|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Two Worlds
Xbox 360 is the number one“ and two“ choice for Xmas Microsoft today firmly positioned Xbox 360 as the best value gaming gift this Christmas with the announcement of two incredible bundle deals allowing gamers of all budgets to enjoy the worlds most powerful games console. Africa's two vices in two worlds About the time the South African Parliament was voting overwhelmingly to legalise same-sex unions, President Mwai Kibaki was appending his signature on statement announcing the return of two former Cabinet Ministers who quit their positions early this year owing to corruption allegations.
On Wednesday evening many Kenyans watched the prime time news with a mixture of outrage and horror. Outrage that President Kibaki had the audacity to bring back to Government people who had had their integrity brought to question and horror that our brothers and sisters down South had fallen so low as to legalise immorality. Morality or lack of it should be the operative word here. While in South Africa they are letting go of people, allowing them to do as they like so long as they remember that their freedom ends where the next guy's nose begins, in Kenya, we are letting go of the corrupt licensing them to do as they wish as long as they are not in the enemy political camp. A decade ago when there were not too many new cars around, car stickers were in common use. Two of these stickers that were of particular interest to me would read ‘An unclean car is sign of a healthy mind’ and ‘Sick minds do not watch movies’. My car was overage. It would not look clean even after servicing, shampooing and polishing. Rather, interference would make its invisible depressions visible. So, I did not wash it that often. I kept it because it used to behave. The sticker was an affordable punch. The diagnosis related to movie watching was not that inappropriate either; at some point in life one wants to see on screen something beyond the blood in the streets and the dances in cornfields. Absurdities and art, no matter how nicely mixed and beautifully presented, do not attract.
Regina Spektor has been favorably (if not always accurately) compared to so many notable artists - from Fiona Apple and PJ Harvey to Nina Simone and Ella Fitzgerald - that it's difficult not to roll your eyes. Two worlds: the global gender divide During the past three months I have had the pleasure of being a host mom to two young female participants of an international educational program for youth that emphasizes volunteerism and community development in a cross-cultural setting. My two guests came from two distinct cultural communities. One from Delhi, India, and the other is Acadian-born and raised in Winnipeg. This cultural and ethnic mix of women made for interesting dinner conversations. While we all had ideas on how to save the world, our most distressing conversations surrounded the issue of gender and its impact on our life's choices. The Winnipeg resident wants to pursue her professional dreams and goals and feels pretty well assured that she will achieve them. She works hard, studies hard and envisions no major barrier to achieving her goals. Pie recipes offer a taste of two worlds Thanksgiving dinner at my house is all about dessert. Nobody argues with me about how to cook the turkey or beans; my family vacillates between wanting pecan pie and pumpkin pie. So we have both, because I can make several single servings of each. We can enjoy a taste from each, or hoard an entire pie. That way, we will not have three-quarters of two pies leftover from dinner. And everybody's happy. I still use my grandmother's basic pecan pie recipe, just in miniature. This Southern Pecan Pies for two has traditional flavor and texture. One year I added Southern Comfort to the recipe to spike it up a notch; that experiment was a keeper, and I'm passing on the option to you. The Dulce De Leche Pumpkin Pie is a decadent update of the classic. Rich milk caramel sauce and brandy go into the custard; the pie is rich and silky in texture |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
.gif){kind=small}
COPYRIGHT 2007-08 gamescollection.net All Rights Reserved. |