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Getting teary over a pea frittata might not fall within the boundaries of acceptable human behaviour, but extenuating circumstances can provide some justification. The circumstance (and justification) in this case is the return of Rosa's Kitchen - cook and author Rosa Mitchell's moveable Italian feast - to Melbourne's CBD after a few years in Williamstown. And with the return of the Sicilian-influenced restaurant comes a parade of the fiercely seasonal, wonderfully comforting dishes that many city slickers have been pining for since Mitchell upped stumps at Flinders Lane's Journal Canteen in 2010.
Mitchell's food has always packed an emotional punch. Her cooking is so devoid of artifice and ego that it actually embodies the overused term "home-style" and presents as if it's been cooked with more than a little love and affection. When you haven't had access to that kind of cooking for a while and it lands in front of you again, say in the form of "Rosa's antipasto", getting a little misty-eyed is not a completely inappropriate reaction.
As in former incarnations, Rosa's antipasto changes constantly, comes in two sizes, and includes around nine different items. There's always frittata, though not always made with peas (when it is, though, they're slow-cooked and then pan-fried before joining forces with free-range eggs and parmesan). Sometimes it might feature chicory or zucchini or perhaps wild greens from Mitchell's farm in Yandoit, central Victoria.
Joining the frittata will usually be some sort of fritter, perhaps cauliflower that has been blanched until soft and then mixed with parmesan, parsley, garlic, flour and eggs before being formed into rustic little morsels and pan-fried to golden brown in olive oil. There'll be slices of salami too, at present a fennel and garlic number but later in the year, it'll be coming from a guy in Daylesford who'll make salami for the restaurant to Mitchell's family recipe.
You might also get a little block of ricotta that's dipped in egg, salted and then fried, slices of grilled eggplant flavoured with balsamic vinegar, garlic and basil, a little panzanella salad with capers and celery hearts joining the red wine vinegar-dressed tomatoes and bread, some tangy house-pickled eggplant and strips of zucchini that have been salted and then dressed with garlic, mint, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
It looks great, this plate of fritters and pickles, meats and olives and, like Rosa's Kitchen itself, it's reassuringly familiar and recognisable, even if the mix and the setting have been changed.
The familiar certainly plays a role in Mitchell's ever-cluey choice of CBD business partners. Her last city venture had Con Christopoulos in the mix while this time she's teamed up with Peter Bartholomew and David Mackintosh (of the MoVida group and Pei Modern) in a Punch Lane space that once housed old-school Italian restaurant Lucattini's.
It's a great position with the wider than usual city laneway - lined on one side with residential townhouses - delivering heaps more space and light than the usual dingy dumpster-strewn cliché. And while the group's refurb of the old restaurant has been thorough, it has avoided any major (and expensive) structural work, choosing instead to retain some cute design details from Lucattini's like a red neon "Cucina Italiana" sign that beckons people down the lane from Little Bourke Street and the three floor-to-ceiling peak-arched windows at the front that throw light into the compact space.
Inside, it's all pared back and clutter-free with polished concrete floors and whitewashed brick walls, a mix of timber and black-topped plywood tables and upholstered timber chairs painted in black, yellow and red. The lighting, mostly via wall lamps with oversized bulbs, is simple and effective, while the noise levels are surprisingly well-managed for a place with so many hard surfaces. It feels homey without being cloyingly so.
The compact menu (four pastas, five main courses) is scribbled on long, narrow blackboards that run down both sides of the room at ceiling height and there are wine and cocktail specials on another blackboard over the bar that extends from the kitchen.
There's a noticeable breadth to the drinks offering here compared with past versions of Rosa's Kitchen. At one point, the whole list could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Now there are several pages of wine, alongside lists of cocktails, beer, aperitivi and digestivi. Much of the credit for the expansion can be laid at the feet of sommelier Lazlo Evenhuis (ex-Crimean, Gill's Diner) who has come on board to look after the booze and play maître d'.
He's a good fit service-wise and his low-key charm and unflappable demeanour seem to have been adopted by the rest of the staff as the house style. Evenhuis's wine list is similarly simpático with the whole feel of Rosa's. It's a reasonably priced collection of wines from Italy and Australia that leans towards the Italian varieties and boutique producers without being annoyingly dogmatic about either. Keeping with the Sicilian heritage of the food, the wine list also features Sicilian wine and native grapes with excellent names such as zibibbo and catarratto.
There are excellent names on the food menu, too. Orecchiette alla Trapanese is sauced with a Sicilian-style pesto with almonds as a base rather than pine nuts. It's a brilliant combination, lighter and less oily than classic pesto, the blanched almonds, basil and garlic blended with fresh ripe tomatoes that have been pulsed to a pulp. It's then tossed with the pasta and topped with toasted breadcrumbs. The tomatoes give the sauce a wonderful clean acidity while the breadcrumbs add further textural joy to the slightly chewy orecchiette.
It's this sort of cooking that Mitchell and her head chef Lucy David (ex-Coda, Pei Modern) do so well: rustic, with a limited number of ingredients that achieve a beautiful, elegant balance.
There's more of that to be had with the plump yellow ravioli (plenty of yolks involved, obviously) stuffed with a mix of peeled and roasted eggplant, onion, tomato, basil and parmesan that's been blended to a smooth, richly flavoured paste. The ravioli are then tossed with a fresh tomato sauce (or will be until tomato season is over when, as per tradition, the preserved tomatoes will be called into service) that adds sweet acidic notes to the earthy eggplant ones.
There are plenty of good times for carnivores, too, including cotoletta, a bashed-out piece of yearling beef dipped in egg and a mixture of breadcrumbs, parmesan, parsley and garlic. It's pan-fried and served with a chunky, tangily dressed cucumber, tomato and onion salad. Excellent beef tongue that's poached in a broth containing carrot, celery and onion and served> with kipfler potatoes tossed in salsa verde shows that Mitchell has lost none of her skill with offal.
Best of all, though, is the bistecca al salmoriglio, where two pieces of Scotch are quickly grilled and then dipped in the salmoriglio marinade - a deep-flavoured mix of olive oil, lemon juice, crushed garlic and oregano - and then served with salty roast potatoes. Others might give best-in-show to the calamari, stuffed with a mixture of chopped up wings and tentacles, leeks, pan-fried breadcrumbs and capers before being tossed on the grill then finished in a pan with white wine, tomato and onion, and served with a side of very garlicky green beans.
Longtime fans can breathe a sigh of relief (and perhaps briefly tear-up again at the news) that the cannoli have not been lost in the various moves. They still deliver the same brittle, shattering pastry case filled with whipped ricotta flavoured with Yandoit honey, sugar, Marsala and lemon zest, with the ends dipped in toasted and crushed pistachio. A classic of its kind.
Ricotta's affinity with dessert also comes to the fore in a lemon ricotta cake, full of almond meal, not too sweet, and perfect with the stovetop coffee that has been a Rosa's Kitchen signature since the Flinders Lane days.
Fans of Sicilian sweet stuff and seasonal fruit should also keep an eye out for the custard-filled tart that's a fixture on the dessert menu. For a brief time recently it featured mulberries from Mitchell's farm, and it may also include peaches or figs from the same source. It all depends, as with the rest of the menu, on the season.
It's great to see Rosa's Kitchen back in its spiritual home but what's even better is that it seems to have shaken off the kind of temporary, pop-up feel it's trailed with it in the past. There's a more permanent, more grounded persona at this Punch Lane incarnation that can only come from all the elements being in sync. It's there with the front of house, with the bar and wine list that are no longer minor supporting characters, and it's certainly there with the food - perfect for urban dwellers in search of a little country heart. And really, it's just great to have Rosa Mitchell back, even if it does make you a little emotional.


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The closing of Chef Allen's last week represented the end of an important chapter in Miami restaurant history. There was a time in the mid-'90s when the main restaurant debate at gatherings focused on whether Allen Susser, Mark Militello, or Norman Van Aken was the best chef. Then the banter would shift to which guy ran the better restaurant. But in fact, there were a handful of other equally important, pioneering Miami chefs, most of whom are still around today.
The following timeline should give an idea of when some of our familiar veteran chefs first came upon the stage -- and when (if) they opened a place of their own.
1986: Allen Susser opens Chef Allen's in Aventura.
1986: Dewey LoSasso gains notice as chef of The Foundlings Club in Miami Beach.
1988: Mark Militello opens Mark's Place in North Miami Beach.
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1989: Doug Rodriguez sparks Nuevo Latino cuisine at YUCA in Coral Gables.
1989: Pascal Oudin turns heads as chef of The Colonnade in Coral Gables.
1991: Norman Van Aken comes to Miami at a Mano in the Betsy Ross Hotel on Ocean Drive.
1992: Kerry Simon opens Blue Star at the newly renovated Raleigh Hotel on South Beach.
1993: Jonathan Eismann brings Pacific Time to a still-undeveloped Lincoln Road.
1994: Robbin Haas makes the new Colony Bistro on Ocean Drive the hottest spot in town.
1994: Jan Jorgensen's Two Chefs debuts in South Miami. It is still there.
1994: Cindy Hutson and Delius Shirley open Norman's on the Beach on Lincoln Road, the precursor to Ortanique on the Mile.
1994: Michael Schwartz co-launches Nemo in South Beach.
1994: Kerry Simon opens Max's South Beach with Dennis Max.
1995: Norman Van Aken opens his first establishment, Norman's Restaurant, in Coral Gables.
1995: Kris Wessel is an opening partner in Paninoteca on Lincoln Road.
1997: Michelle Bernstein gets some attention at Red Fish Grill in Matheson Hammock.
1998: Robbin Haas commands Red Square in South Beach.
1999: Philippe Ruiz becomes chef de cuisine at Palme d'Or in the Biltmore Hotel. He is still there.
1999: Kris Wessel opens Liaison on Española Way in South Beach.
1999: Cindy Hutson opens Ortanique on the Mile in Coral Gables.
2000: Pascal Oudin opens his own Pascal's On Ponce in Coral Gables.
2000: Michelle Bernstein gets lots more attention at Azul in the Mandarin Oriental.
2003: Tim Andriola debuts Timo in Sunny Isles Beach.
2003: Andrea Curto-Randazzo and Frank Randazzo dazzle with Talula on South Beach.
2004: Dewey LoSasso opens North One 10 as a pioneer on the Biscayne Corridor.
2005: Michelle Bernstein opens Michy's as a pioneer of the MiMo neighborhood.
2007: Michael Schwartz opens Michael's Genuine Food & Drink.
2008: Kris Wessel opens Red Light on the Little River in MiMo.
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Having established a presence in Palm Beach County with numerous special events over many years, TrustBridge Health was seeking entry into the Broward County market via a special fundraising dinner featuring former White House Chef John Moeller.
Bitner Group was tasked with "getting the word out" about the event, while creating brand awareness for the client. While the client's non-profit status was an asset relative to media pitching, it was clear that Chef John was going to be the magnet for any kind of exposure.
It was not sufficient to simply position the event as a Hospice fundraiser. Rather, Chef John had to be placed front and center with the Hospice connection following close behind.
A pre-event press release had to be distributed a month out to "plant the seed" for media follow up. News, Lifestyle, Society and Food media around South Florida would need to be covered.
Distributing a media alert two weeks prior to the dinner would be a necessity, which included an offer to interview Chef John. Shortly thereafter, media follow up to schedule interviews would be a requirement.
The bottom line was to generate media coverage for the event, while attempting to increase ticket sales as a result of same.
Based off distribution of both the press release and media alert, the Bitner Group team continually followed up with media via e-mails and/or phone calls. Given the client's geographical emphasis, this activity was confined to Broward County and Miami-Dade County.
During a two-week period, the Bitner Group team was able to score placements with a number of print and electronic outlets. These included the Sun Sentinel, Miami Herald, New Times Broward/Palm Beach, the market's NBC affiliate, the Sid Rosenberg Morning Radio Show, the Paul & Young Ron Morning Radio Show and the Eat & Critique Radio Show.
Relative to the Sun Sentinel hit, the coverage was valued at more than $124,000, given it was the cover of the weekly Friday entertainment section.
It was the success of this project that ultimately led to Bitner Group becoming the agency of record for TrustBridge Health.


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As the number of young people out of work hits the one in five mark, we look at the best and worst universities for graduate employment prospects.
The scramble for graduate jobs caused by the recession left one in 10 university leavers out of work last year. Nearly 70 graduates were vying for every job going on average, while graduate unemployment reached a 17-year high, according to industry figures.
Employment experts predict competition for places will only increase further over the next few years as youth unemployment remains high. Official figures from the Office for National Statistics, out today, are expected to show the number of 18 to 24-year-olds out of work remained at the one in five mark in the three months to September.
However, the latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show an alarming difference in employment prospects across universities in the UK.
At the very top of the table, the University of Surrey recorded an employment rate of 96.9pc, with just 30 of its 935 graduates left out of work last year.
In stark contrast at the bottom of the league table, one in four graduates at London's South Bank University were left unemployed after completing their degrees last summer. The university had an employment rate of 74.4pc, with 590 graduates in work out of a total of 790, the HESA figures showed.
The London Metropolitan University also delivered one of the worst employment rates, at 74.5pc, followed by the University of Greenwich at 79.8pc, another London-based institution.
High profile universities such as Oxford and Cambridge fared above average, with employment rates of 92.6pc and 95.2pc respectively.
In total 18,800 graduates could not find work last year across all UK institutions, leading to an unemployment rate of 10.1pc, the HESA figures found.
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Famed Austrian tenor Waldemar Kmentt dead at 85
VIENNA (AP) — The Vienna State Opera says that famed Austrian tenor Waldemar Kmentt has died at age 85.
A statement said Kmentt died Wednesday in Vienna, where he began and ended an opera career that took him across the globe.
Kmentt sang 1,480 performances at Vienna' State Opera alone. Among his most popular roles were Tamino in "The Magic Flute," Jenik in "The Bartered Bride," and the title role in "The Tales of Hoffmann."
He also performed at Vienna's Volksoper. Foreign venues included La Scala in Milan, the Metropolitan Opera in New York and opera houses in Rome, Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels.
State Opera Director Dominique Meyer praised Kmentt's "unforgettable voice and great personality" and said his death deprived his opera company of a "member of the family."
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'the cube by electrolux' by park associati, milan, italy
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in its second installment during the european tour, 'the cube' by electrolux designed by milanese practice park associati currently
overlooks the piazza del duomo in milan, italy. delicately perched upon via ugo foscolo 1, the pavilion contains a temporary restaurant
which will accommodate 18 individuals at one time and offer spectacular panoramas of the adjacent cathedral's spires, palazzo reale and
museo del novecento. a large single table fills the open dining space, with clear views into the food preparation area.
performing live for guests, star italian chefs will prepare special lunch and dinner menus in the high efficiency,
energy saving kitchen furnished by electrolux. after the meal is complete, the table rises into the ceiling, transforming the internal program
into a lounge. the 140 square meters of occupiable area includes a 50 square meter outdoor terrace overlooking the bustling plaza below.
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easily assembled and disassembled, the modular construct is prepared for a wide range of climates, even extreme conditions,
providing visitors with a comfortable experience. the white appearance produces a visual lightness to the structure and has been additionally
elevated from the roof to emphasize the visual lightness. the exterior's aluminum panels create a sense of movement with a laser-cut
geometric pattern which transitions in transparency to opaque to conceal the necessary components of the food preparation area.
all selected materials are innovative addressing technology and eco-sustainability as well as reusability.
the venue is taking reservations through april 26th, coinciding with the milan design week 2012.
availability and booking information may be found here.
outward view from the cube
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'it is one of those projects that open things up: in fact too often solutions resolve but do not leave space for the imagination,
for innovation, for evolution. this 'cube' that is not actually a cube, has a great proactive force and immediately presents itself
for what it is: defying the paralysis of thinking and the imagination.' -michele de lucchi, co-founding architect of park associati
terrace overlooking the duomo
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table seats 18 guests at one time
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installation of the structure
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floor plan / level 0
1. dinner configuration
2. kitchen
3. storage
4. toilet
5. technical room
6. terrace
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1. living room
2. kitchen
3. storage
4. toilet
5. technical room
6. terrace
roof plan
unfolded skin
wall section detail
1. roof cover
2. roof of prefabricated steel elements
3. under facade of aluminum panels
4. main steel construction
5. ceiling of acoustic wooden panels
6. aluminum panel facade
7. floor of wengè boards
8. facade air screening
9. basement wooden beams
wall section detail
1. roof cover + prefabricated steel elements
2. ceiling of acoustic wooden panels
3. aluminum panel facade
4. floor of wengè boards
5. basement wooden beams
wall section detail
1. roof cover + prefabricated steel elements
2. main steel construction
3. ceiling of acoustic wooden panels
4. aluminum panel facade
5. floor of wengè boards
6. facade air screening
7. basement wooden beams
roof detail
1. roof cover
2. roof of prefabricated steel elements
3. under facade of aluminum panels
4. main steel construction
5. ceiling of acoustic wooden panels
6. aluminum panel facade
7. floor of wengè boards
8. facade air screening
9. terrace floor of wengè boards
10. basement wooden beams
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winter efficiency diagram
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project info:
client: electrolux home appliances emea n.v
period: 19 dicembre 2011 – 26 aprile 2012
architecture and interior design: park associati, milano – filippo pagliani, michele rossi
design team: lorenzo merloni (project leader), alessandro rossi, alexia caccavella, alice cuteri. fabio calciati_rendering
event concept and project management: absolute blue, bruxelles
graphic consulting and texture design: studio fm, milano, cristiano bottino, barbara forni, sergio menichelli, con libero corti
general contractor: zh, campo tures, (bz)
general coordination and structural engineering: general planning, milano; ing. giovanni bonini, project direction; francesco prennushi, site supervision
contractor: nüssli ag, hüttwilen, ch, frieder braun, maurizio ledda, maik rauch
mechanical and electrical engineering: greenville, milano; ing. fabrizio onofri
floor coverings: fmg spa, fiorano modenese, (mo), greenwood srl, salzano (ve)
external lighting: i guzzini, milano
interior lighting: zumtobel spa, milano
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The perfect template!
Because a lot of freeform wearables i see are a bit moo moo-like, i wanted to get a better fitting template. I went out and bought a jacket in my size in the sale, took it apart, and hemmed the sides back into place.
The fabric of the jacket is jersey, i did the hemming manually, because i was afraid they would get frilly when i used the sewing machine. It took me all day, but now i'm really happy, i have a perfect fitting template!
Maybe the stripes will be a bit distracting, but the inside is white, i could use that.
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Goed gedaan! Schattig!ReplyDelete
another great posting, I'm looking for a top to deconstruct for future project.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous20 September 2013 at 13:24
That's amazing, bec. if you had asked me, I'd have said, oh NOOOO, never use a stretchy fabric for the pattern. Ya learn s.th. every day, LOL!ReplyDelete
Speaking of which, I need 2 pick your brain, please: How would I go about doing the double crochet cluster in the "eye" of this butterfly? (I know how to do a double crochet cluster per se, but not in this context; I've been wracking my brain trying to figure it out.) http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/4429/96375288.6f/0_72074_33b80f09_orig.jpg
THanx in advance 4 any input on this.
I took a look at the butterfly, i think when you chain to get the wing, you stop at 3/4th, make a cluster of 3 double crochet in 1/4 of the chain, chain back to the beginning, and start on the outside of the wing with double crochet. I hope this helps:)Delete
- Anonymous21 September 2013 at 07:16
Wow, je bent een genie! Ik zal proberen dat! Dank u wel! :)Delete
NC (who finds it curious that "je" in French is "I" ["jeg" in Norwegian, too] yet in Dutch means "you"---proof of pantheism? {snort})
- Anonymous12 January 2014 at 16:00
Bonjour de France,ReplyDelete
Bravo c'est magnifique, ou trouver votre boutique sur Etsy ?


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Charlie Sheen's Winning Recipes from Charlie Sheen
What Inception dream-level are we in that Charlie Sheen's 15 minutes are taking this long? Anyway, Charlie Sheen, what's he doing? Today the deposed television actor filed suit against Chuck Lorre and Warner Bros., his former employers, for $100 million. The Los Angeles Times is hosting a copy of the suit, which reads like a pretty good piece of John Grisham–Charlie Sheen fan fiction:
Defendant Chuck Lorre, one of the richest men in television who is worth hundreds of millions of dollars, believes himself to be so wealthy and powerful that he can unilaterally decide to take money away from the dedicated cast and crew of the popular television series Two and a Half Men (the "Series") in order to serve his own ego and self-interest, and make the star of the Series the scapegoat for Lorre's own conduct.
Meanwhile, The New York Times is reporting that Sheen is earning $50,000 per tweet from Ad.ly. This works out to about $357 a character, including punctuation and blank spaces. It's additional income that will definitely go a long way in covering lawyers' fees during his impossible lawsuit. In other news, there is Sheen'scynical Funny or Die cooking show, a false rumor about his death, and an ongoing opportunity to purchase one of his silly shirts.
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Title: Incarnate
Author: Jodi Meadows
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: YA, utopia, fantasy
Series: Newsoul #1
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Pages: 374 (harcover)
How I Got the Book: Borrowed it
For More Information:Goodreads Link
New soul
Ana is new. For thousands of years in Range, a million souls have been reincarnated over and over, keeping their memories and experiences from previous lifetimes. When Ana was born, another soul vanished, and no one knows why.
No soul
Even Ana's own mother thinks she's a nosoul, an omen of worse things to come, and has kept her away from society. To escape her seclusion and learn whether she'll be reincarnated, Ana travels to the city of Heart, but its citizens are afraid of what her presence means. When dragons and sylph attack the city, is Ana to blame?
Sam believes Ana's new soul is good and worthwhile. When he stands up for her, their relationship blooms. But can he love someone who may live only once, and will Ana's enemies—human and creature alike—let them be together? Ana needs to uncover the mistake that gave her someone else's life, but will her quest threaten the peace of Heart and destroy the promise of reincarnation for all?
Jodi Meadows expertly weaves soul-deep romance, fantasy, and danger into an extraordinary tale of new life.
One star for the idea, half a star for the cover and another half for trying and getting somewhere in the plot. If you haven't worked it out yet, that's 2 stars.
Here was happy old (not really) me thinking how awesome it was that I liked 11 books in a row. THAT, IS A BIG ACHIEVEMENT. I was hoping for 12, but no, I didn't like Incarnate. Despite the good looks and stunning reviews, I was not pleased to give anything more than 2 stars.
Ciana was meant to be incarnated. Everyone waited for her to show up, but she never did. However, instead Ana was born. Nosoul. A better term would be Newsoul. As Ana grows up, she gets excluded, singled out and rarely pitied. But that was until she left her mother, Li, in search for answers of what had sent wrong and made Ciana not incarnate. But of course, she meets someone, Sam.
Ana is the typical annoying yet demanding protagonist. From the beginning, everything was rather too fast paced but when I reached the middle, Ana showed her whininess. Sam, the antagonist, is mysterious (oh how typical!) doesn't reveal much but I found it rather hilarious to think that Sam used to be a girl in dresses! *clams down*
Lets talk about the plot. Actually, then I'm just saying, lets talk about nothing because the plot was nothing. It small complications but there wasn't anything sophisticated of in depth to pass as a plot. Therefore, this novel required more patience and persistence to get through. I loved the utopian world that Jodi created. It was so interesting to read about and discover, but the characters, plot and description definitely needed tweaking.
Another issue (small one) I had with Incarnate was the pacing. The start in end was super speedy and filled with either recaps or overdosed action. Hmm…not really the way authors should structure their books.
Now..for the GARGANTUAN issue that I almost screamed and gaged over. Pages 270-272 are the winners.
"Not like I could forget." He stepped closer, blocking the wind."I was so nervous after. I was afraid you'd be disappointed when you found out it was just me." [Sam]
"I liked you before that. The piano was extra." I waited, breath heavy in my chest, until finally I whispered, " You didn't say whether you wanted this." AND
"I've wanted to kiss you since we met. Never out of pity. Only because I think you're beautiful and amazing. You make me happy."
No comment. *Takes a deep breath* There it is folks. Instant love/gag worthy insta-love at its highest most peck of the mountain. They met in the first 30 pages and didn't kiss till page 270-ish. You could practically see them attracted and lusting each other from the time they met. "JUST KISS ALREADY! WE SEE YOUR LONINGNESS!" Me, demanding the hell outta myself.
If I had the choice of never reading this book, I might have to say I would not read it. I was thoroughly disappointed and expected so much more in so many levels. However, lovers of Neal Shusterman's books could give it a shot. And this is UTOPIAN not DYSTOPIAN. BIG difference there!
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First-Year Students
Helpful Hints
- If something, such as furniture, is broken in your room or your lounge area, be sure to contact facilities at email@example.com or notify your Resident Advisor for a prompt repair.
- Mattresses are 36″ w x 80″ l x 6″ d. Extra-long twin sheets are recommended.
- If you are being dropped off by family or friends, have them take extra suitcases, etc., home with them. There are no storage facilities on campus.
- If a personal item is missing, please talk to your Resident Advisors and fill out a report with Campus Safety. If not, an investigation cannot proceed.
- Many new students want to fit in; being yourself is the best way to do it.
- Your education comes first. Your homework is a #1 priority.
- Spend your money wisely; it goes quickly.
- Be sure to get involved in social activities. They're a good stress reliever and they are a part of your activity fee.
- Get to know your Resident Advisors! They have a lot of information which could benefit you.
Suggested Things to Bring
Hardware & Cleaning
- Windex
- Sponge
- Fan
- Iron and ironing board
- Air Freshener/Lysol
- Small sewing kit
- Light bulbs
- Silverware
- Plates/Bowls/Cups
- Salt/Pepper/Sugar
- Can opener
- Foods that can be microwaved (soup, popcorn, pasta, various canned foods)
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Medical Supplies
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- Imodium AD/TUMS
- Bandages
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- Q-Tips/Cotton balls
- Tissues
- Aspirin
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- Medical supply box
Desk Supplies
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- Stapler/Staples
- Desk drawer organizer
- Paper clips
- Thumb tacks
- Scotch tape
- Desk lamp or bed light
- Calendar
- Scissors
- Waste basket
- Stationery
- Stamps/Envelopes
- Pens/Pencils/Highlighters/Markers
- Computer–The College provides a 24-hour computer lab.
- Memo board/dry erase board
Shower Supplies
- Shower tote
- Flip flops
- Razor/Shaving cream
- Soap/Soap dish/Shampoo
- Toothbrush/toothpaste/mouthwash/dental floss
Clothing & Storage
- Hangers
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- Extra shelves
- Egg crates
- Underbed storage containers
- Collapsible drying rack
- Boots for the winter weather
- Clothing for the season–Pack seasonally, there is limited closet space.
- $5 bills for laundry
- Appropriate posters and other room decorations
- Umbrella
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- Bulletin board
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- Television/VCR/Stereo
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- Extra-long twin sheets/Comforter
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- UL listed power strips with circuit breakers
Be sure to call your roommate ahead of time so that you do not bring two of everything.
Remember that these are only suggestions. If you do not need or use something on this list, do not bring it with you.
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- Extra bulky furniture
- Valuables
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Room Assignments
After being accepted to Southern Vermont College, new resident students must participate in orientation, so they are able to meet and talk to fellow classmates. Also, a housing preference form and housing contract will be sent from the Office of Residence Life. As a new student you are asked information about your living style, study habits, etc., to help us choose you a compatible roommate (These can also be found via the New Student Housing page). Through this form, you may also specifically name the person with whom you wish to live with. Both of you, however, must indicate a desire to live together in order to be assigned as roommates.
Room Furnishings
The College furnishes each room with two beds and two mattresses. Two study desks, two chairs, overhead lighting, two dressers, and a built in closet are also provided. All rooms contain blinds and carpeting.
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San José has two ways to collect yard trimmings. Place your yard trimmings loose in the street or in your optional yard trimmings cart for collection. For details about San Jose's yard trimmings visit www.sjenvironment.org/yardtrimmings.
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Street sweepers remove harmful pollutants from the streets once a month, but debris collects daily. Moving your car on sweep day is the most important thing you can do to ensure clean streets for San José. For more information visit www.sjenvironment.org/streetsweeping.
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Sunday, 12 April 2009
Around much of rural France you see a large number of derelict or semi-derelict buildings as young people continue to move to larger towns and cities in search of work. They are no longer interested in rural or small town occupations. As a result the towns and villages have fewer amenities to offer, and the outward flow continues.
In the picture above you can see a typical old property, left to go into ruin. The situation may have been worsened by the French inheritance laws which insist that no property can be sold without the agreement of all offspring of the owner.
Judging by the stacks of roof tiles outside, this house is going to be renovated. Typically, this will be done by foreigners, or by Parisians looking for a holiday home. Some small towns are almost completely closed up during the winter months, when no visitors are there. Alternatively, houses for renovation are bought by British (mainly) people looking to make a new life in another country. There are some places where there are few French people left.
It's quite a problem. It must be preferable to have buildings maintained, but the influx of holiday home owners or non-French people does change the character of a place completely. It's not a problem confined to France. Parts of Wales and south west England have similar situations.
Go to Small Town Snapshot Sunday to join in and find more small town shots.
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I love your picture, but what a sad story! I thought it was interesting about the heirs because where I live that's the way it always has to be unless there was a proper will that shows it was left to only one family member. It is generally not a problem here unless the family is not friendly with each other.ReplyDelete
We live in a poor area and have lost a lot of jobs here due to some weather destruction last year, one company moving to mexico and the rest of the industry being lost due to the poor economy. So we have trouble keeping people in our area sometimes, the young people at least.
I am curious... how much does a property like that cost?
What a pity! Old houses attract me. They hold the history and characteristics of its occupants. I'm curious as to what happened within the house.ReplyDelete
It's a common problem worldwide. I have relatives living in small towns in Malaysia and China and they face the same problem.
There are only the elderly left in the small towns.
Hi Wendy! In France, even with a will, it's not easy to cut children out from inheriting. It becomes especially problematic when there is a second marriage with children from a previous marriage.ReplyDelete
As for the cost of a property like that, I would say in this area it would be a maximum of 20,000 euros or $26,000 and possibly a lot less.
@ECL, I agree, I much prefer old houses. And you're right, it's a worldwide problem. It can be seen all over the place that young people want to work in cities. There has been some slight movement back, people wanting a simpler life but not, so far, enough.ReplyDelete
Its a wonderful picture but of course sad to read that these building is left.ReplyDelete
We have some of the same problem in Norway, however some find it interesting to leave the urban life and get back to the rural - so there is hope :-)
I do wish you wouldn't post this type of picture. I get a sudden desire to rush out and buy a lottery ticket and a map of such places!ReplyDelete
That's sooooo sad. I wish I could restore a lot of those old houses to what they SHOULD BE looking.... *sigh*ReplyDelete
This is the downside of the freedom of choice and mobility of people these days. I don't know what the answer is.ReplyDelete
Hi A --ReplyDelete
Must admit that until I read your entry, thought this problem was confined to Asia. (I think you've seen my photos of derelict homes encountered while out hiking in Hong Kong's New Territories.)
It makes sense though -- and I have to say that there are many picturesque parts of Europe that I've driven past and wondered who could possibly be living there -- what with their being so far away from a city, etc.
It's such a pity that in our wireless age, the reality is that too many organizations still aren't all that accepting of people working from home. Also, how ironic it is that even when some parts of the world lack housing, other parts lack people to live in buildings that still could be livable if maintained.
I believe YTSL has hit the nail on the head - more people could work from home. I know in my own case, though, that unless you have a very good relationship with those who make the decision, it's looked upon with great suspicion. There does have to be some trust that you will get the work done.ReplyDelete


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ATTF #76 - Year end 08!
Mon, 22 Dec 2008
This is our last show! (of the year). We talk all about what was cool and what sucked during 2008. Also, Lucien Miller joins us yet again for some more Power System Corner. This time it's all about the props unloading! (and other smart stuff).
Thanks to everybody who makes this show happen, hosts, vendors and YOU the listener!!!
Have a good New Year!
AFPD deal (no brainer deal)
RCAdvisor (book deals?)
Direct Download: _76_-__Year_end_08.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 07:38:00 +0000
InsideHeli #42 - Holiday Wishes + Power System Corner
Sun, 21 Dec 2008
Join James and Chris as they talk about what they want for Christmas, and Lucien Miller from Innov8tiveDesigns.com drops by for a Power System Corner segment.
Stuff We Talked About
Hitch Mount Cart
Flybarless goodies
Approach Engineering Cobra kit
Direct Download: deHeli_42_-_ChristmasList_and_PSC.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 04:41:00 +0000
ATTF #75 - It's an RC Christmas
Wed, 17 Dec 2008
Curl up with a warm blanket and join the hosts next to the fireplace in this warm filling, money spending episode of 75. Talk about our favorite items of the year, gifts to give that special RC person this holiday and of course news and updates in the RC world.
Updates for the Phoenix sim
RTF and PnP Swift from Century
The Wish List
AMA Membership
DVD/Flighpass subscription. Higher Plane Productions
Ritewing RC - Best wings on the planet
Ritewing RC IYF (In Your Face Wing)
36" Lightning
FPV system FAT Shark
JR 12X 2.4Ghz Transmitter
Vapors - Sign up for a membership for the best prices!
Or if you have Spectrum 2.4 TX the Bind and Fly
Blade MCX
Aerofly PRO Deluxe RC Flight Simulators
Precision Aerobatics Ultimate AMR
A big stack of EPP for a Slofly and other planes
Big pile of Outrage Lipos
Dremel stuff
Slow Stick X products
The Phlat Printer
Blade 400 Heli
hotglue gun
solder iron
driver set (Phillips and flat)
large bag of rubber bands
Measuring devices (yard stick , ruler , strait edge , mm/in)
dikes (cross cutters)
wire strippers
Velcro strips and Velcro straps
big can of zip ties
fishing weights
large tackle box
Gorilla Glue
digital scale
strapping tape
razor blades
Direct Download: _75_-_Its_an_RC_Christmas.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 05:06:00 +0000
InsideHeli #41 - Bobby Smith from RREModels.com
Fri, 12 Dec 2008
Join James and Chris as they chat with Bobby and Rosenda Smith of RREModels.com! Bobby tells us how he got started in the hobby, and gives us an inside look at the creation of RREModels and why it's "An RC store from a pilot's perspective."
Stuff We Talked About:
Bobby's Flybarless Knight video
Direct Download: deHeli_41_-_Bobby_Smith_Interview.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 02:04:00 +0000
ATTF #74 - Sticky Props
Mon, 08 Dec 2008
In Episode 74 Diggs and Jamie talk all about balancing props, nasty props and Lucien Miller steps in to make sense of it all! Email, news and banter. Diggs flies a Blade400 and we announce the winner for the Nov giveaway!
Build Log - DW Foamies 48" Juka
Another build with very cool hinges
Lazertoyz blue wonder and blue monster motors
Millennium R/C SSX products
CastleCreations Sale
Blade 400
DW foamies
Video of the wiik:
225mg micro RC plane
Build thread
Direct Download: _74_-_Sticky_Props.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 05:45:00 +0000
Nov. GiveAway Winner!
Sun, 07 Dec 2008
They donated, they came, he won!
Jack S. from Waterford, MI
Takes the A-7 Corsair II ARF
Congrats to Jack and thanks to Hobby-Lobby and everybody who participated!
Didn't win? Well go and get yourself some Scorpion gear for the December giveaway!
Posted at: 03:48:00 +0000
Power System Corner bit: BECs
Wed, 03 Dec 2008
Lucien Miller from innov8tivedesigns tackles the BEC questions. Differences, how, why and when to use a BEC.
Thanks Paul W from CA. for the question!
We are kicking you out some nice swag.
If you want swag, be sure to send in your questions for Lucien to answer. You can email, or certainly call in and leave a voice mail (voice mail will always get to the front of the line)
Direct Download: rSystem_Corner-__BECs.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 06:38:00 +0000
ATTF #73 - Not King of This Castle
Mon, 01 Dec 2008
Glamorous number 73 is filled with email, news, maidens and rants! Jamie complains about his favorite company and Diggs is feeling and sounding much better. Another Power System Corner from Lucien Miller is also intertwined into this episode and it's about in-runners vs. outrunners.
Just Go Fly
Dave Powers
Blade MCX review
Extreme Flight Extra 300
Lmopar69 / Laine Blog
Video of the week:
Vinnie and his SlowStick
Macr0t0r recap notes for Ep#23
Direct Download: _73_-_Not_King_of_This_Castle.mp3?dest-id=12298
Posted at: 05:31:00 +0000
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|Mohammad Ali Amoori (left) and Sayed Zia Nabavi
Nabavi has been in prison since June 2009. While in Karoon Prison, he met and befriended Ahwazi Arab activist Mohammad Ali Amouri, who is currently facing execution for "enmity with God". Both Nabavi and Amoori have been held in solitary confinement and tortured. Their experiences have brought them together.
In a recent appeal, entitled "story of an exiled prisoner about a prisoner who is sentenced to death, Nabavi described Amoori as a moderate person and rejected the regime's allegations against him and other Ahwazis sentenced to death. He stated that he did not believe they were violent and accused the security services and judiciary of linking them to a non-existent armed separatist group.
Nabavi has been under pressure from the intelligence services to publicly disavow his letter of support for Amoori, but he has refused to co-operate. This is believed to have been the reason for his recent interrogation and there are fears that he has been subjected to psychological and physical torture.
Amoori also wrote a letter of appeal which stated: "I was seeking peace and dialogue, what sin have I done to be killed? To save innocent people who demand humanitarian help, peace, freedom and basic political and social rights?"
He added: "I was subjected to physical and psychological torture in solitary confinement in Ahwaz City for six months and then in Karoon prison where after two years I was sentenced to death by an unjust court. I have been asking since then: why do they want to kill me?"


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In late April, Dutch tulip bulb farmers chop off the flowers' heads
AMSTERDAM, April 24 (Reuters) - As the end of April approaches, Dutch tulip farmers prepare for "topping," when they run cutting machines through the fields across the north and west of the country, lopping off the colorful flower heads and leaving the stalks and plants to wither.
Throughout the month, the tulip fields are in full bloom and tourists flock to attractions such as the Keukenhof flower garden in The Hague to see the year's designs and spectacular new strains.
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To the un-initiated, the "topping" that follows may look like senseless destruction.
In fact, it's all part of the tulip's growing cycle, as the plant then diverts its energy to the still-living bulb underground, which will bloom again.
The reinvigorated bulbs are harvested in mid-summer and sold to growers for planting in the autumn. (Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Hugh Lawson)


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Honda unveils Urban EV Concept
By Deeq on
15 Sep 2017
Concept cars
The Honda Urban EV Concept has been revealed at the Frankfurt Motor Show, previewing the brand's all-electric future. It's not a fantasy project, though, with bosses claiming a production car based on the concept will debut in 2019.
Unveiled by Honda president Takahiro Hachigo, the company's CEO said: "This is not some vision of the distant future; a production version of this car will be here in Europe in 2019."
Honda hasn't revealed battery output, power figures or performance data for the EV Concept, nor is there any detail on prospective range or charge times. Given its intended use, however, we expect a modest 200-mile range, mated to the latest fast-charge technology.
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11 July 2008
The ARTICLES of the CHURCH OF ENGLAND
I. That in the sacrament of the altar, by virtue of the words of Christ duly spoken by the priest is present realiter, under the kinds of bread and wine, the natural Body of Christ conceived of the Virgin Mary, and also his natural Blood.
II. That after the consecration there remains not the substance of bread and wine, nor any substance but the substance of God and Man.
III. That in the mass is offered the true Body of Christ and his true Blood, a propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead.
IV. That to Peter the Apostle, and his lawful successors in the Apostolic See, as Christ's Vicars, is given the supreme power of feeding and ruling the Church of Christ militant, and confirming their brethren.
V. That the authority of handling and defining concerning the things belonging to faith, sacraments, and discipline ecclesiastical, hath hitherto ever belonged, and ought to to belong, only to the pastors of the Church; whom the Holy Ghost for this purpose hath set in the Church; and not to laymen.
This brings complete clarity into the questions of the doctrine and discipline of the Church of England. It means that any subsequent enactments which are ambiguous or wayward have to be interpreted in accordance with and in subordination to these principles; so as not to contradict them. Article V also clarifies the question of the Law of Worship of the Church of England. Liturgies imposed by Parliament clearly lack authority. Eureka! How wise we were, at S Stephen's House in the 1960s, as we subscribed the then oaths before ordination, to say loudly ...'and I will use the forms in the said book prescribed [the Prayer Book] and One Other', as we clutched our trusty English Missals in our hands. Modern ordinands, of course, have a much simpler oath to swear: simply that they will only use 'what is allowed by canon'. 'Canon' clearly refers to the 1984 Codex Iuris Canonici of the Western Church.
Happily, it also clarifies the status of recent decisions of General Synod. In as far as they might contradict what the Holy Father has said, Article IV renders them null and void.
13 comments:
- Nebuly said...
I wish this were true - but is is fairy land.
- 11 July, 2008
- English Catholic said...
But it isn't actually true is it?
The 'Church of England' has never taken these to be her historical formularies.
It isn't enough to recognise Peter's authority it principle, it must also be obeyed in practise.
It is clear that the successors of Peter do not recognise the 'Church of England' as being part of the universal Church, so no Anglican can both accept Peter and remain Anglican.
- 12 July, 2008
- gengulphus said...
…as we clutched our trusty English Missals in our hands…
It is strange, then, that this same generation should have done all in their power to subvert and destroy the established traditional spiritual and liturgical practice of the 'catholic party' in the C of E, and so gleefully rushed to impose upon their unwilling flocks every meretricious article suggested by the 'false spirit of the Council' - from the polyester pixie-hooded 'chas-albs' to bird-table altars constructed in plywood, and so recklessly compromise the architecture of ancient buildings in the interests of imposing a doctrinaire and largely misplaced aggiorniamento.
This programme of reform and destruction has been so absolute as to render absurd the occasionally expressed catholic anxiety as to whether any refugees will wish to bring with them and retain any comforting relics of C of E devotion with them. What do they have left to bring?
Origen remarked to Gregory that - the narrative of the O.T. notwithstanding - those who come out of Egypt rarely bring with them anything suitable for the service of God. An observation which could not be more lamentably true in this case.
[I too made my ordination vows on the English Missal - but this was through an entertaining oversight on the part of the guestmistress at Posbury St Francis. An error which she did not regret at the time, nor I subsequently.]
- 12 July, 2008
- Father TE Jones said...
There are some RC's who suggest converts can never be 'real'Catholics becuase they lack the lifetime formation, there are some Anglo-Catholics who contend that RC's can never be really English, because they don't recognise the Dunkirk spirit when it is slapping them in the face!
This is of course observation and might not reflect my own point of view!
- 12 July, 2008
- Little Black Sambo said...
Gengulphus, you are dead right. Do the kind Romans who talk of an Anglican use realize how few Catholics in the C of E would desire any such thing, with their contempt for "half-timbered" language and their impatience to imitate whatever is done at St Joseph's down the road?
- 12 July, 2008
- johnf said...
Fr Jones
You say that there are some RC's who suggest converts can never be real Catholics because they lack the lifetime formulation? Really? I've never met anyone who voiced that opinion. It could be argued that converts tend to be the better (i.e. more enthusiastic) Catholics because they know what they have missed.
Fr Hunwick in an earlier post said that there are Catholics who have a visceral hatred for Anglo Catholics - that also surprised me - a bit thunderstruck actually...
- 12 July, 2008
- Little Black Sambo said...
JohnF, you have only to read the comments posted on Damian Thompson's blog to see that what Fr Hunwicke said about visceral haters is true. There are some very kind and charitable commenters, but plenty of the other sort as well.
- 13 July, 2008
- The young fogey said...
1559, Father? That year sounds wrong. These sound more like the Six Articles IIRC during the (awful in some ways but definitely not Protestant) Henrician period. IIRC 1559 is when the religious lives of most English people substantially changed as the 1549 BCP obviously was still the Mass (so why the Catholic Anglican martyrs that year?) and nobody outside big cities like London used the Protestant 1552. In 1559 the Mass disappeared from the parishes and you had church in the round in the chancel/choir with a table set lengthwise down the aisle.
This statement of faith, which is very good, seems unlikely from the Anglican Church in the Elizabethan era.
English Catholic, the hope of Anglo-Catholics until recently was the Dutch touch, as an AC priest called it: thanks to Old Catholic bishops co-ordaining Anglicans since the 1930s the question of Anglican orders arguably was made irrelevant and so corporate reunion with Rome could happen.
gengulphus, yes, I've seen that. Men Father's age who turned on it all.
I like half-timbered language.
- 14 July, 2008
- William Tighe said...
When the first Elizabethan Parliament opened in January 1559, just after the Queen's coronation, it was plain which way the religious wind was blowing*, but given the uncertainty strength of the opposition to any breach with Rome which Parliamentary legislation would face, the Crown's ministers solicited reforming proposals from the Convocation of Canterbury, which responded in February with the five articles which Fr. Hunwicke has presented here. They were totally ignored, of course, even though they were formally presented to Lord Keeper Bacon, along with the concurrence in them by the academic convocations of both Cambridge and Oxford.
The definitive study* of the enactment of the Elizabethan Settlement and the accompanying Parliamentary debates and maneuverings is N. L. Jones' *Faith by Statute: the Parliament of 1559 and the Elizabethan Settlement* (London, 1981: Royal Historical Society). Jones shows how adroitly the Catholic bishops and their lay supporters in the House of Lords fought against the proposals, playing on doubts about whether a woman could be in any sense "head" of the church and on attachment to the Latin services on the part of many peers -- an opposition that the Crown was able to counter only by authorizing a further plunder of the Church's lands, thus detaching some of the more venal conservatives from the bishops, and by staging a rigged religious debate and, on the basis of some of the Catholic bishops' refusal to allow the Crown to set the terms of the debate, then place under house arrest and thus remove form the lords three of the most vocal Catholic bishops. But despite all this, while the Act of Supremacy passed by a five-vote margin in the Lords, the Act of Uniformity passed there by only two votes.
* Jones' book discredited the arguments advanced by J. E. Neale in a famous 1950 article that what Elizabeth desired in 1559 was a restoration of the 1549 Prayer Book, but was forced to accept a slightly moderated version of the 1552 BCP in order to please "proto-Puritan" sentiment oin the House of Commons. Between 1950 and 1980 a complete list of MPs in the 1559 House of Commons came to light, which showed that there were very few definite Protestants of any sort among the MPs, and so the effect of Jones' book was to restore the traditional view that the Queen got more or less what she wanted in 1559. Recently, however, Roger Bowers, a musicologist at Cambridge, has found clear evidence that in the early months of 1559 some of the services from the 1549 Prayer Book were in use in the Chapel Royal, and has subjected a letter from Edmund Guest (Bishop of Rochester from 1560 to 1571 and of Salisbury from 1571 to his death in 1579) to Sir William Cecil -- a letter that was supposed to come from 1552 and to be a description for Cecil of how the 1552 BCP differed from the 1549 one -- to close analysis, and has proved that the letter was actually a "cover letter" for a now lost revision of the 1549 BCP Communion Service to make that service minimally acceptable to English Protestant clerics and returning exiles; and so that it actually dates from early 1559 (see Bowers' "The Chapel Royal, the First Edwardian Prayer Book, and Elizabeth's Settlement of Religion, 1559," *Historical Journal,* 43:2 [2000], pp. 317-344). It may even have been the case that two rival Bills were introduced in the Commons in February 1559, one (the Government Bill) proposing a revision of 1549, another the restoration of 1552. The fact that the bishops and their allies in the Lords were able to eviscerate the Supremacy by allowing the Queen to take the title if she wished to do so but providing no means form her to enforce it, and to dash any proposal to alter the Latin services whatsoever, apparently caused the Queen to throw her lot in with the firm Protestants, and to take the drastic measures to undermine the opposition in the House of lords to which I alluded above.
- 15 July, 2008
- William Tighe said...
The fact that there were very few firm Protestants among the MPs in 1559 means that the proposed bill to restore the 1552 BCP instead of a modified 1549 (which, to judge from Guest's letter, provided two separate services, an "antecommunion" without the Sacrament for most Sundays and a separate "Lord's Supper" to follow on immediately on those occasions when it was to be celebrated) was probably "put up" by some of the Queen's own Privy Councillors, who did not dare to express their dissent form the Queen's desires openly, but maneuvered behind the scenes in the Commons to push events in a certain direction. It was a tactic later use again and again in the course of the reign (as in the matter of the fate of the Scots' Queen).
- 15 July, 2008
- Nebuly said...
William Tighe is most illuminating. My reading of the Bowers article was ( from memory ) that he presupposed a more radical Commons which favoured and introduced a pro 1552 Bill . The Tighe solution is fascinating.
Whatever, it would appear that Elizabeth produced living space for the more Catholic-minded Anglican. Would that her successor and namesake might see the renewal of an Elizabethan Settlement today
- 17 July, 2008
- William Tighe said...
"My reading of the Bowers article was ( from memory ) that he presupposed a more radical Commons which favoured and introduced a pro 1552 Bill."
You may be right about what Bowers' article presupposes, although he isn't very clear about this. Still, Jones' book is conclusive in demonstrating the non-exitence in the 1559 Commons of what Neale termed "the Puritan Choir" in later Parliaments. (Indeed, those of us "old Eltonians" who attended Sir Geoffrey's seminar in the late 70s and the 80s can recall lots of presentations along the lines of how many of the more effective [although rarely the more vocal] members of this "Puritan Choir" doubled as "men of business" for those Privy Councillors who sat in the Commons: aiding in the drafting of legislation, steering it past hurdles, and so forth -- such that what may appear at first sight as "opposition" to policies and measures supported by the Crown, upon further scrutiny often turn out to be evidence of factional squabbles within the Privy council, or else efforts to push the Queen in uncongenial directions.
The weakness of Jones' thesis (as I pointed out to him at the time) was that it fails to account for such things as the Latin Prayer Book of 1560 (with its restoration of such things as "Requiem Communions" and a rite of private absolution), the queen's effort in 1560 to compel the restoration of rood screens, anf her attempts initially to enforce the wearing of the full set of Catholic vestments, at least in the Chapel Royal, before she reluctantly settles for copes in her Chapel and surplices elsewhere. Bowers' hypothesis (whih I heard a couple of years ago from Diarmaid MacCulloch had been controverted, but I have not read any attempted refutations) has the advantage of making sense of these odds and ends, and at the same time of the final result.
- 17 July, 2008
- Nebuly said...
Yes, I have read assertions that he is wrong to attribute the musical settings as fresh composed for example. The thesis being that they simply got out their old stuff after the Marian interlude. However he does cite musical style and development against this thesis and also the age of some of the composers as being too young to have written in 1549.
For all her quirks I still think Elizabeth gave traditionalists room - and thus made possible the later emergence of Bancroft and the High Church Tradition
- 17 July, 2008


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Christian/religious statements that I believe are benefitted by slight amendments for the sake of accuracy and objectivity.
Please note: Throughout this video I'm NOT saying that there is no god, or that the bible is not the word of god, or that miracles don't happen, or that jesus didn't die for our sins etc. I'm simply saying that I believe you cannot be certain of this "knowledge". However we can be certain of natural human traits, behaviours and inclinations etc that could possibly inspire somebody to assert certainty when it is in fact difficult/impossible.
If you're a christian, how would you critique a muslim person that states they "KNOW" that the Koran is the word of god? How would it differ from the critique of christian beliefs in this video?
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1) "Feelings" are clearly fallible and open to error
2) Interpretations of text are clearly subjective and therefore also open to error, bias, influence (not to mention editing) etc etc
3) If it's because Jesus walked on water, were you there to see it? Or are you placing trust in fallible people who existed thousands of years ago that you've never met? Trust is NOT certainty.
4) If you did see Jesus walking on water, is it possible that it a trick that you were simply unable to work out, or was it an hallucination perhaps?
5) If you just "know" that god exists, is it impossible for you to have made a mistake? If not, why not?
If you disagree with the corrections I made in the video, can you explain why they're incorrect or inaccurate. If you can't, you don't have an argument.
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Damn it. Typo at the end *your* not *you're*. Sorry. Would you believe me if I told you that it was deliberate, simply a tool used to highlight the fallibility of man? :D
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