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Chris Fujiwara's study of Jerry Lewis's films, just published by the University of Illinois press, is valuable for several reasons. One, of course, is the author's thorough and perceptive analysis of the films, which, by itself, would make the book essential reading. But I confess that, having just received the book in the mail a day or two ago, I haven't read his study yet in its entirety: I went straight to the long interview that Fujiwara did with the director in 2003, because, though I'm impatient to read what Fujiwara has to say, I'm absolutely bursting—or, shall I say, plotzing—to hear what Lewis has to say.
The interview is a terrific one; Fujiwara's recall of the films is rapid and detailed, and his questions elicit fascinating, introspective responses. Here, I'd like to cite one of Lewis's remarks, which gets to the heart not just of his art but of comedy itself:
In order to make your audience laugh, you have to dramatically change who you are. I won't trip over that piece of wood on the stage if it's me walking there. But Jerry will, or Stanley, or the Idiot, or whatever we call him in that moment. He has to trip over it. Now, he has to turn into something that isn't truly him, so we're taking a piece of vanity and rubbing it out, a little ego, burying it, sandpapering all that down, and bringing up all of the gargoyles…. When I stand in front of an audience on New Year's Eve, let's say, years ago, and I see the young man and his girl, man and his wife, girl, boyfriend, couples, lovers, all that wonderful stuff ringside. I'm standing up there alone and making a fucking fool of myself to entertain them all. There's nothing more dramatic than that moment, Chris. It's very dramatic. Because I have to call on something that's not what I want to be at that moment. I want to be there with my girl or my wife watching some other schmuck make a fool of himself. But I never ever thought of what I did as demeaning. What I thought of it was: other than me at that moment. So it's very dramatic.
In the interview, Lewis talks a lot about technical things. It's worth recalling that he was deeply devoted to the practicalities of cinema—he invented the video playback for his first feature, "The Bellboy," so that he could both direct and act, and even wrote a book for aspiring directors, "The Total Film-Maker," published in 1971. His artistry will be on view in a retrospective at Anthology Film Archives from November 12th through 19th, in conjunction with the publication of Fujiwara's book.
P.S. Of course, a recent movie that treats the specific drama of comic life with insight and pathos is Judd Apatow's "Funny People," which is coming to DVD November 24th.
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I saw Lewis speak once at Columbia College, in Chicago, and I've never been in the same room with a more overwhelming singular presence. The chairs that he and the interviewer sat on were of an odd height, and the physical comedy he got out of that alone was incredible.


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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Bookshelf Wednesday - Prayer
Prayer by Philip Yancey has been on our coffee table for the past year.
(I know this series is called "Bookshelf Wednesdays" - as I share treasured favorites from my shelves. But I figure the coffee table counts, too.)
My husband and I are reading it together. It's the sort of book that deserves to be read slowly.
We often sit side by side and read a few pages, then discuss the issues. I've always loved the way Yancey confronts honest questions with compassion and intelligence, and this book is a great example.
If you want to delve deeply into the who, what, when, where, how and why of prayer, this book will be a challenging companion on the road.
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Dealing With The Different Scenarios A Break Up Can Make
A break up whether it is a break up of a real relationship that has lasted a long time or a marriage can be hard. Unless both of the people involved in this relationship agree to part ways peacefully there is always going to be heart ache and other problems which usually come with such a case. Though the majority of the break ups can be handled without going as far as domestic violence there are certain times when reaching such an end cannot be avoided. Therefore, it is always good for anyone who is in a relationship to understand the way to navigate any problem that can arise due to a break up.
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Everyone gets in a relationship with the hope of staying with that person they choose for the rest of their lives. However, there are times when people drift away with time as they change over the period they spend together or because they do not like certain qualities of their partners. At such a moment what is left is to go their separate ways. Since no one wants that there can be bitter feelings and hurt emotions. However, you can come to an agreement about the break up and what you are going to do as with the place you have shared and the plans you have made together with a civil conversation too.
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The Synfig Training Course is produced by Morevna Project for the people who would like to learn Synfig animation software in a short time. The course will guide you from the very basics of application interface to the techniques of creating character animation and some advanced features.
Here you can find all the sources of the course. Feel free to use them for creating localized versions of the course or do any other remixes/modifications.
The provided archive contains the plain sources of the open animation project, without any rendering data. To work with the project you need to rebuild the rendering by following the simple instructions below. Read more about our build system (RenderChan).
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Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing
Whisky: Technology, Production and Marketing explains in technical terms, the science and technology of producing whisky, combined with information from industry experts on successfully marketing the product. World experts in Scotch whisky provide detailed insight into whisky production from the processing of raw materials, to the fermentation, distillation, maturation, blending, production of co-products and quality testing, as well as important information on the methodology used for packaging and marketing whisky in the twenty-first century. No other book covers the entire whisky process from raw material to delivery to the market in such a comprehensive manner and with such a high level of technical detail.
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* Foreword written by Alan Rutherford, former Chairman and Managing Director of United Malt and Grain Distillers Ltd.
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The Corpse Wore Gingham
by Ed Lynskey
Series: Isabel and Alma Trumbo Cozy Mystery Series (#1)
Published: 08 Jan 2015
Piper and Bill Robins, a retired married couple, are enjoying their leisure years spent in the tranquil, leafy Washington, D.C. suburb of Beverly Park, Virginia. Bill watches "Pawn Stars" on TV and mows his lawn while Piper shops for clothes and solves crossword puzzles. One sunny June afternoon, Emily Davenport, who lives in California, telephones Bill and asks if he'll check on her elderly mother Anna living next door to the Robinses. She hasn't answered Emily's repeated attempts to call. After Bill and Piper go over, they discover Anna lies murdered in her bed. The only found clue is her bloodstained gingham bathrobe. Appalled and even more outraged, Piper persuades Bill to become wife-and-husband amateur sleuths, and they set out to find Anna's killer. Meantime, Bill's younger sister Noreen, a retired CPA, joins the Robinses' investigation. She taps her ex-cop boyfriend Rick Novak and her mysterious, opinionated tuxedo tomcat Snoozy Q for support. While the city homicide detectives run their official investigation, the skillful snoops Piper, Bill, and Noreen train their sights on four murder suspects. Besides a clean read and fair play modern "whodunit" mystery, The Corpse Wore Gingham offers cozy mystery fans likeable protagonists, good-natured humor, and a lively pace.
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I'm sure I'm not the only person delighted to have TOTP back on our screens on a Thursday evening (albeit 1976 & BBC4!)
So, I thought I'd give this entry a musical theme. It was going to be a Top 5 or even a Top 10 & it was going to be the best gigs I've been to.
Trouble is, in my opinion, you'd be hard pressed to attend live music & *not* enjoy it so trying to whittle down my favourites proved nigh on impossible so I thought I'd just share some highlights instead.


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By now, I'm sure you all know that I love my hair products and since having my hair returned to the lighter colour that I'm used to at the fabulous Hooker and Young salon, I have been searching for a toning hair care range to keep my hair looking ashy.
It seems that so many of you have been as well as when I first had my hair done, lots of you were recommending toning products to me on Twitter. I have naturally quite light blonde hair but it has gold tones in it that I don't appreciate at all. Today I wanted to share with you a review of the toning shampoo and conditioner duo that I have been using most frequently so that if you're looking for something to banish your hair of brassy tones then you might find this helpful whether you're a seasoned pro at ash or white blonde hair or whether you've just died it like Kim Kardashian.
When Kim Kardashian West stepped out on her way to Balmain's Paris Fashion Week show she caused such a stir with her new dramatic blonde hair and so many people have followed suit in dying their locks and getting rid of brassy, yellow tones! I'd love to know what you think of her look; do you think it is high fashion or do you think she should go back to the salon?
The toning shampoo and conditioner that I've been using at the moment is from Fudge which is a haircare brand that is relatively new to me but everything that I have tried from them so far, I have absolutely love.
The Fudge Clean Blonde Shampoo is a violet toning shampoo that is designed to remove yellow tones from blonde hair. The Fudge Clean Blonde Conditioner is a violet toning conditioner that compliments the shampoo and Fudge recommend using them together for the best results.
As I expected, the shampoo is a vibrant dark purple colour and it smells lovely. I can't quite put my finger on exactly what it smells like but its really nice! I have been applying this to my hair when it is wet and have found that it works into a really nice lather. You can leave it on for up to five minutes. I've found that the longer you leave it on the hair the more intense the results. I prefer to leave it on for just a couple of minutes as it works really quickly to tone the hair. When I left it on for the full five minutes, I found that I did get some very silver, almost lilac tones in my hair and parts of my hair did look very ashy. You can see how this looks in my latest youtube video as I had just washed my hair before filming the video!
I love the way that the shampoo makes my hair feel really clean without drying it out. Each time I have used the shampoo, I have always followed up with the conditioner from the same line afterwards and find that the two together work really well.
The Clean Blonde Conditioner is designed to maintain the cool tones in your hair by neutralising the blonde hair while conditioning it. It is a light lilac purple shade in colour and it smells similar to the shampoo but even better because it smells stronger. It distributes through the hair very easily and is immediately softening on the hair. I find that it has a detangling effect on my hair and I can comb it through from the roots to tips with ease. My hair is left feeling soft with a healthy shine to it without feeling weighted down or unmanageably soft.
You can find out all about the full line of Fudge products on their website and you can purchase the shampoo here and the conditioner here. There are lots of different variations in size available so I'd recommend having a look here to see what will work best for you; I personally think that the duo set is a fabulous deal! The Fudge Clean Blonde range are also available here but they're a little more expensive that the other links so I would recommend shopping on those over this one.
What is your favourite toning shampoo and conditioner? Do you have any other favourite products from Fudge that you could recommend to me?
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Full Disclosure: I have been given access to PatientBank.us as part of a product review through the Chronic Illness Bloggers network. Although the product was a gift, all opinions in this review remain my own and I was in no way influenced by the company.
Early on in my journey to an EDS diagnosis, I realized that one way I could empower myself was by accessing my medical records and using them to ask questions and learn more about the ever increasing string of diagnoses I was accumulating. The problem is that obtaining and organizing records is harder than it sounds. It is a cumbersome process, and we have an entire office filled with paperwork that needs filed in my series of binders to prove it. Even once you have obtained the information, and managed to organize it, it's largely up to you to tote it between specialists if you want them to have a greater picture of what's going on with you.
PatientBank is a service that seeks to solve this problem, allowing you to access and store your records with minimal effort from you. It really is easy to request records, and you can make multiple requests at once. In just a few months, I was able to request records from over 20 doctors offices and hospitals, and for the first time, have a more or less complete set of medical records for at least the last five years, and in some cases further back. Not only is this electronic format easier to deal with than all of the paper I was previously juggling, but PatientBank also allows you to share your records with your doctors by emailing them a secure link. PatientBank is also an excellent way to compile the necessary records required to apply for disability benefits, if that is something you need to do.
The most important document that I found through PatientBank was the report from the geneticist at the Cleveland Clinic that describes my differential diagnosis of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, along with recommendations for my ongoing care. This document had been sent to my primary care doctor, but because I never received a copy, many of my specialists did not have access to it – until now. Now everyone on my care team has this vital document and has a better understanding of me, because of PatientBank!
I am such a big fan of this service, and have a great appreciation for the work that the founders have done to build this incredible network, and to make it safe and HIPAA compliant (you can read more details about the safety piece here). I firmly believe that knowledge is power, and PatientBank was founded that by doctors who believe that allowing patients access to all of their information is the best basis for self-advocacy and patient centered care. PatientBank offers two models, a subscription service like the one that I trialed where you pay a flat rate for unlimited requests and storage (so worth it!), and a fee per request option. If all of this sounds too good to be true (it did to me!), check it out for your self! You can get one free request by using the code: zebrawrites at checkout on the PatientBank website.


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From beginners to more practiced individuals, Camp Hamwi offers a diverse program for any skill level. The camp environment promotes a sense of team spirit and good sportsmanship in individual and group activities, and competitive and non-competitive challenges. Campers are encouraged to try new skills, and explore their unique individual potentials. Activity options include horseback riding, archery, volleyball, soccer, canoeing, swimming, arts and crafts, drama, dance, outdoor living skills, nature crafts, and outdoor adventure. Incorporated into the daily schedule are diabetes education sessions to increase campers' understanding of diabetes. Each week, the program is specially designed to address the interests of a particular age group.
Counselors-In-Training (ages 17 – 18)
July 19-27, 2019
For individuals entering their senior year of high school and looking for an opportunity to develop their leadership potential, the C.I.T. program may be the one for you. No longer campers and not yet staff, C.I.T.s undergo a comprehensive counselor training program designed to increase their awareness of counselor responsibilities and leadership roles.
Senior Challenge (ages 13 – 17)
July 21-27, 2019
A more advanced program structured to challenge our oldest campers. Seniors are exposed to rappelling, river canoeing, overnight camping, initiative games and much more. Senior campers are privileged to invite a friend to attend Hamwi with them. Friends can use the application form, checking the appropriate "Friend" box.
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Activities and programs are geared to entertain and encourage our youngest resident campers. Hayrides, water games, a talent show, and a treasure hunt are a few of the outrageous activities that make this program full of wholesome fun and delight. Special programs highlighting Junior week include a spectacular carnival celebration where everyone comes dressed in their zaniest attire.
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As usual, I was up before dawn.
Shortly after sunrise, Lara and I left the condo. Although her initial plan was to go for a run, she joined me instead for a long walk on the beach.
The waves crashed along the shore as we walked along the edge of the estuary. The estuary is home to numerous local sea birds and ducks.
After a big breakfast and quick light lunch, Cheryl, Lara and I made our way to the bus and headed to Cabo San Lucas for our zodiac boat whale watching tour with Whale Watch Cabo.I was thankful to be offered a gravol since I tend to get sea sick easily. It was a huge help and I felt fine for the whole excursion.
Our excursion was awesome. We saw many humpback whales breaching and fluke flapping. However, the highlight was the pod of Orcas that skimmed the ocean with their shiny black and white skins glistening in the sunlight.
Our guide Paola, from Spain, informed us that Orcas are not whales, they are the largest species of dolphins. Paola was so excited because Orcas are a rare sighting in these waters.
At one point, we found a sea turtle. I was surprised how far from land he was swimming, but apparently it is quite normal. Paola said that usually sea turtles are quite shy and disappear quickly when a boat is nearby, but this guy didn't appear to be bothered.The speed of the zodiac when on open waters was exhilarating. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip with Whale Watch Cabo and highly recommend them. This company without extra charge sent the excellent pictures that they took, directly to our email.
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It's been three years since I last took the time to make a personal top ten list. Lists can be intriguing and educational, useful for finding new films and tempting us to revisit old ones, but they're often taken too seriously. The following list attempts to include the films which I love the most. These are most likely my favorite films, but there are hundreds more that I love as well; maybe some days I would rather watch The Babadook or You've Got Mail. What separates the following ten films is that they all represent a part of me and my view of what ideal cinema, and art, is. The list is in an estimated descending order of preference (the first to appear is my most commonly claimed Favorite Movie). The truth is, as time goes by I will find more films to rival these. I rarely bother to overthink which films are my favorites because I know that the task of choosing between hundreds of great films is usually a silly one. I also think that lists like these are largely dependent on which films I have seen and loved recently. But in an effort to update this blog, I've made an exception. And so yet another list has entered the internet.
There are two things you might immediately notice about this list that I'd like to briefly discuss: 1) There are two lists, including twenty-two films between them. I did this because there were a few I couldn't decide between, a few sequels which I would rather not detach from the originals, and plenty of films I would hate to leave off of a list of favorites. 2) Many of my favorite films are less than ten years old. I try to have a view of film that considers the history and the art of film, what's important and what's timeless. The following is merely what I think I enjoy the most at this point in my life. But I'm only twenty years old. I'm growing up. This list will change, these films will age (for better or worse), and I'll return with a revised list in a few years when I'm older.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A kaleidoscope of flavors, emotions, and cultures that is as rich as great literature and as sprawlingly immersive as a film can be in a mere hour and forty minutes. I could go on and on.
The Godfather & The Godfather Part II
Artful, operatic bliss of epic proportions. New Hollywood filmmaking of the highest order in which each shot is textured, each scene of acting is intriguing, and each note of music is sublime. Again, I could go on and on.
Hoop Dreams
An intensely moving documentation of humanity and the American Dream. It's about two young men from Chicago, but it captures emotions that are essential to that American hope of earning a new life that seems impossible and to knowing why we throws balls through hoops in the first place.
Into the Wild
In 1992, a 22-year-old burned his cash, abandoned his car, and hitchhiked to Alaska. This film is specifically tuned to the spirit of early adulthood: frugal living, a somewhat naive belief in human goodness, a thirst for adventure and purpose and identity, expectations of a bright future that can become assumptions. This story and this film captures so much of what I have felt growing up.
The Tree of Life
Director Terrence Malick's ambitious framing of a small-town Texas family within the context of the creation of the universe is one-of-a-kind. For a Christian, it offers that joyful reassurance that striving for grace and love in our own lives is the beginning of an eternal life beyond our comprehension.
Singin' in the Rain
Pure joy. This is just about the most fun that can be had at the movies. It's Hollywood doing its silliest impression of itself.
The Shining
An absorbing horror film and an elusive mystery. Kubrick took a Stephen King ghost story and made a diabolically cold masterpiece.
The Social Network
The next two films are great Hollywood dramas that feel like two of the defining films of the times. The Social Network elevates corporate politics and late nights in a dorm-room to the level of Greek tragedy. Fincher's technical proficiency and Reznor & Ross's score were the reasons I fell in love, but the craftsmanship and acting across the board is captivating.
Her is a radiant and tender, awkward and goofy, yet always honest exploration of love in the digital age. Sometimes indirectly, but always with originality, it ponders our ever-growing relationship with technology and speculates the sights, sounds, and feelings of the near future.
Midnight in Paris
I once spent a day in Paris. The Louvre was closed (evidently, it always is on Tuesdays). The city was just different than any other place I'd ever been too. It felt modern, and yet it felt like it had always existed. Walking down the streets and exploring its architecture was an experience, an interaction with a storied history. Woody Allen's tribute to the City of Light captures that romantic perception of Paris and its past, which I experienced at the age of 18, with the wit and creativity of Woody at his peak.
The Before Trilogy (Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight)
Linklater's trilogy is one of the ultimate cinematic marriages of romance and philosophy. The first two films dive into the romantic what-ifs typical of so many rom-coms with refreshing frankness and intelligence. The most recent chapter (the films might yet get another installment) depicts the ups and downs of a long-term relationship with equal fervor and skill.
F for Fake
Two films that push the boundaries of cinema in surprising ways. Brazil pushes outward: into the infinite space of dreamlands and a wacky dystopian society. F for Fake pushes inward: presenting a few stories of frauds so that Orson Welles, one of the most fascinating figures of the last century, can break the fourth wall, show us some magic tricks, and lay bare the concept of fakery and illusion.
No Country for Old Men
The Coen brothers' tales of hitmen and the cops that chase them can turn humor out of violence and vice versa. Both are modern classics of American movies. Fargo is the funny one. No Country for Old Men is the philosophical one.
Blade Runner
Ridley Scott's two essential contributions to cinema are science fiction epics of the first order. The rest of his films since have never matched the creative power of his textured and sense-shocking horror-sci-fi crossover, Alien, or his philosophically dive into shadowy analog world-building in Blade Runner.
Vertigo is the acclaimed, endlessly compelling tale of obsession by one of the greatest of all film directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Casablanca is peak Hollywood glamour that shows no sign of souring with age.
And just to prove the futility of these lists, here are more films which I love just as much. Some are masterpieces. Some are as much fun as I've had at the movies. Some are classics and a few others might be considered classics to future generations:
Amelie, The Apartment, The Babadook, Babette's Feast, Casino Royale, Children of Men, Chinatown, Citizen Kane, City Lights, The Conversation, Day for Night, Die Hard, Do the Right Thing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fantastic Mr. Fox, The 400 Blows, Gone Girl, The Grapes of Wrath, Groundhog Day, Halloween, Home Alone, Hot Rod, Inside Llewyn Davis, In the Mood for Love, It's a Wonderful Life, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mad Max: The Road Warrior, Manhattan, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Master, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, the Mission: Impossible series (except M:I 2), Mon Oncle, Moonrise Kingdom, My Dinner with Andre, My Neighbor Totoro, Ocean's Eleven, Playtime, Psycho, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Red Shoes, Shadow of a Doubt, Sherlock Jr., Shutter Island, Slacker, the Star Wars series (ALL OF THEM), The Third Man, Tootsie, Toy Story, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Up, Vertigo, Waking Life, Yojimbo, You've Got Mail


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FRANKLIN, NH – On the morning of Tuesday, May 16, LRGHealthcare finalized the sale of the Arthur Dalphond Building in Franklin to HealthFirst Family Care Center. HealthFirst has occupied the building for the last 21+ years.
LRGHealthcare President and CEO Kevin W. Donovan and HealthFirst President and CEO Richard D. Silverberg closed on the sale with representatives of both organizations in attendance.
A substantial portion of the original renovation and additions to the 841 Central Street building were completed along with the Dalphond family bequeathment in 1997. Arthur himself stipulated the building was to be used, "to help make personal healthcare services available to people of the greater Franklin region."
"This sale brings in some much-needed funds for LRGHealthcare, reduces our operating expenses, and provides HealthFirst with better positioning to expand into the future," Donovan stated. "It's a win-win for LRGHealthcare, HealthFirst, and the community."
Silverberg noted, "I can't help but feel proud of all that HealthFirst has achieved over the last two decades in service to the people of the Twin Rivers area. We are truly fortunate to have community partners, such as LRGHealthcare, with whom we collaborate to achieve public health goals."
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How the Scientific Consensus can hinder Science
This article seeks to discuss "Scientific consensus" as it is understood today and how, in the past, scientific consensus has had to undergo seismic shifts. Read more
This article seeks to discuss "Scientific consensus" as it is understood today and how, in the past, scientific consensus has had to undergo seismic shifts. Read more
Dismissing Intelligent Design as 'Creationism' is the easy way of avoiding having to deal with the empirical evidence for design. Read more
Cosmologists tell us that we now know a fair amount of detail about the conditions of the universe from the first split second, 13.7 billion years ago. Read more
The words 'fine tuning of the universe' have been around for quite a while and are greeted with bafflement, scepticism and wonder; in about equal proportions. What on earth (or in the universe) does it mean? Theoretical physicist Paul Davies calls it the 'Goldilocks Enigma'.1 Is it real... Read more
RESEARCHERS have found that a single human brain has more molecular-scale switches than all the computers, routers and Internet connections on the entire planet! Read more
See the menu item ACADEMIC FREEDOM. To quote from the lead in to the page: ".... However, there is another key issue raised by ID. It is the freedom of academics and science educators to explore and discuss the issues associated with ID. The exploration of ID within science should not be dismissed as something it is not – a disguised religious position."
The Centre for Intelligent Design on September 27th 2011 issued a press release and additional material relating to the call by Prof Richard Dawkins, Sir David Attenborough and others for a legal ban on Creationism and Intelligent Design in Britain's schools. Click here for the Press Release page.
|Why the fossils from the Cambrian era rock the foundations of Darwinism
With just under two months to go to the much anticipated release of Dr Steve Meyer's new book on the Cambrian explosion (Darwin's Doubt: The explosive origin of animal life and the case for intelligent design), some people may be wondering what the 'Cambrian Explosion' is all about. All is explained in this new article by Andrew Halloway.
Charles Darwin was baffled as to why the fossil record contradicted the predictions of his theory.
In his classic book 'On the Origin of Species', Darwin wrote that if evolution were true "it is indisputable that before the lowest Cambrian stratum was deposited… the world swarmed with living creatures". Yet he admitted that the rocks below the Cambrian layers were almost devoid of fossils.
Instead, in the Cambrian strata, "species belonging to several of the main divisions of the animal kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks" – without any evidence of earlier ancestral organisms. Darwin frankly acknowledged that this lack of ancestral forms was "a valid argument" against his theory1. But he hoped that future research would discover the missing evidence.
Explosive evidence
Almost 150 years later, 'Darwin's dilemma' has only got worse – much worse. It is now known that 40 major animal groups (phyla) appear out of nowhere in the Cambrian strata; that's 50–80 per cent of the animal phyla that have ever existed. This dramatic flurry of creation is called the Cambrian Explosion.
Even in Darwin's time geologists knew that the oldest fossils appeared abruptly in what were beginning to be called the Cambrian rocks, with empty rock layers below.
So why is the Cambrian Explosion the equivalent of putting dynamite under the theory of evolution?
Neo-Darwinian evolution postulates that species give rise to other species in small, gradual steps over huge swathes of time. The more different two organisms are, the more evolutionary steps and the more time is required to connect them.
The problem with the Cambrian Explosion (around 540 million years ago according to radiometric dating) is that a huge range of creatures appear in a very short period – around ten million years – with no gradual evolutionary steps visible before them. Ten million years is a blink of an eye in geological time, and far too short for even the most ardent evolutionist to believe that 40 major phyla could develop.
Darwin proposed that the ancestor fossils once existed, but had eroded away. It is true that in most places there are no rocks between the Cambrian and Precambrian layers, so Darwin's suggestion seemed credible. However, the test would be to find the places in the world where the vital rocks did still exist, and see what fossils they held.
Growing problem
After 150 years of searching, what is the result? Some other Precambrian rocks have been found, some with a few fossils in them. But it's not good news for Darwin. The strange fossils bear no relation to those of the Cambrian, and so cannot be their precursors.
Some argued that perhaps the evolutionary ancestors of the Cambrian creatures hadn't been preserved for some reason. But then palaeontologists found fossils as tiny as those of bacteria and microscopic animals in the Precambrian layers. This suggested that the conditions for fossilisation were ideal before the Cambrian, so any animals that existed could and should have been fossilised.
To make things worse for Darwin, as more fossils have been discovered, the Cambrian Explosion has just got bigger! Besides the famous trilobites and brachiopods, fossil hunters have found echinoderms and even some vertebrates. In fact, they have found fossils from all the major animal phyla (groups) alive today! This suggests that all the main branches of the entire evolutionary tree of animals originated before the Cambrian era, yet they are absent from the fossil record.
And a new problem emerged. Above the Cambrian strata, the fossils are as different from the Cambrian creatures as the Cambrian organisms are from each other – again with hardly any evidence of change in-between.
All this more than strains evolutionary theory to the limit. It is difficult enough to find supporting evidence for gradual evolution, so incredibly rapid evolution in a very short space of geological time like the Cambrian is even harder to believe.
The Cambrian strata show that most of the major phyla of animal we know today just appeared – fully formed.
Leading palaeontologist Prof Charles Marshall laments: "While the fossil record of the well-skeletonised animal phyla is pretty good, we have virtually no fossils that are unambiguously assignable to the most basal stem groups of these phyla, those first branches that lie between the last common ancestor of all bilaterians and the last common ancestor of the living representatives of each of the phyla….their absence is striking. Where are they?"2
Of course, if anyone suggests that this inconvenient evidence is proof that evolution didn't happen, evolutionists froth at the mouth. But the fact is that the Cambrian Explosion makes a mockery of the slow, gradual process of minute changes on which the whole theory is based.
Do Hox genes solve the dilemma?
There have been attempts to explain the Explosion, of course, but none very convincing.
One idea is that the genes controlling development, most notably Hox genes, explain how new body plans evolved in sudden leaps. If change takes place at such a fundamental stage of development, then new body plans can emerge – or so the theory goes.
However, changing a body plan is a huge step. How would a half-way house, intermediate form survive to pass on such a change? For example, consider the difference between an exo-skeleton (external) and an internal skeleton (the chordates). An organism with a skeleton half-in and half-out is not only difficult to imagine but far more likely to be eradicated by natural selection than preserved.
Not only that, but new body plans require huge amounts of highly complex and specified information (CSI) encrypted in non-protein coding DNA, and CSI is an indicator of design – not random variation.
All the research so far indicates that Hox genes alone are insufficient to create new body plans, but even if they could produce such radical changes, there's still a problem. Mutations to body plans are not tolerated in the development of animals. Body plan mutants are known as 'embryonic lethals' because they usually die before birth.
But if an organism with some sort of intermediate body plan change is born, its chances of survival are severely limited. A half-evolved body is almost certain to be a hindrance rather than an advantage. Large-scale changes that are only half-way to something else are likely to be crippling. Even if it stays alive long enough to reach adulthood, it may be unable to reproduce or attract a mate to propagate such a change. Changes would have to be pretty much right first time in order to work well.
For example, long-running fruit fly experiments produced the famous Antennapedia mutant, which had legs where its antennae should be. In the wild, natural selection would soon eliminate such mutants.
Do the eyes have it?
Another idea is that the atmosphere cleared for the first time, and sunlight shone in the seas. Suddenly those creatures that developed eyesight were at a fantastic advantage, and eyes popped up all over the place. This drove a massive increase in predation – the trigger for the Cambrian Explosion. Mutations that gave better defence or attack capabilities were at a premium, and evolution was forced into overdrive. It's called the Light Switch Theory, devised by biologist Prof Andrew Parker.
One problem. You'd expect the first eyes to be very primitive, later evolving into sophisticated eyes. Unfortunately for evolutionists, the first eyes that appear in the Cambrian layers are very sophisticated. They belonged to trilobites, and trilobites appear first in the Early Cambrian rocks, not the later ones. Trilobite eyes are incredibly complex – more complex than some in existence today. The advantage their compound eyes gave them might explain why trilobites were so successful, but their eyes don't fit with an evolutionary progression from simple to complex.
Secondly, if there was this huge increase in evolutionary activity in the Cambrian period, you'd expect the Cambrian rocks to be loaded with transitional fossils. Instead, there are very few fossils that could be viewed as showing changes from one creature into another.
Evolutionists are having to revert to Darwin's idea that the missing links are simply missing – just as they are for the vast majority of the fossil record. They refuse to contemplate that the links might have never existed. Evolutionary palaeontologist James Valentine writes: "Many of the branches, large as well as small, are cryptogenetic [lacking ancestors]. Some of these gaps are surely caused by the incompleteness of the fossil record…"3
Bad science
In addition, evolutionary assumptions about Precambrian fossils have led some scientists into bad science. For example, Chuaria, a single celled alga, was originally wrongly thought to be a shelly invertebrate because Charles Doolittle Walcott was looking for Precambrian ancestors of Cambrian creatures.
The famous Ediacaran fauna, weird organisms found at Ediacara in Australia and other places around the world, were once seized upon as the answer to Darwin's dilemma. But after further discoveries of these strange fossils, evolutionists are not so sure. They have struggled to imagine evolutionary relationships among these organisms. So different are they to anything before or since that one palaeontologist proposed that they should be classified as a completely separate kingdom, and it's not even certain whether they were animals or plants or some kind of intermediate.
Evolutionary palaeontologist Peter Ward admits: "Later study cast doubt on the affinity between these ancient remains preserved in sandstones and living creatures of today; the great German palaeontologist A. Seilacher, of Tübingen University, has even gone so far as to suggest that the Ediacaran fauna has no relationship whatsoever with any currently living creatures. In this view, the Ediacaran fauna was completely annihilated before the start of the Cambrian fauna."4
In fact, so desperate are evolutionists to find the missing progenitors of the Cambrian fossils that even inorganic objects have been mistaken for fossils. For example, Eozoon Canadense turned out not to be a fossil but a metamorphic rock.
In contrast, an ID model might predict a sudden injection of genetic information into biological systems at various stages in the fossil record, especially at the beginning of major phases like the creation of plants or animals. The Cambrian evidence is entirely consistent with this view of history.
1. Fifth edition (1869), Chapter IX, 'On the Imperfection of the Geological Record', pp. 378-381.
2. 'Explaining the Cambrian "Explosion" of Animals', Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 34, pp. 362-3 (2006)
3. 'On the Origin of Phyla', University of Chicago Press (2004), p. 35.
4. 'On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions', W. H. Freeman (1992), p. 36
Acknowledgement: Originally published in The Delusion of Evolution by A. Halloway et al, New Life Publishing, 5th edition (2012), available at amazon.co.uk
Prof Mike Behe, Professor of Chemistry at Lehigh University, USA, toured the UK in November 2010. He is author of Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution. For one week he gave lectures and was a speaker at a day conference in Oxford. Click here for a report on the tour.


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Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants scientists to become more involved in politics, and they want specialist advisers in all federal government departments.
Mr Shorten, who took on the shadow science portfolio when he became leader, has told scientists their input is needed if Australia is not to be "stuck on the blocks" in the race for the jobs of the future.
His comments came as hundreds of industry leaders converged in Canberra to meet parliamentarians to fuse stronger bonds between science and politicians.
Pointing to the success of National Disability Insurance Scheme campaigners, Mr Shorten said "together they achieved an outcome that would have been impossible alone".
"The future of Australian science will depend on whether you, and I, can make your cause a national political issue," Mr Shorten said.
He says scientists shouldn't have to deal with uncertainty in funding and there should be a new national commitment to science and innovation.
Labor will call for a Senate inquiry into science, research and the Australian innovation system to explore that idea and others including how to help innovators commercialise their ideas.
Science and Technology Australia boss Catriona Jackson says industry leaders are hoping to follow the UK's lead and spread expert knowledge throughout federal divisions since the Abbott government scrapped a science ministry.
"We have certainly discussed the idea with the government and there has been some movement, with an appointment in agriculture," Ms Jackson told AAP.
After coming to power in 2013 Prime Minister Tony Abbott reshuffled portfolios and split science between industry and employment, removing the role of dedicated science minister which had been in place since 1931.
Ms Jackson said scientists were concerned but have suspended their opinions until they see the government's first budget in May.
While there is a federal chief scientist, and one for each state and territory, greater consultancy would be valuable, she said.
Chief scientist Ian Chubb will outline the importance of science to Australia's future on Tuesday at the National Press Club.
He hopes to explain how support for the full spectrum of research and a more strategic approach to science can provide Australia with the technological progress needed for sustained economic development.


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For those interested in giving self reflexology massage there is a product on the market called reflexology socks. A novice can learn the technique from reflexology socks because the pressure points on the feet are color coded on the socks. Right away you know where the pressure points are. There is a chart that comes with the socks that tells you what part of the body is represented by the schematic diagram on the socks.
For whatever part of the body that you want to affect through touch you only need to use gentle pressure with your thumb and forefinger. It is advised to use the socks as a tool to help you memorize where the pressure points are on your feet. Use the socks on yourself or on your friend or partner. To be sure that you are indeed learning the pressure points from reflexology socks, try to find the specific areas with your eyes closed. You should be able to find the pressure points corresponding with their organs and systems without looking. Finding them should be second nature to you over time.
Reflexology socks are a great teaching tool because they are a visual aid. They are fun to look at and certainly they would be a conversation piece, to say the least. However, for someone who has not been taught the art of reflexology, the socks make it simple. Wherever you hurt, just slip on a pair and ask someone to massage your pain and tension away; nothing for you to do but close your eyes and enjoy.
Reflexology is similar to acupressure, in that when pressure is administered to a specific zone on the feet, as shown on reflexology socks, this relieves stress to the corresponding organ the zone represents. Reflexology treatments relieve stress and unblock nerve receptors allowing for the pathway between the zone on the foot and the corresponding body part to come into a state of homeostasis or balance. In turn, reflexology promotes healing and a state of well being.
Reflexology socks are a wonderful way to teach your children about reflexology. Children learn by taking a hands-on approach; what better way than to learn to apply pressure on the specific zones. Children soak up information like sponges; the more you teach them, the more they want to learn. Reflexology socks are just plain fun.
You can buy them at Amazon.com, Earth Therapeutics and Nextag, and other places online. Reflexology socks are sold in pairs. They come in one standard size; one size fits all, and are made of a stretchy cotton lycra blend. Reflexology socks are fairly inexpensive at $10 to $12 on line. You can get them even cheaper, under $5 before shipping on eBay. Follow washing instructions, most come with directions to wash on the delicate cycle.


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The E-Cigarette and Vaping industry has experienced a remarkable journey over the last few years. Some glorify vapes to be the saviors for addicted smokers, while others rubbish these claims and consider it as just another product to pander the masses. Though the media seems to have an undecided stance on the issue, with a number of arguments on both sides, the market has warmly accepted its latest catch, surpassing all the brouhaha.
The latest bone of contention in this industry has been in determining the legalities. Is the law truly in vapor? We at BIS Research have been more than eager to find out.
Since the vapor from the electronic smoking devices is completely different from the smoke emitted from conventional cigarettes, the vapes should not be included in the same set of governmental regulations. The medical evidence against vapes is still limited compared to the support it has garnered. Since the product is relatively new in the market, its safety is still debatable. But if one were to sum up the implications of the medical findings, it can be said that medical research is still in its nascent stage; nonetheless, the result of the existing studies lies in the favor of vapes over tobacco cigarettes.
The central problem regarding the regulations pertaining to e-cigarettes is as to where smoking is allowed, resulting in compliance problems with existing smoke-free laws. Most local and state smoke-free laws were enacted before e-cigarettes were introduced in the market, therefore, such laws do not explicitly mention e-cigarettes. Currently there is no law from the Centre regulating e-cigarette smoking in public but a few states have recently taken steps towards that direction. Six states, which include California, New York, Delaware, New Jersey, Hawaii and Illinois, have signed bills enabling partial bans on smoking e-cigarettes in public areas. Out of these states, the ban in Hawaii includes stringent regulations on vaping as much as that on conventional smoking.
Another piece of legislation recently passed has the potential to re-mould the structure of the vaping industry. As per the FDA's proposal, any e-cig product made after 2007 must get the FDA approval in order to be sold. This would mean hiring experts to do medical research to determine the health impact of new devices, which can take months and cost millions of dollars. Which means that many small fragmented businesses, which collectively hold around 30% of the market share, will be 'choked'. This would further consolidate the hold on the e-cigarette industry in the hands of Big Tobacco.


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Hello everyone, i need room for rent in any northern city of Sweden.
i tried to search blocket.se but could not search properly because the website is in english ,,i tried to tranlsate it but even is not exact..so anyone can help me that how to search for room ,,i donot need whole aprtment just single room.
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Go to http://www.blocket.se/ and click on "Bostad" at the top.
Then click on "Uthyres" (under the banner ad).
Then on the line it says "Hitta" you could have
Hitta + alla typer av objekt (=anything and everything for rent) ... but if this gives too many results you can choose "l?genheter" (=apartments)...
+ i (=in) then choose the county in the drop-down list + in "v?lj plats" (=choose location) you can choose a specific municipality.
Then click on the search icon to get a list.
You can filter the search with specified boarea (=living area), rum (=number of rooms), b?ddar (=number of beds), hyra (=cost of rent) and nyckelord (=keyword).
Blocket is in Swedish, are you using Google translate to try and use it in English or in another language? If you are looking at Blocket via Google translate to a language other than English, be aware that it most likely goes via English so it can get quite garbled. I.e. the translation process is Swedish>English>other language


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About PaTRAM
The mission of PaTRAM is
to cultivate and promote the beauty and spiritual depth of Russian Orthodox liturgical arts in general and choral singing in particular, in both the English and Slavonic Languages. PaTRAM seeks to utilize rigorous educational programs, distinctive performance events, and the latest technological tools to realize this mission and founding principle.
Our intent is to positively improve the prayerful sound and quality of Orthodox church singing through
- training a new generation of master conductors
- growing the ranks of professionally trained singers in church choirs
- significantly increasing the musical collaboration among members of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR), the Orthodox Church in America (OCA), and the faculty of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity–Saint Sergius Lavra.
A Tradition of Orthodox Church Singing
Orthodox Christian liturgical worship cannot take place without singing. In the Russian Church, a glorious tradition of church singing dates back at least a thousand years. Even in the smallest towns and villages of Russia the standard "staff" of a church included an ordained priest and a tonsured psalm chanter whose responsibility was to organize and lead the choir and teach the children.
Through the centuries, skilled interpreters, professionally trained musicians fulfilling a unique calling—Bortniansky, Arkhangelsky, Orlov, Danilin, Chesnokov and others—led choirs that have united the hearts and spirits of generations of Orthodox worshipers in prayer. Even in the difficult circumstances of the emigration (diaspora), men such as Jaroff, Hilko, Afonsky, Ledkovsky, Evetz, and Konstantinov continued to labor in the vocation as professional choirmasters.
The Situation Today
As the faithful of many nations have honored Christ's commandment to "Go into all the world and make disciples of all Nations," the Orthodox Faith has spread throughout the North American continent. Today new mission parishes are being planted all over North America, gathering scattered descendants of immigrants and attracting numerous new converts. A half-dozen seminaries train clergy. The number of monasteries has grown from just a handful a few decades ago to many dozens. Through the beauty of the Liturgy—liturgical prayer and singing—heard increasingly in an understandable language, people are discovering the fullness and depth of Orthodox worship in spirit and in truth.
Many of our churches have come to lack the critical element of beautiful and prayerful singing that helps draw people to the "right worship"
Yet, sadly, the standard and execution of the singing have been steadily declining throughout North America and many of our churches have come to lack the critical element of beautiful and prayerful singing that helps draw people to the "right worship" (orthodoxia or pravoslavie) of the Holy Trinity. While a small number of Orthodox parishes continue to have on their staff a trained and competent choir director, it is more common for parishes to be challenged merely to find a qualified leader of church singing. Thus, many Orthodox church-goers today struggle through services marked by lackluster choral performances, often more mechanical than prayerful, rarely experiencing in their worship the full beauty of the Eastern Orthodox musical tradition.
The art of musically leading Orthodox worship in a competent, inspired way is complex and subtle, requiring talents and skills in a variety of musical styles, knowledge of liturgics and repertoire, music theory, choral conducting technique, as well as pedagogical and personal leadership skills. In a large parish with a full cycle of services, it is essentially a full-time job. And yet, there are few places in the world where a talented, dedicated Orthodox person can obtain the training necessary to fulfill these tasks on a professional level of excellence that is worthy of service in God's Holy Temple.
Addressing the Void
Efforts to address the void – in the form of annual or periodic jurisdictional and diocesan conferences to unite and instruct singers – have been noble and well meaning. Yet, in and of themselves, they have not been able to address the persistent need for multi-tiered and ongoing programs to train and improve the qualifications of church choir directors and singers.
Our mission will be to offer a deeper opportunity to raise the professional level of North American church choirs through programs that span multiple levels of accreditation, utilizing master classes and multi-media platforms, including on-line training.
PaTRAM intends to positively change this situation in a manner that does not displace the jurisdictional and diocesan efforts to recruit and assemble singers and conductors, but rather builds upon and supplements them. Our mission will be to offer a deeper opportunity to raise the professional level of North American church choirs through programs that span multiple levels of accreditation, utilizing master classes and multi-media platforms, including on-line training.
PaTRAM will accomplish its mission through education and training offered by the foremost conductors and instructors in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The program is headed by Vladimir Gorbik, choirmaster of the Moscow Representation Church of the Holy Trinity-Saint Sergius Lavra, arguably the preeminent church choirmaster of this generation. He is eminently qualified to usher in the return of traditional and professional-level singing to North America. Maestro Gorbik's leadership, along with that of well-known American Orthodox conductors and church musicians, including Peter Fekula, Peter Jermihov, Nicholas Kotar, Vladimir Morosan, Nicholas Reeves, and Benedict Sheehan, among many others, coupled with leadership from the Orthodox business, legal, and religious communities, including the chairman of PaTRAM's Board of Directors and founder Alexis Lukianov, a prominent CEO and entrepreneur, places this effort on a serious academic and financial footing, worthy of support by anyone concerned with the growth and excellence of liturgical singing in North America.
An Invitation
The success of PaTRAM will depend on the input and collaboration of many talented individuals who share our perspective: that the role of the choir in Orthodox worship, as an integral part of the services, must enhance the prayer of both parishioners and clergy.
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Born in Scotland but raised all over the land (RAF family), Mrs. B.B. has always had a special place in her heart for Yorkshire. I always wondered why (Heartbeat was a downer growing up, but then that's probably because it was shown on a Sunday evening and I was dreading school the next day). I also used to question her obsession with cheese and why I had to eat for at least three people on the rare occasions she cooked.
It's all become clear…
Day 0.25 (not in Yorkshire, so it doesn't deserve a proper heading)
The trip started a night early – splitting the journey up to save us a single six-hour drive and give us "time for cheese" on day one proper (the Wensleydale Creamery tour).
Leaving 50 minutes later than planned didn't win me too much favour with Mrs. B.B. (the usual excuse: work) – however, it did mean we missed the expected traffic queues between Birmingham and Manchester. Unfortunately, there's no missing the 26 (sic) stretches of average speed checks that have been in place since 1996 (sic).
Talking Heads soundtracked the first couple of hours – a last-minute Spotify playlist prompted by a failed still-in-progress attempt to convince the board (yeah, I've got a 'real' job!) to produce a corporate video in the style of a musical. Not the reason we were 50 minutes late… ahem!
However, frustrations with the Bluetooth connection meant we had to resort to the only station not playing adverts: Heart Extra. Playing club classics including Mojo's 'Lady', Hadaway's 'What is love?' – and Usher?! (the title was instantly erased from memory for self-preservation purposes.) At least the car was bouncing for a good 20 minutes before the usual saccharine dross took over.
We arrived at our £7 Travelodge on the outskirts of Stoke – in silence – just before 10pm.
Disclaimer: A night at a Travelodge may only be worth £7 but this is not their standard price – I had a £25 voucher (nobody hates me that much…hmm… It was 'compensation' for a previous nightmare stay on a work trip). I would combine this with the £17 I'd forgotten was sitting in my PayPal following a World Cup sweepstakes win (well, second place).
Picture perfect, photo average (day 1)
First meal of the culinary tour!
Breakfast from the (picture the diner from any low-budget US horror movie) Subway next door:
'Poached egg' is an insult to chickens. It was a pretty flavourless eat despite the cheese (you know, that cheese, that's not really cheese, but may come in handy if you get a puncture), but the bread was fresh, it was fuel for the next three hours, I didn't feel greasy – and, crucially, I didn't have to resort to McDonald's.
The rain was brutal at this point. The lack of visibility slowing progress – our nerves not helped by other drivers showing a complete lack of common sense (no head lights, let alone fog lights – and plenty of last-minute lane changes).
No photos = no food in Sedbergh
Finally, off the motorway, away from any obvious danger (although some of the rams looked pretty mean) to the small market town of Sedbergh – cue the first 100 photographs…
The camera's broke!
My phone camera is f……………….
(Just a few highlights from my 5-minute tantrum.)
We had a quick look around, took a few photos (on my phone):
…that I'll skip through when we look back on the trip in a few months' time, but focus had now shifted to finding a decent replacement camera in the area.
I was too emotional to visit the Mad Hatters Tea Room at No.6 Finkle Street as planned.
Stone Close Tea Room and B&B
Fortunately, I'd calmed down in time for lunch – our meal at Stone Close in Dent would provide crucial reserves ahead of an exhausting day.
Stone Close is a 16th century inn. An open fire and wood beams add to the building's and waitress' charm, and help to provide a cosy, welcoming ambiance – a much-needed haven given the relentless downpour.
The six tables (room for maybe 20-24 people) no doubt suffice on most days – but not when a group of 16 want to escape the elements!
Fortunately, we arrived ten minutes beforehand, so weren't one of the poor souls turned away to fend for themselves – and Mrs. B.B. didn't miss out on her first proper cup of Yorkshire tea.
And when I say a proper cup, I mean proper:
I somehow managed to resist one of their homemade cakes – the raspberry and almond cake was particularly tempting – and went for one of the day's savoury specials instead:
The piri-piri sauce certainly put Nando's in its place – and nearly put me in A&E. Fortunately, my lips numbed and throat calmed enough to enjoy the highly spiced, tender chicken goujons.
Mrs. B.B. had the same salad accompaniment (very fresh) but went for the vegetable tart. A huge puffy pastry doorstop filled with mushrooms, courgette, red pepper and topped with cheese.
The pastry was well cooked – finding that magical middle ground where it wasn't overcooked or dry, but wasn't soggy or greasy either. The dominant flavour was pesto, but the veg still had just the right amount of bite, and Mrs. B.B. was more than happy.
A quick look around – a few more dodgy phone camera photos of cobbled roads and a grand-looking church in the centre of the village (a centre piece for all villages in the Dales, it seems) – before we took to the narrow, single track lanes (otherwise known as Mrs. B.B.'s shortcut) to Ingleton. A walker's mad person's (it was torrential!) paradise. And then onto the slightly less taxing main roads (for a start, I didn't have to keep hopping out of the car to open and shut the cattle gates) to Giggleswick, then Settle, and then home: Langcliffe.
Cut off from the world in Langcliffe… well, camera retailers
Now this looks perfect:
A stone-built terrace house that had been refurbished within the last couple of months with all mod-cons… oh, the towels haven't been folded… they are bit damp… they are dirty!
A subsequent knock on the door revealed a rather embarrassed young lady holding a change of bed linen and fresh towels (she'd also forgotten to collect the high chair from our house for another property that was being rented).
Very apologetic – we did feel for her… until we noticed the grease on the cutlery and the crumbs all over the kitchen surface.
But wait, we still haven't found a camera – and the Wi-Fi here is… is it Wi-Fi?!
We eventually found a couple of cameras… that would do – we didn't have the time nor the patience at that point to analyse the specs too closely or compare alternatives.
But where's the nearest Jessops? Currys? Argos?!
After a five-minute walk around the village revealed a phone signal, we managed to determine that there was potentially a camera that would meet our needs in Harrogate (no guarantees).
With 10-minutes left before the store was due to close (yep, we took the wrong exit en route – more than once), we had our new camera – but we wouldn't get to use it for that evening's meal (it needed to charge).
Little House Restaurant – with our phone cameras (apologies)
Although located on the main street, we nearly missed Little House Restaurant – the lack of street lights in Settle and prominent signage meaning we walked back and forth the restaurant a good few times before Mrs. B.B. took the initiative and started peering through windows (the tales she told!).
Inside, the restaurant only had a few tables for service that evening. The décor was quite classic in style, but it had a sense of cool, ably assisted by the stereo's jazz singer.
Mrs. B.B. had a shock when her starter arrived (I have told her to read the menu):
Fruit sorbet with sour grapefruit and orange. Described by Mrs. B.B. as a zingy taste sensation, it could have just as easily sat in the dessert section (the whole thing was covered in icing sugar and complemented by elderflower syrup), but it wasn't too sweet and made for a refreshing starting point.
I played it safe with the crab, saffron & wensleydale tart:
Well, I say safe, I'm not actually a fan of crab or saffron, but, apparently, I am now – well, if they are both cooked with a generous amount of Wensleydale cheese. And hats off to the pastry chef – thin and crisp.
For mains, Mrs. B.B. went for the baked spinach and three-cheese pancakes:
It was a good size portion, but the pancakes were thin and not too heavy. The melted cheese (apparently, there were three, but you couldn't tell) was mild, so didn't overpower the dish.
I opted for the chump of 'lune valley' lamb – mainly because you don't often see 'chump' on the menu.
It was quite rare – I think a few more minutes would have helped with the chew – and I would have preferred if the fat had been rendered down and crisped up. However, it's a very flavoursome cut.
I liked the almost sautéed potatoes, the green beans were cooked nicely (still some bite left in them), but whilst the peach and red pepper salsa was delicious, it didn't real feel part of the dish.
Mrs. B.B. hit the jackpot on dessert:
Yorkshire parkin, hot treacle sauce and jersey ice cream. It was a hefty looking portion, but the parkin was surprisingly light. The treacle sauce was rich with a deep flavour, and the ice cream played an important role in balancing the whole dish.
I wasn't quite as lucky with my Portuguese tarts:
Although they looked the business, there was a lack of custard filling and the pastry needed to be crisp – maybe I've been spoilt by Nata & Co. I did enjoy the strawberries and cream on their own, but it didn't come together as a complete dish.
So, there were faults, but we couldn't complain too much – it was simple cooking, but it was comforting. And the waiter's recommendation for the Mason's dry gin with a wedge of lime was spot on.
Crucially, it had a lovely relaxed vibe, which is just what we needed after a hectic start to the holiday.
Pigging out (day 2)
Day two and I'd managed a lie in – until 8:45am! Well, kind of. It did take me two hours to dry off after the heating came on via timer at 4:30am?!
I frustrated Mrs. B.B.'s plans further with my lethargy. I could only get away with that until about 11am, but it gave us the opportunity to charge everything and rework the itinerary considering BBC Weather's ever-changing forecast (it would turn out to be a completely different day to their last update).
A quick tour of the village revealed this beautifully kept church:
And a jealous side to Mrs. B.B. (sorry, we won't have the money to move here any time soon.)
I needed a distraction. Farm shop!
Country Harvest
We arrived at the Country Harvest just in time to get a seat for lunch (the queue was at least 20 people deep by the time we left).
The menu was mighty, but nothing compared to the servings:
Wait for…
(or them…)
Surely they should come with a health warning?! Don't get me wrong, the ginger infused sausages were spot on. Lean, meaty and moist – with spring onions cleverly forming part of the seasoning. But I reckon it was the equivalent to eating 6-8 regular sized sausages… had I been brave enough to finish them!
The Yorkshire pudding was 'a proper Yorkshire pudding' – nice crunch, absorbing the flavours from the deep meaty onion gravy, but holding its own. The veg did its job without being anything special.
Mrs. B.B. went for the Three Peaks platter – sold by the home-made pork pie and selection of deli cheeses. Although the ham, fruity coleslaw and sweet apple chutney perfectly matched the Wensleydale and Stilton, the pork pie was a disappointment. The pastry was thick, the meat filling heavy and, on the whole, it was too dry.
There was no chance we were going to fit in a dessert – I figured it would arrive as a whole tray with a litre of custard – but I did pick up a blueberry and vanilla scone from the shop (along with several Yorkshire gins, Yorkshire brewed beers, Grandma Wild's biscuits, pate, lemon curd…) to scoff down later as my pre-dinner warm up.
Quite sweet, but wonderfully moreish – nice crispy outer and crumbly without being dry. It was a cracker of a scone in texture – but ate more like a cake. It went well with the St Andrew's Cheddar cheese we picked up at The Courtyard Dairy.
The Courtyard Dairy
We were in no fit state to tackle the waterfalls walk or the White Scar Cave in Ingleton – and the weather had turned on us again, so we headed for cover to the first place Mrs. B.B. could find…
It just so happened to be this place:
They don't let you visit The Courtyard Dairy and leave without sampling at least 10 cheeses – and buying at least three of them. This was Mrs. B.B. territory, with her top-3 (because I forced her to pick three for this blog) being:
- Leeds Blue. Made by Italian cheese-maker Mario Olianas in Adel near Leeds using pasteurised sheeps' milk. Creamy and not too intense.
- St Andrew's Scottish Cheddar. Produced from raw cows' milk. This was an intensely powerful, distinctive cheddar.
- Boe Pepe St James. Raw sheeps' milk cheese made by Martin Gott in Cumbria. A mellow, creamy almost soft cheese.
We also got a little more education than we bargained for with an adjoining museum giving you the opportunity to try and lift a mouldy 10kg cheese:
…learn about cheese-making in the 1930s, and take photographs of various contraptions you are too impatient (to get back to the cheese counter) to read about but look interesting enough.
We wisely chose to avoid the café – although to be fair, at that point, I'd have struggled to make it up the stairs – but foolishly chose to visit the award-winning wine shop (Buon Vino) next door, where Mrs. B.B. picked up another gin (Mason's Tea Edition) and I started to calculate the cost of a house extension to store all of Mrs. B.B.'s alcohol.
Quick – the sun's out!!!
Our quick stop at Booths supermarket to grab some milk and necessities (otherwise known as tonic) turned into a fairly intense walk around Settle. Not because it's necessarily that big, but because I was layered up and cocooned in a sweat-inducing rain jacket – and now the not-forecast sun was punishing me! But we couldn't miss the opportunity to take a couple of pictures:
We visited the town's train station (just after the steam train had passed through!), invaded the personal space of a few residents all in the name of a cute cottage picture, and mapped out our planned pub crawl for Wednesday.
It lived up to all my expectations of a market town – but the through road is tiresome, with little let up from the loud bikes and lorries passing through. I'm glad we chose to hideaway nearby in Langcliffe, which is where I recharged myself (and our various gadgets) and ironed a shirt so I could 'go posh' at the Grassington House Hotel.
I won't spoil the surprise (there's a dedicated review in the works), but it would be fair to say I left feeling a little tingly – although that soon turned into complete panic on a hairy 45-minute drive back through the unlit lanes (apparently drivers in these parts only drive 20 miles under the limit during daylight hours).
Cheesed on (day 3)
After heavy consumption on day two, Mrs. B.B. was keen to get us moving… as far as the Wensleydale Creamery – a visit we had to abort on day one.
Up bright and early, we spent much of the day driving around narrow, windy, country lanes – and somehow managing to time our stops during short breaks in the rain for a few brisk walks.
Our first venture took us to Malham Cove. It's quite an impressive sight to see such an imposing waterless waterfall (it brought to mind the Wall from Game of Thrones, but then I'm a few years behind and the mind does play tricks on you when you get to my age).
It's also quite a sight to see a waterfall with water – and we managed that at Aysgarth (via Kettlewell).
But nothing is quite as impressive a sight as seeing Mrs. B.B. consume cheese.
Wensleydale Creamery
With a coach load of pensioners making it nigh on impossible to move through the gift shop, and at least 30 people queuing for the cheese shop, Mrs. B.B. was starting to panic.
Although she controlled her nerves better than I did when the lady in the café coughed all over the scones.
The interactive Wensleydale Cheese Experience gave us the chance to see… the back of people's heads, and hear a cheesemaking demonstration in progress… And the factory's Viewing Gallery allowed us to watch the cheese… machinery being hosed down and the floors getting a good clean. Oh, well. We got a picture of Wallace & Gromit:
And once we got inside the cheese shop, Mrs. B.B. was able to consume about 200g of cheese from the samples alone (and purchase another 400g to go with her previous day's haul, along with overpriced chutney and biscuits).
We had a quick walk around a tired looking town centre, before the drive back to Settle via the Ribblehead viaduct – and Booths for a lime (you know what's coming!).
The Yorkshire cheese-off, sponsored by gin
We had originally planned to visit The Game Cock Inn, Austwick this evening (a Twitter recommendation), but with a mountain of cheese to get through – and a few bottles of gin to sample – we decided to take it easy that evening… by consuming a dangerous level of cheese and gin.
Winner of the very official – and definitely not decided by me because I'm writing the blog – cheese-off between Wensleydale Creamery and The Courtyard Dairy was…
The Wensleydale with cranberry and sloe gin:
Mrs. B.B. wasn't as much of a fan of the Wild Ram London dry gin from the Yorkshire Dales Distillery, but I was really taken by the distinct berry notes – other notables from the local distilleries included the tea flavoured edition of Mason's (not convinced I'll be chucking a PG tips in as a garnish any time soon though) and the award-winning Whittaker's Gin.
Well, who knew recalling eating cheese would be nearly as exhausting as the act itself? I need a break! In part 2, we venture beyond the boundaries of the Dales, take orders off a bloke that was once in Eastenders, and fail to eat at a Michelin-starred restaurant (scruffy buggers).
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