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Hey! If I want to make them in one big jar … is it ok? or I have to use half of the engredients?
Like 1 cup sugar not 2 ect.?
Hi Deborah, yes, you should be able to halve the amounts to make a half batch to put into one large jar.
Thanks! Can I use sea salt?
Question I was given a bunch of regular cucumbers can I make bread and butter pickles with them
Hi Angelina, I haven’t tried making pickles with regular cucumbers, but if you do, please let us know how it turns out for you!
Yes you can. I did it and they are wonderful.
I soaked mine all night and I think they are way to salty what could I do to get the salt out?
Hi Tracy, try soaking them in plain water.
Can I make bread and butter pickles without slicing them?
Hi Caralee, good question, I don’t know! I’ve only made them by slicing them first. That way the salt and pickling spices can more easily penetrate the cucumbers.
can i use this recipe for making relish?
Hi Louise, sure! These pickles would make a great relish.
I have made these three times and my of eight loves them!This year I came across another recipe that boasted “the best” which required twice as much sugar! Yikes! I made that recipe today and we’ve all decided that we like Elise’s recipe much better!So tomorrow we’re canning a double recipe and never changing again!Thank you so much for sharing this recipe!
I’m so glad you like it Heather!
I made this recipe twice n they were great,my question is can you soak them I overnight instead of four hrs I’m tired n was just wondering any advice
I have the same question…I’m getting the cukes today was hoping to cut & soak them tonight after work & then finish them in the morning. Is there any reason they shouldn’t soak more than 4hrs??? TIA
Hi Barb, I think if you let them sit overnight, the cucumber slices may end up taking in too much salt and the end result may be too salty. But if you do try it, please do let us know how it turns out for you.
Plus you have to keep ice on top so no sleeping!
I made a batch of these 50 hours ago. When can I eat them?
Any time. Now.
I made these, I think these are the best ever! Coming from someone who doesn’t care for pickles, is saying a lot!
I think they are too sweet so I put 1/4 cup less sugar and I tho k next time I’ll put 1/2 cup less sugar.
I was wondering if I can add a cup or 2 of water to dilute the vinegars??
Hi Ale, I haven’t tried making these with more diluted vinegar, but if you do, please let us know how it turns out for you!
I LOVE this recipe for B&B pickles. My Mom canned everything but I never learned until last summer (2013) and fell in love with this recipe. As a matter of fact, I didn’t share but maybe a few bites. Right now I have 17 lbs of beautiful organic cukes and happy that it’s canning season again, I missed these! Thanks so much!
I made the recipe as posted exactly….but they came out SUPER spicy!I am trying again, and leaving out all but a PINCH of the red pepper flakes, and this time i will just cook the recipe liquids and not the pickels with it… and process for 20 minutes! we will see!; -)been canning pickels for 14 hours today and not done yet! holy cow!
I made this recipe with 2 variations. Also, I had to make more solution as it only filled 3.25 jars and the 2.5lb of cucumbers made 5 pint jars. It wasn’t a big deal, but next time I will start with more solution.
My 2 variations were thus: I used 2c of cider vinegar and 1/4c of white vinegar. I did not cook the cucumbers in the solution. After rinsing them 2x I put them in the sterilized jars and filled then filled them with the hot solution and processed for 20mins.
I had read on other sites that skipping the cooking step kept the final product crisper. We shall see!
How long do you let them sit in the vinegar solution before having a “finished” pickle?
Good question, at least a day or two. Best after a week. ~Elise
Tried this recipe – didn’t read the comments before I did. I doubled the recipe -Carefully weighed my cukes – used a postal scale – 5lbs – brined them – 2 cups salt – did all the rest as per recipe.
I anticipated 10 pints – but all my 5 pounds made were 4 pints and the pickles were too salty and over spiced – only conclusion I can come to is that I did not have enough cukes. Next time I’m thinking I won’t weigh but rather measure cut produce by the quart/pint.
Sounded like a great recipe – may try again – but the cukes are gone from the garden.
If you doubled the recipe, you should only have used 1/2 cup of salt, not 2 cups. The pickles shouldn’t have ended up salty at all. Almost all of the salt gets rinsed away in step one. ~Elise
Not sure where you live but in So Indiana I am getting a fall crop of pickles planted with short season seed planted in mid late August.
Reading your comments about childhood memories, it sounds like you have similar memories to mine. I have a recipe from my grandmother for mustard pickles that included caulaflower. carrot coins, pearl onions and gerkins pickles( or cornechon) in mustard sauce. I’d have to look up the proportions and sauce. I’ve also been trying to make watermelon pickles with the same problem. I’ve started checking out cut watermelon for wedges that have a thick rind and cobbling together a few jars. I’ll get specifics on the mustard pickles and post it.
This is a fantastic recipe, and the fact that it doesn’t require a bushel of cucumbers to begin with is the best part. I have one very prolific cucumber plant this year that gives me 9 or 10 at a time, which is perfect for this recipe. It is super easy to follow and the pickles have a great flavor. I especially loved your encouragement to try other things, added some of my green peppers this last batch along with the cucumbers and it tastes yummy. Thank you for making it so easy, and scaling it down for smaller batches.
Great recipe- I’ve made 4 batches so far and they are a big hit with my wife. I tweaked it to our taste- sub 2-3 pinches of cloves and allspice, cut back to a little more than 1/4 tsp. of red pepper flakes and leave out the cinnamon stick. Thanks!
I would highly recommend not cooking the pickles with the pickle juice before canning. I tried that and my pickles came out a little soggy. Instead, I just go from the ice and water step right to packing the jars with pickles. Then I heat up the liquid and pour it over the cucumbers and then place the jar in the canning boil. They come out very crunchy which is the way I really like it. Quite a few people who have tried them and also tried making pickles are confounded by my secret for getting them so crunchy. Worth a try if you like them that way!
You sound very encouraging, I might just do some SWEET PICKLES. Thanks.
I just made these pickles and they are just what I was looking for!!!! I really like Bubbies pickles and these are similar but with even more zip. I am poised to pickle everything in our garden with this syrup, especially onions and peppers. I just refrigerated the first batch but will try a canned version next – there’s only so much room in the fridge. Thanks so much.
I haven’t seen this recipe pop up here nor searched it, so if this is a repeat, my apologies. It is a simple favorite of my family:
One cup of white vinegarOne cup of sugarCucumbers and white onions to fit into a quart jar or a large glass mayo jar.
Slice the veggies thinly and pack/fill the jar to the top, alternating between the two. Bring the equal parts of sugar and vinegar to a boil and slowly pour over the veggies.
Cover and let the jar cool off a bit and then refrigerate. Let it stand for a day or two and enjoy. Crisp and tasty and so easy. No other flavorings are needed but I can see the creative chefs around here adding all sorts of good things.
I absolutely love bread & butter pickles! I remember the yummy ones that my Mom canned when I was a little girl. I would love to try and make them myself~ But I don’t have a canner or canning jars. So I have 2 questions?? Do you have to put the pickles in canning jars or can you use plastic (rubbermaid-type) containers? also, does anyone have a recipe for sugar-free refrigerated bread & butter pickles? thanks a lot!
You should put them in a glass container, not plastic or metal. You can use a mayonnaise jar or a peanut butter jar (if glass). If you use a container that isn’t a canning jar, store in the refrigerator. ~Elise
I just had a hankerin’ for some bread and butter pickles today, and, never in my life have I canned anything, I decided to be brave and try to make some at home. This was so easy and so much fun to make. And they are absolutely wonderful!These are so much better than store bought. Now I sit here wondering what other kinds of yummy stuff can be canned.Hmmmmmmmm………..Thank you so much!
I am looking for a fast easy method for making sweet or bread and butter jalapenos. I love them but am not sure how to make the sweet syrup that is usually with them. Any ideas? Thanks so much
I think you can just follow this recipe, but use jalapenos. A friend of mine makes bread and butter jalapenos and I’m planning to try a batch when they are in season this summer. ~Elise
The above recipe sounds yummy. As promised a week ago, here’s my Nana’s version (verbatim).
Isabell’s watermelon pickle:
6 lbs watermelon rind, pink pared off. Cover with cold water and boil 3 to 4 hours.
Syrup:2 quarts vinegar (probably white?)6 lbs sugar1 oz cinnamon stick1 oz whole cloves – wrap spices in cheesecloth and tie.
Dissolve and bring to a boil.
Add watermelon rind and continue cooking for one hour.
Remove spices and ladle into sterilized jars.
Thanks April! ~Elise
Here’s a recipe for WATERMELLON PICKLES that I found at epicurious.com. It was originally published in House and Garden, August 1962.
Servings: Makes about 5 pints.Ingredients4 pounds watermelon rind8 cups sugar4 cups cider vinegar4 cups water2 oranges2 lemons4 sticks cinnamon1 tablespoon whole cloves2 tablespoons whole allspicePreparationScrape off any pink flesh from rind. Cut rind into 3/4″ squares. Cover with cold, salted water (1/4 cup salt to 1 quart water), and leave overnight. Drain, cover with fresh water and cook 1/2 hour, or until just tender. Drain again. Stir together sugar, vinegar and water in a large preserving kettle. Slice oranges and lemons thinly, discard pits and add fruit to the pot. Tie cinnamon, cloves and allspice in a cheesecloth bag and add to the pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves. Add watermelon rind and cook for 1 1/2 to 2 hours, or until the rind is translucent and the juices syrupy. Ladle into hot, sterilized preserving jars. Open cheesecloth, place a piece of cinnamon in each jar, cover and seal.
April–could you be talking about Piccalli? My grandmother had this recipe:
1 gallon ground cabbage1 gallon ground green tomatoes1 quart ground onion3 green peppers3 red peppers1 teacup saltMix and let stand four hours. Put in bag and let drain over night. Then add
3 quarts vinegar1 tablespoon dry mustard1 teaspoon ground cloves1 teaspoon clery see1 tablespoon cinnamon1 tablespoon alspice4 lbs. brown sugarBoil for 30 minutes. Makes 12 pints.
If anyone does have a great recipe for watermelon pickles, would you please post it here in the comments? My father has found a source for standard watermelons (with seeds and thick rinds) and I would love to experiment.
Oooo this post is bringing back memories. If I can find my nana’s watermelon pickle recipe, I’ll post it. I think she got it from her sister in Mass.
My Aunt Esther used to make something called pickalilly (sp??). I loved it, especially with hot dogs, but don’t have a recipe, can anyone help me with that?
I like Japanese salt pickles. All you need is one cucumber (long and thin) sliced, 2tbsp salt and a half inch of ginger, grated. Mix everything up in a ziploc bag and leave on the counter for an hour or two or in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. Every twenty or thirty minutes squeeze out the water that has been sucked out by the salt and discard. You can also make this with cabbage or chinese cabbage.
You can keep them in the fridge for a few days.
Gedney makes a series of what they call State Fair pickles. Several years ago they had a sweet pickle that used mustard seeds, garlic and bayleaf from what I could see floating around in the jar. Anybody ever hear of those? Think it was from a woman that found it in a North Dakota area cookbook from years and years ago that her aunt had.
Oh my!!! I LOVE watermelon rind pickles. We ate them all the time as a kid. You can hardly find them and they are nasty tasting. If you have a recipe for them, Elise, I would love to try it. My mother passed away before I could get it written down. (She never wrote any of her recipes down)
My sister-in-law, Carolyn and I made these pickles last summer. They are very easy to make, but they need to be kept chilled. They are very refreshing.
CRISP REFRIGERATOR PICKLES4 cups thinly sliced unpeeled cucumbers2 cups sugar1 medium onion, thinly sliced into rings 1½ cups white vinegar1 green pepper, seeded and sliced1 Tbsp pickling salt1 carrot, peeled & thinly sliced1 Tbsp mustard seed
Combine sugar, vinegar, salt and mustard seed and bring to a boil. Cool.
Combine cucumbers, onions that have been separated, pepper and carrots. Toss well. Pack into jars and pour vinegar mixture over vegetables. Cover tightly and shake.
Can store in the refrigerator for up to one year. (They will be gone before that time is gone!)
I gave quite a few jars away as gifts. Everyone asked for the recipe.
My Mom passed away almost 4 years ago now. Several years before, she composed our “Family Favorites” in a recipe book and this was one of the many family traditions. Hope you enjoy, cause they are the BEST ever!
Bread & Butter PicklesMakes 12 pints
Despite its name this recipe contains no bread or butter, but the pickles may be eaten with almost any meal.
8 qt. medium cucumbers12 large onions1 c coarse salt10 c sugar3 t turmeric1 t cloves4 T mustard seed2 T celery seed14 c vinegar
Cut the unpeeled cucumbers into thin slices. Peel and slice the onions thinly. Combine the cucumbers, onions, and salt, and let stand for three hours. Rinse off the salt with cold water and drain.
Combine the sugar, turmeric, cloves, mustard seed, celery seed, and vinegar in a large kettle and heat to scalding, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Add the vegetables to the hot liquid and heat to just boiling. Seal at once in hot sterile jars.
I love fridge pickles a lot – here’s my favourite recipe: http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/2008/08/pickled-sliced-cucumber-salad-recipe.html
But your addition of turmeric, allspice, celery seeds and pepper flakes sounds interesting, so I might give this version a go as well.
And thanks to Larry for explaining the name – I was wondering where the butter comes in :)
Thanks for the pickle recipe. It’s not a complete summer until I’ve made some Bread & Butter pickles. For several years I’ve used the following recipe I got from Kitchen Gardener magazine (July 2000)(no longer published). The result has been satisfactory, but I like the additional spices in your recipe. I made your version this afternoon; the quantities are as stated in the recipe – perfect (one pint for the ‘frig and 4 for the canning cellar). I’m always afraid of not having enough brine to cover the vegetables, but there was just enough. The end product is very tasty indeed.
Bread & Butter Pickles (Kitchen Gardener 7/2000)Makes 4 pints.2 c. vinegar, 5% acidity1 1/2 – 2. c. sugar2 T. whole mustard seed2 tsp. celery seed1 T. ground turmericRed pepper flakes, to taste8 c. sliced pickling cucumbers1 – 2 c. sliced onionsIn a large, non-reactive pot, stir together the vinegar, sugar and spices. Boil 5 minutes. Add cucumbers and onions. Return to a boil, stirring and turning the vegetables to mix evenly and coat them with the brine. Let boil until the color of the cucumbers changes from green and white to an even yellow-green, approximately 5-8 minutes.Pack into sterilized pint jars, leaving 1/4 inch head space. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes. Store in a cool, dark place.
You’ll notice that this recipe eliminates the 4 hour chilling time so it goes a little quicker, but no doubt the texture is different.
Since the topic is pickles, do you have a relatively quick and easy recipe for sour pickles? I’d love to hear from any one who can post a recipe. Many thanks, Paula
How long do they have to stay sealed in the fridge before they taste like pickles and you can eat them?
We started eating ours the next day. ~Elise
For Jen in Baltimore
My refrigerator pickles are in undiluted 5% vinegar. They last several months – I have kept them about 2 months (I can only store so much in the fridge!). I have seen various references sayong they would last from 2 to 6 months; I am sure it depends on the pickle recipe – the more acid – or salty (both salt & vinegar help to preserve food), the longer the shelf life.
You can use very young (finger size) regular cucumbers for pickling if you do not have “pickling” cucumbers. And pickling cucumbers are perfectly fine to eat too – some are better than others too. As Elise said, cultivars have been bred for desirable features. Like eating apples vs. cooking apples….
Two-Week Pickles – verbatim from my grandmother’s handwritten recipe notebook
Sweet Pickles – our family specialitySelect and wash about 75 pickles 3 or 4 inches long and cut into chunks about 1 inch long. This should make about 2 gal. after cutting. Place in a stone jar and pour 2 cups salt over them and 1 gallon boiling water. Let stand one week, skimming every day if necessary. On the 8th day, drain and pour 1 gallon boiling over them and let stand 24 hours. On the 9th day, drain again and pour 1 gallon boiling water over them and 1 tablespoon alum. Let stand 24 hours. On the 10th day, drain well and pour 1 gallon boiling water over them and let stand 24 hours. On the 11th day, drain and put into a clean jar and and pour the following syrup over them:5 pints strong vinegar6 cups sugar1/2 ounce celery seed1 ounce stick cinnamon
On the 12th, 13th and 14th days, drain and reheat liquid each day, adding 1 cut sugar each day. May leave jar open with a clean cloth over it or put in jars.
If only making 2 quarts of pickles, recipe for syrup is:
1 1/2 pints vinegar1 1/2 cups sugar1/4 oz. celery seed1/4 oz. cinnamon stick
wow, I wish I had one of those jars ……sigh.
Elise, these look really good. and for what it’s worth, My grandma always told me that bread and butter pickles were named that way because in the depression era, people would make sandwiches out of the pickle, bread, and butter and eat them that way.
just passing on word of mouth!
That picture of delicious-looking pickles is very appealing to a pregnant woman! However, I’ve never tried making my own. (Canning seems so daunting to me.) Two questions for you…1. How are pickling cucumbers different from regular? (Is it just the size?)2. How long do refrigerator pickles keep?
As always, thanks for expanding my culinary horizons, Elise!
Hi Jen, both great questions. Pickling cucumbers are smaller than regular cucumbers and their peel is bumpier. I imagine that they are more bred for being firm and holding up to the pickling process than regular cucumbers. As for how long refrigerator pickles last? Not sure about that one as we tend to eat them up within a week. A month maybe? Perhaps someone can step in and answer this one. ~Elise
I love pickles, but I love them tart and crunchy, not sweet. Bread & Butter pickles are too sweet for me. But I love tiny cucumbers pickled with straight vinegar, salt, spices and some herbs – a great refrigerator pickle! Also a great way to control cucumber overload, by picking them when they are no bigger than your small finger (although that was last year for me. This year, the squash bugs were horrendous, so I have not been bale to harvest many cucumbers to eat – let alone pickled). Other veggies I love to pickles are ginger, okra, sweet banana peppers & hot peppers: hot peppers are going like crazy this year – so this is the year of hot sauce and hot pickles. Guess what many friends will find in their stocking for Christmas?
This year, I just did beet pickles for the first time (again, using no sugar). Have not tried them yet to see if they are palatable.
It’s funny what you said about watermelon rind pickles, Elise. This is the first year I am growing watermelons (and just harvested my first one and wrote about it on my blog), and I have been scouring recipe books & site, and bugging friends for what to do with the rind. I am finding plenty of recipes but not too many suggestions on how to eat them (I suppose if you make them you know how to serve them). How do you, Elise, eat them?
I remember eating them straight out of the jar. So good! ~Elise
These bread & butter pickles look fantastic (as always)! I have been toying with the idea of pickling and canning for some time, but haven’t braved the initial investment of time and equipment yet. I am really excited about the prospect of your father’s pickled carrot and cauliflower recipe, as my taste for cucumbers is not as appealing as say, pickled asparagus, or pickled “rooty” radishes, kohlerabi, turnips, parsnips and the like. While I have never seen it done, what I imagine pickled parsnips to be — just sounds like I need to give it a try (both tasting and preparing). That, and pickled radishes (halved, quartered or julienned) might be at least as popular as pickled garlic as a salad topping?
Now I’m just dreaming out loud. I await more of your pickle recipes with expectant salivation!
I’m completely wed to the countertop half-sour dill pickle recipe from The Victory Garden Cookbook (the original edition). They’re not bread-and-butter pickles, but they are delicious. You make a basic brine of salt, vinegar and water; add some pickling spice and garlic, plus huge handfuls of fresh dill, and let the pickles sit on the counter for up to 2 days before refrigerating. The smaller the pickling cukes, the better, too.
I’ve been makinng the Better Homes and Gardens bread ‘n’ butter recipe for about 35 years. Never let me down; everybody loves them! Consider green peppers optional. Never NEVER throw away extra/leftover juice. Freeze it for later or use in pot or mac salad.
I live close to the Rocky Mountains in western Canada and am not always assured of getting pickling cucumbers to mature in my garden. BUT, I always have an abundance of zucchini.
This recipe uses zucchini to make bread and butter pickles and is every bit as tasty and the pickles are just as crunchy as with cucumbers.
18 cups sliced zucchini1/2 cup coarse pickling salt4 medium onions1 green pepper2 red peppers3 cups good quality vinegar3 cups granulated sugar1 1/2 Tbsp mustard seed1 tsp celery seed1 tsp turmeric
I use zucchini that are just a bit bigger than the baby variety. I also use a mandolin to slice the zucchini and onion evenly.
The night before, slice washed, unpeeled zucchini around 1/8 inch thick. Put in an enamel roaster or some other non-corrosive dish. Sprinkle with the pickling salt, cover adequately with ice cubes. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
The next morning, drain the zucchini well.
Slice the onions and finely dice the peppers.
In a large pan that is safe for using on a cook top (I use my large rectangular enamelled turkey roaster), combine the vinegar, sugar and spices and bring to a boil. Boil for 5 minutes. Add the sliced onions and diced peppers and boil for another minute. Add the drained zucchini and cook at high heat just until they are warmed through completely and change color.
Put in hot sterilized jars leaving around 1/2 inch head space. Make sure that you do not pack the jars too tightly with the pickles, you need enough liquid in each jar to do its job of pickling.
Seal. Store in a dark place. Use in 3 weeks.
Note: I use the mason jars with snap lids. Put the lids in a bowl and pour over boiling water. Sterilize the jars and keep them hot as you fill them with pickles. When the lids and jars and pickles in brine are all hot, you should get a very good seal.
This was the year I was determined to make pickles. I have my Gran and great Gran’s recipe boxes and they are LOADED with pickle recipes. Gran didn’t consider it a meal unless pickles were involved. I broke out the recipe box and flick, flick, flicked through the cards for Mrs so and so’s pickles cousin blah;s pickles and all the recipes were a peck of pickles or more! I haven’t braved the canning beast yet, so I broke out Chris Schlesinger and Doc Willoughby’s Quick Pickles, scaled it back for a tester batch and OMG I was a happy girl. I bought a jar of pickles up in Maine at a local farmstand called The Greenspot and she added cayenne and chipotle to her sweet and sours and they were amazing so I did the same. Fabulous! Sweet and sour and bread and butter pickles are my fave. Gran used to make something called cheatie pickles that used already made pickles into a quick version of these, when I find that recipe I’ll put it up.The first batch I made was devoured in 2 days, I made more up in Maine when I was hanging with Mom and left them for my Stepdad who called one night to rave at how pleased he was that someone picked up the pickle mantle.I also concur with you about watermelon rind pickles, they are my fave! Sadly, as you said, they are breeding watermelons with thinner rinds, we are going to have to buy some heritage seeds and grow our own I guess. I still have my Gran’s cranberry glass pickle canister waiting for some to magically appear. I meant to blog pickles this summer and didn’t get a chance, thanks for bringing them to the forefront.
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SLAY RIDE is his third novel, following on from his John Ceepak/Jersey Shore mysteries, TILT-A-WHIRL and MAD MOUSE.Slay Ride (Francis Thriller) Kindle Edition by Dick Francis (Author) Format: Kindle Edition.
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I love breakfast places.
Two of my favorite restaurants where I grew up in Monterey, CA are breakfast places – The Breakfast Club and First Awakenings. We have moved around several times and I have yet to find a restaurant similar to these, until about 2 years ago.
First Watch, located on Main Street, in Fairfax, VA comes very close to the California Breakfast Experience. The eclectic menu offers such choices as Acapulco Express Omelette with chorizo sausage, avocado, green chilies and house-roasted onions, and Casa Frittata with roasted tomatoes, spinach, herbed goat cheese and sliced sausage.
I ordered what I normally order – Eggs Benedict Florentine with spinach, avocado and tomato. My husband, too, ordered what he normally gets – Chickichanga, a version of chimichanga but with chicken, chorizo sausages, green chilies and avocado topped with cheeses and Vera Cruz sauce.
The food was great like always, but today was different. We just dropped off our 3rd grader and saddest thing of all – my baby boy, my sweet sweet sweet sweet son, whose last 5 years sped by like it was 5 minutes, whom I love more than anything – was going to have his first day of kindergarten today! He has never been away from me for more than a few hours, and today and every day for the next 9 months, he would be away from me for about 8 hours. I needed to drown my sorrow in Eggs Benedict Florentine ASAP.

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In this episode of Music Chairs Trevor Reekie talks to Auckland musician and self-confessed keyboard addict Nigel Russell. A member of influential 80s bands The Spelling Mistakes, Danse Macabre and Car Crash Set, Russell's passion for synthesizers has been the catalyst for numerous recordings and live performances.
Russell initially began his musical career in Auckland as a bass player for popular punk start-ups The Spelling Mistakes before joining old school friend, Weston Prince in the refreshed post-punk quartet Danse Macabre. The band enjoyed success with their 1981 EP Between the Lines, reaching #15 on the NZ charts while their album 'Last Request' also cracked the Top 40.
Following the demise of Danse Macabre, Nigel linked with the Greg Johnson Set, contributing to a couple of albums before forming the pioneering electronic sounds of Car Crash Set with the late Dave Bulog. A passionate live performer Russell continues to work in the music industry recording and releasing new material as Si Si Es.

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Mini Handball Jamboree
Posted on April 20th, 2016
More than 40 grade 3, 4, 5 & 6 students from Onoway Elementary School attended the annual Mini Handball Jamboree in Mayerthorpe on Saturday, April 9th. The students were divided onto teams with players from Sangudo, Mayerthorpe, Whitecourt and Onoway. Teams played a total of three games and competed in challenges, including the infamous “Team Cheer” competition. Teams were awarded points for sportsmanship, teamwork, cooperation, team spirit and game play.
This year, the winning grade 3/4 team was the Dragons which included two players from Onoway – George and Reese. In the grade 5/6 category, the winning team was the Panthers which included Elora, Lucas, Maygan and Wyatt from OES.
The Jamboree was a huge success thanks to the organizers, Melody Moon and Paige Duplessie, and the help of numerous volunteers, several of whom came from Onoway. Thank you to the student volunteers from Onoway High School (Cole, Emily, Paige and Jaillean), the Gr. 7 volunteers from OES (Caitilin, Camryn, Madison, Allyson, Jaiden and Jenelle) and the staff and parent volunteers from OES.
Congratulations to all the OES players for demonstrating outstanding sportsmanship, fair play and team work!

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- The 20-track compilation is out in March 2018.
The next compilation on Amsterdam's Music From Memory, titled Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991, is coming out in March 2018.
The double-LP has been put together by Music From Memory cofounder Jamie Tiller and Paris-based digger Raphaël Top-Secret. The label says the compilation explores music "with one foot in the avant-garde and another firmly rooted within the sensibilities of pop—where jazz musicians detour into synth-pop, punk bands break into boogie jams and student doctors jam out on odd melodies with synthesizers and drum machines during their night shifts." Though the tracklist is yet to be revealed, the vinyl version contains 20 tracks, while the CD comes with a couple of bonus songs.
Watch a previously unreleased video of Nightfall In Camp's "Cada Día," a song from 1985 that features on the compilation.
Listen to Jamie Tiller's 2017 RA podcast.
Music From Memory will release Uneven Paths: Deviant Pop From Europe, 1980-1991 in March 2018.


SANTA ANA — In an effort to keep its lines moving, the Department of Motor Vehicles has ignored safeguards and issued fraudulent drivers’ licenses, allowing thieves to steal identities and borrow money in the name of unsuspecting victims, investigators said.
The fraudulent licenses result in hundreds of Californians falsely arrested each year and thousands more who have their credit ruined, the Orange County Register reported Sunday. More than 100,000 fraudulent drivers’ licenses were issued last year.
DMV officials concerned about the agency’s reputation for long lines have refused in the past to consider routine protections such as checking photos in the computer against applicants for duplicate licenses.
The agency’s lax policies have reportedly made the agency a magnet for criminals who can obtain a new identity merely by filling out an application and paying a $12 fee, the newspaper reported.
A driver’s license is known as a “breeder document” for identity thieves, who use it to obtain loans and empty bank accounts. Felons use the document to “clean” their records, allowing them to purchase firearms.
“The heart and soul of fraud starts with the DMV,” said Werner Raes, vice president of the International Association of Financial Crime Investigators and a fraud detective with the Anaheim Police Department.
Records show widespread abuses, including duplicate licenses issued to people of different races and genders than the original licensee, and, in one case, 18 different individuals obtaining licenses in the name of the same victim.
The agency’s fraud caseload doubled in the past year even as DMV brass fought legislative reforms and ignored the recommendations of their own investigators, according to the newspaper.
DMV Director Steve Gourley, who was appointed in January, vowed last week to adopt reforms ensuring that the 900,000 duplicate licenses issued each year are legitimate. The agency estimates it issued 140,000 fraudulent duplicate licenses in 1998-99.
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By Harry Browne on Wednesday September 26, @04:09PM
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DES MOINES, Iowa (JNS) _ The National Pork Producer’s Council has decided to replace its longstanding ``Other White Meat’’ slogan in the wake of the recent terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
The new slogan ``Pork, because you can’’ is designed to take advantage of the wave of patriotism that has followed the attacks, believed to have been carried out by radical Muslim extremists, whose religion forbids them from eating pork.
``Isn’t it great to be here in America where we can sit down to a meal of porkchops, or bacon, or salami? Show you’re a proud American and eat as you please,’’ said Bert Cerdo, a spokesman for the marketing group.
Other phrases that had been considered to promote pork were ``Still legal in America,’’ and ``Extremism in the defense of pork is no vice.’’
By Alex Dominguez, JNS Special Correspondent on Saturday September 15, @10:21AM
from the Should have let sleeping dogs lie dept.
BALTIMORE (JNS) _ The following is an open letter from the editorial staff of the Jabali News Service.
To the terrorist assholes this may concern:
We woke up in comfortable beds this morning, went downstairs and had some breakfast. The power is still on, the television works, the Internet is running.
You obviously don’t have any troops to attack us with, and you’re not going to get any more planes.
The rescue continues in New York and the stock market is closed for a while, but there’s still plenty of money in the bank and plenty of food at the supermarket. We’re not selling stocks on Monday, we’re probably buying more.
We’re also not going to lash out at our Arab neighbors and give them a reason to join your radical fringe. Worse for you, we’re probably heading to your base of support to get you and win over your followers with capitalism and kindness.
Posted by Alex Dominguez on Friday September 14, @09:40AM
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NEW YORK (JNS) _ The antebellum South, Germany and Japan are the models for dealing with Islamic radicalism across the developing world, one geopolitical analyst argues.
All three were destroyed and rebuilt after rising up against the United States.
While Germany and Japan had educated populations and developed economies when they challenged the United States, America should not shy away from the challenge of modernizing underdeveloped countries, said Steve Kent, a historian at Montclair College.
Unlike Japan and Germany, the United States does not have to destroy states such as Pakistan and Afghanistan, but reform or replace their leadership and guide their development.
``We went to the moon, we can do this,’’ Kent said.
The arrests and prosecution of terrorists, even if it requires the use of U.S. troops on their soil, and the exposure of Muslim populations to the benefits of Western capitalism will go a long way toward avoiding continuing conflict, Kent said. The prosecution of terrorists will provide a sense of justice and respect for the rule of law. The use of troops is risky, but would start the process of interaction and exposure to outside cultures, Kent said.
``It’s a amazing what a few chocolate bars and televisions can do,’’ he said.
Islamic history is replete with periods of religious tolerance, most notably medieval Spain, where Muslims were at the height of their power and lived harmoniously with Catholics and Jews, Kent noted.
``A broader world view will show the average citizen that Islamic fundamentalists have twisted their religion,’’ Kent said.
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Posted by Alex Dominguez on Friday September 14, @07:26AM
from the Exterminate the vermin dept.
NEW YORK (JNS) _ Kill! Kill, kill, kill, kill!
That’s the mandate in response to Tuesday’s suicide jet attacks on New York and Washington.
``I don’t want to hear any bullshit about justice or finding those responsible. I want every fucking towel-head vaporized,’’ said defense analyst Steven Fragem.
``If innocent women and children are killed so we can eliminate this menace, that’s just the cost of doing business,'' Fragem said. ``Maybe those women and children should have thought of that when Bin Laden was bombing us.’’
Others called for Arab Americans to be put in camps as the Japanese were in World War II.
``How many are there in the U.S., 6 million? We could fit them in Utah,’’ said Daryl Swain, president of America for Americans, a Muncie, Ind. civic group.
``Bombing the federal building in Oklahoma was one thing, those were Americans doing the bombing, but this is something else.’’
America’s staunchest allies also expressed their support for the eradication of the globe’s 1.2 billion Muslims.
``Now, maybe you’ll listen to us,’’ said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
Once the nuclear glow cools down, Afghanistan and Pakistan will make excellent mini-storage and warehousing sites for products waiting to be shipped to America, Fragem said.
``Glass parking lots are very easy to plow in the winter,’’ he said.
On another front, the Jabali News Service has learned the hijackers involved in Tuesday’s attacks also used dental floss to tie up the crew and passengers after threatening them with box cutters, unnamed sources said.
The hijackers crashed two of the jets into the twin towers at the World Trade Center, and a third into the Pentagon. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania.
``As hard as it is to believe, that’s all that was needed,’’ the source said.
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A New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential aspirant, Dr Arthur Kennedy, has toured the various constituencies in the Ashanti Region to outline his vision for the country.
He said he would make corrup¬tion unattractive to public officials and the general public by offering attractive wages and salaries to workers.
Besides, he said he would prescribe stiff punishment against corrupt officials to deter others, if given the nod to lead the party in the 2008 general elections and eventually voted into power to succeed President John Agyekum Kufour.
"We need to increase the cost of being cost of being corrupt and decrease the benefit of benefit of being corrupt," he stressed and said that "in addition to the requirement of declaring assets in Ghana I will make it mandatory for assets that had been declared to be published in the various newspa¬pers for everyone to see".
He noted that the assets of public office holders would be made public periodically when voted into office as the President of Ghana and questioned those whose lifestyles and expenditures were beyond their means.
He added that he would ensure that the police, Customs, Excise and Preventive Services (CE.P.S), as well as the immigration Service and other public officials, were paid realistic salaries to prevent them from indulging in corrupt practices.
Dr Kennedy said further that he would come up with aggressive accountability measures for those who were perceived to be corrupt.
He said most of the activities of the police, CEPS and Immigration Service personnel would be automated to reduce corrupt practices.
"As a society we need to reward honesty and frown upon dishonesty," he said.
According to Dr Kennedy, consti¬tutional bodies like the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) would also be streamlined, strengthened to make them more autonomous to investigate corrup¬tion and bring corrupt officials to book.
He said in Singapore, for example, there was a body which could investigate people on the presumption that "their lifestyles exceed their income and punish those found culpable".
He noted that the tariffs paid for importing products into the country were very high and the average length of time of carting the prod¬ucts from the ports was too long and gave the assurance that if given the nod to be the President of the Republic of Ghana, he would not only reduce the cost of importing products but would also reduce the length of time to enhance revenue generation.
"It would also be my Priority to embark on public education for people to resist corruption and make it unattractive because corruption seems to be endemic in the country because churches have endorsed it by inviting only the affluent in society to chair functions because they would donate more," he said.
According to Dr Kennedy, his tour of the various constituencies had given him an indication that the delegates were yearning for a change and needed a visionary like himself, who has the political will and zeal to move the nation forward, and were therefore eager to endorse him as the next person to lead the country to achieve accelerated development and improved standard of living.
Be said the rumour that he was a minnow in the political arena was irrelevant because apart from the experience he had acquired over the years from his student days at Legon to his sojourn in the United States of America as a political refugee, he always proved to be a committed and dedicated politician ready to lead the country to achieve accelerated development.
He explained that past leaders had failed miserably to fight corruption because they did not look at the cost benefit of corruption.
He pointed out that it would also be his priority to appoint honest people who would be committed to the programme to achieve accelerated socio-economic development of the country instead of using their offices to acquire wealth at the expense of the country.
He said honest leaders who had the nation at heart were the best examples we could give the nation to enable the youth to emulate them to turn the nation around.
He said his vision for the country was better than the visions of all the other NPP aspirants and therefore stood the chance of winning the hearts of the delegates.
He said he was the only candidate with a website that had laid out policies and outlined all his visions and programmes that would accelerate the socio-economic development of the country.
"I also have an executive mindset, which endeared me to the people I worked with in the US and supervised a lot of people in a country where 1 was not a citizen and believe that leadership is universal," he said.
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Yesterday was a quiet day. We went a little bit south to find a good place to swim and end up an Umbogentweni, a dot on the map about 5 miles south of Umzumbe. There is a protected swimming area and we were happy to have a dip. The water is abou 75F, a bit chilly as you get in, but then just wonderful. After our swim, fish and chips at the local pub, then home, a snooze and another walk on the beach.
But lets not forget the monkeys that come to visit. We had to make sure that all the windows were closed when we went out or the little buggers would be in, and the bananas gone. They are so cute, though and it was a huge troop with lots of babies and daddy with enormous blue balls :)
Today we packed up, after a long walk and wonderful swim right in front of the house. The sea had calmed down and there was a gentle offshore breeze, bringing lots of surfers to the area.Well, lots is relative. There were probably 10 at the most! But it was interesting, as a lot of them were little black kids, something I had never seen before, and they were having a wonderful time. Zoze and I went in and although there were no waves for body surfing, had a great time. Lots more people on the beach as it is Saturday and people are down to the hotel and cottages for the weekend.
We loaded up the car and headed out - stopped for pineapples alongside the road - and came back to Biff's to find that a major rugby game was on and that everything else stopped! We (or the favored team) won! Zoze and Bryan and I picked guavas - a bumper crop this year ( Zoze will cook and give us some) then they headed home.
Of course, Biff has nothing for dinner so went to the store, bought stuff for dinner and here I am, chicken in the oven, veges ready to go in and a salad to be made. Although food prices have gone up considerably, it is still a LOT cheaper than the states. I could live VERY comfortably on $1500 a month.
Tomorrow is Comrades - a double marathon from Pietermaritzburg to Durban - all the roads will be closed down and I will most likely go and watch these crazy people battling their way to the coast.


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-- Rider, 24, violated Rab signal to stop
--2 elite force members injured
-- IED, bombs tied to vest found
-- Red Apache motorcycle with no number plate
A man carrying bombs was killed in Rab firing when he tried to penetrate a check post with a motorcycle in Khilgaon area of Dhaka early today, Rab said.
"An unidentified miscreant, carrying explosives, tried to penetrate Rab-3 check post with a motorcycle at Shekher Jaiga area around 4:30am," said a text message of the elite force floated to media in the morning.
Sensing danger, officials of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) opened fire, leaving the man dead, Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of the elite force's legal and media wing, told The Daily Star.
Two Rab members were also injured during the incident, he added.
The incident took place a day after a suspected suicide bomber sneaked into a Rab barrack and blew himself up in the capital's Ashkona.
It appears to be the country's first such attack by a terror suspect inside a law enforcement agency's compound.
Terror group Islamic State claimed credit for the attack, according to a BBC Bangla report.
Red Apache without number plate
The elite force members opened fire after the motorcycle rider, age around 24, tried to flee after violating their signal to stop at the check post, Lt Col Tuhin Mohammad Masud, chief executive officer (CEO) of Rab-3, told journalists at a press briefing later.
The rider fell down on the ground with his motorcycle near the check post, he said.
But the law enforcers did not immediately go near the motorcycle after noticing the shoulder bag he was carrying.
They found the bullet-hit body when a bomb disposal unit reached the spot, the Rab official said.
IED, bombs in vest
One handmade improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered from the bag and several bombs were tied to a vest on his body, the Rab-3 CEO said.
Later around 10:21am, law enforcers defused the recovered bombs at a nearby field.
No locality in 200-300 yards
The spot in Shekher Jaiga, a link road to Demra, is around six kilometres away from Rampura Bridge in Dhaka.
Our correspondent who is visiting the spot found no households in 200-300 yards, except an under construction building and tin-shed godown nearby.


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A Maine Hospital Is Very Sorry For Vaccinating Out-of-State Union BustersFebruary 11, 2021
Maine’s largest health care organization is under fire after one of its hospitals offered precious COVID-19 vaccines to the out-of-state consultants it brought in to break up an attempt by nurses to unionize.
In a statement, MaineHealth described the consultants as a small group of people who came to “Maine Medical Center to provide support to nurses and managers in answering questions about the impact of joining a union.”
The health system conceded it was a mistake to give shots to non-Maine residents. “We understand that non-Maine residents are not eligible for any vaccine and acknowledge that we erred in vaccinating those individuals,” MaineHealth said.
But some outraged legislators said their grievance with MaineHealth went beyond just offering shots to out-of-staters—they felt the hospital’s inoculation of union-busters showed particularly poor judgement.
“Every out-of-state consultant and lawyer that MaineHealth flew in as part of their intimidation campaign got the vaccine instead of someone’s grandparent or loved one,” Maine Senate President Troy Jackson, a Democrat, said in a statement Tuesday. “It’s concerning that MaineHealth would put their own anti-union agenda, and their own bottomline, ahead of the health and well-being of Maine people. At a time when Maine has only a limited supply of the COVID-19 vaccine and is still grappling with a public health crisis, this seems particularly cruel.”
Maine’s governor, Janet Mills, also slammed the move.
“Vaccinating out-of-state contractors who came here to disrupt a union organizing effort was an insult to the hardworking nurses trying to assert their rights and to those who are waiting patiently for their turn – the 80 year old grandmother who hasn’t seen her family in months, the man being treated for cancer, the teacher wanting to return to the classroom, the grocery clerks and delivery drivers who are exposed to the public and working to put food on the table,” she said in a statement Tuesday.
The vaccinations were revealed by Bill Nemitz, a Portland Press Herald columnist, on Sunday. Nemitz wrote that MaineHealth had not only given the shot to employees who don’t deal directly with patients or are currently working from home, but that Maine Medical Center had offered employees of two out-of-state consulting firms the jab during the heat of an anti-union campaign.
Nemitz reported that representatives of Reliant Labor Consultants and a New York City law firm were vaccinated while working in Maine. Reliant Labor Consultants—which helps employers prevent unionization—was brought in to Maine Medical Center last month to hold training sessions with nurses, according to WMTW, an ABC affiliate in Poland Spring, Maine.
The firm did not respond to VICE News’ request for comment.
Nurses at Maine Medical Center recently filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to join the Maine State Nurses Association, which is affiliated with the National Nurses Organizing Committee and National Nurses United, according to the Bangor Daily News. Jeff Sanders, president of Maine Medical Center, urged against unionization in a video posted to the hospital’s YouTube page earlier this month, saying there would be a “much brighter future working together, without a union in between.”
Cokie Giles, a registered nurse and president of the Maine State Nurses Association, told VICE News that working conditions during the pandemic have been stressful, and that her union has been particularly strong during the health crisis. To vaccinate anti-union consultants amid that, she said, is disrespectful to not just to the hospital workers, but to the greater community of Portland, Maine, where the hospital is based.
“These people are not front-line workers, they’re there to pretty much scare the nurses out of forming a union,” Giles said. “That’s their job.”
MaineHealth insisted in a statement Monday that it had vaccinated its team members in accordance with state and federal health guidelines back in December, and that reports saying otherwise were false.
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services, however, expressed “strong concern” about hospitals giving the vaccine to people who didn’t work directly with patients back in December, according to the Bangor Daily News. The state updated its guidance in January to leave out non-patient-facing staff, the Daily News reported.
At that point, MaineHealth said it had given first doses to everyone on its “full care team” who wanted one.
“MaineHealth’s decision to vaccinate all its care team members has proven critical as it prepares to set up mass vaccination clinics across its service area,” MaineHealth said in a statement Monday. “For instance, a majority of those employees who have been working primarily from home during the pandemic are now being redeployed to staff vaccine clinics. MaineHealth stands by its decision to secure its full health care system by vaccinating its full care team.”
Additionally, MaineHealth said in its statement that it vaccinated the consultants “during the week starting January 17.” State officials issued new guidance against vaccinating out-of-staters January 18, MaineHealth said.

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Trying to Save Money on Food Costs? Read These 6 Tips
Here’s a batch of food-related questions from readers: how to spend less on food, how to get more value out of food, and so on. Food makes up one of the biggest flexible parts of a family’s budget, so honing your techniques for getting the most value out of your food dollar is essential.
1. What’s the best curbside pickup grocery strategy?
2. Should I make my own vinegar?
3. How do I cook with a small kitchen?
4. The importance of frozen pizza
5. Navigating school lunches during COVID-19
6. How can I learn to cook better?
6 questions about saving money on food costs
Read your article about grocery and meal planning strategy. If one of the goals is to minimize the time in the store, how does that work with curbside pickup when you’re not in the store? Doesn’t it lose its main benefit?
I assume you’re referring to this meal-planning article, where I discuss the general process our family uses for planning out meals, translating that into a grocery list, and then going grocery shopping.
Yes, one benefit of that plan is that it minimizes the time in the grocery store, which thus minimizes the number of impulse buys you make while there. Stores are set up to tempt you.
However, this still applies with grocery shopping via an app with curbside pickup.
The advantage of doing meal planning away from the app and developing a grocery list away from the app is that you spend less time browsing around in the app. The more time you spend browsing around a grocery app, simply wandering around hoping that serendipity will strike, the more tasty things you’ll find to buy and add to your cart with just a tap. If you have a list of things to add to focus on, you’ll spend less time browsing, which means fewer unnecessary purchases.
That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t ever buy snacks or things like that — by all means, do so. However, writing a grocery list based on a meal plan away from your grocery app is a smart move.
There are a lot of ways to do this. Here, we use a whiteboard for our weekly meal plans. I use Paprika as a “digital recipe box” to aid in that, as that’s where I have all of the recipes for our family favorites stored.
Have you tried making your own vinegar? It’s not a cheap replacement for regular white vinegar, but it is a really good alternative for things like red wine vinegar and apple cider vinegar.
Absolutely! Making fermented foods is one of my hobbies. Here’s a guide to making your own vinegar that I like, though you can also make your own vinegar mother to get started. It’s really not hard and uses minimal equipment.
Remember, this isn’t a really efficient way to make ordinary white vinegar. It’s just cheaper to buy a big jug of that at the store. This is really only worthwhile if you like using fancier kinds of vinegar for cooking or making vinaigrette dressings.
I live in a 320 sq. ft. efficiency apartment. It’s basically one room with a shower stall and a sink in the corner, think of it as a big dorm room basically. Outside of a microwave, I have no idea how to cook here but eating all takeout seems really expensive. Guides online all seem to assume you have a ton of money.
You won’t be able to bake, but with a good hot plate or two and a few pans, there are a lot of things you can make. I suggest this two-burner hot plate for starters, along with a small pot, a large pot, a skillet from a secondhand store. a simple plastic or wooden spatula and a plastic or wooden stirring spoon. That will help you cook a lot of things and you can get all of that for $40–$50. All of that stuff is easily washable in the sink you have, too.
If you have room for a small refrigerator, that will be really helpful as well, but that’s a bigger expense and it can wait. It’s mostly good for storing leftovers and keeping items cold, but many things can be prepared without it.
With this setup, you can easily make some one-pot pasta meals, all kinds of sandwiches including grilled cheese and soups. If you add a small fridge to this setup, you drastically increase your options, as noted above.
One frugal tip I think you should mention is the value of frozen pizzas on sale. They are a great quick freezer meal. Our local store often has frozen pizzas on sale for three for $10 and they’re pretty good. I’ll buy a whole bunch and then on really busy nights I’ll make two of them for our family of four for dinner. That adds up to $1.66 a head for supper, which isn’t bad.
This is actually a pretty good strategy, and we do the same thing. Sometimes everything just falls apart and we need to come home, flip on the oven, slip in the pizzas, and have dinner on the table in 20 minutes, and it’s really hard to have anything that works as well or as inexpensively as a frozen pizza. I’ll sometimes sprinkle some frozen veggies (diced green peppers and onions) or some mushrooms on top of cheese pizzas, as cheese pizzas are usually really cheap.
If you’re able to get good frozen pizzas at a rate of three for $10, that ends up being pretty cheap. It’s not an “everyday” meal by any means, but in terms of something that you can turn to in a pinch when things just did not go according to plan, it’s crowd pleasing and pretty inexpensive and very quick to prepare.
Another thing we do along the same lines is whenever we make chili, we make absurd amounts of it and fill up freezer containers with it. We will make on the order of two to three gallons of chili at once sometimes. We use two-quart containers, which gives enough chili for dinner for our family of five. We can come home, pop it in the microwave to defrost, then cook it in there or on the stovetop.
Could you write an article on inexpensive school lunches during COVID-19? Our school sent home a leaflet encouraging kids to bring lunches but then also warning about surfaces and stuff which kind of defeats the point of reusable containers. Any suggestions?
My suggestion would be to send as many things wrapped in paper as possible. Send lunch in a paper bag, wrap a sandwich in a wax paper sandwich bag (like these) and maybe even put some sides in them, and send individually wrapped sides and a drink bought in bulk. That way, this can all be disposed of through the recycling bins in the school and the items aren’t coming home with them. Focus on things that work at room temperature. A big warehouse club trip is probably in order to make this work.
This is not normally how I would suggest sending school lunches, as it’s not the most frugal way to do it, but given the potential risk of school lunch containers becoming a vector for carrying coronavirus if it’s being transported back and forth every day, it’s probably good to avoid the risk. If you do go with reusable containers, I would take the utmost care to wash them carefully each day.
I have been trying so hard during all of this to make meals at home but everything I make that isn’t a boxed meal is just terrible. I burn it or there’s no flavor so I just end up ordering delivery which ends up being even more expensive because of the food I wasted.
Learning how to cook at home means that you’re going to make some pretty low–quality meals, especially at first. You’re going to burn stuff. You’re going to make stuff that isn’t very flavorful. You’re going to make stuff that doesn’t taste like you expect. It happens.
When you screw up, it is completely OK. Don’t get angry or upset or frustrated with yourself. Every single person who has ever cooked in a kitchen with some success has messed up a lot of meals.
Instead, turn to Google. Search for things like “easy ways to make spaghetti more flavorful” or “how to not burn a fried egg” and see what you find.
The most helpful thing in the world for getting better at cooking, in my opinion, is YouTube. There are videos out there on how to cook and season almost everything. Just put your phone out in the kitchen when you’re ready to try something and roll the video, pausing when you need to do something. My kids make all kinds of things from YouTube videos. I really, really wish I had YouTube as an aid when I was first learning to cook.
You are going to mess up, and that’s OK. Messing up means you tried something, and from trying and failing you usually learn more than you learn from success. Rather than beating yourself up, figure out what went wrong and try again.
Got any questions? The best way to ask is to follow me on Facebook and ask questions directly there. I’ll attempt to answer them in a future mailbag (which, by way of full disclosure, may also get re-posted on other websites that pick up my blog). However, I do receive many, many questions per week, so I may not necessarily be able to answer yours.


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Everyone has food cravings every now and again. But for people who struggle to control their daily calorie intake, food can be downright addictive.
A new study presented at the annual conference of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology discovered that brain activity in obese people is different than that of their normal-weight counterparts, which may explain the susceptibility to food. In fact, in obese individuals, brain activity in response to food is similar to that of substance abusers.
For their study, researchers provided a buffet-style meal to 81 people in total, 39 of whom were obese and the others were within the normal weight range. Later, each participant underwent an MRI while viewing photos of the food from the buffet to stimulate a food craving. Researchers then used the scans to map a neurological response.
In obese individuals, the MRI showed a greater connectivity between the dorsal caudate and the somatosensory cortex, parts of the brain associated with reward-based habits and the coding of the energetic value of foods. Normal-weight participants did not show the same neural response.
These findings suggest that people who struggle with their weight may have a tendency toward food cravings hard-wired into their brains. Knowing the differences in brain activity between obese and normal-weight individuals could help researchers come up with new therapies, such as pharmaceuticals or brain stimulation techniques, according to the study’s authors.
Certain types of foods are more addictive than others. Foods high in sugar and/or fat have typically been implicated in food addiction research. Earlier this year, a PLOS One study by University of Michigan researchers confirmed that chocolate, pizza and other highly processed foods were much more addictive than foods like vegetables or brown rice, an unsurprising finding. Whether highly palatable foods can trigger changes in the brain, however, remains to be seen.
Read the full article "For Obese, Food Craving Is 'Hard-Wired'" at Discovery News.

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Here you will find the Poem A Coin of poet Carl Sandburg
Your western heads here cast on money, You are the two that fade away together, Partners in the mist. Lunging buffalo shoulder, Lean Indian face, We who come after where you are gone Salute your forms on the new nickel. You are To us: The past. Runners On the prairie: Good-by.


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Take-Two, in need of a hit, gets one with Red Dead Redemption
Take-Two Interactive reported Tuesday that Red Dead Redemption, the video game set in the Old West that the company released on May 18, has sold more than 5 million units to retailers worldwide.
That elevates the game to mega-hit status after less than a month on store shelves. The last game to sell more copies so quickly was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, in November.
Unlike Modern Warfare 2 and most video game hits in recent years, however, Red Dead Redemption is not a sequel or established brand. 2004's Red Dead Revolver, on which Redemption is loosely based, sold fewer than a million copies in the U.S., according to the NPD Group.
Red Dead Redemption, which received favorable reviews, is the first major hit for Take-Two's Rockstar Games label apart from its Grand Theft Auto brand. 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most successful video games of all time, has sold a total of 17 million units.
The game now will likely become a franchise for Rockstar with sequels, spinoffs, and downloadable content.
It comes at a time when overall video game revenue fell 8% in the U.S. during the first four months of the year, according to the NPD Group.
Based in large part on sales of Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two revised upward its projections for fiscal year revenue ending Oct. 30 to between $880 million and $980 million, from $725 million to $925 million. But it won't be enough, however, to fix some of Take-Two's long-running problems and lift the company into the black. Still, Take-Two narrowed its expected net loss to between 10 cents and 30 cents per share from previous guidance of between 40 cents and 60 cents per share.
During the quarter ended April 30, which didn't include any revenue from Red Dead Redemption, Take-Two's revenue grew 54% from the same period a year ago to $268 million and swung to net income of $16.9 million from a net loss of $10.4 million.
-- Ben Fritz
Photo: A scene from Red Dead Redemption. Credit: Rockstar Games.

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NIO is a People’s Republic of China (PRC) electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, headquartered in Shanghai. NIO has recently launched an initial public offering (IPO) worth over US $1 billion on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
NIO was founded in 2014 and currently has 6,000 employees around the world. In the PRC, NIO markets it’s EVs in the PRC as superior in quality and cheaper in price to Tesla. NIO was initially funded by government owned banks, which is a common practice in the PRC. To date, the company has manufactured only a few hundred EVs.
Will NIO become a major manufacturer of EVs in the foreseeable future? Unlike Tesla, NIO doesn’t own an EV manufacturing plant. In the past three years, NIO has spent over US $1.5 billion on research and marketing and has virtually no tangible assets. In my opinion, NIO has a murky financial future, similar to numerous solar photovoltaic panel companies that also launched an IPO in the United States.


MyPhone has been releasing good-specced smartphones recently. One of the newest to be officially announced is the MyPhone Rio, a 5-inch phone with quad-core CPU and 1GB of RAM. The MyPhone Rio also offers 8MP rear camera and 2MP front camera. The MyPhone Rio runs on Android 4.2 Jelly Bean but an update to KitKat should be made available in the future.
The MyPhoen Rio offers a compelling set of specs and what’s more compelling is the handset’s Php4,999 price. Smartphones with specs as good as the Rio’s usually sell from Php8,000 and upwards. The MyPhone Rio is therefore worth checking out.
Here are the main specs of the MyPhone Rio.
MyPhone Agua Rio Specs and Price
5-inch IPS display @ 1280×720 pixels, 233ppi
1.3GHz MediaTek MT6582M quad-core processor
Expandable 4GB internal storage
up to 32GB via microSD
WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
USB OTG support
8MP rear camera with Flash
2MP front-facing camera
Li-Ion 2,000mAh battery
Android 4.2 Jellybean
The MyPhone Rio comes in Black, Blue, Green, Orange, Red and Yellow colors. The phone looks good and actually reminds me of the iPhone 5c.
What do you think of the MyPhone Rio? Is it the cheap Android phone you’ve been waiting for?


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San Luis Potosí has become one of Mexico's busiest destinations for both national and international tourism. Thanks to a population boom throughout the state, Mexican architects have dedicated themselves to designing residential, cultural, and recreational buildings that highlight the region's architectural style and traditions. In this article, we present a few of these projects to illustrate a portion of Mexico's vibrant and varied architecture.
Content Editor at ArchDaily Mexico. Architect by UNAM (2018). Her interests focus on exploring the relationship of the body with architecture through dance. She has collaborated with different international choreographers who explore dance and architecture as an event. Twitter / Instagram: @monicarellano_
Sinaloa is a state located in the northwestern part of Mexico bordered by the states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Durango, Nayarit, and by the Gulf of California to the west. It consists of over 58200 km² of territory and is the agricultural hub of Mexico.
The Master of Advanced Studies in Architecture and Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich Unveils its Latest Thesis Achievements
The Master of Advanced Studies ETH Zurich in Architecture and Digital Fabrication (MAS ETH DFAB) is the educational program of the world’s leading interdisciplinary research cluster on digital fabrication and robotics in architecture, the National Centre for Competence in Research (NCCR) Digital Fabrication at ETH Zürich. It is organized by the Chair for Digital Building Technologies and the Chair of Architecture and Digital Fabrication (Gramazio Kohler Research), two pioneering research groups in the field.
Mexico's Valle de Bravo region, to the southeast of Mexico City, is characterized by the Presa Miguel Alemán lake, created in 1947 as a reservoir for Mexico City and Toluca's water supply. Thanks to its proximity to the capital, Valle de Bravo is a popular weekend destination for residents of surrounding cities. This in turn has sparked the interest of various architects, who have aimed to create projects that enhance visitors' experience such as offering an optimal view of the lake, or an immersive experience in the surrounding forest.
Climate is one of the key factors to take into consideration when designing a space. Of course, this can present a challenge, especially when dealing with extreme climates and the need for insulating materials that are able to adapt to a wide range of conditions. Luckily, for architects operating in Mexico, the country's privileged climate facilitates the creation of microclimates and spaces that blur the line between interior and exterior.
Until recently, the origins of the tiny-house movement were of little interest to the scientific community; however, if we take a look at the history of architecture and its connection to the evolution of human lifestyles, we can detect pieces and patterns that paint a clearer picture of the foundations of this movement that has exploded in the last decade as people leave behind the excesses of old and opt for a much more minimalist and flexible way of life.
In Mexico, self-construction has been a topic heated debate between its advocates and opponents; however, this doesn't diminish its prevalence throughout Mexico and the world. Over the past few years, initiatives on the part of architects have driven the creation of instruction manuals for do-it-yourself builders as a way to promote health and safety in self-construction and to also provide insight into building materials and techniques. In many ways, the initiative has improved the self-construction process, a fact evident in the increasingly visible creations seen throughout Mexico.
Photographer Iwan Baan captured the construction process of the social housing Las Américas in León, imagined by the New York-based office, SO-IL who collaborated with the Municipal Housing Institute of León (IMUVI) in the design of the development.
Taller de Arquitectura Carmelina&Aurelio, by Tuxtla Gutiérrez in Mexico, has launched a coloring book with illustrations of famous architectural works. Due to the success of the first edition, the studio has just published the second volume of the series, with illustrations of works by Zaha Hadid, Kengo Kuma, Rozana Montiel, BIG, and Eileen Gray. The digital book in PDF format is available for free on the studio website.
Located in the southern region of the United States, the state of Florida is one of the most populous states and the 22nd largest. The state hosts some of the most populated areas in the country, such as Jacksonville and the Miami Metropolitan Area.
Carmelina&Aurelio Architecture Studio based in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas in Mexico, released a book with architectural illustrations to color. The book in PDF format is available on their website for free and consists of eight letter-size pages. Read on for the featured projects as well as examples of color palettes for further inspiration.
One of the most important cities in the world –and the most populated in the United States of America–, New York is home to a great mix of cultures and history that has been shaped over the years, while art and architecture play a fundamental role in this development.