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  1. I'm fond of Thai food too. Here is a good recipe for Pad Thai. It's a slightly sweet noodle dish.1/2 lime 1 egg 4 teaspoons fish sauce 3 cloves garlic, minced 1/2 teaspoon ground dried chili pepper ground pepper 1 shallot, minced 2 tablespoon sugar 1/2 package Thai rice noodles 2 tablespoon vegetable oil 1/2-1/4 lb shrimp2 tablespoons peanutsTips and substitutionsBy far, the trickiest part is the soaked noodles. Noodles should be somewhat flexible and solid, not completely expanded and soft. When in doubt, undersoak. You can always add more water in the pan, but you can't take it out.Shrimp can be substituted or omitted.In this recipe, pre-ground pepper, particularly pre-ground white pepper is better than fresh ground pepper. For kids, omit the gound dried chilli pepper.Soak the dry noodles in lukewarm water while preparing the other ingredients, for 5-10 minutes.Use a wok. If you do not have a wok, any big pot will do. Heat it up on high heat and pour oil in the wok. Fry the peanuts until toasted and remove them from the wok. Add shallot and garlic and stir them until they start to brown. The noodles should be flexible but not expanded at this point. Drain the noodles and add to the wok. Stir quickly to keep things from sticking. Add sugar, fish sauce, chili pepper. Stir. The heat should remain high. If your wok is not hot enough, you will see a lot of juice in the wok at this point. Turn up the heat, if it is the case. Make room for the egg by pushing all noodles to the side of the wok. Crack the egg onto the wok and scramble it until it is almost all cooked. Fold the egg into the noodles. Add shrimp and stir. Add bean sprouts, chives. Stir a few more times. The noodles should be soft and very tangled.Pour onto the serving plate and sprinkle with peanuts. Serve hot with a wedge of lime on the side and raw Chinese chives and raw bean sprouts on top.It's a favorite.
  2. How about some details? What are you actually doing? What is the game about? What do you want help with? Are you at the testing stage or looking for a team to write code?
  3. I am curious about your title "Making Money Online is Easy By Building a Website". I have talked to hundreds of people who have websites and have made no money with them. I agree with the concept that websites can make money, but most of the info I find about making money with a small website is an infomercial saying "for $???9.97 you can have the "secret" to making money on the web. The joke is that you pay the money and get an email back saying make a website offering the "secret" to making money on the web like I did.My question is who out there has actually done it? What are the best ways? Sales of info are easy to fulfill orders with auto emails but hard to convince customers of it's value. Sales of product are easier to sell, but a headache to ship. What about the ads? Can you really make enough in a pay per view or pay per <- snipped -> to make it worth creating a free information website.Any thoughts?
  4. I'd buy it in a heartbeat. Unfortunately, the formula died with it's creators. I'd sure like to see some studies done using only materials available to ancient egyptians to see how closely we can duplicate it. and no, I don't think it's alien technology, mankind has been doing the impossible for a long time. It's just easier if no one tells you it's impossible.
  5. The largest hole I see is the assumption that energy was created, that there is a beginning. As finite beings we try to see things as finite, having a beginning and an end. What if that isn't true? What if it is true that energy cannot be created or destroyed? What if it has always existed, a timeline that expands out in both directions forever? The Universe had a beginning, but it came from energy and matter that existed before. This thought doesn't prove or disprove God or gods one way or the other. God can still create our Universe with existing raw materials.
  6. I agree with t3jem. The problem is that you are trying to merge the 2 dimensional concept of area with the 3 dimensional concept of volume. They are not the same thing. A four inch tall cylinder, like a glass, can contain water. An infinite number of 2 dimensional circles will never hold anything.
  7. I've tried a lot of diets and only had real success with 2 of them.On the Atkin's diet I lost 21 pounds in 24 days. Then I ate one cookie and it was over, I couldn't control my cravings. The weight did stay off for about 8 months until Halloween and the whole holiday season hit. The biggest problem with the Atkin's diet for me was not the first time I was on it, but the 2nd time. I could fool my body once, but not twice. I tried again when the new year hit, I only lost about a pound per week and I had headaches from lack of any carbs. I also seemed to have odd changes in my personality. Things I cared about before held no interest for me. I was grouchy and irritable for over a month. Finally gave up and had my personality back within 10 minutes of eating bread. Couldn't dump that weight.Several years later I tried a juice diet where I lost 50 pounds in 2 1/2 months. I'd make homemade fruit juice for breakfast plus any fruit I wanted to eat whole, Homemade veg juice for lunch plus any veg I wanted to eat whole(NO DRESSING), and then dinner was solid food containing lean meats, fresh veg., and whole grains. Absolutely no processed sugars, artifical sweeteners, or white flours were allowed. The few times I cheated, even if it was just one small piece of candy, It would stop my weight loss dead for 2 days. The diet worked great until the holiday's hit and I ran into the temptations. I have now regained 10 pounds, but kept 40 off for a year and a half. I've decided to just try to maintain my current weight until after the holidays since this is such a hard time for me to stay on a diet. The diet continues to work great for me. As long as I can stay on it for more than 3 days at a time, I know I will permantly drop one pound. Great Diet for sugar addicts since it breaks it's hold on you and you can actually lose belly fat.All low fat diets or low calorie diets that I have tried that don't eliminate sugar don't help because after the first 3 pounds, I will only lose 1 pound per month while feeling depressed and deprived. BTW, on all these diets I would exercise about 30 min per day, 3 to 5 times per week.Hope this helps someone, Thanks
  8. Actually you do NOT have to relearn what you learned in school, just expand it. I looked up the actual article from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ and found out that most of the blocks were quarried and moved from other sites, but others were not. The article states that it would be impossible to cast the entire pyramids due to lack of fuel to heat it. Foundations both then and now are much more stable and level when poured. The interesting thing to me wasn't that they have poured parts, it's that their concrete is so much better than the Portland cement that we use today. I'd like to know how they did that. Here is most of the actual article from that website. The longstanding belief is that the pyramids were constructed with limestone blocks that were cut to shape in nearby quarries using copper tools, transported to the pyramid sites, hauled up ramps and hoisted in place with the help of wedges and levers. Barsoum argues that although indeed the majority of the stones were carved and hoisted into place, crucial parts were not. The ancient builders cast the blocks of the outer and inner casings and, most likely, the upper parts of the pyramids using a limestone concrete, called a geopolymer. To arrive at his findings, Barsoum, an Egypt native, and co-workers analyzed more than 1,000 micrographs, chemical analyses and other materials over three years. Barsoum, whose interest in the pyramids and geopolymers was piqued five years ago when he heard theories about the construction of the pyramids, says that to construct them with only cast stone builders would have needed an unattainable amount of wood and fuel to heat lime to 900 degrees Celsius. Barsoum's findings provide long-sought answers to some of the questions about how the pyramids were constructed and with such precision. It puts to rest the question of how steep ramps could have extended to the summit of the pyramids; builders could cast blocks on site, without having to transport stones great distances. By using cast blocks, builders were able to level the pyramids' bases to within an inch. Finally, builders were able to maintain precisely the angles of the pyramids so that the four planes of each arrived at a peak. Although these findings answer some of the questions about the pyramids, Barsoum says the mystery of how they were built is far from solved. For example, he has been unable to determine how granite beams - spanning kings' chambers and weighing as much as 70 tons each - were cut with nothing harder than copper and hauled in place. The type of concrete pyramid builders used could reduce pollution and outlast Portland cement, the most common type of modern cement. Portland cement injects a large amount of the world's carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and has a lifespan of about 150 years. If widely used, a geopolymer such as the one used in the construction of the pyramids can reduce that amount of pollution by 90 percent and last much longer. The raw materials used to produce the concrete used in the pyramids - lime, limestone and diatomaceous earth - can be found worldwide and is affordable enough to be an important construction material for developing countries, Barsoum said. Source: Drexel University - Dateline Drexel (Keyword: Giza - November 30, 2007)
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