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Canadian universities tumble in rankings as China rises
Times Higher Education rankings, released Wednesday, will add fuel to the debate over how Canada can keep up with global competition. Simona Chiose crunches the numbers
The Globe and Mail Last updated: Thursday, Sep. 22, 2016 12:25PM EDT
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A University of British Columbia student waits to receive his diploma during a graduation ceremony in 2012.
A University of British Columbia student waits to receive his diploma at a 2012 graduation ceremony.
Canada's top three universities have slipped in global rankings this year in the face of global competition, each falling two to four places in the world's most closely watched university ratings table.
The University of Toronto landed at No. 22 (from No. 19), the University of British Columbia is at No. 36 (34), and McGill University is No. 42 (38). They are the only three Canadian schools to crack the Top 100 in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.
Released Wednesday, this year's list also shows schools in China and Hong Kong are on a clear upward trajectory, with two Chinese universities leaping ahead by double digits to overtake UBC and McGill.
"What is threatening Canada is that other nations are investing and improving, which means someone else has to move down," said Phil Baty, editor of the rankings.
Top 5 Canadian schools
22 19 University of Toronto
36 34 University of British Columbia
42 38 McGill University
103 113 University of Montreal
107 137 University of Alberta
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The top 10 schools worldwide
1 2 University of Oxford United Kingdom
2 1 California Institute of Technology United States
3 3 Stanford University United States
4 4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
5 5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States
6 6 Harvard University United States
7 7 Princeton University United States
8 8 Imperial College London United Kingdom
9 9 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich Switzerland
10 13 University of California, Berkeley United States
10 10 University of Chicago United States
Times Higher Education World University Rankings
The rankings are a crucial tool for recruiting students, faculty and staff. A lofty rank also leads to further investment from industry and international collaborations. And surveys of employers have shown that graduates from the most highly rated universities are more competitive in the labour market.
"The rankings are hugely important for students and their families in helping them make an important decision about who to trust with [their] education, and how to invest a substantial amount of money," Mr. Baty said.
The rankings
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This year's decline will likely fuel the debate over whether Canada can keep up, or whether it wants to. It is not the first time that all of the top three institutions have declined in ranking at the same time: UBC and McGill experienced steeper drops in 2012. But investments in China raise the urgency of the situation.
Over the last several years, China has poured billions into its elite institutions to increase their research capacity. A year ago, the country announced that it wanted to see six of its universities crack the elite Top 15 universities by 2030. In comparison, the Canada First Research Excellence Fund is investing $1.5-billion over 10 years in university-based research projects in the hope that the money will propel the grant-winners onto the world stage.
For China, the rankings go far beyond the sector and are seen as geopolitical indicators, Mr. Baty said.
"It's about 'are we seeing this huge investment pay off? Are we challenging the traditional elites?'"
Canada's highest-ranked universities have long argued that federal and provincial governments must fund postsecondary education in a way that recognizes the outsized economic and research contribution made by the top schools.
At the same time, four of the eight Canadian universities that made it into the top 200 had a better showing this year than in 2015.
"The big dilemma is should Canada be happy with a strong system," Mr. Baty said. "You don't just have one or two superstars and a weak system. You have two or three in the top, and a few in the 100-range, and some in the 200 area. That's because there has been a tradition of equal funding."
According to a report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development released last week, Canadian public spending per student in postsecondary education falls around the OECD average.
But other countries that spend only slightly more have had phenomenal success placing more of their institutions in the top 100. Last year, for example, Netherlands counted nine universities above that marker.
As in Germany, universities in the Netherlands specialize in research that could lead to further graduate study or offer more professional training that gets students ready for work after they graduate.
"The countries that are really efficient are small countries," said Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates. "Netherlands have really thought about differentiation. In some ways they are much more of an interesting model for a province like Ontario," he said.
Long-term, the trends in Canada are still strong, said Meric Gertler, president of the University of Toronto, which dropped three spots to No. 22 after spending the prior six years in a band between 17 and 21.
Most of the universities in the top 20 are private institutions in the United States and United Kingdom, Dr. Gertler said. They benefit from rich and long-established endowments, high tuition fees and industry income.
Our "return on investment is pretty good if you consider the funding per student that we work with," Dr. Gertler said.
Still, the system's overall showing this year should provoke a conversation, he added.
"To to what extent do we value high performance in education?" he asked, and added: "To me, it speaks volumes about the need for Canada to double down in its investment both in research and teaching."
The Times rankings: Three key takeways
Canada: a medium-ranking education power
Even with 980 universities ranked on this year's table – the highest number ever – only a fraction of the world's postsecondary institutions make the grade. Excluded are schools that do not teach undergraduates or schools wat which faculties have averaged fewer than 200 published articles a year.
"My sense is that we will never exceed 1,000 universities," said Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. "There are probably 20,000 higher-education universities in the world, and a lot are focused on skills and teaching."
In Canada, only 25 out of more than 90 universities were ranked in 2015, with most showing up at spots between 200 and 400. Within those numbers, many well-known higher-ed schools – including Queen's University, the University of Calgary, the University of Waterloo and Simon Fraser University – show remarkable stability, maintaining their places or improving them slightly.
Focusing on whether a university made the table or not, and where it landed, ultimately harms Canada's smaller institutions, said Michelle Stack, an associate professor of educational studies at the University of British Columbia and the author of a book on the rise of global university rankings.
"I talk to high-school students who say, 'I have to get into UBC or U of T or I'm a failure,'" Dr. Stack said. "It is a detriment in the long term, because our system has been one of saying that you can go to different universities that are all equally worthy. It depends on what [the student's] goals are."
An A in every subject?
To receive an outstanding score for the overall ranking, universities must do well in most of the five areas in which schools are assessed. A majority of the mark is based on performance in teaching, research and journal citations. International outlook – measured in domestic-to-international staff and student ratios, and international collaborations – accounts for another 7.5 per cent.
Income from industry is worth 2.5 per cent.
University performance by category, 2016
University of TorontoUBCPeking UniversityOxford University
Scores out of 100
Scores out of 100
International outlook
Industry income
Category University of Toronto UBC Peking University Oxford University
Teaching 74.6 61.2 84.6 89.6
International outlook 78.3 92 50.3 94.5
Research 86.3 72.5 80.3 99.1
Citations 91.9 92.9 71.6 99.2
Industry income 48.8 41.1 100 62.5
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While no school can afford a D in any category, there are differences even among closely ranked institutions, reflecting whether they are stronger in research or teaching.
"There are some institutions that will come up with a strategy," said Santa Ono, current president of UBC and past president of the University of Cincinnati. "They will dissect different components of the equation for a particular ranking scheme and see what they can do to improve," he said.
Many Canadian schools have room to grow their income from industry.
"In a lot of countries, particularly in East Asia, they say universities are the powerhouses of the knowledge economy," Mr. Baty said. "Engineering companies should be funding research and research should be creating innovations for the economy."
On the other hand, some of the high marks for industry income are the result of universities actually being owned by a company, said Alex Usher, president of Higher Education Strategy Associates. South Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology, for example, was established by a steel company.
"When making international comparisons, sometimes there is weirdness in particular countries," Mr. Usher said.
Competition among the rankers
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is such a prominent global university table that it has sometimes been called the Emmys, the Olympics or the Oscars of the university world.
"It becomes a spectacle," UBC's Dr. Stack said.
This year, for example, the publication started promoting its ranking weeks before the release, and asked PricewaterhouseCoopers to independently audit its findings.
But the World University Rankings is far from the only game in town. The Academic Ranking of World Universities focuses on research and particularly on whether alumni or faculty have won Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals, and have had their research published in key journals. The QS Rankings place more emphasis on academic reputation.
For Dr. Stack, those metrics do not fully capture the impact that universities can make on their countries or regions. "What's not looked at are things like community engagement," she said. "What about a university that is doing good work in [Vancouver's] Downtown Eastside?"
As an alternative, she points to a system such as the Carnegie Classification that includes a community-engagement measure.
For now, more universities are trying to raise their profile by becoming part of a well-known ranking scheme.
"I understand university leaders not turning their back on rankings," Dr. Stack said. "To be invisible in this market economy of education is seen as really dangerous."


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In ageless earth the properties of matter
Transformed some dust in molten temperature
To a sparkling diamond lusterless
Where it lay unseen a sleeping princess
Until enlightened by the light itself.
So within us lies our real wealth,
The diamond in the skull, invisible
As dust within its earthen crucible
Before the day when molten suffering
Inflames our heart, and in the scorching pain
Are forged new depths of sight and ways of hearing.
Avid as miners we then descend again
To find within, the uncertain dark now clearing
And what was so long obscured laid plain.
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Why did Alicia leave Peter? Didn't she love him? - I guess not.¿Por qué dejó Alicia a Peter?¿No lo quería? - Supongo que no.
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"Rewriting the Myths, Redefining the Realities"
There is a haze in the valley today;
Too many are too good to ride the bus.
Got to have my ride to myself.
A few drops of Dr. Pepper roll
In a bottle in the aisle of the RTD.
Thirsty as I am I decline;
Someone has poisoned the world.
I must keep up my guard.
I watch the architecture roll past.
I reflect how poorly we house ourselves.
What I'm doing here is my mystery.
All I seem to be doing is chalking up history.
Barely awake, groping for side of bed;
I hit a metal railing.
Panicky – not at home –
Groping around, I hit something.
A voice asks, "What do you need?"
"Where am I – I need to get up, to go
to the bathroom."
A long time passes – I feel warm
wetness under me.
Someone is putting down the side
railing, assisting me to arise;
Grumbling, "Should have called me earlier."
"Where am I – I want to go home."
"This is Sunny View Nursing Home;
This is your home now."
"No – not MY home."
Sitting in a chair, waiting as my
bedding is being changed,
I remember – was it yesterday?
Someone came – said something
about Olmstead – rhymes with homestead –
And about going home – MY home.
Not nursing home.
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Episode 6 of season 2 The Following: Fly Away continues with the evolution of Joe Carroll, Ryan Murphy and all those peripheral characters affected by their own brand of obsession and can really be summed by that old song title Love Hurts. The overall theme of this weeks episode seems to focus on how each camp's followers – Camp Carroll and Camp Murphy – are affected by the chaotic and murderous activity which they are all engaged in.
While last week's show featured what must be the best line ever in the series to date: Emma to Joe, "You realize that they're all crazy right?" This from the girl whose Hostess Twinkie is missing a lot of its gooey middle. In Fly Away events from last week are peaking. Gisele's death, at the hands of Ryan, shows how great the difference is between Lily's murderous, and mad as a hatter, twins. Ryan is getting repaired by Max and even this "level-headed" cop is getting caught up in her uncle's mad obsession with Carroll. Calling Mike Weston, who is just as transfixed on getting Joe as Murphy, the wounded Ryan tells Mike that he's found the entire Lily clan and Joe. Weston's instructions are to inform the FBI and get the troops lined up to descend on the crazed and homicidal family.
Lily is still attempting to control Joe, which he does not like, and she tells him of an escape plan which entails flying into Venezuela where she has contacts. This international nutcase also reveals that the country does not have a full extradition policy with the U.S. and that he'll be safe there. Carroll is not overly enthusiastic about this little plan and Lily does not notice as she is too busy setting things up and controlling her twin sons and dealing with the death of Giselle. As a result of Lily having to take charge, she does not notice that Joe is not following her plan with an enthusiasm. Luke has a mini melt-down and Lily, who is after all the Queen Bee of this psychotic brood, takes charge after telling both the twins that they should have told her Murphy was in the mix.
The Following: Fly Away shows just how far Mike Weston has invested his own obsession with getting Carroll. Weston, can also be added to the category of love hurts; as he himself is a devoted fanboy of Ryan Murphy and has his own version of love for the driven Murphy.Once the FBI agent shows up, he informs the other two members of the "Catch Carroll" trio that the FBI has been "compromised" and that he has not brought the cavalry with him as asked. Weston also still has issues from his kidnap and torture by Carroll's followers and his physical violence toward Lily's son, which includes a great home run smack with a 2X4 to Luke's head has intensified as has his obvious hate towards all who follow Joe.
Joe finally admits to Emma that he has no faith in Lily's plan and he wants to team back up with the remaining member of his first group of followers. In actuality, Carroll knows that he can continue to manipulate Emma, unlike Lily who has the firm upper hand in their relationship. The level of violence by the "good guys" increases exponentially and by the end of the episode, bodies fall and Lily swears revenge on Murphy and it seems that Ryan and his little troop will now have two "big bads" to deal with in future. Add to this newest influence the fact that both of Murphy's helpers have quite possibly ruined their respective careers in law enforcement and the underlying theme that love hurts seems appropriate.
The introduction of Lily and her international house of psychos was a welcome addition to this suspenseful thriller. While previous episodes managed to lose that shockable factor that featured so heavily in the first season, things pick up in this segment and as fatalities increase and betrayal becomes the catchphrase of this episode, The Following picks its pace up and surges forward. Fly Away ends with quite a few members of the Carroll camp finding that unconditional love hurts, so much so that it can kill. Murphy's gang or crusaders are also heading for a big fall as it does seem that, as Weston said, the FBI has been compromised. This week saw a return to the taut, crisp style of season 1 that made for edge of the seat viewing. Carroll reverts to form when telling Lily that her dead son was not a favorite of his anyway. Classic Carroll combined with increased madness from Team Murphy; this show does not disappoint and is almost compulsive viewing. Let the madness continue.
By Michael Smith


text: Dr Terry Marsh is a freelance writer and photographer specialising in travel and the outdoors. In particular, he specialises in France, an ardent Francophile and owner of two France-related websites www.francediscovered.com and www.lovefrenchfood.com. He is also a principal writer for Michelin Green Guides, mainly to France, but also Britain, Scotland and Andalucia. His other areas of interest are the UK generally, but specifically the Scottish islands with which he's been having a love affair since the 1960s. He is the author of more than 100 books.


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Cruffins are basically a hybrid of croissants & muffins. If you love a good golden buttery flaky crispy croissant, you'll love these too!
Traditional croissant dough made from scratch requires lots of rolls and folds and chilling in between, and it can be a daunting task for sure. I came across this blog where the author used a pasta machine to roll out the dough and it didn't require ANY folding or chilling in between. I was hooked and couldn't shake the cruffins image out of my head for days!! I don't own a pasta machine hence it was the old trusted rolling pin for me, but it wasn't as cumbersome as the croissant dough and results were just unmatched!
Edit (Dec 2018) – I finally have a pasta roller attachment for my KitchenAid, and it became so much easier to make these cruffins!
Origin of these cruffins might be little dicey, but they were made popular by a famous San Francisco bakery, where people queue for hours to get a taste! There were even burglars who went in and stole just their recipe book but left other valuables intact! Such is the power of a good pastry 🙂
I made two versions – one with good plain rich butter and another with almond-sugar paste. I also would love to try out chocolate next time I make these 🙂
Ingredients –
Cruffins Dough
300g all-purpose flour
160 ml (2/3 cup) milk, lukewarm temperature
40g unsalted butter, room temperature
40g (about 3 tbsp + 1 tsp) granulated white sugar
10g (1/2 tbsp) honey
1 1/2 tsp (6g) instant dry yeast
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
Almond Filling
50g unsalted butter, soft at room temperature
50g granulated white sugar
50g ground almonds or almond meal
1 tsp all purpose flour
1 egg yolk **
couple drops of almond extract (optional)
50-100g unsalted butter, room temperature if making plain butter cruffins
Procedure –
Almond Filling
1. Mix all the ingredients together until combined. Keep it aside for filling later.
Cruffins Dough
1. In a bowl, mix half of the warm milk, honey and the yeast. Leave it aside for 10 minutes till the yeast activated and it gets frothy.
2. In another large bowl, add the flour, sugar, butter, salt and remaining milk. Add the yeast mixture and mix with a wooden spoon until well combined. Take the mixture out on a lightly floured surface and knead it for about 10-15 minutes till the dough becomes smooth and elastic. If using a stand mixer, knead it for about 10 minutes using the dough hook. Oil the bowl a bit and let the dough rest in the bowl covered with a cling film for about an hour or until it doubles in size. Refer to my notes at the end for checking if the dough is proofed.
Shaping the Cruffins
1. Take the dough out on a lightly floured surface and divide it into 12 equal portions. Work with 2 portions at a time and cover the rest loosely with plastic wrap.
2. Roll one portion out to a rectangle about 12/13 inches length and about 1cm thickness. Gently rub a thin layer of the room-temperature butter (has to be very soft but NOT MELTED) or the almond filling mixture evenly across the dough, extending all the way to the edges. Roll the dough from one end to the other, as tightly as you can, into a firm log shape. Repeat the process for another portion. Keeping the first log at one end of the second rolled out portion and roll it up again. Cut the log in half length-wise.
Making Butter Cruffins
Making Almond Cruffins
3. With the cut-side facing outwards, loosely twirl it into a semi-knot to shape it like a muffin and tuck in the ends. Place the cruffins into a greased muffin tray. Repeat the process with other 10 portions to get a total of 12 cruffins. (I made a mix of butter cruffins and almond cruffins)
4. Cover the muffin tray with a cling film and let it rise for the second time for about 1-2 hours till they are double in size.
5. Preheat your oven to 180C/350F and bake the cruffins for about 28-30 minutes till they turn golden brown.
6. Let cool slightly on a cooling rack, then remove from the muffin tray and dust with icing sugar.
Notes –
1. You can roll a strip of chocolate or some grated chocolate bar in the first roll to make chocolate cruffins.
2. If you do not want to dust cruffins with icing sugar, apply some egg wash just before baking. You can also rub a warm cruffin in granulated sugar all throughout.
3. After shaping the cruffins and putting them in the muffin tray, you can wrap the entire tray with plastic wrap and leave it in the fridge overnight if baking the next morning. Just proof it again at room temperature till they double in size.
4. ** Egg yolk is used to help binding. You can add a little more Almond powder to get a thick paste like consistency.
How to check if the dough is proofed –
Gently push your finger into the dough –
a. if it springs back immediately, it's not proofed yet
b. if it springs back slowly, it's done – the gluten strands are strong enough to hold the gas but still allow some expansion.
c. if it doesn't spring back at all and the indent stays, it's over-proofed.
Recipe inspired by Mandy from Lady & Pups blog


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Have you found that preparing meals for your family is becoming a chore? Cooking is a task that should be enjoyable, and not one that you dread. This article will give you some helpful tips for hassle-free, easy to prepare meals. After you put the information from this article to good use, you will undoubtedly wish that you'd come across it sooner.
If cooking with skewers is something you are considering, then you will want to know certain things. Twisted or square shaped metal skewers hold the food better than round ones will.
You should know a few things before you cook anything on a skewer. Metal skewers will work better if they are twisted or squared.
You should store your spices and herbs in a cool dry space out of direct sunlight to avoid flavor loss. If they are exposed to light, heat or humidity, they will lose much of their flavor. Usually herbs and ground spices tend to stay fresh for about a year. Though if you have whole spices, you will notice the flavors are strong for 3-5 years. Keep spices fresh for the longest time possible by storing them correctly.
When adding oil to a pan or skillet that already contains food, drizzle the oil down the side of the pan. The oil will heat as it flows toward the center. This helps to boost the food's flavor when it is done.
Get your ingredients squared away ahead of time. Try to have the prep work completed before cooking; this is important. That way, when you're ready to cook, it takes some of the stress out of it, especially if you have a deadline to meet. Prepare early to avoid later stress.
Here's a trick you can use to save your sauce fast! Make a mixture of two tablespoons of water and one tablespoon corn starch. Add this mix to your sauce to thicken it. Don't add all the starch at once, and avoid stirring erratically. Either of these could over-thicken the sauce.
If you are making a meal for someone that you want to make a good impression on, be sure to make something you know how to make well. You should never attempt to cook some new dish or even a new ingredient you've never attempted. Cooking will be less stressful this way.
Did you ever feel badly for throwing moldy fruit in the garbage? Should you save fruits by cutting out moldy parts? Unfortunately, there isn't any way to salvage fruit that has begun to rot. Any rotten or moldy fruits should be discarded immediately, even if it just looks like surface mold. Mold can actually be deeper in the fruit, even if you can't see it. When you consume it, it can cause a number of illnesses.
Apples are used in cooking mostly during the fall, but you must make sure they are properly kept so that they do not rot. Apples will spoil in warm, dry air, so put them in a loosely tied bag in a cool basement or refrigerator. However, if even one apple becomes rotten, it will quickly spoil all apples in the same bag.
Mashed Potatoes
Cooking with fresh basil? Get a sprout of fresh basil and place it in a glass. Fill the container with enough water to cover the stems. You can put it on the kitchen counter and keep it for weeks. If you replace the basil's water enough, the basil can grow roots while in the water. Cut or trim the basil occasionally to encourage additional growth and you can enjoy fresh basil for some time!
Add cauliflower to your mashes potatoes to make this dish healthier and tastier. Cauliflower blends perfectly with your potatoes without changing the taste of your mashed potatoes. You'll still be able to enjoy mashed potatoes, but with less fat and calories!
It has a wide variety of cooking uses, even outside the combination with meat. You can use it when you roast pumpkin or sunflower seeds or in any number of egg dishes. No one will know how you made that tasty food!
The overall quality of vegetables is affected by the length of cooking time. Using slow cooking methods can rob vegetable of their taste and nutritional value. These methods usually create healthier vegetables. Only cook vegetables as much as you have to, in order to preserve their taste and nutritional value.
Do you have a difficult time figuring out how long you should grill your meats? You can purchase a meat thermometer to ensure that the inside of your grilled meat is cooked to satisfaction. If the meat is thick, such as more than 1.5 inches, try closing the grill's lid to cut down on grilling time.
The one downside of garlic is that your hands easily absorb the smell of it. After touching garlic or another strong-smelling ingredient, stop and rub your hands on your stainless steel faucet. Doing this cleanses your hands and won't allow the aroma to transfer to whatever you handle next.
To eat healthier and get rid of unwanted weight, it is important to use less oil when you cook. Butter and oils are often unnecessary fats. A nonstick spray for cooking provides many of the same results as oil; however, it does not add extra calories.
It's important to include beans and tofu in your diet if you're trying to increase your protein intake. Both beans and tofu are readily available in most grocery stores. You can fry tofu or add it to soups, seasoned well, for a yummy protein alternative. For a tasty bean dish, simply boil them with your favorite herbs.
Doing so will give you fresh fruit year round. This will help you to have fruit whenever you want it, even when it is out of season.
Measure how much oil you use when cooking! Refrain from unmeasured pours from a bottle, focusing instead on lowering the fat content by awareness. That way, you will know precisely how much oil is going into the dish you are preparing.
Measure the oil you use when cooking! To cook with less fat, measure specific amounts of oil instead of pouring oil into the pan straight from the bottle. You'll want to make sure to only use the amount of cooking oil that you need.
Always purchase the freshest garlic available if you plan to be cooking with this wonderfully aromatic seasoning. The general rule is that the fresher garlic is, the sweeter it will taste. Fresh garlic is hard, not wrinkled, or mushy-feeling.
If you are using garlic in the cooking, ensure it's the freshest you can buy. Older garlic tends to smell and taste woody, while fresh garlic ensures a sweet, yet savory flavor. You can see fresh garlic when it is not shriveled, soft, bruised and the skin is firm.
Follow the directions when making macaroni and cheese if you desire the best possible results. This ensures that the macaroni cooks as intended, with velvety cheese and noodles that are not overcooked. When it comes time to serve the dish, you can use a basic slotted or solid spoon. Try sprinkling some pepper on the finished macaroni dish.
Leave the bone in your roast if you are pressed for time. This will allow your meat to cook faster as the bone will warm up the inside quicker. Once the roast has finished cooking, it is easy to go in there and remove the bone.
Excess Moisture
Make sure that you never use a wine in your food that you would not normally drink. Using wine that does not appeal to your palate when you are cooking can lead to a meal that lacks the flavor you desire. You can find wines that are made primarily to cook with.
Before you cook any ground meat, blot up any excess moisture. Blotting removes excess moisture from your meats. If the meat has moisture when cooked, the heat will release it as steam. The extra moisture will sizzle away. This will cause the meat to steam, instead of sear like you want it to.
Spices should be stored in a cool, dark area so that they stay as fresh as they can for as long as possible. Storing spices and herbs in cabinets above the stove or in other warmer locations will result in a loss of flavor and a loss of money.
When chopping fresh herbs, you should shake some salt on a cutting board. Doing this not only adds some flavor, but it also ensures that the herbs are right where they need to be, which is on the board. Just make sure you don't add salt to your dish afterwards as the herbs already contain it. The salt that is used on this board gives your herbs some extra flavor because it sticks to them.
To add another dimension to homemade pasta sauce, use a little leftover pasta water. Set aside approximately one-fourth cup. When you are going to mix your pasta and sauce together, add some of the saved water. The pasta water's starch adds a "creaminess" to the sauce via amalgamation.
Make sure you rinse onions that have been diced and blot them when you are preparing salsa that will not be used in 20 minutes. The reason for this is that there is sulfurous gas in an onion. The gas they release can ruin the salsa. When the raw onions are rinsed and dried, the gas is removed.
Know the right care for wood cutting boards. Heat, dryness, and excess moisture can cause a wooden cutting board to warp and split. It is never smart to immerse your board in water. Instead, sponge clean it with soapy, warm water. If you have a damaged cutting board, you should purchase an oil product that is designed for cutting board restoration. Make sure that the cutting board has completely dried before using.
You should let your cooking wait until all the necessary preparations are complete. Doing this will allow you to focus on putting the dish together. You won't waste electricity by letting something cook just a little longer, so you can prep the ingredients for the next step, or be distracted when cooking with hot oil.
Tortillas can be suitably warmed using a few different methods. Preheat the oven to 350 and place your tortilla in the oven until it is crisp. You can also place it on your stove top, even directly on the burner if it's a gas stove. Your tortillas will taste fresher and be warm when you eat them if you use these techniques.
Cutting Board
A meat thermometer can let you know if your meat has been thoroughly cooked. All of the different meats require a certain internal temperature in order for it to be safe to eat. If the meat is not cooked thoroughly there is a chance that the bacteria living on the meat could remain and make someone sick if they eat it.
A wooden cutting board requires a certain amount of care. Stressors, like heat or extremes in humidity, can warp or split a cutting board made of wood. Do not immerse the cutting board in water, but instead, wipe it off with a sponge using warm water and soap. Oiling the wood regularly with an oil made for this purpose can help restore the board to good condition. Make sure that your board is completely dry before you use it.
"Trussing" is the term used to describe the process of using string to tie the turkey. Trussing keeps the good stuff inside your bird and also accommodates more consistent cooking. If they are untied, the tips of its legs and wings can burn while the remainder of the bird cooks.
Try grilling some fruit! Try slicing peaches, nectarines, or melon and threading them on a skewer. Keep grilling them until grill marks show up. You can then serve them over ice cream or on top of grilled pound cake.
Look for interesting ways to prepare oysters. Even though oysters are usually eaten raw with drops of lemon juice, they can be made in plenty of other ways. Place halved oysters, still in their shells, onto a broiler pan, then cover them with a dollop of cream. Sprinkle a bit of Parmesan cheese and grated pepper on them, and broil until they're bubbling. Oysters are also delicious when sauteed. Dredge with a little seasoned flour and fry in hot butter for approximately two minutes until golden. You can also bake oysters while still in their shells. Put them in a casserole-style dish, add a little butter and breadcrumbs to the top of each oyster, and cook them in an oven heated to 425 degrees for approximately five minutes. Once the juices are sizzling away, serve hot with crunchy, toasted baguette bread.
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In the modern life, everyone is worried about their health. But people don't have time to pay attention to their health. Technology has become an important part of our lives which can help maintain our fitness by simply tracking our daily activities. They can record how much sleep you had last night, how much did you run, notify you that you're being lethargic and need to get some steps, and even wake you up in the morning. Welcome to tech world of fitness bands. Here we present 5 top fitness band that you can buy online in India.
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Most of the fitness bands designed by various manufacturers these days come with smartphone app which allows the user to analyze and understand their progress, compare data and set personal goals. Some of the fitness bands as waterproof, meaning if you have taken swimming as a form of exercise, you will be to track your daily progress.
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Xiaomi Mi Band 2 is very slim and stylish. It uses LED lights to communicate with the person wearing it, alerting you of status updates and notifications by flashing, it does not have any display or voice guidance for interaction. Available in colors; green, Orange, red, black and light blue. It has features like tracking activity/inactivity, calories burned, distance, steps, sleep quality and time. Connectivity is through Bluetooth 4.0. It is water resistant and lightweight.
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YU Fit fitness band has a plastic built with a tiny OLED display. YU Fit is very reasonable a worth for value fitness band. The Yu Fit band works with the Healthifyme App which is quite intuitive and comes with lots of features. The app is available at Google play store. Features like sleep monitoring, calories burned and step count is available. It gives notifications for calls and messages, also can be used as a remote for smartphone for calls, video or image capture. Connectivity is through Bluetooth and it is only available for Android.
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Noise trace is comes with OLED touch screen display with 128 x 128 display which is water resistant too. Users can connect through Bluetooth compatible with Android 4.3 and above. It has sensors like accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate and light Sensors it also can keep a check on your calorie count, steps and sleep . The circular dial and the rubber strap gives it a great design, straps are available in blue and black color. It also takes notifications for incoming calls and text messages.
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i've not taken my "fancy camera" out of it's case since we moved
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our new view
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produce bought! another "milestone"!
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girlies painting in the backyard = unpacking in peace
whoops, guess i got too into unpacking - girlie got into my mascara while i wasn't looking
rainy day people watching...another distraction while mama unpacks
finally starting to cook meals in our new home!!!
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America's violence was in the name of freedom and liberty. Don't you see how that justifies it?
As far as I'm concerned, "liberation" has always meant mass killings.
A lot of the world's murders and massacres were justified as liberation, from America killing the natives, to Hitler murdering the Jewish, and even up to the VERY recent massacre in Norway a few months ago.
Then again, the Norwegians generally have a penchant for murder, just look at the early 90's black metal scene and Varg Vikernes.
Originally Posted by Lympha
I live in a shit town full of shit people.
I'm one the more polite people you'll ever meet!
You're a little off in your date.
The cold war, which is not actually a war, started before the Vietnam war. You might aswell replace the Cold War with the Korean war if you want to depict the Americans as gruesome murderers.
By the way , you're speaking about 9/11 then you put Iraq in the equation. Totally different thing. The context of the war in Iraq had little to do with 9/11. Sure, the paranoia of insecurity during that time might have ignited the fact that there may have been weapons of mass destruction, but the idea was not get revenge on those twin towers.
And arguably, Afghanistan is not in the middle-east. It only started to be because George Bush said so, but traditionally it is not. To be precise, Afghanistan would be considered "Central Asia".
Saul, you have enlightened me.
Originally Posted by Lympha
I live in a shit town full of shit people.
I'm one the more polite people you'll ever meet!
So basically Americans bomb the shit out of middle-eastern civilians for ten years, then wonder why 9/11 happened.
That's exactly how I see it.
The Americans have killed more than 3,000 innocents during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. They've also friendly-fired.
Originally Posted by Lympha
I live in a shit town full of shit people.
I'm one the more polite people you'll ever meet!
So here goes my first post after a 2 year hiatus.
The Liberation Of Iraq Act was signed by Bill Clinton in 1998, making it long term policy for the United States to come about regime change in Iraq. So I think we could say with some certainty that the Iraq war was in fact not intended as a reprisal for the acts on 9/11.9/11 was a horrific event, which should never have happened. But that does not give an excuse to go invade two countries, kill innocents, and try Westernize the countries.
I've encountered this statement again and again and I'm pretty sure it's simply a misunderstanding that people have.
Because we did not invade Iraq for that reason. Although I think the war in Afghanistan is a part of the "War on Terror" as they tend to call it, bit of an oxymoron you might think.But the question is, after that entire sheet of death, why invade the Middle East just because two towers were destroyed by a few men with turbans on their heads?
We invaded them because if we didn't, it would be just like bending over for a beating. 9/11 caused 3,000 deaths. No response to that is incredibly stupid.So back to this.
[quote:26yw0i4b]But the question is, after that entire sheet of death, why invade the Middle East just because two towers were destroyed by a few men with turbans on their heads?
Also, don't be ignorant.[/quote:26yw0i4b]
No. That's simply wrong. You're treating this as if the United States was a small tribe bent on getting revenge with their honor on the line.
If I remember correctly the justifications for the Iraq War were the following:
1. Iraqi forces had been firing missiles on Coalition air-forces who were enforcing the No-Fly-Zone over Iraqi Kurdistan.
2. The Saddam Hussein regime had broken the genocide convention on numerous occasions in Kurdistan and southern Iraq. They had also suppressed, tortured and killed political dissidents.
3. Iraq had invaded the sovereign kingdom of Kuwait which was also a member of the European Union.
4. Saddam Hussein had also broken the Geneva convention by using weapons of mass destruction on Kurdistan, most notably in Halabja, against non-combatants.
5. The possibility that Saddam Hussein was developing a nuclear program and that he would use weapons of mass destruction, again.
Now, I do not pretend that corporate interests were not involved but I highly doubt that the US simply invaded for oil, as so many claim (although I bet it was a factor especially with Exxon Mobil, Shell, Total and BP now getting into the Iraqi market).
In any case your claim that it was a reprisal is simply wrong.Also, don't be ignorant.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened. The Americans decided one day "Damn I hate those Muslims, let's bomb the middle east for 10 years" do you honestly think that this was the case?Originally Posted by Dante
In the end I consider the Iraq war to have been a mistake for the taxpayer, lucky for the Iraqis who have survived and especially lucky for Iraqi Kurdistan which is practically independent. At least they have democracy, freedom of speech and the rest of the values we westerners so adore, some will sneer at this but you can not tell me that this was not a fine end for a bloody war filled with hiccups.
Please do me and other readers the favor of pointing out any mistaken facts if you can see them and even more fun would be to actually debate my points.
Kids nowadays and their moving signatures. Faggots and beatniks, all of 'em!
There is an important lesson here, when comes to things like this, never fully trust media, judging by the your opinions here, that is where you get your information. If all these conspiracy theories were true (i don't really know), do you really think America would admit to that? Look, i know that media lies on a personal level, because of something that happened to my grandmother.
A while ago there was a story on the news about 4 men who killed a 14 year old, and how the crowd and police just watched, the news made it sound horrible, and how terrible the police and crowd were. Because it happened where my grandma lives, she knew what really happened. That boy was actually a wanted criminal, he shot and killed his brother, and his older brothers saw him as a monster and killed him. Did it say that in the news? NO! The death penalty still exists there so the 14 year old dieing would have happened anyways.
Point being, news is sometimes bias.
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Film feature: Eminent critic Farber lives on in new collection
By John Thomason
For many, the biggest surprise from this year's Oscar telecast was not Hugh Jackman's better-than-average hosting job or the upset victory of Departures for Best Foreign Language Film.
It was the inclusion of critic Manny Farber in the montage of recently deceased cinematic luminaries. For me, watching Farber's outsider name fade in, and seconds later fade out, on the onstage projection screen amid pictures of insider Hollywood figures, the moment was tarnished a bit by the tepid response, the crowd obviously holding much of its applause until Paul Newman's name lit up the screen.
I should have been pleased as punch Farber's name appeared there at all.
"A lot of us of were surprised," said Robert Polito, a writing professor at New York's New School who's just edited a mammoth compilation of Farber's work titled Farber on Film. "Patricia [Patterson, Farber's wife and fellow critic] knew about it a couple days in advance, because they asked her for photographs. I would love to know how that came about. Howard Hampton pointed out that you couldn't have a less likely Oscar film critic than Manny Farber. One shorthand way of defining White Elephant Art would be to submit a list of Oscar winners."
Polito, who will speak and sign copies of the book this weekend at the Miami Book Fair, was referring to one of Farber's seminal essays, White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art, which divided movies – or moments within movies -- roughly between the kind of shambolic, rough-hewn, burrowing style that "eats its own boundaries" and the self-conscious, heavily stylized masterpiece art, "reminiscent of the enameled tobacco humidors and wooden lawn ponies bought at white elephant auctions decades ago."
It's obvious reading this 1962 essay, as relevant today as it's ever been, where Farber stood. Emerging from the new wave of American film criticism alongside James Agee, Pauline Kael and Andrew Sarris, Farber has had the longtime reputation of championing B-movie directors from the classic Hollywood studio system, reverentially admiring the underground films of William Wellman, Samuel Fuller and Nicholas Ray as fervently as he would a piece of modern art (Farber was a notable painter, as well, which helps explain his frequent obsession with mise-en-scène and spatial interaction over story and character).
But Polito's 800-page collection goes a long way to expand our understanding of Farber beyond his most cited essays. Polito (at right), a longtime admirer who first met Farber in 1999 under the auspices of a magazine feature that never panned out, remained friends with the critic until his death nine years later, and his resultant work collects Farber's complete writings from 1942 to 1977, save for Farber's short stint at Time in 1949, where his work was supposedly butchered. Farber on Film more than doubles the amount of material previously available on the long out-of-print Farber collection Negative Space.
"A lot of this book was new to me," Polito said. "Manny's reputation is for those kind of long, serpentine essays that he did in the '50s, '60s and '70s. The assumption was that he was relatively careless about the more conventional items of plot or character, but it turns out if you read the work chronologically, you watch those essays arise out of the weekly context that preceded him, moving toward those essays and the conceptions behind them. But you also get to see him, secondly, as extremely good at finding ways to render the plot of a movie without the piece just kind of stopping."
He's not himself right away, Polito added. "It takes a year or so to suss all that out. But it's amazing to me how much of what we think of Farber is there right from the start. One of the other surprises too, but perhaps shouldn't have been, is that everything seems to have been always in flux and in process for many years. He rarely if ever possessed static opinions on anything.
"You think you know from later essays what he supposedly thought about The Best Years of Our Lives or Frank Sinatra or Preston Sturges, but the earlier pieces are in clear conversation and contradiction with those later opinions. What you're watching is that constant sense of reevaluation that animates the individual essays and reviews. He's always coming back and looking from another angle."
Farber's ability to see beyond the surface and ferret out nuance like one of his beloved termite artists would probably deem him unfit in the polarized world of mainstream movie writing today. Always looking at works anew and capturing them in all their complexity, Farber rarely loved or hated films unconditionally. His writing and opinions would never fit a star-rating, thumbs-up or thumbs-down paradigm.
"Arriving at an opinion is never his goal," Polito said. "His goal is something like accuracy, and for him accuracy ultimately calls for multiple points of view. Film studies, with obviously rare instances, isn't so much about looking and seeing. It's about sociology, anthropology, history. Manny was about something else.
"And what's fascinating too, is that there's a culture of opposition between film reviews and film theory. Manny is in neither of those camps, but he exemplifies the best of both. He had lots of powerful, implicit theoretical positions about looking and seeing and even the mimetic relationship between the movie he's writing about and his own prose, that I think links Manny to the great film theorists of the 20th century."
But while much film theory can be a laborious chore to slog through – as much as I love reading Roland Barthes' academic theories on semiotics, they hardly lend themselves to witty wordplay -- every Farber review, even for films that are minor and forgotten (and there are many of those in Farber on Film), contains literary jewels that transcend mere criticism.
"Manny is one of very few critics that you keep reading even if you have no idea of the work he's writing about," Polito said. "It grabs you as writing and grabs you as thinking, so that you're watching his mind move on the page."
He calls Charlie Chaplin's Little Tramp "a pushover for a puff of wind," and claims Frank Capra's "nervous films skip goat-fashion over a rocky Satevepost terrain." I don't even know what that means, but it sounds great. It's no surprise that Polito, an accomplished poet, would be as inspired by Farber's prose as much as his insights.
The influence of Farber can be seen all over the critical map today, not so much in major newspapers but in alternative weeklies and film journals (J. Hoberman, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Ed Gonzalez, Amy Taubin and Kent Jones are worthy heirs). Modern filmmakers, too, have absorbed Farber's theories into their work; in a blurb on the jacket of Farber on Film, Martin Scorsese beams that he's reserved a spot on his shelf for the book.
Maybe this ultimately explains why Farber deserved as large a place as any on that Oscar death list. It's unlikely anyone who passed away in 2008 contributed more to the idea of film as an art form than Manny Farber.
John Thomason is a freelance writer based in South Florida.
Robert Polito will discuss Farber on Film at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at the Miami Book Fair, 401 NE 2nd Ave., Miami. Polito also will read some of his poetry at noon Sunday. Admission is $10, and includes admittance to all lectures and signings. For information, call 305-237-3258.
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