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Women Bishops – What I think I think
June 16, 2012 § 9 Comments
There's a convention in cricket reporting that goes something like this. At the end of a day where there was great progress by the batsmen followed by a clatter of wickets at the end, the summariser will say: 'if you'd told the captain at the start of play that England would be 300 – 6 he'd have probably accepted it quite happily'.
If you'd told supporters of women bishops in 2009 (when this measure started its progress) that in July 2012 we'd be looking at the current legislation, would they have been happy with it? There is no 'coordinate jurisdiction', no 'society model', no spelling out of matters of lineage or sacramental assurance. There is a requirement for all parishes to acknowledge that the diocesan bishop has the legal authority to delegate that ministry to another bishop, and a requirement that a parish wanting alternative ministry should receive that only according to their expressed theological convictions about the ordination of women.
None of what is in the legislation before General Synod in July changes the situation on the ground with regard to the provision of ministry to and within parishes which object to the ordination of women. We have lived with this division since the Act of Synod in the 1990s made provision for parishes to ask for another bishop. But the amendment made by the House of Bishops clarifying that a 'requesting' parish should be offered a bishop in line with the 'theological convictions as to the consecration or ordination of women' expressed by the parish has lit the blue touch paper, and I've been taken by surprise by this.
It seemed to me that what we have been arguing about since 2009 is not whether there should be alternative provision, but only about what that provision should look like. The considered statement by Women and the Church makes great play of the enshrining in law of a division of theological opinion about men and women in ministry. While that might be regrettable (and I think it is), it's not new, and something like that was always going to be there if we were to accept that opponents of women's ministry are also 'loyal Anglicans'. Very early in the debate one speaker said that of course a diocesan bishop would provide a bishop acceptable to objectors. In specifying that the only valid reason would be about the ordination of women the House of Bishops has not invented something new, but has restricted the grounds of the objection to one which already pertains.
These parishes were always going to be worried about 'sacramental assurance', and I think that, as these things play out, their objections will be increasingly difficult to sustain. But in not going any further than this the House of Bishops has refrained from enshrining all sorts of other stuff which the objectors were clamouring for. If three clergy had voted the other way in 2010 we'd have had 'coordinate jurisdiction', which is theological nonsense. I'm glad I voted against it.
So, if you'd offered this in 2009 would a supporter of women bishops have settled for it? I am a supporter, and I was there in 2009, and I will settle for it. It is not perfect, but once we agreed to continue with a twin-track ministry then nothing was going to be. It is a great pity that the restriction of an objection to theological convictions about women's ministry alone has opened the whole thing to scrutiny again, and I'm devastated that people I respect and trust, such as Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Michael Sadgrove and Elaine Storkey have found this a step too far, but I can't honestly see how it could have been different. That Forward in Faith don't think the legislation goes far enough is reasonably telling, I think.
What will happen in July? Women and the Church clearly think that supporters of women's ministry might vote against a measure which would enable women Bishops by 2014, because it enshrines doubts about the ministry of women, and men who ordain women. If supporters were to effectively vote this down then it could be up to 2020 before we get them again. If this measure isn't enough for WATCH then I don't think any measure would get through, given the numbers who are opposed in principle and who will remain as Anglicans.
I have consistently supported women's ordination. I have three female priest colleagues. I voted against coordinate jurisdiction, and took on the Archbishop of York in our Diocesan Synod about it. I couldn't be more in favour. But people I trust think differently on this legislation – and I'm keen to understand why.
I think what's proposed treats male and female bishops equally. It recognises that some bishops are acceptable to parishes and some aren't on this issue. (Just ask the diocesans who have 'resolution C' parishes in their dioceses now. It would be bad for all concerned if I became a bishop, but I would ordain women and I would be objected against too.) It preserves the legal status of the diocesan as the diocesan. And it asks the diocesan to treat objections clearly and within defined parameters. That some people object to women's ordination is deeply regrettable to me. But I think this way of dealing with it is the best we are going to get, for now. So I would be even more devastated if it went down in July.
(PS: Apologies for not posting links – I'm abroad, and they would seem to be routed via odd servers. WATCH is an easy site to access. Google Michael Sadgrove and Miranda Threlfall-Homes 'blog' and you should get there. The Fulcrum site has Elaine Storkey's piece)
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I'm with you completely on this one – saved me having to write a blog post myself… I have not yet found a sufficiently convincing argument to persuade me that these amendments make any real difference to the legislation that was passed by almost all the dioceses over the last few months.
Jeremy states that the amendment "recognises that some bishops are acceptable to parishes and some aren't on this issue" and that it asks the diocesan "to treat objections clearly and within defined parameters".
I wholeheartedly agree that this is what the HoB intended but sadly this is not what is actually said in amendment 5 (c) (1)
I, like Jeremy, fully accept that 'any male bishop will not do'. The hope and intention is that this would be acknowledged and reflected in the way that diocesan schemes are drawn up – with generosity, grace and pragmatism. It would be sufficient for a diocesan scheme to have due regard to the key issues of headship and sacramental assurance (via the different bishops written into the diocesan plan) without having to spell it all out or reach agreement on those issues.
Clause 3 of the existing legislation says that a theological conviction is the basis on which a letter of request can be written. The detail of that theological conviction is clearly not of primary importance. To put it more simply, the holding of the theological conviction is the 'permission' to issue a Letter of Request. No judgment has to be made on the acceptability of the theological conviction and a diocesan bishop will know his/her churches and will be able to delegate to the appropriate bishop within the diocesan plan.
What the HoB amendment [5 (1) (c)] has seemingly done is to now make the detail ("the grounds") of the theological conviction highly significant such that there is a need for the male bishop to exercise their ministry in such a way that is deemed consistent with the theological conviction of the PCC.
There is now an implicit assumption written into the legislation (even if it refers to the drawing up of a Code of Practice) that all theological convictions which result in an objection to the consecration of women, are acceptable and acceptable for all time.
This is very different from asking "the diocesan to treat objections clearly and within defined parameters".
Wording is everything – It will be there in perpetuity and can lead to consequences which no one ever intended.
Sadly, this is not what the dioceses voted on.
The problem with the legislation is that it requires Catholics and Evangelicals to accept the basic assumption that the woman delegating this authority is indeed a bishop – which we do not believe is ontologically possible. It is exactly the same as if a lay male was put in charge of a diocese and started ordaining and confirming – a veritable nonsense.
John, if we accept that we are "part of a universal church", then surely we are already "poisoned" because that Church already has women bishops, both now and in the past.
The first apostles commissioned by the Risen Christ were women and it was the men who did not believe them. Was the Early Church poisoned because Jesus deliberately selected women to bear the most important message in history?
Ordination is an invention of the church. Thus it is up to the church to decide whether it wishes to continue with the historical practices of one part of the universal Church. We need to recognise that the universal Church has never had a single model of leadership. It has always been locally decided and multiple systems have co-existed throughout history.
If you wish to argue that the subset of the Church with which you agree has only ever had male leadership, then that is a different matter.
I accept that there are spiritual consequences for us all in this, which is why it is so disappointing to see such bitter enmity between people who were commanded to love one another.
when we debated this at Middlesborough deanery synod, you said to me that such bishops have to be acceptable to those for whom they are provided! This slightly amended legislation says that, nothing more. Many, it seems, do not agree however.
Comments like "because it poisons the whole body" are starting to make this liberal Christian increasingly illiberal…
It is clear that the vast majority of Anglicans in this country support the ordination of women to the episcopate. The broad support was shown in the overwhelming number of dioceses who voted for the draft legislation (42-2). That draft legislation did contain compromises for those who could not accept the ministry of female priests and bishops. That isn't to say it was acceptable to FiF or conservative evangelicals. But the compromise contained in the legislation was also unacceptable to those of us who would have liked to see a single order measure with no compromise.
What really gets me about what is happening at the moment is that the House of Bishops were fully aware of the broad support the draft legislation had in the dioceses, and yet they still felt the need to change it! Those changes were made in the full knowledge that similar proposals had been voted down by General Synod and the Diocesan Synods (in the follow on motions). I'm not really sure what outcome the House of Bishops was really expecting to be honest, particularly as the Measure looks less likely to be passed now. That being the case, these amendments look more and more like wrecking amendments.
However, if I were a member of General Synod then I would still vote *for* the Measure even as amended. If the Measure goes down, then another 8 or so years is just an unacceptably long time for it to be voted on again. There does remain the possibility of rejecting the amendments and sending the Measure back to the House of Bishops, but what would they then do?! Will any of them in the interim period have changed their opinion on these amendments? If yes, then perhaps they didn't think about the likely consequences of the amendments in the first place.
Surely the next stop has to be an amendment of Canon Law to remove (or severely restrict) the ability of the House of Bishops to radically alter Measures like this before a final vote. The decision (from the Group of Six) on whether the amendments alter the Measure as a whole, for example, should not include any members of the group which had proposed, and likely championed, the amendments in the first place!
'We have lived with this division since the Act of Synod in the 1990's' Yes we have, and it is precisely this less than wonderful experience that has taught people to beware House of Bishops bearing gifts of last minute changes to legislation. Synod can choose to pass or reject the newly amended measure amendments but it cannot scrutinise, debate or change the amendments. The WB legislation was never a forgone conclusion given the make – up of General Synod, even with the outstanding support of 42/44 diocese supporting the original legislation.
So while I appreciate that it might have been born of a strong desire to see women in the House of Bishops and that far more worrying amendments were apparently rejected, I think it amending was a counterproductive move. I suspect the amendments are born of political expediency and a desire to garner in a few last minute votes.
Unfortunately, the amendment to clause 5 will also lose votes – especially the votes of those who have actually enthusiastically supported and worked for WB. The Bishops were made well aware that this would be the likely consequence from briefings they received and they chose to ignore that information.
To claim that moving provision from a code of practice to a measure makes no difference seems a little naive – if it is to win support from those opposed to WB then it is designed to make a significant difference. Either that or one group will be told it makes no difference, while the other is led to believe it will.
If I had been told that this is what the legislation would look like back in 2009, would I have been happy? Is this a trick question? I was priested in 2009 and even then expressed grave reservations about the direction the C of E were heading to senior staff. If this had been on the table then, as a woman, I would have chosen not to be priested in the Church of England.
The legislation is demeaning of women's humanity, enshrines theological incoherence in law, skews our ecclesiology, is a logistical nightmare and still apparently does not give those who reject women's ordained and episcopal ministry what they want. It can be argued this was always the case, but now it is undoubtedly more so. Up to this point I have supported the legislation, despite thinking a single clause measure would be more appropriate, including voting for it at Diocesan Synod. I would not have voted for this. I will not get to vote on the amended legislation, so my opinions are of no practical significance, but for what its worth, I would not do so and I hope and pray it gets thrown out.


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Here are the individual recipes for the dishes on the menu:
Roast Goose with lemon & limes
Cranbery Port sauce
Roast potatoes
Red cabbage with apples & juniper berries
Brussels sprouts with parmesan & almonds
Roast parsnips and pears with thyme
Here are the individual recipes for the dishes on the menu:
Roast Goose with lemon & limes
Cranbery Port sauce
Roast potatoes
Red cabbage with apples & juniper berries
Brussels sprouts with parmesan & almonds
Roast parsnips and pears with thyme
This should be made well ahead of time. After tremendous success of my first attempt, after Christams I went and bought as much cranberries as I could get at local Waitrose at half-price and made enough to have a few bottles for the next couple of years. I am told that the sauce tasted even better matured for a year or two.
300g fresh cranberries
100ml port
1 small stick cinnamon, snapped in half
1 orange finally zested and juiced
140g caster sugar (or to taste) – I always put less sugar than recipes call for and all the alcohol in this preserves it sufficiently
1 tbsp Grand Marnier or Cointreau (which is what I used)
Place the cranberries, port, cinnamon, orange juice and zest in a small non-corrosive saucepan. Bring to the boil and simmer uncovered until the berries begin to pop and soften. Stir in the sugar and Cointreau, then adjust the sweetness to taste. The sugar will toughen the cranberries, so do not add it until this stage.
Remove the cinnamon stick and allow the sauce to cool before serving. It will thicken as it cools.
Another new recipe that I had time to try out over Christmas, from 100 Hot and Spicy Sauces by Sally Griffiths.
A fairly robust sauce, serve with boiled gammon or bacon joints, pork or chicken breasts.
4 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 red onion, quartered
1 fresh medium-hot red chilli, or pureed and sieved 1 dried guindilla chilli (I used ancho)
4 tablespoons of chopped fresh mint
3 tablespoons of olive oil
225g (8oz) smoked ham or bacon
400g (14oz) green lentils with juice (waitrose canned verte lentils or sainsbury's or tesco's green lentils)
pinch of saffron threads (I forgot to add this time!)
salt and freshly ground black pepper (I used smoked bacon, which is salty enough and no salt really needs to be added!)
150 ml (5 fl oz) water or splash of red wine
Place the garlic, onion, chilli and mint in a food processor and blend until finely chopped.
Heat the oil in a wok or deep sided pan and stir-fry the processed mixture with the ham for 1-2 minutes.
Season to taste.
I served this with boiled gammon (add celery, peppercorns, bay leaf to water) and mustard mash. Next time will try with chicken breasts and adding some boiled carrots as a side dish.

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Padua Hall is located in the heart of campus between the student center and the Hawks Hangout.
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Peanut Cookies / Dulce de Leche - Bruno Albouze - The Real Deal
Peanut Cookie Recipe / Makes 20.
Peanut Butter
2.7 ounces (80g) toasted or roasted unsalted peanuts.
In a food processor, blend until it turns into paste. Make more for better results and save leftover for your daily peanut butter spread.
Peanut Praliné
0.8 cup (150g) sugar
10 ounces (300g) toasted or roasted unsalted peanuts.
When making caramel, keep the kids out of the kitchen to prevent any accidents!..
Make caramel a sec, throw in peanuts and coat them in. Transfer onto a silicone mat or over a lightly oiled work surface. Cool and break into pieces. Process half of the caramelized peanuts into paste (praliné). Crush and save remaining for topping.
Cookie Dough
8 Tbsp (130g) butter, room temp
2.7 ounces (80g) peanut butter
4 ounces (120g) brown sugar
4 ounces (120g) granulated sugar
1 tsp (4g) salt
2 ea. (100g) eggs
2.5 cups (350g) all-purpose flour
2 tsp (8g) baking soda.
Cream butter, peanut butter and salt. Add both sugars and blend well. Add eggs, flour and baking soda. Scoop out cookie dough into ≈ 20 x 1.7 ounces (50g) portions and chill for up to 2 weeks.
Soft Caramel ("Dulce de Leche")
0.7 cup (165g) heavy cream
0.2 cup (45g) milk
2 Tbsp (25g) sugar
2 Tbsp (25g) corn syrup or glucose
2 grams fleur-de-sel (optional) or 2 grams Kosher salt
1/2 tsp vanilla paste or powder or one vanilla bean (scrape seeds out)
1/3 cup (75g) sugar
3.5 ounces (100g) corn syrup or glucose.
4 Tbsp (60g) butter.
Heat up cream, milk, sugar, corn syrup, salt and vanilla; keep hot. Meanwhile, in a large saucepan make a dark caramel with sugar and glucose (no water) – Very carefully, when the caramel is ready – turn the heat off and pour the hot cream mixture in thin stream (wear gloves to prevent burning). Turn heat back on and cook the caramel mixture to 221ºF (105ºC). Pass through a sieve and cool to 158ºF (70ºC), add butter and blend well. Chill.
Note that cookies should never be over baked but rather left crispy on the ouside and soft in the inside.
Flatten cookies a bit, top with some of the crushed caramelized peanuts.
Bake at 350ºF (180ºC) for 12 minutes. Pipe out peanut praliné dots on each cookie and bake for 5 minutes more. Transfer cookies onto wire-rack to cool to room temp. Add dots of the chilled soft caramel ("dulce de leche") add more of the praliné and crushed caramelized peanuts and a light sprinkle of fleur-de-sel. Serve at room temperature. Enjoy!
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With director Gareth Edwards' Monsters opening in theaters today (you can also rent/purchase the film on iTunes, VOD, XBOX, Playstation and Amazon), we've been given some very cool Monsters movie swag to giveaway to some of our readers. While I'm sorry to say I still haven't seen Monsters for myself, everyone keeps telling me how great it is and that I absolutely need to see it. Trust me, it's on my list. But even though I can't personally praise the movie, you can read a lot of great reviews on Rotten Tomatoes.
Anyway, as I said, we've been given some pretty cool swag to giveaway. Hit the jump for what we've got and how to enter.
Thanks to some great PR folks and Magnet, we've been given 5 gas masks that have been signed by director Gareth Edwards, 5 copies of The Signal on DVD, and a bunch of Monsters T-shirts. If you'd like to win one of these items, you need to email email@example.com with your name and address and say MONSTERS GIVEAWAY in the headline. This giveaway will be open until November 15th at noon Pacific Time and is only open to residents of the United States. Also, only one entry per person.
Once the giveaway ends, I'll read over all the entries and randomly pick out winners. Soon after, you'll get something in the mail. Also, we're running a number of other giveaways on Collider right now and you can enter for each one.
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The breakout hit of this year's SXSW, Gareth Edwards' groundbreaking new film (also a selection at the 2010 Los Angeles Film Festival) is as much a poignant contemporary romance as it is an epic science fiction adventure. Shot with just a five person crew and a cast of two, Gareth Edwards' team traveled through Guatemala, Belize and Mexico, finding and utilizing their locations and supporting actors as they went. The result is a film as cutting edge as it is classically composed, as emotionally satisfying as it is visually stunning, and the bold announcement of a major new talent.
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Recently there have been so many blogging contests all over the blogosphere, be it 'the 2007 blog awards', 'Blogging to Fame Awards 2007' or 'the MyBlogLog Problogger contest'. I was also thinking of starting my own blog contest.
So here goes my very first contest for permanent links in my blogroll and earning free blog review. This first round, I will give a permanent link to the very first 5 comments on this blog post. Second, I'm going to give permanent links to the top 5 referrers to 'Technomania' blog for the year. Third round I will select 5 others based on a point system, as follows:
- 5 credits: Subscribe to my RSS feed.
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- 5 credits: Link to me from your site/blog with the anchor text, Technomania
- 2 credits: Comment on this post.
- 10 credits: Write a review post about this blog on your blog/site, linking back to this contest post
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- 2 credits: Favorite this blog on Technorati.
- 5 credits: Join my MyBlogLog Community before 30th November, 2007.
You are free to do the combination of any of the above or just do one, the goal is to earn maximum credits.
Why would you want a link on my blog?
I have high goals and plan to get this blog up to a PR7 (or 3,500 visitors per day or 500 subscribers) by July 1st, 2008. As a matter of fact, if I don't hit either of those goals, I'll write a free Blog Review of your blog on my blog. The more credit you have, the more chances of your winning this contest or the worse you will get a free guest post or free Blog Review of your blog. Interesting enough…..!!!
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We are happy to invite you to the second meetup of SF Mobile Entrepreneurs community! Our main goal is to bring together business and tech people with the various experiences in creating mobile products.
Meetup details:
- Date: December, 5 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM.
- Place: Pivotal Labs, 875 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA
Come to be inspired by mobile entrepreneurs:
- Rebecca O'Dell, CEO and founder at StylSavvy, a fashion iPad app, to provide one place for women to shop and style the 'complete look' from multiple retailers.
- Andrew Garkavyi, COO at Stanfy. Andrew has a Master Degree in Computer Science and is currently working with multiple projects in mobile every day. He has experience building big enterprise level systems, as well as working on various projects with startups.
What to consider when choosing a mobile platform for your startup? Which user behavior trends to observe? What to measure? How to calculate costs? Join us to hear valuable tips and insights from our speakers!
What is SF Mobile Entrepreneurs community about?
- it is about sharing experience in building successful mobile products;
- it is about educating each other and learning from others;
- it is about experimenting in the mobile space, testing the hypotheses, sharing practical tips, and analyzing patterns that lead to success.
Let's connect, share, and learn with like-minded passionate mobile people to create killer mobile products for our users!
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text: While I was in Arusha, Tanzania last month I had the privilege of visiting the Cradle of Love Baby Home. This is the only orphanage in Arusha which takes in babies, they currently care for around fifty babies and toddlers from newborn up to three years old. The babies are there for a number of reasons, sometimes the mother may have died, or the babies may have been found abandoned, or the families just can not care for them. Some orphans are up for adoption, some will be returned to their families, and others will be transferred to a nearby orphanage which cares for children up to 18 years, the SOS Childrens Village. Continue reading


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Cress Williams plays Jefferson Pierce, a father and schoolteacher who reluctantly emerges from superhero retirement in the The CW's Black Lightning.
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Black Lightning, a new superhero show, debuts on The CW Jan. 16. He's new to TV, but the African-American hero with electrical powers has a long, proud history in comics.
But before we talk about who he is, let's establish who he's not.
Black Lightning is not Black Vulcan, the African-American hero with electrical powers on Challenge of the Super Friends, although there is a tale to be told there. According to a 2007 story on wizarduniverse.com, Challenge producer Hanna-Barbera wanted to use Black Lightning, but were told a fee would have to be paid to Black Lightning creator Tony Isabella. So they created another character that was just a transparent rip-off.
Black Lightning is not Static, of the Static Shock cartoon, nor is he related in any way. Static debuted in 1993 at an independent DC Comics line called Milestone, and later got his own animated show. But there's been no public acknowledgement of any connection between the two characters, and personality-wise, Static owes a lot more to Spider-Man.
"Somewhere along the line, electrical powers and black superheroes seemed to have been got joined at the hip," Isabella said in a Jan. 6 podcast at sliceofscifi.com, and he's not wrong. In addition to Black Vulcan and Static, Storm of the X-Men wields lightning, and Volt of Image's Irredeemable is so aware of his resemblance to other black characters and their electrical powers that he jokes about it.
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The current comics iteration of CW's newest superhero show appeared in Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands #1.
But Black Lightning was definitely the first major one, and DC's first black headliner. He was created in 1977, when Tony Isabella – who had written Luke Cage and Black Goliath at Marvel Comics – was brought in by DC to write an African-American character. They had two issues of a character called "The Black Bomber" written, and wanted Isabella to punch up the scripts.
Isabella, as he has established in many interviews since, refused. He was appalled.
The Black Bomber was actually a white racist, who – due to the time-honored comic book origin of "scientific experiment gone awry" – could become a black superhero. That's weird enough, but weirder still, both the white guy and the black guy had separate personalities and were initially unaware of each other. And shockingly, the white aspect is horrified when he discovers he risked his life to save a black baby, whom he refers to as – no lie – a "jungle bunny." To complete this picture of clueless, casual racism, the Bomber's superhero outfit was essentially a basketball uniform.
"I told [DC], you cannot publish these scripts," Isabella said in the podcast. "And they go 'why?' 'Because they're offensive. People will come to your offices with pitchforks and torches.' And they go 'How can you know that?' 'I'll be leading them.'"
Isabella eventually won the argument, and created his own character, Black Lightning. The first issue introduced schoolteacher Jefferson Pierce, who had inborn electrical abilities that he had always kept hidden. Pierce becomes principal of his alma mater Garfield High in Metropolis' Suicide Slum neighborhood, and in reaction to the urban ills affecting his students, reluctantly dons a mask, uniform and Afro to fight the organized crime group called The 100 and corrupt politicians led by Tobias Whale.
That first series only lasted 11 issues, due to an industry downturn. A second series in the 1990s, also written by Isabella, only lasted 13 issues due to creative differences. A third series, Black Lightning: Year One fleshed out Isabella's origin for the character, although this six-issue miniseries was written by Jen Van Meter.
But Jefferson Pierce had quite a career outside those eponymous titles.
Amazingly, Black Lightning was offered membership in the Justice League in 1979, but turned it down. (He even called them "jive turkeys" on the cover.) He did join the team much later (when just about everyone in the DC Universe did), but his primary team association is as a founding member of Batman's "Outsiders." He also had a notable team-up with Blue Devil, an obscure DC character who is, in fact, a big, blue devil.
Strangely, Pierce appeared during the Lex Luthor presidential administration as Secretary of Education. Not much was done with his presence in that storyline, and it's best to think of it now as apocryphal – because Pierce, as Isabella created him, is far too honorable to have any association with Luthor.
Pierce also aged (gracefully) in his comics incarnation, with two daughters being added to his story – both of whom have inherited super-powers. Youngest daughter Jennifer is most like Daddy, employing almost identical powers, as the superhero Lightning. Eldest daughter Anissa can become almost indestructible and create shock waves, and goes by Thunder.
Not so in his newest series, once again written by Tony Isabella. Black Lightning: Cold Dead Hands is a six-issue miniseries featuring a 28-year-old Jefferson Pierce. He doesn't have any daughters (yet), but his new home town is Cleveland (like Isabella) and, Isabella told sliceofscifi.com, "We're trying to do a superhero story in a real-world setting."
"We're dealing with gun violence, but, of course, in a superhero world that gets invaded every other week, this is super weapons," Isabella said in an Oct. 31 Entertainment Weekly interview. "We're dealing with police violence. We're dealing with crime. We're dealing with education. We're dealing with racism. All of those are part of the story. They enrich the story without making the comic books all about the issues."
Black Lightning has only had three eponymous series at DC Comics, including the six-issue Year One, but has had a big impact in other titles, such as Batman and the Outsiders.
Much of that will be present in the CW show, for which Isabella wrote a description of Black Lightning's core values. Jefferson Pierce (Cress Williams) will once again be a reluctant superhero, but will be much older than his current comic book counterpart. Once again he will have two daughters, Anissa (Nafessa Williams) and Jennifer (China Anne McClain).
Despite Black Lightning appearing on The CW, it won't be set in the same "Arrowverse" as Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl – at least for the first year. Jefferson Pierce's story wills stand alone, as it often did in the comics that inspired the show.
What the producers and actors said at Comic-Con International: San Diego probably gives the best heads up about the series:
"Usually we see heroes who are trying to save the world," Cress Williams said in San Diego, as quoted by comicbookresources.com on July 7. "But he's saving the world one person at a time."
"Why Black Lightning?" said executive producer Salim Akil. "Because I think it's time. I think Jefferson Pierce is the epitome of what black men are. He loves his wife. He loves his children. He loves his community. … This is going to come from an authentic black male voice."
"Our stories and what we're going to talk about and what we're going to explore," said Christine Adams, who plays Jefferson's ex-wife, Lynn Pierce. "They're beyond color. … It's about universal things that we're all going to relate [to]."
Plus, of course, electric-powered superhero beat-downs. Don't bury the lead, folks!
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After giving him dreadlocks, he kind of does look like Static on that cover.
'How can you know that?' 'I'll be leading them.'" I love that so much.
I didn't read Year One, but I'd guess that the 'locks were the modern equivalent of BL's original Afro, a wig used to distance the jive-talkin' supehero from the straight-laced schoolteacher. Still, it was the almost full-face mask that I think would be the most effective tool -- which is gone in the minimalist current version. Let's hope Jefferson Pierce wears glasses, or everyone will guess his secret ID!
One of the artists on one of the versions of the Black Lightning title came up with lightning around his eyes. The idea was that people would be dazzled by the lightning and wouldn't notice his facial features.
OK, I'll buy that.
ClarkKent_DC said:
One of the artists on one of the versions of the Black Lightning title came up with lightning around his eyes. The idea was that people would be dazzled by the lightning and wouldn't notice his facial features.
Black Lightning returns this Tuesday, October 9.
We watched all of season one but mutually agreed to drop season two.
We liked the characters (the family element), but the stories no so much.
My wife and I declared the guy playing Gambi as "Worst Actor On This Show." He seems to only have one mode. But we're going to watch.
I like the family scenes too, but I find the show as a whole kind of a slog.
It annoys me when they refer to Tobias Whale as an albino. He has way too much pigment to be an albino, something they could have fixed with makeup and contact lenses.
I am recording the episodes but I have to wait until I'm in the mood to watch them.
I really like the show -- it's the most pointedly written of the CW shows. More than any of the others, it feels like it has a perspective on life, and on justice, that isn't just whatever's convenient for the current plot. And I especially appreciate that there are more grownups on this CW show -- people with jobs, and real-world concerns.
It's not as fizzy as those other shows, but it feels more human, which pays off. When the humor's there -- like when Jennifer told her parents at dinner that she was ready to have sex -- it's smarter and funnier and more realistic than what the other CW shows are capable of.
Richard, Marvin Jones III, the actor who plays Tobias, is, like the character, an African American with albinism.
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Richard, Marvin Jones III, the actor who plays Tobias, is, like the character, an African American with albinism.
What threw me the most were his dark eyes. Reading about albinism, I now understand that older people with albinism may have eyes that have darkened over time, but that even they do not have the same amount of pigment in the irises that a non-albino has. Their eyes appear to be the same as a non-albino to the casual observer.
Ah, yeah. I didn't realize he was albino at first, myself; I've only known a few people with albinism, and none of them well. But it seems to manifest in different degrees in different people -- and as you say, even differently in the same people over time.
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Ocotillo dropped a new menu this past weekend. It sports some pretty eye-catching offerings, the likes of mesquite-grilled rib eye, heritage pork pumpkin curry, and red corn polenta.
But my eye darts straight to the pasta section.
The restaurant has a cool, fun, progressive array of pastas. Chef Walter Sterling helms the pasta program. He makes his pastas fresh, and for all but ravioli he uses an extruder.
An extruder is a machine that kneads, mixes, and shapes pasta for you.
Seems pretty nice, right? There's actually a quiet pasta revolution going on in America. The spread of high-end extruders and information has elevated America to the second best country for eating pasta in the world, and the most creative in using the good old noodle. The restaurant world is mostly cool with extruders. Just about every top pasta restaurant in the country makes use of them.
There are, however, chefs who talk smack on extruders. The chef who spits the most yang is guru Evan Funke of Felix Trattoria in Venice, California. His refrain: "Fuck your pasta machine."
Sterling knows about Funke and his anti-extruder shtick. Sterling even ate at Funke's restaurant two weeks ago. Of the #fuckyourpastamachine stuff, Sterling replies, "Come on, man. There's no difference between extruded pasta and fresh."
All said, there are more than 600 pasta shapes. A huge percentage can't be made without an extruder. Sterling shows the kind of range a restaurant can have with an extruder, experience, and imagination.
"I have a special thing in my heart for pasta," Sterling says. He uses words like "therapeutic" and "detached" to describe the feeling of making fresh pasta. "It's super soothing to watch the pasta come out."
The way an extruder works is pretty simple. You add flour and moisture; the machine goes to work. After not all that long, dough pushes out through a metallic plate cut with shapes. As sculpted ropes of dough push past the plate, a cutter nips them into noodles.
Ocotillo cuts some interesting ones: reginette (ribbon-like lengths), lumache ("snails"), paccheri (giant rigatoni), casarecce, radiatore, and others. Many of the 600-plus shapes can't be crafted without an extruder. Bucatini, spaghetti with a tubular hollow center, is one.
Bucatini is Sterling's on-and-off again favorite shape.
"I kind of bought the machine to do bucatini," he says with a grin. "The outer edge of bucatini is thin, so you can do a buckwheat or a rye flour that has more tooth. The air between the walls of the bucatini lends itself to other grains."
Pasta can be made with all kinds of flour. Sterling often uses AP. For some shapes, he'll blend 00 flour (white flour ground superfine) and semolina (which gives texture and bite). Sterling has worked with flavorings beyond grain. He has mixed matcha into dough for tagliatelle (a flat, long-strand noodle). For dish that just landed on the new menu, Sterling crafts chestnut tagliatelle.
He makes it from a blend of chestnut and AP flour. Chestnuts lack gluten—the agent that binds pasta together—making some wheat flour essential to the dough's cohesion. As dough lengths push out the extruder's brass plate, Sterling cuts them by hand.
When made with AP or 00 flour, pasta is a canvas that you can paint the season's flavors onto. Flour made from nut flour is different. Chestnut flour makes pasta a little sweet. Sterling aims to cut this sweetness with sage and Brussels sprouts. He also adds brown butter, brandy, and ground pecans.
This kind of novel pasta dish that, based on a no-gluten flour, would be a monster to make without an extruder. The beauty of an extruder is that not only does Sterling make chestnut pasta, he could make chestnut pasta in the wonkiest, grooviest shapes imaginable. (So long as he has the plates to cut them.)
Another of Ocotillo's new pastas is ditalini. Diminutive tubes practically rain out of the pasta machine when Sterling crafts these little guys.
His ditalini dish begins with Manila or Littleneck clams roasted in chestnut pans. Serling puts them in the holes of the pan so they open without spilling their "liquor." These go with the ditalini into a tomato broth flavored with rosemary and black garlic (made in-house over a 30-day period). There will also be chickpeas, each about the size of a single ditalino.
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Other pasta menu highlights include a "calamarata" shape dyed black with squid ink. The pasta is shaped like calamari—squid—and it comes with squid. Snail-shaped lumache will come with roasted squash, goat cheese, winter greens, and bread crumbs.
Sterling's extruder, an Emiliomiti, was designed by the Italian master Emilio Mitidieri. Some circles hold Mitidieri to a kind of legend status. Mitidieri has been selling pasta machines for almost four decades. More recently, a Pennsylvania-based company, Arcobaleno has made major headway beyond the northeast.
Pasta extrusion is the present and future of fresh pasta in restaurants. Ocotillo makes deft and creative use of its model. All said, it'd be pretty dumb to fuck Sterling's pasta machine.
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The cone is the most critical component of the speaker and has a significant contribution to its sound quality. When mounted in an enclosure, it is the only visible component to the end-user. If the speaker design engineer spends much of his precious bill of material budget on a high-performance f lat wire coil, no one will know. But, spend a few extra bucks on a woven Kevlar cone and you can't miss the yellow high-tech look. Consider the speakers you have bought (or speaker projects you have put together)-more likely than not, the look of the speaker cone probably was an influence.
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Young's modulus (speed of sound), tan delta (internal damping), and mechanical parameters such as tear strength, burst strength, and so on are all factors that separate the toy cones from the audiophile, studio monitors, electric guitar, or pro-sound diaphragms.
Other considerations are wet strength and moisture regain. Will the cone fail if used in a humid environment or will that studio monitor sound the same on a humid day? What about vulnerability to sunlight (UV), fungus, ozone resistance, and so on? Appearance is still another consideration, and there are many secondary surface treatments that add what cannot be fully achieved within the paper beating process.
Once the recipe is selected for a particular production run, the appropriate paper pulp is soaked in hot water, for a period of time determined by the "chef." Pieces are torn off the wet pulp sheets (by hand or by machine) and thrown into a water filled pulp beater (see Photo 1). The beating process disperses the fibers while also fibrillating (fuzzing them up) so they will mechanically tangle together, thereby holding the cone together. Aside from the mechanical bond there is also the oxygen bond from the paper-slurry process.
Most of the industry uses the old-style beating machines which offer potentially excellent fibrillation. Sometimes hydro-pulpers are used, which can be faster in producing the slurry but may not do as much fibrillating work on the fibers.
Better use the hydropulper for making newspaper instead.
Measurement techniques such as Canadian Standard Freeness (CSF) are used for monitoring batch to-batch consistency for pulp fibrillation (see Photo 2). Freeness has to be in a certain range in order for the fibers to bond and make good paper.
Additives are thrown into the beater, such as salts to hold the dyes (mostly black), waterborne epoxies, and all this is mashed some more. In the case of the beating machine, there is a beating wheel, which is progressively brought closer to the beater bedplate as the pulp is worked into a slurry of fibrillated fibers.
Eventually this dense soup is transferred to a holding tank, which has an agitator to keep the slurry dispersed and homogenized in the tank. The pulp's fiber length, density, and secret sauce are factors that distinguish different speaker cones intended for subwoofers, midranges, musical instruments, and so on.
There are three common cone paper forming techniques: pressed (see Photo 3), semi-pressed (see Photo 4), and non pressed cones (see Photo 5).
In the case of the pressed cone, the pulp slurry may be dumped into a bin and drained through a fine mesh screen. The paper fiber solids are left on this screen after the liquids have been drained out of the bin. The carcass is removed from the mesh and deposited onto the cone-pressing machine. Heated positive and negative metal cone-shaped forms then press the pulp. The remaining water steams out of the cone, which is re moved from the forming tool.
If the cone's density is too low, then the cone may be too dead-sounding. If the cone is pressed too hard and thin, then breakup (cone cry) will be more noticeable, especially at high sound levels. The cone density and pulp composition affects the internal loss (deadness) of the cone material, which will contribute to the sound quality of the speaker.
The speaker cone shape or profile is a critical factor in the sound quality and performance of the speaker. If the cone body angle is narrow, the walls straight-sided with concentric rein forcing ribs molded in the cone body, it will be the strongest and most rigid at very low frequencies.
Decoupling rings can be molded into the cone body, which look like ribs, but a cross-section of the cone shows that while ribs are composed of added material on the face of the cone, decoupling rings are concentric cone corrugations. These corrugations allow the effective radiating area of the cone to decrease with rising frequency. The off-axis response tends to look better over an extended frequency range with decoupling rings (and curvilinear profile), allowing the speaker system designer the option of using a higher crossover point between the woofer and tweeter or midrange.
The angle at which the cone body attaches to the voice coil bobbin is important. If the cone meets the voice coil former at too sharp an angle then the high frequencies will reflect back rather than pass into the cone body, resulting in a ragged response. Cone body weight is also important. Too light and the cone may distort, producing cone-cry at high sound levels or high excursion. Too heavy and efficiency will suffer. The larger the voice coil for a given size cone, the greater the structural integrity of the cone body, making it less susceptible to breakup.
Also, if the cone is deep, it is less likely than a shallow cone to "ashcan," buckle, and emit spurious noises. Today, cone and speaker designers have software simulation programs (such as FINECone from LOUDSoft) to model results before starting tooling.
Some paper cones also have non-cellulose fibers mixed in, but getting all these ingredients to stick together is critical. Waterborne epoxies, pastes, and synthetic fibrillating fibers are sometimes used in the slurry. These special additives are processed in the slurry before loading reinforcements such as Kevlar, glass, mica, or ceramics. The treelike nature of fibrillated fibers mechanically hold everything together. Fibers may be fibrillated (many fibrils-fuzzy), short sticks (stable fibers-typically 0.25" long is a good aspect ratio for stiffness), or flocked fibers and flakes.
Adding carbon fiber or aramids (such as Kevlar or Conex) fibers to the pulp allows reducing the cone body weight, while retaining strength. Many speaker designers believe aramid fiber paper cones are audibly cleaner, especially with wide dynamic range music. Kevlar has the rare combination of extreme stiffness and good damping. Other high-performance fibers include Spectra and Vectran. Most hard materials tend to be "noisy." These premium fibers are the caviar of cone materials.
Starting at well over $10/lb., it is quite a bit more expensive, while commodity paper pulp costs a small fraction of this. DuPont does not readily sell Kevlar pulp, and most so-called "Kevlar" paper cones from off-shore vendors actually contain glass reinforcements, or sometimes alternative aramids such as Conex or Technora from Teijin. Cones made in the United States from Loud speaker Components are made with genuine Dupont Kevlar.
Glass fiber paper cones are some times used for subwoofers. While these cones may appear to be paper, you can immediately feel the high stiffness if you tap or flex the cone. The glass fibers have a "sizing," a special coating such as acrylic so it consolidates (sticks to) the cellulose fibers in the slurry.
Keeping the glass fibers dispersed in the slurry is a challenge because their specific gravity is quite a bit denser than the cellulose pulp fibers and the glass fiber wants to drift toward the bottom.
To deaden the cone, sometimes wool or a flocked polypropylene pulp is used as an additive to the paper pulp. In some cases, a goo may be sprayed or brushed onto the cone, often on the rear, to dampen resonance.
Significant Young's modulus (stiffness) advancements have been made over the past 15 years by United States cone supplier Loudspeaker Components (see Figure 1).
Polypropylene cones
Polypropylene cones are popular for both high-end audio and autosound because they do not absorb moisture (moisture regain) and can have low distortion. Avoiding moisture absorption is more important than you might think because the cone mass, Q, resonance frequency, and box tuning (on vented designs) can all significantly shift with humidity. Conventional fabrication of poly cones is often by thermoforming, where the poly sheet is heated until it is soft and then it is formed (often by vacuum pressure) into shape.
Poly comes in different formulations and its performance highly depends on additives. As with vinyl records, if too much waste from previous production runs are chopped up and recycled into new runs, performance and consistency may suffer. On the other hand, some "regrind" waste actually has some performance benefits. Like paper, there are many additives and fillers used in poly, with mica, carbon black, talc, and glass being most common.
Many cone manufacturers are using injection-molded poly cones, but re quire a large investment in tooling. The injection-molding process tends to orient the polymer and adds stiffness.
An innovative approach to injection molded poly cones is Pioneer's IMPP and Panasonic has a similar technique. The process starts out conventionally, using poly pellets (and other ingredients), which are melted and injection molded into the cone mold. The final step is unusual as the pressure is re moved from the mold allowing the material to foam, which increases rigidity.
Other techniques Pioneer has used to further increase the cone stiffness include "diamond-plate" and conical dome contours in the cone walls and one piece cone construction (no dust cap). The face of the cone has a nickel metallization for dramatic aesthetics.
Panasonic has a few noteworthy innovations for injection-molded poly, and they have their own forming technique for poly, as well as a variation in the cross-section of the cone for structural reinforcement-and this is all done in house in their central Japan operation.
Woven and Non-Woven High-Tech Fiber Cones
The high-end of the market is where we find the use of woven carbon fiber or non-woven fiber mat saturated with poly or other resins. Fibers include Kevlar, known for its yellow color, high strength, light weight, and excellent sonic characteristics. Carbon fiber, typically black (but red is another option), is another high-performance fiber.
Glass, which is most often used in woven white cones, has very high strength-especially the high-performance grades like E and the even stiffer and stronger S glass. But, it is best used in woofers and subwoofers due to its high density. The resin binder in a woven cone is a big contributor to the performance and weight, and if excessive epoxy is used to bind and seal the cone, the weight benefits of using ex pensive high stiffness-to-weight ratio fiber may be lost. Poly resin provides damping and low weight but requires proprietary techniques.
High-tech Rigid Foam
Rohacell (poly-methacrylimide foam) is a product of military aircraft construction. This lightweight but stiff foam is used for the radar domes on AWAC aircraft, but a more down to-earth application is flat and cone shaped diaphragms. DIAB's Divinycell is another vendor for foam cores. These are good solutions for high-excursion tight boxes whose pressures otherwise would crush the cone.
Forming is slow, using hydraulic presses. A wide range of skins are typically laminated to form or honeycomb cores.
Metal cones
Metal is a unique approach to speaker diaphragms that has been around for many decades. But in the last few years, it has become more commonplace in high-performance speakers. Early Western Electric speakers in the 1930s and later Bozak drivers developed in the 1950s used aluminum cones.
Because metal is inherently stiff, the resulting strong and light cones can withstand high excursion with low distortion. High excursion translates to high-acoustic output, especially at low frequencies. And when you are put ting big woofers in small boxes, the metal cone withstands the enormous forces that want to burst and crumple the cone. Still another strong point is environmental stability. Typically metal cones are some alloy of aluminum.
Forming techniques include spinning, hydroforming, and punching. Today most cones are punched. Aluminum alloys such as Duralumin (also called duraluminum) are common and reason ably priced, but magnesium aluminum metal matrix alloy and beryllium cones are options if you want a cone costing in the $100 range.
The speaker engineer's requirement for stronger, lighter, shallower, and acoustically better-performing cones is only matched by the marketing department's hunger for product differentiation. The cone is the most significant path to resolving these goals, so count on its ongoing evolution. Next month we will take a close look at the surround and spider. The speaker cone reproduces sound through back and-forth movement in a mechanical analogy to the electrical signal. The compliance(s)-the surround and spider-guide the cone, keep the voice coil centered in the magnetic gap, pro vide restoring force, and limit excessive excursion. The various types of compliances will be discussed, including shape, materials, and fabrication.
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In looking over 2015, one thing stood out: brand expansion. Aldo's Pizza Pies, with its swell rooftop patio, and City Market (grab and go!) came to Cooper-Young. Fino's opened a second restaurant in East Memphis (yay sandwiches!), and Mediterranean mainstay Casablanca returned to Midtown. Both Bedrock Eats & Sweets, the paleo eatery, and the all-vegan Pink Diva Cupcakery and Cuisine got places to call their own.
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- Bedrock Eats & Sweets
Ermyias Shiberou, owner of Stickem food truck, opened Blue Nile Ethiopian Kitchen on Madison in Midtown, next to the Bar-B-Q Shop. Stickem's awesome kabobs are on the menu, and the lentil sandwich is terrific. Reverb Coffee got into the food-truck game, and Relevant Roasters opened its own coffee bar. Tamp & Tap Triad was unveiled in East Memphis.
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- Blue Nile Ethiopian Kitchen
Last year, all the action was in Overton Square. This year, one could argue, it's South Main. The new location of Rizzo's, after much delay, opened in March. Don't worry, the Lobster Pronto Pups are still on the menu. The great and always-packed Maciel's offers downtowners tacos, tortas, and more. South Main Sushi & Grill took over the Grawemeyer's space, and there's Ray'z World Famous Dr. Bar-b-que a few blocks north. The hipsteriffic 387 Pantry is a small, curated market with locally sourced goods like Dr. Bean's coffee and Hanna Farm grits and cornmeal.
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- Ray'z World Famous Dr. Bar-b-que
Also new to downtown is the build-your-own tacos and burritos and nachos joint Burrito Blues (mmmm, nachos) and the Cuban and Mexican restaurant Sabrosura (try the Cuban sandwich). Jeff Johnson's latest venture Agave Maria, with its masterful decor and endless tequila menu, opened on Union. Recommendation: the cheesy mushroom and poblano enchilada. In April, Bass Pro finally opened in the Pyramid. Uncle Buck's, the underwater-themed restaurant with a bowling alley, offers a little something for everyone. Up top, the Lookout has one of the best views in the city.
Germantown got all the grocery stores. There's the 1,000,000-square-foot Kroger that opened. (Actually, it's only 100,000 square feet, but to put it in perspective, the Union Kroger is 36,000 square feet). It has a juice bar and a Corky's BBQ kiosk. The healthy-food-at-a-discount grocer, Sprouts, after opening Lakeland, introduced its second store in Germantown. Whole Foods opened its second Memphis-area store in Germantown, too. It features a charcuterie cave, a fresh pasta station, made-fresh savory and sweet crepes, and Korean street food from Kei Jei Kitchens. (I think about the steamed bao sliders all the time.) And, in September, there was news, which seems completely unfair depending on your zip code, that the first area Trader Joe's would open in Germantown sometime in 2016.
Breakfast for dinner? Breakfast for lunch? Breakfast for breakfast? Whenever! Another Broken Egg, a chain, opened in East Memphis. Order one of their scrambled skillets and their beignet biscuits and you'll feel like you've been hit by a bus, but in the best way possible. Also in the breakfast-whenever game is the colorful, pancake-centric Staks. You can even make your own pancakes, if you're so inclined. They also offer soups, salads, and sandwiches (including the Memphis Hot Brown).
And, and, and ... There's Mac's Burgers with a menu filled with gourmet mac-and-cheese and burgers. Coffeehouse/gift shop City & State opened on Broad. 3 Angels Diner made way for Maximo's on Broad. Encore Cafe offers wraps, smoothies, and salads, plus a place for Cozy Corner while it gets its building ready. Crazy Italians is owned by real-live Italians and features a menu of affordable, classic dishes like spaghetti alla carbonara. I Love Juice Bar features juices, smoothies, and essential oil shots. Mardi Gras, in Crosstown, has gotten great word-of-mouth for its Cajun fare. Diners can tour the U.S.A. at Heritage Tavern & Kitchen, which has a menu of regional favorites. Healthy, tastefully done meals are Julles Posh Food's focus. Ditto for LYFE Kitchen, where there's no fryer, and it's not missed at all.
Finally, two words: Cheesecake Factory.


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Planning Your Electives
When planning your coursework, you'll notice that in addition to taking major-specific and general education requirements, you also have other courses to choose called electives. With electives, you have freedom to customize your academic plan by choosing courses that can benefit you in a number of ways.
Complement your major –You can use electives to take courses from related disciplines that share themes, knowledge, and skills with your major. Such courses can deepen your understanding of your major, whether you opt for a variety of classes, or focus on a minor or certificate.
Exploration – If you've ever looked at a different discipline and thought, "I'd like to try that," taking a course in that discipline as an elective provides you the perfect opportunity to try something new. Perhaps one class may lead to another and you might find a minor, certificate, or even second major in that area.
Broaden your network – Taking electives provides an opportunity to not only broaden your knowledge but also meet people. You may work with a professor or peers who can suggest career-related opportunities or research options within your major discipline. You may also find yourself speaking with someone from a different background who can give insight into a field that you had never heard of before, but you may find tremendously interesting.
Career/graduate school preparation – Electives also provide an opportunity for you to take additional courses that may help you with your career or graduate school aspirations. For example, if you are an Art major who hopes to work in the art therapy field, you can consider taking psychology classes to increase your understanding of personal well-being.


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After the success of the children's boffer-fighting component at Saturnalia, the Canton decided that we needed to make boffers for the group rather than relying on private or Baronial loans. Friday 21 July was picked as the night to work on this project. Many hands make light work, and with the use of the workshop at our wonderful venue, the Geeveston Community Centre (GeCo), we had seven new boffer swords and daggers made in no time.
Photos by Adelindis filia Gotefridi and Karl Faustus von Aachen. Click to embiggen.
The Canton meets most Friday nights at GeCo from 7pm for A&S project night – bring your own, or work on something to benefit the group. For details, check out our calendar, Facebook group or contact our A&S officer, Tina of Lightwood.


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You may not have heard it on the news, but Pope Francis this weekend reaffirmed the truth of marriage as being between one man and one woman. He also reaffirmed his conviction that all life is worthy of protection.
It's the kind of chat that will dampen the spirits of those who see so called 'progression' on these fundamental areas of Catholic doctrine. It's also the kind of chat that will delight Catholics who hold true to their faith and who value marriage between one man and one woman as decreed by God Himself, and who value the sanctity of life from its very beginning.
It's too easy to read the mainstream media headlines and stories about Pope Francis and ignore the sources that really matter. The Pope's affirmation of Catholic teaching on marriage and abortion outlined above didn't come on some flight aboard the papal plane or at a grandiose meeting with a political heavyweight but from the sanctuary during his homily at the Mass which heralded the opening of the secondpart of the Synod on the Family.
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My daughter and I LOVE birds. We don't have a pet bird or anything, but they are a favorite stop when we visit the zoo, and she points out every pigeon and goose she sees when we're at the park. In my crafting, I've been known to "put a bird on it" on more than one occasion. I can't help it – they add a fun and whimsical touch to a project, and they are pretty easy to make. That's a win-win, in my opinion. Also – I'm ready for spring, and if Punxsutawney Phil's prediction is correct, I will have to make my own cheery and colorful birds to hold me over until the real songbirds show up!
Right now, I'm in the middle of making the Sweet Tweeter from Modern Baby Crochet for my little bird lover. This cutie has an adorable round shape that's easy and quick to crochet, and there aren't too many pieces to sew together. I'm not a big fan of finishing work, so this is a definite plus for me!
I don't have any plastic eyes in the right size, so I used the instructions for baby-safe eyes instead of purchasing plastic ones. My kiddo is old enough that plastic eyes wouldn't be a problem, but the crocheted eyes are definitely the way to go if you're making this tweeter for a younger child. I did order a plastic squeaker to go inside the toy to make it a little more fun, and I'm eagerly awaiting its arrival so I can finish this cute project!
Who would you make this birdie for, and in what color? I'll share more photos when my tweeter is finished, and I'd love to see photos of your crocheted toys or bird projects!


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Cyber security: Search for Anonymous members escalates 11 minors in 41 arrestsPosted: 2011/06/16 Filed under: Anonymous, LulzSec, teen hackers, Turkey Leave a comment
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Up to 32 members of the hacking collective anonymous are currently either being detained by European law enforcement agencies or set to stand trial, some of whom are minors. While LulzSec sings its own …
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The weekend is the right time to explore the city and to try new restaurants and visit new places. This weekend we wanted a place by the beach, with a nice veranda and possibly good food options.
The summer is coming and it means soon we will be forced to stay indoor enjoying the A/C season.
This time we opted for a breakfast at Providore, a restaurant located in the Sunset Mall in Jumeirah 3 that seemed very interesting.
At late breakfast time the mall was almost deserted, making it very easy to find parking and find a nice seating at the restaurant.
The restaurant at first sight looked like a shop, having a wide section dedicated to retail sales of top quality food and kitchenware. Displayed on the other side of the restaurant were many kinds of bread and other baked products.
The staff welcomed us with a smile and showed us a table on the nice veranda facing the beach and the sea. The restaurant offers also indoor seating for those who prefer an air-conditioned area. The veranda is surrounded by two wings of private apartments that have balconies facing the restaurant. During the good season it is not unusual to see people having breakfast in their own balconies, creating a very nice atmosphere.
We were quite hungry and ordered a main breakfast item each and shared a cheese platter. The food required quite some time to be ready, but it didn't bothered us since we enjoyed the nice and relaxing atmosphere. The staff was very attentive and polite and were very well coordinated by a person that looked like and was acting like a manager or the owner of the place.
The scrambled eggs came with spinach salad, half roasted mushroom, 1 grilled cherry tomato and 1 grilled potato cut in half and a tiny roll of salmon. They used at least three eggs, hence the plate was enough to fill a normally hungry person. The healthy egg's white omelette was nice in terms of quality of food by a bit boring in taste. The cheese platter was amazing. Nice cheese selection with good crackers and great presentation.


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On a default installation MATE sets up two panels (top and bottom), I'd like to have the top panel removed using
mateconftool-2 or another tool using the command line (Terminal).
I can't find how to do this though (from the Terminal), so I tried deleting the directory in
~/.mateconf/apps/panel/toplevels/ and restarting the panel but it does nothing and so the panel is still there.
How can I remove one of the panels not using the GUI?


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Bargain hunt: grains
Categories: Expert guidance
Tom Hunt, author of The Natural Cook, uses high quality ingredients to create a balanced meal for under £10, focusing on a different food group each time. This month: grains
Grains create the foundation for a perfect meal. They pull together disparate flavours and bridge the gap between meat and vegetable. They hit the spot and satisfy any itch for umami richness and a full tummy. And they provide us with long-lasting energy and nutrition to keep us ticking along during those oh so long intervals between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Rice, wheat and corn fill the world's breadbasket, but each country has its own favourite grains that form their native cuisine. Spelt, barley, millet, buckwheat, emmer, einkorn, rye, quinoa, teff and kamut are just some of my favourite grains from around the world.
If you're looking for grains at Borough Market, the first point of call is Spice Mountain. This beautiful spice shop has recently moved into a large space in Three Crown Square, filled with quite literally thousands of spices, salts, chillies, herbs and grains. I often visit the shop to discover exotic new ingredients.
Earthy Japanese spice
My recent discoveries are amchur, a powder made from ground mangoes which is lip-smackingly sweet and sour, used in Indian cuisine; sansho an earthy Japanese spice that tastes lemony and gives an electrifying sensation when put directly onto the tongue, and good for grilled foods like yakitori chicken skewers; and amaranth. Strictly speaking, amaranth is a seed but it is also classified as a pseudocereal and used as a grain, like quinoa.
Amaranth was thought to be the Aztecs' main staple, before the Spanish conquest. It has a very small pearl shape and is usually yellow in colour. It is still used a lot in Mexican cuisine mixed, with chocolate and/or honey.
On this visit a pack of barley caught my eye, at just two pounds a bag. Barley was one of the first cultivated grains in Eurasia and has been grown as early as 13,000 years ago. Barley is used in soups and stews but also animal fodder and commonly fermented into malt or to make beer. Although barley is less commonly used in our cuisine than rice, corn or wheat, it is still widely produced, affordable and easy to get hold of. It's delicious made into a risotto or served cold as a base for salads.
Rolling in truffles
With autumn well underway, the Market is full of earthy wild mushrooms. Turnips has its usual brilliant display, Tartufaia is rolling in truffles and Fitz Fine Foods has a small selection, some of which Noel Fitzjohn picks himself. Fitz has the best price on wild mushrooms in Borough. On this occasion he had the scarily named yet beautiful and very tasty trompette de la mort for £2.50 per 100g. I decided that as my barley was so cheap, I should treat myself to a bag to make a fine autumnal barley risotto.
I like to represent the seasons and landscape in my food. At this time of year, when I think of vegetables, I think of the trees. In autumn, the ground is dappled with leaves showing a spectrum of colour from green through to yellow, red and brown. In the fields, crops mimic the trees with similar colours—green brussels sprouts and other brassicas; orange squash and pumpkins; dusky yellow parsnips; vibrant red beetroots and rusty-skinned jerusalem artichokes. These colourful roots and brassicas are brilliant value and make for the most satisfying dish on a cold evening.
Rather than making a traditional risotto with dairy, I decided to make a rich, meaty stock to cook the barley in. Butchers are often happy to donate spare bones if they have them, or if not they are usually very affordable and will provide a lot of nutrition and flavour to whatever you are cooking. I was kindly given some lamb bones from Cumbrian Speciality Meats to boil up with my vegetable trimmings. Perfect for making a free, flavourful base for my risotto and a warming drink while preparing my supper.
Read Tom's recipe for barley, jerusalem artichoke & brussels sprouts risotto with trompette de la mort


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crystal, a solid body bounded by natural plane faces that are the external expression of a regular internal arrangement of constituent atoms, molecules, or ions. The formation of a crystal by a substance passing from a gas or liquid to a solid state, or going out of solution (by precipitation or evaporation), is called crystallization.
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Plaintiff: Allison Gay
Defendant: Tom's of Maine, Inc.
Case Number: 0:14-cv-60604-KMM
Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida
Practice Area: Class Action; Food Labeling
Status: Settled
Halunen Law served as co-class counsel in this action arising from the allegedly deceptive labeling of cosmetics as "natural" despite containing non-natural ingredients. On March 11, 2016, the court entered an order granting final approval of a $4.5 million settlement to compensate customers. In addition, the defendant agreed to extensive labeling and marketing changes.


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Created by: April Preisler of Food n' Focus
Grilled boneless pork chops are a wonderful way to mix up your dinner routine! This recipe features a world of fresh flavors paired with a simple salad to bring your family a healthy meal.
By marinating the pork chops for at least 30 minutes ahead of grilling, all the flavors of garlic and rosemary will be locked in delivering a perfectly juicy outcome. Keep in mind that pork chops only need to be cooked to an internal temperature of 145°F.
Once you have removed them from the grill, allow them to rest before serving and they'll finish cooking to perfection!
Preparation Time: 1 hour
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Makes: 4 servings
Serving Size: 1 pork chop, 3/4 cup salad
April started her blog Food n' Focus in February 2012 after a very photographic trip to Paris. The beautiful pastries caught her eye and lens at every turn so she started the blog to share the beauty of food with others. April is a busy person who is concerned about her health; her focus is on finding recipes that can be made quickly (most of the time) and are light(er) on the calories.


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Arnika comes close to him suddenly and places a peck on his cheek.
'You're this amazing guy…if not the best boyfriend, definitely the best friend I could ever have. Now, please, don't interrupt me… I need to say this…' She takes his hands in hers. 'Shadab, you gave me the most meaningful and important relationship of my life… And I want that to be forever… And the only way it'll stay like that forever is by breaking up with you… It's over Shadab. It's over.'
A Lot Like Love… A Li'l Like Chocolate is a story of first love in the age of social networking.
Arnika and Shadab find each other, love blooms with the help of BlackBerry and Facebook and soon their world revolves around each other. But life takes a different turn when they have to move to different cities, miles away from each other.
The pressure of staying apart forces Arnika and Shadab to re-evaluate their relationship.
Can their romance endure the strain of time and distance? Can they fight all odds to be together?
Packed with fun moments, this story decodes the idea of love in the modern world and how its definition has changed over time.