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Guest Post: Fun Food Ideas For Fall And A Little History Too

• Sep 26, 2010 from KeriSchneider(Keri) in Technology
  The History of Samhain
  
  Samhain marks the beginning of Winter and the end of Summer in the British calendar. It is the time of the Pagan New Year celebration as the bountiful growing season ends and Winter begins. The days are getting shorter and colder as the earth moves further from the sun. Cattle and sheep are brought in from pasture to spend the winter in the barns.
  
  Across the land long ago, farmers would be making decisions on how many of the herd or flock could survive the winter with what food had been stored for them. How many needed to be slaughtered to provide food. And how many would be needed to make sure the herd could be bred the following year. A wrong decision at any level could spell disaster for the farmer, his herd, and his family.
  
  Families would carve faces into turnips or large swedes (no pumpkins in the British Isles back then) on Samhain night then they would carry these from place to place. Candles would be placed in windows. People would dress up in ghoulish costumes. Not to scare away the spirits of the dead, but to welcome and guide them. On Samhain night, the veil between the worlds was at its thinnest and those who had died could return to see family and loved ones. Places would be laid at tables to welcome them. When they returned once more to the land of the dead, the spirits of those who had died in the previous year would travel with them. These traditions are very similar to those practiced in Latin American countries today at Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
  
  Samhain traditions continue in mutated form today in the childhood festival of Halloween. Original traditions, which started in the British Isles, were carried over to America where they transformed over time into the customs we know today. The focus and the reasons for lighting candles, carving Jack-o-lanterns, and wearing costumes have changed over the centuries. These days, the spirits are seen as entities to be feared and avoided rather than welcomed. They are seen as demons and creatures of evil rather than welcomed as ancestors.
  
  Each year, the God experiences three deaths during the harvest season. The first occurs at Lammas, the second at Mabon, the final at Samhain. The God, born to the Mother Goddess at Yule, dies a final death at Samhain and is taken to the Underworld to rest before he is born once again at Yule. Thus the circle of life continues. This same cycle of birth, death, and rebirth can be seen in many cultures both ancient and modern around the world.
  
  Whether you call it Samhain or Halloween, if you're planning a celebration for this night, you'll need to decide what foods to serve. These seasonal treats will be just the thing for adults and children on Halloween night.
  
  Seasonal Foods
  
  When looking for appropriate foods to serve for the Pagan Sabbats, a good place to start is with what is in season for your own local area. Ideas for what might be in season locally can be found at Eat the Seasons - US/Canada or Eat the Seasons - UK/Ireland.
  
  
  Snacks and starters
  
  Roast Chestnuts
  
  
  
  Roast Chestnuts
  
  
  
  
  
  To roast 2kg /2 1/4 pound chestnuts:
  Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6
  Using a small, sharp knife cut a cross into the skin of each nut. Put in a roasting tin and bake in the oven until the skin opens and the nut inside is tender. This takes about 30 minutes.
  To eat, peel away the tough outer skin and the white inner layer. I have found that it is much easier to peel away this outer skin if you do it while the chestnuts are still quite warm.
  
  Note- If you try to roast the chestnut without cutting the skin, it will try to burst open anyway. But the chestnut is likely to burst open quite explosively. Save the mess in the oven and the risk of injuring yourself and make sure the skin has been cut on each nut.
  
  Swede Chips
  
  
  
  swede chips
  
  
  
  
  
  Swede, or rutabaga as it is called in America, can be mashed, roasted, or fried. We like turning it into chips.
  Peel the swede and cut it into wedges about 1/2 inch thick and 3 inches long. Sprinkle it with olive oil and a bit of paprika. Place it in on a baking tray and stick it in the oven 400F/200C/Gas 6 for about 35 minutes.
  
  Root Vegetable Crisps
  
  
  
  Veggie crisps
  
  
  
  
  
  Peel and thinly slice a selection of root vegetables. Toss them in a bowl with olive oil and place in a single layer on a baking tray.
  Bake in the oven at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for about 10 minutes. Check and turn them every few minutes.
  When they are lightly browned, take them from the oven and season with sea salt. They'll crisp up as they cool.
  Serve warm, or let them cool and store in an airtight container.
  
  
  
  
  Exploding Warts
  
  Red and green seedless grapes. All ready to be squeezed into your mouth.
  
  
  Soups
  
  Harvest Vegetable Soup
  Serves 6
  Prep: 15 minutes
  Cook: 30 minutes
  
  Ingredients:
  1 oz butter
  1 leek, trimmed and sliced into 1/2 rings
  1 onion, finely chopped
  1 courgette (zucchini), chopped
  8 oz swede or turnip, diced
  1 large carrot, diced
  1 medium potato, diced
  1.5 pints vegetable...

Guest Post: Fun Food Ideas For Fall And A Little History Too

• Sep 26, 2010 from KeriSchneider(Keri) in Technology
  The History of Samhain
  
  Samhain marks the beginning of Winter and the end of Summer in the British calendar. It is the time of the Pagan New Year celebration as the bountiful growing season ends and Winter begins. The days are getting shorter and colder as the earth moves further from the sun. Cattle and sheep are brought in from pasture to spend the winter in the barns.
  
  Across the land long ago, farmers would be making decisions on how many of the herd or flock could survive the winter with what food had been stored for them. How many needed to be slaughtered to provide food. And how many would be needed to make sure the herd could be bred the following year. A wrong decision at any level could spell disaster for the farmer, his herd, and his family.
  
  Families would carve faces into turnips or large swedes (no pumpkins in the British Isles back then) on Samhain night then they would carry these from place to place. Candles would be placed in windows. People would dress up in ghoulish costumes. Not to scare away the spirits of the dead, but to welcome and guide them. On Samhain night, the veil between the worlds was at its thinnest and those who had died could return to see family and loved ones. Places would be laid at tables to welcome them. When they returned once more to the land of the dead, the spirits of those who had died in the previous year would travel with them. These traditions are very similar to those practiced in Latin American countries today at Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead).
  
  Samhain traditions continue in mutated form today in the childhood festival of Halloween. Original traditions, which started in the British Isles, were carried over to America where they transformed over time into the customs we know today. The focus and the reasons for lighting candles, carving Jack-o-lanterns, and wearing costumes have changed over the centuries. These days, the spirits are seen as entities to be feared and avoided rather than welcomed. They are seen as demons and creatures of evil rather than welcomed as ancestors.
  
  Each year, the God experiences three deaths during the harvest season. The first occurs at Lammas, the second at Mabon, the final at Samhain. The God, born to the Mother Goddess at Yule, dies a final death at Samhain and is taken to the Underworld to rest before he is born once again at Yule. Thus the circle of life continues. This same cycle of birth, death, and rebirth can be seen in many cultures both ancient and modern around the world.
  
  Whether you call it Samhain or Halloween, if you're planning a celebration for this night, you'll need to decide what foods to serve. These seasonal treats will be just the thing for adults and children on Halloween night.
  
  Seasonal Foods
  
  When looking for appropriate foods to serve for the Pagan Sabbats, a good place to start is with what is in season for your own local area. Ideas for what might be in season locally can be found at Eat the Seasons - US/Canada or Eat the Seasons - UK/Ireland.
  
  
  Snacks and starters
  
  Roast Chestnuts
  
  
  
  Roast Chestnuts
  
  
  
  
  
  To roast 2kg /2 1/4 pound chestnuts:
  Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6
  Using a small, sharp knife cut a cross into the skin of each nut. Put in a roasting tin and bake in the oven until the skin opens and the nut inside is tender. This takes about 30 minutes.
  To eat, peel away the tough outer skin and the white inner layer. I have found that it is much easier to peel away this outer skin if you do it while the chestnuts are still quite warm.
  
  Note- If you try to roast the chestnut without cutting the skin, it will try to burst open anyway. But the chestnut is likely to burst open quite explosively. Save the mess in the oven and the risk of injuring yourself and make sure the skin has been cut on each nut.
  
  Swede Chips
  
  
  
  swede chips
  
  
  
  
  
  Swede, or rutabaga as it is called in America, can be mashed, roasted, or fried. We like turning it into chips.
  Peel the swede and cut it into wedges about 1/2 inch thick and 3 inches long. Sprinkle it with olive oil and a bit of paprika. Place it in on a baking tray and stick it in the oven 400F/200C/Gas 6 for about 35 minutes.
  
  Root Vegetable Crisps
  
  
  
  Veggie crisps
  
  
  
  
  
  Peel and thinly slice a selection of root vegetables. Toss them in a bowl with olive oil and place in a single layer on a baking tray.
  Bake in the oven at 180C/350F/Gas 4 for about 10 minutes. Check and turn them every few minutes.
  When they are lightly browned, take them from the oven and season with sea salt. They'll crisp up as they cool.
  Serve warm, or let them cool and store in an airtight container.
  
  
  
  
  Exploding Warts
  
  Red and green seedless grapes. All ready to be squeezed into your mouth.
  
  
  Soups
  
  Harvest Vegetable Soup
  Serves 6
  Prep: 15 minutes
  Cook: 30 minutes
  
  Ingredients:
  1 oz butter
  1 leek, trimmed and sliced into 1/2 rings
  1 onion, finely chopped
  1 courgette (zucchini), chopped
  8 oz swede or turnip, diced
  1 large carrot, diced
  1 medium potato, diced
  1.5 pints vegetable...

Spider Ring Toss Game

• Sep 22, 2010 from mysimon(mySimon) in Lifestyle
  These playful Halloween spiders double as both a decoration and a fun party game. The spiders inflate to a large arachnid that would look scary (but not too scary) hanging out in any corner of your house or backyard. Each spider comes with rings that can be tossed onto the spider's legs to score points. Its the perfect game to introduce to the little ones at your next Halloween party.

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• Dec 11, 2011 from miadickison in World News
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Top 20 Worst Video Games of All Time

• Oct 04, 2010 from JohnnyX87(Johnny A)
  What makes a worst video game of all time? Poor storylines, insane difficulty, controlling issues to the point of broken screens all these contribute towards video games that you threw out your window in disgust of wasting 3 dollars in renting them. On this list we prudently considered what games made us break the most things, and made us ask ourselves how the fuck was this game ever made? There were some obvious immediate choices like Shaq Fu and ET, and there were also some more personal choices like Fatal Fury and Elevator Action. Old-Wizard brings you these top 20 worst games of all time in hopes that you never have to experience the inexorably abominable game play that weve had to experience in playing a game like Three Stooges, where what you thought would be 2 days of rented videogame euphoria turned out to be hours of personal disgust, wondering how it was possible you could have rented a game so bad. However, if you are one of those people who like to play bad video games because they make you feel better about yourself and ebullient about your own small accomplishments in life, then these are the games to play. As an elementary programmer, you probably have a decent chance at creating a game better than Muscle, and this doesnt feel too bad.
  20. Yo! Noid (NES)
  Yo! Noid is about as much fun as eating left over pizza thats been thrown away in the garbage a week earlier. When an advertising slogan gets put to a video game, you can be sure its total ass. This game is no exception. Yo Noid may be the best example of idiots in marketing who think that anything can be translated to a video game. This game is grotesquely difficult, much like the side-scrolling style of difficulty found in Ghosts n Goblins. Whats more annoying though is having absolutely no energy and no suit to protect you from just one enemy killing you. Even the smallest enemy within a proximate vicinity can dominate the Noid into oblivion, making you wonder why the hell the Noid took it upon himself to save New York City. His weapon is a yo-yo, not a magic yo-yo like we find in Star Tropics, but a standard yo-yo, making you wonder even more why the Noid thinks he can save New York City with no stamina and a fucking toy yo-yo. If you happen to embody video game luck beyond all understandable limits and get to the end of a level, you are put into a pizza eating contest while the city is on fire making the Noid a hero with no stamina, a bad weapon, and no dedication to the task at hand. Whats worse, if you lose the pizza eating contest, you have to start the insuperable level over again. At that point, you throw the cartridge out the window and remain validated in your consciousness of how bad an idea it always was to take a banal advertising signifier and assume it will be successful as a video game. I dont think I ever ate at Dominos after playing this egregious excuse for a video game.
  19. Skate or Die (NES)
  Skate or die? I would rather die then have to play skate or die ever again in this life time. The title screen shows some paltry loser who you want to beat on for looking so clownish. The game irritates you even more. You skate around different areas with the same ramps, same couple of maneuvers, and same impossible controller issues. Then when you finish an area you are bombarded with the same loser from the title screen, this time taking up even more space with his massive poaching noggin (who in their right mind would ever have a mo-hawk?) If your going to make a game called Skate or Die, how can it be one of the most pedestrian games ever made? Is it supposed to feel cutting edge because Im looking at some goon with an ugly green mo-hawk? At least show a little bit of blood or anger when failing at these boring courses to merit the name skate or die. The same circle of courses proved to be quickly tedious, with little extra to spark any interest in playing further than five minutes, except if you like looking at 8-bit graphics of infirm skaters that may bring images of a cool dude flashing the rock hand signal at you when you were doing something cool. I suspect there are some people who like this trash. These people I should never meet, God willing.
  18. Wheres Waldo (NES)
  Who would have ever thought this would have been a good idea? Okay, maybe if you were going to turn this NES installment into a superhero fighting game where Waldo had superpowers like something coming out of his glasses, but this installment turns out to be the same exact concept as the books, but only worse. At least in the books, you could spot Waldo, the graphics and objects for the NES Wheres Waldo are so poor that everything equally looks like shit making it impossible to have any chance at finding him. Why not just stick with the books though in the first place? Who in their right would buy this game? Its hard to imagine even 5 of these games being sold. Could you imagine anyone admitting to buying this dung when you could buy the nice clear, iridescent...