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(Yezidis) and in Kurdish language (Iyazdi), is a religious group in the Middle East, most of them are living near Mosul in Iraq, and the other smaller groups are living in Turkey, Syria, Iran, Georgia and Armenia.
Ethnically they belong to the Kurdish origin with Indo-European roots, although they are affected by their surroundings mosaic formed by the cultures of Arab Assyrian and Syrian so that their traditional clothes for men are close to the outfit in the Arab section living near Mosul, like in Sinjar they wear long White dress with headdress (White or White and Red ) in the other areas they dressed in traditional Kurdish outfit usually, but nowadays the Yezidis Like the rest of people wearing what is worn by most of the people of trendy clothes especially youth community.
Their mother language is Kurdish, but they speak Arabic as well, especially Yezidis from Ba'shiqah near Mosul, all their prayers, rituals and religious books are all in the Kurdish language, or Mrgah Al-Shaykhan where the home of their princes, which was named in the history books as (Marg Al- Mosul) and their Qibla is Lalish temple, where the holy shrine of (l Sheikh Adi) in northern Iraq, and Ameer Tahseen Bek is considered as one of the most important religious people in the Yezidi religion in Iraq and the world.
Distribution and population:
Estimated population is about 250,000 in the world. 70,000 Yazidis living in Iraq and 30 000 others living in Syria and no more than 500 people in Turkey, where the number was more than 25 000 people in the early eighties, but most of them emigrated to Europe, and they are minorities in Armenia and Georgia where their origins are from Turkey.
There are also a small minority of the Yezidis in Iran.
Their homeland:
Yezidis were called in some historical periods as Dasnieh then after Sheikh Adi Alhkari they were known as Suhbatiah, Adawiya and Hakkari, their most famous places as mentioned in the book Sharafnameh are Ibn Umar (Bottan) Island, Mosul, Dohuk, Diyarbakir, Halab, Urfa and Khoi in Iran the princes of Denbli, but this spread has been reduced by the genocide happened by the Ottoman Empire, and the biggest gatherings are currently in:
Iraq: in the province of Nineweh / Mosul: – Sheikhan, Bashiqa, Bahzany, Shingar (Sinjar), Zammar and Alqosh
In the province of Dohuk: – Sharia (Smeal), Khank and Derabon region.
Syria: Qamishli and Afrin area and Jrahia and its affiliates.
Turkey: Mardin, Siirt, Urfa, Kars, Agri and Ardohan near the Armenian border
In Armenia: Alakz area and the villages of Ararat Mountain and in the capital Yerevan.
In Georgia: in the capital Tbilisi.
Others: Germany, Austria, United States of America and other countries.
The name Yezidi religion has come from the word Azday which means (Who created me) or (Allah).
Because the Yazidi religion is not presented with a written history that is why it was hard on many writers and historians, Arabs and foreigners to put a name for it but this was the most acceptable theory.
Symbols and believes:
That Allah is for human beings and the king Peacock is the king of Angels
Peacock King:
This governs the universe with seven angels
King symbolized by a peacock
The King is in the form of a peacock made of copper palm-size.
Water, fire, earth and air are considered as holly symbols in the Yezidi religion and represent an independent life by itself.
The most prominent religious rites:
Is (supplication), in three periods with the sunrise, sunset and special events , Yezidis people pray for goodness and peace for all mankind in general and then to themselves. Yazidi as any religion has its ideology and its behavior in performing the prayer (supplication) for the creator of the universe Allah is called in their old Aryan language as (Khody) or (Iyazdan).
They have number of prayers and texts each for a specific time of the day (sunrise with dawn, noon and then sunset), and others are concerned with certain religious occasions, like celebrations. There are also prayers for illness, and the other associated with the occurrence of floods and disasters, including those concerned with the phenomenon of eclipse of the sun and the lunar eclipse.
Holy books are:
-Algeloh by Sheikh Hassan Shams al-Din.
-Black book.
The most prominent personalities:
Sheikh Adi
Holy places:
Valley Lalish in Iraq,where most of the Yezidi people annually pilgrimage and spend seven days there. Each Yezidi individual has to pilgrimage at least once during his lifetime and baptizing with the water of Kanya Spi (the white eye)
Hijj: Pilgrimage to the Valley of Lalish.
Praying: Prayers with an orientation toward the sun.
Fasting:Yezidis fast more than once a year, also it is optional to each individual to fast through the year as much as he wants, but there is a general fasting called (Izzy) fasting, it means fasting for (Allah), it lasts for three consecutive days, it happens mostly in December because Yezidis follow the ancient Eastern Gregorian Calendar. In these three days of fasting the Yezidi has to leave all kinds of desires and pleasures of the world and at the fourth day after fasting, it will be the Eid or the celebration which is called (rozet Izzy).
Direction: The direction for Yezidis is the sun as the greatest creation by Allah, where they pray toward the sun, in form of supplication. Who pray must wash first and then stands barefoot with humility with his hands toward the sky. This must be repeated three times a day at sunrise, sunset and night before going to sleep. Each time special hymns and prayers are to be read out and they are very similar to the old poetry.
Reincarnation: As a way to atone for sins.
Baptism: Baptizing the new born baby by the water of Kanya.
Uniformity: One of the basic fundamentals in Yezidi religion philosophy is the uniformity, so they do not believe in the existence of evil spirits, goblins, and demons and devils because they believe that the saying that there are other forces that controls humans, is just a fake excuse made by humans as an explanation for their bad actions. So they believe that the human is responsible for what he does and not the evil spirits. And that Allah is all good, but he also controls the evil that comes as results for the actions of human beings, so the conflict between good and evil is essentially a conflict between the self and the mind.
The story of creation is similar a little to that one in Islam, but in some points it was different especially with part of Azrael, the Yezidis call it one of the best Unitarians to Allah, who refused to prostrate to Adam, because he was considering prostration is exclusive to the creator only. So as the story tells that Allah raised Azrael to be the king of all Angels.
The celebration is always on the first Wednesday in April each year.
Yezidi religion is exited here in Iraq since thousand years and despite they suffered from genocide in different periods of time, but they were strong enough to handle all that and keep living in the same original areas, even now they are still suffering from terrorist attacks.

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Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:09 am
Post subject: boiling lobsters - covered or open?
This is a good one for y'all))). What is the difference if you:
1.Plunge live lobsters into boiling water and pop a top on immediately and leave the burner on high and when the water boils again (with the lobstas in it) turn the heat down to moderate-low, leave the cover on. After 20 minutes, the lobstas are done. Or...
2. Plunge live lobstas into boiling water and pop a top on immediately BUT as soon as the water comes to a boil, remove the cover. Cook 20 minutes, the lobstas are done.
My own feeling is that something like Chinese treatment for "particular chicken", a kind of poaching with the top on and the heat off after bringing chicken and water to a boil. leave it covered for 1 hour, bring it to another boil, leave the cover on, turn the heat off for another hour. But I might just do the lobster for one hour, i.e., not repeat process.
What difference does leaving the top on (retaining steam at the top of the boiling water) or taking it off make?
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Post subject: Recipe for lobster and meat
I am looking for a recipe which has lobster and meat as the main ingredients. Is this possible? Thanks!
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:01 pm
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Get a McDonald's double cheeseburger for $1.29. Open it and pile on some lobster meat and a swipe of mayo on the bun. Viola! Poor man's surf and turf.
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the advice I've seen on timing for live lobsters is typically X minutes plus Y minutes per pound. don't have my cook books handy but I can look it up later.
putting a lid on would have the effect of the water coming back up to a boil faster. how that affects the overall timing,,, don't know.
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:50 pm
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Speaking from an engineer's pov, do you agree that lobster should be brought to a boil, then very gently poached for the remainder of the cooking time? Like the Chinese deal with "particular chicken"? Some pundits say the lobster is done when it turns bright red...but that often happens after only 5 or 10 minutes...almost immediately on the return to boil.
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I'm basically in agreement with Dilbert. I use a super sized pot with a steamer basket and get the seasoned water fiercely boiling, drop in the lobsters for about eight to ten minutes per pound each lobster weighs. Typically, if we're doing lobster at home, we do three to three and half pounders (I admit it, we're pigs and it's a food orgy!) and I'll put four of them in each pot. I use one of the King Kooker dual burner camp stoves that have a high pressure regulator to really boost the BTUs. After 25 steaming minutes, they are done. I definitely prefer steaming to boiling because you don't end up with a water soaked lobster. Since I'm steaming them, the pot is always covered.
We usually eat on the patio because we place refuse pails around the table on the patio so everyone can just drop their shells into them and not take up table space. Plus, it's easy to hose down the patio afterward.
See this link for cooking times using various methods.
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Helas, although I, too, am a complete pig when it comes to lobsta, I've only got access to 1 lb live lobstas locally in Dutchess Cty NY. And I don't have any source of regulatable heat other than the top of my very basic gas stove. (my grill just uses charcoal. It's an ancient Weber, I think. ) So the volume of water to boil is an issue, for sure. As to steaming v boiling, if you just poach gently, you don't get a dried out or watered down lobsta. Then again, if you steam (I could do that on top of my gas stove) my impression is that steaming really dries them out more than poaching. I'm not confident of that, however. I should reveal that I used to be a stern man on a lobsta boat in Maine - one time we actually caught a huge 30 lb lobsta, but while I knew it would be delicious (from eating a 20 lb w/family in Cape May NJ), we had to throw it back, by law. I somehow always get it right boiling lobstas, but this is an intellectual effort to determine some basics, ala engineers! I can see the advantages of steaming...still, can't make up my mind. Thank you both for your input, and anybody else's (encouraged!)
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our market(s) only have relatively small (1.5 lb max) live lobster.
I asked why no biggies & the fish monger said the larger lobster have a high mortality rate in the distribution chain that winds up in the supermarket.
I don't bother with the small live ones anymore. I did a lobster dinner for my Mom' birthday one year - no option but from the supermarket . . . being a geeky type I weighed the meat before I plated. it came out to $97.xx per pound. lobster is good; lobster is not that good.
I found a local place that (time to time) has flash frozen Maine tails in the 6-8 ounce range for reasonable money. decent but not the best - I guess it's the freezing bit.
when we lived down nearer Philadelphia there was a place - Suburban Seafood - which was primarily a wholesaler to restaurants, etc., but they would sell to the public. well, back then when you walked in, you sorta' waded through the blood&guts drain down area of the fish prep.....best fish, shellfish anywhere in the area.
they had big big long longer tanks of live lobster sorted by size - you brought your own plastic bag and 3-4 lb live lobsters were $7 each. cash, they didn't even have/use a register or scale.
we'd do lobster a couple times a year. I always did the head first boil routine - that's how I grew up, so that's how we 'et'em. not experienced the waterlogged lobster issue, tho.
I guess I told too many people about the place; they installed a retail front end plus tables & cookery. the prices went viral.
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lol, tears of sympathy streaming down my cheeks. What is available to me locally are live lobs, between 3/4 and 1.25lbs for about $10/lb. Scrawny, but pretty tastey. When I was up in Maine, working on the boat, I had access to lobs up to about 2.5lbs, maybe a bit more, don't remember the price, but sometimes my boss would soften up and let me have one or two for free. I was told decades ago in Cape May, NJ that the reason the huge ones, like the 20 lb one we as a huge family ate together, were so good is that they were young. They grew huge at a young age because they fed off a never-ending supply of NYC garbage! Whatever! Worked on that occasion. Our 20 lb one was delicious and tender and we just boiled it and...I don't remember much else, except for the serious hammers and other tools we used to crack 'n serve! Bath towels to cover the dining room table. We 10 were all pigs, and there was still plenty of left over...maybe to make the poor man's surf and turf!)))))LOL. I never eat frozen lobster, and have never eaten lobster tails, period. If they aren't flapping madly, I'm just not interested. Cheers, darlings.
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Here's a little something from my experiences to help others in their travels up and down the road. Some names have been changed to protect the guilty.
One of the first things you realize when you become a wrestler is that there are some VERY long travel days. These days can be made longer still if you are unprepared, ill equipped or just plain stupid. Like me.
I'll start with might be the most important -- don't screw around when going through customs. They have no sense of humour and are generally going to get the last laugh when you have your pants around your ankles and someone is stretching on a rubber glove. Bend over please.
When you are passing through customs be it Canadian (the harshest), U.S., England, Thailand, or whereever, have your passport out and ready. If you don't have one, get one. ASAP. Have your customs questionnaire ready. Fill it out nice and legibly. And tell the truth. If you are dumb and trying to smuggle in some ultimately worthless piece of crap and trying not to pay a duty or whatever, that piece of crap is going to become the bane of your existence when it leads to an extended customs stay or jail time and a red flag on your passport.
As I write this, I am in a taxi going home from Toronto's Pearson airport. It is 6 p.m. My flight was to have landed at 3, but it was an hour late. But still I should have been through customs and had my luggage and been in the taxi by 4:30 p.m. But because I tried to be a funny guy at the customs counter, I got a nice hour and 20 minute wait in line. The lady in front of me did not understand the customs card and had filled in yes on what are normally no questions. So I got to stand there for 10 minutes while the customs officer asked her each individual question and made sure she understood them. When it became my turn I walked up and made a bad joke (the agent next to my agent knew me and laughed) and the customs agent smiled weakly at me asked me how long I was gone and made sure I was in the "search this douche" line. Yay me.
And for those of you who like to smoke that wacky stuff that makes you hungry, remember to leave your paraphernalia at home when crossing the borders of other countries. Coming back from England, once I made the mistake of grabbing a couple lighters my hash smoking roomie left behind. I put one in each bag, an old army trick so that if stranded or whatever you always have a lighter. Now, anyone who knows me knows I don't/can't smoke anything. I just about die when it's second hand. So when I went through customs in Canada on my way back and the agent was persistently asking me if I smoked I wondered what was up. Apparently hash pipes need to be "tamped down" and you can use the butt end of a lighter to accomplish this. So each of the three lighters I had with me each had little circles of hash in the bottom and the agent was having a really hard time believing my innocence. Thankfully he finally did and I made it home safe and sound. But man was I sweating bullets. Thanks again, bro.
Now for those of you who are indy guys or just travelers in general, here are some tips to ensure a couple of problems don't ruin your trip.
When you are doing a long drive -- ie: everything over three or four hours -- here are a couple things you can do to make your trip more bearable. First, bring a pillow. I used to bring a pillow with me on every road trip. At first some of the boys (if they had never ridden with me before) would laugh and try to rib me about my pillow. But guaranteed three or four hours later they would ask if I wasn't using it to use it and get some sleep. LOL. The answer was always no. But then next trip or when ever I would see them next four out of five times they would have their own travel pillow.
Second, always have a snack or some kind of extra food in your bag. If you are in any way trying to become a professional wrestler, you should already be carrying some form of protein in your bags (bar, shake, whatever) but a granola or oatmeal bar can fill a carb craving like no protein can when you are a couple hours away from anything. Plus it's always good to have a little something to hand a guy like Bobby Roode to ensure he doesn't become so hungry you start to look like a light snack.
Third, always have a book, magazine, crossword, sudoku, or some form of entertainment that doesn't require batteries or plug-ins. There will be times when, say on airplanes or in cars, where there is no power or use of electronics. Then it is you who will not be sitting bored and going stir crazy for hours on end.
These are a few of the tips and tricks learned through long hours on the road. There are many more but after these last few travel days I thought these needed to be addressed. I am sure you all know some others and can send any suggestions to me and I will try to do another of these with some more on another column.
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In the above video, from 5:30 onwards, Haramein can be seen arguing that the off-centre location of the emanation point of a phi spiral within an enclosing circle is connected to 9-fold 'resonances'. To illustrate this he divides a circle into 9ths and shows a W-shaped set of chords intersecting at a point that appears to be the emanation point of the phi spiral. You can see this in the video from about 8:00 onwards.
In fact it is straightforward to show that they're not related, and the two points are not the same at all.
1. True Phi Spiral
A phi spiral is a logarithmic spiral which increases in radius by a factor ϕ≈1.618 every quarter turn. The properties of logarithmic spirals can be derived with a bit of basic calculus. A full derivation would be a little too long to show in full here, and it turns out to be irrelevant to what was on Nassim's screen anyway, as he wasn't using a true phi spiral.
Briefly, though... The first step is to calculate the radius of curvature of the phi spiral, which is r√{1+(2 lnϕ /π)²} at a distance r from the emanation point. The second step is to work out the angle between a tangent of the spiral and the radius, which is arctan[(2 lnϕ /π)]. From these, with a little trigonometry, the distance of the phi spiral emanation point from the centre of its enclosing circle works out as
√{1-1/[1+(2 lnϕ /π)²]} ≈ 0.29291 of the way along a radius from centre to circumference.
2. Intersection of Chords[a diagram here you'll have to imagine it for now! Of an isosceles triangle with a vertex of 360/9 = 40º, and another with the same base but a lower vertex of 60º. The vertex of the first triangle is at the centre of the circle, for reasons of 9-fold symmetry; the vertex of the second is where the chords cross. What we're calculating is the distance between the two vertices.]
The distance of the meeting point of the (W-shaped) chords from the centre can be calculated using basic trigonometry. The chords join points 1 & 5 and points 4 & 8 respectively of a regular 9-fold division of the circumference, as can be seen in the video at around 5:40.
The result is {cos(π/9) - √3 sin(π/9)} ≈ 0.34730 of the way from centre to circumference. The 9-fold division of the circumference shown in Nassim's diagram, and which he specifies in the video, is clearly reflected in the formula.
This is nowhere near the emanation point of a phi spiral. The reason it appears close on the presentation is that the spiral used in the video is not a pure spiral at all, but an approximation.
3. Approximated Phi Spiral
Nassim's approximated phi spiral is made from quarter-circles, each increasing in radius by a factor of ϕ. The two versions of the spiral are shown in green (pure spiral) and red (approximation using quarter-circles) on the diagram below. Where they overlap, it shows as yellow. They may look similar, but if you plot continuation circles around them they come out markedly different.
Image from wikipedia; creative commons license; modified from original.
This approximated spiral is constructed from circles embedded in squares, so we can use some basic geometry to calculate the position of the emanation point of this spiral – it lies √{1 - 2/√5} ≈ 0.32492 of the way from centre to circumference. To calculate this, note that the symmetry of the construction implies that it must lie at the point of intersection of the two diagonal blue lines in the diagram above. The eqations of the lines are shown on the diagram, in cartesian form, relative to an origin as shown on the diagram. They can be solved as standard simultaneous linear equations.
This value is close enough to the position of the intersection of the chords to look almost indistinguishable in the presentation. A careful viewer, however, will note that in Nassim's video, the lines do indeed cross further from the centre than the emanation point, as can be seen in the still below.
A still from the video of Nassim's 'discovery'. In this close-up of an area below the centre of the circle, Nassim's diagonal chords are seen to cross below the emanation point of the spiral, not on it. I've added blue cross-hairs at roughly where the emanation point of this spiral would be.
The last two numbers (0.34730 and 0.32492, the ones relevant to Nassim's presentation) can easily be checked by careful construction of the shapes on paper or on a graphics package, and by measurement of the appropriate distances.
There is no mathematical relationship between a phi spiral and a circle split into 9ths. The relationship claimed in Nassim's presentation works only if you don't look too closely, and even then only if the spiral is approximated using quarter-circles.
For him to consequently make claims about the inspiralling of particles into a black hole is preposterous for a number of reasons. Firstly, inspiralling matter doesn't follow any logarithmic spiral (let alone a phi spiral). As matter spirals inwards it is diving in at an ever steeper angle, even without resistance to motion. A logarithmic spiral, in contrast, approaches the centre at a constant angle. The resulting spirals are markledly different (see images below). Secondly, in the model he presents, as it is not a true spiral, the inspiralling matter would in fact have to follow a circular path for 90º and then, suddenly and discontinuously, follow a different circular path for another 90º, which is even sillier. And thirdly, even if it did, the values are still unrelated aside from their happening to be within about 2 or 3 per cent of a radius of each other.
In addition, the 'interference patterns' that seem to 'just appear right out of the phi spiral' when the pattern is replicated (from about 12:20 on this video) are purely an artifact of the approximation that he's used to build the spiral. If he had used a pure logarithmic spiral instead of quarter-circle building blocks, no such patterns could occur. On this topic, as with the others, we see his willingness to jump to vague but profound-sounding conclusions rather than investigate what he is thinking.
I suggest that it is clear from the above that the method of his arguments – if indeed there is one beyond spotting something that looks a little bit like something else – is very deeply flawed, very easily shown to be false, and lacking in both a basic understanding of mathematics and the imagination required to properly investigate straightforward mathematical situations. For this reason (indeed plenty more may be given, but this is reason enough), any of his claims to be employing mathematical or scientific methods to explain the underlying nature of the cosmos or anything else of any complexity should be seen as extremely dubious.
Above: approximate spiral path of matter falling into a black hole (Using dr/dt∝1/r³; and assuming ω²∝r³.)
Below: a phi spiral; clearly very different.
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In a stunning reversal, House Speaker John Boehner late Thursday abandoned a bid to force Senate Democrats to the bargaining table to resolve an impasse over the expiring payroll tax cut – a strategy that had risked tax hike for some 160 million American workers.
In the end, carrying on the fight was a losing proposition for a party that took back the House in 2011 on a pledge never to raise taxes. And – in a new development – Democrats learned to say, "No."
The deal marks a capitulation by the speaker, who appeared at the podium alone to announce the agreement, worked out with Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada and endorsed by President Obama.
It also marks a breakthrough for Senate Democrats and Mr. Obama, who said "no" from the start of this impasse – and stuck with it.
As a result, near empty chambers in the House and Senate on Friday will pass by unanimous consent a slightly modified version of a Senate bill that extends by two months the payroll-tax cut and other expiring measures, congressional leaders hope.
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If the bill passes Friday, Obama will sign it before joining his family for vacation in Hawaii. If any member objects, the next step would be to call the full House or Senate back into session next week, when the measure is all but certain to pass.
This agreement means that the payroll tax cut, worth about $40 on the average paycheck, will remain in effect through February. Federal jobless benefits up to 99 weeks will also continue, and a proposed 27.4 percent payment cut for physicians serving Medicare patients will not take place on Jan. 1.
For five days, House Republicans struggled for traction to get the Senate to the negotiating table to take up the House version of that bill, which extended expiring provisions for a full year, and the so-called "doc fix" by two years. But by midweek, they found themselves isolated and fighting alone.
In contrast with previous standoffs, this time the White House and Senate majority leader Harry Reid didn't budge or even blink.
"Democrats learned to say, 'no,' and it worked for them," says Stan Collender, a longtime federal budget analyst now with Qorvis Communications in Washington.
When Speaker Boehner on Thursday renewed calls for the Senate to appoint conferees to work out a one-year bill, Senator Reid declined. "Once the House passes the Senate's bipartisan compromise to hold middle-class families harmless while we work out our differences, I will be happy to restart the negotiating process to forge a year-long extension," Reid said.
When Boehner rang up Obama, requesting that he send advisers to Capitol Hill to discuss flaws in the Senate plan, the president declined. "Enough is enough," he said at a rally with Americans concerned about a payroll tax hike. "The people standing with me today can't afford any more games."
"The House needs to pass a short-term version of this compromise, and then we should negotiate an agreement as quickly as possible to extend the payroll-tax cut and unemployment insurance for the rest of 2012," he added.
In a final blow, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday broke silence to urge Republicans to accept the Senate plan and for Democrats to name negotiators to an eventual conference over a one-year extension. That proposal became, in effect, the compromise that broke the impasse.
Up until this week, House Republicans, backed by a strong freshmen class stared down Senate Democrats and the Obama White House in one clash after another. With the new GOP House majority, the conversation on Capitol Hill shifted from stimulus spending to deficit cutting, from new green energy to fossil fuels. Deficit was cutting in. Tax hikes, including for the highest income taxpayers, was out.
The president tried to compromise with the new majority and Senate Democrats capitulated, dismaying elements of the Democratic base. Republicans won every encounter.
- House Republicans threatened to shut down the government over unfinished spending bills for fiscal year 2011 – a standoff that was settled after Democrats agreed to billions in spending cuts.
- Boehner announced a new rule for raising the national debt limit – that any hike in the debt ceiling must be accompanied by at least equal spending cuts – and took the nation to the brink of a first-ever default on the national debt to hold that line. Negotiations between Boehner and Obama broke down after GOP conservatives rebelled at reports that the Speaker had agreed to $800 billion in revenue hikes.
- Until now, House Republicans had stopped the Democratic agenda cold. Obama's fiscal year 2012 budget and jobs program were blocked in the House, and his legacy from the last Congress – health-care and Wall Street reforms – placed under permanent siege.
But by late August, Democrats were weary of appearing rolled the by the tea-party wing of the House Republican caucus – and heartened by signs that the public mood was turning against them.
The debt-ceiling debacle, which produced the first-ever downgrade of the US credit rating, battered the reputation of Congress, now at record low levels. It also battered public perception of the tea-party movement and of House Republicans, who were especially blamed for the brinkmanship in Congress.
"Our data shows that Americans want compromise in Washington more than sticking to principle," says Frank Newport, editor of the Gallup Poll.
After the debt-ceiling crisis in August, "We saw a big drop in several measures," he adds. "Economic confidence dropped nearly 20 points. Faith in Congress is so low now it's discouraging in a democracy." In a survey of the perceived honesty of various professions, Congress ranked dead last with lobbyists and car salesmen.
Boehner appeared to recognize that shift in public mood. In a two-hour conference call on Saturday, Boehner called the Senate bill to extend expiring measures a victory. But conservatives strongly objected. They called on Boehner to reject the Senate's two-month extension and hold the line for the one-year House extension, including approval of the Keystone XL pipeline and a reduction of unemployment benefits from 99 to 59 weeks.
The House on Tuesday voted, 229 to 193, to reject the Senate bill and hold out for a new negotiation with the Senate over a one-year extension. But this time, Senate Democrats had resolved not to cave.
"Republicans and Democrats already negotiated an agreement and there is no time and no need to haggle over this any further," says Sen. Charles Schumer (D) of New York in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.
Even the editorial board of conservative-leaning The Wall Street Journal turned against them, dubbing GOP strategy over the expiring payroll-tax cuts "a fiasco." Provoking a crisis over an expiring tax cut affecting 160 million Americans was a tough sell. Most Americans supported extending the payroll-tax cut. By rejecting a Senate bill to extend those cuts, House Republicans, for the first time, appeared to be on the side of a tax hike.
Democrats saw the payroll tax clash as an opportunity to end a disappointing year on offense."It was opportunistic," says analyst Mr. Collender. "Shortly after the debt-ceiling fight in August was the point at which 'no' for Democrats started to be an acceptable answer."
Until that point, Democrats were "reflecting the president," he adds. "The president was trying to compromise, but each time they found that House Republicans kept raising the bar, and they were getting hurt with their base by appearing to be weak."
But with the sharp turn in public-approval ratings after the debt-ceiling debacle, Democrats grew bolder in opposition and, in the end, left House GOP leaders no place to go but over a cliff.
"Support for Congress in general is close to its lowest point ever. Republicans are generally getting blamed for that, and support for the tea party is at its lowest point since the 2010 election. Put that together, and what's the down side for Democrats in taking a strong position?" Collender adds.


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RIAA Claims That If COICA Isn't Passed, Americans Are 'Put At Risk'
from the um,-who-exactly? dept
Considering the serious concerns raised by the bill, you would think that everyone would be fine with holding such hearings. But, of course, when you know damn well that the bill almost certainly isn't Consitutional and its sole purpose is to censor upstart competitors and technologies that threaten your business model, you probably are less thrilled about hearings. And, so, it should come as no surprise that, at the end of this National Journal article about the request for hearings, the RIAA makes one of its more ridiculous statements in a while (and that takes some doing):
"The answer from these self-styled public interest groups can't always be 'no.' Congressional and administration leaders have made it clear that doing nothing is no longer an option. If these groups have a better idea than the meaningful, bipartisan approach like the one put forward by Chairman Leahy, we welcome their ideas on how to insure that the Internet is a civilized medium instead of a lawless one where foreign sites that put Americans at risk are allowed to flourish."Of course, the answer isn't always "no," but the answer absolutely can and should be "no," when the proposal involves censoring websites, removing due process, and favoring certain legacy industries over new technologies.
But the really ridiculous part is the claim that, without this law, "foreign sites that put Americans at risk are allowed to flourish." Just what are these sites, and which Americans are "at risk" from them? So, let's see if the RIAA can tell us which Americans are put at risk by which site -- and I'm sorry, but your inability to adapt your business model to a changing market does not put you "at risk." So, once again, it's time for the RIAA to answer a straight question: which sites are putting Americans at risk, and how will this law protect them?


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garbage I didnt see your total pick. Had to hedge it and hammer the akron side. I need to finish one dollar under and I will have all next week to work the total.
Originally Posted by nuggetmonster: DUCKS WINNER
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Originally Posted by nuggetmonster: Damn 3 losers for the day wtf I didn't know Akron had garbage to play for damn I need to pay attention to this kind of stuff
Very familar with both teams, I didnt expect this outcome at all. But lose and move on is how it goes.
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Louisiana 59
12:54 2nd half
Loyola 31
Louisiana 59
12:54 2nd half
Loyola-NO 40
Louisiana 72
8:30 2nd half
Love Miller, but he's been forcing too much this year. Three turnovers in the second half alone, against these guys. Needs to let the game come to him.
Loyola-NO 44
Louisiana 74
7:22 2nd half
Loyola-NO 47
Louisiana 79
5:06 2nd half
Loyola-NO 47
Louisiana 83
3:44 2nd half
Loyola-NO 54
Louisiana 92
1:40 2nd half
Loyola-NO 56
Louisiana 98
What's up with Bartley in a boot? How long is he out for? Hope we can get everyone healthy...
Mike, the last two home games have seen Bryce miss some layups. It is very uncharacteristic of him. I don't see how the team improves by playing this game during deadweek. It is less than a practice because of the lack of competition. I think coach said Tech played tonight and will play again Saturday before playing Louisiana. I guess coach could only get this level of competition during deadweek and decided it was better than not playing and having a long lay-off. Hope Frank, P.J., and company are at full strength for the next one. Gant and Marquetti did have good games.
Also, in previous years, this game would have been a blowout on the scoreboard but I feel like we would have given up more points and held a slimmer lead at half. This team, like Mike said, controlled the turnovers and never allowed these guys to even make runs. It was nice to see us coast through a game and not deal with comebacks or closer than necessary scores.


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ESPN Insider 2013 Redskins Draft Guide
Put all your thoughts and musings on the 2013 NFL Draft right here! Mocks... profiles... trades... you name it.
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ESPN Insider 2013 Redskins Draft Guide
Thought this was pretty well done. Its Insider content so some of you might not have had a chance to check it out. Enjoy!
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft201 ... raft-guide
I'm sure its been discussed some, but I'm still curious if the TEAM agrees with all of the experts about what our biggest needs are. It won't surprise me at all if the Redskins draft differently than the experts are suggesting.
http://insider.espn.go.com/nfl/draft201 ... raft-guide
Personnel needs
CB, ILB, TE/WR (backups), RB (backup)
Major need: This secondary is an absolute mess and all four positions could be upgraded. The safety position has been a revolving door for a long time and the Redskins give up a lot of big passing plays between the hashes. The cornerback position is not a turn-and-run group and struggles to match up against multiple-receiver sets, especially in defensive sub packages.
Quiet need: London Fletcher remains the heart and soul of this run defense, but given he's 38, the Redskins need to start adding to the inside linebacker position. They lost the versatile Lorenzo Alexander in free agency, which hurts their depth, but they do like young Perry Riley next to Fletcher. Riley is a good tackler, but this defense needs a starter to eventually replace Fletcher on the inside.
Not a need: Right tackle was a significant need when free agency started, but the Redskins at least have a chance with three candidates vying for the starting job. Holdover Tyler Polumbus will compete with free agents Jeremy Trueblood (Tampa Bay) and Tony Pashos. If they play up to expectations, it could solidify the RT position and add depth across the entire offensive line.
Depth chart
Jobs in jeopardy: There aren't a lot of jobs in trouble because of the Redskins' lack of moves in free agency due to salary-cap constraints, which means that this roster won't be much different from last season. The coaches will look most closely at the secondary as an area where they might try to upgrade.
Don't mess with it: This is a vintage Mike Shanahan run game with physical RB Alfred Morris and a good zone blocking scheme. It's vital to the success of this offense because the passing game feeds off the run game and Robert Griffin III loves to use play-action with bootlegs, waggles and half-field reads. A strong, ball-control attack will also protect the QB position.
What free agency solved
Virtually nothing was solved in free agency because of the aforementioned salary-cap penalties, although the Redskins were able to retain TE Fred Davis. They need to stay healthy to improve their edge pass rush, which will hopefully help a very suspect secondary, and they need a healthy RG III at QB.
-- Gary Horton
How they draft
Redskins Draft History (2010-12)
Each pick Washington has made over the last three years. Players that are projected 2013 starters are in bold.
Round Pick Player Pos
1 2 Robert Griffin III QB
3 71 Josh LeRibeus G
4 102 Kirk Cousins QB
4 119 Keenan Robinson LB
5 141 Adam Gettis G
6 173 Alfred Morris RB
6 193 Tom Compton OT
7 213 Richard Crawford DB
7 217 Jordan Bernstine DB
1 16 Ryan Kerrigan DE
2 41 Jarvis Jenkins DT
3 79 Leonard Hankerson WR
4 105 Roy Helu RB
5 146 Dejon Gomes DB
5 155 Niles Paul WR
6 177 Evan Royster RB
6 178 Aldrick Robinson WR
7 213 Brandyn Thompson DB
7 217 Maurice Hurt G
7 224 Markus White DE
7 253 Chris Neild DT
1 4 Trent Williams OT
4 103 Perry Riley LB
6 174 Dennis Morris TE
7 219 Terrence Austin WR
7 229 Erik Cook C
7 231 Selvish Capers OT
Where they draft well: If you're going to trade away more draft value than any team in history to move into the top five (this isn't an opinion, it's a statistical fact), then Griffin is what you want. There is plenty of concern about what RG III's knee injury and recovery mean to his future as a dual-threat QB, but his future is plenty bright even if the zone-read is shelved because RG III is a very good NFL passer already. His accuracy percentage was as high as any QB outside of Green Bay in 2012 according to Pro Football Focus and has a chance to get better. That's especially true as the personnel around him, particularly on the offensive line, improves too.
Where they don't draft well: Picked over? Over the past three years, Redskins draft picks have picked off a total of four passes. And two of those came from outside linebacker Ryan Kerrigan, who isn't exactly a coverage specialist. Run defense was a big problem for the Redskins in 2012, but the secondary is also a big concern headed into 2013, and the draft hasn't provided much cover. Don't be surprised if the Redskins add a cornerback in the second round and take advantage of a deep safety class later.
-- Chris Sprow
Best fits
Todd McShay provides three great fits for the Redskins' first pick at No. 51.
D.J. Swearinger, S, South Carolina: Matt Elam or John Cyprien would be a better value if either fell, but Swearinger has the overall skill set to be an upgrade over Reed Doughty.
Gavin Escobar, TE, San Diego State: He didn't post the best 40 time, but Escobar plays faster than his timed speed and has some of the best ball skills of any player in the entire class.
D.J. Hayden, CB, Houston: Hayden has good man-cover skills and would offer great value should he slide this far down the board.
-- Todd McShay
It's a successful draft if ...
What they must accomplish: The Redskins need a safety, and they're in the right draft to get one, but not in the way you might think. Given the need, you'd expect the Redskins to target a safety with their first pick, which is in the second round. But the depth at that position says they could get early help even in Round 3 (or 4 if they're lucky). Don't be surprised if they work the board value a little there.
Additional goals: Josh Wilson is a starter at one cornerback spot, but after that the depth chart basically looks like a bunch of guys most teams would prefer to have covering punts. The Redskins could spend a couple picks on corners. Fletcher might be playing -- without missing a game, of course -- in 2020, but the Redskins shouldn't count on it and should add an inside linebacker. Right tackle is also a position of need. The good thing about Washington's needs is the Redskins can find some value down the board. It's not like they need a QB or left tackle.
I'm sure its been discussed some, but I'm still curious if the TEAM agrees with all of the experts about what our biggest needs are. It won't surprise me at all if the Redskins draft differently than the experts are suggesting.
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Huge Charter School Controversy in the RBA (tl;dr warning)
We haven't been shy about sharing our educational "reform" position with you: we distrust the charter school movement. We believe they are a means for private corporations to strip school boards of their resources and teachers of their benefits by providing cut-rate education under the false flag of "school choice." After all, corporations exist to make a profit. Would you really want your child's education outsourced to the lowest bidder? Of course not! That's why you'll pay anything to live in the Real Bay Area!
Charter Schools' Negative Impact on the Educational System
Charter schools are being implemented all across the country, whether parents want them or not. This is happening because some very wealthy people, not one of them with any education background, see this as a way to profit at the expense school boards and teachers unions. Much of the current "school reform" movement has been taken over by tons of money from foundations from the Walton (Walmart), Gates (Microsoft) and Broad (construction and insurance) families and, of course, the Koch brothers. These groups have completely derailed real school reform in favor of their plan to corporatize our educational system.
All that money crowds out real reform in favor of forcing charter schools, despite their lackluster performance despite their ability to cherry-pick students. There are stories everywhere of neighborhood schools forced to close, fire all the teachers and administrators, and then reopen as charters, despite complete opposition from the affected teachers, parents and children. Needless to say, this is most likely to happen where parents are not well-represented in the political system. That is, this process is most likely to happen in poorer neighborhoods rather than wealthy suburbs. Remember Waiting for Superman (which is, of course, pure propaganda)? The Bay Area school in the film was in Redwood City. And look at all the corporate charter schools that have popped up in Oakland and San Jose.
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:53 am
Post subject: Test Recipe: Orzo Risotto with Buttery Shrimp
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While waiting for my eyes to dilate at the optometrist's office, I came upon this recipe in Food & Wine Magazine. Barely able to focus, I took down some messy notes and gave it a shot that evening. Even with a mistake or two, the recipe came out tasting good without too much work.
Risottos are usually made with Italian rice with wine and broth stirred until rich and creamy. In this recipe, the orzo - a rice shaped pasta - is cooked and then stirred in broth for a similar effect. Finally, parmesan cheese is stirred in for extra flavor and richness. I use a Microplane zester to shave the cheese into extremely fine pieces. This makes it very easy for the cheese to melt into the orzo.
I started off by assembling the main ingredients: 6 oz. (170 g) asparagus tips, 2 Tbs. chopped parsley, 12 oz. (340 g) orzo, 1 cup (235 mL) chicken broth, 3 oz. (55 g) butter, and 1/2 cup (50 g) grated parmesan cheese.
I also shelled, deveined, washed, and drained 1/2 pound (225 g) medium shrimp (about 30-40 count).
I brought about 2 quarts of water to a boil in a medium saucepan. (Next time I make this recipe, I'll probably use a larger pot - you'll see why when I cook the orzo.) When the water began to boil, I threw in about a tablespoon of salt and stirred until the salt dissolved. I dropped in the asparagus tips and allowed them to cook until tender - about four minutes.
I removed the asparagus from the water and set them aside on a plate. Then, I took the orzo and poured it into the water that I had used to cook the asparagus. I cooked the orzo until al dente - nine minutes.
Meanwhile, I melted the six tablespoons of butter in a large saute pan.
Once the butter was melted, I let it brown until it produced a nutty fragrance. I drained the shrimp one last time and added them to the pan. I lightly salted and peppered them. Then, I cooked the shrimp for one full minute before flipping them over and cooking for a final minute.
While the shrimp was cooking and the orzo was boiling, I cut the asparagus until 1-in. (2.5 cm) pieces.
The shrimp was then removed to the same plate as the asparagus. By now, I realized that I had just enough water in the orzo pan to cook the orzo, but wouldn't have much left over. I was a little concerned that if I couldn't drain the orzo, then it might be too salty. The recipe calls for reserving 1/4 cup of the pasta water, and it looked like that was just about all I was going to have left over in the pan. So I decided to skip reserving the water.
I poured the chicken broth into the sauté pan to deglaze it. In the original recipe, 1/4 cup of reserved water from the drained orzo would also be added to the pan. Since I didn't have much water left in the orzo pan, I didn't drain it at all. I thought about rinsing the orzo to reduce the salt content (however, this will adversely affect the texture of the final dish as the starch content in the water is reduced) but felt that the saltiness wasn't overwhelming. I decided to take a chance and proceeded with the recipe. I used a wooden spoon to scrape up any brown bits on the sauté pan, then, when the broth started to bubble, I poured it into the orzo pot.
I stirred the orzo and broth over medium heat until the liquid thickened a bit and became creamy.
Then I put the cut asparagus and shrimp back in the orzo and mixed until heated through.
I removed the pot from the heat and mixed in the chopped parsley and grated parmesan. Taste the orzo at this point to determine if additional salt and pepper should be mixed in. Lucky for me, the saltiness was just right. I did add some freshly ground pepper.
The orzo risotto reminded me of Rice-A-Roni, except fresh and wonderful tasting. The clean seafood taste and creamy texture was great. This is definitely a dish I'd make again.
Orzo Risotto with Buttery Shrimp
(serves 4)
6 oz. (170 g) asparagus tips
cook in boiling water until tender (4 min.)
cut into 1-in. (2.5 cm) pieces
mix until heated through
remove from heat and stir in
1/2-lb. (225 g) medium (30-40 ct.) shrimp
cook 1 min. each side
salt & pepper
3 oz. (55 g) butter
melt & brown
12 oz. (340 g) orzo
boil until al dente and drain, reserving 1/4 cup water
stir over medium heat until creamy
1 cup (235 mL) chicken broth
deglaze shrimp pan with 1/4 cup reserved orzo water
1/2 cup (50 g) grated parmesan cheese
2 Tbs. (7 g) chopped parsley
salt & pepper
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AnneE from Paris
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 10:39 am
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like always, lovely
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:37 pm
Post subject: Orzo
In my limited experience with Risotto I think the Orzo pasta makes a much better tasting dish than the Arborio rice. I'm not sure why. I will definitely be trying this dish.
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:47 pm
Post subject: Nice demonstration!
Nicely demonstrated and executed. I must point out, though, that the photo is not of asparagus tips, but asparagus stalks. tips are usually about the top 4 inches or so of the asparagus stalk. Also, I'd suggest adding about 1/4 cup of good white wine - maybe a sauvignon blanc - to the deglazing liquid.
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:37 pm
Post subject: But is it really Risotto
Hmmmm.... well, the dish looks great, and if I could only convince my wife to like shrim, and me to like those vile weeds, I might just have to make it some night.
I'm a little currious though, would this really be risotto? To me, the thing that really made it a rice dish was the starchy sauce that comes out of the rice. I've made risotto with a number of different rices, and while none of the other rices produced as much of this starch, its always there. I would assume orzo wouldn't have this, and from the pic, it didn't look like it.
I guess it probably all comes down to mouth feel, and that's not something you can really show
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Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2006 9:49 pm
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Well by pure definition it isn't a risotto as its not made of rice, but Orzo in my experience does make a nice and much easier replacement. Since orzo is a pasta you still get starch coming off it when it cooks(prob not as much as Arborio rice, but it has some) which is probably why the original recipe asked to use part of the cooking water(as well as flavor).
As for mock risottos with orzo vs real risottos, personally I like both. I do think there are flavor and texture differences but they are still very similar for me. I am definitely going to try this recipe although seeing as my wife and I can't seem to make shrimp we like(love it in a restaurant) at home will prob substitute another meat or leave protein out and serve it as a side dish.
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Posted: Sun Feb 19, 2006 9:06 pm
Post subject: shrimp at home
The trick with making decent shrimp at home, as this recipe illustrates, is to use high heat (promotes flavor via Maillard reaction) and be VERY quick. This recipe suggested a minute on both sides -- I might be tempted to cook for a minute on the first side and then 30 seconds on the flip and allow the heat of the orzo to cook the shrimp the rest of the way through.
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Aaron McFarlane
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 11:53 am
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Made it, turned out rather deliciously. If I had to do it again I wouldn't add salt at any stage as the stock tends to be salty and the butter has high salt content. In the same vein, I think I'd dilute the stock a bit more. I substituted a 1/4C white wine for the 1/4C asparagus stock.
All-in-all very nice. Thanks for the recipe and wonderful photos.
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Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2006 10:50 pm
Post subject: Risotto
I made this dish today & it came out very well. Thanks a lot. You have got a very nice website.
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Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:03 am
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I just found your website a few days ago and have now made two recipes from it (Asparagus with Almonds) and this one and I really enjoyed both of them. I am college student majoring in economics and though I am not an engineer, I truly enjoy an analytical look at most things -- and now I can add cooking to that list!
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Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:35 pm
Post subject: ORZO RISOTTO
I have the photo in the Food and Wine magazine and compared to your photo, your looks creamier. I kept this issue of Food and Wine to try this, now I definately will. By the way, the original recipe calls for asparagus spears, not just tips.
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Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 6:48 pm
Post subject: A Delight!
I made it last night. I think I had a bit too much salt but, the dish is very good and far lighter than conventional risotto. Always found risotto a pain to make but this is easy and good. I never would have thought of doing it with orzo. Browning the butter helped the overall flavour. Want to try your onion rings next perhaps.
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Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:51 am
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The fastest and easiest way to make risotto is to use a
pressure cooker
. You don't have to constantly stir the risotto, and it only takes 7 minutes. For directions, go here:
pressure cooker risotto recipe
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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 9:57 pm
Post subject: How is orzo made?
I've looked all over the web for details on how orzo pasta is made, as in how do they manufacture the pasta to be in those little rice kernel shapes. All I can find anywhere are recipes on how to cook orzo pasta.
So, anyone know how it's made? My initial guess is that it's created as a big sheet of pasta and cut into those bits while still fresh and that the drying process gives it that tapered shape maybe?
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 7:01 pm
Post subject: Very appetizing!
While on the lookout for a risotto recipe i came across your very wonderfully displayed recipe! I'm no engineer, but i found very helpful and clearly worded. Thanks
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