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Soy meat, flax seeds and peas are probably the best known such sources. Are there other cheap sources of protein?
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Chick peas/Garbanzo beans, lentils, and other legumes (black beans, Great Northern beans), and nuts (nuts are a bit pricier). Cheap and vegan/vegetarian friendly!
If you use every bit of a whole chicken it becomes a significant value. The meat can be eaten as a main, but stretched even more by being shredded and used in dishes such as chicken pot pie, enchiladas, quesadillas, and so many other dishes that use some chicken mixed in with vegetables. Once the meat is off the bone the bones should be used to make stock. You can freeze portions of stock that can later be used for soups, stews, and other recipes. If you subtract the cost of canned chicken stock or broth from the cost of your chicken, you will find that your much-tastier stock saves you about half the value of your chicken if not more.
Another option for inexpensive meat is to shop the sales and look for manager's specials - discounts on meat which will expire within the next day. Yes, you've got to cook your manager's special meat immediately, but a quick braise in the crock pot might give you a base you can freeze for a future meal.
Egg whites are a pretty good one. Our local grocery store even sells them in milk carton containers.
Turkey is one of the cheaper meats - here in the UK anyway. I'm not talking about whole turkeys around Christmas or Thanksgiving time but I know that in my local supermarket turkey mince is significantly better value for money than say beef or chicken.
Eggs are cheap. But they do have a lot of cholesterol in them.
While cheap is good, health is more important. One thing to watch out with vegetarian proteins is that you are getting what is considered a "complete protein", ie. contains all the essential amino-acids.
I believe quinoa is a complete protein source. It is also possible to mix a few non-complete proteins such as rice and lentils to obtain a complete protein source.
Tofu is a great source of proteins, it's very cheap, but doesn't taste anything. I suggest to cook it with anything tasty you like and the tofu will get all the taste. Ex: throw some tofu in a pad thai = full of cheap proteins and really tasty.
Quinoa is an excellent source of protein.
You should try mung beans! They're delicious and small (lentil-like) - just wash dried beans and then cook them for 30 minutes in boiling water for an al dente like texture. Then you can toss them into anything you like - 100g has 30 calories and nearly 8g of protein.
I add them to canned soups (when I'm feeling lazy) or saute them with ginger, garlic, chilies, and tomatoes when slightly motivated.
VERY cheap and good.
In The Netherlands, they are promoting insects as food. I haven't tried, but they must be cheap and proteins. Not vegan, though.
Oats are actually a pretty decent source of protein. Wikipedia (via the USDA nutritional database, which unfortunately does not have a linkable URL for that data) lists their protein content as about 17g per 100g. Note that this is still not as high as most beans, which tend to be up in the mid-20s.
The Wikipedia article also mentions that Oat protein is nearly equivalent in quality to soy protein, which has been shown by the World Health Organization to be equal to meat, milk, and egg protein. I'm not sure what measure of "quality" they are using; I would guess that it might be related to the portion of the full complement of amino acids that constitutes "protein"; soy is well known to contain all of the requisite compounds.
So if oats effectively constitute a "full protein", then they may be a more, or equivalently, economical source of it than common beans which need to be mixed with rice. Note that this is not because rice is more expensive, but because the "protein" proportion of rice is much lower (wikipedia says 7g/100g). Honestly, I suspect that all of this stuff is a bit more complicated than these statistics make it out to be, so please take this with a grain of salt, unless you happen to have a degree in nutrition and/or biology.
They are also generally about as cheap as food gets, at least in these parts. They run about $1 (CAD) per pound or less for lug-free quantities (about 3lb), and they are very compact, absorbing about twice their volume in water. Pretty much the only thing cheaper around here is potatoes. Which are . . ridiculously cheap, but only contain roughly 2g of "protein" per 100g.
One item I don't see that's been mentioned --
Canned tuna fish.
I grew up with tuna melts, tuna salad, tuna noodle casserole, etc.
It's very versatile, doesn't have to be cooked (so very quick to prepare) and stores well so you can stock up when it goes on sale.
Try the Calorie King site - you can search for tons of foods and input serving sizes. Then just apply your local food cost to find out what is the best value for you.
Even though beans might be the cheapest (which is debatable), you have to eat a lot of them to get the same amount of protein that you would from something else. 1/2c black beans with 9g protein might cost up to 20 cents dried, 25 cents canned. 1oz of chicken with 9g protein could cost as little as $2.99/lb /16 or about 20 cents. Really depends on how cheap your chicken is.
I cheated a bit, but here is a link with some details http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/highproteinfood.htm
If this is right, then tofu may be the cheapest source
If it's meat protein you're after you can't beat game for value and taste. My local game dealer sells pheasant, partridge, duck, venison, rabbit and hare. The flavour from these meats is wonderful (hare fillets are just like fillet of beef) and you have the added vantage of the meat being 100% free range.
I found an exciting solution to my protein problem! The problem with answers so far is that they are too Western-biased, you cannot find supermarkets everywhere but now a very good versatile tip coming. United Nations' suborganization FAO has a goal to increase the protein intake from insects because:
Guess how excited I am: frugal, low-cost and reusable solution! Good after sport -- and it is positive to cut some greenhouse gases. Now the challenge is to find out how to get them, editable species, their cooking and their preservation. More about cooking here.


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When considering classification problems about polytopes, I sometimes has the feeling that one need to talk about certain parametrized families, i.e. moduli space of such polytopes. But neither do I have a concrete example on hand nor do I know how to formulate the definition of such moduli space. Does anyone know the concept along this line?
Besides, I happen to see the following paper by Kapovich:
Which at least from its title has some relation to do with this moduli space. But I am not the experts on this field, so can anyone explain to me if this do has the relation with "moduli space" of polytopes with certain properties?

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THE SUN IS out at last. Bin the dusty patio set and dress a table with fresh flowers and beautiful crockery. Serve dishes packed with fresh, seasonal flavors such as pomegranate, lemon, rhubarb and mint, and raise a glass to summer.
"Eating al fresco takes me right back to childhood holidays...eating something refreshing and light and your brain melts a little bit," says Jacob Kennedy, chef-patron of London's Bocca di Lupo.
Tom Adams, co-owner of barbecue specialists Pitt Cue Co., loves the simplicity of outdoor eating. "Whenever we go down to Cornwall to the farm where we get our meat, we just whack something on the barbecue. I am a massive fan of eating with my hands, which you can do best al fresco. It is hard to preserve much dignity, but that's half the fun."
Octopus in Meshwiya Sauce—Honey & Co.
Serves: 4-6
Baked Octopus
1 large octopus (about 1.5-1.8kg
before cooking)
1 small leek
3 stalks of celery
2 tsp coriander seeds
2 tsp fennel seeds
1 tsp black peppercorns
¼ cup of white wine
2 tbsp olive oil
What To Do
1. Preheat oven to 220C.
2. Cut the celery and leek into three. Put in a large casserole dish with the octopus and whole spices, pour over the white wine and cook covered for 30 minutes.
3. Lower heat to 180˚C and cook for a further 50-60 minutes until a knife inserted into one of the thick tentacles goes in easily. Cut into bite-size pieces.
In the meantime, make the meshwiya sauce; you can use the same oven as the octopus cooking stage 1.
Meshwiya Sauce
1 large red pepper, deseeded and cut into 8
3 plum tomatoes, thickly sliced
¼ tsp salt
1 tbsp + 1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp roasted caraway seeds, crushed
1 tsp roasted cumin seeds, crushed
3 garlic cloves, chopped finely
3 sprigs of coriander, chopped finely
What To Do
1. Put the pepper and tomato in a roasting pan. Sprinkle with the salt and 1 tbsp of olive oil, and put in the oven at 220C for 20 minutes until nicely roasted.
2. Roughly chop and mix with remaining ingredients, including the second tbsp olive oil.
Celery Salad
3 sticks of celery (use inner light-green parts), sliced thinly
1 lemon, quartered and sliced thinly with the skin
1 small green chili, sliced thinly
1 tbsp olive oil
¼ tsp salt
3 sprigs of coriander
Mix all the salad ingredients together. Spoon the sauce over the octopus, and serve the salad alongside.
Tips: Ask your fishmonger to remove brains and beak of the octopus. Frozen works best, as freezing tenderizes the fish. If you buy fresh, it's worth freezing and defrosting before cooking.
Squid is less fiddly than octopus. If you'd prefer to use squid, allow around 160g per person, brush with olive oil and salt and grill quickly.
For a kosher alternative, grill tuna steaks on the barbecue—two minutes on each side—and serve with the sauce.
Sorrel Ice Cream with Rhubarb Compote—Simon Rogan, head chef, L'Enclume
Serves: 4
120g caster sugar
8 egg yolks
600g milk
200g whipping cream
100g raw sorrel
What To Do
1. Beat the sugar and yolks together until trebled in volume. Boil the milk and cream, then pour over the sugar and yolk mix.
2. Cook the mixture slowly on a low heat, until it's thick and creamy and coats the back of a wooden spoon (around 20-30 minutes).
3. Add the sorrel, then blend until smooth; pass through a sieve and chill over ice.
4. Churn in an ice-cream maker.
Rhubarb Compote
230g rhubarb, peeled and sliced
into 1 cm pieces
25g caster sugar
25 mL lemon juice
1 gelatin leaf
What To Do
1. Place gelatin leaf in cold water to hydrate.
2. Meanwhile, mix all the remaining ingredients in a small bowl, cover with cling film and steam over a bain-marie for 45 minutes.
3. Strain the liquor, then place in a small saucepan and heat at a medium temperature until reduced to a light syrup. Cool slightly then stir in the gelatin and rhubarb pieces.
4. Refrigerate until set (around 2 hours). Serve with sorrel ice cream.
Tips: If you can't find sorrel, replace the milk and cream in the recipe with 400 mL milk and 400 mL crème fraîche, for a lighter and slightly sour flavor that's a good replacement for the sorrel.
If you don't have an ice-cream maker, freeze the mix for four hours, stirring it every 30 minutes.
Jacob Kennedy's Shaved Radish and Celeriac Salad with Pomegranate, Pecorino and Truffle Oil
Serves: 4, as a starter
1 bunch breakfast radishes (about 8)
½ black radish, or 5 cm green mooli (available from Chinese greengrocers), or mooli—about 150g
A chunk of celeriac, about ¼ very small bulb (50-60g), peeled
A little chunk (about 50g) of Pecorino Romano cheese
¼ pomegranate, seeds picked out, or 6 tbsp seeds
A few sprigs of flat-leaf parsley, leaves only
1 tbsp white truffle oil
5 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
1 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
Juice of ¼ lemon (or two more tbsp white balsamic)
salt and pepper
What To Do
1. Mix all ingredients and taste for seasoning.
2. Just before serving, wash but don't peel the radishes, and shave thinly—easiest on a mandolin. Use a potato peeler to shave the celeriac and Pecorino. Toss the lot with the pomegranate seeds and parsley leaves and dress lightly.
3. Serve in tall, haphazard piles on individual plates, or in a big bowl to share.
Tips: This salad is very forgiving. You can use almost any root vegetable and any hard cheese.
You could substitute horseradish for radish, and kohlrabi, Jerusalem artichoke or parsnip for celeriac.
You can also use any nut oil and add the same nuts toasted.
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1kg beef ribs (Dexter, Longhorn or Galloway). Ask your butcher to remove the membrane.
House Rub
20g fennel seeds
2 tsp each of cumin seeds, black peppercorns, coriander seeds
200g soft dark brown sugar
100g granulated sugar
20g garlic powder
200g fine salt
30g smoked paprika
60g paprika
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp cayenne
What To Do
1. Toast the fennel, cumin, coriander and peppercorns in a dry pan over medium heat for a few minutes, shaking the pan until the spices release an aroma. Tip into a bowl, and leave to cool.
2. Blitz the toasted spices to a rough powder in a blender. Combine with the remaining ingredients and mix thoroughly. Keep in a sealed container for up to a week.
3. The night before cooking, cover the rack all over with the rub.
4. Prepare a barbecue for smoking (see tips below) and set the temperature to 110C, though anything up to 130C will produce tasty beef ribs.
5. Smoke the rack for 5-6 hours, until the meat has pulled back from the bone. The internal temperature should be about 89C-92C, the meat squidgy and soft with a thick dark crust.
Tips: If you're using an ordinary charcoal barbecue (for example, a Weber), shove all coals to one side. Add chunks of wood to burning coals. It will start smoking. Put ribs on the grill as far away as possible so the heat is indirect.
In an oven, simply cook for six hours at 110C and finish on the grill.
If you want to use pork ribs instead, add more sugar to the rub and cook for around six hours at 110C.
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3-4 slices of cucumber (+2 to garnish)
5cL vodka
2cL freshly squeezed lemon juice
1cL orgeat (almond) syrup, for a little taste
of amaretto.
10cL pineapple juice
Angostura bitters
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2. Strain into a tall glass full of ice. It should have a beautiful foaming crown on top.
3. Garnish with two slices of cucumber and two dashes of Angostura bitters.
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This is in the Flute 1 part for Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite "Danse des Mirlitons".
(We are in D major, this excerpt cuts of the key signature!)
Personally, from the E, I would try just lifting both middle fingers and seeing if the stock fingering for the "lower" B-flats works for you. As I recall, it's harder to get to speak, but it certainly seems technically convenient here.
I can't see the picture but I can sort of imagine what you're talking about, perhaps lift the left middle finger and slide the right one to the first trill key? That's the best I can do, hope it helps.
I've played the Nutcracker many times in the past 5 years (and am playing it now), and I've never had to use any alternate/shortcut fingering here, which I often find for my students in many other passages. Just use the regular fingerings and anticipate the high Bb a little, but still make sure the high E sounds in time.


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Find a measurable indicator function that cannot be approximated by a sequence of continuous functions (demonstrate). For this I believe the "answer" is some form of $1_{\mathbb{Q}}$ on a finite interval. I believe this function is both measurable and not a pointwise limit of continuous functions.
How can I show that if I have a continuous function arbitrarily close to 1 on the rationals, it cannot also be arbitrarily close to 0 on the irrationals? I do know that continuous functions are uniformly continuous on finite intervals, but I cant seem to put all the pieces together.
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Back In October, I posted a sketch and picture of , our hexagon pullover, Joyella. One reader (Jenna) asked an interesting question: I've been daydreaming of knitting a garment and intentionally fulling it. My inspiration is the classic 'boiled wool' jacket. But my pal Lisa says that won't work: It would shrink unevenly. The seams would pull. I'd have to knit blocks and trim/cut out the pieces, like a regular sewing project. I know fulling shrinks more in length than width, so my stubborn imagination insists that abundant swatching would allow me to re-calculate the knitting schematics. Since Joyella is not tailored AND the modular pieces are plain stitch, would fulling the completed garment be a less cavalier enterprise?
Well, in my experience Lisa is correct. It's difficult to felt a completed garment. The edges get very ruffly and felting a swatch tells you little about how much a garment will shrink. The weight of of all the pieces pulls the fabric in uneven ways.
Now, in a strange coincidence, about the time Jenna asked this question, Margery and I had just decided to rebuild a Joyella garment into a chair seat cover.I know that sounds like I'm joking, but I'm not! Margery removed the sleeves, sewed up the armholes and the neckline, and threw it in the wash to felt. You can see the results on the left. Most of the piece looks fantastic and the edges ruffle A LOT. For our purposes this is not a problem. You can trim away the excess points and baste the end together with sewing thread to complete the chair cover. If the top side becomes soiled or worn you can undo the basting then put the underside up and re-baste for many more years of wear.
About Jenna's question – I think you COULD make a successful jacket from Joyella. You'll want to:
- Replace the center front hexagon with 2 half hexagons so the garment becomes a cardigan
- Test the shrinkage as best you can with a full hexagon swatch.
- Take great care to pull up all open edges prior to felting. I like to thread a piece of
- matching yarn through the edge and pull it up to about 1/2 the edges current length. I use a back stitch at the beg and end and sometimes in between. After felting if the edge is pulled up too much, just pull to break the thread. Meanwhile, the ruffling should be held in check.
- Check the piece often during the felting process. I have to admit that I felt in a front loading machine (which can't be opened mid-cycle). I don't think I'd attempt to felt a jacket with that machine.
Keep in mind that this is a big experiment and a big investment. I'd also probably make a Peruvia version before I made a Jasper version. You have a friend you would enjoy a nice boiled jacket, don't you? I've got a saga to tell about how Margery and I "vigorously discussed" how to best make this chair cover, but that's a story for next time…
I've had success in reducing wavy edges of felted wool by whipstitching the edges with crochet cotton. I read this tip in Jane Davis' Felted Crochet. It works. I would also consider making all of the hexagon motifs, felting them, and then sewing them together into the sweater with coordinating thread. That way you could control the sweater shape and size.January 4, 2008
I think the chair pattern looks fabulous, infact I love all your hexagon patterns. I was wondering as I am overseas and had to go to great lengths to get your Berroco book one shipped to the UK, if Berroco have considered making some of the popular patterns like Joyella into pdf's so that we could buy a virtual booklet?January 4, 2008
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What an awesome new blog! Can't wait to see all the great ideas coming out of the design studio. Norah, I'm a huge fan. Am currently working on the Tilted Duster. Who isn't?January 4, 2008
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Do you think your 'vigorous discussion' might have been similar to our 'free and frank exchange of views'?January 5, 2008
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I love your work! When you talk about your interest in hexagons, I keep thinking of a Frank Lloyd Wright house which is built on a hexagonal grid and has hexagonal details. A tribute to the hexagon! Could be an interesting photoshoot location, to be knitting hexagons in the buildings that bring the hexagon to life.January 6, 2008
I am howling! You two ladies (aka crazy broads) taking a completed, and gorgeous but that is beside the point, SWEATER=== cutting off the sleeves and making a chair seat cover. Good gravy Miss Avy! Not, mind you that the chair seat cover is not absolutely magnificent, for it is. But the whole process of it……………………… wow.
You and Margery need to eat some chocolate now—- just because!January 7, 2008
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Great seat cover!
And one other suggestion about the wavy edges to felted pieces — felt by hand. It takes longer than the washing machine, but as you see the edges and center starting to felt at different rates, you can apply more agitation to the edges and end up with a much more uniform result. (I've even gone the other direction and purposely avoided felting the edges so I can have extra wavy, nearly ruffly edges — but that's a different story:)January 8, 2008


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Unanswered: Grid columns broken in some browsers when num columns high
As the number of columns in your grid increases the columns list (accessed via the dropdown arrow on the column header > Columns) fails to render properly. See the attached "Chrome+Firefox-bug.png" in the zip. NB this bug varies depending on which browser you use - IE 9 still renders the list ok (see "IE-ok.png").
I've attached a simple example (NB this problem is affecting a real grid in my production code, I'm not just being pedantic). To make the example I simply duplicated the first column in one of the Ext-JS examples (ext-4.0.2a\examples\grid\array-grid.js) a couple times till the bug appeared. There are 24 columns in the example grid - chrome and firefox don't render the Columns list properly, IE is ok. If you delete one (ie 23 cols) then the column list is rendered properly in all browsers. In my production code the problem occurred after 13 columns.
Unzip the file to ext-4.0.2a\examples\ - it will create:
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You should then be able to view the array-grid.html from your http://localhost/path_to_ext_example...rray-grid.html
If anyone has a fix let me know, otherwise I don't think my subscription allows me to report bugs?
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Anyone can report bugs in the community Bugs forum - you only need a support subscription to post to Premium Help.
While I can't speak to your specific issue, I know that grid rendering (bugs, scrolling, performance, etc.) are all being addressed for the 4.1 release, which they're currently saying should beta in mid to late September.
If, however, you think you've found something unique - try reporting it!
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STEUBENVILLE — Everyone involved in the rape case against two Steubenville High School student-athletes said it should be used as a life lesson for parents and teenagers....
What happened to Steubenville, Ohio? I remember -- many many years ago -- it was a nice little city. Now, it's mud.
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Shame, shame on you, Steubenville. I'm a native Ohioan, but haven't lived in (central) Ohio for 30 years. Nevertheless, this disgusting story has trailed all the way into the newspapers in my small town in Maine. I don't even tell anyone anymore I'm from Ohio. Too embarrassing and sad. You need to get your act together -- the entire town is responsible for this travesty, and don't think you're not.
Believe it or not, there are vast areas in this country in which the men are civilized, know how and how not to treat women.
Steubenville is obviously not in this league.
For starters, every single coach and school employee in your system that had anything to do with this cesspool-series of events should have been fired at the outset. Second, you need to look long and hard at Steubenville men. Someone's given these two young men the idea that women are pieces of meat to be carved on at will. They didn't get these notions out of thin air.
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This is and should not be over. The entire football program, the players, the coaches, and the parents needs looking into. There seems to be two different sets of students: the students and THE FOOTBALL PLAYERS. And the quote from one player,..."coach will fix it," says volumes. Wise up Board Of Education. You need to do some serious housecleaning in your football staff.The message has been sent and the parents of these homes where these parties were held, need to be asked,"Where were you that these kids came to your house and left drunk,or asked where they got the alcohol in the first place. That friends is where this all started. So many more questions to be answered..... I hope those who think they are above the law will think twice before having another "back to school"party at the end of this summer!
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At the time of this gang rape, the girl was intoxicated and unconscious.The victim had been intentionally drugged with a "date rape" intoxicant. She was photographed and video was taken of her in this condition, and there is evidence that she was hauled in a comatose state to multiple parties - and almost certainly raped by more members of the local high school football and wrestling team than just the two players who currently stand charged. ***********localleaks.me/localleaks/index.html
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@Freedom-by your standards then, if I am drunk and get behind the wheel of a car and kill someone, I shouldn't be held accountable - right? I shouldn't be sentenced to prison for taking a life? I shouldn't have to attend alcohol awareness classes? Because I was drunk and so I didn't know that I was committing a crime. Is that about right?
Just because "they were all drunk" does not mean she gave consent.
Don't Rape: Even if she said yes before Even if you really want to Even if she's wearing a miniskirt Even if she's acting like a whore Even if she's drunk Even if she's alone Even if she's your wife Even if she's your girlfriend Even if she's called a slut
We must change our culture from telling our little girls "don't get raped" to teaching our little boys "don't rape."
(And yes, I realize boys and men are raped as well. In this case we are talking about the rape of a 16yo girl which is why I am using the feminine pronoun.)
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@ Freedom, according to your logic, any crime is fine as long as you are young and drunk? That is the most stupid excuse I've ever heard.
As for the case; the boys got off way too easy. Then again, inverted, flaming, crucifixion would be too easy a punnishment for those animals. Hopefully the people being investigated by the grand jury will get the severe punishment they deserve.
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This court case reminds me of the sex abuse scandal at Penn State. This tragedy could have happened in a lot of USA locales. Grandgroucho is right. Our society is too permissive. Last weekend 15 teenagers died in car accidents in 3 diffeent towns in USA. This rape incident is a symptom of a segment of the almighty-buck-rules society we live in. Where was the parental responsibility, school board oversight of this school and its superintendent? Where did they get the alcohol? Who was at the party and were there chaperones? I hope Mike deWine answers these questions.
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I say let's not look back, let's look forward! What about prosecuting the rape of the fourteen year old girl back in April? What about ridding the trash from our school coaching staff that was willing to abet obstruction of justice. What about prosecuting others we all know were involved in this rape? And how about laying down the law woth your out of control kids?
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I say let's not look back, let's look forward! What about prosecuting the rape of the fourteen year old girl back in April? What about ridding the trash from our school coaching staff that was willing to abet obstruction of justice. What about prosecuting others we all know were involved in this rape? And how about laying down the law woth your out of control kids?
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The superintendent said he would make a decision( is he really in charge) about the consequences for the coach apparently failing to inform authorities about a rape allegation. Well...This will not go away until the superintendent addresses this issue directly. Maybe he knew also and his protecting his own hide. Maybe he's afraid of the coach. Maybe he just doesn't care.
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where did the alcahol come from, they were to young to buy it, i guarantee you there is a store owner who sold it to them or an adult who bought it for them out there shi##ing themselves right now, and the parents also need to be looked at, where in the*****are they knowing their kids are out all night, people won't like this , but this young victims parents need to look at themselves also, what were they thinking knowing their little girl wsn't home all night. sad for everyone, no one should be happy right now. what a mess.
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Now we must wait for the grand jury to deal with the 16 who refused to testify. These scumbags deserve jail time for not supporting the victim or covering up what happened after the rape.
The alcohol party suppliers need to be especially punished. Three lives ruined because they did that wrong.
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Freedom--being drunk does not excuse people from raping someone! Use your common sense.
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I don't know the kids that are involved in this scandal ,but I feel sad for all of them. I really don't believe that serving time in an institution for rapists was the answer. these kids were all drunk and didn't even know that they were committing a crime. god help all of you gossipmongers and I hope your house isn't made of glass.
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I am glad the judge did not shy away from making a just verdict in this case. This needs to be used as an example to not only high school athletes but also to all college athletes. What happened here has been happening for years and hopefully this is the beginning of the end. All schools need to change how they put all athletes from high school to college to the pros on pedestals. Everyone is responsible for their actions and there are no excuses for doing the wrong thing.
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Attorney General DeWine should look at the football coach, students at the party, and the parents who hosted the parties. They need to be held accountable, too.
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it was a just verdict. They both needed to do some time. Good to see the two boys stand up and apologize to the victim her family and the community. Also it was refreshing to see a parent (Ma'lik Richmond's) father acknowledge that he should have been a better parent. those who were also involved the one taking the video and the other to the side of camera need to be held accountable as well. For those who think a person who is not aware or making a choice do to their reckless choices I can only say that no one deserved what happened to her and look to your own children or freinds and ask yourself would u blame them for being raped if they were impaired,
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How do I kill the Supreme Hunter in Prototype?
Assuming normal difficulty:
Run around the deck whittling away at him with the whipfist. Whipfist can also be helpful to longshot grab a soldier to consume, but generally dash-grabbing does the trick. Keep your health high, and make sure to avoid his tentacle barrage. Your priority should be to remain at decently high health -- after that, see what you can do about doing a bit of damage. Let the military do most of the damage for you. If you're maxed out on health, give him a bit o' the ol' critical pain devastator.
In general, I kept moving and usually airborne. Stay at max whipfist range while airdashing/gliding to dodge when necessary. If you take a hit or two, feel free to speed your way to the opposite side of the carrier while you rest up and dine on marines. Don't bother with air attacks (whipfist excepted), as he will just block them.
When he hits (I believe) 30%, you'll get a counter and you'll have about three minutes to finish. A couple critical pains at this point should be enough to finish him -- this in mind, as he nears 30%, make sure your health is capped and don't use any devastators. You don't want to use one right before the timer starts and then not have enough juice to finish. There will still be a few stray soldiers to consume if you need, but not as plentiful as before. Wait for the timer to come up and unload on him.
If you didn't have enough to kill him, you have a few options: if he's very close to death, you may still be able to finish him off with the whipfist while maintaining safe distance. If there's anything left on the flight deck to throw, that can do a bit more damage. Last (riskier) option is to let him smack you around to give you an adrenaline surge, and give a last critical pain to finish him. I personally was able to finish him just on the critical pains from the health I had when the timer started.
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Put simply, a symbol is a tangible representation of an intangible idea. Authors, both ancient and modern, use symbolic images to convey abstract concepts. The problem with symbols, however, is that they often appear as part of an implicit communication between author and audience. It's thus possible to misread an image as a symbol or a symbol as simply an image. Are there criteria to aid readers in determining when biblical authors use images symbolically?
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Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch dedicated many essays to this subject. They may be found in English translation in his Collected Writings, Volume III; ISBN:0-87306-786-X.
The primary tools Rabbi Hirsch uses in his analysis are the following ground rules, which he develops in the introductory chapter (slightly abridged for convenience):
Taking the OP's example question "[Might] the author of Jonah [have] intended his audience to see Jonah as symbol for the nation of Israel?", we can submit it to Rabbi Hirsch's criteria:
This analysis doesn't rule out every possible interpretation of "Jonah as a metaphor for Israel" (though it leads me to doubt one can successfully be constructed), but it is a powerful tool for checking any such proposal.
Here are a few things that might help point the interpreter in the right direction. (NOTE: This answer is from a Christian perspective)
The referential nature of language
Language is referential. If I say "I own a house," any English-speaker will recognize that I am referring to a place of residence. However, if I said "I own a lamaroutous" that would be nonsensical, because that word does not currently refer to anything under the modern conventions of the English language. My audience would have no hope of understanding my speech. When we speak, we have to use words that are known to our intended audience.
Referential language works fine for day-to-day life in this world; I can "arise" from my "bed" and "eat" some "cereal" before I "read" the "newspaper"... and I can communicate that to virtually any English-speaker without a problem.
The purpose of a symbol
Communication is more difficult when you are attempting to describe something unfamiliar. For instance, when God attempts to describe future and/or spiritual realities to a local audience that is neither future nor spiritual, it becomes necessary to speak in familiar terms while describing the unfamiliar. This is where symbols come in. A symbol allows you to refer to something unfamiliar by way of a familiar term.
For example, God promised to send "Elijah" before the Day of the Lord. Jesus identified John the Baptist as the Elijah who was to come. If the prophecy had said that God would send "John the Baptist" that would be nonsensical, since no one would have had any idea what that term referred to! By saying "Elijah," God is able to call to mind something familiar which could give the audience a sense of what kind of person to expect.
So, start by examining the passage to determine whether the speaker is intending to communicate something unfamiliar (e.g. future or spiritual) in familiar terms.
In general, properly identifying the genre of Biblical literature is crucial to interpreting it correctly. Just as we must be careful not to confuse a comic strip with a news headline in the local newspaper, we must be cautious of confusing apocalyptic literature with historical narrative, or parable with discourse (etc.)
This is helpful for identifying symbols, because symbolism is much more common in some genres than others. For example, apocalyptic revelation typically comes in the form of dreams and visions, which tend to be highly symbolic, versus historical narrative, which is almost never communicated through symbols. (Although the events themselves may have been divinely intended as "symbolic"!)
God's focus is spiritual
This may perhaps make more sense to Christian interpreters than Jewish or secular, but God's ultimate concern is for the redemption of mankind, and that is a spiritual redemption. It was never really about moving a group of blood relatives to a new geographical location and helping them slay the other people around them. God's heart was never in slaughtering animals, or throwing rocks at sinners.
God's heart has always been for the redemption of mankind. His mission is to restore mankind to relationship with Himself. Ultimately, everything God says and does serves this purpose. Thus, anytime we see God speaking about something natural and temporal (i.e. non-eschatological) we should suspect that it is symbolic. And anytime we see God doing something natural and temporal, we should suspect that it is typological (which could also be called "symbolic.")
Jonah, for example
In order to confidently identify an image as a symbol, we must be able to show that the author (or Author) intended it as such. This can be as simple as showing from the text that the human author was using a metaphor. For example, in the opening chapter of John the narrator writes:
Here we can clearly see John using "Light" as a metaphor (a symbol) of the Son of God.
Since we are here wondering whether Jonah himself is symbolic, or whether the story as a whole is a spiritual commentary, we could also explore the possibility that God meant His sovereign actions there as symbolic -- just as God used the Exodus symbolically to teach us spiritual realities.
Again, given God's agenda, this is highly likely. The alternative -- that it is merely an ancient story of a repentant country and a prophet with a bad attitude -- is more difficult to sustain. It probably is "symbolic" in some sense.
This does not suggest that the story of Jonah is not true, or historically accurate -- it merely suggests that what God did there pointed to something future and spiritual. It pointed to God's ultimate concern: the redemption of mankind.
As is the nature of historical fields, such as the anthropological and linguistic fields which serve as our surest means of understanding such colloquial forms of language, at least some uncertainty or ambiguity will always haunt our attempts at determining the meaning of symbols, or most any other metaphor for that matter. Rationally speaking, it is a matter of continuing to uncover and learn the ancient contexts, psychologies, and uses of languages. But there is also a means of understanding some symbols by less rational (though not therefore irrational: merely arational) sources of knowledge, such as artistic perceptions like the sense of the aesthetic, of the narrative, of the intuitive and empathic, etc. And of course it is also a matter of spiritual discernment and prayer, which is unfortunately not so often emphasized in theology and hermeneutics as one would expect. Christian academic subjects they may be, but Christian they must remain!
In short, there is no easy answer. This, like so many other linguistic difficulties in Biblical hermeneutics, are a matter of diligence, of skill, of art, of happenstance (or providence, as it may be), and perhaps even of revelation.
NOTE: This answer was written in response to the original form of the Question, which appeared to me to be seeking a definitive rule by which to identify symbols with certainty. I have edited this Answer to align a little more closely with the now-edited Question, but in deference to the original purpose of this Answer and to avoid redundancy, I will leave to others to address the exegetical concern, as Jas 3.1 has done so well already.
If an author intends to communicate through symbols he must either rely upon a community's preexisting symbolic language or make an effort to define the meaning of the image within the text itself. Ruben Zimmermann in his book Imagery in the Gospel of John thus offers two criteria for weighing a symbols plausibility: (1) conventional plausibility and (2) textual plausibility. He returns to these two criteria in Anatomies of Narrative Criticism
When an author appeals to convention by assuming his audience will recognize his meaning he or she draws a curtain between his group and those outside his community. The only way for present day outsiders to peek behind this curtain is to acquaint themselves with the common sources from which this community derived its symbols. For instance, John's symbolic language like the Greek language he speaks arises in part from his social setting. Giving heed to the material that evidently played a part in his writing can supply ample information for symbolic investigation. Thankfully, with regards to the religious books of the Bible, their sacred texts are by and large still with us today. The plausibility of a proposed symbol is thus first weighed by its continuity with known scriptural convention.
But authors also define their symbols within the text. This occurs in at least two ways. First the author can use the narrator or characters within the story to make an explicit connection or comparison between two unlike things. A good modern example of how this shift takes place can be found in the movie The Shawshank Redemption. Notice how Andy links music to hope and Red more specifically to a harmonica.
Later in the film the mere image of a harmonica becomes a symbol by invoking the metaphor of the previous conversation. Andy gives Red a harmonica as a "parole rejection" present. When asked if he's going to play it, Red responds, "no, not right now." The gift has moved beyond a mere object and now points to the hope which Andy provides and Red doesn't want to let in.
In John's gospel the symbols most easily recognizable are those found first in metaphor. "I am the light of the world" Jesus says. The incongruity of Jesus speaking of one thing in terms of another pushes the reader passed a literal meaning to reconcile meaning abstractly. Metaphors clearly denote John's core symbols, images that occur frequently and contribute most to the gospel's message. For instance Christ's claim to be "the light of the world" establishes light as a symbol. Its frequency and placement underscore its vital importance (1:9; 3:19; 8:12; 9:5; 12:46).
A second way an author can define a symbol is through narrative structure. For instance, Mark, the earliest of the four New Testament gospels, records the following scenes in this order.
The sandwiching of these stories indicates that the fig tree is a symbol of the temple. The cursing of the fig tree and its subsequent withering represents Jesus attack on the temple and its subsequent destruction. Jesus' later teaching on the mount of Olives (Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21) has this meaning in mind. Here, Jesus appeals to the meaning of the fig tree.
One further thought. The symbols arising from the original metaphor or structural association need not be restricted to their specific language. For instance if Red had never made the explicit connection between music and a harmonica the harmonica still would have been a plausible symbol for hope in the proceeding scene. That's because a harmonica is a subset of the larger concept of music. For example, later in the Shawshank Redemption, we find Heywood listening to Hank William's records in the Library Andy has built. While Hank Williams has not been explicitly connected to the metaphor his music falls under the same category.
This occurs repeatedly in John's gospel. Beyond metaphors to light we find linked references to things like darkness, day, night, blindness, and sight. The conceptual link to a central symbolic image suggests that these images likewise are to be understood symbolically. Philip Wheelwright has observed that many symbols have "a bright focused center of meaning together with a penumbra of vagueness that is intrinsically ineradicable." The core symbol established in metaphor and clearly defined in context acts as the "bright focused center" while the linked images appear to radiate out in more or less decreasing precision.
Some of these images are more transparently symbolic than others. For instance, when the statement "men loved darkness rather than light" appears at the end of Jesus' dialogue with Nicodemus it suggests that Nicodemus' approach by "night," is more than simply setting. Likewise the regular reoccurrence of light in John indicates a similar symbolic sense for Judas' final departure (13:30) though only "night" is mentioned in the immediate context.
Of course not all images related to a core symbol have this probability. Craig Koester states,
Frequency and or context are once again the clearest guides to establishing likelihood. For instance, John's light motif may play an ironic role in the solder's use of lanterns and torches to arrest Jesus, "the light of the world." However, because lanterns and torches are not mentioned or connected elsewhere in John with the light motif, the probability of an intended symbol, though good, is not as great.


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California Governor Arnold Shwarzenegger Governor Schwarzenegger and wife Maria Shriver, during happier times. Last week, Schwarzenegger admitted to an affair that resulted in a now-10-year-old child with a woman who worked in the household. Shriver and Schwarzenegger are now divorcing. (Credit: RICH PEDRONCELLI/AFP/Getty Images)
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