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Green Bean Chicken Casserole
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 25 min.
Makes2 casseroles (4 servings each)
- 1 package (6 ounces) long grain and wild rice mix
- 4 cups cubed cooked chicken
- 1-3/4 cups frozen french-style green beans
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of mushroom soup, undiluted
- 1 can (10-3/4 ounces) condensed cream of broccoli soup, undiluted
- 1 can (4 ounces) mushroom stems and pieces, drained
- 2/3 cup chopped onion
- 2/3 cup chopped green pepper
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- 3/4 cup shredded Colby cheese
- ADDITIONAL INGREDIENT (for each casserole):
- 2/3 cup french-fried onions
- Prepare wild rice according to package directions. Stir in the chicken, beans, soups, mushrooms, onion, green pepper and soup mix. Spoon into two greased 1-1/2-qt. baking dishes. Sprinkle with cheese.
- Cover and bake at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated through. Uncover and sprinkle with French-fried onions; bake 5 minutes longer or until onions are golden. Freeze option: Cover and freeze one casserole for up to 3 months. Completely thaw in the refrigerator. Remove from the refrigerator 30 minutes before baking. Cover and bake at 350° for 60-65 minutes or until heated through. Uncover and sprinkle with French-fried onions; bake 5 minutes longer.
Nutrition Facts1 cup: 400 calories, 17g fat (6g saturated fat), 76mg cholesterol, 1319mg sodium, 34g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 3g fiber), 27g protein.
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Nov 18, 2015
Wow was this amazing! If you love green bean casserole, you'll love this dish. My husband's only complaint was the green beans still stay a bit crunchy and he'd rather have them mushy, but I loved it!
Nov 18, 2014
Delicious! Great combination of flavors, a recipe I will definately use again. Also added sliced baby carrots to give a little more color. Also sauted the onions and peppers plus added a soup can full of water as it seemed a little thick. Was definately a hit in our family.
Mar 3, 2014
I cubed and seasoned my chicken and omitted the green pepper and onion, did more green beans though. I really liked it. The family was at odds all picked different things they didn't like about it! Figures!
Sep 24, 2013
Used cut green beans as I don't like how the french style can get mushy and also used cheddar friend onions instead of plain because I already had them. Overall turned out pretty good!
Aug 3, 2013
I went ahead and sautéed the onion and peppers the first time I made this. I think it turned out great! Plus it tastes just as good leftover.
Nov 12, 2012
Great rounded meal with meat and veggies, my kids love it! I make 1/2 and freeze the other 1/2 for a quick meal later!
Mar 12, 2012
This is one of my favorites! I've been making it (and sharing it) regularly since I clipped it from Quick Cooking Magazine in 2001. It's a keeper!
Nov 28, 2011
My husband and I thought this recipe was salty, but without a lot of flavor. It was okay, but I don't think I would make it again.
Nov 1, 2011
To me it tasted to salty and had an over powering onion taste.. I dont think i would make it again...
May 18, 2011
I slightly adjusted the recipe by using sauteed onion and green pepper, and my husband loved it. he liked it even more the second night when we were having it as leftovers - quote "mmm it's a keeper!"


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I know someone who calls himself C.O.T.U. literally, "Cheapskate of the Universe."
We don't eat together – surprise, surprise. I'm no cheapskate and he can't abide dessert. That's a deal-breaker right there. But I'm fascinated by his drive to find the best places that'll serve the best, if not the most food, for under P100. Obviously, I don't approve of his choices (again – which is why we don't eat together) but his food, er … "philosophy", if I can even call it that, gets me to thinking about the cheap-"er" things I like to eat.
Now you know why this week's DiscOVIries by Nokia theme is What's Your Favorite Cheap Eat?. Let's say it all together now, shall we: "Ahhh."
So here, in no definitive order, is a (rather short) list of cheap eats that I hope to add to in the future. I want to add Marty's Vegetable Chicharon here but I can't find it anywhere. For those of you who are looking, there are no cheap meals here. Frankly, I'd be hesitant to do a post on that since what I consider cheap or even "affordable," might be someone else's "exorbitant."
Goldilocks polvoron
Price: P79/pack of 10 (approximately P7.90/piece)
This has been an enduring favorite of mine since I was a freshman in high school. And unlike McDonald's Filet-O-Fish sandwich, Red Ribbon's empanada, and KFC's Zinger, it hasn't gotten smaller over the years. I'm grateful to the Goldilocks powers-that-be for retaining the polvoron's quaint scalloped shape and for its sufficient hunger-buster size: roughly two inches in diameter.
Who would think that something immensely satisfying could be made from just toasted flour, butter, sugar, and powdered milk? Solid in form yet crumbly on first bite, I love the grittiness of the sugar in the Goldilocks polvoron, the crunch, crunch that echoes in my ears; sound then sweetness. When that symphony has been silenced, there's the almost indiscernible flavor of butter (or is it margarine?) followed by the dryness of the powdered milk. When I make polvoron at home, Boo is very strict that I use only Bear Brand powdered milk because that's the milk that she drinks. Strangely enough, it's this allegiance to a powdered milk brand that some say is the secret to (their) polvoron. Could that be why I love Goldilocks polvoron so?
Goldilocks nut brownies
Price: P29/pack of 4 small squares
No, this isn't a Goldilocks product post but I do like their nut brownies. I'm laughed at when I tell a group of colleagues about my penchant for these cheap bars. "God, they even look cheap," one says. "Perhaps," I reply. "But they're so fudgy!" "Chock-full of glucose," snorts another.
Plain as can be, moistened with glucose, and plied with the cheapest of cocoa powders, my colleagues are right. But that doesn't change the way I feel about these blocks of edible midnight that shine with their glucose sheen and stick to my teeth like crazy. A somewhat chalky flavor dominates in these brownies thanks to a low-quality cocoa powder but it seems entirely appropriate coupled with its one-dimensional sweetness. I too, tire of singing paeans to chocolate possessing notes of smoke and citrus. Sometimes painfully plain is what I want.
Curry puffs from Old Chang Kee
Price: P35/piece
C.O.T.U. brought me a box of these when I was in the hospital after giving birth to Boo. It's the only food we both agree on, come to think of it.
If you like spicy food, then there's nothing to dislike about these fried pockets. A Singaporean franchise that has unfortunately dwindled to just two branches in Manila, Old Chang Kee specializes in on-the-go finger foods that consist of fish balls, crab claws, and chicken nuggets. But it's the curry puff that started it all and it's still the star.
A mixture of chicken, potatoes, chunks of hard-boiled egg and carrot shreds are kicked up with enough curry to make the back of my throat tingle, and enough turmeric to make my tongue yellow. Encased in a doughy wrap, I like to start eating this by nibbling on the braided ends which are crispy, and then biting my way to the soft inside. Paired with my occasional Coke Zero, this is lunch.
Old Chang Kee
Branches at V-Mall, outside near Haagen-Dazs, and at Mall of Asia.
Pandesal from Pan de Amerikana
Price: P5.50/piece
I rejoiced when this venerable Marikina establishment opened a branch near me. I'd previously been driving ten kilometers to a Pan de Manila just to get my weekly pan de pugon fix.
There's nothing like bread baked in a wood-burning oven. It's pillow-soft and has an aroma and taste redolent of wood of course, and something more, like old times. Unlike other panaderias, pandesal from Pan de Amerikana is browner and bigger. The former because the bread is made from (whole) wheat flour sans sugar, and the latter because well, they're just made BIG. There's an even bigger pandesal that they have called pan de sal na pang Amerikano because it's big enough to feed an American. Now that I want to buy sometime when I visit the Marikina branch.
- everybody wants this mug of mine. I got it at Team Manila.
I usually buy enough pandesal to feed breakfast to my family of three and then I save one for merienda. I toast it lightly and eat it with cheese or smear it with condensed milk chased with sips of coffee from my favorite mug (above). Wow, now that's what I call a retro snack.


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2015 March 12, 14:00 CEST
New bearing technology from SKF is helping to improve the gearbox performance and race life for this Scuderia Ferrari's season
Gothenburg, Sweden, 12 March 2015: SKF, the knowledge engineering company, is continuing its partnership with Scuderia Ferrari in 2015, with the development of specialised components and systems to reduce weight and frictional power losses.
SKF has worked closely with Scuderia Ferrari to produce bearing sets manufactured from specially developed tool steel. By adapting the heat treatment process, SKF has been able to optimise the surface hardness properties. This makes each bearing extremely resistant to surface fatigue and able to withstand the exceptionally high contact stresses found in Formula One applications. As a result, bearings can be downsized without affecting performance or reliability.
The new bearing sets are now being used in the latest Scuderia Ferrari gearbox, where the ability to downsize has helped reduce overall weight by more than 20%. Gearbox performance is improved still further by the use of ceramic bearing rollers and optimised internal geometries; combined, these are making a significant reduction in frictional power losses.
In a further development, Scuderia Ferrari is also using the latest condition monitoring technology from SKF. This is based on the company's modular IMx platform, which has been re-engineered to meet the specific demands of the Team. In particular, SKF has adapted the hardware to enable it to process exceptionally large volumes of data at high speeds – typically up to 100 times faster than normally required in even the toughest of industrial applications.
Installed on Scuderia Ferrari engine and turbo test rigs, and using advanced SKF Observer software, the condition monitoring system provides asset protection, improved operational efficiency, preventive maintenance, and an increased speed of development.
Ing. Mattia Binotto - Power Unit Director of Scuderia Ferrari, explains, "SKF has played an important role in helping us develop the new 2015 Formula One car. The IMx solution is giving us fresh insight into how our engines perform, while the new gearbox bearings, along with specialised parts for our energy recovery and other critical on board systems, will be vital in helping us maintain a competitive advantage in the coming races."
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Starting from 2 June 2016, Dr. Jeff Pan from the University of Aberdeen has being visiting IBM Italia for his secondment.
Jeff Z. Pan received his Ph.D. in computer science from The University of Manchester in 2004, on the topic ofDescription Logics: Reasoning Support for the Semantic Web. He joined the faculty in the Department of Computing Science at University of Aberdeen in 2005. He is now the Deputy Director of Research of the department. His research focuses primarily on knowledge representation and reasoning, in particular scalable ontology reasoning, querying and reuse, and their applications (such as Semantic Web, Advertising, Healthcare, Software Engineering and Multimedia). He is a key contributor to the W3C OWL2 standard. He leads the work of the TrOWL Tractable OWL2 reasoning infrastructure. He is widely recognised for his work on scalable and efficient ontology reasoning; he gave tutorials on this topic in e.g. AAAI2010, ESWC2010, ESWC2011, SemTech2011 and the Reasoning Web Summer School (2010 and 2011).
Dr Pan is a member of the Advisory Committee in the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an international organisation for setting up Web standards such as HTML, RDF and OWL. He is a Primary Member Representative of Object Management Group (OMG), a leading proponent of Business-IT integration standards. He chairs the OWL task force on uncertainty reasoning. He also chaired the W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group and the Software Engineering Task Force in the Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment (SWBPD) Working Group. His group is currently actively contributing to several W3C technical groups, including the OWL, SPARQL, Provenance and RDB2RDF. He co-edited a number of W3C technical reports, such as "XML Schema Datatypes in RDF and OWL". He is a Board Member of Semantic Technology Institute International (STI2).
Dr. Pan has over 100 refereed publications. He and his colleagues won the Best Paper Award in the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI-2006) and the Best Student Paper Award in the 5th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2006). He served/serves as Program Chair of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule System (RR2007, which is the first Semantic Web conference on Reasoning), of the Ontology and Reasoning Track in the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2010) and of the Doctoral Consortiums in the 9th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC2010) and in the 8th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2011).
Dr. Pan is a founding member of the International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule System and the Joint International Conference on Semantic Technologies. He co-founded the Fuzzy RuleML Technical Group. He is an Editor of the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems (IJSWIS), an Aear Editor of the Journal of Web Semantics (JWS) and is on the Editorial Board of the journal of Big Data Research. He serve/served as a guest editor of special issues of a number of international journals, such as the Journal of Web Semantics, the Journal of Logic and Computation, the Journal on Data Semantics and IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C (Applications and Reviews).
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Photo Taken: Sunday, 31st October 2004
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From Brennanstown Road turn into Brennanstown Vale. Follow the road around until you reach a turning circle in the road. Park around here. Just past the turning place there is a small trackway that leads to a gate. Walk down here and turn left after the gate - this is a disused railway line. Walk along the well-worn footpath until it crosses the river. Make you way down to the river bank (either climb down the 2m tall wall or carry on for a while along the railway track until you find a place where you feel comfortable making the descent). Carry on in the same direction for a few hundred metres. Eventually you will see that the trees on both banks open up and the capstone of the tomb should be visible on the far bank. Ford the river with great care here and you are at the tomb.
Please be very, very careful if following these directions. This is still not an easy route, but it is nicer than scrambling down the steep bank from the houses above.


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- To fight almost depression, make sure you are getting enough exercise
- You should also participate in activities you used to find pleasurable
- Manage your stress level and challenge your negative thoughts
Consider whether the following questions describe you or someone you love:
Are having trouble enjoying things in life that used to be fun?
Do you find that you are constantly irritable and overreacting to petty incidents? Are you are regularly finding excuses to avoid spending time with friends or family?
Does it seem like you're "just going through the motions" and barely getting through the day? Do you feel overstressed and believe there is no way you can ever catch up with what you have to do?
If any of these questions rings true, you may be almost depressed. And you are not alone. Research suggests that as many as 12 million people in the United States may be suffering from low-grade depression symptoms that are not severe enough to warrant clinical treatment.
Almost depression is not a mental disorder. It is a state of low mood that can leave you exhausted and de-energized, keeping you from savoring life and working at your peak performance level. It is a gray area of mood problems that lies on a continuum between the ups and downs of normal mood, and full-blown major depression.
(You may wonder how you can tell if your mood symptoms put you in the almost depressed range, or if they are serious enough to be considered major depression. If you are thinking about death or suicide, have lost a significant amount of weight because of appetite changes, or have feelings of hopelessness or extreme guilt, or if you believe your symptoms may be severe enough possibly to warrant a diagnosis of major depression, please contact a mental health professional.)
At Harvard Medical School, we have been investigating the effects that almost depression and other subclinical conditions can have on an individual's quality of life. People who are almost depressed report a number of issues, including lower job satisfaction, lower satisfaction with their marriage and other personal relationships, more anxiety issues, less control over their lives and lower overall well-being than people who do not fall into the almost depressed range.
In fact, on some of these measures, people who are almost depressed report feeling worse off than people who actually fall into the clinically depressed range. Clearly, even though almost depression does not rise to the level of a diagnosable mental disorder, it is nevertheless associated with a substantial amount of distress and suffering.
There is also another more serious problem: Research indicates about 75% of cases of low-grade depression will devolve into full-blown major depression if they are not recognized and arrested.
Major depression is a deadly disorder. People who are depressed have four times the risk of heart disease and almost six times the risk of dying after a cardiac event than people who are not depressed.
People who are depressed also have between nine and 16 times the risk for suicide than people who are not depressed.
It is therefore vitally important to recognize the symptoms of almost depression in yourself and your loved ones, and to take steps to reduce the suffering it causes.
There are a number of things you can do to combat almost depression that have been shown to be effective in randomized clinical trials (the gold standard of treatment testing). Here is a list of some these "evidence-based" steps:
Make sure you are getting enough exercise. The minimum amount for treating depression is 30 minutes of continuous aerobic exercise (70% to 85% of maximum heart rate) plus a 10-minute warm-up and cool-down period three times a week.
Integrate activities you have found pleasurable in the past into your weekly calendar. Even if you feel that you no longer enjoy them, such activities will increase the activation of the pleasure centers in your brain. As your symptoms resolve, you will regain pleasurable feelings.
Use creative outlets to express your negative feelings. You don't need experience or talent to express yourself creatively, so paint, write or play music. Expressive creative work reduces depressive symptoms.
Manage your stress level. Stress has negative effects on both the brain and the body and can be a major source of depressive symptoms.
Challenge the way you think. Our moods are dependent not upon what happens to us in our lives, but in how we interpret what happens. Changing your interpretation has been shown to reduce depressive symptoms.
Increase your level of mindfulness. Mindfulness training and practice is an effective way to keep depression at bay.
Reduce the power you give to your "inner critic." Often the negative and critical things we say to ourselves lead to feelings of depression and powerlessness.
Increase your social support circle. Having a strong social support system is a known protective factor against depression.
Improve your self-care. Poor nutrition and poor sleep habits can augment feelings of depression. In some cases, specific nutritional supplements can work wonders.
The steps that work for you will be dependent upon your specific signs and symptoms, the severity of your symptoms and your personality. If one step doesn't work, do not give up.
There are many pathways to wellness, and with patience you will find the way that works for you.
You don't have to be almost depressed. You can take charge of your symptoms and make your way out of the gray shadows and into the full light of good mental health.


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The Northern Ireland Land Rover Club is made up of a wide variety of members and vehicles from all over Ireland, all with a common interest: "off road" and who wish to use their vehicles for the purpose they were designed.
The club organises at least 2 events most months throughout the year. These include green lane runs, SAE trials, orienteering events, fun days and various shows, charity and social events. On the last MONDAY of each month we have a club meeting.
**Club Meetings**
Past Corrs Corner heading for Larne - At first roundabout go left then left again
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Quonset site-readiness project: Creating jobs and economic growth
October 10, 2013 - Rhode Island
As a result of these efforts, we have many examples here in Rhode Island of programs that have succeeded in reducing red tape with terrific results, and we do not have to look far to find them. Consider, for example, the economic engine that has emerged at the Quonset Business Park. Steven King, managing director of the Quonset Development Corporation (QDC), has joined with various state agencies to develop an innovative site-readiness program that could serve as a model for effective economic development.
The premise of the site-readiness plan is simple: Today at Quonset, only 288 acres (out of a total of 3,207 acres) remains available for development. For this land, on about three dozen parcels, the QDC has completed all the engineering that a developer would have to conduct as part of "due diligence" in order to get a project underway. Further, the QDC has secured all the baseline permits from various state agencies that a new business would be required to secure.
Critical to the success of the program is the cooperation of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) and Coastal Resources Management Council (CRMC) in pre-permitting the parcels to meet environmental requirements. Instead of being an obstacle to business, under the leadership of director Janet Coit the DEM has provided a balanced approach to environmental protection and economic development.
The QDC worked closely with building and zoning experts to pre-engineer the parcels to anticipate likely uses for a variety of industries. As a result, a due diligence package exists for each parcel that includes a complete review of the property, including vital environmental information.
This program is making it much easier for existing businesses to expand at Quonset and for entrepreneurs to discover what a welcoming climate exists for businesses there. The site-readiness program provides business owners with a streamlined and expedited permitting process, practical tools they need to save them time and money.
This is indeed a model initiative that has a demonstrated track record of success.
As a result of the new process, pad-ready sites have already been quickly occupied by new business, and dozens more parcels within Quonset Business Park are ready for development by future tenants. It is a program that capitalizes on the public and private investments that have been made at Quonset, which is now home to over 175 companies and more than 9,500 full and part-time jobs.
There is much to learn in terms of economic development from the site-readiness program. Demand for space at Quonset is high, and has been for several years. The site-readiness program has served as a catalyst to build on existing momentum. It took a very good thing and made it better. That momentum has seen some 3,500 new jobs created at Quonset since 2005, along with $317 million in private investment. Since 1980, combined state and federal investment in the facility tops $650 million. This includes $7.5 million in financing the General Assembly recently authorized to dredge the port's berths and pier, maintaining over 1,100 direct and indirect port-related jobs. Clearly, our efforts at Quonset are paying off on every front.
The Senate and House analyzed ways to maximize the economic potential of Rhode Island's ports. The Legislative Port Commission, chaired by Sen. William Walaska (D-Warwick) and Rep. Deborah Ruggiero issued a final report, which can be found at www.rilin.state.ri.us/Pages/Reports.aspx. The document describes the continued potential for significant business growth and job creation at the Quonset Business Park.
In recent months, more businesses have located and expanded at Quonset, which has emerged as a leading engine of job creation here in Rhode Island. And as the national and local economies begin to turn in the right direction, Quonset is positioned at the forefront of that curve. We stand ready to find more ways to help more companies grow and succeed in Rhode Island. The site-readiness program at Quonset reminds us that it can be done.
Teresa Paiva Weed (D - Dist. 13, Newport, Jamestown) is president of the Rhode Island Senate. Gordon Fox (D - Dist. 4, Providence) is speaker of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.


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We are a husband and wife team, experienced in internet business. Over the past 5 years we've started several successful online ventures. We have some knowledge and experience with website designs/usability and technology. However we don't have any design skills - so we'd love your clever, stylish input!
We plan to launch a brand new site in the fashion / style industry. It is called "What Should I Wear?" and will be Australia's #1 Style Advice Site. Inspired by similar US sites like http://www.gotryiton.com (simliar concept, but we'd like a different design and features tailored to our market in Australia).
The target market is Australian, mostly female, 16-30 years old, fashion conscious, internet-savvy, educated, reasonably affluent. The focus of the target market is 22 years old, university student, reading Vogue and Harpers Bazaar magazines (Australian versions). She shops at stores like Witchery/Mimco, Country Road, asos. She loves fashion and wants to visit a fashion site that looks uber cool. She is very web savvy and wants the user experience to be clear and simple.
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This is a brand new start up.
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Feedback from the market has told us that this 'look and feel' is too much like a women's breast cancer support site! We want a much younger, more fashion-savvy, cool look.
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Page 1. Homepage
LAYOUT - We like the overall layout of the old homepage, but can you remove the testimonials and display ads in the right column? We want the homepage to be uncluttered. Can the main actions/text remain 'above the fold'.
'LOOK & FEEL' - needs to be updated. Overall look & feel of the site should be simple, super stylish, clean lines, contemporary (black/white color scheme?? Open to ideas).
HERO SHOT - Please include a hero shot of a very stylish girl/s aged in her young 20s. Must have an Australian appearance. Happy to use stock images if there are good ones available.
SMALL PHOTOS of users asking for advice - the pics on the old homepage are temporary, borrowed from The Sartorialist. Could you change this so 2/4 outfits shown are laid flat (not on a person) - as some users will use a 'flat lay' to get feedback. Could you keep 2/4 as a pics of girls in their outfits?
FIELDS / BUTTONS functions - all the same functions as the old homepage, but a more modern look.
Page 2: Style Me Page
LAYOUT - We are happy with this overall layout. Please keep the the right column (testimonials and ads etc).
LOOK & FEEL - to be updated to match the new homepage.
FIELDS/BUTTONS to remain the same, just updated look.
PHOTO samples - can these be updated to be more of the target market (22 yr old aussie woman OR a 'flat lay' of a few items)
This is a brand new start up.
We have had the pages wireframed using an old look and feel.
See the old home page and 'style me' page attached.
We like the modern black and white, clean, simple look of fashion sites. Definitely don't want it to be too pink/rainbow coloured!
The 'look and feel' of sites we like are:
• http://www.witchery.com.au/witchery…/i4142050/ -- really love love love this hero shot!
• http://www.thesartorialist.com - love the clean simple lines of this blog
• http://www.net-a-porter.com/?cm_mmc…bbcid=2625 – like the clean navigation on the top and a modern photo (but not this one particularly!!)


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In this episode of Tiny Yellow House for MAKE, host Derek "Deek" Diedricksen shows us one of his salvage uses for freebie pallet wood— an ultra-simple deck chair that cost him 89 cents (screws/nails) to build.
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There are lots of great projects you can build out of old pallets. Check out our woodworking series to learn the basics and find more project inspiration.


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Superman to the rescue
Superman to the rescue
Love it. My new hero.
No. Everyone has moments when they are up and when they are down. Real grace would be to offer in private, if what he's tweeting is even remotely related to their problems. Really fine line between confidence and cockiness. Proceed with caution.
"Breaking! Tesla Motors To Replace All 787 Buggy Burning LiIon Packs!"
Wotta headline that will make!
Of course, in a few years Elon will make the 787s (and all other long range passenger jets) obsolete scrap with his VTOL sub-orbital electric "jets".
I think it's a great way counter any investor thoughts of like problems. Already hearing the uneducated spreading fear about all L ion batteries
Yes, it says, "We know how to make safe packs, even if you don't." >:)
Sorry, didn't see this post before posting the same on the other Boeing post about it.
I thought Elon was Ironman, not Superman? :)
Agree with cattledog....Elon should tread carefully, offer in private, get the job done, then come out in public if need be, not the other way around.
Maybe he did, and was brushed off.
SpaceX and Boeing are direct competitors in the brand new and highly lucrative space cargo industry. SpaceX is a good decade ahead of everyone else in the field, but I'm sure Elon is happy to remind his customers EXACTLY who they can trust with their billion dollar contracts.
I think we are all aware that Elon is cocky. I have no problem for a man who is changing the world, has billions of dollars to be cocky. I respect what he has done and I think the tweet was more humorous not cocky, since SpaceX just beat them out of a contract.
I think Elon has the right to be cocky.
Who built an inexpensive space launch vehicle?
Who's been around for decades and should have had all the experience needed to build an inexpensive space launch vehicle?


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There are a number of mistruths about ingredients out there. We'll discuss a few here.
If you can't read the ingredient, it's probably bad for you.
All European made personal care products require ingredient labels that conform to the INCI standard. This standard requires that the ingredients be listed using their scientific name. For example, water is listed as AQUA, jojoba is listed as SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS. So based on this myth, one would assume simmondia chinensis was a synthetic ingredient.
If there are too many ingredients, it's probably not natural.
There are a number of different personal care products one can make at home with a few simple everyday ingredients. However, most lack the richness and sophistication of a commercially made cosmetic. Instead, they are often gritty, or granola and have poor performance To produce a sophisticated but green beauty product that can hold its own against other top brands, numerous ingredients are utilized.
If it says "fragrance", its synthetic.
The INCI ingredient labeling standard applied to European beauty products require that any product with a "scent" be labeled "Fragrance", "Perfume" or "Parfum". This applies whether or not that scent is from all natural essential oils, or from synthetic fragrances. All cosmetic products should be free of synthetic fragrances.
Organic/Natural products are gritty and granola, and don't perform.
This is the same issue as Myth #2. To achieve the basic functionality, a self tanner can be made with tea, lanolin and sesame oil. However, that product would lack the richness of texture, aromatic scent and performance when compared against organic self-tanners—t would appear rather "granola".
It says Certified Organic so it must be all natural and good for you.
As a rule of thumb, Certified Organic and Certified Natural do not instantly mean something is good for you. Certified Organic crops in many areas may be GMO contaminated. A natural ingredient may still be harmful or at least still be an irritant for your skin. Certain essential oils, organic or not, in large doses are not good either.
It's always best to do your research!


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Makershed loves robots! We know that they provide fun for makers of all levels. Beginners can create awesome robots from something as common as a tin can!
Advanced tinkerers will also have fun with robots! With the addition of microcontrollers, programming, and engineering skills, robotics kits can be as complex or simple as you desire. Building a robot from a kit is an exciting learning experience!


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As if to debunk rumors that Clayton Makepeace is a mythological creature – a possible cousin of Big Foot — the big guy has agreed to speak at AWAI's 2012 Boot Camp, October 24-28!
First, he'll reveal the techniques he uses to create video sales letters that attract armies of new customers…
And, second, he'll host a workshop on how to make your benefits sparkle!
This is the first and ONLY time Clayton has spoken ANYWHERE in three long years! He's been too busy creating winning campaigns for his clients. So I'd suggest you jump on over to AWAI and check this out for yourself.
Here's the link: http://www.awaionline.com/b12/makepeace
We're looking forward to seeing YOU in October!
Wendy "The Redhead" Makepeace


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James W. Zulker & Sons Construction
James W. Zulker, Jr. & Sons Construction, LLC is a fully-licensed and insured custom home builder in the scenic Twin Lakes area of north-central Arkansas. Initially established by Jim Zulker in southern New Jersey, this premiere full-service construction company relocated to Mountain Home, AR in August of 2008.
Before starting his own business in 1988, Jim was able to hone his construction and cabinetmaking skills with the guidance from three generations of craftsman in his family.
Jim Zulker offers his clients a unique combination of genuine enthusiasm, innovative ideas, 30+ years of construction experience, the highest quality craftsmanship and attention to detail. He will provide you with the top-notch service you deserve and the expertise you expect.


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Monday, June 5 from 1 - 6 pm: Are you having trouble mastering computers, laptops, e-mail, Facebook, online job applications, or a device like an iPad or Android?
We're a proud recipient of a grant from the Connecticut Community Foundation's Lifelong Libraries Pathways Initiative.
Just bring in your gadget or library card to get on one of our computers and we'll get you started with Syed. First come, first served!


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Britain could be facing a muscle-wasting epidemic in the elderly within the next thirty years, shocking research suggests.
Experts warn 63 per cent more pensioners could suffer muscle-wasting disease sarcopenia by 2045 – with women most affected.
Sarcopenia, a disease which causes muscle mass and strength to waste away, currently affects one in five European pensioners.
The condition affects the balance and gait of sufferers, leaving some unable to perform basic daily tasks.
The frailty caused by muscle-wasting can lead to life-changing or even fatal falls.
While ageing plays the greatest role, the disease is more common in pensioners who don't keep active or eat well.
But as the population ages, the disease looks set to increase its heavy burden on the NHS.
Experts are now calling for health services to begin preparing for the 'substantial' increase.
According to new research, 20 per cent of European seniors, 19 million, have the disease – but the new research suggested this could jump to over 32 million by 2045.
Researchers studied figures from the Eurostat online database to predict the gender-specific population projections for 28 EU countries.
As Sarcopenia is so complex, there is no global consensus on how to diagnose it.
But the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) has defined it as low muscle mass with low muscle strength, or, with low gait speed.
The researchers then assessed the age and gender-specific prevalence of sarcopenia according to EWGSOP's definition.
They then used the data to predict how many over-65s would suffer from the disease from the highest to lowest threshold.
The highest level estimates by 2045 there will be 32,338,990, an increase of almost 64%.
And the overall prevalence of the disease in the elderly will rise from 20.2 per cent to 22.3 per cent in 2045.
Using this definition, they also found women account for 66.4 per cent of prevalent cases.
Even when they used the definition which provided the lowest estimate, the figures showed 8,699,527 people in the EU with sarcopenia could rise to 18,75,173 by 2045, a 72.4 per cent increase.
And the overall prevalence of elderly people with sarcopenia will rise from 11.1 per cent to 12.9 per cent in 2045.
The research was presented at the World Congress on Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases.
Dr Olivier Ethgen, from the University of Liège, said: "Regardless of which diagnostic cut-off is used to define sarcopenia, the prevalence of this condition is expected to rise substantially in Europe.
"It is therefore essential that we implement effective prevention and disease management strategies.
"Health authorities must take action in order to limit the impact on increasingly strained healthcare systems and to help Europeans enjoy healthy, active ageing."


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Hal Sparks is an actor, comedian and political activist. Along with his acting career, Hal recently joined the DGA following his directing several episodes of a hit comedy show on Disney. Last year, Hal made a very memorable guest appearance on Netflix's "Fuller House", as D.J. Tanner's (Candace Cameron Bure) ex-boyfriend, Nelson Burkhard.
Beyond his acting and comedy pursuits, Hal openly vocalizes his political activism through hosting his Superior Podcast. He is also a "go-to" for CNN International/LA Newsroom when there is breaking news that demonstrates how comedy and politics intersect.
Hal began his professional career as a teenager in Chicago. As a member of the famed Second City Troupe, his quick wit and affable personality quickly gained him recognition and acclaim and he was named the "Funniest Teenager in Chicago" by the Chicago Sun Times. Sparks went on to host the Emmy Award- winning "Talk Soup" on E! Entertainment Television, winning rave reviews from fans and critics alike. He starred for five seasons on Showtime's hit series "Queer As Folk"-which was way ahead of its time- and appeared in the films "Extract," "Spiderman 2" and "Dude, Where's My Car?" Sparks starred in his own one-hour critically acclaimed Showtime comedy special, "Charmageddon," which is now a best-selling DVD. Being a versatile talent, Hal is also an accomplished musician performing with his popular band, Zero 1.


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Yankees' Curtis Granderson breaks arm, out 10 weeks
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- Curtis Granderson jogged to first base after being hit on his right forearm as if it was a minor annoyance. Back at the ballpark in a brace a couple of hours later, it was clear the New York Yankees had a pretty big power problem on their hands.
In his first at-bat of spring training, the slugger broke his arm when he hit by a pitch from Toronto's J.A. Happ in the bottom of the first inning Sunday, and is expected to be out until the first week of May.
"Grandy is not a bat you say is easy to replace, but we're going to have to find a way," Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. "No one is going to feel sorry for you."
The Yankees, who were beat 2-0 by a Blue Jays' split squad, first called it a bruise but X-rays revealed the break.
"Five pitches in we got a little setback," Granderson said. "Now we rest, recovery, get it back, and get ready to play whenever that day comes."
The team said Granderson could be out 10 weeks, which means he'll miss about a month of the regular season.
"Mentally, you understand this is part of it, but at the same time now there's not much I can do about it except do the best things I can to not make it worse," Granderson said. "Keep myself ready to go."
It's a major blow for the Yankees, who are already without Alex Rodriguez until at least the All-Star break. The Yankees also lost Nick Swisher to free agency.
Granderson led New York with 43 homers last season. The Yankees hit 245 homers last year and had five players with at least 20. This year they could open the season with just two players, Mark Teixeira and Robinson Cano, who topped 20.
Granderson was examined near first base before leaving the game.
"It didn't sound good," said Yankees third baseman Kevin Youkilis, who was in the on-deck circle when Granderson got hit.
The Yankees were planning to experiment during exhibition games to see if they would move Granderson from center to left, with Brett Gardner going from left to center. That potential alignment is on hold.
Girardi said that Gardner will likely start the season in center.
Matt Diaz and Juan Rivera, in the competition for the fourth outfielder spot, could see increased playing time.
"We'll be forced to take a look at a short-term option," Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said. "Obviously, we'll being get Curtis back. It's very early. We're still evaluating what we actually have in camp. The first month there will be a vacancy that we need to fill. Is that internal, external, I couldn't even tell you."
Cashman said he is not in favor of giving infielder Eduardo Nunez a look in left field.
Happ, coming back from foot surgery, went two scoreless innings, giving up three hits.
"The first inning, I was rushing a little bit, and not quite getting the extension I needed," Happ said. "Going out for that second inning I felt much better. I was taking my body toward home instead of first there."
Happ reached out to Granderson before the ourfielder left the stadium for X-rays.
"Definitely not throwing on purpose, he's trying to work on coming inside," Granderson said. "It's a part of the game. Sometime you get hit. You just hope you get hit in a better spot."
Projected as the team's sixth starter, Happ had a 10-11 record with a 4.79 ERA in 24 starts and four relief appearances last season.
Yankees starter Adam Warren threw two hitless innings. The right-hander hit Brett Lawrie with a pitch in the second, which he said got away from him.
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Can Policy Levers Raise the Share of Americans Who Work?
By one big economic measure, things in the U.S. were never so good as in the early months of 2000. In those heady days, an all-time high of working-age Americans had jobs.
Since then, the rate of labor participation has slid steadily, from a peak of 67.3% to 62.8% last month, scraping lows not seen since the late 1970s.
So is there any chance of reversing the slide?


text: Rustoleum Specialty Magnetic Primer is a base coat paint that attracts magnets. Can be over painted or left as the dark grey finish coat. Can be applied to wood, metal, masonry, drywall, and plaster. Create a fun and unexpected way to hang notes, photos and more. Now the Magnetic Primer is 3x stronger! Apply 2-3 thin coats of primer and 2 coats of top coat for maximum attraction. Flat or strong magnets with minimal weight adhere best.


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A hard day in the saddle is often just that, given that a poorly designed bike seat causes numbness and sore spots over the course of a ride. Every bike saddle we make, however, provides outstanding comfort and support, all while helping to increase blood flow and to relieve soft tissue pressure.
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You Made a Difference!
Thank you to everyone for voting and dancing with us in the third annual Family Dance-off! Congratulations to our three winners and remaining 13 finalists who danced to win a total of $81,000 in donations to their Children's Miracle Network Hospitals from Primrose Schools. In total, $180,000 has been donated to Children's Miracle Network Hospitals in the contest's first three years.
Grand Prize
a cash prize of $5,000 and a $30,000 donation to Levine Children's Hospital
2nd Prize
a cash prize of $3,000 and a $20,000 donation to Shands Hospital for Children at the University of Florida
3rd Prize
a cash prize of $1,500 and a $15,000 donation to The Children's Medical Center
Remember, dancing is a fun, inexpensive way to get moving and stay healthy as a family. So keep those dancing shoes on all year long! If you need a little inspiration, we invite you to watch all our 2012 video submissions to stay active and get excited for the fourth annual Family Dance-off in 2013.


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6 bulbs fennel, in 1/4 inch slices
6 bay leaves
4 1/2 cups water
4 cups white vinegar
1/3 cup pickling salt
1/4 cup minced fennel frond
6 cloves garlic
2 tablespoons sugar
3 teaspoons black peppercorns
3 teaspoons fennel seed
3 teaspoons yellow mustard seeds
1 1/2 teaspoons fennel seed
Bring the water, vinegar and salt to a boil. Prep the lids/jars. Evenly divide all of the spices, peppers and garlic between 6 wide mouth pint jars. Add the fennel, leaving 1/4 inch headroom.
Pour in the vinegar mixture. Close the jars and process for 10 minutes in a hot water bath. Allow to sit 1 week before eating.
Note: A great source for canning information is the Blue Book guide to preserving. I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books and equipment I find useful.


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Mephistos Will Lyrics
All of the elements' are filled with black, consuming my body. My preceding visions fade to white and that's when I hear shrieks. I smell fire engulfing all of those slain before me, with their souls slashed apart. The weaker discarded, towering above I feel their feet brush my hair. Virgins grinning slightly as they crawl across the molten fields dripping with sweat, bringing rotting phalluses near. Here to satiate you as you're hemorrhaging. Set forth almighty futures. Release your almighty sin. The falling of the sky barely tells the end is near. Mephisto murmurs in my
ear: "Light has fallen my child. A new day is dawning, as I'm ever spawning serpents that slip down my legs." Barely brought back to life. Visuals of the supreme dimly lit in bearing my assassin, as I fall into truth. Frustration sets in while I'm forced into this escalation. I'm slipping
away into a distant reality, where my sights stretch higher than the clouds of God. Disgusted by this constant trepidation, I kneel upon these golden steps to heave. Christ calls "Behold! My crown is dawn!" while the angels flock the skies that burn. Wrath; how unexpectedly, swaggering in my invincibility. Laid on the fall of this retribution in the deficient city, I stand hard. Emerging from those luscious pearly gates, Saint Peter begins to cackle, "Inside, you're nothing."


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Friday, August 10, 2007
See What 51 Years Will Do: 1956-2007
Scenario: Jack pulls into school parking lot with rifle in gun rack.
1956 - Vice Principal comes over, takes a look at Jack's rifle, goes to his car and gets his to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lockdown, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.
1956 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up best friends. Nobody goes to jail, nobody arrested, nobody expelled.
2007 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1956 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by Principal. Sits still in class.
2007 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his father's car and his Dad gives him a whipping.
1956 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's Dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. Billy's sister is told by state psychologist that she remembers being abused herself and their Dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark gets a headache and takes some headache medicine to school.
1956 - Mark shares headache medicine with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2007 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails high school English.
1956 : Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2007 : Pedro's cause is taken up by state . Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he can't speak English.
Scenario: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed
1956 - Ants die.
2007 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary, hugs him to comfort him.
1956 - In a short time Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.
Is something wrong here????
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Yes, we are becoming weenies incapable of taking any risk and personal responsibility. In 1956, America really was America. In 2007, America is America by name only. I think the legal system must be greatly to blame for this transformation, and I'm pretty sure my children's children will have to live in a bubble "for their own and society's good".
- Dr Pezz said...
While I don't glorify the 1950s as the ideal (equality issues, segregation, and the like), I do feel the litigious nature of today's society makes everything much more difficult. And, the state of fear created lately seems to dominate the motivations of many.
- EHT said...
Thanks for commenting Anonymous.
Dr. Pezz, I agree. We do tend to believe nothing was wrong during the 1950s and early 60's, but there were many problems in America.
The main difference I see in the list I presented is we are no longer a trusting nation...everything is suspect. This is done with good reason, however, but I tend to believe the main cause is more violence in society and a general moral malaise.
- CaliforniaTeacherGuy said...
The "failing English" scenario would be hilarious if I didn't see it being acted out with discouraging regularity in my neck of the woods.
- HappyChyck said...
I think we could narrow the 51 years. I think 15 years ago the scenario was pretty close to 1956.
- EHT said...
How ya doin' CTG?
Hi Happychyck! Yes, I can agree. Things have slid down the slope awfully fast in the last few years.
- Jenny said...
I think there are certainly things we need to be concerned about in this day and age. And I agree that we are too litigious a society.
However, I think we need to be careful about glorifying the past. I've seen this in my email as well and my first thought was that it's too simplistic. The 1950s weren't perfect any more than today is.
- EHT said...
Yes, it wasn't the "Leave It to Beaver" world we sometimes portray it as. I've been watching the new show "AdMen" on television and the way women are portrayed is absolutely shocking to me as I come from the 70s burn your bra generation. Still....I know in the 50s and well into the 70s folks in my community knew each other and never locked their doors. That time is gone. Yesterday, on the news I saw three violent home invasions here in the Atlanta area. When my oldest child was young and outside practially all day I left the door unlocked so he and his friends could come and go....I don't know what I would do today if I had small children. I keep my door locked here is surburbia and my neighbors rarely let their children roam.
the comments left here further confirm that we don't grasp the loss of individual liberties we have experienced. And 2007-1956=51 years, which is a lot longer than just the "last few years". I'm just waiting for someone to say it's all Bush's fault...
- a. tuzztimonial said...
At the end, you ask, "Is something wrong here."
Did you come up with this list yourself? Are these your invented scenarios? What do they prove if not your own personal theories regarding the changes in time over the last fifty years?
And, just for my own edification, how old are you? You don't have to be specific; just say >50 or <50.
- EHT said...
a. tuzztimonial, your first question is answered in the post regarding my source.
While these may be invented scenarios many of the situations can, could, and have happened. These are not necessarily my own personal theories,but I found them interesting based on my own personal knowledge and my years of historical and cultural research over the last few years....and for your own edification I have been alive 46 of the last 51 years.
Thanks for visiting!
- Jennie W said...
That's so true it's scary! And it is getting worse each year. I graduated HS in 1998 and my brother in 2001 and the difference were noticeable in stuff like that - the schools are just getting more paranoid and ridiculous! My brother got suspended for playing cards in a girl's room on a school trip (they were at some conference). [As a note it was the fact a boy was a girl's room that was the issue, nothign else.] Although I did tell him he was stupid as they all knew this one guy knew what they were doing, but didn't invite him and he was definitely the tattle-tale type - especially if he was being vindicative. My father made him chop wood all day - my brother never got suspended again!
As a note, I once accidentally took a chainsaw to school in my father's truck (he was cutting wood over the weekend and it never left the truck), but luckily no one ever saw it. But now they probably search vehicles as you come onto school grounds.


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This is the golden age of tomatoes. Never have gardeners had more choices, from heirlooms to hybrids, huge beefsteaks to the tiniest, sweetest cherry tomatoes. True tomato junkies, though, are embracing the type celebrated for making the thickest, heartiest sauce: the paste tomato.
But paste tomatoes have more to offer. While they can't be beat for making the best tomato sauce, paste, and salsa, their intense flavor, firm texture, and few seeds mean they are just as appealing whole, eaten right off the vine, or featured in recipes that usually call for other types of tomatoes.
Many of the newer varieties of paste tomatoes are bigger and heavier than their predecessors, with just as much robust flavor. This is a boon to the cook: Processing lots of sauce tomatoes can be tedious, and a larger tomato cuts down on the work. There's less fruit to peel, deseed, and cook down.
Paste tomatoes have the same cultural requirements as other tomato types. Start seeds indoors following the directions on the seed packet, or buy transplants. Once plants are 6 to 8 weeks old, set them outside in the garden after any chance of frost, in rich soil improved with compost. Most will require support with stakes or cages. A thick layer of mulch and 1 inch of water per week should keep plants healthy and productive. We've chosen 11 paste tomato varieties—some new, some old—that merit space in the garden.
'Big Mama' is a hybrid Burpee exclusive that produces an 8-to-10-ounce, plum-shaped, very meaty tomato filled with old-fashioned flavor and few seeds. The skin comes off easily after a quick dip in boiling water. Like many newer hybrids, it's dependably productive, setting up to 50 fruits per plant, even when temperatures are unfavorable. "The fruits keep attractive and uniform in size and shape throughout the long harvest season," says Grace Romero, Burpee's head horticulturist, about the 5-inch-by-3-inch size of 'Big Mama'. "You can eat it fresh as a slicer, too," she adds.
'Jersey Giant' continues the theme of the huge paste tomato. The thick-fleshed, large, long, tapered pepperlike tomatoes are prolific, need support, and have a sweet old-fashioned flavor that gardeners rave about. This heirloom tomato was headed for extinction until Jere Gettle of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds rescued it from a failing North Carolina seed company. "They are firm like a paste tomato but have the full, rich, beefsteak tomato flavor," Gettle says.
'Roman Candle' has an unusual, medium yellow skin with yellow stripes and pale yellow flesh. Inside, it's smooth and creamy, with a wonderful fragrance and sweet flavor. 'Roman Candle' is meaty and dry, in a good way. "You can just take it out of the garden and eat it," Gettle says.
'San Marzano Redorta', named for a mountain in Italy, is TomatoFest owner Gary Ibsen's favorite paste tomato out of the 50 or so he grows. It's another big, fat, plum-shaped tomato he claims is better tasting than the classic 'San Marzano', and, at 12 ounces, is twice the size. Plants produce heavily. Ibsen recommends eating this variety freshly picked in the summer sun; it's also good for sauce or drying. He has a hard time keeping these precious seeds in stock. "It's a wonderful old heirloom variety," he says.
'Carol Chyko's Big Paste' might be the biggest paste tomato on the market. Fruits of this heart-shaped heirloom weigh up to 3 pounds. "It's great sliced up for sumptuous sandwiches," Ibsen says, "and a delicious choice for sauces and canning."
'Rocky' is another huge—up to 1 pound—heirloom tomato with the old-fashioned, full tomato flavor gardeners love. The fruits are 6 inches long, fat, yet elongated, finishing in a point. Ibsen doesn't sell a lot of seed of the variety because it's not well known. He recommends it highly, however; it contains all the qualities that deserve a place in the garden.
'Amish Paste' is widely popular and is really more of a dual-purpose tomato, as it's rather juicy and the flavor is outstanding. This variety pumps out lots of 4-to-6-ounce red fruits through the summer. Tom Hauch from Heirloom Seeds was one of the first to commercialize 'Amish Paste' after encountering it on an Amish-run farm near Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Some believe the variety originated in Wisconsin, but it's hard to say for sure. Hauch isn't a huge paste tomato fan, favoring the taste of slicing tomatoes over most sauce varieties. In fact, when making sauce, he'll incorporate 'Red Brandywine' or another favorite heirloom to give it the desired flavor. Although it takes longer to cook down, he prefers the taste.
'Opalka', an heirloom originating in Poland, is prized for its flavor. It's a true paste tomato, very meaty, and sweeter than 'Amish Paste'. It offers a very thin skin and is deep red with an elongated shape, making it almost pepperlike in appearance. Some fruits will reach 6 inches in length. The plant is vigorous, growing 6 feet or higher with wispy foliage.
'Super Italian Paste' is a big tomato, sometimes reaching up to 1 pound. It's meaty and sweet, with irregular pear-shaped fruits. This one is good for canning, purees, and sauces, and will stand a long time after picking.
'Polish Linguisa' is an heirloom from the early 1800s. The big, 10-to-12-ounce bright red tomatoes are sausage-shaped, meaty, and sweet, in the mold of a traditional paste tomato. This tomato is wonderful diced and added to fresh salads.
'Heidi', an heirloom from Africa, produces 2 1/2-inch, flavorful tomatoes over a long season. Good for canning or eating fresh, it puts on tons of stubby, pear-shaped, thick-walled, elongated fruits. 'Heidi' was given to respected tomato maven Carolyn Male, Ph.D., author of 100 Heirloom Tomatoes for the American Garden, by a student from Cameroon.
Sauce in 6 Minutes
One of the easiest, freshest sauces starts with minced garlic added to one to two tablespoons of hot extra-virgin olive oil. Sauté for about a minute, then carefully pour in a half-cup of cold stock. Add chopped paste tomatoes—no need to peel them first—season to taste with salt and pepper, and simmer for 5 minutes. Turn off the heat, add two handfuls of chopped basil, and serve immediately over pasta. It's a heavenly summer dish that showcases the power of fresh organic produce.
Avoiding Blossom-End Rot
Although paste tomatoes are relatively easy to grow, one problem that plagues many varieties is a susceptibility to blossom-end rot. The disease is caused by a calcium deficiency in the plant and characterized by a dry, sunken black lesion on the underside of the tomato where the flower was. It often starts when the tomato is green and eventually makes the fruit inedible.
To avoid blossom-end rot, be sure to keep the soil evenly moist. The calcium is often in the soil, but the plant fails to take it up due to extreme fluctuations of soil moisture. Blossom-end rot often occurs after periods of dry weather followed by downpours, or vice versa. The plants need 1 inch of water per week if rain is scarce.
Prevention is the key: Keep plants mulched with a thick layer of organic matter. Straw is a good choice, as it's cheap and easy to find. Often only the first flush of fruit is affected by blossom-end rot, and as the season progresses, newer tomatoes will be fine.


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|Home Reclaim mis-sold PPI/Make an enquiry I've never taken PPI Was I mis-sold PPI? FAQs
The first step is to find out if you have a claim and how much it could be worth. To do this simply fill in your details in the boxes to the right. We specialise in reclaiming mis-sold PPI and can find out if you have a claim and how much Clydesdale Bank could owe you.
We will send you our no-obligation claims pack via email and post which will be sent at no cost and which has all you need in it to get your money back. If you decide you want us to reclaim what you are owed you need to return this to us then we proceed to get you back your money.There are two kinds of people who have been mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) from Clydesdale Bank.
If you've ever had a loan, credit card or mortgage with Clydesdale Bank you could well be one of these two kinds of people. We can help you either reclaim the PPI that you know was mis-sold to you or find out if PPI was added to any loan, credit card or mortgage that you have taken without you knowing about it. If you didn't know you had PPI then you can definitely reclaim this.
We have been helping people reclaim their mis-sold PPI for over 3 years and have made thousands of successful claims. If you are thinking about reclaiming PPI, or if you want to find out if you can reclaim, or if you want to know if you have PPI at all, then we will help you do this.
Making a claim or finding out what you have and how much you are owed by Clydesdale Bank is easy with us. Simply enter your details in the boxes on the right and we'll send you out a very simple claims pack via email and post to fill in. You then return this to us and we will then do everything that needs to be done to get the information you need from your bank and reclaim what you are owed.
Payment Protection Insurance (PPI)
The way the banks have systematically mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) is the biggest mis-selling scandal in the history of retail financial services. Over £13 billion has already set aside by banks and building societies (including Clydesdale Bank) to compensate consumers. This figure will rise by a considerable sum over the next few years given how much PPI is still to be reclaimed by consumers.
Which? first warned about the dangers of PPI in the late 1990s and have continually highlighted the poor value of this insurance and criticised the inappropriate sales practices.
Banks continued to mis-sell PPI until just a few years ago when the scandal came to light. There were some 50 million PPI policies sold with only about 10% of these having been claimed back.
There are now record complaints going to the banks. The banks have in some cases prevented people getting what they're owed. This is why the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is itself seeing record complaints with the majority of these relating to PPI and why it is a good idea to use a claims management company to ensure you get back what you are owed.
We are aware of stalling tactics and have experience with banks, so we can and will always act with your best interests in mind to get you the compensation you are due.
This is what the CEO of the Financial Ombudsman Service says on the PPI mis-selling scandal.
"Around 50 MILLION PPI policies were sold to people who didn't need them or couldn't use them. A lot of those consumers who were sold PPI didn't actually know they had bought it. Only about 10% of consumers who were sold PPI have so far complained to their banks."
This means there is still about 90% of PPI waiting to be reclaimed. There will be a huge number of people who don't even know they've had PPI added to their loans, credit cards and mortgages.
If you've ever had a loan, credit card or mortgage, from Clydesdale Bank or anyone else for that matter, fill in the no-obligation enquiry form. We will find out how much you are owed and get any mis-sold PPI money returned to you.
Do you think you've never had anything with PPI?
Are you sure? You might want to think again...
If you take into account the fact that PPI was mis-sold to consumers in many ways, but a common way of wrongly selling PPI was to put PPI onto loans, credit cards and mortgages without the consumer even knowing.
You may think you don't have anything with PPI, but if you had a loan, credit card or mortgage at any point over the last 15 years or so there's a chance it had PPI added to it. There's a further chance you never even knew, because they believed that a payment protection insurance (PPI) premium would have been evident to consumers where one was being charged. We can find out if this is the case then pursue your rightful compensation in a speedy and professional manner.
If you've had a loan, credit card or mortgage at any point over the last 15 years or so, from Clydesdale Bank or anyone else, then get a claims pack. We can then find out if you did have PPI and if so, how much you can reclaim. Simply fill in the no-obligation enquiry form to find out if you have a claim.
How were the banks mis-selling PPI?
Payment Protection Insurance is designed to cover loan, credit card or mortgage payments if you cannot work, for example, if you become ill or lose your job.
Banks and other lenders (like Clydesdale Bank) sold PPI to their customers without fully explaining what it covered. In the worst case scenarios, the banks and lenders told customers it was a compulsory element of a loan, or they simply added it without the borrowers' consent.
The end result is that consumers ended up with a PPI policy that they often did not want, could not use or didn't even realise existed at all.
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We can be extremely helpful and often needed by customers. We have years of experience in dealing with the processes and systems involved in reclaiming mis-sold PPI. We deal with many cases on a daily basis and have thousands of clients including those who we felt the bank tried to manoeuvre into a position they did not want to be in.
Since we first started helping consumers reclaim their mis-sold PPI we have helped thousands of people successfully reclaim what is rightfully theirs from banks and institutions such as Clydesdale Bank. There is a vast array of experience with dealing with banks directly. We can take any pain and confusion out of receiving and understanding correspondence from banks whilst at the same time communicating your requirements back to their specialist PPI teams that have been created due to the sheer size of the mis-sold PPI scandal. Using a CMC such as us means you will have a professional acting on your behalf, on a strictly no-win-no-fee* basis that will get your claim processed as fast and efficiently as possible.
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"PPI-hit consumers face stalling from banks" says newspaper report
According to the press the banks are holding up legitimate consumer complaints as they have rejected a third of claims over the last nine months. In November 2012 this hit a high of 44 per cent.
The rejection of these claims, could mean that more consumers have to refer their case to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in order to ensure that they get their money back.
The article implies that this means that consumers are having to wait longer for their money from a successful claim and some consumers having claims rejected by their banks take their claim no further meaning the banks don't repay what they should.
Don't be one of these people. Using us will mean you use a resource that has experience in reclaiming mis-sold PPI from banks like Clydesdale Bank along with many thousands of successfully compensated customers. Make a claim through us and receive any refund you are due in the quickest amount of time possible. Fill in the no-obligation enquiry form to start your claim.
PPI complaints to ombudsman soar as banks fail to deal with claims
Miles Brignall of The Guardian says: "Consumers complained to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) in record numbers last year, as the fallout from the payment protection insurance (PPI) mis-selling scandal continued and financial services customers became more aware of their rights."
Don't let this happen to you.
Using us to reclaim your mis-sold PPI means you are using a company with experience of making claims. If your claim has to go to the FOS this can increase your waiting time to receive any refund you are due by well over half a year. We will take claims to the FOS that get rejected if we feel there is a case to answer but do what we can to get the claim resolved fairly without this having to happen.
The fact is that two in three of the claims made against the ten most complained about banks were later upheld by the FOS in 2012. The banks rejected legitimate claims and will continue to do so.
If the banks have said you don't have a claim come to us instead.
Below are figures from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) showing claims they received and upheld for some of the main high street banks.
Lloyds TSB was the subject of 45,727 complaints to the ombudsman, 42,195 about PPI, of which 86% were upheld; Bank of Scotland attracted 34,434 PPI complaints, of which 81% were upheld; while another Lloyds Group business, Black Horse Limited, accounted for a further 5,888 complaints about PPI, of which 97% were ruled in the customer's favour by the ombudsman.


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A certain long-held writers' block tip states that if you can't think of a creative approach to one subject, pair it up with a completely opposite subject and see what you get when you combine the two. The idea being that whatever you come up with, it'll be original and worth a listen/look/read. Well, this is exactly the premise upon which Good Morning To The Night seems to have been based. Take Elton John + Aussie dance popsters Pnau / baffling combinations = PROFIT.
Pnau's Soft Universe is, for this writer at least, exactly what pop should be: tales of heartbreak and woe, set against more day-glow sonic lunacy than you'd get from downing the contents of Hunter S. Thompson's car boot, then breaking open all the glowsticks of the land and bathing in the fluorescent goo because you too want to be a rainbow. It's balls to the wall, completely silly and even when it occasionally topples over in a heartbroken drunken stupor, a gleefully fun listen. And Elton John is... well, Elton John. Singer-Songwriter Extraordinaire, responsible for everyone on this earth wanting to burst into "caaaaaaaann yoooou feeeeeeeeeel THE LOOOOOOOOOVE tooooooooooooooniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight" every time they see a David Attenborough show, thus explaining why night-time zoo openings are a Very Bad Idea. This entire EP exists, apparently, because of John's tutelage of Pnau, mentoring their hoped-for ascent from Aussie dancemeisters to worldwide pop svengalis in waiting. On paper it sounds like the worst kind of vanity project. In practice... well it's still a vanity project, but more intriguing and, frankly, fun than any such production has any real right to be.
Good Morning To The Night is really more of an experiment than anything else: beyond simple remixing, it seems to be asking the question of whether you can take the work of one artist, rework it so much that it becomes the handiwork of another artist, and still maintain the essence of whatever makes both those artists unique while creating something new. The result is basically these famous songs getting a Gokking, sounding less like the almost 40-year-old originals and more like an afternoon sunning yourself on the beaches of Ibiza.
The sheer number of songs sampled from John's back catalogue, specifically the lesser known elements of the 1970s era, intentionally limits any lyrical depth to that which can be summed up in a soundbite. Forget working out any deeper meaning: this is an arena where sound and the visceral response it invokes is everything, and lyrical intent takes the furthest of back seats. In its place: melody overload, with the title track, 'Sad' (based around the "it's sad, so sad" loop from 'Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word') and 'Phoenix' becoming firm earworms in their own right, even when not playing Spot The Sample.
Atmosphere is everything here, evoking the often slightly eerie feel of the party winding down lurking underneath many of the songs, especially on the likes of 'Telegraph To The Afterlife'. To Pnau's credit, the productions never seem drenched in the over-reverence that can and frequently does derail this type of project; precisely zero shame has been shown here in absolutely ripping the back catalogue to shreds in the pursuit of all new pop gems. You want straight rehashes with a donk on them? It ain't happening here. Whether John's more die-hard fans will approve of this treatment is up for debate, but for the more casual listener it's definitely a more engaging introduction to some of the less famous songs than just doing 'Rocket Man: The David Guetta LMFAO Techno Ibiza Raveotron Mix'.
Good Morning To The Night is not going to reinvent the wheel, provide breathtaking new revelations on Elton John's back catalogue or shine new light on Pnau's songwriting abilities. It's a bit too involved and complex to merely call this a remix album; at the same time, it's difficult to call it anything else, and trying to work out exactly what the point of it all is will give you a headache. Intellectualism will get you nowhere here; this exists mostly for its own sake. And profit, obvs. But for all of that, toes will tap. Oh, toes will tap all over the shop like a Gene Kelly meltdown. Let's all head on down to the Balearics and get our 1970s party on, shall we?
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We already know that the DS sequel to 2009 hit Scribblenauts will not be called Scribblenauts 2. A now-dead link on Amazon suggests it will be called Super Scribblenauts.
No comment from the game's publisher, Warner Brothers Interactive Entertainment. Go Nintendo did dig up a website domain registration for superscribblenauts.com assigned to Warner Bros that makes the Super name seem pretty likely.
The name would be fitting, considering that the Scribblenauts sequel adds adjectives.
But, if this is true, would a third one be called Scribblenauts 64?
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Gordon Brown told the UK (and world leaders) that he had saved British Citizens on 9th of October 2008 when his Chancellor forced the Kaupthing UK bank into liquidation. He had not. In fact, Alistair Darling had thrown thousands of British Citizens into hell. And then had locked the door.
The unelected 'leader' Gordon Brown then went on to tell the British public that he had to stay in office because British Citizens needed him. When the British public (despite the almost-as-bad alternatives) showed they didn't, he clung to power like a third rate dictator until the last possible moment. Let's hope the world never has to hear the voice of Gordon Brown ever again.
Cherie Blair was right when she was heard by a journalist calling Gordon Brown a liar at a Labour Party conference (which she later denied when asked). Gordon Brown has to go down in history as the worst Prime Minister the UK has had since Ted Heath. Thatcher was bad enough, but Brown certainly takes the biscuit.
Thousands of British citizens are still in sheer hell two years on, it was the Gordon Brown government that put them there and it was the Gordon Brown government that refused to even acknowledge the facts, let alone sort out the mess it caused! Shame on the UK Labour Party.
As Paul Myners sat on his high horse and flicked threats at Iceland he ignored the damage being inflicted on innocent British citizens by his own Chancellor Alistair Darling!
Myners conveniently forgot that it was the Blair/Brown/Darling Government who brought out 'Know your customer' rules in 2007 that meant overseas Brits could no longer open or maintain UK bank accounts.
Myners didnt notice that it was the UK's Financial Services Authority who advised the Isle of Man KSF bank to put huge sums in a bank it knew was dodgy.
Myners seems or overlook that it was his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, who ignored the Brits who had been forced to use offshore banks when he forced the London Kaupthing Hf bank into liquidation.
Myners joined in the cynical cover ups that the Darling/McCarthy-Fry/Pearson/Sants used to ignore the dreadful plight of the British people plunged into desperation by Darling's bungling.
And he calls himself a 'Lord', shame on the Queen for making such a terrible man a Lord..
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Matrix Players Named to FCYBL All-League Teams
* Julianne Ludwick voted 10U-D1 Most Valuable Player
In addition, the following Matrix AAU coaches were honored by their coaching peers by being voted as Most Valuable Coach for their respective divisions.
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Liz Reed, Arlington 10-Under Division 1 Matrix 2019 Black
Clay Buckley, McLean 11-Under Division 1 Matrix 2017 Green
Liz and Clay both were honored as MVC for the second time.
Congratulations to all the players and coaches that received awards this year!
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