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Here's the first of more than 5,600 comments we saw this morning when we went to Texas Gov. Rick Perry's Facebook page and opened up a post on his wall thanking those who supported his bid for the Republican presidential nomination:
"Governor Perry, I am experiencing mid-cycle cramping. Is this a punishment from god for not getting pregnant this month?"
That question seems to have since disappeared, but the message gives you a sense of what's been happening for several days on Perry's Facebook wall. As The Washington Post's She The People blog says, many women are "facetiously seeking advice on their menstrual periods" from the governor, "since he's styled himself as an expert on women's health."
And it's an organized protest over Perry's desire to cut government funds that go to Planned Parenthood.
Perry spokeswoman Catherine Frazier tells the Dallas Morning News that "there is no place for such inappropriate comments, which do nothing to advance the important discussion about issues surrounding the Women's Health Program. It's clear many of these individuals are basing their remarks on something other than the facts — Gov. Perry is proud of his efforts to keep this program going with or without the federal government."
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Here's the official statement from Mizzou. here's the money line:
Financial details of Anderson's seven-year deal will be released at a later date upon complete execution of the contract.I read that to mean, he hasn't signed anything. So, he could STILL end up at Memphis if they offer $3 million a year as rumored. He's just not coming here.
UPDATE 3: KC Star lists what Big 12 coaches make. If you're wondering, Anderson's rumored offer in SEC terms would put him third behind Calipari's offer and Donovan. Pearl would be fourth at $1.6 million.
UPDATE 2: Towers talked with Jimmy Sexton, Anderson's agent. Sexton says no offer from UGA yet. Sexton is legendary at working over all parties in situations like this. He's an artist. This is his true medium.
UPDATE: I desperately want Anderson, and I'm not sure we can get him if Memphis throws a staggering offer at him. But I'll say this. Anyone that doesn't think UGA is serious about putting a winning product on the court after we offer more than $2 million a year for a b-ball coach has their head lodged squarely in their rectum. The rumored six year $14 million offer to Anderson would be roughly the equivalent aggregate salary that we've paid all our head basketball coaches for the past 30-35 years combined.


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TONOPAH, Nev. – A moderate earthquake and a trio of smaller aftershocks have struck in rural Nevada near the California state line. The U.S. Geological Survey says the 5.1-magnitude earthquake hit at 4:10 p.m. Tuesday.
It was centered 45 miles west of Tonopah, about 200 miles south of Reno and 17 miles south of Mina.
The Nevada Seismological Lab at the University of Nevada, Reno says three aftershocks followed of magnitudes 3.1, 3.3 and 3.7. The last came at 4:49 p.m. 25 miles south of Mina.
Ellen Hall-Patton, a student seismological analyst at the Reno lab, said all were centered near the same area.
A Nye County sheriff's dispatcher said she felt the earthquake in Tonopah but there were no damage reports.
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Dog Poet Transmitting.......
May your noses always be cold and wet.
Is it Origami time again? Why, I guess it is. Things have mellowed out considerably here, although my sense of detachment continues. I'm in a state of suspension, like a piece of fruit in a Jell-O mold; interesting image, that. It's true though. I feel a sense of apartness from everything around me, as if I were watching a movie, alone in a dark theater. It's what passes for real life, up there on the screen but, try as I might, I cannot escape into the screen and become a part of the action I am watching. I am consistently aware that I am sitting there in the theater.
It all goes back to my kundalini experience. Prior to that, I still never felt like I was enough of a part of things to get lost in them but there were periods where I could integrate for brief periods of time and I'll admit, it wasn't unpleasant. However, after the kundalini experience, I've just been outside of it all. People would engage me in conversations about esoteric things and all I ever heard was their adaptation of whatever they wanted to believe was true, insofar as it supported whatever they wanted to believe, to the extent that it supported what they wanted to do or to get. I watched people adjust their philosophies and points of view, so that whatever it was that they imagined the cosmos to be, it was a willing foundation for all of their speech and actions. I don't want to sound cynical, it's just how it always looked to me. This was echoed in whatever my invisible friends would tell me, in the process of my observation and listening.
Back in the day, when so many transformative things were happening, there was a willingness and a risk taking among so many people that I knew. It was that window of youth, where you think you are going to live forever and there's no long residue of the past to drag you down, or demand your regular attention to contemplate all that happened, or that you thought happened. No serious ties that bind were yet in place, except for maybe the blood ties of family. That's one of the things that happened to me when the kundalini experience went down. All of a sudden my family was no longer my family. My father was no longer my father, my mother was no longer my mother, my brothers and my sister no longer that either. The totality of humanity replaced that and those roles were filled by anyone that I was around.
Prior to the experience, I had an identity; a composite of ideas about myself and who I was. As the force rose inside of me, the first thing it did was to suck that identity right out of me. I was no one. I went upstairs to the bathroom and looked into the mirror and I saw face after face, from many periods of time pass over my features. From that time on, I felt the features of whoever I was with come into the mental image of my face in my mind. It still happens. That has never changed. It's been a major protection many times because there are no filters between me and whoever's company I am in. The exceptions have been when things were hidden from me for the purpose of demonstration. You can't have lessons imposed on you if you see them coming (grin).
My life has been a relentless struggle to the point of the moment I presently occupy and resident within it, is the prospect of not knowing where I am going to be in the none too distant future. The mind wants to spend a lot of time on this, accomplishing Jack Nothing. This is what the mind likes, chasing it's own tale round and round in circles because it loves to be the center of attention. It can only achieve this by never getting to the point, which resolves and dissolves it, so that it can actually become a functioning asset instead of an implacable liability; solve et coagula.
The mind is a rapacious beast or the seat of angels. They don't come around in the former and lacking the former, there is only the latter. The latter is the destiny of perseverance. The former is the essential origin of suffering.
I've had serious ups and downs, far more threatening and occasionally devastating than anything I face now but the mind and the heart are always most deeply engaged in the concerns of the present, regardless of how they stack up against anything that might have been present in the past. In every situation, I have always been looked out for and it has always worked out and it has always progressed into a better state than it was prior to. This I know as a result of simple reflection. The mind doesn't want to cooperate in respect of this because it takes away from the mind's power to orchestrate attachments and emotional responses to whatever it is overemphasizing.
Why am I talking about these things today? I've been getting a constant influx of emails from people going through intense changes and desperate circumstances. Various levels of darkness, despair and uncertainty are presenting themselves in the lives of many readers. I'll mention here what I tell everyone in different ways. Evil is being forced outward into manifestation, from the hearts and minds of those who harbor it. Meanwhile the good is being pressed out of the hearts and minds of those who harbor it and these people are being tried and tempered in a crucible of fire. If you could see the actual happenings from an objective and apart perspective, you wouldn't have it any other way. Unfortunately, in most cases, we can't see the end point from the point we are momentarily occupying. This makes us insecure. "Why is this happening to me? I'm a good person. I worked so hard. I don't do bad things". That's your opinion (grin).
Seriously, it's not about whether you are a good or bad person, or think you are. It goes further and deeper than that. It's about the desired results in the mind of the cosmos. Let us think of ourselves as a metal pot or a musical instrument. Some pots are simple in function and design and do not require painful and complex processes to come to completion, in order to be sufficient to the task that is set for them. Some containers are more multifarious and require complex and torturous steps to get them to the final state.
Some musical instruments demand sophisticated bending and shaping of the wood or metal. From these instruments a vast range of subtleties and sounds can be brought forth. Some instruments are quite simple and the range of notes of which they are capable is limited and often, so is the quality and depth of the voicing. That is how it is with human beings as well. We are not all the same, no matter what anyone tells you. There is a perspective from which this assumption can be made but even that is not what people think it is ...because people are thinking and you definitely can't see it from the position of thinking. As I've said before, the spirit of the cosmos sings through everyone but sometimes it carries a tune.
Getting all bent out of shape by the things you are seeing and going through, has zero impact on the positively transformative side of the equation, if anything, it retards your progress. We run hither and yon, bemoaning all the doors we seek to have opened and which remain closed to us. The simple truth is that we are holding those doors closed and so long as we are leaning on the doors, they will not open. We don't believe we are doing this. The fact is that we must be doing it because otherwise those doors would open.
We bemoan that we cannot perform certain actions, or that we are creatively blocked and can't get into the strategic posture, where the water just flows without interruption. Yet we do not trouble to go to the particular agent of that activity or state and make the sincere request that will draw the entity to our side and succor. The universe is far more efficient and complex than the finest Swiss watch that was ever made and- unlike that watch-, it's conscious. It knows what you want and what you are up to. The problem is that a particular back and forth of communication is not taking place. Instead there is a one sided argument and that argument goes on day and night. That argument has been going on for so long that most people are unaware that it is even taking place. One has to sink beneath the level at which the argument is taking place and the argument will dissolve and cease to be. It is like finally being able to operate outside the realm of personality, at which point you cease to be in conflict with anyone else. It is only on that level where conflict takes place in the first place.
If you want to understand why you are being put through all of this painful stuff... it is in order to assist in extricating you from the place where all of these things happen. Why you are having no success with it is because you are trying to accomplish it on your own. You can't. That's not your job. Your job is not to interfere with the one whose job it actually is.
End Transmission.......
'Where You Are' is track no. 6 of 12 on Visible's 2007 album 'Color Ball'
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I have a 10 yr old who loves tennis and is a natural athlete. He has been learning from a local pro (he likes his coach a lot) for a year and a half. He is doing very well except that despite all the emphasis on follow through, footwork, closed stance etc he just prefers open stance and topspin. Having read a lot of comments on MTM I bot the dvds and book yesterday and decided to let him try it. Since his spring break is coming in March and the family is planning a vacation at a warm place (we live in NJ), I wonder whether we can send him to a tennis camp while we vacation. Does anyone know of such a camp that teaches MTM?


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Zinny Jane is owned by mother of four, Molly, and she runs her business with her mother, Audra. They got the name of their shop from a combination of names in their family. They sell vintage and handmade items-mostly wool covers and baby hats, but they also have some adorable embroidered onesies, baby clothes, and some vintage items. They also have the most adorable sock monkey wool cover for sale!
Both Audra and Molly make items for the shop-Audra is the main knitter, and Molly does a little of everything, from crocheting to sewing. They started their business after Audra began knitting soakers, and they decided they would be something fun to share with others!
And I must say, I love it! The tie-dye pattern is so fun-the colors are really bright. And the fit of this soaker is fantastic. It's quite trim and thin, so it fits great under clothes without being bulky.
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I was a little worried because it is so thin, that it would leak, but, I was definitely proven wrong. We have used this during the day, quite often during naps, and a few times overnight with ZERO leaks. It's pretty great.
I absolutely love the look of this soaker. As a knitter myself (although not as talented as Audra and Molly!), I can really appreciate the work that went into it. The stitches are perfect, and there's a lot of little details added into the soaker. It's obvious that these are made by someone who's paying attention to every little detail.
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The rise is nice and high-I'm thinking you could fold it over, but I usually keep it up, just to make sure the diaper underneath never peeks out. The leg openings are nice and stretchy. There's a little bit of gaping, but has never caused an issue since there's always a diaper underneath.
Overall, it's just a great, trim, fit.
All in all, I think this is a wonderful cover! I love how trim it is and what a great fit we get in this cover. I've also been extremely happy with how well this cover works! We use this mostly as a daytime/naptime cover because it's so trim, but it's also worked overnight with no issues. And on top of all this-it's really cute!
Molly has offered one lucky winner a custom soaker, so be sure to enter below!! And be sure to check out her facebook page, and her etsy shop to see all the other adorable items she has for sale.
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Sunday, June 27, 2010
Curried Cream of Cauliflower and Apple Soup
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...We had guests for dinner last evening and I wanted to share the lovely soup we had to start the meal with you. It is French in origin, and has a highfalutin name that makes it sound more formal and pretentious than it actually is. I do, however, work on the theory, that those who know a language are entitled to use the name with which they are most familiar. Lovers of France and the French language call this potage, Soupe Crème de Choux-Fleurs et Pomme au Curry. Those of us who lack the requisite language skills will call it Curried Cream of Cauliflower and Apple Soup. Julia Child would have loved this recipe. It's based on one developed by Daniel Boulud and I think you'll love it too. It's actually easier to make than any of Julia's recipes and were you to eliminate the garnish, the soup is no harder to make than good old tomato soup. Really. Our local farmer's markets have shelves bending under the weight of cauliflower and it's also being tucked into CSA boxes. This is a wonderful way to use it up. The recipe has been developed to provide six servings and uses a cup of heavy cream. None of you need my permission to swap light for heavy cream. It changes the texture of the soup but it is still lovely. The recipe can also be doubled if you have a gang to feed. When I make the soup for family I omit the garnish, but I do use it when we have guests around the table. I use saffron when we have the queen to dinner. Those of you who try this are in for a sweet and spicy treat. It's smooth and creamy, and, like most cream soups, can be made well in advance of serving. Here's the recipe.
Curried Cream of Cauliflower and Apple Soup...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite, inspired by Daniel Boulud
4 cups chicken stock
1-1/2 tablespoons sweet butter
1 cup chopped onions
2 teaspoons curry powder
Optional: 1/2 teaspoon saffron threads or 2 pinches saffron powder
1 cup tart apples, such as Granny Smiths or Golden Delicious, peeled, split, cored and sliced
4 cups cauliflower (about 1 medium head), greens and stem discarded, head broken up
into small florets
1 cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon chives, minced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
Curried Apple Garnish
1 cup Golden Delicious apple, peeled, split, cored, cut in 1/4 inch dice
1 teaspoon curry powder
Optional: 1/4 teaspoon saffron threads or 1 pinch saffron powder
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
1) For soup: Warm chicken stock over medium heat. Melt butter in a heavy bottomed pot over medium-low heat. Add onions, curry powder, and saffron and cook for 2 minutes, stirring often. Add sliced apple and cook for another 5 minutes, stirring often. Add cauliflower and warm chicken stock and bring to a boil. Boil until cauliflower is tender when pierced with a knife, approximately 20 minutes. Add cream and cook for 3 more minutes. Salt and pepper to taste. Transfer soup in batches to a blender or food processor and purée at high speed until very smooth. Strain through a fine sieve. Keep warm until ready to serve or refrigerate when cool and reheat just before serving.
2) For garnish: Place diced apples with 1 tablespoon of water in a pan over medium heat. Add the curry powder, saffron, and salt and pepper to taste. Mix well, cover with a lid, and cook for 3 minutes over medium heat. Strain and keep warm.
3) To serve: Ladle soup into warm soup bowls or cups. Sprinkle garnish over top. Yield: 4 to 6 servings.
You might also like these recipes:
Yellow Cauliflower - One Perfect Bite
Gobi Manchurian - One Perfect Bite
Roasted Spicy Cauliflower - Kalyn's Kitchen
A Tale of Two Cauliflower Soups - Becks and Posh
Cauliflower Soup - Annie Blogs
Simple Cauliflower Soup - Simply Recipes
62 comments :
- Ren- Lady Of The Arts said...
oh yum- I love the name and love the combination- I just returned from the Chinese market and had cauliflower in my hand- alas I didn't buy it but I noticed the same thing- There is a lot in season- Thanks for sharing-
- June 27, 2010 at 12:56 AM
- Devaki said...
How wonderful Mary! The combination of flavors is so every French and so very creamy.
Gorgeous soup to serve at a dinner party for sure!
Ciao,Devaki @ weavethousandflavors - June 27, 2010 at 1:04 AM
- Monet said...
I eat cauliflower and apples every single day, so it was lovely to see them combined in a creamy soup. I would love to dip some slices of toast into this creation.
- June 27, 2010 at 1:08 AM
- Unknown said...
I've made cauliflower soup before and it always tastes great. I'll have to try this one next time, it sounds nice.
- June 27, 2010 at 1:24 AM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
Will add apples to my cauliflower soup next time.
- June 27, 2010 at 3:23 AM
- Umm Mymoonah said...
Wow! A very comforting soup, looks so rich and creamy.
- June 27, 2010 at 3:24 AM
- ♥Sugar♥Plum♥Fairy♥ said...
SOmething different...something delicious....something super ...something good...this and more i always find at ur blog Mary!!!
Have a wonderful Sunday!!! - June 27, 2010 at 3:41 AM
- Alessandra said...
Ciao Mary, how are you?
I have been trying to catch up with your entries, but we are on the move again, so sorry for not writing much.
This sound really interesting good idea to pair apples with cauli!
Have a good day
Alessandra - June 27, 2010 at 5:37 AM
- FOODESSA said...
I like the fact that this soup can be prepared ahead of time. I may even try it with a purple cauliflower...that should jazz it up even more...what do you think Mary ;o)
Have a great Sunday,
Claudia - June 27, 2010 at 5:53 AM
- Diane said...
This sounds an exceptional soup and even better that it can be prepared in advance. Yum Yum. Have a ggod day. Diane
- June 27, 2010 at 6:05 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
This is so elegant - I enjoy the sweetness that apple adds to soup, and the combination with cauliflower is perfect - a French classic!
- June 27, 2010 at 6:31 AM
- From the Kitchen said...
Call it whatever you like, it is beautiful and sounds delicious.
By the way, I use saffron when the queen comes to dinner too!
Bonnie - June 27, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- Ana Powell said...
Lucky guests.
Gorgeous and delicate soup, very delicious too ♥ - June 27, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- Carolyn said...
Oooh, perfect soup for a diabetic, I am bookmarking this one!
- June 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM
- Deana Sidney said...
We are still some time away from cauliflower here... I always think of it as a September vegetable.. but I look forward to using this recipe then... I love the flavors and you are right, it is simple and you get so much flavor for your effort, Thanks, Mary!
- June 27, 2010 at 7:24 AM
- Allie and Pattie said...
Mary, this looks fabulous! I have cauliflower I was planning to roast today, but change of plans now! Thanks for sharing
xoxo Pattie - June 27, 2010 at 7:35 AM
- PeggyR said...
That sounds really delicious!
- June 27, 2010 at 7:42 AM
- Katerina said...
Apple, saffron, curry sounds like a really tasty and unique soup.
- June 27, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Carla and Michael said...
This is a very interesting mix of flavors. I have seen a lot of soups with the addition of apple, though I've never tried it. It just sounds strange to me.
- June 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- CaSaundraLeigh said...
I'm not familiar with the French language as much as I'd like, so I am glad there's an easy name for this soup--I love the sounds of these flavors too.
- June 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM
- Kalyn Denny said...
I think this soup sounds wonderful.
- June 27, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Linda Starr said...
I love curry, not cauliflower but I bet this tastes really good.
- June 27, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Rita said...
Now sounds like a great combination of flavours. Looks wonderful; chou fleur avec des pommes; fantastique! I am sure Julia would have applauded this soup.
Rita - June 27, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
The soup looks so creamy! The combination of apple and cauliflower is just irresistible.
- June 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
I'll be saving this recipe for when I get some fresh cauliflower (hopefully in my CSA box). I can't wait to try it! Have a wonderful day Mary.
- June 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Joe Ambrosino said...
A very nice recipe, Mary. I will try it (in the Fall).It is soooo HOT here!
- June 27, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Kayte said...
Beautifully elegant. Stealing this one. I am making an cauliflower dish for My Kitchen My World this week and was thinking I would half the recipe, where oh where was the other half of that cauliflower going to go? HERE! Thanks.
- June 27, 2010 at 11:18 AM
- Miss Meat and Potatoes said...
LOL! 'Saffron for the queen...'
I know summer is officially here when I crave something I can drink as food. This will surely hit the spot. And I love the use of cauliflower - maybe this will change some people's POV on this lovely but lowely veggie.
Thanks Mary - another gorgeous post as usual. - June 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM
- Unknown said...
Your soup looks wonderful and I have all the ingredients on hand except the heavy cream, thanks Mary, I would love to try this!
- June 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Sushma Mallya said...
very unique combo, but looks creamy and nice...
- June 27, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Unknown said...
I'm not a huge fan of cauliflower, but you make this sound and look so incredibly tasty, I just might have to give it a shot. I love the idea of the curried apple garnish...THAT is something I could use in other ways. Thanks so much for sharing!
- June 27, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Mary, that does it! I've decided I'm just moving to wherever you are, and you have to adopt me! Yes, Mr. Magpie and I are both up for adoption, and we are coming to live with YOU! See what you've done with your recipes and your tempting photos???
Happy Sunday, and this looks divine!
Sheila :-) - June 27, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- hobby baker Kelly said...
Mmmmmm. Creamy cauliflower soup is one of my favorites, but I've never done it in this style of flavorings. Looks delicious!
- June 27, 2010 at 1:12 PM
- Salsa Verde said...
Hi Mary,
This recipe seems so perfect and delicious. What a wonderful combination again!!
Hope you are having a lovely Sunday,
Lia. - June 27, 2010 at 1:15 PM
- Rachana said...
What a lovely combo! The Soup looks so creamy and yumm!
Have a lovely day, dear Mary :-) - June 27, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Valérie said...
This sounds like such a delicate balance of flavours. Another wonderful find!
- June 27, 2010 at 1:25 PM
- GLENDA CHILDERS said...
This is going on my menu for this week.
Stil laughing at your comment about using saffron when you have the queen to dinner. When she comes, could you invite me ~ I have only seen her from a far :)
Thanks, Mary, for your lovely sweet comments on my blog. - June 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Christine said...
This soups sounds absolutely delightful. Cauliflower and apples. Who knew? And curry to bring it all together. Stellar!
- June 27, 2010 at 1:46 PM
- Susi's Kochen und Backen said...
I love cauliflower and this soup sounds like a wonderful blend of flavors. Delicious!
- June 27, 2010 at 1:48 PM
- Faith said...
I love curried cauliflower and I bet it's delicious in soup form! The apple is a very nice touch also.
- June 27, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Adventures in Domestic Cooking said...
This soup looks heavenly!
You are right, Julia Child would have love this soup. Although, I think you might be the next Julie Child!!=) - June 27, 2010 at 4:00 PM
- Magdalena said...
Mary, I always enjoy when I read your posts....thanks for all those remarks concerning Julia and Daniel B.
The soup is interesting. I love soups (Polish people are soup eaters and traditional people eat them nearly every day a first dish or main meal called "obiad").
Have a good day ... - June 27, 2010 at 4:47 PM
- Cathy said...
The sweetness of the apples must add a wonderful depth to this lovely cream soup. This recipe has gone into my "definitely must make this" file.
- June 27, 2010 at 4:58 PM
- Glennis said...
Mary, I happened to have a cauliflower in my fridge and some apples - so I made this just now for lunch. Both husband and son thought it was wonderful!
I had a package of seasoned crispy wontons for salad in the pantry, and so I sprinkled them on top for a little crunch.
Thank you! - June 27, 2010 at 5:05 PM
- Unknown said...
Mary, the soup looks velvety and delicious. I really like the combination. I hope you are having a great weekend. Michael
- June 27, 2010 at 5:30 PM
- Unknown said...
I have missed soo much on your blog but as usual everything looks great. I have never had that combination before it sounds terrific. Have a great weekend!
- June 27, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
Mary, this sounds like such an elegant soup. I am really looking forward to tasting it. Always, always enjoy your forewords.
- June 27, 2010 at 9:00 PM
- Unknown said...
OH!!! Mary this sound AWESOME!!! and I bet it taste WONDERFUL!!! The combination of flavors are GREAT!!!
Geri - June 27, 2010 at 10:02 PM
- Unknown said...
I just had to come all the way down to the bottom of the comments so I could add mine! What a sublime soup! Thankyou for posting. I have bookmarked it, and I can't wait to try it. O I would love to use saffron in it!
Thanks Mary! - June 27, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Tina said...
Oh la la, Mary - I love this recipe!
- June 27, 2010 at 10:29 PM
- Kerstin said...
What a gorgeous soup - I've been all about putting curry in soup lately too.
- June 27, 2010 at 11:09 PM
- Lana said...
I have a standard Cream of Cauliflower Soup recipe, which has converted many. My family enjoys curried cauliflower. The combination of flavor in your recipe, and the addition of apples seems very appealing. This has to be delicious.
Greetings from California,
Lana - June 27, 2010 at 11:44 PM
- momgateway said...
I've never tried cream of cauliflower soup...but this soup with apples and curry is so lovely...
- June 28, 2010 at 12:01 AM
- M @ Betty Crapper said...
Your title makes the soup seem more approachable. I like it.
- June 28, 2010 at 12:46 AM
- La Bella Cooks said...
This soup has a lovely combo of flavors. I would love to give this a go.
- June 28, 2010 at 12:50 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Such a pretty color and cauliflower, apple and curry are such a great combo too.
- June 28, 2010 at 3:07 AM
- Jamie said...
I love all of the flavors in this soup and the apple goes perfectly both with a vegetable soup and with curry. Perfect! Will save this one for winter when I'll bet it is extra fabulous!
- June 28, 2010 at 5:43 AM
- Jeannie said...
Wow! this soup looks so creamy! I would love to taste it! First time came across soup with apples in it!
- June 28, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- Eliana said...
Nothing is more comforting than a bowl of creamy soup. And the flavors in this one sound outstanding.
- June 28, 2010 at 3:46 PM
- Cara said...
This sounds fantastic! What an awesome way to do up cauliflower, love this combination you've created.
- June 28, 2010 at 8:16 PM
- SKIP TO MALOU said...
First off you got me on the curried cream of cauliflower then apple? hmmm I was trying to imagine the taste and voila Im craving for something I haven't even tasted yet..
Im intrigued Mary! - June 29, 2010 at 12:57 AM
- nancy at good food matters said...
This recipe really appeals to me, Mary, and I would have to substitute vegetable stock for the chicken to be right for the vegetarian in my household---but I think that the full bodied flavors intrinsic in the dish will still shine through beautifully. Thanks!
- June 30, 2010 at 6:11 PM


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I had previously speculated about the origin of modern humans in a wet Sahara, followed by their expansion into West Asia during MIS 5. I don't know how tenable this scenario is archaeologically, but it certainly appears to be chronologically and genetically: modern mankind coming to its own in the wet Sahara, collapsing demographically as the desert reasserted itself; finding a secondary cradle in Arabia, and expanding as the Arabian desert reasserted itself. Is this the solution: a tale of two deserts, pumping humans from Africa to the Near East pre-100ka and from the Near East to the rest of the world post-70ka?The Nubian Complex is a regionally distinct Middle Stone Age (MSA) technocomplex first reported from the northern Sudan in the late 1960 s [1], [2]. Archaeological sites belonging to the Nubian Complex (Fig. 1) have since been found throughout the middle and lower Nile Valley [3]–[6], desert oases of the eastern Sahara [7], [8], and the Red Sea hills [9], [10]. Numerical ages from Nubian Complex sites (Table 1) are constrained within Marine Isotope Stage 5 (MIS 5), although temporal differences have been observed among assemblages; as such, it is divided into two phases, an early and a late Nubian Complex [5], [11].
The taxonomic identity of the Nubian Complex toolmakers is unknown, as no skeletal evidence has been discovered in association with any such assemblage. Although some archaic forms may have persisted in other parts of Africa at that time [79], the distribution of early anatomically modern human (AMH) remains suggest this species is the most likely candidate to have occupied northeast Africa during the Late Pleistocene. Cranial fragments of Homo sapiens found in the Omo river valley, Ethiopia (Fig. 1), represent the first appearance of AMH in East Africa ~195 ka [80]. Remains from Herto [81], Singa [82], and Mumba [83] in East Africa date to between ~160 and ~100 ka. Skeletal remains from Jebel Irhoud in Morocco show that an early form of Homo sapiens had expanded into North Africa as early as ~160 ka [84], and a modern human child discovered at Grotte des Contrebandiers in Morocco verifies the presence of AMH in North Africa by ~110 ka [85]. At the site of Taramsa Hill 1 in the lower Nile Valley, an AMH child dated to ~55 ka was found in association with a lithic industry (Taramsan) that is thought to have developed out of the late Nubian Complex [21], [86]. Despite the lack of direct evidence, given that AMH are the only species to have been found in North Africa from the late Middle Pleistocene onward, it is warranted to speculate that the Nubian Complex toolmakers were modern humans.I have classified both Jebel Irhoud and Singa, as well as Omo II, and the Qafzeh/Skhul hominids as H. sapiens in my recent analysis of the Mounier et al. (2011) data. So, while it would be desirable to have osteological remains from the sites described in this paper, I'd say the odds are greatly in favor of them being modern humans.
To some degree, the discovery of late Nubian Complex assemblages in Dhofar upholds this model. The distribution of this technocomplex in the middle and lower Nile Valley, the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and now Dhofar provides a trail of diagnostic artifacts - stone breadcrumbs - spread across the southern dispersal route out of Africa. The close similarity between African and Arabian late Nubian Complex assemblages suggests that these sites are more or less contemporaneous; they were separated for an insufficient amount of time for independently derived technological traits to develop between regions. As the late Nubian Complex at Aybut Al Auwal is dated to MIS 5c, slightly earlier than the late Nubian Complex in Africa [11], we remain open to the possibility that the late Nubian Complex originated in Arabia, and subsequently spread back into northeast Africa. Given the coarse chronological resolution in both Africa and Arabia (Table 1), however, the question of directionality cannot be adequately addressed, suffice to say there is cultural exchange across the Red Sea during MIS 5c.Certainly the osteological evidence of modern humans in Africa (Omo and Irhoud, especially) predates that for the Near East. Also, some kind of Out-of-Africa must have taken place, since the Eurasian Y-chromosome and mtDNA phylogeny can be securely seen as a subset of the African phylogeny. Nonetheless, we don't really know when the Out-of-Africa even took place, and it could very well be that there was a first Into-Africa during MIS 5c.
Although southern Arabia experienced successive periods of extreme aridity after MIS 5, terrestrial archives document another increase in precipitation across the interior of Arabia during early MIS 3 [59], [104], enabling north-south demographic exchange between ~60–50 ka. South Arabian populations may have spread to the north at this time, taking with them a Nubian-derived Levallois technology based on elongated point production struck from bidirectional Levallois cores, which is notably the hallmark of the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant [105], [106]. Further survey in central Arabia is required to test whether the Nubian Complex extends north of Dhofar. Until then, the fate of the Nubian Complex in Arabia must remain in question.
The problem with many of the stone tools found on the Arabian Peninsula, says New York University archaeologist Christian Tryon, is that they don't have much personality. "Stone tools are often unexciting things," he says, "like Paleolithic screwdrivers and hammers." None, he says, displayed signs of craftsmanship that could identify them definitively as the handiwork of African H. sapiens versus other hominids, such as Neandertals. None, that is, until archaeologist Jeffrey Rose of the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom uncovered tools in Oman in 2010 with clear African connections. "This is the first time I've been convinced," says Tyron, who was not involved in the new work.
If modern humans were living in southern Arabia 106,000 years ago, the important question for human history is what happened next. Did they die out in Oman—another "failed expansion," as archaeologists describe it—or migrate north, going on to populate the globe? If the latter, it would challenge current genetic data placing global human migration out of Africa perhaps 80,000 years ago. Instead of "out of Africa," says Rose, "we could be looking at 'out of Arabia.' "Indeed.
According to the authors, the evidence from Oman provides a "trail of stone breadcrumbs" left by early humans migrating across the Red Sea on their journey out of Africa. "After a decade of searching in southern Arabia for some clue that might help us understand early human expansion, at long last we've found the smoking gun of their exit from Africa," says Rose. "What makes this so exciting," he adds, "is that the answer is a scenario almost never considered."These new findings challenge long-held assumptions about the timing and route of early human expansion out of Africa. Using a technique called Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) to date one of the sites in Oman, researchers have determined that Nubian MSA toolmakers had entered Arabia by 106,000 years ago, if not earlier. This date is considerably older than geneticists have put forth for the modern human exodus from Africa, who estimate the dispersal of our species occurred between 70,000 and 40,000 years ago.Even more surprising, all of the Nubian MSA sites were found far inland, contrary to the currently accepted theory that envisions early human groups moving along the coast of southern Arabia. "Here we have an example of the disconnect between theoretical models versus real evidence on the ground," says co-author Professor Emeritus Anthony Marks of Southern Methodist University. "The coastal expansion hypothesis looks reasonable on paper, but there is simply no archaeological evidence to back it up. Genetics predict an expansion out of Africa after 70,000 thousand years ago, yet we've seen three separate discoveries published this year with evidence for humans in Arabia thousands, if not tens of thousands of years prior to this date."
The Nubian Complex of Dhofar, Oman: An African Middle Stone Age Industry in Southern Arabia
Jeffrey I. Rose et al.
Despite the numerous studies proposing early human population expansions from Africa into Arabia during the Late Pleistocene, no archaeological sites have yet been discovered in Arabia that resemble a specific African industry, which would indicate demographic exchange across the Red Sea. Here we report the discovery of a buried site and more than 100 new surface scatters in the Dhofar region of Oman belonging to a regionally-specific African lithic industry - the late Nubian Complex - known previously only from the northeast and Horn of Africa during Marine Isotope Stage 5, ~128,000 to 74,000 years ago. Two optically stimulated luminescence age estimates from the open-air site of Aybut Al Auwal in Oman place the Arabian Nubian Complex at ~106,000 years ago, providing archaeological evidence for the presence of a distinct northeast African Middle Stone Age technocomplex in southern Arabia sometime in the first half of Marine Isotope Stage 5.


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Kim Forde-Mazrui joined the law faculty of the University of Virginia in 1996, and was promoted to full professor in 2001. He teaches Constitutional Law, Employment Discrimination, Criminal Law, and Race and Law. His scholarship focuses on equal protection, especially involving race and sexual orientation. His publications have considered what role race should play in placing children for adoption; whether and how to select racially and other demographically diverse juries; whether affirmative action policies that employ race-neutral means are constitutional; whether America is morally obligated to remedy past discrimination; and whether racial profiling and other discriminatory practices by law enforcement are adequately deterred by current constitutional doctrines. His scholarship has also examined the parallels between historical arguments against interracial relationships and contemporary arguments against same-sex relationships, as well as the role of tradition as a justification for banning same-sex marriage. His articles have been published in several prestigious law journals, including the University of Chicago Law Review, the California Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and the Georgetown Law Journal. The hallmark of Forde-Mazrui's approach is to take seriously the conflicting perspectives on controversial issues, and to offer constructive proposals to move society beyond current, often intractable, debates.
Professor Forde-Mazrui earned his B.A. in philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University of Michigan in 1990, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School in 1993. During law school, the Michigan Law Review selected him and subsequently promoted him to notes editor. The law school's clinical faculty awarded him the Carl Gussin Memorial Prize for excellence in trial advocacy, and he won both the Law School and Regional ABA Client Counseling Competitions. He also volunteered as a student-attorney with the Family Law Project, an organization providing legal services to battered women. At graduation, the faculty elected him to the Order of the Coif and granted him the law school's highest honor, the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, "awarded to outstanding seniors in the Law School, account being taken of scholarship in both undergraduate and legal studies, personality, character, extracurricular interests, and promise of a distinguished career."
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The River Gorge road race is of course the highlight event of the weekend with the only summit finish of the year in the entire southeast racing calendar. Plus, throw in a tough climb up Sand Mountain early in the race, and this race really packs a punch for its 60 mile distance. Here is an annotated summary of the race using my heartrate data (no power on my light climbing wheel). Ooops! Correction – Tim Valentine just reminded me about Roan Groan on the TN/VA border with its mountain top finish. I've never had the opportunity to do that race, maybe next year!
Annotated river gorge road race heartrate data
Here is how the race played out. After we made the left out of the neutral zone, there was an attack. Then there was a chase all the way up the first hill. We flew up the hill, and as my mindset was on saving energy for the climbs later in the race, I let myself slide backwards through the group rather than trying to kill it to stay up front. We settled into a fast pace through the next several miles, and I found a few opportunities to move up so that I was about mid-pack (instead of the back) by the time we made the righthand turn to go up the first steep hill of the race.
Already on this first steep hill, there were riders heading backwards, and I had to come to a near stop a couple times trying to maneuver around them. By the top, there was a group of maybe 15 riders that had split off the front and had a 20-30 second gap on the field which coalesced behind them on the descent underneath I-24. Several riders worked the front of the group through the next rolling upward section and started to close the gap. By the top of the rollers, though, there was still a 10-20 second gap, and riders started to sit up for the descent. I went straight to the front to try to keep the pace rolling. There were only three of us who worked on the descent, but we eventually caught the front group.
It was gruppo compacto all the way to the Tennessee River where we turned left to head up the next larger hill. Several riders went hard, but the group stayed together to the top and down the descent at a crazy-fast speed to the next long flat section. It was here that I missed my opportunity to be in the lead group as two separate moves left the front, and I was too far back to go with them. I missed another opportunity when Brendan Sullivan attacked with a couple others on the road leading into Alabama before Sand Mountain. Afterwards, our pace plummeted in the group all the way to the foot of Sand Mountain. Our average speed for two miles was only 17MPH. I wanted to attack, but I had missed my opportunity as the guys in the front were going slow and there was no way to get around on the narrow road.
I had managed to very slowly work my way to the front still planning to attack before Sand Mountain when we made it to the bottom of Sand Mountain. So instead of attacking before Sand Mountain, I rolled off the front in a steady pursuit of a Krystal rider who had attacked right at the base of the climb. Then Nate Brown came flying around me as the climb started to get steeper. I dug deep to grab and hold his wheel as we caught and passed the Krystal rider a few hundred meters later. Nate's attack had shattered the group, and there was only three or four of us left at the front of the climb by this point. Nate sat up at this point (calling it a day, I think?) and I was left in front. Mike Stone came around a couple seconds later, and I was planning on going to the back of our small group but there was a gap opening up so I rallied to chase back on to Mike's wheel and then sat there for the rest of the climb way above threshold thinking that at any moment my legs would explode. He drilled it all the way to the top as we caught and passed a couple riders coming off the lead group.
Mike's relentless pace up the climb meant that it was just me and him by the top. I grabbed a bottle from Kristine, and he grabbed a musette from his team. I worked hard to stay on his wheel and tried to help him across the top, but the pace would slow down a fraction every time I came to the front. Towards the end of the rollers across the top of Sand Mountain, I was starting to feel better and recovered from the Sand Mountain climb and there was still no sight of the field regrouping behind us. We flew down the descent back to the Tennessee River and made the right-hand turn with a group of riders visible in the distance in front of us. After a minute or so back on the flats, I looked back and could see the field already down the mountain behind us as well. The moto official gave us a split of 40 seconds to the field at this point. We kept it steady and pushed it hard over the smaller climbs and gradually closed the distance to the group in front of us finally catching them just before the stair-stepper. Michael and I were in pursuit of them for 14.5 miles (or almost 1/4 of the race).
Once we caught them, we kept pushing even though the field was only 1 minute back from us as we started the stair stepper climb. There were six of us in the group – me and mt teammate Pat from Tria, three Hincapie Devo riders (Mike Stone, Parker Kyzer, and Justin Lowe), as well as AJ Meyer (Hincapie Green). Once we made it to the top of the stair stepper and through the second feed zone, our chase group gelled the best I have EVER seen in a race. It was literally a six-man team time trial in pursuit of the front group which had a three and a half minute gap on us. Our chase averaged 30mph for 8 miles over rolling terrain with one steep downhill. At one point, we could see the women's field up ahead of us with a follow car just too far ahead to tell what field it was. Pat asked me if that was the lead group, and I said "probably not, but let's pretend like it is" and we went even faster in pursuit. Pat really dug deep during this pursuit even after he started cramping. We all were flying and for me those 8 miles were the best part of the race. It was awesome!
By the time we reached the turn-off for the final Raccoon Mountain climb, we had caught Frank Travesio (Realcyclist) who had come off the lead group. We had also lost a couple of the Hincapie riders on the climb up to the turn-off. So it was five of us heading into the bottom of the final climb. Pat went to the front and drilled it hitting 50+mph on the downhill and then across the flat to the bottom of the hill. At the bottom, Mike set out first and I came around to grab his wheel. I thought it would be a repeat of Sand Mountain with him pushing me to the breaking point on the climb, but instead I found that my legs were doing fine enough behind him for me to attack about halfway up the first steep section. I got a good gap, but couldn't extend it at all until near the very top of the first steep section of the climb. I drilled it down the hill bunny hopping the speed bumps at 45mph because there were Cat 4 and Women riders on the descent at the same time and that was the only open line.
On the second half of the climb which isn't as steep as the first half, I was able to keep the pace high and extend my lead on Mike. Up ahead I could see two riders climbing who I realized must be in my field. I came really close and could hear the cheers for the final sprint with 200 meters to go but I couldn't quite catch Chris and Brendan. So we had nearly bridged a 3+ minute gap to the back of the lead group by the top of the climb!
With nine riders still left in the lead group, that means I finished 10th. Definitely not the result I was hoping for, but I am still very happy with it because of how good I felt on the final climb. All the obsessive climbing for Strava has really helped this year! Too bad this is the second and final of only two races for the entire year that have significant climbing (the first was the Tour of Atlanta Burnt Mountain road race at the end of May).
I rode my American Classic tubular wheel, so I don't have any power data other than the Strava data below –
Strava power and heartrate data – river gorge road race
And here is the link to the interactive Strava data for all three events this weekend –
Time Trial – http://app.strava.com/rides/1393746
Criterium – http://app.strava.com/rides/1399858
Road Race – http://app.strava.com/rides/1412606