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I lead worship at two churches. One is Trinity's house church, the Fellowship. The last time I lead there my set included: "Give Me Jesus," "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing," "One Thing Remains," and Hillsong's "Hosanna." Each of these songs is filled with Christian imagery and theology, full of faith and hope in God, adoration and joy in Him. I chose these songs, carefully and lovingly. And I played them with all my heart.
Comfortable with a guitar and able to project my singing voice (even if amelodically), I like knowing that people like it when I lead music, however flawed. And that sometimes, someone actually enters into a true space of worship: meeting God, connecting to Him, praying, thanking and supplicating. I am amazed by this, and can only credit something far larger than myself as the catalyst.
But I don't actually believe in the God I worship.
Yes, that's right. I am a heathen. I am an atheist. And still, I practice Christianity with earnest and humble reverence.
1999 was the last time I was this involved in church. I was, for all intents and purposes, a believer back then. I say "for all intents and purposes" because I was too afraid to take an honest inventory of my faith at the time. Though I could accept the social effects of denying Christ, I wasn't yet prepared to face the existential challenges of meaninglessness and death.
I was a worship leader back then too, at the church I grew up in. Annoyed, of course, by all the typical small church annoyances: no budget, low attendance, over-extended volunteers, revolving door of interim pastors. But, I really, truly believed that my Christian brothers and sisters had my back. And I tried to believe that God had my back too.
But then I lost my job. The only job I think I ever loved. And then my grandpa died. And then my mom got a brain tumor, and then my wife's baby sister, her best friend and our roommate, one of the brightest stars in our small sky, died. She was 24.
Each blow, awful. Some unbearable. But I felt sure that God and the Church would carry me through, just as those old footprints posters used to say. Without specifically thinking it, I imagined my phone ringing off the hook and long heart-to-hearts, an outpouring of love and support that would last for as long as I could want and beyond.
But instead I found quiet nights, drinking myself to sleep while reading Job, over and over.
That year, I lost my faith in God and Christianity. But I didn't realize it right away. For a long time I acted like I still believed. I kept angry at God, praying to him with resentment in my heart, telling him that he owed me for what he's put me through, expecting an apology or at least some restitution. But none of that ever came to pass. And it only made me more angry. Until, I understood, God is not going to apologize and God is not going to make me whole again. God is not what I thought he was. And, for the first time in a long time, I had to admit, maybe God wasn't even real at all.
Years later, having sat with my doubt, meditated on it, read up on it, talked about it. Eventually I landed on the saddest but wisest place I have ever had the honor to land on. A small island with one simple law, be true. And my truth is that, as far as I can tell, Christianity in particular and God in general are not literally real. They are inventions that humans have used throughout our history to achieve social and individual benefits.
God and religion can be very, very good. But they are no more "real" to me than Star Wars or The Lord of the Rings.
The Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung allegedly prescribed religion to his patients as a cure for their psychological maladies. Supposedly only when they were incapable of practicing religion effectively would he embark on a course of psychoanalysis.
I think I now understand what Dr. Jung meant. The earnest practice of religion has deep psychological and social benefits. I see it in myself. Christianity connects me to a community that I share values with. Even if I do not share in Christianity's metaphysical beliefs, I certainly share in the values of human equality and dignity, of non-violence and charity. And, in an everyday way, I certainly believe in taking care of my peeps as they take care of me.
And that's just with community.
Psychologically. Individually. Practicing religion gives me the opportunity to reflect on my smallness in the face of the vast universe. Allows me to fill my tiny role within a magnificent operation. An operation that I see only through a darkened window, but that contains mysteries beyond my comprehension. And it provides room to believe that, though Yahweh and Christ may not be "real," maybe something, somewhere, out-there and in-here is real and moves us all eventually, along an irresistible arch towards love and justice.


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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux)
Description of problem:
When I select Adviser -> Solving Rate and press the Start button, KMines
starts the test and somewhere during the testing KMines crashes and I get a
KDE crash handler window stating that KMines has crashed and caused the signal
The exact time when the crash occurs varies. Sometimes it reaches over 100
test cases before crashing, but sometimes it crashes right in the beginning.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
How reproducible:
Steps to Reproduce:
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2. Select Adviser -> Solving Rate
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Actual Results: I got a SIGSEGV error message and the program ended.
Expected Results: The program shouldn't have crashed.
The exact KMines version is:
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In September of 1960 the Kennedy and Nixon presidential debates changed how debates were won and lost. Did Twitter just help change the political landscape of debates again?
A couple of weeks ago there were two Republican debates in one day. Depending on whom you ask won, some say the winner was not even technically in the debate, but rather a candidate that interacted via Twitter. The most retweeted Tweet (over 30,000 retweets) came from Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Meanwhile the current leading Republican candidate's tweet was retweeted was less than 15% of that number.
But sorry, #feelthebern-ers. While campaign polls saw an increase in Sanders numbers, he's still got a tall mountain to climb. However, Sanders does appear to understand the evolving technological world we live in and has taken a page out of President Obama's book. One blogger wrote:
Obama dominated the social media space because his team got how networks work. The real power of social media is not in the number of posts or Tweets but in user engagement measured by content spreadability. For example, Obama logged twice as many Facebook "Likes" and nearly 20 times as many re-tweets as Romney. With his existing social media base and spreadable content, Obama had far superior reach.
Bottom line? As many marketers know, social is an engagement channel. It's about relationships, not campaigns. It's about a customer (or voter!) journey. And the presidential candidate that understands that will have an advantage over those who don't.
For a great read on "How the Nixon-Kennedy Debate Changed the World" via televised debates, check this out!


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Happy New Year of the Dragon!
We may be several weeks into the new year, but the Chinese New Year is just about to begin.
2012 is the Year of the Dragon, which comes around only every 12 years and is considered the mightiest and the luckiest of the 12 signs.
The holiday is especially significant in one area of Chicago real estate, where the Chinatown neighborhood is celebrating its Centennial this year. Chinatown was established in 1912 in the Loop and 100 years later has a population of more than 27,000.
The Chinese New Year actually falls on January 23, but Chinatown is stretching the celebration and hosting its 2012 Lunar New Year Parade on Jan. 29. Step-off time is 1 p.m. at 24th St. and Wentworth Ave., though other activities start at 11:30 a.m.
For more information on the parade, visit chicagochinatown.org.
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The Garfield Park Conservatory, 300 N. Central Park Ave., Chicago, which had been closed due to damage from a hailstorm last June, is officially reopening by ringing in the Chinese New Year on Sunday, Jan. 22 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
There will be a dragon-dancing procession through the Conservatory, followed by a reception, live music, a self-guided scavenger hunt highlighting plants that signify good fortune and an opportunity from 1-3 p.m. for children to plant some living luck to take home.
For more information, visit chicagoparkdistrict.com.
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There are other Chicago-area establishments that are celebrating the Chinese New Year all weekend long. Here are some of the highlights:
*Chinese-American Museum of Chicago: On Saturday, Jan. 21 at 2 p.m., there will be a lecture entitled, Welcome to Chinatown: The Gateway Arch and Nine Dragon Wall, presented by Ian Chin, Vice President and Senior Principal of Wiss Janney Elstner and Associates, Inc, Architects, Engineers and Materials Scientists. The event is free, but there is limited space so reservations are recommended. Call 312-949-1000 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
*Chinese New Year Arty Party Celebration: Color My World Children's Art Studio and Arts in Bartlett are hosting this free celebration on Sunday, Jan. 22 at the Bartlett Center for the Arts, 118 W. Bartlett Rd., Bartlett, where families can create Chinese dancing parade dragons, listen to Chinese folktales and music, write Chinese calligraphy and and enjoy Chinese fortune cookies and green tea any time from 1 to 5 p.m.
*Big Bowl: The restaurant is offering symbolic food specials and surprise savings each day through Jan. 23, and are offering a complimentary cooking class on making dumplings in Chicago (6 E. Cedar St., 312-640-8888) and Lincolnshire (215 Parkway Dr., 847-808-8880). Call to reserve a spot. On Jan. 23, all guests born in the Year of the Dragon — 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976,1988, 2000 and 2012 — will get a complimentary lunch or dinner entree.
Because the Chinese believe that giving will lead to good luck, Big Bowl is donating up to $5,000 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation from the sales of the seasonal blood orange ginger ale. Oranges are significant during the new year because the color symbolizes gold while the word 'orange' in Chinese sounds like wealth.
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Our inspector Donald Lovering continues to provide Home and Building, Commercial...
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The firm was started after reviewing a report from a "alleged professional home inspector" back in 1980. I was hired by a lawyer who asked me to go and look at a house his daughter was buying. I remember writing a 5 page report about all the things I thought needed attention. It was then the lawyer produced the report he had paid for my review. With what little I knew I still provided more real time and valuable information to the buyer.
The lawyer suggested I explore and become more involved in the inspection business. That was over 30 years ago.
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It has made the insurance company and attorney's money. Far more frivolous law suits have risen due to the perception that a home inspectors insurance will pay for the mistakes made by the buyer in selecting the wrong home or not reading the home inspection report.
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Bacon is on the list of my favorite foods. A no-brainer. Breakfast, lunch, dinner or just a bacon snack. If I can include bacon in a meal I will certainly try. The how-much-bacon-is-too-much-bacon struggle is real.
So when filmmaker Sol Friedman created his last short film Bacon & God's Wrath, I was immediately intrigued by the title. I've been a fan of Sol's work for sometime now, sharing some of his unique blend of live-action and animation shorts at festivals over the years. Bacon is a turning point for his work however. It takes a personal story of faith, throws in some creative animation and becomes an exciting piece of documentary art. The Sundance jury that year thought so too, awarding it with the jury award for non-fiction.
Take a few minutes, take out a bacon snack and enjoy this short. I guarantee you'll never think of bacon the same way again. Feel free to share you thoughts in the comments!
Bacon & God's Wrath
Directed by Sol Friedman
2015 / 9 minutes / Canada
A 90-year-old Jewish woman reflects on her life's experience as she prepares to try bacon for the first time.


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Green Gables B&B
Three guest rooms are nestled inside Green Gables and the house itself is surrounded by a fragrant garden. The property lies opposite Gulgong Golf Course, which provides some guests with an irresistible opportunity for an early round before setting off for the day to explore the region.
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*Course Competencies from the CC250 Syllabus
At the conclusion of this course the student should be able to
3. Design a basic website interface.
4. Design and execute web-ready documents that use aesthetically pleasing design elements.
5. Create functioning web pages using a WYSIWYG page generator.
6. Prepare digital images for use in a hyper-linked document.
7. Convert existing project files into file formats suitable for posting to the web.
8. Publish a Portfolio website to a live server
- 6A Assets folder. 6 pts. Title folder "Lastname6A"
- "Lastname_Site Analysis 3". Submit as word .doc file or pages file.
Peer Critique.
Meet with a classmate you are not sitting next to and who is not in your program.
Review each other's websites in progress.
View each other's Sitemap.
Give feedback regarding: navigation, categories, user experience, tone.
Be kind and honest.
Receive feedback and make notes of it.
Submit this feedback you receive in a word or pages doc titled: "Week 6 Peer Critique".
Static Navigation/header in Wix and Muse.
Parallax items in Wix an Muse.
Muse: Scroll effects menu. Motion effect. Transparency/Opacity effect.
Mobile/Tablet introduction
Introduction to mobile/tablet editor in Muse, in Wix. Review of Adaptive versus responsive. Proofing on device. Muse: adding /phone or /tablet to proof in browser. We will be going into greater depth and assessment in coming weeks.
Muse breakpoint intro.
- Professional feedback 1:
Contact a professional in your field, a faculty member in your program or your Career Advisor in Career services to review your website. Take notes. Transcribe what feedback they give you and post it to your blog. 100 words or more. Name the professional, provide context for their authority. 100 words or more. 4 pts, week 7 only. Submit as "LastnameFeedback1.doc".
- Feed your baby. Gather assets: scan images/projects, acquire files. Prepare for uploading to your site. Spend time in Muse/Wix outside of class.
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Hurricane Hut
A cold front stalled in the central Atlantic early in September, and a tropical wave formed along the front on September 8.
The convection became more prominent and the system formed Subtropical Depression One midday on September 10 when about 325
miles WSW of Bermuda. The convection was displaced from the center at this time, and movement was very slow to the southwest.
The subtropical depression almost immidiately showed signs of acquiring tropical characteristics, and it did so on September
11 when it became a tropical depression. The depression was quick to strengthen into Tropical Storm Florence just six hours
later, and continued to strengthen rapidly and reached hurricane status in just another six hours. The hurricane was still
very disorganized, with the bulk of the winds in a single band of convection in the northern half of the storm. This allowed
some dry air to enter the circulation, which collapsed the convection and weakened it to a tropical storm in another six hours.
The weakening was short lived, and Florence was able to strengthen back to hurricane status later on September 12 as it
moved in a very slow, almost stationary drift. The hurricane once again began to weaken early on September 13, and was downgraded
to a tropical storm later that day. The weakening was due to increasingly cold waters from its own wake, and an increase in
shear. This combination weakened the storm to 45 mph winds on September 14. The steering currents finally began to pick up
on the 15th, and Florence accelerated to the ENE and began to regain strength. The storm became a hurricane for the third
time late on September 15 when about 175 miles WSW of Bermuda. The storm passed about 65 miles to the northwest of the island,
early on the 16th.
Florence reached a peak intensity later on the 16th with winds of 80 mph, and an eye was briefly visible at this point.
The cooler waters of the north Atlantic began to get the best of the storm later that day, and Florence became a tropical
storm for the fourth time early on September 17 when about 425 miles northeast of Bermuda. The storm continued to race to
the northeast and was absorbed by an extratropical low later on the 17th when about 125 miles south of St. Johns Newfoundland.
Florence never directly struck land, but rip currents generated by the storm killed three surfers in North Carolina. No damages
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Hot August Nights is Reno's big tourist frenzy. The population of the town triples, taking us from the "Biggest Little City in the World" to "A Moderately Big City With Crappy Infrastructure."
What is it that brings so many people here?
Not cars like this one:
Nope. People flock to Reno, so they can look at cars like this one:
If you've been reading my blogs for awhile, you probably know my opinion on the subject of cars.
In summary, big cars fail to impress me. Old cars don't do much for me either.
Occasionally, I will spot a car that makes me pause and say "Ooh, that's kind of neat."
A restored Model T, for example:
Or an Art Car driving through town on its way to Burning Man:
... But cars from the '50s, not so much.
1950s nostalgia is a huge part of Hot August Nights.
Not only do people stand and gawk at the cars, they also dress up like characters form the Archie comics. There are street dances called sock-hops. There are Elvis impersonators. There are "Grease" revivals.
I'll be honest.
I wasn't alive in the 1950s.
Neither were most people who really enjoy Hot August Nights.
But I still think it's a weird decade to glorify.
When I think of the '50s, I think of racial inequality, Communist witch-hunts, and women who "know their place."
I'm sure there were some people who truly enjoyed the '50s. They sat in diners drinking malts, listening to Elvis and Chubby Checker on the jukebox, and then went for long drives under the stars in their oversized convertibles.
However, I just don't believe that most people lived this way.
I think that glorifying a time period glosses over the very real progress that we have made since then.
The Feminist Movement. The Civil Rights Movement. Do we really think life used to be better before they happened?
Maybe I should lighten up.
It's just a car show, really.
If people want to dress their children in poodle skirts and drive their old cars under the Reno arch, why should it bother me?
And, aside from the traffic, it really doesn't bother me that much.
It's good for the local economy.
People have fun.
Still, if I ran Reno, I'd want a tourist event that celebrated a more appealing decade.
Imagine if we could bring 700,000 people to Reno for a Roaring '20s weekend, with flappers, gangsters, and bathtub moonshine for everyone. The casinos would make a fortune!
Or the 1970s. We could celebrate the good (contraception, environmentalism) while playfully satirizing the rest (Watergate, hot pants).
I would even attend the car show.
I'd head downtown to watch them drive under the arch. How about you?


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The first war was precipitated by mutual suspicions and the turbulence of the Sikh army. The Sikh state in the Punjab had been built into a formidable power by the Maharaja Ranjit Singh, who ruled from 1801 to 1839. Within six years of his death, however, the government had broken down in a series of palace revolutions and assassinations. By 1843 the ruler was a boy, the youngest son of Ranjit Singh, whose mother was proclaimed queen regent. Actual power, however, resided with the army, which was itself in the hands of "punches," or military committees. Relations with the British had already been strained by the refusal of the Sikhs to allow the passage of British troops through their territory during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1838-42). Having determined to invade British India under the pretext of forestalling a British attack, the Sikhs crossed the Sutlej River in December 1845. They were defeated in the four bloody and hard-fought battles of Mudki, Firoz Shah (Firozpur), Aliwal, and Sobraon. The British annexed Sikh lands east of the Sutlej and between it and the Beas River; Kashmir and Jammu were detached and the Sikh army was limited to 20,000 infantry and 12,000 cavalry. A British resident was stationed in Lahore with British troops.
Battle of Firoz Shah (Dec. 21-22, 1845), conflict between the Sikhs and the British at Firoz Shah, in the Punjab, northern India. It was the first of two decisive battles in the First Sikh War, 1845-46. A British force of about 18,000 men under Sir Hugh Gough attacked a Sikh army of 35,000 under Lal Singh in late afternoon. After a near repulse and a night of peril, the British achieved victory in the morning at a cost of about 2,400 casualties compared to about 8,000 Sikh casualties. Gough was criticized for his costly frontal attacks but went on to win final victory of the war at Sobraon on Feb. 10, 1846.
Battle of Sobraon (Feb. 10, 1846), the fourth, last, and decisive battle of the First Sikh War (1845-46). The Sikhs were entrenched on the eastern British-held bank of the Sutlej River, their retreat secured by a bridge of boats. After an intense artillery duel, the Sikh entrenchments were stormed. The collapse of the bridge of boats turned the retreat into a rout; more than 10,000 Sikhs were killed trying to cross the river.
The British also suffered severely, with 2,383 killed or wounded. Further resistance was impossible, and the Sikh state in north-western India came under British domination.

State	Entry	Exit	Combat Forces	Population	Losses

Britain	1845	1846	20000	26000000	4000

Sikhs	1845	1846	100000	4000000	10000


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A Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC) and Texas Rangers cooperative investigation into the shooting of Jordan McBee of San Saba has resulted in the arrest of 18-year-old Alexandra Rhodes of Pontotoc for eight counts of Furnishing Alcoholic Beverages to a Minor, and one count of Aggravated Assault and Deadly Conduct.
TABC Agent Michael Deans and Texas Ranger Dewayne Goll investigated a November 14, 2008, shooting at 8307 Hickory Grove Road in Pontotoc, Mason County, at a ranch approximately 20 miles from the City of Mason. During the investigation, Ranger Goll and Agent Deans were able to determine that a party took place involving nine youth under the age of 21. Evidence indicates that the host Alexandra Rhodes had furnished or made alcoholic beverages available to the other youth at the party. Rhodes was also indicted for shooting Jordan McBee in the leg the same night, resulting in a critical injury. McBee has since been released from the hospital.
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The next meeting of the Rockwood Area Historical and Genealogical Society will be held on May 3 at the Museum, 531 Main Street in Rockwood. There will be a board meeting at 6:30 p.m. the same night. All board members are encouraged to attend.
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(not in scientific use) any chloride, especially potassium chloride, KCl, used as a fertilizer.
Origin of muriate
First recorded in 1780–90; back formation from muriatic
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Or write with a solution of muriate of antimony, and smear the writing over with a feather dipped in a solution of galls.
Develop the color by going over the work with tincture of muriate of iron.Handwork in Wood
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Ammonia is met with in commerce as muriate and sulphate of ammonia.Elements of Agricultural Chemistry
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As a rule, it has no higher agricultural value than the muriate.
The waters of lake Tezcuco are impregnated with muriate and carbonate of soda.The Indian in his Wigwam
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Word Origin for muriate
C18: back formation from muriatic; see muriatic acid
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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born a slave. He suspected his father was the superintendent of the plantation on which he was born. His mother's name was Harriet Bailey so he was given the name Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, later changing it when he escaped from slavery. In his early childhood, Douglass perceived the injustice of slavery and even discerned the link between education and the desire to be free. He realized before he was ten years old that the more a person could read, the more he realized that he should be free to live and work for his own wages instead of someone else's livelihood. It was during this period of his life, between age eight and sixteen in the Auld household, that he taught himself basic reading and writing skills by tricking the children of the family into showing him what they knew.
When he was sixteen, Douglass was rented, as it were, to a "Negro breaker," Edward Covey. Douglass had up to that time been a house slave or city slave, where slavery was still slavery but violence was not the norm. Under Covey, however, Douglass was regularly whipped, which almost produced in him the broken, ignorant slave most masters had when they beat their slaves and kept them uneducated. Douglass did not let himself break, though, and he decided to fight back. He did so and, thus, escaped slavery and went to New York City. He married a free black woman, Anna Murray, who had helped him escape, and changed his name to Frederick Douglass taking the last name of Sir Walter Scott's hero in "The Lady of the Lake."
In 1839, after he had moved with his wife to New Bedford, Connecticut, Douglass read, for the first time the Liberator newspaper, William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist publication. He soon was a faithful reader of the newspaper and began to attend abolitionist meetings in the city. He heard Garrison speak in 1841 and decided to attend an abolitionist convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts. At that convention, Douglass spoke to a crowd about his experiences in slavery for the first time. This was the beginning of a vocation in public speaking that would last the rest of his life.
Douglass lectured regularly in the United States until 1845, when he published his first book, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself. The book exposed him to recapture because of its "confession" that he had been a slave and revealed enough about whom he was and where he was that he could have been re-enslaved. He fled to England where he continued his lectures in Britain. Friends in England purchased his freedom from slavery so he was able to return to the United States in 1847. Those same friends also arranged for the publication of Douglass's journal.
When Douglass returned to the U.S., however, he split from William Lloyd Garrison because of Garrison's advocacy of the secession of New England from the Union. Garrison believed the strategy would backfire and allow the southern system of slavery to continue unchecked. Douglass also disagreed with Garrison about the effectiveness of elections and non-violent resistance in the abolitionist cause. Hence, Douglass supported John Brown in his attempt to directly revolt against the slave system.
Douglass viewed the John Brown episode as a means to the more legitimate way of confronting slavery, the Civil War. He also teamed with Sojourner Truth, one of the leading black women in the abolitionist movement, to urge President Abraham Lincoln to allow blacks into the army and to urge blacks to enlist when they were allowed in 1862. Building upon the influence he gained from this victory and from experience in the women's rights movement, he became one of the leading spokesmen for black people in America and even held several government appointments, including minister to Haiti from 1889 to 1891. He also finished and published his third full-length autobiography, The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, in 1892.
Douglass early on began to move beyond the factual accounts of his slavery to include philosophical ideas in his speeches. This made his white allies nervous because they thought it might ruin his credibility as an actual slave. Douglass wrote his Narrative, the first of his autobiographies, because he needed to quell the notion that he had not been an actual slave. Wendell Phillips wrote an introductory letter to convince his fellow white abolitionists that Douglass was indeed a slave who was now educated enough to write on his own behalf. The Narrative succeeded in its goal and was very popular, selling 4,500 copies in five months. Soon French, German, and two British (English and Irish) editions were available. The Narrative was different from other slave narratives because it was hopeful in the midst of its attacks on American society that just as a Christian former slave could rise from the dust, so America could rise from the dust of the evil system of slavery to fulfill the promise of its founding as a fully free nation of men and women.


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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
A quilled violet
I 'feathered' the edges of this oval image in Photoshop Elements, before adding a few additional violet flowers just to balance the composition. (Bet you can't tell which ones!!) Then I had a go at quilling a violet after studying the little white markings and the petal formation. Now I'm thinking I could maybe create a pansy flower in a similar way. Watch this space ...
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Nicely done, the quilled flower looks so close to the real thing, like the edging around the flowers, love it!ReplyDelete
I love how you have combined photography and quilling, you are challenging me to take a new path in this art. Lately I have been feeling of late like I have quilled it all!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing.
I loved the design!
So beautiful!
Philippa!!! It´s really amazing!!! Love how you quilled the violet! The colors you choose are perfect!!! You did stunning job!!!ReplyDelete
Have a marvellous week!
You've done an excellent job not only with the quilling but with the photoshopping.ReplyDelete
Love the new flower techniqueReplyDelete
Wow, thanks! My little violet seems to be a big hit!ReplyDelete
Thank you all ...
Jackie - I hope you will have a try and combining quilling with photography, as I'm sure you'd find it very rewarding.
Lovely picture and pretty flower.ReplyDelete
I like the colors you used on this one, Philippa! And the quilled violet looks great!ReplyDelete
Thank you Suganthi and Manuela!ReplyDelete


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Installing XBMC
Download the latest release of XBMC here and run the install program.
Click on Next
Click on I Agree for the License Agreement
Leave these options as default and select Next. It is possible to remove all the unwanted options here such as unused languages and skins but you are saving very little disk space.
Leave the destination folder as default unless you have a good reason to change it and the select Next to continue
The option you choose here will depend on your setup and how you use the PC that XBMC resides upon. Selecting the top option to store everything in the users profile (Default Mode) will mean that if this is not a dedicated PC for XBMC and it is used by more than one person e.g. has more than one user account, each one of those accounts will have to set up their own movie, music and photo folders, customisations, etc. If you don't want the hassle of setting it up for more than one user, consider using a dedicated account for XBMC. If this is a dedicated PC for XBMC, then this option is fine.
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1. 27-Year-Old Woman Becomes The First Female Ever To Visit Every Country On Earth, Here's How She Did It
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Cassie's epic adventure, which was called Expedition196, took a total of 18 months and 26 days. She set out on July 24th, 2015, and she finished on February 2nd, 2017. Her journey cost her an estimated $198,000 USD (£160,000), a sum which was largely covered by sponsors, but as she wrote on Facebook, "despite what you may think, this Expedition has not been easy." She was traveling on behalf of the International Institute for Peace Through Tourism, and part of her trip was spent meeting politicians and students in order to promote the institute's primary goal of "mobilizing the travel and tourism industry as a leading force for poverty reduction."
So what's next for this inspirational globetrotter? Well, she'll soon be off on another adventure, this time to Antarctica, and then in June she'll be launching a course to teach people how to find the funding to pursue their very own dreams of traveling the world. Needless to say, our names are already on the list!
2. 70-Year-Old Italian Man Holds Guinness Record for Most University Degrees
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Getting more than one college degree is not exactly unheard of, but 15 is apparently quite impressive, since it's only been done by one man. Although he spends his days working around his house and garden, like most people his age, at night, Luciano Baretti turns into a student again. Every morning, at 3 a.m., as most of the world is sleeping, he wakes up, takes out his books and studies by the light of his desk lamp. He claims that studying helps keep his mind active and that every degree he has obtained has helped broaden his knowledge of the world around him. Plus, getting mentioned in the record books is a nice perk too.
"Thanks to books, I feel free, dammit," Baietti recently said. "After all, the words share the same root," he says, referring to the Italian words libro (book) and libero (free)." He claims to have been inspired 19th century French essayist Louis-Francois Bertin, whose portrait is also on display in his study, alongside his many framed university degrees, and whom he describes as "a man of culture and knowledge."
Baietti first made it into the Guinness Book of Records in 2002, after getting his eight degree, but he didn't stop there. After getting degrees in physical education, sociology, literature, law, political science philosophy and motor skills, he spent the next 15 years adding seven more bachelors and masters degree to his collection. Most of them are from the famous La Sapienze University, in Rome, one of the oldest in the world, but he's also graduated from a distance-learning university in Turin, and an online university in Naples. Luciano now holds degrees in criminology and military strategies, as well.
"Each time I set myself a new challenge, to see how far my body and my brain can go," Luciano says. At 70-years-old, he thinks he has enough energy for at least one more degree, this time in food science.
Probably the most important thing about Luciano Baietti's achievement is that he managed to get most of his university degrees while working as the headmaster of a secondary school, and volunteering with Italy's Red Cross. The secret was always getting up at 3 in the morning, to make sure that his thirst for knowledge didn't affect his professional activity and his family life. He spent 3 hours studying every day, and that was apparently all he needed to pass his exams and write his thesis.
3. 13-Year-Old Reaches Top of Mt. Everest
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Jordan Romero called his mother by satellite phone from the summit of the world's highest mountain, 29,035 feet above sea level.
He is now one climb away from his quest to conquer the highest peaks on all seven continents.
"He says, 'Mom, I'm calling you from the top of the world,'" Leigh Anne Drake told The Associated Press from California, where she had watched her son's progress on a GPS tracker online.
"There were lots of tears and 'I love you! I love you!'" Drake said. "I just told him to get his butt back home."
The teenager with long curly hair - who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa when he was 9 years old - says he was inspired by a painting in his school hallway of the seven continents' highest summits.
"Every step I take is finally toward the biggest goal of my life, to stand on top of the world," Jordan said earlier on his blog.
The former record for the youngest climber to scale Everest had been held by Temba Tsheri of Nepal. He reached the peak at age 16.
Also Saturday, officials said a Nepalese Sherpa who lives in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper broke his own world record by climbing Everest for the 20th time. Apa, who goes by one name, went up with fellow climbers on a mission also to collect garbage, a growing environmental problem on the mountain.
Mountaineering Department official Tilak Pandey said several climbers took advantage of Saturday's clear weather to reach the summit.
Jordan's climbing team reached the peak hours earlier than expected.
"The first thing, they all hugged each other and said, 'I love you, I can't believe we're finally here' and started crying," said Rob Bailey, the team's spokesman, by phone from the United States.
Jordan, from Big Bear, California, was climbing Everest with his father, his father's girlfriend and three Sherpa guides. He left for the peak from the base camp on the Chinese side.
Everest was his first challenge above 26,240 feet.
Unlike neighboring Nepal, the other approach to Everest, China has no age limit for climbers. Jordan registered with Chinese officials in April, said Zhang Mingxing, secretary general of China Tibet Mountaineering Association.
No interview with Jordan would be possible until he returns to advance base camp, which could take a couple of days, Bailey said. Climbers stay overnight at three or four camps before the summit, depending on their route and pace.
Jordan carried a number of good luck charms, including a pair of kangaroo testicles given to him by a friend who has cancer.
"That's the one that probably meant the most," Bailey said.
At the summit, Jordan left behind his lucky rabbit's foot and planted some seeds that a Buddhist monk at a local monastery had given him for luck on his journey, Bailey said. Then he took the satellite phone and called his mom.
Jordan continues the recent trend of young adventurers. Earlier this month, 16-year-old Australian Jessica Watson became the youngest person to sail around the globe solo, nonstop and unassisted. Thousands lined Sydney Harbor to cheer as she cruised past the finish line in her pink yacht.
A Dutch court late last year blocked an even younger sailor, 14-year-old sailor Laura Dekker, from pursuing a similar round-the-world voyage, ordering her to prepare more and wait at least until this year before starting.
And in January, 17-year-old Johnny Collinson of Utah became the youngest person to climb the highest peaks on all seven continents.
Just one mountain remains in Jordan's own quest to climb those peaks, the Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
Jordan's team leaves for Antarctica in December, Bailey said.
"A piece of cake," his mother said.
The Seven Summits
The list comprised of the highest peak on each of the seven continents was first compiled by mountaineer Richard Bass, who completed his seven in the mid-1980s. However, Reinhold Messner compiled a different list presuming different boundaries of Australia (Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea lies on the Australian continental shelf). According to 7summits.com the youngest person to have made seven ascents is 17-year-old John Collinson
Summits Conquered by Jordan Romero:
• Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 19, 340 ft. (age 10);
• Mt. Kosciuszko, Australia's highest peak at 7,310 ft. (age 10)
• Mt. Elbrus, Europe's highest peak at 18,510 ft. (age 11)
• Mt. Aconcagua, South America's highest peak at 22,841 ft. (age 11)
• Mt. McKinley, North America's highest peak at 20,320 ft. (age 11)
• Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania's highest peak at 16,024 ft. (age 13)
• Mt. Everest, Asia's highest peak at 29,035 ft. (age 13)
Still to climb:
• Mt. Vinson, Antarctica's highest peak at 16,050 ft. (Winter 2010)
4. King of the Hyperpolyglots
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Then there was Emil Krebs, a German diplomat who lived from 1867 to 1930 and who knew, by some accounts, 65 languages. I was especially interested in Krebs because his brain had been analyzed by German neuroscientists Karl Zilles and Katrin Amunts in 2002 using a cutting-edge technique to measure cellular densities in the cerebral cortex. They reported that Krebs's brain was indeed different from normal brains, although in fully unexpected ways.
Before going to Düsseldorf to meet Zilles and Amunts, I pieced together Krebs's biography from a variety of accounts, some of which I had to have translated from German (I'm not a polyglot myself). As a child, Krebs had bent toward foreign languages like a sunflower leans toward the sun. Like Mezzofanti, Krebs was a carpenter's son. His passion for languages was launched when he found an old French newspaper, and two weeks after a teacher gave him a French dictionary, he showed up at the teacher's desk speaking the language.
By the end of high school, he is said to have spoken 12 languages. After law school, he went to Berlin's Foreign Office school for interpreters and was asked which language he wanted to study. By that point, he had studied Latin, Greek, French, and Hebrew in school, and Modern Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Arabic, and Turkish on his own. I want to learn all of them, he replied.
You can't learn them all, he was told.
OK, Krebs reportedly said. "I want to learn the hardest one."
That was Mandarin Chinese. He began Chinese courses in 1887 and took (and passed) his first exam in 1890. In 1893, he became a diplomatic translator for the growing German presence in the Chinese cities of Tsingtao and Beijing, and took two further exams in 1894 and 1895, receiving the rating of "good." By 1901, he'd risen to the rank of Chief Interpreter. There his language abilities brought him literally to the seat of Chinese imperial power.
One day, an exacting Chinese imperial official inquired who in the German legation was writing such elegant Chinese documents. It was Krebs. From then on, the Empress Dowager Cixi often invited him for tea, which they drank out of translucent porcelain cups. She "preferred to converse with him as the most careful and best Chinese speaker among the foreigners." Chinese authorities asked him questions about the languages in their realm (Chinese, Mongolian, Manchurian, Tibetan)—because they had no tradition of multilingualism, they wouldn't have learned these languages themselves. One story told about Krebs is that Chinese officials, unable to read a letter sent from a rebel Mongolian tribe, asked Krebs to transcribe it.
In 1913, at the age of 45, Krebs married Amande, a German divorcee. On a honeymoon tour, at a stop at the tomb of Confucius, he read the inscriptions, which were written in Mandarin, Manchurian, Mongolian, Kalmuck, and Turkish. Frail and perpetually underpaid, Krebs (or "Krebsy," as his wife called him) sat down the following year and wrote a list of what languages he could use—he could, for instance, translate in to and out of German in 32 languages. Later he would be said to "know" 60 or 65 languages. His stepdaughter appended her own note to the list: "It is a great difference between whether one can speak, write, and master a language, or whether one is able to finish correct translations as a proven interpreter." Be that as it may, during his lifetime he passed government tests in Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, and Finnish, and possibly more.
Similar to other hyperpolyglots I had met or read about, one of Krebs's most stunning traits lay in how quickly he could learn a new language. Werner Otto Von Hentig, a young German attaché in China, described how Krebs had jumped up in the middle of breakfast to find out from two strangers what language, "foreign to him, had been battering his ear." Armenian, he discovered. After ordering books, he spent two weeks on the grammar, three on old Armenian, and four on the spoken language. "Then he was a master of them, too," Hentig wrote.
Rude impatience was his calling card. Once, in order to satisfy a bureaucratic requirement, he had to take a test in both Finnish and Japanese. Krebs intimidated the examiner with his knowledge, scaring the man from the room. In China, Krebs made it perfectly clear that he wanted to study languages rather than do his job (especially since he was often sleeping during the day, having stayed up all night studying). In a revealing anecdote, Hentig described having to fetch Krebs for a meeting.
"His Excellence wants to see you!" Hentig shouted over the walls of Krebs's compound. There was no answer. "Herr Krebs, the legate needs you!" No answer. "The Herr Minister is asking for you!" Finally Hentig heard a grumble.
"The legate knows me; leave me in peace," Krebs grumbled.
"May I help you get dressed?"
"Go to hell!"
"They really need you."
"They always say that," Krebs muttered. One observer said that Krebs never learned the "technique of life." He was someone who could tell you off in dozens of languages. He once translated the phrase "kiss my ass" (known as "the Swabian salute") into 40 languages.
Krebs reviewed his languages in strict rotation: assigning Turkish to Monday, Chinese to Tuesday, Greek to Wednesday, and so on. With a book in hand, he walked around and around the dining room table from midnight to four in the morning, naked, smoking a cigar, drunk on German beer. His library was organized by language and language group. For each book he wrote a summary, which he regularly reviewed. At his desk, he stood. He refused to eat anything but meat, and sought out social interaction only if he could use one of his languages. "He knew 32 languages, not in the way we often see with polyglots, but elegantly and well-spoken in Arabic as well as Russian or Italian," Hentig wrote. His Tuscan dialect was so good, the Italian ambassador in Beijing offered to cut Krebs's hair, just to be able to hear Tuscan.
In 1917, Krebs and his family fled China as China and Germany declared war. They ended up in San Francisco, just as Germany and the U.S. had declared war, and they navigated the diplomatic sensitivities by traveling via sealed train to the East Coast, where they boarded a ship for Europe. Krebs's extensive library had to be left behind and was eventually sold to the Library of Congress.
Back in Germany, Krebs turned to languages with full force, "surrendering to his great ambition for language study," as one German biographer put it. The Foreign Office was offering 90 deutschmarks for every language that someone could speak. You'll be a millionaire!, Krebs's friends told him. But officials informed Krebs that he would be restricted to testing in two languages. He made no more money for being able to read the cuneiform writings of Assyrian, Babylonian, and Sumerian.
One afternoon in March 1930, when he was translating something (what isn't known), Krebs collapsed and died soon afterward. The news spread quickly, and later that day, his wife received a chilling call: Would the family donate his brain to science? The request came from Oskar Vogt, a pugnacious specialist in brain anatomy and the director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research. The brain would be a fine addition to Vogt's collection of elite brains, and the only brain of a Sprachgenie, or a "language genius."
Vogt met Krebs's wife's sister and his stepdaughter in the church where the funeral was to be held; by law, brain extraction required family members to be present. Toni and Charlotte-Luise, who had stepped away because they couldn't bear to watch, could hear Vogt's hammering and sawing. The mood must have been one of Frankensteinian gloom: the dark church; the flickering gaslight; and Vogt walking away with Krebs's brain, jiggling in a glass jar.
I resolved to see this brain and hoped it would have something to say for itself. What did the neuroscientists conclude about his brain, and what might it say about a talent for learning foreign languages?
5. An 11-Year-Old Just Earned the Highest IQ Score Possible
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After stumbling upon the Mensa test while surfing on her iPad, Wahi decided to test herself as a way of proving a point to her parents, both IT management consultants at the Deutsche Bank in London. She figured an impressive score might be an effective way to stop her parents from nagging her to study.
Wahi is currently a student at West London's Notting Hill and Ealing Junior School, where she helped her team secure third place at last year's Oxford Maths challenge. Her other extracurriculars include net ball, lawn tennis, and chess—the latter of which she's competed in on the national level. She is thought to be one of the youngest test takers ever to achieve a perfect score, partly because participants have to be at least 10 and a half to take it.
6. Most number of Guinness World Records
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7. Fastest reader in the world
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8. First to Sail Around the World Alone, 1895-1898
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Captain Slocum turned to writing and published a book describing his adventures at sea. Sales were disappointing. In 1892 he decided to build his own boat and sail her around the world alone. The result was the 37-foot sloop Spray and one of the greatest sea adventures ever told. Captain Slocum's odyssey began on April 24, 1895. He was 51 years old. Over three years later he and the Spray returned on June 27, 1898 completing a journey of 46,000 miles. His adventures were first published in Century Magazine and then in book form in 1900.
Captain Slocum reached Gibraltar in early August 1895 planning to continue through the Mediterranean and the Suez Canal. However, the warnings of naval officers in Gibraltar regarding the presence of pirates and his subsequent experience changed his course. The following encounter persuaded the captain to sail westward across the Atlantic:
"Monday, August 25, the Spray sailed from Gibraltar. ...A tug belonging to her Majesty towed the sloop into the steady breeze clear of the mount, where her sails caught a violent wind, which carried her once more to the Atlantic, where it rose rapidly to a furious gale. My plan was, in going down this coast, to haul offshore, well clear of the land, which hereabouts is the home of pirates; but I had hardly accomplished this when I perceived a felucca making out of the nearest port, and finally following in the wake of the Spray ...here I was, after all, evidently in the midst of pirates and thieves! I changed my course; the felucca did the same, both vessels sailing very fast, but the distance growing less and less between us. The Spray was doing nobly; she was even more than at her best, but, in spite of all I could do, she would broach now and then. She was carrying too much sail for safety. I must reef [reduce the size of the sail] or be dismasted and lose all, pirate or no pirate. I must reef, even if I had to grapple with him for my life.
I was not long in reefing the mainsail and sweating it up - probably not more than fifteen minutes; but the felucca had in the meantime, so shortened the distance between us that I now saw the tuft of hair on the heads of the crew, - by which, it is said, Mohammed will pull the villains up into heaven, - and they were coming on like the wind. From what I could clearly make out now, I felt them to be the sons of generations of pirates, and I saw by their movements that they were now preparing to strike a blow. The exultation on their faces, however, was changed in an instant to a look of fear and rage. Their craft, with too much sail on, broached to on the crest of a great wave. This one great sea changed the aspect of affairs suddenly as the flash of a gun. Three minutes later the same wave overtook the Spray and shook her in every timber. At the same moment the sheet-strop parted, and away went the main-boom, broken short at the rigging.
Impulsively I sprang to the jib-halyards and down-haul, and instantly downed the jib. The head-sail being off, and the helm put hard down, the sloop came in the wind with a bound. While shivering there, but a moment though it was, I got the mainsail down and secured inboard, broken boom and all...The mainsail being secured, I hoisted away the jib, and, without looking round, stepped quickly to the cabin and snatched down my loaded rifle and cartridges at hand; for I made mental calculations that the pirate would by this time have recovered his course and be close aboard, and that when I saw him it would be better for me to be looking at him along the barrel of a gun. The piece was at my shoulder when I peered into the mist, but there was no pirate within a mile. The wave and squall that carried away my boom dismasted the felucca outright. I perceived his thieving crew, some dozen or more of them, struggling to recover their rigging from the sea. Allah blacken their faces!"
The Greatest Adventure
Captain Slocum faced his greatest challenge as he sailed from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean through the Strait of Magellan:
"It was the 3d of March when the Spray sailed from Port Tamar direct for Cape Pillar, with the wind from the northeast, which I fervently hoped might hold till she cleared the land; but there was no such good luck in store. It soon began to rain and thicken in the northwest, boding no good. The Spray neared Cape Pillar rapidly, and, nothing loath, plunged into the Pacific Ocean at once, taking her first bath of it in the gathering storm. There was no turning back even had I wished to do so, for the land was now shut out by the darkness of night. The wind freshened, and I took in a third reef. The sea was confused and treacherous...I saw now only the gleaming crests of the waves. They showed white teeth while the sloop balanced over them...on the morning of March 4 the wind shifted to southwest, then back suddenly to northwest, and blow with terrific force. The Spray, stripped of her sails, then bore off under bare poles. No ship in the world could have stood up against so violent a gale. Knowing that this storm might continue for many days, and that it would be impossible to work back to the westward along the coast outside of Tierra del Fuego, there seemed nothing to do but to keep on and go east about, after all. Anyhow, for my present safety the only course lay in keeping her before the wind. And so she drove southeast, as though about to round the Horn, while the waves rose and fell and bellowed their never-ending story of the sea."
For the next four days Captain Slocum and the Spray ride the angry sea as the gale pushes them back towards the Strait of Magellan:
"It was indeed a mountainous sea. When the sloop was in the fiercest squalls, with only the reefed forestaysail set, even that small sail shook her from keelson to truck when it shivered by the leach. Had I harbored the shadow of a doubt for her safety, it would have been that she might spring a leak in the garboard at the heel of the mast; but she never called me once to the pump. Under pressure of the smallest sail I could set she made for the land like a race-horse, and steering her over the crests of the waves so that she might not trip was nice work. I stood at the helm now and made the most of it.
Night closed in before the sloop reached the land, leaving her feeling the way in pitchy darkness. I saw breakers ahead before long. At this I wore ship and stood offshore, but was immediately startled by the tremendous roaring of breakers again ahead and on the lee bow. This puzzled me, for there should have been no broken water where I supposed myself to be. I kept off a good bit, then wore round, but finding broken water also there, threw her head again offshore. In this way, among dangers, I spent the rest of the night. Hail and sleet in the fierce squalls cut my flesh till the blood trickled over my face; but what of that? It was daylight, and the sloop was in the midst of the Milky Way of the sea, which is northwest of Cape Horn and it was the white breakers of a huge sea over sunken rocks which had threatened to engulf her through the night. It was Fury Island I had sighted and steered for, and what a panorama was before me now and all around! It was not the time to complain of a broken skin. What could I do but fill away among the breakers and find a channel between them, now that it was day? Since she had escaped the rocks through the night, surely she would find her way by daylight. This was the greatest sea adventure of my life. God knows how my vessel escaped."
9. First solo flight around the world
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Tonight is the final night of four for the Chef du Jour challenge at Fenns Quay. This event gave amateur chefs the opportunity to create an original menu and execute it with professional help in a restaurant kitchen. This kind of opportunity does not often happen outside of culinary academies or reality TV shows, but Fenns Quay thought to make it more approachable. Four chefs competed in this event with the two winners of each pairing advancing on to the finals (on a Sunday in April). In November, Jeni Pimm won in her challenge with Paul Callaghan. Each 'chef' was carefully selected based on the menu submitted.
Sarah Riordan is chef du jour tonight. She loves cooking and eating and blogs about it on YummyNom's Culinary Adventures. Sarah hopes to beat last week's contender Paul Axford with her menu. Sarah's menu is distributed when guests arrive tonight, but rumor has it pork belly will make an appearance as well as some unusual breads, risotto, duck confit, and a deconstructed chocolate dessert. Barry's tea or coffee all, of course! It's just €36 per person (or a discounted €144 total for a group of five), kicking off 8pm.
It may sound like a competition in the kitchen, but in the dining room of Fenns Quay, diners just get good food that was prepared expertly with local ingredients and a dash of creativity. Three judges (Billy Lyons and Margaret UmNumNum Smith and ME) rate the meal on various elements and stars are awarded, which determine who advances to the final. Meanwhile, there is great conversation, hearty laughter, and delicious bite-after-bite of good food. A great evening!
€36 per person for a carefully-crafted four-course menu plus coffee or tea (beer/wine is extra but they have a lovely wine list and stock 8 Degrees craft brew beers). Spaces are still available for tonight, so ring Fenns Quay now to reserve your place. Tel: 021 4279527 (Be sure to request a seat for Chef du Jour when you ring for your booking). Oh yes, and a special offer for the final night of Chef du Jour is that if you and your friends get a group of five or more together, Fenns Quay will give your group a 20% discount. Do the math, people, that's €144 (plus alcohol and gratuity) for a night out for five people!! So, get organized and join us tonight at Fenns Quay's Chef du Jour.
This is an ideal night out if you want to try something new that isn't being served on any other menu in the city. And if you're a foodie…well, you should definitely join us because we'd have so much to talk about between courses!!! Hope to see you there.
Fenn's Quay
Shears Street, Cork City
Tel: 021 4279527
Chef Kate on Twitter
Other posts about Fenns Quay:
Chef du Jour 2012 at Fenns Quay with Paul Axford (Mar. 2012)
Reserve Your Seat for Chef du Jour at Fenns Quay (Feb. 2012)
Kate's Beetroot Fudge Recipe (Jan. 2012)
Chef du Jour Returns (Jan. 2012)
Chef du Jour at Fenns Quay (Nov. 2011)
An Omelet Named After Me (Oct. 2011)
Lunch at Fenns Quay (Sept. 2008)


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Code of Conduct for Suggestions & Problems
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I don't expect that I'll need some long, convoluted set of rules for what is essentially a troubleshooting subforum, but I can ask that you provide your criticism constructively. Neither of us are going to make any progress if we're hurling insults at each other.
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