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Blueberry Pie à la Mode
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Buttery, homemade pastry dough envelopes a sweet-tart filling of ripe blueberries enriched with ground cinnamon and lemon juice. Served warm, its the perfect pairing for rich vanilla ice cream.
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Nutritional Information
(per serving)
Calories | 433 |
Total Fat | 21g |
Saturated Fat | 9g |
Cholesterol | 29mg |
Sodium | 115mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 59g |
Dietary Fiber | 3g |
Sugars | n/a |
Protein | 4g |
Calcium | -- |
Laura Moss
Serves: 8
Total Time: 45 min
Prep Time: 1 hr 30 min
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- 2 cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoon(s) each cold butter, cut in small pieces, and trans-fat-free shortening
- 1 tablespoon(s) fresh lemon juice
- 3 tablespoon(s) (up to 4) cold water
- 24 ounce(s) (about 4 1/2 to 5 cups) fresh blueberries, rinsed and picked over
- 1 tablespoon(s) lemon juice
- 2 teaspoon(s) vanilla extract
- 3/4 cup(s) sugar
- 1/4 cup(s) cornstarch
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) ground cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon(s) cold butter, cut in pieces
- Garnish: 2 tsp sugar
- Vanilla ice cream
- In food processor, pulse flour with butter and shortening until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. With motor running, add lemon juice, then water, 1 tablespoon at a time, just until dough leaves sides of bowl. Remove blade, then dough.
- Gather dough into a ball and divide in half. Press each half into a disk. Wrap and refrigerate 1 hour or until firm enough to roll out.
- Place sheet of foil on bottom rack. Heat oven to 425ºF. You'll need a 9-in. pie plate coated with nonstick spray.
- Roll out 1 disk on lightly floured surface or between 2 sheets of wax paper to 12-in. circle. Fit dough into pie plate, pressing gently onto bottom and up sides. Roll out remaining disk as above into an 11-in. circle; cut into 1-in.-wide strips.
- Toss blueberries with lemon juice and vanilla in large bowl. Mix sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon in small bowl until blended; toss with berries until coated. Spoon into lined pie plate; dot with butter.
- Arrange 5 dough strips across pie. Arrange remaining 5 strips at right angles, weaving if desired. Gently press ends into bottom edge, fold under and crimp. Brush strips with water; sprinkle with sugar.
- Place pie on center oven rack; bake 25 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350ºF, rotate pie 180 degrees and bake 40 to 50 minutes more (shield pie with foil if crust gets too brown) until crust is golden and filling bubbles. Cool on wire rack. Serve warm or at room temperature with vanilla ice cream.
- You can make pastry dough the day before.
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Cook couscous according to package directions, omitting salt and fat.
Cook beef in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat 3 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble. Stir in 1 teaspoon cinnamon, tomatoes, and next 5 ingredients.
Bring to a boil; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in almonds and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Cover and let stand 5 minutes. Serve over couscous.
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by FN Dish Editor in Shows, November 7th, 2011
The fourth season of The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs is in full swing with 10 new chefs fighting it out for a grand prize that so many would-be chefs covet: joining the ranks of Iron Chefs Marc Forgione, Bobby Flay, Masaharu Morimoto, Cat Cora, Jose Garces and Michael Symon. Each chef will try to pull out all their tricks to stay in the competition but, ultimately, one chef must go home each week. Every Monday, FN Dish brings you exclusive exit interviews with the latest Super Chef to get the boot.
This week, Robert Irvine won the judges over with his hotburg, but still found himself battling it out with Michael Chiarello in a sudden-death challenge.
FN Dish: The creation of the hotburg (hot dog and burger in one) was a complete success. Are you using that great concept somewhere else now?
RI: I have not used nor am I currently using the hotburg in any area. It was a great creation for a spur-of-the-moment challenge.
FN Dish: The deconstructed fish taco, however, was not a success and led you to the sudden-death challenge with Michael. After watching Spike and Marcus battle it out the week before, what were you thinking?
RI: The deconstructed taco was an awesome invention, too. There were problems beyond my control, like going last, which put me in the bottom two.
FN Dish: It looks like you used mascarpone cheese instead of tahini for your hummus. Did you do that on purpose? Tell us why you did that.
RI: I was making humus without chickpeas or tahini as they were unavailable and the secret ingredient was peanuts. I used mascarpone on purpose, as I thought that was a good substitute.
FN Dish: If anyone knows how to work under the pressure of a clock, it's you. What are some additional lessons you've taken away from this experience?
RI: The lessons that I took away from the competition are really simple: Always remain true to yourself, have fun and every day is an adventure. Food is also like wine: Everyone has a different opinion. One man's meat is another man's poison.
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As a previous blogger mentioned…the winner was and has been "announced" on "The Best Thing I Ever Ate". Inadvertant or sloppy programming listed Beau MacMillen as the winner of Top Chef in his credentials. Just like Aaron McCargo's "win" and premature announcement and Michael Symon's win against John Besch. Symon continues to be a pompous individual, with his irritating laugh, pandering to the visitors on set,, and perceived expertise. You'll notice that all new or upcoming chefs always pick Michael Symon, so that he continues as a winning chef. Let's clean house and improve efficiency.
no, best thing lists Beau Mac as a winner on Iron Chef, not as the NIC winner….a while back he challenged bobby flay and won the battle…bte, Top Chef…completely different show
chef chiarello may be alittle arrogantbut his food speaks volumes!!! I've eaten in his restaurant three times, and each has outdone the other. Bottega is a yearly stop for us, even though it's on the opposite coast. He personally greets the many customers that come thru his place and is a fabulous chef!
I mean if you are Iron chef america why invite Irvine and then send him home. That is really unfair I was very excited about the program because of him but now that he was literally kick out I don't care about it at all. I am a regular food network watcher but after this political choices, no way. Oh and by the way who said Symon was a great chef, why is he a judge, he couldn't even keep mission impossible. No wonder Aaron didn't participate, he cooks good.
um, they invited 10 chefs and 9 of them will get sent home. what is political about that? and MS is a great chef…DINNER impossible was geared around someone elses skills and interests, not his. and, oh yeah, MS went in to impossible ONLY as a TEMP fix…FN had committed to 10 more episodes that season, and irvine couldnt do because he was LET GO by FN for LYING thru his teeth about his resume and accomplishments and spreading many of those lies thru the opening sequence of dinner impossible. it doesnt take a lot to know that…just wiki irvine. he doesnt even have any restaraunts, because he couldnt get financial backing without LYING to the people he wanted money from. irvine is only back on FN because the network found out irvines fans apparently could care less how DECEITFUL he is, so they brought him back.
I was infuriated when Chef Robert was sent home. That was so unfair. And to be up against someone who didn't even fully follow the rules is completely bogus. What are the judges doing?! After Chef Irvine was eliminated, I was so mad that I didn't even want to watch the show anymore. The judges should be ashamed of themselves. Hey, is there a way we can get this message to them personally? I think they should know that there are bunches of people who recognize what an unfair judgment they made & who don't even want to watch the show anymore. Boo, judges!! I could have done better judging myself!!
I feel the same way. We were so excited about the show and couldn't wait for Sunday night! …..and after Robert got eliminated, we were sitting there in disbelief, speechless……..We don't even want to watch the rest of the show anymore, the whole thing was so unfair. I also wonder if the judges read our comments – they need to!
it is crap they already know who they want to win , proberly the biggest brown noser there is
I can't believe Chef Symon is such an idiot. Last week he sends home Chef Irvine, who made the secret ingredient the star of his dish while the other Chef did not. The other judges made it clear that the other Chef basically whimped out on the secret ingredient. However, Symon bullies the majority (spineless judges) into taking his side. Then this week Symon has the audacity to sit there and and tell a chef that you have to make the secret ingredient the star. WTF! Symon, make up your mind. Or are the other posters right? You have an axe to grind because you failed miserably as a replacement for Irvine on Dinner Impossible. Maybe, FN is just doing this show for an increase in viewers. Your choice of Chef Symon as a judge just resulted in major backfire. I' m another viewer that's not watching anymore.
I am angry that Chef Irvine got kicked out … this is clearly the way life is I guess… UNFAIR. Chef ran circles around Mr. Napa & did so much more. Anytime someone uses an ingredient many ways with pure success – and loses to a glommy pile of peanut butter noodles with side salad… you know the things fixed. Too bad. Hummus too thick? OMGosh that's weak…. like the character of those who gave into whatever pressures to have Chef Irvine lose – I'm p'o D……… and the show lost credibility big time.
Both my daughter and I were looking forward to a showdown between Chef Irvine and Chef Burrell. They were such fun to watch on Chopped that we couldn't imagine the level of competition that would be between the two on Iron Chef and now we will never know unless…..(hint, hint). Chef Irvine will be greatly missed.
dude moves on with a raw egg, hahahahaha. the fix was in to get robert :(
Chef Irvine will be sorely missed. He has the personality dynamics as well as skill and creativity to be the next Iron Chef. Some of the others don't have the TV persona that will keep audiences entertained and hooked like Irvine can. FN judges made a huge mistake.


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Posted By Allison Sherry On October 5, 2010 @ 5:13 pm In 2010 U.S. Senate Race,Colorado Politics,Uncategorized | 7 Comments
Updated at 6:09 p.m. with video the Bennet campaign put together and emailed out with a fund-raising plea.
Nevada Tea Party Senate candidate Sharron Angle [1] said in a covertly taped conversation she was excited to shake up Washington with Colorado GOP candidate Ken Buck [2] and Delaware candidate Christine O'Donnell, according to the Las Vegas Sun [3].
Sen. Michael Bennet [4]'s campaign immediately jumped on the comments, trying to link the socially conservative Angle — who has said she wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Energy, the Department of Energy and cut ties to the United Nations — with Buck.
"(They) share many extreme positions, which has brought the two together and forged a long distance relationship," said Bennet spokesman Trevor Kincaid. "They want to take it to the next level and see how they can do in the same city."
Angle and Sen. Harry Reid are effectively tied, according to a recent Fox News [5]poll.
Buck lumped himself with Angle and other Tea Party candidates as recently as Sept. 1 at a University of Colorado young Republicans event.
But his campaign sought distance from the comments today, saying they are trying to focus on Colorado votes and beating Bennet.
"We're not focused on comments made by candidates in other states," said Owen Loftus, Buck spokesman. "We're focused on holding Sen. Bennet accountable for the $13.5 trillion debt he wants to pass on to our children."
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Remember the days when the clocks changing meant you either got to sleep in an hour later or lost an hour of sleep? You didn't even notice any real disruption to your own sleep schedule and simply went on with your day normally.
Once you have kids it becomes a little more complicated! Now you've got to worry about whether your baby or toddler is on the right sleep schedule when it comes to naps and bedtime, and you've got things like longer days with more sunlight working against your efforts to get them in bed at a reasonable time. Stephanie Power, a Certified Sleep Consultant and the owner of Three Little Birds Sleep Solutions, shares a few things to keep in mind when the clocks spring ahead:
Plan ahead: If you've got a child who gets overtired easily which can lead to a sleepiness induced meltdown, try to prepare for the time change by starting to adjust their sleep schedule a few days in advance. For the spring time change this means shifting their naps and bedtimes earlier by 15 minutes four days in advance of the time change so that once the clocks spring forward they will be back on their typical sleep schedule.
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Use routines to signal that sleep is coming: If you don't have an established bedtime and nap routine, this is so important for signalling to your child that it's almost time for sleep and will help with the time change when their schedules have to be adjusted a little. As adults we all have routines that we do prior to bed; brush teeth, put on pajamas, read, etc. So it's also important to have a consistent routine for your kids prior to them going to sleep as well. In addition to a bedtime routine, you should also have a mini nap routine (should take about 5 minutes) where you signal to your child that it's almost nap time. This could be something as simple as closing the blinds, changing diaper and reading a couple stories.
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Stephanie Power is a Certified Sleep Consultant and the owner of Three Little Birds Sleep Solutions. In addition to receiving her Child Sleep Certification through the Family Sleep Institute, Stephanie holds a B.A. in Psychology and is the mother of her baby boy, Sullivan. Stephanie first became interested in child sleep when she and her husband brought their baby boy home from the hospital and experienced the overwhelming fatigue that all new parents go through with a newborn. After researching and learning about healthy child sleep habits, she was able to coach her son to learn the self soothing skills needed in order for him to sleep soundly.


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Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1
We live in a "seeing is believing" world. Growing up, if I made a claim about something, my brothers would pounce like ninjas, "prove it!" Or taunt with their more sarcastic, "just because you said so, doesn't make it so." Like all siblings, we had a very special love language. My mother would often say with certainty that some day we would actually enjoy being with one another. She kept the faith despite the fact that there was absolutely no evidence that could possibly happen in this universe.
Hebrews chapter 11 is sometimes called the hall of faith, because it is full of the stories of men and women who believed the promises of God before they could be seen. In fact, every single one of them died without ever seeing the promise of the Savior fulfilled. Their lives spanned generations, but they shared a compelling faith. Despite the circumstances of life, they believed God. I am drawn to this chapter because I want that kind of faith too.
I used to think of faith as a descriptor of how I believed. "So and so is of the (fill in the blank) faith." Or, "the bigger your faith, the more God can use you," way of thinking. Even the disciples may have thought this way when they asked Jesus to give them bigger faith. But Christ addresses this error in Luke 17:6 when He said "If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, 'Be uprooted and planted in the sea,' and it will obey you."
What He was saying is that it is not HOW you believe, but WHO you believe. We demonstrate faith in God when we live according to His will, even when we don't see Him at work in our lives. There have been situations in my life that I had to make the deliberate decision to believe God even when it looked like He was very far from me. But the Hall of Faith-ers take it even a step further. They believed with a sense of certainty – like it had already happened.
- Abel had an attitude of faith
- Noah built a boat on dry desert land
- Abraham demonstrated sacrificial living
- Sarah rocked her new born baby at the youthful age of 90
- Isaac and Jacob believed in a better future for their children
- Joseph lived beyond his circumstances
- Moses exchanged a palace for a hike in the wilderness
- Rahab exchanged a harlot's life for obedience
If you know much of the back-stories on these men and women then you know that they also had weaknesses and made some colossal mistakes. But in spite of their flaws and bad decisions, they had a faith that honored God. So as I attempted to nail down the lesson here, I began to notice a subtle difference between the qualities of their faith and mine. It's the who versus the how. I think I've always viewed God's word as a "how to" book, but in reality it's more like a "who done it." And a must read, if I may say so myself.


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Hmm, would it be possible to add a setting that makes a zealog visible only to participants and watchers? Right now I only have a choice of everyone or just me. A semi-private option would be good for groups.
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Finally! A real game takes the place of The Moron Test as #1 paid app!
Before I start, I'd like to mention that I'm not reviewing this game as a sequel to The Sims 1 and 2, considering the previous two games weren't released for the iPhone. The Sims 3 for the iPhone is, and should be, a very different game from the PC version and shouldn't be compared to previous Sim-related games – The Sims 3 is the very first Sims for the iPhone.
I haven't played The Sims 3 for PC/Mac but I've read up on the features and for the iPhone it is a stripped down version, which it obviously has to be. But that doesn't mean that this isn't a time-consuming game, I've played for over 8 hours so far and there are still things to do. For anyone who hasn't played The Sims or The Sims 2 (where have you been for the last decade?), the basic idea of the game is to create a character and live it's life – keep it happy by making it eat, keep good hygiene, making sure it's well-rested, etc. You have complete control over your "Sim" (unless you turn on the "auto" mode but where's the fun in that?). The amount of things you can do with your Sim for this iPhone version is rather impressive. I'd like to split up my descriptions of the features into six categories: town, dialogue, hobbies/mini-games, goals, money, and build mode.
Town. Once you decide that you are comfortable to take your Sim out of the starting house that it's given, you can enter the neighborhood that your Sim lives in. This was a brand new feature for me even for a Sims game – my experience with the series stopped after a few expansions into the very first game where your play was limited to your own house. The neighborhood consists of other Sims' houses (obviously), a few places to work, a few places to shop, and the lake. The shopping is centered strongly around the hobbies that are available to you, which I will describe later, and jobs are just as boring as I remember from the Sims 1 (you still don't actually "go" to work, you bring your Sim to the place of work and the time instantly passes to when you are getting off). The lack of the work experience bothers me, if EA could create mini-games for the hobbies they could have given us mini-games for each of the different jobs you could obtain: the town hall, the laboratory, the Corsican bistro, and the Quickmart. Each of the Sims in the neighborhood have houses that are visitable by your Sim, complete with the ability to do anything you wish there if the neighbor allows you in. That's right, creep out another Sim that barely knows you by using their shower or raiding their fridge – those are actually goals! (I'll get to those later)
Dialogue. You can interact with other Sims, not other human-controlled Sims unfortunately. Once you leave your starting house for the first time, you can encounter a Sim walking around the neighborhood by tapping them (they displayed by a tiny yellow person that seems to hover), talk to them at the lake, or visit their houses individually. The amount of options while interacting with Sims are fairly extensive, some of which are talking about your different accomplishments (centered around your hobbies), obviously romantic options (for those of you who don't want a lonely Sim), earn promotions for your job, and a variety of actions like insulting, slapping, and arguing.
Hobbies. Hobbies available for your Sim to fill their time with include cooking, fishing, and repairing. I'm going to include gardening in this category as well but, unlike the other three, it doesn't have a mini-game. In the city, the hobby shop sells a repair kit, a fishing kit, a watering can, fertilizer, and a variety of different vegetable seeds – these items obviously correspond with the repairing, fishing, and gardening hobbies. For cooking, you use a combination of the Quickmart (for ingredients), the Corsican Bistro(for recipes), and the option to use your gardening and fishing skills to aid it (gardening for vegetables and fishing for fish). The cooking is probably the most in-depth hobby and it is also almost a must because if you don't cook for yourself you must either dine-in at the Bistro or get a lot of "quick snacks" from your fridge in order to keep your hunger bar up. Although that isn't the only way to keep your hunger bar up – if you're low on cash, (or just a mooch) you can go into any other Sims' house and get quick snacks from their refrigerators without the charge of $10 you pay every time you eat from your own. The mini-games for each hobby are incredibly boring and unbelievably easy, but this doesn't surprise me. The Sims have always been developed to be easy to use for computer-illiterate grandparents and uncoordinated, twelve year-old girls. For the fishing game you simply tilt your phone to keep the pole near the fish until a symbol pops up and you pull the phone up, I've never not caught a fish in this game. For cooking, you touch pots when they are getting hot (glowing red) and gently shake the iPhone to cool them. A strange thing I noticed, when cooking grilled cheese you are still cooling multiple pots with green and red liquid…I'll pass on eating a Sim-cooked meal. As for the repairing mini-game, you drag broken parts on a circuit board to a trash can and replace the parts with the same shaped, new piece. Overall, I was slightly bored with the mini-games but it gave me something to do to raise my hobby's levels instead of simply watching my Sim do something.
Goals. EA added a "goal" or achievement system that helps give The Sims 3 a more clear objective. A lot of times in games as open as The Sims, it's easy to get bored from the lack of objective. Sure you can waste hours on certain days, but on others you wonder why you've purchased games like this – they have no point. The Sims 3's goals give you that objective. You can start up the game and immediately have something to do. Currently there are 73 available goals, all of which seem to come up at random as "wishes" to your Sim and are all of varying difficulty. "Meet a new Sim" is much easier than "Stay entertained for 3 days". There are also slightly funny goals like "Use another Sim's shower" and "Creep out another Sim". I can imagine there will be more goals added with updates. At least I hope there are more, I already have completed 45/73 in two days!
Money. I've encountered four possible ways to make money in the game so far: a job (duh!), doing tasks for other Sims, selling vegetables from your garden, and selling fish. The least profitable of these tasks is selling vegetables from your garden – you have to buy the seeds and fertilizer for each plant and the sell price for vegetables aren't very high. The most profitable should be a job. But it turns out that since the fishing game is so easy (and since a Tuna sells for $100 a fish while my current job as Vice President of the Town Hall gives me $300 a day!), fishing is the most profitable activity. I went the whole first day of playing the game getting money only from fishing. I quit doing this because it was starting to become boring and I wanted to check out the job part of the game for this review. For your job, you must first of all get hired by walking to the place you'd like to work and pressing "Get Job". After this you have to get your Sim to work around the time you're required to be there each day. You are presented with opportunities to steal from work for more money, but this can result in getting fired. Promotions are easy to get, at least for me they were because I was sleeping with my boss… (yes, you can do that!). Tasks from other Sims seem to come up rather randomly while you're talking to them, but some have seemed to spark from conversation. I once "boasted about my fishing feats" and the Sim asked me to give him a salmon for $200. I was able to instantly give him one since I had it in my inventory, but if you don't you can simply go get one and bring it back to him. Some funny tasks I've been asked to do were to slap someone and to kick over a Sim's trash can. If you want to get money fast, fish. If you don't want to die of boredom, get a job.
Build Mode. The house editor doesn't have nearly as much variety as other Sims games have in the past, but it is sufficient. You cannot build your own house like you could in other games but it would have been hard to create one with an iPhone anyway. There are only normally 3-6 options for each piece of furniture and to get more area in your house you must purchase "upgrades" which add space and give extra rooms. I was kind of disappointed with the options of items you could buy but I still haven't made enough money to buy the most expensive of everything yet and more items seem to unlock as I play along, so I'm hopeful that it will get better. I wouldn't be surprised if future updates added a lot more items. I would be even less surprised if you could buy pieces of furniture for REAL money once the ability to purchase "in-app" content comes out with the new update.
Problems, Wishes, and Misses
Problems. CRASHING!!! This app must have crashed a total of about 6-8 times on me in the 8 hours I played it over the last couple days. Restarting my iPhone seemed to help but didn't stop it from happening again. I feel confident that updates will help reduce the amount of crashes. Another problem that I encountered was when an item in your house breaks (to show that you need to repair it) while the cooking mini-game is going on, the camera goes to the break and doesn't allow you to finish the mini-game – causing you to burn your food and lose your ingredients. Again, I hope this is fixed in updates.
Wishes. I want more mini-games, preferably for each job. And these mini-games better be much harder. Obviously, there needs to be more furniture options but it almost isn't worth mentioning because I am almost positive that it will happen in future updates. I would like more hobbies and higher levels for the current hobbies because I'm already maxed out in gardening and fishing, repairing and cooking are close behind. And, of course, I want some kind of multiplayer interaction, maybe create online neighborhoods that only hold 10-15 players at a time and allow Sims to chat, play mini-games against each other, etc.
Misses. Bookshelves. There are bookshelves that you can put in your house but don't do anything important for the Sim. Let me read cook books to improve my cooking or create some kind of intelligence stat that is important for something, don't give me a useless feature.
I think if EA updates this game often, which I don't doubt that they will, this is a great buy. I've sunk the most time into this game than any other game on the iPhone so far (though I've yet to try Zenonia). Is this a full-feature iPhone game? Close, I deem it worth the $10 at least.
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12.10.13 (via RACER.com) – It took far too long, but at Fontana in October, I finally met Geoff Brabham, albeit briefly, just before the press conference announcing his son's graduation to the Indy Lights series next year. My colleague Marshall Pruett kindly introduced us and I was about to tell Mr. B. that he'd been a hero of mine, but I restrained myself because 1) it's a bit tragic to be saying stuff like that at my age; 2) I didn't want to embarrass the man himself who, at 61, seems as self-effacing as ever; and 3) it isn'tquite as true as it should be…
You see, Geoff, eldest son of the great Sir Jack Brabham, has become a hero of mine only in retrospect. At the time when he was dominating the IMSA Camel GT Championship driving the Electramotive Nissans, he was actually more of an anti-hero for this pimply-faced youth. I couldn't get my head around how the legendary Porsche 962s and the beautiful Tony Southgate-designed Jaguar XJRs could have their asses kicked so regularly and so comprehensively by a car that looked like it was styled by a 10-year-old with a cardboard box and a blunt knife.
By 1991, on the back of Brabham's fourth straight Camel GT title, I'd come to accept that the Electramotive/Lola design was as effective as its engine was powerful…and that the dude doing the driving was pretty damn special. While Geoff modestly said at the time, "There are a lot of drivers who could win in the Nissan," eventual two-time Indy 500 winner Arie Luyendyk wasn't so sure. After sampling the Nissan in 1989, the Dutchman remarked: "It's a lot harder to drive this car to the maximum than Geoff appears to make it…." Surely the sign of a true artist.
With two Sebring 12 Hours wins and a Le Mans 24 Hour win (with Peugeot in 1993), Brabham will be remembered as a sports car ace worldwide; but it's the four straight IMSA titles, that has earned him truly legendary status in U.S. sports car racing. A big question for me, and I suspect countless others – including maybe Geoff himself – is whether he could have become a star in Indy cars, too? He certainly starred in them on occasion, but that's not the same thing.
Part of the problem he encountered in his six years running full time in the CART series was his past. At the time Brabham was trying to make it in this rarefied branch of the sport, the CART series was split around 50/50 between road racing and ovals, with any bias tending toward the latter. That hardly worked in Geoff's favor, for after leaving his native Australia in 1976 as domestic Formula 2 champion, he headed to Britain for two years. After then moving to America in '78, he put his heart and soul into Super Vee, both the short-lived USAC-sanctioned Mini-Indy Series and the more significant and prestigious Bosch/Valvoline series, winning the latter title in '79. That gave him his first oval starts in low-powered open-wheelers, but he then returned to his road racing roots, spending two years in Can-Am. That ultimately proved successful, too, as he took the 1981 championship…but added nothing to his minimal oval experience.
That '81 season, Geoff had simultaneously become an Indy car rookie and, driving for Dan Gurney's All American Racers, he stunned the series regulars with pole at his second race, Riverside, and second on the grid for his third race, in Mexico City. We're talking about a pretty remarkable talent, then. Yet his debut Indy car race had been the season opener at Phoenix, and that was his first taste of an oval while having more than 200hp at his back…and he now had 900-plus.
Could Brabham have succeeded, actually got to the point where he could say he'd masteredoval racing? Almost certainly. Ultimately, it comes down to application and willingness to learn. And just as Rick Mears had forced himself to become a strong road racer, progress only stymied by his horrendous leg injuries incurred at Sanair in '84, there's no reason to believe Brabham's skill set couldn't have expanded in the opposite direction, given more time. Time, however, was not on Geoff's side. Aged 29 when he made his Indy car debut, he was always going to be playing catch-up with the kids for whom oval races had been ingrained since the first time they could turn a wheel.
Although curiously adept at both the Pocono tri-oval and the Michigan superspeedway, and twice finishing top-five in the Indy 500, the fact remains that of the 10 podium finishes Brabham achieved in his 92 Indy car starts, eight came on tracks requiring right turns as well as left. By the end of 1987, despite taking eighth in the CART points standings (for the third time), he was out of a ride. Team owner Rick Galles was going to be running a one-car outfit in 1988, and he had his sights set on a driver 10 years Geoff's junior, a superstar in the making by the name of Al Unser Jr.
Brabham was gutted at having to leave Galles Racing, especially with brilliant race engineer Tony Cicale now on board to help turn the squad into winners. But the Florida-domiciled Aussie had too much pride to hang around just to be part of the Indy car scene, and so avoided the mistake so many drivers in their mid-30s make when their best opportunity slips away. Instead of spending a few bitter years licking his wounds while driving an inferior car, Geoff changed disciplines, started over…and became the best sports car racer in the country.
There's little chance of Geoff's son Matt needing to make that career switch. Right now this American of Australian descent is hot property because he's not only seriously fast but also because, in or out of the cockpit, he displays maturity that belies his 18 years.
A karting hotshot in Australia, Matt then showed his potential in Australian Formula Ford where, despite competing in only nine of the 23 races in the 2011 FF championship, he won two of them and finished runner-up in two more. His first experience of slicks and wings came this side of the Pacific in USF2000…and he promptly won the 2012 championship.
Now, to be fair, another very talented American, Spencer Pigot, who was his teammate at Cape Motorsports with Wayne Taylor Racing, won eight races to Brabham's four that season. But it's difficult to emphasize enough how much these junior formulas are about learning on the job at a huge rate – and Pigot was in his second year in the category. Also, by the time Pigot dominated the final event, the double-header at Virginia International Raceway, Brabham had only to nurse a healthy lead in the championship, which he did adequately with cautious runs to fourth and eighth that weekend.
None of this is a slight against Spencer who, unfairly under the radar, is one of the most accomplished open-wheel racers on the Mazda Road to Indy system. But it does highlight the fact that young Brabham, in only his second full season racing cars, could drive with his brains in the manner of a wily veteran in order to seal the deal.


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Aerosmith and Slash to Tour U.S. Together
Neither camp has made it officially-official yet, but considering the fact that both Joe Perry and Slash tweeted about it over the weekend, we're just going to assume this is really going to happen: rock giants Aerosmith will be touring the United States with guitar great Slash this summer.
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry dropped the surprise news via Twitter with the following brief blast: "It's official--we just talked, AEROSMITH/SLASH USA tour confirmed!! Tickets on sale [in the] next few weeks, soon as dates [are] confirmed. LET ROCK RULE!" Slash tossed his two cents in as well: "Great news! We'll be touring the US with Aerosmith this summer! Stay tuned for dates. It's going to be a killer tour!" Perry posted a follow-up missive yesterday, promising that "dates will be announced soon."
The pairing of these rock luminaries makes perfect sense, for it was Aerosmith's 1976 album Rocks that inspired Slash to get into the business of shredding in the first place.
"Rocks was also right up my alley because I was one of those kids," Slash said. "I was bad in school. I had long hair and wore jeans. I smoked. I didn't fit into the yuppie crowd. I was basically just a punk who didn't fit in anywhere. At that time I knew nothing about the guitar, either. I had been to a lot of recording sessions with my parents, but I didn't know anything about anything. But I always dug music, and Aerosmith's drunken, chemically induced powerhouse sound just sold me and changed me forever. Rocks was aggressive, loud and swaggering. It fit my personality perfectly."
Let's hope their personalities still mesh when they take their summer road trip together.
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Greg,John and myself kicked the dates around for a while and finally settled on June 9-10. This is firm so make your plans now to attend. If you cant make it on these dates we are sorry. We had 15 pilots last year and had a great time. We are of planning a FPV fly-in at a sight in Griffin, Ga just south of Atlanta . This will be a 2 day event with the dates being Sat June 9 and Sun June 10. The field(Pecan Patch Air Strip) is on private property( none AMA field )in a relatively rural area . Its a very nice field with a huge takeoff and landing area. Camping on sight will be permitted. 2 days will give more opportunity for people to make it out and in case weather is an issue on one of the days. Controlled flight hours will be 8am- 8pm Saturday and 8am-5pm Sunday. Flying during non-controlled hours is permitted but no one will be running the flight board so its up to attendees to self police during these times. Landing fee to fund a port-a-potty and other expenses will be $15 (covers both days) Camping fee will be $10 per night . The camping area will open at 4 pm Friday for those with long rides that want to arrive Friday evening. Camp roll up by 5pm Sunday please. The goal here is to simply meet, share info and fly some FPV at a great sight. All are welcome here ...near and far **You do not have to be a FPV pilot to attend...if you are interested in learning you are welcome to attend** Oh...if you are lucky enough to own a full scale you could fly in as this is a full scale airstrip....pm pecanpatch for details if you want to do this. location....http://www.ourairports.com/airports/0GE4/ 750 Teamon Rd. Griffin GA 30223 Gravel Driveway Sign that says Pecan Patch Airstrip (sign is only visible when approaching from the West) We will be up and night flying... call Marko when you get there and I'll assist in finding a good place to camp... 770-337-4480 Note: Green Mailbox just says 750 on it. Mailbox is sadly across the street from my driveway Some of our Generous sponsors: ReadyMadeRC, LLC http://www.readymaderc.com/store/ http://www.urbandrones.com/ What does the Pecan Patch field look like .....recent events.....enjoy last years FPV fly-in http://fpvlab.com/forums/showthread.....April-30-May1 Pecans Slinger wing
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Beautiful pic Marko!
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This morning I woke up and noticed that I'd started my period so I went to the bathroom to clean up. I sat down on the toilet, when I finished I noticed a long gooey strand of mucus or something hanging from my body into the toilet bowl, and all of a sudden I was hit with extreme pain, that slowly increased to quite possibly the worst pain of my life. I started shaking and sweating, and my vision blurred in and out. I threw up a few times, but I didn't feel better afterward like someone normally does after throwing up.
I started to eat animal crackers and drink water (don't ask why my family keeps water bottles and animal crackers in the bathroom) and that helped a little bit, but then I got diarrhea . I don't know what happened then, but I found myself not on the toilet, but on the floor with my pants around my ankles.
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I was in the bathroom for over two hours.
What the hell happened to me?
I have ovarian cysts, could that have anything to do with this?
I keep my cell phone in the bathroom with me so I can play tetris and stuff lol.
I'm 18, I've had bad cramps before but nothing like that. I also had a history of irregular periods but they became regular after I started and then stopped birth control. (which was almost a year ago)
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wow i have no idea but feel better! that must really suck… i would go to the ER if it keeps up though…… again feel better!
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http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/CheckSymptoms I think you should go to that link and arrange a call back and when they call you go threw your symptoms they should be able to help x if you dont want to do that google symptom checker and you can click on a manicuin and tick what symptoms you had and it will bring up the things it could be
good luck get well soon x
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I have no idea, But the animal crackers and drinking water made me laugh way too much. Feel better! Hope you get some answers.
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Such is the case with the year-old Tapas Under the Trees, located in the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach -- or, more specifically, adjacent to the hotel's pool. Open only for dinner, the place's decor depends entirely on the weather. The ceiling could be a picturesque Monet: soft, midnight blue broken by a blurry canopy of leaves and branches. Or it could be a menacing Turner: stormy dark gray punctuated by slashes of orange light. This past winter's abundance of Turners threatened to rust the pink-and-white patio furniture and warp flamenco guitarist David Fernando's instrument (which would be a shame, given that the CD player management uses when he's not playing tends to skip). And the few times I called in anticipation of dining there, Tapas Under the Trees was nonoperational owing to rain. But as spring settles in and weather conditions stabilize, the eatery seems once again to be a viable dining option. (Until summer, that is, but at least then the storms are more predictable.)
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As its name suggests, the restaurant serves tapas -- appetizer-size dishes of Spanish origin. And while many of the twenty-plus offerings are international in scope, several have their roots firmly planted in Spain. Champinones al ajillo, mushrooms sauteed in garlic, and gambas al ajillo, cold-water shrimp prepared the same way, are traditional Spanish starters. As was gazpacho Andalucia ($4.00). The chilled puree of tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions was a smooth and tangy blend, if a bit too heavy on the onions.
We passed over tapa de la casa, another cold option comprising manchego cheese, serrano ham, chorizo sausages, and marinated olive salad, preferring our sausages hot. A chorizo-potato frittata fit the bill. Bits of the pork sausage were scattered over a crisp, shredded potato pancake; given the frittata appellation, we'd expected more of an omelet. The pan-fried cake was garnished with sour cream and chives and roasted scallions that were a little on the burnt side.
Grilled chorizo sausages were simpler and a bit more authentic. Split lengthwise, the rosy meat was skewered and served with a red bell pepper sauce for dipping. A twenty-ounce pitcher of ruby-hue sangria ($12.00), poured tableside over fresh fruit and ice, washed down the piquant sausages nicely. Several tapas exhibit Caribbean influences, including West Indian marinated Florida swordfish, grilled shrimp marinated in Scotch bonnet peppers and key limes, and baked green plantains topped with crabmeat. Bahamian cracked conch salad, a cold appetizer, was served in half a coconut -- a pleasant innovation. The zesty salad was beautifully jewel-toned, brimming with chopped red tomatoes and green peppers, but the strips of slightly chewy white conch were too few.
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Divorce, remarriage can have drastic outcome on development
This is the fifth in a series about the ripple effect of divorce and remarriage on family systems.
Q: What are additional effects of family structure and change on children?
A: Continuing the discussion of the causative links between parent separation and poor child outcomes, there is yet more information provided by the Ministry of Social Development New Zealand publication. Although shared residential custody is becoming more common, research on the post-divorce outcomes for children still center on father absences with mother residential custody.
A single-parent female home provides less available time for parenting. It also lacks the adult role of a male. Also missing with the father absence is an opportunity for children to learn skills in communication, compromise, negotiation and expressing intimacy. However, those skills assume a good marital relationship, when the truth of the matter is many intact marriages do not model these skills.
Father absence from the family home can mean a loss of effective contact with the children. However, research does not support the hypothesis that father absence is a significant factor in negative children outcomes following divorce. Controlled studies between groups of children who have lost fathers from death and those whose fathers were divorced showed no difference. Economic factors were more significant than absent fathers.
Another research result that does not support the causative significance of father absence is remarriage does not improve the well-being of children. The positive influence of a second parent is nullified by the complexities of a step-family. Remarriage also might not improve finances because of the financial commitments from prior relationships.
A father absence can be countered with other significant adult male role models such as relatives, coaches and teachers. If the father maintains an active role in the child's life, even though he is not living in the home, that presence contributes to a child's well-being.
A third factor in family change is the mother's mental health. The process of divorce seriously can impair the quality of maternal parenting. Maternal mental health problems are more problematic than problems of fathers. The common symptoms in divorcing mothers are depression, anxiety, anger and lack of self-confidence. These problems then cause less affection, less communication and less consistent discipline between mothers and children.
If custodial mothers are healthy enough to maintain good parenting relationships with their children, that circumstance will buffer the negative effects of divorce. Of course, there is variation because of the different temperaments and coping skills of both mothers and children.
The fourth factor that connects with parental separation and child outcomes is the most complex. Inter-parental high conflicts are present in approximately half of divorcing couples as compared to their presence in 25 percent of couples who remain married. Research has found, in addition, 75 percent of those couples who experience high conflict choose to stay married. Such a result shows the avenue of divorce is not available to the majority of children of high-conflict parents, at least at the time of the research.
The link between high conflict and parental separation might exist before, during and after divorce. Studies have shown continuing high conflict in intact families is as harmful as that following parental separation. Behavioral studies of children living in high-conflict parental homes revealed more behavioral problems than children living in high conflict homes with one biological parent.
An interesting finding in studying high conflict families is children from high-conflict homes generally are better off after parent separation, provided the separation decreases the conflict. But children from low-conflict families are not as well off after parents separate. These children might view divorce as unwelcome, unexpected and negative.
Conflict that is intense and involves the children post-divorce is damaging to the children. The greater the conflict, the more harm. Children younger than 7 are vulnerable to post-divorce high conflict. Children have symptoms similar to other children in treatment for emotional and behavioral disorders.
Studies show separation or divorce disrupts parenting practices. With boys, fathers who stay involved significantly reduce their son's delinquent behavior. Parental role models, as well as parental supervision, are the main influences that determine the behavior of children in their future families. Poor family relationships either can precede divorce and contribute to that separation or develop after divorce as an effect of the process.
A summary of the differences in well-being between children whose parents separate or divorce and those who remain together shows children of intact families fare better, but not by much. Most children do not show adverse effects of parent separation.
Many factors affect children after parent separations: declines in living standards, the mental health of custodial mothers, inter-partner conflicts and poor parenting practices. Some poor child outcomes after divorce might relate to genetic inheritance, problems parents brought into the marriage, and conflicts that existed long before parents separate.
The key to positive children outcomes lies with the presence or absence of post-divorce high conflict, whether it was there before divorce or not. Without a doubt, high post-divorce conflicts that put children in the middle and are bitter, hateful and vindictive, are the greatest threats to the well-being of children in parental separation. A high level of parental cooperation is the most effective way to counter the adverse effects on children from parental separation.
* Next week's article will discuss modern trends in the stages of divorce.
Judy Caprez is associate professor of social work at Fort Hays State University. Send your questions in care of the department of sociology and social work, Rarick Hall, FHSU.


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lovely car mate - options list is absolutely massive. After having dealt with most E60 issues recently, keep a big budget aside for repairs, far more costly than Audi for parts alone! IIRC the MPG on these is something ridiculous like 12mpg, so bear that in mind too Otherwise, amazing car
I had a run in one of these - launch control was very fun but didn't find it that amazing to drive. Lovely noise and good power but didn't feel very involving. I think there's an issue with Vanos which I don't have a clue what it means but I know it's big bucks to replace/repair. I used 1/4 tank of petrol on a 20 mile journey - ok that was going flat out but still.
I also have a fancy for one of these for my next car, only real info i can add from what i have dug up is they go through clutches quite regular, anything from 40-60K will usually need replacing which plays on my mind a bit. Also had some negative comments for daily town driving, aparantly the gearbox isnt great at low speeds etc, but that may be a personal opinion, im still gonna go have a couple of test drives before ''im out'' on the M5. Apart from that its been one of my dream cars and i fancy doing it when i get home from working abroad.