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Food / Re: Mandarin Cake

« on: February 20, 2016, 07:31:44 AM »

 

I read about frog recipes.

Actually growing up, my father was a big outdoorsman hunter. Many is the night I've been out frog hunting in the night. Don't do that now but as a kid. Like everything else they say, "tastes like chicken".

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Food / Re: Maple Pork and Apples

« on: February 20, 2016, 07:17:51 AM »

Maple syrup is big in the northren states and in Canada. It's the sap from the maple tree that is then boiled down to thicken. Lots of sap needed to make little syrup. In much the same way, molasses is gotten from the sugar cane. Only the sugar cane is mashed for the sap.

Back up in the Smokey Mountains, they have old log cabins that have been moved into the park, some located by an old water mill which at the time used water to power a saw mill. As part of the park functions, both molasses and maple syrup are made at various times as a tourist attraction. In the olden days it was a social occasion to meet folk while doing a necessary chore for food.

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Food / Re: Mandarin Cake

« on: February 20, 2016, 07:12:01 AM »

I have what seems to be an endless source of recipes. Not really endless but I've saved them for years. I've somewhere around 50 or 60 gigs worth that I can pull off the spare drives. While I am sure there are some that came from the internet sites that's not where I get them from. I've swapped collections with folks, copied down recipes from newspaper sites, etc for ages it seems.

Much of what I have I am sure won't suit you (we all have our likes and dislikes) but then again there will be that from time to time you like. Can't say I have an endless supply of salads but they will show up from time to time.

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EARN MONEY / Re: SCAM, SCAMMING, SCAMMER, SCAMMERS, etc.

« on: February 20, 2016, 07:05:31 AM »

Man, you can avoid all the problems with those 10 minute mail sites: http://10minutemail.com, https://10minutemail.net, etc. They are temporary e-mails. Ideal for registrations and no scam/no spam forever.

Used to use them back in the day. Many sites got wise and wouldn't accept them anymore. If I know a site doesn't actually send the confirmation then I will use nospam@wanted.com . As far as I know it doesn't exist.

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UFO / Re: Intelligent Life Elsewhere In Our Galaxy

« on: February 20, 2016, 04:34:52 AM »

This one is not an article but something I typed up to post here. It comes from my general working knowledge.

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UFO / Intelligent Life Elsewhere In Our Galaxy

« on: February 20, 2016, 02:54:34 AM »

Intelligent Life Elsewhere In Our Galaxy

As we all know there are tons of stars in our galaxy. As many more we can't see due to the dust regions that block visible light so that we can't see what is on the other side. Out of that vast number of stars and systems the uncountable numbers would seem to say intelligent life exists elsewhere too.

I think in all this that many don't realize just how rare our position is here. We are the only place we know that intelligent life exists. Think of all the things that had to be or happen for us to be here. Any of which if it didn't happen would mean we would not exist.

Fermi once put up the question of 'Where are they'? His meaning that if there was one star fairing race, it should by now have populated the galaxy and we should know of them. Yet to date we have no official recognition such is.

Half the stellar systems are binary, having at least two suns. These you can pretty much wipe out for having an intelligence. The weather environment of such a system brings in extremes in weather making life present a near impossibility as we know life to be. Then there are the stars that have no planets, so no life there.

It is unlikely that intelligence exists in the core center of our galaxy. One because most galaxies have a large black hole at the center as does ours and when it takes in matter it emits xrays strongly and that means sterilization. The other that stars are closer together in the center. One goes nova and it will wipe out anything close to it in stellar neighbors. That leaves the middle on out to the fringes for possible places life could exist. 

By what we've seen of exoplanets, most of them have Jupiter sized planets near the star. This means that it pulls on the system to gather the left over masses of matter, such as asteroids and comets which will surely cross the orbits of other planets coming in. Picture Earth's early planet in the making with major bombardments of comets, which provided a dry earth with water. After that stage, the dinosaurs found out what that means. Life under those conditions is shakey at best. As with our system the Jovian planets need to be out in the outer reaches of the system to clean it up, without endangering a life bearing planet. From what we've seen so far, this is very rare as the place to be for a Jovian planet. Look at our moon to see why this is important. It has a record for all to see of being hit time and again by impact.

Our earth received a hit from an early protoplanet which hit in just the right way to produce a super moon but not in a way that shattered the planet apart. This moon has been responsible for the tides that are found on the earth and served as a giant stir stick to keep things mixed up and provide a way for minerals and materials to mix. Lack of that meant any life would have to go to the area where the mineral was, which always takes more energy. More energy needed means less chance of survival.

When our earth was formed, there was no oxygen. It was mainly hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Oxygen has been one of the powering elements to drive changes through corrosion as well as providing energy to our life forms. That took around a billion years to happen before vegetation could occur in the form of microscopic one celled bodies. It was those bodies that provided the oxygen to allow vegetation to grow when finally there was enough oxygen present. This is a rare thing, rather than a common one.

Our earth has large parts of radioactivity within the core. Enough to provide warmth to the planet. But radioactivity also drives mutations, giving that mix where survival of the fittest has a place to occur. Uncountable numbers of mutations have occurred in the last 4 billion years to produce what we know of as life. With out that radioactivity, none of what we now know of as life is possible.

Also we have a molten iron core at the center of the earth, without which, life would be shortly sterilized on this planet. The molten core along with the spin of the planet generate a magnetic field that keeps the sun's radiation from killing all life on the surface. It is the Van Allen belts that provide that protection and one of the reasons why the ISS is in so low of an orbit.

Then there is the location of the planet within the system. Outside the Goldilocks zone, water doesn't exist as a liquid. Our bodies are 98% water in liquid form. So life as we know it requires the planet's location to be where it is for the earth.

Our sun is fairly stable. It doesn't do a lot of flaring or pumping the system with strong radiation at high levels. This knocks out nearly all the other star categories with the exception of dwarf stars. The other thing about stars is that they have to have a long life for life to have the time to develop. Supermassive stars don't stay stable long enough.

There are a ton of other facts that make us unique and the total combination of all these factors make it less than likely of any other system actually developing life as we know it.

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Other topics / Re: What are you doing right now?

« on: February 20, 2016, 01:37:46 AM »

Surfing the net and reading news.

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Food / Mandarin Cake

« on: February 20, 2016, 12:34:22 AM »

Mandarin Cake

Ingredients

one 6-ounce can of orange juice1 package gelatin
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
2 egg yolks
pinch salt
1 cup milk
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
1 loaf angel food cake
1/4 pint whipping cream
one 11-ounce can mandarin orange sections Directions
 
Thaw orange juice concentrate. Sprinkle gelatin on top and set aside. Combine sugar and flour. Mix thoroughly and set aside. Beat egg yolks until thick with pinch of salt and set aside. Heat milk to scalding in double boiler. Pour a small amount of milk into flour mixture, stirring vigorously. Return to double boiler. Cook 2 to 3 minutes stirring constantly. Pour some of this hot mixture into eggs, stirring constantly. Return to double boiler. Cook till thickened and mixture coats spoon. Combine with gelatin and orange juice while hot. Stir until gelatin dissolves. Cool.Beat egg whites and add to mixture. Slightly oil large loaf pan. Break up angel food cake in small pieces and add to custard. Place in pan and let refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Unmold and ice with whipped cream that has been chilled and sweetened to taste. Garnish with mandarin oranges and replace in refrigerator.
 

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Food / Lemon Caper Mayonnaise

« on: February 20, 2016, 12:26:37 AM »

Lemon Caper Mayonnaise

Ingredients

1 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon tarragon
1 teaspoon capers
Juice of 1 lemon
Salt and pepper

Directions

Combine ingredients and spread on your favorite sandwich. Goes great with seafood!

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Food / Re: Cornish hens on bed of wild rice in the microwave

« on: February 20, 2016, 12:19:54 AM »

We have one standard oven but live in an arid climate. So using it heats the place up rather fast. During the summer I tend to do more grilling outside as it doesn't heat up the house, like the oven. The microwave is more for convenience. As long as the seals are good on the door and the farady cage is good, there's no worries on the microwave. Mostly use it for warmup but occasionally to cook too.

Most recipes can be adapted. I have a bunch of camping recipes and lots of them are done in the dutch oven. The dutch oven doesn't care where it's heat comes from. Be that coals or stove.

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Food / Cornish hens on bed of wild rice in the microwave

« on: February 19, 2016, 08:23:42 AM »

Cornish hens on bed of wild rice in the microwave

1 box of wild rice (regular rice can be substituted, if so use 1/2 pack of dry onion soup mix for seasoning pack.)
2 1/4 cups of water
2 stalks of celery, sliced thin
1 7 oz. can of mushroom stems and pieces
2 Cornish hens
1 tablespoon of butter for rice
1/2 cup of butter for basting sauce
1 tablespoon of paprika
1 tablespoon of poultry seasoning
salt and pepper to taste.

In 2 quart microsafe dish, add water, wild rice, seasoning pack from wild rice, celery, and butter. (1/2 pack of dry onion soup mix maybe substituted for seasoning pack with regular rice.) Microwave on high for 3 minutes. Stir and continue for another 2 minutes. Stir. Set time for 10 minutes at 1/2 power. Continue to cook rice.

In the meantime, wash and half cornish hens.

Remove rice from microwave, which will be partially done. Stir rice. In a microwave safe cup, melt 1/2 cup of butter. Add paprika, poultry seasoning, salt and pepper. Stir.

Lay Cornish hens in on top of rice. Orient so that wing tips and leg tips are to the center of dish. Baste hens with butter sauce. Stir rice also at each removal. Return to microwave. Cook at full power for 10 minutes and remove every 3-4 minutes to baste hens again. On second removal, add mushrooms. Continue till hens are done. They should be done about the same time as the liquid is gone from the rice.

All times in the microwave are subjective to the microwave you have and what wattage it is. Times may have to be played with for your particular microwave. This is a great recipe for when you just don't want to heat the kitchen in the summer.

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EARN MONEY / Re: SCAM, SCAMMING, SCAMMER, SCAMMERS, etc.

« on: February 19, 2016, 08:18:19 AM »

Back when email started being popular I saw a lot of these scams; that and spammers. There were bots that would run in forums to harvest your email details. Then I got to looking at the amount of time I was spending keeping my mailbox clean just deleting all the spammers and scams. So eventually I decided I could save a lot of time just by not using email.

Today I use my email for the likes of registering such as here. But other than that, I might not log in for 3 to 6 months. Not worried about spam because unless I know you are sending an email, it's all deleted right away. Nothing is opened, nothing is looked at. If there are too many to spend more than a few moments on, I'll do macro to do it for me. Only takes a few minutes to set one up and then let it run to clean house.

So today, I never see these things. Never bothered with them. Wished I could add something worthy in this but that's all I have on it.

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Health / Re: US Scientists Engineering the Future of Diabetes Treatment

« on: February 19, 2016, 07:24:42 AM »

Scientists and Medical facilities have been working on this forever and it seems there might be a cure on the horizon.

Cure for type 1 diabetes a step closer
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/01/26/cure-for-type-1-diabetes-a-step-closer.html

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UFO / Re: YU55 (2005 YU55)

« on: February 19, 2016, 07:12:15 AM »

I know this is an old topic. Not sure about the policies here regarding bringing back to life one that has gone on before. Since this was posted we've had a few noticed that have come fairly close to the earth without actually effecting us.

One of the things that makes this so hard to detect incoming is that the sun's glare prevents us from seeing them directly and it is usually after it passes and we see them by the reflection of light from the sun that we know such are in our neighborhood.

NASA has put into orbit a couple of satellites to correct this so we can see them coming before they get past us. Not long enough of a time span to actually do a lot but some warning.

Sooner or later one of these has our name on it, just like the dinosaurs found out. It's not if but rather when. Both the Oort Cloud and the Kuiper Belt have left over remnants of the making of the solar system. The Oort Cloud extends so far out that it is possible that Alpha Centari may well swap material in the outer fringes of it since the gravity between the two systems is near equalized. It wouldn't take much to bump a new comet into moving towards either system.

Many of these are long term orbits and it is a near certainty we haven't discovered all that orbit since we've not had telescopes, much less ones to reach out far distances towards the outer planets and planetoids that long to cover them.

Even if we did, there are other gravitational bodies beyond Pluto. We are fairly certain of this because new comets keep showing up from time to time. A fairly recent news article claims to have found a new body out beyond Pluto's orbit and one unknown to us if it is true. We know of at least 4 orbiting planetoids which have been named but this one is a new one we didn't know of.

It is such as these that can disturb the ice bodies orbiting out on the fringes and send them our way. There is a practically unlimited supply of them considering the solar system sets within a spherical shell of them. So sooner or later, one has our number. Not if but rather when.

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Plants / Re: A big lemon

« on: February 19, 2016, 06:34:16 AM »

My neighbor has a lemon tree. His wife gave us some last year. They were huge, about the size of a baseball. I was amazed they did so well.