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Manchester Pipe Band: Glasgow Lands 2007
MSR: Links of Forth, Ewe With the Crooked Horn, The Smith of Chilliechassie
disaster dining
from Tony Nester of Ancient Pathways, an Arizona-based survival school:
DandelionsBenefits: Vitamin A, serious roughage
Taste: Like arugula, without the spice–or flavor
How to prepare: Pop the heads off the flowers, discard, rinse the leaves and roots, and chow down on a true-weed salad.Cattails
Benefits: Vitamin D, carbohydrates
Taste: Like a cucumber, only grosser
How to prepare: Peel the stalk from the root up and eat, or roast first for 40 minutes to an hour, then peel and eat.Pine needles
Benefits: Vitamin C
Taste: Like furniture polish
How to prepare: Simmer a handful of needles in water (don’t boil, or you’ll kill the nutrients), and drink it like tea. Enjoy the Pine-Sol aroma.Acorns
Benefits: Protein, portable
Taste: White oak acorns (round leaf) taste like biter walnuts; red oak (jagged leaf) taste how a burning tire smells.
How to prepare: Roast whites; boil reds two hours
personality profile
Your Personality Profile
| Trait | Percentage | |
|---|---|---|
| Openness | 56% | |
| Conscientiousness | 63% | |
| Extraversion | 31% | |
| Agreeableness | 75% | |
| Neuroticism | 29% |
Last updated on: 19 May 2008 (Update Now)
Trait Explanations
Openness
You are aware of your feelings but don`t get carried away with your imagination either. You embrace change when it is necessary while still resisting it when it is not. Beauty is important, but it`s not everything. Approximately 11.5% of the population has a lower openness score than this.
Conscientiousness
You avoid forseeable trouble through purposefully planning and achieve success through persistence. You are reliable and in control of your life. Approximately 54% of the population has a lower conscientiousness score than this.
Extroversion
You prefer low-key social occasions, with a few close friends. It`s not that you are afraid of large parties; they`re just not that fun. Approximately 5.5% of the population has a lower extroeversion score than this.
Agreeableness
People get along with you easily. You are considerate and friendly, and think that other people are generally honest and decent. Approximately 75.8% of the population has a lower agreeableness score than this.
Neuroticism
You are calm and emotionally stable. Things rarely bother you, and when they do get you down the feeling does not persist for long. Approximately 21% of the population has a lower neuroticism score than this.
