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Terry Fox's family lends massive private collection for anniversary exhibit
In this 1980 file photo, Terry Fox runs to raise awareness for cancer in the Marathon of Hope. (The Canadian Press)
Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press
Published Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:37PM EDT
Last Updated Thursday, July 4, 2013 4:33PM EDT
OTTAWA -- For three decades, Terry Fox's mother and father held on to boxes upon boxes of handwritten letters, poems, lovingly painted artwork and other tributes sent to their son by Canadians moved by his astonishing marathon.
Other memorabilia connected to the iconic runner were scattered across various institutions -- items such as his Marathon of Hope T-shirt, or the jug of water he filled in the Atlantic at the beginning of his run in 1980 but never managed to dump into the Pacific as planned.
The Fox family now is teaming up with the federal government for an exhibition of more than 150,000 items from the Terry Fox Collection at the renamed Museum of History in Gatineau, Que. The showcase will open in April 2015, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of his Marathon of Hope.
Darrell Fox, Terry's younger brother, said a central idea behind the exhibit is to give back to Canadians after decades of their own giving.
"OK, yes, these are items that belong and that were attached to Terry Fox but this is also a collection that is from Canadians from coast to coast," Fox said in an interview.
"It is theirs, and perhaps we waited too long, but it's time to give it back and to share it with all Canadians. The Marathon of Hope wasn't a one-person operation, as Terry said."
One of those items is a letter in pencil by a schoolgirl named Sarah in 1980.
"I know how you feel Terry Fox. Don't worry we are trying to help."
Fox lost a leg to cancer when he was 18 and three years later took up the marathon on a prosthetic limb. His distinctive, hobbling gait became a symbol of stubborn determination and courage.
He started his run in April 1980, dipping his leg in the ocean at St. John's, N.L. The effort ended 147 days and 5,373 kilometres later outside Thunder Bay, Ont., when his cancer returned and forced him to abandon his project.
He was showered with honours. He was the youngest person ever named a companion of the Order of Canada. He was given the Lou Marsh Award for 1980 as the country's top athlete.
He died in June 1981, aged 22.
The concept of the exhibit was born two years ago, when Darrell Fox met with Heritage Minister James Moore to talk about the collection.
Author Douglas Coupland had published a photobook about Terry in 2005, and warned the family that they needed to protect the items properly.
Moore, whose riding encompasses Fox's hometown of Port Coquitlam, B.C., set the wheels in motion for the collection to be held at a Library and Archives facility in nearby Burnaby.
"Terry Fox is like a local hero -- the biggest high school in my riding is Terry Fox Senior Secondary, the theatre in my riding is the Terry Fox theatre," said Moore, who was four when the Marathon of Hope took place.
Darrell said the family has grown even more attached to the items as they collected and moved them to the facility.
"Any items that were part of Terry's story are significant for me, and having spent three months as a member of the Marathon of Hope, hanging out in a stinky Ford van, witnessing a miracle in the making every day of my life, it's just not something that escapes you or that you ever forget," said Darrell.
The exhibition will be held at the Museum of History, currently called the Museum of Civilization, across the Ottawa River from Parliament Hill. Some of the proceeds will go to the Terry Fox Foundation for cancer research.
A travelling version of the exhibition will also be developed, and some key documents in the Terry Fox Collection will be digitized. The Fox family says they would like to set up a separate museum someday.


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The Iraq Study Group made a forward-looking, independent assessment of the current and prospective situation on the ground in Iraq and how it affects the surrounding region as well as U.S. interests. The effort was undertaken at the urging of several members of Congress with agreement of the White House. A final report was released to Congress, the White House, and the public on December 6, 2006.
USIP's Role with the ISG
USIP was the facilitating organization for the Iraq Study Group (ISG), co-chaired by James A. Baker, III, and Lee H. Hamilton. As such, USIP is the repository for the ISG's official report, titled The Iraq Study Group Report: The Way Forward - A New Approach, which was downloaded more than 1.5 million times from USIP's Web site in the first two weeks after the launch of the report on December 6, 2006.
USIP facilitated the bipartisan ISG at the urging of Congress. The ISG's mandate was to conduct a forward-looking, independent assessment of the current and prospective situation on the ground in Iraq, its impact on the surrounding region, and consequences for U.S. interests. Three organizations supported USIP in its work facilitating the ISG: the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the Center for the Study of the Presidency (CSP), and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University.
As facilitator, USIP provided scholarly and logistical support to the ISG. It maintained an in-house Iraq expert committee and external Expert Working Groups that provided the ISG with the briefing papers and policy analyses that helped finalize their conclusions. It also coordinated the ISG's interviews with top U.S. and foreign officials and led the group's trip to Iraq in the Summer of 2006.
This site contains information about the ISG's work from its inception in March 2006.
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- ISG Fact Sheet [Updated: December 20, 2006]
- ISG Members
- ISG's Letter to Congress
- ISG Media Resources
- Iraq Study Group Begins Its Work
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Wenger: Gunners up for the fight
Arsene Wenger has warned Tottenham that his Arsenal team are ready to fight all the way for Champions League qualification this season.
Arsenal remain four points behind their fourth-placed neighbours after grinding out a 1-0 victory over Sunderland with 10 men following the sending off of Carl Jenkinson. Spurs stretched their unbeaten run to 10 matches at the weekend with victory over Newcastle, but Wenger knows better than most that everything can change quickly in the final third of the season.
"There are many games to go," Wenger told Arsenal Player when asked about his team's attempts to catch Spurs. "We are in the fight and the game on Saturday showed that we are ready for a fight."
After all, this time last year Tottenham held a 10-point advantage over the Gunners, but a poor run of form towards the end of the season - which began with defeat in the north London derby - saw Spurs slip off the pace and ended with Arsenal qualifying for the Champions League for a 15th successive season.
And with 13 matches left this season - including a visit to White Hart Lane on March 3 - Wenger knows Arsenal can still leapfrog their rivals if they display the fight they did at the Stadium of Light.
Although Arsenal are no longer blessed with the attacking prowess of Robin van Persie, Wenger claims they do possess a strong mentality which he thinks was evident on Saturday when they had to spend most of the second half down to 10 men following Jenkinson's dismissal for a second yellow card.
"Our character was questioned many times," the Arsenal manager added. "You saw (on Saturday) that we have plenty. I liked the last 20 minutes when we were pushed back. We headed every single ball. We tried like mad and that's fantastic to see.
"Sometimes you have to just dig in and some players played in uncomfortable positions. When we have the desire to win, it helps a lot."
One area of concern for Wenger was that two of his key players, Laurent Koscielny and Jack Wilshere, suffered respective calf and thigh injuries on Saturday.
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It was good fun really! The day before we had a convoy recce run of track, but being a convoy it was just a slow drive thru. On race day we were supposed to be going last, we only got there early because of spectator traffic possibility. Once we got there we were just chillin. Mani n I were sitting in Asad's jero back seat, when they suddenly called us to go. I barely put the helmet on when he flagged me off! You can see me setting gps n other things on the way! We had previously discussed that we were not going to push. I only put on 2 of the 4 chains I had for NPP, as they were mandatory and to make sure we made up the blackice inclines!Redbull wrote:epicnnn wrote:1st post of thread!Redbull wrote:any videos of the actual runs from indash cams?
looks like its more fun then desert runs!
First 5-6 minutes we were trying to identify track grip / limit, not at all simple as lots of people standing by track side and with everything covered in snow, any venture on the side may end up hitting a rock / stone hidden under snow (with cholistan next month that would be disaster).
Was very surprised when we were upto next car ahead! Wasted plenty time behind him. We were enjoying our drive, and it was great fun drifting in snow, but not as much skidding on black ice! Battery failure was NPP first major disaster, made worse by the fact that we were 1.5km from finish and also that Asad who stopped to help us later could also have earned podium as well.
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Beceem Communications sustained a speedy 33Mbps downlink/uplink throughput in a demo of its BCS200 WiMAX Wave 2 chipsets. Hey, that's fast! Beceem calls itself the top provider of chipsets for Mobile WiMAX technology, and the company hopes the BCS200 will be able to bolster the capabilities of a variety of WiMAX products with speeds approaching DSL.
This is good news for wireless service providers signing with WiMAX, as Beceem claims its new Wave 2 chip will not only be much faster (as it's proven), but operate with much less processing strain and improved roaming with the chip's "dynamically programmable channel bandwidths from 5MHz to 10MHz". Bring it on, 'cause faster speeds make higher quality version of things we all enjoy, such as music, video, and games.
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Alessandro Del Piero achieving a scoring feat he previously hadn't, landmark goals for Edinson Cavani and Michael Owen, and some wayward shooting in South Africa all feature in FIFA.com's latest stats review, along with Iran posting a record-breaking win on the sand.
English Premier League goals is the total Michael Owen became only the seventh player to reach on Saturday. The 33-year-old rose from the bench to grab a late consolation for Stoke City in a 3-1 defeat at Swansea City, thus ending his own near-18-month goal drought and ending his side's run of 281 minutes without a league goal. Alan Shearer (260), Andy Cole (187), Thierry Henry (175), Robbie Fowler (162), Frank Lampard (158) and Wayne Rooney (151) are the others to have surpassed the 150-goal mark in the Premier League.
Serie A goals is the total Napoli striker Edinson Cavani reached on Sunday – ironically against the team against whom he scored his first! The-then Palermo player made his debut in the Italian top flight as a substitute against Fiorentina in March 2007, and took just 16 minutes to snatch his team a draw with a volley reminiscent of Dutchman Marco van Basten's stupefying effort in the 1988 UEFA European Championship final. Cavani's latest league goal earned second-placed Napoli a 1-1 draw in Florence that left them five points behind Juventus. The 25-year-old Uruguay international, for his part, moved on to 17 goals in 18 games in the 2012/13 Serie A, leaving him three clear of Udinese veteran Antonio Di Natale and AC Milan youngster Stephan El Shaarawy in the Capocannoniere race. Cavani is bidding to become the first South American to win the award since Hernan Crespo in 2000/01, the first Napoli player since Diego Maradona in 1987/88, and the first Uruguayan since Ettore Puricelli in 1940/41.
unsuccessful shots had been registered before the first goal was scored at the CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2013. The South Africa-Cape Verde Islands and Angola-Morocco goalless draws included 17 attempts apiece, before the net rippled for the first time in the third match on Sunday. Another 21 shots had failed to find the target when Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu's sliding finish fired Ghana ahead against Congo DR in what was the competition's 220th minute. The goal proved the first of four in a 28-minute spell en route to a 2-2 draw.
goals without reply is the number Iran put past the Philippines on Tuesday to record the biggest victory in AFC Beach Soccer Championship history. The previous record in the competition, which serves as a qualifier to the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, was Japan's 16-0 thumping of the Filipinos in 2006. This time around, the Philippines kept the deadlock intact for six of the 36 minutes and only trailed 3-0 after the first third. Iran nonetheless ran riot thereafter and hit an incredible ten goals in the final period on Katara Beach in Doha, Qatar. Mohammad Ahmadzadeh and Mohammad Ali Mokhtari got four goals apiece, Farid Boloukbashi, Moslem Mesigar and Ali Naderi each grabbed a hat-trick.
goals in one game is what Alessandro Del Piero scored for the first time in his prolific, 21-year-old career on Saturday to inspire Sydney FC to a 7-1 win over Wellington Phoenix – their biggest ever in the A League. The 38-year-old forward's exquisite dink set up the deadlock-breaker for debutant Joel Griffiths, and the former Italy international then hit three goals within 19 minutes – two splendid individual efforts sandwiching a penalty – to register the joint-fourth-fastest hat-trick in A-League history. Del Piero added another superb goal in the second half – becoming only the fourth player in A-League history to net four times in a game in the process, after Archie Thompson, Shame Smeltz (twice) and Besart Berisha – before being substituted to a standing ovation from the Allianz Stadium crowd eight minutes from time, with Sydney 6-1 up. Thereafter, Yairo Yau added a seventh for the hosts to equal the second-biggest victory in A-League history and condemn Wellington to their all-time heaviest defeat in the competition. That second successive triumph lifted Sydney, who were bottom of the ten-team division before Frank Farina's installation in their hot-seat in late November, up to seventh.


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- 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened, plus additional for greasing bowl
- 1/4 cup Lyle's Golden Syrup*, plus additional for drizzling
- 1/3 cup superfine granulated sugar
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- Add 2 inches water to a large wide pot. Set a rack or a few metal cookie cutters in bottom of pot and bring water to a boil. Bring 3 cups additional water to a simmer in a small saucepan.
- Butter heatproof bowl, then pour 1/4 cup syrup into bottom. Beat together butter and sugar in another bowl with an electric mixer at medium speed until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs 1 at a time, then add flour and milk alternately in batches, beating until combined. Pour batter over syrup. Cover bowl with a large round of wax paper, then top with foil, crimping tightly around edge. Tie string around rim to secure.
- Set covered bowl on rack (water should come three fourths of the way up side of bowl; add simmering water if necessary), cover pot, and steam cake over simmering water 1 1/2 hours. Remove bowl from pot and let stand 5 minutes. Discard foil and wax paper. Invert a plate over bowl, then invert cake onto plate. Serve immediately, drizzled with cream and additional syrup.
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The Office of CFC Operations (OCFCO) is announcing a pilot program to promote the development of web-based searchable CFC charity lists among campaigns and to test the impact of using an abbreviated CFC printed brochure that omits the 25-word statement in conjunction with the web-based lists. The web-based lists may have, but are not required to, include the opportunity for on-line giving through the CFC.
CFC regulation 5 CFR 950.401(k), presently gives the LFCC authority to "omit the 25-word program description from the CFC brochure if, in the immediately preceding campaign year, contributions received in the local CFC totaled less than $100,000." Under this pilot program selected larger campaigns that offer web-based searchable CFC charity lists will similarly have the opportunity to print abbreviated brochures, on a trial basis for the 2006 CFC season.
PCFOs are urged to develop dedicated CFC websites whether or not they opt to test the use of an abbreviated printed brochure. Website development and maintenance costs are legitimate campaign expenses under the CFC regulations (5 CFR §950.104(b) (17)) when adequately documented and approved by the LFCC. To be approved for participation in the pilot program, campaigns must do the following:
If your campaign is interested in participating in this pilot program, please notify us with an email sent to: email@example.com by February 28, 2006. In the subject line of your email include: E-Brochure Interest, your campaign code number, and campaign name. This is not a commitment on your part but will help us gauge the level of interest and better plan for the handling of proposals.
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Saturday, June 2, 2012
3 Side Benefits of Being a Genealogist
1) Patience
Being a genealogist makes me more patient.Nearly everything I have researched has happened in the past. There is no urgent need for immediacy (though sometimes we would like it). The two things that taught me patience in genealogy were surname boards and requesting information.
I can post a query to a surname board and then walk away. It may be answered in a week or in five years. I'm in no rush. My main goal is that somebody, someday will see it and answer it. Likewise for information requests. Genealogy has taught me not to get my hopes up when writing to a cemetery for information about my ancestors. They may get back to me in a month or in a year. I simply mail the letter and forget about it (with a note in the log, of course). When it arrives it's a pleasant surprise that I had probably forgotten about.
2) Friends of All Ages
The funny thing about being a genealogist is that you are more interested in what people know and can share than you are about how old they are. In a kind of funny way being a genealogist has made me oblivious to age. My friends range in ages from the 20s to the 80s. And these are genuine friends. Most of them I can't tell you how old they are. I've just stopped bothering to even wonder. One of my friends in 86. We try to meet for coffee several times a month. She makes me appreciate life, her example teaches me how to grow older with grace and she makes me laugh. I feel the tension from the normal work day slip away during that one hour.
3) We Can Find Anything
Our fine-tuned research skills are good for much more than historical research. Need to find that long lost high school friend that you haven't spoken to in 25 years? Ask a genealogist! They'll likely find him quicker than anyone.
At Christmas-time when I'm stuck with a friend or family member without a current address - no problem! I check the local registry of deeds for where they are supposed to live and get the address there. How many regular people know to do that?!!
Most non-genealogists are unaware of how much information is freely and publicly available on the internet. Having the skills to find the information we need for everyday life makes the daily grind so much easier.
I'm sure you must have some other side benefits of your own. What's on your list?
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Very well put, Marian! I love the dynamics of genealogy research, too. Considering what you mentioned about the surname boards, I find genealogy much like I see investing: you must see your work, at times, as salting away little deposits in reasonable places. It is also like growing living things: we plant, someone else may water, and eventually we will get to reap that increase.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM
So true. We can be proud we have the advantage over most people just in our personal lives.ReplyDelete
On my list of side benefits:ReplyDelete
1. Extracting Pertinent Information
Slogging my way through a lot of records (both directly related to my ancestors as well as historical records indirectly related) have made me very good at extracting pertinent information from among all the rest of the information. A skill that's very timesaving in my day-job.
2. Citing Sources (So You Can Find Things Again)
Citing my sources is not something I learned by doing genealogy, but it became a habit due to genealogy. Find a recipe I like - write down the site/book it came from; find a good bit of information on - write down where you saw it. It's probably saved me tons of time over the years.
3. Asking For Help
The great genealogy community and the general nice-ness of genealogists (internet-based and real-life) have made it easy for me to ask for help. Considering I'm fairly shy, that's a great accomplishment for me, and something that I find easier to do in non-genealogy situations now as well.
And of course what you said is true as well :D.
Genealogy teaches us the past, while we are in the present to protect the future.ReplyDelete
History always repeats itself, it's getting others to listen & learn what you know so the same mistakes are not made again..
I enjoy the ability to answer questions/problem solve for my family. My uncle was thrilled when I was able to find the military enrollment information he needed for a VA benefit. My father was able to update his French pension forms after I showed him how to use Google Translate. They always seem stunned when I explain or fix. No clue at all what I actually do.ReplyDelete
Great post Marian! Yes, I've had to learn the patience thing: waiting for the vital record to come in the mail, waiting for the microfilm to come to the FHC, etc. And I too have had success with those message boards. It's one of the topics I have mentioned while teaching my Family History class.ReplyDelete
Another benefit of being a genealogist is that we can teach our children about our ancestors' lives, thus fostering an appreciation for them.
#1: Patience patience patience... we definitely learn that in genealogy research! #2: Deciding what is and is not important. And #3: we also learn HOW to search and research in many many venues.ReplyDelete
I like Jana Last's comment that we can also teach our children about our ancestors' lives - I do "Ancestor Birthday Alerts" for our direct ancestors, on Facebook, for my very-adult kids, cousins, and other interested parties. I add in whatever details I can do in a quick summary, plus include a link to a place, map, book, or other interesting item online for them to see.
Great post, Marian - thanks for making me think today while I'm listening to Tosca on the radio!
Friends of All Ages, how true. I have always had friends of all ages but I tend to notice ages even less than I use to. When I find out the ages of some of my genealogy friends I am surprised. Patience, a definite. How many things would you be willing to search years for and not give up. In addition it has taught me persistence which goes along with patience. We can find anything, well who else can find a female who has remarried without knowing her married name. Thanks for another great blog post.ReplyDelete
Excellent post! I'm always amazed to receive emails from surname boards saying someone responded to one of my posts. But perhaps more special are the ones that stumble upon my blog posts of ancestors and send me an email.ReplyDelete
People always call me a 'hacker' for my computer snooping skills. Thanks to you, I now have something to say back to them. "Nope, just a genealogist!"
I love it! Add to it: appreciating life's little details. I love hearing about the jobs and beliefs of others and how they spend their daily lives because it's those pieces that I truly hunt for in my ancestors. Great post, Marian!ReplyDelete
I agree with all three of your observations, Marian. Friends of all ages is a particularly nice benefit of being a genealogist, I think.ReplyDelete
Another one I would add is a general embracing of family members, no matter what their quirks or even how ordinary their lives seemed on the surface. I used to think my family was the only one with little oddities, but the more I learn, the more I realize every family has them. And even though generation after generation of my ancestors were "just farmers," I can really appreciate their contributions to their communities. So in addition to the other things, I think genealogy makes us more accepting as well.
- AnonymousJune 3, 2012 at 9:04 AM
Thanks so much for mentioning the Massachusetts deed registry, I had never encountered that before and they have so much available! After just a quick search it has proved a treasure-trove for my Massachusetts research. Thanks again.ReplyDelete
Marian, not only did I enjoy your 3 side effects, but also loved the comments that you generated. You touched a nerve within your followers. Thanks.ReplyDelete


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In its original meaning, a crusade was a Christian holy war, and in that sense it was a contradiction in terms. Christ's whole teaching was to love thy neighbor, not kill him. But, like everyone else, the early Christians had enemies, whom they needed to fight on occasion. So the Church fathers went to work on the doctrine, and by the eleventh century it was agreed that in certain circumstances God might not only condone war but demand it. Of course, there had to be an important cause. The Church claimed that it had such a cause: Jerusalem had fallen into the hands of infidels. Actually, that had happened more than four hundred years earlier, and in the ensuing period Christians were generally treated far better in the holy city than non-Christians were in Europe. But there was another call to arms: Alexius I Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium—that is, of Catholic Europe's Eastern brother—had asked the Pope for help against Muslim forces threatening his borders. Again, however, this was something less than an emergency. Byzantium and Islam did fight, but no more frequently than most neighboring powers of the time.
According to many modern historians, what triggered the Crusades was not an external cause but an internal one: a campaign, beginning with Pope Gregory VII, in the late eleventh century, to reform the Church. This was a two-pronged effort. One goal was to stamp out immorality: get the priests to stop marrying, stop selling ecclesiastical offices, live by their vows. A second, and probably more important, objective was to strengthen the Papacy. In religion as in politics, Europeans of that period had little respect for centralized authority. The Pope's sovereignty was disputed not just by secular rulers but within the Church. When Urban II, Gregory's successor, was elected, in 1088, it took him six years to get a rival, German candidate out of the Lateran Palace. (He finally had to bribe him.) This is not to speak of the fact that the Pope had no control over the Eastern churches, the dioceses of the Balkan peninsula, Asia Minor, Syria, and Palestine. Most of these territories were under the jurisdiction of the Byzantine Empire and hence of the Greek Orthodox Church, which, to Rome's abiding fury, had broken with the Western Church in 1054. The Vatican wanted to get mightier and holier, and Urban II took on the job.
In 1095, he went on a tour of France, and one afternoon in Clermont he gave a sermon calling on Christians to journey to the East and reclaim the Holy Land. "A race absolutely alien to God," he said, was defiling Christian altars, raping Christian women, tying Christian men to posts and using them for archery practice. None of this was true, but it had the desired effect. First, as the postcolonial theorists would say, it "otherized" the Muslims. Second, it gave the European nobles a cause that could distract them from warring with their neighbors—a more or less daily occupation of knights in that period—and unite them, for a holy purpose. In the months that followed, at convocations across Europe, between sixty thousand and a hundred thousand people came forward and knelt to "take the Cross."
Thus was launched the crusading movement, whose high tide lasted for two centuries. As time went on, a "crusade" no longer meant just a march against the Muslim infidel. Any perceived enemy of the Church—the Wends, in Germany (pagans); the Cathars, in southern France (heretics)—could be the target of a crusade. But the Crusades against Islam were the model, and the two most interesting were the first (1095-99) and the fourth (1202-04). The First Crusade is important because, apart from being first, it was successful, at least in the Church's terms: the men recruited by Urban did capture Jerusalem, together with other rich territories in the East, and in consequence—because those lands had to be defended—they made the later Crusades to the East necessary. The Fourth Crusade is famous for the opposite reason. In Christian terms, it was the least successful—indeed, a scandal. The Crusaders never got to Jerusalem; instead, they attacked Christian cities, notably Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which they effectively destroyed. They thus shifted the center of Christian civilization from East to West, and permanently altered the history of the world. These two expeditions are the subject of a pair of recent books, "The First Crusade: A New History" (Oxford; $35), by Thomas Asbridge, and "The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople" (Viking; $25.95), by Jonathan Phillips. Both authors are young lecturers in medieval history at the University of London, both have written previous books on the Crusades, and they think alike.
To the nineteenth century, the Crusades, like most things medieval, were exotic, heroic, and spiritually fine. In Walter Scott's "The Talisman," in Verdi's "I Lombardi," brave knights, their standards whipping in the wind, ride off to save Christendom from godless people with scimitars. The popularity of the subject was tied to the movements for national unity that dominated the period. On the surface of "I Lombardi," medieval Lombards are fighting the Saracens; beneath the surface, nineteenth-century Lombards are fighting the Austrians, and Verdi is rooting for them. The theme survived well into the twentieth century. Lloyd George, when he published the speeches he gave during the First World War, called the book "The Great Crusade"; Eisenhower's memoir of the Second World War was entitled "Crusade in Europe." Whenever a war needed to be viewed as a sacred enterprise, the word came up. Shortly after September 11, 2001, George W. Bush used it to describe his war on terrorism.
Unlike his predecessors, however, President Bush was quickly warned off that term, which had negative associations for Muslims and, by this time, for others as well. Between Ike's war and Bush's, the notion of ideological warfare fell into bad odor with intellectuals. The most important influence here, aside from the Cold War, was the great English medievalist Steven Runciman, whose three-volume "History of the Crusades" was published between 1951 and 1954 and achieved wide popularity. Far from regarding the crusading movement as a noble endeavor, Runciman described it as "a vast fiasco," whose main result was simply to create an undying enmity between Islamic and Christian peoples. Faith may have inspired the Crusaders, but not for long, Runciman said: "High ideals were besmirched by cruelty and greed, enterprise and endurance by a blind and narrow self-righteousness; and the Holy War itself was nothing more than a long act of intolerance in the name of God." That sentence is now fifty years old, but the opinion is still widely held. John Julius Norwich, in his 1995 "Byzantium: The Decline and Fall," calls the crusading movement "one of the blackest chapters in the history of Christendom" and says that the Fourth Crusade, at least, was basically about loot.
The trend is reversing again, however. Many of today's young historians in Britain and America are tired of the economic—and therefore iconoclastic—analyses that were so popular with their professors and, perhaps not unaffected by the spectacle of people in the Middle East blowing themselves up for Allah, are returning to the study of ideology as the wheel of history. That, in any case, is what one gathers from recent writings on the Crusades. As Jonathan Riley-Smith, another expert on the movement, sees it, the disasters of twentieth-century history so poisoned ideological warfare in the minds of historians that they could not imagine its being waged even by people who lived eight centuries earlier. They had to believe that the Crusaders were after property, pillage. They could not understand, though the evidence was there, "how intellectually respectable the Christian theory of positive violence was" to the medieval mind. Positive violence—what is that? Just what it says: the idea that killing is virtuous. According to Riley-Smith, a number of historians now accept this belief as key to the Crusades.
Asbridge and Phillips are of that party. Both are writing for the general public, and in their view there are two facts about the Middle Ages that nonspecialist readers must get into their heads. The first is that violence was a normal fact of medieval life. Seizing your brother-in-law's castle, cutting off his nose—these were unremarkable activities. The second is the pervasive religiosity of the period—above all, the fear of damnation, especially on the part of the knights. They were usually the ones committing the violence. Yet every sermon they heard told them that killing was an abomination to God; every church portal they gazed up at showed grinning devils hauling the violent down to Hell. So they were caught in a vise: the thing they were trained to do was also a thing that was going to cause them to burn for all eternity. They tried to stave this off. They went on pilgrimages; they made donations to monasteries. (The rise of the monastic orders in the Middle Ages owes much to knightly guilt.) Still, they knew they were living in a state of sin.
Then Urban, in preaching the First Crusade, offered them a solution. He called upon them to kill, and told them that on this occasion it was not a sin—indeed, that it would win them remission of past sins. By the Fourth Crusade, participants were guaranteed absolution of all confessed transgressions—in other words, a ticket straight to paradise. The arrangement that Urban offered to the men of the First Crusade is less clear, but they were promised "eternal rewards." So it was two in one: the knights could go on slaughtering people and get to Heaven thereby. That was "positive violence," and, according to Asbridge and Phillips, it was the motor of the Crusades.
Asbridge, in his account of the First Crusade, reminds us of this point continually. But it is just his bass line, not his theme. His theme—unavoidable, in the history of that expedition—is disunity. The First Crusade had no single commander. Basically, the army was made up of four contingents: the northern French, the southern French, the Germans and Lotharingians, and the southern-Italian Normans—all of them, despite their varying origins, called "Franks" by early and late historians of the Crusades. Each group had a different leader and spoke a different language; some hated others, by reason of past conflict. Add to this another contingent, the so-called People's Crusade, a rabble got up—independently of Urban, and probably to his dismay—by a charismatic French monk, Peter the Hermit, and, in the words of one chronicler, including as many "adulterers, murderers, thieves, perjurers" as it did pious folk. All the divisions travelled separately to the East. The People's Crusade departed first, crossing Europe on foot and, figuring that the rout of infidels might as well begin at home, slaughtering a large portion of the Rhineland Jews as they passed through that territory. They were the first to reach Constantinople, where Emperor Alexius I took one look at them and shipped them across the Bosporus, into Asia Minor. Probably to the relief of their allies as well as their enemies, they were soon wiped out, almost to a man, by the Turks.
Then the official Crusade reached Constantinople, and began its dealings with Alexius, who must be counted as another competing leader of the expedition. He regarded the Crusaders as his tool—Urban had told him that they were coming to defend his territories—so, after loading them down with gifts, he extracted promises from the leading knights that they would turn over to him any captured territory that had once been part of the Roman Empire, of which, in his view, Byzantium was the continuation. The knights departed and shortly began betraying their vows to Alexius, as he began violating his promise to send them supplies and reinforcements. They captured the important Turkish city of Nicaea (which they did turn over to Alexius). Then they began the gruelling march across Asia Minor. When it was over, half the Crusade's men, and more than half of its horses, were dead. Whatever their commitment to "positive violence," the survivors seem to have decided that if they were going to suffer this they should get some material reward. At every subsequent engagement, there were ferocious disputes over booty. The Crusaders spilled each other's blood, shook hands in the morning, and then took out their grievances on the towns that lay in their path.
Chief among these was Antioch, a great trading city. In order to conquer Jerusalem, the Franks had to take Antioch first, to cover their backs, but the city was well supplied and had seemingly impregnable walls. The siege of Antioch lasted more than seven months, during which period many men deserted and many others died of hunger. By the time it was over, the Crusaders were in no mood for mercy. They killed almost everyone, including the resident Christians. And now the quarrels over who would get what escalated. Jerusalem was three days' march down the road, but it took the Crusaders half a year to set out on that journey, because two rival knights were fighting over control of Antioch, and neither would leave the city in the other's hands. Finally, a large contingent left for Jerusalem. Outside the city, they tarried for another month, building war machines and arguing again over the division of the anticipated spoils. Then they attacked. According to contemporary accounts, they left not one Muslim alive. The city's Jews took refuge in their temple; the Franks barricaded the exits and set the building on fire. At the end of the sack, Asbridge writes, the Crusaders "came, still covered in their enemies' blood, weighed down with booty, 'rejoicing and weeping with excessive gladness to worship at the Sepulchre of our Savior Jesus.' " (He is quoting an eyewitness.) They had fulfilled their vow.
The story is not just brutal; it is thick with ironies. By the time the Crusaders got to Jerusalem, the Seljuk Turks, their primary enemy, had lost the city to the Egyptian Fatimids, who were in diplomatic negotiations with the Crusaders. So the people from whom the Crusaders took the city were not their foes but their hoped-for friends. Pope Urban II never heard of the victory; he died two weeks after it occurred. Most of the wealth that the soldiers had acquired was spent on their return passage; many arrived home penniless. The Eastern Christian sects—the Armenians and Copts and others whose freedom to worship in the city was one of the Crusade's foremost stated goals—were expelled from Jerusalem. Nevertheless, the Franks had established the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, which, despite various losses (notably the city of Jerusalem), did not fall for two hundred years.
Asbridge, in keeping with his aim to produce a popular history, writes with maximum vividness. Some of this gets a little hokey—there are cliff-hangers galore—but I am grateful that he stooped to entertain us. Mad Hugh and Basil the Bulgar-Slayer were fun to read about. Raymond of Toulouse, one of the leading knights, was reputed to have had an eye plucked out in an earlier conflict, and to have carried this shrivelled organ in his pocket afterward, "as testament to his suffering." Asbridge says that there's no good evidence for this story, but he includes it anyway. As long as we're on the gallows, he'll give us some gallows humor. There is also a note of comedy in the competition among the knights, with their nasty little treacheries, and with the lesser soldiers running back and forth between tents to figure out who's on top—and therefore whom they should ally themselves with—today.
Asbridge tries to put everything in concrete, practical terms. In particular, he takes pains to explain the actual warfare, which in those days had everything to do with walls. Walls—huge, thick walls—were how a city protected itself, and they were what the besiegers had to breach. The Franks had ingenious machines—the petraria, the mangonella—for catapulting rocks over the battlements. And, when the townspeople retaliated by pouring burning grease and pitch down on the attackers, there were other machines—the vulpus, the testudo—to protect them. Walls were also the stage of medieval warfare's psychological theatre. The Muslims hung the Christian dead from the top of the walls and left them there, so that their friends could watch them rot. In turn, the Christians, when they beheaded their prisoners, did so in front of the walls, so that the enemy could get a good look. Then they lobbed the heads over the battlements. In the face of such tactics, Asbridge has to work hard to remind us of the holy principles underlying the Crusade.
Asbridge's problem is small, however, compared with that of Jonathan Phillips, in his book on the Fourth Crusade. As appalling as the First Crusade was, the fourth was far worse. The goal, again, was to recapture Jerusalem, which had been seized by the Turks in 1187. This time, the leaders of the expedition decided that everyone must go together, by sea. In 1201, a delegation was sent to Europe's mightiest seafaring power, Venice, which was ruled at that time by a bold, crafty man, Doge Enrico Dandolo, who, though he was blind and probably over ninety years old, was to become the chief policy-maker of the Fourth Crusade. The delegates told Dandolo what they needed: enough ships to transport thirty-three thousand five hundred soldiers and their horses, enough men (it turned out to be thirty thousand, the equivalent of half the adult population of Venice) to rig and sail the ships, and enough food to get everyone through the journey. This was a tall order, and the Doge asked a great price—eighty-five thousand marks. (According to Phillips, that was twice the annual income of the kings of France and England.) The Franks swallowed hard and signed the contract, and the Venetians spent more than a year preparing the fleet. Then, as agreed, the Crusaders mustered at Venice, but instead of the thirty-three thousand five hundred men who were expected—and absolutely needed, for the Doge's price was to be met by each of the men paying his own portion—only a third of that number showed up. True to form, the European knights didn't like taking orders. Some preferred to sail, with their forces, from Marseilles or Genoa. Of those who had come to Venice, the rich dug into their pockets, but still they could come up with only a little more than half of what they owed.
What could they do now? To turn back would be a betrayal of their vow, and of their knightly honor. But what could the Doge do? He thought about it, and he came up with an idea. On the Dalmatian coast there was a city, Zara—a rich city, with excellent oak for shipbuilding—that had recently thrown off Venetian control and gone over to the King of Hungary. If the Crusade would agree to besiege Zara and restore it to Venetian rule, the Doge would postpone (not forgive—he drove a hard bargain) payment of the Franks' debt. For the Franks, this was a shocking proposal. Their mission was to make war on infidels. Zara was a Christian city, and under the spiritual rule not of the Greek Orthodox Church but of the Pope in Rome. Furthermore, the King of Hungary had taken the Cross, which meant that his property was under the protection of the Vatican and could not be legitimately attacked by anyone. That was part of the deal offered by the Church to any Crusader.
Nevertheless, the Franks accepted the Doge's proposal. The Pope soon got wind of their plans, and as they were camped outside Zara they received a letter from him forbidding them to lay a hand on the city and promising excommunication to anyone who did. At this point, a bitter quarrel broke out among the knights, and a few defected, with their men. (Indeed, as the fleet left Venice for Zara, the putative leader of the Crusade, Boniface of Montferrat, found that he had urgent business to attend to back home in Piedmont. He rejoined the forces at Zara, but only after the city had been taken.) A core group of influential knights decided to go ahead, and make it up to the Pope later. They did not share the contents of the Pontiff's letter with the common soldiers; they just led them to the walls of Zara and conquered the city in short order. The Pope then fired off a new letter, excommunicating them all.
News of their difficulty spread quickly to the courts of Europe, and reached Alexius Angelos, the crown prince of Constantinople, who at that time was living in exile in the West. Seven years earlier, Alexius's father, Isaac II, the rightful emperor of Byzantium, had been deposed by his (Isaac's) brother, now Alexius III, who threw him into a dungeon and had his eyes gouged out. Prince Alexius had been trying for years to induce some European power to help him reclaim his inheritance. Now, like Dandolo, he saw in the Fourth Crusade's troubles an opportunity for himself, and he sent a delegation to the Crusaders at Zara. Since the Crusade was pledged to the service of God and justice, the delegates said, its duty, clearly, was to make a detour to Constantinople and expel the usurper. If they did so, furthermore, Prince Alexius would pay them two hundred thousand silver marks, provision the entire army, provide ten thousand men to go with them to Egypt (this was another of their planned side trips), and, for as long as he lived, protect Frankish possessions in the East. Finally, he would place the Greek Orthodox Church under the rule of Rome. The last item was crucial, the very thing the Crusaders needed. If they could return proud, schismatic Byzantium to Roman control, this would quickly solve their problems with the Pope. Also, the promised two hundred thousand marks would more than pay their debt to Dandolo. The Doge, who was with them, favored the plan for other reasons as well. Byzantium had threatened Venetian trade routes; if it had a ruler who owed his throne to Venice, this would be good for business. So the offer was accepted. Alexius, who now arrived in person, was taken on board, and the Crusaders, with stops at various Byzantine ports to demand the people's allegiance and make off with their food supplies, proceeded to Constantinople.
Byzantium at that time was the greatest civilization in Christendom. In 395, the Roman Empire had been divided in two. The Western half—that is, Europe—soon fell to the barbarians, while the Eastern half survived, as the inheritor of the empire and the repository of its culture. Constantinople, its capital, was ten times larger than any city in Western Europe. Situated on the Bosporus, smack in the middle of the trade route between the West and the Orient, it was also far richer than any European city. It had palaces of gold and marble; its basilica, Hagia Sophia, dwarfed any European cathedral and, together with the city's other churches, housed priceless relics—the Virgin Mary's robe, the Crown of Thorns, two heads of John the Baptist. The city was sophisticated, cosmopolitan, with luxurious habits. Its ladies, watched over by twenty thousand eunuchs, wore silks and jewels and white wigs. The Constantinopolitans—or Greeks, as they were known—regarded the Europeans as grunting tribesmen. The Franks, in turn, viewed the Greeks as pantywaists, and probably enjoyed the thought of having to rescue them. Arriving in June of 1203, they attacked quickly and in one day put Alexius III to flight. Isaac was brought up from his dungeon and restored to power.
Then a delegation from the Crusade went to Isaac, enthroned among his nobles, and informed him of the bargain that his son had made to achieve this result. (Apparently, the agreement included Prince Alexius's being made co-emperor, Alexius IV, for that happened soon afterward.) The court was not happy, nor, after twenty years of political unrest, was it in a position to meet the terms. But it had no choice. Oppressive taxes were levied on the people; the silver lamps of Hagia Sophia were taken down and melted into coin. As this went on, the Constantinopolitans came to hate the Franks, and, as the payments started to come late, and then stopped coming at all, the Franks hated them back. Finally, the Franks threatened war. In response, a flotilla of "fire ships"—flaming vessels—was sent out one night from the port of Constantinople to destroy the Venetian ships. (It failed.) Soon afterward, Isaac and Alexius IV were deposed by a Constantinopolitan nobleman determined to get rid of the Franks. Isaac died of grief, probably with some assistance; Alexius was murdered. With the latter gone, the Franks knew that they would never be paid, and they decided to take the city instead. They did so in two days.
Even amid the other horrid events of the Crusades, the sack of Constantinople is notorious. Not only did the Crusaders rape and massacre; they made a party of it. They hatted out their horses in the white wigs of the Constantinopolitan ladies. A prostitute straddled the Patriarch's throne in Hagia Sophia and sang songs. The Franks gathered up booty wholesale; what they couldn't carry, they destroyed. The Venetians, who had better taste—and who, in keeping with their still unpaid debt, were allowed two-thirds of the spoils—quietly crated up the city's finest treasures. As a result, St. Mark's basilica, in Venice, houses one of the world's foremost collections of Byzantine art, including the four golden horses that once stood in Constantinople's hippodrome and were now installed over St. Mark's main portal. As for the territories, Dandolo shrewdly took what he knew Venice could defend: Crete, Corfu, the ports in the Peloponnese. The huge power of the Venetian republic during the Renaissance owed much to those acquisitions. The Franks took the interior, which they then spent years fighting over with outraged locals and, as usual, with each other. Baldwin of Flanders, one of the Crusade's leaders, was made emperor of Byzantium. He was captured and killed by the King of Bulgaria within a year. Nor did the Frankish rule of Byzantium last long. The Greeks retook Constantinople a half-century later, in 1261; in 1453, the city, or what was left of it, fell to the Turks, who occupy it still. So a great, ancient civilization was destroyed, in the name of God.
Phillips, even more than Asbridge, is determined to put this story over to the general public. He is not just vivid; he basically storyboards the Crusade, beginning with an elaborate flash-forward to the rugged Baldwin being crowned in Hagia Sophia. (Baldwin changes his woollen hose for stockings of red samite. He receives in his calloused hands a ruby the size of an apple. He thinks of his wife, a denizen of "cold, marshy" Flanders, whom he must now summon to be the empress of Byzantium.) And that's just the prologue. These scenes are exciting, but Phillips's most substantial achievement is his analysis of the Realpolitik of the Fourth Crusade, his effort to show these knights not as greedy cynics, which is what Steven Runciman called them, but as men impelled by many conflicting motives, among which, like Asbridge, he places religion very high. At some points, he has trouble with this argument. For example, in the matter of the knights' worries about Zara, he writes that damnation was "the greatest possible concern to all medieval people." Clearly not, however, for the knights ignored the Pope's threat of excommunication—that is, damnation—and attacked Zara anyway. It gets a little confusing. Nevertheless, that is often what people's decisions are like when their backs are to the wall, and one has to admire Phillips for trying to juggle so many causes.
We are left with one question about these two books. The insistence on the Crusaders' sense of religious duty, as opposed to bloodlust and greed, comes across as a justification. However much the authors may historicize it, it starts to sound virtuous. Does this mean that Asbridge and Phillips think the Crusades were O.K.? Not according to many of their statements, particularly about the sack of Jerusalem and of Constantinople. But before those events, as the Franks are lobbing the stones and mounting the battlements, our chroniclers are full of admiration for them. Asbridge praises the "inspired and audacious" tactics of the leaders of the First Crusade, their "military genius"; Phillips roots for the men of the Fourth Crusade as, with their boats swaying beneath them and with scores of Greek bowmen firing at them, they climb their ladders and jump out onto the walls of Constantinople. Later, the authors bemoan the slaughter, but what did they think the audacious tactics were for? There is a curious amorality here. It may be endemic to military history. (What an exciting battle! Oops, what a lot of dead people!) Still, it is strange.
And it is even stranger in relation to current events. Asbridge never mentions the war in Iraq. Phillips gives Al Qaeda a few sentences in his introduction. But these two books are aimed at the common reader, and the authors know very well that their customers will be thinking about what is now happening in the Middle East. (Or Asbridge knows it. In the American edition of his book, a new subtitle has been added: "The Roots of Conflict Between Christianity and Islam.") And if I have noticed certain resemblances between the Crusades and the war in Iraq—the exaggeration of the threat, to get the war going; the enormous financial cost to the attacking country; the mixture of idealistic and commercial motives; the surprise of finding that the liberated may not thank you, indeed, may attack you—Asbridge and Phillips have surely also noted the parallels. They are silent on the subject, but in the resulting void, and with the constant emphasis on the religious motive, there is a strong suggestion, intentional or not, that we should consider whether today, too, there might be such a thing as positive violence. ♦


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blaze with a face melter, go fish,
pigeon itchin for a pit to put the pig in,
scalped bottom feeder, nose bleeder, cheap seats,
to the meat eater sweeps sweet weak freaks,
what up?
grip clicker, smack the dummy box fix picture,
stickle over shit, cinema flicker in the plasma,
the latch key degree was obtained in the savage years,
where he learned the binding of a wire hanger to rabbit ears,
every pixel that leaked dead over the carpet,
had to be spit shinned and hidden before the ford duster parketh,
when mommy marched in, wrapped the broccoli in the napkin,
for your electric paradesio after the parent crashes,
and i'm high on ion jitters, call it a prime directive of the damned,
who grew to sleep easy to white noise,
the humming of the machinary running towards them crawl,
social retardation larvey plugged into the wall,
the little short circuit with the still born vibe,
till the villagers circled and determand "it is alive",
shipped to bell view eyes fuzzy talking funny,
like "eagle one to grey squirrel whats your twenty dunny?",
i piss clumsy with electrode head pan (sorry),
pitty the pretty internet gotta empty the bed pan,
left hand numb from the finger to the thumb (right!),
right got tubes in it, irony is fun (yaaay!),
at some point early when drunk on electric kisses,
i'd apparently notarized forms excusing scalp slippage (sign this),
the pain came on a makeshift main stage,
and sentenced to in an inoperable eight bit frame rate,
for that i made a game play, reborn torn,
at the ministry of information trying to get informed,
they'll duck it out and i will cease all wars,
so if you babysit a caroline be fore warned,
i be the ultimate (ultimate), multi polar,
mobile medicine cabinet stocked adequate,
pockets like maraccas, that will shake when he stepped,
which explains the circle of rattlesnakes where he slept,
smarter then the average bear, barter parts and gadget,
with battery op enthusiast pardon the barking badgers,
while you were parking daggers in kittens with snarling children,
i was sharking classes with taggers for television (Click!),
gattaca days, attica paper scattered,
diagonal mahogony boggled the train savage,
to boxed the botanically inclined child slave labor,
blades clipped the perfect petal now play later,
play never, if escaped raped treasure,
thats a jewel freebie out a old geezer, no teether,
or even yesteryear scrapes fester, administer gauze,
but catourized wounds bleed if you ain't ethered the cause,
king of applause (yay!) beats the garbage flood for ten(?),
porn king of newyork, alley punk perv scum,
waddle on the voyage of the vouyer,
six four sick king breezer sniff whores through brick,
i am so dangerous evil and mercy heaven,
allergy to compasion he is the perfect weapon,
un- earth it and ciphened from delorian doors swivel up,
with aviator radar blip for most glorious tittie fuck,
cool green over the frame under the clothes line,
whos crew choose fuel most, mine,
holy trinity, tripple six, tripple x, city barrack,
glutton for punishment super size me while you at it,
he da:
built hideous, silk of the milk litigant, silly wicked finick he fidgit the middle digit ish,
will he alter what he feel is illy to pick at every little smidgen of integraty,
as your industry bitch? NO,
final mentions, track the moniker,
to the freight hot reaking of butter beans and harmonica,
dirty old man no tea cup thirsty, peak up skirts,
for slaps from that d-cup nurse,
cackle his old gums lewd (lewd), crass,
show the girl a trick like how he opens can food with the only tooth he has,
she like THATS FUCKIN DISGUISTING,
they dont call him anabolic ace for nothing, OK,
now current picture aside all anti-celebs remain aggro,
half mast the flag pole,
dead walk sturdy, but the day i greet the worms,
i pull the daisies down with me as a fuck you to the norms,
generic's so unappealing and in my humble opinion,
defeats a rappers civic duty to the culture,
granted every topic has been covered but cookie cutter,
delivery of simpleton wit is the real culprit,
so wether street, club, battle, conscious or other,
i find that interesting style can often out weigh the subject,
so when the disc changer goes from guns to space,
it is not an attempt to fake credibility for the public,
But fuck it it's ace rock six records of gibberish right?,
he's trying to hard to be weird and different right? (riiiiight),
or could it possibly just maybe be, his lessons,
can't be summed up in a linear set of pop culture references?,
(WOW) yeah but why try, i'm so groggy,
the mach nine valentine aint for everybody,
but i will say this to yall that used your fifteen of fame,
to mention my name, that sixteenth minute regret is fuckin insane,
and thats a longevity veteran pedelling free medicine,(here)
who the fouler howler (me) who the rabble rouser,
what the happy hour starved the peruvian aggy powder,(tight)
trade up at the digital jesus factory outlet (bout it, bout it),
bout it bout it, fuck a fork tongue cutlury, the fuckery is famous,
never wild shook but a slang that maybe alienated a couple strangers,
held a mongoloid fanbase that is alien by nature,
robot wars, machines hit the floor,
and the semians syncopated a gigantic "encore",
alright i'm bored, five minute bag of tricks,
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New to these boards but not new to infertility. TTC for over 5 years. We dont meet the criteria for NHS IVF and are now researching going abroad. Probably Eastern Europe.
Anyhow - How many of you are or have done the same? How did you choose your clinic? We re all just a bit bamboozled at the moment... Don't want to rush into it but really cant wait any longer either LOL
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Neonicotinoid is a widely used farm pesticide first introduced in the 1990s that has caused significant changes to bee colonies and removing it could be the key factor in restoring nature's army of pollinators, according to two studies released in March.*
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There's something about using kitchen twine that makes me feel like a chef and connects me to the past. Trussing up pork tenderloins or rolled roasts with string says you're getting serious in the kitchen, in a comfortingly old school way. It was something Julia did.
So tying up a pair of meaty veal shanks for osso buco had me feeling cheflike. Preparing this classic Italian dish also put me in the mood for opera. I popped a mix CD of arias into the kitchen boombox (never mind that many of them were sung in French or German). Cold winds blowing outside and music playing inside made prepping in the warm kitchen especially rewarding.
We've been doing a lot of slow oven braising this winter and really enjoying it. It's perfect for turning tough, but flavorful cuts of meat into amazing, fork tender meals. Osso buco (AH-so BOO-co) particularly benefits from this cooking method. The Milanese favorite is made with cross-cut veal shanks from the hardworking upper portion of the leg. If not cooked for a long time, the meat can be chewy and stringy. Many recipes call for stovetop cooking rather than oven braising, but I find this can tend to dry out the meat, even if you turn it every 15 minutes as some recipes suggest. Braising in the oven surrounds the cooking vessel with a much lower heat for even, moist cooking.
Browning the osso buco prior to braising it gave me another chef moment. I needed to turn the veal shanks as they browned, and the high-walled Staub La Cocotte didn't give me a lot of room to maneuver with a spatula or other tool. So summoning my inner Anthony Bourdain (or April Bloomfield), I reached into the pot with my bare hands, grabbed the shanks one at a time and flipped them. I know I'm not really a chef (or even a line cook) until I burn myself with a move like this, but it still felt pretty cool.
Veal is lighter and milder in taste than most beef, so you need to use a lighter hand with flavorings. Using white wine instead of red is one example – red wine would overpower the dish. Because veal is so mild, it can also end up a little on the bland side. At least one recipe calls for browning the shanks in the fat of rendered pancetta to add extra flavor. I considered that for a while until I saw recipes that called for another secret ingredient for adding umami to a meat dish: Anchovy paste or fillets. I first discovered this trick when I made a Provençal layered pot roast. The anchovies impart no fishiness at all, but add a wonderful depth and complexity. Many recipes also call for topping osso buco with gremolata, a mix of minced parsley, garlic and lemon zest. Make sure to do this – it adds a nice bright finish to the dish and balances its richness.
Osso buco is often served with risotto. I served it with short pasta tossed with some of the pan juices and vegetables. It would also be delicious with creamy mashed potatoes – not authentic, mind you, but delicious.
And finally, one of the treats of this dish is the delicious, fatty marrow in the center of the bones. In fact, the name osso buco means bone with a hole, showing how important the marrow is. There are narrow spoons designed specifically for getting at it, but I say it's an opportunity to finally get some use from those goofy souvenir state spoons in the back of the silverware drawer.
Osso Buco with Gremolata
Serves 2 to 3
2 whole veal shanks (about 1 pound per shank), trimmed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Flour, for dredging
1 tablespoon canola oil (plus extra, if needed)
1 tablespoon unsalted butter (plus extra, if needed)
1 onion, diced
1 carrot, diced
1 stalk celery, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1/2 tablespoon anchovy paste (or 4 anchovy fillets, minced)
1 cup dry white wine*
2 to 3 cups chicken stock
2 sprigs Italian parsley
1 sprig fresh thyme (or 1 teaspoon dry)
2 small bay leaves (or 1 large)
For the gremolata:
1/4 cup minced Italian parsley leaves
1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest
1/2 tablespoon minced garlic
Special equipment:
Kitchen twine, for tying the veal shanks
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F. Pat the veal shanks dry with paper towels. Truss each shank with kitchen twine around the outside (a single strand will do). Season each shank with salt and freshly ground pepper and dredge them in flour, shaking off excess.
Heat a Dutch oven or lidded ovenproof skillet large enough to hold shanks in a single layer over a medium-high flame. Add 1 tablespoon each of canola oil and butter to the pan, swirling to combine. Brown shanks on both sides, about 5 minutes for the first side and 3 to 4 for the second. Transfer browned shanks to plate.
Reduce heat to medium and add onion, carrot and celery to pan, also adding a little more oil and butter, if necessary. Sauté vegetables until beginning to soften, about 5 minutes, stirring frequently to avoid burning. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 45 seconds. Stir in tomato paste and cook for about 1 minute. Add wine and bring to a boil, scraping up any browned bits. Return shanks to pan, along with any accumulated juices. Add 2 cups of chicken stock; liquid should come about two-thirds of the way up the sides of the shanks (add a little more if needed). Tuck parsley and thyme sprigs around the shanks, along with the bay leaves.
Cover pan and place in oven for about 2 hours or until the meat is falling off the bone. Check every 30 minutes or so to see if you need to add more broth.
Meanwhile make the gremolata. Combine ingredient in a bowl and mix thoroughly. Set aside.
Carefully transfer the cooked shanks to a serving platter. Cut off the kitchen twine and discard. Discard the parsley, thyme and bay leaves. Spoon juices from the pot over and around shanks. Garnish with gremolata. Serve.
Terry Boyd blogs at Blue Kitchen.
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