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Mowry, the now wife and mom, shared the above image, on Monday, adding, "Hey guys!!! I'm so happy to announce I HAVE A COOKING SHOW!!! TIA MOWRY AT HOME! Over the years, my fans have become familiar with my style on the red carpet. Now, I'm excited to share my style in the kitchen, and a more personal side of my life. Tia Mowry at Home, premiers on Wednesday, April 29th at 9:00pmET/6:00pmPT on Cooking Channel."
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Hitler tried to starve Britain into submission in the Second World War. So food was in short supply because of the risk to merchant seamen of bringing it in from overseas. These seamen risked their lives bringing in what they did, in perpetual fear of being sunk by German submarines.
Consequently householders set up ways to preserve what food they had: bottling, jam or chutney making and wrapping in brown paper.
Fruit was preserved by 'bottling'. There was nothing new in this. Fridges were not commonplace in the households of ordinary people until the 1950s and 1960s. So spare fruit had always been bottled during the gluts of the fruiting season. What was different in the war was that food was in such short supply that every effort had to be made to preserve and use what came into season. So bottling was on the increase.
Bottling required special glass jars known as Kilner Jars which had tightly fitting spring lids to stop leakage and to keep out air. The seal was made even more secure with special rubber rings. These rings had to be replaced every season, but the jars went on year after year.
To preserve the fruit, it was cooked and while still hot was poured to overflowing into the Kilner jars which had been slowly heated in the oven. Then the jars were sealed, and when cold, washed to removed any overflowing juice.
Bottling worked well, although occasionally some mould did get in to spoil the fruit. This was likely to happen if the fruit was not completely cooked through and if any air was left in the jar before it was closed.
We had a small garden when I was a child, so we didn't have enough fruit to bottle. However I clearly remember trying the results of other people's bottling which I didn't like very much, as it seemed to have too uniform a consistency.
Although my mother never had enough garden fruit to make jam or chutney, it was common among households with larger gardens. I don't remember trying the results in the war, probably because they were not given away freely to anyone outside the family.
However, I have tried both since. The problems with jam-making are how difficult it is without specialist equipment to get a set which is not too solid or too liquid and how easily mould seems to get into the jars. During wartime there was the added problem of sugar being rationed. Women saved their sugar for jam making, but just imagine the disappointment if months of sugar ration was wasted if the jam didn't work properly!
The problem with my chutney making was that the family preferred the bought jars. In the shortages of the war, of course, they would have had to put up with it or go without.
The only fruit we had in any abundance in our small garden were apples, and occasionally tomatoes in a good year.
To keep tomatoes, they had to be stored out of the light and at the right humidity. My mother said that she kept tomatoes, wrapped in brown paper in a drawer until Christmas, but I wasn't fond of them as a child, so can't remember them.
The accepted wisdom seemed to be that apples should be wrapped in special waxed paper, but I don't think that my mother ever did this. Our apples were kept on layers of brown paper on trays or in cardboard boxes. The paper was important to absorb the juices of any apples going bad, and trays were better than boxes because apples beginning to rot could be spotted more easily and removed. One rotting apple always caused those touching it to rot as well. We managed to keep apples until March.


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Believe the media at your peril.
They are used by The Establishment to control what we know and what we think.
Truth and democracy come down the line. Herewith are some examples of
their lies and suppression of the truth.
Media Lies In Israel
Remember Mohammed al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian boy "murdered" on his father's lap by Israeli gunners? The French TV broadcast of the incident made al-Dura an icon; his "murder" became a battle cry against the Jewish state. Now it turns out that the report may have been a fraud. A French court just vindicated Phillipe Karsenty, the media critic who was sued for defamation when he called the broadcast a hoax. A hundred French journalists signed a petition in favor of their colleague, the TV anchor who sued and lost. Sadly, this was not surprising. But how to explain that the Israeli media showed an almost total disinterest in Karsenty's defeat of this modern blood libel?............
To suggest that Palestinians are incapable of putting another fraud over on the Western media -- after the fake 2006 Lebanon war photos, the fake blackout of the Gaza legislature, the fake Jenin "massacre," and above all, after watching billions of Western aid dollars mysteriously go missing from Palestinian accounts for decades -- demonstrates titanic and willful gullibility.
The Israel Insider tells us that the main stream media are lying systematically for the benefit of Palestinians and that Israel's media are part of it. They are in the business and know what is possible. If the media can lie systematically they could be doing the same thing regarding the Holocaust® story to perpetrate massive fraud on the German tax payer. The Israel Insider does not mention that aspect.
The Independent Television Commission
Is in the business of distorting the news, its statutory obligation notwithstanding.
Israel Insider Tells The Truth About Obama - The Rest Hide It
The Israel Insider seems to think that American presidents owe their loyalty to Israel and America be damned. Obama is not pandering to their evil hard enough. This will be why they are telling the world that he is not a 'natural born American' and not legally qualified for the job; see Obama's Forger Says Obama Is A Crook . The rest of the main stream media are covering up the truth because they are corrupt.
Lincoln The War Criminal
The presidential oath of office contains a pledge to defend and protect the Constitution of the United States, and by implication the liberties of the American people that the document is intended to preserve. In light of this, can you name which of the delegated powers in the U.S. Constitution allow the president to invade his own. Lincoln has been sold as a man who saved blacks from slavery. It is a gross lie about a crooked politicians.
Martin Luther King Voted For Barry Goldwater Say Media Liars
In fact, this "conservative Republican" denounced Goldwater in the strongest possible terms in a speech he gave after he won the Nobel Prize. He not only condemned Goldwater, he explicitly condemned Goldwater's message of liberty, freedom and limited government:
Another indication that progress is being made was found in the recent presidential election in the United States. The American people revealed great maturity by overwhelmingly rejecting a presidential candidate who had become identified with extremism, racism, and retrogression. The voters of our nation rendered a telling blow to the radical right. They defeated those elements in our society which seek to pit white against Negro and lead the nation down a dangerous Fascist path.
Pretty odd talk coming from a conservative Republican, don't you think? Goldwater never sought to pit whites against "Negroes"; he simply believed it was unconstitutional for the federal government to force anyone, black or white, to do business with people they didn't want to do business with.
The Very Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King was a liar, thief, fornicator, thug and communist front man. The media are run by liars with an agenda.
My A to Z of scare stories, from Anthrax to Zion (Protocols of the Elders of)
Britain, says the poet Kate Fox, quoted on Radio 4's Saturday Live last week, is a country 'eternally poised between a hosepipe ban and a flood'. Or between fearsome, knife-wielding youth gangs and a teen generation of obese couch-potatoes. Knife crime is a horrible thing; and for offering the list of comparable scares which follows you may call me flippant............ Simon Briscoe has co-written an entire book (Panic logy — Penguin-Viking) about the statistical basis of panic; I, less systematically, have spent three hours on a train with a ballpoint pen, a paper place mat, and my own recollections. It is shocking how easily the following alphabet came......
Jihad. Our century's real Jihadis are the neocons, who depend upon a credulous reading of what we shall one day look back on as a nebulous and ephemeral cult [ Neocons are murderous thugs; Islamics ditto - Editor ] .........
Witches. Before you laugh, remind yourself that all of Europe and North America was for a long time gripped by terror of these, and untold numbers of innocent old ladies were murdered in consequence..........
Zion, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of. A forgery produced in Russia to vindicate anti-Semitism, apparently proving the existence of an international Jewish plot. While, today, fear of Islamic fundamentalism skews our sense of proportion, it's worth reminding ourselves that for many decades millions of educated and civilized people were able to persuade themselves absolutely that another Semitic religion and its adherents threatened everything they stood for. 'The only statement I care to make about the Protocols is that they... have fitted the world situation up to this time. They fit it now,' said Henry Ford in 1921, whose newspaper cited the Protocols as evidence of an international Jewish conspiracy.
The Protocols were simply a lie. Jihads, 9/11, knife-crime reports or drugs statistics are not. But they all have this in common: they feed an appetite for alarm. Every time we observe another instance, we should be seized with a massive calm.
Mr Parris is on the right lines regarding liars and propagandists. Since he is a journalist he knows something about the quality of the stories and the agendas behind them. He does not mention the important stories that are hidden behind a wall of trivia. Nor does he say that at least one story is very much understated. H. L. Mencken was a first rate journalist. He put it better, saying:-
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
In Defense of Women (1918)
Theodore Dalrymple Lies In His Teeth About A Black Thug
Dalrymple, a part(?) Jew wrote a column for The Spectator alleging that the English underclass were idle, drunken slobs on the dole while claiming that Third World interlopers were much nicer. It was designed to foster Western Guilt & anti-English Racism as part of the Culture War being waged against us by Zionist crazies.
In this particular instance he alleges that Stan Collymore, a black thug is an Englishman who gave a white slut, Ulrika Jonsson a good kicking.
Media language and war - manufacturing
convenient realities [ 11 February 2008 ]
The corporate media's depiction of the Gaza story which has been unfolding for months might be summed up in one overriding headline: Hordes of Palestinian Breach Gaza Border with Egypt, Israel Concerned over Its Security.
The imprisonment of 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza – where poverty stands at 79 percent and unemployment hovers around a similar number, and where the majority of the population is 'food insecure' according to United Nations agencies – should have been depicted first and foremost as a humanitarian disaster compelled by an Israeli siege.................
Like the Iraq story, where the two main
trusted sources are the occupation and its puppet Iraqi government, any
story of relevance to Israel and Palestine has to be validated by the
official Israeli source and to a lesser but growing extent by their
allies among Palestinians. The rest are
'extremist', radical and
hell-bent on the destruction of the 'Jewish state.'
Note how the
Jewishness of Israel is often emphasized whenever the word
'destruction' or similar words are infused.
The main stream media are a propaganda machine. Our interests come down the line.
News Reporter Just Made It up [ 14 September 2007 ]
ABC News said yesterday that it would begin a second investigation into more than five years of news reports that relied on information from a consultant, Alexis Debit, who has been revealed to be the author of faked interviews. The interviews, published in a French journal, were said to have been done with prominent political figures, including former President Bill Clinton and Senator Barack Obama.....
Since his departure from ABC News in June, Mr. Debit has continued to work as a senior fellow for national security and terrorism at the Nixon Center in Washington........
Making it up saves the bother of chasing around but he only got away with it for five years. Now he is a senior fellow with an important sounding think tank in Washington. At least a journo telling lies is a change from politicians doing the same.
Airport Security - Blair Lied [ 27 August 2006 ]
Airports had a major security alert. Hundreds of thousands were held up and given major hassle and it was all based on a lie. At all events the excuse used was a lie, a deliberate lie and Blair knew it. Making explosive from innocuous looking liquids sounds plausible - if you are not a chemist. It is possible - if you are a chemist but not in an aircraft loo. Making TATP involves mixing the right chemicals at LOW temperature and waiting hours with first class ventilation. That means it is impossible in the current case. See confirmation at They hate our freedoms
Given that Blair and Bush lied we can wonder why. The security mobs have their agendas. So do politicians and feeding us lies is a way of terrorizing us and increasing their power. See State of Fear on the point.
Political corruption is wide ranging and Blair's mob are setting records. They are also destroying the laws that protect us against a corrupt, malicious state.
It does not follow that the Islamics taken prisoner are not guilty as Hell. England is full of bad tempered rogues in silly hats. Blair imports them as matter of policy. Then Blair annoys them by sending the British Army to kill Islamics in Iraq as a way of stealing oil for Israel. What is the pay off for England? Not a lot. Having an unscrupulous liar as Prime Minister is bad news. Even his own detest him and they know him better than us.
PS Did your wonderful local newspaper bother to tell you the truth about this one? Did the BBC, and the rest of the main stream media? You might think it worth writing to them to ask what the game is.
Some years ago the Army turned up at Heathrow with armoured cars to guard the place. We were told that it was an exercise. We were lied to then as well. The men had Bren guns which are magazine fed rather than their normal GPMGs which are belt fed. Having Brens meant that people couldn't see the live rounds That was why they were used.
The next piece is from The Independent and displays an unusual degree of malice. Should you believe anything from them?
Gypsy-haters, holocaust-deniers, xenophobes, homophobes, anti-Semites, the EU's new political force [ 17 January 2007 ]
Europe's far-right, xenophobic and extremist parties crossed a new threshold yesterday, winning more speaking time, money, and political influence in the European Parliament than ever before.
The head line is worthy of Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stürmer, a Nazi propaganda paper. He was hanged for his pains. The body of the article is not much better. Notice the use of words like claimed then look at Words as Propaganda Tools. All of this tells us about the reality of press freedom in the West. The publicity will do nationalists no harm. The Wiki is not enthusiastic about them either. See Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty
David Irving
Has been the subject of Jewish hate for telling us that the Holocaust story is a pack of lies. Here is another bit of dishonesty from The Independent.
Media Complain About Russia Invading The Crimea While Ignoring Jews Invading Palestine [ 25 March 2014 ]
Gideon Levy, an honest Jew explains the Chutzpah, the Hasbara in the Main Stream Media. Both words were invented by Jews to describe their insolence & arrogance. Hypocrisy is another word.
Why Dr. Kermit Gosnell's Trial Should Be a Front-Page Story [ But Was Not ] [ 11 August 2015 ]
The grand jury report in the case of Kermit Gosnell, 72, is among the most horrifying I've read. "This case is about a doctor who killed babies and endangered women. What we mean is that he regularly and illegally delivered live, viable babies in the third trimester of pregnancy - and then murdered these newborns by severing their spinal cords with scissors," it states. "The medical practice by which he carried out this business was a filthy fraud in which he overdosed his patients with dangerous drugs, spread venereal disease among them with infected instruments, perforated their wombs and bowels - and, on at least two occasions, caused their deaths."
Charged with seven counts of first-degree murder, Gosnell is now standing trial in a Philadelphia courtroom...........
One former employee described hearing a baby screaming after it was delivered during an abortion procedure. "I can't describe it. It sounded like a little alien," she testified.........
Until Thursday, I wasn't aware of this story. It has generated sparse coverage in the national media, and while it's been mentioned in RSS feeds to which I subscribe, I skip past most news items......
To sum up, this story has numerous elements any one of which would normally make it a major story. And setting aside conventions, which are flawed, this ought to be a big story on the merits.
The news value is undeniable.
Why isn't it being covered more? I've got my theories. But rather than offer them at the end of an already lengthy item, I'd like to survey some of the editors and writers making coverage decisions.
A journalist tells us that the Main Stream Media did a cover up on this one. I am not arguing. I had not even heard of the story until much later. We are being lied to.
PS He got away with it for so long because he was black - true or false? Got a better theory?
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It's an often reiterated rule of etiquette to never discuss religion or politics in polite company. And this is why etiquette is for pussies.
See, "religion and politics" are essentially stand-ins for weltanschuuang – a larger world view that incorporates philosophy, values, and ethics. The big IMPORTANT things in life unless you've tuned out and decided to just get by and let other people do your heavy lifting for you.
The dog world is inherently religious and political and thus any meaningful discussion of the culture is bound to be controversial.
It's asinine that the most fundamental aspects of culture are off the table "in polite company" and it makes etiquette into a shallow, superficial, fake experience, albeit one that preserves the status quo. If you can't work through ethics and values and philosophy what's the point of everything else?
The obvious reason that such topics are taboo is because they are controversial and most people are not particularly willing to change their stance, especially with the activation energy of a dinner party or meeting with people you frankly don't care deeply about otherwise. It usually requires a much more significant event like a death or epiphany to move someone to really question and alter their views in a rapid fashion or the long slow process of erosion of a belief over time against the realities of life.
Thus "just don't talk about it" is a conflict avoidance mechanism for etiquette doyennes to play fun-police and say NO ARGUMENTS! and keep people happy and the wine in the glasses instead of splashed in faces.
The thing is that this conflict avoidance makes sense when we out-source and up-source the big questions to other people. The sheep let the shepherd make the choices and worry about the smaller questions of where am I going to eat and poop today. There's also an inherent insecurity involved with most world views where having others believe what you believe and act how you act is an evolutionary advantage so when you find yourself in conflict, you change them, they change you, or you get out. Some missionaries employ the tactic to overcome someone's extant world-view, but by far the most popular strategy is to use family pressure over children and spouses and indoctrination of blank slates via upbringing and control of the schools. It's no small coincidence that most people adhere to the religion they were born into or married into.
Taking risks and learning things first-hand is hard and can lead to failure so it's a risk-averse strategy to let others experiment, let others stick their necks out and stay with the herd because it's easier and safe, even though it's pretty mindless.
And human culture has positively reinforced this behavior. Religions and Political Parties are like turn-key weltanschuuang for you to just swallow whole, and both are also highly indoctrinated into youth by their parents and peers right along with language and fashion and a variety of communal behaviors. And even with their massive and inherent contradictions and flaws almost all social systems enforce the rules on everyone with strict punishments for anyone who doesn't play the game the "right" way.
Dog culture, the primary focus of this manifesto, is all about Religion and Politics and this is why any discussion about ethics, efficacy, values, faults, and change are inherently impolite. Registries are hierarchical political organizations that delegate power downward through breed clubs and exercise their power through intellectual property and barriers to entry. They "own" the breeds and issue limited member certificates to distinguish "us" vs. "them."
The social political structure is also informally enforced by breed matrons and patrons who are typically the most connected breeders to the breed club and the registry and position themselves as "mentors" to select few new breeders and position themselves against most others. Who gets to use whose stud dog and who selects the judge for which specialty and whose dogs that judge favors are all sorts of social-political drama-inducing behaviors that are entrenched in the culture.
The culture is also religious in the sense that there are just so many elements of the philosophy that must be taken on faith, as they are not science or evidence based — and would not naturally reemerge if they were forgotten, and are thus handed down by indoctrination like all faith-based systems. The breed standards are part of this ad hoc religion as well as breeding methods like certain inbreeding schemes or sire selection criteria. So too are puppy rearing techniques and placement behaviors.
If there were an easy, universally effective, and uncontroversial way to tell people they're wrong or even find the Truth on even a single issue; there would be one government, one belief system, and scientific consensus on every issue.
Failing that, making sausage is going to look messy. There's just no other way about it. Pick what strategy you want, but they all have their strengths and weaknesses and even the most brilliant and motivated people have yet to find the one-true-way to convince people of some greater truth.
In fact, most of the best methods to win minds are logical fallacies, conspiratorial, manipulative, and used to convince people of falsehoods. Or you don't try and change minds and just preach to the choir, reinforce extant biases, and cheer-lead instead of lead.
So if you actually want to tackle extant culture head on, it gets messy. It's part of the process really. It's not primarily about changing minds and winning hearts, liars do a much better job of that. It's not about waxing romantic about history or pretending that your little corner of the culture is just superior as-is and above reproach. To me it's about speaking truth and recognizing things that will be validated not by popularity but by authenticity.
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Creamy Green Beans, Onions and Mushrooms Wood Stone Style
Creamy Green Beans, Onions and Mushrooms Wood Stone Style
Yield: Serves 6-8
3 ea. sweet onions such as Walla Walla, cut into 1/2-in. thick wedges
1 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup chicken stock
11/2 Tbsp. kosher salt
1 tsp. dried thyme
1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper
2 ea. bay leaves
1/4 cup olive oil
1 lb. green beans
1/2 lb. mushrooms
Oven Temperature: 480-520 degrees
- In a large pot or baking dish with a lid, mix the onions, cream, 1 Tbsp. of the salt, the thyme, cayenne and bay leaves.
- Flame Height: 4
- Place the pan in the center of the oven and cook for 5-8 minutes or until the liquid starts to bubble and the onion tips are starting to brown. Cover and let braise for 20 minutes.
- While the onions are cooking, heat a large cast iron skillet in front of the flame for 5 minutes. Add the oil and mushrooms and stir.
- Roast the mushrooms in front of the flame for 3-5 minutes until they begin to brown.
- Add the beans and remaining salt and stir. Continue to roast in front of the flame for 2-3 minutes, again just to get a little color on the beans.
- When the onions are done, add the beans and mushrooms to them, stir and return to the center of the oven for 3-5 minutes or until the beans are tender and the whole thing is bubbling.


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Gearing up for a Kickstart
In a few short days, I will be launching my first Kickstarter campaign to fund Nova Astrum, a game that has been rumbling around inside my brain for nearly fifteen years and sat its first early alpha about two years ago for my capstone project. Since then, I admit, I have not done much with it; having Multiple Sclerosis has taken a bite out of my life. The deep depression that it has caused took me a while to dig out of. I won't go into the grisly details. Best leave the wreckage behind me and move on to the brighter tomorrow. Unfortunately, there are some who will not be joining me. That was their choice.
Meanwhile, Nova Astrum is gearing up to be the beginning. Of what, well, we'll see. Don't get me wrong, I don't expect Exploding Kittens, but Kickstarter has become the premiere crowdsourcing source for projects like this.
Consider this to be a last call for volunteers to get in on the ground floor with Nova Astrum. You can contact me on the contact form.
I will try to blog as this develops, so this blog may become the inside view on how a Kickstart project works. Stay tuned!


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Why would God bother with a tiny planet like Earth?
Modern atheistic arguments refuted by medieval clergy-scientists
"The words of the Preacher, the son of David, … 'There is nothing new under the sun.'" (Ecclesiastes 1:1, 9). We are reminded of this when atheists iterate and reiterate tired old discredited arguments that show gross ignorance of history.
A common atheopathic claim goes somewhat as follows:
'The church for most of its history taught that the universe was quite small. However, modern science has shown that the universe is almost unimaginably vast. Therefore, it is no longer credible to believe in Christianity.'
For example, famous physicist Stephen Hawking (1942– ) told the BBC:
"We are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a very average star in the outer suburb of one of a hundred billion galaxies. So it is difficult to believe in a God that would care about us or even notice our existence."1
More recently, in the reboot of the famous Cosmos series, the atheistic presenter Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958– ) claimed, "A mere four centuries ago, our tiny world was oblivious to the rest of the cosmos. … Back in 1599, everyone knew that the Sun, planets and stars were just lights in the sky that revolved around the Earth, and that we were the center of a little universe, a universe made for us."2
Vastness of space: very old news!
However, such claims can be made only with an ignorance of history (and the Bible). Not just four, but even fourteen centuries ago, the leading theologians were well aware that compared to the vastness of the heavens, the earth was but a point in space. They were familiar with the standard astronomy textbook of the Middle Ages (AD 5th–15th century), the Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy (c. AD 90–c. AD 168):
"The earth, in relation to the distance of the fixed stars, has no appreciable size and must be treated as a mathematical point."3
This secular knowledge was well known in the church. The Roman Christian philosopher Boëthius (AD c. 480–524/525), in prison awaiting trial and execution for an unjust charge of treason, wrote The Consolation of Philosophy, an imaginary dialogue between himself and 'Lady Philosophy'. She points out that just as the earth is only a point in space, how much more insignificant is any glory of any of its inhabitants:
"As you have heard from the demonstrations of the astronomers, in comparison to the vastness of the heavens, it is agreed that the whole extent of the earth has the value of a mere point; that is to say, were the earth to be compared to the vastness of the heavenly sphere, it would be judged to have no volume at all."4
This was one of the most widely read and influential books in the West during most of the Middle Ages. So churchmen were well aware of how tiny the earth is, without considering it the slightest threat to faith.
Later in the middle ages, John Sacrobosco (c.1195–c.1256) wrote his Tractatus de Sphaera (Treatise on the Sphere):
And a mere point in the universe.
That same consideration is a sign that the earth is as a center and point with respect to the firmament, since, if the earth were of any size compared with the firmament, it would not be possible to see half the heavens.
Also, suppose a plane passed through the center of the earth, dividing it and the firmament into equal halves. An eye at the earth's center would see half the sky, and one on the earth's surface would see the same half. From which it is inferred that the magnitude of the earth from surface to center is inappreciable and, consequently, that the magnitude of the entire earth is inappreciable compared to the firmament.
Also Alfraganus says that the least of the fixed stars which we can see is larger than the whole earth. But that star, compared with the firmament, is a mere point. Much more so is the earth, which is smaller than it. (Tractatus 1:13)
Treatise on the Sphere was a hugely influential astronomy textbook that all medieval university students were required to study—including theological students!
But somehow, antitheists for the last century or so have claimed that the immensity of the universe is news, and is a profound disproof of God. Several generations ago, C.S. Lewis (1898–1963) liked to point out that the huge size of the universe often "…impresses people all the more because it is supposed to be a modern discovery—an excellent example of those things which our ancestors did not know and which, if they had known them, would have prevented the very beginnings of Christianity.
"Here there is a simple historical falsehood. Ptolemy knew just as well as Eddington5 that the earth was infinitesimal in comparison with the whole content of space. … The real question is why the spatial insignificance of the Earth, after being known for centuries, should suddenly in the last century have become an argument against Christianity."6
Actually, Ptolemy wasn't even the first; about 11 centuries before, King David seemed similarly aware of our tininess compared with the universe's vastness. He wrote in Psalm 8:3–5:
"When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
"Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honour."7
More myth-busting:
Did the medieval church persecute scientists?
Various atheistic websites often portray the Middle Ages as the 'Dark Ages', where a backward Church persecuted scientists. However, this was the period where spectacles, mechanical clocks, and the blast furnace were invented; universities were founded across the UK and Europe; Dante wrote the masterpiece Divine Comedy and Chaucer wrote the Canterbury Tales; Giotto di Bondone painted his masterpieces; Western music was invented; the great Gothic cathedrals were built; and the first carnivals were held involving whole towns.1
It's notable that even some atheists oppose this dishonesty. For example, Australian skeptic Tim O'Neill is scathing about such arguments:
"It's not hard to kick this nonsense to pieces, especially since the people presenting it know next to nothing about history and have simply picked up these strange ideas from websites and popular books. The assertions collapse as soon as you hit them with hard evidence. I love to totally stump these propagators by asking them to present me with the name of one—just one—scientist burned, persecuted, or oppressed for their science in the Middle Ages. They always fail to come up with any."2
They often come up with Galileo—laughable, since he lived at the same time as the KJV was being translated, centuries after the Middle Ages, and his main opponents were the scientific establishment. So the only remaining excuse is that the evil Church had persecuted them so well that no one was brave enough to practise science. O'Neill responds:
"By the time I produce a laundry list of Medieval scientists—like Albertus Magnus, Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, John Peckham, Duns Scotus, Thomas Bradwardine, Walter Burley, William Heytesbury, Richard Swineshead, John Dumbleton, Richard of Wallingford, Nicholas Oresme, Jean Buridan and Nicholas of Cusa—and ask why these men were happily pursuing science in the Middle Ages without molestation from the Church, my opponents usually scratch their heads in puzzlement at what just went wrong."
Actually, for real persecution of scientists, try the fanatically anti-Christian French Revolution. The ruling National Convention guillotined the great founding father of chemistry, Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794).3
References and Notes
- Esolen, A., Professor of English at Providence College, Were the Middle Ages Dark? Prager University videos, February 2014.
- O'Neill, T., The Dark Age Myth: An atheist reviews God's Philosophers, strangenotions.com, 17 October 2009; bold in original.
- An apocryphal story has the condemning judge say, "The Republic has no need for scientists."
So why is the universe so big?
The absurd historical revisionism of modern critics almost implies that God needed a small universe to exist. But if the universe were small, then these same critics would probably complain, "If God is so great, then why didn't He create anything else?"8 Somehow modern antitheists like Tyson and Hawking think this is news, and regard it as a profound disproof of God. However, as the Psalmist declared, the heavens are big to "declare the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1).
Earth at the centre of the universe
Another supposed refutation of biblical Christianity is the discovery that the earth rotates on its axis and revolves around the sun. As above, Neil Tyson claimed that this was virtually unknown in 1599. This was an inexcusable blunder; the best known founder of geokinetic (earth-moving) ideas, Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543),1 had published over half a century previously. Furthermore, the Gregorian calendar, adopted in 1582, was "based on computations that made use of Copernicus' work", as pointed out by leading philosopher of science, Thomas Kuhn (1922–1996).2 Copernicus certainly didn't see his ideas as anti-Christian, because he was a canon of the church.
Copernicus's ideas were then popularized by Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), and they accepted them before 1599. As early as 1597, Galileo wrote to Kepler, "Like you, I accepted the Copernican position several years ago," and Kepler replied suggesting collaboration and coming out publicly. However, the main problems were that their view contradicted the scientific establishment of the day, which taught the Aristotelian/Ptolemaic view that the earth was at the absolute centre of the universe.3 Galileo saw his geokinetic view as compatible with the Bible,4 and Kepler was a devout Lutheran who claimed to be "thinking God's thoughts after Him," and saw no conflict between his astronomy and the Bible. He also calculated a creation date of 3993 BC—he, like the others, would be called a 'young-earth creationist' today!5
Copernicus's medieval predecessors
The above scientists should be well known, even to Tyson. Not so well known, although they should be, were their medieval predecessors.6 Long before Copernicus, in the late Middle Ages, several clergy-scientists had safely proposed geokinetic ideas. E.g. the French priest and scientist John Buridan (c. 1300– after 1358), also a notable logician who solved various versions of the 'Liar Paradox',7 seriously considered geokinetic ideas.
Ironically, a major reason was precisely the relative tininess of the earth that atheists have claimed was a modern discovery. That is, Buridan proposed that it would be more elegant if the tiny earth rotated rather than the vast cosmos revolved around it. Ph.D. historian of science James Hannam says:
"Like many medieval Christians, Buridan expected God to have arranged things in an elegant way, always allowing that he could do as he pleased. However, although there was a presumption towards elegance, you still had to check the empirical facts to see if God really operated this way."8,9
Buridan also refuted scientific objections, such as Ptolemy's claim that a moving earth would produce a massive wind. The answer lay in Buridan's concept of impetus, essentially the same as the modern concept of momentum, and anticipating Galileo's idea of inertia and Newton's First Law of Motion by several centuries.10 That is, the earth would impart an impetus to the air, which would move along with it, so we would not notice it. Buridan compared it with being on a smoothly moving river boat: the boat shares its motion with everything on it, so passengers can forget they are moving. And if they looked outside at an anchored boat, they could easily think that the other boat was the one moving.
Buridan's student Nicole Oresme (c. 1320–1382), a bishop, mathematician, and physicist, refined this further. He argued that the earth would impart an impetus to everything on it—air, water, and projectiles—so they would share the earth's rotation as well. Oresme also realized that many of the biblical passages that were later hijacked to support dogmatic geocentrism were equivocal. That is, they used the earth as a convenient reference frame because it reflected everyday perception, that is, "by saying that this passage conforms to the normal use of popular speech just as it does in many other places … which are not to be taken literally."11,12 Hannam says:
"What Oresme had done was prepare the groundwork. He refuted most of the objections to a moving earth two centuries before Copernicus had suggested that it might actually be in motion."8
References and Notes
- Copernicus, N., De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), 1543.
- Kuhn, T., The Copernican Revolution, p. 125, Harvard University Press, 1957.
- See also Sarfati, J., Galileo Quadricentennial: Myth vs fact, Creation 31(3):49–51, 2009; creation.com/gal-400.
- Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina, 1615.
- Batten, D., Which is the recent aberration? Old-Earth or Young-Earth Belief? Creation 24(1)24–27; creation.com/old-young.
- The emininent French physicist/thermodynamicist and historian/philosopher of science Pierre Duhem (1861–1916), documented this a century ago in his 10-volume Le système du monde: histoire des doctrines cosmologiques de Platon à Copernic (The System of the World: History of cosmological doctrines from Plato to Copernicus),1914.
- E.g. a one-person liar, "What I am saying is false"; a two-person liar where Socrates says, "What Plato is saying is true" and Plato says "What Socrates is saying is false"; and other even more elaborate ones. See Hughes, G.E., John Buridan on Self-Reference: Chapter Eight of Buridan's Sophismata, Cambridge University Press, 1982.
- Hannam, J., God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science, Icon Books, ch. 12, 2010.
- See also Statham, D., Helpful in places, confusing in others (review of Hannam, God's Philosophers), J. Creation 24(2):31–34, 2010.
- Graney, C.M., Mass, speed, direction: John Buridan's 14th-century concept of momentum, The Physics Teacher 51(7): 411–414, October 2013 | doi:10.1119/1.4820853.
- Oresme, N., Le Livre du Ciel et du Monde (The Book of Heaven/Sky and the World), 1377; Hannam, God's Philosophers, ch. 12.
- Oresme was bothered by Psalm 93:1, "the world is established; it shall never be moved." However, the same Hebrew word for 'moved' (טוֹמ môt) is used in Psalm 16:8, "I shall not be moved." Since the Psalmist was not in a straightjacket, the word clearly refers to faltering rather than physical movement. Hannam also thinks that if there had been evidence for the earth moving, then Oresme would have addressed this verse as he had the other allegedly geocentric-only passages.
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References and Notes
- See also Sarfati, J., Hawking atheopathy: Famous physicist goes beyond the evidence: review of The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow, J. Creation 25(1):25–29, 2011; creation.com/hawking. Return to text
- Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, Episode 1: Standing Up in the Milky Way, 2014. Tyson also declared that our universe is just "one tiny bubble in an infinite ocean of universes", totally abandoning science for story-telling. See thorough review at creation.com/cosmos. Return to text
- Almagest, book 1, ch. 5. Return to text
- Boëthius, The Consolation of Philosophy (De consolatione philosophiae) 2(7)3–7, AD 524. Return to text
- Eminent English astrophysicist Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882–1944). Return to text
- Lewis, C.S., 'Dogma and the Universe', God in the Dock, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 1970. Return to text
- Before this, there was the account of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9. The rebellious people tried to defy God's command to fill the earth by building an extremely high tower. But to Yahweh, the attempt to build up to heaven was so tiny that the account twice describes Him as coming down to see what was going on. Of course God is all-knowing and present everywhere, so His descent is an anthropomorphism, attributing human actions to a non-human, in this case to demonstrate how puny man is by comparison. Return to text
- See Bates, G., Did God create life on other planets? Otherwise why is the universe so big?, Creation 29(2):12–15, 2007; creation.com/life-planets. Return to text
Why is Yahweh God interested in the earth and mankind on it?
Because His Scriptures says.
He created the heavens and the earth, specifically to be inhabited by mankind (Isa 45: 12, Zech 12: 1) and He did not create it in vain (Isa 45: 18-19).
We are His offspring, created in His own image and likeness (Gen 1: 26-28; Mal 2: 14-16)
Those who attempt to deny this should also take note that His Scriptures say:
Why do the heathen's rage and the peoples plot vain things against YHWH God and His Anointed…. For He will set His King on His Holy Hill of Zion (Psa 2: 1-6)
Yet they continue to remonstrate against the Knowledge of GOD, saying we desire none of His Ways (Job 21: 14-15; Psa 73: 1-17)
Again His Scriptures say:
The Living must know that The Most High rules in the kingdom of men and sets over it whomever He wills (Dan 4: 17).
Psa 10: 1-5 states, The wicked in his proud countenance does not consider YHWH. God is in none of his thoughts. Yet His (YHWH's)Judgements are far above out of his sight (Isa 26: 10-11).
So the non-believers can say all they want to say in defiance against the obvious:
Yet YHWH God will have their last words!
Isa 45: 22-25 Thus says YHWH God: Unto Me every knee will bow, and Unto Me every tongue must confess: YHWH He Is God! YHWH He is God! (1 Kings 18: 22-40)
This reminds me of the scene in Men In Black when Agent J asks Frank the Pug where the galaxy is and Frank said "here". "How's it here?" "You humans! When will you learn size doesn't matter? Just because something's important, doesn't mean it's not very small."
The earth is but a point in the grand scheme. True.
But amazing to me is that His omniscient eye and providential hand sees and controls the smallest sub-atomic particle in the remotest reach of His created universe. And He is controlling it and all things precisely as He planned and purposed before He created it.
Guess Tyson and Hawkings are just like Agent J. Still wet behind the ears.
The amazing thing is that God is in control of them too. They are no surprise to Him.
Most amazing is that God condescend to this little speck of matter to use it as the stage to reveal Himself, His attributes, His power, His grace and mercy to His chosen people.
Now that is an amazing thing indeed.
And so since a day is as a thousand years with the Lord God, here we are in what?, day two since Jesus Christ walked the earth. They like to ask why would God care about this tiny planet? Does not His Word tell us that He sees the sparrow fall as it explains to us His caring for each human and animal life?
They may not acknowledge His majesty and power, yet they are in awe of creation and all its inner workings. They go about the impossible task of adequately explaining the universe and place their faith in vain theories which are ever-changing while The HolySpirit is available to guide them into all truth and seal them with righteous faith until Jesus returns to redeem all who have believed in Him.
Alas, it is the only way they will ever know the truth, found only in Jesus Christ.
Happily many of them are opening their minds and hearts to the truth. I pray many more will soon.
Excellent article. One small point when I was a boy in the 1940's we were taught that the Dark Ages was the period between the departure of the Romans from Britain circa 400 AD and the time of Alfred the Great c1000. Not forgetting the Venerable Bede.
Sometimes the misleading term "Dark Ages" has been restricted to the Early Middle Ages, as above, and sometimes (mis)used for the entire Middle Ages. The above might also be a Britannocentric definition. However, even on those terms, it doesn't just ignore Bede but also the superb Hiberno-Saxon artwork of illuminated manuscripts of the Lindisfarne Gospels and the ornate Anglo-Saxon metalwork of the Sutton Hoo and Staffordshire Hoard artifacts.
I'm missing something here. Why (on earth) would the size of the universe and/or when it was discovered have anything to do with the existence of God?
And does that mean, according to the logic of those upholding this view, that any recent discovery proves that there is no God?
Even if the church had been, or is, wrong about something, that's the church. The church is not God!
Another excellent article.
This addresses a pet peeve I have. Whenever, someone discusses the 'Dark Ages', I first off change the reference to something acceptable. I prefer the 'Age of Synthesis', but will accept the 'Middle Ages'. I think it helps make the 'Enlightenment' seem more remarkable if they can show that period was proceeded by the 'Dark Ages'.
It is as if these thinkers of the 'Enlightenment' came out of a fog and finally saw things clearly. DaVinci, Michelangelo, et al, drawing on no past experience all the sudden came up with these new thoughts and techniques. The truth is they can be traced back many generations, with a careful examination of history.
Not to diminish the achievements of many great scientific minds (such as Einstein), but when I read the example of the river boat (c. 14th century). I was immediately reminded of the example discussed in the theory of relatively about perceived motion, and the person in the captain's cabin of a ship.
If allowed, I oftentimes try to move the discussion to something fruitful, like in the 800 years since the 'Middle Ages' look at how much has changed. It is that remarkable to believe that we have gotten here in just 4,000 years?
The more important question is why the random arrangement of carbon on a plain white surface or the transmission of vibrations via differential air pressure purportedly arising from the random firing of localized synapses by a being that insists it is the indifferent offspring of slime should require any more attention than dust lifted by a chance breeze.
I don't understand the logic of the atheist argument that, " if the universe is so vast and the Earth is so small there cannot be a God"? Just because there's life here doesn't mean there HAS to be life elsewhere in the universe, (it doesn't follow logically). They presume to know the mind of a God they don't believe in!
If anything it blows my mind to consider Gods power and infinite love for his creation as king David put it in, "Psalm 8:4" (after all he sacrificed his only begotten son)!
We do know the universe is expanding and the Earth is an orb as pointed out long ago by the profit Isaiah in Isa 40:22, (no flat Earther's here). I don't understand apart from an informative creator how he could have possibly know that bit of information way back then. Consider the fact that atheist's also believe in an expanding universe as described in the bible but do not acknowledge the bible. By the way it must have been much smaller in the beginning as a singularity alluded to in the big bang assumption, (stands for not one single shred of evidence). The atheist assumption may have the universe much smaller in the beginning than God may have created it, (we weren't there)!
Then I look in the other direction at the infinitely small with its DNA database and I see an infinitely wise creator there also with ATP motors, nanobots transporting protein's and RNA transcribing DNA information much like a computer program only infantry more complicated as Bill Gates put it.
One has to be as Paul described it in Romans 1:22, "very foolish" NOT to see the infinite creator God in the creation.
Thank you for considering me LORD, even though I don't deserve it!
Why dont those atheists and God critics accept what is? All their 'scientific' know better doesn't change a thing. Replacing reality with should, would, could?
If an atheist is a big as a galaxy, would he hate God more and if a Christian is as little as a fly, would he believe less?
God created the enormous universe and the electron, you think He bothers about size?
Indeed, the Medieval Agesvwere like the bedrock that commenced the greatest discoveries atheopaths refer to in the Renaissance and the Baroque period, as well as in Modernism. The Medievals laid the foundations you could say, they built the universities we know today, the greatest literature were written there, the greatest architectures were famous there, and yes even scientists were there as well. I really go Lol when history professors (even in my university) say that you could get burned if you presented a scientific idea that could conflict with the passages. You got burned for blaspheming God or strong heresies, theological matters (although that is another issue), not scientific matters.
Sarfati is right about Lavoisier, by the time Robespierre and the Jacobins took power at France, things went mad there. They persecuted those who were against the Jacobin system, or the government, they silenced any form of criticism to Robespierre and the established power; and the Law of suspects was put forth. Lavoisier was accused of treason and most probably for opposing Robespierre. Let's not forget to mention these are the same guys who got angry at the Royalist Church that supposedly carried out such orders. Yeah, the secularists were mad in those days, and they are still today. :)


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Health centers board to meet
The Central Peninsula Health Centers Inc. board of directors will meet at 6 p.m. Monday at the Salamatof Center, 150 N. Willow St., in Kenai. It is open to the public. For more information, call 335-2022 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Fire stations collect food
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Parents to plan after-grad party
Parents of Soldotna High School seniors are invited to attend an after-graduation student party planning meeting at 6 p.m. Nov. 28 in the teachers' workroom. Fundraising, food and decorations will be discussed. For more information, call Randy Milliron at 283-0507.
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In the midst of this global adventure, the divers will make the only North American stop at Fan Pier Boston mid-season.
The ICA, famous for its architecturally interesting building and cutting-edge contemporary art, offers a dramatic backdrop for these visionary divers as they showcase their own take on "performance art": spiraling, tumbling, and flipping mid-air, in sync with the cheering of sports-mad fans below. The eleven super athletes will compete head-to-head for a shot at the prestigious Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series title, completing two required and two optional dives. The five international judges, including four-time Olympic gold medalist Greg Louganis, will award them scores from 0 to 10 based on the various aspects of the dive, the adherence to predetermined diving requirements, and the splash-less finish.
From the iconic Boston Harbor, home of the Boston Tea Party, the local fans will witness divers who will make history, like US rookie David Colturi (23 years) and former Olympian Blake Aldridge.
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First, we always love polls, so we would be remiss if we didn't reiterate the poll that the Nebraka Republican Party released yesterday with the following results:
Do you think Senator Ben Nelson deserves reelection, or do you think its time to give someone else a chance?
Reelect Nelson: 41%
Someone Else: 59%
Well, that dovetails nicely with all the other polls (save Nelson's personal campaign polls) that show Nelson barely cracking 40%.
In addition, they asked about the repeal of ObamaCare — which Ben Nelson was the deciding vote on, and totally L-U-Vs. 63% of respondents said repeal it, versus 37% who said don't.
Just a snapshot of Nebraskans today.
A very telling snapshot, you might say.
So Ben Nelson ran to the gang at Politico, this time, to complain about those mean ol' Republicans and their mean ol' ads against him.
See, if they didn't run those mean ads, well then, maybe Ben just might retire. Yeah! That's right! Retire!
But now that Crossroads GPS and the boys have run a few spots against Nelson — not nearly as many, mind you that have been run ON his behalf — well, that's gettin' Nelson's gumption up.
"It's like the cat that chases something that's running," Nelson said. "There's an urge to say, 'OK, now … 'Let's go.'"
He added: "They run the risk of getting me in. If they want me out, maybe they ought to leave me alone."
But asked if that meant he'd get into the race, Nelson said, "I'm not there yet."
Whoa! Whoa! Hold on there cowboy! I didn't say I WOULD run, I just said, I MIGHT run. Big difference there, sonny.
At this point, we have no idea where he is going to land. On the one hand Nelson's campaign seems all geared up. The national Dems certainly want him to run, and are applying all the pressure they have to get him to run.
On the other hand, much of Nelson's fundraising has been flat, or non-existent. He gives every impression — like in the interview above — that he doesn't really want to run. But that Republicans are making him want to? Eh, what, Senator?
Check us if we're wrong, but isn't that the exact same criticism he made of Dave Heineman just last week?! He knocked Heineman, saying Governor Dave was letting national Republicans influence his decision. And now Nelson says that is exactly who may just influence his decision?
Or how about this one from Ol' Ben:
"…the outside influences of people outside of Nebraska, paying a lot of money to run ads against me, has absolutely nothing to do with my decision."
Yeah. You gotta hate when people outside Nebraska are paying a lot of money to run ads against you.
But you know what's AWESOME? When people outside Nebraska are paying a lot of money to run ads FOR you! You know, like the $1.5 million the DSCC has poured into Nebraska TV stations on behalf of Nelson? Yeah, that's totally cool, man.
Is this whimpering really the way Nelson plans to go out? Heck, maybe he IS running…
And if you're going to let Karl Rove influence you Senator, you should know that NEGOP Executive Director Jordan McGrain has TRIPLE Dog Dared you (via a Tweet) to run for re-election!
(Though we should note that McGrain has created a slight breach of etiquette, skipping the Triple Dare and going right for the throat…)
And then National Right to Life and Nebraska Right to Life announced that not only will they NOT be endorsing Nelson if he runs for re-election, but that…
…both organizations will oppose Senator Ben Nelson (D) for re-election in November 2012 general election.
They went on to say:
"Ben Nelson's vote for the pro-abortion, pro-rationing Obama health care law was a total betrayal of pro-life principles and a total betrayal of pro-life voters who stood by him in the past."
"No pro-lifer should even consider supporting Ben Nelson for re-election."
We all saw this coming, but still, this is a pretty big deal folks.
Keep in mind that back in 2006 the LJS noted…
The group (Nebraska Right to Life) had endorsed Nelson, who is running for re-election, in the primary along with all three Republican Senate candidates, including winner Pete Ricketts. But the board voted Saturday in Lincoln to follow its policy of rewarding incumbents and gave Nelson a sole endorsement in November's general election…
Now you may possibly remember that we here at Leavenworth Street were not real crazy about this back in July of 2006 when we said:
Ben Nelson will support the Democrat majority in the Senate. It is not unlikely that he could be the difference in a 51-49 Democrat majority. If it doesn't happen in the 2006 cycle, it very well could in 2008. And should the Dems take over the Senate there would not BE any votes on an Alito or a Roberts because they would not make it out of committee.
All of Nelson's other positions take a back seat to the fact that he would support a Democrat controlled Senate. That's why Democrats can stomach his candidacy and his positions that are almost diametrically opposed to their platform.
And that is the main reason that conservatives and Republicans and Pro-Lifers should oppose him.
Well, then a little something known as ObamaCare hit the fan, and Nelson sided with his Democrat buddies, like we always figured he would.
Hey we are glad that NRtL has come around on Nelson. And we aren't trying to play a big "we told you so". But was the writing not on the wall with Nelson back then?
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Norman P. Dixon Is Becoming Norman @ NoHo Arts
Becoming Norman
written & performed by Norman P. Dixon
directed by Debra De Liso
musical director Steven Applegate
NoHo Arts Center
through September 12
Telling one's life story to an audience requires unparal-leled bravery. To admit openly that one is gay and to express the fears that go along with it - about coming out to parents, friends and the public - is an even greater act of courage, but one that becomes quite liberating, as joyously detailed by Norman P. Dixon in his one-man play about growing up Mormon, Becoming Norman, currently playing at the NoHo Arts Center. Through sharing his story, that many will relate to and say, "That's me up there!", this talented man looks ahead to a new life and encourages us to follow suit.
One tremendous help factor throughout Dixon's struggles has been the support of his parents, who, when told about his lifestyle, reaffirmed their love for him. This love has remained a part of his life to this day. Not all gay men have been so blessed.
Without giving away his entire story - you should go and hear it for yourself! - the major obstacle for him to overcome has always been fear. This is a common problem for many, reaching a level of self-acceptance that allows you to go on and conquer the next phase of achievement. After he gave his first concert in public, he closed down through fear of not being good enough. Eventually after venturing out of Utah in a move to Los Angeles, and working a myriad of jobs, including a tour guide at Universal Studios, office work, and private bookstore clerk, Dixon at long last started to believe in his abilities to sing and act and perform as himself. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he was greatly inspired from his youth by the artistry of k. d. lang - whom he later met and assisted in her charity work with Tools for Peace - and empowered by a series of workshops with Rev. James J. Mellon at NoHo Arts Center, which have helped him to become who he is - and of course, the change was all made possible by the love of his new partner of 19 months, Raul.
Dixon peppers the various bridges of discovery in his journey with original songs. He has a lovely voice and is ably accompanied by musical director Steven Applegate. Meticulous set design of Norman's life, with a wallpaper collage of photos covering childhood to the present, musical scores of shows sung in high school, college and beyond, and other personal trinkets of memorabilia is by Lacey Anzelc. Director Debra De Liso gives Dixon plenty of freedom to explore different aspects of his life with excellent pacing throughout.
This is a wonderfully warm, humorous and enriching evening of theatre for gays, straights and beautifully geared to young teenagers who are coping with their fears of coming out. In a condensed version it will be ideally suited to travel to high schools, colleges and other venues of this or any community.


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My daughter and I sped off to Birmingham this morning to catch the Sunday matinee of this year's Strictly Come Dancing Tour. What a show it was! The emphasis with the live tour is on providing sheer entertainment value, as the larger arena venues do lose the intimacy of the TV studio. Many of the exchanges between judges, host and dancers are semi-scripted – but it works, because they all stray all over the place and Bruno, Len and Craig are in fits of laughter half the time, leaving it to competent and glam hostess Kate Thornton to keep it all together (can't see Tess being as successful!).
First up after the initial pro dance was footballer Robbie Savage, dancing with Katya (as Ola and James are not on the tour this year) to 'entertain us' with his salsa. Not a great dance, but a good opening number. Following him was Anita Dobson with Robin doing their Charleston which was fun. Next came tall swimmer Mark Foster, brought back from 2008 to dance with Natalie, and a rather nice but slightly wooden waltz.
Then it was Nancy's turn. Thankfully, she was now dancing with Artem, and his tweaking of Anton's 'Be Italian' tango routine played down the slapstick, but upped the comedy with a great fun pass the rose from mouth to mouth sequence. She commanded a real presence where the judges were concerned and declared that she was after Craig!
Then we had the three finalists – Jason's 'Wham' jive with Kristina – great fun and no wrong steps; Chelsee's airline stewardess quickstep with Pasha, and Harry and Aliona's steamy argentine tango. Then half-time ice-creams beckoned and we texted in our votes so far.
All seven couples danced again in the same order inthe second half. Robbie did his groin-clutching 'Bad' Paso – and yes he did jump up on the judges desk again! Robin and Anita did their samba (or was it a salsa?) to a Harry Belafonte number. Mark did his wooden cha cha cha in the seethrough black shirt that got ripped off to reveal his pecs ('They didn't invite me back for my dancing', he quipped). Then came Nancy…
Artem and Robin dressed as slaves carried her in as Cleopatra recumbent on a bier cum stretcher and she Walked Like an Egyptian for a bit and brought the house down. She is comedy gold! Then we had the big three again. Jason and Kristina danced a perfect Argentine tango (loved K's red dress), then Pasha and Chelsee did their show dance, and one of the lifts went wrong which put her off a bit, poor love. This left Harry and Aliona to clean-up with their lovely quickstep.
Predictably, Harry won, but this is only the beginning of the tour. Some of the dances are a little rusty yet, and who knows – I wonder if they do the same ones every show? I was willing Jason to win today – Harry has had his turn. Better luck next time Jason.
The tour goes on through February around the UK, and goes over to Dublin too. We went last year too. My daughter like this year's more, I'd be hard picked to choose, but if there is one next year, we'll definitely be going again.


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Sonu Sood, who enthralled one and all with his effective portrayal as Chhedi Singh in Dabangg has no looking back after the success of the film. The actor with great physique and intense voice is all set to entertain his fans as Dawood Ibrahim in Shootout At Wadala. Sonu in a candid conversation with TOI, speaks about the film, his career, Ekta as a producer and his experience essaying negative characters.
In Shootout At Wadala, you are playing Dawood Ibrahim. Do you think it's a huge responsibility?
Yes, there is a responsibility with every role. I read book based on him and went on internet to do a detailed research about him. I spoke to people around to know about him.
Now, your character name has been changed to Delawar Ibrahim Kaskar. What's the reason behind it?
In the course of shooting, we shot few incidents which were not real. There was some fiction that went into the making and that's how we thought to change the name of the character I was playing.
When you agreed to sign the film, do you thought that you could get threatening calls from Dawood's loyalists?
There is a certain creative liberty that one needs. I never thought before signing the movie as an actor one needs to do different characters.
Tell us something about your experience with Ekta as a producer?
Ekta Kapoor is the best to work with. She understands cinema and sits with the actors to know about their input over the characters they portray.
Do you enjoy playing negative roles?
Negative roles have more scope than positive roles. There is humor attached to it and you can take them to another level. Dabangg played an important role in my career and Shootout At Wadala will be a step ahead in my life.