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For Immediate Release
Mollie Matteson, Center for Biological Diversity, (802) 434-2388 (office); (802) 318-1487 (cell)
With Bat Extinctions Looming, 1.5 Million Dead, Group Says Feds Must Make Saving Bats First Priority
RICHMOND, Vt. - Mounting evidence that several species of bats have been all but eliminated from the Northeast due to a new disease known as white-nose syndrome
prompted a conservation group to send a letter today to Sam Hamilton,
the new director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, urging that
action on the bat epidemic be his first priority.
the letter, Kierán Suckling, executive director of the national,
nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity, wrote: "...while we suspect
you are still unpacking boxes in your new office, we feel compelled to
spotlight a wildlife emergency of the highest order. This crisis, the
bat epidemic known as white-nose syndrome, cannot afford any delay
before receiving your focused attention."
The bat
disease appears to be caused by a fungus unknown to science before the
outbreak was first documented two winters ago in bat caves near Albany,
New York. Since then, white-nose syndrome - so named because of the
fungal growth around bats' muzzles - has spread to nine states and
killed an estimated 1.5 million bats. Bats from New England to West
Virginia are now affected by the illness, and scientists fear that this
coming winter the syndrome will show up in Kentucky and Tennessee,
where some of the largest bat colonies in the world are located.
are saying this disease could be on the West Coast in two to three
years, at the rate it is spreading," said Mollie Matteson, a wildlife
biologist and conservation advocate for the Center in its Richmond,
Vermont office. "Some scientists are even warning that under a
worst-case scenario, we may lose all bats in North America. Such a
tragedy could have disastrous consequences for agriculture and
ecosystems because of the role of bats in insect control and
The Center's letter was sent in
response to preliminary reports from bat surveys last winter and this
summer, which show many affected bat populations in New England and New
York reduced to 10 percent or less of former numbers. The letter also
points to the severe lack of funding for research and the absence of a
nationwide plan for addressing white-nose syndrome as major impediments
to stopping this wildlife crisis.
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"The U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service is clearly the most appropriate agency to take the
lead in addressing what is rapidly becoming a national wildlife
disaster," Suckling's letter went on to say. "Yet the agency has still
not created a dedicated, full-time position for a white-nose syndrome
coordinator, nor has it requested funds adequate to address the growing
The Center called for the Fish and Wildlife
Service to create a national white-nose syndrome plan that includes
research priorities, a system for coordination with other federal and
state agencies, a budget, and a plan for protecting bats, both those
already affected as well as populations not yet infected.
has thus far responded to pleas for additional funding from scientists
and conservation groups by appropriating $500,000 for white-nose
syndrome monitoring. This is only 10 percent of what biologists,
testifying at congressional hearings earlier this year, said was
needed. The Fish and Wildlife Service itself has not submitted a
funding request for the disease.
Suckling warned in
his letter to Director Hamilton that: "Crucial research projects that
could further our understanding of the disease and the mechanism by
which it spreads are not happening, due to lack of resources. Without
this knowledge, there's little chance we'll discover a way to stop the
disease in time to save species from extinction."
Read the Center's letter to Director Hamilton here.
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To do something in the way someone else would do it; to behave or act like someone else. I think I'm going to take a page out of your book and start going for a run first thing in the morning. Our youngest son was always very placid as a baby, but now that he's getting older, he's begun taking a page out of our older boy's book.


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Start your day with CaptureAudio, a voice memo app that outpaces the your native iOS memo app by making it easy to organize your recordings, and even mark specific parts of them. Next up is an update to Ringya, an app that makes it extremely easy to save contact sheets from school, work, sports or […]
Start your day with CaptureAudio, a voice memo app that outpaces the your native iOS memo app by making it easy to organize your recordings, and even mark specific parts of them. Next up is an update to Ringya, an app that makes it extremely easy to save contact sheets from school, work, sports or whatever. Finally, there's Graviton Block, a Tetris-like puzzler that makes the classic formula a lot more complex.
CaptureAudio ($1.99)
What's it about? CaptureAudio is an upgrade to your iOS device's on-board voice memo app, making it easy to organize your recordings and even mark important points as you record.
What's cool? Users The standard iOS device voice memo app is nice, but it's not particularly well-organized or feature-laden. Enter CaptureAudio, which brings additional capabilities to users who are making voice recordings by allowing you to organize your recordings into "notebooks" and "binders," in order to keep them well-categorized. You can also drop "flags" during recording to mark important points, and rename your flags on the fly to help you keep them organized. Playback shows you where all the flags are so you can skip around, and you can easily share your audio files with others through iTunes.
Who's it for? Users who get a lot of use out of the voice memo app on their devices should try CaptureAudio's more organized approach.
What's it like? Two other great voice memo apps are Voice Recorder HD and Audio Memos.
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Ringya update (Free)
What's it about? Digitize your contacts list for any sport, club, class or work project instantly with Ringya, an app that makes it easy to organize people you need to talk to with almost zero hassle.
What's cool? Whenever you have a contact sheet for a group of people, Ringya can help you organize it. The app allows you to start by snapping a photo of the list for a sports team or class, and does the rest with no further input from you. Ringya recognizes when one of your contacts calls you and provides context so you know who they are and how you know them, and it allows you to sync contacts lists with everyone on them, so if one person changes their info, it changes for everyone. The app's latest update adds the ability to access your iOS device's Contacts List from within Ringya, so you can send emails or make calls to anyone whose data you have stored, or add them to any lists.
Who's it for? If you find yourself making use of a lot of contact sheets to stay organized, use Ringya instead.
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What's it about? Tetris-like title Graviton Block starts with a similar premise – locking blocks together to make complete pieces to score points – but quickly messes with the formula by requiring you to make squares instead of lines.
What's cool? Graviton Block starts out looking familiar, but you'll quickly find the puzzler is different from games you're used to. Your job as you play is to arrange different blocks, which you can't rotate, in order to make 3×3 squares. Things get complex in a hurry because many of the pieces in Graviton Block have special properties, like effects on gravity. Some blocks attract and other repels, so in order to make squares, stay alive and score points, you'll need to use strategy and planning to put the right pieces where you need them and use gravity to your advantage.
Who's it for? Fans of Tetris should try this evolution of the idea.
What's it like? Tetris definitely has a lot in common with Graviton Block, as does Breaking Blocks.


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Ok, so I missed week one of 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge. But! I figured that I'd do this based on Ahnentafel numbers. Thus, my week one is the "About Valerie" tab. Whew... I'm covered.
So, the #2 person on my Ahnentafel report is my dad. I have to confess, we got a bit grumpy with each other today. He was trying to fix my toilet and the part I'd purchased was defective. His grumpiness lead to my grumpiness... it happens. But the happy times certainly outweigh the grumpy times.
My dad was raised in an area outside of Atlanta that was rural, turning suburban. His family (seven kids!) had a well for water, but by the time he was born they had indoor plumbing. His parents, who had been born into rural farming families, believed in hard work. Dad started working for his father's sanitation company when he was 13 and has held numerous jobs in construction and manufacturing since then. Many times, we've been driving and he'll say, "I helped widen this road." Sometimes he has some pretty interesting stories about the companies he worked for and the stuff they got away with back when.
He took us fishing one time. I don't remember where, and I can only guess that we were about 10 years old (8? 12?). I remember stopping to buy worms and standing on the bank of the lake and casting off. I managed to catch two tiny fish and we ate snickers bars.
Dad is also the family chef. He will take a recipe from the newspaper or a evan a pre-packed meal and will make it his own. It took me a while to understand why the Hamburger Helper on tv looked so different (and very boring!) than the Hamburger Helper we ate. He's also willing to take out an ingredient he prefers for my more picky palate.
I love my dad and I'm glad that he is my dad. We might have our moments, but as I said, the happy outweighs the grumpy.


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Revisiting Marianismo
Revisiting a "cultural value" among [email protected] and an interview with documentarian Erica Fletcher who created a film Marianismo about Latinas living with HIV.
Last year I wrote an article called "Deconstructing Marianismo" which was inspired by an article I read about a film called Marianismo by young filmmaker Erica Fletcher which focuses on Latinas living with HIV. The main purpose of my article was to deconstruct how we are discussing Marianismo and it's connections to Latinas and sexuality, especially by questioning the "cultural values" that are applied to us, often by outsiders.
Earlier this year I got an email from Erica Fletcher. I was very happy to hear from her as it is rare when folks whose media and art we use to spark conversation and education reach out to us. Erica shared with me that her initial response to my article was one of disappointment by she then realized that much of what I had shared, about being trained in a particular way to do a certain type of research on [email protected], was something that happened to her as well. We have been communicating for most of this year and I had suggested we do an interview with one another to feature her work, but also talk about how we as young(er) people of Color working in the field of sexuality are working together.
Erica is a 20 year-old Taiwanese-Brazilian American and currently a PhD student in Medical Humanities at the University of Texas Medical Branch. Her undergraduate work was in Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology at the University of Houston. She received Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women award, a Phi Kappa Phi Majorie Schoch Fellowship, and a Presidential Scholarship from the University of Texas Medical Branch for her work. Erica's last completed film, Pack & Deliver, is about sex trafficking and is continuing to receive media attention. It is featured in November 2011's Latina Magazine issue.
I sent Erica a few questions about her work and her goals for her films.
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How did you come to film/media making?
A couple years ago, I became really interested in applying what I was learning in my social science classes in a way that would be more easily accessible to general audiences. For me, that medium was film. During the summer between my sophomore and junior years of college, I began making my first film, Marianismo, which is about the disproportionate spread of HIV/AIDS among Latinas. I loved the process of filmmaking, especially participating in talkbacks where I could share my research with others. After learning about the field of visual anthropology and finding great mentors at the University of Houston, I started on my second film Pack and Deliver about sex trafficking in Houston.
What sort of support have you received for entering the film/media making field? Any specific challenges?
Having no technical training in filmmaking, I had to learn by trial-and-error with a basic camcorder for my first film. Even after using more professional equipment with my second film, I still have much training to do when it comes to shooting and editing! Still, I am lucky to be born in a time when digital media makes it relatively affordable to do the kind of ethnographic research that I want to do. Aside from the technical aspects, learning more about theories in visual anthropology and interviewing techniques has been an eye-opening experience. There are so many ways that media reporters and ethnographers can manipulate footage, and finding a way to portray my "truth" is definitely an on-going process.
How did you come to do the film Marianismo? What were some of the messages you thought important to include?
As a dual citizen of Brazil and the United States, I have always been interested in Latino cultures, and I wanted to explore a facet of my identity through academic research in Houston. In addition, as an 18-year-old college student who had been home-schooled for most of my life, I had an avid curiosity for understanding the power dynamics between men and women. During high school, I had three of my friends who shared with me that they had been raped or molested, and they had blamed themselves for these horrific events. While I had never experienced anything as traumatizing, I also felt a sort of shame and guilt for a couple uncomfortable situations I had with fellow male students in college.
As I learned more about domestic violence and the threat of STIs, I wanted to do something to show commonalities in larger sociological forces that make power imbalances in romantic relationships a normal occurrence in many women's lives. I found an anthropology professor doing research on condom use and the spread of HIV/AIDS among women in the African-American community, and she agreed to supervise my film project related to HIV/AIDS among Latinos.
I think the most important message of the film is that economic factors play a large role in health outcomes, and secondly that we should not be quick to make judgments about people's lives because of their illness. I hope Marianismo illuminates the harmful impact that stigma against HIV/AIDS still has on the lives of the women I interviewed.
Below is the trailer for Marianismo
What questions were asked during screenings?
The question I get most often is what I can do to help this situation? I love this question because it shows that there are many people who really want to improve the world around them, but I know that the answer to that question will be different for everyone based on their talents and interests. If anything, I hope that my films will remind people of our interconnectedness as a species and how we can all make small contributions to improve the whole of society. Houston's Catholic Charities Cabrini Center and BoatPeople SOS do a lot of good work in immigration locally.
How did you make a connection and come into contact with Latinas living positive?
While working on a certification program for nonprofit management, I met Timeka Walker a social worker from the nonprofit AIDS Foundation Houston. Its mission is to improve the lives of HIV-positive individuals. We stayed in touch, and with her help I was able to meet and interview three Latinas who were HIV positive.
Were all of the participants documented? Did any address topics of immigration, access to resources (i.e. healthcare, job opportunities, etc.)?
I did not ask about their immigration status. However, the participants I interviewed all had the Gold Card (which in Houston provides free HIV/AIDS treatment), so they were able to access the healthcare system when necessary. One was in a transitional housing program, and the other two were in stable living situations. More than anything else, I saw first-hand the great impact of the social services that Texas does provide. Still, my state provides very limited resources for healthcare and education, and it saddens me how many people go without necessary care.
What were some positive messages the participants shared about living positive?
The most positive message I learned from them was that their lives continued after a HIV-positive diagnosis. Now the disease is a chronic condition, and with proper management, life expectancy has improved drastically. The women I interviewed are all involved in leading STI-prevention workshops and providing support and guidance to others who are HIV positive. Their determination to share their story and help educate others about HIV/AIDS is truly incredible.
What connections to religion and spiritual belief and value systems were discussed?
Contrary to some of the public health articles and anthropological literature I read, the women I interviewed did not think that their religion (two were Catholic, one was Protestant) played a role in how they became infected with HIV or affected how they choose to protect their husbands or boyfriends from the disease. More generally, though, they talked about growing up in homes where sexual health was not discussed.
From my first introduction into research in social science, I learned that individual experiences can vary significantly from what past research indicates, and that it can be very easily to stereotype people into certain culture archetypes that they don't identify with in their own lives. Doing research is a constant process of learning from mistakes and trying to improve in the future, and I look forward to creating my own filmmaking style in an ethically and culturally sensitive manner.
How did you come to the field of sex trafficking from Marianismo? Do you see a connection between the two?
Themes of urbanization, health disparities, power dynamics, and Latino immigration are common to both my films. An additional connection between the films is that many trafficked women, including the woman I interviewed for Pack and Deliver, contract STIs during their trafficking experience and must cope with a disease and psychological trauma for the rest of their lives.
What are some of your findings from this new film?
I found a major gap between the many different organizations doing anti-trafficking campaigns and the very low number of trafficking survivors accessing services in Houston. Local groups estimate that 2,000 persons are trafficked each year throughout Houston, yet police "rescue" less than 20 trafficked people every year. Still fewer are eligible to remain in the United States and obtain social services in the city. What is really ironic is that Houston is considered to have one of the best collaborative models for ending human trafficking in the country.
From my research, I learned about legal barriers, funding constraints, and, in one case, apathy within law enforcement that deters them from raiding well-known brothels in Houston. However, I also found an objectification and re-commodification of trafficked persons in the way in which nonprofit organizations use visceral images to encourage donors and volunteers to support their missions.
More broadly, there were large ideological differences between lobbyists that were never resolved during the anti-trafficking debate and adoption of public policy in 2000. While, individually, I would say everyone I interviewed is doing the best they can to ameliorate the trafficking situation in Houston, structural violence and institutional barriers are huge factors for why human trafficking remains endemic in the city.
How is trafficking related to other social justice issues?
Human trafficking is only a minuscule extreme of much larger issues related to immigration, domestic violence, labor policies, prison policies, and free trade arrangements at work in our country. It's so easily to condemn human trafficking, but when it comes to these larger, more taboo issues of contention, hardly anyone wants to touch them. However, I would argue to do good work in anti-trafficking initiatives we have to recognize larger connections to much more common forms of exploitation in the United States.
How are your films connected to a larger social justice/change agenda you may have for yourself?
During my time as an undergrad, I was convinced it was possible to combine science and art with activism. As I learn more in graduate school, I realize some of the ethical dilemmas that this position poses, and one of the main reasons why I am in school is to figure out some of those questions for myself and to learn how to speak to larger audiences in public policy, medicine, the social sciences, and the general public
What do you hope to accomplish and begin in the media you are creating?
My end goal with filmmaking is to create public forums to engage communities and foster discussions about improving their local environment. Films are just one way to raise public awareness about social issues, but they are only small beginnings to catalyzing the kind of social movements necessary to enact real change. I think recognizing and accepting the limitations of the film medium has been a major realization for me, but it has been a freeing experience as well. Now I am learning how to collaborate with others and find interdisciplinary partnerships to strengthen my overarching purpose of promoting education and spurring more critical analysis of the world around us.
What new projects are you working on today?
Right now I'm assisting Professor Rebecca Hester on her film project about sources of suffering on Galveston Island (where I am currently living). This is my first time working in a film team, and I'm excited to contribute to the production process from start to finish.
What other projects do you have in mind or that are coming up or that you'd like to do in the future?
I have way too many ideas and too little time to do them! Some of my goals include purchasing my own photo and video equipment, learning more Portuguese, doing ethnographic work in Brazil, traveling more, planning more film screening events, and continuing my focus on interdisciplinary studies and multimedia communication. I'm not sure what my next film/dissertation topic will be… I've been in grad school for less than a semester thus far, so luckily I still have time to figure that out!
How may folks get in contact with you?


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Laughing Kookaburra
Class: Aves
Family: Alcedinidae
scientific name: Dacelo novaeguineae
Range: The kookaburra thrives in eastern and southern Australia. It does not migrate. Recently, it has been introduced into west Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand
Habitat: Kookaburras live in medium to dense woodland areas in that are typically wet and cold. They can also be found in parks and gardens, often feeding on the ground.
Social structure: Kookaburras are territorial and live in groups of 3 or 4 consisting of a breeding pair and helpers. The helpers aid in nesting duties and in territorial defense and are usually the older siblings still in the nest. They pair for life and remain in their territory throughout the year.
Physical Characteristics: The Kookaburra is 18 inches (45cm) long and weighs approximately one pound (.5 kg). It has a large square head with brown cheek patches on its face. Their feathers are brown with a grayish white underside and dark bands on the tail. It is a stocky bird with a long, dagger-like beak. Males, females, as well as their offspring (over 3 months) are identical in physical appearance as well as vocal behavior.
Active: During the daylight hours.
Behavior: Kookaburras are generally peaceful. Sparring occurs when two kookaburras lock beaks and try to twist each other off the perch. This test is used to establish dominance between males. It has a prominent bony ridge in the back of its skull, like the Kingfisher (It is the largest member of the Kingfisher family), and strong muscles in the neck that aid in killing prey. It accomplishes this task by bashing its victims against its perch. Their flight is heavy and undulating, usually short. It is an "ambush" predator, spending much of its time on a conspicuous perch "fly-catching" - scanning for prey, flying to catch it and returning to the same perch. The outstanding feature of the kookaburra is the sound it makes. It is sounds very similar to a full boisterous human laugh. The song's cycle starts with a low chuckle 'ooo' and then goes into a high 'ha ha ha' and then back into a low chuckle. It can usually be heard in the early morning and early evening, yearlong, especially present during the few months before the breeding season. The call is begun by one family member, the others joining in with a staggered pattern. Each bird begins with a partial call, increasing in intensity and duration until the full laugh is taken up by all. The bill is pointed high and the tail is raised and lowered throughout the duration of the call.
Diet: In the wild it will eat small reptiles, insects, crabs, eggs and nestlings, occasionally young chicks and small mammals. At the zoo it is fed a bird-of-prey mix, meat, mice and crickets.
Reproduction: The Kookaburra's nest is usually 30 feet high in the air and is typically found in a hole in the Mountain Gum Tree. The female lays between two and four pure white eggs, usually one day apart. The incubation period lasts 24-26 days. When hatched, the chicks are naked and blind, but are generally the same size as the adult. However, both their beaks and tails are shorter than those of the adults. Their beaks are black when born, but as the first three months elapse they turn a bone color. Additionally, their plumage tends to be darker when the young are first hatched because it is new, but it lightens in the first six months. Sexual maturity and adulthood are reached at one year of age. The adult breeding pair usually has one or more auxiliaries (helpers) who are typically the young who were born the previous year.
Lifespan: 20 years
Conservation: Threatened by habitat destruction and newcomers that shoot the easy targets for sport


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First pregnancies usually end in long labors, but for one Chicago-area mom, her first labor went so fast they had to pull over on the side of the highway because her baby girl couldn't wait.
First-time mom
Labor began at home for Liz Shishkoff, and her doctor recommended staying home as long as possible because first-time moms can have long labors. However, just 20 minutes later, she decided that she needed to go in, so the couple piled in the car and headed to the hospital.
In a mere 10 minutes, she tells her husband, Ray, that she thinks that it will happen soon and they may need to pull over. The contraction ended, and she reports that she feels better and they'll be fine. However, when the next contraction started, she knew she could wait no longer, and they pulled over on the side of I-88.
The couple says that by the time Dad called 911, the baby was already crowning, and before emergency personnel arrived, their baby girl was being welcomed by her parents.
The paramedics report that the new dad did a fabulous job keeping calm, and both the baby girl and her mother were in good health. They were transported to a local hospital, and the baby, named Charlotte River, was weighed in at a healthy seven pounds.
Fast labor and delivery
As I always wonder when I read these stories, why did I not have the fortune of having a quick labor and delivery? Even my fourth labor seemed to take a long time, and lasted longer than my third labor and delivery — I had almost convinced myself that she'd just "pop" out, instead of taking so long they threatened to send me home during a Christmas Eve blizzard. Yes, really.
How fast were your labors?
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Saul Cooperstein is SBE's Managing Director of Business Development. "SBE has been a feeder system for more than a third of the guest chefs, including The Bazaar veterans Michael Voltaggio, Marcel Vigneron and Waylynn Lucas." It seems fitting that Saul should have his turn as guest chef and he had dubbed it Deli 2010 and what a deli it was!
Also there was Noriyuki Sugie, the "Chief Gastronomy Officer" who supplies all the chefs at Breadbar's Century City monthly "Hatchi Series." I will add that Chef Sugie cooked a superlative meal for us at Breadbar.
Chef Sugie
Saul and the chefs going over plating
There were 8 plates each priced at $8.00 per course. We ended up eating the menu and splitting each course – an absolute bargain.
BYO Wine #1
Bagel with Lox 'Nigiri' – Puffed Rice, House Cured and Smoked Wild King Salmon, Dill Cream Cheese, Smoked Salmon Roe and Pickled Red Onion
Matzo Ball Soup – Clarified Chicken Stock, Matzo Ball, 'Chicken Noodles' Soup, Vegetables, Horseradish and Fresh Dill
Reuben Croquettes – Japanese A-5 Wagyu Rib Cap Corned Beef (Saul's Corned Beef), Béchamel, Gruyere, Jarlsberg, Sauerkraut and Toasted Caraway Seeds all Coated and Fried in Rye Bread Crumbs with Thousand Island
BYO Wine #2
Lamb Pita – Deboned Rack of Lamb Cured and Smoked with Vadouvan and Traditional Spices, Toasted Pita, Cole Slaw 'Tzatziki'–Served with a Melon and Pickled Tomato Skewer
Sky High Sandwich – Warm Veal Pastrami Stacked High on Pumpernickel with Mustard –Served with Salt and Vinegar Potato Chips
Saul's Pastrami Sandwich – Japanese A-5 Wagyu Rib Cap Pastrami (Saul's Pastrami), Served Warm on Jewish Rye with Mustard–Served with a Half Sour Pickle Spherification
Babka – Cinnamon Babka French Toast with Bourbon Maple Syrup and Orange Blossom Ice Cream
Rugelach – Traditional Cream Cheese Rugelach with Passion Fruit
What a delicious deli evening!
"Next up for the hatchi series the menu will feature cocktails priced at $8 each, made by the featured mixologist of the night. Kicking off the series is Devon Espinoza from Abbot Kinney's Tasting Kitchen.
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The recipe for this pie and its crust are taken from The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook (Random House Canada, 2001). The flaky crust is made from an easy-to-roll pastry dough. The filling calls for cornstarch to thicken the cherry juice, which prevents the bottom crust from becoming soggy.
Makes one double-crust pie.
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For pastry: In bowl, beat shortening with butter until smooth; stir in flour and salt until stringy in texture. Pour in water and stir until a loose dough forms. Gather into two balls. On floured surface, gently press each into a 3/4-inch (2 cm) disc. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least one hour or until chilled.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out one of the discs into a 13-inch (33 cm) circle. Do not over-handle. Fit it into a 9-inch (23 cm) pie plate. Trim, leaving a 3/4 inch overhang. Refrigerate until ready to fill.
To prepare the filling: In a large bowl, combine cherries, sugar and cornstarch with lemon juice and vanilla. Spoon filling into prepared pastry shell. Dot filling with butter. Roll out remaining pastry to a same-size circle as the bottom shell. Brush pastry on rim with a little water. Fit the top crust over the fruit filling. Trim, leaving a 3/4-inch overhang. Fold both layers of overhang under pastry rim. Seal and flute edge with the tines of a fork.
To make glaze: Whisk egg yolk with water or milk. Brush over pastry just before baking. Sprinkle with sugar. Cut steam vents in centre of top crust. Bake in bottom third of 425 F oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 F and bake for 35 to 40 minutes longer or until crust is golden and filling is thick and bubbly. Let cool on rack.
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I had mentioned Sister Marillia the other day, terror that she was. And then in the comments section of yesterday's post, a dear reader mentioned her own
And then another reader responded....
Dear Anonymous - so sorry you were terrified of nuns. Wonder what you were doing that DESERVED being whacked on the head with erasers. ??? SOOOOO tired of people saying that nuns were terrifying. Get over yourself, already! Maybe you were sent to Catholic school by your parents to get straightened out. Maybe your classmates have not-so-fond memories of you (spoiling their recess, distracting them from their studies with your eraser-earning antics). And gee - would an eraser really hurt? REALLY???? Shame on YOU, not on the nuns. I never had the priviledge of attending Catholic schools because my parents were too poor to afford it, and probably too ashamed to beg. But I have been teaching at schools with anywhere from one to five sisters, and they were all as nice as could be. They were from different teaching orders, too, so you can't say I just happened to run into an exceptional community. I'm not saying all sisters are perfect - I've seen a couple of slip ups - but it rarely involves the discipline of a student. So please, knock it off, people! The joke isn't funny any more.
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(Incidentally, we have a couple of students who were sent to us to be straightened out. Newsflash to you parents who do that: Try discipline in your own house. Don't make a mess for others to clean up. It's not fair to the parents who send their students to get a Catholic education.)
I fully appreciate you defense of the perils of the classroom teacher. I really do. But please don't confuse the nuns and students of yesteryear with the nuns and students of today. Things have changed on both ends.
We were children of the late 40's and 50's, the children of men returned from winning The Big One. We said "please" and "thank you" and "yes, Sister". We all rose and said the Pledge of Alligiance in the morning and rose again before we were allowed out the classroom door to say an Act of Contrition.
If we did something wrong in class, like whisper to our neighbor or pass a note (I truly can not recall any worse transgression that than ever occurring from my kindergarten years through high school, my hand to God), we were not just misbehaving ever so slightly, we were sinning, because were were being disobedient to Sister, a sin against the Fourth Commandment, "Honor thy Father and thy Mother".
There were sweet nuns. I can't recall any, but there were. We certainly had nuns that weren't terrors, who were even tempered. But once you have a person more than twice your size (we were little children, after all) come swooping down on you, blackening the sun with her habit, to crack you across the knuckles with a three foot ruler or a rubber tipped pointer (which is basically a dowel rod), you will straighten right up in the presence of the rest of the nuns.
Maybe they had a 'good cop/bad cop' plan back at the convent. Of course, they didn't. There was no planning back at the convent.
But as to the children deserving it? No. I'll give you that the erasers probably didn't hurt. I knew a nun that would actually hurl them at the children. She had a great arm. She could pick off a kid in the middle of a room of thirty kids. I don't think she hurt anyone either.
The reason you keep hearing about terrifying nuns, is that sometimes they were actually terrifying. In Sister Marillia's classroom during math hour, we lined up six at a time across the blackboard in the back of the room. We each had a problem to do up there, long division at that time. When you finished your problem you returned to your seat. One gangly girl named Bonnie couldn't seem to solve her problem. Row after row of children got up and sat down again and poor Bonnie was still there.
I'm sure by that point, her brain had frozen, and by the time Sister Marillia arrived at the back of the room to belittle Bonnie, the rest of her had frozen, too. I'm not sure what set Sister off, but all of the sudden she had poor gangly Bonnie by the scruff of her neck and began to bang her head against the blackboard to the beat of whatever it was Sister was saying to Bonnie.
We were also frozen, our jaws dropped, our eyes wide. Finally, out of nowhere, one of the boys said, "Sister, you're going to kill her...." Bonnie stumbled back to her seat.
Or how about the time another nun I knew found a boy talking in line and took the pile of books she was holding, those flat wide music books, and dropped them on his head. He was out cold on the floor and the rest of the children had to file out of the room on their way to lunch, stepping over his unconscious body, sure he was dead on the floor.
He wasn't.
And what was the upshot of all of this? A well behaved classroom. Happy parents who also believed that if Sister had smacked you, you must have deserved it.
I know they all meant well. But please never try to convince any of us that we deserved bloody knuckles because we were left handed or our penmanship was sloppy. These things happened and are well remembered by all of us who still quake in our Mary Jane shoes when they are recalled. It's not a joke, although we've certainly had a few laughs about it.
Nuns today are indeed a different breed, thanks be to God. For one thing, they receive a much better education. Those old nuns were thrown at a roomful of children with no training of any kind in how to work with, teach or discipline children. They were making it up as they went along. They didn't even have the opportunity to discuss it with each other at days end. They were on their own in there. More's the pity.
And back in my day, kids weren't sent to the Catholic school to straighten them out. Children who misbehaved too much were kicked out of Catholic school. For that, you would have had to do something actually bad, like property damage. Very rare, because we were indeed a bunch of goody two shoes tikes with a fear of Hell and Sister. Not necessarily in that order.
I'm glad students are now being sent to Catholic school to be straightened out. If Jesus could kiss lepers, I think we can tackle an unruly child.
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Ginny and Jack, all dressed up for the Senior Prom.
Larwill High School Diploma for Virginia R. Phend
The marriage license was obtained from the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Whitley County, Indiana. Dated May 9, 1946 it was issued by Charles H. White.
The Marriage Certificate was signed by Rev. J. A. Leatherman.
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Miss Virginia Phend, daughter of Victor Phend of Larwill and Mrs. Harold Dunn of Auburn, became the bride of Jack Wiseman of Warsaw, at 6:30 o'clock Thursday evening at the altar of the Methodist church in North Webster, the Rev. L. E. Leatherman officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mitchell of Columbia City, brother-in-law and sister of the bride, attended the couple. Mrs. Leatherman, wife of the officiating minister, presided at the organ, playing a medley of wedding music during the single ring ceremony.
The bride chose for her wedding a frock of aqua colored linen with which she wore white accessories and a corsage of yellow roses. Mrs. Mitchell wore a beige colored frock with black accessories. Pink roses formed her corsage. The groom and his groomsman wore white carnation boutonnieres.
The bride is a 1946 graduate of Larwill high school. The groom was recently discharged from military service after extended service in the Pacific Theatre of Operations. He is now attending a Tool and Die Makers school in Warsaw.
Mr. and Mrs. Wiseman are at home with the bride's father in Larwill.
[Unidentified newspaper article included with the license and certificate.]
All of the marriage items were found inside this little booklet. The license and certificate are attached to the inside covers and would be damaged if removed so there they will remain. Several years ago I found the newspaper article in the microfilm copy at the Peabody Public Library in Columbia City, Indiana. It was in the Saturday, May 11, 1946 edition of the Columbia City Post. It's nice to have the original article.
My parents were divorced in 1964 after 18 years of marriage. I was very surprised to find these items amongst Mom's things. She never said anything about having them, but then I guess I had never asked. I just assumed she had destroyed or disposed of them after the divorce. Just goes to show – don't make assumptions!


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commander of the USS Greeneville, the submarine that crashed into a Japanese fishing vessel as it emerged in waters off Hawaii, took sole responsibility for the fatal February exercise that claimed the lives of nine Japanese. A group of U.S. civilians were onboard the Greeneville as part of a distinguished visitors program designed to promote public support for the U.S. Navy. Waddle acknowledged that mistakes had been made and corners had been cut aboard the 6,900-ton nuclear sub but said his actions were not criminal. He received a reprimand in April and retired from duty.


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Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand was fined ?45,000 by an Independent Regulatory Commission on Friday after an improper conduct charge tabled against him following a posting on the popular social media site was proven.
Ferguson has stated on more than one occasion his complete bewilderment at the Twitter phenomenon and he wants to avoid such problems in the future. He said: "Twitter; I do not understand it. I don't know why anybody can be bothered with it. But it is there and as a club we have given instructions to the players that they cannot talk about Manchester United."
In responding to a comment from one of his followers that Ashley Cole was a 'choc-ice' and admitting that he believed the term to be derogatory towards someone of black or mixed race, Ferdinand was found to have breached FA Rule E3.
It is the latest - and one of the most high-profile and contentious disciplinary cases involving Twitter.
And Ferguson added: "Rio is mature but he still has to remember that one word can make a difference - and you can't take it back."
Ferguson was speaking at the unveiling of new signing Robin van Persie, who has in excess of 2.1million followers, and said he felt the FA, following a recent warning by chairman David Bernstein, were out to make their mark.
"It was almost certain to happen," he said. "They (the FA) want to close the door on this kind of thing.
"What surprised me that other players have been twittering for ages and have never been challenged by the FA.
"His status in the game has caused that and who he plays for is maybe another issue."
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Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales
Scott Sigler and Seth Harwood have spent the past few years writing novels, disseminating them over the Internet as serialized podcasts and amassing audiences so considerable that top-shelf agents and publishers are now eager to represent the authors.
But well before Sigler revealed podcasting as a new frontier for book promotion, the San Francisco author was rebuffed hundreds of times by major publishers. Sigler's science fiction-horror thrillers attracted little attention.
That changed in 2005, when he offered his first novel, "Earthcore," as a free, downloadable 22-episode podcast on iTunes and his own Web site, www.scottsigler.com. A few hundred early listeners soon swelled to 5,000. By the time he posted "Ancestor" and "The Rookie," his second and third books, which he also narrated, he had 30,000 digital disciples.
Sigler refers to these loyal listeners as junkies because they keep coming back for more. It was the junkies who helped him land a deal with Dragon Moon Press, a small Canadian fantasy and science fiction publisher that liked the idea of a newbie author with a sizable following. It was the junkies who helped Sigler's "Ancestor" climb to No. 7 in overall sales on Amazon.com, which played a role in landing him a deal with the Crown Publishing Group.
On Tuesday, Sigler's latest book, "Infected," a tale of biological possession, was released by Crown. A free digital manuscript of the book was downloaded 45,000 times in just 100 hours since the Crown book was released, according to the publisher. And while Sigler still offers his novels as free podcasts, he is confident that the junkies will shell out $24.95 for a fix they might already have tried.
"How do I get them to buy a book they may have already listened to?" Sigler said. "I ask them to."
Sigler, 38, likens his distribution method to that of public broadcasting, adding that giving away content pays off even if fewer than 10 percent of the samplers ultimately make a pledge.
By rising to prominence without the financial backing of a mega-publisher, Sigler has defied the industry's modus operandi. He's discovered how to assemble, retain and sell to a growing audience, all on a shoestring budget.
"We are always looking for authors who have a platform and a core fan base, and our goal is to grow their audience and find new readers," said Tina Constable, Crown's publisher. "Scott is no exception and his fan base is already formidable. The wave of the future is how we harness the Internet to find these new readers, and we are devoting an enormous amount of energy and resources into this effort. The traditional model for publishing our books is quickly becoming obsolete and we recognize that creative Internet strategies are necessary if we want to remain competitive."
Either because Sigler asks them to, or because they just want to, some fans lend a hand to promote his books through word-of- mouth recommendations, and others have contributed comments and technical assistance to his Web site. What's more, because fans often hear chapters of the books before they are published, some have even contacted Sigler with corrections about weaponry, government agencies and other details.
"The feedback I got for 'Ancestor' helped make for a much better book," said Sigler, adding that he responds to all fan mail. "It's a wiki style of publishing with 30,000 editors."
His podcasts also have raised the profiles of such podcasting novelists as J.C. Hutchins, Tee Morris, Mark Jeffrey, Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff, Phil Rossi, Mike Bennett and Harwood. Harwood, 34, author of the Jack Palms crime series, records his podcasts in the small spare bedroom of his Berkeley flat. An Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate, he turned to crime noir after working the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange. He now writes full time and teaches literature and composition courses at City College of San Francisco and Chabot College in Hayward.
A listener of Sigler's early work, Harwood decided to podcast his first book, "Jack Wakes Up," shortly after he wrote it in 2005 to court publishers and increase his following. He has since written two more books that detail the life of Jack Palms, a one-hit-wonder action movie star turned criminal. The series is set in the Bay Area, as is Sigler's newest podcast novel, "Nocturnal."
Sigler, already a seasoned podcaster, had taught Harwood how to cut down on background noise by covering the fan of his MacBook with a pillow, use an external monitor to avoid standing too close to the noisy computer, and buy the right type of USB microphone. (Harwood's Blue Microphones Snowball cost $100.)
Thick blankets that serve as sound barriers hang from the walls of the spare room where Harwood records his roughly 50-minute episodes, which he uploads to his site www.sethharwood.com and iTunes every week. In the garage directly above his "recording studio" are a washing machine and dryer.
"When I record, I have to make sure they know upstairs so they don't start the laundry," he said.
With the "Jack Wakes Up" podcasts well under way, Harwood's following got bigger. He secured a print-on-demand deal in the fall with Breakneck Books, a small Barrington, N.H., a company started two years ago by Jeremy Robinson.
"An author with a built-in audience has already proven that his book will be well received by readers and that he is willing to put resources into marketing that other authors aren't," said Robinson, an author.
Harwood had spent the weeks leading up to the March 16 release of his novel imploring the loyal "Palms daddies" and "Palms mommas" on Web sites, podcasts, blogs and message boards to purchase the book on opening day. He gathered online with his fans that morning, staying in touch through the comments section of his blog, as well as through the social network Web sites twitter.com and ning.com. At 10 a.m. sharp, about 150 of his fans bought a copy (or two) of "Jack Wakes Up" from Amazon.com.
Sigler developed this strategy after recognizing that Amazon sells only so many books at a given time. A large rush of purchases made within a small amount of time has the potential to dramatically boost the sales rankings of a title, especially one published by a small press. The authors then use the inflated numbers as a way to drum up excitement and sell more books.
Sean Robertson, an original Palms daddy, liked the series so much he decided to contact Harwood by e-mail. Next thing he knew the two were having a beer.
"It could certainly be considered a stunt, but it's brilliant," said Robertson, the vice president and creative director at CBS Outdoor, one of the country's largest billboard advertisers. "Ultimately, the content has to be good enough for people to stick around. Seth and Sigler are really good."
To help promote the book's release, Robertson arranged a deal to hang 30 "Jack" billboards, designed by Palms Daddy Jerry Scullion, in eight BART stations. Scullion also helped design Harwood's book jacket.
The Amazon blitz, along with giving away more than 20,000 digital copies of his manuscript, looks to have paid off. Harwood's "Jack Wakes Up" sold more than 400 copies in the first five days, a substantial number, according to publisher Robinson. "Jack" also reached No. 45 in overall book sales on Amazon.com, No. 1 in mysteries and No. 3 in Amazon's mysteries-and-thrillers, and suspense categories.
Meanwhile, Rogue Pictures, a division of Universal Studios, has optioned Sigler's "Infection," possibly leading to the ultimate book sales bump: a movie.
"I can't say that I will always be so involved with the promotions, but I am used to it," Harwood said. "As a writer and as a podcaster we're in a unique position to interact with our fans. This is just the beginning."
Scott Sigler will read from "Infected" at 3 p.m. today at Borderlands Books, 866 Valencia St., San Francisco.
To download the digital versions of "Infected" and Seth Harwood's "Jack Wakes Up" and for more information about the authors, visit www.scottsigler.comand www.sethharwood.com.
Accessing novels through iTunes
Navigate to the Podcasts section of the iTunes store. Under Categories, select Arts, then More Arts, then Literature. Harwood and Sigler's novels are there, along with the work of other authors.


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The question is Timely as I have been working on my file, on this same topic.
I'll start by creating a report of everyone, who has a Burial FACT, what includes a Media File. (Image of a headstone)
Go to the Publish Workspace, Person Collection and Custom Report.
For this report, since the question was "cemeteries that I need to get pictures of gravestones", that suggests the Report would be BY Cemetery, the Person in the Cemetery.
First I named the report "Headstone Media Report", then selected the "Items to Include" ICON.
The report I am generating, is based on the fact that I have a number of towns, or places, where there are multiple cemeteries where I have ancestors. To do that, the Items I want to include are: Burial, Name, and PersonID. That is the Burial Fact, the Name of the Person, and the Person ID. Reason: I may have, and do, have multiple people, with the same name buried in the same cemetery and the PersonID will show the specific person I am looking for. The order of the list of Facts are important, for grouping by Place and Cemetery.
NOTE: I record the Place Name, and the Cemetery Name is in the Description Field.
The Sort order is by Burial Fact PLACE, then Burial Fact DESCRIPTION.
And example of the Report is below:
So each PLACE, which can be filtered later one, is grouped together, then within that PLACE would be the multiple Cemeteries within that PLACE. Then the Name of the Person, and the PersonID.
Now to reduce the number of people in the report. Select "Selected Individuals" and a new window will appear. This is where you "Filter" people in or out, so select Filter In >
The first will be do Filter In EVERYONE who has information, any information, in the Burial Fact. Burial is in the All Facts selection, Burial from the pull down menu of Facts, and "Any Data" from the second pull down menu, and select EXISTS.
This will move everyone with a Burial Fact into the Right Window. Too many, 429.
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Red Sox-Orioles postponed due to inclement weather
Day-Night doubleheader scheduled for Saturday at Fenway Park
BOSTON - Friday's Red Sox-Orioles game has been postponed due to inclement weather associated with Tropical Storm Arthur. According to the Red Sox professional weather service, Telvent DTN, the current forecast calls for moderate to heavy rain showers throughout the afternoon and evening hours. The National Weather Service has also issued a flash flood watch for Boston and across southern New England. The forecast calls for good weather all day tomorrow.
Friday's game will be rescheduled as the first game of a day-night doubleheader, tomorrow, Saturday, July 5, beginning at 1:05 p.m. ET. Tomorrow's regularly scheduled game remains at 7:15 p.m. Tickets for today's game (Friday, July 4 -- Game #43) will be good for admission to the rescheduled contest at 1:05 p.m.
NESN will televise tomorrow's 1:05 p.m. game and FOX will televise the 7:15 p.m. game. WEEI 93.7 FM will broadcast both games in English and WCEC 1490 AM will broadcast in Spanish.


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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:10 pm
Post subject: Smoked Pork Jowls
Yes you read it right! I was buying some slab bacon for Quebecois baked beans and I saw these chunks of smoked pork jowls so bought a few! I thought they might be an interesting replacement to bacon or salt pork in the baked beans. But I fried up a few slices to see what it was like and while it did render a clear smoky fat I just thought hmmmm nope, just too fatty for even a bacon replacement. So--what do you suggest I do with them. (I have about 400 grams/ about 12 ounces.)
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 1:43 pm
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Jowl bacon is popular in the American South, David. In fact, I often use it instead of slab bacon, because it's hard to find slab around here.
Jowl is the pig's cheek, and is cured and used just like bacon. It is slightly fattier than regular bacon, and has to cook down longer. But the end result should be pretty much the same. Or, in some applications (i.e. beans) think of it as a substitute for salt pork.
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Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 4:06 pm
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Hee hee, I just knew I'd hear from the South on this one. Yeah, it is so fatty though I cannot discern even a vein of meat in it. Nice smoky bouquet though, for sure. I'm thinking the base for a boeuf bourgignon instead of the salt pork--that does make sense. But I just can't imagine actually eating a piece--and this from a lard and fat hound!
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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:19 pm
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Don't know a thing about pork jowls..... but the baked beans sounds interesting.
Can you post a recipe for that please David.
I have had baked beans from other areas and loved the smokey, almost sweet, and savoury flavour. A real hit in this household. Would love to try making some at home.
Thanking you in advance
BTW.... how is the snow situation? Any new pics to share of the house and/or the furbabies frolicking in the snow?
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Ah Debbie! I'll post the baked beans recipe in the Recipe section tomorrow! Meanwhile this winter has not been anywhere near as difficult as last! Much much less snow, haven't had to be pulled out of a snow bank even once so far! And the worst is passed now! Only 2 months until the beginning of golf and 3 months to vegetable planting! The fur creatures haven't been groomed since September and more and more resemble Jim Henson's muppets!
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Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 10:25 pm
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Getting back to the jowls, I wonder if they're similar to guanciale (Italian cured pork cheeks). There was a New York Times article about guanciale a while ago, and I've had phenomenally rich and flavorful pasta dishes with it as an accent.
If you're looking for pig-related inspiration, try searching for some of Oliveto's Whole Hog menus. Oliveto is an excellent Italian restaurant in Oakland, CA that does a whole hog event every February-ish. As you'd expect, they get whole pigs, butcher them, and use all the parts to make an all-pork menu for a few days. Think house-made charcuterie, pate, guanciale, pork belly, you name it...it's the only time I've ever had raw pork, and I quite liked it.
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Posted: Sun Mar 01, 2009 1:44 pm
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Hi David,
In Rome, you can find guanciale, or cured pork cheeks, made famous in pasta carbonara and pasta a l'amatriciana. It's not easy to find, and now most everyone uses pancetta or even regular smoked bacon for those dishes, so you might want to experiment. Here's a link:
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Thanks srk and thanks ExPatSteve! I've had a closer look at the second hung of jowl I have and it does have a better proportion of meat to fat. Could be quite useful given those links. srk--i'd probably come close to killing for one of thos Oliveto feasts!
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I'm trying to get together a clear idea of the relationship between the Old Testament and the development of written language in the Middle East. As far as I am aware, the origins of written language can be dated back to around 5,200 years ago. There concurrent areas or origin have been identified – Mesopotamia, Egypt and Pakistan. The earliest known recordings of a Noachian-type flood come from Mesopotamia and date back to around 4,600 years ago but relate to a period around 4,900 years ago (indicating that written records of the event have been transcribed from early written recordings.
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