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Bar Exils, 28 rue de l'Ail, boasts 40 bottled beers and 11 draft beers. Not just another Irish pub, there's a daily Happy Hour as well-almost obligatory to avoid the otherwise expensive pints.
— TJ, Canada
February 7th, 2007
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When in Strasbourg, do as the Romans do : sample a slice, or two, of Roma-style pizza at Come a Roma, 7, rue de la Chaîne, conveniently located between the Cathedral and the Petit France. You will find a large choice of unusal pizza styles, with a thin and crispy crust and toppings to die for !
— Jean François Ueberschlag, Strasbourg, France
February 6th, 2007
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The little pizzeria on Rue Zurich is a must! Though not Alsatian cooking, some of the best, italian style pizzas I've tasted were there.
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No matter the weather, a walk through "L'Orangerie" is a must for visitors to Strasbourg! It's a beautiful park located directly across from the Council of Europe so speaking a smathering of European languages, young people in drumcircles, and Strasbourgeois out for an after lunch stroll. A lovely way to unwind on your travels . . .
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(2) special status is accorded Native Americans in the United States, a status that recognizes distinct cultural and political rights, including the right to continue separate identities;
(3) the traditional languages of Native Americans are an integral part of their cultures and identities and form the basic medium for the transmission, and thus survival, of Native American cultures, literatures, histories, religions, political institutions, and values;
(4) there is a widespread practice of treating Native Americans [1] languages as if they were anachronisms;
(5) there is a lack of clear, comprehensive, and consistent Federal policy on treatment of Native American languages which has often resulted in acts of suppression and extermination of Native American languages and cultures;
(6) there is convincing evidence that student achievement and performance, community and school pride, and educational opportunity is clearly and directly tied to respect for, and support of, the first language of the child or student;
(7) it is clearly in the interests of the United States, individual States, and territories to encourage the full academic and human potential achievements of all students and citizens and to take steps to realize these ends;
(8) acts of suppression and extermination directed against Native American languages and cultures are in conflict with the United States policy of self-determination for Native Americans;
(9) languages are the means of communication for the full range of human experiences and are critical to the survival of cultural and political integrity of any people; and
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True. It's a shame, really, since his PRIDE is what apparently kept him from sucking it up and fixing it. His pride killed these people. And no design reviews of the switch for torque and electrical capacity? The managers have a role in this, too.
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What Have You Harvested From Your Garden So Far?
It's already the middle of June, and for those of you who started your vegetable gardens earlier this year, have you been harvesting anything yet? I am at my mother's house in the North Georgia Mountains, where we're picking the first radishes and cherry tomatoes. Look at these beauties!
Let us know what you've been picking and eating out of your garden so far! If you haven't picked anything yet, what do you think the first yields will be, and when?
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I've been harvesting greens for a month now. First when I thinned them out, they were microgreens. Now I pick a bunch of baby leaves every few days for delicious salads. Radishes still need another week or 2 (I checked earlier in the week & the tiny radish was tasty). Herbs are ready & have been used a little in salads. I'm just outside of Boston, so I'm a long way from tomatoes... I think they'll be ready in late August:)
Herbs only. Our Cilantro is growing like wild right now. They are at least 3ft tall.
I've been picking a pretty steady supply of salad greens, scallions and radishes. My sugar snap peas just started but because of the cool weather I'm getting a bumper crop - first picking was over 1 1/2#. Yippee!
lil bit of herbs and 5 very very small strawberries
Lots of basil, cilantro, dill, sage, rosemary. Spring crops are done and starting to pick the first of the tomatoes and squash.
Only chives and sage. It has been cold here and my garden is basically looking the same as the day I planted. Just a few seed sprouts up and the seedlings are just sitting there looking sad.
lettuce, greens, chives, allium, herbs, small strawberries
About 60 or so sugar snap peas, herbs, and bib lettuce. Soon some tomatoes, bell peppers, and green onion.
Herbs only so far. But there are tiny tomatoes on our tomato plants, so I think those will be our first vegetables from the garden.
Basil, butter lettuce & rhubarb (although the rhubarb isn't in the garden, but off behind the shed). This weekend should yield some radishes, arugula and cilantro! I love gardening!
Parsley. Just tonnes and tonnes of parsley :( it's the only thing that is doing ok (i.e. not dead) in this cold rainly spring!
Pints of strawberries, here. And garlic scapes - I bet I could let them grow a little longer, but it's my first year for garlic and I'm just so excited.
Also just got my first handful of horseradish greens :)
Oh, and, well, the mint and parsley grow and grow...
Only radishes and herbs (basil, thyme, chives, oregano, rosemary, and mint transplants) so far, but my lettuce seedlings (mesclun) are getting big enough to clip, and the first pepper plant I transplanted (a long sweet called key largo) has fruit. The tomatoes are plentiful but still green.
It's been a cool very rainy spring here in Northern Virginia., but things seem to be taking off now. My eggplant is finally growing, the cukes are getting started, and hopefully the lima beans will be close behind.
i'm in south west florida which means our growing season is coming to an end. we planted our small, raised bed very, very late. and very, very haphazardly. it was our first time.
it's totally been taken over by (now) wilting tomato plants which have produced dozens of sweet, juicy grape tomatoes - two different kinds, even!
the lettuce and cucumbers are pretty much done. the summer squash have two or three buds left but i'm not sure they'll make it through the heat. the green bells went in extra late but have done well and should continue producing for another three weeks or so. the hungarian peppers have been a bumper crop producing enough to eat one or more daily and to quick pickle two large jars.
once the tomato plants stop producing, come the end of june or so, i'll clear everything out (except the hot peppers which do well down here) and wait for september...
So far, we've only harvested cucumbers, but the tomato and cherry tomato plants are overloaded with little green fruits, so I expect it won't be long before we're swimming in those.
I successfully harvested 2 carrots so far! I had begun my attempt at a potted garden about a month ago. Germinated pea, cucumber, carrot, watermelon, bell pepper, and sunflower seeds- then moved them into their new home on my sunny back deck.
A month later the peas hated their potted home and died. The cucumbers never stood a chance as I apparently broke their roots moving them from their seed starting cubbyholes. I have 6 pepper stalks that are taking their time growing, my sunflower is about to bloom, the watermelon plant is hanging in there, and the carrots are the most successful in my "garden".
I never cared for a plant in my life so 2 carrots is far beyond my expectations. I'll be reading everyones comments on here, maybe make my thumb a few shades greener in the process. :-)
Broccoli! We've been eating it like crazy for three weeks now. How? The magic of row covers. Highly recommended for extending the growing season.
Broccoli rabe. Also: tons of greens (rocket, mustard, lettuce, spinach), radishes and baby carrots (eaten as they're thinned).
Will be eating garden cauliflower tonight.
(I'm in Boise, zone 6, so it's still chilly for tomatoes and cukes)
Just the herbs so far, the tomato plants we started indoors were too skinny so it'll be a while before we can get a crop. Also, it's been rainy and cold here in Boston!
I'm debating harvesting some beet greens - this is my first time growing beets. Any recommendations on harvesting young beet greens? yay or nay?
we start our CSA next week so i am super excited to see what comes in that bounty!
I'm *so* envious... we have NADA. Wisconsin's been pretty cold lately, so I don't expect anything for a while. However, the sugar snap/snow pea shoots look fantastic, as do my herbs. I'm excited for everything to start moving along!
Herbs year round, but that's what one gets in San Diego. I did just harvest my first few jalapenos, which made me so happy.
Houston, here... is hot!
We have already harvested beautiful tomatoes, eggplant and peppers.
This is my first year gardening down here - moved here from Ithaca NY, and am amazed by the MAJOR differences. My eggplants in Ithaca never looked so great (even in Aug.) and I never harvested so many!
Also? My winter squash looks amazing! Never got much in NY - but here I'm looking forward to lots of beauties!
Being in Northern California, we have a long growing season so we're still eating some of our winter crops like potatoes and chard:
Plus spring crops like peas and strawberries:
As far as the summer crops go, we've already harvested a few pounds of zucchini, and best of all zucchini blossoms!


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The Winnipeg Jets announced Monday that the team has agreed to terms with forward Maxime Macenauer on a new contract. As per club policy, terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Maxenauer, 23, played in nine games with the St. John's IceCaps last season where he recorded one assist. He also suited up for 10 Calder Cup Playoff games with the IceCaps where he scored one goal. He began the season with the Syracuse Crunch where he played 13 games for six points (4G, 2A) and two penalty minutes.
The Laval, PQ native also played in 29 games last season with the Anaheim Ducks where he recorded four points and 18 penalty minutes. He has played in 101 career AHL games between Syracuse and St. John's where he has recorded 39 points and 69 penalty minutes.
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Good Friday and the Crucifixion of Shame
I sometimes wonder whether the pendulum has swung too far. People are too quick to reduce societies to guilt- or shame-cultures, on the convenient premise that both concepts are relative and subjective. Thus we can evolve beyond such antediluvian notions. However, while it's true that in western Protestantism we spend a great deal of time facing up to the realities of guilt (and rightly so, where it is genuine rather than subjective or self-imagined), what of shame? We can't hide behind not being a shame-culture. Read more
Bursting the Self-Esteem Bubble once and for all? Glynn Harrison on a Big Ego Trip
It's easy to forget the psychobabble jargon that is now so part of everyday parlance had its origins in serious academic discourse. It's pretty obvious when you stop to think about it, because all terms, metaphors and concepts must have their origins somewhere. It only takes a few decades or even years before what starts confined to the lecture room ends up on the street (whether the discipline be philosophy, theology, or psychology). What is scary is how many of the psychological assumptions that we take for granted today are built on such flimsy foundations. That is the main thrust of the first half of Glynn Harrison's important new book, The Big Ego Trip. Read more
Struggling to find a New (Sexual) Identity
I read Jenell Williams Paris' remarkable book, The End of Sexual Identity (published by IVP US), over the summer, and have been cogitating on it ever since. It is a brave book, not least because it wouldn't surprise me if it invites potshots (and worse) from all sides. It doesn't take a degree in political science to gather that the cultural climate in the west has shifted significantly in recent years. Read more
Friday Fun 23: Hobbes knows the answer to the Meaning of Life
Anorexia is bigger than biology: Emma Scrivener gets A NEW NAME
Given the deeply traumatic nature of this book's subject, this word seems entirely incongruous. But I can't it out of my head as I try to sum up Emma Scrivener's new book. And that's the word beautiful. This is not because of a superficial or white-washed treatment. Far from it. In fact at times Emma is searingly, wincingly honest. And as she writes, we weep. Read more
Why forgetfulness brings joyful freedom: a new booklet from Tim Keller
The chaps at 10 of Those have taken the initiative to produce a number of shorter and cheaper, but decent quality, booklets, and the first of these are now out. There's a brief introduction to the doctrine of The Cross by Andrew Sach and Steve Jeffery (well-qualified to write on this having worked on the mammoth but important He was pierced for our transgressions). But the other is a lovely new outing from Tim Keller (who's come up here on Q a number of times): The Freedom of Self-forgetfulness – The Path To True Christian Joy. Read more
I can't help myself…? It's time to deny the denial
It's an ambiguous title. It can mean two very different things. Either I can't stop myself (e.g.I have little self-control when it comes to resisting temptation, whatever that might be) or I can't rescue myself (and I'm stuck). It seems to me that western culture is in denial about both. Control and autonomy are our post-Enlightenment mantras (in the name of personal freedom of course). And much to our frustration, neither are truly attainable. Read more
Dawkins, 'Pragmamorphism' and the scientific vandalism of executing Saddam
When a fellow-scientist brands Richard Dawkins naïve you sit up and notice. But that's exactly what Emanuel Derman has done. I didn't know anything about Derman before, but it seems that he has rather an intimidating CV: he is a theoretical physicist, economist AND successful businessman originally from South Africa. All of which gives him a rather unique angle on a topic to which I've frequently returned on Q: the nature of being human (e.g.see Fritz Kahn's Industrial Palace or the Nothing Buttery Rant). Read more
So you want to be a better person…?
Just love it – by one of my favourite cartoonists, William Haefeli – from the New Yorker, Oct 2009
A profoundly encouraging book about a pastoral minefield
This is a review I've just written for Themelios, out next month. Tim Chester is an old friend who writes with great clarity and compassion. His is not an easy book – it is not an easy subject. For many in our culture, the very notion of why one might actually want to live porn-free seems utterly ridiculous. It's as harmless an activity as riding a bike or reading the newspaper. But for others, it impairs relationships and even destroys marriages. This is not a neutral business.
We desperately need there to be some countervailing voices out there who are not shrill, self-righteous or smug. Tim's voice is none of these things, for which I'm hugely grateful.
It is a brave man who talks openly about sexual sin. It is an even braver one who writes a book about it! But Tim Chester now has an established track record of writing well-crafted, profoundly theological but deeply pastoral books. This book, specifically tackling the blight of pornography head on, follows naturally from his 2008 publication, You Can Change. That Captured by a better vision is needed and timely should not be in doubt. The statistics for pornography usage and the sex industry's profit margins are truly terrifying. Porn's repercussions (for users, for those involved in the sex industry and for society as a whole) hardly bear thinking about. Its pervasive presence amongst Christians is the western church's vast, unspoken secret – in one survey quoted by Chester, it is suggested that out of every 100 adults, twenty-five men and ten women are struggling with regular porn use (p. 11). Yet, despite its prevalence, it is a problem of such shame that it is confined to the shadows and never properly addressed.
So how to tackle it? That is the painful question for pastors who minister to such people, not to mention those who themselves struggle. The age-old resort of the well-directed rebuke, or naming and shaming, has never worked. Many caught up in pornography are wracked by crippling shame as it is, but that is barely enough to halt their indulgence. Furthermore, such an approach falls headlong into the trap of legalism, which can never bring transformation (only pride and defeat or both) and which is fundamentally incompatible with the authentically Christian gospel of grace.
This is something that Chester understands deeply – which is precisely why he is able to navigate so successfully through this pastoral minefield. His tactic seems to be as much about displacement as it is pastoral diagnosis. As his quotation from an anonymous article makes clear, porn addicts 'need something more than mere information: they need to be wooed by the true and pure lover that their heart secretly seeks.' (p. 76)
Chester is determined to offer precisely that. This does not, of course, mean he is afraid to provide important information or to speak very frankly (as he warns in the introduction) – a topic like this demands straight talking. He thus rightly begins, in the first of his five sections, by piercing porn's façade of consensual pleasure and 'harmless fun'. He ruthlessly exposes what the sex industry actually does to people at every level – his list of twelve reasons to give up porn is brutal in its trenchant but indisputable analysis. It thus easily achieves his aim to make pornography abhorrent.
Fortunately, however, this is not the book's exclusive agenda – as the title suggests, Chester has a far more encouraging and inspiring concern. He wants to move us from abhorrence to adoration of God, with its resulting confidence of forgiveness and determination to battle sin. He has sought to understand, at a deep level, what insecurities and idols cause people to get hooked in the first place – and then proceeds to expose why the gospel is both infinitely better and far more compelling. Especially powerful was his articulation of the new confidence brought about by a believer's justification in Christ. He nicely applies the apparent paradoxes of this divinely-granted status: we are freed by Christ to be free, we are cleansed by Christ to be clean, we are made holy so that we can be holy (pp. 90-94). As he says, 'battling porn in our lives is not an exercise in denying pleasure. It's about fighting pleasure with greater pleasure.' (p. 76) 'So with every false promise of porn there is a true promise of God. Whatever porn offers, God offers more.' (p. 51)
Along the way, some inevitable pastoral conundrums need handling with care. What of the struggles of those who are not married? Chester tackles this, though probably not as fully as some might hope for (that is the remit of other books). Still, he makes clear how great the gospel compensations are for all, married or not. Or what of those who are in Christian leadership and struggle in this area? He was especially sensitive here. He does not pull his punches and explains how detrimental porn can be for ministry. Yet he reminds us that 'using porn doesn't disqualify you from serving God. For one thing, you were never qualified in the first place!' (p. 87) This is something everyone in ministry needs to hear, porn or no porn. His advice is to keep battling but earnestly look to Christ for our righteousness.
Chester's writing is always lucid and biblical but, in this book, his compassion is even more evident (as it needs to be). He makes frequent use of personal testimonies and experiences, from other books or from the anonymous research he carried out. These ground the book in reality.
Above all, though, the book is encouraging! I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised by that; but I was. The presenting issue of the book is a crucial and painful one, and his critique and analysis are relentless. Nevertheless, I found myself swept up by a refreshed enthusiasm and excitement for the gospel as he spoke with relish and delight about the grace of God, the glories of Christ and the wonders of sex in its right context. To my mind that clearly demonstrated he had fulfilled his aim of capturing us with a better vision. I certainly was.
It just so happened that Anne Jackson, who's blog I regularly read, has made a video for XXXChurch talking about her addiction – very honest, down-to-earth and helpful.
The Undefended Life
I'm fascinated by new attempts at publishing and distributing media. And when it is done to spread good stuff, all the better.
So it's good to plug the blog of an old friend of mine, Simon Walker, with his Undefended Life blog. He's written a few books before – including the Undefended Leader series. But this time, instead of a trad printed version of his book, he's publishing a new chapter every week, over 17 weeks.
This is what he says:
Over the past six months I have written the draft of my new book, The Undefended Life. It's a substantial text addressing what an undefended life actually looks like. It questions whether the church has fundamentally misread the nature of sin; it looks again at the death of Christ and the centrality of adoption in the Gospel; it re-evaluates the nature of idolatry and the act of repentance and faith. It questions our understanding of personal identity and dismantles the kind of moral reform we associate with the Christian faith. It considers how we can refind a place for St Paul's difficult language of the flesh/spiritual life. And it proposes that we must radically relook at our theology of God as trinity if we are to rediscover the freedom that God offers us. Overall, it is the most radical, challenging piece of writing I have ever produced.
I am in conversation with a conventional publisher about production of a print version of the book to come out in early 2011. But the publishing world is changing rapidly; authors also need to take different routes to reach their audiences.
I've not had the chance to read everything Simon has added to the blog so far. But I know that much of what he has said about leadership is a vital antidote to what I wrote a few days ago about ecclesial autocrats.
Trueman on Fools and Monkeys in the Blogosphere
He's nothing if not forthright.
But Carl Trueman is a scarily close to the bone in this (largely justifiable) rant about the absurdities, conceits and self-promotions prevalent in the Christian blogosphere – not unrelated to the subject of a couple of days ago.
Fools Rush In Where Monkeys Fear To Tread
Wince away, fellow bloggers… (HT Julian H)
Bonhoeffer – Who Am I?
Read this the other day. Was stopped in my tracks and struck dumb by its simple power. Written by Bonhoeffer while in a Nazi prison for his part in a failed attempt to assassinate Hitler. He was executed in Flossenburg Concentration Camp only a matter of days before the end of the 2nd World War.
Who am I? They often tell me
I stepped from my cell's confinement
Calmly, cheerfully, firmly,
Like a squire from his country-house.
Who am I? They often tell me
I used to speak to my warders
Freely and friendly and clearly,
As though it were mine to command.
Who am I? They also tell me
I bore the days of misfortune
Equally, smilingly, proudly,
Like one accustomed to win.
Am I then really all that which other men tell of?
Or am I only what I myself know of myself?
Restless and longing and sick, like a bird in a cage,
Struggling for breath, as though hands were
compressing my throat,
Yearning for colors, for flowers, for the voices of birds,
Thirsting for words of kindness, for neighborliness,
Tossing in expectation of great events,
Powerlessly trembling for friends at an infinite distance,
Weary and empty at praying, at thinking, at making,
Faint, and ready to say farewell to it all?
Who am I? This or the other?
Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
And before myself a contemptibly woebegone weakling?
Or is something within me still like a beaten army,
Fleeing in disorder from victory already achieved?
Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am Thine!
Taken from Letters & Papers from Prison
It evoked in my mind a poem/song written of course in entirely different circumstances but which grapples with the same human reality: I AM ONE by my sister-in-law, Miriam Jones. And while we're on the case, check out her website for new songs in the process of creation as we speak…
The Depression Epidemic (at CT)
And while we're on Christianity Today (see previous post), the focus this month has been on what they've provocatively headlined 'The Depression Epidemic'. There's actually quite a lot of helpful stuff there. The main article is interesting, but i found the accompanying pieces particularly useful:
- When you're depressed: 3 questions to ask, 5 ways to respond (by Mark R McMinn)
- My Life with Antidepressants (by Joel Scandrett)
- Light when all is dark (by Kathryn Greene-McCreight)
Euthanasia in Oregon: Rights or duties?
Is this alarmist rhetoric or a salutary lesson from Oregon?
Euthanasia is a tricky one. It is emotive. And it is hard to gain a hearing for theological arguments in a secularising society. But any good case needs a hearing. Whether it is a religious one or not. So a very interesting leader from Saturday's Telegraph, written by Wesley Smith.
This is how it begins:
Imagine that you have lung cancer. It has been in remission, but tests show the cancer has returned and is likely to be terminal. Still, there is some hope. Chemotherapy could extend your life, if not save it. You ask to begin treatment. But you soon receive more devastating news. A letter from the government informs you that the cost of chemotherapy is deemed an unjustified expense for the limited extra time it would provide. However, the government is not without compassion. You are informed that whenever you are ready, it will gladly pay for your assisted suicide.
Think that's an alarmist scenario to scare you away from supporting "death with dignity"? Wrong. That is exactly what happened last year to two cancer patients in Oregon, where assisted suicide is legal.
Read the rest here. Also check out the comments: the range is as one would expect…
Keller on Advent Humility – HAPPY CHRISTMAS one and all!
Christian humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less, as C. S. Lewis so memorably said. It is to be no longer always noticing yourself and how you are doing and how you are being treated. It is "blessed self-forgetfulness."
So says Tim Keller in his article THE ADVENT OF HUMILITY. I've been waiting for it to come online for days, ever since reading it in this month's CT. It's vintage Keller – providing a very helpful distillation of his thinking on how the gospel impacts the worksy moral performers and the works-shy (if I can put it like that!). But by linking this all into the issue of humility, Keller comes out with this real pearl:
I do hope to clarify, or I wouldn't have written on the topic at all. But there is no way to begin telling people how to become humble without destroying what fragments of humility they may already possess…
…So let us preach grace till humility just starts to grow in us.
Happy Christmas everyone – and may the wonder of the Incarnation thrill you afresh with that ground-breaking, life-changing, God-revealing Grace.
What did Mrs Zebedee want for her boys? Falling into our own prosperity traps
I can't remember who was being referred to, or by whom (which is probably just as well). But I was recently told of someone who described one of their own spiritual gifts as the ability to discern error and heresy. Well, that is of course an essential requirement, as even the vaguest study of the NT and of church history demonstrates. But I have to say that it did rather send shivers down my spine. I mean, yes, we all have to be discerning and on our guard. The most vulnerable Christian has to be the most gullible Christian. But to make a big deal of it, almost as if taking pride in it? Well that is certainly a very risky business. If you think you are standing firm, take care that you do not fall.
You see, I was acutely conscious of the dangers of spiritual pride after talking about the prosperity gospel the other day. As I said at the end of original talk, there are plenty of things that those who reject prosperity thinking fall into. Which is why it was very helpful to receive this tip from Emma Park: Our Secret Heresy Revealed, an article by John Sandeman in Sydney, Australia. For the irony is that what we reject with our lips, we subtly subscribe to with our aspirations:
Study hard, keep your nose down, go to university, work even harder, make a respectable but not vulgarly excessive amount of money: that's the Sydney Anglican unspoken prosperity doctrine. And it has one chief advantage over the more Pentecostal prosperity gospel. It works, almost all the time. Unlike the happy clappy version this prosperity thinking is no doctrine. We don't claim a Bible justification for it. Rather it is the triumph of pure pragmatism.
…It comes out clearly in the messages sent out by high profile Anglican institutions that have the money for marketing. "Leadership" is the headline for as campaign run by our highest profile Anglican school. Yes, parents want their boys to be leaders, to end up in charge of other people. That's what Mrs Zebedee wanted for her boys, too. It is good marketing that like all good advertising plays on at least one of the still deadly seven sins. Yet if we were truly Biblical wouldn't there be a "servant-hood" advertisement too?
Read the rest – it's heady, provocative stuff. I fear that London Christians share more with their Sydney fellows than we should. For the article has reminded me that our need for discernment comes not out of the mindset of heresy-hunting, but from humility rightly borne out of our own temptations and gullibilities. It is perhaps because I see myself so wanting the prosperity gospel to be true that I am so aware of its peculiar dangers. If I'm honest, I would obviously prefer a pain-free and successful existence. I don't want to suffer – it's just that I can't avoid the realities of this present age. But it is only because of confidence in the realities of the age to come, as well as the firstfruits enjoyed in the present, that this is at all faceable.
In case you're worried about what Mrs Zebedee has to do with this (because, dear reader, this has nothing actually to do with the Magic Roundabout), check out her story here.
Picasso's & Van Gogh's self-portraits – all rolled into one
It seems that the genius who is eggman913 has done it several times (he was the one to bring 500 year's of women in art to youtube) and I was just slow on the uptake. But here is his compilation of Picasso's portraits (including some of his self-portraits) – which brings the points made a few days ago into even sharper relief, but also brilliantly helps the viewer to understand what was going on as he developed his cubist portraits – they seem far less alien as a result.
And for good measure, he has done the same thing for Van Gogh's self portraits – which reveal a profoundly troubled person struggling with life, faith and death. Very powerful indeed.
coupland's THE GUM THIEF – some rather random reflections
Well – I enjoyed it… but not perhaps as much as some of Douglas Coupland's others. I have my favourites – Girlfriend in a Coma, Hey Nostradamus and of course the one that got everything going, Generation X.
The book starts relatively (frustratingly?) slowly – and is set in territory that is all too familiar to Coupland fans. This is suburban mall-land, the seemingly endless, soulless sprawl of North American retail parks (incidentally, I once started counting all the different UK chains that have imperialist pretensions by claiming the world. There are simply LOADS, ranging from: Eyeworld, Leatherworld, Petworld, Kitchenworld, Craftworld not to mention PC world and Phone world – if you have any others, post them here!!). The sprawl, like most of the rest of Couplandland, is populated by the high school dropouts and middle-aged losers still enslaved to McJobs – as illustrated by the setting of this book: a store in the stationery megachain, Staples.
Roger has lost so much in life – marriage, child, direction and purpose. His frustrated spiral even puts his job at Staples at risk. He doesn't want to be an 'aisles associate' (!) overseeing the tidiness of the ballpoint pen display for the rest of his life – he wants to write. So he writes – a diary which bizarrely he leaves lying in the staff room – that is asking for trouble, especially as he writes about colleagues. He seems to understand them though – and puts words into the mouth of Bethany, the store's resident Goth. When she reads an entry in her own name, she decides to add her own and thus begins a very peculiar relationship, about which they agree never actually to talk. It is only carried out on paper (hence is akin to the 'friendships' enjoyed by the Facebook generation). From the start, there is a slightly unnerving sense of reality though. For while we are told that Bethany's second entry is from the 'real' Bethany, we are never subsequently told who is actually talking – the real or the figment. The lines of reality are blurred from the start. This all points to the book's central conceit: the meaning of the written word (presumably the reason for the setting in a stationery store) and its (in?)ability to describe reality. More on that in a mo. But like all Coupland's heroes, these people are troubled – troubled about their lives, their relationships, and even about God. That is what makes them so intriguing (especially to someone trying to understand our culture) because they purport to be representatives of the (post)modern everyman and everywoman.
Here is Roger, right at the start:
ROGER: A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age – regardless of how they look on the outside – pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives. They don't want to be who they are any more. They want out. This list includes Thurston Howell the Third, Ann-Margaret, the cast members of Rent, Vaclav Havel, space shuttle astronauts and Snuffleupagus. It's universal.
Do you want out? Do you often wish you could be somebody, anybody, other than who you are – the you who holds a job and feeds a family – the you who keeps a relatively okay place to live and who still tries to keep your friendships alive? In other words, the you who's going to remain pretty much the same until the casket? (p1)
As ever in Coupland's books, the Damocles sword of human mortality is ever present. However, as this next excerpt illustrates, that may well be preferable to the interminable drudgery of an aisles associate.
ROGER: The last while has been kind of rough and, yeah, I'm having trouble these days, but Joan [ex-wife] isn't what you'd call a fountain of sympathy. I can make up all the excuses I want, but the fact is, I merely lie in my bed in the morning and don't get out. Especially at this time of year. I ask you, why do we even bother having wakefulness? Dreams are way more interesting than real life, and in dreams you never have to get out of bed. For that matter, why does life bother going forward? No matter what organism you look at… an amoeba or an elk or whatever, it does everything it can to advance itself – it tries not to be killed, it tries to mate, it tries to not be eaten. What's the nature of this divine computer program that drives everything to go forward? Why doesn't DNA sometimes say to itself, 'You know what? I'm tired of this survival shit. I think I'm going to pack it in. It ends here.' (p187)
It is not just present circumstances or an unknown future that Roger yearns to escape. His searing, wry honesty gets to the heart of the matter: his own heart.
ROGER: It's amazing how you can be a total shithead, and yet your soul still wants to hang out with you. Souls ought to have the legal right to bail once you cross certain behaviour thresholds: I draw the line at cheating at golf; I draw the line at theft over $100,000; I draw the line at bestiality. Imagine all the souls of the world, out on the sides of highways, all of them hitchhiking to try to find new places to live, all of them holding signs designed to lure you into selecting them as a passenger:
… I sing!
… I tell jokes.
… I know shiatsu.
… I know Katherine Hepburn.
I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts. (p22)
But Roger's not alone – Bethany is similarly afflicted. Throughout her life, those closest to her have died – hence the Goth affectation and cosmetic obsession with death and the 'dark side'. She eventually snaps out of that – but of course that doesn't remove her core fears and anxieties.
BETHANY: Oh God, I'm sitting here and my inner voice won't shut up. Do you ever get that? All you crave is silence, but instead you sit there and, against your wishes, nag yourself at full volume? Money! Loneliness! Failure! Sex! Body! Enemies! Regrets!
And everybody's doing the same thing – friends, family, that lady at the gas station till, your favourite movie star – everybody's skull is buzzing with me, me, me, me, me, and nobody knows how to shut it off. We're a planet of selfish me-robots. I hate it. I try to turn it off. The only thing that works is if I try to imagine what it's like to be inside someone else's head, try to imagine what their inner nagging is. It cools my brain…
…God, I'm so sick of myself.
Oh Roger, I truly wish I'd had religion growing up, because believing in something might shut off my inner voice – and maybe also so that I could feel like I shared something with my family, a common vision. All I got from my family is death, divorce and desertion. Please come up with ideas to share with Zoë [Roger's daughter]. She'll probably hate you until she's twenty-one, but after that she'll thank you forever. You're so lucky to have the chance to not screw somebody up. (p248)
I'm probably blinded by my own presumptions, but isn't that getting rather close to a biblical analysis of human nature? Sure it doesn't cross any theological t's, but it achingly seems to illustrate the yearning to overcome the sinful nature. I was really knocked back when I read that bit.
Within this bizarre paper-bound relationship, Beth & Roger share their own private universe: through Roger's attempt at a novel, Glove Pond. Beth has her own attempts at creative writing too, all featuring the life of pieces of toast! But Glove Pond is the focus – and it is excruciatingly, but wonderfully, bad! A narrative about a drunken loser novelist, Steve, and his hopeless actress wife, Gloria. Another couple comes to dinner (successful writer Kyle Falconcrest and his medic wife Brittany) but there is a simmering rivalry and tension between them all. Part of Roger & Beth's fun is that the characters' names correspond to other workers at Staples. In Glove Pond, Steve & Gloria are living empty lives, with everything masked by not particularly convincing façades. This is especially apparent when the conversations turn to their son. Does he exist or not?
Coupland is playing games with our minds at this point. He is writing a book about Roger who is writing a diary; and including excerpts from the novel that he is writing about a writer called Steve who peeks jealously at Kyle's latest manuscript about a loser called Norm! Yikes. Trying to clarify what is going on there hurts the brain. But I think that is precisely the point. It is a vortex of meanings and references – so complex that one completely loses ones sense of place and reality. What on earth is going on here?! And yet, despite our confusion, there is a real poignancy even here – because the character Kyle does see what could really be going on with Steve & Gloria. They are lost souls, covering profound grief (like Roger himself in 'real life'):
KYLE (in Glove Pond): What, he wondered, could have happened to two people to damage them so badly? What sort of event could warp them, or any of us, to the point where they became mere cartoons of the real and whole people they once were?
This world of personality smoke and mirrors is reflected by Bethany's view of the world. So what if you can't tell what's real or not? What's real anyway? The Goth thing for her was just a certain fashionable lifestyle statement , which she can easily be discarded when it doesn't suit. Hence her comic approach to a complex medical ethical issue like cloning:
BETHANY: Speaking of biology, I think cloning is great. I don't understand why churchy people get so upset about it. God made the originals, and cloning is only making photocopies. Big woo. And how can people get upset about evolution? Someone had to start the ball rolling; it's only natural to try to figure out the mechanics of how it got rolling. Relax! one theory doesn't exclude the other. (p7)
Bethany is no fool though – while her approach might be pretty idiosyncratic, her perceptions of the absurdities of modern life are acute:
BETHANY: But what was the universe thinking when it came up with Christmas? Hey, let's wreck six weeks of the year with guilt and loneliness and unnecessary cheesy crap! And then let's invent office superstores where they can take everyday stuff like pens and glossy printer paper and commit an emotional travesty by suggesting these items as gift ideas for loved ones! (p233)
Coupland has the last laugh though in the book's conclusion (which I won't reveal!). I didn't see it coming (but that's probably because I'm a bit dense and read the book too quickly). But it certainly explains why so many of the book's boundaries between 'truth' and fiction are so blurred, why the aches endured by so many of the characters were echoed or paralleled in their colleagues. Coupland thus even further distances the reader's perception of reality. For who actually is Roger at all? We never really discover.
The book ended up being much more satisfying than I expected in the early pages – and throws up Coupland's same old questions about truth, identity, hope and meaning, but in an innovative and provocative way. Still, this is Coupland's 12th novel. I can't help wondering whether or not he will ever find the answers he is looking for. If not, his characters will presumably have to endure their endless, and thus fruitless, search in the burb malls of North America. Heart-breaking when there are at least some answers out there, even if not all the answers.
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This reminds me of a glitch in the soda vending machine at school. Two out of three times, an extra can of Dr. Pepper pops out when you buy one. Literally a buy-one-get-one-free. Of course, I would always give away the second can to a classmate (partially to limit my own sugar intake). The feeling of sharing a can of sugar water at no additional cost to myself was a remarkable feeling. Coke's brand message as stronger as ever.
This really made my day. Short and simple story while showing off the fusion of hand-drawn and computer animation. I always felt that cartoons could always be more fluid with frame by frame animation and Pixar's 3d textures were a bit too artificial but this is a beautiful combination of the two. I really love the purity of the style. Black & white. No voices, just playful music and sound effects. The facial expressions just says it all.
Sex sells itself. It can be fun every once in a while, but do you really need to add a motion-sensor TV to the pile of things on every guy's wishlist? Isn't it already bad enough that we want to smell like Isaiah Mustafa? It's hard enough to achieve the dream of eating pepperoni pizza while watching a car chasing movie with the hot chick in apartment 69 across the street.
You just gotta tell the world…
Video interview for one of our coaches for my dragonboat team.
Short Story Assignment for Video Story Telling Class
Woodgrain Eco Sketchbook
Black & White Clock by Vadim Kibardin
So, Microsoft's got a new logo. Upon first sight, I hated it. It felt like a another jump on the bandwagon like their zune and surface tablet. Although I admit, I may have been a bit biased with the company over the years.
Then about 48 hours later, it starts to sink in. It's not so bad. Their last logo has been around for 25 years (yeah, already), it's about time for a change.
I did a quick exercise in PS, to try and replicate it using only the type tool. A rough estimate is -30 kerning on Segoe UI Semibold font. The actual type logo is about a touch more bold and the dot of the "i" is lowered to match the "M."
Both the typeface and congruent squares are starting to grow on me but I don't think I like seeing them next to each other. Maybe it's the gray that's throwing me off.
With a whole line of soon-to-be-launched products coming out this year, this is definitely the best chance they're going to get to update their banner. If all goes well, maybe the critics will change their minds.
I just gotta admire the playfulness of Google's ads. To mark their entry into the ISP market, they revisit the humble beginnings of the internet as far back as the long forgotten dial-up. The execution with toy cars and traffic is simple and appeals to everyone. I impressed that this isn't a stop-motion production. The cars are actually controlled with magnets.
The ad's general message is Google Fiber is so god damn fast it makes the world run faster. For 1GBps, it is definitely a huge leap forward (Fios Quantum goes up to 300 mbps). Imagine: NO MORE BUFFER EVER AGAIN! They are rightfully calling it "the next chapter" of the internet.
But to be honest, our current technology won't be able to take full advantage of the speed. Websites only load as fast as their servers can operate. All our hardware needs to be up to spec and mass storage still isn't cheap enough yet.
Now, is there anything we can do about keeping this out of the hands spammers?
Running is hard. But we do it because it's fun and walking takes forever.
It's been a while since I've seen a good basketball ad.
There was quite a lot of story crammed into that one minute and it works. I loved the progression of the rivalry in the making. While one wins all the awards, the other wins the big games. The quick scenes builds up momentum alongside the music. They even took it a step further in predicting what kind of visual technology we'll get in the next two decades. Although it may just take the bobcats 18 years to win the NBA Championship.
The Jordan brand's target has been young players and all basketball fans. With the conclusion of the Olympics, the purpose of this ad is probably to stir up the a bit of excitement until the NBA season starts in 2 months. The #RISEABOVE is the call-to-action here to promote discussion on twitter.
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"My goal was to design an innovative package using a small amount of material. It's made of natural microwaved cardboard and consists of one piece. The eggs placed into ellipse-shaped cuts. The consumer can get the eggs by the turning of topside"
This is egg carton design is totally awesome. It's so simple and naturally compliments the product. It makes me want to cook an omelet just for an excuse to fetch the eggs.
I've been walking past this subway billboard for a few weeks now but I never had a camera handy to snap a photo. The poster is a family-tree-style chart of Amstel bottle labels over the years.
The "Savor Complexity" tagline suggests that the UVP is something like: Amstel light is a leading imported light beer with a complex character, flavor and more than 140 years of brewing heritage (history).
In this case, the keywords would be Complex and History.
They used the words "tales, family tree, charts, bottle label" in its execution.
Complex Words:
Rubix CubeEngineeringMachinesFireworksComputer CodingArtsCalligraphyHuman BrainChemistryCrossword PuzzleHistory Words:
WarsTextbooksTimelineOld PaintingsBlack and White PhotosQuill PensDiaryHeirloomFamily TraditionsEvolution Line
They also did a few more posters and prints in explaining the complexity of other normal things that have a much longer history that myself.
Thanks to Procter & Gamble, the whole lead up to London in the last few months has been pretty amusing. In their efforts of showing thanks to everyone's moms, they produced the most emotional spots this year. As we marvel at the accomplishments of Olympic athletes, the campaign reminds us of the people who supported them from the beginning and made these feats possible. The short film "Best Job" beautifully captures the essence of years of motherly love. So far it has been huge, but these ads are only promoting the sponsors' brands rather than products. There would be plenty of time for that during and after the games.
They also did a whole series, called "Raising an Olympian" for real athletes and their moms.


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Justin Timberlake
Justin Timberlake began his career in the public eye as a country-crooning contestant on Star Search in 1992 (He lost!) and as a Mouseketeer from1993-95. The blonde-haired, blue-eyed looker and his falsetto then joined boy band 'N Sync, a name JT's mom coined using last letters of member's names. Having already conquered Europe, the quintet's 1998 U.S. debut went five-times platinum the first year on the strength of singles "I Want You Back" and "Tearin' Up My Heart." No Strings Attached (2000) sold a record-breaking 2.4 million the first week and earned the boys three Grammy nods. That same year JT said "Bye, Bye, Bye" to dating Britney Spears in secret. The reign of pop's prettiest purest couple ended in June 2002, just a few months before Timberlake allegedly took a jab at her on the Grammy-winning "Cry Me A River," the jilted jingle from his first solo CD Justified. Timberlake did everything he could to shelve his wholesome image — collaborated with hip hop's finest like Nelly, Snoop Dogg and the Black Eyed Peas, put sexy back into touring with Christina Aguilera in 2003, witnessed Janet Jackson's "Nipplegate" in 2004 from a foot away, took controversial film roles in Blake Snake Moan and Southland Tales, started the high-end William Rast clothing line in 2005, and co-wrote the Emmy-winning parody "D*** In A Box" for SNL. His smooth moves continued on 2006's Future Sex/Love Sounds, which bagged the boy wonder two more Grammys. But for all the dirty talk in his ditties, JT has a thing for monogamy. He dated Cameron Diaz from 2003-07 and kept things civil enough that the two could co-star in 2007's Shrek The Third and 2010's Bad Teacher. He was first linked to Jessica Biel in 2007 and despite a months-long hiccup in 2011, he made her his wife in October 2012. After focusing on film (The Social Network, Friends With Benefits), he ended his seven-year absence from music with the 2013 release of "Suit & Tie" and The 20/20 Experience.
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Aug17-12, 09:38 PM
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If you just google dog scared cooked lamb and actually take the time to sift through all the google results, you will literally find like a 100 reports (granted, they're anecdotal).
It helps if you put dog ~afraid ~cooked lamb as I have below so that it uses any words similar to afraid or cooked (some people say roasted or scared).
If you google dogs afraid onion or dogs afraid of chocolate, you get nada. Dogs aren't afraid of those things, even though they're poison to them. And lamb isn't poisonous to them, so I don't think it's an intelligent call on the dog's part, just some random biochemical response to something in lamb.
Aug29-12, 11:34 AM
A sheepdog my dad had would cower/act anxious if lamb was being cook.
clearly cooking / processing is the difference between your "dogs love lamb" and the experience of many people. What does the dog eating lamb have to do with the emotional response of the dog to the lamb being cooked? I am afraid of cows..., dislike the smell of the raw meat & while it's cooking, but love to eat beef.
At least you identified the fact it would be related to scents, but are any of the "possible" spices you suggest as a cause used exclusively for lamb?
Lamb has a very unique taste to it, perhaps similar to dog. perhaps it relates to breeding of herding dogs. But too few seem to have this response, so I'd think it's an "error" / irrational behavior on the dogs part.
Sep2-12, 09:40 PM
I just recently stumbled upon this forum even though I had done a similar search about 9 months ago. I have a 2 year old bernese mountain dog who is extremely outgoing and loves all types of food. Last year at Christmas we put a lamb roast in the oven, not 15 minutes after cooking he started showing extreme signs of stress- pacing, whining, circling. The other dog in the house was fine. I could tell he was very busy "smelling" and I took him outside the house- big mistake as I could not get him back inside. He ended up going home with my parents and returning to my house a week later. I had never seen him so anxious and terrified.
Just tonight he began acting the same way and I believe our neighbors are grilling lamb kabobs. He is pacing, tail tucked and constantly looking up into the sky smelling the air. This dog would gobble any other type of meat and has never been food picky. I am sharing this as I believe this must be a compound specific to lamb. I am currently a vet school student and I cannot find any information or studies that have been conducted, so I am curious to see what you guys dig up.
Sep3-12, 01:26 PM
Your neighbors were likely using spices. Kababs are usually cooked with onions and other spices. You don't know what your neighbors were cooking, but you believe that it was "kabob". If it was a kabab, then you can't even be sure that it was a lamb kabob. You may have decided that it was a kabob by the smell. The smell of a kabob mostly comes from spices. Even if the neighbors weren't using spices, he may be remembering the lamb meat.
You haven't stated whether you were using spices with your lamb roast. Maybe he smelled spices. Maybe he smelled only lamb and remembered having once gotten sick with lamb.
You should try to offer your dog unspiced lamb meat. Just cook some lamb without putting any onions or garlic on it. Maybe he would eat it. That would falsify your hypothesis. If he is afraid of unspicy lamb, please tell us whether your dog ever ate spicy meat of any king. Maybe he got sick one time eating lamb meat. Or maybe he never got sick in his life. That would suggest that he is afraid of the meat.
Another hypothesis proposed here is that sheep dogs may have been bred to dislike the smell of sheep. I don't believe it. The shepherds would have been feeding their dogs lamb all the time because that was the most easily available meat in their area.
Onions and garlic are slightly poisonous to dogs. Some dogs like small quantities of spice, like some humans like cigarettes. Maybe some dogs are repelled by spices, just like some humans find cigarette smoke offensive. So the question is whether these dogs that get anxious around lamb are anxious about meat or spice.
People are relating contradictory anecdotes, here. However, the ones claiming dogs are afraid of sheep meat should tell us how the dog reacts to spices. If there is a dog who likes onions, and is afraid of "plain" cooked lamb, then that would support the hypothesis that some dogs are afraid of lamb meat.
Sep3-12, 01:56 PM
Thanks for the response Darwin123
1) He never has eaten lamb- I have had him since he was a puppy so I know he was never poisoned by lamb meat previously. He didn't even try any the days he was upset. His dog food is lamb free (turkey & chicken). In fact, I don't think he has ever had bad food poisoning to even associate with spices.
2) We do not put any unusual spice on our lamb- no different than other meats. He has eaten hamburger with gusto and we use lots of spices in our burgers.
3) A previous post on this forum mentioned a particular molecule unique to lamb aroma. I would bet money it has something to do with that compound. This dog has never shown a fear to any other type of food ever. Probably similar to how some humans can detect the smell of asparagus in their urine, while other humans are completely oblivious.
Sep3-12, 02:02 PM
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I really don't buy the lamb spice hypothesis myself, I think the compounds in the lamb itself are more likely given the scope of the anecdotes. I have shown papers that identifies unique compounds in lamb, whereas spices are used in a wide variety of combinations. Of course, this is all speculation still, but you'd think you'd actually see anecdotes surrounding the spice itself (since spices can be used with such versatility) rather than the lamb. It stands to reason that it's more likely that it's one of the unique lamb compounds.
This is still just a hypothesis though, awaiting more robust evidence.
Sep3-12, 07:22 PM
Sep3-12, 08:39 PM
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My dog's favorite dry food was lamb-and-rice, until we transitioned him over to Blue Buffalo, which is a chicken-based food with no grain. He used to fart a lot (and potently) on the lamb-and-rice, but on the chicken-based no-grain dog food, he is doing great in that regard. Neither my wife or I am fond of lamb, so we never cook it, and I have no idea if Duke might not like the smell.
I can promise you that he will haunt you if you are eating grilled fresh tuna steaks though. Every time I grill them, he goes into "begging mode" and I have to tell him to lie down on his bed. I always relent, though, and give him a couple of hunks. Best to count your fingers after feeding him grilled tuna.
Nov22-12, 09:58 AM
Several months ago we brought home a new lamb-based dog food. Two of our dogs loved it. The third, a Dalmatian, was clearly terrified by the food. He also happens to be deaf, so he's a little quirky anyway, and we thought it was hilarious. We (including my wife, a small animal veterinarian) didn't think too much more about it, we just bought new food.
Then last night, I cooked lamb chops, something I had never done before. Having forgotten about the previous episode we put one of the bones in his dish; once he stopped cowering at the back of the kennel, he picked it up, ran upstairs, dropped it on the floor, then sprinted back into his kennel to cower some more. Neither my wife nor I previously had heard of dogs being afraid of the scent of lamb. When I googled it this morning I was stunned to see the number of hits it got.
I think the two incidents above pretty strongly suggest it has nothing to do with the manner of preparation, or the spices used--I'm pretty sure the dog food makers don't use rosemary when making the dog food, though of course I could be wrong about that.
My hypothesis is that somewhere early in the (hominid-accelerated) evolution of domestic dogs, a line emerged among herding dogs that was selected for an aversion to the taste of lamb, so as to minimize the losses to the herding dogs themselves. It must persist as a recessive trait. I would be very interested to know if it is more common among certain breeds.
Nov22-12, 12:07 PM
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So I have a Border Collie / Australian Shepherd mix. On Thanksgiving (4 days ago) everything was normal, up until I was sitting in my room, and suddenly my dog (Abby) came running and jumped on my lap on my chair. I didn't think TOO much of it, except for the fact that she just kinda seemed strange, just not herself. It is not unusual for her to jump on my lap or anything of that sort, but... I could just tell something didn't seem right. She didn't appear to be too happy at the thought of leaving the chair.
Moving on, I noticed while we were eating dinner, she was nowhere in sight. Which for her, is also sorta unusual while people are eating. She isn't bad about begging at the table, but... she is around.
Again, I didn't think too much of it, just thought she wanted to be alone (she has a tendency to go to a room and lay down by herself a lot).
The next day, I noticed she was still in my room, and couldn't remember if she had left at all during the day/night before. Sure enough, I called her out, and she wouldn't budge. Nothing I could do, would get her to leave the room. So... I picked her up, and brought her outside. She seemed fine while in my room, and seemed just fine while outside. But then, the moment I went to take her back inside, she freaked out and ran back outside... and into our patio, laid on the chair, and wouldn't budge. She stayed there for a couple hours, until I again had to pick her up and bring her inside, where she ran straight to my room and laid down.
Again later, I picked her up and brought her into our living room (which appeared to be the only place she wasn't going willingly). Sure enough, she starts sniffing around the floor very strangely. At one point, sniffing one spot, and actually jumping back as if there was something there she was terrified of. She ran out of the living room, and again back into my room.
This has been going on for 4 days now. She absolutely WILL NOT go into our kitchen, or living room, unless she is picked up, and brought into those rooms.
We could not figure out what could have possibly happened to cause this. So... I started doing searching on the internet to figure out what could possibly be going on. And sure enough, I start finding threads of dogs being terrified of the smell of lamb.
Once I saw those threads... I knew right away. Sure enough, on Thanksgiving, my brother had brought over lamb. NOBODY in the house, has EVER had lamb, and NEVER cooked any in the house. Until this Thanksgiving. It is the only thing I can possibly think of, that is causing her to be terrified of those 2 rooms. But now the question is... What can I do?
We have vacuumed, and shampoo'd the carpet, where she appears to be sniffing the most and running away from. But no improvement. Most threads I have found, people say their dog is over it within a day. This is 4 days now, about to be 5.
Any thoughts?
Dec11-12, 08:52 AM
Just saw your post. Did your dog get over it yet?
Dec14-12, 02:27 PM
I have a 6 year old mutt (lab / chow cross maybe) who is afraid of lamb too. It has nothing to do with the spices as she reacts with fear and anxiety to raw lamb bones especially. When cooking lamb she really freaks out, but after it's cooked, she's happy to have the bones to chew. go figure.
Dec14-12, 08:47 PM
Might it smell like death?
Animals can definitely smell death and disease, and do react to it.
Dec15-12, 06:59 PM
Various cultures worshiped dog spirits especially because dogs can be scavengers. Anubis, the jackal god, was worshiped by the Egyptians as a god of death. The wolves of Odin were worshiped along side his ravens, which are also scavengers. Dogs are not afraid of dead bodies.
Dogs probably avoid very rancid meat. A dog could get sick on rotten meat like any other mammal, even carnivores. So if the meat were rotten, then I would say that explained it. However, according to the story these dogs were being offered high quality lamb meat. So you can't explain the fear of lamb because it was diseased.
Dec21-12, 02:55 AM
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This reminds me of Georg Forster, A Voyage round the World in His Britannic Majesty's Sloop Resolution, Commanded by Capt. James Cook, during the Years, 1772, 3, 4, and 5 (1777). There he describes that the natives of New Sealand did eat their dogs. They were feeding the bones to the other dogs. While the European dogs they had brought with them on the ship refused to eat of the bones, the native dogs had no problem with this kind of cannibalism. He pointed out that this different behaviour also was found with puppies so that it was probably not trained but heritable.
Nov12-13, 07:26 AM
I can almost imagine what these poor dogs had to go through. The smell of lamb is the only smell from food that I can not stand for. One bite or in a room of cooking lamb can make me feel seriously sick and throw up straight away. I find it very upsetting, strong, gamey, smelly, and gross to be honest.
I know most of my friends don't mind it at all. But I just can not even get close to a lamb dish without feeling deeply disgusted. If someone use the knife he/she cut lamb with to cut some chicken, I would instantly throw up at one bite of the chicken too. Same goes sharing the same cutting board, cooking utensils and anything that had contact with lamb.
I can not explain why I hate the smell so much but I can imagine dogs have better nose than me and they could feel very upset at the smell. I do have a sensitive nose - my perfumes always get compliments in elevators and on the street. Some deodorant and perfumes are too strong for me to smell too, but no where as close to the level of how disgusting lamb is.
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