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stupid as fuck
Probably she same person replying
Why is this a win? Is that some sort of anti-religious bigotry?
No mark its because its true. That is why it's a win
yes, it is, it's from people who watch the news.
Go one god further, please.
Overvalued, common, gained through bloodshed: sounds like money, politics, and just about every other human endeavor. So, there's no need to single out faith. Truth is, faith is not the problem in any of these. It's the misuse of them – humans are the problem.
mark. i would say its a response to the bombardment of religious dogma forced on all of us every day on t v, radio, billboards,human rhetoric etc.
let the butt-hurt commence.
ALL Athiests are pretentious imposing ASSHOLES. this is a scientific FACT
butt-hurt person spotted!
Oh, that's what your religion teached you? I feel pity.
@Fury- From my experience some of the rudest, craziest, bitchiest, backstabbing and just down right unpleasant people have been people that attend one form of church or another. I'm not saying they all are by any means because I have met many that are as nice as someone can be, but I've met my fair share that weren't. They feel they can say what they please, do what they please, act how they please and treat people how they please because they are religious and whoever their god is forgives them so all of that is ok. My point being that there are pretentious imposing asshole atheists and there are pretentious imposing religious assholes.
@Ambrosia, WOW!!!!! IT'S TIME OF THE MONTH ???
PMS 666?? You are such a tard. A woman can tell her opinion without being on the rag you hillbilly.
I have to disagree with PMS 666: Today many more atheists are becoming as zealots as most religious folks.
lol atheists
Do you believe in Thor? I guess you don't. Then, you are ateistic about Thor. You are atheistic about thousands of gods. I go just one god further.
@Beefy My Ass, Ambrosia is on her RAGS…. Now is the time to ask Ambrosia for her used TAMPAX….
Faith is a trust or confidence in just about anything.
Religion, which I presume commenter is referring to, is only one of them.
Comment intelligence fail.
But the statement makes sense only if faith is meant in a religious sense. So obviously also the post itself is referring to it.
There is no evidence to suggest that it makes more or less sense if referring to religion. That is your and the commenter's conclusion, which is based on prejudice.
Ugh…can we just get over this religion nonsense, please? We've been at it for thousands of years already – don't you think it's time the human race grew up a bit? It's tedious, at best.
Well said, scrambled. Like I said above, it's religious bigotry, and many of the other comments reflect that. If a person really did know the faith and the people in it, they would have a more intelligent opinion. (And don't anyone spew your BS about knowing all those terrible Christians – you are just trying to justify your unfounded hatred by caricaturing what you can't understand.)
Oh, another person indoctrinated with nonsense in childhood. You are not untouchable, religion can be rightfully criticised and ridiculed as any other opinion.
@Spokk. The irony in your last sentence is striking.
@Spokk. Sorry, that reply was meant for someone else :').
Spokk: I'd hardly call it indoctrination. I have a B.A. in philosophy and religion from the U. of Northern Iowa and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University. What do you have? (And for a stocking-stuffer: both my brothers are scientists – one a geologist and the other a physicist/chemist – and both are serious Christians.)
Mark: Nice, you are an expert on history of ignoring evidence. Now seriously. You'd hardly call it indoctrination? You have not fully understood how one become a believer. If you (or anybody else) were raised under different indoctrination, you would believe in different god(s). Children's mind accept and usually also believe anything it is told by parents or another authority. If you were raised, as I was, informed but not indoctrinated, you would have chosen freely.
Physics/chemistry and geology directly contradict bible. Your brothers are probably either bad Christians or insincere scientists. What's worse, it's not their fault.
Gee, Spokk, don't know where to begin. But with space limitations let me just comment that faith is not a matter of science and scripture contradicting each other. Since I am not a fundamentalist, the Bible for me is not meant to be read in terms of measurable truth only (although there's plenty in it). It is really a record of people's journey of belief as God gradually unfolds sacred history leading us to Him, and all that entails. If that's not for you, so be it. But we people of faith (many scientists included) find it worthy of our ultimate trust. As the saying goes, to a skeptic no proof is possible; to a believer, no proof is necessary.
But, nice debate, Spokk. Let's do it again sometime. (Oh, and whether you want it or not: God bless you!)
Mark: You should notice that I talked about real stuff and you failed to react. What you've done is a typical behavior of a beliver in a corner – talking about some unproven imaginary transcedence. In fact, you've tried "argument from scripture", "argument from personal experience" and "absolute morality/truth" thing. These don't work.
And the saying, it's completely wrong. For a sceptic, the only possible proof is through evidence. Sceptics would be the first to defend existence of god, if there was an evidence for. But there is none. And the current state of our scientific knowledge even gives strong probability that there is no need for god from Big Bang to now. That makes your theistic god implausible. However the question of "prima causa" is still open, but saying it was god explains nothing (infinite regress).
There you go, still talking about proofs and evidence. You still don't get it: faith is the conviction of things reasonable but unseen. I and other believers are in that place. You are not. Not a matter of trying to ascertain through measurable proof at all. You will know if you ever become a believer.
If you become a believer you likely won't know anything, you'll just have faith in the unknown.
Mark: Now you try NOMA (see, I'm educated). Complete nonsense, since religions make enormous scientific claims.
"Faith is the conviction of things reasonable but unseen"? I can't see anything reasonable about Christian mythology. Reason means exploring evidence and making a proof upon it and it is exactly what you dogmatically don't allow to touch your beliefs. Religious faith is in principle a denial of reason.
And that exclusivist stuff, that's your brilliant ego, right? You think you are so privileged. I get why you think so and I get it is very hard to overcome this great lifetime-built feeling with reason. Only very bright minds can do it – e.g. Dan Barker. I don't expect you to do so. I know you don't want to – Dan Barker didn't want either. Even so you should really read his work, you'll become a better theologian at least.
Love these exchanges! I would have liked to have a good old-fashioned religion debate with you in college. But alas.
Just one more thing before I bring my part in this thing to a close. In spite of all our faults, Christians have done more good around the world (feeding the hungry, working for human rights, starting the public school system in America (how's that for irony!), fighting aids and countless other tragedies, and on and on, than any other group. That isn't because we're good people. We aren't, and we know it. It's because we serve a God who is always trying to get agape through our thick heads, and sometimes He uses us to that end, for which we give Him glory. Atheists love to throw mud at us, but did you ever hear of an atheist hospital? All they seem to know how to do is hate. At least we try to make a difference.
I know you will have some clever comeback, for which I await with anticipation.
Too bad you and I couldn't have had a live debate and then lunch. Oh, well. See you in Heaven (I sincerely hope.)
You say feeding the hungry, I say prolonging the starvation.
Religion is not a requisite for charitable acts, neither is irreligion.
I'm a fence-walker and prefer to do charitable acts anonymously, as I feel that vanity and promotion corrupt the innocence of charity and donation and turn them into adulterated gain. This might potentially help explain why you don't hear about atheist hospitals.
Mark: Religion is the ultimate cause and justification of wars throughout history. Period. Human rights? Are you kidding? What did you do for human rights of homosexuals? And for women? Think yourself – bible explicitly talks about inferiority of women. Fighting AIDS? By prohibiting contraception, you're making it so much worse. I don't have room for explainig all about this topic, but I do agree with Christopher Hitchens on this (even if I wouldn't be as agressive), so read e.g. his "God Is Not Great" if you want more arguments.
Absolute morality is another wierd/stupid concept. One thing is that morality obviously had to predate religion. Another thing is that you don't really get your morality from bible, and I can't imagine anyone would actually want to do so. It's morality (especially Old Testament's) is terrible and contains enormous amount of atrocities. And the doctrine of people being bad defaultly is one of them. This sort of inherited sin makes no sense logically, and is also completely crushed by evidence that Adam and Eve didn't exist.
I'm not throwing mud at you, I'm throwing mud on your religion. And I have the same right to do it as if I criticised any other opinion.
About "atheistic hospitals". Of course there aren't any. Nobody does anything "for sake of atheism". Nor good, nor bad things. Atheists do good based on a principles summarized in secular humanism. In my country, all hospitals are secular, you can call them atheistic metaphorically.
To underline whole topic, I deploy a powerful quote by Steven Weinberg: 'Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.'
"I'd hardly call it indoctrination. I have a B.A. in philosophy and religion from the U. of Northern Iowa and a Ph.D. in religious studies from Marquette University."
well i think with your comments in later posts have proved that you are indoctrinated.
please tell you just did Alpha Course and did not waste your fucking time doing PhD in religious studies, i mean for fuck sakes you could of done research to find the cure for Aids, or fucking Genetically modified Maze so it stop the starvation in the world. what a waste of time it only go's to prove that are brain washed.
Nothing in physics, chemistry or geology contradicts the bible. That is an incorrect statement. Don't want to get in a theology disagreement on epic but Stephen Hawking is a believer. Einstein too.
gravity contradicts the bible, just to name one example of hundreds more…
Einstein was a deist, Hawking is maybe too. But technically they are atheists. They both used the word "god" as an metaphore for sum of physics law. They dont' believe in any kind of personal god.
Now now children – play nicely. If people want to believe in imaginary fluffy friends let them…. Oh, they're grown ups? Oh I see. Feckin idiots!
Wrong boontah, and not very intelligent although I bet you think you are. You are not.
Bible not only contradicts scientific facts, it also contradicts itself.
And what has person's intelligence to do with it? That's what you were taught from childhood, right? That non-believers are evil, bad, ugly, stupid criminals that will burn in hell forever? That was supposed to keep you (and it did) in the church you dork.
AMEN! to that.


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Thursday, January 11
Is Reggiano Parmigiano Dangerous?
Growing up Italian in Rhode Island, much of my life has been about food. Even this trip home was about eating. Jeff and I had not been home for Christmas Eve in years. If you're Italian, then this is a big deal. Such a big deal that we actually had two Christmas Eves—one with Jeff's family, one with mine. The hilarious stories and fantastic recipes from those two nights alone could fill weeks of this blog.
Even the flight back to California was about food. I am compulsive about a lot of things, as you will learn. Traveling is one of them. Jeff and I managed to fit a week's worth of clothing in just two carry-on bags. The problem is when you're Italian, your parents won't let you leave empty-handed. In our case, this meant a third suitcase full of food also made the flight back.
As we wound our way through Providence's airport security, in our socks, the TSA guy scanning my luggage, bellowed, "Bag check!" I thought to myself, this can't be; my ears grew red and hot. Anthony, a big "chooch" (my mother's word for a not too bright guy—think Baccala from The Sopranos) grabbed my perfectly packed bag, threw it down, and proceeded to ransack it. With beefy hands squeezed into diminutive vinyl gloves, he pulled out what appeared to be a 10 pound aluminum brick. Jeff looked at me and said, "This isn't good." Anthony tossed the aluminum object from hand to hand, sniffed it, looked at us, and without missing a beat, said, "Reggiano Parmigiano?" "From my father," I replied. "Nice," he said. "Merry Christmas. Hava' nice trip." And we were on our way.
This blog will be about my family in RI, my life with my husband in Southern California, and my cooking and recipes. I hope you will love reading it as much as I will love writing it.
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Interesting concept. As a fellow East Coaster now living away from home, I can totally relate.
I wish you all the best.
- January 15, 2007 at 7:28 PM
- Rachael Narins said...
Welcome to blogging!
- January 16, 2007 at 7:04 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
Thank you Rachael. I am already having fun. PS - I love your blog.
- January 17, 2007 at 4:59 AM
- Rachael said...
Lovely blog : ) I look forward to reading it!
- January 20, 2007 at 6:21 PM
Hi Susan,
I finally had time to sit down and read through the rest of your posts. You're off to such a great start and I'm looking forward to reading more!
Ciao bella!
- January 20, 2007 at 9:46 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
I'm so pleased you enjoy it. Thank you!
- January 21, 2007 at 12:10 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
This blog is inspired by people like you. Thank you so much.
- January 21, 2007 at 12:11 PM
- JB said...
As New Englander who married an Italian from Rhode Island, who is also an only child, this post made me crack up so much. It's so similar to my experiences with his family.
I used to die laughing everytime he would say Happy Thanksgivin-a, but now I find that's how I pronounce.
It's funny that I came across your blog today, becuase I just posted about a recent trip to Venda Ravioli in my blog this morning.
- January 23, 2007 at 6:17 AM
- January 24, 2007 at 2:24 PM
The recipes sound great. Especially the escarole and beans. I am going to try that this weekend since it is going to be so cold in RI. Betty, N.Scituate
- January 25, 2007 at 2:49 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
I was so happy to see your name that I called my mom to tell her. You are officially the first nonblogger and first person from North Scituate to leave a comment.
How are you and Uncle Peter? Say Hi to Peter John and Jen.
- January 26, 2007 at 5:13 AM
Susan, It was great hearing from you. Uncle Peter and I are doing fine, and trying to keep warm. Peter and Jen are great. They had to put down one of their dogs around the end of the year, and that upset them. You know what Uncle Peter says, "if you believe in coming back, after death, he wants to be one of Peter's dogs. " They are so well taken care of. Tell Jeff we said hello. Love, Betty
- January 26, 2007 at 9:34 AM
- bazu said...
Susan, I just had to comment even though this is an older post, because your writing reminded me of a similar airport memory. I don't know whether to call it a happy or sad memory- tragicomic is more like it! On one trip to California from the East Coast, my mom had given me a gallon-sized jug of homemade pickled vegetables. It was bad enough that I had to lug the thing... but when I got to the security checkpoint, the guy pointed to my bag and said, "uh m'am, I think your pickle is leaking." Sure enough, pungent herb vinegar everywhere... so mortifying! I guess security guys see these types of family parting gifts all the time, though! Thanks for sharing your story =)
- March 21, 2007 at 6:20 PM
- Le Flâneur Novice said...
I have no idea why I hadn't read the very first post before. Such a lovely start!
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Gotye even explained why certain ones were chosen and apologized to those who didn't make the cut. Fans might notice, Glee's version, which Gotye swears he likes, was one of those who was left out.
"I avoided using any existing remixes of the song, or any covers from TV talent shows. As comprehensive and extensive as I tried to be with my downloading of source videos, I know there are many clips that I missed."
The singer even poked fun at himself for forgetting to include a certain Internet sensation.
How did I forget to include Tay Zonday in Somebodies? Like slapping the internet in the facehttp://t.co/gJq9vUiY— gotye (@gotye) August 13, 2012
While Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" continues to grow, the musician pushes ahead with new singles from his Making Mirrors album, most recently releasing a video for "Save Me."
Known for his love of quality remixes, Gotye is releasing the Eyes Wide Open remix EP, out August 21st.
The song, which appears on Making Mirrors, even received a dreamy remix treatment from the indie band, Yeasayer. Listen below.
— Jay Tilles and Shannon Carlin, CBS Local
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111 thoughts on "P & Q: Pecan Sticky Buns"
for the record, I made the brioche dough without a mixer. I made it slightly less buttery, with lots of rests when it got too annoying to knead. but it CAN be done, especially with a granite/marble counter and a very good dough scraper (read, one that cost less than a dollar)
I've had my KA stand mixer for 7+ years and for the first time I really thought it was tested to its limit when it was mixing the brioche dough for as long as the recipe states. Luckily it survived with flying colors!
The brioche dough itself was really fantastic – so pliable and easy to work with. I love working with laminated doughs. I made the recipe up to the point where you freeze the filled and rolled dough prior to baking. I'm leaving it in the freezer and will finish baking one roll this coming weekend.
I found that the cinnamon/sugar recipe for the filling wasn't nearly enough to sprinkle over both portions of dough. I ended up doubling it…I love cinnamon/sugar! Next time I think I'm going to toast the pecans before chopping and using them in the filling. For sure I'm going to toast the pecans for the topping. I'll chop them as well instead of leaving them whole.
Still debating whether or not I should stick with the BWJ recipe for the topping (butter, brown sugar, pecas) or use one from Flour Bakery in Boston because it also uses honey and heavy cream.
I baked this over the Labour day holiday we just had. Did it by hand and it was not too bad – sort of followed Peter Reinhart's method for making brioche by hand. One thing I found was that I had a lot of additional flour to the recipe – am sure I added something like half to 3/4 cup more. Not sure whether it was because of the extreme humidity that the equator has been facing.
Reduced the butter a little when laminating the dough and reduced the butter for coating the buns but apart from that sort of kept to the recipe.Agree that the cinnamon sugar filling could have been increased a little.
I added about a cup of extra flour as well. It definitely needed it for structure.
These 2 youtube videos gave me the possibility to see "them" live.
Part 1 (the brioche)
Part 2 (the buns)
Mine are now resting in the freezer.
I hope I did not mess it up too much as I reduced the butter where I hoped it'd be possible…
They won't definitely be the same as Julia's but I hope that they'll still be tasty.
Good luck everybody. Enjoy it!
Thanks for the videos.. It will make the process easier that now we know what to expect..
Thank you SO much for posting this video! So helpful :D
Thank you so much for posting these videos, it is very helpful, even for seasoned bakers! Can you tell me how to post them within my blog? Thanks, Catherine
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Thanks for posting. It was a great help. I could not do without it. :)))
RE testing the limits of the stand mixer:
I have 2 KA mixers, one is about 20 years old, the other about 5. There is no way I'd make this dough in the newer mixer – it just can't compare to my older one which is much more sturdy.
Don't know if I want to put my KA mixer through this trama…had my mixer for quite some time. Also, have lots going on right now…I may have to skip it. :(
Hi Carmen – I have JC's The Way to Cook cookbook, and she makes her brioche dough in a food processer, and doesn't process it as long. That's what I plan to do (no stand mixer in my house). Shoot me an e-mail to remind me, and I'll try to scan and send the recipe/technique.
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Those videos were great! Holy Moly, that's a lot of butter!
Has anyone tried it with hand mixer? I don't have a stand mixer, and I wonder if it is doable with hand mixer if I half the recipe.. That is what I did with the white bread..
Ferda.. am gonna be doing the same as you… lets hope our hand mixers survive this recipe!! :)
Maybe it was a kind of "blasphemy" but I did the following:
took 90 gr of soft butter and mixed it with 80 gr creme fraiche. Mixed well and put back into the fridge. When it hardened a bit I used it as "laminator".
The dough structure was perfect.
What I've missed: some salt and some sugar in the dough. It was kind of "fade" but I don't think that the "laminator trick" was to blame.
Anybody else missing salt or sugar in the dough?
PS: And for the bottom of the pan I did the same: butter & creme fraiche!
PPS: For the brioche dough I've used 60 gr butter and 110 gr yoghurt
TEXTURE PERFECT (for me!)
PPS: All in all I did not like them. Probably because I am not a fans of sticky buttery baking. I've tried once the Monkey Bread but I did not like him .
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If you do not have a heavy duty mixer you can make brioche dough in a large food processor. In "The Way to Cook" by Julia Child there is a recipe on page 48 that I have made in my 14 cup Magimix food processor. The proportions seem similar to Nancy's recipe.
I would think a food processor would work just fine…I have a dough setting on my Cuisinart. The mixer or food processor is going to be a lot easier…but people have been kneading their brioche dough for years by hand. It just gets very tiring because you have to knead it so long.
I'm going to be stressing out my kitchenaid! I've made brioche in it before and it definitely was feeling it's age…just like me…lol!
I found Julia's old show on 'you tube' (that someone already posted to this site). It was a big help to see the techniques being used!
Yep, I have the same book and plan to use the processor and that recipe, if it isn't too dissimilar from the Baking with Julia one.
I get tired just thinking of doing it by hand ;).
Traveling right now in the Airstream- will miss my cooking. This sounds incredible- is the brioche not like Dorie's version in FFWD?
I find it difficult to believe that this quantity of dough will make 2 trays of sticky buns? I ended up adding about 1 cup of additional flour, the dough just seemed so sticky to me.
rolled up the loaf of sticky buns and baked the remainder of the dough. I made the challah last week and the recipes are very similar, but with different techniques. I must say that the challah recipe is the winner in my book. and I'd use it to make sticky buns in the future. I'm sure these will be delicious, but I much prefer the bread-making technique from the challah recipe
I'm afraid I have to opt out of this weeks recipe. It looks completely delicious and someday I'll try it. However, I just started Weight Watchers and I don't want to completely foil the progress I've made by having these little lovelies calling my name.
I'll look forward to participating in the recipes for June. Maybe those will be ones where I can give large portions away and won't take me all day to make. BTW, LOVE the video with Julia on this one! Thanks for posting that!!!
This is definitely not a weight watchers recipe! My Bosch mixer worked like a charm mixing this dough:)
I made the brioche dough ahead of time and froze the filled logs. Now that I want to bake the buns I'm finding that the dough is taking for ever to proof. They are no where near the size from the video.
Anyone else have this issue?
I am sorry I am going to have to skip this one! Too much going on this weekend. Maybe I can catch up on our extra Tuesday. I was looking forward to this one, too.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to save these for our catch-up week this month. Too much going on this weekend and I need a break from all this butter! I am really looking forward to making the brioche dough. My plan is to use half the dough for the pecan sticky buns and make the Savory Brioche Pockets with the other half. Can't wait to see everyone's results.
wow..this recipe is so time consuming but the outcome is delicious!! I have never used so much butter in my life:)
5 sticks of butter… roughly 32 grams of fat and 290 calories from the butter alone. Brought them to church. Somebody said, "Oh, I've made this before. Monkey Bread." I about died. 3 days, so much rolling and a ridiculous amount of butter and it is no different than monkey bread, which goes together in minutes? UGH! they were good, but would never make again.
It took 24 hours to get the sliced brioche dough to proof enough to fill the cake pan after the dough had been in the freezer for a week. The brioche tasted great but I found the caramel topping disappointing.
After baking in the oven for about 40 minutes I ended up with a puddle of melted butter at the bottom of my pan. I didn't get the thick, gooey caramel topping I was after, more like a separated sauce. Next time I think I'm going to decrease the amount of butter used and and melt it with dark brown sugar in a saucepan (and maybe heavy cream) before pouring it on the bottom of the cake pan.
This recipe wasn't a home run for me…more of a work in progress.
I had the same problem with the sauce getting all separated and the butter sloshed all over my counters and floor. I wonder why it worked for some people but not others??
I finished these yesterday (started on Saturday). The brioche was delicious so light and lovely layers, and my sauce was nice too however this recipe was a lot of work and they weren't so good that I'd spend 2 days making them again! Glad I tried them though.
I am a weight watcher too and so only one for me, I have guesstimated them at 10 points each!
1000 points each! I think you must have missed some zeros
All, will be sitting this one out…will stop by some of the blogs to see the creations. When I buy a new mixer, I'll make these…
Hope all the moms had a wonderful Mother's Day! :)
I'm on the fence about making this one. On the one hand, this recipe sounds pretty labor intensive and I'm struggling with time. On the other hand, various comments from the group make me want to give it a try.
Skipping this one because I more than met my butter quota for the month :).
Almost skipped this one, but made it today. It took all day. (started at 9:00am and just pulled them out of the oven at 9:20.) Boy, they were worth it! Super recipe. Worth every tablespoon of butter.
I made the dough Saturday, refrigerated it overnight, then let it come almost to room temp on Sunday before I formed the rolls. A lot of the time it took was rise time, and the "holy moly, does it still need more kneading?!" time in the food processor.
My Cusinart food processor worked like a champ. I actually used the brioche recipe from JC's The Way to Cook, but finished the rolls using the BWJ recipe rather than the one in TWTC. Loved, loved, loved the results. Enough to consider experimenting again with brioche-based treats…maybe every six months or so!


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We love that Emily's Memory Game was originally inspired by a post written by Purl Soho's graphic designer Brooke Reynolds on her blog Inchmark (which is also a part of The Purl Beehive). Brooke's beautiful memory game was made with fabric and paper. It's so nice to see crafters being inspired by one another in this way! Above is a photo of Emily's version from The Student Teacher, and below is Brooke's from Inchmark.
To make our version of the game we decided to follow Emily's lead and use 100% wool felt in ecru as the base of the cards. For the fabric inside the felt frames we turned to our favorite Liberty of London Tana Lawn, the fine detail and beautiful colors are perfect inside the little frame of felt.
Since so little of each fabric is needed we used a Liberty Mini Rainbow Bundle which contains twenty different 8-inch x 12-inch pieces, and each print in this little bundle is more beautiful than the next!
This project takes time and attention to make, but it is relatively simple and very doable. What a lovely present for a child!
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To make a set of forty 2 3/4-inch square memory game cards
- A Liberty Mini Rainbow Bundle
- Three 18-inch square pieces of ecru felt, or 1/2-yard of ecru felt
- 1-yard of lightweight fusible interfacing
- 100% cotton thread in color #1240
From the Liberty:
- Cut each of the twenty different prints into two 2 1/2-inch squares (40 total)
From the felt:
- Eighty 3-inch squares
From the Interfacing:
- Eighty 3-inch squares
- Forty 2 1/2-inch squares
Prepping the Pieces
Please note that the interfacing has 2 sides- a bumpy side which is the fusible side, and a smooth side which is the non-fusible side.
Place a Liberty piece right side up on top of the fusible side of the 2 1/2-inch interfacing pieces so that their edges meet up.
Press these pieces together so they fuse, making the Liberty a bit stiffer.
Fuse a 3-inch piece of interfacing to 40 of the 3-inch pieces of felt. These are the top pieces of the memory cards.
For the 40 remaining 3-inch felt pieces use a pencil to mark a 1/2-inch from all four sides of the square. This will yield a centered 2-inch square.
Cut this square carefully out of the center with scissors. The side with the pencil marks is the wrong side. Discard the center. You will be left with a frame shape as shown above.
You should now have the following pieces (clockwise from top left):
- 40-fused Liberty pieces, 2 of each print
- 40-felt frame shapes
- 40-fused 3-inch felt squares (top pieces of the memory cards)
- 20- 3-inch interfacing squares
Sewing Together
Center and pin one of the Liberty pieces to one of the frame pieces, wrong sides up.
When you turn it over the Liberty should be neatly framed by the felt as in the picture above.
Using a zig zag stitch sew around all four inner sides of the frame, thus attaching the Liberty to the frame. When you get to a corner leave your needle down and pivot the piece then continue down the next side.
Press the piece and make sure the felt and the Liberty are securely sewn together.
Turn the piece over and trim any excess Liberty from the back.
Fuse a 3-inch square of interfacing to the back of the framed piece.
Repeat this for all 40 felt frames and Liberty pieces. This framed piece is the bottom piece of the memory card.
Pin a bottom piece to one of the top pieces (the 3-inch square fused felt pieces), wrong sides together. Sew them together with a continuous seam 1/4-inch from the outer edge around all four sides.
Using a rotary cutter trim 1/8-inch off of each of the 4 sides. This will tidy up the edges and ensure that each card is a uniform shape and size.
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- If you don't have a branch, it's pretty easy to make one out of a wire coat hanger. Simply straighten the coat hanger, and then twist it around itself, making "branches" in different directions. Then wrap your "tree" in raffia. Start with a small loop as the base of your wire tree, and twist up from there. This loop will be used to screw the tree to center of the cloche base. (Use a "button" or "pan" head screw that it is not so long it will go all the way through the base.)
- Attach scrapbook items to "tree" with fine wire, thread, or tiny clothes pins.
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HARTFORD -- A reputed Connecticut mobster was sentenced Thursday to 2½ years in prison in a weapons and prescription drugs case that revealed federal authorities' belief that he knows something about the largest property heist in U.S. history.
A prosecutor disclosed at the hearing in U.S. District Court that Robert Gentile, 76, failed a polygraph test when asked if he knew the whereabouts of paintings worth an estimated $500 million that were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990.
Assistant U.S. Attorney John Durham said there was a 99 percent chance that Gentile was lying when he denied knowing where the paintings were, according to the polygraph expert.
Durham also said that when federal agents searched Gentile's house in Manchester last year, they found a handwritten list of the stolen paintings and their estimated worth, along with a newspaper article about the heist a day after it happened.
No one has been charged in the art theft, and the heist was never mentioned in any public court documents filed in Gentile's case. The paintings have never been found.
Two men posing as police officers stole 13 pieces of artwork including paintings by Rembrandt van Rijn, Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas and Johannes Vermeer. FBI officials said earlier this year that they believe they know who stole the paintings but still don't know where the artwork is.
Searches of Gentile's home also turned up an arsenal including several handguns, a shotgun, five silencers, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, homemade dynamite and a bulletproof vest, prosecutors said.
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Gentile broke down in tears and couldn't continue speaking while telling Chatigny how much he loved his wife. Dressed in tan prison clothing and sporting a gray goatee, he made no mention of the art heist or the mob during a brief speech.
"I've worked hard all my life and I supported my family," Gentile said, adding that his careers included pouring concrete and later owning a restaurant and car dealership.
"My wife's very sick. I love her more than anything," said Gentile, who then appeared overwhelmed by emotion, sat down and didn't say anything else.
Both Gentile and his wife, Patricia, who've been married for 54 years, suffer from heart problems and other ailments, according to court documents.
Durham had sought a sentence of more than four years, calling Gentile a dangerous member of the mob who was caught on secret recordings by an informant talking about his associations with other mobsters including Boston's James "Whitey" Bulger. Durham declined to elaborate on those associations.
"He's 76 years old, but he's engaged in a lifetime of crime," Durham said. "He's a member of La Cosa Nostra."
Gentile's lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, insisted that Gentile wasn't a made member of the mafia and knows nothing about the Boston art heist. He also questioned the validity of the polygraph test.
"It wasn't a legitimate polygraph examination. It was an interrogation," McGuigan said outside the courthouse.
He told the judge that the art heist had nothing to do with Gentile's weapons and prescription drugs case.
"It's the guilt by association that's an issue," McGuigan said. "He doesn't want to have to pay for the sins of other people."
McGuigan added, "He would like to be sentenced for what he actually did."
The lawyer said the handwritten list of stolen paintings and newspaper article about the art heist were given to Gentile by another person for him to pass on to a third person and that Gentile didn't know why.
Besides the arsenal of weapons, Gentile and a co-defendant, Andrew Parente, were charged with selling dozens of prescription drug pills including Dilaudid, Percoset and OxyContin. Parente also has pleaded guilty and is set to be sentenced later this month.
Chatigny, the judge, noted that Gentile's criminal record includes several convictions for theft, weapons and other charges, but none since 1996. He said he was giving Gentile less prison time than prosecutors wanted because of Gentile's age and his wife's need for his support and care.
But, Chatigny said: "The items you possessed reflect your ongoing involvement in a world that is on the wrong side of the law. The government's case is overwhelming. I do not see evidence of genuine remorse."


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2 Syracuse football players charged in burglaries
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- Two Syracuse football players are among four university students charged with campus burglaries.
Syracuse police say junior defensive end Markus Pierce-Brewster and junior defensive tackle Davon Walls were charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor petit larceny in connection with the burglary of an apartment Feb. 23. Both players are accused of stealing a flat screen television, an XBOX gaming system, two iPods and XBox games while students were asleep inside the apartments.
"We are very disappointed and do not in any way condone the alleged behavior that resulted in these charges," rookie Syracuse coach Scott Shafer said in a statement. "This does not represent the core values of our program or the conduct expected of student-athletes representing Syracuse football. We will be following the judicial process and will act accordingly."
The players did not enter pleas and were assigned attorneys. Calls to both lawyers were not immediately returned.
Two other students, Erwing Augustin, 20, and Bradley Valik, 20, also were charged with felony burglary and misdemeanor petit larceny in two burglaries.
Pierce-Brewster transferred into the program before last season from City College of San Francisco and appeared in 12 games, recording 30 tackles, one sack and one fumble recovery.
Walls, from Brooklyn, N.Y., appeared in three games last year after transferring from Coahoma Community College in Mississippi.
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Television actress Drashti Dhami and her dance partner Salman Yusuf Khan Saturday won sixth season of "Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa". The duo lifted the winner's trophy and took home the prize money of Rs.50 lakh after wowing everyone with their dancing.
The "Madhubala" fame actress won the title, while Lauren Gottlieb was the first-runner up and Sonali and Sumanth won the third place. Singer Shaan was among the four finalists.
After winning the show, the 28-year-old Drashti thanked everyone and said: "I want to thank everyone. My mom, who is not here right now, she is out of town...I love you mommy! I want to thank my friends, Salman's friends..."
All the four finalists gave fabulous performances with Drashti dancing to "Rangeela", Sonali-Sumanth to "Senorita", Shaan to "Aa dekhein zara" and Lauren to a nice melody of latest songs and they wowed everyone.
The show has been judged by actress Madhuri Dixit, filmmaker Karan Johar and choreographer-filmmaker Remo D'Souza.
Hrithik Roshan and Priyanka Chopra made an appearance on the finale episode to promote their forthcoming movie "Krrish 3". The duo also performed on the song "Raghupati Raghav" from the film with other contestants - Mukti Mohan, Sana Saeed, Karanvir Bohra and Siddharth Shukla.
Hrithik also shook a leg with Lauren as well as Sonali and Sumanth.
If that was not enough, the judges too took to the stage and gave mind-blowing performances.
The show went on air June 1 with 12 celebrities that included Shweta Tiwari, Karanvir Bohra, Siddharth, Meghna Malik, Suresh Menon, Ekta Kaul, Aarti Chabaria, and Krishnamachari Srikkanth.
Shweta, Siddharth, Karan Patel, Karanvir, Mantra and Mukti came to support the finalists.


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It has been too long since I've posted something here. But.... I've been busy. I went on a botanical painting course of five days in Leiden. My tutor was Anne Marie Evans and I learnt a lot that week. We painted tulips. I guess tutors from abroad want to see tulips when they come to Holland. Last year, Valerie Oxley started her course with (yellow) tulips. I just hope this is not becoming a trend. I like tulips, don't get me wrong, I like them in a garden or a vase. Not to paint them. But I think I'm repeating myself, I told you all this before, didn't I?
Anyway.... I painted a botanical tulip, Tulipa turkestanica. It didn't make things easier for me (this one had five flowers instead of one and was almost white) but it looked far more interesting that most of the other tulips. Well it did for me, don't know about the other students ;) Here's what the painting looked like at the end of the course:
It's not finished yet, it needs roots and more details but you get the idea. It looks a bit old-fashioned, like it's from the 18th century, like Redouté or something. Very different to what I'm used to.
After the course I painted in "De Keukenhof" for a day with some other painters of the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists. We sat in the Orchid pavilion, surrounded by hundreds of tourists from all over the globe, stuck or not stuck in the Netherlands by the Icelandic vulcano ashes.
So I painted my first ever orchid flower. Many botanical artists paint orchids. I didn't and I don't think I'll paint those cultivated orchids again. I just don't like them. I like the wild ones that grow here in the Netherlands but they don't look at all like the ones shown in the pavilion in Lisse.
The week after I had to go to the opening of the Siebold exhibition in the Siebold House in Leiden. A wonderful exhibition with wonderful paintings made by the Dutch Society of Botanical Artists. My Hydrangea drawing is exhibited there too. Also a lot of old herbaria and floriligia are shown. Really nice to see the old things from the Siebold period next to the modern works of art.
I made this in Photoshop to show you the difference between the periods. The old painting was made by a Japanese painter and the Hydrangea on the left is a dried specimen that Siebold brought to Europe. It's a different variety than the one that I painted but I don't think he would have minded that :P
Now I'm back home and I decided to start a pencil drawing. It has been too long since I made my last graphite pencil botanical. It's of Akebia quinata, also a Siebold introduction. It has been on my wishlist for some years and it's flowering now in my front yard. I love this climber. The leaves are very interesting, the flowers are maybe even more interesting. But the colour of the flower is wonderful..... but I decided to do a graphite drawing anyway :D Maybe I'll make a coloured thing some other year. Now I just had to do a pencil drawing. So this is a WIP. I'll post it again when it's finished.


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Fossil Gallery
Waputikia ramosaA rare and delicate alga with fine ramifications
Plantae (algae)
Non applicable
No revisions of this alga have been published since its original description by Walcott (1919) and its affinities remain uncertain.
Species name:
Waputikia ramosa
Described by:
Description date:
Waputikia – from the Waputik Icefield, a glacier in Yoho National Park, east of the Burgess Shale.
ramosa – from the Latin ramosus, "full of branches," in reference to the presence of clumps of branches.
Type Specimens:
Syntypes –USNM35409, 35410, 35411 in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA.
Other species:
Burgess Shale and vicinity: none.
Other deposits: none.
Middle Cambrian, Bathyuriscus-Elrathina Zone (approximately 505 million years ago).
Principal localities:
The Walcott Quarry on Fossil Ridge.
Brief history of research:
This genus was described by Charles Walcott (1919) as a possible red alga. However, like all the algae from the Burgess Shale, it awaits a modern redescription.
Waputikia has a large central stem with wide branches at irregular intervals. The large branches divide dichotomously (into two), and the smaller tertiary or quaternary branches divide into much finer branches forming small terminal bush-like structures.
Waputikia is very rare and represents only 0.02% of the Walcott Quarry community (Caron and Jackson, 2008).
Maximum size:
60 mm
Life habits:
Epibenthic, sessile
Feeding strategies:
Primary producer
Ecological Interpretations:
No attachment structure for this alga has been preserved but it probably lived attached to the sea floor.
CARON, J.-B. AND D. A. JACKSON. 2008. Paleoecology of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 258: 222-256.
WALCOTT, C. 1919. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology IV. Middle Cambrian Algae. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 67(5): 217-260.
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The Red Wheelbarrow
by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
a red wheel
glazed with rain
beside the white
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William Carlos Williams was an American poet.
so much depends
a red wheel
glazed with rain
beside the white
About the Author:
William Carlos Williams was an American poet.
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Q-Games head Dylan Cuthbert has reminded everyone that PixelJunk Shooter 2, complete with multiplayer options, is to release this week in all territories. The PSN arcade game has a new Hungry Suit, a Light Suit, a new R3 spin attack and more. There are shots on the EU and US PS Blogs. Word to the […]
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Back in the days of headache-inducing Atari graphics, we didn't have any of this cinematic story telling malarkey: we had to use our imaginations. Since we've forgotten how in the intervening three decades, PixelJunk has provided this delightful commercial for PixelJunk Shooter 2, which asks us to consider the inner lives of those itsy-bitsy stranded […]
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Talk about a father-son bonding experience. Christopher Hilton, 11, and his father Chuck Hilton, 48, of Darien recently completed a 120-mile walk across the state of Connecticut. The two traveled the length of Boston Post Road from the state line in Port Chester, New York, through 25 coastal Connecticut towns, and then finished their tour in Westerly Rhode Island. While the Hiltons did burn calories and enjoy quality time together, the primary goal of their walk was to explore the many historical, natural and cultural aspects of the state they call home.
The inspiration for the trip came from a friend of Chuck's, who a number of years ago related a story about a wonderful day of discovery she spent driving Post Road from one end of the state to another. "I thought that was a cool idea, and it's been something I've wanted to do for some time," said Chuck, who is a founding partner at Hilton-VanderHorn Architects in Greenwich. "I've spent years living in this end of the state, hopping on and off the highway to destinations in neighboring communities, but I've never really threaded them together in a cohesive way. Plus, I had heard so much about the beauty of the coastal communities on the other end of the state, places I had little time to discover. Walking Post Road seemed like the perfect way to explore all of this."
Christopher, an active and curious young student at Middlesex Middle School, embraced the unusual challenge presented by his father. "This is going to be fun. We're going to do this!" Christopher said with enthusiasm as they started out. A few hours and a couple of blisters later, the scope of what they committed to began to sink in. Fortunately, great conversations, new discoveries and determination fueled their journey.
The two traveled lightly, relying on simple basics such as good running sneakers, comfortable hiking socks, an iPhone, water, Gatorade, a few dollars and a credit card. Except for one overnight backpack, everything else they needed was picked up along the way. "It was an amazing trip filled with conversations about history, economic realities and explanations about our many surroundings," said Chuck. And there were important lessons learned along the way, too, particularly on topics such as the importance of good planning and perseverance.
What was the best part of the trip for Chris? "That's easy," he says. "Spending so much time with my dad."
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Titanic: Finding the ship that couldn't be found
"It's a boiler!"
With that bellow of triumph at 1 a.m. on Sept. 1, 1985, Bob Lange, a Research Specialist who had been spending long hours in the control room of the research vessel Knorr, became the first person to see the RMS Titanic since she had vanished into the depths of the North Atlantic 74 years earlier. His shout was the climax of what had been a three-week long search for the wreck, a search that up until that moment seemed doomed to failure.
The Knorr was the platform for an extended test of the deep-sea video search and survey system called Argo, the brainchild of Dr. Robert Ballard, who led the search under the auspices of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, of Woods Hole, Mass. Argo was a sled-like device that mounted both video and still cameras that could allow its operators to view the bottom of the ocean in "real time," a priceless asset in exploring–and searching–the ocean floor.
Ironically, finding the Titanic was an unexpected bonus for the Woods Hole expedition. In what was one of the worst-kept secrets of the day, the Knorr's actual mission was to test the Argo system by searching the floor of the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores Islands for the wreckage of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that sank in 1968 with all hands. The purpose of the search was to try to determine whether Scorpion had been lost as the result of an accident or in an encounter with a Soviet submarine which had been shadowing it: the search for the Titanic was meant to be a cover story for this undertaking.


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Beautiful execution of a half-baked idea
In the year 2154, the world is in a sorry state. Overpopulated, polluted and desperately poor, the 99 percent toil in sweatshops or resort to crime. Brutal robots keep the people in their place. The lucky one percent lives in Elysium, a space station floating above the ruined planet, where people are healthy, homes gorgeous and creature comforts abundant. Understandably, everyone on Earth wants to get to Elysium. The elite are equally determined to keep the riffraff out of their paradise.
When former master criminal Max (Matt Damon: Behind the Candelabra) gets hit with a lethal dose of radiation at his factory job, he's given five days to live. On Elysium, one machine could repair his body in under a minute. To live, Max agrees to attempt a breach of Elysium's defenses. Off he goes, outfitted with a high-powered exoskeleton.
Can Max cure himself? Can his raid help the people of Earth? Could director Neill Blomkamp (District 9) have created a more muddled metaphor for the injustice of America's immigration system?
Elysium is a beautiful film.
Blomkamp creates an amazing dystopian world. Earth is dingy, dust-covered and broken. Each frame is filled with smudges, graffiti and rubble. In Elysium, everything is vivid, clean and white.
Performances, on the other hand, are terrible. Ridiculously flat in characterization, Earth dwellers might as well be labeled poor Mexicans. Elysium residents are evil white elitists.
Saddled with ham-fisted dialog and murky motivations, actors resort to shouting. Damon gets the worst of it, as his character is the bad cinema hat trick: unlikable, uninteresting and unbelievable. He's dying of radiation poisoning until he isn't; his character swings from collapsing to the floor to kicking soldier butt.
As the defense secretary of Elysium, Jodie Foster is perhaps the biggest disappointment. Going for a British accent and achieving sounds that suggest her throat is swelling shut, Foster minces around the space station barking orders and looking lost. Only Sharlto Copley seems to be having fun as the psychotic Kruger, a dirty Elysium agent tasked with taking Max down.
Blomkamp's solution to immigration is no better than his characters' acting.
He seems to believe that moving the people of the world onto a space station could solve overpopulation. But a government to manage his noble notion affords no realistic solutions for a real world problem.
More disturbing is the movie's need for a white man to save impoverished minorities. Though the majority of Earth's population is Latino, only blond, blue-eyed Max is strong enough to save the poor brown people.
In the end, Elysium is a beautiful spectacle with very little to say.