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Issued 18 September, 2008
Concert Hall, Sydney Opera House
21 – 26 April, 2009
Music by Richard Thomas Book and lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas Directed by Gale Edwards
Audacious, blasphemous, scandalous and fabulous."The most explosive theatrical event for years, and the biggest thrill at the National for decades…the show sets a new standard for musical theatre" The Observer."Achieves nothing less than the transfiguration of trash TV, turning its crass nature into something sublime." The New York Times
From its phenomenal success in London and New York, Jerry Springer: The Opera is finally coming to Australia. The smash-hit, multi-award-winning production will premiere in the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall from 21 – 26 April, 2009.
Based on the self-flagellatory version of Jerry's own lurid talk show, Jerry Springer: The Opera is a fascinating mix of the highest form of art and the lowest form of pop culture – opera and daytime television.
In turns hilarious and heart-breaking, this raunchy, high-energy, all-singing, all-dancing production follows Jerry Springer to the afterlife and beyond. Reviled by Christian fundamentalists for allegedly containing 8000 expletives (there are only 149) and hailed by Christian Voice as blasphemous, Jerry Springer presents characters who are each desperate to have their own 'Jerry Springer' moment.
Along with an eight piece band, 21 actors play the cast of low-lifes and audience members who reveal their secrets, cuss each other and fight as their embarrassments come to life on TV."I used to be a lap-dancing pre-operative transsexual"
The role of Jerry Springer, the non-singing agent provocateur, is yet to be cast as is the part of the Warm Up Man who revs up the audience before turning into a charismatic Prince of Darkness.
Featuring nappy fetishists, dancing Klansmen and a Jesus who admits he is "just a little bit gay", the show poses a moral philosophical debate about the culture in which we live. In an age of Big Brother where television offers both the ultimate validation of our existence and a public confessional for doing so, Jerry Springer's 'take no prisoners' humour mocks our cultural institutions and mores.
Dip me in chocolate and throw me to the lesbians…
With music by Richard Thomas and book and lyrics by Stewart Lee and Richard Thomas, the show created history by winning all four Best Musical Awards (Olivier, Evening Standard, Critic's Circle and What's On Stage) and three further Olivier Awards.
This comic opera has acquired cult status. As Richard Thomas said of the TV show, "It's got tragedy, it's got violence, there are people screaming at each other and you can't understand what they're saying. It's perfect for opera."
This premier Australian season of JSTO will be directed by renowned Australian theatre director, Gale Edwards. In demand internationally, Edward's has brought her masterful touch to productions across the full operatic and theatrical canon.
Celebrated for turning old-fashioned, text-heavy staid productions into heart-racing, blood-thirsty, lustful dramas, Edwards is also recognised for bringing a particular Australian sensibility to all her theatre and opera productions and to the way in which the shows evolve in the rehearsal and development phase. Her most recent production, The Rocky Horror Picture Show played to packed houses in Sydney.
Filled with outrageous language (the F word is in full bloom), this profane, cheeky musical has a sung-through score that ranges from pop and classical to contemporary opera. Satan and Jesus sing a duet and a rousing finale in the grand Broadway tradition will make you click your heels and laugh all the way home whilst mouthing the words you dare not say aloud!
It ain't over till the fat lady says you're sleeping with your brother's sister's twin…Season Details
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I thought it would be fun to put together a list of things I'd like to see on the phase two list, and since it's the season for wish lists anyway, the timing is perfect. Read on for a look at a few things I'd like to see in EQII next year, and then share your ideas below!
Overland content
EQII has tons and tons of great content, but most of it is instanced, and the shared dungeons have usually been ghost towns in the past. Public quests are great, and it was nice to see a new one added to the Commonlands with the Freeport update. I'd love to see more open-world content added to the game -- even, dare I say it, a return of the Avatars. There's a chunk of the EQII population that would love the chance to mix it up again, and more contested content would liven things up and renew long-standing guild and server rivalries. For other players, more open-world content like public quests are a fun way to get out of the isolated instances and get more involved with the rest of the playerbase.
A true mentor system and a chronomage revamp
I always loved the mentor system in EQII, but it has always had the problem of not being a true system. You can mentor down to a lower-level player, but a mentored level 30, for example, is always more powerful than a true level 30. The recent addition of the chronomage system was a noble effort to get players to mentor more often and go back and use old content, but it never really caught on other than as a way to score a few AAs for level-capped players.
A revamp of the mentoring system would probably be a huge undertaking, but it has a ripple effect that would help many other areas of the game. The dungeon maker system, for example, had to launch with creature-based gameplay because it was the only way to allow for all players level 20 and up to do the dungeons on a level playing field. Putting in a true mentoring system would solve that issue. In addition, the rewards for high-level players to mentor could be increased, since there would once again be a true challenge for doing old content. It's a great system, and it's something that I miss when I'm playing other MMOs that don't have it, but it would benefit greatly from a much-needed revamp.
I'm almost torn about this one because I'm so used to quirks with itemization, I'm not sure what I'd do if things were smoothed out. On the other hand, the layers of new content, as well as the "flavor of the month" feel to stats, can create a confusing and sometimes frustrating experience when it comes to gearing up.
The big itemization revamp helped to establish the groundwork for a more consistent path of upgrades, but it still needs work, and there are still items out there with poorly matched stats and inaccurate values. The team has said that itemization's still on the list, and it's understandable that the expansion and game update nudged it to the side for a bit. Hopefully now that things are quieting down, itemization will once again be a priority.
Bring community leaders back into the fold
When you think about how long EQII has been around, it's amazing how long the prominent community figures have stuck around as well. Players like Naimi, Feldon, and Jethyl have been around for years, and there's an amazing amount of terrific player-created videos, songs, and write-ups for EQII fans to dive into. Now that there's a way to publish screenshots and videos to social media, it would be great to see EQII take the ball and run with it. Fans have often pined for the day when their favorite game finally had some advertising, but the veteran community figures basically advertise the game all the time, for free, and could arguably do a better job because of their vast amount of knowledge.
I know that there's a risk for an MMO to embrace player-evangelists because there's no guarantee they'll be around forever, but it surprised me to read how Feldon from EQ2Wire and others were shut out of press tours and pre-launch expansion interviews. (Note that Morgan's description of MMO companies paying airfare, hotel-costs and expenses to get press sites to cover their games does not apply to Massively. It's our policy to not take gifts for our coverage.) I know in the past, the SOE team has done a great job of highlighting community sites and player-made web content, even going as far as to send them pieces of a lore puzzle to kick off the launch of the Sentinel's Fate expansion. It would be nice to see that relationship rekindled in the future, especially since EQII has one of the oldest and most loyal group of community figures.
When you compare the EQII of seven years ago to today, it's astounding how much the game has changed. This past year especially has transformed the game, and it's a completely different, and I'd say much-improved, game from its launch-day version. The game has come a long way to overcome the usual issues and problems that MMOs face in their first few years, and it's at a point where it can really push the envelope and try some exciting stuff. Hopefully we'll see some of that on the "phase two" list!
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CBO: Obamacare Would Cost Over $2 Trillion
6:36 PM, Mar 18, 2010 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
The CBO's most recent analysis is out, and it's not likely to convince wavering House Democrats to jump to the Obamacare side of the fence. Even the Democrats are granting that the latest version of their proposed health care overhaul would cost $69 billion more than the previous version. According to the CBO, this version would siphon even more money out of Medicare, make even further cuts to Medicare Advantage, and levy even higher taxes and fines on the American people.
President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and their allies, are cheerfully citing "ten year" costs of $940,000,000,000.00 — apparently believing this to be a far more palatable figure than $1 trillion. But even this colossal tally is like the introductory price quoted by a cell phone provider. It's the price before you pay for minutes, fees, and overcharges — and before the price balloons after the introductory offer expires.
For a variety of reasons, this tally doesn't remotely reflect the bill's real ten-year costs. First, it includes 2010 as the initial year. As most people are well aware, 2010 has now been underway for some time. Therefore, the CBO would normally count 2011 as the first year of its analysis, just as it counted 2010 as the first year when analyzing the initial House health bill in the middle of 2009. But under strict instructions from Democratic leaders, and over strong objections from Republicans, the CBO dutifully scored 2010 as the first year of the latest version of Obamacare. If the clock were started in 2011, the first full year that the bill could possibly be in effect, the CBO says that the bill's ten-year costs would be $1.2 trillion.
But even that wouldn't come close to reflecting the bill's true costs. The CBO projects that over the next four years, less than two percent of the bill's alleged "ten year" costs would hit: just $17 billion of the $940 billion in costs that the Democrats are claiming. In fact, the costs through President Obama's entire presidency, should he be reelected, would be $336 billion. What would the president leave behind for his successor? According to the CBO, he would leave behind costs of $837 billion during his successor's first term alone. If his successor were to serve a second term, he or she would inherit a cool $2.0 trillion in Obamacare costs — about six times its costs during Obama's own tenure. This legislation is a ticking time-bomb.
To see the bill's true first-decade costs, we need to start the clock when the costs would actually start in any meaningful way: in 2014. The CBO says that Obamacare would cost $2.0 trillion in the bill's real first decade (from 2014 to 2023) — and much more in the decades to come.
But $2.0 trillion wouldn't be the total ten-year costs. Instead, that would merely be the "gross cost of coverage provisions." Based on earlier incarnations of the proposed overhaul, the total costs would be about a third higher (the exact number can't be gleaned from the CBO's analysis, which is only preliminary and is not a full scoring) — making the total price-tag between $2.5 and $3 trillion over the bill's real first decade.
How would we pay for all of this? According to the CBO, by diverting $1.1 trillion away from already barely-solvent Medicare and spending it on Obamacare, and by increasing taxes on the American people by over $1 trillion. Among the Medicare cuts would be cuts of $25,000 in Medicare Advantage benefits per enrollee — up from $21,000 in the previous scoring. To be clear, those living in South Florida wouldn't have to worry about this, as the newly politicized nature of health care would cause them to be exempted. These cuts would affect only less-fortunate seniors, namely those living in just about any other part of the country.
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I just started my new blog Bloggie Stylish where you can find all kinds of neat tutorials like this one!
Step 1: Ingredients That You Will Need
Step 2: Setting Up The Coating Mix
During this time, you will add approximately two inches of oil to a medium sized frying pan and heat it on the stove top. SAFTEY TIP- turn the handle of the frying pan to the inside of the stove top so that you don't accidentally tip over the pan and spill the hot oil. You can seriously burn yourself!!
Step 3: Dredging The Bacon In Flour
Step 4: Dipping The Bacon In Egg
Step 5: The Breadcrumb Coating
Step 6: Raw And Ready To Go
Step 7: Frying the Bacon
Step 8: Removing Excess Oil
Meaning no ofense, "down under" here We have tastier foods than "up there"in USA, with a few exceptions....
I tried this method years later and it is very nice, but messier then a fry pan. Take about a half cup of white flour and a heaping teaspoon of sugar. Coat the bacon in this mixture and cook it in the oven at 350 degrees (a pre-heated oven). Use a rack with a suitable baking pan underneath, to catch the fat, which will be clear and usable for other cooking. Watch the cooking time, though. Because the direct heat is not as intense, it does not shrink as much. Turn it over after ten minutes and cook another 5 to 10 minutes as needed.
I grew up in the Northeast and I'd never heard of chicken frying anything but chicken, which is just frying.
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Did you know there are ways to give without giving?
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Most residents of the Tennessee Valley do it every day and maybe several times a day: eat out and shop.
You might as well add some holiday goodness to it through signing up for Goodshop.com.
It's an online shopping mall that donates a percentage of each purchase you make to the charity of your choice.
And it's simple to make it work for you and your favorite cause.
"All you do is you click through from Goodshop.com at the store just as you normally would." said JJ Ramberg, co-founder of Goodshop.com. "You pay nothing extra and a percentage of what you spend goes back to your favorite cause at no cost to you."
She said on average it's about four percent of the price you pay.
And the site lists more than 108,000 charitable organizations from which to choose to receive the extra dollars.
There are 2,800 shops participating nationwide, including Amazon, Target, Toys R Us, and Petco.
If you use the search engine Goodsearch.com, it will donate one penny, per search, to your favorite non-profit or school.
Then, when you're hungry, go to one of 10,000 restaurants nationwide that participate with Gooddining.com.
In North Alabama, they include Nothing But Noodles, Lawler's Barbecue, Schlotzky's, Wings To Go, D and L Bistro, the Melting Pot and Romano's Macaroni Grill.
Each time you use your registered card, the restaurant will donate up to six percent of your bill to your chosen charity.
The sites make eating and shopping a fun part of this season of giving.
"You get to choose the cause, you get to choose the store, you get to choose the thing that you want to buy and you are doing a good deed by shopping," said Ramberg.
And there's more. You can save even more money by using some of the 100,000 coupons you'll have access to through these websites.
They benefit local causes such as the Land Trust of Huntsville, Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program, Court Appointed Juvenile Advocate Program of Madison County, the Greater Huntsville Humane Society and the National Association for the Prevention of Starvation.
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Discovery Profiles: Jessica Mew Gains Personal Connections and Life Perspective Through Repeated Study Abroad
Jessica Mew knows her mother would be proud to know her daughter studied abroad not once, not twice – but three times.
"I know my mom would have loved me for doing all of this," says Mew, a 23-year-old California Lutheran University graduate whose mother and father had both passed away by the time she went to college. "I know she'd be proud." Mew's mom was a single mom since she was five, and she also has no siblings. "She passed away when I was in high school. My family – we just kind of fell apart. I was living with my 80-year-old grandfather."
So when Mew started college, she accepted she was truly on her own, and that it was completely up to her whether she wanted to study abroad. "In my mind, the only person who's going to push me is myself, because I have no one to really ask, "Mom, can I study abroad?" she says. "And I had control of my funds. I didn't want to go home for breaks and long periods, so why not go abroad?"
Mew decided to take her opportunities and make the most of them. She planned carefully to make sure she could afford to go abroad. And for all three of her international education programs, she chose to study abroad through GlobaLinks Learning Abroad. "I'm one of those people who is constantly asking questions," she says, "and they are always there."
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First, Mew spent a semester during her sophomore year in 2009 in Fiji at the University of the South Pacific. There, she found the beaches and tropical climate she expected. But in Suva, she found her eyes opened to the challenges of living in a third-world country, including a lack of personal space, little access to technology, and especially, a lack of freedom in politics and speech, which she learned about firsthand from a teacher who fled the country after the semester ended so he could have political freedom. And she learned a personal lesson: "You don't need all of the technology. You don't need all of the materials."
She returned to California Lutheran University more relaxed, less rushed, and knowing she'd pack much less for her next international education experience.
Enriched by history
Her next study abroad experience happened in 2010 when she attended the International Summer School at Scotland's University of Stirling. At Stirling, she found a new love of history. She dove into Scottish lore through both classroom learning and visits to the area's many historic sites, where she heard the stories of Sir William Wallace, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Saucy Mary. "Scottish history is so amazing," she says, "especially when it's told by a Scottish person."
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As Mew neared graduation, she decided to bridge the gap between college and adult life with an internship abroad in 2011 in New Zealand in her chosen field of social work. "I knew I wanted to do a helping profession," she said. "Part of being a social worker is that you have to be culturally competent."
In studying and interning abroad, she gained those competencies and more, especially as she worked directly with families in New Zealand and learned the strong cultural emphasis on "whānau" or "family" in Maori. "They have whānau agreements," she says. "They'd even fly in family members for this meeting where they'd say, 'We need someone to step up and help decide the fate of this family.' This would be laughed at in America. We don't have the time, the energy, or the money to do this."
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During her internship, Mew was accepted to a two-year social work program at the University of Southern California. As part of the program, Mew is interning at an elementary school and helping to develop the framework, documentation and processes for a Department of Defense program for military families.
"I'm like, 'I've got this,'" she says. "I learned in New Zealand how to run this. I try to incorporate the family. I spend a lot of time calling parents and having the parents visit school. I think New Zealand has taught me that you have to get the family involved."
Mew sees herself continuing to use her social work skills both inside and outside the United States. In recent months she has volunteered at an orphanage in Guatemala and went to the Philippines to study human trafficking.
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Columbus KTC Hosts a Nyungne Retreat this July
A Nyungne Retreat was held at Columbus KTC this July. Joining us for the first time was Wisconsin KTC's Lama Tsultrim Yeshe. A veteran of countless Nyungnes, Lama Yeshe offered a public talk on Friday night and shared many wonderful stories and then guided the approximately ten practitioners through the weekend retreat. The meals were prepared and served by willing volunteers, and it was very nice to see a many members of our sangha sitting around a table breaking bread together. When Monday morning breakfast was served (literally a break-fast) all were smiles.
If you have an interest in future Nyungne retreats, be sure to ask one of your fellow sangha members who participated for their thoughts on the event. KTC has tried in the past to hold two of these per year, but due to a busy calendar of events it was possible to only schedule one for this year. As long as interest remains high, we will be shooting for two again next year. But it is important to remember it takes a lot of volunteer and financial commitment to bring a nyungne to fruition. Volunteers not participating in the event often help with for cooking, transportation, etc. Financial support is needed to cover the cost of the lama's airfare, food and flowers. Whether you participate as a retreatant, a volunteer or help support the event financially, the merit earned for yourself and our center is mighty big. We hope you'll consider being a part of our next Nyungne!
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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican served tea and cucumber sandwiches last week as it launched its first cricket club, an initiative aimed at forging ties with teams of other faiths.
No, Pope Francis isn't taking up the sport long associated with manicured grounds and English nobility; the soccer-mad "slum pope" still prefers the lower-brow sport of his beloved San Lorenzo club.
But he and the Vatican have long championed sports as good for mind, body and soul, and the cricket club is the latest initiative of the Vatican's culture ministry to use sports to engage in dialogue with the contemporary world.
Australia's ambassador to the Holy See, John McCarthy, was the brainchild behind the initiative and said he hopes the St. Peter's Cricket Club will field a team to play the Church of England at Lord's next fall.
He said the aim is to boost interfaith dialogue, given cricket's immense popularity in largely non-Catholic India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
It would be a "very special occasion" if seminarians from Rome's pontifical universities might one day play students at Muslim or Hindu religious schools on the subcontinent, he said.
The initiative also is aimed at educating Italy, the Vatican and even Pope Francis that "there is some sport other than football!" he said before passing around a tray of cucumber tea sandwiches, a mainstay of cricket events.
The club is expected to count on some 250-300 students and priests at the Vatican and various pontifical universities around Rome where cricket is already being played informally; from these individual teams a Vatican one would be selected and fielded as early as the spring.
Rome's Capannelle Cricket Club is letting the Vatican use its pitch, and McCarthy said anonymous private sponsors were prepared to fund equipment, organizational and other related costs.
And just on Sunday in another sporting initiative, the culture ministry organized a "Race of Faith," laying down a 100-meter track along the main boulevard leading to St. Peter's Square to emphasize sports' positive spiritual and educational values.
From left, Father Theodore Mascarenhas, Australian Ambassador to the Holy See John McCarthy; Monsignor Sanchez de Toca y Alameda, undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Culture; and Father Eamon O'Higgins meet the journalists as cricket equipment is displayed on a table at the Vatican.×
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WASHINGTON, July 26, 2005 A new report on training of police forces in Iraq shows steady progress but identifies areas that need improvement, including the process used to vet members into the force, Larry Di Rita, the Defense Department's top spokesman, told Pentagon reporters today.
The report, compiled jointly by the inspectors general of the Departments of Defense and State and released July 25, was conducted to evaluate U.S.-government funded programs for training and equipping the Iraqi Police Service and the effectiveness of coordination and cooperation between the two departments in developing and implementing the training. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. government program to train Iraqi police, based on interviews with officials, instructors and trainees and direct observation of training in Jordan and Iraq.
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Chevrolet News:The Encore's Encore: Chevy to Get Version of Buick's Small CUV?
Posted 27 March 2012 - 06:22 PM
March 27, 2012
If these patent drawings unearthed by French publication L'Automobile Magazine are the real deal, then it seems Buick — and by extension Opel — won't be the only GM brand selling a new small crossover in the near future. The drawings, which unsurprisingly are claimed to come from the European patent office, clearly show what seems to be a Buick Encore-based vehicle with some changes to the sheetmetal and wearing the familiar Chevrolet dual port grille. That also means the small Chevy CUV depicted would be the same size as the Encore, would offer all-wheel drive, and would probably share an engine or two.
L'Automobile didn't receive any confirmation or comment from GM about the patent drawings. On a more interesting note, the L'Automobile article seems to think that this particular GM model may play a tidy role in the GME-PSA partnership, providing PSA with a vehicle which they can rebadge and use to replace the Mitsubishi-based Citroën C-Crosser and Peugeot 4007.
If this new Chevy shows up anywhere, count on it turning up in Europe and Asia, especially China. As for us in North America? There's a good chance we may get a crack at it as well. An Encore-based Chevy CUV could slot in below the Equinox and give Chevy a vehicle that can take the Toyota RAV-4, Honda CR-V, and Jeep Compass head-on.
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it should size up better to the small cuv's though
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I really don't think this one will be here. Too close to the Buick. But in this day and age they never seen to find enough SUV's to sell anymore.
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I also wonder how much shelf life the Antara has left after the Mokka goes on sale. The Antara only rides on a wheelbase that's six-inches longer than the Mokka's and the other dimensions aren't that much larger.
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This would rock for Chevy!
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Posted 27 March 2012 - 11:58 PM
The size is such that it it's on the small platform that should give nice mpg....and it looks to be space efficient. It will probably be 7-900 pounds lighter than an Equinox. Cheaper to buy also. My guess is if chevy brings it here, sales will explode, and also i bet this is why there is no Orlando here.
One of the easiest ways to make small cars actually desirable is to raise the roof and make it a crossover so people can be comfortable, and get some ground clearance for winter. If chevy does not sell this here, one of their competition will and will take market share.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 12:17 AM
If chevy does not sell this here, one of their competition will and will take market share.
Uh, the competition already have it. Let's see, there's Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Jeep, Mitsubishi ...
The schnoze is too large. There is more to it than an Encore rebadge. Look at the encore side profile in the gallery.
The nose appears to be a little longer, but these patent drawings always manage to come across different from the real thing somehow.
It's not a blatant rebadge, no, but it's obvious that it appears be related to the Encore/Mokka.
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It is just a little too close the the Encore in shape and style. GM has done a pretty good job of platform sharing and if the do this one as a Chevy and the Encore one of them will lose.
They need to change the body more like they did on the Cruse and Verano. St least give it a little different shape. While this is different it is not enough.
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GM: Yukon XL/Suburban - Yukon/Tahoe - Acadia/Traverse - ?/Trailblazer - Terrain/Equinox - Encore/Chevy Moka
Ford: Expedition XL - Expedition/Navigator - Explorer - - Explorer - Escape - N/A or C-Max?
Chrysler: N/A - Durango - Grand Cherokee - GC - Liberty - Patriot/Compass
(and of course I won't go into the foreign brands but you have the Sequioa, CR-V, Pathfinder, X-Terra, Rougue, 4Runner, RAV4, etc to put up to each of these classes)
This ideal GM lineup offers a balance between SUV (BOF) and today's more demanded CUV architecture, where those needing towing & payload capability can still find it and those seeking more people haulers find what they're looking for. Of course the Trailblazer has not been id'ed for sale in North America, nor has a GMC version been alluded to either. But if offered it would bring a sense of balance to the dealer's lots and offer customers more choices in vehicles that suit their driving needs.
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Posted 28 March 2012 - 11:53 AM
The current Equinox is closer to the Pilot in size..a lot bigger than the CR-V...
Keep in mind that the 'Nox and Terrain are losing some bulk on the next total redesign. They are moving to a Delta2(3) variant.
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Currently as far as CUVs, the Ford/GM alignment seems to be the Traverse matches up w/ the Flex and Equinox w/ the Edge. Nothing really lines up w/ the Escape or Explorer. WIll be interesting to see how things evolve...
It would be better for GM to re-align the sizing of their SUV/CUV models to avoid overlap and fill in gaps that they currently do not offer a model in:
GM: Yukon XL/Suburban - Yukon/Tahoe - Acadia/Traverse - ?/Trailblazer - Terrain/Equinox - Encore/Chevy Moka
Ford: Expedition XL - Expedition/Navigator - Explorer - - Explorer - Escape - N/A or C-Max?
Chrysler: N/A - Durango - Grand Cherokee - GC - Liberty - Patriot/Compass
With BOF SUVs, the Tahoe and Suburban line up well w/ the Expedition and Expedition EL.
I guess the Buick, GMC, and Cadillac entries sort of map to Lincoln.
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From Tamasin Day-Lewis, a comforting dish of chicken in a mustard and tarragon sauce, topped with breadcrumbs and Parmesan
Method1. Put the chicken in a stockpot or large saucepan and cover with water. Stud one of the onions with the cloves and add to the pot along with the remaining vegetables, the herbs and salt to taste.
2. Bring slowly to the boil, skimming off any scum that comes to the surface. Reduce the heat to the merest simmer and poach very gently for about 1 1/2 hours. Once cooked, lift out the bird and allow to cool.
3. Strain the stock through a muslin-lined fine sieve and discard all solids. Leave to settle, then blot off any surface fat using several sheets of paper towel.
4. Strip the meat from the chicken carcass, discarding the skin and removing all sinews from the drumsticks.
5. Cut the meat into large bite-sized pieces.
6. To make the sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Add the flour and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes without browning.
7. Gradually stir in the hot chicken stock, the white wine and cream. Keep stirring until thickened.
8. Stir in the cheese, mustard, tarragon. Check the seasoning then simmer, stirring occasionally, for about 20 minutes until smooth and thickened.
9. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 230°C/gas 8. Butter a gratin dish.
10. Put the chicken pieces in the gratin dish and pour over the sauce. Sprinkle with the breadcrumbs and Parmesan. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden brown and bubbling around the edges.
11. Serve with buttered new potatoes and a crisp green salad.
- 2 kg chicken
- 2 onions
- 2 cloves
- 2 carrots, halved lengthways
- 3 stick celery
- 2 leeks, trimmed
- 2 fresh bay leaves
- 2 sprig thyme
- salt
- 50 g breadcrumbs
- 25 g parmesan, grated
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- 50 g plain flour
- 400 ml chicken, hot stock from the poached
- 300 ml dry white wine
- 225 ml double cream
- 100 g gruyère cheese, grated
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 50 g tarragon, chopped
- butter, for greasing
- black pepper
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The process begins with clear-cutting of forests to create pastures for cattle and other ruminants. This is a major loss, because trees provide wildlife habitats, keep topsoil in place, replenish groundwater aquifers, absorb carbon dioxide, and stabilize climate.
As pastures become overgrazed and trampled, they are plowed under and turned into animal feed croplands. With little plant growth to hold it in place, topsoil is carried by rain and melting snow into streams and lakes, destroying the land's productivity.
This process is accelerated by the use of marginal sloping lands to meet the insatiable demand for animal feed. The final result is barren desert so much in evidence throughout the once-verdant Middle East, the cradle of human civilization.


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What is a Neighbourhood Plan?
A Neighbourhood Plan is a document which forms a supplement to the section of the Local Authority's 'Core Strategy' relating to planning policy within your local area.
The area defined for the plan was set out in the application submitted to Sedgemoor District Council on the 22nd June 2012, and was defined as the Cheddar Parish boundary.
After being registered for the requisite 6 week period, and having had no objections raised by members of the public, it was deemed to be registered. The registration date was the 31st August 2012.
The Parish is now conducting a Business survey, clicking on the 'Business Users' tab (Once you have registered) will allow access to the Survey. Information gathered from this survey will be used to inform the Neighbourhood Plan steering committee of the wishes and needs of local business's, relating to their future needs. Feedback obtained will shape the next stage of this process, and assist in the production of the full Neighbourhood Planning document.
Once complete, this document will be subject to further public consultation, and when the final draft is produced, it will be submitted for independent scrutiny, before being put forward for a full referendum by local residents.
Provided over 50% of respondents are in favour of the final plan, it will then be approved, and become part of the Local Authority's primary guidance documents, and it will become part of its guidance when considering future planning requirements, and making decisions relating to the Cheddar area.
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New future approved for derelict pub
Posted: January 11, 2013|
A CHURCH has said it has taken a step forward after being allowed to take over a pub which has been derelict for five years.
Burton Christadelphians have now been given permission to transform the dilapidated former Boathouse Inn, in The Dingle, Stapenhill, into its new home, enabling it to move from its current cramped premises in Blackpool Street.
Paul Tovell, a member of the church, said: "It is quite a big step forward. To have the planning application granted means we can progress with our plans
"We have been looking for a new place for three years
"It means we will have enough space to grow properly and provide a safe place for the children attending Sunday school, and make the building fit for purpose
"It is really good news.
"Our next plan is to start working out what we are going to do with it because as previously stated it needs a lot of work but it means that we can go away and complete the purchase.
"We have been investigating various options about what we will do with the drainage."
The application was originally lodged with East Staffordshire Borough Council in September but was subsequently withdrawn due to concerns over the drainage strategy for the site, which is not connected to mains sewers. However, it was resubmitted after smoothing over the plans and has now been given the green light.
A new base was needed as the church had outgrown its home of almost 60 years, while the Boathouse has become a bone of contention with residents since it closed in October 2007.
Under the plans, the existing first-floor restaurant will become the main hall, the first-floor kitchen an ante room, the ground-floor lounge the main Sunday school room, and the existing cellar extension the kitchen.
The building would be open from 9am to 11pm from Monday to Saturday, and from 9am to 8pm on Sundays.


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Cornbread, made with buttermilk and slathered with butter. None of that sweet stuff.
Cornbread, made with buttermilk and slathered with butter. None of that sweet stuff.
Roast Pork Shoulder
Black please
Sausage and mushrooms
Almost any variation on braised red cabbage. Anything from the classic braised with red wine, wine vinegar, apples, and chestnuts, to one I made recently with red wine, kecap manis, soy sauce, and caramelized onion.
Roast Beef - probably standing rib roast
I just received my Nomiku yesterday, so this is great timing. That said, I do know of one foolproof way to peel hard boiled eggs perfectly, 100% of the time. It's the exact opposite of the low/slow sous-vide method.
I put a steamer basket in my pressure cooker, and about 1.5 inches of water in the pot, then bring it to a boil. As soon as it is boiling hard, I place the eggs (max of 6 at a time) in the steamer basket, and close the lid. Then I steam for 5-6 minutes at high pressure, depending on how big the eggs are. When the time is up, the eggs get moved to an ice bath.
Eggs cooked this way practically fall out of their shells. Once in a while, one will crack during the cooking process, from the pressure, but the white is mostly set already, to the egg retains it's shape. Of course, it isn't quite as reliable in terms of how precisely the eggs are cooked, and it's only good if you want hard boiled eggs.
Interesting that this is coming from Nathan Myhrvold's people. Seems like a very similar design to the Nomiku, and Mr. Myhrvold's former company Intellectual Ventures has a ... unique relationship with the US patent system. All I can say is I hope the Nomiku people have a solid patent, and a good attorney.
Asparagus, either simply grilled, or boiled and served cold or room temp with gribiche sauce.
grilled or broiled asparagus
Spareribs rubbed with chili, coriander and fennel seed, baked inside rather than smoked. Cut up and eaten like regular spareribs. An American cut with Italian flavors.
I'm not a fan of faux meat as in veggie burgers or soy based "sausages", but I find that homemade seitan is really easy, and very much worth the effort.
My limited experience with store bought seitan has always been disappointing, however.
I find that sweet potato cuts fine on my benrinner. I start with the sweet potato held against the mandolin at the top, several inches from the blade, and move it down in a single swift smooth motion.
If I try to start with it right up against the blade, or if I pause halfway through a slice, it tends to get stuck. Probably has to do with the differences between static and kinetic friction, i.e. it takes for force to get something to start sliding along a surface than it does to keep it sliding.
A pork roast.
leftover mashed potatoes, to see if they had heated through
Smoked turkey
The only one of those that I wash is the salad in a bag, but only if it doesn't say that it has been prewashed, and then only to get rid of the dirt. My understanding is that washing salad greens doesn't do anything to eliminate salmonella or other food-borne pathogens; only cooking can do that. I had a sister in law that would wash pre-shredded cabbage (for coleslaw) in soap and water, but she was a bit paranoid. Washing meat does nothing but spread the germs around, from what I have read.
Have you compared these using the stove top / broiler mmethod? That's how I use my lodge pizza pan, and I get decent char on the bottom crust.
The white film is not a problem, just remove it. I think it is a type of mold, and has appeared on some of my batches of pickles and not others. Cloudy brine is fine; I have not ever had a batch with perfectly clear brine. I don't think that adding a little bit of water to the brine is a problem as long as you keep the pickles in the refrigerator.
Lately I've been dredging cod in cornmeal and frying
Fiddlehead ferns
I use an immersion chiller, with a pre-chiller, which is essentially just another chiller that sits in an ice bath and chills the water coming out of the hose, before it goes into the main chiller sitting in the wort. This really cuts down the time it takes to get down to 65 F or so.
My CSA delivery this week included a bunch of anise hyssop. I've never used it before, so I'm not quite sure what to do with it. Most of the recipes that I find via google are either infused syrups or herbal teas, neither of which really seem all that interesting to me. The only thing I've come up with so far is to puree it with some olive oil, and freeze it. I'm still not sure what I would ultimately do with it, but at least that would preserve it.
Any thoughts?
I'm looking for a good mail order source for truffles, as well as other things like truffle salt, and (authentic) truffle oil. I've found plenty of sites that sell them, but am unsure about how reliable their quality might be. Anyone have any tips?
I have this idea in my head that I swear I saw a recipe for a long time ago, but the memory is fuzzy. Basically, the thing I'm thinking of is a paste made of dried fruits (prunes, dates, or figs, can't recall exactly) mixed with nuts (want to say hazelnuts or walnuts) and pressed into flat cakes. I seem to recall the recipe suggesting serving it as an accompaniment to a cheese plate, sort of like membrillo paste might be.
Any ideas?
I know the staff here does a great job squashing the cockroaches that are spam postings in talk, but unfortunately they seem to pretty consistently make it through to the rss feed, which is my preferred way of seeing new topics as they come through. And it seems to be getting worse lately. I know I don't post much (I'm not usually quick enough to post anything relevant that hasn't already been said better than I could), but the talk section is a great source of ideas and info, and I really hate having to sift though crappy advert spam in order to get the good stuff.
I don't know if there's currently some sort of filtering system implemented or planned to help with this, but I wanted to bring it to the attention of people in charge, in case there isn't. Thanks.
So I went out to look at my tiny garden this morning, and noticed an odd lumpy thing peeking out of the ground in the bed where I currently have radishes. I had potatoes there in the spring, so I thought maybe it was just one of those that I missed when I harvested. So I dug it out, and realized it was the wrong color - white-gray instead of brown. Smelled like a mushroom, but it was too firm, and had no stem. I took it inside and washed it off, then halved it. The outer white surface was very thing, and surrounded a uniform marbled black interior. Instantly my mind went to truffles. Having never eaten truffles, I can't be certain, but the aroma is like a very strong mushroom smell. Any idea whether this thing is a truffle? It clearly seems to be a wild mushroom, and could therefore be highly toxic, and I don't want to end up in the hospital (or the morgue) because I ate it. But I'm going to have a hard time tossing this thing in the garbage considering that it may be a truffle.
I've been making my own yogurt lately, but have yet to find a good brand to use as a starter culture. Usually, I end up with something much more watery than I would prefer. I believe I've tried Trader Joe's store brand, Greek Gods, and Stonyfield Farms, off the top of my head. Does anyone who makes homemade yogurt have any favorite brands that they use as a seed culture?
I was planning on making pizza for dinner tonight, and something occurred to me. I already put my stone on the lowest shelf of my electric oven in order to get it as close as possible to the heating coil. But I could put the stone directly on the coil, instead of on a rack just above it. The only potential problem I can foresee is that this might heat the stone unevenly, causing it to break. Since I use it for baking bread and pizza multiple times per week, I would prefer to avoid this. So I'm looking for advice - do the potential benefits outweigh the risks, or is this fairly certain to break the stone? If it makes any difference, this is a pampered chef model given to me several years ago, and is about 1/3" thick.
Has anyone heard anything about this year's Menu for Hope? I haven't seen any information about it for 08, and I seem to recall it being almost everywhere on food sites this time last December. I'm hoping it's currently being organized behind the scenes.
When I woke up and wandered into the kitchen this morning, I realized there was an open bottle of sauvignon blanc, with about a glass's worth of wine still in it from last night. It had been sitting out, unsealed, for the entire night. Now, I was planning on making a roasted pork loin for some friends tonight, and I thought, why not use the leftover wine as a basting liquid? However, I've heard conflicting advice on this subject.
On the one hand, the wine is going to be cooked, used to baste a garlic-rosemary pork loin, not in a sauce or anything, and thus will not be a major flavor component. And the alternative is to just pour it down the drain.
On the other hand, there's the "don't cook with a wine you wouldn't drink" rule; cooking concentrates the flavor of wine, so if the wine is no longer drinkable, it will hurt the dish more than help it.
What say you, Serious Eats community?
This past weekend I picked up a jar of extra virgin coconut oil at my local natural foods store. I read in Super Natural Cooking that it can be used as a replacement for butter, but there were no recipes to go on. Since it is extra virgin, I assume it should not be used for cooking, and only minimally heated in order to maintain the maximum amount of aroma and flavor. So before I just start randomly using it in place of butter, I thought I'd find out if anyone has a killer use for the stuff.
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