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With its amazing collection of quirky dresses, Annie's vintage clothes shop in Islington's Camden Passage knocks spots off most of the vintage clothing stores in London.
The fashion set love it. Everyone, including Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Nicole Farhi, Ralph Lauren and Donna Karan have raided the place for quirky trimmings, accessories and one off pieces such as feather capes, embroidered shawls, original flapper dresses and bias-cut numbers in fabulous prints. Kate Moss and Pearl Lowe are regulars.
The window always features a 'My Fair Lady' – style display of flowers, flouncy fabrics and a wonderful floaty dress. And, weather permitting, there's a bargain rail outside accompanied by a couple of baskets containing antique lace from £15 or pretty beaded wire flowers for around £5, which Annie buys from a market just outside Paris.
Still on the girlie theme, there's also a rail of white lacy petticoats, nightdresses and tops, and there's a constant supply of original Twenties mid-calf lace wedding dresses with silk underslips that sell for around £200. It's definitely worth a trip.
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Stools have an interesting history - During the Italian Renaissance, they were known as sgabelli, a specific type of back stools, a movable seat furniture in contrast with the chair, that had armrest and nowadays would be considered an armchair. Stools were made out of walnut and had a back.Today, stools may be of different shapes and dimensions. They are very much used in pubs. Customers sit at the counter and call for beers, but they are used a lot also in fashionable coffee shops and ordinary dining rooms. We do offer a lot of different kinds of stools.
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What is the going price per hive on almonds this year look like
What is the going price per hive on almonds this year look like
Why do you ask, are you sending hives to CA?
I ask, because if your no in the business of pollinating in CA, what does it matter.
Happy New Year to ALL.
The pollinators will be in either Phoenix, AZ @ the AHPA meeting or Las Vegas, NV for the ABF meetings in Jan, 2012 to find the answers because this is our business.
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
At this point in time there are plenty of bees available. In general there is a slight downward pressure on prices. I am hearing the number 140 repeatedly.
Many of which come from the East Coast. Not mine though.
Mark Berninghausen
Well Larry I am not pollinating in Ca. but I am looking at what i want to do next year. Thanks Tom for the reply
Tom , my word on the street is shortage, bees good quality, to many new trees, as stated at Almond board meeting, somewhere 50 to 80k new a acers on line this year. I have multiple growers that are increasing hive #,s by 25% or more just because they turned a new leaf.
GA.Beeman, I would suggest a good look at the total picture before you jump in, not all is what it seems.
A happy to new year to all, God will bless us all.
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
Because of drought and low prices new almond land being planted has been less than 30,000 acres per year since 2007. You also have to subtract out the old orchards being pulled. The big plantings from 2004-06 were in production last year. Bearing acreage has leveled off and will stay that way for at least four more years.
Up North ( sac north) things seem to be in the 140-150 range ( straight run.... no frame count as that's another price) Had a 15 k beekeeper dump a "backyard" contract in my lap last week as he had gained a 4.5 k hive contract nearer to home and was bailing out of "small ones" in my area. Growers seem fine at 140- 145.
Talked with a 50 year beekeeper yesterday and he said any attempts to go beyond that where being pushed back by the new guys who fly the green and red flag as well as the guys who fly the red flag. They seem to put a lot of downward pressure on price in the Arbuckle-williams area if not elsewhere as they operate with free GVT loans.
IF the heat and the dry weather keeps up its going to be an early bloom with all the funds received going to the syrup man once we bail out of the almonds. Great bee weather now but doesn't bode well for the future. The hills are the driest for early January that I've seen in 30 years. Growers watering orchards around home. Ours will be next week if the forecast has no rain for the week following. All the grass is stunted if existent at all.
Fresno Dadants branch has a list of over 10,000 colonies looking for pollination placement. Too many bees come out here without a contract, drop price to get placed.
On Monday alone I received calls from several Calif. beekeepers totaling over 4,000 hive looking for placement. We have a waiting list of over 12,000 hives looking for Almonds. If needed I could come up with 15,000 to 18,000 hives already sitting in Calif waiting for placement. We receive an average of two calls a day from growers shopping and kicking tires. They "claim" they are not paying more than $125.00 per hive.
"Success is all about attitude"
California Almond Pollination Services, Inc.
I will gladly rent a "hive" for $ 125 I can deliver 10,000 asap. Now if they want a crop, because that crop is based on pollination the smart grower will invest around $ 155 to $175 for excellent bee hives that have 8 + frames of bees, in fact they should be offering a bonus for greater frame count, for their is a direct correlation to $$$ in the growers pocket and thats the name of the game ROI. I currently have prices at 145 for 6 frame and 155 for 8 frame, this by the semi load pricing, smaller lots pay additional $5 per hive.
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
They "claim" they are not paying more than $125.00 per hive.
ok, just curious but when a grower comes to you with this price what is your response to the grower?
Sales class 101, the reason some growers are negotiating with the Beeks is, because they can , because we let them! Does that same grower negoitate with the water or fuel business, most likely not. Always dig for the real reason behind the person.
Larry Pender,Jubilee HoneyBee Company,Camarillo, CA
Hey Larry since you are so smart maybe you should start offering these classes to teach the rest of us
benstung....if you dont listen to Larry you will get stung again!
"Success is all about attitude"
California Almond Pollination Services, Inc.
I agree you might want to listen and LEARN from Larry.
"Success is all about attitude"
California Almond Pollination Services, Inc.
When it comes to setting, pollination prices Beekeepers are their own worst enemy.
Beekeepers are the ones that drive the pollination prices down.
Stop and think for a moment what would happen if there were no bees available to pollinate almonds!
There are few, if any, other industries in California that are experiencing such an increasingly wide disparity between the balances of supply and demand for services than the almond pollination industry. In economic terms, the demand for almond pollination services is almost a Perfectly Inelastic Demand. That is, the demand for bee colonies SHOULD exhibits zero responsiveness to price changes; no matter what the price, the quantity demanded remains the same.
There are no substitutes for bee pollination of almonds. Bees are essential to almond production: if the tree is NOT pollinated, it will NOT produce nuts.
In the classic Supply and Demand Curve, the demand curve slopes down from left to right indicating as price increase, demand decline; the Inelastic Demand Curve is vertical, if the almond grower requires an average of two colonies per acre, then the demand for 705,000 acres requires (demands) 1.4 million colonies. This represents over 57% of all the colonies in the United States.
California has approximately 500,000 colonies locally. Over one million, 71% of all colonies used to pollinate next season's Almond crop will be imported from other states and incurring substantial freight costs which should be passed on to the growers.
Theoretically, growers will pay whatever pollination price they have to if they can pass the cost on to the buyer. Growers as a group "bid for," or "bid up" the price of colonies.
While pollination services set the minimums, cost demands drive the cost of the hive up.
Obviously, from a practical standpoint growers will not pay pass a point for which they cannot recover their expense. Currently pollination fees account for 20% of the cost of production of almonds. The growers have a dilemma, if they do not pay for pollination services, the trees will not produce nuts. Current the world almond inventory supply is between 5–6 percent, which is considered a very low surplus. Those growers that do pay for pollination services will receive a premium for their almonds.
Demand for almonds are not Perfectly Inelastic, consumers do not and will not pay a higher price for almonds without affecting the demand. There are substitutes for almonds.
Nuff Said!
"Success is all about attitude"
California Almond Pollination Services, Inc.
very interesting posts, but coming from a woodenware manufacturer and talking to MANY bee keeps in the commercial world, Larry is correct that beekeepers are their own worst enemy and actually DO drive prices down. As a non-beekeeper, I predicted this years bees for almonds to be SHORT thus driving the price of almond pollination UP. reason why SHORT? It was a bad weather year in the north thereby lessening the honey production thereby most keepers scraped every bit of honey from the frames to sell honey and leaving very little honey for the bees to feed, therefore, feeding the bees corn syrup and the like and weakening colonies even more and as an end result, having less bees to pollinate almonds and SHOULD drive the almond price UP. Although, there are always the WEAK SISTERS out there that grab the first $125/colony they can and growers know that and are constantly trying to find those WEAK SISTERS. posts on this thread that claim that bee pollination is 20% of the growers expense? Well, it is proven that pollination is actually 5% of the growers gross revenue (which is still low). The facts are that the further north (stockton and north) is more in the 125-130 range, modesto, CA and south should be $150 +


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The covalent bonds that hold complex molecules together can come in different forms. Atoms like carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen can form both single and double bonds, sharing two or four electrons. Nitrogen and carbon can even form a triple bond, sharing six. And those are some of the simpler ones. A mixed series of single and double bonds, like those found in benzene, can end up creating a diffuse electron cloud, so that each of the bonds has an odd number of electrons.
The exact strength of these bonds depends strongly on the context of the surrounding molecule. It's possible to get a variety of information about these bonds. We could calculate what their energy is, probe them with chemical reactions, and could even detect the difference in bond strength by imaging the structure of a crystalized population of molecules. But now, a consortium of researchers in Europe have figured out how to use a modified form of atomic force microscopy to examine the strength of chemical bonds in a single molecule.
The rules of covalent bonds are, at least on the surface, quite simple. The more electrons that are shared, the stronger the bond. And the stronger the bond, the closer together the two atoms on either end of it will be. As we said above, though, things get complicated when there is a mixture of single and double bonds, which can create a set of delocalized electrons. The simplest form of this is a benzene ring, which has six carbon atoms arranged in a circle, linked by three single and three double bonds. In this case, the bonds all become equivalent, and each atom is linked by what you could consider 1.5 bonds, instead of a single or double.
Things get even more complex when a benzene ring is embedded in a larger molecule, with other single and double bonds surrounding it. Take a buckyball, in which carbon atoms are linked in a set of interconnected five- and six-atom rings. The six atom rings have benzene-style alternating bonds, while the five atom ones are all linked through single bonds. So a given atom may be part of two benzene rings and a pentagon, all at the same time.
Instead of nice, clean 1.5 bonds, these arrangements create fractional shared electrons, leading to very small differences in energy and distance between adjacent atoms.
All of which makes detecting the difference that much more of an achievement. Standard atomic force microscopy relies on a needle with a single atom as a tip, and that's able to probe the electronic conditions in a molecule or surface. But it doesn't have enough resolution to detect differences in bond length. Instead, the team behind the new paper used a modified form, in which that single atom is capped by a carbon monoxide molecule, meaning the tip of the needle juts out by two extra atoms.
This turned out to be critical. In a number of the samples, the difference in bond length is expected to be at or below the best resolution of atomic force microscopy. As the tip gets pressed down, the carbon monoxide molecule can flex out of the way, behavior that appears to amplify the length of the bond. As a result, the authors were able to discriminate down to bonds that differed by only 0.03 Angstroms (3.0 × 10-12 meters).
The team started by imaging a buckyball, where they could see the difference in bonds between those in five and six membered rings. They then moved on to more complex molecules, such as the one shown on top.
Aside from being an impressive technical achievement, the technique should open up a number of potential opportunities. Molecules that don't form crystals easily could be imaged with this technique, and the extremely precise control could allow researchers to inject electrons or probe chemical conditions at specific points in a single molecule. All of which could help provide a better understanding of the reactions and catalysts that we rely on for many of the basic materials we use every day.
Science, 2012. DOI: 10.1126/science.1225621 (About DOIs).


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The problem is the following: I made an EJB+JPA+GWT webpage which uses GWT for the visual layer, EJBs for the service layer and JPA for interacting with the database layer.
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you have your doubt
because doubt
is the bars of a cage
you believe in.
you see only
a blurred world of illusion.
still gently as the breath prays
the soul dreams its way
out of every prison people create,
including the fear
that leads to lack of belief.
Lover, it's your heart we seek
inside our own. you have felt
the breath of Him on your skin
until you named it wind.
how can we know
we dress things in our own
sense of limitation?
if i placed a star in the palm of your hand,
you would feel the way
the earth feels when it becomes
a mother to a forest of seeds.
behold the star now.
if you believe it
is what you view from earth,
balance it in the palm of your hand.
if you can't, you have touched Truth,
allowing your heart the faith
of the entire universe.
– This beautiful spiritual poem is from Sister Annie's Kneeling Before the Rose poetry blog, and posted with her permission and my gratitude.
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Horse owners from coast to coast are concerned with keeping their horses' hooves healthy and strong. Learn these three owners' smart secrets for keeping their horse's hooves going strong despite the challenges of their different environments.
Location: Washington
Horse Profile: What A Glorious Feeling, "Gene"
Gene spends a lot of time singing in the rain in the wet northwest, so his turnout tends to stay pretty mushy. His owner, Kelly, knows that constant wet conditions can take a toll on hoof health, making the hoof prone to distortion and susceptible to thrush.
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Kelly provides Gene with a solid foundation by feeding a quality hoof supplement every day. She uses Life Data Hoof Disinfectant™ during those prolonged periods of rain when his hooves are susceptible to bacteria and fungi from walking through the mushy paddock.
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Horse Profile: Desert Flower, "Desi"
Desi's hooves are naturally prone to cracks, and stomping all day in her dry, dusty paddock to beat the flies doesn't help. It rarely rains in this part of the country, so Desi always gets ridden by her
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Josie provides Desi with a hoof supplement that's high in biotin to help support healthy hoof growth. She also uses Keratex Hoof Hardener, which helps strengthen weak, cracked hooves while still allowing them to breathe naturally. Josie also uses the Kensington FlyBoots to keep the bugs off Desi's legs, which helps reduce the stomping in the paddock.
Location: Massachusetts
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Bella's hooves go through a big environmental change as she trades in the cold, wet New England soil for the hard, dry show grounds in sunny Florida. Her hooves also go through daily shifts from wet to dry, from the sand ring, to the post-workout rinse in the wash stall, back to the dry shavings in her stall.
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HAGERSTOWN, Md. - When Dan Franklin went to veterinary school in the Philippines, it opened his eyes to the poverty in that country and many other parts of the world.
"People in this country have no idea how the majority of the world live. They live hand-to-mouth," Franklin said.
A mission trip to the Dominican Republic eight years ago through his church, Church of Christ in Hagerstown, Md. was the first of many for Franklin. He found most of the trips required construction skills, which were not his specialty.
"Building is not my bag. Critters are my bag," said Franklin, 56.
Franklin grew up in New Jersey and has lived in Hagerstown for 34 years. He owns Mid-Atlantic Veterinary Hospital in Hagerstown.
After about four years searching for the mission that was the right fit for him, Franklin hatched the idea for an independent family business called "The Family Flock," which was incorporated in July 2012. The effort raises money for supplies to build mobile chicken coops and provide impoverished families with egg-laying chickens.
"Eggs are second in nutrition to breast milk" in providing quality protein and nutrients, Franklin said. "The plan is sustainable nutrition."
A typical diet in the Dominican Republic consists mainly of rice, beans and vegetables, he said.
"There's poverty everywhere, in every corner, except at the resorts. There are a lot of very poor people, hungry people," Franklin said.
Franklin found a design for a chicken coop on wheels, built one himself and raised egg-laying chickens from chicks so he would be able to advise the recipient families in the Dominican Republic.
"I needed firsthand experience," he said.
One of the coops can hold 10 chickens, which under ideal conditions will produce a total of 2,000 eggs in a year. Franklin said it takes six months for the chicks to mature enough to lay eggs and then they'll lay eggs for three to four years.
Franklin's daughter, Katie Hill, did the planning for the trip, maintains the website for The Family Flock Corp. and is in the process of submitting paperwork for nonprofit status.
Franklin and Jeff Stone traveled to the Dominican Republic in September with this new focus. They took 450 pounds of tools and materials, which remain there for future projects.
The coop design includes materials that are readily available in the Dominican Republic. Since they don't cut wood there, the timber needs to be shipped in, Franklin said.
Three families received coops that were constructed during Franklin's September visit to the village of Altamira in Puerto Plata and got their chickens Oct. 17. A U.S. missionary family that represents "ThreeSixteen Missions" helped Franklin choose families that would be good candidates to raise chickens for a one-year trial period.
If the chickens produce as expected, the families will have enough eggs for themselves and extra to use as a financial resource should they want to sell them, Franklin said. That would help them pay for the chicken feed once they are given complete ownership if the project succeeds.
If not, the coops will be given to another family, one reason they are on wheels.
One of Franklin's worries is that families might not be patient enough to wait the six months for eggs and might eat the chickens.
Each coop setup costs about $500 for a year, Franklin said. He said the first coops took about 20 hours to build, but hopes the process will get faster the more they build.
Franklin and his wife, Cora Franklin, are covering the administrative costs and nobody is paid, so 100 percent of donations go to materials, chickens and feed, he said.
Donations have come in from church members, the families of vet patients and others who know about the project, Franklin said.
Franklin hopes to recruit several men to travel to the Dominican Republic in early 2013 and assist in building coops. His goal is to build 10 coops that trip.
"There's a lot of people that care about hungry kids. This really gives people the opportunity to share with the world," he said.


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Google is working to address concerns over its commuter buses in Los Gatos.
The company employs several shuttles to carry workers to and from the Google campus in Mountain View every morning and evening.
But while the approach may seem like the "green" thing to do, parents in Los Gatos say the buses pose a safety hazard for kids.
They tell the San Jose Mercury News that the buses park in a no parking zone in front of a Presbyterian church.
The Googlers park in the church parking lot and wait for any of five buses between 7:20 a.m. and 10:25 a.m.
In response Google adjusted its route to address some of those concerns. Starting Wednesday, shuttles will pull into Church parking lot in the hopes of making life easier for kids trying to get to school.
The Los Gatos town manager wants Google to take things a step further and formalize an agreement with the Presbyterian Church.
Google Adjusts Its Shuttle Route for Los Gatos
Google is working to address concerns over its commuter buses in Los Gatos.


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Hey all. Today is the day to whip to the Around the World event and grab some goodies. So, I won't waste your time. Here are some pics of the amazing items you will miss if you don't go NOW!
I have left the best for today and it is mostly the Australia/NZ area. I am slightly biased though!
Dress: *Intrepid – Kia Ora Minidress
Pose: !bang – Strength (Pics 1-3)
Hair: Alice Project – Hyoyeon (Asia Minor)
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Arsenal chairman Sir Chips Keswick insists the board will continue to give their full support to manager Arsene Wenger in the summer transfer market on the back of a robust set of financial results, with healthy cash reserves of some £120.6million.
The Gunners' parent company figures cover the six months ended November 30 2013.
Although those results showed there was a group loss before tax of £2.2m mainly down to investment in the squad, they also revealed an extension of the Emirates Stadium's sound financial footing.
Wenger shattered the club-record transfer with the £42.5million purchase of Mesut Ozil from Real Madrid in September, but drew some criticism for not adding another big-money signing to the squad during the January transfer window - as injured Sweden midfielder Kim Kallstrom, on loan from Spartak Moscow, was the only arrival.
Keswick, however, stressed in his chairman's statement everyone remains fully committed to taking the club forwards with investment in the key areas.
"Whilst youth development continues to be an important focus, we fully recognise the importance of getting the balance right between youth and experience," Keswick said.
"As you well know, we signed Mesut Ozil for a club record transfer fee in the summer and, in addition, the signing of Mathieu Flamini has proved to be an astute acquisition.
"We will continue to work hard to keep the players Arsene believes can take us forwards.
"We will also continue to support the manager in the transfer market when he identifies players he believes can further strengthen the squad."
In Friday's results, Arsenal reported football turnover had increased to £136m from £106.1m with match-day income at the 60,000-seater Emirates Stadium bringing in £45m, up from £37.8m which was largely due to the pre-season Emirates Cup and Champions League qualifier against Fenerbahce in August.
The Barclays Premier League lucrative new broadcasting deals were increased to £52m from £40.1m, with commercial partnership revenues also boosted to £38.4m with a new kit sponsorship from Puma also to follow in the next set of accounts.
Arsenal, though, took on considerable increase in player wages with new deals for several key players such as Theo Walcott, Jack Wilshere, Aaron Ramsey and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, while also investing in the marquee signing of Ozil.
Profit on player sales was down to £6.1m from £42.5m as Arsenal look to retain their key men.
Property revenues from the nearby Queensland Road development was down to just £2m from £32.3m in the same period last year.
Although Arsenal's group loss before tax was £2.2m, compared to a profit of £17.8m in 2012, there is no short-term debt, other than related to regular payments on the loan for the stadium move, and the cash reserves are reported at £120.6m, up from £99.7m.
The club state the "overall result for the year is expected to be fully compliant with all of the requirements of both the Premier League and UEFA financial regulatory regimes".
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FULTON - A popular playground in Fulton closed on Wednesday for renovation. The Fulton City Council voted 4-3 Tuesday evening to close the Kiddy Corral playground immediately because it had multiple safety violations.
The Missouri Intergovernmental Risk Management Association (MIRMA) cited 42 to 45 playground pieces as safety hazards. Those include some railings and ladders that are too close together causing the possibility of a child getting his/her head stuck.
Cindi Chalfant frequents the park with her grandson and said she is concerned about the equipment.
"I'm just very glad somebody caught it, you know, so that they can do something about it," said Chalfant. "This park is heavily used by kids and families and they picnic, there's kids playing all the time and they need safe equipment."
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From the experts at the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), comes the definitive resource on administering quality nursing care to critically ill pediatric patients. The 2nd edition has been updated to reflect the current state of pediatric critical care nursing practice and explores the anatomic, physiologic, and cognitive/psychosocial changes that occur across the lifespan of a child and identifies the ways in which these changes are affected by specific health problems. Using a systems-based approach for quick and easy reference, this authoritative resource covers developmental anatomy and physiology, pathophysiology and defining characteristics of common pediatric disorders, clinical assessment, relevant pharmacology, monitoring and diagnostic testing, and therapeutic procedures. Disease coverage includes essential pathophysiology, etiology and risk factors, signs and symptoms, nursing and collaborative management, and complications. Also serves as an effective study guide for the pediatric CCRN certification examination.
- This is the only certification review resource for pediatric critical care.
- Endorsed by the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), the largest nursing specialty association in the world.
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Deep Thoughts Outlander 313: Eye of the Storm
So here we are, staring down another Droughtlander, and aside from thoughts specifically about this episode, I had some thoughts about the entire series. Thinking back to where we started, with a pregnant Claire and the aftermath of Culloden, the scope of what needed to be covered is pretty overwhelming. For the most part, we got there…and there was a lot more sex.
Spoilers ahead for episode 313.
Here are five takeaways:
I'm surrounded by Frasers. Seasons 1-3 really did focus mostly on Claire and Jamie, but that won't be the case being forward. While the Frasers' story continues to take center stage, all the characters we've been introduced to as part of the expanded Fraser clan will need time and audience investment to develop properly. One of the issues going forward that was glaringly obvious during this episode is how adapting these increasingly more complex subplots will affect the flow of a televised series. This episode attempted to cover a lot of emotional and plot ground, and it didn't always do so in a way that made sense to anyone who didn't read the novels. One book per season may have worked up until now, but I really hope they're negotiating at least two seasons per book going forward.
Who's doing what to the who now? I had a hard time following the purpose of the coach pausing for the group walking with torches, and later, the masked dancers. Sure I've read the books, but I made a point of not doing so during the season, just to see if I could follow the story without them. I didn't feel that either of these choices was given any context. I assumed the former was a group of escaped slaves (the "maroons" Father Fogden spoke of in 311), and the latter Geillis' slaves practicing some of their native rituals, but this wasn't really explained aside from using this group of people to represent a magical "other" that I'm not sure jibes with the story as told onscreen. Are we supposed to believe they are all infected with a sort of bloodlust, or that being okay with the sacrificing of a chicken, they decided Archie was a bonus?
Friendship is great but villains are better. I've said it before, but morally ambiguous villains are one of the things Outlander does best, and Gillian/Geillis Edgars/Duncan/Abernathy is one that'll be missed. The second half of this season suffered from some disjointedness (the plot to find Young Ian took a slightly comedic detour that echoed the Dance Tour to Find Jamie from Season 1), but nothing helps pull your heroes together and give them a purpose quite like having a great antagonist. Part of what makes Geillis so fascinating to watch is her heartfelt, maniacal commitment to her cause. You get the sense that she truly does value Claire, even as you know she would kill her without a moment's thought. It's villains like these that throw our main characters' heroism into stark relief: Ian's bravery, Jamie's steadfastness, Claire's fierceness.
The sanctity of life. It seems like at least once per season, Claire's commitment to a life with Jamie in the much less-regulated past means she ends up having to betray her physician's oath and take a life. Each of these choices have been life-and-death, split-second decisions made to protect herself, but this is the first time she did so not for her own sake, but her daughter's. In this instance, we also find out that Claire's ability to suss out the cause of death of Joe Abernathy's remains was because she was the one who dealt the blow, and the echo of that moment contributed to her insight. What doesn't seem to ever click into place for our heroine, however, is any sort of regard for her own safety. Claire's need to help the wounded during the storm that hits the Artemis after Ian's rescue almost kills her New Moon-style. I'm not sure which made me want to throw my shoe harder: knowing that Claire was putting herself in danger again, or knowing for sure that if Jamie and Claire made it on a crosspiece of timber, that Jack could have lived.
A Whole New World. So thanks to Mother Nature, our heroes end up at the fictional Les Perles plantation, Georgia. It's probably a safe move, because Jenny Fraser is waiting in Scotland with an itchy slapping hand and Young Ian's been through enough. Also, much as I love that Scottish countryside, it's been kind of a shark tank inside a snake pit for the Frasers. The colonies represent a chance to start their life over again, plus Murtagh is there, and that's reason enough to visit a continent for anyone.


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The New York Times' affair with false reporting on behalf of totalitarianism is far more serious than than Jayson Blair's plagiarisms and fabrications in various stories in 2002-03, or even last year's admission that the daily newspaper's reporters had committed three different instances of plagiarism (plus an instance where they republished a complete fabrication).
Ukrainian Famine Fakery
Decades ago, New York Times reporter Walter Duranty served as the primary American press cover for a holocaust in the Ukraine that cost some 7-10 million lives. Called "holodomor" in Ukrainian ("death by hunger"), the 1932-33 famine was caused when Joseph Stalin ordered all the grain in the nation of Ukraine confiscated for the Soviet Union to export.
Duranty misinformed New York Times readers that "any report of a famine is today an exaggeration or malignant propaganda." Meanwhile, British journalists Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones courageously reported the truth of the state-managed famine. Muggeridge labeled Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism," but Soviet dictator (and famine architect) Joseph Stalin praised him because, in Stalin's words on Christmas day 1933, "You have done a good job in your reporting the U.S.S.R."
For his lies on behalf of Stalin, Duranty was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and remained a New York Times correspondent until 1940. For more information on the Ukrainian famine, watch the video below or see The New American's "Duranty's Lethal Lies." Also, it's worth noting that the New York Times is still ignoring the Ukrainian famine. (See "Ukrainian Genocide: NY Times Still Covering Up" for more information.)
Covering for Castro
Not all of the New York Times' lies on behalf of socialist dictators are outside of living memory. While the Times' Duranty was covering for Stalin in Moscow, New York Times Reporter Herbert Matthews helped cover for the communist side of the Spanish Civil War in Spain during the 1930s. Matthews ignored massacres of thousands of Catholic priests and nuns by the so-called "Republican" forces that were backed by Stalin.
After the Second World War, the New York Times stationed Matthews in Cuba, where Matthews assisted Fidel Castro's rise to power by glorifying the future dictator. Matthews told New York Times readers on February 24, 1957 that Castro "has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice." The following day he reported that "there is no communism to speak of in Fidel Castro's 26th of July Movement."
The main problem with such claims was not simply that we now know they weren't true, but rather that well-informed people already knew them to be false. For example, John Birch Society Founder Robert Welch wrote in September 1958: "Now the evidence from Castro's whole past, that he is a Communist agent carrying out Communist orders and plans, is overwhelming." That was three months before Castro came to power. The evidence of Castro's communist connections (see here for more details on this) were well known at the time by anyone who had followed Cuba carefully.
But even after Castro came to power, Matthews continued his service on behalf of Castro. For example, July 16, 1959 — seven months after Castro's rise to power — Matthews continued to tell New York Times readers Castro wasn't a communist: "There are no Reds in the Cabinet and none in high positions in the Government or army in the sense of being able to control either governmental or defense policies. The only power worth considering in Cuba is in the hands of Premier Castro, who is not only not Communist but decidedly anti-Communist...."
Castro's right-hand man in the communist revolution, Che Guevara, said of Matthews after the revolution "At that time the presence of a foreign journalist — preferably from the United States — was more important to us than a military victory."
For more information on Matthews' — and the New York Times — service on behalf of Castro, see the video below
Or check out the link here and here.
The New York Times prides itself on publishing "All the news that's fit to print," but much of what it has printed over the years was false and therefore not fit to print.
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TechDirt is running a piece on Corona, CA, where officials are considering ignoring a California law that authorizes red-light cameras — cutting the state and the county out of their portion of the take — in order to increase the city's revenue. The story was first reported a week ago. The majority of tickets are being (automatically) issued for "California stops" before a right turn on red, which studies have shown rarely contribute to an accident. TechDirt notes the apparent unconstitutionality of what Corona proposes to do: "The problem here is that Corona is shredding the Sixth Amendment of the US Constitution, the right to a trial by jury. By reclassifying a moving violation... to an administrative violation... Corona is doing something really nefarious. In order to appeal an administrative citation you have to admit guilt, pay the full fine, and then apply for a hearing in front of an administrative official, not a judge in a court. The city could simply deny all hearings for administrative violations or schedule them far out in advance knowing full well that they have your money, which you had to pay before you could appeal."
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Josh Groban will play Pierre in "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," a musical by Dave Malloy that dramatizes a 70-page melodrama at the center of "War and Peace." The musical debuts in 2016.
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Forest Whitaker will make his Broadway debut in spring 2016 as a drunken, small time hustler in a revival of Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie." The Academy Award and Golden Globe winner will play Erie, who tells his tale to a sympathetic soul in a rundown hotel lobby.
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Wayne Brady is headed to Broadway. Producers of the hit musical "Kinky Boots" said Brady will step into the high heels of the cross-dressing Lola starting Nov. 21, 2015. It is his first return to Broadway since he made his debut in 2004 in "Chicago."
Rumer Willis makes her Broadway debut in August 2015 in "Chicago," playing Roxie Hart. Set in the 1920s, "Chicago" is a scathing satire of how show business and the media make celebrities out of criminals.
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Judith Light will co-star with Keira Knightley in "Therese Raquin," a stage adaptation of the Emile Zola novel. It will be directed by Evan Cabnet and begin previews on Oct. 1, 2015.
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Taye Diggs is spending summer of 2015 on Broadway. The "How Stella Got Her Groove Back" star will take over the title role in Broadway's "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" starting July 22, 2015. The production has also starred Neil Patrick Harris, Andrew Rannells, Michael C. Hall and Darren Criss.
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Larry David will hand over his starring role on Broadway to an old "Seinfeld" pal -- Jason Alexander. Producers announced that Alexander, who played George Costanza on the hit show, will replace David as Norman Drexel in "Fish in the Dark" beginning June 9, 2015. David wrote the comedy, which is running at the Cort Theatre.
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Singer Brandy makes her Broadway debut in April 2015 as Roxie Hart in "Chicago."
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Bruce Willis will make his Broadway debut in a theater adaptation of Stephen King's novel "Misery." The "Die Hard" star will appear opposite Elizabeth Marvel in the story of a murderous fan united with her beloved romance novelist.
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Clive Owen will make his Broadway debut in "Old Times" by Harold Pinter. Roundabout Theatre Company said Owen will star in the "unsettling drama of desire and blurred realities" starting Sept. 17, 2015, at one of its Broadway theaters. Douglas Hodge will direct.
Darren Criss is returning to Broadway in the title role in "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." The "Glee" actor step into the role of the East German transgender glam-rocker on April 29, 2015. Criss made his Broadway debut in 2012 in "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying." He assumed the role from Daniel Radcliffe.
George Takei's personal and heartfelt show about Japanese-Americans imprisoned during World War II has found a spot on the Great White Way this fall with him in a starring role. "Allegiance," a multigenerational tale with two love stories that's framed by a Japanese-American war veteran looking back on his family's time in a Wyoming camp, is set to begin previews on Oct. 6, 2015, at a Shubert Theatre still to be announced.
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text: My parents are good jews. My mother and father both read torah and haftorah on a regular basis during Shabbat services at their conservative synagogue. That's why they love visiting their favorite site "Navigating the Bible" at bible.ort.org to get the weekly torah portion already color coded and even pre-recorded by a cantor. And while they make the material available online for free, the audio files are in an outdated Real Audio format. At the time I write this, the real media plugin only has 23% penetration on the web, and is a proprietary format that is not backward compatible. My parents were not able to figure out how to play the audio files. So after giving a try myself, I saw that the only thing that would play those .ra files on their mac was VLC and ffmpeg. First I tried writing my parents a 7-step email explaining how to use VLC to transcode the .ra files into .mp3 files. Then at some point, I decided to sit down and write them a [password protected] proxy through which they could visit bible.ort.org. It would allow them to click on the audio links and have them appear as mp3s in their browser. I did this in PHP by using the simplehtmldom library to parse the tags and by installing ffmpeg on the server. I found the html dom parser to be a lot of fun, and I was really happy that installing ffmpeg on my server was as easy as apt-get. This only worked because that particular site used basic HTML. It inspires me about the possibility of using a web proxy as a kind of commentary. This idea parallels biblical commentaries, like the commentaries of Rashi which even have their own rashi-script. Maybe if people like the idea of solving the real audio epidemic this way, we should set up a dedicated media cleaner proxy site so people can visit any url they want and have the media magically converted for them this way (and call the service Rashi).


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Bake for 10 - 12 minutes, until cookies are set around the edges. Cool for 2 - 3 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes 20 - 24 cookies.
Women are so resourceful! :~D
These cookies sound great. Buttermilk + chcolate...what's not to love?
Ciao ! Perfect cookies in every way !!
Yummy!! These looks great :)
I am a chocoholic so these cookies are just perfect for me. Congratulations to your daughter's team for their victory.
What a beautiful treat! looks so yummy and delicious!. Congrats to your daughter:)
Your blog is the perfect fix for my baking fetish! Um, and that hippo meat tenderizer? Priceless :) (seriously, I'm going to look for one online right now as a Christmas gift for a friend)
Those look delicious!! Congratulations to your daughter's team.
Love your cookies - they are full of chocolatey goodness. LOL at the hippo tenderizer/tent peg hammer.
The tenderizer is too cute! Love the cookies and I bet they are addicting.
Now there's a good mom...sitting in a cold rain to watch your kids! I remember it well. :)
Love the hippo tenderizer...
Your cookies look delish. I bet everyone loved them!
the one thing that I always hated when I played softball was having to play in the rain. These cookies would certainly have made the whole thing seem a lot less terrible! I love the sound of the buttermilk chocolate combo!
a hippo meat mallet? love it :) and buttermilk chocolate cookies sound like a sure winner! glad your daughter's tournament went well despite the rain :)
Squeal, you come into contact with the cutest utensils! That hippo is gorgeous. And well done for sitting out there in the cold and the rain, go team :) The cookies sound fab too.
Your cookies look scrumptious! I bet the girls were happy to have them after playing in the bad weather. The hippo mallet is too cute!
Congrats on the football win! It's always rewarding to win when playing in the rain, it makes playing in the miserable weather somewhat worthwhile. I'm sure that those cookies played a large part in the victory - they look heavenly!
Congratulations to your daughter and her football team for winning the tournament!!!! WoW! The cookies are a given for everything good in this world, chocolate on chocolate, YUM!
Now, that is quite the meat tenderizer! How funny! Bringing chocolaty good cookies along is always a great idea! :)
you know i am not a fan of chocolate cookies. regular cookies w/chocolate in them are ok but not choc. cookies in general. though....Dorie's world peace cookies i love, as well as her malted whopper cookies :) so, maybe this would appeal to me too
Those cookies would be welcome after a good slosh on the field. I have 3 kids who have all played winter sports, so I feel your rain.
That meat tenderizer is so funny. I didn't realize you could buy them in different shapes. As for the cookies, anything that says "melt in your mouth" is good enough for me. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Those look really good and I love the uniqueness of using buttermilk.
Those looks mouthwatering. I have never seen a meat tenderizer shaped into anything other than the square.
So much chocolate is overwhelming but I want to make these.
Please stop by and pick up something from my blog.
These sound so decadent. Hippo tenderizer, huh? That is just too weird. Can't wait to make them.
These are awesome! Love the hippo :-)
The cookies look great! No wonder they won the tournament! Funny Gene Kelly comment, and I'm glad you included the photo of the hippo:)
So, this is a strange question, and a bit of a long shot I'm sure, but do you know where on earth the woman you mentioned acquired her hippo shaped meat tenderizer? Despite my efforts, I am having no luck with the internet, but perhaps am just looking in the wrong place. Any help at all would be appreciated, or, if the woman wouldn't mind, I could contact her directly.
Thank you for your time
Sorry I can't help. She was a chef, so probably got it at a supply store for the business trade. Unfortunately, I didn't know her all that well and haven't seen her in a few years. Good luck with your quest!


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Funnily enough I couldn't get through, I kept getting failed requests that timed out. "Oops! Chrome could not connected to thepiratebay.se" my browser would say.
It suggested redirected URL's that also didn't work.
So I tried on my Telecom XT iPhone connection and what's this?! It's working just fine!
I tried a bit later and I could connect from home again. But again today it's not working. My connection at work is fine - no problems getting through, but for the life of me I can't connect from home.
The other day I thought it might be my browser cache or some cache in my router - funny thing is my Genius got replaced recently so it's a brand new router and still from day one of that device I had problems. I also replaced my server on the weekend with a new box and new OS install - same thing.
It also happens on my MacBook and iPad.....it won't connect for ages then I try later and it's okay, then I go back a while later and it's down again....all the while accessible from another ISP.
So, the only conclusion is that Orcon are up to something funky with this website. I thought maybe their DNS was causing it but I can't get through on the IP either.
Anyone else having problems?


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A digital photo's EXIF data can reveal where the photo was taken. This has created some interesting scenarios in the past. Consider Vice.com's inadvertent revealing of John McAfee's location in Central America, a cleavage pic of a hacker's girlfriend leading to the hacker's arrest, and MythBusters host Adam Savage disclosing where he lived from a photo he posted on TwitPic.
In this case, a photo's EXIF data led to the arrest of an admitted child pornographer.
Defendant took a pornographic image of a 4-year-old girl with his iPhone and used TOR to upload the image to the web. Federal agents analyzed the photo's EXIF data to determine the GPS coordinates of where defendant took the photo. Agents went to a home near the coordinates. The residents of that home sent the agents to a home about 100 feet away — within the iPhone's GPS range of error — that belonged to defendant, a registered sex offender.
When the agents visited defendant's home, he let them enter and later admitted to taking the photo. He then consented to a search, and the agents found child pornography. Defendant was arrested and indicted in federal court in Texas.
Defendant moved to supress the EXIF data as evidence, arguing that law enforcement's seizure and use of the data violated his Fourth Amendment rights. The court denied the motion.
It rejected defendant's attempt to "split" his privacy interests between the photo itself and its metadata. Defendant conceded he had no legitimate Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in the photo — after all, he put it on the web. But as for the metadata, he argued that he retained a privacy interest because he did not realize that he was releasing the information and he intended to remain anonymous.
The court looked to the application of DNA technology to support its conclusion that once defendant left the image in a public place, he had no privacy interest in the metadata:
Assume a defendant left an article of his clothing at a crime scene in 1981. At the time, the defendant had no idea that years later crime labs would be able to conduct DNA analysis of hairs present on that clothing. And in leaving the clothing, he certainly intended to do so "anonymously." On those grounds, would the defendant be able to suppress the results of the DNA analysis? Of course not, because he left the clothing in a public place and lost any expectation of privacy he had in it, regardless of how he contemplated that clothing could be used.
The court distinguished the holding of this case from the current NSA metadata-collection controversy:
Whatever the ultimate outcome of that issue in higher courts, whether an individual lacks a privacy interest in dialed numbers because those numbers are necessarily disclosed to his phone company is a much different question than whether an individual loses his privacy interest in an item because he voluntarily makes it publicly available on the internet.
It also distinguished this situation from those cases dealing with a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights in his cell phone and its contents. In those cases, observed the court, the defendant clearly has a privacy interest in his cell phone and its contents. The issue there is whether the justifications that overcome that privacy interest and allow for warrantless seizure of the phone also support warrantless search of its contents. The defendant in this case, by contrast, had no cognizable privacy interest that the government needed to overcome to justify searching for metadata in the photo he placed on the web.
U.S. v. Post, 2014 WL 345992 (S.D.Tex. January 30, 2014)


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How courses are organized
Academic calendar
In France, the academic year begins in September or October and ends in May or June, depending on the institution and program.
The year is punctuated by vacations, including two weeks at the end of the year (Christmas and New Year's).
The two semesters are divided by a short break following final examinations at the end of the first semester.
The summer vacation lasts more than two months and always includes the months of July and August.
One finds two basic types of courses in French higher education, particularly in the universities.
Large lecture courses
Lectures are given in lecture halls accommodating from 100 to 1,000 learners. The professor speaks, while his or her students listen and take notes. Professors often prepare summaries of their lectures to help students prepare for exams.
Sections and labs
In sections and labs, small groups of students meet to apply or explore in greater detail the material covered in lectures. Attendance at sections and labs is mandatory, whereas attendance at the lectures is not.
In career-oriented programs offered in the universities (DUT programs, licences professionnels, and professional masters), internships and practical training are required in addition to the small-group sections and labs.


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When you hear that something comes in strawberry, ice cream, chocolate, peach, or grape flavors, your first thoughts may be: ice cream, candy, or something made for kids. After all, manufacturers of kids' toothpastes, medicines, and vitamins add fun flavors to make their products more appealing. You may also think that flavored products are harmless, like candy.
But if you think flavored mini cigars are harmless, you're mistaken.
Cigars of any kind, including flavored mini cigars, contain the same addictive and cancer-causing qualities as regular cigarettes. In fact, cigar tobacco has a high concentration of nitrogen compounds, some of the strongest cancer-causing substances known. Cigar smoking also is linked to gum disease and tooth loss.
Although the Food and Drug Administration has banned similar flavored cigarettes, there's no such ban (yet) on mini cigars. Unfortunately, more and more teens across the country are smoking mini cigars.
In some states, like Maryland, statistics show that 14% of teens smoke cigars—this mirrors the rate of cigarette smoking among teens.
But Maryland isn't ignoring the issue. Recently, the state launched a new campaign called The Cigar Trap to let teens discover the truth about these flavored brown sticks that you might see behind the checkout counter, near the candy bars and gum.
Find out more about mini cigars, including how you can tell your friends the facts behind the flavors.
Unfortunately, more and more teens across the country are smoking mini cigars. It is a common practice though all the campaigns that try to prevent children from using various kind of drug substances. May be there is a need of more strict control or any other kind of restrictions.
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well i don't like the fact that yall put this on here cause it is a lot of people out here that is already dieing from lung cancer from cigarttes and or cigars
@lexm plexm, isn't it a good thing that this blog post addresses the problem since you say a lot of people are already dying from cigarette/cigar use??
Most of the young mass are using this mini cigar regularly ,which is really harmful for them .This is really a good article which definitely motivate them to leave such a bad habits .Keep posting much good article .
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i don't get why someone would want to buy flavored cigars cause its jus as bad as smoking. Also the companies know more people will buy flavored cigars including teens.
I think this is a very good site because sometimes people wonder what a product is. If someone actually took the time to create this site than it must have some impact on them. Something must happened to them to make them care about child smoking. If people want to actually make fun of people commenting then they will eventually see how bad it is. People think its soo cool to smoke when people die everyday from it.
I don't get how many times teachers, parents etc. have to say don't smoke and they still do it. Also we learn about how bad they are and they just ignore it. If you ask me they just want to ruin their lungs and damage their body.
Is it more legal for minors to smoke them than to smoke any other kind of cigar or cigarrete? Flavors and other marketing games like this are symptoms of much bigger problems. Teens will listen to the people they like, and if people they like dissaprove of smoking, they will too. However, if people they distrust and dislike tell them not to do something, then it can't be all bad, right? You can't legislate things like this. Fix the bigger problem, and this will go away. Fix this without adressing the real problem, and something else will simply take its place.


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A common objection to the Catholic faith is the idea that the Bible forbids the drinking of blood, yet Catholics claim to drink the blood of Christ in the Eucharist.
It's true that the Old Testament forbids consuming blood, but what is the status of this requirement for Christians?
Soon we will look at drinking Christ's blood specifically, but here let's look at the Old Testament prohibition on consuming animal blood . . .
Animal Blood as Food
Neither Christianity nor Judaism are vegetarian religions. Both acknowledge the possibility of eating animals. Biblical Judaism even mandates it, with the requirement of consuming the Passover lamb.
But what parts of an animal are okay to eat?
Here in America, we are used to eating the flesh of various animals--the muscles or "meat." But there are other parts, including the organs, the bones (which can be ground up as meal), and the blood.
Often, if you don't grow up eating something, it will make you squeamish.
I'm pretty adventurous for an American. I enjoy a lot of international foods. I not only will eat sushi (raw fish) without batting an eye, I'll even eat durian-flavored foods (note: the smell of durian is indescribable; the closest thing I can compare it to is burning rubber).
But as an American, I personally find the idea of consuming animal blood an incredibly squeamish idea.
I mean . . . YUCK!
Different Strokes for Different Folks
I have to acknowledge, though, that people in many other cultures--including Christian ones--feel differently.
Animal blood is consumed in various ways, either as an ingredient in foods or as a beverage.
This includes countries all over the world--in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa.
Even in England (America's primary parent country!) blood is a principal ingredient in black pudding (a kind of sausage; ecky thump!).
Blood was certainly both an ingredient and a beverage in the ancient world.
So what does the Old Testament have to say about it?
Eating Blood in General
Eating blood was forbidden in the Law of Moses. For example, Leviticus and Deuteronomy state:
Leviticus 17
10 If any man of the house of Israel or of the strangers that sojourn among them eats any blood, I will set my face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life.
12 Therefore I have said to the people of Israel, No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who sojourns among you eat blood.
13 Any man also of the people of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among them, who takes in hunting any beast or bird that may be eaten shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
Deuteronomy 12
23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood; for the blood is the life, and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.
24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out upon the earth like water.
The Blood Is the Life
Both of these passages cite a reason why blood is not to be eaten: The blood is the life of the flesh.
The Leviticus passage adds an extra note: "I have given it for you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life."
This indicates the purpose for which the children of Israel are permitted to use blood: It is to be offered to God in sacrifice.
This offering of blood to God is similar to the way that fat was also reserved to God:
Leviticus 3
16 And the priest shall burn them on the altar as food offered by fire for a pleasing odor. All fat is the Lord's.
17 It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations, in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.
Both fat and blood were thus seen as reserved to God in sacrifice.
This raises a question . . .
Does This Still Apply Today?
It's clear that the way God wishes us to sacrifice has changed. No longer do we offer the blood (and fat) of bulls and goats.
Instead, Christ has sacrificed himself on the Cross once for all, and today he perpetually offers himself in heaven and through the sacrifice of the Mass.
With the change in the manner of sacrifice, one might suppose that the requirements concerning blood and fat in the Old Testament have also passed away.
A Natural Law Requirement?
One could maintain that the requirements are still in effect if one could find a basis for them in natural law--that is, a reason why it is contrary to human nature to consume blood or fat.
That would be difficult to do.
In the case of blood, there are such things as blood-borne illnesses which could be contracted, particularly by eating uncooked blood, but not all blood is infected.
Further, there are also food-borne illnesses in general, which can also be contracted, particularly by eating uncooked food.
The case of fat is even harder to argue, because fat is one of the principal sources of calories in our food (the other two being proteins and carbohydrates). In fact, fat is the most calorie-rich (and most flavor-enhancing) of the three.
This points to something else, which also applies to blood: Meat is shot through with both fat and blood.
No matter how carefully you trim away the fat, some fat remains in the meat. If it doesn't then the meat is tough and unappetizing. It's the fat marbling in the meat that is part of what makes it taste good.
Similarly, no matter how carefully you drain the meat, some blood remains in it.
Without the use of industrial processes that were unavailable in the ancient world (and in any ordinary kitchen today), there is no way to eliminate all blood or fat from meat.
That suggests that what we're dealing with here is symbolism.
Blood as Symbol of Life
It's clear that blood makes a good symbol for the life of the flesh.
Today we know why flowing blood is essential to living organisms: It's what brings the things cells need (nutrients, oxygen) in order to maintain their metabolic life processes.
They didn't know that in the ancient world, but they did know that if an animal didn't have blood flowing through it's veins, it wouldn't live, and if you drained the blood from an animal (or a human, for that matter), it would die.
There is thus a fitting basis for the symbolism of blood as the life of the flesh.
But if this is symbolism then it won't automatically carry over into the dietary requirements of the Christian age, any more than other Old Testament ritual practices do.
God Speaks to Noah
There is, however, one Old Testament passage that a person might appeal to as an argument that it would. After the Great Flood has subsided, we read:
Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the air, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea; into your hand they are delivered.
3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; and as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.
4 Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.
This gift of meat is said to be made with Noah and his sons, and you could suppose that it--together with the requirement not to eat blood--applies to all mankind.
Certainly some have taken it this way, particularly in the Jewish community.
However, this is not necessarily the case.
Note that the gift of meat found in vv. 3-4 is distinct from and precedes the covenant that God establishes with Noah, his descendants, and all living creatures (cf. vv. 9ff).
One could take the gift of meat in this instance as something that God gave Noah and his sons, but it applies to later peoples in different ways.
In particular, the prohibition on blood in v. 4 may be intended for the children of Israel, as a reminder to them, without addressing whether it applies to other peoples, just as the sabbath is referred to in pre-Mosaic times as a reminder to the children of Israel, without implying that other peoples were expected to keep the sabbath. (They weren't.)
We then can't settle the question from this passage by itself and need to turn elsewhere for more information . . .
Jesus Speaks
In Mark's Gospel there is a passage that has a bearing on this question:
Mark 7
18 And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,
19 since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?" (Thus he declared all foods clean.)
Jesus here is articulating a general principle that what comes into the body from outside does not defile us morally. (Instead, the evil thoughts that come from within us do).
This applies both to dirt on our hands (what Jesus was talking about in the original context) and to foods (an implication Mark draws out).
Mark thus points out that Jesus' statement implies that all foods are, in principle, clean. Eating them does not defile a person.
That would include foods made with blood, for there were such foods in the ancient world, just as there are now.
The Jerusalem Council
The dispute about what foods could be eaten continued for some time in the early Church, with different Christians taking different positions.
To help keep peace between Jewish and Gentile Christians, the Council of Jerusalem issued a pastoral directive: "that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from unchastity" (Acts 15:29).
The reason for this is explained by James: "For from early generations Moses has had in every city those who preach him, for he is read every sabbath in the synagogues" (Acts 15:21).
It would thus help Jewish Christians if Gentile Christians refrained from certain things thought to violate the Mosaic Law.
We know from other passages, however, that such things were not automatically wrong in and of themselves:
- Some, such as unchastity, were.
- Others, like food sacrificed to idols, were not, though even St. Paul could recommend refraining from them when it would cause another to violate his conscience (1 Cor. 8:4-13).
So which category does blood go in?
The Church Reveals the Answer
We've already seen that it's not possible to avoid eating blood, since some always remains in the meat.
We've seen that the basis of the blood prohibition involves symbolism and is linked to Jewish sacrificial ritual that has passed away.
And we've seen that Jesus articulated a principle that would result in all foods being clean, apparently including the ancient ones made with blood.
If these are not enough, however, there is the practice of the Church down through the centuries.
Blood has been eaten in many Christian lands for the last twenty centuries, without the Church prohibiting this practice.
If God guides the Church, as he does, then we can look to this to settle the matter.
Thus the Pontifical Biblical Commission noted in 2008:
The other example is more delicate: "You must not eat any fat or any blood." (Lev 3.17; 7.26; Deut 12.23–24); the New Testament takes up this prohibition unrestrictedly, to the point of imposing it upon Christians coming from paganism (Acts 15.29; 21.25).
From the viewpoint of exegesis the explicit reason for this prohibition is not exactly theological, it rather reflects a symbolical representation: "the life (nepheš) of all flesh is in the blood" (Lev 17.11, 14; Deut 12.23).
After the apostolic era the Church did not feel obliged to make this a basis for formulating precise rules for the butcher and the kitchen, and still less in our own times to prohibit blood transfusion.
The trans-cultural value underlying the particular decision of the Church in Acts 15 was a desire to foster the harmonious integration of the various groups, albeit at the price of a provisional compromise [The Bible and Morality].
So though, as an American who didn't grow up consuming foods made with blood, I find the idea of eating blood utterly unappetizing (to say the least), it is not forbidden by Catholic moral theology or practice.
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Freedom of Christianity
When Josh Hamilton says, "It's a god thing," he's applauded for standing up for his faith. When Tim Tebow kneels down and prays, 43% of people who know of Tebow think that god helps him win. And when Muhammad Ali cited his faith as the impetus for his conscientious objection to the draft, America celebrates his principled stand. Oh, wait. I guess that's not exactly what happened.
You can argue that Ali is different because of patriotism or the like but it's hard to say that patriotism alone accounts for what happened to Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf while playing for the Denver Nuggets. The truth of the matter is, despite our vaunted "Freedom of Religion," the expression of that freedom really only seems to apply to Protestant Christians and the occasional Catholic. And let's face it, if you ask the question "What if Tim Tebow were Muslim?" you already know the answer. God help him if he were an out-and-proud atheist.


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Susan, our creative director, completed an adapted Annis in Firefly to wear to TNNA.
Meg, our graphic designer, just finished up a Starry Night Stripes blanket in Liberty Print to brighten up her living room. This pattern is her own design, and is one of our Liberty Print Subscription patterns, free to subscribing LYS's.
Tonia, you remember her from her designer interview a few weeks ago, is knitting up Parkhurst, also one of her own designs. I love Silky Alpaca Lace!
Cheryl churns out sweaters at a rate that puts us all to shame. No, seriously, look her up on Ravelry. She is on her ninth this year! This is her eighth, the Soay cardigan by Gudrun Johnston in Cotton Bam Boo.
Andi just finished one of Tonia's patterns, the Cascading Leaves cardi, in Soft Linen. The drape is perfect and its the ideal thing to keep in the office for overzealous air conditioning. She also has a good start with her Honeysuckle cardigan from our Spring booklet #9136, Meadow, in Firefly.
Heather knitted her fingers to the bone to complete her modified Double V cardigan designed by Melissa Wehrle from Interweave Knits Spring 2010 for TNNA. She's also using Soft Linen to beautiful effect. In a neutral color, its perfect for manning the booth at TNNA. Doesn't it look store-bought?
Lastly, as for me? I was entranced by this color of Woodland. It almost glows, the soft yellow is so luminescent and pretty. But what to make, what to make...Watershed! Designer Amy Swenson wrote this pattern for Aran weight yarn, so some thinking was required to make it in a DK weight. Sadly, this little sweater's journey was one of ripping and frogging, due to TNNA ADD and other knitter-mistakes...not to mention it was the tragic result of overblocking and is now flat as a pancake! Any tips to perk it up?


text: Unemployment benefits: Will extension pass the House? --- Unemployment benefits in trouble? A Senate bill to renew unemployment benefits for the long-term jobless is unworkable, said House Speaker John Boehner. -- Bipartisan Senate legislation to renew benefits for the long-term unemployed is unworkable, House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday as aides circulated a letter from state officials envisioning a series of difficulties they would encounter in administering the measure. -- The speaker did not say flatly that the House would shelve the bill if it clears the Senate, leaving open the possibility of a future compromise. But a blog posting by his aides quoted the Ohio Republican as saying there was "no evidence that the bill being rammed through the Senate by (Majority) Leader (Harry) Reid" would help create more private sector jobs. -- In response, a spokesman for Reid, Adam Jentleson, said the legislation is bipartisan and the concerns expressed by state officials can be resolved. -- "We look forward to Speaker Boehner coming to the table to find solutions," Jentleson said, adding it is "hard to imagine Speaker Boehner simply walking away from the thousands of people in Ohio who lost their jobs through no fault of their own and need this lifeline to make ends meet while they continue to look for work." -- In their letter, the National Association of State Workforce Agencies, which administers unemployment benefit programs, said it has "significant concerns about the implementation of the legislation." -- The letter added that "some states have indicated they might decide such changes are not feasible in the short time available, and therefore would consider not signing the U.S. Department of Labor's agreement to operate the program." -- Among other issues, the letter said most states have outdated computer systems that make it hard to implement any changes to the program quickly, and it's not clear how states would pay for administrative costs if federal funds cannot be spent to determine eligibility. -- One of the provisions in the Senate compromise is a prohibition on individuals with million-dollar earnings from earning unemployment benefits. -- The letter also cited the potential for a large number of overpayments as a result of the bill's requirement for benefits dating back to the end of last year. -- The Senate is expected to debate the measure shortly after it returns on Monday from a week-long break. Under a compromise announced earlier in the month, a program of benefits would be renewed for five months, effective when it expired on Dec. 28. -- The program generally benefited workers laid off more than six months, an estimated 2 million of whom have lost payments since it expired. -- The Senate proposal has the support of at least five Republicans, meaning that unless there are Democratic defections, it will have enough support to achieve a 60-vote majority and overcome any GOP stalling tactics. It resulted from lengthy negotiations led by Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., whose states have among the highest joblessness in the country. - More, David Espo, Associated Press, CS Monitor


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MIDDLEBURG, Fla. – The driver of a car the drove into a Clay County home Wednesday afternoon suffered a medical emergency, causing her to accelerate and lose control of the car.
Amanda Jammes, 29, was driving with her two children, ages 3 and 6, in the car when she crashed through a fence and went through a yard before striking the home.
No one was hurt, but Jammes was hospitalized for precautionary reasons after deputies said she was in and out of consciousness.
"Somebody just ran into someone's house, all the way in, and I hear kids," a neighbor told a 911 dispatcher after running to help.
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The upset children can be heard in the background of the call, though they were unharmed.
"The driver's passed out, the driver's passed out," the caller said as the children were crying.
Investigators believe Jammes sped up to about 50 mph before veering off the road after she suffered a medical condition.
Jammes lives just around the corner from the home she hit. Her husband said she's doing OK but is still in the hospital, where doctors are trying to figure out what kind of condition caused her to lose control.
Homeowner Elaine Davis went home after her husband called her at work to say a car had just driven into their home.
"She clipped the fence here, then she clipped this part of the house where our dog was at, and my husband, had he been there five minutes later, he would have been hit by that car," Davis said. "Well, she clipped here, went through the porch and the living room."
Davis and her husband now are without power, and rebuilding will take four to five weeks. They do have insurance.
The Davises say what was damaged is just material things, and they'll be able to fix their house eventually. What they are really worried about right now though is their dog, Dolly, which ran off after the commotion and hasn't come back.
They've left her doggy bed, water bowl and food dish, hoping either she'll find her way back home or someone would bring her back.
Family, friends and neighbors have been driving around posting signs for the black and white Boston Terrier.
"The neighborhood, the neighbors, the community has been wonderful," Davis said. "We really want our puppy girl home. Here name is Dolly. She responds to Dolly."
Anyone who knows where Dolly is is asked to call the Clay County Sheriff's Office at 904-264-6512 or email Channel 4's Vic Micolucci at email@example.com.


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