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We're creating a bigger, richer, deeper Lord of the Rings strategy game that will immerse you, transport you, and enchant you as you experience the Middle-earth you've never seen. You'll fight epic battles in new places with new armies led by new heroes. You'll experience unprecedented depth of strategy with innovative RTS features that combine creativity and strategy. You'll see Middle-earth like never before with visuals that hit a new bar.
What's new in Middle-earth? Does this game go beyond the films?
The game is based on both the books and the films. As Middle-earth's fate hangs by a thread, you'll command the most ancient and storied civilizations of Tolkien's world, the Elves and the Dwarves, as they unite to fight Sauron's armies in the Northern Lands. New races, places, and heroes come to life from the book fiction and Peter Jackson's movies. If playing on the side of light isn't your thing, you can control the Dark Lord's minions in a mission of ruthless conquest. You'll command vast hordes of Orcs, Goblins, Trolls, Giants, Spiders, Nazgul, Evil Men, and even Dragons.
What's new for the strategy gamer?
Depth of strategy comes in the form of fast and fluid RTS game play, an innovative fortress and wall building system that lets you create your own custom castles, the freedom to build anywhere in the world, a Risk-style strategy meta-game that is infinitely replayable, better control over your armies in battle through smart formations, tactical fidelity in melee combat, customized heroes that become your avatars in battle, and naval units and battles at sea.
Have you upgraded the game engine? How are the visuals?
New technology brings you a high fidelity vision of Middle-earth. Water that sparkles in the sun and crashes on the shore in explosions of foam and spray. Sun dappled meadows and swaying trees. Landscapes of ice and snow. Amazing particle effects for magic spells. The improvements under the hood include a new shader system, normal mapping, specularity, perspective shadows, distance hazing, an improved particle system, and other cool stuff.
How much new content is in the game? Will you be bringing back anything from the first game?
This is like two games in one. We're creating a full game's worth of new content í¢â'¬" units, heroes, structures, locations, missions, new game mechanics, and new technology - and we're also bringing back all of the units, heroes, structures, and locations from the original Battle for Middle-earth. We want to deliver the complete Middle-earth experience, with all of the races and heroes from the books and movies and all of the places on the map.
More detail: Battle for Middle-earth II will have a total of six factions (sides), 80+ units, 34+ heroes, and 50+ maps. We're adding three entirely new factions based on Elves, Dwarves, and Goblins í¢â'¬" and each new faction has new units, heroes, and structures. We're enhancing the existing factions from the first game as well. For example, we're adding Corsairs and Black Riders for Mordor, Wild Men of Dunland for Isengard, and Dunedain Rangers for our Men of the West faction (Gondor and Rohan are being combined into one faction).
What is the single player game experience like?
There are three ways to play. You can start up a story-based campaign with lovingly crafted RTS missions on the side of Good or Evil. You can also play a new free-form í¢â'¬�…"War of the Ringí¢â'¬? strategy game that spans all of Middle-earth and lets you battle a new strategic AI for control of the world. Finally, you can jump into a í¢â'¬�…"one offí¢â'¬? battle against AI where you choose the factions and the map.
The story-based single player campaign takes you to the Northern Lands of Middle-earth where Elves and Dwarves are fighting a series of massive battles against Sauron's forces during the War of the Ring. These battles in the North are as epic as anything shown on film, with vast armies clashing in new locations like Mirkwood, Lorien, Dale, and the mountain fortress of Erebor.
The Good campaign puts you in charge of the allied ancient races warring against Goblin hordes descending from the Misty Mountains and the dark tide flowing out of Sauron's fortress of Dol Guldur. If you choose to play the Evil campaign, you'll control the armies from Dol Guldur as well as a host of corrupted creatures. Instead of defending the North, your mission will be to conquer it. Victory for the Evil side will come when Sauron controls the northern lands of Middle-earth.
Once you are finished with the Good and Evil story-based campaigns, you can unlock infinite replayability with our new War of the Ring strategy meta-game. You can choose to re-fight the entire War of the Ring í¢â'¬" in the South as well as the North í¢â'¬" by choosing a side and a starting location on the 3D living world map of Middle-earth. You can then build up your forces, move your armies, and take territories in a Risk-style strategy game. Battles for contested territories can be auto-resolved or played out in a classic real-time encounter on the actual RTS map.
Is the War of the Ring part of the campaign game? Is it a skirmish mode? Can it be played multiplayer?
War of the Ring is an entirely new way to play. You conquer Middle-earth your own way, battling for control of the world against a strategic AI or another player. All of the races of Middle-earth are yours to command as you fight across the entire world, re-visiting classic battles like Helm's Deep, Isengard, and Minas Tirith. You can also stage battles in Minas Morgul, the land of Mordor , the land of Rhun , and other locations from across Middle-earth. You create your own history of the War of the Ring í¢â'¬" and it plays out differently every time.
What's up with fortresses and wall building?
We are bringing a new level of creativity and strategy to base building. First of all, we're letting you build structures anywhere on the map, not just on the little build plots we gave players in the first game. We're also adding the ability to build customizable fortresses that can anchor your base defense. Each fortress can be tricked out with cool upgrades that are specific to each of the six factions in the game. For example, the Men of the West player can deploy trebuchets, arrow towers, and boiling oil as upgrades to their fortresses (among others). Goblin players will have giants that throw rocks and spider lairs as defensive upgrades. Most cool of all, we're giving you the ability to build walls around your fortresses and other structures so you can create your own landmark castles of Middle-earth. You can even upgrade every wall segment í¢â'¬" you can build gates, towers, emplacements, and all sorts of cool stuff. Wall building is very easy to use and incredibly powerful; you'll be amazed at what you can create.
The good news is that we've applied the lessons we've learned from the first game about making things accessible and easy to use, so the interface for base building í¢â'¬" even with all the added freedom - remains very clean and streamlined. So it's easy to do but gives the game tremendous depth. It's like having your cake and eating it too.
What are some examples of strategies that are enabled by this new base building system?
The fortress and wall system is very flexible and powerful í¢â'¬" you can optimize your base defenses to suit your strategy and style of play. With the many options available, you can easily, quickly, and inexpensively create a basic castle with simple defensive walls and cheap fortress upgrades. Or you can spend some additional resources and create massive fortifications bristling with trebuchets and arrow towers and secured by a foundation of reinforced stonework. When the team plays Battle for Middle-earth II in multiplayer, some players build huge castles that can defend against an attack from any angle; other players use small, strategically deployed wall segments with selective upgrades to guard the approaches that would most commonly be used for attacks. Both strategies can workí¢â'¬Â¦ it really depends on the player.
Will there be heroes and creatures from the books that didn't appear in the films? What about heroes from the films that weren't in the first game?
New heroes from the books include Glorfindel the Elf Lord, King Thranduil of the Mirkwood Elves, and King Dain of the Dwarves. We're also including heroes from the films that didn't make it into the first game, like Elrond, Master of Rivendel, Arwen, Galadriel, Wormtongue, the Mouth of Sauron, and others.
What is the í¢â'¬�…"Create-a-Heroí¢â'¬? feature? How does it work?
We're going to allow you to create your own hero by picking a race and type and then customizing the appearance, weapons, spells, and abilities for that hero. As a player, you can ask yourself: What would I be if I were a hero in Middle-earth? An Elven Wizard? A Battle Troll with a spiked mace? A Rohan Shield Maiden who can ride a horse? You decide.
You will be prompted to create your own hero at the beginning of a campaign game. You'll also be able to access the hero creation feature from the game's main menu - to add to your bullpen of custom heroes or edit an existing hero. Customization options range from armor, clothing, and weapon choices to the actual ladder of powers and abilities that your hero will use to í¢â'¬�…"level upí¢â'¬? during game play.
Once you've created a hero, you can take him or her into multiplayer games as well as the single player campaign game. We'll limit the use of custom heroes for tournament games that count towards ladder stats, but otherwise players have the option to create and join multiplayer games with their created heroes (or not, depending on preference í¢â'¬" some players may want to host and join í¢â'¬�…"no custom heroí¢â'¬? games regardless of whether or not they count towards official stats).
Are you making any changes to the AI?
We are re-writing the AI from the ground up. I think players will be pleasantly surprised at the resulting improvements which range from more sophisticated strategies for building and using units, structures, and spell powers to tactics like grouping basic units with heroes to take advantage of what the heroes bring to the party.
What are some of the cool new í¢â'¬�…"big creaturesí¢â'¬??
The Giant is a cool new large creatureí¢â'¬Â¦ imagine something twice as tall í¢â'¬" and twice as mean í¢â'¬" as one of the battle trolls from the movies or the first game. Other interesting big critters include huge dragons, fire breathing drakes, a í¢â'¬�…"Half-Trollí¢â'¬? Marauder, and summonable beasties like the giant tentacled monster called the í¢â'¬�…"Watcherí¢â'¬? or a Wyrm that tunnels up from underground.
How about spell powers? What's new?
In addition to summonable creatures like the Watcher, you can trigger an earthquake, cause a flood, rain fire down on your opponent's army, call in a whirlwind of destruction, or call allies like Tom Bombadil or the Dunedain to your aid. These are just a few examples of the new powers.
Will more advanced unit commands be available? Such as Hold Position, Automatic Search and Destroy, and so forth?
We are introducing í¢â'¬�…"stancesí¢â'¬? for units and heroes that give a new level of control over their basic behavior. We are currently implementing three different stances: í¢â'¬�…" Battle Stanceí¢â'¬?, í¢â'¬�…"Hold Groundí¢â'¬?, and í¢â'¬�…"Aggressiveí¢â'¬?. Units default to the battle stance í¢â'¬" they will defend an area but will retaliate if attacked. Units set to hold ground will not budge from their positions even if under attack. Units set to be aggressive will hunt down and kill enemy units that come within their sight ranges.
So what are some of the specific missions or scenarios in the game?
Imagine a massive sea battle outside the Elven port city of the Grey Havens as a fleet of marauding Corsair warships attacks. Or a fight to the death with huge and terrifying dragon in the bowels of the Blue Mountains . Or an assault on a vast Goblin city deep in the Misty Mountains . Or an epic siege on a dark and evil fortress buried in the forests of Mirkwood. These are just a few of the things you'll do in the Good campaign missions í¢â'¬" and we're not touching on the Evil campaign or all the cool things you can do in the War of the Ring mode (like defending Minas Tirith with an alliance of Elves and Dwarves).
What's new in multiplayer?
We've made a number of improvements to multiplayer í¢â'¬" but the big news is in how we're enabling multiplayer functionality for custom heroes and our new War of the Ring meta-game. You'll be able to create heroes and take them into multiplayer matches. You'll also be able to play a persistent War of the Ring game against another player - with save files. Given that a War of the Ring game with multiple RTS battle sessions might take days to play, we are letting players save out their games so they can pick them up again later.
More conventional new features include the ability to set new rules and starting conditions for created games, the ability to establish player handicaps, and other groovy stuff. More details will be forthcoming on the multiplayer feature set a bit later.
What improvements are you making to unit control and tactical fidelity?
You'll be able to create complex formations of troops just by grouping units and moving the mouse - the artificial intelligence will line up formations automatically in an intelligent way (soldiers and pikemen up front, archers in the back, cavalry on the flanks, and siege weapons like catapults in the rear to support attack or defense). This new smart formation system does away with a lot of the micro-management in the first game (for combo hordes, formations, etc.).
Tactical fidelity in Battle for Middle-earth II will also be much higher í¢â'¬" players will get bonuses if they flank their opponents. For example, if you attack a formation from the side, you'll get a bonus in the attack since you're hitting them from a vulnerable angle. Another example: If you ride your cavalry over pikemen while they have their pikes facing the other way, you'll overrun your opponent í¢â'¬" unlike the first game, where pikemen slaughtered cavalry no matter which direction their pikes were facing. We heard back from a number of players that they were frustrated because it didn't seem to matter where their units were facing or how they were lined up. We listened and the new game is a lot more realistic without being more complicated.
Are you making any changes to the basic melee system?
Yes í¢â'¬" we're implementing a more sophisticated melee combat system that will minimize uncontrollable í¢â'¬�…"scrumsí¢â'¬?. Formations will stay more or less intact and will engage intelligently rather than simply piling into each other in an unmanageable mass of troops. We want to make sure you can still control the action even in a big battle.
How will naval combat work?
You'll be able to capture a neutral Shipwright structure and then build ships that are appropriate to your side. If you're playing Elves, Dwarves, or Men of the West, you'll be able to build Elven warships and transports. Goblin, Mordor, and Isengard players will get Corsair warships and transports. Warships can be upgraded to get improved armor, firepower, etc. You can use ships to bombard units and structures inland, battle against other ships, or scout the map.
Why combine Gondor and Rohan? What other changes are there to existing sides?
It made sense to combine Gondor and Rohan into one faction í¢â'¬" the Men of the West - because these two sides had duplicate unit types and Rohan was really just about heroes and cavalry. By adding the Rohan heroes to Gondor and making the Rohirrim horsemen available as cavalry, the new unified Men of the West is a deep, rich, and compelling side.
Mordor and Isengard are already pretty cool sides and it didn't seem right to combine them. Instead, we're adding a bunch of units and heroes to both Mordor and Isengard to increase depth. For example, we gave Mordor the Black Riders (Ring Wraiths on horseback), Corsairs of Umbar (able to scale walls using grappling hooks), and a new Mouth of Sauron hero, among other additions. Isengard gained the Wild Men of Dunland as units, Wormtongue, and Sharku the Warg Hero. Both sides also got new customizable fortress structures with all sorts of cool upgrades.
How many people are working on the project?
We reached peak staffing of about 80 people in June (this number doesn't include our testers). This is a big team made up of very talented individuals. I'm continually amazed í¢â'¬" and delighted í¢â'¬" by how quickly this team is making progress on the game.
Will there be an expansion pack for the original Battle for Middle-earth?
We looked seriously at creating an expansion pack for Battle for Middle-earth but the opportunity presented by the consolidated book and movie rights for The Lord of the Rings led us to make a full sequel instead. The unified rights unlocked the world of Middle-earth like never beforeí¢â'¬Â¦ it's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to work on a game that brings new races, places, heroes, and battles from the Lord of the Rings books into the visual world of the films.
With a full team of 80 very talented people, we set a very ambitious agenda:
í¢â'¬Â¢ Make enough new content for a full sequel and then bring along all the units, structures, and locations from the first game
í¢â'¬Â¢ Push to innovate within the genre
í¢â'¬Â¢ Transform the base building experience with a powerful fortress and wall building system that's incredibly easy to use
í¢â'¬Â¢ Create a strategy meta-game that can be played against other players and not just an AI; make something that gives the game infinite replayability in the single player experience
í¢â'¬Â¢ Unlock the ability to create custom RTS heroes and take them on-line
í¢â'¬Â¢ Give players better control over armies in combat without adding a bunch of complexity
í¢â'¬Â¢ Make substantial upgrades to the engine so that we could dramatically improve the visual quality of the world
í¢â'¬Â¢ Finally: Make a game that's addictive, fun to play, and appeals to our traditional hard core RTS gamers without losing the accessibility and ease of use that distinguished the first game
Will you be able to have your troops walk and fight on the walls you can build as part of the new fortress and wall system?
The ability to walk í¢â'¬" and fight í¢â'¬" on top of walls was in our design spec for the new base building system from the beginning. We implemented large í¢â'¬�…"walk-able wallsí¢â'¬? in May and tested them in play sessions - and unfortunately we discovered that the oversized wall hubs and wall segments weren't a lot of fun to play with because they were huge, awkward, and ugly to boot. The smaller and more upgradeable walls, on the other hand, were a blast to play with and were an instant hit. These smaller walls are the right size for the game and make up for the lack of í¢â'¬�…"walk-ableí¢â'¬? space by having every wall segment available for upgrades with towers, gates, trebuchets, etc., etc. We made a call to leave the larger walk-able walls out of the game. We are actually looking into the idea of making them accessible to the mod community.
Please remember that large pre-built castles in specific maps (like Helm's Deep and Minas Tirith) will have the larger walk-able walls; we just decided to sacrifice walk-able walls for player created castles using the new base building system.
Will you have more units on the screen than in the first game? Are you changing the population cap?
We will let you have more units on the screen in Battle for Middle-earth II í¢â'¬" but I don't want to commit to a hard number just yet. As for the pop cap, that was our way of controlling the number of units that appeared on the screen; we won't be lowering it.
Will there be more units per horde or battalion?
Yes. The larger hordes and battalions give the game a í¢â'¬�…"big armyí¢â'¬? feeling and make it easier to use some of our new unit control and tactical fidelity features (like smart formations and flanking).
Will units still have emotions?
Yes. We're implementing emotions for the new units that we're adding and we're tuning the emotion system from the first game. It's pretty damn cool to have your units react like characters: they still cheer in triumph, taunt enemies, tremble in fear, and exhibit other visible behaviors in response to changes in the environment and the game state.


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MULTAN: Ali Haider Gilani, a son of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani who was kidnapped from Multan on Thursday, remained untraced despite efforts and frantic searches conducted by law enforcement agencies in Multan.
The kidnapping occurred, when a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) corner meeting ongoing on Multan's Matti-Tal road, was attacked by gunmen.
Police said Ali Haider Gilani's personal secretary, Mohiuddin, was killed in the attack and one of his guards wounded, along with four other people, in the abduction.
"People came on a motorbike. They also had a car with them and they opened fire and abducted Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider in a black Honda," police officer Khurram Shakur told reporters.
Haider was a provincial assembly candidate for the secular PPP and his two brothers Ali Musa Gilani and Abdul Qadir Gilani are standing for the national assembly.
After the kidnapping, Gilani's sons, Ali Musa and Abdul Qadir were seen to be angry and in tears.
"I will not allow elections to be held in my constituency at any cost. My brother is gone, how can I let polls take place in Multan," an emotional Ali Musa Gilani told television channels.
According to police, all entry and exit points for Multan were sealed and a massive search operation was underway to recover Ali Haider and apprehend those responsible.
Interior Minister Habib Khan also said searches were ongoing and the kidnapping would not impact the coming elections.
Caretaker prime minister Mir Hazar Khan Khoso expressed concern over the abduction and called former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani to discuss the incident.
He said all available resources would be used to recover Haider Gilani and assured that the culprits would be brought to justice.
Moreover, chief election commissioner Justice (retd) Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim also condemned the kidnapping and called upon the caretaker government to provide full security to election candidates.
Ali Haider Gilani was contesting for the May 11 election from PPP-200 constituency in Multan.
His family is one of the most powerful in the central town of Multan and a key clan in the PPP, whose campaign for re-election has been dramatically curtailed by Tehrik-i-Taliban threats.


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I wasn't sure if this setback would nix our entire plans to travel to Uruguay, but sure enough, once Carlos returned from the police station, he was more determined to make it to Punta Del Este.
Let me tell you a little bit about Carlos. Carlos is Chilean, but German Chilean. He speaks a lot of languages very well and looks very European - in fact, he lived in Germany and Sweden for a bit in his childhood. He is extremely proud of Chile, the land with the best wines, women, empanadas (pastries), etc. of the world. He is a patient listener, and a kind conversationalist. He is in love with history and archaeology, and shares all sorts of wonderful facts and anecdotes. He doesn't blink much and has moony eyes. During conversation, he listens intently while he stares at you with a wooden face. Carlos has been dreaming of Punta Del Este during his entire summer trip through Argentina - laying in the pristine sands on the emerald-blue shores surrounded by bikini clad rich Argentinian girls, who Carlos asserts are the most beautiful in the whole world (Argentina I theenk has the maost byeeaouteeful weeahmen in aoll the waorld [edit - after Carlos read this phonetic spelling, he started speaking English with an italian accent - very funny. His English is very good])
Were this 1930 in Oklahoma, Punta Del Este would be Carlos's California. Were this the late 90s in a blockbuster teen movie, Punta Del Este would be Carlos's lost virginity. Punta Del Este is Carlos's white picket fence and 2.2 children and a waggy tailed dog. When he speaks of Punta Del Este, his words glisten with dreams of bottomless golden goblets filled with Pisco (Chilean national drink), mountains of grilled meats served by naked, rich, gorgeous Argentinian women, and generally a lot of making out.
So naturally Carlos was going to Punta Del Este, bag or not. In fact, losing his stuff made him ever more determined to make it, no matter the cost. When traveling to PDE from Buenos Aires, one has a number of options - direct by ferry bus combo, direct 14 hour bus, or traveling out of the city, catching a roundabout ferry-bus combo to montevideo, and finally pushing on the last 3 hours by bus to the land of the beautiful women.
Tigre is an hour north of BsAs and is a weekend destination for Porte�os - it used to be the place where the rich would go during the summer to escape the city, as well as a bustling megaport on the Rio de Plata
Fast forward to Uruguay, and a three hour busride through green farmland with dusty red roads and rusty old trucks, crumbling cement block houses and barbed wire fences for the cows, horses, and sheep. Fast forward to Montevideo, a soothing city that seems like a BsAs Junior... The same Euro influence, but smaller, the same cheap good eats, but cheaper, the same streets and graffitis but less cars and quieter, the same weather but cooler and nicer. Montevideo is a river city, so many streets have distant views down gentle slopes to a gorgeous blue ocean, basically. Carlos and I spent two days in MV just ambling about
So we arrived. PDE is indeed beautiful - long beaches leading up to the small rocky peninsula look like a calmer, smaller Miami. The point itself is about 1.5K long and very narrow, so that we were able to walk the entire circumference in only 1.5 hours or so. The rocky sandy shores of the point are quiet and the water is warm. We found a hostel and were greeted by what I can only describe as a Californian surf bum who happened to be born in Uruguay. He said 'tranquilo' a lot, which is basically like saying 'chiiiiillll' or some other catchphrase. Often he would end sentences with cackling laughs after making a joke about girls or partying or smoking or surfing. He was hilarious. This is how Carlos checked in (translated) - 'Hello. We would like to stay here. What are the best places for night life here? where do the women go?' to which the tranquilo receptionist replied, 'let's just finish the check in first.' Carlos got his first wish though, as we immediately went to the beach and laid for about a half hour. It really was amazing to just lay on the beach. PDE is gorgeous. We soaked in the paradise sun. However, Carlos's first words after this were, 'I thought there would be more girls.' Alas, we are all doomed to learn the difference between dreams and reality. We chose the wrong beach and the wrong time. PDE's party season is in January and wanes in February. Most of the rich beautiful women had gone to be rich and beautiful somewhere else, I guess
Our hostel was filled with Americans, Californians to be exact. One was tall and blonde and only wore miniskirts that showed off her faketanned legs. They seemed to be 1) emaciated, 2) plastic, and 3) 15 feet long. After talking with her Californian friends about California, I asked her where she was from, and as it turns out she went to Cal. I said, 'oh, Cool, I went to Stanford!' and she replied, 'Oh.' She didn't speak a word to me after that. I later inferred that she was a cheerleader at Cal, which I suppose explains the plastic appearance and vindictive school spirit. She was just that type of cheerleader pretty, and I hate to say it, that type of cheerleader vapid. Her friends were nice though.
Two nights in Punta Del Este. Carlos stayed out until 7am making out with this pretty Uruguayan girl he met in the bar. I came back 'early' at 530am after chatting it up with two twin guys from Vancouver and an Englishman from our hostel. Everyone in South America thinks I dance funny, and they only listen to techno here with the occasional megarap song such as In The Club. The C Walk went unappreciated. The next day was spent sitting in a hammock mostly while the breeze cooled Carlos and me off from the sun. The next night, we decided not to pay for the hostel and opted to go out until 5am, then to catch the 630 bus to Montevideo so that we could return to BsAs
My bicycling friends will be in Santiago in 4-5 days, so I am going to hightail it after one more night hanging out with Carlos and Rob, the Englishman who enrolled in a Spanish immersion program here in BsAs. Tonight in the hostel�s fashionable Basement Bar Area, there was a guy covering the best and biggest rock ballads of the 90's, such as Radiohead's High and Dry and Stone Temple Pilots' Plush, as well as the requisite Red Hot Chili Peppers' under the bridge. he was very good, and it was a great environment in which I wrote this STELLAR blog update. Again, American culture pervades.
Which brings me nicely to my next point. There aren't too many Americans in South America, but when there are Americans, they stick out, especially if they are over the age of 35. One table of Americans in PDE complained loudly about the service and couldn't understand why the Spanish speaking waiter didn't comprehend their loud English complaints. One woman had a buttery face under a bright red perm job and tacky purple lipstick which she religiously applied every 5 minutes, and she kept whining to her husband that he needed to check the bill because they probably screwed something up
Dinner, by the way, is amazing in Uruguay and Argentina. Tonight I stuffed myself full of mashed potatoes, ravioli bolognese, bread, beef empanadas, and coca cola. I paid under 7 dollars. Carlos's beef was at least 30 ounces and he could only eat 2/3 of it before surrendering
Not all Americans are bad, though. Most of the Americans I have met have been great. I ran into a Stanford Law grad woman who will start working at my sister's firm in SF in the Fall. Quite the coincidence. Another girl, 28yrs old from Washington DC, was very kind and intelligent - she spoke fluent Spanish as she was partially raised in Argentina. A great emissary and a positive example of our immigration model. Yay for America, national pride. I take offense to the offensive folks because I have pride in our country and I want both the good and the bad to be conspicuous, not just the bad. Anyway, more on that another time. I guess it is time to 'have party', or as is more likely after a day of travelling, to sleep.
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Cancun of the South America???? hahahahahha no is real!, Buzios, Natal and Jurere international are BEAUTIFUL! Punta del Este is so expensive and sea is cold! no recomend


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In the last month, I've written a post a day about New Zealand books, focusing on children's books. This is in part because we happen to have plenty of New Zealand children's books in the house, so it was easy. There are some books I would have liked to have covered, but I ran out of time, such as the Alex quartet. Fortunately, both Ele and Karen Healey wrote about the Alex books. There are other books that I would have included, but our copies have gone missing – The Lion in the Meadow and The Little Yellow Digger are cases in point – so I couldn't take photos of them, and couldn't reread them before I wrote about them.
Of all the books I blogged, I think Annie and Moon is my favourite. Today, that is. By tomorrow I may have changed my mind, for I love many of the others too. I enjoy the glory and nonsense of Margaret Mahy's books, and the little boy and his imagination in Taniwha touch something in my heart, as does the steadfastness and rebirth in Maraea and the Albatrosses.
Other people have been blogging books for NZ Book month too. Ele issued the challenge, and kept up with it herself, posting a book a day over at Homepaddock. Both Oswald Bastable and Rob Hosking blogged some books, 'though Rob never come through on his promise to write about Bollard and Buckle's Economic Liberalisation in New Zealand and Malcolm McKinnon's History of the NZ Treasury. Karen Healey wrote about authors: Gavin Bishop, Elizabeth Knox, Tessa Duder and the marvellous Margaret Mahy. And new group blog, The Random Polka Dot Club 462, by a group of girls who may be known to me, features a post for the month covering four books, Kauri in my Blood, Kaitangata Twitch, Maddigan's Quest and Alex.
I hope you've enjoyed reading about the books, and that those of you with small and medium sized children have found some 'new' books to add to your own children's collections. Or perhaps some books that you could give to grandchildren. Children need books!


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The art of driving your life's work into the oblivion by expressing your staunch political views to your supporters.
I heard that comedian has been living on the streets since he "Dixie-Chucked" his career last year at the BET Awards by making fun of Obama's health care policy.
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I have a little clout with Cav Arms so I am offering a group buy on their blemished lowers.
Black stripped lowers only in this deal.....I'm trying to get some of the other colors...but so far...don't hold your breath.
Here is the link to GWACS offer.... CAV-15 MKII AR15 Factory Seconds - AR-15 - GWACS Armory, LLC
The price on the GWACS website is $140 for a stripped lower.
If you wish to participate in this group buy DO NOT order through the GWACS website you won't get the special price.
The price is $110 plus actual shipping. This price is ONLY for Gunco and Weaponsguild members. Sign up in this thread......no money now...will run this at least till the end of the month. When the buy is closed...I will contact you by PM and give you an email to contact me and an address to send funds.


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If you are willing and able to go treatment free then go ahead and do it and tell us how it works out. Brash and bold talk is cheap. Walk the walk, don't just talk the talk. Show us the way.
If you are willing and able to go treatment free then go ahead and do it and tell us how it works out. Brash and bold talk is cheap. Walk the walk, don't just talk the talk. Show us the way.
Mark Berninghausen
New Zealand was smarter about antibiotics than the US (they didn't allow them), so there may be some cultural differances at play...but in the US (someone back me up here), 1-2% is fairly normal in a large operation that does treat with antibiotics and does burn infected hives.
No one here would consider what Dee has as a "problem".
Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
im not trying to fight here. im just saying what he said. keep and open mind. ill let you know in 30 years. he said he does not buy bees he does not buy queens, anymore, and his out fit is a continuous living organism. so that is my model and plan for the future. self sustaining. and bees that live and thrive with no treatments. i believe him. why cant you.
Who says I don't? I was talking to you. You haven't yet put your money where your mouth is.
Mark Berninghausen
you know how farmers cant raise their own seed anymore. well maybe we should feel really lucky we can still raise and select our queens. how scary would it be if monsanto sold us our queens.
I think AFB is more endemic than people realize.
In one study, 77% of colonies without clinical symptoms were found to contain spores.
I don't think isolation or eradication is a solution.
Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
we keep over 2000 acres worth of seed every year, cleaned from our best crop,
we cant how ever breed from seed that has been developed as Hybrids, for the many reason we all know about, AND because I signed a paper saying that I would not rip off another business tech,
What I have been trying to get at from starting within the center point of this topic was what outside influences on these treatment free operations is allowing these treatment free operation to survive? Not all treatment free operations follow the same management , there are the common threads which tie each operation together, but on their own they do not provide success,
So Dee manages much differently than Chris, because Dee is stationary and in a desert and Chris is migratory and a pollinator. Looking at each op, what outside factors in their management program influence their results?
If you make a list of priorities, and being "treatment free" is down below all of your other priorities, you will never get to it...no matter what your approach.
There will always be something to treat for in the short term.
Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
There are plenty of feral hives in the area as well.
...see above.There is no reason at all why she could not wipe her AFB out in 2 years and be done with it.
It's worth noting that Dee has the advantages she has because she didn't do what every expert told her she had to do.An argument against that is she may want her bees to be immune. But bees have been living in balance with AFB for millennia, and have not overcome it.
So it is doubtful that in one human lifetime we could expect our bees to evolve resistance. I can hardly think of an easier outfit to clean up than Dees she has every advantage.
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Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
I currently use nucs as a strategy in my operation to sustain my numbers, nucs exploit an advantage to keeping ahead of the mite cycle, I believe its practice that treatment free are using,.? Except Dee, which is puzzling me. How can an operation sustain or build back heavy losses with walk away splits.
The difference might be she beekeeps in a desert type environment, which Im not familiar with. About how many times would she take a split off a hive through out the year? For my operation it is no more than one, then into the honey flow. That is why I build up nucs during the spring.
I still maintain that 3 or 4 beekeepers out of thousands does not constitute a critical mass. Especially when definitions of what commercial means have been stretched.
Mark Berninghausen
like Sherri mentioned a while back, a lot of new guys will jump on board to treatment free without having a management plan in place. Just stopping the treatment is one of the steps, how to get those bees to respond to their environment favorably with the presence of the pests is the rest of the story. I want to hear the rest of the story ! Paul Harvey give us the rest of the story! ( may he RIP )
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." Nathan Hale, 1776
> At what point do you become a treatment free beekeeper?
When you stop treating.
>Do you have to not treat from day one?
You have to pick when day one occurs, but sooner or later, if you're going to be treatment free, you need to stop treating.
> I believe Mike Bush used to treat.
I'm not sure I would characterize it as "used to treat" I got desperate enough when Varroa killed them all and everyone was saying it was impossible to keep them alive without treating for Varroa and I had found NO ONE who said it was possible. So for a few years I tried some things for Varroa until I discovered Dee and regression.
> At what point after he stopped did he become "treatment free"? As soon as he didn't use treatments.
I guess that depends on the purpose of using the term. From the point of view of honey, I think it's that there are no chemical inputs that would end up in the honey, but from the point of view of having a stable, balanced, healthy ecosystem in the hive, that may take a few years to stabilize.
>I dont know what personal information is being asked, being a commercial beekeeping forum, the comments on maintaining a solvent operation is a real thing.
How about medical information, or speculation on other people's profits and productivity. I understand that profit and productivity are important, but I don't think most people want everyone else to know how much money they do or do not make.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
So, what is the unstretched definition of "commercial" so we can be careful not to stretch it?
I would venture a guess that there are more new 'conventional commercial beekeepers' that fail because of false illusions than there are new "treatment free commercial beekeepers" that even try. Why isn't this a larger concern to this group?
Mike Palmer's wife works...probably a job that provides health insurance and significant income. Does that disqualify him from the "commercial club"?
This reminds me a bit of the art world....on the street level, anyone that gets a good gig and is making a good living is a "sellout" to those that don't. I don't think there is anything to be ashamed of for diversifying one's resources....and it's not a "badge of honor" to be so far in debt that every decision needs to be run by the banker.
In some circles (like sane people) figuring out how to be able to afford to do what one wants to do is considered "smart".
Sometimes the lights all shining on me
Other times I can barely see. -The Grateful Dead
>>I understand that profit and productivity are important, but I don't think most people want everyone else to know how much money they do or do not make.
Its the crutch of the whole conversation,
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Brainerd Archery Club indoor leagues location change, schedule listed
Brainerd Archery Club 3D leagues and tournaments are scheduled starting in January at the Northern Pacific Center on 13th Street Southeast in Brainerd. This is a different location than prior years.
An open house will be from 6-8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 4.
Leagues will run Jan. 8 through March 29. Archers may shoot anytime between 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays and choose to be on a two-man team or shoot individually.
The first two weeks of leagues will be practice sessions, with league scoring starting Jan. 22. League archers will turn in one score card a week.
The Brainerd Archery Club will host three weekend 3D tournaments: Jan. 12-13, Feb. 16-17 and March 16-17 (8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sundays). They will consist of 30 life-sized animal targets placed at unmarked yardages. No broadheads or rangefinders will be allowed.
For league play, the club is offering an unlimited 3D shooting pass (for members only) for $80. An additional fee of $30 per team will go toward first-, second- and third-place team trophies.
Archers of all abilities are welcome and need not be a member of the archery club to participate. However, club members get reduced shooting fees, free use of the outdoor range (except during scheduled tournaments), voting privileges, a quarterly newsletter about club activities and membership in the Minnesota State Archery Association.
Membership fee is $40 for a family, $30 for individuals and $20 for juniors (under 14). Archery club members are charged $8 for 3D shoots (30 targets); non-members pay $10.
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ESA Unveils School Security Guidelines at ESX
The Electronic Security Guidelines for Schools will serve as a resource for school officials seeking to add electronic security systems to their security programs.
June 18, 2013
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The Electronic Security Association (ESA) released its Electronic Security Guidelines for Schools Tuesday during the 2013 Electronic Security Expo (ESX). The guidelines will serve as a resource for school officials seeking to add electronic security systems to their security programs.
Providing an in-depth look at the various components that lead to an effective school security program, the guidelines will give school officials an understanding of the steps necessary for creating a security solution. This includes overall security planning, assessment of threats, procurement types, contractor selection, how systems affect schools, equipment types and system use. They will also illustrate the importance of community involvement and communication between schools and local responders.
A volunteer panel of industry experts with extensive experience in K-12 security created the guidelines. David Koenig, an industry advisor, treasurer of ESA and partner of Capital Fire and Security in Madison, Wis., managed the panel.
"These days, schools are under more pressure to provide a safe environment for students, and technology is an important part of that," he says. "We are all proud to be able to gather our knowledge and offer schools a practical tool they can use."
The association has tapped professional organizations for educators and responders to help reach out to school officials nationwide. ESA will also distribute the guidelines via its chartered chapters and member companies.
ESA released the guidelines during the SSI-sponsored IceBreaker Luncheon, which featured Newtown (Conn.) Police Chief Michael Kehoe as the keynote speaker. Kehoe served as a first responder during the Sandy Hook Elementary tragedy.
During his speech, Kehoe declared his support of the guidelines, citing the document as "a very comprehensive approach to security."
"Each school is unique — different locations, ages of kids, physical layout, and so on," he said. "This approach lets the assessment be individualized."
The guideline can be downloaded for free here. For more information, contact ESA at [email protected].
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text: We had a bit of excitement here yesterday when the National Zoo's red panda got out, and made it nearly a mile before they caught him. Just posting the story here for those who might enjoy some cute panda pictures. (Really does look a little like a raccoon, doesn't he?) http://www.washingtonpost.com/local...cdd-11e2-85de-c03ca84cb4ef_story.html?hpid=z4


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Tech Watch: The Blackbird, Fly
Old-school photography aficionados will love this twin-lens reflex 35 mm film camera.
With the self-obsessed majority of us as of late Instagramming, wiping memory cards and generally scrutinizing our cameras' built-in screens before snapping a few dozen disposable shots, it's easy to forget how far we've come in such a relatively short period of time. To think, could we snap our cats doing dumb shit (under the apparent guise of "cuteness") with our smartphones 10 years ago?
While it's easy to get caught up in the general consumer tech trends of new year, new camera, new higher resolution, we still get nostalgic over the fun times locked in the school darkroom with an ex-girlfriend, waiting for photos to develop. (FYI, keep that stuff far away from any naughty bits if you're going to mess around in pitch darkness.)
For those who remember those halcyon days, there's a sick new way to feel like an old pro again that still uses film — yes, actual film! The Blackbird, Fly is a plastic twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera that channels the classic Holga cameras (infamous for light leaks, giving each individual photo a special flair). The two objective lenses means there is one lens taking the photo and a secondary viewfinding lens below.
With a plethora of customizations from colors to flashes, this is a fun, versatile camera that's great to hone that traditional eye for a great image. At only about $100 a pop, how can you go wrong?
Make sure to check out the great Flickr stream of images submitted by current users of the Blackbird TRL.
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Sky high wishes for twelve area children
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The make-A-SWish Foundation grants hundreds of wishes nationwide each year.
Usually the wishes involve attending a sporting event of meeting a celebrity. But Monday a group of children got to experience something different.
One of those kids was Connor Underwood. We spoke to him beofre he went on his journey and the eight year old had only a few words to describe what he was about to do today.
"I feel so excited," he said.
He and 11 other children got to fly on a private jet. But they weren't just ordinary passengers. They even got to sign the jet.
Joan Mazak, the President and CEO of Make-A-Wish Colorado, told us how the partnership and International Jet Aviation works.
"They call Make-A-Wish and we're allowed to come up with kids who want to ride in a Lear Jet," she said.
Today's trip is something exciting for a young man who has gotten a bad break in life.
"Connor has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. It's a fatal genetic disorder similar to ALS (Amayotrophic Lateral Sclerosis)," said Liisa Underwood.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation is known for granting wishes to children like Connor, but today's flight is above and beyond that.
Mazak said, "this is just something extra that we get to do."
Mazak says that the most popular wish is to go to Disney World, but Connor wanted to go to somewhere completely different.
"His first wish was to go to space," said Liisa Underwood.
Eventually he settled on a destination a little closer to home.
He said, "I went to the Bahamas and I swam with the dolphins."
For Liisa, it's more than she could have hoped for for her son.
"I'm completely grateful and...a little emotional," she said.
Even though there is no cure for Connor's condition, he still has big plans for his future.
"I want to become a space scientist and a physicist," he said.
Today - if only for a few minutes - all of the children on the Make-A-Wish flights got to reach for the sky, just like Connor is planning to do someday.


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Concerns for water in winter gone for Fish Springs Community
CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. - Imagine waiting 11-years for an endless supply of fresh, clean, running water. That was the case for the Fish Springs Community in Carter County. But during the winter, things were even tougher wells or tanks would freeze and sometimes the quality wasn't clean.
Relying on a spring from a mountain for water is a thing of the past for Bart Smith. But winter used to be rough and full of worries, "Water freezing, you had to haul it in the back of a pick-up truck and it would freeze from where we got it, to where we got it home."
But it's a different story this winter, homes just like Smith throughout the Little Milligan - Fish Springs Community have had running water since the beginning of August. "It's just a blessing, that's the only way you can say it. It's a blessing to have water," added Smith.
The fight for fresh water has been a long one, but because of grant money that was awarded in 2001 the community was able to save up nearly $3,000,000 for a water system.
Smith showed us where he used to keep three tanks to hold water and says when temperatures were below freezing that meant a shower might not be possible. "Every time you reach down and turn water on, you think about the days that you didn't do that, that you couldn't," he said.
The Potter family of seven used to rely on a well in their backyard and there was a constant concern once the seasons changed. "You just have to worry about the well drying up or the well sinking with all the snow or rain on the ground getting wet," said AJ Potter.
But now there's also a relief knowing the quality of water is safer for his children to drink. "Just knowing that, just having that peace of mind that the water is a lot cleaner," he said.
In the past, Little Milligan Elementary would spend nearly $100 a month to have professionals test the quality of their water. Thanks to the upgrade, they no longer have to do this.
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In a discrete geometric model for knitted fabric, plain knit stitches form a rectangular grid, or mesh, with one stitch sitting inside each rectangle (see Figure 2). We shape knitted fabric primarily by using increases and decreases. True to their names, increases add to the number of stitches in a row, and decreases lessen the number of stitches in a row. Both processes create mathematical curvature in the knitted fabric. Figure 3 shows an increase (angles and stitch sizes are not to scale). Interestingly, making a decrease has the same effect on the mesh; a decrease looks like an increase if the fabric is held upside down.
Rows and columns of stitches draw the eye along paths around the surface. Think of a sphere knitted from pole to pole: The rows and columns of stitches mimic latitude and longitude lines.
All knitting is the generation of global structure via choices made in local stitch creation. A set of stitches appears to create a coordinate system (a grid in two-dimensional space). Because shaped fabric is not mathematically flat, however, any such system is only consistent locally, for that small patch of stitches.
An object that has consistent coordinates locally, but perhaps not globally, is in mathematical terms a manifold. Manifolds have a dimensional restriction: Every patch on a manifold must have the same number of coordinate dimensions. A pullover sweater represents a manifold—unless it has sewn-on pockets, because where a pocket joins the sweater, there are three different coordinate directions (up-down, left-right onto the pocket and left-right under the pocket). A great deal of mathematical research concerns manifolds.
Most (but not all) knitted mathematical objects represent manifolds. In particular, although knitted fabric is of course three-dimensional, it represents two-dimensional things in the same way that paper represents an ideal 2D sheet. That means knitting can stand in for 2D objects—or for the boundaries ("skins") of 3D objects. Some mathematical objects are 2D but cannot be represented in three dimensions without either intersecting themselves or having holes added. (These are objects that can be immersed, but not embedded, in real 3-space.) Klein bottles are in this class of objects.
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- Separated by the Danube, Pest and Buda became one city in 1873
- Budapest was almost called "Pestbuda"
- Hilly Buda has great views; Pest is flat but buzzing
- Even the thermal spas on each side have a different vibe
"Budapest" rolls off the tongue pretty easily, and the Hungarian capital itself feels as if it's been around for a long time.
But Budapest is a relatively recent construct -- the result of an 1873 merger between two distinct cities: Buda on the western bank of the Danube and Pest on the bank opposite.
The result, Budapest, sounds so much more natural than other twin cities -- Minneapolis/St. Paul or Dallas/Fort Worth -- it's difficult to imagine that the alternative "Pestbuda" was floated seriously at the time.
Although they've been populated for centuries, Pest and Buda have developed so separately that the first bridge spanning the Danube, the imposing Chain Bridge, wasn't built until 1849.
Their distinctiveness continues to this day.
View from the hills
Built on a series of hills, Buda is the site of a grand Hapsburg palace and has a detached, imperial air of settled wealth.
In contrast, populous Pest -- as flat as a prairie -- is busy, buzzing and bourgeois, with an assortment of bars, cafés and gourmet restaurants.
Buda offers sweeping panoramas. Most visitors are content with the view across to Pest from the Fisherman's Bastion on Castle Hill and ignore the less accessible Gellért Hill just to the south.
Yet here the ramparts of the old Citadella fortress (Citadella sétány 1; +36 1 279-1963; free entry) provide equally stunning vistas over the Danube.
It's in the hiking network of the Buda Hills, where city residents come to picnic and ramble through the woods.
During weekdays, you can walk for hours without seeing another human being.
Kids' railway
Hills hide the Children's Railway (Szechenyi-hegyi Gyermekvasut; +36 1 397 5394; $5.40 adult, $2.70 child; closed Monday) a narrow-gauge line operated entirely by 10-to-14 year olds as ticket sellers, announcers and conductors -- only the drivers are adults.
The line runs for 45 minutes through 11 kilometers of forest landscape with seven stops in-between.
When night falls, Buda goes to sleep and Pest wakes up.
Whether you prefer the opulence of the Opera House, one of Europe's finest, or the conviviality of the city's legendary ruin pubs, you want to be on the Pest side of the river after dark.
Pest has been a hotbed of Hungarian national pride to counter the Austrian Hapsburg court reigning from Castle Hill.
Buda may have the palace, but Pest houses the Hungarian parliament (1-3 Kossuth tér; +36 1 441 4000; daily tours in English April-October, $7.80 EU citizens, $3.90 others), a dazzling neo-Gothic building whose superlative interior is more than a match for its exterior.
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Pest is as practical and business-oriented as Buda is aloof and superior.
Buda has thermal spas, such as the Gellért or Rudas Baths, built by the old ruling elites.
Pest has an open-air people's pool: the neo-baroque Széchenyi Baths complex where you can still find old men playing chess, half immersed in the water. (See Spasbudapest.com for complete spa information.)
Pest's bustle is best reflected in its most well-known shopping artery: Váci utca. It suffered during the Communist era but the street has regained its ritzy reputation.
Fittingly, Buda has the Wolf's Meadow cemetery, where famous Hungarians such as classical composer Béla Bartók and conductor Georg Solti are buried in extravagant tombs.
Pest, on the other hand, has the vitality and life force associated with the fiery Magyar temperament -- nowhere more evident than in the former city's culinary culture.
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In Vörösmarty square you can find one of Europe's monuments to confectionary brilliance: the café founded by Emil Gerbeaud (Café Gerbeaud, 7-8 Vörösmarty tér, +36 1 429 9000) in 1885, complete with over-elaborate ceilings and chandeliers.
Not far away, the renovated art nouveau decor of the Gerlóczy Café (Gerlóczy u. 1; +36 1 501 4000) gives traditional Hungarian dishes a modern makeover.
Further out, at the edges of the seventh district, the fin-de-siècle elegance of New York Café (part of the Hotel Boscolo Budapest; 9-11 Erzsébet körút, +36 1 886 6167) has to be seen to be believed.
Some tourists do just that -- constantly snapping diners from the gallery above.
"Visit Buda but stay in Pest" is the advice every Budapest visitor is given.
But in fact the once-separate cities have such distinct characters you should spend as much time exploring each.
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Here, wheat berries are cooked with maple-sweetened, spiced milk to make a homey pudding. Try it for dessert or even breakfast—adjusting the maple syrup to your preference.
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Total Time 120 min.
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Sort through wheat berries carefully; discard any stones. Rinse well. Place in a large heavy saucepan and add water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to medium-low, cover and simmer, adding more water if necessary, until the wheat berries are tender, about 1 hour. Drain well.
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Place the wheat berries and 2 tablespoons milk in a food processor. Pulse, scraping down the sides as necessary, until most of the wheat berries are coarsely chopped (some may remain whole).
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Combine the chopped wheat berries, the remaining 3 cups milk, cinnamon stick, orange zest and salt in a Dutch oven or other large, heavy-bottomed pot and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook, stirring often to prevent sticking, until the mixture is very thick, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from the heat; discard the cinnamon stick and orange zest. Stir in maple syrup and vanilla.
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If you're like many of our clients, you've heard about Meatless Mondays and the cultural movement to eat a little less meat, which is based around animal rights issues, sustainability benefits for the planet, and health benefits for those eating fewer animal products. More and more Americans are realizing the advantages of plant-based diets, including lower risk of heart disease and cancer, and are opting to go "meat-free" at least once a week.
Personally, we're huge proponents of Meatless Mondays and love the fact that making a weekly commitment is realistic and doable for most people. It also opens up people's mind to new foods and menu options. When we discuss delicious vegan meals (which are animal and animal product-free) with our clients, they often ask us if they really can get enough protein without eating animals, fearing that their hard work building lean muscle at the gym will be undone.
There are a lot of misconceptions about protein Many of our clients are surprised to learn that they don't need as much protein as they think, as most Americans actually eat too much protein, which can contribute to consuming too many calories and possible weight gain. The reality is that vegetarians can easily get more than enough protein in their diets. In fact, unless you're pregnant or training to be a bodybuilder, you likely will consume more than enough protein on a vegetarian diet without even trying. While a complete animal-free diet won't make it as likely that you'll overdo the protein, it's definitely easy to meet your protein needs as a vegan when you include wholesome foods.
After all, why rely only on meat, fish, poultry, eggs, dairy foods and other animal-based foods for protein when beans, split peas, lentils, seitan, soyfoods—like tofu, tempeh, soy yogurt and edamame—nuts and seeds are also great, delicious, affordable protein options? Did you know that even grains like brown rice and vegetables like broccoli provide some protein? One cup of brown rice offers 5 grams of protein while a cup of broccoli provides 4 grams, making it easy for a vegan to meet the protein recommendations provided his or her calorie intake is adequate.
As an added bonus, plant sources of protein also come with other benefits like phytonutrients—protective plant nutrients that help to ward off chronic diseases—and fiber, both of which you won't find in animal protein. Hello, Meatless Mondays!
To get you started, here are two great vegan recipes that you can include in your Meatless Monday menu:
This simple stir-fry is adapted from our book The Secret To Skinny)
Serves 1
Ingredients: 3 ounces firm tofu (we prefer to use an organic lite tofu, as this version lowers the calories while upping the protein compared to the original version) 1 clove of garlic 1/2 teaspoon ginger 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes 1 teaspoon canola oil 1/2 cup snow peas 1/2 cup carrot coin 1/2 cup broccoli 1/2 cup bell peppers, sliced 1 teaspoon lemon juice, for flavor Your favorite barbeque, soyaki or lower-calorie stir-fry sauce (preferably low-sodium)
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Note: One of our favorite grains is quinoa, as one cup of cooked quinoa provides 18 grams of protein and 9 grams of fiber! Unlike many sources of vegetarian protein, quinoa contains all of the essential amino acids, making it a "complete protein."
This recipe is great because even if you "don't cook," you can easily assemble this healthy vegan meal)
Ingredients: 1 small whole-grain tortilla (**see note below) 1/2 cup black beans or kidney beans 3 tablespoons grated soy cheese 1/4 cup cooked quinoa, optional (**see note below) 1 small tomato, diced 1 teaspoon olive oil ¼ cup chopped cucumber ¼ cup chopped zucchini 1 ounce avocado (3 slices) 2 leaves romaine lettuce, shredded Salsa (optional) Juice of 1/2 lime 1 teaspoon veggie sour cream (optional)
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In a bowl, mix the vegetables and olive oil with juice of lime. If planning to make an open-faced burrito, spread beans over tortilla and mash beans lightly with fork. Otherwise, spread beans in the middle third of the tortilla and mash them. Mix soy cheese and quinoa (if using it) and add on top of beans. Put burrito in oven and heat at 350 degrees for about 5 minutes or in microwave for about 45 seconds or until hot. Evenly distribute veggies over the open faced-burrito or add them to the middle third of burrito and fold up the tortilla. Top both versions with veggie sour cream and salsa and enjoy!
**Note: If you like it to feel as if you're eating a really large portion (as we d)o, don't bother to fold the burrito--simply eat it open-faced. If you don't have the tortilla at home, simply turn this meal into a bean salad and add ½ cup cooked quinoa to the ingredient list, which we do frequently. Then, if you want to get creative, add a dash of cumin and chili powder to it and stir it up.
Tammy Lakatos Shames and Elysse ("Lyssie") Lakatos, The Nutrition Twins®, share a passion to teach people how to eat healthfully and exercise so they'll have energy to live happy lives. The twins have been featured as nutrition experts on Good Morning America, Discovery Health, Fox News, NBC, Bravo, CBS, The Learning Channel, FitTV, Oxygen Network, and Fox & Friends. They co-wrote The Nutrition Twins Veggie Cure: Expert Advice and Tantalizing Recipes for Health, Energy and Beauty, The Secret to Skinny: How Salt Makes You Fat and the 4-Week Plan to Drop A Size & Get Healthier with Simple Low Sodium Swaps. The twins are both ACE Certified Personal Trainers, and members of the American Dietetic Association and several Dietetic Practice Groups.
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