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Kashrut From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, and edited by Rabbi Plavin Kashrut ( )תּורְׁ שַּכis the set of Jewish religious dietary laws. Food that may be consumed according to halakha (Jewish law) is termed kosher in English, from the Ashkenazi pronunciation of the Hebrew term kashér ()תֵׁרָּ ש, meaning "fit" (in this context, fit for consumption). Among the numerous laws that form part of kashrut are the prohibitions on the consumption of unclean animals (such as pork, shellfish and most insects, with the exception of certain species of kosher locusts), mixtures of meat and milk, and the commandment to slaughter mammals and birds according to a process known as shechita. There are also laws regarding agricultural produce that might impact on the suitability of food for consumption. Most of the basic laws of kashrut are derived from the Torah's Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy. Their details and practical application, however, are set down in the oral law(eventually codified in the Mishnah and Talmud) and elaborated on in the later rabbinical literature. While the Torah does not state the rationale for most kashrut laws, many reasons have been suggested, including philosophical, practical and hygienic. Over the past century, there have developed numerous rabbinical organizations that certify products, manufacturers, and restaurants as kosher, usually using a symbol (called ahechsher) to indicate their support. Presently, about a sixth of American Jews or 0.3% of the American population fully keep kosher, and many more abstain from some non-kosher foods, especially pork. Philosophical explanations[edit] Jewish philosophy divides the 613 mitzvot into three groups—laws that have a rational explanation and would probably be enacted by most orderly societies 1 (mishpatim), laws that are understood after being explained but would not be legislated without the Torah's command (edot), and laws that do not have a rational explanation (chukim). Some Jewish scholars say that kashrut should be categorized as laws for which there is no particular explanation, since the human mind is not always capable of understanding divine intentions. In this line of thinking, the dietary laws were given as a demonstration of God's authority, and man must obey without asking why.[1] However, Maimonides believed that Jews were permitted to seek out reasons for the laws of the Torah.[2] Some theologians have said that the laws of kashrut are symbolic in character: Kosher animals represent virtues, while non-kosher animals represent vices. The 1st century BCE Letter of Aristeas argues that the laws "have been given ... to awake pious thoughts and to form the character".[3] This view reappears in the work of the 19th century Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch.[4] The Torah prohibits "seething the kid (goat, sheep, calf) in its mother's milk". While the Bible does not provide a reason, it has been suggested that the practice was perceived as cruel and insensitive.[5][6] Health explanations[edit] There have been attempts to provide empirical support for the view that Jewish food laws have an overarching health benefit or purpose, one of the earliest being from Maimonides in his Guide for the Perplexed. Scholar Lester L. Grabbe, writing in the Oxford Bible Commentary on Leviticus, states that "[a]n explanation now almost universally rejected is that the laws in this section [Leviticus 11-15] have hygiene as their basis. Although some of the laws of ritual purity roughly correspond to modern ideas of physical cleanliness, many of them have little to do with hygiene. For example, there is no evidence that the 'unclean' animals are intrinsically bad to eat or to be avoided in a Mediterranean climate, as is sometimes asserted."[14] 2 Prohibited foods The laws of kashrut can be classified according to the origin of the prohibition (Biblical or rabbinical) and whether the prohibition concerns the food itself or a mixture of foods.[15] Biblically prohibited foods include:[15] Non-kosher animals and birds (based on Leviticus 11:3–8 and Deuteronomy 14:3–21): mammals require certain identifying characteristics (cloven hooves and being ruminants), while birds require a tradition that they can be consumed. Fish require scales and fins (thus excluding catfish, for instance). All invertebrates are non-kosher apart from certain types of locust, on which most communities lack a clear tradition. No reptiles or amphibians are kosher. Carrion (nevelah): meat from a kosher animal that has not been slaughtered according to the laws of shechita. Injured (terefah): an animal with a significant defect or injury, such as a fractured bone or particular types of lung adhesions. Blood (dam): blood of kosher mammals and fowl is removed through salting, with special procedures for the liver, which is very rich in blood. Particular fats (chelev): particular parts of the abdominal fat of cattle, goats and sheep must be removed by a process called nikkur. The twisted nerve (gid hanasheh): the sciatic nerve, as according to Genesis 32:32 the patriarch Jacob's was damaged when he fought with an angel, cannot be eaten and is removed by nikkur. Limb of a living animal (ever min ha-chai): in Genesis 9:4, God forbade Noah and his descendants to consume a limb torn from a live animal. Hence, Jewish law considers this prohibition applicable even to non-Jews,[16] and therefore, a Jew may not give or sell such meat to a non-Jew. 3 Wine of libation (yayin nesekh): wine that may have been dedicated to idolatrous practices. Biblically prohibited mixtures include:[15] Mixtures of meat and milk (basar be-chalav): this law derives from the broad interpretation of the commandment not to "cook a kid in its mother's milk" (Exodus 23:19, Exodus 34:26, and Deuteronomy 14:21); Rabbinically prohibited foods include:[15] Non-Jewish cheese (gevinat akum): cheese that may have been produced with non-kosher rennet. Non-Jewish wine (stam yeinam): wine that while not produced for idolatrous purposes may otherwise have been poured for such a purpose or alternatively when consumed will lead to intermarriage. Permitted and forbidden animals Only meat from particular species is permissible. Mammals that both chew their cud (ruminate) and have cloven hooves can be kosher. Animals with one characteristic but not the other (the camel, the hyrax, and the hare because they have no cloven hooves, and the pig because it does not ruminate) are specifically excluded (Leviticus 11:3–8).[18][19] Non-kosher birds are listed outright (Deuteronomy 14:12–18). Fish must have fins and scales to be kosher (Leviticus 11:9– 12). Shellfish and other non-fish water fauna are not kosher.[26] Here is a list of kosher species of fish. Insects are not kosher except for certain species of kosher locust.[27] Generally any animal that eats other animals, whether they kill their food or eat carrion (Leviticus 11:13–31), is not 4 kosher, as well as any animal that was partially eaten by other animals (Exodus 22:30-31). Class Forbidden kinds Carnivores; animals that do not chew the cud (e.g. the pig); Mammals animals that do not have cloven hooves (e.g., thecamel, the hyrax, the hare) Birds Reptiles and amphibians Water animals Insects Birds of prey; scavengers All Those that do not have both fins and scales All, except a particular type of locust that, according to most, cannot be identified today Separation of meat and milk Meat and milk (or derivatives) cannot be mixed (Deuteronomy 14:21 in the sense that meat and dairy products are not served at the same meal, served or cooked in the same utensils, or stored together. Observant Jews have separate sets of dishes for meat and milk, and wait anywhere between one and six hours after eating meat before consuming milk products.[28] The milchig and fleishig utensils and dishes are the commonly referred to Yiddish delineations between dairy and meat (lit. milky and meaty) utensils and dishes respectively.[29] 5 Kosher slaughter Main article: Shechita Mammals and fowl must be slaughtered by a trained individual (a shochet) using a special method of slaughter, shechita (Deuteronomy 12:21) 21. If the place the Lord, your God, chooses to put His Name there, will be distant from you, you may slaughter of your cattle and of your sheep, which the Lord has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat in your cities, according to every desire of your soul. Rashi: you may slaughter… as I have commanded you: We learn [from here] that there is a commandment regarding slaughtering, how one must slaughter. [Since this commandment is not written in the Torah we deduce that] these are the laws of ritual slaughtering given orally to Moses on [Mount] Sinai. — [Sifrei ; Chul. 28a] Among other features, shechita slaughter severs the jugular vein, carotid artery, esophagus, and trachea in a single continuous cutting movement with an unserrated, sharp knife. Failure of any of these criteria renders the meat of the animal unsuitable. The body must be checked after slaughter to confirm that the animal had no medical condition or defect that would have caused it to die of its own accord within a year, which would make the meat unsuitable.[30] It is forbidden to consume certain parts of the animal, such as certain fats (chelev) and the sciatic nerves from the legs. As much blood as possible must be removed (Leviticus 17:10) through the kashering process; this is usually done through soaking and salting the meat, but the liver, as it is rich in blood, is grilled over an open flame.[31] Fish (and kosher locusts, for those follow the traditions permitting them) must be killed before being eaten, but no particular method has been specified in Jewish law.[32][33] Kosher utensils 6 Utensils used for non-kosher foods become non-kosher, and make even otherwise kosher food prepared with them non-kosher. Some such utensils, depending on the material they are made from, can be made suitable for preparing kosher food again by immersion in boiling water or by the application of a blowtorch. Hashgacha Product labeling standards Although reading the label of food products can identify obviously non-kosher ingredients, some countries allow manufacturers to omit identification of certain ingredients. Such "hidden" ingredients may include lubricants and flavorings, among other additives; in some cases, for instance, the use of natural flavorings, these ingredients are more likely to be derived from non-kosher substances.[50] Furthermore, certain products, such as fish, have a high rate of mislabeling, which may result in a non-kosher fish being sold in a package labeled as a species of kosher fish.[51] Producers of foods and food additives can contact Jewish religious authorities to have their products certified as kosher: This involves a visit to the manufacturing facilities by an individual rabbi or a committee from a rabbinic organization, who will inspect the production methods and contents, and if everything is sufficiently kosher a certificate would be issued.[52] Manufacturers sometimes identify the products that have received such certification by adding particular graphical symbols to the label. These symbols are known in Judaism as hechsherim.[53] The certification marks of the various rabbis and organizations are too numerous to list, but one of the most commonly used in the United States of America is that of the Union of Orthodox Congregations, who use a U inside a circle, symbolizing the initials of Orthodox Union. A single K is sometimes used as a symbol for kosher, but since many countries do not allow letters to be trademarked (the method by which other 7 symbols are protected from misuse), it only indicates that the company producing the product claims that it is kosher.[55] Many of the certification symbols are accompanied by additional letters or words to indicate the category of the product, according to Jewish law;[55] the categorization may conflict with legal classifications, especially in the case of food that Jewish law regards as dairy, but legal classification does not. D—Dairy DE—Dairy equipment M—Meat, including poultry Pareve—Food that is neither meat nor dairy Fish P—Passover-related (P is not used for Pareve) In many cases constant supervision is required because, for various reasons, such as changes in manufacturing processes, products that once were kosher may cease to be so. For example, a kosher lubricating oil may be replaced by one containing tallow, which many rabbinic authorities view as non-kosher. Products labeled kosher-style are non-kosher products that have characteristics of kosher foods, such as all-beef hot dogs,[57] or are flavored or prepared in a manner consistent with Ashkenazi practices, like dill pickles.[58] The designation usually refers to delicatessen items. 8
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- Sal MatsonJuly 24, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I'm so sad when I do business with a company or a person makes a promise and they renege on the promises they made. I really don't like that at all. Why can't people just do what they are supposed to do?ReplyDelete
I totally understand how you feel. I think it is so important to honor commitments. If that's not possible, most people will appreciate it if you at least admit that you can't and offer a compromise or apology. It makes them feel appreciated and valued. Thanks for letting go!!
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This is how I deal with people like that (and believe me, I know a few). I first off don't engage in debate with someone who always believes she's correct, even when hard evidence proves otherwise. It's an exercise in futility. If this is a friend whose company you truly enjoy, you have to accept that personality trait or be willing to move on. Of course, I believe that almost everyone can change. The problem is that many don't want to change.
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- Neclohe MillerJuly 24, 2009 at 12:57 PM
How do you deal with people who are determined to be right, even though everything around them tells them they're wrong? I have a friend who is so pig-headed that is you tell her it's raining, she has to look outside to verify it!!! She drives me crazy!!ReplyDelete
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I have been asked several times about shooting film in the snow since THIS session got published on Wedding Sparrow. Since Rachel's dream of a snow-dusted wedding came true at the end of December, I decided to dedicate a post to the details of two images from her day!! I love light-drenched images on film (see the last FRAME BY FRAME post), but I think there is also something so dreamy about rainy day weddings or days thick with clouds! They have a romantic feel that belongs to them alone and I learned quickly that Missouri is full of surprises and I needed to be prepared for any lighting condition on a wedding day!
So let's break down these images. You probably aren't standing in the cold right now, but it was frigid when I was photographing Dawson and Rachel. They were so calm and easy to work with and I made it my mission to move as quickly as possible so they didn't grow numb in the snow! Most of my direction involved them holding onto each other and me moving around them so that they would remain as warm as possible and Rachel wouldn't get her heels caught in the soft ground.
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Image Above: I asked the couple to hold onto each other and then asked Dawson to kiss Rachel on the cheek. I focused on her hair and let the rest fade into a blur. I want my brides to remember the small details from their wedding and if this image were of me and my husband, I would frame it in our home (and it would be big!)!! I love that there is a little bit of mystery to the image because you can't tell if he is kissing her or whispering in her ear. Or both.
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Image below: I asked Rachel to take two steps towards me and look at the detail on her dress. If I remember correctly, I exploded with excitement after I took the image because I knew that it would be something to cherish. I love that she looks so comfortable in the snow. Her expression just lined up with everything else in the frame and I knew that meant the result would be a powerful image. One that makes people stop to look. And the more you add images like that to a gallery, the more powerful the gallery becomes as a whole. Images become something more than pretty in front of our eyes.
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Well I'm not sure I can call it much of an update but we took Addison to Texas Children's today for her monthly visit to the hemotologist. Since her levels were up (106) two weeks ago we tought this would be a good visit but unfortunately that wasn't the case. Her platelet counts were back down to 58 which Dr. Lakshmi feels is not much different from her counts in the 30's. I think Steven and I were shocked and the first question was "why was it better two weeks ago?" She said it was typical for levels to go up and down when someone has thrombocytopenia. They took about 7 vials of blood from Addison and she was not very happy about it. She screamed when Steven held her tight to keep her still, then she would look at the needle and the lady taking the blood and scream. Of course she was better after it was all done and sported her pink bandaid proudly. They will be running more test on her blood to check for viruses and other causes so we are still in the process of elimination. We will go back in another month and do more blood work and if things don't improve we will do a bone marrow biopsy in a couple of months. The doctor told us to pad any of her playing areas(easier said than done), hold off on any vaccines, and watch for any unusual bruising, nose bleeds, cuts or major falls. We were a little disappointed with the news but we know we are on the right track to finding a diagnosis.
Addison and her baby doll waiting
Addison thought she was a big girl on the horsey chair!
Giving blood can make you hungry so Mommy and Daddy took me out to eat. I ate a lot of bread, a piece of daddy's chicken, some broccolli, and my yogurt bites.
According to Addison the elevator ride was almost as bad as getting blood drawn. To get to the doctors office we have to take two elevators from the parking garage to the 14th floor. We have taken these elevators many times before but this time was a little different. As the elevators began to move Addison started screaming, when it would stop she was fine, then it would go again and she would scream. I guess she didn't like the pressure caused by the elevator so it was an interesting ride with an elevator full of complete strangers!


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Monday, April 20, 2009
The life of a 2 year old.......
I love spaghetti
I love the zoo. When I'm there I can't wait to see all the animals and my favorites are the monkeys.
I love cars, and crashing them into each other
I love Thomas and sleep with him every night. I also love playing with my train table and can keep myself entertained with it for hours. I know the names of all the trains and correct my mom when she calls Gordon Percy or vica versa.
I love my sister Savannah and would do anything to protect her. I also love poking Creed in the face and saying Tute baby!!
I love Liza my bff. We go to the park together everyday and if she can't go that day I whine the whole time "where's Liza" in my super deep voice
I love wrestling (mike made this picture, it looks super freaky huh!)
I am getting bigger everyday and learning so much. Some other things I love: the park, walks, reading, Dora, Caillou, popcorn, my cousins, my Nana and Papa, bossing around my dog Ruby (I am so used to being bossed by Savannah it feels good to be in charge for a change) and my telling my mom and dad that I love them.
10 comments:
- Nana Donna said...
My Coley Woley! I love everything you wrote about him! Give him a big kiss and a hug for me!
Yea, that wrestling pic is pretty freaky!
P.S. Can you get to Rachal's blog? I didn't get what she was doing so now that it is private I can't get in. Will you send her my email in one of your comments the next time you get into her blog? Okay...Okay I should be calling you about this instead of taking up this comment space. Love you guys!
- April 23, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- The Everts said...
SO cute. Ethan loves all that stuff too!! Cole is getting so big!! I might copy you and do the same thing about Ethan. I hope you don't mind! lol
- April 23, 2009 at 10:04 PM
- Bundy 6 Pak said...
OH MY! You guys have the cutest kids ever!! This was a very tute blog.
- April 23, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- The Strong Family said...
Oh I love my boy! I'm at work and bored beyond belief, so I decided to take a look at my chillins. What a handsome little man. Thanks Nikki for writing this entry! It is perfect for this years book! Love you babe and see you in a few hours.
- April 24, 2009 at 7:53 AM
- brandt and soupie strong said...
I cant belive how cute Cole is. Everyone is growing up to fast. We miss you guys.
- April 24, 2009 at 9:42 PM
- dietcokegrrl said...
I can't believe how big Cole has gotten! What a big boy and what a cute post! LOVE the picture with Liza--adorable!
- April 24, 2009 at 11:02 PM
- Ronnie and Natalie Taylor said...
Your family is sooo cute. I cant beleive that hey are geting sooo big.
- April 26, 2009 at 1:04 PM
- Shannon said...
I just want to squeeze that little monkey! "Toll" is such a cutie. I can't wait to spend time with you guys again!
- April 28, 2009 at 7:20 AM
- Melissa said...
What a cute guy! I love your journalling style.
- May 1, 2009 at 12:48 PM
- super advanced said...
Cole's best friend is TOTALLY adorable!
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Who cares, it's not like the exploit affects other players.
If it's happening, nothing is official yet. This report is bogus.
Did you even read the list... there's multiple universe achievements.
It's not. Other one floating around since yesterday is. You really think someone would go through the trouble of creating fake icons...
It's coming later this fall
No it's gold.
I needed a laugh today. Thanks.
Has this guy been living under a rock? Maybe not as much as 05 or 06 but there were way more booth babes at E3 this year compared to the last few. I wasn't even on the show floor much due to meetings and I saw SO many booth babes.
Also, the booth babes are annoying if you're trying to cover the show. People flock around them to take pictures and it clogs up the walkways.
The chart is a bit weird... it looks like it's measuring how fast units sold out but that's obviously skewed towards the 680 as there hasn't been as many cards produced relative to when the 580 launched, hence being sold out everywhere.
Black Ops alone made over $1b so I'd say they still made a good profit.
Thanks for the link. I haven't seen those screens anywhere else, so yeah...
Underwhelming graphics aside, I don't agree that it doesn't look at all like an Elder Scrolls game though.
Uh... we haven't even seen any screens yet.
This had nothing do with PSN. Sony PICTURES site was hacked by this dude. They still haven't caught whoever was responsible for the PSN breach.
URLs cannot be faked. That would involve using an XSS vulnerability to inject an iframe in a site. Btw... the site uses a valid SSL cert also, issued to playstation.com. If it's a hack Sony has BIG problems.
The site resides on *.playstation.com. Unless Sony's own servers are compromised, there's no reason to believe it's not legit.


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A Product Of Design Presented By Scion
A Product Of Design presented by Scion recently opened and is quite a great show. The show is curated by amazing illustrators Gluekit (Kathleen and Christopher Sleboda), who made a related, somewhat promotional video for the show that was posted on The Fox Is Black some time ago. The exhibit seems to work like a retail showroom, slightly akin to an Opening Ceremony or, perhaps, a Barney's. This, of course, is the point: focusing on the product as art, a product of design. Now you get the title?
The show features Peter Buchanan-Smith (Best Made Company), Colophon Foundry, Various Projects, Hugo & Marie, Booji, Ben Blanc Studio, JB Lab, and locals The Solitary Arts and Andy Mueller (The Quiet Life) among others. The show featured each person or group's work in it's own world. Each transformed their patch of wall or corner into a cubby of artistic retail mashup. The Solitary Arts had an area that seemed like a skate shop, while Andy Mueller's Quiet Life set up lined the walls with his amazing t-shirts. The juxtaposition of the two next to each other is absolutely fitting, albeit two very different art forms that do go hand in hand.
The show continues on through next week and is worth stopping in the Scion space to see. The art/products are all wonderful and, although the exhibit will end, we're fairly certain you can still track down many of the items in the show through the artists. For example, we were anxious to grab a Various Projects Pigeon at the event, but we forgot to; but, after some Googling, we successfully tracked it down quite easily.
That is not an excuse to skip the show, though: many of the things were specific to the show, that you will only be able to see there now. For example, Geoff Mcfetridge created a giant man carrying a skateboard for the Solitary Arts exhibit and Best Made Company had a video installation for their corner that you will likely never be able to see again outside of the show.
A Product of Design ends October 7 and is located at the Scion space in Culver City. Be sure to catch it while you can and, if not, Scion always has some amazing things happening in their space and should be on your shortlist of art stops while in the area.


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So today at 10am we finally got to have our meeting with Ana's class teacher over a few issues including the recent biting.
It only took the school a month to get back to us to arrange the meeting. Ana's social worker called me yesterday to check everything was still going ahead, she then also told me that her line manager would be attending the meeting due to the seriousness of the issues being discussed.
I hadn't actually met the line manager until today, but he was the person I spoke to when Ana was bitten for the second time and also the time the school lost her for 15 minutes.
I'm not a big fan of meeting, so this wasn't something I was really looking forward too. I usually become overwhelmed and end up just sitting there nodding occasionally.
Well, I went and I survived!
I did feel like the big bad wolf however as the class teacher turned up on her own and there were three of us. The poor woman was shaking while talking to us.
Anyway it was a very positive meeting, we got to put our points across and Miss S was able to tell us what actions they had already put in place or were going to to prevent the issues we discussed arising again.
Apparently the school is in the process of trying to get funding so that the child that bit Ana can have one to one supervision at all times. Social Services are now going to push that forward for them. At the moment one of the class's teaching assistants is giving the one to one supervision.
Other points that were raised at the meeting was changing Ana's Statement to suit her current needs (her statement has remained the same since she started school) and the fact that she is displaying signs of Dyslexia which the school is now looking into. By the end of the meeting we were all relaxed and felt that we had discussed everything we needed to.
Now I feel I can draw a line under this all and start looking forwards towards Ana's annual review in March. Hopefully we'll be able to set some wheels in motion and get her the help she so badly needs in class
Well, that's a relief!
on Thursday, 22 January 2009
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- Abi said...
The meeting sounded really productive, well done!!
- 24 January 2009 at 09:01


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I have a very bright 4th grade boy. He excelled well in school until 2nd grade where he began to struggle with writing. In third grade his teacher gently told us he had an attention problem and should talk to his doctor about it. Long story short, he was tested for non-verbal reasoning and tested in the 97th%ile. Our school created an advanced learning plan (alp). I thought things were going to get better. This year we have a teacher that has never heard of a visual spatial learner. We need a better option. Any help you can give will be appreciated. - Thank you


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Don't be discouraged that as a Christian you continue to struggle. Salvation is a journey, and a hard one at that. At times, circumstances seem to overwhelm you. You can't see how God is going to deliver you from this crisis. An unbeliever singles you out for harassment. Sometimes our own lingering disabilities cause us to stumble or even fall.
Healing comes in God's time and by his grace, but never forget it comes through the exercise of faith. Jesus said that to the blind beggar who cried out on the road to Jericho, to the woman with the chronic bleeding who reached out to touch his robe, to the leper on the border between Galilee and Samaria who begged for mercy, and to the immoral woman who washed his feet with her tears at a Pharisee's house.
When life is hard, keep loving God with every fiber of your being and don't stop loving your neighbor as yourself. "If you are suffering according to God's will, keep on doing what is right, and trust yourself to the God who made you, for he will never fail you." (1 Peter 4:19 NLT'96)
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We start out w/ this very syncopated groove that continue throughout the song, from the horn line. This kind of carries the melody and rhythm.
the verses in black cow are interesting. each verse has two asymmetric phrases, the first one 7 measures, and the second one 9 measures. The development is added by layering voices onto the main melodic line. This changes the texture and gives contrast to the song. The harmonies are pretty straightforward, and play around with a lot of jazz chords.
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So I just wanted to let ya'll know that I will be posting videos every week! Most likely on /saturdays when I have lots of FREE TIME!!! They will be about fashion and makeup and stuff! I am really bad at adding music and cool graphics to videos sooo excuse my lck of "techiness"! Oh and check out my sisters blog at http://www.zapcouture.blogspot.com/ She will definatly appreciate it! Her blog is kind of blank right now but she will soon be posting videos! It is about beauty and a little fashion too! It's super cute so be sure to checkk it out! OH and I will link a music video of a song I really love so check it out~+!!! Its called Caring Is Creepy by the Shins! Hope u enjoy! xoxo,Abbra :)
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In the Greenpeace office, staff have developed a bad habit. We take our seats, switch our computers on and click on the bookmark to the National Snow and Ice Data Center website. Today was like any other day, except that today the extent of sea ice melt surpassed that of 2007, the lowest year on record. The plummeting line on this seemingly innocuous graph shows that the Arctic has already lost more ice than ever before in recorded history - and it's still melting. Across the office it was met with a sharp intake of breath.
Just 30 years ago, the Arctic Ocean ice cap covered an area roughly the size of Australia. Within a few decades, it will almost certainly disappear completely in the summer months.
Back in June when we launched the 'Save the Arctic' campaign Paul McCartney ...
This message was sent by our campaigner Dima Litvinov who is on-board the Arctic Sunrise in the Pechora Sea…
"Root out the black shame from your heart, calmly and indifferently, I covered my ears with my hands" A. AkhamtovaAnna Akhamtova is a famous Russian poet, and the name of the ship we were stopping today.
After a rather quiet and calm weekend we decided to pay Gazprom another visit again this morning. Here is a quick drawing of how the platform is organized in its day-to-day life: half of the work force does not sleep on board. They live on a chartered passenger ship, the Anna Akhmatova, which is anchored near the Prirazlomnaya. Every morning at around 5AM this ship heaves anchor and backs up to the platform, where its tied up by mooring lines. A sleepy mass of morning-g... Read more >
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It's certainly a mouthful, but it's also the new name – and face – of Arctic destruction today. This giant Russian platform is set to be the first to try and commercially produce offshore Arctic oil anywhere on the planet.
Make no mistake: the Russian oil industry is not one to be trusted. Currently, on land in the Komi Republic, 30 million barrels of oil are spilt every year.
This is why today, at 70 degrees North in the Pechora Sea, activists are occupying this monster platform and preventing it from drilling.
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You may be aware that this morning at approximately 4am, five activists and I scaled the Prirazlomnaya oil platform to take pe...
As lawyers and witnesses give evidence to the judge in the Tauranga District Court, Te Whanau a Apanui fisherman Elvis Teddy sits among a war of words.He's facing serious charges for a peaceful act of defiance protecting his ancestral fishing grounds from the Brazilian oil giant Petrobras.In 2011 Petrobras began conducting seismic surveying in the Raukumara Basin off the East Cape of New Zealand in preparation for its planned deep sea oil exploration there.Greenpeace, alongside local iwi Te Whanau a Apanui, took to the sea in a six week-long flotilla, demanding that Petrobras stop its reckless plans to drill in the deep water in the Raukumara Basin.Aboard one of the boats in the flotilla - the iwi-owned fishing vessel the San Pietro - Elvis Teddy and his crew (including te Whanau a Apanui... Read more >
We've blogged before about how incredible and important the Ross Sea is, but you really have to see it to believe it. And now you can!
The Last Ocean film is a documentary directed by Peter Young, one of the country's leading nature cameramen and a key figure in the international movement to protect the Ross Sea.
It played at the NZ film festival throughout the country to critical acclaim. And is now showing in general release. Here's the official trailer:
The Last Ocean film tells the story of people around the world as they race to protect Earth's last untouched ocean.And before you go, send a message to the NZ Government now asking for comprehensive protection for the Ross Sea.
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Its been a while since I've written a personal blog post on World of Wanderlust. This is mostly due to the fact that I've been travelling nonstop for the past couple of months and have only made time for travel-related posts in the from of city guides, reviews, destination pieces, etc. But now that I have a couple of weeks "off" travel (more on that later), I've decided to finally open up and show my life at home.
I've always been pretty open (especially in my books) about life at home, but have never taken the time to talk about my travel/home balance and how I manage my time year-round. Being a Sunday, I figured now is as good a time as any!
I've been travelling on and off for years now and I wouldn't have my life any other way. Whilst I tried to move abroad last year and had a two-month trial living in the city of Berlin, I figured my whole life was still back at home in Australia – my dog, family, friends, etc. – so I decided to return home after a year of full time travel and make a new plan.
I didn't want to stop travelling but I also wanted to feel like somewhere was home. Whilst living out of a suitcase sounds awesome, adventurous and exciting, it certainly does at some point take its toll. For me, that came after a year of moving around non-stop.
I decided to base myself out of Australia again and travel for a few weeks or a few months at a time, having a little time "off" travel in between trips to unpack and repack my bags, sleep in my own bed, detox (or at least try), do some freelance jobs to make more money for my next trip and then off I'd go again. This plan has been working pretty well for me now, especially since moving out of my parents' house to have my own space and freedom – a sheer necessity in your 20's! Myself and my partner (fancy adult name for a boyfriend) are slowly renovating some rooms of our little farm house to make it feel like home — we've come a long way but still a long way to go! So anyway, here's a sneak peek inside my home for a sneaky little personal post!
My home office – currently in my bedroom until the "study" is renovated. I have my passport here at all time for sporadic desires to quickly fly away. For my photos, I use an Olympus PEN E-PL7 and OM-D 5 Mark II.
On my dresser: fave books, magazines, Bombardier Designs "WOW" candles!
Sleeping quarters! Pillows from Bombardier Designs.
My hobbit sized wardrobe!
Ensuite + Bedroom.
Where I laze around like a cat recovering from jetlag (aka lounge room).
A few things in my living room.
Over-organisation (aka pantry).
My favourite piece of artwork from overseas: Hong Kong in my dining room.
My favourite place at home – in the garden, featuring my herb patch and my Hunter Wellies from SoleTrader.


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Finished: Event Horizon Pi Shawl
|17 March 2014
|Posted by Ness under Knitting
Six skeins of luscious yarn + a fascinating pattern + an arbitrary deadline = a lot of fun.
I blocked the Event Horizon Pi Shawl the day after I finished it. Remember that it was only 40″ in diameter off the needles?
I knew it would grow, so Mike and I moved around a little furniture in the guest room, laid down a sheet, and hope there'd be enough room.
Then it was into the sink while I went for a walk, then back to drain, squeeze, roll, stomp, and then up to the guest room. I measured the centre at 3.5′ from the things I couldn't move: the closet doors and the table with the loom on it. I figured I could go under the bed if I had to, and there was more room on the opposite side from the table.
I started with each 16th marker. If I'd been smart, I would have done them in four sets, so there would have been only four colours all the way around. It would have made checking the right-angles easier. It wasn't difficult, per se, but I did spend a bit of time counting pins as I did the third and fourth sets to make sure I was measuring the right ones. I also just eyeballed the angle, rather than dig out a protractor to make sure it was 90 degrees. It took about an hour to get these sixteen pins right, but after that, it was easy sailing.
I blocked it hard. No word of a lie, even though I put the first pins in at an angle, some of them were pulled almost out by the time I got around to them when adding the pins in between. It dried under a lot of tension, and I admit to being a little worried, even though I knew the yarn could take it.
And it grew. From 40″ in diameter to almost 72″. Exactly what I'd hoped, and what I'd wanted when I ordered the sixth skein of yarn. I'm 6′ tall on a good day, and was sure that a 5′ diameter shawl just wouldn't hang as well on my frame as a 6′ one. And…
Boy, was I ever right (and yes, you actually get to see my face for this one 😉 ). Special thanks to those at RCY South when I got there for figuring out how I should wear it, and loaning me the shawl pin, because that there, that's got to be the best way to wear a circular shawl.
And don't let anyone tell you a lace shawl can never be warm, because by the end of the class, I needed to take it off, I was getting too hot! Now with spring here (hopefully… oh, I hope so), maybe I can trade a jacket for the shawl on a nice day.
Final opinion on the Event Horizon Pi Shawl: I wouldn't necessarily recommend the pattern for a beginner lace knitter, but someone who's done a little bit of lace knitting shouldn't have too many problems. Stitch markers are your friends. This yarn is amazing: great colour, and took that hard block like a pro. I would do something different with Lace Circle 5 if I were to knit it again. And would I knit this again? Yes, I actually think I would. It was that much fun.
The posts in my head
|7 February 2014
|Posted by Ness under Knitting, Life
I was looking back through the blog posts the other week – I think it might have been when I was writing our Christmas letter, which would have made that late November, but don't quote me on that – when I came across the post in which my hip issues started. I read it, feeling slightly baffled.
So it's a really bummer that as I was doing my evening treadmill walk on Thursday night, that old air-bubble feeling in the ball-and-socket joint came back on the left side. Note to self: Avoid treadmill incline 5 and above… Ice and rest and anti-inflammatories this weekend, and then stretching. And no incline over 4 from now on. I was doing so well on the walking too, but I know I can't push this one. It's an overuse injury, and I need to bring the swelling down. And maybe go back for another spectacular set of bruises from ART if it doesn't settle in short order. 🙂
Huh. Really.
Now, just shy of eleven months later, and I'm doing a massage a week to just maintain my current mobility, and have an appointment with a neurologist and after that, a rheumatologist. I feel like I was naive back then, but I wasn't. Not really. I could never have predicted the… stubbornness of this particular round of difficulty.
But yes. Eleven months. And as those eleven months crawled by with their myriad appointments and recovery periods, the blogging part of the blog and podcast started to slow to a trickle. I regret that. I don't think there was much of a choice, considering how beat up I was getting (am still getting), but I still regret it. And I continue to regret it. I feel like I have missed out on documenting the craziness of this round, and what I have done with my limited spare time to keep my mental health in as good a state as I can. I feel like I have not followed through on my commitment to rediscovering my voice, my written voice, that I put out in the first episode of the podcast.
But although I haven't necessarily been posting as regularly as I wanted to, that hasn't stopped me from planning posts. Lots of posts. Lots and lots and LOTS of posts. In my head. And with my camera, if I'm going to be completely honest. Something happens, I think, "Oh, that'd make a good blog post!", I document it photographically, sketch it out in my head, and then it comes to the evening, and… Yeah.
You would love the posts in my head. Some of them are funny and witty, others are thoughtful, still others are interesting and filled with information and insights into fibre arts. I think they're pretty good, anyway.
Of course, they're all pretty dated now. You know, being months old and all… Heck, even this post, I've been writing in my head for well over two weeks. Go figure.
I'm not going to go all the way back through the posts in my head, but I'm going to try and get a few more of them out of my brain and onto the Interwebs, even if they're shorter, or not as well illustrated with pictures, or even if they're illustrated with iPhone or iPad pictures rather than nice camera pictures. Because I know now this is not a short-haul injury. This is a lifestyle change, a new reality, and darn it, I need to add the writing back in, if only because it's a voice that needs to be heard.
So we'll start with a short post-from-my-head, from Christmas time.
Do you all remember the OpArt? It didn't stay completely square once I unpinned it, but it was still okay, and I decided to be happy with it, and trundled down to Calgary for Christmas with it in tow, as I didn't get to it in time to mail it. So there I was Christmas Eve, and I asked my mother if she had any baby-themed wrapping paper and a card so I could get the blanket wrapped up and ready to give to the parents-to-be when I saw them Boxing Day. We ended up finding a nice blank card and some not-quite-Christmas paper that would work, and so I went out into the kitchen to wrap it up. I folded it into a nice size, and was just kind of petting it when I noticed a hair.
I have long hair, and darkish brown, and it tends to get everywhere, so I thought nothing of it at first. Just pick it off and throw it away, right? Right? But it resisted my efforts at removing it. And looking closer, I realized why.
It was knit in. Through knitting, washing, drying, pinning, blocking, ironing, all of it, I hadn't noticed. I'd knit one of my hairs in, to a white section, of course. Now, I'm sure there's all kinds of superstitions around such endeavours, maybe relating to gifts for possible lovers or some such, but all I could think when I saw it was, "In a WHITE section? SERIOUSLY????"
I couldn't wrap the blanket up knowing it was there, right there, right on top. I tried to pull it out, but it had gotten itself all wrapped around the yarn and itself and wasn't going to be so easy. So I grabbed myself a needle and picked it out, stitch by stitch.
The good news is that despite the errant hair, the blanket was well appreciated by the parents-to-be. The baby was born last month, and is doing well, hopefully often snuggled in a striped, swirly, garter-stitch blanket into which I'm sure is knit more than just the one long, curly, brown hair.
A Tale of Two Sleeves
|16 December 2013
|Posted by Ness under Knitting
It was the best of intentions; it was the worst of intentions.
Handing her sweater back to my mom this weekend was a great feeling. Having it fit exactly as she wanted, and not having the fact that the two sleeve ends were knit differently be noticeable without looking too hard was also great. At some point in the future if it REALLY bothers me, I might fix it, but for now, she's got her lovely colourwork Norwegian sweater back.
But sitting down today and looking for the photographs I took when she gave me that sweater to adjust was not a great feeling. Because she gave it to me last Christmas.
See up there in the corner? And on the tree to the left? Christmas decorations. Christmas decorations. Which means that this project has been kicking around since before I started the blog and podcast.
I am a horrible daughter.
I'll grant you, there were a few stumbling blocks. First there was trying to find suitable substitute yarn, and realizing that I needed to keep the yarn from the cuffs to use because I wouldn't be able to match the white, while the black I could. And it really has only been this year that I've started to get knitting construction, been able to finagle patterns and yarn to do what I want. And let's not talk about the worst part of the whole thing: scissors.
I did try to unravel the sleeves from the cast-on edge up, a prospect that anyone who has tried it can tell you is a bit of a bear. But I would have kept at it, if the yarn hadn't been split and knit at one point. There was no way around it. I was going to have to cut the darn cuff off and hope for the best. It was frightening. I knew that with steeks, you're usually working with regular wool, and I knew that this was superwash, and I didn't trust it. But I ended up catching the stitches, snipping, and unraveling, and the sweater didn't spontaneously combust, or unravel, much to my surprise. After that, it was a relatively simple matter of reverse-engineering the colourwork pattern and knitting the cuff down from the black yarn I'd bought, and the white yarn I'd salvaged. In August, I had one sweater cuff.
I went back in the blog, trying to remind myself of the progression of this project. I had fully intended to whip up that last sleeve and have it back to my mom in August, when we were down for their anniversary. We test-fit the completed sleeve and it was the right length. After that, it's a little hazy. But I do remember one thing: when I cut off the second cuff, the number of stitches in the second sleeve was different from the first. The sleeves had different stitch counts at the same point.
I expect this is why the sweater wasn't finished that weekend in August. I expect that's also why it lingered here in project purgatory, until I came up with a new plan. And yes, the second sleeve extension is knit from the cuff up and Kitchenered on. It was the simplest way I could think of to knit the same cuff pattern, yet make the stitch count match with the original sleeve. But it worked.
If you look real close at the right sleeve, you can see that there's an extra row of white that there isn't on the left. If you look even closer than you can in this photo, you can see that in that extra row of white, there are some twisted stitches. And if you look really really close, you can see that the stitch direction between the left and right cuff are reversed.
I'm enough of a perfectionist that it bothers me a little bit. I'm enough of a realist to know that I'm the only one looking for it (except all of you, but I've told you to look for it). And I'm enough of a pragmatist to know that it really doesn't matter if there's one extra row of white on one sleeve, with a few twisted stitches and opposite stitch directions.
The sleeves are long enough now, they're warm, and even though it took me just shy of one full year to get it done, there's still a whole bunch of winter left for that sweater to see some use. And because I've gone through the whole process – challenged myself, reverse-engineered, overcome my fear of scissors, and done a lot of Kitchener stitch – that sweater will now see more use than it has in the fifteen years since it was first knit. And next time I have to do something like this, it sure as heck won't take me a year to do it. Thanks for the challenge, Mom! Enjoy your sweater.
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Put a check mark in that to-do box, because Lighthouse is done.
I started off the week bringing Lighthouse to work and to this week's knitting groups. I didn't work on it exclusively, but I did put in quite a bit of time, and it just never seemed to go anywhere. By Wednesday, I swore I was still at 2/3 done and 1/3 to go, even though I knew that couldn't be the case.
So Friday night, I sat down with it again, and knit and knit and knit, and still swore that I wasn't getting anywhere, and then all of a sudden, I was.
So I brought it out to Enjoy Centre knitting today, and even though it took me about two hours, I finished off the last bit and kitchenered the border together.
We got back from errands around 4:30, so I didn't waste any time. I don't like leaving the wash-and-block part of a project too long. Yes, blocking takes quite a bit of time more often than not, but it's better to do it on a project-by-project basis than let it pile up. (That's also how I like to approach dishes, and I'm trying that approach with the weeds that are starting to poke through in the front bed again. I suppose it's the whole 'it's easier to keep a house clean than it is to clean it' mentality I grew up with…)
Before hitting the water, Lighthouse was 32″ diameter. You can see the pattern, but it lacks crispness, and the border is all kinds of frumpy. Add water, wires, pins, and over an hour's work…
48″ across, and I could have probably stretched it a touch more, but this seemed to be okay. Can you imagine if I'd had enough yarn to do the full fourth section AND the larger border? We'd probably be talking 6′ in diameter! The patterns are now very crisp. I had to do a little finagling with the multi-wrap stitches in the fourth section, but I did get them all evened out. I'm just loving my Inspinknity flexible blocking wires. The Knitpicks ones are great for straights, but nothing does curves or fine work like these.
This is a very forgiving pattern. There are innumerable places in the fourth section where I completely messed up, but it still looks good. It looks like it ought. I'm happy with the way it turned out, and I hope the Wednesday night ladies are too. Not sure what we're going to do with it, but I know whoever ends up with it will be very happy with it.


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A lovely, privately owned, Single Family Home situated in a middle-income residential neighborhood in the EAST HILLS OF PITTSBURGH. Enjoy this lovely fully furnished 'Home Away From Home!' UNIVERSAL HOME is located minutes from the Penn Hills Exit off Interstate 376, a major auxiliary route within the Allegheny Plateau of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Quick access to many Pittsburgh Locales!
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-Guest Room #1 has a Queen Size Bed with a Mirrored Dresser, Nightstand and flat screen wall mounted Cable TV, as well as an integral hanging closet.
-Guest Room #2 has a Full Size Bed with a Mirrored Dresser and a small dresser-top TV, as well as an integral hanging closet.
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We absolutely loved this home the moment we walked through the front doors. The huge welcoming kitchen and downstairs sunroom are our favorite rooms! We were so excited to furnish it and share it with Pittsburgh travelers. We love how it is literally minutes from Interstate 376, so it's easy access to just about anywhere in Pittsburgh. And right at the top of the street is a huge shopping plaza where just about everything you need is can be found, including a grocery store. It's so close you can walk there!
We've had many guests comment on the deer and other wildlife they've been able to observe in the backyard from the sunroom that is basically 3 walls of windows.
The house was very neat and the owner was very helpful. The host, Barbara, responded to msgs and requests quickly. Also, the location was very convenient. It was close to grocery shops, restaurants and not far from downtown area. The nice thing about the property was we got to use the garage and it added a lot ease for entry and exit. However, it would be more handy for guests if the owner could leave a hairdryer in the bathroom and some aluminum foils in the kitchen. Overall, we had a great stay there.
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This lovely home is convenient to the shopping plaza and just off both the turnpike and the parkway. back yard is HUGE and a great place for dogs to play.
The driveway is not for the feint of heart when it snows. We parked at the fire hall and walked down after getting two cars stuck there.
The rental had everything we needed. We always appreciate it when an owner is willing to share their home with us and makes sure that we have the essentials. The property is located on a very steep hill and very close to a busy roadway. There were some challenges pulling in and out of the driveway with our pick-up truck and the road noise is not something we are used to so our dogs were a bit stressed. The home does smell musty/damp and this permeated all of our clothing and travel bags but the place was very clean.
I dread being cooped up in a hotel room shushing my kids, so we decided to try renting a house for this trip. I couldn't be more pleased with the Universal House! Everything was exactly as promised, or better. The house was clean, comfortable, well-furnished, and pleasant. We had plenty of room for the kids to play inside and outside, and the 3-season porch overlooking the back yard was a favorite spot to sit. I found absolutely everything I could possibly need stocked in the kitchen (pans, tools, spices) so I was able to cook meals and save money. We loved the board games we found in the closet, and enjoyed spotting deer and birds in the back yard all day long. The house has no clutter; even the garage was empty so we could keep our bikes, bike rack and second car inside, which was very handy as it rained a lot. I loved being able to throw in a load of laundry, too! We found all the paper goods and cleaning supplies we needed (even though we expected to have to purchase these). Staying in this house was like going to house-sit for a very neat and considerate relative. It is not fancy or hotel-like, but very clean, comfortable and felt like home. Having a door code instead of a key was also very convenient. The grocery stores, restaurants and, my favorite, Dunkin Donuts, are just a minute away. It is very easy to get on 376 and drive right into Pittsburgh about 10 miles away. We would recommend this house to our best friends and hope to go back the next time we visit Pittsburgh.
We loved this home. Clean and well-stocked, with a really nice sunroom/Tiki bar. Lots of privacy in the wooded backyard for our dogs and us. My husband managed to back into the driveway so it was easy to get out safely. Pittsburgh was great to visit. We recommend Point State Park, The Andy Warhol Museum and Market Square, for an outdoor café.
This was my second stay at this residence and I must say it is a great home with a great owner. Barbara, on both occasions, has been very accommodating to my timing needs. Here are some points of interest:
• The three bedrooms were all used and spacious enough for those traveling with me.
• Bathrooms were stocked with the proper necessities. Though there is only one shower, the hot water was plentiful for my group of four.
• Kitchen was full of appropriate dishes and cookware.
• Sunroom is a very relaxing place to hang out when warm outside and the backyard is very spacious.
• The living room space up and downstairs offers room for your group to spread out into their own space.
• Cable TV in every room and living space.
• Grocery and other stores are within a half mile and some fast food should you desire it. There are many restaurants in the area that deliver as well.
This is a great home to grab if in town. Be sure to communicate with the owner should you need anything out of the norm as they have been a pleasure to work with.
Be warned of the steep driveway. A spotter may be needed backing out but the ongoing traffic is very courteous to the people trying to get out of the driveways. The hill is steep.
I certainly recommend this location and plan on future stays.
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