Beef Barley Soup seems to have never gotten really gotten it's due as a world-class soup. Maybe because most of us use the recipe on the back of the box. That Beef Barley Soup is good fare, but not exceptionally great. And I like it. I'd never turn down a bowl if you know what I mean. But a real deal homemade Beef Barley Soup, starting from scratch? Now that I love. What I love even more is this shortcut version.
The problem is, these days, it's hard to make a real deal from bones soup because in so many areas it's hard to get bones for beef stock and when you can get them they can be really pricey. Gone are the days when soup bones could be picked up for a pittance (or even free) because every bit of the animal is sent to wherever the best price can be gotten for it. And bones go to producers of food and for roasted dog bones. Even my pot roasts no longer have bones in them.
Luckily I have a few tricks up my sleeve to get that real deal flavor without real deal bones. Actually a few tricks, and they start with leftover pot roast and doctored up beef broth. And it makes a very good, really solid Beef Barley Soup. I do wonder what my I wonder what my Great Grandma (Scottish) would think of my methods, below. She'd be shaking her head. And can you imagine her face when I opened a BOX of broth?
I think you're gonna find when you take a bit of time to doctor up your broth, you're going to come up with a soup that tastes like it's a bona fide made from bones simmered all day from scratch soup. Get it bone i – fied, lol! The flavor is deep and rich, the veggies perfect and the barley (cooked on its own first and then added in) is just perfectly al dente and flavored by the broth. Cooked separately, the barley doesn't make the broth all cloudy, either, which kind of muddies the flavors.
Serve this hearty Beef Barley Soup with crackers or even better with hunks of bread (I gotta give a shout-out to my Crusty Bread, easy overnight and no-knead) as just about the perfect thing to go with Beef Barley Soup. Now, you've got a meal!
If starting just from a broth, caramelize vegetable scraps (from the veggies you'll be using in the soup) and use them to infuse the broth with flavor. Strain them out.
Simmer dried Porcini or Shitake mushrooms, one of my "Stealth" ingredients, in the broth for a deep, rich taste. They're pricey but worth it. If not, finely dice button mushrooms and cook until deeply browned, just like I do with my Classic Vegetable Soup.
Sneak a packet of gelatin in the soup to simmer away during the final stages…it adds just a hint of body that's missing in a store-bought broth. After all, gelatin is made from bones and such.
This is a go-to recipe when I have leftover pot roast. I'm actually a bit stingy about setting a bit aside so it's not all gobbled up by a gluttonous family member (you know who you are!) Not only do I love this Beef Barley Soup, I recognize that a great way to work some fabulous frugality into the budget is to use a more expensive protein in more than one meal.
The first meal, heavy on the meat, can be quite pricey if it's all eaten up – but if you add a second, third or fourth meal (like this huge pot of soup – I'll serve for dinner the first night, freeze enough for a second meal and divide the rest into individual servings to freeze for lunches) into the equation, then all of a sudden you can "cost average" the meals.
I call this "dividing and conquering." The same holds true, with the "healthiness" of the meal. A huge pot roast with "mashed and a side" might be a bit on the heavy side – if your next meal is chock full of vegetables, like this soup, you've just found a bit of balance health wise and money wise.
Add olive oil to Dutch oven and when heated through, add vegetable scraps, sugar and onion. Cover and adjust heat to medium, stirring now and then, until the vegetables begin to caramelize, about 20 minutes. Remove lid, stir until lightly browned. Add rest of ingredients and three cups of water. Cover and simmer at least 20 minutes and up to 1 1/2 hours.
Strain broth into a bowl, pressing on vegetables. Use remaining cup of water to pour through the vegetables and allow to drain for several minutes.
If desired, before straining, the dried mushrooms, which will be floating on the top of the broth may be removed, finely chopped and added to the soup. The longer the broth simmers, the less flavor will be left in the mushrooms, so taste one to see if this would be worthwhile.
If you don't have dried mushrooms, finely chop 8 ounces fresh mushrooms and saute until deeply colored. Add to the broth.
Bring stock to a simmer, add gelatin, carrots and celery. Simmer about 10 minutes. Add cabbage and tomatoes if using. Simmer another five minutes. Add barley and simmer about five to 10 minutes until heated through and vegetables are at the desired stage of tenderness.
I generally buy 2 boxes of beef broth, 4 cups each. In this instance, I'd already used about a cup of the broth in the pot roast, Pot Roast Carbonnade. The rest went in the soup, but I held the last cup back until the end, just in case.
Beef broths vary widely in strength, flavor and saltiness, so this allows me to hedge my bet, here. I don't wish to overwhelm the soup with a very strong broth, but I don't want it to be dull and lacking either.
The barley can be a variable, too; depending on how well cooked, it may absorb more broth then expected. It's nice to have a bit of broth on the side in case you wish to add.
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I think a veggie version would be wonderful!! Barley is often under rated!
I imagine you have no problems getting the needed bones! Here they are all divided from the meat and sent off to be smoked for dogs!
I have been considering buying a case of bones, which one of my butcher shops says they can order in, but it seems like such a hassle.
Where do you live? Odd that you can't buy bones … we certainly have NO shortage of them here in Canada.
Minnesota. Used to be there was a BIN of bones for dogs for free, good soup bones were just pennies. Then they just went away. It turns out they get sold to big companies who smoke them for dogs, and to restaurant suppliers for chefs.
So I used to save the bones from roasts, but now almost all roasts come boneless. When we buy a chuck roast, there is a little hole where the bone was.
Now, around Christmas this year, I saw a few packages of little bones, they were $11.97 a pound, then went on sale for $6.97 a pound after a few weeks.
Last time I made this soup, I went to three different butcher shops, spanning an area of about 25 miles and picked up all the bones they had frozen to sell, four packages, totaling about two pounds, cost $21.00!!
To put it all in perspective, the chuck I used in this was $3.49 a pound!
Crazy, huh?? I mentioned this problem to a butcher in the grocery store who took me aside and told me there was an "artisinal" butcher in Woodbury, MN, who had bones. It seems like an elusive quest – like a search for a wild orchid!
Sophie, I think this would be marvelous with chicken broth. I sometimes cut the beef broth with chicken broth, too, since home-made chicken broth has such better body than boxed beef.
Some really excellent tips on "doctoring" soup made from fast ingredients. And while normally Beef and Barley soup isn't something I gravitate to, yours looks and sounds delicious, as does the roast beef carbonnade!
Hi, and thanks for the comment. 🙂 That pot roast is really a family favorite. I think other soups would be wonderful with this same method and a bit of left over pot roast, too.
My Mom used to make what she called "Steak Soup" in the crockpot – it was always good but a little lackluster.
The beef barley soup looks very appetizing … no mushy barley or vegetables in there. I haven't had beef barley soup in about 15 years. I used to buy the dried soup mix in the bulk food store and make that but the msg etc turned me off. I've never made home made beef stock as I rarely buy beef with bones (other than steaks).
Right now I'm trying to use the contents of my pantry for soup making, I have a handful of yellow split peas, the last pound of cannellini beans that my dad planted and harvested the year before he died … it's amazing that 5 yr old beans still get tender in 1 hour of cooking after pre-soaking overnight. And some Berta Talaska beans that have been in the attic even longer … kind of like a red kidney sized pinto bean. And, lots of noodles. Rice and wheat pasta.
Fantastic post! I'm glad you shared it, so now I have a great reference when I buy a leg of lamb for Easter!
Of course, I'm a traditionalist and would simply make a Scotch Barley Soup with the lamb bone!
I was using some older beans once and had a heck of a time getting them soft – I transferred them to my pressure cooker and still it was taking forever. I remembered how I've used a bit of baking soda when I soften dried dates, added about 1/2 a teaspoon and it worked well. 🙂 Thought I'd mention it even if you didn't have that issue, just in case someone else runs across it.
I've been working on my pantry, too. Out with old, in with the new!!
I'm glad you liked the leg butchering pics. I DID think of lamb barley soup but the lack of barley (I'm trying to avoid buy packages of anything these days) has been discouraging me. I could buy just how much I needed loose at the bulk food store, rather than the pound package at the grocery store, but the temptation of going crazy when I get in the bulk store is holding me back. As well as the snow.
I'm going to have to go out in another 15 minutes or so to shovel the miserable stuff.
Oh, and I forgot to mention how absolutely gorgeous that lamb looks! My mouth was watering!
PS: Here's a picture of one of the lamb meals with the meat.
That looks fabulous! Whenever I would visit my grandmother as a child, I would always look forward to her Barley & Oxtail soup, it had such a rich beef flavor. That was a really long time ago, but it's still a happy memory. Thanks for sharing!


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Атомна маса на даден елемент – това е усреднената маса на всички изотопи на даден елемент, с отчитане тяхното процентно съотношение. Атомната маса също е позната като относителна атомна маса или средна атомна маса. Тези стойности са написани в таблицата на Периодична система на елементите, според изотопния състав на земната кора и атмосфера. За изкуствено получените елементи е посочена в скоби атомната маса на най-стабилния изотоп.

Атомна маса на изотоп
Атомна маса на даден изотоп – това е масата на изотопа, измерена по скала, в която въглерод-12 (12С) има маса точно 12 единици. Атомната маса на никой друг изотоп не е цяло число. Това е така, защото протоните и неутроните нямат точно еднаква маса, а също и поради ефекта на прибавяне/отнемане на маса заради енергията на свързване на ядрото. Все пак, този масов дефект е малък спрямо сумарната маса на неутроните и протоните, затова закръглената стойност на атомната маса ни дава броя на нуклеоните. Броят на неутроните може да се пресметне, като от общия брой извадим атомния номер.

Кривата на изменението на масовия дефект спрямо атомния номер е следната: Отклонението е с най-голяма положителна стойност при водорода, става отрицателна с най-ниска стойност при желязо-56 (56Fe), после расте и става положителна при тежките изотопи с големи атомни номера. От това следва, че ядреният разпад на елемент по-тежък от желязото ще отделя енергия, а ядреният разпад на по-леки елементи изисква влагане на енергия. Вярно е и обратното – при ядрен синтез на елементи по-леки от желязото се отделя енергия, а за синтез на по-тежки елементи трябва да се вложи енергия.

Молекулна маса
Подобна величина, наречена молекулна маса е дефинирана и за молекулите. Пресмятането на молекулната маса става като се сумират атомните маси на съставящите молекулата атоми, отчитайки броят им в молекулата според химическата и формула.

Посредством мас спектрометрия се прави непосредствено сравнение и измерване на масата на атомите и молекулите.

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The 840 Ranch is an excellent hunting/recreation ranch located about an hour from Austin, 15 minutes from Lampasas or Burnet, and 25 minutes to the Highland Lakes. The ranch fronts paved County Road 103.
With over 100 ft. of elevation change, the rolling topography offers outstanding views, but is not rugged. Numerous open meadows, surrounded by heavy tree cover, are ideal for food plots or improved grasses. Cover consists of various oak species, elm, mesquite, and cedar. The owner is in the process of reworking and expanding 3 ponds and the topography and watershed present the opportunity for more ponds or lakes. In addition, the owner is cutting interior roads to make all parts of the ranch accessible by vehicle. Outstanding hunting and if you are looking for a ranch to high fence, this one fits the bill.
Ranches of this size and quality are getting few and far between, within a short drive of Austin. Being located in the popular and fast growing corridor northwest of the Capitol City, the potential upside of this land can't be stressed enough. Less Acreage is available.
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Q: Would i do a mixed model MANOVA, a one factor MANOVA followed by individual MANOVAs? Ive been trying to learn about MANOVAs and cannot seem to find examples relatable to my data, or I am not understanding the language being used to teach the concepts. I have stable isotope data which are measures of Nitrogen and Carbon within the tissue sampled.  I sampled 118 individuals using 3 different tissue types (not quite a repeated measure, but individual values will be correlated I would imagine). I have 4 possible explanatory categorical variables: Sex (Male, female), Age (Adult, Juve), Year (2008, 2010) and location (Site 1, site 2).
Ultimately I want to know if there are differences in the N,C signature between the tissue types and then what variable's are the reason for those differences.  Eventually, I want to be able to discuss how Tissue type 1 is different from tissue type 2 because the Males in 2010 from site 2 had significantly higher N values. However, to get down to this kind of statement, I have to do a series of different tests...but which ones?
Right now I see it as i would first run a MANOVA on the tissue type only.
N,C ~ Tissue type

Im uncertain of what post-hoc test to follow this up with that well indicate Tissue 1 is different from tissue 2 but not from tissue 3
Then if there is a difference (Assume there would be) between the 3 tissues, I would just run independent MANOVAs for each tissue type to tell me which covariate is important
Type 1: N,C ~ Sex+Age+Year+Location+Sex*Age+Year*Location
Type 2: N,C ~ Sex+Age+Year+Location+Sex*Age+Year*Location
Type 3: N,C ~ Sex+Age+Year+Location+Sex*Age+Year*Location

Following each with a post-hoc test of some sort to determine which categorical variable has a larger effect size or significance
I feel like all of this could be done in one big model, but maybe not? Also I cant figure out how to account for the random effect of individual when showing there is a difference between tissue types because they aren't really repeated measures, just more than one measurement from the same individual. Would i code a dummy variable of individual in there somehow? I would like to do this in R and assume lme4 library from what Ive read so far. Any suggestions towards examples like my data or solutions are appreciated.

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Do you care about improving our parks, schools and social services? Be sure to add completing the Mecklenburg County Budget Survey to your December to-do list. Your responses could influence next year's county budget priorities. Here are details about the survey as well as other ways you can learn about the county budget, the budgeting process, and how you can take part in shaping the final budget for Fiscal Year 2021. Resident Budget Priority Survey (available through Dec. 31) Share your budget priorities for the budget year starting July 2020 (Fiscal Year 2021) by ranking services by level of importance. Learn how the county allocates and manages the current $1.9 billion operating budget, which funds: most parks and park programs throughout the county; a sizable part of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools budget; and numerous social services. The survey must be submitted by Dec. 31 and is limited to Mecklenburg County residents. The county says that most people complete the survey in 10-15 minutes. Online survey – To complete the survey online, click here. Paper survey – To complete a paper copy of the survey, click here for a list of 20 public libraries including University City Regional Library where paper surveys are available. You may download a Spanish version of the survey at the same link. Balancing Act Budget Simulator The county offers an online Balancing Act Budget Simulator to help the public better understand the complex process of making choices on what to fund with limited resources. Using the simulator, you can learn details about Mecklenburg County revenue sources and expense categories in the current budget...
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Mecklenburg County is crafting a new 10-year master plan for our parks and recreation programs and seeks our help. Your ideas will help our county board set goals and provide money for new and improved parks, facilities and programs. County parks planners have created a program entitled the Meck Playbook to gather community ideas and craft the master plan. You can get involved, starting now! How you can help: Attend one of the Adventure Fest planning events on Nov. 21 (free food and games for all ages as everyone explores the park and rec system together). Details below. Take a brief online survey on how you use our parks and what you want in the future – Click here to start. Learn much more about the 18-month planning process at meckplaybook.com. Sign up for email updates throughout the planning process. Help kick off the Meck Playbook at these Adventure Fests Join parks staff for an entertaining time of exploring our park and recreation system via games for all ages, plus free food! Your ideas will help shape our future master plan. Locations and times: Revolution Park Sports Academy Time: Nov. 21 from noon to 1:30 pm Address: 1225 Remount Rd, Charlotte, NC 28208 Directions Hornet's Nest Park Williamson Pavilion Time: Nov. 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm Address: 6301 Beatties Ford Rd, Charlotte, NC 28216 Directions About the Meck Playbook Caring for our park system and planning for the future takes all of us. Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department is writing a new Master Plan, and we need your help developing a roadmap for the...
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Early voting has begun for the Nov. 5 election, including races for Charlotte City Council and the Mecklenburg County School Board as well as a referendum on a quarter-cent countywide sales-tax increase. If voters approve the tax increase, the county board says it will use the estimated $50 million in new annual revenue for parks, schools, and the arts. The county operates 17 early-voting locations including the former Pier 1 store at 8802 JW Clay Blvd. in University Place (directions) and the Hal Marshall Center at 618 N. Tryon St. in uptown. All early-voting locations are open daily through Nov. 1. Click here for the full list of locations and times. For more details on the election including a sample ballot and polling place, visit the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections website. Information on proposed sales-tax increase The county board is asking voters to approve a quarter-cent sales tax increase on goods and services purchased in Mecklenburg County. The current sales tax rate in Mecklenburg County is 7.25%, including a 4.75% state sales tax, a 2% countywide sales tax and a 0.5% transit tax. "If passed, the quarter-cent sales tax (increase) would generate approximately $50 million per year and help fund an array of arts and culture programs, parks and greenways, education programs and other services for residents," the county says on its sales-tax webpage. If the measure passes, the county website states, funding percentages are expected to be: Arts and Culture – 45% County Parks and Greenways – 34% Education (teacher supplement) – 16% Arts and Culture/Parks for the Towns – 5% The Charlotte Observer recently reported...
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A message from Darlene Heater: Our campaign for more parks now in University City and Charlotte moves forward. In the past two weeks we have: Addressed our Mecklenburg County Commissioners, who fund our parks, about the crisis of an exploding population and disappearing land for new parks. Helped launch Voices4Parks.org, a website that explains why commissioners must take action now, as they shape the budget that begins July 1. Kept working with parks boosters countywide to light the fire under elected officials. If you share our passion for parks, join us, now! Visit Voices4Parks.org to learn why there is little time left to act for parks. Read our April 15 call to action to the Mecklenburg County Board. Send your own message for parks to the County Commission. Get contact info here. There is still time. Our commissioners do listen. Let's make a difference, now! Thanks. Darlene Heater, Executive Director University City...
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Darlene Heater, executive director of University City Partners, addressed the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners on April 15, 2019, about the urgent need for funding to buy park land. This is the text of that address. Dear County Commissions, County Manager and Parks Director, Thank you for allowing me time on the Monday evening public comments agenda to share the reasons that parks are important to building livable communities that attract and serve residents. I am sharing them in written format via this email. As I shared, land for parks is disappearing before our eyes–and especially so in high growth areas including University City. I am urging you to plan for our future that will include easy access to parks. We are at a tipping point, and parks make Charlotte livable, inclusive, healthy. And, they strengthen our community fabric. Parks reflect a community's quality of life Parks are a tangible reflection of the quality of life in a community. They define the shape and feel of a city and its neighborhoods. They provide identity for citizens and are a major factor in the perception of quality of life in a given community. Parks also ensure the health of families and youth and contribute to the economic and environmental well-being of a community and a region. Access to parks and natural amenities is the foundation of great places – they are what attract people … and investment. Most importantly, public parks can provide rich and equitable opportunities for all residents. Here's why: Parks create community People gather to share experiences, socialize and to build community bonds in common...
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Writing update 02 June 2013
A very productive weekend.
I was sent home sick on Thursday afternoon with a weird virus-thingie. Hot & cold flushes, nausea, disassociation. By Friday afternoon I was starting to feel better, so I sat down to write around 4pm. By Sunday morning, with pauses for sleeping, eating and going into London to see friends, I'd managed to write about 10,000 words.
I don't know if it was the illness, but most of the writing revolved around two new characters in my secret project. They're dwarfs from 10th Century Romania who develop a cocaine habit. They were a completely unplanned part of the novel, though they seem to have found a very natural place in the narrative.
They initially sprang out of a Twitter comment which caught my imagination. I played around with them in one scene, and grew rather fond of them.
This afternoon I also made a few lazy edits to my long-in-gestation Robocop fanfic. I realised, too, that it's not very good. And though I'd originally wanted to write it quickly and with a complete pulp fiction feel to it (that's pulp fiction as in the 1950s and 60s stuff, not the film), I've now fallen into a trap of wanting to improve its quality.
That's about it writing-wise.
I finished reading The Twelve Tribes of Hattie, too, which was OK. There are a handful of good short stories in there, and a larger handful of fairly tedious ones. The book is structured in a similar fashion to my own novel, Backpackers, which is pleasing, as I had been concerned that a narrative which is loosely centred around one person, but goes into short stories about other people, wasn't market friendly.
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Q: What is watershed in the context of image processing? I am new to image processing using Python.  Now I am learning OpenCV and the mahotas module in Python.  Many functions in these modules are related to watershed of an image.  I don't know what watershed means for an image.  Here is an example from the OpenCV documentation: http://docs.opencv.org/search.html?q=watershed&check_keywords=yes&area=default

A: Watershed transformation is an image enhancement method. You can think of it like a possible preprocessing step to improve the results of your algorithm.
This site has some imho very illustrative animation: http://cmm.ensmp.fr/~beucher/wtshed.html
Wikipedia has an explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watershed_(image_processing)


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Photograph from Altered States, published by ANTHOLOGY EDITIONS. Courtesy of the publisher.
by Rachel Tashjian
Dec 5 2017, 3:28pm
This Is the Ultimate Book on Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll
Julio Santo Domingo had a collection of over 50,000 pieces of memorabilia from Keith Richards's grapefruit to cocaine endorsed by Freud.
The late Julio Santo Domingo—businessman, French literature scholar, Beat enthusiast, and very bad-ass collector, as you're about to find out—had a great definition of coolness, according to his brother, Andres. "Coolness, he used to tell me, can be found almost everywhere if you look close enough," Andres writes. Luckily, Julio looked close enough, and very often: Andres's words appear at the beginning of a new book on Julio's collection of over 50,000 pieces of sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll memorabilia and ephemera, Altered States: The Library of Julio Santo Domingo, written by journalist Peter Watts and on sale today.
The collection speaks to Santo Domingo's dazzling circle of friends: there are photographs of him with Bono, Chuck Berry, and David Bowie; a collection of fan letters to Keith Moon ("Don't know what I'm doing writing to the drummer of the Who but I'm hoping to get even a short letter back. I think you guys are just too much."); and a shriveled grapefruit his friend Keith Richards used as "wrapping paper" for a ring he gifted to Ron Wood ("HAPPY BIRTHDAY RON," Richards scrawled across it).
Julio Santo Domingo's library in Geneva. Photograph from Altered States, published by ANTHOLOGY EDITIONS. Courtesy of the publisher.
But it also reflects the depth and range of his curiosity, which included an emphasis on psychoactive drugs. "The bulk of the collection…explores drug use by individuals, and the influence such use and users had on their society, with emphasis on the 1800s and 1900s in America and France," writes Leslie A. Morris in the book's foreword (Morris is Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts at Harvard University's Houghton Library, where the collection is now housed). (Most of the items included in the book and archive were kept in his physical library at his house in Geneva.) That includes an LSD blotter sheet decorated with a psychedelic portrait of Timothy Leary, the Pyrex lab equipment used to synthesize the first MDMA (the scientist responsible for it, Alexander Shulgin, rated MDMA's effects on his drug-rating scale as "no higher than a 'low-calorie martini,'" according to the book), and cocaine vials produced by Parke, Davis & Co. in the late 19th century. The book notes that Parke Davis paid Freud to endorse cocaine in 1885, and promoted that the drug would, in their words, "supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and…render the sufferer insensitive to pain."
Writes Morris, "In scope and scale, the collection is quite simply, overwhelming." Herewith, a selection of images from the beautiful book.
"The grapefruit was originally used as a receptacle for a ring, a birthday present from Keith Richards to Ron Wood," the caption reads. "Instead of using wrapping paper, Richards had stuck the ring inside the fruit and then scrawled a birthday message to Wood on the skin." Wood threw out the fruit, but Julio fished it out of the garbage and, after much searching, found a taxidermist in Austria to embalm it.
A box of birthday and Valentine's Day cards sent by fans to the Who drummer Keith Moon. The book notes, "The cards, all seemingly from women, are overwhelmingly sweet and innocent letters sent by preteens. ('To a smashing drummer' is a typical message.)"
"Julio wrote in 2006 that he had acquired '12 hours of reel-to-reel assembled by [Jack Kerouac]'s shrink with amazing, unpublished, unheard material ending with the last 10 minutes of his memorial mass in Lowell, Massachusetts,'" the caption says. "Kerouac talks about jazz and the Beats, sings 'On Top of Old Smokey' and raps drunkenly with his wife."
On the left: A glass bottle of cocaine hydrochlorate, c. 1910. Right: "A small box of eight vials manufactured by Parke, Davis & Co., including solutions of cocaine hydrochlorate, and homatropine and cocaine. The company sold cocaine in many forms, including a kit that came with its own needle. Parke Davis aggressively promoted cocaine, boasting that it would 'supply the place of food, make the coward brave, the silent eloquent and…render the sufferer insensitive to pain.' They even paid Freud to endorse Parke Davis Cocaine in 1885."
"Selection of presumably undipped LSD blotter art." The sheet on the right features a portrait of Timothy Leary.
"Carl Williams, who worked for Julio at the LSD Library for three years in the 2000s, dated this homemade drug user's kit to around 1974 after carefully comparing some of the items with those in drug paraphernalia catalogs of the era. It's made from stitched black leather, is surprisingly fragile, and contains thirty-eight implements, including pins, razor blades, hash pipe, roach clip, sniffing straws, snorters, and a coke spoon. The kit has a worn, utilitarian feel that, as Williams notes, is a long way from cocaine's glamour-soaked 1970s image as the drug of choice for rock stars and Hollywood actors. This is more like something that would have been carried by the heroes of Easy Rider, the 1969 film about a pair of motorcycling hippie cocaine smugglers that helped make cocaine fashionable among thrill-seeking Americans."
"Pyrex lab equipment from Alexander Shulgin's laboratory in California, which were used to synthesize MDMA and other psychoactive chemicals.... In 1976, he found a new method of synthesizing MDMA, popularizing what would become known as ecstasy. On Shulgin's own drug-rating scale, he rated MDMA as no higher than a 'low-calorie martini.'"
Photograph from Altered States, published by ANTHOLOGY EDITIONS. Courtesy the publisher.
Various photographs of Julio Santo Domingo with friends, including Bono (top left), Chuck Berry (bottom left), and David Bowie (bottom right).
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They really do. It's been talked about poetically throughout the generations.
If all of this is true, aside from correcting my eyesight through glasses or surgery, what can I do to convey to others through my cornea, sincerity?
They cannot be "enlisted" in a plan for deception.
They cannot be instructed in devious forms of flitting.
Generally speaking, they give away the intention of the heart long before the lips have a chance to spit out a deceitful explanation.
Yes, the tongue speaks deception; the ears are often deaf.
But the eyes see it all and tell it all.
Perhaps that's why we don't like to make eye contact with one another. We know our brothers and sisters on Earth "read" us through those portals.
Yes, it is safer to be downcast or to put on the darkest pair of sunglasses you can find, and keep the world guessing.
Because once you unmask those beautiful peepers, they begin to speak volumes on the contents within.
I don't know much about the actual cornea, but I do know that it is where we are guaranteed to speak the truth, although all of our other members may be trying to launch a sinful plan.
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She Takes Care of Her Family and Community 24/7, So Her Hija Nominated Her For the Best Day of Beauty Ever
POPSUGAR / presented by / Ulta Beauty
Daughter Nominates Devoted Mom For Ultimate Day of Beauty
December 11, 2019 by Maria G. Valdez
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We've partnered with Ulta Beauty and mitú to surprise unsuspecting mamás who do so much for their families and their communities with a day of well-deserved pampering and other holiday surprises, because there's no time like this season to Give, Gather, and Glow.
Soledad Rocha is the true example of a Latina who has worked hard her whole life so everyone around her is taken care of. Born in Puebla, Mexico, Soledad moved to California 30 years ago looking for a way to provide for her family. Now, thanks to success of her community food stand, a recycling business, and yard sales, Soledad has been able to do that and more.
She's passed her work ethic, discipline, and perseverance on to her children, who have grown to achieve outstanding academic success. One of her daughters graduated from Georgetown University, and another, Sandra, is currently attending Yale. "She's been the one who's taught me and all my siblings to be better people," Sandra gushed to POPSUGAR about her mom.
And while her kids have spread their wings and gone on to achieve amazing things, Soledad echó raíces en su vecindario and has built a sense of community within her neighborhood through her cooking, becoming a beacon of support among the neighbors who have become family to her.
A normal day for her consists of waking up at 5 a.m., and after she drops off her younger children at school, she stops by the market to buy everything she needs to cook that day. She returns home around 9:30 a.m., drinks her cafecito, makes some breakfast for herself, and starts prepping the food.
All the food she makes is traditional from her native Puebla and made from scratch. "We cook everything at home," Soledad told POPSUGAR. "Champiñones, huitlacoche, pollo en tinga, everything." She added that her community is especially keen on her tacos, huaraches, cemitas, quesadillas, tacos dorados de papa, tostadas, traditional Mexican milk jello, and aguas frescas, so those frequent the menu.
Soledad loves what she does, and she's determined to continue serving her community. "I feel so happy, so connected to my barrio," she said. "Feeling how grateful everyone is for what I do is what fulfills me; it satisfies me. I want to keep cooking and selling food for as long as I can."
"My daughters think I work too much, but I don't consider myself a hard-working mom. This is what I had to do in life, and I'm happy about it. I'm always happy about what I do." It's because of this selfless attitude and willingness to put her community first that her daughter Sandra nominated Soledad for a holiday surprise, including a day of beauty at Ulta Beauty that she would never forget. Like her daughter, Ulta Beauty was inspired by Soledad's selflessness and wanted to recognize her for both her inner and outer beauty with a day of self-care and relaxation.
First, Soledad was shocked to come home one day to see her apartment completely decorated for the holidays. Festive decor is usually the last thing on her mind, since it's such a busy season for her. She was overcome with emotion and amazed at how beautiful everything looked.
The next big surprise was a day of beauty at Ulta Beauty to celebrate this well-deserving mom and provide her with a day of pampering. When she arrived at the store, a team of professionals greeted her, took time to get to know her, and asked her all her likes and dislikes to customize the experience just for her. They gave her the works — a brow wax, a facial, makeup application, haircut, and blowout. "I loved it! I had never gotten a facial before, but I enjoyed it a lot and was thrilled with the results!" Soledad said.
"I'm not used to wearing makeup, so I opted for something simple and natural, like me. Nothing too extra, but I felt like the most beautiful woman!" Hearing so many compliments from those around her gave Soledad a confidence she felt she lost.
And just when she thought her day had come to an end, Ulta Beauty made her holiday wish come true. "My perfect Christmas would be to be surrounded by my community," she said. So after her day of beauty, Soledad was surprised with a dinner party with her neighborhood familia. "We all see her as light in the neighborhood," Sandra said about Soledad. "There's a lot of hardships going on within her life, but aside from that, she manages to be so strong in a way that's very inspiring for all of us."
"When I walked in and saw my barrio there, all the people that have been with me through the good times and the bad, I could only say, 'Wow!' I was overwhelmed, beyond happy." She continued, "It was so beautiful, so heartfelt! When I walked in, I only expected my daughters to be there, but then I saw everyone there and I thought, 'Aquí sigue el desmadre!'"
It was the perfect culmination of a day tailored for one of the most selfless women you'll meet. A woman who left her country to look for better opportunities in order to give her family the life they deserved. Today, los frutos de su trabajo are visible with a community who couldn't imagine its life without her and successful children who continue to carry on Soledad's legacy. Despite all the hardships, all the hard work, and all the early mornings and late nights, Soledad's efforts have paid off, and everyone has gotten to know this strong, hard-working woman whose beauty radiates from the inside out.
She finally got a glimpse of that beauty that has captivated so many around her, and now that she's seen it, she'll never forget it. "I feel beautiful. It's a beauty I never knew I carried within me."
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Q: Is there a way to force scrollbars in the desktop version of Ubuntu, like Netbook Remix does? I'm not a particular fan of Ubuntu Netbook Remix, but the one feature I miss is the ability for a window taller than the vertical pixel length exists, it automatically adds a scrollbar.
Can I add this UI tweak to the standard version of Ubuntu? I can't see half of my Okay buttons in settings screens!

A: I don't know how to do what you are asking, however, you can use your "alt" key to move the window decorations past the top of the screen so you can see further down the window...
Press Alt on your keyboard, left click and drag a window to see what I mean.


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Then use clips to separate the tresses that you don't want to include in the weave. Then, starting along the part in your hair, make horizontal cornrows. Base the length of the cornrows on the amount of hair you want to weave into your own locks. Use hair extension hair to help reinforce the hair in the cornrows, but make sure to keep the plaits thin and flat. When you finish making the cornrows, use a weaving needle and hair thread to sew the back ends of the braids in the cornrows. Sew your hair as if you were mending a sock – the point is to secure the ends of the plaits so they don't become loose.
When weaving hair into your own locks, start at the back of your head. Measure a track of hair horizontally across a row of braided hair, and cut the track to size. After threading a weaving needle with hair thread, secure the ends and middle of the track to the ends and middle of the cornrow with a few quick stitches. Then weave the hair thread between the track of hair and the cornrow using a basic sewing stitch. The stitch you use doesn't matter, as long it lays flat and keeps the track flat against the cornrow. Continue to add lengths of hair tracks along your cornrows.
Sew a track of hair onto the cornrows on either side of the part you created. Once those are in place, you can still have a big gap between the edges of the hair tracks. Cut strips of the hair tracks that are about an inch long and sew them into your own hair, on either side of the part, starting at the front of your head.
If the hair in weave kit didn't come with a finishing piece that you simply sew into your hair, there are two different ways to finish creating the part in a weave. The first is to sew the back edges of the hair tracks that meet at the part in your hair, leaving your scalp exposed. The second is to sew the edges of the tracks together along the part in your hair, which creates a part in the weave, but won't make your scalp visible. The best option depends on the type of hair track you use and personal preference.
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DIETRICH BONHOEFFER WORKS General Editor Wayne Whitson Floyd, Jr.
This volume has been made possible through a generous gift from Dr. John and Cleo Young of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, a grant from the Umversity of Cape Town, as well as the ongoing support of the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Aid Association for Lutherans, the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Charitable Foundation, and the LuskDarnen Charitable Gift Fund.
Originally published in German as Dietrich Bonhoeffer Werke, Band 3, by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1988. First English-language edition of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 3, published by Fortress Press in 1997.
Schopfung und Fall first published in German by Chr. Kaiser Verlag in 1937. Original English-language edition of Creation and Fall published in 1959 by SCM Press, Ltd., and in 1965 by Macmillan Publishing Company. New English-language translation of Creation and Fall with new supplementary material first published in 1997 by Fortress Press as part of Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 3: Copyright © 1997 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. New Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works English-language translation of material first published as Schopfung und Fall (Creation and Fall): Copyright © 1997 SCM Press, Ltd. and Macmillan Publishing Co. All rights reserved. All other material original to Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works edition of Schopfung und Fall (Creation and Fall), including the General Editor's Foreword, Editor's Introduction, abbreviations, bibliographies, indexes, and some notes: Copyright © 1997 Augsburg Fortress. All rights reserved. .
Except for brief quotations in critical articles or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without permission of the copyright holder. Write to permissions at: Augsburg Fortress, Box 1209, Minneapolis, MN 55440; Macmillan Publishing Company, 866 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10022; SCM Press, Ltd., 9-17 St. Albans Place, London, UKNI0NX.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z329.48-1984.
THE CHURCH OF CHRIST witnesses to the end of all things. It lives from the 21 end, it thinks from the end, it acts from the end, it proclaims its message from the end. "Do not remember the former things or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing" NL-A 31.3 (Bonhoeffer's own manuscript) has only "the words, "Remem¬ber not what happened before"; above the dots Bonhoeffer added the word, "create." From this it appears that he had in mind Isa. 43:19a ("I wish to create something new"). For the 1933 edition the quotation was completed in the words of the LB. (Isa. 43:18-19). The new is the real end of the old; the new, however, is Christ. Christ is the end of the old. Not the continuation, not the goal, the completion in line with the old, but the end and therefore the new. The church speaks within the old world about the new world. And because it is surer of the new world than of anything else, it sees the old world only in the light of the new world.
The church cannot please the old world because the church speaks of the end of the world as though this has already happened, as though the world has already been judged. The old world is not happy to let itself be declared dead. The church has never been surprised at this. It also is not surprised that again and again there appear within it people who think as the old world does. Who after all does not still at times think like this? What must certainly arouse the church to real indigna¬tion, Instead of the word for "indignation," the 1933 edition printed another German word meaning "uproar, agitation, turmoil, revolt." "Indignation" occurs also before this in a deletion from NL-A 31.3. however, is that these children of the world that has passed away wish to claim the church, the new, as belonging to them. They want the new, and they know only the old. And in that way they deny Christ, the Lord.
Only the church, which knows of the end, knows also of the beginning. It alone knows that between the beginning and now there lies the lame breach as between now and the end, that the beginning and now ire related in the same way as life is to death, as the new is to the old. The church therefore sees the beginning only in dying, from the viewpoint of the end. In NL-A 31.3 the words follow, crossed out: "The world, which does not wish to know about the end, because it does not wish to die, sees." The 1933 edition reads "the end" in place of "dying." It views the creation from Christ; or better, in the fallen, old world it believes in the world of the new creation, the new world If the beginning and the end, because it believes in Christ and in noth¬ing else.
The church does all this because it is founded upon the witness of Holy Scripture. In NL-A 31.3 this replaces: "because Holy Scripture is its only authority." If The church of Holy Scripture – and there is no other church' -lives from the end. Therefore it reads the whole of Holy Scrip¬ure as the book of the end, of the new [vom Neuen], of Christ. In NL-A 31.3 the words follow, crossed out: "Christ is the center of Scripture." Where Holy Scripture, upon which the church of Christ stands, speaks of creation, of the beginning, what else can it say other than that it is only from Christ that we can know what the beginning is? The Bible is after all nothing other than the book of the church. It is this in its very essence, or it is nothing. It therefore needs to be read and proclaimed wholly from the viewpoint of the end. In the church, therefore, the story of creation must be read in a way that begins with Christ and only then moves on toward him as its goal; indeed one can read it as a book that moves toward Christ only when one knows that Christ is the beginning, he new, the end of our whole world.
Theological exposition takes the Bible as the book of the church and interprets it as such. This is its presupposition and this presupposition :onstitutes its method; its method is a continual returning from the text as determined by all the methods of philological and historical re-search) The parenthesis is a late addition in NL-A 31.3. to this presupposition. That is the objectivity [Sachlichkeit] in the method of theological exposition. And on this objectivity alone does it base its claim to have the nature of a science [Wissenschaft¬lichkeitj] See above, 7.
When Genesis says "Yahweh," it 'means', from a historical or psycho¬logical point of view, nothing but Yahweh; theologically, i.e., from the 23 viewpoint off In NL-A 31.3 the words follow, crossed out: "God's revelation in." the church, however, it is speaking of God Cf. Hans Schmidt, Die Erziihlung von Paradies und Siimdenfall, 29: "The god whom this ancient story [of the tree of knowledge] knows is not the God in whom we believe; nor is this god Yahweh, the God of the great Israelite prophets, or the God of Moses" but the Canaanite god Baal.
For in the whole of Holy Scripture God is the one and only God [der Eine Gott ] In NL-A 31.3 Bonhoeffer replaced "God is God" with this wording. with this belief the church and theological science [Wissenschaft] stand or fall)Bonhoeffer wrote the Introduction and the Preface, in this order (see NL-A 31.3), for the 1933 edition, after the lecture course. Erich Klapproth gives an impression of how the lecture course itself started on November 8, 1932: "The word of God [is] neither fiction nor fairy tale nor myth; on the contrary one must read it word for word [buchstabieren] like a child and learn to rethink completely what the historical critical commentaries teach us. One can never hear it, if one does not at the same time live it – and this involves especially exercitium ['practice']. For us the word of God always lies hidden like a treasure in a field [Matt. 13:44], for we always have to come to the knowledge of God via the cross of Christ. In its catechumenate the ancient church allowed the story of creation to be discussed only at the end of the course of instruction [for baptism]; in the same way we come to it not just with a speculative approach but from the center of the Bible. We must place ourselves under the same Lord under whom the Bible stands. That is the only 'methodological presupposition'" (EK ). The comment about the catechumenate of the ancient church appears also in FL (1). In Hilde Pfeiffer's notes taken down during the lecture the conduding sentences of the introduction read: "In these three chapters the very God speaks to us as those who are under judgment, as those who have been put to death in and with Christ, as children and heirs of Adam who was driven out [of Paradise], as those who know about the church. We take the Bible into our hands here as the church of Christ" (HP ).
: And God said: Let the earth put forth grass and plants that bear seed and trees that bear fruit, each bearing fruit on earth according to its kind and with its own seed. And so it came to be. And the earth put forth grass and plants that bore seed, each according to its kind, and trees that bore fruit with their own seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And with evening and morning the third day came to be.
: And God said: Let the water swarm with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth near the firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea animals and all the living creatures that gambol about, with which the waters swarm,<ref> The text on the third day (vv. 11-13) mostly follows LB, while that on the fifth and sixth days up to v. 25 mainly follows Kautzsch, 10-11; d. LB (vv. 20-21): " … let the waters be agitated with creatures that live and move, and birds fly over the earth under the firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and all kinds of animals that live and move there, with which the waters were agitated …. " </ref> each according to its kind, and also every kind of feathered bird, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them and said: Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the sea, and let the birds multiply on the earth. And with evening and morning the fifth day came to be. And God said: Let the earth bring forth living animals, each according to its kind.<ref> Here in v. 24 the words are left out: "Cattle and reptiles and wild animals each according to its kind" (Kautzsch, 11). </ref> And so it came to be. And God made the wild animals, each according to its kind, and the cattle according to their kind, and every kind of reptile on the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
LIKE A WATERFALL that plunges from the heights down into a valley, creation moves from on high down to its final work. First there is the formless, then form in rhythm, and then a second form in law, in numbers. More and more creation attains its own being, more and more sharply it stands out in distinction from the form of the Creator, and more and more jubilantly it proclaims the Creator's nearness.
The peculiar being of what has been created so far is dead, however. It does not praise the Creator by carrying on the Creator's work but only by its own existence. But now something totally new occurs, with no continuity with what has happened before. The Creator wills that the creation should itself, in obedience, endorse and carryon the Creator's work – wills that creatures should live and should in tur<ref> Instead of the German word wieder (translated here as "in turn"), to which HP (19), FL (21), and EK (6) bear evidence, the 1933 edition incorrectly reads weiter, "further." </ref> themselves create life. That which is living differs from that which is dead in that it can itself create life. God gives to God's work that which makes God Lord, namely the ability to create. God calls it to life. And that God does so, and that what lives belongs to God now as something that itself creates and lives in an obedience of its own – that is the new way in which the Creator is glorified by the Creator's work. God does not will to be Lord of a dead, eternally unchangeable, subservient world; instead God wills to be Lord of life with its infinite variety of forms.
Thus at God's word there breaks forth out of the dead stone, out of the unfruitful earth, that which is alive and fruitful. It is no process of evolution from death to life; instead it is God's command which creates that which lives out of what is dead – it is God's being able to raise up children to Abraham out of these stones.<ref> Cf. Luke 3:8b. </ref> and calling Christ to rise up from the dead earth. The earth becomes the mother of the living; from now on life will break forth out of her dead darkness, and the world of plants, with their seed and their fruit, comes to be. This means that what comes to be is life, the peculiar nature of which is to create life again _ plants with seed according to their kind, which means in all the manifold variety of things that live.<ref> Cf. UK, which reads "in all the manifold variety of the individual" (ll). HP also has "individual" (19, 20). </ref> Not only the earth but also the sea, which is without life, and heaven, which is fixed, become animated with living creatures that move about. While the plants cling to the ground, the animals move about; they are in control of the ground, free to move over it, and are not bound to it. Fish and birds according to their kind and cattle and reptiles and wild animals according to their kind with their seed, in their fecundity.
It is not the Creator's own nature that the Creator here places within what lives and creates life. That which lives and is creative is not something divine; instead it is and remains a work that is creaturely, that has been created, that is separate from the Creator and under the Creator's free command. In the lively process of its coming to be, however, the Lord wills to look upon the Lord's own doing in what now stands over against the Lord; the Creator wills to see the Creator's own self in the process of creating, and the work is obliged to honor the one who made it.
One could suppose that God has now handed over to living creatures the work of upholding, so that the world or nature would provide for itself and so that the fixed nature of law and the fecundity of living things are the powers that together uphold the world. The clock is wound up and now runs on its own<ref> Christian Wolff (1679-1754) compared the world t~. a clock or a machine, so that no chance accident was conceivable for it. See Uberweg 3:452. FL refers to the "Deists" (22). Deism was the way in which God was conceived in the English and French Enlightenment. It assumed that once the world was created, its author no longer intervened in the course of things. [The Enlightenment rebelled against a dogmatic Christianity that claimed to be based on scriptures that were inerrant and on a revelation that was 'proved' by prophecies and miracles and was not subject to rational evaluation. The Deists thus attempted to substitute for traditional Christianity a 'natural' or rational religion. In content this was a belief in a benevolent God, who had created the world so that it was governed by natural laws that precluded miracles, and in an unchanging moral law.] [JDEG] </ref> But what the Bible knows is just this, that in the created world nothing runs 'on its own'. Law and life that creates life are, as God's work, created out of nothing and exist only in the midst of nothingness, only in the freedom of God's word. If God withdraws the word from the work, it sinks back into nothingness. Thus neither the subjection of the course of the world to law nor the living nature of what has been created is to be identified with God's upholding activity; on the contrary, law and life are upheld only by the free word of God. Neither law nor life is worthy of adoration – they are creatures like everything else; only the Lord of the law and the Lord of the living is so worthy.
This section too closes with the words that the text repeats again and again: "and God saw that it was good." For us this has two meanings. On the one hand God's work in the unspoiled form in which God's will has shaped it is good. On the other hand it is "good" only in the way that the creaturely can be good, that is, by the Creator's looking upon it, acknowledging it as the Creator's own, and saying about it, "It is good." That God looks upon God's work is the only thing that makes the work good. This really means, however, that the work is good only because the Creator alone is good. The work never has its goodness in itself, but only 5: in the Creator. The goodness of the work consists precisely in its pointing emphatically away from itself to the Creator and to the Creator's word alone as that which is good – that is, in its pointing out that "none is good but God alone."<ref> Mark 10:18b. LB translates, "No one is good, except the one God." EK reads, 'Jesus is good in that he points to God as good" (6). UK adds: " … and does not make the claim for himself that he is good" (12). Cf. FL (22). </ref> It is in the sense of this word of Jesus that the first creation is "good." If none is good except God alone, then God alone will be given the glory. And the creature's being good – but now being genuinely good – consists in this: that it lets the Creator, as the only Lord, be good and receives its own being good from the Creator's word alone and knows this word alone to be good. One is saying the same thing in other words when one says that the peculiar being of the creature, that is, its creaturely being, is wholly suspended and sustained [aufgehoben]<ref> See page 28, editorial note 12. </ref> in God's being and is fully obedient to God. After all, the being of that which is without form – of that which in greater and greater intensification of its own being<ref> The 1933 edition incorrectly reads Tun, "activity," instead of Sein, "being," both at this point and later in the sentence. </ref> is given form as rhythm, as what is fixed, and as what lives – always remains wholly created being, that is, obedient being. It never knows about its own being except by looking at the word of God, at the freedom with which God creates and upholds.
THE FIRST FINISHED WORK of God is the day. God creates the day in the beginning. The day bears along everything else; the world exists in the process of one day's turning into another [im Wechsel des Tages]. The day has its own being, its own form, its own power. It is not to be understood in physical terms as the rotation of the earth around the sun or as the change of darkness and light that can be calculated as a period of time; it is something beyond all that, something that determines the essence of the world and of our existence. It is, one might almost say if the term did not suit the context here so badly, what we call a mythological entity. To be sure, the gods of the day and of the night who in pagan belief animate and fill the world are here wholly dethroned; the day nevertheless remains God's first creature, something wondrous and mighty in God's hand.
The day in its creatureliness and wonder is wholly lost to us. We have withdrawn from its power. We no longer allow ourselves to be determined by it. We count up the days and tick them off. We do not accept the day as a gift; we do not live it. Today we do so less than ever, for technology wars against the day. The Bible itself already speaks of days in the way we speak of them, namely, as periods of time that can be counted. But the Bible still knows that days cannot simply be counted up as periods of time determined by the earth's rotation but are instead the great rhythm, the natural dialectic <ref> Cf. Friedrich Gogarten, Ich glaube, 55.</ref> of creation. What the Bible means when it speaks of the creation of the day is that what is formless becomes form in the morning and sinks back into formlessness in the evening, that the clear and distinct existence of things over against one another in the light dissolves into oneness in the dark, that the noise of life dies away in the silence of the night, that expectant wakening in the light is followed by sleep, and that there are times (reaching far beyond the physical day) of wakening and of slumbering in nature, in history, and in the nations [in den Volkern], The Bible means all of that when it speaks of the creation of the day, of the day without humankind, a day that sustains everything, including the fate of humankind.<ref> The German has an untranslatable wordplay, "von dem menschenlosen Tag, del' alles, auch das Menschenlos, tragt," in which los as the suffix in menschenlosen means "without" and as a noun in Menschenlos means "fate, destiny." [DSB].</ref> The rhythm that is both rest and movement, that gives and takes and gives again and takes again and so points forever to God's giving and taking, to God's freedom beyond rest and movement – that is what the day is.
The first account is thought out wholly from above, from where God is. Humankind is here the final work of God's self-glorification. The world is created for God, for God's honor alone, and humankind is the most precious receptacle, the very mirror of the Creator. It is totally for the sake of God's glory and honor as Creator that everything comes to pass. In spite of the creation of humankind, the world remains the world in the deep,<ref>Cf. Gen. 1:2. [DSB] </ref> the strange, distant world. The second account by contrast is about the world in its nearness and about the Lord who is near on earth, living together with Adam in Paradise. The first account is about humankind-for-God, the second about God-for-humankind. The first is about the Creator and Lord, the second about the fatherly God who is near at hand.<ref>HP says, "The second account portrays the gentle fatherly God who is near at hand" (27). The expression milde, "gentle," also occurs in UK (17). </ref> The first is about humankind as the final work of God, with the whole world created before humankind, the second just the other way around: in the beginning humanity is created, and around humankind, for the sake of humankind, God fashions animals and birds and lets the trees grow. The second account tells the story of humankind – the first is about what God does; but the second is about the history of humanity with God – the first is about the work of God with humanity; the second is about the God who is near at hand – the first is about the strange God; the second about God in human form, the God of childlike anthropomorphism – whereas the first is about the deity of God. Yet both are only human words, childlike but humble words, about the same God and the same humankind. Hence Genesis 2 [is ]<ref>In Bonhoeffer's text there is a colon in place of the verb 'is,' which here has been supplied by the translator. [DSB] </ref> the other side of Genesis<ref>As Kautzsch points out, in v. 4b the Hebrew text reads "earth and heaven, not as in 1:1 and 2:1, the heaven and the earth" (12, note b). Kautzsch renders v. 5 "caused it to rain upon the earth." Otherwise the text largely follows Kautzsch, 12. Instead of "Yahweh God," LB always reads Cott der HErr [printed in this way], "God the LORD." Cf. LB, which reads "and every kind of tree in the field was not yet on earth, and every kind of herb in the field had not yet grown, for God the LORD had not yet caused it to rain on earth, and there were no human beings who tilled the land. But a mist went up from the earth and made all the land damp." (Only) FL noted the reference to literature at this point: "Hans Schmidt history-of-religions problem popular lectures" (33). Schmidt's study, Die Erziihlung von Paradies und Sundenfall (The story of paradise and the fall), appeared in the series "Sammlung gemeinverstandlicher Vortrage und Schriften aus dem Gebiet der Theologie und Religionsgeschichte" (Collected popular addresses and essays in the area of theology and the history of religions). By the translation "the rainclouded heaven" Schmidt sought to show that "What is here in mind is the idea of a 'marriage' between heaven and mother earth" (37). Bonhoeffer rejects this thesis, which Schmidt extended to Gen. 1:2 (38); see above, page 38 and editorial note 41. </ref> – not an arbitrary but a necessary side, at any rate once the whole has been understood.


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A New Electrolysis Method Could Change Everything
WRITTEN BY: Andrew J. Dunlop
So, we want to have a hydrogen fueled future, right? It's a truly clean fuel that doesn't emit CO2 when burned. It would be the perfect replacement for fossil fuels for every type of vehicle from cars to trucks to trains and ships and even airplanes. It would be the perfect medium for storing renewable energy, especially from intermittent sources like solar. A solar generating plant that produced hydrogen could keep sending out power even when the sun wasn't shining. Hydrogen can be made from water, even sea water, which obviously there is plenty of here on Earth, using a process called electrolysis (no, not the hair removal process). It's a process that uses electricity to break water into its component parts: oxygen and hydrogen. But...up to this point electrolysis has been complicated and expensive. At École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne, or ÉPFL in Switzerland, a team headed by Demetri Psaltis has developed a system that may be about to change all of that.
In a conventional electrolysis system, two electrodes, the cathode and the anode are submerged in water and separated by a polymer membrane. An electric current is sent through the cathode. As it passes through the water to the anode, the water molecules to break apart into oxygen and hydrogen. The membrane keeps the two gases from mixing together and making an explosive mixture. Membranes are usually made of Nafion, which is extremely stable and good at conducting ions. But Nafion membranes have some major drawbacks. They are expensive. They have a limited lifetime, and only work in highly acidic solutions, which are toxic and potentially dangerous.
Psaltis and his team have created a system that works a bit differently. Their new system places the electrodes less than a few hundred micrometers apart in a microfluidic device. When the liquid moves between the electrodes above a certain speed, the two gases are pushed in opposite directions. Due to the lift forces caused by the Segré-Silberberg effect the two gases are guided into separate outlets, all without needing a membrane, meaning much lower cost, and a much simpler, much more reliable device.
"Our device has the potential to surpass the performance of a similar water-splitting apparatus that relies on an ion conductive membrane," says Mohammad Hashemi, the first author of a paper on the team's efforts. "This is due to the higher ion conduction in liquid electrolytes than in common solid membranes. As the only dimension that needs to remain small is the inter-electrode distance, it is possible to implement the same concept using high surface area electrodes as side walls of narrow electrolyte channels."
Psaltis and his team are currently working on scaling up the design for higher production rates, meaning that soon, if all goes according to plan, they could potentially change the entire world.
(Sources: phys.org, Wikipedia)
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Hip-Hop artist Nelly to heat up Kansas State Fair
It's time to brush up on your "Country Grammar" — hip-hop artist Nelly is coming to the Kansas State Fair.
The three-time Grammy award-winner will perform at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 19, at the Nex-Tech Wireless Grandstand. Opening for Nelly is rising star Willie Jones.
Tickets go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7. The Fair's ticket office will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. that day to accommodate walk-in traffic and phone calls. Fans can snag tickets two days earlier, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, by signing up for the Fair's email list at http://bit.ly/KSFNellyPresale.
Ticket prices are $25 to $65, which includes gate admission to the Fair if purchased by Aug. 15.
"We are excited to add another concert to our already strong lineup, especially one in a genre we haven't normally offered at the Kansas State Fair," said the fair's general manager, Robin Jennison. "Nelly is obviously one of the top-selling rappers in history. However, he also has a wide appeal among many demographics, thanks to his success collaborating with country group Florida Georgia Line."
Nelly, a diamond-selling, multi-platinum artist, entrepreneur, philanthropist and actor, has sold more than 22 million albums, ranking him as one of the best-selling rap artists in America. Nelly burst onto the scene in the early 2000s with songs such as "Ride Wit Me," "Hot in Here," "Air Force Ones" and "Country Grammar," which will celebrate its 20th anniversary in June.
Both Nelly's Country Grammar album and his collaboration on Florida Georgia Line's single "Cruise" achieved diamond status. "Cruise" is one of 35 singles — and only two country songs — to reach diamond certification. Nelly is just one of about 15 rappers to achieve this honor.
Up-and-coming star Jones blends his country roots with R&B and hip-hop influences. Born in Shreveport, La., Jones began singing gospel at an early age and was a finalist on X-Factor in 2012.
His recent singles include "Whole Lotta Love," "Bachelorettes on Broadway" and "Down For it." Jones already has amassed more than a million monthly listeners on Spotify. In June, Rolling Stone named him an "Artist You Need to Know." Jones recently toured with Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson, Chase Rice and the Eli Young Band.
Fair officials advise fairgoers to be cautious when purchasing tickets. Etix is the only authorized seller for Fair tickets.