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For quite inexpensively, you can make a container garden full of veggies (and flowers - Jimmy picked out the seeds :)). The seed packets were $.25/piece, and we purchased some peat cups for less than $2.00 as well. The peat cups are supposed to really help the seeds start to grow, and since I have a history of not being able to grow anything green except a weed, I invested in some of these :) I already had potting soil on hand, so we were set to go.
Want to make your own?!
- Container to put each set of seeds in (this set of peat cups was less than $2.00), or you can recycle some old cups you have in the cabinet. I plan on switching to larger cups/containers we have on hand once the seedlings are bigger.
- If you are making an herb garden, you will also need a larger container to be able to put a bunch of herb seeds in.
Put an even amount of potting soil (about 3/4 full) in each container.
After filling the pots with water, I put them in a plastic tray to be able to carry them around. Water each pot with a couple of tablespoons of water. Using a fork or garden tool, mix up the soil so it is moist throughout. Plant seeds in each pot according to package directions. Be sure to label each pot once the seeds are planted so you know which is which.
To plant an herb garden, pick out which herbs you would like to grow. We picked basil, parsley and chives. We used an aluminum bucket (about 4"x12") to put ours in. Fill bucket 3/4 full with potting soil and pour about a 1/2 cup water (depending on size of bucket) to moisten soil throughout. "Divide" bucket into three sections and plant each herb in its own "section" (so, basil in one section, parsley in one section and chives in one section). Be sure to label each section so you know which is which :) Now that your seeds are all planted, make some sort of tag to label what each plant is. You could hand write the labels on a small piece of paper and tape it to each pot or maybe even write directly on the pot? You could also cut out part of the seed package and tape that to the pot as well. I decided to make some fun tags on the computer. I made them 1.5" x 2" and printed them on cardstock. (If you would like a .pdf or .jpg file of the tags, feel free to email me and I would be more than happy to send them to you!) I used kabob skewers and cut them into 4" sections. I then cut out the tags and taped them to the skewer sections. Not the best if it rains, but I plan on just bringing the plants inside (or at least removing the tags and remembering which is which!) before it rains. We have a bucket outside to collect rainwater which I will use to water them if I do bring them inside. You could also cover the tags in contact paper and that would make them more waterproof. Voilà! An herb garden and a soon-to-be container garden!
What about you? Do you have a garden? Or a container or patio garden? Any tips or ideas for growing plants?
Oh this is delightful! We are planting a tree today - Happy Earth Day!
soooo cute! i love your tags!
i am lucky to work at a greenhouse business owned by my aunt and uncle.... lots of 'green' fun things there!
This is so fun, I've always wanted to have a little garden on my patio...maybe this will be inspiration!
What a wonderful little garden! I would love to have a copy of your veggie and herb tags. My email address is jasongravette (at) aol (dot) com. Thank you so much!
Happy Earth Day to you as well.


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Nearly Newport
I have a friend whose Gilded Age ancestor once told his mother that, "Real New Yorkers live on the West Side," adding with an eastwards nod, "people from Pittsburgh live over there." East Side West Side; Rive Gauche Rive Droit; Fox News MSNBC; talk about twains never meeting. Of Narragansett Pier, the Rhode Island resort facing Newport from the left side of Narragansett Bay, Vanity Fair's Frank Crowninshield wrote in Manners for the Metropolis (1908), "Geographically speaking, this is nearly Newport, but the social tone, though 'nobby,' can hardly be called A-1."
OK, OK, he was joking. The subtitle of "Manners" is "An Entrance Key to the Fantastic Life of the 400." However, good satire skewers precisely that which some people actually believe. The vintage view above shows Jeremiah Potter Robinson Jr. (1845-1916) and his little girl, Margaret Faith, standing before the family's newly completed summer house. Designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1885, the house still stands on the edge of the village of Wakefield, well within the orbit of the old resort, now minus its famous pier and just called Narragansett.
Emdalar, as it is obscurely named - well, perhaps not so obscurely, but more on that in a moment - is no Newport mansion. The newly established (1879) partnership of McKim, Mead and White gave the client a big friendly barn of a place, with plenty of visual interest and no pretensions, one that successfully combines the architectural fashion of the moment, in this case the Colonial Revival, with an appropriate design for informal summer living. The firm's opus would in future swing towards more classical Colonial interpretations. This early house, however, speaks to the free-wheeling spirit of the early 1880s when young architects ransacked their brains for innovative new combinations of old architectural vocabularies.
The portly gent on the right in the antique image below is Robinson's father, Jeremiah Potter Robinson, Sr. (1819-1886). Things to notice about this photo: the good looking colonial porch (alas, collapsed or demolished); dark trim contrasting with light shingles (the opposite of today's approach); and the utter absence of trees. I get a valedictory sense from this photo. Father and eldest son stand before the son's new house on land the family has occupied for centuries. It's been a long trip for Robinson Sr., who will be dead within the year.
The elder Jeremiah Potter Robinson left his grandfather Potter's Wakefield farm, called Edgewood, at the age of 12, initially to work as a grocer's clerk in Newport. At age 16, burning ambition lured him to the booming city of Brooklyn. He prospered in the seafood trade, then in the salt business, and eventually became a major force in the development of the Brooklyn waterfront. Robinson was a storage warehouse czar, a power behind construction of the Erie Basin, and first president and director of the Brooklyn Bridge corporation. It's a stretch to say the bridge wouldn't have been built without him but, according to his New York Times obituary, "(he) was one of the earliest and most active supporters of the ...enterprise, and as a Trustee, devoted much time and energy to assisting in its construction."
Robinson was a rich man, had four children, lived in a mansion on Montague Terrace, summered in idyllic Rhode Island, and lived to see the humble farm on which he'd been a child transformed into the sort of family compound that lent cachet to the nearby resort town of Narragansett Pier - Frank Crowninshield notwithstanding.
By the time JPR Jr. built this house, his younger brother Isaac Rich Robinson (1856-1913), had been busy for half a dozen years mansionizing great-grandfather Potter's nearby farmhouse. While JPR Jr. took over the family firm on his father's death, his brother Isaac, in the words of the History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, "remained entirely outside business life." He died in 1913 at his Fifth Avenue townhouse. Most of his time, however, was spent at "his ancestral estate at Wakefield." The rambling Edgewood mansion - extant, private and in good condition - was famous for its large estate (now subdivided), manicured grounds (still handsome), long tree-lined drive (closed now and invaded by forest) and distant water views (no longer). P.S. Ward McAllister's 1892 list of the "400" contained a couple of Robinsons, but none was named Isaac.
Here's Emdalar (below), probably in the early 20th century, a time when ivy was loved instead of despised. The beautiful beach at Narragansett was the resort's original draw, although as time passed "nobby" society and smart country places would come to define it. I wonder how much - if at all - the Robinson clan actually went swimming. By 1871 the original collection of boarding houses from the late 1840s had been joined by ten hotels. Yachts and excursion boats were soon docking regularly at the famous pier, which in 1876 was linked to Wakefield by a railroad. The "Pier" came of age with the construction of McKim Mead and White's famous Narragansett Pier Casino, an aspiring version of the famous Newport analog across the bay. The one in Narragansett, unfortunately, had the bad luck to burn to the ground in 1900. All that remains of it today, despite a rebuild in 1905, is a monumental stone arch spanning Ocean Road between a couple of conical roofed towers. The Panic of 1907 wounded the Pier's clientele disproportionately and, after a century of wars, social upheaval and changing fashion, it survives as a pleasant summer resort filled with vaguely New England looking condo complexes. Ocean Road south of town is lined with earlier waterfront places, some rather grand, but only one or two in the same league as Newport.
This is Tom Ladd, whose father, a physics teacher at the local high school, bought Emdalar in February of 1964. The house is now empty, but it was once home to Tom's parents and their ten children.
McKim Mead and White, at least in early days, were fans of the so-called "Living Hall." This grand open space, often located immediately inside the front door, conjured attractive images of medieval barons, albeit in a polite and centrally heated manner. Living halls were popularized in America by Scottish architect Richard Norman Shaw (1831-1912), and for a while were standard features in better quality houses that ranged in scale from slightly to extremely grand. Imposing fireplaces and showy stairways were de rigeur, even in the more modest versions.
An archway on the eastern wall of the hall leads to the main stair. The sliding door to the right of it opens into a circular library.
At the west end of the hall, visible from the library door, is a small den with its own door to the porch.
That's Tom at the other end of the hall, standing at the foot of the main stair.
Tom was standing in front of the door to the pantry; the entrance door to the dining room is on the right.
It is a simple dining room. In fact, except for the pseudo-grandiose living hall, Emdalar is a very simple house. It was built for easy summer living not showy entertaining, is visually gratifying without being ornate, and was meant to accommodate family, not impress strangers.
The glass door to the right of the fireplace "nook" - a popular device of the 1880s - leads to a small stone terrace which, until the trees grew, enjoyed distant water views. Notice the slight battering of the stone tower, a subtle touch that hints at extra height.
Next to the dining room is your typical big old house serving pantry, complete with dumb waiter to the basement kitchen. The wall that separated the pantry from the servant hall has been taken down, but otherwise things are pretty much intact.
After the pantry and servant hall were combined into a big family kitchen, Mrs. Ladd decorated the walls with paintings of her family. That's Tom in the wheelbarrow, reading. I don't know where the lion came from.
Anyone with children will recognize this door frame detail.
I couldn't wait to see the original basement kitchen and hurried down the stairs. Everything was still there - old range under iron hood, glass door cabinets, dish pantry by the dumbwaiter, storage pantry in the tower, even a laundry room with original tubs. However, the kitchen has been a work room for half a century and what once was white and gleaming is now pretty grotty. Considering my own basement I admit that I am no one to throw stones.
I think we had a "Shelvador" too when I was growing up.
Back in the living hall, you can see where the client's money was spent - much of it went for this fine Colonial Revival staircase.
This house has really got bedrooms - five on the second floor alone, all with fireplaces, plus a sleeping porch.
The bathrooms, unsurprisingly in a summer house, are pretty simple. Little things like the halls that lead to them, however, are full of endearing quirks. A short stair with a secret compartment built into the floor leads to the un-tiled master bath.
Even to one as forgiving on the subject of old plumbing as I am, these bathrooms leave a lot to be desired.
Need more bedrooms? The third floor has six more, plus two baths.
The service and family areas are a bit blurred in this house, possibly a reflection of relaxed summer standards. The pantry door faces the main staircase; the secondary stair leads to bedrooms that could as easily be for guests as servants; in fact, the typical servants' cubicles you find on top of most big old houses are nowhere to be found at Emdalar. The skylit lobby in the image below has a vintage house intercom that remained in use well after the last servant left.
So much for indoors.
JPR Jr died in 1916, but by 1911 he and his wife, the former Margaret Downing Lanman Robinson, were already renting the house out. The New York Times, in a column of social notes from Narragansett Pier, notes that "Emdalar, the Summer home of J.P. Robinson of New York, has been rented to R.H.I.Goddard, Jr. of Providence for the summer." As the 20th century progressed, the Robinson estate began to fragment. By the 1930s, Emdalar belonged to a swell sounding couple named Mr. & Mrs. Louis Gould, who divided their time between New York, Charleston, S.C., and Wakefield. In 1948 Emdalar's former carriage house was converted into a residence for the Robinsons' two daughters.
New roads meander around the estate today and satellite views of lanes like Edgewood Farm Road don't look promising. On the ground, however, the houses look better, the land more picturesque, and the overall gestalt much more elegant than expected. Three stone monoliths mark the estate's original Post Road entrance. The one in the middle credits Jeremiah Potter Robinson for erecting a horse trough beneath it in 1883. Matching stones flank it, Stonehenge-style, with the names of the estate's two family mansions - Edgewood and Emdalar.
From the very beginning, I wondered where in the world the name Emdalar could possibly have come from. It is a word that appears nowhere in the English language, or in literature anywhere else. After considerable thought - you do these things when you write a column like this - I came up with the following explanation: Robinson's wife was named Margaret Downing Lanman Robinson or, put phonetically, EM - DA - LAR. Not a 100% hit perhaps, but I'm betting I'm right. After half a century in the Ladd family, Emdalar is on the market for $1,195,000. Mary Ann Lisi at www.residentialproperties.com has the listing; her cell number is 401.742.7244.
Wonderful bare-bones view at a mostly intact early Stanford White house. Thank you for showing it to us. Too bad about the porch...it should be restored, frankly; the pedigree of the house deserves it.
Kellsboro Jack February 14, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Looking at the old intercom/buzzer labels. Who knew that God was in the kitchen ;>
Once again thanks for sharing a fascinating old house with character and history.
Another fine Huge Old Home history lesson. Boy what a beauty! Thank You John!
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J.R. February 16, 2013 at 8:38 AM
What a great house. I discovered it a couple of months ago and drove down for a look. Quite wonderful but the highway is a bit close and no garage, (has multi-space carport.) I've yet to call the agent for a look inside but still may.
I love this site!
I'm totally amazed. JPR Jr was my biological great grandfather (not with Margaret Lanham). It's wonderful to see where he lived.
Hmmm, what is the backstory to this comment, if I may ask. I am writing a chapter in my book on an ancestor woman artist who installed a stained glass window in the Episcopal church and it was commissioned by Margaret Lanman, so was just reading this article for background purposes. If you would like to email me separately, I am at kentdotwatkinsatyahoodotcom. Will not quote you. Thank you! Kent
p.s. If anyone has a photo(s) of Margaret especially, but of the rest of the family on either side, that would be most welcome. The name of the artist is Mary E. Tillinghast.
I've been in this house! Mrs. Ladd was a friend of my mother's.
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North Korean leader in clandestine Siberian visit?
Intelligence officials in Seoul expressed surprise over a secret 'unknown visit' to eastern Russia by the Communist country's head of state Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un, 28 years old leader of North Korea
The 28 year old Supreme Leader evidently made his undercover trip last year before his father Kim Jong-il's death in December 2011.
The diplomatic buzz followed an Itar-Tass report of North Korean Foreign Trade Minister Ri Ryong Nam's comments at a Pyongyang reception dedicated to the 67th anniversary of the Korean liberation from Japanese occupation.
'The Minister said 2012 was the tenth anniversary of the visit of Kim Jong-il to the Russian Far East and the first anniversary of the tour of the new North Korean leader to the Russian Far Eastern and Siberian Federal Districts,' said the report.
'South Korean intelligence officials appear to have no inkling of the visit. At the time, they said Kim Jong-il alone travelled to Russia and China,' commented South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo.
'At the time they reported that Kim Jong-un seemed to be on stand-by back home while refraining from official activities. It is also possible that Kim junior visited Russia either before or after Kim senior's trip, or that Ri's remarks were for whatever reason wholly inaccurate.'
Kim junior - aged 28 - has provoked a number of surprises since coming to power, not least the revelation of former pop singer Ri Sol-Ju as his wife and First Lady.
Recently she was pictured with a fashionable Christian Dior worth about $1500 or roughly a year's salary for a typical worker in a country that has suffered food shortages and even famine.
In contrast, Kim Jung-un wore his customary Mao-style dark suit.
Behind the media frenzy on whether or not a visit took place, North Korea has signaled it is seeking improved relations with Russia and improved economic contacts with Siberia.
Modernization of the railway from the Russia's Khasan station to Rason port in North Korea, due to be completed this year, and oil and gas cooperation are key areas for co-operation, said the foreign trade minister.
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Evangelical Christians say they are the new victims of intolerance - they're persecuted for condemning homosexuality.
When Christians become a 'hated minority'
(CNN) - When Peter Sprigg speaks publicly about his opposition to homosexuality, something odd often happens.
During his speeches, people raise their hands to challenge his assertions that the Bible condemns homosexuality, but no Christians speak out to defend him.
"But after it is over, they will come over to talk to me and whisper in my ear, 'I agree with everything you said,'" says Sprigg, a spokesman for The Family Research Council, a powerful, conservative Christian lobbying group.
We've heard of the "down-low" gay person who keeps his or her sexual identity secret for fear of public scorn. But Sprigg and other evangelicals say changing attitudes toward homosexuality have created a new victim: closeted Christians who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality but will not say so publicly for fear of being labeled a hateful bigot.
As proof, Sprigg points to the backlash that ESPN commentator Chris Broussard sparked recently. Broussard was called a bigot and a purveyor of hate speech when he said an NBA player who had come out as gay was living in "open rebellion to God." Broussard said the player, Jason Collins, was "living in unrepentant sin" because the Bible condemns homosexuality.
"In the current culture, it takes more courage for someone like Chris Broussard to speak out than for someone like Jason Collins to come out," says Sprigg, a former pastor. "The media will hail someone who comes out of the closet as gay, but someone who simply expresses their personal religious views about homosexual conduct is attacked."
When is disagreement hate?
Bryan Litfin, a theology professor at Moody Bible Institute in Illinois, says Christians should be able to publicly say that God designed sex to take place within a marriage between a man and a woman.
"That isn't so outrageous," Litfin says. "Nobody is expressing hate toward homosexuals by saying that. Since when is disagreement the same as hate?"
But quoting the Bible doesn't inoculate anyone from becoming a bigot or hater, some scholars say. There's a point at which a Christian's opposition to homosexuality can become bigotry, and even hate speech, they say.
Crossing such a line has happened many times in history.
A literal reading of the Bible was used to justify all sorts of hatred: slavery, the subjugation of women and anti-Semitism, scholars and pastors say.
"Truly damaging speech cannot be excused just because it expresses genuine religious belief," says Mark D. Jordan, author of "Recruiting Young Love: How Christians Talk about Homosexuality."
"Some religious beliefs, sincerely held, are detestable. They cannot be spoken without disrupting social peace," says Jordan, a professor at the John Danforth Center on Religion & Politics at Washington University in St. Louis.
The point where religious speech becomes hate speech is difficult to define, though, scholars and activists say.
The Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama is a nonprofit civil rights group that combats and monitors hate groups. Three years ago, it designated the Family Research Council, the group that Sprigg represents, as a hate group - a characterization the group stridently rejects.
Mark Potok, a center spokesman, says there's no shared definition of what constitutes hate speech.
"There is no legal meaning. It's just a phrase," Potok says. "Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder."
'One of the most hated minorities?'
Intolerance may be difficult to define, but some evangelicals say they have become victims of intolerance because of their reverence for the Bible.
The conservative media culture is filled with stories about evangelicals being labeled as "extremists" for their belief that homosexuality is a sin.
Their sense of persecution goes beyond their stance on homosexuality. There are stories circulating of evangelical students being suspended for opposing homosexuality, a teacher fired for giving a Bible to a curious student, and the rise of anti-Christian bigotry.
A blogger at The American Dream asked in one essay:
"Are evangelical Christians rapidly becoming one of the most hated minorities in America?"
The reluctance of evangelicals to speak out against homosexuality is often cited as proof they are being forced into the closet.
Joe Carter, editor for The Gospel Coalition, an online evangelical magazine, wrote a blog post entitled "Debatable: Is the Christian Church a 'Hate Group'?" He warned that young people will abandon "orthodox" Christian churches that teach that homosexuality is a sin for fear of being called haters.
"Faux civility, embarrassment, prudishness and a fear of expressing an unpopular opinion has caused many Christians to refrain from explaining how homosexual conduct destroys lives," Carter wrote.
Some Christians fear that opposing homosexuality could cause them to lose their jobs and "haunt them forever," Carter says.
"It's easier to just go along," says Carter, who is also author of "How to Argue Like Jesus." "You don't want to be lumped in with the bigots. That's a powerful word."
Edward Johnson, a communication professor at Campbell University in North Carolina, says we are now living in a "postmodern" era where everything is relative and there is no universally accepted truth. It's an environment in which anyone who says "this is right" and "that is wrong" is labeled intolerant, he says.
There was a time when a person could publicly say homosexuality was wrong and people could consider the statement without anger, he says. Today, people have reverted to an intellectual tribalism where they are only willing to consider the perspective of their own tribe.
"They are incapable of comprehending that someone may have a view different than theirs," Johnson says. "For them anyone who dares to question the dogma of the tribe can only be doing so out of hatred."
Sprigg, from the Family Research Council, says his condemnation of homosexual conduct does not spring from intolerance but a desire to protect gays from harmful conduct, he says.
Sprigg, a senior fellow for policy studies at the council, wrote in a council pamphlet that homosexual men are more likely to engage in child sexual abuse than are straight men. He also wrote that gay men are also afflicted with a higher rate of sexually transmitted diseases and mental illness as well.
Sprigg says he does not believe homosexuality is a choice and that "personal testimonies" and "clinical experience" show that some people "can and do change from gay to straight."
"Maybe we need to do a better job of showing that we are motivated by Christian love," Sprigg says. "Love is wanting the best for someone, and acting to bring that about."
'That's a lie'
Potok, from the Southern Poverty Law Center, has little use for the love Sprigg talks about.
He calls it hatred, and his voice rose in anger when he talked about the claims by Sprigg and other Christian groups that gay men are more predisposed to molest children and that homosexual behavior is inherently harmful.
He says the Southern Poverty Law Center didn't designate the Family Research Group a hate group because they view homosexuality as a sin or oppose same-sex marriage, Potok says. There are plenty of Christian groups who hold those beliefs but are not hate groups, he says.
A group becomes a hate group when it attacks and maligns an entire class of people for their "immutable characteristics," Potok says. The Family Research Council spreads known falsehoods about gays and lesbians, he says, such as the contention that gay men are predisposed to abuse children.
"That's a lie," Potok says. "These guys are engaging in straight-up defamation of a very large group of people. There are not many things much worse than you can say in America about somebody than they are a child molester."
Potok scoffed at Spriggs' claim that the council and other evangelical anti-gay groups are victims of intolerance.
"That's whining on the part of people who spend their days and nights attacking gay people and then some people criticize them and they don't like it," he says. "That's pathetic. It reminds me of slave owners complaining that people are saying ugly things about them."
What the Bible says
What about the popular evangelical claim, "We don't hate the sinner, just the sin" – is that seen as intolerance or hate speech when it comes to homosexuality?
There are those who say you can't hate the sin and love the sinner because being gay or lesbian is defined by one's sexual behavior; it's who someone is.
"Most people who identify as gay and lesbian would say that this is not an action I'm choosing to do; this is who I am," says Timothy Beal, author of "The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book."
Beal, a religion professor at Case Western University in Ohio, says it should be difficult for any Christian to unequivocally declare that the Bible opposes homosexuality because the Bible doesn't take a single position on the topic. It's an assertion that many scholars and mainline Protestant pastors would agree with.
Some people cite Old Testament scriptures as condemning homosexuality, such as Leviticus 18:22 - "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination." But other Christians counter by saying they are not bound by the Old Testament.
There are those who also cite New Testament scriptures like Romans 1:26-27 - "… Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men. …"
Beal, however, says Jesus said little about sex. And the Apostle Paul, who wrote Romans, was probably referring to male prostitution and men having sexual relations with boys, a practice in the Greco-Roman world.
"Paul does not understand genetics and sexual orientation the way we understand it now as something much more than a choice," says Beal.
Some evangelicals say Christians can't change their view of biblical truth just because times change. But some scholars reply:
Sure you can. Christians do it all the time.
Denying a woman's ability to preach in church was justified by scriptures like 1 Timothy 2:11-12 - "… I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet." But many churches have abandoned that teaching - and some scholars say a woman preached the first Christian sermon, when Mary Magdalene proclaimed that Jesus had risen.
Slaveholders in 19th century America justified slavery through a literal reading of the Bible, quoting Titus 2:9-10 – "Teach slaves to be subject to their masters in everything. …" And anti-Semitism was justified by the claims that Jews killed Jesus, such as Matthew 27: 25-26 - "Let his blood be on us and on our children."
Litfin, from Moody Bible Institute, acknowledged that the Bible once sanctioned slavery, but he said that practice was a "cultural expression" that changed over time. Evangelicals who oppose same-sex marriage by citing the Bible are on more solid ground, he says.
"Marriage is a universal and timeless institution that God set up for maximum human flourishing. He set it up in the first book of the Bible with the story of Adam and Eve. It is consistent throughout the whole Bible. … Marriage is in a different category than those cultural things."
Public jousts over the Bible's stance on homosexuality rarely change people's minds. What changes is when people get to know gay and lesbian people as friends and hear their story, says Beal, author of "The Rise and Fall of the Bible."
"If you open up to that other person genuinely, you basically come to a point where you have to sacrifice them to your ideology or crack open your ideology to make a hospitable place for them," Beal says.
One Christian pastor who is gay says the uproar over the ESPN commentator's comments can actually be good, because debates help settle moral disputes.
"What appears to us as antiquated and prejudicial now was once a disputed issue that required debate," says the Rev. Richard McCarty, a minister in the United Church of Christ and a religious studies professor at Mercyhurst University in Pennsylvania.
Until the debate over homosexuality is settled - if it ever is - there may be plenty of evangelical Christians who feel as if they are now being forced to stay in the closet.
Carter, the evangelical blogger, says he foresees a day when any church that preaches against homosexuality will be marginalized. Just as many churches now accept divorce, they will accept sexual practices once considered sinful.
"It's getting to the point," he says, "where churches are not going to say that any sexual activity is wrong."
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Most religious people are creepy....they obsess about what other people are doing with their genitals.
Peteyroo
If only Christians would become an even smaller minority then finally disappear.
Cactus Wren
Aww. Hateful bigots afraid to speak out for fear of being labeled hateful bigots. My heart bleeds for them.
A Follower of Jesus
I became a Christian because I got tired of living a life of hatred. I certainly had every right to hate but frankly it was destroying me and not only me but my family. Hatred comes in many shapes and forms and unfortunately it is part of us and our nature to hate. Jesus demonstrated His Great Love for us by taking on all the hatred of every person ever born, he took it upon Himself and physically died and descended into Hell for all of us. Then He Rose from the Dead and overcame all evil and hatred once and for all. Today He extends the gift of forgiveness and unconditional love towards all who will receive Him! He will come to you and be with you and accept you as you are and yes, Love you forever. Thank you.
Jesus is not real. Neither is Santa or the Easter Bunny. Get a grip.
baby dodo. your sincerity screams off the internet
mrjackson777
Its ok to be a Christian as long as you shut up, and sit the corner. Don't speak up, or out. Don't say anything abut moral issues or what is right or wrong in society.
Christians are free to do those things in private or in their cult's clubhouse, but in public, you've pretty much nailed it.
The problem comes when some Christians THINK they know what's wrong, and try to legislate their beliefs, forcing them on others.
Hint – if your words and beliefs cause direct harm to other Americans, keep them to yourself.
TC, why did you limit your hint to "other Americans"? Wouldn't "others" have been better, or are you implying it is ok for delusionals to harm non-Americans?
Since when do Christians know or do what is right or moral? They are the biggest bunch of hypocrites out there. They preach morality and yet have no problem spreading their hatred around. Sitting in the corner and shutting up is exactly what they should do.
What is wrong with Christians sitting in the corner and keeping their mouths shut? It sounds good to me.
That would be contrary to Gods Word. As long as it is done in love and not condemnation.
Ol' Yeller
When Christians start understanding their religion and what the Book is trying to teach them (surprisingly enough, what most atheiats/agnostics already know) the world will be a better place.
Less judging/more forgiving.
Less preaching/more tolerance.
Less Holier than Thou/more being humble
Less taking/more giving
Less exclusion/more love
Less hatred for your fellow man/more love
Of course basing your moral system on the moral system of people from 2000+ years ago will make you sound like a hateful zealot.
Acceptance of gays and lesbians is increasing even more rapidly than that of minorities 50 years ago. If you want to go up and use your religious beliefs to justify your bigotry, then over time more and more people will treat you like a white supremacist.
The further the usa goes from God the worse things will get.
WHAT? really?
I'm Christian......I am not gay.However as Christians we should realize that we are in America. An understanding country, a country that allows more than just christians, a country that promotes freedom. I understand that there are other who are gay and what they do with other gay men or women will not affect the way I live. Even if my child is that way, I realize that he himself should choose to be Christian. To be a Christian, I'm sure to be any religion or belief, is to FEEL A NEED for the faith not just to want it. Let everyone be free to do what they do.
I'm a Christian.... wake me when one of my modern brethren gets physically assaulted here in the US for their faith.
You will know when it happens.to you.. In the today's world, physical doesn't just mean body to body- there are other things that assault and that is already happening in North America. Haven't you noticed anything unusual in the news the past few years about Christians or strong faith people acting out of character (as well as whistleblowers). I am sure the statistics would be too high to seem chance.
In Santa we trust
Janis, What statistics? Please share.
just what is wrong with bashing in a few Christian heads? I'll be happy to wake you–and none too gently when it happens.
Insanity_Prevails
Also, I think the ratio of comments on religious-based articles to non-religious-based articles on this site is hilarious.
just1mor
Haven't you noticed how the creatures in the dark always follow the light.? And then zap! they get trapped. Just make sure you are light.
Anytime one group of people tell everyone else they are destined to burn in hell for not believing as they do can expect a lot of push back and ultimately outright rejection. Christians made their bed, now they can sleep in it.
nclaw441
One one:
I am a Christian, and much of what you say is right. I see part of what I am called to do by my faith as reaching out to others to share my faith. Most Christians believe this, but far too many of us seem to think that threats of hellfire will accomplish the goal, when there is such a positive message of our faith to give.
My faith is a great comfort to me in difficult times here and now. I really don't think much about heaven (and there is another article on that in the Belief blog) because there is plenty to do now. For much the same reason I don't spend time thinking about hell, either. I can't say why so many Christians emphasize hell when a wonderful life of faith, love and joy (cheesy sounding, I know, but it is true) awaits us NOW if we, with God's help, believe.
Christians are not being pushed into the closet. They're just being forced to keep their opinion to themselves like the rest of us. Why should I have to listen to what your holy book says when I'm at work or walking down the street or window shopping. That's the main problem with Christians – they feel they should shove their diatribe on the rest of us.
One day humanity will create a god. It will destroy religion as we know it.
The sooner religion vanishes, the better.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/19/proofs-of-heaven-popular-but-not-with-the-church/#comments
NOT BILL DEACON !
The church is recognizing that science is rendering faith unnecessary. Most of the faith believe heaven is up in the skies. We have been there with space trips and with the telescopes that are very very powerful. Heaven is not up there. So where can heaven exist? Fact is heaven cannot physically exist. So if you want to render faith more of a dinosaur then try to convince people that do understand science that something exists they can prove does not and all you end up doing is pushing more people out of your dying faith. What we do know about after dying is that you will no longer be here and you will no longer be suffering with your earthly problems.
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From the catechism of the Catholic Church:
1024 This perfect life with the Most Holy Trinity – this communion of life and love with the Trinity, with the Virgin Mary, the angels and all the blessed – is called "heaven." Heaven is the ultimate end and fulfillment of the deepest human longings, the state of supreme, definitive happiness.
So, your image of heaven as a place in the clouds is a bit immature. You probably formed it when you were ten and decided science was cool and Bible study was not.
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And look who shows up..............Billie................more what billie...................the origin story is BULLSH_IT!
Cpt. Obvious
The bible implies a flat-earth, sky-heaven in numerous places and by the means of various anecdotes. In order to "climb a high mountain" and see "all the kingdoms of the earth," and in order for the resurrected Christ to "ascend in the clouds" where believers will join him, heaven has to be "up there" above a flat plane of the earth.
You do know the old pope kicked the angels with pitch fork off the team.....last xmas.........don't you Bill ?
All these years .Bill..............there are angels.....................then poof............go the red horn-y thingy too HA BILL.
Where are the fvcking morals there BILL or ethics ?
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Chuckles..................chadie might not like this or he is a POE ?
The real Tom...............do a seacrh on google............for this article ........When Christians become a 'hated minority'
It might be the beast.........666.?
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Christians are a holes who have pathological desire to run other peoples lives.
Knows what is right
You sir, are a fool. Research something before you go off making yourself look like a fool with your ignorance 😉
That is pretty much the definition of generalizing and bigotry.
I agree with you @Religion. They're particularly obsessed with what we do in our bedrooms.
midwest idiot, chrome dome, tom moron, blind as a bat, all of 'em dodo, said somethin negative about somebody else! can u believe it?
perfect love incarnate found something negative to say about someone! golly sarge, the sky be a fallin
666..............and fiaith /chadie
Dom you have any..............faith/chad?
Where do morals come from?.....................NOT THE BIBLE>
By Kelly Murray, CNN
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/12/where-do-morals-come-from/#comments
James Berry
Here we go again with the we are the beleaguered ones, we poor Christians. Why's everybody always picking on us? Yet every word from their mouth is hate filled about people they know nothing and care nothing about, yet want to control their lifes choices. We've heard the same whining over "The War on Christmas." Your Jesus said to love everyone, but you hate anyway.
billy: your science mentality can't defeat my supernatural ability...i swear hehehe....i know that your dead serious about science...but im still laughing at you because you don't know anything....only science and your modern mentality....
Billy: hahahaha.....yeah maybe need straw at least you got learned from me because without a straw you have no information sucked from me because you're a dumb...hhahaha...loser
If we look back into history for the character of present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England, blamed persecution in the Roman church, but practised it against the Puritans: these found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice themselves both here and in New England.
(from a letter to The London Packet, 3 June 1772)
yeah....is coming to an end.....because your science, awareness and evolution is the tool being fool you.. learing to be wrong....and guys those who blaspemy about christianity...goodluck...hehe your atheist, modern religion, other religion...Its better that we got believe even its so hard, because we doesn't prove to our 3rd dimentional world that there is heaven... than afterwards you died and actually there is heaven and you did not believe when you are alive...
surely..suffer you from hell....
So james, how old were you when did you threw up your hands and declared that things like science and English were no longer useful to you?
*when you threw up your hands* (strike did)
Billy: never because i believe that heaven exist....your science cannot proof it because you only believe on what you see...they have some things exists but we cannot see...and science only proof through research and only dominates only in 3rd dimention.......hahaha...your more dumb...
Christians can believe that gays are sinners and it goes against the bible and anything else they want to. What we object to is when they take these religious beliefs and try to force them on others who don't share the same faith. How would you feel/react if Jews tried to pass lass forcing everyone to celebrate Rosh Hashanah or if Muslims tried to slip certain of the sharia laws into the US lawbooks. I suspect that you all wouldn't feel the same way as you want us to fell when you do the equivalent thing. Follow your religion's moral code yourself. And you might try adopting the Golden Rule as well. After all, isn't that one of your Jesus' s basic rules?
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Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services issues correction of COVID-19 positivity rate
COLUMBIA, MO (STL.News) Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) has corrected and updated the COVID-19 positivity rate for Boone County residents on the COVID-19 Information Hub. This information was updated after PHHS was notified of a reporting error from Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS).
On Sept. 3, PHHS was notified by DHSS that a lab in Boone County was unable to transmit all negative results electronically to DHSS since May 1. Issues with the data transmission appear to have been caused by a complex data extraction issue between MU Health Care's electronic medical record contractor and DHSS. There was no delay in positive results, as those are also reported directly from the lab to PHHS. All patients were notified of test results in a timely manner and the only reporting error was to DHSS. Upon being notified of this data issue, PHHS halted publishing a positivity rate, as the number of results received on each day contributes to the denominator for the positivity rate calculation.
Attached to this release is the revised positivity rates for all weeks between May 1 and Sept. 4. This graph, and corrected positivity rates, will be updated on the Information Hub with the end of day update at 4 p.m. on Sept. 15. The additional negative test result data has resulted in a lower positivity rate than previously recorded. However, the positivity rate has still increased over time.
"The updated positivity rate still indicates an increase in the transmission of the COVID-19 virus and that there should be an increased focus on testing availability within Boone County," said Director of PHHS Stephanie Browning.
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The positivity rate is used to help assess how the pandemic is changing in the county and whether the spread of the virus is improving or not. A physician's order continues to be required for COVID-19 testing, with the exception of a few community-based testing events. Under the current testing criteria in Boone County, a rising positivity rate indicates that more people with symptoms of the virus or those who have been exposed through close contact are becoming infected with the virus.
Policy decisions are not made solely based on the positivity rate in Boone County. The Public Health Order announced on Aug. 28 was determined by an increased number of positive cases, specifically in young adults between the ages of 18-24, as well as trends showing increased transmission among other age groups. These infections are happening in situations in which people are gathering together and ignoring social distancing and mask requirements. PHHS analyzes all data in order to determine policy decisions, rather than focusing on one metric.
"The positivity rate provides insight into how the COVID-19 virus has spread within our county over time, but it is not the sole tool when making decisions," said Browning. "Our PHHS team continues to look at all aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and how it may affect the health and safety of all those who live in Boone County."
In addition to the positivity rate, PHHS also monitors other metrics including the number of hospitalizations and deaths, the mode of transmission, and the age breakdown of all cases. Notably, one of the most important metrics is the 14-day case rate, which shows how the number of new cases has grown over a two-week period. Increased cases contribute to the overall capacity of case investigation and contact tracing efforts.
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Due to obtaining the backlog of negative test results, PHHS will change the way in which test results are recorded. As of Sept. 15, PHHS will record COVID-19 results on the day the specimen was collected instead of the day the results were received. Please note that this may mean that the number of tests and positivity rate may change after publication if more test results are received.
All updates on the number of COVID-19 test results received and the positivity rate can be found on the Sept. 15, 2020 update of the Information Hub at como.gov/coronavirus.
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Book of Matches is a poetry book written by Simon Armitage, first published in 1993 by Faber and Faber. It was admired by critics and has been used in English literature examinations.

Author

Simon Armitage is an English poet, playwright and novelist. He was appointed as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom in 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds and became Oxford Professor of Poetry when he was elected to the four-year part-time appointment from 2015 to 2019. He was born and raised in Marsden, West Yorkshire. At the start of his career, and at the time Book of Matches was published, he was working as a probation officer.

Book

Publication history

Book of Matches was published in paperback by Faber and Faber in 1993. They reprinted it in 2001.

Contents

The book is written in three sections, the first (Book of Matches) containing 30 fourteen-line poems or sonnets. Each is meant to be read within the time it would take for a match to be lit and burn out, as Armitage states in the first poem, "My party piece:"

The second, Becoming of Age, contains 14 titled poems, including "Penelope", alluding to the wife who waits for the return of Odysseus to Ithaca, and  "The Lost Letter of the Late Jud Fry", alluding to the dirty-fingernailed farmhand character in the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!.

The third, Reading the Banns, contains 12 untitled poems based on a wedding theme, titled for the banns of marriage; critics have detected echoes of W. H. Auden in its lines.

Reception

The London Magazine welcomed Book of Matches as powerfully written with a distinctive approach. It cited the fifth poem in the initial "Book of Matches" section as characterising Armitage's approach: describing the act of skimming stones on a lake, it admires his use of metaphor in

Elspeth Barker in The Independent, admired the book, writing that "His virtuosity with form and metre has always been remarkable; here it is breakthtaking." She noted that Armitage's persona had changed from his earlier collections, "quit[ting] his Northern Ladding and grown up." His style had changed, too: "a morning suit is a big improvement on an anorak". In Barker's view, "the finest and angriest poem in the book" is To Poverty, subtitled "After Laycock", the 19th century poet Samuel Laycock who was, like Armitage, born in Marsden. She describes it as "a raging indictment with a grim conclusion".

Ronald Carter, writing in 2001 in The Routledge History of Literature in English, called the book Armitage's "most distinctive volume".
Daniel McGuiness, in The Antioch Review, thought Armitage the best of a new generation of young British poets, writing that "somehow this book has been written by the love child of Philip Larkin and Elizabeth Bishop."

The London Review of Books printed three of poems, Penelope, On the Trail of the Old Ways, and The Lost Letter of the Late Jud Fry, on 22 July 1993, before the collection appeared in print.
Several poems from the book have been studied as part of the GCSE English Literature examination in the UK.

The poet and novelist Ruth Padel described Book of Matches as a punning title, meaning both the means to light fires and "matters matrimonial", with an "anoraky obsession with series". She found the series of wedding poems banal, commenting that praise for the book had come mainly from non-poets.

References

Bibliography

1993 poetry books
English poetry collections
Faber and Faber books

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Lanthanum sulphate, La2(SO4)3
Of all the rare earth sulphates, Lanthanum sulphate, La2(SO4)3, is the most difficult to decompose completely by heat. Its specific heat (0°-100°) is 0.1182.
One part of the anhydrous sulphate dissolves in 6 parts of ice-cold water; from the solution at 0° C. a hydrate, La2(SO4)3.16H2O, may be crystallised.
The hexagonal enneahydrate, La2(SO4)3.9H2O, is the only hydrate stable in contact with the solution between 0° and 100°. It is readily prepared by warming a 15 per cent, ice-cold solution of lanthanum sulphate to 30°. The solubility diminishes with the temperature as follows: -
Temp. °C. 0° 14° 18° 30° 50° 75° 100°
Grams of La2(S04)3 3.0 2.6 2.1 1.9 1.6 1.0 0.7
The figures represent grams of anhydrous salt per 100 grams of water.
A hexahydrate, La2(SO4)3.6H2O, is said to crystallise from a solution in aqueous sulphuric acid (Frerichs and Smith).
The acid sulphate, La(HSO4)3, and the basic sulphate, La2O3.SO3, are known. The following double salts have been described: -
La2(SO4)3.Cs2SO4.2H2O; 3La2(SO4)3.2Cs2SO4;
La2(SO4)3.Rb2SO4.2H2O; La2(SO4)3.Rb2SO4; 3La2(SO4)3.2Rb2SO4;
La2(SO4)3.K2SO4.2H2O; La2(SO4)3.3K2SO4; La2(SO4)3.5K2SO4;
La2(SO4)3.Na2SO4.2H2O;
La2(SO4)3.(NH,)2SO4.8H2O; 2La2(SO4)3.5(NH4)2SO4; La2(SO4)3.5(NH4)2SO4.
Lanthanum sulphate also combines with hydrazine sulphate. The diminution in solubility of lanthanum sulphate brought about by the addition of potassium, sodium, or ammonium sulphate will be seen from the following data, given by Barre, and denoting grams of anhydrous salts present in solution per 100 grams of water (solid phases not stated by Barre): -
Temperature 16.5°. Temperature 18°. Temperature 18°.
K2SO4. La2(SO4)3. Na2SO4. La2(SO4)3. (NH4)2SO4. La2(SO4)3.
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In this tutorial we'll take you through how to connect a 16x2 LCD display up to your Raspberry Pi using GPIO pins. Being able to display a message on the LCD is not only very cool but can be pretty useful too, for example in this tutorial we'll cover how to get your LCD display to display the IP address of your raspberry Pi.
For this exercise I have used the Adafruit HDD44780 character LCD display, this should come with 0.1" male header strip and a potentiometer.
First we need to solder the 0.1"header to the LCD board. Break off enough headers (in this case 16) and carefully solder them to the board.
For this exercise we are going to control the LCD display using 4-bit mode. Whilst is is possible to connect to it in other ways using I2C or the UART this is the most direct method. In order to control the display in this way will we need to use 6 pins on the GPIO port, 4 data pins and 2 control pins.
Register Select – This toggles the Lcd display between two modes, Command mode (high) and Data mode (low). Command mode gives a Instruction to the LCD. Example – "Clear the display" , "Move cursor to home" etc and Data tells the LCD to display characters.
Contrast Voltage – This adjusts the contrast on the display and will controlled by the potentiometer when wired up to the circuit.
VDD – Will be wired to a 5V supply from the Pi's GPIO port.
In order to utilize the GPIO pins within Python you will need to Install the GPIO python library. Instructions on how to install the GPIO Python library can be found here.
To get the Python code to run the LCD display we are going to 'grab' it from adafruit using GitHub. Make sure your Rasp berry Pi is connected to internet and we'll use the git command to clone the python code. Run the following commands in the terminal to download the files.
Now we can test the display is working and it is wired up correctly. One of the files we downloaded Adafruit_CharLCD.py contains python class for LCD display control. It also contains a small piece of code so when the program is run it will display a message on the LCD.
This way when you run the program you will be prompted by "type your message here" to enter a message via your keyboard, which will then be displayed on the LCD. This was done by defining a new variable 'message' that is equal to the command raw_input(), which allows the user to manually enter text. The part within the brackets of the raw_input() command is simply printed on the computer screen to prompt you what to write.
Getting the LCD display to display some text of your choosing is cool but not that useful. Running the program Adafruit_CharLCD_IPclock_example.py will display the date/time and the IP address of the Pi on the LCD. The program calls upon the methods from the previous program Adafruit_CharLCD.py. Feel free to open the program to look at the coding. To do so open the program in python or use the command sudo nano Adafruit_CharLCD_IPclock_example.py in the terminal.


I asked my aunt about my mother's strange aversion to grits. I wanted to know if it was something that my mother had inherited from my grandmother, or whether it was her very own personal (baffling) quirk. My aunt confirmed that it's an idiosyncrasy entirely personal to my mother; and that in fact my aunt makes a mean shrimp and grits. She did add that despite living in Virginia that it wasn't something they grew up eating much because in the South it's traditionally a breakfast food and breakfast wasn't something my grandmother typically spent much time preparing. This might explain why I don't ever remember eating grits when we would visit my grandmother in the summer. Breakfast treats that I remember from summers at Mimi's were Crispix (don't ask – my mother had some vendetta against Crispix and wouldn't buy them at home), Entenmann's raspberry strudel, tiny powdered Krispy Kreme donuts sold by the bagful and to which my mother was addicted, toasted cinnamon raisin bread dripping with melted butter, and slices of perfectly ripe cantaloupe (to be fair, we also ate cantaloupe for lunch and dinner and for snack in between meals because there's basically nothing better than farm stand cantaloupe in the South).
My grandmother's apparent disinterest in traditional Southern breakfast foods might also explain why I did not grow up eating biscuits and gravy. Biscuits themselves were a staple of my childhood, both during Virginia summers and at home the rest of the year. But, biscuits were always an accompaniment to dinner. If there were leftovers we'd toast them with butter for breakfast or lunch, but except on Christmas morning we didn't make biscuits for breakfast. To be fair, my mother adheres to my grandmother's breakfast ethic and doesn't tend to do big sit-down breakfasts even when there are guests in the house (that's what croissants and bakeries are for).
I'm not sure if my grandmother didn't like breakfast, or whether years of working (she was a registered nurse and went back to work when my mother and my aunt were old enough to look after themselves, and continued to work until the hospital reluctantly had to point out that she was at retirement age and then some) meant that breakfast was one meal she could outsource to the grocery store (i.e. cereal) without guilt. Either way, I never had biscuits and gravy until I was an adult. And this is a shame, because biscuits and gravy are awesome – what is not to enjoy about fluffy golden buttermilk biscuits slathered with butter, and then drowned in rich creamy gravy studded with nuggets of savory sausage? Unless, of course, you take that same golden buttery biscuit and drown it in warm maple syrup.
While I am perfectly happy to go out to breakfast – or even better, brunch – the prospect of making that much food first thing in the morning is exhausting to even think about. However, breakfast for dinner is one of my favorite concepts, and for the first Birthday Dinner of the year we indulged in the ultimate breakfast for dinner, followed by a girl scout cookie in cake form.
Remove the sausage from the casings (if you're lucky you can buy bulk breakfast sausage and skip this step). Brown the sausage in the butter a heavy large pan until cooked through, breaking it up with a spoon. Sprinkle the flour over the sausage and rendered fat in the pan (if you're using pork sausage there should be plenty of fat for you to work with; if you're using chicken sausage you may need to add some butter or oil to the pan). Cook the flour until it is lightly browned. Slowly stir/whisk in the milk, and cook – stirring constantly – until the gravy thickens (anywhere from 10-15 minutes). Season to taste with salt and lots of pepper. Serve immediately.
Do people need a recipe for scrambled eggs? I whisk mine with some milk before I cook them, but that's about it. I like to let them slowly heat up in a pan over a low heat and then raise the heat to very hot at the end and scramble them to loose curds – take them off the stove before they look entirely cooked, or they'll be a dry rubbery mass before you can serve them. Huh, I guess I just gave a recipe for scrambled eggs.
If I'm making eggs for dinner and they're my only protein then I figure on 2 eggs/person; in this instance where we were having biscuits & gravy (and then cake for dessert) I went with 1.5 eggs/person and then added an extra serving for the pot (so 8 people at Dinner = 12 eggs + 2 eggs = 14 eggs total).
If you look at this recipe (originally titled Coconut Cake with Chocolate Chunks & Coconut Drizzle) and think "Mounds Bar!" skip the dulce de leche drizzle and extra hot fudge sauce as garnishes. If you look at this recipe and think "Samoa Cookies!*" definitely add the extra garnishes.
* I think at some point it was decided that Samoa Cookies were not politically correct and they were renamed Caramel deLites. I don't object to the move towards cultural sensitivity; I do object to the grammatical insanity of deLites. Particularly since I doubt that Caramel deLites are lite at all. Anyway.
Generously butter an 8" square pan (or 9" round pan), and then line it with a parchment sling and butter that too.
Sift together the dry ingredients, and then stir in unsweetened shredded coconut and set aside.
Using electric mixer, beat sugar, butter, and orange peel in large bowl until light and fluffy. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla.
Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with coconut milk in 2 additions, beating just until blended after each addition. Fold in half of bittersweet chocolate pieces.
Spread batter evenly in prepared cake pan. Sprinkle remaining chocolate pieces over batter, then sprinkle with sweetened flaked coconut.
Bake cake until golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean – anywhere from 40-60 minutes – tent the cake with foil after about 20 minutes to prevent the coconut from burning. Transfer cake to rack and cool in pan 45 minutes.
Use the parchment sling to remove the cake from the pan and allow to cool completely.
Cake can be made the day before, wrapped tightly, and stored at room temperature.
Before serving, drizzle with coconut drizzle and dulce de leche. Serve with vanilla ice cream and hot fudge sauce (optional, but why wouldn't you?).
Whisk powdered sugar, 2 Tbsp unsweetened coconut milk, and vanilla in small bowl to blend well, adding more coconut milk by ½ teaspoons until mixture is thin enough to drizzle over cake.
Using small spoon, drizzle powdered sugar mixture decoratively over cake. Cool cake completely on platter.


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Bix Weir's Update About Important Resignations Still Coming!
Posted by Alexandra | Jun 26, 2012 | 2012, Conspiracy, Cabal, Education, Government Laws, Policies, Politicians, Military | 0 |
600+ resignations of senior bankers was NOTHING in comparison to the latest resignation announcement from the Bad Guys!
Goldfinger bows out of precious metals
By Jack Farchy
The gold market has just lost one of its most senior figures.
Jeremy Charles, the veteran head of precious metals at HSBC, retires on Friday after a career of nearly four decades at the heart of the bullion industry. In that time, he helped to revolutionize the market.
Under Mr Charles, HSBC's precious metals division has become one of the largest and most profitable franchises in the industry. With just 27 front office staff, competitors estimate that the bank's precious metals division makes annual revenues of $200m-$300m a year, rivalled only by ScotiaMocatta, UBS, and JPMorgan. Along with JPMorgan, HSBC trades more gold in the London market than any other bank, traders say.
Mr Charles, who started his career in 1975 as a 19-year-old "tea boy" at NM Rothschild and went on to become chairman of the London Bullion Market Association, has witnessed the transformation of the gold market from a backwater into one of the most profitable areas of many banks.
The industry in no small part has Mr Charles to thank for that.
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d8cc0798-bc48-11e1-a836-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1yoR9IT
Those who have been around for a while know that Jeremy Charles was the HSBC front man for the gold cartel, fought against CFTC position limits rule and even tried to argue against Bill Murphy at the CFTC hearing on gold and silver manipulation. You can still watch the that infamous hearing on the CFTC website (March 25, 2010)…
http://capitolconnection.net/capcon/cftc/webcastarchive.htm#
Just another nail in the coffin for the Bad Guys but this is a VERY BIG NAIL at the perfect time. The TIMELINE article is "spot on" at the moment.
2012 Timeline on the Road to RootA
http://www.roadtoroota.com/members/794.cfm
It's the END OF THE ROAD for the Bad Guys.There are very few left hanging on with their finger nails.
I know "it ain't over til the Fat Lady sings" but I sure can hear her warming up her vocal chords!
Bix Weir
www.RoadtoRoota.com
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Opinion: Kehlani and Teyana Taylor release a sexy, seductive new song and music video
These two R&B women make for a perfect, sensual start to the month.
These two female R&B stars are starting off the month of November hot and steamy with their new collaboration. Teyana Taylor and Kehlani released their song "Morning" this past Friday, November 1, along with a super sensual and sexy official music video.
This release is occuring about a year and a half after Taylor's second studio album "K.T.S.E" came out and almost 10 months after Kehlani's most recent mixtape, "While We Wait." The latest single foreshadows highly anticipated new music for both of the artists, which they have confirmed is in the making.
While Kehlani has been open about her fluid sexuality throughout almost her entire career, Taylor hasn't made any statements about her sexual preferences, which of course, is perfectly fine as well. On her last album though, she did have a song titled "3Way," where she talked about having a threesome with a girl and a guy. "Anything for my baby, I'd do some crazy things / So whatever he wants, he can get that," she sang. She made it seem like she was just doing it to please her man and make him happy, which was something she's okay with.
Nonetheless, this current tune is undoubtedly about a sexual relationship between just her and another woman, which both the lyrics and music video clearly express.
The video begins with Taylor in a dark room surrounded by sexy photos and video clips of herself and Kehlani together. The red lighting in this starting portion really helps to set the mood for the rest of the song. The first lyrics of verse one are as follows:
"I ain't here to play no games I'm gonna give it to you just how you want it / You can call me crazy baby, you just drive me crazy when you touch on it / Got my legs up, hands up, at attention you make me stand up and switch up on it / Make your head go 'round and 'round, you got me makin' sounds until the morning." Just from this short beginning, you can tell that this song isn't about romance but rather simply sexual pleasure.
As the music video continues on and Kehlani's verse starts, the two beautiful women are shown together in a hot tub, caressing and feeling each other. While the pair never actually kiss in the video, the two get super touchy-feely and seductive.
"Morning" is definitely one of the sexiest songs and music videos of 2019. It will probably be talked about and watched for years to come, seeing as the YouTube visual already has almost six million views in less than four days. The comments section is filled with intrigued fans who are loving everything about the new content. It isn't just sex appeal but the two singers voices pair super nicely together for a soothing and soulful mix.
While it may be pretty inappropriate for younger audiences, anyone should be able to enjoy this song and video. Even if you aren't already a fan of either of these artists, you should definitely check this out and hopefully you will decide to dive deeper into both of their discographies.
I would give this release a A-.
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It's no small feat to play in front of an international landmark, and Tame Impala's Kevin Parker knew this was no ordinary gig. "I can't believe we're playing here, with that thing in the background, just right there…" That thing was the Sydney Harbour Bridge, peeking out behind the sails of the Opera House, and viewed perfectly from the outdoor stage where Tame Impala were playing to an audience in awe on the Opera House steps.
The band has been a top Aussie musical export and festival staple for years now but when you take their live show out of a dark concert hall to an outdoor space, there is something to say for how their psychedelic comes to life under a starry night sky. But despite the atmospheric spark, it was a shame that noise restrictions cut the sound levels to a less than impressive level.
Most critics of Tame Impala devote words to their elongated jams, cosmic effects and captivating visuals, but what struck me the most was Parker's humble approach to it all. He genuinely seemed overwhelmed, or at least a little nervous. He was the only band member to speak, which is normal for the group, but he did add more of a festival vibe to his announcements than we've seen before: "how are you guys on the side? And at the back?". Funnily enough, Parker called for us to raise our hands in the hair and clap along like we were at a large-scale arena.
The group is famously Australian but we have had to share them with the world, for their numerous international performances. So it was pretty special to hear three albums worth of music in one show as if we got a glimpse of what their catalogue would look like together in the future. Their standout track from latest LP Currents "Eventually" was a standout at the gig. Parker's yearning vocals were even more fragile live and the layers of instrumentation were a joy to watch come to life.
The boys weren't afraid to delve into overplayed tracks from their early days calling "let's go old-school" for "Half Glass Full of Wine" and "Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind." And you can tell its been a good gig when no one leaves before the final strum of the final track of the final encore. Even with the beckoning summer night above.


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