Ground Beef Hash
1 1/2 pounds ground chuck
1 (32 ounce) package hash brown potatoes, thawed
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 chopped onion
1 cup water
Salt and pepper, to taste
1 package brown gravy mix
1 tablespoon margarine
Brown ground chuck in a nonstick skillet until no longer pink; drain. Place in crockpot.
Combine chopped onion, garlic powder, potatoes, salt and pepper to taste. Pour over meat in crockpot. Stir.
Mix gravy and boiling water. Pour over mixture. Dot with margarine. Cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours.
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"In this book I hope to reach a new audience with the positive message of Americas greatest music, to show how great musicians demonstrate on the bandstand a mutual respect and trust that can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your lifefrom individual creativity and personal relationships to conducting business and understanding what it means to be American in the most modern sense."
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Q: Youre a musician and composer. Why did you write this book, which is about life and lots of other things besides jazz?
A: When I first decided to become a musician, at the age of 12 or 13, I was inspired by my father, and by the New Orleans jazz tradition. I was under the impression that I had only to learn the fundamentals of music--rhythm, melody, harmony, texture--to progress as a musician. What I didnt know then was that over the next three decades, jazz music would teach me many significant things about living. This book grew out of ten years of conversatins with my friend Geoff Ward, and is my attempt to share some of itabout how important it is to be yourself in the world, and at the same time create while respecting the creativity of others.
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A: Too often in life, petty squabbles and small-mindedness keep us from realizing a higher purpose. In jazz, that higher purpose is not theoretical: We want to sound good. And when we do, you can hear what its like when people are really trying to get along. Its purely human: In Jazz, you can mess up and still come together, still move together to higher ground. The title means ascending through engagement.
Q: You suggest that the ideas at the heart of jazz can carry over into everyday life. How so?
A: Lets take two ideas in jazz that are most central: swinging and the blues.
Swinging is the art of negotiation with someone else, under the pressure of time. It shows you how opposites can come together, without compromising who they are. The one who plays the highest-sounding instrument in the rhythm section--the time-keeping cymbal--has to find a way of working with the one who plays the lowest instrument, the bass. And the bass player, who plays the softest instrument, has to find a way of working with the player of the loudest, the drums. To succeed, everybody has to have a very clear idea of the common goal: What exactly are we here to do? In jazz we know: swing. In life, if everyone involved can agree on a primary objective, a group can accomplish almost anything.
The blues is many things--a musical form, a distinctive sound, a universal feeling--but above all, the blues is survival music. Its message is simple: things are never so bad that they cant get any better. Its about crying over something, actually wailing--and its about coming back. The words may be sad but the dancing shuffle (the definitive rhythm of the blues) is always happy or heading toward happiness. The blues is about what is--and what is has demons and angels sitting at the same table. Thats a bitter-sweet and realistic message about life that everybody needs, that everybody can hear and respond to. Ive heard people respond to it, all over the world.
Q: How do jazz principles apply to, say, holding a successful meeting?
A: If you come to a meeting without an agenda its probably not going to be a very good meeting. In jazz improvisation, the agenda is the form of the song. But an agenda alone doesnt guarantee success. If everybody feels free to participate, unexpected things are sure to come up and will have to be dealt with intelligently. Thats true in jazz improvisation, too. Things are bound to come up. Some need to be discarded right away. Others need to be expounded upon. Anyone in the rhythm section playing along behind the soloist can decide, "Hey, we need to investigate this further." And the soloist can respond, "Yeah, lets go into that." Its a system of checks and balances, but what makes it work is the fact that everybody is listening and responding to what the soloist is saying without ever forgetting the agenda. Thats a pretty good model for swinging, and for getting things done.
Q: How do jazz principles apply to a family?
The central relationship on the bandstand is between the bass and the drums. Theyre opposites of volume and register. The drums are the loudest and the swung cymbal is the highest-pitched while the bass is the softest and lowest-pitched. In order to swing, the right-hand stroke on the cymbal must find the right-hand pluck of the bass on every beat. While it is impossible to line those beats up with metronomic perfection it is possible to achieve a perfect intent to be together. Thats what you would like to see with a mama and a daddy. They represent gender opposites. While they try to come together to solve a problem we can go in the direction of a good time. When they dont--when one is too loud or the other is unyielding--it becomes a matter of endurance, not swinging.
Q: What can jazz teach us about our feelings and ourselves as individuals?
A: Were all given the gift of creativity. It comes out in all kinds of ways--the way we talk or dress or cook or whistle. I remember when I was a kid my friends and I used to see who could cut grass in the most creative way. But many times young people are put down for having a gift or skill that doesnt fit with somebody elses idea of what he or she should do with their lives. Jazz is the opposite of that. It tells you, "Thats you! Take pride in this thing. Express yourself. Your sound is unique. Work on it. Understand it." Often it teaches you to celebrate yourself.
When we talk about expressing feelings in jazz, we mean spiritual feelings, empathetic feelings, feelings that are beyond thought. In jazz, musical ideas move too quickly for you to stop and analyze or to formulate a lie. By the time you think about it, that moment of music is long gone. Jazz teaches you to cherish how you feel in the moment. It puts a premium on having faith in the people youre playing with. Because the second you lose that faith and start to question what theyre doing, the distraction takes your mind off the music and onto bad decisions that you will surely begin to make. The combination of emotional honesty and mutual trust that jazz demands can help you if applied to almost any field.
Q: How can jazz help you understand your own friends and family better?
A: At first it may seem like a paradox, but jazz helps you understand other people by teaching you that you never really know anybody. When you play music with someone--even someone you think you know really well--theyll play things you dont expect and cant anticipate. Youll go in one direction, based on what you think is going to happen and theyll take a completely different path. Jazz lets people be free, and to surprise you--and them. It doesnt let you mail in your response or let you lump people into categories that turn out to be meaningless.
It also shows you that people, even geniuses, evolve over time. The Duke Ellington who played in 1931 was very different from the Duke of 1961. So you learn to be patient with other people and respect the progress theyve made and are still capable of making. One of the biggest challenges in dealing with friends and family is communication and more communication. Jazz forces us to communicate with people while recognizing their objectives, and over objectives, and where we can come together.
Q: How is jazz related to America, the country that created it?
A: This art form was created to explain who we are. We have rights and responsibilities in the music just as we do as citizens. The Constitution can be amended and songs can always be added to or changes. In jazz we place a premium on the individuals right to self-expression but we also insist on checks and balances between one persons rights infringing on another--the soloists and the rhythm section have to work things out together. Otherwise the piece is a mess.
Jazz allows us to improvise, to negotiate with one another. Its the sound of many people coming together in one thing. You might be from Chicago and be Jewish but you can stand on this bandstand with a Creole from New Orleans and when both of yall play, youll agree on what sounds good, and youll agree on it because you both can hear it. Its democracy in action and it allows us, for all our faults, to see the success of our history. It tells us who we have been, who we are now, and who we can be in the future.
Q: Why is jazz especially relevant today?
A: This country is looking for change. Just look at whats going on: An African American and a woman were leading contenders for the presidency; Big questions of race and identity; millions of brand-new voters turning out. Barack Obama carrying southern states in the primaries with a charismatic message of coming together. Its a different time in our country and I think its the perfect time for this music.
Now, jazz has always been timely because it deals with the timeless issues of people, and of our democracy. Louis Armstrong dealt with them. So did Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman. But if you listen to political candidates today, they almost never talk about culture. Its never really been part of our national dialogue and it should be, because its the best was for us actually to come together. We talk a lot about having national conversations and weve tried legislating unity. But we need to understand that art can bring people who are different together. Jazz provides a context for all the experiences we as human beings share.
The direction of our culture is ascendant. Jazz is a perfect embodiment of that. Jazz is ascendant. If we take a long view of the past 150 years, we wont come to the conclusion that things are getting worse. We still have problems of corruption and greed. Jazz can provide a good antidote for them, too. To maintain their integrity, musicians have had to make many decisions that placed substance over commercial success. Jazz musicians have always aspired to an almost Utopian vision of a country in which everybody would come together and swing.
The contemporary excitement around empowering people is not new to jazz. Jazz is empowerment. Its first great achievement was to empower individual musicians to take part in the creative process through improvisation. Participation is essential to a healthy American democracy, and its essential to Americas greatest music, too. Everybody has to participate to make it sound good. Whether youre playing or listening, you have to be active. If youre just sitting there and waiting for something to happen, nothing will. I hope this book will empower as many people as possible to take part by showing how an understanding of jazz and its principles can change your life, and our lives together.
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Immerse yourself in the most detailed skating environement ever with Tony Hawk: Proving Ground. In this game, no ground is sacred - skate on anything that holds still long enough, and sneak into spots only you can find by way of ladder, rooftop or even sewer! Just watch out for security guards who will toss you out of the choice locations. There's more to it than just idle skating - assert your authority by skate-checking jerks who get in your way, or compete in races to impress other skaters! No need to be content with existing bowls and ramps, either - there are a number of moddable objects in every city, so you can knock over billboards, bend lamp posts, and rearrange your world as you see fit. There's even a new personalizable feature - your very own skate lounge! You can stock it full of ramps, gear, flat-screens, cars or even helicopters, and get rewarded with lounge additions by taking on skate challenges and competitions. With all this, plus customized skating avatars, the ability to create your own skate videos and hundreds of skater challenges with different rewards, Tony Hawk: Proving Ground takes the traditonal skateboarding game above and beyond. Multiple levels of moddable objects in every city - use the hammer tool to kink rails, bend lamp posts, knock over billboards, and pull up grates Earn money in the game to customize your own skate lounge Shoot, edit and score your own skate videos. Fully customize your character's deck, style, clothes and attitude ESRB Rated T for Teen
Ground Control 2View This Product at Amazon
Ground Control 2 is an incredible real-time combat simulation that combines ground tactics with space-based warfare. The game takes place 300 years after the first Ground Control game - The planet Morningstar was once a free democracy, but years of attacks from the Terran Empire have turned it into a military state, controlled by the Northern Star Alliance. Command the remaining NSA forces, trying to defend Morningstar from a superior invading force -- or fight to control Morningstar as a Terran military leader. Both sides will be watching the alien Virons, trying to figure out what their next move will be.
Shadowgrounds SurvivorView This Product at Amazon
Shadowgrounds Survivor, an offshoot/sequel to the underground PC hit Shadowgrounds, tells the story of three survivors who join forces with the last remaining human resistance in the heated battle against the ongoing alien onslaught. The acclaimed atmosphere and gameplay mechanics of the original Shadowgrounds make a triumphant return armed with a new feature set!
New graphics enhancements, including raging snowstorm effects, new weapon effects and much more! Integrated physics that bring the world alive with hundreds of physics objects, taking the destruction to the next level New original soundtrack composed by praised Shadowgrounds composer Ari Pulkkinen On-disc Editor tools, sample missions and modding Wiki for easy modding; take part in the Shadowgrounds mod community and create mods for the Campaign or the Survival mode - or just enjoy the results of others! ESRB Rated M for Mature
Ground ControlView This Product at Amazon
Ground Control ignites the stagnant real-time strategy genre with magnificent 3-D visuals, dazzling special effects, and enthralling gameplay. The game eschews typical real-time strategy conventions by forgoing resource collection completely. Instead, you're provided with a handful of troops--which you can custom-select before each single-player mission or multiplayer game--and dropped on maps filled with rolling terrain and tight chokepoints.
Strategic unit placement takes priority over the size of an attacking force. Placing units on elevations improves accuracy; concealing units in shadows make them harder to hit; and flanking heavily armored units is vital, since armor is usually weaker in the rear than in the front.
Dozens of units are available, including different models of armored personnel carriers, infantry, tanks, artillery, and aircraft. Most feature special weapons, such as mortars or grenade launchers, designed to take out specific units or structures. Despite the impressive visual and sound effects, Ground Control's arsenal of units tends to blend together, lacking distinction and personality. This is a minor gripe, though, against a game with such impressive visuals and gameplay.
Ground Control's intuitive control system complements its flashy 3-D engine. Players can rotate and tilt the camera at any angle, from a bird's-eye viewpoint far above the action to a trooper's-eye view in the middle of a firefight. Important battle commands, such as unit formations and aggression levels, are seamlessly presented onscreen and are easily available for use.
Robust multiplayer features enable players to test their tactics over the Internet or local area network against human opponents. Gamers can participate in deathmatch, free-for-all, and team play as well as unique games such as flagzones (gain control of particular territories) and--a first for the strategy genre--"drop-in" games where players can enter and leave active games at any time.
Massive Entertainment has created an impressive package. Ground Control's excellent single-player missions, accessible multiplayer modes, and topnotch gameplay make it one of the best strategy games of the year. --Doug Radcliffe
Pros:
- Engaging spin on the real-time strategy genre
- Breathtaking 3-D accelerated visuals; both terrain and units are crisp and detailed
- Intuitive camera system and control interface
- Eschews resource gathering, a staple of real-time strategy, and emphasizes action and tactics
- Excellent multiplayer support
- The heavily mechanized units lack personality
Voit® 8-1/2" Playground Balls (EA)View This Product at Amazon
Our traditional favorite. The most widely used playground ball in the country!