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Im leaning towards gravel as I have an unlimited supply in the creeks on our land. My beds are all grass with whiskey barrels, wash tubs, and old milk cans used as planters so I feel like the gravel will look better.
I'm also curious which would be the least inviting for snakes. We just killed the first copperhead of the year while weedeating in the ditches along the road, less than 20 yards from the house. With three young kids, I dont want anything that would draw more snakes in. |
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I assume you're asking about mulch for the beds. Gravel and wood chips both have up-sides and down-sides. Wood chips will decompose and add nutrients to the soil. Grasses, of course, generally don't need a lot of nutrients, but they do need some, and hardwood chips decompose slowly, adding nutrients slowly. You'll need to replenish regularly. Gravel, especially if it's freely acquired on your property, is a more permanent weed blocker, and will still let sufficient water through. It probably should all be close to the same size and color, so you may have to do some sifting. A frame covered with hardware fabric, in 1/2" or 3/8" mesh, will give you a good size. Snakes won't necessarily be more attracted to either. Rattlesnakes will look for sun-warmed spots in cool weather, but Copperheads tend to avoid open areas, and are attracted to lots of moisture. Be careful when gathering gravel from your creeks. Undergrowth beside creeks would be a good spot for Copperheads. Make lots of noise and use a 6' long bamboo switch to rustle the growth. Copperheads generally will steer clear of you. |
Thanks again, Donn! I think I'm going with the gravel. As far as getting it, we'll use the tractor, if the creeks ever go down from all the rain we've had. My in laws keep telling me not to use the rocks because the copperheads will lay in them. But at least we would be able to see them easier on the light colored rocks versus the reddish wood mulch. I chose to do the grasses to avoid have a lot of cover for the snakes to hide under. |
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Hey guys! I really like bohemian jewelry and I was wondering if anyone knew where I might be able to find some. I discovered some amazing Bohemia necklaces at a great price at www.Carolee.com. It was called Spice Island or something like that. Also at the Carolee website they are giving away a free trip to one of the islands I think. Anyway, I would love to hear some suggestions about these bohemian Carolee necklaces or any other bohemian jewelry you may know about or have. |
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I can't seem to access their website; there are tons of carolee jewellery on ebay, it's an inexpensive brand name I've seen everywhere at discounts. Have not seen the bohemian jewellery though, I'm assuming it's a more earthy look, with natural fibers? I've seen all manners of that style in the stores this spring since the bohemian tops and dresses are still the rage.... |
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I am not really much of a music review but if I was, I'd say this music is great. I gotta ask, can you make an extended version of this song? (I'll pm you if I didn't get ur reply).
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Wrote this recipe for a celiac friend who has a hard time finding "good" tasting gluten-free beer. I brewed this recipe with similar notes to New Belgium's "Fat Fire" Amber Ale. The friends said it came extremely close, suprisingly for the fact that it was brewed gluten-free.6.5 lbs. Briess White Sorghum Syrup (45 high) 2 lbs. BriesSweetTM Brown Rice Syrup (45 high) 4 oz. Grandma's Original Unsulphured Molasses 1oz. Willamette Hops .5oz. Fuggle Hops Dissolve Sorghum, Brown Rice Syrup, and Molasses into boil. Hop for 60 mins with 1 oz. of Willamette Hops.. Hop for 20 mins with .25oz of Fuggle Hops. Add in yeast nutrients. Hop for another 5 mins with .25oz of Fuggle Hops. Cool and transfer to fermenter (don't forget to add the rest of the water!!!) and pitch Fermentis Safeale US-5 Yeast. It took me four months to bottle this batch, but I'm sure you could bottle after four weeks. =) Enjoy!!!
What size batch is this? 5 gallon? *never mind....
Anyone recently give this a try?
My wife wants me to try this recipe because she LOVES Fat Tire. Not trying to reproduce it, but if it goes in Fat Tire direction she will like it. A bunch of threads warn against molasses saying it gives off flavors. Any opinions on this recipe? I am the celiac, so I have never tried Fat Tire. The hop additions here look subtle to me. My wife normally likes hoppy beer so I am wondering if I should up the late additions or maybe dry hop. Any suggestions from experience, especially someone that has experience with Fat-Tire-like beer are welcome!
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The staff was over the top...efficient courteous The renovated room was a delight The bed and the linens were the best hotel beds I have slept in in a long time I immediately made three additional reservations at this hotel.
the HVAC was not working properly and difficult to get right
Walking distance to union station, with great little restaurants close by. Hotel was quiet and rooms were HUGE!
Evening and Night Personnel very pleasant and helpful. Unbeatable position.
We arrived at 01:00 am, due to airline delay, nobody was there for the baggage (it is a 4 stars hotel). Rceception and common areas carpet was dirty and on our floor also worn-out. Furniture in our room in bad condition and also worn-out, and overall look of the room a bit "poor", although the room was spacious. Late check-out policy absolutely unfriendly and not gentle at all. We go to New York 3 or 4 times a year and must say we have had much better experience in Manhattan for the same price, or enthusiastic experience for a mere 10-15% higher price. Will not go back.
Comfortable boutique hotel, great location and good value for money. Would stay again
Wifi didn't work, it was broken. Room next to lift was a bit noisy the first night.
For some reason the concierge wasn't able to process our keys and the doorman needed to go up and open the door... But he knocked on 1502 first and the room was occupied, then radio'd and 1005 was assigned. There was a hair in the faucet of the bathroom. 15 mins later another person brought the room keys.
Not much
Poor service and unpleasant staff except for the bell boy. Minimal facilities, no breakfast and outrageous prices at adjoining bar. We ordered 2 coffees and 2 croissants our first morning and was charged over $30. The room heating system is antiquated and made a tremendous amount of noise when functioning. I would advise ear plugs if you intend to stay at the Tuscany. We had reservations for 4 days, but cancelled the last 2.
Charming boutique hotel in lovely and quiet location a short walk from Grand central. Understated modern decor, spotless, and very spacious rooms. Highly recommended!
Huge room. Tasteful furnishings. Efficient staff. Perfect!
Very spacey room, perfectly quite (at least at eleven floor). Good location, close to the subway and Grand Central (but not too close). Quick and polite service. Very comfortable huge bed.
No safe deposit box in the room. The WIFI connection is not very stable, but when there is connection, the internet is pretty fast. There is no international (foreign) TV channels in the room.
Great bathroom. Beautiful room.
Bar wasn't open, nowhere to eat.
Noisy staff outside room early Sunday am
Large room, clean, and conveniently located 3 blocks from Grand Central station.
Some plumbing problems with resulting in some annoying noises
Very good staff, I was upgraded in a very nice and comfortable room
Excellent location in the Murray Hill area. Close to Park, Madison and 5th avenues. We were able to walk to Times Square, The Rockefeller Center and dining. The Staff was helpful, professional and willing to make our stay enjoyable. They were able to help us with directions to local subway stations, dining locations as well as local sites. The hotel is located on a quiet street not disturbed by traffic noise. We will definitely consider the Tuscany or its sister The Colony on our next stay.
The Lounge/Bar area was not open except for limited hours.
Needed hooks in bathroom or stool. Nowhere to place items, towels, or clothes. Not functionally sufficient for this level of hotel. Also would have liked in room hot water for tea. A lot of space that was not useful.
The room was simply massive - easily 50% larger than your normal Manhattan hotel room for the price range. The rooms are finished to an exceptionally high standard, television was gigantic and the bed was first rate. Staff (Denis) was incredibly helpful on arrival and our overall stay was perfect. Highly recommend the hotel for anyone looking for a base to go shopping or getting in some of the nightlife - Grand Central is literally around the corner, Fifth Avenue is a five minute walk & Times Square /Macy's/ Rockefeller etc. are no more than ten mins walk.
Because the Tuscany is quite a low rise building in comparison to the larger hotels it means your rooms will be closer to the street, hence some traffic noise but then again this is NYC and the noise comes with the territory!!
The bed was extremely comfortable (probably the best ever) and the shower was very good. We were given an upgrade to a larger room which was well equipped and comfortable, with safe & minibar (although we would have preferred just the fridge space) with a view of the Chrysler Building. The location was great in midtown, just a couple of streets from Grand Central Station and a couple of blocks from Bryant Park, which is very atmospheric at this time of year.
The room was badly insulated from a noise perspective and although we weren't facing a particularly busy street and on the 10th floor we could hear every vehicle that passed. The plumbing was also noisy at times and despite switching it off the noisy heating/aircon fan kicked in regularly at night. General cleanliness was good (bed and bathroom were spotless), although there were stains on the blinds & carpets and the inner blinds and windows were dirty. When we checked out I tried to pay part of the bill by using a 'cash-passport' debit card (leaving a small balance on it to cash later) and the balance by credit card but was told that the debit card didn't work and that the whole balance would have to be taken from the credit card. I assumed that this was because the amount was too large a withdrawal at one time, but when I went to use the debit card in an ATM the balance was NIL. This caused considerable anxiety (albeit short-lived) worrying that the considerable balance had been stolen by some means and an expensive phone call to the card company to confirm that the whole card balance had infact been taken by the Hotel. We then had change our plans for the day and return the hotel early to sort a refund as they had taken the full payment from both cards. The hotel did admit the error eventually, but only after I went through their transaction records and pointed out the 'transaction approved' record that they initially denied was there. They did apologise but made no offer of recompense for the extra costs incurred on our part (phone calls & taxis).
Tuscany is a lovely older hotel with charm yet a modern style decor. Courteous and pleasant staff. Large rooms. Very convenient location.
Overall feeling of almost 4 stars. Housekeeping tries but attention to detail is lacking. Insufferable noise from car honking from 7am-12 midnight daily. Manager has no personality (Shane) and we felt like a task when dealing with him.
Spacious, well-appointed rooms. Great location between Park and Lexington. Very courteous staff. Attractive lobby.
The room was a bit odd -- lots of space but not necessarily put to great use. I did not appreciate the carpeting, which a little visually jarring and perhaps needs new padding.
Great location, big rooms
Limited breakfast menu
Clean, very functional, comfortable, perfect for short stays, good value for money. Cannot go wrong.
Lacks any charm, reception quick and helpful but the whole place is impersonal. Lobby feels like a waiting room


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TWO. Before applying makeup I put on polysporin and it evens out the look basically. so it's not so cakey, and more smooth. it works. you'd have to try it to see if it works best for your skin too! :)
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HG product! Best used when you've just popped a pimple, leaving a bloody mess on your skin. And when you've just torn through your skin as you squeezed out a blackhead. First wash the wounds with only water, or use a minimum-ingredient cleanser like Vichy Calming Cleansing Solution. Massage this in for a few minutes. Leave it alone. It does feel oily for several hours, but it's all worth it when it leaves your skin healed. Squeezing blackheads and popping a pimple can lead to pits/depressions/holes in your skin. They may turn out to be permanent. Polysporin, when used immediately, pretty much will prevent that scarring since it provides a ton of moisturization (it contains white petrolatum) and infection-fighting ingredients.
I've used Polysporin on this squeezed out blackhead that was MASSIVE. There was some blood, since I've basically torn apart some of my epidermis. There used to be a hole. I massaged in a huge amount of Polysporin, and there's no permanent hole. In a few days, it will look like nothing's happened there.
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I have generally good skin, but products and hormones cause the odd breakout. I use Saje products as a daily (Zit Zapper) and when I have a few zits, I after the initial breakout I alternate with polysporin and sudocrem as a spot treatment.
After I shower I simply rub some of this on leave it on for a couple hours, wipe it off and moisturize.
I swear by polysporin and sudocrem, which is great because they're both common household items and are great for other purposes (cuts, burns, rashes, ect.) and are totally within my college student budget. :)
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Besides its use for cuts and small burns, like others have mentioned, this is great for pimples. I use the Polysporin triple antibiotic which has polymycin B sulfate 0.13%, bacitracin zinc 0.79% and gramicidin 0.03%.
I have just a few active (but healing) acne blemishes due to makeup that broke me out. I used this on the pimples and they healed much quicker than they would without polysporin. One thing I really hate is that dry ring that forms around a pimple when you wear makeup just to cover up that pimple (especially if you've used a drying agent such as benzoyl peroxide). When you use polysporin over the pimple it minimizes and pretty much makes that dryness disappear under the makeup. This should only be used as a spot treatment 1-3 times a day or a couple of times only if your entire face is red and dried out.
I am also taking a topical antibiotic for acne (clindamycin) so I use polysporin under the antibiotic, but use it over top of the antibiotic cream for the 2nd or 3rd daily spot treatmenet.
It cost me about $10 at wal-mart.
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This really does heal cuts and abrasions, any sort of break in the skin, much faster and with less scarring. In the last year the skin on my cheeks started breaking out with small hard, inflamed bumps. They were itchy and sometimes painful, and not pretty! There was no pus or anything in them (pardon the grossness) so they definitely weren't pimples. And they seemed to last forever, flaring up repeatedly. Makeup irritated them more so I gave up trying to cover them up. All I could do was wear sunscreen religiously throughout the summer to keep them from turning into darkened scars. I couldn't figure out what was going on with my skin and it was steadily getting worse.
After googling my symptoms on the internet, I realized it could be a form of rosacea, treatable with topical antibiotic cream. I could go to the doctor to get a prescription, but then I thought of good old polysporin and wondered if that would work. I bought some a few weeks ago and began applying a thin layer every morning and every night. The difference its made is amazing. My skin has completely calmed down. There is no more pain or itching and I can hardly feel where the bumps used to be. The dark red angry splotches that had remained for months at a time are healing into pinkish splotches. I wish I had thought of polysporin sooner!
Update: Due to several months of high stress and lack of proper sleep caused by work, my skin has been freaking out. I had itchy inflamed red bumps on my cheeks and anything I put on my face seemed to aggravate my skin more. I remembered that Polysporin had helped in the past. This time I bought the cream version because the ointment is quite oily and you can wear the cream under makeup. The improvement was immediate. A day later, the inflammation was gone and the red spots were healing. It's been a few days now and my skin is looking much, much better. Polysporin will keep things under control until I can get to a dermatologist and get prescription treatment for my rosacea.
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let down. feels like vaseline. did nothing for my big cyst.
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I never usually get huge breakouts but when I do I really pick and try and pop them which leads to scabs and scars. Well I recently got one and of course it just turned into an open sore on my face so bad I really didnt want to leave the house, So i decided to search top pick under unlisted brand to see if there were any home remedies. I treid hydrogen peroxide to clean it which was amazing and then i found reviews for this which I knew I had in with my band-aids somewhere. I tried it and i can say it really does live up to hype, it really helped heal it. the next morning after putting this on and adding a little bit of vitamin e oil the night before, I woke up with a little tiny dry patch and significantly smaller spot where before it was all swelled up, bright red and a large mark.
Although I don't like petroleum based products, it is one prodcut that actually does what it says it will (heal wounds) which is more than you can say for most beauty products out there. now im gonna allways have a tube on hand for emergencies


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Does milk come out of Daniel's nostril when he nurses on one side???? My left side produces a lot of milk and my let down is rather forceful. Is this why? He doesn't seem to mind milk in his nose but I would rather it doesn't happen unless I specifically put it in his nose for stuffiness, etc.!
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interesting. I have forceful let down and I did with my son, and I've never seen it come out of baby's nose. Sorry I have no input.
Perhaps his sinuses are slightly under developed? I'm thinking something along the lines of a deviated septum?
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>> Zac Posen riffed on the idea of wardrobe essentials — with a twist — for his Spring 2012 Z Spoke collection. "There's no need for more essentials that are basic," he explains. "These have a bit of fashion to them." To that end, Posen's essentials are dressed-up, playful, and full of the designer's signature feminine detailing: lean-cut trousers come in shiny two-tone faille or tie-dyed lace, shirt dresses in whisper-weight seersucker, and skirts in swinging full flares. There's plenty of wearable whimsy too — a swinging "disco tent dress" in shimmering sequins, a floaty ruched-chiffon neon shift — and lots of lively prints, like an "acid" cheetah in chartreuse and lemon, ditsy florals in abstracted batiks. "This is a wardrobe, and it's nice to be able to mix it up and show the diversity of it," Posen says.
The collection's diversity carries through to accessories as well, with luxe Nappa leather totes and embossed-croc satchels mingling easily with brightly-colored iPad cases and studded clutches — which run from $225 to $695. See all the looks from the Z Spoke Spring 2012 lookbook — modeled by Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Tennessee Thomas, Stephanie LaCava, Yaz Bukey, and Laura Love — and peek all the accessories, here in the slideshow.
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The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge takes in the peaks of Pen-y-ghent, Whernside and Ingleborough, usually in this order, and in under 12 hours. These peaks form part of the Pennine range, and encircle the head of the valley of the River Ribble, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
You can complete the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge either as part of an organised event, or as a self organised group. We've got three dates available this year, or we can arrange private events for large groups.
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge includes:
The view from part way up Pen-y-ghent, looking back towards Horton in Ribblesdale.
Most walkers would start with Pen-y-ghent, from the village of Horton in Ribblesdale - there is the option of checking in and out at the Pen-y-ghent Cafe. Bear in mind that the traditional Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge involves returning to your starting point to fully complete the Challenge.
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Chicago priest urges residents to get involved
By Michael Gonzalez Post-Tribune correspondent August 23, 2014 1:58PM
Rev. Michael Pfleger addressed the Annual King-Chavez Social Justice Event at the Genesis Center in Gary, IN., on Saturday, August 23, 2014. | John Smierciak/For Sun-Times Media
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GARY — In the fire-brand style that has become his trademark, the Rev. Michael Pfleger told a packed room to do more than just pray about rashes of violence and injustices in their community and take matters into their own hands.
Like other speakers at the Northwest Indiana Federation of Interfaith Organizations' annual Martin Luther King-Cesar Chavez awards brunch Saturday at the Genesis Center, Pfleger, pastor of St. Sabina Church, a Roman Catholic church in Chicago, linked violence in the streets of Northwest Indiana and the South Side of Chicago to the recent violence in Ferguson, Missouri.
Protests and riots have wracked the St. Louis suburb since a white police officer allegedly shot and killed an unarmed black teenager two weeks ago.
"The question I think we have to ask of people of faith is, 'What are we going to do?' " Pfleger said. "How are we going to respond? How are we going to respond and act to this injustice we see around America? How is Ferguson going to wake us up in Indiana and Chicago and across this country? Some of us will be angry about what's going on in Ferguson but do nothing about what's going on in Indiana or the South Side of Chicago.
"We can't just ignore what's going on in Ferguson and ignore what's going on in our own back yard."
The federation is an organization of clergy and institutions working to address what they perceive as injustices in Northwest Indiana. After Pfleger's comments, the energized group, singing "We Shall Overcome," marched from the Genesis Convention Center to the steps of the adjacent Lake County courthouse and demanded more change.
They especially demanded changes in local policing and more jobs from the Regional Development Authority, which finances a number of large projects in the area.
While the federation lauded its members and handed out awards, Pfleger captured the attendees from his opening comments, demanding people of faith do more than just pray for change.
Pfleger joined St. Sabina as an associate pastor in 1975, becoming its pastor in 1981. His image and comments often appear in news stories and broadcasts in the Chicago and national media.
Before his sermon-like speech, Pfleger said unemployment, poverty and mass incarceration fill the streets of Northwest Indiana and Chicago.
Most people, including those filling churches, temples and mosques, choose to hope things will get better, become hopeless and give up or refuse to address issues that do not touch their homes, Pfleger said.
"None of those are solutions and none of those are acceptable, particularly for people of faith," he said. "Whether we're Muslims, Christians or Jews, our very, very holy books demand we be aggressively active, we be voices of change, we be the light and the salt of the earth. I think we've dropped the ball."


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- Cartoon Characters: David, Lisa, Holler, Susan, King, Pit, Pat, Pot.
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Tag Archives: Other religionsCan We Talk?I was very happy to see a report on Beliefnet that the US Council of Catholic Bishops apologized to Jewish leaders for "feelings of hurt." This wasn't a fauxpology either. They actually spelled out, "Jewish-Catholic dialogue… has never been, and will never be, used by the Catholic Church as a means of proselytism, nor is it intended as a disguised invitation to baptism." I blogged about the so-called "clarification" that led to this moment back in the summer. Over 40 years after Vatican II, the US Bishops seemed to be reversing course, last June, on the validity of Judaism as a separate religion–and more importantly, to view interfaith dialogue as a chance to "invite the dialogue partner to baptism." In this apology the Bishops acknowledge what ought to be obvious to everyone–Jews and Catholics have a very different perspective on proselytizing. Jews don't find welcome in proselytizing and we don't have a tradition of proselytizing non-Jews. (I know there are some historical exceptions to this which would be interesting to discuss, but–let's just say no one is going to be ringing the doorbell at your house at random and asking if you want to read the Torah.) Who knows what made the Council of Bishops think it was a good idea to imply that Catholics ought to proselytize to Jews–even in the context of interfaith dialogue–in their earlier document last June? Whatever the internal political or theological reasons were, now both groups can sit down and discuss it. I do not think it means what you think it meansIt's very easy to bond with people over shared experiences. That's a lot of what the personal narrative essays on this website are about. What's more exciting is when people bond over shared differences–not in spite of having different beliefs, history or culture, but because of it. That's why the decision of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to issue a "clarification" of an earlier 2002 document on Catholic-Jewish relations seems to be going over like a lead balloon in the Jewish community. In the words of Inigo Montoya in The Princess Bride, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." Unless "clarification" always means "complete reversal of previous position." As J.J. Goldberg writes in an article in the Forward, Goldberg also notes, to me most significantly, that the Council of Bishops did not discuss this with Jewish dialogue partners while it was in process or even give them a warning that it was coming out. Orthodox groups that had been part of the dialogue responded in kind, shooting from the hip with an immediate response June 29, while other Jewish groups tried to engage in discussion for a month and a half before they expressed "serious concerns" about the future of Catholic-Jewish dialogue. Reading another piece in my local Catholic paper The Boston Pilot, "Jewish leaders say bishops' June statement could hurt dialogue", I had some insight into why Catholics might not understand the (to me entirely predictable!) negative Jewish reaction. Some Catholics may have had concerns that Jews were not allowed to convert to Catholicism: (emphasis mine) An Orthodox Rabbi Who Does Not Think Intermarriage is the End of the Jewish WorldNearly three years ago I moved to St. Louis. A friend of ours insisted that we join a local synagogue with a rabbi he described as the most thoughtful and knowledgeable he had ever met. It sounded like a plan–the synagogue was a quick walk from our home. The next day was Shavuot, when we celebrate revelation, and I was eager to see why my friend was so enthusiastic. I was shocked. There were Jews from every denomination attending classes taught by rabbis and teachers from every denomination. (This is really unusual in an Orthodox synagogue.) Over the next two years, I got to know the synagogue's rabbi, Hyim Shafner, who insisted I call him Hyim and not rabbi, which is also unusual. I was always struck by his spirituality and how he helped everyone who walked into Bais Abe to connect with their Judaism and spirituality. He just concentrated on helping those around him and developing a community of like-minded individuals. He never judged and I rarely saw him criticize. He is also a great counselor. Rabbi Shafner just finished writing The Everything Jewish Wedding Book . A wedding blogger who reviewed the book interviews Hyim about intermarriage in the context of being an Orthodox rabbi. When asked how he feels about interfaith weddings, Rabbi Shafner puts interfaith weddings into both a historical and spiritual context: Rabbi Shafner is certainly not advocating interdating or intermarriage, but does not discount the impact a wedding can have on one's spirituality and connection to their heritage. Happy Shrove Tuesday! Happy Mardi Gras!It's no secret around my office that I'm in the middle of rewriting a quickie guide to Jewish food. I have to pare down an encyclopedic 3,000 word monster of an anthropological study into something people can use. We are still discussing whether anyone needs to know about calves' foot jelly. So I took a little internet research side-trip to learn about the foods associated with today's holiday. No, it's not a Jewish holiday as far as I know! Today is Fat Tuesday, also known as Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday or Pancake Day. It's a day on which Roman Catholics have traditionally eaten a lot of goodies in anticipation of a solemn season of prayer and self-deprivation before Easter. Some called it Carnival because it was the last day they ate meat before not having any for 40 days. Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday, which starts Lent. One traditional food in the United States is the King Cake that people in New Orleans share as part of Mardi Gras. Back in France they make a gallete de rois that's frangipane (almond paste) and puff pastry, but here in the US it's more like a giant cinnamon roll with colored sugar on top. I've never had this cake and now I really want to make one! Like a lot of Americans, I have a place in my heart for New Orleans because it's the cradle of jazz and because of the terrible damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina. I've never been there, but my husband has been several times and took amazing photographs, some of which are on his Flickr page. (He took the one at right, too.) Continue reading A Wedding on Planet Obama
As a ravenous consumer of film (insert shameless plug here), I make it a point to see as many of the Oscar contenders before the show as I can. Given that the Oscars are in less than three weeks–and nominations only came out a week-and-a-half ago–I'm in a bit of a film frenzy. Last night, I saw Rachel Getting Married. Rachel Getting Married is about a recovering addict/bulimic/human grenade, Kim (Anne Hathaway), who is released from rehab for a few days to attend her sister Rachel's (Blake DeWitt) wedding. Kim is a narcissistic mess of a human being who proves that the only person more tiresome than an addict is a recovering addict. But this post isn't about Kim. It's about Rachel and her husband, Sidney (Tunde Adebimpe), and their cross-cultural mishmash of a wedding. 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For a comprehensive run-down on Williamson's anti-Semitism, see Professor Rebecca Lesses' blog, which has a translation an article from the German newspaper Der Spiegel on some of the scary things that Williamson has said, including suggesting that conservative Catholics arm to fight other Catholics. Though Williamson is the most colorfully, scarily anti-Semitic (and also anti-gay and apparently just generally prone to saying wildly offensive things) of these four bishops, it's not surprising that followers of Archbishop Lefebvre hold extreme right-wing positions. The Catholic Church is not a monolithic body, any more than Judaism is a monolithic body. Even within a single country, leaders in the Church can take left, right or centrist positions. Lefebvre supported the Vichy collaboration with the Nazis, the right-wing neo-fascist politician Jean-Marie Le Pen and right-wing dictatorships in other countries as well. His Society of St. Pius X has long been a source of anti-Semitic rhetoric. It's difficult for me as a Jew to figure out why this Pope, who is the first to visit a US synagogue and only the second to visit a synagogue at all, would make such a decision. One would think that he would be eager to distance himself from his past, apparently forced, membership in the Hitler Youth. My guess is that he decided that it was more important to have unity within the Church, and possibly to have support for other traditionalist positions on gender and sexuality, than it was to maintain the positive relations with the Jewish community that he and his predecessor had so carefully fostered. One Catholic blogger points out that though the bishops' excommunication was reversed, the Pope has not reinstated them to "exercise their ministry," and also has not said that the original excommunication was wrong. Still, it looks to those of us outside the Church like the Pope is throwing his relationships with Jews under a bus in order to promote Church unity. I don't regard this position as reflecting anything about the Catholic leaders here in the United States who have reached out to the Jewish community, nor indeed does it have anything to do with centrist Catholic clergy in other countries. I'm going to continue to forge alliances and build friendships with the devout Catholics in my life who have consistently reached out to me as a Jew. American HeavenAs a North American Jew, I'm accustomed to reading the endless kvetching of Jewish traditionalists about how American Judaism is inauthentic, assimilated or corrupted. It's our default position as a community. We often bewail each other's creativity and spirituality in the process. What I like is learning that all the other religions in the United States are similarly Americanized, unruly and individualistic, and similarly annoying their religious authorities. It makes me think of Whitman's Song of Myself in Leaves of Grass. When I read Charles M. Blow's New York Times column, Heaven for the Godless, it lit me up inside. Here's a good summary: And that's not all. Nearly half the respondents thought atheists would go to heaven, and most thought that people with no religious faith could also go. Continue reading Jesus and ChristmasIt's our busiest time of year again at InterfaithFamily.com. I'm writing this on December 24th at 9:00 am — and we've already broken the record for the highest number of monthly unique visitors to our main website, with 30,831 so far. There is something about Hanukkah and Christmas that stirs up everything about interfaith relationships — and front and center in that swirl is Jesus. 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In a large cocktail shaker, combine gin, orange blossom water, egg white, half-and-half, lemon juice, lime juice, and simple syrup. Shake vigorously for 25 seconds. Add ice and shake for 30 seconds more. Strain mixture into 8-ounce glass. Slowly pour soda water down insie edge of shaker to loosen remianing froth. Gently ease soda water/froth mix onto drink
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