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Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 17 reviewers.
Rated 5 out of 5 by JayOne A welcome sight. It truly is a welcome sight to see my handicap ramp totally free of ice and snow when everything else is covered with the stuff. The heated ramp not only provides a safe secure path from the porch to the driveway but it also frees me from clearing snow from the ramp. The only criticism I can make is that there should be some sort of clasp on the electrical connections to keep them from separating. November 18, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by cascademom Safety and peace of mind This Is a necessary product for people who live in areas that get snow/ice in the winter. I use five mats altogether to keep our walkway safe for ourselves and visitors. Our postman and other delivery people are very appreciative of our regard for their safety. I also bought two mats for our daughter and son-in-law and they are very happy with them. I highly recommend this product! January 6, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by IndianaCPA Working great in 4th year I purchased mats and controls 4 years ago. I replaced a control uner warranty at beginning of 2nd year. Other than that, they have worked like a champ and taken away an ice problem on my front stoop just as I had purchased them for. I have recommended to friends and believe, while expensive, they are still a good value. January 12, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Greeneyes Great product. I am very happy with this product. I wish I had gotten one of these long ago. Thought the price was a little high but we look at It as a great investment. Will be getting another to be ready for next winter. My husband and I are very satisfied with our purchase. March 14, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Carhartt Life saver My roof has a valley right by my front door so the amount of snow and ice that builds up is a bit much. Salting wasn't enough so I would have to go out with a hammer/maul and break up as much as I could so I could walk. With the heated pads, all I have to do is plug in the unit when the snow and ice start coming, and it does the work for me!!! My back thanks whoever came up with these!!! December 23, 2015
Rated 5 out of 5 by Shiva4 Works for me I've been eyeing the heated stair treads for several years. My ice breaker mats wore out (got holes in them and I would have to squeeze out the water and glue the holes closed). I would also have to use a small hammer to crack the heavy ice that dripped from the gutters. The heated mats are great. We only had one major snow storm so far. The mats kept the snow and ice off the steps except for the perimeter not covered. I can live with that. They are rather expensive and I have ten steps to cover. Next year I'll buy several more stair treads. I'm happy not to sweep snow or chop ice from the steps. January 28, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by JanieW Awesome Product This is a great item! My stone walkway gets very icy and it's on a slant so the first year we got it installed I fell a couple of times. Now I don't have to worry about it. Even if we shovel the walk and it ices up again the mats keeps the walkway safe and clear. LOVE IT! The Photo is with 2 feet of snow! February 10, 2016
Rated 5 out of 5 by Trainman2222 Pricey but does the job I purchased an entire HeatTrak system for my front porch, steps, and area in front of my steps. The first HeatTrak remote did not work. Improvement was superb in their customer service. They replaced the broken piece by second day shipment. The new piece worked fine. I highly recommend this product. It is kind of pricey, but it worked excellently. Ultimately, it is worth it to me not to have ice on my front porch and steps so as to avoid a nasty fall and/or injury so I just dug into my pocket and coughed up the dough. February 20, 2016
Rated 4 out of 5 by Ihatethecold Great Product! This is the second year I have bought this product to add to what I already have. Great product, though a lower price would be better. December 15, 2011
Rated 4 out of 5 by HappyShopperNJ They work...! I purchaed these heated stair treads and mat based on the previous winters we've experienced in the northeast. Of course this year to date we haven't had much snow and ice. The days when the temperature did drop below freezing the mats worked great. Price wise, I probably could have purchased a small snow blower for the amount of money that I spent. But so far they did what they claim to do. Just wish the price was more affordable. Also, I haven't received my electric bill yet. I forgot to factor that in... February 16, 2012
Rated 4 out of 5 by ColdinCincy Good initial quality Good quality - performs and was easy to set up. Did not realize the limitations on the amperage, so we were not able to string together the number we wanted to achieve the coverage we wanted. January 6, 2015
Rated 4 out of 5 by KS47 It works, but isn't perfect I bought 2 stair treads and 1 walkway mat, which I used across the front of the porch (see photo). The mats seem to be a very high quality and look like they'll be durable. However, they do have some design and performance flaws. Pros: - They work. Snow melts as soon as it touches the mat, and if left on for a while after the snow stops, the melted snow even evaporates leaving the mats dry. - The power cables are heavy duty and the waterproof connectors work well. Cons: - The power cables are stiff. I didn't center the mat on the step because I was afraid the cables would be a trip hazard if someone stepped to the side of the mat. Also, the place where the cable attaches to the mat is raised and extends a couple of inches into the mat surface. - The controller doesn't have an on/off switch. However, it does have a built-in GFI and I use the Reset button to turn the mats on and the Test button to turn them off. I assume that isn't a problem. - The mats don't heat edge-to-edge, somewhat reducing the effective area. - The melted snow runs off and freezes along the edge of the mat if it's very cold out. Not much the manufacturer can do about that, but it's a consideration. It's not a problem if it's not too cold, and the mat will even heat the area immediately around it and melt some snow there. - The metal tie-down grommets in the corners are starting to rust after just a few days. - They're a little pricey, even with the daily discount special I got on the website. Conclusion: Despite the expense, I'm glad I got them, and they could be a lifesaver if we get freezing rain. If more than an inch or two of snow is expected, my recommendation is to leave them turned off until after the snow stops. Then brush them off and turn them on to melt any residual snow and dry them out. Otherwise you risk getting an ice buildup along the edges. February 4, 2015
Rated 3 out of 5 by KathyOF Disappointed because I already had 2 of these. I bought another mat for my door step pad and was disappointed to find that the connection cord that allows you to daisy chain several mats together is not long enough or flexible enough to connect another mat to it because it has to go down from the pad to the walkway which is about 4". This is really way to short for practical use and there really is no apparent reason for it being so small except to save on their cost. You should not have to buy a small step mat to be between 2 mats when they cost $150 each already. The other issue is that the connection attachment for the electric cord is also very short and the connection cords are both on the same side so it makes you have to extend with the extension cord alongside the mat making it a trip hazard. The mats should have a connection on each side for more flexible connections and ease of connecting several along a path. January 7, 2015
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What's in the starter kit
We want three 30"X10" treads and one entry mat that would be on the porch in front of the front door. From what I read on your site, I need a starter kit. What else do I need?
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Answer:I do not know what a starter kit is, but I ordered the set of 3 treads and the large mat for my porch also. My size was 10 x 48 on the treads. No need for anything else. They are very heavy. No need to tack them down.
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Answer:Thank you for your question. We do not offer a "starter kit" for the Electric Heated Stair Treads as the treads and mat are sold separately. You will also need to purchase a control unit (374409) and may need additional cable extenders to configure your mats correctly. If you need additional help please contact a product specialist at 1-800-642-2112.
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We would like to purchase the set but we need two of the porch mats as well. What is the deal?
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Answer:Thank you for your question. The heated mat that you are asking about is our Electric Heated Walkway Mat (374426) which is being used as a door mat in the image on our website. The Electric Heated Walkway Mat is currently in stock.
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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Tuesday that Village of Jackson police stopped the man's vehicle on Sunday afternoon for expired plates. Officers smelled marijuana smoke wafting from inside and spotted traces of the drug on the floor and console, police said.
The man and a passenger denied using the drug, but during a sobriety field test an officer discovered that the man's mouth was coated with marijuana flakes and that he had a green tongue, according to police.
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Congratulations Anu Kumar on your new middle grade book "A Chola Adventure" which is part of the Girls in India series being published by Penguin India!Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
One of the first people I met at the recent Asian Festival of Children's Content held in Singapore was author Anu Kumar. Originally from India, Anu now lives in Singapore and writes for children as well as for older readers. Her short stories have appeared in various magazines and anthologies have been twice awarded by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association and have been short-listed by The Little Magazine. Her third book for older readers It Takes a Murder was released last year following Letters for Paul (Mapin 2006) and The Dollmakers' Island (Gyaana, 2010) . You can learn more about her books for children and young adults here and do check out her website by clicking here.
Unfortunately Anu and I only had time for a brief chat at AFCC and our paths didn't cross again. Although I would have loved to attended one of her sessions ( An Author's Creative Journey, Conceptualising and Writing Books for Series, and Writing Non-fiction for Early Teens) the times conflicted with the sessions that I was involved in. Hopefully we can meet again at the 2014 AFCC! In the meantime I will be tracking down a copy of her new book, A Chola Adventure, which was just released last month. This book for for middle grade readers (9+) is published by Penguin Books India (Puffin imprint) and is part of their new Girls of India series which includes the books A Mauryan Adventure by Subhadra Sen Gupta and A Harappan Adventure by Sunila Gupte.
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990 CE, Tanjore, India Twelve-year-old Raji is growing up during the reign of Rajaraja Chola in the south of India. Raji is a girl of spirit- brave, bright and bold. She is also a dancer, a warrior and a sculptor who models kingdoms in stone. Raji, however, is not happy: She misses her family. Her mother is in exile and her father has left home in grief. On a dark night as a storm rages, Raji rescues a Chinese sailor at sea. This sets off a chain of events with unforeseen consequences. A Shiva statue goes missing, a prince disappears and there is a murder inside a temple. As Raji and her friends, the prince Rajendra Chola and his cousin, Ananta, try to help the Chinese mariner, they realize that he may have some of the answers Raji has been looking for. Will the criminals be brought to justice? Will Rajis family be reunited once again? Will peace be restored to the mighty Chola Kingdom?
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Versatile, breathable and attractive, the Upland Designer Collection Solid Sheet is a great way to keep your horse clean. Made of medium-weight cotton, this stable sheet is ideal for special events, competitions, trucking or any time you want to keep your horse dust-free. Read more...
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Home List of Titles Validity and reliability of measures of occupational and role stress using samples of Australian managers and professionals
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- Validity and reliability of measures of occupational and role stress using samples of Australian managers and professionals
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- Langan-Fox, Janice
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- Reviews of the literature show that there is inadequate attention to the development of appropriate measures for the impact of stress on women's health. The present study sought to (1) construct a new measure of occupational role stress which sourced categories of stress in the broad range of experienced female roles; (2) assess the validity and reliability of the new measure; (3) obtain discriminant validity with reference to another measure of occupational stress (the Occupational Stress Indicator); and (4) report on demographic differences in occupational stress. Two hundred and forty working managerial and professional women from different industries, educational backgrounds and marital and parental status took part in the study. Results of analyses revealed that the new role stress measure had good validity and internal consistency (reliability) and that it could be discriminated from other measures of occupational stress. Four scales were derived in exploratory factor analyses: organizational and task grievances, role conflict and self-misgivings, role excess and overload, responsibilities and commitments. Analyses of these factors by demographic variables such as marital status, education and number of children suggest that marriage and family were not a major stressor and in some cases were actually a positive feature of job satisfaction. The most significant factors in women's stress were those which appeared to come from their own desires and wants---to be promoted.
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- Stress Medicine, Vol. 12, no. 4 (1996), p. 211-225
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- 1996
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If you have been lucky this winter, you may have seen a migrant golden eagle; a few visit each winter from Canada. Recently though, migrations of eagles and other raptors have incurred additional risk with the increase in the numbers of wind turbines on ridges that raptors use for orographic or ridge lift during migration.
The utilization of wind energy is a bold initiative that will help us in the quest for clean energy sources, but poorly sited wind generation projects have killed many large raptors. When a wind project was proposed for a ridge top near Walton, NY, members of the Delaware-Otsego Audubon Society (DOAS) grew concerned; their counts have shown that many wintering golden eagles used the area. Past data from Dr. Todd Katzner of West Virginia University has shown that 40% of all golden eagles that his team tagged in the East have used the region for overwintering during a multi-year study.
DOAS has launched a regional study in collaboration with Katzner and his team. Up until this year, four golden eagles have been tagged by NYSDEC in NY state; they were fitted with Argos satellite transmitters. Argos gives one to two position fixes per day, good for migratory studies, but the goal of DOAS study, according to Tom Salo, director of the project, is to get detailed flight data as well as demographic data. In flight, a golden eagle can cover a lot of distance between Argos fixes.
A new generation of telemetry is being utilized for this project to eliminate data gaps. Called GPS-GSM, the unit has an on-board GPS receiver that samples position, altitude, speed and direction every 15 minutes. The unit sends batches of collected data points to the mobile phone network as cell-phone-compatible data packets. In the event of no cell coverage, the unit stores data until the eagle gets back in a coverage area. Through fundraising and grants, DOAS has been able to obtain four GPS-GSM transmitters to deploy this winter.
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On April 15, Bronson Arroyo dominated the Phillies for eight innings in Cincinnati, allowing just two runs and five hits in a deflating 4-2 defeat. Today's ballgame felt eerily similar to the one that took place at Great American Ballpark last month, only this time the Reds more than doubled their output, while the Phillies didn't bother scoring any runs–though they did equal their five hits–in an 10-0 defeat. The damp weather was a perfect accompaniment to the sleepy feeling this game had, a long and painful loss.
The game got away from the Phils quickly. The Reds went up early, and the bats never had an answer for Arroyo. It was the perfect formula for a dull drubbing, the Reds asserting their will over an overmatched Phillies team.
Kyle Kendrick hadn't allowed more than two runs in any start since he allowed five to the Royals in his 2013 debut. That streak swiftly came to an end today when he served up a second inning meatball to Ryan Hanigan, who sent it into the seats in left to give the Reds a 3-0 lead. The homer looked to be a portentous sign of how things would go for Kendrick today.
He would calm down, though. And while Kendrick didn't pitch a great game–the Reds hit a lot of balls hard off him–he did manage to limit the runs after Hanigan's long ball. In fact, I'd even argue that the fourth run Kendrick allowed was more on bad managing than Kendrick himself.
It looked like he'd be lifted for a pinch hitter after five when he had over 90 pitches, but Charlie Manuel inexplicably let him hit with a runner on first and two outs in the fifth. Kendrick struck out to end the inning, and went on to allow another run in the sixth. There was absolutely no reason to let Kendrick pitch in that spot and it cost the Phils a run–not that it would matter in the end. Kendrick's final line looked like this: 6.0 IP, 8 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 4 BB, 2 K. It was no doubt a battle for KK, as he failed to record a single 1-2-3 inning. A definite throwaway game.
…or bad at-bats and a complete lack of power. Whichever you decide is the culprit (it's the latter), one thing is for sure: This Phillies offense has not been getting the job done, and it's become quite a nuisance. So far this season, the Phils have been shutout a whopping six times–as many as they had all of last season. That's simply not acceptable, especially because in three of those shutouts, the other team scored four runs or less.
Arroyo is the latest pitcher to find success later in his career by becoming a softballer, and it's a technique the Phils really struggle with. For the second time this season, he dominated them deep into the game, unleashing a plethora of curveballs and sliders to keep the fastball-inclined Phillies off balance. It wasn't as though Arroyo was unhittable– he threw strikes, but the Phils just couldn't square any balls up. The hardest hit ball of the day came from Domonic Brown–who went 2-for-4, making him the only Phillie with multiple hits–on a double down the right field line. Brown was thrown out trying to stretch it to a triple. That was about as exciting as it got for the offense.
The Phillies one through five hitters went a cool 3-for-15 with two singles and a double. That statistic pretty much speaks for itself.
A combination of B.J. Rosenberg, Phillippe Aumont and Chad Durbin would be the bullpen goats on this day, combining to allow six runs in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings, respectively. The extra runs were painful to watch, the bullpen clearly not capable of consistently getting outs. Today's loss was a complete team effort, every facet pitching in to ensure a negative outcome.
– The Phillies try to scrap out a series win against a very good Reds team behind the right arm of Jonathan Pettibone (3-0, 3.41). Homer Bailey gets the start for Cincinnati.
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"There was absolutely no reason to let Kendrick pitch in that spot and it cost the Phils a run–not that it would matter in the end."
I agree that Kendrick shouldn't have hit, but I think all we can say is that it slightly reduced the Phillies' chances of scoring a run.
That line caught my eye too.
Dead offense, incompetent bullpen, lousy managing=another loss
Start selling off the overpaid, underperforming and unhappy.
Only 4 back, and a team that gets hot in 2nd half year after year..
Silver lining: Chad Durbin may be cut soon after another crappy performance. Rosenberg should go back to the minors, as well.
You took the words out of my mouth.
That'll be 1 down with 24 to go.
A slight exaggeration but not by much.
If anyone had known that going into the end of May Michael Young and the hobbled Chase Utley would be leading the team in most positive offensive categories they would have told you the season was over.
And in the meantime, Raul Ibanez (remember that old guy?) hit a grand slam against the Yankees the other night and would be battling Utley for the team HR lead if he was still in Philadelphia. With one swing, that's more runs than the Phillies score in 2 games.
Why the EFF they brought up Rosenberg over Stutes is a mystery, any way.
rosenberg should have never been brought up in the first place! in reality though, we have nothing in minors thats better than the junk in our current bullpen! amaro turned a lamborghini into a pinto in less than 4 yrs! well done ruben!
Right….Amaro did absolutely nothing ….except to oversee playoff spots in '09, '10 and '11. Granted…the 2009 WS appearance may have a lot to do with his predecessor … although he DID go out and get Cliff Lee and Pedro Martinez, both being huge reasons why they got there in the first place.
So why get rid of the winningest coach in Eagles history just because his team finished in the cellar?
Or why get rid of Danny Ozark, also a winning field generaljust because the air between his ears forced him to do things like ignore the need for late inning defensive replacements to help hold leads? Letting a spent pitcher bat for himself (if he's not Cliff Lee) when you're team is desperate for runs is also not a reason to fire anyone -but possibly just another symptom of why there needs to be changes made on a team.
Amaro cost us 2010 by trading cliff lee after we acquired halladay there's nothing after trade that I'm really sour over. Could he have spent more money this offseason? Yeah but he would have drastically overpaid these potential guys and people would be screaming about that as well. It's easy to blame him. To all the people blaming him what would you have done differently?
Almost every move RAJ has made, most fans were in agreement with AT THE TIME. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Go to the comments sections of Bill Baer's site Crashburn Alley or the Seidman Brothers' old site Brotherly Glove and you'll read plenty of criticism of the majority of Rube's moves (when they happened, not in hindsight). On this site this past off-season, where the majority of comments are pollyanna-ish, those who are critical – "the same old dissenters" – got shot down by the masses and were told (and I paraphrase), 'don't criticize the moves now, wait until they play the games' or that, 'you weren't there, so you don't know why me made that move (like when he gave away Nate Schierholtz for nothing).
I guess my take on your comment is this. What difference does it make how we spin what they do? Does it help that the other sites criticize more? Has it changed anything? Do you think RA jr. is influenced by what we think? Well I think it's pretty damn clear that he isn't. So yeah, as a Phils fan I try to look on the positive side of "maybe it will work". Is it so so wrong to want your team to do well? Do you and others feel a sense of vindication when you are right and the team loses 10-0? Does it feel any better to you than it does to me? Because it stinks really bad to me.
I'm not blind or stupid, but I have no influence on the decisions made by the team. I've seen it written many times that "hope is not a strategy", but I have to tell you, it's my strategy, it's my only strategy. What else can I do except turn on the set, pour a refreshment and hope?
Signed, Pollyanna 🙂
No,actually the team's current status combined with the fact that many of those who write these blogs and comment on these sites have better ideas than the GM makes it worse for me because this season seems to be slowly going down and I don't have confidence that this GM can fix things. I want them to win as much as the next guy and I would love to be in a position to admit that I was wrong after watching Michael Young, Delmon Young and Mike Adams lead them to a World Series title. It is just a source of frustration that this GM, who was handed so much – a World Champion with many players in their primes and locked up to what would turn out to be reasonable contracts, a top farm system, a low payroll and an ownership group that was on the verge of allowing him to spend freely while the rest of the industry was holding the line on salaries – has overseen such a rapid decline
I was really just responding to teejvee's comment about hindsight being 20/20 and most of the people liking the moves when they happened. On this site, when you criticize RAJ's moves when they happen, you get shot down and when you criticize them after the fact, you get told hindsight is 20/20.
Many, including me, were very critical of RAJ for the Ryan Howard contract at the time, even more people were shaking their heads at the Jimmy Rollins and Papelbon extensions/contracts.
The Cole Hamels contract was also critizised, mainly because of the timing of it.
Signing Cole Hamels when he's close to 30 years old and the Phillies are in need of major rejuvenation is questionable.
Had Cole Hamels been 25-26, the contract would've made sense to me.
There's been a lot of criticism of RAJ for his inability to run a balanced organisation, he seems obsessed with getting quick fixes.
Which has ruined the Phillies once very fine organisation.
Today Phillies have one of the highest payrolls. But it doesn't reflect in the quality of the players.
Maybe Justin Upton loved the idea of playing in the same outfield with brother BJ more than money but had he been amenable to coming to Philadelphia I think it would have been difficult to overpay him at any price – especially when you consider the dollar figures RAJ rushed to invest in Howard, Papelbon and others.
I'm not saying free agency is the answer because a consistently winning baseball franchise needs a strong farm system behind it but it seems those extra pieces landed in free agency and trades have to be better considered than what we've witnessed over the last few years.
I love to watch Ben Revere chase down a ball and run the bases, but…
This just in: BJ Rosenberg is still awful.
Okay, so the Phils were shutout 6 times in 2012. And on May 19th, 2013 they have been shut out 6 times already this season. This is not a good sign, not good at all.
I wish I had answers, I don't. They are 28th of 30 teams in OPS, 26th in SLG%, and 26th in OBP. Can it be turned around? yes, absolutely- and especially when you consider how badly the teams above us in the division have been playing.
Proof of that is in the standings. Last year on this date we were 2 games over .500, in last place, and 4 games out of first. This year we are 3 games under .500, third place, and yet still only 4.5 games out.
The problem is time, and it's running out much faster than I'd like to see. At some point if Ryan Howard, and Delmon Young, two guys IMO that have to produce power for this team to win, don't do so, then everyone else's efforts won't help. IMO- Brown, Mayberry, Utley, Rollins have not played that badly, but the big pieces, the 4 and 5 hitters must do more.
This year's pitching while disappointing, is only as bad as the bats make it. We've had worse relievers, and still maintained winning with a quick strike offense that could keep us in any game . But without that, this may be a deadly combination. The problem is time, and if they decide to break this group up and sell off the parts due to underperformance, it could be a long drawn out amount of tough times to come.
I guess what I'm trying to say is this, be careful what you wish for. We're only 4.5 games out with plenty of head to head competition, the easiest way to catch up, to come.
I actually think we've been *lucky* so far. Our run differential is terrible –we should have a few more losses than we actually do… It just drives the point home that this offense is pathetic. Young, Utley, and Brown are the only ones who have been above average… everybody else: a big, fat meh.
It could be considered luck Manny, there's a reasonable argument for that. But remember that figure I gave about being 28th out of 30 teams in OPS,- guess who is number 29? The Nats, and if you think about it, they really only have one guy hitting well, that's Harper. (Inexplicably, he hits walls hard too)
The Braves on the other hand swing for the fences, but this leads to a feast or famine type of offense that leads the league in strikeouts. They've blown out Venters and Oflaherty which all of us could see coming the way Fredi over-uses them, Kimbrel is sure to be next. So it's not all luck.
BTW – Are you back in the country or still overseas?
Overseas indefinitely… :/ At least till Summer 2014
Soft-tossers will always give this team trouble because everyone is trying to pull everything. Didn't they learn anything from watching Moyer make opposing hitters look silly trying to jack his mid-80s "fastball"? The way to beat soft-tossers is to take the ball up the middle and the other way!!!
In honour of AFW:
Charlie complaining that hitters are giving away at bats.
The roster is full of hitters that DON'T work pitchers. When the game gets out of hand like last night they are all first ball swinging. Its a problem.
And Charlie….if you're not happy with your hitters, the core of which has your "imprimatur", you employ the "quit or sit". Quit and let Sandy take over OR Sit the players that won't look at a pitch. Ryan against lefties to start.
Amaro took us to playoffs with Gillick's team but now Gillick isn't here and Werth and Howard aren't here either. The hitting philosophy is good when the players hit home runs – otherwise, nothing.
In the words of Earth, Wind & Fire – "After the love is gone, what used to be right is wrong". And its all wrong now.
But we are only four games out in a piss poor division gotta suck it up and hope the the we can back nto a wild card spot. Wow, thats a lot of fun – hoping the teams in front of you lose more than you do.
The Dipsy
"Piss poor division?"
If that's your assessment of a division with the Braves and the Nationals, I wonder what your assessment is of other divisions.
IMO, both the Braves and the Nats have been underperforming somewhat, Braves have played pretty well, but lost a few more games than their run total would indicate. And Nats are just an all around solid ballclub that's been slumping.
Neither of those teams will finish below the Phillies, they're just on a different level.
Phillies would be better off starting to trade their franchise players to get most value for them.
Because this season ain't nothing gonna happen.
Went to my second game of the year last night and I've STILL yet to see the Phillies score a run. The joke really is on the fans. I will not be renewing my season tickets for next year.
Why would you get rid of Valdes only to bring up Rosenberg? Isn't that like swapping out hospital food for prison food?
Manuel on "Cy" Arroyo:
"We used to hit him good," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "The last three times, he's pitched us the same. He's pitched us backwards, slow hooks and change-ups. He's given us fits."
So, if he has done that twice before he did it a third time last night, wouldn't two hitting coaches, a manager/former hitting coach, and multi-million dollar professional players, at least prepare a little for it and maybe do better than a lowly five hits and one runner to third. I'm really trying to take a positive approach (inspired by Lefty's posts), but in my head, I think this offense might be cooked, instead of being an offense that cooks.
– a VERY frustrated Ed
I am more concerned about how many times this team gets blown out then the shut outs. Something is very wrong and not sure what it is but I think it is a sign of a bad team.
Howard has 9 walks in 163 at bats.
Is that because teams know there are many ways to get him thus have no fear of pitching to him or because he gets himself out by swinging at balls.
It's likely Howard has just 9 walks because managers pay such close attention to pitch counts these days. it takes 4 pitches to walk him and only 3 pitches to strike him out.
The offense does stink, but Arroyo pitched a tremendous game and would have given any team fits. He was locating his pitches well and had everything working.
As far as middle relief goes, it's absolutely the worst I've seen in my entire life, and it's likely no one in the minors will help. Those guys are at AAA because they too have been terrible when they've faced real hitters. Maybe some have great stuff, but they've all had a lot of time to harness it. Aumont and Rosenburg still can't locate, and niether is getting younger. Valdes and Durbin are actually rather old already.
Delmon Young so far is a total bust and should be sent packing. He's had enough time to show something besides bad fielding and bad hitting.
The problem right now is that if all the bullpen and lineup turds are flushed away there won't even be nine guys left to field a team.
No signs of life…this team could use a full bench and bullpen clearing brawl..maybe Chollie gets tossed early today to try to stir them up..
Todays' lineup has Ryan Howard sitting against the righty, Homer Bailey. Interesting.
1. Jimmy Rollins (S) SS
2. Ben Revere (L) CF
3. Michael Young (R) 1B
4. Chase Utley (L) 2B
5. Domonic Brown (L) LF
6. Laynce Nix (L) RF
7. Carlos Ruiz (R) C
8. Freddy Galvis (S) 3B
9. Jonathan Pettibone (L) P
Howard needs to be sitting he isn't figuring out anything while playing I'm glad to see that Delmon is sitting too
Howard may have overeaten at the breakfast buffet this morning.
I could be wrong about this but I believe the Phils have come from behind to win exactly once this year?
Given that, it is really easy to see when they are all about the stink and early on too. No runs, hits, even a walk or 2 and they fail to move anything along. Like someone said earlier, not just shutouts, blow outs.
If Votto played the Phils more he could be the next .400 hitter..
Saw Utley swing at a few 1st pitches.
He's not afraid to hit with 2 strikes, why take that away from him?
Utley and M. Young only 2 hitters on team disciplined enough to do it..


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Haven't heard a note from this yet, but can I assume it's nothing like Interlude Second and is in fact another straight up f-doom album?
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it's a totally logical follow-up to III, so draw your conclusions from that
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Got a heavy boner for this one as III was absolutely fantabulous.
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Going to check out Monolithe III I guess, because this album is pretty damn awesome. Of course I already knew the debut but I think I like this one more.


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Skip to comments.Free Republic Recipe Thread
Posted on 12/01/2012 9:35:52 AM PST by libertarian27
Welcome to the FReeper Recipe Thread.
Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Please share a 'tried-and-true' recipe or three- for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' Recipe Stack of Family Favorites!
Here's the place to share and explore your latest and greatest favorite recipe.
National Egg Nog Month
Cookie Cutter Week- First Week
Lager Beer Week- Second Week
National Egg Nog Week- Fourth Week
National Pie Day- December 1
National Fritters Day- December 2
National Apple Pie Day- December 3
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Recap of Last Week's Thread:
Appetizer & Sandwiches _ Post#` 5 _ Asian Hot Wings
Appetizer & Sandwiches _ Post#` 6 _ Empanadas
Appetizer & Sandwiches _ Post#` 23 _ Buffalo Blast Chicken Appetizers
Beef _ Post#` 10 _ Crock Pot Cube Steak
Breads, Muffins & Cereals _ Post#` 21 _ Banana Crumb Muffins
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Italian Rainbow Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Peanut Butter Cup Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Christmas Wreath Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Frosted Nutmeg Logs
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Spicy oatmeal Craisin Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Sugared Black Raspberry Tea Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Molasses Sugar Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Spring Lime Tea Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Stained Glass Cookies
Cookies _ Post#` 21 _ Cranberry Pistachio Biscotti
Cookies _ Post#` 22 _ Fruit Roll Up Christmas Decorations
Poultry _ Post#` 14 _ Mrs Potters Chicken
Poultry _ Post#` 15 _ Onion Soup Mix Chicken
Seafood _ Post#` 9 _ Bang Bang Shrimp
Vegetables _ Post#` 11 _ Fried Vegetables
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I like it!!! Not that I find a lot of time for cooking these days...but that doesn't mean I won't try some of these. I'd be interested in a ping list, if you have one. Thanks!
One of my favorites
You're added to the ping list!
Easy to make, but it was a little plain. However, when I went to the website to get the link, I noticed a bunch of variations on the theme, which could improve it.
First off, I could have baked a vegetable right into it, instead of serving them on the side. And I just saw a recipe that suggested bacon. Well, duh! Everything goes better with bacon! (esp. more bacon!)
Since if was beef and cheddar and bread, I suggested we go with salsa, like on taco night, rather than catsup, like on burger night. (Tee-hee, spell-checker doesn't like that spelling. Just wanted to try it.)
Sooooo good to see you! Thanks!
i do most of the cooking and i am rather good at it. here is a quick chicken dish.
1 package boneless skinless chicken breasts (though lately i have been using chicken tenders as they cook faster)
8oz package of mushrooms (my frau loves mushrooms)
roll chicken in flour and seasonings (depending on my mood i could go mexican using cumin, oregano, smoked paprika OR italian using oregano, rosemary, basel)
brown in skillet
dump in mushrooms ( i sometimes add garlic, chopped onions, jalapenos...)
squirt in a bunch of lemon juice
turn down, cover and simmer for 20min (breasts) or less time for tenders.
sometimes i will remove everything from the pan when it is done and add some flour and make a thick sauce.
serve with rice, flavored or white and a veggie.
Clean and Dry Red Grapes Thoroughly.
1..8oz pkg. cream cheese.....room temp.
1/2 cup Splenda or sugar of choice.....sweeten to taste. (the 1/2 cup Splenda is plenty, and I found it more agreeable than regular sugar)
1/2 cup Finely chopped celery
1/2 cup chopped Pecans
Mix.......refrigerate until needed.
I tried making this the day before, I wasn't pleased. Now, I mix & add to the grapes about 2 hours before serving.
P.S.: It only took 1/2 pkg.of the cream cheese for a large bowl of grapes. But, you can make it all, use what is needed, and put left over in Frig., use a as dip for other fruits as wanted.
1 (14.75 ounce) can salmon
1 sleeve Ritz crackers
2 eggs
1 onion
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1 Tablespoon chopped parsley
Drain salmon, remove bones and put fish in large mixing bowl
Place crackers into plastic bag and crumble until they are crumbs
Add crumbs to fish
Add 1/2 teaspoon pepper
Add 1 tablespoon parsley
Add 1 diced onion
Mix/knead thoroughly with hands until ingredients are thoroughly combined
Shape into patties about 3-4 inches round
Fry in 1/4" - 1/2" oil about 5-mins each side (I use olive oil)
Makes about 8 patties
Please add me to your ping list. Thanks.
Gosh darn it! You're making me hungry and dinner isn't for some hours yet.
That recipe looks delicious. I will have to try it.
Thanks for posting.
You're added.
Each recipe thread link is on my profile page from the past two years, have fun with them, lots of great recipes.
Thanks, I will take a look at them and see if I have any recipes that haven't been posted.
GREEK SEASONING / tastes EXACTLY like store bought spice
Attach a label that reads: good tossed w/ chicken, lemon juice, olive oil, then skewered/grilled. Add to vinaigrette poured over Greek salad w/ feta cheese. A good meat seasoning---rubbed on a few hours before roasting. Add to saucer of olive oil to use as bread-dipping appy.
SEASONING: Mix 1 1/2 tea oregano, tea ea dried mint/thyme, 1/2 tea ea dried basil/marjoram/minced onion, 1/4 tea dried minced garlic.
I'm deep frying some pickles (BOGO at Publix). Usually I use bread and butter chips and drain them in a colander for an hour or so.
From there into a little baggie with some flour in it for a shaking then into the egg bath, followed by a good dredging in panko.
I've been frying almost everything in a cast iron skillet on my grill so as to not smell up my house, and it works fine for something like this. I fry the pickles in shortening.
Once they're done - back to the strainer on some paper towels and then into some dipping sauce - usually ranch. Once I start eating them, it's pretty much all over.
Heat up in some water.
Serves 1.
In water? THAT'S what I've been doing wrong!
Here's an oldie but a very goodie.
If you like eggnog, or even if you don't, you'll love this.
Does anyone have any clues about the - White House White Turkey Chili recipe?
I heard that's what Romney and Obama had the other day, and my mouth started watering just thinking about it.
Then on FOX, on 'The Five' Dana Perino said that she had had some while she was working at the WH, and that it was wonderful, but I haven't had any luck just doing Bing and Google searches.
Any help would be appreciated. :)
Making Zucchini Rice and Cheese casserole for dinner.
1 cup cooked rice (I'm lazy and use Minute Rice)
Slice 2 zucchini (pretty thin). I use 1 green and 1 yellow.
Chop 1 sweet onion and a few garlic cloves.
Fry zucchini, onion and garlic in butter until soft.
Mix rice, zucchini mixture, about 1 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese, 2 eggs salt and pepper to taste.
Bake at 350 for @35-40 minutes (9" square greased dish) or until browned a bit on top.
You can add more rice, more zucchini, more cheese, etc. I don't cook using a lot of precise measurements unless I'm baking.
Tonight I'm adding some leftover ham to the casserole. Sounded good!
White House White turkey! Racist!
Go to My Recipes.com and you will find more white chili recipes than you ever wanted.
1/2 cup unbleached bread flour.
1 Tsp instant yeast.
1 Cup whole milk or Butter Milk.
Mix until a pancake like batter is achieved. Let set until it is nice and foamy.
1 Pound: Salami, Hot or Mild Italian Sausage, Peperoni,or Portuguese sausage, hot or mild, fried, save the fat.
3 3/4 cups unbleached flour.
1 Tsp salt.
3 Large eggs.
8 Oz butter, unsalted. 1 Pound Sharp Cheese, shredded.
Maybe some ground red pepper for some spice.
Fry meat while sponge is working, cut sausage into small cubes.
Mix sponge and dry ingrediants, add butter, melted and cooled, add egges slightly beaten, add cheese. Mix until smooth with the dough slightly wet and tackey, adjust flour, until it pulls away from the bowel.
Remove from Bowel and kneed in meat until evenly distributed.
Let rise in a spring form pan until the dough tops the pan edge, about 90 min. Bake in a 350 degree oven until you have a 190 degree internal temperature.
Great in the morning with strong coffee.
I made this recipe from Cooks Illustrated last week and it was wonderful. Perhaps it will hit the spot for you....
Adjust the heat in this dish by adding the minced ribs and seeds from the jalapeño as directed in step 6. If Anaheim chiles cannot be found, add an additional poblano and jalapeño to the chili. This dish can also be successfully made by substituting chicken thighs for the chicken breasts. If using thighs, increase the cooking time in step 4 to about 40 minutes. Serve chili with sour cream, tortilla chips, and lime wedges.
3pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken breast halves, trimmed of excess fat and skin
1tablespoon vegetable oil
3medium jalapeño chiles
3poblano chiles (medium), stemmed, seeded, and cut into large pieces
3Anaheim chile peppers (medium), stemmed, seeded, and cut into large pieces
2medium onions, cut into large pieces (2 cups)
6medium cloves garlic, minced or pressed through garlic press (about 2 tablespoons)
1tablespoon ground cumin
1 1/2teaspoons ground coriander
2(14.5-ounce) cans cannellini beans, drained and rinsed
3cups low-sodium chicken broth
3tablespoons fresh lime juice (from 2 to 3 limes)
1/4cup minced fresh cilantro leaves
4scallions, white and light green parts sliced thin
1. Season chicken liberally with salt and pepper. Heat oil in large Dutch oven over medium-high heat until just smoking. Add chicken, skin side down, and cook without moving until skin is golden brown, about 4 minutes. Using tongs, turn chicken and lightly brown on other side, about 2 minutes. Transfer chicken to plate; remove and discard skin.
2. While chicken is browning, remove and discard ribs and seeds from 2 jalapeños; mince flesh. In food processor, process half of poblano chiles, Anaheim chiles, and onions until consistency of chunky salsa, ten to twelve 1-second pulses, scraping down sides of workbowl halfway through. Transfer mixture to medium bowl. Repeat with remaining poblano chiles, Anaheim chiles, and onions; combine with first batch (do not wash food processor blade or workbowl).
3. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat from Dutch oven (adding additional vegetable oil if necessary) and reduce heat to medium. Add minced jalapeños, chile-onion mixture, garlic, cumin, coriander, and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Cover and cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables soften, about 10 minutes. Remove pot from heat.
4. Transfer 1 cup cooked vegetable mixture to now-empty food processor workbowl. Add 1 cup beans and 1 cup broth and process until smooth, about 20 seconds. Add vegetable-bean mixture, remaining 2 cups broth, and chicken breasts to Dutch oven and bring to boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until chicken registers 160 degrees (175 degrees if using thighs) on instant-read thermometer, 15 to 20 minutes (40 minutes if using thighs).
5. Using tongs, transfer chicken to large plate. Stir in remaining beans and continue to simmer, uncovered, until beans are heated through and chili has thickened slightly, about 10 minutes.
6. Mince remaining jalapeño, reserving and mincing ribs and seeds (see note above), and set aside. When cool enough to handle, shred chicken into bite-sized pieces, discarding bones. Stir shredded chicken, lime juice, cilantro, scallions, and remaining minced jalapeño (with seeds if desired) into chili and return to simmer. Adjust seasonings with salt and pepper and serve.
Per Serving:
Cal 370; Fat 6 g; Sat fat 1 g; Chol 115 mg; Carb 25 g; Protein 52 g; Fiber 7 g; Sodium 710 mg
I seared them wthh flour, salt and pepper in hot peanut oil and threw them in a pressure cooker with an onion, a couple of carrots, chopped tomato, a cup of red wine, half a cup pf pace salsa, half a cup of cider vinegar, clove of garlic and seasoned with cayenne, allspice, brown sugar, ground cloves, coriander, and fresh thyme.
Preferred the cooker up for 35 minutes and made a batch of spatzle - flour, egg, water through a sieve into boiling salted water.
I thickened the sauce in the pressure cooked with a little roux after setting the ribs aside.
Family ate every last morsel.
We like this on a cold blustery day.
Tuscan Chicken-serves 4.
2 tbsp flour
salt and pepper
4 skinned chicken quarters
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 red onion, chopped
2 garlic cloves, chopped finely
1 red bell pepper,seeded and chopped
pinch saffron threads
2/3 cup chicken stock or dry white wine
14 oz canned tomatoes, chopped
4 sun dried tomatoes, in oil, drained and chopped
8 oz. sliced portobello mushrooms
2/3 cup chopped pitted black olives
4 oz. lemon juice
fresh basil leaves, to garnish
Place flour on a plate, season with salt and pepper. Coat chicken, shaking off excess. Heat olive oil in large flameproof casserole. Add chicken and cook over medium heat, turning frequently for 5-7 minutes, until golden brown. Remove chicken from the casserole and set aside. Add the onion, garlic and red bell pepper to the casserole and reduce the heat to cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Stir the saffron into the chicken stock. Stir the tomatoes with their juices, the sun dried tomatoes,mushrooms and olives into the casserole and cook for 3 min, stirring occasionally. Pour in the stock and saffron mixture and the lemon juice. Bring to a boil, then return the chicken to the casserole. Cover and cook in preheated oven (350F) for an hour until chicken is tender. Re-season to your taste. Garnish with chopped fresh basil and serve.
I sometimes serve it with a gremolata which is a mixture of fresh bread crumbs, orange (or lemon) zest, chopped parley and chopped garlic-add it before you cover and bake-remove the lid and crisp up the breadcrumbs. I dont used basil when I serve it this way.
Good with risotto or arborio rice.
I have a pizza sauce recipe if you like making pizza from scratch. The entire process takes lots of time. Making the dough requires that you be on hand when it has risen to it maximum so you can turn it into the pizza pan. We have a bread maker which allows one to put the dough on a time table. Here is the recipe which I do hope you will at least try on a store bought crust:
1 quart tomato sauce
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1 large onion minced
1- 6 oz can tomato paste
olive oil for cooking garlic and onions
1 teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon marjoram
½ teaspoon thyme
½ teaspoon oregano
1-½ teaspoon sweat basil
¼ teaspoon sage
1 very small pinch of cinnamon
1 tablespoon grape jelly
sugar to taste (adjust sweetness to compensate for lack of sweetness of tomatoes)
1 carrot pureed with tomato sauce
¼ cup red wine
Pizza Crust for Large 15 Pan:
3 cups Flour
2 teaspoon salt
2 Tablespoons Bread Machine Yeast
1-¼ Cup warm water
½ teaspoon sugar
2 Tablespoons butter (melted)
Proof yeast with sugar and water on bottom of bread machine or large mixing bowl. Add butter, flour, salt. Mix together and kneed, or set bread machine on first rise and start. When raised to size of a large grapefruit, lay out on pizza pan and flatten out. Stretch out dough to edges of the pan. In an oven set at 425 degrees, put pan with dough in oven for 4 minutes. This precooks the dough so that the topping does not cause the dough to get gummy. You do not have a professional pizza oven and this step is necessary.
Method for the sauce:
Chop onion and garlic until finely minced in food processor. Sauté onion and garlic in olive oil using the pan you intend to use for simmering the other ingredients. The onion mixture should just start to turn brown. Do this on a low enough heat to keep this browning process under control to keep from burning.
Puree tomato sauce with carrot until smooth (about 4 minutes in food processor). If there are bits of onion and garlic left in the bowl after emptying the minced onion mixture in the pan, these bits can mix in with the tomato sauce. This puree can be used to stop the browning process of the onion at the perfect stage of browning (the browning of the onion and garlic gives this sauce a unique taste). When the onion mixture has browned, add the tomato puree and adjust the heat for simmer. Use the wine to rinse out the food processor bowl to be poured into the tomato sauce in the pan.
Add the other ingredients and simmer in the pot uncovered, stirring every 10 minutes, until the sauce is thick. Add sugar at the moment the proper thickness is reached to give the sweetness desired. I like my sauce on the sweet side, which seems to bring out the rich seasonings found in this recipe.
A note about my pizza sauce recipe: The sauce will make several pizzas. Use enough sauce to coat the pizza dough. Add the toppings of your choice. I like to make 1/2 Canadian Bacon, pineapple onion and green pepper; with plenty of mozzarella cheese over my sauce. The other half, I top my sauce with plenty of pepperoni, black olives, and mozzarella cheese. MMmmmm. Goood!
Lady Bender uses salted butter plus her berry jams
and makes the icing as noted
<Easy to make, but it was a little plain. However, when I went to the website to get the link, I noticed a bunch of variations on the theme, which could improve it.
I have the Bisquick impossible pie book. I love it, but yes, some of the recipes are bland. I take the basic recipe and jazz it up with the spices, onions, etc. that I like. The recipes are easy, the food tasty, and they don't need any weird ingredients.
I love the reviews on cooking websites. It's great to see what works and what doesn't before you make a dish.
You didn't REALLY say to put grape jelly in pizza sauce, did you? EWWWWWWWWWWW!
Yes. Use Concord grape jelly. The trick came from a gourmet cooking show. The natural sweetness compliments the tomato and the red wine.
I love experiementing with Italian and Mexican dishes. I have gotten very lazy over the years depending on the oh so good bottled sauces. I used to make my own pizza & marinara sauce with our huge crop of tomatoes. Fun times
Now I find it interesting to see the ideas from those who still love to do scratch cooking
I will try your sauce & crust. I think the idea of the grape jelly is fun. Over the years at good pizza shops I have experienced all different flavors in the sauces. Some more sweet & some with interesting herbs that flavor uniquely. I have really grown fond of fennel in Italian cooking & soups.
Thank you for taking the time to post your own recipes
Anytime I make tomato sauce for spaghetti or pizza, I always add sugar. You MUST add a little sugar, maybe a teaspoonful depending, that was my mom's trick, it's to counteract the acid and mellow it out. Always taste as you cook, too.
Oh, yeah, that just got posted on Facebook for my relatives to see. Here's wishing you a wonderful crudite this season.
Exactly. In my Post #30 I say to add sugar to taste. I have been using brown sugar. However, I think white sugar gives a cleaner sweetness. The use of Concord grape jelly adds the grape dimension to the sauce, when adding to the wine, compliments the tomato and adds a complexity to the flavor. By a slow cooking process, you can also create a caramelization of the sugars, but do not overdo it. I usually cook this sauce until it has thickened and put it on a pizza, straight away, as soon as it is cool. The remainder, I freeze.
Please tell me how you liked my pizza sauce recipe.
Mexican? Here is my chicken enchilada recipe:
This is one way to get a chicken in every pot.
My recipe:
For the carne el pollo (chicken meat):
2-1/2 cups shredded chicken
2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 bay leaf minced
2 teaspoons cumin
1-1/2 teaspoons oregano
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/2 teaspoon minced Serrano pepper
1/2 teaspoon sage
2 tablespoons chili powder
1/2 red bell pepper chopped
1/2 green bell pepper chopped
1 cup onion minced
2 green onions chopped
Other ingredients:
1/2 cup olives sliced
1 tomato sliced thin
7 burrito sized flour tortillas
10 oz can Old El Paso enchilada sauce
2 cups medium cheddar cheese grated
Peanut oil for frying
Put enchilada sauce in fry pan on low heat.
Start peanut oil in another fry pan to 350 degrees.
Fry both sides of tortillas in oil, using fork to deflate bubbles. Dip fried tortillas in enchilada sauce and stack in tray.
Put chicken ingredients in tortilla, fold in sides and roll into burrito type tortillas into baking pan.
Lay out tortillas with wise in pan. Cover with remaining enchilada sauce. Layer with cheese, tomatoes and olives. Put in 350 degree oven until bubbly.
Serve with sour cream, your favorite guacamole sauce, and more chopped green onions.
I couldn't find the White House recipe put there are LOTS of White Turkey Chili recipes here:
The thing I have found when using All Recipes is to read the reviews well - some will mention the same type of things so you get a clue what works well and what doesn't.
Good luck!
I love that 'allrecipes' site for the same reason - the comments under the recipes!
Recipes float around the net but the comment sections are where it's at....story-telling recipe blogs too - like the Pioneer Woman's site, detailed instructions and hints.
This is an easy, inexpensive family-style dish that looks like nothing but is incredibly delicious. Originally printed in 1955/56 Betty Crocker Cookbook. Named for Minnesota personality Cedric Adams.
METHOD Sweat in skillet medium chp onion, 2 tbl butter (do not brown). Add/saute just done 1/2 lb grnd beef (do not brown). Add S/P.
Cover oven casserole bottom w/ 3 cups cabbage coarsely shredded, then cover w/ beef/onion/butter, end w/ additional 3 cups coarse cabbage.
Pour over 10 1/2 oz can tomato or tomato rice soup, undiluted. Bake covered 350 deg an hour.
SERVE steaming hot w/ fresh hot crusty French bread lavished w/ butter.
STRIPED CHRISTMAS MERIGUES----CUTE COOKIE TIP from Martha Stewart TV show. Meringues come out with fanciful stripes. Uses red and green food paste coloring---and peppermint flavoring in meringue batter.
METHOD Using paste food color, paint three thin stripes inside clear plastic pastry bag (keep stripes far apart). Fill bag w/ meringue batter. Press out meringue spirals on parchment. Bake 200 deg 1 1/4 hrs.
SUMMER VARIATIONS--Yellow stripes for Lemon Meringues Orange stripes for Orange Meringues. Add corresponding grated zest flavorings.
" Add to saucer of olive oil to use as bread-dipping appy."
Salt, pepper and garlic powder added to the oil kicks it up a notch.
Add a box of frozen peas and pack of sliced mushrooms.
Gourmet folks add sour cream. :-)
That sounds interesting, a 'lazy stuffed cabbage'.
Another recipe:
I like stuffed cabbage but too 'lazy' to make it...Perfect
It's even better than stuffed cabbage-—when you lift the casserole lid-—the cabbage is all steamy and unctuous from the soup that is now a sauce. Adding the hot crusty bread dripping with butter is a must.
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The YMCA of Kitchener-Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University have partnered to open the Abwunza YMCA Child Care Centre, (named after the late Judith Abwunza, an associate professor in the department of sociology and anthropology), for children of Laurier faculty, staff and students, as well as the K-W community. The child care centre is located in the St. Michael's building and accommodates children from 18 months to five years of age.
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Shirley's insurance coverage in jeopardy
CHARLES TOWN – After an initial motion was filed and denied in federal court, the West Virginia Counties Group Self-Insurance Risk Pool has filed a motion in Jefferson County Circuit Court requesting relief of obligation to defend or insure former Sheriff Robert "Bobby" Shirley in his civil case.
Attorney James C. Stebbins, the same lawyer who filed the federal suit, filed the motion on behalf of the insurance pool for West Virginia county governments, which is seeking to disown itself from the case.
However, the federal motion, which was dismissed by district court Judge John Bailey, stated it was the responsibility of the insurance company to provide coverage despite the series of events that ultimately led to Shirley's resignation.
"The court found that the problem with allowing intervention for this purpose is that the issue of insurer liability 'is not related to the subject matter of this action between (the plaintiff) and the (insured defendant),'" the order denying intervention states.
The new motion states the risk pool wants "leave to intervene to assert declaratory judgment complaint," and asks the circuit court to find that it is not required to defend or insure Shirley for punitive damages in the civil case.
"Under West Virginia law, exclusions related to criminal, fraudulent, and/or dishonest acts are generally valid and enforceable," the motion reads.
Shirley resigned in January, not long before he pled guilty to a federal civil rights violation in Martinsburg's U.S. District Court in connection with the Dec. 27, 2010, beating of bank robbery suspect Mark Daniel Haines, of Harpers Ferry.
After the incident, Haines filed suit against Shirley claiming that Shirley kicked him several times in the head, stomped on his face, and inflected other harm upon him.
Haines is seeking damages from the incident along with other fees of Shirley and deputies Joseph Forman and Terry Palmer, all of whom sought protection in compensation and defense from the West Virginia County Risk Pool.
The risk pool has been providing defense for each of the officers under a coverage contract between the insurer and the Jefferson County Commission.
"Defendant Shirley sought a defense and indemnity for the allegations in the Underlying Lawsuit from the WV County Risk Pool which has been providing a defense to him," the motion reads.
According to the motion, the insurance coverage does not apply to fraud and dishonesty brought on by the covered person.
"WV County Risk Pool has no duty to continue to defend Defendant Shirley with respect to the allegations in the Underlying Lawsuit," the motion reasons.
The former sheriff faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
– Staff writer Michelle Horst can be reached at 304-263-8931, ext. 138, or twitter.com/mhorstJN.


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It's pretty rare for a movie that fails to live up to its hype as uniformly as Inception does (though Jesus, is it any surprise, with that kind of hype?) to still function as an enormously entertaining summer movie, but if writer-director Christopher Nolan's latest manages to do just that, it's mostly because what it is (an action-heavy heist movie with several mind-blowing setpieces) is an entirely pleasant substitute for what it isn't (a psychologically complex investigation into dream logic, and the relationship of the conscious and subconscious minds). The worst thing about it, I think, is the financial success of The Dark Knight: Nolan earned a free pass when that film clocked north of $500 million, and so he has taken the Peter Jackson route of post-blockbuster clout in making a film that's a damn sight too long and a goodly bit too certain of its own cleverness and profundity. But even if 148 minutes of Inception is easily a half-hour more than the story can bear, it's a pretty great ride nonetheless.
The film's story - OH MY GOD NOT THE STORY, cries the received wisdom about the film, for this is a story that makes babies weep blood and will explode the skulls of lesser mortals. Only a team of MIT engineering students could possibly lay the story out in anything less than the time it takes to tell. Bullshit, says I. Here's the story: Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a master thief with a shady past, given an opportunity by mysterious businessman Saito (Ken Watanabe) to redeem everything he's ever done, and in the process reunite with the children he left in the U.S. when he was forced for shady reasons to flee the country. Saito's offer includes completing an impossible mission, for which Cobb must assemble the best team ever compiled for such a mission. Everything else is just details.
And devilish details they be. For Cobb - as you've noted from the ubiquitous advertising - specialises in breaking into people's dreams and stealing their ideas. Saito's particular offer involves planting an idea in the head of the heir (Cillian Murphy) of his greatest rival (Pete Postelthwaite), a process called "inception" (hey, that's the name of the movie!). How this dream-invading works, and whether the film takes place in the future, or is set in a fantastic version of the present, is left for the viewer to ponder after the credits start to roll.
What some critics have praise/assailed as "confusing" in Inception is really just a sign that you need to pay attention. There's not one moment in the film - not even in its bravura third act, which cross-cuts between three time periods all taking place simultaneously over three different durations (it makes perfect sense while you're watching) - that Nolan is deliberately obfuscating the narrative. In fact, I tend to agree with James Berardinelli, who made the single most insightful observation about the movie I have yet read: "one could make an argument that the straightforward nature of Nolan's approach to such potentially mind-bending material is one of Inception's weaknesses." The story is blissfully straightforward: first, the rules are clearly laid out, then we see examples proving rules, then we are given a test run of the rules at their most absurdly convoluted. But if you don't leave the theater to pee or buy fresh popcorn, it's unimaginable that you can't follow along, if you're willing to try.
So: we get a whole lot of character fulfilling functions plainly laid out: the "architect", Ariadne (Ellen Page) - and by the way, fuck you Chris Nolan for the ham-handedness of that character name - creates the dreamspace; the "point-man" Arthur (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) does all the background research and makes sure everything in the dream proceeds according to plan; the "forger" Eames (Tom Hardy) fakes whatever details are necessary to make certain the mark believes the dream-reality. All the while, Cobb's personal history, in the form of his projection of his dead wife Mal (Marion Cotillard) - hey, there's another ham-handed character name! - keeps threatening to ruin everything, if Cobb can't get his demons in check, which Ariadne helpfully reminds him of, in dialogue along the lines of "Cobb, you better get your demons in check before everything is ruined."
Depth is not the strong suit here, despite the film's apparent misapprehension that it's tapping into something deep and profound. I might call it Nolan's shallowest film since his debut, Following - beyond a shadow of a doubt, it's thinner soup than his Batman films, with their obsession over the nature of personal identity, or The Prestige, which covers procedural ground in an infinitely more satisfying way while adding some real observations about rivalry and... personal identity. It's a pet theme, what can you say? At least he's a genuine auteur, in a summer that desperately needs some auteurist heft.
Depth, though, really doesn't matter; not when you've got a story that proceeds from A to B to C with such clarity of purpose. The Sting won a Best Picture Oscar on no more grounds than being an elegant con job against the audience; why shouldn't Inception reign as one of Summer 2010's few genuinely good movies (though not its best; Toy Story 3 will be moving audiences to tears generations from now). Every right-thinking person loves a good caper movie; from at least Rififi onward, they've consistently been among the most sheerly delightful movies you could hope to see. Inception isn't one of the genre's greats; it's not even, to my tastes, as good as last year's Duplicity, which had the added value of some gleeful kinkiness.
But it is still very good; and there's always a certain joy that comes from the "here is an intractable problem to be solved, here is the superstar team that can solve it, here it is being solved just like we diagrammed" plot structure. Since I keep mentioning that, I should probably answer the theoretical question, Is that all? No, of course not: being a Christopher Nolan film means that it's handsome as all get-out, from Wally Pfister's dumbfoundingly perfect cinematography (if it's not his best work ever, that's only because The Prestige is is fucking beautiful), to Guy Hendrix Dyas's reality-based, but hauntingly otherworldly production design, to, yes, Lee Smith's editing - so many people are so hopped-up about his work in Nolan's films, but that's an argument that I simply don't fathom, even when the critic involved is a genius like Jim Emerson, and he's careful to show all of his work. Me, I find these criticisms to be unduly concerned with the idea that editing is only supposed to ever contribute to the spacial integrity of a given film; what Smith and Nolan are doing is a lot more unusual and only sometimes effective, cutting according to rhythmic beats that aren't driven by the story, by space, or by emotion, but by a flow that seems "outside" the movie somehow. It reminds me of the 1920s French conceit that cinema is the most musical of all artforms, which I've always took to be a reference to the durational element added to cinema by editing; but it's not a question to be resolved in just one review, except to say: I loves me some Lee Smith.
Anyhow, issues of craftsmanship or no, the question stands: does Inception have anything else going on? It certainly doesn't have complex characterisations (Cobb's emotional arc is facile at best, and like all Nolan films, the writing is too baldly functional to suggest genuine human beings are involved), and the emphasis is on using dream-physics as the excuse for some hugely spectacular action sequences, and not at all imaginative flights of fancy. The Cell this is not: Nolan is obviously more concerned with telling a twisty, but largely coherent story, than in developing rich alternative universes. Frankly, I'm alright with that: sometimes you just need some cinematic candy, and Inception is the very best kind of candy: it's entertaining as hell even as it demands that you keep your brain switched on. It's just what the moribund, overly 3-D enhanced summer season needed.
21 comments:
- Simon said...
Sure, the script leaves something to be desired--the secondary characters are designed to explain the plot and give the whole thing more of a heist feel--but the performances, in my humble opinion, were pretty fantastic enough so you, or at least I, don't notice until you think about it later. And the action scenes, the dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream-within-a-dream ones, do take someone who paid attention very closely to explain coherently, but they're the best action scenes (collectively) I've seen since The Matrix.
I forgot what my point was. Glad you liked it, also glad you could keep a level head about it (I was far too busy geeking out to notice any flaws, except: if you can't touch someone else's totum, why does Cobb use his wife's?)
- Tim said...
Because she was dead, is how I read it.
I have so much that I could say which would sound so fanboyish about that tri-layer dream action sequence, if I weren't trying to make sure my review was spoiler-free...
- Tim said...
And since I forgot to mention it: fucking cheesy last shot, though based on the collective gasp in my packed theater, I bet a lot of people will love it.
- Stephen said...
It's not that you can't touch someone's totem, it's that you shouldn't. Or rather, you shouldn't let someone examine yours because then they'll know about it and could recreate it if they're the dreamer. Which would defeat the purpose of it acting as something that only you know well enough to be able to tell if it's acting properly.
I knew exactly what the last shot would be as soon as I saw Cobb's totem. I liked it, but that doesn't mean it wasn't cheesy and completely predictable.
- Bryce Wilson said...
I agree with you to a lesser extent. Inception might not transcend the Action Summer Block Buster genre. But its in the top percentile tier.
I like to think that De Palma and Gilliam left the theater weeping bitter tears of frustration (Well I don't. I like both those guys, but still I can't see another outcome).
De Palma for all his slow motion motherfuckery never suspended a moment in time so audaciously as that truck falling from the bridge.
Gilliam for all his love of dreaming never got stuck so far in. Or rather, he never was able to take everyone else so far in with him.
As for the last shot. I don't know the majority might rule with you yet Tim. A groan went up in the theater I was in. But it was a satisfied groan.
Thanks for participating. It really meant a lot.
- Ellen said...
The theater I was in (10am cheapskate show in LA) didn't really react much to the actual last shot, but gave a wry laugh when it cut to black in a fit of AMBIGUITY!.
Really good overall, though.
- Simon said...
I didn't like the ending. As if there wasn't enough ambiguity going down. And now I've got to watch the whole thing again.
- sa said...
I think the ending tries to temper those who would criticize the film for ending too neatly, and those who would hate to see Cobb victim to his own illusions. However, couldn't Cobb spin the top at any point to test his reality? Then wouldn't he again fight to return to his true reality - as he had before? The ending seems unnecessary, yes? Yet, rather nice to look at.
- jax said...
The last scene reads sequel to me.
- KingKubrick said...
Spot on Tim. I loved the film as an entertainment but I was expecting a emotional wallop a la solaris (the 70's version not that clooney bull) which I didn't get. I think another reviewer put it best "I didn't have my mind blown..I mean it wasn't total recall"
ps. that would make a great blockbuster history entry as a precursor to inception
- dwr said...
SPOILERY Comment:
She was dead, Tim? I took it as quite the opposite. My take: She wasn't dead. She woke herself up from the dream when she hopped out the window. He stayed in their shared dream after she left. The rest of the movie is his projection of things, people, etc., as he worked through the guilt of losing her. Note also that the children had not aged a day when he came back to them.
- James said...
Why is no one else concerned about that ridiculous "limbo" device? If it really was indicative of some manifestation of universal consciousness (as it undoubtedly was so) then how could they so casually address it as some minor plot detail?
- Auggey said...
Thank you so much for summing up exactly how I felt about this movie. The friends I went with all loved it, though I remained dumbfounded, not by the plot, but by it's "non-complexity".
- Jake said...
Regarding Lee Smith, I think he works amazingly in this format (and The Prestige is one of the best-edited works of the decade), but there are some mistakes in The Dark Knight that must have been planned because they're so immediately noticeable yet they still seem amateurish. I think there's room for abstraction even in a superhero crime movie, but it needed a bit more spatial and temporal integrity in a film that otherwise did not mess with such things (save for the double, or triple, action of racing to rescue Rachel/Two-Face and the Joker's escape).
I am glad, however, that I watched this and The Prestige back-to-back because they show how great the two can be together. Plus, The Prestige actually makes a case for Nolan as a gifted visual artist where elsewhere his main aesthetic strength is economy. Well, The Prestige is economic too, but Jesus is it beautiful.
- Sadako said...
I loved the Prestige, too, Jake. Can't wait to see Inception for myself.
- Zev Valancy said...
I'm impressed by the extent to which this movie transcended its flaws. They were pretty clear, and mostly in the screenplay--ham-handed dialogue, minimal emotional heft, thin characterizations--But also didn't matter at all. I was still sitting there open-mouthed in joy and wonder.
But my personal favorite cliche of the film: it was yet another "One Last Job" movie. Cobb even referred to it as such at least once. Awesome.
- Stephen said...
SPOILERY response to dwr:
My first thought was "No, that's ridiculous, he was just dreaming at the end," but the more I think about it the more I think you're right. Another example, though maybe it's just my poor memory: we don't see Cobb's totem work properly. It toppled, but always because it gets knocked over.
- okinawaassault said...
I should have watched The Prestige again before watching this movie. Skimmed through parts of it afterwards and drool.
- Lucas said...
"Why is no one else concerned about that ridiculous "limbo" device? If it really was indicative of some manifestation of universal consciousness (as it undoubtedly was so) then how could they so casually address it as some minor plot detail?"
The 'limbo' was NOT some universal shared consciousness. You're misunderstanding that. The reason that Cobb, Saito, and Fischer were in the same limbo state is because all their dream states were linked. They were all hooked up to the same machine on the airplane, remember.
- Jason said...
Lucas and James,
Plus, the reason the limbo state was so structured, unlike some void/netherworld as described, is because it was essentially Cobb's and he developed it previously. Rather, due to their linked states, Cobb's limbo superseded the others.
So it makes sense in the universe, but I might agree that having it at all was disappointing. I know they had to add some gravity to the proceedings and make those bullets REAL, but I think much coulda been done with looking at it like a video game. When you die you wake up unscathed, but you had go through the whole thing AGAIN. Like an old-school nintendo game with no save points. So dying wouldn't in the dream wouldn't kill you but it could easily screw up the whole heist.
- David Hamilton said...
A film that has it's moments, no doubt, but I think it borders on ridiculous. The dream logic simply doesn't work and half of the film is painfully obvious exposition, Leonardo and Levitt's characters standing around explaining what is going on. Nothing makes me cring more than overly expository dialog, and Inception is one of the worst offenders in recent memory.


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DUNMORE, PA — Waste Management Company locations in Northeast Pennsylvania are expanding the list of e-recycling items in Wayne, Lackawanna and Northampton counties.
In Wayne County, the company is already recycling televisions and computer equipment, which its sites began accepting a year ago. Now, the company will accept most other consumer electronics, including VCRs, audio equipment, telephones, cell phones and most other devices that plug in or are powered by batteries.
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BENNINGTON The Oldcastle Actors Express will present I Didnt Know That, a lighthearted revue of first facts, selected oddities and world records based on The Guinness Book of World Records for family audiences, opening at 11 a.m. today at Oldcastle Theatre.
The show will run Saturdays throughout November.
This comedy for children presents more than 50 startling facts about topics like the first policewoman, the origins of superstitions and world records for leapfrogging, sneezing and laying eggs.
The production is directed by Sheila Childs, a longtime Oldcastle actress, director and teacher who has appeared in numerous Oldcastle productions.
The cast includes Amanda Garcia and Ana Anderson, who recently appeared in the Actors Express production of The Revenge of the Big, Bad Wolf.
Oldcastles producing artistic director, Eric Peterson, said that Saturday mornings have proven to be very popular with families and a great way to introduce children to the joys of theater.
The show is funny and fun and will be enjoyed as much by adults as children. Kids will particularly love the musical moments and physical humor and they will learn some interesting facts that will allow them to amaze their friends, Peterson said.
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James McLean
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James McLeans singing encompasses a wide repertoire, from baroque to contemporary music, in opera, concert and in recital.
Across Canada he has sung with major organizations including the Toronto Symphony, Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Ottawa Choral Society and Calgary Philharmonic.
In 1983, James launched his European career and made Germany his home for over 20 years. He was first lyric tenor of the opera houses in, Nurnberg and Essen while performing throughout Germany and Europe.
James was Associate Professor at the Folkwang University in Essen and has given Master Classes on song interpretation in Canada, Germany and Italy.