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I haven't made cupcakes in years. My daughter's club meets this Friday and I asked her if I could make some Valentine themed cupcakes for her meeting. Since they meet every other week their next meeting would be after Valentine's Day. With a complete look of horror, she cautiously said yes. My kids always freak out when I cook for their friends because they claim I don't cook 'normal' food. Sorry I'm not a frozen chicken nugget box macaroni kind of cook. When I told her I made raspberries cupcakes, she was truly horrified. 'No one eats raspberries, Mom!' I made her try one and she lived.
The thing about cooking with raspberries is that not only do they fall apart immediately but they become slimy and mushy which is a real texture issue for me. I like to cook, puree and strain them before I use them in hot recipes. Always strain them after you puree because those tiny little seeds can get caught in your teeth and are difficult to dislodge. Nothing is worse than watching the discomfort of your guests having to pick their teeth discreetly.
The icing was another concern for me. While I love buttercream and cream cheese frostings, they sure pack the calories to the cupcake so I opted for the seven minute frosting; you know the one that tastes like fluffy marshmallows that your grandmothers probably made. Nobody makes it anymore because let's face it – who wants to stand over a double boiler with a blender going for seven minutes? I found an easier way to make this divine icing. Can you tell I not only licked the beaters but wouldn't share?
I found the Diamond Shimmer Sugar at TJMaxx. Every now and then they have interesting pantry items that add a distinctive touch to your food preparations.
Raspberry Cupcakes makes 40 cupcakes
4 ½ cups of cake flour
4 ½ teaspoons of baking powder
1 ½ teaspoons of salt
1 cup of whole milk, room temperature
4 large eggs, room temperature
1 Tablespoon of vanilla extract
2 sticks of unsalted butter, room temperature
3 cups of sugar
2 (6oz) containers of fresh raspberries
¼ cup of water
5 Tablespoon of sugar
1/8 teaspoon of salt
40 cup cake liners
Raspberry Seven Minute Frosting (recipe below)
Diamond Shimmer Sugar Sprinkles
In a medium size saucepan add the raspberries, the ¼ cup of water, 5 Tablespoons of sugar and the 1/8 teaspoon of salt. Heat over medium heat until all the sugar dissolves, about 2-3 minutes. Pour the contents into a food processor and puree. Strain the puree with a fine mesh strainer and discard the seeds. Set the raspberry puree aside.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
In a large mixing bowl combine the flour, baking powder and salt. In a medium size bowl whisk the milk, vanilla and the raspberry puree together. In the bowl of a standing mixer, cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar and beat for about 3 additional minutes. Add the eggs one at a time until fully incorporated. Scrape down the sides and beat until smooth. Alternate the flour mixture and the milk mixture into the creamed butter mixture starting and ending with the flour mixture until all is completely blended. Place liners in the cup cake pans. Pour the batter into each cupcake liner until it is ¾ full. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool in the pan for 15 minutes on wire racks.
Raspberry Seven Minute Frosting
1 (6 oz) container of fresh raspberries
1 cup of sugar plus 3 Tablespoons divided
3 Tablespoons of water
Tiny pinch of salt
2 large egg whites
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 Tablespoon of light corn syrup
In a small saucepan add the raspberries, 3 Tablespoons of sugar, 3 Tablespoons of water and a tiny pinch of salt. Cook over medium heat for about 2-3 minutes until the sugar dissolves. Puree the raspberries mixture in a food processor. Strain the puree and discard the seeds. Set aside the puree.
In a medium saucepan add 1 of water and bring to a simmer. In a standing mixer bowl whisk the egg whites, the raspberry puree, the vanilla, and the corn syrup together. Place the standing mixer bowl over the saucepan with the simmering water. Do not let the water touch the bottom of the bowl. Cook whisk constantly for about 7-10 minutes or until the raspberry mixture is 160 degrees. Attach the bowl back into the standing mixer with the whisk attachment. Whisk on medium speed for five minutes. Raise the speed to medium-high and whisk for five additional minutes or until stiff peak are formed and the frosting is room temperature. Frost each cupcake and sprinkle with the Diamond Shimmer Sugar.
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LONDON, 1821Bestselling author Stella Cameron pens a seductive tale of passion and intrigue, and takes readers back to 7 Mayfair Square, an elegant town house, during the glittering whirl of a London season. Here, with a little help from a most unusual matchmaker, anything is possible -- even unlikely love between a nobleman and a confounding parson's daughter....What Meg Smiles lacks in wealth, she more than makes up for in audacity and determination, both quickly harnessed when Jean-Marc, Count Etranger, and his sister take up residence across the square. Now gainfully employed as companion to the count's madcap sister, Meg discovers it is not her charge who occupies her thoughts, but the girl's enigmatic older brother....When Meg becomes the victim of a series of strange accidents, Jean-Marc finds his austere world turned upside down. And when it becomes alarmingly clear that Meg's very life is in danger, Jean-Marc's desire for this unsuitable but enchanting woman overcomes his sense of propriety. He vows to ensure her safety, even if it means keeping her close to him, day and night....
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Tung-Hui Hu
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I Dont Believe in Ghosts
Moikom Zeqo
translated by Wayne Miller
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Nancy Krygowski
University of Pittsburgh Press ($14)
by Lizzie Hutton
Tung-Hui Hus second book of poetry, Mine, is a confident, artful collection—sophisticated and persuasive, memorable and tight. Both the lithe phrasing and the sensory detail are striking; in The Wish Answered, he writes,
forgive me, I was young,
passions being what they were
were somewhat equivalent, mixed up,
the highest anything,
stars without firmament, colors huddled
in a back shelf of a dark closet.
And in And About Time:
There are three notes in this song I can stand
and the rest just scaffolding like the white
moat that surrounds a wound.
Hu strings images together and builds, in poem after poem, to thoughtful, nimble, resonant conclusions that have an enormous amount of authority. Yet, as a whole—and often to his credit—there is something quite slippery about this authority. While each piece works wonderfully alone, and together they show an impressive virtuosity, ranging energetically in topic and form (from California earthquakes to 18th-century vignettes to Odysseus, and from the prose poem to the extended meditation to the spare and airy lyric), as a collection, all the poems have in common is a refusal to be pinned down to a consistent persona or agenda (beyond their vaguely post-colonial skepticism of such consistency). At the same time, Mine also has a syntactical poise and a purity of thought that belie its instability; the poet is seductively quite sure of his unsureness, and it is the strength of these two forces—his certainty and his skepticism, his polish and his constant movement—that keep the poems, at their best, taut and emphatic.
That, in some ways, is the tension, the frisson of the collections title—what of these poems could be said to be mine when they have no consistent person (they skip from first to second to third), when the speaker feels half persona even at his most confessional? The most successful of these poems are unsettling and alluring in their brevity, in their casualness, in their determined emphasis on image over explication—wherein the reader still senses a narrative glimmering behind the lyric, an emotional backstory that is never fully made clear:
My father once carried me
on his shoulders to the old
whiskey still past the canal
and up the mountains, which
was different from his grasp
on my leg as he swung me
in anger before reaching for
the belt. The smell of aniline
leather, tannin from rainwater. . .
Indeed, the poems here have a strangely self-effacing quality; even the most seemingly biographical have the distanced, crafted tone of allegory. Mine is both personal and not, political and not—and in this way, it feels both quite new and yet very much of its time. The poems all describe the queasy self-world distortions and confusions that are some of the more talked-about marks of our age, and show how this morphing can be experienced with a sinewy speed: in less than a small / touch I crumple down, and the tea / I am holding is immersed in the / puddles, and my body turns / the waters fragrant. This is beautiful writing; its enjambed line breaks move it along, and its gorgeous diction and image keep it resonating in the mind. In this way, there is something romantic to Hus writing as well—in the elegiac quality, that fading of the self into the lushness of the vision, wherein artfulness takes on a life of its own. Hu, in fact, is almost Keatsian in places, the poetic eye melting into its subject—or perhaps more accurately, performing that melting, for there is a deliberateness here that feels sometimes overly conscious of its flourishes.
Given these traits, it is the longer poems and prose poems, and especially the final eight-page piece The River, that are the most absorbing and convincing. The River has an emotional intensity and thematic focus that, in some of the shorter, more arch lyrics, can get swallowed up by the writings very polish. In the poem, Hu describes a trip down a river with a woman who goes by two names. It is a fantasy of escape, of us-against-the-world, but it is also, Werner Herzog-like, the story of its own unraveling. The fractured self, the fractured other, the moving world that is really ones own shifting subjectivity—here these themes are sharpened and developed, and work in the service of a beautifully achieved emotional point: hope in the face of dissolution. Declarative but wandering, curious and naïve, clear-sighted yet stubbornly optimistic, this voice has a youthful and experimental energy that feels exciting and fresh. As he says, I felt what a snake feels after it has shed its skin and turns around to see what it has done Elsewhere, Hu perhaps claims to understand too well; here, however, the soul relives what it still does not entirely understand. I personally prefer this surreal heat to the knowing, romantic cool in some of his other work.
Nonetheless, taken all together, the combination of such an investigative, open minded approach and Hus jewel-like control of imagery and structure make Mine, indeed, a truly innovative and impressive collection. It is not explained easily, and after many readings, its inherent energy has not at all diminished. It is often stunning and always memorable. Hu is clearly a poet of enormous talent.
Perhaps the freedom to play so unrestrainedly with the concepts of self and experience is the privilege and curse of being a young, 21st-century American poet. The Albanian Moikom Zeqo, by comparison, in his first translation to English, comes to us thoroughly and inescapably packaged by his circumstance. I Dont Believe in Ghosts is made up of what Wayne Miller calls the most translatable of the poems from Zeqos third book, Meduza, written in the 70s, and which the author called the beginning of his mature period, when he was banished to the countryside and his poetry suppressed.
How much does one need to know of Zeqos history to appreciate his work? Millers lucid introduction gives us the facts of the Communist leader Hoxhas capricious and repressive regime and Zeqos own biography within it, yet thankfully offers no recommendation as to how, given this context, these poems are to be read. We are left, then, to view the poems themselves as the creation of a single man more than of a countrys trajectory. And the poems themselves feel personal, if in a confident, universal, manly way: they have a toughness, a lively shrewdness, even at their most melancholic. They are surehanded and straightforward with their language, vigorous, brief, learned and unsentimental—as the title I Dont Believe in Ghosts aptly suggests.
As mentioned, Zeqo called the original collection Meduza—more on that later—but Millers new choice for a title feels entirely appropriate. As Zeqo writes in the titular poem, the legends, as he calls them—the myths, classical and otherwise, that he makes increasingly deft use of as the collection goes on—are not dead: there is nothing romantic or ephemeral, he argues, about this cultural material. This past is alive, useful, dangerous and necessary, and as unequivocal as fire: Now that I know all the legends, / I pick them up, strangely focused, / to light (as if with a magnifying glass) / the unfiltered cigarettes of my poems Here Zeqo stakes his claim confidently and clearly. There is no magic, no dreaminess, no ghostliness to these legends; he is even willing to criticize the way, for many, these legends become calcified, even dreamy: the strange ghosts created by boredom, and the ghosts / weak minded people weave on their looms. This of course is political, at a certain level—that culture, cultural life, and cultural freedom are as essential to the human spirit as fire is to physical existence. It is also, however, a kind of poetics, positing that to see the past as dead is a kind of degradation. Zeqo is an archeologist as well as a poet, and his work is classical, in many ways—it leans towards the universal rather than the biographical—but it is not archaic or nostalgic. These poems have a real immediacy, communicated nicely by Millers finely-tuned translation.
Zeqos early vigorous poems grow more spiny and lonely as they go on; still, the work remains idea-driven and questing, inventive and energetic, even as its final conclusions are less certain and more concerned with isolation, muteness, and anonymity. Nor do they ever feel rune-ish or clever, even as they grow shorter, graver, and more imagistic. One of the later poems in the collection is the aforementioned Medusa:
Medusa turned people to stone. Should we call this sculpture?
Our immediate reading of the poem might be a political one—that the question is ironic, and that turning people to stone has none of the redeeming outcome of art. Another way to read this, however, is aesthetic, more self-analytical, and a development of the ideas in I Dont Believe in Ghosts: is the frozen life—dead life—enough to make for art? The frozen life, too, can possibly represent exile—and the poems question, then, is a challenge to the assumptions we make about suffering (especially the writers suffering), that it is meaningful in and of itself. Zeqo does not seem to go in for such escapist explanations. Art, he seems elsewhere to say, is meaningful because of its connection to life, not because of its mastery over it.
Similarly, another later poem, Cactuses and Orchids, asks how the poet actually works in the face of circumstances—what the poet does, and its effect. I reprint it entire:
Cactuses are grotesque plants,
menacing with their spines.
Theyre your absence,
where the wind is wounded.
Orchids—fragments of the sun,
small fires of nostalgia that rise over the sea.
They are my cry
that makes death deaf.
Again, the images—the poets material—make real and alive and active these abstractions—even the abstraction of absence, or, as in the third stanza, of nostalgia, another kind of absence. In this poets hand, absence can wound, nostalgia cry. As with Donne (to whom this last line seems an oblique reference), imagery can metaphysically give life to the death knell of the abstraction—and that ultimate abstraction of death itself. Yet Zeqos final point seems quite different from Donnes; he believes in the present moment more than the promise of its afterlife. After all, to make death deaf is not exactly to render it impotent. Metaphysics, then, does not save Zeqo from reality; it merely affords him a certain power within it, as with The Free Word, in which metaphor itself is described, metaphorically, as astronauts breaking the earths gravity / to arrive, finally, at the moon. I like very much his emphasis here on the lunar rather than the mystic; there are certainly surreal elements to his work, but Zeqo is finally most interested in understanding the more durable virtues of art, the active outcomes of declaration and image-making. For all his metaphorical flights, he seems more a realist than a magician. And unlike Hu, whose dreamscapes are entirely self-contained, Zeqo holds us in tension between the transcendent potential of poetry and the realities of the present and self-limited moment.
Nancy Krygowski, in comparison to Zeqo, does believe in ghosts—or so she claims in her debut book Velocity, a beautiful, unpretentious collection of deeply felt and finely made poems. Velocity was chosen by Gerald Stern as the winner of the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and one senses in this book some of Sterns own unaffected confidence, his penchant for the big subject and the unfussed-over style. But back to the ghosts: though Krygowski calls them that (and mainly makes mention of the ghost of her dead sister), I would put her definition of ghost closer to Zeqos of legends. For Krygowskis ghosts are not cloying or metaphorical. Her belief is in something real—at least to the extent that this something is inspiring, unresolved, and meaningful. Throughout the book, she sees ghosts, speaks with ghosts, and finds herself unable to shake them off, but this ghost motif is not used merely to summon some time-fuzzed vestige of the past. Rather, as with Zeqo, these ghosts help with a genuine emotional exploration of the present—the ways that death and loss can be as real to us as any of the other prosaic facts of life, which her poems take on with equal attentiveness: going to the store, riding ones bike, taking the bus, walking through a city. This is startlingly unromantic poetry, honest and clear-sighted, and quite convincingly brokenhearted and hopeful at the same lonely time.
Formally, the poems are understated. They are quite varied, but one hardly notices—long lines or short lines, couplets, tercets or long chunky stanzas, they all seem quite casual and organic in shape, though driven by a fine sense of timing and the subtle rhythms of thought. It is not the imagery that gives these poems their particular energy, either, though this imagery is often arresting in its precision and bluntness, as in Suitcase of My Life:
People gathered
in our poorly lit kitchen
to eat jellied pigs feet everyday.
Or so it seemed.
In my young girls mind
those days strung together
to make an eternity of strange death
in the center of which
was the table, the beige bowl,
the clear gelatin,
the hooves.
Rather, the poems of Velocity are held together by the poets sensibility. They feel less made than felt, and have a spontaneous sincerity and singularity—not of style, but of point-of-view—that is amazingly rare in contemporary poetry, where self-conscious displays of craft and polish are so often privileged over the search for meaning. I finish these poems feeling more affected than impressed—which is to say that, to the credit of the poet, their artfulness is not their purpose. They are artful, of course, and often impressive, but it is the emotion, the poets longing, that remains at the center of this work. She ends Dear Heart, with the lines,
gray-blue stump
brain of my brain
souls tongue
you came first proved I was
you come last
then come again
I love the description-slash-invocation of that last line, how after all the memorably vivid language of the previous stanza, that final moment manages to linger as both wish and fact. And, indeed, to call her heart brain of my brain seems appropriate, since much of this book is not just felt, but quite logical; many of the poems, especially the early ones, focus on the attempt to determine cause—why things happen, what strange forces drive them. The Bus Comes, The Girl Gets On wonders about grammatical subordination, for instance, the trickiness in deciding / who or what // gets control. . . For Krygowski, this is not merely an intellectual exercise. In her world—a real, recognizable urban world, where people have sex for complicated reasons, break down in supermarket parking lots, and feel the kind of anger/ that made me want to hit / your three-year-old daughter / for not knowing / how to tie her small pink shoes (Dear Annette,)—control is an issue of very real importance. What she seeks, as she writes in the quiet tour-de-force that gives the book its title, is a knowledge // dark as speed, hard / as free. She is willing to tell of herself, and others, veering out of control in order to analyze that control more honestly.
Even so, this is not a book of explanations. The best virtues of confessionalism—the easy-seeming, overheard quality of the voice; the emotion-driven and often surprising associativeness; the vivid narrative details; the willingness to leave a moment poignant and unresolved—are on display here, and blessedly without self-pity or indulgence. While the velocity of this book is a personal velocity, not a universal one—it is one that, again, we overhear, not one we necessarily experience (as with Hus poetry) for ourselves—there is an admirable and affecting honesty in Krygowskis project. She seems determined to remain blunt and unashamed, critical and revealing of herself while never dissolving to the maudlin, and she has a penchant for the underbelly of things, which in a lesser poet would register mainly as street-proud vulgarity—the bad-girl panties, the sidewalk puddles, the chicken bones and tinfoil. But, as with those jellied pigs feet in the poem quoted above, this commonplace stuff merely makes up the material of her experience. The natural but surprising use she makes of these images—they are always analyzed, and they always go somewhere as the poem gains momentum—pushes them far past their initial and sometimes almost clichéd rough-and-tumble implications.
And so, when occasionally Krygowskis poems lapse a bit in rigor or taste, I forgive them—I like their no-nonsense voice and their spiky, surprising observations enough that I can take the work exactly as it is. In fact, I like Velocitys poems even more for not performing, but for being precisely, and quite memorably, what they seem to want to be—careful, honest, quirky meditations on loss and longing in all its weirdly prosaic manifestations.
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POSSUM KINGDOM LAKE – Following more than four days of extensive search efforts, the Brazos River Authority late Thursday said their team recovered the body of 17-year-old Jacob Logan from Possum Kingdom Lake waters.
Palo Pinto County Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Shawn Humphries made a positive identification and the next of kin were notified, according to a BRA press release.
Logan's body was recovered at the base of the cliff area in approximately 64 feet of
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|#2 Subject: the 15th of september (i now own the sims2) Posted: 09/14/2004 17:53:54
Woow my day has been made and now i have my precious game to suplly me with a week of insomnia........
|#3 Subject: THE SIMS 2 IS MINE! Posted: 09/16/2004 07:39:38
I also have the Sims 2 now. I'll post screenshots of my family regularly (they are the ones with numbers)
|#4 Subject: The Posted: 09/17/2004 15:59:29
The Great Day has bestowed upon us!!!I have the Sims 2
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|#5 Subject: college and sims Posted: 12/12/2004 13:13:24
Well the develepers have spoken and i cant wait for the new expasion, my sims are finnally going to be able to have cell phones and get chinese takeout and have pillow fights. It will be fun dont you think
|#6 Subject: Wut i wANT Posted: 01/20/2005 17:18:48
Wut i really want in the new expansion is that man-eating plant. Have u guys seen that video. It was awsome. MY favorite thing to do also is bending women the other way
|#7 Subject: FIrist Expansion Puck i mean pack Posted: 01/24/2005 23:13:50
Man this sucks..... i get the sim2 and when i play it it is REEEEEEEEEEEEEELY slow and now there an expansion pack!!!! U_U man this sucks. i proply will neeed a super computer or somthing $_$
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|#8 Subject: too bad its slow but you cant change that Posted: 01/29/2005 11:31:21
it does not have to be slow you know. You could upgrade the ram and the processor. Ram cards are as cheap as 20 dollars and is as easy as just pluging the thing in the motherboard. Simple.
|#9 Subject: An Interesting Proposition... Posted: 02/03/2005 20:04:35
Does anyone out there take a particular pleasure in torturing certain little sims? See, the reason I ask is this.. I've been working on a sim family of my awful, horrible, inconsiderate, asshole neighbors (sadly, the walls are too thin and the people perhaps just too stupid to know better, though we've told them over and over and over..you get the picture). I know this sounds a little depraved, but I really enjoy seeing these little sims tortured, killed, humiliated, etc... it's the only upside to these rotten people! Would anyone else be interested in taking a stab at true depravity? Thanks to that handy snapshot and movie modes in Sims2, this could get really interesting.. I've got the family packaged and would be happy to share them in exchange for some pics/home movies which I would happily post lol.. message me if you're interested... (especially if you think you can REALLY show me "how it's done"!)
|#10 Subject: More Items. Posted: 02/22/2005 21:27:54
I think there should be more items like better computers and such
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|#11 Subject: The Sims 2 Nightlife Posted: 03/01/2005 19:18:43
When do you guys think Maxis is going to give more information on the new expansion pack The Sims 2 Nightlife. Looking at the jewl case ad it looks like a remake of hot date with the darker things of the night (vampires)
|#12 Subject: nightlife Posted: 03/14/2005 20:23:51
i don't know why but i think nightlife is just going to be a mix between makin' magic and hotdate from the sims 1. And also was anyone else kinda disapointed in university? I mean it's a great game but i wanted MORE.
|#13 Subject: help Posted: 04/10/2005 14:49:58
uh, i just got a new sims 2. it worked right after i installed, it but after i logged off, and logged back on to play, it says "unspecified error" in this box thingy. so i can't even play. but the weird thing is, when my mom let me use her account (administrator's account) it played before. do you know what the heck is wrong with this thing?
|#14 Subject: my sims and stuff Posted: 04/18/2005 22:08:23
i have a sim family, a guy (adult) , a woman (adult) who both have platinum aspirations for life and the guy has maxed skills and teyr both at the top of there job, they have about eight kids, most in college.
i want nightlife
university was pretty good
also can your sims meet aliens if theyr not in strangetown
my sims has died from (strange town) a sattelite which i sold for 2,00 simoleans
i just bought matrix online
|#15 Subject: Hi All Posted: 04/22/2005 05:35:32
Rank: Kill Streak
Joined: 04/17/2005
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Hey everyone, I have the sims 2 and the expansion pack. I play them most of the day when I am not doing house work myself, lol. Anyways, I think you can be abducted by aliens in other nieghborhoods, but it is more likely to happen in Strangetown than the other ones.
|#16 Subject: Everyone should list their simpages here. Posted: 05/15/2005 01:38:52
Yes SimsJunkie I love torturing my sims. With the realease of Halo 2-I have not played the Sims and picked them up again today. I just noticed for the first time the grunt home-and the military style obstacle course! Wow, I was really unobservant! I am really excited about the nightlife pack coming out.
Here is my simpage.
|#17 Subject: I want to play game so much Posted: 05/16/2005 15:24:33
Haven't got this game yet but i will get it when it comes out on gamecube!!!
|#18 Subject: Just Got It Posted: 06/09/2005 17:18:05
Hey everyone I just got The Sims 2 for PC and its tight. I want to get the university expansion but its like $35 at wal mart and i was like $35 for a expansion pack!?!?!?! but its cool ill end up gettin it anyways lol
|#19 Subject: i have one question Posted: 06/09/2005 17:23:37
i love sims 2 and i have a question on ur "rewards" there is a thing called smart milk and i dont know how to place it i have tried placing it on talbes, counters, and of corse the floor and i dont know how u place it still!! could some one tell me how?
|#20 Subject: THIS STINKS!!! Posted: 06/28/2005 19:51:11
i got the game bcuz i love the sims games and when i brought it home it didnt work on my pc! well its a peice of junk for some reason it doesnt even relize theirs a game in it! it dosnt matter though im gettin a new 1 but i cant wait!
|#21 Subject: i love sims 2!!! Posted: 09/03/2005 10:23:26
Rank: Button Masher
Joined: 09/03/2005
Post Count: 0
im so happy i could jump 789000000000 feet high!
|#22 Subject: Night Life Posted: 10/13/2005 20:49:02
I really like a lot of the new stuff here. I'm not particularly fond of the dating set-up, but I can't think of a better way, so I can't really complain.
Anyway... how do you get your sim to be a vampire? Date one and hope they bite you?
|#23 Subject: i've been addicted to the sims since i got the very first one Posted: 10/17/2005 16:12:06
am i the only one not looking that forward to the console version of the sims 2? i'll of course get it and play it the day it came out to stay true to my addiction but i've been disappointed with the past two console versions of the sims. the PC version just can't be beat. I just got the University expansion pack last week and am loving it. i want to get some quality time in with it before i get night life.
|#24 Subject: Pool Problems Posted: 12/03/2005 10:29:01
I have been playing Sims since 2000, and now am enjoying Sims2. I have niether of the expasion packs, but am going to buy Night Life soon. I was building a Public Lot yesterday, and when I put in a pool the screen froze. After I hit undo everything worked again. Has anyone had this problem? Also, sorry to be asking so many questions, how does this point system work for the 1up site? Anyway, I look forward to being a part of the Sims2 Fan Club and thank you for your time.
|#25 Subject: Hello everyone Posted: 12/16/2005 17:11:05
I just joined this club. I've found these sims clubs to be not very active but I hope this one might be different. Anyway, I am fairly new to the sims. I just started playing it a month ago when my project changed. I just like to get contacts of other sims players. Find out what this whole phenomenom is all about. Anyway, hit up my personal site if you are interested in further discussions on the sims.
|#26 Subject: My lost love Posted: 12/18/2005 01:15:35
Hi piggy, i found You!!
Yea im back into the sims thanks to the person below me. I wont say why, but thanks.... Im more into creating stuff for the game though, ive created a WalMart, so if anyone is interested in beta testing things I make, please IM me. When i publish my stuff, ill give credit to those who gave me feedback. Thanks.
|#27 Subject: Not Active Posted: 12/21/2005 10:52:42
I guess this club is sort of dead then.
|#28 Subject: seems so Posted: 12/21/2005 14:13:54
I think you should make a club for the game. It would rock, and we could get some insider news considering who you are w00t!
|#29 Subject: Just the two of us Posted: 12/22/2005 19:25:57
Um, there are new ways to get between levels of buildings. Not sure if that is news or not. Doesnt look like there will be anyone one in it but you and me.
|#30 Subject: Console version Posted: 01/21/2006 17:17:04
I really want to know how Sims 2 is turning out for the x box. I had the PC version for a while, but it got all scratched up and shit. The only reason why I've stopped myself is because I want to know if it's all weird like the first one was were you actually have to do a mission to unlock a bunch of crap, or is it exactly like the PC version where you actually have sex to make a baby instead of kiss a lot. AND does it have all the coolness and detail of building your Sim like the PC version? The DNA testings were awesome.
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IZ: Voice of the People
"Israel 'IZ' Kamakawiwo`ole has emerged as the voice of the people of his beloved Hawai`i. As his music and image have spread, fans all over the world want to know more about this iconic figure. Now, everyone, through this book by Rick Carroll, can discover the personal side of IZ. His music was his passion; his family and friends were his treasure. On these pages many of his family, friends, and associates share stories that will make you laugh and cry and that bring to life this giant of Aloha. It was my privilege to produce Israel's music-music that continues to shape the world's perception of Hawai`i. That music resonates deeply with people from all walks of life, and Israel's message lives on in the people of Hawai`i and in Hawaiians at heart everywhere." -Jon de Mello, executive producer, The Mountain Apple CompanyLearn More
IZ The Songbook Collection - Guitar/Ukulele
Arranged for Guitar & Ukulele With Lyrics. Seventeen beautiful songs transcribed for guitar and ukulele exactly as played by IZ. Includes his breathtaking version of "Over the Rainbow" as heard on the soundtracks to Finding Forester, 30 First Dates, and "ER." There are also four pages of color photos featuring Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, the Hawaiian singer with an unparalleled voice. Renowned throughout the world for his music, his spirit lives on through his albums. This folio features 17 of his most beloved songs from those albums. Titles are: Hawai'i '78, Henehene Kou 'Aka, Hi'ilawe, In This Life, Ka Pua U'i, Kaleohano, Kamalani, Kuhio Bay, Na Ka Pueo/Keyhole Hula, 'Opae E, Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World, Panini Puakea, Staring All Over Again, White Sandy Beach, The Wind Beneath my Wings/He Hawai'i AuLearn More
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Israel "Iz" Kamakawiwo'ole is the most beloved Hawaiian musician of his time. The magic of his sweet voice traveled across the globe and into the hearts of people everywhere. Millions know the legend of Iz, but few know the man-the husband, father, son, friend, role model, artist. This DVD explores that man, through never-before seen interviews and stories with the help of friends and family who knew him best. Outstanding features on this DVD include: Live performances, Rare interviews, Iz photos, Iz stories and "Over the Rainbow" music video.Learn More
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1993 and 1995 broadcasts of KHNL/K5's Hot Hawaiian Nights" television series gave local people a glimpse of IZ's live performances. This DVD gives IZ fans the chance to witness his unique style on the 'ukulele and his uncanny sense of humor.
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Israel Kamakawiwo'ole has been Hawai'i's biggest star in the past fifty years. His music, his physical size and most importantly, his aura; a proud Hawaiian man, full of love and life, permeated the Hawai'i of the '90's to such a degree that when he died, the State Capitol had to be opened to allow his people to expess the extent of their loss.
The performances captured on Island Music, Island Hearts give everyone an opportunity to bask in the immense presence of IZ. Share previous moments with IZ as he joins friends at Waioli Tea House in Manoa Valley, performs with just his "ukulele on beautiful Waimanalo Beach and in a concert among the pohaku at the historic Miloli'i fishing village on the island of Hawai'i.Check out a preview below! Learn More
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After an outstanding year of award-winning music, two-time GRAMMY® nominated Amy Hānaiali`i gracefully wraps it up in red and green with A Hawaiian Christmas. Featuring songs that were a part of Amy's childhood Christmas celebrations on the island of Maui, A Hawaiian Christmas is a special, personal collection of her musical memories. A Hawaiian Christmas is Amy's first Christmas album and it takes you back to the simple days in the islands, when holidays were all about family and friends. Invite Amy Hānaiali`i to share her holiday memories with your `ohana (family) this Christmas, and complete the season with A Hawaiian Christmas.
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The Obamanometer: Your Guide to Whether the Economy Favors Romney or Obama
This new gauge gives a glance how economic developments may swing the presidential race.
The economy's up. The economy's down. There are changes literally every day in the way we measure our well-being and future prospects.
But this fall, it matters more than usual. That's because the state of the economy will very likely determine whether President Obama gets reelected or his Republican opponent Mitt Romney wins the White House.
To measure the vagaries of the economy through Election Day, I created the Obamanometer: a unique, at-a-glance gauge that indicates whether the economy is getting better or worse. The Obamanometer isn't meant to determine whether the economy is healthy or not by some absolute standard. Instead, it measures whether the latest economic indicators in 11 broad categories, ranging from stock prices to unemployment to the risk of recession, are improving or deteriorating. [See a detailed methodology note at the bottom.] These are the factors that will determine whether voters on Election Day feel an uplift or a downdraft in the economy. Many are likely to vote accordingly.
The latest Obamanometer reading indicates that recent developments significantly favor the president. But this is due largely to one thing: the big jump in stock prices that followed the Federal Reserve's recently announced plan to begin more monetary stimulus. Before that, the Obamanometer slightly favored Romney. And it could favor Romney again once the stock-market buzz wears off.
Other than the stock market, the trends that generally favor Obama include an improving housing market and consumer spending that's been stronger than expected. Working against Obama: rising gas prices, an overall increase in inflation, and a weak job market. With the economy hovering somewhere between recovery and stagnation, small changes in one or two indicators could tip voter sentiment—and perhaps the election itself—one way or another.
I'll update the Obamanometer daily through November 6, and write fresh blog posts whenever there's a meaningful change. So when there's news about the economy, check back to see where the needle's pointing.
Rick Newman is Chief Business Correspondent at U.S. News and the author of Rebounders: How Winners Pivot From Setback To Success. Follow him on Twitter: @rickjnewman
Methodology: The Obamanometer measures 22 economic metrics in 11 broad categories: the S&P 500 stock index, the price of gas, the unemployment rate, other job indicators, consumer confidence, leading economic indicators, inflation, housing, personal income, consumer spending, and the risk of recession as calculated by Moody's Analytics. The S&P 500 index and gas prices are updated daily, based on the level of change from one week prior. Other indicators are updated weekly or monthy as they come out. Changes are coded on a seven-point scale ranging from -3 to +3, with -3 representing a strongly negative economic development that favors Romney, and +3 indicating a strongly positive development that favors Obama. If a new reading were to indicate no change in a given metric, it would be scored as 0, which means it would favor neither candidate. All individual scores are then averaged each day, with the overall Obamanometer reading ranging somewhere between -3 and +3. In visual terms, an overall reading of -3 would be represented by the needle pointing all the way to the left, while +3 would be represented by the needle pointing all the way to the right. If the overall reading were 0, the needle would point straight up.


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WOODLAND – Lue E. Jennings, 79, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 2013, at Care Center of Aberdeen after a lengthy illness. She was born Nov. 6,1933, in Marks to Willie Guilty and Virgie Harell Guilty. Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, at New Hope M.B. Church in Woodland. Burial will be […]
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All of us are seeing and reading and hearing in the news and online that this
year's influenza – or the "flu" as it is commonly called – season is a
particularly bad one. The primary flu strain this year is AH3N2 – and it's strong and severe.
If you catch this flu virus – and all flu is caused by a virus – even if you are
healthy prior to catching it, you can expect to be feeling poorly for at least
a week.
At each of our pharmacies – in Acton, Newton, and West Concord – we are busy with people coming in for flu shots and those picking up flu medications and purchasing over-the-counter flu relief products.
We recommend strongly that people get a flu shot. Even if you have had flu shots during other years, it will not protect you against AH3N2.
It is not too late to get the shot. This year's flu season has been called an epidemic by some experts. It is also important to get the flu shot as
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What is the difference between a cold and the flu?
We are asked this question a lot.
A cold, like the flu, is caused by a virus. With a cold one experiences a stuffy, runny nose, and sneezing, as well as a hacking cough that is productive.
Usually, with a cold, you don't have a fever or chills or body aches or headaches – and if you do have them, they are fairly mild.
With the flu you have a fever and your body aches; you are tired, and if you have a cough it is a dry cough and unproductive.
In addition to getting a flu shot, an effective way to protect yourself from the
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If you do catch the flu, get plenty of bed rest and drink plenty of liquids; for the aches you can take aspirin or a non-aspirin pain reliever – although children should not be given aspirin unless a doctor approves.
If you become very sick and have trouble breathing, see a doctor or go to a hospital emergency department immediately.
So get a flu shot. They are available without appointment at Acton Pharmacy,
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Please note that not everyone should get a flu shot.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides this list of people who should not receive the vaccine:
- People who have a severe allergy to chicken eggs.
- People who have had a severe reaction to an influenza vaccination.
- Children younger than six months of age (influenza vaccine is not approved for this age group).
- People who have a moderate-to-severe illness with a fever (they should wait until they recover to get vaccinated).
- People with a history of Guillain–Barré Syndrome (a severe illness, also called GBS) who got the illness after receiving the flu shot in a previous year.
If you do catch the flu, make sure you rest, maximize fluids, get medical attention if it is needed, and don't go out and about where you can spread it.
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Yellow centred, rich pink blooms appear from early spring, forming good-sized flowers that gradually open to big, open bowls. Plant them with deeper pinks, most shades of blue or purple and silver foliage for best effect.
- Garden care: From September to December plant the bulbs 15-20cm deep and 10-15cm apart in fertile, well-drained soil. Alternatively, allow 7-9 bulbs per 30cm sq. After flowering dead-head and apply a balanced liquid fertiliser each week for the first month. Once the foliage has died down naturally lift the bulbs and store in a cool greenhouse.
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Jun 04, 2013, 05:15 PM
Polyurethane over Black Acrylic Cabinets
About 5 years ago I had my kitchen redone and the cabinets were painted black. A painter did it using a sprayer, 100% acylic exterior satin. I didn't have him put on a poly at the time, because I did't want the finish to be really shiny. I'd like the finish to sort of look as close to the warm glow of a waxed finish as possible (the house is 1920's). The paint still looks good, but it is hard to keep them looking clean (black tends to show dust very very well). I'd like to apply a poly on top. I've looked at the General Finishes high performance polycrylic (in satin or matte), and I also saw a minwax rub on poly in satin. Does anyone have experience with these products, or suggestions on which finish would be the best to use on my cabinets?
Jun 04, 2013, 09:21 PM
Hi Sapo,
First off since this is the kitchen before you plan on adding a poly finish to your cabinets, I recommend that you thoroughly wash them with a solution of TSP, in a mixture as recommended on the box. This will remove all grease and oil from the surface and prepare the surface for your coats of poly. However, once you have washed the grease and oil off, rinse them again with clean water to remove the excess TSP and change your water often through the rinse process. Then allow them to dry thoroughly. You may notice the black surface may dull up a bit but this should correct itself once you apply your poly and it will create a surface where the poly will adhere more readily.
As to the type of polyurethane, I would recommend using a latex version in the sheen you wish to have. This type dries quickly and though it goes on in a milky white from the can it dries clear and provides a hard finish, though it may take several coats (3 to 4) to standing up to the cleaning that you may use over time. In addition, when applying it do not over brush it or you will find brush strokes and bubbles may appear which you may need to sand out one it has dried thoroughly. Use good quality brushes so that hairs do not fall out and end up on the poly surface, otherwise you will need to sand them out. Once you start your poly finish, you will likely find that you can apply a couple of coats in a single day. Just be sure to allow it to thoroughly dry first prior starting the next coat and do any sanding and cleaning up of the dust when it is thoroughly dry and prior to adding the next coat. It will take a bit of practice in applying the finish by laying it on and allow it to flow without over brushing. By the second and third coats you will have it mastered so that your final coat is smooth as if it was sprayed on.
From the sounds of it I believe you wish to have a satin finish which is available in this type of Polyurethane. Minwax does produce this type of latex polyurethane. They also produce a polyurethane which is solvent based and takes longer to dry and often adds a yellowish tint to the covered surface and requires the use of mineral spirits to cleanup the tools. It also takes much longer to dry before re-coating. Though Minwax makes polyurethane with an added stain within it, I don't believe these are what your want or need as you feel the black finish is fine but it just needs a covering coat to make it easier to clean and stand up to cleaning. This last type of poly is definitely not one I'd recommend.
If you use the recommended type of polyurethane and if in several years you feel the need to redo the surface, you only need to again wash the surface with TSP and following up with a good rinse and apply several fresh coats of the latex poly to finish the task with light sanding as needed in between coats.
As an added note this type of poly has a low odour content and also all tools clean up with soap and water.
I've used it on oak bullnosing I applied around our tiled fireplace hearth as well as an edging for a tiled bathroom counter top where it has stood well over the last 12 years. I've also used it on oak stairnosing which surrounds our sunken livingroom where it has stood up to foot traffic very well in the last 10 years, though I did apply 4 coats of the latex polyurethane on these surfaces to be sure.
When you do apply the poly I would recommend that you remove all doors and drawers, marking each location they are from with tape on the back of them and them lay them flat in a large dust free area which has good lighting so that you can work easily and quickly with each without having to handle them too much. Of course all handles, etc. should be removed prior to beginning the task.
Once the doors and doors are finished, work on the cabinet faces and any exposed edges.
With luck, proper drying conditions and proper humidity you could be finished in 2 to 3 days or less depending how large your kitchen is.
Others may have additional suggestions.
Good Luck!
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Jun 05, 2013, 12:55 PM
Thank you Simply Me for such a detailed response!!
Do you have any particular brand that you find easy to use? Or are they all basically the same? I've been looking at all sorts of brands, and they all seem to have good reviews... Rustoleum, Minwax, General Finishes, Benjamin Moore...
So, I suppose I'm asking if you, or anyone here, has used a few brands and has a favorite go-to? Or any experience with the satin vs. the matte finish? (for that waxed look?) The cabinets are satin now, and it's a decent glow, not overbearing... but in my mind poly has more shine than paint (the satin poly would have more shine than the satin paint). Any actual truth to this?
If anyone has any comments on the brands or sheens I'd love to hear them. If not, guess I'll just have to take a stab at it and hope for the best!
Thank you!!!!!!!!
Jun 06, 2013, 07:28 AM
Hi Sapo,
I've used Minwax Latex Polyurethane in a satin finish and though it has a gloss it is much lower than that of the gloss variety, which is the result I desired.
As to comparing different brands of polyurethane, I've not done that but I would expect that each brand is similar and those brand names that are held more highly may have a product that is equal to if not better than some of the competition because of their customer service, guarantee, and reputation for quality products which is of course why they became popular and are preferred by many.
When trying to determine which sheen of polyurethane you wish to choose, I've seen displays in some stores where each type has been used on a sample of the same wood to show the level of sheen that each yields. This is the only guide that I've seen. The only way I can think that you can determine which is most desirable on your surfaces, would be to buy a pint of semi-gloss or satin and matte finish and place each on a small area drawer of cabinet door and expose it to the light level you have. Once you make your choice you can simply add additional coats of the chosen finish and apply it over each area and it should hide the sample surfaces easily. If you do this I'd choose a door or drawer which is not nearly exposed as all of the others so that when finished the test areas do not stand out too readily and this don't stand out unless you point out the area. Possibly choose one that is near the floor and possibly in a shadowy corner of lower light.
Others may have additional suggestions.
Good Luck!
Jun 06, 2013, 11:49 AM
You're awesome Simply Me! I'll look for the samples in the stores... I went to an Ace yesterday, but it was a smaller store with a limited brand selection and no samples. Hopefully the larger Ace by me will have a better selection and the sheen samples in the store. If not, I'll do the patch test. Thank you so much for taking the time to post and help me out. I appreciate it!
On with the project!!
Jun 06, 2013, 02:30 PM
Hi Sapo,
If you have a store that specializes in paint and decorating supplies, you will likely have better luck finding the samples you desire since this is their specialty. Hardware stores carry a broad range of products and thus may lack the samples. Home Depot and Lowes would likely have the samples as well as they carry a large selection of paint and wood finishing products.
Good Luck!
Jun 28, 2013, 08:40 PM
I've used the general finish wipe on poly on my kitchen cabinets and loved it. Very easy and you can control the number of coats and resulting look of the finish.


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To help those affected, donate through the Red Cross website or call 800-733-2767. You can also text the word 'REDCROSS' to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Contributions may also be sent to your local Red Cross chapter or the American Red Cross, P.O. Box 37243, Washington, DC 20013. Click here to donate to the Red Cross.
Relief organization Save the Children also is mobilizing response teams for the storm's aftermath. The group provides child-friendly kits, including diapers and hygiene items to those in need. Click here to donate to Save the Children.
AmeriCares also is mobilizing its efforts to provide medical relief and humanitarian aid to the hardest hit areas. The organization will deliver medicines, First Aid kits, bottled water, cleaning products, flashlights and shelter supplies all along the East Coast, according to its website. Click here to donate to AmeriCares.
To avoid giving to a fraudulent charity, check its legitimacy with the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance website.