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A clean grate and patience pay off with delicious burgers
This Fourth of July, you need only follow one simple edict.
Do not play with your food.
This is vital, especially if you are planning on a burger bonanza for your holiday cookout this weekend.
"Generally speaking, I think people actually fiddle with the food too much," said Jamie Purviance, author of five Weber grilling cookbooks, including his most recent, "Weber's Way To Grill" ($24.95, Sunset Books). "They try to turn it and rotate it and poke at it and set it on fire.
"I think it's very irresistible. There is something about fire, particularly to men. We have something in our DNA that says, 'I must play with this now, otherwise I'm not really grilling.' "
Burgers, especially, do not need to be mashed, squeezed or flopped back and forth like a reeled-in fish gasping for air. To develop burger flavor, and to prevent them from sticking and tearing on the grill, you have to leave them alone.
"You can only get that delicious seared, caramelized quality on meat if you leave it in place long enough," Purviance said. "Most people put their food on the grill and are picking it up again and getting only half-grilled flavors that way.
"Generally, you turn things once, and at the end of the day, the flavor and texture of the food is better. It just takes fighting that irresistible urge to play with fire."
Still, once you've introduced the meat to the grill, that does not give you license to wander off to see how the onion dip or the beer keg is holding up. A really juicy, succulent burger can go dry in less than a minute if you're not paying attention, Purviance said.
By starting with a fattier meat, at least 20 percent fat for ground beef, and adding in moisture – Purviance likes to use vegetables such as the poblano chiles in his California Burgers – you are ensuring a wider window for perfect doneness. This is especially important for leaner meats, such as turkey, chicken or fish burgers.
"The degree of difficulty goes right up with a turkey burger," Purviance said. "You have to be vigilant, add moisture, and be very careful about temperature so you aren't driving out moisture so quickly.
"Honestly, when I'm making turkey burgers, I usually plan on making an extra as a tester. You have to cut it open a little early to assure it's the right texture and know, 'OK, this one is a minute away.' Then that is your chef's treat, your little prize for cooking dinner that night."
Purviance cooks for his wife and three young children almost every day on at least one of his six grills at his home in Foster City in the San Francisco Bay Area. In writing his latest book on technique, Purviance said his wife clued him in on a big burger faux pas he was making.
"A pet peeve of my wife's is she hates biting into a burger and having her first bite be mostly bun," he said. "It's one mistake a lot of people make, and I was making it, too, for a while.


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Keep A Lid On When Alcohol Is Sold To Prevent Accidents
Prohibition-lite sort of works when it comes to reducing alcohol-related accidents.
When people have more time to buy alcohol, they consume more of it and more likely to have car crashes, research show.
So, public health advocates say, it's a mistake to relax rules that prohibit Sunday sales of alcohol, for instance, or to lengthen the hours when booze, beer and wine can be bought.
An independent task force made up of public health experts appointed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling on states and municipalities to hold the line on when alcohol is sales.
In a recommendation that will be published in the December issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the group says both the days when alcohol is sold is stores and the hours during which it's available should stay restricted.
They cited evidence from a bunch of studies that showed adding 2 hours to the allowed time each day for alcohol sales increased accidents, ER admissions and injuries.
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In case you're wondering, the group stopped short of calling for new restrictions because there isn't enough research on that.
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On 30 September 2013, the President signed Federal Law No. 260-FZ amending Part III of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation.
The Law is the sixth set of amendments to the Russian Civil Code within the civil law reform framework. According to the Concept of Evolution of Civil Legislation ("the Concept"), the aim of the amendments is to remove the legislative uncertainties and legal gaps when it comes to regulating relations involving a foreign element regarding (i) the European experience of harmonizing private international law provisions; (ii) amendments made to other sections of the Russian Civil Code and (iii) prevalent court practice.
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Americans Choose Beer As Their Favorite Alcoholic Beverage
Next time you're out with friends, look around the table. Chances are good you'll see more beer bottles than wine glasses or martinis, and that's not a coincidence — a new survey discovered beer is America's favorite alcoholic beverage.
Britain May Increase Recommendations for Healthy Alcohol Consumption
The Commons Science and Technology Committee in the United Kingdom is considering increasing its guidelines for healthy alcohol consumption, which currently state men shouldn't routinely drink more than four units of alcohol a day — about two pints of beer — and women should limit themselves to three units — a large glass of wine.
Doctors have cast doubts on the recommendations, put in place by the Royal College of Physicians in 1987.
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Toward The First Nose Drops To Treat Brain Cancer
Scientists are reporting the development and successful initial testing of a new form of methotrexate "" the mainstay anticancer drug "" designed to be given as nose drops rather than injected. It shows promise as a more effective treatment for brain cancer, they say. The report appears in ACS' Molecular Pharmaceutics, a bi-monthly journal.
Tomotaka Shingaki and colleagues note that brain cancer is difficult to treat, partly because current anticancer drugs have difficulty reaching the brain. That's because the so-called blood-brain barrier (a protective layer of cells surrounding the brain) prevents medication in the blood from entering the brain. But new evidence indicates that some drugs administered through the nose, either as nose drops or nasal spray, can bypass this barrier and travel directly into the brain. Among them are drugs for migraine headaches. Until now, however, nobody knew if methotrexate might do the same.
The scientists tested methotrexate nose drops on laboratory rats with brain cancer. Compared to cancer treated with an injectable form of the drug, the nose drop drug reduced the weight of tumors by almost one-third, the scientists said. "The strategy to utilize the nose-brain direct transport can be applicable to a new therapeutic system not only for brain tumors but also for other central nervous system disorders such as neurodegenerative diseases," the article noted.
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Three bills introduced in the House of Representatives that would ease leverage restrictions on business development companies (BDCs) face an uncertain future in light of concerns expressed by the Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission. BDCs are closed-end investment companies that invest in small- and medium-sized private companies.
H.R. 1800, the Small Business Credit Availability Act, introduced in April 2013, would:
H.R. 31, introduced in January 2013, is substantially similar to H.R. 1800, except that it does not require the SEC to revise certain rules, including certain provisions of Regulation FD.
H.R. 1973, the Business Development Company Modernization Act, introduced in May 2013, would allow BDCs to buy and hold interests of registered investment advisers and would expand the definition of "eligible portfolio companies" in which BDCs may invest, including certain private funds, such as hedge funds and private equity funds.
The House Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the House Financial Services Committee held hearings on October 23, 2013.
BDCs' investments typically take the form of loans, because these companies often are unable to obtain traditional bank financing. Since Congress created BDCs in 1980, they have grown in popularity because, among other things, they are available to retail investors, and they are exempt from a number of significant provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940, which allows them to pay a higher rate of return than traditional investment companies. These exemptions also allow BDCs to pay higher management fees to their sponsors.
In a letter dated October 21, 2013, to the Subcommittee, SEC Chair Mary Jo White expressed concern that easing restrictions on BDCs "raises potential investor protection concerns, as it would allow non-accredited investors to invest in a BDC comprised entirely of private funds. As such, BDCs would be used to circumvent the general prohibition on selling interests in private funds to retail investors."
One witness who testified in support of the proposed legislation noted that BDCs are considered an emerging asset class that is growing swiftly, and that legislation modernizing the regulatory framework would allow BDCs to tap the capital markets more quickly, as they play "an increasingly important role in financing underserved small and mid-sized U.S. companies." Another witness, a former state regulator, testified against parts of the proposed legislation that would ease leverage because of the potential for increased risk to "unsophisticated retail investors."
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Vic Lyte, Sophia Jones, Sophia Ananiadou and Linda Kerr describe an innovative tool to showcase UK research output through advanced discovery and retrieval facilities.
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Sophia Ananiadou describes NaCTeM and the main scientific challenges it helps to solve together with issues related to deployment, use and uptake of NaCTeM's text mining tools and services.
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The additional Thane district's consumer dispute redressal forum recently pulled up a Navi Mumbai-based developer after the firm had failed to hand over the possession of three flats, which the customers had booked between 2009 and 2011, thus holding the firm guilty of providing faulty services. The forum, thus asked the firm to either pay back the received booking amount with 15% interest from the time they had paid the money or to hand over the possession of their flat by accepting the remaining cost of their respective flats. The forum has also directed the firm to pay each Rs25,000 causing mental agony, along with an additional Rs10,000 towards their litigation cost.
The complainants, Neeta Rasal, Amit Sharma and Sudhakar Shinde, on August 6, 2012, had approached the forum and had filed a complainant against Navi Mumbai developing firm named Suraj Developers and its proprietor, Shirish Chavan, for accepting a certain sum of booking amount from them, and then failing to hand over the possession of the flats. The complainants had claimed that on December 16, 2011, they had received a call from the developer, saying that due to certain reasons he will not be able to hand over the possession and that it would return the booking amount to them. However as the developer, till August 2012, had failed to pay back the booked amount, hence the three approached the forum.
According to the forum's order copy, the cost of the flat booked by Rasal, Sharma and Shinde was Rs14,13,500; Rs12,90,000 and Rs12 lakhs respectively. "Of the total cost of the flats, Rasal had paid Rs3 lakh, Sharma had paid Rs6,40,000, and Chavan Rs9,85,000," reads the order.
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Having trouble hearing? Don't just tolerate it. Communicating with others is essential and hearing loss is a common concern. It can isolate you from your loved ones and interfere on many levels. But you can take action. "I encourage them not to put up with it," said audiologist Jo Anne Price at Certified Hearing. "You can do better than that."
The first thing to do is see your doctor. You may be able to be treated in the office, if it's relatively simple problem like an object in the ear or excessive ear wax. From there you may be referred to an audiologist to do a hearing test and perhaps get fitted for a type of sound amplifier or hearing aid.
Price said your loved ones want to talk with you, that's why they're concerned. They want you to interact with them and be part of the conversation. If they are concerned that a family member is having difficulty hearing, according to Price what they are really saying to you is, "I think communicating with you is important."
She sees patients of all ages, some older adults and some very young children. According to Price five percent of kids under 18 have some hearing loss. Providence St. Mary Medical Center does a hearing screen for babies right after they're born. So parents can have a pretty good idea of where they stand with regard to their child's hearing.
Since she started the business in 1975, Price has encouraged parents to get their child's vision and hearing tested right away so they can have all the opportunities at language development at an early age. However hearing loss is probably more associated with those 55 and older because there is a genetic tendency to lose hearing as you age. A third of the population of those between age 65-75 have some hearing loss. According to Price, for those older than 75 almost half have hearing loss. Some is the result of aging, but some hearing loss is from direct exposure to loud noise.
Price said this noise exposure can come from a variety of sources such as guns, combines, industrial noise, electric amplifiers, headsets and others. But even though there's more technology to transmit sound, there's also now more protective technology.
Price loves the new technology and she's empowered to help people of all ages hear better and have a better quality of life. "Now there's more technology to help. You can get Ipod earphones that don't go up beyond 85 decibels. You can even get custom ear plugs."
That means there's all kinds of hearing aids and amplifiers, too. "They're great if they fit appropriately. We have great technology now," Price said. And it's at a much lower cost now, too.
She loves her job, helping people have a better quality of life, to hear and interact better with their loved ones.
Price suggested to prevent hearing loss, avoid loud noises or wear ear protection--it's sensible. And all the advances in technology has helped also. "If the foam earplugs are uncomfortable they make comfy ones out of silicone. Some ear protections now tune out the frequencies that are damaging."
According to Price, the noise that's destructive is anything over 90 decibels. "It's the sound pressure level, a shotgun is 120-130 decibels, even a short burst of noise, the sound pressure hits the eardrum and damages the hair cells in the inner ear."
"Hearing aids are better than not hearing at all but it's better if you can prevent it," she said.
The ramifications of untreated hearing loss include socially withdrawing because you can't clearly hear the conversations around you, Price said. "There can develop concerns about cognitive function when the input is incomplete, the responses can be incomplete. I've seen people who have become quite depressed. They often think people are angry because they raise their voices and they look angry when talking loudly. They may be feeling they're not fitting in anymore. They're not part of the group anymore. They may be labeled as having dementia and cognitive loss when it's actually hearing loss. You can't remember what you didn't hear. It affects relationships and families."
Often the grown children help encourage the parent to come in and get screened. "The kids care that the parent participates." When trying to communicate with someone with severe hearing loss, remove the background noise and add more clarity to conversations. It's important to face the person you're talking with rather than being turned to one side. Anything that affects communication affects everyone involved. "It's a two-way street not one way," she said. It goes beyond just the family. "It's helpful for physicians if their patients can hear them."
Price suggested starting with a "pocket talker," for amplified hearing enhancement. It amplifies sounds closest to the listener while it reduces background noise. She urges people to come in, get some help and information. Don't just order something through the mail without the ability to return it. Get your hearing checked, she said. Because of digital technology now they can custom fit hearing devices. "Some have fancier noise suppression," Price said. The specifications are as individual as the fit. There is a recision law in Washington state that clarifies a return policy for hearing aids. If you can't wear them you shouldn't keep them, she said. Make sure it fits right.
"The patient wants to do better. We may have to work at it, fine tune it. They end up doing quite well. You have to be patient and work on it. Get some help. If you need information or if you need help changing the batteries and cleaning the hearing aids come in, we'll help you."
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Game Play
Playing for the Plot
Dungeon Crawling
Technical Aspects
So in conclusion...
- There is a surprisingly vast amount of items that you can find for such a seemingly simply game. Despite there being few places to go, there is a lot more to do than one might think at a first glance.
The difficulty increases as you go through the dungeons, keeping a better hold on your interest.
Even the dialogue itself is somewhat entertaining and more "intelligent" and adult than a game like, for example, Harvest Moon.
- The debts you are made to repay are sometimes impossible to meet resulting in the need to restart. Failing to meet ones payments at any part of the game results in having to start over, albeit with all of your items. For example, if you made your payments for the first three weeks and failed on the fourth week, you go back to week one.
- Recettear, at a first glance, is just a small indie game perhaps akin to the likes of the infamous Facebook game "Farmville" or whatever Zynga's managed to come up with recently. However, that is very much INCORRECT!
The overall plot of the game is rather simple. You play as Recette, a young girl who is currently living alone in her father's home. It seems that he's gone missing, apparently having partaken in some large adventure and never having returned. Much to her surprise she is one day visited by a fairy by the name of Tear. She instructs you that your father left you with a daunting debt which you will have to repay, or you will be thrown on the streets. A compromise is made - you will turn your home into an item shop, buy and sell items at a profit and slowly widdle away at the overly large debt your father has so kindly left on your lap.
And that is the story of how I began to run an item shop...
Game Play
- There isn't a lot of moving around to do in Recettear. You can move around your item shop in order to place or remove items and you can move around in the dungeons, but that is it. If you head out to town you will be shown a map and have to choose where to go - you can not freely walk around the town or any place other than your own shop or the dungeons.
Despite being unable to walk freely, you can interact with people around the town if you stumble upon a cutscene. If, when you look at the map, you notice that one of the names of the places is glowing, then once you go there you will witness a small interaction between your character and another. During the cutscenes you can do little more than press "z" and wait for it to end, but many of the cutscenes are to your benefit and it is suggested that you pay attention to what is being said unless you want to miss something important!
Playing for the Plot
- Although it is possible to play this game on "Endless Mode" without worrying about paying debts, you will need to beat it at least once in order to do so. After you successfully pay off your entire debt you will unlock Endless Mode where you will be able to dungeon crawl and buy and sell items to your heart's content without worrying about having to start over. You can completely bankrupt yourself if you so choose.
In order to beat the game you will need to pay off your debt weekly. Each week the amount that you pay raises by what Tear refers to as "a small amount," when really you're paying ridiculous amounts of money in a short period of time. It's very daunting and sometimes impossible to achieve but in the event that you fail, you're not at a total loss.
If you can not meet your payments you will witness a small cutscene during which Recette is reduced to living in a box on the street. Good news, however - it was all just a dream! You will wake up on week 1 before the whole thing began to start anew. This means that if you paid off your first two weeks and failed the third, you will have to go back to week one. You will, however, retain all of your items that were in your bag or in the shop as well as your merchant level and any levels of the second dungeon that you were able to unlock.
Unfortunately, if you lose, you will have to re-watch all the cutscenes that you have already watched. This means that you will have to meet the other adventurers all over again, you will have to meet Alouette a second time as well as unlock any dungeons that you were able to enter (besides the second one). However, there is an option to skip cutscenes by pressing the esc key, luckily for you.
Dungeon Crawling
- As has been mentioned before, this game has dungeons in which you can find various items that can not be found in the Marketplace or the Merchant's Guild. In the beginning of the game the items that you find in dungeons are relatively cheap and won't bring in a lot of profit, but as you delve deeper and begin to unlock more dungeons you will find items that you can sell for more than you would usually make in an entire game week.
Since Recette is just a small girl and Tear isn't much of a help in the bulk department, you will have to go into the dungeon with an adventurer. In the beginning you will be able to use Louie, a young adventurer simply trying to make his way in life. You will need to beat the first dungeon with him and, after receiving his Guild Card which will allow you to use him as an adventurer, then you can move on to other dungeons. Throughout the game you will unlock several adventurers all with different statistics, weapons and skills and will be able to supply them with better, stronger equipment in order to boost their respective strengths.
Adventurers also have the ability to level up, increasing their overall stats and abilities. Each time a monster is destroyed it will explode into glittering jewels, or Power Crystals. The adventurer absorbs these crystals and takes in the power and becomes stronger. The highest level for an adventurer is level 99.
Items that you find in the dungeons can be anything from armor to weaponry. Among the most important of these items, however, are "Ingredients" which are dropped by monsters. Ingredients can later be used to create "Fusion" items which are made by combining low-grade items with Ingredients in order to create better, stronger items that you can not find in the dungeons or the shops. Sometimes it is necessary, even, to go into a dungeon with your adventurer and harvest ingredients even if you have already passed the dungeon.
Perhaps the most frustrating thing about any dungeon is the amount of items that you can hold, and the amount of items that you can take back with you in the event that you collapse. To start out with, you can only hold a certain amount of items in your bags. If you run out of room you will have to choose carefully, dropping items that you wish to trade in for better ones. It is possible to raise the amount of items that you can carry, however, by raising your merchant level. By the end of the game you will still only be able to carry up to 35 items so it is necessary to learn which items you need and which items you do not.
Worse than the 35 item limit, however, is the limit of items that you can take back if you die. Initially, if you lose all of your HP in a dungeon you can only take one item back with you. As you raise your merchant levels you will be able to take up to 3 items back with you. It's still not a very large number, though, considering the important things you'll be finding in the dungeons at higher levels.
Although the dungeons start out easy, the game does a good job of retaining a certain level of difficulty. Monster levels increase as you move through the dungeons, both from the first floor to the last floor and from the first dungeon to the last dungeon. In this way it forces you to make choices based on where you are and what you need to do. In the first dungeon you may have been able to kill a monster with one shot but in the last dungeon it could take anywhere from 3-4 shots depending on your adventurer, your weapon and your own level. Even at level 99 the dungeons can still be a relatively dangerous place!
Technical Aspects
- The graphics of Recettear are not brilliant but neither are they choppy and ill thought of. Every item has its own sprite so that each type of clothing looks different, each sword looks different, all the food looks different, etc. The characters take on the look of a Japanese Animation during cutscenes while the smaller avatars that you move around with are, of course, smaller, more squat and "chibi" versions of the more formal selves.
You are able to move in any direction rather than the classic 4 or 8 directions making it easy to dodge monsters. However, this also means that some of the monsters can move in any direction making them a little harder to dodge.
When the characters speak they will speak in Japanese but the writing is English. Each character does have their own voice significant to them but, unless you speak Japanese, you'll have to pay attention to the dialogue boxes in order to understand what's going on.
There are in-game sound options allowing you to change the volume of sounds such as speech, music, and actions allowing you to change them to suit your tastes.
So in conclusion...
- For a game with so little backing and so small a concept, it certainly leaves a big impression. It might not be "the best game since The Ocarina of Time" or anything of the sort but it's got enough meat to serve an army of gamers for quite a few weeks.
The dungeons are by no means huge and involved but they weren't taken lightly by the developers, either. You'll face so many traps, bombs, landslides and flying fish (No, that's not a joke. There are flying fish!) that you'll start to doubt if you'll EVER get out of the dungeon. In a fun and entertaining way, of course.
After you beat the game you're free to do what you want whether it's selling items and seeing who you can squeeze the most money out of or work on your encyclopedia of items and see if you can find every last piece of armor and sword until it's full.
In all, the game tailors to a little bit of everyone - those who just want to relax and those who want a little excitement, suspense and... frustration.
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