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Food4Thought : Protein Transition
- When
- 27-10-2022 from 18:00 to 21:00
- Where
- Campus Coupure Auditorium A1
- Language
- English
- Organizer
- Katleen Anthierens
- Contact
- email@example.com
Intercultural debate for students on Protein Transition
All food interested students at the Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University are invited to attend an intercultural and international debate concerning 'Protein Transition'.
This topic offers the students the opportunity to reflect, based on their kowledge and cultural background, upon innovation in the protein transition from animal proteins towards alternative proteins (e.g. insects, algae, microbes, plant based).
In certain countries there is ample experience with consumption of e.g. insects and algae, while in Europe we are still in an infant stage.
After an introduction to the topic, students will be divided in small groups to debate, after which the outcomes will be pitched in front of the audience.


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So how much is a modern mining magnate worth? Well it depends on what they really own. Consider Clive Palmer.
After an early career in real estate development on Queensland's Gold Coast, Palmer, who has today expressed political ambitions used much of his wealth as seed money to spread his tentacles into the rapidly expanding coal and iron ore mining sectors.
His timing was impeccable. Thermal coal prices spiked to unprecedented levels allowing miners to experience profit margins beyond their wildest expectations.
Instead of earning margins of $2 to $10 a tonne as they had for decades, coal miners were now earning margins of $50 to $100 a tonne which in turn increased asset values to levels rivalling well-established and brand name top 50 firms.
Similar ballooning values were observed in the iron ore sector. But Palmer was not the only investor to benefit from this escalation in asset values. Almost all firms and other visionary (or lucky) entrepreneurs who held valuable tenements, which included Aston Resources, New Hope Coal, Hancock Coal and Linc Energy realised huge capital gains from the sale of their mining rights. These incredible gains were derived from the right to explore and mine certain tenements, rather than as a result of any tangible mining activity.
Palmer carries the moniker in the media of mining magnate but strictly speaking, to earn this title one should really be involved in some form of mineral extraction. Palmer owns no mines. His only producing asset is Queensland Nickel, a nickel and cobalt refinery near Townsville that he picked up for a song from BHP Billiton in 2009.
BHP Billiton were happy to see the back of this asset after inheriting it from the Billiton merger, only to discover that production costs were twice initial estimates. Nickel prices have since improved and this is now profitable asset - but only just. His other assets may one day become producing mines but there are significant challenges to convert an empty paddock into an operating mine.
So the term mining magnate may be a little stretched. The same goes for Nathan Tinkler.
Palmer's own privately-held firm Mineralogy is the umbrella corporate entity through which all of his main interests are held. The company has secured access to several billion tonnes of iron ore reserves in the Pilbara Ranges as well as several billion tonnes of thermal coal in several tenements in Queensland. The cost viability of extracting these ores however is questionable.
Palmer's flagship coal venture at Alpha North and Alpha West in the Galilee basin comprise his great white hope of reaching true billionaire status. Unfortunately, these tenements are 500km from the coast and the quality of the resource is such that it will only suit Chinese and Indian buyers, who are not very reliable importers of thermal coal.
Around $6-8 billion will be needed to build a rail line and a deep water port, not to mention the mine itself, plus the costs and legal hurdles associated with regulatory approvals, environmental studies and land use compensation.
In an attempt to hasten his wealth trajectory Palmer launched the so-called China First Coal project, with him as the inaugural CEO. China First, underwritten by a consortium of banks with a Chinese bank as the lead, attempted to list on the Hong Kong Exchange.
This float was a thinly veiled pitch to the sentiments of Chinese investors seeking an easy entry to the global resources sector. The trouble with it was that the average Chinese investor is a shrewd judge of value.
Firstly, Chinese investors would want more than around 40% control of the company which Palmer was offering. Secondly expectations of the first shipment of coal in 2014 were extremely ambitious, bordering on ridiculous and most Chinese investors with experience in their own mining industry would easily spot the low probability of real positive cash flows for ten years or so.
Finally, what ultimately killed interest in the float was that there was considerable doubt about the management team; put simply, there isn't one. For an investment of this magnitude they would want an experienced miner at the helm.
While Palmer may be one of Australia's national living treasures, he has no operational mining credentials, especially in developing a mine producing 40 million tonnes annually, which would be one of the world's biggest mines.
At first glance the way Palmer positioned and marketed the China First vehicle made it attractive to Chinese businesses searching for profitable foreign assets. This created the initial interest. However once investors dug a little deeper, they found there wasn't a viable business model underlying the float. Understandably they left in droves.
As a result the China First project is now a stranded asset. It is located in a remote location with no corridor established for the rail line and no agreement by the State Government on port allocation at Abbott Point, already crowded by BHP Billiton and GVK/Hancock Coal. There is considerable doubt about the value of the asset. He might as well propose to mine passing asteroids, as some visionary yet fanciful executives have suggested is feasible.
So Palmer has one income-earning asset and a whole bunch of tenements offering nothing but promises of future wealth. Mineralogy and its subsidiaries reported net losses of $58.5 million in 2008-09, $29 million in 2009-10 and $11.4 million in 2010-11. It received a tax benefit of $874,599 in 2010-11, against revenues of $5.6 million, and paid $136,799 in tax the year before. It is difficult to criticise a company that pays no tax when it earns no real income and most of its costs are incurred by trying prove-up a large resource in a remote area.
These accounts highlight the difficulty of valuing Palmer's mineral deposits and therefore his personal wealth. Business Review Weekly listed Palmer's wealth at $5.05 billion, but America's Forbes magazine rates it at a more modest $US795 million. His true wealth probably lies somewhere between these extremes.
Palmer is a classic asset investor rather than a mining entrepreneur. While he has an uncanny ability to identify value, he appears to be frustrated that his assets would be worth a great deal more if they could be extracted. What adds to this frustration is the fact that Gina Rinehart's coal assets nearby have gained traction with the State Government and international buyers through some clever business structures and the appointment of a talented (albeit risky) management team.
So is Palmer a mining magnate or an asset investor? Either way, his wealth is trapped in stranded assets with little prospect of being rescued by sympathetic investors.

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A Wisconsin Yankee in Gray
The Tragic Untold Story of a Newspaper Editor From the Badger State in Hagerstown
By Stephen R. Bockmiller
The American Civil War. Brother against brother. Blue versus gray. The great American tragedy.
Over the course of those four years, about 750,000 Americans lost their lives. During the great battles thousands fell in a single day. But did you know that one of the very first battlefield fatalities of that terrible ordeal passed away in Hagerstown? And that he was a Union soldier? Yet, he wore a gray uniform?
But it's true. Hagerstown was a strategically important location for Union plans to advance into Virginia. Located in the middle of the Cumberland Valley, U.S. Route 11 – the "Valley Turnpike" – was a major artery for movement into Virginia. Also, Hagerstown was the southern terminus of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, which connected the city to Harrisburg, Pa. Throughout the war, the Hub City was an important quartermaster depot and hospital site for Union forces operating in the Shenandoah Valley.
After the nearly bloodless bombardment of Fort Sumter, in April 1861, President Lincoln called up 75,000 volunteers to "suppress the rebellion." Virginia – which previously had shown little interest in leaving the Union – seceded rather than participate in an invasion of another state. This placed Washington County on an unofficial national border drawn down the Virginia bank of the Potomac River.
The South had no national army, and the standing army of the United States was very small; only about 16,000 men. Militia (National Guard) units were loosely trained and were often led by local politicians. The eye appeal of uniforms designed on the latest military fashions was used to recruit members. As such, the Civil War started off very much as a "come as you are" affair. Uniformity existed only within local companies; and sometimes, not even then. When volunteers stepped forward, the states clothed their enrollees with whatever they had access to on short notice. This chaotic situation resulted in numerous "friendly fire" incidents at the first major battle of the war at Manassas ("Bull Run"). As the war progressed, the North settled on the traditional U.S. Army blue uniform color, while the South selected less expensive and easier to produce gray cloth.
The response to President Lincoln's call was swift. Among the first regiments to take the field was the 1st Wisconsin Infantry Regiment. It mustered in for 90 days' service at Milwaukee on April 27 – less than two weeks after the guns at Sumter fell silent. Company B, which was known as the "Milwaukee Union Rifles," reported for duty wearing Wisconsin militia regulation gray uniforms. Among the "non-coms" of Company B was 18-year-old Sgt. Warren Merrick Graham. When not performing his militia duties, he was a business reporter and typesetter for the Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. The regiment included several newspapermen among its ranks.
The regiment left for Harrisburg on June 9. When the U.S. arsenal and armory at Harpers Ferry was captured by Virginia militia under Col. Thomas Jackson (later the famous "Stonewall"), Lincoln's War Department assembled an opposing force at Hagerstown. Aging 70-year-old Maj. Gen. Robert Patterson was ordered to take command. He established his headquarters in the Hagerstown Female Seminary – a private school located on East Antietam Street. This site was later occupied by the Washington County Hospital until 2010.
The soldiers from the "Badger State" arrived in Hagerstown on June 16 and marched in review for Patterson and Maryland Governor Thomas Hicks. The men were assigned to a brigade commanded by Col. John Abercrombie; Patterson's nearly as elderly son-in-law. The Wisconsinites established a camp along Frederick Street, between the city and Funkstown. About this time, the Confederates at Harpers Ferry moved to the Winchester and Martinsburg area.
During their brief time in Hagerstown, Graham and other newsmen of the regiment decided to publish a four-page regimental newspaper they called the Camp Record. The first issue was published on June 27. Two days later, Patterson received word that the Confederates were moving down the valley toward Williamsport.
To this point, the "war" had been nearly bloodless. Throughout April, May and June, riots in Baltimore and St. Louis, and several small skirmishes around Virginia resulted in fewer than three dozen soldiers killed or mortally wounded in action on both sides.
Patterson's force, including the gray-clad Wisconsinites crossed the Potomac at Williamsport into "enemy territory" at 3 a.m. on July 2. Abercrombie's men marched five miles into Virginia, encountering token resistance along the way. But they encountered a substantial force of rebels along US 11, in the area between today's Hammond's Mill Road and Nipeville Road. The Wisconsin troops were at the head of the column, and the men of Company B fanned out in front as "skirmishers."
Like prior skirmishes, the casualties at the "Battle of Falling Waters" were light. Private Henry Kyd Douglas of Sharpsburg, who participated in the battle on the Confederate side, wrote later "It was only a little 'affair at Falling Waters,' as General Johnston called it, and few were hurt. To me it was of memorable importance; for there for the first time I heard the whiz of a musket ball and the shriek of a cannon shot. … Nothing came of it, but the war had made a beginning." Douglas went on to compile an amazing service record during the war, and was an attorney, judge, and National Guard officer in Hagerstown for three decades after the war. The "little affair" passed into history known as "the Battle of Falling Waters," or the "Battle of Hoke's Run" or "the Battle of Hainesville" depending on which officer's report or newspaper article you read.
Five men were killed in action between the two sides that day. Among these was Pvt. George Drake, the first Wisconsinite to die in the war. Five "badgers" were wounded – most were minor in nature. However, Graham received three wounds. Struck by two bullets, one entered his left leg below the knee, while the other passed through his lower left breast and lodged in his arm.
After advancing to Martinsburg, Patterson's little army returned to Maryland. Drake was buried in Riverview Cemetery in Williamsport. He was moved to Antietam National Cemetery after the war. Graham was taken to a stone house along the turnpike and army doctors cared for him there for several days. Around July 10, Graham was loaded in an omnibus for an agonizing trip to Hagerstown where he was admitted to the army hospital. The hospital operated from tents at two locations: behind the courthouse on South Jonathan Street (Summit Avenue) and on the grounds of the Hagerstown Academy on South Prospect Street.
When word reached Milwaukee, Warren's parents traveled to Hagerstown to oversee their son's care. He suffered with his wounds throughout the hot summer while his comrades continued to protect Union interests along the Potomac. But the 90-day enlistments of the first volunteers were drawing to a close. The bloodletting at Manassas caused their little battle at Falling Waters to fade quickly into the background as America came to the realization that the war would be neither short, nor bloodless.
On Aug. 14, the first responders – including the 1st Wisconsin – began returning home, to be replaced with fresh regiments. The army hospital at Hagerstown was broken up. It sheltered about 50 sick and wounded soldiers. Most of the patients were sent in ambulances to a new facility in Frederick. Graham and a few others too precarious to move were taken in by local residents and cared for by local doctors.
As his friends boarded trains to return to Milwaukee, Graham was moved to the home of Attilla McIlhenny and her widowed sister Elizabeth McIlhenny Griffith on East Washington Street. The sisters lived in one side of a duplex home on the north side of the street, two doors east of the Hagerstown Day School. The home no longer stands. With the aid of the sergeant's parents, care was provided by doctors J.C. Dorsey and Frederick Dorsey (his son).
But all attempts to treat Graham were in vain, and he passed away in the East Washington Street home on Aug. 26 – 54 days after Falling Waters. He was three weeks shy of his 19th birthday.
The bereaved parents returned with their son to Milwaukee. After a procession in Chicago led by newspapermen escorting the family when they changed trains, the Grahams arrived home on the 29th. The train was met in Milwaukee by his comrades in the 1st Regiment. They provided a military escort to the Graham home. The next day, the first public military funeral in Wisconsin history was held for Graham. Organized by the Chamber of Commerce, the procession of military, newspapermen, fire companies, and citizens escorted the remains from his home to services at the First Presbyterian Church and then to Forest Home Cemetery for interment. According to news accounts, thousands turned out for the ceremony.
For many years, the location of Graham's passing in the city of Hagerstown, Maryland has been engraved in stone over his Milwaukee grave. His was the first. With the nearly constant presence of military medical facilities in Hagerstown over the next four years, it would not be the last.
Graham's gray uniform is held in the collection of the Milwaukee Public Museum, and can be viewed there. For more information visit their website at www.mpm.edu and search "Graham."


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In support of the business community in Hong Kong, BIPO recently initiated a series of webinars aimed at driving greater awareness on the benefits of the Distance Business Programme (D-Biz).
Launched recently by the HKSAR Government under the Anti-Epidemic Fund, D-Biz provides funding support to local enterprises in Hong Kong, helping them continue their business operations and services during the pandemic through the adoption of IT solutions across 12 categories. These solutions range from online business, digital payment solutions, online / cloud-based human resources management systems to cybersecurity solutions.
Through the D-Biz Programme, BIPO will help businesses adopt online / cloud HRMS solutions to manage HR-related processes such as salary and expense reimbursement, attendance and leave, training, etc. Businesses that wish to continue implementing remote working and safe distancing measures for employees can also benefit from such online solutions.
"As a tech enabler, BIPO would like to lend our support to the business community in their digital transformation efforts", said Florence Mok, BIPO's Managing Director – North Asia. She added, "at the same time, we hope that such initiatives will help local enterprises remain operational as they prepare for the eventual business uptick."
The first of BIPO's webinars on D-Biz will run on 19 May (in Cantonese) and 21 May (in English), with more scheduled to follow over the coming months.
Established in 2010 and headquartered in Singapore, BIPO is a global payroll and people solutions provider. Our comprehensive total HR solutions include our Human Capital Management (HCM) suite, Global Payroll Outsourcing (GPO) and Employer of Record (EOR) service across 150+ global markets.
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"Dear pilgrims, we have a Mother, we have a Mother! Clinging to her like children, we live in the hope that rests on Jesus. As we heard in the second reading, "those who receive the abundance of the grace and the free gift of righteousness exercise dominion in life through the one man, Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:17). When Jesus ascended to heaven, he brought to the Heavenly Father our humanity, which he assumed in the womb of the Virgin Mary and will never forsake. Like an anchor, let us fix our hope on that humanity, seated in heaven at the right hand of the Father (cf. Eph 2:6). May this hope guide our lives! It is a hope that sustains us always, to our dying breath.
Confirmed in this hope, we have gathered here to give thanks for the countless graces bestowed over these past hundred years. All of them passed beneath the mantle of light that Our Lady has spread over the four corners of the earth, beginning with this land of Portugal, so rich in hope. We can take as our examples Saint Francisco and Saint Jacinta, whom the Virgin Mary introduced into the immense ocean of God's light and taught to adore him. That was the source of their strength in overcoming opposition and suffering. God's presence became constant in their lives, as is evident from their insistent prayers for sinners and their desire to remain ever near "the hidden Jesus" in the tabernacle."
— Homily of the Holy Father, Pope Francis
from the Mass of Canonization of Francisco and Jacinta Marto
On this blessed May 13th, the day of the first apparition of Our Lady in Fatima, I wish to remember some of the articles I have written on the topic on this website.
First of all, "Reclaiming Fatima," about how faithful Catholics should not allow Fatima to be weaponized against the Holy Father, but must also not fall on the opposite radicalism of criticizing Fatima for being so misused.
Also, this article about how Mary and Peter never stand in opposition, both pointing towards Jesus, whom they both love.
Finally, this article debunking the use of conspiracy theories based on the Third Secret in order to attack the Pope. I have written similar articles also for the apparitions of Akita and La Salette.
This May, let us follow Mary in true penitence, always within the Church and never against it. Let Mary be a source of hope and joy, not of contention against the Vicar of Christ. And let us follow the advice of our Holy Father, and dedicate this month to praying the rosary, especially in light of the health restrictions we are currently experiencing. Avé Maria.
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Pedro Gabriel, MD, is a Catholic layman and physician, born and residing in Portugal. He is a medical oncologist, currently employed in a Portuguese public hospital. A published writer of Catholic novels with a Tolkienite flavor, he is also a parish reader and a former catechist. He seeks to better understand the relationship of God and Man by putting the lens on the frailty of the human condition, be it physical and spiritual. He also wishes to provide a fresh perspective of current Church and World affairs from the point of view of a small western European country, highly secularized but also highly Catholic by tradition.


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With less than one month to go, the Sugar Grove Corn Boil Committee Is hard at work tying up loose ends to ensure that this, its 51st year, is better than ever, and they will accomplished this As always, admission and parking are free. Senior/handicapped parking is right in front of the school and there are shuttles to take visitors back and forth to the Corn Boil areas. Also, as part of the event, hormone therapy Scottsdale offers great rewards for new players that will visit their online casino. there will also be a kratom´booth waiting for you with free samples and telling people more about their products. You are also offered to play an online casino where you can win great rewards upon signup,
All I have to say is that kratom is the best thing that has happened to me since it helped me control my anxiety. Getting an event like this together is not easy, and kratom has given me the energy to keep up.
General festival hours are Thursday, July 26 from 5-10 pm; Friday, July 27 from 4-11 pm; Saturday, July 28 from 11 am-11 pm; and Sunday, July 29 from 11 am-6 pm,
Having added a 4th day to the festival, the Corn Boil opens at 5 pm on Thursday, July 26th and in addition to carnival rides and corn, food will also be available from Genoa Pizza. Unlimited ride wristband hours are 5 pm-10 pm.
Two movies will be shown and admission is free. The first will be G-rated Sing that will start at 5:30 p.m. The plot follows Dapper Koala Buster Moon who presided over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a bit of a scoundrel, he loves his theater above all and will do anything to persevere it. Facing the crumbling of his life's ambition, he takes one final chance to restore his fading jewel to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition. Five contestants emerge: a mouse, a timid elephant, a pig, a gorilla, and a punk-rock porcupine.
The second movie, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, rated PG-13 will start at 8:00 p.m. The plot follows four high school kids who discover an old video game console and are drawn into the game's jungle setting, becoming the adult characters they chose. They quickly discover that they must actually play Jumanji to survive the game. To beat the game and return to the real world, they'll have to go on the most dangerous adventure of their lives. They discover what Alan Parrish left 20 years ago, and change the way they think about themselves – or they'll be stuck in the game forever.
Popcorn and cotton candy will be for sale during movie times. The park closes at 10 pm.
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Drone Flown Into FireworksCan't wait to see what the FAA says about this one. (www.youtube.com) More...
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Very cool! perfect place for a drone.
Calling model aircraft "drones" is like calling every semi-automatic rifle an "assult rifle". All it does is stir the pot and get people all worked up over nothing.
It's hardly "nothing" if somebody is killed from a collision with one of these drones - which is very likely to happen sooner or later with the current lack of control.
Nobody got killed by one, and if the Helicopter had, it would have been his own fault... The tapes proved that he was the one who turned towards the quadcopter and not the other way around. Did you listen to the tape... If not, you need to before this kind of comment.
You are exactly right on that one...
Great video!
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The mistake was made "during the editing process" when incorrect footage of a 1988 incident was "mistakenly included". Bohemia was shocked at the blunder.
It seems videogamers aren't the only ones to suffer from not being able to distinguish what's virtual, and what's not. Oh the irony.
"The events featured in Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA were genuine but it would appear that during the editing process the correct clip of the 1988 incident was not selected and other footage was mistakenly included in the film by producers. This was an unfortunate case of human error for which we apologise," said ITV in a statement.
ArmA II developer Bohemia Interactive's CEO Marek Spanel was genuinely shocked that this mistake ever took place. "It is very weird to see our game used this way, especially considering the journalists were simply unable to tell difference between reality and game footage and described a short film clearly made using our game Arma II with what they call real IRA footage from 1988," exclaimed the studio boss.
"Our games offer great level of freedom to our users to create all kind of things but in this particular case, it is very misleading. At the moment we are gathering further information about the matter but I already had a chance to see the documentary and so far I am not sure how could they make such an obvious mistake," Spanel said at the time.
"On a somewhat more positive note, we consider this as a bizarre appreciation of the level of realism incorporated into our games." Can we expect ITV to tone down any programmes demeaning gamers for our 'inability to grasp reality' for now on? Probably not.


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More than 150 Recipes for Eating Close to Nature by Chef John Ash and James O. Fraioli
To eat wild foods, you needn't crawl through the forest or hunt your own game. Many of these foods are as close by as your local supermarket. COOKING WILD (Running Press; May 2016; $35 US/$45.50 CAN), by Chef John Ash and James O. Fraioli, takes a big view of "eating close to nature," including recipes and information on foraged and uncultivated foods as well as looking at the progeny of wild foods more conveniently found for sale alongside their conventional cousins.
Warm Dandelion Salad, Grilled Trout with Herbs and Pancetta, Fried Wild Rice, Spatchcooked Pine Chicken, Manhattan Clam Chowder, and Rhubarb Galette are only a few of the different tastes you will encounter in COOKING WILD. Uncultivated foods are better for the planet and your plate, so for best health—and best flavor!—go wild!
Increasingly, Americans are concerned about where their food comes from, how it's produced, packaged, and marketed. Heritage breeds, Paleo diets, farmers' markets, and environmental and climate concerns all point to increased interest in foods that are as natural and un-manipulated (read: healthy) as they can be. In this book, plants, seafood, meat, and birds are all covered in more than 150 recipes, and will serve as a historical, agricultural education for you and your kitchen.
"I think that this cookbook is the best cookbook ever written from vision to page to execution. The palate of this chef is absolutely incredible and the way he ensures that it turns out at home is a true gift that most food writers are never able to achieve. John Thomas Ash, this is one of my mom's favorite recipes!!! Thank you!" – Jennifer Bushman
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Chef John Ash is a two-time James Beard award-winning author, teacher, and restaurateur. He co-hosts a weekly food and wine radio talk show, The Good Food Hour, broadcast in Sonoma County, and teaches cooking classes at various cooking schools, including the Culinary Institute of America in St. Helena, California. His most recent book, Culinary Birds, won a James Beard Award for Best Single Subject Cookbook. He lives in Santa Rosa, California.
James O. Fraioli is an award-winning cookbook author and a 2014 James Beard Award Winner for Culinary Birds. He has 20 cookbooks to his credit, and has edited and contributed to dozens of food and wine magazines. He lives in Redmond, Washington.
Press Democrat: Father of Wine Country cuisine John Ash gets close to nature with 'Cooking Wild'
Here is an exciting article in the Press Democrat about my new book, "Cooking Wild" by Diane Peterson. The article includes a recipe and starts here … "John Ash of Santa Rosa, known as the "Father of Wine Country Cuisine" and one of the region's most renowned chefs, has always been a visionary, capturing the zeitgeist of his time while gazing presciently into the future.
"When he first opened his namesake restaurant, John Ash & Company, in Montgomery Village in 1980, it was one of the first in Northern California to focus on local, seasonal ingredients and to create dishes that complemented the wines being made in the region. Now, more than 35 years later, nearly all restaurant chefs worth their salt aspire to meet that high standard.
"As an international cooking teacher, Ash also educated a new generation of home cooks eager to eat more simply and more ethically, closer to the fresh flavors of the gardens and farms in their own back yards.
"Now the award-winning cookbook author has released his fifth tome, "Cooking Wild" (Running Press, $35), which feeds into several hot food trends, from Heritage breeds and the Paleo diet to the wildly popular foraging fad, best exemplified by Danish superstar chef René Redzepi of Noma restaurant in Copenhagen."
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When I lose things I ask God to help me find them. And He always does.
Case in point: Earlier this week I couldn't find my Bank of America zipper bank bag. In it I keep my booksigning cash, my booksigning pens and my Square credit card device.
After every booksigning event, the bag goes into the second drawer of the desk in the living room. That's where I've always kept it. But on this day when I opened the drawer it wasn't there.
Initially, I didn't panic. I looked in other places I thought it might be. The big plastic container that holds all my booksigning table stuff: tablecloth, book stands, poster, decorations, bags, etc.
When it wasn't there, I sifted through a few piles of new book-related things on the guest room bed. Nope.
Then I began in earnest searching through my desk, my file drawers, cabinets, every drawer and nook and cranny I could think I might have put it.
I've always been a bit of a flake but as I've aged my memory's gotten worse and I have been known to quite often hide things from myself. I always think I'm so clever and that I'll remember that I put that there. But I never do. And sometimes I space out entirely and stow things in completely inappropriate places.
But in this case, I had no clue what I'd done with that bag.
My husband joined in the search, even looking in my car and backtracking over where I'd already looked
Finally, I gave up. I could remember specifically the last time I'd seen the bag and why. Several weeks ago a neighbor wanted to use her charge card to buy a book. But after that incident…nothing.
So I did what I always do. I informed God I'd need His help to find it. "Please, God. I know it's here somewhere. Please help me find it." But I couldn't quite give up the search. I could almost hear him saying, "You either trust me or you don't." So I stopped looking. After checking just a couple more places…
My husband says, "You'll be at work this afternoon and you'll suddenly remember." Maybe so.
Before I left for work, though, I asked Bill if he'd looked in the glove compartment of my car. He hadn't. I went out to my car, opened the back door and searched under the driver's seat. And found the bag. With everything, including the cash, inside.
That's when I remembered meeting a friend who's doing some work for me and bringing some of my books along to display on the table in the café. (Free publicity, right?) And just in case someone wanted to buy a book, I'd put my booksigning money/charge card kit in my car in case I needed it. (I didn't.)
When I'm at home, I don't generally lock my car, even at night. And, because I'm a bit of a flake, sometimes I forget to lock it when I'm out and about. Why did I look in the back seat and reach under the front seat when I'd just mentioned the glove compartment? I'll give you three guesses.
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The man born Valentino Clemente Ludovico Garavani loves what he calls, charmingly, "beautiful thing." The term could apply to a beautifully set table (like the ones in his new food-and-entertaining book, At the Emperor's Table), a sweeping red gown, or even his pugs ("the best thing in the world, after human beings"). Valentino can't get enough beautiful things. Though he would like you to know that he didn't recently snap up a $9 million Diebenkorn, contrary to reports. And if it was his partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, who made that purchase? Well then, "he did without my approval," he said with a Ricky Ricardo–esque finger wag at Giammetti.
These and more revelations were on tap yesterday at the 92nd Street Y's Fashion Icons series, hosted by Fern Mallis. The designer weighed in on dressing Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis, why he loves the color red, and why you won't find him throwing an '80s party any time soon.
On being influenced by the movies:
When I saw the film Ziegfeld Follies with Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, and Lana Turner I was so enchanted about all those evening gowns, those sequins, those shiny things, then I realized my way was to do designs.
On dressing Elizabeth Taylor:
She came to my first show. The crowd was so enchanted to see Elizabeth Taylor that they'd wait for hours to see the collection. And finally, I said, "I promise you one gown. Choose what you like." And she chose the most expensive one.
On (unwittingly) designing Jackie O's wedding dress:
She had already ordered seven dresses from this [all-white] collection [in 1968]. And when all the magazines, they came out saying that she would marry Onassis, Women's Wear Daily was the first to call and to say, "We know you made the dress." The month after the wedding, we sold 30 pieces [of the same dress].
On Michelle Obama:
She has the most beautiful arms in the world.
He developed his love for red after a trip to the opera in Barcelona:
In the beginning I was a young guy enchanted about, to see all the lady of the evening. And I was really attracted by the bright color. And I said, "One day when I am going to be a designer with my own official house, I will put the red as a lucky color." And I always did.
On his least favorite color:
I'm not so enchanted when I saw in this street lots of people all dressed in black.
On his least favorite decade, the '80s:
I hated the dresses, with shoulders that didn't belong to the women. They were all terrible. The shoes, they were not good.
On his legendary parties:
I am lucky, lucky, lucky because I have lots of evenings with people that I would never dream about. But when they know that I am there, they come.
On his cameo in The Devil Wears Prada:
For me it was quite simple to do that scene, because I'm used to saying [his line], "Hello, how are you? You like the collection?" [Asked if Anna Wintour was upset that he appeared in the film, he said, "No, I don't think so."]
On whether he misses designing:
No. [With successors Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pier Paolo Piccioli], I know that the work is up to them, and they do very, very well. But you know, the way we used to work now is more difficult because life is changed; the people, they work in another way. They're still successful, like, no discussion about it. But what I did, what many of the colleagues of mine did, I cannot do this anymore.


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The turn of the day and the ups and downs of the world made large Khorasan into small pieces with new names: Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and .... Although Khorasan was fragmented and separated from Iran's motherland, But the Khorasani culture, which was part of a valuable Iranian culture, continued its life in the heart of the newly-named territories.
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Not available until the 25th . I've downloaded it already and interpreted that as meaning that it was going to be available...
Scheduled for 12:55 AM.....
Not available until the 25th . I've downloaded it already and interpreted that as meaning that it was going to be available...
They accidentally released it on XB1 though. People have been streaming it and all. But yeah, official release is on thw 25th.
Steam says it's releasing Monday, on the 24th.
But hell, if they've already released it on the XB1, accident or not, they should just go ahead and let everyone else have it. IT'S ONLY FAIR, FROM!
It goes live at 5 EST, folks! Get stoked!
Make that 6.
I'm getting stoked for having to go to sleep and playing tomorrow.
I can't really play it until Friday, so I feel you here. Though I will play it enough to run up to the entrance, and test out the new waters.
edit: That was, by and far, the easiest DLC to gain access to.
Don't know if I can say the same thing about the game itself. When I walked out onto the snowfield, the first thing I noticed were bloodstains...everywhere!
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LOL, apparently, if you bought the Deluxe Edition of the game back before release (like me), you're not getting the DLC. It's not downloading for me, and many other Deluxe preorderers reported the same problem. I wouldn't be able to play it now anyway, and they'll probably fix it soon, but still, this launch together with the XB1 fiasco is just ... facepalm
Apparently your problem was fixed pretty quick, Malleus. The Deluxe edition people only missed out of the launch by a couple of hours, which, yeah, kinda sucks, considering you paid more for the game at release than most, but it's not terrible.
Just in case anyone else runs into this issue, after I installed the DLC and warped to the (Cleansing Chapel) bonfire from the Firelink Shrine, the NPC wouldn't appear until I completely exited the game and restarted it again.
Anyway, didn't get to play it for too long yet but what I have played so far has been glorious. Just made it to the next bonfire (not counting the one at the entrance) after a couple of deaths and heart attacks along the way... The graphic overhaul of the icons and some other things is a nice touch as well.
I've played it for about half an hour. It's pretty awesome from what little I've seen, but I can't go any farther until this Friday, because I promised a friend I wouldn't play it until I could drag it over to his stupid house to play it on his big stupid TV.
Strange that there has been such little discussion about this DLC compared with the others. I thought that it was great (apart from the tedium of battling through the underground fly-beast hell hole, although it seemed quite short for some reason despite covering a large area. I think that this probably had a lot to do with the relatively short distances between bonfires though. The new enemy types were quite interesting -- although some, particularly the Followers and the Wolves (although very cool and great to be actually fighting something not undead), were a tad easy for a high level character -- with a few of these being quite challenging (e.g. Edward Scissor hands, I'm looking at you).
I had actually thought that I finished it a couple of weeks ago but played it again last week and discovered that I had actually missed the first boss completely. As a result, my route through the game was probably quite different to most people. After reading a warning message before the large bridge I presumed that it was going to collapse so went down the ladder instead and as a result ended up encountering the final boss first. While the first boss was a very cool fight, it wasn't particularly hard compared to some of the others in the game, although I did have help in the second half. The other boss was a little bit disappointing though I felt. Maybe I got lucky, but I managed to beat the duo on my first attempt. Once the human was taken care of I didn't have too many issues with the beast.
Technically, there's no first and second boss in the DLC, but a main one and an optional one. Your route was as valid as anyone else's. I crossed the bridge the first time I went there, but didn't occur to me to cut it down after I did everything else. Anyway, I didn't really like the bosses. The optional is just and NPC with the doggo, but at least the latter has an interesting moveset, and the main boss isn't too interesting either, plus the whole 'surprise, third phase!' thing only works exactly once, and after that it's an annoying grind to get to the third phase every time you die.
The DLC itself was quite fun though, I really liked the area and the new enemies were interesting too, even if some of them pissed me off the first time I fought them (like "Edward Scissor hands" as you called him, and his buddies ). The new weapons are a mixed bag - they're good design wise (and have unique weapon arts, which is nice), but the base movesets are disappointing for heavy weapons (you see the enemies do all these cool swings and moves, but when you equip them it's just 4 kinds of vertical slashes), and of course the best weapon among them is a curved sword. There's also the arena, which can be fun - I played a bunch of 3v3 for giggles, but it needs more maps to keep it interesting.
I liked the DLC too, but it was over quite quickly, and while I don't usually complain about games' length, in Dark Souls' case getting immersed in a big world is part of the appeal, so it fell a bit short in that sense. I also didn't understand the story at all; it didn't feel like it filled in any of the gaps from the main game but just made a bunch of oblique references to the Ariamas world from DS1. The final boss was fun, but I didn't have the patience to do it on my own and ended up summoning a small army to help me.
Thou art the Lord of Londor and have thine our subjects to guide", that I Started to get more curious about the connection between the DLC and the game. Sadly Yuria isn't around anymore so I can't see what new dialogue she has. I have done a small amount of searching for more info on the Lore and came across some interesting comments:
So Sister Friede, founder of the Sable Church of Londor and elder sister of Yuria, is working with Allfather Lloyd, supposed founder of the Way of White, whose Cathedral of the Deep became corrupted by Aldrich's followers and the Deep. Both institutions which, by the way, are heavily related to the Pilgrims of Londor, given Yuria's relationship to Yoel and all the Pilgrim statues we find in the Cathedral of the Deep. I had always thought the mural of the little animal found all along the walls of the Cathedral of the Deep was a cat or something, but now it seems pretty obvious that it's a sable, as in the animal. https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/...res_a_guide_i/
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Considering comments about the length of the DLC, I think I'll wait until the second one and buy them both in bulk so I have a decent amount of gameplay to go with.
That's what I'd suggest.
Don't get me wrong, the DLC wasn't terrible by any stretch of the word. The atmosphere was incredible, and it was fun to explore. It just didn't have the same oomph the previous Dark Souls DLCs had. It didn't do anything too new, or offer up any new twists to the storyline. It was just a little more Dark Souls 3.
Yeah, I don't doubt it's good, I just have too many games I need to play in my backlog right now.
It's so bad that I actually started a 2nd play-through of DS3 this week. I played DS3 in June/July. And now that I played this DLC it made me wanna go through it again. Still fun.
Honestly, I have quite a lot of games in there that I'm not really looking forward to play all that much, but I bought them for research purposes. I took advantage of the recent Halloween sale on Steam because I'm trying to write about horror game mechanics.


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(Video caption: A street performer in Rome does her act when the light is red, then collects from drivers and pedestrians.)
Wednesday, June 28, 2017: This was one of those days when you can believe that millions of people from all over the world decided to gather in specific cities to bump into each other. Not in the sense of serendipitously meeting one another but as in physically rubbing, brushing, colliding sweaty bodies against sweaty bodies at designated spots around those cities, at the Vatican Museum in Rome, for instance. Who knew there were so many art lovers and/or Catholics in the world that day after day they would wind up and down the street in a line of perspiring humans waiting to to see Laocoon and His Sons (one of my favs), Perseus with the Head of the Gorgon or Apollo Belvedere? And, of course, the Sistine Chapel, the cherry on top at the end of the tour.
The bumping into each other isn't confined to the line at the Vatican Museum. Any place with a Bernini statue or a mortared brick dating back 2,000 years or so can draw a U.N. General Assembly: American college kids, Japanese busloads, women in hijabs, women in revealing shorts and tops, well-dressed Romans coursing through the crowds to get to work or lunch, Africans selling selfie sticks, group leaders heading up lines of followers snaking through the throngs.
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"I could not have brought you here on a better day," she told us as rain started falling through the opening in the center of the roof (an oculus) and onto the drain in the marble floor.
Outside, the selfie-stick sellers were hawking umbrellas, and it was good to linger between the 40-foot columns holding up the vestibule roof before we made a dash to La Casa Del Caffe' Tazza d'Oro across the plaza for a granita di caffe, a delicious concoction of heavy cream, a coffee snow cone and whipped cream – not a calorie in it, of course!
Luigi, who worked the night desk at the Hotel Grifo, advised us to arrive at the Vatican Museum at 1:30, lunchtime, when the crowds thinned out. The plan was to grab a quick lunch and then head for the museum. "Grab a quick lunch" and a good restaurant in Rome are two things that don't go together. Quick lunch didn't fit in with the two things Cole wanted most from this trip with grand parents: to visit the Ferrari museum (more on that later) and eat lots of Italian food. We made good on that latter request at our lunch after we walked through the Piazza Navona with its famous Bernini statues and fountains. We ate, we lingered, we watched a young couple eat, snuggle, argue and then eat and snuggle some more (they packed away more food than the three of us did). We had pizza, we had pasta, we had dessert, we watched people running through the rain in the narrow street outside. We didn't get to the Vatican Museum until well after 1:30, and the lines were long and our patience short.
(Video caption: We did not get into the Vatican Museum but visited St. Peter's Square.)
We'll come tomorrow, we told each other, and stopped to get tickets. That's when we found out about the holiday for Saints Peter and Paul, the founder and protector of Christian Rome. The museum would be closed tomorrow for the feast day.
We had a fairly well-scripted itinerary for our two-week visit, and now we were going to see if we could change one piece of it without the whole thing collapsing. But that could be put off until tomorrow in our effort to fulfill Cole's food requirement, which we did with a scrumptious meal that night at Nonna Betta in the Jewish section of Rome. Highly recommend the restaurant and visiting the area.


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I like it when public health research on gun violence gets in the way of Gun Nation's continued effort to pretend that the only thing which stands between America and Armageddon is a good guy with a gun. So I think it's important now and again to highlight some recent gun violence scholarship, even though by including a handful of important articles I am forced to omit others that are of equal importance to the field. Feel free to download any of the articles mentioned here.
Article #1. "Lethal means access and assessment among suicidal emergency department patients" is a study of more than 1,300 emergency patients across the country who either reported suicide thoughts or actually attempted suicide in the week prior to their ED visit, of whom 11% reported having at least one, if not more than one gun in their home. Of the gun-owning suicidal patients, 22% considered using a gun as their chosen suicidal method, with only medication scoring higher among this group as the preferred way to bring their lives to an end. Among the emergency population that did not own guns, only 6% reported thoughts about using a gun to end their lives. Pills have a 5% success rate for suicide, with guns the death rate is 90%. Get it?
Article #2. "Firearm-related hospitalization and risk for subsequent violent injury, death, or crime perpetration" is a comparison of the frequency of hospitalization for victims of gun violence when compared with the population that is hospitalized for an injury not involving guns. The study looked at patient outcomes for more than 9,000 violent injuries and 68,000 non-violent injuries, of whom 680 were classified as FRH or firearm-related hospitalizations. And what was learned from this study, which was the first to look comprehensively at medical histories of patients shot with guns? "Hospitalization for a firearm-related injury is associated with a heightened risk for subsequent violent victimization
or crime perpetration." Gee, what a surprise.
Article #3. "Long-term mortality of patients surviving firearm violence" deals with the degree to which being injured by a gun increases the possibility of early death. What makes this study significant is that the researchers compared five-year outcomes following hospital discharge of 516 patients who sustained gun wounds, 992 vehicle accident injuries and 695 assaults where no gun was involved. What they found was that five-year, post-discharge mortality rates were significantly higher among gun assault victims and other assault victims as opposed to patients who were injured in accidents involving cars. But while the 5-year mortality rates for gun and non-gun assaults were similar, a greater proportion of the victims of gun assaults died within one year of their initial hospital release. Most of these early gun-injury deaths were – you guessed it – gun homicides. In other words, if someone leaves the hospital after getting shot, they have some unfinished business which usually ends up with them getting shot again.
Article #4. "Social networks and the risk of gunshot injury" goes beyond the usual epidemiological data that drives public health research and looks at group behaviors which influence gun violence on a community-wide scale. For this article the researchers studied two inner-city Boston neighborhoods with high rates of violent crime and utilized data from the Boston PD Field Intelligence Observation unit to construct the social networks linking the population which was most likely to be criminally involved with guns. What they found was that using standard demographic categories (income, race) to define a population as high-risk for gun violence was not as important as understanding how individuals were situated in social networks where gun violence frequently occurred.
Four studies, each of which fills important gaps in our knowledge about violence caused by guns. Four studies, which if it were up to Gun Nation would never be funded, would never see the light of day. Four studies, which whether we are talking about suicide, homicide, assault or combinations of all three, remind us again that you don't protect anyone from anything by walking around with a gun.


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If ever there was proof of a Fox News segment geared entirely toward attacking Democrats, rather than informing viewers, it was Greta Van Susteren's interview the other night with Newt Gingrich purporting to "explain" why Senator Mary Landrieu joined President Barack Obama in publicly criticizing Fox News.
Van Susteren began the interview by saying President Obama had recently "blasted" the network and then played a clip of Landrieu on the Senate floor saying that the discretionary budget "is not out of control despite what you hear on Fox News."
As a banner reading "BLAME FOX SYNDROME?" blared on the screen, Van Susteren opened the discussion by "asking," "So is this trend going to continue and what do they get out of it?" Later, Van Susteren said, "I don't understand... Why are they so terrified that they keep bringing up Fox News? …All of a sudden they come up with Fox News as being their big enemy."
It's astounding that Van Susteren wouldn't know why Democrats might think so, but assuming she really didn't, it's almost as astounding that she'd turn to Newt Gingrich and think he'd provide any kind of an unbiased answer.
With professorial smugness, Gingrich mansplained: that Fox represents the "real America" that Democrats fear. I wonder if that's the same "real America" that Fox kept telling us was going to elect Mitt Romney a few months ago.
If Van Susteren truly wanted to find out why Democrats are targeting Fox (assuming it really is a trend), she would have asked someone in a position to know – like, maybe a Democrat who agrees with the sentiments or a reporter who covers those Democrats - instead of a rank Republican partisan and former Fox opinionator like Gingrich.
I guess Sarah Palin was not available for her insights.
Don't flatter yourself, Greta. Fox news is the "enemy" in the same way that an especially problematic school bully threatens the district Superindendent. The way they're being dealt with is just as comparable.


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The Best Maple Roasted Carrots for Thanksgiving
Keep Thanksgiving simple with these hosting tips and a delicious vegetable dish. Tender and slightly sweet, these maple roasted carrots make the perfect side for simple Thanksgiving entertaining.
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Thanksgiving is a day for family. As a child we always went to our grandparents' homes for the big feast surrounded by a million cousins, eating delicious food, watching football, and playing dominoes. Making all or part of the Thanksgiving day feast is a big responsibility in my book. Growing up it was always handled by my grandmothers, aunts, and of course, my Martha Stewart level mom. As I've grown up I've stepped into the role of helping with Thanksgiving day preparations and while some aspects are intimidating, preparing for Thanksgiving as a host doesn't have to be scary!
Thanksgiving Preparation Tips
- Get your shopping done early. Did you know most turkeys take days to dethaw? They do. So beat the rush and get the bulk of your shopping done at least 3-5 days in advance. This will also ensure the produce and groceries aren't picked over by the time you get there.
- Keep decor simple. Just by adding a few natural fall touches, like fresh greenery (plucked from my yard and trees) and mini pumpkins the table feels festive, but not overdone. I placed my foliage in some vintage bottles spread over a vintage tea towel (similar)…classic, yet simple and the only cost was a couple dollars in mini pumpkins.
- Prep some dishes ahead of time. Desserts are an easy thing to make the day before, especially pies since it is better to give them time to set up than have them hot from the oven anyways. For my feast I decided to be gracious to myself and go with a like-homemade choice and use Marie Callender's Dessert Pie in the pumpkin flavor. It is so easy to just pop it in the oven and I had oodles of compliments on the flavor. I also grabbed a Marie Callender's Loaf Cake in the Dutch Apple flavor for some variety in the desserts. I have such a weak spot for sweets, but these were both delicious and a great option to prep ahead of time. The day before is also great for cutting veggies or cheeses for a snack tray and pre-making some side dishes as well.
- Ask for help. My mama often said, "Many hands make light work". Don't be afraid to ask friends or family to bring a dish, drink, or dessert for the meal. If I'm able to I always like to bring something and lighten the hostess' load so I assume others want to do the same. And be sure to enlist help for clean up too! If you are doing most of the cooking, you should be doing the least clean up, in my opinion. A simple, "hey, can you help with washing the large dishes?" or "I'd love it if you could put the leftovers into the fridge for me" will help communicate your expectations and NEED for help! You can't do it all, sister!
- Keep beverages simple. A few easy ideas are iced tea (sweet or unsweet), flavored water (just add some fresh lemon or lime and mint), and a simple wine option, like this Woodbridge Red Blend. It is rich and full-bodied with notes of blackberry, vanilla, and baking spices and should pair nicely with classic holiday dishes.
- Don't be intimidated by the turkey. I did quite a bit of online research and chatting with "the experts", aka my mom and a chef friend, and while there are a lot of steps, preparing the turkey wasn't as hard as I imagined. First off, I was ahead of the game thanks to my Butterball turkey. Butterball turkeys are all natural and the highest quality so you can be sure you are putting something that's going to be tender and juicy on the table. Plus they are the #1 brand of turkey in the USA! My whole turkey came infused with brine, pre-trussed, and with just a bag of innards and the turkey neck inside so it was super-easvy to prepare. It also came with really clear directions for prepping, roasting (you WILL need a big roasting pan!), and even cutting the bird! You can also call, text, or live chat Butterball's Turkey Talk-Line 1-800-BUTTERBALL (1-800-288-8372) for help anywhere during the process.
- Quick and easy sides for the win. While your traditional favorites like mashed potatoes and stuffing will always take a bit of time, I love a quick and simple side like this recipe for Maple Roasted Carrots. They are seriously delicious and are so easy to make it is ridiculous! Another healthy and easy side I love is Garlic Roasted Green Beans and mushrooms! So delicious!
You can't beat a simple side that is nutritious and one of the tastiest ways to eat vegetables! For this recipe you just need a few fresh ingredients. I assemble this dish all on the baking sheet so I'm dirtying less dishes too!
Recipe for Maple Roasted Carrots
Maple Roasted Carrots
Maple Roasted Carrots -The roasting process really brings out the sweet flavor of the carrots and the thyme adds great flavor in this easy side dish.
- 12-14 carrots sliced
- 2 Tablespoons olive oil
- 1 Tablespoon maple syrup
- ¼ cup fresh, chopped thyme
- Salt and pepper, to taste
- Preheat oven to 425. Place a sheet of aluminum foil on a baking sheet (standard cookie sheet). Slice carrots. Place carrots on prepared pan. Drizzle olive oil and maple syrup over the carrots. Top with thyme, salt and pepper. Lightly toss carrots until carrots are coated in oil and syrup and herbs and spices are well distributed. Place in oven for 25 minutes. Turn carrots halfway through for even cooking. Serve immediately. Garnish with fresh herbs if desired.
Nutrition Information:Yield: 4 Serving Size: 1 grams
Amount Per Serving: Unsaturated Fat: 0g
The roasting process really brings out the sweet flavor of the carrots and the thyme is such a nice complimentary flavor. Yum! These are seriously the best way to eat carrots! Using fresh herbs elevates this dish to "Thanksgiving level", but it is easy enough for everyday dinners too!
Be encouraged if you are a first time hostess or just being "allowed" to bring one dish for the first time that you absolutely CAN do it! Think simple and keep the focus on time with family and friends and you'll knock it out of the park!
How will you use these turkey day tips to make your Thanksgiving easier?!
If you are a hostess this Thanksgiving what is your top tip for a newbie?


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Since I posted previously about this topic, I've received not a hint of solidarity from any Orthodox Christians I know (save two friends I directly sought out feedback from), despite my site analytics telling me the post did at least make some minor rounds. The awkward silence can possibly be attributed to the fact that a majority of my Orthodox acquaintances, if not scandalized by the prospect of multiple Communion spoons, are more likely to remain quiet about the subject than to join the debate or "take sides". But the silence is thick in my corner of American Orthodoxy nevertheless, and makes one feel isolated. I also hate to think of my own venturing of comments on this topic as an act of "taking sides", per se, rather than a positive instructive impulse in response to friends who are encountering a spiritual stumbling block. Indeed, the thrust of my aforementioned post was nothing more than to say, "This isn't the stumbling block you thought it was. We're ok. You're ok. Breathe a little. Maybe get off the internet and quit listening to that pet podcast."
But as this is my first foray into publicly commenting on an Orthodox controversy, a sense of isolation gives way to a sense of self-consciousness. "Did I miss the mark on this? Should I have just kept silent as I have on other matters in the past?" Perhaps those are in fact separate questions, and to reemphasize my earlier point, I've only ventured commentary on this out of a desire to help calm the fears of personal friends who have felt scandalized by the prospect of temporarily departing from the common spoon. But I was nevertheless relieved and encouraged yesterday when I was made aware that my thoughts on this issue are in keeping with at least one archdiocese in the U.S. The OCA seems to be currently pacing the rest of American Orthodoxy on these issues, or at least the Diocese of the South is. I linked in my previous post to a document sent to their clergy a couple of weeks ago, in which a temporary, multi-spoon system is outlined and prescribed for parish priests to follow. The same diocese (my own, should I eventually decide to move my family into the OCA) has now released an illuminating and fantastic retort to the petition started by fledgling Orthodox podcaster and self-described priest, Peter Heers. The OCA letter, whose author is not named due to the contentious nature of the ongoing debate, makes many similar rhetorical points as in my own post on the subject, but in much greater depth and with a pastoral grace that I lack. The writer also minces no words about the person who seems to be at the forefront of online hand-wringing over multi-spoon methods of Communion distribution. Some excerpts:
Recently a priest whose canonical status is not easily discerned has posted videos trying to provoke schism and disobedience to the bishops' directives in the wake of the pandemic. In one of the recent videos he interviews a so-called "Elder" who repeatedly calls the pandemic a conspiracy of the Zionists, Kabbalists, and Masons, and cites highly suspect Internet stories as evidence.
I'm immensely encouraged that the OCA's official website is deigning to call out the brain virus that is the Orthodox Internet Underbelly. It's prophetic and it's needed, and in a sense it isn't surprising insofar as the OCA deals with a much higher percentage of American converts than do most other archdioceses. But I digress on that point.
The writer, who affirms that the Church does not believe one can get germs from the Eucharist, decries efforts to make scientifically absolute statements to this end, explaining thusly:
The precious Body and Blood of Christ, is instructive. In Great Lent, when preparing Communion for the Presanctified Liturgy, the priest must take care that the consecrated Lamb does not get moldy. Thus, he takes precautions to make sure it gets sufficient air to dry out. The consecrated Lamb which has become the Body of Christ and intincted with the Blood of Christ remains a physical reality of our world even as it is now not of this world. Likewise, on Holy Thursday or anytime the priest prepares the reserved sacrament for the sick that will be kept on the Holy Table, the priest is warned in the strongest of terms to be careful lest it be burned (one method for removing the moisture in the Lamb is to warm it on some sort of hot plate) or become moldy. These examples alone should suffice to purge our thinking of superstitious or magical notions about the Holy Mysteries.
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This is, in fact, the great marvel of Holy Communion, that the risen Son of God seated at the right hand of the Father in Heaven deigns to become food! As we sing on Holy Saturday, He comes "to give himself as food to the faithful." Brothers and sisters, superstitious thinking leading to condemnation and charges of heresy needs to stop. Taken to extremes, as is happening with some, it leads to dangerous false teachings.
And finally, the spoon:
Many people, particularly online, are now in a huff about practices concerning cleaning or even replacing the spoon. The use of a spoon for Holy Communion is approximately 1000 years old. That means, prior to that, there was no Communion spoon. I will not take time to go into the more ancient practices for receiving Holy Communion, I will only say that to make a dogma out of the spoon is wrong. One critic online insisted on the use of only one spoon (as opposed to multiple spoons) because there is only one Eucharist, one Christ, etc. But is she not aware that almost all of us have communed in a Liturgy at which there were multiple chalices (and, therefore, multiple spoons)? When I visited Moscow last year there were multiple chalices on the Holy Table even at the consecration of the Gifts. When there are hundreds of communicants practical necessity requires the use of several chalices and spoons, along with several priests to administer Communion.
The writer then issues a caution and a charge that we may be in danger of a sort of schism like one that occurred in Russia a few centuries ago, but with much less of a basis for it:
Brothers and sisters, there is real danger of another sort of Old Believer schism affecting the Church today as it did in Russia a few hundred years ago when people refused to accept changes to the service books and some of the practices of the faithful even when it became clear that the old ways were mistaken. At that time the corrections were often introduced heavy-handedly, but that is not the case in our situation, where the bishops have considerately and in the face of a serious health crisis introduced temporary changes, changes which in no way affect the dogmas or teachings of our Faith.
The writer concludes with a sober plea that Orthodox Christians not allow themselves to be appetized by the scandal-hungry corners of the Orthodox internet "that trade in conspiracies, fear, hatred and anger, ultimately leading to schism and the loss of faith."
I'm so thankful for the writer allowing his pastoral letter to receive wider circulation, I'm thankful for Bishop Alexander of the OCA's Diocese of the South for seeing the wisdom in it, and I'm thankful to the OCA for being in a level of one accord that would allow a letter of such immediate prophetic importance to receive speedy inclusion on the archdiocese's website.
I remain hopeful and prayerful that the current uproar is, like virtually all internet uproars, a transient one.
May the Lord give each of us mercy for ourselves and for each other, and may He give us the grace to recognize where internet vigilance should end and Christian prudence and humility should begin. ☦
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In the new Offshore Wind Sector Deal, the UK government defines a clear target to employ at least 33% women in the offshore wind workforce by 2030.
The Energy and Clean Growth Minister Claire Perry outlines the deal. The proposal, in numbers…
– Achieve at least 33% women in the total offshore wind workforce by 2030, from 16% today. With the ambition of reaching 40%.
– Grow highly-skilled jobs to 27,000 by 2030 through a new skills package for offshore wind employees, up from 7,200 today.
– More than triple UK offshore wind capacity from 8GW today to over 30GW by 2030.
The target amounts to almost 2,000 new jobs per year over the next decade, and an 8X increase in female headcount to 9,000 in 2030.
The challenges and solutions of growth
It's encouraging that government is getting behind the expansion of both offshore wind and the number of women working in the sector, by cementing the initiative into strategy. It ultimately means greater support and funding.
However, it's challenging to realise the ambition, especially amongst the economic and political uncertainty of Brexit, both now and in the future.
Addressing the skills shortage to secure the talent pipeline by increasing cultural diversity and the female percentage participation rate will take a multi-faceted approach. Taylor Hopkinson is deeply rooted in the business of renewable energy talent, we are facing these challenges currently with the global offshore wind expansion and we are already working on potential solutions to the risk of constraints on the human resource supply chain.
Industry mapping
One simple solution we executed is to talent map other industries that align with specific talent pinch points on the offshore wind development lifecycle. Offshore oil and gas, shipping and marine infrastructure provided some transferable skill sets. However, this is not a sustainable solution as those industries share the same challenges and compete fiercely to retain talent. It just moves the problem.
What we need is genuine value creation by attracting and fostering new talent. We need to grow the size of the pie instead of fighting over the slices.
Multicultural, multilingual, and gender diversity
In our own business, we would not have achieved our global growth without a multilingual, multicultural ethos. A company thrives on diversity. A diverse culture creates more robust decision-making processes that reduce cultural barriers and draw new talent pools.
Diverse shortlists
We have always encouraged diversity in our client shortlists where possible and we have recently worked with companies that have requested all-women shortlists as a proactive measure to address the imbalance and grow stronger by increasing gender-diversity. By encouraging diversity in culture it can bring significant value by opening up new networks and access to larger talent pools in more populated regions such as Asia.
Fostering diversity in shortlists and opening career opportunities at the leadership level acts like a magnet, attracting others into that industry who are inspired to follow.
WeBridge and community
To build on this further Taylor Hopkinson are the founding sponsor of WeBridge, a collaboration to foster diversity and tackle the challenges in sustainable infrastructure and renewables. WeBridge launched in 2019 with a series of discussions and networking events in London and Paris. The aim is to provide a neutral and independent forum that serves as a catalyst to address the big questions and feed the solutions back into the industry.
Offshore Energy Passports
In terms of action, The UK plans to
- increase apprenticeships
- work with educational institutions to develop the newly-skilled workforce
- and introduce a system of internationally-recognised "Offshore Energy Passports".
The passports will allow skilled and scarce talent in the energy sectors to work seamlessly overseas. In theory, this will help mobilise the skills and knowledge from the UK's more mature wind industry to emerging markets in Asia and the US, leading to export opportunities and UK PLC capitalising on our world-leading position.
However, the wording on Offshore Energy Passports suggests that the aim is not only to add 20,000 new jobs in the UK but to supply other regions too.
We need to encourage the import side too and attract overseas talent to the UK. As discussed above, attracting individuals from other regions compounds to draw their existing network to operate underneath and alongside them, providing the much-needed pipeline for long-term sustainable growth. We need a global effort.
2030 – A Global Effort
2030 is a watershed year for renewable energy and is a focal point for curtailing climate change.
The EU is targetting a cut in carbon emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030. The IPCC Special Report (October 2018) 'on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels…' underscored the "rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society" required by 2030.
Now the UK is setting out an ambitious intent to "become a global leader in renewables with more investment potential than any other country in the world as part of the modern Industrial Strategy".
We welcome the forward planning and support for renewables. It's incumbent on everyone – government, industry, and citizens – to work through the fine details and realise the 2030 targets.