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So I got to thinking about a pumpkin cheesecake recipe from America's Test Kitchens.? I made it 3 years ago and now can't seem to find it on thier website. It was of course a little labor intensvie....even for cheese cake, but it was sooooooooo worth it. Does anyone have that recipe?

Can someone help me find the recipe from America's Test Kitchen for their chicken in a skillet? I'm not a member of their website and I really want their recipe for chicken in a skillet...can someone please help me??? you have to pay for a membership in order to see the recipes

Am looking for the meat thermometer they use on America's test kitchens?

Does anybody know if America's Test Kitchen did a taste test for hot sauce? If they did, what were the top three brands they chose?

Does anyone have a recipe for roasting a whole turkey from America's Test Kitchen/Cooks Illustrated? I started subscribing to Cooks Illustrated magazine, but don't have access to the America's Test Kitchen website archive of recipes. The current issue of Cooks Illustrated has a recipe for roasting a turkey breast, but I don't have their recipe for roasting a whole unstuffed turkey. Can anyone please post the recipe for roasting a whole turkey. I've never had a bad recipe from Cooks Illustrated and this will be my first Thanksgiving turkey. Thanks for your time and effort.

America’s Test Kitchen anyone watch this cooking show on pbs what do u think about it?

How many recipes are on Personal Trainer: Cooking compared to America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking? They look very similar and if they have the same amount of recipes I don't want to end up buying what I already have. I have checked websites and I can't find anything.

Anyone know how to accesss America's Test Kitchen site-I think it's related to Cooks Illustrated magazine? Reason I want to check it out is because I want to see how they review roasting pans since I need to buy one and want to get the one with the highest ratings. Thanks in advance!

Does anyone have the corn bread recipe from America's Test Kitchen episode #812? ? I saw the show on TV the other day but wasn't fast enough to write it down. It's not their website yet either. This recipe uses sour cream, not buttermilk.

America's test kitchen show times? does anyone know when and on what channel have america's test kitchen?

America`s Test Kitchen??...? is anybody a mamber on their ebsite or whatever? if so could you PLEASE get me the recipe for 'Banana Walnut Muffins'?? please? nd thnx :D

I need a pie crust recipe seen on this past Sat. America's test Kitchen on PBS. It included 4 tbsp of ? cream cheese with 1 stick of butter. The dry ingredients were flour, sugar, and salt. I need to know if anybody was writing down and if they would share the recipe. I was distracted with my baby and missed how much of each dry ingredient. Thank you. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

How do I find America's Test Kitchen TV Show recipes?

Anyone have the recipe for light NY cheesecake from America's Test Kitchen? I saw it on their show and I've looked all over the web for a copy of the recipe. But you can't get it from them unless you're a paying member. I was hoping someone here had a copy they would share. I remember one of the ingredients was cottage cheese, if that helps. Thanks so much! :)

Does anyone have the recipe for bourbon-brown sugar sauce for bread pudding from America's Test Kitchen? I am looking for this sauce to make with bread pudding

Where can I watch America's Test Kitchen episode for free? I love that show, any good sites? Thank you

Does anyone have the recipe/instructions for the tuscan bean soup from america's test kitchen?

Help, I lost my recipe for America's Test Kitchen...Chicken Fried Steak.? I am on my way to the grocery store and can't find my recipe for America's Test Kitchens, Chicken Fried Steak. Does anyone have the recipe...please. It calls for buttermilk and flour...thank you.

Does anyone have the recipe for the ultimate cinnamon buns featured on america's test kitchen?

Does anyone have America's Test Kitchen Cookbook? I'm looking for a certain recipe from America's Test Kitchen Cookbook. I can't remember exactly what its called, something like Sausage and Penne Pasta. It had spinach, sun dried tomatoes, italian sausage, chicken broth, cream, garlic, penne pasta, and other things. I'm away from home and can't seem to find it online. If you have that cookbook, could you please look up the recipe and give it to me. I'll need the measurments and all the instructions too. thanks

America's Test Kitchen Bistro Steak Dinner Recipe? I lost my copy of this recipe- and I can't find it online anymore without having to pay for a subscription to a site. Does anyone out there have this recipe? It's the one that starts with cutting the 2 steaks into 4 and then putting them in the oven for 10 minutes @ 200 degrees before searing them- then you make a pan sauce... I just need the ingredients- I remember the rest! Thank you!

what channel is america's test kitchen on? also what time does it show.? I've heard it's on PBS but I can't find the show or the time on pbs.org

Where is America's Test Kitchen filmed at ?

America's Test Kitchen & Cook's Country? Is there a website where I can watch episodes of America's Test Kitchen & Cook's Country?

Cook's Country America's Test Kitchen pumpkin pie recipe? I don't want to make an account on their website! Do you have a membership? Could you find me their recipe? Thank you! :)

What is the second most watched cooking show in America? I already know what the most watched is: America's Test Kitchen. But what's the second:??? THANKS!

can episodes of america's test kitchen be watched of the web?

America's Test Kitchen Recipe? Ok, my mom was watching America's Test Kitchen and really wants the mashed potato casserole recipe. Unfortunately, in order to see this recipe online, you have to be a member. And for one recipe, the two of us think that's a silly and unnecessary request. So my question is this. Do any of you have this recipe? It would be greatly appreciated. And just to be sure it's the right one, she thinks there was quite a bit of butter, cream and/or half-and-half with 4-6 eggs in it as well. She wasn't sure. Any information you have would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

Cooks' Country America's Test Kitchen Cornbread recipe? The only way I can get the recipe online is if i make an account. Do you know the recipe?

what's the crispy french fry recipe they had on America's Test Kitchen today? I just caught the end. Thanks?

America's test kitchen recipe ? Amazing mousse? i watched it on PBS today and does any one know the recipe they used to make the cream / whip cream thing they made? i tried going to there site but i cant register so please any one give me the recipe thanks !

find america's test kitchen.org? how can i find americastestkitchen.org? i only get sponsored results ending .com, which is lots of redirects.

What's a fast, easy way to seperate the fat from liquid when making gravy? The last seperator I had didn't do the best job. America's Test Kitchen rated a bunch of them, but I don't remember which one came out on top. I don't need this for tomorrow, I'm just being social with y'all.

Where can I find four-cheese(quatro formaggio) lasagna in Houston? I was watching America's Test Kitchen the other day, and it occurred to me that I'd never had four-cheese lasagna before, As big a city as Houston is, there should be ONE place that serves it. And don't say "Olive Garden". No. Just no. P.S. Four-cheese lasagna does not have meat or tomato sauce of any kind.

cook illustrated vs american test kitchen? I'm thinking about subscribing to some of the Cooks Illustrated magazines/websites for recipes and meal ideas. There's Cooks Illustrated, America's Test Kitchen, and a magazine on (Summer) Entertaining. I'm wondering who subscribes to what, both magazines and online, and why? Thanks for the feedback

Why does my r4i freeze on some games and not on others? For instance, my r4i doesn't freeze or anything when I start playing pokemon ranger, but when I start playing metroid prime or america's test kitchen the game freezes after playing for a little while. Is there anything I can do to fix it?

How to do make Shrimp Curry with Yogurt and Peas? I caught the end of America's Test Kitchen. I tried to get it off of their website, but you need a membership.

Does a credit card have to go through for a trial? What I am asking is that... for a trial of something, does the credit card go through. For example, if you get a 14 day trial of some online service that will bill you AFTER the trial, does it go to any means of checking the credit card to make sure it is real. I assume if you used a fake number it would go through, but then cancel the service at the end of the trial because the number was not authentic, correct? Specifically, I am referring to America's Test Kitchen.

Where can I purchase a life-sized model pig with butcher's cuts printed on it? I have seen life-sized models of cows and pigs used for displaying the cuts of meat on tv and in some meat markets. I commonly see these models referred to on shows like America's Test Kitchen. I have been looking online, but I haven't been able to find any. Should I start looking for a culinary education supply store?

Whats you favorite cooking show and why? I like america's test kitchen. It's thorough and they explain the problems in recipes and how they overcame them. They also have a blind taste testing bit where you find out if the highest priced things are really the best and they always make decent recipes. What's yours? Yay americas test kitchen is on now. NOOOOOOOOOOOO it's a stupid baking episode. I hate the desert ones. :(((((

Cookie glaze - does it need to be refridgerated? I found a great America's Test Kitchen recipe for a holiday cookie glaze. It calls for 3tbsp of whole milk, 1tbsp cream cheese, and 1 1/2 cups of confectioner's sugar. Will it be safe to keep the cookies in an airtight container without refridgeration? Won't the milk and cheese sour?

What is your favorite COOKING SHOW to watch? * My favorite cooking show is America's Test Kitchen on PBS.

A few questions about "light" mayonnaise particularly Hellman's? Have you tried it? Do you like it? A couple of weeks ago "America's Test Kitchen" did a segment on it and basically said the taste wasn't very noticeable. I want to eat healthier but don't want to give up my Hellman's. Has anyone made the switch permanent? Your thoughts on it please?Thanks.

recipe suggestions? what's a good recipe for Jumbalaya? i have one that i got off of America's Test Kitchen, but it's not that great. I want one that will wow people. any suggestions?

Cooking Club of America? Does anyone have any experience with the Cooking Club of America? Apparently you get to test kitchen gadgets, and it's only $12 per year, which includes 12 issues of a cooking magazine. Sounds too good to be true, and I can't find any small print on the info. they mailed me or the website. Anyone know anything about this company/offer?

trouble with cake it smells like eggs yuck :( I just baked the Strawberry cream cake that America's Test Kitchen published and it keeps smelling like scrambled eggs. I have baked it twice now and don't know what i am doing wrong here is the cake recipe 1 1/4 c. cake flour 1 c sugar minus 3 T for egg whites 2 T water 6 T melted and cooled butter 1 1/2 Tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 2 tsp vanilla. 5 eggs 2 whole and 3 separated mix dry ingredi and 2 whole eggs 3 yolks, 2 T water and vanilla and cooled butter whip egg whites till foamy add 3 T sugar slowly whip till soft peaks and then fold into cake batter bake at 325 degrees the first time i baked it i didn't cool the butter all the way so the next time i made it i cooled the butter all the way down. don't you think the ratio of eggs to liquid ingredients could be the culprit. I am so frustrated. I trust ATK to give out good recipes as the do test them a lot till they get the best results but I am not understanding why the cake comes out smelling like eggs. gross once it cooled down it smelled lke vanilla this is a wierd cake i tell you

How to make a roast beef dinner? I want to make a traditional roast beef dinner. The kind with mashed potatos and gravy that comes out medium rare or pink. Not pot roast. My friends mom used to make it with garlic cloves stuffed into it. I am no longer friends with her so I can't ask her. What kind of beef cut do I use? Tenderloin seems kinda expensive so I didn't know if there was a another cut just as good that is cheaper-like around $30 bucks. How many pounds for 5 people with big appetites? I saw a recipe on America's test kitchen one time that was what I was looking for if anyone has that recipe I would love it.

I hear “I don’t believe in Evolution because I don’t understand it” a LOT on Y!A. Question: Have you TRIED to? Question: Why, if you do not believe in Evolution because you feel life is “Too Complicated”, do you spend hours reading the bible, watching sitcoms, talking on the phone, researching that recipe, downloading porn… Whatever you spend hour after hour doing, just to kill time, yet you refuse to take even a single hour out of your life to use the SAME SEARCH ENGINE that led you to that “Perfect” pair of pants at GAP to even TRY and understand the basis of ALL LIFE on this planet? Body Text: To me, saying “I don’t believe in Evolution because I don’t understand it” is like saying “I think Microwaves run on magic because I don’t understand it.” When I questioned how a microwave worked, I sat down at my computer and turned on Discovery Science Channel, and I did some research and now I get the GENERAL principals behind how a microwave works. The SAME can be done for the topic of Evolution. There is even a show on History Channel called “Evolve” that, every week, describes the different aspects that most carbon based life forms share and explains how they came about… I’m watching the episode on “Skin” right now… I have “Sex”, “Guts”, & “Eyes” on my DVR… I have taken half an hour out of my life to set my DVR to record some shows about evolution, and now I have a better understanding of the process of evolution and how ALL life on earth is connected through the evolution of various components… I have a MONTH’S worth of episodes on my DVR right now and instead of “Channel Surfing” and finding mindless sitcoms or reality TV shows to watch, I’m sitting down and watching a documentary on evolution. After that? The last new episode of Modern Marvels about the most dangerous roads. After that? I might watch America’s Test Kitchen. After that? The secret lives of women form Oxygen. After that? The South Park episode called “The Losing Edge”. I have taken some free time and gone to http://www.livescience.com and I have read their articles on Evolution… Again, I’m not an “Expert” but now I have an even deeper understanding of how you can take a basic structure like keratin and tweak it to form hair, feathers, scales… How each animal on earth seems completely different from each other yet each aspect of our bodies is merely a tweak on a single basic design. I’m not an “Expert” now that I have watched a few documentaries and read some articles, but now I at least UNDERSTAND how these processes are POSSIBLE… NOW I can start to connect the dots when I read/see even more NEXT week… THAT is why I believe that Evolution is plausible and real… I have put forth the same effort to understand the Christian bible… I have read it, I have studied it, I have gone in and put the same effort in to understanding the basis for a major religion and it just doesn’t hold up. Creation is basically saying “Things are too complicated so that means a god must have been involved.” Yet when you do the most superficial study of Evolution, you see that it isn’t so complicated… Saying that ANYTHING is “Too complicated” to understand is a cop out because you’re unwilling to take the time to do even the most superficial research on a topic… I know people that won’t even bake a TURKEY because they say it is “Too Complicated” and such defeatist attitudes make me ILL! Turning a blind eye to SIMPLE DOCUMENTATION because you are afraid that comprehension of a topic will make Baby Jesus Cry is NOT “Refuting Evidence” against evolution. Using your own willful ignorance as your REASON behind not ‘believing’ a scientific reality goes against the whole scientific method…

suggestions on a good cookbook?? so i need a good book nothing real complicated but with good recipes ...so i saw Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book: Celebrating the Promise it looks nice but i want to know other peoples opinions and i also keep hearing that betty crocker is good and The America's Test Kitchen Family Cookbook. I just need some help making a decision THanks!!!!

Have you ever heard of "pie weights"? I was watching an episode of America's Test Kitchen (on PBS) a while ago, and they were baking an unfilled pie crust. Before they baked it, they loosely covered it with foil and put in what I'm sure they called "pie weights". I have never heard of these before and I've baked many a pie in my years. Do you have or use pie weights?

I'm looking for an apple pie recipe...? I saw someone on TV, I'm thinking America's Test Kitchen, make an apple pie and they precooked the apples to prevent that big empty space under the crust when the apples shrink in a conventional apple pie. I can't find that recipe or one like it online. (Test Kitchens is a pay site) Does anyone have that recipe or one similar?

Are All your cookbooks vegetarian? i've been a vegetarian for 6 years and all my cookbooks are either vegan or vegetarian. I was recently looking on amazon and i saw The Complete America's Test Kitchen cookbook and i figured since it has over 600 recipes in it even tho it isn't vegetarian it most likely has dishes that are or that can be easily changed. If you do have non-veg cookbooks whats your favorite one?

Help with muffin recipe =)? Okay, so, this might be illegal, I'm not sure. I want to get a recipe of off americas test kitchen for a chocolat muffin. If they don't have chocolate ones any muffin would do, cause I just need the basics and would improvise on the rest of the ingredients. I don't have my america's test kitchen book with me, 'cause I am in Germany right now, and obviously its to heavy, but I would like to make some for friends, so anybody out there who could help?

What're the differences between America's Test Kitchen and Cook's Country besides the names and opener/closer? They both do taste- and performance tests, and they both make a food item. Hmm... so what are the differences (besides the name, music, and the opener and closer look)? Will you come back and see what follow-up responses I might have for your answers? Thanks, if so. "Wingless Angel," could you please come back to your answer at my question about Cook's Country vs. America's Test Kitchen and elaborate at least a little? Thanks, if so.

I need to buy a good cookbook!will you help me? Hi guys! I'm an exchange student from Italy and I love American recipes (of course I love the Italian ones, too...but I don't need an Italian cookbook!) btw.... So far my favorite cookbook is the America's test kitchen family cookbook, cos my host family has it and I think it's a great one. Do you have any suggestion?other better cookbooks? ps: do you think it's a waste of money if I buy both the family cookbook and the BAKING cookbook? thanx!!!

Help on DS games???? I really like the personal trainer cooking game, so I was wondering if there are more games from the same creators (e.g Cooking Guide Can't decide what to eat) with the same little man giving instructions on cooking etc. I just love the layout of that game and want more recipes from the same company, what other games have they created besides the two I mentioned? I know America's test kitchen let's get cooking is another, anyone know any others?

Devil's Food Cake Problem!!? Hey, I just made the devil's food cake from the recipe of America's Test Kitchen. Now, the recipe calls for cake and all-purpose flour, but I am in Germany, so I just used the normal 405 flour. But my real problem is, that my dough is totally liquid? is that normal...? and I already baked it for 30 minutes, it's still not done and has a huge, and I mean HUGE crack in the middle!!! what did I do wrong??

Your favorite cookbooks and suggestions? First tell me some of your favorite cookbooks/chefs and why. Then if you can think of any books to fill in my blanks below that would be awesome! And any link to good websites or forum about various cuisines would also be awesome. I collect cookbooks that have history and context along with good recipes. Since they are so expensieve I do not like wasting money on fad cookbooks or celeb books (mainly Food Network). I really like books by chef's who are leaders in their field of cuisine best. So here is are few chef's/cuisines I already have For general cooking and techniques I turn to America's Test Kitchen. I have many of their books and love them all. But here are my ten favorites that I own ATK aside. Authentic Mexican - Rick Bayless Lidia's Italian Table/Lidia's Italy - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Cooking With Claudine - Jacques Pepin Julia Child - The Way To Cook & The Art Of French Cooking Vegetarian Everyday - Deborah Madison Chez Panisse Fruits - Alice Waters The Chinese Kitchen - Eileen Yin-Fei Lo Joyce Goldstein - Kitchen Conversations & The Mediterranean Kitchen The Tassajara Bread Book - Edward Espe Brown Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries, and Shakes - Bobby Flay What all these chef's do in their books is give background history of the food or recipe and they are experts in their field of cuisine. They also manage to make it all fairly no fuss for the home cook meaning the either don't use a lot of hard to find items or they provide alternatives. In other words there is more to read than just recipes. I must confess I have Mark Bittman's 'How to Cook Everything' and I find the it is too much and too big. It feels like he is trying to do too much instead of mastering one thing really well. I have cooked from it but the dishes are fine but it just feels to pretentious and the sort of depth of knowledge on specific cuisines I expect from from my chefs. Now some of my missing cuisines BBQ: Greece: Spain: Brazil: Sushi: Indian: Japan (non sushi): Mediterranean: Caribbean/Cuban: Persian/Middle East: Hawaiian: Southern: New Orleans: Korean: I forgot I also need a good cocktail book and wine and spirits book.

What are your favorite cookbooks and chefs? First tell me some of your favorite cookbooks/chefs and why. Then if you can think of any books to fill in my blanks below that would be awesome! And any links to good websites or forums about various cuisines would also be awesome. I collect cookbooks that have history and context along with good recipes. Since they are so expensive I do not like wasting money on fad cookbooks or celeb books (mainly Food Network). For general cooking and techniques I turn to America's Test Kitchen. I have many of their books and love them all. But I really like books by chef's who are leaders in their field of cuisine best. So here ten of my favorites in no order. Authentic Mexican - Rick Bayless Lidia's Italian Table/Lidia's Italy - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich Cooking With Claudine - Jacques Pepin Julia Child - The Way To Cook & The Art Of French Cooking Vegetarian Everyday - Deborah Madison Chez Panisse Fruits - Alice Waters The Chinese Kitchen - Eileen Yin-Fei Lo Kitchen Conversations & The Mediterranean Kitchen - Joyce Goldstein The Tassajara Bread Book - Edward Espe Brown Bobby Flay's Burgers, Fries, and Shakes - Bobby Flay What all these chef's do in their books is give background history of the food or recipe and they are experts in their field of cuisine. They also manage to make it all fairly no fuss for the home cook meaning the either don't use a lot of hard to find items or they provide alternatives. In other words there is more to read than just recipes. I must confess I have Mark Bittman's 'How to Cook Everything' and I find the it is too much and too big. It feels like he is trying to do too much instead of mastering one thing really well. I have cooked from it but the dishes are fine but it just feels to pretentious and the sort of depth of knowledge on specific cuisines I expect from from my chefs. Now some of my missing cuisines BBQ: Greece: Spain: Brazil: Sushi: Indian: Japan (non sushi): Mediterranean: Caribbean/Cuban: Persian/Middle East: Hawaiian: Southern: New Orleans: Korean: Thai:

Favorite Cookbooks/Food Books? What are yours both cookbook and book and food The Best Recipes - America's Test Kitchen Tapas - Joyce Goldstein (I cooked for her once she was SO nice) The Barbecue Bible - Steven Raichlen Chinese Kitchen - Eileen Yin-Fei LO Lidia's Italian Table - Lidia Bastianich Chez Panisse: Fruits - Alice Waters Burgers Fries And Shakes - Bobby Flay Other Food Writing: Garlic And Sapphire - Ruth Reichel You The Owners Manual BQ: What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

has anyone ever used a forschner chef's knife? America's Test kitchen voted the best chef's knife ...it's what they use in their testing...now I have a henckel's 6" utility knife that I love but want a larger blade for major chopping...just wondering if anyone has used forschner...and what you think.....thanks guys and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! money not the problem....just want the best for my buck....if ATK is soliciting to vendors...then I won't listen to their advised...it's why I asked you guys hey chef davi...do you like the shun?

Bread isn't rising... honey to blame? Several weeks ago, I started making sandwich bread for our family. It is the American White Sandwich Bread from America's test kitchen. It uses the rapid rise yeast packets and calls for honey. My first loaf was small and dense, but the next dozen or so loaves were fine (more kneading). Last weekend, I made some artisan bread for my husband's friends, and as I was running out of honey from my first jar, I finished off that first jar and I opened a new jar of honey. The artisan bread didn't rise much, but as it was my first attempt at that, I shrugged it off. I was making new sandwich bread today, using only honey from the new jar, and the bread didn't rise at all! I always check the water temp before adding it, and I hand kneaded for 15 minutes. The recipe was exactly the same as always. It is warm (72F) and humid in here. Usually by about 90 minutes, this dough is bulging out of its bowl, but this time it didn't grow a bit. Can a new jar of honey be doing this? Or am I missing something else? If I switch to sugar to make sure that is not the problem, how much will that effect the taste of the bread? Same brand and type of honey. Just a bigger jar.

Peking Duck Recipe from "Best Recipe" Cookbook (Cook's Illustrated)? I *swear* I read a recipe for Peking Duck in one of the "Best Recipe" cookbooks put out by the Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen; however, after looking through what books I have, I can't find it anywhere. Very frustrating! It might be in the Roasting & Grilling cookbook; but I'm not sure... maybe it was a completely different cookbook/author all together. I really was looking for the recipe and for the information written beforehand -- about the best ways to dry/air the duck and if there was any pre-roasting cooking and such. Does anyone know where I can find this or would be willing to post it? I would truly appreciate it, and I promise to give a Best Answer! Thanks so much! All the best!

the differences between baking chocolates? i'm trying to make some brownies from scratch and the recipes i find call for unsweetened chocolate. i really want to use ghirardelli's baking chocolate because i've heard great things. the only problem is the baking bars i find are bittersweet and i'm not sure if can use this. i found the baking chips as an alternative but that's 100% cocoa and i wonder if that might be too strong. i'm mostly looking to use the 60-70% my main question is can i use bittersweet in place of the unsweetened or should i just go for the unsweetened baking chips or bar. please serious questions only and any and all help is GREATLY appreciated. also i'm still unsure of the recipe i'm using and just wondering if anyone has the america's test kitchen classic brownies recipe thanks!

Alternatives to putting water in your broiler pan to catch drippings? I saw on 'America's Test Kitchen' a segment where they put kosher salt in the bottom of a pan to catch drippings from steaks they were cooking in the oven. I've tried this a few times with chicken and it does clump up the grease to a degree and with no smoke. It helps with clean-up but you do use a lot of salt. It got me wondering about other alternatives to water to catch drippings when cooking, because I'm always worried I'll slosh the water out of the broiler pan into the oven (its happened a few times already). Any ideas?

Which is your favorite cooking show on TV and who is your favorite TV chef? For example, Mario Batali or Lidia Bastianich (Lidia's Italy) or Sara Moulton or Martin Yan or Rick Bayless, or Mary Ann Esposito (Ciao Italia), or America's Test Kitchen, or Michael Chiarello (Napa Style)? Or someone else? Why do you like them? ck1, My favorite chef would have to be Lidia Bastianich (Lidia's Italy). All the other chefs I mentioned I have watched their shows and think very highly of them. This question has given me new avenues to check out and believe me that's what I've done today! From Hairy Bikers to Jamie Oliver to Bobby Flay (am impressed with his Cornish Game Hens w/wild rice and goat cheese stuffing...) This is going to be a hard question to give points too. I must add the late, great Julia Child was such an amazing woman! She is missed. I will never forget that chicken (when I was a kid) that went flying out of her hands and landed on the floor! She was human and down to earth and not afraid to laugh at herself. Guy Fieri is fun to watch, too. His show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives is great.

What are your thoughts on this? I was reading an old article about Todd Marinovich (a quarterback from the 90's for those non- (American) football fans out there). He was basically engineered from day 1 to be a super athlete (see the paragraphs below) and was very talented, but had a short-lived pro career and substance abuse problems. My question is this: we know now that even after an incredibly regulated upbringing, he still crashed and burned. But even if he HAD made it and become the stuff of legends, would it have been worth such an upbringing? Because it sounds pretty joyless to me. ***"What's fascinating about Marinovich, a 6'4½", 212-pound lefthanded redhead, is that he is, in a real sense, America's first test-tube athlete. He has never eaten a Big Mac or an Oreo or a Ding Dong. When he went to birthday parties as a kid, he would take his own cake and ice cream to avoid sugar and refined white flour. He would eat homemade catsup, prepared with honey. He did consume beef but not the kind injected with hormones. He ate only unprocessed dairy products. He teethed on frozen kidney. When Todd was one month old, Marv was already working on his son's physical conditioning. He stretched his hamstrings. Pushups were next. Marv invented a game in which Todd would try to lift a medicine ball onto a kitchen counter. Marv also put him on a balance beam. Both activites grew easier when Todd learned to walk. There was a football in Todd's crib from day one. "Not a real NFL ball," says Marv. "That would be sick; it was a stuffed ball." Meanwhile, Todd's mother, Trudi, worked on the region above the neck by playing classical music (lots of Bach and Beethoven) and jazz (plenty of George Shearing and Woody Herman) in his room. Cartoons were forbidden because they were too violent. Instead, Trudi tuned her son in to old movies like Hitchcock and Agatha Christie thrillers to spark his intellect. She dragged Todd along with his sister, Traci, now 21, to museums. To this day, when Trudi makes an unexpected turn in the car, Todd says, "Uh-oh, Mom's taking us to another museum."'****

When will America wake up? Dinner with Obama Once upon a time, I was invited to the White House for a private dinner with the President. I am a respected businessman, with a factory that produces memory chips for computers and portable electronics. There was some talk that my industry was being scrutinized by the administration, but I paid it no mind. I live in a free country. There's nothing that the government can do to me if I've broken no laws. My wealth was earned honestly, and an invitation to dinner with an American President is an honor. I checked my coat, was greeted by the Chief of Staff, and joined the President in a yellow dining room. We sat across from each other at a table draped in white linen. The Great Seal was embossed on the china. Uniformed staff served our dinner. The meal was served, and I was startled when my waiter suddenly reached out, plucked a dinner roll off my plate, and began nibbling it as he walked back to the kitchen. "Sorry about that," said the President. "Andrew is very hungry." "I don't appreciate..." I began, but as I looked into the calm brown eyes across from me, I felt immediately guilty and petty.. It was just a dinner roll. "Of course," I concluded, and reached for my glass. Before I could, however, another waiter reached forward, took the glass away and swallowed the wine in a single gulp. "And his brother Eric is very thirsty." said the President. I didn't say anything. The President is testing my compassion, I thought. I will play along. I don't want to seem unkind. My plate was whisked away before I had tasted a bite. "Eric's children are also quite hungry." With a lurch, I crashed to the floor. My chair had been pulled out from under me. I stood, brushing myself off angrily, and watched as it was carried from the room. "And their grandmother can't stand for long." I excused myself, smiling outwardly, but inside feeling like a fool. Obviously I had been invited to the White House to be sport for some game. I reached for my coat, to find that it had been taken. I turned back to the President. "Their grandfather doesn't like the cold." I wanted to shout - that was my coat! But again, I looked at the placid smiling face of my host and decided I was being a poor sport. I spread my hands helplessly and chuckled.. Then I felt my hip pocket and realized my wallet was gone. I excused myself and walked to a phone on an elegant side table. I learned shortly that my credit cards had been maxed out, my bank accounts emptied, my retirement and equity portfolios had vanished, and my wife had been thrown out of our home. Apparently, the waiters and their families were moving in. The President hadn't moved or spoken as I learned all this, but finally I lowered the phone into its cradle and turned to face him. "Andrew's whole family has made bad financial decisions. They haven't planned for retirement, and they need a house. They recently defaulted on a subprime mortgage. I told them they could have your home. They need it more than you do." My hands were shaking. I felt faint. I stumbled back to the table and knelt on the floor. The President cheerfully cut his meat, ate his steak and drank his wine. I lowered my eyes and stared at the small grey circles on the tablecloth that were water drops. "By the way," He added, "I have just signed an Executive Order nationalizing your factories. I'm firing you as head of your business. I'll be operating the firm now for the benefit of all mankind. There's a whole bunch of Eric's and Andrews out there and they can't come to you for jobs groveling like beggars." I looked up. The President dropped his spoon into the empty ramekin which had been his crème Brule. He drained the last drops of his wine. As the table was cleared, he lit a cigarette and leaned back in his chair. He stared at me. I clung to the edge of the table as if were a ledge and I were a man hanging over an abyss. I thought of the years behind me, of the life I had lived. The life I had earned with a lifetime of work, risk and struggle. Why was I punished? How had I allowed it to be taken? What game had I played and lost? I looked across the table and noticed with some surprise that there was no game board between us. What had I done wrong? As if answering the unspoken thought, the President suddenly cocked his head, locked his empty eyes to mine, and bared a million teeth, chuckling wryly as he folded his hands. "You should have stopped me at the dinner roll," he said. Wake up, America !

What're Some Movie Cliches? I got this in an email some time back. Cracked me up! Any they forgot? 1. During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once. 2. All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555. 3. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. 4. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No-one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you want without difficulty. 5. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do. 6. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. 7. Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead. 8. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear. 9. Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames. 10. Wearing a vest or stripping to the waist can make a man invulnerable to bullets. 11. If you find yourself caught up in a misunderstanding that could be cleared up quickly with a simple explanation, for goodness sake, keep your mouth shut. 12. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant. 13. During a car chase, a fruit stand will always get hit. 14. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off. 15. When in love, it is customary to burst into song. 16. When confronted by an evil international terrorist, sarcasm and wisecracks are your best weapons. 17. One man shooting at 20 men has a better chance of killing them than 20 men firing at 1 man. 18. Creepy music coming from a cemetery should always be investigated more closely. 19. If being fired at by Germans, hide in a river - or even a bath. German bullets are unable to penetrate water. 20. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization. 21. Freelance helicopter pilots are always eager to accept bookings from international terrorist organizations - even though the job will require them to shoot total strangers and will end in their own certain death as the helicopter explodes in a ball of flames. 22. Most people keep a scrapbook of newspaper clippings - especially if any of their family or friends have died in a strange boating accident. 23. All computer disks will work in all computers, regardless of software. 24. Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite. 25. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other. 26. Action heroes never face charges for manslaughter or criminal damage despite laying entire cities to waste by their actions. 27. You can always find a chainsaw when you need one. 28. Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside. 29. You can tell if somebody is British because he will be wearing a bow tie. 30. When driving a car it is normal to look not at the road but at the person sitting beside you or in the back seat for the entire journey. 31. An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight year old child. 32. Having a job of any kind will make fathers forget their son's eighth birthday. 33. Honest and hard working policemen are traditionally gunned down three days before their retirement. 34. If you are blonde and pretty, it is possible to become a world expert in Nuclear Fission at age 22. 35. The more a man and a woman hate each other, the more likely they will fall in love. I think they forgot- "When you're back is on fire, you must run in every direction 1st before dropping dead." Ben- LOL! SO true!

Please tell me what you think I GIVE BEST ANSWER? Can you please tell me what you think of this essay on John Thain BEST ANSWER TO THE FIRST PERSON TO SAY ITS GOOD OR BAD AND WHY You know, it’s funny how you think of people. You can think of a person one way today and a totally different way tomorrow. John A. Thain went from being the most popular man on Wall Street to one of the most shamed, in only a few months. For five years, from May 1999 to January 2004, he was the president and chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs. In January 2004, he moved to the NYSE, or The New York Stock Exchange, until December 2007. He was the CEO of the NYSE and got credited with fixing it. He was hired for that position because Richard Grasso was mainly getting paid too much. Then in December 2007 Thain moved to Merrill Lynch (“John A. Thain”). After Lehman Brothers closed someone form the New York Times said, “he was seen as the Clark Kent of Wall Street, the mid-mannered executive with a square jaw and glasses who kept “Mother Merrill” from following Lehman Brothers into bankruptcy. Some even mentioned him as a possible successor to Mr. Lewis” (Creswell, Julie, and Louise Story). Mr. Lewis is the CEO of Bank of America. John Thain made Merrill Lynch so well known that when many people heard Wall Street, they thought of Merrill Lynch, or when they heard Merrill Lynch they thought of Wall Street. He did this by taking the wreck it was in after E. Stanley O’Neal left it in the subprime mortgage crisis, and turned Merrill Lynch into the most kwon brokerage firm. Although John Thain sounds like a financial hero, he’s not. Sometime in September 2008, he sold Merrill Lynch which had been around for 95 years, to Bank of America for about $50 billion. Today both companies combined are worth only about $40 billion (Croswell, Julie). What a rip off. In the beginning of 2008, leading up to the sale of Merrill Lynch, Thain spent about $1.2 million redecorating his office, as Merrill Lynch was laying off employees. Thain spent somewhere from $1,200 to $1,400 on a parchment and fine leather trash can, from East Side Antique store, as well as many other over expensive items. Max Makushim, the store’s assistant manager said that, “It’s more fun to throw stuff in the expensive one” (Mallat). This was said soon after the daily news had a paper toss test, with the expensive one and a $15 dollar one. Max was also calling the garbage can a bargain because other versions he had go for $3,750. He also stated that the trash cans aren’t really priced to move. He said, “No one buys the trash cans. And usually our customers don’t flinch at spending thousands of dollars for things like this. But there aren’t any benefits. It’s just purely aesthetic” (Mallat). He also stated that they’re not any good for use in the kitchen, bedroom or even the TV room saying, “These are only good for paper, I wouldn’t risk it for any other kind of trash. You would ruin it” (Mallat). After the media found out about this, the public reacted in a negative way. In response to the negative public reaction, Thain said, “They were a mistake in the light of the world we live in today. I will therefore reimburse the company for all the costs incurred” (Edmonston). What was he thinking when he spent that much money on garbage can that if it gets wet will get destroyed? CNBC reported that Thain hired the Los Angeles decorator, Michael Smith, which President Obama and his wife recently chose to redecorate the White House. During a CNBC interview about the renovations Thain said, “that former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal's office was very different than the general decor of Merrill's offices. It really would have been very difficult for me to use it in the form that it was in. . . . It needed to be renovated no matter what. I should have simply paid for it myself” (“John Thain defends”). It seemed to work for Stan O'Neal so why couldn’t it work for Thain. Floyd Norris, the chief financial reporter of The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune said, “I hope he enjoyed the furniture. It cost Merrill about a million bucks. It cost Mr. Thain his reputation” (Norris). On a blog site someone responded to the spending: Do you consider it ethical or unethical to ask for a new desk at work? Have you considered that, expressed as a percentage of your salary, the two scenarios you getting a new desk, and him remodeling his office, are roughly equivalent? This wasn't about ethics; it was about morale, and being comfortable in the room where you spend the majority of your time. Plus, the argument could be made that his spending was even more appropriate, because he, like all senior bankers, would consider working about 100 hours per week to be shamefully selfish and unprofessional. So given that he might spend 3x as much time in that office as you spend in yours, and that he spent about as much remodeling his office, as you would spend on requisitioning a new desk, on a % of sal

Why don't people care about illegal workers? This issue really does effect Americans/u.s residents. I work at a restaurant and I am the only one there who understands and has english as my first and only language.... and on top of that I'm the only one there who is a full resident besides for the owners and kitchen help. Now the others there, they make money here and they send it back to there home country, they don't spend a lot of money here, they don't help boost the economy, which is a huge problem now, people not spending money, there's huge language barriers there. Some times the guest get so annoyed I wonder why they even come. They expect me when it gets busier to work from eleven in the morning to ten at night, and this is only a second job for me, I looked at them and was like are you outa your mind? They said well, others don't have that issue and that's why we hire them. Hiring illegals waters down our own good work, because they want a slave who will work twelve hours, so for us who refuse to slave away busing tables for eleven hours for maybe forty bucks, they don't want us..... Americans not being able to find jobs in America? To make short the problems with this are: Illegals water down our own work performance Illegals working twelve hours, makes them expect us to, for two dollars an hour? They send money els where and don't help boost the economy Huge language barriers Health issues: there health regulations in the restaurant are, not to what we would consider healthy, because they don't look at things the same way we do. They will pass the health standards test, but they do not uphold them, I've seen it misinformed? Ummmm the people in the place I worked ADMITTED to not being here legally, and they ADMITTED to sending half there pay back home, where they could be spending it here I am going from where they told me to my face, and they didn't see why I had an issue with it, thats where this is coming from, my boss who went through citizenship understood my point but the rest of the workers argued that it DOESN'T hurt us at all, having them work for less money and sending it back...i got mad, came home and asked on here

Is anyone a member of the America Test Kitchen online? I love the show even though we are a vegetarian family and a lot of thing we do not eat but I would love to try some of their recipes. Does anyone belong to the website? And is the recipes really as yummy as they look?

Does anyone have America Test Kitchen recipe for? Pumpkin-Bourbon Cheesecake with Graham-Pecan Crust, I am trying to acess it online but it wants to start a membership. Yes there is 2 free weeks but the thing is that I have used that recipe after loading it for free a couple of years ago. It is a great recipe and it was on again today on my local PBS station, but I tuned in late and need the recipe please. And only the AMERICAS TEST KITCHEN one please.

America's Test Kitchen? Any professional chef out there have an opinion about the PBS show America's Test Kitchen? It seems like any of their recipes can't really go wrong if they fine tweak it hundreds of times and have it tasted by dozens of people.

Where can I find the Cooking Club of America? I recieved some info in the mail the other day. They send you kitchen gadgets and electronic kitchen items to test and give an opinion on. you get to keep the stuff you test. Its only 12.00 per year to join but I was hoping they have a website so I can sign up online instead of using snailmail.

President Clinton has asserted the power to conduct warrantless searches, warrantless drug testing of public s The Clinton administration has repeatedly attempted to play down the significance of the warrant clause. In fact, President Clinton has asserted the power to conduct warrantless searches, warrantless drug testing of public school students, and warrantless wiretapping. Warrantless "National Security" Searches The Clinton administration claims that it can bypass the warrant clause for "national security" purposes. In July 1994 Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick told the House Select Committee on Intelligence that the president "has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes." [51] According to Gorelick, the president (or his attorney general) need only satisfy himself that an American is working in conjunction with a foreign power before a search can take place. The warrant clause was designed to give the American people greater security than that afforded by the mere words of politicians. It requires the attorney general, or others, to make a showing of "probable cause" to a magistrate. The proponents of national security searches are hard-pressed to find any support for their position in the text or history of the Constitution. That is why they argue from the "inherent authority" of the Oval Office--a patently circular argument. The scope of such "authority" is of course unbounded in principle. Yet the Clinton Justice Department has said that the warrant clause is fully applicable to murder suspects but not to persons suspected of violating the export control regulations of the federal government. [52] If the Framers had wanted to insert a national security exception to the warrant clause, they would have done so. They did not. The Clinton administration's national security exception to the warrant clause is nothing more, of course, than an unsupported assertion of power by executive branch officials. The Nixon administration relied on similar constitutional assertions in the 1970s to rationalize "black bag" break-ins to the quarters of its political opponents. [53] The Clinton White House--even after the Filegate scandal--assures Congress, the media, and the general public that it has no intention of abusing this power. Attorney General Reno has already signed off on the warrantless search of an American home on the basis of the dubious "inherent authority" theory. [54] The actual number of clandestine "national security" searches conducted since 1993 is known only to the White House and senior Justice Department officials. Warrantless Searches of Public Housing In the spring of 1994 the Chicago Public Housing Authority responded to gang violence by conducting warrantless "sweeps" of entire apartment buildings. Closets, desks, dressers, kitchen cabinets, and personal effects were examined regardless of whether the police had probable cause to suspect particular residents of any wrongdoing. Some apartments were searched when the residents were not home. Although such searches were supported by the Clinton administration, Federal District Judge Wayne Anderson declared the Chicago sweeps unconstitutional. [55] Judge Anderson found the government's claim of "exigent circumstances" to be exaggerated since all of the sweeps occurred days after the gang-related shootings. He also noted that even in emergency situations, housing officials needed probable cause in order to search specific apartments. Unlike many governmental officials who fear demagogic criticism for being "soft on crime," Judge Anderson stood up for the Fourth Amendment rights of the tenants, noting that he had "sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution" and that he would not "use the power of [his] office to override it, amend it or subvert it." [56] The White House response was swift. President Clinton publicly ordered Attorney General Reno and HUD secretary Henry Cisneros to find a way to circumvent Judge Anderson's ruling. One month later the president announced a "constitutionally effective way" of searching public housing units. The Clinton administration would now ask tenants to sign lease provisions that would give government agents the power to search their homes without warrants. [57] The Clinton plan was roundly criticized by lawyers and columnists for giving short shrift to the constitutional rights of the tenants. [58] A New York Times editorial observed that the president had "missed the point" of Judge Anderson's ruling. [59] Harvard law professors Charles Ogletree and Abbe Smith rightly condemned the Clinton proposal as an open invitation to the police to "tear up" the homes of poor people. [60] Warrantless Drug Testing in Public Schools The Clinton administration has defended warrantless drug testing programs in the public schools. In March 1995 the Supreme Court heard arguments on whether public school officials could drug test student athletes without a warrant or any articulable suspicion of illegal drug use. The Department of Justice sided with the school authorities, arguing that the privacy rights of individual students were outweighed by the interest of the school in deterring drug use by the student body generally. [61] Solicitor General Days, arguing for the government, claimed that the school district "could not effectively educate its students unless it undertook suspicionless drug testing as part of a broader drug-prevention program." [62] Days maintained that the Fourth Amendment's requirement of individualized suspicion would "jeopardize" the school's drug program. Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, John Paul Stevens, and David Souter expressed skepticism about that claim and pointed out that if the Supreme Court followed the Justice Department's reasoning, America's public school students might well end up receiving less constitutional protection under the Fourth Amendment than do convicted criminals under correctional supervision. [63] The Clinton administration supports warrantless drug tests in other contexts as well. Thus, when Republican presidential candidate Robert Dole said, during the 1996 campaign, that he would subject welfare recipients to warrantless, suspicionless drug tests, President Clinton quickly followed suit with his own approval of such an initiative. [64] Warrantless Wiretapping The Supreme Court has recognized that electronic surveillance, such as wiretapping and eavesdropping, impinges on the privacy rights of individuals and organizations and is therefore subject to the Fourth Amendment's warrant clause. [65] President Clinton, however, has asked Congress to pass legislation that would give the Federal Bureau of Investigation the power to use "roving wiretaps" without a court order. [66] The president also fought for sweeping legislation that is forcing the telephone industry to make its network more easily accessible to law enforcement wiretaps. Those initiatives have led ACLU officials to describe the Clinton White House as "the most wiretap-friendly administration in history." [67] It is unclear why the president made warrantless roving wiretaps a priority matter since judges routinely approve wiretap applications by federal prosecutors. According to a 1995 report by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts, it had been years since a federal district court turned down a prosecutor's request for a wiretap order. [68] President Clinton is apparently seeking to free his administration from any potential judicial interference with its wiretapping plans. There is a problem, of course, with the power that the president desires: it is precisely the sort of unchecked power that the Fourth Amendment's warrant clause was designed to curb. As the Supreme Court noted in Katz v. United States (1967), the judicial procedure of antecedent justification before a neutral magistrate is a "constitutional precondition," not only to the search of a home, but also to eavesdropping on private conversations within the home. [69] President Clinton also lobbied for and signed the Orwellian Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act, which is forcing every telephone company in America to retrofit its phone lines and networks so that they will be more accessible to police wiretaps. [70] The cost of that makeover is expected to be several billion dollars. Any communications carrier that fails to meet the technology standards of the attorney general can be fined up to $10,000 per day. The passage of that law prompted Attorney General Reno to marvel at her newly acquired power: "I don't think J. Edgar Hoover would contemplate what we can do today." [71] That is unfortunately true. In the past, law enforcement had to rely on the goodwill and voluntary cooperation of the American people for investigative assistance. That tradition is giving way to a regime of coercive mandates. [72]

english/polish to chinese translation help? This short story was written by Bruno Schulz, a polish writter. It is about: Father's last escape. I found it from here:http://www.brunoschulz.org/13-ostatnia-eng.htm Here's the text: It happened in the late and forlorn period of complete disruption, at the time of the liquidation of our business. The signboard had been removed from over our shop, the shutters were halfway down, and inside the shop my mother was conducting and unauthorized trade in remnants. Adela had gone to America, and it was said that the boat on which she had sailed had sunk and that all the passengers had lost their lives. We were unable to verify this rumour, but all trace of the girl was lost and we never heard of her again. A new age began - empty, sober and joyless, like a sheet of white paper. A new servant girl, Genya, anaemic, pale, and boneless, mooned about the rooms. When one patted her on the back, she wriggled, stretched like a snake, or purred like a cat. She had a dull white complexion, and even the insides of her eyelids were white. She was so absent-minded that she sometimes made a white sauce from old letters and invoices: it was sickly and inedible. At that time my father was definitely dead. He had been dying a number of times, always with some reservations that forced us to revise our attitude towards the fact of death. This had its advantages. By dividing his death into instalments, Father had familiarized us with his demise. We became gradually indifferent to his returns - each one shorter, each one more pitiful. His features were already dispersed throughout the room in which he had lived, and were sprouting in it, creating at some points strange knots of likenesses that were most expressive. The wallpaper began in certain places to imitate his habitual nervous tic; the flower designs arranged themselves into the doleful element of his smile, symmetrical as the fossilized imprint of a trilobite. For a time, we gave wide berth to his fur coat lined with polecat skins. The fur coat breathed. The panic of small animals sewn together and biting into one another passed through it in helpless currents and lost itself in the folds of the fur. Putting one's ear against it, one could hear the melodious purring unison of the animals' sleep. In this well-tanned form, amid the faint smell of polecat, murder, and the nighttime matings, my father might have lasted for many years. But he did not last. One day, Mother returned from town with a preoccupied face. "Look, Joseph," she said, "what a lucky coincidence. I caught him on the stairs, jumping from step to step" - and she lifted a handkerchief that covered something on a plate. I recognized him at once. The resemblance was striking, although now he was a crab or a large scorpion. Mother and I exchanged looks: in spite of the metamorphosis, the resemblance was incredible. "Is he alive?" I asked. "Of course. I can hardly hold him," Mother said. "Shall I place him on the floor. She put the plate down, and leaning over him we observed him closely. There was a hollow place between his numerous curved legs, which he was moving slightly. His uplifted pincers and feelers seemed to be listening. I tipped the plate, and Father moved cautiously and with a certain hesitation to the floor. Upon touching the flat surface under him, he gave a sudden start with all of his legs, while his arthropod joints made a clacking sound. I barred his way. He hesitated, investigated the obstacle with his feelers, then lifted his pincers and turned aside. We let him run in his chosen direction, where there was no furniture to give him shelter. Running in wavy jerks on his many legs, he reached the wall and, before we could stop him, ran lightly up it, not pausing anywhere. I shuddered with instinctive revulsion as I watched his progress up the wallpaper. Meanwhile, Father reached a small built-in kitchen cupboard, hung for a moment on its edge, testing the terrain with his pincers, and then crawled into it. He was discovering the apartment afresh from the new point of view of a crab; evidently, he perceived all objects by his sense of smell, for, in spite of careful checking, I could not find on him any organ of sight. He seemed to consider carefully the objects he encountered in his path, stopping and feeling them with his antennae, then embracing them with his pincers, as if to test them and make their acquaintance; after a time, he left them and continued on his run, pulling his abdomen behind him, lifted slightly from the floor. He acted the same way with the pieces of bread and meat that we threw on the floor for him, hoping he would eat them. He gave them a perfunctory examination and ran on, not recognizing that they were edible. Watching these patient surveys of the room, one could assume that he was obstinately and indefatigably looking for something. From time to time he ran to a corner of the kitchen, crept under a barrel of water that was leaking, and, upon reaching the p

Are you Bored? 474 Things To Do When You're Bored - Wax the ceiling - Rearrange political campaign signs - Sharpen your teeth - Play Houdini with one of your siblings - Braid your dog's hair - Clean and polish your belly button - Water your dog...see if he grows - Wash a tree - Knight yourself - Name your child Edsel - Scare Stephen King - Give your cat a mohawk - Purr - Mow your carpet - Play Pat Boone records backwards - Vacuum your lawn - Sleep on a bed of nails - DON'T toss and turn - Boil ice cream - Run around in squares - Think of quadruple entendres - Speak in acronyms - Have your pillow X-rayed - Drink straight shots...of water - Calmly have a nervous breakdown - Give your goldfish a perm - Fly a brick - Play tag...on West 35th Street - Exorcise a ghost - Exercise a ghost - Be blue - Be red - But don't be orange - Plant a shoe - Sweat - Give a Rorschach test to your gerbil - Turn - Write a letter to Plato - Mail it - Take your sofa for a walk - Start - Stop - Dial 911 and breathe heavily - Go to a funeral...tell jokes - Play the piano...with mittens on - Scheme - Sit - Stay - Water your family room - Cause a power failure - Roll over - Play dead - Find a witch - Burn her - Donate your brother's body to science - Ask why - Wriggle - Regress - Sleepwalk without sleeping - Try to join Hell's Angels by mail - Wonder - Be a square root - Ask stupid questions - Weld your car doors shut - Spew - Vacation at Three-Mile Island - Surf Ohio - Teach your pet rock to play dead - Go bowling for small game - Be a monk...for a day - Wear a sweatband to your wedding - Staple - Run away - Intimidate a piece of chalk - Abuse the plumbing - Bend a florescent light - Bend a brick - Annoy total strangers - Let the best man win - Believe in Santa Claus - Throw marshmallows against the wall - Hold an ice cube as long as possible - Adopt strange mannerisms - Blow up a balloon until it pops - Sing soft and sweet and clear - Sing loud and sour and gravely - Open everything - Balance a pencil on your nose - Pour milk in your shoes - Write graffiti under the rug - Embarrass yourself - Grind your teeth - Chew ice - Count your belly button - Sit in a row - Stack crumbs - Gesture - Save your toenail clippings - Make a pass at your blender - Punt - Make up words that start with X - Make oatmeal in the bathtub - Search for the Lost Chord - Chew on a sofa cushion - Sing a duet - Balance a pillow on your head - Hold your breath - Faint - Stretch - Flash your mailman - Teach your TA English - Learn to speak Farsi - Swear in Russian - Use an eraser until it goes away - Disassemble your car - Put it together inside out - Record your walls - Interview your feet - Make a list of your favorite fungi - Sell formaldehyde - Repeat - Ad lib - Fade - File your teeth- Whine - Rake your carpet - Re-elect Richard Nixon - Critique "Three's Company" - Listen to a painting - Play with matches - Buff your cat - Race ferrets - Paint your house...Day-Glow Orange - Have a formal dinner at White Castle - Read Homer in the original Greek - Learn Greek - Change your mind - Change it back - Watch the sun...see if it moves - Build a pyramid - Stand on your head - Stand on someone else's head - Spit shine your Nikes - See how long you can stay awake - See how long you can sleep - Paint your teeth - Wear a salad - Speak with a forked tongue - Paint stripes on a lake - Ski Kansas - Sleep in freefall - Kill a Joule - Test thin ice...with a pogo stick - Apply for a unicorn hunting license - Do a good job - Crawl - Invite the Mansons over for dinner - Paint your windows - Watch a watch until it stops - Flash your goldfish - Paint - Flirt with an evergreen - Smile - Rotate your garden...daily - Paint a smile - Shoot a fire hydrant - Apologize to it - Pretend you're blind - Annoy yourself - Get mad at yourself - Stop speaking to yourself - Be a side effect - Ride a bicycle...up Mt. McKinley - Duck - Redecorate...your garage - Develop a complex - Join the Army...be someone simple - Try harder - Hit the deck - Put leg-warmers on your furniture - Cut the deck - Crumple - Translate Shakespeare into English - Skydive to church - Cheer up a potato - Do aerobic exercises...in your head - Play cards with your swimming pool - Pinstripe your driveway - Play Kick the Fire Hydrant - Harness chipmunk power - Build a house with ice cubes - Call London for a cab - Mug a stop sign - Change your name...daily - Go for a walk in your attic - Challenge your neighbor to a duel - Build a house out of toothpicks - Howl - Wear a lampshade on your head - Memorize the dictionary - Stomp grapes in the bathtub - Find a bug and chase it - Make yourself a pair of wings - Be immobile - Dance 'til you drop - Check under chairs for chewing gum - Squish a loaf of bread - Moo - Bounce a potato - Outmaneuver your shadow - Climb the walls - Appreciate everything - Challenge yourself to a duel - Make napalm - Tattoo your dresser - Watch a bowling ball - Buy some diapers - Eat everything - Begin - Pour milk in the sink - Make cottage cheese - Tie-dye your sheets - Carpet your ceiling - Hold your earlobes - Fold your earlobes - Flap - Squawk - Read tea leaves - Analyze the Koran - Be Buddha - Award yourself a Nobel Peace Prize - Plug in the cat - Turn on everything - Drop pebbles down the chimney - Turn off your neighbor - Kill a plant - Buy a 1931 Almanac - Memorize the weather section - Think lewd thoughts about yourself - Blow bubbles - Send chills down your spine - Peel grapes - Make paper from the skins - Bloat - Catch them with your radiator - Get run over by a train of thought - Make up famous sayings - Bite your pinkie- Get your dog braces - Shave a shrub - Have a proton fight - Watch a car rust - Quiver - Rotate your carpet - Learn to type...with your toes - Set up your Christmas tree in April - Be someone special - Buy the Brooklyn Bridge - Mail it to a friend - Go back to square one - Factor your social security number - Take the fifth - Memorize a series of random numbers - Read the 1962 Des Moines white pages - Join the Foreign Legion - Learn Sanskrit - Exist...existentially, of course - Print counterfeit Confederate money - Kick a cabbage - Take a picture - Put it back - Sandpaper a mushroom - Play solitaire...for cash - Abuse your patio furniture - Run for Pope - Count to a million...fast - Make a schematic drawing...of a rock - Commit seppuku...with a paper knife - Revert - Think shallow thoughts - Starch your shoes - Polish your Calvin's - Contemplate a cockroach - Get a dog to chase your car - Let him catch it - Investigate the Czar - Form a political party - Climb a sidewalk - Have a political party - Get diagonal...with a good friend - Ride a loaf of bread - Sharpen a carrot - Interrogate a gerbil - Go bow hunting for Toyotas - Kidnap Cabbage Patch Kids - Jump back - Play to lose - Scalp a street light - Have your car painted...plaid - Read a tomato - Sharpen your sleeping skills - Watch a game show...take notes - Put out a fire - If you can't find a fire, make one - Interview a cloud - Play tiddlywinks...go for blood - Play basketball...in a minefield - Don't talk to things - Draw Lewis structures on your ceiling - Have your cat bronzed - Have your gerbil gilded - Write books about writing books - Create random equations - Mispell words - Tell your feet a joke - Throw a tomato into a fan - Sing the ABC song backwards - Pretend you're a dog - Dial-a-prayer and argue with it - Grease the doorknobs - String up a room - Stack furniture - Relive fond memories - Tie your shoelaces together - Gargle - Count your teeth with your tongue - Decay - Find your half-life - Design a better toilet seat - Shred a newspaper - Have a headache - Scratch - Sniff - Hatch an egg - Play air guitar - Act profound - Spill - Spell - Stare - Truncate - Slouch - Develop hearing problems - Put your feet behind your head - Tie bows in everything - Hold your hand - Watch the minute hand move - Grow your fingernails - Pretend you're a telephone - Ring - Radiate - Skip - Play hopscotch...with real scotch - Clock the velocity of your REMs - Put your shoes on the opposite feet - Cross your toes - Roll your tongue - Crystallize - Baby oil the floor - Hide - Attack innocent bunnies - Declare war - Destroy a tree - Hide the scrabble bag - Seduce your stick shift - Wink - Memorize the periodic table - Mummify - Pretend you're a roadie - Buy a Ginsu knife - Collect electrons - Correct typos that aren't there - Polish your neck...use Pledge - Recopy the Bible substituting your name for God - Loosen the lug nuts on your dad's new car - Drop your cat off the roof to see if it lands on all four feet - Count the bags under Walter Mondale's eyes - Unscrew all the lightbulbs and rearrange the furniture - Found the Jim Jones School of Bartending - Listen for non-satanic messages (i.e. "Drink milk") - Dress like Motley Crue...surprise your grandmother - Dial-a-Prayer and tell them they're wrong - Go into a bar and ask for a Molotov Cocktail - Learn everything there is to know about the Holy Roman Empire - Make a drive-in window at your local bank where there wasn't one before - Walk on water...but don't get caught - Confess to a crime...that didn't happen - Be in the wrong place at the right time - Plot the overthrow of your local School Board - Request covert assistance from the CIA - Discover the source of the Mississippi - Search for buried treasure...in Nebraska - Hot wax the bottom of your brother's dress shoes - Preach the philosophy of Marx...Groucho, that is - Drink as much prune juice as you can - Write a book about your previous life - Serve ping-pong balls...as hors d'oeuvres - Jump up and down...on your alarm clock - Make a quilt out of used cocktail napkins - Sterilize your stereo...with Jack Daniels - Carve you and your girlfriend's initials...in a marshmallow - Drive the speed limit...in your garage - Sing the national anthem...during your calculus final - Wear a three-piece suit...in a sauna - Pay off the national debt...with a bad check - Go to a cemetary and verbally abuse dead people - Give yourself a hernia...for Christmas - Defend your neighborhood from roving Mongol hordes - Recite romantic poetry...to your toaster - See if you really can build a nuclear device in your own basement - Go to McDonald's and pretend you can't speak English - Write to your congressmen, senators, President, etc. to tell them what a good - job they're doing...On April 1st - Find the heat capacity of your chemistry professor - Take apart all your major kitchen appliances...mix and match them - Turn your TV picture tube upside down - Phone in a death threat on President Kennedy - Put lighted EXIT signs on all your closets - Carry a tune...drop it, see if it breaks - Be planar...but don't tell your parents - Play hockey with your little cousin...as the puck - Make a deal with the devil...but keep your fingers crossed - Put instant concrete in your big brother's waterbed - Give a lecture on the historical significance of cream cheese - Debate politics with a fern - See how small you can scrunch your face- Sell firewood door to door...in Atlantis - Found the TLO (Toledo Liberation Organization) - Play nuclear chicken with a small third world nation - Raise professional certified racing turnips - Give your grandmother a raise and another day of paid vacation - Lead an aerobics class...for patients of the I.C.U. - Go to a drive-in movie in a tank - Go to a non-drive-in movie in a tank and drive in anyway - Send President Reagan an alarm clock...wind it up first - Found a cockroach stable and stud ranch - Send your goldfish to obedience school - Free the oppressed toasters of America - Weave a tablecloth out of copper tubing - Give your cat a suntan...in the microwave - Park your car...with a friend - Park your car...with a group of friends - Frame your first statement of bankruptcy - Place it on the wall of your office - Solve the population problem (x^2 + y^2 = population...solve for x) - Contribute to the population problem - Wear a T-shirt that says "I'll walk on you to see The Who" and a peace sign - Practice the Aztec method of heart removal on your professor - Find out who made the super glue commercials and give them your Ginsu knife - Get Ronco and K-tel to merge...they sell the same stuff anyway - Sneak into a nuclear physics lab and stay the night - Play with anything that looks interesting - Drop piston engines on two people and see who squishes first - See if your goldfish can live in Coors rather than water - Try to ignite water...the Mississippi might work - Draw Venn diagrams...screw them up - State fallacies as fact (like, "peanuts grow on bushes") - Visit the Architecture building...loudly criticize its design - Make a schematic drawing...of a rock - Wallpaper your laundry room...with pages from books you don't like - See if diamonds really do cut glass...on everything in your neighbor's house - Tenderize your tongue...chew on it for a while - See how long you can stare at a fluorescent light...try green - Bronze your sister's turtle - See how long it takes for her to notice - See what she does when she notices - Bronze your sister- If you lose, stop watering it and try again. - Increase your territorial holdings by force - Find out how many ways there really are to skin a cat - Boldly go where no man has gone before - Be a threat to the American way of life - Do research into the cause of World War III - Be a threat to the Northwestern Tibetan way of life - Re-establish the Roman Empire...in Pittsburgh

What is your opinion of this? By Becky Akers Becky Akers – Mon Jul 20, 5:00 am ET New York – I'm one of the nearly 50 million Americans who don't have health insurance. I don't want it, either. But the bill the House of Representatives is debating would force me to buy it. How good can any product be if Congress compels me to purchase it? Politicians and interest groups have been trying virtually all my life to foist medical insurance on me. But their proposals rest on mistaken and even insulting assumptions. First, they presume that everyone wants, needs, and should have abundant medical attention. But I come from a long-lived and healthy family, I've been a vegetarian since childhood because I've never liked the way meat tastes, I don't smoke, and I love to hike – the more miles the better. I am disgustingly healthy, so much so that the only doctors I see – or try to: I'm near-sighted – are ophthalmologists. Could I be hit by a bus tomorrow when I head out for my daily walk? Possibly. But that's such an unlikely disaster that I've chosen to spend my money on more personally pressing needs than medical insurance. On the other hand, unlikely disasters do happen. So I might purchase catastrophic coverage if it were reasonably priced – just as I might visit doctors for lesser complaints if their care were reasonably priced. But the government's meddling is what helped mess-up the medical market to begin with. The federal government perverts costs with its Medicare and Medicaid programs: Recipients of this largess have no incentive to save money since someone else pays their bills. In fact, the incentives run the opposite way as patients demand more procedures and tests while magnifying problems I resolve out of my medicine cabinet into emergency-room runs. Doctors who get away with charging Medicare hundreds for diagnosing Grandpa's indigestion would charge me the same. Meanwhile, state governments shackle the insurance industry, mandating that policies cover everything from chiropractic care to hormone replacement. These launch premiums into the stratosphere. I'd much rather pick and choose the coverage I want at a price I'm willing to pay than buy the plan bureaucrats and special interests decree. But the universal-healthcare crowd thinks it knows better than I do how to spend my money. Why can't they leave me alone? I'm not forcing them to eat flaxseed and bike to meetings instead of hopping into their limousines. It's time for them to return the favor. Besides, if that bus does hit me tomorrow, I want – and will pay for – top-notch care. And that's not what government-run medical systems dispense. Delays, expedient rather than proper treatment, and double standards of care depending on who you are and whom you know characterize universal-healthcare systems. Which makes sense. We live in a world of finite resources and infinite desires, where medical care must be "rationed" like all other products and services. Though we can't choose whether goods are rationed, we can choose how they are. Either the politicians and bureaucrats who bring us long lines at DMVs, failing public schools, and the endless war in Iraq will decide who gets what kind of treatment, or the free market will. Fans of universal healthcare deride the market: They say it's cold and cruel because we each have to pay for the care we demand. But government healthcare can be far colder and crueler. Its care is inferior: Contrast an inferior, run-down veteran's hospital with a general one. And it's expensive. Dr. Jeffrey Anderson recently wrote in Investor's Business Daily, "Since 1970 ­– even without the prescription drug benefit – Medicare's costs have risen 34 percent more, per patient, than the combined costs of all health care in America apart from Medicare and Medicaid…." Absent such meddling, the price of medical care would return to reasonable levels. It benefits no provider of any service to charge such astronomical fees that customers can't afford to patronize him. Then, too, in a market free of the state's stranglehold, doctors and hospitals would compete with one another to lower prices and attract the ill or injured. That doesn't mean everyone could finally buy all the procedures they wanted or even needed – but that's where private charity would come in. Humanitarians who send inner-city kids to summer camp and volunteer their time or money at soup kitchens would strive to ensure that needy Americans received medical care. President Obama says, "We have no choice but to fix the healthcare system because right now it's broken for too many Americans." But the only fix we need is for government to get out of medicine. Becky Akers is a freelance writer and historian.

Wouldn't this be the funniest TV show ever? I'm searching for my big breakthrough into the TV business, and I wanted to test out this idea before I present it to a board next Tuesday. Suggestions are welcome. Dysfunctional families are in right now, and so are Chinese people, but there aren't any dysfunctional Chinese families! So here's the rundown: Setting = suburban America Characters: - Song is a 18 high school senior, who enjoys math, science, and piano. He is a little bit of a trouble maker, and often skips class to read in the library. Will he be able to live up to the demanding expectations his parents have set for him, and still make it into Harvard next year? - Lian is 16 and also in high school. She spends most of her time mastering the cello. She is everything her parents had hoped for in a child, but she's a girl, which has brought great shame to the family. Can she convince her parents of her worth before she is sold in a scheduled marriage? -Da-Xia is their mother. -Feng is the head of the household, and proud owner of No.1 Kitchen, the town's best Chinese restaurant. He works long hours and spends his little free time leveling up in World of Warcraft. Will he be able to make a profit, AND achieve his dream of becoming one of the top 100 WOW players!? I've started to write individual episodes and have about 4 done. I'm positive that this is going to be a hit! You should consider yourself lucky to have read about this before anybody had heard of it!

Rules For Life On The Silver Screen :-)? During all police investigations it will be necessary to visit a strip club at least once. All telephone numbers in America begin with the digits 555. Most dogs are immortal. If being chased through town, you can usually take cover in a passing St. Patrick's Day parade - at any time of the year. All beds have special L-shaped cover sheets which reach up to the armpit level on a woman but only to waist level on the man lying beside her. All grocery shopping bags contain at least one stick of French Bread. It's easy for anyone to land a plane providing there is someone in the control tower to talk you down. Once applied, lipstick will never rub off - even while scuba diving. The ventilation system of any building is the perfect hiding place. No-one will ever think of looking for you in there and you can travel to any other part of the building you wish without difficulty. If you need to reload your gun, you will always have more ammunition - even if you haven't been carrying any before now. You're very likely to survive any battle in any war unless you make the mistake of showing someone a picture of your sweetheart back home. Should you wish to pass yourself off as a German officer, it will not be necessary to speak the language. A German accent will do. If your town is threatened by an imminent natural disaster or killer beast, the mayor's first concern will be the tourist trade or his forthcoming art exhibition. The Eiffel Tower can be seen from any window in Paris. A man will show no pain while taking the most ferocious beating but will wince when a woman tries to clean his wounds. If a large pane of glass is visible, someone will be thrown through it before long. The Chief of Police is always black. When paying for a taxi, don't look at your wallet as you take out a bill - just grab one at random and hand it over. It will always be the exact fare. Interbreeding is genetically possible with any creature from elsewhere in the universe. Kitchens don't have light switches. When entering a kitchen at night, you should open the fridge door and use that light instead. If staying in a haunted house, women should investigate any strange noises in their most revealing underwear. Word processors never display a cursor on screen but will always say: Enter Password Now. Mothers routinely cook eggs, bacon and waffles for their family every morning even though their husband and children never have time to eat it. Cars that crash will almost always burst into flames. The Chief of Police will always suspend his star detective - or give him 48 hours to finish the job. A single match will be sufficient to light up a room the size of RFK Stadium. Medieval peasants had perfect teeth. Although in the 20th century it is possible to fire weapons at an object out of our visual range, people of the 23rd century will have lost this technology. Any person waking from a nightmare will sit bolt upright and pant. It is not necessary to say hello or goodbye when beginning or ending phone conversations. Even when driving down a perfectly straight road it is necessary to turn the steering wheel vigorously from left to right every few moments. All bombs are fitted with electronic timing devices with large red readouts so you know exactly when they're going to go off. It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting. A detective can only solve a case once he has been suspended from duty. If you decide to start dancing in the street, everyone you bump into will know all the steps. Most laptop computers are powerful enough to override the communication systems of any invading alien civilization. It does not matter if you are heavily outnumbered in a fight involving martial arts - your enemies will wait patiently to attack you one by one by dancing around in a threatening manner until you have knocked out their predecessors. When a person is knocked unconscious by a blow to the head, they will never suffer a concussion or brain damage. No-one involved in a car chase, hijacking, explosion, volcanic eruption or alien invasion will ever go into shock. Police Departments give their officers personality tests to make sure they are deliberately assigned a partner who is their total opposite. When they are alone, all foreigners prefer to speak English to each other. You can always find a chainsaw when you need one. Any lock can be picked by a credit card or a paper clip in seconds - unless it's the door to a burning building with a child trapped inside. An electric fence, powerful enough to kill a dinosaur will cause no lasting damage to an eight year old child. Television news bulletins usually contain a story that affects you personally at that precise moment."

“We are here and we’re not going anywhere,”? ” This year’s illegal-alien demonstrators put forward a novel theory of entitlement: because we are here, we have a right to be here. Protesters in Santa Ana, California, shouted: “We are here and we’re not going anywhere,” reports the Los Angeles Times. Anger at the widespread contempt for American law contained in such defiant assertions drives much of the public hostility toward illegal aliens. Conservatives, with their respect for the rule of law, and appreciation for its fragility, would ordinarily honor this gut reaction, rather than dismissing it as some atavistic tribal impulse. Poverty and other grounds for victim status do not, in the conservative worldview, create a license for lawbreaking. The rule of law ensures that like cases are treated alike and unlike cases distinguished. But if the immigration protesters have their way, someone who ignored all the procedures for legal entry will achieve the same status and benefits as someone who played by the rules. During the Senate’s immigration debates in the spring, amnesty proponents claimed that it was unfair that people who have worked for American employers be forced to “live in the shadows.” Left out of the equation was the question of justice to people who have waited for years in their own countries for permission to enter lawfully.Schools spend huge sums trying to improve the Hispanic graduation rate, even hiring “outreach consultants” for dropout prevention. One Santa Ana consultant’s approach is predictably multicultural. “We need to teach teachers that students need to be proud of where they are coming from,” she told me. But of course Hispanic school failure derives not from ethnic neglect—the Santa Ana schools glorify the Hispanic heritage to a fault—but from parents who don’t demand rigorous academic application and don’t stand up to corrosive popular influences. At Santa Ana High School, I spoke with a former student, Julio, who had been expelled as a troublemaker in ninth grade, then returned briefly in the tenth grade but didn’t take a single class. “Me and my friends ditched; our parents didn’t know.” It is the cultural capital that immigrants bring with them that most determines their success; the work ethic of poor Mexicans does not carry over to their children’s schooling, and we are all paying the price.Gang life—both Hispanic and black—immediately asserted itself last July when the Los Angeles Unified School District opened a model high school to ease overcrowding. Despite amenities that rival those of private schools—a swimming pool, Mac computers, a ballet studio, a rubber track, and a professional chef’s kitchen—it instantly gained the distinction of being one of the most violent campuses in the system. Shots rang out in front of the school on the second day of classes, reports the Los Angeles Times, and three days after opening ceremonies, police arrested a student with an AK-47 on the campus perimeter. Brawling students attacked safety officers and tried to grab their guns in December, while cops pepper-sprayed a dean breaking up a gang fight in March. Students sell meth in the classrooms, graffiti covers the stairwells, textbooks, and high-design umbrella-covered picnic tables, and a trip to the bathroom requires an adult safety escort.Uncertain assimilation. Multicultural cheerleaders argue that assimilation is proceeding apace by pointing to the fact that virtually all third-generation Hispanics can speak English. Even so, linguistic and cultural segregation among Hispanics is increasing. The percentage of Hispanics living in Hispanic enclaves rose from 39 percent in 1990 to 43 percent in 2000, reports Robert Samuelson, and as more and more aliens from Mexico and Central America enter, the size of Spanish-speaking-only areas expands. Livia, the unmarried mother selling fruit on Santa Ana’s Main Street, says that no one she associates with speaks English. A coffee-shop owner down the block observes that it’s too easy in Santa Ana not to learn English. “It’s all Spanish-speaking here,” she says. In California, the academic achievement gap between students with little English and English speakers is widening. “The Mexican dream is to make enough money to go back and own your own business. Four-fifths of Mexicans here would say that if they had a job in Mexico, they’d go back right away.” Most Mexican immigrants do not intend to become Americans; they come wanting to return to their home country, but end up staying out of inertia. They naturalize at half the rate of Asians or Europeans. This is not a recipe for assimilation.Academic failure. It would be useful for open-borders optimists to spend some time in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which is 73 percent Hispanic, and where just 40 percent of Hispanic students graduate. (Nationwide, 53 percent of Hispanics graduate from high school, according to the Manhattan Institute’s Jay Greene—the lowest rate among all ethnic groups.) Of those Hispanic students who do graduate, just 22 percent have completed the course work necessary for admission to a four-year state college—which means that of all Hispanic students who enter in ninth grade, fewer than 15 percent will graduate ready for college. Immigrant advocates have fiercely opposed in court a long-deferred California high school exit exam, which would require students to answer just over 50 percent of questions testing eighth-grade-level math and ninth-grade-level English. The California Research Bureau predicts that if the exam becomes a reality, Hispanic graduation rates would drop well below 30 percent.A recent Los Angeles Times series on high school dropouts put some faces on the numbers. Eleven male Hispanic friends entered Birmingham High School in Van Nuys together in 2001; only three graduated. Because the boys spent so much time cutting classes—usually hanging out at fast-food restaurants—most failed to log any academic progress and saw no sense in staying enrolled. Drugs, turf rivalries, and fathering children also contributed to their failure to graduate. Birmingham’s teachers despair at their students’ lack of academic commitment and at their belief that seat time should entitle them to a passing grade. Reports Ronald Fryer in Education Next, hostility toward academic achievers is even higher among Hispanics than among blacks. Amen princess_29_71

Why doesn't the media tell us more about genetically modified food? I have seen little in the media other than what supports the profit agenda of the biotech corporations. Is that changing? See for interest this recent article from Huffington post. Is its presence a sign that perhaps the mainstream media is starting to "notice" the science that contradicts the science of the biotech corporations? Will we see more coverage of these issues in the media? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-smith/will-obamas-food-safety-t_b_178127.html Quote for those who don't follow links: "Will Obama's Food Safety Team Finally Regulate the Biggest Food Safety Hazard of Our Time? If President Obama's new Food Safety Working Group dedicates all their time and credentials to prevent future food recalls, they will have saved thousands of people--but forsaken millions. Over the last decade, our radically changing diet has ushered in the explosive growth of food-related ailments, such as allergies, asthma, obesity, diabetes, autism, infertility, gastro-intestinal disorders, and learning disabilities. Of all the changes in our food, the most dangerous transformation was the introduction of genetically modified (GM) crops. When these gene-spliced concoctions, such as GM soy, corn, canola, and cottonseed, came on the scene in 1996, the proportion of Americans suffering from three or more chronic ailments. After just 9 years, that nearly doubled to 13%. GM foods are the prime suspect. Government policy at odds with science Until now, the government has sidestepped the controversy by hiding behind FDA policy, which asserts that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are "substantially equivalent" to natural foods and therefore don't require any safety studies. But as Obama acknowledged, "many of the laws and regulations governing food safety in America" are outdated. In truth, the FDA's GMO policy was not even up-to-date when it was implemented in May 1992. FDA documents made public from a lawsuit revealed that virtually all the agency scientists asked to comment voiced strong warnings that GMOs may cause serious health problems. But the FDA was under orders from the White House to fast track GM foods, and the person in charge of FDA policy was the former attorney of biotech giant Monsanto--and later become their vice president. The scientists and the science were ignored. Now that animals fed GMOs--in labs and farms around the world--have exhibited symptoms related to the growing list of diseases in the US population, the President's Food Safety team, including Dr. Margaret Hamburg as FDA Commissioner, must update GMO regulation. A scientifically sound regulation would translate into an immediate ban of current GM crops, and the implementation of rigorous safety testing requirements before any GMO was put back into the food supply. And certainly mandatory labeling, as promised by President Obama during his campaign, must accompany any GM food approval. Presidents and industry insiders avoid GMOs The Obama family has wisely opted out of exposing themselves to GM foods by requiring organic--and therefore non-GMO--foods served at the White House. They are even planting an organic garden on the south lawn of the White House, to feature 55 types of vegetables. The Bush family also had an organic kitchen policy. Laura Bush was "adamant" about it, but kept it all quiet. Even at Monsanto, many in-the-know employees won't consume the company's own GM creations. Back in 1999, the management of the cafeteria at Monsanto's UK headquarters in High Wycombe, England wrote: "In response to concern raised by our customers . . . we have decided to remove, as far as possible, genetically modified soy and maize (corn) from all food products served in our restaurant. . . . We have taken the above steps to ensure that you, the customer, can feel confident in the food we serve." And one former Monsanto scientist told me that his colleagues, who were safety testing milk from cows injected with the company's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone, decided to stop drinking milk--unless it was organic. It's now time to let us all opt out of this dangerous and failed GM experiment. If Obama's team is serious about food safety and public health, they must take GMOs off our plates and put them back into the laboratory. (end of quote)

do i need to have good grades to get into a culinary school? ok for starters im a junior in high school, im not the best student in the world for turning homework in but i always get above average on all the tests we have to take. but my question is, do i have to have good grades to get into culinary school, ( preferably the Culinary institute of america) but i have nobody around me thats knows much about the schools or programs. ive looked up all i can online, i know you need to have at least 6 months of experience in the kitchen and i can easily get that but yeah i just wanted to know if my grades will affect potential acceptance in culinary schools thanks also do you know what kind of gpa CIA is looking for?

Can someone help me find the recipe from America's Test Kitchen for their chicken in a skillet? I'm not a member of their website and I really want their recipe for chicken in a skillet...can someone please help me???