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Xuan Tian Ming, Just You Watch
Bai Ze looked at the old blacksmith in confusion, "What is the meaning of this, old sir?"
The old man stepped forward and kneeled in front of Feng Yu Heng and Xuan Tian Ming, saying: "This old one has spent a lifetime working on iron. Everyone said that I am the best blacksmith in Xiao Zhou. However, there is only iron in iron. My greatest desire in this lifetime is to be able to make a weapon that is sturdier than iron. The iron essence of Zong Sui was not something that we could get our hands on, but Da Shun now has something called steel. Even if this old one must throw away my life, I wish to follow the general and county princess to provide aid for my Da Shun. But…" He paused for a moment and turned to look at his young apprentice, a reluctance appearing in his eyes.
Feng Yu Heng could understand what was happening and asked: "Does the old sir have any worries?" As she said this, she turned to ask Qian Li: "When you went looking for the blacksmiths, what did you say?"
Qian Li was also a little confused: "We just said that they would be producing steel for Da Shun." Thinking a little more, "Oh, we did say that they would be away for a long period of time. We told them to settle things at home because they would not be able to return for a year and a half on the lower end. In the worst case scenario, it would be three to five years before they could return. General had us give enough money to the families of the blacksmiths to live for half a year. If they still could not return after half a year, we would just keep giving more."
Feng Yu Heng nodded then looked at the old man: "Old sir, the matter of producing steel will be like when humanity first discovered iron. It's a process of trial and error. Although I have the method, you guys personally producing it is a whole different matter. That is why what our deputy general said is correct. This is a very difficult and bitter job. It is possible that you will not be able to see the sun for many days. If you are regretting it, it is not too late. Of course, if you decide to remain and participate in this writing of history, we will ensure that your family will be able to live without worries. Also, your contribution to mankind will last forever in history."
Feng Yu Heng's words caused everyone to become excited once more. First, they had received a promise that their families would be able to live without worries. Second, "writing of history" had caused them to become enthusiastic. They would provide Da Shun and even the entire world with a brand new beginning. This would be a glorious matter for their later generations!
The old man, who was still kneeling, kowtowed to Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Yu Heng. Although he was also moved, he was still not without worry, saying: "This old one understands that once we have decided to participate in this matter to protect the country, after our job is completed, we will definitely need to be silenced. Just like the craftsmen who had worked on the imperial mausoleum, we cannot escape death. This old one does not fear dying. To be able to work on steel just once in this life makes it worth it; however, my grandson is still young. If we really are to be silenced, I hope to have him sent back. While he still does not know anything, have him go back and quietly live out his life."
Once he said this, the other blacksmiths also said: "That's right! We do not fear death. We just want to produce steel, but let these children go back!"
There was even someone who shouted: "Old comrades! Let us treat each other as apprentices. We absolutely must succeed in producing steel for Da Shun! How does that sound?"
Everyone shouted in unison: "Good!"
For a while, Feng Yu Heng also felt hot-blooded; however, she began to think about what they had said. She turned to look at Xuan Tian Ming and quietly asked: "I also heard about this rule, but…"
Xuan Tian Ming knew what she wanted to say, so he loudly said: "Ever since the fourth ruler of my Da Shun, the construction of the imperial mausoleum has not been done in secret. None of the craftsmen and workers involved in the renovation of the imperial mausoleum were killed. Although the production of steel this time is related to national defense, this prince has never had the intention of killing you to silence you."
Once these words were said, Feng Yu Heng had a grasp on the situation and could not help but quietly let out a sigh of relief. Producing steel was a good thing, but using the lives of these people as a price was something that she could not do.
"I am a doctor." She turned around and raised her voice, saying to the blacksmiths, "It should be that many people have heard about it. The reason that his Majesty conferred me the title of county princess Ji An is because of my skills in medicine. Precisely because I have the heart of a doctor, I must do my best to find ways to preserve life. Now, for the sake of producing steel, how could I have you die for it? Protecting the secret is definitely important, but we will think about how to resolve this matter from a different angle. We will definitely not do anything to harm you. That's why if you wish to send your grandchildren back, we will arrange to have them sent back. If you wish for them to remain, do not worry and have them stay. Producing steel for Da Shun and working for the ninth prince will not result in being killed."
"Really?" Practically none of them dared to believe their own ears, as they all asked: "Is county princess' speaking truthfully?"
Feng Yu Heng nodded, "It is the truth."
Xuan Tian Ming also said: "A man of character sticks to his word."
"That's great!" Everyone immediately burst into cheer. The young apprentices even began bouncing about, as someone loudly said: "That's right! It has been a long time since the workers of the imperial mausoleum were last killed, so we too will not die!" While saying this, they all kneeled and kowtowed to Xuan Tian Ming and Feng Yu Heng.
Xuan Tian Ming asked Feng Yu Heng: "They are already here. Do you have anything else that you need to explain to them? Or do you need to test their abilities?"
She shook her head, "No need. To have been a blacksmith until this age, how could they be lacking in ability. I trust deputy general Qian's ability to find good people, but… these people are not enough."
Qian Li was shocked, "These many people is not enough?" He said with worry: "If any more people come, the secret will be even harder to keep."
Feng Yu Heng said: "The secret can only be kept a secret with more people. Go find some more. We need at least two to three times more people."
Qian Li clicked his tongue. He could not understand why it would be easier to keep a secret with more people, but he knew that if Feng Yu Heng said to do it like this, he naturally needed to just do as she had said. Not saying anything further, he only nodded in compliance.
She then said to the blacksmiths in front of her: "I only just arrived at the military camp today and will need a few days to adjust. This guy will show you a dagger made of steel. Everyone can think a little more about it. When the matters of the army have been taken care of, I will come to help produce steel."
The blacksmiths were very happy and stepped forward to surround Bai Ze. As for Feng Yu Heng, she pushed Xuan Tian Ming and left the forge. While walking, she said to Qian Li: "The next group of people that will be brought in, do not place them all together. Spread them out into groups of five. Arrange for them to each have their own forge. Ensure that each group does not recognize any other group. Make sure that they never meet."
Qian Li was a little moved, as he seemed to have thought of something, "County princess' meaning is…"
"Spread them out and form an assembly line. For one, it will make them easier to control. Also, they will not know how exactly the other parts work. Since all of the parts will be leaked out in the future, I dare to guarantee that nobody in the world will know how these parts are assembled."
Qian Li happily nodded, "County princess really is amazing. This humble general will go do it."
"Go!" She sent Qian Li off then said to Wang Chuan and Huang Quan: "You two go take a look at mother. His Highness and I will take a stroll around Xu Tian Cave."
The two also nodded and left without a single worry. Feng Yu Heng and Xuan Tian Ming being together would be the safest. Moreover, this was in the military camp. There was absolutely no need for them to worry.
Seeing the people at her side sent away, Xuan Tian Ming smiled and teased her: "Are you preparing to get intimate with husband?"
Feng Yu Heng rolled her eyes, "You sure are optimistic." However, she was still unable to stop her lips from curling into a smile, "This Xu Tian Cave is so spectacular. I just wanted to wander around a bit and make my face more known. That way there won't be anyone who won't recognize me and make moving around more difficult."
Xuan Tian Ming did not understand, "Make your face more known?"
"Un." She gave him an explanation, "Just become recognized more easily. Make sure the soldiers that are standing guard here all recognize me, so I can enter even if you are not here. Also, I need to make sure I receive the same treatment as you." Speaking to this point, she was a little uncertain. Stopping in her tracks, she wrapped around to the front of the wheelchair and asked him: "Can I receive the same treatment as you? How about you tell me first, does this place have any forbidden areas? Where can I go? That will save me the trouble of losing face when being rebuffed."
The two happened to stop in front of a guard post, and Feng Yu Heng's words happened to be heard by a guard on duty. That person was unable to endure and began to laugh.
Xuan Tian Ming laughed at her: "Look, even the guard on duty can't bear to continue listening. This military camp is mine. You are my wife. How could there be any place that you cannot go?"
"What if though!" Feng Yu Heng's eyebrows became vertical, as she glared at the guard, "You are not allowed to laugh." She then turned to ask Xuan Tian Ming: "Is there really no place in the military camp that I cannot go?"
Xuan Tian Ming nodded, "There is no area forbidden to you, and there is nothing that you cannot do. Not only are you my future princess, you are also the commander of the Divine Intent Army, and you are the only one capable of producing steel for Da Shun. Here, any power that I have, you also have. All of the soldiers that respect and admire me also feel that way about you. Heng Heng, even if there comes a day when you sneak these 30 thousand soldiers out to fight the world, I will not say no, and neither will they."
"But… you aren't worried that I will rebel? You really are not worried that I will lead them away someday?" Feng Yu Heng was a little afraid to believe that she had so much power. She was puzzled and asked Xuan Tian Ming: "Is this just what you are thinking, or do all the soldiers think this way?"
Xuan Tian Ming did not reply directly. Instead, he turned his gaze on the soldier that had just laughed and asked: "Say, what do you think!"
The soldier immediately said: "This servant is loyal to the general and county princess. The county princess' standing in this servant's mind is the same as the general's!"
Feng Yu Heng was a little moved and a little bit proud. Covering her small mouth, she did not know what to say.
Xuan Tian Ming continued: "As for whether or not you will rebel, Heng Heng, even if you did it, you will have your own reasons. To take a step back and say it, if you really do have bad intentions, only I, Xuan Tian Ming, can be blamed for being a poor judge of character. I cannot blame you."
The smile on her face disappeared and was replaced with a solemn expression, as she told him: "I will never do anything for no reason. Please do not worry. I, Feng Yu Heng, will definitely be worthy of the soldier's trust. I will also be worthy of you, of Da Shun and the world. Xuan Tian Ming, just you watch, sooner or later, a day will come when our soldiers will hold steel weapons. Out of a hundred battles, there will not be a single defeat! Just wait and see, sooner or later, there will be a day when those who had sought to harm us will all receive the retribution that they deserve!"


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Tides come and go in the Salish Sea.
Sometimes entire species vanish almost unnoticed on the ebb of history.
And sometimes — to widespread astonishment — those same species ride the currents of conservation back home again.
Humans have exacted a terrible toll on our region's marine life over the past 150 years, through commercial whaling, reckless overfishing, and bounties, culls, and commercial harvests of harbour seals and sea lions.
Without question, the ecological effect of those actions continues to be felt today.
But there are also signs that the Salish Sea — the shared inland waters of Juan de Fuca Strait, B.C.'s Strait of Georgia, and Washington state's Puget Sound — is stirring and, who knows, may once again approach its former greatness.
Thanks to conservation efforts, one marine mammal after another is making a dramatic comeback, their presence providing the biggest reason for hope across an ecosystem spanning 7,000 square kilometres.
Steller sea lions have thrived since the federal government afforded them protection in 1970 — with new abundance estimates pegging their population at 48,000 animals in winter on the B.C. coast.
The breeding population had dipped to an estimated 3,400 animals before their protection.
Similarly, harbour seals today total an estimated 105,000 animals, one of the densest such populations on earth, compared with fewer than 15,000 in the late 1960s.
All those nutritious blubbery bodies are proving irresistible to mammal-eating killer whales known as "transients."
About 120 transients are known to visit the Strait of Georgia, surpassing an endangered population of fish-eating resident killer whales thought to number 88 in three pods — a story that sadly runs counter to the others.
Humpback whales are now found year-round on our coast, while a genetically distinct population of grey whales with unique feeding habits makes regular forays off Vancouver.
For the first time in memory, fin whales — the second largest animal on earth, after the blue whale — have been spotted near the north end of the Strait of Georgia past Campbell River.
Hundreds of Pacific white-sided dolphins now call the strait home, including Howe Sound — an area that is experiencing an ecological reawakening after the treatment of mine effluent, the closure of a pulp mill, and the restoration efforts of local streamkeepers.
And the car-sized northern elephant seal — once reduced to fewer than 100 individuals — now numbers up to 200,000 from Mexico to Alaska.
The dramatic return of so many marine mammals at the top of the food chain also suggests good productivity at the bottom, for predators cannot thrive without the fish and smaller creatures upon which they prey. But there are also dozens of species that are not doing as well in the Salish Sea, a complex and poorly understood ecosystem.
A study by the SeaDoc Society — based in the San Juan Islands and affiliated with the Wildlife Health Center at the University of California, Davis — has found a total of 113 species to be threatened, endangered, or candidates for listing by state, provincial or federal levels of government.
Included in the most recent count: 56 species of bird such as the western grebe and Brandt's cormorant; 37 fish such as salmon and rockfish; 15 mammals; three invertebrates; and two reptiles.
Those 113 threatened species are almost double from the 64 identified two years ago, a reflection, in part, of a growing awareness among government managers who officially list species as being at risk.
It's a critical step in the recovery process.
As marine mammals have shown, sometimes the public policy fixes are simple. All it took was for governments to formally put an end to the killing to allow populations to begin to recover.
Other species are not so easy.
The challenges are greater with, say, salmon, whose survival depends equally on protected spawning habitat far upstream from the Salish Sea, or birds that depend on nesting grounds as far north as the Arctic.Scott Wallace is a sustainable fisheries analyst with the David Suzuki Foundation who studied changes in the ecology of the Salish Sea ecosystem over a century as part of his PhD thesis 15 years ago at the University of British Columbia.
Pointing to depressed stocks of groundfish species such as rockfish, lingcod, halibut, and Pacific cod in the strait, he questions whether the Salish Sea will ever achieve the productivity of pre-European contact.
Still, there remains much to be celebrated. "It is by no means a dead sea," he emphasized. "It's a thriving live ecosystem, still extremely productive — an incredible resource on the back door of a major city."
There are many factors conspiring against a comeback, some direct, such as fishing and habitat destruction, and some more subtle, like the long-term threats of climate change.
Ocean warming is predicted to reduce the amount of oxygen for fish while pushing more southerly species such as the ravenous Humboldt squid further north — with potentially dire consequences for local marine stocks.
Warming rivers will become increasingly inhospitable to spawning salmon and oolichan.
Increased acidification of the oceans under climate change will compromise marine productivity at the base of the food chain.
An expanding human population is exacting an ever-greater toll — pollution, shoreline development, noise and harassment from marine traffic, including from navy sonar and explosions.
And, of course, there is the age-old competition between human and wild predators for the same prey fish.
"There's been a conflict almost as long as people have been catching fish," said Andrew Trites, director of the marine mammal research unit in the Fisheries Centre at UBC.
"Society has to decide how they want these fish allocated."
Whereas in the past we shot species such as seals and sea lions and captured killer whales for public display, including at the Vancouver Aquarium, today governments increasingly balance the needs of nature as well as humans.
That process has already begun in the Salish Sea for the endangered southern resident killer whales.
Canada's federal fisheries department and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are holding a series of meetings aimed at managing chinook salmon stocks to ensure the needs of killer whales are met.
Co-managing species that share international waters is the wave of the future, says Rob Williams, a research fellow with the sea mammal research unit at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who works extensively on the B.C. coast.
Canada and the U.S. have the chance to show global leadership through the conservation of resident killer whales.
"That would be progressive by any country's standards, making sure that a valued and critically endangered predator gets access to prey," he said. "If we can do that with killer whales, we should be doing it with sharks, seabirds, and all sorts of things."
And killer whales have big appetites, especially for the largest species of wild Pacific salmon, the chinook, according to a study published in November 2011 in the online scientific journal PLoS ONE.
The study concluded it takes the equivalent of 660 chinook a day to feed all the southern residents, which consume between 12 per cent and 23 per cent of the Fraser River's runs.
If their population recovers to 155 animals by 2029 — the goal of a U.S. recovery strategy — the whales' need for food would increase by up to 75 per cent, the study estimates.
While humans may have to forgo some of their catch to help killer whales in the short term, the ultimate objective is to produce more salmon for all through measures such as habitat enhancement, including protection of critical spawning habitat and restoration of other stretches damaged over the generations.
"Especially with salmon, we have to make more," says Williams, the study's lead author.Competition between humans and marine mammals does not stop at salmon, but extends all the way down the food chain in the Salish Sea to include species such as herring and tiny, shrimp-like krill.
Ottawa sets an annual catch limit of 500 tonnes on krill, a fishery is conducted at night with beam trawls when the schools rise closer to the surface.
The U.S. banned krill fishing on the West Coast in 2009 within its 200-mile territorial limit as a way to provide more food for marine life, including endangered fish and birds.
Krill is used by places such as the Vancouver Aquarium and California's Monterey Bay Aquarium, which gets its supply from Canada.
Meanwhile, herring roe goes to Japan, with the carcasses going to reduction for purposes such as fishmeal.
Some say it is folly to harvest the ecological underpinnings of the Salish Sea, especially for non-human consumption.
"That is a disgrace, a damn shame," said professor Dan Pauly of UBC's Fisheries Centre. "There is not much as good as herring, smoked or fileted or pickled."
Lisa Mijacika, herring coordinator for the federal fisheries department, said the strait's stocks are estimated at 138,000 tonnes, of which 18,000 tonnes, or 13 per cent, were designated this year to sectors such as commercial roe, food and bait.
"It's reasonably conservative in our view," she said, noting a 20-per-cent catch would have been sustainably justified.
Wallace, of the David Suzuki Foundation, sits as the conservation representative on a federal herring planning committee and says the krill fishery is not a conservation risk at current levels and that he considers the herring fishery to be "relatively well managed."
Recovering herring stocks are a symbol of the improving ecological health of Howe Sound.
Volunteer streamkeepers are credited with wrapping pilings with plastic to protect herring roe from toxic creosote, while the shutdown of the Woodfibre pulp mill in 2006 and construction of a plant in 2005 to treat toxic mine drainage on Britannia Creek resulted in the return of about two dozen pink salmon last year.
"Howe Sound is a striking change," confirmed Lance Barrett-Lennard, a marine mammal scientist with the Vancouver Aquarium.
"One way or another, we seem to be seeing that inlet come back to life."
Habitat improvements could be proving beneficial for long-depressed rockfish populations, too.
Black rockfish vanished from our local waters "in the days of The Sun Salmon Derby," said Jeff Marliave, the aquarium's vice-president of science. The derby ran for more than four decades before declining salmon runs in the 1980s quietly put an end to it.
"You couldn't help but catch them, they're such aggressive lure-strikers. Easier to catch than coho."
Now, Marliave said, there are signs that black rockfish transplanted by the aquarium from 1997 to 2006 at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver are breeding and helping to restore the population.
"We've got herring, we've got feed," he said. "It has to do with the whole ecology. We have something big happening locally."
As scientists grapple to understand changes in the Salish Sea, it's important for the public to appreciate the ecosystem is complicated and rarely as obvious as it might seem.
Fishermen who curse harbour seals for stealing salmon off their lines may not realize that seals' year-round diet can also benefit stocks of the prized catch.
One study in the Strait of Georgia found that while harbour seals are opportunistic predators, hake — a predator of young salmon — and herring account for about 75 per cent of their total diet. And new research is underway at UBC to better determine their eating habits.
Other studies are shedding more light on the complex and unexpected interactions between marine life.
When seals were culled in Alaska's Copper River delta in the 1960s to reduce predation on salmon, it resulted not in increased salmon but a failure of the razor-clam fishery. The shortage of predators allowed the starry flounder, another primary element of seals' diet, to feed on the clams unchecked.
Similarly, while sea otters off Vancouver Island consume the same sea urchins enjoyed by humans, the harvest of urchins allows for the growth of kelp beds that enhance the overall marine diversity.
"We shouldn't trust our eyes because there is a lot happening below the surface that we don't know," says Pauly of UBC's Fisheries Centre. Trites, his colleague at the Centre, concurs: "Often there are indirect effects that we cannot anticipate."
While the interconnection between marine mammals and their prey may fall off the radar for most of us, the link could not be more evident to John Ford, a federal biologist with the cetacean research program based in Nanaimo.
Looking out across Departure Bay, he can watch both Steller and California sea lions swimming to feed on spawning herring at nearby Piper's Lagoon.
On another day, the tides will turn and the sea lions will find themselves prey for the transient killer whales.
Rare in the Strait of Georgia as recently as the mid-1970s, the transients have been increasing steadily at two to three per cent per year.
In comparison, the 88 southern resident killer whales are down from 98 animals in 1995, a decline that coincided with a period of low chinook salmon runs.
In 2001, there were just 80 residents — in human terms, about the size of a block party.
Transients are highly mobile, making it difficult for scientists to identify critical habitat. But they can now be found here all year, peaking in late August and September when harbour seal pups are weaning and most numerous.
Some scientific observers ask what took them so long to discover the easy meal options afforded in the Salish Sea.
"I was puzzled, for years we had this big increase in harbour seals, and the transients didn't seem to catch on right away," said Barrett-Lennard of the Vancouver Aquarium. "Now it's easy pickings. It's no longer the haven for harbour seals that it once was. For a while they didn't have large predators. Now, they're on their toes again."
The transients are not the only whale comeback success story in the Salish Sea.
Humpbacks have been increasing in B.C. waters at four to six per cent per year, with the population locally estimated at 2,600 individuals, part of a north Pacific population estimated at 18,000. The population is thought to have dropped to as low as 1,500 animals in the 1960s.
Commercial whaling occurred in local waters in two waves, from the late 1860s to early 1870s and again in 1907. Just eight whales rendered in Saanich Inlet in 1868 yielded 45,500 litres of oil.
Along the outer coast, five whaling stations killed at least 24,250 whales from 1907 to 1967, when whaling ended.
Today, humpbacks have made a strong recovery. Sightings of the animals are routine in the Strait of Georgia, including off Victoria, the Gulf Islands, Nanaimo and Sunshine Coast.
While the vast majority of B.C.'s humpbacks migrate to Hawaii or Mexico during the winter, individuals are present off our coast all year, with numbers peaking in late summer and fall.
As long as these whales have food and clean habitat without undue harassment and noise from vessel traffic they should continue to thrive, said Ford, of federal fisheries.
However, humpbacks return each year to within a few kilometres of their feeding grounds, meaning they are slow to recolonize areas where they were depleted by commercial whaling. And females bringing back young from tropical waters will introduce them to traditional grounds, behaviour that's led to about 50 humpbacks now found off Telegraph Cove on northeastern Vancouver Island.
Another success story are the grey whales in the eastern north Pacific, which have rebounded after a setback between 1999 and 2000.
The population dropped by up to 25 per cent that year, with strandings commonplace along their migration route, including on the beaches off White Rock, Tsawwassen and the Gulf Islands.
Scientists blamed the problem on poor feeding conditions in the Bering Sea, where excessive ice prevented the whales from accessing their shallow feeding grounds.
"They started their migration in poor condition and ran out of gas on the way back," said Ford, speculating they swam into shallow, muddy Boundary Bay at that time searching for food. "Some didn't make it and wound up on the beach."
Current numbers are estimated at 18,000 to 20,000, and researchers are finding some startling genetic and behavioural differences in the local population.Jim Darling, a marine biologist with B.C.'s Pacific WildLife Foundation, said that rather than migrate to Arctic waters with the rest, about 200 whales — or one per cent of the population — remain along the coast between northern California and southeastern Alaska.
The west coast of Vancouver Island is a key feeding area for this group, although individuals have turned up in Howe Sound, False Creek, and several can linger for months in Boundary Bay.
Genetic tests of mitochondrial DNA passed on by mothers to offspring show B.C.'s grey whales are "genetically distinct" and should be managed separately from the overall population, Darling said, a finding that has implications for the whaling aspirations of aboriginal groups such as the Makah of the Olympic Peninsula and Nuu-chah-nulth of Vancouver Island.
In effect, B.C.'s grey whales have a culture that is distinct from the larger population.
"My hunch is they've been here for as long as there's been a coast," Darling said. "Their knowledge and behaviour have been passed down from one generation to the next."
After studying whales since the 1970s, Darling laments that management decisions on whales continue to be based on limited knowledge at best and often no knowledge at all.
"We tend to think of them as the same, clones of each other, think of them as numbers, but that is not the case."
Despite the myriad of management dilemmas and ecological uncertainties swirling about the Salish Sea, know there is nothing as visible or demonstrable of humanity's passion for the oceans as the return of the whales.
One need only recall the public and media frenzy that arose when a grey whale swam into False Creek in May 2010 and again off West Vancouver and Stanley Park in August that same year.
People thronged the seawall in a bid to catch a glimpse, some paddling, even swimming out for a closer look.
Whales fill us with hope.
If something so big can flourish here, maybe in time the smaller and less obvious parts of the puzzle can, too.
Their return to Vancouver gives us pause to consider past mistakes and the promise ahead for a vibrant Salish Sea, for marine life and all of us.


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Beat the Streak Report: Tuesday, June 28
Streakers, take a bow.
For the first time this season, you've slayed the mythical dragon that is 15-for-15. Jose Bautista led the way with a 2-for-4, Starlin Castro brought up the rear with a triple in four at-bats and everyone in between also notched at least one base knock.
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When all was said and done, nearly 79 percent of all Monday selectors experienced peanut butter jelly time from one of these 15 sluggers alone. It's a truly historic achievement, one which many of you have surely dreamed about since the dawn of your Streaking careers.
Take the morning off to celebrate. Just make sure you're back by 2:15 to make one of …
Tuesday's picks:
(Make a BTS pick)
Oh, hello there …
Adrian Gonzalez: .700 (7-for-10) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cliff Lee
Jason Bourgeois: .714 (5-for-7) since '06 vs. Rangers starter C.J. Wilson
Billy Butler: .556 (5-for-9) since '06 vs. Padres starter Clayton Richard
Derrek Lee: .391 (9-for-23) since '06 vs. Cardinals starter Kyle Lohse
Chase Utley: .444 (4-for-9) since '06 vs. Red Sox starter Josh Beckett
Feeling kinda spicy?
Jose Lopez: .444 (8-for-18) since '06 vs. A's starter Gio Gonzalez
Jerry Hairston: .600 (6-for-10) since '06 vs. Angels starter Joel Pineiro
You'll thank me later …
David Ortiz: .188 (3-for-16) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cliff Lee
Jacoby Ellsbury: .125 (1-for-8) since '06 vs. Phillies starter Cliff Lee
Curtis Granderson: .156 (5-for-32) since '06 vs. Brewers starter Zack Greinke
Leaderboard time
Miguel Cabrera was the silver medalist in yesterday's popularity contest at 15.8 percent, and both current sheriff jonroy73 and his deputy bclark2779 featured among that total. Mr. Roy's move to 37 games ties him for the season lead. So far 100 percent of people who reached that total have failed to advance (sample size: 1). In other words, the prognosis is not promising.
Top MLB streakers
Ryan Braun: 17 games
Nick Markakis: 16 games
Alex Gordon: 14 games
Michael Young: 12 games
Starlin Castro: 11 games
Dustin Pedroia: 11 games
Home Run Beat the Streak pick:
Carlos Gonzalez: (12 HR this season) vs. White Sox starter Gavin Floyd
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After yesterday's success, today has massacre written all over it.
The best pick I see today is Pablo Sandoval and he is playing in a doubleheader. I would never consider picking in a doubleheader if I like any matchups in single games since a doubleheader provides double chance at being reset. Pablo Sandoval is 9 for 21 (.429) against Doug Davis and 6 for 12 (.500) against Rodrigo Lopez. The one fear I have at this point is Sandoval pinch hitting in one of the games. He has pinch hit 3 times this season (2 when the Giants were on the winning end of blowouts) and he has gone O fer all 3 times. All of those pinch hitting appearances came in April before he was injured and he has not pinch hit in the 12 games since coming back from a wrist injury which caused him to miss 40 games but none of those involved a doubleheader. I have my pause option (Albert Pujols) in place for today if I can't confirm if he is going to play in the 2nd game or find a good match-up outside the double header.
There is a full slate today, over 200 hitters to pick from. Lots of good match-ups. I think you are just starting to feel a bit scared, one game away from tying your season high streak 😉
If you got the guts to pick in a doubleheader, on purpose, while owning a double digit streak — wow!
I ended up using my pause option which I must admit is a bit cowardly but I smell a massacre. It doesn't mean that some people won't get hits though. I was thinking of pulling the trigger on Jose Reyes or Daniel Murphy but you never know against pitchers unfamiliar to those hitters.
I also think Pablo Sandoval might pinch hit in the 2nd game.
Massacre? Pffft. Even with the worse massacre we've seen, still about 40% made it thru. It's all just a matter of luck. Now if there were only a couple games tonight, then I'd consider taking a pause with a high streak…
There was a 20-gamer that did pick Sandoval
Hah, that's insane! Best of luck to them.
YGD – see you at 16!
Got lucky. Sandoval got hit on last AB in Game 2 of the DH.
Aramis just saved another 3 with a hr in the ninth.
I like Adrian today but Tex is a very interesting pick to me for today and I want to try to avoid Lee but decisions, decisions.
Data is pulled. I'll post when I get to work tonight. Reset ended up being <7% last night.
LaV's List
Monday's Top Picks of the current Top2500,
139 Batters picked overall
Batter, Times Picked, Percentage
Jose Reyes 353 14.12 (2ND)(3RD)
Matt Kemp 250 10.00
Adrian Gonzalez 164 6.56 (4TH)
Michael Young 133 5.32
Alex Rodriguez 127 5.08
Josh Hamilton 108 4.32
Miguel Cabrera 85 3.4
Robinson Cano 73 2.92 (1RST)
Ryan Braun 73 2.92
No Selection 41 1.64
Carlos Gonzalez 33 1.32 (4TH)
Highest "No Selection" 😛 pg# 4 with streak of 19 back to zero.
Yesterday's Top2500 Reset rate was 6.36% with NO SELECTION reseting the most.
There was also 5.6% PPD due to players not playing. These streakers do not reset, but did not increase either.
Got Pinched OR 1/2 AB Wonders
TOP2500 saved or reset by PHA (going to include any pinch hitters and/or double switch, 2 AB or Less)
B Butler KC, RESET 10 HIGHEST WAS 19 GAMER
T Hunter LAA RESET 2 DEF SWITCH, WERE 18,13 GAMERS
T Hafner CLE, RESET 2 WERE 10,9 GAMERS
A Miles LAD, RESET 2 DEF SWITCH, WERE 10,9 GAMERS
O Cabrera CLE SAVED 1 DEF SWITCH, WAS 10 GAMER
W Bloomquist ARI, RESET 1 WAS 10 GAMER
R Johnson CHC, RESET 1 WAS 9 GAMER
Bloggers Group Top2500
UserName, Streak, Page#, Rank, Pick, (Times picked in top2500)
YanksGiantsDevils33, 16, pg 9 , 216, PUJOLS (PICKED 21X) DL
heyya, 15, pg 13, 268, CARGO (PICKED 33X)
Kenfucious, 15, pg 14, 268, HAMILTON (PICKED 108X)
dave55, 12, pg 33, 766, REYES (PICKED 353X)
ChiSox07, 12, pg 33, 766, CARGO (PICKED 33X)
tomfootball17, 11, pg 58, 1090, A-ROD (PICKED 127X)
00LIber, 10, pg 67, 1455, HAMILTON (PICKED 108X)
Jagx, 9, pg 94, 2303, BRAUN (PICKED 73X)
trixiewright, 9, pg 100+, 2303, ICHIRO (PICKED 11X)
Bloggers Reset Yesterday
GL to all
Top 3 leaders move on today. A 40-gamer is coming really close
I was thinking of taking Jose Reyes, Daniel Murphy, and A-Rod but before you know it the lock time had passed. All 3 have come through although I did take Reyes on Baseball Hot Streak on Fox.
Could'ave, Would'ave, Should'ave… Gotta pick to play 😉
Keep taking pauses and my wife will catch up to you too 🙂
She's now at 10 with A-Rod's hit.
Thanks I needed that, for now on I'll only accept a pause for a rainout.
Tomorrow I'm taking Pablo Sandoval or Josh Hamilton, on Thursday Matt Holliday and on Friday Pablo Sandoval.
If we don't start to see some sacrifices tonight, this could be a back-to-back-to-back low reset day. Don't think it'll be single digits, but could be in the tweens. A-Gone, probably 1 more AB in 9th. Kemp going 0-fer against a so-so lefty? Wouldn't count on it.
1st sacrifice in: A-Gone. Maybe a few more? Even lesser ones?
Keeping a close eye on Braun and Kemp
Braun is good.
Kemp still a hopeful with 1 AB left.
Lesser sacrifices still alive: Butler 0-1 has 72 picks. Konerko 0-3 has 67 picks. Otherwise, no others left except the "No Selects" & the 42 that picked S.Castro 0-5 in Game 1 of DH.
Joe Narhan just told Robo-Kemp to have a seat. O-fer pending rally or extras.
Well that'll make it a more of an average reset rate. Konerko and/or Butler could at a few more points to the tally.
If that isn't enough motivation YGD – one more Pujols and you'll be passed 🙂
Why does Matt Capps alwasys have to make it so interesting?? Robo-Kemp gets left in the hole and takes 250 streakers down with his 0-fer.
With hundreds of possible picks today, I'm almost shocked that 164 people took A-Gone. Granted he was 7-10 against Cliff Lee in the past. But Lee just came off 2 shutout complete games before the shutout complete game tonite. During is last 3 games, 26 innings, he allowed 12 hits and that's about 4 hits per game.
There is a saying in baseball, "It's not who you play, it's when you play them". In other words, if those 164 spent 9+ days getting on the Top2500, why would you risk your streak against a hot pitcher, and one of the premier pitchers in the game? I guess that might be the last time they do that, huh? Especially the 29,26,23,21,20 & 4 18-gamers that picked him. Painful lesson indeed.


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— From NBC's Carrie Dann
Speaking at the Planned Parenthood conference in DC this afternoon, Barack Obama leveled harsh words at conservative Supreme Court justices, and he offered his own intention to appoint justices with "empathy." Obama hinted that the court's recent decision in Gonzales v. Carhart -- which upheld a ban on partial-birth abortion -- was part of "a concerted effort to steadily roll back" access to abortions. And he ridiculed Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote that case's majority opinion. "Justice Kennedy knows many things," he declared, "but my understanding is that he does not know how to be a doctor."
Obama also won a laugh at the expense of Chief Justice John Roberts, saying that judgments of Roberts' character during his confirmation hearings were largely superficial. "He loves his wife. He's good to his dog," he joked, adding that judicial philosophy should be weighted more seriously than such evaluations. "We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom. The empathy to understand what it's like to be poor, or African-American, or gay, or disabled, or old. And that's the criteria by which I'm going to be selecting my judges."
Obama's criticisms fell on eager ears at the conference, where activists assembled today to hear remarks from top Democratic presidential contenders Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Elizabeth Edwards (appearing in lieu of her husband while he continues his three-day poverty tour.) But his comments also demonstrated how social issues like abortion rights have been eclipsed in many ways by the high emotions of the Iraq war. "At a time when the real war is being fought abroad, [some] would have us fight Culture Wars here at home." But he added smilingly, "I am absolutely convinced that culture Wars are just so '90s. Their days are growing dark."


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* October 11 - 17
Jonah and Judgment
AS THE FIRST VERSES OF JONAH reveal, this book is set against the background of judgment, God's judgment. Of course, that's nothing particularly unique or novel, not for the Bible, which is filled with different examples, warnings, and promises of God's judgment in the Old Testament and in the New.
God, we know, is a God of love; nothing proves that better than Jesus on the cross, the greatest example of God's judgment. We can trust that God's judgment will be fair and righteous. We don't have to worry about jury tampering; we don't have to worry about judges being bribed; we don't have to worry about being given an unfair trial. This week we'll continue to look at the concept of judgment in Jonah, for it reveals that God is concerned about the evil that has brought so much pain, suffering, and havoc to this world.
THE WEEK AT A GLANCE: Why is God concerned about the wickedness of Nineveh? Or of any place? What examples can we find in the Bible regarding God's divine judgment? What evidence exists that the Ten Commandments were known before Sinai? How can God judge people who never have been given a clear presentation of Bible truth?
MEMORY TEXT: "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him" (Acts 10:34, 35).
*Please study this weeks lesson to prepare for Sabbath, October 18.
Sunday October 12
Look again at Jonah 1:2, particularly the phrase that reads, in the Hebrew, " 'for their wickedness has come up before me' " (NKJV). Of course, God is in heaven, the Ninevites were on earth, so their deeds didn't literally rise to heaven (see also Gen. 4:10). What do you think the phrase, therefore, means? More important, what does it tell us about God's concern about our moral actions? See also Judg. 21:25; Eccles. 12:13; Matt. 12:36; 25:45; Heb. 5:14. How do these texts help answer the above question?
The Bible is very clear that God has created a moral world. In other words, despite the claims of many to the contrary, right and wrong, good and evil, do exist as moral absolutes placed upon humanity by God. We are all moral creatures, and we all have moral responsibilities, whatever our station or position in life. Though God ultimately will be the final judge of us and our actions, Jonah 1:2 proves that even the heathen, such as the Ninevites, must answer for their deeds before God.
And, apparently, they will have plenty to answer for too. The Assyrians were known for their extraordinary cruelty and violence. Numerous ancient Assyrian tablets and inscriptions have been found and translated from Nineveh. The following translation of a document from the reign of Ashurnasirpal II, 884-859 B.C., is one reminder:" 'I built a pillar over against his city and I flayed all the chiefs who had revolted, and covered the pillar with their skin. Some I walled up within the pillar, some I impaled upon the pillar on stakes, and others I bound to stakes round about the pillar. . . . And cut the limbs of the officers, of the royal officers who had rebelled.
"'Many captives from among them I burned with fire, and many I took as living captives. From some I cut off their noses, their ears, and their fingers; of many I put out the eyes. I made one pillar of the living and another of heads, and I bound their heads to tree trunks round the city. Their young men and maidens I burned in the fire.
'Twenty men I captured alive and I immured them in the wall of his palace.' "D. D. Luckenbill, Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylon, Ancient Records Series 1, in Geoffrey T. Bull, The City and the Sign: An Interpretation of the Book of Jonah (London: Hodder and Stoughton, l970), pp. 109, 110.
|How does Romans 2:13-16 help shed light on some of the issues raised today? Using these verses, write a small paragraph summarizing the basic point of today's study.
In spite of those who seek to soothe human consciences with an almost exclusive focus on God's love, we observe here, in the first few verses of Jonah (and all through Scripture), that God is concerned about human wickedness. Interestingly enough, this concern isn't something that's in opposition to His love but, instead, stems directly as a result of that love.
When studying the Bible, one must take careful notice of the choice of words and their repetitions. Biblical writers do not use modern techniques of emphasis, such as underlining or italics. Instead, they carefully select their vocabulary in light of what they intend to communicate. Within the four chapters of the book of Jonah, the word evil or wickedness is used ten times, two times referring to the Ninevites (Jon. 1:2; 3:8). There's a reason for this emphasis. The Lord wants us to know how bad a place this city is.
What are some of the other occasions in Scripture when God's indictments against human wickedness have been issued?
Gen. 6:5 ________________________________________________________________________
Gen. 18:25 ______________________________________________________________________
Ezek. 7:10, 11 ____________________________________________________________________
Hab. 1:1-3 ______________________________________________________________________
Rev. 16:1-7 _____________________________________________________________________
God condemns wickedness. God also has pronounced judgment on countries beyond Israel. Ultimately, as the book of Revelation instructs us, the whole earth will fall under God's judgment. Much of Isaiah is filled with warnings to many nations at that time. (See Isaiah 13; 14:24-28; vss. 29-32.) Jeremiah, too, is filled with one warning after another to the pagan nations around Israel that they will be judged for their evil.
|Though the Bible is clear that God brings judgments against nations, why do we have to be careful in how weas mortal sinners, whose understanding of issues is very limiteddetermine what is or isn't God's judgment? Just because a nation faces calamity doesn't automatically mean that God is somehow punishing it. Ultimately, all we can do, in every situation, is call people to repentance, confession of sin, faith, and obedience.
Aecause of the overpowering pronouncement of the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai, many people have decided that the Decalogue was initially given by God to the Israelites and that the moral law it reveals didn't exist until that time. However, a careful reading of Genesis and the early chapters of Exodus reveal a prior knowledge of these commandments and universal human accountability to them.
What are the indications that, long before the time of the prophets, even before the pronouncement of the Decalogue on Sinai to the Israelites, people were held accountable to the same moral standard as those in the Covenant Line?
Gen. 12:10-20 ______________________________________________________________________
Gen. 20:1-14 ______________________________________________________________________
Gen. 39:1-9 _______________________________________________________________________
With evidence for its antiquity within the text itself, the book of Job is recognized as the oldest book in the Old Testament. However, Job himself is not of the Covenant Line, and he lived before the Sinai Decalogue was proclaimed to the Israelites.
Which commandments (or at least the basic principles found in those commandments) are seen in the following texts found in Job? See also Exodus 20.
Job 31:5, 6 ___________________________________________________________________________
Job 31:9-12 __________________________________________________________________________
Job 31:16-23 _________________________________________________________________________
Job 31:26-28 _________________________________________________________________________
Job 31:38-40 _________________________________________________________________________
|How would you explain to someone the necessity of the existence of the law before Sinai? If, as John (1 John 3:4) wrote, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law," why did the law have to predate Sinai?
"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Rom. 1:18-20).
Read over these verses and, using whatever reference material you can find, summarize what they are saying, particularly in the context of what we have been studying this week:
GWhatever else these texts are saying, they are clear that God isn't going to judge the evil and unrighteousness of humanity in an unfair or arbitrary manner. God is a God of love; Christ's death encompassed all humanity, every person who has or ever will live (John 3:16; Rom. 5:18; Heb. 2:9). God's desire, from the beginning, was that all humanity would be saved, including the heathen. According to these texts, enough about God has been made known so that these people will be "without excuse."
What do you think the phrase "without excuse" means? What does that thought tell us about God's fairness and justice in bringing judgment upon all unrighteousness?
The crucial thing we need to remember is that the same God who brings this judgment is the same God who died on the cross for the sinners whom He, of necessity, must judge. Only as we keep the Cross, and what it represents, before us can we truly begin to understand God's righteous judgment upon evil.
"But even this final revelation of God's wrath in the destruction of the wicked is not an act of arbitrary power. 'God is the fountain of life; and when one chooses the service of sin, he separates from God, and thus cuts himself off from life' (DA 764). God gives men existence for a time so that they may develop their characters. When this has been accomplished, they receive the results of their own choice."The SDA Bible Commentary, on Romans 1:18, vol. 6, pp. 477, 478.
Acripture reveals that both the prophet Jonah and the nation of Israel had proven unfaithful to their destined role of being a light to the nations. Both had forgotten how God always has expressed His concern for all humanity, not just those whom He specifically called out to be His people. Indeed, it was precisely because the Lord wanted to reach other people, the heathen, that He called out Israel to be a special treasure unto Himself
How does even the ancient Abrahamic covenant pointedly include people beyond the Covenant Line? Read Genesis 22:18. How were all nations to be blessed by what God did through Abraham? See Gal. 3:26-29.
Divine love, transcending Israel's borders, surely is not an unknown idea to Jonah. But it is easy to choke the channels that God has ordained to flood the world with His grace. No person is immune to this possibility. During New Testament times, on a sunlit rooftop, Simon Peter struggled with the same issues as did the Old Testament Jonah. And in the same town of Joppa!
How does God instruct Peter regarding His compassion for all people? Acts 10:9-16, 34, 35; 11:4-10.
Repetition in biblical narrative writing is a significant pointer of emphasis. Modern writers now use italics or underlining to give emphasis to an important point. But biblical writers use repetition. In this case, Peter is told three times that what God has declared clean he must not call common.
Peter's own explanation of this vision makes it clear he realizes that his vision is not instructing him about proper eating habits but about God's compassion for all nationalities of people. Even so, people do reject the God of heaven's grace.
Imagine, if as Adventists, we thought salvation belonged only to us. Even worse, imagine if we didn't want to give it to those who were "unclean"! It's hard to think of a greater way to be unfaithful to our calling. And yet, in what ways, however subtly, do we face the danger of having that same attitude?
However much God wants those who hear the messages of warning and judgment to repent, He does not force the will. "The exercise of force is contrary to the principles of God's government; He desires only the service of love; and love cannot be commanded; it cannot be won by force or authority. Only by love is love awakened. To know God is to love Him; His character must be manifested in contrast to the character of Satan. This work only one Being in all the universe could do. Only He who knew the height and depth of the love of God could make it known. Upon the world's dark night the Sun of Righteousness must rise, 'with healing in His wings.' Mal. 4:2."Ellen G. White, The Desire of Ages, p. 22.
SUMMARY: God is a God of love, but He's also a God of justice, and just as His mercy extends to all nations, so does His divine judgment.
Luis Amilcar Cano Navarro
Ever since his childhood, music has been a part of Luis Cano's life. But music did not always draw him closer to God. He grew up attending church and singing in the choir, but as a teenager he became disenchanted and left the church.
People praised his musical ability, and Luis dreamed of becoming famous. When church members told him that his voice was a gift from God and should be used only for God's glory, he began to resent God.
Luis drifted away from church. He wanted to live his own life, a life in which God did not play a large part.
After college he began studying voice with a well-known voice teacher, Doña Isabel, and the two developed a friendship. When he married, Doña Isabel invited Luis and his wife, Vicky, to join a small group that met near their home. Luis did not want to go, but Vicky yearned for a closer walk with God. Finally Luis accepted Doña Isabel's invitation to attend the small group meeting.
Luis was impressed with the speaker's understanding of the Bible. Luis and Vicky continued attending the small group meeting. Luis liked the group Bible study, but Vicky was concerned that he might want to change religions. But when the leader invited those present to surrender their lives to Christ, both Vicky and Luis stood.
Luis realized that he had never really understood God before. Every day he fell more deeply in love with God. God began filling every aspect of the Cano's lives. Soon they were baptized.
When they learned about tithing, Luis was not convinced that they could survive on less than their full income. They prayed to know
God's will, and soon Luis received a raise, which convinced him that God was leading them to trust Him.
Luis began singing in church again, but this time it was different. "No matter what happens, I will continue to sing praises to God," he said. "I want to sing for God's glory, not my own, to exalt Christ, not myself"
Luis Amilcar Cano Navarro is an electrical engineer in the national electricity company of Honduras.
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Thursday, 28 May 2009
What type of absinthe are you?
Google Absinthe Quiz and you will find a few interesting quizzes about absinthe (Edit: Google works quickly. This article was the top result within an hour of being posted). Several of the quizzes I tried had inaccurate answers, especially on thujone and "how to drink" questions, and in any case I didn't want to create just another quiz about absinthe. I wanted to create a quiz about you, my readers.
So, if you are on Facebook, you may enjoy this little quiz I created. What type of absinthe are you?
1. Just answer five multiple choice questions: about champagne, why you drink absinthe, your favourite colour, what you did last night (BEFORE going to bed!) and how you would describe yourself,
2. Submit your answers,
3. Send the quiz to some of your Facebook friends (or skip this stage), and
4. You get to see what type of absinthe you are.
5. Finally you can then choose whether or not to add this your Facebook profile.
The quiz is designed to be fun and a little educational, even if it's possible some may disagree with the results. If you are a committed absinthe drinker, "ahead of the curve" in which brands you drink, with a bar with over 30 different absinthes which you drink regularly, then you may not need this quiz. Of course, if you drink that heavily, you may not be able to finish the quiz anyway!
And now for the real inspiration for this quiz ... discovering in Los Angeles in March that I am a genuine absinthe. The generous donor of this bottle should know by now that I am not a Verte!
Caveat: I know a few people may not like adding Facebook applications (especially when seeing their standard disclaimer). The only information that I get to see as the developer of the quiz is a list of who has done the quiz, and what type of absinthe they are. When I get a few more users, I may get a statistical breakdown of users by age, gender etc, but I doubt that I can put that to much use! If you feel strongly about Facebook and privacy, then why not add to the debate about applications there? I also liked this article about Facebook applications, especially the opening line, "The way people talk publicly about Facebook's application platform, you'd think Jesus used it to invite his apostles to the Last Supper."
Anyway, enough of Facebook pros and cons, time for a glass and to try the quiz. Santé et bon courage! And please feel free to come back here to comment on it ...
Posted by Alan at 10:08
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2 comments:
- The Absinthe Review Network said...
I somehow stumbled through the entire quiz.:)
If this can get enough momentum, hopefully it will knock the former quiz down in the search engine rankings, at least...
- 28 May 2009 at 16:21
- Alan said...
"Connoisseur's absinthe," I see!
Who would have guessed it?
- 28 May 2009 at 16:29
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Preserving Spring
(If you're wondering what a High Five is, and how you, too, can have this cool badge of honor on your blog, read this post.)
I have wanted to try crystallizing flowers for a long time. I love the dainty beauty of sugar-dusted blossoms and, because my cake decorating skills are so atrocious, they are the perfect cake or cupcake topper for me. But buying them in stores is holy moley expensive. I wanted something to dress up the wedding cake, so I thought now would be a good time to try my hand at crystallizing violets.
If they're that expensive, they must be tough to do, right? Not so. They are actually quite easy. All you need is fresh flowers, which were grown without pesticides or other nasty chemicals, a fine paintbrush, an egg white or egg white powder, super-fine sugar, and waxed paper on which to dry the flowers. Optional is tweezers to hold the flowers, if they're quite small or delicate.
Make sure the flowers you're using are edible. Good choices include violets, pansies, rose petals (no systemic insecticides, please), lilac florets, scented geraniums, and apple or plum blossoms. They should be picked first thing in the morning and have the dew thoroughly dried off.
I don't keep super-fine sugar on hand, so while my daughter was outside picking violets from the abundance trying to take over my yard, I threw some in my food processor and whirled it around till it was very fine. Then it went into a small dish with a small spoon (still haven't gotten rid of the baby cutlery).
Next I whisked an egg white with 1 Tbsp of water in another small bowl just till it started to appear frothy (a few bubbles). You can use up to 2 Tbsp of water to get the desired consistency. You want it thin enough that you can paint a very thin layer on the flower. If it's too gloopy, add a bit more water.
If you are wary of using raw egg whites, substitute egg white powder (also called meringue powder) for this step and reconstitute it to the appropriate thickness.
Holding the flower gently in one hand (with tweezers, if the blossom is dainty), dip the paintbrush in the egg white solution and gently brush the petals with it, making sure to cover every part of the flower, both front and back.
Then, holding the flower over the sugar bowl, take a small spoonful of the super fine sugar and gently shake it over the flower, turning the flower so the sugar dusts every surface.
Carefully arrange your flower on the sheet of waxed paper, using the tweezers to rearrange petals, if necessary. If you find you missed a small spot, dust a little more sugar over it, or paint more egg white, then dust.
The flowers should be left undisturbed to dry for up to 48 hours, depending on your humidity. When they are thoroughly dried, place them in an airtight container, with waxed paper separating the layers.
For a baker friend, a small box or tin of handmade crystallized flowers is a wonderful gift!
19 comments:
- Jennifer Jo said...
- April 15, 2010 at 10:11 AM
- Dolce said...
They are truly lovely, high fives to you! My parents leave in an area where flowers can grow wildly without any chemicals on... I will definitely pass on the recipe to my mother!! Thanks !!
- April 15, 2010 at 10:29 AM
- Patricia Scarpin said...
What a pretty idea, Lynn! I love it - so beautiful and delicate.
- April 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- grace said...
good start, lynn--these are quite dainty and delicate and beautiful. :)
- April 15, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- Melinda said...
Are those the flowers you are going to use on the wedding cake? They look lovely.
- April 15, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- Julie said...
Beautiful! I am going to have to give these a try!
- April 15, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Maria said...
Love this post!
- April 15, 2010 at 8:01 PM
- Mrs M said...
gorgeous -- and very inspiring. i have violas and pansies a-plenty in the garden, so i'm going to have a go at this this weekend. thank you!
- April 16, 2010 at 1:55 AM
- The Blonde Duck said...
How cool!
- April 16, 2010 at 12:17 PM
- Barbara said...
Good work. Or should I say: High Five!
I've done something similar with grapes and cranberries just for decoration so I have the basics..it's just working with those delicate blooms that may cause a problem. Willing to try, though!
- April 17, 2010 at 4:22 AM
sugared flowers give cakes a kind of gorgeous that nothing else can. It's like it stepped right out of a garden!
- April 17, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Abby said...
Oh, how beautiful. I just read somewhere else tonight how to do this. God must be talking to me!
- April 17, 2010 at 8:09 PM
- Elle said...
Congrats on your first High Five! You really did something that seems pretty tricky...and did it well. Now I'm going to go looking for violets and apple blossoms to sugar. Just lovely!
- April 18, 2010 at 8:57 AM
- Sheila @ The Deliberate Reader said...
They're beautiful!
- April 18, 2010 at 5:16 PM
- Homemade Heaven said...
True beauty. No more flowers this side of the planet, but spring will come again and then I can try my hand at preserving it.
Well done on the high five!
- April 19, 2010 at 2:31 AM
- Peabody said...
Those turned out great. So very pretty.
- April 22, 2010 at 11:05 AM
- Lien said...
Very pretty!! I still haven't made any high-five recipes, lost the illusion that I would easily do 10 this year. I'm happy even to have a post at all, let alone making something that scares me.
- April 24, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- eatme_delicious said...
Wow they look great! I've never thought of doing this.
- April 26, 2010 at 7:17 AM
- Unknown said...
Great idea, Lynn! This looks like an easy alternative to piping out flowers :P
- April 29, 2010 at 3:48 AM