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I have a garter snake guarding my garden; it's driving me crazy! Every time I run out there (barefoot, mind you) there he is...lying low in the grass and it never fails...I scream. I wasn't afraid of him until I did a little research and found out he actually does bite and produces venom (not strong enough to hurt a human), but still!
Regardless, today I had to overcome my fears and tiptoe around him so I could quickly grab a handful of parsley for this delicious pasta dish.
Penne Franco
Inspired by Carrabba's Penne Franco
Serves 4
6-8 garlic cloves, minced or pressed through garlic press
2 ounces + 4 ounces, separated (1/4 cup + 1/2 cup) extra-virgin olive oil
12 ounces (1 1/2 cup) mushrooms, sliced
7 ounces sun-dry tomatoes, minced
28 ounces (2 14-ounce cans) artichoke hearts, quartered
8 ounces (1 cup) kalamata olives, pitted and sliced
4 chicken breast, grilled and sliced (optional)
12-16 ounces Penne pasta
Cayenne Pepper, to taste
Salt, to taste
Freshly-ground black pepper, to taste
Grated Parmesan cheese
Fresh parsley
Grill chicken, if you are using.
In a large pot, boil water. Once boiling, add penne and cook according to package directions. Cook 1 minute less than recommended time.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet add 1/4 cup of olive oil, heat on medium-high. Add garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add mushrooms, saute until tender, stirring frequently, about 8 minutes. Season with salt and black pepper.
Add sun-dried tomatoes, artichoke hearts, olives, grilled and sliced chicken, cooked penne pasta and remaining 1/2 cup olive oil. Toss and heat through. Taste for seasoning, adjust if needed. Add cayenne pepper if you want a little kick.
Serve with fresh grated Parmesan cheese and parsley.
22 comments:
- Michelle said...
This looks absolutely delicious... so fresh and light!! BTW if it was me and there was a snake in my garden i would abandon the garden!!!! I hate snakes!!! I hope he finds another home soon!
- June 6, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- Brownieville Girl said...
This looks really fantastic - I'm full of admiration of the lengths your went to get the parsley - my pasta would have gone herbless!!!
- June 6, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- The I's have it--Ivy said...
my mouth is watering and my stomach is growling.... we will have to try this!
- June 6, 2010 at 5:06 PM
- Linda www.mykindofcooking.com said...
I love pasta and your recipe combines some of my favorite ingredients. It was worth braving the snake to create such a delicious dish!
- June 6, 2010 at 7:55 PM
- Zia Elle said...
Love your penne, great!!!!
- June 7, 2010 at 2:39 AM
This penne sounds terrific! I love the combination of ingredients here and the touch of cayenne pepper is just perfect!
- June 7, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Kim said...
Yikes! I shudder at the thought of a snake in my garden. I would have to send my husband out to deal with it, but I'm a huge scaredy cat that way.
The pasta looks absolutely delicious. I'm loving all that garlic and all the other tasty components.
- June 7, 2010 at 8:26 AM
- Gloria said...
Tonya this look fantastic! gloria
- June 8, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- Rosabela said...
What a great dish to make during a weeknight! This has all my favourite ingredients. My husband will pick out the olives, though. Oh well.LOL
I don't like snakes either. The give me the ibby jibbies. hehe
- June 9, 2010 at 5:23 PM
- Velva said...
This looks like a wonderful hearty dish.
I did not know that garter snakes bite and produce venom...I learn something new everyday. The good thing about garter snakes is that they are not aggressive.
- June 10, 2010 at 7:21 AM
- Mary said...
Your photos are always remarkable. This is a perfect and hearty week night meal. It is very nicely done. I hope you are having a wonderful day. Blessings...Mary
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In more serious anti-Terror news:
Terror raids over 'beheading plot'
BIRMINGHAM, England (CNN) — British police have arrested nine people who they say were planning an "Iraq-style" abduction inside Britain, a senior security source told CNN.
That source said the plot was to include the torture and beheading of a British Muslim soldier.
British security sources did not identify the soldier, but said he was back in Britain after having served in Afghanistan.
The alleged plot was thwarted after a series of early morning raids conducted by the West Midlands Counter Terrorism Unit, the West Midlands Police and Metropolitan Police in what the Home Office called a "major counterterrorism operation."
Here are my predictions about how all this will shake out:
* And proof that multi-culturalism is a failure, and we should all go to church and have lots of kids to fight in the clash of civilizations.
* And confirms that this is not the time to worry about global warming.
* And is definitive evidence that disparity in income and achievement between men and women is grounded irreversibly in biology
* The entire plot will be held to be Bill Clinton's fault, because the girl in question will turn out to be named Monique. Which is a lot like Monica.
* A prominent Democratic politician will be mislabeled on CNN as being part of the plot. A correction will be published in 2 point type in an obscure newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan in six months' time.
* The subsequent admission that the Met got the wrong guy will not be trumpeted as loudly as the original arrest.
* And that single-payer health insurance will never work.
I really do think that the "terror plot" will turn out to be someone who was boffing that soldier's girl while he was off in Afghanistan, who wanted to make it look like random terrorism because making something look like an accident is Really Tough To Do.
Maybe in the US, but no way would it be used as an excuse to cut taxes for the rich in the UK. Blair is on his way out and Brown (who after all sets the Budget) is facing a fiscal hole and a sceptical left-wing party and is out to *raise* taxes, not cut them --- and he's more left-wing than Blair, anyway.
(However, he might well find a fiddle to make it *sound* like taxes are coming down, probably by preannouncing some things and by announcing some other things for the fourth or fifth time as if they were new. He keeps on doing that, and people keep on being fooled.)
On a slightly more serious note, this is one of the many reasons why I hate what Bush, Blair et al have done to Western society. Even if this was a perfectly genuine terror plot, the instant reaction is to assume it's been blown out of proportion or publicised for political gain.
There's a time and a place for cynicism, but it shouldn't be an instinctive response to this kind of incident. Thanks to our beloved leaders, it is. Wonderful.
There's a time and a place for cynicism, but it shouldn't be an instinctive response to this kind of incident.
See also, The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
James at #5: that would not surprise me at all, because that and similar motivations were widely considered to be behind a number of the events that took place in Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s.
I thought I'd deleted that text in the Name box...
James at #8. Of course you could be right, but here in Ontario we had something similar last summer when 17 young men were arrested as part of a terror group and, as a trial now approaches, it is becoming clear that most were boys wanting a little adventure and mystique, perhaps two were serious, and one of those may have been an agent provocateur.
So while wolves do come along once in a while, most of the time I think the most reliable rule is "believe the opposite" until absolutely proven otherwise.
Tom s., I'm unclear on what you're trying to say.
What I'm trying to say is that there isn't a terror plot, never was one, and this is pure Security Theatre.
Are you agreeing with that, or not?
Jack London wrote in The Iron Heel "They sowed wind, and wind, and ever more wind; for they alone knew how to reap the whirlwind and make a profit out of it." But if we don't stop Bush, the Iran whirlwind will be so vast that even Blackwater and Halliburton will have a hard time making any profit out of it.
So far, the enablers are having a field day -- Iran seems to be responsible for everything bad. Who'll be the Iran war buildup's Judy Miller of disinformation? James Glanz seems willing. See "Iran May Have Trained Attackers That Killed 5 American Soldiers, U.S. and Iraqis Say." Because Iraqis are obviously too stupid to come up with the uniforms, credentials and inside information used in the attack on their own? No doubt the Iranians are behind the British beheading plot too.
Do you think they were planning to use a LiteBrite in the torture segment of the plot?
From the bit of the article that Jim quoted, we get "The alleged plot was thwarted..." If the plot is alleged, shouldn't the thwarting be alleged, too?
"The alleged plot was allegedly thwarted..."
I don't know whether this was a serious plot or not. What I know is that the persons arrested are innocent until proven guilty before a jury of their peers in open court. Conspiracy to murder is certainly conceptually possible, and I would call it a crime. I am content to leave the question of whether it occurred to the jury, after they have heard all the evidence, and assuming a competent defence.
#15 - I don't think contentment is enough here. In today's political climate, with Blair still giving Bush telephone blow jobs daily, the chance of these people getting a fair trial under England's system seems pretty slim. To assume that the suspects will have a "competent defense" and that the system will work in a fair and unbiased manner plays right into Bush/Blair's hands. Only devout skepticism and consistent critical observation followed up with loud public outcry when abuses are seen will help obtain the suspects a fair trial.
I couldn't take the ITN ("all tabloid TV, all the time") coverage of this last night:
"Well, Trevor, it seems that what they probably wanted was to outrage the general public, cause a vast public act of outrage which would polarise communities, and widen divisions in society, causing non-muslims to treat muslims with suspicion and, of course vice versa".
To which the only sane response would be "Well, that's enough about MI5 and the media, what were the young muslim guys planning?"
Personally, I think that they are easily as dangerous as this group of terrorists
#15 - Dave:
...the persons arrested are innocent until proven guilty...
Sorry to be nit-picky, but that's not quite right. The persons charged are to be presumed innocent until the matter has been resolved in court. A small but significant difference!
Once this all gets to trial, it will turn out that at least 5 of the alleged gang were under Terrorism House Arrest and were supposed to be reporting into a police station every day at sundown. Only no one had seen them for a few weeks so the police assumed they'd just gone on holiday for a bit (Terrorism House Arrest can be stressful).
The remaining gang members were under surveillance by MI5, who were keeping tabs on anyone with brown skin and facial hair, but who only became really concerned when they bought large black capes and twirly moustaches.
Needless to say, all of the accused will turn out to be immigrants from a former Colony and are therefore Dirty Johnny Foreigners who should never have been allowed to set foot in our green and pleasant land with their Filthy Other Ways.
What I hate about all this War of Terror business is how it has overwhelmed the multi-cultural joy of Her Majesty's Jubilee celebration. We do have our own racial extremism, and it does sometimes seem to get support from politicians and media outlets, but when the people, in general, do get the chance to play whack-a-mole, these things do get thoroughly whacked.
Most recently, Celebrity Big Brother.
Suggested charges for those arrested;
Being asian in a built up area after the hours of darkness
Loitering with intent to use a pedestrian crossing
looking at me in a funny way
possession of an offensive wife
(apologies to John Loyd)
You appear to have already made up your minds that this prosecution is an abuse, worthless or at least trivial, unwarranted, and racist in nature. These allegations would be damning indeed, if they were true.
#17 - Pete: ("all tabloid TV, all the time.") Couldn't agree more.
BBC News 24 presenter (waiting for the delayed start of the police press conference) "And there you can see the room where the press conference will be taking place...and the table...and the wires leading to the microphones on the table..."
The father of one of the suspects, quoted by a friend of the family in interview on Sky News:
"When my son is cleared of this, will the media come here and report it?"
Edward Oleander -- I see no evidence they won't get a fair trial. Things aren't as bad as that, there's a lot of inertia in the system and it works for things like that.
Yes, the trial and all will be fair, but after it the home office minister will decide all of the people found not guilty will still need to be a) expelled from the country or b) kept under prolonged house arrest or c) both.
Meanwhile the propaganda will have worked again.
Have you noticed how often these terror alerts happen in the UK? Once every quarter at least and usually when Blair's in trouble again (case in point...)
#22 Dave Luckett, see #8 James D. Macdonald. Given the track record of such arrests and prosecutions here in the US, odds are favorable that this is was a bunch of wankers talking tough.
Plus, really, if this was a real terrorist threat, do you think we would be hearing so much about it? Or would they have been wisked away for interogration with as much hush-hush as conceivably possible.
Gee, are you saying I may be cynical about what seems to be a muffed attempt to draw attention away from the police interviewing the prime minister for a second time?
What could make me think this? Perhpas the bizarre way that the security forces very publicly announced as many details as posible for the raid, which is at the very least deeply prejudicial for any prosecution. I don't think they woul dhave done this if they believed that any prosecution would go ahead.
I'll give odds on that, if no terrorism charges arrive, then at least one of the "plotters" will be found to have illicit material on a PC, be it race hate amterial or kiddy porn or a pirated copy of "planets funniest animals 3: cats gone wild"
In short, what makes me doubt the authenticity or competence of the raid? Only the past record of the folks involved.
Dave, remember those Asian terror suspects from a few months back, where police stormed a building, bashed in the front door without warning and shot one terrorist in the course of the operation? At the time, the BBC reported:
Police said "specific intelligence" prompted them to raid the house, looking for a chemical device - which they have yet to find, although documents and computers have been removed for analysis.
They actually arrested the guy they shot for making kiddie porn on the PC they seized. No charges were ever brought, and the shooting was judged by an internal police investigation to be an "accidental discharge".
Given a history of bullshit like this, why should anyone trust the police story?
Does anyone else recall John Reid a couple of months ago telling us to look out for a terrorist incident to occur around Christmas? And that the security services knew of a couple of dozen ongoing plots? Must be handy to have so many on hand whenever a government figure is charged with corrupting the course of justice. Must have been spoilt for choice.
What's interesting is that the second interview of the Prime Minister took place last week, was not publicised at the time, was followed by the arrest of Lord Levy, and has only been revealed when when this terrorism case is grabbing the headline.
Cover up? You might say that but I couldn't possibly comment.
What ever happened to those guys in Florida, the ones who wanted to buy al Qaeda uniforms and boots?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if the timing is contrived, and I'm well aware how having something happen to keep people afraid is important, and Jim could be right about the motivation or it could all me made up from whole cloth -- but it's important also that those young men will either be quietly released or will have a fair trial.
Once you start saying that things are worse than they are, for one thing you're giving them the victory in your mind, and for another, it's easy for them or their mouthpieces to refute you. Besides, we're in a bad enough place without any need for exaggeration.
I hate to be a contrarian (really do) but let's remember that:
1) We (including the UK) are fighting Islamic extremists in Afganistan. Many of said extremists are based in and citizens of Pakistan.
2) This plot required nothing more then a stout stick, a kitchen knife and the trunk of a car.
3) If you think civil liberties are curtailed now, and there's racial tension in the UK, consider how much worse it would be if Britons woke up one morning to watch one of their troopers getting his head cut off behind a fish-and-chips shop.
Yes, I agree we need to make sure these kids get a fair trial, and are presumed innocent. But "presumed innocent" is not the same as "actually innocent."
See also: The Alexandria 11
Sure, Chris, many are based in and citizens of Pakistan. How's that relevant to the current plot, where the alleged plotters are citizens of, and based in, Britain?
Chris at #33:
1) I remember that we were for many years under threat from folks based in a country a three hour ferry trip away from us, who regularly actually bombed us. It didn't make it okay to arrest Joe Random Irishman then, it doesn't make arresting random muslim guys at politically conventinent times okay now.
2) if that's all that was required, how come it was stopped? unless, you know, they hadn't actually planned to really do any of that shit.
3) But the media coverage was starting to do this already. In fact, the act of releasing this much information about an alleged plot before a trial is doing as much.
It's looking like Forest Gate all over again: yes, I could be wrong, but recent history is on the side of the doubters.
Let's also remember Jean Charles de Menezes, Brazilian electrician, who was not wearing a bulky jacket, did not leap a ticket barrier when challenged, did not run from police, and was not in the country illegally.
Police issued all of that bullshit to the press in their excuses after restraining him and then shooting him in the head seven times.
The police tell a lot of lies. We know this.
And yes, presumed innocent does mean actually innocent unless and until proved otherwise.
Under suspicion means just that: it's not just a polite legal fiction. Unless anyone here has personal knowledge of the case, all of us are going on what the media is reporting, and they're reporting what the security services have told them. Just like with Menenzes, Forest Gate...
If we want to remember a bit further back than the last few years, doesn't the West Midlands police in Birmingham have at least six good reasons not to shout about catching terrorists?
Those who don't learn from history, etc etc
More recent history in Britain's War On Terror.
So, are these actions intended to radicalize young Muslims, or is that just an accidental side effect?
#33 Chris, you mention "fair trials". At the height of The Troubles, so-called Diplock courts were used to try terrorist suspects, such courts sat without juries owing to the perceived problem of jury intimidation. Our beloved Labour Government think it's worthwhile investigating whether similar style courts should be used in terrorism cases and they've already been used to convict an Al Qaeda sympathiser in Northern Ireland who was found to have downloaded material on how to blow up a passenger plane.
Civil rights in the UK are at their lowest point since Magna Carta. Fundamental principles of the common law system (e.g. double jeopardy) have been reversed, and if you get arrested for almost any offence then the police can take your DNA and store it in their computer to cross-reference against as they like, even if you haven't been found guilty of a crime.
I've commented before here on Making Light about the contrast between the current War On Terror in the UK and the IRA campaigns which went on for most of my life.
I was once in a long, many-sided, drunken argument about the IRA, the UK, and Irish nationalism in the bar of the Grand Hotel in Brighton after they rebuilt it following the IRA attack on Thatcher and her government. No-one was arrested, or dragged out and shot, nor accused by the authorities of being a child pornographer.
I think the current security freak out is mostly a grab for power by Police, Government and the Suspicious Services, but I can't avoid the conclusion that the reason they are getting away with it today while they didn't even try when the Irish were the big threat is that we're white and the new baddies are wogs.
Not only that, this time the US can support us in this one without losing too many New York / Chicago voters
These allegations would be damning indeed, if they were true.
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My points are:
1) I don't know that these recently arrested folks were serious - and the other posters here don't know that they're not. That's why we have judges and juries.
2) Unlike a technically-difficult plot to blow up an airliner, this plot is a lot easier to pull off, and harder to summarily dismiss.
3) Didn't a bunch of British citizens (2nd generation Pakistani) blow up a few buses over there last year?
In short, there are real people who are really trying to kill us because we don't worship God in the way they want us to. The problem is sorting out the wannabees from the really-ares.
Well I don't know so much about Britain, but over here in the Americas we do have people who use terror to get their way, and sometimes blow the fuck out of buildings and kill innocent people.
They look like this.
But while I was in India, once every month a plane would be turned around because there was a scary brown person on it. Going to India, where we all know brown people have no place.
Although, it is possible some fucks wanted to actually do this. We live in a fucked up world. It's also possible that if there is a conspiracy on the governement's behalf it isn't that they're making it up, its that they're choosing to haul it out now. Really, who knows how long they've been watching this and what the actual evidence is.
1) £10 says this never gets to a judge and jury.
2) I summarily dismiss it thus.
3) Yes, so let's arrest all the brown people we haven't shot yet.
In short, there are real people who are really trying to kill us because we don't worship God in the way they want us to.
No, there are real people who are really trying to kill us because they don't like our governments' foreign policies. See, for example, Robert Pape's research into suicide terrorism, or the final video statement of Mohammad Sidique Khan, who blew himself and a lot of other people up in London on 7 July 2005:
"Your democratically elected governments continuously perpetrate atrocities against my people all over the world.
"Until we feel security, you will be our targets. And until you stop the bombing, gassing, imprisonment and torture of my people we will not stop this fight."
If we're going to put an end to this kind of thing, we'd do well not to misconceive the motivation of the perpetrators.
Pete #38:
And yes, presumed innocent does mean actually innocent unless and until proved otherwise.
In that case, why are people charged with a crime either kept in jail until their trial or allowed freedom conditional on a bail bond? Surely if they were considered actually innocent it would be safe just to let them go home? After all, if they're innocent they're bound to turn up in court on time.
Actually, I suspect this isn't a diversion for the second Blair police interview. That would require the Home Office to be coordinating rather tightly with Number Ten.
However, in other news, John Reid bids to extend detention-without-charge period beyond the current 28 days.
Yup, this has the noisome stench of a Home Office power play all right ...
Iain @ 47 - the only folks that have used gas recently were Muslims (like Saddam) on other Muslims (like Kurds and Iranians). That's a quibble, although I note NATO intervention on behalf of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo doesn't seem to be appreciated.
Osama Bin Laden specifically was upset at "the West" because we kicked Muslims out of Spain in 1492. I watched his video broadcast after 9/11.
I hear repeated statements from Muslims wanting to impose Sharia (Islamic law) in the UK - see the Sharia Council of the UK. The Taliban, NATO's adversary in Afganistan, was imposing Sharia on its people - to include stoning for adultery, etc.
Thus, if somebody wants to kidnap a British soldier because he served in Afganistan, I have to assume they are Islamic fundamentalists and support those goals. Goals which have nothing to do with our activities in Iraq (right or wrong) and everything to do with imposing a religious dictatorship.
(For the record, I restate that since this is an alleged plot, all suspects are innocent until proven guilty.)
I hear repeated statements from Muslims wanting to impose Sharia (Islamic law) in the UK
On everyone, or just other Muslims? (This is not a trivial point.)
Also, you seem to be assuming that all Muslims are fundamentalist fanatics, which is false. (I would not consider fundy fanatics to be genuinely members of any of the religions they loudly claim to be practicing.)
How I find myself on this side of the discussion I'm not really sure, and I'll probably have cause to regret it, but what the hell...
IF (< Huge, big, screaming IF here) this turns out to be totally genuine, what will the reactions be of everyone's who's feared the worst here? Jim, will you post a new message here admitting that, on this occasion you were mistaken? Will everyone else also admit that, this time, they were wrong?
God knows that neither of our political establishments has done much to earn our faith, and I can't blame any of you for being so cynical about it. But how does it help to climb all over it like this? What wrong with just ensuring we all keep a close eye on the news then, once the facts are known, making our judgements then?
Possibly I'm being a little naive, but surely there's enough polarisation and bitterness rolling around without adding more. Of course we have to do everything we can to keep our elected officials and police in line and maintain civil liberties, but I wish there was a better way.
Have any of the Liquid Bombers been brought to trial, or, indeed, charged with any crimes?
Meanwhile I stand by my evaluation (based purely on the publicly available information) that this, if there was anything to it at all, was about a woman or money, not about religion.
P. J. Evans @ 51 - no I do not assume all Muslims are fanatics. Whether a fanatic who would kill for their God (Christian or otherwise) is a true member of their religion or not is a debatable point. If a fanatic calls himself a "(insert religion here) fundamentalist," using that term to describe him is to be expected.
Regarding whether they want to impose Sharia on just Muslims or all Brits is irrelevant. That's like saying Pat Robertson can have a separate set of laws that apply to Christians.
Abi at #3
A correction will be published in 2 point type in an obscure newspaper in East Lansing, Michigan in six months' time.
The State News (our student newspaper) is the obscure local paper in East Lansing Michigan. Or the Towne Courier, which is weekly and so obscure it doesn't have a web site. If you want the obscure local paper in Lansing, Michigan, it's the Lansing State Journal.
Just a public service announcement from the frozen wasteland.
Jae 55: When I went to school at MSU, The State News was commonly called the S'News (pronounced snooze). It richly deserved this appellation. Is it any better today? I can't believe the Towne Courier has survived to the present day.
And no, I'm pretty sure abi meant East Lansing. The Journal isn't nearly obscure enough!
Oh, if this turns out to have been a genuine terrorist plot by a genuine terrorist cell, I'll post a big entry to that effect.
But I'll bet money that it isn't.
I've been wrong before -- I genuinely thought that Bush would have us in a shooting war with Iran a year ago. I'm happy to have been wrong about that (though it wasn't from lack of Bush's trying, and he may yet succeed).
But I was right when I said that there weren't any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and that the appearance of death squads meant Iraq was in a civil war.
The trouble with funding and training Elite Anti-Terrorism Units is that if they don't go out and find any Elite Terrorists, that folks might wonder why they're drawing paychecks. So off to find terrorists they go, and if they can't find any terrorists they make some up, so it won't look like they're just wasting time and money.
Jim #52:
If this turns out to be genuine, I'll certainly admit I'm wrong, right here. You may point and laugh.
If I'm right, will the papers print that story in the same typeface as the EVIL MUSLIM PLOT headlines they are running now? The ones based on information deliberately leaked by the police, who have been proven to lie about these War on Terror cases over and over again?
Will any official be held accountable? Resign? Be arrested?
No. We already have multiple examples, up to and including outright murder of innocents by the police, where the official story is just 'Move along, nothing to see here...'
#57 and #58 - well, that's more than fair enough, I wouldn't ask for any better. I hasten to add I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, and I won't be laughing if you are either.
James way back at #12 - I misread your comment. I thought you were saying "sometimes it really is a wolf" - the opposite of what you were actually saying. My bad.
I just thought of a possible reason why the Powers That Be didn't seize on the IRA as an excuse to grab power in the same way they have seized on Al Qaeda.
If you made up shit about the IRA and the papers printed it, and they didn't like it, they might come around and kill you.
I think it's worth mentioning that, looked at from the UK, the way that details of criminal cases are released, before the trial, in some parts of the USA, seem wildly prejudicial.
We have quite strict rules here. And the amount of information that is being released in this, and other, incidents of alleged terrorist plotting, is startling.
It does feel, to this non-lawyer, to make it difficult to hold a trial which will meet due-process standards here. How can one find an unbiased jury.
I get the same feeling from the BBC Panorama programme which covered the poisoning of Aleksandr Litvinenko, broadcast a couple of weeks ago. It presented a detailed body of circumstantial evidence pointing to named individuals, now in Russia.
The Liquid Explosive case was like that, and the supposed method, in all the news reports, didn't match the known use of liquid explosive, which the security measures would have incidentally foiled. Was that a genuine plot, or just bad reporting?
So, yes, I'm sceptical about the underlying reality of these very public stories, and the motives of the people spreading them.
In case Dave at #62 was too subtle for anyone: the people leaking these stories to the press know that they are destroying any possibility of convicting anyone for anything connected to the story.
So either this is a real plot and the people leaking the stories are idiots (in which case they'll have been fired for gross incompetence by now) or ...
there is no security issue, nobody was ever going to be brought to trial, and the only purpose of the exercise was put SCARY MUSLIMS in the newspaper headlines.
Some unnamed Muslims talking about how much they would like Sharia law imposed in the UK is not something that anyone should lose any sleep over. It's not as if there's a cat in hell's chance of them getting their wish.
Meanwhile the actual, individual Muslims who go about blowing up themselves and other people - who are a genuine worry, obviously - state that their motivation is to oppose the occupation by a foreign democracy of a country they identify with - which just happens to be the motivation of every other suicide terrorist in modern times, whether Muslim or not.
It's terribly thrilling to think we're locked in a winner-takes-all ideological struggle to preserve all that we hold dear, but really, we aren't. It's an issue of the price we're willing to pay to maintain a particular foreign policy position, that's all.
Iain writes:
It's an issue of the price we're willing to pay to maintain a particular foreign policy position, that's all.
One particular foreign policy position: a racist, no-win, blood-soaked, criminal, mass-murdering, useless, pointless position. But terrorists want us to stop, so we must continue.
To quote Tony Blair:
I am in blood
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er
Niall, #61: If you made up shit about the IRA and the papers printed it, and they didn't like it, they might come around and kill you.
If you told the truth abut the IRA, they might come round and kill you too, like they did to Ross McWhirter.
Niall's point at #65 is a good one: we're so wrapped up in not "negotiating with terrorists" that we'll keep doing anything any given terrorist wants us to stop, no matter what. Incidentally, this is a good way to be controlled by terrorists, or anyone (governments?) pretending to be terrorists.
And in response to those saying, "This could be real, why don't we wait for the facts to come out," sure, it could very easily have been a real plot. But we'll never know for sure. When we've got governments who've given themselves the power to lock anyone up, secretly, for as long as they like, without charging them, and when we've got a mainstream media intent on keeping those governments happy, and when investigative journalism appears to have died off entirely outside of the world of entertainment news, we can never know with any certainty what's really going on around us.
Iain and Niall - obviously we hold completely irreconcilable worldviews, so this will be my last post in this thread.
A quick Google search (or just average diligence in following the news) will pop up plenty of names of people who think Sharia law would be wonderful for the UK.
Kevin's post @ 66 is valid. If the IRA didn't like something, they'd take violent action. But since the IRA's goals were limited (rule all of Ireland) they were not as severe a threat as that posed by Al Qaida. And by the way, the threat from Al Qaida does not justify giving up our civil liberties.
However, last time I checked, kidnapping and murder were felonies. If these guys were actually plotting such (for any reason), then the arrests were justified.
If these guys were actually plotting such (for any reason), then the arrests were justified.
However, it isn't necessarily terrorism, which is what the initial reports make it out to be. That's what we're getting at: that a lot of incidents are reported, very loudly and for some time, as terrorism, then quietly and invisibly turn into quite mundane non-terrorist crimes, and that a lot of people have egos invested in keeping it that way.
Chris, I don't do irreconcilable. In worldviews, there's True and False.
Sometimes it's hard to tell which is which, and lots of people live in a kind of Limbo, but not you: Your worldview is false.
Jim Millen @52: IF ( Huge, big, screaming IF here) this turns out to be totally genuine,
How would we ever know? (That's not a rhetorical question.)
I think the point about the IRA was that they had a certain self-image, and contradicting that could be very bad for your health, whether that contradiction was the truth or some wild exaggeration.
And the IRA was (is?) organised. They had things like a chain of command. In comparison, Al Qaeda is more like a political idea. Which, I suspect, means that we can't do a deal in anything like the way we did a deal with the Provisional IRA.
Al Qaeda inspires action; it doesn't command action. I'm tempted to build a complicated botanical analogy around unexpected weeds. Best just to remind people that bullshit is a fertiliser.
Niall @ 70:
There is true and false in worldviews, certainly: it is true that the Earth is an oblate spheroid, approximately 6378 km in radius. It is true that the United States holds presidential elections every four years, and that Britain holds parliamentary elections on an irregular schedule. Those are checkable facts; someone who asserted that the earth is flat, or that it was a hollow shell 1000 km in diameter, would simply be wrong.
But there are lots of places where "irreconcilable" seems like a reasonable description of the differences between worldviews. Most of those places involve words like "should" or "must not." The moment you say that one of those systems of elections is better than the other, you're in trickier territory.
Physics doesn't say "you must not travel faster than light"; if things aren't possible, there's no need to preach against them. I'm comfortable with, and reasonably confident of, my worldview, which includes (for example) the axiom that people should be allowed to make their own decisions, so long as it's only our own lives or happiness we're risking. Other people are equally confident of worldviews that say that they have the right to make us live in ways that they think will be more fulfilling, now or in a hypothetical afterlife. They aren't swayed by my pointing out that they can't prove that their proscriptions would make me happier, nor yet that there is any sort of afterlife.
In a relationship, that could be labeled "irreconcilable differences." (The problem wouldn't be different metaphysics or theology, it would be if someone wanted to make me practice their religion, or I insisted that they stop doing so.)
inge asks: How would we ever know?
Well, the first milestone would be if a case was actually brought to court against anyone. All the 'taken into custody' or 'questioned by police' rhetoric means less than nothing in court.
So, the biggie would be what exactly is he (or she) charged with? Murder? A good chance that they know what the fuck they are doing. Creation of child pornography? Bad sign. They seized his PC during an antiterrorism raid, and all they found is nudie pictures.
Nothing? Zero? Released without charge?
That's where the presumption of innocence is supposed to come in. You could be arrested and released without charge, so could I.
In theory.
Vicki 73: someone who asserted that the earth is...a hollow shell
"For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky!"
A quick Google search (or just average diligence in following the news) will pop up plenty of names of people who think Sharia law would be wonderful for the UK.
I have absolutely no doubt that it would. And a quick reading of the research that people helpfully link to on comments threads that you are involved in would tell you a lot more about causes of, motivations for, and potential counteractions to suicide terrorism.
It's probably unfair to put a question to you, since you've said you won't be responding, but here goes anyway: why do you place so much importance on the public statements of people who do not carry out suicide bombings, and so little on the public statements of people who do carry out suicide bombings?
But there are lots of places where "irreconcilable" seems like a reasonable description of the differences between worldviews.
My world view and Chris's are irreconcilable because one of us is wrong about facts, not opinions.
Guess which one!
Chris@50: "the only folks that have used gas recently were Muslims (like Saddam) on other Muslims (like Kurds and Iranians)." You forgot to mention who sold them the gas and who told them who their enemies were. You'll find that those people were white christian church-goers like Dick Cheney, who did it to support specific foreign-policy stances against Iran or pro-Turkey. But please don't leave the facts go in the way of good trolling.
"Osama Bin Laden specifically was upset at the West because we kicked Muslims out of Spain in 1492. I watched his video broadcast after 9/11."
Yeah sure. Nevermind that his organization was created to kick US military bases out of Saudi Arabia, and funded by one of the factions in the Saudi royal succession struggle. Please, keep believing what Osama says, like a good suicide bomber would do.
"I hear repeated statements from Muslims wanting to impose Sharia (Islamic law) in the UK - see the Sharia Council of the UK." I hear repeated statements from the BNP about kicking honest tax-paying citizens out of this country as well, but that doesn't mean it's going to happen, or that people outside Burnley actually listen to them. Also, I hear that Cristiano Ronaldo might be sold to Real Madrid, but I don't see how this is relevant.
"Goals which have nothing to do with our activities in Iraq (right or wrong) and everything to do with imposing a religious dictatorship."
So we should assume that we had loads of suicide bombers in Britain before the Iraq invasion. And unfortunately, that's not the case. But again, never mind the facts, your trolling is very appreciated.
the only folks that have used gas recently were Muslims (like Saddam) on other Muslims (like Kurds and Iranians).
Depends on your definition of "recently". The North Vietnamese used nerve and mustard agents on Hmong villages when they invaded Laos in 1975 - which I believe was the first use of nerve gas in war.
Here's something else that gives me grave concerns about all this, following on from something I heard on the radio in the aftermath the Forest Gate fiasco in London.
A senior intelligence source (yes, all the usual caveats apply there ) had told a journo there was a growing suspicion the police and MI5 had been deliberately fed false information about a plot that was sufficiently plausible or worrying that they wouldn't be able to not act on it, just in case it happened to be true, by Islamist radicals (the usual caveats again).
Thus, devout, innocent muslims found themselves on the end of full-on police action, up to and including a bullet.
Which would alienate even moderate muslims while giving further grievances to the more intemperate, often youthful, elements who'd thus be more receptive to extremist propaganda
While also ratcheting up general paranoia/resentment among the rest of the population. Especially those inclined to think, ah, well, there's no smoke without fire, especially around men who pray five times a day and have big bushy beards.
And making the police look stupid/biased/incompetent - either on the basis of riding roughshod over these innocent people, or failing to make their case against obvious wrong'uns, depending on the viewpoint of the observer.
All without running the risk of actually doing anything as dangerous as making bombs etc.
Of course this idea might be an attempt by the intelligence bloke to justify the whole foul-up.
Or it might be true. Is it so different to the IRA phoning in false bomb threats, complete with codewords?
It's still something that worries me, along with a great many other aspects of these current arrests in Birmingham and the wider issue of the 'war on terror' etc.
Juliet: well, that sounds plausible, given that the "sources" this morning were talking about having found a list of muslim soldier's names and addresses, and that if the point of terrorism is to spread terror, then MI5 and Sky News are certainly your boys to do that on your behalf.
And I say again: paranoia is a symptom of paying attention.
Ajay @79, I must correct you. Nerve gas was certainly used in the first world war and, around the same years, in colonial wars. French, German and British military forces were equipped first. These weapons were banned only after WWI, and I'm not sure which legal loopholes the US military exploited in order to use similar ones in VietNam...
Mustard and chlorine gas were used in WWI, but the first nerve agents weren't discovered until 1936. They were not used in combat during WWII.
I'd always assumed gas was not used in WWII combat in part because Hitler had suffered from gas warfare in WWI. But according to the article I've linked to, the Nazis prepared to use nerve agents, but chose not to because they assumed the Allies had also discovered them and would have retaliated in kind.
Chris @54: Regarding whether they want to impose Sharia on just Muslims or all Brits is irrelevant. That's like saying Pat Robertson can have a separate set of laws that apply to Christians.The question is relevant. It is always relevant not to misrepresent others' motives and intentions.
Careful, now: This is not to say that others' true motives and intentions are always less damning than the misrepresentation thereof. I doubt very much that imposing Sharia on all Muslims in the UK would or should fly. However, the conversation that needs to be had about that differs from the discussion of Muslims attempting to impose Sharia on the entire population of the UK. Nuances change.
In any case, if a faction's actual motives and intentions are damning enough, what do you gain by misrepresenting them? Or: if you must skew the facts in order to make a compelling case, how compelling can your case really be? How can we trust any form of judgment that gets its facts wrong--even if the non-facts yield the exact same judgment as the actual facts?
It is always relevant to ensure accuracy. Simple honesty requires it.
I am not reassured by the thought that the terrorists might be wankers. Not after all we've had to go through to protect ourselves from liquids. What if they wank enough to produce more than four ounces? Could they become Wankers of Mass Destruction? I'm not sure I want to know. I'm particularly concerned because we can't search them and confiscate their precious bodily fluids before they board a plane. They could wank at any time.
Giacomo said (#78):
Chris@50: "the only folks that have used gas recently were Muslims (like Saddam) on other Muslims (like Kurds and Iranians)." You forgot to mention who sold them the gas and who told them who their enemies were. You'll find that those people were white christian church-goers like Dick Cheney, who did it to support specific foreign-policy stances against Iran or pro-Turkey. But please don't leave the facts go in the way of good trolling.
If we're not going to let the facts go, then one should bear in mind that no one "sold them the gas" -- they manufactured it themselves. ("They" includes Iran as well as Iraq.)
There are varying degrees of outside complictity in terms of who helped them build the chemical plants (for Iraq, it was mostly Western European companies -- primarily German, French, and Austrian) and who supplied them with useful precursor chemicals (for Iraq, predominantly Singaporean, Dutch, Egyptian, and Indian companies); see here for a graphical breakdown in the case of Iraq.
As for the idea that Iraq and Iran needed the US to tell "them who their enemies were" -- well, that's kind of amusing, really, as though such countries are so infantile that they can't form their own motives based on their own regional politics.
Hey, I never said the white church-goers are only from the US... But you gotta love how the above-linked NYT only lists "some" weapons and "forgets" to mention the role played by dozens of US-based companies, including "US Ministries of Defense, Energy, Trade and Agriculture as well as the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories"...
See the real list of weapons suppliers to Iraq.
Giacomo, the US doesn't have ministries. We have departments and they're not companies.
This case is back in the news in the UK this morning. Two of the nine men arrested in connection with the plot have been released without charge.
Their solicitors have said they were not questioned about kidnapping, beheading people or about soldiers, Muslim or otherwise. When released, they still had no idea why they had been arrested.
I don't know if Giacomo has got his fact wrong, beyond just what a part of the US Government is called, but saying no US company sold arms to Iraq would be a wonderfully economical piece of truth.
There's so many ways in which a government can say something misleading, and the way some governments have habitually lied, it's difficult to know when anyone tells the truth.
Since that story originally appeared in a german publication, and was then picked up by the british press, the "ministry" concept probably got mis-translated at some point, and I didn't double-check. My bad.
People from the Guardian certainly translated that story better than I did.
A report in the Guardian on one of the terror suspects released yesterday
If this is the standard for terrorism they could arrest anybody.
Giacomo (#87):
The NYT figure I linked to is based on UN reports which publically specified amounts and countries of origin, but not individual companies; the latter information was kept classified until the German newspaper broke the story.[*] More importantly, the NYT figure dealt with chemical weapons only, while the list from the German newspaper[**] covered multiple programs. Only one of the US companies (Alcolac International) is listed as a chemical weapons supplier, so it's not surprising that the US does not show up as significant source of origin in the figure.
It's somewhat grimly amusing that Alcolac International not only supplied the precursor chemical thiodiglycol to Iraq (after Iraq and Iran had cleaned out the Japanese suppliers) -- they also suppllied it to Iran, though they got caught doing so in 1988. There's an interesting discussion of the subterfuge involved (front companies, elaborate routings, etc.) here.
[*] Though many specific cases were known earlier; for example, this NYT article from 1993 discusses international contributions to Iraq's nuclear and missile programs, and names companies involved in Iraq's Scud missile program.
[**] Note that the list Giacomo linked to can be misleading at first glance, since (as it states at the bottom) the "80 German companies" involved are not included in the list, and doesn't specify how much each company supplied.
I remember seeing a reporter on SKY saying on Saturday, 3 days after the arrests, that none of the suspects had been questioned yet at all, but that's not in the Web report now. This response from police to questions on the subject still is:
Assistant Chief Constable David Shaw said a number of procedures had to be completed before formal interviews could take place. "Far better that we use a measured, calculated, meticulous response than rush into things," he told reporters.
This is the same force which can keep "suspects" for up to 28 days with a judges approval. They'd like the power to hold people for 90 days without charge.
Five of the men have now been charged, one is still being questioned. Details of the charges will be released at a press conference. The only information I can find so far is:
One of the men has been accused of hatching a plot to kidnap a member of the British armed forces, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
In legalese I suppose that will be some sort of conspiracy charge. Or perhaps a catch-all offence like this one:
(1) A person commits an offence if, with the intention of-(a) committing acts of terrorism, or (b) assisting another to commit such acts, he engages in any conduct in preparation for giving effect to his intention.
(2) It is irrelevant for the purposes of subsection (1) whether the intention and preparations relate to one or more particular acts of terrorism, acts of terrorism of a particular description or acts of terrorism generally.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable, on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for life.
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A year after launching it on iPhone, EA Mobile is finally bringing Sims 3 to Android, for all Sims fans out there. The game has been very popular on iOS, so I expect it to gain some popularity on Android as well. It currently sells for $4.99 in the market. It was available before on a T-mobile Vibrant as an exclusive title, but now it's available for everyone.
EA Mobile just launched Need for Speed Shift on the market today, so now they have a total of 4 games on the Android platform. Not bad, but Gameloft has 3x as much titles, so it looks like the big EA is a little overshadowed.
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Graduated: 1967
Position at LCU: Distinguished Professor of Business Management
Favorite Part of LCU: "At Lubbock Christian I met the young woman who agreed to become my wife. It has been a wonderful partnership. I'm grateful to her. And to Lubbock Christian."
Trivia: Reinsch enjoys reading science fiction as a hobby. His favorite authors range over decades and include Clifford Simak, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson, and Kim Stanley Robinson. "I also enjoy Orson Scott Card," he said, "though I find myself arguing with some of his theology."
What do you do for LCU?
The goal is to help to strengthen the business programs for LCU students. We expect that a growing number of LCU students will want to visit our national capital to take a summer class or to participate in LCU's internship program. When that happens, I'm part of the team in Washington. I live just outside of Washington, D.C. And I expect to be on campus in Lubbock a few weeks each year.
What drew you to LCU as a student?
Gerald Kendrick–a professor at Lubbock Christian–had visited my high school and talked about how the New Testament had been written in Koine Greek. I began attending Lubbock Christian in the fall of 1965 because the location was convenient and because I wanted an opportunity to seriously study the Bible.
What brought you back to join the faculty?
I came back to Lubbock Christian in the fall of 2015 as a faculty member because I want to help today's students the same way that Lubbock Christian faculty helped me when I was a student.
What is you education and work history outside of LCU?
After graduating from then-LCC, I attended Abilene Christian. Then I did graduate work at Central Michigan University and at the University of Kansas.
I taught at Western Illinois University, Oklahoma State University, Abilene Christian University, and Georgetown University. I stayed the longest at Georgetown for 23 years. At Georgetown, I was (at various times) department head, and associate dean for graduate business programs. But the job I enjoyed most was serving as Academic Director of Georgetown's graduate degree program in leadership.
My wife and I have always been active members in a local Church of Christ. I've also benefitted from working and learning with persons from other religious fellowships such as, for example, the Jesuits and Roman Catholics affiliated with Georgetown.
Why would you recommend a student consider business as a career path?
Within business, a person can focus on understanding human needs and wants, how people work together in groups, how to measure and to think about financial value, how business activity improves the lives of others, the value of information and knowledge, and so on. There are many different alternatives within business. Each of them help to provide others with a safer, healthier, more abundant life.
A career in business is one way to participate in completing God's creation. I think all incoming students should explore several different career options–including but not limited to business–and look for something that they enjoy. What my mom said to me when I was growing up was, "do something you love." That is still good advice.


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1 Case Study of Demand Response: Con Edison Business Program by Eileen Egan-Annechino Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc.
2 Background Residential PilotSummer 2001 PSC ApprovalApril 2002 Installations BeginJune 2002 Business PilotSummer 2004 PSC ApprovalSeptember 2005 Installations BeginNovember 2005
3 Program Design Design Objective Cost-effective load reduction Adequately verifiable Acceptable to customers Quantitative Objective Summer peak kW load reduction Level of overrides Qualitative Objectives Marketing strategy Customer understanding, satisfaction & reaction Barriers to participation Type of business most suitable for participation
4 Program Technology Programmable Thermostat Two-way pager communications, which ensures verification, remote access via Internet (customer and utility) Runtime & temperature data available (7 days) Capable of duty cycle control or temperature control Overrides can be tracked
5 Thermostat Built into unit
6 Program Features The Offer Programmable Thermostat Control central air-conditioning system manually or remotely using the Internet Free Installation Bonus gift of $50 Override without penalty The Benefits Manage Energy Costs Customized temperature settings Cool space only when occupied Internet access Monitor room temperature Adjust remotely Energy Savings Business controls energy consumption
7 Recruitment and Participation Recruitment Door-to-door marketing is the primary marketing strategy for the business customer Program specific web site which allows on-line applications Participation 5,100 thermostats in 3,800 facilities (8MW) Some technical turn-downs Lack of access, existing equipment not working properly or in poor condition
8 Program Evaluation Run Time Data Collection/Analysis Recovery of site data Run time duty cycle combined w/maximum load draw Comparison analysis of control day and baseline day Customer Surveys Post Installation Technical turndown Annual Post-Season (2006 in progress)
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12 Program Design Considerations Vary control based on weather conditions and length of curtailment Duty Cycle more effective for short-term curtailments (typical 1- 6pm) Temperature control may more effective for long-term curtailments
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Living in Harmony
By Lesley S. King
At Harmony Farm's booth, erected next to an old school bus painted with hippie flowers and vegetables, Nora Rodli and her partner, Richard Bélanger, set out their produce—red peppers, spinach, purple kale, onions, eggplant and Russian banana fingerling potatoes. Some of the most brilliant and flavorful produce in the market, its quality derives from the name of the farm: Harmony.
In order to create "harmony," Nora and Richard, along with their team of helpers, lovingly orchestrate all the various parts of the growing process, working in concert with nature. At an early age Nora began learning how to do this in River Falls, Wisconsin, where she helped her family tend their large garden. In high school, she picked strawberries on an organic farm, and then she heard the call of the high desert and came to northern New Mexico. She worked for many years as an apprentice near Cochiti Pueblo. When she met Richard, they began farming together and have done so for nine years.
Their farm sits among chalk-colored hills in Abiquiu, the land Georgia O'Keeffe so poetically set to canvas. There, surrounded by sunflowers and cosmos, ripening pumpkins and chickens pecking in a coop, Nora crunches on a green bean while she plucks one from the plant and describes what it means to her to grow organically. "We focus on the health of the soil," she says. "That's the core of translating the health to the food." They aid the soil in a variety of ways. First they use "local materials" for composting, rather than any kind of synthetics, which means plant matter and composted cow manure. They also use various "successions" of cover crops, which they grow and then turn back into the soil. "They release microbes," she says. Buckwheat, for example, adds phosphorous.
Another part of their organic plan involves working with the insects. In Abiquiu, the most abundant ones are squash bugs, flea beetles, coddling moths and Mexican bean beetles, to name a few. At Harmony, they have a multifaceted strategy for living with them. "We think about when we're planting and when the plant would be most vulnerable to the insects," she says. As an example, they plant squash a little late so it's not vulnerable to the squash bug at the height of its strength. They also set up "hedge rows" between crops in which they plant grasses and flowers that attract beneficial insects. "It creates a buffer zone," she says. Ladybugs, for example, are attracted to grasses and they eat aphids. "It doesn't stamp out the aphid problem, but it's an attempt at creating a holistic system."
And the final part of the bug strategy involves attitude. "You do a lot of planting so that if one crop fails, you'll be all right," she says. "We never really fight them." Instead, if the bugs attack a crop, she and Richard surrender it to them, or they turn it under and start again. "There's always a balance."
The final part of their process involves selling their abundant produce with care. To hold the vegetables, they use big wicker baskets adorned with hand painted signs—a wash of orange and yellow whimsically printed with names: rose apple finn potatoes, dragon tongue beans, and patty pan squash. The bounty of the final result is part of the draw for Nora: "Anything I want I can make," she says. But this life has an even stronger allure: "The opportunity at any time of day to be in the garden, to be around plants and insects—it's so alive and awake. It allows me to connect with something bigger."


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When John the Baptist baptized Jesus, what would the baptismal formula have been? "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit" wasn't used until the 2nd Century.
Even a highly skeptical scholar like John Dominic Crossan considers it historical fact that Jesus inaugurated his public ministry with baptism performed by his cousin John the Baptist, who was "preaching in the wilderness." There's also wide agreement that John would have used full immersion in the waters of the Jordan River (those loud amens you hear are coming from Baptists). But as for what words John recited, the Bible doesn't say though, yes, it doesn't seem plausible he would have spoken Christianity's familiar invocation of the triune God that Gerald quotes.
The Acts of the Apostles depicts three baptisms during the earliest phase of the Christian movement, each performed in the name of Jesus and not the Trinity (which is the practice of modern-day "Oneness" Pentecostals). However, the Gospel of Matthew, written in the same time frame as Acts, suggests belief in the three divine persons in the Trinity in its account of Jesus' baptism (3:13-17, paralleled in Mark 1 and Luke 3). As Dale Allison comments, "the Son is baptized, the Father speaks, and the Spirit descends." Then the Trinity becomes explicit in Matthew 28:19 as Jesus directs his followers to make disciples, "baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."
So invocation of the Trinity quickly emerged in the 1st Century as a permanent feature of Christian baptism.


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Philanthropy by the Masses
A century ago philanthropic acts were primarily associated with names like Carnegie and Rockefeller. Steel magnate Andrew Carnegie gave most of his money to establish libraries and schools. Once considered the richest man in the world, oil industrialist John D. Rockefeller used
his vast fortune to benefit medical research, education and his church. More recently our community became the beneficiary of the largest gift given to any single charity at one time when the Joan Kroc's $1.6 billion bequest to the Salvation Army built Coeur d'Alene's Kroc Center.
Philanthropic acts are not limited to the likes of steel magnates, hamburger sellers or software-makers. In a December 2011 New York Times article, Olivier Zunz credits Christmas Seals with producing a revolution in philanthropy. First sold 104 years ago to combat tuberculosis, these inexpensive stamps gave the masses an opportunity to collectively attack a major disease. This movement raised funds and created awareness. The founders of the Christmas Seals program demonstrated the power of grass roots, and "mass philanthropy" took
off in a variety of fields. Today, multiple examples of collective philanthropy come to mind – March of Dimes, Easter Seals, and Red Cross disaster relief.
Through Women's Gift Alliance our collective philanthropy accelerates what we can do for our community. We have become a part of a movement, and as our membership increases, imagine what our mass philanthropy can do in the future!


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Actor Bharath is all set to make his foray to Bolllywood with a movie titled Jackpot.
Kaizad Gustad will be directing the movie. Sachin Joshi and Sunny Leone are part of the project. Nasseruddin Shah is playing a key role.
Sources say the movie will be a crime thriller shot in Goa.
Buzz is that Bharath was offered the role after the makers were impressed of his performance in trailer of 555.


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Ep. 44 - Wii Robot U
We get some help this episode from some new studio executives...who have never listened to the show. What results is a pretty sweet prequel to I, Robot…that explains the cause behind all of modern life's great mysteries--Facebook, Google, and why the Wii U sold so badly but then the Nintendo Switch did so well. Also Houston tries to make it be about sports and mostly fails.
Spoilers: I Robot, American Horror Story: Season 2/Asylum
Featured Movie: Wii Robot U
Inspired by: I, Robot
Directed by: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Donald Glover, Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, Trey Smith, Trey from the ""My Name is Trey"" Vine, Michael B. Jordan, Michael Jordan, James Cromwell, NOT Will Smith, NOT Jaden Smith, Warwick Davis, James McAvoy, Leonardo DiCaprio
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HUD foreclosure houses on the market on the Greater Greenville SC real estate market are normally offered at nice costs. A HUD Home happens to a property when a person with an FHA insured mortgage can't settle the payments, the lender will then foreclose the home wherein the HUD pays the lender of the owed amount which makes the HUD the property owner. HUD considers an aged asset to be a home that has been actively on the market for greater than 60 days. Find Properties that match your search standards and receive notifications when new properties hit the market.
This period is to supply a wide public, through which an investor, you can make a proposal when analyzing an actual estate agent who is authorized to promote HUD properties, and these opinions and has the most acceptable will probably be selected. Some are on the market by means of precedence and after the priority interval has elapse, anyone can bid and buy these properties including traders or funding prospectors. Market demand for these inexpensive HUD houses on the market continues to increase each year.
One choice to contemplate when trying to find a short sale is looking for brokers that specialize in brief sales. Depending on such components as time on the market, and the present market conditions, HUD might settle for a suggestion on the property for lower than the preliminary listing price. However, purchasing a HUD residence can solely be done via an offer submitted by a HUD-authorized actual property broker. Of these Arizona homes for sale by owner, nearly all of them are in Maricopa County with approximately 1,009 listed as of the date of this article. I at all times inform investors to count on to lose their earnest money if they cancel a HUD contract.
So any actual property skilled who subscribes to an MLS can find accessible HUD house foreclosures and listings of their area. They are homes which have been financed by an FHA loan and the mortgage has gone into foreclosure. HUD is very clear that they consider investors savvy", and if an investor cancels because of inspection items, the earnest cash is forfeited to HUD. The property is then put available on the market for what is named the Initial Listing Period, during which time HUD will obtain presents on the property. HUD homes usually have very favorable pricing which is why competition could be fierce.
Many are deciding to forgo the three-6{0bf740df539cce9b2fddfe847d069e770305f4029691b63ea20a1cf6ce3318a7} commission charged by a real property agent in charges in order to hold more of the profit from their house sale. The upside of buying a HUD Home is that you can get an excellent deal through bidding on the HUDHomestore. Where do HUD Homes come from: When a borrower with an FHA mortgage defaults and in the end is foreclosed upon.


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Reading books is a good thing and when it becomes your habit you start finding more books of your taste like mystery, drama, action and adventure, self help, satire, more. Books become your best friend which you can take anywhere and whenever you want. Many people who are struggling in their life can start reading self help books reading which they will surely get motivated and will find some changes in their habits and performance.
These days it has become easier for people to find the variety of books in library and online as well. If you are looking for any particular book of your favorite author you can visit the online book stores which will also provide you wide range of options related to taste of your book from different or same author. You can also look for top books online of any author. You can also order professional books like law and medical books at cheaper price.
Reasons for buying your book online
As with the ongoing up gradation in technology it has become pretty easy for people to get the things of their wish at their doorsteps without going to any place and wasting time. Listed below are some facilities when buying your book online:
- Delivery status: Some of the online book stores also provide the facility of free delivery. If the book you ordered is in stock of online store provider it gets dispatched the same it is ordered and if not it will be dispatched later making sure to consume very less time for delivering your book. You can also check your order and delivery status online.
- Easy booking options: Online book providers make sure to make booking process very simple so that no one faces any problem in making bookings. They also avail many offers and discount options to attract more customers to buy book from their store.


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If you are game lover then you don't have to stress yourself looking for games to play or download , Google instant play app get you assorted games that you can play at any time without downloading to occupy your phone memory.
It's proposed project plan for long even though Google first introduced the idea of Android Instant Apps but not effective as at then but this invention have been concluded and will be available fully for use.
Instant Apps allowed you to jump into screen and keep playing your favourite without having it on your phone memory, just like you click on link navigating you to another page with ease. I think that will be faster and saves a lot of resource, time of downloading, occupying memory space.
As said in the Game Developer Conference that Google Play Instant brings that same kinnd of immediate software gratfifcation to Android gamers. Specifically, it allows for larger APK downloads and progressive delivery of files. This is good invention to say, what a good idea from Googel.
You can check out Google Play Instant games in the Play Store, where you'll spot a "Try Now" button to the side of the usual "Install," same as things are for Instant Apps. Tapping that button brings up an oh-so-brief loading screen (so quick that we had to try several times just to grab a screenshot of it in progress) before taking you right into the gaming action.
In addition to finding these titles in the Play Store, you can also check them out under the "Instant Gameplay" banner of the new Arcade tab in Google Play Games. While the interface here is slightly different, you're once again just one tap away from launching the game of your choice no install needed.
Previewing Google Play Instant titles isn't a once-and-done experience, either, and you can still see titles you recently played hanging out at the top of the Google Now launcher.
Right now there's only a handful of titles supporting Google Play Instant, and that sounds like the way things are going to be for a while; Google describes the current state of dev access to the feature as a closed beta, but invites interested parties to register for updates on the tool as it approaches broader availability.
This is new app in store you can give it a trial to have a full preview of how it works.
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Expanding up to 6-3/4' and a 3/8" thread mount and foam grip the Micro Boom is great for interview set ups. The Boom Buddy is great piece of hardware to quickly mount a boom pole on a C-stand or light stand.
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