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These salads with an Asian flair seem to be all the rage these days and it's no wonder: crisp lettuce, chicken and dressings that are almost addictive. And if you're lucky, you'll find one with a few little fried won-ton strips, just in case all that health is too much for you! Make them at home, though, and you'll spend a fraction of the money, up the nutritional value and lower the calories.
The flaw of most of the Asian style salads that can be picked up at the drive through or a cafeteria type restaurant is they're usually mostly lettuce, and while low in calories, lettuce doesn't give the nutritional punch of many other vegetables. When you make a salad like this at home you can fill it full of all kinds of goodness and customize it to your taste.
I based my marinade off of the chicken I had in a Wendy's salad (but I straight up stole the Fried Won-Ton strips from Panera) which had an interesting tanginess but things can be sped along by using chicken that's already cooked and shredded. Perhaps a planned left over from chicken made early in the week. A plus for this salad is that it's sturdy enough to pack for lunches and will hold up well – just keep your dressing separate.
I've included 3 of my favorite dressings here – I can't seem to pick just one! The first, a hot little number with a lot of sesame taste is the Creamy Sesame Tahini Dressing, shown with the salad – if you want to tone it down, replace some of the sesame oil with another oil – as it's written, you might find yourself making faces! This was adapted from a Robert Irvine recipe.
The second, Asian Sesame, is a vinaigrette with sesame and a bit of sweet/sour heat, similar to Wendy's but not nearly as sweet. I found this, of all places, at the Southern Living site, although I changed a few things. The last is a Sesame Ginger, quite a bit like ones I've had in Asian restaurants that I reworked from a Bikini Bootcamp recipe.
Grilled Sesame Chicken Salad
Chicken & Marinade:
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 clove garlic, smashed and minced
- 2 teaspoons finely grated fresh ginger
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 2 tablespoons Seasoned Rice Wine Vinegar
- 2 tablespoons Soy Sauce
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 12 ounces of chicken breast, sliced horizontally in half if very thick
Place chicken in a Ziploc bag. Add marinade ingredients. Mix & close; place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes & up to 3 hours, the longer the better. The chicken continues to absorb the marinade and after three hours may get a bit strong-tasting and the acid in vinegar may deteriorate the chicken.
Remove as much marinade as possible before quickly grilling or sauteing. Slice and set aside for salad.
Really, anything goes here, but classics are romaine or iceberg, red or green cabbage, cucumber and any colored peppers of your choice. Other great additions are edamame, baby corn, water chestnuts or your favorites.
Any type of nut you fancy can be substituted for the sesame seeds. Wendy's salad had spicy cashew nuts.
Cut several won-ton wrappers into 1/4 inch strips and shallow fry in about an inch of 350 degree oil for several minutes, stirring now and then until crunchy. Lightly salt when removed from oil.
Sesame Tahini Dressing, 3/4 cup
- 2 tablespoons seasoned rice wine vinegar
- 2″ piece of onion, quartered
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 tablespoon tahini (may use peanut butter)
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- pinch of red pepper flakes
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1/2 cup sesame oil (if you have the less intense Japanese sesame oil, try it here.)
Add 1 at a time through the feed tube of a running blender, vinegar, onion, salt, pepper, tahini, honey, red pepper flakes, water and sesame seeds. Leaving the blender running add the oil in a slow thin stream.
Note: this dressing has a lot of spiciness. If you'd like, part of the oil may be replaced with a different type, perhaps a light olive oil and only a teaspoon or so (to your taste) of sesame oil used. If dressing is too thick, add a bit of additional water – it will thicken upon standing in the fridge.
Asian Sesame Dressing, 1/2 cup
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1/4 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper
Whisk all ingredients together until sugar is dissolved. This dressing will separate, so store in a jar so that it can be shaken back together.
Sesame Ginger Dressing, 1/2 cup
- 1/4 cup mild olive oil
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth and emulsified.
Notes on Dressing: Wendy's Asian Cashew Salad uses Marzetti® Simply Dressed® Light Spicy Asian Chili Vinaigrette – it is quite a bit sweeter than the Asian Sesame Dressing above, A close approximation to Wendy's dressing would be to use the Asian Sesame Dressing recipe, add a bit of corn syrup (yep, corn syrup is the only way I found to sweeten the dressing enough to come close to Marzetti's) then add a touch of Sriracha and a bit of white or black pepper.
The salad from Wendy's was around seven bucks or so, Panera's a bit more, about $8.65 with tax – made home-made they are far better and a fraction of the cost. I could feed a small army the above salad for less than the cost of one large salad at Wendy's, and for far less than one at Panera. I spent about $4.00 and bought a head of Romaine, a small head of cabbage, a red bell pepper and a huge cucumber. The dressings are pennies to make, especially if you watch for sales and coupons and stock up on ingredients. The chicken for four was about $1.50 and still more than was on the restaurant salads.
The bottom line is, that even if you are a single person like some of my friends, who always pick up salads because they think it costs less because they won't use up everything in time – it doesn't pay to do so.
Even if you picked up all the ingredients and made only ONE salad, and the rest of the ingredients rotted away in the fridge (don't get me wrong, I hate waste and am not recommending this) you'd still save money! It would cost you around five seventy five instead of seven to eight or more and you'd have half a pound of chicken left over. If you made two, three or four salads, you'd be way ahead. Your cost would still be the same, but the ones you bought would have ran you up to 35 dollars.
While most restaurant items I've remade (from the lower priced places and chains) are priced at about 4 to 5 times the cost of home-made, the cost of salads seems to be around 7 to 10 times the cost of home-made. Plus you get about 50 cents worth of lettuce that's been sitting around for how long, a few measly vegetables and a smidge of anything else.


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Adi Kuntsman and R. L. Stein, DIGITAL MILITARISM: ISRAEL'S OCCUPATION IN THE SOcial Media AGE. (Stanford University Press, 2015).
Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens.
Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context—both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
R.L. Stein. Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism.Duke University Press, 2008.
In Itineraries in Conflict, Rebecca L. Stein argues that through tourist practices—acts of cultural consumption, routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries, culinary desires—Israeli citizens are negotiating Israel's changing place in the contemporary Middle East. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted throughout the last decade, Stein analyzes the divergent meanings that Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel have attached to tourist cultures, and she considers their resonance with histories of travel in Israel, its Occupied Territories, and pre-1948 Palestine. Stein argues that tourism's cultural performances, spaces, souvenirs, and maps have provided Israelis in varying social locations with a set of malleable tools to contend with the political changes of the last decade: the rise and fall of a Middle East Peace Process (the Oslo Process), globalization and neoliberal reform, and a second Palestinian uprising in 2000.
Combining vivid ethnographic detail, postcolonial theory, and readings of Israeli and Palestinian popular texts, Stein considers a broad range of Israeli leisure cultures of the Oslo period with a focus on the Jewish desires for Arab things, landscapes, and people that regional diplomacy catalyzed. Moving beyond conventional accounts, she situates tourism within a broader field of "discrepant mobility," foregrounding the relationship between histories of mobility and immobility, leisure and exile, consumption and militarism. She contends that the study of Israeli tourism must open into broader interrogations of the Israeli occupation, the history of Palestinian dispossession, and Israel's future in the Arab Middle East. Itineraries in Conflict is both a cultural history of the Oslo process and a call to fellow scholars to rethink the contours of the Arab-Israeli conflict by considering the politics of popular culture in everyday Israeli and Palestinian lives.
R. L. Stein and Ted Swedenburg (eds.). Palestine, Israel, and the Politics of Popular Culture.Duke University Press, 2005.
This important volume rethinks the conventional parameters of Middle East studies through attention to popular cultural forms, producers, and communities of consumers. The volume has a broad historical scope, ranging from the late Ottoman period to the second Palestinian uprising, with a focus on cultural forms and processes in Israel, Palestine, and the refugee camps of the Arab Middle East. The contributors consider how Palestinian and Israeli popular culture influences and is influenced by political, economic, social, and historical processes in the region. At the same time, they follow the circulation of Palestinian and Israeli cultural commodities and imaginations across borders and checkpoints and within the global marketplace.
The volume is interdisciplinary, including the work of anthropologists, historians, sociologists, political scientists, ethnomusicologists, and Americanist and literary studies scholars. Contributors examine popular music of the Palestinian resistance, ethno-racial "passing" in Israeli cinema, Arab-Jewish rock, Euro-Israeli tourism to the Arab Middle East, Internet communities in the Palestinian diaspora, café culture in early-twentieth-century Jerusalem, and more. Together, they suggest new ways of conceptualizing Palestinian and Israeli political culture.
Joel Beinin and R. L. Stein (editors).The Struggle for Sovereignty: Palestine and Israel, 1993-2005. Stanford University Press, 2006.
After the 1993 Oslo Accords people across the world anticipated the onset of peace and an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. For Israelis, the Accords generated massive economic growth and a sense of security. For Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, they led to a dramatic rise in poverty and unemployment due to a complex array of closures, militarized checkpoints, and bypass roads, and a vast expansion of the settlement project that fractured Palestinian territories and communities. In 2000 popular Palestinian rage with the new shape of the Israeli occupation erupted in a second uprising or intifada.
In this volume, prominent scholars and journalists examine the dramatic political changes in Palestine and Israel from the Oslo Accords through the second intifada and the death of Yasser Arafat. Their essays address the political economy of the Oslo process, social and political changes in Palestine and Israel, United States foreign policy, social movements and political activism, and the interplay between cultural and political-economic processes. The volume also includes documents, maps, poetry, and graphic art.


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Going to court without a lawyer is a daunting task. It's also not that uncommon. It's estimated that half of all family law litigants don't have a lawyer. If you look outside of family law, it can get as high as 80% depending on the issue and court it's being tried in. We know that self-representing can take a toll — both on the person and the court system — but we can't put a dollar value on that toll.
Getting a sense of the costs is just what a group of graduate students from Simon Fraser University is trying to do. A group of Public Policy students is in the middle of a research project looking at the monetary costs of self-representation in court. They want to put a dollar value on this process, including looking at missed work, time spent preparing for court, and court fees.
In the end, these students want to create a better understanding of the experience and impact of self-representation so that the justice system can develop better strategies to help those who have to go to court by themselves.
Right now, these students are looking to gather some information from people in BC who have, or are currently, representing themselves in court. If that's you, please take a few minutes to fill out their online survey.


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Artist Nicole Cherubini, whose sculptures were on view at PAMM, spoke about the works of the revolutionary ceramicist George Ohr and his artistic process, including his inventive experimentation with clay.
George Ohr's technique of manipulating clay through pinching, twisting and folding was radical during the early 20th century. Focusing on expressive forms, Ohr willingly neglected the demand for colorful and glazed pots, ignoring clay's functional and decorative properties. For Pérez Art Museum Miami's Project Gallery series, Nicole Cherubini created a new body of interrelated free-standing and wall-based works. Comprised of a diversity of objects, this exhibition responded to the architecture of the space and expanded on the artist's previous bodies of work. The installation incorporated new shapes into the artist's lexicon and new materials, combining clay and wooden support panels that allowed for a renewed consideration of scale.


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One of the maxims of the old Greek philosophers was that good is diffusive of itself.
I am so diffusive and wanting in close condensed habits of thought.
Our national life is too diffusive to yield the best social fruits.
For what is Catholicity but a unity which expands and is diffusive?
The French writer is inevitably epigrammatic first, and, if diffusive afterward, it is with malice aforethought.
Puritanism was radical in its views and sentiments, yet lacking that diffusive propagandist power inhering in conventional bodies.
The blunderbuss had not exploded; it always made that grand, booming, rattling, diffusive sort of a report.
Ardent spirit is a poison so diffusive and subtile that it is found, by actual experiment, to penetrate even the brain.
Among the rare causes of diffusive peritonitis is perforation of the intestine by lumbricoid worms.
And the very atmosphere of such bliss is diffusive; it seemed as if all the living creatures around understood.


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Wall Street's main indexes were slightly higher in trading, helped by gains in technology stocks.
A mere 0.4 percent rise in Apple led the three indexes higher, an indication of the muted trading activity in the week ahead of the New Year holiday.
Commodities were in the spotlight, with oil prices near their two-and-a-half-year highs and copper at four-year peak, helping global equities hit record levels.
The benchmark S&P 500 has climbed about 20 percent this year, on track to record its best annual gains since 2013, boosted by robust economic growth and solid corporate earnings.
The rally is widely expected to extend into 2018 fueled by gains from a new U.S. tax law that lowers tax burden on corporates.
"Tax cuts will produce an increase in earnings and that is now incorporated into official sell-side estimates," said Brant Houston, managing director at CIBC Atlantic Trust Private Wealth Management in Colarado.
"However, I don't think we should get used to returns like this, the trends looking forward will be more subdued than we saw in 2017."
The dollar slipped to a four-week low against a basket of currencies, under pressure from a recent dip in U.S. 10-year bond yields. A weaker dollar tends to boost revenue of companies with large global presence.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 53.18 points, or 0.21 percent, at 24,827.48.
The S&P 500 was up 2.2 points, or 0.08 percent, at 2,684.82 and the Nasdaq Composite was up 3.57 points, or 0.05 percent, at 6,942.90.
Seven of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher, with the technology index's 0.31 percent rise topping the list.
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The iconic bondage cargo from Dolce & Gabbana's AW 2003 collection. This pair is the nylon version. The nylon gives these pants an excellent texture as well as a deep black color (without being too shiny), and the top notch construction is rounded out with chunky Lampo zippers. This piece features various straps, some of which can be adjusted to modify the fit of the pants when worn, as well as cargo pockets and a zipper pocket on one leg. The waist is also adjustable.
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You are struggling with lots of debts currently, and it seems to be impossible for you to repay your loans. You can seek professional help by means of which you can go for proper debt management. One of the effective ways can be debt consolidation by means of which you can clear off your debts. However, in this context, you will have to remember that you use your debts wisely. On the other hand, it is also a good way to clear off your debts by declaring bankruptcy. You can start fresh with a life free from debts. However, prior to filing for it, you will have to have adequate knowledge on it.
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Content marketing is "not scalable."
Or, said more accurately, content marketing is not as scalable as some marketers would like it to be.
Posting to social networks? Somewhat scalable. Thanks to Buffer, HootSuite, Tweetdeck, and a long, LONG list of apps, you're doing much less work as a marketer by leaning on technology.
Buying banner ads? Super scalable. You can automate almost all of it.
Bidding for keywords? Supremely scalable. In just a few minutes, remove all humans from the process.
Sending email, whether once or in a drip campaign? SO scalable. You can set it and forget it. It'll repeat for you over and over and over again, all on its own. It's called marketing automation for crying out loud.
Curating links? Stupendously scalable. Tons of apps and products exist to help you automatically find and insert relevant content in your work, making you the very best of the best at adding zero original thoughts and value to the world.
But creating original, unique, compelling, useful content that emotionally and intellectually resonates with an audience?
The robots haven't replaced the writers.
Or the designers. Or the video producers. Or the podcasters. Or any truly great content creator.
"Just publish whatever -- it still works."
Sure, marketers can fake their way to some results with the bad stuff. They can take some shortcuts to save time and money rather than view their content as craft-driven work. They can push out more "stuff" or louder "stuff" or sneakier, more sensational-sounding "stuff." They can over-market a crappy piece of crap created by writers they paid crap.
But we can and should do SO MUCH MORE with our content. It can and should be SO MUCH BETTER, which can and should yield SO MANY MORE results!
If you believe Seth Godin (and you should), content marketing is the only marketing that's left. And the only marketing that's left can't REALLY be automated. The distribution part? Sure. The creation part? Nope, and that is (or should be) more than half the battle -- creating great content.
You need actual humans, preferably both healthy and alive, to produce great work.
Many marketers don't want to admit that. They don't want to admit that there's hard work to be done. (Not YOU, but some.) That's the rub in all of this content marketing stuff -- it seems hard because it IS hard. Pundits will talk your ear off about content marketing, but they glaze over the creation process. They say things like, "Tell great stories," or, "The secret is to create great content." Then they spend hours talking about all the ways to PROMOTE content, leaving you to figure out the majority of the production stuff.
"Create great content"? How? Who can do that? Were we trained? I wanted to be a sports journalist, so I think I can write, but it still took YEARS of my life to get to that point. (Do our companies have YEARS to spare?)
And nobody taught me design, audio, video, interactive, and so forth. I'm just faking it, and if you enjoy my work, it's because I either hack away at stuff at nights and on weekends or because I fake it better than others. (By the way, if you do enjoy my work, THANK YOU!)
So, sadly, instead of acknowledging that the hard part -- the craft-driven part -- is worthwhile, we avoid it.
In the blue ocean of the creative and media worlds, we act like bottom-feeders. We behave like our entire existence depends on getting more sustenance out of scraps, or else we scramble and fight and claw to get MORE scraps.
Seriously?! If we'd just do the scary thing and look up, we'd see a big, wide, open ocean -- a vast array of creative creatures who aren't overly concerned with squeezing a few extra vitamins out of crap. They're doing awesome flips and underwater ninja moves, while we're stuck debating SEO tactics and whether some new tech or metric will save the day ... all because we're convinced we have to deal with scraps. Those creative creatures doing awesome flips above us? They're doing what we consider impossible (quality and quantity) and feasting to their heart's content. (By the way, that's pronounced "conTENT.")
But that's uncharted waters (heh...) for the majority of content marketers.
That involves caring deeply about our production, not just our distribution.
That involves treating content marketing as a craft, not an automation.
And that "doesn't scale."


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Fearing his friend, Christmas Black, has met his demise when the ex-Marine's daughter is left on his doorstep, reluctant L.A. detective Easy Rawlins finds the challenges of caring for a child further complicated by his ladylove's imminent marriage and another friend's murder accusation. 125,000 first printing.
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Chapter OneIt's hard to get lost when you're coming home from work. When you have a job, and a paycheck, the road is set right out in front of you: a paved highway with no exits except yours. There's the parking lot, the grocery store, the kids' school, the cleaner's, the gas station, and then your front door.
But I hadn't had a regular job in a year and here it was two in the afternoon and I was pulling into my driveway wondering what I was doing there. I cut off the engine and then shuddered, trying to fit inside the sudden stillness.
All morning I had been thinking about Bonnie and what I'd lost when I sent her away. She'd saved my adopted daughter's life, and I had repaid her by making her leave our home.
In order to get little Feather into a Swiss clinic, Bonnie had reacquainted herself with Joguye Cham, a West African prince she had met in her work as a flight attendant for Air France. He made a temporary home for Feather, and Bonnie stayed there with her - and him.
I threw open the car door but didn't get out. Part of my lethargy was exhaustion from being up for the past twenty-four hours.
I didn't have a regular job, but I worked like a dog.
Martel Johnson had hired me to find his runaway sixteen-year-old daughter, Chevette. He'd gone to the police and they had taken down her information, but two weeks had gone by and they hadn't turned up a thing. I told Martel that I'd do the footwork for three hundred dollars. On any other transaction he would have tried to dicker with me, giving me a down payment and promising the balance when and if I did the job. But when a man loves his child he will do anything to have her safely home.
I pocketed the money, spoke to a dozen of Chevette's high school friends, and then made the rounds of various alleys in the general vicinity of Watts.
MOST OF THE TIME I was thinking about Bonnie, about calling her and asking her to come home to me. I missed her milky breath and the spiced teas she brewed. I missed her mild Guyanese accent and our long talks about freedom. I missed everything about her and me, but I couldn't make myself stop at a pay phone.
Where I came from - Fifth Ward, Houston, Texas - another man sleeping with your woman was more than reason enough for justifiable double homicide. Every time I thought of her in his arms my vision sputtered and I had to close my eyes.
My adoptive daughter still saw Bonnie at least once a week. The boy I raised as my son, Jesus, and his common-law wife, Benita Flagg, treated Bonnie as the grandmother of their newborn daughter, Essie.
I loved them all and in turning my back on Bonnie I had lost them.
And so, at 1:30 in the morning, at the mouth of an alley off Avalon, when a buxom young thing in a miniskirt and halter top had come up to my window, I rolled down the glass and asked, "How much to suck my dick?"
"Fifteen dollars, daddy," she said in a voice both sweet and high.
"Um," I stalled. "Up front or after?"
She sucked a tooth and stuck out a hand. I put three new five-dollar bills across her palm, and she hurried around to the passenger side of my late-model Ford. She had dark skin and full cheeks ready to smile for the man with the money.
When I turned toward her I detected a momentary shyness in her eyes, but then she put on a brazen look and said, "Let's see what you got."
"Can I ask you somethin' first?"
"You paid for ten minutes; you can do whatever you want with it."
"Are you happy doing this, Chevette?"
Her years went from thirty to sixteen in one second flat. She reached for the door, but I grabbed her wrist.
"I'm not tryin' to stop you, girl," I said.
"Then let me go."
"You got my money. All I'm askin' is my ten minutes," I said, letting her wrist go.
Chevette settled down after looking at my other hand and around the front seat for signs of danger.
"Okay," she said, staring into the darkness of the floor. "But we stay right here."
I lifted her chin with one finger and gazed into her big eyes until she turned away.
"Martel hired me to find you," I said. "He's all broken up. I told him I'd ask you to come home but I wouldn't drag you there."
The woman-child glanced at me then.
"But I have to tell him where you are ... and about Porky."
"You cain't tell Daddy 'bout him," she pleaded. "One'a them get killed sure."
Porky the Pimp had recruited Chevette three blocks away from Jordan High. He was a pock-faced fat man with a penchant for razors, diamond rings, and women.
"Martel's your father," I reasoned. "He deserves to know what happened with you."
"Porky'll cut him. He'll kill him."
"Or the other way around," I said. "Martel hired me to find you and tell him where you are. That's how I pay my mortgage, girl."
"I could pay you," she suggested, placing a hand on my thigh. "I got seventy-fi'e dollars in my purse. And, and you said you wanted some company."
"No," I said. "I mean ... you are a fine young thing, but I'm honest and a father too."
The teenager's face went blank, but I could see that her mind was racing. My appearance had been a possibility that she'd already considered. Not me exactly but some man who either knew her or wanted to save her. After twenty blow jobs a night for two weeks, she'd have to be thinking about rescue - and about the perils that came along with such an act of desperation. Porky could find her anywhere in Southern California.
"Porky ain't gonna let me go," she said. "He cut up one girl that tried to leave him. Cassandra. He cut up her face."
She put a hand to her cheek. It wasn't a pretty face.
"Oh," I said, "I'm almost sure the pig man will listen to reason."
It was my smile that gave Chevette Johnson hope.
"Where is he?" I asked.
"At the back of the barbershop."
I took the dull gray .38 from the glove compartment and the keys from the ignition.
Cupping my hand around the girl's chin, I said, "You wait right here. I don't wanna have to look for you again."
She nodded into my palm and I went off down the alley.
TALL AND LANKY LaTerry Klegg stood in the doorway of the back porch of Masters and Broad Barber Shop. He looked like a deep brown praying mantis standing in a pool of yellow cream. Klegg had a reputation for being fast and deadly, so I came up on him quickly, slamming the side of my pistol against his jaw.
He went down and I thought of Bonnie for a moment. I wondered, as I looked into the startled face of Porky the Pimp, why she had not called me.
Porky was seated in an old barber's chair that had been moved out on the porch to make room for a newer model, no doubt.
"Who the fuck are you?" the pimp said in a frightened alto voice. He was the color of a pig too, a sickly pinkish brown.
I answered by pressing the barrel of my pistol against his left cheekbone.
"What?" he squeaked.
"Chevette Johnson," I said. "Either you let up or I lay you down right here and now."
I meant it. I was ready to kill him. I wanted to kill him. But even while I stood there on the verge of murder, it came to me that Bonnie would never call. She was too proud and hurt.
"Take her," Porky said.
My finger was constricting on the trigger.
"Take her!"
I moved my hand three inches to the right and fired. The bullet only nicked the outer earlobe, but his hearing on that side would never be the same. Porky went down to the floor, holding his head and crying out. I kicked him in his gut and walked back down the way I'd come.
On the way to my car, I passed three women in short skirts and high heels that had come running. They gave me a wide berth, seeing the pistol in my hand.
"SO WHY'D YOU LEAVE HOME LIKE THAT?" I asked Chevette at the all-night hamburger stand on Beverly.
She'd ordered a chili burger and fries. I nursed a cream soda.
"They wouldn't let me do nuthin'," she whined. "Daddy want me to wear long skirts and ponytails. He wouldn't even let me talk to a boy on the phone."
Even in a potato sack you could have seen that Chevette was a woman. It had been a long time since she had been a member of the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse.
I drove her to my office and let her sleep on my new blue sofa while I napped, dreaming of Bonnie, in my office chair.
In the morning I called Martel and told him everything - except that Chevette was listening in.
"What you mean, walkin' the streets?" he asked.
"You know what I mean."
"A prostitute?"
"You still want her back?" I asked.
"Of course I want my baby back."
"No, Marty. I can bring her back, but what you gonna get is a full-grown woman, not no child, not no baby. She gonna need you to let her grow up. She gonna need you to see what she is. 'Cause it won't make a difference her bein' back home if you don't change."
"She my child, Easy," he said with deadly certainty.
"The child is gone, Marty. Woman's all that's left."
He broke down then and so did Chevette. She buried her face in a blue cushion and cried.
I told Martel I'd call him back. We talked three more times before I got all the way through to him. I told him that it wasn't worth it for me to bring her back if he couldn't see her for what she was, if he couldn't love her for what she was.
And all the time, I was thinking about Bonnie. I was thinking that I should call her and beg her to come home.


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Stone is extracted from the earth, carved, cut and assembled to fit a purpose. It cannot be moulded or constructed. But could stone be cultivated into a desired shape? Inspired by geological processes of stalactites' growth, these stone objects are grown around structures, drop by drop. The fragile skeleton, a 3D printed structure, is left to petrify for weeks in specially chosen thermo-mineral springs with high amounts of minerals – Calcium Carbonate CaCO3. The natural geological processes reinforce and randomly thicken the ethereal structure and give birth to geologically engineered stoneware, fossils of a new kind.


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Happy Mother's Day.
To all my fellow mothers out there, happy happy day to you. What a job, being a mother. In my estimation - with just 16 months of experience - it is the hardest, best, craziest, most interesting, most humbling, most challenging, most rewarding and simply the most wonderfullest (no, not a real word?) job in the world. I'm beyond grateful to have the opportunity to experience the rest of my life as a mother, and now more thankful than ever for my own mom.
See that beautiful woman in that photo below, second from the right, sandwiched between three very handsome gentlemen? That's my mom. She created this beautiful family. This particular photo was taken last August at my little brother's wedding, and it's one of the few photos of all of us together since my little portion of the family lives more than 2,000 miles away from the others. We're all lucky to have each other, even if we are halfway across the country. The other important person missing from the photo is my grandmother, the little guy's great grandma, who was probably off charming the other wedding guests while this photo was being taken.
(Photograph by Raymond Siler Photography)
I'm also lucky enough to have married into an amazing family, so I'd like to also celebrate the two wonderful mothers on this side of our family today too. Check 'em out, pretty good, right?
(This photo is from way back in August too.)
Happy Mother's Day, Mom, Grandma, Bebe, Auntie B and Tante K! I love you, and thank you for everything.


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Denver is the last time we will be near a major airport for quite some time. Leeanne took the opportunity to take her flight back to the Midwest to visit family, friends, and even the dentist.
So, what I am doing while she is away? I am doing GUY stuff of course. I drove out to the historic former gold mining towns of Black Hawk and Central City. Just as with Cripple Creek, these gold mining towns flourished in the 1800s and in the 1900s almost became ghost towns. And just as with Cripple Creek, the gold in these towns now comes from casino gambling. The area is essentially the casino district of metropolitan Denver.
And my game of "skill" – live poker – Texas Holdem. I played in two small tournaments of about 30 players each. In the first one, I had my pocket aces cracked on the turn by pocket queens hitting a set. But in the second tournament I persevered by folding all my bad cards until my cards finally improved and carried me through to a third place finish.
I also took in some beautiful scenery, if somewhat by accident. On the way to Black Hawk, I drove up a road that following a canyon stream – Clear Creek. It was an amazing drive with a stream full of rushing water from the snow melt off the Rockies. They still are having snow up in the peaks and at least one ski resort still is open. The reservoirs are full and it has rained some as well so the drought conditions are easing just a bit which is very good news for the area.
As for other GUY stuff, I watched the Indy 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 on the same day. That is a lot of racing. My head still is going around in ovals. I went to the driving range and played golf. I watched hockey only to see the Red Wings loose a three games to one lead in their series with the Black Hawks. And I did a little biking on theses great urban bike trails. Of course, I have also found ample time for some bonding with the Alley cat.
Today I am going to make a meat loaf for myself that is half Spam. Leeanne and I are polar opposites when it comes to Spam. She isn't going to be the least bit sorry she missed this meat loaf. But as I said as the start, I am doing GUY stuff.


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Science Bulletins: Derecho
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Daniel Pomerleano: Curved String Topology and Fukaya Categories
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Breakingviews: Sandy Weill's surprising conversion
July 25 - Richard Beales and Breakingviews columnists discuss how the Citigroup architect's new belief in Glass-Steagall reflects calls for bank breakups across the political spectrum.
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Donald Woods and "Cry Freedom"
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A 40 year-old inmate at Mississippi State Prison secretly dug his way out of his cell using an 8-ton Cat backhoe, prison officials said Tuesday. The inmate, Roscoe Lee James Obidiah "Bucky" Robinson is thought to have tunneled his way out slowly over a period of 10 years. The escape was discovered by prison officials during a routine bed check.
"We just can't figure out where he's been hiding that sucker. I mean, a backhoe is pretty darn big," said prison spokesperson John Diddleheimer. "He might have been keeping it under his mattress and we just thought it was lumpy."
The large hole was discovered at 6:00 AM, and led down three floors and through the back wall of the prison. The wall was reinforced concrete 2 feet thick and thought to be escape proof. The backhoe was found nearby. Bloodhounds, search teams, and helicopters were dispatched but failed to locate the felon.
"It's like he just disappeared…like a regular David Copperfield." Copperfield is a famous magician best known for making the Statue of Liberty and the country of Persia disappear.
Further investigation revealed Robinson had checked out the book, "How to be a Hypnotist," on several occasions from the prison library, and one theory suggests he "hypnotized" guards whenever they entered his cell. Further infuriating officials was speculation about where Robinson got the backhoe in the first place.
"The only thing I can think of is his girlfriend smuggled it to him inside a cake," Diddleheimer said. "She was kind of burly, like she could hold her own in a bar fight."
Mississippi State Prison is no stranger to daring escapes and controversy. In 2007, 11 inmates walked out of prison dressed as the football team the Miami Dolphins, and in 2009 several inmates drove out on minibikes and miniature cars dressed as circus clowns.
Robinson was serving 15 to 20 years for illegal possession of a dictionary, a felony in Mississippi.
"We're reviewing and tightening our security measures so this type of thing can't happen again," spokesperson Diddleheimer said. "Furthermore, guards will be warned to be on the lookout for not only backhoes, but for dump trucks and Zamboni's too."
In an unrelated story, the Mississippi Municipal airport located next to the prison reported a missing 747 jumbo jet.


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"Galle is the fifth largest city in Sri Lanka."
Galle is the fifth largest city in Sri Lanka and renowned for its fort a world heritage site and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers.
"Galle is the fifth largest city in Sri Lanka."
Sri Lanka is famous for its gems, one of which is the moonstone. This pale blue, almost transparent, stone is a type of feldspar known as adularia – the way the stone shimmers when it moves is known as adularescence.More
Kosgoda is famous for its sea turtle conservation project operated by the Wild Life Protection Society of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1988 to protect Sri Lanka's turtles from extinction.More
The estuary of the Madu Ganga river is a complex coastal ecosystem of mangroves and islands. It may be one of the last remaining tracts of pristine mangrove forests in Sri Lanka.More
It was Bevis Bawa, brother of Heritance Ayurveda MahaGedara architect Geoffrey Bawa, who converted this former rubber plantation into a wonderful series of landscaped gardens.More


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Yesterday was one of those days you wanted to be over and it had barely started. In fact, my Twitter and Facebook statuses yesterday morning were "It's not even 8:30am yet and I either need a hug, a good cry or something to punch." Thanks to some very sweet friends on Facebook and Twitter (and a phone call from one of my besties), I was able to finally smile and survive the day!
One of my good friends thought I might need to "let off some steam" so he stopped by after work and took me to the shooting range (note: this was only my second time to ever shoot a gun). I must admit, I felt better.
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|The holes circled near the top are ones my friend did (he aimed for a specific area so we would know which shots were mine). Not too bad for my second time, I was excited that I hit the X area. :)
I am SO glad that it's Friday. I am looking forward to relaxing tonight and tomorrow, and then on Sunday night, oh yes, I am DEFINITELY looking forward to this...
Be prepared for a full recap of my NKOTBSB adventures next week!!


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Teamwork, sportsmanship and dedication were celebrated Wednesday (May 21) night during the Hannibal Central School District athletic banquet.
The annual event, sponsored by the Hannibal Sports Booster Club, honored roughly 300 student-athletes who participated in junior varsity and varsity level competition throughout the school year.
"Being a part of an athletic team is much more than a demonstration of physical ability," Superintendent Donna Fountain said. "It personifies commitment, dedication, perseverance and hard work. Our athletes spend hours practicing and strive for excellence every time they take the field."
Echoing the superintendent's sentiments, guest speaker and former Hannibal athletic star Taylor Sorrell spoke about her memories as a Warrior.
"The lessons I learned from playing high school sports were irreplaceable," Sorrell said. "The moral support I got from my teammates at Hannibal is something that most teams will never experience. I can't thank Hannibal enough for what it has given me."
While Sorrell reflected on her past experience as an athlete in the district, the current athletes and coaches were able to reflect on their success this year. Several athletes received all-league recognition for their performance in their respective sport.
Awards were also presented for sportsmanship, leadership, teamwork and most outstanding player.
The Jimmy Butterfield Sportsmanship awards – named after a former Warrior athlete who was killed in a tragic accident – were presented to wrestler Chris Knox and football player Greg Hadcock.
"Jimmy embodied what we want to see in our athletes," said varsity wrestling coach Michael Kitts. "(These athletes) work hard, day in and day out, and are deserving of this award."
In addition to the Butterfield Award, coaches' awards and all-league recognition, the booster club also issued scholarships to 15 senior athletes.
"The winners of this award play (multiple) sports and represent themselves well on and off the field," said booster club member Meghan Welling.
Earning the $250 award for the female athletes was Devin Sorrell, while Ben Slate took home the scholarship as the outstanding male senior athlete.
Thirteen senior athletes also received $50 awards, including Ben Raymond, Page McKenzie, Zane Pointon, Erin Sly, Anthony Page, Alicia Kimpland, Greg Hadcock, Gabby Griffin, Samantha Bowers, Malana Scott, Trevor Alton, Charlie McCraith and Natasha Waloven.
Although the ceremony focused on individual and team accomplishments on the field of play, coaches and administrators also lauded the athletes' efforts in the classroom.
"This year many of our teams achieved scholar athlete status," Fountain said. "Staying committed to their studies as well as their team is not easy, yet they accomplished this feat."
Looking to build off the academic and athletic accomplishments of the student-athletes, Athletic Director Pat Keefe said he was proud of the Warriors and is looking forward to the 2014-15 campaign.
"I'm excited about the future of Hannibal and I look forward to the continued success," he said.


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As somebody who loves a day at Newmarket as much as a night at the theatre, I was full of excitement about The Centaur and The Animal: a work by 'equestrian artist' Bartabas and Ko Murobishi, performed with four real-life horses. Yet my expectations were confounded. In one sense they were disappointed, in another exceeded beyond imagining.
The show begins very badly. There is nothing like the sight of a man with his head wrapped in polythene sitting on a piano to make you want to go and watch The King's Speech again. Meanwhile a voiceover intones phrases of self-disgust, sample: 'in my left armpit, a family of toads has taken up residence'. Polythene-head is in fact Ko Murobushi, a noted Japanese dance performer, and his stillness and control are certainly impressive, but nonsense is nonsense in anybody's language.
Then a curtain lifts to reveal floating reeds of shimmering black - like strands of liquorice - and a sleek dark horse slides on to the stage. Instant, mesmerizing dignity. Mounted by his trainer Bartabas, who wears a shadowy winged cloak, the horse weaves through the liquorice in a way that reminded me of a racehorse stalking a tree-lined parade ring. All the quiescent power and mystery of the animal is there. The audience becomes hushed, awestruck.
And this, I gradually realized, is the point of The Centaur and The Animal. To put it reductively, Murobishi represents man in all his wretched dissatisfaction, while the four horses are symbols of 'otherness': mythic, free of destructive self-consciousness. They also demonstrate the relationship between man and horse. I was nervous about the idea of animals 'performing', but it is clear that they are completely in charge. The respect in which Bartabas holds their separate natures is precisely what this show is about.
The most striking image comes when the third horse walks onstage alone, stands calmly beside a softly writhing Bartabas, then begins to nuzzle his arms. It is moving in a way which makes the emotion impossible both to define and to forget. So too is the moment when the horses take a curtain call. They stand there, grave and gracious, and their tamed unpredictability seems to embody the very essence of theatre.
They - Horizonte, Soutine, Pollock and Le Tintoret - are worth five stars, incidentally; from which you may infer the worth of the polythene-head and the voiceover.
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As you know we here at Nerdwest have been talking about the possibilities of a Justice League movie coming to the big screen especially after the success that Marvel has had on the movie front. With the record breaking summer the Avengers had the rumor mill quickly began to churn soon after stating the reemergence of the long thought dead film version of the Justice League. Warner Bros has even go on record as stating that their tent pole movie will be released in the summer 2015 (ironically which now puts it in competition with the recently announced Star Wars Episode VII).
Rumblings of a Justice League movie were beginning to gain ground again a few years back after the huge relaunch and success of the Batman franchise under Christopher Nolan. Though Nolan was yet to executive produce and relaunch the troubled Superman franchise as The Man of Steel with handpicked director Zack Snyder; Nolan was explicit that his Batman would not be part of this possible connected DC Universe. More rumors began to pour forth after the end of the Batman/Nolan trilogy stating that indeed there would be a new Batman in the JL movie and or the possibility of multiple versions of DC characters in movies and television (i.e. Arrow, Young Justice, Smallville).
The most recent and more likely rumor that is currently being reported is that Joseph Gordon Levitt will be taking on the Batman role; an idea that was hinted at during the end of Nolan's Batman Trilogy. Multiply sites included IGN and other news sites are running with the story that also state another Dark Knight alum will be possibly joining the Justice League move in some capacity. Though none of this is confirmed by Warner Bros at this time the likelihood that they would want to capitalize on JGL's growing fame and superb acting chops is not such a bad. The rumor also states that the studio wants to see JGL as Batman in film prior to the Justice League film (a la every Marvel film up until Avengers launched). Zack Snyder further added recently that the upcoming Man of Steel movie could have connection to the future Justice League movie. Either way that's a lot of moving parts that need to be thrown together in the next 2 years Though no news has been completely confirmed I do have my 5 wishes that could make the Justice League doable or at least in the same league as the Avengers movie:
3)If your going to do Wonder Woman do it right. Forget the failed tv relaunch and just bring on Gina Carrano. After watching Haywire she can improve on the acting a bit but she definitely has the physicality and look to pull of a convincing Wonder Woman. Oh yeah and she is hot!2)Though we can all wish we could forget the Green Lantern movie we can't but you can move without Ryan Reynolds. The beauty of the Green Lantern is that their are a shit ton of Corp members and more than one came from Earth. It doesn't have to be John Stewart but it could be Kyle Rayner.4)Don't do Aquaman out the gate. Even though he is having a great run in the New 52; the average movie goer still sees him as the water guy who talks to dolphins from Superfriends. Save him for your sequel.
5)You the comic relief so don't forget the Flash (my vote is still for Hayden Christensen) and if your not going to do John Stewart for token black guy on team than definitely throw in Cyborg (he still has a lot of cred with actual comic book community).
Bonus- Get a director who knows the material and how to translate it to an actual workable film that people want to see. The great thing about Joss Whedon is that understood the nuances of film making on a large scale but also knew how to make it seem like a believable story. I would definitely tap a Matthew Vaughn (if he is not tied up with the Star Wars movies) or a Doug Liman. Someone who can deliver the big action and tell the story.
If the Justice League movie does get made and they follow the outline above, there is no doubt that a Justice League movie will give The Avengers a run for its money for the best Super Hero movie in town. The art used is by Alex Ross, he does amazing work so make sure to check him out!


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Happy New Year Everyone!
I know December was lacking as far as blog updates go, but I was still in recovery mode from November. Now I'm trying to get back in the swing of things and what better way than setting new writing goals for myself and reflecting on the accomplishments of the last year.


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In no particular order, Music Directors Zach and Jen deliver their Best of Fall selections from the New Music Hour, which you can catch on Fridays from 3-4pm. Originally broadcast November 30th.
Check out the tracks below, or listen to the entire setlist on our Youtube channel here.
Gardens & Villa - "Chemtrails" (Music from the Comedy)
Dum Dum Girls - "Lord Knows" (End of Daze EP)
David Byrne & St. Vincent - "Outside of Space & Time" (Love This Giant)
Ultraísta - "Party Line" - (Ultraísta)
The Comedy - "Taxi Hip Hop" - (Music from the Comedy)
Flying Lotus - "Tiny Tortures" - (Until the Quiet Comes)
Miguel - "Adorn" - (Kaleidoscope Dream)
How to Dress Well - "& It Was U" - (Total Loss)
The xx - "Chained" - (Coexist)
The Orb feat. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - "Hold Me Upsetter" - (The Observer in the Star House)
Grizzly Bear - "Speak in Rounds" - (Shields)
Animal Collective - "Applesauce" - (Centipede Hz)
Metz - "Wet Blanket" - (Metz)
Black Marble - "Static" - (A Different Arrangement)
Matthew Dear - "Headcage" - (Beams)


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25,000 RPM Die Grinder vs A Block Of Ice
Top dog ice carving hero Bill Covitz arrived from the USA with 2 flight cases jammed full of serious tools for ice carving (regular airport security nightmare, of course). One of his most powerful instruments of choice is his trusty Makita die grinder accompanied by a selection of rather tricks bits. Spinning at a mighty 25,000 rpm, the grinder makes mince meat of the ice (and your finger, hand, arm, neck if you are not careful).
Just this small selection of bits below cost over £300 / 3000NOK and finish off Bill's ice creations perfectly.
Not the sort of tool accessory one finds on the shelves of B&Q or Maxbo!


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A wise and trusted upper year student, experienced in Biochemistry
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"You should volunteer as a Brotein!"
The Brotein Mentorship Program is here to help guide incoming second year students through the remarkable and rough parts of our program, in order to help students transition more smoothly into our family. This program will act as the ligase that matches a Brotein Mentee to a Brotein Mentor like the sticky ends of recombinant DNA. By pairing upper year mentors with second year mentees to create Brotein dimers (1 mentor to 1 mentee) and Brotein aggregates (1 mentor to several mentees), we hope to give biochemistry students a network to share their experiences and to provide academic/extracurricular help to one another. Most importantly, we hope that the connections made through the Brotein program provides everyone with lasting bonds!
Thank you!
Keep calm and peptide bond,
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Today was a busy day.
I started the day on the sofa…my bed of choice over the past few nights…and woke up with the dog steaming up my eyelids.
Despite my overall lack of sleep, I can't blame it on the sofa. It's comfy enough, and big enough, for both Indy and me to sleep. But the dog tosses and turns, and snores very loudly. I got very little sleep last night.
And it didn't help that I fell asleep in my clothes…or that I got punched in the eye, by a very large dog paw, as Indy jumped up to sleep beside me.
The rest of the day was better…but even crazier.
Alexa had a modeling audition, so we were scrambling for something for her to wear. This was an all afternoon affair that had us running around through every shop in a ten mile radius. My imaginary soundtrack was playing a constant loop of the flight of the bumblebee all day long.
I didn't slow down until almost midnight.
I have to say, it was a pretty good day despite the craziness. I feel more hopeful than I have in days, and it's important to have hope.
That, and clean clothes…
But since I've been moping for days, I guess that means I need to do laundry tomorrow. I think I can handle that!
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The Traditional Dishes for Chinese New Year in Indonesia
The Chinese New Year will never be complete without the traditional dishes along with it. The ones below are the traditional dishes that usually serve in Indonesian Chinese family during the Chinese new Year, the main dishes are common with other tradition or cultures, but there are also some unique and different dishes. I try to gather all and introduce them to you.
The IMLEK food in Indonesia is very unique and differ greatly from the origin country such as mainland China, and even different from my close neighbors like Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and etc. Like the Yu sheng dish that is very common in Malaysia and Singapore, yu sheng is a dish from raw fish that has thin sliced and served as cold salad for the whole family and has a meaning "nothing left" or is sufficient for all subsequent years is not common dish in Indonesia. But if you visit big Chinese Restaurants in Jakarta you may find the yu sheng dish right now, just not in common Indonesian Chinese Family.
These are the dishes our family and most of Indonesian Chinese, especially the one who live in Java island used to prepare for the Chinese New Year ;
Main Dish :
1. Bamboo Shoots sauté with pork (or sometime we mix it with abalone, dried squid, haisom or sea cucumber, and fermented soybean sauce)
2. Bamboo shoots subtle sliced mix with crab, shrimp, hisit or shark fin.
3. Pork cooked in sweet soy sauce
4. Cooked sausages with sause
5. Some dishes from pork or beef's intestines.
6. Some dishes from chicken's feet
7. Pork Satay or pork barbeque.
8. Chicken O (chicken cooked with fermented soybean sauce )
9. Chicken with coconut milk
10. Fried sambal or chicken broth with coconut milk mix with chili, beef or chicken liver, and petai or bitter bean or parkia speciosa)
11. Fish (steam or cooked in special sauce) but never served raw.
12. Noodles or rice noodles (mie swa)
All the dishesClick thumbnail to view full-size
Chinese Cake Recipes
The Cakes, Sweets, and Fruits
- Nian Gao
- Moho Cakes or can be replaced with cup cakes but the color should be red or pink and one of them should be placed on top of the kue ranjang's arrangement. But this arrangement only for those who still do the praying in front of the altar, I don't do that. Only eat the cake :)
- Red Ku Cake, it is similar with sticky cake in Thailand which is filled with sweet and steamed greenbeans.
- Kue Lapis or Layer Cakes
- Wajik Cake, it's the diamond shape cake made from sticky rice and palm sugar.
- Nagasari Cake, it's the traditional cake from Indonesia that has the name dragon in it, Naga means dragon. Creamy on the outside with a white puddingy texture and sweet in the inside, it makes a wonderful snack anytime of the day. Made only from flour, coconut milk, sugar and bananas, and wrapped in banana leaves.
- Bugis Cake
- Lemper Cake
- Madu Mongso cake
- Bongko Cunduk, Bongko Meniran, or Bongko Kopyor Cake
- Cara Bikang Cake
The Sweets
- Tangkue
- Angco (red palm dates, usually these small sweets are served in small plates or arrange them like satay.)
Fruits :
- Pisang Raja (Raja banana, Raja means King) or Pisang Mas (Mas Banana, mas means gold)
- Tebu or sugarcane
- Srikaya or sugar apple or Annona squamosa. Why Srikaya, I think because there is the word kaya which means rich.
- Bali Oranges as a symbol of unity
- Red pomegranate
- Pineapple
- Longan
- Lokam Oranges
- Starfruits
Usually those fruits are decorated or wrapped in red wax paper.
IMLEK CakesClick thumbnail to view full-size
The meaning of main dishes,
Bamboo shoots :
The bamboo shoots represent a new hope, new life better in the new year. Bamboo shoots are the young bamboo that begin to grow in the spring and the shape of bamboo shoots and the bamboo covered itself there are book segments which symbolizing the life stages that is higher and higher.
Obviously, noodles mean a long life expectancy. The presentation of noodles dishes are differ from one place to another, according their cultures and traditions. Some will serve the rice noodles called mie swa, some serve vermicelly. Whateever how they served, they have the same meaning, health and longevity.
This is taken from Hokkien dialect of the original word 'shan sheng' which literally means 'three fresh'. Samseng are 3 types of meat that are served only at special occasions or moments, like New Year, Ceng Beng or in the traditional funeral's ceremony. Samseng itself implies 3 kind of animals on land, sea, and air.
This is a tribute to the universe that have generously given the abundance of food in the previous year. Ordinary terrestrial animals represented by the pig, sea fish, or crabs. While the air is represented by chickens or ducks.
For a big and wealthy family, they used to serve the pig's head (seriously!). Chicken and duck are served whole. For a more simple family, usually served samcam in sliced, fish and egg to represent.
The purpose of this presentation is give thank for what you've gained throughout the previous year. All dishes are presented in boiled as a meaning of simplicity and gratitute.
Almost the same with samseng, usually we serve layered pork or samcan. That is the belly part, the best part of a pig because it has three layer fat-meat-fat which also represent the three stages of live that always rise. The word 'samcan is from Hokkien dialect 'shan cheng'. The word samcan only known in Indonesia.
Cooked in many various way, like chicken o, opor, etc. It is symbolizing the hope of a prosperous livehood. Many years ago, in the countryside, consuming chicken is a luxury and only on special occasions. In Indonesia, especially in Java Island, chicken cooked o or chicken which is cooked with fermented soybean sauce is represented the color of ground that give live hope to the farmers. Meanwhile, chicken which is cooked as opor is represented the color of gold.
Actually there are 2 kind of opor in Java Island, white opor and yellow opor. White opor is much more likeable for Chinese Indonesian women (we usually call them Emak or Encim), Chinese woman that is already assimilated with local culture and wearing braces (not kebaya, but similar) and sarong like local residents. This kind of appearance is found only in Java. My great grandmother used to wear this kind of outfit. This kind of Indonesian Chinese are known as Babah Tionghoa.
While the Yellow Opor used to prepared by the local residents that is added with safron. The local residents love the color because it looked more gorgeous and not pale and good for health because safron can be used to balance the coconut milk and good for the stomach. The color of yellow is represented gold, that means prosperity. I prefer the yellow opor though, because the color is more attractive and if you add some sambal or chili, the color is so great.
Nian Gao
You may read it nien you or other name in Hokkien dialect is called 'thi cake' or the sweet cake. the word gao means high and nian is year, so it can be represented as increasing in the next year or success. Kue Keranjang or nian gao is made from sticky rice flour and sugar, it is vey sticky and sweet. Many says it is a bribe for The Kitchen God that is usually give report to the Jade Emperror, they hope that the Kitchen God will report the sweet things to the Emperror :)
Intestines (pork or chicken)
It is represented pearl, all things that is precious and hope will be abundance in the new year.
Golden Banana or Raja Banana
Banana in mandarin is 'xiang jiao'. The word xiang means fragrant or smell good. Hoping that the family will gain fragrant name or the family name will be great. All the family member will bring great achievements and can be proud of. All the family member will be honorable in the sight of others and society. The yellow color is obviously represent of prosperity.
Oranges, Star fruits and etc
All represent good hope, prosperity, welfare, intelligence and goodness for all the family member.
Indonesian Sweet Soysauce
I can not give all the recipes but here are some of the recipe from above dishes.
1. Bamboo Shoots sautee with pork or chicken or seafood
500 gr Bamboo shoots sliced thin (you may used canned bamboo shoots)
100 gr chicken or pork or prawn, choped
300 ml chicken broth
2 pcs scallions, cut in 1 inch
2 pcs ginger, minced
4 pcs garlic, minced
1 tsp soysauce
1 tsp angciu or fermented red rice
1 ts salt
1/4 ts pepper
2 tsp maizena with a bit of water.
- Boil the bamboo shoots, remove from the water, then boil it again to remove the smell.
- Stir fry the garlic and ginger
- Add chicken, sautee until the color is change and add some soysauce, angciu, salt, and pepper.
- Add broth and bamboo shoots
- Cook until all the spices seep.
- Thicken with maizena or cornstarch solution.
- Add scallions, stir well, lift.
2. Pork Tenderloin cooked in sweet soy sauce
2.5 pounds of pork tenderloin (trimmed), sliced into 1.5 ounce pieces
4 pcs garlic, pureed
1 inch fresh ginger, minced
1/2 cup of sweet soy sauce (Indonesian Sweet Soy)
3/5 cup chicken broth
Five spices powder to taste
3 tsp oil
salt and pepper to taste
- Heat oil in sauté pan, then sauté pork for two minutes on each side until golden brown.
- Remove pork from pan and set aside.
- In the same sauté pan, add garlic and ginger,cook until translucent.
- Add spices and chicken broth.
- Bring to boil, stirring, for two minutes.
- Return the sauteed pork to the pan, add the Indonesian Sweet Soy and continue cooking until the pork is tender and the sauce is reduced.
3. Nagasari Cake (Traditional Indonesian Steamed Banana Rice Cakes)
6 ripe bananas (suitable for steaming such as pisang raja, pisang nangka, etc)
3 cups rice flour
3 cups coconut milk, squeezed from 1 grated coconut
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Banana leaves, for wrapping
- Slice bananas lengthwise into half.
- Combine flour, coconut milk, sugar and salt in a pot. Cook over medium heat, constantly stirring until mixture is thick.
- Spoon approximately 1-2 tablespoons of mixture onto banana leaf. Place a slice of banana on mixture, and cover banana with another 1-2 tablespoons of mixture.
- Wrap mixture with banana leaves neatly.
- Steam for 25 minutes or until cooked. Serve warm or cold.
IMLEK dishesClick thumbnail to view full-size
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Thia looks yummy!
Ooooh,yum yum! Now I am hungry! Great looking food and wonderful recipes, thanks for sharing :)
Excellent Hub!!!!!
The hub explicitly focuses towards tradition of Chinese, especially their food habits. The food is superbly delicious and the way the food is displayed, provides total visual delight. Thanks for providing so delicious and enjoyable hub.
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That is a super hub and I will keep on file and refer back to it. Also copy all these lovely recipees. Thank you for sharing.
Wow! It's mouth watering. Moho cakes are also famous here in the Philippines. Adobo or pork in soy sauce is a major dish here in the country. Really, Asian cuisine is very tasty and you will forget where you came from once you eat it (kidding hehehe).Oh, no! It's true. Thanks, febriedethan.
Fabulous! I am so happy to say that living in NYC it is possible to participate in so many wonderful New Year celebrations - and eat fabulous foods! I am so looking forward to this Golden Tiger year and a year of prosperity.
Thanks for all the photos too!
Great info,febriedethan . A true feast for all! :)
I love Chinese food and the pictures you have displayed here are truly lustful to the eyes. I do not do a lot of cooking but this hub is inspiring me to reconsider. Thank you.
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I met Brooke as a freshman in college. I even remember the first time she told me about Travis. We were in the red couch room of the Chi Omega house on campus. We'd just started back for our Fall semester and while we were away for the summer she had met a boy. You could tell from day one that her and Travis were special just by how her eyes lit up talking about him. Their wedding day was no different. I wish I was better with words so I could tell you more but words are hard and I'm bad at them.
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