![]() Four additional cards are placed face down on the table. Start with 12 cards laid out face up in three rows of four. To play this game, you need a standard deck of 52 cards. If you’re all by yourself, but still in the mood for a good card game, play a few rounds of the German solitaire game Auf Wiedersehen (Farewell). Is someone playing dirty in the game? Then yell out, “Hey, du schummelst!” (“Hey, you’re cheating!”) One-player German Card Games Spieler is the word for “player” in German (it’s also the word for “gambler”).ĭu bist dran means “your turn.” Unfair (pronounced “oonfair”) means, you guessed it, “unfair.” A Jack is a Bube – an old-fashioned German word for “boy.” A Queen is a Dame (which translates to “lady”) and the King is the König (literal translation this time). Binokel, Watten, 66 (Schnapsen), Gaigel, just to name a few.ĭo you know the names of the suits in German? If not, then here they are!Īn Ace is an Ass. There are many more card games which enjoy local popularity, but may not be known elsewhere. Mau Mau is a very simple game which is also popular throughout Germany especially amongst children, UNO is essentially the commercial version of it. Schafkopf is traditionally played in Bavaria (South-East), Doppelkopf is more popular in the West and North, and Skat originates in the East, but has gain a lot of traction elsewhere since it is the most tactical variant and often played competitively. Skat, Doppelkopf and Schafkopf are amongst the most popular, they are very similar to each other and pretty tactical. Looking for more fun card games? Check out how to play Crazy Eights or Spades.Germany has a strong tradition with respect to card games, as a result the most popular game varies by region. If a revoke isn't corrected in time and is discovered before the deal has been scored, the "offender" is charged for all the hearts in that deal and no other player receives any penalty points. If a player doesn't follow the suit even though he is able, he isn't penalized if he corrects his mistake before the trick is completed. The player with the least number of points when any player reaches 50 or 100 points (or another preset score or time limit) wins. However if a player wins all of the penalty cards (13 hearts and the Queen of Spades), that player gets 0 points and all opponents get 26 points. Here's a bonus: the player who ends up with the Jack of Diamonds gets to subtract 10 points from his score. The player who ends up with the queen of spades gets 13 points. Each player receives a penalty point for each heart card they have. How to Keep ScoreĪfter all the cards have been played, players count up their tricks. Many people play that hearts can't be broken on the first trick. Hearts are broken when a player lacks a card in the suit that has been led, so he throws down a heart instead. A player can't lead with a heart until a heart has been "broken," or played in the game. No player can play a Heart card or the Queen of Spades on the first trick, even if you don’t have any Clubs. ![]() If he can't, he may play any card he wants.Ī player wins a trick when he plays the highest card of the suit that is led. (Or the person holding the 2 of clubs card can start first.) Each player after the lead must follow suit if he can. The player to the left of the dealer leads first. Note: after each hand, the deal passes to the player on the dealer's left. At the fourth deal, players keep their own cards. Cards are passed to the right at the first deal, to the left with the second, and across with the third. Players pick their cards after they've looked at them, and before they've received cards from their opponents. The whole pack is dealt out clockwise, one card at a time, each placed face down.Īfter the cards have been dealt, each player chooses three cards to pass to an opponent. Each player is dealt a card until everyone has 13 cards in his hand. In each suit, the cards are ranked from the Ace, with the highest value, on down: K, Q, J, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, and 2. The person who takes the first trick will take the kitty, too. If you have 3 players, deal each 13 cards, then add the leftover cards to the kitty. So, if you have 4 players, each receives 13 cards (13 x 4 = 52). Each player is dealt the same number of cards. Three to seven players (four players is the best!) The Cards Players don't want to end up with tricks containing hearts cards or the Queen of Spades which are worth points. But they do want to end up with the Jack of Diamonds. The objective of the game of Hearts is to have the least amount of points when one player eventually reaches 100 points. Hearts is a trick-taking game where players avoid cards. Ready to play a game of hearts? Here are the rules to the card game of Hearts - a fun card game to play on Valentine's Day, or any day! Discover the strategy to playing hearts, and get a game going with your friends and family.
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![]() If you have read James Clavell’s Tai-Pan, then I must urge you to read the River of Smoke. In China on the other hand, there is little interest in European exports – the Chinese are a people who believe that their own products, like their food and their own customs, are superior to all others.Įxcept that these days the Chinese people have an insatiable appetite for all that is remotely European. If one adds to this such goods as silk, porcelain and lacquerware it becomes clear that the European demand for Chinese products is insatiable. The taxes on it account for fully one tenth of Britain’s revenues. Since the middle years of the last century, the demand for Chinese tea has grown at such a pace in Britain and America that it is now the principal source of profit for the East India Company. Ghosh makes a statement which could as well reflect today’s state of the economy: Ghosh has planted the seeds of the next volume. The threads converge towards an event which sows the seeds of the opium war, and in this convergence I suspect Mr. Yet another takes the form the Indian Tai-pan stumbling in an opium laced haze of his own creation, or perhaps he attempts to navigate through his own river of smoke. One takes the form of the colourful correspondence of a gifted and seemingly gay Anglo-Indian artist looking to step out of the shadow of his famous father. One thread features Neel, disguised as a Munshi of an Indian Tai-pan. The vivid narration effortlessly transports the impressionable reader back in time to Canton of 1838 and lets him experience the unraveling of the story as an active participant. The scene rapidly shifts to the South China sea where the script erupts into apparently disconnected, yet gripping threads of parallel narration. Ghosh starts his narration on the islands of Mauritius, which, if you’ve read the Sea of Poppies will recall was the final destination of the Ibis. Speaking of pearls, do you want to know why the murky and definitely pearl-less river flowing through Guangzhou is called Pearl river? Haha, I won’t tell. ![]() Ghosh peppers his vivid description of the events in Canton (now Guangzhou, China) leading to the opium war in China with these pearls of “wisdom”. And well, post cards were more or less a manifestation of Europe’s questionable obsession with “authentic” Chinese porcelain. Ketchup, brace for this, is apparently a Chinese export from the 1800’s. My plan is to take the seat cover off this winter and see if the seat back bracket can be cut off and discarded.Why do we call sugar “ chinee” in Hindi? How did we ever land up with “post-cards” and ketchup? Did you know that we Desis were called “Achhas”? Achha, so the origin of the word chinee is because in the late 1700 and early 1800 the Dominion of India imported sugar exclusively from China. The only complaint I have is with my wide body arse, the fixture in the seat that mounts the back rest (which I don't want/have) bites into my tailbone. The OP asked about how it works with big guys. Unless you consider 100 miles as a long day in the saddle, you'll learn that a firm seat is your friend. Many aftermarket seats (Mustang, Corbin, etc.) feel overly firm until they get broken in. ![]() Whatever seat you purchase, make sure you give it adequate time to break-in before your judge it's comfort. That seat has sold very well for Mustang and I think it hits a sweet spot for most of us between good looks and reasonable long term comfort. Is it the seat I'd choose if I were headed out on a lengthy multi-day cross country trip? Probably not. I have done several 6-8 hour one-way trips since installing and the seat works fine. As to your question about touring, I think it depends on your definition of touring. Here's my response to another post on this subject - I run a Wide Tripper w/ pillion and I think it's an excellent seat. In the Select Tasks window, remove checkmarks from “Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk” and “Install Windows 7 or later version.” Ensure the checkbox labeled “Download the latest Windows support software from Apple” is checked, and then click Continue.In the Boot Camp Assistant window that opens, click the Continue button.Launch Boot Camp Assistant, located at /Applications/Utilities.The latest version of the Apple drivers that Boot Camp needs can be downloaded using Boot Camp Assistant. We won’t be using Boot Camp Assistant to partition a drive or step us through the install process. We only need Boot Camp Assistant for its ability to download all of the Windows drivers we’ll need to ensure the install of Windows will run correctly on Mac hardware. The USB flash drive will be formatted and a single MS-DOS (FAT) volume will be created. Do not select the volume located just underneath the device name. The device will likely have the name of the USB flash drive manufacturer listed. In the Disk Utility sidebar, select the USB flash drive device.Make sure the USB flash drive is connected to your Mac.Warning : The process of preparing the USB flash drive will delete any data contained on the flash drive. The flash drive needs to be formatted for use on Windows The USB flash drive needs to be formatted to accept the Windows software that Boot Camp Assistant will download and install. Prepare the USB Flash Drive for the Windows Support Software The external drive will be formatted and a single MS-DOS (FAT) volume will be created. You can use any name you wish (up to 8 characters), but we suggest naming the external WIN10.Use the dropdown menu to set the Format to “MS-DOS (FAT).”.Use the dropdown menu to set the Scheme to “Master Boot Record.”.Click the Erase button in the Disk Utility toolbar.The device will likely have the name of the external enclosure’s manufacturer listed. In the Disk Utility sidebar, select the external drive that will be used for Windows.Launch Disk Utility, located at /Applications/Utilities.Ensure the external drive is connected to your Mac.Warning : The erase, format, and partitioning process will delete all data currently contained on the external drive. The external drive that you’ll install Windows on needs to be prepared by erasing and formatting the drive for use with Windows. Prepare the External Drive for Installing Windows If you’re not using a portable Mac with a built-in keyboard and trackpad, you’ll need a wired keyboard and mouse to complete the installation. During the Windows installation, the drivers for Apple wireless keyboards and mice aren’t installed until the very end of the process. A licensed copy of Windows 10 ISO or an install DVD.VirtualBox virtualization app (available for free).We’re using a USB 3.0 drive, but a Thunderbolt drive should work as well. What You Need to Install Boot Camp on an External Drive Also, make sure you have a current backup before beginning. Be sure to read through the process before undertaking it. This is an advanced process with quite a few pitfalls that can trip you up. It allows you to install Windows on an external drive without first having Windows installed on a PC or in a virtual environment. But the method we’re going to outline here is a bit different. They range from creating clones of an existing PC installation or using Microsoft IT tools for installing Windows. There are actually a few ways you can successfully install Windows on an external drive. Installing Windows on an external drive would be a great solution to the problem of available space, but as we said, Boot Camp and Windows impose a restriction on installing to an external drive. While Boot Camp Assistant can partition your startup drive for you to make room for Windows, there are bound to be many of you who just don’t have room to spare on your startup drive to install Windows. One of the downsides to Boot Camp and the Windows installer is that it restricts you to only installing Windows on your Mac’s internal drive. It’s a nice capability that lets you select – at boot time – which operating system you wish to use: macOS or Windows. If you're dual booting your Hackintosh with Windows I think you'll find this especially useful.Boot Camp and Boot Camp Assistant allow you to install Windows on your Mac. ![]() Like many of you, I've been a Mac user for many years and whenever I use Windows I always want the keyboard shortcuts to be the same - especially if I'm using an Apple Keyboard designed for macOS. Building a CustoMac Hackintosh: Buyer's Guide ![]() That works in its favor though it's like your favorite aisle at the library went on Pimp My Ride! Said ride was pimped by the shop's founders, Amy Wong and Andrew Yip.Cushioned with benches and armchairs, the brightly colored hall of books feels like your woke Grandma’s living room. Matilija Lending Library sits in an alleyway sized room that used to house a shoe repair shop on Lexington Avenue at the Valley Mall. And listen to her EP on her own Backyard Party Records! Does she deserve it? Is she a natural born ambassador for the San Gabriel Valley? We think so.Listen and hear why aging party crews, veteranas and rucas tune into her as their nostalgia show of choice while today’s generation of ravers lose their shit alike to her masterful skill behind the 1’s and 2’s. Even though most of ‘em have never been here, they get a pretty decent idea of what we’re about just from watching her get down in her garage with the zarape background and her signature dance moves.Spiñorita tells us she's the Queen of the 'bra (that's Alhambra, kiddies), and she wants the key to the city. Bygone party scenes like the 626’s Catholic high school dances and iBrowse Coffee and Internet live on spiritually through her streaming shows on Twitch and NTS Radio.īut most importantly, she “reps the SGV HARD!” Electronic music fans all over the world toss up her custom SGV emote on Twitch. ![]() ![]() DJ Spiñorita has been raving since she was born… give or take 14 years and a hundred backyard dj’s hired by her family.She lived an important part of not only So Cal, but SGV history. ![]() The combination of buttermilk and baking soda will help your pancakes rise and make thick and fluffy. It’s so good that way and helps the butter melt all over your pancakes. Not a fan of maple syrup? Try a drizzle of homemade strawberry sauce instead!įor the BEST pancakes it’s all about the buttermilk. Try warming up your syrup before serving.Or top each pancake with a handful of blueberries right after spooning batter onto the griddle. ![]() You can enhance your pancake experience by adding 1/4 cup of mix-ins to the batter such as chopped nuts or miniature chocolate chips.If needed make and then store batter in the refrigerator for up to 4 hours before you plan to cook the pancakes. Place a sheet pan inside for the pancakes. If you need to keep pancakes warm while you cook all of the pancakes, heat your oven to 225✯.Flip pancakes when the edges are set and bubbles on the surface are dry.Meanwhile you can get your cooking surface preheated. Let the pancake batter sit after mixing it, for about 10 minutes.Some streaks of flour and small lumps in the batter is great. Over mixing the pancake batter will result in flat and hard pancakes.It’s much more efficient and an easier way to feed a crowd. A large nonstick skillet totally works for cooking these pancakes, but I really like to use a griddle.Tips For Making This Buttermilk Pancake Recipe: Flip the pancakes once air bubbles begin forming. Then use a 1/3 cup measuring cup per pancake to pour the pancake batter on the cooking surface. It should be hot before you start cooking the pancakes. While the pancake batter is sitting, you can go ahead and grease your griddle or skillet and get it heating up.(see above photo) Let the pancake batter sit for about 10 minutes to thicken. Small lumps and a few streaks of flour should remain. You should only stir everything together until just combined. Add and stir in the wet ingredients with dry ingredients.Start this recipe by mixing together the dry ingredients.I honestly LOVE the flavor of these pancakes as is, but feel free to get creative and add other flavorings to the mix such as cinnamon, chocolate chips, or even a handful of shredded coconut. However, you may not have buttermilk and if you don’t, keep reading for my favorite trick to make buttermilk in a pinch. These ingredients are so simple, you most likely have them all on hand. The wet ingredients are eggs, buttermilk and vanilla extract. Nutmeg is an optional ingredient, but is the perfect touch to give these simple pancakes a lovely depth of flavor. Grab the flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt. You’ll find all of the basic buttermilk pancake ingredients in this recipe. These buttermilk pancakes have been in my family for years, and they come out perfectly every time! They come together quick, are pretty much foolproof and they always get a thumbs up by whoever eats them! What Ingredients Are Needed For Buttermilk Pancakes? When we’re having a lazy weekend morning, I’ll often whip up a batch to get everyone’s day off to a very tasty start. My kids beg for these buttermilk pancakes on the weekends. These pancakes are my family’s favorite! They are easy and the perfect way to make any breakfast or brunch gathering super special! This recipe for buttermilk pancakes makes for a such a scrumptious breakfast of light, fluffy and absolutely delicious pancakes cooked to golden brown perfection. ![]() This helps avoid hydroplaning, skids etc. Driving in heavy rain can be as hazardous as driving in fog. If you do happen to be stopped on the side of the road, use your hazard lights. Why do drivers drive the car slowly during rainy days You must drive as slowly as possible during the wet weather. Drivers must take specific actions when they see vehicles with flashing or blinking blue. Get off the road or highway and find a parking lot, gas station or restaurant and wait out the storm. If at any point you feel unsafe driving in any type of weather, pull over and stop driving. No matter what the speed limit sign says, slow. Not only will using these help you to see better but having your headlights on will. Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration shows that weather-related accidents kill an average of 5,000 people and injure over 418,000. In the event that you encounter bad weather while driving, remember these heavy rain safety tips: Use your headlights and your wipers. Hazard lights signal that your car is stopped and can be confusing for approaching cars. Many Auto Accidents Are Weather-Related According to the Federal Highway Administration, there are close to 5.9 million car accidents every year in this country. This is extremely dangerous, and illegal in many states. When it starts pouring rain and visibility is drastically reduced, many people turn on their flashing hazard lights, thinking that will make it easier for other drivers to see them. Increase the distance between you and the car in front of you to avoid an accident. The use of front fog lights can also be useful but using rear fog lights could mask your brake lights and dazzle drivers behind you. Your car will slide more on the water, and you might skid if you brake too quickly. When driving in heavy rain, you must use your dipped headlights when the visibility is less than 100 metres (by the Highway Code). Water on the road makes it harder to stop safely. Tailgating cars and riding bumpers is always dangerous, but it’s particularly bad during a storm. Slowing down will help you avoid hydroplaning and will make it easier to brake if there is an incident on the road. You should always drive at or even below the speed limit when it’s raining, especially on the highway. Avoid using your high beams because you could blind other drivers and the extra light will bounce off the rain. Many states also have laws that require drivers to turn their lights on whenever the windshield wipers are going. It allows other motorists to spot you better. Headlights (not bright lights) will help other cars see you more clearly. Rain reduces visibility on the road, making it harder to see approaching cars and judge distance. On interstate highways in designated rural areas the speed limit is: a. If not, shift into neutral and use the brake to slow your vehicle down and get off the road. Hook you shoe under the pedal and see if you can free it. Here are some tips for safe driving in a rainstorm. Ease your foot off the gas pedal and brake gently. Your car could hydroplane, it’s harder to brake quickly and accidents are much more common. Getting stuck driving in heavy rains can be a scary experience. ![]() In fact, it is one of the first two dishes I remember eating on this earth (the other dish was baked Peconic Bay scallops, a dish that fits my lifetime narrative more elegantly). I knew what a nugget was long before I was introduced to kale or capon. ![]() The nugget is a gateway drug, a young child’s unwitting indoctrination into the corporate culinary industrial complex. The nugget, with its multisyllabic emulsifiers and stabilizers, is almost exclusively the domain of fast food. The nugget is a dish that most high-minded establishments (or weeknight cooks) shy away from. It is more charcuterie than steak (albeit more mystery meat than artisanal sausage). If the tender is more pure product, more Jonathan Waxman, the nugget is more food science, more Wylie Dufresne, more manipulation - a polite way of saying more processed. I’ll take a chicken nugget any day over a chicken tender. Until you try a better version at Wendy’s. But dipping the engineered and salted protein disc that is the McNugget into a peel-away plastic-container filled with pure honey (and nothing else) is nearly a peerless fast-food experience. Biting into a Quarter Pounder mimics the sensation of chomping down on an oil-soaked sponge. The McNugget, by contrast, is an amalgamation of over 20 discrete ingredients - rib meat, breast meat, botanicals, chicken skin, sodium phosphates, autolyzed yeast extract, sodium acid pyrophosphate, safflower oil, dextrose, and other oddities - that are mixed, cut, molded, and fried in vegetable oil laced with the ominous-sounding (but innocuous) anti-foaming agent known as dimethylpolysiloxane.Īnd yet, the McNugget is the more delicious creation. ![]() Say what you will about the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder the hamburger patty is made of nothing but USDA-inspected beef. No food is perfect, but the masterpiece of molecular gastronomy known as chicken nugget is aggressively imperfect. Places that sell gasoline now do not have lube bays and have no need for air compressors. Service work is done at quick lubes, etc. Consumers now get their tires at big box stores or tire stores. “Back when gas stations did mechanical work, all stations had air compressors. I put in my charge card and still was not able to pump air.Ī: I turn to one of my heavy hitters - Tom-the-Rotten-Robbie-Gas-Man - who says: The sign on that pump said pay $1.50 by charge card. ![]() This has also happened several times in the past in several parts of the Bay Area. I went to two gas stations in the Powell Street area of Emeryville.
LCD computer monitors, including the display panels used in laptop computers, are not susceptible to burn-in because the image is not directly produced by phosphors (although they can suffer from a less extreme and usually non-permanent form of image persistence). Later CRTs were much less susceptible to burn-in than older models due to improvements in phosphor coatings, and because modern computer images are generally lower contrast than the stark green- or white-on-black text and graphics of earlier machines. In these applications, burn-in can be prevented by shifting the position of the display contents every few seconds, or by having a number of different images that are changed regularly. Blanking the screen is out of the question as the machine would appear to be out of service. Older machines designed without burn-in problems taken into consideration often display evidence of screen damage, with images or text such as "Please insert your card" (in the case of ATMs) visible even when the display changes while the machine is in use. Screen-saver programs were designed to help avoid these effects by automatically changing the images on the screen during periods of user inactivity.įor CRTs used in public, such as ATMs and railway ticketing machines, the risk of burn-in is especially high because a stand-by display is shown whenever the machine is not in use. Cathode ray televisions, oscilloscopes and other devices that use CRTs are all susceptible to phosphor burn-in, as are plasma displays to some extent. When the same image is displayed on a CRT screen for long periods, the properties of the exposed areas of the phosphor coating on the inside of the screen gradually and permanently change, eventually leading to a darkened shadow or "ghost" image on the screen, called a screen burn-in. Purpose Screen protection īefore the advent of LCD screens, most computer screens were based on cathode ray tubes (CRTs). Some screensaver programs also use otherwise-idle computer resources to do useful work, such as processing for distributed computing projects.Īs well as computers, modern television operating systems, media players, and other digital entertainment systems may include optional screensavers. Screensavers are often set up to offer a basic layer of security by requiring a password to re-access the device. Though most modern monitors are not susceptible to this issue (with the notable exception of OLED technology, which has individual pixels vulnerable to burnout), screensaver programs are still used for other purposes. ![]() The original purpose of screensavers was to prevent phosphor burn-in on CRT or plasma computer monitors (hence the name). World Community Grid screensaver that uses idle system resources to help analyze proteins.Ī screensaver (or screen saver) is a computer program that blanks the display screen or fills it with moving images or patterns when the computer has been idle for a designated time. ![]() And Downey's 'do (and we may literally be splitting hairs here) feels out of place, as do some of the dialogue and other camerawork. The quick cuts and frequent action sequences are photographed like an 1890s version of Iron Man. Here you will find Blu-rays, Collectables, Homeware, and more. In my ongoing research into the effluvia of popular culture, I have achieved a breakthrough. Welcome to Zavvi UK, the home of Pop Culture. My Advice: Pick up the Jeremy Brett series DVDs instead. The game is afoot, and Sherlock Holmes is the sleuth to solve the case This wonderful collection of Sherlock Holmes adventures features the strong acting of. ![]() Anamorphic: N/A appears in its original 1.33:1 format. (And make no mistake, it wants to be a franchise - the movie leaves off where a sequel could handily pick right up.) Yet although we appreciate the shot of adrenaline that the director of far-edgier movies like RocknRolla and Snatch brings to the Holmes legend, Ritchie seems to have decided to film a superhero movie instead. Released by: Hallmark Home Entertianment. Sherlock Holmes has the sooty, gritty look and feel of bygone London, and Ritchie, no surprise, brings out the franchise's pugnacious side. Though Downey Jr.'s Holmes is clearly the genius, Watson is no afterthought - and the film is so much better for that. and Law are entertaining to watch, standing shoulder to shoulder Law's Watson, in fact, is no sidekick here. Guy Ritchie's film is ostensibly about a detective, but in this version, it's also about two buddies who've had a lifetime of adventure, making the friendship between Holmes and Watson seem both believable and relatable. |