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God of disaster
Posted on December 30, 2020 by ΉΣᄂIᄃӨП,
According to the Bible, and as usual I will reference the King James Version, life is predetermined by god, and he knows what you are going to do before you do. I don't get why Christians trust god to put them on the correct course, or believe that god's intentions are always fuelled by his love for us when so many bad things happen every day throughout the world. Let's ignore actions that humans are responsible for, and think for a moment about natural disasters, like hurricanes, typhoons, floods, cyclones, tsunamis, earthquakes, wildfires, drought and famine. If god is all knowing, and all loving, why does he let natural disasters happen? If he knows that a catastrophic event is forthcoming, and he loves us, why doesn't he prevent it?
"In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" – Ephesians 1:11 KJV
In 2011, Japan, the city of Tōhoku, was hit by a typhoon which was caused by an earthquake of great magnitude. The waves reached up to 40 metres killing nearly 16,000 people, injuring many thousands more, and several thousand were missing. As well as the human harm, it affected wildlife, and caused approximately $360 billion of damage, and whilst this happened, people still believed that god was lovingly watching over us. Out of the 10 most destructive natural disasters, China has suffered 6 of them, and the other 4 have all been in Eastern Asia, where millions of people perished.
Yet, whilst all this destruction was taking place, god lovingly watched.
Cyclone Nargis hit Sri Lanka and Burma in 2008 causing disaster our flooding and landslides killing 150,000 and 50,000 more reported missing. The Bhola cyclone devastated Bangladesh in 1970 killing roughly 300,000 and thousands more reported missing. In 2010, Haiti and the Dominican Republic as hit by an earthquake, and the governments to this day still aren't sure how many died, but it's estimated at over 300,000. In 2019 fires broke out in the Amazon rainforests hitting Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia due to an extremely intense dry season, and it's estimated that up to 80,000 individual fires ravaged the rainforests causing unprecedented damage and loss of life to humans and wildlife. The fires were that intense that they were observed by the International Space Station (ISS), as 3,500 square miles of forest was destroyed, which caused grave international concern due to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Yet, whilst all this destruction was taking place, god lovingly watched.
During the last century, famine has been common place in areas of Africa, especially Ethiopia where millions of men, women, and children have died from starvation, or disease from contaminated water. The worst famine occurred in 1984 and this resulted in the Live Aid concert to raise awareness and funds to attempt to counter the devastation, but 36 years on the death toll is still there. Whilst Africa is notably affected by famine, China has suffered greatly over the centuries, and not just from the Great Leap Forward who Mao Zedong was responsible for. In India from 1876 to the turn of the twentieth century, up to 20,000,000 have perished through famine due to crop failure and seed shortages. Between 1845 to 1849 the Great Hunger hit Ireland resulting in over 1,000,000 deaths and 2,000,000 being forced to relocate over seas. This was a result from potatoes being contaminated with a disease called potato blight, that is caused from mould called Phytophthora infestans.
Yet, whilst all this was taking place, god lovingly watched.
The Dust Bowl of North America was a series of severe dust storms that destroyed agriculture and paved the way for a number of droughts, killing plants, livestock and humans. As well as causing serious malnutrition to a great many people who relied on the local agriculture, the spread of disease was rife, and many were infected with dust pneumonia, rickets, and valley fever (a fungal infection of the lungs). Between 2006 and 2010, Syria was hit by its worst drought in history, taking the lives of over 200,000 and turning the farmland into desert. 1.5,000,000 people were displaced. In 2011, Somalia was hit by a drought, and its agriculture and livestock was destroyed, and claimed the lives of 260,000.
In between 1918 and 1920 the world was hit by the Spanish flu, which attacks the respiratory system. It's claimed that up to 500,000,000 were infected, and it claimed the lives of approximately 50,000,000 worldwide in just 18 months. It's the most deadly pandemic that the world has ever seen. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), often leads on to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), and the World Health Organisation (WHO) says that 35,000,000 have died from the illness, and there are currently an estimated 7,000,000 infected in Africa. The illness was discovered in 1984, so that means on average, 970,000 die every year.
Yet, whilst all this is taking place, god lovingly watched.
"And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the LORD that healeth thee." – Exodus 15:26
Throughout history, billions of people have died from diseases and illness, and as you can see from the above quote, god admits to being responsible, but don't forget kids, he loves us all.
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The religion of evolution
I've heard this claim more times than I can mention, and I think that it's a feeble attempt to bring the theory of evolution down to the level of the accuser. If they believe in a religion, and they have faith that their god is the divine creator, then by the same standard any opposing theory must also be a belief, require faith, and slot into the category of religion. The first mistake that they usually make is not researching evolution enough to understand it, and fail to recognise that a scientific theory is based on gathered evidence, as opposed to a standard theory which is an idea, or a suggestion to explain an event. The second mistake is thinking that the scientific method requires faith, as it's deeply rooted in scepticism and doubt, and unlike a religion it's able to adapt upon discovery of new knowledge, and/or evidence.
I read a dreadful article on AIG where the authors, both claiming to be doctors, suggest that there's no observable evidence for evolution, but creationism has observable evidence in the Bible, as it's the word of god. There are many examples of observed evidence for evolution, and nothing except words from the Bible and speculation on divine creation. Young Earth creationists believe that the Earth is approximately 6,000 years old.
"2,000 years from Adam to Abraham, 2,000 years from Abraham to Christ, and 2,000 years from Christ to today." – Source
Here's the scientific version.
"By dating the rocks in Earth's ever-changing crust, as well as the rocks in Earth's neighbors, such as the moon and visiting meteorites, scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years." – Source
As you can see there's a tremendously vast difference in the age of the Earth from both parties and it's actually a four billion five hundred thirty-nine million nine hundred ninety-four thousand difference. So when you accept how creationists blindly believe the words of the Bible over science, then it's of no surprise that they think that evolution requires faith, so by their logic, must be a religion, but that's assuming that creationists are able to apply logic in the first place. The way the creationist mind works is obvious, and it's a fear of uncertainty. The Bible maps the birth of the universe and the start of life as an encyclopaedia, a pseudoscientific one, but all of the answers that they require are there. Whereas science whilst in the search for knowledge, being derived from the Latin word 'scientia', literally meaning knowledge, it's about applying reason and doubt. Both of these processes go back as far as the archaic Greek philosophers, mainly the skeptics.
"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know." – Socrates
Having the honesty to say 'I don't know, as the evidence is insufficient' is a frightening concept to them, and it's rare to find a sceptic person of faith, as gods require absolute belief and obedience.
Scientists claim that they think unicellular to multicellular is in principal the same as a 'ratcheting mechanism', in that it can only go one way. What this means is a scenario is created where it's only beneficial to a group, and destructive to anything alone, meaning there is no reversion to the state it was in before. In other words unicellular life banded together as a group and became reliant on each other, so there was no chance of a mutation to turn multicellular life back into unicellular life. In a group state, mathematically there's more chance of mutation, but a mutation to go forward, and not backwards. This is Microevolution at work when there are small, but significant changes at a molecular and cellular level, caused from selection, genetic drift, gene flow and of course mutation. This is certainly a possibility of how life went from unicellular to multicellular. Biologists have been studying evolution for centuries are there are several key areas, and they include:
• Anatomy – which shows that species that are similar in structure ie: humans and chimpanzees. Dogs, whales and humans all have similar bone structures in the forelimbs, which suggests that not only did the whale once walk on land, which will explain why mammals live in the sea, but the development of the related bone structure developed in a common ancestor.
• DNA – genetic coding that's shared throughout species that prove a universal common ancestor. This includes the building blocks of life; amino acids.
• Resistance – this is how a species evolves to survive ie: bacteria vs antibiotics, and insects vs pesticides
• Fossils – that provide evidence of our long extinct relatives.
• Natural selection – is the change of biological heredity of a population through generations. Considering bacteria mostly has such a short life span, then several generations can happen very fast. Some microbes can live for hundreds of years on a surface, and some, like HIV only last seconds, but most don't last very long at all.
• Convergent evolution studies how significantly distinct species have evolved the same way through evolution. The strikingly similar features of a shark and a dolphin, despite one being a fish and one being a mammal. To look at they are similar, but anatomically they are very different. A shark has gills and cartilage structure, whereas a dolphin has bones and breathes fresh air. Physically they are very similar in that they have evolved for a common goal. To swim fast and efficiently through water.
• Divergent Evolution takes us back to unicellular life, and how the diversity of modern life came from it, and how life can develop from a common ancestor.
• Real time observation – watching species evolve over time, and a great example of this is the Florida green lizard who over several generations evolved its feet to climb higher up trees to narrower branches to avoid competition.
• Vestigiality – this is organisms that have retained redundant body parts. Did you know that snakes have pelvic bones? Creationists will argue that was god's doing as he punished the serpent in the garden of Eden.
• Biographical relations – put the same species of animals in two different environments and over time they will change to suit the habitat. This is what inspired Charles Darwin to study finches at the Galápagos Islands.
"The fact is that evolutionists believe in evolution because they want to. It is their desire at all costs to explain the origin of everything without a Creator. Evolutionism is thus intrinsically an atheistic religion. Some may prefer to call it humanism, and New Age evolutionists may place it in the context of some form of pantheism, but they all amount to the same thing. Whether atheism or humanism (or even pantheism), the purpose is to eliminate a personal God from any active role in the origin of the universe and all its components, including man." – Source
The above quote is taken from another creationist organisation, and this time it's the Institute for Creation Research, and as you can see, they are as delusional as Answers in Genesis. This article, however, is extremely bitter and is a direct attack against atheism, in which because we can't prove there's no god, then we must have faith, thus making it a religion, and they also claim that evolution isn't promoted as a science, it's promoted as a secular religion. So that means that I not only practise the religion of atheism, but I also practise the religion of evolution. How do these people genuinely expect to be taken seriously when they manufacture things to suit their agenda? Because scientists can't fully explain naturalism, or provide evidence of abiogenesis, does this mean that because we've an incomplete picture, then it's obviously false? And by their standards, believing something that they claim is without evidence is a religion, then surely it's a two way street and they are being hypocritical?
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Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes
One of the most famous quotes that people take from the German philosopher, and economist Karl Marx, is:
"Die Religion … ist das Opium des Volkes" – Karl Marx
Translated into English this means:
"Religion … is the opiate of the people" – Karl Marx
The phrase was taken from two works of Marx, firstly 'Zur Kritik der Hegelschen Rechtsphilosophie | Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right), and secondly 'Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher | German–French Annals' which was a journal he published with Arnold Ruge.
The full wording is as follows:
"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people" – Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud's view of religion isn't too different to Marx's, but with Freud being a neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, he looked at it from a mental psychology view point:
"Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities. But it cannot achieve its end. Its doctrines carry with them the stamp of the times in which they originated, the ignorant childhood days of the human race. Its consolations deserve no trust. Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery. The ethical commands, to which religion seeks to lend its weight, require some other foundations instead, for human society cannot do without them, and it is dangerous to link up obedience to them with religious belief. If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity." – Sigmund Freud
As you can see, Freud compares religion to the ignorant childhood days. In other words, religion is for people who know no better, and the following quote summarises religious belief perfectly:
"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility." – Sigmund Freud
The psychology of religion is a strange concept, and it's literally about people passing their responsibly away, and putting God's will in its place. Due to God taking responsibility, humans who have faith have sacrificed their freedom for indoctrination and control:
"Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion" – Sigmund Freud
From a theistic perspective, something morally good happens, then theists praise and thank their loving God; whichever one their parents decided to brainwash them with, and something immoral happens, then they have the most perfect scapegoat – 'Satan'.
Theists believe that God gave free will, but if they are doing something that's considered righteous they thank God, but if someone does something against God, or the words of the Bible then they are consumed and controlled by Satan. This takes away responsibility for people's actions. How fucking convenient.
Religion accounts for approximately 85% of the world's population which still leaves over a billion non-believers. Can 17/20 of the world's population be wrong? Of course they can, and you have to give accountability to the people that created every religion. Religion is about controlling the masses.
"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." – Napoleon Bonaparte
Whilst this does seem quite accurate, I think there's more to it than that. Religion is an answer for what some humans can't explain, and rather than just admitting that not everything is known, and not everything can be answered, theists just claim:
'God did it!'
When asked how they could possibly know this, you're told that the 'Bible, Qur'an or Torah' is God's word, and God doesn't lie. What hope have you got attempting to reason with that mindset?
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This class is for one person and lasts for 3 hours. Everything is supplied (glass, tools, safety glasses). We will cover safety, tools and equipment, and basics from making a round bead, to pulling stringers, adding dots. We will also make very simple flower beads. The beads made on the day will go straight from flame to kiln, and once annealed, will be posted onto you, along with any beads I make during the lesson.
If you are beyond the beginner's level, I also offer various Techniques Workshops, as detailed below. They are $150 for 3 hours tuition for one person.
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The book "How To Read A Book" was bind to a frame with two C-clamps and couldn't be opened and read. The framed content was a thread of discussion from an internet forum, on the topic "What does it mean "to read a book"? What is the definition of a book, is novel a book? (都说看书,那真正书的定义是什么?)"
Definitions of the "book" from Chinese and English Wikipedia and from the UNESCO, were printed out on separated papers. Each paper was folded with the definition inside and then bind into a small booklet, which was attached to the installation with a string.
In an economical environment where most of the book stores struggling to survive by turning into coffee shops with book walls. "Still life with a book" was a eulogy to the ideologies of books, and looking at the books as objects, existing independently from the action "reading".


Schoenberg Hall seats about 520, depending on the configuration. The rich acoustics make it well suited for acoustic performances and lectures. But we have also hosted large concerts, chamber orchestras, amplified sound, theatrical performances, opera and dance.
The large stage has an approximately 40′ wide proscenium and a playable depth of about 48 feet. The height of the proscenium is 18′. The floor is black painted Masonite on a sprung fir floor.
Full lighting house package run on an ETC Ion Console, 190 dimmers. A light plot, inventory, and instrument schedule are available for more detail (we even have a cheat sheet, but don't tell anyone).
Complete house sound system with a Midas M32 digital sound board. A range of sound options and equipment are available, including wireless mics.
High definition multi-media video projector and screen. Rear projection screen and projector available if needed.
RTS 2-channel headset system, and audio monitor feeds to dressing rooms, green room and light booth.
We are in the process of overhauling our rigging system. Most batons are dead-hung at approximately 22′, however several of our electrics are motorized. The ceiling height is 24'6″.


COHERENT has made an impact for future 5G standards, as project initiated standard TR 103 494 was approved for publication by ETSI technical committee for Broadband Radio Access Networks (BRAN). The ETSI TR 103 494 was initiated and led by COHERENT partner 4GC and supported by partners Thales, VTT, Fairspectrum and CREATE-NET.
COHERENT contributed on application of Central Coordination in a 5GHz heterogeneous network, including the information to be provided by the wireless entities and the coordination of the operation of these entities.
ETSI is working on key technologies which enable the future 5G EcoSystem. ETSI TC BRAN prepares and maintains harmonized standards among others for RLANs operating in the 5 GHz frequency band. COHERENT initiated standard TR 103 494 will be published in January 2018.


Few things are more personal than colour. It can be used to reflect your personality, to invoke cherished memories or simply to spark conversation. It's the reason we've created our Bespoke Painted Collection. It provides the freedom to have any of our handcrafted bathroom furniture hand painted in the shade of your choice. We can colour match any high street brand, but rest assured the paint we use will only ever be own trusted blend.
Please apply an additional cost of £350 including VAT to have your furniture hand painted. Colour matching is available for all popular paint brands on the market.
At Vanity Hall we pride ourselves on offering a truly bespoke service – the option of painting our units in a finish, chosen by you. Our skilled craftsmen will lovingly hand paint your units for the ultimate tailored service. Whether you dare to be different or choose a more subtle finish, your units will be as unique as you!
Whether you want your bathoom furniture to match a treasured possession or a colour picked out from a feature wallpaper, choosing our bespoke painted service gives you the exclusive bathroom you've always dreamed of having.
Think of white and you think of one colour… yet white is available in myriad tones. From cold whites, with a hint of blue, to warmer whites that feature more creamy tones, our bespoke painted service ensures that we have the right white for you!
Customising your units to either co-ordinate or complement with other key featuresin your bathroom may seem impossible. At Vanity Hall we pride ourselves in offering such a service, whereby we will match and paint our furniture in a finish chosen by you.


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Posted on September 21, 2008 January 30, 2017
FRANCHISE VETERAN BRINGING MUSKEGON ITS FIRST BIGGBY COFFEE
Store Will Offer Free Brewed Coffee For First Week
Muskegon, Mich., September 21, 2008 – East Lansing Mich.-based BIGGBY COFFEE will celebrate the opening of its first location in Muskegon on Tuesday, September 23. The store is located at 3295 Henry Street in Muskegon, across the street from Meijer. The Muskegon area location opens under the direction of franchise veteran Pete Gawkowski and his business partner Deb Smith.
Gawkowski has been in the franchise business for close to a decade and currently operates 16 Subway restaurants in West Michigan. "I started as a loyal BIGGBY customer years ago, so I know what makes the whole experience unique from the other side of the counter. When I was looking for my next franchise opportunity, I knew that BIGGBY COFFEE was it and I'm proud to bring the experience to Muskegon."
The new location will offer free brewed coffee during its first week of operation in celebration of its grand opening. The store is open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday.
BIGGBY COFFEE combines its signature coffee drinks with free wireless internet access, flat screen televisions, drive-through service and plentiful soft seating—all standard features that are part of the Muskegon store.
The Muskegon location marks the 103rd store for the rapidly-growing East Lansing-based franchise concept which has doubled in size every two years since its inception. BIGGBY COFFEE currently operates 102 stores in nine states, and has an additional 65 stores under contract to open during the next 24 months.
The new store will bring nearly 20 new full and part-time jobs to the area.
East Lansing, Mich.-based BIGGBY COFFEE was founded in March 1995 and began franchise operations in 1999. Today the Company has 102 stores open and an additional 65 under development across nine states including Michigan, Ohio, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, South Carolina and Wisconsin. BIGGBY COFFEE features more than 30 gourmet coffee, fine tea and frozen drink selections in addition to an assortment of pastries and other fine eatables. For more information about BIGGBY COFFEE, visit www.biggby.com.


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New York Jets waste chance to establish themselves as real players in AFC
89dRich Cimini
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2dRich Cimini
As offensive coordinator search widens, Jets face potential roadblocks
49ers' Brock Purdy would make history with win over Eagles
2dBrianna Williams
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Rich CiminiESPN Staff Writer
Longtime Jets beat writer for New York Daily News
Syracuse University graduate
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- The New York Jets lost a football game, and so much more.
They blew a chance to exorcise their New England demons and wasted a wonderful opportunity to send a "Here we come!" message to the rest of the AFC and set up a first-place showdown this Sunday against the Buffalo Bills (1 p.m. ET, CBS).
It was all there for the Jets, who played before a capacity crowd Sunday at MetLife Stadium in their most important home game in seven years.
They led by seven points with a chance to pad the lead before halftime, but then came the Stupid Jet Tricks -- the first of three interceptions by Zach Wilson and a penalty for roughing the passer on John Franklin-Myers that nullified a pick-six by Michael Carter II. They were mentally cooked and wound up losing, 22-17, to a vulnerable Patriots team.
The Jets (5-3) tried to write it off as just another loss, but it clearly wasn't. There was a huge emotional investment in this game. They approached it as a shot for redemption, payback for last season's 54-13 embarrassment at Gillette Stadium. They didn't try to hide those emotions. Heck, defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich practically flaunted it, saying how much they were "looking forward" to the rematch.
In the end, they got kicked around and humbled, just like they always do against the Patriots, winners of 13 straight in the series.
Jets quarterback Zach Wilson threw for 355 yards but was sacked twice and picked off three times in Sunday's loss to New England. Elsa/Getty Images
"Super frustrating," said wide receiver Elijah Moore, perhaps the only player who skipped cliche answers and portrayed some postgame emotion. "To not get the W, if anyone wanted us to win any game, it was probably this one. We definitely all took it personally."
The Patriots aren't the Patriots of old, but it still takes 60 minutes of mental toughness to beat them. The Jets failed in that regard, not playing well enough for long enough to end the years of futility in the so-called rivalry. As coach Robert Saleh said, "This is a team that feasts on your mistakes." And the Jets gave them enough for an early Thanksgiving dinner.
The Jets struggled with pass protection, allowing 16 pressures. They couldn't run the ball (51 yards), clearly missing injured running back Breece Hall. They couldn't protect the ball, as Wilson morphed into the Wilson of early 2021 with the giveaways. They tackled poorly. They made mistakes on special teams. They showed no punch in the fourth quarter, which had been their trademark.
They also didn't respond well to the Franklin-Myers penalty, a potential 10-point swing. Wilson called it "a terrible call." Saleh didn't criticize it directly but let his feelings be known. Asked if the officials gave an explanation, Saleh deadpanned, "Yeah. He [Mac Jones] was hit too hard." Franklin-Myers didn't say much; his exasperated look said it all.
The young Jets learned a hard lesson, and it could change the complexion of their season. Barring a big upset next Sunday at MetLife Stadium, the Jets will go into the bye at 5-4, followed by a trip to the Patriots (4-4), who now have new life thanks to the Jets.
"This doesn't take away anything we want to accomplish," Jets defensive tackle Sheldon Rankins said.
But it will test the Jets' resilience. If they want to be considered a legit playoff contender, it's something they must overcome.


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A future dominated by electric vehicles is a slow, inefficient future that tortures the planet and the people
Thursday, July 25, 2019 by: Lance D Johnson
Tags: Air pollution, badscience, batteries, battery manufacturing, Clean Energy, combustion engines, electric cars, electric grid, electric vehicles, electricity, Emissions, environment, green energy, green living, power, power grid, renewable energy
(Natural News) According to the New Green Deal, electric cars are the future and they will soon replace gas-powered, combustion engines. This "green" technology supposedly produces "zero greenhouse gas emissions" and will help save the world from the throes of climate change.
This sales pitch, adopted by Democrats in the 2020 election cycle, couldn't be further from the truth. Diesel engines are more environmentally friendly than electric vehicles. According to an ecological assessment from the IFO Institute in Germany, electric cars have a worse carbon footprint when considering how they are manufactured and how much energy is pulled from the grid in order to keep them charged up. Tremendous amounts of energy are needed to extract the lithium, cobalt and manganese that are needed to produce the batteries for electric cars. This process alone requires 11 to 15 tons of CO2 just to make one Tesla model 3 battery.
Slow charging electric vehicles are inefficient, put the electric grid at risk, and cause more emissions than diesel engines
Notwithstanding, in order to keep electric vehicles charged, energy is pulled from the grid mix, requiring more coal, more gas, and consequentially more CO2 emissions. Even though electric cars do not cause emissions directly from the vehicle, they do require 180 grams of CO2 per kilometer when battery manufacturing and recharge requirements are considered. According to the German researchers, this causes up to 28 percent more pollution than a diesel engine. The German researchers believe that vehicles powered by hydrogen or combustion engines using "green" methane offer more advantages for the environment, allowing for peaks in surplus wind and solar power to be stored to boost the sustainability of clean energy over the long term.
In order to sustain the benefits of clean energy long-term, every country should look to diversify the sources of their energy consumption, or else they could be forced to depend on other countries, straining resources globally, while threatening the long-term necessity, value, and growth of clean energy sources. This fact of life is ignored by proponents of ambitious (reckless) socialist programs such as the Green New Deal. Programs like these handcuff progress in the marketplace, giving more economic control to oligarchs while putting a cap on environmental progress. There are cleaner, more efficient technologies than electric vehicles. Mandates for "green" technology use subsidies, backed by taxpayer dollars, to control the market and pass on gains to greedy investors.
In America, environmental progress can only occur through economic opportunity, not economic sabotage. Market innovation, driven by open dialogue communication, should be prioritized over one-size-fits-all mandates. Protecting diversity in energy generation should take precedence over unstable environmental dictates and the crony capitalism that ensues. Environmental regulation should hold companies accountable to the law, but should not cause rationing of resources so only the wealthy and well-connected can enjoy them.
After all, a future dominated by electric vehicles is a slow, inefficient future that tortures the planet and the people. While advances in clean energy are great for the planet, commercial flights, big engines, and fast cars will always have a place in America!
Who wants to be stuck in traffic, waiting on puny electric cars that rely on batteries that go dead? Where do all the junk batteries go when they are used up? How will the power grid hold up in a country dominated by fleets of slow-charging batteries?
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What follows is a special report from Stephanie who has been apprenticing at Pierre Hermé in Paris. She has been there for almost 2 months. We have no idea when she will return. We hope she'll be back soon, but we'd certainly understand if she stayed a while longer. How did she get an apprenticeship at Pierre Hermé? She asked. Some things are simpler than they seem.
Having unpaid help was hard for them to refuse, but, for me, it was a chance for a great experience.
I started on a Monday morning, with the macaroniers... I have to admit that I was a little disappointed to see that we made thousands of macarons in a few hours--it took away a little of the magic, but fortunately not the taste and quality. Then I went to the lab on Bonaparte and I've been there ever since. 5 weeks now. I've been nicknamed Caribou (and they do mock my accent), or Miss Ispahan... (*see note below) hundreds everyday! But once you get the hang of it, it's all right.
So at Bonaparte, they do the finishing of the cakes, because of the small size of the labs in the heart of St-Germain des Près (I can imagine the rent...), and the chocolaterie is also there. Everything else is done at Vaugirard in the 15th arrondissement, where I will be for the next 4 weeks. Wow, it's crazy how time flies! So this means that I've been in Paris for 7 weeks now, but I don't feel that I've taken advantage enough of it!
Bravo, Steph! Bon courage et merci pour les photos et nouvelles. And keep knockin' 'em dead!
*note* The Ispahan is one of Pierre Hermé's top-selling items and it may very well be his signature patisserie: rose cream, litchis, and raspberries sandwiched between two rose macarons, all of it topped with a rose petal (a real one). Believe the hype. It really is transcendent. His boutique is pretty out of this world, too. It feels more like a high-end jewelry store than a mere patisserie somehow. In any case, the Ispahan makes for a perfect picnic in the Jardin du Luxembourg (speaking of transcendent) nearby. Of course, if you can't wait to savor your Ispahan, the Place St. Sulpice is also rather beautiful and it's even closer.
OK, the photo's a little out of focus, but that's only because I was so excited to dig in I could barely contain myself. We'd been wanting to make this dish for several months, ever since we'd come across the recipe (and the mouth-watering photo that accompanied it) in Saveur a while back. At the time it wasn't BBQ season yet, though, so we were forced to hold off. By last Sunday, we couldn't wait any longer.
We picked up a couple of flank steaks and some red chiles at Latina, headed over to Park Ave. to pick up some shallots (as well as a few other ingredients for our salsa verde), then rushed home to get to work.
The prep couldn't have been easier. We salted and peppered the steaks, then set them aside to sit for 15-20 minutes. I fired up the grill and threw on the red chiles and the shallots (in their skins), keeping them off to the side of the flames so that they wouldn't get overly charred, and grilled them for 15 minutes, until the chiles had turned smoky and sweet and the shallots were cooked through and very tender. Michelle then peeled the shallots, chopped them, and tossed them in olive oil with the chiles while I cooked the steaks. The cooking time on the steaks was pretty quick--about 2-3 minutes per side over a medium fire, depending on the thickness of the steaks. When they were grilled to our liking (rare for me, medium-rare for Michelle), I took them off the heat and let them sit at room temperature for 5 minutes. This method results in a particularly juicy, tasty steak.
We served the steaks over mixed greens from the garden, and dressed the steaks with the chile and shallot sauce. The finishing touches: guacamole and salsa verde with tortilla chips, and a couple of beers.
You can make a pretty excellent salsa verde on the stovetop, but the best salsa verde is made with grilled tomatillos. I husked and rinsed 8 tomatillos, brushed them with oil, then grilled them until they were nicely and fairly evenly blackened on the outside (I also grilled a serrano pepper at the same time). I then added them to a blender, along with 2 garlic cloves, about 1 tablespoon of minced white onion, 1/3 cup of cilantro, 1 fresh jalapeno pepper, the grilled serrano pepper, salt, pepper, and lime juice to taste. Like I said, salsa verde off the stovetop is also very satisfying, but nothing beats the smokiness of this grilled tomatillo version. Tomatillos aren't the easiest thing to find in Montreal, but most, if not all, of the Latin American specialty stores carry them and Michelle found the ones we used up at Jean-Talon Market.
Saturday we went out for breakfast, so we didn't get a chance to give the nougabricot a proper test ride, but Sunday we sat down to a continental breakfast with challah toast, a soft-boiled egg, and the nougabricot.
In many ways, an ideal breakfast.
As requested, the recipe is now here.
We finally made plans to get together with T. and R. for a meal on Saturday morning, and after running down our list of options we decided to check out the brunch at Reservoir. Michelle had been lobbying to go there for quite some time—she'd heard report after report testifying that their brunches were out of this world, and she trusted her sources—but I'd been hesitant to go because I was left unimpressed by a visit there not long after they opened up, months and months ago now. Anyway, we were looking for someplace to go for brunch, we were in the mood to try someplace new—let's just say things fell into place. I'm glad they did. Our meal there was the most interesting brunch either of us had had in a restaurant in quite some time. Between the four of us we got a pretty full sense of what Reservoir's menu has to offer. R. kept things light and ordered the yogurt with grilled pineapple, honey, and nuts. Reservoir has two breakfast platters that come without egg dishes and T. tried the one that came with smoked ham, feta cheese, chorizo, a chick pea puree, cornichons, and toast. The ingredients were different, but in terms of approach, this platter reminded me of brunches I'd had in Germany. T. was enthusiastic, to say the least. Michelle and I, on the other hand, tried two of Reservoir's egg dishes. Michelle had the two eggs—one over-easy, one sunny-side-up—with fiddleheads (what a brilliant idea!), lard fumé, and white bean salad [trust me, the picture above doesn't really do it justice—Michelle had already started to dig in at the time it was taken], while I had the frittata with braised parsnips, and both dishes were fantastic. The prices run a little bit higher than a lot of other breakfast spots in Montreal (our egg dishes were $10-12 range, while one dish featuring New Brunswick smoked salmon and blinis ran about $15), but it was absolutely worth it. Fiddleheads season is almost over, so you might want to go there soon.
This week we've been focusing on the flavors on our doorstep. It's not that we're getting lazy or something. Far from it. It's just that sometimes the things that are closest at hand get overlooked.
a) Our "local" (our local dépanneur, or corner store) is Épicerie et Boucherie Sa & Fils at the corner of Villeneuve and St.-Urbain. We're actually lucky enough to have two dépanneurs just half a block away, and, truth be told, Sa is more of a grocery store than a real modern-day dépanneur, but it's definitely our "local." We had a bit of an in, because our Portuguese landlords are tight with the Portuguese family that runs Sa, but we've felt like part of the extended Sa for a few years now. We do a lot of shopping at Sa, and we've been carrying out an informal survey of Montreal's rotisserie chicken specialists for some time now, but for some reason we'd never tried out one of their rotisserie chickens from Sa. Well, on Monday we finally broke that pattern, picked up a bird and the butcher's "uncle's famous hot sauce," some drinks, some frites from Patati Patata (Sa was out of roasted potatoes) and we descended upon Jeanne-Mance park for a picnic. We were sorry we hadn't done so earlier. The chicken from Sa wasn't a grilled, butterfly-style masterpiece like the chickens served up at Rotisserie Portugalia on Rachel, but it was an excellent rotisserie chicken, full-bodied and with a crispy golden skin, and at $6.99 a chicken (their special price on Mondays) it was a steal, too. How was the hot sauce, you ask? Lethal. [Back in the day, my friend Mark got in the habit of using the adjective "brutal" to describe things both positive and negative. You can imagine the confusion this might have caused. After a while, we began asking him to clarify. "Brutal-good, or brutal-bad?" The "famous hot sauce" was lethal-good.] You should have seen how our picnic made heads turn at the park.
b) Given the huge number of Portuguese families that live in our immediate area, this district doesn't have a whole lot of Portuguese restaurants. There are plenty of Portuguese corner stores, grocery stores, bakeries, and fish mongers, but the bulk of the Portuguese restaurants are further south in the Plateau, along St. Laurent, and dotting the arteries and side streets that shoot off from the Main. Much of the reason for this has to do with the fact that St. Laurent above Mont-Royal and below Laurier was something of a dead zone until not too long ago. That's all changed, of course. In any case, about two years ago Marilou opened up on the corner of Villeneuve and St. Laurent. We've been meaning to check it out ever since it opened, and I've taken a good, long look at the menu a number of times, but for some reason neither of us had actually ever sat down down there for a meal until I went there earlier this evening with some friends. Like so many of the other Portuguese restaurants in town, the grill is where all the magic happens. The one mistake we made was straying from the grill and ordering the rabbit à la Dijonaise. I'd heard stories of legendary grilled rabbit elsewhere in the quartier, so I had visions of something along those lines. Instead, the rabbit came in the form of a couple of lightly breaded cutlets, served with a thick and tasty cognac and mustard-based sauce, and it was good, but it didn't shine like the grilled delicacies we ordered. Perhaps the standout of the night was the grilled calamari we had as an appetizer. Ever since I had grilled calamari a few years ago, I've found it hard to go back to the deep-fried variety that is the norm. If you need convincing, look no further. Marilou's grilled calamari come whole, drizzled with olive oil, topped with sautéed peppers, and served on a bed of salad, and they were simply amazing, fresh and grilled to perfection. The mixed grill platter came with steak, lamb, pork, and sausage, plus a salad that tried in vain to balance this plate's overwhelming meatiness—of these, the steak and the sausage were the highlights. The fish of the day special gave you a choice of grilled salmon, tuna, swordfish, or red snapper. We ordered the tuna rosé—the waiter told he wouldn't serve it to us any other way, actually—and the portion that arrived was very substantial indeed, but we found it a bit too medium-rare for our liking. Then there's the chicken, which might very well be the best deal in the house at $9.50. Like so much of the Portuguese population in this part of town, the owners of Marilou hail from the islands--Madeira and the Azores. The style is relaxed, informal, and the portions are extremely generous, rustic. If you still have room for dessert, the flan is the way to go. Have it with an espresso.
Yes, Michelle's homemade dog biscuits now come dog-approved.
When we started this blog we talked about exercising the freedom to cover virtually any aspect of food culture, but dog food?
Yesterday's dog show got rained out. I took that as a sign.
So, without any further ado, it's time to head back into the realm of human culinary experience, and who better to help us along that path than Amanda Hesser? When I got home last night, I found Michelle all ready to prepare a lovely seafood meal. She'd gone up to Nouveau Falero, picked up a beautiful 2 1/2 pound whole striped bass and was ready to prepare Hesser's recipe for Striped Bass and Fennel from The Cook and the Gardener: A Year of Recipes and Writings from the French Countryside. As much as I love some of Montreal's seafood restaurants, as well as some of the seafood dishes offered by the city's better bistros, let's face it, quality seafood comes at a price in this town. In the summer, though, when we've got our gas grill going, it's pretty easy to match the work of the city's grilled fish specialists--places like Milos and Lezvos--and not only does it cost a lot less, but you can experiment with flavors that you won't necessarily find on the town. A case in point: Striped Bass and Fennel.
Brush oil on the cooking rack, then heat your grill. A medium-low flame is ideal for this dish. You should place your rack 5-6 inches from your heat source.
Rinse your prepared fish in cool water then pat it dry with paper towels. Cut 5 slits in each side of the fish, 1/2 inch deep. Place a lemon slice and a fennel sprig into each of these slits. Stuff the stomach cavity with the remaining fennel sprigs. Brush the fish with olive oil, then season with salt.
Place the fish on the heated grill over medium-low flames for 5 to 7 minutes per side. (We used a grilling cage to facilitate flipping the fish and in order to help keep the fish, the lemons, and the fennel sprigs in one package.) Grill the fish until it is well browned. Squeeze lemon juice from the lemon half as you're grilling. The fish is ready when its flesh is opaque and no longer translucent.
Transfer the fish to a serving dish. Sprinkle with olive oil and more juice from the lemon half. Filet the fish at the table, giving each person some fish with lemon and a fennel sprig.
We served the fish with a sauteed fennel and currants dish that Michelle borrowed from Les Chèvres, a scalloped potato dish, and a mixed salad from our garden.
One of the Basque chefs interviewed by R.W. Apple, Jr. in that article I mentioned earlier this week (see Pintxo) was quoted as saying that lemon is just a mask for poor seafood, and therefore truly fresh grilled fish should never be served with lemon. While there may be something to this statement, striped bass with fennel and lemon is a brilliant combination. The charred fennel is delicious; the charred lemon less so; but the two together infuse the bass with flavors that are delicate and clean, flavors that highlight and accentuate the quality of the fish instead of masking it.
Hesser claims that her striped bass dish serves 4--with an extra side dish or two, plus some cheese and bread, it probably could, but it was so delicious that we made quick work of it just the two of us.
The annual Montreal Dog Show is taking place tonight in the tiny park at the corner of Rachel and St. Laurent. I ran into Seth last week, who is emcee-ing the event, and told him I would make some biscuits for it. True to my word, I baked up a batch yesterday and wrapped them up in a pink Chinese takeout container. Anthony is currently concerned for my mental health.
I thought an anti-flea biscuit was a good idea: full of brewer's yeast, garlic, and ginger to make the fleas think twice. I used chicken broth for flavour, beet juice for colour and corn meal for texture.
I have been trying all sorts of ways to make Vietnamese coffee ice cream without completely modifying the simple recipe: strong coffee + sweetened condensed milk. All of my efforts have ended up with granité, which has been delicious, but not the point. I wrongly supposed that condensed milk was closer to cream than milk, and found out it didn't have enough fat to stay creamy. I could always make an anglaise-based version, I guess, but then why not call it coffee ice cream?
As you can see from the picture above, I buckled under the pressure and bought the thing. I filled them with Vietnamese coffee and froze them solid. Perfect pick-me-ups on a summer's day.
I have been slow to get on the rhubarb train this season. I'd been seeing bunches of rhubarb at the market for the last few weeks, but hesitated each time. Just last week, though, I finally found the perfect bunch: young, firm and pink. I have nothing against green rhubarb, in fact, I prefer it from time to time. The only thing is, when canning green rhubarb tends to look more like the vegetable it is.
Never Mind the Biosphere, Here's the Gibeau Orange Julep!
Few things bring back memories of the 1970s for me like an orange julep. Going out for an orange julep was among our rituals when we traveled to Florida from Ottawa to visit my grandparents back in the day. We generally went down to Florida to escape Ottawa's long, bleak winters for a spell, and orange juleps were one of the tastes I associated with the warmth, the sun, and the ocean. Orange juleps are also among the flavors that seemed to have gone into hiding or even disappeared completely from the map soon after the arrival of the 1980s, along with things like Ovaltine and Carvel ice cream.
Few things are as integral a part of summer in Montreal than Gibeau Orange Julep. An iconic part of the Montreal cityscape since the 1940s, the massive orange globe that houses Gibeau Orange Julep was built by Hermas Gibeau and was intended to house him and his family above his already successful roadside drive-in. Then as now, the orange julep was both tasty and good for you, chock full of vitamin C, supposedly fat-free, and loaded with enough carbohydrates to make all those Atkins types run screaming. These days one gets the impression that the top 80% of the structure is a massive holding tank for the frothy orange beverage that shoots down from the ceiling of the restaurant through clear tubes, into a dispenser, and then into your cup. There's something almost vintage sci-fi about the whole set up. In any case, that big ole orange has a way of lifting one's spirits when temperatures are chillier—and its surreal dimensions also liven up the otherwise god-awful Décarie expressway—but during the summertime it becomes a full-fledged hang-out, a 24-hour social scene that draws Montrealers from all walks of life to grab a hot dog, fries, and a frosty orange julep, beat the heat, and occupy a location that's become a postmodern wasteland.
Wednesday nights, in a nod to the car culture that gave birth to the Gibeau Orange Julep, local hot-rodders descend upon the premises to show off their wheels. Go ahead: adjust your pompadour, throw on your bobby-sox and make the scene.
So, Wednesday night I had the pleasure of accompanying some friends to Pintxo, a recently opened restaurant on Roy, right in the heart of the Plateau. There's no question New Spanish cuisine is very hot right now. The number of articles I've come across in the last year or so that detail Spain's regional cuisines and the crop of bright chefs, young and old, who are busy reinventing and reinvigorating the Spanish culinary scene right now has been staggering. One of the regions that's attracted the most attention is Spain's Basque country, and the best article I've read on New Basque cuisine was one by R.W. Apple, Jr. in a May 2004 issue of the New York Times. There, Apple discusses everything from the impact of Juan Mari Arzak, "the founding father of modern Spanish cuisine," to the virtuoso grilling he discovers in the mountains between Bilbao and San Sebastian, but one of the most interesting sections is the one where he details the elaborate rituals involved in going out for pintxos (a word which is the Basque equivalent to tapas) in San Sebastian. These include the accompaniment of your cuadrilla--a large group of friends (up to 20) with whom you'll remain loyal throughout most, if not all, of your adult life—a circuit of some 10-15 stops, and a limit of one drink and only one or two pintxos per stop. Modern-day Basque pintxos include everything from classics like "the Gilda," which combines medium-hot guindilla peppers, olives, and briny anchovies, an ensemble that was said to be as spicy as the Rita Hayworth film of the same name, to what Apple calls "creative pintxos." Pintxos have been a mainstay of Basque culture for ages, but the emergence of the "creative pintxos" has been something of a phenomenon, encouraging former 3-star chefs to drop-out of the high-end restaurant scene and to show off their eye for detail as pintxo chefs, and introducing many new ingredients, many new flavors to the Basque palate along the way. And it's this "creative pintxos" scene that is the inspiration behind Pintxo here in Montreal.
Because of the prices—$3-$4 per dish—we asked our waiter if the pintxos they had on offer were the size of typical tapas dishes. He specified that these dishes were more like amuses bouches and really only amounted to a "bite." He was right, they were smaller than most tapas dishes I've had in Montreal, but, oh!, what lovely little bites they were. The flavors came at us in intriguing combinations, and, for the most part, each of these pintxos was created with the artistry and attention to detail of fine sushi. We ordered quite a few of the 11 pintxos on the menu, and we found it easy to share most of these items between the three of us. Each of our bites was small, but tasty. Our selections included txipirones a lo pelayo (calamari with oignons confits), vieras con su txapela (pan seared scallops with roe), and txampis relleno como me enseño Arzak (mushrooms stuffed with duck confit served in a manner that apparently was learned from Arzak himself). My favorites, though, were the Bonito en cama de pisto (a piece of tuna served rosé on a bed of ratatouille), the tartar de salmon del rio Bidasosa (a delicately spicy terrine of salmon), and the Pintxo de foie con su cebolla confitada (a wonderful dish made with foie gras, oignons confits, nuts, and fruit). The only selection we made that was disappointing was their Alcatxofas con Jamon Serrano (stewed artichoke hearts with bits of ham), a dish which seemed promising but in fact was uninspired.
One of the things that Apple makes quite clear in his article is that while there exists no hostility between the high-end restaurants and those that specialize in pintxos (as proof, he notes that Arzak handed him a list of his favorite pintxos houses completely by surprise as Apple was leaving his 3-star restaurant), restaurants don't try to specialize in both. It was somewhat unsurprising, therefore, that Pintxo's main dishes, while good, didn't really live up to the expectations created by their pintxos. My recommendation: bring your cuadrilla and stick to Pintxo's strong suit, their lovely pintxos, then make good use of their excellent wine list.
"There is a God"? Yes, because a) I was shocked that I actually got to cook some of Michelle's fresh peas this time around, and b) this pasta dish was so damn good.
OK, so we adapted this recipe from Deborah Madison's The Savory Way, a cookbook that I'm just getting to know, but which I'm already very impressed by. Madison's recipe actually includes the recipe for the pasta, too, but we went ahead and bought some Barilla farfalle to save time, and the dish turned out fantastically just the same. I'm sure it would have been even better with fresh pasta, but, trust me, this version, with freshly shelled peas, the delicate flavor of sautéed leek, and the warmth of the saffron, was more than adequate.
Put water on for the pasta. Melt the butter in a large pot. Add the ground saffron and stir. Add the leeks and sauté over medium heat until tender, about 10-20 minutes, adding a splash of wine to help steam them along. Salt and pepper to taste. Cook your pasta until al dente, then drain and set aside. While the pasta is cooking, add the peas and the basil to the leek mixture, as well as another splash of white wine. Cook until the peas are just tender, about 3-5 minutes. Toss the pasta with the pea and leek mixture, mixing them together well. Add a about 1/4 cup of grated Parmagiano and toss once more. Serve in a shallow bowl, with a bit of extra grated Parmagiano sprinkled on top.
Serves 4 as a main dish, or 6 as an entrée.
Believe it or not, the peas are almost gone. I have had the crate for 2 days, eaten an insane amount of them raw, eaten them for dinner, passed on a bagful to my mom, shelled a few for the freezer, and finally, this morning, I felt the first pangs of a stomach ache. With these pangs comes peace, for I can now assure myself that I took full advantage of the too short pea season, that I lived life to the fullest, that I have won.
Yes, after weeks and weeks of failed plans and missed opportunities--none of which was helped by the sudden and untimely demise of Niu Kee--we finally got a chance to celebrate Kazi's birthday on Sunday. Michelle whipped up a lovely Pissaladière a la Niçoise (see above and below), Hermine brought a fresh and tasty Bourgogne Aligoté, and we descended upon a tiny little park on the edge of Mile End for an apero and appetizer picnic/get-together/birthday party. Pissaladière is a Niçois specialty that features caramelized onions, black olives, anchovies, and herbs on a thin crust pizza-like dough. Michelle had never had it before, but that didn't stop her from experimenting, and everyone was glad she did because it turned out amazingly. She made two slightly different kinds. Everyone's favorite was the one with a bit of fennel seed added to it--it cut the brininess of the anchovies and even provided a hint of sweetness. We used a recipe from Cook's Illustrated and it worked like a charm.
Heat the oil in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over high heat it shimmers but hasn't started to smoke yet. Stir in the onions, salt, and brown sugar and cook, stirring constantly, until the moisture from the onions has been evaporated, and the onions have begun to brown, about 10 minutes. Reduce the heat to medium-low and cook, stirring frequently, until the onions have softened and are medium golden brown, about 20 minutes longer. Remove pan from heat and stir in water. Transfer to a bowl and set aside.
For the life of me, I can't figure out why it's so rare that one finds Pissaladière outside of Nice (well, outside of France, at least). When I start my very own pizza truck complete with wood-burning oven Pissaladière will definitely be one of the offerings.
Mix dry ingredients, add oil and water and mix until a ball forms. Let rise 1 hour. Divide in two, shape into balls and let rise 10 min. Stretch dough out into long ovals, brush with oil, add toppings and bake.
Serve with a salad (preferably one with greens fresh out of the garden) and wine.
Our Montreal Food Guide is now reachable via our sidebar, so you don't have to go digging through our archives to find it. You'll find both the A-M half and the N-Z half under a heading that reads "City Guides." As this heading suggests, the Montreal Food Guide is the first of a number of food guides that we'll be posting on "...an endless banquet" over the next few months. Stay tuned for food guides to New York, San Francisco, Paris, Toronto, et cetera, et cetera... And if you have any hot tips for any of these cities (or for Montreal, for that matter), send 'em along and we'll try to check out as many as we can as soon as we can.
Our first salad composed entirely of things from our garden is a sign of good things to come. Some of the plants are still babies, so I was careful not to take too many leaves from any one plant. May they grow to be strong and productive. I predict this will be the salad of Summer 2005. It is composed of red and green oak leaf lettuce, arugula, watercress, swiss chard, green and bronze fennel, basil, chervil, parsley, chives, and tarragon. The bronze fennel was the standout. I love fennel, both the bulbs and fronds, and the bronze version made the green one seem tasteless. This autumn, I will save the seeds and grow it in profusion next year. Both the arugula and the watercress were delightfully strong in flavour. I'm going to have to plant successive sowings in the next few weeks to keep us in greens. We dressed it with olive oil and balsamic vinegar and ate it in under one minute. Highly recommended.
Wow, after a rather phenomenal April, followed by a somewhat lackluster May (that's putting it mildly), June has come in like a true tiger! The sun is out, there isn't a cloud in the sky, and the temperatures are wonderfully toasty here in Montreal. Among other things, this means the streets are hopping, the terraces are packed, there are line-ups out the doors of the city's ice cream shops, and people all across the city are dining al fresco. It also means it's officially time for summer beverages. A week ago I convinced our friend Hermine that it was time to start thinking in terms of gin and tequila, not, say, scotch, in spite of the chilly, soggy, generally miserable weather we were having. I'd like to think the gin and tonics we put away late last week helped drive out the dreariness once and for all.
Orangeade is a nice way to usher in the balmy temperatures. Just juice whatever oranges, lemons, and limes you have around the house in whatever ratio suits your tastes, then pour the juice in a large pitcher. Add water to fill up the pitcher. Then sweeten the mixture according to your tastes using the Simple Sugar Syrup recipe below (you'll never encounter that "adding granulated sugar to a cold drink" problem again). Add a bunch of ice cubes to give the orangeade a nice chill, then serve. A sprig of mint as a garnish is always nice.
We served our first orangeade of the season with a small piece of these little Honey-Ginger Pound Cakes Michelle made last night at Les Chèvres.
Add ingredients to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Turn the heat down and simmer the mixture for 5 minutes. Let it cool before adding it to your favorite summer drink, be it iced tea, lemonade, orangeade, or whatever. You can keep the remaining syrup in an airtight jar in the refrigerator for your next batch.


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Feminism and its Eternal Affair with Film-making
Let feminism evolve into and conquer even the reserved spaces of art. Let them be represented, appreciated and criticized where due. And next time someone asks you where are the women in filmmaking, tell them they are right here, neglected and ignored but always growing, always coming back, irrespective of the limitations, the biases, the shortcomings.
Bijaya Biswal 2018-03-14
Bijaya Biswal / February 26, 2019 / 0 / 332
"I measure the progress of a community by the degree of progress which women have achieved."
― B.R. Ambedkar
Greta Gerwig was at the Ellen Degeneres show when this conversation took place:
Ellen: "Its crazy we do not have as many women directing movies.."
Greta: "Well, I do think it is changing. Like this year we had Patty Jenkins directing Wonder Woman, there was Dee Rees who did "Mudbound", Sofia Coppola directing The Beguiled, so now it's not like there are *no* women. I think it's a good time to be a woman filmmaker".
Ellen: " It's a good time to be a woman, period. Because we have voices now and we are actually being heard".
It was both heartbreaking and overwhelming to see Rachel Morrison being nominated for the Academy Award this year, for Best Cinematography. Heartbreaking, because she is the first woman in ninety long years to be even nominated for that category but overwhelming because the realization finally hit me, that maybe this is the age when it all has to change.
Greta Gerwig was only the fifth female nomination in the Direction category and the fact that only 11 percent of the Hollywood directors are women (the share is 10% in Bollywood), makes me realize how every film industry is but a reflection of the society, equally bereft of inclusion and representation. The "Celluloid Ceiling" study, which is released annually by San Diego State University's Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film, found that only 1 percent of the year's top films employed 10 or more women — whereas 70 percent employed 10 or more men. 99 percent of women working in Hollywood have talked about facing sexism at least in one way or another (including Sarah Gavron of "Suffragette" fame, Emma Watson, Ellen Kuras who shot ESOTSM and Agnes Godard of "The Falling" fame) and many female directors I have stumbled upon at film festivals in India, embarrassingly admit, it would not have been easy had they not been married to a filmmaker themselves or had not been born in a family which already had an identity earned in the field. While European countries occupy all top ten ranks when it comes to the gender equality according to the Gender Inequality Index(GII), the following is the representation of female directors in European Film Industry as of 2013:
But, what is the most bewildering thing about women in filmmaking is despite the meager representation, they have made extremely significant cinema which is enough for inspiring a dozen of generations of female artists to strive and achieve the high standards they have set.
Also, Read – The 20 Best Women-Directed Films Of 2017
Alice Guy Blache's "The Cabbage Fairy", "The Four Year Old Heroine", "Falling Leaves" and my personal favorite "The Consequences of Feminism" are notable works of narrative fiction. While being a pioneer of cinema active during the 1890s-1920s phase, she was still not applauded and appreciated enough by media and the male-dominated scenario of filmmaking, which might be a reason women are still looked upon as guests and newcomers in the world of filmmaking. "There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man, and there is no reason why she cannot completely master every technicality of the art." Says Alice Guy-Blache, in The Moving Picture World, July 11, 1914.
Then came the era of Lois Weber, the birth mother of intriguing silent cinema like "Suspense" and "Shoes". Film historian Anthony Slide asserted that: "Along with D.W. Griffith, Weber was American cinema's first genuine auteur, a filmmaker involved in all aspects of production and one who utilized the motion picture to put across her own ideas and philosophies." Weber made "Hypocrities" which featured the first ever full frontal nudity and "Where are my Children?" which focussed on abortion and birth control.
The German director Lotte Reiniger was the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation, often making the use of fluidity in her films in her style of expressionism. Some of her marvels were "The Adventures of Prince Achmed","Chasing Forture" and "Girl of the Golden West". Another German filmmaker of those times was the brilliant Germaine Dulac, the woman who steered the art of filmmaking into the unchartered territories of surrealism and impressionism, "The Seashell and the Clergymen" and "The Smiling Madame Beudet" being two of her marvels which even preceded the rise of Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali. Dulac professed to feminist storytelling and subversion of gender conventions, showing female characters who experience rebirth and transformation, and participation in realms like hunting, driving or sports which have never been considered achievable for women. Dulac's 1922 series of fictionalized newsreels entitled "Women at Work" showed women in various occupations, including a taxi driver and agricultural engineer. In a feature that same year called The Death of the Sun, Dulac depicts the struggles of a woman caught between her duties as mother and wife and her career as a scientist.
Following her death in 1942, Charles Ford called attention to the difficulty the French Press had with printing her obituary:"Bothered by Dulac's non-conformist ideas, disturbed by her impure origins, the censors had refused the article which, only after a vigorous protest by the editor-in-chief of the magazine, appeared three weeks late. Even dead, Germaine Dulac still seemed dangerous".
While Mary Ellen Brute slayed at experimental and abstract musical films, Maya Deren rose to fame and never went down again, with "Meshes of an Afternoon" and "At Land". She composed and combined her love for dance, Haitian Vodou and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black-and-white short films. Using multiple exposures, jump-cuts, superimposition, slow-motion, and other camera techniques, Deren created continued motion through discontinued space, while abandoning the established notions of physical space and time, with the ability to turn her vision into a stream of consciousness.
Marie Menken was in a league of own, making gems like "Noguchi" which was a non-narrative film that combined quick, decontextualized shots of the sculptures of Isamu Noguchi with shrill, discordant music. This is how she explained her own self-made genre, "There is no why for my making films. I just liked the twitters of the machine, and since it was an extension of painting for me, I tried it and loved it. In painting I never liked the staid and static, always looked for what would change the source of light and stance, using glitters, glass beads, luminous paint, so the camera was a natural for me to try – but how expensive!"
Chantal Akerman captured depression and city-life loneliness as if she resided in the heads of the hermits, often impeccably dissecting the psychology of the suicidal without any intended agenda. Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles , "I, You, He, She" and "Toute Une Nuit" will be my personal recommendations from her extremely vast filmography. Vera Chytilova's "Daisies",Dorothy Arzner's "Merrily we go to hell", Olympia by Leni Reifanstahl, anything by Ida Lupino or Agnes Varda are some other irreplaceable filmmaking for which no substitute by a male director exists. The list would not end if I start including every single one of them who were brilliant; Ariane Mnouchkine, Caroline Leaf, Ana Carolina, Elaine May, Marta Meszaros, Yvonee Rainer,Tang Shu-Shuen.
It's amusing how the history of cinema is filled with talented female directors who are overlooked even in today's date and considered non-existent, making the space for women in the industry still look ad-hoc and temporary. Iranian Cinema has made its mark in the eyes of the world lately by winning Academy Awards for foreign films and the resounding names of Jafar Panahi and Asghar Farhadi are heard time and again, but what about Marjane Satrapi, Shirin Neshat, Forough Farrokhzad and Tahmineh Milani? Half of the contribution that females have done to cinema might be lost when they are less talked about, less watched, less valued.
The immortality of an artist depends on the volatile memory of the audience but when the audience emphasizes on one category of art more than others, no one can save the latter from dying a premature death. Even in India where the Kapoors and Chopras reign the screen space, Aparna Sen, Rima Das, Manju Borah, Sai Paranjpye, Alankrita Shrivastava, Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta, Leena Yadav, Sumitra Bhave, Santwana Bardoloi, Satarupa Sanyal, Konkana Sen Sharma, Ruchika Oberoi and Bornila Chatterjee have carved out a separate, unyielding identity for female filmmakers. At Cannes last year, the only Indian entry was from a female director, Payal Kapadia, a student at the Film and Television Institute of India whose 13 -minute short, Afternoon Clouds, is the first Indian film to be selected for the Cinefondation section, which chooses entries from film schools worldwide.
Women have worked hard, established and sustained their position in film industries long ago and the only part of the struggle that remains is reclamation, celebration, and acceptance of their work. Not only in cinema, but also in science, economics, and philosophy, the contributions of women often do not draw as much attention from media and their own community as those of men. Worse, if the women are co-directors alongside men; Miéville with Godard, Ágnes Hranitzky with Bela Tarr, Evelyn Lambart with Norman McLaren. The validation of their work is as necessary as their representation in the industry for effectively breaking the notion that women have never had a tryst with cinema in the history. Make their films great again. Let feminism evolve into and conquer even the reserved spaces of art. Let them be represented, appreciated and criticized where due. And next time someone asks you where are the women in filmmaking, tell them they are right here, neglected and ignored but always growing, always coming back, irrespective of the limitations, the biases, the shortcomings.
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Lana Del Rey describes herself as a self-styled "gansgsta Nancy Sinatra". This attitude belies the Lake Placid native Lizzy Grant's choice of stage name and the personality she seeks to impart to her music.
Lana Del Rey got her start at age 18, when she moved to New York City to start writing songs and performing in clubs. In 2008 she produced and released the EP Kill Kill through an indie deal with 5 Points Records as Lizzie Grant. Video Games, Del Rey's breakthrough track, was released soon after on Youtube where it quickly garnered 13 million views. Del Ray's first album, the doubly eponymous Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant, was released with David Kahne, although it was pulled from circulation and will be re-released this summer. Recently Del Rey has made appearances on Saturday Night Live, David Letterman, and the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
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Staff in the areas helioseismology, local helioseismology, asteroseismology, GDC-SDO, PLATO
Gaulme, Patrick
Solar and Stellar Interiors
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Topics: stellar evolution, binary systems, stellar rotation, planetary atmospheres and interiors.
Techniques: photometry, high-resolution spectroscopy
2017 – Research Scientist at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
2011 – 2017: Staff Scientist and Research Astronomer at New Mexico State University (USA)
2008 – 2011 Staff Scientist at Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale (France)
2007 – 2008 Temporary Associate Professor at Observatoire de Paris (France)
2006 – 2007 Postdoc at Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis (France)
December 2005: PhD in Astrophysics, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Observatoire de Paris/LESIA, France. Supervisor: Pr. Benoît Mosser
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Gaulme et al. Atmospheric circulation of Venus measured with visible imaging spectroscopy at the THEMIS observatory, A&A 627, A82 (2019)
Gaulme et al. Testing the Asteroseismic Scaling Relations for Red Giants with Eclipsing Binaries Observed by Kepler, ApJ 832, 121 (2016)
Gaulme, Mosser, Guillot, and Schmider. Seismology of Giant Planets, Extraterrestrial Seismology, Chapter 14, Editors Tong & Garcia, Cambridge U. Press (2015)
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from vistas.core.observers.interface import Observable
from vistas.ui.utils import post_redisplay

class CameraObservable(Observable):
    """ A singleton observable for performing camera synchronization. """

    _camera_observable = None

    @classmethod
    def get(cls):
        if cls._camera_observable is None:
            cls._camera_observable = CameraObservable()
        return cls._camera_observable

    is_sync = False
    need_state_saved = False
    global_interactor = None

    def sync_camera(self, interactor, save_state):
        self.is_sync = True
        self.need_state_saved = save_state
        self.global_interactor = interactor
        self.notify_observers()
        post_redisplay()

    def unsync_camera(self):
        self.is_sync = False
        self.need_state_saved = False
        self.global_interactor = None
        self.notify_observers()
        post_redisplay()


Campers who arrive Friday night will be served Saturday breakfast before we head out. Otherwise, meet at the ranch at 0730 Saturday morning with your packed lunch.
A high-clearance vehicle is not required to access the work site.
Volunteers will need to bring leather work gloves, robust footwear, sun protection, long pants / long-sleeved shirts for working in brush, and weatherproof shell. Day volunteers should also bring a sack lunch and water. We will be working the segment of PCT above Pine Canyon Rd, so up to 2.5 miles of hiking is required to access the work.