I have worked hard to up my BBQ game. After a few years of missteps and ruined meals, it all started to make sense and the recipes were getting better. Many pages of notes, and a pile of receipts from my butcher shop later, I began to be recognized locally as a pretty good BBQ cook. I then progressed to competing in some cook-off events, where my real education began. I learned methods and styles of BBQ that I never knew existed. Slowly, I caught on to this style of BBQ and started placing with good finishes in the events. After learning the competition side of this kind of BBQ, I had to bring it back to my beginnings as a backyard cook. As much as I enjoy competition-style BBQ, it is much more expensive and time-consuming to do. For these reasons, it is not really good to do it for a church group, or a small catering job for a wedding or birthday party. We, my wife and I, also cook for some community events to support different causes and charities. These are usually the BBQ cooks that we enjoy the most. My goal here is to bring new cooks into the BBQ world with a little knowledge that hopefully cuts down on the trial and error of developing their own recipes. I wrote these recipes to be easy to follow and understand. I encourage the new cook to be brave, try new stuff, and keep notes. Remember that even a total mistake and unrecognizable finished product is still a valuable learning event. Do not be afraid to experiment a little; you will soon have your own book of BBQ secrets to guard. As you begin to be known as the BBQ guy or girl/lady in your neighborhood, be proud of what you have accomplished. Also, remember that you do not need the biggest, most expensive equipment out there to be a good cook. I always tell folks to buy what you can easily afford now, and upgrade later. Have fun, be brave, and use common sense when cooking. Welcome to the greatest community of cooks in the world! Smoke on, my BBQ brothers and sisters!
Features interviews of Sam Wooding, Benny Waters, Joe Tarto, Bud Freeman, Jimmy McPartland, Freddie Moore, and Jabbo Smith, and Bix Beiderbecke's letters to his family.
Collecting Marvel 2-In-One (2017) #7-12 And Marvel 2-In-One Annual (2018) #1. Powerless and lost, Ben Grimm and Johnny Storm must fight for their survival in a savage wasteland ruled by the Spider! Will this dreaded enemy destroy them or will the shocking revelations they face do it first? Then, its a new life in a new town on a strange world. Everything has changed for the broken people once known as the Thing and the Human Torch. But can they repair things before one of their oldest villains puts the final nail in the coffin of the Fantastic Four? Wait, did someone mention the FF? Theyre back! But theres something not quite right about them. Plus: The Thing and his oldest enemy in new armor the Infamous Iron Man! And the 2-IN-ONE team-up youve all waited years for!
Veteran journalist Chip Walter takes us deep inside Silicon Valley's boardrooms and the world's most advanced biomedical labs to reveal the incredible new science of extending human lifespan. Here are the bold business moves funded by Google and made by Apple chairman and Calico CEO Arthur Levinson; the pioneering stem cell techniques developed by scientist Robert Hariri; the transformative enterprises established by genomics genius Craig Venter; and the mind-bending future envisioned by thought leader Ray Kurzweil--all pointing toward a time not too long from now when we will live without disease or diminished faculties far beyond the age of 100. It's an audacious cast of characters, and through their stories you will come to understand how groundbreaking discoveries in gene therapy, molecular biology, and artificial intelligence are cracking the aging process--and could even lead to immortality. As Walter reveals, the quest to cheat death isn't science fiction anymore. It's real, it's serious, and it will change absolutely everything--including our definition of what it means to be alive."--Dust jacket.
Why is it so hard to make lasting changes in our companies, in our communities, and in our own lives? The primary obstacle is a conflict that's built into our brains, say Chip and Dan Heath, authors of the critically acclaimed bestseller Made to Stick. Psychologists have discovered that our minds are ruled by two different systems - the rational mind and the emotional mind - that compete for control. The rational mind wants a great beach body; the emotional mind wants that Oreo cookie. The rational mind wants to change something at work; the emotional mind loves the comfort of the existing routine. This tension can doom a change effort - but if it is overcome, change can come quickly. In Switch, the Heaths show how everyday people - employees and managers, parents and nurses - have united both minds and, as a result, achieved dramatic results: ● The lowly medical interns who managed to defeat an entrenched, decades-old medical practice that was endangering patients ● The home-organizing guru who developed a simple technique for overcoming the dread of housekeeping ● The manager who transformed a lackadaisical customer-support team into service zealots by removing a standard tool of customer service In a compelling, story-driven narrative, the Heaths bring together decades of counterintuitive research in psychology, sociology, and other fields to shed new light on how we can effect transformative change. Switch shows that successful changes follow a pattern, a pattern you can use to make the changes that matter to you, whether your interest is in changing the world or changing your waistline.
These two stories, one set in St Tropez, the other in Venice, evoke the allure of Europe over an Anglo-American sensibility in the last quarter of the 20th century. The first depicts a journey in early adulthood, the second a rumination in ripening middle age. Though dissimilar in style, as in time of life and setting, both narratives play on common motifs of cultural attraction and resistance. While emotional dilemmas and apprehensions ensnare the main characters, the sounds and colours of the two gorgeous locations seem to intensify in power, helping to impel the respective plots towards their precarious conclusions.
Since classical times, philosophers and physicians have identified anger as a human frailty that can lead to violence and human suffering, but with the development of a modern science of abnormal psychology and mental disorders, it has been written off as merely an emotional symptom and excluded from most accepted systems of psychiatric diagnosis. Yet despite the lack of scientific recognition, anger-related violence is often in the news, and courts are increasingly mandating anger management treatment. It is time for a fresh scientific examination of one of the most fundamental human emotions and what happens when it becomes pathological, and this thorough, persuasive book offers precisely such a probing analysis.Using both clinical data and a variety of case studies, esteemed anger researchers Raymond A. DiGiuseppe and Raymond Chip Tafrate argue for a new diagnostic classification, Anger Regulation and Expression Disorder, that will help bring about clinical improvements and increased scientific understanding of anger. After situating anger in both historical and emotional contexts, they report research that supports the existence of several subtypes of the disorder and review treatment outcome studies and new interventions to improve treatment. The first book that fully explores anger as a clinical phenomenon and provides a reliable set of assessment criteria, it represents a major step toward establishing the clear definitions and scientific basis necessary for assessing, diagnosing, and treating anger disorders.
Chip Deffaa profiles Ruth Brown, the most popular female black singer of the early 1950s; LaVern Baker, who succeeded Brown; Little Jimmy Scott, who Madonna calls the only singer who ever really made her cry; Charles Brown, master of the "club blues" style he popularized; Floyd Dixon, a more rambunctious fellow traveler; and Jimmy Witherspoon, whose blend of earthiness and urbanity helped earn him as big an r&b hit as was ever recorded.
I have worked hard to up my BBQ game. After a few years of missteps and ruined meals, it all started to make sense and the recipes were getting better. Many pages of notes, and a pile of receipts from my butcher shop later, I began to be recognized locally as a pretty good BBQ cook. I then progressed to competing in some cook-off events, where my real education began. I learned methods and styles of BBQ that I never knew existed. Slowly, I caught on to this style of BBQ and started placing with good finishes in the events. After learning the competition side of this kind of BBQ, I had to bring it back to my beginnings as a backyard cook. As much as I enjoy competition-style BBQ, it is much more expensive and time-consuming to do. For these reasons, it is not really good to do it for a church group, or a small catering job for a wedding or birthday party. We, my wife and I, also cook for some community events to support different causes and charities. These are usually the BBQ cooks that we enjoy the most. My goal here is to bring new cooks into the BBQ world with a little knowledge that hopefully cuts down on the trial and error of developing their own recipes. I wrote these recipes to be easy to follow and understand. I encourage the new cook to be brave, try new stuff, and keep notes. Remember that even a total mistake and unrecognizable finished product is still a valuable learning event. Do not be afraid to experiment a little; you will soon have your own book of BBQ secrets to guard. As you begin to be known as the BBQ guy or girl/lady in your neighborhood, be proud of what you have accomplished. Also, remember that you do not need the biggest, most expensive equipment out there to be a good cook. I always tell folks to buy what you can easily afford now, and upgrade later. Have fun, be brave, and use common sense when cooking. Welcome to the greatest community of cooks in the world! Smoke on, my BBQ brothers and sisters!
A New York Times Bestseller Theodore Roosevelt, accidental president, and Joseph Bishop, newspaper editor, met when the future Rough Rider was police commissioner of New York City. This is the remarkable story of mutual loyalty and dedication that ranges from police corruption on the streets of New York, through days of boldness and courage in the White House, to ambition and hardship in the jungles of Panama and beyond.
Suspense wraps each page of Chip Ballard’s gripping novel, Peace River, set in the small, rural, central Florida town, Flowing Wells. This finely crafted whodunit keeps the reader guessing until the end as it hurdles through a tangled web of lies, deception, perversion, and murder. When the body of Pinewood County’s most promising senior, Sandy Carlton, is found face down on the bank of Peace River with a bullet in the back of her head, Pinewood County Sheriff Charlie Morris’s investigation takes him to a very dark corner of a sleepy Southern town. At first Charlie cannot imagine anyone having cause to kill the popular student. But soon he begins to realize any number of people could have wanted her dead, and even he is shocked at secrets that are exposed. Chip Ballard’s impressive first novel is murderously good. “Peace River” peers behind the calm facade of life in small-town Florida to find a deadly mix of drugs, greed, sex and high-school jealousy. Ballard’s writing is crisp and clean, his plotting is impeccable, and he’ll introduce you to some characters you only think you know and like. There’s a lot going on in this novel and every bit of it is entertaining. Be ready for some surprises and don’t trust anyone you meet as “Peace River” keeps you turning the pages. —Rick Wilber, author of “The Cold Road,” “My Father’s Game,” and the forthcoming mystery “Rum Point.” Dr. Rick Wilber School of Mass Communications University of South Florida
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