Las Vegas Stardust yet again, FREE RECIPE!!, Water Powered cars for Las Vegas?

click on images to enlarge Las Vegas Stardust VERY SHORTLY BEFORE IMPLOSION
(1:56 am, 3/13/07)

Las Vegas Stardust VERY, VERY SHORTLY AFTER IMPLOSION

(2:35 am, 3/13/07)

L.E. Fant's regular, superior readers will note the qualification of the adverb "shortly" by use of the word "very." Hopefully this will end the discussion regarding L.E.'s use of "shortly" in a previous post as surely as the end of the Las Vegas Stardust is apparent in the lower picture.

FREE RECIPE FOR L.E.'s SUPERIOR READERS:

Many Poll Respondents eat chicken often. The following recipe may be welcomed by them.

L.E. Fant of Las Vegas’s Very Easy yet Extremely Tasty Las Vegas Style Chicken Piccata for Two (or one hungry eater) (Less than 30 minutes from start to eating):

Ingredients:
One skinless, boneless chicken breast ½ cup or so of flour, two Tbs capers, ¼ cup lemon juice, 3 Tbs butter, 3 Tbs olive oil, parsley (chopped) for garnish, 1/3 cup chicken stock (if out substitute with water), salt and pepper.

Method:
Butterfly (slice its thickness in half) the chicken breast and cut into two pieces.
Season lightly with salt and pepper (both sides) and dredge in flour.
In a skillet over low medium heat melt 2 Tbs butter and 3 Tbs olive oil. When sizzling place chicken breast in skillet. Cook three minutes, until lightly brown and turn over. Cook a further three minutes and remove from pan.
Add lemon juice, stock and capers to the skillet and bring to boil. Scrape bits from bottom of pan for flavor. Return chicken to pan and gently simmer for five minutes.
Plate chicken with vegetables of choice (maybe mashed spuds and a green or spaghetti squash, or rice, or…).
Add remaining butter to sauce and stir in with fork. Pour over chicken and garnish with the chopped parsley.

Enjoy with a glass of white.

TODAY'S GAME:

http://www.playedonline.com/game/1603/Video-Poker.html is all about our city, Las Vegas. Hope you enjoyed yesterday's game.

ALTERNATIVE TO CORN FED COW MEAT.

L.E. Found this site when looking for alternative to corn raised chemically adulterated cow meat and now shares it with his readers:
http://www.grasslandbeef.com/

WATER POWERED CARS FOR LAS VEGAS?

A regular reader pointed L.E. to:
http://www.runyourcarwithwater.com/. The site promises an inexpensive system which produces hydrogen gas from water. The gas is introduced into the car's intake manifold and burns with the usual gasoline. It is claimed that 70% or so gas mileage improvement may occur. Fact or Fiction?

EVEN MORE LAS VEGAS DRIVERS' GAS SAVING TIPS TOMORROW!

Meanwhile check with www.automotive.com/gas-prices for our Las Vegas gas prices.

The Las Vegas Stardust will not go away!!! Solar Lamp Update

click on images to enlarge STOP PRESS. Las Vegas, NV, Sunday March 30, 2008, 1:55 p.m.

L.E.Fant of Las Vegas accused of misleading populace regarding Stardust photograph.

L.E. has been much maligned by Ray the Las Vegas Idiot (self confessed).http://lasvegasidiot.com/

On this occasion the Idiot takes exception to L.E.'s use of the adjective "shortly" when L.E. used that word to describe an image of the Las Vegas Stardust taken "shortly" before its implosion.

L.E. offers the following statement as clarification and rejection of the Idiot's claims:

"A “Roy of Las Vegas” (apparently the self confessed Las Vegas Idiot) commented that L.E.’s recently posted photograph of the Las Vegas Stardust shortly before implosion” was a misnomer as L.E. incorrectly used the adverb “shortly.” He further asked when the photograph was actually taken and asked who is L.E. kidding.
The subject image was captured on 10/31/2006 at precisely 7:08:06 PM by L.E.'s camera. The Las Vegas Stardust implosion occurred on 3/13/07, some five months later.
L.E. believes and, therefore, argues that “shortly” is a subjective term. He further argues that the subject five months period relative to the fifty years or so of the Las Vegas Stardust’s existence is “in a short time, in the near future or soon” as defined by many trusted dictionaries of the English language. Therefore, L.E. Fant of Las Vegas’s use of the word “shortly” in this instance was correct and is wholly supported by the above persuasive argument even for the more pedantic of L.E.'s superior readers.

SOLAR LAMP UPDATE:

L.E. Fant of Las Vegas is excited regarding the good news contained in this update!
The “tuned up” solar lamp is back on station. Apparently an abnormality occurred with its microprocessor which limited its output. The lamp was resurrected on Friday and has been performing in a stellar fashion since.
The light output is now increased eightfold! The actual reading is now 180 foot candles, which reading was previously approximately 23 foot candles. By comparison a two mantle gas lamp (with both mantles intact and burning) was tested to output 130 foot candles with the same meter. The “new” lamp throws a white patch of light onto the sidewalk and provides sufficient light to illuminate a person/vehicle on the closest lane of the adjacent road. Of course the community is further illuminated when individual owners switch on their carriage lamps-making a safer environment.
As the output of the solar lamp is greater than that of the existing gas lamp and the solar lamp supplies that output throughout the night, with a reserve capacity for cloudy days, it is definitely a serious contender to replace existing gas lamps. Particularly as the gas company has removed their prohibitive “capping” charges.
L.E. congratulates the local Las Vegas manufacturer of these lamps and is proud that his community was selected by them to participate in this trial.

POLL RESULTS:

60% of respondents claim a Pacman score of above 3,000. L.E. applauds their efforts!

http://www.freepacman.org/welcome.html

NEW GAME:

This one is indeed a hoary (note spelling Ray and his tribe, perhaps check a dictionary) old chestnut: http://www.playedonline.com/game/1130/Tetris.html

L.E. will provide his L.E. Fant of Las Vegas’s Easy yet Extremely Tasty Chicken Piccata for Two (Less than 30 minutes from start to eating) recipe tomorrow!!!

NEW VERY IMPORTANT POLL TOMORROW

Las Vegas Stardust Memories-Good or Bad? Las Vegas Solar Lamp update, Yet another electric car for Las Vegas, Gas Price Poll & more.

click on image to enlarge STARDUST AT IMPLOSION-Do you recall the date?

POLL RESULTS:

100% of respondents voted that they are not entirely happy with the care they receive from their PCM. This is a warning that we should be extremely vigilant to ensure our best interests are being pursued by physicians. Knowledge is our best defense as are second opinions. Please use the many resources available on the web to understand your conditions as best you can.

PHYSICIANS PLEASE TAKE NOTE !!

SOLAR UPDATE:
The solar street lamp on test at L.E.’s Las Vegas community has been taken back to the factory for evaluation by its engineering department (here in the Las Vegas area) against the laboratory standard lamp after four weeks of being on test in L.E.'s Las Vegas community.
The most interesting test (for L.E.) is whether the lamp now provides as much or more light output throughout the night as existing gas lamps or whether further engineering is required to meet that standard.
Last evening the manufacturer brought some board members from a neighboring community to see the lamp in action. Also a low voltage alternative was demonstrated. While the low voltage system is clearly brighter than the solar lamp and gas lamp, its installation is problematical, as all owners need to allow trenching and access to power at their residences.
Should the solar lamps prove a success (and there is no apparent reason why they should not) they will likely be a huge cost saving to Las Vegas communities as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions substantially. The savings may be used to provide security patrols or other measures to make our communities safer places in which to live.

YET ANOTHER ELECTRIC CAR FOR LAS VEGAS:
This one is from China and is marketed by a California company based in San Luis Obispo. The vehicle apparently has a range of around 50 miles per charge and is limited in speed so as to be a NEV (neighborhood electric vehicle) which may, L.E. believes, (in Las Vegas) be used on streets which have a 35 mph speed limit.
L.E. is disappointed that the MSRP is at $10,000 and is of the opinion that if closer to $5,000 many would be sold, whereas, value is not apparent at the former figure. NEV’s do not have the safety items such as airbags as do regular vehicles, nor are they tested for safety by our government, therefore, huge cost savings should be available to the consumer which savings are not apparent.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Other-Makes-Revolution-Electric-Cars-2-Dr-Coupe-100-plug-in-Electric-Car-Brand-New-NEV_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ6472QQihZ009QQitemZ190208196118QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW

Meanwhile today’s poll is to gauge how many Dollars we now spend on gas each month. Please participate.
www.automotive.com/gas-prices

DID YOU TAKE SOME TIME TO PLAY PACMAN?
http://www.freepacman.org/welcome.html

L.E.’s LAS VEGAS FISH DISH A HUGE SUCCESS!

L.E. is pleased that his free Las Vegas Fish Dish recipe has been enjoyed by so many. Its simplicity and balance of flavors and textures (AND LACK OF "FISHY" SMELL) make it appear on his menu at least weekly. He is testing the Las Vegas Easy Yet Extremely Tasty Chicken Dish for you now and hopes to provide it very soon. Later he may share a Cornish pasty recipe which has been handed down for generations. As a child L.E. used to be sent to Cornwall to stay with a family whose head (named Fred) was a prisoner of war buddy of L.E.’s father. During L.E.’s stay he would consume many piping hot pasties. Last year L.E. visited Cornwall and the widow of Fred, now over 90 years of age. L.E. noted her recipe and will share it with you soon. It will use cow meat as an ingredient (Yes George-cow meat).


WE HAVE NOW LOST 4,000 AMERICANS, MANY ALLIES AND COUNTLESS IRAQIS IN THE IRAQ FIASCO:
Yet both major parties (or as L.E. believes talking heads for corporate America and the industrial/military complex) still avoid and evade definitive withdrawal schedules. It appears that the lessons learned from the Vietnam experience (which caused/prompted L.E. to spent 6 years of his youth in armed service) have been forgotten.

Only one Presidential candidate is unambiguous on this issue: http://www.votenader.org/