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Those of us who are aware of sexism's subtleties often cringe in church where we hear the SOURCE of All That Is reduced to a man-like being. But at Roman Catholic WomenPriest Masses, where we clean up the God-talk, we are relieved and renewed.
The following Eucharistic Prayer shows what a difference language makes. Ruth Lindstedt took the Prayer we had been using and revised it to create this one that we like even better and now use at our monthly womenpriest Masses.
Prayer Leader: God is with us! All: Amen!
PL: Let us open ourselves to the transforming power of the Creator.
All: We lift our hearts to God and one another.
PL: Let us give thanks to the source of all life and love.
All: It is right to give God thanks and praise.
PL: Blessed are you, Creator God of the universe,
through whom all life began, continues to grow and change.
In the beginning, God Sophia spoke the Word, "Let there be,"
and with a cosmic flash all creation was proclaimed,
giving birth to time, space, matter, energy, and life.
We are in awe of the universe surrounding our fertile yet fragile planet:
our sun and sister planets, the stars, galaxies, and depths of interstellar space.
We honor you, God, for the gift of Gaia Mother Earth:
her heights and depths, vast visible and hidden treasures,
her richness of diversity expressed in each square inch.
With all creation we join to thank and praise you, God,
for all these wonders, expressions of your profound love.
With the angels and saints of every generation we sing:
All sing: Holy, holy, holy
PL: O God in your wisdom and love you formed us in your image
to join with you to serve the circle of life.
When we turn away from your friendship you continue to love us,
calling us through your prophets to turn back toward your loving gaze and embrace.
Together with Jesus you breathe your Spirit on us
so that our relationship with you and all our brothers and sisters
—indeed with the whole universe—might be restored.
Pour that same Spirit upon these gifts from Mother Earth,
present here before us now,
that they and we might become Christ, who brings us to unity with you.
Out of the fullness of his love, Jesus our Brother gave his life
that we might live in love.
And so we remember: All: On the night before he died, Jesus took bread and gave you thanks and praise. . . .
In this space I will provide more examples of liturgical language cleansed of sexism.
Sexist God-talk, November 18, 2011
If you MUST use only male names—you have created and are worshipping an idol.
Maxine Moe Rasmussen
We know that when we die we will not meet an individual named "Father." We no longer think of the Trinity as three humanlike individuals; we no longer think of heaven or hell as places. Today the shrinking globe makes it impossible to deny that perfectly good religions and good people do not imagine The Holy as we were trained to do.
Given today's access to other religions and other spiritual frames, more and more Christians realize that our doctrines need to be understood symbolically, not literally. But the awakening process happens too slowly to suit me.
There's a term for literal belief—reification. It treats a symbol or abstraction like a substantial, physical thing—an object or living being with a body. We know that what we call God is not such an object or person in a body, but Christian theology regularly reifies God. I named my book God Is Not Three Guys in the Sky to bring home the realization that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are symbols, not material individuals.
As I get responses to my book and presentations, I'm struck by the difficulty many have with understanding this. I hadn't realized how hard it is for humans to think abstractly; I hadn't realized how hard it would be for me to pierce the Christian cloud of confusion.
The reason is typical Christian God-talk. It so consistently paints the picture of a male individual or set of three male individuals that religion teachers, pastors, and priests—I'm certain even many bishops—reduce God to a mere he-god in their imaginations.
Are ordinary humans simply incapable of rising above reification and thinking abstractly? NO! I don't accept that. All that's needed is interfering with the imagined he-god by cleaning up the language. Isaiah 25 provides an example:
On this mountain the Lord will provide for all peoplesNow let's disrupt that imagined he-god.
. . . He will destroy
The veil that veils all peoples . . .
The Lord will wipe away
The tears from all faces;
The disgrace of His people He will remove . . .
This is the Lord for whom we looked;
Let us rejoice and be glad that He has saved us!
On this mountain the Holy One will provide for all peoplesThis upsets your comfortable prayer life? Good. As spiritual leaders point out, effective prayer changes us. "She" jolts us into realizing that exclusively male God-talk diminishes God.
. . . She will destroy
The veil that veils all peoples . . .
She will wipe away
The tears from all faces;
The disgrace of Her people She will remove . . .
This is the Holy One for whom we looked;
Let us rejoice and be glad that She has saved us!
Maxine Moe Rasmussen says it well:
If you MUST use only male terms while speaking of God—not choose to, but MUST use only male names—you have created and are worshipping an idol.I'm afraid so. But if Catholics want to remain relevant in the West, they will change their sexist God-talk, because the he-god has not much longer to live in the imagination of future generations. Christianity's worship of a male idol is one reason we are entering the post-Christian era.
While speaking to members of the church, there have been a number of times when I've pointed this out and I'm met with either surprise or disbelief! The idolatry of worshipping the male is so much a part of the church that I have no doubt most will never be able to overcome their conditioning.
Male God-talk, June 25, 2010
I've had occasion lately to reflect on my purpose in writing and speaking about religions and spirituality. Responses I get—mostly oral or email—tell me that my biggest contribution is invigorating those who vaguely question dying or deadening religion but don't have time to spend on the questions. Jobs, family duties, positions in religious institutions, or insufficient background in theology get in the way.
So here is my effort to fill a need. I honor and obey my inner voice by offering some information and ways to reconcile the confusing messages. Things become a lot clearer once we realize that all religious language is figurative, not literal. Spiritual reality is not a set of male individuals or exactly three other humanlike figures. Heaven does not have gates or thrones or harp music.
Charles Curran, a highly-respected moral theologian, was banned by the Vatican from teaching Catholic theology because he "dissents from the Magisterium" on contraception, homosexuality, the status of women, and other issues. In Newsweek he wrote,
Today, a third of people who were raised Catholic have left the church; no other major religion in the United States has experienced a larger net loss in followers in the last 30 years.It has been a while since I've seen that quaint term "Magisterium." It has lost some of its power to intimidate because too many people know too much. We no longer depend on "the Magisterium" for spiritual direction or to tell us what to believe. Opportunities for spiritual guidance and growth abound in our media-plenty world. Not to mention, facts about other religions and spiritual attitudes.
So I go on exploring the questions and offering some answers. This came in by email. I publish with permission:
Jeanette, I have a hard time getting off your blog and going back to work on my unfinished list of things to do. I get emotional when reading what you have written (and the responses from others); It lets me know that it is okay to not believe what the Catholic Church (and other Christian Religions) say I should believe; that just because I can't swallow what they teach doesn't mean I am stupid-ignorant-ungodly.Theologians never say Jesus is God but they also avoid saying he's not God because they have the Vatican peering over their shoulder. I have no status in the Church, so I provoke thought by saying, "I don't believe Jesus is God."
I need to work on getting rid of the anger I feel for much of what I was taught as infallible; for my being so gullible. It's been and still is refreshing to know that it is okay to not go along with the status-quo; that Religous leaders don't have a private line to God (Creator is what I prefer). I have become very open to letting others know what I believe (that is SO NOT Catholic) with no fear.
Catholic theologian Paul Knitter (NCR June 25, 2010) explains that "Jesus is Son of God" and "Jesus is Savior" are beliefs or attempts to express the mystery of God and (this is important), "All of our language is symbolic." He repeats the Buddhist image, "Our words are like fingers pointing to the moon—not the moon itself."
I like his description of what we call God:
Ultimate reality is not an entity, a being, but rather it is what they call the interconnectedness of everything. Or as the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hanh uses the term for ultimate reality "interbeing."He also uses the expressions, "God is love" and "interconnecting energy." I add, "God is relationship."
At this stage in the evolution of human consciousness, we might like a more cosmic perspective of the reality called God—the transcendent God. For that I like this description from Tom Shepherd's column in Unity magazine:
God is the principles of chemistry by which the ocean is constituted, the laws of physics by which water remains liquid, and the process of evolution by which the fish came forth from the water, minerals and organic compounds in the sea.I haven't heard a better description than the simple statement, God is in all and all is in God. This includes all processes of Nature (the external universe), all personhood, and all consciousness, conceivable and inconceivable.
I would like to see us reform our liturgies from worshipping a certain external God-image to recognizing the mysterious Unknowable at the center of our personhood.
In a desire to belong or to impress, many of us squelch our authentic thoughts and beliefs. In A Hidden Wholeness: That Journey toward an Undivided Life, Quaker writer Parker Palmer counsels us to avoid "the divided life"—abandoning our true selves to please others, playing an outer role separate from our inner soul. Dr. Andrew Jilani found a similar message at a shrine in Turkey to Jalaladdin Rumi, Persian poet and spiritual seer. Inscribed on the building was this counsel:
Appear as you are.So who am I really? What do I really think and believe? The answers are not easy if I have been conforming to demands out there and forgetting the self in here.
Be as you seem.
Among the signs of a "divided life" are these:
• We conceal our true identities for fear of being criticized, shunned, or attacked.
• We hide our beliefs from those who disagree with us to avoid conflict, challenge, and change.
When we dissent from the dictates of religion, we can be severely tested in our ability to live the undivided life, the life of integrity. During the years I have been thinking more deeply about religion, I've seen a huge increase in the number of Christians who question familiar religious beliefs, who withstand threats of hell and damnation. As they grow in spiritual maturity, they stop slavishly obeying outside voices and hearken to the voice at the center of their personhood, the immanent God.
Palmer calls the inner voice that steadily calls us back to our authentic selves the soul. Zen Buddhists talk about the observer, Twelve Step refers to the Higher Power, and Christians to the Holy Spirit. Carl Jung, referring to Hindu thought, called it the Self and said its symbol is the Christ. To paraphrase Jung, the prophet Jesus became a symbol of this divine center or inner conscience. Not the Nazarene who lived in history, but this inner voice is speaking when people say, "Jesus tells us . . ."
If we participate in Christian liturgies we can't avoid language that encourages us to worship an external God-image instead of listening to messages from within. The steady drip of "father/lord/he/himhis" inserted into discourse about spiritual reality inhibits spiritual maturity by limiting God to a single image. We need to break out of that rut.
S. Lucy Edlebeck, OP, does it with her greeting cards:
May God smile/ May SHE bless you.How refreshing these words! They jolt us into realizing the inadequacy of religious language that is not inclusive.
WOMAN said, This is my body. This is my blood.
Intercessions for Ascension, May 14, 2013
I write the Intercessions for our Catholic womanpriest liturgies. After the Ascension and Mother's Day celebration on May 12, our musical director said they should be read in all churches, and he asked me to email him a copy. After I sent them he urged me to publish them, at least in my blog, if not elsewhere.
They are an example of how the symbolic interpretation of doctrine can bring meaning and assistance to human lives, rather than promoting the worship of an external god. For me "Christ" is not a human individual; it is the divinity within all.


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Former WWE employee Andrew Green is suing Big Show and WWE over an alleged backstage incident at the 2013 Royal Rumble pay-per-view according to Courthouse News Service.
In the report, Green claims another WWE producer told him to get an interview with Show after his Rumble match to be posted on the company's website. Green says Show refused to do it until he said it was at the request of Eric Pankowski. Big Show then began using "profanely indecent language," saying if he wanted an interview he would give him one. The complaint continued:
"Big Show toward Green enraged, shouting obscenities, and waving his fist in Green's face. Big Show then grabbed Green by the collar and throat, striking Green in the face and backing him up against a trunk while declaring 'You son of a bitch … Are you having fun right now … Don't even come up to me again … I don't give a shit who you are'."
Show requested a re-tape of the interview saying he would just walk away. Triple H requested a third take but Show said he didn't think he would be able to do it because his emotions in the first shoot had been real. A third interview was shot but Pankowski decided to air the first interview.
Green claims he was unable to continue working for WWE after following the incident because he was uncomfortable working around Big Show and other wrestlers. He alleges in the complaint that WWE had previously "suspended or terminated Big Show's employment because of his behavior, including his engagement in violent and/or unlawful and/or improper activities outside of the wrestling venue."
Big Shows's WWE Future in Jeopardy?, Rumored WrestleMania 30 Match, How Much Do Top WWE Stars Get Paid?

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Welcome to the Award-Winning Shaw Speed & Custom
Not your average Harley-Davidson Dealership; now in its 13th year, the team has won the prestigious Bar and Shield 6 times as well as the AMD World Championship of bike building.
Custom built Harley-Davidson motorcycles, including the World Champion Strike True II and the Bell & Ross Nascafe racer.
Meet the team and see our Award Winning Custom Bikes up close, at one of the many events we attend.
If you are looking to have a custom bike built or would like to have your existing bike modified please contact us.
Shaw Speed & Custom was created in 2009 and after many years of customising Harley-Davidsons, the company decided that the way forward was to take the customisation process and their experience to another level. A level of excellence that should not only meet client's expectations but also exceeds them. Shaw Speed & Custom wants to build the best custom Harley-Davidson Motorcycles in the world and makes the process an enjoyable experience for both the team and the customer.
Shaw Speed wanted an independent studio where its clients could meet with the team and discuss projects. They created the Speed Shop, which overlooks the technical area and benches. Having the studio and technical area so close means there is constant inspiration for the team and its customers.
The team lead by Team Principal Steven C Willis have an abundance of two wheeled experience and this can be seen influencing many of the custom motorcycles that have been built.
This experienced service has lead to many international builds and collaborative projects with the likes of Bell & Ross, Ralph Lauren and Gibson guitars. Shaw's accolades in the custom motorcycle arena include a World Championship win in the AMD Modified Harley-Davidson category in 2010. At this event in the past the Team have also picked up 3rd, 4th, and 5th place.
"Rideable Customs" is the team's strapline and is something they always strive for on every build. The bike needs to be fit for their original purpose, riding.


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2013 nissan quest Model Overview
Vehicle Overview
Nissan really thought outside of the box when it created a minivan that looked like no other on the market. The Japan-built Nissan Quest, which is longer than a Toyota Sienna, narrower than a Chrysler Town & Country, and taller than a Honda Odyssey, is different because it's shaped like a box, making it a good choice for those who don't want to follow the minivan crowd.
Based on the same platform as the Altima, Maxima, and Murano, power comes from a 3.5-liter V-6 that produces 260 hp and 240 lb-ft of torque. Mated exclusively to a continuously variable transmission, the Quest achieves an EPA-rated 19/25 mpg, which is on par with the Honda Odyssey, but better than the Toyota Sienna. Buyers have a choice among four trim levels (S, SV, SL, and LE) and whichever one they choose, they'll be surprised to find a number of amenities inside. Its versatility, however, is what impressed us most. "As much as I like the Honda's extended range, flashier styling, and sportier feel, what makes a minivan really attractive to me are its conveniences and ease of use; thus, I'll take the Nissan. The Quest offers an easier, better entry system, handy fold-flat second and third rows, and ample storage space that includes a covered bin that's always available. For my trip, it's Quest over Odyssey," we said after spending lots of time in both long-term minivans.
We also touted its refined CVT: "The CVT proved smooth and always willing to jump into the powerband for a surge of acceleration. And when heading downhill, the overdrive-off button provided welcome engine-braking for the Nissan."
What's New for 2013
The Quest gets a few changes for 2013, including Nissan's Around View monitor that is now standard on LE models, and the optional DVD entertainment system is available on SV trim levels.
You'll Like
Nissan's Around View Monitor
Quirky appearance
Smooth CVT
You Won't Like
Not as much cargo capacity
Seating for seven, not eight
Lazy throttle response
Key Competitors
Toyota Sienna
Honda Odyssey
Chrysler Town & Country
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Cats in Ancient Egypt
The ancient Egyptians were respectful towards the animals that shared their world and associated many of them with deities or positive human characteristics. However, no animal was held in such esteem as the cat. Cats were closely connected to a number of gods and goddesses, and there is evidence that they were considered to be demi-gods in their own right. As an inscription in the Valley of the Kings states;
"You are the Great Cat, the avenger of the gods, and the judge of words, and the president of the sovereign chiefs and the governor of the holy Circle; you are indeed the Great Cat."
As a primarily agrarian society, the ancient Egyptians had a distinct problem with mice, rats and snakes all of whom threatened the grain stores. It is thought that the ancient Egyptians learned that wild cats preyed on these scavengers and so began to leave out food (such as fish heads) to tempt the cats to visit them regularly. This suited the cats perfectly as being close to human settlements not only provided them with a ready supply of food (the vermin and the food left by humans) but also helped them to avoid larger predators. As this symbiotic relationship developed cats were welcomed indoors and eventually consented to move in with their human friends and rear their kittens in the safety of the home.
Their diet changed somewhat as they were provided with food by grateful humans, and breeding programs heightened certain characteristics in the formerly wild animals. The ancient Egyptians even hunted with their cats, a seemingly amazing feat of co-operation with an animal renowned for its stubborn individualism. Most importantly, they loved and respected their cats for being playful and affectionate companions but also highly intelligent skilful predators.
Cats were also important in the interpretation of dreams. Apparently seeing a cat in your dream confirmed that you would have a good harvest.
The Egyptians did not distinguish between a wild cat and a domesticated cat; all cats were known as "miu" (or "miut") often translated as "he or she who mews". The origin of this name is not clear but it seems likely that it is an onomatopoetic reference to the sound a cat makes (mew). However, some commentators have suggested that it also related to the word miw (to see). It seems that it was rare for a cat to be given its own specific name (rather than being called "miu" or "miut"). However, there are exceptions such as the cat named "Nedjem" ("sweetie") and another named "Tai Miuwette" ("the little mewer") who was the companion of crown prince Thutmose (eldest son of Amenhotep lll and brother of Akhenaten). Little girls were often named "Miut" (literally meaning "female cat") displaying the Egyptians fondness for both cats and children.
There were two main breeds of cat native to Ancient Egypt. The jungle cat (Felis chaus) and the African wildcat (Felis silvestris lybica). The latter had a calmer temperament and so was more commonly domesticated than its wilder relative. The two species eventually merged creating a new breed which was closely related to the modern Egyptian Mau. As the cat was domesticated, further changes in temperament and appearance became apparent. Cats became more colourful (as the need to be almost permanently camouflaged lessened), their bodies became smaller and less muscled (due to changes in diet and activity), their brains became smaller (as a result of the reduction in necessary survival instincts) and they developed an increased tolerance for humans.
It seems that the cat is in fact indigenous to Egypt. There is evidence that the majority of the world´s cats can trace their ancestry to an Egyptian cat. It is sometimes suggested that cats were introduced into Egypt from Persia around 2000 B.C.E or from Nubia during the New Kingdom but this is unlikely due to significant evidence that cats lived in Egypt before these dates. In fact, archaeologists found a man interred with his cat in a burial mound in Mostagedda near Asyut dated to around 6,000 years ago. The cat may not have been domesticated, but was clearly important to the deceased. It is generally suggested that cats were domesticated in Egypt around 2000 B.C.E. Dogs had already been domesticated for over a thousand years by this time.
From the New Kingdom cats often appear in tomb paintings along with their human families. People were often depicted on hunting trips with their cats (who would retrieve birds and fish for their human companion). However, one of the most common (and in my view the sweetest) representations depicts the cat sitting under or beside the chair of the mistress of the house offering her protection and friendship. Cats had always been popular and were associated with some very powerful goddesses.
However, when the town of Bubastis (Per-Bast) was established as the royal residence by Shoshenq I (Dynasty Twenty-two) the goddess Bast was promoted to a position of great power, as were the cats with whom she was so closely associated.
Herodotus visited Bubastis in 450 B.C.E. and noted that although the temple of Bast was "not as large as those of other cities, and probably not as costly, no temple in all of Egypt gave more pleasure to the eye". He also confirmed that the annual festival of Bast held in the city was the one of the most popular in all of Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims came from all over Egypt to celebrate by drinking, dancing and singing and to pray to the goddess for her favour over the coming months. The festival was so famous that it made it onto a hit list of the prophet Ezekiel (Ezekiel 30:17, sixth century B.C.E.) who warned that "The young men of Aven and of Pibeseth (Bubastis) shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity". Bubastis was destroyed by the Persians in 350 B.C.E. and the cult of Bast was officially banned by imperial decree in 390 AD and the fortunes of the cat waned with the demise of the goddess. The cat was no longer divine or an incarnation of a god.
Deities associated with CatsThe most famous cat deity was Bast but there are also a number of other ancient Egyptian gods who were associated with cats. Neith occasionally took the form of a cat and the cat was one of Mut´s sacred symbols. Both the Book of Gates and the Book of Caverns refer to a cat god named Miuty (or Mati or Meeyuty). This god protects the Eleventh Division of the Duat in the Book of Gates (the division just before dawn) and watches over the enemies of Ra in the Book of Caverns. It is also possible that this deity is one and the same as "Mauti" who is depicted in the Tomb of Seti II and may also refer to Mau or Mau-Aa (the great cat) as a form of Ra
Cats were also associated with the "Eye of Ra" and linked to the goddess Isis because they were perceived to be great mothers.
Status of Cats
Many animals were seen as the representatives of gods (for example, crocodiles, hawks and cows) but the animals themselves were not considered to be divine. However, there is some evidence that every cat was considered to be a demi-god (although some Egyptologists do not agree). According to one theory, the cat as a semi-divine being could not be owned by a mere human. Only the pharaoh had a high enough status to own a cat. Thus all cats were under the guardianship of the pharaoh and harming a cat was treason.
As a result, there were extremely heavy penalties for harming cats throughout Egyptian history. At the height of Bast´s popularity killing a cat, even accidentally, was punishable by death. Diodorus Siculus wrote "Whoever kills a cat in Egypt is condemned to death, whether he committed this crime deliberately or not. The people gather and kill him. An unfortunate Roman, who accidentally killed a cat, could not be saved, either by King Ptolemy of Egypt or by the fear which Rome inspired." However, some feline mummies recovered from Bubastis display severe trauma to the head or neck, indicating that they had been intentionally killed. This of course contrasts with the law regarding the killing of cats. However, it is thought that this action was considered acceptable in Bubastis to prevent an explosion of the feline population and that all the cats were offered to Bast (and would therefore live eternally in kitty-heaven). Anyone else deliberately harming a cat was in deep trouble.
It was apparently illegal to export cats to neighbouring countries. This led to a thriving trade in smuggled cats! Court records confirm that armies were occasionally dispatched to rescue the kidnapped felines and bring them home to Egypt.
Herodotus claimed that on discovery of a house fire, the men from the house would line up outside the building to protect the cats from danger. He suggested that the cats would "leap into the fire" unless protected by the men, which seems rather unlikely unless their kittens were still inside the home. This story may well be made up or exaggerated, but again highlights the high status of the cat in Egyptian society.
Herodotus also recorded that the Persians used the Egyptian´s love of cats against them. Apparently, the Persians captured a large number of cats and let them loose on the battlefield outside Pelusium. When the Egyptians saw the terrified cats running around the battlefield, they surrendered rather than risk harm to their beloved friends.
Mummification and Burial
When a cat died, their human family would go into a deep mourning and shave their eyebrows. The cat would then be mummified and buried along with provisions such as milk, mice and rats. Cats were often taken to Bubastis to be buried, but tombs have also been discovered in Giza, Abydos, Denderah and Beni Hasan. For example, a tomb in Beni Hassan was discovered in 1888 which contained an estimated 80,000 feline burials.
The deceased cat was wrapped in fine linen and taken to be embalmed. Diodorus recorded that the deceased cat was "treated with cedar oil and such spices as have the quality of imparting a pleasant odour and of preserving the body for a long time."
copyright J Hill 2010
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RetroFitness, Colts Neck, NJ, reached an agreement with Beachbody LLC, Santa Monica, CA, to offer P90X classes in more than 85 clubs.
Beginning next month, RetroFitness will begin rolling out the P90X program with more than 30 specialized trainers across its system.
"Offering members the opportunity to engage in a world-class workout like P90X shows our continued commitment to providing them with the most innovative and effective training modalities the industry has to offer," Eric Casaburi, founder and CEO of RetroFitness, said in a statement.
Earlier this year, Beachbody announced it was offering P90X certification to trainers and free licensing of the programs to facility owners.
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One of the things that sets a pork roast apart from any other type of roasted meat is the glorious, crispy crackling created by baking the pork in a hot oven in a manner that causes the skin to become golden and crisp, but there is a lot of contention about the best way to create this deliciously crunchy culinary delight.
I attended a pork crackling masterclass at Restaurant Atelier in Glebe hosted by the wonderful chef Darren Templeman in an attempt to answer that question. Darren showed us not one but three variations on pork crackling. It was great being in the kitchen of a restaurant having a chef guide us on some of the finer points of crackling preparation, not to mention some of the tasty treats we got to try along the way.
But before we get into the methodology of crackling, please indulge me by allowing me to share with you this little bit of crackling history. It comes from Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management which became the authoritative book on how to run a household in Victorian England, soon after it was published in 1861. In the book, Mrs Beeton writes:
"Charles Lamb, in his delightfully quaint prose sketches, written under the title of the Essays of Elia, has devoted one paper to the subject of Roast Pig, describing his own inimitable, quiet, humorous manner how the toothsome dainty known as crackling first became known to the world.
According to this authority, man in the golden – or, at all events, the primitive – age, ate his pork and bacon raw, as indeed he ate his beef and mutton. At the epoch of the story, a citizen of some Scythian community had the misfortune to have his hut, containing his live stock of pigs, burnt down. In going over the debris to pork out the available salvage, the proprietor touched something very hot, which caused him to put his suffering fingers in his mouth.
The act was simple, but the result was wonderful. He rolled his eyes in ecstasy and conscious of an unwonted and celestial odour, with distended nostrils, and drawing in deep inspiration of the ravishing perfume, he sucked his fingers again and again. Clearing away the rubbish of his ruined hut, there was disclosed to his view one of his pigs roasted to death. Stooping down to examine it, and touching its body, a fragment of the burnt skin became detached, and in a spirit of philosophical inquiry the man put it into his mouth. No pen can describe the felicity he then enjoyed – it was then that he – the world – first tasted crackling.
For a time the Scythian carefully kept his secret, and feasted in secret upon his newly found luxury. When the pig was at last eaten up, the poor man fell into a deep melancholy, refused his accustomed food, lost his appetite, and became reduced to a shadow. Unable to endure the torments of memory from which he suffered hourly, he rose up one night and secretly set fire to his hut, and once more was restored to health and spirits. Finding it impossible to live in future without his newly discovered delicacy, every time his larder became empty he set fire to his house, until his neighbours becoming scandalized by these incendiary acts, brought his conduct before the supreme council of the nation.
To avert the penalty threatened him, he brought his judges to the smouldering ruins, and discovering his secret, he invites them to eat! With tears of gratitude the august synod embraced him, and with an overflowing feeling of ecstasy dedicated a statue to the memory of the man who first instituted roast pork."
I don't know how much of this story is true, but the idea of pork crackling being discovered as the result of some misfortune would certainly be an incredibly large silver lining on the tiniest wisp of a cloud.
The first method Darren shared with us was how to make crackling for roast pork. Kitchens around the world abound with different methods for making crackling for roast pork. Most involve scoring the skin, almost all involve oil and salt, and some even boiling water. Darren's method involves curing the pork rind overnight with a mixture of salt, pepper and spices, removing the spice mixture then spraying with a thin film of canola oil (Olive oil burns too quickly at high temperatures.) The pork was roasted for 15 mins at 220 degrees Celsius before being lowered to 180 degrees for the remaining hour and 45 minutes. This method produced a completely even layer of crispy crackling with no soft patches.
Two other methods were demonstrated, one a method involving dehydrating the rind then deep frying which created golden pillows of deliciously soft crackling. The other was for a confit pork belly with crispy skin that just melted in the mouth.
We finished off with a convivial feast of slow roasted pork shoulder than Darren had cooked overnight. The pork used in the demonstrations and the meal was Esk Free Range Pork from Urban Food Market, and the quality of the meat really shone through in the finished product. At the end of the day, we were given some pork to take home so we could test what we had learned for ourselves.
I can tell you, the lessons learned in the kitchen at Atelier will impressive even the toughest crackling critics.
Pork Crackling masterclasses and other classes are organised by Karen Lateo who can be contacted on Twitter at @VanityFare1. If you would like to attend a class, tweet her for more information.
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hi there, i have a problem, i cant answer this question to save myself!
5 letters are chosen from the word WATERING and placed in a row, the number of ways in which this can be done if the last letter is to be W is:
a) 840
b) 2520
c) 1008
d) 40
e) 625
thankyou very much for your help!
This is covered under the subject of "Permutations" ... a Permutation is like an ordinary combination but where the order matters
If I have understood your question correctly, you are asking how many ways can you arrange (without repeats) 4 letters chosen from the 7 letters "ATERING" (because you are told you have to choose the "W" and place it at the end)
So let us ignore the "W", then, and think about how many permutations of 4 you could have in 7
Now, think about this: how many combinations of 1 could be found in 7? Just 7 (A,T,E,R,I,N,G)
and how how many combinations of 2 could be found? 7×6 = 42 (because after having chosen one letter there are only 6 left to choose from)
and how how many combinations of 3 could be found? 7×6×5 = 210
and how how many combinations of 4 could be found? 7×6×5×4 = 840
And that is your answer
BTW There is a formula for the total number of permutations: P(n, r) = n! / (n-r)! , where "!" means factorial (which is calculated like this 4!=4×3×2×1)
In your case n=7 and r=4, so P = 7!/(7-4)! = 7!/3! = (7×6×5×4×3×2×1) / (3×2×1) = 7×6×5×4 = 840
And of course, you could always just list all possibilities. Let me see: ATERW, ATREW, ARTEW, RETAW ... *fades into distance*
"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..." - Leon M. Lederman
thank you so much, thats really helpful!! i will definately be using this sight again if i have a conundrum!! A+++++!!!
You just need to be careful if you're given a word with repeated letters, like 'deeded'.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
Frankly Speaking
I Did Not Have Clarity In Permutation And Combination, Although I Would Get The Results Correct At Many Times, But Your Explanation
Of Watering 7 X 4 Combination Made It Simpler And Easier.
I Would Like To Ask You To Explain Me One More Puzzle.
There Are Eight Digits In Telephone Numbers.
Keeping The First Two Digit Constant, How Many Different Telephone 8 Digit Numbers Can Be Formed. What Is The Formulae.
Expecting Your Reply
OK, if you have 8 digits number and you want to keep the first 2 digits constants here is what you do:
You have left 6 digits to permute. If the 6 left digits are unique your formula is n! where n equals 6. So you have 6*5*4*3*2*1 different 8 digits numbers. BUT when you have reapeated digits and their number is k, your formula is n!/k!
I hope it makes sence.
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Humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained.
I don't think that's right.
Let's start with one digit. You can go from 0 to 9, so you have 10 choices.
Now two digits. Each are 0-9, with which you can represent all numbers from 00 to 99, 100 choices.
Same for three digits. 1000 choices.
And so on. The answer is 10^x, where x is the number of digits. 10^6 in this case.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
I checked again and it is correct - the formula is n!/k! where n is the number of all digits and k is the number of the repeated one. And here we are talking about exactly 8 digits that are used: for example we have the number
98347836 - and we want to keep the first 2 digits constants and we can permute the other ones: 3,4,7,8,3,6.
and here we have 2 threes, so the formula is 6!/(2*1).
98 347836
98 427836
98 428736
You can count them to see if I am wrong.
Humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained.
Ah, reading again the M.ANAND KUMAR post I understand that he wanted to use any digit in his 8 digits phone number. Sorry, I was wrong, I thought that the 8 digits are constant. Your answer is correct.
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Humankind's inherent sense of right and wrong cannot be biologically explained.
That's my biggest pet peeve ever. Reading a question (especially math!) wrong. I absolutely hate when I do it.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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Who, or what is B?You realize that you have always been lied to -- Ishmael helped you to see that -- but just how far will Mother Culture go to protect herself? The Story of B pushes further into the place that we all must journey if we are to maintain human life on the planet: into our own history, and out of the lies. Forget everything you ever learned. It's all a lie.
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Continuing the visionary journey begun in Ishmael, The Story Of B is a remarkable and provocative novel of intrigue involving the Antichrist and the hidden history of the world.
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Are you having trouble falling asleep during conversations?
Are you in a disco, finding in hard to focus on computer programming?
I have a solution for you, just pop one of these babies in. http://lesh.sysphere.org/dump/weirdforest.mp3
Its a sound that I made that I play when I need to focus and zone out. It has some rain, weird thunder, owls, someone shuffling sticks around and whale noises of course.
I guess it will sound a bit ominous at first but it grows on you
I feel like people aren't freaking out enough about how awesome it is that big universities are publishing their lectures online, some of my favorite ones are
Justice, Michael Sandel (Harward)
Human Behavioral Biology, Sapolsky (Stanford)
I turned these into podcasts that you can download here
about behavioral biology letures, in order to fall in love with Sapolsky, check his short talk on toxoplasmosis parasite
Also, I think his lecture on biological underpinnings of religiosity that is a part of this course is not in the playlist, I think because its pretty controversial, you can find it as an old recording here
will add more stuff to this folder with time.
Quick review of Yuneec e-go cruiser as there aren't that many of those around. I'll try to mention things I was wondering and wasn't able to find out about online. I'm also lazy, so not that many links in this text, use google.
This is a chepaest longboard of a new generation (lipo batteries, sub 10kg) with also one of the best specs.
6 kg, one of the lightest boards around, until marbel comes out and changes the playing field.
Official site claims 30km range. My experience in the real world is closer to 10km.
I'm a dumb kid, I like going fast, and top speed of this board is 20 km/h which seemed slow, but its not. Longboard is not a bicycle, small obstacles would become too dangerous at higher speeds. In order to safely achieve higher speeds in city like environments wheels would have to be at least two times bigger, and then this wouldn't be a typical longboard anymore and it wouldn't be light.
The board is not totally quiet but the noise is nothing too much, some people might even enjoy it.
I don't feel comfortable climbing up sidewalk borders higher then ~5 cm, not sure if it's the lack of experience or just not the thing you would normally do with a 6kg longboard.
Its not waterproof. It will handle some splashing but it happened a few times that I couldn't turn it off before it dried. Its easy to entirely disassemble and assemble, you even get the tool for it with the board.
Yuneec is not friendly about it. I asked. But I'm guessing the board itself would be pretty friendly. Speed could be changed in order to kill myself more easily, I'm light, I'm pretty sure it could go faster then it does, I could for example just change the transmission, or perhaps replace the firmware or the speed controler entirely. And regarding the remote controler, the board supports bluetooth connection to iphone, this could be reversed and a custom controler could be made, for example just a glove which measures how bent your fingers are.
Great, if you talk to European branch. Asian branch is slow to respond if they respond, with bad english. After a week my wheel randomly fell off, the bearing broke. These are good longboard bearings and they said they've never seen this happen before, in a few days I've received a whole new set of wheels.
I never skateboarded but got a hang of it pretty quickly regardless of my awful computer programmer leg coordination. Had it for about a month. The better I get the more fun I have, and I keep thinking how "I could be skating right now". There is like 10% of the people that go insane when they try it and they seem to be ready to sell their soul to satan to get one.
It does perfectly what it intends to do, it's called a cruiser and its a great product for fun commuting.
It turned out that I really like this technology and I'll get a Evolve carbon board which seems to be the best board I can buy right now, its heavier, with big wheels and costs as much as a car so its definetely not for everyone, but putting it out there also. Marbel board looks like an e-go killer, but its not out yet.
When buying, I've made this quick table, haven't found comparisons like this online surprisingly, so I'll share this too.
marbel 40kmh 20km 4.4kg 1299 usd
e-go 20kmh 30km 6.3kg 750 usd
bamboo 38kmh 30km 8kg 1240 usd
bamboo terrain 35kmh 15km 10kg
carbom street 38kmh 40km 8.5kg 1700 usd
carbon terrain 35kmh 25km 10.5kg 2000 usd
boosted 32-35kmh 10km 6-7kg 1300 usd
z-board pro 32kmh 20km 11kg 750 usd
Owned the board for about 4 months now. I've had a lot of hardware issues. Luckily, the support is very good. Drive wheel fell off - bearing broke, they sent me new wheels. Then, the whole board randomly died, shipped it to them, they fixed it, it randomly died again a week later in a slightly different way, shipped it again, waiting to get it back. deliveries in eu are fast (3-4 days one way) but still, the whole process takes at least 10ish days when there is an issue like this. I think 25% of the time I've owned the board, I couldn't use it.
I also met another person which owned a board for much longer then me, treats it badly, and have had 0 issues.
people often ask me why I own a drone, what is it for, and then half of the time they say that I could use it to record weddings and get some cash flowin'
If mention of recording weddings doesn't kill all my will for conversation, I'll say drones are so simple to make these days that I find it hard to justify not owning one. also, at the time there is no regulation and no one ever counts on you owning a flying robot, so its a sweet spot to own one. a drone is a flying sidekick, it can, in theory, do whatever a flying sidekick can do. it can enter through windows and steal jewlery with its tiny robot hands. Sounds ridicilous but technically it is not hard to do. In the following years we'll have to rethink space and what can be done, and before that happens, I get to be a kind of a superhero.
today, drones are very primitive. I'll fix some parts that I care about. and if I make anything useful, Im guessing drone related kickstarter projects would be welcome.
a few ideas,
few concrete things to work on, sorted by priority
this is a lot of work, but none of it is far fetched and all of this will be done soon, if not by me, then by someone else
if you care about this project, you can follow it at http://lesh.sysphere.org/tagcloud/personal_drone rss @ http://lesh.sysphere.org/tagcloud/personal_drone/rss.xml
We've discovered a strange man made island while looking at satelite images of cebu bay 10.284983,123.902841
I'm publishing this information as the last info I could find online was a few years old and we didn't know what to expect.. This is what we knew,
Formerly a Fuel Depot of Shell Pilipinas. It was return to the government in 1990's. There was some Human Rights issues raised after the government took control because it was made as a "temporary housing" facility for known petty criminals one week before a Sinulog Festival. They were herded and housed for two weeks or during the duration of the festival.. a free board and lodging..
We approached the island from mactan side in a small kayak, we had 5 km to pass through a strange shallow shrubberish water, I'd recommend approaching from cebu side which is cleaner and is only 1 km away from the island. Some people live there, they were not particulary happy or sad to see us, they've built a small duck farm in one of the buildings and a few dogs are roaming around. Industry on the island has been entirely stripped down, a few buildings are still standing and the most interesting thing is a half sunken 15m-ish boat in what remains of the port.
So, we'd like to carry a boat for going down rivers and exploring curious things on water, while being self sufficient with food and camping equipment. Giving up on the boat and building bamboo rafts was one of the propositions:) We ended up buying a small 12kg inflatible kayak that packs in a 60L backpack,
I've discovered today that we are completely defeated by this awesome guy 200 years ago.
1840s, Peter Halkett Invented an unusual boat.
Halkett had long been interested in the difficulties of travelling in the Canadian Arctic, and the problems involved in designing boats light enough to be carried over arduous terrain, but robust enough to be used in extreme weather conditions. the hull of the boat could be worn as a cloak, the oar used as a walking stick, and the sail as an umbrella
Spurred on by the successful testing of the boat-cloak, Halkett designed a larger version that folded into a knapsack. When inflated, it could carry two men, operating a paddle on each side, and when deflated served as a waterproof blanket to allow the users to camp on wet ground Although the Admiralty saw no use to which Halkett's designs could be put in general naval service, this larger design was extremely well received by explorers
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008
The Care Bear Cake
8 comments:
- kia (good enough mama) said...
Hahahaha. I think your hubs should back away from the puns.... Hahahahahaha. If he refuses though, how about this name for his bakery: We've Got Your Buns???
Ok. I won't quit my day job. Oh, wait. I don't have a day job. Sigh...
- December 2, 2008 at 8:38 PM
- Stonefox (otherwise known as Heidi) said...
Patty, you guys did a great job! Maybe Bil is onto something...
- December 2, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Can I marry Bil? Boy what a talent!
Love the name of his shop.
I like hot Cross Puns Bakery
- December 3, 2008 at 10:54 AM
- a Tonggu Momma said...
BwwwwaHaHaHa! I love the bakery name. And I find it totally appropriate. Plus, I love the Care Bears.
- December 3, 2008 at 4:47 PM
- mrsbear said...
Okay, I do love that song and I love muffins so why not? That cake actually looks lovely, did it taste as yummy as it looked.
- December 3, 2008 at 10:18 PM
- Elizabeth Channel said...
So inspired! I see real talent here!
- December 4, 2008 at 12:01 AM
- Shellie said...
Now that is cool! Like the pun even!
- December 5, 2008 at 1:20 AM
- Elizabeth said...
Cute cake...Bils giving me a run for my money. Sorry I didn't call Char on her birthday. She is getting her gift in the mail with the Christmas gifts. Loved the story about the play food. Betsy ( I don't know why but my name is Elizabeth)
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Black and Latino People Should Thank Coca-Cola for Targeting Them, Says Ad Guy
There are few things more delightful than waking up on an average Monday morning here in Post-Racial America to the following real headline from a column in Ad Age: "Hats Off to the Soft-Drink Industry for Giving Attention to Hispanics and Blacks." Hats off to you, marketers of nutrition-free sugar water! You are trying to sell your product to minorities. You are all the real heroes.
David Morse is a professional multicultural marketer—and a white guy, not that that matters in Post-Racial America, we're just pointing that out in order to fill space, is all—and he's come to rebut the outrageous claim by some former soda executive that perhaps it was wrong for the Coca-Cola corporation to disproportionately target black and Latino communities in, it must be said, exactly the same way that cigarette companies did, in an attempt to gain lifelong addicts/ consumers. After acknowledging that all of this is true, David Morse throws down hardcore knowledge:
In the interest of transparency, let me confess my bias. I've done a lot of work over the years for one of the big soft-drink companies. Let me point out that I've seen that company do a lot to increase consumption of its diet drinks, bottled water, juice and healthy snacks. But let's face it. Hispanics and African Americans are much less interested in diet products. Sugary drinks — often the sweeter the better — do well with them. There are a lot of cultural barriers to getting both these groups to understand the importance of being lean.
"The fault is with overconsumption. Responsibility lies with parents. A contributing factor is culture," writes David Morse, professional multicultural marketer of sugar water to minorities. I wonder, though, crazy question here, I know, but, just hypothetically—I wonder if another "contributing factor" could be, perhaps, the decades-long multimillion-dollar minority-targeted marketing campaigns for these very products? The things which are actually the titular topic of this very article? Could they, perchance, be playing a role in all this? Ah, well. Don't be ungrateful, minorities.
As a multicultural marketer, I applaud the leadership of the soft-drink industry in recognizing the changing face of America. Many of their African-American and Hispanic customers do too.
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Author Notes: One of the best Italian restaurants that I have ever been to is here in Charlottesville, Virginia. Tavola is a tiny, rustic Italian spot with delicious food and a comforting, warm environment. Every dish that I have tried here has been incredible especially their house made pastas. The last time I ate there, I tried the Shrimp Capellini which was tossed with a creamy gorgonzola butter sauce studded with diced tomatoes and capers. It was phenomenal and I didn't even think I liked gorgonzola cheese! The taste is so subtle but lends a nice bite to the comforting dish.
Tavola's version uses meyer lemons and an Italian white wine called Trebbiano. Any dry white wine will work if you can't find Trebbiano. If you are ever in the Charlottesville, Virginia area, you MUST try this restaurant. But if you can't get there, this version is pretty close to the real deal. —Plum Pie
Serves: 4
tablespoons olive or grapeseed oil
pound large shrimp, peeled and deveined
garlic cloves, 2 minced and 4 thinly sliced
large leeks, thinly sliced
box of capellini or angel hair pasta
tablespoons butter, softened
ounces gorgonzola dulce (or blue cheese of choice)
meyer lemons (or regular lemons)
cups Trebbiano or other Italian white wine
cup clam juice
roma tomatoes, remove seeds and dice into 1-inch cubes (should be about two cups)
cup parsley, minced
cup capers, drained
- Heat one tablespoon butter and one tablespoon oil in a large saucepan.
- Season shrimp with salt and pepper. Add to the hot pan being careful not the crowd the pan (you can do this in two batches if you need to). Cook shrimp for 2-3 minutes on one side until it easily releases from the pan and is pink. Cook for another 2 minutes and remove from pan (don't worry if they aren't completely cooked. They will finish cooking with the pasta at the end of the dish.
- In the same pan that was used to cook the shrimp, heat another tablespoon of olive oil and butter.
- Add leeks and cook over medium-low heat until softened and caramelizing, about 10-15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, mince two large garlic cloves and thinly slice the other 4 cloves.
- Combine the remaining 4 tablespoons of softened butter with the gorgonzola cheese and two cloves of minced garlic. Zest one lemon and add to the gorgonzola butter. Mix thoroughly and set aside.
- Add sliced garlic (from 4 cloves) to the leeks and cook for about 2 minutes until softened. Add Trebbiano (or other white wine) and clam juice and reduce by half. Once reduced by half, add the juice of two lemons.
- Prepare pasta water for capellini. Add salt and a drop of olive oil to water and bring to a bowl. Cook capellini according to package directions.
- Reserve about 2 cups of pasta water. Add 1/2 cup of pasta water to leek-wine sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add gorgonzola butter, tomatoes, shrimp, parsley, and capers to sauce. Add capellini to the pan and cook, tossing the pasta with the sauce until the sauce coats pasta, about 3-4 minutes. If sauce seems too runny, cook for another few minutes. If sauce seems too thick, add more pasta water until you achieve your desired consistency.
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Since we didn't need those features, MEF seemed like a good choice. But as it turns out, there is a more subtle problem when using MEF as a general purpose dependency injection container. Consider the following example:
public class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var container = new CompositionContainer( new AssemblyCatalog(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly())); var a = container.GetExportedValue<A>(); } } [Export] public class A { private readonly B b; [ImportingConstructor] public A(B b) { this.b = b; } } [Export] public class B { private readonly C c; [ImportingConstructor] public B(C c) { this.c = c; } } public class C { }
The export attribute is missing on the C class in my example. Since class A indirectly depends on class C, we get an error when we try to get an A instance from the container:
System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException was unhandled Message=No valid exports were found that match the constraint '((exportDefinition.ContractName == "DITest.A") AndAlso (exportDefinition.Metadata.ContainsKey("ExportTypeIdentity") AndAlso "DITest.A".Equals(exportDefinition.Metadata.get_Item("ExportTypeIdentity"))))', invalid exports may have been rejected. Source=System.ComponentModel.Composition StackTrace: ...
Implementing Optional Exports with MEF Stable Composition.
Useful as it may be, stable composition comes at a price. Since MEF can't tell the difference between critical and non-critical parts, the missing dependency error may cascade upward until you get a mysterious ImportCardinalityMismatchException like the one above.
The MEF documentation on Diagnosing Composition Problems acknowledges this and provides some hints on how to debug such problems. Still, for large compositions the process is far from pleasant. Things are even worse if you have some circular dependencies.
Perhaps it would be better to use Autofac to do the core application composition. It doesn't attempt dynamic discovery or stable composition, so the error messages point straight at the missing dependencies. And with the MEF integration, you can still use MEF for the parts of the application where you do need dynamic discovery and stable composition.


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Roping Geologic Time
Randall Richardson, The University of Arizona
After having talked about the geologic time scale, I ask for two volunteers from the class to hold a rope that is 50 feet long. I say that one end is the beginning of the Earth (4.6 billion years ago), and the other is today. I then give out 16 clothes pins and ask various students to put a cloths pin on the 'time line' at various 'geologic events'. Throughout the activity I have a quiz going on where the students calculate percentages of Earth History for major geologic events, and compare it to their own ages. On their time scale, the dinosaurs died only about two 'months' ago! The exercise is very effective at letting them get a sense of how long geologic time is, and how 'recently' some major geologic events happened when you consider a time scale that is the age of the earth.
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Relative Geologic Time and the Geologic Time Scale
Bret Bennington, Hofstra University
Group simulation of the development of the geologic time scale illustrating concepts of correlation and relative time. Extremely effective for teaching the significance of the geologic time scale.
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Geologic Time Calculations
Francisco San Juan, Elizabeth City State University
Radiometric age determination using parent/daughter composition and a radiometric decay curve.
Geologic Time Resorts
JoAnn Thissen, Nassau Community College
In this Geologic Time Resorts activity students do in-depth research on a given geologic time period of the Phanerozoic Eon and create brochures "selling" their time period as a resort destination.
Metaphor for the geologic time scale
Cara Thompson
Students choose an object or concept that they are familiar with (e.g., football field, pint of beer, etc) and calculate the cumulative amount of that object or concept that represents intervals of geologic time. ...
Toilet Paper Analogy for Geologic Time
Jennifer Wenner, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
An in class demonstration of the vastness of geologic time using a 1000-roll sheet of toilet paper and unrolling it around the room.
Learning Assessment #6 - Geologic Time (2010)
Leslie Reid, University of Calgary; Michelle Speta, University of Calgary
An in-class activity that tests students' understanding of the principles of relative age, absolute age and numerical age dating.
Learning Assessment #5 - Geologic Time (2011)
Leslie Reid, University of Calgary; Michelle Speta, University of Calgary
An in-class activity that tests students' understanding of the principles of relative age, absolute age and numerical age bracketing.
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Driving Through Geologic Time - An analogy
Eric Baer, Highline Community College
An analogy of the Earth's history to a cross-country drive.
South Carolina Studies: Bringing the Geologic Time Scale Down to Earth in the Students' Backyard
John Wagner, Clemson University
Students visit Drayton Hall historic plantation near Charleston, South Carolina and are led on a field trip that starts with a discussion of documented historic changes that have affected the mansion and the surrounding property. The field trip continues with a study of Native American artifacts and ends with analysis of coastal plain deposits exposed along the Ashley River. Students use paleogeographic maps to discuss both historic and prehistoric changes to the landscape. Back in the classroom, students gather data to draw paleogeographic maps of their own school site through geologic time.


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Red Sweater of Doom
Hello friends!
I haven't posted in a while, but I sure have been reading! There are so many Zimmerman designs that in my stubbornness I wouldn't ever have the balls1 to try. I must admit to a slight aversion to knitting things that aren't in the round (rows? are you kidding me? Never!), which leaves out so many great garter stitch garments. I think that jared's tomten might have lit a fire under my rear, so there might be a tomten in my future. Maybe.The sweater I'm going to share today you, I've been calling my "red sweater of doom" for some time (mostly during the 2 months it took me to finally knit the sleeves), but I named it "Turkish Delight" on ravelry. (I'm tychoish there as well.)
This is mostly my design, I took the chart from the Anatolian Stocking Designs book that Meg has referenced at a couple of points. There might have been a little bit of manipulation of one of the designs (the diamond) to make it more... square, it's weird in the book, and the little "angel fish" are my own creation, and the medallion is from Sheila McGregor's Traditional Fair Isle Book. So pretty eclectic.
I wanted to have a Fair Isle project for working on when I was at camp, and I was expecting this to be yet another drop shouldered sweater (which wasn't a problem, I like dropped shoulders), and then Meg said at camp, "so you can set in sleeves using an EPS yoke."
I spent the entire trip home figuring out how to do it, and then I did. I think it worked out pretty well in the end. The main error, isn't immediately noticeable: I neglected to set in the sleeves far enough. Better luck next time. Here are pictures, starting with the stitch pattern:
A view from the front:
A view from the rear:
I should point out much to my own amusement and joy, that I knit the sleeves from the top down, despite the color work and the half stitch discrepancy, and it worked. Nifty, eh?
I wanted to add another note, on a related topic. I'm going to host a knit along for my "sport sweater" in the new year (here's another). I'm not quite ready to start, the pattern is still in draft but this is a great sweater that I hope is very much in the tradition of Elizabeth. It's simple, there's little moments of where you can show off your knitting brilliance, and it's a good design for boys. I'll post a brief note when I have the pattern ready for distribution, but I just wanted to give you all a little heads up now.
At the moment I'm pretty focused on getting this sweater done.
Thanks, and best wishes!
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Bacon and Kimchi Steamed Buns with Carrot and Cucumber Slaw Recipe
Your source for quick recipe every single week day.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 4 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons dark brown sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled, cut into 1/4-inch wide and 3-inch long matchsticks
- 1 medium carrot, peeled, cut into 1/4-inch wide and 3-inch long matchsticks
- 1-inch piece ginger, peeled, julienned
- 12 frozen Chinese folded steamed buns (let come to room temperature)
- 6 slices thick-cut bacon
- 1 1/2 cups kimchi, roughly chopped
Combine rice vinegar, brown sugar, and salt in a medium-sized bowl, and whisk until sugar and salt dissolve. Add the cucumber, carrot, and ginger, and stir well. Transfer the bowl to the fridge for at least 15 minutes.
Cook the steamed buns according to the directions on the packaging. (I cooked them for 10 minutes in a steamer basket set over a large pot of gently simmering water. Microwaving also works.)
While the buns steam, cook bacon in a large cast-iron skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 10 minutes. When done, set bacon aside on paper towels, and remove all but 1 tablespoon of bacon fat. Add chopped kimchi and cook until any liquid with the kimchi evaporates, 1 to 2 minutes.
For each bun, add a layer of kimchi, 1/2 slice of bacon, and layer of the carrot and cucumber salad. Serve immediately.


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The Big Bang Theory Season 11
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Photos by Luke Callahan
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READ MATTHEW 1 & 2 tonight and come up with 10 questions each
1. how many generations between Abrham and Christ ?
2. what does Jesus's name mean ?
3. what nationalitly is Christ recognised as in the gospels?
4. who was herod mocked by ?
5. define Betrothed
6. where did joseph mary and the child flee to ?
...... that will do for now also
Q1: um well 3 x 14 + 42 but when i counted em up i only got 39 so not to sure on that one!! good start!!
Q2: um thats a bit confusing cause the first angel that called him jesus said thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins. Or is it "God with us?"
Q3: Bethleham of Judaea
Q4: magi
Q5: Married i think
Q6: Egypt
1. How many appearings did joseph have ?
2. Matthews Gospel is a book of the generation of......
3. The reference to....where the Lord spoke to them thru the prophet.......where did that come from and not that Emmanuel is spelt differently in the first reference!! dont know why!!
4. wot did herod comand after he had been mocked by magi?
5. wot was Herods sons name?
6. wot did the prophets say that jesus shall be called when they arrived at Nazareth?
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