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Keeping babies and toddlers safe from old man winter.
When it comes to the cold, most of us know when we've had too much, but for young children and babies, it's hard to know if they are getting a touch of frostbite or hypothermia simply because they can't speak up. Which is why parents need to take a few extra precautions to keep babies and toddlers safe from old man winter explains emergency room pediatrician with the Hospital for Sick Children, Dr. Bruce Minnes. "With small babies, of course we would want to be a lot more careful. A short walk outside on a very cold winter day can be very nice but they should be bundled up well, and exposed skin surfaces should be covered and protected. Things that are around the baby such as the carriage or carrier also help to keep the wind off of the child's face. Paying close attention to the child's skin is also very important. If you start seeing areas that are white or very pale, which would suggest decreased blood flow to that area, and this would be a sign to get the child inside."
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When considering remodeling or upgrading the décor of a home, many homeowners believe it to be a much larger project than it actually needs to be. Sometimes the most simple of upgrades can make the biggest difference in a home, and most of the time all homes need is a little sprucing up in the décor department rather than a complete remodeling project that could cost thousands of dollars. A big reason homeowners do not consider small updates like décor is because styles change so frequently, and décor can be expensive. There are several classic ways to decorate without having to worry about a style change. Classic furniture in neutral tones can easily be modernized with colorful throw pillows that are easy to change out when styles change. Purchasing quality furniture can be expensive, however buying pieces that are timeless can be a great investment that will save thousands over time simply because they last longer than cheap furniture and they can be kept up with the trends. Another reason why homeowners steer away from updating décor is because they are not sure how to make décor look good and in style.
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Darn you, lean pork!
- lunchbox Oct 14, 2008 03:37 PM
I purchased a 4lb pork shoulder from one of my usual sources and it seemed reasonably well marbled with a tidy little fat cap. This morning, I gave it a good rub with S&P, oregano, and thyme, then set it gently into my oven at 225-235 (my oven fluctuates a bit this low).
I started peeking in at about 4 hours, but let it keep cooking until my tongs could pull some nice loose pieces off with a minimum of pressure (about 7 hours).
Sounds good, right?
Now that it's rested about an hour, i went to sneak a pinch to gnaw on while I contemplate the rest of dinner, and the pinch 1 inch from my tong test is DRY, HARD, and dare I say It, BURNT! Boo to lean pork! Bring back my fat!
Boy, it's a harsh, cold world if we're gonna have to start larding our pork shoulders! I've had my best luck browning the meat in added fat (LARD!!) in my heavy casserole, then I throw in onion and a bit of bouillon or wine and put the lid on, then a long sojourn in a slow oven. If you poke around in the meat when it's at room temperature (which it should be before you start anyway) you can pretty much tell if there are many fat pockets layered between the muscle groups and how well-filled they are. If the shoulder tests out lean under such an exam, I would not be above inserting slabs of bacon fat, or you could cut slices of half-frozen lard. After halfway dismantling it like this you'll want to tie it back up - PITA, I know, but what price porkiness?
What did you end up doing with it? If I were you, I'd throw a good amount of broth in there and return it to the oven. It might be too late, but perhaps you can get some moisture in?
Personally I think the roast was cooked too long. It continues to cook after being removed from the oven..... Did you put it into the roasting pan with that fat cap on top? I would have used a little EVOO for the moisture. We buy lean all natural pork from a local farm and I just roast it at 350 for 20 minutes a lb. OR - throw it into the slow cooker.... there's where you'll get the juicy stuff you crave.
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A properly FAT pork shoulder is all but impossible to overcook. When the LA Times kitchen was testing their porchetta recipe, they pulled most of their shoulders out after from six to eight hours, but by way of experiment left one in for twelve. It looked much like what lunchbox described, but was perfectly succulent and delicious. Lean pork is in my eyes an essential denial of what pigs are about; anyone is perfectly free to disagree with that, but we were after all describing (and trying to correct) a problem with a piece of meat that was EXPECTED to be fat, and found to be not so.
My opinion why the roast turned out dry is a combination of a slightly high temperature, slightly too long in the oven and a piece of meat that was only four pounds. Combining all three factors together is culprit.
My thoughts are the meat should have been pulled sooner at about 5 hours and not 7. The Op is assuming the temperature is between 225-235*, but it is possible the oven was even hotter.....whenever I cook a pork shoulder roast my oven is set at 225* and over cooking has never occurred.....with a smaller 4 pound roast, I usually cook for 6 hours....and a larger 12-14 pound roast stays in the oven for a minimum 11 hours and sometimes as many as 14 hours total....this is all done without the use of a thermometer, but by simply pulling off a piece of meat to get the right feel to know when it's done........perfectly.
Here here! I've practically given up on many dry heat cooking methods for pork, though occasionally I come across cuts that have marbling like a meteor shower - then I indulge.
I think that the one cut of modern pork which retains adequate fat is belly. In fact trad. pork belly just has too much for me.
I posted this elsewhere a couple of days ago and it may be a little off subject, but, crackling aside, the meat is beautifully moist and soft:
Have I finally cracked crackling?
I've struggled for years with unreliable results, but this really, really does work:
Pre-heat oven to gas 6/200C/400F.
For four people take a 1-1.5kg (say 2 1/2 ibs) piece of boneless, skin on, belly pork. This will be about 10 inches square and 1 to 2 inches thick. Score the skin with a very sharp knife at about 1/2 inch spaces. Now cut the meat across and across again into 4 equal squares of one portion (so no carving!). Place meat, spaced a little, skin side up in a roasting tin and scatter chopped onion, carrot, celery, bay leaf, garlic etc around meat. Pour round boiling water to come about half way up the meat and stick it in the oven for 2 1/2 hours. Top up hot water if needed. Serve. No resting required. Actually this works fine with plain water, no veggies.
This was given to me by someone who said they had read it recently, so sorry if I've stolen it.
Hi everyone-
I just needed to vent on that long-past October day-
And you're all right!
I did indeed pull what I could, then chopped the rest into big hunks for some one-on-one braising.
I should have tried with a bigger shoulder, but I am but one man and 8 pounds of pork, no matter how delicious, would surely kill me!
I could not agree more with CPla- I love to braise pork, especially Belly (thank you, Robin Joy)- I have been known to buy an 8 pound belly, make chicharonnes with 1/4, braise 1/4, slow roast 1/4, and confit the last 1/4...
it's about time I do it again!
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Had a similar experience with ribs last year. I have a tried-and-true baby back recipe - dry rub, slow smoke for 4 - 5 hours at about 250°, then baste with my homemade sauce. Never fails, perfectly tender ribs - as long as I use standard supermarket ribs. Did it once for a special dinner party using Niman Ranch baby backs from Whole Foods. Followed the same procedure to the letter, and ended up with hard, dried-out, utterly inedible uselessness. And to add insult to injury, they cost nearly twice as much as the supermarket ones.
Had to make an emergency run to the local BBQ joint for a few racks of their mediocre ribs so as not to starve our dinner guests. Never again!


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Leahy: Votes are there for dairy billBy BOB KINZEL
Vermont Public Radio | January 20,2014An ongoing disagreement between the Senate and the House has stalled a new federal farm bill, and the deadlock could cause major upheaval in the dairy industry if a compromise isnt agreed to by the end of the month.
The Senate and the House Agriculture committees have agreed to a new dairy plan that allows farmers to sign up for an insurance program that protects them when prices fall below the cost of production.
Farmers who enroll in this program must also agree to reduce production when theres a surplus of milk. But House Speaker John Boehner opposes this approach and calls it a Soviet-style dairy program.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is leading the Senate effort to adopt the new dairy plan. He says Boehners analysis is dead wrong.
The fact is it is voluntary, it has a sunset provision in it we ought to give it a try, said Leahy. Certainly the farmers I talked with around Vermont much prefer this to the system that Speaker Boehner and others support.
The Senate and House also disagree over the future of the food stamp program. The Senate bill cuts this program by $4 billion over the next five years, while House leaders are pushing for $30 billion in cuts. Leahy is still optimistic that these disagreements can be resolved.
Itll get resolved. Its just who blinks first. We have the votes in the Senate, he said. Right now we have the votes in the House, its whether theyll knuckle under the speaker and the lobbyists or whether theyll stick with the farmers. Its really that simple a choice.
If a compromise isnt reached by the end of the month, a 1940s dairy pricing law will go into effect. If this happens, its estimated that there will be a 10-fold increase in consumer milk prices virtually overnight.
Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., said this outcome could devastate the nations dairy industry because it would drastically drive down consumption.
That would be outrageous because obviously the 1940s law has no relevance to 2014. So this is just Washington dysfunction and up-against-the-wall politics, said Welch. So that should not happen, but if it does it would be totally a result of the insistence of one person in Congress, Speaker Boehner.
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Just been watching local new around the country (thanks to sky I have all local areas) and some are running a series on how benefit cuts are affecting local claimants. This evening it was an unemployed couple in the north (was look north, north east and cumbria I think) whining that they won't be able to manage when the £500.00 per week cap comes into effect. Four children and a twins on the way, huge expensive TV in the background as they were interviewing the husband. "Trying to give a damn meter" was struggling to move away from zero. They admitted to having never worked a day in their lives except for maybe a paper round when the dad was 13.
Total taken from the benefit pot on a yearly basis £22K. Amount of contributions paid into the central pot, is I suspect, Zero. Why have more children they can clearly not afford? Annoys the hell out of me when TV companies interview these wasters.
When they find people on benefits who are really starving or unable to manage and who don't smoke and don't have 40" plasma TV's maybe I'll be more sympathetic. My partner and I struggle as it is (Being unemployed recently I now am on Job Seekers and getting a whopping £270 a month) and the Mrs pulls in just over £1000 a month after tax and gets a whole £40 from child benefit and such like, and we have a child...we cope (barely but we cope)..
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See also:Malta and the Ionian Islands, and subsequently
See also:Sicily, Naples and
See also:Rome, where Newman made the acquaintance of Dr Wiseman . In a letter home he described Rome as " the most wonderful place on
See also:earth," but the
See also:Roman Catholic
See also:religion as " polytheistic, degrading and idolatrous." It was during the course of this tour that he wrote most of the
See also:short poems which a year later were printed in the
See also:Lyra Apostolica . From Rome Newman returned to Sicily alone, and was dangerously
See also:ill with fever at Leonforte, recovering from it with the conviction that he had a work to do in
See also:England . In June 1833 he
See also:left Palermo for
See also:Marseilles in an orange
See also:boat, which was becalmed in the Strait of
See also:Bonifacio, and here he wrote the verses, "
See also:Lead, kindly
See also:Light," which later became popular as a hymn . He was at home again in Oxford on the 9th of
See also:July, and on the 14th Keble preached at St Mary's an
See also:assize
See also:sermon on "
See also:National Apostasy," which Newman afterwards regarded as the inauguration of the Oxford Movement . In the words of Dean Church, it was " Keble who inspired, Froude who gave the impetus and Newman who took up the work "; but the first organization of it was due to H .
See also:Rose, editor of the
See also:British
See also:Magazine, who has been styled " the Cambridge originator of the Oxford Movement." It was in his rectory
See also:house at
See also:Hadleigh,
See also:Suffolk, that a
See also:meeting of High Church clergymen was held, 25th to 29th of July (Newman was not
See also:present), at which it was resolved to fight for " the
See also:apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer-
See also:Book." A few
See also:weeks later Newman started, apparently on his own initiative, the Tracts for the Times, from which the movement was subsequently named " Tractarian." Its aim was to secure for the Church of England a definite basis of
See also:doctrine and discipline, in
See also:case either of disestablishment or of a determination of High Churchmen to quit the
See also:establishment, an eventuality that was thought not impossible in view of the States'
See also:recent high-handed dealings with the
See also:sister established Church of
See also:Ireland . The teaching of the tracts was supplemented by Newman's Sunday afternoon sermons at St Mary's, the influence of which, especially over the junior members of the university, was increasingly marked during a
See also:period of eight years . In 1835 Pusey joined the movement, which, so far as concerned ritual observances, was later called " Puseyite "; and in 1836 its supporters secured further coherence by their
See also:united opposition to the
See also:appointment of
See also:Hampden as regius professor of divinity . His
See also:Bampton Lectures (in the preparation of which Blanco
See also:White had assisted him) were suspected of
See also:heresy, and this suspicion was accentuated by a pamphlet put forth by Newman, Elucidations of Dr Hampden's Theological Statements . At this date Newman became editor of the British Critic, and he also gave courses of lectures in a
See also:side-
See also:chapel of St Mary's in defence of the via
See also:media of the Anglican Church as between Romanism and popular Protestantism . His influence in Oxford was supreme about the year 1839, when, however, his study of the monophysite heresy first raised in his mind a doubt as to whether the Anglican position was really tenable on those principles of ecclesiastical authority which he had accepted; and this doubt returned when he read, in Wiseman's article in the
See also:Dublin Review on " The Anglican Claim," the words of St Augustine against the
See also:Donatists, " securus judicat orbis terrarum," words which suggested a simpler authoritative
See also:rule than that of the teaching of antiquity . He continued his work, however, as a High Anglican controversialist until he had published, in 1841,
See also:Tract go, the last of the series, in which he put forth, as a kind of
See also:proof
See also:charge, to test the tenability of all Catholic doctrine within the Church of England, a detailed examination of the XXXIX . Articles, suggesting that their negations were not directed against the authorized creed of Roman Catholics, but only against popular errors and exaggerations . This theory, though not altogether new, aroused much indignation in Oxford, and A . C .
See also:Tait, afterwards archbishop of
See also:Canterbury), with three other
See also:senior tutors, denounced it as " suggesting and opening a way by which men might violate their
See also:solemn engagements to the university." The alarm was shared by the heads of houses and by others in authority; and, at the request of the
See also:bishop of Oxford, the publication of the Tracts came to an end .
At this date Newman also resigned the editorship of the British Critic, and was thenceforth, as he himself later described it, " on his deathbed as regards membership with the Anglican Church." He now recognized that the position of Anglicans was similar to that of the semi-Arians in the Arian controversy; and the arrangement made at this time that an Anglican bishopric should be established inJerusalem, the appointment to lie alternately with the British and Prussiangovernments, was to him further evidence of the non-apostolical character of the Church of England . In 1842 he withdrew to Littlemore, and lived there under monastic conditions with a small
See also:band of followers, their life being one of great
See also:physical austerity as well as of anxiety and suspense . To his disciples there he assigned the task of writing lives of the English
See also:saints, while his owr_ time was largely devoted to the completion of an
See also:essay on the development of Christian doctrine, by which principle he sought to reconcile himself to the elaborated creed and the
See also:practical
See also:system of the Roman Church . In February 1843 he published, as an advertisement in the Oxford Conservative Journal, an anonymous but otherwise formal retractation of all the hard things he had said against Rome; and in
See also:September, after the
See also:secession of one of the inmates of the house, he preached his last Anglican sermon at Littlemore and resigned the living of St Mary's . But still an
See also:interval of two years elapsed before he was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church (9th
See also:October 1845) by Father
See also:Dominic, an
See also:Italian Passionist . In February 1846 he left Oxford for Oscott, where Bishop Wiseman, then vicar-apostolic of the Midland
See also:district, resided; and in October he proceeded to Rome, where he was ordained
See also:priest and was given the degree of D.D. by the pope . At the close of 1847 he returned to England as an Oratorian, and resided first at Mary-vale (near Oscott); then at St
See also:Wilfrid's College,
See also:Cheadle; then at St
See also:Ann's, Alcester Street,
See also:Birmingham; and finally at Edgbaston, where spacious premises were built for the community, and where (except for four years in Ireland) he lived a secluded life for nearly
See also:forty years . Before the house at Edgbaston was occupied he had established the London Oratory, with Father
See also:Faber as its
See also:superior, and there (in
See also:King William Street, Strand) he delivered a course of lectures on " The Present Position of Catholics in England," in the fifth of which he protested against the anti-Catholic utterances of Dr Achilli, an ex-Dominican friar, whom he accused in detail of numerous acts of immorality . Popular
See also:Protestant feeling'ran very high at the time, partly in consequence of the recent establishment of a .Roman Catholic diocesan hierarchy by
See also:Pius IX., and criminal proceedings against Newman for
See also:libel resulted in an acknowledged
See also:gross
See also:miscarriage of
See also:justice . He was found guilty, and was sentenced to pay a
See also:fine of £100, while his expenses as
See also:defendant amounted to about £14,000, a sum that was at once raised by public subscription, a surplus being spent on the
See also:purchase of Rednall, a small
See also:property picturesquely situated on the Lickey Hills, with a chapel and cemetery, where Newman now lies buried . In 1854, at the request of the Irish bishops, Newman went to Dublin as rector of the newly-established Catholic university there . But practical organization was not among his gifts, and the bishops became jealous of his influence, so that after four years he retired, the best outcome of his stay there being a
See also:volume of lectures entitled Idea of a University, containing some of his most effective writing .
In 1858 he projected abranch house of the Oratory at Oxford; but this was opposed by
See also:Manning and others, as likely to induce Catholics to send their sons to that university, and the
See also:scheme was abandoned . In 1859 he established, in connexion with the Birmingham Oratory, a school for the
See also:education of the sons of gentlemen on lines similar to those of the English public schools, an important work in which he never ceased to take the greatest
See also:interest . But all this time (since 1841) Newman had been under a
See also:cloud, so far as concerned the great mass of cultivated Englishmen, and he was now awaiting an opportunity to vindicate his career; and in .1862 he began to prepare autobiographical and other memoranda for the purpose . The occasion -came when, in
See also:January 1864, Charles
See also:Kingsley, reviewing Froude's
See also:History of England in
See also:Macmillan's Magazine, incidentally asserted that " Father Newman informs us that truth for its own
See also:sake need not be, and on the whole ought not to be, a virtue of the Roman
See also:clergy." After some preliminary sparring between the two—Newman's pamphlet, " Mr Kingsley and Dr Newman: a Correspondence on the Question whether Dr Newman teaches that Truth is no Virtue," published in 1864 and not reprinted, is unsurpassed in the English language for the vigour of its satire: the anger displayed was later, in a letter to
See also:Sir William
See also:Cope, admitted to have been largely feigned—Newman published in bi-monthly parts his Apologia
See also:pro vita sua, a religious autobiography of unsurpassed interest, the
See also:simple confidential tone of which " revolutionized the popular estimate of its author," establishing the strength and sincerity of the convictions which had led him into the Roman Catholic Church . Kingsley's accusation indeed, in so far as it concerned the Roman clergy generally, was not precisely dealt with; only a passing
See also:sentence, in an appendix on lying and equivocation, maintained that English Catholic priests are as truthful as English Catholic laymen; but of the author's own personal rectitude no
See also:room for doubt was left . In 187o he put forth his Grammar of Assent, the most closely reasoned of his
See also:works, in which the case for religious belief is maintained by arguments differing somewhat from those commonly used by Roman Catholic theologians; and in 1877, in the republication of his Anglican works, he added to the two volumes containing his defence of the via media a long preface and numerous notes in which he criticized and replied to sundry anti-Catholic arguments of his own in the
See also:original issues . At the time of the Vatican Council (1869-1870) he was known to be opposed to the definition of Papal
See also:infallibility, and in a private letter to his bishop (Ullathorne), surreptitiously published, he denounced the " insolent and aggressive
See also:faction " that had pushed the
See also:matter forward . But he made no sign of disapproval when the doctrine was defined, and subsequently, in a letter nominally addressed to the duke of
See also:Norfolk on the occasion of Mr Gladstone's accusing the Roman Church of having " equally repudiated
See also:modern thought and
See also:ancient history," Newman affirmed that he had always believed the doctrine, and had only feared the deterrent effect of its definition on conversions. on account of acknowledged
See also:historical difficulties . In this letter, and especially in the postscript to the second edition of it, Newman finally silenced all cavillers as to his not being really at ease within the Roman Church . In 1878 his old college (Trinity), to his great delight, elected him an honorary fellow, and he revisited Oxford after an interval of thirty-two years . At the same date died Pope Pius IX., who had long mistrusted him; and
See also:Leo XIII. was encouraged by the duke of Norfolk and other distinguished Roman Catholic laymen to make Newman a cardinal, the distinction being a marked one, because he was a simple priest and not
See also:resident in Rome . The offer was made in February 1879, and the announcement of it was received with universal applause throughout the English-speaking
See also:world .
The " creation " took place on 12th May, with thetitle of St
See also:George in Velabro, Newman taking occasion while in Rome to insist on the lifelong consistency of his opposition to " liberalism in religion." After an illness that excited apprehension he returned to England, and thenceforward resided at the Oratory until his
See also:death, 11th
See also:August 1890, making occasional visits to London, and chiefly to his old friend, R . W . Church, dean of St
See also:Paul's, who as proctor had vetoed the condemnation of Tract go in 1841 . As cardinal Newman published nothing beyond a preface to a work by A . W . Hutton on the Anglican
See also:Ministry (1879) and an article on Biblical
See also:criticism in the Nineteentk Century (February 1884) . Newman's influence as controversialist and preacher (i.e. as reader of his written sermons, for he was never a
See also:speaker) was very great . For the Roman Church his conversion secured great
See also:prestige and the dissipation of many prejudices . Within it his influence was mainly in the direction of a broader spirit and of a recognition of the important part played by development both in doctrine and in Church
See also:government . And although he never called himself a mystic, he showed that in his
See also:judgment spiritual truth is apprehended by
See also:direct intuition, as an antecedent
See also:necessity to the professedly purely rational basis of the Roman Catholic creed . Within the Anglican Church, and even within the more strictly Protestant Churches, his influence was greater, but in a different direction, viz. in showing the necessity of dogma and the indispensableness of the austere, ascetic, chastened and graver side of the Christian religion . If his teaching a.; to the Church was less widely followed, it was becauseof doubts as to the thoroughness of his knowledge of history and as to his freedom from
See also:bias as a critic .
Some hundreds of clergymen, influenced by the movement of which for ten or twelve years he was the acknowledged
See also:leader, made their sub-
See also:mission to the Church of Rome; but a very much larger number, who also came under its influence, failed to learn from him that belief in the Church involves belief in the pope . The natural tendency of his mind is often (and correctly) spoken of as sceptical . He held that, apart from an interior and unreasoned conviction, there is no cogent proof of the existence of
See also:God; and in Tract 85 he dealt with the difficulties of the Creed and of the
See also:canon of Scripture, with the apparent implication that they are insurmountable unless overridden by the authority of an infallible Church . In his own case these views did not lead to scepticism, because he had always possessed the necessary interior conviction; and in writing Tract 85 his only doubt would have been where the true Church is to be found . But,, so far as the
See also:rest of the world is concerned, his teaching amounts to this: that the man who has not this interior conviction has no choice but to remain an agnostic, while the man who has it is bound sooner or later to become a Roman Catholic . He was a man of magnetic
See also:personality, with an intense belief in the significance of his own career; and his character may be described as feminine, both in its strength and in its weakness . As a poet he had inspiration and genuine power . Some of his short and earlier poems, in spite of a characteristic
See also:element of fierceness and intolerance in one or two cases, are described by R . H . Hutton as " unequalled for grandeur of outline, purity of taste and radiance of
See also:total effect "; while his latest and longest, " The Dream of Gerontius," is generally recognized as the happiest effort to represent the unseen world that has been made since the time of
See also:Dante . His
See also:prose
See also:style, especially in his Catholic days, is fresh and vigorous, and is attractive to many who do not sympathize with his conclusions, from the apparent candour with which difficulties are admitted and grappled with, while in his private correspondence there is a charm that places it at the
See also:head of that branch of English literature . He was too sensitive and self-conscious to be altogether successful as a leader of men, and too impetuous to take part in public affairs; but he had many of the gifts that go to make a first-
See also:rate journalist, for, " with all his love for and his profound study of antiquity, there was something about him that was conspicuously modern." Nevertheless, with the scientific and critical literature of the years 1850-1890 he was barely acquainted, and he knew no
See also:German .
There are a few passages in his writings in which he seems to show some sympathy with a broader
See also:theology . Thus he admitted that there was " something true and divinely revealed in every religion." He held that " freedom from symbols and articles is abstractedly the highest
See also:state of Christian communion," but was " the
See also:peculiar
See also:privilege of the
See also:primitive Church." And even in 1877 he allowed that " in a religion that embraces large and
See also:separate classes of adherents there always is of necessity to a certain extent an exoteric and an
See also:esoteric doctrine." These admissions, together with his elucidation of the idea of doctrinal development and his eloquent assertion of the supremacy of
See also:conscience, have led some critics to hold that, in spite of all his protests to the contrary, he was himself somewhat of a Liberal . But it is certain that he explained to his own satisfaction and accepted every item of the Roman Catholic creed, even going beyond it, as in holding the pope to be infallible in
See also:canonization; and while expressing his preference for English as compared with Italian devotional forms, he was himself one of the first to introduce such into England, together with the ritual peculiarities of the local Roman Church . The
See also:motto that he adopted for use with the arms emblazoned for him as cardinal—Cor ad
See also:cor loquitur, and that which he directed to be engraved on his memorial tablet at Edgbaston—Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem—together seem to disclose as much as can be disclosed of the secret of a life which, both to contemporaries and to later students, has been one of almost fascinating interest, at once devout and inquiring, affectionate and yet sternly self-restrained . There is at Oxford a bust of Newman by
See also:Woolner . His portrait by Ouless is at the Birmingham Oratory, and his portrait by Millais is in the possession of the duke of Norfolk, a replica being at the London Oratory . Outside the latter
See also:building, and facing the
See also:Brompton Road, there is a marble statue of Newman as cardinal . (A . W . Hu.) The chief authorities for Newman's life are his Apologia and the Letters and Correspondence, edited by
See also:Miss Mozley, above referred to . The letters and memoranda dealing with the years 1845–1890 were entrusted by Newman to the Rev . W .
Neville as
See also:literary executor . Works by R . W . Church, J . B . Mozley, T . Mozley and Wilfrid
See also:Ward should also be consulted, as well as an appreciation by R . H . Hutton . Adverse criticism will be found in the writings of Dr E . A .
See also:Abbott (e.g .
The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman, 2 vols . London, 1892), while someminor traits and foibles were noted by A . W . Hutton in the Expositor (September, October and
See also:November 189o) . See also P . Thureau-Dangin, La
See also:Renaissance catholique: Newman et le mouvement d'Oxford (
See also:Paris, 1899) ; Lucie Felix-
See also:Faure, Newman, sa
See also:vie et ses oeuvres (it, . 1901); MacRae, Die religiose Gewissheit bei John Henry Newman (
See also:Jena, 1898); Grappe, John Henry Newman . Essai de psychologie religieuse (Paris, 1902) ; . •William
See also:Barry, Newman (London, 19o3);
See also:Lady
See also:Blennerhassett, J . H . Kardinal- Newman (Berlin, 19o4); Bremond, Newman . Le developpement du dogme chritien (Paris, 1905; 4th ed., 1906), Psychologie de la foi (ib .
1906), and Essai de biographie psychologique (ib . 1906) .
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Why 100 million porcelain sunflower seeds?
Slides, spiders, cracks and a giant reflected sun: all "art-ertainments" that have amused hordes of visitors to the cavernous Turbine Hall of London's Tate Modern.
In terms of popularity and public impact they are some of the most successful contemporary art commissions of this century, but they have come at a price. The space was conceived as a sculpture gallery, but has become more of a public playground.
Children seemingly levitate on their heelies above the slope from the hall's western entrance; others play tag. Adults pose for snaps and press their noses against the window of the colourful shop; others chomp on sandwiches as they queue for tickets to the latest exhibition.
None of which matters until an artist makes a work that is not playful but serious, as happened last year when the Polish artist Miroslaw Balka installed a vast steel chamber into the far end of the hall. As you walked up a ramp into the structure it quickly became pitch black, causing you to lose your bearings.
The artist intended the work to be a comment on internment; he wanted it to generate feelings of apprehension and intrigue. The public just wanted to have fun. Camera-phones would light up the space and ruin the effect, prompting couples hiding at the back to break into fits of giggles.
This year's commission, by the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (from tomorrow until 2 May 2011), is another work laced with serious symbolism. He has covered the east end of the Turbine Hall with a 10cm-thick bed of sunflower seeds. There are over 100 million.
Except they are not sunflower seeds at all, but individually hand-crafted pieces of porcelain, every one of which has also been hand-painted. He wants the visitor to walk on his work, to grind his or her heels into the efforts of the 1,600 Chinese workers who made the tiny pieces.
His message is one of scale - when was the last time you saw 100 million hand-crafted objects? - and a comment on the population of China. It is also about individuality, the idea that all these objects look the same but are all in fact different. The sunflower represents the role of the people in the time of Chairman Mao: he was the sun; they were the sunflowers turning to face him.
And as the people starved, so they ate and shared out sunflower seeds. The porcelain is not an arbitrary choice of material either; it has historically been a major export of China.
Ai Weiwei is a substantial artist with plenty to say. The profile I made for Newsnight last week is below - he is a fascinating man.
Who knows how successful this installation will be? Historically the artworks that have existed only in the far end of the hall - as is the case here - have failed to capture the public imagination in the same way as those that have infiltrated the whole space.
But for the visitors who do make it past the shop and the queue and walk upon the serene landscape that Ai Weiwei has created it will be an enjoyable interaction, provoking the feeling of walking along a shingle beach. I suspect many will also be moved by what the artist is saying with the piece.
If that happens and this helps reclaim the Turbine Hall in the public mind for serious artworks, it would, in a way, be the most successful installation yet in Tate's hangar-like space.
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Comment number 1.At 14:49 11th Oct 2010, RichTeabiscuit wrote:
'Hand painted'...?
Assuming that it takes 10 seconds to pick up a seed, load a brush, paint the seed and then put it down, it'd take a team of 20 people working 12-hour days approximately 3 years and 62 days to do that lot.
Hand painted? Are you sure?
Comment number 2.At 15:33 11th Oct 2010, Paulie wrote:
1600 workers
100,000,000 seeds
625,000 each, 6 seeds a minute
7.5 hour working day
23.15 days.
So it could be done in under 5 weeks.
Comment number 3.At 15:34 11th Oct 2010, jr4412 wrote:
Rich #1.
"..it'd take a team of 20 people working 12-hour days approximately 3 years and 62 days to do that lot."
and now divide that time by eighty ("..the efforts of the 1,600 Chinese workers..").
Will Gompertz.
"..scale - when was the last time you saw 100 million hand-crafted objects?"
fabulous, John Heywood's 'Many hands make light work' comes to mind.
Comment number 4.At 17:01 11th Oct 2010, Groovehoob wrote:
Good grief - when this is the kind of thing that our "arts" money is spent on, it's well past time that cuts were made! The "artist" didn't even do it himself - what's the point?
Comment number 5.At 08:10 12th Oct 2010, ian-russell wrote:
''Who knows how successful this installation will be?''
The simplest ideas are usually the best.
Comment number 6.At 09:19 12th Oct 2010, John_from_Hendon wrote:
The Turbine Hall should be full of TURBINES!!!!
Everything else is a waste of time.
Comment number 7.At 09:37 13th Oct 2010, BLee wrote:
How ironic that this installation comes within 48 hours of the news that Banksy has satirized the conveyor belt production of art in The Simpsons opening credits.
Comment number 8.At 21:53 14th Oct 2010, skbhambra wrote:
Groovehoob: This may not be your idea of 'art' or money well spent but personally I love it! A beautiful, thought provoking piece that, particularly when put into its social and historical context, is very powerful. And not all 'artists' do necessarily produce the end physical results of their work.
BLee: I would imagine Ai Weiwei has been working on this for a considerable amount of time, as have the producers of The Simpsons with Banksy! Perhaps the real issue is that more people are beginning to commentate in their own ways on our conveyor belt production society?


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Step 3-Those Dreaded Dishes
So, You have a calendar going now. You know what you need to do tomorrow cause it is written right there to see.
And you've picked your laundry days.
NOW….today…the ONLY thing you are going to do is
So, You have a calendar going now. You know what you need to do tomorrow cause it is written right there to see.
And you've picked your laundry days.
NOW….today…the ONLY thing you are going to do is
Now that you have your Calendar going…let's take the next step.
Keeping a house that is LIVED in, in order means daily maintenance.
Usually the hardest areas to maintain are
Get a Calendar
It doesn't have to be perfect, just any calendar for now with boxes to write stuff in each day will work. You know the one your insurance company gave you over the holidays that you threw in the mail junk pile? That one will work!
Does your ADHD have you overwhelmed by it all?
What is "it all"?
ADDing Routine Program is easy and simple.
Designed by SuperADDmom, a person ACTUALLY with ADHD, the Program is for people who cannot mentally or physically handle more then 7 to 10 minutes of housework at a time.
ADDing Routine is an organizational program designed to help the worst clutterbugs get rid of their clutter and keep the house in relative order, and help you manage the daily events going on in your lives!
For the last 10 years my blog has been mostly about being a mom with adhd and raising two kids with adhd and other neurodiverities .
But, now that my oldest is almost 14, it's hard to talk about the mom stuff and keep her privacy, which she deserves out of respect. So, due to this I had stopped blogging as much about those things.
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I need to get back on track with my paleo intake. So im taking the 21 day challange.
As for many with ADHD, it is not the only neurobiological issue I deal with.
I am dyslexic. If you saw some of my posts pre spell and grammar check…I'm not sure they'd be readable.
The thing is….reading and writing is not my biggest issues when it comes to dyslexia.
Some people think of dyslexia as a learning issue that only involves reading. But dyslexia can make a number of daily living tasks difficult.
It is no secret that people with ADHD have issues with executive functioning..which in turn creates the chaos we often live in. The clutter, the forgotten bills, the half finished projects….
At almost 40, one look around my house and you'll see it.
They say that people with executive function issues have brain that mature less fast and EF skills can be years behind.
If that is the case…then I'd say I'm at the mid 20's range of EF maturity.
But recently….


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