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FA Cup: Holders Arsenal face Hull in final rematch from last year
FA Cup holders Arsenal face a rematch with last season's beaten finalists Hull in the third round of this year's competition
London: FA Cup holders Arsenal face a rematch with last season's beaten finalists Hull in the third round of this year's competition. Arsene Wenger's side ended a nine-year trophy drought as Aaron Ramsey's extra-time goal clinched a 3-2 win over Hull at Wembley in May and the Gunners will start their defence of the Cup against Steve Bruce's team.
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Ironically, Monday's third round draw was held in Hull, with Tigers manager Steve Bruce watching on as his side were handed a trip to the Emirates Stadium in the first tie drawn out. "We'd been drawn against Arsenal in the rehearsal," Bruce told BBC Sport. "Let's hope it is as good as the final, because it was a great game." Tigers captain Curtis Davies added: "I guess it was just meant to be."
The third round, which takes place over the first weekend of January, will also feature a host of fascinating opportunities for memorable giant-killing acts. League Two minnows AFC Wimbledon, in the third round for the first time in their 12-year history, host Liverpool in a match which recalls the 1988 final, won 1-0 by the original Wimbledon in one of the great FA Cup upsets as the 'Crazy Gang' shocked the then reigning English champions.
AFC Wimbledon is a fan-run team formed from the ashes of the club that left south-west London to become Milton Keynes Dons due to falling attendances and an inability to build a new stadium in the borough. Chelsea, the Premier League leaders and FA Cup winners in four of the last eight seasons, will host Championship promotion contenders Watford.
Louis van Gaal's Manchester United go to either Accrington or Yeovil, who meet in a second-round replay to decide who gets the glamour tie. Manchester City, the 2011 winners, play at home to Sheffield Wednesday. Sunderland will host former giants Leeds United in a rematch of the 1973 final when the Black Cats pulled off a shock 1-0 win.
There are eight non-League sides in the draw, with the pick of the ties involving those teams seeing Dover Athletic drawn against Premier League outfit Crystal Palace. Stoke play Wrexham in a match which pits the Premier League team against a side whose memorable giant-killing act was a defeat of Arsenal in 1992, while West Bromwich Albion host Gateshead.
As well as Arsenal against Hull, there are three other all-Premier League ties as Burnley host Tottenham, Leicester take on Newcastle and Everton entertain West Ham. Chesterfield, whose place in the competition could be in jeopardy after they were charged by the FA with fielding an ineligible player in their second-round win at Milton Keynes Dons, were drawn to play Scunthorpe or non-League Worcester.
Draw for the English FA Cup third round made on Monday: Arsenal v Hull City Southampton v Ipswich Stoke v Wrexham Charlton v Blackburn Dover v Crystal Palace AFC Wimbledon v Liverpool Manchester City v Sheffield Wednesday Aldershot/Rochdale v Nottingham Forest West Brom v Gateshead Blyth Spartans v Birmingham Aston Villa v Blackpool Rotherham v Bournemouth Huddersfield v Reading Oxford/Tranmere v Swansea Cardiff v Colchester Bolton v Wigan Sunderland v Leeds Burnley v Tottenham Millwall v Bradford Derby v Southport Brentford v Brighton Fulham v Wolves Leicester v Newcastle Scunthorpe/Worcester v Chesterfield Everton v West Ham Cambridge/Mansfield v Bury/Luton Chelsea v Watford Barnsley/Chester v Middlesbrough QPR v Sheffield United Accrington/Yeovil v Manchester United Preston v Norwich Doncaster v Bristol City Ties to be played across the weekend beginning January 3.
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Ray Laska (born August 24, 1949; age 70) played Kevin Graves, the Attorney General, during Season 6 of 24.
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Laska began his career in 1981, appearing in General Hospital. After that, he has appeared in TV shows like The Incredible Hulk, Ned and Stacey, NYPD Blue, JAG, The Agency (with Gil Bellows), Alias, Castle (with Stana Katic), NCIS (with Pauley Perrette), and State of Affairs (with Reed Diamond).
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If a Muslim says (maybe not having enough Islamic knowledge): "i don't believe in 15th shabaan/shaabe baraat. It has no significance. Extra worship in the masjid or home is not from the haadith so it's not true. Going to the Masjid and doing extra worship like praying and doing duas and other worship, collectively and individuallly is wrong on the 15th shaaban/shaabe baraat. There is no proof for shaabe baraat/15th shabaan."
The Muslim who verbally says and believes the above and tell others verbally, not to do anything or take part in shaabe baraat/ 15th shabaan become a kaafir?
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Visiting Scrooby
Otter Pitts, Scrooby.
The best way to see the village of Scrooby is on foot. Park your car on Low Road, and make sure to:
- Print the guide sheets listed below
- View the buildings described below
- Read the information boards in the Village Hall
- Walk up Mill Lane, see the rivers and the Winz common ground.
- Visit the Pilgrim Fathers pub for lunch.
Village Hall keys are held by Izzi Marshall 01302 719190.
There are several buildings worth seeing. These buildings are historically important and contribute to Scrooby's 'sense of place'.
Guide Sheets
Download this account of William Brewster Pilgrim Father as a Adobe PDF document.
Download this account of Scrooby separatist church as a Adobe PDF document.
Download this account of the flight to Holland as a Adobe PDF document.
Download this history of Scrooby manor house as a Adobe PDF document.
St Wilfrids Church Scrooby.
The Church
The thirteenth century limestone church with its tall early fifteenth century tower and steeple is Scrooby's focus. The west window is also early fifteenth century. The south aisle was added in the early Sixteenth Century. The church's roof, pews, font, pulpit and east window were restored in 1864 after a period of neglect. The east window received stained glass in 1889.
Keyholders are listed on the notice board at the graveyard's eastern gate. The keyholders are:
- Izzi Marshall 01302 719190
- Maurice Clapham 01302 710078
- Barbara Morgan 01302 719410
- Gordon Ashworth 01777 818322
The Graveyard of St Wilfrids Church Scrooby.
The Graveyard
The church's graveyard is surrounded by a limestone wall, with a village pinfold on its north side. The pinfold was used by the village pinder to impound loose and stray animals, released on payment of a fine by the animal's owner.
The Old Vicarage
Immediately neighbouring the graveyard and the pinfold is the Old Vicarage. The house was probably built in the 1590s and used by the village curate. After falling derelict in the early Twentieth Century, the house was presented to tourists as the home of William Brewster. The house does not need this false pedigree to be of interest to a visitor, as it is one of only few timber-framed buildings to survive in North Nottinghamshire.
The Manor House, Scrooby. e.20C photo?
The Archbishop of York's Manor House
The meadows to the east of the village's centre contain prominent earthworks of the medieval Archbishop of York's manor house or hunting lodge and fish ponds. Only a small part of this large and complex medieval building remains standing; being one side of the imposing gateway.
The manor house is famous for once being the home of the Brewster family, including William Brewster Jnr, the Pilgrim Father.
William Brewster Snr was receiver and bailiff of the Archbishop of York's estates in Scrooby, occupying the run-down remains of the manor house around 1575. He later became Master of the Queen's posts, providing accomodation in Scrooby for Crown messengers travelling on the Great North Road. He died in 1590.
William Brewster Jnr lived from 1566 to 1643, taking on his father's post. During 1606-7 Brewster, William Bradley and Richard Clyfton held Seperatist meetings at Scrooby's Manor House, being prosecuted for non-attendance of the established church.
The manor house and the site of the medieval palace are best viewed from Station Road, to the south of the site. Neither the building nor the surrounding farmyard is open to the public.
The Mill, Scrooby. e.20C photo?
The Mill
To the north of the village an imposing watermill stands on the old course of the river Ryton. The Mill is predominantly a seventeenth century building. Its mill pond lies between the building and the village's back lane.
The local STAR newspaper is now available at the-star.org.uk.
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Wemyss Bay Searchlight Battery
The location of a World War II searchlight battery has been reported in Thomson's field, Wemyss Bay. The battery is said to have been set up near what was then the Smithy at the north end of the village.[1]
This searchlight battery is assumed to have been installed to work in conjunction with the nearby Wemyss Bay Anti-Aircraft Battery.
There are no remains of the original site, which has since been developed for housing and lies under Forbes Place.
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A local's guide to the best eating and drinking in Phoenix
Phoenix is like a giant fiery bird rising from the... oh wait. Wrong Phoenix. But the largest city in AZ is a giant oasis in the flaming-hot (fiery?) desert, and you know what they say about spending time in the desert: it's important to stay hydrated and well-fed. With cocktails and carne asada. Here's where the locals get their fill of Southwestern tacos and over 250 tequilas.
Need even more places to eat and drink? Head to Thrillist Phoenix for hot openings and the rest of our longtime favorites.
Citizen Public HouseOld Town Scottsdale
Why you're here: Inventive foods with even more creative cocktails
What you're getting: Okay, first, the food -- it's delicious (pork belly pastrami, truffle grilled cheese, etc.), and worth the trip. And now, what you'll be drinking with the food -- because the cocktail program is so good, that barkeep Brandon Casey's "Star Spangled Banner" cocktail was commemorated at the Smithsonian Museum. And the cocktail menu features the likes of an equally tongue-pleasing Manhattan with walnut & cherry bitters.
Quiessence at The FarmSouth Mountain
Why you're here: An impressive date night with a tasting menu
What you're getting: Quiessence is a no-kids-allowed, super-romantic spot that can put a car payment-sized dent in your bank account, but it is absolutely worth every bit of it. Set in a tiny renovated home at the far end of The Farm at South Mountain, it's so intimate it'll make you actually use the word "intimate" in a spoken sentence. Expect your server to know every obscure ingredient on the modern European menu...
Pig & Pickle
South Scottsdale
Why you're here: A special "drinking food" menu until 2am, plus a confit pork shank for every other hour
What you're getting: Steeped in a laid-back atmosphere aided by wood floors and an open kitchen, P&P doesn't seem like the place to find a culinary masterpiece, but trust us, as soon as you order the little neck clams with a side of its daily featured tots (!) you will change your mind about that. Also worth mentioning? It's open till 2am every single day, and has a special "drinking food " menu.
Various locations
Why you're here: A solid-gold, hands-down Phoenix classic
What you're getting: Postino's locally revered status is all the more impressive considering how it's managed to expand out into four individual, unique branches that retain the essence of the Arcadia original -- an intimate, classy wine bar, with an ever-rotating bottle list (plus a great beer lineup), and a solid menu to match.
DeFalco's Italian EaterySouth Scottsdale
Why you're here: Scottsdale's 42-year-old lunchtime stalwart
What you're getting: DeFalco's is part deli, part boutique Italian grocery store, part dine-in or take-out Italian resto -- and all amazing. The moment you walk in, you're given a delicious olfactory overload of Italian goodness, leading you towards its expansive menu of Italian classics.
Caffe BoaTempe
Why you're here: Expertly selected wines, paired with modern Italian plates
What you're getting: The menu changes daily depending simply on the ingredients available in the kitchen, and the chefs serve as many dishes with locally grown or raised ingredients, beers, and wines as humanly possible.
Beckett's Table
Why you're here: The best example of Phoenix's evolving fine-dining scene
What you're getting: Though a recent addition to the scene, Beckett's Table has rapidly become a local icon, with every detail, from the misters on the patio to the leather-topped stools at the brick-lined bar, thought through -- and that attention extends to the menu, too, which boasts an ever-evolving (and ever-changing) array of modern American classics, like chicken dumpling soup.
CrudoCentral Scottsdale
Why you're here: Expertly thrown-together cocktails
What you're getting: Award-winning mixologist Micah Olson uses fresh ingredients and house-made syrups to craft drinks like his signature Daring Dutchman, with Bols Genever, house-made apricot syrup, mascarpone, fresh lemon, and fennel pollen.
Cowboy CiaoDowntown Scottsdale
Why you're here: Wine from 45 different countries, plus other strong selections
What you're getting: This Downtown Scottsdale locale features a long wine list, but the menu also has a variety of other booze, including craft beers and unique cocktails such as the Peas and Thank You, which is created with snow pea-infused vodka and rich honey syrup.
The Windsor
Midtown Phoenix
Why you're here: Cocktails and craft beer in a historic Phoenix 'hood
What you're getting: The Windsor champions itself for being a place where "everyone is welcome", and thanks to the eight rotating craft taps (Left Hand Milk Stout!), fantastic house cocktails (go for the rye/mint/pineapple No. 09), and extensive food menu, that's certainly true.
Blue Hound Kitchen & CocktailsDowntown Phoenix
Why you're here: The largest booze list in town
What you're getting: Located in Downtown Phoenix, Blue Hound Kitchen & Cocktails has dubbed itself an American gastro-lounge, but the real fun is to be had with the fact that it also boasts Phoenix's largest selection of bourbons, Scotches, and gins, all of which are used to great effect in the cocktail menu.
Four Peaks Brewing CompanyTempe
Why you're here: A classic, local brewpub experience
What you're getting: Four Peaks Brewing Company is a favorite of college students and families alike, and for good reason. With four locations across the Phoenix Metropolitan area, it's a household name amongst beer lovers, thanks to their inventive, yet solidly delicious lineup of brews. We recommend trying out the classic Kilt Lifter, their flagship Scottish-style ale.
The Whining Pig
Midtown Phoenix
Why you're here: Family-owned bar with a constantly changing drink lineup
What you're getting: The Whining Pig is a reliably great joint; every two weeks, 33% of the wine selection and 25% of the beer selection will change, giving customers a revolving door of new options to try, and they have yet to disappoint.
Frank & Lupe'sOld Town Scottsdale
Why you're here: A hole-in-the-wall, where you can throw a dart at the menu and leave satisfied
What you're getting: If tacos are your bag, go for (in this order) the shredded beef, the chicken, and then the fish, and finish it all with an order of the old-school sopaipillas. Or go for the Poblano Cream Chicken Enchilada, a delicious mix of mild poblano, a light & fluffy tortilla, and chicken that's actually evenly distributed throughout the enchilada.
Barrio CafeUptown Phoenix
Why you're here: Authentic Mexican food with a mile-long tequila list
What you're getting: With three colorfully decked dining rooms, Barrio's been plating traditional Mexican for the last 12 years, and doing it really well. Boasting 205+ tequilas, and an extensive food menu to match, it even has a Sunday brunch menu complete with an entree dubbed Huevos Divorciados (which differs from the classic huevos rancheros because the eggs are prepared separate of one another, and they sub hollandaise for a salsa mix).
Blanco Tacos + Tequila
Various locations
Why you're here: Uh, tacos & tequila
What you're getting: With the vast shelves of 'quila, you can create approximately one million variations on the margarita. Their new Mexican dishes cut back on the grease and lighten things up with the freshest veggies and cheeses, and their happy hour comes with as many rounds of tacos as you can handle. Bonus: the Slow Cooked Bar-B-Q Pork tacos have won awards, and rightly so.
Rancho de Tia Rosa
Various locations
Why you're here: Time-tested family recipes
What you're getting: The name isn't just a marketing technique -- Rosa's grandson opened the first Tia Rosa restaurant in Mesa in 1991 exclusively using Rosa's homegrown Mexican recipes, and the decor matches the traditional-ness of the menu. Sadly, one of the Tia Rosa locations just burned down... but they are working to reopen soon, and there are two more locations throughout the East Valley.
Gallo Blanco Cafe + BarUptown Phoenix
Why you're here: Modern bites with an easygoing, wood-decked vibe
What you're getting: Gallo offers up a range of Mexican dishes, from breakfastings to wild shrimp ceviche to a margarita and pisco menu (which the daily happy hour makes even more attractive).
Joyride Taco HouseCentral Phoenix & Gilbert
Why you're here: If you're young and into Mexican food, this is the spot.
What you're getting: Despite the newness, the cuisine sticks to the traditionals (chicken mole, fish tacos, etc.), but does them really well.
Snooze A.M. Eatery
Why you're here: Breakfast, Mexican-style
What you're getting: There is an entire portion of its menu dedicated to "the art of hollandaise". Unlike most breakfast spots with that naggy request for "no substitutions", Snooze actually says, "We encourage your custom creations", not that it's needed however. Also, don't think because we're talking breakfast that the drink menu is limited to mimosas and Bloodys. Plan on sampling the Dharma Rum: a chai latte, rum, whipped cream, and pumpkin spice glass of deliciousness.
Gadzooks Enchiladas & Soup
Uptown Phoenix
Why you're here: Welcome to a choose-your-own-enchilada adventure.
What you're getting: Gadzooks boasts possible enchilada ingredients like beer-braised bison, Chihuahua cheese, and "blended habanero lava" -- and as weird as they may sound, they are fantastic.
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Twee artikelen van Elder Of Ziyon, een over een bericht in een Egyptische krant en een over een artikel op de website van het Palestijnse als gematigd bekend staande Miftah. Beide artikelen zijn niet uitzonderlijk; dergelijke visies zijn vrij algemeen onder Palestijnen en Arabieren. Ze laten beide heel duidelijk zien wat het is dat vrede met Israel in de weg staat: niet zozeer de nederzettingen, al helpen die ook niet, maar de haat tegen Joden en het ontkennen van hun geschiedenis, wortels en aspiraties. Zolang men deze olifant in de kamer pretendeert niet te zien in Europa, zal men niet aan werkelijke vrede kunnen bijdragen, ondanks alle plannen, verklaringen, adviezen en wat dies meer zij.
Egyptian paper mentions that Jews control all the banks and are behind all wars
Al Madenah News, an Egyptian newspaper, has a feature article on the Rothschild family.
Here it is:
The Rothschild family is "one of the families in the invisible government" and the oldest and largest Jewish Khazar family and are the owners of the world's central banks and the US Federal Reserve bank.
The Rothschild banking group played a major role in the financing of the two world wars as well as the financing of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust during World War II.
Rothschild owns 80% of the world's wealth and is responsible for creating all economic crises, as well as political crises across the world.
The Rothschild family has taken Palestine through the Balfour Declaration where Britain was saved from the First World War in exchange for granting Palestine.
Their control of the world allows their preparation to build the Temple of Solomon.
Some experts and scientists say that the Jews of the Khazars are Gog and Magog, and Allah knows best.
Just another day in the Arab media.
In a highly offensive article on its website, the Western-funded Palestinian Arab NGO Miftah is not really certain that there were ever any Jewish Temples in Jerusalem and denies that Jews have any rights to pray or even visit their holiest site:
With each passing day, more and more right-wing extremist settlers and Israelis insist on entering the Aqsa Mosque Compound. They walk the grounds, try to conduct Jewish prayers and always do so under the protection of the Israeli army and police. Muslims meanwhile either bite the bullet and hope the unnatural visits end quickly or, more often than not, they protest....
The fact of the matter is that Israel's official narrative – that this is the exact place where the second temple was built and where the third one will eventually be reconstructed, has become a given for so many. The premise is that Jews have every right to enter and pray in Al Aqsa because the temples came first and this is ostensibly the holiest site in Judaism. The thousands of years of history and religious significance for Muslims around the world are made completely irrelevant not to mention that the Israeli narrative can always trump anyone else's, especially the Palestinians. The seemingly religious aspect of the argument is actually entirely political at its core.
I wasn't aware that a religion that is, according to its own calendar, 1,434 years old, has "thousands of years of history and religious significance." I also wasn't aware that the many Jewish sources about the religious importance of the Temple site that pre-date Islam are actually political. I guess because the rabbis really knew that some guy named Mohammed would say that he flew a winged horse to "the farthest mosque" which would be interpreted a century later as being the third holiest site in (Sunni) Islam.
Miftah dismisses thousands of years of Jewish practice, Jewish prayers, Jewish legal texts and the Torah itself - all of which predate Mohammed's birth. And it claims that the Jewish ties to the site are - get this -political!
Miftah, a supposedly progressive and liberal NGO, is saying explicitly that Jews do not have the right to pray at their unquestioned holiest spot. But Muslims, who have stolen numerous Christian and Jewish holy places, should have complete and exclusive rights to places they usurped. Muslim rights to stolen holy sites, according to Miftah, are paramount; Jewish and Christian rights to these sites are non-existent.
It would be an understatement to call this article hypocritical.
Once again, Miftah's interest in the truth is nonexistent. Now we see that they publish screeds that are highly offensive to Judaism as well.
Let's make this clear:
- Questioning the Jewish right to even visit, let alone pray at, the holiest site in Judaism is unspeakably offensive.
- Questioning well-established facts of Jewish history in order to push a much later claim on that spot is nothing less than an insult to Judaism and to generations of Jews who have cried over the destruction of the Temples.
- To imply that Muslims playing soccer is a more appropriate use of the Temple Mount than Jews respectfully visiting is sickening.
- To demand Muslim exclusivity over that site is bigotry, pure and simple.
The fact that these lies about Judaism and Jewish history are accepted as fact among many bigots does not make this any less reprehensible. Even worse is that this article explicitly supports religious discrimination.
A Western-funded NGO must be judged by the standards of the West and the standards of truth and accuracy and fairness it claims to adhere to itself, not the lowest common denominator in the Arab world.
Yet Miftah still get funded by clueless European NGOs.


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Other planned events: 1080 aerial pest control program
NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is conducting 2 aerial baiting programs using meat baits containing 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) poison for the control of wild dogs. The programs will start on or shortly after Wednesday 27 May 2020, and will finish on Monday 31 August 2020. The baiting will take place in the following parks, reserves and state conservation areas:
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- Bungonia National Park and State Conservation Area
- Barrengarry Nature Reserve
- Nadgigomar Nature Reserve
- Monga National Park and State Conservation Area
- Deua National Park
- Badja Swamps Nature Reserve
- Wadbilliga National Park
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- South East Forests National Park
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There will be signs at all baiting locations.
Domestic pets are not permitted in NSW national parks and reserves. Pets and working dogs may be affected (1080 is lethal to cats and dogs). Pets and working dogs in the vicinity must be restrained or muzzled and must not enter the baiting location. In the event of accidental poisoning, seek immediate veterinary assistance.
For further information please call NPWS Merimbula office on 02 6495 5000.
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Just a few lines here about Henri Michaux, a writer who really seems a genius - but, oh, what a quaint and peculiar genius! Some years ago I read his A Barbarian in Asia, and there was a sentence in there - "It would disgust me to own a house" - which serves as the perfect point of entry into the travelogue Ecuador, a thin and fragmentary book based on a journey made in 1927, to which I'd like to turn here.
There is so much I like in this work! His exasperation at Europe, his longing to talk to animals, to love something else than friends and women. And not least, his dread of cities, of vaults:
A mind of a certain size can only feel exasperation towards a city. Nothing can drive it more fully to despair. The walls first of all, and even then all the rest is only so many horrid images of selfishness, mistrust, stupidity, and narrow-mindedness.
No need to memorize the Napoleonic code. Just look at a city and you have it.
Each time I come back from the country, just as I am starting to congratulate myself on my calmness, there breaks out a furor, a rage…
And I come upon my mark, homo sapiens, the acquisitive wolf.
Cities, architectures, how I loathe you!
Great surfaces of vaults, vaults cemented into the earth, vaults set out in compartments, forming vaults to eat in, vaults for sex, vaults on the watch, ready to open fire. How sad, sad… (p.60)
Openness.... and claustrophobia. A theme, it seems to me, that is central to Michaux, or at least to the Michaux that speaks throughout these pages.
And money, there's another theme:
Money, money, one of these days I will say something about you. There is not in this century one poet who will not attribute his actions to the pressure of money. As far back as you want, my life has been in this straitjacket. (p. 63)No, he doesn't want to accept any gifts, not of things too heavy to carry. He wants to escape. Wish you success, Henri. I hope you still live there somewhere, outside the vaults.
Michaux, Henri (2001) Ecuador: A Travel Journal, Evanston: Northwestern University Press.


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In 2009, for a brief moment, U.S. "satisfaction" surged as the "Hope and Change" President entered that White House leaving many to believe that a new American utopia was upon them. But then, as people slowly realized that they still had to go to work and pay their mortgages and that Obama was just another politician with elegant words but no substance, "Hope" faded to "Hype" and "satisfaction" declined back to nearly all-time lows.
Now, as we sit here with less than 30 days left until election day, Gallup finds that satisfaction remains near all-time lows with only 28% of the population upbeat about the current path of their country. With so few people "satisfied" with their current predicament, it would seem ironic that Americans are poised to effectively extend the Obama administration for another 4 years.
As Gallup points out, with a brief exception in July when two black men were killed by police in Minnesota and Louisiana, only about one-fourth of the U.S. population has expressed "satisfaction" with the current direction of the country in 2016.
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Heading into the Nov. 8 general election this year, 49% of Democrats, 24% of independents and 8% of Republicans are satisfied with the country's direction. Republican numbers are almost identical to four years ago -- when 7% were satisfied. Democrats (53%) and independents (29%) were slightly more likely to be satisfied in October 2012 than they are now.
And it looks as if Americans are set to extend Obama's reign into a 3rd term through the election of Hillary in less than 30 days.
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Lewis Baston is author of Reggie: The Life of Reginald Maudling and several books about British general elections. He is a consultant on politics, elections and constituencies.
On Sunday 6 December, David Cameron celebrated ten years as leader of the Conservative Party and thereby joined a fairly select historical club. His predecessors to have ridden the tiger for this length of time are few in number: Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Stanley Baldwin, Lord Salisbury and Benjamin Disraeli; before Disraeli the definition of a party is a bit fuzzy but Lord Derby and Robert Peel would both be reputable claimants to this mantle in the mid-19th Century. Edward Heath and Arthur Balfour fell a few months before their ten years were up, in each case largely because they had lost two general elections in the preceding year. For this essay I thought I might look at the political context and personal standing of each of Cameron's five predecessor Conservative leaders at the moment they celebrated their tenth year at the top.
Lord Beaconsfield, 1878
Benjamin Disraeli first became party leader and Prime Minister in February 1868, and after a spell of opposition won the 1874 election with the first Conservative overall majority since 1841. The first two years of government saw a torrent of reforming domestic legislation, but after 1876 the Prime Minister's attention was focused on imperial and foreign affairs. Disraeli was translated to the House of Lords in August 1876, to become Lord Beaconsfield. The combination of jingoistic imperial policy, currying favour with Queen Victoria, cynical diplomacy abroad and social reform at home became known as 'Beaconsfieldism' (most of the long-service leaders acquired an 'ism' by their tenth year).
The politics of 1878 was dominated by the clash between Russia and Turkey, and the extent to which the British should get involved in the affairs of the Near East and South East Europe. Russia had invaded and occupied Ottoman territories in Europe and the Caucasus, advancing close to the capital at Constantinople by early 1878. British public opinion was divided. Gladstone had energised Liberal opinion against the Turks and there were pro-Russian elements in Disraeli's government including his Foreign Secretary, Lord Derby. However, British policy had always been to avoid Russia taking control of the straits around Constantinople and the Eastern Mediterranean. In February the Disraeli government asked parliament to increase army and navy spending by £6 million (2015 equivalent: about £500m) to confront the Russian advance. The vote was divisive, with Cabinet resignations and a Liberal split in which Gladstone could not carry the majority of his party. The British and Russian governments managed to cool the tensions between them diplomatically, with mutual promises not to land troops around Gallipoli.
The Congress of Berlin in summer 1878 was the high point of 'Beaconsfieldism' in foreign affairs. He had made arrangements in advance with Turkey and Austria-Hungary to trade objectives in the peace settlement, with the result that Russian influence was forced back in the Balkans and Britain acquired a new imperial possession – Cyprus. Its strategic importance was so great that the Sovereign Bases are one of the few fragments that remain of the British Empire to this day. Berlin went down well with British opinion at the time but stored up problems for the future. It was Disraeli, not Chamberlain, who was first to proclaim 'peace with honour' on returning from Germany.
From the zenith of 1878, the fortunes of the Conservative government declined, with setbacks in Afghanistan and South Africa and economic recession at home. Unwilling to raise taxes, Disraeli's government adopted deficit spending – to the horror of austere Mr Gladstone from the Liberal benches. Disraeli lost the premiership again to Gladstone in 1880.
Lord Salisbury, 1891
After Disraeli's death in April 1881 there was no clear leadership succession, although Lord Salisbury gradually assumed the role and functions of party leader. We can place his ten-year anniversary somewhere around May 1891, but it went little-noted. He was suffering from a spell of bad health, the pain from neuralgia keeping him awake at nights and making him even more gloomy and lethargic than usual. Parliament was sparsely attended because of a recurrence of the influenza epidemic. Gladstone, vulnerable at the age of 81, spent a few days in isolation after succumbing to the illness.
Much of the politics of the 1890s revolved around the growing working class movement; both Tories and Liberals legislated in its shadow. In May 1891 the new Pope, Leo XIII, issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, a founding text of Catholic social teaching which supported limited working hours and the payment of a living wage. The British press also noted the increasing harshness of anti-Semitic oppression in Tsarist Russia and the flow of dispossessed Jewish refugees towards western Europe.
The short-term political position in May 1891 was uncertain. Some Unionists pondered calling an election, on the back of relatively benign foreign, Irish, colonial and economic conditions, and the government's popular introduction of free elementary education. However, the Liberal opposition was doing well in by-elections, gaining Stowmarket and holding Buckingham. The latter was a particular achievement because the seat had only been gained in another by-election in 1889, and the 1891 vacancy arose from the imprisonment of the Liberal MP for 'procuring for immoral purposes' a young woman named Nellie Maud Baskett.
Salisbury's government went down to defeat in the 1892 General Election, but did not endure opposition for very long. Salisbury was not even halfway through his terms as party leader and Prime Minister in May 1891.
Stanley Baldwin, 1933
Stanley Baldwin's electoral scorecard at his tenth anniversary stood at four elections fought: two triumphs (1924 and 1931), one loss (1929) and one peculiar half-loss (1923). Despite having led the Tories to their biggest ever landslide, Baldwin in 1933 did not have the formal position of Prime Minister but was the power behind the increasingly decrepit figurehead of Ramsay MacDonald in the National Government. Also, despite the huge win less than two years previously and the weak opposition from a Labour Party led from the pacifist far left, the government was not in a happy position. It was suffering huge swings in by-elections in seats such as Rotherham and Hitchin and while the economic slump had bottomed out and unemployment had started falling, there were few signs of robust recovery. Oswald Mosley's fascist movement seemed to be gathering strength in this impatient climate.
Baldwinism was not so much an ideology as a style and a mood; a calm, reflective way of doing politics, on the surface harking back to a pastoral, hierarchical golden age while Britain changed towards new industries and social patterns like those 'invincible green suburbs'. But a placid, reactive mood was ill-fitted to the very harsh world that was developing outside. China had become a maelstrom of violence. Books were being publicly burned in the streets of the new Nazi Germany in May 1933, and Soviet Ukraine was suffering its terrifying famine.
Baldwin resumed his position as Prime Minister two years later, and led his party to one more great election victory before standing down in 1937.
Winston Churchill, 1950
Winston Churchill, alone of the decennials, marked his tenth anniversary (9 October) as Conservative leader from the Opposition front bench. Dominating his attention at the time was the Korean War, which was reaching one of its most dangerous points. By October the initial North Korean invasion had been thrown back, and the UN forces (including the British) had invaded the North and reached the Chinese border; the Americans mistakenly believed that China would not intervene, but Mao's forces were building up for an offensive in November 1950 and many feared that the situation would deteriorate into nuclear war.
In domestic politics, opinion seemed not to have moved much since Labour won a narrow majority in the February general election. The Conservatives successfully defended their marginal seat of Glasgow Scotstoun in an October by-election, but Labour remained a couple of points ahead in the polls and was able to implement its policies such as iron and steel nationalisation. But the tight situation in Parliament was already grinding the government's morale down. Stafford Cripps resigned, replaced as Chancellor by Hugh Gaitskell and as MP for Bristol South East by Tony Benn.
Churchill had a year left before returning to power in October 1951, although his principal achievements were behind him.
Margaret Thatcher, 1985
Margaret Thatcher's tenth anniversary as Conservative leader, 11 February 1985, was not a very happy one for her, with continuing controversy over the sinking of the Belgrano following that day's acquittal of Clive Ponting on official secrets charges. The government was not popular; the Conservatives were a couple of points ahead in the polls in February but dropped behind Labour in March and suffered some poor county council election results in May; it was the start of the mid-term trough of the 1983-87 government. Conflict ground on in Northern Ireland, with a devastating IRA attack on a police station in Newry killing nine officers on 28 February; memories were fresh of the bombing of the party conference in Brighton the previous autumn.
Unemployment was at historic highs, but the pound was at historic lows on the international markets, touching $1.05 in early March, but the stock market was soaring and there was a vigorous market in newly privatised (November 1984) BT shares, the first big creation of mass share ownership through privatisation under 'popular capitalism'. Buses outside London were deregulated later in 1985. Spring 1985 was also the painful, bitter end of the year-long miners' strike – the lights had stayed on all winter and hardship led inexorably to the return to work in March. Teachers were also striking against Keith Joseph's policies, an industrial conflict that was not so conclusively ended as the miners' strike.
Thatcher had nearly six more years left as party leader and Prime Minister, and another large election win, in February 1985. Her agenda was nowhere near complete.
Concluding thoughts
Most of the decennial club can claim lasting achievements by this stage of their leaderships, and an epic quality about their careers, even if not so varied and improbable as those of Benjamin Disraeli and Winston Churchill, the two pirate adventurers turned captains of the Tory ship. Disraeli reinvented the Conservatives as a party of government and saw how the party might prosper even in a mass working class electorate with social reform and popular imperialism Baldwin had reconciled the country to tariff reform, established Conservative electoral dominance, and defeated the General Strike. Churchill had won a war and led the party to a rapid recovery from its drubbing in 1945. Thatcher had already drastically reduced the power of the unions and was about to defeat the miners; she had won the Falklands War, hit upon popular capitalism through privatisation and renewed the Conservatives as a party of the aspirational working class.
Three of the decennials unquestionably have greatness about them – Disraeli, Churchill and Thatcher – while the other two led in a less demonstrative, quieter fashion while still stamping their personal imprint on a long era. Salisbury lacks an '-ism' – for a Tory of his stripe, the very concept is undesirable – but he reflects the pessimistic twilight of the Victorian era well. He, unlike the others, had little life outside politics even though there was no burning political vision that drove him into public life. Might Cameron at 10 be, rather than the heir to Blair, the heir to Salisbury?


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ELDER MUSIC: Bags' Groove
Sunday, 29 July 2012
This Sunday Elder Music column was launched in December of 2008. By May of the following year, one commenter, Peter Tibbles, had added so much knowledge and value to my poor attempts at musical presentations that I asked him to take over the column. He's been here each week ever since delighting us with his astonishing grasp of just about everything musical, his humor and sense of fun. You can read Peter's bio here and find links to all his columns here.
Recently, I heard this track on the radio and I thought, "I could do something with this."
"Bags' Groove" is the name of an album Miles Davis recorded in 1954 with a group of stellar musicians. It's also the name of a track from that album - well, two tracks really, as they recorded it twice and released both versions.
I'll use one of them and the album as a jumping off point for the music today, playing something from each of the musicians present – and what a stellar line up it was.
I'll start with the tune itself and I'll attribute it to MILES DAVIS even though he didn't write it. However, this was Miles's album and he was the front man at the time.
Milt Jackson is quite prominent on this track - indeed, it could almost be considered his but as we are featuring him below, this will be Miles's turn. This is Bags' Groove.
That tune was written by MILT JACKSON whose nickname was Bags, thus its name.
Milt was the vibraphone player for the Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the most important and durable jazz groups of the last 60 years. For the music track for Milt I won't use something from the quartet as others from that group were also present on this recording. So, instead, back in 1957 Milt recorded an album with RAY CHARLES called "Soul Brothers."
In spite of its name, this is a jazz album with, admittedly, a small soul influence on the music. Continuing with the theme of tunes named after Milt, this is Bags' Guitar Blues and besides him and Ray, we have Kenny Burrell playing guitar.
♫ Ray Charles - Bags' Guitar Blues
The pianist for our original tune was a particular favorite of mine, THELONIOUS MONK.
Rather than something from Monk's solo work or from his regular group, and a fine one that was, I've decided to go for an unusual pairing.
This is from an album he recorded with the great baritone sax player Gerry Mulligan. I wouldn't have thought that it would work but it sure did. Here they are with one of Monk's compositions, Straight, No Chaser.
Now we have PERCY HEATH who played bass and KENNY CLARKE, the drummer. Both of these gentlemen were members of the MODERN JAZZ QUARTET.
Indeed, the only member of that group who wasn't on this record is John Lewis, the pianist, but he will be heard in this piece of music. I've decided to conflate Percy and Kenny into a single track because all the music I have for these two are from the MJQ.
Of course, Milt is rather prominent as well. Here they are with Here´s That Rainy Day.
♫ Modern Jazz Quartet - Here´s That Rainy Day
There are two musicians who were on the album but not on the track featured above, but I'm going to include them as well, naturally. The first of these is the great sax player SONNY ROLLINS.
Sonny started in jazz at an early age - he was eleven when he had his first gig - and he was playing with Thelonious Monk while still a teenager. Soon after, he recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet and also with Miles Davis so all these folks are intertwined. That, however, is the point of this column.
Here he is with Most Beautiful Girl in the World.
♫ Sonny Rollins - Most Beautiful Girl in the World
The other musician who played on the rest of the album is HORACE SILVER, the pianist.
In the early sixties, Horace really hit a hot streak that continued for several years. His album "Horace-Scope" is from the middle of that period and the track today, Where You At? is from that album.
He has great support here from Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Junior Cook on tenor sax.
♫ Horace Silver - Where You At
I've run out of musicians from the session so I'm going to recycle some of them. Naturally, THELONIOUS MONK will be first cab off the rank.
I originally thought of including one of his challenging solo works, but I changed my mind when I listened to this one. Here is Monk's take on that hoary old song. Tea for Two.. He makes it distinctly unhoary.
♫ Thelonious Monk - Tea for Two
I'll end as I began, with MILES DAVIS.
Well, it's theoretically Miles but he's not really in evidence on the track which, like the Monk selection, is another old song. There's a lot of piano playing from Red Garland and Paul Chambers bows the bass which is rather interesting for a change.
Cannonball Adderley and John Coltrane are both apparently present as well, but my ears can't detect them either. This is Billy Boy.


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My husband has been my rock for the last six months or so – quietly there, doing what needs to be done, giving me space when I need it, and holding me close when I crave non-child-related human contact. He makes me laugh, sometimes even on my darkest days, and I don't know what I'd do without him.
I struggle with how to tell him that. I'm not prone to declarations of undying love, not willing to say sappy things I don't feel, and so this conversation we had tonight is pretty standard for our so-called "sweet nothings":
Me: You know I tolerate the fuck out of you.
Him: I more than tolerate you – I actually love you.
Me: I love you too. More than you can imagine.
Him: Do you actually know what I can imagine?
Me: No, and I don't want to. Fine, I love you less than you can imagine. Satisfied?
Him: Much better.
*From a favorite Edna St Vincent Millay poem:
Loving you less than life, a little less
Than bitter-sweet upon a broken wall
Or brush-wood smoke in autumn, I confess
I cannot swear I love you not at all.
For there is that about you in this light—
A yellow darkness, sinister of rain—
Which sturdily recalls my stubborn sight
To dwell on you, and dwell on you again.
And I am made aware of many a week
I shall consume, remembering in what way
Your brown hair grows about your brow and cheek,
And what divine absurdities you say:
Till all the world, and I, and surely you,
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Curvy ex-BB Naija housemate, Uriel Oputa who was known for her extreme dramatic diary sessions has started a vlog, 'Diary Session With Uriel'.
The voluptuous Imo born lady who had a thing for her fellow housemate, Bassey talked about love in one of the episodes of her diary session. Uriel will make you hold your sides in this hilarious video.
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|NDT.net Issue: 2015-11
Publication: e-Journal of Nondestructive Testing (NDT) ISSN 1435-4934 (NDT.net Journal)
Varian Introduces New Line of Portable High-Energy X-ray Devices for Industrial ApplicationsVarian Medical Systems4, Palo Alto, CA, USA
The compact, lightweight Linatron® Xp offers powerful X-ray penetration for inspecting everything from oil pipelines to bomb threats
SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- ANST booth #333 – Varian Medical Systems (NYSE:VAR) is introducing a new, portable industrial linear accelerator—a high-energy X-ray generator for industrial applications—that is powerful enough to penetrate steel, concrete, or other materials yet small and light enough to be easily moved from place to place. The new Linatron® Xp can be integrated into imaging systems for pipeline testing, perimeter security, vehicle inspection, and many other infrastructure inspection and first responder applications.
"This technology can be used to investigate a bomb threat," said Bob Drubka, vice president and general manager of Varian's Security and Industrial Products. "Picture that there's an object of interest—some kind of box—and you don't know what's inside. The new Linatron Xp can be used to quickly determine if you have a device that's going to hurt people. Paired with one of Varian's high-energy PaxScan® digital image detectors, it can be used to generate immediate, real-time images in order to quickly assess the situation and ascertain how to neutralize the threat."
Varian offers both liquid-cooled and air-cooled versions of the Linatron Xp depending on the environment or the application. "The liquid-cooled version is for what we call 'high duty' applications, where you need to keep the X-ray beam on for longer periods of time. It is designed to run continually without having to stop for it to cool down—for example, when performing routine inspection of oil or gas pipelines," Drubka said. "The air-cooled version is designed to be used in short bursts, with thermal recovery periods in between—like when checking out a package in the context of a bomb threat."
Designed for quick setup and teardown, the Linatron Xp weighs less than 250 pounds—roughly 1/10th the weight of a full-sized industrial linear accelerator. It fits into two cases that can each be moved by two people. It is easily integrated with Varian's PaxScan 2530HE flat-panel digital image detector, or it can be built into systems using computed radiography or film for fast, real-time digital imaging.
"The Linatron Xp fills a void in the marketplace, because there is no other compact solution that operates at high energy—between 0.95 and 1.35 megavolts, which is right in between the energy of an X-ray tube and a full-sized industrial linear accelerator," Drubka said. "It also operates at a wide range of temperatures and, unlike other technologies, utilizes no cobalt sources, so there's no radioactive waste to dispose of or to possibly fall into the wrong hands and turn up in a dirty bomb."
The Linatron Xp is manufactured in Varian's ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility. It is an extension of the technology behind the company's proven high-energy Linatron accelerators for non-destructive testing, inspection, security, and cargo screening applications.
Varian will introduce the Linatron Xp industrial linear accelerator at the 2015 annual conference of the American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ANST) in Salt Lake City next week.
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If you live in Portland, you've likely driven by the Sally McCracken Building at NW 6th & Everett in Old Town, perhaps never knowing that Sally McCracken is a real person!
She is one of Central City Concern's founding board members and a friend for many years. We are pleased to be honoring Sally (as well as longtime board member Dean Gisvold) at our Working Our Way Homeluncheon on Nov. 9, 2010. The luncheon benefits self-sufficiency programming at CCC; you may buy your ticketshere.
Here's some background on Sally:
Sally has been a committed volunteer all her adult life. In the late 1960s when her children reached school age, she expanded her volunteer life to embrace community action. She joined the boards of a church community action program (East-CAP), then the board of PACT (now known as Portland Impact, but then was part of the "War on Poverty.") In 1976, Sally was chairing the PACT board and also the Emergency Helping Agencies Committee (EHAC) of the Tri-County Community Council. In EHAC meetings the needs of the Burnside community came into focus and several meetings were held to see what could be done. As a result, a small group of Portland civic leaders formed the Burnside Consortium in 1979 and it later became Central City Concern.
Sally served as CCC board chair for seven years and spent many hours working with the agency's executive director, navigating complex governmental requirements and always scrambling for the next dollar. She retired from the CCC board in 1990. Among her other volunteer activities are the Oregon Community Foundation where she served for 11 years as a board member (two of those as chair) and where she still serves on some committees as well as chairing the Giving in Oregon Council.
Currently she is a member of the Joseph E Weston Public Foundation Board, an Emeritus Board Member of the Ford Family Foundation in Roseburg and an Emeritus Trustee at Reed College. In addition, she is a former board member of the University of Oregon Foundation, the Providence Medical Center Advisory Board and two State Commissions. Sally has received many honors for her contributions including the 1985 George A. Russill Community Service Award and the 1998 Aubrey Watzek Award. She was declared a "Model Citizen" by the Portland City Council and the Multnomah County Commission, when she ended her term at CCC. In 1991, CCC persuaded Sally to allow it to name a building after her – today, the Sally McCracken Building houses 95 very low-income individuals as well as the agency's administrative operations.


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A roasted turkey yields a beautiful broth, fragrant and rich in flavor with a beautiful golden color. You can sip it on its own or use it as the base for soups made with leftover turkey meat.
How to Make Incredible Turkey Bone Broth
Wine Gives Bone Broth Great Flavor and Helps Release Gelatin
A glug of wine tipped into the cooking pot not only gives Turkey Bone Broth a lovely flavor, infusing it with just a hint of acidity. That acidity helps to breakdown the collagen in the turkey's frame, transforming it to gelatin which gives a well-made turkey bone broth an incredible, luscious and silky texture that's perfect for sipping on its own, or using as a base to make soups or sauces.
Cook Your Broth Low and Slow or Under Pressure
You can make turkey bone broth both on the stove using a stock pot or using an electric pressure cooker. I prefer to use my Instant Pot when making turkey bone broth, or any bone broth, because it is fast, clean, and efficient.
If you're making turkey bone broth on the stove using a stock pot, you'll bring the pot to a boil and then immediately turn down the heat to maintain the broth at a low, even simmer. This helps to extract the collagen from the bones and joints and provides a more consistent gel than does overboiling the broth at high heat; moreover, a long and slow simmer keeps your stock clear and its color golden instead of pale and milky.
If you're making turkey bone broth using an electric pressure cooker, like the Instant Pot, you don't need to worry about cooking temperatures; rather, just pressure cook the bones, water and wine, and then let the pressure release naturally. You will have a nice clear broth with plenty of gelatin.
Skip the Vegetables and Herbs
Many broth makers add vegetables to their bones when they make broth, but you'll generally make better broth if you skip the vegetables and herbs and simply keep your broth to three ingredients: leftover turkey bones, water and wine. With the prolonged cooking required of broth making, vegetables tend to break down and can leave your broth with a subtle (or not-so-subtle) flavor of overcooked vegetables. Carrots will tend to overly sweeten the broth and leafy greens can leave bitter notes.
If you still want to add vegetables to your broth, consider adding them in the last half hour of cooking rather than at the beginning. They'll give the broth a fantastic flavor, but won't break down enough to leave it tasting overcooked or too sweet.
Adding herbs to the broth as it cooks can give your broth incredible flavor, but only if those same herbs are compatible with the dishes you'll make using the broth. Using a bone broth that has been simmered with thyme and bay isn't a great option if your making an Asian-inspired soup.
Benefits of Bone Broth
Stocks and bone broths play a fundamental role in the traditional cooking of people throughout the world. Not only are they easy and inexpensive to make, but they help to combat food waste by providing an outlet for food scraps and unusable cuts that might otherwise go to waste.
They are also particularly rich in vital nutrients like gelatin, an easy-to-digest protein. Traditionally broths and stock are used to nurse the ill and the convalescent owing, and researchers have found that broth made from chicken bones really does help ease symptoms illness, particularly upper respiratory infections (1).
Turkey Bone Broth
- leftover bones from your roasted turkey
- 1/2 cup white wine
- Place the turkey bones and wine into a large stock pot, cover with water by two inches, and then bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Immediately turn down the heat to medium-low, and keep at a bare simmer for 4 to 6 hours.
- Strain the broth and serve immediately or store in the fridge for up to 1 week, or the freezer up to 6 months.
How to Make Incredible Stocks and Bone Broths
Bone broths are easy to make, particularly in an electric pressure cooker, and powerfully nutritive. You can get more nutrient-dense and wholesome recipes like this one in my cookbook Broth and Stock from the Nourished Kitchen.
Other Nourishing Recipes for Broths and Soups
Bone broths and soups, like this Turkey Bone Broth, can be powerfully nutritive and are wonderfully welcome food, particularly during the cold and dark months. You can find all our recipes for soups, broth and stews here, and check out my cookbook on Broth and Stock here.
Mineral-Rich Sipping Broth is an easy-to-make broth made with not only bone broth, but also mineral-rich vegetables and tahini. It's creamy, and perfect for sipping.
Yucatan Lime Soup is a traditional Mexican chicken soup dressed with rice, avocado, cotija cheese and tortillas and seasoned with chiles and lime.
Slowcooker Chicken Soup is super easy to make, you can just toss the ingredients together in a slow cooker in the morning and come home to an incredibly delicious soup.
Homemade Cream of Chicken Soup is nothing like the canned stuff. Instead it's flavored with vegetables, fresh herbs and thickened with egg yolks and cream for an incredibly rich and satisfying soup.