WHEN ONLY THE BEST WILL DO Written by Arleen M. Kaptur
You are planning a party and trying to decide on a great menu. You may have read some new recipes in a magazine that you are thinking of trying to impress your guests. The ingredients sound interesting and pictures are colorful and enticing. Should you try them out on your guests and hope for best? When planning a social gathering, it is your best bet to use recipes that you have tried, tested, and were delicious. Because of tension and anxiety surrounding any gathering, trying out new recipes ant taking risk that they will turn out perfectly just adds more stress to situation. When nothing else but perfection will do, you can impress your friends and reinforce your reputation as a great cook and a very competent social planner by little time-savers. Sticking to dishes and recipes that you have actually used before, and found them delightful and appetizing, is just one way. Food can be garnished and decorated for more elaborate affairs. You can let your artistic side go wild and presentation will be well worth trouble. Of course, you could test a new-found recipe several weeks before your event. Try it once, and then try it again. Take note of time involved, and if same results are achieved each time you prepare it. Did you get same expected end product or was there a deviation from what you thought final result would be? If there is a major difference, forego item until you have mastered details that will insure a uniform presentation each and every time you serve it. This way you insure success with your efforts, as well as eliminating one less detail to worry about. Using recipes that you know are good and that others enjoy, gives you that extra boost of confidence. If you feel your dishes are not quite “fancy” enough for guests, but they are great for family meals, use them. Garnish your entrees and serve them with pride they deserve. They have proven their worth and, therefore, they are party fare with a few light touches.
| | The Wooden RoomWritten by C R Hamilton
The Wooden Room By C. R. Hamilton The essence of character development begins at infancy. Love, security, and happiness must compose core of heart at this stage, if not, environmental influences supplement unbalance. When this happens, a person is subject to evolve into a victim of general surroundings. The day care environment is a supplement to what is lacking in millions of today’s children and young adults. However, is environment sufficient and effective enough to replace love, security, and happiness? In respects to bible prophecy of last days, with a generation of emotionally deprived children supplemented by societies technological imagery and prefabricated morals, future of this world is destined for rule of an imperious authority. The day of Armageddon is one in which world challenges possibility of a Supreme Being. An army composed of a one-world government, wearied by presence of Israeli nation, marches upon land of Israel to rid world of Jews forever under orders of antichrist. The army is a conglomeration of various cultures and nations that have scientifically proven nonexistence of any god other than New World’s leader. A multicultural world one might say. The perfect unity of dwellers of earth finally accomplishing world peace and harmony, eliminating racial prejudice, discrimination, terrorism, world hunger, and suffering. By power of imagery and virtual deception, antichrist deceives world, and last obstacle to world dominance is riches in land of Israel. To obtain world peace, there must be cooperation of all world’s nations. To solve world’s problem one voice must bellow over millions. To capture attention of world, relate to them through one thing shared among all, one thing enjoyed by all. The one thing that indoctrinates them all: computer. This is power of antichrist, biblically prophesied “beast” that is to make entire world wonder before it. Spitting out images of man’s creation and virtual scenes of desires of life without consequences, this “beast” subtly instructs its followers to believe lies about Creator of humankind. A thin line easily separates what is true from fictional characteristics of technology. Men should raise children, women are built to provide, men and men are OK, and women and women are natural. Sedatives increase intellect, sexual capability, and relieve stress. Faster is better, no time for tedious mannerism. The world is better off this way. Time is moving faster and society must race to keep up with technology, which hastens against time. Businesses demand higher performance from workers in order to produce quality, available toys for forever-bored consumer. There is room for everyone in this game of virtual life. No quotas, preferences, or even time to discriminate, Civil rights for all. The programmer, technician, analyst, net-worker, designer, web hacker, all crowd classifieds over librarian, writer, laborer, secretary, teacher. Gender is not a factor, neither race, creed, nor color. There are provisions for whatever situation, pregnancy, death in family, sickness, or child and healthcare, all accompanied through government policy. The rewards are great, ones that entertain mind after 12 hours of production. Thirty-two inch, forty-five inch, and seventy-inch screens invade what use to be family gathering place, but are now home entertainment center where quality time is spent.
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