydia runs a cool feature on her blog called Medical Mondays. You can email her a medical question (for writing purposes only), and she'll find the answer to your question. How cool is that?
I'm in the very early planning stages of a new novel that involves a blood donation. Before I could go much further with the plotting, I needed to know if there is a certain blood type/quality that would make finding a donor difficult, and if it's possible to do a blood transfer on site, from one student to another. I emailed Lydia and she emailed me with the answers within a couple of days. I'm not going to tell you what she said - you'll just have to go over to her blog and check it out, because she used my question as her Medical Monday question today! I hope you'll hop over and meet Lydia (click here) if you haven't already - you'll be so glad you did!
How about you? Do you enjoy research or is it a necessary evil? Do you have any research resources you can share?
39 comments:
- Lindsay (a.k.a Isabella) said...
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- Mon Jun 07, 03:19:00 PM
- Lindsay (a.k.a Isabella) said...
Oops, sorry for the above. Not having a good day with my comments getting posted. Arghhh.
I saw your question on Lydia's blog. Lydia is awesome. I asked her a medical Q for my MS and she gave me some fantastic help.
As for research I don't mind doing it, but if I can avoid it then I will. lol.
- Mon Jun 07, 03:21:00 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
I love Lydia's blog! She is brilliant. Susan, you know me well enough to know I love love love research!
- Mon Jun 07, 04:08:00 PM
- Southpaw said...
I love Lydia's blog too! She is so kind to be so helpful. Now we need to find a lawyer and a technician and a...
- Mon Jun 07, 04:23:00 PM
- Piedmont Writer said...
I saw that this morning. That's awesome. I asked her a question too. I don't know if she can answer it for me or not. I asked another doctor on another blog but they didn't know what I was talking about.
- Mon Jun 07, 04:25:00 PM
I love Lydia's blog, and am seriously in awe of her, also. I kinda want to be her when I grow up. :)
Research is definitely fun, depending on the subject. It becomes evil, however, when I use it as a mean of procrastination.
- Mon Jun 07, 04:30:00 PM
Lydia does have sweet blog! I like research too. I also like writing essays that require research, and even don't mind writing the research paper.
- Mon Jun 07, 04:57:00 PM
- Old Kitty said...
Oh wow!! there you go Susan Fields! Your donor and recipient have to be type O's to make life difficult!!
Amazing!!! Thanks for the link to this fab blog - it's very kind of Lydia to be doing this so if I ever have a medical conundrum - I'll be sure to seek her out - thank you!
Research is definitely a necessary evil - and I will say, the first port of call is your LOCAL LIBRARY!!! :-)
take care
- Mon Jun 07, 04:58:00 PM
- Joanne said...
I read Lydia's post earlier and learned so much. I enjoy research, and see it as a tool to really add layers to a story and its characters, depending on the type of research involved.
- Mon Jun 07, 05:36:00 PM
- Faith E. Hough said...
Thanks for this!
Personally, I adore research...yeah, I'm weird that way. My favorite resource is the Library of Congress--they are seriously amazing. I emailed them with a question I had regarding super-obscure info about revolutionary war espionage and they emailed me the day later with links, attachments, and book recommendations!
- Mon Jun 07, 07:14:00 PM
- Jemi Fraser said...
I do like research when I have the time. When I don't I want to pull out my hair. Thank the mighty writing gods & goddesses for people like Lydia! :)
- Mon Jun 07, 07:29:00 PM
- Lola Sharp said...
I HATE research...but LOVE Lydia's blog!
Happy Monday :)
- Mon Jun 07, 08:33:00 PM
- Jojomama said...
I'm a geek, I like research. (=
- Mon Jun 07, 08:41:00 PM
- Aubrie said...
I follow Lydia's blog as well and I love reading her medical answers to things. I only like research if it's fun stuff like names, kinds of flowers, but not like science or medical stuff!
- Mon Jun 07, 09:31:00 PM
- Tess said...
I actually enjoy doing some research .. it depends on the topic. I find it a nice distraction from actual work ;)
- Mon Jun 07, 09:38:00 PM
- Kelly said...
How very generous of her!! That is awesome!
I go to concerts to research the music theme in my book. Yeah, that's it! :)
Research like listening to the age range you are writing for talk is fun, but research finding facts I don't love.
- Mon Jun 07, 10:09:00 PM
- Lydia Kang said...
Hey Susan! I came over to say hi and I'm like blushing furiously at all the sweet comments!
I'm glad to be of help to my writing community and if you have any follow-up questions, don't hesitate to email!
- Mon Jun 07, 10:17:00 PM
- Nicole Murray said...
Honestly I love research. It brings more meat to the bones of what I am writing and can help expand and change for the better a new direction in the story or character.
I liken placing story, story research and all the others bits of creativity together as basket weaving or quilt making. All getting woven or sewn together a bit at a time until there is something tangible to hold in your hands and offer to others.
And Lydia is wonderful for offering her expertise. I know I may have a few questions for her in the future.
I worked in the Mental Health field for over a decade, much of that time in direct care. This has given me a lot of my own material and a good understanding of people behavior. And some of my writing friends like to use me for the 'does this characters actions make sense' stuff. So feel free!
- Mon Jun 07, 10:36:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Lindsay - I wish I were more gung ho on the research. I still do it, but I don't like it. :)
Sharon - I know, I so envy your love of research! Maybe some of it will rub off on me (I hope!)
Holly - My thoughts exactly! Wouldn't that be nice? :)
Anne - I didn't know there were other doctors who did this on their blogs. I hope you find your answer!
- Mon Jun 07, 10:58:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Sandy - Yes, Lydia is pretty amazing! I can't imagine even being a doctor, wife, and mother, let alone writer and blogger besides!
Lynn - You have a rare gift it you like writing research papers! My problem with research is that it seems like I'm never done, there's always one more place to look, and I'm always so anxious to get back to the writing! I really wish I enjoyed the research more.
Old Kitty - You're so right, the library is the place to start. I actually start with children's books, because I usually need more of an overview than the nitty gritty details, and adult non-fiction books seem so daunting to me. :(
Joanne - You're absolutely right, of course, research is a wonderful tool and can really make a difference in the writing. I know it needs to be done and I still do it, but I do wish I enjoyed it more!
- Mon Jun 07, 11:02:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Faith - Thanks for the great information about the Library of Congress, I didn't know about that resource. Revolutionary War espionage? That sounds like a very interesting story!
Jemi - I agree, thanks for people like Lydia who give freely of their expertise! I'm so thankful to have found her.
Lola - Aha! Someone else who hates research! I was beginning to think I was the only one.
Jojomama - Based on the other comments, I'd say a lot of us writers are geeks (though, I'd say you all just have curious minds, a very important trait for a writer!)
Aubrie - You make a good point, there is some research I do enjoy. I could look up names for half the day until I finally have to tear myself away.
- Mon Jun 07, 11:07:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Tess - I'm usually just so eager to get back into the writing that I don't like to take time out to research. I suppose I should plan my research breaks for times when I'm stuck on my wip. That might get me kick-started on the writing again, too.
Kelly - Of course you can count your concerts as research! I do feel inspired to write after listening to certain songs, so I'm sure those concerts are perfectly valid research missions. :)
Lydia - Thank you! That is so sweet of you to offer. :) I am so thankful for the help you've already given me. It was exactly what I needed to know, and your answer was very thorough!
Nicole - Thank you for the offer as well! I really appreciate that! And I like your analogy about the basket or quilt getting woven together. That makes a lot of sense!
- Mon Jun 07, 11:12:00 PM
- Carolina Valdez Miller said...
So so cool! always good to have a good medical resource. I've got some doctor/nurse friends that help me out a lot, and my mom used to work as a director in a hospital, so she's helped me tremendously as well. There used to be a website that featured medical advice just for writers of fiction but it was taken down. I hope they replace it with a new one.
- Tue Jun 08, 03:40:00 AM
- Susan Fields said...
Carolina - You're so lucky to have so many medical resources, and that website sounds great! I agree, I hope they replace it with a new one. Anything that makes research less painful makes me happy. :)
- Tue Jun 08, 05:58:00 AM
- Stina Lindenblatt said...
That was a great medical question. I saw the post yesterday. I love Lydia's weekly post.
- Tue Jun 08, 07:15:00 AM
- Genie of the Shell said...
Ooh, what a great resource! Thanks for sharing it. It is SO much easier to ask an expert than try to track down an answer without messing up any of the details.
Research is a pain and takes a lot of time, but I often find that I learn such cool things that I get ideas to enrich what I've written or even take my story in a slightly different direction. Sometimes the answer to my question is "too perfect" for my story--and sometimes not, but it's necessary to know!
- Tue Jun 08, 09:49:00 AM
- Bossy Betty said...
Thanks for the blog suggestion! I love research--it's a great way to procrastinate!
- Tue Jun 08, 09:55:00 AM
- Talli Roland said...
Lydia's great, isn't she?
I LOVE research! The only problem is I get too distracted and end up spending hours when I only meant to look up a little fact.
- Tue Jun 08, 11:53:00 AM
- Terri Tiffany said...
Wow! That is so nice of her to do that:)) I plan to pop over and read some of her blog.
I hate research--I admit. But I know some of it needs doing for every story.
- Tue Jun 08, 12:08:00 PM
- MT said...
That's a gem of a find you've got there. Thanks for sharing. :) I'm going to visit her blog right now.
- Tue Jun 08, 05:03:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Stina - I enjoy Lydia's Medical Mondays, too - they're always so educational, but also explained simply enough that I can understand.
Genie - I know there are many benefits to research, and there have been times it has taken my story in a new directin, but I still can't bring myself to like it! Maybe it will grow on me one of these days. :)
Betty - I'm surprised to find how many people really do like to research! I guess I'm in the minority. :(
- Tue Jun 08, 08:06:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Talli - But think of all you're learning as you're exploring all the good information out there. My problem is I'm too antsy to get back to my story - I don't like the interruption, even though I know it's got to be done and will make my story much better.
Terri - Oh, good, I'm not the only writer out here who doesn't like research! It is really nice of Lydia to do this for us, I was so excited when I saw her Medical Mondays feature on her blog.
Michelle - I hope you enjoy your visit to Lydia's blog, even without the Medical Mondays, she's got a great blog and I always enjoy my visits.
- Tue Jun 08, 08:11:00 PM
- Jackee said...
How cool that she used your question! I'm in awe of Lydia too. I wish I had as much energy in my whole body as she does in her pinky.
But I'm in awe of you too! Look at you go and start another novel and then look at that follower list! Go, Susan, go! You're on fire. :o)
- Tue Jun 08, 11:24:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Jackee - I wish! If only I could find an agent and a publisher, then maybe I'd be on fire. I do wonder if Lydia sleeps - I don't know how there are enough hours in the day to do all she does. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 07:25:00 AM
- Lola Sharp said...
I'm a slow reviser too. You know the saying--write fast, edit slow--so it's all good.
Lydia's my hero too. I wish I knew how she did it all.
Congrats on your well deserved award. :)
- Wed Jun 09, 01:54:00 PM
- Hema P. said...
I adore research, that's probably why I began writing fiction with a historical :). So far, I have been relying on books and internet sites for my research.
Ooh, your new novel idea sounds so intriguing, Susan!
- Thu Jun 10, 05:09:00 PM
- notesfromnadir said...
Glad you gave a shout out to Lydia as she has an awesome medical blog & she knows how to give us non-medical people helpful information that we can understand!
I love research, whether online or offline. I love wading through books and magazines looking for answers to questions. I love finding out more information about people and places and time periods. It's a great way to keep on learning. Research allows you to understand your characters even better. And sometimes find new characters.
- Sat Jun 12, 07:59:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
Lola - I suspect Lydia's found out how to function on zero sleep - I wonder if she'll share her secret?
Hema - I hope the new novel is intriguing, it hasn't quite revealed itself to me yet. I've still got all the obvious plot lines going through my head, but I'm holding out for the more original ones. :) If I liked research, I'd write historical fiction, too. To me, historical fiction seems scary because there's so much I could get wrong trying to write in a whole different time period - totally fascinating, though!
Lisa - I know research is totally necessary for great writing, I'm just working on the enjoying it part. :)
- Sat Jun 12, 09:42:00 PM
- Mohamed Mughal said...
Actually, I enjoy research so much that it's a problem; if my "findings" are intriguing, the thrill of learning something new distracts me from the writing itself.
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State game wardens are seeing a number of boating wrecks on popular lakes this summer involving teen boat operators who have not taken mandatory boater education.
While the new law became effective last year, Texas Parks and Wildlife law enforcement officials say many teens and their parents are still unaware of the required certification. A serious boating accident in Central Texas last weekend illustrates a tragic scenario game wardens are hoping can be avoided with proper education.
"The accident occurred on Inks Lake in Llano County and involved a collision between a pair of personal watercraft, one operated by a 14-year-old male and the other by a 16-year-old male with a 16-year-old female passenger," said TPWD's Steve Lightfoot. "Witnesses responded to aid the injured and called 911. The 14-year-old was air-lifted to Dell Children's Hospital in Austin."
Lightfoot says the boaters did not know each other and all were wearing required personal flotation devices; however, neither operator had taken the mandatory boater education course. The parents were not aware of the age restriction and need of a boater education course or needing to accompany the operators."The mandatory boater education law requires anyone born on or after Sept. 1, 1993, who operates a vessel with a motor of more than 15 horsepower or a wind-blown vessel measuring more than 14 feet in length take the course or be accompanied by someone 18 or older who meets the boater education requirements or is exempt by age," said Lightfoot. "Accompany means onboard the craft. While all boaters are encouraged to take boating safety education, those born before Sept. 1, 1993, are exempt from required certification."
Texas' state-approved boater education courses are available as one-day classroom training or online. The classroom course takes about six hours to complete and the online course has a three-hour time commitment. Costs start at $20 for both courses. Information about boater education, including schedules of upcoming classroom courses, is available at www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/boater_education.
"Boaters falling under the boater education requirement will be required to carry a valid ID and documentation of having taken and passed a boater education course," said Lightfoot. "Failure to meet the requirements is a Class C misdemeanor, and violators have 90 days to complete a boater education course to have the charges dismissed.
"The 82nd Texas Legislature during its regular session also clarified the definition of a vessel to encompass such craft as standup paddle craft, kayaks and canoes. In Texas public waters everyone onboard a vessel that measures less than 26 feet in length must have a life jacket available, and kids under 13 must wear one."
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Quebec Premier Pauline Marois also criticized Harper for not attending, saying she couldn't understand why he wouldn't attend given his interest on the economy.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1 out of every 8 infants born in the United States each year — that's nearly 500,000 births — is a preterm baby. These preterm births, defined as occurring prior to 37 weeks of pregnancy, account for more than a third of all infant deaths in the U.S.; cost the American health care system tens of billions of dollars annually; and are "a leading cause of long-term neurological disabilities in children." The battle to save preterm babies, meanwhile, rages on — with new theories of care and new technologies brought to bear on this wrenching and, for so many parents, frightening medical complication.
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Seventy-five years ago, LIFE magazine took a look at the steps taken in one facility, the Boston Lying-In Hospital (founded in 1832), to care for premature babies. Yes, the machinery seen in these photos is, in large part, vastly different than what one sees nowadays in any hospital in virtually any industrialize nation on earth. But the hands-on care, the dedication of the nurses and doctors and the sheer scale of the effort to save the lives of these tiny babies will be familiar to anyone who has spent time in "preterm birth" wards.


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Unfortunately despite great similarities, chanting the NSA's name three times does not summon them.
A major difference between the dodged questions today and Clapper's lying answer before the Snowden leaks is how the media is reporting it. Before, Senators Wyden and Udall would've gotten a quick by-line on a political blog, but no real attention from mainstream media.
Now, the AP among other prominent media outlets are picking up the story immediately and couching it in the same "are you serious?" language that Techdirt and other places have had before.
It's only a matter of time before they either need to double down in the name of surveillance at all costs, or are forced to cease entirely. I pray for the latter, personally.
Clearly what we should do is use NASA to send the NSA to the moon. Two birds, one stone.
Yes, it's called Congress.
This begs the question, why aren't they better friends to each other?
NBC Universal is a greedy money-grubbing corporation that is worthy of nothing other than our universal disdain.
Quite simply the costs to license similar amounts of content in those countries well exceeds the revenue directly gainable in those countries from bringing in Netflix. If they weren't, Netflix has the capital to move in with no trouble at all.
The same pattern has emerged ever since the first leaks from Snowden (and if one includes Senator Wyden's efforts, starting even before then):
1. Leaked document exposes dirty laundry of NSA.
2. People speculate on implications of said dirty laundry.
3. NSA denies that any of those implications are true.
4. New leaked document directly contradicts NSA's denial.
5. GOTO 2, repeat.
It's the same pattern, for months running. When are people (and Congress, and the President, and the Courts, our supposed public servants) going to finally realize that the entire setup is utterly corrupt and untrustworthy? That it needs to be removed in its entirety and maybe replaced (I'm in doubt that we even need the NSA).
NSA used Massive Data Trove! It's not very effective...
Sad truth: the tinfoil hat people sound more intelligent and grounded in reality than government officials at this point.
But those leaks are necessarily PRIVATE, else the spies would be outed and useless as a future source of information. Snowden is deliberately PUBLIC, and heavily embarassing. So while everyone knows the former happens, there's no direct proof out in the media about it, while Snowden is impossible to miss.
Your last sentence is only if the people of both countries Do Something about it. The status quo is fighting to remaing exactly as such, and it will require absurd external pressure to push it back to where it should be.
Every single time Congress, someone in the Intelligence community, or the President has said anything about this whole snafu, we immediately notice it's doublespeak. Then shortly thereafter their doublespeak is directly exposed by a story that contradicts what they stated.
You'd think they would learn by now that being honest, truly transparent, and committed to changing the status quo is the only true way forward.
Part of the Kool-aid to drink when it comes to government information assurance (read: cybersecurity for the rank-and-file) is that the insider threat is the most likely and the most damaging.
Yes, it's naive to think that government networks are so secure that nobody else can hack them, but that's the koolaid. The announcement is using standard boilerplate terms.
The problem is that the absolute power has so corrupted them that they still believe they are right in what they are doing, that they genuinely are serving the greater good. Delusion that deep is frightening.
...except a single quote: "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton
I find it hard to believe that money spent on internet infrastructure and investment doesn't have sufficient ROI. Everyone uses the internet these days, especially in developed areas like the EU. If people are unable to get an ROI, that's a business model problem they need to fix, not something that general users of the internet should be obligated into fixing fo them.
I can't believe that he's actually serious. Upholding the Constitution is what all of Congress and the President should do, and it is well within our rights to call foul if they are not. No amount of "terrorism", "security", or other stupid buzzwords is going to change that.
And to insult my recollection of September 12th by saying that the wholesale stripping of the entire Bill of Rights from US citizens and the mangling of the built-in separation of powers is acceptable? I would rather be as "unsafe" as I was on September 10th if it means that I am still able to expect my rights to exist.
Solitary confinement stretches the definition of cruel and unusual punishment, and has classically only been employed when someone has been an explicit danger to himself or others AFTER being incarcerated. That, and solitary confinement is generally for limited periods, not years. Thus, "poetic justice" or not, it wouldn't be Constitutional justice.
I disagree. While what they have done and continue to do is despicable in every sense of the word, stooping to their level to get "justice" is anything but. We should give them their fair trial, their attorney, and all of the protections that the Constitution guarantees. Only then would we have the high ground.


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Why the GOP thinks it could blow it
Republicans are worried one thing could screw up the political gift of three Obama administration controversies at once: fellow Republicans.
Top GOP leaders are privately warning members to put a sock in it when it comes to silly calls for impeachment or over-the-top comparisons to Watergate. They want members to focus on months of fact-finding investigations — not rhetorical fury.
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Why the fuss? Well…
—"People may be starting to use the I-word before too long," Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) told a radio host, making plain impeachment was indeed the I-word in mind.
—"You could call #Benghazi Obama's Watergate, except no one died," Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) wrote on Twitter.
—"It harkens back to the days of Richard Nixon and maintaining a political enemies list and treating the federal government as a tool to exact the administration's retribution," Sen. Ted Cruz told the National Review.
—"This is far worse than Watergate," Rep. Michele Bachmann said of the IRS mess at a tea party rally.
—"I believe that before it's all over, this president will not fill out his full term," former governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said on his own show before the IRS and AP flaps.
—A PPP poll found all of this to be mainstream Republican thinking, with 41 percent calling Benghazi the BIGGEST political scandal in HISTORY.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama attempts 'scandal reduction surgery')
"We have to be persistent but patient," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus told us. "I think where there's smoke, there's fire. If we present ourselves to the American people as intelligent, we're going to be in a great place as far as showing that this administration is not transparent, is obsessed with power and hates dissent. But you don't call for impeachment until you have evidence."
It is important to remember that there is no evidence any of the specific controversies directly link to President Barack Obama himself. No one knows what the various congressional probes will turn up, but until there is a direct connection to the president, the best Republicans can probably do is use the three episodes to illustrate the dangerous reach — and what they see as pervasive incompetence — of the Obama government.
Meantime, the incentives for the incendiary are strong, as the PPP polls show: It helps Republicans raise money, get on Fox and excite conservatives. It also provides an easy way for someone like Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to show skeptical conservatives that he is one of them — and therefore should not be challenged in an upcoming GOP primary. This is true for most House Republicans: Redistricting has left them far more threatened by a primary challenge from the right than by a general election challenge on the left.
( Also on POLITICO: Meet the Benghazi lobby)
A top Senate Republican leadership aide said Obama's steps this week did nothing to diminish the GOP's blood lust over the IRS, and said the coming investigation "has the capacity to be debilitating" for the administration. "It will take months, and it will ebb and flow in terms of its national attention," the aide said. "But the ebbs will be white hot."


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Samsung , the poster boys for crappy, expensive products, have given themselves up as jerks ? Who would have thought that?
Have you seen her picture? Not even the entire supply of all the jack up drugs in the world would not be enough.
Nope, me too. And i've set the cookie rule to Ask before accepting. Why? Because it's very easy to get cookies from some sites your employer would find as a reason to fire you, especially when the cookies are from ads placed in totally benign (or even work related) sites.
Shill much?
No, the antitrust laws are far too bland for my taste. I my opinion everything those greedy companies have squeezed out of us should be squeezed out of them 10 fold.
Because you shouldn't bite the hand that feeds you.
And because Cuomo wants to be president.
Nope, the goal of the free market is to give maximum amount of money to the smartest shill on the block.
And you should use its real name: capitalist market.
Let's look at my situation: i've spend a lot of time and effort to learn about computers and now i'm working full time in the pc service department of my company. You bought one of our custom machines and you managed to screw it up. I come to you fix it and you pay me.
Now, according to your arguments, you should pay me every time you start the pc since you are using the results of my intellectual efforts, obtained by my investment in education. Do you think that's normal ?
I don't.
Let's be serious. Looking how things work this day it will be used to monitor your advertising viewing, at the best of times. I shudder to think at the worst.
Sorry to tell you but if you would have tried all you said in a socialist republic at best you would have landed for years in a nasty prison. You don't wanna know the worst.
Try with libertarian next.
Hopefully the FCC listens.
Sorry, most likely they will do that.
So by your own admission blind mofu's are nothing more than deer. Sorry, you're wrong: deer tastes a lot better.
Yes. it's a very good decision. People who don't bother to look where they're going must be protected. Ant this type of measure has always worked: at the begging of the 20th century it was mandatory to have a person with a red flag walking in front of every car to make sure everybody, and especially horses, would know you're about to come and run them over. Just look what nice flags we have now.
Unfortunately yes. When you are staring at what you can get NOW, usually you totally miss what you can get tommorow. And since the Reagan debacle i don't know many that are capable of looking beyond what is just in front of their eyes.
Here it's not about the lawyers at all, it's about incompetent judges and juries.
The fix: SUE THEM !!
Oh, but it's definitely not an idiot. He's just another greedy, shrewd jew, ready to milk every moron he can get in his greedy paws by every means possible. If it implies making shitty music instead of working hard, better.
Wife swapping?
I do, if the music i want to hear is worth the money for a much better quality compared to your average mp3 file.
Have you checked the positions in the DOJ hierarchy those 5 lawyers have ? Post back after you do it and will talk some more.
Ah, how nice it would be in Utopia ! Now, back to our regular shithole.
Guns and the will to use them maybe ?
Remember, Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner, Liberty is a well armed sheep.


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This was our day of muddin, pretty much running stock slash 4x4's with ******* 40c 5000's, first day did my brothers truck in 7-8 shredded bearings, center diff and possibly a motor not sure yet. My trucks in the middle of a tear down/cleaning process right now.
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New Ranger f250 Body for my slash 4x4
Colors... camel yellow and black rattle cans
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Slash 2x4, Slash 4X4
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Support your Country, buy domestic...
nothing special but this is my 4x4 ultimate
First RC car and first paint job.
First attempt at painting, all rattle cans.
Colors are copper, gun metal and backed with silver. Trying to get an old school classic look and not be too flashy. Waiting on new black split sixes, why I am actually saying that the red bead locks are clashing.....???
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Traxxas Slash 4WD....
Slash 4x4 Platinum freshly painted.
All shot on the Iphone 4
I started with an ultimate slash, then added a CC SCT 2400 with 3s power. Also Tekno f/r cvd's and alloy hex set. Its a beast! I race 4wd open class, never thought it would be so fun but, I am pleased with the local competition. They really give a run for my money lol. This first pic is out of the box. I never tried it, just added all the parts, then took it out for the first run with a baja body. Lots of friends around here would be in awe if I didn't mod it some how lol
This is a day or two later
I had this truck for a while also. Its running a stock vxl combo on 2c, the rest is upgreaded to ultimate spec.
I'm not a hatchet man! I'm a maggot!
My MMP SCT 2400kv 3 & 4s powered Slash 4x4
New shoes...great on the track
You can get with dis or you can get with dat
This is my Slash 4x4 Platinum Edition believe it or not...Made it myself too ...
First body done ever, only a month into the hobby. Monster Theme, the logo is painted, not stickered.
Different Angle
Bottom of body, cut the scrap Lexan to fit, used Shoe Goo to adhere for extra durability ( Hopefully ) Also shoe goo'd the wheel wells for rub.
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My slash 4x4
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Here is my slash 4x4...
My brother and I just got our 4x4 Slash's a week ago. Here are the two bodies I did for us (my first time painting since doing models 15yrs ago). We have had so much fun bashing, seriously some tough trucks. Racing may be in the near future for us. Mine is the silver one.
Support your Country, buy domestic...
My Rad Racer!
Here's my new Slash, right outta the box. The lighting is bad and my real truck is dirty, but I need to do something while I wait the EIGHT hours 'til it charges. I only read about LiPo's after I bought it or I would have ordered a battery & charger right away.
Can anyone PM me where I can get some Ken Black DC stickers for it? Tried ebay & google, I keep getting the kits for real cars....
Alright, finally figured out how to resize in Photobucket. Anyway, here's my brand new Platinum Edition painted Daytona Yellow. Decals to follow later tonight, along with doing something about that rear 'squat' once I put a battery in there.
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From this,
To this,
Slash PE & Ja-two.
My new Slash:
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Some kuick snaps b4 i destroy these new tires haha


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The World Cup is ominously close! So that you aren't caught offside (they have that in soccer, right?), we're previewing all the participants, bringing you Four Things You Don't Know About Them. If you have a tidbit, send it along to firstname.lastname@example.com. Today: Croatia! And for World Cup previews that are even better than ours, check out That's On Point, who helped us with these as well.
• 1. Free Jerko. First and foremost, the Croats have a player named Jerko Leko. ... They flopped at Euro 2004 with playing Bremen hitman Klasnic. New coach Zlatko Kranjar likely won't make that mistake. ... A pretty good mix of stars and role players who seem to like playing with each other. Also good mix between young and old. ... One of the few teams in Fifa 2006 online that can consistently defeat Brazil. Although that seems doubtful when they meet June 13 in Berlin.
• 2. Being Severina Vuckovic. Of Croatioan descent: None other than, John Malkovich, Vanna White, Bill Belichick, Nick Saban and the lovely Severina Vuckovic, who is known as the Croatian Paris Hilton. She even has her own sex tape scandal that has tarnished her wholesome image. But we refuse to show a link to that here (we couldn't find one).
• 3. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?. Former Croat legend Zvonimir Boban earned international acclaim for stopping the police from beating a young fan following a riot between a Dinamo Zagreb/Red Star Belgrade match (Oh, those wacky Serbs.). Suffice to say, bring your bulletproof vests should Croatia somehow find a way to play Serbia.
• 4. King Me. Croatia lays claim to inventing the necktie (no word on the piano-key variety). Also, if you get bored, you can Tivo one of their games and pause it and play a game of checkers on their jerseys. — (thanks to Mike Cardillo).
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Water levels in the Ohinemuri River appear to have peaked and are likely to fall as water moves through the system.
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Water levels in the Ohinemuri River appear to have peaked and are likely to fall as water moves through the system.
Following closely on the release of the dairy industry's sustainable environmental management strategy, Environment Waikato has finalised changes to its regional plan that are designed to promote sustainable agriculture.
The application by Higgins Contractors Ltd for an air discharge consent for a proposed asphalt manufacturing plant in Melville has been granted - but subject to an extensive set of conditions.
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Westerville police, with support from the Delaware County Drug Task Force, arrested two adults and a juvenile in connection with dozens of thefts of copper wire from businesses around central Ohio.
Westerville police, with support from the Delaware County Drug Task Force, arrested two adults and a juvenile in connection with dozens of thefts of copper wire from businesses around central Ohio.
Glenn E. Simpson, 21, of Columbus, and Melissa D. Goldsmith, 21, of Pataskala, were arrested Nov. 14 as they allegedly attempted to steal copper wire from a commercial site near U.S. Route 23 and Lazelle Road.
A juvenile also was arrested, but he has not yet been charged.
The trio had been under surveillance for the past two days when they were witnessed by police attempting to steal copper wire from the commercial site, Westerville Police Lt. Paul Scowden said.
Over the last month, the Westerville Division of Police have been investigating a rash of copper thefts. In some cases, thieves have stolen electrical copper wiring from businesses.
In other cases, copper piping has been ripped out of vacant homes.
The trio that was arrested has been tied to the thefts of wire from businesses, Scowden said.
Police still are investigating thefts in Westerville and reviewing cases from neighboring jurisdictions, including Columbus and other northern suburbs, to see if others can be connected to Simpson and Goldsmith, Scowden said.
Evidence will be sent to labs, and Scowden said he expects a case against Simpson and Goldsmith is will go before a grand jury within the next month or two.
They already are believed to be connected with dozens of incidents, Scowden said, cashing in thousands of dollars of copper wire and causing tens of thousands of dollars in damage.
"They would cash in thousands of dollars worth of copper and crushed-in metals. They would cause in the way of damage tens of thousands of dollars," Scowden said. "Some of the businesses had to shut down for a day or two. They caused a lot of problems there."
The thieves struck businesses at night, doing minor electrical work to allow access to the wire, which they then cut, Scowden said.
Electrical scorch marks were found on some of their tools, and they were lucky not to have been electrocuted as they worked, Scowden said.
"You would have to have a little bit of an electrical knowledge, and luck is on your side that you're not going to get fried because this is not normal, everyday stuff," he said, adding that the team worked at night when visibility was low.
"They got lucky that they're not dead," he said. "On some of the tools that we took, they could see where there probably was some arcing going on when they were cutting it."


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Learning how to make refrigerator magnets out of polymer clay is doggone simple! Follow this polymer clay tutorial, and you'll create a family of these lovable companions. These dog-inspired polymer clay crafts are cute on their own, but you can also craft a doghouse for them. Becky Meverden shows you how to make name tags for Daddy Dog, Mommy Dog, Sister Dog, and Brother Dog. This set of Dog House Clay Magnets makes a great gift for any animal lover, especially ones who have their own furry families. You can personalize the name tags to match their pups' monikers.
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Dog House
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Daddy Dog
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Pink clay: 1/4" ball of white plus 13/64" ball of red
Mommy Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
- Kato Polyclay: violet, yellow, orange, white
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Brother Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
- Kato Polyclay: turquoise
Sister Dog
- Same materials as Daddy Dog
Kato Polyclay: magenta
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Condition clay according to manufacturer's instructions.
To make the house pattern, fold a 5" x 8"index card in half the widest way. Use scissors to cut 1-5/8 inch, parallel to the fold, 1-1/2 inch from the open end. Angle towards the fold and cut approximately 2-1/2 inches.
For the door, cut 1 inch from the fold and up 1-1/2 inch and then curve around to the fold. Open and you will have a house pattern.
To make the house: Flatten a sheet of red through the pasta machine at a #1 setting (1/8 inch). Rub the sheet with Kato Repel Gel to keep the sheet from sticking to the rubbing plate. Set the rubbing plate against the sheet and carefully run both through the pasta machine. Lay the pattern on top of the sheet and use the Nublade to cut out house.
Roll a 1/4-inch-diameter log of both ultra blue and gold. Twist together and curl one end. Press around upper edge of house and cut off 1 inch beyond end and curl.
Roll a 1/8-inch-diameter ultra blue 12-inch-long log. Fold log in half and twist both ends. Press around door opening and cut off excess.
Flatten a sheet of beige through the pasta machine at a #4 setting (3/64 inch). Curve Nuflex blade and slice sheet. Curve blade again and slice 3/8 inch from previous slice. Cut a sign that is 1-5/8 inch long. Set aside rest of beige sheet to be used for name tags for the dogs.
Daddy Dog: Roll a 5/8-inch ball of brown into an egg shape. Use toothpick to draw center line 1/4 inch from the top to the bottom. Draw a half circle at the top of the line.
Flatten two 5/16-inch balls of brown and attach to the bottom of the body.
Flatten a 7/16-inch ball of brown into an egg shape. For the eyes, flatten two 7/64-inch balls of white into egg shapes. Press narrow ends together and press onto head. For pupils, roll two 5/64-inch balls of black and press onto each eye. For the snout, flatten a 5/16-inch ball of beige into an oval. Press onto the head under the eyes. For the nose, flatten a 3/32-inch ball of black into an oval and press onto the snout. For the mouth and tongue, use the toothpick to indent bottom of snout. Flatten a 1/8-inch ball of pink into a teardrop and use toothpick to press onto snout and to indent tongue.
Roll two 7/16-inch balls of brown into 1-1/4-inch-long tapered logs and flatten. Curl under the narrowest end and curl out the widest end of each ear. Press onto both sides of the head. Press head onto top of the body.
Mommy Dog: Repeat steps 8-11. To make the hat, flatten a 1/4-inch ball of lavender. Roll a 1/4-inch ball of lavender into a 5/8-inch-long log. Flatten and pleat using your fingers. Press onto the top of the head. Press the hat on top of the brim. Flatten a small sheet of yellow through the pasta machine at a #5 setting (1/32 inch). Use the flower cutter to cut out a flower. Roll a 1/16-inch ball of orange and press onto the center of the flower. Press flower onto the hat.
Brother and Sister Dogs: Repeat steps 8-11, using the following ball sizes: body: 7/16 inch, feet: 9/32 inch, head: 3/8 inch, eyes: 3/32 inch, pupils: 1/16 inch, snout: 9/32 inch, nose: 5/64 inch, tongue: 3/32 inch, and ears: 3/8 inch.
Brother Dog's Kerchief: flatten a small sheet of turquoise through the pasta machine at a #5 setting (1/32 inch). Use Nublade to cut a triangle wide enough to fit around the neck, 3/4 inch long on its longest side, 1/2 inch long on the other two sides. Place around the neck of the dog.
Sister Dog's Bow: flatten two 5/32-inch balls of magenta into triangles. Use toothpick to press a like into each triangle. Press together slightly. Roll a 7/64-inch ball of magenta and press into the center. Press bow onto the top of the head.
Press an eye pin into the bottom of each dog.
For the name tags, use the beige sheet from the house sign above. Use the Nublade to cut rectangles, 3/8" x 3/4". Use a toothpick to make a hole in the center top of each tag. Make one for each dog.
Bake house, house sign, dogs, and name tags according the clay manufacturer's instructions.
When everything has cooled, use black permanent marker to write the family name on the dog house sign and individual names on each name tag. Glue dog house sign over door.
Use the needle-nose pliers to attach a jump ring to the eye pin of each dog. Add name tag to each dog. Close each jump ring.
- Glue three magnets to the back of the house, one near the top and the remaining two near both bottoms. Glue a magnet to the back of each dog.
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The Obama administration on Monday unveiled a retooled moratorium on deepwater drilling intended to withstand legal attacks by the oil and gas industry, which in May won a federal court injunction blocking an earlier six-month moratorium.
Just last week, a federal appeals court panel refused to grant an administration appeal to suspend the injunction.
To blunt the industry's argument that it is being "arbitrary and capricious" in its decision to suspend all deepwater drilling, the Department of Interior is trying a new tack.
Under its revamped plan, the "new suspension" no longer cites the depth of water to define what drilling is banned – but rather bans drilling by any floating deep-water drill rigs – a critical substitution.
The administration had not been able to convince the federal judges that all drilling in water over 500 feet deep is dangerous. But focusing on equipment designed to operate in deeper water has the same effect, showing little sign that the administration was backing down in the face of claims that the suspension is causing big economic damage to the Gulf economy, analysts said.
"We reiterate our expectation that continued 'safety first' messaging from the White House will continue to trump explicit political concerns related to [Gulf of Mexico] job losses," wrote Kevin Book, an energy analyst with ClearView Partners, a Washington-based energy policy firm in an analysis of the decision.
This time the administration also is not citing a six-month time period, but is leaving the door open to an earlier resumption if it sees fit. This, too, was seen by analysts as less about flexibility and more about deflecting legal challenges.
"More than 80 days into the BP oil spill, a pause on deepwater drilling is essential and appropriate to protect communities, coasts, and wildlife from the risks that deepwater drilling currently pose," said Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, in a statement. "I am basing my decision on evidence that grows every day of the industry's inability in the deepwater to contain a catastrophic blowout, respond to an oil spill, and to operate safely."
The new pause on deepwater drilling, the department said, would give time for:
- Evidence to be submitted by operators that demonstrate they have the ability to respond effectively to a potential oil spill in the Gulf, especially in light of the "unprecedented commitment of available oil spill response resources that are now being dedicated to the BP oil spill."
- Assessment of "wild well intervention and blowout containment resources" to determine strategies to make those resources swiftly available if another blowout were to occur.
- Collect and analyze evidence data on the potential causes of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling rig, including input from the presidential commission and congressional investigations.
In the new moratorium, the administration is much more specific about the threat. The suspension is needed because of "an extensive record of existing and new information indicating that allowing new deepwater drilling to commence would pose a threat of serious, irreparable, or immediate harm or damage to the marine, coastal, and human environment."
Blowout preventers of the sort that failed aboard the Deepwater Horizon have come in for particular scrutiny. New extensive testing of the preventers being used by the two rigs drilling relief wells to try to plug the Deepwater Horizon have found several potentially serious problems with mechanisms on the unit.
Three of four problems involved "shuttle valves" that, if they don't work, can cause the large safety device to fail to close off a well that is running wild, the department said.
The fourth problem, however, was related to a failure of one of the blowout preventer's control systems. Each preventer has a yellow pod and a blue pod – the brains of a blowout preventer. Each backs up the other. They are supposed to respond to commands from the surface and order huge "shear ram" valves to close, slicing through drill pipe and shutting off the well in the event of a blowout.
But a broken solenoid connection on the "blue pod" of one of the relief well's blowout preventer's stopped that pod from closing the casing shear rams during a test, the department said.
Such a failure holds potential for the same type of disaster that befell the Deepwater Horizon, experts say.
For Salazar, the four failures were more critical evidence that had to be factored in during the new suspensions. "I remain open to modifying the new deepwater drilling suspensions based on new information," said Secretary Salazar, "but industry must raise the bar on its practices and answer fundamental questions about deepwater safety, blowout prevention and containment, and oil spill response."
Oil industry representatives were little mollified by the new suspension's outlines. "Unfortunately, the administration does not recognize the potential consequences because virtually no changes were made to this new drilling ban – it's simply more of the same shortsighted policies being created," the Independent Petroleum Association of American said in a statement.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle either hailed or decried the decision. Rep. Ed Markey (D) of Mass. backed the switch. "This moratorium will reduce oil spill risk while the Gulf will continue to produce oil. As new laws and safety measures are put into place on these few dozen rigs, 97 percent of the manned rigs in the Gulf will still be allowed to work," he said in a statement.
But Rep. Doc Hastings, (R) of Wash. saw things differently: "The Obama Administration's latest attempt to impose a moratorium on offshore drilling will only cause further harm to Gulf State economies," he said in a statement. "We must ensure that American offshore drilling is the safest in the world, but we should not make knee-jerk decisions that threaten jobs, the economy, energy independence and national security."


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- Issues in Education
- Applied Statistical Methods
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- Suffolk University, Boston, MA Professor (2003-present) Associate Professor (1997-2003) Assistant Professor (1992-1997)
- Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA Adjunct Professor (1991-present)
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®, 2003)
- Boston Security Analyst Society Curriculum Coordinator and Instructor (2001-present)
- "Modeling aggregate productivity growth: A note on returns to scale," in Focus on Economic Growth and Productivity, ed. L.A. Finley, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2005.
- "A Note on Modeling Aggregate Productivity Growth: The Importance of Imperfect Markets," The Journal of Macroeconomics, 23 (Winter 2001).
- "The Use of Frontier Estimation in Direct Marketing," co-authored with Dominique Haughton, Jonathan Haughton and Tim Moriarty, Journal of Interactive Marketing, 14 (April 2000).
- "An Analysis of the Factors that Influence Student Performance: A Fresh Approach to an Old Debate," co-authored with Sanjiv Jaggia, Contemporary Economic Policy, 17 (April 1999).
- "Patterns of State Productivity Growth in the U.S. Farm Sector: Linking State and Aggregate Models", co-authored with Frank Gollop, Eldon Ball and Greg Swinand, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 81 (February 1999).
- "Sectoral productivity growth and price-marginal cost margins in the intermediate goods market," Review of Income and Wealth, 43 (June 1997).
- "Skewness and Kurtosis – An examination of Exchange-traded funds' returns using g and h distributions."
- "Practical Considerations when Estimating in the Presence of Autocorrelation" (co-authored with Sanjiv Jaggia).
- "Exploring the Relationship between Regional Productivity Growth and Wage Differentials: The United States Farm Sector 1960-90."


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If you haven't heard yet, the FamilySearch Wiki (beta version) was launched about a week ago. The site is available for anyone to browse, and the World Wide Support division of FamilySearch is looking for volunteers to help grow the content. If you would like a user account to log in and add an article you will probably have to go through the Contact Us page for now, but open registration should happen sooner than later.
I haven't been involved in the project for about a month now so my numbers might be off a little. There are over 3,000 articles on the site so far, and more than 200 of them are in Spanish. The majority of the articles have been taken from the Research Guidance and Research Helps found on FamilySearch.org, but they have been in the process of updating them. Many of the articles contain additional information on the research topics including links to websites to helpful sites, and updated contact information for libraries and archives. The site is really becoming a great resources for anyone learning how to do their family history.
Here are a couple of examples:
- Discussion Groups - aka Forums...there are only a couple right now, but they will probably grow. Forums are great to communicate and coordinate research with others. They are especially nice to ask for help or advice.
- Multiple Languages - Right now the site is a little English top heavy, but as more and more people get involved there will be thousands of articles in many languages. Simply click on one of the language flags on the home page to use the site in that language. Can you believe that they already have 200+ articles in Spanish?
- Search - It was so hard to find and use content on familysearch.org, now you can search for a specific topic like "Chile immigration" and you will be directed straight to that article.


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It's finally here: the week of our Extreme Warehouse Sale.
I would say that people here get way too excited about this sale, but I think customers' past experiences here would justify our enthusiasm.
Our crew is working like crazy to turn our warehouse into a showroom where more than 2,000 appliances will be offered at insane prices this Saturday and Sunday.
We went down there and took some pictures of the progress Friday and posted them to Facebook, but we won't finish getting the floor models, closeouts, blemished items, etc. from our store locations until Wednesday.
And then, our team still will be pricing until about 1 a.m. Saturday — chowing White Castle sliders, as tradition holds — to get everything ready for the thousands of deal-shoppers who will walk through the doors this weekend.
Fans of our Facebook page and our followers on Twitter will get exclusive coupons, so join up! We rely on your help to spread the word to all your family and friends to continuing making this biannual sale a possibility — and helping people get some bragworthy finds in the process.
Here's a video of last year's fall sale, which is already much smaller than the sale we're having this weekend:


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The cookbook tour continues! As some of you may know, last week I held a cooking demo and signing at the fantastic BookCourt in Brooklyn and had a great showing and audience discussion. This week started off with an onsite interview with Cathy Erway on Heritage Radio Network, and ended with today's wonderful class at ICE on takeout Chinese food. Up next: more classes in New York, The Roger Smith Cookbook Conference, and San Francisco in April!
But let's take a step back for a moment and talk about pork belly. As some of you may know, The Chinese Takeout Cookbook doesn't just cover dishes you would normally find at a Chinese takeout restaurant. Rather, it includes other dishes that have made major inroads into American culture. One of the dishes that has been talked about, written about, and otherwise obsessed about in cities such as New York, Boston, and L.A. is the pork belly bun.
Many food fans know them from Momofuku Noodle Bar and its offspring restaurants. But as tasty as the Momofuku buns are, the Taiwanese have been snacking on these buns long before this dish hit the US eastern seaboard. Known as "gua bao" in Taiwan, these buns feature pork belly that has been braised in an aromatic mixture of soy sauce, rice wine, homemade stock, cinnamon, star anise, chilies, and Sichuan pepper.
(In Beijing I once ate at a restaurant that had this listed as "Taiwanese steamed hamburger" on the menu.)
These buns take a bit of time to make, but the melting texture of the pork will make it worthwhile. The toppings can definitely vary, but I like to top off the pork with hoisin sauce, crushed peanuts, and sometimes a bit of Sriracha. As for the buns, you can find them in the freezer section of a Chinese market; the packages will have instructions on steaming on the stove, and some packs will even instruct on steaming in a microwave.
I'm sharing this recipe here (it's also available on Amazon) because it has something to do with an exciting announcement in the coming week related to the cookbook. And everyone in the blogging community. Stay tuned for more!
Taiwanese-Style Pork Belly Buns
Serves 4
- 1 pound pork belly, preferably boneless with skin on
- 1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
- 3 garlic cloves, smashed
- One 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
- 2 scallions, cut into 2-inch lengths
- 4 cups Chicken Stock
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons Chinese rice wine or dry sherry
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 large piece cinnamon stick or cassia bark
- 2 pieces star anise
- 2 dried red chilies
- 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan pepper
- 1 package large steamed buns (6) or small steamed buns (12)
- 3 tablespoons hoisin sauce for serving
- ¼ cup crushed peanuts
- Fresh cilantro sprigs (optional)
- Cut the pork belly into large pieces (2 inches in length) that are still easy to pick up with tongs.
- Heat a Dutch oven or heavy-bottomed pot over mediumhigh heat until a bead of water sizzles and evaporates on contact. Add the peanut oil and swirl to coat the bottom. Add the pork and sear on all sides until lightly browned. Add the garlic, ginger, and scallions and cook briefly, for about 20 seconds, so that they become aromatic.
- Add the chicken stock, soy sauce, rice wine, sugar, cinnamon, star anise, chilies, and Sichuan pepper. Bring the liquid to boil, then reduce the heat to a simmer. Cover and simmer for 40 to 50 minutes, until the pork belly is fork tender.
- When the pork is ready, use tongs to transfer it to a cutting board and cut into 1/3-inch-thick slices. Return the pork to the braising liquid and cover to keep warm until the buns are ready.
- Steam the buns according to package instructions. You can assemble the buns by placing a slice of pork belly on the bottom, then top it off with a small spoonful of hoisin sauce, a dusting of crushed peanuts, and a bit of cilantro. Or for a more hands-on experience for your guests, bring the individual components to the table so that all can assemble their own buns.