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A wonderful weekend of soccer just concluded. I happen to have the time to catch the marquee match-up at Anfield, Rapids-RSL and some of the West Ham vs. Arsenal.
Let's jump right in.
• Liverpool knocks over Manchester United, 2-0
» You can't start commentary here without talking about the play of Fernando Torres. He consistently threatened the Man U's backline all day long, testing the offsides barriers and commanding possession. He gave Nemanja Vidic fits, so much so that Vidic "earned" his third straight red against Benitez's side.
But that's not it, Torres went toe-to-toe with Vidic–at 25 mins of the first half winning corner that had Vidic just flabbergasted–and won on strength and then literally danced around Man U's left center and left flank (more on that later). The Spaniard also tracked back on defense and with a little more than 20 minutes left parried a dangerous free kick that would have challenged Reina.
I'm not old enough to make this claim, but for his shear combination of strength, finesse and precision, Torres is, in my book, one of the greatest to play the game.
» What in the world has happened to the left side of Manchester United's defense which was leaking like a sieve all day long. Rio Ferdinand is just a slim shadow of the player he used to be and Patrice Evra so disinterested that he thinks it's a privilege that Sir Alex is allowed to play him. TSG never makes these statements in isolation and today again both Evra and Ferdinand looked marginal to average at best.
Case in point, about 55 mins in a horrible play by Evra gifts the ball to Benayoun who rumbles to goal. Evra is seen just jogging back into the play; somewhat incredulous.
As for Ferdinand, Fernando Torres abusive run against him on the game winner about 60 mins in was indicative of how the oft-injured Ferdinand has lost a step and lost strength. You know how you know when a player is slowly losing it? He starts to complain to the ref incessantly. Ferdinand used to be average at best in his ref discussions, now it looks like he is looking for some sort of courtesy from the zebras. Your time has gone Ferdinand.
» Speaking of losing it, the Paul Scholes is very quickly heading to the over-35 req league — fast. Scholes often trailed the play and was a non-factor today. Going forward Scholes will be dubbed at TSG, "The fading Paul Scholes"
» In other news, Dimitar Berbatov has earned the nickname "The very average Dimitar Berbatov"
» Wrapping these points up, without Gerrard the Anfielders had the depth to take it to the Traffords. The game, in my opinion, was really won with Benitez's line-up selection. Aurelio, Benayoun, Torres and Kuyt capably backed by a resurgent Lucas and industrious Macherano. Fergie's backline played high and was at risk from the through ball and counter all day. The central midfield of Giggs, Scholes and Carrick couldn't link anything and the last 20 minutes of the game saw long ball after long ball USMNT style in an attempt to get some offense going.
• Real Salt Lake defeats the Colorado Rapids
(Note: tried to watch Galaxy – Earthquakes, but it didn't make the tele — if someone has a report, would love to hear it.)
» The best USMNT striker on the field Saturday night was clearly Robbie Findley over Conor Casey. Casey had a sloppy game and didn't seem in sync with his club. Meanwhile, Robbie Findley netted a brace and showed excellent offensive runs and command of the ball. After a 15th minute header, Findley had a highlight real goal just before the half as we gathered in a long lead pass in time to juggle it over the Rapid's goalie and then slot it into the bottom right.
Coming off that brace, Findley moved the ball excellently in the 2nd. We still lacks some strength, but he'll see another call-up from Coach B.
See Findley's highlight goal at the 2:15 mark.
» Did Colorado already quit on their coach? I found their lack of effort and execution appalling. It was clear that the Rapids were eager for the oft-season.
» Former USMNT hopeful Drew Moor looked slow as his hips were turned twice on the 3rd RSL goal.
• West Ham battled back against Arsenal for a 2-2 draw
» Yank's Johnny Spector was in the right full position and was matched up alternately against the likes of Arshavin and Van Persie and did a very admirable job. Good job in Specs getting the start and making use of it. Specs had other player responsibilities for the two Emirates goals.
• Other bullets:
» Fulham battled back to tie Man City, 2-2. Remarkable given that Fulham find the back of the net less than DaMarcus Beasley. Clint had his typical seeing-eye header that bounced and then dodged the valiant effort by Shay Given.
P.S. If you want to see the lamest goal celebration ever, check out Lescott's score where Adebayor tried to get the credit. Beyond lame.
We changed our minds, it's better than an Amr Zaki start. Twice this year, we've commented to look out for Hugo Rodallega. The Colombian national, fresh of a transfer from Necaxa of the Mexican league, is making DW Stadium forget all about Zaki who came out roaring last year for the home side, but then fizzled after a bout with I'm-too-good-itis. Rodallega netted a brace against Burnley on Saturday. Look for the 26-year-old to put his national team back on the map in the coming years–he's that good.
» If the Slovakia friendly November 10th does happen for the US, you may see star Marek Hamsik (who we discussed Friday) come in as a future member of Chelsea. Rumor has it he is the guy for the Blues come the January transfer window.
» Just another piece of evidence that superstar Lionel Messi is not too fond of Diego Maradona skippering his national side.


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7 Things From Pop Culture That Apparently Piss Jesus Off
#3. Coca-Cola
The Coca-Cola logo is one of the most recognized symbols in the world, along with the McDonald's arches and the international hand gesture for the Shocker. It's not surprising then that with such high visibility Coke was bound to make a few missteps in marketing and, say, accidentally create some satanic advertisements.
In the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod, which has a population around 1.5 million, Coke let loose an ad campaign that featured Coke bottles mixed in with some local landmarks including churches and domes. Some of the pictures were skewed and inverted and if there's one thing you can't overreact to enough, it's a Coke bottle next to an inverted cross.
Local orthodox churches protested the ads as blasphemous and wanted the Coca Cola company brought to trial for "inciting religious hatred and undermining national dignity." Coke quickly withdrew the ads and tried to reassure the churches (or at least the ones with loyal Coke customers) that they in fact were not trying to summon Satan to swallow everyone's souls (and wash them down with a cool bottle of Coca-Cola).
#2. Wacky Week
In the town of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, a local elementary school liked to have an activity it called "Wacky Week" once a year. Doesn't it sound fun even without knowing what goes on? It's Wacky Week! It's gotta be the coolest thing you'll do at school all year! The event included students dressing in costumes and, on the last day of Wacky Week, the kids could come dressed either as senior citizens or members of the opposite sex.
Oh, fuck. On God's scale of totally wrong shit, cross-dressing falls smack in between burning whole cities to the ground and letting the Wayans brothers direct movies.
Naturally, this meant some radio host somewhere flew into a rage at the idea of children dressing as members of the opposite sex. When little boys dress as girls at school one day, by the next week they're listening to Clay Aiken and giving their mothers home decorating advice. Girls, of course, will be getting buzz cuts, wearing flannel and fixing small engines.
While no one complained about this chicanery beforehand, once nationally syndicated Christian radio show Crosstalk found out about it, the world became aware of how the school was striking "at the heart and core of the Biblical values." And it's true, it's right there in Leviticus: "Thou shalt wear thine own clothes lest thou go all fruity and shit."
After the show aired, the school got hit by a pantload of phone call complaints until the school buckled and canceled the event for future years. Yes, this means there are no doubt several dozen children whose first impression of Christians was, "The mean grown-ups who killed Wacky Week."
Good thinking. We're sure they'll grow up to be loyal church-goers.
#1. Harry Potter
If there's one thing evangelicals--or at least the insane ones--can't abide, it's the corruption of the innocent. If there's another thing they can't abide, it's not acting like complete loons and making asses of themselves in an international forum. Harry Potter presented an opportunity for some fundamentalists to kill these two birds with one stone.
Protests against the Harry Potter books and films have sprung up in dozens of cities and school boards in the US and the UK, with over 3,000 attempts to remove the books from schools between the years 2000 and 2005.
In 2001, the actual, recent 2001, Harry Potter books were burnt in a bonfire in New Mexico along with other satanic items like Ouija boards, Stephen King books and AC/DC albums. Eminem albums and copies of Disney's Snow White were saved from the flames and just tossed into the garbage. For some reason.
Most of the protests stem from the belief that Harry Potter, being a wizard, is going to seduce people away from God and into the occult where they'll start casting spells. This fear is clearly well founded since Jesus only managed to cure some leprosy and make a lot of fish and wine, whereas it is documented that wizards can turn people into ferrets, fly on broomsticks, travel through time and resurrect the dead. So basically Harry Potter will make each susceptible reader into a demigod capable of ruling the earth.
Considering they've sold about 40 billion copies of the books we'd expect a rather large magical army of these little bastards to have emerged by now, but who knows, maybe they're still practicing.
What we can't figure out is why they protest Potter but don't demand Lord of the Rings be pulled from the shelves. It not only has wizards, but in the movie the main wizard is played by a gay man, plus the book contains pages and pages of fruity musical numbers and enough homoerotic innuendo between Frodo and Samwise to incite an orgy.
We're assuming that if all of that didn't draw Jesus' wrath, then he's probably willing to let the Harry Potter thing slide, too.
For proof that Christianity can do good, or at least be extraordinarily manly, check out The 5 Biggest Badass Popes. Or, for a video chock full of guys acting like and dressed up as even bigger dicks than you read about in this article, check out A Video Tribute to The Dick Move.

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If I want to make a red ale in the vein of Lagunitas's Imperial Red, Dry Hopped St. Rogue Red, or Green Flash Hop Head Red. Anyone have any recipes for me? I'm not looking for a traditional Irish red.
There are two that come to mind. The first is Jamil's Evil Twin, which is available in his book Brewing Classic Styles. The second one is Fire in the Hole, available in both extract and all-grain versions from Morebeer.com. I've brewed it, and found it to be very close to Lagunitas' Imperial Red, Pizza Port's Shark Attack, and Pike's Tandem Double -- all delicious Imperial Reds. The only adjustment I would make to the Fire in the Hole recipe is to delete the oak chips -- it tastes fine, but none of the 3 I mentioned use oak. See my version and recipe at http://huningtonsachsbrauerei.blogspot.com/2009/11/firebreaks.html It's a mini-mash/extract version.
This seems like a recipe that might work. The IBUs are about right, and the grain bill looks solid. I'll have to experiment to see if I can convert it into a mash-extract recipe.
Oddly, I'm answering my own question through a different account of the same name. Splendid.


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Do peopleagree that we should try to change the articles we have before adding new player ones in for now?
Even if we only get a few changed it is best to have some original ones imo.
Do peopleagree that we should try to change the articles we have before adding new player ones in for now?
Even if we only get a few changed it is best to have some original ones imo.
Another point to consider- do we fully update every page after a new release? At the moment the little genuine player info we have is based almost entirely on FM09. What about when the nnext game comes out, or even a new patch?
Could put them in both Players and a new Retired category - or just a Retired category would suffice
I would say in both sections.
Does everyone think that we should include PA numbers on the wiki? I know that some people that use the forums (eg. the LLaMa forum) do not like to read/know the PAs of players.
Last edited by ssestig; 10-06-2009 at 16:52.
http://vanishingpointwiki.com/wiki/MediaWiki:Spoiler - Something like that ssestig would probably be best to implement if you were thinking about doing CAs and PAs
I'm back, guys
Had a lot of work with exams and coursework recently but now, that I only have one exam left, I thought that I would make my return here.
I have been following the thread whilst working though so, I understand about the wii being down and on the player profiles section, I think that they should be original and therefore, not allowed to be copied by other sites (other fm wiki sites)
I will get back working on the wiki soon, but I do have a lot of coursework and one exam left so, I may not be doing loads until around the 23rd.
23rd is my birthday so you best be back for that
I've added the spoiler code to the wiki should you opt to use it - let me know if its of any use. To use it you need to surround the text you're using with
Yeah I'll get around to fixing those - it is on my things to do - bit hectic this week as its the mrs' birthday today!
With regards to the spoiler tags I've edited the colours on the box instead of the bright red to this - http://www.footballmanagerwiki.co.uk...tle=Wikiupdate
Edit: Could somebody make a list of the broken profiles and PM them to me so I can look at the cause for it - I've got a feeling its due to the ParserFunctions (which added all the accents etc.) which has messed links up
60 images to go
Last edited by JJay; 10-06-2009 at 17:12.
I've done the Fabregas page like Priskin, have a look if you want. I'lm going to do a couple more like it whenever I can, so make sure you write down the names of pages that are original content please
JJay, those spoilers are much better, the fmwiki colours
Last edited by arsenal_2111; 10-06-2009 at 17:14.
All images uploaded now
I have added original content to:
Simon Church
Hal Robson-Kanu
Gylfi Sigurdsson
Alexis Sanchez
Alexandre Pato
Kevin Doyle is completely original.
Last edited by SCIAG; 10-06-2009 at 17:42.
I'm of the opinion that any screenshots should be taken at the start of the game too, rather than after having had the players developed. Perhaps for players which start off rubbish but advance to become great, then a "developed" screenshot could be added within the spoiler field too, I suppose.
But if you do choose to include screens in the long-term, it's definitely something that needs discussing. Hell, it's probably possible to create a bot to automate the task each time a new game comes out for each player there's an article about, but it would require a lot of programming know-how, and processing power obviously for the task itself.
I knew that bots could do simple tasks (I have a WP account myself) but I never thought they could do something as external as that
I've added a CSE page as requested by Alan in the Wiki Forums and i am also working on a graphics pack one
It wouldn't be impossible to write a bot that runs on a powerful computer that, once a new game is released, looks for all player articles on FMwiki, then does a search for each of those players within the game (this is why it would need to be a powerful computer, to be able to load enough players to avoid having to do the task multiple times with different leagues loaded), take a screenshot of their profile, upload it to the wiki, and then add the new image to the article.
It's just whether there's any programmers amongst us and anyone with the computer to run it (and the willingness to pretty much give up their computer for a couple of days around the launch of each new game).
So it's not impossible, just rather impractical. You could technically write a bot to do ANY repetitive task.
Here is the current graphics packs page, maybe you could add to that and/or replace some of the content already there?
That's what i am doing gradually Alan No problem either, it was simple to create the CSE Page
I've fixed a couple of profiles now - what other profiles have been showing errors?
I believe it just affected all pages that have titles with accents on them.
Maybe a mix of two, taking as much info as possible out of both? You made both of them so it mightn't be too difficult.
Yeah - got any more that need fixing?
Fixed those ones now too
I'm still getting database errors for all of them.
Don't know if this is on the list above but I am getting a database error for this one:
Edwin's page
I found the underlying cause which was the CharSet as first believed - but found the actual setting - should stop this happening in future
Check for errors now
Edit: You may need to move current pages with odd characters to the correct page as I did not want to run a script on the database to do this automatically incase it messed up
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If you see the articles on the Main Page changing then be aware that it's me playing about
I have changed the Selected Article to be a featured article each month. At present this is manual but in future could be automated if it felt appropriate.
Also - some feedback on whether an integrated IRC applet would be of any use for the wiki would be useful
I have changed the Selected Article to be a featured article each month. At present this is manual but in future could be automated if it felt appropriate.
Also - some feedback on whether an integrated IRC applet would be of any use for the wiki would be useful - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:IRC_Chat
Who put that? What was wrong with what I put?So please now read on about everything Football Manager you will ever need to know!
Nope, just didn't think it made much sense. The sentence that is.
So please now read on about everything Football Manager RELATED you will ever need to know!
So please now read on about everything Football Manager RELATED that you will ever need to know!
Just started a page for Leicester City. Is that better content wise? Obviously missing budgets, stadium info and suggested formation/signings which can be added at a later date.
Also for the screenshots for players, can they all be from the first season only please guys so that we know what they start the game like first then add some more at a later date.
Last edited by ssestig; 11-06-2009 at 23:30.
Was just checking for the future though
That'd be quite good, might not get used much but would be a nice little add onOriginally Posted by ahmufcwafc
By the way, player pages with accents are screwed up again. Priskin's page is called Tam�s Priskin and has no content - not sure what's happened here.
We need the accents IMO.
Why do the accented? pages keep messing up?
Hm, when was that page created? It's not one that I've manually had to fix. The accent issue should now be fixed - but what has happened here is that as it has been fixed it doesn't understand the old link
The only affected articles therefore will be the ones created prior to the fix yesterday
They just need to be moved to the correct page names as Jammy is doing
I've applied the automatic fix (which will now only cause the profiles we moved manually to be out of sync) to sort out EVERY character problem there was - this has fixed all the profiles with accents. The empty profiles should now be back
I could have done this yesterday - would have saved the problems today which I didn't forsee!
I think that should be all the Player Profiles fixed now A-Z and it is safe to continue to use accents and other characters in the page names
Cheers for that JJay - by the way, I got three emails from you, do you need me/want me to reply?
I've removed the stub tag from the skins page, I dont think there is much more that could be added?
I've set up the featured content page here. I just picked a few random pages that were in the top 10 most viewed list.
Is there any way of getting rid of that ugly contents box at the top of the page?
Personally I think you should just show the best from each category.
Clubs -
Competitions -
Nations -
Players -
Non-Players -
Gameplay -
Skinning -
Technical -
Stadia -
Editing -
Game Releases -
Miscellaneous -
I'll leave that one empty in case anyone else want to suggest some.
Clubs - Arsenal
Competitions - I like Serie A, but I'm biased
Nations - Wales
Players - Maybe one of the ones that were redone? Fabregas, Priskin, I'm not sure what other ones were done
Non-Players - Not sure if there is one that has FM info?
Gameplay - So many to choose from, either Tactics, Training or Assembling a good team maybe?
Skinning - Skins is the obvious choice
Technical - Tips on making PC faster
Stadia - All the same layout no? So just pickany team
Editing - Either EDT, DDT and LNC Files or WeeGiE
Game Releases - FM09, FMH and FML
Miscellaneous - Steam maybe? Not too many to choose from.
Just saw the ones there - all of them seem fine too, but I think we need a couple more.
Maybe 10 altogether? Not sure which ones are the best from them, I reckon
1. Regens
2. Takeovers
3. Skins
4. Steam
5. Tactics
6. Training
7. Assembling a good team...
8. (what people think the best team guide is)
9. (what people think the best competition guide is)
10. (what people think the best player guide is)
As for the contentsbox, I don'tthink you can.
Last edited by arsenal_2111; 12-06-2009 at 22:17.
Is all you did for that type in _NOTOC_ ? Cheers
I *think* the whole of the Arsenal page is original, and think Kevin Doyle, Fabregas and Priskin are the only player ones with completely original work. Then most competition guides that aren't big walls of text are original. So I'm not sure on this one.
Fabregas is well known so he may be a good one? Or if you think theres a better player that could go on there I'll write up a guideto him.
Yeah the Arsenal page looks good, I think that should go in. I think we should go with Priskin for the player profile, just to not have too much featured pages related to Arsenal.
I'll have them up shortly.
Ok then
It's done now. Could do with a change in the colour of some of the boxes, I'll try to sort that out tomorrow.
Looks great
That chat addon is a nice touch
Any chance one of you guys could create a page on player compensation?
Like where you approach to sign and it says 'Team X must be compensated with Y amount of money possibly rising to Z'
Not sure if its always the same, but my last one was Y upfront followed by 100k per appearance for the next 40 games, with 15% sell-on clause
It was until 09, when the Bostock transfer made them update things. I think I'll mention that on Bostock's page, actually. I did with the "sign young Brazilian in the future" thing on Pato's page
By the sounds of things he has retired.
The Featured Articles page looks great
The Atletico Madrid page is dodgy, it says Atlético Madrid
Thought I'd give you the heads up
Yeah will have a look if theres anymore like that and post them in here
The following player images will be missing - if you need them then it would be an idea to upload them (preferably on to imageshack and link or similar to save a bit of space):
Dean Ashton
Juan Forlin
Papa Gueye
Vakhit Orazsakhedov
Giovanni Dos Santos
Anton Kozlov
Clayton Ince
Edin Dzeko
Manuel Pellegrini
I also note that the following images are missing too
That should be them all
Last edited by JJay; 17-06-2009 at 09:28.
Exams finished now Over 3 months free, I should be able to get some articles done at some point.
Yeah, I think we should.
That way they can be done easier.
Would be a good idea Alan IMO. The Graphics Pack page should be up fairly soon, i only have 1 exam left on 30th June plus 2 more weeks of school after that
It should be up within the next week but i just haven't had time to work on it recently with Eng + Design Coursework and essays
Just thought I would come on here for a look, and I just had a look at the wiki and I saw quite surprised how it has massively improved since the last time I saw it.
Credit to everyone who has contributed. Keep up the fantastic work.
Is there a limit on how many screenshots we can upload?
Jod:Who are you?
Cheers, though I haven't done half as much as I should have. You going to stick around?
We're petty close to reaching our storage limit, and if we exceed it, JJay's going to have to pay. As far as I know he's restricted uploads to admins only just as a sort-term measure. Linking to imageshack or photobucket is probably the best thing to do for now.
Could you give me a hand sticking stub tags on all profile pages that have no content if at all possible?
Also, are we ready to make a decision on the wikipedia situation yet or should that be held up for another while? All up to you guys, I don't do anything on the profles so I'll leave it up to you.
How can we upload screenshots from external sites such as Photobucket or Imageshack to the wiki?
Just done that with Xabi Prieto, a player known to me via Crazy's Torquay dominance on FM07. Let me know what you think.
Edit: 2900th post.
Last edited by ssestig; 21-06-2009 at 15:07.
Maybe, to make it stand out on pages that have text, you could give the screenshot a separate header. Something like this:
We've hit 100% disk usage now. I think the best idea is to upload all player profile screenshots to photobucket from now on. JJay will be taking all the screenies uploaded to the site and they'll be re-uploaded on photobucket. Afterwards we'll have plenty of disk space left so we'll be able to allow uploads again.Code:==Screenshot of Profile== [link to screenshot]
That's a good idea guys.
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It says in my course notes that a particle has so-called "kinetic energy"
Where does this formula come from? What is k?
It says in my course notes that a particle has so-called "kinetic energy"
Where does this formula come from? What is k?
The above equation solves for the average kinetic energy of a gaseous particle at a given temperature. k is known as Boltzman's constant, $k_B = 1.3806503 × 10^{-23}\frac{m^2kg}{s^2K} $ and is equal to the ideal gas constant divided by Avagadro's number, $\frac{R}{N_A}$.
Hope this helps!
This follows from the equipartition theorem. The equipartition theorem states that in thermal equilibrium, the average energy of each degree of freedom (each independent way the system can move) is $k_B T/2$, where $T$ is the temperature and $k_B$ (or just $k$) is called the Boltzmann constant. There are three independent directions in which a gas particle can move (three independent components of velocity), so the total kinetic energy is $3\times k_B T/2$. It is important to realise that this is a statistical formula that is only true on average for a large number of particles in equilibrium: each individual particle may in fact have a kinetic energy different from this. The Boltzmann constant provides a link between the microscopic and macroscopic worlds, by relating the typical average energies of microscopic particles to the energies required to change the temperature of a macroscopic mass by a measurable amount.
I've looked at the notes. There are several things going on here, some of them not stated. And we have to make some assumptions. One is that the average kinetic energy of a particle moving in a direction $v$ is $mv^2/2$, where $m$ is the mass of the particle. This isn't too hard to prove, but doing so would take us far afield.
Another assumption is that there is an average energy per particle in a gas and that this average depends on temperature. By a rather complicated argument one can show that the average energy per particle is $kT/2$, where $T$ is the absolute temperature in kelvins and $k$ is a constant known as Boltzmann's constant.
The argument then goes as follows: The particle can move in three independent directions. That is, its motion will change its $x$, $y$, and $z$ components independently. So we have to multiply our formulas by three, which almost give us the formula you have above.
The difference is the $v^2$ term. That's defined as the sum the average energies in the three independent directions, $v^2 = v_x^2 + v_y^2 + v_z^2$. Since all directions are equivalent and independent, we assume that each contributes equally to the sum. Thus $v^2 = v_x^2/3$, where I've picked $v_x$ for convenience, I could have used any of the $v$'s.
Putting all the bits together gives us the formula above.


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I'm planning to cook a regular chicken on Sunday and I thought that I should probably try to season it somehow. I've never tried to cook a chicken before (first Christmas dinner as an adult obv!). I thought about stuffing it, but scooping out the stuffing after to eat seems a bit gross to me. Will the stuffing itself impart flavour to the chicken meat?
You can put things in the cavity to help flavor the chicken as well. A bundle of fresh herbs, garlic, an onion, fresh fruit, etc. Stuffing from a cavity is divine though, don't knock it until you've tried it!
IMO you should only use herbs some onion and fresh fruit as others have stated. Anything that is bread based must heat to 160 to be safe to eat after the fact which means by that time your chicken will be likely 170 and dry. If you insist on a proper stuffing then pull your chicken at 160 then remove the stuffing and put it back in the oven till it's 160
The stuffing doesn't add much flavor to the chicken, so no.
If I even bother making stuffing, I like to cook the it in a separate pan. I usually have better luck getting the stuffing to a safe temperature without overcooking the meat, and it doesn't get as greasy. It also lets me get plenty of crispy brown bits on the top of the stuffing, which you really don't get if you cook it in a bird. I often use fat drained off of drippings from a previous roast chicken to cook the veg for the stuffing, and I use homemade, concentrated chicken stock (made from the carcasses of previous roast chickens), which I think gives the stuffing just as much chicken-y flavor as cooking it inside the chicken.
You can put other things into the bird to improve flavor if you're worried about it being bland. I like to season with salt and pepper inside and out. That's all you need if you have a really good chicken, but sometimes I'll cram half a lemon, half an onion, a couple cloves of garlic that I've bashed with the side of a knife to crack them open a bit, and some fresh herbs inside to play with the flavors.
This is an odd kind of answer to the question that you're not exactly asking;
If you're interested in stuffing the bird, and consuming the stuffing, but not interested in the yuck of unstuffing the thing, you could fill an improvised food-grade net (i.e. cheesecloth, muslin wort/hop bag, grain sock, etc) that would be permeable AND allow for you to remove the stuffing more easily.
In this way, you get all the benefits of the stuffing flavoring the bird, you get a side dish, and both the act of stuffing and unstuffing will leave your hands reasonably clean.
I'd cook the stuffing separately; much easier to get both to the ideal temperature that way. You do not want to serve overcooked chicken, and you must not serve undercooked chicken or undercooked stuffing exposed to raw chicken.
I'd suggest brining your chicken (in a brine containing herbs, garlic, onion). Keep in mind that most of the herb flavor will stay in the brine, only a small amount will migrate into the bird; that is, if you taste the brine (before adding the chicken, obviously), it should taste of way too much salt, and also way too much of whichever herbs you used.
If you're going to roast the chicken with high heat, you'll want to have little if any sugar in the brine. 5% or so salt (by weight vs. the water), maybe 1% sugar. Look up some chicken brine recipes to find some good flavor combinations.
Cool the brine before adding the chicken (easy way: make it double-strength, and dilute 50% by weight using ice). Brine for around 12 hours (in the fridge); rinse and dry the chicken as well as you can with paper towels; return to the fridge, uncovered, for an hour or so (to continue drying); then roast.
And, most importantly, do not overcook the chicken. The brining gives you some leeway here, the goal is 165°F for the breast and 175°F for the legs.
If you make gravy or pan sauce, the drippings from a brined bird will be fairly salty; don't add additional salt without tasting, use unsalted butter in the roux (and have some low-sodium chicken stock on hand should you need to dilute to reduce saltyness).
Note that the stuffing goes into the neck end, filling the flap of skin there, not the body cavity.
If you were to put stuffing into the body cavity, you would end up with a greasy, sloppy mess, and it would indeed be gross.
Stuff the neck end, and you're likely to find it more appetising than you're expecting.
The stuffing does impart some flavour to the meat, but it doesn't penetrate very far from where the stuffing is.
Stuffing does mean there's more mass to heat up, and impedes the transfer of heat into part of the chicken, so you need to take that into account when deciding how long to cook for.
I don't know what company you'll have, or how much emphasis your culture puts upon Christmas dinner -- but I think it's pretty bold to try anything for the first time on Christmas day. On that basis, I'd suggest making things as simple as possible, and that means not stuffing the chicken; try that another weekend.
Some form of stuffing is a Christmas dinner essential though. Use packet mix and cook it in a separate tray.


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Winters on Catholic Libertarians
At the National Catholic Reporter, Michael Sean Winters makes the "Catholic Case against Libertarianism." Along the way, he remarks on the condescension of those who have attributed Pope Francis's bracing language about inequality to his South American ignorance of how we Americans do capitalism.
The most appalling critique is the meme that poor Pope Francis is a benighted Argentine, incapable of recognizing the virtues of capitalism because of his experience. In the first place, insofar as capitalism is now a global system—and recall that the libertarians tend to be great champions of globalization—Pope Francis' experience of it is as valid as anyone else's. But, more alarmingly, I do not recall any of my conservative or libertarian friends objecting to anything that came from the mouth or pen of St. Pope John Paul II because he was a Pole, or raising the concern that a doctrinal statement by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI must be dismissed, or minimized, or so heavily contextualized as to be dismissed, because of the narrow vision he brought with him from Bavaria.
Winters, who is a visiting fellow at Catholic University's Institute for Policy Research & Catholic Studies, has helped organize the institute's conference on libertarianism and Catholic social teaching, which will take place tomorrow in Washington D.C. Among the speakers and panelists will be Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, archbishop of Tegucigalpa and chair of Council of Cardinals; Spokane Bishop Blase Cupich; John DiIulio of the University of Pennsylvania; and Mark Shields of the PBS Newshour. I'll be participating in the afternoon roundtable discussion on "How Libertarianism Affects the Culture." I'll post a link to video of the conference as soon as it becomes available.
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Right wing jingoism is always ready to rear its head. We see this also in the case of the American"hero"; a vet, now in a Mexican jail for having entered the country with banned weapons.The whole right wing is now bullying, and harrassing the Mexican government for daring to enforce their laws against a US citizen who admittedly entered their country with banned weapons and lied before a judge.The same arrogance occured in the right wing media, when the American Amanda Knox was on trial in Italy.Then the right wing media was saying that the legal system of Italy goes back to the Middle Ages implying their mind set is mideveal and her prosecution invalid.This jingoism is always ready to assert itself when the right wing geets challenged by the rest of the world.Appalling!
The most appalling critique is the meme that poor Pope Francis is a benighted Argentine, incapable of recognizing the virtues of capitalism because of his experience. In the first place, insofar as capitalism is now a global system—and recall that the libertarians tend to be great champions of globalization—Pope Francis' experience of it is as valid as anyone else's.
This is both true and not true. Pope Francis' experience is necessarily specific to him, and may not correspond to the experience of people who live in other places. Maybe capitalism works better in some other places than in Argentina ("works" here being shorthand for "treats people more fairly and justly"). And maybe Francis' critique is more applicable in some places than others.
It seems clear that quite a few people of concluded that some of Pope Francis' economic comments don't pass the credibility litmus test. I think people feel free to ignore him because they conclude that, whatever problems he's talking about, it has nothing to do with them.
whatever problems he's talking about, it has nothing to do with them
That would be my main criticism of libertarianism. It denies that subsidiarity by denying that they have any responsibility for anyone else.
Ryan - I agree with your criticism. My supposition, though, is that many Catholics and others of good will who participate in the marketplace don't deny subsidiarity, or other planks of Francis' economic teaching, so much as not see their applicability. They don't understand what he is telling them nor see why it is relevant to them and what they do.
For example, recently and famously he tweeted, "Inequality is the root of all evil". Presumably that is some sort of economic critique (?), but the truth of the statement is not self-evident, and in fact many people of good will would disagree; they might point to sin or the Devil or greed as being the root of all evil. He has also decried "trickle-down economics", a phrase that few people use today. I just think a lot of people are left scratching their heads, wondering "What is he talking about?" And then, because most people seem to like him and wish to extend the benefit of the doubt to him, they speculate, "Well, maybe that's true in Argentina?"
I suspect that if anyone is ignoring or dismissing Pope Francis's comments on economic inequality because of his 'other' context, it is probably because the problem has very much to do with them. It's a guilty reaction. He's called the game for what it is and they're uncomfortable with the plain spoken truth so they try to obfuscate it with phony details.
I hope someone at the conference invokes the spirit of Frederic Bastiat, a notable Catholic libertarian of the early 19th century. He is buried in the Church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. People go there for the Caravaggio paintings but they are unknowingly infected with the libertarian spirit. Read his essay, The Seen and the Unseen.
The Acton Institute has sponsored a special issue of the journal Econwatch focusing on the question "Does Economics need an infusion of religious or quasi-religious formulations?" Daniel Finn, a Commonweal contributor is one of the authors. There should be a "trigger warning" for Michael Sean Winters.
Jim Pauwels,
It is certainly fair to be unsure about what a 140 character message means or to be unsure about how best to respond to a global economy in a moral fashion. That is very different from the immediate response by the Acton Institute to declare these messages to be wrong because they imply that collective action via the government might not only be morally permissible but also morally necessary.
As an aside, does the good Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga ever decline an invitation? It seems as though he has become one of those "airport bishops" who is always traveling for all kinds of speaking engagements, rather than, you know, tending his flock.
Jim Pawels,
I think we can all agree that twitter isn't the best method for delivering a critique on complex matters. And certainly one's life experiences impact how you see things. Where you stand depends onwhere you sit is the old saying. But putting that aside, I would argue that those who don't see how Francis' message applies are either missing the message because they are so wrapped up in ideology or willfully ignoring it. While relative to the rest of the world, the US might be in better shape, reality is that since the mid-1970s income inequality has increased steadily. Since 2007, the number of homeless families in the US has grown dramatically. Sorry Jim, but Francis' teachings do indeed apply.
One other note on Argentina. From the 1990s on, it has been exactly the form of free market economic paradise that libertarians should love. Of course it doesn't work too well, but that never stopped a theorotician. In a sense, since the end of military rule, Argentina has stumpled from one free market solution to another with little success.
I am pretty sure that what concerns the Pope and most other commentators is not income equality but its current extremes. I think few object to the company president making a lot more than most workers. But at a certain level the discrepancy is too great. If the president or owner has so much income that he can no longer remember how many houses he owns, and one of his employees works full-time and cannot feed, clothe, and shelter her children, that seems a real moral issue.
It denies that subsidiarity by denying that they have any responsibility for anyone else.
I dont think thats limited to libertarians. Consider liberals - "if it feels good, do it" which is infected with the same lack of responsibility for others.
Rocco Palmo @ Whispers in the Loggia printed this today (http://whispersintheloggia.blogspot.com/) :
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The Catholic Case Against Libertarianism.
Keynote. June 3rd. 2014
Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodríguez Maradiaga SDB
Archbishop of Tegucigalpa
The top comment at NCR says that libertarianism is about non-compulsion. This is false. If someone takes something from them, they believe in compelling the person to give it back. If someone tresspasses, they believe in compelling the person to leave. If someone owes them money, they believe in compelling the person to relinquish their property to settle the debt.
This works well for those favored by the status quo, but does a major disservice to those who have been wronged in the past or just were not favored by the vagaries of life.
@ Jim McCrea
Thanks for the link. That was a good read, which must have been a good speech.
Now, I can't wait to hear what "the libertarians/conservatives" have to say about what the Cardinal said. Maybe, they'll come up with something new this time around. Maybe they'll ask Cardinal Dolan to "write" another op-ed piece!
I read the speech. Whatever Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga is decrying, I don't think it is Libertarianism. What is this conference about?
Cardinal Mariaga's appeal is heart-felt and quite consistent with Catholic social principles. But I find it sadly non-practical because his exhortaions to help the poor give no concrete programs for doing so.
The problems are economic, so the solutions must be economic. However the good-hearted cardinal doesn't offer any *economic* solutions. He doen't tell us HOW a country can provide more yobs for the young people and recently laid off workers who are anxious to work. It would seem to me that investement in new businesses or expansions of old ones is the answer. But HOW to get the private sector to expand the economy is the big problem. Capitalists these days seem unwilling to risk their gelt in shaky, under-performing economies. (Chicken capitalists!)
Of course, government programs which hire the unemployed are another potential huge source of jobs (e.g., public works re-habilitating public roads, dams, etc.). But that would be temporary and not enough to solve the long-term unemployment problem.
So what should Cardinal Maradiaga propose specifically?
The problems are economic, so the solutions must be economic.
It's possible that the economic issues are themselves symptoms of an underlying spiritual malaise. This, I thought, was the strongest part of the Cardinal's address: when he spoke of the poor being ignored, and the global culture of indifference. This is an area where the church's voice on behalf of the poor is critical.
I don't think Cardinals and Popes have global economic policy competence. I do think they are competent at diagnosing spiritual and moral problems. I think their job is to call out those issues in light of the Gospel. The specific solutions should come from people who have competence in that technical area. Those experts, or some of them, are themselves members of the Body of Christ. It is their sacred vocation to bring that faith and moral discernment and commitment to social justice to policymaking. As I understand it, that is precisely how the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights came about. That process should be the model for socially just economic policymaking.
Participants in this discussion might be interested in Charles M. A. Clark's review of Samuel Gregg's Tea Party Catholic: The Catholic Case for Limited Government, a Free Economy and Human Flourishing: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/book-reviews/blessed-are-rich
See also, Roger Scruton's "The Good of Government": http://www.firstthings.com/article/2014/06/the-good-of-government
Ann Olivier,
Practical solutions aren't the sphere of a Cardinal. Rather, their job is to lay out the principles by which our proposals and societies should be measured.
I'd recommend two major changes. First, expand the federal, state, and local governments to reverse the cutbacks of the past five years. If goverment payrolls had expanded at the same rate as they have during recent history instead of contracting, our jobs crisis would be much less severe. Second, I'd have the Federal Reserve announce a shift in policy to have a 4% inflation target rather than 2% and commit to having average inflation meet this target rather than accepting it undershooting. This would encourage capitalists to find productive uses for their money rather than keeping it parked in safe assets.
Ryan --
I must disagree that the clergy must always be silent about economic problems. Granted, if they aren't experts then their opinions don't count for any more than thata of the average person. However, clergymen, most especially Catholic ones, often have a great amount of expertise concerning the de facto needs of poor people, expertise gained by overseeing systems of hospitals, schools, and other institutions serving the public.
Further, *everyone*has an obligation to speak out against obviously great inequities, such as the lack of opportunity for many young people due to the bad education of the kids who live in slums, and most especially we need to speak out (and take action) against the poverty that is obvious in many parts of our counry. No, we don't have to agree with the clergy persons' solutions, but we do have to make some effort to find suitable solutions based on facts. And if we have any sense we'll recognize that the bishops do have some special expertise in these matters, not only of the economic facts presenting themselves but of the ethical principles which should guide solutions.
Jim P. --
As I said to Ryan, Catholic bishops have a particular expertise about the situation of poor people because of their involvement in Catholic institutions which deal wih the poor. Economic solutions require data about the facts of the problems, and the bishops can definiely contribute to the data about current conditions, and if they know some basic economics they can also contribute to a dialogue about solutions.
Sure, behind many economic problems are moral ones. But even if you change a rotten capitalists heart, if he or she doesn't act then the poor -- and now the middle class in the U. S. -- will coninue to suffer. And just how often do he truly greedy change? In my experience, rarely. So then government must coerce them (usually by forcing them to pay taxes) for the sake of justice. Coercion is not intrisically immoral. See Matthew's recent speech on libertarianism.
Have you read Picketty? I'm just starting it. Very readable, though I haven't gotten very far yet.
I don't think they should be silent. Rather, I don't think that they need to know the solution to point out the problem. If a priest know how to fix the sink, great, but I'm not going to criticize him for pointing out the sink is broken and letting the plumber figure out how to fix it.
Ryan --
I think we need to think the question of when it is appropriate for clergypersons to speak out about political issues with moral dimensions. When I was a litle child the general presupposition seemed to be that the clergy have no business being involved in politics at all, at all. Then around 1936 in my diocese Archbishop Rommel arrived and started to thunder against segregation. Later, when the holocaust was revealed, the world condemned the German clergymen who had NOT spoken out against the anti-Semitism of the Nazis. Eventually in the U. S. Catholic the bishops started to speak out on social issues but in very, very general term. Later, conservative Protestant clergypersons began speaking out on very specific political issues, and tsome of them even told people whom to vote for and whom not to vote for by name. Now some Catholic bishops do that.
So where and how and when to draw the line? I think we need a thread on it. Given he Holocaust and some lesser but still very significant political evils, I just don't think there should be any absolute prohibition of clergypersons speaking out, if, that is, they are competent.
I know this topic hasn't been active for a few days (and in fact I hadn't noticed the most recent comments - my apologies if anyone was awaiting a response from me), but I wanted to note that this conference continues to make waves in the public square. Earlier this week, Kevin Williamson of National Review wrote a piece criticizing Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga's speech and Catholic social teaching on economic matters more generally. In my opinion, it's not his best work. And now, Elizabeth Stoker, a Cambridge divinity student whose writing I don't believe I've previously encountered, has written a response to Williamson that is so rippingly good that I highly recommend it. Headline: "An adviser to Pope Francis says Catholicism is incompatible with libertarianism. He's right."
Thanks, Jim. Stoker makes a good point about property rights, which are not natural rights and depend on the state for their enforcement. Libertarians often claim that the state equals coercion and therefore violence. Christians who call themselves libertarians like to point out that Christianity has always been suspicious of violence—hence the (theoretically ) rigorous conditions for a just war. But libertarians (as opposed to anarchists) have no problem with coercion in the enforcement of property rights.
By the way, the conversation on this topic has migrated up to this thread. I don't know if you saw it.
The way I learned it Aquinas thought that there are property rights, whether or not they are "natural" or inalienable rights. For one thing, the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" implies such rights. But they are not absolute, and are for the good of both the individual and the community. They are an *addition* to the naural law -- property rights are *reasonable*:
Here's another article about Thomas' view:
Five Insights About Private Property from Aquinas | Institute for Faith, Work & Economics Blog
Perhaps the most important anti-libertarian principle of Thomas: for the sake of justice, the state may take away private property.
The way I learned it Aquinas thought that there are property rights, whether or not they are "natural" or inalienable rights. For one thing, the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" implies such rights. But they are not absolute, and are for the good of both the individual and the community. They are an *addition* to the naural law -- property rights are *reasonable*:
Here's another article about Thomas' view:
Five Insights About Private Property from Aquinas | Institute for Faith, Work & Economics Blog
Perhaps the most important anti-libertarian principle of Thomas: for the sake of justice, the state may take away private property.


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Many lawmakers across the Commonwealth have said pension reform is the biggest issue of this session and yesterday the Governor weighed in on the matter.
"Well, we've got two basic proposals, one from the house, one from the senate. I have the parties together. We're talking through the different issues that are in those proposals," said Governor Steve Beshear.
Those two separate proposals are what's holding up a solution.
The house wants to create streams to fund the system, streams like the lottery.
"We're also telling the lottery to do more games, create more money," said Rep. Brent Yonts D-Greenville.
However, the state senate says they don't like the house's idea.
"When the budget time comes around, the money will be there for that. On the house side, they don't want to do it without a dedicated funding stream. Which I personally don't think that that's good policy that you designate a funding stream for a certain thing rather than what comes into the general fund, you fund it with that as we do now," said Sen. Mike Wilson R-Bowling Green.
"A revenue stream has to be dedicated to fixing the problem. We cannot kick the can down the road, we must do it now," said Yonts.
It's a problem lawmakers say was created by not adequately funding the system and a downfall in the economy.
"Most people are talking about save my pension, but another thing is they don't like the aspect of not having COLA's, which we've had to suspend those. None of us like that either, but we're at a place if we do something within four years, they may not have a pension," said Wilson.
While others hold out for hope, Yonts is not as confident something will get done.
"At this moment in time, I don't see a lot of hope. The only thing that can change that would be the senate agreeing to come up with some revenue streams," said Yonts.
Lawmakers have until next week to come up with a solution. If the house and senate cannot come to a compromise, Gov. Beshear can call for a special session.


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LONDON | Elton John and David Furnish say they have become parents for a second time.
The couple say they are "overwhelmed with happiness" at the birth of Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.
John's spokeswoman Fran Curtis confirmed an announcement on the singer's website that the baby was born Friday in Los Angeles. The infant, born to a surrogate mother, weighs 8 pounds, 4 ounces (3.7 kilograms).
John, who is 65, and 50-year-old Furnish wed in a British civil partnership in 2005 and are parents to 2-year-old Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, born in California in December 2010, also through a surrogate mother.
John told The Guardian newspaper last year that he hoped to have a sibling for Zachary because "it's difficult to be an only child, and to be an only child of someone famous."
John and Furnish told Hello! magazine Wednesday that "the birth of our second son completes our family in a most precious and perfect way."
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The developer has now revealed the first piece of concept art for this standalone title (seen above) and announced that the game will launch on August 26th in North America and August 27th in PAL territories.
inFamous First Light charts the backstory of Abigail "Fetch" Walker who's one of the first Conduits that Delsin meets in inFamous: Second Son. The game features new environments such as the Conduit detention facility Curdun Cay and the snowy mountain passes surrounding it, and includes inFamous: Second Son's ever-popular Photo Mode as well as some exclusive bonus content for fans who own both games.
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Galton Papers - family life at Dudson
Family life at Dudson - document 1.
Sketch of the family house at Dudson, 1815.
Family life at Dudson - document 2.
Letter from Lucy Galton to John Howard Galton, 3 March 1807 [MS3101/C/D/10/6/29]
Extract from page 3:
'Who do you think is running about my lodging room? The Tortoise is running about. I have been shut up, these three days, with a swelld face, so I could not go out to see the Cherub; - the Cherub, therefore, is come in a Basket to see me; but I don't much like his company. To oblige you, I have endeavord to make his visit agreeable to him. First of all, I took off his red flannel cloak & put him down by the fire. He opened his vermilion mouth & I though he seemd thirsty, so I put down some water, just warm, in a saucer but he could not put his mouth over the brim. Then I gave him water in a desert plate he stepd upon the side and overturned it. [I] sent Anne for a great white dish full of water - & put the Tortoise in the middle. He lookd just ready to be served up like turtle soup, for dinner. He has just now made a great noise, by forcing himself under the lower bars of a deal stool, which he lifts up & down with his back. He is now by the book-case, making the tour of the room. I suppose he thinks himself in a foreign land.'
Drawing of a tortoise, enclosed in a letter from Lucy Galton to her son, John Howard Galton, 1807.
Letter from Lucy Galton to John Howard Galton, 17 May 1807 [MS3101/C/D/10/6/35]
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'Dear little Fellow,
I quite forget whether this is my Sunday for writing or not. If not, you may put the letter in the fire without reading it. Nevertheless I have a story to tell you; quite a new one spick and span.
Last Tuesday we invited all the seven boys from Spark Hill to breakfast, and spend the day. There were Strutt, Carson, Greg, Haywood, France, Byron & Crawford. The next morning before Breakfast the Gardener desired to speak to me and said, with a mournful face that the Tortoise was missing that he had put him in the walld garden after breakfast, the day before, whilst the young gentlemen were here. That he had seen him in the walld garden walking about, at 3 o clock the day before he went to look for him at 5 - & he was gone. He really thought it very likely, that the young gentlemen had taken him in play - & very probably had put him in the Pool to swim.
After hearing all this, I went off in the carriage to Spark Hill after the Boys. They were all gone a fishing but Byron and he assured me, they had not seen the Tortoise after the Gardener had put him out of the Hot house. Nevertheless, I begd of Mr Cowrie to speak to the rest. All this happend on Wednesday.
On Thursday we had a pouring rain, from morning till night. Yet for all that, Mr France & Strutt came over to assure me that not one of them knew anything of the Tortoise. I began to suspect that one of the labourers had stolen him, in order to sell him to the show man at the Fair. So I told the gardener to set all the men a hunting after the 6 o clock evening Bell, on Friday and Saturday; and that I would give a reward to any body who should find him but it was all in vain all the ash holes were searcht all the pots & rubbish was removed from under the shed in the strawberry garden, but in vain. So do not break your heart!
Mr Schimmelpenning left Mary Anne here last Tuesday and went back to Bristol. We were all astonishd to see him again today, before breakfast. He and Mary Anne went to chapel together. As I was dressing before dinner Mary Anne knockt at my room - & calld out to me to open the door; but what was my surprise to see her stand with the Tortoise alive & merry in her hands. She had been a walk & hearing the dinner bell, Mr Schimmelpenning said let us go in! No! said Mary Anne, I will go round the garden first, & look for the Tortoise! They found him crawling under a bush, between the hot-beds and the spider walk. Only one hind leg was to be seen. We treated him with rout cake. The Gardener declares, he shall never be let out of the hot house any more.'
(Rout cake is a kind of rich sweet cake flavoured with fruit, mentioned in Jane Austen's Emma, which was made to be eaten at routs: large evening parties or fashionable assemblies)
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America declared independence from Britain and fought a war of independence. Several states joined the fight, however, Canada remained British. Why did the American rebellion and war of independence not spread to Canada?
Short Answer: The Canadiens were tired of war and content with British rule.
Long Answer:
Twenty-some years before the American Revolution (1754), which was just before the Seven Years War, this is what the map of British Colonies looked like: Only a few areas of modern-day Canada were British then: Nova-Scotia, Labrador-Newfoundland, and around James' Bay & Hudson's Bay. Quebec extended south to below Niagara falls.
The 13 American Colonies were centered around New-York City:
1.) Geographic Separation caused the English speaking British colonies north of Maine to be culturally distinct from the 13 American Colonies. The people of Nova Scotia were half New Englanders and half Germans, Highlanders, Ulstermen and Yorkshiremen. Nova Scotia wished to remain neutral. British Naval power and a British Garrison at Halifax prevented any serious American attempt at invasion. In 1777 Nova-Scotian outposts came under attack from New England privateers seeking plunder. That caused even former New-Englanders to form militias and defend their homes. Soon thereafter the New Light religious movement (Great Awakening) started by Henry Alline of Rhode Island swept through New England and Nova Scotia turning attention away from Politics.
2.) Acceptance of British Rule: When New France fell in 1760, the defeated armies, French officials, some seigneurs, and some merchants returned to France. British credit, currency, and markets such as London was what mattered--not Paris or America. The British successfully implemented representative government in Quebec through respecting the religious freedoms of Catholics and recognizing the political value of the Catholic Church, which was backed by a dutiful French populace that contrasted sharply with the restive 13 American colonies.
3.) The Quebec Act of 1774 satisfied Quebec and angered the American colonies. It allowed English criminal law to exist in parallel with French civil law and the entrenched seigneurial system. Quebec even had a (legal) mandatory tithe to the Catholic Church, which only concerned Catholics.
The Quebec Act also expanded the province of Quebec to include Labrador in the East and extended the Western boundary to the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers all the way north to Rupert's Land. This expansion had the obvious intent of funneling the fur-trading areas serviced through the St. Lawrence into the jurisdiction of Quebec. The land was mainly Indian territory (where the Indians were allied with the French) that was exploitable for the fur trade without endangering Indian land rights and risking war.
American colonists desired to settle these native lands, and therefore listed the Quebec Act as one of the "Insufferable Acts."
4.) Cultural and Religious Isolation: Quebec was the largest British colony in what is now Canada. The language barrier combined with the foreign religion of French Quebec and the history of hostilities from the Seven Years War caused Americans to view the people of Quebec as foes.
5.) Patriot attacks on Canadiens solidified opposition to the American revolution. American Patriot generals Richard Montgomery and Benedit Arnold Attacked Quebec in an attempt to seize Canada from British control (1775). They took Montreal and laid siege (ultimately unsuccessfully) to Quebec City, where British regulars and a few Canadien militia defended. The Americans were ill-supplied but stayed till spring, when the British navy sailed up the St. Lawrence.
6.) Economic Interests: The merchants of British North-America benefited from the influx of British troops (and money) which powered the offense south from Quebec. The Canadians also profited from access to the tariff-protected British markets, which far larger New England competitors had forfeited through the act of war. The fur market in particular began to thrive in Canada. The British Navy on the Atlantic and by British military power in the interior both guarded the fur trade.
7.) Many Loyalists moved to Canada to support the British cause. .
Conclusion: pardon the quotes
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For the most in-depth discussion of this topic I could find see this Canadian Heritage Book (free), which is the source of the quotes and much of the content in this answer.
After the Stamp Tax in 1765, the 13 colonies set up "committees of correspondence," whereby leading members of one colony commiserated with leading members of other colonies about British (mis) rule. These leaders later formed a "Continental Congress." As a result, the 13 colonies developed a certain common "consciousness." When a few of them (e.g. Massachusetts) rebelled, they all did. The Declaration of Independence refers to "the Representatives of the United States of America in General Congress."
"Canada" was not part of this "bonding" process. Instead, it was invaded by "Americans" and called to join the common rebellion against the mother country. But in fact, a lot of the measures that Britain had taken against "Americans" in the previous decade were actually meant to protect "Canadians," who were much less dissatisfied with British rule.
So unlike say, Georgia and Massachusetts, "Canadians" didn't look on "Americans" as fellow colonists, but rather as "other" invaders who spoke English. (And France had not yet allied with America, so there was no incentive for French speakers to support the "Americans."
In the end, the choice for the Canadians probably boiled down to "better the devil we know that the one we don't know."
It did. In a number of unexpected ways, specifically the exile of Patriot Tories, slaves that fought for King George and a number of refugees that sought sanctuary. It became a global war in some respects. You might like to read more about the 'Tories' that fought for the Crown rather than independence and the compensation for ex Tories who resettled in the USA.


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Fall 2013 will not be a season for the faint of heart.
The fifties-era shapes—with full coats and circle skirts swirling, as at Rochas and Céline—are often dramatic. Dolman sleeves and billowing backs represent a sea change from the high, tight armholes and slim silhouettes that have been dominating fashion. The new voluminous shape appeared in so many collections, from New York to Milan and Paris, that it became a signature of the season.
Some other hallmarks of the season: Both lug-sole shoes and dainty heels are in vogue. The "It" bag continues to be structured.
That's not to say there aren't rebels. Ricardo Tisci, at Givenchy, had everyone swooning over his fluid gypsy skirts, chunky sweaters, sweatshirts and hippy-dippy booties. These clothes had an ease of wearing that suggests a hit collection.
At Saint Laurent, Hedi Slimane went skinny and rock-n-roll with baby-doll dresses and leather miniskirts. You had to look closely to see clothes that would please the label's long-term clients, such as tailored jackets and a cropped crystal-studded shrug. The showy Saint Laurent rock-n-doll looks should draw the attention of Alexander Wang's cool-kid fans—the ones who party all night, or want to look like they do.
Mr. Wang is still showing his Alexander Wang label in New York, but the spotlight was on his new job as Balenciaga's designer. His first collection there aimed to return the ultramodern Parisian label to its origins. Mr. Wang immersed himself in the house's archives, working with classic Balenciaga shapes. Next season, says spokesman Lionel Vermeil, another aspect of Balenciaga's history—innovative fabrics—will emerge.
Another surprise awaits designer clients: They should brace for fashion's hit to their bank accounts. After several years of downward pressure, prices of luxury fashions are steeply on the rise.
"When did the price of pants [rise to] $1,000?" Nancy Pearlstein, owner of Georgetown's Relish boutique, asked after touring Paris showrooms this week. "Just a couple of years ago, the high was $795."
Best Show
It seemed to be Thom Browne's corpse-in-snowy-woods scene in New York—until Givenchy stole Paris Fashion Week with a poetic collection that came with a passionate performance by New York band Antony and the Johnsons and a full orchestra. Was it the music and scene? Possibly. But Mr. Tisci's romantic clothing (and the torrid look shared by model Natalia Vodianova on the runway and her LVMH scion boyfriend Antoine Arnault in the front row) cinched the deal.
Best Collection
Raf Simons's clothes for Christian Dior should be a first stop for any senior executive or woman who aspires to command. This season, there was winking and wit, too, with Warhol-inspired prints and, above, a play on the label's classic houndstooth.
Surest Hand
Tomas Maier at Bottega Veneta. Mr. Maier's ability to fold, pleat, twist, and otherwise manipulate fabric with confidence knows no bounds. He took an entirely fresh approach to the season's volume, making it all his own. Invest now.
Regal Rut
Alexander McQueen designer Sarah Burton can create clothes with folds, seams and embellishments that one never imagined possible. Despite her extraordinary skill, the label seems stuck in a rut of queenly looks. The founding designer poured out his heart on his runways. Now, the label's regal gowns mesmerize but often fail to rise above costume.
Rounding Up
Rounded shoulders and billowing backs represent a sea change from the high, tight armholes and slim silhouettes that have been dominating fashion.
Best Coat
If you want outerwear that can make you look like a princess and also double as a bathrobe, Rochas designer Marco Zanini has accomplished the unexpected: voluminous coats that are so soft and light you want to rub your face in them. "I wanted to design a very reassuring wardrobe," he says.
Most Memorable Print
Not everyone responds to seeing the mosaic in the Sicilian town of Monreale by designing a gold filigree bustier. Dolce & Gabbana, though, created their version of mosaic in unforgettable prints. If you prefer that your clothes be forgotten, forget this collection.
Best Jewelry
With the creativity of her forebears, Fendi family member Delfina Delettrez makes jewelry that's weird and wonderful. Rethought rings. Bracelets that revolve around the wrist like the solar system. Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí would approve.
Biggest Huh?
H&M had a big, expensive show and party at the Musée de l'Homme and everybody was there, including model-of-the-moment Cara Delevingne. But the clothes looked like inexpensive imitations. Seen up close, the fast-fashion construction and materials suffered against the backdrop of the luxury collections shown in Paris.
Identity Crisis
There's something eerie about the John Galliano label, which continues without a clear direction after Mr. Galliano was fired. Many of the clothes were skillful, but it's not clear who the Galliano woman is. At Jil Sander, it feels like someone snuffed the life out of the label. The gorgeous architectural lines are there, but the designs are too reminiscent of decades past. What's missing: her intelligent, modern energy.
One to Watch
At Pièce d'Anarchive, sisters and co-founders Deborah and Priscilla Royer use a nerdy obsession with fabric to create soft textures and concoctions such as a silk blouse that fits like a sweatshirt.
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My teacher told me that different religions tend to use different words for
"to pray", usually choosing between
rezar and
orar. Which words are preferred by what religions & in which areas? Are there any other subtle differences between the two? Are there any other ways to express
"to pray", perhaps in a religion neutral way, as to avoid offending anyone?
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My teacher told me that different religions tend to use different words for
Usually both words are used as synonyms, but as you mention it depends on the religion.
In Mexico where most people are Roman Catholics both words tend to be used interchangeably, however, non-Catholic Christians tend to make a distinction, using
Overall, as a native Spanish speaker, I think
I consider "orar" and "rezar" as synonims.
In Spain, "rezar" is much more usual when speaking; "orar" sounds more formal and even solemn.
It turns out that the DRAE introduces a distinction between both terms, defining "orar" as "hacer oración a Dios" and "rezar" as "dirigir oraciones a Dios o a personas santas". I am amazed of hearing about this major diference for the first time in my life, although I suspect this supposed difference in meaning is obsolete; in any case, it's vastly ignored by the people. I wonder if it subsists as a religious technicallity, but I doubt it.
I think they are almost equivalent. I have the subtle feeling that "rezar" involves a bit more the notion of a being (call it God, a saint, etc) taking part in a spiritual discussion, for example, there is one popular saying "rézale a tu santo", that means: "pray to your saint". In the other hand I have the feeling that "orar" is a bit more general, you can do it creating a mental representation of a spiritual being, or you can just try to be in peace with the world (and with yourself) in the process, or anything else that does not necessarily involve a discussion with someone.
As I said at the beginning, this is just the intuition I have as a native speaker.
http://kyreles.blogspot.com/2013/05/spanish-praying.html I did a blog post about this very topic!


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Every day we're faced with a dilema – what the heck am I going to eat? Some people like to plan in advance and have pre-cut/washed vegetable ready to go and some like to fly by the seat of their pants leaving things to chance. Sometimes you just say screw it, I want something different, let's see what's out there.
Today is a screw it kind of day. Mind you gluten free readers, you always have to check with the deli you shop at, and if you're very sensitive I'd skip this as you never can be sure with cross contamination. I do try to eat at least 80% gluten free, but I am human as well and as I don't have an issue with it I do like to enjoy it in small quantities.
I am a huge fan of variety and keeping to a budget. If I can get a little bit of what I like I am an extremely happy camper.
Sorry I didn't take close up pictures I was very eager to eat. As you can see I was able to get a decent amount of food for $6.03! Not bad for a local grocery store. I haven't had couscous in a very long time and I must say I liked it, but not as much as I thought I would. I would much rather have ordered more quinoa and perhaps another option. What I like about these kinds of portions is the nutritional labels. I am a bit obsessed with looking at them and who wouldn't be interested in knowing how much sodium is in something before ingesting it?
Needless to say I had a great lunch followed up by organic apple sauce and an organic banana. When I eat items raw I tend to be picky about them being organic, I suppose in my head I assume the pesticides are killed off when cooking with conventional items. I suppose sauces, salt and other tricks can be used to mask a taste. Nothing beats eating a fully clean meal with organic ingredients. Recently I tried a conventional apple and I couldn't finish it. I don't know if this is mental or not, I like to think I can tell the difference after eating organic for a while. There's something about conventionally grown food, it's waxy, stale or is missing some lack luster.
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I have twins aged 14 months. Recently my wife observed that one of them while sitting on her lap was (not sure how to explain) having a kind of seizure/ facial spasm. His mouth was open for a while kind of frozen with no other activity. Has both hands applied some strength.
We checked with doctor. He told us to try and take a video next time this happens. This again happened twice after this,first after a gap of maybe about a month and second after 1-2 weeks. But we were not able to record this as we were not prepared. We spoke to Doctor again who asked:
If he was biting his teeth? - No
Was he conscious? - Yes
He told this might be behavioral disorder and may be attention grabbing technique. Other possibility was Calcium deficiency which he was not suspecting. Basically he asked us not to worry but to record it next time.
I am yet to see this myself but yesterday while he was playing with Lego blocks, while trying to connect two blocks I observed that he was putting some effort. His hands were close to his chest and was trembling a bit.
Any idea what this might be? This may be a bit dumb question, but how can i be prepared to record this if it happens again. There is a camera kept at the room where they spent most of the time. All knows how to record it.


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10 Essential Zombie Movies You've Never SeenOne of the hallmarks of zombie films is that, in a nutshell, societal order breaks down completely and is replaced by depraved, brain-munching anarchy. Which, in our professional opinion, is the most likely outcome of such a scenario. But the Pentagon has other ideas. CNN has reported that the five-cornered national security nerds in Washington have a plan to protect us all against the undead.
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When I am playing cards who alter either mine or my opponent his stats it doesn't always seems to work as intended.
Sometimes when my Ravenous Zombie or Elisaria Dawn-Dancer depletes my stats get substracted instead of that of my opponent. My Bello the Bloody never seems to increase my stats when he is supposed to.
I play on google Chrome and have adblock Version 2.5.56.
As you can see in the log I actually played Bello the Bloody and discarded my Elisaria Dawn-Dancer.
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Is there a service that can take an address and return a polygon of the property lines (or the coordinates of the corners of the smallest possible bounding rectangle)?
update: area is Oakland, CA, USA
Is there a service that can take an address and return a polygon of the property lines (or the coordinates of the corners of the smallest possible bounding rectangle)?
update: area is Oakland, CA, USA
As @awesomo alluded to, what you really want to query against is a layer containing the parcel boundaries. I don't know that there is an online service that can do batch queries like this for Oakland. Both the city of Oakland and Alameda county have map viewers where you may query individual parcels and return their information.
Here are the respective map viewers:
If, on the other hand, your intent is to do more large scale geocoding and further analysis, the situation is a bit more complicated. Ordinarily, I would say to simply download the parcel boundary layer from the appropriate agency, in this case, Alameda County's Geospatial Data Files.
You would then use that layer to set up a geocoding service in your favorite GIS software, and
In this case, you are going to run into a problem of what constitutes data that should be freely accessible to the public, or what is considered value-added, and thus able to be provided at an additional charge. This is a can of worms which I will avoid, but mention later.
Suffice it to say that Alameda County only provides the Parcel boundaries with a few attributes, namely the Parcel Number, and some modified dates for tracking, but no address or other property characteristics.
That sort of information is available from the county Assessor's office for an additional fee. Here is their Fee Schedule. You will want to look for the
Since this may turn into an expensive option, a second and completely free, though potentially less accurate option would be to instead use the street centerline file as the geocoding basis. This is available from the same download site at Alameda county.
To briefly address the discussion of what is happening with GIS data and its place in the public domain, I point you to this article: Does Government GIS Data Belong to the People. This is but a brief discussion, but there is much more information out there, with opinions on both sides of the issue. That discussion, however, is not appropriate for this space.
Google Geocoder with return Bounding Box -
Example: New York http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json?latlng=40.714245,-74.005838&sensor=false
json response:
What you really want is a parcel layer that can be queried. In CA, the counties have this parcel data (of varying degrees of quality), but they don't usually make a public queryable service out of it. They also leave off owner names usually. Unfortunately, I think you will have to purchase a commercial source that compiles the county data. http://www.parcelquest.com/, Core Logic,...
Anyone... feel free to correct me if I'm wrong?