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"Soup's on," a popular phrase, will be heard more and more now that the air of autumn is turning crisp.
In taking words from the Betty Crocker Picture Cookbook that I have owned since my marriage 52 years ago, "Soup goes back to ages before cooking was an art at all - days when aborigines threw whatever flesh food they had into a kettle to cook over an open fire. It was later that herbs, vegetable tag ends and meat bones were added for a hearty dish."
Today, soup serves a double purpose, according to the cookbook. It is chosen with an eye on the rest of the meal. If the meal is hearty, a thin clear soup is served. With less hearty food to follow, the soup can be richer or thicker. And, of course, many soups are a meal in themselves. An easy way to thicken soup is to stir a paste of melted butter and flour into hot soup -1 tablespoon flour with 1 or 2 tablespoons butter for a quart of soup.
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Soup, served to both stimulate the appetite and provide nourishment, is a popular autumn dish. Vegetable soup can be thrown together out of saved and frozen vegetable leftovers. When enough are gathered together, get a chicken, beef or veggie broth and add the frozen collection. Noodles, rice or macaroni can be added at the end to make it more hearty.
-- Esther McCoy
Suggestions for accompaniments to the soup are:
Savory crackers: Brush crackers with soft butter, sprinkle with poppy seed, celery seed, onion salt and or paprika and heat in a 350 degree oven for several minutes.
Cheese paprika toast: Sprinkle toasted bread strips or triangles with grated American cheese and paprika. Place under the broiler or in a 350 degree oven until cheese is melted.
Egg rivels: Work an egg into 1 cup flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt until mixture looks like corn meal. Drop into boiling soup. Cover and cook gently 10 minutes.
Butter rivels: Use 1/3 cup butter instead of the egg in the egg rivels. Work until mixture is completely blended. Shape into 1/2-inch balls and drop into boiling soup. Cover and cook gently 10 minutes. Rivels will separate and look like rice.
To serve soups in style, put bouillon or thin soups in bouillon cups and use teaspoons.
Creamy soups and chowders should be served in pottery bowls with soup spoons.
Hearty one-dish soups need to be served in earthenware casseroles or pottery bowls with soup spoons. And remember to always heat the bowls before adding the soup to keep it warm longer.
Here is a recipe for chicken noodle soup from a "heart healthy" recipe in Woman's Day magazine.
Chicken Noodle Soup
6 cups chicken broth
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, visible fat trimmed
1 cup each chopped celery and onion
1 cup baby carrots, cut across and halved crosswise
1 large parsnip, peeled and chopped
1 teaspoon minced garlic
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 cups uncooked medium egg noodles
Put broth, chicken, celery, onion, carrots, parsnip, garlic, bay leaf and pepper in a large saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer 25 minutes, or until chicken is cooked and vegetables are tender. Discard bay leaf. Remove chicken to a plate to cool slightly. Add noodles to soup; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until tender. Meanwhile, shred chicken with fingers or two forks and add to soup. This is 197 calories per serving. Serves six.
A main dish that takes only 25 minutes from the measuring spoon to the serving dish appeared in the October issue of Good Housekeeping magazine. It is healthy as well, as multigrain spaghetti and ground sirloin are used in the recipe.
Quickie Cincinnati Chili
12 ounces multigrain spaghetti
2 teaspoons vegetable oil
12 ounces ground sirloin, 93 percent lean
Small onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/4 teaspoon each salt and pepper or to taste
28-ounce can no-salt added crushed tomatoes
15-ounce can no-salt added kidney beans, rinsed and drained
1 cup finely shredded Cheddar cheese
3 green onions, thinly sliced
Heat large covered saucepot of salted water to boiling on high heat. Cook spaghetti as label directs. Meanwhile, in 3-quart saucepan, heat oil on medium high. Add beef, onion and garlic. Cook 2 minutes, stirring and breaking up beef with wooden spoon. Add chili powder, cocoa, sugar, cinnamon, cumin and salt and pepper. Cook 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add tomatoes. Heat to simmering. Simmer 8 minutes or until slightly thickened. Stir in beans. Simmer 2 minutes or until beans are heated through. Drain spaghetti and divide among four serving plates. Top with chili, cheese and green onions. About 625 calories per serving.
Louise Pastre of Dillonvale had a recipe for potato soup in the 2009 Holiday Cookbook. If you are looking at the recipe, you will notice that it reads 12 teaspoons sugar, but it should read 1/2 teaspoon. It is a mistake that slid through.
Chunky Potato Soup
3 medium red potatoes
2 cups water
Small onion
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons flour
Crushed red pepper flakes, to taste
Ground black pepper, to taste
3 cups milk
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup cubed, cooked ham
Peel potatoes and cut into 1-inch cubes. Boil until tender and drain, reserving liquid. Measure 1 cup cooking liquid and set aside. Peel and finely chop onion. Melt butter in saucepan and add onion. Cook until translucent and tender. Add flour to saucepan; season with pepper flakes and black pepper to taste. Cook 3 to 4 minutes. Gradually add potatoes, reserved 1 cup liquid, milk and sugar to onion mixture in saucepan; stir well. Add cheese and ham. Simmer over low heat 30 minutes. Stir frequently.
Old-fashioned bean soup was popular at the Smithfield Historical Society, when it was sold for the Apple Festival. This recipe is from the Betty Crocker Cookbook and involves soaking dried navy beans overnight.
Navy Bean Soup
2 cups navy beans or 1 pound
3 quarts cold water
Ham bone or small shank end of ham
large onion, minced
1/2 teaspoon sugar
2 chopped stalks celery
Sprig of parsley, chopped
Wash beans and soak in 3 quarts water overnight. Using the same water, do not drain, add the remaining ingredients. Bring slowly to the boiling point. Cover and simmer 4 to 5 hours until beans are tender and the liquid is partially cooked down. For smooth soup, rub through a coarse sieve or rub some through and leave the remainder whole. Skim off excess fat. Thicken with 3 tablespoons butter and 3 tablespoons flour combined in a bit of water and added to the cooking liquid. Add salt and pepper to taste. Makes eight servings.
This is probably my favorite soup. I usually make it by chopping up fresh spinach instead of pureed.
Cream of Spinach Soup
2 cups rich milk
2 cups chicken broth
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons grated onion
1 cup cooked and pureed spinach
Melt butter in heavy saucepan and blend in flour, seasonings and onion. Stir in rich milk and chicken broth. Cook 10 minutes. Stir in the pureed spinach and boil 1 minute longer. Makes sixservings.
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Major improvements were also made to protect our young drivers when the Governor signed the Safe Driver Law. The law, which goes into effect on September 30, 2010, prohibits the use of mobile electronic devices (i.e. cell phones) for operators under the age of 18 while driving. Steep penalties will be imposed if a Junior Operator is found talking on a cell phone or writing, sending, or reading text messages while operating a motor vehicle.
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Steam Winter Sale - Day 15
Dark Souls™: Prepare To Die™ Edition (50% off) - 19.99
Painkiller Hell & Damnation (50% off) - 9.99
Painkiller: Resurrection (75% off) - 2.49
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Bahhh... Hit the character cap... The Magicka DLC Bundle [6.49] is 75% off. Lol
If you don't mind "dying" a lot. Dark Souls is a ridiculously good game with tons of replay value and a difficulty level that will make really work for it. But it is incredibly fun and rewarding to play.
You can pick that game up for pretty cheap as well for 360 or PS3. Depends your preference I guess for console or PC.
@xerokills: Funny, I was just looking at this today, but right now its actually cheaper on amazon. The download codes work in Steam as well.
Yessssssss I have been looking to get KotOR and KotOR 2 for a while. Glad I checked woot today :)
What is the best turn based strategy game out there? More like Orion Deluxe – not the "newest" version that everyone, including me, found to be more work than fun.
@da5id: I recomend Dragon Age: Origins, then the expansion Awakening. There is also a Dragon Age 2 which is also a fun turn based strategy game.
@da5id: Personally, I love, and still play, Vandal Hearts, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Battle Chess. :D
@xerokills: I hook my 360 controller to my computer... Does that make me PC or console?... Pssshhh... What am I saying? PC all the way. Lol
On Sales Page 1 for Tropico 4 (#15) it says 80% off ($6) but you click it and the offer is 66% off ($10)
@danieleg: It says "-66% / 10.19" for me. Have you tried refreshing?
@danieleg I can confirm it was 80% yesterday. The sale timer for that would have expired sometime earlier today though so it probably went back to 66% if you are just now seeing it.
KOTOR and KOTOR II are two games I can go back and play any time. Some of the best "Expanded Universe" content yet.
vote for CounterStrike 2 to be 50% off tomorrow. It is one of the best fps games for pc
Gah, I just bought KOTOR I & II yesterday or the day before for $5 each!
@thenombomb: Haha, I loved Battle Chess. Great memory on that one.
I highly recommend Amazon's game download market. I've seen a lot of them that are processed through Steam, but you get unlimited downloads (to your own machines, of course) regardless. I've seen some deals that beat Steam's prices, and they have special deals/discounts all the time. Now if only my laptop could run any current-gen games...
@buenocabra: Where do you find their download market? (yeah, I could rummage myself, but I'm lazy and it's easier to ask. :P )
@buenocabra: Good tip, I bought a steam copy of Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition for $15 last week, $5 lower than I've seen it on any Steam sale so far.
@thenombomb: I'd say that makes you PC. The last two games I bought on Steam would not work with any gamepad except the 360 controller. I had to install a 3rd-party 360 gamepad emulator to even use my logitech gamepad.
@omnichad: I would be soooo pissed. Lol
@Amazon topic - I agree. I picked up Bioshock I & II from them and, at the time, it was cheaper than Steam's sale. If I'm not mistaken, don't they all have the "view key" option (for activating through Steam)?
ALSO! I accidentally expired this deal. It's still alive for another 19 hours! It moved down and I forgot it doesn't disappear... Faaaaiiiillll... >.<
The deal I wanted is live, now:
"Tropico 4 + Prima Official Strategy Guide" for $7
Now it's actually expired. :p
@starchasertyger: Link for the lazy (that's you, bub!): http://www.amazon.com/Game-Downloads/
Easy to get to. On the Amazon home page, just mouse over "Digital Games & Software" on the "Shop by Department" menu, then click where you want to go.
You can also just search for whatever game you're looking for, and the digital version will be one of the options in the top description of the main page if it's available.
@thenombomb: Yep, the key (or a link to it) is included when you download the game, and you can just copy & paste into Steam. Nifty!


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The Law of Christ
The twelfth century Cistercian reform movement was characterized by both mystical sensibility and practical wisdom. Among its lesser known figures (but one deserving to be better known) is the abbot, Isaac of Stella.
Today's "Office of Readings" offers an example of the concrete teaching he gave to his community:
This is what the law of Christ is like, the Christ who bore our griefs in his passion and carried our sorrows in his compassion for us, loving those whom he carried and carrying those whom he loved. On the other hand, whoever turns on his brother in the brother's time of need, who exploits his weakness, whatever that weakness may be – without doubt he has subjected himself to the law of Satan and is carrying it out. Let us have compassion for each other and love the brotherhood we share, bear each other's weaknesses and fight against each other's vices.
Whatever religious practice or observance it leads to, any teaching or discipline that fosters a stronger love of God and, through God, of our neighbours, is most acceptable to God for that reason. This love is the reason why things should be or not be, why they should remain the same or be changed. This love should be the reason why things are and the end to which all things are directed. For nothing can be considered wrong that is truly directed towards and according to that love.
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Rev. Robert P. Imbelli, a priest of the Archdiocese of New York, is Associate Professor of Theology Emeritus at Boston College.
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Fr. imbelli -- Do you know whether the last volume of McGinn's great work -- on contemporary mystics -- will come out any time soon? I've been waiting for it for years :-(
Alas, I have not yet "cracked" volume five: The Varieties of Vernacular Mysticism: 1350 to 1550, so I need more time before the next volume appears :-)
Seriously, others may have a better idea of the projected volume six. I'm not even sure whether it is intended to be the last. Let's pray McGinn will be able to bring this magnum opus to completion.
I wish he'd do a stand-alone book on contemporary mysticism. He does talk about it in an addendum to one of the volumes. (He likes R. C. Zaehner :-) The official Church (well, Pope Benedict, anyway) seems to realize that contemplative prayer is for everyone, not just monks and nuns, but the problem is to find writers who can communicate clearly, authoritatively and invitingly about the subject. McGinn could do it superbly.
It would be great if he did a work for the young folks who are already inclined towards "spirituality". ("Spirituality" is the paradigm of all weasel words -- means anything you want it to mean.) The book would include some comparisons and contrasts with contemporary contemplative movements -- Christian mystics like Merton and Speyrer, and contemplatives of other traditions, as well as something about the various how-to's of the various sorts of contemplative prayer (different strokes for different folks), Karl Rahner has a great little book on contemplative prayer for everyone, but it's just about one sort of contemplation. ("Contemplation" is very ambiguous too. It also needs clearing up.) No wonder the general public finds all this horribly confusing!
This proposed book would also talk about the proper place of ascetic practices in a contemplative's life. I'm quite sure some young people won't go near the medieval mystics because they're afraid of whips and fasting :-)
I just checked Amazon for the little book he co-authored with his wife about some Christian mystics which aims at non-scholars, but it seems to be out of print. See?Some popularization are . . . well, popular. Or maybe somebody else could do such a work. (Hint? Hint?)
I haven't read all of the McGinn volumes either. Some mystics really turn me off -- they're too sick. I use McGinn mainly as reference. But what a reference work!
Lovely. Did you post it because of the Montana school story?
There's a lot of Ignatian contemplative stuff in books and articles. But that's so different from the kind of contemplation (centering prayer) that Merton and Keating do.
I could only find one book co-authored with Dr. McGinn's wife - it is on Amazon.
Early Christian Mystics - The Divine Vision of Spiritual Masters by Bernard Mcginn and Patricia Ferris McGinn; $17.06 plus used copies elsewhere.
However, since the dozen mystics covered in the book lived centuries ago and even if those posting here think this is a good book for "non-scholars", it may not appeal to those who lack background - and thus not really serve as a good intro for the young folks interested in "contemporary" spirituality. Most of the young who are interested in spirituality in the current era tend to either look east (the Dalai Lama, Thich Nacht Hahn, etc) or to more new age authors like Paulo Coehlo and Eckhart Tolle. If you truly want to reach the "young folks" with classic christian spirituality, it may be best to start with more accessible writers, like Merton. Books on spirituality by academics don't usually attract the general reader, including the young who are interested in spirituality but not in religion (as they perceive it).
Interesting too are the cross-over mystics who combine eastern and western contemplation, like Bede Griffiths and Robert Kennedy SJ.
Here's an article at America magazine about Robert Kennedy SJ and zen buddhism ... http://americamagazine.org/issue/384/article/gifts-zen-buddhism
Anne C. --
Thanks - i must have over-looked it. I think that's the one I have by them, and I think that the educated reade, including some young ones, can understand it easily enough.
To interest the young an introductory book would have to show both the big likenesses and differences between the typically Christian forms of contemplation and those typical of other traditions, especially the Asian ones. And it should be made clear that some of the practices and goals overlap, while some don't.
I also think it's especially important that the book make it clear that the experts in mystical writings no longer agree that all forms of mystical experiences are experiences of God in the classic Christian sense of the term "God". Further,such a book needs to show why some forms of contemplation are positively harmful spiritually.
Yes, Merton's works have great contemporary appeal, but they're also quite classic. Plus his interest in social justice issues would appeal to many young folks, and he doesn't over-emphasize the ascetic aspects that some of the old treatisess do.
Crystal --
I'm sorry, but I find that Fr. Kennedy has both the virtues and the great mental vice of Zen -- he blithely ignores his own obvious self-contradictions. Compare, for instance, these two statements of his: "As we know from the work of Simone Weil, prayer is nothing other [!] than paying attention" and "Zen is an active effort to develop the unique and full-bodied contribution to life of which each of us is capable". Sigh. And here are two classic Zen statements from him about the reality and non-reality of the self: "There is no Zen itself. Zen is always the life of the individual at the highest level of that very life".
This is not to say that no Zen practitioner has ever had a genuine experiences of the presence of God -- in some Zen masters I'll bet it has, though I can't name one. But the typical Zen experience seems to be of the identity of the self (a part of the cosmos) with the whole of the cosmos. And if this is not schizophrenic, what is? Yes, the ultimate Zen experience is an apparently delightful, even ecstatic experience, and it does typically lead to thinking that there is a harmony of opposites. But this is achieved by asserting that all things are identical -- including problems and non-problems.
Some of what I read recently about Phillip Hoffman and heroin addiction made me wonder whether panenhenic (Zen) experiences aren't related psychologically to the experiences which heroin addicts have. Heroin addicts typically say that when drugged their problems are still real but no longer are problems. One of my godchildren, who was on heroin, told me the same thing -- that the turning of problems into non-problems was the reason he loved it. (He's now clean, but it wrecked his life.)
I REALLY wish you'd read that Zaehner book, Mysticism: Sacred and Profane. He doesn't get into Ignatius, but Ignatius doesn't present severe theological problems the way so many others (both Catholic and otherwise) do. (In some ways, Zaehner's book is a fine intro for the well-educated, including the well-educated young. He also wrote a sort of radical popularization, Zen, Drugs and Mysticism.)
But this is all a far way from Isaac of Stella, who sounds eminently well-balanced :-) In Isaac there is no denial of problems, especially spiritual problems, but in Isaac there is hope. And this, I think, is one of the greatest differences between genuine mysticism and the surrogate kind.
Well said Anne. My graduate research was on spirituality and mental health. I think clarity on spirituality and its purpose is important. It surely has a psychological effect and people who meditate regularly have less incidents of addictions and can cope better. Also, techniques associated with spiritual practice particularly mindfulness have been used in the treatment of PTSD and people with mood disorders.
So of the level of human psychology, spiritual practices are important for flourishing. Usually spirituality, in that sense is interpreted existentially, meaning that which gives purpose and meaning to life. Frankl's logo therapy, could by that definition be considered spiritual.
But Frankly is quick to add that the aims of spirituality and psychotherapy are two different things.
Psychotherapy is involved with psychological equilibrium where spirituality is concerned with salvation. The notion of picking up one's cross in the Christian tradition or acknowledging the reality of suffering as characterizing human life in Buddhism is important.
What I like in the catholic tradition is that we are not overly prescriptive in methods, both apophatic and kataphatic mystical traditions exist. The criteria for authenticity is justice (I.e. Love of neighbour). My criticism of many new age or eastern styled practices is the focus on self, psychological stability to the exclusion of commitment to justice and active engagement in the world. This is not true of all Buddhists and I have a great friend who has been heavily involved in social justice her whole life but the popularizes methods do tend to be solipsistic.
The catholic tradition is so rich in prayer, contemplation, and meditation and we could, as you said, do a much better job of articulating those for a modern audience.
Well said Anne. My graduate research was on spirituality and mental health. I think clarity on spirituality and its purpose is important. It surely has a psychological effect and people who meditate regularly have less incidents of addictions and can cope better. Also, techniques associated with spiritual practice particularly mindfulness have been used in the treatment of PTSD and people with mood disorders.
So of the level of human psychology, spiritual practices are important for flourishing. Usually spirituality, in that sense is interpreted existentially, meaning that which gives purpose and meaning to life. Frankl's logo therapy, could by that definition be considered spiritual.
But Frankly is quick to add that the aims of spirituality and psychotherapy are two different things.
Psychotherapy is involved with psychological equilibrium where spirituality is concerned with salvation. The notion of picking up one's cross in the Christian tradition or acknowledging the reality of suffering as characterizing human life in Buddhism is important.
What I like in the catholic tradition is that we are not overly prescriptive in methods, both apophatic and kataphatic mystical traditions exist. The criteria for authenticity is justice (I.e. Love of neighbour). My criticism of many new age or eastern styled practices is the focus on self, psychological stability to the exclusion of commitment to justice and active engagement in the world. This is not true of all Buddhists and I have a great friend who has been heavily involved in social justice her whole life but the popularizes methods do tend to be solipsistic.
The catholic tradition is so rich in prayer, contemplation, and meditation and we could, as you said, do a much better job of articulating those for a modern audience.
Sorry for the duplicate post and I meant mindfulness has been used in the treatment of personality disorders not mood although it would be good for anxiety I would think
I "dabbled" with Zen Buddhism when in my 20's. I joined the" Zen meditation center" close to where I live after hearing a radio program about it and Zen hosted by Les Hixon who I perceived at that time as being the most open down to earth real person I had ever heard. He stuttered on the radio a bit but was so real I felt like I was a better person just listening to him.As egoless[egotistical] a person I'd ever heard at that time [to borrow a buddhist concept?]The nun in charge was a Vietnamese nun who was very enlightened, he said on the program.I went there when I realized it happenned to be right in my neighborhood. She immediately took a personal liking to me and took me under her wing . Even though she was so enlightened, I could not help sensing that there was a profound sadness to her. I could not shake that perception of her. Once she told me how in Viet Nam she was stepping over dead bodies, of men,women and children killed by the war. She said this while giggling and I just felt the pang of real sorrow for her for gliggling to disguise the horror,and for the situation she had described.Once we all went up state to attend a Buddhist event. She chose me to sit with her in the ride to that event.Which was an honor for me.[other people resented me for the attention she lavished on me,as I had just joined and many had been there for years]. We were both in the back seat of the car. It was a dreary day.I was looking out the window at the country side. She was looking out her window too. I could not help thinking how beautiful it all was, yet how we're here today,gone tomorrow. Suddenly she turned to me and said,sighing;it's so beautiful, still we have to die. She said just what I had ben thinking. I had to look away from her because I heard and felt her sorrow and did not have words of comfort.I looked away and suddenly in my mind I thought of glorious Easter Sunday, of Jesus Christ and the resurrection. I wanted to comfort her and say;maybe Jesus is real,maybe we're loved by God.I was about to say it, but then held back thinking that it would be disrespectful, inappropriate. She is a renouned enlightened Zen nun and to suggest another religion[though now I see Zen is not incompatable with Christianity], would be arrogant of me. So I said nothing. but I felt I knew something or had something she did not.Which increased my sorrow for her. Whether it was a crutch or not I needed it.Then I felt a guilty sense of separateness. There was no way out of that profound sadness of simply being,except through Christ,but I dared not say that, out of nothing more then"politeness". Now I would have. I tried to sit zazen but when I tried I would start to faint,She actually told me I did not need to. I stopped going there soon after.I returned to the Church some years later, in my thirties.
I'm not a fan of zen meditation myself. I have tried it and it wasn't for me. I prefer Ignatian prayer. I just mentioned Kennedy as someone who combines Christian and Buddhist spirituality, seeing that Anne Chapman had mentioned too some Eastern guys like the Dalai Lama and Thich Nacht Hahn.
But I think zen meditation is very close to what people do when they practices Christian centering prayer (Keating, Pennington, etc.). I don't really like cnetering prayer, though - Ignatian prayer is very different. For me, prayer is about relationship with God and Ignatian prayer is all about that.
This article on centering prayer mentions the similarities between centering prayer and zen buddhism ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centering_prayer .... "The Trappist monk and influential writer Thomas Merton was strongly influenced by Buddhist meditation, particularly as found in Zen — he was a lifetime friend of Buddhist meditation master and Vietnamese monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, praised Chogyam Trungpa who founded Shambhala Buddhism in the United States and was also an acquaintance of the current Dalai Lama."
I'd suggest taking a look at Paul Knitter's Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian.
You can read part of the first chapter here:
Here Peter Steinfels reviews it: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/10/us/10beliefs.html
Here Tom Fox interviews the author: http://ncronline.org/news/double-belonging-buddhism-and-christian-faith
Here's a podcast of the interview: http://ncronline.org/news/without-buddha-i-could-not-be-christian-paul-k...
Gene P. -
Thanks for the Knitter sites. I'm very surprised at his "classic" concept of God that he seems to have learned at the Gregorian in the mid-60s. He doesn't seem to realize that the Protestant concepts are not always like the classic Catholic ones. His "standard concept" is extremely different from the concept of God of Aquinas, which, I think, handle the problems of immanence and transcendence very well. (Not that there aren't problems in Aquinas.)
But I give him an A-minus for hinting that Aquinas' use of the theory of participation leads to a kind of pantheism. Good Buddhist that he is, he says that reality is "non-dual" (typical Scholastic, he thinks if you give a problem a name then you've solved it :-). He says reality is *both* one and not one, and that "God and reality are not two". He says that's not pantheism, but he sure fooled me.
I wonder if he really understood Rahner, who taught him. Did he really get some of this from Rahner?
I did find his explanation of sunyata very interesting. It's a clearer explanation than any I've read so far.
George D. -
Thanks for telling us of your experiences in spiritual counseling. You could teach Rome A LOT. Not that they're ever willing to admit their mistakes. It's shameful the way they've misrepresented at least some of the New Age people. They just don't want to admit that anybody else knows anything original of spiritual value.
Crystal --
Yes, Centering Prayer is like some Zen practices, but Zen includes many different ones. Only some of them seek to shut out everything except consciousness of this world and self. That is, of course, far from Catholic orthodoxy. But even that sort of practice, if it is recognized as non-ultimate knowledge, shouldn't be rejected on theological grounds, and there's much to recommend it on psychological grounds.
Merton was also great friends with D. T. Suzuki. I don't think, however, that Merton ever abandoned the Catholic contemplative tradition. But that too is a complex matter (as it is with a lot of earlier Catholic mystics if truth be told.)
Crystal -
Here's an article from the New York Review of Books by William Dalrymple on the history and meaning of yoga, It shows very clearly the enormous variety in Buddhist/Zen meditative practices over time, both as to methods and goals, even into our own age. With the Mughal domination of most of India in the 16th century, the Muslims had a lot of influence over the Buddhist meditative practices, so our Zen seems to have some Muslim influence.
(I have never really understood the distinction between Zen and Buddhism, except that maybe Zen is more oriented to the peaceful.)
Ann, why would a Buddhist practice developed in China in the 6th century CE be affected by Muslim influence in India in the 16th century?
Abe --
This is a complicated history, and I'm certainly no expert, but here's how I understand the basics.
The roots of Zen go all the way back to HInduism and its early practices. The earliest sacred books of India were written maybe 2,000 years ago. Later Hinduism developed many different practices, and many schools came into existence. One of them was Buddhism. Buddha was an Indian, a Hindu who apparently had a somewhat different sort of intuition from other Hindus, or at least his intuition ("Enlightenment") was produced by somewhat different practice(s). That was probably between 600-500 BCE. He wrote nothing down. but the Buddhist "scriptures", are reports of his teachings.
Buddhism of various sorts later spread to Nepal, China, then Japan and other Far Eastern countries. It got to China around the beginning of the first century CE. There "Chan" Buddhism was developed, and Chan spread to Japan where it was called "Zen". Eventually Buddhism died out almost entirely in China.
Enter the Muslims. Back in the 17th century CE, some Muslims (the Mughals) conquered most of India, and they brought Islam and its mystical practices with them (at least to the upper classes). However, as I understand it, there was later some cross-pollination of the Zen *back* to Mughal-Muslim India. So it was the Zen practice that was returned back to the Muslims in India in the 17th century.
Besides that late cross-pollination in India of the practices of the Islam of India, the Hinduism of India and Zen Buddhism of Japan, there was *also* some cross -pollination of the Zen *back* to the Muslims in the Middle East. (Remember, India has Muslim neighbors.) At least that's how I understand it. Extremely complicated historically, and I don't guarantee I have it all straight.
The Dalrymple article goes into this, but I find that it too isn't entirely clear about dates and names.
Ann, I lived in China for a while--in the city where Chan was developed (the monastary is still functioning). I can assure you that Buddhism is still quite present in China.
I thought that the Dalrymple article was very interesting, but it was about yoga and made only passing reference to the Buddha, and no reference at all to Chan or Zen. I kind of think that you are being too loose in how you use these terms, while also making pretty sweeping observations about them.
Ann, I know almost nothing about Zen, so would like to ask you to clarify something you wrote above -
Centering Prayer is like some Zen practices, but Zen includes many different ones. Only some of them seek to shut out everything except consciousness of this world and self. That is, of course, far from Catholic orthodoxy.
Are you saying that Zen practices that " shut out everything except consciousness of the world and self....." are like CP or differ from CP?
I know little about Islam also, but had a friend who is a Sufi - the mystical branch of Islam. She was raised Catholic, with Catholic schools all the way through college. Throughout their history, Sufis have often been attacked by others in Islam. Dozens of Sufis have been killed in recent years in attacks on them and their mosques and shrines, especially in Pakistan.
To continue my litany of a few facts but absence of in-depth knowledge of other religions, I have one more anecdote, The oldest Hindu scriptures (Vedas) date back about 3500 years to about 1500 BCE. I am always interested in religion and spirituality, so I try to learn at least a bit from those I know who have converted from christianity to another religion. A former colleague of mine was a devout, practicing Hindu, a convert from christianity. We sometimes discussed religion and that led me to dig a little so that my questions would be slightly more intelligent, and so I tried to learn a tiny bit of the history of Hinduism. He was good at explaining things and I would often later google what we had talked about to get at least a tiny sliver of insight and knowledge.
Abe --
It is my understanding that Buddhism did fairly well die out in China, but there has been a resurrection of sorts especially after the demise of classical Communism there. It didn't survive in India very well either.
Yes, my use othe terms is not the best, but I warned you that I don't have a clear picture of why Zen is so different from other branches of Buddhism.
Abe --
It is my understanding that Buddhism did fairly well die out in China, but there has been a resurrection of sorts especially after the demise of classical Communism there. It didn't survive in India very well either.
Yes, my use othe terms is not the best, but I warned you that I don't have a clear picture of why Zen is so different from other branches of Buddhism.
Anne C. --
I've done only two kinds of Zen (concentration meditation and something called "naming"), and I've only read about the many, many others. But the ultimate goal for all devotees of Zen is a kind of Enlightenment, though I'm not sure that the character of that intuition is the same in all the various movements in Zen. (Buddhism generally aims for Enlightenment, whatever that means in its different movements.)
There are also many Buddhist practices which prepare the adept to experience Enlightenment. Some aim at the moral improvement of the practitioner. Some aim at disciplining the mind. All Buddhist movements include these two sorts of practices.
Included in the self-disciplining sort is what is called "concentration" meditation in which the mind focuses on only one thing -- e.g., the breath, the belly button, an apple, a paper clip. In the process of focusing on the one thing the mind must turn attention away from everything else -- including sensations, feelings, conceptual thought, and everything that is not the one thing focused on. This is what is analogous in Centering Prayer. In CP we turn attention away from all sorts of mental content and activities except intending to accept the presence and action of God in the Self.
As you can see, neither concentration meditation (which simply focuses on one thing) and nor mindfulness meditation (which simply observes whatever mental content flows through the mind) include any religious content (unless a religious thought just happens to pass through), so the Vatican's condemnation of *all* New Age/Buddhist practices was really an unfair one. Yes, sometimes Catholics do get caught up in the objectionable parts of Buddhism, but not all parts of it are objectionable. Some Buddhist methods are very valuable for religious development, but not because they're essentially religious. Rather they're valuable because they help us prepare for the strictly religious kind..
Buddhism and other forms of Hinduism share many of the specific techniques. All of them include concentration and mindfulness meditation. The Hindus have some really, really weird ones for self-discipline. In one the practitioner is actually tied to a corpse and must attempt not to be distracted by it. In another (nirodh), the meditator eliminates so much from consciousness that his brain waves almost completely stop. It's been said that physiologically it's the closest thing to being dead. One must wonder what sort of experience remains in them and why it is to appealing. Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating.
I should perhpas add that some meditative techniques are indeed psychologically dangerous and should not be attempted without the guidance of a spiritual director or guru. In one book I read, the author said some methods can be so dangerous indeed that he wouldn't even describe what they involve lest someone try them undirected.
"The Meditative Mind: The Varieties of Meditative Experience", by American psychologist Daniel Goleman, is a fine relatively short intro to the subject.
Thanks, Ann. I practiced CP for years, but know little about Zen or other meditation techniques.
Anne C. --
Since I seem to have a compulsion to talk about meditative techniques this week, let me say a bit about one technique that I find particularly helpful for religious purposes. It's called "naming" or "labelling". Other Commonwealers might findd it helpful.
This method is sort of between a concentration technique and a mindfulness one. As in mindfulness methods one observes the various sorts of mental content streaming through consciousness, but one also *names* the various sorts of contents., or at least names some of them. (The content can be sendations, images, ideas, feelings -- any of the data of consciousness.) For instance, I would start doing mindfulness and notice in particular datum -- that my toe itches. I would label that data "itch" or "sensation". Next I might notice that I feel bored, and I would name that "bored" or "feeling" or "emotion". One doesn't pick and choose which datum to label, one just labels whatever catches our attention momentarily. All the while, lots of other stuff is pouring through, but as in ordinary mindfulness one just lets it flow.
One soon learns that there is a river of stuff going through consciousness, so only a few data can be labelled. But that's OK. In the process of noticing a relatively few the meditator comes to realize how very, very complex the "stream of consciousness" is -- how very, very complex the *meditator* is.
What I have found valuable about this sort of meditation is that it has made me aware -- sometimes painfully aware, though not always -- of my own motivations, both good and bad, and it has made me aware of the fact that usually I have more than one motivation for my choices, even when the decisions are relatively unimportant ones. And sometimes I didn't really realize that I had certain motivations. In other words, this method results in a deeper sort of self-knowledge, a self-knowledge that is particularly useful spiritually when when one is "examining one's conscience" to use the old phrase. In other words, it's a way of becoming self-critical, which is fine for one's humility. And our confessions can become more accurate and fuller because we understand our motives better. And sometimes we even find out something good about ourselves, so it certainly isn't all painful.
Here is a description from a Buddhist site. The *purpose* of naming for the Buddhist is quite different from a Christian's purpose -- they are aiming at Enlightenment. We're just aiming at understanding ourselves better for purely moral and/or psychological reasons. They want to stop the flow, we just want to understand what's in the flow better.
Here is a good explanation of how to do it, not why to do it;
OOPS -- yet again.
I just read the bottom of the last site I reccommended, and I saw that the method is limited to noting only "thinking". This is not excatly what I'm recommending -- it's too narrow. The method I find useful is noting *all sorts of mental content and activities*. But that's the only difference, except, of course, that the Buddhist is seeking Enlightenment, while the rest of us can use the method simply for self-knowledge.
Here's an excellent site about noting. It describes more of how to do the basic method and gives variations for various purposes. The purposes for the writer are awareness, insight, and liberation. I recommend it only for the religious and psychological benefits of being aware of the complexity of one's inner life, but it's very easy to do.
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The historical situation back in the early part of the 1990s had a lot to do with it. At the time BSD unix was 'struggling to be free' and was viewed as the way forward in many circles. Linux did not get a working TCP stack for a couple of years after it came out and the internet was still somewhat rarefied.
The relative cohesion of the early Linux kernel development meant that Linux moved forward relatively quickly and ultimately gained the mind share. The entire BSD world stood still while the lawsuit was resolved. Even with lawsuit resolved it still lacked the structural cohesiveness of the Linux kernel development process and split into several forks.
Thus, while BSD was (certainly at that point) more mature and arguably technically superior, Linux got the mindshare - which is pretty much the be-all and end-all of success in any large software market.
It's mainly a historical thing. Like Windows, Linux happened to be in the right place at the right time and gained market share much quicker than BSD. This caused more drivers and applications to be developed for it, giving it even more momentum.
I'll quickly throw up an answer before it gets closed...
But personally, in my somewhat limited experience with Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat and FreeBSD, Linux always seems easier to use and get setup with...
On the other hand, Apple OS X is built off a BSD base, so you might say that BSD is more popular than Linux!
Timing. Linux came out for the 386 in August of 1991. The first BSD to come out for the x86 architecture was 386BSD in March of 1992. Furthermore, there was only one Linux. In 1993 BSDi came out for the 386. So, there were, almost immediately, multiple BSDs that requiring users to make a choice. Soon after critical mass took over as there became more ports and drivers for Linux.
I've been using Linux in some fashion since it first booted with GNU. My first reaction to using it was "Thank &(#*$&# god this doesn't look like UNIX, or MINIX!!"
I think *BSD is just a little too much like UNIX for some people, especially those of us who were so thankful to finally get rid of UNIX in the first place in favor of Linux / GNU.
I am comfortable with any Unix like operating system. I like using Linux / GNU. Part of the fuel that fed the popularity of both Linux and GNU was the chance to change some very annoying things in UNIX.
The standardization wars also sent a great many skilled developers to Linux and glibc, since Linus had POSIX in mind from the start.
Take care to differentiate the kernel of both operating systems from its userland and libc when considering this question. I can't tell you how many people jumped on the Linux / GNU train after libreadline was released, but I bet its a significant amount.
There was also `moral glory' at the time. The GPL stood up for your freedom , which most UNIX refugees really respected. So, when the rush of developers really took shape, the BSD folks were unable to use the code that was going into Linux / GNU due to licensing issues.
In short, you kinda had to be there :)
Linux has more interesting kernel features -- if I want to use openmosix or vmware server, for instance, the linux kernel is the only game in town. BSD has pf and it has zfs, but those aren't as universally interesting.
Linux has a more forgiving userland. The BSDs tend to have a userland that is entirely consistent but without the wacky gnuisms like a version of /bin/false that takes --help as a flag. The GNU stuff is more novice friendly but tends to get in the way of someone who knows exactly what they want.
Also, to a large extent, market forces come into play. Jobs are mostly for linux, not for bsd. Embedded platforms mostly use linux. Fancy new software gets written on linux first, then maybe ported to BSD. Etc...
These days? More things go to the effort to support the linux than the BSDs. Also, the BSDs have only recently started to put some effort into being friendly to new users. And they're still behind in some technical aspects (note, for example the poor SMP support on OpenBSD).
It's about the feeling of ownership. Linux is free and open in every way. Linux belongs to everyone. Just using Linux makes one feel like part of the community. BSD, despite its license, is "owned" by small groups of control freaks with limited visions. They don't really want you to be a part of their group because you are inferior and you might mess up their code.
Because BSD is dying.
Oh.. no, I meant BSD is still dying.
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Quite often to do pagination effectively, you also need to have the total number of rows that the query would return without implementing the pagination. The way to do this currently with MSSQL is to basically run the same query twice, but with one that doesn't use the WHERE clause to alter your result count.
MySQL lets you do this much more succinctly, for example.
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Planning and scheduling must work hand-in-hand for a
turnaround, outage or shutdown to be executed to budget and
schedule. Unless proper diligence is given up-front to planning
and scheduling, no amount of execution excellence will recover
the waste associated with unclear work plans, inflated
estimates and poorly defined schedules.
Scheduling practices in use today are examined here, and the
common pitfalls encountered in planning and scheduling are
explored. Additionally, tips to avoid these pitfalls are
In a survey of European companies involved in
conducting shutdowns, turnarounds and outages, 57% of the
respondents did not have detailed, step-by-step procedures for
creating a schedule, and they did not reuse schedules from
previous events as a starting point when building a new
Building a schedule is considered the exclusive domain of
the scheduler, and it is dependent upon each schedulers
experience and knowledge. A surprising 26% of schedulers have
built less than 10 schedules, and 45% of schedulers have
learned scheduling by doing it (Figs.
1 and 2). When schedules are built,
77% are made either by hand or by importing data to create a
new schedule. Only 23% of companies have an archive of schedule
templates from previous events that they can modify to create a
new schedule.
Fig. 2. Level of scheduling
When beginning an event, it is important for all
stakeholders involved to understand and agree to certain
ground rules or expectations. For a schedule to be
an accurate and useful tool, it requires the effective and
timely interaction of planning, estimating, scheduling and
operations departments, as well as the contractors working the
job. If any one party is absent, the resulting schedule will
not reflect the actual requirements of the event and will
likely result in failure for the execution team.
There must also be a high degree of information
consistency between all parties involved. Everyone must
understand what the information requirements will be prior to
and during the event, including but not limited to:
It is best to build a communications matrix prior to the
event and to include all information requirements/updates,
involved parties, frequencies and templates/level of detail.
This matrix should be reviewed with all stakeholders in a
pre-event coordination meeting (Fig. 3).
The planner and the scheduler must agree on who will build
contingency into work estimates and where this contingency will
be located. This is primarily the schedulers
responsibility, but both the planner and the scheduler must
understand how the contingency will be managed.
The objective of the scheduler (with the support of
planning, estimating, operations and contractors) is to build a
single turnaround schedule that incorporates all planned
activities for the turnaround, any capital project work being done during the
event, and the operations departments detailed shutdown
and startup plans for the unit.
The first 24 hours of the shutdown plan must be detailed and
include sequenced hour increments, identified dependencies and
specific resource requirements for each activity. The scheduler
will provide operations with a date by which the plan must be
delivered in sufficient detail and accuracy to be incorporated
into the overall turnaround schedule.
The schedule should be built with the goal of having a high
degree of repeatability and sustainability to support its reuse
in future events, with some updates and modifications, vs.
rebuilding a schedule from scratch each time.
Increasingly, contractors are doing more planning and
scheduling on behalf of the operators. While the contractors
must bring expertise and knowledge of the tools, the operator
cannot abdicate the leadership role to the contractor. It must
be the operator who defines which scheduling IT tool will be
used, what level of detail will be seen in the schedule by each
functional group involved in the turnaround, how job
progression to the schedule will be calculated and when updates
will occur.
Note: Although more contractors are being
used, some level of expertise must be retained in-house. This
is necessary to ensure that specific knowledge remains with the
operator to validate or challenge work estimates and plans
built by contractors for accuracy. This knowledge will also
enable effective coordination between operations and
Differences exist in the area of work estimation using
standardized work values, resulting in inconsistent and
inaccurate work plan estimates. North American operators rely
more on expert judgment, so it is not uncommon for
work estimates to be inflated by as much as 40%. Europe, on the other hand, uses
standardized work component estimation, providing greater
consistency and accuracy. Work estimates and plans should
always be validated by a credible source prior to being entered
into the schedule.
With the increased use of contractors, contracts and how
they are structured play an increasingly important role in the
success of any event. More precisely, integrated and
comprehensive job evaluations allow for the introduction of
modern contract types for contractors, reducing the need to
push risk to the contractor.
Frequently, the objective of the contract is to create a
win-win agreement for both the operator and contractor.
Establishing a win-win contract allows the operator and the
contractor to work together instead of against each other. Time
and material contracts, favored in North America, drive
contractors to integrate as many workers as possible into the
turnaround. This creates an immediate conflict, as operators
prefer to complete the turnaround with the minimum resources
required in the shortest time possible. To prevent these types
of conflicts, improved accuracy based on better advance
estimates and planning is required.
There are three phases to the scheduling process:
During the concept phase, several parameters should be
defined: the schedule structure, standards for the schedule
elements and progress feedback procedures, and schedule
reporting during the execution phase. Once these parameters are
defined, they must be communicated to operations, to the
execution team and to the contractor team.
A precondition for the creation phase is that the scope must
be defined, and the detailed technical planning results must be
available. Many companies seem to ignore this precondition and
then do not understand why the events schedule and budget
are not met. In conjunction with scope management and cost
control, scheduling forms the magic triangle of project management for
There must be flexibility in schedules to enable a quick and
easy response to any changes that become necessary. Schedules
should be reasonably flexible without sacrificing the necessary
control mechanisms. Schedule flexibility is necessary because
of unscheduled repair work, uncertainty about equipment
availability and capacity, and logistical challenges and
restrictions due to limited space in the plant.
The quality of the schedule is defined by scope freeze. The
scope needs to be frozen and the schedule prepared using
optimization techniques, ideally 12 months prior to the
shutdown phase of the turnaround. Scope freeze begins with all
stakeholders understanding and agreeing to the reason for the
turnaround. Once the scope-freeze phase is finished, any
suggested additions must be challenged into the
scope, not out of it. A rigorous scope-management process
should be well managed and based on a companys defined
risk-management processes.
Planning is the starting point, and the schedule can be no
better than the items that go into it. With this point in mind,
Table 1 reviews common planning pitfalls and recommendations
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6 Fake Foods You (Will Wish You Didn't) Have in Your Kitchen
We're all cynical grown-ups here. We know that the food we buy at the grocery store isn't made by a kindly old man on a farm.
But still, we like to think that what comes in the package bears at least some vague resemblance to what's on the label. Instead, a little bit of digging reveals downright soylent green-like horrors.
#6. "Crab Meat"
Long ago, man decided that the delicate, tasty flesh of bottom dwelling sea bugs was a luxury item and we should all be so lucky to eat it--even if the animal itself had been feeding off of discarded boots and laserdisc porn sunk to the bottom of the sea. For this reason, crab continues to be a delicacy that costs a fuckton more than, say, the pulverized, rubbery remains of a bunch of random fish.
I'm lovin' it.
But if crab is so expensive, how are grocery stores and restaurants able to sell crab dips and crab cakes so inexpensively? Welcome to the world of imitation crab meat, an ingredient you find almost everywhere cheap seafood is sold (including Long John Silver's).
See, lucky for the cheap and not particularly discerning amongst us, the pulverized, rubbery remains of a bunch of random fish can be easily injection-molded into damn near any seafood product under the sun and labeled surimi, right under where it pretends to be crab meat at your local grocery store.
Some are better disguised than others.
As this video with an upbeat, 80s work safety soundtrack demonstrates, real fish is minced and put through a series of progressively more horrifying and offputting challenges, like a traveler being lowered through the depths of seafood hell, until finally it doesn't resemble anything like a fish anymore so much as a slurry of lumpy, white awfulness ready to be extruded into whatever delicious product needs extruding.
Then, as this helpful guide explains, the resulting white fish paste is frozen, shaved into flakes, ground in a vat with starch, egg whites and flavorings to make it taste crab-like, then cooked and finally formed into a "rope" where orange die is painted on to give it that nice crab appearance.
Oh, and that red dye is usually made from crushed insects.
It Could be Worse...
Be careful when you're abroad and picking up a nice bottle of vodka to have with your imitation crab. Bootleg vodka production is rampant the world over and bottles that look completely legit on the shelf have huge amounts of methanol, which is a kind of alcohol, true, but it's the kind that's used as race car fuel and antifreeze.
#5. Sliced Cheese That Isn't Cheese
Most of you have likely never made your own cheese, at least not on purpose. But you probably have a general idea of how it's made. Something to do with milk, right? And they let it age or whatever? One way or another, a cow is involved, isn't it?
And sure enough if you look at people who sell actual cheese you find on their ingredients all sorts of words like "milk" and "milkfat" and "cheese cultures."
But sitting right in the same aisle with the actual cheese you'll see a package like this:
Note the careful omission of the word "cheese" from the package of "American slices" up there. These "pasteurized processed sandwich slices" are to cheese what a hobo is to, you know, someone with a home. The way the supplier's website puts it, the product "...resembles a Processed American Cheese in certain food applications."
You know, in the right light, post-it notes kind of look like cheese too!
"Resembles" in "certain food applications"? Holy shit! They actually said that! By the way, we're pretty sure "certain food applications" means "sitting on the shelf next to actual cheese to fool poor people." Take a look at the ingredients, and after the first one you'll pretty much be lost:
"Water, Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Food Starch, Casein and/or Caseinate, Whey, Modified Food Starch, Salt, Natural Flavor..."
Since the "natural flavor" ingredient is missing from the real cheese, that apparently means "chemical that makes it taste like cheese."
Incredibly, this means that there is something less like cheese than Easy Cheese.
By the way, this isn't just an American thing. Dutch news reports found out that up to 40 percent of the "cheese" on their shelves is actually this cheese-like mixture of oil, starch and milk protein.
It Could be Worse...
While the cheese on your pizza may be fake, at least there isn't sand in the crust.
Pizza dough has never been so sexy.
Not so in parts of Africa, where flour from markets is routinely cut with things like alum, chalk, Plaster of Paris and mashed potatoes.
Wait, mashed potatoes? That's got to be more expensive than the flour. They're clearly just doing it to fuck with people.
#4. Popcorn Butter
Few things really capture the heart and soul of the movie theater experience like a stranger getting a handjob in the seat behind you. In the same ballpark is movie theater popcorn. It's an iconic snack associated with the film-going experience and, when Junior Mints are not available, it's the next best thing to buy at a 900 percent markup to keep your hands and mouth busy for the next two hours, provided you're not in that handjob crowd.
"Excuse me folks, could you keep your handjobbing to a dull roar, please? People are trying to enjoy G-Force."
Since theaters make the majority of their profits off the concession stand, it's no wonder they need to keep costs down as much as possible, which is why most employees seem to have flies buzzing around their heads, and it's also why butter was long ago sacrificed to the gods of cheapassery.
Lately, most places have taken to calling what they put on popcorn "topping" after word got out that butter hadn't seen the inside of a theater since Citizen Kane. The popcorn is often popped in coconut oil and then bathed in hydrogenated soy bean oil, much the way we imagine Ron Jeremy starts a work day.
The new mixture, while packing all that delicious butter flavor, also packs your arteries with heart stopping awfulness, so the cost benefit analysis worked more in favor of the theaters than you, supposing you were planning on staving off a heart attack. A large popcorn with this pseudo-butter has as much saturated fat as eight Big Macs.
The blue areas are scientifically referred to as "fat pockets."
It Could be Worse...
If you eat too much microwave popcorn, you can wind up in the hospital with popcorn lung. That's right, the popcorn spilled out of his stomach and filled his lungs.
That popcorn is actually coming out.
Ha, no, just kidding. The truth is much weirder. The "totally not butter" flavoring in microwave popcorn contains the chemical diacetyl, which creates poisonous fumes that can almost fucking kill you if you breathe too much of it.
The effects are mostly seen in popcorn factory workers. In fairness, the man who got it from eating popcorn was eating two bags of microwave popcorn a day, so it seemed inevitable some debilitating illness finally caught up with him.


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I am greatly encouraged by and admire the stance that Hobby Lobby has taken in filing a lawsuit against the mandate in Obamacare that would force the Christian business to provide the "morning after pill" and "week after pill" in their health insurance plan.
The penalty for not complying with this mandate would be up to a staggering 1.3 million dollars per day. As an employee at Hobby Lobby, I am honored to work for a company that is willing to take a stand for righteousness, having nothing to do with "fruitless deeds of darkness".
Whatever you believe concerning contraception, or abortion-inducing drugs, can you at least agree that the government has no right to force religious organizations, or any organization for that matter, to violate their convictions?
Hobby Lobby should indeed be commended for refusing to be silent in light of such a draconian example of government overreach. If we do not speak up, what other freedoms will disappear?"
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I have installed a new pre-hung door that needs to blend in with the surrounding wall. The door is a flat slab and will be painted the same as the wall. I don't want to use door trim as I need a flat look. How do I conceal the gap between the frame and the door jamb? I could use plaster but I think it will crack over time.
I'm going to take a stab at this one, though I've never tried this for something large like a door frame.
Go get some self-adhesive fiberglass drywall tape and cover the area to be blended. Mud the seam, sand and repeat until smooth and the surface is blended with the wall. Prime and paint to match.
Alternatively, you could try peeling the paper off some scrap drywall and gluing it to the wall, and then doing the same as above with drywall compound.
I think these will help prevent it from cracking. You'll want to make sure the door frame is well secured to minimize any "give" that would crack it.
Maybe there is no room for a second layer of drywall, but what about wallpaper? There are some plain wall papers available that could be painted over.
Just for the sake of completeness, here is what I was thinking of doing until Steven came up with a better/easier solution (at least on paper):
I was planning on packing the gap with plaster (or more likely setting-type joint compound), and then scoring a stress relief gap around the perimeter of the door. Then filling up the gap with caulk. Sort of like on parking lots when you see caulk between concrete slabs. If done right I believe this to be quite acceptable visually.


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The Nest thermostat states I heated my home for 155 hours in November. I estimate thats approx 100 gallons of oil used. It got me wondering if I converted to natural gas, how much would that be?
Unfortunately, I'm unable to find a calculator to go from gallons of oil used to therms. Or hours of heat to therms.
I'm not looking for someone to do the conversion for me. Just interested in the formula to calculate this.
Not sure if spec matter, but here they are:
My oil burner model is KV83 (I'm told it's middle quality burner so I may change it one day) It's supplied by a Riello burner oil gun. -pump pressure 145 psi -air set 3.5 -nozzle 0.90 x 80 degrees B -headset 1.0


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I find this scene "all" "Orangey". The trees are also looking a kind Orangey.
Is the colour balance wrong? Or it is normal for a sunrise scene?
I find this scene "all" "Orangey". The trees are also looking a kind Orangey.
White balance is all relative. Light (natural or artificial) varies in colour and your eyes are used to adjusting it. It's amazing how an image can seem fine until you see another image with a different white balance and it suddenly looks wrong. Even the background colour of the page holding the image or frame can influence how colour balance is perceived.
With this is mind there is no correct white balance. The only sense in which the white balance can be "wrong" is relative to the intent of the image. If you intend to create to invoke the feelings of a warm sunny day and your image has a strong blue cast then it is probable that a mistake has been made.
With reference to the image you posted, it is not a documentary photograph but an impressionistic depiction of the scene. In my opinion the colour balance is in keeping with the style and content of the image.


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In reactive programming we can choose between two models: "pull," in which we run a computation each time output is required, and "push," in which we run the computation each time input arrives.
Which model we use depends on whether we are working with high-frequency or low-frequency data. If we are writing a piece of avionics software that measures pitch, yaw, and roll, then we need to constantly adjust the plane's aerodynamic surfaces based on those variables. We don't need a notification when these variables change, because they change constantly. The pull model would be perfect in this case.
On the other hand, engine temperature is every bit as critical to the health of the vehicle, but presumably that variable remains in equilibrium for long stretches of time, and small variations aren't important. We don't want to waste CPU time monitoring temperature 100 cycles per second. We might simply want to receive a notification whenever the engine temperature changes by 1 degree or more. The push model works better here.
The problem: How do I efficiently embed a low-frequency signal in a high-frequency channel? If I pass the low-frequency signal naively, it will work, but entail much redundant computation.
When we want to avoid recomputing a value, we often use a memoization strategy. However, in this case we need to memoize a data stream, not a function.
In the engine temperature example, it would be easy to memoize a function of type Int -> a. But we want to compose this function as part of a signal. After all, if the engine temperature is low frequency, then so is any signal derived from the engine temperature. The chain of transformations should be memoized along its entire length. Further, this function risks artificially escalating a meaningless low-amplitude high-frequency component of an otherwise low frequency signal by imposing an arbitrary boundary: suppose that some engine vibration causes the temperature to oscillate rapidly between 198.9 and 199.05 degrees, which would truncate to 198 and 199? This does not yield the notification heuristic we are looking for.
The solution: Tag information with a unique signature at its point of departure and then memoize it at the point of arrival. Transformations of the data stream also need to be tagged. A source signature is either a unique integer, or an annotation of applying one signature to another. There is some overhead associated with comparing signatures, but this overhead can not be greater than the cost of performing the underlying operations.
Memoizable messages are very similar to applicative functors. They can not, however, implement the Control.Applicative interface, because any pure constructor would be unsigned and therefore destroy memoization.
This memoization scheme requires three operations:
- Transmit: Sign a message with a unique signature, indicating its source. If a subsequent signal is sufficiently similar, reuse the same signature.
- Receive: Unpack a signal, memoizing against the signature of the previous input.
- Apply: Combine two signals with their signatures.
My implementation is in a module of rsagl-frp called Message.hs.


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STEVE LEWIS/Durango Herald
A Durango man was sentenced to 16 years in prison Wednesday for killing his brother-in-law, Ted Garcia, who would have turned 50 on the same day.
Joseph Dernoga, 38, showed little emotion as family members � both his and the victim�s � made formal statements before District Judge Jeffrey Wilson in 6th Judicial District Court.
Dernoga pleaded guilty Sept. 6 to second-degree murder in a plea agreement with the District Attorney�s Office. The plea agreement called for 16 years in prison, leaving little doubt about what would happen Wednesday.
But as part of the plea agreement, Dernoga agreed to explain the circumstances of the homicide � called an allocution. But he failed to take direct responsibility for pulling the trigger or explain a motive for the killing.
�The circumstances surrounding the death of Ted Garcia are very simple,� Dernoga said. �A trigger was pulled. A gun discharged. Ted was shot, and then he died. I have pleaded guilty to this and accept full responsibility.�
District Judge Jeffrey Wilson was unimpressed by the confession. But he accepted the plea agreement, saying it was a fair resolution to a difficult case.
�Even if you�re not saying that you pulled the trigger, this isn�t fair at all,� Wilson said. �There are no excuses for murdering someone. There are no excuses for snatching somebody�s life from them. And we�ll never know what the reason is. Sixteen years is not nearly enough time for what you�ve pleaded guilty to.�
Dernoga shot and killed Garcia, the longtime manager of Francisco�s Restaurante y Cantina on Main Avenue, with a .270-caliber rifle late July 23, 2010, or early July 24, 2010, inside Garcia�s home in the 1000 block of County Road 206, just west of downtown Durango.
Dernoga, who lived in the basement, called 911 to report the death. Investigators eventually identified Dernoga as a suspect, but they had little physical evidence.
Prosecutors presented the case to a La Plata County grand jury, which issued a 10-count indictment, including first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a weapon.
About 65 people packed the courtroom for Tuesday�s hearing. They included Dernoga�s sister, Suzanne Dernoga Garcia; Ted Garcia�s father, mother and brother; several investigators for the La Plata County Sheriff�s Office; lawyers who took an interest in the case; and a district judge who was observing.
Several family members made statements before sentencing.
Ted Garcia�s family used words such as �monster,� �selfish� and �evil� to describe Dernoga. They laid into him for what they characterized as years of terror, violence and harassment directed toward the Garcia family.
�We cannot even look at you or even speak your name. You are a monster in our eyes,� said Claudine Garcia, Ted�s mother. �You murdered our son, our beloved Teddy, in cold blood.�
Ted Garcia�s daughter, Claudia Garcia, said Dernoga killed a son, father, uncle and potential grandfather.
�When you�re sitting in that prison cell, I want you to think that Sunday night football will never be the same,� she said. �My children won�t have a grandpa. I have to walk down the aisle alone when I get married.�
Suzanne Dernoga Garcia, the wife of Ted Garcia and the sister of Dernoga, found herself in an awkward situation of wanting to identify the killer of her husband and protecting her brother.
She threw her support behind her brother, proclaiming his innocence for the last two years. Even during his sentencing hearing, she seemed to question his guilt.
�This is not justice,� she said. �This is a backroom deal with cigars and mirrors.�
She criticized the district attorney�s office for violating her rights as a victim. Prosecutors failed to notify her of significant developments throughout the case, including that Dernoga had struck a plea agreement calling for 16 years in prison, she said. She was never notified of the hearing and learned about the development through The Durango Herald, she said.
District Attorney Todd Risberg said it is up to prosecutors to determine who is considered a �victim.� Suzanne Dernoga Garcia was uncooperative with the criminal investigation and has been charged with perjury on suspicion of giving false testimony to the grand jury in an effort to protect her brother, Risberg said.
She is set to face trial on perjury charges later this year.
The case is far from perfect from a prosecutorial standpoint, Risberg said, so the plea agreement strikes a fair balance at making sure Dernoga receives some punishment.
�This is as close to justice as we can get in this case,� he said.
Dernoga�s public defense lawyer Justin Bogan said Dernoga took the plea agreement in hope that the Garcia family and others could begin a process of healing. No one is completely satisfied with the sentence, he said.
Tonya Golbricht, lead investigator in the case, said she hopes Dernoga�s sentencing can bring some resolution to the Garcia family. She called Dernoga�s speech �insincere and self-serving.�
�There isn�t a doubt in my mind that Dernoga killed Ted Garcia,� she wrote in an email to the Herald. �Shame on him and all who have worked to disrupt this investigation. They, too, will have their day in court.�


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This group is for anyone interested in cycling, hiking, outdoor adventure, and wine tasting. All skills levels are welcome as there are activities geared for various fitness/skill/endurance levels. Being an orgainser for several other groups I've decided to start my own, so we can combine more activities and quite frankly, have more fun. Saturdays will usually be for cycling, typically in one of the beautiful Sonoma County wine regions, and hiking will happen some Sundays at various locations around the Bay Area. Occasionally there will be a night or evening hike ending w/ a potluck & bonfire. We also have occasional blind wine tastings at a member's home, a even a summer beach gathering.
On rides we typically stop at a winery for tasting and maybe lunch. We bring our own food and sometimes do a potluck if it suits the route. Our hikes always have a vino/snack break where we have some wine and snacks on the trail, then later we stop for a potluck lunch w/ some vino. On some hikes we leave the food behind and do a big pot luck at the end, where an assortment of nice wines are enjoyed along w/ a varied food spread. We bring our own vino, which is suggested though certainly not required. If you haven't tried this one, I believe you'll be pleasantly surprised. We don't over indulge, nor is anyone required to bring or drink anything they don't want to. Several people bring water, iced tea, or juice, rather than vino. Again, the idea is for everyone to just have a good time and connect, as I believe you will.
My philosophy is the group exists for the benefit of the members, and all activities are geared to give you guys a fun, healthy, safe, enjoyable, way to meet other people and enjoy each others company, while getting some good exercise. As an organiser I see myself here to serve you guys.
Anyone single or married who is interested in meeting people in the Bay Area for hiking, biking, photography, enjoying the outdoors, good wine, and each other, is welcome. If you're 21 years or older, then you're the right age for this group. Other than that there are no requirements, and no other restrictions. Above and beyond this, my hope is that people will connect and become friends through this group, as many have in the groups I've been orgainsing for.
Adding to that, I'll mention something about what this grp is not. It's really not a place for gathering attention to yourself, because it's about meeting others, connecting, and building a sense of community, as opposed to individuals promoting themselves personally. Our activities are designed to promote community, not self - be it me or anyone else. I'm just a guy wanting to serve others w/ the hope of promoting community, while we have fun doing so. In other Meetup grps I've seen and heard members going on about themselves, which is the exact antithesis of what our grp is for. This is not to say we don't talk about our lives, but when everything that is said is all about me, I think something is missing. We're all just people, and what I'm saying is no one is special, and if anyone thinks they are, then this grp is probably not a good fit for them.
And btw, this Meetup Group and it's organisers do not take any responsibility for your safety. We simply research, plan, schedule, and provide interesting, fun, activities for your pleasure. We're all adults and responsible for ourselves, though we certainly look out for ea other on all activities.
People often wonder how the grp works, and why some grps charge a fee while others do not. Most people are not aware that Meetup charges us to have our websites and for being associated w/ the Meetup organisation. (If you've been led to believe otherwise, Meetup is not a non-profit organisation.) There is a ton of time needed to plan, execute, and provide a good time for everyone, and if you've been on any of my activities you understand that I do everything to make sure everyone gets their money's worth. Planning alone for all the activities is huge. Another Meetup grp recently figured what their annual costs were, and it was a surprisingly tidy sum. Every grp handles the money differently. Some charge a joining fee, others require dues, many ask for annual contributions, while others have sponsors. This group is sponsor free, because I don't want the commercialisation. We're not here to promote goods and services, just connect and have fun, and as I always tell people, they don't need me or this grp. There are tons of options out there. If my style isn't a fit, there's one out there that is. For some, (The Usual Suspects, as I refer to them), we've become friends and enjoy what we're building here.
A word about "No shows". No shows indicate someone is typically not interested in the grp and it's members. Time and planning goes into every event, and a "No show" for most really says, "I don't care about being considerate". I ask that you take the time to consider others, and if you sign up for an activity and later find you cannot attend, just change your RSVP to "No" (prior to the start time of the event). This shows you are willing to take two minutes to be considerate. If a member gets three (3) "No shows" they may be removed from the grp. If a member gets a "No show" for an activity at another member's home, they will be removed from the grp, unless there are extreme extenuating circumstances. This is not meant to sound harsh, but is simply a way of reminding people that respect for others is important. When someone hosts an event at their home, (Wine Tasting or Party), you know they spent plenty of time cleaning and preparing for the guests.
That said, let's enjoy ea others company w/ the hope of making connections and building stronger, deeper, relationships while we exercise, socialise, and sip some vino together!
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